Which sport has been included in only one Olympic Games, in Paris in 1900, when competition was between the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (representing England) and a team from the British embassy in Paris (representing France)?

International Cricket Council - ICC Europe - News - Features and Columns Wins for Afghanistan and Scotland on day one of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 Two of the favourites to top Group B of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015 got off to winning starts in Edinburgh on Thursday with Afghanistan eventually overcoming the challenge of the Netherlands and host Scotland showing itself to be a class above the UAE. World T20 Qualifier is another boost for cricket's global development On the eve of another exciting opportunity for the best Associate and Affiliate Members (AMs) to qualify for a major ICC event, the success of the ICC Development Programme is illustrated by the fact that there are now more people playing cricket outside the 10 Full Members than ever before. Four teams tied ahead of final round of matches The second day of Pepsi ICC Europe Division 1 has seen the tournament blown wide open as four teams go into the final day of competition tied on equal points. In the afternoon?s matches Italy defeated Guernsey by five wickets, Jersey secured a 19-run victory over France, and Denmark beat Norway by three wickets. Hosts Jersey beat Italy in thriller to top table on Day 1 The first day of Pepsi ICC Europe Division 1 saw plenty of action on day one with six matches taken place across the morning and afternoon fixtures. The afternoon results has seen Jersey secure a four wicket victory in a thriller against Italy, Guernsey down Norway by 23 runs, and Denmark record a convincing eight-wicket victory over France. Luke Gallichan at Achievement Day at Lord's Last year's Victoria College Captain of Cricket and Jersey Island Player, Luke Gallichan, attended at Lord's for an Achievement Day during the recent 1st Test Match between England and Sri Lanka. The invitation came in recognition of his scoring a century in the school's annual match v MCC in May 2013. Simmons calls on fans to Get Behind the Boys in Green against England Tickets for Ireland's clash with fierce rivals England go on sale this morning (9am). The game at Malahide on Friday May 8 2015 will see Ireland renewing their rivalry against their near neighbours in what is set to be one of the most eagerly anticipated sporting events of the year. Jersey register first win, Singapore climb to second A rain affected day saw some close nail biters. A low scoring day saw Singapore successfully defend 208 to inflict the first defeat on Malaysia. Jersey recorded their first win against Italy chasing 148, while Oman lost out on a chance to make it 2 wins as the fell short of Denmark?s meagre total of 137. Isle of Man's sibling rivalry Cricket has been played since the 19th century. The Isle of Man Cricket Club (now the IOM Cricket Association) was formed in 1930 to foster the interests of the sport and assist the existing clubs such as Ramsey, Fencibles and Castletown. All 16 squads for the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup UAE 2014 confirmed The 10th edition of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup (ICC U19 CWC) will be staged in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 14 February to 1 March 2014. All 15-man squads for the event have now been confirmed, following the mandatory eligibility-checks. Scotland and UAE advance to ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand Scotland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have secured the final two positions in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 after recording victories on the last day of the Super Six stage of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier New Zealand 2014 (CWCQ) in Christchurch on Thursday. Pepsi ICC Best Overall Development award won by Cricket Scotland The Pepsi ICC Development Programme award winners for the Europe region have been announced by ICC Europe for 2013 with Cricket Scotland winning the award for ?Best Overall Development? after having an extremely strong year in a number of different areas. Ireland name squad for West Indies tour Cricket Ireland have named a squad of fifteen for their Caribbean tour later this month. The team will play in the West Indies domestic 50 over competition, the Nagico Super50, followe


In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?

Adrenal glands - RightDiagnosis.com Adrenal glands Article Excerpts about Adrenal glands Cortisol is normally produced by the adrenal glands, located just above the kidneys. It belongs to a class of hormones called glucocorticoids, which affect almost every organ and tissue in the body. Scientists think that cortisol has possibly hundreds of effects in the body. Cortisol's most important job is to help the body respond to stress. Among its other vital tasks, cortisol: helps maintain blood pressure and cardiovascular function; helps slow the immune system's inflammatory response; helps balance the effects of insulin in breaking down sugar for energy; and helps regulate the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Because cortisol is so vital to health, the amount of cortisol produced by the adrenals is precisely balanced. Like many other hormones, cortisol is regulated by the brain's hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, a bean-sized organ at the base of the brain. (Source: excerpt from Addison's Disease: NIDDK ) Summary Information: Adrenal glands Adrenal glands: The adrenal glands are a pair of endocrine glands, one located on the top of each kidney. The adrenal glands produce a variety of hormones, chemical substances that help to regulate a wide variety of the body's processes. The adrenal glands and the hormones they produce play a big role in such processes as metabolism, water and electrolyte balance, sexual development and function, the immune system, and the stress response. The adrenal glands include two regions, the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla, which each produce different hormones. Adrenal hormones include the catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine, and the adrenal steroid hormones: adrenal androgen hormones, mineralocorticoids, and glucocorticoids. Conditions that can afflict the adrenal glands include Addison's disease, Cushing's syndrome, pheochromocytoma, hyperaldosteronism, adrenal tumors, adrenal cancer, and trauma. Closely Related Organs: Adrenal glands The following organs are closely related to the organ: Adrenal glands:


In which country does over half of the population live on reclaimed land?

Sea Level Rise and the Future of the Netherlands I. CASE BACKGROUND 1. Abstract As an economically and socially  advanced nation, the  Netherlands is a low-lying nation, with a sophisticated agricultural sector  and high population density. Half of the country lies below 1 meter above sea  level, with an eighth of the country lying below sea level. Without an extensive  network of dams, dykes and dunes, the Netherlands would be especially prone  to flooding. As a predicted outcome of Global Climate Change, sea level rise  could impact the Netherlands drastically, leading to social and economic devastation. 2. Description The Zuyderzee  Flood of 1916 was a defining moment in Dutch history. The Zuyderzeeworks,  a series of dikes to reclaim this shallow inlet, was made in part due to the  outcome of this flood. Although, this flood did cause 16 human causalities,  substantial material damage instigated the reclamation of Zuyderzee from its  shallow water. During the 1916 flood the island of Marken was completely engulfed  with water and many levee breeches occurred near the town of Edam, which lead  to the flooding of Waterland and Durgerdam. The Zuyderzeeworks designed by the  Minister of Public Works, Ir. C. Lely, and approved by Queen Wilhelmina, began  the reclamation of Zuyderzee. Minister Lely's plans included a large dike, the  Afsluitdijk, which in turn allowed for further reclamation of the surrounding  area. Unfortunately, further flooding occurred in 1953, with devastating consequences  in loss of life, agricultural ability, and economic cost. The Flood of 1953  cost the lives of 1,835 people, ruined productive agricultural lands with the  salts of seawater, and was costly to repair failed flood protection system. The     Zuiderzeeworks (a series of flood protection devices), reclaimed land     from an inlet of the North Sea and also created the Ijsselmeer, or Lake     Ijessel The Netherlands is well suited geographically  and geologically to be a nation heavily involved in shipping. The nation is in the center of Europe with access to many rivers and bodies of water. Rotterdam is Europe’s  largest port city with access to the sea and several large rivers nearby (Rhine,  Maas and Schelde), making it an important hub in the EU economy. The low-lying  lands of the Netherlands are famous for several agricultural products. The towns  of Gouda and Edam, as their names suggest, are very important  to cheese production. The Netherlands supplies two-thirds of the world’s  tulips, bulbs, and cut-flowers, helping the relatively small nation rank third  in value of agricultural exports. For a small nation of 41,526 sq km, the Netherlands is densely populated with 486 persons per square kilometer. The threat of sea  level rise due to Climate Change will test the country’s flood protection  system. A breach of this system would be costly to repair, but would be even  more devastating to the country’s economy and way-of-life. As its name suggests, the Netherlands,  or ‘low countries,’ is and has been especially prone to flooding.  Climate change has the potential to increase sea levels by 20 feet (6.1 m).  The lowest city within the Netherlands lies 7 meters (23 ft.) below sea level, much lower than New Orlean's 9th Ward. The expansive  system of dams, dykes, and dunes maintained by the country, may not be able  to hold back the flood of Climate Change. The Netherlands is often associated with peaceful rows of spring tulips, sharp  and buttery cheeses, and windmills turning in the breeze. Yet, these popular  associations with Dutch culture would not be possible without protection from  the unpredictable North Sea. The North Sea is stronger and more unpredictable than the   three Dutch rivers that flow through the country. Flood protection from the   North sea is mandated to have a 1-in-10,000 years protection (a failure in the   flood protection system would only occur once in 10,000 years). Without this   level of prote


What shape are the 12 faces of a dodecahedron?

The  Dodecahedron   The dodecahedron has 30 edges, 20 vertices and 12 faces. Dodeca is a prefix meaning “twelve.” The dodecahedron is the only polyhedron I know of which is composed entirely of pentagons. Buckminster Fuller describes what he calls a '6 pentagonal tensegrity sphere' in Synergetics I, 726.01, and which is shown at Marvin Solit's website at www.fnd.org/geo.htm, but I don't believe that structure can be built without tensegrity struts and tension wires.   Figure 1 The dodecahedron is pentagonal both inside and out, as can be seen from Figure 1. Like the icosahedron, it has many golden section relationships, which we shall see. The dodecahedron is even more versatile then the icosahedron. The icosahedron contains  and  geometry, but the dodecahedron contains , Figure 2 Cube and tetrahedron  in dodecahedron. Cube in gray, tetrahedron in green This view of the dodecahedron is significant in that it shows the 2 dimensional shadow of the decagon. The decagon itself is based upon the pentagon, the building block of the dodecahedron. See Pentagon and Decagon for more information. Figure 2A -- Another view of tetrahedron (green) inside cube (blue) inside dodecahedron (orange) Figures 2 and  2A show how a cube and a tetrahedron can be placed inside a dodecahedron. These placements are 'nice' meaning that the vertices of the placed-in solids are all vertices of the dodecahedron. The cube, octahedron and tetrahedron are all based on root 2 and root 3 geometry: The relationship of the side of the cube to the radius of its enclosing sphere  is r = sqrt(3) / 2.  For the  tetrahedron, The dodecahedron is capable of elegantly sustaining these  and  relationships, along with its own many  relationships. Figure 3 -- octahedron  inside tetrahedron Notice that the octahedron fits precisely on the bisected sides of the tetrahedron. The icosahedron cannot contain any of the other 5 solids 'nicely' on its vertices. The icosehedron and the dodecahedron are 'duals' (as are the cube and the octahedron). By 'dual' is meant that if you put a vertex in the middle of all of the faces and connect the lines, you get the dual. By placing a vertex at the middle of  all the faces of the dodecahedron you get an icosahedron, and vice-versa. Figure 4 shows the dual nature of the icosahedron and dodecahedron. Figure 4  Duals ----  dodecahedron inside icosahedron Notice that to create the dodecahedron, all we did was draw lines from each vertex of the icosahedron to every other vertex. The vertices of the dodecahedron are at the intersection points. We could just as easily have found the vertices of the dodecahedron by drawing lines on every triangular face of the icosahedron. Where those lines intersect is the center of the face, and a vertex of the dodecahedron. That occurs because the dodecahedron has 12 faces and the icosahedron has 12 vertices.   Now for the standard analysis: What is the volume of the dodecahedron? We will use the pyramid method. There are 12 pentagonal pyramids, 1 for each face, each pyramid beginning at O, the centroid. See Figure 1 and Figure 5. The volume of any n-sided pyramid is 1/3 * area of base * pyramid height. First we need to get the area of the base, which is the area of each pentagonal face: Figure 5   One pyramid on face BCHLG The area of the pentagon is the area of the 5 triangles which compose it. From  Area of Pentagon   we know  This is approximately 1.720477401 . Now we need to find the height of the pyramid, OU. To do that, we need to find the distance from O to a vertex, lets say, OH. This distance will be the hypotenuse of the right triangle OUH. Since we already know UH, we can then get OU from the good ol’ Pythagorean Theorem. Imagine a sphere surrounding the dodecahedron and touching all of its vertices. OH is just the radius of the enclosing sphere. If you look at Figure 6, HOZ = GON = diameter. There is a line through HOZ to show the diameter.                              Figure 6 Now look at the rectangle MIFK. The diagonal of it, MF, is also a diameter (MF = HZ). Notice that the long sides of t


What Greek mythological female monster has the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the rear of a dragon?

Monstresses - Women in Greek Myths Monstresses Brize Brize was the Gadfly Hera sent after Io to torment her. This gadfly was the size of a sparrow with a stinger as big as a dagger. Hermes, who eventually was sent by Zeus to save the poor girl (or cow) killed the gadfly. If you want to know more, check out the Myth Pages . In case you didn't figure it out, Brize means Gadfly. Campe Campe was the jailoress in Tartarus who guarded the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (the Giants). She was double-shaped, and female to her hips. From her chest to her thighs she was covered in fish scales. Over her shoulders a scorpion curled around itself. She was killed by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes and the Giants to fight the Titans. Campe means "Crooked". Charybdis Charybdis was once a nymph, the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia . And she flooded lands for her father's underwater kingdom until Zeus turned her into a monster (for stealing and eating some of Heracles' sheep - well, they were really Geryon's sheep, check it out in the Myth Pages ) and had her suck in and out water three times an day. She lived in a cave on the Sicilian side of the Strait of Messina, opposite the monster Scylla (see below), the two of them forming a dangerous threat to passing ships. She probably explained a whirlpool. Odysseus managed to avoid Charybdis in the Odyssey. This is great: Charybdis literally means "sucker down". Chimaera The Chimaera was one part lion to one part goat to one part snake/dragon, and even though we're relatively comfortable with her looks, her parentage is under question. Homer asserts that she was bred by some dude named Amisodarus, but for once I'm gonna go with Hesiod, who says she was one of the many children of Echidna (see below) and Typhon. There are different versions of how these animals were put together to create her, so whatever your imagination says is probably right. As she was like super-monster, she was having a pretty good life just wandering the countryside, killing sheep every once in a while - and there wasn't gonna be anyone who tried to stop her - did I mention that she breathed fire? Yeah, that, too. But this one chick, Sthenoboea , caused all this drama, and made one dude try to kill this other heroic-type dude, named Bellerophon. Wait, you're thinking, what about Chimaera? Well, Dude Number One thought that the best way to get away with killing Dude Two (Bellerophon) would be to insist he go against (ie, kill) the terrible monster that was ravaging the countryside. Turns out our chica wasn't a match for the heroic Bellerophon (who, by the way, was riding the flying horse, Pegasus, that sprang out of the dead Medusa's body - read more about Medusa below). The hero had a lead spear, which wasn't too effective against Chimaera until he stopped trying to use the pointy aspect of it. Instead, he jammed it down her throat, and her fiery breath melted the lead which poured into her stomach and killed her. Alternatively, he just shot her with an arrow from far away, but I think the first version is better. Delphyne Delphyne was a female dragon. A "half-bestial maiden," as Carlos Parada puts it, who guarded the sinews of the hands and feet of Zeus after her brother Typhon severed them. With the help of Pan's screaming and Hermes' quick fingers, Zeus recovered his tendons. She was eventually killed by Apollo when he took over Delphi (where she guarded a fountain by the oracle). The word Delphyne means Womb. Hmmmmm. This couldn't possibly be an earlier version of Python as the chthonic goddess at Delphi before the patriarchy took over now could it? Nah. Echidna Echidna was called the mother of all monsters, but really she was only the mother of about six of them: the dragon that guarded the Golden Apples of Hesperos, the Hydra (the many-headed dragon/serpent), the Chimaera (see above), Orthus (a hell-dog), and Cerberus (a more famous hell-dog with three heads), the Crommyonian Sow, the Caucasus Eagle (that's the one that kept eating Prometheus' liver every day), and by her son Orthus she mothered the Sphinx (see below


Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?

John Cobb - Land Speed Racing History John Cobb First Record Holder to use 4 wheel drive August 23, 1939 Last record set in Utah September 16, 1947 394.19 mph (634.39 km/h) First one-way over 400mph. John Rhodes Cobb (December 2, 1899 - September 29, 1952) was a British racing motorist. He made money as a director of fur brokers Anning, Chadwick and Kiver and could afford to specialise in large capacity motor-racing. He was born and lived in Esher, Surrey, near the Brooklands race track. He held the ultimate lap record at the track driving the 24 litre Napier Railton at an average speed of 143.44 mph (230.84 km/h) achieved on 7 October 1935, regaining it from his friend Oliver Bertram. Driving the piston engined, wheel driven Railton Special he broke the Land Speed Record at Bonneville on August 23, 1939 at a speed of 367.91 mph (592.09 km/h). Without this being beaten he raised the record to 394.19 mph (634.39 km/h) in 1947. The record was unbeaten until 1963 when it was narrowly surpassed by Craig Breedlove in the jet powered Spirit of America. During World War II he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force and between 1943 and 1945 in the Air Transport Auxiliary. He reached the rank of Group Captain. He died attempting to improve the water speed record at Loch Ness in the jet speedboat Crusader at a speed in excess of 200 mph (320 km/h). There is a memorial to him erected by the people of Glenurquhart. He is buried at Christ Church, Esher. He was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1947. On 27 March 1953 he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct - John Rhodes Cobb (deceased), Racing Motorist. For services in attempting to break the world's water speed record, and in research into high speed on water, in the course of which he lost his life. He made the cover of Modern Wonder magazine, the British equivalent of Popular Science or Mechanix Illustrated. Eventually, he was to make three distinct sets of runs. His prewar ventures were sponsored by Gilmore Oil, discussed below. His most memorable version in 1947 was sponsored by Mobil Oil.   The Bonneville Salt Flats are the remains of a prehistoric lake of about 19,000 square miles area. Although it is perfectly flat, it is 4,000 feet above sea level, imposing a consequent loss of power on the engines due to reduced oxygen. The temperature on the salt runs up to more than 110 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade and this too imposes problems for adequate cooling of engine and tires. The flats offer a straight run of about 13 miles, which is actually more like the minimum run for acceleration, the timed run, and braking from 400 miles per hour, Cobb's ultimate target. Railton overcame all these problems and Cobb was to be the fastest man on wheels three times before his death. Cobb made his first run in September 1938, when the world record was 345 mph and at that time, Cobb had never driven faster than 170 mph at Brooklands. The world record changed hands several times. Land speed racing was suspended during World War II. In 1947, Cobb came back to Bonneville with a thoroughly redesigned car. The vehicle was so futuristic in appearance that he was profiled on the cover of LIFE Magazine. Reid Railton used many unorthodox methods to achieve his result. He started with an S-shaped backbone chassis, and used two second-hand 1928 Napier Lion aero engines from a motor boat, but set them at an angle, one driving the front wheels and the other the rear wheels. Railton pared weight from the supercharged Lion engines until they scaled only 1120 lb each yet still delivered a total 2500 horsepower. There were neither flywheels nor clutches, and Cobb sat up front ahead of the power plants, as in a modern racing car. The special lightweight body shell was made in one piece and had to be taken off for refueling and tire changes between the two runs necessary for the record. The streamlined shell could be lifted off by six men. Like the Golden Arrow, ice was used for cooling, saving the weight of a radiator. The melted ice was also used to take heat away


Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what?

Shop Mary Quant Mary Quant opened Bazaar, a boutique on the King's Road, in 1955 at a time when 'fashion wasn't designed for young people'. Quant was influenced by Chelsea beatniks and dance outfits she remembered from childhood. Famed for popularising, if not inventing, the mini skirt, her clothes were made up of simple shapes combined with strong colours. By 1963 her success led to the opening of a second branch of Bazaar in Knightsbridge. She later launched the Ginger Group, a lower priced line designed to appeal to an even wider clientele.


Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who?

Dick Grayson | Batman Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Jesse McCarteny (voice) Richard John "Dick" Grayson was once Batman 's first sidekick Robin , before going on to become  Nightwing . Once he took up the mantle of Batman when  Bruce was thought to be dead, but became Nightwing once again after the events of Flashpoint. After Forever Evil, Dick's identity was revealed to the world and Bruce convinced him to give up being Nightwing to become an agent of Spyral. He was created by artist Bob Kane , writter Bill Finger and by illustrator Jerry Robinson , he first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940. The youngest in a family of acrobats known as the "Flying Graysons," Dick watched as a mafia boss killed his parents in order to export money from the circus that employed them (whose name was later revealed to be Tony Zucco .) Bruce Wayne, secretly the vigilante Batman, took him in as his legal ward after witnessing their deaths, and eventually as his sidekick, Robin . Throughout Dick's adolescence, Batman and Robin were inseparable. However, as Dick grew older and spent more time as the leader of the Teen Titans , he decided to take on the identity of Nightwing to assert his independence (other teenaged heroes would later fill in the role of Robin). His Nightwing persona was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez , and first appeared in Tales of the Teen Titans #44 (July 1984). As Nightwing, Dick led the Teen Titans and later the Outsiders . Following the events of the Zero Hour miniseries, he temporarily replaced Bruce Wayne as Batman, beginning in Robin #0 (October 1994) and extending throughout the Batman: Prodigal storyline. In an eponymous series, launched in 1996 and continuing until 2009, he becomes the protector of Blüdhaven , Gotham 's economically troubled neighboring city. Following the destruction of Blüdhaven, at the command of Deathstroke the Terminator , Nightwing relocated to New York. After the events of Batman R.I.P. , Dick moved operations to Gotham to protect the city after Bruce's apparent death in Final Crisis . Despite Bruce's will wanting him not to succeed Wayne permanently as Batman, the chaos in Gotham following Batman's disappearance prompts Dick to take up his mentor's identity once again and has returned to operating as the new Batman. His Nightwing mantel would then be passed on to Chris Kent . As Robin, Dick has appeared in most other media adaptations of Batman, most notably the Joel Schumacher films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin , where he was portrayed by Chris O'Donnell . The Batman animated series of the 1990s is the first one to portray his evolution into Nightwing. Contents History Origin The name "Robin the Boy Wonder" and the medieval look of the original costume were inspired by the legendary hero Robin Hood, as well as the famous red-breasted Robin, which continued the "flying animal" motif of Batman. Young Dick Grayson was born on the first day of spring. His mother nicknamed him "little Robin." Little did she know how prophetic this term of endearment would be in her son's life. Also, when he was up on the trapeze, he reminded his mother of a robin. Dick Grayson was a eight-year-old circus acrobat, the youngest of a family act called The Flying Graysons of The Haly Circus . Dick joined the act at a very young age, having been trained in acrobatics from birth. Before one appearance in Gotham City , in which The Flying Graysons were the main attraction, they were asked to pose for a photo opportunity with Jack Drake and his family, including their young son, Tim Drake . From that time on Tim's one and only hero in the world was Dick. While on tour in Gotham City, he overheard "Boss" Tony Zucco , a well-known and feared crime lord, threaten the performers unless the circus's owner paid protection money. The owner refused, and that night Dick watched in horror as his parents' high wire snapped, sending his parents hurtling to their deaths, all while many of Gotham's elite watched on. Young Dick felt responsible, because he failed to warn his parents in ti


What was the name of the plane that Amy Johnson flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?

BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Who wants to lose a fortune? Monday, 23 October, 2000, 15:39 GMT 16:39 UK Who wants to lose a fortune? Duncan Bickley said 'It's only money, innit?' then got it wrong How does it feel to have �250,000 within your grasp, only to see it slip away moments later? Not so bad, if Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? contestant Duncan Bickley is to be believed. I will be back on 'Millionaire' some day and I'll finish the job. Duncan Bickley Having won �250,000 on the hit ITV quiz show, the 40-year-old pilot gambled on his luck and played for the ultimate prize: �1m. "I don't regret my decision at all - I didn't want to say I bottled out of my big chance," he said after losing his gamble. Speaking to BBC News Online he said money was not his motive and he had not planned to win �250,000: "I'd only thought about going all the way." Chris Tarrant: 'A top bloke' according Mr Bickley "I wanted to be the first person to win �1m on the show. That way you make your mark on history," he added. Faced with the �500,000 question: "What was the name of Amy Johnson's plane in which she flew solo to Australia in 1930?" he asked for a 50-50 lifeline, giving him two choices instead of four. 'Pegasus' or 'Jason' Mr Bickley, a helicopter pilot and flying instructor from Brentwood, Essex, was faced with a choice between Pegasus and Jason. After telling host Chris Tarrant: "It's only money, innit?" he chose Pegasus. He lost a record �218,000, with his total winnings plummeting to just �32,000. I don't have anyone to nag me. I could afford to be a bit more cavalier. Duncan Bickley, on being single The programme was recorded last Tuesday and Mr Bickley invited friends to a local pub to watch it when it was shown on Saturday night. "My friends are all immensely proud of me. They think I've got a lot of guts." And how did his wife or girlfriend react? "I don't have anyone to nag me. I could afford to be a bit more cavalier," he said. Referring to the question that halted his winning run, he said: "Trust a woman to name her aircraft after a man who used a boat - rather than a winged horse," he said. The hit quiz show, which has been running in Britain since September 1998, has so far only paid out a top prize of �500,000. Search BBC News Online


Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?

Which country came first , second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis? Which country came first , second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis? +1 vote posted Aug 2, 2016 by Swati Arora Share this question   Your comment on this question: Email me at this address if a comment is added after mine:Email me if a comment is added after mine Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification: To avoid this verification in future, please log in or register . 1 Answer answer Aug 10, 2016 by Shantanu Arora Your comment on this answer: Email me at this address if a comment is added after mine:Email me if a comment is added after mine Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification: To avoid this verification in future, please log in or register . Your answer Please be sure to answer the question, provide details and share your research. Avoid asking cross question, use comment button instead. Use ctrl+k to highlight, ctrl+b to make the text as bold. Preview Email me at this address if my answer is selected or commented on:Email me if my answer is selected or commented on Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification:


What central London street is famous for containing the main government offices?

London - definition of London by The Free Dictionary London - definition of London by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/London Lon·don  (lŭn′dən) 1. The capital and largest city of the United Kingdom, on the Thames River in southeast England. Greater London consists of 32 boroughs surrounding the City of London, built on the site of a Roman outpost named Londinium. Its growth as an important trade center dates from 886, under the rule of Alfred the Great. Since the Elizabethan period (1558-1603) London has dominated its country's political, economic, and cultural life. 2. A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, southwest of Toronto. It was settled in 1826. Lon′don·er n. (ˈlʌndən) n 1. (Placename) the capital of the United Kingdom, a port in S England on the River Thames near its estuary on the North Sea: consists of the City (the financial quarter), the West End (the entertainment and major shopping centre), the East End (the industrial and former dock area), and extensive suburbs. Latin name: Londinium See also City 2. (Placename) Greater London the administrative area of London, consisting of the City of London and 32 boroughs (13 Inner London boroughs and 19 Outer London boroughs): formed in 1965 from the City, parts of Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, and almost all of Middlesex, and abolished for administrative purposes in 1996: a Mayor of London and a new London Assembly took office in 2000. Pop: 8 308 369 (2012 est). Area: 1579 sq km (610 sq miles) 3. (Placename) a city in SE Canada, in SE Ontario on the Thames River: University of Western Ontario (1878). Pop: 337 318 (2001) 4. it's London to a brick slang Austral and NZ it is certain London (ˈlʌndən) n (Biography) Jack, full name John Griffith London. 1876–1916, US novelist, short-story writer, and adventurer. His works include Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Iron Heel (1907), and the semiautobiographical John Barleycorn (1913) Lon•don 1. Jack (John Griffith Chaney), 1876–1916, U.S. novelist. 2. a metropolis in SE England, on the Thames: capital of the United Kingdom. 3. City of, an old city in the central part of the former county of London: the ancient nucleus of the modern metropolis. 4700; 1 sq. mi. (3 sq. km). 4. County of, a former administrative county comprising the City of London and 28 metropolitan boroughs, now part of Greater London. 5. Greater, an urban area comprising the city of London and 32 metropolitan boroughs. 6,967,500; 609 sq. mi. (1575 sq. km). 6. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada. 303,165. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun 1. London - the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center British capital , capital of the United Kingdom , Greater London Big Ben - clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London Newgate - a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902 Tower of London - a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels Old Bailey - the central criminal court in London Fleet Street - a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated Harley Street - a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located Lombard Street - a street in central London containing many of the major London banks Whitehall - a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices Trafalgar Square - a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson England - a division of the United Kingdom City of London , the City - the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London Greenwich - a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time Bloomsbury - a


"Who wrote ""Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures""?"

Science and Health - Christian Science Christian Science Search all of Christian Science Search Science and Health Science and Health Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is Mary Baker Eddy’s primary work, which contains the full explanation of Christian Science and its biblical foundation for spiritual regeneration and healing. Explore all of Mary Baker Eddy's writings and the Bible with the Concord digital study tool . Contents Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Works of Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Manual of The Mother Church Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896 Retrospection and Introspection Unity of Good Pulpit and Press Rudimental Divine Science No and Yes Christian Science versus Pantheism Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Message to The Mother Church for 1901 Message to The Mother Church for 1902 Christian Healing The People’s Idea of God — Its Effect on Health and Christianity The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany Poems Christ and Christmas i Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by MARY BAKER EDDY President of Massachusetts Metaphysical College and Pastor Emeritus of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts ® Marcas Registradas Published by The Christian Science Board of Directors Distributed by The Christian Science Publishing Society Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America www.ChristianScience.com ii Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by Mary Baker Glover In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington Copyright renewed 1903, by Mary Baker G. Eddy Copyright extended, 1917 Copyright 1890, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1918 Copyright 1894, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1922 Copyright 1901, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1929 Copyright 1906, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1934 The design of the Cross and Crown seal and the facsimile signature           of Mary Baker Eddy are trademarks of The Christian Science Board of Directors           and are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.           The stained glass design of the Cross and Crown seal is inspired by a window in           The Original Mother Church edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.           This design of the Cross and Crown seal is a trademark owned by The Christian Science Board of Directors. For information about reusing material, cover image, or other images from this work, please write: Permissions The Christian Science Board of Directors ℅ Office of the Publisher’s Agent, Mary Baker Eddy’s Writings 210 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Email: permissions@csps.com Printed in the United States of America iii Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John viii. 32 There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Shakespeare Oh! Thou hast heard my prayer; And I am blest! This is Thy high behest: — Thou here, and everywhere. Mary Baker G. Eddy v vii Preface vii:1To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. The wakeful shepherd beholds 3the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day. So shone the pale star to the prophet- shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in 6cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ, Truth, who would make plain to be‐ nighted understanding the way of salvation through Christ 9Jesus, till across a night of error should dawn the morn‐ ing beams and shine the guiding star of being. The Wise‐ men were led to behold and to follow this daystar of 12divine Science, lighting the way to eternal harmony.     The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the 15portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer the stepping- 18stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a ri


What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trves?

HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*  § 88. Schools.   Literature: John of Salisbury: Metalogicus, Migne, 199. 823–946.—Guibert of Nogent: De vita sua, I. 4–7; Migne, 153. 843–850.—A. H. L. Heeren: Gesch. d. class. Lit. im MlA., 2 vols. Götting., 1822.—S. R. Maitland: The Dark Ages, Essays on the State of Rel. and Lit., 800–1200 a.d., Lond., 1845, 5th ed. 1890.—H. Heppe: D. Schulwesen d. MlA., etc., Marb., 1860.—Schaarschmidt: J. Saresberiensis (John of Salisbury), Leip., 1862.—Léon Maître: Les écoles épiscopales el monastiques de l’occident, 768–1180 a.d., Paris, 1866.—E. Michaud: G. de Champeaux et les écoles de Paris au 12e siècle, Paris, 1867.—J. B. Mullinger: The Schools of Chas. the Great, Lond., 1877; Hist. of the Univ. of Cambr. to 1535, Cambr., 1873.—*R. L. Poole: The School of Chartres, being chap. IV of his Illustr. of the Hist. of Med. Thought.—*F. A. Specht: Gesch. d. Unterrichtswesens in Deutschland von d. ältesten Zeiten bis zur Mitte des 13ten Jahrh., Stuttg., 1885.—*A. and G. Schmid: Gesch. d. Erziehung bis auf unsere Zeit, pp. 94–333, Stuttg., 1892.—Miss Drane: Christ. Schools and Scholars, Lond., 2d ed. 1881. —*J. E. Sandys: A Hist. of Class. Scholarship from 600 b.c. to the end of the M. A., Cambr., 1903.—Mirbt: Publizistik im Zeitalter Greg. VII., pp. 104 sqq.—Rashdall: Universities, vol. I.   Education and the advance of true religion are inseparable. The history of literary culture in this period is marked by the remarkable awakening which started in Western Europe in the latter part of the eleventh century and the rise of the universities in the twelfth century. The latter was one of the most important events in the progress of the intellectual development of the race. The renaissance of the eleventh century showed itself in a notable revival of interest in schools, in the appearance of eminent teachers, in a renewed study of the classics, and in an enlarged sweep of the human mind. The municipal schools of the Roman Empire were swept away by the barbarian invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries, and few vestiges of them were left. The weight of opinion in the Church had been hostile to Pagan learning from the time of Tertullian and Jerome and culminated in Justinian’s act, closing the university of Athens. But it is doubtful whether the old Roman schools would have withstood the shock from the assaults of Goth, Vandal, and Hun, even had Church teachers been friendly to classical literature. The schools of the earlier Middle Ages were associated with the convents and cathedrals, and it was not till the thirteenth century that the municipal school appeared again, and then it was in the far North, in Germany, and the Lowlands. The first name in the history of the new education is Cassian who founded the convent school of St. Victor, Marseilles, 404. But it was to Benedict of Nursia that Western Europe owed the permanent impulse to maintain schools. The Benedictine Rule made education an adjunct of religion, provided for the training of children by members of the order, and for the transcription of manuscripts. To the Benedictines, especially to the Cistercians, are our libraries indebted for the preservation of the works of classical and patristic writers. The wise policy of Charlemagne in establishing the Palace school, a sort of normal school for the German Empire, and in issuing his Capitularies bearing on education, and the policy of Alfred in England, gave a fresh impulse to learning by the patronage of royalty. Alcuin at the court of Charlemagne, Asser in England, and John Scotus Erigena at the court of Charles the Bold, were some of the more eminent teachers. It is possible the education was not confined to clerics, for convents had two kinds of schools, the one, the interior, for oblates intended for the monastery, and the exterior school which seems to have had a more general character. The cathedral schools had for their primary, if not for their sole purpose, the training of youth for cathedral positions—canonici puri. The main, if not the exclusive, purpose of education was to prepare me


In bridge, the four players are referred to as what?

Bridge Cyclic Solutions for the Round Robin Tournament Problem Cyclic solutions to the round-robin Bridge tournament problem Solutions for 1 through 24 Bridge tables (up to 96 players) are presented Combinatorial Optimization for Whist Tournaments (Whist Tournament Schedule) Combinatorics and Computer Algorithm are shown at the end (Includes the “Conveyor Belt Algorithm” for Simple Partnerships/Player vs. Player) Also Round Robin Whist Tournament Schedules for 4N + 1 Players (5, 9, 13, etc) Includes Directed Whist Tournament Schedules for 4N + 1 Players “Almost” Directed Whist Tournament Schedules for 4N Players and Enumeration of “Starters”    Suppose you are organizing a Bridge round robin tournament (Could also be tennis doubles, partnership golf, partnership horseshoes, etc.), and to equally mix the partnership/opponent pairs, you would like to have every player have every other player as a partner once and as an opponent twice. For example, if there are 8 players “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “E”, “F”, “G”, and “H”, you will have two tables of Bridge players. Suppose you wish to arrange a sequential seating arrangement such that after 7 rounds of Bridge: Player “A” has had player “B” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “C” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “D” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “E” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “F” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “G” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “A” has had player “H” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “B” has had player “A” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “B” has had player “C” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “B” has had player “D” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. Player “B” has had player “E” as a partner once and as an opponent twice. etc. for all possible combinations.    The diagram above shows one of the 6 intrinsically different position solutions for a 2-table round-robin tournament. (There are multiple permutations within these 6 patterns.) To solve the problem, start with player “A” at position “0”, player “B” at position “1”, player “C” at position “2”, etc. for the first round of play. When the first round of play is over, player “A” stays at position “0”, and all other players advance to the next higher “position”. (With the exception of the person who was at “7” who instead cycles back to position “1”.) This same advancement/cycle sequence is repeated for the third round, etc. The full sequence of who sits where for each round then becomes: Round   Player  Player  Player  Player  Player  Player  Player  Player  Nbr.     A       B       C       D       E       F       G       H   1       0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7   2       0       2       3       4       5       6       7       1   3       0       3       4       5       6       7       1       2   4       0       4       5       6       7       1       2       3   5       0       5       6       7       1       2       3       4   6       0       6       7       1       2       3       4       5   7       0       7       1       2       3       4       5       6    Each entry in the above table shows the Bridge table position/location that each person should go to on each of the 7 rounds of the tournament. When all 7 rounds have finished, each player will have had each other player as a partner once and as an opponent twice. A shorthand summary for this particular 2-table solution plus the other 5 solutions is thus: Solution    <---- Table 1 ---->     <---- Table 2 ---->    1        2 and 3 vs. 4 and 6     5 and 1 vs. 7 and 0    2        2 and 3 vs. 5 and 1     4 and 6 vs. 7 and 0    3        2 and 3 vs. 7 and 0     4 and 6 vs. 5 and 1    4        4 and 5 vs. 1 and 3     6 and 2 vs. 7 and 0    5        4 and 5 vs. 6 and 2     1 and 3 vs. 7 and 0    6        4 and 5 vs. 7 and 0     1 and 3 vs. 6 and 2 A Solution for


An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body? An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body? +2 votes posted Jun 28 by Nikhil Pandey Share this question   Your comment on this question: Email me at this address if a comment is added after mine:Email me if a comment is added after mine Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification: To avoid this verification in future, please log in or register . 2 Answers Ophthalmology specialist doctor deal with patient having eye problems. They also can perform operations on eyes. answer Jun 28 by Madhu Bala Your comment on this answer: Email me at this address if a comment is added after mine:Email me if a comment is added after mine Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification: To avoid this verification in future, please log in or register . 0 votes answer Jun 28 by Smriti Your comment on this answer: Email me at this address if a comment is added after mine:Email me if a comment is added after mine Privacy: Your email address will only be used for sending these notifications. Anti-spam verification:


"""Choo choo"" is a child's name for what?"

Choo-choo train - definition of choo-choo train by The Free Dictionary Choo-choo train - definition of choo-choo train by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/choo-choo+train [From baby-talk imitation of the sound of a locomotive whistle.] choo-choo Brit a child's name for a railway train [C20: of imitative origin] n., pl. -choos. Baby Talk. a locomotive or a railroad train. [1900–05; imitative] 1. choo-choo - a child's word for locomotive   locomotive , locomotive engine , railway locomotive , engine - a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks Translations [ˈtʃuːtʃuː] N (Brit) (child language) → chu-chu m, tren m choo-choo n (baby-talk: = train) → Puffpuff f (baby-talk) Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: railway locomotive References in periodicals archive ? Tenders are invited for Provision of Printing of the Whole Grain Choo-Choo Train and Give Me 5 A Day Children%s Books Provision of Printing of the Whole Grain Choo-Choo Train and Give Me 5 A Day Children%s Books Presented by Baylor Medical Center at Frisco, the event will see the streets surrounding the plaza teeming with excited boys and girls waiting for horse-drawn carriage rides, choo-choo train rides and more. Corrie disaster goes off the rails; Coronation Street, ITV A good old-fashioned choo-choo train - painted red, white and blue - pulls out of the station hauling a load of passengers, headed for a distant seashore through tunnels and cities, across flat plains and over high bridges, all the while answering a series of pointed questions to the rhythm of the chugging engine, the puffing smokestack and the clanging bells. Linford to quit after Lewis' record run In the animated short All Aboard, created by Nancy Wolff, a billy goat and a raccoon turn a boring morning in to a choo-choo train game. Museum promotes Havana Club brand to tourists The handles of the flatware are etched with such sayings as "open wide," "sweet pea," "butterfly kisses" and "cutie pie," and feature etched and embossed designs, as well as such whimsical items as an airplane, a baby shoe, a baby carriage or a choo-choo train on the very end. YOUTH IS SERVED: NEW LINES OF CHILDREN'S FLATWARE BOW I have to say I was disappointed by Richard's boudoir decor - choo-choo train wallpaper is a little demode - let alone his one-bag-two-mug PG Tips technique.


What word means the energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time?

What does Stamina mean? Definitions for Staminaˈstæm ə nə This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Stamina Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: stamina, staying power, toughness(noun) GCIDE(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Stamina(n. pl.) Hence: The power of endurance; the ability to withstand fatigue, disease, deprivation, etc., and continue working. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: stamina(Noun) The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc. stamina(Noun) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities. Origin: From stamina, plural of stamen. Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Stamina see Stamen Stamina the fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute their strength Stamina whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State The numerical value of Stamina in Chaldean Numerology is: 1 Pythagorean Numerology


At which cricket ground, in 1953, did England win the Ashes for the first time since 1933?

Ashes 1953: England clinch ‘The Test to win all Tests’ to end two decades of sorrow - Cricket Country Ashes 1953: England clinch ‘The Test to win all Tests’ to end two decades of sorrow The tale of England regaining The Ashes after two decades. By Abhishek Mukherjee | Updated : August 19, 2016 4:03 PM IST Denis Compton and Bill Edrich make their way through the vast crowd that spilled on to the ground after England beat Australia to win The Ashes on August 19, 1953 © Getty Images On August 19, 1953, England regained the Ashes after two decades. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at a historic day that changed the course of a one-way contest on its head. It was a very, very wet summer. Looking back after all these years it’s extremely difficult to assess what went through Len Hutton’s mind when the teams were in a deadlock after four Tests. Was he happy to have survived thus far? England had, after all, not won a single Ashes series since Bodyline . Not only that, they have been mauled by the superior antipodeans since World War II in all three contests. Since Bodyline, Australia’s record read 2-1 in 1934, 3-2 in 1936-37, 1-1 in 1938, 3-0 in 1946-47, 4-0 in 1948, and 4-1 in 1950-51. It had been a complete no-contest, especially after The War. On the other hand, was Hutton upset by the fact that the weather had denied him an opportunity to reclaim the Ashes for his side? One can only speculate. The Yorkshireman may have wanted to win the urn back desperately. The build-up The Australians began their tour well: Lindsay Hassett, the popular Australian captain, made sure that his players were rotated sufficiently to make sure everyone was in practice. They dominated most tour matches and were strong favourites going into the first Test at Trent Bridge. Alec Bedser bowled beautifully in a Test where the players had to come off the field due to periodic bursts of rain, and play was completely ruled out on Day Four. In between the gaps Alec Bedser picked up 14 for 99 to bowl out Australia for 249 and 123. England, too, had scored only 144, and time ran out with them on 120 for 2 chasing 229. Come Lord’s, and Bedser was in business again, with 8 for 182 this time. Hassett and Hutton scored hundreds, and after England were 12 for 3 chasing 343 Denis Compton and Trevor Bailey added 163 to help England gnaw back into the Test and the umpires drew stumps with the hosts on 282 for 7. The Old Trafford Test was a bizarre one: Australia were reduced to 48 for 3 before Neil Harvey and Graeme Hole added 173 for the fourth wicket. Harvey was dropped by Godfrey Evans off Bailey when he was on 52; he went on to score 122. After rain ruled out play on Day Four England batted on well into the final afternoon and finished with 276. In less than an hour they had Australia reeling at 35 for 8 in 18 overs. At this stage the tourists led by 77, and another session’s cricket may have won the Test for England. As things turned out, it was too late: the Test turned out to be another draw as Bedser picked up 7 for 129. The next Test at Headingley was a contest between the seamers: Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller bowled out the hosts for 167 but Bedser picked up 6 for 95 to restrict the tourists to a 99-run lead. Some serious attrition followed thereafter: Bill Edrich scored 64 in 245 minutes, Compton 61 in 280, and Bailey 38 in 261 (without a boundary). England eventually scored 275 in 177.3 overs, which turned out to be enough as Australia finished on 147 for 4 chasing 177. Australia did a good job in the tour matches leading up to The Oval: the match against Surrey at The Oval was a washed-out affair; Glamorgan managed to avoid an innings defeat by a whisker at Swansea; Warwickshire obtained a first-innings lead at Edgbaston; Lancashire were easily defeated at Edgbaston; and Essex surrendered meekly by an innings and 212 runs at Southend-on-Sea — a match where Jim de Courcy scored 164 and took 28 runs in an over and earned himself a place in the last Test. The excitement and build-up for the Test was enormous, and tickets were in great demand. There were many who


What is the name of the sand bank in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark that is famous as a fishing ground?

Dogger Bank dictionary definition | Dogger Bank defined    Dog·ger Bank extensive sand bank in the central North Sea, between England & Denmark, submerged at a depth of 60-120 ft (18-37 m) Dogger Bank An extensive sandbank of the central North Sea between Great Britain and Denmark. It is a major breeding ground for fish. dogger-bank Proper noun (nautical) A large sandbank , and associated fishing ground, in the North Sea between Great Britain and Denmark


Who was the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, and the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917?

List of leaders of the Soviet Union : definition of List of leaders of the Soviet Union and synonyms of List of leaders of the Soviet Union (English) See also: Marxism–Leninism Under the 1977 Soviet Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Chairman of the Council of Ministers was the head of government [1] and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the head of state . [2] The office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers was the equivalent to a First World Prime Minister , [1] while the office of the Chairman of the Presidium was equivalent to the office of the President . [2] In the Soviet Union's seventy-year history there was no official leader of the Soviet Union offices but a Soviet leader usually led the country through the office of the Premier and/or the office of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In the idea of Vladimir Lenin the head of the Soviet state was a collegiate body of the vanguard party (see What is to be done? ). Following Joseph Stalin 's consolidation of power in the 1920s [3] the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party became synonymous with 'Leader of the Soviet Union' [4] because the post controlled both the CPSU and the Soviet Government . [3] The post of the General Secretary was abolished under Stalin and later re-established by Nikita Khrushchev under the name of First Secretary; in 1966 Leonid Brezhnev reverted the office title to its former name. Being the head of the communist party , [5] the office of the General Secretary was the highest in the Soviet Union until 1990. [6] The post of General Secretary lacked clear guidelines of succession, so after the death or removal of a Soviet leader, the successor usually needed the support of the Politburo , the Central Committee, or another government or party apparatus to both take and stay in power. The President of the Soviet Union , an office created in March 1990, replaced the General Secretary as the highest Soviet political office. [7] Contemporaneously to establishment of the office of the President, representatives of the Congress of People's Deputies voted to remove Article 6 from the Soviet constitution which stated that the Soviet Union was a one-party state controlled by the Communist Party which, in turn, played the leading role in society. This vote weakened the Party and its hegemony over the Soviet Union and its people . [8] Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent President, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union collapsed before this was actually tested. [9] After the failed August Coup the Vice President was replaced by an elected member of the State Council of the Soviet Union . [10] Contents   USSR Portal       Vladimir Lenin was voted the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (Sovnarkom) on 30 December 1922 by the Congress of Soviets . [11] His health, at the age of 53, declined from effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes which culminated with his death in 1924. [12] Irrespective of his health status in his final days, Lenin was already losing much of his power to Stalin. [13] Alexei Rykov succeeded Lenin as Chairman of the Sovnarkom, and although he was de jure the most powerful person in the country, the Politburo of the Communist Party began to overshadow the Sovnarkom in the mid-1920s. By the end of the decade, Rykov merely rubber stamped the decisions predetermined by Stalin and the Politburo. [14] Stalin's early policies pushed for rapid industrialisation , nationalisation of private industry [15] and the collectivisation of private plots created under Lenin's New Economic Policy . [16] As leader of the Politburo, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by 1938 after the Great Purge , a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution. [17] Nazi German troops invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, [18] but were repulsed by the Soviets in December. On Stalin's orders,


Who was the mother of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XIV of France?

Marie-Antoinette - Palace of Versailles Marie-Antoinette Print Queen of France (1755-1793) Described by her brother, the emperor Joseph II, as “likeable and honest”, Marie-Antoinette, Austrian princess and wife of Louis XVI, remains one of the most fascinating figures of the history of Versailles. Dedicated to the organisation of the court’s entertainments, surrounded by her coterie and reluctant to observe the ceremonial niceties imposed by her function, the queen progressively attracted the scorn of public opinion up to her tragic death during the French Revolution. Daughter to Francis I of Lorraine, emperor of the German Holy Empire, and Maria Theresa of Habsburg, archiduchess of Austria, Marie-Antoinette was born in Vienna on 2 November 1755. Her marriage to the future Louis XVI, on 16 May 1770, was partly the work of the Minister Choiseul, one of the principal players in the Franco-Austrian reconciliation. But this union was greeted with some reticence by public opinion, marked by the long years of war against Austria. The wedding ceremonies coincided with the inauguration in Versailles of the royal Opera room where, years later, she was to meet her supposed lover Axel de Fersen. A queen at the court Louis XVI entrusted her with the task of entertaining the court. With her flair for entertaining, the queen organised theatrical performances two or three times a week and revived the grand balls. She also led the court in play in the Salon de la Paix and played billiards and cards with great enthusiasm. Marie-Antoinette was a music-lover and played the harp. An art-lover also, she took under her protection the cabinet-maker Riesener, the celebrated supplier of furniture, as well as the painter Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun who largely owed her career as portrait painter to the queen and painted thirty portraits of her patroness. The queen also devoted a lot of her time to fashion and received daily advice on the choice of her dresses from her dressmaker and designer Rose Bertin. Her hairdresser, Leonard, devised the hairstyles decorated with feathers that she adored.


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"Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the ""house"" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?"

Curling   Curling Curling is a sport with similarities to bowls and bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice by two teams of four players each. Teams alternate turns at sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target area called the house. Two sweepers accompany each rock and use timing equipment and their best judgement along with direction from their other teammates to help direct the stones to their resting place. The complex nature of stone placement and shot selection has led some to refer to curling as "Chess on ice". Playing surface The curling sheet is an area of ice 146 feet (45.5 m) in length by 14 feet 2 inches (4.318 m) to 16 feet 5 inches (5.0038 m) in width, carefully prepared to be as close to level as possible. A key part of the preparation is the spraying of water droplets onto the level ice. These water droplets are called pebble. Due to the friction between the stone and pebble, the stone turns to the inside or outside, causing the stone to 'curl'. The amount of curl can change during a game as the pebble wears. The surface of the ice is maintained at a temperature near 23°F (-5°C). Making and maintaining perfect ice conditions at a curling club is as much an art as a science. Most curling clubs have an ice maker whose main job is to care for the ice. At the major curling championships, ice maintenance is extremely important. Well known professional ice makers Shorty Jenkins, Hans Wuthrich and Dave Merklinger reside in Canada. Large events such as the Brier or other national championships are typically held in an arena which presents a challenge to the ice maker as they must constantly monitor and adjust the ice and air temperatures as well as air humidity levels to ensure a consistent playing surface. It is common for each sheet of ice to have multiple sensors embedded to monitor surface temperature as well as probes set up in the seating area to monitor humidity and in the compressor room to monitor brine supply and return temperatures. On the sheet, a 12 foot (3.7 m) wide set of concentric rings, called the house, is painted near each end of the rink. The centre of the house is marked by the junction of two lines that divide the house into quarters and is known as the button. The two lines are the centre line, which is drawn lengthwise down the centre of the sheet, and the tee line, drawn 16 feet (4.9 m) from the backboard and parallel to it. Two other lines, the hoglines, are drawn parallel to each backboard and 37 feet (11.3 m) from it. The rings that surround the button are defined by their diameter as the four-foot, eight-foot, and twelve-foot rings. They are usually distinguished by colour. The inner rings are merely a visual aid for judging which stone is closer to the centre; they do not affect scoring; however, a stone that is not at least touching the outside of the 12-foot ring (i.e. more than 6 feet from the centre) is not in the house and therefore does not score (see below). Twelve feet behind the button are located the hacks. A hack is a device used to provide traction to the curler making a shot; the curler places the foot he or she will push off with in the hack. On indoor rinks there are usually two fixed hacks, rubber-lined holes, one each side of the centre line with the inside edge no more than three inches (7.6 cm) from the centre line and the front edge on the hack line. A single moveable hack may also be used. Players Curling is played between two teams of four curlers each, with team members named for the usual order in which they play. The lead plays first, then the second, the third (or mate), and finally the fourth; the fourth is typically the skip (team captain) but not always. For example, skips Randy Ferbey and Russ Howard throw third and second respectively. The position at which the skip (team captain) throws will be renamed with skip. For example, Randy Ferbey's team will be lead, second, skip, fourth, while Russ Howard's team will be lead, skip, third, fourth. Lead The lead, or first, throws the team's first two stones of


"What 19th century English draughtsman became known for illustrations of ""exquisite decoration, morbidity and decadence"", especially his illustrations for ""The Rape of the Lock""?"

THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY VOLUME TWO by Chris Beetles - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ Copyright © Chris Beetles Ltd 2014 8 & 10 Ryder Street St James’s London SW1Y 6QB 020 7839 7551 gallery@chrisbeetles.com www.chrisbeetles.com ISBN 978-1-905738-62-5 Cataloguing in publication data is available from the British Library Researched, written and edited by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles, Rebecca Chapman, Edwina Freeman, Giles Huxley-Parlour, Christopher Newall and Sue Selwyn Editorial assistance from Catherine Andrews Design by Jeremy Brook of Graphic Ideas Photography by Julian Huxley-Parlour Reproduction by www.cast2create.com Colour separation and printing by Geoff Neal Litho Limited Front cover: William Walcot, The Royal Exchange, London [149] Front endpaper: Alfred William Hunt, A Bit of Old England Half Asleep [83] Back endpaper: William Lionel Wyllie, Point House Shipyard [93] Back cover: Aubrey Beardsley, Lady Golfers with Pierrot as their Caddie [135] THE LONG TREASURES AND PLEASURES VO L U ME T WO TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR CHR IS BEETLES 8 & 10 Ryder Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6QB Telephone 020 7839 7551 Facsimile 020 7839 1603 gallery@chrisbeetles.com www.chrisbeetles.com Contents 5. Victorian Landscapes at Home | 07 Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864) Henry Dixon (1820-1893) & Alfred Henry Bool (1844-1926) George Pyne (1800-1884) George Weatherill (1810-1890) Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896) Edmund George Warren (1834-1909) Helen Allingham (1848-1926) William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) William Fraser Garden (1856-1921) Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) 6. Victorian Figures: From Page to Wall | 33 William Edward Frost (1810-1877) John Tenniel (1820-1914) Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901) John Edmund Buckley (1820-1884) Richard Doyle (1824-1883) John Everett Millais (1829-1896) Charles Doyle (1832-1893) John Simmons (1823-1876) Birket Foster (1825-1899) Henry Benjamin Roberts (1831-1915) George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) Francis Sydney Muschamp (1851-1929) Charles Green (1840-1898) Mary Gow (1851-1929) George Samuel Elgood (1851-1943) John Henry Henshall (1856-1928) St George Hare (1857-1933)  7. Aestheticism | 59 George Du Maurier (1834-1896) William John Hennessy (1839-1917) Walter Crane (1845-1915) Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938) Laurence Housman (1865-1959) Henry Ospovat (1877-1909) Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) 8. London: Imperial Capital | 81 James Tissot (CoĂŻdĂŠ) (1836-1902) Leslie Ward (Spy) (1851-1922) Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933) Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) Phil May (1864-1903) Herbert Menzies Marshall (1841-1913) William Walcot (1874-1943) 9. Edwardian Dreams: Landscapes and Gardens | 97 James Orrock (1829-1913) John William North (1842-1924) George Samuel Elgood (1851-1943) Beatrice Parsons (1869-1955) Algernon Talmage (1871-1939)  10. Edwardian Dreams: From Book Illustration to Interior Decoration | 107 Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) Florence Harrison (1877-1955) George Sheringham (1884-1937) 11. The First World War | 123 Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) Harry Van Der Weyden (1868-1952) Edward Handley-Read (1870-1935) William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) William Rothenstein (1872-1945) Alfred Bastien (1873-1917) Fernand Lantoine (1876-1917) Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) Charles Walter Simpson (1878-1942) Index | 135 5. VICTORIAN LANDSCAPES AT HOME 8 | 5: VIC T ORIAN LA NDSCAP ES AT HOM E During the Victorian period, landscape painting became the subject of significant interest and debate. In taking up the cause of J M W Turner in the five volumes of Modern Painters (1843-60), the young critic, John Ruskin, explored many aspects of the genre and of the natural world that it sought to represent. His emphasis on ‘truth to nature’ influenced more than one generation of artists towards a meticulously mimetic approach; and they included many for whom landscape was often a setting for narrative, as with members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some were perplexed at Ruskin’s a


"What is meant by ""persona non grata""?"

Persona | Define Persona at Dictionary.com persona [per-soh-nee] /pərˈsoʊ ni/ (Show IPA), personas. 1. personae, the characters in a play, novel, etc. 3. the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. 4. (in the psychology of C. G. Jung) the mask or façade presented to satisfy the demands of the situation or the environment and not representing the inner personality of the individual; the public personality (contrasted with anima ). 5. a person's perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image; public role. Origin of persona 1905-10; < Latin persōna mask, character. See person persona grata [per-soh-nah grah-tah; English per-soh-nuh grah-tuh, grey-tuh, grat-uh] /pɛrˈsoʊ nɑ ˈgrɑ tɑ; English pərˈsoʊ nə ˈgrɑ tə, ˈgreɪ tə, ˈgræt ə/ Spell Syllables noun, plural personae gratae [per-soh-nahy grah-tahy; English per-soh-nee grah-tee, grey-, grat-ee] /pɛrˈsoʊ naɪ ˈgrɑ taɪ; English pərˈsoʊ ni ˈgrɑ ti, ˈgreɪ-, ˈgræt i/ (Show IPA). Latin. 1. an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited. Expand Compare persona non grata . persona non grata [per-soh-nah nohn grah-tah; English per-soh-nuh non grah-tuh, grey-, grat-uh] /pɛrˈsoʊ nɑ noʊn ˈgrɑ tɑ; English pərˈsoʊ nə nɒn ˈgrɑ tə, ˈgreɪ-, ˈgræt ə/ Spell Syllables noun, plural personae non gratae [per-soh-nahy nohn grah-tahy; English per-soh-nee non grah-tee, grey-, grat-ee] /pɛrˈsoʊ naɪ noʊn ˈgrɑ taɪ; English pərˈsoʊ ni nɒn ˈgrɑ ti, ˈgreɪ-, ˈgræt i/ (Show IPA). Latin. 1. a person who is not welcome: He has become persona non grata in our club since his angry outburst. 2. a diplomatic representative unacceptable to an accrediting government. Expand Examples from the Web for persona Expand Ordinary Monsters Richard Cohen December 10, 2008 Could the “Ice Queen” be shedding her “Nuclear Wintour” persona and growing soft with old age? The Yin and Yang of Marilyn Daphne Merkin October 19, 2010 Historical Examples It was only that Adele had a way of taking for granted she was persona grata, that Nance thought was rather too free. The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He knew something of the sleeper and decided on the instant that he was persona non grata. British Dictionary definitions for persona Expand (often pl) a character in a play, novel, etc 2. an assumed identity or character 3. (in Jungian psychology) the mechanism that conceals a person's true thoughts and feelings, esp in his adaptation to the outside world Word Origin noun (pl) personae gratae (pɜːˈsəʊniː ˈɡrɑːtiː) 1. an acceptable person, esp a diplomat acceptable to the government of the country to which he or she is sent persona non grata noun (pl) personae non gratae (pɜːˈsəʊniː nɒn ˈɡrɑːtiː) 1. an unacceptable or unwelcome person 2. a diplomatic or consular officer who is not acceptable to the government or sovereign to whom he or she is accredited Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for persona Expand n. 1917, "outward or social personality," a Jungian psychology term, from Latin persona "person" (see person ). Used earlier (1909) by Ezra Pound in the sense "literary character representing voice of the author." Persona grata is Late Latin, literally "an acceptable person," originally applied to diplomatic representatives acceptable to the governments to which they were sent; hence also persona non grata (plural personæ non gratæ). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper


A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what?

Vickers hardness test : Wikis (The Full Wiki) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Vickers hardness tester The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1924 by Smith and Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials. [1] The Vickers test is often easier to use than other hardness tests since the required calculations are independent of the size of the indenter, and the indenter can be used for all materials irrespective of hardness. The basic principle, as with all common measures of hardness, is to observe the questioned material's ability to resist plastic deformation from a standard source. The Vickers test can be used for all metals and has one of the widest scales among hardness tests. The unit of hardness given by the test is known as the Vickers Pyramid Number (HV) or Diamond Pyramid Hardness (DPH). The hardness number can be converted into units of pascals , but should not be confused with a pressure, which also has units of pascals. The hardness number is determined by the load over the surface area of the indentation and not the area normal to the force, and is therefore not a pressure. The hardness number is not really a true property of the material and is an empirical value that should be seen in conjunction with the experimental methods and hardness scale used. When doing the hardness tests the distance between indentations must be more than 2.5 indentation diameters apart to avoid interaction between the work-hardened regions. The yield strength of the material can be approximated as: . where c is a constant determined by geometrical factors usually ranging between 2 and 4. Contents Vicker's test scheme An indentation left in case-hardened steel after a Vickers hardness test. It was decided that the indenter shape should be capable of producing geometrically similar impressions, irrespective of size; the impression should have well-defined points of measurement; and the indenter should have high resistance to self-deformation. A diamond in the form of a square-based pyramid satisfied these conditions. It had been established that the ideal size of a Brinell impression was 3/8 of the ball diameter. As two tangents to the circle at the ends of a chord 3d/8 long intersect at 136°, it was decided to use this as the included angle of the indenter. The angle was varied experimentally and it was found that the hardness value obtained on a homogeneous piece of material remained constant, irrespective of load. [2] Accordingly, loads of various magnitudes are applied to a flat surface, depending on the hardness of the material to be measured. The HV number is then determined by the ratio F/A where F is the force applied to the diamond in kilograms-force and A is the surface area of the resulting indentation in square millimetres. A can be determined by the formula which can be approximated by evaluating the sine term to give where d is the average length of the diagonal left by the indenter. Hence, [3] The corresponding units of HV are then kilograms-force per square millimetre (kgf/mm²). To calculate Vickers hardness number using SI units one needs to convert the force applied from kilograms-force to newtons. To do the calculation directly the following equation can be used: [4] where F is newtons and d is millimetres. Vickers hardness numbers are reported as xxxHVyy, e.g. 440HV30, or xxxHVyy/zz if duration of force differs from 10 s to 15 s, e.g. 440Hv30/20, where: 440 is the hardness number, HV gives the hardness scale (Vickers), 30 indicates the load used in kg. 20 indicates the loading time if it differs from 10 s to 15 s Vickers values are generally independent of the test force: they will come out the same for 500 gf and 50 kgf, as long as the force is at least 200 gf. [5] Examples of HV values for various materials [6] Material


With which sport is Michael Schumacher associated?

Michael Schumacher's son going up to Formula 4 racing - NY Daily News Michael Schumacher’s son, Mick, following dad’s racing path and will move up to Formula 4  Michael Schumacher's son going up to Formula 4 racing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mick Schumacher is moving up from kart racing to Formula 4. (Fredrik Von Erichsen/© Fredrik Von Erichsen/dpa/Corb) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, March 2, 2015, 2:04 PM FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Michael Schumacher’s 15-year-old son Mick has outgrown kart racing and is moving up to Formula 4, a series for young talents. The young Schumacher has signed a contract with Van Amersfoort Racing to drive in the Formula 4. “We have watched his skills in test driving and are looking forward to a successful season,” the Dutch team’s owner Frits van Amersfoort said on Monday. The son of the most successful driver in Formula One history got his racing start in the same kart series as his famous father, who honed his skills on a circuit near the family’s home before moving on to Formula 3 and later Formula One glory. Germany's Michael Schumacher holds the trophy aloft after winning the 2002 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England,Sunday, July 7, 2002. Ferrari came first and sceond with Schumacher winning and teamate Rubens Barrichello second, third was Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya in a Williams BMW. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis) (RICHARD LEWIS/AP) German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher celebrates in his car after winning the German Formula One Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring circuit, Germany, Sunday July 28,2002. (AP Photo/ Daniel Maurer) (DANIEL MAURER/AP) Michael Schumacher is Formula One's most accomplished driver. Michael Schumacher suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013. He was retired at the time of the accident. He is still recovering at his Swiss home after spending months in hospital. With seven titles, Schumacher is the most successful Formula One driver in history and also holds many other records in the series. His brother Ralf was also a Formula One driver and is still involved with motor sport. Mick Schumacher finished second in the world, European and German kart championships last season, racing as Mick Junior or under his mother’s maiden name to protect his privacy. Michael Schumacher is still recovering in his Swiss home following a skiing accident that left him in a coma for six months. (DIEGO AZUBEL/EPA) He will make his debut for Van Amersfoort Racing in Oschersleben, Germany, on April 25-26, by which time he will be 16. Formula 4, the new single-seat category to FIA standards, aims at young drivers with a background in karting. “In the last couple of years, it has become a tradition for us that we offer the runner-up from the German junior karting championship (DJKM) a test session in our simulator,” Frits van Amersfoort said. German the Formula One driver Michael Schumacher sufferes serious skiing injury and is in a coman for six months as a result. (ERCOLE COLOMBO/EPA) “This is handled by the DMSB, the German motorsport authority, and that is how we first got in touch with Mick Schumacher last autumn. He spent a full day in the simulator at our headquarters in The Netherlands. Then we witnessed him during a test session at Valencia and eventually, we reached an agreement to compete together in this year’s ADAC Formula 4 series.” Van Amersfoort ran Max Verstappen in Formula 3 last year. Verstappen, son of Michael Schumacher’s former teammate Jos, is set to become the youngest driver to start a Formula One race when the season opens later this month in Australia. He will be 17. Verstappen will be driving for Toro Rosso. Tags:


Between 1955 and 1970, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Angela Davis were significant people in which movement in the USA?

Rosa Parks - Black History - HISTORY.com Google Rosa Parks’ Early Life Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama , on February 4, 1913. She moved with her parents, James and Leona McCauley, to Pine Level, Alabama, at age 2 to reside with Leona’s parents. Her brother, Sylvester, was born in 1915, and shortly after that her parents separated. Did You Know? When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, it wasn’t the first time she’d clashed with driver James Blake. Parks stepped onto his very crowded bus on a chilly day 12 years earlier, paid her fare at the front, then resisted the rule in place for blacks to disembark and re-enter through the back door. She stood her ground until Blake pulled her coat sleeve, enraged, to demand her cooperation. Parks left the bus rather than give in. Rosa’s mother was a teacher, and the family valued education. Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She left at 16, early in 11th grade, because she needed to care for her dying grandmother and, shortly thereafter, her chronically ill mother. In 1932, at 19, she married Raymond Parks, a self-educated man 10 years her senior who worked as a barber and was a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ). He supported Rosa in her efforts to earn her high-school diploma, which she ultimately did the following year. Rosa Parks: Roots of Activism Raymond and Rosa, who worked as a seamstress, became respected members of Montgomery’s large African-American community. Co-existing with white people in a city governed by “Jim Crow” (segregation) laws, however, was fraught with daily frustrations: Blacks could attend only certain (inferior) schools, could drink only from specified water fountains, could borrow books only from the “black” library, among other restrictions. Although Raymond had previously discouraged her out of fear for her safety, in December 1943 Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and she became chapter secretary. She worked closely with chapter president Edgar Daniel (E.D.) Nixon. Nixon was a railroad porter known in the city as an advocate for blacks who wanted to register to vote, and also as president of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks’ Arrest On Thursday, December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus. Black residents of Montgomery often avoided municipal buses if possible because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so demeaning. Nonetheless, 70 percent or more riders on a typical day were black, and on this day Rosa Parks was one of them. Segregation was written into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens, and the seats behind them for black citizens. However, it was only by custom that bus drivers had the authority to ask a black person to give up a seat for a white rider. There were contradictory Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available. Nonetheless, at one point on the route, a white man had no seat because all the seats in the designated “white” section were taken. So the driver told the riders in the four seats of the first row of the “colored” section to stand, in effect adding another row to the “white” section. The three others obeyed. Parks did not. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired,” wrote Parks in her autobiography, “but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Eventually, two police officers approached the stopped bus, assessed the situation and placed Parks in custody. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Although Parks used her one phone call to contact her husband, wo


Which TV series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California, who solves serious crimes by using his skills of observation?

Show your appreciation by Liking us On Facebook The Mentalist TV series, shows/cartoon,anime,magma/Documentaries - MobileTVshows The Mentalist (in TV ) The Mentalist follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) based in Sacramento, California. He has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his amazing skills of observation. Jane also makes frequent use of his mentalist abilities and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium using paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. He abandoned his pretense out of remorse when his attention-seeking behavior attracted the attention of a serial killer who killed his wife and daughter. The CBI's real-life counterpart merged with another agency in 2007 to become the Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Last Updated: 19 Apr, 2015 Episodes


What is the name for the order of insects with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats?

Winged Insects - 3 | Britannica.com Winged Insects This general category includes a selection of more specific topics. Displaying 101 - 200 of 348 results feather-winged beetle Ptiliidae any of more than 400 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) characterized by long fringes of hair on the long, narrow hindwings. The antennae also have whorls of long hairs. Most feather-winged beetles are oval and between 0.25 and 1... fig wasp Agaonidae any of about 900 species of tiny wasps responsible for pollinating the world’s 900 species of figs (see Ficus). Each species of wasp pollinates only one species of fig, and each fig species has its own wasp species to pollinate it. This extraordinary... fire ant Solenopsis any of a genus of insects in the family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera, that occur in tropical regions of the world, such as Central and South America, and in some temperate regions, such as North America. The best-known member of the genus,... firefly Lampyridae any of some 2,000 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) found in most tropical and temperate regions that have special light-producing organs on the underside of the abdomen. Most fireflies are nocturnal, although some species are diurnal.... flat bark beetle Cucujidae any of approximately 500 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are red, yellow, or brown and easily recognized by their narrow, flattened bodies. Cucujids can be found throughout the world. Most are less than 13 mm (0.5 inch) in... flat bug Aradidae any of about 1,000 species of small, flat, dark-coloured insects (order Heteroptera) that are usually found under stones, in crevices in dead or dying trees, or under loose bark. Nearly all flat bugs range in size from 3 to 11 mm (0.12 to 0.43... flat grain beetle any member of the insect family Silvanidae (order Coleoptera), closely related to and sometimes included in the flat bark beetle family Cucujidae. These beetles are usually less than 3 millimetres (0.1 inch) in length. Many species live under the bark... flea Siphonaptera any of a group of bloodsucking insects that are important carriers of disease and can be serious pests. Fleas are parasites that live on the exterior of the host (i.e., are ectoparasitic). As the chief agent transmitting the Black Death... flea beetle any member of the insect subfamily Alticinae (Halticinae) belonging to the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae (order Coleoptera). These tiny beetles, worldwide in distribution, are usually less than 6 mm (0.25 inch) in length and dark or metallic in colour.... flesh fly Sarcophagidae any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are similar in appearance to the house fly but are characterized by blackish stripes on the gray thorax (region behind the head) and a checkered pattern of light and dark... flour moth Ephestia kuehniella species of moth in the subfamily Phycitinae (family Pyralidae, order Lepidoptera) that is a cosmopolitan pest of cereal products and other stored foods. Sometimes also called Anagasta kuehniella, the flour moth requires vitamins A... flower bug Anthocoridae any of at least 400 species of small insects in the true bug order, Heteroptera, that are black with white markings and are usually found on flowers, under loose bark, or in leaf litter. Flower bugs range in size from 2 to 5 mm (0.08 to... flower chafer Cetoniinae any of a group of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae (insect order Coleoptera) that are distributed worldwide and are brilliantly coloured, with the majority of the iridescent species occurring in the tropics. Most measure less than 12 mm... fly Diptera any of several thousand species of insects characterized by the use of only one pair of wings for flight and the reduction of the second pair of wings to knobs (called halteres) used for balance. The term fly is commonly used for almost any small... footman moth Lithosiinae any of a group of insects in the tiger moth family, Arctiidae (order Lepidoptera), for which the common name footman is probably derived from the stiff, elongate appearance of


Kingston is the capital of which country?

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What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?

and NELSON'S COLUMN Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square is at the centre of London next to Charing Cross from where all modern-day distances are measured. Built during mid-19th Century on the former stables and courtyard of the Palace of Whitehall, Trafalgar Square is home to Nelson’s Column, two 24m fountains, four sculpture plinths and statues of historically important world figures. At the top of the square are the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and St Martin in the Fields church. Trafalgar Square was designed by Sir Charles Barry as a ceremonial and cultural space. Opened to the public in 1844, the square is one of London's main tourist attractions. As a popular meeting and social place it is often used festivals, political demonstrations and national celebrations, such as for Royal Weddings and on each New Year’s Eve when thousands of people party in the square. The plinths in each corner of the Trafalgar Square were designed for sculptures, but the plinth in the north-west corner, (intended for a statue of William IV whom the square was originally going to be named), remained empty until 1998. Now known as the ‘Fourth Plinth’ the Royal Society of Arts initiated a scheme to show a series of specially commissioned, and sometimes controversial, contemporary works of art. Trafalgar Square is a popular meeting place to walk or relax. The pedestrianised North Terrace has a cafe and public facilities. Nelson's Column Nelson’s column was built in 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The 5.5m sandstone statue of Nelson stands on top of a 46m  solid Dartmoor granite column. Nelson faces south looking towards the Admiralty, with the Mall on his right flank, where Nelson's ships are represented on the top of each flagpole. The square pedestal at the foot of the column is decorated with four bronze panels cast from captured French guns. They depict Nelson's victories at the Battles of Cape St Vincent, Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar.  The four lions guarding the base of the column were added in 1867, 25 years after the statue was erected.