"Peter Benson appeared in over two hundred episodes of TV's ""Heartbeat"" between 1995 and 2010, playing which role?"

Map of List of Heartbeat episodes - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki List of Heartbeat episodes: Map    Wikipedia article: Map showing all locations mentioned on Wikipedia article: The following is a list of episodes for the British ITV1 period police drama Heartbeat . The programme first aired on Friday 10 April 1992 and 17 series have so far been aired. The first series broadcast on a Friday , as from the second series, Heartbeat has been on a Sunday night. The 18th series premièred on 12 October 2008 and took a break after the 6th episode. The 18th series continued on 19 April 2009 and concluded on 14 June 2009. The last 9 episodes are due to be aired in 2010, although they were shown in Sweden on TV4 from 25 August 2009 to 4 September 2009. As of , 372 episodes of Heartbeat have aired, which includes 9 Christmas episodes. Series One (1992) "Changing Places" 10 April 1992 Nick Rowan, a policeman , and his wife Kate, a doctor move from London to the Yorkshire village of Aidensfield. Filming of the series began 26 November 1991 Guest Stars: Andrew Abrahams as Magistrate, Marcus Lund as Second Mod, Gemma Cawthorne as Lizzie Maskell, Nicola Headley as Baby Girl, Mark J. Pepper as First Mod, Rosemary McHale as Georgina Fraser, Peter Wallis as Old Bob, Del Henney as Harold Jackson, Malcolm Hebden as Clerk of Court, Eileen O'Brien as Mrs Maskell, Phoenix as The Telstars, Jack Deam as Alan Maskell, Suzanne Hitchmough as Sandra Murray. 2 "Fruits of the Earth" 17 April 1992 Nick is finding life in Aidensfield easier than Kate who is having problems with Dr. Ferrenby. Guest Stars: Elspeth Charlton as Mrs. Holroyd, Ben Forster as Arnold Merriweather, Joyce Kennedy as Mrs. Potter, Simon Molloy as Inspector, Genevieve Walsh as Hannah Davies, Dennis McIntosh as Hiker, John Breslin as Mr. Potter, Brian Baines as Mr. Holroyd, Barrie Rutter as Mr. Maskell, Jack Deam as Alan Maskell, Edward Peel as Mr. Carter, Shirley Stelfox as Mrs. Parkin, Eileen O'Brien as Mrs. Maskell, Roy Alon as Car Driver. 3 "Rumours" 24 April 1992 Greengrass tries to become a gardener to two elderly sisters while a local shopkeeper Charlie Denby appears to be enjoying the company of male customers too much. Guest Stars: Edward Mallon as Tony Cottis, Ronnie Leek as Mason, Paul Walton as Dessie Pendleton, Elizabeth Spriggs as Rene Kirby, Martin Raymond Bolger as Gerry Adamson, Paul Greenwood as Harry Cottis, John Forgeham as Reg Pendleton, Suzanne Hitchmough as Sandra Murray, Ann Rye as Miss. Hamilton, Jack Deam as Alan Maskell, David Hargreaves as Charlie Denby, Judith Davis as Frances Kirby. 4 1 May 1992 Nick investigates two barn fires while Kate has another argument with Dr. Ferrenby. Guest Stars: Tony Forsyth as Ian Clayton, Lottie Ward as Fiona Lambton, Geoffrey Banks as Mr. Sykes, Eileen O'Brien as Mrs. Maskell, Jack Deam as Alan Maskell, Ann Rye as Miss. Hamilton, Suzanne Hitchmough as Sandra Murray, Jane Hazlegrove as Maggie. 5 "Nowt but a Prank" 8 May 1992 Dr. Ferrenby is injured when he inadvertley gets involved in a feud dating back 20 years. Guest Stars: Sue Race as Mrs. Thurston, James Cosmo as Matthew Chapman, Paul Copley as Dick Radcliffe, William Ash as Paul Allenby, Lynn Farleigh as Mary Radcliffe, Patrick Connolly as Keith Hawkins, Nicky Evans as Graham Thompson. 6 "Old, New, Borrowed and Blue" 15 May 1992 There are a series of burglaries in Aidensfield where the culprit always tidies the house before leaving. This was to be the very last episode as Heartbeat was considered to be a 6 part drama series, another 4 episodes were developed for the first series. Guest Stars: Justin Chadwick as Derek, Annette Crosbie as Penelope Stirling, Sylvia Gatril as Sandra's Mum, Jill McCullough as Jigsaw Woman, Simon O'Brien as Vince, John Otway as Burglar, Michael Carter as Auctioneer, Eileen O'Brien as Mrs. Maskell, Barrie Rutter as Mr. Maskell, Rupert Vansittart as Lord Ashfordly, Suzanne Hitchmough as Sandra Maskell, Pete Ivatts as Antique Dealer, Jack Deam as Alan Maskell, Harry Beety as Salter. 7 22 May 1992 A large CND demonstration is to take place outside a


"Which airline used to promote itself as ""The world's favourite airline""?"

British Airways relaunches itself with new slogan that nods to its imperial origins | Daily Mail Online comments The ‘world’s favourite airline,’ which once caused a storm by dropping the Union Flag from its tailfins, has harked back to its Imperial past in a re-launch that is part of a £5billion investment programme. After a crippling 18 months of cabin crew strikes and the fall-out from terror attacks in 2001, British Airways says it is now ready to put a turbulent decade behind it and look to the future by starting ‘a new chapter’ . But it has also unashamedly gone back 90 years to its origins and early days as Imperial Airways – covering the four corners of the British Empire - to celebrate its ‘Britishness’ across the globe. Out with the old: BA's new slogan To Fly. To Serve will replace it's former motto 'The World's Favourite Airline' BA will launch a new 90-second TV ‘brand’ campaign on Wednesday  – its first in ten years – with a cinematic TV and internet advert that celebrates its origins from 1919 through to the present day. Ten serving cabin crew members appear in the advert, though neither they nor BA would say whether they worked or walked out during the recent dispute. The mini-film begins amidst flimsy-looking bi-planes and shades of ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines,' before moving on to the pre-WWII days, when passengers could fly from Croydon with Imperial Airways to far flung parts of an Empire on which the sun never set. Nostalgic: BA's re-launch mini film will delight with its potted history of air travel that celebrates the firm's origins from 1919 to the present day. Here a De Haviland 51 bi-plane gets checked over History: A still from the advert sees the pilot of a silver De Haviland Dragon DH89 as used by Imperial Airways from Croydon to the four corners of the British Empire Moving on: The ad also features a Douglas DC-3 Dakota from 1949-50 flown by British European Airways (BEA) from Northolt It then winds through the decades of jet travel to Concorde and the present day. The campaign coincides with a five-year plan to invest £5billion on new aircraft, including the giant Airbus A380 superjumbo, new interiors and new services. BA's former motto of ‘the world’s favourite airline’ will be replaced with the company's coat of arms and the words: ‘To fly, to serve.’ Also appearing: A Vickers VC10 Flying for forerunner British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in the 1960s from Heathrow On the tarmac: 1960s pilots make their way to the Vickers VC10s during the 'Aviators' advert Retired giant: The ad will also feature Concorde, which made its last flight in 2003 before being retired Modern: A British Airways 747 Jumbo Jet will also feature From bi-planes to whipped cream, Maggie's hankerchief and a merger: BA's 92-year history explained August 25, 1919: BA’s forerunner company, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited (AT&T) launches first daily international air service between London and Paris, operating a single-engined de Havilland DH4A bi-plane from Hounslow Heath near current Heathrow. It carried a single passenger and cargo including newspapers, Devonshire cream and grouse on two-and-a half-hour cross-Channel journey to Le Bourget. 1924: Four fledgling airlines, including Daimler Airways (a successor to AT&T) merge to form Imperial Airways Limited operating from the new London airport at Croydon to all corners of the British Empire and the Continent. 1939: Imperial Airways nationalised at dawn of second world war and merged with another to form British overseas Airways Corporation BOAC. After the war BOAC continued to operate long-haul and transatlantic while a new company British European Airways (BEA) flew Continental and domestic routes. 1950s-60s: The passenger jet age dawned as BOAC flew the Comet to Johannesburg in 1952 in 23 hours with five stops, and began the first transatlantic jet service to New York on October 1958, days ahead of their American rivals. 1960s: BOAC flies in from Miami Beach and is immortalised in a Beatles song – ‘Back in the USSR’. On another fligh


Which fortified wine is produced in the Italian island of Sicily?

Sicilian Wine - A Guide to the Wines of Sicily Sicilian Wine Shop all wines from Sicily Join the Sicily group   Wine grapes have always grown on the Italian island of Sicily. Some say it was Dionysus, the god of wine, who planted them there himself. The Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine, balanced rainfall, hilly terrain and soils made rich by Mount Etna’s ash all create the perfect conditions for quality agriculture. Ancient civilizations were producing wine on the island as far back as the 17th century BC. The Greeks arrived some time around 8 BC, bringing other varietals in with them. They also brought innovations such as pruning, varietal selection and low vine training. Large quantities of wine began to flow all over the island. Very, very alcoholic wine.    For several centuries, the Sicilian wine industry fell into boom and bust cycles. As the Romans spread their empire, they carried wines from Sicily with them. A type of Sicilian wine called Mamertino was said to have been Julius Caesar’s favorite. In the Byzantine Age between the 6th and 9th centuries, the Read more »   Wine grapes have always grown on the Italian island of Sicily. Some say it was Dionysus, the god of wine, who planted them there himself. The Mediterranean climate with abundant sunshine, balanced rainfall, hilly terrain and soils made rich by Mount Etna’s ash all create the perfect conditions for quality agriculture. Ancient civilizations were producing wine on the island as far back as the 17th century BC. The Greeks arrived some time around 8 BC, bringing other varietals in with them. They also brought innovations such as pruning, varietal selection and low vine training. Large quantities of wine began to flow all over the island. Very, very alcoholic wine.    For several centuries, the Sicilian wine industry fell into boom and bust cycles. As the Romans spread their empire, they carried wines from Sicily with them. A type of Sicilian wine called Mamertino was said to have been Julius Caesar’s favorite. In the Byzantine Age between the 6th and 9th centuries, the religious communities held power over Sicily and wine production peaked (for ceremonial purposes, natch). But this booming wine industry was left to decay once the Muslims took over between the 9th and 11th centuries. During the Aragonese Empire from the 13th to 16th centuries, Sicilian wine once again became a hot trading commodity.    In 1773, British merchant John Woodhouse saw great potential in Sicily to produce a local fortified (brandied) wine. Port and Madeira had become quite popular, and other English men rather wealthy from importing it. So he introduced a perpetuum system, an equivalent to the solera system of blending wines from different vintages, and produced the first Marsalas to take home to England. This venture brought great fortune to both Woodhouse and the Sicilian economy.    Marsala and still wines began to boom in Sicily during the 19th century, and many historical wineries were established during this period. The Catania province had become such a key viticultural zone that a railway was constructed in order to connect it to the port city of Riposto to facilitate wine trade.    The global Phylloxera crisis had a profound effect on Sicilian wine production, which did not recover until well into the 1950s. Unfortunately, to compensate for such a long period of stagnation, the government subsidized programs to grow very high yields of grapes. The bulk wines being produced and exported gave Sicily a bad rap in the wine world for decades to come. But the shifting tastes and standards of the populous encouraged local producers to turn things around and reach for higher quality standards. By the end of the 20th century, Sicilian wines had come to show great promise.    Varietals grown in Sicily are a blend of indigenous and global, and there are dozens of DOCs. The signature red native grape is Nero d’Avola and its white counterpart is Cattaratto. Juice from the latter is used for the production of Marsala, and is also often sourced to other cooler regions t


Anthony Trollope's character, Plantagenet Palliser, sits in the House of Lords under what title?

Prime Ministers in the House of Lords | History of government Prime Ministers in the House of Lords — No 10 guest historian series , Prime Ministers and No. 10 The Marquess of Salisbury, the last Prime Minister to lead a government from the House of Lords In Anthony Trollope’s 1876 novel The Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of the title is Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium. It may today appear very strange that a member of the House of Lords could head the British government. The last peer to be called upon to serve as Prime Minister,  Sir Alec Douglas-Home , renounced his peerage shortly after taking office in 1963. The  Marquess of Salisbury , who retired in 1902, was the last Prime Minister to lead a government from the Lords. Trollope’s depiction, however, reflected the political realities of his day. Of the thirteen Prime Ministers who served during his lifetime (1815-1882), only four spent their entire premiership in the House of Commons, while seven governed from the Lords. Uniquely,  Lord John Russell  spent his first term (1846-1852) in the Commons, but his second (1865-1866) in the Lords, having been ennobled as Earl Russell in 1861. Benjamin Disraeli transferred from the Lower to the Upper House while in office, having been created Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876. The case of Lord John Russell – a courtesy title which he held as a younger son of the Duke of Bedford – provides a useful reminder that not all those Prime Ministers referred to as ‘Lord’ necessarily sat in the Upper House. As an Irish peer, Lord Palmerston did not have an automatic right to sit in the Lords and was MP for Tiverton while Prime Minister. Although British politics became progressively more democratic during the nineteenth century, more peers than commoners served as Prime Minister in that period. In fact more Prime Ministers spent their premierships exclusively in the Lords during the nineteenth century than the eighteenth century. Two of the nineteenth (and indeed any) century’s longest serving incumbents were peers: Salisbury, who governed for over thirteen years in three administrations, and Lord Liverpool , who served continuously for over fourteen years. In 1817, eleven years before he became Prime Minister, the  Duke of Wellington  remarked, ‘Nobody cares a damn for the House of Lords; the House of Commons is everything in England and the House of Lords nothing’. Events leading to the passage of the 1832 Reform Act appeared to confirm Wellington’s view, bringing down his government, with the Lords eventually forced to yield to the Lower House to pass the Act. Yet Wellington noted in a more reflective mood in 1835 that ‘the House of Lords still constitutionally possesses great power over the legislation of the country’. Before the 1911 Parliament Act tipped the constitutional balance decidedly in favour of the Commons, there were several significant occasions on which the Lords forced the Commons to postpone or reconsider major legislative proposals, notably in 1884 over parliamentary reform and in 1893 over Irish Home Rule. As Walter Bagehot noted in his 1867 work The English Constitution, the Lords also retained its significance as ‘a reservoir of Cabinet ministers’. Nearly half of William Gladstone ’s 1880 Cabinet were peers. Despite the Upper House’s continued significance, some doubted whether a Prime Minister was best placed there. Yet such objections could be grounded less on principle than an aversion to a particular individual. George Canning ’s dislike of the ineffectual Duke of Portland , whom he hoped to succeed, prompted him to argue in 1809 that it was ‘indispensable’ that the Prime Minister sit in the Commons. In 1894, following Gladstone’s retirement, a deputation of Liberal MPs protested to their Chief Whip about a peer filling his place, Queen Victoria having chosen the  Earl of Rosebery  in preference to Sir William Harcourt. There were undoubtedly potential pitfalls for a Prime Minister who sat in the Lords.  Winston Churchill believed that Lord Rosebery’s career was seriously hampered by his peerage, ob


"Which artist sang the soundtrack to the Bond film ""Spectre""?"

James Bond Wish List: 5 Artists Who Should Sing 'Spectre' Title Song | Billboard James Bond Wish List: 5 Artists Who Should Sing 'Spectre' Title Song COMMENTS Like diamonds, James Bond may as well be forever. Skyfall director Sam Mendes revealed the title of the 24th canonical installment in the Bond franchise is titled Spectre and will come out in fall 2015. For the fourth time, Daniel Craig -- the sixth actor to portray Bond on the big screen -- is set to star, alongside Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and new Bond girls Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux. But there's one massively important element of Spectre we still know nothing about -- who will sing the opening credits title song? As much as James Bond's shaken-not-stirred martini and his equally dry wit, title songs are an equally important part of the franchise. From Shirley Bassey to Carly Simon to Paul McCartney to Duran Duran to Tina Turner to Adele , brilliant artists have turned in classic Bond songs over the years -- hell, Adele's "Skyfall" was so good it nabbed her an Oscar. Here are 5 artists we're dying to hear deliver a Bond title song. Lana Del Rey Seriously, this is a no-brainer. Her retro image, sultry voice and arresting tales of doomed romance are a perfect fit for Bond. We can easily imagine her delivering a song called "Spectre of My Dying Love" -- her voice aching with obsession, lust and self-destruction. Florence Welch It's been a minute since we've heard from the Florence + the Machine frontwoman, and a Bond song would be the perfect return for her. Like Lana, she aces introspection tinged with sadness. But unlike LDR, she has a voice that can shake the rafters, placing her in the company of previous Bond singers like Bassey and Adele. Bonus: She's British! Sam Smith Historically, women have sung more Bond title tracks than men -- and theirs tend to be better, especially when you factor in recent efforts from Chris Cornell and Jack White. But Smith has a tear in his voice, lending his gospel-tinged soul the somber vibe that many of the best Bond title tracks boast. He was born to sing a Bond song about being irresistibly drawn to the wrong person. Plus, he's a Brit. Lady Gaga The great thing about giving Gaga free reign over a Bond song is that you wouldn't know what to expect. While you can imagine her delivering a full-throated torch song, she could also deliver an ominous dance-pop track like Madonna and Duran Duran before her. Also, "Spectre" should already be the name of a Gaga song, right? Mary J. Blige She's not a Brit, but she might as well be these days. Her upcoming album is titled The London Sessions and it features heavy contributions from Sam Smith and dance duo Disclosure. And seriously, a dark, dance-tinged ballad produced by Disclosure featuring Blige's soul-stirring voice would be the stuff Bond dreams are made of.


"Which department store chain claims to be ""never knowingly undersold""?"

John Lewis changes its Never Knowingly Undersold price vow by back door | Daily Mail Online comments John Lewis is using a small print get-out clause to avoid sticking to its price promise of being 'Never Knowingly Undersold'. The chain built its reputation on the basis of ethical trading and a promise - dating back to 1925 - to meet the price of rivals or refund the difference. This pledge is backed up by teams of price-checkers, who tour outlets around its department stores to ensure John Lewis is not undercut. John Lewis, which built its reputation on a promise to meet the price of rivals, has inserted a new clause which means it does not have to match prices However, the company has inserted a clause in its price promise to spell out that it only matches the price charged by others, if they also offer the same level of guarantee. The clause also rules the price promise is void if - unlike John Lewis - the cheaper rival charges for delivery. John Lewis claims the new clause is simply designed to clarify its policy. However, the consumer group Which? said people may feel misled. Spokesman, Sarah Dennis, said: 'The store prides itself on customer service - so you would expect such a change to be flagged up clearly. 'The slogan implies a price promise. Families will assume they will refund the difference, not just if the warranty is exactly the same. John Lewis chief executive Charlie Mayfield. The store is a trusted retailer, but the price promise has been watered down, say consumers 'It's nice to be offered a guarantee as an extra, but that should not be a condition of a price promise.' John Lewis has been one of the few high street success stories of recent years based on its reputation as a trusted retailer. That has been put at risk by the decision to water down the price promise, which has been in place for more than 85 years. As the squeeze on consumers has taken hold, John Lewis has faced increasingly tough price competition from big name rivals like Currys, Argos and the new US rival Best Buy. Now, a snapshot survey found John Lewis has refused to honour its promise to make refunds of the difference where one of these firms offered a cheaper price. For example, a Hotpoint washing machine that was £279 at John Lewis was some £60 less at Argos. However, John Lewis refused to match the price because Argos offers a one year guarantee, rather than the two it provides. An Acer Laptop was £50 more expensive at John Lewis than Currys at £899. Again, John Lewis refused to refund the difference because there was no two year guarantee. A Samsung TV was £647 at John Lewis, which was some £58.01 more than Best Buy. The department store chain said it would not refund the difference because the US rival does not offer a five year guarantee. The long guarantees provided by John Lewis are welcomed by customers, however, in theory, they are not essential. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share The Sale of Goods Act should allow consumers to return items that break and are not 'fit for purpose' for up to six years. However it is notoriously difficult to enforce these rights and shoppers appreciate the high level of customer service and the knowledge of staff at John Lewis. John Lewis promotes its price promise, saying: 'We truly believe Never Knowingly Undersold is as important today as when we introduced it. 'After all., value is something that should last a lifetime.' The clauses spelling out the limits on the scope of the price promise was included in the Never Knowingly Undersold smallprint as part of a number of changes in September. At that time, John Lewis extended its price promise covering products available on the high street to those available from some rival online retailers. The get-out clause states the promise only holds if the cheaper store's 'service conditions are comparable, such as delivery charges and guarantee terms'. A chain spokesman said the new clause clarifies existing policy. However, she admitted that before the rules were spelt out, shoppers may previously have been o


What word do the Americans use to describe a tap?

Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English - BBC News BBC News Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC News, Washington DC 27 September 2012 Close share panel Image copyright Other There is little that irks British defenders of the English language more than Americanisms, which they see creeping insidiously into newspaper columns and everyday conversation. But bit by bit British English is invading America too. "Spot on - it's just ludicrous!" snaps Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. "You are just impersonating an Englishman when you say spot on. Will do - I hear that from Americans. That should be put into quarantine," he adds. And don't get him started on the chattering classes - its overtones of a distinctly British class system make him quiver. But not everyone shares his revulsion at the drip, drip, drip of Britishisms - to use an American term - crossing the Atlantic. Also overheard in the US... Do the washing up - British for "wash the dishes" Keen on/ keen to - a British way of saying "to like" or "be eager to" Barman - bartender "I enjoy seeing them," says Ben Yagoda, professor of English at the University of Delaware, and author of the forthcoming book, How to Not Write Bad. "It's like a birdwatcher. If I find an American saying one, it makes my day." Last year Yagoda set up a blog dedicated to spotting the use of British terms in American English. So far he has found more than 150 - from cheeky to chat-up via sell-by date and the long game - an expression which appears to date back to 1856, and comes not from golf or chess, but the card game whist. President Barack Obama has used it in at least one speech . Yagoda notices changes in pronunciation too - for example his students sometimes use "that sort of London glottal stop", dropping the T in words like "important" or "Manhattan". Kory Stamper, associate editor for Merriam-Webster, whose dictionaries are used by many American publishers and news organisations, agrees that more and more British words are entering the American vocabulary. Stamper is one of the powerful few who get to choose which words are included in the dictionary, as well as writing their definitions. One new entrant into the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2012 was gastropub (a gentrified pub serving good food), which was first used, according to Kory Stamper, in London's Evening Standard newspaper in 1996, and was first registered on American shores in 2000. More from the Magazine American English is getting on well, thanks "The British pub is a very different critter from an American bar," she says, but bars with good beer and food are springing up in many cities in the US, and the British term is sometimes used to describe them. Twee (excessively dainty or cute) is another "word of the moment", says Stamper, as is metrosexual (a well-groomed and fashion-conscious heterosexual man) which "took off like wildfire", after it was used in the American TV series Queer Eye. There was even a backlash against it - a sure sign, she says, that the word had "absolutely made its way into the American vernacular". There has also been "a huge up-tick", says Stamper, in the use of ginger as a way of describing someone with red hair. What about Canadian English? By Jack ChambersLinguistics professor, University of Toronto Canadians spell many words the British way -"colour", "neighbour" and "centre" British English was "enormously influential" from 1850-1950, largely due to a wave of immigration from Britain - an accent known as "Canadian dainty" came into being as upper middle class Canadians tried to sound British Canadians have tended to pronounce words like "tomato" and "leisure" the British rather than American way - as well as using words such as "tap" instead of "faucet" - but this is changing "When people put on a British accent [now], we consider it affected and funny - but it doesn't happen very frequently" She sees this as clearly tied to the publication in the US of the first Harry Potter book. Dozens


The Gulf of Aqaba is an inlet of which sea?

Map of Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Aqaba Location Facts, Bodies of Water, Red Sea - World Atlas other bodies of water The far northern end of the Red Sea is divided into two parts (gulfs) by the Sinai Peninsula; in the east the Gulf of Aqaba, and in the west the Gulf of Suez. The Gulf of Aqaba is positioned along the southeastern edge of the Sinai Peninsula, and bordered by the countries of Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Gulf is an important shipping conduit for both Israel and Jordan, and just beyond its southern edges, resorts like Sharm al-Sheikh and others are fast becoming major tourist destinations for scuba divers and sun worshipers because of their consistent sunshine, coral reefs and white sand beaches.


"Which fruit, with the botanical name Rubus idaeus, has varieties called “Lloyd George”, ""Hailsham” and ""Malling Jewel""?"

Raspberry ~ Rubus Plant Care Guide ~ Varieties | Auntie Dogma's Garden Spot Raspberry ~ Rubus Plant Care Guide ~ Varieties Source The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus; the name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial with woody stems. Species Rubus idaeus (European red raspberry) Rubus leucodermis (Whitebark or Western raspberry, Blue raspberry, Black raspberry) Rubus rosifolius (West Indian raspberry) Rubus strigosus (American red raspberry) (syn. R. idaeus var. strigosus) Rubus ellipticus (Yellow Himalayan Raspberry) Several species of Rubus, also called raspberries, are classified in other subgenera, including: Rubus sieboldii (Molucca raspberry, subgenus Malachobatus) Selected important cultivars Numerous raspberry cultivars have been selected. Two types of raspberry are available for commercial and domestic cultivation; the summer-bearing type produces an abundance of fruit on second-year canes (floricanes) within a relatively short period in midsummer, and double or “everbearing” plants, which also bear some fruit on first-year canes (primocanes) in the late summer and fall, as well as the summer crop on second-year canes. Those marked (AGM) have gained the Royal Horticultural Society‘s Award of Garden Merit. Red, early summer fruiting         Red, primocane, fall, autumn fruiting Amity Gold/Yellow, primocane, fall, autumn fruiting Anne Scepter Diseases and pests Raspberries are sometimes eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species (butterflies and moths). Botrytis cinerea, or gray mould, is a common fungal infection of raspberries and other soft fruit. It is seen as a gray mould growing on the raspberries, and particularly affects fruit which are bruised, as it provides an easy entrance point for the spores. Raspberry plants should not be planted where potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or bulbs have previously been grown, without prior fumigation of the soil. These crops are hosts for the disease Verticillium wilt, a fungus that can stay in the soil for many years and can infest the raspberry crop.[19] *********** Soil pH: Slightly Acidic to Neutral Raspberries are naturally inclined to grow in cooler climates, although the development of adaptable varieties has made it possible for gardeners to grow raspberries in many zones. They are relatively easy to grow, and with proper care, can bear fruit indefinitely. Don’t limit yourself to the common red raspberry; try growing purple as well! There are two types of raspberries, both with their own specific requirements for growing. Summer-bearers bear one crop per season, in summertime. Ever-bearers bear two crops, one in summer and one in fall. Planting Plant in the early spring (or late winter for warm zones) Plant far from wild growing berries, otherwise risk the spread of pests and diseases to your garden. Prepare soil with compost or aged manure a couple weeks before planting. Raspberries love moisture, so try soaking the roots for an hour or two before planting. Dig a hole that is roomy enough for the roots to spread. Space plants about 3 feet apart, in rows 8 feet apart. After planting, cut back canes, leaving 8 to 10 inches. Depending on the variety you plant, you may need to fashion a support. A trellis or a fence are good options. If you chose to use one of these, establish them at or before time of planting so the plants are not disturbed when maturing. Care Mulching is important throughout the season to conserve moisture and suffocate weeds. Keep a thick layer of mulch surrounding plants at all times. Water one inch per week. The roots send up an abundant amount of shoots, called canes. Keep order by pruning away the majority of them so that the survivors can produce lots of berries. Pruning Summer-Bearers produce berries on two year old canes while one year old canes grow right beside them. You shouldn’t have trouble telling which is which: the older canes have brown stems, and the young ones are still green.


"Which German-born, French composer, wrote ""Orpheus in the Underworld1' and ""The Tales of Hoffmann”?"

Offenbach's Triple Bill: 'The Tales of Hoffmann' Offenbach's Triple Bill: 'The Tales of Hoffmann' Audio selections When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that -- but unfortunately, the composer never lived to see it. During his lifetime, Offenbach became world famous as the composer of operettas -- often lightweight comedies, boasting scores of catchy tunes that have often outlived the works they were written for. The prime example is the ubiquitous "Can-Can" from his operetta Orpheus in the Underworld -- a number that tosses out three or four instantly recognizable melodies, all within the space of about ninety seconds. Still, despite his fame, Offenbach wanted to be known for more than just his frothy operettas, and hoped The Tales of Hoffmann would establish him as a recognized master of serious opera. The drama is based on a play by the writers Jules Barbier, who wrote the opera's libretto, and Michel Carré. The play takes the real life German poet, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and makes him a character in some of his own, fanciful stories. Offenbach's drama follows the same scheme, placing the title character into three stories of failed love. The result is one of the grandest and most expressive of all 19th-century French operas -- achieving a combination of emotional depth and musical brilliance that only the finest opera composers ever equaled. The Tales of Hoffmann was scheduled for a premiere at a Paris theater called the Gaite-Lyrique, during its 1877-78 season. When that theater suffered budget cutbacks, Offenbach continued work on the opera -- now intended for another venue, the Opera-Comique. But Offenbach died in 1880, while the premiere production was still in rehearsal, leaving the score incomplete. Over the years, all the way to the 1980s, scholars continued to find manuscripts for the opera that were left behind, and many different versions of the score have been assembled. But despite those difficulties, The Tales of Hoffmann has long been one of the most popular operas in the standard repertory. On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Offenbach's magnum opus in a production from the Grand Liceu Theatre in Barcelona. The title character is played by tenor Michael Spyyres. Hoffmann's three loves are sung by three different sopranos -- Kathleen Kim, Tatiana Pavlovskaya and Natalie Dessay -- while the multiple villain roles are all sung by bass-baritone Laurent Naouri. Social sharing


What was the name of the lasagne loving cat created by Jim Davis?

Garfield & Friends Jim Davis Cartoonist, Author, Producer, Director, President, Founder, Screenwriter, Playwright, Environmentalist, Philanthropist — all these titles can be used to describe Jim Davis, best-known as the creator of GARFIELD. Jim Davis, 1947 Jim Davis was born July 28, 1945 in Marion, Indiana, and raised on a small farm with his parents, James and Betty Davis, and his younger brother, Dave (Doc). Like most farms, the barnyard had its share of stray cats; about 25 at one time, by Jim's estimation. As a child, he suffered serious bouts with asthma and was often bedridden. Forced inside, away from regular farm chores, he whiled away the hours drawing pictures. Gnorm Gnat In college, he studied art and business before going to work for TUMBLEWEEDS    creator, Tom Ryan. There, he learned the skills and discipline necessary to    become a syndicated cartoonist and began his own strip, GNORM GNAT. When    he tried to sell the strip to a newspaper syndicate he was told, "It's funny, but    bugs? Who can relate to a bug?" After five years of GNORM, Davis crushed the    bug strip idea and tried a new tact, studying the comics pages closely. He    noticed there were a lot of successful strips about dogs, but none about cats!    Combining his wry wit with the art skills he had honed since childhood, GARFIELD, a fat, lazy, lasagna loving, cynical cat was born. Davis says Garfield is a composite of all the cats he remembered from his childhood, rolled into one feisty orange fur ball. Garfield was named after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis. Garfield first appeared in June 19, 1978 The strip debuted on June 19, 1978 in 41 U.S. newspapers. Several months after the launch, the Chicago Sun-Times cancelled GARFIELD. Over 1300 angry readers demanded that GARFIELD be reinstated. It was, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, GARFIELD is read in over 2100 newspapers by 200 million people. Guinness World Records™, named GARFIELD “The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World.” Davis’s peers at the National Cartoonist Society honored him with Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), the Elzie Segar Award (1990), and the coveted Reuben Award (1990), the top award presented to a cartoonist by NCS members. Garfield quickly became a sensation in the licensing world, too, inspiring Davis to form his own company to take care of Garfield business concerns. Paws, Inc., founded in 1981, manages the worldwide rights for the famous fat cat, and Davis serves as President. Jim has won four Emmy Awards Garfield’s fame spilled over to television and Davis penned eleven primetime specials for CBS-TV. He received ten Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. Movies were next, and Twentieth Century Fox turned out Garfield: The Movie (‘04), and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (‘06). Davis also wrote the original screenplays and executive produced three animated features for DVD: Garfield Gets Real (‘07), Garfield’s Fun Fest (‘08), and Garfield’s Pet Force (‘09). Also in 2009. “The Garfield Show” made its debut on Cartoon Network. Today, the CGI animated cartoon is in its fourth season and is seen in 131 countries, including China, where CCTV broadcasts the show daily. Davis’s philanthropy has been directed at educational and environmental projects. He founded The Professor Garfield Foundation in cooperation with Ball State University, to support children’s literacy. A free educational web site www.professorgarfield.org is the cornerstone of the Foundation’s work to date. Davis spearheaded reforestation, prairie and wetlands restorations, and built the world’s first all natural wastewater plant for commercial use. He was awarded the National Arbor Day Foundation’s Good Steward and Special Projects Award, and the Indiana Wildlife Federations’ Conservationist of the Year Award. Davis spends his leisure time golfing, gardening, fishing, and enjoying his wife, children, and grandchildren. In a nod to Garfield’s friends in the comic strip, Davis also keeps one cat, Nermal, and a dog, Pooky


The Guarani is the principal unit of currency of which country?

PYG (Paraguay Guarani) Definition | Investopedia PYG (Paraguay Guarani) DEFINITION of 'PYG (Paraguay Guarani)' The currency abbreviation or currency symbol for the Paraguay guaraní (PYG), the currency of Paraguay. The Paraguay guaraní is made up of 100 céntimos and is often represented by a symbol that looks like the capital Latin letter "G" with a diagonal slash through the center of it. The "guaraní" is named after the Guaraní people - an indigenous group of people in South America, living in what is now Paraguay. Rampant inflation has devalued the céntimo to the point where it is no longer used. BREAKING DOWN 'PYG (Paraguay Guarani)' The Paraguay guaraní replaced the peso at a rate of 1 guaraní to 100 pesos in 1943. The currency was allowed to float freely until 1960, when it was pegged to the U.S. dollar. The peg was in place from 1982 to 1990. In 1990, this peg was removed and another peg was used from 1990 until 1998 to help reduce inflation. Since the removal of the peg in 1998, the currency has consistently dropped in value because of inflation. Political corruption is thought to be the main force behind the runaway inflation. Trading Center


"Who sang the theme tune to the James Bond film ""Thunderball""?"

Thunderball Theme Song - James Bond - YouTube Thunderball Theme Song - James Bond Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 13, 2012 The theme tune to 007, Thunderball, performed by Tom Jones. For entertainment purposes only, I do not claim ownership or rights of this production. Copyright is held by its respective owners. Category


Under what name does US singer-songwriter Elizabeth Grant perform, her albums include 'Born to Die' and 'Honeymoon'?

Lana Del Rey | Lana Del Rey Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors ). Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985, in New York City, New York), better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, or previous stage names such as Lizzy Grant or May Jailer, is an American singer-songwriter, model, artist, and musician. She was born to her mother Patricia Grant , and father Robert Grant . Though born in New York City, she was raised in Lake Placid, New York. She has two younger siblings: Caroline "Chuck" Grant , her sister, and  Charlie Grant , her brother. She has been performing professionally as Lana Del Rey since 2011. Contents [ show ] Early life Lana Del Rey was born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant to her mother and father in New York City, New York on June 21, 1985. Her father, a former Grey Group executive copywriter turned web developer, and her mother Patricia Grant, a former Grey Group account executive raised her in Lake Placid, New York for the majority of her youth, along with sister Chuck and brother Charlie . Her father , who worked as a major executive, began investment in web domains in the late 90s, and as a result became a self-made entrepreneur. Though her family was well off, Del Rey has stated that her father was never a millionaire and that they never lived a wealthy lifestyle. From an early age, Del Rey had alcohol dependancy issues. At the age of fifteen, Del Rey was sent to Kent School, a boarding school in Connecticut after conflict with her teachers and mother back at home. While at Kent School, she met recent Georgetown University graduate and teacher Gene Campbell, who introduced her to various artists and writers such as Tupac, Walt Whitman and Vladimir Nabokov and would be a major influence in her music later on in life. Career Main article: Sirens (album) After returning to New York at 18 years old, Del Rey began studying metaphysics at Fordham College. It was around this time when she quit drinking due to an incident where she lost her parents car, however, without drinking, she felt "out of sync" with campus life. [1]  She began making social connections to other musicians who encouraged her to experiment with music. After learning six chords on guitar from her uncle, she began writing music. On learning guitar, she said "I realized I could probably write a million songs with those six chords". The result of her writing was the production of her first album,  Sirens . The acoustic album, written entirely by Del Rey under the stage name "May Jailer", was the beginning roots of her musical life and showcased a more fragile and peaceful take on her voice and sound. She began playing songs in various underground clubs in New York in 2005, and continued writing and performing for the next few years. Her stage name changed many times through this period, beginning with "May Jailer", evolving into "Lizzy Grant & The Phenomena", shortly becoming "Sparkle Jump Rope Queen", and eventually becoming Lizzy Grant. She graduated from Fordham College with a BA in philosophy. Halfway through college, Del Rey received a $10,000 record contract, with the money she rented a $400 a month trailer in New Jersey and began her music career. Lizzy Grant era Main article: Lana Del Ray (album) Soon, after recording a demo EP, No Kung Fu , Del Rey began work on her first studio album. She sent the EP to various producers with the intent on finding someone to work with her, and after listening to her tracks, David Kahne  agreed to collaborate with her. The two began recording in 2008 and recorded every day for three months. Her first EP was released after they begun their sessions, Kill Kill , which included three tracks - " Kill Kill ", " Gramma ", and " Yayo ". The three songs off the EP would later be included in her debut LP, Lana Del Ray . Del Rey had recorded the album previously with her then-boyfriend  Steven Mertens  but his contributions were ultimately scrapped. The album was released by 5 Points Records on January 5, 2010, to iTunes and Amazon. Sh


As what is a bowler hat known as in the USA?

Derby & Bowler Hats - Where to Buy Derby & Bowler Hats at Village Hat Shop Derby & Bowler Hats Shop for Derby & Bowler Hats Sort By More Details English Wool Felt Bowler Hat   Introducing the English Bowler hat by Jaxon. This is a great looking bowler with all the classic trimmings and doesn't break the bank. Made in the classic bowler/derby hat tradition - the English Bowler hat has a stiff finish and features a round crown, curled brim, grosgrain ribbon hat band and edge trim as well as a smooth satin lining. Available in three great colors to easily coordinate with any gentleman's wardrobe - the English Bowler by Jaxon has the look you want at a price you can't resist! Approx.4 1/2" Round Crown2" Curled Brim   Made of:100% Wool Felt Approx. 1" Grosgrain Ribbon HatbandFaux Leather SweatbandRemovable Side FeatherJaxon Side PinSatin Lined Sizes: S, M, L, XL and XXL More Details Wool Felt Homburg Hat   Please Note: Sizes run large, see below or call us at 1-888-847-4287 for help with sizing. S = 7 1/8 (57cm)M = 7 3/8 (59 cm) L = 7 5/8 (61 cm) XL = 7 7/8 (63 cm)  The Jaxon Wool Homburg Hat is a classic! Once more popular than the fedora throughout Europe and America, this classic style was considered as formal as top hat and derby styles. Later nicknamed the "Godfather" by popular American culture, the classic Homburg still holds a place in today's fashion.   Featuring the classic stiff finish, center dent crown and curled brim, the Jaxon Wool Homburg Hat gives you the complete look at an unbeatable price!   Approx.4 1/4" Center Dent Crown3" Curled Brim   Made of:100% Wool Felt - Stiff Finish   Grosgrain Ribbon HatbandGrosgrain Ribbon Bound EdgeRemovable Jaxon Side PinCotton SweatbandSatin Lined   Sizes: S, M, L and XL   Made in the USA100% Wool Felt Price: $75.00 More Details Made in the USA - Classics Godfather Hat by Jaxon and James   Made in the USA   Dating back to the early 19th Century, the Homburg (as it was known) was commonly worn by well-dressed, affluent gentlemen – it was the everyday hat of bankers and politicians. Originally named after the city in Germany, Al Pacino is credited with changing the name to ‘Godfather’ after he famously wore it during the movie of the same name. This started a new life for the Godfather hat in Hollywood as the hat of choice for gangsters and Mafioso alike. Today, you don’t have to be a banker or a gangster, wearing a Jaxon Godfather Homburg Hat is still a sign of an influential person.   Approx.4 1/4" Center Cent Crown3" Curled Brim   Made of:100% Wool Felt(Stiff Finish)   Made in the USAGrosgrain Ribbon HatbandGrosgrain Ribbon Bound EdgeLeather SweatbandRemovable Side FeatherCustom Satin Lining   Sizes: S, M, L and XL   For Bulk/Wholesale purchase of this hat, CLICK HERE.    More Details English Wool Felt Derby Hat   Please Note: Sizes run large. See below or call 1-888-847-4287 for help with sizing.Small = 7 (56cm) Medium = 7 1/4 (58cm) Large = 7 1/2 (60cm) X-Large = 7 3/4 (62cm) XX-Large = 8 (64cm)   The Jaxon English Derby Hat is one cool derby! Made in the classic tradition with a stiff wool felt finish and curled brim, this derby features grosgrain ribbon trim, satin lining and a faux leather sweatband. Yet another classic style from Jaxon Hats to add to any gentleman's hat collection! Approx.4 1/2" Round Crown2" Curled Brim   Made of:100% Wool Felt Grosgrain Ribbon HatbandGrosgrain Ribbon Bound BrimFaux Leather Sweatband Removable Side FeatherSatin Lining    For Bulk Purchase of this hat, CLICK HERE.  More Details 140 - 1890s Bowler Hat - Made to Order   These pieces are currently Made to Order and will take 2-4 weeks to make before shipping   Made in the USA The bowler hat, or the "Derby", was designed by the hatters James and George Lock of Mr. Lock of St. James's Street in the central London district of St. James. James Lock & Co. was founded in 1676 and the bowler hat was introduced in 1849. The Locks would send their design to hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, who produced a prototype of the hat and renamed it “The Bowler." Originally, the hat’s material was manu


"Who starred in the role of The Mariner in the 1995 film ""Waterworld""?"

Waterworld (1995) - IMDb IMDb 29 December 2016 2:33 AM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. Director: a list of 42 titles created 23 May 2012 a list of 41 titles created 12 Sep 2012 a list of 25 titles created 08 Sep 2014 a list of 39 titles created 06 Jan 2015 a list of 41 titles created 10 months ago Search for " Waterworld " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     1     Oscar. Another    5 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America. Director: Kevin Costner When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw. Director: Kevin Reynolds A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's. Director: Mick Jackson Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. Director: Kevin Costner A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend. Director: Ron Shelton Edit Storyline The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon. Written by Robbie Smith <robsmith@u.washington.edu> Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning. Genres: Rated PG-13 for some intense scenes of action violence, brief nudity and language | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 28 July 1995 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Waterworld: Mundo acuático See more  » Filming Locations: Anna Paquin was the first choice to play Enola. See more » Goofs While escaping the Smokers at the trading station Mariner heels the boat to raise one hull out of the water and escape the net. Both would need to be raised (impossible) to clear the net dragged by opposing sets of jet skis. See more » Quotes Depth Gauge : [Sees the Mariner's lit flare about to fall on the oil. An end to his miserable existence] Oh, thank God! [Kaboom] There are no opening credits except the title. See more » Connections (Arizona) – See all my reviews it's a shame so many people spent their time running their mouths rather than watching the movie. The story isn't new (what story is?) but its' well done, BIG color, BIG scenes,a touch of serious, a touch of humor, clear cut good guy, clear cut BAD guys with a few "grey guys" thrown in the middle. Costner is always a variable. When the right script hits, no one is better, otherwise it's pretty much a monotone. FORTUNATELY, this is the kind of script where the dead pan, monosyllabic Good Guy works just fine. It's a shame the "experts" (i.e. the critics who create nothing) trashed this one. Even if it were the worst movie ever made, Costner would have been contributing more the "creative world" than ANY critic will in their entire lives. geoff beneze 60 of 80 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? Yes


In Guatemala, what is the principal unit of currency called?

Guatemala Money: The Guatemala Quetzal Guatemala Money: the Guatemala Quetzal Guatemala Money: the Guatemala Quetzal Guatemala Money: the Guatemala Quetzal.  By Kirsten Hubbard Money in Guatemala: The Guatemala Quetzal (GTQ): One unit of Guatemalan currency is called the quetzal. The Guatemala quetzal is divided into 100 centavos. Exchange Rate: The exchange rate of the Guatemala quetzal to the US dollar is approximately 8 to one, which means two quetzals are equal to a US quarter. For exact exchange rates, visit Yahoo! Finance . History: The Guatemala quetzal is named for the national bird of Guatemala, the emerald and red-colored Resplendent Quetzal. Guatemala money tips:


Columbine is an adjective pertaining to which bird?

What does columbine mean? This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word columbine Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: columbine, aquilegia, aquilege(noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: columbine(Noun) Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal. columbine(Adjective) pertaining to a dove or pigeon Origin: Old French columbin (French columbin), from Latin columbinus, from columba ‘dove, pigeon’. In the noun sense, from Latin colombina herba ‘dove-like plant’, the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons. Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Columbine(adj) of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored Columbine(noun) a plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America Columbine(noun) the mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes Origin: [LL. columbina, L. columbinus dovelike, fr. columba dove: cf. F. colombine. Perh. so called from the beaklike spurs of its flowers.] Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Columbine Columbine is a census-designated place in Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located mostly in Jefferson County, it lies immediately west of Littleton. The population was 24,280 at the 2010 census. Columbine High School, made infamous by two senior students named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the April 20, 1999 massacre, is located in the Columbine CDP. The ZIP code for the community is 80128. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Columbine kol′um-bīn, adj. of or like a dove: dove-coloured.—n. a genus of plants (Aquilegia) having five coloured sepals, which soon fall off, and five petals, each terminating below in a horn-shaped spur or nectary: in pantomimes, the sweetheart of Harlequin (q.v.).—ns. Columbā′rium, a dovecot or pigeon-house: one of the niches or pigeon-holes in a particular kind of sepulchral chamber in which the urns containing the ashes of dead bodies burned were deposited; Col′umbary, a pigeon-house or dovecot. [L. columba, a dove.] Numerology The numerical value of columbine in Chaldean Numerology is: 9 Pythagorean Numerology


Alex Turner is the lead singer with which Yorkshire based band?

Urban Dictionary: Alex Turner Alex Turner The lead singer of one of the greatest British Bands, the Arctic Monkeys (also doing a side project The Last Shadow Puppets with The Rascals member, Miles Kane)Like the other Monkeys, he is humble and chooses to stay away from the limelight, making the Arctic Monkeys even more incredible than they already are. Born and raised in Sheffield with the other Arctic Monkeys, he sings with a South Yorkshire accent making the music all the more interesting and just fecking amazing! His favourite ever record is "Rubber Soul - The Beatles", and his favourite meal, Arrabiata. Might I add he is also a lyrical genius and belongs to the league of "Coolest Men to grace the face of this earth" Needs to contact Germee quite soon. E.g 1: Alex Turner & co. is cool enough to dress up in costumes and get away with it. E.g 2: A: who is the lead singer of the current best British band? B: Why of course, Alex Turner! E.g 3: A: What would your favourite worse nightmare be? B: To meet Alex Turner and the Monkeys, hands down.


Which country on the West African coast lies between The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Namibia?

Africa Africa Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African state. With a total border length of 3,192 kilometers (1,984 miles), Burkina Faso is bordered by Mali to the north and west; Niger to the east; and Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire to the south. Cameroon Located on the west coast of Central Africa, Cameroon covers an area of 475,400 square kilometers (183,695 square miles), slightly more than California. Land boundaries extend for a total of 4,591 kilometers (2,853 miles) between Nigeria to the northwest, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) to the east, and the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea to the south. Cape Verde Cape Verde is an archipelago of 10 islands and 5 islets situated 483 kilometers (300 miles) due west of Dakar, Senegal, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Cape Verde's total land area is 4,033 square kilometers (1,557 square miles), which makes it slightly larger than the U.S. Central African Republic The former French colony of Ubangi-Shari, now the Central African Republic (CAR), is well named; it is a landlocked country in the center of the African continent. Land boundaries extend for 5,203 kilometers (3,233 miles) connecting Cameroon to the west, Chad and Sudan to the north, and the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the south. Chad The former French colony of Chad, a landlocked country located in northern Central Africa, is more than 3 times the size of California. The country has an area of 1,284,000 square kilometers (495,755 square miles), with a land boundary length of 5,968 kilometers (3,708 miles). Congo, Republic of The; The Republic of the Congo (ROC) is located in Western Africa and has an area of 342,000 square kilometers (132,000 square miles). It has a modest coastline of 169 kilometers (105 miles) along the Atlantic Ocean in the southwest and shares land borders with Gabon, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic on the west and north. Côte D'ivoire Côte d'Ivoire (which means "Ivory Coast") is a West African country bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Ghana and Liberia. It has an area of 322,460 square kilometers (124,502 square miles) of which 318,000 square kilometers (122,780 square miles) are occupied by land while water occupies the remaining 4,460 square kilometers (1,722 square miles). Djibouti Djibouti is situated in the Horn of Africa, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, bordering the Gulf of Aden. To the north lies Eritrea with a shared border of 113 kilometers (70 miles); to the north, west, and southwest lies Ethiopia, with a border length of 337 kilometers (209 miles); and to the southeast lies Somalia, with a border length of 58 kilometers (36 miles). Egypt The Arab Republic of Egypt is located in North Africa, bordering on the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya to the west, the Gaza Strip to the east, and Sudan to the south. With an area of 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,659 square miles) and a coastline of 2,450 kilometers (1,522 miles), Egypt is slightly more than 3 times the size of New Mexico. Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea is a small West African nation of 28,051 square kilometers (10,830 square miles), roughly the same size as Maryland. It consists of a mainland enclave called Río Muni, on the west coast of Africa bordering Cameroon and Gabon, and 5 small islands off the coast of Cameroon in the Bight of Biafra: Bioko, Annobón, Corisco, and the 2 small islands known together as Islas Elobey. Eritrea Eritrea is an eastern African country occupying an area of 121,320 square kilometers (46,841 square miles), which makes it slightly larger than the state of Pennsylvania. It borders Sudan to the north and west, Ethiopia and Djibouti to the south, and the Red Sea to the east. Ethiopia Located in the Horn of Africa— the pointy peninsula-like landmass that emanates out of the eastern part of the continent—Ethiopia has a total area of 1,127,127 square kilometers (935,183 square miles), rendering it slightly less than twice the size of Texas. A landlocked country complet


Who played Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, the titular G.l. Jane in the 1997 film?

G.I. Jane (1997) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV 2017 Golden Globes Embraces New Faces Find out which newcomers will make a splash at the 2017 Golden Globes and which of your favorites didn't make the cut. Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section. a list of 45 titles created 07 May 2011 a list of 22 titles created 27 May 2012 a list of 31 titles created 20 Jul 2013 a list of 32 titles created 18 Aug 2014 a list of 24 titles created 17 Apr 2015 Search for " G.I. Jane " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 2 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards  » Videos Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage. Director: Ridley Scott Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan. Director: Ridley Scott Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. Director: Ridley Scott A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her. Director: Andrew Bergman An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird. Director: Ridley Scott A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect. Director: Ridley Scott A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly. Director: Ridley Scott Living in exile, Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim. Director: Ridley Scott A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Director: Ridley Scott 160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. Director: Ridley Scott A millionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for a night with the wife. Director: Adrian Lyne Edit Storyline When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the US Navy's elite SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. LT. Jordan O'Neill is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Neill is determined to prove everyone wrong. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com> Failure is not an option. See more  » Genres: Rated R for language and combat violence | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 22 August 1997 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: A Matter of Honor See more  » Filming Locations: $11,094,241        (USA) (22 August 1997) Gross: Primary filmed on Camp Blanding (Florida National Guard) training base, near Jacksonville, FL. See more » Goofs In Urgayle's first scene, he gets in the face of the man who laughs. From one camera angle, the bill of Urgayle's hat is above the man's, and from the other it is below. See more » Quotes Master Chief John Urgayle : Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain? Courtesy of Warner Music UK Ltd./ Warner Bros. Records Inc. (Canada) – See all my reviews "G.I. Jane" is the story of Lieutenant Jorda


"Which famous showman styled himself the ""Prince of Humbugs""?"

Biography of PT Barnum - The Prince of Humbugs America’s Master Showman and the Prince of Humbugs The art of spectacle reached it’s zenith during the Gilded Age in America and PT Barnum was it’s greatest protagonist. Who said there’s a sucker born every minute? Well it wasn’t Phineas Taylor (aka PT) Barnum, though that phrase has often been attributed to him. Actually it was said to a reporter by one of Barnum’s competitors to explain how Barnum had managed to steal his idea and his audience. Barnum greatly respected his customers and would have been more likely to say there’s a "customer" born every minute. He did say "Every crowd has a silver lining," and he spent his entire adult life bringing crowds together so that he could separate them from their silver.   PT Barnum was the most famous and colorful master showman of 19th century America. In an age when hucksterism and spectacle were the norm, Barnum raised it to a high art. He was often called "The Shakespeare of Advertising" because he believed in the power of advertising and publicity and used it to profit from the public's taste for what he called "Humbug." Barnum called himself the "Prince of Humbugs" because he could deceive people in such a way that they were greatly entertained, even though most of the attractions he promoted didn’t even come close to the tremendous buildup he gave them.  The master showman was born in Bethel, Connecticut in 1810. His father died when he was fifteen years old and he was left alone to make his own way in the world. Through hard work and pluck he had saved enough by 1829 to start a weekly abolitionist newspaper called The Herald of Freedom. Unfortunately he was soon put out of business after several libel suits and a prosecution which resulted in a short jail term. He moved to New York in 1834, and began his career in show business when he discovered Joice Heth, a woman who claimed to be 161 years old and had once been a slave and a nurse to George Washington. Heth entertained audiences with stories and songs about the young George Washington and drew very large crowds because, as one of Barnum’s handbills proclaimed, she "…was the first person who put clothes on the unconscious infant, who, in after days, led our heroic fathers on to glory, to victory, and freedom." Eventually the public's interest in her waned, so Barnum—ever resourceful—    started spreading rumors that Heth was actually not a person at all, but instead was a mechanical automaton. One of Barnum’s anonymous letters to the newspaper said, "Joice Heth is not a human being. What purports to be a remarkably old woman, is simply a curiously constructed automaton, made up of whalebone, India-rubber, and numbers springs that ingeniously put together, and made to move at the slightest touch according to the will of the operator." As a result of Barnum’s campaign to discredit Heth, many people revisited the exhibit to determine for themselves whether they had been duped the first time.—all the while Barnum continued to rake in the cash. Eventually Heth died and Barnum cashed in on her again when he had a public autopsy performed to determine her actual age. It turned out that Heth couldn’t have been much more than 80 years old. Barnum declared that he was "shocked" to find out he had been duped. In 1841, Barnum opened the American Museum, located on Broadway in the heart of New York City. It became one of the most famous places of amusement in the entire world, where "500,000 natural and artificial curiosities from every corner of the globe" were on exhibit.  The collection included minerals, fossils, animals, natural wonders, minor deceptions and elaborate hoaxes. Also on display were a wide range of physical "freaks," including people he claimed were the world's tallest, shortest, heaviest, thinnest and hairiest, along with albinos, bearded ladies and other oddities. Barnum’s Human Menagerie Charles Stratton was a dwarf who was only 5 years old when Barnum began exhibiting him as General Tom Thumb. He was dressed in costumes imitating Napoleon, Hercules, Samso


"""Mary Poppins"", ""Peter Pan"" and ""Soho Cinders"" are among the musicals of which composer, in association with lyricist Anthony Drewe, a partnership formed at Exeter University?"

Meet the Writers of NAMT's 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals, Kicking Off Tomorrow Meet the Writers of NAMT's 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals, Kicking Off Tomorrow Tweet Share      The National Alliance for Musical Theatre's (NAMT) 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals takes place tomorrow, Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Below, meet the writers of the 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals shows! Kevin Del Aguila (Book & Lyrics, The Astonishing Return Of The Protagonists!) is the book writer of the hit Off Broadway musical Altar Boyz (NY Outer Critics Circle Award, Lortel and Drama Desk nominations). Other works include his stage adaptations of the DreamWorks film Madagascar (Radio City Music Hall), Skippyjon Jones (Lortel nomination) and Click Clack Moo (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations). He received the Heideman Award for his play The Greekest of Tragedies (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and took top prize at the FringeNYC with his comedy 6 Story Building. Theatergoers may know him as "Smee" from the Broadway and Off Broadway companies of Peter and the Starcatcher. www.delaguila.info Anthony Drewe (Book & Lyrics, The Three Little Pigs) With composer George Stiles , Anthony has written book and lyrics for the multi award-winning Honk!(NAMT Fest '99), Just So, Soho Cinders and Goldilocks and The Three Bears as well as writing lyrics for Betty Blue Eyes, Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure and the new songs for the international smash hit Mary Poppins. He is currently working on the lyrics for three new shows: Soapdish, The Wind in the Willows and Travels With My Aunt. His other musicals are: The Card (with composer Tony Hatch ) andA Twist of Fate (with composer Dick Lee ). www.StilesandDrewe.com Paul Gordon (Book, Music & Lyrics, Analog & Vinyl) co-wrote the Broadway musical Jane Eyre, nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score. He won a 2009 Ovation award for his score to Daddy Long Legs and won the 2007 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his book to the musical Emma(NAMT Fest '06) which has played all across the country. Daddy Long Legs, written with John Caird , has had productions all over the world including London and Tokyo. Being Earnest, written with Jay Gruska, premiered at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley this April. Little Miss Scrooge, written with John Caird and Sam Caird , will premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura this Christmas.paulgordonmusic.com Gordon Greenberg (Book, The Single Girls Guide) Directing/Writing includes:Working (Drama Desk Award, 59 E 59, Old Globe, Broadway in Chicago, Asolo), Jacques Brel ... ( Zipper Theatre , Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award nominations), Band Geeks! (co-writer, Goodspeed, Human Race Theatre Co., NAMT Fest '09), Pirates! (Huntington, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, MUNY), The Baker's Wife (Goodspeed, Paper Mill), Disney's Believe (Disney Creative Entertainment), Happy Days (First National Tour). Current projects include:Scramble Band! (co-writer, Disney Channel), Rags (Roundabout), Guys & Dolls(Chichester Theatre Festival UK 2014), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown) and developing new musicals for Universal Pictures and the pop group Fun. Education: Stanford University, NYU Film School, Lincoln Center Directors Lab.www.gordongreenberg.com David Hein (Book, Music & Lyrics, Come From Away) is an award-winning, Canadian singer/songwriter who has played festivals across North America and released four CD's. With Irene Sankoff , he co-wrote and starred in My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (based on his mother's true story and the same-sex marriage movement) winning more awards than any other show at NYMF 2010, 3 SALT awards and a Bryden "Ones-to-Watch" award, among others. Proud ASCAP members, they were featured in the ASCAP LA musical theatre showcase last year. www.sankoffandhein.com or Twitter @sankoffandhein Stacey Luftig (Lyrics, My Heart Is the Drum) is a lyricist, librettist, and playwright. Her lyrics were featured Off Broadway and on tour in That's Life (Outer Critics Circl


Originally commissioned by IBM in 1955, which typeface quickly became a standard throughout the typewriter industry?

despub courier by Debora Okdila - issuu issuu •COURIER• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface) C ourier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955. The design of the original Courier typeface was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for use in typewriters, but they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. As a monospaced font, it has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned. It has also become an industry standard for all screenplays to be written in 12 point Courier or a close variant. The font was later redrawn by Adrian Frutiger for the IBM Selectric Composer series of electric typewriters. 12 point Courier New was also the U.S. State Department’s standard typeface until January 2004, when it was replaced with 14 point Times New Roman. Reasons for the change included the desire for a more “modern” and “legible” font.[1][2] Kettler was once quoted about how the name was chosen. The font was nearly released with the name “Messenger.” After giving it some thought, Kettler said, “A letter can be just an ordinary messenger, or it can be the courier, which radiates dignity, prestige, and stability. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 . , ’ ” ; : ? ! Debora Okdila/42408152


Who was the father of John of Gaunt and Edward, the Black Prince?

Death of John of Gaunt | History Today Death of John of Gaunt Richard Cavendish explains the life and death of Henry IV's father, on February 3rd, 1399 John of Gaunt 'Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster', who breathed his last in Leicester Castle on February 3rd, 1399, at the age of fifty-eight, was the son of Edward III, the brother of the Black Prince, the uncle of Richard II, the father of Henry IV and the grandfather of Henry V. Duke of Lancaster and a claimant to the throne of Castile, John of Gaunt (he was born in Ghent in 1340) was the richest nobleman and the greatest subject in England, the owner of huge estates and no fewer than thirty castles. His duchy was almost an independent state and at more or less a snap of the fingers he could raise 1,000 men-at-arms and 3,000 archers. He loved hunting and is reputed to have killed the last wild boar in England, near Rothwell in Yorkshire. Tall and well-built, he was an ardent pursuer of women, too, as well as the patron of Chaucer and John Wycliffe and the Carmelite friars. According to his biographer Anthony Goodman, Gaunt was possibly the most hated man in England, and he was a major target of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, when his luxurious palace of the Savoy in London was burned. He was inevitably an object of fear and suspicion to his overstrung, fastidious nephew Richard II (one of the first people ever to use a handkerchief, to general astonishment), who tried to inveigle him out of England altogether and away to France as Duke of Guyenne. On September 16th, 1398, Gaunt was at Coventry, with a large crowd which had gathered to watch a trial by battle between his son and heir, Henry Bolingbroke, and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, who had quarrelled so bitterly with mutual accusations of treason that the royal council had decided they would have to fight it out. At the last moment, when the two combatants appeared in the lists arrayed in magnificent armour ready to fight to the death, King Richard intervened, forbade the combat and banished both of them. Bolingbroke went to Paris, where he thought of going on crusade, but changed his mind, apparently having been told by the doctors that his father had not long to live. According to the earliest account of the Duke's last days in Leicester Castle, written in Scotland twenty years later, he took to his bed in 'a languor', partly caused by grief and anxiety over his son's exile. Richard visited the sick man and spoke him fair, but left with him some private documents. Whatever was in them, soon after they were read to him, he expired. Another account, not written until the 1440s, has the dying Gaunt showing the King how his genitals had rotted away with disease because of his insatiable appetite for women. His body was taken to London and buried in St Paul's Cathedral on March 16th, which was Passion Sunday. Two days after the funeral, Richard made Bolingbroke's banishment perpetual, but he had little time left himself. Bolingbroke returned in force in July 1400, seized the throne as Henry IV and had Richard murdered. Henry VII's claim to the English crown in 1485 ran back through John of Gaunt, and in Elizabeth I's time the Jesuit Robert Parsons argued that Philip II of Spain was the rightful monarch of England through his descent from Joaõ I of Portugal, who had married Gaunt's daughter Philippa. In Shakespeare's Richard II, however, it is Gaunt who speaks for England and the thrilling speech on 'this royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle...this precious stone set in a silver sea' is placed in his mouth. Related articles


Which unit of weight is used to measure the fineness of nylon?

Denier - definition of denier by The Free Dictionary Denier - definition of denier by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/denier One that denies: a denier of harsh realities. den·ier 2  (dən-yā′) n. 1. (also dĕn′yər) A unit of fineness for rayon, nylon, and silk fibers, based on a standard mass per length of 1 gram per 9,000 meters of yarn. 2. (also də-nîr′) A small coin of varying composition and value current in western Europe from the eighth century until the French Revolution. [Middle English denere, a coin, from Old French dener, from Latin dēnārius; see denarius.] denier n 1. (Units) a unit of weight used to measure the fineness of silk and man-made fibres, esp when woven into women's tights, etc. It is equal to 1 gram per 9000 metres 2. (Textiles) a unit of weight used to measure the fineness of silk and man-made fibres, esp when woven into women's tights, etc. It is equal to 1 gram per 9000 metres 3. (Currencies) any of several former European coins of various denominations 4. (Historical Terms) any of several former European coins of various denominations [C15: from Old French: coin, from Latin dēnārius denarius] denier


Who was the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal at a track and field event?

Olympics athletics: Ann Packer - from gold medal to walking geese - BBC Sport Olympics athletics: Ann Packer - from gold medal to walking geese By Justin Goulding Media playback is not supported on this device Packer wins surprise 800m gold in Tokyo With each viewing, it seems more school sports day than Olympic final. The white cotton vest and shorts would not look out of place in a PE lesson; the string that serves as the finishing tape is straight from the games cupboard; and the fresh-faced ease with which the winner crosses the line suggests a girl simply glad to have avoided doing her homework. Watching Ann Packer win 800m gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 takes you back to an era when sport was little more than a healthy pastime. The race itself is astonishing enough, Packer coming from a distant seventh on the final bend to storm to victory courtesy of a sprint finish that still takes some believing even when you know the result. Golden girl - Ann Packer's CV Olympic 800m gold - Tokyo 1964 Olympic 400m silver - Tokyo 1964 Commonwealth 4x110 relay silver - Perth 1962 European Championship 4x100m bronze - Belgrade 1962 Throw in the fact that no British woman had won a track gold medal before, and 22-year-old Packer broke the world record in doing so - and the scale of her achievement is put into clearer focus. As with the most famous sporting moments, it is accompanied by equally memorable commentary, and David Coleman's "here she comes on the outside" is a fitting soundtrack to a landmark moment in British athletics. Yet the manner of her victory is only one part of a story that also features a chapter on Packer taking a gaggle of geese for a walk. The 400m was Packer's specialist event and she took up the 800m merely to improve her stamina. She had raced over the longer distance only five times before the Olympics, and entered the 800m in Tokyo as an afterthought. "Only two girls had qualified, and Great Britain were allowed to enter three, so the administrators said 'we'll put you down'," Packer tells BBC Sport at her home in Cheshire. Favourite to win the 400m, she was beaten to gold by Australia's Betty Cuthbert. "I was very disappointed, and that is putting it very mildly," she says. "Psychologically I was down. "I'd raced the last three days, so the prospect of another three hard races - in an event in which I wasn't very familiar - was daunting. I was planning on going shopping instead." Spurred on by her fiance missing out on a medal in the 400m - Robbie Brightwell finished fourth in his final - and her room-mate Mary Rand winning gold in the long jump, Packer made a last-minute decision to run in the 800m. "I just planned to qualify," she admits. "I didn't have a clue what I was doing; I was so ignorant about the way to run an 800m race. GB stars of track and field Only nine British women have won Olympic track and field gold medals: Mary Rand: Long jump, Tokyo 1964 Ann Packer: 800m, Tokyo 1964 Mary Peters: Pentathlon, Munich 1972 Tessa Sanderson: Javelin, Los Angeles 1984 Sally Gunnell: 400m hurdles, Barcelona 1992 Denise Lewis: Heptathlon, Sydney 2000 Kelly Holmes: 800m & 1500m, Athens 2004 Christine Ohuruogo: 400m, Beijing 2008 Jessica Ennis: Heptathlon, London 2012 "We were put into lanes at the start. I didn't even know at what stage we could cut in, so I had to watch the other athletes to see when they were doing it. I struggled but I got through the heat and the semi." The slowest of eight qualifiers, few expected Packer to feature at the front end of the field in the final. Packer says: "Robbie thought I had a chance, and there was an Indian 400m runner, Milka Singh, who I bumped into in the lift. He said, 'you will win'. And he was right." Packer's plan to be in touch with the leaders with 200m remaining may have been stretched to the limit, but her sprinting pedigree enabled her to reel them in on the final bend before overhauling Frenchwoman Maryvonne Dupureur just metres from the line. "I never dreamt of winning a medal so it was completely out of the blue. It was a surprise to me as much as


Patricia Arquette won the 2015 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress playing Olivia Evans in which film?

Patricia Arquette Wins Best Supporting Actress At 2015 Oscars | Contactmusic.com Patricia Arquette Wins Best Supporting Actress At 2015 Oscars Patricia Arquette Wins Best Supporting Actress At 2015 Oscars Patricia Arquette Meryl Streep Keira Knightley Emma Stone Laura Dern Patricia Arquette won the Best Supporting Actress gong for her role in 'Boyhood'. Patricia Arquette has won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in Richard Linklater’s epic Boyhood, playing the role of Olivia Evans. The 46 year old fended off strong competition from Laura Dern (Bobbi Grey in Wild), Keira Knightley (Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game), Emma Stone (Sam Thomson in Birdman) and Meryl Streep (‘The Witch’ in Into The Woods). 2015's Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette (L) with her 'Boyhood' colleagues Ellar Coltrane and Richard Linklater Accepting the award from 2014’s Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, an emotional Arquette pulled out a sheet of paper and rattled through a pretty exhaustive list of everybody from the rest of the Boyhood cast and crew to the taxpayers of America, and called for a full recognition of equal rights for women across the country. More: Patricia Arquette launches charity initiative on Oscars morning The rousing end to her acceptance speech saw fellow nominee Streep up on her feet, clapping and punching the air. On Oscars morning itself, Arquette launched a charity initiative, a website challenge to spend time with the actress as she takes part in various projects to make the world a better place. Arquette has found a great deal of success with this role, winning the equivalent Golden Globe earlier this year. She made her first film appearance at the age of 19 in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and has worked with a number of feted directors including David O. Russell, Tim Burton and David Lynch. The 87th Academy Awards ceremony is being broadcast live on ABC, and is presented by Neil Patrick Harris.


Appointed in May 2012, as qf January 2016, who is the Secretary of State for Health?

The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP - GOV.UK GOV.UK Secretary of State for Health The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP Contents Announcements Biography Jeremy Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Health in September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for South West Surrey in May 2005. Education Jeremy was educated at Oxford University. Political career In May 2010 Jeremy was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. He was formerly Shadow Culture Secretary 2007 to 2010 and Shadow Minister for Disabled People 2005 to 2007. Career outside politics Before his election as an MP, Jeremy ran his own educational publishing business, Hotcourses. He also set up a charity to help AIDS orphans in Africa in which he continues to play an active role. Personal life Jeremy lives in Godalming and London with his wife, son and 2 daughters. Secretary of State for Health The Secretary of State for Health has overall responsibility: for the business and policies of the department, including financial control oversight of all NHS delivery and performance Jeremy also leads on all aspects of mental health and championing patient safety.


The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, which won the Booker Prize in 1995, is the third volume in which trilogy?

Pat Barker - Literature Literature Biography Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943. She was educated at the London School of Economics, where she read International History, and at Durham University. She taught History and Politics until 1982. She began to write in her mid-twenties and was encouraged to pursue her career as a writer by the novelist Angela Carter. Her early novels dealt with the harsh lives of working-class women living in the north of England. Her first book, Union Street (1982) won the Fawcett Society Book Prize, while her second, Blow Your House Down (1984), was adapted for the stage by Sarah Daniels in 1994. The Century's Daughter (re-published as Liza's England in 1996) was published in 1986, followed by The Man Who Wasn't There in 1989. In 1983 she was named as one of the 20 'Best Young British Novelists' in a promotion run by the Book Marketing Council and Granta magazine. Her trilogy of novels about the First World War, which began with Regeneration in 1991, was partly inspired by her grandfather's experiences fighting in the trenches in France. Regeneration was made into a film in 1997 starring Jonathan Pryce and James Wilby. The Eye in the Door (1993), the second novel in the trilogy, won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road (1995), the final novel in the series, won the Booker Prize for Fiction. Another World (1998), although set in contemporary Newcastle, is overshadowed by the memories of an old man who fought in the First World War. Her novel Border Crossing (2001), describes the relationship between a child psychologist and a young man convicted of murder 13 years earlier. Double Vision (2003), concerns the atrocity of war and two men who are caught up in its shadow. Pat Barker was awarded a CBE in 2000. Her latest novels are Life Class (2007) and Toby's Room (2012), the latter returning to the First World War. Awards Critical perspective Pat Barker's work never makes comfortable reading, for she chooses to explore, with an unflinching eye, controversial, often taboo subjects such as prostitution, homosexuality, child rape, incest, mental illness, pacifism, war, and murder by minors. Many readers come to Barker's work through her best-known books, the Regeneration (1991-1995) trilogy, the third book of which won the Booker Prize in 1995. There is no doubt that Regeneration, with its attention to historical detail and skilful blending of factual and fictional characters is her most subtle and satisfying work. These novels have often been criticised as horrific, brutal, even brutish, yet only by getting close to the base, shocking, palpable detail of the First World War and the mental, as well as physical distress caused by close proximity to danger and death, can we better understand it. If you delve into Barker's earlier writing with novels such as Blow Your House Down (1984) and Union Street (1982), you find many of the characteristics for which she was criticised in the Regeneration novels coming out, not in the heightened emotional atmosphere of war, but in more everyday surroundings and, because of this, these novels seem even more raw and honest. In two of her works after the Regeneration Trilogy - Life Class (2007) and Toby’s Room (2012) Barker returns to the First World War for her subject matter. In Regeneration she skilfully wove the true-life story of Siegfried Sassoon into her fiction and she does the same in Life Class and Toby’s Room. The main characters, three artists at the Slade School of Art in London, Elinor, Paul and Kit are loosely based on real-life characters, respectively the artists Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler and C.R.W. Nevinson, fascinating personalities in their own right, who had strong connections with major British intellectuals, including the Bloomsbury Group, over the post-war years. In the second of the two novels she describes in admirably researched detail life within a hospital for servicemen with severe facial injuries where Elinor is commissioned to draw the faces of mutilated patients before,


With a book by Neil Simon, which song-writing team composed the 1968 musical Promises, Promises based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment?

BURT BACHARACH BURT BACHARACH (By Colin Kilgour) Born Burt Freeman Bacharach, 12 May 1928*, Kansas City, Missouri Not for the first time I want to include reference to the subject's main writing partner ....... and coincidentally yet again, the birthdays are - datewise - spookily close together. Burt wrote the toons and his lyricist was: Hal David (b. May 25, 1921 New York City and raised in Brooklyn). Hal studied journalism and landed a job at the New York Post before writing his first song in 1947 for bandleader Sammy Kaye. Burt Bacharach is quite simply, one of the most accomplished popular composers of the 20th Century. In the 1960s and 70s, he was a dominant figure in popular music, writing more than fifty Top 40 hits. In terms of compositional sophistication, his songs stood apart from much of the pop music of the era. Bacharach songs typically boasted memorable melodies, unconventional time signatures and striking chord changes and combined elements of jazz, bossa nova, traditional pop and rock into a sound that was undeniably contemporary. Bacharach's primary collaborator Hal David provided his music with Tin Pan Alley craft and melodrama. David's unsentimental, bittersweet lyrics offered a striking contrast to Bacharach's soaring melodies. While Bacharach's name in the 1970s became synonymous with elevator music, due in large part to the sheer familiarity of it, a closer listening suggests that his meticulously crafted, technically sophisticated music is anything but easy listening. Bruce Lohof called Bacharach a celebrity songwriter who was to his day what Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter had been to theirs. Burt had achieved a degree of visibility almost unheard of for a songwriter not primarily identified as a singer. He had even appeared on the cover of Newsweek. It didn't hurt that Bacharach was married to the actress Angie Dickinson, a thinking man's trophy blonde who had been John Wayne's love interest in Rio Bravo, Frank Sinatra's in Ocean's Eleven, and, according to rumour, one of John F. Kennedy's in real life. Bacharach and David's hits, because they were pop rather than rock, were anomalies in their own day - bridges across the generational divide, built by men born in the 1920s whose musical sensibilities were formed before the onslaught of rock and roll. While competing for a rung on the Top 40 with Lennon and McCartney and with the Motown songwriting and producing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Bacharach and David were also competing for movie assignments with older writers such as Dmitri Tiomkin, Johnny Mercer, and Jimmy Van Heusen. B & D were also, however fleetingly, men of the theatre. *1929 is also widely quoted. The son of nationally syndicated columnist Bert Bacharach, our Burt moved in 1932 with his family to Kew Gardens in Queens, New York. At his mother's insistence, he studied cello, drums and then piano beginning at the age of 12. As a youth, Burt hated taking piano lessons. His dream was to play professional football but his size, or lack thereof, kept him out of that 'field'. As a teenager, he fell in love with jazz and sometimes used a fake ID to sneak into 52nd Street nightclubs to see bebop legends like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Bebop's far-out harmonies and melodies were a major influence on the young composer. When he was 15 Bacharach started a 10-piece band - himself on piano with high school classmates and gained exposure playing parties and dances. After graduating from Forest Hills High School, Bacharach enrolled in the music studies program at McGill University in Montreal. It was there that he wrote his first song, 'The Night Plane to Heaven'. >From 1950-52 Bacharach served in the Army, playing piano at the officer's club on Governor Island and concerts at Fort Dix. While serving as a dance-band arranger with the Army in Germany, Bacharach met vocalist Vic Damone. After his discharge, at the age of 24, Burt became Damone's piano accompanist. He also worked nightclubs and restaurants and accompanied performers including Ames Brothers