In Greek mythology, which favourite of Aphrodite became a hunter and died after being gored by a boar?

Greek Mythology - Unit Test - StudyBlue Good to have you back! If you've signed in to StudyBlue with Facebook in the past, please do that again. Greek Mythology - Unit Test god of the sun, music, archery, light, poetry son of zeus and leto leader of the 9 muses represents perfect, manly beauty She is wife and sister to Zeus. She is the protector of marriage. Symbols: pomegranate, peacock, lotus staff she is the goddess of the heavens, Empire, Child Birth, and marriage Advertisement ) Goddess of plants and harvests Daughter: Persephone Driven to desperation when Pluto captured Persephone Roman name: Ceres (cereal) Goddess of love and beauty Gets easily jealous She was in love with Ares but Hephaestus She was in love with Adonis So Ares turned into a boar and gored him to death She wanted to kill psyche to prevent her from marrying her son, by making her smell the sleep of death. Roman Name: Venus Symbols: Apple, Dove, Scallop shell, Heart Athena Goddess of Wisdom and stragagy Born out of Zeus head in full armor she created the olive tree for Athens and that’s why it was named Athens She blinded tiresais because she came across Her while she was bathing Symbols: Olive tree, Owl Pandora Demi-Goddess Sent by Zeus to trick Epimethius and punish mankind got accepting the gift of fire from Prometheus she opened the jar given by Zeus and released all of the evils into the world First woman who was formed out of clay by the gods No Roman Name available! head god, god of the heavens (Mount Olympus), Brothers = Hades and Poseidon, Wife = Hera, Symbols: Lightning bolt, Shield, Oak tree, Bull, Eagle and Lightning. Poseidon Symbols: the trident, sea, and horeses. God of water and sea The son of Cronus and Rhea His brothers and sisters include: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Zeus. Atalanta Speedy athlete, Good hunter, Great Fighter eventually married to Hippomenes who overcame her in a foot race Hades God and ruler of the under world Siblings: Hera, Demeter, Zeus, Poseidon, Hestia,  Very Rich and Immortal God of metals and fires, rules over volcanoes Roman Name: Vulcan Sacred objects: fire, blacksmith’s hammer He is the only ugly god; he has physical deformities. He makes the armor for all the gods Hermes God of trade and trees Messenger of the gods He  has magical winged shoes Symbols: Wings and a Wand Psyche  Lived happily with her sisters until Eros took her away She didn’t know that Eros was her invisible lover so one night shesnuck into his room while he was sleeping and shone a light on him, instantlythe palace vanished She was heartbroken so she begged at Aphrodite to let them be together, Aphrodite attempted killing her by giving her the temptation to smell some socalled beauty cream, she opened it up and It was really the sleep of death Zeus revived her and Psyche became immortal so she and Eros could be together Symbols butterfly wings Is the God of Love Roman Name: Cupid Symbols: heart, and Baby Is specialized to make people fall in love byshooting them with arrows Hewas sent to make psyche fall in love with a monster but he got grazed with hisown arrow and fell in love with her instead he ended up marrying her and psychegot turned immortal by Zeus Persephone Symbols: Spring and New Growth Captured by Pluto Ate pomegranate seeds from Pluto’s garden, so couldn't escape underworld permanently Zeus made deal that ½ o year lives with him in underworld, ½ lives with mother there fore creating seasons Advertisement God of wine celebration, and theater Roman Name: Bacchus Travels around the world teaching people how tomake wine out of grapes Fun loving and irresponsible Satyrswhen drunk chase nymphs and girls Symbols: Cup with wine Symbols: bronze tipped spear, sword and shield Parents: Zeus and Hera Took shape of a boar and killed Adonis because he thought Aphrodite loved Adonis morethan himself Is Violent and eager for a fight Echo A tree nymph who distracted Hera to let her friendsget away Herawas really angry so she made it so echo could only say the endings of otherpeoples words and could never say her own this was bad for


The Swaythling Cup for men and the Corbillon Cup for women are the World Team Championships in which racket sport?

Table Tennis: Japan’s women into World Team Championships final - Sport Asia Home / News / Table Tennis: Japan’s women into World Team Championships final Table Tennis: Japan’s women into World Team Championships final Tweet Updated: May 5, 2014 Japan’s women celebrate their 3-1 win over Hong Kong to reach Monday’s final of the Zen-Noh World Team Championships in Tokyo. Photos: ITTF / Action Images. May 5, 2014: Both of China’s national teams moved into the finals of the Zen-Noh World Team Championships in Tokyo, with the men – featuring the world’s top three players – facing Germany in the men’s decider at 4.30pm and the women taking on hosts Japan at 7.30pm.   The Japan women’s team brought the capacity crowd to their feet on Sunday as they beat Hong Kong 3-1 in the semi-finals to give themselves a shot at winning the Corbillon Cup for the first time since 1971.   Although they had a disappointing start with Yuka Ishigaki losing 3-0 to Lee Ho-ching, Japan won the next three matches, which all went to five games. As she did the previous day against Netherlands, World No. 10 Kasumi Ishikawa clinched the deciding match for the team, this time against Lee.   “She’s a great player, but just like my previous match I was able to maintain myself,” said the 21-year-old Ishikawa. “Again I gave it my all. Yesterday Ishigaki helped the team to win, so today I wanted to do the same.”   Japan will face top seeds China, who swept aside Singapore 3-0 in the semi-finals, and who have reached the finals without losing a single individual match at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium.   Ding Ning in China’s 3-0 win over Singapore in the women’s semi-final. However, Japan’s men lost 3-1 to Germany in the semi-finals. Despite star player Jun Mizutani’s outstanding 3-2 win against World No. 4 Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Germany’s Timo Boll won two matches and Patrick Franziska came back to beat Kenta Matsudaira to give the team that Boll described as “their best in history” a shot at the title.   The 22-year-old Franziska said: “I tried not to think so much in this match, to focus on my strokes, serves and receives. I was happy I could win. You could say that it was one of the biggest matches of my life. The spectators were really loud. I played very good table tennis.”   Despite Germany having a rich table tennis heritage, they have never won the Swaythling Cup, the trophy awarded to the winners of the men’s World Team Championships. If Germany are to win gold, they will have to overcome their nemesis China, who beat them in the 2004, 2010 and 2012 finals.   The China team features the world’s three top-ranked players and Ma Long, Xu Xin and Zhang Jike, and the trio overwhelmed Chinese Taipei 3-0 in their semi-final to keep their hopes of a 19th World Team Championships title alive.   Ma Long helps China beat Chinese Taipei 3-0 to reach the men’s final. Source: ITTF


Which Scottish monarch was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513?

Battle of Flodden Field 1513. Photo: Bamburgh Castle photographed by David Simpson Photo: Hadrian's Wall photographed by David Simpson The Battle of Flodden Field THE `AULD ALLIANCE' The Battle of Flodden Field, was undoubtedly the most famous battle ever fought on Northumbrian soil. It took place eight miles north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on the 9th September 1513 during the reign of Henry VIII. In 1513 England was at war with France and it was the Queen of that country who persuaded King James IV of Scotland to renew the `auld alliance' and assist the French, by invading northern England. Money and arms were sent to Scotland from France in the following months, enabling King James to build up an army for a large scale invasion of England. In August 1513 the first minor battle took place on Milfield Plain near Wooler , in which an army of Scots under Lord Home, were heavily defeated. The English knew however, that this was only a `warm up' for a greater battle which would inevitably follow. KING JAMES INVADES On the 22nd August King James of Scotland crossed the River Tweed at Coldstream entering England with an army of between 60,000 to 100,000 men who burned the fortress of Norham on Tweed and the Tillside castles of Ford and Etal. The reason King James gave for the invasion, was revenge for the murder of Robert Kerr, a Warden of the Scottish East March who had been killed in a fray by a Northumbrian called John `the Bastard' Heron in 1508. King James made Ford Castle, (a Northumbrian stronghold of the Heron family ), his battle headquarters, where only the lady of the house Eklizabeth Heron was present. For a number of days the king remained at Ford while his men rested. During this time the king is said to have been fully occupied by the amorous attentions of Lady Heron. Whatever the King's battle intentions may have been at Ford, his actions so far had amounted to little more than a large scale border raid. In fact many of his men had already returned home to Scotland with booty of English goods and livestock. THE ENGLISH PREPARE FOR WAR Meanwhile, the English were busy preparing for battle further to the south. Thomas Howard, the Earl of Surrey, who had been left in charge of the defence of England, while Henry VIII was away fighting in France mustered forces in London and marched north to Pontefact, where he held a Council of War. Here he was joined by the fighting men of Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire. From here Surrey marched on to Durham where he prayed before the shrine of St Cuthbert in the Cathedral and collected the sacred banner of the saint, which was always good for morale in time of war. Surrey then continued north to Newcastle , where he was joined by the men of Northumberland and Durham, including the retainers of Percy, Lord Dacre, the Bishop of Durham and of William Bulmer of Brancepeth. Henry Percy, `the Magnificent' Fifth Earl of Northumberland, (a descendant of Hotspur), did not take part in the battle, since he was away in France helping the king with the siege of Therouenne and Tournay, but the Earl's brothers, Lionel and William Percy did join up with Surrey's men. Other additions to the English army included a crack regiment of archers under Sir Edward Stanley and the men of the Lord Admiral, Thomas Howard, who was Surrey's eldest son. He in turn was supported by his younger brother Edmund. Marching north Surrey's men stopped first at Alnwick and then continued north to Wooler , where they began to prepare for battle. A CAMP ON FLODDEN HILL By this time King James had moved from his headquarters at Ford Castle and had crossed to the western side of the River Till where he set up camp on the top of Flodden Hill. To here the English sent a messenger challenging the Scots to meet them in battle on Milfield Plain north of Wooler , but the Scots refused as they were not willing to vacate their advantageous lofty position for the flat levels of Milfield. For the time being at least, they remained where they were. By this stage the English and Scottish forces were roughly equ


There is one family of mammals that contains only two species: the Okapi and which other?

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Described in some versions of the myth as the daughter of Nyx, goddess of the night, who was the Greek goddess of divine retribution?

NEMESIS - Greek Goddess of Retribution & Indignation NEMESIS Dispenser of Dues Nemesis and Tyche, Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin NEMESIS was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. She was a personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who commited crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune. Nemesis directed human affairs in such a way as to maintain equilibrium. Her name means she who distributes or deals out. Happiness and unhappiness were measured out by her, care being taken that happiness was not too frequent or too excessive. If this happened, Nemesis could bring about losses and suffering. As one who checked extravagant favours by Tykhe (Tyche) (Fortune), Nemesis was regarded as an avenging or punishing divinity. In myth Nemesis was particularly concerned with matters of love. She appears as an avenging agent in the stories of Narkissos and Nikaia, whose callous actions brought about the death of their wooers. In some versions of the Trojan War, she was the mother of Helene, and is shown in scenes of her seduction by Paris pointing an accusing finger at the girl. Nemesis was often sometimes depicted as a winged goddess. Her attributes were apple-branch, rein, lash, sword, or balance. Her name was derived from the Greek words nemêsis and nemô, meaning "dispenser of dues." The Romans usually used the Greek name of the goddess but sometimes also named her Invidia (Jealousy) and Rivalitas (Jealous Rivalry). FAMILY OF NEMESIS [1.1] NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 223, Pausanias 7.5.3) [1.2] EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Preface, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17) [2.1] OKEANOS (Pausanias 7.5.3, Nonnus Dionysiaca 48.375, Tzetzes on Lycophron 88) [3.1] ZEUS (Homerica Cypria Frag 8) OFFSPRING [2.1] THE TELKHINES (by Tartaros ) (Bacchylides Frag 52) ENCYCLOPEDIA NE′MESIS (Nemesis), is most commonly described as a daughter of Night, though some call her a daughter of Erebus (Hygin. Fab. Praef.) or of Oceanus (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 88; Paus. i. 33. § 3, vii. 5. § 1). Nemesis is a personification of the moral reverence for law, of the natural fear of committing a culpable action, and hence of conscience, and for this reason she is mentioned along with Aidôs, i. e. Shame (Hes. Theog. 223, Op. et D. 183). In later writers, as Herodotus and Pindar, Nemesis is a kind of fatal divinity, for she directs human affairs in such a manner as to restore the right proportions or equilibrium wherever it has been disturbed; she measures out happiness and unhappiness, and he who is blessed with too many or too frequent gifts of fortune, is visited by her with losses and sufferings, in order that he may become humble, and feel that there are bounds beyond which human happiness cannot proceed with safety. This notion arose from a belief that the gods were envious of excessive human happiness (Herod. i. 34, iii. 40; Pind. Ol. viii. in fin., Pyth. x. 67). Nemesis was thus a check upon extravagant favours conferred upon man by Tyche or Fortune, and from this idea lastly arose that of her being an avenging and punishing power of fate, who, like Dike and the Erinyes, sooner or later overtakes the reckless sinner (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1043; Sophocl. Philoct. 518; Eurip. Orest. 1362; Catull. 50, in fin.; Orph. Hymn. 60). The inhabitants of Smyrna worshipped two Nemeses, both of whom were daughters of Night (Paus. vii. 5. § 1). She is frequently mentioned under the surnames Adrasteia and Rhamnusia or Rhamnusis, the latter of which she derived from the town of Rhamnus in Attica, where she had a celebrated sanctuary (Paus. i. 33. § 2). Besides the places already mentioned she was worshipped at Patrae (Paus. vii. 20, in fin.) and at Cyzicus (Strab. p. 588). She was usually represented in works of art as a virgin divinity, and in the more ancient works she seems to have resembled Aphrodite, whereas in the later ones she was more grave and serious, and had numerous attributes. But there is an allegorical tradition that Zeus begot by Nemesis at Rhamnus an


Terry played his most famous role in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. What part did terry play in that film?

The Wizard of Oz (1939) | The Film Spectrum The Wizard of Oz (1939) Director: Victor Flemming, George Cukor, King Vidor Writers: L. Frank Baum (novel), Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf (screenplay) Producers: Mervyn LeRoy, Arthur Freed (MGM) Photography: Harold Rosson Music: Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Terry the Dog, Clara Blandick, Charley Grapewin The Rundown Legacy Introduction There may be no greater testament to The Wizard of Oz than the vast demographics it covers, from theater types who adore Broadway’s  Wicked  to stoners who watch the film in sync with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon . After nearly 75 years, the film has transformed itself from mild box office showing to must-see annual TV event to timeless pop culture legend. It’s hard to think that the movie started as just that — a movie. It’s almost impossible to look objectively at a film that’s so burned into our collective conscious that every song seems our own, every word feels part of our vocabulary and every touch appears as if fate intended it to be there. The film has become so mythical that many fans can no longer separate fact from fiction. Didn’t a Munchkin hang himself on screen? Aren’t there hidden metaphors for government policies? Wasn’t there some on-screen accident? Some off-screen illness? Some of these myths have been busted; others embraced. But one thing is for certain — a film that spawns so many legends must indeed be a legend itself. Plot Summary The story originated with the beloved children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, who came up with the title by looking at the two letters printed on the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet (O – Z). (B) It’s a story we all know well. Restless teen Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives a dull life on a Kansas farm with her Auntie Em (Clara Blandick) and Uncle Henry (Charley Grapewin). For entertainment, she looks to dog Toto (Terry the Wire Terrier) and three farm hands, Hunk (Ray Bolger), Hickory (Jack Haley) and Zeke (Bert Lahr). Still, she feels underappreciated on the farm, and when a mean old neighbor, Elmira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton), threatens to take Toto to the pound, she decides it’s time to run away from home. After a brief run-in with fortune-teller hack Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), Dorothy decides to return home — just as a massive tornado strikes — “It’s a twister! It’s a twister!” Dorothy is knocked unconscious by a broken window, sparking her crazy dream that the house has been lifted inside the cyclone (with she and Toto inside) and dropped inside the magical Land of Oz. Destination: Munchkinland. Address: The head of the Wicked Witch of the East. Naturally, the witch’s sister, the Wicked Witch of the West (Hamilton), is mighty pissed off. She confronts Dorothy — and her little dog, too — but Glinda the Good Witch of the North (Billie Burke) steps in to protect her. She gives Dorothy the magical Ruby Slippers off the feet of the Wicked Witch of the East. Seeing as the shoes won’t come off as long as their owner is alive, the Wicked Witch of the West vows murderous revenge on Dorothy. Meanwhile, Dorothy asks how she can possibly get back to Kansas. Glinda — with the help of singing Munchkins — tells her she must head to Emerald City and seek out the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. To get there, she must follow the Yellow Brick Road, where she encounters three instant companions, who agree to tag along so they, too, can ask the Wizard for various necessities. The Scarecrow (Bolger) desires nothing more than a brain, the Tin Man (Haley) wants to know what it feels like to have a heart, and the Cowardly Lion (Lahr) desperately seeks some courage. When they arrive at Emerald City, they find the Wizard of Oz (Morgan) to be an intimidating force — a giant talking head, surrounded by pyrotechnics. The powerful Oz agrees to grant their requests, but says they must first bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. The foursome takes


How many hectares are there in a square kilometre?

Square Kilometers to Hectares - How many hectares in a square km? Contact Us Home Square Kilometers To Hectares Conversion There are 100 hectares in 1 square kilometer. To find out how many hectares in square kilometers, multiply by 100, or instead use the converter below. 1 Sq. Kilometer = 100 Hectares Square kilometer and hectare are metric system area measurement units. Both units are commonly used in measuring land. The abbreviations are "km2", "sq km" and for hectare, "ha". For hectare to sq km conversion, please go to hectare to sq km For other units of area conversion, please go to Area Conversion Converter


Which town on the Tweed has a ruined Cistercian abbey that is supposedly the burial place of the heart, though not the rest of the remains, of Robert the Bruce?

Full text of "The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire" See other formats h I    "■'  |  "■ -:"\ -: ::   %■   THE LIBRARY  OF  THE UNIVERSITY  OF CALIFORNIA  LOS ANGELES   /   fl fct#i(Y \6b l   THE RUINED ABBEYS OF YORKSHIRE   !     I A INs Al   THE RUINED ABBEYS OF YORKSHIRE   BY   W. CHAMBERS LEFROY, F.S.A.   WITH MA NY ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. BRUNET-DEBAINES and H. TOUSSAINT   New Edition   London SEELEY AND CO., LIMITED  Essex Street, Strand 1891    TO  HEYWOOD SUMNER  THIS SKETCH  IS INAPPROPRIATELY, BUT AFFECTIONATELY,  INSCRIBED   880791   PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION   In revising these sheets for a second edition I have been, once more, largely indebted to the kindness of antiquarian friends.  In particular I have been allowed to anticipate in some points a forthcoming work on Fountains Abbey by Mr. Micklethwaite and Mr. W. S. John Hope.  Within the last seven years much fresh light has been thrown on monastic antiquities by minute ex- amination and patient inquiry, and the impossibility of dealing exhaustively with even a section of this subject in anything short of a large and technical work has become proportionately evident.  Since, however, the circumstance that our ruined abbeys are not only picturesque features in English landscape but also important historical monuments can no longer be ignored, the humblest contributor to the literature of the subject is bound to deal to   \ Preface to Second Hail ion  some extent with facts, and in so doing to take pains to be as often right and as seldom wrong as may be. The architectural and antiquarian statements scattered among these pages are doubtless not free from error and will seem to some readers defective in quantity and coherence. I have not, however, been so presumptuous as to write for the learned, and I have tried hard to avoid either misleading or wearying the ignorant.  Thus, for example, while a small proportion only of the discoveries made, since the first edition of this book, by Mr. Hope at St. Agatha's has been here referred to, I am not aware that any point in which he has disproved my former statements or conjectures has been left uncorrected. < :hur< ii Crookh \m. . /// -90.   PREFACE  The history of monasticism planned by Southey yet remains to be written. To that much-needed work Northumbria will supply a long and most import- ant chapter, which I am far from claiming to have anticipated.  These papers first appeared in an artistic period- ical, and for such a purpose monasticism is to its buildings somewhat as the cultus of the Virgin to Florentine art. We cannot get from this glorious group of ruins the best and deepest enjoyment, or reveal to others the secret of their charm, without a certain familiarity, and at least an imaginative sym- pathy, with the spirit which wrought in and still lingers near them. The architect, the antiquary, the artist, are not or should not be distinct ; and he who has not in him something of the three is scarcely worthy to travel in regions so lovely and so eloquent. Nor must we be impatient of a certain sadness in our subject — " He that lacks time to mourn, lacks   xii Preface  time to mend," and sober colouring is not always "loom. For mc the unfruitfulness of my earliest visits to monastic ruins, and the pleasant memory of all I owe to the companions of my latest, bid mc hope that these pages may be to some few the key of an unsuspected door, tempting them to sojourn and search where they were only wont to " glance, and note, and bustle by." The frequent allusion to the plans and notes of Messrs. J. Henry Middleton and J. T. Micklethwaite, Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, are to some extent an acknowledgment of the help I have derived from them, but not of the generous sympathy and congenial intercouse, in which lic> all the charm and half the value of Mich aid.  Manx- of the scenes faithfully depicted here by Mr. Brunet-Debaines are associated with personal  periences <>f Yorksh


In modern technology SatNavs use the GPS system. For what do the letters GPS stand?

How does GPS satellite navigation work? - Explain that Stuff Tweet by Chris Woodford . Last updated: November 13, 2016. Let's Get Lost is the title of a 1940s jazz song, famously recorded by singer and trumpeter Chet Baker. Back then, getting lost was not just a romantic idea but still a realistic one. Today, it's almost impossible to get lost, no matter how hard you try. Whether you're haring down the freeway or scrabbling up Mount Everest, you're always in sight of satellites spinning through space that can tell you exactly where you are. Walking round with a smartphone in your pocket, you'll have ready access to a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver that can pinpoint your position, on a good day, to just a few meters. Take a wrong turn in your car, and a determined voice—also powered by GPS—will insist you "Take the next left," "Turn right," or "Go straight ahead" until you're confidently back on track. Even riding on a bus or train, it's barely possible to get off in the wrong place. Handy display boards scroll the name of the stop you want long before you need to rise from your seat. Apart from helping us reach our destination, satellite navigation can do all kinds of other things, from tracking parcels and growing crops to finding lost children and guiding the blind. But how exactly does it work? Let's take a closer look! Photo: Getting lost is a thing of the past thanks to mobile devices like this with built-in GPS receivers and mapping apps. What is satellite navigation? Satellite navigation ("satnav") means using a portable radio receiver to pick up speed-of-light signals from orbiting satellites (sometimes technically referred to as space vehicles or SVs) so you can figure out your position, speed, and local time. It's generally much more accurate than other forms of navigation, which have to contend with pesky problems like accurate timekeeping and bad weather. Because it's a broadcast system based on radio signals that reach all parts of our planet, any number of people can use it at once, anywhere they happen to be. The best-known satnav system, the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS), uses about 24 active satellites (including backups). Day and night, 365 days a year, they whiz round Earth once every 12 hours on orbital planes inclined at 55 degrees to the equator. Wherever you are, you're usually in sight of at least half a dozen of them, but you need signals from only three or four to determine your position to an accuracy of just a few meters . GPS was kick-started by the US military in 1973 and its satellites are designed to last about 7.5 years, but the latest generation typically survive about 10–12 years. In total, around 60 Navstar satellites have been launched altogether, in several separate groups called blocks, though many of them have now retired; at the time of writing, the last Navstar launch was satellite IIF-9 on March 25, 2015. Photo: A NAVSTAR GPS satellite pictured during construction on Earth in 1981. You can get an idea how big the satellite is from the engineer pictured some distance beneath it. Picture courtesy of US Department of Defense. GPS has three major components, technically known as "segments": there's one part in space, one part on the ground, and one part in your pocket. The 24 satellites form what's known as the "space segment" of GPS, but the system also relies on an intricate ground-control network of antennas , monitors, and control stations (the "control segment"), centered on a Master Control Station (MCS) at Shriever Air Force Base in Colorado, USA (with a backup at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California). Apart from the space and control segments, the other essential part of satellite navigation is the "user segment"—an electronic receiver you hold in your hand or carry in your vehicle. Triangulation Finding your position using satellite signals is a hi-tech version of an age-old navigator's trick that goes by the name triangulation. Suppose you're walking through the woods, on completely flat ground, but you don't know where you are. If you can see a lan


In transport terms what is the British equivalent of the American 'Divided Highway'?

English (British) - American Dictionary English (British) - American Dictionary Compiled by Mark Glicksman with the Assistance of Crinan Alexander, The Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh and Malcolm Manners, Horticultural Science Department of Florida Southern College And with Additional Suggestions by Iona Dawson (IULM University, Milan), Lowell Whitney, Ron Peeples, Jim Blacker, Lauralyn Pilakowski, Michael Wardle, Shimona Carvalho, R W K Gardiner, Elazar Sheffer, Linn Barringer, Mitchell A. Leitman, Caroline Andrews, Nick Wagg, Michael C. Berch, Tim Diggins, Ed Kendall, Keir Shiels, John Berrie, Stephen Draper, "Jennifer", Olive DePonte, Stephen J Cuzzone, Benedict Walmisley, Kevin A. Dougherty, Russ Campion, Richard Erickson, Roy Davis, Linda B., Giancarlo Mariot, Angela Ferguson and Shannon Busch In compiling this list, I have tried to avoid slang terms, which certainly could fill up an entire website on their own. I've also omitted simple differences in spelling between U.S. and U.K. versions of the same words, e.g. color and colour. Visit: Part 1 UK-US - Cars and Driving: UK            US aerial          antenna             ("aerial" used regionally              in the past but has              faded from use) articulated lorry    tractor-trailer bonnet          hood boot           trunk car park         parking lot cats eyes        reflectors             (embedded in road) central reservation   median demister         defroster             defogger dipped lights      low beams diversion        detour drink-driving      drunk driving driving licence     driver's license dual carriageway     divided highway dumper truck       dump truck estate car        station wagon flat battery       dead battery flyover         overpass gear box         transmission gear lever        gear shift give way         yield glove box        glove compartment hire car         rental car indicators        turn signals jump leads        jumper cables lorry          truck main beams        high beams (or full beams) metalled road      paved road motorway         freeway (Western U.S.)             expressway (Eastern U.S.)             Interstate See Notes number plate       license plate petrol          gasoline             gas propeller shaft     drive shaft recovery         towing ring road        beltway (Eastern U.S.) (or orbital) roundabout        circle             rotary (New England)             Interestingly, the terms             roundabout, traffic circle             and rotary are all used in             the US state of Iowa to             denote different types of             circular road arrangements.  saloon car        sedan silencer         muffler slip road        entrance or exit ramp straight         straightaway (as at a race track) top up          fill up             top off See Notes transmission       power train tyre           tire unmade road       dirt road, unpaved road verge          shoulder (of road) windscreen        windshield window heater      defroster             defogger wing           fender wing mirror side mirror,             side-view mirror zebra crossing      crosswalk Part 1 US-UK - Cars and Driving: US              UK antenna         aerial beltway (Eastern U.S.)  ring road             (or orbital) circle, traffic circle  roundabout crosswalk        zebra crossing defogger         window heater


What is the title of the presiding judge in the United States Supreme Court?

About the Supreme Court | United States Courts About the Supreme Court Supreme Court Background Article III of the Constitution establishes the federal judiciary. Article III, Section I states that "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." Although the Constitution establishes the Supreme Court, it permits Congress to decide how to organize it. Congress first exercised this power in the Judiciary Act of 1789. This Act created a Supreme Court with six justices. It also established the lower federal court system. The Justices Over the years, various Acts of Congress have altered the number of seats on the Supreme Court, from a low of five to a high of 10. Shortly after the Civil War, the number of seats on the Court was fixed at nine. Today, there is one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court. Like all federal judges, justices are appointed by the President and are confirmed by the Senate. They, typically, hold office for life. The salaries of the justices cannot be decreased during their term of office. These restrictions are meant to protect the independence of the judiciary from the political branches of government. The Court's Jurisdiction Article III, Section II of the Constitution establishes the jurisdiction (legal ability to hear a case) of the Supreme Court. The Court has original jurisdiction (a case is tried before the Court) over certain cases, e.g., suits between two or more states and/or cases involving ambassadors and other public ministers. The Court has appellate jurisdiction (the Court can hear the case on appeal) on almost any other case that involves a point of constitutional and/or federal law. Some examples include cases to which the United States is a party, cases involving Treaties, and cases involving ships on the high seas and navigable waterways (admiralty cases). Cases When exercising its appellate jurisdiction, the Court, with a few exceptions, does not have to hear a case. The Certiorari Act of 1925 gives the Court the discretion to decide whether or not to do so. In a petition for a writ of certiorari, a party asks the Court to review its case. The Supreme Court agrees to hear about 100-150 of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review each year. Judicial Review The best-known power of the Supreme Court is judicial review, or the ability of the Court to declare a Legislative or Executive act in violation of the Constitution, is not found within the text of the Constitution itself. The Court established this doctrine in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803). In this case, the Court had to decide whether an Act of Congress or the Constitution was the supreme law of the land. The Judiciary Act of 1789 gave the Supreme Court original jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus (legal orders compelling government officials to act in accordance with the law). A suit was brought under this Act, but the Supreme Court noted that the Constitution did not permit the Court to have original jurisdiction in this matter. Since Article VI of the Constitution establishes the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land, the Court held that an Act of Congress that is contrary to the Constitution could not stand. In subsequent cases, the Court also established its authority to strike down state laws found to be in violation of the Constitution. Before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment (1869), the provisions of the Bill of Rights were only applicable to the federal government. After the Amendment's passage, the Supreme Court began ruling that most of its provisions were applicable to the states as well. Therefore, the Court has the final say over when a right is protected by the Constitution or when a Constitutional right is violated. Role The Supreme Court plays a very important role in our constitutional system of government. First, as the highest court in the land, it is the court of last resort for those looking for justice. Second, d


On clothing care symbols what is meant by a crossed-out triangle?

Clothing Care Symbols - WOW Laundry in Bangalore Clothing Care Symbols by WOW Laundry In our daily lives, we’re surrounded by symbols meant to guide us, warn us and convey concepts quickly. From the hazardous-materials placards on tractor-trailers, rail cars and cargo containers to the glyphs and emoji on our cell phones, ours is a semiotic world, awash with signifiers ranging from the elegant to the enigmatic. Not surprisingly, clothing care symbols — those squares, circles, triangles, swooshes, lines and dots on the labels of almost everything we wear — fall somewhere in between. After all, as anyone who’s played Pictionary can attest, we don’t all share the same ideas of what makes for an effective symbol. One person’s “baby talk” is another’s “baby fish mouth.” Old movie references aside, clothing-care symbols are a code worth knowing, whether you’re washing your duds or deciding whether buying that angora sweater is really worth. Laundry symbols tag on a simple method and a set order: wash (tub shape), dry (square), iron (iron),bleach (triangle) and special care (circle). A circle by itself usually means dry cleaning or wet cleaning. A special care inside drying changes “dry” to “tumble dry.” Adding lines, dots and other marks modify these base symbols and add info. For example, a large X through a symbol negates it or offers a warning, whereas an empty symbol often means that any version of what the symbol represents is OK to use. Thus, a crossed-out triangle means do not bleach, whereas an empty triangle tells you that any bleach will do. Adding two parallel diagonal lines means to use only non-chlorine/oxygen bleach.


Haematite is an oxide of which metallic element?

Hematite: Hematite mineral information and data. Hematite Group . The iron analogue of Corundum , Eskolaite , and Karelianite . Hematite is rather variable in its appearence - it can be in reddish brown, ocherous masses, dark silvery-grey scaled masses, silvery-grey to black crystals, and dark-grey masses, to name a few. What they all have in common is a rust-red streak. Black crystals may be confused with ilmenite . NOTE: The 'hematite' used in jewelery, and often sold as magnetized items, is nothing of the sort and is an artificially created material, see Magnetic Hematite . In an experimental volcanic gas condensation by Africano et al. (2002) it deposited in high fO2 conditions during cooling from ca. 800oC down to ca. 650oC. 6 Morphology: Crystals generally thick to thin tabular {0001}, rarely prismatic [0001] or scalenohedral; also rarely rhombohedral {1011}, producing pseudo-cubic crystals. Often found in sub-parallel growths on {0001} or as rosettes ("iron roses.") Sometimes in micaceous to platy masses. May be compact columnar or fibrous masses, sometimes radiating, or in reniform masses with a smooth fracture ("kidney ore"), and botryoidal and stalactic. Frequently in earth masses, also granular, friable to compact, concretionary and oolitic. Twinning: Penetration twins on {0001}, or with {1010} as a composition plane. Frequently exhibits a lamellar twinning on {1011} in polished section. Crystallographic forms of Hematite


"By what name do the British know First World War battle that became known as the ""Victory of the Skaggerrak""?"

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War | History Extra Directory Jutland: the battle that won the First World War The British press declared it a disastrous defeat, and the public despaired. But, argues Nick Hewitt, the battle of Jutland, fought in the North Sea 100 years ago this month, ensured that Germany would never prevail in the First World War...   This article was first published in the May 2013 issue of BBC History Magazine Tuesday 31st May 2016 BBC History Magazine - 5 issues for £5 The 1st German Armoured Cruiser Squadron on the morning of the battle of Jutland. “The spell of Trafalgar has been broken,” crowed Kaiser Wilhelm after the battle, but the Germans would never threaten British naval hegemony again. (Topfoto) Between the hazy late afternoon of 31 May 1916 and the grey dawn of 1 June, more than 100,000 British and German seamen aboard 250 warships fought a brutal naval engagement. They were battling for control of the North Sea, global oceanic trade and, ultimately, victory in the First World War. For the British it became known as the battle of Jutland. For the Germans it was the Skagerrak. By the end, 25 ships had been sunk, almost one in 10 of those sailors was dead, and Europe’s fate had been decided.   For both sides, this battle was a new experience. The British had been the undisputed masters of the seas since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, more than 100 years earlier. However, the last time the Royal Navy had fought a sea battle against an enemy fleet, it had entered the fray with wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon. The service now went to war in armoured, steel ships, powered by steam engines and armed with breech-loading rifled guns in revolving turrets. Uninterrupted peace in western Europe had arguably led to complacency, failure of imagination and tactical stagnation. Nevertheless, the Royal Navy was still the most powerful navy in the world.   The Kaiserliche Marine, or Imperial German Navy, had existed only since Germany unified from a multitude of kingdoms and principalities into a single, Prussian-dominated state in 1871. The German kaiser, Wilhelm II, was determined to make Germany a world power, and in 1897 he had appointed Rear (later Grand) Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz as secretary of state of the Reichsmarineamt, or Imperial Navy Office. Tirpitz was a compelling advocate of the need for a larger navy, and within a year he had persuaded the German parliament to pass the first of a series of naval bills calling for the construction of 19 battleships and 50 cruisers. The British responded in kind, and an expensive arms race between the two powers followed, vociferously supported on both sides of the North Sea by popular nationalist lobbying.   In 1906, the British reset the arms race. Under the dynamic leadership of the visionary First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John ‘Jackie’ Fisher, they emphatically replied to the German challenge by launching the revolutionary battleship HMS Dreadnought – faster, and with better armour and more heavy guns than anything else afloat. At the same time Fisher developed a new type of ship, the battlecruiser, with heavy guns but light armour to allow exceptional speed, intended to outgun enemy cruisers but able to use its speed to escape enemy battleships. At a stroke, the existing British and German battle fleets were rendered out of date. It was a gamble, but it stemmed from absolute confidence that Britain could outbuild Germany, which was trying to maintain the largest army in Europe at the same time.   A postcard showing HMS Dreadnought. When she was launched in 1906, Dreadnought was faster and better armed than any other ship on the world’s oceans, and she instantly rendered the German – and British – battle fleets out of date. (Topfoto)   British firepower   A new and even costlier arms race followed, with both sides building ‘dreadnoughts’, as the new battleships became known. But the British had judged correctly. Between 1905 and 1914 Germany’s defence budget increased by a staggering 142 per cent, but when Britain dec


"From which 1945 novel does the quote ""All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"" come?"

What is significant about the quotes, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" and "Four legs good, two legs better"? | eNotes What is significant about the quotes, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" and "Four legs good, two legs better"? dalepowell1962 | College Teacher | (Level 2) Assistant Educator Posted on June 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the animals started with seven commandments that were the laws of the farm.  Originally, they concluded with Old Major's claim that all animals are equal.  Little by little, throughout the novel, the commandments are eroded until they conclude with the "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."  This is, of course, absurd and an oxymoron since equal means equal; therefore, nothing can be more equal. This serves as a conclusion because the ultimate absurdity has occurred. What has been stated indirectly is,"All animals are not equal." The novel also concludes with an idea different from the original in "Four legs good, two legs bad" which becomes "Four legs good, two legs better." (Both of these lines were uttered by the sheep.)  This also represents a complete turn around from the beginning.   pmiranda2857 | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Emeritus Posted on June 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM The events that precede the new philosophy include: Napoleon executing animals who dare to question his authority.  Animals are torn to pieces by his attack dogs right in front of the other animals so that they will be afraid of him and not question anything he does or says. Four legs good, two legs bad comes from the speech made by Old Major in the beginning of the book that is one of the principles of the theory of animalism that is at the heart of the rebellion.  Old Major is instructing the animals to never trust anything that walks on two legs, he, of course, is referring to man, who he says is evil.  Old Major would be very surprised that by the end of the book, pigs are walking on two legs and have taken on all the traits of man in direct opposition to his philosophy. The conclusion of the novel depicts how the rebellion worked to get rid of the farmer, but did not succeed in equality for all animals.  Instead of sharing equality, the animals are now under the rule of a harsh tyrant, Napoleon, who is cruel and violent in ways that Farmer Jones never was.  In fact, he is so severe in his treatment of the animals that the phrase, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others, applies to the new rules that govern the farm. "In chapter one, Old Major interrupts his speech appealing to the animals for a Rebellion against the humans by asking for a vote on whether "wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits" should be included in the statement "All animals are comrades." Although at this point, the animals vote to accept the rats, later distinctions between different types of animals become so commonplace that the seventh commandment of Animalism is officially changed to read, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Napoleon and the pigs are the ruling class, they and their cronies and associates live well, while the animals, the horses, sheep, etc, work and work and work, are fed very little and are carted off to the slaughterhouse once they can no longer work hard.


"""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."" are the opening words of which novel by Charles Dickens?"

SparkNotes: A Tale of Two Cities: Important Quotations Explained Important Quotations Explained A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Book the Third: The Track of a Storm Chapters 11–15 Key Facts 1. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. . . . These famous lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, hint at the novel’s central tension between love and family, on the one hand, and oppression and hatred, on the other. The passage makes marked use of anaphora, the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses—for example, “it was the age . . . it was the age” and “it was the epoch . . . it was the epoch. . . .” This technique, along with the passage’s steady rhythm, suggests that good and evil, wisdom and folly, and light and darkness stand equally matched in their struggle. The opposing pairs in this passage also initiate one of the novel’s most prominent motifs and structural figures—that of doubles, including London and Paris, Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, Miss Pross and Madame Defarge, and Lucie and Madame Defarge. 2. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imagin-ings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. The narrator makes this reflection at the beginning of Book the First, Chapter 3, after Jerry Cruncher delivers a cryptic message to Jarvis Lorry in the darkened mail coach. Lorry’s mission—to recover the long-imprisoned Doctor Manette and “recall” him to life—establishes the essential dilemma that he and other characters face: namely, that human beings constitute perpetual mysteries to one another and always remain somewhat locked away, never fully reachable by outside minds. This fundamental inscrutability proves most evident in the case of Manette, whose private sufferings force him to relapse throughout the novel into bouts of cobbling, an occupation that he first took up in prison. Throughout the novel, Manette mentally returns to his prison, bound more by his own recollections than by any attempt of the other characters to “recall” him into the present. This passage’s reference to death also evokes the deep secret revealed in Carton’s self-sacrifice at the end of the novel. The exact profundity of his love and devotion for Lucie remains obscure until he commits to dying for her; the selflessness of his death leaves the reader to wonder at the ways in which he might have manifested this great love in life. 3. The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a night-cap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees—blood. This passage, taken from Book the First, Chapter 5, describes the scramble after a wine cask breaks outside Defarge’s wine shop. This episode opens the novel’s examination of Paris and acts as a poten


Which model has recently modelled his own underwear range for H&M ?

David Beckham launches his underwear range at H&M - Telegraph Latest Beauty News David Beckham launches his underwear range at H&M Footballer David Beckham made an appearance at a London H&M store to mark the launch of his collaboration with the Swedish retailer. BY Olivia Lidbury |           01 February 2012 David Beckham at the launch of his fashion range for H&M Photo: GETTY Hundreds of David Beckham fans queued outside the H&M store on London's Regent Street this afternoon to catch a glimpse of the footballing superstar. Related articles See David Beckham's style evolution Perhaps to the disappointment of the L.A Galaxy star's legion of female fans, the 36-year-old did not arrive wearing just a pair of briefs - but covered up in a casual combination of stonewash jeans and chunky, cream cardigan. The H&M flagship store's windows did however feature life-size silver Beckham mannequins in silver, clad in boxer shorts. Beckham has teamed up with the affordable Swedish retailer to create an eponymous range of vests, briefs, T-shirts and pyjamas, inspired by his own casual attire - and a few tips picked up along the way from when he modelled briefs for Emporio Armani. The marriage is thought to be an ongoing one, unlike the unique collaborations produced by designer labels Lanvin, Stella McCartney and Jimmy Choo in the past. See David Beckham's style evolution "I always want to challenge myself and this was such a rewarding experience for me. I'm very happy with the end result and I hope H&M's male customers will be as excited as I am" Beckham has said of the tie-up with H&M. The window display shows the silver David Beckham mannequins as people queue outside H&M to see his new underwear collection. Photo: EPA


Which Italian vehicle takes its name from the Italian for wasp?

The scooter - the short history of a cultural icon The scooter - the short history of a cultural icon View gallery - 24 images The scooter was invented in 1947 as a low cost alternative to the automobile in war-ravaged Europe – it was designed as transport for the masses and it caught on so quickly that it became one of the great transport phenomena to sweep the world in the 20th century.  The Vespa (which means “wasp” in Italian) was the result of Enrico Piaggio’s determination to create a viable alternative to the automobile for the masses. As the war drew to a close, Enrico studied every possible solution to get production in his plants going again. The origins Piaggio was founded in Genoa in 1884 by twenty-year-old Rinaldo Piaggio. The first activity of Rinaldo's factory was luxury ship fitting. But by the end of the century, Piaggio was also producing rail carriages, goods vans, luxury coaches and engines, trams and special truck bodies. World War I brought a new diversification that was to distinguish Piaggio activities for many decades. The company started producing aeroplanes and seaplanes. At the same time, new plants were springing up. In 1917 Piaggio bought a new plant in Pisa, and four years later it took over a small plant in Pontedera which first became the centre of aeronautical production (propellers, engines and complete aircraft) and then, after World War II, witnessed the birth of the iconic Vespa. From aeronautics to individual mobility: the transformation of 1946 The war, a radical watershed for the entire Italian economy, was equally important for Piaggio. The Pontedera plant built the state-of-the-art four-engine P 108 equipped with a 1,500-bhp Piaggio engine in passenger and bomber versions. However Piaggio’s aeronautical plants in Tuscany (Pontedera and Pisa) were important military targets and on August 31, 1943 they were razed to the ground by Allied bombers, after the retreating Germans had already mined the pillars of the buildings and irrevocably damaged the plants. To rebuild the Pontedera plants, Enrico Piaggio asked the Allies, who then occupied part of the grounds and of the buildings still standing, to arrange for the machinery transferred to Germany and Biella in northern Italy to be brought back. This was done rapidly and Armando and Enrico Piaggio then began the process of rebuilding. The hardest task went to Enrico, who was responsible for the destroyed plants of Pontedera and Pisa. Enrico Piaggio’s decision to enter the light mobility business was based on economic assessments and sociological considerations. It took shape thanks to the successful co-operation of the aeronautical engineer and inventor Corradino D’Ascanio (1891-1981). The origins of the scooter A motor scooter was produced, based on a small motorcycle made for parachutists. The prototype, known as the MP 5, was nicknamed “Paperino” (the Italian name for Donald Duck) because of its strange shape, but Enrico Piaggio did not like it, and he asked Corradino D’Ascanio to redesign it. But the aeronautical designer did not like motorcycles. He found them uncomfortable and bulky, with wheels that were difficult to change after a puncture. Worse still, the drive chain made them dirty. However, his aeronautical experience found the answer to every problem. To eliminate the chain he imagined a vehicle with a stress-bearing body and direct mesh; to make it easier to ride, he put the gear lever on the handlebar; to make tyre changing easier he designed not a fork, but a supporting arm similar to an aircraft carriage. Finally, he designed a body that would protect the driver so that he would not get dirty or dishevelled. Decades before the spread of ergonomic studies, the riding position of the Vespa was designed to let you sit comfortably and safely, not balanced dangerously as on a high-wheel motorcycle. Corradino D’Ascanio only needed a few days to refine his idea and prepare the first drawings of the Vespa, first produced in Pontedera in April 1946. It got its name from Enrico Piaggio himself who, looking at the MP 6 prototy


Who, in the Bible, was the wife of King Ahab?

Who is KING AHAB in the Bible? Who is King Ahab in the Bible? Submit questions   -   New Articles QUESTION: Who is King Ahab in the Bible? ANSWER: King Ahab, according to the Bible, was the son of King Omri. He was one of Israel's most powerful rulers . He was King of the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel from 874 to 853 B.C. Many consider him the WORST ruler that ancient Israel ever had. His wife Jezebel was so evil that she has come to symbolize revengeful, malicious, immoral and cruel women throughout history. When Ahab married Jezebel , he became the first Israelite king in the Bible who allied himself to heathenism through marriage. Jezebel was a pagan princess of a man from Tyre named Ethbaal, who was a priest of the god Astarte (also called by the name Eastre). Persuaded by his wife, Ahab built an altar in Samaria (capital city of the northern ten tribes of Israel) dedicated to the false god Baal. Needless to say, God was not happy with him (1Kings 16:30 - 33). What Ahab wanted, he got, especially with the help of his evil wife Jezebel. One day he offered his neighbor, Naboth, a choice of either a better vineyard somewhere else or money for the land he owned. Naboth refused. When he could not buy Naboth's land from him he went home and pouted like a little child! When Jezebel found out what happened she "arranged" for her husband to own the land by having the land owner killed (1Kings 21:7 - 10, 15). This king of Israel was SO evil that Elijah the prophet prophesied the extermination of him and his entire family. When he repented, however, God let him live and postponed the punishment on his posterity (1Kings 21:17 - 29). Jezebel experienced no such repentance like her husband. The Eternal proclaimed that after her death the dogs would fight to eat her flesh by Jezreel's wall (1Kings 21:23).


Who composed the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis ?

Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis — Listen, watch, download and discover music for free at Last.fm klassik Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, also known as the Tallis Fantasia, is a piece of orchestral music by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was composed in 1910 for the Three Choirs Festival, and was one of the first major successes for Vaughan Williams. He revised the work twice, in 1913 and 1919. The work is scored for an expanded string orchestra divided into three parts: orchestra I, a full-sized string orchestra; orchestra II, a single desk… read more Don't want to see ads? Subscribe now Similar Tracks


Who plays the aged waitress in Victoria Wood's classic 'Two Soups' sketch?

Two Soups - YouTube Two Soups Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Mar 18, 2008 Julie Walters in a Victoria Wood sketch playing an elderly waitress Category


What is the highest mountain in New Zealand?

New Zealand Mountains - photos & information New Zealand Mountains - photos About Most people's image of New Zealand is a country filled with snow capped mountains. Not all of New Zealand is like that of course, but a whopping seventy five percent of the landmass is either mountains or hills. Situated on two techtonic plates, the Australian Indian plate and the Pacific Plate, New Zealand is a land lifted high. In the North Island one plate is slipping under the other which has created one major stretch of mountains from the East Cape down to Wairarapa and Wellington on the southern coastline. But the North Island also has intense volcanic activity along the plate boundary. In the South Island the process is different as the two plates are smashing into each other, (the same process that created the Himilaya's). This has given New Zealand its most spectacular natural feature, the mighty Southern Alps. These mountains are an impressive 650-kilometre's long on an island that is only 840 km/522 mi long. These mountains rise abruptly near the western coast and only reach the east coast of the island in the small town of Kaikoura. Fiordland National Park Mount Ngaurahoe More The highest peak in this Southern Alps and in fact all of Australasia is Mt Cook , which measures 3,684 meters (12,283 feet). Sir Edmund Hillary gained his mountaineering experience on Mt Cook, before becoming the first man in the world to climb the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest. New Zealand also contains some deeply indented fiords along the south west coastline, and give the country some of its most spectacular scenery. The North Island's highest peak is Mt Ruapehu which is 2,797 metres or 9,175 feet high. This mountain is a volcano, and had some eruptions back in 1995 and 1996. Mt Ruapehu is also the location for the best skiing in the North Island. Most of New Zealand's ski fields are located in the South Island however. New Zealand has 24 peaks above 3000 metres. They are as follows: Aoraki/Mount Cook - 3,755 m (12,319 ft) Mount Tasman - 3498 m (11,476 ft) Mount Dampier - 3440 m (11,286 ft) Mount Vancouver - 3309 m (10856 ft) Mount Silberhorn - 3279 m (10,758 ft) Mount Malte-Brun - 3198 m (10492) Mount Hicks - 3194 m (10,502 ft) Mount Lendenfeld - 3194 m (10,502 ft) Mount Graham Mount Torres - 3163 m (10,377 ft) Mount Sefton - 3157 m (10,358 ft) Mount Teichelmann - 3160 m (10,367 ft) Mount Haast - 3138 m (10,295 ft) Mount Elie de Beaumont - 3109 m (10,200 ft) La Perouse - 3079 m (10,102 ft) Douglas Peak - 3077 m (10,095 ft) Mount Haidinger - 3066 m (10, 059 ft) Mount Magellan The Minarets - 3065 m (10,056 ft) Mount Aspiring/Tititea - 3,033 m (9,951 ft) [2] Mount Hamilton - 3022 m (9915 ft) Mount Dixon


The name for which Victorian invention is derived from the Latin for 'Darkened Chamber'?

History and Careers of Photography From it’s origins to the digital age, featuring innovations, inventions, people, and careers. By: Sheila Boester and. - ppt download Download Presentation is loading. Please wait. History and Careers of Photography From it’s origins to the digital age, featuring innovations, inventions, people, and careers. By: Sheila Boester and. Published by Poppy White Modified about 1 year ago Embed Similar presentations More Presentation on theme: "History and Careers of Photography From it’s origins to the digital age, featuring innovations, inventions, people, and careers. By: Sheila Boester and."— Presentation transcript: 1 History and Careers of Photography From it’s origins to the digital age, featuring innovations, inventions, people, and careers. By: Sheila Boester and Lisa Collard MVHS Photography By: Sheila Boester and Lisa Collard MVHS Photography 2 Photography… Is a science and an art. It combines the sciences of physics, chemistry, and optics with the craftsmanship of printmaking and the aesthetic values of drawing and painting. 3 What is photography? The name or term photography was coined by Sir John Herschel in He also coined the terms “negative” and “positive” to photographic images, and the word “snap-shot” Photography is derived from the Greek words for light and writing~ writing with light (Sir John Herschel) 4 Camera Obscura Latin for “dark chamber” The Camera Obscura, first camera, with a pin hole for viewing scenes was invented in First drawing of Camera Obscura was made by Leonardo da Vinci. 5 Camera Obscura Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. What do you see? Magic! There in full color and movement will be the world outside the window, upside down! This magic is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. 6 First Successful Photograph First photograph was produced in 1826 by Joseph Niepce. First photograph used silver halide salts on a metal sheet instead of film. Took 8 hours to expose! World’s first camera image by Joseph Niepce. Photo from an apartment building window. 7 Photographic Chemicals Procedure for chemical photo development was developed by Schulze in Etched plates were first shown in public by Daguerre in Daguerre's prints called daguerreotypes. Daguerre was the first to widely use chemical photo development. 8 Daguerreotypes were positive images, one of a kind Gold rush daguerreotype 9 Photographic Paper Process to produce negative pictures on paper developed in 1840 by William Fox Talbot. A positive was made on another sheet of paper chemically sensitized with silver salts. Talbot’s negative/positive approach formed the basis for all the photographic processes that followed. He called it the Calotype. A woodcut showing Henery Talbot Talbot’s first photograph on paper 10 Photographic Paper Calotype- Latin for “good paper” Make multiple copies of a single image The paper was washed over with a solution of silver nitrate and dried by gentle heat. When nearly dry, it was soaked in a solution of potassium iodide for two or three minutes, rinsed and again dried. 11 Collodion Process 1851 Fredrick Scott Archer- improves photographic resolution by spreading a mixture of collodion (nitrated cotton dissolved in alcohol) and chemicals on sheets of glass. Wet plate collodion photography was much cheaper than daguerreotypes, the negative/positive process permitted unlimited reproductions, and the process was published but not patented. Wet-plate featuring President Theodore Roosevelt 12 Carte de Visite Adolphe Disderi – introduced a rotating camera which could reproduce eight exposed images on a single negative. After printing on Albumen paper, the images were cut apart and glued to business card sized mounts. These tiny portraits were traded between frie


Which actor's creations include Nice-but-dim Tim and Loadsamoney?

"Harry Enfield's Television Programme" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 6:03 AM, PST NEWS trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites memorable quotes Overview 5 out of 5 people found the following review useful: "Now I Don't Believe You Wanted To Do That!" 20 February 2007 *** This review may contain spoilers *** It seems like only yesterday that Harry Enfield was the brightest comedy star on British television. His appearances on 'Saturday Live' ( as 'Stavros' and 'Loadsamoney' ) and 'Filthy, Rich & Catflap', as well as the brilliant 'Norbert Smith - A Life?' seemed to confirm him as the natural successor to the great Peter Sellers. In 1990, he departed Channel 4 for the B.B.C. 'Programme' was a traditional sketch show in which he played characters as diverse as the revolting 'Wayne Slob', the toothy 'Tim Nice-But-Dim', the irritating pensioner 'Mr.Don't Want To Do It Like That', the '40's public information film presenter Mr.Grayson, the over-excited 'Little Brother', the Alan Freeman-inspired D.J. 'Dave Nice' ( Freeman could not have been offended. He later guested on the show ) and of course, one half of the decrepit and senile Old Gits. Within weeks of its debut, the show's catchphrases were being repeated in schools and workplaces all around the country. All of the characters had some small grain of truth to them; haven't we all encountered someone as ghastly as 'Don't' at one time or another? Some fared less well than others; 'The Double Take Brothers' used to react with exaggerated excitement each time the unexpected occurred, and caused me to press the 'mute' button on my remote, and the first series featured a superhero spoof which fell embarrassingly flat, but there were enough good characters for Enfield to develop over two seasons, and into the spin-off 'Harry Enfield & Chums'. For instance, 'Little Brother' mutated into the miserable teenager 'Kevin'. Earlier I mentioned that this was a 'traditional' sketch show. By that I meant the show owed a great debt to the late, great Dick Emery's long-running Saturday night series. By his own admission, Enfield was a big fan of Emery's, and intended 'Programme' as a homage. Writers included Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, who had worked on 'Spitting Image', and Charlie Higson, later to create the popular ( but inferior, in my view ) 'The Fast Show'. Special mention must be made of the fine supporting cast, in particular Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke. Many of the best sketches featured pairings either of Enfield and Whitehouse or Enfield and Burke. But it was with Whitehouse that Enfield really shone. Whether it was as idle garage mechanics 'Lee and Lance', 'The Old Gits' or 'Smashie & Nicey', Whitehouse and Enfield were one of the funniest comedy teams I can recall seeing. Its not every day that a television comedy show panics a radio station into dumping its presenters, but 'Smashie & Nicey' had that effect. With their cheesy patter, outdated fashion sense and over-reliance on the hit 70's record 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' by The Bachman Turner Overdrive, the aging disc jockeys were a stinging criticism of the old school of Radio 1 broadcasters. The consequences were devastating: Dave Lee Travis famously resigned on air. Simon Bates, Alan Freeman and even Gary Davies were shown the door. Luckily for Tony Blackburn, he'd moved on a long time before. In recent years, Harry Enfield has become the 'forgotten man' of British comedy. His series for Sky Television - 'Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show - was so bad even he admitted to never having watched an episode. It was recently confirmed he would be teaming up again with Paul Whitehouse for a new show. If it will be as funny as this one, I can hardly wait. Was the above review useful to you? 1 out of 1 people found the following review useful: Harry Enfield is a quiet surprise find in America from United States 18 January 2015 Since there is only one review of this on IMDb in 8 years I thought I would comment as well. Enfield's sketches are hit and miss, but a review of his work over


What was the original title of Radio's The Goon Show'?

RADIO: THE GOON SHOW | Laughterlog.com RADIO: THE GOON SHOW by PETER TATCHELL (copyright 2010)    Arguably the most influential radio series in British comedy, THE GOON SHOW began on the B.B.C. Home Service May 28 1951 under the title of CRAZY PEOPLE “featuring radio’s own Crazy Gang*, The Goons”.   Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Spike Milligan (with musical support from The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and The Stargazers) and Andrew Timothy as the announcer, the scripts were written by Milligan and Larry Stephens (and edited by Jimmy Grafton). The seventeen episodes were made up of unrelated sketches featuring a handful of regular characters. By the second series, the following January, the B.B.C. allowed the programme to be retitled THE GOON SHOW with the participants as before. The Stargazers left after the first six shows and Michael Bentine departed at series end (though remaining friends with the team, and in fact guest-starring in a fourth season episode). By the third season, scriptwriting pressures caused Milligan to have a nervous breakdown and he was absent for eleven of the programmes (Dick Emery and Graham Stark took turns at filling in). Series four saw the collection of sketches evolve into the familiar continuous storyline and Wallace Greenslade take over as the announcer. None of the first four seasons of THE GOON SHOW was broadcast outside Britain and nearly all the original recordings were destroyed. All that survives are off-air acetate copies of two incomplete editions from series 2, an episode from series 3 and about half of series 4 (many of which were discovered in recent years). However, from the fifth season (starting September 1954) the B.B.C. Transcription Service began offering the show to broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and elsewhere. Eventually 107 editions were made available, plus specially-recorded remakes of 14 fourth season episodes. Most were slightly edited to remove topical references or material thought unsuitable for overseas listeners. Happily nearly everything survives from this point onwards. These were the episodes of THE GOON SHOW repeated over the past half century and issued on LP, cassette and CD to fans in Britain and around the world. By the mid-1950s, Eric Sykes began contributing to the scripts (either solo or with Milligan) and his work may be found in season five and at the start of season six. (Sykes, Milligan, Alan Simpson and Ray Galton had formed a scriptwriting co-operative called Associated London Scripts and were regularly supplying material to the B.B.C. and London’s recently-opened commercial television channels). In 1956 and 1957, Sellers, Secombe and Milligan were signed by Decca Records to record eight studio vocals featuring their popular characters (originally issued as four 78rpm discs). (Prior to this, the trio had done two songs for Parlophone which for reasons relating the composer copyrights were not released at the time). THE GOON SHOW concluded its run after a short tenth series (on January 28 1960). There were then two seasons of THE TELEGOONS (totalling twenty-six 15-minute remakes, using puppets and dialogue re-recorded by the cast) plus a handful of revival editions. The only newly-scripted edition was The (aptly titled) Last Goon Show Of All, produced for the B.B.C.’s 50th anniversary in 1972. (A Decca 45rpm single containing two new Goon vocals was also recorded in honour of the occasion). Apart from the original 121 editions of THE GOON SHOW made available by the Transcription Service in the late-1950s, a “best-of” selection titled Pick Of The Goons was issued in the mid-1960s. This comprises 84 programmes , eight of which had not previously been available. Coupled with the final 21 editions of the original package, these are the 105 episodes which have been airing on A.B.C. Radio for the past thirty-five years. As we enter the twenty-first century, over a hundred GOON SHOWs are available via radio or on commercial compact disc (many originally issued on LP or cassette). T


In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter Y ?

NATO phonetic alphabet | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Not to be confused with International Phonetic Alphabet . FAA radiotelephony alphabet and Morse code chart The NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet and also called the ICAO phonetic or ICAO spelling alphabet, as well as the ITU phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. Although often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets do not have any association with phonetic transcription systems, such as the International Phonetic Alphabet . Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet assigned code words acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language or the presence of transmission static. The 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. Some of the 26 words have altered pronunciations: Charlie can be either "char-lee" or "shar-lee", and Uniform is either "you-nee-form" or "oo-nee-form", neither of which is the English pronunciation of the word. Oscar is pronounced "oss-cah" and Victor as "vik-tah" without the 'r', even by people who would normally pronounce it. Papa is pronounced "Pa-PAH" with the accent on the second syllable instead of the first. The code word Quebec is pronounced as French "keh-beck". The ICAO and FAA use the standard number words of English (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine) with four altered pronunciations (tree, fower, fife, niner), whereas the ITU and IMO use ten code words for numbers (nadazero, unaone, bissotwo, terrathree, kartefour, pantafive, soxisix, setteseven, octoeight, novenine). Contents Edit After the phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) (see history below) it was adopted by many other international and national organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). It is a subset of the much older International Code of Signals (INTERCO), which originally included visual signals by flags or flashing light, sound signals by whistle, siren, foghorn, or bell, as well as one, two, or three letter codes for many phrases. [1] The same alphabetic code words are used by all agencies, but each agency chooses one of two different sets of numeric code words. NATO uses the regular English numeric words (Zero, One, with some alternative pronunciations), whereas the IMO provides for compound numeric words (Nadazero, Unaone, Bissotwo...). In practice these are used very rarely, as they frequently result in confusion between speakers of different languages. NATO Edit A common name for this spelling alphabet, "NATO phonetic alphabet," exists because it appears in Allied Tactical Publication ATP-1, Volume II: Allied Maritime Signal and Maneuvering Book used by all allied navies of NATO, which adopted a modified form of the International Code of Signals. Because the latter allows messages to be spelled via flags or Morse code , it naturally named the code words used to spell out messages by voice its "phonetic alphabet". The name NATO phonetic alphabet became widespread because the signals used to facilitate the naval communications and tactics of NATO have become global. [2] However, ATP-1 is marked NATO Confidential (or the lower NATO Restricted) so it is not available publicly. Nevertheless, a NATO unclassified ve


What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel, published in 1887?

1887: Profile by Gaslight. Sherlock Holmes The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927) --the fifth collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories This web page hasn't touched on the history and development of the Holmes stories in detail yet. Accompanying articles discuss it more thoroughly. But Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a market for detective short stories, particularly when he killed off Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls (in the famous death-struggle between Holmes and Professor Moriarty). No more Sherlock Holmes stories caused a proliferation of other writers to appear to fill the void! Some of these are Arthur Morrison (and his detective Martin Hewitt), Baroness Orczy (The Old Man in the Corner), and many others discussed below. Buy The Complete Sherlock Holmes from Amazon! (Click below.) William Gillette As I do the research for this web site, I find myself catching up on volumes that are in my collection but which I've never quite gotten around to reading until now. William Gillette's novel The Astounding Crime on Torrington Road (1927) is one of these and, were it not for the pure delight of my finally being introduced to Gillette's wit and literary style, I regret having put it off for so long. I've been somewhat familiar with Mr. Gillette's work as a playwright -- at least in regard to his work about Sherlock Holmes (e.g., Sherlock Holmes: A Play and the one-act parody The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes ) but I was quite unaware of his considerable talent as a novelist. He is able to employ his considerable penchant for drama -- and, yes, melodrama -- as an author. Here, let me quote from the book just to give you a taste of Mr. Gillette's style: "Mr. Cripps had, about middle life, made a pretty good 'deal' -- for those days -- when he suddenly got on to the way things were going in the suburbs and made a few choice investments. As a result, he became what was then called a millionaire. Of course he'd have been a mere piker now, but as he couldn't read the future, he was well satisfied. At last he could do something. And the first thing was to get some sort of a family about him. "You see, this Cripps was naturally a lonely man -- actually suffered unless he had people in the house with him; and he hadn't had anybody since the death of his parents some years before. "What I've said shows you that he had no family of his own -- wife and all that. He wasn't at all a woman hater, but he was a merciless woman critic. Odd thing, too, for he liked them first off, but every time he got within striking distance of matrimony he saw what a tiresome thing it was likely to be, and thereupon fled for his life. "All the same, his ideal was to live in the midst of a family -- to have about him those who would be company for him and yet not have 'claims'; and things like that, that would make life a wretched bore. "Now that he'd made his haul, his first thought was to advertise for a family to come and live with him. But really nice people wouldn't answer such an ad, and that was the only kind he wanted. Along here the thought of his own relatives occurred to him. That wasn't a bad idea. He'd get some of them to come. "His only near relative was a widowed sister, Cynthia Findlay, living with her two children in St. Louis. Mr. Cripps had been supporting them for a number of years, both before and after her husband -- a poor, disreputable fish -- died of drink. She inherited nothing of value from Mr. Findlay except his absence, which was priceless but couldn't be turned into money. She wouldn't have parted with it, anyway. "He'd always liked Cynthia, and she'd had a tough life of it. He'd have her as a starter for his adopted-family enterprise. Yes, and the children would come in nicely, too. He'd always heard that children kept things lively. Well, that was the way he wanted them." --(Excerpt from The Astounding Crime on Torrington Road by William   Gillette.) Lest you wonder from this brief excerpt whether this is indeed a murder mystery, let me quote the advertising blurb from the back of my c


Which brother of Sherlock Holmes - supposedly even smarter - was first introduced in the story entitled The Greek Interpreter ?

Sherlock Holmes : definition of Sherlock Holmes and synonyms of Sherlock Holmes (English) British Sherlock Holmes (   / ˈ ʃ ɜr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z / ) [1] is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning , his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases . Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet , appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four , in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine , beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson ; two are narrated by Holmes himself (" The Blanched Soldier " and " The Lion's Mane ") and two others are written in the third person (" The Mazarin Stone " and " His Last Bow "). In two stories (" The Musgrave Ritual " and " The Gloria Scott "), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear , each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson. Contents 12 External links   Inspiration for the character of Holmes Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell , for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. [2] Sir Henry Littlejohn , lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons , is also cited as a source for Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime. [3]   Life   Early life   The first appearance of Holmes, 1887 Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective. An estimate of Holmes's age in the story " His Last Bow " places his birth in 1854; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as being 60 years of age. Commonly, the date is cited as 6 January. [4] However, an argument for a later birthdate is posited by author Laurie R. King , based on two of Conan Doyle's stories: A Study in Scarlet and "The Gloria Scott" Adventure . Certain details in "The Gloria Scott" Adventure indicate Holmes finished his second and final year at university in either 1880 or 1885. Watson's own account of his wounding in the Second Afghan War and subsequent return to England in A Study in Scarlet place his moving in with Holmes in either early 1881 or 1882. Together, these suggest Holmes left university in 1880; if he began university at the age of 17, his birth year would likely be 1861. [5] Holmes states that he first developed his methods of deduction while an undergraduate. The author Dorothy L. Sayers suggested that, given details in two of the Adventures, Holmes must have been at Cambridge rather than Oxford and that "of all the Cambridge colleges, Sidney Sussex (College) perhaps offered the greatest number of advantages to a man in Holmes's position and, in default of more exact information, we may tentatively place him there". [6] His earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. [7] According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the fat


Who composed the march-like tune 'St Gertrude' used for the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers' ?

Onward, Christian Soldiers: Arthur Sullivan’s greatest hit - Telegraph Religion Onward, Christian Soldiers: Arthur Sullivan’s greatest hit Sacred Mysteries: how the hurriedly written words of 'Onward, Christian  Soldiers' gained an equallly rushed tune, making it unforgettable Sir Arthur Sullivan, pictured in his Chapel Royal dress Photo: Alamy Comments Arthur Sullivan did not want to be remembered for his comic operas with W S Gilbert. “My sacred music is that on which I base my reputation as a composer,” he wrote. “These works are the offspring of my liveliest fancy, the children of my greatest strength.” Perhaps, but even among his sacred pieces, it is not his oratorios, The Prodigal Son or The Light of the World, that are sung. By far the most popular sacred music that came from Sullivan’s pen is the tune for Onward, Christian Soldiers. Ian Bradley tells the story of its composition in his new book on Sir Arthur Sullivan’s sacred music, Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers (SCM Press, £25). Sullivan was staying with a couple called Ernest and Gertrude Clay Ker Seymer at their large house at Hanford, Dorset, and, by his own account, dashed it off in a few minutes in the drawing-room, naming the tune “St Gertrude” after his hostess. “We sang it in the private chapel,” she recalled, “Sir Arthur playing the harmonium.” As Dr Bradley notes, Sullivan’s rapid facility for composition was not limited to his hymn tunes, which bear no evidence of more perfunctory treatment than any other class of his work. Indeed, a high proportion of Sullivan’s 50 or so hymn tunes have retained their popularity, though none so strongly as “St Gertrude”. Onward, Christian Soldiers, the hymn for which it was first published, in 1871, had also been written in a rush, by that remarkable figure Sabine Baring-Gould. In 1866 at Horbury Bridge on the rRver Calder outside Wakefield, he was to meet the 16-year-old factory girl Grace Taylor who became his wife. They had 15 children. Related Articles Held in a blanket between dragons 13 Sep 2013 But in 1864, he was a 30-year-old curate starting out in his efforts to organise a church “mission” in the rough neighbourhood of Horbury Bridge. Horbury itself had a parish church, but at Horbury Bridge, Sunday meetings were in what is now the Post Office. Twenty years later, the parish was able to build the church of St John, with its little stone bell-cote. But, for Whitsun 1864, Baring-Gould had arranged for the local children (who perhaps included, unknown, his future wife) a procession behind a cross and banners. The Saturday before, he sat down for 10 minutes and “knocked off” a hymn for them to sing. To begin with, Onward, Christian Soldiers used the tune “St Alban”, taken from the slow movement of Haydn’s Symphony 53. It wouldn’t provoke a very quick march. Sullivan’s “St Gertrude” seemed made for Onward, Christian Soldiers. When he introduced musical references to “St Gertrude” in his Boer War Te Deum, the audience would naturally have thought of the hymn. Sullivan’s father had been a sergeant bandmaster at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and his son did not object to soldiers. Yet the hymn itself is not literally bellicose. The “foe” is the army of Satan, against which Christ leads his followers: “Forward into battle see His banners go.” Baring-Gould, who was of an historical cast of mind, would have had in mind the celebrated Good Friday hymn Vexilla Regis written by Venantius Fortunatus in the sixth century and in use ever since. There, the banners of the king are nothing else than the saving Cross, “from which in the flesh the creator of all flesh is suspended”. But that didn’t stop Baring-Gould’s less informed public from taking his stirring hymn as a mere celebration of Christian militarism. As Dr Bradley notes, there have been several attempts to rescue the hymn while retaining its popular tune, such as the version by David Wright, after the Falklands war, beginning: Onward Christian pilgrims,


Grenouille is the Frenchfor which creature?

The article below is a long, but interesting analysis of Patrick Suskindï¿½s Perfume (originally published in German as Das Parf Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2000 Heldref Publications   The Poetics of Melancholia and Mourning One of the most celebrated younger writers in contemporary German literature, Patrick Suskind owes his fame mainly to his literary debut, the monodrama Der Kontraba[Beta], an overnight success and the darling of the German stage in the 1980s, and to the novel Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Morders, an international best seller that quickly became one of the most read German novels since Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Erich Maria Remarque's Nichts Neues im Westen. Suskind's literary fame stands in sharp contrast to his secretive personal life. An ascetic recluse who rejects public recognition for his success, Suskind does not grant interviews and almost never comments on his work. When he does, as in a rare self-reflexive essay entitled "Amnesie in litteris," he remains evasive about his identity, especially his literary persona. Addressing the question of literary influences, Suskind claims to be a blissfully ignorant epigone whose memory is so poor that he barely remembers what he has read, much less who wrote it, which, it seems to him, is a fortunate handicap for a creative writer since it frees him from the anxiety of influence and creates an uncomplicated relation to plagiarism, without which, he paradoxically insists, nothing original can be written. In what has become a definitive example of German literary postmodernism, Suskind projects his concern with personal identity and literary persona onto the themes and characters of Das Parfum. Set in eighteenth-century France , Das Parfum tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a physically and emotionally abused orphan whose supernatural sense of smell guides him in a perverse search for the lost origin of his identity. A genius of odors, Grenouille himself lacks a personal odor, signifying an absence of individual identity. As he discovers his olfactory virtuousity, Grenouille becomes increasingly obsessed with inventing new fragrances, particularly his own, which he attempts to create artificially by extracting and blending the corporeal scents of young virginal women he murders. Grenouille's great hope is to create an ideal perfume that will give him the magical essence of identity, "den gottlichen Funken, den andre Menschen mir nichts, dir nichts in die Wiege gelegt bekommen und der ihm als einzigem vorenthalten worden war" (304). Despite his hatred of fellow humans, the mad perfumer is driven by a desire for the attention and affection of others, who are compelled under the spell of his ideal perfume to love him unconditionally. At the moment of his crowning achievement, however, Grenouille realizes that the aura of identity created by his magic perfume is an illusion and that it has been hate rather than love that drove him to become a genius of perfuming. After this epiphany, Grenouille returns to the place of his origin in a Parisian slum and ends his own story by drenching himself with the ultimate perfume and surrendering to a maenadic mob of murderers and thieves. Crazed by his seductive perfume, they dismember and devour him, piecemeal. The novel has been read variously as an indictment of Enlightenment rationality, as an allegory of the fascist mind, or simply as a cynical postmodern pastiche that serves the reader titillating but derivative kitsch. Whatever their view of the novel's thematic intentions, all critics agree that Das Parfum's rich intertextuality invites a search for the novel's literary sources. Despite its immense popularity among an international readership, the response to Das Parfum in Germany was initially ambivalent. Predictably, the very issue of creative identity that Suskind's tongue-in-cheek essay on literary amnesia playfully mocks became a main focus of the critical discussion of Das Parfum. The novel's blatently derivative style and its free-ranging appropriation of canonical texts were criticized by some a