In which New Zealand city, at the head of the Otago peninsular, is St Paul's Cathedral?

St Pauls cathedral - Review of St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand - TripAdvisor Review of St. Paul's Cathedral 228 Stuart St, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand +64 3-477 2336 Dunedin Self Guided Audio Tour See more tours on Viator More attraction details Attraction details Owner description: Welcome to St. Paul's Cathedral, at the very heart of Dunedin City. A welcoming, vibrant community coming together to share the Word of God. The Cathedral Church of St Paul occupies a site in the heart of The Octagon near the Dunedin Town Hall and hence Dunedin. The land for St Paul's Church was given by the sealer and whaler Johnny Jones of Waikouaiti.The first parish church of St Paul was built on the site in 1862–1863. It was made of Caversham stone and could accommodate up to 500 people. Unfortunately it wasn't well constructed. The stone weathered badly and the tall spire was removed after just a few years. The man consecrated to be the first Bishop of Dunedin, but never enthroned, Bishop Henry Jenner, visited the Diocese in 1869. He officiated at St Paul’s and gave a lecture on church music illustrated by the St Paul’s choir. He is remembered as the composer of the hymn tune Quam dilecta. In 1871 Samuel Tarratt Nevill was elected Bishop of Dunedin. Initially he made no mention of the need for a cathedral for the diocese and it was not until the 1876 Synod that he broached the subject. The issue was ducked by forming a commission to investigate the whole matter. This commission later recommended that St Paul’s should become the mother church. However, Nevill favoured St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin, and the impasse remained. In the early 1880s the question was revisited, and again no resolution found. However, in 1894, 18 years after the issue was first raised, all sides agreed to the proposal for St Paul’s to become the cathedral. The Cathedral Chapter was formed and took up the responsibility for running the cathedral from 1895. Thomas Whitelock Kempthorne of Kempthorne Prosser Ltd was a generous supporter of the cathedral and a memorial stands inside. In 1904, William Harrop, a prominent Dunedin businessman died and left the bulk of his estate to fund a new Cathedral. However, release of the money was conditional on the Chapter raising £20,000 towards the cost of the building. Nevill threw himself into the effort, but it was not until 1913 that the £20,000 was raised and work could begin. The first in a series of plans and modifications were submitted by Sedding and Wheatly, an architectural company based in England. The author of the final design was Edmund Harold Sedding (1863–1921). The supervising architect in Dunedin was Basil Hooper (1876–1960).On 8 June 1915, the foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid. Huge foundations, large piers and a tremendous vaulted ceiling, the only one in stone in New Zealand, rose from the ground, forming the new Cathedral’s nave. Unfortunately, finances precluded construction of anything more. There was no money for the crossing or the chancel, as originally intended. In the end, it was resolved that a temporary chancel should be constructed, using material saved from the old St Paul’s. The new Cathedral was consecrated by Bishop Nevill on 12 February 1919.During the 1930s the Cathedral began to take up a role as a venue for public services, notably for the state funeral of Sir Frederick Truby King, the founder of the Plunket Society. Social work featured prominently at this time, with the synodsmen, vestry and church leaders all publicly opposed to the government’s Depression policies. The Cathedral administered a food bank and distributed food parcels for the citizens of Dunedin. Shortly after the Second World War, St Paul's suffered the loss of Dean Cruickshank, who moved to the Diocese of Waiapu, and of Professor Victor Galway. The latter, an organist and Professor of Music, had been immensely popular, attracting large crowds to his recitals and performances. He had also regularly broadcast his productions, paving the way for services to be aired on radio. In the 1950s the vestry m


Who was the mistress of Charles II and mother of the Duke of Monmouth?

Lucy Walter | mistress of Charles II | Britannica.com mistress of Charles II Lucy Walter, (born 1630?, Roch Castle, near Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire, Wales —died September/October 1658, Paris ), mistress of the British king Charles II and mother of James Scott, duke of Monmouth . Her family, the Walters, were Welsh of good standing who declared for King Charles I during the Civil War. Roch Castle having been captured and burned by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, Lucy Walter found shelter first in London and then at The Hague. There, in 1648, she met the future king, possibly renewing an earlier acquaintance. There is little reason for believing the story that she was his first mistress; it is certain that he was not her first lover. The intimacy between him and this “brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature,” as the diarist John Evelyn called her, who chose to be known as Mrs. Barlow (Barlo), lasted with intervals until the autumn of 1651, and Charles claimed the paternity of a child born in 1649, whom he subsequently created duke of Monmouth. A daughter, Mary (b. 1651), of whom the reputed father was Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, married William Sarsfield, brother of Patrick Sarsfield , earl of Lucan. On the termination of her liaison with Charles II, Lucy Walter abandoned herself to a life of promiscuity, which may have resulted in her premature death. Learn More in these related articles:


"Which Hollywood legend directed The Godfather trilogy of films and the Vietnam War film, ""Apocalypse Now""?"

Apocalypse Now | War film Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War . The plot revolves around Special Operator Benjamin L. Willard ( Martin Sheen ) who is sent into the jungle to assassinate the rogue and presumably insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz ( Marlon Brando ) of Special Forces . The film was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and John Milius . The script is based on Joseph Conrad 's novella Heart of Darkness , and also draws elements from Michael Herr's Dispatches , the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog 's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). [1] The film became notorious in the entertainment press due to its lengthy and troubled production, as documented in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse . Marlon Brando showed up to the set overweight and Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack. The production was also beset by extreme weather that destroyed several expensive sets. In addition, the release date of the film was delayed several times as Coppola struggled to come up with an ending and to edit the millions of feet of footage that he had shot. Edit The film opens, introducing seasoned veteran Benjamin L. Willard ( Martin Sheen ); a deeply troubled, seasoned veteran. It is 1970. Willard has returned to Saigon from deployment in the field. He drinks excessively and appears to be having difficulty adjusting to life in the rear-area. Two intelligence officers, Lt. General Corman ( G. D. Spradlin ), Colonel Lucas ( Harrison Ford ) and a government man ( Jerry Ziesmer ), approach him with an assignment: journey up the legendary Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz ( Marlon Brando ), a member of the US Army Special Forces feared to have gone rogue. They tell Willard that Kurtz, once considered a model officer and future general, has gone insane and is commanding a legion of his own Montagnard troops deep inside the forest in neutral Cambodia. Their claims are supported by very disturbing radio broadcasts and recordings made by Kurtz himself. Willard is ordered to undertake a mission to find Kurtz and terminate the Colonel's command " with extreme prejudice ." Willard joins the crew of a Navy Patrol Boat, Riverine (PBR), with an eclectic crew composed of QMC George Phillips ( Albert Hall ), the Navy PBR boat commander; GM3 Lance B. Johnson ( Sam Bottoms ), GM3 Tyrone Miller ( Laurence Fishburne ), a.k.a. " Mr. Clean ", and EN3 Jay "Chef" Hicks ( Frederic Forrest ). Willard and the PBR crew rendezvous with the 1/9 AirCav , commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore ( Robert Duvall ) for transport to the Nung River. He initially refuses their request for transport until Kilgore, a keen surfer, is told by one of his men that Lance Johnson, a professional surfer, is a member of the boat's crew. Kilgore befriends Johnson, and later learns from one of his men that the beach down the coast which marks the opening to the river is perfect for surfing . This changes his mind about transporting Willard and the PBR and Kilgore decides to capture the village. His men advise him that it's " Charlie 's point" and heavily fortified. Dismissing this concern with the explanation that "Charlie don't surf!," Kilgore orders his men to saddle up in the morning to capture the town and the beach. Riding high above the coast in a fleet of Hueys accompanied by OH-6As , Kilgore launches his attack on the beach. The scene, famous for its use of Richard Wagner 's " Ride of the Valkyries ," ends with the soldiers surfing the barely-secured beach amidst skirmishes between infantry and VC. After helicopters swoop over the village and demolish all visible signs of resistance, a giant napalm strike in the nearby jungle dramatically marks the climax of the battle. Kilgore exults to Willard, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning... The smell, you know that gasoline smell... Smells like, victory" as he recalls a battle in whi


First published in 1887, which was the first book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature Sherlock Holmes?

A Study in Scarlet | Baker Street Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia A Study in Scarlet Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. A Study in Scarlet Jefferson Hope A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes book written by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The story was first published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, though it was at the time not very popular, and later reissued in novel format. Contents Edit A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes , who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his 'study in scarlet': "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." Conan Doyle wrote the novel at the age of 27. A general practice doctor in Southsea, England, he had already published short stories in several magazines of the day, such as the periodical London Society. The story was originally titled A Tangled Skein, and was eventually published by Ward Lock & Co. in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887, after many rejections. The author received £25 in return for the full rights (although Conan Doyle had pressed for a royalty instead). The novel was first published as a book on July 1888 by Ward, Lock & Co., and featured drawings by the author's father, Charles Doyle. A second edition appeared the following year and was illustrated by George Hutchinson; a year later in 1890, J. B. Lippincott Co. released the first American version. Numerous further editions, translations and dramatisations have appeared since. The story, and its main character, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only ten copies of Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887 are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Doyle wrote fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four , published in 1890. Synopsis Edit Dr John H. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes' "science of deduction". The novel is split into two quite separate halves. The first is titled "Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John Watson , M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department". This part is told in first person by Sherlock Holmes ' friend Dr Watson, and describes his introduction in 1881 to Holmes through a mutual friend and the first mystery in which he followed Holmes' investigations. The mystery revolves around a corpse found at a derelict house in Brixton, London with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. A Study in Scarlet Edit Holmes firmly resolves to solve the case despite the fact that he will not be given any credit of it. For this purpose, he makes up a plan using a wedding ring that had been lost at the crime scene. After placing an ad in the newspaper, asking for the ring owner, Holmes is visited by an old woman who claims the ring. Holmes follows "her," who may or may not be a man in disguise, but the person manages to escape. Minutes later, Holmes is visited by one of the police detectives assigned to the case, who claims that the case has been solved and the murderer is now jailed. After the detective finishes explaining how he solved the case, a second police detective ( Lestrade ) arrives to announce that there has been a second murder - it is clear t


"Which artist painted the picture, ""Bubbles"", which was used in an advertisement for Pears Soap?"

The Story of "Bubbles" : Tony Allen The story of "Bubbles"   Tony Allen   What was the connection between a respected pre-Raphaelite Victorian illustrator, an equally well-known 20th century comic cartoonist and a British prisoner of war? Well, the first did a painting that was to become world famous. The cartoonist and the World War 1 internee - created their own version of it almost 60 years later. The Victorian illustrator was John Everett Millais who, as a young man was one of the founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose aim was to “attack the complacency of the Royal Academy by painting in a new style with bright colours, wiry outlines and minute detail.“ However, by the time Millais came to paint the picture (which became famous when it was used over a long period in advertisements for Pears soap) he was in his 50s and “had abandoned the pre-Raphaelite style and adopted darker colours and looser brushwork.“  Miliais named his new painting “A Child’s World”.   The Painting Painted in 1885-86, this 'oil on canvas' portrays a young golden-haired boy looking up at a bubble "symbolising the beauty and fragility of life" On his left side is a young plant growing in a pot and on the other, a pot that has fallen and broke, representing death. The boy model was Willie James, aged five and the artist’s grandson. He later became an admiral. During the 'sitting', Millais suspended a specially manufactured glass globe above the child's head and moved it around as a guide - to determine the best position to place the Bubble on the canvas. In 1886, Sir William Ingram, proprietor of the London Illustrated News bought the painting and the copyright from Millais. It was reproduced as a colour plate and presented in the Christmas issue of the weekly magazine. The Pear's Soap Advert Thomas J. Barrett, Managing Director of Pears (and a pioneer of modern advertising methods) saw the colour plate and the potential of the picture. Barrett  purchased the original painting from Ingram for £2,500 - with exclusive copyright. Barrett also got permission from Millais, to add a bar of Pears soap so that the painting could be used for advertising purposes. Although Millais was one of the most popular artists in Britain at the time, initially he was apprehensive of "the prospect of his work and his grandson, being the subject of commercial exploitation." However, he soon grew to appreciate the idea, "which portrayed the soap as if the child had used it to make bubbles." In addition, Millais had to defend himself from attacks, when he was unfairly criticised by members of the art establishment who thought he had degraded his art.  Around the turn of the century, Pears produced a number of different designs of advertising postcards featuring “Bubbles”. On the reverse of the cards was text outlining the advantages of using Pears Soap.        While the picture on these postcards is the same - the captions are different The Great War and "Bubbles" Almost 60 years after Millias created his famous painting "A child's world", artists both professional and amateur were drawing inspiration from it for their own work. For example, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, a comic postcard artist drew a cartoon lampooning the German Kaiser and based the drawing on ”Bubbles” and called it that name too. Kaiser Bill This cartoon, clearly based on Millias's "Bubbles", appeared early in the war. Postcard artists and publishers were quick to choose 'Kaiser Bill' as their target for satire and caricature and numerous cards lampooning him, and his son 'Little Willie', were soon on sale in the postcard racks. In 1914, Bamforth's produced over 80 cards – printed in black on a cream background – in their anti-Kaiser ‘War Cartoons’ series and "Bubbles" was number 5005. The artist did not sign the illustrations, which were dramatic and showed sharp political humour. Doug Tempest is thought to have been the artist.   In 1917, a prisoner in Ruhleben camp - which held British civilian internees - painted an illustration for a Christmas p


Name the song, sung by Katrina and The Waves, which was last British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest.

Past Eurovision Song Contest winners from the UK - ITV News 9 May 2014 at 10:51am Past Eurovision Song Contest winners from the UK Lulu won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. Photo: Youtube Despite the recent run of disappointments, the UK is still considered to be one of the most successful countries to compete in the Eurovison Song Contest, and many of our biggest stars have sang in the competition. The UK first participated in the competition in 1957 and has gone on to claim first place five times. Hoping to join the UK's hall of Eurovision fame this year is Molly Smitten-Downes, who will perform her self-written song Children of the Universe. Ahead of tomorrow's competition, we take a look back through the history of United Kingdom's best moments. 1967: Sandie Shaw became the first winner from the UK with her hit Puppet On A String. 1969: Lulu joined Spain, Netherlands and France in first place with her hit Boom Bang A Bang. 1976: Brotherhood of man were the first band from the United Kingdom to win with their single Save Your Kisses For Me. 1981: The band Bucks Fizz, who formed specifically for Eurovision, sang their way to first place with their hit Making Your Mind Up. 1997: Katrina & The Waves were the first UK winning Eurovision entry for 16 years singing Love Shine a Light.


Which stretch of water, off the S.E. coast of Italy, separates the Adriatic and Ionian Seas?

Map of Ionian Sea - World Seas, Ionian Sea Map Location - World Atlas Map of Ionian Sea - World Seas, Ionian Sea Map Location Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea is a part of the Mediterranean Sea positioned south of the Adriatic Sea, and bordered by southern Italy and Sicily in the west, and by Albania and Greece in the east. The northern boundary of the sea is the Strait of Otranto; the southern boundary is our best mapping estimate. The Ionian Islands stretch along the eastern edges of the sea; the main islands are Corfu, Lefkada, Kefallonia and Zakynthos. The distance from Catania to Zakynthos Island is 496 km (308 mi), and from the southern tip of the Salento Peninsula to Corfu Town is 129 km (80 mi). The sea has a maximum depth of 4,900 m (16,000 ft.)


In his youth, actor Leslie Grantham served ten years in prison for which crime?

Leslie Grantham (Actor) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Leslie Grantham Male Born Apr 30, 1947 Leslie Michael Grantham is an English actor best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the soap opera EastEnders. He is also a convicted murderer, having served 10 years for the killing of a German taxi driver, and he generated significant press coverage as the result of an online sex scandal in 2004.…  Read More related links British Slasher Film Deadtime Gets Censored In The Uk Dread Central - Apr 30, 2012 ' First A Serbian Film then The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and now the UK is censoring one of their own flicks. We\'ve just gotten word that the British film Deadtime had to have footage removed to make the necessary BFFC18 rating. \n However, apart from the bad news of the censoring, we can happily report that we\'ve got the trailer for Deadtime below. Oh and if you were wondering what it was censored for, the report stated: In order to obtain the necessary BBFC 18 rating, distributor... Op Ed: Chindamo â The Boy Who Was Given A Second Chance  Digital Journal.Com Google News - Aug 24, 2011 '... gang member Nicky Cruz traded in his switchblade knife for a Bible; and perhaps most notably, convicted murderer Leslie Grantham turned his talents to acting, and made the transformation from real life villain to soap opera villain' The English Neighbour  Quest Bulgaria Property Magazine Google News - Aug 23, 2011 'However, one that I find with a most amusing story line in the news at the moment is the mini series starring ex Eastenders star Leslie Grantham that will be aired in September on the BNT channel. The star, who had been involved earlier this year in' On The Scent Of A Good Fund  Prfire (Press Release) Google News - Aug 18, 2011 'Only yesterday (10th August 2011) it was predicted by Leslie Grantham, the renowned market commentator that forestry alongside farming is one of the most secure investment strategies for the next 10 to 20 years, as it has been for the last century' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Leslie Grantham. CHILDHOOD 1947 Birth Born on April 30, 1947. TEENAGE 1965 18 Years Old He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers regiment of the British Army in 1965, at the age of 18. 1966 19 Years Old On 3 December 1966, Grantham attempted to rob a taxi driver, Felix Reese, in OsnabrÃ¼ck, Lower Saxony, West Germany. … Read More A struggle between Grantham and the driver followed, and Reese died from a gunshot wound to the head. In his statement to the police following his arrest, Grantham claimed that he did not know the gun was loaded and it had gone off during the struggle, which would have resulted in a conviction for manslaughter if a jury believed this version of events. Read Less TWENTIES 1967 20 Years Old However, at his trial in 1967 he was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. … Read More Although he had committed the murder in West Germany, he served the entirety of his imprisonment in various British prisons. This was because soldiers and officers convicted of any criminal offence that warrants a sentence of over two years are automatically transferred to Her Majesty's Prison Service, since they are also automatically dishonourably discharged. Read Less THIRTIES 1977 30 Years Old Grantham was released in 1977, having served 10 years. … Read More While he was in Leyhill Prison, he acted in several plays for inmates and members of the public, and edited the prison newspaper. He was encouraged to get more involved in acting professionally by disgraced Labour Party politician T. Dan Smith, who had also been an inmate at Leyhill in the mid 1970s. He also met actress Louise Jameson during her visit to Leyhill in the mid-1970s; she had also encouraged him to take up acting and he became good friends with her.

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Which gaseous element has the Atomic Number 2?

Atomic Number 2 on the Periodic Table Atomic Number 2 on the Periodic Table Atomic Number 2 on the Periodic Table What Element Is Atomic Number 2? Helium is element atomic number 2 on the periodic table.  Science Picture Co, Getty Images By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. Updated October 02, 2016. Helium is the element that is atomic number 2 on the periodic table. Each helium atom has 2 protons in its atomic nucleus. The atomic weight of the element is 4.0026. Atomic Number 2 Facts The element is named for the Greek god of the sun, Helios, because it was initially observed in a previously unidentified yellow spectral line during the 1868 solar eclipse. Two scientists observed the spectral line during this eclipse: Jules Janssen (France) and Norman Lockyer (Britain). The astronomers share credit for the element discovery. Direct observation of the element did not occur until 1895, when Swedish chemists Per Teodor Cleve and Nils Abraham Langlet identified helium emanations from cleveite, a type of uranium ore. A typical helium atom contains 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and 2 electrons. However, atomic number 2 can exist without any electrons, forming what is called an alpha particle . An alpha particle has an electrical charge of 2+ and is emitted during alpha decay . continue reading below our video Trends in the Periodic Table At ordinary temperature and pressure, helium is an extremely light, colorless gas. Helium is one of the noble gases or inert gases, which means it has a complete electron valence shell so it's not reactive. Unlike gas of atomic number 1 (hydrogen), helium gas exists as monatomic particles. The two gases have comparable mass (H2 and He). Single helium atoms are so small they pass between many other molecules. This is why a filled helium balloon deflates over time -- the helium escapes through tiny pores in the material. Atomic number 2 is the second most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen. However, the element is rare on Earth (5.2 ppm by volume in the atmosphere) because nonreactive helium is light enough that it can escape Earth's gravity and be lost to space. Some types of natural gas, such as that from Texas and Kansas, contain helium. The primary source of the element on Earth is from liquefaction from natural gas. The largest supplier of the gas is the United States. The source of helium is a non-renewable resource, so there may come a time when we run out of a practical source for this element. Atomic number 2 is used for party balloons, but it's primary use is in the cryogenic industry for cooling superconducting magnets. The principal commercial use of helium is for MRI scanners. The element is also used as a purge gas, to grow silicon wafers and other crystals, and as a protective gas for welding. Helium is used for research into superconductivity and the behavior of matter at a temperature approaching absolute zero . One distinctive property of atomic number 2 is that this element cannot be frozen into a solid form unless it is pressurized. Helium remains liquid down to absolute zero under normal pressure, forming a solid at temperatures between 1 K and 1.5 K and 2.5 MPa pressure. Solid helium has been observed to possess a crystalline structure. Element Atomic Number 2 Facts and Projects


According to the words of the song, if the rain is Tess, and the fire is Joe, what is the name of the wind?

ED AMES - THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA LYRICS They Call the Wind Maria Lyrics Ed Ames - They Call the Wind Maria Lyrics A way out here, they've got a name For rain and wind and fire The rain is Tess, the fire is Joe And they call the wind Maria Maria blows the stars around And sends the clouds a flying Maria makes the mountain sound Like folks were up there dying Maria, Maria They call the wind Maria Before I knew Maria's name I heard her wail and whining I had a girl and she had me And the sun was always shining But then one day I left my girl I left her far behind me And now I'm lost, so God damn lost Not even God can find me Maria, Maria They call the wind Maria Out here they've got a name for rain For wind and fire only But when you're lost and all alone There ain't no world but lonely And I'm a lost and lonely man Without a star to guide me Maria blow my love to me I need my girl beside me Maria, Maria They call the wind Maria Maria, Maria Blow my love to me Maria Writer(s): Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com


"Which English authors works include, ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" and ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner""?"

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning : Alan Sillitoe : 9780307389657 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Paperback US$11.15 US$16.00 You save US$4.85 Free delivery worldwide Add to basket Add to wishlist Description A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, "Saturday Night/Sunday Morning "marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first century. At twenty-two years of age, Arthur Seaton is a hard-drinking lathe operator in a bicycle factory. Sharp, rowdy, and attractive, he is a lover of life in the raw, and his enormous vitality comes pouring through, at a family party, at the county fair, and in several pubs he haunts on Saturday nights, where more often than not he leaves with a woman on his arm. Before long, however, his devil may care life-style gets him into some serious trouble, and Arthur's life takes a turn that not even he could have imagined." show more Product details 132                   x 204                   x 22mm                                   | 258.55g Publication date New York, NY, United States Language Contemporary Fiction Review quote "Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel."--"The New Yorker" "That rarest of all finds: a genuine no-punches-pulled, unromanticised working class novel. Mr. Sillitoe is a born writer, who knows his milieu and describes it with vivid, loving precision."--"Daily Telegraph" "Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now."--"The Guardian" "One of the best English writers of the day." --"The New York Times Book Review" "There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things." --"Literary Review" "A master storyteller." --"The Observer" "Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came."--"Sunday Express" "Outspoken and vivid."--"Sunday Times," London show more About Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928, the son of a tannery worker. He left school at age fourteen to work in a factory. He was one of the working-class novelists who revitalized British fiction in the 1950s. His first novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" was followed with the bestselling collection "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." He adapted both works for the screen in the early 1960s. He is the author of more than 40 works of prose, poetry, and drama. show more Follow us


In 1994, the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes waged a war of mass genocide in which African country?

The Rwandan Genocide - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com The Rwandan Genocide A+E Networks Introduction From April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. Begun by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with staggering speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbors. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic Front gained control of the country through a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were dead and many more displaced from their homes. The RPF victory created 2 million more refugees (mainly Hutus) from Rwanda, exacerbating what had already become a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Google Background: Ethnic Tensions in Rwanda By the early 1990s, Rwanda, a small country with an overwhelmingly agricultural economy, had one of the highest population densities in Africa. About 85 percent of its population is Hutu; the rest is Tutsi, along with a small number of Twa, a Pygmy group who were the original inhabitants of Rwanda. Part of German East Africa from 1894 to 1918, Rwanda came under the League of Nations mandate of Belgium after World War I , along with neighboring Burundi. Rwanda’s colonial period, during which the ruling Belgians favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus, exacerbated the tendency of the few to oppress the many, creating a legacy of tension that exploded into violence even before Rwanda gained its independence. A Hutu revolution in 1959 forced as many as 300,000 Tutsis to flee the country, making them an even smaller minority. By early 1961, victorious Hutus had forced Rwanda’s Tutsi monarch into exile and declared the country a republic. After a U.N. referendum that same year, Belgium officially granted independence to Rwanda in July 1962. Did You Know? In September 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) issued the first conviction for genocide after a trial, declaring Jean-Paul Akayesu guilty for acts he engaged in and oversaw as mayor of the Rwandan town of Taba. Ethnically motivated violence continued in the years following independence. In 1973, a military group installed Major General Juvenal Habyarimana, a moderate Hutu, in power. The sole leader of Rwandan government for the next two decades, Habyarimana founded a new political party, the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (NRMD). He was elected president under a new constitution ratified in 1978 and reelected in 1983 and 1988, when he was the sole candidate. In 1990, forces of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), consisting mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded Rwanda from Uganda. A ceasefire in these hostilities led to negotiations between the government and the RPF in 1992. In August 1993, Habyarimana signed an agreement at Arusha, Tanzania, calling for the creation of a transition government that would include the RPF. This power-sharing agreement angered Hutu extremists, who would soon take swift and horrible action to prevent it. Genocide On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Habyarimana and Burundi’s president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down over Kigali, leaving no survivors. (It has never been conclusively determined who the culprits were. Some have blamed Hutu extremists, while others blamed leaders of the RPF.) Within an hour of the plane crash, the Presidential Guard together with members of the Rwandan armed forces (FAR) and Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe (“Those Who Attack Together”) and Impuzamugambi (“Those Who Have the Same Goal”) set up roadblocks and barricades and began slaughtering Tutsis and moderate Hutus with impunity. Among the first victims of the genocide were the moderate Hutu Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and her 10 Belgian bodyguards, killed on April 7. This violence created a political vacuum, into which an interim government of extremist Hutu Power leaders from the m


Which famous explorer was killed by natives in the Philippines in 1521?

Magellan killed in the Philippines - Apr 27, 1521 - HISTORY.com Magellan killed in the Philippines Share this: Magellan killed in the Philippines Author Magellan killed in the Philippines URL Publisher A+E Networks After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines. Earlier in the month, his ships had dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebu, and Magellan met with the local chief, who after converting to Christianity persuaded the Europeans to assist him in conquering a rival tribe on the neighboring island of Mactan. In the subsequent fighting, Magellan was hit by a poisoned arrow and left to die by his retreating comrades. Magellan, a Portuguese noble, fought for his country against the Muslim domination of the Indian Ocean and Morocco. He participated in a number of key battles and in 1514 asked Portugal’s King Manuel for an increase in his pension. The king refused, having heard unfounded rumors of improper conduct on Magellan’s part after a siege in Morocco. In 1516, Magellan again made the request and the king again refused, so Magellan went to Spain in 1517 to offer his services to King Charles I, later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1494, Portugal and Spain, at the prompting of Pope Alexander VI, settled disputes over newly discovered lands in America and elsewhere by dividing the world into two spheres of influence. A line of demarcation was agreed to in the Atlantic Ocean–all new discoveries west of the line were to be Spanish, and all to the east Portuguese. Thus, South and Central America became dominated by the Spanish, with the exception of Brazil, which was discovered by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500 and was somewhat east of the demarcation line. Other Portuguese discoveries in the early 16th century, such as the Moluccas Islands–the Spice Islands of Indonesia–made the Spanish jealous. To King Charles, Magellan proposed sailing west, finding a strait through the Americas, and then continuing west to the Moluccas, which would prove that the Spice Islands lay west of the demarcation line and thus in the Spanish sphere. Magellan knew that the world was round but underestimated its size, thinking that the Moluccas must be situated just west of the American continent, not on the other side of a great uncharted ocean. The king accepted the plan, and on September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain in command of five ships and 270 men. Magellan sailed to West Africa and then to Brazil, where he searched the South American coast for a strait that would take him to the Pacific. He searched the Rio de la Plata, a large estuary south of Brazil, for a way through; failing, he continued south along the coast of Patagonia. At the end of March 1520, the expedition set up winter quarter at Port St. Julian. On Easter day at midnight, the Spanish captains mutinied against their Portuguese captain, but Magellan crushed the revolt, executing one of the captains and leaving another ashore when his ship left St. Julian in August. On October 21, he finally discovered the strait he had been seeking. The Strait of Magellan, as it became known, is located near the tip of South America, separating Tierra del Fuego and the continental mainland. Only three ships entered the passage; one had been wrecked and another deserted. It took 38 days to navigate the treacherous strait, and when ocean was sighted at the other end Magellan wept with joy. He was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic. His fleet accomplished the westward crossing of the ocean in 99 days, crossing waters so strangely calm that the ocean was named “Pacific,” from the Latin word pacificus, meaning “tranquil.” By the end, the men were out of food and chewed the leather parts of their gear to keep themselves alive. On March 6, 1521, the expedition landed at the island of Guam. Ten days later, they reached the Philippines–they were only about 400 miles from the Spice Islands. After Mag


The Olduvai Gorge, famous for its archaeological finds, is in which African country?

Home  Copyright © 2015 Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project. All Rights Reserved. Website Design: Tomos Proffitt   Olduvai Gorge, in northern Tanzania, is internationally recognized for Louis and   Mary Leakey’s famous discoveries of early humans and magnificent antiquities documenting   the evolutionary history of our stone tool-using ancestors, vertebrate fauna, and   the environments over the last two million years. Research at Olduvai began almost a century ago, producing an unparalleled wealth   of archaeological and palaeontological data for the study of some key phases of early   human evolution. Olduvai was the first place where traces of an early stone tool culture were discovered,   and gave the name to the Oldowan, nowadays considered as the earliest human technology.   Olduvai is also one of the first sites in Africa where the earliest Acheulean was   first discovered, and where the traditional view of the Oldowan-Acheulean transition   was established.   The disappearance of the earliest human culture, the Oldowan, and its substitution   by a new technology, the Acheulean, is one of the main topics in modern Paleoanthropology.   The Olduvai Geochronology and Archaeology Project (OGAP) bring together an international   team of archaeologists and geologists, whose main goal is to study the mechanisms   that led to the origins of the Acheulean in Olduvai Gorge.


Titania is the largest moon of which planet in our solar system?

BBC - Solar System - Titania (pictures, video, facts & news) Titania Titania Uranus's largest moon Titania was photographed by Voyager 2 in 1986. Images taken by the probe showed scientists that the surface has impact craters and a large fault. Density measurements suggest Titania is composed mainly of water ice and rock. Titania was discovered in 1787 by Uranus's discoverer, William Herschel . Photo: Titania taken by the Voyager 2 probe (NASA/JPL)   About Titania Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System at a diameter of 1,578 kilometres (981 mi). Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere. Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the core–mantle boundary. The surface of Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to have been shaped by both impacts and endogenic processes. It is covered with numerous impact craters reaching up to 326 kilometres (203 mi) in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than Oberon, outermost of the five large moons of Uranus. Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event which obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Titania's surface is cut by a system of enormous canyons and scarps, the result of the expansion of its interior during the later stages of its evolution. Like all major moons of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an accretion disk which surrounded the planet just after its formation. Infrared spectroscopy conducted from 2001 to 2005 revealed the presence of water ice as well as frozen carbon dioxide on the surface of Titania, which in turn suggested that the moon may have a tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of about 10 nanopascals (10−13 bar). Measurements during Titania's occultation of a star put an upper limit on the surface pressure of any possible atmosphere at 1–2 mPa (10–20 nbar). The Uranian system has been studied up close only once, by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed mapping of about 40% of its surface.


"Which Shakespeare play contains the line, ""Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania""?"

No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 2, Scene 1, Page 3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Original Text Modern Text Enter OBERON, the King of Fairies, at             one side with his train, and TITANIA, the Queen, at the             other, with hers OBERON, the Fairy King, and his             followers enter. On the opposite side of the stage, TITANIA, the Fairy Queen, and her followers           enter. OBERON Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. OBERON How not nice to see you,               Titania. TITANIA What, jealous Oberon?—Fairies, skip hence. I have forsworn his bed and company. TITANIA What, are you jealous, Oberon?—Fairies,                 let’s get out of here. I’ve sworn                 I’ll never sleep with him or talk to him again. OBERON Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord? OBERON Wait just a minute, you brazen hussy. Aren’t you                 supposed to obey me, your lord and husband? 50 Then I must be thy lady. But I know When thou hast stolen away from Fairyland, And in the shape of Corin sat all day, Playing on pipes of corn and versing love To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here, Come from the farthest step of India? But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, Your buskined mistress and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded, and you come To give their bed joy and prosperity. TITANIA If you’re my lord and husband, I must be your lady and                 wife, so you’re supposed to be faithful to me. But I know                 for a fact that you snuck away from Fairyland disguised as a                 shepherd, and spent all day playing straw pipes and singing love                 poems to your new girlfriend. The only reason you left India was to                 come here and see that butch Amazon Hippolyta. She was your                 boot-wearing mistress and your warrior lover, and now that                 she’s getting married to Theseus, you’ve come                 to celebrate their marriage. 60 How canst thou thus for shame, Titania, Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? Glance at my credit with                 Hippolyta, Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night From Perigouna, whom he ravishèd? And make him with fair Ægles break his faith, With Ariadne and Antiopa? OBERON How can you stand there shamelessly talking about me and                 Hippolyta, when you know that I know about your love for Theseus?                 Weren’t you the one who made him desert Perigouna in the                 middle of the night, right after he’d raped her? And                 weren’t you the one who made him cheat on all of his                 other girlfriends, like Aegles, Ariadne, and Antiopa?


The village of Piltdown, scene of the infamous hoax find of a prehistoric skull in 1912, is in which English county?

Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax | Robin McKie | Science | The Guardian The Observer Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax When the find was revealed to be a 'cheap fraud', several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for all Bodies of evidence: John Cooke's 1915 painting of the Piltdown men – see large image for details. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features Saturday 4 February 2012 19.05 EST First published on Saturday 4 February 2012 19.05 EST Share on Messenger Close In a few weeks, a group of British researchers will enter the labyrinthine store of London's Natural History Museum and remove several dark-coloured pieces of primate skull and jawbone from a small metal cabinet. After a brief inspection, the team will wrap the items in protective foam and transport them to a number of laboratories across England. There the bones and teeth, which have rested in the museum for most of the last century, will be put through a sequence of highly sensitive tests using infra-red scanners, lasers and powerful spectroscopes to reveal each relic's precise chemical make-up. The aim of the study, which will take weeks to complete, is simple. It has been set up to solve a mystery that has baffled researchers for 100 years: the identities of the perpetrators of the world's greatest scientific fraud, the Piltdown Hoax. Unearthed in a gravel pit at Piltdown in East Sussex and revealed to the outside world exactly a century ago, those shards of skull were part of a scientific scam that completely fooled leading palaeontologists. For decades they believed they were the remains of a million-year-old apeman, an individual who possessed a large brain but primitive jawbone and teeth. The news of the Piltdown find, first released in late 1912, caused a sensation. The first Englishman had been uncovered and not only was he brainy, he was sporty. A sculpted elephant bone, found near the skull pieces and interpreted by scientists as being a ceremonial artefact, was jokingly claimed by many commentators to be an early cricket bat. The first Englishman with his own cricket bat – if nothing else it was one in the eye for French and German archaeologists whose discoveries of Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals and other early humans had been making headlines for several decades. Now England had a real fossil rival. It was too good to be true. As decades passed, scientists in other countries uncovered more and more fossils of early apemen that differed markedly from Piltdown Man. "These had small skulls but relatively humanlike teeth – the opposite of Piltdown," says Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum, who is leading the new study. "But many British scientists did not take them seriously because of Piltdown. They dismissed these discoveries which we now know are genuine and important. It really damaged British science." In the end, the Piltdown Man began to look so out of kilter with other fossil discoveries that a team led by geologist Kenneth Oakley, anatomist Wilfrid Le Gros Clark and anthropologist Joseph Weiner took a closer look and in 1953 announced that Piltdown's big braincase belonged to a modern human being while the jawbone came from an orangutan or chimpanzee. Each piece had been stained to look as if they were from the same skull while the teeth had been flattened with a metal file and the "cricket bat" carved with a knife. As Bournemouth University archaeologist Miles Russell puts it: "The earliest Englishman was nothing more than a cheap fraud." It had taken almost 40 years to find that out, however. Bones of contention: the 'skull' fragments with a full-size replica. Photograph: Antonio Olmos Since then, more than 30 individuals have been accused of being Piltdown hoaxers. Charles Dawson, the archaeological enthusiast who found the first pieces, was almost certainly involved. But many scientists still suspect he had the backing of experts who were the true guilty parties. Candidates include Arthur Conan


Which famous explorer contracted malaria shortly after his arrival in Goa in 1524, and died on Christmas Eve 1524 at Cochin?

January 2011 – Page 4 – Exequy's Blog Culture , History Prostitution describes sexual intercourse in exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different countries, from punishable by death to complete legality. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse with only one man for support is a mistress, and not normally considered a prostitute. Prostitution has often been described as “the world’s oldest profession,” and there is evidence of prostitution occurring throughout history in all societies. Early forms of prostitution involved “sacred prostitution,” in which the sexual act was performed for a religious purpose with a person other than one’s spouse. Religions have consistently condemned other forms of prostitution in which the activity is purely for personal pleasure, and severe penalties have been imposed on the prostitutes, although usually not on their clients. Prostitution, however, has continued to exist since the earliest societies, and human trafficking in the twentieth century brought countless women and children across national boundaries for slave labor in this profession. Although many argue that prostitution is helpful to society (economically and socially), the realization that it is very wrong to sell that which is most wonderful, most enjoyable, most precious, and some consider most sacred, is an underlying concern. For, if human sexuality, which is inexorably linked to love, life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably reduced to something material, external, and temporary, and the ideals of marriage and family are destroyed. Terminology   The English word “whore,” referring to (female) prostitutes, is taken from the Old English word hōra (from the Indo-European root kā meaning “desire”) but usage of that word is widely considered pejorative and “prostitute” is considered a less value-laden term. On the other hand, in Germany most prostitutes’ organizations deliberately use the word Hure (whore) since they feel that “prostitute” is a bureaucratic term and an unnecessary euphemism. Male prostitutes offering services to female customers are known as “gigolos” or “escorts.” Male prostitutes offering their services to male customers are called “hustlers” or “rent boys.” Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution, often confined to special red-light districts in big cities. Other names for brothels include Bordello, Whorehouse, Cathouse, and General house. Prostitution also occurs in some massage parlors; in Asian countries some barber shops offer sexual services for an additional tip. Organizers of prostitution are typically known as pimps (if male) and madams (if female). More formally, they practice procuring, and are procurers, or procuresses. Prostitutes are not the only people who are paid for sexual activities. Pornography actors and actresses are paid for having sex, but they are both paid by a third party, the producer of the pornography. Prostitutes are paid by the clients with whom they have sex. Prostitutes are stigmatized in most societies and religions; their customers are typically stigmatized to a lesser degree. History Prostitution is sometimes referred to as “the world’s oldest profession.” Indeed, there is evidence of prostitution occurring throughout history, all the way back to ancient societies. In the ancient world Near East One of the earliest forms was sacred prostitution, supposedly practiced among the Sumerians. In ancient sources (Herodotus, Thucydides) there are many traces of sacred prostitution. In Babylon, each woman had to reach, once in their lives, the sanctuary of Militta (Aphrodite or Nana/Anahita) and there have sex with a foreigner for a symbolic price as a sign of hospitality. Within the religion of Canaan, a significant portion of temple prostitutes were male. It was widely used in Sardinia and in some of the Phoenician cultures, usually in honor of the goddess ‘Ashtart. Presumably under the influence of the Phoenicians, this practice was developed in other ports of the Mediterranean Se


Darfur, scene of mass genocide over the last few years, is part of which African country?

"How Can A Genocide Be Confidential?" The Mass Murder in Darfur, Sudan witnessed by former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle, who talks to The Popcorn Reel printer-friendly "I  wasn't looking for a cause or anything.  It just happened to find me."  And Brian Steidle hopes the day comes when the world at large will find it within its collective self to mobilize in numbers of millions to prevent the atrocities in the Darfur region in the Sudan from continuing.  "I don't ever want to talk to you people at a rally ever again!  The people have the power to stand up and say, 'never again!'", thundered Mr. Steidle to thousands attending a Save Darfur rally in April 2006, which is featured in the documentary "The Devil Came On Horseback" by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern.  The film opened in New York City at the IFC Center late last month and will make its way to venues around the country, including San Francisco (August 24).  A former United States Marine, Steidle went in September 2004 at age 27 to the Sudan as an observer for the African Union, then ventured to the country's western region, Darfur, with only a pen, paper and camera.  What he saw changed him forever.  The thousands of dead, bodies strewn across entire villages of people who had been killed by the Janjaweed, a group of Arab Africans funded by the Sudanese government of Omar al-Bashir were killing Africans, raping women and children and castrating men and destroying families.  Steidle had taken thousands of pictures of these inhumane acts.  As the deadly violence persisted, the African Union, the United Nations, and governments around the world, including the U.S. government did not send armed military soldiers to end the violence.  Mr. Steidle sent reports and first-person accounts of what he saw to both the African Union and to those in the State Department in the U.S., but the reports were not acted upon, he said.  When Steidle, who comes from generations of men proudly serving in the U.S. military and defending the United States with honor, saw that nothing was being done, he ended his mission in Sudan with the African Union in January 2005, and left the country the following month. Returning home to the United States, Mr. Steidle, a former Marine Captain, who lives in California, faced a second battle.  With some convincing from his sister Gretchen Steidle Wallace -- who is also his closest friend, whom he acknowledges gave him the courage and strength to come forward publicly with what he saw -- went public with his journals, photos and e-mailed accounts, first through journalist and op-ed writer Nicholas Kristof at The New York Times in early 2005, and then himself on the international interview circuit.  He was told by people in the U.S. government not to show his pictures and to stop providing access to them. There were also other battles that Steidle, who had broken his leg three times in combat missions while a Marine, had to fight once back on American soil.  "When I first came back it was quite difficult to, one, deal with the way we are so privileged here in the United States and in the western world as a whole, to try to assimilate back into that society.  That was a difficult part for me.  And then talking about this issue -- a genocide that's going on in Africa -- and to me it became very frustrating when I'd run into a few individuals and they would say, 'so what?', and 'I don't really care.'  That to me was extremely frustrating," recalled Steidle. Former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle as an observer with the African Union during a ceasefire in the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan.  He was sent there in 2004, at age 27.  Steidle is in the new documentary "The Devil Came On Horseback", directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern.  The documentary recently opened in New York City and will make its way to various select American cities, college towns and film festivals over the next few weeks and months.  (Photo courtesy: International Film Circuit) The images and the murders that Steidle witnessed during his seve


"Early works of which English playwright include, ""Chicken Soup with Barley"" and ""Roots""?"

Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 - The Washington Post Arnold Wesker, British playwright who plumbed working-class lives, dies at 83 The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Arnold Wesker poses at Buckingham Palace, London, after being knighted in 2006. (Stefan Rousseau/AP) April 14, 2016 Arnold Wesker, a British playwright who drew on his heritage as a working-class Jew to create dramas that captured the dialogue and struggles of the common man, died April 12 in Brighton, England. He was 83. The cause was Parkinson’s disease, said his son Lindsay Wesker. Mr. Wesker, who wrote more than 40 plays that were translated into 18 languages, first gained prominence with a trilogy about the lives of Jewish socialist intellectuals: “Chicken Soup With Barley” (1958), “Roots” (1959) — which provided an early showcase for Joan Plowright — and “I’m Talking About Jerusalem” (1960). He was known, together with writers including John Osborne and Brendan Behan, as one of the “angry young men” of the British stage in the 1950s — though he dismissed the label. The playwright drew on his youth in east London, where conversation, argument and song were woven into the fabric of daily life. He loved the rhythms, the dialogue and the thirst for knowledge gained just by sitting around talking. “There were quarrels and they were upsetting, but in a strange way there was so much love around, it overshadowed the distress,” he told the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs” program in 2006. Arnold Wesker was born in London on May 24, 1932. He never went to college but instead had a string of jobs that informed his writing, including bookseller’s assistant, farm laborer, kitchen porter and pastry cook, as well as service in the Royal Air Force in the early 1950s. In the stiff, upper-class world of British drama in the 1950s, Mr. Wesker was part of a wave of new voices who took on all subjects, the “kitchen sink” of drama. Together with playwrights such as Harold Pinter , Mr. Wesker helped broaden the appeal of theater to a new generation. His plays have experienced a revival of late, with “Chicken Soup” performed in 2011 at London’s Royal Court Theatre. Dominic Cooke, the Royal Court’s artistic director at the time, said Mr. Wesker understood theater “is always metaphorical, even when the social context of the play is realistic and detailed.” “In ‘Chicken Soup,’ for example, the gradually disintegrating family stands for the fading political idealism of the 20th century, but the daily life of the family on stage is brought to life with insight and honesty,” he said. Mr. Wesker’s other well-known plays include “Chips With Everything,” based on his service in the RAF, and “The Kitchen,” which draws on his days as a pastry cook. They were stories of ordinary people and real life. [] The playwright’s work, often criticized as didactic, fell from fashion by the 1970s. Many of his later works were poorly received or did not get the critical due he felt they deserved. He could explode in unpleasant ways, often conspiracy-minded and tinged with allegations of anti-Semitism. His personal life was also turbulent and, for a long time, he and his wife, Doreen “Dusty” Bicker, lived separately because of his extramarital affairs. He was knighted in 2006 for services to drama. He wrote a memoir, “As Much As I Dare.” Survivors include his wife, Doreen “Dusty” Bicker, and their sons Lindsay and Daniel; a daughter from a relationship, Elsa Hastad. Another daughter from his marriage, Tanya Wesker, died in 2012.


"In the 1933 film ""The Private Life of Henry VIII"", starring Charles Laughton, the part of Anne of Cleves was played by Laughton's wife in real life. Can you name this actress?"

Charles Laughton Profile Remind Me Charles Laughton - 8/7 Charles Laughton was an unlikely actor physically. Overweight and homely, he famously said, "I have a face like the behind of an elephant" and "I have a face that would stop a sun dial and frighten small children." Laughton was probably one of the few actors to have an honest opinion of himself. "A bank clerk can afford to think he looks like Clark Gable and be wrong. But a movie star must be objective. He has to know his face and personality so he can capitalize on them. If he thinks too highly of his talents, he is at once disillusioned when he views his latest picture. The bubble of an actor's ego is punctured the day he sees his image on the screen. His most horrible moments are watching himself in a bad performance." He was born to Robert and Elizabeth Conlon Laughton on July 1, 1899 in his parents' hotel, The Victoria, in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He attended Stonyhurst but did not complete the certificate that would have enabled him to go to a University. Instead, at 18, he went into the Army as a private, turning down the commission he could have had, given his education and background. He later explained it by saying, "I did not want to command...to take responsibility for other people's lives." He went to France with the Royal Huntingdonshire Rifles where he was involved in a horrifying battle, of which he rarely spoke. His wife, actress Elsa Lanchester, later said that he told her he had had to stab several men to death. Right before the end of the war, he was gassed, which resulted in lifelong reoccurring rashes on his back. While his throat was affected, it soon healed and he was released from military service in 1919. Laughton's parents had purchased the Pavilion Hotel and his father sent him to the famous Claridge's Hotel in London to learn the business as a clerk. At night, he used his money to buy theater tickets, once seeing the same play thirteen times. He returned to Yorkshire temporarily, and began to act and direct plays for The Scarborough Players. In 1923, he returned to London, where, with his family's support, he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, winning the Bancroft Gold Medal (the top prize) for The Merry Wives of Windsor the following year. His first professional stage appearance was on April 28, 1926, when he played Osip in The Government Inspector at the Barnes Theater. Throughout the late 1920s, Laughton made a name for himself in roles like Hercule Poirot in Alibi the title role in Arnold Bennett's Mr. Prohack, with future wife Elsa Lanchester in the cast, Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick, and William Marble in Payment Deferred. His success in Payment Deferred brought him and Elsa Lanchester to New York in September 1931 to do the show on Broadway. The play received excellent reviews but the subject was too down-beat for audiences in the Great Depression and it closed after three weeks. Laughton then revised his role as Hercule Poirot in Alibi which also closed after three weeks and the couple returned to London. Laughton had appeared in a few silent comedies in England with Lanchester, Daydreams, The Tonic (written for her by H.G. Wells), and Blue Bottles in 1928. The two also performed The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie in a 1930 film revue called Comets. His performance in Payment Deferred brought him to the attention of Hollywood and the Laughtons were soon on their way back to the United States where he was signed to a contract at Paramount. His first role for the studio was in the horror film The Old Dark House (1932) opposite Boris Karloff and Gloria Stuart. He would also recreate Payment Deferred (1932) on screen. In 1932 alone, he made six films, which included playing the Emperor Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross. Back in England, Laughton turned down $2,500 a week in films to return to the stage for the 1933-34 Old Vic season. He also managed to squeeze in a film for producer Alexander Korda, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), co-starring Elsa Lanchester as Anne of Cleves. The role made


"Which American actress, who committed suicide in Paris in 1979, played the leading female role in the film, ""Paint Your Wagon""?"

Clint Eastwood - Biography - IMDb Clint Eastwood Biography Showing all 440 items Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (14) | Trivia  (211) | Personal Quotes  (185) | Salary  (24) Overview (3) 6' 4" (1.93 m) Mini Bio (1) Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, and a living legend, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema. Born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the elder of two children in a middle-class family, Eastwood stayed in high school until the comparatively late age of nineteen and worked menial jobs over a period of several years before enrolling at Los Angeles City College, from which he dropped out after two semesters to pursue acting. He found uncredited bit parts in such nondescript B-films as Revenge of the Creature (1955) and Tarantula (1955) during the mid-'50s while simultaneously digging swimming pools for a living, until he got his first breakthrough in the long-running TV series Rawhide (1959) with Eric Fleming . Though only a secondary player in the early seasons, Clint made the show his own by end of its run and became a recognizable face to television viewers around the country. Eastwood found much bigger and better things in Italy with the excellent spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). But it was the third installment in the trilogy where he found one of his signature roles: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). The movie was a big hit and he became an instant international star. Clint's first American-made western, Hang 'Em High (1968), was yet again a success, and he followed it up with another starring role in Coogan's Bluff (1968) (the loose inspiration to the TV series McCloud (1970)) before playing second fiddle to Richard Burton in the World War II epic Where Eagles Dare (1968) and Lee Marvin in the bizarre musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). In Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and Kelly's Heroes (1970), Eastwood went in an experimental direction by combining tough-guy action with offbeat humor. 1971 proved to be one of his best years in film, if not the best. He starred in The Beguiled (1971) and the classic thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), but it was his role as the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day. Eastwood did a fairly consistent quality of work thereafter with the road movies Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Gauntlet (1977), the Dirty Harry sequels Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer (1976), the westerns Joe Kidd (1972), High Plains Drifter (1973) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) (his first of six onscreen collaborations with then live-in love Sondra Locke ), and the fact-based thriller Escape from Alcatraz (1979). In 1978 he branched out into the comedy genre in Every Which Way But Loose (1978), which became the biggest hit of his career up to that time; taking inflation into account, it still is. In short, notwithstanding The Eiger Sanction (1975), the '70s were an uninterrupted continuation of success. Eastwood kicked off the '80s with Any Which Way You Can (1980), the blockbuster sequel to Every Which Way But Loose. The fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983), was the highest-grossing film of the franchise and spawned the character's trademark catchphrase, "Make my day". Clint also starred in Bronco Billy (1980), Firefox (1982), Tightrope (1984), City Heat (1984), Pale Rider (1985) and Heartbreak Ridge (1986), all of which were solid hits, with Honkytonk Man (1982) being his only commercial failure of the period. In 1988 he did his fifth and final Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool (1988). Although it was a success overall, it did not have the box office punch the previous films had. About this time, with outright bombs like Pink Cadillac (1989) and The Rookie (1990), it became apparent that Eastwood's star was declining as it never had before. He then started taking on more personal projects, such as directing Bird (1988), a biopic of Char


Which metallic element, the lightest one known, has the Atomic Number 3?

atomic number 3 - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com atomic number 3 Definitions of atomic number 3 1 n a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals Synonyms: any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. Word Family Usage Examples Sign up, it's free! Whether you're a student, an educator, or a life-long learner, Vocabulary.com can put you  on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.


Which Lancashire born actor was convicted of conspiracy to intimidate, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1972, after his involvement in a building workers dispute in Shrewsbury?

Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 Pickets Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 Pickets To visit the official  Shrewsbury24 campaign website click here .....    Annual trade union affiliation fee to the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign: up to 100 members £15              up to 500 members £30 up to 1,000 members £45          over 1000 members £75 National organisations: £125     Trades Councils & CLPs: £25          form here......   Cheques should be made payable to "Shrewsbury 24 Campaign". Send to: Eileen Turnbull, National Treasurer, National Shrewsbury 24 Campaign Committee, 22 Cheyne Gardens, Liverpool L19 3PH. Shrewsbury 24 activists hail MPs' Vote for full facts of 1972 Plot. Shewsbury 24 justice campaigners hailed a big leap forward  in their quest to expose a vicious Establishment conspiracy against innocent trade unionists.  MPs voted by 120 to three to demand the lifting of the government ban on publication of papers held on spurious grounds of "national security" following a historic Commons debate 40 years after three Shrewsbury pickets were jailed and 21 others tried on trumped-up conspiracy charges.  read full article here....   HuntleyFilmArchives footage from the 1972 strike and rallies in suppport of the Shrewsbury pickets https://youtu.be/wI_QmOnYbFs   More than the requisite 100,000 signatures were secured for a parliamentary debate on the petition’s central demand for the disclosure of all state documents relating to the arrest, trials and convictions of 24 north Wales building workers in 1973.  House of Commons debate on the Shrewsbury 24, 23 January 2014 - Motion, tabled by Dave Anderson MP: “That this House is seriously concerned at the decision of the Government to refuse to release papers related to the building dispute in 1972 and subsequent prosecutions of the workers known as the Shrewsbury 24 and calls on it to reverse this position as a matter of urgency.”   From Ricky Tomlinson: You know me as an actor and performer today but as a young man I was a plasterer working in the building industry and a member of the T&GWU. We were low paid and had some of the worst working conditions of any workers in Britain in the 1970’s. Like any good trade unionists we decided we would take action to change this. We had a national strike in summer 1972. We picketed sites that were not well organised and where union members needed our support.  Five months after the strike ended 24 of us were arrested out of the blue and six of us were sent to prison after lengthy trails at Shrewsbury Crown Court. I was sent to jail for 2 years for carrying out trade union activities. Today you do not hear of trade unionists in Britain being sent to prison but that’s what happened to me and 5 of my colleagues. Others got suspended prison sentences. We believe that they show that there was government interference and manipulation in bringing the prosecutions.  The Coalition Government today continues to refuse to release these documents on grounds of “national security”. There’s a lot more information on the Campaign’s website: www.shrewsbury24campaign.org.uk Best wishes Ricky Tomlinson   Heroes of trade unions in the construction industry - one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the 20th Century Who were the Shrewsbury 24? Read Manchester TUC's excellent article   for further info, we recommend; The Shrewsbury Three: strikes, pickets and "conspiracy" by Jim Arnison. This is the story of 3 building workers who were wrongly imprisoned and their fight for justice. The author was a journalist for the Morning Star.84pp. £3 + p&p from Working Class Movement Library . Des Warren, "The Key to My Cell", (1982), republished 2007 £10 from www.shrewsburypicketscampaign.org.uk along with T-shirts, other books and all the latest campaign information. Ricky Tomlinson, "Ricky", Time Warner Paperbacks (2003)  Early Day Motion 170  Date tabled: 12.06.2012  That this House notes the application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission by Ricky Tomlinson and other convicted building workers known as the Shrewsbury 24 who were prosecuted in 1973 following the nati


"Which group won the Eurovision Song contest in 1981 with the song, ""Making Your Mind Up""?"

Eurovision Song Contest 1981 | Eurovision Song Contest Show more Eurovision Song Contest 1981 Ireland's capital Dublin hosted the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest after Johnny Logan won the contest in the preceding year with What's Another Year. Bucks Fizz won the 1981 contest for the United Kingdom with the song Making Your Mind Up. For the second time, the Eurovision champion winner, Ireland, was the host for the event which took place in Dublin. In 1981, the total amount of participating countries was 20 once again equalling the record set three years earlier in Paris. Morocco withdrew after their first participation, and Italy decided to stay at home as well because the interest in the country had diminished. Yugoslavia returned to the contest after five years of absence, so did Israel after the county had missed out on one contest. Finally, Cyprus made its Eurovision debut. It was also the first year Egypt's television viewers could follow the contest live on television. The opening sequence of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest showed 'old Ireland' blending into 'modern Ireland'. The sequence ended with a map of Europe on a globe which span round to reveal the Eurovision logo. About the winner The United Kingdom's entry, Making Your Mind Up, by the group Bucks Fizz won the 1981 contest after a close race with Germany's entry, Johnny Blue, performed by Lena Valaitis. Bucks Fizz was formed especially for the Eurovision Song Contest and created one of the most memorable moments in Eurovision history when the two guys in the group ripped off the skirts of the two girls, revealing a shorter skirt underneath. Bucks Fizz continued their career all over Europe with many hit songs during the 1980s, like The Land Of Make Believe and My Camera Never Lies. Facts & Figures


What name is given to the rectangular piece of cloth wrapped round the waist and legs, knotted at the waist, and worn by Hindus in India?

Indian Clothing - Traditional Indian Clothing, Types of Indian   Clothing, Ethnic Indian Clothes Indian Clothing Sari What makes the Indian couture so unique is the       fact that you will find each and every state of the country having       its own distinct traditional clothing for men and women. For       instance, the salwaar kameez is the ethnic attire of women in       Punjab; the Mekhala Chadar is worn by Assamese women, and so on.       However, all types of Indian clothing look very elegant and Indians       wear them with a lot of pride. The festivities and other special       occasions are the time when you can see maximum Indians donning       their ethnic garb, be it sari, kurta pajama or dhoti. A sari is long strip of colorful multi-patterned cloth seductively       wrapped around the body, teemed with a blouse! It's the traditional       dress for the women folk in India and there are many styles in which       you can drape it. The blouse worn with sari is also called the choli       or ravika. The salwaar kameez, on the other hand, is the most       ubiquitous of all traditional women attires in India. Due to its       popularity in the Punjab region, it is sometimes also called the       Punjabi suit. The Indian men's traditional attire consists of the kurta and       pajama, dhoti, lungi and other dresses. Worn on both formal and       informal occasions, kurta and pajama are quite popular dress of       Indian men. The kurta is like a loose long shirt almost reaching the       knees, whereas the Pyjama is a lightweight drawstring trouser. The       men's dhoti is a rectangular piece of unstitched cloth about five       yards long, wrapped about the waist and the legs and knotted at the       waist. It is known by different names like Laacha in Punjabi, Mundu       in Malayalam, Dhuti in Bangla, etc.


"In the novel by Edgar Allan Poe, who solved the ""Murders in the Rue Morgue""?"

SparkNotes: Poe’s Short Stories: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) → “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), page 2 page 1 of 3 Summary An unnamed narrator begins this tale of murder and criminal detection with a discussion of the analytic mind. He describes the analyst as driven paradoxically by both intuition and the moral inclination to disentangle what confuses his peers. He adds that the analyst takes delight in mathematical study and in the game of checkers, which allows the calculating individual to practice the art of detection—not only of the moves integral to the game, but also the demeanor of his opponent. The narrator argues, however, that analysis is not merely ingenuity. He states that while the ingenious man may, at times, be analytic, the calculating man is, without fail, always imaginative. The narrator then describes the circumstances in which he met a man named C. Auguste Dupin. Both men were searching for the same book at an obscure library in the Rue Montmartre, in Paris, and began to converse. Soon, they became friends and decided to share the expenses of a residence together. The narrator then relays an anecdote illustrating Dupin’s brilliant powers of analysis: one night, while walking together, Dupin describes an actor whom the narrator is pondering. Amazed, the narrator asks Dupin to explain his method, and we witness Dupin’s capacity to work backward and observe the importance of seemingly insignificant details in order to reach ingenious conclusions. Soon thereafter, the narrator and Dupin read newspaper headlines about a horrible murder in the Rue Morgue. One night at three a.m., eight or ten neighbors of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter, Mademoiselle Camille, wake to shrieks from their fourth-floor apartment. The neighbors hear two voices, then silence. The neighbors and two policemen finally break into the locked apartment to find utter disorder and multiple pieces of evidence of a crime, including a blood-smeared razor, locks of gray human hair, bags of money, and an opened safe. They find no traces of the older woman. However, the noticeable traces of soot in the room lead them to the chimney, where they find the corpse of Mademoiselle Camille. They reason that the murderer must have choked Camille to death and then thrust her body up into the chimney. Expanding the search, the neighbors and police discover the body of Madame L’Espanaye in a courtyard in the rear of the building. They find her badly beaten, with her throat severely cut. When the police move the body, in fact, her head falls off. The 4,000 francs that Madame L’Espanaye had just withdrawn from the bank are still in the apartment, ruling out robbery as a motive for the grisly crime. The newspaper then recounts the depositions of witnesses concerning the voices they heard. They all agree that they heard two voices: one, a deep Frenchman’s voice; and the other, a higher voice of uncertain ethnic origin, though speculated to be Spanish. The gender of the second speaker is uncertain. The same newspaper reports the findings of the medical examiner, who confirms that Camille died from choking and that Madame L’Espanaye was beaten to death with immense violence, most likely by a club. The evening edition of the paper reports a new development. The police have arrested Adolphe Le Bon, a bank clerk who once did Dupin a favor. With the arrest of Le Bon, Dupin becomes interested in pursuing the investigation and obtains permission to search the crime scene. Dupin is eager to survey the setting because the newspaper reports portray the apartment as impossible to escape from the inside, which makes the case so mysterious. Dupin suggests that the police have been so distracted by the atrocity of the murder and the apparent lack of motive that, while they have been attentive to what has occurred, they have failed to consider that the present crime could be something that has never occurred before. Producing two pistols, Dupin reveals that he awaits the arr


"Which actress, who played the part of Rocky Balboa's wife, alongside Sylvester Stallone, in the ""Rocky"" films of the 1980's, is the sister of Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola?"

Sylvester Stallone - Biography - IMDb Sylvester Stallone Biography Showing all 345 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (2) | Spouse  (3) | Trade Mark  (4) | Trivia  (126) | Personal Quotes  (178) | Salary  (28) Overview (4) 5' 9½" (1.77 m) Mini Bio (2) This athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director may never be mentioned by old-school film critics in the same breath as, say, Richard Burton or Alec Guinness ; however, movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 30 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws. Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, in New York's gritty Hell's Kitchen, to Jackie Stallone (née Labofish), an astrologer, and Frank Stallone , a beautician and hairdresser. His father was an Italian immigrant, and his mother's heritage is half French (from Brittany) and half German. The young Stallone attended the American College of Switzerland and the University of Miami, eventually obtaining a B.A. degree. Initially, he struggled in small parts in films such as the soft-core The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970), the thriller Klute (1971) and the comedy Bananas (1971). He got a crucial career break alongside fellow young actor Henry Winkler , sharing lead billing in the effectively written teen gang film The Lords of Flatbush (1974). Further film and television roles followed, most of them in uninspiring productions except for the opportunity to play a megalomaniac, bloodthirsty race driver named "Machine Gun Joe Viterbo" in the Roger Corman -produced Death Race 2000 (1975). However, Stallone was also keen to be recognized as a screenwriter, not just an actor, and, inspired by the 1975 Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in Cleveland, Stallone wrote a film script about a nobody fighter given the "million to one opportunity" to challenge for the heavyweight title. Rocky (1976) became the stuff of cinematic legends, scoring ten Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Picture Award of 1976 and triggering one of the most financially successful movie franchises in history! Whilst full credit is wholly deserved by Stallone, he was duly supported by tremendous acting from fellow cast members Talia Shire , Burgess Meredith and Burt Young , and director John G. Avildsen gave the film an emotive, earthy appeal from start to finish. Stallone had truly arrived on his terms, and offers poured in from various studios eager to secure Hollywood's hottest new star. Stallone followed Rocky (1976) with F.I.S.T. (1978), loosely based on the life of Teamsters boss "Jimmy Hoffa", and Paradise Alley (1978) before pulling on the boxing gloves again to resurrect Rocky Balboa in the sequel Rocky II (1979). The second outing for the "Italian Stallion" wasn't as powerful or successful as the first "Rocky"; however, it still produced strong box office. Subsequent films Nighthawks (1981) and Victory (1981) failed to ignite with audiences, so Stallone was once again lured back to familiar territory with Rocky III (1982) and a fearsome opponent in "Clubber Lang" played by muscular ex-bodyguard Mr. T . The third "Rocky" installment far outperformed the first sequel in box office takings, but Stallone retired his prizefighter for a couple of years as another mega-franchise was about to commence for the busy actor. The character of Green Beret "John Rambo" was the creation of Canadian-born writer David Morrell , and his novel was adapted to the screen with Stallone in the lead role in First Blood (1982), also starring Richard Crenna and Brian Dennehy . The movie was a surprise hit that polarized audiences because of its commentary about the Vietnam war, which was still relatively fresh in the American public's psyche. Political viewpoints aside, the film was a worldwide smash, and a sequel soon followed with Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), which drew even stronger criticism from several quarters owing to the film's plotline about American MIAs allegedly being held in Vietnam. But they say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and "John Rambo's" secon


How were the comedy duo Ian and Janette Tough better known?

Krankies star Janette Tough reveals how saucy swinging revelations caused her to drop a dress size through stress - Daily Record Krankies star Janette Tough reveals how saucy swinging revelations caused her to drop a dress size through stress KRANKIES star Janette Tough didn’t eat for three days following revelations about her sensational sex life.  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email KRANKIES star Janette Tough didn’t eat for three days following revelations about her sensational sex life. The entertainer – better known as schoolboy Wee Jimmy Krankie – couldn’t face food because she was terrified her confessions might have ruined her career. And Janette’s husband Ian was so worried that he stood shaking with fear at the side of the stage in Glasgow as he waited to face the public for the first time since their saucy secrets were revealed. Janette, 64, said: “I did not eat for three days. “I went down a dress size in three days. I was worried about how it would affect our business.” Last month, the couple revealed they used to be swingers and had a string of lovers in their heyday in the 1970s and 80s. At the time, the comedy duo were in panto at the SECC with John Barrowman. Tickets for Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates soared after the Krankies’ confessions. But Janette said they were worried they might have ruined everything. She added: “I did not want it to affect my work. I still went out on to the stage with confidence.” Ian said: “When the story came out, I was standing in the wings shaking. “I was shaking with a kind of fear, wondering what the reaction would be. “When we made the first entrance in Glasgow, the place just erupted. “A woman at the end shouted, ‘Krankies, we love you’. It brought a tear to Janette’s eye. “Our audience take it with a pinch of salt.” In a radio interview at the weekend, Janette and Ian insisted there was nothing sleazy about their wild bedroom antics. Ian, 64, from Clydebank, near Glasgow, added: “We did have sex with other people a couple of times. “We had parties where things happened and we both found out.” Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent


What word is used to describe animals, which lay eggs?

oviparous - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com oviparous Use the adjective oviparous to describe an animal that lays eggs. Birds and lizards are oviparous. A chicken is a good example of an oviparous animal, since females lay eggs and then keep them warm and safe until they hatch. In fact, all birds are oviparous, as are most fish, reptiles, and insects. The word oviparous is most often used in biology classes to distinguish egg-laying animals from those that give birth to live babies, like humans. It's a Latin word that combines ovum, or "egg" with parere, "to bring forth."


What is the name of the blind beggar in R.L.Stevenson's Treasure Island?

Treasure Island Characters | GradeSaver Buy Study Guide Jim Hawkins The young (probably 13 or 14) Jim Hawkins is the narrator of the adventure that is told in Treasure Island. It is his feelings, perceptions, and emotional responses that the reader responds to and views the story through. Jim Hawkins is the typical young boy, who through no fault of his own, becomes involved in the ultimate adventure, especially for a boy of his age. Through this process, Jim transforms from someone who is merely an onlooker, to an active participant who determines his own fate by courageous, and often very risky, actions. Although it is not due to his bravery or any special skills, it is he and not the older, more experienced men on the journey who uncover the pirates plan for mutiny, find Ben Gunn and enlist him in their cause, and steal the Hispanolia and return it to the captain. Jim thinks on his feet and by the end of the book has matured into a capable, competent boy. It is in his triumph over Israel Hands on the Hispanolia that his physically maturation is complete, and likewise, his decision not to run away from Long John Silver when urged by Dr. Livesey that his moral maturation is complete. Jim returns home to write the story and is haunted by Long John Silver and his parrot in his dreams long after his return from Treasure Island. Mrs. Hawkins Jim's mother. The only female in the book makes her only brief appearance at the beginning of Treasure Island. Her character is most revealed in the actions that she takes in order to assure that she gets what is her due from Billy Bones treasure. By being able to go back and return to the inn in the face of grave danger, she sets an example that Jim follows later in the book. Billy Bones Billy Bones is the first pirate that Jim meets in the book - his appearance (ragged, scarred, ponytail, and a cut on his check) signals the end of tranquil at the inn. Despite his drinking (especially rum) and singing a song that is clearly a pirate tune, his seeking out the Admiral Benbow inn is a sign that he does not want to be captured. Although Billy Bones demonstrates this dubious behavior, Jim is not afraid of him and even enjoys the excitement that the seaman brings to the otherwise isolated island. In return, Billy Bones is kind to the young boy. Billy Bones is a precursor to one side of Long John Silver's personality, the kind, gentle, parental side that is present when he aligns with the "good" men. Although he is blustery, beneath it all he is good-hearted. Jim is genuinely sad when he passes away at the end of the first part of the book, from a stroke. Dr. Livesey From the moment that Dr. Livesey appears in Treasure Island, he is depicted as an arbitrator who is fair, intelligent, fearless, and well-organized. As he becomes involved in the treasure hunt, he also shows consideration and kindness to Jim, thus, becoming one of many surrogate parental figures to Jim in the course of the novel. Dr. Livesey is also a narrator of the novel (although only for a few chapters). These chapters are not nearly as colorful or as emotionally charged as the chapters that are narrated by the younger Jim. His descriptions further his characterizations as a scientist, who is most concerned with curing the sick (he repeatedly mentions the malaria present in the swamps). Dr. Livesy is also extremely concerned with fairness to all, as his concern about the pirates that they had to leave behind demonstrates. Black Dog A companion of Billy Bones, his arrival at the Admiral Benbow inn marks the beginning of violence at the inn and the notification to Bones that other pirates know of his whereabouts. Although he and Billy Bones are friendly, their meeting ends in a fight where Billy Bones is injured. Pew Pew is another character who arrives at the Admiral Benbow in order to try and ambush Billy Bones and find the treasure map. Pew is described vividly, at first as a blind old man who "rat-tap-tap" with his stick but, deceptively, also an evil, mean adversary who is willing to use physically prowess in order to cowe