What is the name of the starch used for puddings which is obtained from the leaves of Palm trees ?

Sago puddings | Article about sago puddings by The Free Dictionary Sago puddings | Article about sago puddings by The Free Dictionary http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/sago+puddings Also found in: Dictionary , Thesaurus , Medical . sago (sā`gō) [Malay], edible starch extracted from the pithlike center of several E Asian palms palm, common name for members of the Palmae, a large family of chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines. Most species are treelike, characterized by a crown of compound leaves, called fronds, terminating a tall, woody, unbranched stem. ..... Click the link for more information.  (chiefly Metroxylon sagu) or sometimes of cycads cycad , any plant of the order Cycadales, tropical and subtropical palmlike evergreens. The cycads, ginkgoes, and conifers comprise the three major orders of gymnosperms, or cone-bearing plants (see cone and plant). The cycads first appeared in the Permian period. ..... Click the link for more information. . The starch is an important item in the diet in some parts of E Asia and is exported for use in foods (e.g., puddings) and for stiffening textiles. Sago is obtained by grinding the stem content of a filled mature sago palm that is beginning to flower into powder and washing the starch free. For local use it is pulverized, but for the market it is usually sieved and then heated to form granules. The florists' sago palm is not a true palm but a cycad of the American genus Zamia. Z. floridana, called wild sago or coontie, yields Florida arrowroot arrowroot, any plant of the genus Maranta, usually large perennial herbs, of the family Marantaceae, found chiefly in warm, swampy forest habitats of the Americas and sometimes cultivated for their ornamental leaves. ..... Click the link for more information. . Sago   granules of starch. Natural sago is made from the starchy pith of some palm species (sago palms) or from cassava roots. Artificial sago is obtained from potato, corn, and other starches. The granules of raw starch are given a spherical shape, steamed at high temperatures to size the surface, and then dried. Sago is used to prepare gruels and as filling for pastries. sago


What spice is obtained from grated hard aromatic seeds, sharing its name with the evergreen tree from which the seeds are obtained ?

Spices and other flavorings & discussion ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ The history of spices, condiments and  other flavoring plants has been considered one of the most romantic chapters  in the history of vegetable products (Hill 1952).ï¿½ Since ancient times spices have been eagerly sought and highly  valued.ï¿½ The craving for spices has  been one of the driving forces in human progress and has changed the course  of history and geography.ï¿½ The  discovery of new lands and of shorter trade routs and the colonization of  areas that grew spices have resulted partly from this interest in aromatic  plants.ï¿½ A quest for spices created a  furor comparable to the Crusades, and was one of the dominant factors in  European history during the Middle Ages and into the 16th Century.ï¿½ However, the use and cultivation of spices  can be traced to the beginnings of history.ï¿½ Spices have played an important part in all the ancient civilizations  of China and India, in Babylon and Egypt and in Greece and Rome.ï¿½ The spices of greatest international  importance originated in the Asiatic tropics and were among the first objects  of commerce between the East and the West.ï¿½ The Arabs were the first spice traders, bringing their products from  southern India and the Spice Islands by caravan to Arabia and from there to  Europe.ï¿½ This trade later spread to  other countries as well.ï¿½ For many  years Venice, Italy led the trade.ï¿½ In  the 16th Century the Portuguese assumed control and held a monopoly for 200  years.ï¿½ The Dutch followed and later  the British Empire shared with Holland most of the world spice trade.   ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Spices have been put to many uses  such as to season insipid foods and to give zest to an otherwise monotonous  diet as well as to serve as preservatives.ï¿½ Their aromatic qualities were useful in overcoming offensive odors of  spoiled food.ï¿½ They were used in  beverages, medicine and even in lieu of currency.ï¿½ Rich and poor alike sought after spices and they were expensive  because of the demand and the difficulty and cost of obtaining them.ï¿½ They were the basis of many great fortunes  during 1300-1700 A.D.   ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ The use of spices then somewhat diminished  in modern times, especially as other means of food preservation were  deployed.ï¿½ The practice of importing  the various aromatic materials in a crude state and converting them into a  powdered or ground form is still followed in an effort to prevent  adulteration and to ensure the quality of the final product.ï¿½ Essential oils that are obtained from the  various substances are also imported in large quantity.   ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Spices are not usually classed as  foods for they contain little of nutritive value.ï¿½ However, they do give an agreeable flavor and aroma to food and  greatly enhance the pleasure of eating.ï¿½ They stimulate the appetite and increase the flow of gastric juices.ï¿½ Therefore, they are often called food  accessories or adjuncts.ï¿½ Their value  is due to the presence of the essential oils and occasionally to other  aromatic entities.ï¿½   ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ The medicinal value of spices is  not a great as was believed during the Middle Ages, but a large number of  them are still official drugs in both Europe and America.ï¿½ They are used as carminatives and  antiseptics and to hide the unpleasant taste of other drugs.ï¿½ They also are important in many industries  and are used in perfumery, incense, and soaps, as dyes, in histology and in  some arts.   ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Most spices are still obtained  from the tropics, predominantly Asia.ï¿½ Africa supplies the grains of paradise while tropical America  furnishes vanilla, red pepper and allspice.ï¿½ A small number are found in the cooler temperate regions of the Old  World.   ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Classification of spices is difficult as there are no  absolute boundaries between the various groups.ï¿½ Usually all aromatic vegetable products that


In what year was the first BBC Sports Personality if theYear held ?

BBC Sport | Sports Personality of the Year | Past Winners Reviews by sport PAST WINNERS Welcome to our trip down sport's memory lane. Here's a full rundown of awards presented since the programme first started in 1954. You can also watch highlights from the early years, plus the presentation of the coveted BBC Sports Personality of the Year trophy.


"Which author created the fictional character ""Allan Quartermain"" ?"

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Fagus sylvatica (copper beech) | Plants & Fungi At Kew Fagus sylvatica (copper beech) Copper beech trees can be propagated by grafting to maintain the colour of the leaves. Copper beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Atropunicea') at Kew Gardens Species information copper beech (synonym: Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea') Conservation status:  IUCN status of Least Concern (LC) Habitat:  Woodland, often on chalky soil. Known hazards:  Genus: Fagus About this species Copper beeches first appeared as mutants independently in different parts of Europe and were already known in Germany before 1488. Today this tree is planted extensively in parks and gardens, and whilst admired by some, others find the copper beech's dark purple leaves an unattractive and depressing addition to the landscape. Synonym:  Fagus sylvatica is found throughout Europe, to the Caucasus. Description Spiky cases protect the fruits The copper beech is a large tree that often grows on chalky soil. The inconspicuous flowers are pollinated by the wind and the fruits are three-sided nuts (called beech mast) inside spiky cases (see image, right). The size and shape of Fagus sylvatica depends on its environment. Given space, the beech will spread its branches widely and can grow up to a massive 42 m (140 ft) high. In tightly packed woods, the tree will grow straight, with few side branches, to reach the light. This becomes an even greater priority with time. The arrangement of leaves is such that they overlap, which, while efficient for the tree, shades the ground beneath and can also prevent rain from reaching it. So if the floor of the English wood you're walking through comprises little more than fungi and rotting leaves, it's probably a beech wood. Copper beech trees are quite variable in leaf colour as they are normally propagated by seed. Particularly dark clones have been selected over the years and those are grafted to maintain the true colour. The best-known are 'Cuprea', 'Nigra', 'Riversii' and 'Spaethiana'. Uses A copper beech at Kew Beech, like hazel, has been used for centuries for its wood, specifically in making furniture. The Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire are home to large areas of beech woodlands and in the past, chairmakers, also known as 'bodgers', actually worked in the woods themselves. In 1887 a group of sport-minded furniture makers from High Wycombe, then the centre of the industry, founded Wycombe Wanderers Football Club. To this day, the team's nickname is 'The Chairboys'. Beech timber is ideal for chairs as it bends without breaking, has a fine grain and is relatively free of knots. Beech has a history of being pollarded. Pollarding is the practice of removing all the branches to stimulate the growth of new, smaller shoots. At Burnham Beeches, for example, beeches were historically pollarded as a source of fuelwood, amongst other uses. Beech tends not to be used for building as it decays quickly without protection and is not strong enough to bear any great weight. In addition to the utility of its timber, beech also provides nourishment for wildlife in the form of nuts, also known as beech mast. A bumper crop of these nuts is produced every four to five years when badgers, squirrels and many birds feast on them. Although edible they are rarely eaten by humans. Very young leaves are also edible. Cultivation The beech is easily cultivated, though slow-growing at first. It needs a lot of room as it can get very large. The tree is shallow-rooted so it is best to choose a sheltered spot to avoid it being blown over. The bark is very sensitive to sunlight and old trunks that suddenly become exposed to the sun (for example by the felling of surrounding trees or raising of the canopy) will get sunburn, which may cause the tree to die. Leaves of Fagus sylvatica in autumn At Kew, beeches are propagated by grafting in order to retain genetic material from important old trees in the gardens, or to grow cultivars such as copper beeches. Root stocks for grafting are grown in the Arboretum Nursery by sowing seed. The seed is not viable for long and so needs to be


"The record ""Red Red Wine"" was a huge hit for the group UB40 reaching number one in the charts in both the UK and USA. Which singer wrote the song ?"

Neil Diamond - Songwriter, Singer - Biography.com Neil Diamond Singer and songwriter Neil Diamond wrote "I'm A Believer" for The Monkees, and peformed his own pop hits, including "Heartlight" and "Sweet Caroline." IN THESE GROUPS » quotes “I've never tried to be what I'm not. I am what I am: raggedy, over-the-top, heartfelt, emotional, reflective, passionate, angry and sad at times.” “I'm a 'people pleaser'—I think most performers are, and when I'm in front of an audience I'll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.” Neil Diamond Synopsis Born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 24, 1941, Neil Diamond began writing songs while studying at New York University. His own hits include "Sweet Caroline," "America" and "Heartlight." He also wrote "I'm A Believer" performed by The Monkees, and his song "Red, Red Wine" was a big hit for band UB40 in 1983. Diamond's recent albums include 12 Songs (2005) and Home Before Dark (2008). Career Beginnings Born on January 24, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, Neil Leslie Diamond was is best known as a successful pop music singer who scored a number of hits during the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Diamond wrote the hits "I'm A Believer" (1966) and "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" (1967) for the Monkees, and had his own first No. 1 hit with "Cracklin' Rosie" (1970). The son of a shop owner, Diamond spent most of his youth in Brooklyn. He did live in Wyoming for a time while his father served in the military. Diamond got his first guitar at age 16. Before long, he began writing his own songs. Diamond landed a fencing scholarship to New York University. While a premed student at the university, he continued to pursue his interest in music. In the early 1960s, Diamond released his first single, "What Will I Do," which he recorded with Jack Packer. The duo released the song under the name "Neil & Jack." Early Hits Eventually dropping out of college, Neil Diamond worked as a song writer for several companies. He joined forces with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, two talented songwriters and producers. The trio began to market Diamond as both a singer and songwriter. Diamond had his first taste of pop success with the 1966 single "Solitary Man." That same year, he penned the Monkees' No. 1 hit "I'm a Believer." Diamond continued to score hits on his own over the next few years, including "Cherry, Cherry" and "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon." His popular 1969 single, "Sweet Caroline," was reportedly inspired by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy. In 2014, during an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Diamond put that particular rumor to rest saying the song was written about his wife. The song made it into the Billboard Top 5. That same year, Diamond's "Holly Holy" reached the No. 6 spot on the pop charts. Top Pop Star In 1970, Neil Diamond scored his first solo No. 1 pop single with "Cracklin' Rosie." He hit the top of the charts again with "Song Sung Blue" two years later. Also in 1972, Diamond released the hugely popular Hot August Night, which was recorded at a series of concerts he did at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre. He also composed the soundtrack for the 1973 film Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, based on the Richard Bach book. While the movie was a flop at the box office, the soundtrack earned Diamond a Grammy Award. Diamond scored another big hit with "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," his 1978 duet with Barbra Streisand. In 1980, he tried for success on the big screen with his remake of The Jazz Singer. Critics were less than kind regarding his efforts, but the film's soundtrack featured such hits as "Love on the Rocks" and "America." The Jazz Singer album sold more than 5 million copies. Other artists have also made the charts with their own renditions of Diamond's songs. The British band UB40 hit it big with "Red, Red Wine" in 1983, and Urge Overkill's cover of "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" was featured on the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). In 1996, Diamond released the album Tennessee Moon, which marked his first foray into country music. He teame


John Newcombe was one half of a famous tennis pairing who were Wimbledon Doubles Champions three times. Who was his partner ?

The 25 Greatest Male Tennis Players of the Open Era | Bleacher Report The 25 Greatest Male Tennis Players of the Open Era By Sergey Zikov , Senior Analyst Feb 21, 2009 Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse more stories 91.1K 115 Comments Here are the 25 greatest athletes of the tennis world in the Open Era, meaning since 1968. I can't acknowledge greats like Fred Perry, Don Budge, and Bill Tilden for that reason, but they would all certainly make the list. These men come from all over the globe. From Australia to Sweden and South Africa to North America, they are all united in a common goal: to win Grand Slams. Some did this extremely well (see Sampras, Pete) and some spent more time as the lovable runner-up (see Lendl, Ivan). All title wins and Grand Slam victories listed are for singles only. So let the fun begin. 25a. Patrick Rafter (AUS) Career Titles: 11 Career Grand Slams: 2 Rafter may very well be the last true serve-and-volley Grand Slam champion. Although he played a short career, the Aussie won back-to-back US Open titles in 1997 and 1998. Rafter was also twice a runner-up at Wimbledon, one of those times falling to Pete Sampras. He also won 10 doubles titles, winning the Australian Open title with doubles legend Jonas Bjorkman in 1999. He was elected into the Australian Open Hall of Fame on Australia Day in 2008. Career Titles: 26 Career Grand Slams: 2 Lleyton Hewitt, the fiery Australian kid who could, reached the world No. 1 ranking faster than anybody else. At 20 years and 268 days old, Hewitt became the world's best. He defeated Pete Sampras in the US Open to win his first Grand Slam title, then went on to win at Wimbledon the next year. Hewitt also won the 2000 US Open doubles final, with Belarussian Max Mirnyi as a partner. He has been an exceptional hard court player throughout his career, and is commonly regarded as one of the elite defenders in the game. Career Titles: 26 Career Grand Slams: 1 Roddick is the prototype Power Era player. He plays his points short and holds the ATP World Record for fastest serve, clocked at a ridiculous 155 mph. He captured his first and only Grand Slam title to date when he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in straight sets at the US Open in 2003. Roddick has also reached three other Grand Slam finals (twice in Wimbledon, once more in Flushing Meadows) but lost to Roger Federer each time. He is currently engaged to model Brooklyn Decker. 23. Manuel Orantes (ESP) Career Titles: 33 Career Grand Slams: 1 Orantes had a unique knack of playing extraordinarily well in minor tournaments, but falling apart in Grand Slams. However, his only Grand Slam victory was a very impressive one to say the least; he defeated American Jimmy Connors at the US Open in 1975. He also did it in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Orantes also gave Bjorn Borg an excellent match at Roland Garros in 1974, where he won the first two sets before collapsing. He also partnered with Jose Higueras in 1978 to reach the French Open final in doubles. 22. Yevgeny Kafelnikov (RUS) Career Titles: 26 Career Grand Slams: 2 Kafelnikov has a very special mark on his record. He is the last man to capture the singles and doubles trophies at a Grand Slam event (1996 French Open). He partnered with Daniel Vacek and defeated the team of Guy Forget/Jakob Hlasek to win the doubles title, then went on to pummel Michael Stich for the singles title. He would also win the Australian Open in 1999. The heavy-swinging righty from Sochi also had four career Grand Slam doubles titles and an Olympic gold medal in singles at the Sydney games in 2000. 21. Michael Chang (USA) Career Titles: 34 Career Grand Slams: 1 The diminutive Chang (5'9" 160 lbs.) had a reputation of winning young. He won countless titles as a teenager, but none more famous than his Grand Slam victory at the French Open in 1989. The 17-year-old Chang faced World No. 1 and three-time champion Ivan Lendl, and won in a five-set epic that lasted well over four hours. Chang never reached No. 1 in the world and he never won another Grand Slam after his win in 1989. He was a runne


Which general, famous for his military exploits against the French in the Napoleonic Wars was born in Glasgow in 1761 and died in Spain in 1809 ?

The History Book Club - NAPOLEONIC WARS: NAPOLEONIC WAR LEADERS (showing 1-44 of 44) Sep 19, 2010 08:23AM Mod There were many generals of the Napoleonic Wars. Here is a thread to discuss these generals, books written about them, urls about them and the like. Some of the generals and leaders we could discuss on this thread are the following: Generals of the Napoleonic Wars These men led armies during the almost continuous warfare that wracked Europe from the 1790s until the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Joachim Murat (born 1771, died 1815) French marshal. His flamboyant leadership of the French cavalry and his marriage to Caroline Bonaparte gained him the throne of Naples Joseph Alvinczy, Baron von Borberek (born 1735, died 1810) Austrian field marshal. Defeated by Napoleon at Arcole and Rivoli Charles, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Teschen (born 1771, died 1847) Austrian military leader. One of the few commanders to wrest victory from Napoleon himself, at the Battle of Aspern in 1809 Francis II (born 1768, died 1835) Last Holy Roman emperor, ruling 1792-1806. Emperor of Austria, 1804-35, as Francis I. Led Austria into war against his son-in-law, Napoleon Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich (born 1752, died 1828) Austrian general known as ''The Unfortunate Mack.'' His 20,000-man army was surrounded and captured by Napoleon at Ulm in 1805 Count Johann Radetsky (born 1766, died 1858) Austrian general in the Napoleonic wars Prince Karl Philip von Schwarzenberg (born 1771, died 1820) Austrian general. Led the Austrian contingent in Napoleon''s 1812 invasion of Russia; upon the failure of that campaign, led the Allies to victory over the French at Leipzig Sir Ralph Abercromby (born 1734, died 1801) British general. Fell at the head of his victorious army at Alexandria in 1801 Karl August von Alten (born 1764, died 1840) Hanoverian military leader. Served with the Hanoverians and British in the Napoleonic wars Sir David Baird (born 1757, died 1829) British general. Led troops in Egypt and on the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic wars William Carr Beresford, Viscount Beresford (born 1768, died 1854) British general. Led troops in Egypt and on the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic wars John Colborne, Baron Seaton (born 1778, died 1863) British general. Led troops in Egypt, on the Iberian Peninsula, and at Waterloo Lowry Cole (born 1772, died 1842) British general. Served under Wellington during the Napoleonic wars Robert Crauford British general known as ''Black Bob.'' Led the famous Light Division on the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic wars George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie (born 1770, died 1838) British general. Led troops in Egypt, on the Iberian Peninsula, and at Waterloo Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch (born 1748, died 1843) British general. Commanded a division on the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic wars Rowland Hill, Viscount Hill (born 1772, died 1842) British general. Led troops on the Iberian Peninsula and at Waterloo during the Napoleonic wars Sir John Moore (born 1761, died 1809) Scottish general. Fell leading his victorious troops at the Battle of Coruna Henry William Paget, Marquis of Anglesey (born 1768, died 1854) British general. Lost a leg while commanding the allied cavalry at Waterloo Sir Edward Pakenham (born 1778, died 1815) British general. Died leading an unsuccessful assault on Andrew Jackson's army at New Orleans. Commanded British troops on the Iberian Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington Sir Thomas Picton (born 1758, died 1815) British general. Fell at the battle of Waterloo Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (born 1769, died 1852) British military and political leader. Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Leader of the British and allied forces in Spain and Belgium during the Napoleonic wars Charles Agerau French marshal. Named Duc de Belluno after his valor at the Battle of Friedland impressed Napoleon Prince Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (born 1742, died 1819) Prussian military leader. One of Napoleon''s most determined foes, he led the Prussian forces at the


"Shakespeare coined which three word phrase in the play ""Othello"" which has become a commonly used cliche for Jealousy ?"

Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare NOTE: This list (including some of the errors I originally made) is found in several other places online. That's fine, but I've asked that folks who want this on their own sites mention that I am the original compiler. For many English-speakers, the following phrases are familiar enough to be considered common expressions, proverbs, and/or clichés. All of them originated with or were popularized by Shakespeare. All our yesterdays (Macbeth) All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)("glisters") All's well that ends well (title) As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor) As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John) Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice) Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter's Tale) Bear a charmed life (Macbeth) Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth) Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra) Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John) The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly already a known saying) In a better world than this (As You Like It) Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet) Brave new world (The Tempest) Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew) Breathed his last (3 Henry VI) Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet) Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the Shrew) Catch a cold (Cymbeline; claimed but seems unlikely, seems to refer to bad weather) Cold comfort (The Taming of the Shrew / King John) Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet) Come what come may ("come what may") (Macbeth) Comparisons are odorous (Much Ado about Nothing) Crack of doom (Macbeth) Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI) A dish fit for the gods (Julius Caesar) Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar) Dog will have his day (Hamlet; quoted earlier by Erasmus and Queen Elizabeth) Devil incarnate (Titus Andronicus / Henry V) Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV) Elbow room (King John; first attested 1540 according to Merriam-Webster) Farewell to all my greatness (Henry VIII) Faint hearted (I Henry VI) Fancy-free (Midsummer Night's Dream) Fight till the last gasp (I Henry VI) Flaming youth (Hamlet) Forever and a day (As You Like It) For goodness' sake (Henry VIII) Foregone conclusion (Othello) The game is afoot (I Henry IV) The game is up (Cymbeline) Give the devil his due (I Henry IV) Good riddance (Troilus and Cressida) Jealousy is the green-eyed monster (Othello) It was Greek to me (Julius Caesar) Heart of gold (Henry V) Her infinite variety (Antony and Cleopatra) 'Tis high time (The Comedy of Errors) Hoist with his own petard (Hamlet) Household words (Henry V) A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! (Richard III) Ill wind which blows no man to good (2 Henry IV) Improbable fiction (Twelfth Night) In a pickle (The Tempest) In my heart of hearts (Hamlet) In my mind's eye (Hamlet) Infinite space (Hamlet) In my book of memory (I Henry VI) It is but so-so(As You Like It) It smells to heaven (Hamlet) Itching palm (Julius Caesar) Kill with kindness (Taming of the Shrew) Killing frost (Henry VIII) Knit brow (The Rape of Lucrece) Knock knock! Who's there? (Macbeth) Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It) Laughing stock (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Laugh yourself into stitches (Twelfth Night) Lean and hungry look (Julius Caesar) Lie low (Much Ado about Nothing) Live long day (Julius Caesar) Love is blind (Merchant of Venice) Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water (Henry VIII) Melted into thin air (The Tempest) Though this be madness, yet there is method in it ("There's a method to my madness") (Hamlet) Make a virtue of necessity (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) The Makings of(Henry VIII) Milk of human kindness (Macbeth) Ministering angel (Hamlet) Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows (The Tempest) More honored in the breach than in the observance (Hamlet) More in sorrow than in anger (Hamlet) More sinned against than sinning (King Lear) Much Ado About Nothing (title) Murder most foul (Hamlet) Naked truth (Love's Labo


Golf - Which Australian golfer won the 1960 British Open, beating Arnold Palmer into second place ?

Kel Nagle, Winner of 1960 British Open, Dies at 94 | Golf.com Kel Nagle, Winner of 1960 British Open, Dies at 94 More Photo: Bob Thomas/Getty Images Kel Nagle, seen here in Australia in 1970, won the 1960 British Open over Arnold Palmer and finished runner-up to Gary Player at the 1965 U.S. Open. AP News Posted: Wed Jan. 28, 2015 Install App SYDNEY -- Kel Nagle, a former British Open winner, U.S. Open runner-up and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has died. He was 94. The PGA of Australia said in a statement Thursday that Nagle, who won the British Open at St. Andrews in 1960, its centenary year, died overnight at a Sydney hospital. It did not give a cause of death. The Australian golfer, who won a tournament every year for 26 years after turning professional in 1946, collected 61 victories on the PGA Tour of Australasia and two on the U.S. tour. His win at St. Andrews came by one stroke over Arnold Palmer, who was attempting to win his third consecutive major that year after taking the Masters and U.S. Open. Nagle finished second to Gary Player at the 1965 U.S. Open at Bellerive in St. Louis, losing an 18-hole playoff to the South African. Player said then that Nagle was ''one of the best short-game players'' he had seen. Nagle also won the Australian PGA championship a record six times and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2007. He also played on the PGA Senior Tour (now Champions Tour) in the United States in 102 events from 1981-1989. Nagle's other achievements included wins at the 1954 World Cup in Montreal and 1959 World Cup in Melbourne with partner Peter Thomson, a five-time British Open champion. ''It's a sad day for golf, we've lost a champion of our game,'' said PGA chief executive Brian Thorburn. In 1980, Nagle was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the sport of golf and was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1986. ''Kel was a giant of the game,'' said Golf Australia chief executive Stephen Pitt. ''But much more than that, he was an ambassador for his sport and his country, universally liked and admired by his peers.'' For more news that golfers everywhere are talking about, follow  @golf_com  on Twitter, like us on  Facebook , and subscribe to  our YouTube video channel . More From the Web


"Who painted ""Girl reading a letter"" ?"

GIRL READING A LETTER BY AN OPEN WINDOW by Johannes Vermeer Apr 22, Giuseppe Torelli, composer (Concert Grossi op 8), is born in Italy. literature Moliere was anointed with the patronage of King Louis XIV. Molière left behind a body of work which not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands (1661), The School for Wives (1662), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Tartuffe (1664,1667,1669), The Miser (1668), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673). science & philosophy Amsterdam naturalist Jan Swammerdam, 21, gives the first description of red blood cells. He will complete his medical studies in 1667 but devote himself to studying insects, tadpoles, frogs, and mammals rather than practicing medicine. history Sep 3, Oliver Cromwell, Lord  Protector of the New Commonwealth, i.e. ruler over England’s Puritan parliament, dies at age 59. Richard Cromwell succeeded his father as English Lord  Protector. It has been estimated that there were about 650 to 750 painters working in the Netherlands in 1650s or about one for each 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants, in Delft one out of every 500. By comparison, the number of painters in Renaissance Italy was about one every 330, in a population of some 9 million. Most Dutch painters came from middle-class families since painting generally did not offer sufficient status to attract the wealthy and the poor could rarely afford the training. As their status and social ambition rose, some Dutch artists assumed the manners, and dress, of their wealthy clients. Vermeer himself appears to have made serious efforts to cast himself as a gentleman/artist. When Vermeer turned his attention to the domestic interior motif, he entered into a highly competitive niche market already dominated by a few exceptional artists such as Gerrit ter Borch, Frans van Mieris and Gerrit Dou. These painters specialized in themes of upper-class domestic interiors, now grouped togehter with a host of other subjects under the term ï¿½genre.ï¿½ Their work displays an truly astonishing level of detai,l at times near microscopic, and required enormous number of work hours making them affordable for a select few. Dou is reported to have sold some works for more than 1,000 guilders or roughly the equivalent of the venerated great Italian Masters. A modest Dutch house could be had for less. Before the 1650s, few rooms in the typical middle-class Dutch house had specialized functions. Beds, for example, were placed in halls, kitchens or wherever they could fit. But when rooms did assume a particular use, it was often reflected in the paintings chosen to decorate them—domestic scenes or religious images were selected more often for private areas of the house while landscapes or city views were shown in public areas. Typical Dutch homes were generally far more cluttered and not as well-lit as the pristine environments that appear in Vermeer's compositions. The image of the famous 17th-century doll house created by Petronella Dunois very likely affords a more accurate idea of the furniture arrangement and density of a true Dutch well-to-do home. Although exceptionally few Dutch domestic envirnoments have survived, a few doll's houses made in Amsterdam in the second half of the 17th century are regarded as an inexhaustible source of information about the furnishing of grand merchant's houses in the heyday of the Dutch Republic. One such doll-house was commissioned by Petronella Oortsman (1656-1718), who as a wealthy widow married the silk merchant Johannes Brandt in 1686. She started assembling her doll's house shortly after marriage. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam estimates that Petronella Oortman spent twenty to thirty thousand guilders on her model house, the price of a real house along one of Amsterdam's most sought-after canal locations at that time. It took nearly 20 years to build. Merry Company at a Table Hendrick van der Burch 55 x 69 cm. Private collection Historians of


The species name Picea as in Picea Abies and Picea Sitchensis has the common English name for which tree ?

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Bob Hewitt was one half of a famous tennis pairing who were Wimbledon Double Champions three times. Who was his partner ?

Mark Knowles | Tennis Tennis Tennis Tennis Tennis Tennis Archive for the 'Mark Knowles' Category 30 Tags: Andy Roddick , Mark Knowles Bahamian tennis star Mark Knowles is pleased to announce the annual Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational will be held on 1-4 December 2011 at the Atlantis Resort & Casino by Presenting Sponsor, MDC-Partners, and organized by the Mark Knowles Management Group (MKMG). This year’s featured players are Andy Roddick, Xavier Malisse, and Sabine Lisicki with some additional stars to be announced at a later date. The organizers plan to hold a Pro/Am doubles tournament for Platinum sponsors, a Pro Exhibition and an opportunity for top Bahamian junior tennis players to interact with the visiting professionals. The Mark Knowles Celebrity Invitational was established in 2001, its mission to raise funds supporting a range of local children’s charities on the islands. Past beneficiaries have included The Sassoon Pediatric Heart Foundation, The Cancer Society, The Association of the Physically Disabled, The Children’s Emergency Hospital, The Boy Scouts of Bahamas, The Special Olympics and scholarships for promising junior tennis players. Through the generous support of sponsors, fellow tennis players and of course, the fans, proceeds have saved lives and provided important opportunities for a number of individuals. 2010 marked the tenth anniversary of the event and pushed total contributions to over $650,000. Proceeds enabled Knowles to endow a local hospital with its first children’s heart defibrillator – in the past, child cardiac arrest patients had to rely on the usage of an adult defibrillator. Previous projects have included emergency heart surgery for a baby girl, 12 days in age; the remodeling of cancer recovery rooms; and funding for a Special Olympics tennis player, who recently won a medal at the World Games.   Tags: Mark Knowles , Sabine Lisicki Not content to let their male counterparts enjoy all the fun in the sun in The Bahamas, this year’s Mark Knowles Celebrity Invitational charity event from December 2nd to 5th has drawn 3 repeat female participants; Anna Lena Groenefeld, Sabine Lisicki and Olga Savchuk and a new face, U.S. Federation Cup team heroine, Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The Professional Tennis Exhibition will be held at the National Tennis Centre, Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre at 3.00 p.m. on Saturday 4th December. Admission: Adults $10 and Children Free. Students in school sports shirts Free. (Don’t be surprised if Andy Murray shows up!) The annual hit with the Pros will take place with junior players selected by Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association at the Exhibition on 4th December at the National Tennis Centre ending with an autograph session with the pros. The proceeds of the event will go to aid local children’s’ charities. To date over $500,000 has been distributed to various charities. Tickets are now on sale at the National Tennis Centre, Atlantis Tennis Centre, Village Squash Club, H.G.Christie Ltd. and Lyford Cay School or telephone 242-359-2542. Share this: Tags: Mahesh Bhupathi , Mark Knowles Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles edged a tight encounter with Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 3-6, 6-3, 10-7 at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Tuesday afternoon at The O2. Having also defeated Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak in their first match Sunday, they now top Group B with a 2-0 match record. The top two teams from Groups A and B advance to the semi-finals on Saturday. “We’re excited, very excited,” said Knowles. “Especially because they were playing extremely well. They were serving at an incredible rate; very hard, but also high percentage. They were playing really, really well there in the first set. We just kind of rode them out, got a couple looks at a second serve in the second set, and were able to return well and turn the match around. We played really solid at the end and kind of raised our level. Share this: Tags: Andy Roddick , Anna-Lena Groenefeld , Mark Knowles Tickets are now on sale for the 9th Annual Mark Knowles Celebrity


Which general, famous for his military exploits against the French in the Napoleonic Wars, was born in St Petersburg in 1745 and died in Russia in 1813 ?

Russian Army of Napoleonic Wars : Officers : Discipline : Strength : Organization : Tactics Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars . "The whole appearance of a Russian army denotes hardihood and bravery, inured to any privations . They subsist well on black bread: few cattle are seen following the army. Their commissaries have little to do; and the great burden of managing the commissariat, which is so irksome to a B r i t i s h commander on service, seems perfectly light to a Russian chief." - British General Sir Charles Stewart . "If the Frenchmen had the firmness and the docility of the Russians the world not be great enough for me." - Napoleon . "...the Russians are very brave." -Karl v.Clausewitz, Prussian officer If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then the Russians must have been most flattered when in 1815 the Prussian army adopted the style and design of Russian uniforms. . "Russia, as much by her position as by her inexhaustible resources, is and must be the first power in the world." - Chancellor Rostopchin . When Revolution in France erupted Russia promised that the rule of mobs in France would soon end and true order of matters would be restored. This drew Russia into a series of wars against France and her neighbors, which had far-reaching consequences for Europe. Russia was torn between Asia and Europe and only sparsely settled.  The vast land together with the long winters produced the melancholy and mystery not felt in any other country. According to Paul Austin when in 1812 Napoleon's army entered Russia, the troops were "a bit frightened at the sight of so sparsely populated and poverty-stricken a countryside.  Dedem finds himself in 'a desert' ... Bonnet of the 18th Regiment of Line Infantry, Ney's III Army Corps ... is shocked to see how the peasants' clothing consists of only "a shirt, a pair of coarse cloth trousers, a hooded cloak of sheepskin and some kind of a fur cap." ... As for their villages, they're even more squalid than the Polish ones. ... General Claparede, writes home to his young bride: 'The inhabitants and their houses are very ugly and extremely dirty, and the latter only differ from the peasants' log cabins in possessing a chimney or two.'" (Austin - "1812 The March on Moscow" p 59) By the end of the 16th century the Russian peasant came under the complete control of the landowner and during the middle of the 17th century serfdom became hereditary. Their situation became comparable to that of slaves in USA and they could be sold to another landowner in families or singly. By the 19th century it was estimated that about 50 % of Russian peasants were serfs. By 1800, the nobles made up more than 2 % of the population.  In 1804 approx. 50 % of Russian factory workers were serfs. Willian Napier of British army calls Russia "the most formidable and brutal, the most swinish tyranny that has ever menaced and disgraced European civilization." (Napier - "History of the War in the Peninsula 1807-1814" Vol IV, p 167) According to the census of 1857 the number of serfs was 23 million out of 62 million Russians. By comparison, the U.S. had 4 million slaves by 1860. Moscow however made great impression on the French and German soldiers: "The sun was reflected on all the domes, the spires and gilded palaces. The many capitals I'd seen - such as Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna and Madrid - had only produced an ordinary impression on me. But this was quite different !" - wrote Bourgogne. Griois writes: "In no way did it resemble any cities I'd seen in Europe." Richard Rhein writes, "Moscow in 1812 was a sprawling city of about 250,000 inhabitants during the fall. Throughout the winter months, when the nobles and their serfs returned from their country estates, the population would increase by about 100,000." Even the road to Moscow was a masterpiece - according to Captain Breaut des Marlots "you can march along in 10 vehicles abreast." Moscow and St.Petersburg were the largest Russian cities. St.Petersburg was a planned city of canals and straight streets. By contr


Which region of France is bordered by Spain to the south and by the Bay of Biscay to the west ?

Political Map of France - Nations Online Project Political Map of France ___ Political Map of France About France France is a country located on the western edge of Europe, bordered by the Bay of Biscay (North Atlantic Ocean) in west, by the English Channel in north west, by the North Sea in north, by Belgium and Luxembourg in north east, by Germany , Switzerland and Italy in east, by the Mediterranean Sea, Monaco , Spain and Andorra in south. France shares also maritime borders with the United Kingdom . Since 1994 France and the UK are connected by the Channel Tunnel, a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone in Kent, UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France. With an area of 551,500 km²    Metropolitan France is more than twice the size of the United Kingdom or more than twice the size of the U.S. state Colorado . France has a population of 66.6 million people (est. 2016); 64.5 million people in Metropolitan France and 2.1 million in its overseas regions. Largest city and capital is Paris . Spoken language is French (official). Map is showing Metropolitan France, that is the French mainland and the island of Corsica. Depicted on the map is the country with international borders, the national      capital Paris, region capitals, major cities, main roads, and major airports. Geography of France [show]   Metropolitan France has two shorelines, one at the North Atlantic Ocean, the other at the Mediterranean Sea, it sums up to a total of 3,427 km of coastline. About two-thirds of the county's interior (in north and west) consists of  plains or gently rolling hills, within there are two major basins: the Paris basin in the northwest, drained by the river Seine, and the Aquitaine basin in the southwest, drained by the Garonne river. The plains are interspersed with highlands here and there. To the south of the country are the rugged Pyrenees, two parallel mountain ranges that creates a natural border between France and Spain, its highest mountains rise up to more than 3,000 m. In south east the Massif Central, a formerly volcanic region with a large concentration of extinct volcanoes, like the Chaine des Puys, a chain of cinder cones, lava domes, and maars within the Massif Central. East of the Massif, separated by a deep north-south cleft created by the Rhone River are the French Alps, part of the Alps, the great mountain range system of Europe. Within the Alps is the highest mountain of France, Mont Blanc with 4,807 m. It is also Italy's highest peak because the "White Mountain" sits on the border which separtes both nations. French Rivers: The longest rivers within France are Loire, Seine, Garonne, and Rhone, the Rhine river in east forms the border with Germany for about 160 km (100 mi). Seine, and Garonne are the main rivers for transportation in France. Airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, also known as Rossy Airport ( IATA code : CDG), located in the vicinity of Paris is the largest and busiest airport in France. Paris-Orly Airport ( IATA code : ORY) located south of Paris is the busiest French airport for domestic traffic. Major Seaports: France has several major seaports, largest port is Marseille , followed by Le Havre, Dunkirk, and Nantes/Saint-Nazaire.   all countries of the world   You are free to   use this map for educational purposes, please refer to the Nations Online Project. Political Map of France Cities and Towns in France: The Map shows the location of following French cities: Agen, Aix-en-Provence, Ajaccio, Alençon, Alès, Amiens, Angers, Angoulême, Annecy, Arcachon, Arles, Arras, Auch, Aurillac, Auxerre, Avallon, Avignon, Bastia, Bayonne, Beaune, Beauvais, Belfort, Besançon, Biarritz, Bonifacio, Bordeaux, Bourg-, Bourges, Bressuire, Brest, Brive-la-, Béziers, Caen, Calais, Calvi, Cannes, Carcassone, Castres, Chambéry, Cherbourg, Châlons-en-Champagne, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Corte, Dieppe, Dijon, Douarnenez, Dunkirk, Gaillarde, Gap, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Le Mans, Le Puy, Lille, Limoges, Lorient, Lourdes, Lyon (capital of Rhô


"In 2012, who was elected as ""General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party"" and will serve as the leader of China until 2022, arguably becoming the most powerful man in the world ?"

In the Year of the Dragon: China’s 2012 - Los Angeles Review of Books In the Year of the Dragon: China’s 2012 By Rebecca Liao JANUARY 3, 2013 THE YEAR 2012 should go down as one of China’s most eventful in recent memory. A blind lawyer’s dramatic escape from house arrest, controversies with neighboring countries over control of a string of islands, a Chinese novelist’s win of the Nobel Prize for Literature — there was no shortage of stories related to China that made international headlines. In spite of all this — and in spite of the fall from great heights of neo-Maoist leader Bo Xilai — it felt like a year in which nothing happened. For the country has fixed its gaze on achieving a specific ambitious goal: that of rapidly becoming a globally admired and thoroughly modern nation through its own original methods, and to have this achievement go down as a formative and positive development in human history. Once China committed to this future, any year that ends without palpable progress towards it is bound to seem inconsequential. What China achieved in 2008, with its high profile Olympics, and in 2010, with the news that it had surpassed Japan to become the world’s second economy, 2012 simply could not match. China’s long-term evolution has trended steadily if haltingly upward, albeit with violent setbacks along the way, including the descent into the misery of the Great Leap Famine (1958-1962) and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The country’s current path of change, which has brought it more wealth and power than any previous one, finds its origins in Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms, begun in the 1980s and accelerated after the Tiananmen uprising in 1989. This period solidified neoliberalism’s place as a stable option for reform. The Communist Party anointed the enterprise “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” still the core phrase defining modern China. The country’s guiding ideology, however, is probably more in line with Deng’s cruder slogan, “To get rich is glorious.” The dominant order of Western capitalist democracies, which is still the ultimate judge of China’s economic progress, seems to agree with Deng. It was for this reason that in 2012, they deemed 2030 to be China’s magical marker. Jim O’Neill, head of global asset management at Goldman Sachs, had predicted in 2011 that China’s economy could surpass that of the Unites States by 2027. Perhaps to account for any rounding errors (and give China a reasonable horizon of 20 years), both the World Bank and the National Intelligence Council released reports detailing what China ought to do to become a fully mature global power by the year 2030. The implications, whether intended or not, are clear: 2030 is a deadline for China to profoundly restructure its economy, and if China can focus on achieving this goal, it will as a matter of course institute necessary political and social reforms. It is this complex web of political, social, economic, plain-view, and shadow dimensions to China’s development that Red Rising, Red Eclipse, the first installment of the China Story Yearbook project headed by noted China historian Geremie Barmé, seeks to chronicle. One indicator of the book’s comprehensive success is that the internet version has been banned in Mainland China.  When people call for economic reform in China, they reserve their lightest criticism for the methods of China’s highly skilled economists. In the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008, China pursued an expansionary monetary policy to ensure that production and investment stayed at high levels despite the fall-off of exports. Some may argue that China overshot its target, encouraging real estate speculation and inefficient infrastructure projects, which may yet lead to a hard landing. Encouraging economic numbers came out in October, with exports, the engine of China’s economy, growing 11.6 percent. In November, this number dropped to 2.9 percent, way off estimates from FactSet and Dow Jones that hovered near 10 percent. The monthly trade surplus had been expected to in


"Which poet laureate wrote the poems ""Mount Zion"", ""New bats in old belfries"" and ""A nip in the air"" ?"

John Betjeman | Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation 1906–1984 Mark Gerson John Betjeman, poet laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death in 1984, was known by many as a poet whose writing evoked a sense of nostalgia. He utilized traditional poetic forms, wrote with a light touch about public issues, celebrated classic architecture, and satirized much of contemporary society for his perception of its superficiality. "Modern 'progress' is anathema to him ... ," Jocelyn Brooke wrote in Ronald Firbank and John Betjeman prior to Betjeman's death: "though fortunately for us [he] is still able to laugh." Brooke continued: "Perhaps [Betjeman] can best be described as a writer who uses the medium of light verse for a serious purpose: not merely as a vehicle for satire or social commentary, but as a means of expressing a peculiar and specialized form of aesthetic emotion, in which nostalgia and humour are about equally blended." Betjeman's poetry was considered something of a phenomenon: it was read by a large audience and was also praised by literary critics. As Ralph J. Mills pointed out in Descant, "Betjeman is a phenomenon in contemporary English literature, a truly popular poet. The sudden fame won by his Collected Poems . . . brought him a wide reputation and made him quickly into a public personality." Betjeman was also admired by such poets and critics as Edmund Wilson and W. H. Auden , who dedicated his own The Age of Anxiety to his fellow poet. "Certainly it is very rare in our day to see much accord between distinguished critics and poets on the one hand and the general public on the other," Mills would add; "but the very complexity of Betjeman's personality and feelings beneath the skillful though apparently simple surface of his verse probably unites, in whatever different kinds of levels of appreciation, the otherwise remote members of his audience." 1958's Collected Poems first brought Betjeman into the popular limelight. Displaying the poet's skillful use of nineteenth-century poetic models, the collection was enthusiastically received by many critics. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer, for example, stated that Betjeman's poems were "a pleasant change from the shapeless and unarticulated matter . . . offered us by so many of his contemporaries. For Mr. Betjeman is a born versifier, ingenious and endlessly original; his echoes of Tennyson and Crabb, Praed and Father Prout, are never mere pastiche; and he is always attentive to the sound of his words, the run of his lines, the shape of his stanzas." T. J. Ross, however, found that although "his ear is as flawless as Tennyson's and his effects sometimes as remarkable, Betjeman creates a world which, unlike the Victorians', is a miniature." Ross believed that when Betjeman involved the reader completely with his subject "the result [was] poor." Only when he kept the reader at a distance did he bring his work up to the level of "first-rate minor art." But Louise Bogan had high praise for Betjeman's work: "His verse forms, elaborately varied, reproduce an entire set of neglected Victorian techniques, which he manipulates with the utmost dexterity and taste. His diction and his observation are delightfully fresh and original. And it is a pleasure to let down our defenses and be swept along by his anapaestic lines, with their bouncing unstressed syllables, and to meet no imperfect or false rhymes in the process; to recognize sentiment so delicately shaded, so sincerely felt, that it becomes immediately acceptable even to our modern sensibilities, grown used to the harsh, the violent, and the horrifying." In Summoned by Bells, Betjeman recreates his personal past in richly-detailed poems. Because the poet was able to recreate so accurately the time and place of his own childhood, Mills attributed to Betjeman "an almost Proustian memory." Walter Allen, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called Summoned by Bells an autobiography. But the collection, Allen explained, "can't be judged simply as the equivalent of an autobiographical novel. Whatever the f


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Leonard Bernstein, Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5, Allegro non troppo (1979) - YouTube Leonard Bernstein, Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5, Allegro non troppo (1979) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 5, 2011 Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Music: Symphony no. 5: Allegro non troppo. Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Concert: A registration from 1979. ~~ LEONARD BERNSTEIN ....is one of the best and most famous composers, conductors and musicians of the world, ever. The innovative music, Bernstein composed for the immense popular film "West Side Story" must be one of the reasons, at least for the beginning of an unique development in and for the history of music, and for the name Leonard Bernstein. We will never forget him. He lived from August 25, 1918 till October 14, 1990. His passing away is a loss for the world. His music is eternal. His musical interpretations and performances are unforgettable because they are unique. More:


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Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No.7) (Vaughan Williams, Ralph) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music Disclaimers Sinfonia Antarctica (Symphony No.7) (Vaughan Williams, Ralph) This work is likely not in the public domain in the US (due to first publication with the required notice after 1922, plus renewal or "restoration" under the GATT/TRIPS amendments), nor in the EU and those countries where the copyright term is life+70 years. However, it is public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) and in other countries (China, Japan, S. Korea) where the copyright term is life+50 years. Please obey the copyright laws of your country. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country. Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's


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Ted Hughes | Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation Poet Details 1930–1998 One of the giants of 20th century British poetry, Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force, Hughes attended Cambridge, where he studied archeology and anthropology, taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath , who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Awarded first prize by judges Marianne Moore , W.H. Auden , and Stephen Spender , The Hawk in the Rain (1957) secured Hughes’s reputation as a poet of international stature. According to poet and critic Robert B. Shaw , “Hughes’s poetry signaled a dramatic departure from the prevailing modes of the period. The stereotypical poem of the time was determined not to risk too much: politely domestic in its subject matter, understated and mildly ironic in style. By contrast, Hughes marshaled a language of nearly Shakespearean resonance to explore themes which were mythic and elemental.” Hughes’s long career included unprecedented best-selling volumes such as Lupercal (1960), Crow (1970), Selected Poems 1957-1981 (1982), and The Birthday Letters (1998), as well as many beloved children’s books, including The Iron Man (1968). With Seamus Heaney , he edited the popular anthologies The Rattle Bag (1982) and The School Bag (1997). Named executor of Plath’s literary estate, he edited several volumes of her work. Hughes also translated works from Classical authors, including Ovid and Aeschylus. An incredibly prolific poet, translator, editor, and children’s book author, Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984, a post he held until his death. Among his many awards, he was appointed to the Order of Merit, one of Britain’s highest honors. The rural landscape of Hughes’s youth in Yorkshire exerted a lasting influence on his work. To read Hughes’s poetry is to enter a world dominated by nature, especially by animals. This holds true for nearly all of his books, from The Hawk in the Rain to Wolfwatching (1989) and Moortown Diary (1989), two of his late collections. Hughes’s love of animals was one of the catalysts in his decision to become a poet. According to London Times contributor Thomas Nye, Hughes once confessed “that he began writing poems in adolescence, when it dawned upon him that his earlier passion for hunting animals in his native Yorkshire ended either in the possession of a dead animal, or at best a trapped one. He wanted to capture not just live animals, but the aliveness of animals in their natural state: their wildness, their quiddity, the fox-ness of the fox and the crow-ness of the crow.” However, Hughes’s interest in animals was generally less naturalistic than symbolic. Using figures such as “Crow” to approximate a mythic everyman, Hughes’s work speaks to his concern with poetry’s vatic, even shamanic powers. Working in sequences and lists, Hughes frequently uncovered a kind of autochthonous, yet literary, English language. According to Peter Davison in the New York Times, “While inhabiting the bodies of creatures, mostly male, Hughes clambers back down the evolutionary chain. He searches deep into the riddles of language, too, those that precede any given tongue, language that reeks of the forest or even the jungle. Such poems often contain a touch—or more than a touch—of melodrama, of the brutal tragedies of Seneca that Hughes adapted for the modern stage.” Hughes’s posthumous publications include Selected Poems 1957-1994 (2002), an updated and expanded version of the original 1982 edition, and Letters of Ted Hughes (2008), which were edited by Christopher Reid and showcase Hughes’s voluminous correspondence. According to David Orr in the New York Times, Hughes’s “letters are immediately interesting and accessible to third parties to whom they aren’t addressed… Hughes can turn out a memorable description (biographies of Plath are ‘a perpetual smoldering in the cellar for us. There’s always one or two smoking away’), and his offha


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'A Fistful of Dollars? It's my worst ever score' | Film | The Guardian 'A Fistful of Dollars? It's my worst ever score' He is the god of film soundtracks. Will Hodgkinson finds out what makes Ennio Morricone tick They shoot, he scores ... Ennio Morricone. Photograph: Szilard Koszticsak/AP Share on Messenger Close Rome on May 15, and Italy's new president, 80-year-old, Giorgio Napolitano is being sworn in. A procession of liveried soldiers march outside Quirinale Palace and 21 cannons are shot from Gianicolo Hill to herald the president's arrival. A few hundred yards away at the chic Piazza Venezia, a ceremony of a different kind is taking place involving another, equally decorated 80-year-old: Ennio Morricone, the godfather of film music, is preparing to be interviewed. "He can be quite grumpy," says the genial translator a little nervously as we wait in the cobbled courtyard of Morricone's building to be summoned by the maestro. "Once I translated for an American journalist who kept asking him about the Sergio Leone films. Morricone told me that if she asked him about Leone one more time, he was leaving." This is not the first time I've been warned about the "Leone question". Morricone has written scores for more than 400 films since receiving his first commission in 1962, but his name will forever be linked with the haunting whistles, ticking pocket-watches and gloriously foreboding orchestral sweeps that give 1960s westerns such as A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly their mood and tension. Apparently he's not too happy about this. And he finds the common term for Leone's Italian-made recreations of the American west deeply offensive. I've been told that should I in any way connect the word "spaghetti" with "western", I might find a plate of the stuff tipped over my head. Finally, we are summoned to Morricone's apartment. Huge double doors open on to a gilded palace of a flat. The flat is so immaculate - even the stack of art books on the coffee table is in perfect geometric alignment - it is hard to tell if it is actually inhabited or merely a showpiece for Roman living. But sitting in one of the sofas, looking like a modern-day emperor, is Morricone. He doesn't exactly smile, but he does not look hostile either. I try to butter him up by mentioning an obscure film called Stark System that he scored. He groans. "I can't remember anything about it," he says, "except that the director was a woman." Further questions about little-known movies bring recollections of "a beautiful woman" whose "private parts" were featured in close-up, and "a stunning woman who was at least 6ft tall". If nothing else, Morricone's career has brought him into contact with a lot of women. Morricone's stubborn clarity of vision, combined with a rigorous training and an open mind, has put him in a class of his own among soundtrack composers. Born into a musical family in 1926 and educated at the Conservatory of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Morricone began working in film music by chance. "Once I finished my studies, I played trumpet with a small band just when the war had finished, a very bad time in our history," he says. "We used to play for American and British armies and I didn't like that - I didn't enjoy playing other people's music, and if I hadn't worked in film I would have been a composer of free music. But a director called me, so I started writing scores. I have never once gone to a director and offered him ideas; they have always come to me." Sergio Leone, a former school friend, came to Morricone when he needed music for his first film in 1964. Reasoning that not asking Morricone about A Fistful of Dollars would be like not asking Frank Sinatra about My Way, I promise to keep my questions about his Leone scores to a minimum, and ask how he came up with the brooding score. "Who told him not to ask me about Leone?" he snaps at the translator, before eloquently detailing his working relationship with the director. "Some of the music was written before the film, which is unusual," he explains. "Leone's fi


"In 1958 what was the first airline to fly a jet airliner ""The Comet"" across the Atlantic ?"

the jet airliner the jet airliner the jet    airliner The De Havilland Comet was the world's first jet airliner Like perhaps no other      single technology, the jet engine revolutionized air travel around the      world. Unlike the old propeller-driven planes that were powered by      piston engines, jet planes could fly at tremendous speeds, thus cutting      down travel time. Jet-equipped airplanes also could climb faster and      fly higher. Both the U.S. Air Force and civil aircraft builders found      these capabilities attractive in the years after World War II when      international contacts stretched across the globe. There were, however,      major concerns about transferring jet engine technology to the      commercial aviation sector. Airline executives in the post-war era were      aware that, although jet engines were simpler than the old piston      engines, they also had high operating temperatures that required very      expensive metal alloy components that ultimately would affect an      aircraft's longevity and reliability. Moreover, jet engines used far greater amounts of fuel. The initially low takeoff speed would also      require longer runways. All of this added up to increased costs. As a      result, U.S. passenger air carriers did not support the building of jet      airliners in the immediate post-war years, and adopted a ï¿½wait-and-seeï¿½      approach before embarking on this risky path. The British Overseas Aircraft Corporation (BOAC), the national British      carrier, first introduced a commercial jet airliner into service. The      36-seat Comet 1, built by De Havilland, flew for the first time on July      27, 1949. BOAC inaugurated the world's first commercial jet service on      May 2, 1952. Initial flights took passengers from London to      Johannesburg in South Africa, with stops in Rome, Beirut, Khartoum (in      Sudan), Entebbe (in Kenya), and Livingstone, near Victoria Falls. At      the time, the top cruising speed of the most well known piston-engine      aircraft, the DC-3, was about 180 miles per hour (290 kilometres per      hour). With the Comet, passengers could travel comfortably at 480 miles      per hour (772 kilometres per hour), making it a revolutionary leap in      air travel. The Comet also provided conditions that contrasted sharply      to piston-engine planes: the planes were vibration-free and relatively      quiet. Unfortunately, the Comet was the victim of a number of tragic      accidents, and BOAC suspended flights within two years. Engineers found      that the planes suffered from metal fatigue, especially around rivet      holes, due to the need to repeatedly pressurize and depressurize the      aircraft. In 1952, Pan American Airways had already put in an order for      the new 76-seat Comet 3, but the crashes of the earlier Comet put the      contract into doubt. By this time, domestic U.S. companies had begun      their own programs to build jet airliners. Several factors, such as      improved jet engines, now convinced these companies to reconsider their      initial reluctance to build commercial jet planes. Of all the airlines in the United States, Pan American, which the U.S.      government considered its ï¿½chosen instrumentï¿½ to represent the American      commercial air fleet abroad, was undoubtedly a pioneer in embracing jet      aviation. Juan Trippe, the airlines' legendary chief executive officer,      had early on expressed a keen interest in operating a passenger jet      service capable of flying nonstop across the North Atlantic. Having      seen the bright promise of the British Comet fade, Trippe played off      two of the biggest domestic airplane builders, Boeing and Douglas. Both      companies vied to appeal to Pan American's needs and offered the Boeing      707 and DC-8, respectivel


The name of which chemical element of the Periodic Table ends with the letters ALT ?

Naming Chemical Compounds & Writing Chemical Formulas Binary Compounds   All true binary compounds contain only two elements. The  name of every binary compound ends with ï¿½ide.ï¿½ Binary  compounds come in three types. They are:             Type I............. the metal forms only one  type of cation             Type II............ the metal forms two or  more types of cations             Type III.......... contains only nonmetals We will look at each type, one at a time.   Type I Binary  Compounds   For Type I binary compounds the metal present can be  found in either Group 1 or Group 2 on the periodic  table. The naming system for this type of compound is quite simple and is  found below.   Rules for naming Type I binary compounds 1.         The cation is always named first and the anion second. 2.         A simple cation (obtained from a single atom) takes its name from   the name of the element. 3.         A simple anion (obtained from a single atom) is named by taking   the first part of the element name (the root) and adding the letters ï¿½IDE.ï¿½ 4.         Write the name for the compound by combining the names of the   ions.   Name the compound RbI. ï¿½        Rb is the chemical symbol for rubidium. ï¿½        I is the chemical symbol for iodine, whose root is ï¿½iod.ï¿½ Add  the ï¿½ideï¿½ ending to get iodide. ï¿½        Put the pieces together to get the name rubidium iodide.   Name the compound CaO. ï¿½        Ca is the chemical symbol for calcium. ï¿½        O is the symbol for oxygen, whose root is ï¿½ox.ï¿½ Add the ï¿½ideï¿½  ending to get oxide. ï¿½        Put the pieces together to get the name calcium oxide.   Name the compound Li3N. ï¿½        Li is the chemical symbol for lithium. ï¿½        N is the chemical symbol for nitrogen, whose root is ï¿½nitr.ï¿½ Add  the ï¿½ideï¿½ ending to get nitride. ï¿½        Put the pieces together to get the name lithium nitride.   Write the formula for potassium sulfide. ï¿½        The chemical symbol of potassium is K. K is in the 1st column of the periodic table, therefore, its oxidation state is +1. ï¿½        Sulfide is derived from sulfur, whose symbol is S. Its  oxidation state is -2.                                                +1 -2 ï¿½        So far we haveï¿½ K S. ï¿½        The total positive charge must balance the total negative  charge. Therefore, we need 2 K atoms to give a total positive charge of +2.  This balances the -2 charge on the sulfur. ï¿½        Putting it all together we have K2S.   Write the formula for magnesium chloride. ï¿½        The chemical symbol of magnesium is Mg. Mg is in the 2nd column of the periodic table, therefore, its oxidation state is +2. ï¿½        Chloride is derived from chlorine, whose symbol is Cl.  Its oxidation state is -1.                                                 +2       -1 ï¿½        So far we haveï¿½ Mg  Cl ï¿½        The total positive charge must balance the total negative  charge. Therefore, we need 2 chlorine atoms to give a total negative charge of  -2. This balances the charge on the magnesium. ï¿½        Putting it all together we have MgCl2.   NaCl ï¿½ sodium  chloride KI ï¿½ potassium  iodide RbBr ï¿½ rubidium  bromide MgS ï¿½ magnesium  sulfide Mg3N2 ï¿½ magnesium nitride Sodium fluoride ï¿½ NaF Strontium oxide ï¿½ SrO Beryllium chloride ï¿½ BeCl2 Cesium sulfide ï¿½ Ce2S Potassium phophide ï¿½ K3P   Type II Binary  Compounds   For Type II binary compounds the metal present is NOT found in either Group 1 or Group 2 on the periodic table. The  naming system for this type of compound is found below.   Rules for naming Type II binary compounds 1.         The cation is always named first and the anion second. 2.         A simple cation (obtained from a single atom) takes its name from   the name of the element. Include a Roman numeral to indicate the oxidation   number (charge) on the metal cation. 3.         A simple anion (obtained from a single atom) is named by taking   the first part of the element name (the root) and adding the


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"British Men Behaving Badly" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 8:34 AM, PST NEWS trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites memorable quotes Overview 23 out of 30 people found the following review useful: The American version was utterly horrible from Florida, USA 11 April 2004 So horrible, in fact, that the UK version probably changed it's name to "British Men Behaving Badly" so no one would confuse the hilarious version with the wretched American one starring (of all people) SNL's Rob Schneider and Ron Eldard (who was much better in "Sleepers"). The UK version stars Martin Clunes ("Shakespeare in Love", "Saving Grace", and the voice of Kipper) and Leslie Ash (who's had some atrocious plastic surgery since- she doesn't even look like herself anymore). Watching Clunes and Morrisey fumble around through bachelorhood is hysterical, since you wouldn't believe some of the things they do to cover their tracks from their girlfriends (who, of course, already know what they're up to). Great show. Too bad NBC insists on doing their own versions of Brit comedies- remember the debacle that was the American "Coupling"? Ugh. Leave it to the pros, guys. Was the above review useful to you? 16 out of 19 people found the following review useful: Excellent from London, England 10 December 1999 One of the best British sit-coms that the BBC have produced in the last twenty years. Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey are perfectly cast as Gary and Tony, as are, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash as their long suffering girlfriends. I don't think British audiences took well to the U.S. version of the show that came out in 1996, because the UK version had been around four years prior to this, and we had taken to the characters. But it is the same with any sit-com that is re-made from the UK Version and vice-versa. The BBC make a habit of re-running this show, and I never get tired of watching it. Was the above review useful to you? 13 out of 14 people found the following review useful: Men acting excellently from The Netherlands 20 August 2000 This is the best show the BBC has to offer and the best English comedy series besides Fawlty Towers, so I feel and lucky a Dutch TV station finally picked this one up last year (I hope they'll also broadcast them following season). The show is about Tony (Neil Morrissey) and Gary (Martin Clunes, whom some of you might remember as Richard Burbage in Shakespeare in Love) who live together and as the title of this show suggests they behave badly, actually they are pigs. They are dumb, filthy, insensitive, asocial and they drink a lot. But most of all they are believable, never have I seen a show that is so believable with such extraordinary' people in it. Then of course these two are not alone, they are joint by Gary's and Tony's upstairs neighbour Deborah (Leslie Ash) and Gary's girlfriend Dorothy (Caroline Quentin), who can actually be just as filthy as Gary but only if she feels like it. This really is a very good show, because the actors are great and it is funny (if you have got the right sense of humour, cause if you don't you might be offended). This a 30 minute gross-out session I just MUST attend every week. Was the above review useful to you? 10 out of 11 people found the following review useful: So true, it's scary!!! from Singapore 11 February 2003 This is the only comedy series I have ever watched that whether you are male or female you can absolutely relate to. Either you have done or experienced first hand everything that happens in each episode. Series 1 with Harry Enfield was fantastic, but when Neil Morrisey replaced him in Series 2 things only got better! If you have the DVD set (a great investment) then don't forget to check out the outtakes (via the Pub Quiz) - Very funny! Having read comments from others and external reviews, decided to add a bit more to my comments... Men Behaving Badly was interesting because it was a show that jumped channels. It started on ITV (only Series 1 I think) and then moved to the BBC. However it was still Pearson TV that were behin


In 1940 a film called 'The Philadelphia Story' was released starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart. Based on a Philip Barry play it was later remade, in 1956, as what musical ?

The Philadelphia Story (1940) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. Director: Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play), Philip Barry (based on the play by) Stars: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 34 titles created 24 Jul 2011 a list of 30 titles created 31 Aug 2011 a list of 43 titles created 26 Feb 2013 a list of 33 titles created 9 months ago a list of 33 titles created 2 months ago Title: The Philadelphia Story (1940) 8/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     2     Oscars. Another    3 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Director: Howard Hawks A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family. Director: Frank Capra In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. Director: John Huston     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X   A young man falls in love with a girl from a rich family. His unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life is met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother. Director: George Cukor Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. Director: Ernst Lubitsch Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows. Director: Henry Koster A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Director: Alfred Hitchcock Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. Director: Howard Hawks Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust? Director: Stanley Donen A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story. Director: Frank Capra A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down. Director: Frank Capra A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. Director: Frank Capra Edit Storyline Philadelphia socialites Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven married impulsively, with their marriage and subsequent divorce being equally passionate. They broke up when Dexter's drinking became excessive, it a mechanism to cope with Tracy's unforgiving manner to the imperfect, imperfections which Dexter admits he readily has. Two years after their break-up, Tracy is about to remarry, the ceremony to take place at the Lord mansion. Tracy's bridegroom is nouveau riche businessman and aspiring politician George Kittredge, who is otherwise a rather ordinary man and who idolizes Tracy. The day before the wedding, three unexpected guests show up at the Lord mansion: Macaulay Connor (Mike to his friends), Elizabeth Imbrie - the two who are friends of Tracy's absent brother, Junior - and Dexter himself. Dexter, an employee of the tabloid Spy magazine, made a deal with its publisher and editor Sidney Kidd to get a story on Tracy's wedding - the wedding of the year - in return for Kidd not ... Writ


Which is the only Shakespeare play with a British place name in the title ?

Shakespeare in Europe: Introduction « MIT Global Shakespeares February 7, 2012 Written by Aneta Mancewicz , Kingston University, UK For centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been at the heart of European culture. Owing to their canonical status in European drama and theatre, they have been used both to reflect on and to advance aesthetic, social and political transformations in Europe. Over time, they have served to develop theatrical and cultural patterns, to stimulate social, political and historical changes, to form the notion of nationhood in individual countries, and to shape a sense of common European identity. Performances of Shakespeare’s plays on the Continent date back to his lifetime. Between the end of the 16th century and the reopening of theaters in England in 1660, English companies successfully toured vast and diverse geopolitical areas, including today’s Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic and Russia. The English actors staged the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries at imperial and royal courts, fencing schools, town markets, inn-yards, churches and churchyards. They adapted the scripts and adjusted their performance style for audiences of widely ranging status, education, wealth, religion, ethnicity and language. Initially, Shakespeare was performed on the Continent in English. In busy cosmopolitan cities like the 17th century Gdańsk, which boasted one of the first stationary public theatres in Central Europe and had the largest English-speaking community on the Continent, there were many spectators capable of appreciating the subtleties of stage dialogue. Those who did not understand English could enjoy physical action, juggling and clowning. Over time, English companies touring the Continent began to employ German or Dutch actors and perform in German to reach wider audiences. Translated into German, Shakespeare’s plays were heavily adapted, often in prose with elements of dialect. The first collection of plays staged by English companies, published in Germany in 1620 and reprinted in 1624, entitled Englishe Comedien und Tragedien, edited by Friedrich Menius, includes two plays which echo Shakespeare: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus and Julio and Hyppolita, which is reminiscent of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the title and of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the plot development. The first complete translations of Shakespeare’s plays were produced in French and German. Between 1776 and 1783 twenty volumes of collected plays appeared in Pierre Le Tourneur’s translation. From 1762 to 1766 Christoph Martin Wieland published a prose translation of twenty-two plays in German, which Johann Joachim Eschenburg emended and completed between 1775 and 1782. The complete translation began by August Wilhelm von Schlegel and finished by Ludwig Tieck in 1833 became the masterwork of German language, establishing Shakespeare as the third greatest German author, after Goethe and Schiller. Shakespeare’s remarkable reputation in the 18th century is further testified by the fact that his plays were translated by the enlightened rulers: Tsarina Catherine the Great adapted Merry Wives of Windsor into Russian as This Is What it Means to have a Buck-Basket and Linen and Timon of Athens (on the basis of a German translation) as The Spendthrift. The last Polish king Stanislaus August Poniatowski translated Julius Caesar into French, the language of his court. An increased interest in translating and staging Shakespeare occurred at the end of the 18th century, coinciding with the development of Romanticism, the spread of national attitudes and the cultural revival in numerous countries across Europe. Initially Shakespeare’s works tended to be translated from German or French; they were frequently altered to suit neo-classical tastes still prevalent on the Continent. In Restoration England they were adapted (and often censored) in terms of their language, plot and themes to reflect aesthetic, cultural and political alterations. Rewritings such as John Dryden and


"The ""Goldwing"" is a famous motor-cycle model, produced by which company ?"

Goldwing History By Steve Saunders   I have lost count of the number of times people have said to me; "You ride a Goldwing. I thought they stopped making them in the 1980's". Well folks, Honda are still making them in the 21st. Century and for anyone who thought otherwise, read my version of the history of the Honda Goldwing motorcycle.   The Honda Goldwing motorcycle first saw the light of day at the Cologne Motorcycle Show in October 1974, as the flat-four cylinder, 999cc GL1000 Gold Wing and was released to the world for the 1975 model year. While this first production version of the now famous Goldwing was ultimately deemed to be a success (it was after all the birth of a legend), it's place in the world of motorcycling was not entirely cast in stone at the beginning. Part of the reason for this was the fact that the GL1000 didn't really fit properly into any particular motorcycle class, even though it was officially tagged as a tourer. Weighing in at 584lbs dry, it was far too heavy to be called a sports bike and the upright sitting position also helped to kill of any such sporting pretensions. The rear coil spring suspension wasn't up to the job of handling all the weight when the rider was pushing it through heavy going, such as the winding country roads that all bikers love (at least occasionally) to tackle. The total absence of touring kit fitted as standard didn't help the official touring image either, Honda didn't make their own saddlebags and trunk available for the GL1000 until it's last year of production in 1979, in spite of promising to do so in 1975. A Honda fairing was not even an option until the GL1100 Interstate was released in 1980! Honda's claim that the GL1000 was a tourer must have rang hollow in the ears of many owners keen to have their machines kitted out for the job. It's almost like the design team had a picture of what they wanted to make, but no clear idea of where to fit it once it went into production. More than one GL1000 owner has told me that their early impressions from the press reports was that Honda seemed to be more concerned with emphasising the outright straight-line performance of the beast, and cementing it's role as a proper touring motorcycle seemed to be of secondary importance at the time. One has to bear in mind that Honda (and all the other major motorcycle manufacturers) were trying to develop many models in the 1970's, this being the biggest boom time for motorcycles ever, period. This was a time when everyone and his sons bought motorcycles and paying attention to the needs of different types of riders (cruiser types, racers, commuters, tourers etc.) must have been very difficult during those hectic days. Nevertheless and in spite of all the confusion about the Goldwings role in life, the GL1000 proved to be a very reliable motorcycle, quite capable of going very long distances without missing a beat and almost immediately the aftermarket fairing & pannier suppliers started to cater for the requests of those who wanted to use the GL1000 for more than just popping down to the shops or Sunday morning posing at the local meet. This is what finally gave the Goldwing it's place in the motorcycling world, it really became a touring motorcycle because it's owners shaped it into one and Honda, always keen to keep an ear to the ground, listened to what the customers wanted (just as well too or they might have killed the Goldwing off before long, not least because expected sales of the Goldwing in the first year of production were less than 10% of what Honda had predicted) and started planning the next incarnation of what has turned into a legend in the world of touring motorcycles. In the meantime, 1976 saw the standard GL1000 unchanged, apart from a badly needed grease nipple on the driveshaft. A limited edition LTD model was rolled out alongside the standard model and the LTD had some nice badges, pinstriping, a better seat, flared mudguards, gold coloured wheels and spokes and some more nice but otherwise unimportant cosmeti