Arranged alphabetically, which would be the first book of the Old Testament?

Old Testament Books | CARM Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry The Old Testament has 39 books total, which consist of . . . Pentateuch - 5 books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy Historical Books - 12 books Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings, First Chronicles, Second Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther Poetic books - 5 books Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon Prophetic books - 17 books Major Prophets - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel Minor Prophets - Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi A list of books with brief descriptions of contents. Pentateuch - 5 books Genesis - Creation, the Fall, the Flood, spread of the nations, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Enslavement in Egypt. Exodus - Enslavement, Moses, 10 plagues, Passover, Leave Egypt, Red Sea Crossing, Mt. Sinai and the 10 Commandments Leviticus - Instructions on sacrificial system and the priesthood. Instructions on moral purity. Numbers - Still at Mt. Sinai, people make false idol, punishment, 40-years wandering begins. Deuteronomy - Moses' discourses on God's Acts for Israel the Decalogue, the ceremonial, civil, and social Laws, and covenant ratification. Historical Books - 12 books total Joshua - First half of Joshua describes the 7-year conquest of the Land of Promise. The last half deals with partitioning the lands to the people. Judges - Time of Judges. This was a bad time period. The Israelites did not drive out all the inhabitants of Canaan and began to take part in their idolatry. 7 cycles of foreign oppression, repentance, and deliverance. In the end, the people failed to learn their lesson. Ruth - Kinsman redeemer in Boaz, redeeming Ruth, a Moabitess. Speaks of righteousness, love, and faithfulness to the Lord. The next 6 books trace the time from Samuel to the Captivity First Samuel - Samuel carries Israel from judges to King Saul Second Samuel - David as King, adultery, and murder. First Kings - Solomon, Israel is powerful. Solomon dies, then division of tribes: 10 to the north and 2 to the south. Second Kings - The Divided Kingdom. All 19 kings of Israel were bad, therefore, captivity in Assyria (722 B.C.). In Judah, 8 of 20 rulers were good but went into exile, too. First Chronicles - A recounting of the history of Israel to the time of Solomon. Second Chronicles - continued recounting of the life of Solomon, building of temple, to the captivity. History of Judah only. The Next 3 books deal with Israel's Restoration. Ezra - Cyrus let most of the Jews return to their land of Israel. Zerubbabel led the people (539 B.C.). Ezra returned later with more Jews (458 B.C.) Built the temple. Nehemiah - Building the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah got permission from the king of Persia to rebuild the walls (444 B.C.). Revival in the land. Esther - Took place during chapters 6 and 7 of Ezra. Mordecai. Plot to kill the Jewish people. Poetical - 5 books Job - a righteous man tested by God. Deals with God's sovereignty. Psalms - Consists of 5 divisions. Worship in song. Large variety of subjects. Proverbs - Practical wisdom in everyday affairs. Ecclesiastes - All is vanity. The wisdom of man is futility. Song of Solomon - A song (between Solomon and his Shulammite bride) displaying the love between a man and a woman. Prophetical - 17 books Major Prophets - 5 books Isaiah - Looks at the sin of Judah and proclaims God's judgment. Hezekiah. Coming restoration and blessing. Jeremiah - Called by God to proclaim the news of judgment to Judah, which came. God establishes a New Covenant. Lamentations - 5 lament poems. Description of defeat and fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel - He ministered to the Jews in Captivity in Babylon. Description of the end of times. Daniel - Many visions of the future for the Gentiles and the Jews. Minor Prophets - 12 books Hosea - Story of Hosea and his unfaithful wife, Gomer. Represents God's love and faithfulness and Israel's spiritual adultery. Israel will be judged and restored. Joel - Proclaims


Arranged alphabetically, which would the last book of the Old Testament?


By what other name is La Giaconda much better known?

La Gioconda: mystery, regret and controversy behind the painting | Italy La Gioconda: mystery, regret and controversy behind the painting Submitted by annadefilippo on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 12:04 La Gioconda: mystery, regret and controversy behind the painting One of the greatest paintings of Italian art is certainly La Gioconda, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.  The painting, better known abroad as "Monna Lisa" ("Monna" is the abbreviation for Madonna and corresponds to the current term "woman") is kept in the museum of the Louvre in Paris. This 77 x 53 cm painting is unsigned, but it is sure the work was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci in 1500. However, the artist never considered the work completed and he never gave it to his commissioner. This has often raised questions which, together with many others, haven't found any answer, yet. La Gioconda   Many years have passed since its creation, but the secrets surrounding La Gioconda are far from being revealed: mystery dominates all that relates to this amazing work of art. Mistery created by the penetrating, yet ambiguous gaze of Monna Lisa herself, the identity of whom we do not know. La Gioconda is a typical Renaissance painting characterized by harmony of colors and nuances. The portrait divides the canvas into two main sectors: one where the protagonist predominates the scene, and the second where we can see a landscape with rocks, streets, rivers and vegetation, considered an imaginative place. The painting and its elements have been given several different interpretations. The identity of the subject remains still uncertain, but its image well known: an enigmatic woman, smiling. According to research conducted by Florentine scholars, La Gioconda really existed in the past and she corresponds to Lisa Gherardini, the second wife of the Florentine silk trader Francesco Del Giocondo. The Del Giocondos knew Leonardo's family: it was the artist's father, it seems, who put them in touch with one another.   Other women have been linked to the identity of the painting and it has also been hypothesized she may have been pregnant due to the way  she rested her hands on her belly. Another interesting position on the matter, often considered hazardous, is the theory according to which the subject of the painting is Leonardo himself. This thesis was elaborated not only for the similarity between the painting and Leonardo's face, but also because the reason Leonardo never returned the painting to its commissioner has never been clarified. The attachment of Leonardo to the painting is still unexplained, but that's the same for the identity of the person portrayed, which may remain a mystery. La Gioconda, in spite of its popularity, is fundamentally a work of mystery: the smile, the eyes, the subject, all contributed to create an aura of mystery and enigma around it.  The eyes and the smile of La Gioconda have been considered the key to reveal its secrets by many. Proof of it is the number of studies carried out on their analysis in the hope to solve, once and for all, the mystery of the Monna Lisa.


Between 1901 and 1904 Which painter’s career was described as his 'Blue period' ?

Pablo Picasso's Blue Period Biography Pablo Picasso's Blue Period - 1901 to 1904 The Blue Period of Picasso is the period between 1900 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic             paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain but             painted in Paris, are now some of his most popular works, although he had difficulty selling them at the time.            Picasso settled in Paris in 1904, having spent a few difficult years with no fixed studio and little artistic             success. While back in 1903, he had produced his Blue Period works, which seemed to reflect his experience of             relative poverty and instability, depicting beggars, street urchines, the old and frail and the blind. This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901, or in Paris             in the second half of the year. In choosing austere color and sometimes doleful subject matter - prostitutes,             beggars and drunks are frequent subjects - Picasso was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide             of his friend Carlos Casagemas, who took his life at the LHippodrome Cafe in Paris, France by shooting himself             in the right temple on February 17, 1901. Although Picasso himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue             when I learned of Casagemas's death", art historian Helene Seckel has written: "While we might be right to             retain this psychologizing justification, we ought not lose sight of the chronology of events: Picasso was not             there when Casagemas committed suicide in Paris ... it was only in the fall that this dramatic event emerged             in his painting, with several portraits of the deceased". At this time Picasso was very open to artistic influences around him, and events of these years would have a major            effect on his: the exhibition of Fauve works, particularly those of Henri Matisse . Picasso responded to the new avant-grade            developments of the Fauve painters in Paris by exploring new directions himself, creating his ground-breaking style. Picasso's depression didn't end with the beginning of his rose period, which succeeded the blue period and in which             the color pink dominates in many of his paintings. In fact, it lasted until the end of his cubist period (which followed the rose period)             and only in the period thereafter, which was his neo-classicist period, did Picasso's work begin the show the playfulness that would             remain a prominent feature of his work for the rest of his life. Picasso's contemporaries didn't even distinguish between a             blue and a rose period but regarded the two as one single period. Starting in the latter part of 1901 he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie , painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art . The same mood pervades             the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904),             which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented             in The Blindman's Meal (1903, the Metropolitan             Museum of Art) and in the portrait of Celestina (1903). Other frequent             subjects include female nudes and mothers with children. A significant influence on Picasso's blue period paintings was his visit to a woman's prison called St. Lazare in Paris, where nuns served as             guards. The Two sisters is an example of how Picasso used to mix daily reality with Christian iconography. The po


Which 17th century Dutch painter did the forger Hans van Meegeren most often copy?

The forger who fooled the world - Telegraph The forger who fooled the world   Han van Meegeren's The last supper (1940-1941)    Serena Davies 12:01AM BST 05 Aug 2006 Frank Wynne tells the extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch artist whose ‘Vermeer' made him a folk hero I've always loved a forger. It's difficult not to feel a surge of joy at the thought of an eminent critic waxing lyrical over the glories of a "17th-century masterpiece" on which the paint is barely dry. If the pinnacle of Western art is arguably Leonardo da Vinci, his shadow self in the pantheon of forgers is Han van Meegeren. In May 1945, shortly after the liberation of Holland, two officers arrived at the studio of van Meegeren, then just a little-known Dutch painter and art dealer. The officers, from the Allied Art Commission, were responsible for repatriating works of art looted by the Nazis. They had come about a painting discovered among the collection of Hermann Göring: a hitherto unknown canvas by the great Johannes Vermeer, entitled The Supper at Emmaus. Since the Nazis had kept detailed records, it had been easy to trace the sale of the painting back to van Meegeren. Now, they wanted only the name of the original owner so that they might return his priceless masterpiece. When van Meegeren refused to name the owner, they arrested him and charged him with treason. If found guilty, he faced the death penalty. The artist was entirely innocent of the charges against him, a fact he could easily have proved. But in doing so, he would have to confess to a series of crimes which he had plotted for decades and which, in five short years had earned him the equivalent of $60 million. Han van Meegeren was a forger. He loathed modern art - he thought it childish and decadent, a passing fad for ugliness which would soon fade. For years he had eked out a living painting gloomy portraits of rich patrons in a faux-Rembrandt style and had winced as he heard his work ridiculed by his peers. A prominent critic reviewing van Meegeren's second solo exhibition wrote, "A gifted technician who has made a sort of composite facsimile of the Renaissance school, he has every virtue except originality." The time had come, van Meegeren felt, to revenge himself on his critics. He devised a plan to paint a perfect Vermeer - neither a copy, nor a pastiche, but an original work - and, when it had been authenticated by leading art experts, acquired by a major museum, exhibited and acclaimed, he would announce his hoax to the world. His first step was concocting an ingenious mixture of pigments that "would pass the five tests which any genuine 17th-century painting must pass". Now he had only to paint a masterpiece. The Supper at Emmaus was unlike any acknowledged Vermeer. Van Meegeren, true to his perversely moral scheme, painted it in his own style, adding only subtle allusions to works by the Dutch master, before signing it with the requisite flourish. He had it submitted to Abraham Bredius, the most eminent authority on Dutch baroque art of his day, and the critic took the bait. Writing in the Burlington magazine, Bredius opined: "It is a wonderful moment in the life of a lover of art when he finds himself suddenly confronted with a hitherto unknown painting by a great master… And what a picture! We have here a - I am inclined to say the - masterpiece of Johannes Vermeer of Delft." Suddenly the world was at van Meegeren's feet. The Supper at Emmaus was bought by the prestigious Boijmans Gallery in Rotterdam for the equivalent of $6 million. More importantly for van Meegeren, it was advertised as the centrepiece, the crowning glory of the gallery's exhibition, 400 Years of European Art. During the exhibition, van Meegeren would loudly proclaim the painting a forgery, a crude pastiche, and listen as the finest minds of his generation persuaded him that his painting was a genuine Vermeer. His triumph was now complete. He had only to do what he had promised himself: to stand up and claim the work for himself, thereby making fools of his critics. Instead, within a month,


Which psychological response is seen in the way some hostages react to their captors?

SRA-211-9-Psychological_Reasons_for_Terr.ppt - Security And Risk Analysis 211 with Barnes at Pennsylvania State University - All Campuses - StudyBlue File Size: 18 Views: 3 Advertisement Advertisement Psychological Reasons for Terrorism SRA-21l, Threat of Terrorism and Crime Penn State Altoona David Barnes Stockholm Syndrome Psychological response found in some victims Hostages become dependent on their captors, and come to identify, sympathize and support their captors Named for a 1973 botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in which the hostages emerged from the situation very supportive of their captors Can Psychology Help with Terrorism? Expressive view Terrorists are motivated largely by psychological reasons. They react without much thought Instrumental view Acts of terrorism are deliberate, rational and guided by a calculated plan Expressive View Terrorism is a result of psychological issues Terrorists rationalize acts that they were psychologically compelled to commit anyway Terrorists are polarized.  They are righteous freedom fighters; we are evil Terrorists Are Not Abnormal? Studies of the IRA found no evidence of psychological abnormalities Terrorists who actually enjoy killing and violence tend to be unimportant figures within terrorist organizations and are followers rather than leaders   Comparative studies of different terrorist groups do not show a particular psychological type or uniform terrorist mind Splitting/Externalization A borderline personality disorder in which the individual ascribes all that is good to himself and projects or externalizes all that is bad to others   Splitting seems to be represented disproportionally among terrorists Family Background Come from broken homes Lost a father prior to age 14 Severe conflicts with their parents Convicted in juvenile courts A pattern of life long failure Other Psychological Factors Often not actually members of the societies they purport to commit their acts for   Seldom a well though out program, usually an expressive outburst Chosen trauma-violent political behavior is the result of some selected historical experience that triggers a disproportionally violent reaction Temptation versus Intimidation Psychiatric Typology of Terrorism Crusaders commit terrorist acts to please God or the people they represent. They will not negotiate Criminals commit terrorism for personal gain. They are rational and will negotiate  Crazies commit terrorist acts because they are mad. Note that crazy does not mean stupid Instrumental View Opposite of the expressive view Terrorism is a logical strategy based upon rational cost-benefit analysis Terrorists are usually normal people pursing a rational, deliberate strategy Instrumental View of Psychology Psychological aspects of terrorist's behavior are important when analyzing the group's influence on individual behavior, but emphasizing psychological aspects is not helpful because there are too many reasons why people become terrorists Instead, consider the reasons for terrorism Situations in places where terrorism exists Reasons for terrorism Role of the individual terrorists Situation-Preconditions Enabling causes of terrorism Poverty Society prone to violence Technology such as bombs Urbanization-densely populated areas make attacks easier and more effective Social habits and historical conditions such as Pakistan Precipitants Reasons for terrorism, or what provides motivation and direction of terrorists If the police or army attacked a family member, that might motivate terrorists Black Friday in Iran in which the Shah's troops started shooting at people is widely considered to be a classical precipitant Seven Terrorist Motives Publicize the cause Disrupt establishment's normal function Create public sympathy Provoke a harsh response from the government Add cohesion, boost morale of the group Counter the government's greater military power Capitalize on unique historical opportunities Role of the Individual Instrumental view doesn't focus on psychological issues, but it also doesn't ignore them Things


Based on real events, which 2005 film earned Steven Spielberg his 6th Oscar nomination?

2005 Academy Awards® Winners and History (WALLACE & GROMIT IN) THE CURSE OF THE            WERE-RABBIT (2005, UK) Howl's Moving Castle (2004, Jp.) (Tim Burton's) Corpse Bride (2005) Actor: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN in "Capote," Terrence Howard         in "Hustle & Flow," Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," Joaquin         Phoenix in "Walk the Line," David Strathairn in "Good         Night, and Good Luck." Actress: REESE WITHERSPOON in "Walk the Line," Judi Dench in "Mrs.         Henderson Presents," Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica," Keira         Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice," Charlize Theron         in "North Country" Supporting Actor: GEORGE CLOONEY in "Syriana," Matt Dillon in "Crash," Paul         Giamatti in "Cinderella Man," Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback         Mountain," William Hurt in "A History of Violence" Supporting Actress: RACHEL WEISZ in "The Constant Gardener," Amy Adams         in "Junebug," Catherine Keener in "Capote," Frances McDormand in "North         Country," Michelle Williams in "Brokeback Mountain" Director: ANG LEE for "Brokeback Mountain," George Clooney for "Good         Night, and Good Luck.," Paul Haggis for "Crash," Bennett         Miller for "Capote," Steven Spielberg for "Munich" The          Academy Award honorees for this year, for the most part, continued          the trend away from big-budget, mega-blockbusters and aimed          at smaller independent efforts. Four of the five Best Picture          nominees were independently financed, including the winner Crash.          In recent memory, the last time this happened was in 1996,          when four of the five top nominees (The English Patient, Fargo , Secrets & Lies, Shine -          and Jerry Maguire) were independent productions. Many of the themes of the nominees were focused          on sociopolitical issues (corporate corruption), provocative          socially-relevant ideas (racial tension and terrorism), and          intimate personal themes (gay and transgender). There was a          perceived backlash against flashy, "popcorn" Best Picture nominees/winners, such as Gladiator (2000), Chicago           (2002), and The            Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) in this          decade. Mega-budget box-office blockbusters that received minimal         nominations included: Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong (with           only 4 technical nominations, and three wins: Best Visual           Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing) director Andrew Adamson's The           Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (with           3 technical nominations and one win for Best Makeup),           an adaptation of C. S. Lewis' second book in Narnia series           about good and evil in a magical land Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller remake War           of the Worlds (with 3 technical nominations) the adaptation of best-seller J. K. Rowling's Harry           Potter and the Goblet of Fire (with only 1 nomination,           Best Art Direction) - the fourth Harry Potter           film in five years Christopher Nolan's comic-book superhero film Batman           Begins (with 1 nomination, Best Cinematography) George Lucas' Star           Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (with           1 nomination, Best Makeup) Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate           Factory (with 1 nomination, Best Costume Design) The five low-budget Best Picture nominees fairly          evenly split the major nominations - no film received more          than 8 nominations. This was also the first time since 1947          that no picture won more than 3 Oscars. They were all modest          in


Which Oscar winner played the title role in the 1964 Hollywood film 'The Pawnbroker'?

Rod Steiger - Biography - IMDb Rod Steiger Biography Showing all 57 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (5) | Trade Mark  (2) | Trivia  (28) | Personal Quotes  (14) | Salary  (3) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Rodney Stephen Steiger was born in Westhampton, New York, to Augusta Amelia (Driver) and Frederick Jacob Steiger, both vaudevillians. He was of German and Austrian ancestry. After his parents' divorce, Steiger was raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of Westside High school at age 16 and joined the Navy. He saw action in the Pacific on a destroyer. Steiger returned to New Jersey after the war and worked for the VA. He was part of an amateur acting group, and then joined the Actors' Studio using his GI Bill benefits. Steiger received his first film roles in the early 1950s. His first major one was in Teresa (1951), but his first lead role was in the TV version of The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse: Marty (1953). The movie version, however, had Ernest Borgnine in the lead and won him an Academy Award. Steiger's breakthrough role came in 1954, with the classic On the Waterfront (1954). Since then he has been a presence on the screen as everything from a popular leading man to a little-known character actor. Steiger made a name for himself in many different types of roles, from a crooked promoter in The Harder They Fall (1956) to the title character in Al Capone (1959). He was one of dozens of stars in the epic World War II film The Longest Day (1962). In 1964, he received his second Oscar nomination for The Pawnbroker (1964). The next couple of years he was at the height of his powers. In 1965, he starred in the dark comedy The Loved One (1965), and in David Lean 's epic Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1966, he starred in the BBC Play of the Month (1965) episode "Death of a Salesman" as Willy Loman in the TV version of his stage play "Death of a Salesman," but in 1967, he landed what many consider his greatest role: Sheriff Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967), opposite Sidney Poitier . Steiger deservedly took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work in that film. He took another controversial role as a man with many tattoos in The Illustrated Man (1969) and as a serial killer in the classic No Way to Treat a Lady (1968). After that, he seemed to have withdrawn from high-profile movies and became more selective in the roles he chose. He turned down the lead in Patton (1970) and also in The Godfather (1972). Among his more notable roles in the 1970s are Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971), Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973), as Benito Mussolini in The Last 4 Days (1974), Portrait of a Hitman (1979), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978) and The Amityville Horror (1979). He starred in the critically acclaimed The Chosen (1981) with Robby Benson and Maximilian Schell , perhaps the highlight of his 1980s movie career. Steiger increasingly moved away from the big Hollywood pictures, instead taking roles in foreign productions and independent movies. As the 1980s ended, Steiger landed a role as the buttoned-up New York City Chief of Police in The January Man (1989). Steiger was seriously affected by depression for 8 years. As he returned to the screen in the late 1990s he began creating some of his most memorable roles. He was the doctor in the independently-made movie Shiloh (1996), about an abused dog. He was the crazed, kill-'em-all army general in Mars Attacks! (1996) who always called his enemies peace-mongers. He took a small part as a Supreme Court judge in The Hurricane (1999) and as a preacher in the badly produced film End of Days (1999). He was still active in films moving into the new millennium. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Scott Adams (msa0510@mail.ecu.edu) and kenn_honeyman Spouse (5) His chunky frame and serious-looking face Full-bodied, somewhat bombastic acting style Trivia (28) He was offered the title role in Patton (1970) but refused the role, saying, "I'm not going to glorify war." The role was then given to George C. Scott , who won the Oscar for the


He died in 1965, who has a statue in Dockwray Square, North Shields (erected in 1989)?

Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland Daily Photo: Stan Laurel Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland Daily Photo mainly photos from around Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland, but not quite daily any more. Saturday, 13 March 2010 . . Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on the 16th June 1890. He grew up in Bishop Auckland, County Durham where his father was a theatre manager; he later attended Kings School, Tynemouth. He lived in Dockwray Square, North Shields, from 1897 to 1902 where this statue was erected in 1989 . He was to become one half of the famous Hollywood comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy. He died on  23 February 1965 aged 74. Posted by This brought back fond memories of watching Laurel and Hardy with my dad when I was a kid, thank you. It's a sweet and loving tribute to a man who brought so much laughter to the world. Love the beautiful yellow and blue colors in your photo too!


Which order in the class Insecta includes the butterflies, skippers, and moths?

Butterflies and Moths | definition of Butterflies and Moths by Medical dictionary Butterflies and Moths | definition of Butterflies and Moths by Medical dictionary http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Butterflies+and+Moths Lep·i·dop·ter·a (lep'i-dop'tĕr-ă), An order of insects composed of the moths and butterflies, characterized by wings covered with delicate scales. [G. lepis, scale, + pteron, wing] Lepidoptera (lĕp″ĭ-dŏp′tĕr-ă) [″ + pteron, feather, wing] An order of the class Insecta that includes the butterflies, moths, and skippers; characterized by scaly wings, sucking mouth parts, and complete metamorphosis. Fig. 208 Lepidoptera . General structure. Lepidoptera the ENDOPTERYGOTE order of insects containing butterflies and moths, characterized by the presence of scales on the wings and body. Butterflies and moths are no longer classed as separate taxa. The larvae are caterpillars, which feed mainly on plant tissues; the winged adults are usually nectar feeders and are important in pollination. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Z-chromosome References in periodicals archive ? On the other hand, maybe these changes won't make a difference: Altermatt doesn't know whether the extra generations of butterflies and moths survived. Strategy helps butterflies and moths Not only will this give a quaint cottage garden appearance, but will encourage a dazzling display of butterflies and moths such as the small tortoiseshell, peacock and red admiral. Creating a buzz in your back garden; Homes & Gardens WE all have fond memories of hazy summer afternoons relaxing in the garden with the lawn freshly mowed and the borders lovingly tended, but how often do we stop and consider the other workers in the garden? ANN EVANS takes a closer look at how we can encourage more butterflies and bees into our gardens My sources of reference include the internet, books A Field Guide to Caterpillars of Butterflies and Moths in Britain and Europe, A Field Guide in Colour to Butterflies and Moths and The Wildlife of Netherton and District, 1971 to 1982 Second Edition.


Broccoli belongs to which family of plants?

Diseases and Insects Broccoli is a cool-weather vegetable that can easily be grown in the garden in early spring or fall. Broccoli belongs to the Brassica family. Research shows that plants from this family are extremely healthy to consume and have the potential to reduce certain types of cancer. Starting the Plants from Seeds For a late spring harvest, start seeds indoors or in a cold frame or greenhouse at the beginning of February. Seedlings should be hardened off before planting them in March by leaving them outside for a few hours every day. After three days, plants can be left overnight. For a fall harvest, start seeds indoors at the end of July. Plant them in the garden by the end of August. Soil Requirements Broccoli can grow well in a wide range of soils but does best in heavily organic- amended, well-drained areas. Broccoli grows best in soils with a pH between 6.0 and 6.8. Clay soils, like those in Georgia, should definitely receive the addition of some topsoil, compost or manures in order to increase drainage and available nutrients. A soil test should be completed to accurately determine soil pH and increase the chances of planting success. Planting Find a garden location that will have at least six to eight hours of sun per day for optimum plant growth. Till the bed to a depth of 8 to 10 inches and remove any sticks and stones. In the absence of a soil test, incorporate 3 to 4 pounds of 5-10-10 fertilizer per 100 square feet of the garden area. Smooth the soil with a rake and plant the seedlings 18 to 20 inches apart. Irrigation, Fertilization and Weed Control Broccoli requires proper irrigation to achieve optimum growth. Water plants daily for the first week to get the crop established. Continue to irrigate broccoli every four to five days, as needed, to keep the plants healthy. Broccoli is a fairly heavy feeder and will require additional nutrients. After initial fertilization at planting, apply 2 pounds of 5-10-15 fertilizer or equivalent per 100 square feet of bed each month during the growing season. Mulch broccoli with pine straw or leaves to keep weeds away and to preserve moisture in the soil. Variety Selections There are many varieties to try, including: Marathon, Packman, Patriot, Premium Crop, Bravo and Decathion. Harvest Harvest the heads when the florets around the edges of the head start to loosen a bit but the center of the head is still tight and green. Removing the heads when they are younger and 6 to 8 inches across will help ensure a tastier crop. Cut the stems at an angle to keep water and diseases at bay. After cutting the initial head, broccoli stems will produce smaller secondary heads. Continue to harvest these throughout the growing season. Cooking and Storage Cook or steam broccoli or refrigerate the heads soon after harvesting. Broccoli can be frozen by steam-blanching prior to freezing. Diseases and Insects The most serious broccoli pest is cabbageworm. Cabbage root maggots can also be a problem. Both diseases and insects can be controlled by using sound cultural garden practices and recommended chemicals when necessary. Status and Revision History


Which animal can you find in a shallow depression or flattened, grass nest called a 'form'?

Wild rabbits - WabbitWiki Wild rabbits 6 References Domestic The domestic breed of rabbits is descended from the European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus. While these rabbits may often be found roaming feral and wild in Europe and Australia, the United States' wild rabbit population mostly only consists of various species of cottontails (Sylvilagus spp.) and jackrabbits (Lepus spp.). The only other rabbit native to the USA is the tiny Pygmy rabbit Brachylagus idahoensis. They are only found in parts of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and California. Isolated populations occur in Washington and Wyoming. Example of a domesticated Agouti patterned rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus. source Another example of a domesticated Agouti patterned rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus. Photo © William Baldie. Used with direct permission from owner. Example of a wild European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus algirus from Conil, Andalusia, Spain. Image © /u/Foinz , used with direct permission. Feral rabbits are not wild rabbits. These are domesticated rabbits that have either escaped or been abandoned by their owners and have ended up fending for themselves without being helped or managed by humans in any manner. True wild Oryctolagus cuniculus rabbits have never been caught and bred selectively by humans. In many countries, domesticated rabbits cannot breed with native wild rabbits because they are a different species. The brown/grey agouti pattern of a wild rabbit can be similar to a domestic rabbit's but they are not the same. Wild vs. domestic DO NOT feed wild cottontails, hares, and rabbits! This cottontail had to be put down because humans fed it only lettuce and carrots. It went completely blind from nutritional deficiencies. Source: Skye's Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center . Can You Keep a Wild Rabbit as a Pet? Cottontails (Sylvilagus spp.) do not dig burrows, although they may use burrows made by other animals. Vegetation is used to cover the fur-lined nest between feeds. Cottontails are solitary animals, in contrast with Oryctolagus cuniculus, which live in groups with a defined social hierarchy. [1] Weights for a wild cottontail can range from the following: Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani): 0.48 to 0.92 g (1.06 to 2.03 lb) [2] Desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii): 0.5 to 1.4 kg (1.1 to 3.1 lb) [3] Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus): 0.8 to 1.53 kg (1.76 to 3.37 lb) [4] New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis): 995 to 1347 g (2.19 to 2.97 lb ) [5] A wild Eastern cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus). source A rare piebald wild Eastern cottontail rabbit . With coloration like this he would not last long in the wild, he was sent to a wildlife rescue. Image (c) R.Carmody & used with permission. A wild Western Brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) source Jackrabbits, also known as hares, (Lepus spp.) typically live alone or in pairs and are native to Africa, Eurasia, North America, and the Japanese archipelago. Hares do not burrow belowground either and prefer to use a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass. Young hares are born fully furred and with eyes open. By contrast, cottontails and rabbits have young that are born blind and hairless. Hares are also generally larger than rabbits with longer ears and have black markings in their fur. A wild Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) in its summer coat. source A wild black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus). source If you find a wild rabbit, please leave it alone and do not try to take it home as a pet. Wild rabbits do not belong as house pets. Wild rabbits are usually very nervous due to their innate instinctual fear of humans and do not adapt or handle stress well. They belong in the wild, and it is not a good idea to remove them from their natural home. As a wild animal, it may carry diseases that can transfer to your existing pets as well as people. In many places, wild animals cannot be taken care of without the proper permits. If you would like a pet rabbit, please consider obtaining a domestic breed instead. Some more reading about the differences between


Which festival in the Western Church gave its name to a bay and city of S.W. Texas?

EXPLORATION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Site EXPLORATION EXPLORATION. Human exploration of the future Texas began during the Pleistocene, when lower sea levels exposed a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and Homo sapiens sapiens migrated into what is now North America. The first explorers and perhaps colonizers possibly reached the continent during a convenient interglacial period, perhaps some 24,000 or more years ago. Other theories of Pre-Columbian exploration suggest that mariners from China, Africa, and the Mediterranean may have reached the New World by following favorable ocean currents. Numerous legends support the idea of transoceanic contacts, but the material evidence remains inconclusive. The first known explorers of Texas were the Clovis people of the Paleo-Indian Stage. An unmistakable presence of bone and stone evidence points to human exploratory and colonizing activity in Texas after 11,500 B.P. Clovis stone projectile points have been found in playas and ancient springs in the far north (Blackwater Draw, the Lake Theo Site,qqv Lubbock Lake, and Miami), and in rockshelters and stratigraphic layers in South and Central Texas (Aquarena Springs and the Levi Siteqqv). These points tell us of remarkable hunters and gatherers-men, women, and children whose daily existence was often tied to challenging exploration and later adaptation to a changing climate. For the Clovis and their probable Folsom and Plainview descendants, Pleistocene Texas was an extraordinary environment: full of dangerous species, paleosavannas noisy with game animals, high-quality lithic resources, plentiful rockshelters, and tremendous springlands. Though never numerous, perhaps a thousand or so on the great Llano mesa, the Clovis people explored Texas vigorously from a network of base camps, overlooks, kill sites, quarries, and hunting camps. Although the Paleo-Indians were likely more sedentary and vegetarian than the mammoth hunters of popular imagination, they ranged through and beyond the present state, widely exploited favored environmental niches at the end of the last Ice Age, and diffused flint from distant sources like the renowned Alibates Flint Quarries , the "Paleolithic Pittsburgh" along the Canadian River outcroppings. From the Clovis people forward the confederacy of peoples and ecosystems now called Texas has experienced most of the possible American discovery process. For 11,000 years or so each arriving human culture-Clovis, Pandale, Pedernales, Perdiz, Tonkawa, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Spanish, French, English, Scots, Irish, African, and many others-has engaged in a spatial-environmental learning process of continual exploration and reexploration in Texas. The process was certainly vital to Archaic and Pre-Contact hunting and gathering peoples. Hunting, trading, climatic shifts, limited agriculture, transhumance, and sheer curiosity led to Archaic Stage exploration of the region that merged so conveniently the coast and mountain, plain and swamp. But even modern Texans must learn to explore and master a complicated world of satellite-city urbanization, internodal transportation, and ranching and agricultural enterprises. An important change in exploration over the past eleven millennia has been the means and ends of the ancient search. The Clovis Texans walked, hunted game trails, and used ordinary eyesight to open the secrets of a new continent; Texans at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston or the University of Texas McDonald Observatoryqv travel by other means and use advanced technology to open the secrets of the universe. European discovery and early exploration. Because of its size and strategic location, Europeans encountered Texas early in their exploration of the New World. After the historical conquest, subjugation, and depopulation of the Greater Antilles, the Spanish turned their attention westward, where a new continent awaited. The discoveries of Florida and Mexico left a large gap between these two realms


Who was the famous mother of politician Shirley Williams?

Shirley Williams the dazzling flirt could have been Britain's first woman PM | Daily Mail Online comments Perhaps once in a generation, a stunning undergraduate will be universally hailed as the belle of Oxford University. In the early Fifties, it was Shirley Catlin - a blonde, blue-eyed beauty with a seductively husky voice. As one admirer commented, not only did everyone seem to be in love with her, but she was also 'superlatively brilliant'. Every night, she was out on the town - dancing, addressing meetings, joining in political debates and taking lead roles in university theatre productions. Scroll down for video Blonde, blue-eyed beauty: Shirley, aged 12 here, would go on to be the belle of Oxford University According to fellow student Robin Day, who went on to become the consummate political interviewer, she was the most celebrated female undergraduate of her time. Robert Robinson, who also found fame as a broadcaster, singled out her flair for friendship, which led everyone to believe they were her best friend. Not only was Shirley catnip to men, but many predicted she was destined for greatness - possibly as Britain's first female prime minister. Certainly few would have placed a bet on a quiet chemistry undergraduate called Margaret Thatcher, who'd graduated three years before, achieving this distinction. As chair of the university Labour Club, Shirley invited a dizzying array of famous speakers, including future prime minister Jim Callaghan, for whom she made toast in her room in Somerville College. They became firm friends. There was just one problem: she was having too much fun to knuckle down to work on her politics, philosophy and economics degree. Her mother, the famous author Vera Brittain, fired off a letter to Shirley's tutor, asking him to try to persuade her to go to bed early - one night in three. 'Shirley is terribly handicapped by her popularity and very much at the mercy of her friends,' she wrote. Passion for politics: The young Shirley became MP for Hitchen in 1964, then a junior minister, rising in Harold Wilson's government to education minister 'There are about 300 of them, both boys and girls; each thinks he or she is the only one, and persuades Shirley it's her moral duty to spend just one day in each year with him or her!' Being popular was important to Shirley - better known as the veteran politician Shirley Williams. As her first husband used to remark: 'She wants to be liked by everyone - even those she dislikes.' Adored by her socialist parents, she'd had an unconventional upbringing. Her mother had won international acclaim with Testament Of Youth, her autobiography about the impact of World War I on women, and her father, Professor George Catlin, was a political scientist who longed to become an MP. Having failed to achieve his dream, he pinned his hopes on his daughter, introducing her to classics, philosophy and literature when she was five. He allowed her to climb his bookshelves to the ceiling and taught her never to think of herself as inferior to men. 'The babe is too, too bright. Dangerously so,' he proudly told his wife when Poppy - as they called her - was seven. At 13, Shirley accompanied her parents to a society party. Suddenly, there was an air raid and in the shelter Shirley found herself next to Herbert Morrison, the wartime Home Secretary. She proceeded to give him the benefit of her advice on a wide range of subjects until the all-clear sounded two hours later. Fortunately, he was taken by her precocious intelligence and invited her to lunch at the Home Office. Over sausages and mash, the teenager gravely informed him she didn't judge people by their class, but their intelligence - and why did he go around in such a posh car? This was the start of a friendship that led Morrison to later offer her a job as his private secretary (which she turned down) and his help in finding her a safe Labour seat, provided she adhered to his political line and gave him an occasional smile (also rejected). 'She started seeing a new man - Roger Bannister, who would become the first man


Whom did both Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor marry?

Debbie Reynolds on losing husband Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor | Daily Mail Online comments When Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer and all-American girl next door, married crooner Eddie Fisher, who was then rivalling Frank Sinatra in popularity, it was the show business wedding of the year. He would proudly introduce her on stage as 'my princess'. She would look up at him adoringly and call him 'my handsome prince'. It was the stuff of fairytale romance. But two years later, the dream was shattered. Lonely at home, while Eddie was away on tour, she telephoned her best friend Elizabeth Taylor at her hotel for a chat. To her great shock, Fisher answered.  Betrayed: Singin' In The Rain star Debbie Reynolds lost first husband Eddie Fisher to Liz Taylor 'Suddenly, a lot of things clicked into place,' she recalls. 'I could hear her voice asking him who was calling - they were obviously in bed together. I yelled at him, "Roll over, darling and let me speak to Elizabeth". Fisher slammed the receiver down and rushed home for a face-to-face confrontation.  'I'm sorry,' he told her. 'Elizabeth and I are in love and I want a divorce.' Debbie replied: 'If you marry her, she will throw you out within 18 months'. 'And Elizabeth did get rid of him, just as I had warned, when she met Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra,' Debbie says now. Debbie - currently touring Britain with her one-woman show, which opens in London's West End next week - recalls her first marriage without bitterness. 'Elizabeth had been recently widowed when her husband Mike Todd had died in a plane crash. We had all been good friends. Good friends: Eddie Fisher, centre, split from Debbie Reynolds, right, for Elizabeth Taylor, left. But Debbie said she remains good friends with her rival Oscars 1960: Elizabeth Taylor with her fourth husband Eddie Fisher, with her award for best actress for her role in Butterfield 8 'Eddie had been best man at their wedding and I had been a bridesmaid. We saw a lot of each other and I never suspected that she was going to entice my husband away. 'I might not have been as surprised were it anyone else. But how it all happened was rather scandalous in that they didn't take more care to avoid hurting me. I understand when I look back on it. Who would pass by Elizabeth? No woman living was as beautiful as her. And Eddie had even tried to act like Mike Todd, smoking big cigars. 'I was the last to find out about the affair. There had been hints in the papers and I had noticed that when I turned up at functions or parties on my own my friends were whispering. 'Although I didn't want to find out the truth, I had to face up to it. Even so, it was a great shock to find them together. It left me shattered.' The shock of discovering the affair, she says, was the day she lost her innocence. 'I was a virgin when I married Eddie, but Elizabeth had been married three times. I was devastated because I had two children. 'I was very religious so I didn't believe in divorce, but they laid guilt on me that I was keeping them and true love apart. So, I finally let Eddie off the hook. I told him to go.' For seven years, the two women avoided contact - until Debbie boarded the Queen Elizabeth with her second husband, Harry Karl, a wealthy shoe manufacturer, and found that Miss Taylor was on the ship.  Foursome: Mike Todd, left, with Liz Taylor, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds She recalls: 'Liz was with Richard Burton and her whole family, all the children and the nannies. I sent  a little note to her, saying: "Let's get together to have dinner. It's silly to carry on this fight now that we've both remarried and it's all just sort of ridiculous, isn't it?" 'It turned out she'd sent one to me at the same time, so they criss-crossed.  We had dinner that night in the main dining room. Heads turned. Cameras were everywhere. People were hiding behind plants taking pictures.' To this day, she remains in touch with Elizabeth, the past forgotten and fo


What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister?

View transcript 0:10Skip to 0 minutes and 10 seconds I've come up to an area of land behind the Jerwood Centre, and I've come to look at a remarkable object that's cared for by the Wordsworth Trust. I'm joined by Kate Ingle, who's a PhD student working on the writing of Dorothy Wordsworth. So Kate, can you tell me what this remarkable object is? This object was known as the rock of names to the Wordsworths. And in the summer of 1802, William, Dorothy, and their closest friends inscribed their initials into this very rock. Wow, so 1802, they've been here about 18 months. In that stage, they're getting to know the area. Yes. 0:43Skip to 0 minutes and 43 seconds And as well as it being a particularly happy summer, marking local objects becomes important for the Wordsworths in developing their sense of home, which is what we'll think about today. So if we look at this rock, we can actually see their initials carved into it. Can you talk us through this, Kate? Tell us whose initials stand for whom. Yes, so here we have a WW, which is William Wordsworth. And we have his sister, Dorothy, there. You can see a DW. We have underneath here, there's John Wordsworth, which is their younger brother. Then we have STC, which is Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet and their very good friend. 1:24Skip to 1 minute and 24 seconds And then down here, we have Sara Hutchinson, who was one of the Wordsworths' closest friends. And then we also have MH for Mary Hutchinson, who was to become Wordsworth's wife. So what a fantastic collection of carvings from the whole community there. So they just come out here from Dove Cottage and carve their names on the rock, did they? No this rock was actually located five miles away up at Wythburn alongside the tarn Thirlmere Right, so how does how does a rock move five miles down here to the back garden as it were of Dove Cottage? Well, it's a fascinating story. In the 1870s, the Manchester authorities were enlarging Thirlmere into the reservoir that we know today. 2:08Skip to 2 minutes and 8 seconds And they blew up the rock, and fortunately, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley collected the fragments of the blown up rock. So who was Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley? He's a local conservationist who was one of the founding members of the National Trust. And he was also a member of the Wordsworth Society, which was set up to promote and protect Wordsworth's work and poetry. So a very important man, a major figure in the kind of conservation of the area by the sounds of things. So when does the rock get here into the back of the Jerwood Centre? Well, the fragments were reset into this rock face in about 1984. Right, and so why this particular rock. 2:50Skip to 2 minutes and 50 seconds You mentioned that it was five miles up the road from here, near the reservoir. Now why did they choose to choose that site to carve their initials on? Well, it was actually a meeting point between the two houses, and it was approximately halfway between Dove Cottage here in Grasmere and Coleridge's lodgings at Greta Hall over in Keswick. And the two poets and their friends would meet as they were walking over to see one another. Right, so it's a sort of personal landmark in the landscape if you like. Yes, exactly. It's exactly a literal meeting place, and it shows how they use this landscape. But it also becomes symbolic of their friendship. The place becomes invested with emotion. 3:32Skip to 3 minutes and 32 seconds Right, so would you say this is the main example of that kind of relationship to landscape? Are there other examples of places that take on these special meanings? Yes, there are plenty across Grasmere. There is Sara's Gate, which is named after Sara Hutchinson. There is also John's Grove named after William and Dorothy's younger brother. And Wordsworth also wrote a set of poems called the "Poems on the Naming of Places". So what kind of place names do they have? Well, they might mark a local object and name it at a particular site where they can see a very nice view of the landscape. It might be along a favourite walking route. 4:11S


The 'Giant's Causeway' and nearby Bushmills, famed for its distillery are in which county?

Bushmills | Ireland.com Bushmills Bushmills, County Antrim Bushmills Irish Whiskey is made at Ireland's oldest working distillery on the beautiful North Coast. Read more Giant's Causeway Visitor Information Centre Bushmills, County Antrim Take advantage of the excellent practical help and assistance at the Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre Read more Carnside Guest House Bushmills, County Antrim Panoramic views of North Antrim Coast, closest B&B to the Giants Causeway. Ideal for walking holiday Read more Where do you want to stay? No results match your search criteria Choose from a great range of airlines and destinations to travel to Ireland. Travel Information Ask a question Want to know more? Ask a question in our Community, they're the people who know Ireland best. Sign up for regular updates on great vacation ideas and deals Hmm, don't know that email. Can you check it and try again? Get in Touch Ratings provided by TripAdvisor Check out what other travellers say about Ireland and Ireland Hotels on TripAdvisor. Welcome to Ireland.com! If you’re a visitor from the island of Ireland you may want to visit one of these sites… Otherwise proceed to Ireland.com Copy this link to your clipboard. Tip - for PCs, use Ctrl + C (or ⌘+ C on a Mac) Ireland.com uses cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from Ireland.com.


Which Yorkshire city has two city-centre railway stations, Kirkgate and Westgate?

Wakefield first | Wakefield Westgate Train Station Housing Wakefield Westgate Railway Station Following an £8.1M investment, the new Wakefield Westgate station opened to the public on 22nd December 2013 creating an impressive new gateway to the city. It is also the first newly-constructed station building on the East Coast Main Line in decades. Located off Mulberry Way as part of the Merchant Gate development, the new building has been designed to make travelling to and from Wakefield much easier and more enjoyable, with improved facilities, better accessibility and a wider choice of retailers. It also complements the refurbished customer facilities on the northbound platform and the 900-space multi-storey car park which opened earlier in the year. The new station improvements include: • Improved accessibility - access between the station building and platforms 1 and 2 has been significantly improved through the introduction of the new golden footbridge and lifts • A new Travel Centre, where customers can buy and collect your tickets, plus six self-service Fastticket machines located around the new concourse. A new Customer Information Point has also been built next to the ticket gate. • Enhanced security - new ticket gates in the main concourse of the station to improve safety and tackle fare evasion. • A new, bigger First Class Lounge - with complimentary Wi-Fi, drinks and refreshments.  A new Standard waiting room will open early next year. • Four new retailers - Subway, WHSmith, Greggs and Costa Coffee. • Improved links with local transport – the Metro freecitybus will stop at the front of the station, for journeys to the bus station, Trinity Walk, Kirkgate rail station and The Hepworth Gallery. Buses run every 10/12 minutes between 07.30 to 18.40 Monday to Friday and between 0830 and 1700 Saturdays. There is also a new drop off point, a covered taxi rank and 30 covered bike spaces at the front of the station. The new station building is also 71% more energy efficient. This has been achieved through natural lighting and ventilation, to maximise daylight and natural heating, and a photovoltaic system on the station roof which will generate energy for the station.  It has been awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating for sustainable building design. East Coast runs 32 services each weekday from Wakefield Westgate to London. The fastest journey time is just 1 hour 46 minutes on the flagship West Riding Limited service, which leaves Wakefield at 07.13 and arrives into London King’s Cross at 8.59am. For train times to and from Wakefield Westgate please click here


At the Kennington Oval in 1872, who did Wanderers beat in the very first FA Cup final?

1872 FA Cup Final | Football Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia 1872 FA Cup Final 1 0 1873 → The 1872 FA Cup Final was a football match between Wanderers and Royal Engineers on 16 March 1872 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the final of the first staging of the Football Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup ), which became the primary cup competition in English football and the oldest football competition in the world. Fifteen teams entered the competition in its first season and, due to the rules in place at the time, Wanderers reached the final having won only one match in the four preceding rounds. In the semi-finals, they drew with the Scottish club Queen's Park , but reached the final when the Scots withdrew from the competition as they could not afford to return to London for a replay. The final was decided by a single goal, scored after fifteen minutes by Morton Betts of Wanderers, who was playing under the pseudonym "A.H. Chequer". The Engineers were praised for their innovative use of passing, then referred to as the "Combination Game", at a time when most teams relied almost solely on dribbling tactics. Despite this they could not manage to score a goal. The winning Wanderers team did not receive the trophy until the following month, when it was presented to them at a special reception at the Pall Mall Restaurant. Contents Main article: 1871–72 FA Cup Wanderers and Royal Engineers were among fifteen teams who entered the inaugural FA Cup competition, and both were allocated home matches in the first round. Wanderers were paired with Harrow Chequers, a team consisting of former pupils of Harrow School, and the Engineers were set to face Reigate Priory. Neither match actually took place, however, as in both cases the away team withdrew from the competition, sending the home team through to the next round on a walkover. In the second round, both teams played away matches and emerged victorious. Wanderers defeated Clapham Rovers 3–1 in December and the Engineers beat Hitchin 5–0 the following month. At the quarter-final stage, Wanderers drew 0–0 with Crystal Palace (a different club to the modern club of the same name ). Rather than be made to replay the match, however, both teams were permitted to go through to the semi-finals under one of the competition's original rules, which stated that in the event of a drawn match the teams would either be made to play again or both progress to the next round, at the organising committee's discretion. The Engineers beat Hampstead Heathens 2–0. In the semi-finals Wanderers took on the leading Scottish club Queen's Park who, due to a combination of walkovers and byes, had reached this stage of the competition without actually playing a match. The rules of the competition stated that all matches from the semi-final stage onwards would take place at Kennington Oval in London and, after being held to a 0–0 draw, the Scottish club could not afford to make the lengthy trip from Glasgow a second time for a replay and withdrew from the competition, sending Wanderers into the final. The Engineers also drew their semi-final at the Oval 0–0, and beat Crystal Palace 3–0 in the replay. Match Summary As was common at the time, both teams focused mainly on attack rather than defence, the Engineers lining up with seven forwards and Wanderers with eight. Wanderers forward Morton Betts played under the pseudonym "A. H. Chequer", derived from his membership of the Harrow Chequers club. Some sources state that he played under an assumed name to disguise the fact that he was cup-tied , having been a registered player of the Chequers club at the start of the competition and therefore ineligible to play for another club in that season's cup. This, however, is unlikely to be true, as in the early amateur era of football players were not required to be formally registered with clubs. Wanderers captain C. W. Alcock won the coin toss and chose to defend the Harleyford Road end of the ground, meaning that the Engineers, who were considered the favourites at the start of pla


Built in 1776, which T was the name of the first submarine used for military purposes?

Turtle Submarine - Inventor David Bushnell < Continued from page 2 Updated August 10, 2016. The first American submarine is as old as the United States itself. David Bushnell (1742-1824), a Yale graduate, designed and built a submarine torpedo boat in 1776. The one-man vessel submerged by admitting water into the hull and surfaced by pumping it out with a hand pump. Powered by a pedal-operated propeller and armed with a keg of powder, the egg-shaped Turtle gave Revolutionary Americans high hopes for a secret weapon - a weapon that could destroy the British warships anchored in New York Harbor. Turtle Submarine - Use as a Weapon The Turtle's torpedo, a keg of powder, was to be attached to an enemy ship's hull and detonated by a time fuse. On the night of September 7, 1776, the Turtle, operated by an Army volunteer, Sergeant Ezra Lee, conducted an attack on the British ship HMS Eagle. However, the boring device that was operated from inside the oak-planked Turtle failed to penetrate the target vessel's hull. It is likely that the wooden hull was too hard to penetrate, the boring device hit a bolt or iron brace, or the operator was too exhausted to screw in the weapon. continue reading below our video How to Write a Business Plan When Sergeant Lee attempted to shift the Turtle to another position beneath the hull, he lost contact with the target vessel and ultimately was forced to abandon the torpedo. Although the torpedo was never attached to the target, the clockwork timer detonated it about an hour after it was released. The result was a spectacular explosion that ultimately forced the British to increase their vigilance and to move their ship's anchorage further out in the harbor. Royal Navy logs and reports from this period make no mention of this incident, and it is possible that the Turtle's attack may be more submarine legend than historical event.


On what material was the Mona Lisa painted?

Mona Lisa | painting by Leonardo da Vinci | Britannica.com painting by Leonardo da Vinci Written By: sfumato Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci , probably the world’s most-famous painting . It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence , and it now hangs in the Louvre , in Paris , where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The poplar panel shows evidence of warping and was stabilized in 1951 with the addition of an oak frame and in 1970 with four vertical braces. Dovetails also were added, to prevent the widening of a small crack visible near the centre of the upper edge of the painting. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination. Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, … The Print Collection—Heritage-Images Overview of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, with a discussion of the … Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz The Mona Lisa and its influence These signs of aging distract little from the painting’s effect. In its exquisite synthesis of sitter and landscape, the Mona Lisa set the standard for all future portraits. The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape. Yet this simple description of a seemingly standard composition gives little sense of Leonardo’s achievement. The sensuous curves of the sitter’s hair and clothing, created through sfumato (use of fine shading), are echoed in the shapes of the valleys and rivers behind her. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter’s faint smile—reflects Leonardo’s idea of the cosmic link connecting humanity and nature, making this painting an enduring record of Leonardo’s vision. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent There has been much speculation and debate regarding the identity of the portrait’s sitter. Scholars and historians have posited numerous interpretations, including that she is Lisa del Giocondo (née Gherardini), the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo del Giocondo, hence the alternative title to the work, La Gioconda. That identity was first suggested in 1550 by artist biographer Giorgio Vasari . Another theory was that the model may have been Leonardo’s mother, Caterina. That interpretation was put forth by, among others, Sigmund Freud , who seemed to think that the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile emerged from a—perhaps unconscious—memory of Caterina’s smile. A third suggestion was that the painting was, in fact, Leonardo’s self-portrait, given the resemblance between the sitter’s and the artist’s facial features. Some scholars suggested that disguising himself as a woman was the artist’s riddle. The sitter’s identity has not been conclusively proven. In an attempt to settle the debate, art and forensic experts in August 2013 opened the tomb of the Giocondo family in Florence in order to find Lisa del Giocondo’s remains, test her DNA, and recreate an image of her face. Whatever the sitter’s identity, the influence of the Mona Lisa on the Renaissance and later times has been enormous. The Mona Lisa revolutionized contemporary portrait painting . Leonardo’s preliminary drawings encouraged other artists to make more and freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. Through the drawings his Milanese works were made known to the Florentines. Also, his reputation and stature as an artist and thinker spread to his fellow artists and assured for them a freedom of action and thought similar to his own. One such painter was the young Raphael , who sketched Leonardo’s work in progress and adopted the Mona Lisa format for his portraits; it served as a clear model for his Portrait of Maddalena Doni (c. 1506). Art & Architecture: Fact or Fiction? Leonardo even influenced the fashion in which artists dressed their subjects. In his Treatise on Pai


Which 1980 historical novel is narrated by a young Benedictine monk, Adso of Melk?

The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose Author(s) Edit Block 1st edition (Italian) The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in English in 1983, translated by William Weaver. Plot summary Edit Block Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and a Benedictine novice Adso of Melk travel to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation. As they arrive, the monastery is disturbed by a suicide. As the plot unfolds, several other monks die, some clearly murdered, under mysterious circumstances. William is tasked by the Abbot of the monastery to investigate the deaths, and new experiences also unfold. The protagonists explore a labyrinthine medieval library, discuss the subversive power of laughter, and come face to face with the Inquisition. William's innate curiosity and highly-developed powers of logic and deduction provide the keys to unravelling the mysteries of the abbey. On one level, the book is an exposition of the scholastic method which was very popular in the 14th century. William demonstrates the power of deductive reasoning, especially syllogisms. He refuses to accept the diagnosis of simple demonic possession despite demonology being the traditional monastic explanation. Although the abbey is under the apprehension that they are experiencing the last days before the coming of Antichrist (a topic closely examined in the book), William, through his empirical mindset, manages to show that the murders are, in fact, committed by a more corporeal instrument. By keeping an open mind, collecting facts and observations, following pure intuition, and the dialectic method, he makes decisions as to what he should investigate, exactly as a scholastic would do. However, the simple use of reason does not suffice. The various signs and happenings only have meaning in their given contexts, and William must constantly be wary of the contexts within which he interprets the mystery. Indeed, the entire story challenges the narrator, William's young apprentice Adso, and the reader to continually recognize the context he is using to interpret, bringing the whole text to various levels which can all have different hermeneutical meanings. The narrative ties in many varied plot lines, all of which consider various interpretations and sources of meanings. Many of the interpretations and sources were highly volatile controversies in the medieval religious setting, all while spiraling towards what seems to be the key to understanding and truly interpreting the case. Although William's final theorems do not exactly match the actual events as written, those theorems do allow him to solve the abbey's mystery. Characters Bertrand del Poggetto — Cardinal and leader of the Papal legation Peasant girl from the village below the monastery Major themes Edit Block Eco is a pioneer of Reader Response theory and the idea of the ‘open’ text. He often focuses on the reader's role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work. He combines this with the science of Semiotics, the study of sign processes and the creation and interpretation of symbols. Eco uses the process of solving the murders as an extended metaphor for a reader’s experience of interpreting a text. William’s search for the truth is a reflection of Post-modernist ideas on the relativistic nature of truth and meaning in this process. The various signs and events in The Name of the Rose only have meaning in their given contexts, and William must constantly be wary of which context is relevant when he interprets the mystery. Though William's final theories do not exactly match the actual events, they allow him to solve the abbey's mystery and thus attain a measure of truth. Eco wrote that during the Middle Ages there was a conflict


Which late, regular on Radio 4's 'Just a Minute' had served as Liberal MP for Isle of Ely?

Sir Clement Freud dies, just days before 85th birthday | Daily Mail Online Sir Clement Freud dies, just days before 85th birthday Former Liberal MP Sir Clement Freud died yesterday at his London home Writer, broadcaster and former Liberal MP Sir Clement Freud has died, his family announced today. He passed away at his desk yesterday at his London home, just nine days short of his 85th birthday. A frequent contributor to Radio 4's Just A Minute show, Sir Clement was a grandson of the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud and a brother of artist Lucian Freud. The son of Jewish parents, Ernst Ludwig and Lucie  Brasch, Freud, who was born in Berlin and fled to Britain with his family from Germany in 1933. He married wife Jill in 1950 and the couple went on to have five children including PR businessman Matthew Freud and TV presenter Emma Freud. Sir Clement made his name in politics as the MP for the Isle of Ely (later North East Cambridgeshire) from 1973 to 1987. He was hailed as the first Liberal Jewish MP for decades, but converted to Anglicanism following his marriage. Sir Clement was party spokesman on education, the arts and broadcasting, and sponsored an anti-secrets Official Information Bill. His actions played a part in the collapse of the Labour Callaghan government in 1979. The grandfather of 17 was awarded a knighthood after leaving Parliament in 1987. Enlarge   Sir Clement, pictured with his dog Henry, first became a household name in the 1960s and 70s when they appeared in Minced Morsels dog food adverts In a varied career, Sir Clement worked as an apprentice cook at London's Dorchester Hotel before joining the Royal Ulster Rifles during World War II. At the end of the conflict he worked as a liaison officer at the Nuremberg war crimes trials before returning to the hotel business, at the Martinez in Cannes. It was in the 1960s and 70s when he appeared in the Minced Morsels dog food adverts that he became a household name. His role on the small screen with his dog Henry launched him on a long career as a television and radio personality, helping him become a stalwart on Radio 4s Just A Minute for more than 30 years. Sir Clement, who served in the Royal Ulster Rifles, worked as a liaison officer during the Nuremberg war trials This morning a host of celebrities paid tribute to the veteran broadcaster. Fellow Just A Minute star Stephen Fry paid tribute to a 'charming and wonderful man'. He told Radio 4's Today programme: 'I got to know him because I was lucky enough to do a couple of Just A Minutes and I became immensely fond of him. 'I was at first very afraid of him - a lot of people were. There were stories that he was immensely grouchy, he was rude sometimes to people who asked for autographs. I never experienced that side of him at all.' Fry said Sir Clement was 'a real Soho figure' during the 1950s and 1960s and knew all the girls of easy virtue,  the pimps and, of course, the restaurateurs, which is where he learnt his business as a chef. 'His fund of stories about that time was simply remarkable, and he lived a sort of life on the edge. 'His brother Lucian is known as the more bohemian, I suppose, as an artist but Clement had that quality too.' Sir Clement's grandfather was Sigmund Freud, left, the founder of psychoanalysis. His older brother Lucian, right, is the famous artist with whom he had a long-standing feud Asked what Sir Clement was like to perform with, Fry added: 'He was immensely good company and he enjoyed, I think, particularly meeting new young comedians. 'Just A Minute, of course, takes on new talent and he became very fond of that new generation, led by Paul Merton, who I suppose now is old guard. 'But I think after the sad, earlyish deaths of Kenneth Williams and Peter Jones he was left sort of marooned as the last of their generation but he really enjoyed the young clustering about him.' Comedian and writer Tony Hawks, who worked with Sir Clement, added: 'Through his great intellect he would always bring out the best in you, because you sometimes would think "Who's doing the show?" and when


Which animal forms the body of the great sphinx of Giza in Egypt?

The Meaning of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt Contact Us About us Tour Egypt aims to offer the ultimate Egyptian adventure and intimate knowledge about the country. We offer this unique experience in two ways, the first one is by organizing a tour and coming to Egypt for a visit, whether alone or in a group, and living it firsthand. The second way to experience Egypt is from the comfort of your own home: online. The Meaning of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt The Meaning of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Allen Winston Whatever else it might be, the Great Sphinx is certainly not the keeper of long lost knowledge, or ancient technologies, as has been popularly reported over the years. There are surely no hidden chambers holding the secrets of Atlantis between its paws, or elsewhere. What the Great Sphinx is in reality is grand enough. It is a monumental symbol of ancient Egyptian kingship, probably related to solar worship. There was a trend toward colossal stone architecture in Egypt by the middle of the 4th Dynasty , as Khafre took the reigns of kingship. This tendency had been going on for more than a century, when Khafre came to power, but he took the trend even further. He began by using limestone core blocks weighing hundreds of tons in his temples, but his craftsmen also created more than two hundred statues, that we know of, made from hard stone. Twenty-two of these were at least three times life size, but the largest statue of all is thought to be the Great Sphinx at Giza near Cairo . It would remain unique for both its size, and for the fact that it was hewn directly from the living rock. Much controversy has surrounded the Great Sphinx , including whether or not it was actually carved as late as the 4th Dynasty , not surprisingly considering that it appears suddenly and without much precedent. Though it remained a classic image of kingship throughout Egypt's ancient history, there was no continuum of development of its form prior to the Great Sphinx's appearance on the Giza Plateau. Rather, the complete form appears all at one at Giza, even though a detached Djedefre head in the Louvre Museum suggests that the form had been executed in stone a few years earlier. This is certainly not the manner in which pyramids were developed in Egypt, through much trial and error. The fact that this earliest super-colossal image of the king was a mixed form, both animal and human, is significant. In mixed forms, it is the head that conveys the essential identity, and with the nemes scarf about the Great Sphinx 's head, it must be the representation of a king. But as Henry Fischer relates the head's attachment to the lion's body, it is "a suggestion of shape-shifting, of metamorphosis, that is appropriate to the king who is, uniquely, the link between mankind and the gods, and stands constantly on the threshold of these two worlds". However, we should also look to some of the oldest images of ancient Egypt, as well as elsewhere. The lion was a solar symbol in more than one ancient Near Eastern culture. It is also a common archetype of royalty. Even as early as the Predynastic period , we find carved on luxury objects probably of royal origin, scenes depicting fantastic animals mingling with wild, real world animals. These may be found on ceremonial slate palettes, ivory plaques and ivory knife handles, particularly found at Hierakonpolis or from nearby Naqada in Upper Egypt. Most of these early depictions were of winged, falcon headed griffins, leopards with long, winding necks and other accompanying animals that are usually considered to be inspired indirectly from models found in Mesopotamia.However, some two dimensional images on slate palettes of the Early Dynasty period , some three to four hundred years prior to the carving of the Great Sphinx , depict the king as a wild lion or griffin, destroying his enemies. A magic wand from ancient Egypt, with a double headed Sphinx In the earliest of Egyptian times, men saw and knew the power of beasts, and seem to have envied them. There is a sense that humans, at the dawn of civi


Who sang the theme for the James Bond film ‘Thunderball’?

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


According to Coleridge, where did Kubla Khan decree his pleasure dome?

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poetry Foundation Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man    Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!    The shadow of the dome of pleasure    Floated midway on the waves;    Where was heard the mingled measure    From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!    A damsel with a dulcimer    In a vision once I saw:    It was an Abyssinian maid    And on her dulcimer she played,    Singing of Mount Abora.    Could I revive within me    Her symphony and song,    To such a deep delight ’twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.


What is the minimum number of smaller cubes required to make a larger cube?

discrete mathematics - Calculate number of small cubes making up large cube given number in outermost layer - Mathematics Stack Exchange Calculate number of small cubes making up large cube given number in outermost layer up vote 5 down vote favorite 3 I have a large cube made up of many smaller cubes. Each face of the cube is identical, and all of the smaller cubes are identical. I need to calculate the number of small cubes that make up the large cube. Just to make it clear, the cube is solid (made up of little cubes all the way through). The only value I have to work this out from is the number of small cubes that make up the outermost layer. This number is $100,614,152$. What is the simplest way to calculate the total number of small cubes making up the large cube? Is this homework? –  Jonathan Christensen Dec 6 '12 at 21:32    No, it's for a blog article I am writing –  eskimo Dec 6 '12 at 21:34 2   I presume this question is as a matter of Curiosity? :-) –  Steven Stadnicki Dec 6 '12 at 21:57    answered Dec 6 '12 at 21:37 user4594 1   Not quite: it would be $(x+1)^3 - (x-1)^3 = 100,614,152$. Edit: the answer has been corrected. –  Jonathan Christensen Dec 6 '12 at 21:38 1   up vote 6 down vote Let $x$ be the number of small cubes along each edge of the large cube. Then each face of the large cube contains $x^2$ small cubes. $6x^2$ isn't the total number of cubes around the outside, though, because we're double-counting the cubes along each of the edges, so we need to subtract off $12x$. Then we aren't counting the cubes at the corners (we counted them three times--once in each face--and subtracted them three times), so we need to add back on 8. So we have $$6x^2 -12x + 8 = 100,614,152.$$ Now this is just a simple quadratic. Combine the terms on one side and use the quadratic formula (or Wolfram Alpha ) to find that $x = 4096$. up vote 2 down vote If one big cube is divided into $n$ times smaller cubes, then there are $n^3$ cubes. Taking avay the outer layer, we are left with $(n-2)^3$ cubes. The difference is $$ n^3-(n-2)^3= n^3-(n^3-6n^2+12n-8)=6n^2-12n+8$$ and this shall equal $N=100614152$. Therefore, a good approximation for $n$ is given by $$n=\sqrt {\frac N 6}\approx 4095.0004$$ However, $n=4095$ leads to $6n^2-12n+8=100565018$, not quite your expected result. But with $n=4096$, the result is correct: $6n^2-12n+8=100614152$. Note that trying to compute the solution of $$6n^2-12n+(8- 100614152)$$ would not have been easy due to rounding errors.      Rounding errors, pfft. You can do that computation using an exact representation, like cyclotomic numbers –  Ben Millwood Dec 6 '12 at 21:43      Secondinng Ben's comment, I'm not sure what rounding errors you're expecting; this isn't an equation with large amounts of cancellation since $b^2\not\approx 4ac$, so just dividing through by 6 to get $n^2-2n-16769024=0$ and then using the standard quadratic formula is fine. You have to take the square root of the eight-digit number 67076100 but that's essentially a trivial matter. –  Steven Stadnicki Dec 6 '12 at 23:41      You are right, I didn't even try it and had in min that the other solution might be $\approx0$, while of course it is $\approx -n$. –  Hagen von Eitzen Dec 7 '12 at 16:21 up vote 1 down vote Let the size of the small cube be $1 \times 1 \times 1$ and size of the larger cube be $n \times n \times n$. The number of smaller cubes on the outer surface is given by $$\underbrace{2n^2}_{\text{Cover two opposite sides}} + \underbrace{2n(n-2)}_{\text{Cover next pair of opposite sides}} + \underbrace{2(n-2)^2}_{\text{Cover the remaining pair of opposite sides}}$$ answered Dec 6 '12 at 21:40 user17762 the total count of cubes increases as more and more cubes are added around an existing cube. each "level" is defined as completing the addition of an entire layer of concentric cubes that surround the previous level. level 0 is no cubes at all level 1 is ONE cube level 2 surrounds level 1 with 8 more, 9 total cubes in each of 3 planes, total = 27 level 3 surr the 9 in l-2 /w 16 more, total 25 cubes in each of 5


What is Stephen Fry’s nickname for the researchers/writers on the tv programme ‘Q.I.’?

QI : The BBC Television Series QI : The BBC Television Series The Show Quite Interesting - or 'QI' to its friends - could loosely be described as a comedy panel quiz. However, none of the stellar line-up of comedians is expected to be able to answer any questions, and if anyone ends up with a positive score, they can be very happy with their performance. Points are awarded for being interesting or funny (and, very occasionally, right) but points are deducted for answers which merely repeat common misconceptions and urban myth. (Alan Davies has turned this aspect of the game into somewhat of an artform.) It's okay to be wrong, but don't be obviously, boringly wrong. In this way, QI tries to rid the world of the flotsam of nonsense and old wives' tales that can build up in your mind. QI not only makes us look more closely at things, it encourages us to question all the received wisdom we have carried with us since childhood. Think of the program as a humorous cranial de-scaler. QI isn't really about pointless information, or shoring up vast banks of trivia, It's about finding undiscovered connections and seeing hidden patterns , just like the best comedy. After all, curiosity is hardwired in all of us; we just lose the ability to indulge it. "The lust of the mind", Thomas Hobbes called it, "that exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure". There you have it, and from a philosopher not a press release. QI: better than sex. Having started in 2003 with all things 'A', QI is attempting to get all the way through the alphabet, and then possibly continue through the numbers which are, naturally, slightly more numerous. The QI Interactive DVDs If Friday evenings (or series repeats) don't come around quickly enough for you, why not pick up a QI Interactive DVD and play in the comfort of your own home? No, we can't think of a reason either. The Guests QI is hosted by Supreme Fiendish Question Master, 33rd Degree, Stephen Fry who wields autocratic power over the scores. Stephen's task is to gently encourage his guests to search for answers, avoid urban myths and reach deep into their comedic pockets to entertain us. Permanently installed guest Alan Davies develops the intellectual counterpoint and, as Stephen puts it, "rushes headlong like a puppy into the wall of ignorance." Far from being something to be ashamed of, Alan highlights, with his inimitable comedy style, that there are no stupid questions. Only funny ones. We have been delighted to welcome some of the world's finest and most gifted comedians, writers and broadcasters to QI since it started in 2003. Just run your eye down the list on the left to see who's been on. Unlike many TV quiz shows, guests are not given the answers beforehand. Not that this would help, mind you - getting the answer right is probably the most boring thing that could happen - what is central to the programme's flavour is the guessing, the 'teasing out' and the inevitably amusing bemusement that follows. The Programme-makers QI is the brainchild of long-time TV comedy guru John Lloyd , producer of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image and Blackadder. A few years ago, John came to the sudden and shocking realisation that he didn't really know anything - or rather that there was a colossal landscape of fascinating knowledge 'out there' that he'd never really, genuinely trod; just occasionally used maps of it to swat mosquitoes. Some years of wandering the intellectual landscape later, having explored some quite promising seams of really quite interesting discoveries, he just knew he had to bring it to everyone's attention, and show his friends, his colleagues and the world at large just how interesting - and amusing - everything is. And QI is the result - a much acclaimed marriage of top-level comedy and fascinating insight into the world we occupy and all-too-often take for granted. Each series is researched for months beforehand by a dedicated team of ' QI Elves ' who are prepared to accept that they don't know anything either, but are pretty sure they can find out. (See the QI Philos


For what profession did Mahatma Ghandi train?

Mohandas Gandhi | Biography Share By Kallie Szczepanski His image is one of the most recognizable in history: the thin, bald, frail-looking man wearing round glasses and a simple white wrap. This is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma ("Great Soul"). His inspirational message of non-violent protest helped to lead India to independence from the British Raj . Gandhi lived a life of simplicity and moral clarity, and his example has inspired protestors and campaigners for human rights and democracy the world over. Gandhi's Early Life: Gandhi's parents were Karmachand Gandhi, the dewan (governor) of the western Indian region of Porbandar, and his fourth wife Putlibai. Mohandas was born in 1869, the youngest of Putlibai's children. Gandhi's father was a competent administrator, adept at mediating between British officials and local subjects. His mother was an extremely devout adherent of Vaishnavism, the worship of Vishnu , and devoted herself to fasting and prayer. She taught Mohandas values such as tolerance and ahimsa, or noninjury to living beings. continue reading below our video Profile of Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas was an indifferent student, and even smoked and ate meat during his rebellious adolescence. Marriage and University: In 1883, the Gandhis arranged a marriage between 13-year-old Mohandas and a 14-year-old girl named Kasturba Makhanji. The young couple's first child died in 1885, but they had four surviving sons by 1900. Mohandas finished middle and high school after the wedding. He wanted to be a doctor, but his parents pushed him into the law. They wanted him to follow in his father's footsteps. Also, their religion forbade vivisection, which is part of medical training. Young Gandhi barely passed the entrance exam for the University of Bombay, and enrolled at Samaldas College in Gujarat, but he was not happy there. Studies in London: In September of 1888, Gandhi moved to England, and began to train as a barrister at University College London. For the first time in his life, the young man applied himself to his studies, working hard on his English and Latin language skills. He also developed a new interest in religion, reading widely on different world faiths. Gandhi joined the London Vegetarian Society, where he found a like-minded peer group of idealists and humanitarians. These contacts helped to shape Gandhi's views on life and politics. He returned to India in 1891 after earning his degree, but could not make a living there as a barrister. Gandhi Goes to South Africa: Disappointed by the lack of opportunity in India, Gandhi accepted an offer for a year-long contract with an Indian law firm in Natal, South Africa in 1893. There, the 24-year-old lawyer experienced first-hand terrible racial discrimination. He was kicked off a train for trying to ride in the first-class carriage (for which he had a ticket), was beaten up for refusing to give his seat on a stagecoach to a European, and had to go to court where he was ordered to remove his turban. Gandhi refused, and thus began a lifetime of resistance work and protest. After his one-year contract ended, he planned to return to India. Gandhi the Organizer: Just as Gandhi was about to leave South Africa, a bill came up in the Natal Legislature to deny Indians the right to vote. He decided to stay and fight against the legislation; despite his petitions, however, it passed. Nonetheless, Gandhi's opposition campaign drew public attention to the Indians' plight in British South Africa. He founded the Natal Indian Congress in 1894, and served as Secretary. Gandhi's organization and petitions to the South African government attracted attention in London and India. When he returned to South Africa from a trip to India in 1897, a white lynch mob attacked him. He later refused to press charges. Boer War and the Registration Act: Gandhi urged Indians to support the British government at the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and organized an ambulance corps of 1,100 Indian volunteers. He hoped that this proof of loyalty would result in better treatment


What was the four-word title of Katrina and the Waves’ winning entry in 1997?

Katrina and the waves - Love shine a light (eurovision live) - YouTube Katrina and the waves - Love shine a light (eurovision live) 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 Nov 28, 2007 Katrina and the waves were the first UK winning eurovision entry in 16 years, Katrina gained an amazing 227points UK ended 1/25. The contest came from Dublin, Ireland Category