Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'?

Lita Roza: Singer of 1953 hit 'How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?' - The Scotsman Lita Roza: Singer of 1953 hit 'How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?' 21:35 Tuesday 19 August 2008 00:13 Wednesday 20 August 2008 Born: 14 March, 1926, in Liverpool. Died: 14 August, 2008, in London, aged 82. LITA Roza may have cared little for her 1953 hit How Much Is That Doggie In the Window?, but it made her name and gave her a place in UK pop history. She was the first British female singer to top the UK singles chart and the first vocalist to do so from Liverpool: long before the Beatles or Cilla Black. Roza so disliked the number that she refused to sing it on stage or on television, but it has remained a popular novelty numbers in the catalogue. In fact Roza epitomised 1950s glamour: she had swish hairdos and wore diadem-spangled gowns and stiletto heels – which became her trademark. In those post-war years of austerity, Rosa added some much-needed sparkle to life. And she knew how to deliver a song: her voice had a raw strength perfectly at home delivering jazz numbers or romantic ballads. Sir Elton John put it succinctly: "We just don't make singers like Lita Roza any more." Lilian Patricia Roza was one of seven children whose Spanish-born father worked as an engineer and played piano in the Liverpool clubs. Roza attended a local school where a classmate was Jean Alexander – later Hilda Ogden in Granada TV's Coronation Street. Roza worked in a factory, but unbeknown to her parents, aged only 12 she answered an advertisement for a dancer in a pantomime in Norwich. Despite her age she got the job. Other bookings followed and her natural, vivacious personality got her bookings in revues and clubs. At 18 she married a GI and went to the United States, believing her singing career was over. However, the marriage did not work out and she returned to the UK and auditioned with the Ted Heath Band – then enjoying huge success at the height of the Big Band era. Heath heard Roza sing one song and asked her to sing with the band that night. Decca followed up her appearances with Ted Heath with a contract, and between 1951 and 1957 she issued more than 50 singles. Her versatility as a songstress was shown in the range of her recordings, most notably her version of Allentown Jail, the theme song from the movie High Noon, in 1952. The following year she recorded How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? She at first refused to do it but gave in reluctantly. Years later she said: "I said I would sing it once and once only and then I would never sing it again, and I haven't." She sang the number in one take and vehemently stuck to her word, even when it hit the top of the charts later that year. Roza topped the Melody Maker poll for Favourite Female Vocalist from 1951-55 and the New Musical Express poll from 1952-55. The "doggie song" has remained popular in nostalgia programmes but had an extra moment in the spotlight when former prime minister Margaret Thatcher chose it as one of her songs on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs. In 1955 she left Ted Heath and pursued a solo career, having hits with Hey There and Jimmy Unknown. She sang A Tear Fell on a charity single for the Lord's Taverners which also made the charts. Roza demonstrated her ability to make a song her own, recording cover versions of such popular songs as Volare and I Could Have Danced All Night. Although she appeared in heats for the Eurovision song contest, she never made the final contest. Roza was a ballad singer who preferred to sing in intimate theatres and clubs. In such a setting her warm personality, vivacious smile and lively stage manner were appreciated by audiences. Roza had a successful career on television – fronting her own Saturday night spectaculars and Six-Five Special – and was still cutting popular discs in the late 1950s. Hey You There With the Stars In Your Eyes, for example, sold well. But the arrival of the 1960s sidelined her career somewhat. Instead she toured Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Las Vegas and found further success back in


In what year did The Great Train Robbery take place?

The Great Train Robbery, 1963 The Great Train Robbery, 1963 Your right to information The Great Train Robbery, 1963 One of the most infamous robberies of all time, 1963’s Great Train Robbery involved the hijack of a London-bound train, and the theft of millions of pounds. Late on Thursday 8 August 1963, a Travelling Post Office train left Glasgow for Euston. On board, staff sorted the mail and parcels prior to its arrival in London. The second carriage from the front of the train was a High Value Package carriage, where registered mail was sorted. Much of this consisted of cash. Usually the value of these items would have been in the region of £300,000 but, because there had been a Bank Holiday weekend in Scotland the total on the day of the robbery was £2.3 million (about £30 million today). The wrong signal  The train passed Leighton Buzzard at about 3am on 8 August 1963, and moments  later the driver, Jack Mills saw a red signal ahead at a place called Sears Crossing. The signal was false. A glove had been stuffed onto the proper signal and the red light was activated by attaching it to a six volt battery. When Mills stopped, his co-driver David Whitby climbed out of the diesel engine to ring the signalman to ascertain the problem. He discovered that the cables from the line-side phone had been cut and as he turned to return to his train he was attacked and thrown down the steep railway embankment. Meanwhile, a masked man climbed into the train cab and coshed the driver around the head rendering him unconscious. Meanwhile, other robbers uncoupled most of the carriages, leaving on the engine and the first two carriages containing the high-value property. The steep embankments at Sears crossing were unpractical for removing the loot from the train but the gang had planned to drive the train a mile further to Bridego Bridge. Here, Land Rovers were waiting to transport the cash to a nearby hideout. Soon the well-planned heist encountered a problem. One of the gang had spent months befriending railway staff on the pretence of being a railway enthusiast. He had been allowed rides in the cabs of trains and had even been permitted to drive a few trains. His part in the robbery was to drive the train to the rendezvous point but as he climbed into the cab of the train he realised that this huge diesel train was far more complicated than the local trains he had previously travelled in. One of the gang, Ronnie Biggs, had to rouse the driver to continue the journey. In the front two carriages, frightened Post Office staff were pushed to one end by some of the fifteen strong gang – but, in the remaining ten carriages left at Sears Crossing, staff did not even realise anything had happened. A human chain of robbers  At Bridego Bridge a human chain of robbers removed 120 sacks containing two-and-a-half-tons of money. The robbery was well organised and swift. Before leaving, one of the gang ordered Post Office staff to stay still for 30 minutes before contacting the police. This gave the investigators an important clue, they suspected that the gang had a hideout within a 30 minute drive of the scene. This was indeed the case. An old farmhouse in Oakley Buckinghamshire, Letherslade Farm, had been rented and during the next few days the jubilant gang shared out the cash. They even played Monopoly using real money. A huge police investigation was launched, run by the Flying Squad at Scotland Yard and senior detectives from the Buckinghamshire Police. The officer in overall command was Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper. British Transport Police had a small role to play in the investigation, mainly conducting enquiries, obtaining lists of staff and suspects.  Back at the farm, the gang were becoming spooked by low flying RAF aircraft who were actually on training runs and nothing to do with the manhunt that had now been established. They split the money which was mainly in used £1 and £5 notes (Biggs was to receive £147,000) and left the scene immediately rather than ‘lying low’ for several weeks as they had planned. A nearby res


Which poet died of septicaemia in the Aegean Sea in 1915?

Gallipoli Gallipoli Gallipoli - War at  Sea Poetry            Norman Wilkinson A Monitor with 14-inch Guns Shelling Yeni Sher Village and the Asiatic Batteries ( thanks to Wikipedia Commons) It is the luckiest thing and the most romantic. Think of fighting in the Chersonese (hope you got the allusion from the Isles of Greece about Miltiades), or alternatively, if it's the Asiatic side they want us on, on the plains of Troy itself! I am going to take my Herodotus as a guide-book.'  [FEBRUARY 24, 1915.] Ltn Commander Patrick Shaw-Smith on embarking to Gallipoli Campaign,           The Gallipoli Campaign began as a naval attempt to seize the Straits : To lend a crushing blow against the Ottoman Empire, allied to Germany and Austria-Hungary, to connect the Black Sea with the Mediterranean. Britain and France could supply their ally Imperial Russia without the hazardous voyages via the north. Russia would gain it's long term foreign policy goal of access to the Mediterranean.            The naval campaign failed in its objectives. Thus on 25th April 1915  began a massive amphibian landing with British, French, and large numbers of Empire troops taking part. The historians still argue a century later whether the invasion ever stood a chance of success, whether Constantinople could have been seized. As well as forcing the Straits, an attack could have been launched against the Central Powers via the Balkans to eventually  break the deadlock on the Western Front. A whole parade of 'what ifs' can be called. The casualty list was enormous . In January 1916 the Allies abandoned the invasion, and a  successful embarkation without hardly any  loss of life took place.            Gallipoli was associated with poetic heroism, The region of Troy where Homer's epic Illiad unfolded. Where Byron wrote part  of ' Childe Harold' in 1810 and swam the Hellespont. Byron's 'Don Juan' also reference the region. Gallipoli also became the setting for Great War poetry set on the coast line as well as aboard troopships.           Laurence Binyon - most known  'For the Fallen', arguably the most quoted of all   World War 1 poems , also wrote about Gallipoli. Binyon served with the French Red Cross on the Western Front from 1915.  Gallipoli "Isles of the Aegean, Troy, and waters of Hellespont! You we have known from of old, Since boyhood stammering glorious Greek was entranced In the tale that Homer told. There scornful Achilles towered and flamed through the battle, Defying the gods; and there Hector armed, and Andromache proudly held up his boy to him, Knowing not yet despair......" http://allpoetry.com/poem/8528465-Gallipoli-by-Robert-Laurence-Binyon Published in 'The Cause' from (1917)            Amongst those who sailed were Rupert Brooke of the Royal Naval Reserve Hood  Division. Brooke and his fellow officers read 'The Odyssey' to each other in the original Greek. He had already written in a letter to the Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith  I suddenly realise that the ambition of my life has been- since I was two- to go on a military expedition against Constantinople. Brooke died on 23rd April 1915 from septicaemia most likely from an infected insect bite and buried on the island of  Skyros.  His last known poem, usually titled 'Fragments' has been discussed on the 'Troopship' page. http://greatwaratseapoetry.weebly.com/troopship.html            Yet besides the heroic element, Great War at Sea Poetry from Gallipoli displays work inspired by 'Disenchantment'   : The view that  Britain should never take part in the Great War or a pyrrhic victory where the cost of defeating the Central Powers was too much of a price to pay            Just sailing there seemed to be inspiring. Ltn  Nowell Oxland from the Border Regiment 6th btn, who was killed in action at Gallipoli, 9th August 1915 aged 24 combined an evocation of the natural beauty of  Cumbria with a sense of heroic quest.  Outward Bound  " ........Though the high Gods smith and slay us, Though we come not whence we go, As the host of Menelaus Came there many years ago; Yet the self-sam


Give a year in the life of English poet, William Blake.

William Blake - William Blake Poems - Poem Hunter William Blake - William Blake Poems - Poem Hunter Do you like this poet? William Blake Poems A Poison Tree  I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, ... The Tyger  Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of ... Auguries Of Innocence  To see a World in a Grain of Sand And ... A Divine Image  Cruelty has a human heart,  And Jealousy a ... Love's Secret  Never seek to tell thy love,  Love that never... The Angel  I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I ... A Cradle Song  Sweet dreams form a shade, O'er my lovely ... All poems of William Blake » Search in the poems of William Blake: an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human ... more » Click here to add this poet to your My Favorite Poets. Quotations ''Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce, And dost not know the Garment from the Man. Every Harlot was a Virgin once, Nor can'st thou ever change Kate into Nan.'' William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (Epilogue, l. 1-4). . .  The Complete Poems [William... I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful propo... William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. letter, Aug. 23, 1799. The Letters of William Blake (1956). ''For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.'' William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Holy Thursday (l. 13-16). . .  The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (... Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere ... William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. letter, Aug. 23, 1799. The Letters of William Blake (1956). ''Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?'' William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Holy Thursday (l. 1-4). . .  The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (19...


What was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 record in the UK?

Elvis Presley's UK No.1 Albums : Elvis Biography : : 'For Elvis Fans Only' Official Elvis Presley Fan Club Elvis Presley: UK #1 Albums 11 #1 Albums: 1956-2007 1956 In the late spring of 1956 however, the role of leader of the Rock n Roll movement was taken over by Elvis Presley. Elvis looked the part as well and Bill Haley was already in his 30s and never had the sexual attraction of his younger rival. Elvis Presley's first chart album, Rock n Roll also spent just one week at the top in 1956. The first RCA single Heartbreak Hotel established Elvis as an international superstar and by the time he had also had hit singles with Blue Suede Shoes, I Want You I Need You I Love You and the double sided Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel, the first LP was eagerly awaited. When Rock n Roll was finally released it was a compilation of four of the Sun label tracks recorded in 1954/5 but also included a cover of Little Richard's Tutti Fruitti and Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes. Despite the LPs impact, entering at no.3 at the beginning of November and one week later, hitting no.1, it only spent a total of seven weeks on the listings and by mid December, it had departed. Top albums of 1956 2 Soundtrack - King And I 3 Soundtrack - Oklahoma 4 Bill Haley & Comets - Rock Around The Clock 5 Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers 6 Bill Haley & Comets - Rock n Roll Stage Shows 7 Lonnie Donegan - Showcase 8 Elvis Presley - Rock n Roll 9 Mel Torme - At The Crescendo 10 Soundtrack - Eddy Duchin Story 1957 After one week at no.1 with Rock n Roll the previous year, he reached no.3 with its follow up Rock n Roll no.2 featuring both the rockin side of Elvis Rip It Up, Long Tall Sally and Paralysed and his ballads Love me and Old Shep. There was also a compilation LP The Best Of Elvis. He went one place better to end the year at no.2 with Elvis Christmas Album which combined the four tracks from the 'Peace In The Valley' EP, religious gospel collection including the title track, Take My Hand and I Believe, along with recordings of seasonal standards and popular Christmas classics White Christmas, Silent Night, Santa Claus Is Back In Town, Blue Christmas and O Little Town Of Bethlehem. He also achieved his second no.1 LP with the soundtrack to Loving You which spent 3 weeks at no.1 and 10 weeks at no.2, using songs featured in Elvis' second film on one side with new tracks on the other and included the hits (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear, Party, Got A Lot Of Livin To Do and the title track. 1958 In September, Elvis Presley returned to the top with the soundtrack to his film King Creole. One place lower at no.2 was last year's soundtrack Loving You and a new compilation Elvis Golden Records. King Creole was the last film made by Elvis before entering the US army and also the last in black and white. The songs in the film included the hit singles Hard Headed Woman and the title track and features the Jordanaires on backing vocals, particularly on all the ballads. Elvis Golden Records was one of Rock n Roll's first unashamed greatest hits collection, 14 tracks, 10 of which were US number one singles between 1956 to date. 1959 With Elvis Presley away on military service in the US army, his two 1959 albums both peaked at no.4, A Date With Elvis and Elvis, a reissue of the Rock n Roll LP with 4 extra tracks. A Date With Elvis could also be described as a re-issue of sorts as five of the tracks were from the Sun records era of 1954-1955 including Milkcow Blues Boogie, Good Rockin Tonight, Baby Let's Play House and Blue Moon Of Kentucky, the packaging was a deluxe gatefold sleeve, innovative at the time with photos of Elvis in uniform. 1960 With Elvis' return from the US army with new material, Elvis Is Back not surprisingly, produced another no.1. Elvis had matured whilst away and released an album with a mixture of blues, It Feels So Right and Like A Baby, ballads The Thrill Of Your Love, Soldier Boy and Peggy Lee's Fever, Rock n Roll Dirty Dirty Feeling, a Gospel track I Will Be Home Again along with Such A Night and The Girl Of My Best Friend. Top albums of 1960


Which famous Hollywood actor was born Roy Harold Scherer in Illinois in 1925?

IMDb: Most Popular People Born In 1925 Most Popular People Born In 1925 1-50 of 3,069 names. Sort by: STARmeter▲ | A-Z | Height | Birth Date | Death Date 1. Angela Lansbury Actress, Murder, She Wrote British character actress, long in the United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film... 2. Paul Newman Actor, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Paul Newman won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the The Color of Money , a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. Despite being colorblind, he won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing... 3. Lee Van Cleef Actor, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly One of the great movie villains, Clarence Leroy Van Cleef, Jr. was born in Somerville, New Jersey, to Marion Lavinia (Van Fleet) and Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef, Sr. His parents were both of Dutch ancestry. Van Cleef started out as an accountant. He served in the U.S. Navy aboard minesweepers and subchasers during World War II... 4. Dick Van Dyke Actor, Diagnosis Murder Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother is entertainer Jerry Van Dyke . His ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch. Although he'd had small roles beforehand... 5. Jack Lemmon Actor, The Apartment Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Burgess LaRue (Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers Country Day School... 6. Tony Curtis Actor, Some Like It Hot Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only person who ever had his back was himself... 7. Richard Burton Actor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Probably more frequently remembered for his turbulent personal life and multiple marriages, Richard Burton was nonetheless regarded as one of the great British actors of the post-WWII period. Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, to Edith Maude (Thomas) and Richard Walter Jenkins... 8. Donald O'Connor Actor, Singin' in the Rain Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. His best-known musical work is probably Singin' in the Rain , in which he did an impressive dance that culminated in a series of backflips off the wall. O'Connor was also effective in comedic lead roles, particularly as the companion to Francis the Talking Mule in that film series. 9. Peter Sellers Actor, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born to a well-off English acting family in 1925. His mother and father worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. As a child, Sellers was spoiled, as his parents' first child had died at birth. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served during World War II... 10. Doris Roberts Actress, Everybody Loves Raymond Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Ann (Meltzer) and Larry Green. She was raised in New York, and took her stepfather's surname. Roberts was a 20-year veteran of the Broadway stage before she began appearing steadily in character roles in film and on television during the 1970s. A versatile player with an inescapably "mom-like" presence...


Which American football team are known as the Steelers?

Pittsburgh Steelers | American Football Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Heinz Field (2001-present) The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC), in the National Football League (NFL). The Steelers are the oldest and most championed franchise in the AFC. The team has appeared in eight Super Bowls and is, along with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys , one of three teams to have won the Super Bowl at least five times and the only team to have won six. They have appeared in fourteen Conference Championship Games , and have hosted more conference championship games than any other NFL franchise. They are the only team in NFL playoff history to win a Super Bowl after being seeded sixth in the playoffs, winning three consecutive games on the road followed by a Super Bowl victory in Detroit on February 5, 2006 against the Seattle Seahawks . Originally named the Pittsburgh Pirates, the team, along with the Philadelphia Eagles and the now-defunct Cincinnati Reds football team, joined the NFL as 1933 expansion teams , after Art Rooney, Sr. paid a $2,500 fee. However the Steelers are the heirs to the first ever pro-football team, Pittsburgh being the city to host the world's first pro game in the 1890's, a franchise that would still be in existence today if not for the strict state blue-laws preventing any activity during the sabbath (NFL Sundays) up until 1933. The team was renamed the Steelers in 1940 after the city's prominent steel industry to reflect the "blue-collar worker" ethic of the many Pittsburgh fans as well as to avoid confusion with the major league baseball team with the same name. Contents Edit The Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL first took to the field as the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 20, 1933, losing 23–2 to the New York Giants . [1] Through the 1930s, the Pirates never finished higher than second place in their division, or with a record better than .500 (1936). [2] Pittsburgh did make history in 1938 by signing Byron White , a future Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to what was at the time the biggest contract in NFL history, [3] but he played only one year with the Pirates before signing with the Detroit Lions . [4] Prior to the 1940 season, the Pirates renamed themselves the Steelers. The Phil-Pitt "Steagles" (1943-44) Edit During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team. During the 1943 season , they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the " Steagles ". This team went 5–4–1. In 1944 , they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as Card-Pitt (or, mockingly, as the "Carpets"). [3] This team finished 0–10, marking the only winless team in franchise history. [5] Post World War II years Edit The Steelers made the playoffs for the first time in 1947, tying for first place in the division at 8–4 with the Philadelphia Eagles . This forced a tie-breaking playoff game at Forbes Field , which the Steelers lost 21–0. [6] That would be Pittsburgh's only playoff game for the next 25 years; they did qualify for a "Playoff Bowl" in 1962 as the second-best team in their conference, but this was not considered an official playoff. [7] In 1970, the year they moved into Three Rivers Stadium and the year of the AFL-NFL merger , the Pittsburgh Steelers were one of three old-guard NFL teams to switch to the newly-formed American Football Conference (the others being the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts ), in order to equalize the number of teams in the two conferences of the newly-merged league. The Steelers also received a $3 million relocation fee, which was a windfall for them; for years they rarely had enough to build a true contending team. [8] Logo/Jersey Image Gallery Edit For more details on this topic, see Chuck Noll . The Steelers' history of bad luck changed with the hiring of coach Chuck Noll for the 1969 season . Noll's most re


What part of the body is affected by Brights disease?

Nephritis - body, causes, Pollys Sore Throat, What Is Nephritis? Nephritis Nephritis Nephritis (nef-RY-tis) is an inflammation of one or both kidneys that     can result in kidney damage. KEYWORDS for searching the Internet and other reference sources Bright's disease Renal disease Polly's Sore Throat Polly will always remember fifth grade because she missed so much of it.    She missed one week of school because she had strep throat, a sore throat    caused by streptococcal bacteria. Several weeks later, Polly felt very    tired, she lost her appetite, her abdomen and back hurt, and her face    looked puffy. She rarely had to urinate, and when she did, her urine was    dark like cola. Polly's doctor suspected that she had a case of    acute (sudden) nephritis that was caused by her strep throat. He explained    that her kidneys were not working properly and that waste products from    the cells were building up inside her body. Polly's condition got    worse. She spent several days in the hospital, then she recovered at home    for several weeks. What Is Nephritis? The kidneys play an important role in filtering about 400 quarts of blood    a day to remove cellular waste products and extra water. Each of the two    bean-shaped kidneys is made up of about one million units called nephrons    (NEF-rons). Each nephron consists of a collecting tubule that will    eventually take wastes to the bladder, and a filtering unit called a    glomerulus * . * glomerulus (glom-ER-you-lus) is from a Greek word meaning "filter." The glomerulus is a knot of blood vessels that have the job of filtering     the blood. 175 Years Ago: Richard Bright Richard Bright, a British physician who lived from 1789 to 1858, was the     first to describe the kidney disorder known today as Bright's     disease, or nephritis. Bright studied kidney function and was meticulous     in his clinical observations. He worked with kidney patients, studying     their symptoms, and then he correlated symptoms with the kidney defects     he observed during autopsies (examinations after death). The results of     Bright's research first appeared in Reports of Medical Cases in 1827. Bright also contributed to the study of lung disease, heart     disease, various fevers, and tumors. In a person with nephritis, the glomeruli (plural of glomerulus) do not    function properly, often as a result of a bacterial infection like    Polly's. Not all the glomeruli are damaged to the same degree,    however, so the kidneys can continue to function, but not as well as    before. The kidneys may already be affected before the person notices    symptoms. Glomerulonephritis (Bright's disease) There are several different types of nephritis. One of the most common is    glomerulonephritis (glomer-u-lo-ne-FRY-tis), also called Bright's    disease, a condition in which the glomeruli become inflamed and scarred.    Common symptoms of this disease include tiredness, high blood pressure,    and swelling of the hands, feet, ankles, and face. This swelling is called    edema (e-DEE-ma). The person will pass blood and protein in the urine. Acute nephritis Another type of nephritis that commonly affects children occurs as a    result of infection. Sometimes a bacterial infection can spread from    another part of the body, such as the bladder, to the kidney. The    body's disease-fighting proteins, or antibodies, can adhere to the    glomeruli, causing them to become inflamed. This type of nephritis usually    is acute, or sudden, and many affected children recover without long-term    kidney damage. Other causes Nephritis can occur as a side effect of other diseases, such as diabetes * , and of autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus * . Nephritis also can be caused by the overuse of certain common drugs,    such as ibuprofen (i-bu-PRO-fen) and acetaminophen (a-set-a-MIN-a-fen),    and by sniffing glue or inhaling gasoline. What Happens When


Which 1972 film starred Diana Ross as Billie Holiday?

Lady Sings the Blues (1972) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Lady Sings the Blues ( 1972 ) R | The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday. Director: a list of 42 titles created 16 Oct 2012 a list of 39 titles created 22 Jul 2013 a list of 30 titles created 12 Aug 2015 a list of 38 titles created 05 Nov 2015 a list of 30 titles created 20 Nov 2015 Title: Lady Sings the Blues (1972) 7.1/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     5     Oscars. Another    5 wins & 3 nominations. See more awards  » Photos Directors: Berry Gordy, Tony Richardson, and 1 more credit  » Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their... See full summary  » Director: Michael Schultz After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life. Director: Richard Pryor Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's. Director: John Badham At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it. Director: Sidney Poitier A girl group experiences turmoil after one of their members turns to drugs and another achieves their desired fame all by herself. Director: Sam O'Steen Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker was born poor, but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic and erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville ... See full summary  » Director: Brian Gibson The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race. Director: Michael Schultz Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ... See full summary  » Directors: Oz Scott, Michael Schultz Stars: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Angel Ramirez Jr.     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X   Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the ... See full summary  » Director: Michael Campus Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, which deals with several strong-willed women who live in a rundown housing project on Brewster Place in an unidentified eastern city; across three ... See full summary  » Stars: Oprah Winfrey, Mary Alice, Olivia Cole Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them ... See full summary  » Director: Sidney Poitier Edit Storyline Born Elinore Harris, Billie Holiday had a difficult teen and young adulthood period, which included working in brothels, both as a cleaning woman and a prostitute, and being raped. Through this difficulty, she dreamed of becoming a jazz singer. She got her initial singing break when she applied at a Harlem club that was looking for a dancer, but where she got hired as a singer. There, she met and fell in love with the suave Louis McKay . After this initial break, Billie wanted her singing career to move to the mainstream clubs in downtown Manhattan. She took a risk when she agreed to be the lead singer for the Reg Hanley Band, a primarily white group, who convinced her that she would have


In the UK it is called a spanner, what do they call it in the USA?

The **COMPLETE** us & uk confusions [rec.humor.funny] | Browse the Best of RHF: " General Jokes 93-95 " | The **COMPLETE** us & uk confusions D.J.Barton@durham.ac.uk (D J Barton) University of Durham, Durham, UK (chuckle, long, sexual, swearing, offense=British & Americans) Words that could be confusing and embarrassing in the UK & US At long last, here is the complete list of anglo-american confusions. The definitions have been cross referenced with the most recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary, so if you don't agree with some of my definitions take up the argument with them (unless I say otherwise in the text.) I have made a few alterations, additions and removals too... Thanks to the many people who have helped me compile this list, including: Paul R. Montague, Jonathon Watkins, Darran Potter, Darlene Ollom & her friend Liz, John Lovie, Gail thingy in alt.fan.british-accent, Kevin Walsh, Suzi Howe, D Loomis, Kate Lingley, Martin Mazik, Ron Leech, Richard Smith. If I have forgotten anyone, sorry! The list is also available at my home page: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dgl3djb/~ukus.html If you have any further suggestions please mail me at: d.j.barton@durham.ac.uk Who knows? There may be a second volume... (oh no!) deej 1) Buns. You know what these are. You're probably sitting on them now. Over here buns are either bread or cake rolls. Asking for a couple of sticky buns in a bakery here will mean Mr Crusty the baker will give you two cake buns with icing (frosting) on the top. If I went into a deli in Manhattan and asked for a couple of sticky buns I'd probably get arrested... 2) Fag. A goody but an oldie. Over here a 'fag' is a cigarette. So in the song 'It's a long way to Tipperary' the line 'As long as you have a Lucifer to light your fag' is not a fundementalist Christian's statement that all homosexuals will burn for eternity in hell, but saying that 'if you always have a match to light your cigarette...' 3) Faggots. Meat balls made from offal (chopped liver) in gravy. Also a small bundle of logs suitable to burn on a fire. 4) Pants. You call pants what we call trousers; pants are the things that go underneath. 5) Rubber. In this country a pencil eraser. Don't be shocked if the mild mannered new Englishman in your office asks for a pencil with a rubber on the end. Especially when he says that he enjoys chewing it when he is thinking. 6) Shit. To us, bodily waste. To you, practically everything as far as I could figure, good or bad (and you certainly don't want us to touch yours...) 7) Fanny. To us the front bottom; to you the back one. In Britain, the fanny pack is known as a bum bag for obvious reasons... 8) Muffler. To us what you call a muffler is called a silencer. In the UK a muffler is a long scarf a la Dickensian Novels. A muffler was also a derogatory name for a certain part of the female anatomy at my school, though this was probably unique to us. Try explaining THAT to a upstanding American when you are standing at the petrol (gas) station in fits of laughter... 9) Pavement. Sidewalk to you. I couldn't think of anything smutty to go with this. 10) Pissed. To you it's quite legal to be pissed in a car in a traffic jam. In fact, in large cities sometimes you cannot help it. For us, it means that you have been over doing it 'down the boozer' (pub) and a kindly policeman will shortly flag you down and arrest you. 11) Shag. To you a dance. To us sexual congress. In otherwords you may have to summon up the courage to have a shag with someone, before you might have a shag with them later on. Also a sea bird similar to a cormorant and a type of rough tobacco. 12) Fancy. To be sexually attracted to or to desire. Also a tea cake. 13) Ass. To us a quadraped of the horse family or a stupid person. The word you guys are looking for in English english is 'arse'. 14) Sneakers. We call these 'trainers' for some reason. 15) Waistcoat. You call them vests. 16) Football. A classic example of our culture gap. To us football is what you call soccer.


Name the writer of The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony award for best play?

Tony Winners Circle - Photo 13 - Pictures - CBS News Tony Winners Circle Next Best actors and actresses pose backstage with their Tonys at the 60th annual Tony Awards in New York Sunday, June 11, 2006. The winners, from left, are John Lloyd Young of "The Jersey Boys," LaChanze of "The Color Purple," Cynthia Nixon of "Rabbit Hole," and Richard Griffiths of "The History Boys." Credit: AP Richard Griffiths of "The History Boys" poses for a picture with his Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in Play at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Christian Hoff poses for a picture with his Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in Musical ("Jersey Boys") at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Beth Leavel from "The Drowsy Chaperone" kisses her Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Director John Doyle poses for pictures with his Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for his work on "Sweeney Todd" at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Lisa Lambert, left, and Greg Morrison pose for a picture with their Tony for Best Original Score for "The Drowsy Chaperone" at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006, in New York. Credit: AP Ian McDiarmid of "Faith Healer" poses for a picture with his Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in Play at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006, in New York. Credit: AP LaChanze of "The Color Purple" accepts her Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Sara Jones speaks after receiving a special Tony Award for "Bridge and Tunnel" at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 2006 in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Christensen LaChanze, left, winner of Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her role in "The Color Purple," and Cynthia Nixon, winner of Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role in "Rabbit Hole," pose with their Tonys at the 60th annual Tony Awards in New York Sunday, June 11, 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew John Lloyd Young, who won a Tony award for his role in "Jersey Boys," arrives to a party for the musical, Sunday, June 11, 2006, at Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square. "Jersey Boys" won a Tony award for best musical and two other awards. Credit: AP/Hard Rock Cafe, Diane Bondareff Harry Connick Jr., center, and the cast of "The Pajama Game" perform a musical number at the 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11, 200 in New York. "The Pajama Game" won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Christensen Alan Bennett, author of "The History Boys," winner of the 2006 Tony for Best Play, poses with his award at the 60th annual Tony Awards in New York Sunday, June 11, 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew Award winners Christian Hoff and John Lloyd Young of" Jersey Boys" pose with their awards backstage at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall June 11, 2006 in New York. "Jersey Boys," based on the lives of the group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, won a total of four awards including best musical. Credit: CBS Director Nicholas Hytner accepts the award for Best Direction of a Play for "The History Boys" onstage at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall June 11, 2006 in New York. The play by Alan Bennett won six Tonys -- more than any other production. Credit: GETTY IMAGES/Paul Hawthorne Kathie Lee Gifford, left, wipes away a tear from winner of the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Richard Griffiths, right, backstage at the Sprint Lounge during the 60th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall June 11, 2006 in New York. Griffiths stars as a professor in "The History Boys." Credit: GETTY IMAGES/Peter Kramer Actor Bill Irwin presents Patricia Neal with a replacement Tony Award at the 60th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall June 11, 2006 in New York. Her 1947 Tony, one


Which stretch of water separates the North and South islands in New Zealand?

InterIslander Ferry - Picton to Wellington More Information and Bookings Duration:3 hours Price: Starting from $72.50 per person Jump aboard a the interIslander daily ferry service across Cook Strait; the stretch of water separating the South and North Islands of New Zealand. Not just the link between islands, it's a New Zealand experience not be missed. An edition of the US magazine Wine Spectator, described the interIslander trip as 'one of the most beautiful ferry rides in the world' and the scenery was described as 'jaw droppingly stunning!' Jump aboard a the interIslander daily ferry service across Cook Strait; the stretch of water separating the South and North Islands of New Zealand. Not just the link between islands, it's a New Zealand experience not be missed. An edition of the US magazine Wine Spectator, described the interIslander trip as 'one of the most beautiful ferry rides in the world' and the scenery was described as 'jaw droppingly stunning!' InterIslander offers daily ferry services across the Cook Strait linking New Zealand's North and South Islands. Cruise across in 3-hours whilst traveling in comfort and style as you savor one of the world's most scenic ferry journeys. The picturesque port town of Picton at one end of the crossing is left behind as you cruise through the serene waters of Queen Charlotte Sound in the heart of the Marlborough Sounds. The sparkling clear waters and lush forests of the Sounds is breathtaking as you leave the South Island. At the other end of the crossing is the beautiful harbor of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington (North Island). The cruise across Wellington Harbor offers a unique view of this exciting city. Nestled between surrounding hills and the glistening harbor, Wellington is a vibrant city which has retained the charm of its early colonial heritage. Wellington is alive with some of New Zealand's finest restaurants, shopping and theater - including the spectacular Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Note: This InterIslander option does not allow travel with your vehicle. Please click on the "View Additional Info" button for a map of the departure point and route.


Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as US President in 1869?

Andrew Johnson - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Google Andrew Johnson’s Early Years Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in a log cabin in Raleigh, North Carolina . His father, Jacob Johnson (1778-1812), was a porter at an inn, among other jobs, and died when Andrew was 3, while his mother, Mary “Polly” McDonough Johnson (1783-1856), was a laundress and seamstress. Did You Know? During Andrew Johnson’s presidency, his secretary of state, William Seward, negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. At the time of the 1867 deal, critics dubbed it “Seward’s Folly.” Alaska became the 49th U.S. state on January 3, 1959. Johnson, who grew up poor and never attended school, was apprenticed to a tailor by his early teens. In 1826, he moved to Greeneville, Tennessee , and established himself as a tailor. The following year, Johnson married Eliza McCardle (1810-1876), the daughter of a shoemaker. The couple had five children. Eliza Johnson helped her husband improve his rudimentary reading and writing skills, and tutored him in math. Over time, Andrew Johnson became prosperous enough to buy property and acquire several African-American slaves, who worked in his home. Johnson Enters Politics in Tennessee Johnson’s political career began in 1829, when he was elected alderman in Greeneville. That same year, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), a fellow Democrat and Tennessean, became the seventh U.S. president. Like Jackson, Johnson considered himself as a champion of the common man. He was resentful of rich planters and favored states’ rights and populist policies. A skilled orator, Johnson became mayor of Greeneville in 1834, and was elected the following year to the Tennessee state legislature, where he spent much of the 1830s and early 1840s. In 1843, he was voted into the U.S. House of Representatives. While in Congress, Johnson introduced what would become the Homestead Act , which granted tracts of undeveloped public land to settlers (the act finally passed in 1862). Slavery became an increasingly important issue during Johnson’s time in Congress in the 1840s, and Americans were split over whether to extend the “peculiar institution” to the nation’s newly acquired western territories. Johnson, a strong supporter of the U.S. Constitution, believed it guaranteed individuals the right to own slaves. Johnson left Congress in 1853 to become governor of Tennessee. He vacated the governorship in 1857 to take a seat in the U.S. Senate. During the 1850s, as the struggle over states’ rights and slavery in the territories further intensified and divided the North and South, Johnson continued to believe in the right to slave ownership. However, as some Southern leaders began calling for secession, he advocated for the preservation of the Union. Andrew Johnson and the Civil War In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln , a former U.S. congressman from Illinois and member of the anti-slavery Republican Party, was elected America’s 16th president. On December 20 of that same year, slaveholding South Carolina seceded from the Union. Six more Southern states soon followed, and in February 1861, they formed the Confederate States of America (which would eventually include a total of 11 Southern states). Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861, and just over a month later, on April 12, the U.S. Civil War broke out when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. That June, Tennessee voters approved a referendum to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Johnson, who had traveled across Tennessee speaking out against secession, was the only senator from the South to remain loyal to the Union after his state seceded. He resigned from the Senate in 1862 when Lincoln appointed him as Tennessee’s military governor. In this role, Johnson tried, with mixed success, to re-establish federal authority in Tennessee. Johnson’s Brief Tenure as Vice President When Lincoln sought re-election in 1864, he chose Johnson as his running mate over Vice President Hannibal Hamlin (1809-91), a former U.S. senator fro


'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist?

Björk on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography Björk first came to prominence as one of the lead vocalists of the avant pop Icelandic sextet the Sugarcubes, but when she launched a solo career after the group's 1992 demise, she quickly eclipsed her old band's popularity. Instead of following in the Sugarcubes' arty guitar rock pretensions, Björk immersed herself in dance and club culture, working with many of the biggest names in the genre, including Nellee Hooper, Underworld, and Tricky. Debut, her first solo effort (except for an Icelandic-only smash released when she was just 11 years old), not only established her new artistic direction, but it became an international hit, making her one of the most unlikely stars of the '90s. Though the title of Debut implied that it was Björk's first-ever solo project, she had actually been a professional vocalist since she was a child. When she was in elementary school in Reykjavik, she studied classical piano and, eventually, her teachers submitted a tape of her singing Tina Charles' "I Love to Love" to Iceland's Radio One. After "I Love to Love" was aired, a record label called Falkkin offered Björk a record contract. At the age of 11, her eponymous first album was released; the record contained covers of several pop songs, including the Beatles' "Fool on the Hill," and boasted artwork from her mother and guitar work from her stepfather. Björk became a hit within Iceland and was not released in any other country. Björk's musical tastes were changed by the punk revolution of the late '70s; in 1979, she formed a post-punk group called Exodus and, in the following year, she sang in Jam 80. In 1981, Björk and Exodus bassist Jakob Magnusson formed Tappi Tikarrass, which released an EP, Bitid Fast I Vitid, on Spor later that year; it was followed by the full-length Miranda in 1983. Following Tappi Tikarrass, she formed the goth-tinged post-punk group KUKL with Einar Orn Benediktsson. KUKL released two albums, The Eye (1984) and Holidays in Europe (1986), on Crass Records before the band metamorphosed into the Sugarcubes in the summer of 1986. The Sugarcubes became one of the rare Icelandic bands to break out of their native country when their debut album, Life's Too Good, became a British and American hit in 1988. For the next four years, the group maintained a successful cult following in the U.K. and the U.S. while they were stars within Iceland. During 1990, Björk recorded a set of jazz standards and originals with an Icelandic bebop group called Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar. The album, Gling-Gló, was released only in Iceland. By 1992, tensions between Björk and Einar had grown substantially, which resulted in the band splitting apart. Following the breakup of the group, Björk moved to London, where she began pursuing a dance-oriented solo career. The previous year, she had sung on 808 State's "Ooops," which sparked her interest in club and house music. Björk struck up a working relationship with Nellee Hooper, a producer who had formerly worked with Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. The first result of their partnership was "Human Behaviour," which was released in June of 1993. "Human Behaviour" became a Top 40 hit in the U.K., setting the stage for the surprising number three debut of the full-length album, Debut. Throughout 1993, Björk had hit U.K. singles -- including "Venus as a Boy," "Big Time Sensuality," and the non-LP "Play Dead," a collaboration with David Arnold taken from the film Young Americans -- as well as modern rock radio hits in the U.S., and in both countries she earned rave reviews. At the end of the year, NME magazine named Debut the album of the year, while she won International Female Solo Artist and Newcomer at the BRIT Awards; Debut went gold in the U.S. and platinum in the U.K. During 1994, Björk was relatively quiet as she recorded her second album with Nellee Hooper, Tricky, 808 State's Graham Massey, and Howie B of Mo' Wax Records; she also released a remix EP, co-wrote M


What is the meaning of the adjective lachrymal?

Lachrymal | Define Lachrymal at Dictionary.com lachrymal [lak-ruh-muh l] /ˈlæk rə məl/ Spell of or relating to tears. 2. characterized by tears; indicative of weeping. 4. Also called lachrymal bone. Anatomy. lacrimal bone . 6. Medieval Latin 1535-1545 1535-45; < Medieval Latin lachrymālis, equivalent to Latin lachrym(a) (Hellenized spelling of lacrima, lacruma (OL dacrima) tear, probably ≪ Greek dákrȳma, derivative of dákry; see tear 1) + -ālis -al 1 Related forms Examples from the Web for lachrymal Expand Why Do We Cry? Michael Trimble January 9, 2013 Historical Examples The last-named are often mistaken for spring onions by those who come too near with their lachrymal nerves. Emmy Lou George Madden Martin The lachrymal glands had none of that ready sensitiveness which gives many superficial women the credit of deep feeling. The Vertebrate Skeleton Sidney H. Reynolds This is performed under adrenalin and cocaine, which should be injected into the lachrymal sac. British Dictionary definitions for lachrymal Expand a variant spelling of lacrimal Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for lachrymal Expand also lachrimal, early 15c., from Medieval Latin lacrimalis, from Latin lacrima (see lachrymose ). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper


In Roman mythology who was the wife of Jupiter?

Jupiter Jupiter by Micha F. Lindemans Jupiter is the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, called dies pater, "shining father". He is a god of light and sky, and protector of the state and its laws. He is a son of Saturn and brother of Neptune and Juno (who is also his wife). The Romans worshipped him especially as Jupiter Optimus Maximus (all-good, all-powerful). This name refers not only to his rulership over the universe, but also to his function as the god of the state who distributes laws, controls the realm and makes his will known through oracles. His English name is Jove. He had a temple on the Capitol, together with Juno and Minerva , but he was the most prominent of this Capitoline triad. His temple was not only the most important sanctuary in Rome; it was also the center of political life. Here official offerings were made, treaties were signed and wars were declared, and the triumphant generals of the Roman army came here to give their thanks. Other titles of Jupiter include: Caelestis (heavenly), Lucetius (of the light), Totans (thunderer), Fulgurator (of the lightning). As Jupiter Victor he led the Roman army to victory. Jupiter is also the protector of the ancient league of Latin cities. His attribute is the lightning bolt and the eagle is both his symbol and his messenger. Jupiter is completely identical with the Greek Zeus Article details:


Who composed the Hungarian Dances in 1869?

Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Dec 20, 2007 Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor The German composer, pianist, and conductor Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was one of the most significant composers of the 19th century. His works greatly enriched the romantic repertory. Category


What was the Christian name of Lord Byron?

Lord Byron: The Demons of Calvinism - Gary Sloan - Eclectica Magazine v6n3 Lord Byron: The Demons of Calvinism by Gary Sloan George Noel Gordon, better known as Lord Byron (1788-1824), was once the most celebrated poet in Europe. Handsome and charismatic, he was the darling of polite society, the cynosure of salons, a pacesetter in fashion and mannerism, the observed of all observers. Smitten debutantes, madams, and maidservants vied for the attention of the dashing peer of the realm. Men envied him. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published when the poet was twenty-four, captivated the romantic imagination of a continent. "I awoke one day," said Byron, "and found myself famous." Despite his demurrals, readers fused him with Childe Harold�a brooding, enigmatic pariah haunted by a dark past and nameless guilt. Though he cloned Childe Harold several times, Byron was no one-trick pony (or poet). Don Juan, his epic masterpiece, is, as he said, "a little quietly facetious on everything." It bristles with trenchant quips on the eternal human comedy: "Life's a poor player"�then play out the play, Ye villains! And above all keep a sharp eye Much less on what you do than what you say: Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see. All present life is but an interjection, An "Oh!" or "Ah!" of joy or misery, Or a "Ha! Ha!" Or "Bah!"�a yawn or "Pooh!" Of which perhaps the latter is most true. Bryon was a master of the ingenious rhyme: Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded  That all the Apostles would have done as they did. And: But�Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all? Even his wife, no fan, conceded his verbal brilliance: "He is the absolute monarch of words." When he died of a fever in Missolonghi, where he was aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire, newspapers called him and Napolean the greatest men of the era. Goethe, the reigning monarch of belles lettres, hailed him as "a personality of such eminence as has never been and is not likely to come again." "Eminence" played better on the Continent than in England. There, long before his death, Byron's fame had mutated to infamy. In separation papers, Lady Annabella Milbanke, his wife and the mother of his infant daughter, Ada, accused him of psychological and physical abuse, including attempted rape. Soon, his private history, sordid and profligate, became public. One report had him and some Cambridge cronies, dressed as monks and using skulls for bowls, keeping wassail at his abbey. Gossip sheets sizzled with lurid tales of homoeroticism, pederasty, whoremongering, adultery, and an incestuous liaison with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. Throughout England, the clergy thundered "on his head pious libels by no means few." Ostracized in London, where he was then living, Byron fled England in April 1816. He never returned. He spent his final eight years in Italy, Switzerland, and Greece. Reviled at home, he was feted abroad. Caroline Lamb, a blue blood who hounded Byron into an affair, said he was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" (her kind of guy, apparently). George Ticknor, a literary acquaintance, described him as "gentle, mannerly, natural, affectionate, and modest." Both were right. Byron was an amalgam of disparate traits: cruelty and kindness; misanthropy and philanthropy; cynicism and idealism; affectation and sincerity; arrogance and self-mockery; pettiness and magnanimity; intemperance and asceticism; self-pity and courage. On balance, the virtues trumped the vices: "For all his flashes of vulgarity, his unworthy intrigues, his intellectual caprices," biographer Ethel Mayne concluded, "Byron was a man of daring, tenderness, and candor, and one of the most generous spirits of his age." His vices were aggravated by indoctrination to Calvinism, which he could never quite shake despite "an early dislike to the persuasion." Of his first grammar school, in Aberdeen, Scotland, he reminisced: "I learned little there�except to repea


What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock?

Jackson Pollock | Biography & Facts | Britannica.com Sam Francis Jackson Pollock, in full Paul Jackson Pollock (born January 28, 1912, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.—died August 11, 1956, East Hampton, New York ), American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism , an art movement characterized by the free-associative gestures in paint sometimes referred to as “ action painting .” During his lifetime he received widespread publicity and serious recognition for the radical poured, or “drip,” technique he used to create his major works. Among his contemporaries, he was respected for his deeply personal and totally uncompromising commitment to the art of painting. His work and example had enormous influence on them and on many subsequent art movements in the United States . He is also one of the first American painters to be recognized during his lifetime and after as a peer of 20th-century European masters of modern art . Jackson Pollock painting in his studio on Long Island, New York, 1950. © Hans Namuth Early life and work Paul Jackson Pollock was the fifth and youngest son of Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, who were both of Scotch-Irish extraction (LeRoy’s original surname was McCoy before his adoption about 1890 by a family named Pollock) and born and raised in Iowa . The family left Cody , Wyoming , 11 months after Jackson’s birth; he would know Cody only through family photographs. Over the next 16 years his family lived in California and Arizona , eventually moving nine times. In 1928 they moved to Los Angeles , where Pollock enrolled at Manual Arts High School. There he came under the influence of Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky, a painter and illustrator who was also a member of the Theosophical Society , a sect that promoted metaphysical and occult spirituality. Schwankovsky gave Pollock some rudimentary training in drawing and painting, introduced him to advanced currents of European modern art, and encouraged his interest in theosophical literature. At this time Pollock, who had been raised an agnostic , also attended the camp meetings of the former messiah of the theosophists, Jiddu Krishnamurti , a personal friend of Schwankovsky. These spiritual explorations prepared him to embrace the theories of the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and the exploration of unconscious imagery in his paintings in subsequent years. In the fall of 1930 Pollock followed his brother Charles, who left home to study art in 1922, to New York City , where he enrolled at the Art Students League under his brother’s teacher, the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton . (Jackson dropped his first name, Paul, about the time he went to New York in 1930.) He studied life drawing, painting, and composition with Benton for the next two and one-half years, leaving the league in the early months of 1933. For the next two years Pollock lived in poverty, first with Charles and, by the fall of 1934, with his brother Sanford. He would share an apartment in Greenwich Village with Sanford and his wife until 1942. Britannica Stories Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales Pollock was employed by the WPA Federal Art Project in the fall of 1935 as an easel painter. This position gave him economic security during the remaining years of the Great Depression as well as an opportunity to develop his art. From his years with Benton through 1938, Pollock’s work was strongly influenced by the compositional methods and regionalist subject matter of his teacher and by the poetically expressionist vision of the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder . It consisted mostly of small landscapes and figurative scenes such as Going West (1934–35), in which Pollock utilized motifs derived from photographs of his birthplace at Cody. In 1937 Pollock began psychiatric treatment for alcoholism , and he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1938, which caused him to be institutionalized for about four months. After these experiences, his work became semiabstract and showed the assimilation of motifs from the modern Spanish artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Mir


In the Addams Family what type of pet was Pugsley's Aristotle?

Aristotle | Addams Family Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Aristotle is Pugsley Addams ' pet octopus. Contents [ show ] History When Pugsley joins the Scouts , he begins to neglect Aristotle. [1] When noise keeps him awake, he gets rings under his tentacles. [2] While Gomez washes Aristotle in a tub in the yard he tells the neighbors that he's friendly. [3] Gomez says of Mother Lurch "Anyone who'd hate an octopus is warped," when she tried to feed him to Cleopatra . [4] Morticia knitted him a sweater, [5] and is later seen knitting similarly shaped sweaters presumably for him. [6] [7] When he gave Pugsley's teacher a hug, she was so flustered that she rang the fire alarm. "He's such an affectionate creature," says Morticia. [8] She once asked Lurch to milk him. [9] When Uncle Fester was spoiling Pugsley, he forgot to feed him and Morticia said he was nothing but skin and beak. [10]


From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959?

Henry Cooper, Dramatic Loser to Ali, Dies at 76 - The New York Times The New York Times Sports |Henry Cooper, Dramatic Loser to Ali, Dies at 76 Search Continue reading the main story Henry Cooper, a popular British heavyweight with a murderous left hook that, in his most famous fight, knocked a brash, future world champion then known as Cassius Clay on his backside, died Sunday in Oxted, Surrey, south of London. He was 76. The British Boxing Board of Control confirmed the death to The Associated Press, saying Cooper died after an unspecified extended illness. Cooper, among the best known and most successful British fighters since World War II, held the British heavyweight title for a dozen years — except for a self-imposed exile of 10 months — and was also, for a time, the European champion. He did not win either of his fights against Clay, who, by the time of their second encounter, in London in 1966, was the heavyweight champion known as Muhammad Ali . He whipped Cooper in a six-round technical knockout, opening a cut over Cooper’s left eye and taking advantage of his penchant for copious bleeding. A flatfooted puncher and, at about 190 pounds, small for a heavyweight, he was outweighed and outmaneuvered by Ali, and the outcome surprised no one. Photo Henry Cooper fought Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, in a 1963 bout, which Cooper lost despite landing a blow that Ali said three years later was “the hardest punch I have ever taken.” Credit Associated Press But their first bout , at Wembley Stadium in London in June 1963, was fraught with drama. At the time, Cooper was the champion not just of England but also of the entire Commonwealth. At 29 he was an elder statesman who had been fighting professionally for nearly a decade, a sporting figure known as “our ’Enry,” beloved for his working-class cockney roots and modest manner. Clay, just 21, had yet to seize the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, and he had arrived in England with his trademark braggadocio in full efflorescence. “Henry Cooper will think he’s Gordon Cooper when I put him in orbit,” Clay declared. “I’m going to hit that bum so fast and so regular, he’ll think he’s surrounded.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Clay predicted he would win in five rounds. As the fight proceeded he seemed to be toying with Cooper as he waited for Round 5 to arrive. In the meantime he used his superior speed and size — 207 pounds to Cooper’s 183 — to torment Cooper with savage jabs and to dodge his potent left hook, a punch nicknamed “ ’Enry’s ’Ammer.” It nearly ended in disaster for Clay when, just before the bell to end Round 4, Cooper connected with a swift, thudding blow that sent Clay backward through the ropes. “It was the hardest punch I have ever taken,” Ali would say, three years later, as he prepared for their second bout. An extended pause between rounds because of a split in one of Clay’s gloves — some say made purposely by Clay’s trainer, Angelo Dundee — helped Clay recover, and in Round 5 he fulfilled his prediction, quickly reducing Cooper’s face to a bloody mask. “In 2 minutes 15 seconds, he nearly tore Cooper’s head off his shoulders,” The New York Times reported. “Few men have absorbed such a beating in so short a time.” Photo Henry Cooper, right, and Muhammad Ali became friends and met again in 1992. Credit Russell Boyce/Reuters Henry Cooper and his twin brother, George — who also boxed for a time — were born in London on May 3, 1934. Their father was a soldier and a boxing enthusiast, but he was gone during the World War II years; it was a neighbor who first took the brothers to a boxing gym. A successful amateur, Henry Cooper fought for England in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki before turning professional in 1954. He won the British crown in 1959 and did not lose it until 1971, when he was beaten in a close bout by Joe Bugner and then retired. Cooper had a string of victories against title contenders, including Zora Folley, Karl Mildenberger and Brian London, though his second fight with Ali was his only world championship fight. Coo


Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966?

Sir Henry Cooper - Telegraph UK News Sir Henry Cooper Sir Henry Cooper, who died on May 1 aged 76, was the most popular and  respected British boxer of the postwar era.   Image 1 of 2 Henry Cooper knocks down Muhammad Ali, during the fourth round of their world heavyweight fight, at Wembley in 1963 Photo: PA   Muhammad Ali and Sir Henry Cooper pose together in Windsor in 2009 Photo: AP 6:28PM BST 03 May 2011 Comments Cooper was the only man ever to win three Lonsdale belts, each awarded for three successful defences of the British heavyweight title he held for 12 years. His embodiment of the virtues of courage and modesty endeared him to millions of fellow Englishmen as “Our ’Enery” His most celebrated fight took place before a crowd of 35,000 at Wembley in June 1963. Cassius Clay, not yet world champion, had predicted he would win inside five rounds. Cooper had acquired a reputation for cutting easily, and when blood appeared around his eye in the third round, Clay’s bragging seemed justified. But the American had seriously underestimated Cooper. At the end of the next round he caught Clay with his celebrated left hook. It was the first time Clay had ever been knocked down and he was only saved by the bell. His canny trainer, Angelo Dundee, made the most of a split in one of Clay’s gloves, giving him time to recover. When he emerged he was able to pepper Cooper’s eye with the torn glove, and as blood poured down Cooper’s face the referee ended the fight. When Cooper challenged him for the world title three years later the returning Muhammad Ali paid due respect. His mobility proved too much for Cooper and, cut by the heel of a glove, he was again forced to retire, honour intact. Cooper later fought the former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, but was knocked out in the fourth round. Henry Cooper was born in Westminster, London, on May 3 1934. He was 20 minutes older than his twin brother, George. Their father, a tram driver, was an amateur boxer while their grandfather had been a bare-knuckle fighter. Even their grandmother was said to have boxed like a man. Related Articles Henry Cooper, the former boxer, dies aged 76 02 May 2011 Henry was brought up at Bellingham in south-east London and attended Athelney Road school. During the Second World War he and George were evacuated to Sussex. Being billeted with an elderly disciplinarian was an unpleasant experience for the inseparable scamps. From the age of nine the pair were learning to box, and at 15 they joined the noted Eltham club. On leaving school, plastering work developed Henry’s physique and he won his first competition at 17. Shortly before he had beaten a former police champion twice his age, convincing himself of his own talent. Cooper was to win 73 of his 84 amateur fights, although he lost the first four. Years later he blamed his mother for plying him with bread pudding before those bouts. In 1952 he won his first Amateur Boxing Association title, as a light-heavyweight. He represented Britain at the Helsinki Olympics but lost his first fight. He and George then joined the RAOC for National Service. Both were, unsurprisingly, sent to the so-called Boxers’ Battalion, which each year dominated the Army Championships. The Coopers spent rather more time in the gym than on guard duty. They turned professional in 1954. From the first their manager, Jim Wicks, realised their publicity potential, even televising their signing to him. Wicks was soon content to trust Henry’s judgment as to his training regime and ideal fighting weight, for the 6ft tall, 13st 7 lbs fighter favoured suppleness over bulk. Wicks never overboxed Cooper, considerably prolonging his career. He also made him wash his face three times a day in a mixture of alum and brine claimed to toughen the skin – with an effect that was perhaps more psychological than physical. Cooper had a difficult two years from September 1956, winning only one of seven fights. An open air challenge for the European heavyweight title was lost when Ingemar Johansson knocked out Cooper while the sun was in his eyes.


Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989?

Robert Ballard (Oceanographer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Robert Ballard Male Born Jun 30, 1942 Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F.…  Read More related links Scientists Find 500 U.S. Seabed Vents Of Powerful Greenhouse Gas Yahoo News - Oct 20, 2016 'Scientists have found 500 seabed vents bubbling methane into the Pacific Ocean off the United States, roughly doubling the number of known U.S. seeps of the powerful greenhouse gas, a study showed on Wednesday. \"It appears that the entire coast off Washington, Oregon and California is a giant methane seep,\" Robert Ballard, who is famed for finding the wreck of the Titanic and has now discovered the 500 new seeps, said in a statement. Nicole Raineault, Director of Science Opera... Scientists Shocked (And Thankful) These Cyclones Missed Hawaii Huffington Post - Nov 25, 2015 '  Hawaii is a small target in the massive Pacific Ocean, but scientists are nevertheless impressed that the islands escapedÂ a record-breaking cyclone seasonÂ unscathed.Â   To illustrate just how lucky the Aloha State has been, the National Weather Service released the below image, which combines the infrared imagery of 15 tropical cyclones in the Central North Pacific Basin this year.Â       See Hawaii all safe and cozy there in the middle? Apparently, the state can thank good old-fas... Exploring The Unknown America CBS News - May 10, 2015 'With over 50 percent of our nation lying underwater, explorer Robert Ballard says huge discoveries await \n   \n ' Wartime Navy Captain Blamed For Failed Nazi U Boat Attack Now Hailed As A Hero Daily Mail (UK) - May 07, 2015 '\n For more than 60 years, Captain Herbert Claudius was blamed for letting a Nazi U-boat âget awayâ, but a crew led by Dr Robert Ballard has uncovered the wreckage in the Gulf of Mexico (pictured)\n   ' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Robert Ballard. CHILDHOOD 1942 Birth Born on June 30, 1942. TWENTIES 1962 20 Years Old Ballard began working for Andreas Rechnitzer's Ocean Systems Group at North American Aviation in 1962 when his father, Chet, the chief engineer at North American Aviation's Minuteman missile program, helped him get a part-time job. … Read More At North American, he worked on North American's failed proposal to build the submersible Alvin for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read Less Show Less In 1965, Ballard graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning undergraduate degrees in chemistry and geology. … Read More While a student in Santa Barbara, California, he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and also completed the US Army's ROTC program, giving him an Army officer's commission in Army Intelligence. His first graduate degree (MS, 1966) was in geophysics from the University of Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics where he trained porpoises and whales. Subsequently, he returned to Andreas Rechnitzer's Ocean Systems Group at North American Aviation. Read Less Ballard joined the United States Army in 1965 through the Army's Reserve Officers Training program. … Read More He was designated as an intelligence officer and initially received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve. When called to active duty in 1967, he asked to fulfill his obligation in the United States Navy. His request was approved, and he was transferred to the Navy Reserve on the reserve active duty list. Read Less 1967 25 Years Old Ballard was working towards a Ph.D. in marine geology at the University of Southern California in 1967 when he was called to active duty. … Read More Upon his request, he was transferred from the Army into the US Navy


Which British comedian was born in Hall Green, Birmingham in 1924 and died in Sydney in 1968?

Famous names from Birmingham Home | Birmingham | Visitor's Guide | Famous Local From Birmingham famous faces There’s plenty        of famous names who were born in the houses of Birmingham. From        comedians to artists, from writers to pioneers, take a wander around        their birth places for a unique history lesson. George Cadbury was born in Edgbaston 19th September 1839,        the son of John Cadbury, a tea and coffee merchant in Bull Street.        With his brother Richard he took over the cocoa factory 1861. George was interested in social reform and in the provision of decent        housing for working people. He was elected to the Town Council 1877        and enthusiastically supported Joseph Chamberlain’s municipal        initiatives. To escape the pollution of the town George rebuilt the cocoa factory        on a greenfield site at Bournville in 1879, where he began        to develop good quality and affordable housing for the workers,        known as Bournville Building Estate which became Bournville Village        Trust in 1900. And during his life George Cadbury was also a        prominent member of the Society of Friends. George Cadbury died at his home, the Manor House, Northfield, on        the 24th of November 1922 and was cremated at Perry Barr crematorium. English Heritage has unveiled the very first Blue Plaques in Birmingham for brothers Richard Cadbury (1835-1899) and George        Cadbury (1839-1922), at 17 Wheeley’s Road, where Richard Cadbury        lived from 1861 to 1871, and just round the corner from where George        Cadbury lived (32 George Road) from 1872 to 1881. Today the factory at Bournville [ map ] is very much alive and visitors are welcome to take trips around        the area, as well as to enjoy the museum and the Cadbury World adventure. John Ronald Reuel (JRR) Tolkien was born in 1892 and spent        much of his childhood swapping between life in industrial Birmingham        and the beautiful clean country air of nearby Worcestershire and        Severn Country. In the end the grim industrialised Birmingham won        out and he was sent to study at King Edward’s School [ map ].        His parents then moved to Edgbaston where he continued his childhood. Tolkien became a major scholar of English language at Oxford        University and it was here that he met other writers Owen        Barfield, Charles Williams and CS Lewis. This        group of friends became known as “The Inklings” and held regularly meetings where they drank and gave readings from        works-in-progress. Whilst grading student papers Tolkien suddenly wrote on a blank        piece of paper: “In a hole in the ground there lived a        Hobbit”. He then decided he needed to discover what a        Hobbit was and where exactly it lived. This grew into a much loved        bedtime story for the Tolkien children, and by 1937 The Hobbit had been published. Between 1954-1955 The Lord of The Rings was written and published        and proved to be one of the most popular books of all time. The        Middle-earth trilogy has also been made into a series of films,        which have won numerous Oscars and other accolades, making them        some of the most successful blockbusters in the history of cinema. Birmingham-born Tony Hancock is probably remembered as the        best known comedian of the 1960s and is still admired by many contemporary        British comedians. And recently he was named the greatest comedian        of all time in a BBC poll. He was born at 42 Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, on 12 May,        1924 but within three years his family moved to Bournemouth. He        served in the forces throughout the Second World War, as        a member of the Royal Air Force. D


What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography - Poem Hunter Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Biography - Poem Hunter Biography Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death. Early Life Some of Barrett's family had lived in Jamaica for several centuries. The main wealth of Barrett's household derived from Edward Barrett (1734–1798), landowner of 10,000 acres (40 km2) in Cinnamon Hill, Cornwall, Cambridge, and Oxford estates in northern Jamaica. Barrett Browning's maternal grandfather owned sugar plantations, mills, glassworks and ships that traded between Jamaica and Newcastle. Biographer Julia Markus stated that the poet ‘believed that she had African blood through her grandfather Charles Moulton’. There is no evidence to suggest her line of the Barrett family had any African ancestry, although other branches did, through the children of plantation owners and slaves. What the family believed to be their genealogy over several hundred years in the West Indies, is unclear. The family wished to hand down their name as well as their wealth, stipulating that Barrett should be held as a surname. In some cases inheritance was given on the prerequisite that the name Barrett had to be used by the beneficiary. Given the strong tradition, Elizabeth used 'Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett' on legal documents and before she was married often signed herself as 'Elizabeth Barrett Barrett', or ‘EBB’ (initials she was able to keep after her wedding). Elizabeth's father chose to raise his family in England while his fortune grew in Jamaica. The Graham Clarke family wealth, also derived in part from slave labour, was also considerable. Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in County Durham, England. Her parents were Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke; Elizabeth was the eldest of their 12 children (eight boys and four girls). All the children lived to adulthood except for one girl, who died at the age of three when Elizabeth was eight. The children in her family all had nicknames: Elizabeth's was "Ba". Elizabeth was baptized in 1809 at Kelloe Parish Church, though she had already been baptized by a family friend in the first week after she was born. Later that year, after the fifth child, Henrietta, was born, their father bought Hope End, a 500-acre (2.0 km2) estate near the Malvern Hills in Ledbury, Herefordshire, where Elizabeth spent her childhood. Her time at Hope End would inspire her in later life to write Aurora Leigh. She was educated at home and attended lessons with her brothers' tutor. During the Hope End period, she was an intensely studious, precocious child. She writes that at six she was reading novels, at eight she was entranced by Pope's translations of Homer, studying Greek at ten and writing her own Homeric epic The Battle of Marathon. Her mother compiled early efforts of the child's poetry into collections of "Poems by Elizabeth B. Barrett". Her father called her the 'Poet Laureate of Hope End’ and encouraged her work. The result is one of the largest collections of juvenilia of any English writer. On her 14th birthday her father gave the gift of 50 printed copies of the epic. She went on to delight in reading Virgil in the original Latin, Shakespeare and Milton. By 1821 she had read Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and she became a passionate supporter of Wollstonecraft's ideas. She watched her brothers go off to school knowing that there was no chance of that education for herself. The child's intellectual fascination with the classics and metaphysics was reflected in a religious intensity which she later described as "not the deep persuasion of the mild Christian but the wild vision


Which side finished bottom of the 1st division of the County Cricket Championship in 2008?

A brief history of the County Championship | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo A brief history of the County Championship List of winners | Competition sponsors | Wooden spoon At least four possible dates have been given for the start of county cricket in England. The first, patchy, references began in 1825. The earliest mention in any cricket publication is in 1864 and eight counties have come to be regarded as first-class from that date, including Cambridgeshire, who dropped out after 1871. For many years, the County Championship was considered to have started in 1873, when regulations governing qualification first applied; indeed, a special commemorative stamp was issued by the Post Office in 1973. However, the Championship was not formally organised until 1890 and before then champions were proclaimed by the press; sometimes publications differed in their views and no definitive list of champions can start before that date. Eight teams contested the 1890 competition - Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire. Somerset joined in the following year, and in 1895 the Championship began to acquire something of its modern shape when Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire were added. At that point MCC officially recognised the competition's existence. Worcestershire, Northamptonshire and Glamorgan were admitted to the Championship in 1899, 1905 and 1921 respectively and are regarded as first-class from these dates. An invitation in 1921 to Buckinghamshire to enter the Championship was declined, owing to the lack of necessary playing facilities, and an application by Devon in 1948 was unsuccessful. Durham were admitted to the Championship in 1992 and were granted first-class status prior to their pre-season tour of Zimbabwe. In 2000, the Championship was split for the first time into two divisions, on the basis of counties' standings in the 1999 competition. For the first six seasons, the bottom three teams in Division One were relegated at the end of the season, and the top three teams in Division Two promoted. In 2006 this was changed to a two-up, two-down system of promotion and relegation. County Champions The title of champion county is unreliable before 1890. In 1963, Wisden formally accepted the list of champions "most generally selected'' by contemporaries, as researched by the late Rowland Bowen. Results 3rd ODI: India v England at Kolkata Jan 22, 2017 (13:30 local | 08:00 GMT | 03:00 EST | 02:00 CST | 00:00 PST) Group A: Leeward Is v Kent at Coolidge Jan 25, 2017 (13:30 local | 17:30 GMT | 12:30 EST | 11:30 CST | 09:30 PST) 1st T20I: India v England at Kanpur Jan 26, 2017 (16:30 local | 11:00 GMT | 06:00 EST | 05:00 CST | 03:00 PST) Group A: Trinidad & T v Kent at Lucas Street Jan 29, 2017 (09:00 local | 13:00 GMT | 08:00 EST | 07:00 CST | 05:00 PST) 2nd T20I: India v England at Nagpur Jan 29, 2017 (19:00 local | 13:30 GMT | 08:30 EST | 07:30 CST | 05:30 PST)


When the Marie Celeste left New York on her ill-fated voyage, which Italian port was her destination?

Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste   |   History | Smithsonian Contact Privacy Policy Terms of Use Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging (Cumberland County Museum and Archives, Amherst, Nova Scotia Canada) By Jess Blumberg Smithsonian Magazine              | Subscribe November 2007 The British brig Dei Gratia was about 400 miles east of the Azores on December 5, 1872, when crew members spotted a ship adrift in the choppy seas. Capt. David Morehouse was taken aback to discover that the unguided vessel was the Mary Celeste, which had left New York City eight days before him and should have already arrived in Genoa, Italy. He changed course to offer help. From This Story [×] CLOSE After the Mary Celeste's ill-fated voyage, theories focused on everything from mutiny to pirates to sea monsters to waterspouts. (Click image for more photos / Cumberland County Museum and Archives, Amherst, Nova Scotia Canada) Documentarian Anne MacGregor and oceanographer Phil Richardson used historical weather data to plot the ship's course. (Scott MacGregor) Saving Our Shipwrecks Morehouse sent a boarding party to the ship. Belowdecks, the ship's charts had been tossed about, and the crewmen's belongings were still in their quarters. The ship's only lifeboat was missing, and one of its two pumps had been disassembled. Three and a half feet of water was sloshing in the ship's bottom, though the cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol was largely intact. There was a six-month supply of food and water—but not a soul to consume it. Thus was born one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history: What happened to the ten people who had sailed aboard the Mary Celeste? Through the decades, a lack of hard facts has only spurred speculation as to what might have taken place. Theories have ranged from mutiny to pirates to sea monsters to killer waterspouts. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1884 short story based on the case posited a capture by a vengeful ex-slave, a 1935 movie featured Bela Lugosi as a homicidal sailor. Now, a new investigation, drawing on modern maritime technology and newly discovered documents, has pieced together the most likely scenario. "I love the idea of mysteries, but you should always revisit these things using knowledge that has since come to light," says Anne MacGregor, the documentarian who launched the investigation and wrote, directed and produced The True Story of the 'Mary Celeste,' partly with funding from Smithsonian Networks. The ship began its fateful voyage on November 7, 1872, sailing with seven crewmen and Capt. Benjamin Spooner Briggs, his wife, Sarah, and the couple's 2-year-old daughter, Sophia. The 282-ton brigantine battled heavy weather for two weeks to reach the Azores, where the ship log's last entry was recorded at 5 a.m. on November 25. After spotting the Mary Celeste ten days later, the Dei Gratia crewmen sailed the ship some 800 miles to Gibraltar, where a British vice admiralty court convened a salvage hearing, which was usually limited to determining whether the salvagers—in this case, the Dei Gratia crewmen—were entitled to payment from the ship's insurers. But the attorney general in charge of the inquiry, Frederick Solly-Flood, suspected mischief and investigated accordingly. After more than three months, the court found no evidence of foul play. Eventually, the salvagers received a payment, but only one-sixth of the $46,000 for which the ship and its cargo had been insured, suggesting that the authorities were not entirely convinced of the Dei Gratia crew's innocence. The story of the Mary Celeste might have drifted into history if Conan Doyle hadn't published "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" in 1884; his sensationalistic account, printed in Cornhill Magazine, set off waves of theorizing about the ship's fate. Even Attorney General Solly-Flood revisited the case, writing summaries of his interviews and notes. But the mystery remained unsolved. MacGregor picked up the tr


What nationality was Trygve Lie, the first Secretary General of the United Nations?

United Nations News Centre - Character Sketches: Trygve Lie by Brian Urquhart United Nations News Centre Trygve Lie by Brian Urquhart Trygve Lie of Norway, the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. "Welcome, Dag Hammarskjöld, to the most impossible job on this earth.” With these encouraging words, Trygve Lie, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, greeted his successor, Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden, at Idlewild airport in New York on April 9, 1953. 13 April 1953 - Some months after his service as Secretary-General, Trygve Lie meets with his successor, Dag Hammarskjöld, at UN Headquarters. Lie had certainly had a difficult time since his appointment as Secretary-General in early 1946. “Why,” he asked in his memoirs, “has this awesome task fallen to a labor lawyer from Norway?” Lie had battled through endless frustrations and difficulties only to find himself in the end assailed by the Soviet Union on the left, and by the machinations of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on the right. He resigned in November 1952. Lie was the Minister of Justice in a Socialist government in Norway just before the Second World War. His chief claim to international fame up to that time had been granting Leon Trotsky asylum in Norway and rescinding it a year later on the grounds that Trotsky, by his public statements, had violated the conditions of asylum. Trotsky subsequently left Norway for Mexico, where he was assassinated. Lie’s enemies put it about that he had bowed to Soviet pressure, an allegation that stuck to him in his later career. When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, Lie was credited with ordering all Norwegian ships at sea to sail to British ports. He then escaped to London with King Haakon and served throughout the war as foreign minister of the government-in-exile. When the United Nations was being set up in London in late 1945, Lie, as the foreign minister of a fighting ally which was also well-regarded by the Soviet Union, was a useful candidate for high-level UN appointments that required Soviet approval. Some highlights from the career of Trygve Lie, the Norwegian politician and diplomat who served as the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of the UN is nominated by the Security Council and appointed by all the member states in the General Assembly. Various glamorous candidates for the post had been mentioned in the press, including General Dwight Eisenhower, Lester Pearson of Canada, and Anthony Eden of Great Britain, but there was no possibility that the Soviets would agree to any of them. The Security Council nominated Lie as a compromise candidate in early 1946. During the process of Assembly approval, Edward Stettinius, the United States Secretary of State, rushed to my table in the Assembly hall and asked me to identify Lie, whose name he mispronounced to rhyme with ‘tie’ rather than ‘see.’ I pointed out the substantial figure of the Foreign Minister of Norway, and Stettinius then mounted the podium to acclaim Lie as an celebrated wartime leader, a household name, etc. 1 January 1946 - Trygve Lie meets with Gladwyn Jebb, who was then the Executive Secretary of the United Nations. Prior to Lie becoming the first elected Secretary-General, Jebb served as Acting Secretary-General from October 1945 to February 1946. Lie’s appointment as Secretary-General was an anti-climax – the first of many to be suffered by the new world organization. He was suited neither by temperament nor intellect to his very demanding new position, and from the beginning he seemed to be out of his depth in a complex and very public job. Lie relied more on what he called his ‘political nose’ than on intellectual effort or hard diplomatic work, and he was difficult to help or to work for. In public life at any rate, he was a suspicious and insecure man with a hair-trigger temper. He was sensitive about his new position without knowing quite what to make of it. He would leave a public event if he felt he had not been properly seated. At a dinner Gladwyn Jebb gave for Anthony Eden