Danced in a style representing a bullfight, which dance takes its name from the Spanish for 'double step'?

Brief History of Ballroom Dances - USA Dance Las Vegas Brief History of Ballroom Dances Brief History of Ballroom Dances Smooth/Standard Dance Waltz There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance, a waltz, from the 16th century including the representations of the printer H.S. Beheim. The French philosopher Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched. Shocking many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading to many other countries in the years to follow. It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered "riotous and indecent" as late as 1825. Tango Tango is a dance that has influences from Spanish and African culture. Dances from the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples helped shape the modern day Tango. The dance originated in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires. The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from Europe. The word Tango seems to have first been used in connection with the dance in the 1890s. The Argentine Tango is characterized by staccato movements of the feet and flexed knees, and stylized poses that highlight its dramatic style. Foxtrot The Foxtrot is a smooth dance which takes its name from its inventor, vaudeville actor Harry Fox. According to legend, Fox was unable to find female dancers capable of performing the more difficult two step. As a result, he added stagger steps (two trots), creating the basic foxtrot rhythm, slow-slow-quick-quick. The dance debuted in 1914, quickly catching the eye of the talented husband and wife duo of Vernon and Irene Castle, who lent the dance its signature grace and style. It is characterized by smooth, walking-style movements but can be adapted to fit a variety of musical tempi and styles or to fit onto small nightclub dance floors. Viennese Waltz The Viennese Waltz, so called to distinguish it from the Waltz and the French Waltz, is the oldest of the current ballroom dances. It emerged in the second half of the 18th century from the German dance and the Ländler in Austria and was both popular and subject to criticism. It gained ground due to the Congress of Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century and the famous compositions by Josef Lanner, Johann Strauss I, and his son, Johann Strauss II. It had spread to England sometime before 1812. Quickstep The Quickstep evolved in the 1920s from a combination of the Foxtrot, Charleston, Shag, Peabody, and One Step. The dance is English in origin, and was standardized in 1927. It is characterized by fast movement, often including a variety of hops, kicks, skips, lock steps, and chassès. Rhythm/Latin Dance Cha-Cha An exciting, syncopated Latin dance which originated in Cuba in the 1950's as a slowed-down Mambo. The Cha-Cha gets its name and character from its distinct repetitive foot rhythm, 1-2-3 step-step, which is similar to Swing. Rumba Rumba means Cuban event of African style, organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. Ballroom rumba derives its movements and music from the Cuban "son," just as do the salsa and mambo. The Peanut Vendor was the first recording of Cuban music to become an international hit: it was described on the label as a rumba, perhaps because the word son would not be understood in English. The label stuck, and a rumba craze developed through the 1930s. This kind of rumba was introduced into dance salons in America and Europe in the 1930s. The Rumba is a slow, sensuous, romantic dance which spotlights the lady and features much flirtation. Swing The term "swing dance" commonly refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, although the earliest of these dance forms predate swing jazz music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today. While the majority of swing dances began


In which year did the following events all take place; Church of England ordained its first female priests, the Channel Tunnel opened and the National Lottery started?

Ordination of women Privacy & Advertising Ordination of women Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected in 2006 as the first female Presiding Bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church and also the first female primate in the Anglican Communion. [1] Part of a series on Christianity Frederica Mathewes-Green The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some major religious groups of the present time, as it was of several pagan religions of antiquity though never of Judeo-Christian religions. It remains a controversial issue in certain Christian denominations where “ ordination ” (the process by which a person is understood to be consecrated and set apart by God for the administration of various religious rites ) has for almost 2000 years been limited only to men. In some cases women have been permitted to be ordained, but not to hold higher positions, such as (until July 2014) that of bishop in the Church of England . [2] Where laws prohibit sex discrimination in employment , exceptions are often made for clergy (for example, in the United States). Contents Sumer and Akkad Cylinder seal (c. 2100 BCE) depicting goddesses conducting mortal males through a religious rite Sumerian and Akkadian EN were top-ranking priestesses distinguished by special ceremonial attire and holding equal status to high priests. They owned property, transacted business, and initiated the hieros gamos ceremony with priests and kings. [3] Enheduanna (2285–2250 BCE), an Akkadian princess, was the first known holder of the title “EN Priestess”. [4] Ishtaritu were temple prostitutes who specialized in the arts of dancing, music, and singing and served in the temples of Ishtar . [5] Puabi was a NIN , an Akkadian priestess of Ur in the 26th century BCE. Nadītu served as priestesses in the temples of Inanna in the ancient city of Uruk . They were recruited from the highest families in the land and were supposed to remain childless; they owned property and transacted business. In Sumerian epic texts such as Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta , Nu-Gig were priestesses in temples dedicated to Inanna , or may be a reference to the goddess herself. [6] Qadishtu, Hebrew Qedesha (קדשה) or Kedeshah, [7] derived from the root Q-D-Š , [8] [9] are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as sacred prostitutes usually associated with the goddess Asherah . Ancient Egypt Sarcophagus of the Egyptian priestess Iset-en-kheb, 25th – 26th dynasty (7th–6th century BC) In Ancient Egyptian religion , God’s Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess ; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun , during the reign of Hatshepsut , while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC (circa 2160 BC). Later, Divine Adoratrice of Amun was a title created for the chief priestess of Amun . During the first millennium BC, when the holder of this office exercised her largest measure of influence, her position was an important appointment facilitating the transfer of power from one pharaoh to the next, when his daughter was adopted to fill it by the incumbent office holder. The Divine Adoratrice ruled over the extensive temple duties and domains, controlling a significant part of the ancient Egyptian economy. Ancient Egyptian priestesses: Tabekenamun a priestess of Hathor as well as a priestess of Neith . Ancient Greece Female figure carrying a torch and piglet to celebrate rites of Demeter and Persephone (from Attica , 140–130 BCE) In ancient Greek religion , some important observances, such as the Thesmophoria , were made by women. Priestesses played a major role in the Eleusinian Mysteries . The Gerarai were priestesses of Dionysus who presided over festivals and rituals associated with the god. A body of priestesses might also maintain the cult at a particular holy site, such as the Peleiades at the oracle of Dodona . The Arrephoroi were young girls ages seven to twelve who worked as servants of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis and were charged with conducting unique rituals. At several sites women


"In the game of bingo, what number can be called as ""was she worth it""?"

Bingo Number-calling Nicknames 35.. Jump and jive - Flirty wives 36.. Three dozen - Perfect (as in 36-24-36) - Yardstick... he wishes! (USA) 37.. A flea in heaven - More than eleven 38.. Christmas cake 39.. Those famous steps - All the steps - Jack Benny 40.. Two score - Life begins at - Blind 40 - Naughty 40 - Mary (USA) 41.. Life�s begun - Time for fun 42.. That famous street in Manhattan - Whinny the Poo 43.. Down on your knees 44.. Droopy drawers - All the fours - Open two doors - Magnum (USA) 45.. Halfway house - Halfway there - Cowboy's friend - Colt (USA) 46.. Up to tricks 48.. Four dozen 49.. PC (Police Constable) - Copper - Nick nick - Rise and shine 50.. Bulls eye - Bung hole - Blind 50 - Half a century - Snow White's number (five-oh - five-oh..) - Hawaii five O, Hawaii (USA) 51.. I love my mum - Tweak of the thumb - The Highland Div[ision] - President's salute 52.. Weeks in a year - The Lowland Div[ision] - Danny La Rue - Pack 'o cards - Pickup (USA) 53.. Stuck in the tree - The Welsh Div[ision] - The joker 54.. Clean the floor - House of bamboo (famous song) 55.. Snakes alive - All the fives - Double nickels - Give us fives - Bunch of fives 56.. Was she worth it? 57.. Heinz varieties - All the beans (Heinz 57 varieties of canned beans) 58.. Make them wait - Choo choo Thomas 59.. Brighton line (engine 59 or it took 59 mins to go from London to Brighton) 60.. Three score - Blind 60 - Five dozen 61.. Bakers bun 62.. Tickety boo - Turn on the screw 63.. Tickle me - Home ball (USA) 64.. The Beatles number - Red raw 65.. Old age pension - Stop work (retirement age) 66.. Clickety click - All the sixes - Quack quack (USA) 67.. Made in heaven - Argumentative number 68.. Saving grace - Check your weight 69.. The same both ways - Your place or mine? - Any way up - Either way up - Any way round - Meal for two - The French connection - Yum yum - Happy meal (USA) 70.. Three score and ten - Blind 70 - Big O (USA) 71.. Bang on the drum - Lucky one 72.. A crutch and a duck - Six dozen - Par for the course (golf) - Lucky two 73.. Crutch with a flea - Queen B - Under the tree - Lucky three 74.. Candy store - Grandmamma of Bingo - Lucky four 75.. Strive and strive - Big Daddy - Granddaddy of Bingo - Lucky five 76.. Trombones - Seven 'n' six - was she worth it? - Lucky six 77.. Sunset strip - All the sevens - Two little crutches - The double hockey stick - Lucky seven 78.. Heavens gate - Lucky eight 79.. One more time - Lucky nine 80.. Gandhi's breakfast - Blind 80 - Eight and blank - There you go matey 81.. Fat lady and a little wee - Stop and run - Corner shot 82.. Fat lady with a duck - Straight on through 83.. Fat lady with a flea - Time for tea - Ethel's Ear 84.. Seven dozen 87.. Fat lady with a crutch - Torquay in Devon 88.. Two fat ladies - Wobbly wobbly - All the eights 89.. Nearly there - All but one 90.. Top of the shop - Top of the house - Blind 90 - As far as we go - End of the line Explanations of some nicknames: 1 Kelly's eye: In reference to the one-eyed Australian bushranger gangster Ned Kelly. (Note: apparently this explanation is incorrect. A viewer from Australia sent this message: "Ned Kelly didn't have one eye! He didn't even lose an eye in the shoot out at Glenrowan. And when he was wearing his helmet, you couldn't even see his eyes through the slot." But another Australian viewer sent this explanation: "The reason for "Kellys eye" may have been referring to Ned Kelly's helmet, which had one large slot for his eyes that looked like one eye.") 2 One little duck: The shape looks a bit like a swan. 3 One little flea: Looks a bit like a flea. 7 One little crutch: Looks like a crutch. 8 One fat lady: Resembles the two halves of a large lady. 9 Doctor's orders: A pill known as Number 9 was a laxative given out by army doctors in Britain. Apparently in the second world war in Britain doctors wrote on sick notes a 9 pm curfew, thus if patients were found out of their homes after that time they were violating their sick note. (Provided by a visitor) The curfew story's not true. In the Great War, however, there was su


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In which city did Batman live as Bruce Wayne?

Bruce Wayne/Batman | The Arkham Universe Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Arkham Universe Wiki Batman is the main protagonist in the Arkham video games. Contents Edit When his parents were gunned down in front of him, young Bruce Wayne resolved to rid Gotham City of the criminal element that took their lives. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, in addition to mastering martial arts, detective techniques, and criminal psychology. Dressing as a bat to prey on criminals' fears, Batman fights crimes with the aid of specialized gadgets and vehicles, operating out of his secret Batcave below Wayne Manor. Edit After the escape of The Joker from Arkham Asylum two months prior, Batman had been on a constant search for the clown prince of crime. During his second month of searching, Batman was notified of an anonymous tip left in Dr. Sarah Cassidy 's office at Arkham which revealed that she had been kidnapped by Victor Zsasz and taken to the Old County Hospital. He took Zsasz out by surprise and rescued Cassidy from his clutches. In the same month, a second tip came in the form of a note attached to a test tube. Unsurprisingly to Batman, the vial contained an extremely potent, odorless fear gas. Whilst experimenting with it in the Batcave, a few molecules escaped from the vial causing Batman to fight his way out of a series of fear induced hallucinations. Batman was able to create an antidote from the formula and ambushed The Scarecrow , attacking his psychologist, taking him back to his cell and curing his victims. The GCPD received the third and final tip in the form of a 911 call, moments before The Joker raided Gotham City Hall and took the Mayor hostage. The Joker strapped the Mayor to the side of a large pillar on the roof of the building, attaching a bomb to his waist. Batman destroyed the Joker's detonator and removed the bomb before it exploded. The Joker attempted to escape via parachute but Batman easily thwarted the villain. Whilst escorting the Joker back to Arkham, he spoke with Oracle via radio, vocalizing his suspicions on the three tips and whether they came from the same source, as well as the easy nature of the Joker's capture. Despite these suspicions he drove the Joker back to Arkham, hoping they would disappear once he was back behind bars. Batman: Arkham Asylum Edit Batman arrived at Arkham in the Batmobile , taking the Joker to the Intensive Care Facility. The Joker remained in high spirits, pleased that he was back in Arkham. He was strapped to a prisoner movement trolly and wheeled through Intensive Care by a variety of security guards, including Frank Boles , with Batman following close by due to Batman sensing something amiss about his capturing Joker and returning him to Arkham, as the Joker never let him capture him this easily before. The Joker commented on all the brand new security at Arkham and how it was rather funny that a fire at Blackgate Penitentiary sent over a hundred of his goons to Arkham (To which Frank Boles reacted angrily and reminded Joker that he was supposed to keep quiet about it, before Joker implied that Bole's mouth should remain quiet for his own good). During the escort, the Joker made snide remarks to many of the Arkham Staff including Warden Quincy Sharp , Officer Aaron Cash and Dr. Penelope Young before being taken down the elevator. In addition, when scanning the Joker for carrying weapons, the scanners also inadvertently detected multiple prohibited weapons on Batman. During the elevator journey, a blackout occurred causing the Joker to laugh hysterically before having his neck clutched by Batman as the lights turned back on. As the Joker was moved into the lobby area, he was unstrapped and escorted by a guard and an orderly while Batman and Commisioner James Gordon looked on. Unbeknown to all but Joker, Harley Quinn was already in the security control room, waiting. Joker soon took the opportunity to break free as Harley's signal. Pretending to stumble and trip, the Joker bashed his guard in the face with the back of his head as the guard


What is the name of the 'social networking' website, on which messages are restricted to 140 characters, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006?

Evan Williams - Blogger/Internet - Biography.com Blogger/Internet Self-made billionaire and internet mogul Evan Williams is best known for co-founding Twitter, a social-networking website used by millions worldwide. IN THESE GROUPS » quotes “People like other people ... so hearing from them, and being able to express yourself to people you care about in a really simple way, is fun, and it can be addictive.” “We often think of the internet enables you to do new things. But people just want to do the same things they’ve always done.” “Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease.” “The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago. It's not a utopian world. It's essentially like a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world.” Evan Williams Synopsis Born in Nebraska in 1972, Evan Williams co-founded Pyra Labs, Blogger, Odeo and the Obvious Corporation, which evolved into Twitter, an online social-networking and micro-blogging site. Based in San Francisco, Twitter Inc. became a public company in 2013, making Williams a billionaire. More recently, Williams co-created the publishing platform Medium. Early Years Evan Clark Williams was born into a farming family on March 31, 1972, in the small town of Clarks, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for a year and a half, leaving to pursue a career based in information systems. Not long after, Williams was writing computer code and freelancing for both Hewlett-Packard and Intel. He and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs as well as its spinoff, Blogger —an early application for making and managing abbreviated writing for the web, also known as blogging. In 2003, Williams was named to MIT Technology Review magazine's "top 100 innovators under age 35" list. That same year, Blogger was acquired by Google. In 2004, Williams was named a "Person of the Year" by PC Magazine for his work on Blogger. That same year, the famed entrepreneur founded the podcast company Odeo . In 2006, he co-founded the Obvious Corporation with Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Noah Glass. Founding Twitter Obvious Corp. evolved into Twitter —or Twittr, as it was first called—an online social-networking and micro-blogging site allowing users to post short messages—instantly and in real time—of 140 characters or less, known as "tweets." The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, growing to 500 million registered users who tweeted approximately 340 million messages daily in 2012. Serving as Twitter's first chairman, Evan Williams provided much of the company's early financing. In October 2008, Williams replaced Dorsey as Twitter's CEO—a position that he would hold for the next two years. (In turn, Dorsey became company chairman in 2008.) In an interview with MIT Technology Review in 2007, Williams called Twitter—which is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, San Antonio and Detroit—"a no-brainer" for "social animals." "People like other people," he stated. "So hearing from them, and being able to express yourself to people you care about in a really simple way, is fun, and it can be addictive." Williams shared similar sentiments more recently, in a September 2013 interview with Wired.com , stating, "We often think of the internet enables you to do new things. But people just want to do the same things they've always done." He later added, "Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease ... The internet is not what I thought it was 20 years ago. It's not a utopian world. It's essentially like a lot of other major technological revolutions that have taken place in the history of the world." Twitter became a powerful platform for U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008, with both politicians using the website to update their supporters while on the campaign trail. The site became internationally known during the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, after the Iranian government blocked text-messagi


The film 'Carrie' was based on a book by which author?

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In February 2010, who reported on an audit of MPs' expense claims?

BBC News - MPs told to repay expense claims MPs told to repay expense claims John Lyons has been told he must repay more than ï¿½18,000 Scottish MPs have been ordered to pay back tens of thousands of pounds of Commons expenses following a report by Sir Thomas Legg. Among those who over claimed are former Strathkelvin and Bearsden MP John Lyons who has been told to repay £18,780 in mortgage interest payments. However, the former Labour politician said he did not "owe a penny". Also named in the report is Baroness Irene Adams, the former MP for Paisley North and Falkirk West MP Eric Joyce. Sir Thomas has recommended that 390 MPs should repay a total of £1.3m. His report follows an audit of second homes expenses dating back to 2004. Following the review, he described the system as "deeply flawed", said the rules were "vague" and that it had been up to MPs to "self certify" the propriety of their claims. WHAT MPs MUST REPAY Key points: MP expense repayments MPs had to sign a declaration with each claim saying "that I incurred these costs wholly, exclusively and necessarily to enable me to stay overnight away from my only or main home for the purpose of performing my duties as a Member of Parliament". In his report he pointed out there had been "no audit of any kind" of second homes expenses during the period he covered adding: "Neither internal nor external auditors could 'go behind the member's signature'." In the report Mr Lyons, who is accused of over claiming £18,000, was said to have so far failed to respond to a series of letters on the matter. However, he told BBC Scotland he had not received any correspondence about his expenses. He has also requested an "urgent meeting" with Sir Thomas along with a full written apology. Sir Thomas' report also found Baroness Irene Adams, the former Labour member for Paisley north, should pay back £5,050. It also recommends that the present Labour MP for Falkirk West, Eric Joyce repay £8602.56 for mortgage interest and council tax claims. John Lyon's name was listed on page 161 of the report Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been told to pay back £480, while Jimmy Hood, the Labour member for Lanark and Hamilton East, has been asked to repay a total of £5,413.49. John Robertson, the Labour MP for Glasgow North West, will be required to pay back almost £3,000. The former Linlithgow MP Tam Dalyell has paid back more than £8,000 since April last year In total, 390 MPs, more than half of the House of Commons, have been asked to repay a portion of their expense claims. The report said £800,000 had been repaid already - some voluntarily, unconnected to Sir Thomas's demands - since April 2009, the month before the MPs expenses scandal broke. 'Traumatic and painful' MPs were given the option of appealing against Sir Thomas's recommendations and about 70 are known to have done so - 44 were successful in getting the demands either reduced or overturned. Many MPs complained that Sir Thomas had retrospectively applied limits to claims for gardening and cleaning that were not in place at the time - and demanded they pay back the difference. But Sir Thomas rejected that criticism, saying the rules stated the expense could "only be used as reimbursement for specific and proportionate expenditure... needed for the performance of parliamentary duties". He said the fact that the fees office and MPs at the time "acted in apparent ignorance of the rules and standards then in force cannot cure the invalidity of the payments". Many MPs have announced they will retire since the scandal broke He also criticised a "widespread lack of proper evidence on the record from MPs to support substantial payments" - including mortgage claims which were "expressly required by the rules". Sir Thomas criticised the "deeply flawed" expenses system adding: "In particular, the rules were vague, and MPs were themselves self-certifying as to the propriety of their use of the allowance. "Taken with the prevailing lack of transparency and the 'culture of deference', this meant that the [Co


Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?

Fashions of a decade the 1930s by shgo_design - issuu issuu Art Deco: Themes and Machines 36 New Materials: Revealing the Body Beautiful 40 Halter Necks and Bias Cuts 44 Shaping Up: Health and Fitness 52 The End of the Rainbow 56 Page 6 6 THE 30s The thirties were a decade that opened in depression and ended in war. Throughout the 1920s, economies worldwide had been booming, bringing prosperity to thousands of ordinary people who gambled their spare cash on stocks and shares. But in 1929, the economy of the Western world sank deep into a period of depression. The downward spiral began with an excess of agricultural products, which led to falling prices. In an attempt to control the decline, produce was kept off the markets. The fall in agricultural prices meant that the farming population faced a reduced income. When agricultural prices began to fall, in America at least, investors in industry remained optimistic, and in early 1929, the price of stocks was still rising. With this investment in industry, manufacturers were able to increase their output: in 1929, the automobile industry produced about 5.5 million cars. But the industrialists soon began to realize that the market would become saturated and they would have to check production. Doubts turned into fears, which in turn grew into panic as people raced to withdraw their investments. On October 24, 1929, 13 million shares were sold on Wall Street, the financial heart of America. One company after another crashed as its credit failed, and by the end of the month, American investors had lost some $40 billion. Unemployment rose while purchasing power collapsed. Large businesses failed, often taking smaller ones with them. Thousands of small investors lost everything, and in the industrialized towns and cities, unemployed workers joined breadlines. By 1932, 3 million were out of work in Britain, 6 million in Germany, and 14 million in the United States. Generally, when we think of the 1930s, our minds conjure up images of despair: mass unemployment and breadlines, the rise of Fascism and the drift toward World War II. With these images firmly planted in our minds, it is easy to forget that fashion, beauty, and glamour were still important aspects of everyday life for many people. Mickey Mouse and Snow White Walt Disney’s rise to fame is a classic success story. Born in 1901, a poor boy from the Midwest, he made his way to the top through a combination of enterprise, ingenuity, and hard work. In 1928, Disney’s finest creation, Mickey Mouse, made his debut in Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon to feature a fully synchronized sound track. By the end of 1930, Mickey was an international celebrity, known in Italy as “Topolino” and in Japan as “Miki Kuchi.” He was such a personality that in 1931, Time magazine ran a feature article on him. Equally remarkable was that Walt Disney had reached a position of eminence matching that of the greatest Hollywood stars and directors with only a handful of films, none of which ran for longer than eight minutes. Influential admirers included the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini and Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein. Disney’s first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which had cost close to $1.5 million, premiered on Christmas 1937 before a star-studded audience at Hollywood’s Cathay Circle Theater. Sensational reviews followed, and Snow White went on to become not only a hit but a movie classic. b Mickey Mouse merchandise was everywhere in the thirties. The 1930s-4C 8:45 AM Page 7 7 Tightening the Belt If fashion had been merely a luxury, during the 1930s the industry would have totally collapsed. Instead, it responded to all the economic and social changes of the decade and was swayed by the opposing influences of the economic climate and the impact of Hollywood-style luxury. Because the rich were tightening their belts, spending less and making economies where they could, designers responded by cutting their prices, by producing new lines of ready-to-wear clothes to make up for the shortfall in orders


Brandon Flowers is the singer with which group?

Brandon Flowers - Biography - IMDb Brandon Flowers Biography Showing all 98 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (3) | Trivia  (65) | Personal Quotes  (24) Overview (4) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) Born on June 21, 1981 in Las Vegas, Brandon Richard Flowers is the youngest of six children. Having grown up in the small town of Nephi, Utah, his best chances of getting into music were the cassettes given to him by his older brother, Shane. However, during Brandon's junior year in high school, the Flowers family returned to Las Vegas. While playing in various keyboard bands as side hobbies (most notably the failed band Blush Response), Brandon worked as a bellhop at the Gold Coast and Caesar's Palace hotels. In 2002, abandoned by Blush Response, Brandon attended an Oasis concert and was inspired to dedicate his musical career to a full-fledged rock band. Later that year, he responded to a scouting ad submitted to a local Vegas newspaper by Dave Keuning and the two began writing songs almost immediately. Enter Mark Stoermer and Ronnie Vannucci, long-time admirers of Brandon and Dave's early efforts, who struck up a friendship with the aspiring rockers and completed the musical quartet that brought new-found glory home to Las Vegas: the Killers. The rest, as they say, is history... - IMDb Mini Biography By: Flash-of-Eden Spouse (1) ( 2 August  2005      - present) (3 children) Trade Mark (3) Often wears slick, stylish, and sometimes abstract formalwear during concerts. Expressive hand and body movements Frequently jumps up and sings atop the stage speakers during live shows Trivia (65) Contrary to popular belief, Flowers is indeed his actual last name. Worked as a bellhop for the Gold Coast Hotel and the Cesar's Palace Hotel before forming his band with friend David Keuning. Married longtime girlfriend Tana Munblowsky on a beach in Hawaii. Has four sisters: Stephanie, Shelly, Amy, and April, and one brother: Shane. His mother's name is Jean and his father's is Terry. Favorite movies are 'Moulin Rouge', 'Forrest Gump' and 'Napoleon Dynamite'. Favorite song on the Hot Fuss album is 'Jenny Was a Friend of Mine'. Stated in an interview that their song 'Where Is She?' is dedicated to a thirteen- year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered. Interestingly enough, she had attended one of their concerts in Scotland. Youngest child of a family from Las Vegas. Curiously, he is also the youngest member of the Killers. His only brother, Shane, is 12 years older than him. Born in Las Vegas and raised in Nephi, Utah. Returned to Las Vegas when he was 16, where he lived with his aunt. He has English, German, French, Dutch, Scottish, and Lithuanian ancestry. Performed a duet of 'In A Little While' with U2 after Bono's voice began to give out at a concert in Las Vegas. Wanted to be a professional golfer at one point. According to himself, the worst thing he has ever done was stealing wine coolers at the age of 11. Voted for Ralph Nader in 2004. Dropped out of college. Often has problems with his tonsils. The song "Mr. Brightside" is about his former girlfriend who was cheating him. He wanted to move to England when he was younger. London is also one of his favorite cities, along with his hometown of Las Vegas. Favorite musicians: The Smiths, Duran Duran, Morissey, U2, and Oasis. Was accidentally splashed with beer during a concert in Scotland, soaking his keyboard and causing it to fail. Was once locked out of the band's tour car by band mate Dave Keuning. Is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. His favorite classical musician is the composer Bach. Presented (along with the rest of the Killers) by rock legend Axel Rose at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. Regards the Strokes as his favorite band of all time. Not to be confused with Brandon Lavar Flowers, a defensive back at Virginia Tech (2006). Despite his standing position as the Killers' front man, he can also play some guitar and even provides additional bass in the song 'For Reasons Unknown'. Has been weary of flying ever since December of 2003, when a plan


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The Garden of Earthly Delights, c.1504 Art Print by Hieronymus Bosch at Art.com We apologize for the inconvenience Need help? Chat now High-quality printing gives this fine art print its vivid and sharp appearance. Produced on medium weight cover stock, this art reproduction is coated with a silken finish that protects the inks and creates an elegant look. The versatile art print strikes a balance between quality and affordability. More about this product 36" x 24" Art Print Product no longer available We apologize for the inconvenience Product Details Product Details High-quality printing gives this fine art print its vivid and sharp appearance. Produced on medium weight cover stock, this art reproduction is coated with a silken finish that protects the inks and creates an elegant look. The versatile art print strikes a balance between quality and affordability. About the Art Genius, madman, or both, Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) was a groundbreaking Flemish artist of the late Gothic period whose work continues to influence artists today. Uniquely gifted in his ability to explore the dark rivers of the mind, Bosch released his inner visions on to canvas. Contrary to the paintings of other Flemish painters which convey serenity and reality, Bosch’s work is rife with the macabre, allegorical symbolism and nightmarish images. Exhibiting brilliant colors and exceptional mastery of detail, Bosch’s unforgettable, often disturbing artworks, initially collected by King Phillip II of Spain, were forerunners of Surrealism. Read More


Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in `Precious'?

Precious - Awards - IMDb Sarah Siegel-Magness PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE is the celebration of a life lived against all odds... More PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE is the celebration of a life lived against all odds. Director Lee Daniels and writer Geoffrey Fletcher bring the spirit of Sapphire's novel to the screen in this movie about a person passed each day, whose story has never made it to the movies. Gabourey Sidibe blossoms in the title role, and Mo'Nique's monstrous turn as her mother achieves the seemingly impossible by making audiences understand her as she understands herself. Together, they lead a powerful ensemble cast in a film that offers no false hope or happy ending, but instead commands us to look in the mirror and celebrate the image that smiles back, because in that reflection, we are all precious. African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) 2009 Won


Who hosts the BBC TV quiz show 'Pointless'?

Pointless: Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman on TV's favourite quiz | Media | The Guardian BBC Pointless: Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman on TV's favourite quiz Alexander Armstrong and co-host Richard Osman aren't the slickest of quiz show hosts – far from it, in fact. But Pointless is a huge, Countdown-killing hit, and about to air its 500th show ‘We make a virtue of the bits where it all collapses’ … Alexander Armstrong (right) with co-host Richard Osman on the set of Pointless. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Tuesday 4 June 2013 12.32 EDT First published on Tuesday 4 June 2013 12.32 EDT Share on Messenger Close "Coming up with a quiz show is the hardest thing in the world," says Richard Osman , and he should know. "It's like coming up with a brand new sport." Though the co-host of Pointless is now an on-screen celebrity, he has worked behind the scenes in television for two decades. You could call him a quiz show guru. And, sitting with him in his dressing room an hour before filming, I do. He laughs. "If by guru you mean quite old. But yes, I'll take that." As creative director at production company Endemol , Osman is much more than the show's resident know-it-all. "Every morning I get the ratings coming in from the night before for all the shows we produce. I know good news and I know bad news. For most TV shows, it's bad news, because most TV shows fail. But now and then you get a show and you think, oh, look at that. This is interesting." Pointless began life with a simple idea. "The first thought," says David Flynn, one of the show's co-creators, "was what about reverse Family Fortunes? What if it's all about finding the least obvious answer? That was the thing that intrigued us: rewarding obscure knowledge, while allowing people to also give obvious answers. It felt like you could start to create a quiz which could be sort of highbrow and populist simultaneously, which is quite a rare phenomenon." Osman was never supposed to be on screen. He stood in as co-presenter when Endemol pitched the show. But the BBC liked him. "They said: 'Would you do it?' And I thought: 'Well, why wouldn't I? I know roughly what the job is. I know it's a little show tucked away on BBC2 that's going to disappear after one series.' You know, it was just one of those things I could tick off and say: 'I once presented a TV show.'" Host Alexander Armstrong knew Osman from their student days at Cambridge. "We were in the same college in the same year. I always liked him. He was quite conspicuous. He was very cool, which I wasn't." Armstrong's involvement in Pointless was almost as unlikely as his co-host's. A year before, he had publicly turned down the role of Countdown presenter , telling the Independent: "If I'm going to be on telly as a presenter every day, well, I think that makes it less likely that people will give me jobs acting or doing comedy. For the next couple of years that's where I want to focus really." "Countdown caught me slightly off-guard," he explains. "I quite liked the idea because it was a job. I mean, that's an income, and that was a time in my life when we'd had one baby and were about to have a second. I was worried about being typecast, but I was worried about having a job. My heart ruled my head on that one and I said: 'Do you know, actually, no, I can't do it. I just don't think I could do that.'" Osman reasoned Armstrong might be up for something similar but less high-profile. "When we were thinking about Pointless we thought, well, it'd be amazing, if he'd do it. I think the fact that it was me he'd be working with kind of sold it to him." "When we found Alexander, that was when all the bits fell into place," says David Flynn. "There's a real relationship there, which is something that's very difficult to make up. Of course this was at a stage when we were expecting it to be a nice, fun series on BBC2, that might come back once." The first series of Pointless went out on BBC2 at 4.30pm, from August until October 2009, with a respectable but uninspiring average audience of one million v


Who was the famous Scottish rugby union commentator who died in January 2010?

Bill McLaren's most famous quotes - Telegraph Scotland Bill McLaren's most famous quotes Bill McLaren, the BBC commentator known fondly as the voice of rugby, has died  in his hometown of Hawick, Scotland at the age of 86. Read a selection of  the quotes which made him such a beloved figure throughout the game and post  your favourites Comments On Phil Bennett: "They say down at Stradey that if ever you catch him [Phil Bennett] you get to make a wish." On Jonah Lomu: "I'm no hod carrier but I would be laying bricks if he [Jonah L] was running at me." On Grant Batty: "He plays like a runaway bullet." On Gerald Davies: "His sidestep was marvellous – like a shaft of lightning." Other favourites: "It’s high enough, it’s long enough AND IT’S STRAIGHT ENOUGH." "He’s like a demented ferret up a wee drainpipe." "He’s like a raging bull with a bad head." "That one was a bit inebriated – just like one of my golf shots." "He kicked that ball like it were three pounds o’ haggis." "The All Blacks that day looked like great prophets of doom." "My goodness, that wee ball’s gone so high there’ll be snow on it when it comes down. "He’s as quick as a trout up a burn." "Those props are as cunning as a bag o’ weasels." "A day out of Hawick is a day wasted." *And it’s a try by Hika the hooker from Ngongotaha (Wales v New Zealand 1980). "I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip." "I’ve hardly ever had to pay to get in (the best thing in his view about 50 years of commentary at rugby matches)."


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Tchaikovsky – THE QUEEN OF SPADES | The Opera Platform Tchaikovsky – THE QUEEN OF SPADES Composers of Russia ‘What is life? A game!’ Renowned director Stefan Herheim directs Tchaikovsky’s much-loved opera about a young man who, for the prospect of earthly wealth, gambles away his chance for love and happiness. It took Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky only 44 days to write the score of THE QUEEN OF SPADES. ‘It seems to me that this is my best work ever’, writes the composer once the score is finished. After EUGENE ONEGIN, THE QUEEN OF SPADES is Tchaikovsky’s second adaptation of a text by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. It is Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest who reworks Pushkin’s short story into a libretto.     Liza loves Herman, a young officer. But the latter wants to draw a secret from her grandmother, the old Countess: How is it that she is such a successful gambler? Herman confronts her and forces her to reveal her secret, menacing her with a revolver. The Countess dies from the shock. It is her ghost that later appears before the young officer and gives away the fatal sequence of cards: three, seven, ace… After EUGENE ONEGIN in 2011, it is the second time that Stefan Herheim returns to Dutch National Opera to direct a Tchaikovsky opera. Herheim’s productions are famous for their multi-layered levels of interpretation. In THE QUEEN OF SPADES, the director attempts to reflect on the composer’s life, notably his hidden love for men. Dutch National Opera’s former Music Director Mariss Jansons, who has worked with Herheim on the Amsterdam EUGENE ONEGIN, returns to conduct THE QUEEN OF SPADES. Tenor Misha Didyk, a much sought after interpreter of the Russian repertoire, makes his Amsterdam debut in the role of Herman... Information


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X Factor winners: Where are they now? | The Independent X Factor winners: Where are they now? Winning isn't everything as One Direction, JLS and Olly Murs have proven Tuesday 10 December 2013 16:20 BST Click to follow The Independent Culture Last year's winner James Arthur achieved the biggest-selling X Factor Christmas single ever in 2012 As the final of ITV talent show The X Factor looms this Sunday, the three remaining acts will be practising hard, gunning to win and fearing for their future careers if they fail. But should 17-year old Nicholas MacDonald, big-haired guitarist Luke Friend and bookies' favourite Sam Bailey take a glance back through the competition’s history, it might just dawn on them that winning really isn’t everything.   A recent online quiz asking viewers to guess the names of former winners and runners-up found that many briefly famous faces have long since been forgotten. Only 49 per cent could recognise series winner Steve Brookstein , while less than one in five people correctly identified 2005 runner-up Andy Abraham, according to quizfactor.com . With the exception of winners Leona Lewis , girl band Little Mix and Alexandra Burke , many a runner-up has done better in the success stakes than the singer who beat them in the final vote. X Factor winners: Where are they now? X Factor winners: Where are they now? 1/10 2013: Sam Bailey The clear winner from the outset, Sam Bailey went on to beat teen singers Luke Friend and Nicholas McDonald. Bailey's cover of Demi Lovato's 'Skyscraper' went straight to number one on 22 December 2013, becoming the first X Factor winner in three years to gain the Christmas number one spot. Her debut album is due to be released on 24 March. She is also currently pregnant with her third child. Rex Features 2/10 2012: James Arthur He secured the biggest-selling X Factor winner's song ever with 'Impossible', but last year's victor James Arthur has been at the centre of controversy recently. Arthur got into a Twitter spat with fellow former contestant Lucy Spraggan when he used a homophobic lyric in a rap. The singer apologised on-air for 'abusing [his] position as an X Factor winner' after a performance on the results show a few weeks ago. Arthur's new single 'Recovery' is currently number 19 in the Official UK Singles Chart. 3/10 2011: Little Mix Girl band Little Mix are one of The X Factor's success stories. Formerly known as Rhythmix, the group released an autobiography in August 2012 and their debut album came out that November, reaching number three. Little Mix's Perrie Edwards is engaged to One Direction's Zayn Malik which, you know, helps with the the whole fame thing. The band toured earlier this year and have enjoyed US success too. Their latest album Salute was released on 15 November. 4/10 2010: Matt Cardle Singer-songwriter Matt Cardle performed 'Unfaithful' with Rihanna during the 2010 X Factor finals. He famously criticised Syco for being 'very pop' when he, apparently, wasn't. Shortly afterwards, he left Cowell's label. Cardle returned to the charts when his first album 'The Fire' made number eight and was well-received by critics. He recorded a duet with Spice Girl Melanie C, 'Loving You', in the summer and will be touring new album 'Porcelain' in April 2014. 5/10 2009: Joe McElderry Rage Against The Machine's 'Killing In The Name' famously beat Joe McElderry to the Christmas number one in 2009, following an internet campaign to do battle with Cowell's chart machine. McElderry's luck failed to pick up and he soon found himself winning yet another talent show, Pop Star to Opera Star. Recently, he's enjoyed some success in the classical world and appeared in several West End shows. He is signed with Universal Music's Decca label. 6/10 2008: Alexandra Burke Alexandra Burke's cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' sold more than a million copies in the UK, a success she followed with five top ten singles and a hit album. Burke has been a brand ambassador for a women's deodorant and signed a modelling contract in 2010. She joined The X Factor as a guest judge


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Forbes rich list topped by Mexican mobile phone titan Carlos Slim | Business | The Guardian Rich lists Forbes rich list topped by Mexican mobile phone titan Carlos Slim Developing nations storm Forbes rich list as America Movil's Carlos Slim beats Microsoft's Bill Gates to top spot Andrew Clark in New York Wednesday 10 March 2010 18.05 EST First published on Wednesday 10 March 2010 18.05 EST Close This article is 6 years old The old order is under threat at the world's billionaires club. Traditionally dominated by Americans and Europeans, the top ranks of the world's richest people have been infiltrated by scores of ultra-rich entrepreneurs from the developing world – capped by the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim . Today, Slim, the titan of mobile phones in Mexico, criticised as a ruthless monopolist, was crowned as the richest person in the world by Forbes magazine , which calculated his net worth at $53.5bn (£35.7bn). Bolstered by a surge in the share price of his America Movil empire, Slim's wealth edged ahead of the $53bn fortune amassed by the Microsoft boss Bill Gates, making the portly cigar-smoking 70-year-old the first non-American to hold the top spot since 1994. In third place was the legendary Nebraska-based stockpicker Warren Buffett with $47bn, completing a triumvirate that has occupied the top three positions for five successive years. Britain's top entrant into the global rich list, the Duke of Westminster, could only muster 45th position as his vast landownings gave him a net worth of $12bn. Below the top few individuals, however, the lower ranks of Forbes's closely watched annual list showed a substantial shifting in the sands of wealth, with Asian entrepreneurs catapulted into remarkable riches by a swift bounceback in emerging financial markets. The number of billionaires from Asian and Australasian nations leapt from 130 to 234 last year, with the net worth of the region's super-rich doubling from $357bn to $729bn. "Asia is leading the comeback," said Forbes's editor-in-chief, Steve Forbes. "There are remarkable changes taking place in the global economy." He pointed out that as the number of billionaires in the world swelled from 793 to 1,011, the proportion of Americans dropped from 45% to 40%: "The US still dominates but it's lagging. It's not doing as well as the rest of the world in coming back from the financial crisis." Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, became the fourth-richest person on the planet with $29bn, as his textiles-to-petrol Reliance Industries empire prospered. Pakistan also produced its first billionaire, banking magnate Mian Mhammad Mansha, and the number of Chinese billionaires leapt by 27 to 64. Among those enjoying an upsurge in fortunes was Robin Li, founder of the Chinese internet search engine Baidu, whose wealth reached $3.5bn as his company prospered on Google's abrupt withdrawal from China, due to censorship concerns. Another Chinese tycoon, property magnate Wu Yajun, has emerged as the world's richest self-made woman with $3.9bn from her Longfor Properties empire, which spans apartments, townhouses, luxury villas and commercial property across China. The upsurge in the number of super-rich individuals from less affluent nations went beyond Asia. The number of billionaires from Russia almost doubled from 32 to 62. The owner of the Evening Standard, Alexander Lebedev, re-entered the ranks with $2bn, after threatening to sue Forbes a year ago for claiming that losses in the financial crisis had stripped him of his billionaire status. And Alisher Usmanov, a shareholder of Arsenal, often touted as a future buyer of the football club, enjoyed a lucrative year at his metals conglomerate with his net worth surging from $1.7bn to $7.2bn. Turkey saw its legion of billionaires swell from 12 to 28. And from South America, a commodities tycoon, Eike Batista, became the first Brazilian to make the world's top 10 for wealth. Batista, 52, a college dropout who made his fortune from gold, oil and diamonds, and has been an enthusiastic cheerleader for Rio's 2016 Olympics, is ranked


In which year did the following events all take place; Ken Livingstone became the Mayor of London, England lost 1-0 to Germany in the last match at the old Wembley Stadium and Judith Keppel won the first £1,000,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'?

Moors Murder - Who is talking about Moors Murder on FLICKR Recent Updated: 5 months ago - Created by alshepmcr - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - alshepmcr Tags: doctorwho    daleks    thatwastheweekthatwas    thegreatescape    polaris    theshadows    christinekeeler    beatlemania    hillmanimp    youllneverwalkalone    dustyspringfield    fordanglia    haroldwilson    frankifield    frommetoyou    jimmygreaves    thesearchers    profumoaffair    thespringfields    hughgaitskell    stephenward    kimphilby    gerrythepacemakers    jetharrisandtonymeehan    worldinaction    brianpooleandthetremeloes    billyjkramerthedakotas    drrichardbeeching    musicalfilmsummerholidaystarringcliffrichard    vauxhalllaunchesthenewviva    johnkilbride    themadhouseoncastlestreet    thebeatlesperformatthecavernclubforthefinaltime    henrycooperrockedtheboxingworldbyputtingcassiusclaywholaterchangedhisnametomuhammadalionthecanvas    nationalserviceends    crawdaddyclubinlondon    flymosellsfirsthovermower    charlesdegaullepresidentoffrancevetostheuksentryintotheeuropeaneconomiccommunity    thebeatlesreleasetheirfirstalbumpleasepleaseme    raceriotsindudley    thesindyfashiondollisfirstmarketedbypedigree    thefirstdoctorisportrayedbywilliamhartnell    thegreattrainrobberytakesplaceinbuckinghamshire    readysteadygopremieresonitv    thatwastheyearthatwas1963    assassinationoftheuspresidentkennedy    paulinereade    alecdouglashomereplacesmacmillanasprimeminister    thedartfordtunnelopens    funeralofuspresidentjohnfkennedyinwashingtondc    theastrolamp    1963 The biggest news from 1963 was the assassination of the US President Kennedy on November 22nd which thrust Lyndon Johnson into the role of president and the murder two days later of Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95UqgyJFX-I This was a difficult time to become president with the mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had now killed 80 American Advisers and the continued campaign for civil rights by the black community caused violent reactions from whites including Mississippi, Virginia and Alabama where the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was arrested. In the 1960s so much changed. Not only the enjoyable superficialities of the music scene and cinema, but politics and civil rights. One of the most seminal moments in the decade was the speech made by Martin Luther King Jr from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28 1963. King was making his speech to around 200,000 marchers supporting change in America’s civil rights legislation, demanding equality for all races, the end of discrimination against black people. President Kennedy it seems feared that a poor display on the day would set the cause back. He need not have worried. Such was the power of King’s rhetoric that the message came across clearly but emotionally: the old ways had to go. Of course things did not change overnight, but it was inevitable after the march and this speech in particular that changes in the way minorities were treated in America would take place. As a Baptist minister Martin Luther King was practiced in using words to move an audience. His rhetorical power is extraordinary, repeating phrases like that which gave the speech its name, “I have a dream,” and others including “Now is the time,” and “Let freedom ring.” He used biblical references and cited words from the American Constitution. But he also departed from his prepared text and spoke from the heart. Films included "The Birds" and "The Great Escape" and popular TV programmes "The Virginian" and "Lassie". ladies fashion clothes and hairstyles included fur boots and towering hair do's for evening wear. In music the beginning of Beatlemania after they release "I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There" and "Meet the Beatles". Events of the year 1963 in the United Kingdom. This year sees changes in the leadership of both principal political parties, the Profumo Affair and the rise of The Beatles as well a


Which is Britain's oldest colony, settled in 1609?

HISTORY OF BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA Enjoy the Famous Daily Virginia: 1607-1644 In 1606 James I supports new English efforts (the first since Raleigh ) to establish colonies along the coast of America, north of the Spanish-held territory in Florida. A charter for the southern section is given to a company of London merchants (called the London Company, until its successful colony causes it be known as the Virginia Company). A company based in Plymouth is granted a similar charter for the northern part of this long coastline, which as yet has no European settlers. The Plymouth Company achieves little (and has no connection with the Pilgrim Fathers who establish a new Plymouth in America in 1620). The London Company succeeds in planting the first permanent English settlement overseas - but only after the most appalling difficulties.   In April 1607 three ships sent out by the London Company sail into Chesapeake Bay. They continue up a broad waterway, which they name the James river in honour of their king, and a few weeks later they select an island to settle on. They call their settlement Jamestown. But to the territory itself they give a more romantic name, honouring England's late virgin queen - Virginia. More than 100 English settlers attempt to make their home in 1607 on the island of Jamestown. A year later disease, privation, hunger and attacks by local Indians have reduced their number to less than forty. But the hardship has produced the first notable leader in British colonial history.   John Smith is one of seven men appointed by the London company to serve on the colony's council. His energy, his resourcefulness and his skill in negotiating with the Indians soon establish him as the leader of the community. Smith soon becomes involved in a famously romantic scene (or so he claims many years later, in a book of 1624). He is captured by Indians and is about to be executed when Pocahontas , the 13-year-old daughter of the tribal chieftain, throws herself between victim and executioner (or so Smith maintains). Smith is initiated into the tribe and returns to Jamestown - where Pocahontas becomes a frequent visitor, often bringing valuable information about the Indians' intentions.   Four more ships reach Jamestown in 1609. The number of settlers is up to 500 when Smith is injured, later that year, and has to sail home to England. During the next winter, in his absence, there is appalling famine - the 500 are reduced to 60. They are joined by another group (survivors of a shipwreck in Bermuda ), but only after further reinforcements arrive, in 1610, is it finally decided to persevere with this difficult attempt at colonization. The town of Williamsburg, first called Middle Plantation, is founded in 1633. By mid-century (in spite of an Indian attack in 1644 which kills 500 colonists) Virginia is at last secure. Ten or more counties, on the English pattern, have their own sheriff, constable and justices.   Pilgrim Fathers: 1620-1621 The most famous boatload of immigrants in north American history leaves Plymouth in September 1620. Thirty-five of about 102 passengers in the Mayflower have sailed once before from England to live according to their Christian consciences in a freer land. They were part of a Puritan group which moved in 1608 from Boston in Lincolnshire to Holland , famous at the time for religious toleration. Now, in spite of the dangers involved, they want to be even more free in a place of their own. Their sights are set on New England, the coast of which has been explored in 1614 by John Smith , the leader of the Jamestown settlers. His book A Description of New England, naming and describing the region, has been published in 1616.   The journey lasts eight weeks before they make their first landfall, on the tip of Cape Cod. It is not until mid-December that the little group selects a coastal site suitable for their village. They name it Plymouth, echoing their port of departure from the old world. To their surprise there appear to be no Indians in the vicinity. New England winters are notoriously severe


Which car manufacturer uses the advertising slogan 'The power of dreams'?

What is the slogan of each automobile company like Suzuki, Hyundai and others? - Quora Quora Written Jan 11 I do know that the one used by Skoda, the Czech division of VW-Audi is one they copied from me - ‘ Simply Clever’. I used this extensively in the 1990’s in advertising the range of alarms and immobilizers I designed and manufactured and had the slogan on posters, leaflets and in national advertising . VW group also need to learn the irony of the main slogan for VW vehicles- ‘If only everything in life were as reliable as a VW’. Aside from the fact that if everything in life WERE as reliable as a VW we’d all be spending a fortune on repairs and spare parts, if you also take the reliable to mean ‘trustworthy’ the multi-billion costs of their lying about emissions hardly make a template for the success of their ‘reliability’. I like the Mazda slogan best : ‘ Zum Zum’ . I am assuming that you are asking about the other Asian car manufacturers that are presently operational in India.   Honda - The Power of Dreams  Hyosung - Always by your side Hyundai - New thinking New Possibilities  Kawasaki - Let the good times roll  Nissan - Shift the way you move  Ssangyong - It works for me! However, companies tend to use a new slogan for every new car that they launch. Like Ssangyong has come up with its new car Tivoli, the slogan for the new car is Escape from the Ordinary .  I assume by slogan you mean company tagline: Well here are a few that I know of 1.Ford For Swift:you are the fuel 3.Toyota Obsessed with quality(no so obsessed with service quality though) ASTON MARTIN The new class of world class CADILLAC The new standard for the world CHEVROLET The best 4×4 by far LOTUS For the few who know the difference MASERATI It’s a MINI adventure MITSUBISHI MOTORS Mercedes-Benz. The Future of the Automobile. Engineered to move the human spirit. Honda Cars Slogans: The Power of Dreams. It must be love. Honda. First man, then machine. Technology you can enjoy. Acura cars (the Honda Motor's brand) Ad slogans: The True Definition of Luxury. Yours.       Acura. Precision Crafted Performance. Advertising slogan: Driven by passion. FIAT. Alfa Romeo car brand Slogans: Alfa Romeo. Beauty is not enough. Power for your control. Advertising slogan: Volvo. For life. Subaru Cars Taglines: Subaru. Think. Feel. Drive. Driven By What's Inside. When You Get It, You Get It. The Beauty of All-Wheel Drive. Ford Vehicles Advertising slogans: Ford. Feel the difference.     Ford. Bold moves. (USA)     Built for life in Canada.(Canada)     Built for the road ahead.     Ford. Designed for living. Engineered to last.     Have you driven a Ford lately? Infiniti vehicles Marketing slogan: Infiniti. Accelerating the Future. You can also refer to the following link for more


What is the name of the music website founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and launched in 2008?

Daniel Ek Weight - Daniel Ek Net Worth Daniel Ek Weight Read more... Daniel Ek Daniel Ek Net Worth is $310 Million. Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist who started the music streaming service Spotify. He founded his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. His ventures have included the founding of Advert. Daniel Ek (born 21 February ... Daniel Ek Net Worth is $310 Million. Daniel Ek Net Worth is $310 Million. Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist who started the music streaming service Spotify. He founded his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. His ventures have included the founding of Advert Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist who started the music streaming service Spotify. He founded his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. His ventures have included the founding of Advertigo, the advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler and has been a part of the Nordic auction company Tradera and Evertigo. Daniel's previous jobs include CTO at Jajja Communications, CTO at Stardoll and CEO of uTorrent, the world's most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads. Daniel Ek joined the IT Gymnasiet in Sundbyberg. He enrolled at the Royal Institute of Technology but did not complete his degree. In 2006, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of TradeDoubler, set up Spotify AB in Stockholm, Sweden. In October 2008 the company launched its legal music streaming service Spotify. Daniel Ek currently serves as a CEO of Spotify. As of 2012 he is ranked 395th on the Bri...


In the Stephen King book 'Christine', who or what is Christine?

Christine (film) | Stephen King Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Christine is a 1983 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name . It was directed by horror legend John Carpenter of Halloween and Escape from New York, who also composed the score. Despite mixed reviews from critics upon its release, it has developed a cult following, and is generally regarded by fans as one of the better adaptations of King's novels. The film was released to theaters on December 9, 1983. On the same day as the release of "Scarface". Contents [ show ] Plot The film begins in 1958, on a Plymoth automobile assembly line at a plant in Detroit, Michigan. One car , a Red Plymoth Fury, is being inspected by a man when its hood falls on his hand, crushing it. A man goes inside the car to inspect it, but is killed somehow when an ash from his cigar falls on the seat. Twenty years later in 1978, a high school dork named Arnie Cunningham purchases the same car for $250 from Roland LeBay, who calls her "Christine". The car is cheap, wrecked, and is in need of serious repair. Dennis, Arnie's Jock friend, does not like Christine, and advises him against purchasing it for a first car. But Arnie buys it anyway, much to the dismay of his parents, and they get into a heated debate. Arnie stores it at Darnell's, a do-it-yourself garage and junkyard located outside of town. The ill-tempered owner Will Darnell, distrusts both Arnie and Dennis, and is mean to them. Arnie fixes up Christine over time, and the car becomes his obsession. He starts driving it everywhere, and even gets Leigh Cabot to be his girlfriend, much to the dismay of Dennis. Arnie becomes humorless and arrogant, but also assertive and cruel. Christine is destroyed by Buddy Repperton and his gang, who want revenge for Buddy being expelled because Arnie told a teacher that Buddy threatened him with a switchblade. After Christine's destruction, Arnie angrily blames Leigh for it, and fights verbally and even physically with his parents. Arnie frantically attempts to fix the car again, but the car rebuilds itself in front of him, in a manner similar to a striptease. Christine goes after Repperton's gang, killing them all one by one, all the while playing ironic oldies music. Each time Christine commits a murder, she restores herself so there is no evidence of what she has done. At the end, Repperton himself is killed when Christi Christine on fire from the movie. ne smashes through a gas station and blows it up. Christine chases Buddy while on fire and drives over him, leaving his flaming body in the middle of the country road. Christine pulls into Darnell's, and Darnell is suspicious. He grabs a gun and goes inside Christine. Christine crushes him with the seat. Finally, Dennis carves Darnell's Tonight into her hood and waits at Darnell's that night inside a bulldozer. Christine chases Leigh around the garage while Dennis attempts to start the bulldozer. Arnie is thrown from the car when Christine crashes, with a large glass shard sticking out of his stomach. Arnie dies, and Christine goes after them with a vengeance. He gets the machine running and destroys Christine before she can rebuild herself. She is fed into a car crusher, which compacts Christine into a cube. At the end, Dennis and Leigh look over the destroyed wreckage of Christine, as they hear that oldies' music playing. However, it is not Christine, only a boombox. As Leigh is saying that she hates rock and roll,  a piece of Christine's fender slowly begins to bend into a mock smile, implying that Christine's consciousness is still intact. Christine is still alive to some degree. Cast Production One of the 1958 red Plymoth Furys used to portray Christine in the film. There were 14 Red Plymouth Furies used to portray Christine in the film. The film had a very extensive budget of $9,700,000, and is notorious for destroying so many cars during production, by fire, or by hand. John Carpenter also composed the musical score for the film. The film was too light to be rated R, so at the time of its release, it would have been rat


"Complete the quotation from Oscar Wilde (in Lady Windermere's Fan) ""We are all in the gutter but...""?"

Lady Windermere's Fan: Quotes LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. I can resist everything except temptation. I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's. I prefer women with a past. They're always so demmed amusing to talk to. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.


In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Humulus Lupulus was selected for Kent, how is it commonly known?

An Adirondack Chronology No 73 An Adirondack Chronology No 73 View More "The Adirondack Chronology is a useful resource for researchers and others interested in the Adirondacks. This useful reference is made available by the Adirondack Research Library (ARL), Union College, Schenectady, NY, where the Adirondack Research Library is on ‘permanent loan’ by the conservation organization Protect the Adironacks! (PROTECT). Union College Schaffer Library makes the Adirondack Research Library collections available to the public as they have always been by appointment only (ARL is a non-lending ‘special research library’ in the grand scheme of things. See http://libguides.union.edu/content.php?pid=309126&sid=2531789). Its holdings can be searched using the online catalog at Schaffer Library. It is hoped that the Adirondack Chronology may serve as a 'starter set' of basic information leading to more in-depth research." Copyright: © All Rights Reserved Adirondack Chronology 1 last revised 1/12/2017 An Adirondack Chronolog y The Adirondack Research Library of Union College The Kelly Adirondack Center, Union College  Niskayuna, New York Chronology Management Team Carl George Professor of Biology, Emeritus Department of Biology Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 Richard E. Tucker Adirondack Research Library 897 St. David’s Lane  Niskayuna, NY 12309 Jeff Corbin Associate Professor of Biology Department of Biology Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 corbinj@union.edu   Caleb Northup   tant to the President’s Office and Kelly Adirondack Center  Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 northroc@union.edu   Last revised and enlarged  –   12 January 2017 (Revision No. 73) Please provide guidance on important events and dates that we have missed or misrepresented 21ending this information to any member of the Management Team for correction Table of Contents Page  Adirondack Research Library 2   Introduction 2 Key References 4 Bibliographies and Chronologies 22 Special Acknowledgements 22 Abbreviations, Acronyms and Definitions 25 Adirondack Chronology  –   Event and Year 41  Needed Dates 454 Adirondack Research Library The Adirondack Chronology is a useful resource for researchers and others interested in the Adirondacks. This useful reference is made available by the Adirondack Research Library (ARL), Kelly Adirondack Center (KAC), Union College, Schenectady, NY, where the Adirondack Research Library is on ‘permanent loan’ by the conservation organization Protect the Adirondacks! (PROTECT). Union College Schaffer Library makes the Adirondack Research Library collections available to the public as they have always  been by appointment only (ARL is a non- lending ‘special research library’ in the grand scheme of thi ngs. See   http://libguides.union.edu/content.php?pid=309126&sid=2531789) . Its holdings can be searched using the online catalog at Schaffer Library. It is hoped that the Adirondack Chronology may serve as a 'starter set' of basic information leading to more in-depth research. Can the ARL further serve your research needs? To find out, visit our webpage, or even better, visit the ARL at the Kelly Adirondack Center, 897 St. David's Lane, Niskayuna, N.Y., 12309. (Phone: 518-377-1452). The ARL houses one of the finest collections available of books and periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and private papers dealing with the Adirondacks. The librarian will gladly assist you in finding answers to your questions and locating materials and contacts for your research project. Introduction Is a chronology of the Adirondacks events really possible? Is there any merit in attempting to record the  beginning of every town; the opening date for every golf course, airport, factory, road and power line right-of way and dam; the passing of every important meteorological event, earthquake, landslide, forest fire and flood; the appearance of every alien species or biological pathogen; the extinction or extirpation of every native species; the promulgation of every law; the making of every work of art, which has occurred in the   3 two great par


The Lake District mountain Great Gable is connected by the pass Windy Gap to which other peak?

Great Gable | Lake District Hotels and Information Portal Great Gable   Great Gable is a mountain lying at the very centre of the English Lake District, seen as a pyramid from Wasdale, but as a dome from most other directions. It is one of the most popular of the Lakeland fells, and there are a variety of different routes to the summit. Great Gable is connected by the high pass of Windy Gap to its smaller sister hill, Green Gable, and by the lower pass of Beck Head to its westerly neighbour, Kirk Fell. Great Gable and its lesser known companion Green Gable rise at the head of Ennerdale, with the walkers’ pass of Sty Head to their back. This links Borrowdale to Wasdale, giving Gable a foothold in both valleys. The Borrowdale connection is quite tenuous, but Great Gable is domaneering presence of Wasdale in that it is paramount in almost any view up the lake. Once seen, the naming of the fell Great Gable needs little explanation. The north face is formed by Gable Crag, prominent in vistas from Haystacks and the surrounding fells. This is the longest continuous wall of crag on the fell and reaches up virtually to the summit. Scree slopes drop away below to the headwaters of the River Liza, starting their long journey down Ennerdale. There are few crags on the eastern slopes, although these drop steeply to Styhead Tarn, a main feeder of the Borrowdale system. Approximately 30 ft deep this tarn occupies a scooped hollow, dammed by boulders which have fallen from the slopes above. It is reputed to contain trout and is a popular location for campers. The southern flank of Great Gable drops 2,300 ft direct to Lingmell Beck, one of the main feeders of Wastwater. Below the summit are the Westmorland Crags, and then a second level breaks out lower down. These are Kern Knotts, Raven Crag and Great Napes, all with great tongues of scree at their base. Last but not least on the west rough slopes fall below the rocks of White Napes to the narrow valley of Gable Beck, a tributary of Lingmell Beck. From the north west corner of the pyramid the linking ridge to Kirk Fell runs out across the col of Beck Head (2,050 ft). There is a small tarn in the depression, and sometimes a second after heavy precipitation. Both are blind, seeming to have no apparent inlet or ouflow. Gable Beck runs southwards from Beck Head, while an unnamed tributary of the Liza flows north. The main backbone of the Western Fells continues along the north east ridge to Green Gable, dropping to Windy Gap (2,460 ft) as it rounds the end of Gable Crag. This ridge is rough and rocky, further worn by the boots of numerous walkers. Stone Cove lies on the Ennerdale side whilst the rough gully of Aaron Slack runs down towards the Styhead Tarn. The south east ridge provides the link to the Southern Fells, across the pass of Sty Head. This is a main crossroads for hikers and climbers, the summit being at around 1,560 ft. On the opposite side is Great End in the Scafells. Kern Knotts lies on the south eastern ridge, as does the small pool of Dry Tarn. The south western ridge provides high level connection, dropping down Gavel Neese in the angle between Lingmell Beck and Gable Beck. Lying on the edge of the Scafell Syncline, the various strata dip towards the east. The summit area is made up of a dacite lava flow, Scafell Dacite, directly underlain by the Lingmell Formation. This tuff, lapilli tuff and breccia outcrops a little in a westerly direction from the summit. Around Beck Head is evidence of the Crinkle Member, welded rhyolitic tuff and lapilli-tuff with a little breccia. A dyke of andesite and hybridised andesite porphyry is forms Kern Knotts. The summit of Great Gable is strewn with rocks and boulders and the tallest point marked by a rock outcrop set with a cairn. Due to its prominent central position within the Lake District the summit has some of the best panoramic views of any peak in the area. All of the main fell groups are laid out, serried ranks of hills filling the skyline, although surprisingly Wast Water and Windermere are the only lakes that can be seen. A hu


Which African country is bordered by Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east?

African Country Profiles - United African Organization African Country Profiles Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country in Southern Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city. Cameroon Officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR), is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. Chad Officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Gabon Officially the Gabonese Republic is a sovereign state located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf of Guinea to the west. Ghana Ghana officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. Guinea-Bissau Officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west. It covers nearly 14,000 sq mi with an estimated population of 1,600,000.


When he published his Theory of Special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in which Swiss city?

Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein (1905).  (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images) By Jennifer Rosenberg Updated April 28, 2016. In 1905, Albert Einstein , a 26-year-old patent clerk, wrote a paper that revolutionized science. In his Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein explained that the speed of light was constant but that both space and time were relative to the position of the observer.  Who Was Albert Einstein? In 1905, Albert Einstein was not a famous scientist -- actually, he was quite the opposite. Einstein had been an unpopular student at the Polytechnic Institute, at least with the professors, because he wasn't shy about telling them he found their classes dull. That was why when Einstein (barely) graduated in 1900, none of his professors would write him a recommendation letter. For two years, Einstein was an outcast of sorts, and was very lucky to finally get a job in 1902 at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Although he worked six days a week, the new job allowed Einstein to get married and start his family. He also spent his limited free time working on his doctorate. continue reading below our video Profile of Albert Einstein Despite his future fame, Einstein seemed an undistinguished, 26-year-old, paper pusher in 1905. What most did not realize was that in between work and his family life (he had a young son), Einstein worked diligently on his scientific theories. These theories would soon change how we viewed our world. Einstein's Theory of Relativity In 1905, Einstein wrote five articles and had them published in the prestigious Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics). In one of these papers, “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Koerper” (“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”), Einstein detailed his Special Theory of Relativity. There were two main parts of his theory. First, Einstein discovered that the speed of light is constant. Secondly, Einstein determined that space and time are not absolutes; rather, they are relative to the position of the observer. For example, if a young boy were to roll a ball across the floor of a moving train, how fast was the ball moving? To the boy, it might look like the ball was moving at 1 mile per hour. However, to someone watching the train go by, the ball would appear to be moving the one mile per hour plus the speed of the train (40 miles per hour). To someone watching the event from space, the ball would be moving the one mile per hour the boy had noticed, plus the 40 miles an hour of the speed of the train, plus the speed of the Earth. E=mc2 In a follow-up paper also published in 1905, “Ist die Traegheit eines Koerpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhaengig?” (“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”), Einstein determined the relationship between mass and energy. Not only are they not independent entities, which had been a long-held belief, their relationship could be explained with the formula E=mc2 (E=energy, m=mass, c=speed of light). Einstein's theories not only changed Newton's three laws and transformed physics, it became a foundation for astrophysics and the atomic bomb.


Who was the Test Match Special scorer who died in January 2009?

Cricket: Bill Frindall, Test Match Special's scorer, has died at 69 of legionnaires' disease | Sport | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close It was easy to forget that Bill Frindall, who has died at the age of 69 after contracting legionnaires' disease, was a superb scorer of cricket matches. That was his main function in life, but he became such an institution on BBC radio's Test Match Special, on which he worked for 43 years, that his meticulous scoring system, which he devised himself, was often taken for granted. A month ago he had been clambering up the stairs of the stands in Mohali, with his laptop in one hand and a few reference books in the other, during what would be his last match for the programme that made him a household name. He had seemed as indestructible as ever, muttering that he hoped it would be a tad more convenient in Cardiff in July, the venue for England's next home Test match. So his death after a brief illness comes as a shock to those of us who worked alongside him as well as to the hundreds of thousands of cricket fans who felt they knew him after listening to his interjections and mischievous grunt of a laugh on TMS for more than four decades. Bill would delight in recalling that he was born (in Epsom, Surrey) on the first day of the famous, timeless Test between England and South Africa in Durban on 3 March 1939, and that he was a "record" 11 days old when the game finished – prematurely – because the England team had to catch their boat. Educated at Reigate Grammar School, he went on to study architecture at the Kingston School of Art, south-west London, before, as he put it, "converting national service into 6½ seasons for the RAF". Bill was a tearaway fast bowler of boundless optimism, not quite as rapid as he thought, who played for countless sides from Banstead in Surrey in his youth to the Lord's Taverners in his dotage. Dishevelled and loquacious, Frindall the bowler was reminiscent of his old sparring partner in the TMS box, Fred Trueman – until he let go of the ball. He was to spend the bulk of his career in that box, beginning in the days of Brian Johnston and John Arlott. Noting that his predecessor, Arthur Wrigley, had died in the winter of 1965, he fired off a letter to the BBC that was to ensure that neither architecture nor accountancy would be his lot for the rest of his working life. Bill scored the first of his 246 home Test matches on 2 June 1966, when England played West Indies at Old Trafford. He did not miss a single Test in England thereafter. In all he covered 377 Tests, the last of which was on England's tour of India last December. Initially he became famous as Johnston's stooge on air. Bill was soon christened The Bearded Wonder and was a ready butt for Johnston's schoolboy humour. He also had an important role to play for Arlott. Bill would proudly tell of his first encounter with the Guardian's former cricket correspondent. "I hear you like driving," said Arlott. "Well, I like drinking. We're going to get on well." And so they did. In later years Jonathan Agnew built up an easy rapport with Bill, poking fun at his beard and his occasional moments of pedantry as well as threatening to turn Bill's microphone off. Bill, an ardent enthusiast of amateur dramatics, was at ease behind that microphone and always keen to join in. Simultaneously, he could produce a meticulous scorecard, flawless bowling figures and gained enormous pleasure from establishing that a record partnership of some sort had been achieved. The pedant in him objected to the phrase that so and so, out for nought, "had failed to trouble the scorers", since each dismissal led to a flurry of activity. He also refused to acknowledge as Test runs or wickets those taken in the so-called Super series between Australia and the Rest of the World in 2005, thereby flouting the dictates of the International Cricket Council. Aside from TMS, Bill, who lived in Wiltshire, was an accomplished after-dinner speaker, telling tales of the commentary box (acceptable ones), which often displayed his excellent powers of m