The last pair of which extinct flightless birds were killed in 1844? (Two words.)

The Day in History: Last Pair of Great Auks Killed (1844) The Day in History: Last Pair of Great Auks Killed (1844) The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis, formerly Alca impennis) is an extinct bird. It was the only species in the genus Pinguinus, flightless giant auks from the Atlantic, to survive until recent times, but is extinct today. It was also known as garefowl (from the Old Norse geirfugl, meaning "spear-bird", a reference to the shape of its beak), or penguin (see etymology below). In the past, the Great Auk was found in great numbers on islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Great Britain, but it was eventually hunted to extinction. Remains found in Floridan middens suggest that at least occasionally, birds ventured that far south in winter as recently as in the 14th century (Weigel 1958, Brodkorb 1960). Characteristics Mounted specimen, Natural History Museum, LondonStanding about 75 centimetres or 30-34 inches high and weighing around 5 kg (Livezey 1988), the flightless Great Auk was the largest of the auks. It had white and glossy black feathers. The longest wing feathers were only 4 inches long. Its feet and claws were black. The webbed skin between the toes was brown/black. The beak was black with white transverse grooves. There was an area of white feathers on both sides of the head between the beak and each eye. It had a reddish/brown iris. Juvenile birds had less prominent grooves in their beaks and had mottled white and black necks.   Ecology They were excellent swimmers, using their wings to swim underwater. Their main food was fish, usually between 12 and 20 cm, but occasionally up to half the bird's own length; based on remains associated with Great Auk bones on Funk Island and ecological and morphological considerations, it seems that Atlantic menhaden and capelin were favored prey items (Olson et al. 1979). Great Auks walked slowly and sometimes used their wings to help them traverse rough terrain. They had few natural predators, mainly large marine mammals and birds of prey, and had no innate fear of humans. Their flightlessness and awkwardness on land compounded their vulnerability to humans, who hunted them for food, feathers, and also for specimen collection for museums and private collections.   Egg, Ipswich Museum, Suffolk The Great Auk laid only one egg each year, which it incubated on bare ground, with hatching in June. The eggs were yellowish white to light ochre with a varying pattern of black, brown or greyish spots and lines which often congregated on the large end, and quite large (110-140 x 70-84 mm). ExtinctionThe Great Auk was hunted on a significant scale for food, eggs and down from at least the 8th century. Previous to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and Eastern North America (Greenway 1967), and from early 5th century AD Labrador (Jordan & Olson 1982) where the bird only seems to have occurred as a straggler. A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, seems to have been interred clothed in a suit made from more than 200 Great Auk skins, with the heads left attached as decoration (Tuck 1976). The little ice age may have reduced their numbers, but massive exploitation for their down eventually reduced the population. Specimens of the Great Auk and its eggs became collectible and highly prized, and collecting of the eggs contributed to the demise of the species. On Stac an Armin, St Kilda, Scotland, in July, 1840, the last great auk seen in the British Isles was killed by two St Kildans residents. Haswell-Smith claims that this was because they thought it was a witch. The last population lived on an island of Geirfuglasker ("The Great Auk Rock") off Iceland. The island was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs, which made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830 this rock submerged and the birds moved to a nearby island of Eldey which was accessible from a single side. The last pair, found incubating an egg, were killed there on 3 July 1844 by Jon Brand


Which type of birds have the genus name of ‘Halcyon’?

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata | Science | The Guardian Mystery bird: black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata This gorgeous Chinese mystery bird got its genus name from a Greek legend Thursday 9 June 2011 19.10 EDT First published on Thursday 9 June 2011 19.10 EDT Share on Messenger Close Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata (protonym, Alcedo pileata), also known as the Miyako kingfisher, photographed at Hong Kong , Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Image: Marie Louise Ng , 9 October 2010 [ velociraptorize ]. Nikon D3S 500mm/F4 Question: This gorgeous Chinese mystery bird possesses several characters that unite all the members of this genus, and it possesses one character that sets it apart from its congeners. Can you name any of these characters? Response: This is a black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata, a species whose genus name was derived from a Greek myth about a woman named Alcyone. Daughter of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, she was married to Ceyx, the king of Thessaly. One day, news reached her that Ceyx had drowned at sea, so in despair, Alcyone threw herself into the sea to join him in his watery grave. But instead of drowning, the winds carried her to her spouse. Ovid transcribed this myth as follows: The Gods their shapes to winter-birds translate, But both obnoxious to their former fate. Their conjugal affection still is ty'd, And still the mournful race is multiply'd: They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd, Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest: A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind, Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind; Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease, And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. ~ Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book the Eleventh . It was thought that kingfishers were the birds described by this myth. Further, it was thought that kingfishers could calm the sea for the seven days before and seven days after the winter solstice so they could nest on the sea's surface. For this reason, "Halcyon days" refer to peace or calm. Kingfishers are all classified into the family Halcyonidae. The Halcyon kingfishers, or tree kingfishers, tend to be large birds with heavy bills. They are found in a variety of habitats, although woodlands are preferred by most species. (If you enjoyed that story about Alcyone, then you might be interested to know that the river kingfishers are placed into the genus Ceyx.) All kingfishers are "sit and wait" predators that pounce on their prey, which consists of small ground animals including large insects, rodents, snakes, and frogs, but some will also prey on fish. Contrary to mythology (and their name), most kingfisher species are not closely tied to water. However, black-capped kingfishers are different from their congeners because they occur in mangroves, where they mainly pounce on fish. You are invited to review all of the daily mystery birds by going to their dedicated graphic index page. If you have bird images, video or mp3 files that you'd like to share with a large and (mostly) appreciative international audience here at The Guardian, feel free to contact me to learn more. .


Zelda was the wife of which writer, born in Minnesota in 1896?

The Sensible Thing: Biographies F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald's life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream - the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure. Named for another famous American, a distant cousin who authored the Star Spangled Banner, Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896. The son of a failed wicker furniture salesman (Edward Fitzgerald) and an Irish immigrant with a large inheritance (Mary "Mollie" McQuillan), Fitzgerald grew up in a solidly Catholic and upper middle class environment. 1935 Portrait by David Silvette, courtesy National Portrait Gallery. Fitzgerald started writing at an early age. His high school newspaper published his detective stories, encouraging him to pursue writing more enthusiastically than academics. He dropped out of Princeton University to join the army and continued to pursue his obsession, writing magazine articles and even musical lyrics. At 21 years of age, he submitted his first novel for publication and Charles Scribner's Sons rejected it, but with words of encouragement. Beginning a pattern of constant revising that would characterize his writing style for the rest of his career, Fitzgerald decided to rewrite "The Romantic Egoist" and resubmit it for publication. Meanwhile, fate, in the form of the U.S. army, stationed him near Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, where he met and fell in love with an 18-year-old Southern belle - Zelda Sayre. Scribners rejected his novel for a second time, and so Fitzgerald turned to advertising as a steady source of income. Unfortunately, his paltry salary was not enough to convince Zelda to marry him, and tired of waiting for him to make his fortune, she broke their engagement in 1919. Happily, Scribners finally accepted the novel after Fitzgerald rewrote it for the third time as "This Side of Paradise", and published it a year later. Fitzgerald, suddenly a rich and famous author, married Zelda a week after its publication. In between writing novels, Fitzgerald was quite prolific as a magazine story writer. The Saturday Evening Post in particular served as a showcase for his short works of fiction, most of which revolved around a new breed of American woman - the young, free-thinking, independent "flapper" of the Roaring Twenties. The Fitzgeralds enjoyed fame and fortune, and his novels reflected their lifestyle, describing in semi-autobiographical fiction the privileged lives of wealthy, aspiring socialites. Fitzgerald wrote his second novel - "The Beautiful and the Damned" a year after they were married. Three years later, after the birth of their first and only child, Scottie, Fitzgerald completed his best-known work: "The Great Gatsby." The extravagant living made possible by such success, however, took its toll. Constantly globe-trotting (living at various times in several different cities in Italy, France, Switzerland, and eight of the United States), the Fitzgeralds tried in vain to escape or at least seek respite from Scott's alcoholism and Zelda's mental illness. Zelda suffered several breakdowns in both her physical and mental health, and sought treatment in and out of clinics from 1930 until her death (due to a fire at Highland Hospital in North Carolina in 1948). Zelda's mental illness, the subject of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, "Tender is the Night," had a debilitating effect on Scott's writing. He described his own "crack-up" in an essay that he wrote in 1936, hopelessly in debt, unable to write, nearly estranged from his wife and daughter, and incapacitated by excessive drinking and poor physical health. Things were looking up for Fitzgerald near the end of his life - he won a contract in 1937 to write for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood and fell in love with Sheilah Graham, a movie columnist. He had started writing again - scripts, short-stories, and the first draft of a new novel about Hollywood - when he suffered a heart attack and died in 1940 at the age of 44, a failure in his own mind. Most commonly r


Fanny Brawne was engaged to which noted British poet?

John Keats | British poet | Britannica.com British poet William Blake John Keats, (born October 31, 1795, London , England —died February 23, 1821, Rome , Papal States [Italy]), English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend . Youth The son of a livery-stable manager, John Keats received relatively little formal education. His father died in 1804, and his mother remarried almost immediately. Throughout his life Keats had close emotional ties to his sister, Fanny, and his two brothers, George and Tom. After the breakup of their mother’s second marriage, the Keats children lived with their widowed grandmother at Edmonton, Middlesex. John attended a school at Enfield, two miles away, that was run by John Clarke , whose son Charles Cowden Clarke did much to encourage Keats’s literary aspirations . At school Keats was noted as a pugnacious lad and was decidedly “not literary,” but in 1809 he began to read voraciously. After the death of the Keats children’s mother in 1810, their grandmother put the children’s affairs into the hands of a guardian, Richard Abbey. At Abbey’s instigation John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon at Edmonton in 1811. He broke off his apprenticeship in 1814 and went to live in London, where he worked as a dresser, or junior house surgeon, at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals. His literary interests had crystallized by this time, and after 1817 he devoted himself entirely to poetry. From then until his early death, the story of his life is largely the story of the poetry he wrote. Written by poet Archibald MacLeish and narrated by actor James Mason, this 1973 film dramatizes the … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Early works Charles Cowden Clarke had introduced the young Keats to the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethans, and these were his earliest models. His first mature poem is the sonnet “ On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer ” (1816), which was inspired by his excited reading of George Chapman’s classic 17th-century translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Clarke also introduced Keats to the journalist and contemporary poet Leigh Hunt , and Keats made friends in Hunt’s circle with the young poet John Hamilton Reynolds and with the painter Benjamin Haydon. Keats’s first book, Poems, was published in March 1817 and was written largely under “Huntian” influence. This is evident in the relaxed and rambling sentiments evinced and in Keats’s use of a loose form of the heroic couplet and light rhymes. The most interesting poem in this volume is “ Sleep and Poetry , ” the middle section of which contains a prophetic view of Keats’s own poetical progress. He sees himself as, at present, plunged in the delighted contemplation of sensuous natural beauty but realizes that he must leave this for an understanding of “the agony and strife of human hearts.” Otherwise the volume is remarkable only for some delicate natural observation and some obvious Spenserian influences. Britannica Stories Big Radio Burst from Tiny Galaxy In 1817 Keats left London briefly for a trip to the Isle of Wight and Canterbury and began work on Endymion , his first long poem. On his return to London he moved into lodgings in Hampstead with his brothers. Endymion appeared in 1818. This work is divided into four 1,000-line sections, and its verse is composed in loose rhymed couplets. The poem narrates a version of the Greek legend of the moon goddess Diana’s (or Cynthia’s) love for Endymion, a mortal shepherd, but Keats puts the emphasis on Endymion’s love for Diana rather than on hers for him. Keats transformed the tale to express the widespread Romantic theme of the attempt to find in actuality an ideal love that has been glimpsed heretofore only in imaginative longings. This theme is realized through fantastic and discursive adventures and through sensuous and luxuriant description. In his wanderings in quest of Diana, Endymion is guilty of an apparent infidelity to his visionary m


BBC - Devon - Features    -    Sybil back at Fawlty Towers You are in: Devon > Features > Sybil back at Fawlty Towers Prunella Scales with a lifesize Basil Sybil back at Fawlty Towers Prunella Scales (aka Sybil Fawlty) has officially re-opened the Torquay hotel which inspired the legendary sitcom series, Fawlty Towers. She arrived in a replica of the red Austin 1100 car which was famously thrashed by Basil Fawlty. A Devon hotel which inspired the legendary TV comedy series Fawlty Towers has been officially re-opened by one of the show's stars. Actress Prunella Scales played the part of Sybil Fawlty in the 1970s BBC sitcom series. The world's best known hotel receptionist made a star appearance at the reopening of the Hotel Gleneagles in Torquay following a major refurbishment. She arrived  in a replica of the red Austin 1100 flayed by screen husband Basil in one episode. Take a look at the photo gallery: More 'Sybil' photos > Fawlty Towers was based on the Gleneagles, where John Cleese stayed with other members of the Monty Python team in the early '70s. Cleese, who of course played Basil Fawlty, based the character on the owner of the hotel, Donald Sinclair, who he described as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met." Prunella signing autographs Mr Sinclair, who died in 1981, is said to have thrown Eric Idle's suitcase out of the window "in case it contained a bomb" and complained about Terry Gilliam's table manners. Looking back, the real Sybil, Beatrice Sinclair, agrees her husband was not good with the guests. "Not really, he was a commander in the Royal Navy and he liked to have the last word. I don't think he ever really enjoyed the hotel life." The hotel was recently bought by local businessmen Brian Shone and Terry Taylor. They have spent £1 million on refurbishing the facilities, and Prunella Scales was guest of honour at the official relaunch on 18th September 2006. From her bark of "Basil!", to her sympathetic phone manner (catchphrase "Oh, I know"), Prunella Scales' portrayal of Sybil was comic genius. Prunella admits that at the time she had no inkling that the series would become a British comedy masterpiece. "I don't remember very much from the early days of recording Fawlty Towers. We recorded an episode every week, so it was a question of learning the lines and getting them in the right order. Prunella behind the reception desk "It was very very distinguished writing, John and Connie did a wonderful job. It was good writing about men and women, and power and pain - all the important things that get the best laughs. "There was a great deal of pain in it both physical and mental, I think that's why it has endured. "The truth is we never filmed down here - we made the whole series in the Thames Valley so I didn't know what to expect or what it would look like. "I think Sybil might have quite impressed with the hotel as it is now, she wouldn't let on but I think she would have been. "I hope people will come  back and if they have a good time at the Gleneagles, then it will put Torquay back on the map with a vengeance." The actress remembers her first meeting with John Cleese to work out one of the most iconic screen relationships in British comedy. "He said have you got any questions and I said, why did they get married in the first place? "We thought that they fell in love and got married and then he wanted to run this very pretentious hotel and she knew the business and had to put the brakes on him because his ideas were too pretentious." Mr Shone arranged for the actress to arrive at the Asheldon Road hotel in a red Austin 1100, just like the one owned by Basil Fawlty. Basil gives his red Austin 1100 a good hiding! In one of the series' most famous scenes in 1975, Basil gave the car a good hiding with a branch when it conked out and wouldn't restart. "We wanted to make her arrival as memorable as possible and what better way than to have her arrive in the back of a red Austin 1100," said Mr Shone. "She's never visited the hotel before so this was her first time here, which is amazing." The a


What was the name of Sigourney Weaver’s character in the ‘Alien’ films?

Sigourney Weaver - Biography - IMDb Sigourney Weaver Biography Showing all 84 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (5) | Trivia  (42) | Personal Quotes  (24) | Salary  (7) Overview (4) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) Sigourney Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Leroy Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. Her father, TV producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. , originally wanted to name her Flavia, because of his passion for Roman history (he had already named her elder brother Trajan). Her mother, Elizabeth Inglis (née Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins), was an English actress who had sacrificed her career for a family. Sigourney grew up in a virtual bubble of guiltless bliss, being taken care of by nannies and maids. By 1959, the Weavers had resided in 30 different households. In 1961, Sigourney began attending the Brearley Girls Academy, but her mother moved her to another New York private school, Chapin. Sigourney was quite a bit taller than most of her other classmates (at the age of 13, she was already 5' 10"), resulting in her constantly being laughed at and picked on; in order to gain their acceptance, she took on the role of class clown. In 1962, her family moved to San Francisco briefly, an unpleasant experience for her. Later, they moved back east to Connecticut, where she became a student at the Ethel Walker School, facing the same problems as before. In 1963, she changed her name to "Sigourney", after the character "Sigourney Howard" in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's "The Great Gatsby" (her own birth name, Susan, was in honor of her mother's best friend, explorer Susan Pretzlik). Sigourney had already starred in a school drama production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and, in 1965, she worked during the summer with a stock troupe, performing in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "You Can't Take It With You" (she didn't star in the latter because she was taller than the lead actor!). After graduating from school in 1967, she spent some months in a kibbutz in Israel. At that time, she became engaged to reporter Aaron Latham , but they soon broke up. In 1969, Sigourney enrolled in Stanford University, majoring in English Literature. She also participated in school plays, especially Japanese Noh plays. By that time she was living in a tree house, alongside a male friend, dressed in elf-like clothes! After completing her studies in 1971, she applied for the Yale School of Drama in New Haven. Despite appearing at the audition reading a Bertolt Brecht speech and wearing a rope-like belt, she was accepted by the school but her professors rejected her, because of her height, and kept typecasting her as prostitutes and old women (whereas classmate Meryl Streep was treated almost reverently). However, in 1973, while making her theatrical debut with "Watergate Classics", she met up with a team of playwrights and actors and began hanging around with them, resulting in long-term friendships with Christopher Durang , Kate McGregor-Stewart and Albert Innaurato . In 1974, she starred in such plays as Aristophanes ' "Frogs" and Durang's "The Nature and Purpose of the Universe" and "Daryl and Carol and Kenny and Jenny", as "Jenny". After finishing her studies that year, she began seriously pursuing a stage career, but her height kept being a hindrance. However, she continued working on stage with Durang (in "Titanic" [1975]) and Innaurato (in "Gemini" [1976]). Other 1970s stage works included "Marco Polo Sing a Song", "The Animal Kingdom", "A Flea in Her Ear", "The Constant Husband", "Conjuring an Event" and others. However, the one that really got her noticed was "Das Lusitania Songspiel", a play she co-wrote with Durang and in which she starred for two seasons, from 1979 to 1981. She was also up for a Drama Desk Award for it. During the mid-70s, she appeared in several TV spots and even starred as "Avis Ryan" in the soap opera Somerset (1970). In 1977, she was cast in the role Shelley Duvall finally played in Annie Hall (1977), after rejecting the part due to prior stage commitments. In the end, however, Woody Al


What was the code name for the Normandy landings?

D-Day Landing Beaches D-Day Landings Allied soldiers disembark from a landing craft on the Normandy landing beaches. This photograph is available under the Creative Commons License . The D-Day Landings constituted the allied invasion of Nazi occupied France as part of the overall plan to liberate Europe. The code name for the Normandy Invasion, which involved the most massive amphibious and airborne landings in the history of the world, was code named Overlord. Altogether 3 million allied military personnel were involved. As part of the D-Day landings the allies launched coordinated sea borne and airborne assaults against Normandy France. The bulk of the allied armies landed by sea in small amphibious crafts that took them from waiting troop ships to the beaches of Normandy France. The allies landed on six beaches, code named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. The allied code names of the beach landings had originally been given less impressive names such as "Jellyfish" but Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain insisted that they be renamed arguing that men were being asked to die for these beaches, and therefore the names should be more dignified. A few days before the allied D-Day landings, a British newspaper published a crossword puzzle which had as its answer the same names as the D-Day landings, namely Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Allied intelligence feared that its security had been breached and that this was an attempt to communicate the plans to secret German agents. However an investigation revealed that this was simply an amazing coincidence. At least that is the official story. However, in my view the chances of a crossword puzzle writer independently coming up with all six of the code names for the D-Day landings, just days before the actual Normandy invasion seems too statistically improbable. Perhaps the puzzle was a coded message after all, and allied intelligence simply did not want to admit the possibility. Normandy Invasion The allied landings on D-Day were made under very impressive secrecy and achieved the element of surprise. Although the Germans had known for quite some time that the Allies would attempt to land in France, they did not know when or where and as a result they were forced to defend large sections of the Normandy coast as well as areas farther north including Belgium. Hitler, in typical fashion, stripped his commanders of authority and took command of the defences, which made German opposition to the allied landings less effective. Hitler believed that the allies would land at Pas de Calais, the closest point to England and he concentrated many of his best panzer divisions there. Even after the landings actually began, the German high command was not sure if the D-Day landings were simply a diversion for a larger landing elsewhere. As a result, many German units did not immediately move to counterattack and remained in defensive positions elsewhere along the coast. When German units did move against the allied D Day beaches their movements were hampered by intensive allied air bombardment which destroyed bridges and paratroopers and French resistance fighters. Many German divisions were under strength and had been transferred to France to recuperate after suffering severe losses on the Russian front. Nevertheless, the Germans did manage to put up effective initial resistance against the allied D Day landings and for a time the outcome was in doubt. If the allied landings had failed, it would have meant monumental losses for the allies as well as a severe loss of prestige and morale. General Eisenhower, in overall command of the allied forces, was not certain of victory and had already penned a communique that he would release in the event that the invasion failed. German propaganda newsreels from the first days of the fighting portrayed the D-Day landings as a failure and claimed that the Allies had been repulsed. These were not just lies put out by the German propaganda ministry. In many places, the outcome of the landings was seriously in doubt, and even after the Bri


What was the exact date in 1944 in which they took place?

The National WWII Museum | New Orleans: Learn: For Students: WWII History: D-Day: June 6, 1944 Chewing gum Replicas The Invasion Begins The Invasion Force Gathers...and Waits "All southern England was one vast military camp, crowded with soldiers awaiting final word to go.... The mighty host was tense as a coiled spring...coiled for the moment when its energy should be released and it would vault the English Channel in the greatest amphibious assault ever attempted." -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower In the first week of May 1944 the soldiers and sailors of the invasion force began descending on southern England. They came by boat, train, bus, or on foot from bases all over Great Britain. Almost 2 million men and nearly half a million vehicles were assembled. It was the greatest mass movement of armed forces in the history of the British and American armies. Upon their arrival in southern England, the men were confined in marshaling areas. There they began to be briefed about their mission. General Eisenhower had set D-Day for June 5. Loading for the assault started on May 31. That night, the first part of the massive naval operation began when minesweepers moved out to start clearing channels for the armada. Then, on June 4, with the great invasion force poised to go, trouble struck. A large storm arose in the English Channel. Eisenhower faced an agonizing decision,should he postpone the invasion? The Decision to Go "The waiting for history to be made was the most difficult. I spent much time in prayer. Being cooped up made it worse. Like everyone else, I was seasick and the stench of vomit permeated our craft." --Pvt. Clair Galdonik, 359th Infantry Regiment, US 90th Division D-Day was scheduled for June 5, 1944. But on the eve of the invasion, as the air and sea armada began to assemble, a storm arose in the English Channel. It threatened the success of the operation. At 6:00 A.M. on June 4, Eisenhower decided to postpone the invasion for at least one day, hoping for better weather on June 6. For the next 24 hours the men of the Allied invasion force remained sealed aboard their ships. Cramped and tense, they waited. At their bases in England, the pilots and airborne troops also marked time. Everything depended on the weather and the decision of the man in charge of Overlord, General Eisenhower. On the Continent the Germans were confident that the storm in the Channel would postpone any planned Allied invasion. Rommel took the opportunity to return to his home in Germany to visit his family. In the early hours of June 5, Eisenhower pondered the weather reports and the conflicting advice of his inner circle of advisers. Around noon on June 5, Eisenhower sat at a portable table and wrote a note, which he placed inside his wallet. Pressure or fatigue led him to misdate it "July 5." "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone. -- July 5" The American Airborne The US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed behind Utah Beach. The mission of the "Screaming Eagles" of the US 101st Airborne was to seize the causeways that served as exits from Utah and capture or destroy bridges over the Douve River. The "All Americans" of the US 82nd Airborne were to destroy other Douve bridges and capture the town of Sainte-Mére-Église. Things went badly for the Americans at first. Flying in darkness and under fire from German forces, many pilots dropped their men far from planned landing zones. Scattered and disorganized, the troops were forced to improvise. Though they achieved few of their objectives initially, they did confuse the Germans and disrupt their operations. By late morning, Sainte-Mére-Église was captured. The exit causeways from Utah Beach were secured by 1:00 P.M. The British Airborne The British 6th Airborne Division


Whose book, ‘Dreams From My Father’, was published in 1995?

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995 - AbeBooks Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995 You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 40 1 ISBN 10: 1400082773 ISBN 13: 9781400082773 Used PAPERBACK Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Broadway Books. PAPERBACK. Book Condition: Very Good. 1400082773 This book has a clean paperback cover with minor shelf-wear on edges and corners. Binding is tight and square. Interior pages are clean and free from highlighting, pencil underlining, notes, or stains. Broadway Books, 1995, 2004, 453 pp. Book is in stock and ready to ship same or next business day. Thank you for buying from Wado Books!. Bookseller Inventory # HD2-160617-14 ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Times Books, 1995. Hardcover. Book Condition: Used: Acceptable. first edition, former library copy with usual markings and stickers, pages are tight and unmarked, protective mylar cover on dust jacket, some edgewear to covers, spine slighlty canted. Additional postage charges may be requested for international shipping of large books. You will be notified by email if extra charges are requested, or you may email us before you order for a shipping quote. Bookseller Inventory # 6-14-15-NA-gry-13m Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. NY: Random House (2004). THE FIRST PRINTING (with a "1" in the number run) OF THE LARGE PRINT EDITION. INCLUDES THE PRESIDENT'S 2004 KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. Near fine in close to fine dj (dj is NOT price-clipped). The 1995 first prices in the thousands. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-1526785037 ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover First Edition ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover ISBN 10: 0307383415 ISBN 13: 9780307383419 Used Hardcover First Edition ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 1995. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 403 p. Audience: General/trade. 081292343X Good in good dust jacket. Manufacturing defect to front endpaper. It looks as if the glue the binders used was too hot and burned a small hole in the paper right at the seam. Else VG+/VG+. E-mail for pics. Bookseller Inventory # Alibris.0004108 ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Times Books, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., 1995. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing hardcover. The book is near very good with shelfwear, several dogearred corners and 2 pages near the end of the book with underlining. The mylar protected dust jacket is near very good with rubbing, edgewear and some creasing. A nice example of a scarce first edition. Expedited international shipping is not available. The delivery expectation for international shipping is 7-32 business days, depending upon customer location. Bookseller Inventory # 005329 ISBN 10: 0307383415 ISBN 13: 9780307383419 New Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Crown, New York, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition Thus - First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition thus, first printing, with a full number line starting with a 1. A very fine and unread copy in a very fine dust jacket, now in a clear removable protective cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to insure safe arrival. First edition, first printing thus of President Obama's first book, originally published in 1995 by Times Books. Very scarce in the first printing, especially in this condition. Bookseller Inventory # 010713 ISBN 10: 081292343X ISBN 13: 9780812923438 U


What was the two-word title of Dawn French’s 2007 autobiography?

Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography by Alison Bowyer — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists Shelves: biography The author of this biography of the famous British comedienne is not very sympathetic toward her subject. As a fan of Dawn French, I didn't enjoy reading the author's suppositions that French's husband (also a wonderful comedian) obviously cheated on her because she is fat and therefore not attractive. As this is the only biography available about French's life, I have to recommend it to those who are interested in knowing more about her. However, be forewarned that the author is rather mean-spi The author of this biography of the famous British comedienne is not very sympathetic toward her subject. As a fan of Dawn French, I didn't enjoy reading the author's suppositions that French's husband (also a wonderful comedian) obviously cheated on her because she is fat and therefore not attractive. As this is the only biography available about French's life, I have to recommend it to those who are interested in knowing more about her. However, be forewarned that the author is rather mean-spirited, which makes reading this book feel sometimes more like listening to gossip than reading a serious biography. To her credit, though, the author has done quite a bit of research and pulls from many interviews to create a very thorough portrait of French's life story. ...more Oct 29, 2009 Barbra rated it liked it Really interesting book about Dawn. Back Cover Blurb: Biographer Alison Bowyer tells the remarkable story of Dawn's rise to fame and how she has overcome many challenges along the way, from her unhappy early days at boarding school to coping with the terrible trauma of her beloved father's suicide when she was just nineteen. She examines Dawn's partnership with Jennifer Saunders and how the two women, both outwardly very different, went on to become friends and to perform together on the alternativ Really interesting book about Dawn. Back Cover Blurb: Biographer Alison Bowyer tells the remarkable story of Dawn's rise to fame and how she has overcome many challenges along the way, from her unhappy early days at boarding school to coping with the terrible trauma of her beloved father's suicide when she was just nineteen. She examines Dawn's partnership with Jennifer Saunders and how the two women, both outwardly very different, went on to become friends and to perform together on the alternative comedy circuit. Their groundbreaking double act, French and Saunders, was forged during those years as they went from earning seven pounds a night at comedy clubs to landing their own television series on the BBC. In 2007, the pair celebrated twenty years with the Corporation. Bowyer describes Dawn's long-lasting marriage to fellow comic Lenny Henry, a union that endured racially motivated attacks in the early days. We see how Dawn and Lenny handled the adoption of their daughter Billie and how they juggle work with the demands of parenthood. Based on first-hand research, this is an affectionate and insightful biography of a woman whose warmth and bubbly personality have made her a national treasure. ...more Apr 08, 2016 Jake rated it did not like it DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! This book is highly inaccurate and the author, Alison Bowyer, is a disrespectful and deceitful woman. Dawn French herself in her current comedy show '30 Million Minutes' points out all of the errors with Bowyer's book. Do yourself a favor and read Dawn's autobiography 'Dear Fatty', it's hilarious and actually tells you about Dawn's life, not the fictionalized version by Alison. In fact don't read anything by Alison, I do not trust anything that decrepit imbecile writes anym DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! This book is highly inaccurate and the author, Alison Bowyer, is a disrespectful and deceitful woman. Dawn French herself in her current comedy show '30 Million Minutes' points out all of the errors with Bowyer's book. Do yourself a favor and read Dawn's autobiography 'Dear Fatty', it's hilarious and actually tells you about Dawn's life, not the fictionalized ver


Who was the author of the 1996 work, ‘Angela’a Ashes’?

Generous Memories of a Poor, Painful Childhood - The New York Times The New York Times Books |Generous Memories of a Poor, Painful Childhood Search Books | BOOKS OF THE TIMES Generous Memories of a Poor, Painful Childhood By Frank McCourt Illustrated. 364 pages. Scribner. $24 ''I know when Dad does the bad thing,'' Frank McCourt writes of his father in this remarkable new memoir. ''I know when he drinks the dole money and Mam is desperate and has to beg at the St. Vincent de Paul Society and ask for credit at Kathleen O'Connell's shop but I don't want to back away from him and run to Mam. How can I do that when I'm up with him early every morning with the whole world asleep? He lights the fire and makes the tea and sings to himself or reads the paper to me in a whisper that won't wake up the rest of the family.'' Frankie's father tells him stories about great Irish heroes like Cuchulain and makes up stories about their neighbors down the street. He tells Frankie about ''the old days in Ireland when the English wouldn't let the Catholics have schools,'' and he tells him about the world beyond the shores of Ireland where men like Hitler, Mussolini and ''the great Roosevelt'' make history. He bequeaths to Frankie two things: a childhood of awful, bone-chilling poverty and illness, and a magical gift for storytelling. Frank McCourt, who taught writing for many years in the New York public school system, waited more than four decades to tell the story of his childhood, and it's been well worth the wait. With ''Angela's Ashes,'' he has used the storytelling gifts he inherited from his father to write a book that redeems the pain of his early years with wit and compassion and grace. He has written a book that stands with ''The Liars Club'' by Mary Karr and Andre Aciman's ''Out of Egypt'' as a classic modern memoir. There is not a trace of bitterness or resentment in ''Angela's Ashes,'' though there is plenty a less generous writer might well be judgmental about. Indeed Mr. McCourt's childhood is, as he has said, ''an epic of woe.'' Besides a father who drank away the family's meager food money and a mother who was reduced to begging, there were three siblings who died in infancy from illness. The McCourts were too poor to afford sheets or blankets for their flea-infested bed, too poor to buy new shoes for the children, too poor to get milk for the new baby. A boiled egg was considered a luxury, a bit of discarded apple peel a coveted treat. Continue reading the main story Mr. McCourt's parents started out as immigrants in New York, but America hadn't turned out to be the promised land they'd hoped. Not only was the family trying to cope with the Depression, but Malachy McCourt also had a way of taking his sporadic paychecks to the local bar and not returning home. It wasn't long before the family was headed back across the Atlantic to Ireland, where there were relatives who could help out with the four children. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Things, however, were considerably worse in Limerick than they were in Brooklyn. No work for Frankie's Dad, no decent place to live. After a series of moves, the family ends up in a ramshackle apartment that reeks from the public lavatory next door. The downstairs (known as Ireland) is unlivable: flooded in the winter and overrun with rats and flies in the summer; the upstairs (known as Italy) is where the family spends most of its time, burning wood from one of the walls whenever it gets cold. The three months Frankie spends in the hospital with typhoid fever feel like a vacation: a bed with real sheets, a bath with hot water and even books to read. ''The rain dampened the city from the Feast of the Circumcision to New Year's Eve,'' Mr. McCourt writes. ''It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks. It turned noses into fountains, lungs into bacterial sponges.'' Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Poli


In Chesterfield, the crooked spire is that of St. who, and All the Saints?

Crooked Spire Church | Church | Chesterfield|Derbyshire Crooked Spire Church Church, next open Wed 23 Nov 2016 - Sun 31 Dec 2017, free entry Chesterfield Crooked Spire Church Church of St Mary and All Saints, Church Way, S40 1XJ Details St Mary and All Saints, the Crooked Spire Church, was built in the late 13th Century and finished around 1360. It’s the largest church in Derbyshire. The Spire stands 228 feet from the ground and leans 9 feet 5 inches from its true centre. The Spire was built straight and the reason that it 'twisted' may be the amount of green timber used during its construction. Then 32 tons of lead tiles were placed on top – enough to bend anyone’s back! Daily tours of the Tower to the base of the 'Crooked Spire' take place Monday to Saturday from Easter to Christmas (weather and staff permitting). Tours will be advertised on a yellow notice just inside the Church entrance. This shows the time of departure and the tour takes about 40-45 minutes. In addition, regular tours take place on all summer Bank Holiday Mondays. The Friends of Chesterfield Parish Church is a charity which helps to care for and preserve the town’s famous ‘Crooked Spire’ Church. To find out more about them, visit their website – www.friendsofthecrookedspirechesterfield.co.uk. Service Times 8 am Holy Communion (said) 10.30 am Sung Mass Matins are said daily at 9 am, and Evensong at 5 pm Refreshments and toilets in the Saints Parish Centre next door to the Church. Opening details Wed 23 Nov 2016 - Sun 31 Dec 2017 Mon - Sat 09:00 to 16:15 Sunday at service times only. Tower tours Easter to Christmas, Monday to Saturday - check notice inside Church or check website for times. Prices Trip up Spire - Adult £5.00, Child £3.00 Location See location on Google maps Map reference: SK 384711  Lat: 53.23604 Long: -1.42533 The Crooked Spire Church is in Chesterfield town centre but has no car park of its own so the directions below are to the nearest town centre car parks. From North/South Leave M1 at junction 29 and follow A617 to Chesterfield (approx 4 miles). At traffic light controlled roundabout select middle lane and take 3rd exit. At next roundabout select middle lane and take 2nd exit (Lordsmill Street). Select left lane and take first left (Beetwell Street). Multi-storey car park on right hand side. For surface car parks: at roundabout select middle lane and take 3rd exit. At next roundabout select right lane and take 2nd exit (Lordsmill Street). Keep in right hand lane and go straight on. At traffic lights turn right (Spa Lane), take 1st left then left or right into car parks. From East Follow A617 to junction with M1 motorway, then follow route from North/South. From West Follow A619 to Chesterfield. At traffic light controlled roundabout (Lidl on left) select middle lane and take 3rd exit. Keep in left lane and, at traffic lights, go straight on. At next roundabout select left lane and take 1st exit (Lordsmill Street), then follow route from North/South for either multi-storey or surface car parks. Parking: with charge


In the USA, Martin Luther King Day is observed on the 3rd Monday of which month?

Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States Home   Calendar   Holidays   the United States   Martin Luther King Jr. Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of January. It celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr., an influential American civil rights leader. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States. Martin Luther King Jr statue "The Stone Of Hope" memorial by master sculptor Lei Yixin was opened to the public in West Potomac Park, Washington DC, on August 22, 2011. ©iStockphoto.com/Camrocker What Do People Do? Martin Luther King Day is a relatively new federal holiday and there are few long standing traditions. It is seen as a day to promote equal rights for all Americans, regardless of their background. Some educational establishments mark the day by teaching their pupils or students about the work of Martin Luther King and the struggle against racial segregation and racism. In recent years, federal legislation has encouraged Americans to give some of their time on this day as volunteers in citizen action groups. Martin Luther King Day, also known as Martin Luther King’s birthday and Martin Luther King Jr Day, is combined with other days in different states. For example, it is combined with Civil Rights Day in Arizona and New Hampshire, while it is observed together with Human Rights Day in Idaho. It is also a day that is combined with Robert E. Lee’s birthday in some states. The day is known as Wyoming Equality Day in the state of Wyoming. Public Life Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday, but has slightly different names in some states. Non-essential Government departments are closed, as are many corporations. Some schools and colleges close but others stay open and teach their students about the life and work of Martin Luther King. Small companies, such as grocery stores and restaurants tend to be open, although a growing number are choosing to close on this day. Some compensate by opening on Washington's Birthday instead. Recent federal legislation encourages Americans to give some of their time on Martin Luther King Day as volunteers in citizen action groups. Public transit systems may or may not operate on their regular schedule. Background Martin Luther King was an important civil rights activist. He was a leader in the movement to end racial segregation in the United States. His most famous address was the "I Have A Dream" speech. He was an advocate of non-violent protest and became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in 1968. In 1968, shortly after Martin Luther King died, a campaign was started for his birthday to become a holiday to honor him. After the first bill was introduced, trade unions lead the campaign for the federal holiday. It was endorsed in 1976. Following support from the musician Stevie Wonder with his single "Happy Birthday" and a petition with six million signatures, the bill became law in 1983. Martin Luther King Day was first observed in 1986, although it was not observed in all states until the year 2000. In 1990, the Wyoming legislature designated Martin Luther King Jr/Wyoming Equality Day as a legal holiday. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observances Select another year-range:


Who wrote the play ‘Waiting For Godot’, which premiered in 1953?

'When Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot he really didn't know a lot about theatre' - Telegraph 'When Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot he really didn't know a lot about theatre' As Waiting for Godot turns 60, Beckett expert Anna McMullan explains why the  play still appeals.   Image 1 of 6 A scene from the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. Photo: Credit: Roger Pic Copyright: Bibliotheque National de France?   Image 1 of 6 A scene from the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953 Photo: Credit: Roger Pic Copyright: Bibliotheque National de France?   Image 1 of 6 Programme for the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. Photo: University of Reading, Special Collections   Image 1 of 6 A scene from the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. Photo: Credit: Roger Pic Copyright: Bibliotheque National de France?   Image 1 of 6 Invitation to a reception to celebrate the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953.  Photo: Credit: University of Reading, Special Collections   Image 1 of 6 A scene from the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. Photo: Credit: Béla Bertrand Copyright: Bibliotheque National de France? 7:00AM GMT 05 Jan 2013 Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered as En attendant Godot at a small theatre on the Left Bank in Paris the Théâtre de Babylone, sixty years ago, on January 5 1953. It has since become one of the most important and best known plays of the 20th and 21st century and has been performed countless times the world over. Samuel Beckett expert Anna McMullan answers some questions about the seminal work: What are the standout productions of Waiting for Godot? Obviously there's Roger Blin's first production in Paris. A number of French critics who watched it said: "We've never seen anything like this, this is not theatre as we know it." Then of course the 24-year-old Peter Hall directed the English language premiere in 1955 just two years later at the Arts Theatre in London. The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan said it changed the rules of theatre. Related Articles Samuel Beckett play gets West End debut 28 May 2012 British critics were initially more confused by it than the French, who had experienced a similar sort of existential drama. But then Tynan and a number of other significant critics began to write about the play. It's difficult to remember now, but nothing like it had been seen before. It began to change the way people thought about theatre. Beckett's own production was important too. He directed it at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin in 1975. The production toured internationally and was described as a very balletic production. Beckett took extraordinary care over the costume and design. It's seen as a definitive version, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't reinterpret the play. The relationship between the two characters Pozzo and Lucky can be very disturbing. It's an oppressive and dependent relationship which has lead to the play being interpreted in a number of situations of conflict throughout the world, such as South Africa and Sarajevo – the latter by Susan Sontag under the siege. Programme for the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. Did Beckett make many changes to the play after it was first performed? Yes, he made a lot of changes. When he first wrote it he really didn't know a lot about theatre. He had been to theatre as a young man, and some of his friends were involved in theatre but really he learnt the craft of theatre when he attended the rehearsals of his plays during the 1950s. In the Sixties he began to direct his plays and that's when you begin to see Beckett really writing the stage direction. He did rewrite parts of Godot and made many annotations when in rehearsals at the Schiller theatre – the originals of which still exist. A scene from the first production of En Attendant Godot, Paris, 1953. So have the scripts had all those changes incorporated? Not all of them actually and there is an interesting debate about what actually is the definitive script. Faber and Faber have publi


The Egyptian god Anubis had the head of which animal?

Did the Egyptian Gods have Animal Heads? | Return of the Space Gods Return of the Space Gods November 14, 2009 by korshi a roman depiction of the god anubis Did Egyptian Gods have Animal Heads? Of course they did, you might be saying.  If you were anything like me, as a kid you may have loved the distinctively weird depictions in Egyptian art of their gods, jackal-headed Anubis, cat-headed Bastet, ibis-headed Thoth and all the rest, much more exciting (in my opinion) than the Greek gods, who were pretty much just naked people. On the other hand, if you’ve read a bit about Ancient Egypt (the Wikipedia page on the Egyptian Religion , for instance) you might answer that no, they didn’t believe their gods had animal heads; these crazy half-man, half-beast images were just symbolic: Anubis was shown with a jackal head because the jackal was associated with the necropolis and Anubis was a god of the dead, he didn’t really look like that.  Well, in this post I thought I’d do a bit of digging, and do my best to find out what the truth actually is. To start off with, yes, Egyptian gods were often depicted in therianthrophic – part human, part animal form.  There are the well known gods with animal heads, the sphinxes with human heads and lion bodies, and hybrids like Hathor, who is shown with cow’s ears and horns, but is otherwise human.  Other gods are anthropomorphic – human in form – Isis, Osiris, Ptah and Atum are usually shown in this way. Then there are theriomorphic depictions , where gods are shown entirely in animal form.  These are quite common, and in fact were the most common representations of gods in the very earliest periods of Egyptian history. So, for instance, Anubis could be a black jackal, and Thoth as either an ibis or a white baboon.  (Depictions could get a bit weirder than this, some gods could have plant heads, Hathor could be depicted as a pillar with a human head, Taweret was a hybrid of hippo, crocodile and lioness, and one god was shown with two thongs used to bind the damned in place of a head, but these are a quite a bit rarer…) Now, this has caused problems for some people.  Way back when the Romans encountered Egypt, they found it unbelievable that such an ancient and sophisticated culture could worship barking dogs and scavenging ibises.  As the satirist Juvenal asked “Who knows not…what monsters demented Egypt worships? “[1]  Modern writers have often had a similar opinion; the great nineteenth century scholar Adolf Erman is said to have ended a speech on Egyptian religion by remarking “Aber Quatsch ist es doch, meine Herren!” –“But it is nonsense, gentlemen!” [2] The solution has been to argue that the gods of Egypt weren’t really animals at all.  As Zeus puts it in Lucian’s Council of the Gods “Certainly, it is disgraceful the way these Egyptians go on. At the same time, Momus, there is an occult significance in most of these things; and it ill becomes you, who are not of the initiated, to ridicule them.” [3] The modern solution has been to say that the depictions of the gods are like hieroglyphs: Sekhmet’s lion head indicates that she is a supernatural being, that she is powerful and dangerous like a lioness, but they didn’t depict what the gods would look like if we would see them.[4] By way of comparison we could point to Christian images of Jesus as a lion or a lamb, or the Holy Spirit as a dove, or angels with wings. All these things are symbolic- Christians don’t really believe Jesus has four legs and a fluffy coat of wool (well, Christian furries might…). But this is a position with I have to respectfully disagree. a very literal depiction from the mummy ii To start with, how did Ancient Egyptians understand their gods? There is good evidence that they believed the gods to be fundamentally mysterious, and were every bit as aware as a modern Hindu, Jew, Muslim or Christian that the divine could never be fully known. In a twelfth century hymn from the time of Ramesses III a god is described as “divine power with hidden faces and mighty majesty, who has hidden his name and keeps his image


Edward Bear is the alternative name for which character from children’s literature?

Bears in Literature Bears in Literature Bears in Literature   Bears featured as central characters in Celtic and Northern European tales for thousands of years (they also featured in Native American tales). European folk tales reformatted those old tales for more recent audiences.  And Aesop used  bears in his fables. But, unlike other animals — dogs , horses, cats , foxes — bears as central fictional characters arrived later on the literary scene. While Sir Charles G D Roberts , who created the Realistic Animal Story , wrote about wild animals of the Canadian Northwoods in the late 19th Century, his bears were true-to-the-wild depictions.  At the same time, Kipling gave the world his talking animal character, Baloo… On the whole, bears didn’t arrive in animal fiction until the 20th Century. Some where real animals — Civilized Bears — some were living teddy bears .  They were all beloved characters.   Most Famous Bears in Literature Children’s fiction (Kidlit) has been replete with fantastic stories of bears , who transcend their animal status and become actual ‘persons’ who the children can easily relate to. Each new generation has grown up on a steady diet of bear tales and handed down the ‘bear’ legacy to their children, and they to their children.  So much so that even now, bear stories and characters continue to be among the all-time favourite bedtime stories of children around the world. Here are some of the all-time favourite bears from children’s literature:   1. Bears in children’s stories Who can forget Goldilocks and the Three Bears ?  Mama Bear, Papa Bear and Baby Bear. This children’s story gained popularity when it appeared as a narrative by English author and poet Robert Southey — first published under the title “Story of the Three Bears ,” in a volume of his writings in 1837 called THE DOCTOR.  In Southey’s version, the intruding human was an old woman with no name.  In later retellings the woman was called Silver Hair.  By the late 1800’s, the intruder was a young girl named Golden Hair and, finally, Goldilocks.  In every version, the bears were the victims of a thieving, destructive human, who runs away when discovered. And then came Baloo.  Baloo was the “sleepy old sloth bear” who helped teach the human boy Mowgli the laws of the jungle in THE JUNGLE BOOK, written by Rudyard Kipling and first published in 1894.   2. Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly known as Pooh Bear or simply Pooh (and also referred to as Edward Bear), is perhaps one of the most famous of all fictional bears . The creation of A A Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a teddy bear owned by Milne’s own son, Christopher.  Christopher Robin Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a black bear the boy was very fond of at the London Zoological Gardens.  The tame bear had been left at the zoo by a Canadian soldier during the First World War, who had to go on to the Front.  “Winnie” was named for Lieutenant Harry Colebourn’s home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba. “Pooh” was a swan Christopher had met while on holiday. The first book was WINNIE-THE-POOH, published in 1926.  It was followed by THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER and the worldwide best selling series was launched. The stories of the Bear of Little Brain have been translated into several languages, including a Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, by Alexander Lenard. It is the only Latin book ever to have been featured on the New York Times Best Seller List.   3. Paddington Bear A classic character in children’s literature, Paddington Bear has been casting his spell over children of all ages since he was first created by a British writer, Michael Bond, in 1958. This adorable little bear is actually an immigrant who hailed from Darkest Peru. He hid himself on the lifeboat of a ship and arrived in England, as advised by his Aunt Lucy who had reared him so far. This polite bear immediately entrenched himself in his young readers’ minds with his old hat, battered suitcase, duffle coat and love of marmalade sandwiches. Although he attracted trouble, he also had an almost-human sense of rig


What term of endearment do Andy and Flo Capp use, when not arguing?

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Which five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane has 250 rooms and 49 suites?

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“Some dance to remember, some dance to forget” – in which hotel?

EAGLES LYRICS - Hotel California EAGLES LYRICS On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, "This could be Heaven or this could be Hell" Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (Any time of year) You can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget So I called up the Captain, "Please bring me my wine" He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine" And still those voices are calling from far away, Wake you up in the middle of the night Just to hear them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face They livin' it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) Bring your alibis The pink champagne on ice And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave! " Visit www.azlyrics.com for these lyrics. Thanks to Franny, Douglas for correcting these lyrics.


Which ‘ology’ is the study of sexually transmitted diseases?

Welcome to IASSTD & AIDS | IASSTD & AIDS Recent Announcements Welcome to IASSTD & AIDS Dr.C.N.Sowmini, the then Director of the Institute of Venereology, Madras Medical College, Chennai, who , with the co-operation of a handful of committed workers, founded the Indian Association for the Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (IASSTD) in the year 1975. Association has been registered under section 10 of the Act with Registrar of Societies, Chennai. Later, in the year 1993, the name of the Association was changed to IASSTD & AIDS and this has also been registered under the above society.


Which STD is colloquially known as ‘the clap’?

What is The Difference Between Gonorrhea and Trichomoniasis Tweet Trichomoniasis Trichomoniasis, sometimes referred to as "trich", is a common cause of vaginitis. It is a sexually transmitted disease, and is caused by the single-celled protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis producing mechanical stress on host cells and then ingesting cell fragments after cell death. trichomoniasis   n : infection of the vagina Typically, only women experience symptoms associated with Trichomonas infection. Symptoms include inflammation of the cervix (cervicitis), urethra (urethritis), and vagina (vaginitis) which produce an itching or burning sensation. Discomfort may increase during intercourse and urination. There may also be a yellow-green, itchy, frothy, foul-smelling ("fishy" smell) vaginal discharge. In rare cases, lower abdominal pain can occur. Symptoms usually appear in women within 5 to 28 days of exposure. In many cases, men may hold the parasite for some years without any signs (dormant). Some sexual health specialists have stated that the condition can probably be carried in the vagina for years, despite standard tests being negative. While symptoms are most common in women, some men may temporarily exhibit symptoms such as an irritation inside the penis, mild discharge or slight burning after urination or ejaculation. Data Sources: gonorrhea: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 gonorrhea: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 trichomoniasis: WordNet (r) 2.0


Who painted the portrait of Anne of Cleves that so impressed Henry VIII?

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen | History Extra Directory Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen For centuries, Anne of Cleves has been cast as a hapless figure who so repelled Henry VIII that he was unable to consummate their marriage. Yet in truth she was a popular, pragmatic woman who fought back from a very public humiliation to become Henry’s most successful queen, says Tracy Borman… This article was first published in the September 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine Monday 18th January 2016 BBC History Magazine - 5 issues for £5 This portrait of Anne of Cleves, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1539, delighted Henry VIII. Unfortunately, the king was far less impressed with his new bride when he met her in the flesh. (© Bridgeman) Anne of Cleves has gone down in history as the ugly wife. Henry VIII was so revolted when he first clapped eyes on her that he immediately instructed his lawyers to get him out of the marriage. Thereafter, his poor, spurned fourth queen retreated quietly into obscurity to hide her face from the world, while Henry joyfully married the infinitely more desirable Catherine Howard. Anne, who was born 500 years ago, was Henry’s wife for just six months, making her the shortest reigning of all his queens. And so she has been dismissed as little more than a blip in the history of England’s most-married monarch. The true story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife is entirely different to this humiliating fiction. Anne may not have been to the king’s liking, but how she responded proves that she was far from being the hapless victim of legend. In fact, she can justifiably claim to have been the most successful of all Henry’s wives. Anne, daughter of the late Duke of Juliers-Cleves, Johann III, and sister of his successor, Wilhelm, had first been mooted as a potential wife for the English king in the closing weeks of 1537, soon after the death of his beloved third wife, Jane Seymour . Anne was then 22 years of age, and had already been used as a pawn in the international marriage market when she had been betrothed to François, heir to the duchy of Lorraine, in 1527. This had come to nothing, leaving her free to marry elsewhere. John Hutton, ambassador to Mary of Hungary, who had originally made the suggestion, admitted he had heard no great praise of her beauty. Such a recommendation hardly motivated Henry to pursue the scheme any further, and it was not until early 1539 that the idea was resurrected. This time Henry gave it more credence because he desperately needed new allies. His two great rivals, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and French king Francis I, had forged a treaty, and to make matters worse, a short while later Pope Paul III had reissued the bull of excommunication against the English king. Although the then Duke of Juliers-Cleves, Johann (Anne’s father) was no Protestant, he – like Henry – had expelled papal authority from his domain. An alliance with Cleves would therefore provide a major boost to the Reformation in England, and it was for this reason that Henry’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell , championed it so enthusiastically. In March 1539, Henry finally agreed that negotiations could begin. Cromwell was quick to relay reports of Anne’s beauty, assuring his sovereign: “Every man praiseth the beauty of the same lady as well for the face as for the whole body… she excelleth as far the duchess [of Milan] as the golden sun excelleth the silver moon.” But Henry was taking no chances. He dispatched the renowned portrait painter Hans Holbein to Cleves so that he could see what he was letting himself in for. The king was delighted with the result. Holbein’s portrait showed a pretty young woman with fair hair, a doll-like face, delicate eyes, mouth and chin, and a demure, maidenly expression. The match was confirmed and a treaty was signed on 4 October 1539. A few weeks later, Anne embarked upon her journey to England. The charter annulling Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves. The king’s passion for lady-in-waiting Catherine Howard sounded the death knell for


Who played the male human lead in the 1951 film, ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’?

Bedtime for Bonzo - 必应 Sign in Bedtime for Bonzo Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova, starring future U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, and Peggy as Bonzo. It revolves around the attempts of the central character, psychology professor Peter Boyd (Ronald Reagan), to teach human morals to a chimpanzee, hoping to solve the "nature versus nurture" question. He hires a woman, Jane Linden ( Diana Lynn), to pose as the chimp's mother while he plays father to it, and uses 1950s-era child rearing techniques. This movie is one of the most remembered of Reagan's acting career and renewed his popularity as a movie star for a while. Reagan, however, never even saw the film until 1984. A sequel w ... (展开) was released entitled Bonzo Goes to College (1952), but featured none of the three lead performers from the original. Peggy died in a zoo fire two weeks after the premier of Bedtime for Bonzo; another chimp was hired for the second film whose name really was "Bonzo". Reagan did not want to work on the second film; he thought the premise was silly.[citation needed] 724 ratings · Comedy Bedtime for Bonzo . 1h 23min | Comedy, Family, Romance | 28 September 1951 (Finland) College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and ... www.imdb.com/title/tt0043325 Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova, starring future U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, and Peggy as Bonzo. www.bing.com/knows/Bedtime for Bonzo?mkt=zh-cn Bedtime for Bonzo的用法讲解 法语助手是权威的法语在线词典,为您提供Bedtime for Bonzo的中文意思,Bedtime for Bonzo的读音,Bedtime for Bonzo的同义词,Bedtime for Bonzo ... https://www.frdic.com/dicts/fr/Bedtime_for_Bonzo.html Bedtime for Bonzo is a 1951 comedy film directed by Fred de Cordova, starring Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, and Peggy as Bonzo. It revolves around the attempts of the ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_(chimpanzee)


Anna Mae Bullock is the real name of which singer, dancer, actress and author?

Who is Anna Mae Bullock? | Reference.com Who is Anna Mae Bullock? A: Quick Answer Anna Mae Bullock is the birth name of Tina Turner, a popular singer, dancer, actress and author. Bullock began her career as a singer with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, performing under the name "Little Ann." Starting in 1960, she began going by the name Tina Turner. Full Answer Bullock was born on November 26, 1939, in Nutbush, Tennessee. Some of her notable songs include "Proud Mary" and "Nutbush City Limits." She has written an autobiography entitled "I, Tina," which revealed issues of abuse by her former husband, Ike Turner, before their divorce. She is one of the best selling artists of all time and is often referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll."


Which teenage high school student is Spiderman’s alter ego?

Watch The Amazing Spider-Man online | Download or Stream at CinemaNow Flixster 77% Synopsis A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man. 2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | Marvel, and the names and distinctive likenesses of Spider-Man and all other Marvel characters: ™ and 2012 Marvel Entertainment, LLC & its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved.


Na2SO4 is the chemical formula for what compound?

What compound is Na2so4? | Reference.com What compound is Na2so4? A: Quick Answer The compound Na2SO4 is called sodium sulfate. It occurs naturally in many places in the world, including Canada, Mexico, China, South Africa and Spain. It exists in Washington, Wyoming, Nevada and Utah in the United States. Full Answer Sodium sulfate is an important compound in the chemical industry and is used widely in the manufacturing of soap and detergent. Sodium sulfate develops naturally when igneous rocks erode and release sodium into nearby water. When that sodium reacts with sulfur from one of a number of possible sources in the environment, sodium sulfate is the resulting precipitate. The mineral thenardite, a naturally occurring sodium sulfate, occurs in salt lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah.


What is the name of the professor of phonetics in G.B. Shaw’s play ‘Pygmalion’?

Pygmalion Summary - eNotes.com Pygmalion Summary George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Summary In Pygmalion, phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes in a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle. He intends to turn Eliza into a lady by teaching her elocution. He succeeds, but never truly believes that she's a lady, and as a result Eliza runs away, escaping his tyranny. Henry meets Eliza on the street one night when she attempts to sell him a flower. He bets that he can teach her elocution and pass her off as a lady, and after many objections Eliza agrees to their experiment. Eliza turns out to be an apt student and easily convinces the ladies at a garden party that she's one of them. Nevertheless, Henry never truly thinks of her as a lady and still treats her as a servant. She runs away, seeking her independence. Meanwhile, Eliza's father, who previously milked Henry out of money, becomes a rich man thanks to an offhand comment Henry makes in a letter to a rich philanthropist. He bemoans his new station in life, but of course doesn't return the money. Download Study Guide Start Free Trial Start your free trial with eNotes to access more than 30,000 study guides. Get help with any book. link Link Like The Doctor’s Dilemma (pr. 1906, pb. 1911), Pygmalion is a problem play that examines a social issue. Shaw deals here with the assumptions of social superiority and inferiority that underlie the class system. He demonstrates how speech and etiquette preserve class distinctions. As he wrote in the play’s preface, “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” Pygmalion therefore tries to illustrate the arbitrariness of basing a person’s worth on his or her pronunciation. The phonetics professor Henry Higgins is an expert in dialects and accents. At Covent Garden he phonetically transcribes all that the innocent flower girl Eliza Doolittle says. Since he boasted of his successes in educating social climbers in speech, Eliza comes to Higgins’s house the next day, asking to be taught to speak like a lady so that she might be employed in a classy flower store. A fellow phonetics professor, Colonel Pickering, offers to cover the expenses of the experiment if Higgins can pass Eliza off as a duchess at a garden party six months later. Sure of his abilities, the tyrannical and condescending Higgins is enticed by the Frankensteinian challenge “to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her.” While Higgins is successful in transforming Eliza in terms of speech, his rough manners, rudeness, and swearing do not teach her the accompanying social etiquette. Eliza betrays her lack of refinement at a parlor party not through her pronunciation but through what she says. The comic climax is reached when she uses the vulgar expression “Not bloody likely,” although she pronounces it in a ladylike manner. Higgins and Pickering seem unaware that their experiment has transformed Eliza not only in terms of her speech. Even after she has successfully passed for a lady at a garden party, Higgins still does not treat her like a lady. Higgins’s excuse is that while Pickering may treat a flower girl like a duchess, he would also treat a duchess like a flower girl, since he believes in treating everyone equally, regardless of his or her social class. Feeling disappointed and humiliated, Eliza leaves Higgins by night, no longer willing to be treated like a servant. She believes that she has risen to a higher social class and claims that social class is not determined by one’s pronunciation but by the respect with which one is treated. In the meantime, money has been left to Eliza’s father by a rich American. This unexpected wealth has transformed him from an alcoholic dustman into a middle-class man in terms of behavior and ideology, although not in terms of pronunciation. Since it is based on money and not on accent, his character transformation seems more secure than his daughter’s, although both seem ambivalent about their new status. Although the


What were the first two names of ‘Scott of the Antarctic’?

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