What was the name of the nurse who worked during the Crimean War and became known as 'The Black Florence Nightingale'?

Mary Seacole [ Victorian Web Home —> Victorian Political History —> Victorian Social History —> Crimean War ] ary Seacole and Florence Nightingale were contemporaries  noted for their nursing care of soldiers during the Crimean War.  Nightingale is still a well-known historical figure, but Seacole was soon forgotten.  One author asked, 'Why is it then that the sands of history seem to have buried  Mary Seacole in favour of Miss Nightingale and others when her deeds were in  many ways equally noble?' Mrs. Seacole was a Jamaican healer or 'doctress' with  expertise in tending victims of cholera and yellow fever epidemics. When the Crimean War began, Mrs. Seacole went to  London and volunteered her services as a nurse to the War Office, other military  agencies, and Florence Nightingale's nursing group. She was told by all that  her services were not needed. She went to the Crimea at her own expense and  worked steadfastly to care for the sick and wounded, often going onto the battlefield  to aid the fallen. She became quite well known in the Crimea and back in England.  Her autobiography, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands,  was published in 1857 and was very popular for a while. Then Mrs. Seacole faded  from public attention for almost 100 years. In the 1970's Mrs. Seacole was rediscovered  and has become a symbol for Black nurses, civil rights groups, and the women's  liberation movement. Almost every article available compares her with Florence  Nightingale and suggests that Mrs. Seacole was pushed aside and soon forgotten  because she was Black. In this paper I will discuss Mary Seacole's life and  works in light of the time period in which she lived, the comparisons made between  Seacole and Nightingale, and the body of literature that has been written about  her. Mary Jane Seacole (nï¿½e Grant), by Albert Charles Challen, oil on panel, 1869, NPG 6856; with thanks to the NPG. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. Twenty-five years ago, it would have been difficult to find many people who  recognized the name of Mary Seacole except for a few nurses in her home country  of Kingston, Jamaica. However, there was a time when she was quite famous in  England as well as in the Caribbean. Mary Seacole is rather an elusive figure  because she never held any 'official' appointments nor did she leave behind  a large body of written works. Mary published her very popular autobiography  in 1857. In addition, there were a few articles about her actions in the Crimean  War published in the London Times, Punch, and the Illustrated  London News. On her death in 1881, the Times and the Manchester  Guardian paid tribute to a woman whose personal courage and contribution  to the Crimean campaign had won her wide admiration (Alexander, 1981). In time,  the people who knew of her work died and the fame she earned for her work with  the sick and wounded in the Crimea as well as all she did in the Caribbean to  help with victims of yellow fever, cholera, dysentery, and other tropical diseases,  faded from memory. There were, of course, a few people in Jamaica who remembered  because Mary Seacole was one of their most famous citizens. I did an extensive  literature search to find out more about the woman who is now being called another  Florence Nightingale, the Black Florence Nightingale, and the first nurse practitioner.  I will start with some illustrations from Mary Seacole's autobiography as background  material and then discuss some of the articles that have been written about  her since she was 'rediscovered.' All references to Mrs. Seacole's autobiography  will refer to the Alexander & Dewjee reprint edition. Almost everything known about Mary Seacole is to be found in her autobiography  entitled Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands which was  originally published in London in 1857 and reprinted in 1984. She reveals very  little personal information about herself. Her childhood and family life is  summarized in s


The Haber Processis a reaction to nitrogen and hydrogen in order to produce which gas?

The Haber Process for the manufacture of ammonia THE HABER PROCESS This page describes the Haber Process for the manufacture of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and then goes on to explain the reasons for the conditions used in the process. It looks at the effect of temperature, pressure and catalyst on the composition of the equilibrium mixture, the rate of the reaction and the economics of the process. Important:  If you aren't sure about using Le Chatelier's Principle or about the effect of changing conditions on rates of reaction you should explore these links before you go on. When you are reading this page, if you find that you aren't understanding the effect of changing one of the conditions on the position of equilibrium or on the rate of the reaction, come back and follow up these links. A brief summary of the Haber Process The Haber Process combines nitrogen from the air with hydrogen derived mainly from natural gas (methane) into ammonia. The reaction is reversible and the production of ammonia is exothermic. A flow scheme for the Haber Process looks like this: Some notes on the conditions The catalyst The catalyst is actually slightly more complicated than pure iron. It has potassium hydroxide added to it as a promoter - a substance that increases its efficiency. The pressure The pressure varies from one manufacturing plant to another, but is always high. You can't go far wrong in an exam quoting 200 atmospheres. Recycling At each pass of the gases through the reactor, only about 15% of the nitrogen and hydrogen converts to ammonia. (This figure also varies from plant to plant.) By continual recycling of the unreacted nitrogen and hydrogen, the overall conversion is about 98%. Explaining the conditions The proportions of nitrogen and hydrogen The mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen going into the reactor is in the ratio of 1 volume of nitrogen to 3 volumes of hydrogen. Avogadro's Law says that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. That means that the gases are going into the reactor in the ratio of 1 molecule of nitrogen to 3 of hydrogen. That is the proportion demanded by the equation. In some reactions you might choose to use an excess of one of the reactants. You would do this if it is particularly important to use up as much as possible of the other reactant - if, for example, it was much more expensive. That doesn't apply in this case. There is always a down-side to using anything other than the equation proportions. If you have an excess of one reactant there will be molecules passing through the reactor which can't possibly react because there isn't anything for them to react with. This wastes reactor space - particularly space on the surface of the catalyst. The temperature Equilibrium considerations You need to shift the position of the equilibrium as far as possible to the right in order to produce the maximum possible amount of ammonia in the equilibrium mixture. The forward reaction (the production of ammonia) is exothermic. According to Le Chatelier's Principle, this will be favoured if you lower the temperature. The system will respond by moving the position of equilibrium to counteract this - in other words by producing more heat. In order to get as much ammonia as possible in the equilibrium mixture, you need as low a temperature as possible. However, 400 - 450°C isn't a low temperature! Rate considerations The lower the temperature you use, the slower the reaction becomes. A manufacturer is trying to produce as much ammonia as possible per day. It makes no sense to try to achieve an equilibrium mixture which contains a very high proportion of ammonia if it takes several years for the reaction to reach that equilibrium. You need the gases to reach equilibrium within the very short time that they will be in contact with the catalyst in the reactor. The compromise 400 - 450°C is a compromise temperature producing a reasonably high proportion of ammonia in the equilibrium mixture (even if it is only 15%), but in a very short


Who was given the nickname 'the American Moses' after leading the Mormon Pioneers to Utah?

Brigham Young - American Moses by | Jul 8, 2008 | Past Leader Bios | 0 comments Brigham Young—American Moses Brigham Young, second Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which church is often misnamed the “Mormon Church”), ranks among the most influential and important historical figures, not just in Mormon history, but also in American history. Biography of Brigham Young Early Life Brigham Young was born on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vermont, to John and Abigail Young. His father was a revolutionary war veteran. After marrying Abigail, John Young settled in Massachusetts and then moved to Vermont shortly before Brigham Young was born. The ninth of twelve children, Brigham was born into a life full of work. He later commented that his early life was filled with toil and work, which left him no opportunities for education. While he had only eleven days of formal schooling, his parents taught him to read, and Young maintained a love of reading all his life. His family moved to central New York when he was a boy and, in 1815, his mother, Abigail, who had long suffered from tuberculosis, died. John Young remarried a widow named Hannah Brown some time later. Brigham, however, decided that he needed to work for his own livelihood then and moved out at age 15. He moved to Auburn, New York, where he became an apprentice, and later master, carpenter, painter, and glazier. In 1823, Young moved to Port Byron, New York, where he worked as a painter and carpenter and where, on October 5, 1824, he married Miriam Work. The couple then joined a local Methodist congregation. After four years, Young moved his new family to Oswego, New York, on Lake Ontario. There he joined a group of religious seekers. These seekers were part of a movement in nineteenth-century America of men and women (in study groups) searching the Bible themselves, trying to discover the truth. Later that year, Brigham’s family moved again to Mendon, New York. Miriam gave birth soon after the move and contracted tuberculosis. She became an invalid, and Young was required to take total control of the household, not only working as a carpenter and painter, but also caring for his wife and children. He made a rocking chair for his wife and, every morning, he carried her to it so she could look outside. Later, he would carry her back to bed. Conversion to Mormonism During his time in Mendon, Brigham Young worked hard at his trade and, even today, many items built by Brigham Young, including houses, remain in Mendon. In 1830, a young man named Samuel Smith, brother of   Joseph Smith , came to Mendon to preach about the newly founded Church, the Church of Christ , or Mormon Church. Smith left a copy of the Book of Mormon with Brigham’s brother, Phineas, who read it, passed it to his father, John Young, who gave it to his daughter, who finally gave it to Brigham. Brigham was intrigued, but cautious. He had grown disillusioned with the denominations of his day and continued to read the Bible on his own. For two years he carefully studied the Book of Mormon and put it to every test he could devise. He studied the Bible as well. Finally, in early 1832, a young Mormon missionary gave a humble testimony of the Book of Mormon in Brigham’s presence. Brigham later said that this humble testimony entered like fire into his bones, and he knew the truth. He and his family, including his brothers, were baptized in spring of 1832. Miriam was baptized, too, but died several months thereafter from tuberculosis. Brigham immediately began preaching the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ in the regions around Mendon. He left his children in the care of Heber C. Kimball, a fellow convert in Mendon, during these missionary excursions. After Miriam ’s death in September 1832, Brigham went to Kirtland, Ohio, to meet Joseph Smith, the Prophet. In that first encounter, he prayed with gathered Mormons in Kirtland and was the first person in the Mormon Church to speak in tongues . Brigham was assigned to go on a mission to Canada early in 1833, and upon his return, he


The name of which foodstuff, made by coagulating Soya milk, means 'bean curd' in Japanese?

Tofu Tofu Silken tofu (Japanese: kinugoshi tōfu) Tofu Burmese name Burmese ပဲပြား (pebya/péprā:) or တိုဖူး (tofu/tiuphü:) Vietnamese name Vietnamese đậu phụ or tàu hũ Chữ Nôm 豆腐 Thai name Thai เต้าหู้, IPA:   Korean name Hangul 두부 Hanja 豆腐 Transcriptions Japanese name Kanji 豆腐 Hiragana とうふ Transcriptions Kunrei-shiki tôhu Malay name Malay tauhu Indonesian name Indonesian tahu Filipino name Tagalog tokwa Khmer name Khmer តៅហ៊ូ (tauhu) Min Bei name Min Bei dae fu ( Jian’ou dialect ) Tofu, also known as bean curd, is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is a component in East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines . [3] [4] Tofu can be soft, firm, or extra firm. Tofu has a subtle flavor and can be used in savory and sweet dishes. It is often seasoned or marinated to suit the dish. Tofu-making is first recorded during the Chinese Han dynasty some 2,000 years ago. [5] Chinese legend ascribes its invention to prince Liu An (179–122 BC). Tofu and its production technique were introduced into Korea and then Japan [6] [7] [8] during the Nara period (710–794). Some scholars believe tofu arrived in Vietnam during the 10th and 11th century. [9] It spread into other parts of Southeast Asia as well. [10] This spread probably coincided with the spread of Buddhism because it is an important source of protein in the vegetarian diet of East Asian Buddhism . [6] Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty described a method of making tofu in the Compendium of Materia Medica . [11] Tofu has a low calorie count and relatively large amounts of protein . It is high in iron , and depending on the coagulants used in manufacturing (e.g. calcium chloride, calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate), it can have a high calcium or magnesium content. The term tofu is used by extension for similarly textured curdled dishes that do not use soy products, such as “almond tofu” ( almond jelly ), tamago-dōfu ( ja ) (egg), goma-dōfu ( ja ) (sesame), or peanut tofu (Chinese 落花生豆腐 luòhuāshēng dòufu and Okinawan jīmāmi-dōfu ( ja )). Contents 12 External links Etymology The English term comes from Japanese tōfu (豆腐), borrowed from the original Chinese equivalent (豆腐 or 荳腐) transcribed tou4-fu3 ( Wade-Giles ) or dòufu ( pinyin ), literally “bean” (豆) + “curdled” or “fermented” (腐). [12] [13] [14] A reference to the word “towfu” exists in a letter dated 1770 from the English merchant James Flint to United States statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin . This is believed to be the first documented usage of the word in English. [15] The term “bean curd(s)” for tofu has been used in the United States since at least 1840. It is not frequently used, however, in the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand. [16] Production Source: USDA Nutrient Database Regardless of the product or scale of the production, the principle of the production of tofu essentially consist of (1) the preparation of soymilk and (2) the coagulation the soymilk to form curds and (3) the pressing of the soybean curds to form tofu cakes. The typical tofu making procedures are cleaning, soaking, grinding beans in water, filtering, boiling, coagulation, and pressing. [17] [18] Coagulation of the protein and oil ( emulsion ) suspended in the boiled soy milk is the most important step in the production of tofu. This process is accomplished with the aid of coagulants. In the case of salts, the positively charged ion in the particular salt reacts with the various protein in the milk causing the proteins to precipitate with the oil to form a curd. Coagulation of the soymilk is the most important step in tofu making process but is complicated as the process depends on complex interactions many variables including the variety and percentage of protein in the soybeans used, slurry cooking temperature, coagulation temperature, and more factors relating to the processing. [19] Two types of coagulants (salts and acids) are used commercially. [20] Salt coagulants Calcium sulfate ( gypsum ): The traditional and most widely used coagulant to produce Chinese-style tofu, it p


In which country is Potsdam, the site of the famous conference after World War II?

Potsdam Conference | World War II | Britannica.com World War II Harry S. Truman Potsdam Conference, (July 17–August 2, 1945), Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam , a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee , who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin . Overview of the Potsdam Conference. Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin during the Potsdam Conference. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The conferees discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. That task was left to a Council of Foreign Ministers . The chief concerns of the Big Three, their foreign ministers, and their staffs were the immediate administration of defeated Germany , the demarcation of the boundaries of Poland , the occupation of Austria , the definition of the Soviet Union’s role in eastern Europe, the determination of reparations, and the further prosecution of the war against Japan . The amity and good will that had largely characterized former wartime conferences was missing at Potsdam , for each nation was most concerned with its own self-interest, and Churchill particularly was suspicious of Stalin’s motives and unyielding position. World War II: Potsdam The Potsdam Conference’s Declaration on Germany stated, “It is the intention of the Allies that the German people be given the opportunity to prepare for the eventual reconstruction of their life on a democratic and peaceful basis.” The four occupation zones of Germany conceived at the Yalta Conference were set up, each to be administered by the commander-in-chief of the Soviet, British, U.S. , or French army of occupation. Berlin , Vienna , and Austria were also each divided into four occupation zones. An Allied Control Council made up of representatives of the four Allies was to deal with matters affecting Germany and Austria as a whole. Its policies were dictated by the “five Ds” decided upon at Yalta: demilitarization, denazification, democratization , decentralization, and deindustrialization. Each Allied power was to seize reparations from its own occupation zones, although the Soviet Union was permitted 10–15 percent of the industrial equipment in the western zones of Germany in exchange for agricultural and other natural products from its zone. Similar Topics


Which is the largest nerve in the human body?

Sciatic Nerve - Anatomy Pictures and Information Home > Nervous System > Nerves of the Leg and Foot > Sciatic Nerve Sciatic Nerve The sciatic nerve is the largest and longest spinal nerve in the human body. Extending from the lumbar and sacral plexuses in the lower back, the sciatic nerve runs through the buttocks and into the thighs. It delivers nerve signals to and from the muscles and skin of the thighs, lower legs and feet. The sciatic nerve forms from the merger of the fourth and fifth lumbar nerves with the first, second, and third sacral nerves.... Move up/down/left/right: Click compass arrows Rotate image: Click and drag in any direction, anywhere in the frame Identify objects: Click on them in the image 2D Interactive 3D Rotate & Zoom Change Anatomical System Change View Angle Full Sciatic Nerve Description [Continued from above] . . . From the lower back, the sciatic nerve runs inferiorly into the gluteal region and into the posterior of the femoral region of the leg. Smaller individual nerves branch off from the sciatic nerve to innervate our thigh muscles and skin. At the inferior end of the femoral region, the sciatic nerve branches off into the tibial and common fibular nerves, which continue carrying nerve signals into the lower legs and feet. Histology Like all spinal nerves, our sciatic nerve contains many individual neurons that run along the length of the nerve like strands of thread in a thick yarn. Each neuron is wrapped in a thin layer of connective tissue called the endoneurium. The neurons are bundled together into groups called fascicles, which are further wrapped by connective tissue called the perineurium. Many fascicles are bundled together to form the entire sciatic nerve, which is further wrapped by a sheet of connective tissue known as the epineurium. Blood vessels run between the fascicles to provide oxygen and nutrients to support the nerve cells and remove waste products. Physiology The sciatic nerve innervates many of the posterior muscles of the thighs directly and innervates the muscles of the lower legs and feet indirectly through its branches. Sensory neurons carrying signals from the skin of the hip and thigh also run through the sciatic nerve toward the spinal cord. Prepared by Tim Taylor, Anatomy and Physiology Instructor


Who stars as the title character in Ridley Scott's 2010 film 'Robin Hood'?

First Trailer and Pictures from Ridley Scott's 'Robin Hood' - ComingSoon.net December 15, 2009 SHARE A bootleg version of this Robin Hood trailer showed up late last night but the swiftness with which Universal took it down from YouTube led me to believe the official version would be online soon and sure enough here it is via Apple along with the first three photos from the film. Robin Hood is directed by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe stars as the title character as the film chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richardâ€™s army against the French. Upon Richardâ€™s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac and Max von Sydow also star. The film hits theaters on May 14, 2010. I have added the trailer directly below and the photos can be viewed right here . You can also watch the trailer in high definition at Apple .


Who stars as the title character in Mike Newell's 2010 film 'Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time'?

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) - Soundtrack.Net by Dan Goldwasser on September 14th, 2010 It's increasingly rare that films in Hollywood come from truly original sources. Witness the never-ending surge of sequel, remakes, spin-offs, re-imaginings, adaptations, etc. ï¿½But just because something is an adaptation of a successful property, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will capture the audience that it tries to caters to.ï¿½ (See Phantom of the Opera, for instance.)ï¿½ In the case of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the source material was not only the video game of the same name, but the entire saga created by visionary video game designer Jordan Mechner.ï¿½ That Mechner himself was involved in crafting the storyline, as well as super-blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Mike Newell, the film had all the right elements - but was the film worth the sum of its parts? The storyline involves Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal), an orphan who was adopted by the King of Persia.ï¿½ King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup) has been expanding his empire, and his brother Nizam (Ben Kinglsey) arranges with Sharaman's two sons Tus (Richard Coyle) and Garsiv (Toby Kebbell), to lead a surprise attack on the holy city on Alamut, who they believe is selling weapons to the King's enemies. Dastan uses his cunning and stealth to make the attack a success, and then in an effort to foster peace, Sharaman suggests that Dastan marry Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton).ï¿½ But when Sharaman is killed and Dastan is framed for the murder, he finds himself on the run with Tamina.ï¿½ Soon it becomes clear that the dagger that Dastan grabbed when capturing Tamina has a larger purpose - it is the Dagger of Time, a mystical artifact that allows the bearer to rewind time 1-minute when activating the Sands of Time held within.ï¿½ But the sand runs out, and now Dastan and Tamina must return to Alamut to clear his name and expose the conspiracy that resulted in his adopted father's death.ï¿½ Along the way, they encounter Sheik Amar (Alfred Molina), a somewhat shady character who runs an illegal ostrich racing enterprise, deadly Hassansin warriors who are trying to kill them, and other deadly situations.ï¿½ It's not a very convoluted storyline, but the way that it unfolds might seem a little muddled.ï¿½ For a video game adaptation, it could certainly be worse, but it could also be better.ï¿½ It plays out as a somewhat predictable by-the-numbers popcorn film.ï¿½ It's a fun film, but hardly something deep and meaningful.ï¿½ Molina and Arterton are the two shining jewels in the film; Molina is great in his comic timing, and Arterton gives a nice performance of a strong independent woman who can hold her own. ï¿½While Mike Newell directed the film, and he cut his teeth on action sequences during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the film is definitely a Jerry Bruckheimer production, through-and-through.ï¿½ The action sequences are where the film shines, using the free-running styles of parkour to give them a bit of a twist and high energy.ï¿½ The music by Harry Gregson-Williams does an excellent job evoking the mystical Persian qualities, with a strong melody and fun ethnic percussive grooves.ï¿½ The production design is excellent, and the visual effects sequences range from excellent to somewhat cheesy (particularly during the sand avalanche sequence). Released on Blu-ray as a stand-alone release, or a triple-combo pack (Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time sports an excellent transfer that cleanly recreates the theatrical presentation. ï¿½One of the (blessedly) few summer films that didn't seem to undergo a 3D conversion process, the film has a golden hue to the color timing that comes across the screen quite nicely.ï¿½ The details are all cleanly visible, from the grains of sand, to the intricate costume design, to the pores in the actor's skin.ï¿½ ï¿½Light film grain is also visible, and even the visual effects sequences (well, the ones that were top notch) look


Which country became the world's first black republic upon independence in 1804?

200 years of independence for Haiti - first black republic -a nation created by former slaves     <MAP NAME="boxmap-p14"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="37, 588, 126, 600" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/crawfurd00-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/160x600.gif" width="160" height="600" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p14" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"> 200 years of independence for Haiti A brief summary of Haitian history leading to the first     nation created by former African slaves 200 years ago. The    first black republic The first black republic is only 200 years old. For the first      time an army of slaves defeated the oppressors and a new state was      born. January     1st 2004 Haiti celebrated 200 years of independence. Rebellion among slaves happened frequently in all the slave-colonies     but the rebels very seldom succeeded to gain anything but more misery. Haiti (St. Domingue as the colony in the Caribbean was then called)     was one of the richest colonies in the world producing mainly coffee     and     sugar.     And     as most     other colonies     in the 18th and 19th century it was completely dependent on the work     of slaves imported from Africa. Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.     First Spanish and then French people made plantations started importing     slaves in great numbers. Revolution News of the French revolution in 1789 affected the political climate     for everybody on the island. The white farmers started discussing the     possibility of independence from France, but too late they realised that     also their black slaves could have dreams of “freedom, equality     and brotherhood”. In August 1791 an uprising against the French farm-owners started among     the slaves in Haiti. There was a clear majority of black slaves in the     population and at first they had no problems in taking over control.     Plantations were destroyed and many whites were killed or forced to flee     from the island. French, Spanish, and English troops came aid. They were     fighting each other for control but they all agreed the main aim: to     prevent black domination in a former colony. François Toussaint     L'Ouverture, the grandson of an African chief, became the military leader     of the former slaves. Toussaint remained in     charge in the following many years of frequent battles, but in 1802 he     was captured by French forces and later died in a French prison. Independence With      the French arrival a revolution started once again and when it was     finally over, an army of black slaves had their victory against the      army of Napoleon. On January 1st 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an     African-born ex-slave could declare Haiti independent. It was the first     black republic      in the world and the first country in the Western hemisphere to abolish      slavery completely. As word got around the black population in Haiti      became inspiration for Africans in the rest of the world. Haiti today The historical events 200 years ago are well worth remembering, but     unfortunately the story of Haiti since then has been very unstable and     far from glorious. Officially Haiti is a republic with an elected government,     but ruling today is Jean-Bertrand Aristide who has turned     out to be a dictator of almost same level as the infamous François “Papa     Doc” Duvalier. Aristide came to power in 1994 with the help of     US troops. Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier escaped with a fortune     to live a happy life in southern France. Most Haitians and the outside     world celebrated the return of Aristide and had high hopes for a democratic     future of the Country. All started well, but within a few years he lost     interest in improving living cond


What is the name of the mother of the puppies in the Disney film 'One Hundred And One Dalmatians'?

One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia One Hundred and One Dalmatians 40,842pages on This article is about the 1961 film. For the live-action remake, see 101 Dalmatians (1996 film) . For the television series, see 101 Dalmatians: The Series . One Hundred and One Dalmatians Directed by [Source] One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film presented by Walt Disney and based on the novel of the same name by Dodie Smith . Seventeenth in the Disney Animated Canon , it was originally released to theaters on January 25 , 1961 distributed by Buena Vista Distribution . The film stars Rod Taylor as the voice of Pongo , Cate Bauer as the voice of Perdita , and Betty Lou Gerson as the voice of the villainous Cruella De Vil . The plot centers on the fate of the kidnapped puppies of Pongo and Perdita. Title Card for 101 Dalmatians. This is the first Disney animated feature film to take place in the time period it was made (late 1950's to early 1960's), as all previous features were either period pieces or set in some kind of fantasy world with no specifically recognizable time period. Adjusted for inflation it is the 11th highest grossing movie of all time and second highest grossing animated film, just behind Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , it is also a critical gem, as critics praised it for defying Disney convention and for its character animation. Contents [ show ] Plot Pongo is a dalmatian that lives in a London bachelor flat with his owner, professional songwriter Roger Radcliffe . Bored with bachelor life, unlike Roger who spends his days writing music, Pongo decides to find a wife for Roger and a mate for himself. While watching various female dog-human pairs out the window, he spots the perfect couple, a woman named Anita and her female dalmatian, Perdita (or Perdy for short) heading to Regent's Park. He quickly gets Roger out of the house and drags him through the park to arrange a meeting. After an awkward and unusual meeting that goes awry, Pongo's efforts pay off and had accidentally caused both Roger and Anita to fall into a pond, but it works out well as they fall in love. Both couples marry. Once Roger and Anita (and Pongo and Perdita) get married, Perdita gives birth to a litter of puppies. One appears to be stillborn, but Roger is able to revive it by rubbing it in a towel (because of which, they name it " Lucky "). That same night, they are visited by Cruella De Vil , an eccentric and wealthy social parasite known to Anita from their school years. She offers the Radcliffes to buy the entire litter for a large sum, but Roger says they are not selling any of them. Weeks later, she hires Jasper and Horace to kidnap them all. The humans try every effort to locate them but to no avail. When Scotland Yard is unable to prove she stole them or find them, Pongo and Perdita use the "Twilight Bark", normally a canine gossip line, to alert and ask for help from the other dogs in London to locate them. The first one to answer the call is the Great Dane . Colonel , an old sheepdog, along with his compatriots Captain , a gray horse, and Sergeant Tibbs , a tabby cat, find the puppies in a place called Hell Hall (aka The De Vil Place), along with others that Cruella had purchased from various dog stores. Tibbs learns they are going to be made into dog-skin fur coats and Colonel quickly sends word back to London. Upon receiving the message, Pongo and Perdita immediately leave to retrieve their puppies. Meanwhile, Tibbs overhears Cruella ordering Jasper and Horace to kill and render them that night out of fear the police will soon find them. In response, Tibbs attempts to rescue them himself while Jasper and Horace are watching the television, but they finish their show and come for them before Tibbs can get them out of the house. Pongo and Perdita burst through a window just as Jasper and Horace have cornered them and are about to kill them. Horace is knocked into the fireplace and Jasper gets his pants pulled down while Colonel and Tibbs guide


What is the more common name for the bone with the medical name Calcaneum?

Calcaneus | Definition of Calcaneus by Merriam-Webster \-nē-ˌī\ play :  a tarsal bone that in humans is the large bone of the heel—called also heel bone, os calcis Illustration of calcaneus Nglish: Translation of calcaneus for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about calcaneus Seen and Heard What made you want to look up calcaneus? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).


David Platt left Aston Villa to join which Italian football club in 1991?

Test On This Day Aston Villa Football Club The Team How’s Platt for a profit? On this day in 1991, David Platt left Villa to join Italian club Bari for £5.5m – a record fee for a British player. The transfer represented a huge profit for Villa.  The England international had joined Villa from Crewe Alexandra in 1988 for just £200,000 – and even that fee was regarded by manager Graham Taylor as “over the top”.  Taylor revealed that he had increased his original offer of £150,000 only because of a counter offer from Watford boss Steve Harrison, who had previously been Taylor’s assistant at Villa Park.


In the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, what is the name of the ship that sails to 'Treasure Island'?

What is the resolution in Treasure Island? | eNotes What is the resolution in Treasure Island? bullgatortail | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Distinguished Educator Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:57 AM The resolution of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island comes in the final chapter (Chapter XXXIV - And Last). Keeping a close eye on the three surviving mutineers, the men took the better part of a week transporting the gold to the Hispaniola. Leaving the mutineers a cache of supplies, the ship set sail for "the nearest port in Spanish America." On the first night there, Long John Silver disappeared for good--with a bag of coins worth "three or four hundred guineas." Adding a few new crew members, the Hispaniola set sail for Bristol, and the men safely returned to England--wealthier and wiser men. Sources: poetrymfa | College Teacher | (Level 3) Educator Posted on July 24, 2016 at 5:54 PM The resolution can be found in Part VI (or "Captain Silver") of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. After the climactic discovery that the treasure cache is empty and that Gunn had moved the treasure to his cave, the men spend a few days loading the treasure onto the ship. Before sailing back home, they unload the last three mutinous sailors, leaving them behind with supplies and ammunition. In need of more crew members, the ship docks at a port, and Silver makes his escape with a bag of coins in tow. Regardless, the ship sails back to Bristol, where the men divide the treasure and resume their lives. Although Jim realizes that there is more wealth to be found on Treasure Island, he is firm that he is unwilling to go on another trip to find it; apparently, one swashbuckling adventure was quite enough! like 0 dislike 0


Who did Bulawayo born Charlene Wittstock marry earlier this month?

Charlene Cold Shouldered in Monaco as Deal to Provide Albert's Heir Goes Sour - The Daily Beast trouble in paradise Charlene Cold Shouldered in Monaco as Deal to Provide Albert's Heir Goes Sour Charlene is being shunned by Monaco society and is depressed at her failure to provide Albert an heir, which would get her out of the marriage Tom Sykes 05.05.12 2:42 PM ET Prince Albert of Monaco’s glamorous wife Charlene Wittstock is being cold-shouldered by Monaco society, the Daily Beast can report. “People are embarrassed by her,” one court insider told the Royalist. “There was a hope that she could introduce some glamour, but now most people just feel she is tacky.” Another recent visitor to Monaco said that society figures have taken to 'pre-emptively apologising for' Charlene. Last year, Charlene, a former Olympic swimmer who was forced to deny rumors that she attempted to run away from Monaco back to her home country of South Africa before her wedding, gave an interview in which she said she only had two real friends in Monaco. “Now, she doesn’t even have that," the insider said. Scandal is swirling around the house of Grimaldi again after Voici magazine in France reported this week that she was coaxed back from Nice for the wedding after she  struck a deal that if she provides Albert with an heir, she can get divorced and receive a generous financial settlement. The 34-year-old, whose post-nuptial kiss with Albert was astonishingly awkward, is now 'depressed' at her failure to get pregnant, the magazine added. Albert, who previously dated Claudia Schiffer, has two illegitimate children - eight-year-old son Alexandre with Togolese air hostess Nicole Coste and daughter Jazmin, 20, with American estate agent Tamara Rotola - but neither can claim the throne as they were both born out of wedlock. Voici magazine said: 'Charlene has made the subject of pregnancy a taboo topic around the Royal palace. She might have a smile on her face at official functions, but inside she is stressed and frustrated. This subject is weighing more and more heavily on her shoulders.' Charlene denied stories that she made a break for Nice airport two days before her marriage in July last year after hearing rumours Albert had a third love-child during their relationship (the rumors remain just that). But according to reports published in French newsmagazine L’Express at the time, the bride attempted to bolt just days before the ceremony, after discovering that "the private life" of Albert was "not as exemplary as she had imagined." According to L’Express, Charlene fled to Nice airport, and, one-way ticket in hand, attempted to board a flight back home to her home in South Africa, before Monaco police caught up with her and persuaded her to stay (she denied the events happened), offering the unseemly deal that if she would provide him with a legitimate heir, she would get a substantial cash divorce settlement. To be fair, you’d need some recompense for marrying Albert. For a noted playboy, he is distinctly lacking in charisma; balding and overweight, he speaks in an alienating and unattractive Mid-Atlantic English drawl. He has struggled with a stammer for his whole life. Fascinatingly, the stammer is far worse when he speaks in French, the language he used to communicate with his terrifying father, Prince Rainier, than when he speaks in English, the language he spoke to his mother. Charlene’s story could not be more different from Albert’s. She was born in the town of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and the family later moved to South Africa. Her father is an IT entrepreneur and her mother is a former competitive diver who won medals in the Commonwealth Games in the 1970s. She has two brothers, Gareth and Sean, and her uncle was once a captain of the South African rugby team, the Springboks. They met when she attended a swimming event in Monaco, and she later told a paper in Johannesburg: "We sat in the back of the Rolls-Royce, and he told me about his passion for sports and swimming. He was training for the biathlon. I think he was even qualified for the Winte


In which city can you visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque?

Architecture About Blue Mosque The Blue Mosque (Called Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish) is an historical mosque in Istanbul. The mosque is known as the Blue Mosque because of blue tiles surrounding the walls of interior design.Mosque was built between 1609 and 1616 years, during the rule of Ahmed I. just like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasa and a hospice.Besides still used as a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a popular tourist attraction in Istanbul. Besides being tourist attraction, it's also a active mosque, so it's closed to non worshippers for a half hour or so during the five daily prayers. Best way to see great architecture of the Blue Mosque is to approach it from the Hippodrome. (West side of the mosque) As if you are non-Muslim visitor, you also have to use same direction to enter the Mosque.   Please ignore and avoid people who offer you to enter mosque without  queue up. Those people mostly will try to sell you something and take you to the some shopping place. Best way is to line up and enter Mosque just like other tourists. Don't worry if line looks very long, it will move very fast for sure.  How to Visit Blue Mosque ? Tourists always wonder how to visit  Blue Mosque.There is also many other questions such as if there is any  entrance fee,dress code, where to put my shoes etc.Here below is the answers of all these simple questions...  1) Plan your visit to the Sultanahmet area of Istanbul, so that you better arrive mid morning. Pray happens five times a day with the first call to prayer at sunrise and the last one at nightfall.The mosque closes for 90 minutes at each pray time.Avoid visiting a mosque at pray time (Especially Midday praying on Friday) or within a half hour after the ezan is chanted from the Mosque minarets.  2) Before step in to Mosque, take off your shoes and put in plastic bags provided at the entrance(Free of Charge). This is required of all persons as part of Muslim tradition when entering a mosque. There is also no charge to enter the Blue Mosque. 3) If you are women wear a head covering when entering to Blue Mosque.Head coverings are available at the Blue Mosque entrance for free. Place the fabric cover on top of your head with equal portions hanging on both sides. Take one side and wrap it around your neck, tossing it behind your back with covering your shoulders. Don't cover your face, the covering is meant to hide your hair only.  4) When you are inside the mosque, remain quiet and don't use flash photography.Since this  is a place of worship, avoid staring or taking picture of those who are praying.Visit the mosque respectfully and quietly.At the Mosque exit, you can put used plastic bags in designated bin bags and return head covers to duty staff.  5) You can do donation to help maintain the Mosque at the exit door.It is not compulsory, but if you make donation you will get the official receipt for it.


In which year did Hurricane Katrina strike New Orleans?

Hurricane Katrina - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Google Hurricane Katrina: Before the Storm The tropical depression that became Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, and meteorologists were soon able to warn people in the Gulf Coast states that a major storm was on its way. By August 28, evacuations were underway across the region. That day, the National Weather Service predicted that after the storm hit, “most of the [Gulf Coast] area will be uninhabitable for weeks…perhaps longer.” Did You Know? During the past century, hurricanes have flooded New Orleans six times: in 1915, 1940, 1947, 1965, 1969 and 2005. New Orleans was at particular risk. Though about half the city actually lies above sea level, its average elevation is about six feet below sea level–and it is completely surrounded by water. Over the course of the 20th century, the Army Corps of Engineers had built a system of levees and seawalls to keep the city from flooding. The levees along the Mississippi River were strong and sturdy, but the ones built to hold back Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne and the waterlogged swamps and marshes to the city’s east and west were much less reliable. Before the storm, officials worried that surge could overtop some levees and cause short-term flooding, but no one predicted levees might collapse below design height. Neighborhoods that sat below sea level, many of which housed the city’s poorest and most vulnerable people, were at great risk of flooding. The day before Katrina hit, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued the city’s first-ever mandatory evacuation order. He also declared that the Superdome, a stadium located on relatively high ground near downtown, would serve as a “shelter of last resort” for people who could not leave the city. (For example, some 112,000 of New Orleans’ nearly 500,000 people did not have access to a car.) By nightfall, almost 80 percent of the city’s population had evacuated. Some 10,000 had sought shelter in the Superdome, while tens of thousands of others chose to wait out the storm at home. Hurricane Katrina: Storm and Flooding By the time Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans early in the morning on Monday, August 29, it had already been raining heavily for hours. When the storm surge (as high as 9 meters in some places) arrived, it overwhelmed many of the city’s unstable levees and drainage canals. Water seeped through the soil underneath some levees and swept others away altogether. By 9 a.m., low-lying places like St. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward were under so much water that people had to scramble to attics and rooftops for safety. Eventually, nearly 80 percent of the city was under some quantity of water. Hurricane Katrina: The Aftermath Many people acted heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Coast Guard, for instance, rescued some 34,000 people in New Orleans alone, and many ordinary citizens commandeered boats, offered food and shelter, and did whatever else they could to help their neighbors. Yet the government–particularly the federal government–seemed unprepared for the disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took days to establish operations in New Orleans, and even then did not seem to have a sound plan of action. Officials, even including President George W. Bush , seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere: how many people were stranded or missing; how many homes and businesses had been damaged; how much food, water and aid was needed. Katrina had left in her wake what one reporter called a “total disaster zone” where people were “getting absolutely desperate.” (For one thing, many had nowhere to go. At the Superdome in New Orleans, where supplies had been limited to begin with, officials accepted 15,000 more refugees from the storm on Monday before locking the doors. City leaders had no real plan for anyone else. Tens of thousands of people desperate for food, water and shelter broke into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex, but they found nothing there but chaos. Meanwhile, i


The 'Whale Shark' is the largest living fish. What is the most common name of the second largest, also a shark?

Rhincodon typus :: Florida Museum of Natural History Whale Shark. Photo © Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch Rhincodon typus These sharks are recognizable not just for being the largest fish in the sea, growing longer than 40 feet, but also for their unique pattern of blue-gray to brown coloration with white spots centered between pale horizontal and vertical stripes. They are filter feeders, often swimming near the surface of the open sea, gulping in water and filtering everything from plankton and fish eggs, to crustaceans and schooling fish, to occasional larger prey like squid or tuna. Despite their size, they are considered harmless to humans, and will often interact docilely with divers to the extent of allowing the divers to grab on to a fin and hitch a ride. Order - Orectolobiformes Species - typus Common names Whale shark, basking shark, and whaleshark are common names in the English language used to refer to this fish. Other common names include bagea ni oka, bahiri (Gela), chagrin (French), dámero (Spanish), jinbeizame (Japanese), pez dama (Spanish), rauhhai (German), rekin wielorybi (Polish), requin baleine (French), thimingal sura (Tamil), tiburon ballena (Spanish), tubarão baleia(Portuguese), tuki-tuki (Visayan), tuko (Tagalog), vaame (Swahili), walhai (German), walvishaai (Afrikaans), yaak (Khmer), and yu paus (Malay). Importance to Humans A diver swims along with a juvenile whale shark. Photo © Jeff Trotta In the past, the whale shark has been of little interest to man. At present, commercial fisheries for whale sharks are limited, but may expand from an increased demand for food products. In Taiwan approximately 100 whale sharks are taken annually. The whale shark meat fetches a high price in this country, and this fact has stimulated larger harvests over the last years. Fishing for this shark also occurs in the Philippines, particularly in the Visayas and Mindanao areas, providing food for the local fishing communities. Whale shark fins are sold in the Orient, especially in the Hong Kong. Occasionally whale sharks are captured accidentally along the coast of India. Sometimes the flesh is eaten and the liver oil is utilized for waterproofing wooden fishing boats and other appliances, for the manufacture of shoe polish and as a treatment for some skin diseases. The processing of whale shark fins has also been reported in India. Often the whale shark is used as an indicator of waters rich in plankton-feeding fish that will, in turn, attract more valuable species such as tuna. Whale sharks have been kept in aquaria in Japan, but their large size and specialized diet precludes this species from being mainstream aquarium species. In a few locations where the presence of whale sharks appears to be predictable, they are increasingly targeted by commercial tourist operations. Danger to Humans Generally considered harmless. However, there have been a few cases of whale sharks butting sportfishing boats, possibly after being provoked. Usually the sharks are more at risk from being struck accidentally by vessels whilst basking or feeding on the surface. Conservation Whale shark embryo, 350 mm, from the Gulf of Mexico courtesy Garrick (Proceedings U.S. National Museum) Some biological characteristics, such as large size, slow growth, late maturation and extended longevity, probably limit recruitment and make whale sharks susceptible to overexploitation. These characteristics also suggest that populations are slow to recover from any overfishing. The whale shark is listed as "Vulnerable" with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), a global union of states, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations in a partnership that assesses the conservation status of species. The whale shark is listed by the AFS (American Fisheries Society) as conservation dependent (reduced but stabilized or recovering under a continuing conservation plan) in both the U.S. Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. However, it is considered not at risk in the Gulf of California. In the Maldives and Philippine


Who painted 'Going To The Match' a painting of a crowd on its way to Burnden Park, Bolton?

BBC News | UK | Footballers' union nets Lowry Wednesday, 1 December, 1999, 13:56 GMT Footballers' union nets Lowry Going To The Match was expected to fetch �500,000 A painting of a football match by LS Lowry has been bought for a record �1.9m by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA). The players' union bought the 1953 picture, Going To The Match, for �1,926,500 at Sotheby's auction house in London. It was a record price at auction for any modern British painting. The oil painting shows a crowd of fans on their way to Bolton Wanderers' ground Burnden Park, which has since closed. It had been expected to sell for about �500,000. It represents the heart and soul of the game - the anticipation of the crowds going to the match. PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor, who bid for the picture, said they had wanted to buy the painting because it represented "the heart and soul of the game and the anticipation of fans on their way to a match". He said: "I would have liked it for a lot less than that, but it is the football picture, it captures all the atmosphere of the game. "We wanted to keep the picture in football. It's always said that there's not enough literature and art surrounding the world's greatest game, so we are trying to build up a collection of memorabilia - caps, medals, jerseys - and good football pictures." Mr Taylor said: "Lowry did show an interest in the game. We wanted to keep it in the north west, where he came from, and we wanted it to be on display to the public." He said the painting would be loaned to the Salford Art Gallery and Museum before moving to the new Lowry Centre in April. 'Matchstick' men Salford-born Lawrence Lowry, who died in 1976, is known for his unique "matchstick" style figures. LS Lowry was famous for his 'matchstick' figures His best-known paintings depict industrial scenes of his native Lancashire, particularly during the depression of the 1930s, and were among the first modern images of working class life to be accepted by the British art establishment. The previous record for a 20th century British painting was The Crucifixion by Sir Stanley Spencer, which sold for �1.2m at Sotheby's in May 1990. The PFA said it hoped to put the painting on public display in the Lowry Museum in Manchester. Susannah Pollen, head of Sotheby's Modern British and Irish Art Department, said: "This is one of the great images of this century's greatest game and one of the most remarkable Lowrys we have ever handled." Football has changed a great deal since Going To The Match was painted. Changing times In 1953 Bolton were one of the top sides in England and players of the calibre of Nat Lofthouse and Eddie Hopkinson won many England caps. The club fell out of the top flight in the 1970s but worked its way back up to the Premiership. In 1996 Wanderers sold Burnden Park in 1996 - the ground was demolished and the site is awaiting retail development - and moved to the �35m Reebok Stadium. Club spokesman Alan Fullalove said: "I've been asked in the past if the club would ever bid for the painting, but we are a football club not an art house." But he told BBC News Online: "The club is delighted the painting is still in this country and still in football and, if it's going to be on display in the museum that is wonderful because it is a very emotive picture, especially for Bolton people." Search BBC News Online


Which 'Doctor Who' was assisted by 'Zoe Herriot' played by Wendy Padbury and 'Jamie McCrimmon' played by Frazer Hines?

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Doctor Who's assistants In pictures: Doctor Who's assistants 1 of 12 Billie Piper is to follow in a long line of actors who have travelled through time with Doctor Who - including two early assistants Vicki, played by Maureen O'Brien, and Steven Taylor (right), played by future Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves. 2 of 12 Another companion was Jamie McCrimmon, played by Frazer Hines - who went on to star in soap opera Emmerdale. Jamie was rescued from the battle of Culloden in 1746 by the second doctor, Patrick Troughton. 3 of 12 Deborah Watling starred as Victoria Waterfield, who also travelled with Troughton. The daughter of a Victorian scientist, she became orphaned when the Daleks killed her father. 4 of 12 A librarian who was attacked by the Cybermen, Zoe Herriot, played by Wendy Padbury, was highly intelligent but inexperienced. 5 of 12 The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney, centre) headed the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, while Jo Grant (Katy Manning) trained as a spy and was assigned to UNIT. 6 of 12


What was the first name of 'D.I. Stanhope' played by Brenda Blethyn in a recent ITV series?

Vera ITV Published:  Mon 28 Apr 2014 The information contained herein is embargoed from press use, commercial and non-commercial reproduction and sharing - in the public domain - until Tuesday 6 May 2014.   Episode three: The Deer Hunters   Teenagers Sassi (Charlotte Hope) and Louis Barnes (Aiden Nord) discover Shane Thurgood, dead from a single gunshot wound on the moors of the Northumberland countryside. An abandoned truck is found burnt out a mile away, containing the remains of a deer. D.S. Joe Ashworth (David Leon) is convinced this is a poacher’s war gone wrong but for D.C.I. Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn), the truth is never that straightforward.   Delving into Shane’s life, Vera unearths a sad childhood in the country and a troubled existence in the city, scraping by as a failing novelist. After the recent death of his grandfather, Shane returned to sell his inheritance to wealthy landowner Will Peyton (Richard Dillane) and his wife Clara (Lisa Kay), but inexplicably pulled out at the last minute. Could his death be linked to a dispute over land? And why did he decide to stay in a place with so many painful memories?   The burnt truck is traced to Linus Campion (William Ash), the teenager’s father and a known poacher with a history of violence. He denies any knowledge of Shane Thurgood and points the finger at his former father-‐in-‐law, Allen Barnes (Clive Russell), head gamekeeper at the local Peyton Estate and protector of the deer who roam it’s land. Barnes knew Thurgood as a boy and boasts of giving him his first ‘kill, but his daughters Clara and Ness (Kellie Bright) seem less eager to admit a connection.   Assisted by D.C. Rebecca Shepherd (Clare Calbraith) and D.C. Kenny Lockhart (Jon Morrison), Vera delves into Shane’s chequered history with the Barnes and Peyton family. She must draw on all her trademark guile and intuition to unearth the truth behind Shane’s sudden departure fifteen years ago and understand what really drew him back to the land where he ultimately met his end.   Written by Steve Coombes and directed by Will Sinclair   D.C.I. Vera Stanhope - Brenda Blethyn D.S. Joe Ashworth - David Leon D.C. Kenny Lockhart - Jon Morrison D.C. Rebecca Shepherd - Clare Calbraith Celine Ashworth - Sonya Cassidy Pathologist Marcus Summer- Kingsley Ben-Adir   Series overview   International award winning actress Brenda Blethyn reprises her leading role as the brilliantly perceptive D.C.I. Vera Stanhope for a fourth series of the popular crime drama produced by ITV Studios.   Actor, director and writer David Leon also returns to his role as Vera’s trusted sidekick, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, and relished the opportunity to return to his native home in the North East to film four new stand‐alone films.


Which war is the setting for Hemingway's novel 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'?

Books of The Times Books of The Times FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS By Ernest Hemingway. ll that need be said here about the new Hemingway novel can be said in relatively few words. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a tremendous piece of work. It is the most moving document to date on the Spanish Civil War, and the first major novel of the Second World War. As a story, it is superb, packed with the matter of picaresque romance: blood, lust, adventure, vulgarity, comedy, tragedy. For Robert Jordan, the young American from Montana, the lust and adventure are quickly drowned in blood. The comedy, as in other Hemingway fiction, is practically indistinguishable from the vulgarity, which in this case is a rich and indigenous peasant brand. The tragedy is present and only too plain; the bell that began tolling in Madrid four years ago is audible everywhere today. Robert Jordan is a partizan attached to the Loyalist forces. He is neither a professing Communist nor a professional soldier, but a college instructor who happened to be in Spain on sabbatical leave. During the three or four days covered by the story, he hides out in Franco-controlled territory, into which he has been sent by headquarters to dynamite a strategic mountain bridge. He doesn't hide out alone; as prearranged, he has made contact with a certain guerrilla band operating from a cave high in the Sierra de Guadarrama. He meets two women there, one middle-aged and as tough and blasphemous as any man, the other young and frightened, her hair still short because the Falangists shaved it off after they shot her parents and rampaged through her native town. He meets the saturnine Pablo, who sits in the cave half drunk and mumbles, "Thou wilt blow no bridge here." He meets old Anselmo, who helps him blow it in the end, and Primitivo, Fernando, Augustin and several more. Once he meets El Sordo, who lives with his band on another ridge some miles way. "Listen to me," El Sordo explains, "we exist here by a miracle. By a miracle of laziness and stupidity of the Fascists which they will remedy in time. Of course we are very careful and we make no disturbance in these hills." But Robert Jordan has come to make a disturbance. He must make it if the Loyalist drive out of Madrid toward Segovia is to have a chance to succeed. Mr. Hemingway has always been the writer, but he has never been the master that he is in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The dialogue, handled as though in translation from the Spanish, is incomparable. The characters are modeled in high relief. A few of the scenes are perfect, notably the last sequence and an earlier one when Jordan awakes to the sound of a horse thumping along through the snow. Others are intense and terrifying, still others gentle and almost pastoral, if here and there a trifle sweet. It is fourteen years since "The Sun Also Rises" and eleven since "A Farewell to Arms."  More than three hundred years ago John Donne said, "No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine. * *  * And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Mr. Hemingway has taken this text and, out of his experiences, convictions and great gifts, built on it his finest novel.


By what one word name is Portuguese footballer Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha known?

Nani - Portugal and Manchester United soccer player Nani Full name: Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha Nickname: Nani Date of birth: 17th of November, 1986 Current Club: Manchester United Teammate with Cristiano Ronaldo in: Sporting CP, Manchester United Nani Biography Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, more known as simply Nani in the world of football, is one of the most talented football players of his generation and a regular choice on his current club Manchester United, as well as the Portuguese National Team. For many years Nani has lived in Cristiano Ronaldo's shadow, as he followed the same steps of CR7, considering his short stay in Sporting CP and the move to Manchester United. Nani was born in Cape Verde, but emigrated to Portugal with his family, at a very young age. He was raised in Portugal and started playing soccer (football) in a local club near Lisbon, Real Massamá. He only started training with Sporting C.P. when he turned 16, but he immediately made himself noticed and earned a spot in the first team short while after, in 2005. Nani great performances and displays allowed him to attract attentions from Manchester United in 2007, and he got transferred for a transfer fee of 25,5 Million euros. Nani played with Cristiano Ronaldo in Sporting CP youth cathegories already, but he would finally play alongside with CR7 in a senior team after joining Manchester United. Similarly to Ronaldo, Nani first times in England weren't easy and the Portuguese player had to adapt to a new game concept and develop his physical appearence. Slowly, Nani has been becoming more influential and important in Manchester United, specially after Cristiano Ronaldo left the club for Real Madrid in 2009. Nani carrer stats - Goals and appearences statistics Season TOTAL Nani girlfriend Nani has been dating Daniela Martins for a few years already. The couple met in London and have already assumed to be very in love for quite a few times. Daniela is a journalism student, has blonde hair and brown eyes. On a side note, Nani girlfriend is sometimes confused with another girl with the same name, that became popular after starring in a TV contest in Portugal and France called Secret Story, but they are not the same girl. We'll leave you with some of the best pictures from Nani's girlfriend, Daniela Martins:   Nani and Cristiano Ronaldo pictures and photos


The four bases of DNA are usually referred to by letters. A, C and T are three. Which is the fourth letter?

DNA, genes and chromosomes — University of Leicester A human being has 20,000 to 25,000 genes located on 46 chromosomes (23 pairs). These genes are known, collectively, as the human genome. Chromosomes Eukaryotic chromosomes The label eukaryote is taken from the Greek for 'true nucleus', and eukaryotes (all organisms except viruses, Eubacteria and Archaea) are defined by the possession of a nucleus and other membrane-bound cell organelles. The nucleus of each cell in our bodies contains approximately 1.8 metres of DNA in total, although each strand is less than one millionth of a centimetre thick. This DNA is tightly packed into structures called chromosomes, which consist of long chains of DNA and associated proteins. In eukaryotes, DNA molecules are tightly wound around proteins - called histone proteins - which provide structural support and play a role in controlling the activities of the genes. A strand 150 to 200 nucleotides long is wrapped twice around a core of eight histone proteins to form a structure called a nucleosome. The histone octamer at the centre of the nucleosome is formed from two units each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. The chains of histones are coiled in turn to form a solenoid, which is stabilised by the histone H1. Further coiling of the solenoids forms the structure of the chromosome proper. Each chromosome has a p arm and a q arm. The p arm (from the French word 'petit', meaning small) is the short arm, and the q arm (the next letter in the alphabet) is the long arm. In their replicated form, each chromosome consists of two chromatids. Chromosome unraveling to show the base pairings of the DNA The chromosomes - and the DNA they contain - are copied as part of the cell cycle, and passed to daughter cells through the processes of mitosis and meiosis. Read more about the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis Human beings have 46 chromosomes, consisting of 22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes: two X sex chromosomes for females (XX) and an X and Y sex chromosome for males (XY). One member of each pair of chromosomes comes from the mother (through the egg cell); one member of each pair comes from the father (through the sperm cell). A photograph of the chromosomes in a cell is known as a karyotype. The autosomes are numbered 1-22 in decreasing size order. Karyotype of a human male Prokaryotic chromosomes The prokaryotes (Greek for 'before nucleus' - including Eubacteria and Archaea) lack a discrete nucleus, and the chromosomes of prokaryotic cells are not enclosed by a separate membrane. Most bacteria contain a single, circular chromosome. (There are exceptions: some bacteria - for example, the genus Streptomyces - possess linear chromosomes, and Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has two circular chromosomes.) The chromosome - together with ribosomes and proteins associated with gene expression - is located in a region of the cell cytoplasm known as the nucleoid. The genomes of prokaryotes are compact compared with those of eukaryotes, as they lack introns, and the genes tend to be expressed in groups known as operons. The circular chromosome of the bacterium Escherichia coli consists of a DNA molecule approximately 4.6 million nucleotides long. In addition to the main chromosome, bacteria are also characterised by the presence of extra-chromosomal genetic elements called plasmids. These relatively small circular DNA molecules usually contain genes that are not essential to growth or reproduction.


On which canal is 'Neptune's Staircase', the longest staircase lock in the UK?

Neptune's Staircase - Historic Site in Corpach & Banavie - Outdoor Capital Downloads Description The historic Neptune’s Staircase is a staircase lock on the Caledonian Canal at Banavie, just north of Loch Linhe. Designed by noted Scottish architect, canal and bridge builder Thomas Telford, the staircase comprises of eight locks and takes boats roughly 90 minutes to travel up the 64 feet to the top. It is the longest staircase lock in the UK. The Caledonian Canal runs for 60 miles along the Great Glen from Corpach, near Fort William, to Inverness. Neptune’s Staircase is the most impressive single engineering feat on the canal - a ladder of eight locks that raises vessels to a height of 70 feet above sea level. On a clear day this is also one of the best viewpoints for the dark north west side of Ben Nevis. Located on the outskirts of Fort William, signposted off the A830 road to Mallaig. Grid reference: NN112769 Caledonian Canal Viewpoint The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William. It was constructed in the early nineteenth century by engineer Thomas Telford, and... 0.38 miles away Old Inverlochy Castle Castle / Fort The ruins of this 13th-century castle near fort William is the site of two battles. Now in the care of Historic Scotland, the castle, although ruined, is unusual as it has remained unaltered since... 1.05 miles away Highland Cow Animal Collection With its impressive horns and long, flowing coat of hair, the Highland Cow (or 'Coo') is a well known and much loved sight in the Outdoor Capital of the UK. 1.06 miles away The Great Glen Canoe Trail Waymarked Trail The Great Glen Canoe Trail is yet another example of what adventures await outdoor enthusiasts in the Outdoor Capital. It is an epic 60 mile (95km) journey crossing Scotland in 5 days and... 1.08 miles away Otters Animal Collection The otter's main habitat is along the sea shore and the banks of rivers, lakes and streams. They are territorial and their territories cover 1 - 3 km along the sea shore and 5 - 20 km along... 1.41 miles away Football - Fort William FC/Claggan Park Sports Ground Claggan Park is surely one of the most picturesque football pitches in the UK. Surrounded by beautiful and dramatic mountains, the ground is home to Fort William Football Club who play in the... 1.62 miles away These two large, fully-equipped holiday barges cruise the Great... 0.04 miles away Boat Trip Join us for a cruise on the Caledonian Canal from Banavie Soak up the unique canal atmosphere, keep your eyes peeled for deer, otters and eagles and navigate your way through working locks and... 0.18 miles away Ben Nevis Mountain Track in Summer with Lochaber Guides Outdoor Activity/Pursuit Centre Ben Nevis stands at 1344m (4409 feet) and is the Highest Mountain in the UK. It is home to some of the most impressive rock scenery in the country as well as stunning views. It's North Face holds... 0.72 miles away Lochaber Guides Outdoor Activity/Pursuit Centre At Lochaber Guides, we offer a fun, friendly and professional all year round Mountain Guiding service here in the stunning Lochaber area. Our goals are to provide you with an authentic,... 0.72 miles away Abacus Mountain Guides Outdoor Activity/Pursuit Centre Abacus Mountain Guides provide world class mountain adventures on the west coast of Scotland. With the highest qualifications in Mountaineering and Mountain Biking, plus twenty years of experience,... 0.96 miles away Activity Centre Welcome to No Fuss Events. What is No Fuss Events, you say? Basically we love the outdoors. We love events and the fun, camaraderie and craic that goes with them. We have tried to strip back... 0.96 miles away SCOTLAND'S ONLY VISITSCOTLAND 5-STAR GRADED FLY FISHING SCHOOL & WILD FISHING ACTIVITY PROVIDER Across Lochaber  Ardnamurchan | Fort William & Glen Nevis | Great Glen and Glen Spean | Glencoe and... 1.01 miles away Outdoor Activity/Pursuit Centre SNOWGOOSE MOUNTAIN CENTRE Snowgoose Mountain Centre is a long established and highly regarded provider of


Who voiced 'Dougal' in the 2005 film 'The Magic Roundabout'?

Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (2005) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Sprung! The Magic Roundabout ( 2005 ) The Magic Roundabout (original title) 1h 25min A group of friends embark on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil wizard ZeeBad. Directors: a list of 48 titles created 21 May 2011 a list of 39 titles created 13 Apr 2012 a list of 27 titles created 04 Aug 2013 a list of 41 titles created 03 Jul 2014 a list of 29 titles created 6 months ago Title: Sprung! The Magic Roundabout (2005) 5.3/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Storyline Dougal, a shaggy, candy-loving puppy, embarks on a dangerous journey with a group of friends in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer Zeebad (Zebedee's evil twin). The world is placed in mortal danger as Zeebad wants to freeze everything there is; Dougal and his friends must recover three diamonds in order to stop him. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com} Things Are About To Get Hairy. Genres: 2 February 2005 (France) See more  » Also Known As: Sprung! The Magic Roundabout See more  » Box Office $793,677        (UK) (4 February 2005) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia A number of character have dialogue that references previous roles. Robbie Williams' Dougal states he likes Florence as he "offers her protection" a line from his song "Angels". See more » Goofs When Dylan is supposed to be playing guitar for Ermintrude's concert, he nearly falls asleep before coming round and starting to play and sing 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks however Dylan is playing an acoustic guitar whereas the music has clearly got an electric guitar and not an acoustic one playing, this is particularly noticeable during his solo at the start of the song. See more » Quotes Ermintrude : Surely it's only a short hop for such a brave bunny. Dylan : More like a long drop for a dumb rabbit. See more » Crazy Credits During the credits in the American version, live action footage is shown of the actors doing the voices of the characters. See more » Connections Written & Performed by Andrea Remanda and Scaramanga X Published by The Weinstein Company (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews My friends dragged me to see this with them for a joke. The cinema was full of kids and I was really embarrassed! But I definitely don't regret seeing it. The plot was, unfortunately, the weakest part of the movie. It was just so Saturday-morning-cartoonish (complete with evil twins, magic diamonds and walking skeletons) that anyone in the cinema over the age of nine is unlikely to be interested. But anyone under that age will be delighted from start to finish. It's the cast and music that really did it for me. Robbie Williams, despite his complete lack of experience as an actor, pulls off his role as Dougal with natural skill and emotion, which is pleasantly surprising. Jim Broadbent and Joanna Lumley seem to have great fun in their roles (as Brian the snail and Ermintrude the cow respectively) and Bill Nighy, well, lets just say there's no one else in the world who could've done Dylan the drug-addled bunny like he did ("no way man! I'm in, like, a higher state of unconsciousness..."). Kylie Minogue did well enough, but she only has about three lines. Tom Baker and Sir Ian Mackellen also seemed to enjoy giving very camp performances as the arch rival jack-in-the-boxes Zebedee and Zeebad (though Sir Ian sounded a little too much like Gandalf). The music, which seems to include vocal performances from Kylie and Robbie, is fantastic and well above average for a kids film today. If you've seen the film, I think you'll agree the soundtrack is a must-buy! But still, it's not all great. The plot is full of gaping holes, and while it mostly works with a very young audience in m


Which comedienne and actress has written a novel 'A Tiny Bit Marvellous' about a family called 'Battle'?

A Tiny Bit Marvellous: Amazon.it: Dawn French: Libri in altre lingue Di ELI (Italy) il 22 maggio 2011 Formato: Copertina rigida I love Dawn French as a comic actress and was looking forward to reading her book. It turned out to be as hilarious as expected, with a psychological touch which was appropriate and rendered a certain depth, therefore I would not classify this book as just "comical". Written in a diary form, it is the story of a modern family where each member has different flaws and views and expectations. Meet the Battles family, Mum, Dad, Dora and Peter, both teenagers. They share the same roof but live into separate words, each struggling in a private battle of their own, either towards menopause, or first kiss, or first love or... whatever. There does not seem to be a linear or joint path on which they can walk together, overcoming their struggles or problems. Will they manage? Get ready for some good laughs and for some thinking too. I bet anyone with adolescents in the house will identify themselves with some of the characters or find similarities, enjoy the reading! In my opinion, 4.5 stars. 1.0 su 5 stelle Not keen. 19 settembre 2014 Di Sarah Butler - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato I really didn't enjoy this as much I thought I wanted. The reading of the the son and daughter was a real brain drain. However the end was a bit better and easier to enjoy when a storey eventually appeared. 5.0 su 5 stelle LOVED IT 25 ottobre 2014 Di Klan - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato What a beautiful, funny, sad, crazy book. I was transported and experienced the full range of human emotion, and I related to the characters in ways I never thought possible. I hope that Dawn writes many many many more books I cannot wait to read more 3.0 su 5 stelle A Tiny Bit Ordinary 3 marzo 2013 Di Janice Adamson - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato I was expecting a lot more as Dawn French has a great sense of humour.. However the plot was rather ordinary. Toxic relationship with teenage daughter, an oddball son and husband who is rarely talked about until the end did not make for compelling reading. She needed to develop the plot as it was all a little predictable. Not an awful read, but I was expecting more. 3.0 su 5 stelle Fun 17 dicembre 2012 Di The Heath - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Copertina rigida Acquisto verificato If you love Dawn French you will love this book. You can hear her voice in the writing and for me that is good enough. I am about halfway through and find it easy to put down, but have to say that she has done a great job of building the story as I am finding myself much more engaged with each page. So perhaps when I finish I might up the stars a bit. 2.0 su 5 stelle Not funny 18 settembre 2013 Di bw - Pubblicato su Amazon.com Formato: Formato Kindle Acquisto verificato I expected a book by Dawn French to be funny, but after reading the first few, very short, chapters this is not. What I didn't like about this book are that the characters are unlikable, they are really people who I couldn't care about and tus stopped reading the book. A waste of money for me!


Yelena Bonner who died last month was the wife of which Soviet dissident and physicist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize?

Yelena Bonner obituary | World news | The Guardian Yelena Bonner obituary Valiant human rights activist and widow of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov Yelena Bonner addressing the European parliament during the award ceremony of the Sakharov Prize in 2008. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters Sunday 19 June 2011 11.57 EDT First published on Sunday 19 June 2011 11.57 EDT Share on Messenger Close Now that the battles fought by the dissident movement and by the thousands of individuals who voiced their opposition to the Soviet state have been swallowed up by the larger events of history, only a few names will be recalled. Yelena Bonner's will be one of them. She and her husband, Andrei Sakharov, symbolised – within the Soviet Union and throughout the west – the strength and courage of those opposed to state socialism. Bonner, who has died aged 88, was often portrayed merely as the wife of the Soviet Union's most famous dissident scientist, but her history as an activist was as lengthy as her husband's. Her determination, organisational skills and often fiery temper consistently drew attention to human rights issues. Sakharov and Bonner were a team, bound together by the conviction that freedom of conscience was a prerequisite of any civilised state and that east and west should move towards reconciliation. This conviction helped them survive the ordeals of surveillance, harassment, arrest and internal exile. The two first met in the autumn of 1970 outside a courtroom in Kaluga, central Russia , where a scientist, Revolt Pimenov, and a puppet-theatre actor, Boris Vail, were on trial for distributing the samizdat human rights journal Chronicle of Current Events. Sakharov had already achieved worldwide attention for publishing his essay Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, in the New York Times in 1968, but Bonner was the practical and already experienced organiser of the group – it was she who found rooms for both the defendants and the observers of the trial. Like Sakharov, Bonner came from the Soviet elite. Unlike the brilliant physicist, who was recruited straight from university to the team that developed the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb and then became the youngest member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Bonner had seen the brutality behind Stalin's Soviet Union early on. She was born in Merv (now Mary), a town in Turkmenistan , the eldest child of Bolshevik revolutionaries, who named her Lusia. Her father, Georgy Alikhanov, was first secretary of the Armenian central committee and her mother, Ruth Bonner, was a committed party activist. Yelena's earliest years were spent in Chita in the Soviet far east, where her father had been sent after a political falling out with Grigory Zinoviev, a leading member of the politburo. The family then moved to Leningrad, where they lived among the city's Bolshevik elite. At one stage, they had a flat in a house where Sergei Kirov, secretary of the Leningrad party, also lived. In her second book of memoirs, Mothers and Daughters (1991), Bonner recalled being taken out by Kirov in his car and standing on the dais with him at an official demonstration. It was the murder of Kirov in 1934 that signalled the beginning of the Terror and Stalin's purge of the old Bolshevik cadres. By 1937 the family were living in Moscow, where, some time before the winter of 1938, during the first wave of the Terror, Bonner's father was arrested and shot. Her mother was arrested as the wife of an enemy of the people and sentenced to 10 years in a labour camp. Bonner herself was taken to the "big house", the secret police headquarters in Leningrad, for questioning. She remained in Leningrad to be brought up by her grandmother. When she was eligible for her internal passport she discovered that her parents had failed to register her birth. Free to chose her own name, she picked her mother's surname and Yelena after the heroine of Turgenev's novel On the Eve. When the Soviet Union was invaded in June 1941, Bonner volunteered for the Red Army's hospital trains, becoming he


'Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy?' is the most famous song recorded by Allan Smethurst. How was he known on stage?

BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Singing Postman dies Saturday, 23 December, 2000, 17:00 GMT Singing Postman dies Allan Smethurst recorded more than 80 songs Sixties music act the Singing Postman, Allan Smethurst, has died aged 73. Mr Smethurst broke his hip in a fall three months ago and his health deteriorated before his death on Thursday. He had success in the 60s as a novelty pop star with songs like the 1965 hit Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy?, which won an Ivor Novello award for best novelty song in 1966. But due to stage fright he descended into alcoholism and spent the last 20 years of his life in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Rolf Harris visited him at his hostel He recorded some 80 songs, all in Norfolk dialect, including I Miss My Miss from Diss and Oi Can't Get A Noice Loaf of Bread. He always performed in his Royal Mail uniform. But he suffered from stage fright and could not cope with fame, becoming an alcoholic and appearing regularly in court. At the height of his fame Mr Smethurst appeared on the same edition of Top of the Pops as the Rolling Stones. By 1970 he was on the dole and said of his showbiz earnings: "I've been foolish and spent the lot. It's gone on hotel bills, travelling, entertaining and a few pints here and there." There were several promises of a comeback but the closest he came to the limelight was when Hev Yew Gorra Loight Boy? was used as on a TV commercial for Ovaltine in 1994. He wrote exceptional lyrics which had depth yet made people laugh too Tony Palmer Recording manager The manager at Bighowgate Hostel, where Mr Smethurst had lived since 1980, said he was going to be missed. "He was well liked by everyone who stayed at the hostel," said Mike Hardy. "Earlier this year Rolf Harris popped in to visit Allan because he knew him years ago and had a hit with one of his songs. "That gave you an indication of just how famous Allan was." Recording manager Tony Palmer, who has re-released Mr Smethurst's ditties on a series of CDs on the Anglian Music label, said: "I think there will be a revival of Allan's songs - they are too good to be forgotten. "He wrote exceptional lyrics which had depth yet made people laugh too, which is a very difficult thing to achieve. "Unfortunately there was this hint of tragedy in his life. He was one of the great 'might-have-beens' who ended up a bit of a recluse. Mr Smethurst was once on the same show as the Rolling Stones "Allan could have gone on to write many more songs to be recorded by other artists but he just clammed up. He just couldn't handle the publicity. "I shall miss him greatly." The woman who was the inspiration behind one of the Singing Postman's most famous characters said she was saddened by news of his death. Mollie Bayfield, 67, was immortalised in the Hev Yew Gorra Loight Boy? as a chain-smoking Norfolk girl. "I'm very sad about Allan's death and I think he deserved better," she said on Saturday. "His songs gave a lot to us and to the people of Norfolk in particular, and received very little in return." Search BBC News Online


Tripoli in Libya is often known as Western Tripoli to distinguish it from the second largest city in which other country?

Tripoli, Libya - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Tripoli, Libya   Wikis Tripoli, Libya: Wikis Advertisements Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics This article is about the capital of Libya. For the Lebanese city of the same name, see Tripoli, Lebanon . For the Crusader State, see County of Tripoli . For other uses, see Tripoli (disambiguation) . Tripoli طرابلس Trābles Top: That El Emad Towers, Middle: Green Square, Bottom left: Marcus Aurelius Arch, Bottom right: Souq al-Mushir – Tripoli Medina. Seal Location of Tripoli within Libya, on the continent of Africa. Country Libya Sha'biyah Tripoli Sha'biyah Government  - Head of the People's Committee Abdullatif Abdulrahman Aldaali Area  - Total 400 km2 (154.4 sq mi) Elevation 81 m (266 ft) Population (2005)  - Total 1,682,000  -  Density 4,205/km2 (10,890.9/sq mi) Time zone EET ( UTC+2 )  - Summer ( DST ) not observed ( UTC+2 ) Tripoli ( Arabic : طرابلس Ṭarābulus pronunciation (help·info) ; derived from "Τρίπολη"; the Greek word for "three cities" in Greek : Τρίπολις Tripolis) is the largest and capital city of Libya . Tripoli has a population of 1.69 million[citation needed]. The city is located in the northwest of the country on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. Tripoli was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians , who named it Oea. [2] Tripoli is the largest city, the principal sea port , and the largest commercial and manufacturing centre in Libya . It is also the site of Al-Fateh University . Due to the city's long history, there are many sites of archaeological significance in Tripoli. The climate is typical Mediterranean, with hot, dry summers, cool winters and some modest rainfall. "Tripoli" may also refer to the shabiyah (top-level administrative division in the current Libyan system), Tripoli District . Contents Advertisements Early history The city was founded in the 7th century BC, by the Phoenicians , who named it "Oea". They were probably attracted to the site by its fine natural harbor, flanked on the western shore by the small, easily defendable peninsula , on which they established their colony. The city then passed into the hands of the rulers of Cyrenaica (a Greek colony on the North African shore, east of Tripoli, halfway to Egypt ). It was wrested away from the Greeks by the Carthaginians , like Tripoli, another Phoenician colony. By the later half of the 2nd century BC it belonged to the Romans , who included it in their province of Africa , and gave it the name of Regio Syrtica. Around the beginning of the 3rd century AD , it became known as the Regio Tripolitana, meaning "region of the three cities", namely Oea (i.e. modern Tripoli), Sabratha and Leptis Magna . It was probably raised to the rank of a separate province by Septimius Severus , who was a native of Leptis Magna. In spite of centuries of Roman habitation, the only visible Roman remains, apart from scattered columns and capitals (usually integrated in later buildings), is the Arch of Marcus Aurelius from the 2nd century AD. The fact that Tripoli has been continuously inhabited, unlike e.g. Sabratha and Leptis Magna, has meant that the inhabitants have either quarried material from older buildings (destroying them in the process), or built on top of them, burying them beneath the streets, where they remain largely unexcavated. There is evidence to suggest that the Tripolitania region was in some economic decline during the 5th and 6th centuries, in part due to the political unrest spreading across the Mediterranean world in the wake of the collapse of the Roman empire, as well as pressure from the invading Vandals . Like the rest of North Africa, it was conquered by the Muslims early in the 8th century. Following the conquest, Tripoli was ruled by dynasties based in Cairo , Egypt , first the Fatimids , and later the Mamluks


Which of the 'English Classic' horse races is run over a distance of one mile, six furlongs and one hundred and thirty two yards?

Project MUSE - ‘Spot the Winner’: Some of the Horses in Ulysses Some of the Horses in Ulysses Vivien Igoe (bio) Of the many sports mentioned in Ulysses, horse racing is the one that is the most prominent. Horses are referred to in ten of the episodes. 1 Four of the horses named in Ulysses ran in the Gold Cup, 2 the third event which was held at Ascot at 3.00 pm on 16 June 1904. The Ascot Gold Cup race was first run in 1807 and in the British racing calendar it and the Epsom Derby were the two main annual events. The race for entire colts and fillies, aged between three and five years, was over two and a half miles and ‘had a value 1,000 sovereigns in specie in addition, out of which the second shall receive 700 sovereigns and the third 300 sovereigns added to sweepstake of 20 sovereigns each’. 3 The runners in the Gold Cup mentioned in the text included Lord Howard de Walden’s Zinfandel, 4 yrs, 9 st. (M. Cannon), Mr W. Bass’s Sceptre, 5 yrs, 9 st. 1 lb (O. Madden), M.J. de Bremond’s Maximum 11, 5 years, 9 st. 4 lb (G. Stern), and Mr F. Alexander’s Throwaway. The betting was 5 to 4 on Zinfandel, 7 to 4 against Sceptre, 10 to 1 against Maximum 11, and 20 to 1 against Throwaway (off). Of the horses named in Ulysses, Throwaway, Sceptre, and Zinfandel are mentioned the most. 4 T hrowaway was born in 1899 and was by Rightaway out of Theale (Plate 5). He was bred by Mr F. Alexander at Everleigh. 5 Between 1901 and 1905, Throwaway ran in races at Chester, Bath, Liverpool, Newcastle, Gosforth Park, Newmarket, Bibury (Salisbury), Manchester, Ascot, and Doncaster. Trained by Mr Braime and ridden by William Lane (1883–1920), Throwaway, aged five years, 9 st. 4 lb, an outsider, won the Gold Cup race in 1904. Zinfandel came second, Sceptre third, and Maximum 11 finished fourth. A correspondent gives this description of the race: The race was run in the old-fashioned way, the pace being a crawl for the first two miles, and it was not till rounding the bend for home that the jockeys allowed their horses to stride along. Throwaway [End Page 72] had made the whole of the running up to that point, but when Sceptre challenged at this point, the mare, apparently without any exertion, drew level, and may even have headed the leader, but two furlongs from home the effort was spent, and practically the identical thing happened with Zinfandel, who was pulling his jockey’s arms out one moment, and was a beaten horse the next. In the meantime, Throwaway was struggling on with indomitable gameness, and forging clear once more held his own to the end, and won by a length; while Sceptre succumbed by three parts of a length to Zinfandel for second place. A more astonishing result could scarcely be conceived, for had the race been a handicap, both Sceptre and Zinfandel would have been set to give the winner at least two stone, whereas here the boot was on the other leg, and Throwaway was actually giving weight to them. Except on the hypothesis that it was a false run race one cannot account for it. His owner, Mr F. Alexander, bred the winner. Braine, who took over Mr Alexander’s horses during the winter when, owing to the Kingsclere Stable being converted in a syndicate, they left. John Porter trained him. Throwaway was ridden by W. Lane. 6 It was an upset that the top-weighted dark horse Throwaway beat Sceptre and Zinfandel. An account of the race is also given in The Evening Telegraph. Throwaway set a fair pace to Sceptre, with Maximum 11 last, till fairly in the line for home, when Sceptre slightly headed Throwaway, and Zinfandel took close order with him. Throwaway, however, stayed on, and won cleverly at the finish by a length; three parts of a length divided second and third. Time – 4 mins. 33 2–5 secs. 7 Under the same ownership, Throwaway came third in the 1905 Gold Cup. The winner that year was Lord Howard de Walden’s Zinfandel, and M.J. de Bremond’s Maximum 11 was second. In September 1905 Throwaway ran in the Doncaster Cup. Then a six-year-old, he broke down whilst taking part in the race, and was dismounted. 8 Throwaway appeared on a card i