What are the ten provinces of Canada? What are the ten provinces of Canada? What are the ten provinces of Canada? Canada is divided into ten provinces and three territories. Every province goes about electing its provincial legislature. The members of the provincial legislature are elected through several electoral ridings in every province. The heads of the Provincial government are called Premiers. Every Premier appoints different Ministers for execution of various responsibilities of the government. The ten provinces are: � British Columbia : It is the third largest province in Canada. The famous Vancouver Island is situated in this province. British Columbia is a good generator for hydro electricity. � Alberta : It is the fourth biggest province of Canada. It is commonly known as Canada�s �energy province�. Alberta�s natural resources include coal, natural gas , and oil . � Saskatchewan : This province produces uranium , potash, natural gas, and agricultural crops. � Manitoba : This province is located in the zone in Canada called the �Canadian Shield� Lot of metals and minerals are to be found here. In fact Manitoba is one of the largest producers of nickel in the world. � Ontario : This is the second largest amongst the provinces in Canada . The chief industries include automobiles as well as auto parts. Toronto which is Ontario�s capital city is Canada�s financial hub. � Quebec : It is situated in eastern part of Canada. Quebec is the biggest among the ten provinces of Canada. This province has one of the largest hydroelectricity producing plants. � New Brunswick : Also referred to as the �Loyalist province�, it belongs to a group of four Atlantic provinces in Canada. This province is the leading producer of zinc, lead, bismuth and copper in Canada. There are also fishing ports, and aquaculture farms to be found here. � Newfoundland and Labrador : This area includes numerous small islands within its periphery. Labrador produces iron ore. Fish processing is one of the main industries here. � Nova Scotia : Fish processing, fishing, and coal mining earlier were the chief industries of this province. This area also produces coal and gypsum. � Prince Edward Island : This is supposed to be the smallest province in Canada. Agriculture, food processing, tourism and fishing are the primary industries in this province.


In 1942, which American painted 'Nighthawks'?

Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper Courtesy of www.EdwardHopper.net Nighthawks is a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is Hopper's most famous work and is one of the most recognizable paintings in American art. Within months of its    completion, it was sold to the Art Institute of Chicago for $3,000, and has remained there ever since. Starting shortly after their marriage in 1924, Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine (Jo), kept a journal in which he would, using a pencil, make a sketch-drawing of each of his paintings, along with a precise description of certain    technical details. Jo Hopper would then add additional information in which the themes of the painting are, to some degree, illuminated. A review of the page on which "Nighthawks" is entered shows (in Edward Hopper's handwriting) that the intended name of the work was actually "Night Hawks", and that the painting was completed on January 21, 1942. Jo's handwritten notes about the painting give considerably more detail, including the interesting possibility that the painting's evocative title may have had its origins as a reference to the beak-shaped nose of the man at the bar: Night + brilliant interior of cheap restaurant. Bright items: cherry wood counter + tops of surrounding stools; light on metal tanks at rear right; brilliant streak of jade green tiles 3/4 cross canvas at base of glass of window        curving at corner. Light walls, dull yellow ocre [sic] door into kitchen right. Very good looking blond boy in white (coat, cap) inside counter. Girl in red blouse, brown hair eating sandwich. Man night hawk (beak) in dark suit, steel        grey hat, black band, blue shirt (clean) holding cigarette. Other figure dark sinister back at left. Light side walk outside pale greenish. Darkish red brick houses opposite. Sign across top of restaurant, dark Phillies 5c cigar.        Picture of cigar. Outside of shop dark, green. Note: bit of bright ceiling inside shop against dark of outside street at edge of stretch of top of window. Nighthawks was probably Hopper's most ambitious essay in capturing the night-time effects of manmade light. For one thing, the diner's plate-glass windows cause far more light to spill out onto the sidewalk and the brownstones    on the far side of the street than is true in any of his other paintings. As well, this interior light comes from more than a single lightbulb, with the result that multiple shadows are cast, and some spots are brighter than others as a    consequence of being lit from more than one angle. Across the street, the line of shadow caused by the upper edge of the diner window is clearly visible towards the top of the painting. These windows, and the ones below them as well,    are partly lit by an unseen streetlight, which projects its own mix of light and shadow. As a final note, the bright interior light causes some of the surfaces within the diner to be reflective. This is clearest in the case of the    right-hand edge of the rear window, which reflects a vertical yellow band of interior wall, but fainter reflections can also be made out, in the counter-top, of three of the diner's occupants. None of these reflections would be visible    in daylight. Hopper's biographer, Gail Levin, speculates that Hopper may have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh 's Caf� at Night , which was showing at a    gallery in New York in January 1942. The similarity in lighting and themes makes this possible; it is certainly very unlikely that Hopper would have failed to see the exhibition, and as Levin notes, the painting had twice been exhibited    in the company of Hopper's own works. Beyond this, there is no evidence that Caf� at Night exercised an influence on Nighthawks. Although there is no evidence at all (other than the fact that Hopper admired the story), Levin also    suggests that he may have been inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story, The Killers. MOST POP


Who is the paternal grandmother of Prince Charles?

Prince Charles' pride for grandmother who sheltered Jews - Telegraph The Royal Family Prince Charles' pride for grandmother who sheltered Jews The Prince of Wales has told "Kindertransport" refugees how "incredibly proud" he felt of his grandmother for sheltering Jewish refugees when the Second World War broke out. By Daily Telegraph reporter 11:31PM GMT 23 Nov 2008 Prince Charles met a member of the "Kinder" - now elderly citizens - and their families over tea at a reunion in north west London, to mark the 70th anniversary of the decision to allow thousands of children into Britain from Nazi-occupied Europe. In a short speech to the gathering, he told how his paternal grandmother, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, took in a Jewish family when she was living in Athens. He said: "That's one reason why I wanted to be with you today because my grandmother would have approved. She was a very remarkable lady." He said he was "incredibly proud a member of my family did the right thing. "That I think is something we always need to remember on these occasions. What is the right thing to do?" he added. "We must never ever forget the lessons from what you had to go through." He thanked the "Kinder" for their "absolutely crucial" contribution to British life since they arrived 70 years ago. He said the refugees' experiences were "almost unimaginable, even though I promise you I have tried to imagine what so many of you had to go through". The event commemorates the Government's decision to allow 10,000 mainly Jewish children into Britain following a House of Commons debate on refugee policy on November 21 1938. The reunion took place at the Jewish Free School in Kingsbury which was instrumental in helping to evacuate many of the youngsters from London to Ely, near Cambridge, at the beginning of the war. Charles said that speaking to the "Kinder" made him "so incredibly proud to be British".


Maudie Littlehampton appeared in whose pocket cartoons in the Daily Express?

The dandy cartoonist who spoke for Britain | Express Yourself | Comment | Daily Express VIDS The dandy cartoonist who spoke for Britain As an exhibition and book are launched celebrating legendary Daily Express cartoonist Osbert Lancaster, we recall his life... 00:00, Wed, Sep 24, 2008 Osbert Lancaster OSBERT LANCASTER used to be more famous than his friend John Betjeman. But compared to the Betjeman celebrations a couple of years ago, the centenary of Lancaster's birth on August 4 came and went in silence. There are several morals there but the main one is that Lancaster is due for a revival – and it looks as though he's getting one through a new book and a London exhibition. The reason for his eclipse is that his fame was due in large part to the daily papers – this one actually – and newspapers are ruthlessly topical. Lancaster, living through the violent flux of the 20th century, reduced it to a pocket cartoon which appeared every day in both the Daily and Sunday Express, beginning on January 1, 1939, and running for more than 40 years. Lancaster reintroduced the long caption associated with 19th-century Punch cartoons and those of Max Beerbohm. The format allowed him to comment on social attitudes chiefly through his upper-class couple Willie and Maudie Littlehampton. Willie represented Lancaster's past: wry, tolerant, fatalistic. Maudie resembled the cartoonist in being sarcastic, social and addicted to smart clothes. It seems amazing now that an upper-class couple could speak for the nation but in the Fifties and Sixties the Littlehamptons did. The cartoons were the first things to hit you in the morning and they were funny and knowing – like their creator. Lancaster was not academic but he was clever, fluent in French and German and a bon viveur. He was the last of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead generation, leaving Oxford in 1930 then training at the Slade School of Art. But Lancaster was an only child whose father had been killed in action in 1916 and his aptitude for art was scorned by his mother. Between Oxford and the Slade he'd had a nervous breakdown trying to please her by studying law. He was born in 1908 in London's Notting Hill. His grandfather had been a founder of the Prudential Assurance Company and that world of middle-class security and maids was to be his Paradise Lost for the remainder of his life. He brought an affectionate ridicule to it in two volumes of autobiography. IN the Thirties he worked as a freelance for the Architectural Review where John Betjeman was on the staff. Soon after the outbreak of war he joined the Ministry of Information which he described to his publisher John Murray as "a rest home for intellectuals" housing "quite a considerable band of stalwarts pledged to maintain the highest traditions of undergraduate life of the roaring Twenties". After the war the money started to roll in – and roll out. He gave "suede shoes and Jaguar" parties with his first wife at their house at Henleyon-Thames and cocktail parties in Eaton Square or Chelsea with his second wife Anne Scott-James. He created book covers for PG Wodehouse, Anthony Powell and Nancy Mitford, stage designs for Covent Garden and Glyndebourne and produced a series of satirical, highly informed books on the English way of life. He loved his London clubs. Meeting the author Osbert Sitwell in the St James's Club one day, Sitwell said that there were only three people in the world called Osbert. Lancaster informed Sitwell that the third, an unpopular Conservative MP, had just been killed by a bus, to which Sitwell replied: "I think that calls for champagne." Lancaster relished Bertie Woosterish aspects of upper class life and was ambivalent about the new age to which he owed his success. Yet despite its strong notes of elegy, his world is not at all miserable but a jazzed-up fantasy of delights. Its combination of nostalgia and mockery is never heavy or dull. He dressed like a dandified colonel, with a touch of the bogus. Behind the bristling moustache there was no tyrant or fogey. The last time I met him was in 1982 four year


What name is given to a golden horse with a white mane and tail?

Horse Colours Horse Colours Horses can come in a variety of different colours. Bay A brown horse with a black mane and tail: Light Bay Light bay has a light brown coat with a black mane and tail. Dark Bay Dark bay has a darker brown coat with a black mane and tail. Black Black coat, mane and tail colouring. Brown Brown mane, tail and coat colouring. Buckskin Black mane, tail and points with a dun, golden or cream coat colour Chestnut Horses with light or dark red coat colouring similar to that of the nut of the chestut tree are said to be chesnut: Liver Chestnut Liver Chestnut    is a deep orange colour, covering the mane, tail and coat. Chestnut Chestnut is a lighter colour than the liver covering the mane, tail and coat. Sorrel Sorrel is more red in colour than the Chestnut. Grey The horse will have white body, mane and tail with categories including: Flea Bitten Grey Flea Bitten grey is a white horse with dark flecks throughout the coat. Iron Grey Iron grey is a very dark type of grey covering the mane, tail and coat. Cremellis Cremellis a cream coloured horse with blue eyes. Albino Albino   is a white horse with pink skin with pink eyes Dappled Grey Dappled grey   is a white horse with dark grey circular patches that give a dappled effect. Palomino A light golden colour. The mane and tail can be lighter than the coat Colours Continued... Horses will have a solid base colour with white flecks throughout: Strawberry Roan - Chestnut with white flecks throughout the coat. Blue Roan - Black base colour with white flecks throughout the coat. Bay Roan - Bay base coat with white flecks throughout the coat and with black points, mane and tail. Piebald A horse which has patches of black and white throughout its coat. The mane and tail are often two toned also. Skewbald A horse which has black, brown and white coloured patches throughout its coat. Tobian Large white patches often with a dark face and white legs. Overos Splash Overos Splash Overos   have their legs and underbelly covered in white with a white face and tail in one colour. Frame Overos


Who was Poet Laureate during World War 1?

Sonnets of World War I World War I Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Although Rupert Brooke's 1914 sonnets received an enthusiastic reception at the time of their publication and the author's death (of blood poisoning), disenchantment with the ever-lengthening war meant a backlash against Brooke's work. These sonnets have been lauded as being "among the supreme expressions of English patriotism and among the few notable poems produced by the Great War" ( Houston Peterson ), while according to Patrick Cruttwell , "I suspect that these unfortunate poems, through their great vogue at first and the bitter reaction against them later, did more than anything else to put the traditional sonnet virtually out of action for a generation or more of vital poetry in English." But, as you can see here, some writers of the period adapted the sonnet to their war experience, and it is interesting to speculate on whether Brooke's writing would have become as bitter and disillusioned as that of his contemporaries had he lived a few years more. See Harry Rusche's Rupert Brooke page , part of his Lost Poets of the Great War . 1914 Together (Columbia University) Charles Sorley (1895-1915) Sorley was born in Scotland and, after leaving school, spent six months in Germany during 1914. He was almost trapped there by the war and enlisted at once upon his return. He went to France in May of 1915 and was killed by a sniper the following October. The sonnet beginning "When you see millions of the mouthless dead" is probably the last poem he wrote. Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) Binyon was Keeper of Oriental Paintings and Prints at the British Museum and was Professor of Poetry at Harvard for a year. During the war he worked in a Red Cross unit at the front in France. The Pity of It Other Poets Robert Bridges (1840-1930) was appointed English Poet Laureate in 1913 and wrote a number of "official" wartime verses ( To the United States of America ). Henry Christopher Bradby (1868-1947) was an English school teacher ( April 1918 ). Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) lost an eye in the war and was released from duty. After the war, he published three volumes of poetry as well as literary criticism and political journalism ( War and Peace ). May Herschel-Clarke published one volume of poems in 1917, containing The Mother , written in response to Rupert Brooke's The Soldier . Edward Shillito (1872-1948) was a Free Church minister; his blank verse sonnet Hardness of Heart is included here. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), a friend of Rupert Brooke, tried to dissuade him from enlisting ( The Conscript ). Eva Dobell (1867-1963) worked as a nurse during the war ( Advent, 1916 ). Geoffrey Faber (1889-1961), the famous publisher, despite the title of this selection, served in France and Belgium ( Home Service ). Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was wounded at the Somme; he showed signs of mental instability before the war and after the war was institutionalized ( To England--A Note ). Also included are some American sonnets from the 1917 volume War Poems By X. The sonnets of John Allan Wyeth can be found at Trenches on the Web . Visit the Australian National University ImageServe image bank, where you can browse through (and/or buy) larger copies of the images on this page and over 20,000 other works of art. Read Siegfried Sassoon's Poems (1918-1920) . Rupert Brooke Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. II. Safety Dear! of all happy in the hour,


Who founded the Theatre Union in 1936 and the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (both in Manchester)?

Obituary: Joan Littlewood | Stage | The Guardian Joan Littlewood Joan Littlewood Director of a theatre in a state of perpetual revolution and passionate creator of art and fun (though she never did get her people's palace) Monday 23 September 2002 10.07 EDT First published on Monday 23 September 2002 10.07 EDT Share on Messenger Close Joan Littlewood, who has died aged 87, devoted her prodigious life in the theatre to a faith she had kept since her Cockney youth. "I really do believe in the community," she said when old. "I really do believe in the genius in every person. And I've heard that greatness come out of them, that great thing which is in people. And that's not romanticism, d'you see?" In her struggle to make this conviction flesh through drama (a childhood teacher told her: "You pronounce the word art the way a nun might say the word Jesus"), she was one of the bonniest fighters and intractably cussed personalities the theatre has known. Although celebrity did not help or console her, she has long been acknowledged, with Peter Brook, whom she despised, as the most galvanising director in mid-20th century Britain. Her international heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, all done with almost no public subsidy, now seems short. After 1973, she was almost inactive. Yet her great causes - community and political theatre, improvisation, working-class language - have passed into the mainstream of drama and her record remains unsurpassed. The Theatre Royal at Stratford E15, which was both her temple and fun palace, now thrives on substantial grants and the legacy of her vision: "Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre." Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien. But her grandmother, who raised her, was a fine, sometimes bawdy, storyteller. By candlelight, under the bedclothes, Littlewood read library books as soon as she was old enough. Her only literary background was a rural ancestor notorious for reading newspapers in an outside privy. She liked to recall that one of her relatives had rented property in Lambeth to Charlie Chaplin's family. There was a Chaplinesque solitude and jauntiness about her from childhood on. Only five feet two inches tall, she usually wore a cap or hat half-obscuring an expressive face with an attractive grin. Her first impact on the stage was in comic parts, and she was proud that she had been approached by one of comedian Stan Laurel's comic scouts. She excelled as a scholarship girl at convent school. At 12, she asked her grandfather why the General Strike had collapsed after 10 days. "What do you want - red revolution?" he asked. Her answer, then and after, was yes. At the Old Vic, only a short walk away, she saw John Gielgud's early performances, and judging his Macbeth too decorative, she produced and acted her own at school. For Banquo's blood she used cochineal; the Mother Superior fainted. She applied for and won the only London scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. There, with a dawn office-cleaning job to supplement the grant, she won the verse-speaking prize and rehearsed as Ellie in Heartbreak House with George Bernard Shaw himself. But, disliking the patrician RADA accents, she set off for America by walking to Liverpool. She got 130 miles on foot to Burton-on-Trent before collapsing. Somebody gave her the fare to Manchester, where she called on an ex-RADA teacher in the BBC's northern office, Archie Harding. Headlines about her trip - "Joan of the Hedgerows lived on Turnips" - were her entrée. Manchester brought her closer to the counter-culture she sought: she found it in the BBC, where she worked as a producer, and in the then Manchester Guardian; but mostly in small, leftist agitprop groups dedicated to taking drama to the people of the north. Lancashire alone had nine companies. And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband. He was a virtuoso scenarist


In Greek mythology who fell from Pegasus as he attempted to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods?

Bellerophon Bellerophon See More Bellerophon Pictures > Bellerophon provides a lesson in the proper relationship between a mortal hero and the gods. When he was young he honored the gods and won their favor, but eventually his pride got the better of him and led to his downfall. Bellerophon was the son of Poseidon and Eurynome , wife of Glaucus . He was raised by Glaucus who thought Bellerophon was his own son. Considering that both Poseidon and Glaucus were interested in horses, it is not surprising that Bellerophon quested after Pegasus . After many failures, he asked the seer Polyeidus for help. Following Polyeidus' instructions, he spent the night in a temple of Athena . There, he had a dream that the goddess offered him a magical, golden bridle. He awoke and found the bridle he dreamt about in his hands. He sensibly made a sacrifice to both Athena and Poseidon . Afterwards, he went to the meadow Pegasus was grazing at, and was able to bridle and tame the horse without difficulty. Triumphant in his success, he went to King Pittheus and received permission to marry his daughter Aethra . However, before the marriage, he accidentally killed a man, possibly one of his brothers, and was banished. He went to King Proetus to be excused for his crime. The king pardoned him, but during his stay at Proetus 's house, the King's wife, Stheneboea , attempted to seduce him. As an honorable man Bellerophon rejected her advances. This infuriated Stheneboea who then falsely accused him of attempting to seduce her. Greatly upset, Proetus wanted to be rid of Bellerophon without having to accuse him publicly. He was also concerned about harming a house guest, as this was an offence to the gods. So, he sent Bellerophon to deliver a sealed message to his wife's father, King Iobates . Arriving on Pegasus , Bellerophon was warmly received and settled in as Iobates ' house guest. Iobates unsealed and read the message thus learning of Stheneboea 's accusations against Bellerophon . This left Iobates in the same predicament of acting against a guest that had troubled Proetus . Iobates ' solution was to ask Bellerophon to undertake a series of heroic, but deadly tasks. However, Bellerophon 's courage and skill as an archer, combined with Pegasus ' help, allowed him to prevail. In addition, his parentage, his sacrifices, and his acts of honour gave him the favour of the gods. His first task was to kill the terrible Chimaera . Succeeding, he was sent to conquer the neighbouring Solymi tribe, which was Iobates ' traditional enemy. When he defeated them, the King sent him to fight the Amazons . He was again victorious. In desperation, Iobates led an ambush against Bellerophon using his entire army; the army was killed to the last man. At this point, Iobates had the wisdom to notice that something was very wrong. He realized that the gods favoured Bellerophon and that this favor would not have been given to a dishonorable house guest. Iobates succeed in making amends by giving Bellerophon half his kingdom, including the best farmlands and his daughter Philonoe in marriage. There are two stories concerning the fate of Stheneboea . One says that Bellerophon extracted revenge by taking her for a ride on Pegasus , then shoving her off to fall to her death. In the other version, Stheneboea hears that Bellerophon has married her sister. She knows that this means her slander would be revealed and chose to kill herself. It appeared that Bellerophon would live happily ever after. His glorious deeds were widely sung. He was happily married. Philonoe bore him two sons, Isander and Hippolochus, and two daughters, Laodameia and Deidameia. As a king his subjects loved and honored him. However, this was not enough for Bellerophon . In his arrogance, he decided that he could ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus and visit the gods. Zeus quickly put an end to his trip by sending the gadfly to sting Pegasus and dismount Bellerophon . He survived his fall, but was crippled. He spent the rest of his life wandering the earth. No man would help him because of his offense to the


In the books about Tin Tin - the dog Snowy is known by what name in the original French?

Names of main Tintin characters in different languages | Tintinologist.org about Names of Main Tintin Characters in Different Languages Maintained by Tintinologist.org staff Irene Mar . Contributions from: Anirban Bhattacharjee, Finlay Chalmers, Baishampayan Ghose, Gorka, Ivana, Tintinologist.org staff Anders Karlsson , Başar Kocaoğlu, Chikahiro Masami, Mokhammad Misdianto, Amir Moradian, Ian Nguyen, Denis Paquet, Kirill Polsatchev, Sambeet, and Roman Zdz. Revised: 24 September 2013. Latest change: corrected entries under Czech and Slovakian - thanks to Ivana for advising the correct names. Corrected Tintin's name in Basque - thanks to Gorka for the correction. English Johnes Notes Bengali: In Bengali, Thomson and Thompson are referred to as “Manikjor” (twins) as a team; individually they are “Johnson” and “Ronson”. [AB] and [Sambeet] Farsi/Persian: When the Persian/Farsi Tintin books were re-printed, some character names got changed to conform to the English translations. While Tintin is still Tan-Tan, Milou is now Barfy (literally “snowy”), Douponte and Doupone are now Thomson and Thompson (pronounced in Persian the same as in English), and Professor Calculus is Calcooles (Persian transliteration of Calculus). [DP] Indonesian: Names of main Tintin characters in Indonesian albums published by Indira before April 2008: Tintin, Snowy, Haddock, Calculus, Thomson, Thompson. [MM] Slovakian: No official translation in Slovakian exists. According to reader Ivana: “We [Slovaks] have accepted the Czech translation, as we understand the language.” Turkish: In some Turkish translations, Milou’s name is Fındık, which roughly translates as nut. The name “Boncuk” (meaning “bead”) appears in translations from the 1980s and 1990s. Professor Tournesol’s name mostly appears as “Turnesol”, but “Turnösol” has also been used. [Başar Kocaoğlu]


Name the theatre in Scarborough associated with Alan Ayckborn.

Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website The Shop Alan Ayckbourn: 20 Facts This page is available to reproduce for free providing it is credited to: 'Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website www.alanayckbourn.net' 1. Alan Ayckbourn was born on 12 April, 1939 to Irene Maud Worley (better known as ‘Lolly’ and who also wrote under the pen-name of Mary James) and Horace Ayckbourn in Hampstead. 2. Alan attended school at Wisborough Lodge and then Haileybury. 3. Alan’s professional career began as an acting stage manager (a stage manager who also acted) with Donald Wolfit’s company for a three week engagement at the Edinburgh Festival in 1956. 4. Alan’s early career saw him work as an acting stage manager at the Connaught Theatre (Worthing), the Leatherhead Theatre Club, the Oxford Playhouse and the Library Theatre (Scarborough). He joined the latter in 1957. 5. Alan’s professional acting career ran from 1956 to 1964 and encompassed approximately 70 different roles - the majority performed in-the-round. 6. Alan’s professional playwriting career began in 1959 with The Square Cat (having confronted Stephen Joseph about the perceived quality of his role in David Campton’s Ring Of Roses ). As of 2017, Alan has written 81 full-length plays, the latest of which will open at the Stephen Joseph Theatre during summer 2017. 7. Alan married his first wife Christine Roland in 1957; together they had two sons Steven and Philip. Alan’s second marriage was to Heather Stoney in 1997. 8. Alan’s first production as a professional director was Gaslight at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in 1961. Since then he has directed more than 300 productions in the UK and abroad, including the London premieres of 32 of his plays in the West End or at the National Theatre. 9. In 1962, Alan moved with the Studio Theatre Company to the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. He both directed and acted there, as well as premiering two new plays, before leaving the company in 1964. 10. From 1965 to 1970, Alan worked as a radio drama producer for the BBC , based in Leeds. 11. Alan’s first major West End success was Relatively Speaking in 1967; as of 2016, 39 of Alan’s plays have been produced in London (not including fringe venues). 12. Alan Ayckbourn became the Artistic Director of the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in 1972. He stepped down from the position (of what is now the Stephen Joseph Theatre) on March 31 2009.* 13. In 1974, Alan held the record for having the most plays running simultaneously in the West End with Living Together , Table Manners , Round And Round The Garden , Absurd Person Singular and Absent Friends . Only Andrew Lloyd Webber since has had more productions running concurrently. 14. The Variety Club named Alan 'Playwright of the Year' in 1974; between 1973 and 2016, Alan has received more than 35 major theatre awards including an Olivier Special Award in 2009 and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement In Theatre in 2010. 15. In 1975 Alan wrote his first play intended for end-stage performance ( Bedroom Farce ); although he is primarily associated with the Round, he has written five plays intended for the end-stage: Bedroom Farce, A Small Family Business , Haunting Julia , Things We Do For Love and Virtual Reality . (For the record Jeeves and House were also first performed in the end-stage, but were not specifically written for end-stage performance) 16. In 1976, Alan and the Library Theatre company moved to the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round (based at Scarborough's former Boys’ Grammar School). In 1996, he would again move the company to the Stephen Joseph Theatre (based at Scarborough's former Odeon cinema). 17. From 1986 to 1988, Alan was invited by Sir Peter Hall to form his own company at the National Theatre . He directed A Small Family Business, A View From The Bridge , Tons Of Money and ‘ Tis Pity She’s A Whore . 18. In 1992, Alan was appointed Cameron Macintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, at the University of Oxford. 19. Alan was awarded a CBE (Companion of the Order of the British Empire) in 1987. Ten years later to


Victoria is the capital of which Canadian Province?

Victoria, the Capital of British Columbia, Canada Updated: 12/16/2014 About the City of Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the province of British Columbia , Canada. Victoria is a gateway to the Pacific Rim, is close to U.S. Markets, and has many sea and air links that make it a business hub. With the mildest climate in Canada, Victoria is known for its gardens and is a clean and charming city. Victoria holds many reminders of both its native and British heritage, and views of totem poles combine with afternoon tea. The focus of downtown Victoria is the inner harbour, overlooked by the Parliament Buildings and the historic Fairmont Empress Hotel. Location of Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.


Whose autobiography, published in late 2009, was called 'Stirred But Not Shaken'?

Keith Floyd tributes paid by TV chefs Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal | Life and style | The Guardian Keith Floyd tributes paid by TV chefs Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal • Heart attack followed gourmet restaurant meal • 'Incredible' bon vivant lived life to full, says Oliver Tuesday 15 September 2009 15.06 EDT First published on Tuesday 15 September 2009 15.06 EDT Close This article is 7 years old Tributes were paid today to Keith Floyd , television chef, restaurateur, writer and bon vivant, who died yesterday after a heart attack, aged 65. Today's generation of celebrity chefs, whose careers he had arguably made possible, were quick to acknowledge his importance. Heston Blumenthal said Floyd had created "a new genre of television", while Rick Stein recalled a "red wine drinking hero". Jamie Oliver simply described him as "the best" television chef and a huge inspiration. Floyd, who was married four times and divorced four times, was said to have spent his final day in not untypical fashion with a gourmet meal at the Hix Oyster and Fish House restaurant in Lyme Regis. Floyd, who revealed he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer earlier this year, and a friend, Celia Martin, enjoyed three courses, a bottle of French red wine and several cigarettes before returning to Martin's home in Dorset. Martin, who said the pair shared a platonic relationship, added that Floyd fell asleep before his breathing became erratic. She called an ambulance but paramedics were unable to revive him. With his enthusiastic presenting style, English gent persona and ever-present glass of wine, Floyd was instantly recognisable. Whether he was surrounded by ostriches in Africa, preparing a dish on the open deck of a fishing trawler in a storm, or taking stick from a French chef for his pipérade ("The way I cooked it was so off-putting that she knows, already, it's going to taste absolutely awful"), Floyd broke the mould of previous cookery shows. Marco Pierre White described him as a "very special talent", adding: "A little piece of Britain died yesterday." Blumenthal said: "I think Keith Floyd created a new genre of television, something really quite unique. No one made TV food programmes quite like him. He had a wealth of knowledge but there was a no-nonsense approach to it all, borne out of years of being in the business and doing it for the love of food and wine." Stein said: "I never lost that awe of him. He was the first devil-may-care cook on TV who made cooking something the boys could do too. He cooked like a dream and loved food and wine with a passion." Oliver said Floyd was an "incredible man who lived life to the full"; Nigel Slater said his broadcasts were a "joy to watch"; Gordon Ramsay described him as a "true original"; and Matthew Fort said he was the "original rock'n'roll television cook". Floyd wrote more than 20 books and his latest, Stirred But Not Shaken, is published next month, detailing his battle with the bottle. In 2004, he was fined and banned from driving for 32 months after being convicted of drink-driving but writer James Steen, who announced the chef's death yesterday, said Floyd had reduced his alcohol intake before he died. "He had curbed the drinking," said Steen, who ghost-wrote Floyd's forthcoming autobiography. He added: "When I spoke to him he was on good form, and by that I suppose I mean sober. He was a very generous man, he was very kind and extremely sharp and witty."


The line 'There's a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline' comes from which song?

In Which There's A Girl In New York City Who Calls Herself The Human Trampoline - Home - This Recording Friday, April 8, 2011 at 11:35AM Where We All Will Be Received by NELL BOESCHENSTEIN I know a six-year-old in Berkeley who starts each day by asking his parents to “put on the rock & roll!” and they know he means Graceland. It’s a record that refuses to turn off. —Daniel Wolff in 1988 When my sister who had been living in Colorado for six years finished chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer, she and her husband decided it was time to move closer to family. He went ahead of her to start work as she stayed behind to pack; between the two of them they had collected enough stuff to make the move back to where she and I had grown up in Virginia not a simple matter of throwing worldly belongings in a car and gunning it across I-70. It was a move that required preparation and, to make the trip itself easier, we decided I would fly out from New York and drive east with her. We couldn’t afford to make a real road trip of it, but we did allow ourselves the luxury of one tourist stop along the way, provided it was not too far afield. It wasn’t much of a dilemma: a brief consult and Graceland was the destination we mentally marked on the map. The inaugural album for the drive was a no-brainer. As the second song reminded us of how the Mississippi Delta could shine like a National guitar, the Rockies receded in the rearview mirror and the Denver exurbs dissolved into grassland. We were going to Graceland, Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. We were going home. photo by edie baskin Paul Simon’s Graceland celebrates a quarter century this summer: it hit your parents’ cassette player in August 1986. I was six and my sister was twelve. We were both still single and life was great. This means that Graceland is now the same age that “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” by the Shirelles, “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King, “Hit the Road, Jack” by Ray Charles, and “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by the King (of Graceland) were when Simon’s album came out. I name only songs because in 1961 albums as we understand them today hadn’t yet been invented. I have not come here to complain about time but to make the point that dues have been paid. Graceland at 25 has reached the echelon that boasts only the most rarified classics. When he sat down to record the album Simon was struggling creatively. Hearts and Bones, released three years earlier, had been welcomed to the sound of popular and critical crickets. A few years before officially beginning work on it someone had sent him a cassette of umbaquanga music (a genre of South African music with Zulu roots). He had played the tape in his car, been thrilled by it, and subsequently fascinated by the rhythms and culture he heard in the music. He then recruited renowned African musicians to work with him — Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Youssou N’Dour, and Miriam Makeba — as well as the likes of Linda Ronstadt and his childhood heroes, the Everly Brothers, and Graceland came to life. Simon has often said that American popular music of the 1950s was where he found his original inspiration and in the liner notes of Graceland he observes that in umbaquanga he heard rhythms and a musical sensibility that recalled for him that boyhood soundtrack. As soon as the album was released Simon was back on top. It won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1986, eventually sold more than fourteen million copies, and Rolling Stone called it “the whole world’s soundtrack.” In the first few months and even years after Graceland established its place on the charts, it provoked controversy and accusations of colonialism. Some of its recording sessions — the ones that took place in Johannesburg — violated the cultural boycott of the South African apartheid regime. While Simon was on record as ardently anti-apartheid, he perversely claimed the album could somehow not stand as a political document, a claim that sounded defensive and disingenuous given the album’s underlying themes of a family of man that crosses cultural, political, and racial boun


Who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test Innings?

BBC SPORT | Cricket | 1948 - Bradman's final innings duck Page last updated at 10:35 GMT, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:35 UK 1948 - Bradman's final innings duck Advertisement Don Bradman's last ever Test innings ends with a duck, bowled second ball by Eric Hollies at the Oval. Bradman scored 19 centuries in Ashes Tests, seven more than any other batsman, and finished with a Test batting average of 99.94. He'd needed just four runs for an average of 100. No wonder commentator John Arlott sounds stunned.... SEE ALSO


Who was the mother of the Greek mythological hero Perseus?

Perseus Perseus See More Perseus Pictures > According to the myth, there once was a king named Acrisius , who had a beautiful daughter named Danae . The Oracle of Apollo told Acrisius that there would come a day when Danae 's son would kill him; so he locked Danae in a bronze tower so that she would never marry or have children. The tower had no doors, except for one very small window. Danae was very sad, until one day, a bright golden light came through the small window; a man appeared holding a thunderbolt in his hand and although Danae knew he was a god, she didn't know which one. The man said, "Yes, I am a god and I wish to make you my wife. I can turn this dark prison into a wonderful, sunny and blooming land." Indeed, the horrible prison turned into fields as beautiful as the Elysian Fields themselves, but one day Acrisius saw light coming out of the small window. He told his men to tear down one of the walls. When he entered, he saw Danae smiling and holding a baby on her lap. This was Perseus . Acrisius was furious, so he locked Danae and baby Perseus in a large chest and cast them out to sea. Somehow, they managed to arrive safely to the island of Seriphos, where Polydectes ruled. The king's brother, Dictys, who was a fisherman, caught the chest in his net and pulled it to shore, freeing Danae and her son. Perseus grew up to become a strong young man. Polydectes heard about Danae and asked her in marriage, but she rejected him. If it wasn't for Perseus , Polydectes would have married Danae by force; so the king decided to create a plan to get rid of the young man. Polydectes pretended to marry the daughter of his friend. Everybody had to bring a wedding present, including Perseus . However, Perseus , being poor, had not brought anything, and Polydectes pretended to be furious. After a heated discussion, Perseus said he would bring him anything the king would ask; so Polydectes asked for the head of the Gorgon Medusa . Perseus set forth on his adventure; he wandered for days, searching for the Gorgons lair. One night, in an unknown country he realized how hopeless things were. Medusa was a horrible creature, who had snakes growing out of her head instead of hair, and a terrifying gaze that literary petrified anyone who would look into her eyes. In his despair, a tall woman and a young man with winged sandals appeared and introduced themselves as goddess Athena and god Hermes . Hermes said that they were all siblings as Perseus was in fact the son of Zeus , so they would help him in his quest; so Hermes offered him his winged sandals and the sickle that was used by Cronus to castrate Uranus ; while Athena gave him her shield, so that Perseus would not have to look straight into Medusa 's eyes. They also gave him further information on how to find the lair of Medusa . So Perseus went to the cave of the Graeae , who would lead him further in his adventure. The Graeae were three women who shared a single eye among them. So, when one of them was about to give the eye to one of the others, Perseus grabbed it and blackmailed them to aid him. So, the Graeae informed him that he should find the Nymphs of the North to get the Cap of Darkness which would make him invisible, as well as a magic bag. After getting these two items, Perseus eventually went to the lair of Medusa and her sisters, whom he found sleeping. He wore the Cap of Darkness, and unseen managed to kill Medusa using the sickle; he then used the shield to carry the head and place it into the magic bag, for even though it was dead, the head still have the potential to turn someone into stone. Medusa 's sisters woke up and attacked Perseus , but he flew away using his winged sandals. On his way back to Seriphus, he had many adventures; in one of them, he came across the Titan Atlas , who was condemned to carry the heavens on his shoulders. To release him of his pain, Perseus turned him into stone using Medusa 's head, so that he would no longer feel the weight of his burden. Later on, he saw what looked like a statue chained to a rock, so he went to investigate.


In which 1953 film does the song 'Secret Love' first appear?

Secret Love (1953) - YouTube Secret Love (1953) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 11, 2013 Click "Show more" for song lyrics "Secret Love" is a popular song written in 1953 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.[2] Its first performance was in the film Calamity Jane by Doris Day.[2] It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song.[2] Doris Day also recorded the best-selling record of the song, which reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1954. The record was made on August 5, 1953.[1] The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40108 "Secret Love" is a song featured in Frank Sinatra's 1964 album, Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners. Secret Love Once I had a secret love That lived within the heart of me All too soon my secret love Became impatient to be free So I told a friendly star The way that dreamers often do Just how wonderful you are And why I'm so in love with you Now I shout it from the highest hill Even told the golden daffodils At last my heart's an open door And my secret love's no secret anymore Now I shout it from the highest hill Even told the golden daffodils At last my heart's an open door And my secret love's no secret My secret love's no secret My secret love's no secret anymore Category


Johnston McCulley created which character in 1919? The character became famous in comics, books, film and on TV.

zorro - Free Download of Movie Western, TV, Radio and Pulp Cowboy Comics Free Download of Movie Western, TV, Radio and Pulp Cowboy Comics Zorro   Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by pulp writer Johnston McCulley. He has been featured in several books, films, television series and comics.. Zorro (Spanish for fox) is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a nobleman and master swordsman living in the Spanish colonial era of California. The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but he delights in publicly humiliating those same foes. Zorro debuted in Johnston McCulley's 1919 story The Curse of Capistrano, serialized in five parts in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. At the end of the story,  Zorro's true identity is revealed to all. Many Zorro Films were made.  Due to public demand fueled by the films, McCulley wrote over 60 additional Zorro stories starting in 1922. Zorro began appearing in comic books back in 1949.   After eight issues had been published as part of the Four-Color Comics series by Dell, the success of the television series led to a revamping of the comics. Beginning with Four-Color 882, the stories featured the characters and likenesses from the TV series. The artwork was by Alex Toth, a skilled artist who has become famous in the field. Each of the comics features a photo cover using pictures from the series. In addition, many had non-Zorro featurettes about life in old California. After several more issues in the Four-Color series, Dell renamed the series under the Zorro title, but started the numbering with issue #8 to reflect the earlier issues.


'Whaam!', Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 | Tate Roy Lichtenstein Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas Dimensions Support: 1727 x 4064 mm frame: 1747 x 4084 x 60 mm Collection Catalogue entry Display caption Whaam! is based on an image from All American Men of War published by DC comics in 1962. Throughout the 1960s, Lichtenstein frequently drew on commercial art sources such as comic images or advertisements, attracted by the way highly emotional subject matter could be depicted using detached techniques. Transferring this to a painting context, Lichtenstein could present powerfully charged scenes in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to decipher meanings for themselves. Gallery label, February 2016 T00897 Whaam! 1963 Inscribed on back of left-hand canvas 'rf Lichtenstein | '63' and 'LEFT | PANEL'; on back of right-hand canvas 'rf Lichtenstein | '63' and 'RIGHT | PANEL'; 'WHAAM! | MAGNA & OIL' on both stretchers Magna acrylic and oil on canvas, 68 x 160 (172.7 x 406.4), (two canvases each 68 x 80 (172.7 x 203.2)) Purchased from Leo Castelli, Inc., New York, through the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris (Grant-in-Aid) 1966 Exh: Roy Lichtenstein, Leo Castelli, New York, September-October 1963 (no catalogue); Mixed Media and Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, November-December 1963 (60); Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May-June 1964 (102, repr.); Nieuwe Realisten, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, June-August 1964 (95, repr.); POP etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, September-October 1964 (84, repr.); Neue Realisten und Pop Art, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, November 1964-January 1965 (65); Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme etc. ..., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, February-March 1965 (79); Roy Lichtenstein, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, November-December 1967 (22, repr. in colour); Tate Gallery, January-February 1968 (21, repr. in colour); Kunsthalle, Bern, February-March 1968 (20, repr. in colour); Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, April-May 1968 (20, repr. in colour); Roy Lichtenstein, Guggenheim Museum, New York, September-November 1969 (25, repr. in colour) Lit: Diane Waldman, Roy Lichtenstein (London 1971), pp.16-17, repr. pl.72 in colour Repr: Aujourd'hui, No.49, April 1965, p.46; The Tate Gallery (London 1969), p.193 in colour The artist wrote (10 July 1967): 'I remember being concerned with the idea of doing two almost separate paintings having little hint of compositional connection, and each having slightly separate stylistic character. Of course there is the humorous connection of one panel shooting the other. I know that I got the idea of doing separate panels while working on Tex, so that Tex and Whaam are very closely related, and probably come from the same magazine - possibly from the same story. I think that the comic was "Armed Forces at War". I don't keep any records and I think I may have gotten the above information from your letter to me. 'Whaam relates in feeling to the many war paintings I did during 1962-63, including a five panel sequence entitled Live Ammo which has since unfortunately been resold and divided among four separate owners, the three paneled painting, As I Opened Fire, owned by the Stedelijk [Amsterdam] (which I think is the most recent war painting) and O.K. Hot Shot, owned by The Hague, as well as many smaller works. All of these portray emotionally charged subject matter as it might be reported in the dispassionate style of group decisions, as well as picturing modern methods of exporting economic and social philosophy.' 'Tex' (1962, oil on canvas , 157.5 x 203cm, collection E.J. Power, London) is reproduced in Waldman, op.cit., pl.23. Although a single-canvas painting, it too shows a much- foreshortened fighter plane entering from the (lower) left. The plane has similar markings to its equivalent in 'Whaam!', and similarly a word-bubble emanates from the pilot, the path of a missile beneath its right wing is indicated by a trail of smoke, and a second plane disintegrates in an elaborate explosion to the (upper) right side of the painting. Several statements ma


Which king appointed John Dryden as the first official Poet Laureate?

John Dryden - Poet | Academy of American Poets Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. For over three generations, the Academy has connected millions of people to great poetry through programs such as National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; Poets.org, the Academy’s popular website; American Poets, a biannual literary journal; and an annual series of poetry readings and special events. Since its founding, the Academy has awarded more money to poets than any other organization. browse poems & poets Augustan Born in Northamptonshire, England, on August 9, 1631, John Dryden came from a landowning family with connections to Parliament and the Church of England. He studied as a King's Scholar at the prestigious Westminster School of London, where he later sent two of his own children. There, Dryden was trained in the art of rhetorical argument, which remained a strong influence on the poet's writing and critical thought throughout his life. Dryden published his first poem in 1649. He enrolled at Trinity College in Cambridge the following year, where he likely studied the classics, rhetoric, and mathematics. He obtained his BA in 1654, graduating first in his class. In June of that year, Dryden's father died. After graduation, Dryden found work with Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State, John Thurloe, marking a radical shift in the poet's political views. Alongside Puritan poets John Milton and Andrew Marvell, Dryden was present at Cromwell's funeral in 1658, and one year later published his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas, eulogizing the leader. In 1660, Dryden celebrated the regime of King Charles II with Astraea Redux, a royalist panegyric in praise of the new king. In that poem, Dryden apologizes for his allegiance with the Cromwellian government. Though Samuel Johnson excused Dryden for this, writing in his Lives of the Poets (1779) that "if he changed, he changed with the nation," he also notes that the earlier work was "not totally forgotten" and in fact "rased him enemies." Despite this, Dryden quickly established himself after the Restoration as the leading poet and literary critic of his day. He published To His Sacred Majesty: A Panegyric on his Coronation (1662), and To My Lord Chancellor (1662), possibly to court aristocratic patrons. That year, Dryden was proposed for membership in the Royal Society, and was elected an early fellow. In 1663, he married Lady Elizabeth, the royalist sister of Sir Robert Howard. Following the death of William Davenant in April 1668, Dryden became the first official Poet Laureate of England, conferred by a letters patent from the king. The royal office carried the responsibility of composing occasional works in celebration of public events. Dryden, having exhibited that particular dexterity with his earlier panegyrics, was a natural choice. Though the position was most often held for life (until 1999), Dryden was the lone exception. He was dismissed by William III and Mary II in 1688 after he refused to swear an oath of allegiance, remaining loyal to James II. As a playwright, Dryden published The Wild Gallant in 1663. Though it was not financially successful, he was commissioned to produce three plays for the King's Company, in which he later became a shareholder. His best known dramatic works are Marriage á la Mode (1672) and All for Love (1678), which was written in blank verse. When the bubonic plague swept through London in 1665, Dryden moved to Wiltshire where he wrote Of Dramatick Poesie (1668). The longest of his critical works, the piece takes the form of a dialogue among characters debating and defending international dramatic works and practices. In 1678, Dryden wrote Mac Flecknoe (1682), a work of satiric verse attacking Thomas Shadwell, one of Dryden's prominent contemporaries, for his "offenses against literature." Other works of satire, a genre for which Dryden has received significant p


The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval | The Public Domain Review ..or BROWSE BY TAG The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval Only once has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. Two hundred years ago, on the 11th May 1812, John Bellingham shot dead the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval as he entered the House of Commons. David C. Hanrahan tells the story. Illustration of the shooting, artist unknown. (Source: Norris Museum) On Monday 11 May, 1812, an unremarkable, anonymous man, just over forty years of age, made his way to the Houses of Parliament. The man had become a frequent visitor there over the previous few weeks, sitting in the gallery of the House of Commons and carefully examining the various members of the government through his opera glasses. At 5.00 p.m. on this particular day he walked into the lobby that led to the House of Commons and sat near the fireplace. No-one could have known that he was carrying, concealed on his person, two loaded pistols. As it was a fine evening Mr. Spencer Perceval, the Tory First Lord of the Treasury, or Prime Minister, had decided to dispense with his carriage and walk from No. 10, Downing Street, to the Houses of Parliament.  He arrived there around 5.15pm, entered the building and walked down the corridor towards the lobby entrance to the House of Commons. He handed his coat to the officer positioned outside the doors to the lobby. As Mr. Perceval entered the lobby a number of people were gathered around in conversation as was the usual practice. Most turned to look at him as he came through the doorway. No-one noticed as the quiet man stood up from beside the fire place, removing a pistol from his inner pocket as he did so. Neither did anyone notice as the man walked calmly towards the Prime Minister. When he was close enough, without saying a word, the man fired his pistol directly at Mr. Perceval’s chest. The Prime Minister staggered forward before falling to the ground, calling out as he did so words that witnesses later recalled in different ways as: “I am murdered!” or ‘Murder, Murder’ or ‘Oh God!’ or ‘Oh my God!’ Amid the confusion, a number of people raised Mr. Perceval from the ground and carried him into the nearby Speaker’s apartments. They placed him in a sitting position on a table, supporting him on either side. Most ominously, the Prime Minister had not uttered a single word since falling on the floor of the lobby, and the only noises to have emanated from him since had been a few pathetic sobs. After a short time Mr. Smith MP, on failing to find any perceptible sign of a pulse, announced his terrible conclusion to the group of stunned onlookers that the Prime Minister was dead. The Assassination of Spencer Perceval, illustration by Walter Stanley Paget (1861-1908) from Cassell's Illustrated History of England. Vol.5 (1909) Before long Mr. William Lynn, a surgeon situated at No. 15 Great George Street, arrived on the scene and confirmed that Mr. Smith was indeed correct. The surgeon noted the blood all over the deceased Prime Minister’s coat and white waistcoat. His examination of the body revealed a wound on the left side of the chest over the fourth rib. It was obvious that a rather large pistol ball had entered there. Mr. Lynn probed an instrument into the wound and found that it went downwards and inwards towards the heart. The wound was more than three inches deep. The Prime Minister, who was not yet fifty years of age, left behind a widow, Jane, and twelve children. In the shock of what had happened, the assassin was almost forgotten. The man had not attempted to escape as he might well have done amid the confusion. Instead, he had returned quietly to his seat beside the fireplace. The identity of the man was revealed as John Bellingham, not a violent radical but a businessman from Liverpool. The details of his story soon began to emerge. As a result of a dispute with some Russian Businessmen, Bellingham had been imprisoned in Russia in 1804 accused of owing a debt. He had been held in various pr


Myron Bolitar appears in a number of thrillers by whom?

Darkest Fear: A Myron Bolitar Novel: Amazon.ca: Harlan Coben: Books Product Description From Amazon Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that's not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing's 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn't wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he's not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his own son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child. This is the seventh outing in a series that's been gaining in popularity since Bolitar's first appearance, in Harlan Coben's Deal Breaker . Myron's a bit of a baby, but he's not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he's eminently likable, and his heart's in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben's other Bolitar novels, she's worth every penny. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father's health after a heart attack, but it's hard for either of them to talk about the older man's condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You're in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I'd say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy's real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron's deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who's now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world's problems. (June) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.            --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.


Which comedian's catchphrase was 'You Lucky People?

About: You Lucky People About: You Lucky People An Entity of Type : movie ,   from Named Graph : http://dbpedia.org ,   within Data Space : dbpedia.org You Lucky People is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan. Originally titled Get Fell In, the film was renamed to match Trinder's familiar catchphrase. It was shot in a rival French process to CinemaScope, called 'CameraScope', with the attendant publicity describing "the first feature to be made with an anamorphic lens in black and white! It's a camerascoop!". Property You Lucky People é um filme de comédia britânico de 1955, dirigido por Maurice Elvey e estrelado por Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker e Dora Bryan. Foi lançado pela CinemaScope. (pt) You Lucky People is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan. Originally titled Get Fell In, the film was renamed to match Trinder's familiar catchphrase. It was shot in a rival French process to CinemaScope, called 'CameraScope', with the attendant publicity describing "the first feature to be made with an anamorphic lens in black and white! It's a camerascoop!". (en) You Lucky People é um filme de comédia britânico de 1955, dirigido por Maurice Elvey e estrelado por Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker e Dora Bryan. Foi lançado pela CinemaScope. (pt) You Lucky People is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan. Originally titled Get Fell In, the film was renamed to match Trinder's familiar catchphrase. It was shot in a rival French process to CinemaScope, called 'CameraScope', with the attendant publicity describing "the first feature to be made with an anamorphic lens in black and white! It's a camerascoop!". (en)


What was the name of the comet which crashed into Jupiter in 1994?

Take That, Jupiter! Planet's Great Comet Crash of 1994 Recalled Take That, Jupiter! Planet's Great Comet Crash of 1994 Recalled By Megan Gannon, News Editor | July 17, 2014 04:00pm ET MORE Over time, Jupiter sucked up the fragments of the comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which crashed into the planet in 1994. Credit: JPL/NASA/STScI Twenty years ago this week, humans for the first time witnessed a collision between two bodies in the solar system. From July 16 to 22, 1994, more than 20 fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pelted Jupiter's atmosphere. The weeklong fireworks show left scars that could be seen for months by people on Earth with the aid small telescopes. Some of these gashes were even more visible than the Great Red Spot, a swirling hurricane in Jupiter's atmosphere that's nearly three times the size of Earth in diameter. NASA's fleet of space telescopes and probes at the time were tapped to document the historic collision. The Galileo spacecraft, which was on a mission to study Jupiter, wouldn't arrive in the Jovian system for another year and a half. But the probe still snapped images of fireballs shooting from the gas giant's southern hemisphere. [ Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Epic Jupiter Crash in Pictures ]  The telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Network looked for disturbances in radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt. The crash and its aftermath were also studied with the Hubble Space Telescope, the solar-orbiting Ulysses spacecraft, and Voyager 2 (long before it became the first man-made object to leave the solar system altogether). Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered a little more than a year before its demise, in March 1993. Husband-and-wife astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and amateur astronomer David Levy first spotted the comet while comparing two film frames taken with a camera at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory. Scientists believe the comet was pulled into orbit around Jupiter decades before it finally succumbed to the immense gravity of the solar system's biggest planet. Comets are debris left over after the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. Let's see what you know about these ancient and elusive celestial wanderers.


Who invented the first effective vaccine against polio, introduced in 1955?

Children receive first polio vaccine - Feb 23, 1954 - HISTORY.com Children receive first polio vaccine Share this: Children receive first polio vaccine Author Children receive first polio vaccine URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1954, a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receive the first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. Though not as devastating as the plague or influenza, poliomyelitis was a highly contagious disease that emerged in terrifying outbreaks and seemed impossible to stop. Attacking the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, polio caused muscle deterioration, paralysis and even death. Even as medicine vastly improved in the first half of the 20th century in the Western world, polio still struck, affecting mostly children but sometimes adults as well. The most famous victim of a 1921 outbreak in America was future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then a young politician. The disease spread quickly, leaving his legs permanently paralyzed. In the late 1940s, the March of Dimes, a grassroots organization founded with President Roosevelt’s help to find a way to defend against polio, enlisted Dr. Jonas Salk, head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Salk found that polio had as many as 125 strains of three basic types, and that an effective vaccine needed to combat all three. By growing samples of the polio virus and then deactivating, or “killing” them by adding a chemical called formalin, Salk developed his vaccine, which was able to immunize without infecting the patient. After mass inoculations began in 1954, everyone marveled at the high success rate–some 60-70 percent–until the vaccine caused a sudden outbreak of some 200 cases. After it was determined that the cases were all caused by one faulty batch of the vaccine, production standards were improved, and by August 1955 some 4 million shots had been given. Cases of polio in the U.S. dropped from 14,647 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1956, and by 1959 some 90 other countries were using Salk’s vaccine.    A later version of the polio vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin, used a weakened form of the live virus and was swallowed instead of injected. It was licensed in 1962 and soon became more popular than Salk’s vaccine, as it was cheaper to make and easier for people to take. There is still no cure for polio once it has been contracted, but the use of vaccines has virtually eliminated polio in the United States. Globally, there are now around 250,000 cases each year, mostly in developing countries. The World Health Organization has set a goal of eradicating polio from the entire world by 2010. Related Videos


Which country left the Commonwealth in 1972 and rejoined in 1989?

Pakistan | The Commonwealth The Commonwealth Asia Did you know:  Dr Asma Jahangir of Pakistan was in 2010 appointed to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, which presented its recommendations for reform in the Commonwealth to Commonwealth leaders at CHOGM in Australia in October 2011. Cricketers Imran Khan and Wasim Akram, both born in Lahore, Punjab, achieved the ‘all-rounder’s double’ and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World. Mohammed Hanif won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book award, in 2009, with A Case of Exploding Mangoes. Key facts 1947 (left in 1972, rejoined in 1989) Population:  796,095 sq km, excluding territory in Jammu and Kashmir, whose status is in dispute. Coastline:  Population density (per sq. km):  229 The country comprises four provinces: (from south to north) Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (formerly North- West Frontier Province). The territory adjoining Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa is known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Pakistani-administered parts of Jammu and Kashmir in the north-east as Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas. Main towns:  Islamabad (capital, pop. 689,200 in 2010), Karachi (Sindh Province, 13.21m), Lahore (Punjab, 7.13m), Faisalabad (Punjab, 2.88m), Rawalpindi (Punjab, 1.99m), Multan (Punjab, 1.61m), Hyderabad (Sindh, 1.58m), Gujranwala (Punjab, 1.57m), Peshawar (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 1.44m), Quetta (Balochistan, 896,100), Sargodha (Punjab, 600,500), Bahawalpur (Punjab, 543,900), Sialkot (Punjab, 510,900), Sukkur (Sindh, 493,400), Larkana (Sindh, 456,500), Shekhupura (Punjab, 427,000), Jhang (Punjab, 372,600), Rahimyar Khan (Punjab, 353,100), Mardan (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 352,100), Gujrat (Punjab, 336,700), Kasur (Punjab, 322,000), Mingaora (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 279,900), Dera Ghazi Khan (Punjab, 273,300), Nawabshah (Sindh, 272,600), Wah (Punjab, 265,200), Sahiwal (Punjab, 251,600), Mirpur Khas (Sindh, 242,900), Okara (Punjab, 235,400), Kohat (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 176,200), Abottabad (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 148,600), Khuzdar (Balochistan, 148,100), Swabi (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 115,000), Dera Ismail Khan (Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, 111,900) and Zhob (Balochistan, 56,800). Transport:  There are 262,260 km of roads, 72 per cent paved, and 7,791 km of railway, with 781 stations. Main lines run north–south, linking the main ports and industrial centre of Karachi with Islamabad, 1,600 km to the north. All major cities and most industrial centres are linked by rail. Karachi port handles the bulk of foreign trade. Port Qasim, south- east of Karachi, is also an important port. Major international airports are at Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. International relations:  Pakistan is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, United Nations and World Trade Organization. Topography:  Pakistan has great topographical variety. The high mountain region of the north includes part of the Himalayas, Karakoram and Hindukush. There are 35 peaks over 7,320 metres high, including K-2, the world’s second-highest mountain. This region abounds in glaciers, lakes and green valleys. Southwards, the ranges gradually lose height. The western low mountain region covers much of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa Province, with mountains cut by valleys and passes, including the Khyber Pass, 56 km long, connecting Kabul in Afghanistan with Peshawar. The third region is the Balochistan plateau to the west. West of the Balochistan plateau is an area of desert with dry lakes, one 87 km long. The Potohar upland lies between the Indus and Jhelum rivers in the Islamabad/Rawalpindi area. This is an arid region, with cultivation along the valleys. The fifth region is the Punjab plain watered by the River Indus and its eastern tributaries (Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas) and additionally irrigated by canals. The Sindh plain stretches between the Punjab plain and the Arabian Sea on both sides of the Indus river. The plain comprises a vast fertile tract with many lakes, and a desert spreading eastward into India. In Octob


Who was King of England when Columbus discovered America?

So, Who Did Discover America? | History Today So, Who Did Discover America? Email Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, may have discovered the New World centuries before Columbus – without leaving his study. For more than a century an army of scholars, enthusiasts and outright eccentrics has delved into the question of who discovered America. Some of the claims are truly exotic, with fanciful reportage on ancient Phoenicians in Rhode Island or Chinese from the Middle Kingdom in the Bay Area. Back in the 1950s the colourful Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl contended that Peruvians in sailboats made of balsa wood were commuting back and forth between the Americas and Polynesia centuries before Columbus set sail. Leaving aside patently absurd theories, there are a number of serious claimants for the title. First comes Zuan Chabotto (c.1450-99), the Venetian navigator and explorer. His claim turns on the fact that Columbus did not reach the American mainland until 1498, while he touched the North American shore a full year earlier. That he had set sail from England caused him to be remembered in the Anglophone world as John Cabot and shifted bragging rights from Venice to the ‘Sceptred Isle’. Then it turned out that, while Cabot found investors in Bristol and received a patent from Henry VII, his principal financial backer was an Italian banking house in London. The laurels shifted back to Italy. Discoveries and doubts In 1966 an English scholar, Alwyn Ruddock, discovered a letter of 1498 written to Columbus by an English merchant named John Day. In it, Day asserted that it was ‘considered certain’ that the North American mainland, which Cabot had visited the previous year, had been ‘found and discovered in the past’ by seamen from the port of Bristol (which happened to be Ruddock’s home town). Ruddock unearthed more papers suggesting that these pioneering Englishmen had reached America as early as 1470. Unfortunately Ruddock ordered all of these papers to be destroyed at her death in 2005. Just as it seemed that the prize was about to head north again, fresh doubts set in. Amid this ping-pong match, Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli, the Italian historian who had discovered information on Cabot’s Italian backers, came across a yellowed parchment map with an intriguing notation suggesting that Cabot may have been dispatched to confirm a discovery made many years earlier. Written in Italian, it states that ‘Giovanni Chabotte’ (Cabot) from Venice had been commissioned to sail to the ‘new land’. That the reference to new land was preceded in Italian by the definite article, il, rather than the indefinite un suggested to Guidi-Bruscoli that Cabot’s sponsors already knew of the Americas, thanks to reports by an earlier explorer. Cabot was simply verifying what was already known. Meanwhile scholars from Scandinavia have examined the Norse sagas for evidence that their forebears had sailed to North American shores before the English and Italians. The story of Vikings plowing the waves in their narrow-hulled boats to explore and settle Greenland is by now well known and confirmed by archaeological finds along Greenland’s south-western coast. At the beginning of the 20th century Professor Gustav Storm of the University of Christiania in Oslo produced evidence that Norsemen had made several trips to within sight of the Canadian coast, identifying and naming Markland (southern Labrador), Helluland (Baffin Island) and Vinland, which is thought to be Nova Scotia. Norse sagas Among these adventurers Leif Ericson (970-1020), the son of Eric the Red (c.950-1003), who had discovered Greenland, entered the history books for his sighting of Vinland in about 1000. True, one saga from 1387 states that a certain Bjarni, Son of Herjulf, had beaten Leif to Vinland, having been blown off course and sighted land there as early as 985-6. But no further support for the Bjarni claim has turned up. Just what is meant, then, by this Norse ‘discovery’ of North America? Leif Ericson was a Christian missionary who had been


What is the World's Largest Seed Updated December 15, 2016. Coco de Mer Has The Largest Seed in The World The world's largest seed comes from the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica). Other common names used are Seychelles Island Palm, coco fesse, Maldive coconut, love nut, Seychelles nut, sea coconut, and double coconut. It originates from the islands of Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles Islands. It formerly also was found on the small islets of St Pierre, Chauve-Souris and Ile Ronde (Round Island), all located near Praslin, but had become extinct there for a time until recently reintroduced. The tree grows to 25–34 m tall. The leaves are fan-shaped, 7–10 m long and 4.5 m wide with a 4 m petiole. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants.  These plants grow wild on nutrient-starved, rocky soil. Nitrogen and phosphorus are two natural fertilizers — nutrients — that these (and other plants) need. There isn’t much of either on the islands where these palms grow. So the plants are frugal. continue reading below our video Decor Secrets Home Stagers Don't Want You to Know They sprout fronds using only about one-third the nutrients needed by leaves of 56 neighboring species of trees and shrubs. What’s more, coco-de-mer palms scavenge a lot of the nutrients shed in their own dying leaves. These trees can reuse 90 percent of that prized phosphorus from the fronds it’s about to drop.  It's This Big A single seed may be 12 inches long, nearly three feet in circumference and weigh 20kg (over 40 pounds - about as much as a 4 year old boy. The seed may take 6 - 7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate. However, that won't happen until the palm first reaches plant “puberty.” On the nutrient-poor ground, this reproductive coming-of-age may take 80 to 100 years. Only then can one of these palms yield its first seed. Throughout a female coco-de-mer palm’s life of several hundred years, it may bear only about 100 seeds. The Coco de Mer is a drupe . A Nut or A Drupe Most of what we think of as nuts aren't really nuts at all, they are actually drupes. A true nut, botanically speaking, is a hard-shelled pod that contains both the fruit and seed of the plant, where the fruit does not open to release the seed to the world. Some examples of botanical nuts are chestnuts, hazelnuts, and acorns. A drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell (what we sometimes call a pit) with a seed inside. Some examples of drupes are peaches, plums, and cherries—but walnuts, almonds, and pecans are also drupes.They're just drupes in which we eat the seed inside the pit instead of the fruit! The Largest Seed Embryo Because it has the largest seed embryo, a tropical tree (Mora oleifera) found in South American tidal marshlands and estuaries is another possibility for the world's largest seed. Palomar College says that "seeds of M. oleifera may be up to 7 inches (18 cm) long and up to 5 inches (8 cm) wide."


Who became the first American F1 champion in 1961?

Phil Hill - 1961 Phil Hill Share The first American to become World Champion had a love/hate relationship with the sport. Profoundly intelligent and deeply sensitive, he was also remarkably candid about personal demons that caused inner turmoil and made his racing life a bittersweet experience. He was always fearful and throughout his career he struggled to find a balance between the perils and pleasures of his profession. Yet driving became a way of expressing himself and racing took him on a journey to places he never expected to go. The first American to become World Champion had a love/hate relationship with the sport. Profoundly intelligent and deeply sensitive, he was also remarkably candid about personal demons that caused inner turmoil and made his racing life a bittersweet experience. He was always fearful and throughout his career he struggled to find a balance between the perils and pleasures of his profession. Yet driving became a way of expressing himself and racing took him on a journey to places he never expected to go. Next Previous 1 / 5 Monte Carlo, May 1961: Phil Hill finished third in the opening round of the 1961 season, the Monaco Grand Prix, at the wheel of the famous shark-nosed Ferrari 156. © Sutton Images Spa, June 1961: Race winner Phil Hill leads team mate Wolfgang von Trips, who finished second in a Ferrari one-two-three-four at the Belgian Grand Prix. © Sutton Images Spa, June 1961: Hill’s Belgian Grand Prix triumph was the second of his two victories that season en route to the world championship. © Schlegelmilch Spa, June 1962: At round three of the season, the Belgian Grand Prix, Phil Hill made what would be the final podium appearance of his Formula One career when he finished third behind the Lotus of Jim Clark and the BRM of Graham Hill. © Schlegelmilch Spa, June 1962: Phil Hill battles Ferrari team mate Ricardo Rodriguez during the Belgian Grand Prix. Hill eventually prevailed, beating his rival to third place by just a tenth of a second. © Schlegelmilch Philip Toll Hill, Jr was born into a prominent family in Miami, Florida, on April 20, 1927. Not particularly close to his parents, he became an introverted child with an inferiority complex and few friends. Not good at sports, he feared failure and ridicule and was consumed by feelings of inadequacy. Music became an outlet and he learned to play the piano, then became fascinated by cars. When he was 12 his favourite aunt bought him a Model T Ford, which he took apart many times to understand how it worked, and his aunt's chauffeur taught him how to drive. His burgeoning automotive skills gave him increasing self-confidence, though he still felt aimless and socially awkward.  Bored after two years of business administration studies at the University of Southern California he dropped out to become a mechanic's helper in a Los Angeles garage, whose proprietor was an amateur racer. In 1947 Phil acquired an MG-TC two-seater, which he modified himself and began racing. In 1951, after both his parents died and left him money, he bought a 2.6-litre Ferrari and raced it with increasing success. Though he was a regular winner he was still so full of self-doubt that he always credited the car. His constant worry about the dangers of racing led to stomach ulcers so severe that he had to stop racing for ten months. With the help of heavy doses of tranquilisers he resumed racing and winning in a succession of Ferraris entered by wealthy owners, and by the mid 1950s he had become America's best sportscar racer.  In 1955 he was invited to join Ferrari's endurance racing roster at Le Mans, where the death of over 80 people in motorsport's worst disaster was deeply troubling for the sensitive Californian. He would eventually win Le Mans three times (all with Olivier Gendebien) but despite his speed in sportscars Hill's goal of Formula One racing was slow to come because Enzo Ferrari thought him temperamentally unsuited for single seaters. In 1958, after both Luigi Musso and Peter Collins were killed, Hill was promoted to Ferrari's Formula One team wher


Who was the first American President to live in the White House?

History | whitehouse.gov Holidays History This is really what the White House is all about. It’s the “People’s House.” It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that's why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can. Michelle Obama Our first president,  George Washington , selected the site for the White House in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen. After eight years of construction,  President John Adams  and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814. James Hoban was appointed to rebuild the house, and  President James Monroe  moved into the building in 1817. During Monroe’s administration, the South Portico was constructed in 1824, and  Andrew Jackson  oversaw the addition of the North Portico in 1829. During the late 19th century, various proposals were made to significantly expand the President’s House or to build an entirely new house for the president, but these plans were never realized. In 1902,Our first president, George Washington, selected the site for the White House in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen. After eight years of construction, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814. James Hoban was appointed to rebuild the house, and President James Monroe moved into the building in 1817. During Monroe’s administration, the South Portico was constructed in 1824, and Andrew Jackson oversaw the addition of the North Portico in 1829. During the late 19th century, various proposals were made to significantly expand the President’s House or to build an entirely new house for the president, but these plans were never realized. The White House In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt began a major renovation of the White House, including the relocation of the president’s offices from the Second Floor of the Residence to the newly constructed temporary Executive Office Building (now known as the West Wing). The Roosevelt renovation was planned and carried out by the famous New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Roosevelt’s successor, President William Howard Taft, had the Oval Office constructed within an enlarged office wing. Less than fifty years after the Roosevelt renovation, the White House was showing signs of serious structural weakness. President Harry S. Truman began a renovation of the building in which everything but the outer walls were dismantled. The reconstruction was overseen by architect Lorenzo Winslow, and the Truman family moved back into the White House in 1952. Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history. The White House is a place where history continues to unfold. White House Trivia There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels in the Residence. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators. At various times in history, the White House has been known as the "President's Palace," the "President's House," and the "Executive Mansion." President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901. Presidential Firsts while in office... President James Polk (1845-49) was the first President to have his photograph taken... President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) was not only the first President to ride in an automobile, but also the first President to trav


Lucie Manette is the heroine of which Dickens Novel?

What archetype does Lucie Manette resemble in this novel?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | eNotes What archetype does Lucie Manette resemble in this novel?A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens mwestwood | College Teacher | (Level 3) Distinguished Educator Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:30 AM The reader of A Tale of Two Cities finds evidence of Dicken's proclivity toward passive, suffering protagonists, men and women whose virtue comes from bearing up under intolerable circumstances. One of these protagonists is Lucie Manette, who is the archetype of the Victorian heroine.  She possesses what is lauded in the woman of Dickens's time:  a gift for homemaking and compassion for the less fortunate. In Chapter XIII of Book the Second, for instance, when Sydney Carton visits in Soho, he broaches his intentions of talking to her with these words, “Pray forgive me, Miss Manette. I break down before the knowledge of what I want to say to you. Will you hear me?” Graciously, Lucie responds, “If it will do you any good. Mr. Carton, if it would make you happier, it would make me very glad!” Moved, Carton remarks, “God bless you for your sweet compassion!” Then, he informs Lucie that she has inspired him with thoughts of what he might have been. With this "sweet compassion," Lucie assures Carton that he can yet reach his potential, “No, Mr. Carton. I am sure that the best part of it might still be; I am sure that you might be much, much worthier of yourself.” Her swooning and devotion with its sincerity of feeling are also part of the Victorian concept of ideal womanhood in which a passive nature was desired. As Darnay thanks her of reassurances, the mention of his failed nature has obviously disturbed Lucie's delicate nature: She was pale and trembling. He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden. ...can I not save you, Mr. Carton? Can I not recall you—forgive me again!—to a better course? Can I in no way repay your confidence? I know this is a confidence,” she modestly said after a little hesitation, and in earnest tears, “I know you would say this to no one else. Can I turn it to no good account for yourself, Mr. Carton?” And, in a previous chapter, Chapter X, when Darnay comes to ask Dr. Manette for permission to marry his daughter Lucie, Darnay alludes to Lucie's devotion to her father: I know,” said Darnay, respectfully—“how can I fail to know, Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to day?—that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it can have few parallels, even in the tenderness between a father and child.... so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character.... Then, while her husband is imprisoned by the revolutionary tribunal, the devoted Lucie stands with this "constancy" each afternoon in the street looking devotedly up to Darnay's window in hopes of seeing him.  Truly, Lucie is the idealized Victorian woman, the quiet, fainting, but relentlessly earnest and devoted wife. Sources: