In what year were congestion charges introduced into London?

Has London's congestion charge worked? - BBC News BBC News Has London's congestion charge worked? By Claire Timms BBC News, London 15 February 2013 Close share panel Image caption The congestion charge has generated a net revenue of over £1bn since 2003 The biggest congestion charge scheme to launch in any city got off to a smooth start on the morning of 17 February 2003, much to the surprise of London's then mayor Ken Livingstone. A decade on he readily admits it was the only thing in his entire political career that "turned out better than I expected". Motorists travelling into central London on that Monday morning faced the new £5 daily charge, and by the afternoon 57,000 had paid it. The RAC reported there was not the anticipated early rush of drivers trying to get across the eight-square mile zone before 7am - the time the charge came in. 'Political cowardice' Mr Livingstone said: "What was amazing was nothing went wrong. "We'd expected we'd have quite a few bits of congestion on the periphery, but we couldn't find a single point where the traffic didn't flow. "The only real problem we had were the buses were all running so ahead of schedule they had to wait at the bus stop for a couple minutes." At the time officials from 30 other British cities were reported to be considering introducing congestion charges if London's scheme was successful. Image caption No other British cities have adopted congestion schemes since London That never happened and, further afield, the only cities to adopt a similar scheme since are Milan and Stockholm. Mr Livingstone believes there are two reasons: political cowardice and "modern" cities built after the introduction of the car that do not need a congestion charge. He said: "If it wasn't for the Republicans, who control the New York State Assembly, Manhattan island would have one. Mayor Bloomberg really wants to do it but he can't get the votes. "In Manchester the politicians were so nervous they said: 'we'll have a referendum first'. "If I'd had a referendum first, with all the hysteria in the newspapers - I had two and a half years of newspapers saying it would be a disaster - you'd never have got it through. It was all doom and gloom. "Political cowardice is always going to be a problem: people think they might lose votes if they do it - but very few cities actually need it." Mr Livingstone now sees pollution as London's biggest challenge. Low-emission zone "We've all woken up to the fact that in London over 4,000 people die prematurely every year because of the air quality - that's worse than 9/11," he said. "We're not just talking about a few elderly people dying a few months early. On average they're dying 11 years early. "We've got to tackle it - that's the low-emission zone and Boris [Johnson] should be pressing ahead very rapidly and tightening up on diesel vehicles." Although he scrapped the scheme's western extension zone when he succeeded Mr Livingstone in 2010, Mr Johnson has described the original scheme as a success which had benefited London. On Wednesday he announced his vision to see the world's first "Ultra Low Emission Zone", meaning by 2020 only zero or low-emission cars would be allowed into central London. Time will tell if the argument for what seems a radical change can be won. And although the congestion charge - which was also seen as a radical step a decade ago - has won over many of the original doubters, there are still those who claim it has not been a success. Media captionTwo firms give their verdicts on how the congestion charge has helped or hindered them According to TfL figures, traffic levels over the past 10 years have gone down by 10.2% but journey times for drivers have remained flat since 2007. Barry Neil, whose east London-based company Ambient Computer Services travels into central London daily delivering computer equipment, claims this is evidence the congestion charge has failed. He said: "We said when it launched it wasn't going to make any difference and unfortunately it hasn't. "If it made it easier to drive through London, then great.


Similarly, alphabetically, which would be the first of Shakespeare's plays?

Complete List of Shakespeare Plays Complete List of Shakespeare Plays List of Shakespeare Plays: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.  Photo © Last Resort / Getty Images By Lee Jamieson Updated September 11, 2016. It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 1590 and 1612. This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in the order in which they were first performed. The exact order and dates of the first performances of Shakespeare’s plays are difficult to prove – and are therefore often in dispute. For arguments sake, the dates used in this list of Shakespeare plays are approximate. Chronological List of Shakespeare Plays: Henry VI Part II (1590-1591) Henry VI Part III (1590-1591) Henry VI Part I (1591-1592) Richard III (1592-1593) The Comedy of Errors (1592-1593) Titus Andronicus (1593-1594) The Taming of the Shrew (1593-1594) The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594-1595) Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594-1595) The Merchant of Venice (1596-1597) Henry IV Part I (1597-1598) Henry IV Part II (1597-1598) continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States Henry V (1598-1599) As You Like It (1599-1600) Twelfth Night (1599-1600) The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600-1601) Troilus and Cressida (1601-1602) All’s Well That Ends Well (1602-1603) Measure for Measure (1604-1605)


Who was fatally stabbed by Dimitri Tsafendas?

Print Related News "As the NHC, we would appeal to anybody interested in heritage to avoid emotional outburst and subjective judgements about what should constitute heritage. Such decisions should be based on policy and principles," it said in a statement. On Monday, a letter from ANC Eastern Cape MPL Christian Martins to the NHC was released to the media. Martins argued in the letter that South Africa's history would be incomplete without Verwoerd, who is referred to as the "architect of apartheid". On September 6, 1966, Tsafendas fatally stabbed Verwoerd in the then House of Assembly in Parliament. "Dimitri Tsafendas and Hendrik Verwoerd arguably changed the course of post-war South African history more than any other, when Tsafendas stabbed to death the 'architect of apartheid'," said Martins. The NHC on Tuesday described Martins' decision to release his letter to the media as "unfortunate". "Firstly, it is important to realise that history and heritage are not the same thing." The council said Martins appeared to be unaware that there was very specific legislation which needed to be followed before declaring a national heritage site. Share


Which planet in the solar system has several moons named after characters in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer- Night's Dream'?

Shakespeare's Moons, the moons of Uranus - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System Welcome to Uranus The Tilted Planet Discovery of Uranus Shakespeare's Moons Miranda, a moon of Uranus Facts about Uranus   Thousands of years ago, when the Romans and Greeks were naming the planets that were visible to them, they decided to name them after their gods. Mercury (Greek: Hermes) was the Roman god of commerce, travel and industry, Venus (Greek: Aphrodite) was the goddess of love and beauty, Mars (Greek: Ares) was the god of war, Jupiter (Greek: Zeus) was the king of the gods, and Saturn (Greek: Cronos) was the god of agriculture. Hundreds of years later, even when people knew that the planets weren't actually gods, they still kept with tradition and named newly discovered planets after mythological characters. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were all discovered in modern times, but their names are all still linked to ancient myths. Uranus is the Greek ruler of the heavens, Neptune (Greek: Poseidon) is the Roman god of the sea, and Pluto (Greek: Hades) is god of the underworld. The names of moons orbiting planets are also influenced by mythology. This is all except for one planet. The moons orbiting Uranus are named after characters in plays, mostly after characters in plays written by William Shakespeare. Why would you name moons after characters in a play though? Before I answer that, here's my quick guide to Shakespeare. One of the greatest ever writers of the English language was William Shakespeare. He was born on 23rd April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and during his life, wrote about 154 poems (called sonnets) and 38 plays. From 1588, he lived in London where many of his plays were performed in front of the courts of the Royal Family. Although his plays are now over 400 years old, they are still performed and studied today, containing themes and ideas which are as relevant now as they were when they were first written. The Globe Theatre in London was opened in 2000 and is a modern day replica of the type of theatre in which Shakespeare's plays would have originally been performed. Some of Shakespeare's most famous plays are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616 and is buried in Stratford-upon-Avon church. Although Shakespeare wrote a large number of plays, these plays can be placed into four categories: Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Romances. The Comedies were often farcical comedies of error, kind of like Fawlty Towers for the 16th Century (e.g. A Midsummer Night's Dream) . The Histories were based on real historical events, usually about English history (Henry IV, Part 1) or ancient history. Tragedies were plays with darker themes (such as betrayal and jealousy) and by the end of the play, most of the characters had died! (Romeo and Juliet, King Lear). The Romances were a bit lighter in theme and featured elements of fantasy and magic (A Winter's Tale, The Tempest). William Shakespeare is a hugely influential figure in English literature today. Students still analyse and discuss his works, and tourists from all over the world visit Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare's house (pictured right). His importance inspired William Herschel in 1787 to name some of the moons known to be orbiting Uranus after characters in Shakespeare's plays. In 1781, Uranus became the first planet to be " discovered ". The other planets that were known of at the time ( Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn ) plus the Sun and the Moon had been observed for tens of thousands of years from Earth and already had names, named by the Greeks and Romans after their gods. Before 1781, nobody knew that Uranus existed and people thought there were only six planets in the Solar System. Although Uranus had already been spotted numerous times, it was English astronomer William Herschel who first recognised that Uranus was actually a planet and not a star . Because the planet was discovered by an English astronomer , not an ancient Roman or Greek, it was very n


According to Genesis,how old was Methuselah when he died (within 10 years)?

Genesis 5:27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died. Matthew Henry Commentary 5:25-32 Methuselah signifies, 'he dies, there is a dart,' 'a sending forth,' namely, of the deluge, which came the year that Methuselah died. He lived 969 years, the longest that any man ever lived on earth; but the longest liver must die at last. Noah signifies rest; his parents gave him that name, with a prospect of his being a great blessing to his generation. Observe his father's complaint of the calamitous state of human life, by the entrance of sin, and the curse of sin. Our whole life is spent in labour, and our time filled up with continual toil. God having cursed the ground, it is as much as some can do, with the utmost care and pains, to get a hard livelihood out comfort us. It signifies not only that desire and expectation which parents generally have about their children, that they will be comforts to them and helpers, though they often prove otherwise; but it signifies also a prospect of something more. Is Christ ours? Is heaven ours? We need better comforters under our toil and sorrow, than the dearest relations and the most promising offspring; may we seek and find comforts in Christ.


Which Lancashire actress played the part of 'Daphne Moon' in 'Frasier'?

Jane Leeves - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Miscellaneous Crew Jane Leeves has made her mark in the entertainment world, acting in television, theater and film over the past 20 years. Leeves stars in the Emmy® Award-winning TV Land series, Hot in Cleveland (2010), which in 2011 was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Leeves plays eyebrow ... See full bio » Born:


Which horse won this year's (2007) Cheltenham Gold Cup?

Cheltenham Gold Cup tips from around the horse world TAGS: Cheltenham Festival Cheltenham Gold Cup All eyes will be on the Cheltenham Festival tomorrow (Friday 18 March) when the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup gets underway. The blue riband of jump racing has previously been won by such outstanding horses as Arkle, Best Mate, Golden Miller, Kauto Star and Denman. Sadly, last year’s Gold Cup hero Coneygree (pictured) will not be back to defend his title due to injury, which has seen his 2015/2016 season end prematurely — so which steeplechasing stars does that leave the door wide open for? We asked some well- known faces from the racing world to share their Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup tips with us… Don Poli Horse & Hound‘s racing correspondent Marcus Armytage fancies the Willie Mullins-trained Don Poli (pictured below). “He wouldn’t be the most obvious choice of the Mullins quartet — also including Vautour, Djakadam and Valseur Lido. But he has won two from his two previous starts at the Festival. He’s not the fastest horse in the world but in a slog he will come into his own and find another gear coming up that hill,” says Marcus. Cue Card Racing Post journalist Lee Mottershead believes Colin Tizzard’s Cue Card (pictured below) could win the big race and, in turn, scoop the Chase Triple Crown with a hefty £1 million bonus for his connections. “For those who flock to the Festival the heart often competes with the head. Sometimes, though, they work as one. For me, that is the case with the marvellous Cue Card. I dearly want to see him win the Gold Cup and I believe he will do just that,” says Lee. Article continues below...   “The Tizzards have done a wonderful job with their evergreen star, who first won at the festival as a raw but brilliant bumper performer six years ago. This season, with a major breathing problem solved, he has started to fulfil his destiny with three glorious victories, most recently in the King George. If he stays — and I think he will — he is the most likely winner of the Gold Cup.” Like this? You might also enjoy reading these: 8 typical Cheltenham Festival racegoers Don Cossack Channel 4 Racing‘s betting presenter Tanya Stevenson thinks Gordon Elliott’s Don Cossack (pictured below) shouldn’t be ignored. “Don Cossack has only been beaten twice in his last 11 starts. The debate will rumble on to whether he would have won the King George if he hadn’t fallen. But we do know he was staying on in that race and his run at Thurles — last time out where he won — rid memories of the fall. He would be my pick,” concludes Tanya. Article continues below...   Don’t miss Horse & Hound’s full Cheltenham Festival report in the 24 March issue of the magazine Latest deals


"Which bird may be described as ""a small finch with a brownish-green back, with shades of yellow and a black cap""?"

Lesser Goldfinch - Whatbird.com Lesser Goldfinch Copyright © 2004 - 2017 Mitch Waite Group PHOTOS Photos we are missing. CONSERVATION STATUS The Lesser Goldfinch is a terrestrial bird species that is native to North America as well s countries in Central America and South America. This bird is considered to be regionally extinct in Cuba. The range of this bird is almost 4 million square kilometers. The population of the Lesser Goldfinch is about 3 million square kilometers. This bird species is currently rated as Least Concern. The prior rating for the Lesser Goldfinch was Lower Risk. At this time there are not any immediate concerns regarding the population or the range of the Lesser Goldfinch. IBIRD EXPLORER GENERAL posted on May 13, 2013 07:47 AM PHOTO SHARING AND DISCUSSION posted on December 01, 2009 12:06 PM BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY posted on June 12, 2016 09:03 PM SUMMARY Overview Lesser Goldfinch: Small finch with dark back (black in the east, dark green in the west), black crown, bright yellow underparts. Wings, tail black with white markings. Forages in shrubs, brush, weedy fields for seeds and insects. Swift flight, alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.   Range and Habitat Lesser Goldfinch: Resident from Washington, Oregon, and northern Nevada east to northern Colorado and Texas, and south beyond the U.S.-Mexico border. Eastern race is found from northern Colorado southward through Texas and westward to Utah and Arizona. Western race occurs from Utah westward to Columbia River. Preferred habitats include oak savannas and woodlands. SONGS AND CALLS INTERESTING FACTS The Lesser Goldfinch was first described in 1823 by Thomas Say, an American naturalist. Males are markedly polymorphic and 5 subspecies are often named; at least 2 of them seem to represent a less-progressed stage in evolution. Their molt shows a broad zone of intergradation, with the molting period, timing, and pattern varying depending on geographical location. A group of goldfinches has many collective nouns, including a " 007", "charm", "rush", "treasury", and "vein" of goldfinches. SIMILAR BIRDS About this North America Map This map shows how this species is distributed across North America. FAMILY DESCRIPTION Fringilline and Cardueline Finches and Allies (Fringillidae) ORDER Also known as perching birds, the order PASSERIFORMES (pronounced pas-ser-i-FOR-meez) is composed of one hundred and eighteen families of birds, among which are included the insectivorous warblers and the seed-eating finches. FAMILY TAXONOMY The Fringillidae (pronounced frin-JIHL-lih-dee) is a widespread bird family found on most continents and includes two hundred and seven species of finches in thirty-nine genera. NORTH AMERICA Eighty-nine species of fringillidae in twenty-nine genera have occurred in North America and Hawaii. These include familiar feeder visitors such as goldfinches and siskins, the nomadic rosy-finches of the high mountains, and a group with several extinct species; the Hawaiian Honeycreepers. KNOWN FOR Fringillidae are known for their seed-eating behavior and cheery songs; characteristics that facilitated and popularized the domestication of the Island Canary. Finches such as White-winged Crossbills are also known for their "irruptive" migrations in search of food sources that can make them locally common one winter and absent the next. PHYSICAL Fringillidae are primarily small birds with stout, short bills adapted to cracking open seeds and have short legs for a mostly arboreal lifestyle. Most species also have slightly forked tails and long wings, both useful for the large amount of flying needed to find seeding plants. Although some Hawaiian Honeycreepers share this general structure, others evolved a variety of bill shapes related to the habitat niches they occupy. COLORATION North American Fringillidae are generally plumaged in shades of red, yellow, brown and dull green - these colors being more vivid in the case of the Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Male finches are more brightly colored than females, the yellow and black plumage of male go


'Sushi' is freshfish or other seafood served with rice, but what is usually added to the rice?

Cookbook:Sushi - Wikibooks, open books for an open world Cookbook:Sushi Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Cuisine of Japan In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, 鮨, 鮓) is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients including fish (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish by itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an outdated grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, sushi means "it's sour." Sushi must contain rice, typically contains nori (and sometimes seaweed), and virtually always includes fillings or toppings such as of various types, such as seafood, chicken, tuna etc., the possibilities of which are endless. Similar to Western appetizers (although sushi is often intended to be the main course), sushi should be served in a manner that will allow eating by hand, usually in a bite or two. Many types of sushi are individually made by the cook to the appropriate size or are cut by the cook to this size before serving. Although sushi may be prepared in a wrap or roll format prior to serving, traditional ingredients lack the structural strength needed to allow them to be eaten by hand as an entire roll or wrap. Sushi, in its simplest forms, is made by first cooking rice, then cooling it, molding by it hand or in a mold and adding a topping, or wrapping the rice in nori and adding fillings to make a roll, using a bamboo mat to help, which is then cut into smaller pieces. Usually served cool and with soy sauce, sliced ginger, and wasabi . Sushi can be eaten as served by the cook or dipped into (or, using sliced ginger as a 'brush', wiped with) soy sauce and then eaten, with additional wasabi added by the brave. As a general rule, it is always appropriate to eat sushi by hand, unless it is obvious that you cannot avoid getting rice or other ingredients stuck to your fingers, in which case chopsticks should be used. Much care is put into the creation of the dish and the many methods of preparing the food indicate the importance of appearance to the educated consumer. Contents History[ edit ] Beginning as a method of pickling fish centuries ago, sushi has evolved into an artful, unique dining experience. In its earliest form, fish was placed between two wads of rice , producing a moderately complex chemical reaction as the fish fermented, helping to preserve it. Sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries, rice vinegar started to be added to the rice to help speed up the process which took several months. Around this time the rice also started to be consumed with the fish it was used to preserve. Nori (red algae seaweed paper) was added about this period as a way to keep one's fingers from getting sticky, thus creating the first ancestor of modern 'makizushi', or rolled sushi. Sometime in the mid to late 18th century, a restaurant in Edo (modern Tokyo) started serving sushi rice alone with thinly sliced fresh fish pressed into it. This was the start of Edo-Mae sushi, which is also known as 'nigirizushi', or pressed sushi. Sometime after this, a chef took this one step further and eliminated the sushi rice all together: the birth of sashimi. It is important to note that sashimi specifically refers to thinly sliced raw or mostly raw fish and shellfish. It is hard to tell when exactly the wasabi and pickled ginger were added, but it is probable they came in with the Edo-Mae sushi, as this was when the focus of sushi became enjoying the taste of the exceedingly fresh fish, and the condiments heighten the experience. Types of Sushi[ edit ] Makizushi[ edit ] Makizushi (rolled sushi), or maki for short, is the kind that is most common to North American consumers (see California Rolls ) as it is basically sushi layered on top of nori, rolled into a tube, and cut into thick slices. Easy to make and even easier to mass produce, it has found a wide proli


Animals Similar to a Fennec Fox | Animals - mom.me Animals Similar to a Fennec Fox Many types of fox are able to live in a desert environment. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images The fennec fox is the smallest fox in the world, with thick fur and huge ears that help it weather the temperature extremes in its habitat, the Sahara desert. Most mammals have a hard time surviving in such barren conditions, but there are actually several other members of the fox family that share some of the fennec's qualities. Coyotes Coyotes are the best-known desert dog in the United States. Coyotes and foxes are closely related and share many similar traits. Although coyotes can live in a variety of environments, they are well adapted to desert living. Like fennec foxes, they are omnivorous. In a desert environment they eat rodent, reptiles, insects and plants. Coyotes live in packs, and dig dens to raise their young in the spring. Arabian Red Fox The Arabian red fox is a member of the worldwide red fox family, but with many features adapted to living in the Arabian deserts. Like the fennec fox, the Arabian red fox is small, with a pale coat and huge ears to help disperse heat under the desert sun. Also like the fennec and coyote, it eats an omnivorous diet of small desert animals, plus birds and occasionally vegetation. Gray Fox The gray fox is also found throughout many parts of the United States, including the rocky deserts of the Southwest. The gray fox shares a habitat and may at times be in competition with coyotes. It has the ability to climb trees -- unusual among canines -- which comes in handy when competing for food. Its diet includes scavenged carrion, prickly pear fruit and pine nuts as well as the sort of small animals favored by other desert foxes. San Joaquin Kit Fox Another small fox that closely resembles the fennec is the San Joaquin kit fox. The pale, large-eared kit fox is rare, living only in southern California, and is classified as endangered. They also live in territories that overlap with coyotes and red foxes, and they hide in burrows to stay safe from predators. They eat a similar diet of small desert animals and don't need to drink water, instead absorbing moisture directly from their prey. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images Author Laura Gee has a B.A. in history and anthropology, but now spends more time blogging and producing web content. She has worked and/or trained as an illustrator, crafter, caterer, yoga teacher, child-care provider and massage therapist, and she loves to travel when she gets a chance. See More Animals


"Which book ends with the words ""After all, tomorrow is another day""?"

Gone with the Wind (1939) - Quotes - IMDb Gone with the Wind (1939) Scarlett : Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do? Rhett Butler : Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Scarlett : As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Scarlett : What are you doing? Rhett Butler : I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true. Scarlett : Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling! Rhett Butler : Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last. Scarlett : This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did. Rhett Butler : I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes? Scarlett : I... I never really loved Ashley. Rhett Butler : You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London. Scarlett : I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty. Rhett Butler : And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't. Scarlett : I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me. Rhett Butler : It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything. Scarlett : Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything. Rhett Butler : My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. Scarlett : Rhett! Rhett, where are you going? Rhett Butler : I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong. Scarlett : Please, please take me with you! Rhett Butler : No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about? Scarlett : No! I only know that I love you. Rhett Butler : That's your misfortune. [Rhett turns to walk down the stairs] Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Scarlett : [pleads with Rhett as he is about to leave to join the Confederate Army] Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you! Rhett Butler : I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names. Scarlett : [struggles] Don't hold me like that! Rhett Butler : [holds her tighter] Scarlett! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman. [kisses her forehead] Scarlett : [turns her face away] Let me alone! Rhett Butler : [forces her to look him in the eyes] Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around hi


Which musical comedy features the characters 'Bloom' and 'Bialystock'?

The Producers (Musical) Plot & Characters | StageAgent Overview Synopsis Based on the 1968 film, Mel Brooks’s musical The Producers is a laugh-out-loud, outrageous, crowd-pleasing farce that has been a smash hit since its 2001 debut. Fading Broadway producer Max Bialystock is desperate to get to the top of his profession again, and he finds an unlikely ally in mousy accountant Leo Bloom, who hypothesizes that one could make far more money with a flop of a show than with a hit. Together, the two set out to produce the worst musical ever to hit Broadway, with the worst script, the worst director, and the worst cast they can find; the catch is that they will raise two million dollars to finance the show, and they plan to take the money and head to Rio when the show inevitably closes after just one performance. Too bad for Bialystock & Bloom that, against all odds, the show is a total hit! With dozens of big and bit parts alike, no shortage of showstopping musical numbers, and Brooks’ signature humor keeping audiences in stitches, The Producers is definitely far from a flop. Characters


In World War II, on which of the Pacific islands was the bloodiest battle fought, resulting in the deaths of 12,000 American troops and 121,000 Japanese?

Pacific War | World War II Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Manchuria (1945) Please replace links to Wikipedia in this article with links to this wiki. Only do this if these links relate to the wiki subject. Thank you! The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War [14 ] refers broadly to the Pacific theatre of the Second World War that took place in the Pacific Ocean , its islands, and in East Asia , then called the Far East . The term Pacific War is used to encompass the Pacific Ocean theatre , the South West Pacific theatre , the South-East Asian theatre and the Second Sino-Japanese War , also including the 1945 Soviet-Japanese conflict . It is generally considered the Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941 with the invasion of Thailand [15 ] for the invasion of British Malaya , and the attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States' Territory of Hawaii by the Empire of Japan . [16 ] [17 ] [18 ] [19 ] Some authors consider the conflict in Asia can be dated as far as 7 July 1937, beginning with the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China , or possibly 19 September 1931, beginning with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria . [20 ] However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself started in early December 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War then becoming part of it as a theater of the greater World War II. [21 ] [22 ] The Pacific War saw the Allied powers pitted against the Empire of Japan, the latter briefly aided by Thailand and to a much lesser extent by its Axis allies, Germany and Italy . The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and other large aerial bombing attacks by the United States Army Air Forces , accompanied by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 8 August 1945, resulting in the surrender of Japan and the end of fighting during World War II on 15 August 1945. The formal and official surrender of Japan occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. Contents Edit In Allied countries during the war, it was not usually distinguished from World War II in general, or it was known simply as the War against Japan. In the United States, the term Pacific Theater was widely used, although technically this did not cover the South West Pacific Theatre (under the command of General Douglas MacArthur ), the China-Burma-India Theater , or usually the Southeast Asian Theater. However, note that the aircraft carrier task forces of the U.S. Pacific Fleet did carry out large air raids on Vietnam – at Haiphong , Camranh Bay , and Saigon in early 1945. Japan used the name Greater East Asia War ( 大東亜戦争 , Dai Tō-A Sensō ? ), as chosen by a cabinet decision on 10 December 1941, to refer to both the war with the Western Allies and the ongoing war in China. This name was released to the public on 12 December, with an explanation that it involved Asian nations achieving their independence from the Western powers through armed forces of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere . Japanese officials integrated what they called the Japan-Sino Incident (日支事変, Nisshi Jihen ? ) into the Greater East Asia War. During the American military occupation of Japan (1945–52), these Japanese terms were prohibited in official documents, although their informal usage continued, and the war became officially known as Pacific War (太平洋戦争, Taiheiyō Sensō ? ). This latter term has later come into limited use in Occidental countries. In Japan, the Fifteen Year War (十五年戦争, Jūgonen Sensō ? ) is also used, referring to the period from the Mukden Incident of 1931 through 1945. Edit [2] [3] Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek , Allied Commander-in-Chief in the China theatre from 1942–1945. [4] [5] Political Map of the Asia-Pacific Region, 1939.The Axis states which assisted Japan included the authoritarian government of Thailand , which quickly formed a temporary alliance with the Japanese in 1941, since Japanese forces were invading the southern peninsula of Thailand, anyway. Also the Phayap Army sent troops to invade and occupy northeastern Burma . Thi


Which 'James Bond' film featured Louis Armstrong singing'You've Got All The Time In The World', in its opening titles?

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ) M | From $0.00 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt (as Peter Hunt) Writers: a list of 21 titles created 29 Jul 2011 a list of 26 titles created 22 Dec 2011 a list of 28 titles created 24 Feb 2013 a list of 24 titles created 24 Oct 2015 a list of 24 titles created 11 months ago Title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) 6.8/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     1     Golden Globe. Another    3 nominations. See more awards  » Videos Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Director: John Glen A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Director: Guy Hamilton Edit Storyline George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Draco, he must become very close friends with his daughter, Tracy, and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld's guards as well as his hench-woman, Irma Bunt. What has Blofeld got in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are ANY Bond girls safe? Written by simon Far up! Far out! Far more! James Bond OO7 [UK poster] See more  » Genres: 19 December 1969 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia First Bond film since Dr. No (1962) to put the production credit over the gun barrel intro. See more » Goofs When Bond meets Blofeld for the first time Blofeld starts to undo


In which country do the Ibo people live?

Igbo - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major holidays, Rites of passage Igbo LANGUAGE: Igbo (Kwa subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family) RELIGION: Tribal religion 1 • INTRODUCTION The Igbo are the second largest group of people living in southern     Nigeria. They are socially and culturally diverse, consisting of many     subgroups. Although they live in scattered groups of villages, they all     speak one language. The Igbo have no common traditional story of their origins. Historians     have proposed two major theories of Igbo origins. One claims the     existence of a core area, or "nuclear Igboland." The other     claims that the Igbo are descended from waves of immigrants from the     north and the west who arrived in the fourteenth or fifteenth century.     Three of these are the Nri, Nzam, and Anam. European contact with the Igbo began with the arrival of the Portuguese     in the mid-fifteenth century. At first the Europeans confined themselves     to slave trade on the Niger Coast. At this point, the main item of     commerce provided by the Igbo was slaves, many of whom were sent to the     New World. After the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, British     companies pushed beyond the coastal areas and aggressively pursued     control of the interior. The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, created     in 1900, included Igboland. Until 1960, Nigeria remained a British     colony, and the Igbo were British subjects. On October 1, 1960, Nigeria     became an independent nation structured as a federation of states. 2 • LOCATION Igboland is located in southeastern Nigeria, with a total land area of     about 15,800 square miles (about 41,000 square kilometers). The Igbo     country has four distinct areas. The low-lying deltas and riberbank     areas are heavily inundated during the rainy season, and are very     fertile. The central belt is a rather high plain. The Udi highlands are     the only coal-mining area in West Africa. It is difficult to obtain accurate census figures for either the Igbo or     for Nigeria as a whole. The Igbo population is estimated to be between 5     and 6 million. 3 • LANGUAGE The Igbo language belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. It is part     of the Kwa subfamily. A complicated system of high and low tones     indicates differences in meaning and grammatical relationships. There     are a wide range of dialects. Here are a few Igbo expressions: English Ndewo 4 • FOLKLORE The Igbo have a system of folk beliefs that explains how everything in     the world came into being. It explains what functions the heavenly and     earthly bodies have and offers guidance on how to behave toward gods,     spirits, and one's ancestors. The Igbo believe the world is peopled by invisible and visible forces:     by the living, the dead, and those yet to be born. Reincarnation is seen     as a bridge between the living and the dead. 5 • RELIGION The major beliefs of the Igbo religion are shared by all Igbo-speaking     people. However, many of its practices are locally organized, with the     most effective unit of religious worship being the extended family.     Periodic rituals and ceremonies may activate the lineage (larger kinship     unit) or the village, which is the widest political community. The Igbo believe in a supreme god who keeps watch over his creatures     from a distance. He seldom interferes in the affairs of human beings. No     sacrifices are made directly to him. However, he is seen as the ultimate     receiver of sacrifices made to the minor gods. To distinguish him from     the minor gods he is called Chukwu—the great or the high god. As     the creator of everything, he is called Chukwu Abiama. There are also minor gods, who are generally subject to human passions     and weaknesses. They may be kind, hospitable, and industrious; at other     times they are treacherous, u


With which singer did Lee Hazlewood sing 'Did You Ever'?

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood-Did You Ever? - YouTube Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood-Did You Ever? 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. Uploaded on May 9, 2008 Audio (only) from CD. Album: Fairy Tales & Fantasies-The Best of Nancy and Lee Track-6


Who wrote the plays 'Habeus Corpus' and 'Forty Years On'?

Habeas Corpus Written by Alan Bennett Author Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (b1934) Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. He graduated with a first-class degree in history at Oxford where he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in the Oxford Revue. He remained at the university for several years, where he researched and taught Medieval History. In 1960, Bennett appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On directed by Patrick Garland was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Many of Bennett's characters are unfortunate and downtrodden, or meek and overlooked. Life has brought them to an impasse, or else passed them by altogether. In many cases they have met with disappointment in the realm of sex and intimate relationships, largely through tentativeness and a failure to connect with others. Bennett is both unsparing and compassionate in laying bare his characters' frailties. This can be seen in his television plays for LWT in the late 1970s and the BBC in the early 1980s, and in the 1987 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. This was a sextet of poignantly comic pieces, each of which depicted several stages in the character's decline from an initial state of denial or ignorance of their predicament, through a slow realisation of the hopelessness of their situation, and progressing to a bleak or ambiguous conclusion. A second set of six Talking Heads pieces followed a decade later. In his 2005 prose collection 'Untold Stories' Bennett wrote candidly and movingly of the mental illness that afflicted his mother and other family members. Much of his work draws on his Leeds background, and his stage play 'The Lady in the Van' was based on his experiences with a tramp called Miss Shepherd who lived on his driveway in several dilapidated vans for over fifteen years. In 1994 Bennett adapted his popular and much-praised 1991 play The Madness of George III for the cinema which received four Academy Award nominations. His critically-acclaimed The History Boys won three Laurence Olivier Awards in February 2005. Bennett himself received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre. Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1987. He was also awarded a D.Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 and a hon PhD from Kingston in 1996. However in 1998 he refused an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, in protest at its accepting funding for a named chair in honour of press baron Rupert Murdoch. He also declined a CBE in 1988 and a knighthood in 1996. He earned Honorary Membership of The Coterie in the 2007 membership list. In 2008 Bennett donated his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library. It was a gesture of thanks repaying a debt he felt he owed to the UK's social welfare system that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded. PlayHabeas Corpus Habeas Corpus was first performed at the Lyric Theatre in London on 10 May 1973, with Alec Guinness and Margaret Courtenay in the lead roles. Bennett's first play, written in 1973, it is a comedy set in Brighton in the 1960s where the lust and longing of the permissive society has well and truly taken hold of the apparently respectable Wicksteed family. The aging Dr. Arthur Wicksteed pursues his nubile patient, Felicity Rumpers. Wicksteed's wife Muriel lusts after the charming head of the BMA, Sir Percy Shorter. Shorter as well as being Wicksteed's old rival, turns out to be Felicity's father - the result of an under-the-table liaison during an air-raid with Lady Rumpers, her mother. Meanwhile, Wicksteed's spinster-sister Connie, ashamed of her flat-chest


Aged 52 in 1930, he was England's oldest Test cricketer. Who was he?

From Anderson to 1877: how to go back to the first Test in 10 England players | Mike Selvey | Sport | The Guardian Sportblog From Anderson to 1877: how to go back to the first Test in 10 England players Linking Jimmy Anderson to the first Test 139 years ago connects famous England figures including Graham Gooch, Brian Close, Sir Leonard Hutton and WG Grace Jimmy Anderson has been playing Test cricket for 13 years, which makes his career the longest among the current England team. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images Wednesday 1 June 2016 13.17 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 1 June 2016 19.20 EDT Share on Messenger Close Alpha and omega. The beginning and the end. On 1 June 1899, one illustrious international career was coming to an end and another was beginning. WG Grace, the Doctor, was 50 years old when he began the last of his 22 Tests, against Australia (they all were back then) at Trent Bridge. They were troubled times. His 20-year-old daughter, Bessie, had died of typhoid in February and, grieving, he was largely an early-season absentee captain from Gloucestershire, with whom he was in dispute as a result, ultimately resigning the role. Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was WG by Richard Tomlinson – review Read more This I know from Richard Tomlinson’s splendid book Amazing Grace , which recounts that Grace’s wounded response to the Gloucestershire committee’s inquiry as to whether he actually intended to play any cricket was to finish by saying the affection in which he held the county of his birth was not matched by that for the committee, which as a body he held in great contempt. There had been press mutterings, too, about his continued value to the England side, a superstar hanging around too long. “A place may be found for that once great cricketer,” said the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, “still great considering his years, in the first match for sentimental reasons alone.” Grace was the captain and a senior selector, though. “Why does not Grace retire?” the Yorkshire Evening Post wondered. “Even a man of his extraordinary powers and endurance must drop out of international cricket some day and it would be wiser and more graceful act on his part to do so voluntarily.” But he did play, opening the batting and making a scrappy 28 and one, and bowling 22 fruitless overs in a drawn match. He was not helped by batting with CB Fry, a magnificent athlete, but one frustrated by Grace’s ponderousness so that “we lost innumerable singles to the off side and I never dared call WG for a second run to the long field. When England fielded, Grace was jeered and booed by the 13,000 crowd. On 10 June, he resigned and retired from international cricket. Wilfred Rhodes, at the age of 21, took seven wickets in the Test with his slow, left-arm spin and was embarking on a 58-match Test career that would not finish until April 1930, the longest span of all. On his England debut he batted at 10, shared a last-wicket partnership of 130 with RE Foster four years later, a record that stood for seven decades, and eight years on was opening the batting. It was the longevity of Rhodes’s career, and, discursively, Jimmy Anderson reaching 450 Test wickets at Chester-le-Street over the last weekend and becoming the No1 ranked Test bowler, that got me thinking of something that once entertained us for a short while regarding Middlesex. The challenge was to see how far back we could go in the club’s history with the fewest players – degrees of separation, if you will – each of whom must have played with another to maintain a chain (memory serves it went something like Mark Ramprakash, Mike Gatting, Fred Titmus, Gubby Allen and Joe Murrell, whose first-class career, albeit with Kent initially, began before the turn of the last century and who certainly played against the Doctor (lbw Grace, 2). It is an argument I use (Fred was a fine bowler in 1983 so he must have been in 1949, etc etc) when discussions turn to comparative eras. Dr WG Grace on cricket - archive, 1 June 1909 Read more Anderson has been playing Test cricket for 13 years, which makes his c


According to Genesis, howold was Noah when he died (within 10 years)?

Genesis 5:32-10:1 NIV - After Noah was 500 years old, he became - Bible Gateway Genesis 5:32-10:1New International Version (NIV) 32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. Wickedness in the World 6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[ a ] humans forever, for they are mortal[ b ]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Noah and the Flood 9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[ c ] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[ d ] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[ e ] high all around.[ f ] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. 7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” 5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on


What is 'Crocodile Dundee's' first name?

Crocodile Dundee (1986) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. Director: a list of 36 titles created 16 Nov 2010 a list of 44 titles created 09 Jun 2011 a list of 34 titles created 10 Aug 2012 a list of 26 titles created 07 Jan 2014 a list of 30 titles created 04 Feb 2015 Search for " Crocodile Dundee " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     1     Oscar. Another    3 wins & 7 nominations. See more awards  » Videos Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under. Director: John Cornell Australian Outback adventurer Mick "Crocodile" Dundee travels to Los Angeles with his young son while his longtime companion suspects foul play at a movie studio. Director: Simon Wincer Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how ... See full summary  » Director: Simon Wincer A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Director: Robert Zemeckis This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an ... See full summary  » Director: Lewis Teague A small-time crook becomes convinced he has become an angel after a traumatic incident and resolves to perform the work of one. Director: John Cornell A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks. Director: Hugh Wilson A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. Director: Martin Brest Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it. Director: Tony Scott A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle. Director: Danny DeVito When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour. Director: Ron Howard A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate. Director: Michael Ritchie Edit Storyline Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an Australian crocodile hunter who lives in the Australian outback and runs a safari business with his trusted friend and mentor Walter Reilly. After surviving a crocodile attack, a New York journalist named Sue arrives to interview Mick about how he survived and learns more about the crocodile hunter. After saving Sue from a crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New York City, since Mick has never been to a city. Mick finds the culture and life in New York City a lot different than his home and he finds himself falling in love with Sue. Written by Daniel Williamson The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple! See more  » Genres: 26 September 1986 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia The "quotes" around "Crocodile" in the title were added for the American release to ensure people didn't think that Dundee was a crocodile. See more » Goofs When the pimp approaches Mick for the second time, he says, "If it isn't the man who doesn't like bad [expletive] language in front of ladies!" However, Mick didn't make this comment to Simone and Carla until after he'd knocked the pimp


"What book begins with the words ""You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings""?"

Johnson, "My Monster/My Self" Diacritics, 12 (Summer 1992), 2-10 Mary Shelley. FRANKENSTEIN: OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS. New York: Signet, 1965. Nancy Friday. MY MOTHER/MY SELF. New York: Dell, 1977. Dorothy Dinnerstein. THE MERMAID AND THE MINOTAUR. New York: Harper Colophon, 1976. {2} To judge from recent trends in scholarly as well as popular literature, three crucial questions can be seen to stand at the forefront of today's preoccupations: the question of mothering, the question of the woman writer, and the question of autobiography. Although these questions and current discussions of them often appear unrelated to each other, it is my intention here to explore some ways in which the three questions are profoundly interrelated, and to attempt to shed new light on each by approaching it via the others. I shall base my remarks upon two twentieth-century theoretical studies -- Nancy Friday's My Mother/My Self and Dorothy Dinnerstein's The Mermaid and the Minotaur and one nineteenth-century gothic novel, Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley, whose importance for literary history has until quite recently been considered to arise not from her own writings but from the fact that she was the second wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft . All three of these books, in strikingly diverse ways, offer a critique of the institution of parenthood. The Mermaid and the Minotaur is an analysis of the damaging effects of the fact that human infants are cared for almost exclusively by women. "What the book's title as a whole is meant to connote," writes Dinnerstein, "is both (a) our longstanding general awareness of our uneasy, ambiguous position in the animal kingdom, and (b) a more specific awareness: that until we grow strong enough to renounce the pernicious forms of collaboration between the sexes, both man and woman will remain semi-human, monstrous" [p. 5]. Even as Dinnerstein describes convincingly the types of imbalance and injustice the prevailing asymmetry in gender relations produces, she also analyzes the reasons for our refusal to abandon the very modes of monstrousness from which we suffer most. Nancy Friday's book, which is subtitled "A Daughter's Search for Identity," argues that the mother's repression of herself necessitated by the myth of maternal love creates a heritage of self-rejection, anger, and duplicity that makes it difficult for the daughter to seek any emotional satisfaction other than the state of idealized symbiosis that both mother and daughter continue to punish themselves for never having been able to achieve. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is an even more elaborate and unsettling formulation of the relation between parenthood and monstrousness. It is the {3} story of two antithetical modes of parenting that give rise to two increasingly parallel lives -- the life of Victor Frankenstein, who is the beloved child of two doting parents, and the life of the monster he single-handedly creates, who is immediately spurned and abandoned by his creator. The fact that in the end both characters reach an equal degree of alienation and self-torture and indeed become indistinguishable as they pursue each other across the frozen polar wastes indicates that the novel is, among other things, a study of the impossibility of finding an adequate model for what a parent should be. All three books agree, then, that in the existing state of things there is something inherently monstrous about the prevailing parental arrangements. While Friday and Dinnerstein, whose analyses directly address the problem of sexual difference, suggest that this monstrousness is curable, Mary Shelley, who does not explicitly locate the self's monstrousness in its gender arrangements, appears to dramatize divisions within the human being that are so much a part of being human that no escape from monstrousness seems possible. What I will try to do here is to read these three books not as mere studies of the monstrousness of s


Which Canadian Province has a Pacific coastline?

Discover Canada Discover Canada The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship Canada’s Regions Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship - Canada's Regions Duration: 14 minutes, 23 seconds. Read by Geraint Wyn Davies . Download this chapter: MP3 You can also download all of Discover Canada as a single file. The audio may take a moment to load. In order to maximize the functionality of this page, please turn on Javascript . is now a tourist attraction and winter skateway [  See larger version  ] Canada is the second largest country on earth—10 million square kilometres. Three oceans line Canada’s frontiers: the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Atlantic Ocean in the east, and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Along the southern edge of Canada lies the Canada-United States boundary. Both Canada and the U.S.A. are committed to a safe, secure and efficient frontier The Regions of Canada Canada includes many different geographical areas and five distinct regions. The Atlantic Provinces The Northern Territories The National Capital Ottawa, located on the Ottawa River, was chosen as the capital in 1857 by Queen Victoria, the great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Today it is Canada’s fourth largest metropolitan area. The National Capital Region, 4,700 square kilometres surrounding Ottawa, preserves and enhances the area’s built heritage and natural environment. Provinces and Territories Canada has ten provinces and three territories. Each province and territory has its own capital city. You should know the capital of your province or territory as well as that of Canada. Population Canada has a population of about 34 million people. While the majority live in cities, Canadians also live in small towns, rural areas and everywhere in between. Peggy’s Cove harbour, Nova Scotia  Ottawa: The Capital of Canada The Atlantic provinces Atlantic Canada’s coasts and natural resources, including fishing, farming, forestry and mining, have made these provinces an important part of Canada’s history and development. The Atlantic Ocean brings cool winters and cool humid summers. Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly point in North America and has its own time zone. In addition to its natural beauty, the province has a unique heritage linked to the sea. The oldest colony of the British Empire and a strategic prize in Canada’s early history, the province has long been known for its fisheries, coastal fishing villages and distinct culture. Today off-shore oil and gas extraction contributes a substantial part of the economy. Labrador also has immense hydro-electric resources. Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island ( P.E.I. ) is the smallest province, known for its beaches, red soil and agriculture, especially potatoes. P.E.I. is the birthplace of Confederation, connected to mainland Canada by one of the longest continuous multispan bridges in the world, the Confederation Bridge. Anne of Green Gables, set in P.E.I. by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is a much-loved story about the adventures of a little red-headed orphan girl. Nova Scotia Nova Scotia is the most populous Atlantic Province, with a rich history as the gateway to Canada. Known for the world’s highest tides in the Bay of Fundy , the province’s identity is linked to shipbuilding, fisheries and shipping. As Canada’s largest east coast port, deep-water and ice-free, the capital, Halifax, has played an important role in Atlantic trade and defence and is home to Canada’s largest naval base. Nova Scotia has a long history of coal mining, forestry and agriculture. Today there is also off-shore oil and gas exploration. The province’s Celtic and Gaelic traditions sustain a vibrant culture. Nova Scotia is home to over 700 annual festivals, including the spectacular military tattoo in Halifax. New Brunswick Situated in the Appalachian Range, the province was founded by the United Empire Loyalists and has the second largest river system on North America’s Atlantic coastline, the St. John River system. Forestry, agriculture, fish


If 'Statics' is the branch of Physics concerned with objects at rest, which branch is concerned with moving objects?

Statics - definition of statics by The Free Dictionary Statics - definition of statics by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/statics n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The equilibrium mechanics of stationary bodies. statics (ˈstætɪks) n (General Physics) (functioning as singular) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that produce a state of equilibrium in a system of bodies. Compare dynamics 1 stat•ics n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of mechanics that deals with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium. [1650–60] stat·ics (stăt′ĭks) The branch of physics that deals with objects that are not in motion and with forces that are offset or counterbalanced by each other. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:


Who disappeared whilst swimming near Melbourne on December 17th.1967?

Disappeared in December | History Today Disappeared in December By Christopher Winn Posted 3rd December 2012, 9:19 On the evening of December 3rd, 1926, the author Agatha Christie drove away from Styles, her Berkshire home, and vanished. Her Morris Cowley was found abandoned with the lights still on in the car park of the mysterious Silent Pool in the Surrey Hills and a nationwide manhunt ensued that even drew in the talents of fellow crime writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dorothy L. Sayers. Christie was discovered 11 days later staying at a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under the name Mrs Teresa Neele. Here are some other figures who disappeared (or reappeared) in December. On December 4th, 1872 the British brigantine Dei Gratia came across the Marie Celeste, a small cargo ship bound for Genoa out of New York, adrift in the Atlantic east of the Azores, completely deserted. The captain’s table was set for a meal, but there was no indication of what had happened to the crew of eight, along with the captain’s wife and daughter who were passengers. They were never found. On December 15th, 1944, American band leader Glenn Miller boarded a Norseman transport plane at Twinwood airfield, near Bedford, to fly to Paris, where his band were booked to perform for the troops. He flew off into the mist and was never seen again. No wreckage or body was ever found and official records show that no planes took off from Twinwood on that day due to the foggy conditions. On December 17th, 1967, just 22 months after becoming prime minister of Australia, Harold Holt went for his customary swim off Cheviot Beach near Melbourne. The sea was rough and his friends on the beach saw Holt struggling to swim back to shore before he disappeared and was never seen again. A two-day manhunt failed to find the body and Holt was presumed dead, becoming the third Australian prime minister to die in office. John Stonehouse, postmaster general under Harold Wilson and the only acting British government minister to be a proven Communist spy, was surprisingly discovered in Melbourne on Christmas Eve 1974 after apparently disappearing a month before while swimming off the coast of Florida. His clothes were found in a pile on the beach and he was presumed drowned, but he had faked his death to escape investigation of his business affairs. He was apprehended in Australia by police who thought they had found the missing Lord Lucan. Christopher Winn is the author of I Never Knew That From The Archive Detective Novels: A Very British Crime Wave Detective stories captured the imaginations of the British middle classes in the 20th century. William D. Rubinstein looks at the rise of home-grown writers such as Agatha Christie, how they mirrored society and why changes in social mores eventually murdered their sales.


Of which Canadian Province is Labrador a part?

Newfoundland and Labrador - The Canadian Encyclopedia Provinces & Territories Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland, the youngest of the Canadian provinces, joined Confederation in 1949. Some portion of its coast was undoubtedly one of the first parts of the continent seen by Europeans. Its total area is 405, 720 km2, of which Labrador makes up almost three-quarters (294,330 km2). Newfoundland, the youngest of the Canadian provinces, joined Confederation in 1949. Some portion of its coast was undoubtedly one of the first parts of the continent seen by Europeans. Its total area is 405, 720 km2, of which Labrador makes up almost three-quarters (294,330 km2). The island of Newfoundland is the easternmost region of Canada, while Labrador is located on the mainland to the northwest. Since John Cabot 's arrival on the “new isle” the island has been referred to as Terra Nova, or in English, Newfoundland. Labrador probably received its name from the Portuguese designation, "Terra del Lavradors." Land and Resources The province is physically divided into two major units of unequal area: the much larger mainland territory of Labrador to the north; and the smaller island of Newfoundland to the south. Within each there are distinct variations in the physical characteristics of the environment, in the occurrence and availability of natural resources, and corresponding variations in the pattern of human settlement. In Labrador there are three such sub-regions: a northern coastal region, which is ruggedly mountainous, deeply fjorded , grows only ground-level subarctic vegetation and has very little settlement; a southern coastal region that has a rugged, barren foreshore and a forested hinterland, with light to moderate settlement; and the bulk of the vast interior, which comprises a well-forested, dissected plateau, and where settlement is concentrated in a few large towns. On the island of Newfoundland there are four distinct regions: the west coast, the interior, the northeast coast and the south coast. The west coast is dominated by the table-topped Long Range Mountains , which rise to 814 m. They are bordered in places by narrow, well-forested coastal plains and are frequently penetrated by glacially-deepened valleys and by several large fjord-like bays, the largest of which are the Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay. There is almost continuous settlement in the bays and coves along the west coast. There is also some interior settlement in the Codroy Valley to the south and around Deer Lake , which lies on a small plain within the mountain range. The interior is a plateau-like region with frequent undulations in the terrain representing the ridges and slopes of the watersheds carved out by the major stream systems. Four large rivers — Exploits , Gander , Humber and Terra Nova — drain most of the area. The west coast supports extensive forest stands, particularly on the gentle slopes of the major watersheds. Settlements are widely separated and most of the population is concentrated in a few large towns associated with forest or mineral resource use and with transportation services. The northeast coast, with its numerous bays, islands and headlands, fronts on the Atlantic Ocean from the Great Northern Peninsula to the Avalon Peninsula . Inland sections of this region are generally well forested, but exposed headlands and offshore islands have low, scrubby vegetation. The region has a shoreline typical of land that was submerged by glaciation and, in places, rebounded after the ice caps melted. Thus, there are innumerable bays, coves, islands and fjords which often provide excellent harbours. It is also an area that can annually expect to be blocked by arctic drift ice throughout the winter and early spring. Settlement has developed along the shores of most of the bays and on some offshore islands. The south coast region coincides with the whole southern portion of the Island of Newfoundland. This coast also has the deeply embayed characteristics of a submerged shoreline. It is not blocked by arctic drift ice, although in some years par


Which Archbishop of Canterbury was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake?

Thomas Cranmer | archbishop of Canterbury | Britannica.com archbishop of Canterbury John Foxe Thomas Cranmer, (born July 2, 1489, Aslacton, Nottinghamshire , England —died March 21, 1556, Oxford ), the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56), adviser to the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI . As archbishop , he put the English Bible in parish churches, drew up the Book of Common Prayer , and composed a litany that remains in use today. Denounced by the Catholic queen Mary I for promoting Protestantism , he was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake. Thomas Cranmer, detail of an oil painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1545; in the National Portrait … Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London Early life Cranmer was the second son of Thomas Cranmer and Agnes (née Hatfield). His father seems to have belonged to the lowest rank of the gentry; at any rate, he had only enough property to endow his eldest son, John, so that Thomas and his younger brother were destined for the church. After experiencing the teaching of a “marvellous severe and cruel schoolmaster,” whose ministrations Cranmer later maintained instilled in him a permanent uncertainty and pliability, the boy went on to Cambridge in 1503. In 1510 or 1511 he was elected to a fellowship at Jesus College but was soon compelled to vacate because he married a relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn. During this time he earned his living by teaching at Buckingham (later Magdalene) College, leaving his wife to lodge at the Dolphin; out of this arrangement grew a later story that he had started out in life as a hostler. His wife died in childbirth soon after their marriage, however, and Jesus College restored Cranmer to his fellowship. He now entered the church and threw himself into his studies, becoming one of the outstanding theologians of his time, a man of immense, though not very original, learning. From about 1520 he belonged to a group of scholars who met regularly to discuss the theological problems raised by Martin Luther ’s revolt; known to be inclined to the new way of thinking, they were dubbed “Little Germany.” Among the group that was to lead the English Reformation were William Tyndale , Robert Barnes , Thomas Bilney , and, above all, Cranmer, who by 1525 included among his prayers one for the abolition of papal power in England. Entry into royal service Cranmer’s ambitions for reform would have remained academic had it not been for the political events into which he was soon drawn, however contrary they were to his upbringing and tastes. From 1527 onward, Henry VIII pursued his desire to be freed from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon , in order to marry Anne Boleyn , and in 1529 the grips of the “divorce” controversy seized also upon Cranmer. In August a plague known as the sweating sickness swept the country and was especially severe in Cambridge. To escape the sickness, Cranmer left the town with two of his pupils—brothers who were related to him through their mother—and went to their father’s house at Waltham in Essex. The king was visiting in the immediate neighbourhood at the time, and two of his chief councillors, Stephen Gardiner and Edward Fox, met Cranmer in those lodgings soon afterward. Not surprisingly, they were led to discuss the king’s meditated divorce. Britannica Stories Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales Henry, who was willing to secure the help of any likely head and hand, however obscure, summoned Cranmer for an interview and commanded him to lay aside all other pursuits in order to devote himself to the question of the divorce. Cranmer accepted a commission to write a propaganda treatise in the king’s interest, stating the course he proposed and defending it by arguments from Scripture, the Fathers, and the decrees of general councils. He was commended to the hospitality of Anne Boleyn’s father, the earl of Wiltshire, in whose house at Durham Place he resided for some time; was appointed archdeacon of Taunton; became one of the king’s chaplains; and also held a parochial benefice, the name of which


What is the sum of the interior angles of a pentagon?

Interior Angles of Polygons Interior Angles of Polygons An Interior Angle is an angle inside a shape Triangles The Interior Angles of a Triangle add up to 180° Let's try a triangle: It works for this triangle Now tilt a line by 10°: 80° + 70° + 30° = 180° One angle went up by 10°, and the other went down by 10° Quadrilaterals (Squares, etc) (A Quadrilateral has 4 straight sides) Let's try a square: 90° + 90° + 90° + 90° = 360° A Square adds up to 360° Now tilt a line by 10°: 80° + 100° + 90° + 90° = 360° It still adds up to 360° The Interior Angles of a Quadrilateral add up to 360° Because there are 2 triangles in a square ... The interior angles in a triangle add up to 180° ... ... and for the square they add up to 360° ... ... because the square can be made from two triangles! Pentagon A pentagon has 5 sides, and can be made from three triangles, so you know what ... ... its interior angles add up to 3 × 180° = 540° And when it is regular (all angles the same), then each angle is 540° / 5 = 108° (Exercise: make sure each triangle here adds up to 180°, and check that the pentagon's interior angles add up to 540°) The Interior Angles of a Pentagon add up to 540° The General Rule Each time we add a side (triangle to quadrilateral, quadrilateral to pentagon, etc), we add another 180° to the total:


Which city was the setting for the TV series 'Hollyoaks'?

Hollyoaks (TV Series 1995– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Hollyoaks takes a look at the lives, loves and careers of a group of teenage friends and their families as they graduate through GCSE's, A-Levels and College into the world of work. Creator: a list of 39 titles created 03 Aug 2012 a list of 23 titles created 29 Sep 2012 a list of 25 titles created 10 Sep 2013 a list of 28 titles created 01 Jan 2014 a list of 26 titles created 18 Sep 2015 Search for " Hollyoaks " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 32 wins & 194 nominations. See more awards  » Photos The everyday lives of working-class inhabitants of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough. The square includes the Queen Vic pub and a street market. Stars: Steve McFadden, Adam Woodyatt, June Brown A soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Stars: Lucy Pargeter, Elizabeth Estensen, Mark Charnock Coronation Street (TV Series 1960) Drama | Romance The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England. Stars: Helen Worth, Simon Gregson, William Roache Jeremy Kyle deals with more dilemmas, fiery confrontations and topical issues all in front of a studio audience. Stars: Jeremy Kyle, Graham Stanier, Georgette Civil The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital. Stars: Derek Thompson, Suzanne Packer, Ian Bleasdale Holby City (TV Series 1999) Drama The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital. Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Rosie Marcel, Tina Hobley The Undateables (TV Series 2012) Documentary | Reality-TV Documentary series about disability and dating. Stars: Sally Phillips, Brent Zillwood, Gareth Cooper Drama following the life of the officers and men of the King's Own Fusiliers regiment, during their home lives, training exercises and battles. Stars: Ben Nealon, Robson Green, Jerome Flynn 1 vs. 100 (TV Series 2006) Game-Show One contestant competes against 100 people by answering trivia questions for a chance to win a huge cash prize. Stars: Bob Saget, Dexter Takashi Odani, Richard Rubin University Challenge (TV Series 1962) Game-Show Jeremy Paxman hosts this trivia quiz show where colleges from around the UK compete against each other. Stars: Jeremy Paxman, Roger Tilling, Waldemar Januzczak Uniform officers and detectives from an inner London police station enforce law and order on a day to day basis. Stars: Graham Cole, Trudie Goodwin, Jeff Stewart Hollyoaks Later (TV Series 2008) Comedy | Music | Romance Unseen scenes from Hollyoaks which are high in gore, violence and sex. Which is why they weren't shown in the first place. Stars: Jorgie Porter, Rachel Shenton, Jennifer Metcalfe Edit Storyline Hollyoaks is a British TV soap opera, that takes a mundane look at the lives, loves and careers of a group of teenage friends and their families as they graduate through GCSE's, A-Levels and College into the world of work. first broadcast on 23 October 1995, on the Channel 4 network. Originally devised by Phil Redmond, who also devised shows such as Brookside and Grange Hill, the program is set in and around the fictional Chester suburb of Hollyoaks and is centered around a former 1950s technical college which is now a college of higher education called Hollyoaks Community College (often mistaken for the real-life University of Chester), with the characters and main target audience generally being in their late teens or early twenties. Written


What was the staple food 'Soylent Green', in the film of the same name, made from?

Soylent Green: Society Feeds Off Its People | Truthstream Media Soylent Green: Society Feeds Off Its People (Truthstream Media.com) Spoiler Alert: Soylent Green is people. The classic 1973 dystopic film Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston depicts a world overrun by hoardes of people in dense cities suffering from a lack of resources or any vestige of hope for the future. On one level, it is a morality tale personifying the neo-Malthusian myth of overpopulation given new blood by the 1968 Paul Ehrlich (and partner John P. Holdren) horror story Population Bomb as well as the Club of Rome’s apocalyptic modeled described in their 1972 publication Limits to Growth. Both give urgency to a) grinding population growth to a halt, b) cutting off the population’s consumption of resources and c) granting supposedly all wise aristocratic greater rule over society and control of its future development, which aims to institute an austere and subservient general population. On a parallel level is a metaphor played out through the literal plot revelations which exposes how this society — and by extension others — thrives on eating its own. A semi-civilized cannibalism adapted to feed the large and heavily dependent population. [pullquote]Under this dark interpretation, the opiate of the masses is the flesh of the underclasses. A controlled and degradated condition, to be sure.[/pullquote]In Soylent Green, just as in the companion dystopic film Omega Man (1971, also starring Charlton Heston), the “haves,” those with jobs or status in society, guard their homes against the masses, often sleeping on their doorsteps, at gun point while they enjoy basic, though, rationed commodities. Meanwhile, a few elite-“haves,” mostly connected the ruling Soylent Corporation, live in walled-off communities protected by armed guards, where they enjoy luxuries like strawberries, a supply of concubine companions referred to dismissively as “furniture,” and a special food not available to the general population at all — meat. With this stark inequality as a backdrop, we more closely examine the dynamics of the Soylent Green society. Heston’s character, Robert Thorn, is a police officer assigned to riot duty in the market place, where the plebiscites line up for their dole of government rations — highly processed food pellets that come in red, yellow and the new, and most popular flavor, green. The “green” flavor, we are told, is new and made of delicious/nutritious “high protein plankton.” Another cop warns Thorn that the market has just run out of Soylent Green, a sure sign that the crowd will soon revolt. The officers first discuss amongst themselves, then warn the crowd, that the “scoops” are coming, ordering the masses to disperse. The scoops, we learn, are large trucks whose blades “scoop” up people in the crowd and dump them into the truck bed. During this scene, an assassin also emerges, developing the plot and sending Thorn on a search for the assassin and what he later learns is his apparent connection to the Soylent Corporation. During this quest, the inequities in society are revealed, as Thorn gets a first hand glimpse of the elite life that has been kept from him. Meanwhile he also comes across a key clue from the elderly learned society who frequent a library: namely, that the oceans are dying, rendering the claim that Soylent Green is made of plankton a disillusioning myth. Instead, we see more than ever how death feeds the cycle of this lifestyle. Motivated by the excess and unsustainable population that must be supported, as well as by the bleak potentials offered to its citizenry, the elderly are encouraged to ‘contribute’ by acquiescing to euthanasia at bright welcoming centers.  Enticed to “go home”, patients are treated to a bright, vivid and fulfilling “end of life” multimedia sequence featuring the theme of choice set to music and natural scenery as a superficial but stimulating final rite — before the life is terminated. In the film’s final revelation, Thorn discovers the big secret that looms large on the meaning in this Soylent-ba


Which is the southernmost of the Channel Islands?

Poindexter Descendants Association About The Isle of Jersey, Channel Islands   Jersey is the largest     and southernmost of the Channel Islands, about 14 miles off the coast     of Normandy, France. It is an oblong block of granite four to five miles     wide and about nine miles long. It has been continuously inhabited from     about 2000 BC and has a wealth of history - neolithic tombs, magnificent     castles, Napoleonic towers and fortifications from German occupation during     World War ll. The Poindexters have a history here that dates back as early     as 1250 with mentions of the name before that. Jersey has been an Island for     8,000 years. The Normans made the greatest impact on the Channel Islands     when Jersey, Gurensey, and the other islands were part of the Duchy of Normandy in the 9th through 10th Centuries.     When the Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror, gained the English crown     in 1066 the Channel Islands became part of the Anglo-Norman realm. To     this day the reigning monarch in England is titled the " Duke     of Normandy " in Jersey. Queen Elizabeth II visited Jersey in 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of Liberation after World War II Occupation. In 1204 King John lost Normandy     to the French and the islanders had to choose: stay with Normandy or remain     loyal to the English crown. They chose the latter and gained rights and     privileges which to this day are not subject to the British Parliament     but only to the Queen - or King - in council. The constitutional relationship     with the UK is the product of 900 years of custom and usage and is not     affected by changes of government in the UK. This relationship has been     confirmed by Royal Charters which over the centuries secured the independence     of the Island's judicial system from the English courts and granted important     privileges including freedom from UK taxes. Over the centuries the island     has fought off many invasions. In 1781 "The Battle of Jersey" took place when French troops attempted to take over the island under     Baron du Rullecourt. A young English officer Major Pierson led the local     militia to victory in the battle that took place in Jersey's Royal Square.     During WWII the Channel Islands were the only part of Great Britain to     be occupied by the Germans from 1940-1945. The official language of Jersey     is English, however, Jersey French is the native language of the Island     and is a blend of Norse and Norman French. It is still spoken in the country     districts. Until the 1960's French was still the official language of     Jersey and to this day is still used by the court and legal professions.     The dialect itself is called Jèrriais and those who speak it are     called Jèrriais. History of Jersey The Jersey Tourism web site provides a good overview of Jersey's 1000 years of history. States of Jersey Official government web site for the Isle of Jersey Planning     a Trip to the Isle of Jersey or to England? Then we suggest      checking out our travel information page . PDA's Family History     and Research Library Be sure to visit      the Jersey Section of our      Family History and Research Library for Poingdestre history on Jersey.


A Merry Devil - Launcelot Gobbo in the Merchant of Venice A Merry Devil: Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde. London: McBride, Nast & Company. In that delightful comedy, "The Merchant of Venice," we have a type of the shrewd but ignorant serving man, or boy, drawn on the same lines as Launce and Speed in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," and the two Dromios, in "The Comedy of Errors," but apparently younger and less matured than either of them. His name is Launcelot Gobbo, a fact of which he is somewhat proud. He has a crude philosophy and a rude kind of wit. He uses big words and misapplies them most ingenuously. He is good-natured, full of fun, and rejoices in a practical jest. Launcelot is the servant to Shylock, a wealthy Jewish merchant and money lender of Venice, with whom he lives and of whom he stands in wholesome awe. His fun-loving nature, however, has served to brighten the dull and dreary home of that stern and revengeful gentleman, a fact that Jessica, the Jew's daughter, frankly acknowledges in her first interview with the boy. Our house is hell, and thou a merry devil Did'st rob it of some taste of tediousness. Launcelot does not appear until the second scene of the second act of the comedy, when we find him stealthily leaving his master's house. We learn that he feels aggrieved at some apparent wrong at the hands of his employer, and is debating whether to remain in his service, or to run away. His soliloquy or self-argument on the point is most entertaining. He would be just, but being both plaintiff and defendant, as well as advocate and judge of the question at issue, he can scarcely be credited with impartiality. However, the motives that he frankly acknowledges, and the reasons he advances are most delightfully human, and most humorously expressed. The entire passage is a quaint, and by no means unnatural, self-contention between duty and inclination; the conclusion, as a matter of course, being in favor of inclination. Certainly, my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew, my master: the fiend is at mine elbow, and tempts me, saying to me, "Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, or good Gobbo, or good Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away." My conscience says - "No; take heed, honest Launcelot; take heed, honest Gobbo; or," as aforesaid, "honest Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy heels." - Well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack; via! says the fiend; away, says the fiend; for the heavens rouse up a brave mind, says the fiend, and run. Well, my conscience, hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me - "my honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man's son" - or rather an honest woman's son; - for, indeed, my father did something smack, something grow to, - he had a kind of taste; - well, my conscience says - Launcelot, budge not;" "budge," says the fiend;  budge not," says my conscience. Conscience, say I, you counsel well; fiend, say I, you counsel well; to be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew, my master, who, Heaven bless the mark! is a kind of devil; and, to run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself: certainly, the Jew is the very devil incarnation, and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew : the fiend gives the more friendly counsel! I will run; fiend, my heels are at your commandment, I will run. However, Launcelot does not run; he is spared that violence to his conscientious scruples by the unexpected advent of his father, an old Italian peasant, whose voice is heard calling in the distance, and halts the would-be runaway. Launcelot's decision of character is not very marked, nor his resentments very strong, for in a moment his wrongs are forgotten, and he is designing a practical jest on his aged parent. "O heavens!" he exclaims, "this is my true-begotten father; who, being more than sand-b