Amos Brierly and Mr Wilks ran which pub on TV?

Amos Brearly | Emmerdale Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Amos was Beckindale 's local gossip, he was at the centre of all the local news, in The Woolpack . In 1973 , Amos was convinced that the brewery liked couples to run pubs and Amos saw a decent woman in Annie Sugden . Annie turned Amos down gently, later he went into business with Henry Wilks and they ran the pub together until Amos retired. In 1976 The Woolpack premises had to be moved when it was found to be suffering from subsidence. In 1978 while closing up The Woolpack Amos and Mr Wilks were threatened by burglars and were locked in the cellar all night. However, later that year he was proud to give his barmaid Dolly Acaster away when she married Matt Skilbeck . In summer 1980 , gamekeeper Seth Armstrong switched from The Malt Shovel to The Woolpack - Seth continuously irritated Amos. Amos gained an allotment in 1980, and this was the scene of much rivalry between himself and Seth for many years. In late 1980, Amos's aunt Emily turned up for a visit. Amos was terrified of her. She fled from The Woolpack on discovering that Amos had written-up a report on UFOs spotted locally, stating that he was tampering with unknown forces. A couple of years later, she returned to announce that Amos's uncle Arthur had died. Aunt Emily thought she stood to gain from Arthur's will, but she was only bequeathed some old junk, including an elephant's foot umbrella stand. In 1981 , Amos set up his own village newsletter - The Beckindale Bugle . It was short-lived. In 1983 , Amos sought upward mobility by cultivating the friendship of NY Estates boss Alan Turner . He was distressed to hear Alan criticising him to a golfing pal. From then on, Amos treated Alan frostily, insisting on calling him "Mr Turner". Amos had a brother Ezra Brearly .. He also mentioned another brother who had died young. Amos's rivalry with Ernie Shuttleworth of The Malt Shovel public house took on a new intensity during the '80s, as each tried to outdo the other with various ventures, including happy hours, juke boxes and dominoes tournaments. In 1984 , Ernie was thrilled to get Amos a ticking off from the local police by tampering with The Woolpack clock so the pub was caught serving drinks after hours. In 1988 , Amos seemed set to marry Gloria Pinfold , an old sweetheart of his from many years before. She was a strong-willed woman who moved into The Woolpack and interfered with Henry's book keeping and the diet of the two men, insisting that full English breakfasts were not to be eaten because of cholesterol and fat content. Finally, she had a better offer from another man and left Amos. In the summer of 1989 , Henry got hay fever and drove Amos mad with his sneezing. Amos also discovered a crop circle at Home Farm and was convinced that aliens had landed in Beckindale . Sadly, by the time Amos took a local expert to see the fantastic spectacle, the field had been harvested. In July 1990 , while celebrating friend Annie's 70th birthday, Amos suffered a stroke. Shortly after he decided to retire to Spain in January 1991 handing the pub over to Alan Turner, he returned to the village in October for Henry's funeral. He made a brief return in 1992 . In 1993 he returned for a few months from May to October and was present when Annie married Leonard Kempinski , whom she had met a year earlier while staying with Amos in Spain. He made several appearances throughout 1994 , first returning for the funeral of the Plane Crash victims where he did the same reading he had done at Wilks funeral two years previously. In February he served as best man when Alan Turner married former prostitute Shirley Foster . He returned again in May for Jack and Sarah 's wedding, at the reception - held in a barn at Emmerdale Farm - he made the announcement that the residents of Beckindale had decided to rename the village Emmerdale in honour of Annie Sugden. He returns once again in December for the first anniversary of the Plane Crash. Amos made his last visit to the village thus far, when he came home with Annie for her son Joe Su


With only one letter in its name. What is the name of the pub with the shortest name?

One-Letter Name - TV Tropes One-Letter Name You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share — Sebastian Stark, Shark When you take Only One Name to the extreme, this is the result. Most often a Code Name . For some reason letters from the second half of the alphabet are much more likely to be chosen. Even people who change their names to something starting with A to get to the top of an alphabetical list seem to never use just A. A fair number of older novels (from, say, the 19th and early 20th centuries) use this as a form of "discretion shot". (See Spell My Name with a Blank .) For example, a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories refer to "Mr. B——" as a way to imply that this is a real person and the story really happened in the real world, but that due to the potentially embarrassing nature of the events Watson is too much of a gentleman to reveal Mr. B's true identity.     open/close all folders      Anime and Manga  A serial killer in Hell Teacher Nube that patterns himself after Aka Manto (Red Mantle) is simply referred to by authorities as "A". It's clear this is an attributed alias, but we never learn his real name. I Wish has the male protagonist called K. It's stated early on that he goes by K, because his real name is cursed. Count D and his relatives in Pet Shop of Horrors . D, the alien spy from Project A-ko . It is, however, a code name. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX : In the English dub, Aster Phoenix's adoptive father is named The D . In the Japanese version, he was called DD, which is a two-letter name , but comes close. In the Japanese version, the Deck Destruction pro-duelist is named X. In the English dub, he was called Howard X. Miller. G, the Big Bad of Real Bout High School , who honestly doesn't remember his name after the years of psychological and physical conditioning he was subjected to since he was a boy in order to become the perfect bodyguard. As far as he's concerned, it's a placeholder; He'll find out what his name is if it's the last thing he does. Like many characters in the series , G is a Captain Ersatz of a King of Fighters character; in his case, K' (see below). G., the first Vongola Storm Guardian from Katekyo Hitman Reborn! . Phantom Thief G? from D.Gray-Man Soldat J, from GaoGaiGar J from Heat Guy J J from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo . You know, the one with the garlic/onion (the heroes can never decide this) for a head? In the Diamond/Pearl saga of the Pokï¿½mon anime, a villain known as Pokemon Hunter J and a one-shot filler character known as O were introduced. In Pokï¿½mon Adventures , the protagonists of each arc are named after their generation's games. So the protagonists for the XY arc are named... X and Y. Granted, when romanized their names become Ekkusu and Wai, but it still doesn't make their names any less weird. Averted with Y in the Viz version, as her actual name is Yvonne but has 'Y' as her nickname. Gravitation 's K. (Although his actual name is revealed later.) K in Puni Puni Poemi . L from Death Note . A handful of other characters use one-letter codenames at some point, as well, (most notably L's successor Near first introduces himself as N) but, as revealed in the "how to read" book , L actually is his first name. The full name being L Lawliet. L-sama from Slayers novel afterwords. Though this is an abbreviation of L.O.N. or Lord of Nightmares. In Valvrave the Liberator , soldiers trained at the Karlstein Institute have their real names taken, and they are replaced by combining this with You Are Number 6 . So we have L-Elf (Elf meaning 11), and several others. Y in Humanity Has Declined . Assuming that's her actual name, seeing as no one else has one... The main antagonist of the third Tenchi Muyo! OVA goes by Z, remarking that his real name, Z-0001332536893, is too long. Mazinger universe: Fanon often refers to the eponymous Humongous Mecha Mazinger Z as simply "Z". Z, the Big Bad from the eponymous One Piece movie One Piece Film: Z . The Alphabets, Major Eberbach's subordinates in From Eroica with Love , are each known by one single letter as a codename. The Majo


The Bottle Inn at Marshwood in Dorset has what annual eye watering and tongue numbing item on the menu?

Book of General Ignorance by Tarek Saif (page 102) - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html During World War I, both Germany and Austria ran short on supplies of cotton. In search of a suitable replacement, scientists chanced upon an ingenious solution: mixing very small quantities of cotton with nettles—specifically, the hardy fibers of the stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). Without any form of systematic production, the Germans cultivated 1,413 tons of this material in 1915, and a further 2,976 tons the following year. After a brief struggle, the British captured two German overalls in 1917, and their construction was analyzed with some surprise. Nettles have many advantages over cotton for agriculture—cotton needs a lot of watering, it only grows in a warm climate, and requires a lot of pesticide treatment if it is to be grown economically. There’s no danger of being stung by a “full nettle jacket” either, as the stinging hairs—little hypodermic syringes made of silica and filled with poison—are not used in production. The long fibers in the stems are all that are useful. The Germans were by no means the first to stumble across this plant’s many uses. Archaeological remains from around Europe reveal that it’s been used for tens of thousands of years for fishing nets, twine, and cloth. The Bottle Inn, a pub in Marshwood, Dorset, England, holds an annual World Stinging Nettle Eating Championship. Rules are strict: no gloves, no mouth-numbing drugs (other than beer), and no regurgitation. The trick appears to be to fold the top of the nettle leaf toward you and push it past your lips before swigging it down with ale. A dry mouth, they say, is a sore mouth. The winner is the one who has the longest set of bare stalks at the end of an hour. The current record is 48 feet for men, and about 26 feet for women. Who discovered penicillin? Sir Alexander Fleming is a long way down the list. Bedouin tribesmen in North Africa have made a healing ointment from the mold on donkey harnesses for more than a thousand years. In 1897 a young French army doctor called Ernest Duchesne rediscovered this by observing how Arab stable boys used the mold from damp saddles to treat saddle sores. He conducted thorough research identifying the mold asPenicillium glaucum , used it to cure typhoid in guinea pigs, and noted its destructive effect onE. coli bacteria. It was the first clinically tested use of what came to be called penicillin. He sent in the research as his doctoral thesis, urging further study, but the Institut Pasteur didn’t even acknowledge receipt of his work, perhaps because he was only twenty-three and a completely unknown student. Tarek Saif Follow publisher Unfollow publisher Be the first to know about new publications.


Which movie sees Jack Lemmon and Tont Curtis dressed as women in an all girl band?

Some Like It Hot (1959) - 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 Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) Not Rated | From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Director: a list of 22 titles created 21 Sep 2013 a list of 40 titles created 03 Feb 2014 a list of 27 titles created 29 Dec 2015 a list of 43 titles created 11 months ago a list of 25 titles created 3 weeks ago Title: Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     1     Oscar. Another    9 wins & 13 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. Director: Billy Wilder A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. Director: Billy Wilder An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions. Director: Billy Wilder Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. Director: Orson Welles A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. Director: Alfred Hitchcock A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Director: Alfred Hitchcock A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise. Director: Billy Wilder A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. Director: Alfred Hitchcock In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Director: Michael Curtiz An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. Director: Howard Hawks Edit Storyline When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. Written by garykmcd The movie too HOT for words! See more  » Genres: 14 April 1959 (Japan) See more  » Also Known As: Not Tonight, Josephine! See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia It is interesting that due to line issues and the train scene and the Manhattan drink. During prohibition 'Bourbon,' made only in Kentucky,  would


In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character Viola pose as a boy, Cesario?

Viola (Cesario) in Twelfth Night, or What You Will NEXT  Character Analysis Viola is Twelfth Night's gender-bending heroine. The survivor of a ship-wreck that separates her from her twin brother, Viola washes up on shore in Illyria, where she decides to cross-dress as a boy and take a job at Duke Orsino's court. As the boy servant, "Cesario," Viola quickly becomes Orsino's favorite page and is given the task of wooing Olivia on Orsino's behalf. As "Cesario," Viola's a little too good at her job and she finds herself in the middle of a messy love triangle when Olivia falls in love with "Cesario," who can't return the Countess's favors because Viola is in love with the Duke. Got that? OK, good. So, why does Viola cross-dress as a boy? She says she wants to disguise her identity as a way to buy some time, to figure some stuff out. But why? What's the motivation here? Well, the answer isn't quite clear. On the one hand, we could say that Viola disguises her identity because she's not capable of facing a world without her brother. This would align Viola with the likes of Olivia, who cloisters herself like a nun to mourn the death of her dead brother. On the other hand, Viola's decision to cross-dress is proactive, which makes her defiant and bold, as she willingly faces whatever comes her way. While we're asking questions, let's talk about why Viola falls in love with Duke Orsino, because it's a bit baffling. Some critics argue that there's really no good reason for Viola to love Orsino – a guy who is self-absorbed, moody, and obnoxious. This, they argue, makes Viola just as silly as all the other characters that fall for inappropriate partners (Olivia, Malvolio, and so on). Another answer to this question is that Viola falls for Orsino because he's passionate and poetic. (He may be a bad poet, but he's a poet nonetheless.) Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: Viola's love, unlike the passions of other characters in the play, is constant and true. Rather than hop-scotch from one romantic interest to the next (Olivia, we're talking about you), Viola's devotion is rock-steady and perhaps even a bit self-destructive. (Why else would she agree to deliver love letters from the man she loves to another woman? Come on. That's just brutal.) Anyway, Viola's love for the Duke is the one thing that seems to pull the guy out of his self-absorbed world and into a relationship with another human being (rather than the relationship he seems to have with himself). Similarly, Viola or "Cesario" is also the magnetic figure that draws Olivia from her cloistered state of "mourning" into the land of the living. Even though Olivia doesn't wind up with "Cesario," she does transfer her desire from "Cesario" to Sebastian. Without Viola, then, Olivia and Orsino would remain locked into their self-absorbed states. OK, so what? We're glad you asked. Let's think about the big picture for a moment. As a comedy that works toward the consummation of heterosexual desire (check out our discussion of " Genre "), Twelfth Night uses Viola/"Cesario" as the mechanism that throws the world into temporary chaos (her cross-dressing causes most of the mix-ups in the play) and then as the figure that restores order to the "topsy-turvy" world. So, what is it that's so appealing about Viola/"Cesario" anyway? Well, let's ask Olivia and Orsino, who are always talking about how luscious and sexy "Cesario's" androgynous features can be. (Androgynous just means "masculine" and "feminine.") Viola/"Cesario" just goes to show that androgynous features can be really attractive. Viola's "Cesario" disguise also does a pretty good job of blurring the boundaries of gender, which just goes to show that gender can be impersonated or acted, like any kind of theatrical or social role.


Barry Humphries plays Dame Edna Everage, but which character does he plays as the Australian Cultural Attache?

Barry Humphries - IMDb IMDb Actor | Writer | Soundtrack His father was an affluent construction manager. Barry was a very intelligent boy who attended Melbourne University. There, he began in revues and doing some impersonations. He moved to London around 1960 and began his TV career. He has created numerous characters, including Dame Edna Everidge and Sir Les Patterson. See full bio » Born: a list of 41 people created 26 Jul 2013 a list of 34 people created 19 Nov 2014 a list of 86 people created 22 Feb 2015 a list of 30 people created 15 Sep 2015 a list of 26 images created 11 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Barry Humphries's work have you seen? User Polls 5 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards  » Known For  2014 The Kangaroo Gang (TV Series) Narrator - Episode #3.7 (2008) ... Dame Edna Everage (as Dame Edna Everage)  1978-2007 Parkinson (TV Series)  1990 Single Voices (TV Series) Sandy Stone  1982 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) Sir Les Patterson  1990 A Night on Mount Edna (TV Movie) (uncredited)  1990 Single Voices (TV Series) (1 episode)  1966 The Late Show (TV Series) Hide   1984 Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage (TV Movie) (lyrics: "Shyness") / (music: "Shyness") / (performer: "Shyness")  1981 Shock Treatment (performer: "Little Black Dress", "Shock Treatment")  1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (performer: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Finale))  1972 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (lyrics: "My One-eyed Trouser Snake", "Old Pacific Sea", "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie") Hide   1984 Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage (TV Movie) (composer: song "I'm Shy")  1981 Flamingo Park (Short) (music - as Dame Edna Everage) Hide   2003 Concert for George (Video documentary) (camera rigger) Hide   1993 Edna Time (TV Series) (executive producer - 1993) Hide   2011 Eddie Perfect: Misanthropology (Video) (thanks)  2007 'Little Britain' Down Under (TV Movie documentary) (thank you - as Dame Edna Everage)  2005 Great Performances (TV Series) (special thanks - 1 episode)  2015 Stop Laughing... This Is Serious (TV Series documentary) Himself  2015 The Talk (TV Series) Himself  2013 American Masters (TV Series documentary) Herself  2012 Raising the Curtain (TV Series documentary) Himself - Interviewee  2012 Q&A (TV Series) Himself - Panelist  2011 Piers Morgan Tonight (TV Series) Himself  2010 The Review Show (TV Series) Himself - Cultural Highlights Interviewee  2009 Rove Live (TV Series) Himself  2008 I'd Do Anything (TV Series) Himself - Judge  2007 100 Greatest Stand-Ups (TV Special documentary) Himself (as Dame Edna Everage and Les Patterson)  2005 Celebrate 'Oliver!' (TV Movie) Himself  2005 The Unseen Spike Milligan (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2005 Barry Humphries on Bedazzled (Video documentary short) Himself  2004 Live! with Kelly (TV Series) Himself  2003 Micallef Tonight (TV Series) Himself  1992-1996 Pebble Mill (TV Series) Himself  1995 The Celluloid Heroes (TV Movie) Himself  1976-1995 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) Himself  1989 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) Himself  1987 The Last Resort (TV Series) Himself  1986 The Story of English (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  1983 Breakfast Time (TV Series) Himself  1983 Time with Betjeman (TV Series documentary) Himself  1981 The Rocky Horror Treatment (TV Movie documentary) Himself (uncredited)  1979 Christmas Snowtime Special (TV Movie) Herself - Presenter (as Dame Edna Everage)  1965 The Australian Londoners (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1964 Monitor (TV Series documentary) Himself  2013 Greatest Stand Up Comedians (TV Movie documentary) Herself - 19th Place (as Dame Edna Everage)  2012 The Unforgettable Russell Harty (TV Movie documentary) Herself - Interviewee on The Russell Harty Show (as Dame Edna Everage)  2012 7.30 (TV Series)  2004 Arena (TV Series documentary) Himself  1991 Memories of 1970-1991 (TV Series documentary) Himself TV commercial (voiceover as Dame Edna Everage) for Tesco supermarkets (2004) See more » Publicity Listings: 2 Interviews | 7 Articles | 1 Maga


Who plays the killer in the 1960 film Psycho where he dresses in his mother's clothes?

Psycho (1960) - Synopsis The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Warning! This synopsis may contain spoilers See plot summary for non-spoiler summarized description. Visit our Synopsis Help to learn more Synopsis In a Phoenix hotel room on a Friday afternoon, Marion Crane ( Janet Leigh ) and her out-of-town lover Sam Loomis ( John Gavin ) end a stolen lunchtime interlude with yet another disagreement about their future. Marion wants to marry Sam, but debts inherited from his father and his own alimony payments do not leave him enough money to support her as he would like. As they have done so often before on Sam's business trips to Phoenix, they part leaving their future uncertain. Marion returns to the real estate office where she works as a secretary, arriving just ahead of her boss Mr. Lowery ( Vaughn Taylor ) and his client Cassidy ( Frank Albertson ) who buys a house from Lowery with $40,000 in cash. Lowery tells Marion to put the money in the safe deposit box at the bank until Monday. Pleading a headache, Marion asks to take the rest of the day off after her errand to the bank. But Marion doesn't go to the bank. On the spur of the moment, she decides to keep the money, packs a suitcase, and starts driving out of town, only to be spotted by her boss at an intersection where he gives her a suspicious look. Worried that she has been found out already, she still proceeds out of town on her way to Fairvale, California, where Sam lives. All the while she keeps looking behind her, fearful that she's being followed. She drives well into the night and parks alongside the road to sleep. In the morning, a highway patrolman ( Mort Mills ) stops to investigate her stopped car, and awakens her. Startled and nervous, she arouses the patrolman's suspicions. He looks at her license and registration, taking note of the plate number. He allows her to go on, but follows her for a while, which intensifies Marion's agitation. Realizing that her car can easily give her away, Marion decides to trade it in for a different car. She stops in at a used car lot, hurriedly pays the salesman ( John Anderson ) $700 cash for a likely substitute, and completes the deal as the same highway patrolman watches from across the street. Nervous, she drives away and continues toward Fairvale. As night falls on this second day, with her fears of pursuit crowding in around her, she drives into a rainstorm. Unable to see the road clearly, she spots the lighted sign of the Bates Motel, and decides to take a room for the night. As there are no other cars there, and no one in the motel office, she honks her horn upon seeing a light on in the house behind the motel, and a silhouette in the window. Someone dashes down the path to greet her, and he introduces himself as Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ). He is soft-spoken and shy young man who tells Marion that he lives in the large house with his mother. He comments that the motel seldom has guests anymore since the new interstate bypassed the local highway, and Marion realizes that she probably took a wrong turn in the storm. Still nervous about being tracked by the police, Marion registers under a false name, and Norman checks her into Cabin 1 just next to the office. When she asks about food, Marion learns that Fairvale is only fifteen miles away. Norman offers to share his supper with her so she doesn't have to go out again in the rain, and he goes back to the house. She begins unpacking, taking time to wrap the money inside a newspaper which she sets aside on the bed table. Then she overhears a shouted argument between Norman and his mother coming from the house. Mother Bates seems to have a low opinion of young women, and doesn't want Norman associating with them. Norman returns to the motel with sandwiches and milk and invites Marion to join him in the parlor just behind the check-in desk. Marion is taken aback by the stuffed birds that fill the parlor, a product of his taxidermy hobby. In their conversation over sandwiches, Norman talks abo


Which character in the TV series MASH dresses as a woman in an attempt to be dismissed from the army?

Maxwell Q. Klinger | Monster M*A*S*H | Fandom powered by Wikia Jamie Farr Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger is a fictional character from the M*A*S*H television series played by American actor Jamie Farr . A Lebanese-American hailing from Toledo, Ohio, Klinger serves as an orderly/corpsman (and later company clerk) assigned to the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit during the Korean War. The character's original defining characteristic is his attempts to gain a discharge from the army, typically through being judged mentally unfit for service (under "Section 8") or for other reasons. To this end, he would habitually wear women's clothing and engage in other "crazy" stunts. He later gives up his discharge attempts and is promoted from the rank of corporal to sergeant during the course of the TV series. Contents Edit Klinger was the first main character introduced on M*A*S*H not to have appeared in either Richard Hooker's original M*A*S*H novel or the subsequent film. Originally introduced as a bit character in the early first season episode " Chief Surgeon Who? " as a simple gag of a soldier who wanted out of the Army and was trying to fake his way to a "Section 8" medical discharge, he made such an impression on the producers and audience that he became a recurring character throughout the season, and by the second season was a regular member of the cast. Klinger is proud of his family, and of his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, which he regularly mentions (including references to Tony Packo's Cafe , a real-life local attraction). The only time the series has a glimpse of Toledo is a dream sequence when Klinger finds himself in a deserted street. He is also an enthusiastic Toledo Mud Hens baseball fan (a real-life minor league baseball team) as he has been seen wearing a "Mud Hens" cap (Note that the cap worn by the actor is not a Mud Hens cap but actually a Texas Rangers cap as the costume dept couldn't find an authentic Mud Hens cap for the character). He also is fond of cuban cigars made in New Jersey by Puerto Ricans. His father and grandfather are olive pickers; likewise his father had a sharp temper; a left hook and is a bowling champ. Klinger in the 4077th MASH Edit In the early episodes, a running gag was Klinger's endless efforts to get discharged from the Army either by cross-dressing or through other means. Viewers could always look forward to what new outfit he would wear or what other ploy he would attempt. But despite all his efforts, his commanding officers are never fooled, and Klinger is continually frustrated. Perhaps they recognised, as B.J. Hunnicutt once remarked, that Klinger is actually the only sane one by always trying to get out, while the rest of the camp are crazy for accepting their situation and making the most of it, as Joseph Heller would also observe in "Catch 22". The commanders largely tolerate Klinger's antics because they are entertaining, and he is otherwise a conscientious and reliable orderly who makes a point of never letting his schemes interfere with his duties. For example, he volunteered to join the party to go beyond enemy lines to recover casualties in Season 3 "Rainbow Bridge" . In "Aid Station" he is sent with Margaret and Hawkeye to a Battalion aid station . There he performs duties which would normally be done by a surgical nurse, while remaining steady under artillery fire, earning praise from Margaret and Hawkeye. By Season 7 "They Call the Wind Korea" he is the one who cajoles Winchester into saving a Greek soldier when Winchester thought the conditions were too difficult and the equipment too primitive. In Season 8, he takes over Radar O'Reilly's job of company clerk with reasonable seriousness, developing a reputation as a scrounger and eventually getting promoted to Sergeant. Klinger also performs a near pitch-perfect impression/impersonation of Colonel Potter, which he uses several times to manipulate others into giving the unit supplies or information that requires the Colonel's direct approval (which is often hard to obtain, since he is frequently in surgery when nee


Which 1970 hit for the Kinks was about a young man's experience with a transvestite in a bar?

Top Ten Songs by the Kinks Home » Arts & Entertainment » Music » Top Ten Songs by the Kinks Top Ten Songs by the Kinks The Kinks prove that it’s possible to be around 30 years, be a member of the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and still be an underrated band. One of the original British Invasion groups, The Kinks are one of the few acts in rock that can match the Rolling Stones hit for hit, yet many people know just a handful of their songs. While fans of Eric Clapton compared him to God, noted Kinks fan John Mendelsohn, on the liner notes to the invaluable The Kink Kronikles, implored, “God save The Kinks.” There are many reasons why The Kinks never received their due in the U.S., ranging from poor management, to never cashing in on a trend, to constantly switching record labels. But any listener who seeks out their albums will be overwhelmed with the power and vision of lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies and the current-period sound led by lead guitarist Dave Davies and (mostly) drummer Mick Avory. It’s an impossible task to pick the 10 best songs of a group as prolific as The Kinks. The easy way out would be to just pick the most radio-friendly songs, but that would be a huge disservice to both the band and the audience. What follows is a list of great songs from all of the varied eras of the group. #10) Sweet Lady Genevieve Perhaps the greatest song in rock-n-roll history that nobody knows, Sweet Lady Genevieve comes from “Preservation Act I” in 1973, one of many concept albums the band put out in the 1970s. The song is an ode to an ex-lover, admitting the sins of his past and asking for another chance. The song features great lyrics and a strong vocal performance by Davies. “Once under a scarlet sky I told you never ending lies, But they were the words of a drunken vagabond Who knew very well he would break your heart before long Oh forgive me Genevieve.” A guaranteed number-one hit if someone covered this song today. #9) No More Looking Back From 1975’s “Schoolboys in Disgrace”, No More Looking Back is the final song of the album. On the surface the song is about a man who keeps finding reminders of someone from his past. “And just when I think you’re out of my head I hear a song that you sang or see a book that you read. Then you’re in every bar, you’re in every cafe, You’re driving every car, I see you everyday,” A great song by itself, it works on another level, too. The Kinks had been torn apart by internal struggles in regards to Ray’s fondness for concept albums. Schoolboys pointed the way to the arena rock that would follow and define the late-70s Kinks. This song can be heard as Ray making peace with the band’s new direction. “No more looking back, No more living in the past, Yesterday’s gone and that’s a fact, Now there’s no more looking back. Got to be hard, That s the only way it’s going to be, Yesterday’s gone and that’s a fact, Now there’s no more looking back.” #8) Celluloid Heroes From 1972’s “Everybody’s in Showbiz”, a double album with the first album comprised of new studio performances and the second one a live album, Celluloid Heroes closes the studio tracks. One of the group’s most popular songs, it’s a tribute to some of Hollywood’s screen legends, including Greta Garbo and Rudolph Valentino. It also provides some foreshadowing of Ray’s later attempted suicide. “I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show, A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes, Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain And celluloid heroes never really die.” #7) People Take Pictures of Each Other The closing track to 1968’s “Village Green Preservation Society”, People Take Pictures of Each Other is a scathing indictment of those who think capturing the moment is more important than the moment itself. “People take pictures of the Summer, Just in case someone thought they had missed it, And to proved that it really existed. Fathers take pictures of the mothers, And the sisters take pictures of brothers, Just to show that they love one another. You can’t picture love that you took from me, When we were young and


Which male actor played a female soap star in the film Tootsie?

Tootsie Cast List: Actors and Actresses from Tootsie Full Cast of Tootsie Actors/Actresses 5.5k views 16 items tags f t p @ Tootsie cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. This list of Tootsie actors includes any Tootsie actresses and all other actors from the film. You can view additional information about each Tootsie actor on this list, such as when and where they were born . To find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you'll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. The cast members of Tootsie have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with. List is made up of many different actors, including Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. If you want to answer the questions, "Who starred in the movie Tootsie?" and "What is the full cast list of Tootsie?" then this page has got you covered. This cast list of who was in Tootsie includes both lead and minor roles. (16 items)


Which British comedian describes himself as an executive transvestite?

Comedian Eddie Izzard makes history | USC News Comedian Eddie Izzard makes history October 15, 2012 Eddie Izzard performs at Bovard Auditorium. (Photo/Nathan Carter) USC students got a history lesson on Oct. 5 from British comedian Eddie Izzard, who gave a surreal account of civilization ranging from the Big Bang to the moon landing. “What makes Izzard really fascinating is his sheer intelligence, his sheer knowledge about world history, that he can bring into his comedy,” said Dane Martens, director of USC Spectrum, which hosts the Student Affairs arts and lectures program that brought the comedian to campus. Izzard, who performed to a packed crowd at Bovard Auditorium, jumped stream-of-consciousness style from the Crusades and British tin mining to Greek mythology and Wikipedia. His jokes often took the form of imaginary dialogues, and his characters ranged from Buzz Aldrin to a diary-keeping giant squid. Izzard scurried around the stage as if he was playing every part in a skit. According to Izzard’s account, the Stone Age began with a little clumsiness: On his way to kill a mastodon in the tar pits, a young man tripped over a rock. “If it’s bad for my foot, it could be bad for others’ feet — and their heads,” Izzard said. “This could be the beginning of an age!” Tina Crnko, a freshman majoring in theater and business administration, appreciated that Izzard “really enjoys what he’s doing: He’s laughing along with the audience.” Izzard, who has appeared in the films Ocean’s Twelve, Across the Universe and Valkyrie, recently sold out the 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl as the venue’s first solo comedy act. This fall, he specifically reached out to college campuses for smaller shows. “I really wanted to give USC the opportunity to see him like this,” Martens said. “Twelve-hundred seats as opposed to 18,000 is pretty intimate.” The event was also promoted by the USC LGBT Resource Center as part of National Coming Out Month. Izzard, who dresses in women’s clothing for many of his performances and describes himself as an “executive transvestite,” sported brightly painted fingernails during his performance. “College life is all about balance, so it’s nice having this after going to classes and studying all day,” said Cole Manaster, a freshman majoring in business administration. “I’m looking forward to seeing more of the arts that we have here on campus and in LA.” USC Spectrum’s fall season continues with a screening of the documentary Decoding Deepak and a Q-and-A session with the film’s director on Oct. 21 and an evening with activist and journalist Nicholas Kristof on Nov. 5. For more information, visit usc.edu/spectrum


The film Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams in the title role, was set in a Victorian property known as one of the painted ladies. In which city is this tourist attraction?

RWF ::: PRODUCTION NOTES ::: Bicentennial Man (1999) Production notes 1999 | Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama | 130 min | PG In the first decade of the new millennium, with advances in global       technology overtaking the sovereignty of human compassion, Richard Martin (SAM       NEILL) buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew (ROBIN       WILLIAMS) by the youngest of the family's children. Touchstone Pictures'/Columbia       Pictures' "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot       purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew       begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon       discovers they don't have an ordinary robot. Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures present A 1492 Pictures       Production in association with Laurence Mark Productions and Radiant Productions,       "Bicentennial Man." Directed by Chris Columbus, from a screenplay by Nicholas       Kazan, the film is based upon the short story by Isaac Asimov and the novel The       Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. The film is produced by       Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz, Laurence Mark, Neal Miller, Chris Columbus, Mark       Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan. Executive producer is Dan Kolsrud. "Bicentennial       Man" is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. The Story "Bicentennial Man" spans two centuries, during which it is       the goal of a single individual whose quest is to learn all he might about       the intricacies of humanity, life and love. Through his efforts Andrew, a       popular robot model, teaches as much as he learns. He shows the world how       to open its eyes and its heart to receive any being with enough compassion       to ask for acceptance. Andrew appears as a typical robot. Upon his delivery, there       are four members of the Martin home: Richard Martin, whom Andrew respectfully       refers to as Sir; his wife, simply as Ma'am; and their two children Grace and       Amanda, who will always be Miss and Little Miss, respectively. Little Miss is the first to call him Andrew, because she       misunderstands him to be an android, which of course, he is not. He is a robot:       A NorthAm Robotics NDR-114 that has been purchased, as he himself describes,       "To perform menial tasks. Cooking. Cleaning. Making household repairs. Playing       with or supervising children." The children, however, are at first suspicious       of this new member of the household. Miss sees him as an uninteresting simple       appliance, common in the homes of her friends. Little Miss thinks he's a bit scary. She, of course, has nothing to fear as the first law of robotics states,       "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction cause a human       being to come to harm." It is perhaps the second law of robots, "A robot must obey       all human orders except where such orders conflict with the First Law," which       leads the Martin family to change their perception of Andrew. For it is       following an incident in which Miss orders Andrew to leap from an upstairs       window (an order which he is compelled to follow), that leads Sir to proclaim,       "Though Andrew is technically a piece of property, he shall be treated as if       he is a person." In treating Andrew as human, are they starting to see human       traits? Is he indeed showing some very anthropomorphic signs of creativity,       curiosity and friendship? Or is it merely as the NorthAm Robotics executives       explain, "An appliance with human form showing signs of mechanical failure,       interpreted as eccentricity." Sir decides to not only allow Andrew his creativity but to       encourage and cultivate the behavior as he believes Andrew to be a unique       individual.


Lugh, Celtic Sun God, Shining One, Celtic Mythology Celtic Mythology Irish   Mythology The Partholonians Kelpies Lugh The god Lugh whose name means "shining        one" was a Celtic sun god. He was        handsome, perpetually youthful, and full of life and energy. This        energy manifests itself especially in the number of skills he had,        according to legend, mastered. He was the patron god of Lugdunum        (cur: Lyon, France) and a solar deity. According to a prophecy, Balor, the god of the underworld was to       be killed by his grandson. He locked his daughter, Ethlinn, in a       tower made of crystal to keep her from becoming pregnant. However,       Cian, one of the Tuatha de Danaan, with the help of the druidess       Birog, managed to enter the tower. She gave birth to a son, Lugh,       by him, but Balor threw him into the ocean. Birog saved him and gave       him to Manannan mac Lir, who became his foster father. He was then       nursed by Tailtiu. Lugh was also sometimes considered a son of Danu and Beli. Lugh was ingenious. One Irish tale relates of how       the god travelled to Tara, and arrived during a feast for the royal       court. Lugh was met by the gatekeeper, and was asked what talent       he had, for it was a tradition there that only those who had a special       ability could enter the palace. The god said: "I am a wright",       to which the gatekeeper replied "We already have a wright, your       services aren't needed here". Lugh persisted "I am a smith".       Again, the guard said the court had a smith that was quite adequate;       but the god was not to be dissuaded. Lugh then noted that he was       also a champion, a swordsman nonpareil, a harpist, a hero, a poet,       an historian, a sorcerer, and a craftsman. The gatekeeper merely       nodded his head, and stated bluntly that all these trades were represented       in the court by other members of the Tuatha de Danaan. "Ah,       but you do have an individual who possesses all of them simultaneously?",       was Lugh's clever reply. The guard was forced to admit his defeat,       and so Lugh entered and joined the festivities. Lugh Lamhfada led the Tuatha in the Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh       against the Fomorians. During this battle, Balor killed King Nuada       with his eye, but Lugh ripped the fatal eye out with a sling, killing       Balor. Lugh was husband of Rosmerta. After the god Nuada lost an arm in       the Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh and was forced to abdicate his       kingship since he was no longer perfect, Lugh became the leader of       the Tuatha De Danaan. Lugh's name is the origin of that of the Pagan festival Lughnasadh       (which is also the Irish Gaelic name for the month of August). He was the father of Cuchulainn by Dechtere. His daughter was Ebliu,       she married Fintan. Alternative forms: Lug (Old Irish), Lugos (Gaulish). Epithets/Cognomens: Lamfhada ("of the long arm" in Irish),       Samildanach ("versatile in every art" in Irish) Lugos is also a commune in the Gironde département, in France. Among the places named after him are: France: Lugdunum (cur: Lyon), Lugdunum Clavatum (cur: Laon),        Lusignan, Loudun, Montlucon Switzerland: Lugano, Locarno, Lugarus Romania: Lugoj Italy+Spain: Logo Lug handles are a kind of flattened knob attached to the side of       pottery. Lugs may have small perforations to take a cord. They are       sometimes found on prehistoric ceramics such as Hembury ware.


Mozart - Composers - Classic FM Classic FM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Biography Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756–1791) was arguably the most gifted musician in the history of classical music. His inspiration is often described as 'divine', but he worked assiduously, not only to become the great composer he was, but also a conductor, virtuoso pianist, organist and violinist. Mozart's music embraces opera, symphony, concerto, chamber, choral, instrumental and vocal music, revealing an astonishing number of imperishable masterpieces. Mozart was born in Salzburg, in 1756. Mozart's father, Leopold, was an ambitious composer and violinist. Though he was and still is considered a genius, he was also tactless, arrogant and had a scatological sense of humour. Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was only 11. A year later the Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to write La finta semplice. In August 1782 he married Constanze Weber. The Mozarts' marriage seemed to be a happy one. Constanze was easy-going, free-spending and usually pregnant. Only two of their six children survived. Post-marriage, some of Mozart's best started to appear -the Haffner and Linz symphonies and five string quartets, for example. Between 1784 and 1786, he composed nine piano concertos and three of these concurrently with The Marriage of Figaro. The year 1787 saw the premiere of Mozart's second opera, Don Giovanni. Mozart had a great run of successes in his final years - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the Clarinet Quintet in A, three of his 41 symphonies; Cosí fan Tutte, three piano trios, the Coronation piano concerto, two piano sonatas and three string quartets. His health began to fail and his work rate slowed in 1790. He got better, though, and in 1791 alone composed the most famous The Magic Flute, the Requiem (unfinished), and the Clarinet Concerto. Mozart did not live long enough to complete his Requiem. He died in Vienna, in 1791, before his 36th birthday.


Who wrote Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?

Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica First published Thu Dec 20, 2007 No work of science has drawn more attention from philosophers than Newton's Principia. The reasons for this, however, and consequently the focus of the attention have changed significantly from one century to the next. During the 20th Century philosophers have viewed the Principia in the context of Einstein's new theory of gravity in his theory of general relativity. The main issues have concerned the relation between Newton's and Einstein's theories of gravity and what the need to replace the former with the latter says about the nature, scope, and limits of scientific knowledge. During most of the 18th Century, by contrast, Newton's theory of gravity remained under dispute, especially because of the absence of a mechanism — in particular, a contact mechanism — producing gravitational forces. The philosophic literature correspondingly endeavored to clarify and to resolve, one way or the other, the dispute over whether the Principia should or should not be viewed as methodologically well founded. By the 1790s Newton's theory of gravity had become established among those engaged in research in orbital mechanics and physical geodesy, leading to the Principia becoming the exemplar of science at its most successful. Philosophic interest in the Principia during the 19th Century therefore came to focus on how Newton had achieved this success, in part to characterize the knowledge that had been achieved and in part to pursue comparable knowledge in other areas of research. Unfortunately, a very large fraction of the philosophic literature in all three centuries has suffered from a quite simplistic picture of the Principia itself. The main goal of this entry is to replace that simplistic picture with one that does more justice to the richness of both the content and the methodology of the Principia. 1. Overview: The Importance of the Work Viewed retrospectively, no work was more seminal in the development of modern physics and astronomy than Newton's Principia. Its conclusion that the force retaining the planets in their orbits is one in kind with terrestrial gravity ended forever the view dating back at least to Aristotle that the celestial realm calls for one science and the sublunar realm, another. Just as the Preface to its first edition had proposed, the ultimate success of Newton's theory of gravity made the identification of the fundamental forces of nature and their characterization in laws the primary pursuit of physics. The success of the theory led as well to a new conception of exact science under which every systematic discrepancy between observation and theory, no matter how small, is taken as telling us something important about the world. And, once it became clear that the theory of gravity provided a far more effective means than observation for precisely characterizing complex orbital motions — just as Newton had proposed in the Principia in the case of the orbit of the Moon — physical theory gained primacy over observation for purposes of answering specific questions about the world. The retrospective view of the Principia has been different in the aftermath of Einstein's special and general theories of relativity from what it was throughout the nineteenth century. Newtonian theory is now seen to hold only to high approximation in limited circumstances in much the way that Galileo's and Huygens's results for motion under uniform gravity came to be seen as holding only to high approximation in the aftermath of Newtonian inverse-square gravity. In the middle of the nineteenth century, however, when there was no reason to think that any confuting discrepancy between Newtonian theory and observation was ever going to emerge, the Principia was viewed as the exemplar of perfection in empirical science in much the way that Euclid's Elements had been viewed as the exemplar of perfection in mathematics at the beginning of the seventeenth centu


What are the dry constituents of dry Martini?

Dry Martini recipe Dry Martini recipe Scan me to take me with you serve in 1 olive Stir gin and vermouth with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a cocktail glass, add the olive, and serve. More comments Twist, please posted by vmwrites @ 09:25AM, 5/27/06 A true dry martini tastes best when served with a twist, rather than an olive. This is largely a matter of taste, and there are many schools either way, but a bit of lemon rind, twisted over the top of the martini imparts a gently spray of lemon oils to the surface. Olives, on the other hand, add an olive taste, salt, and water, of course. But a great martini is the way you like it. Lingo matters posted by vicki @ 03:16PM, 6/15/06 If you are a bartender and someone asks for a dirty martini...put an olive in it...a lemon is a request only type of thing...don't let this comment above confuse you. If you ask for a dirty martini in any bar anywhere you will get olives. If you want a twist of lemon ask for a vodka martini up with a twist. they call it a dirty martini b/c the olive juice makes it look cloudy. Bottom line. Good, but not dry enough.... posted by angrynorwegian @ 01:31PM, 6/17/06 I prefer this drink even "dryer". Start with adding just one bottlecap worth of vermouth (I prefer noilly prat) Gently turn the shaker to coat all the ice vith vermouth, and strain out the excess. Then you add the gin ( I use 30cc of tanqueray) and stir until cold. Strain into a chilled coctail glass and garnish with an olive or a twist. Or enjoy it any other way you prefer. Lovely classical cocktail! posted by RuneLancer @ 01:09AM, 7/14/06 Why strain out the vermouth? Leave it in there. ;) Of course, it's entirely a matter of taste. I use Stock, personally - it's extra-dry and blends in very well with Tanqueray. There's a place near here which sells olives stuffed with almonds. Very delicious. It's an interesting variation on the typical pimento-stuffed olive. The driest yet posted by Martooni Man @ 05:19PM, 7/26/06 Put a half cap of dry vermouth in a frozen double old fashioned glass. Coat the glass with vermouth by swirling. Pour out excess, add ice to the brim and fill with gin. Tanqueray or Citadelle are my personal preferences. Shaken not stired posted by bartender of the year @ 10:30AM, 11/10/06 Thanks to james bond who helped shape the modern martini that is always shaken not stirred. A traditionalist - with flavor posted by mark richmond @ 03:03PM, 12/27/06 A dry martini is one with very little dry vermouth in the gin. I keep my bombay sapphire in the freezer, swirl 1/2 or less cap of vermouth around a martini glass (I also prefer Noilly Prat). Now comes the twist - no, not that twist - I use anchovy stuffed or garlic stuffed olives (usually 3, but then I tend toward large martinis). Enjoy. Perfect Dirty Martini posted by Catlady3 @ 02:09PM, 1/03/07 I make mine with Beefeaters and definately use the old fashioned amount of extra dry vermouth (I use Martibni & Rossi Estra Dry). This recipe is from The Martini Book and try it first before you criticize the amount of vermouth. 6 parts gin, 2 parts dry vermouth, 1 part olive brine, Cocktail olives. I use 3 super huge ones stuffed with pimentos. I shake it for a long time till I can't hold the stainless steel shaker anymore. Yum! Good to the last drop posted by Louis Emond @ 01:56PM, 2/01/07 I used to put too much vermouth in my first Martinis, I now only coat the glass. Pure heaven! I exclusively use Plymouth Gin, I find it better than Beefeater or Booker. Bookmarked this site by the way. Suggestions needed posted by Harry @ 07:42PM, 2/09/07 I need to know which brands of Vodka and Vermouth will make the tastiest of martinis. Any suggestions? The Perfect Martini is... posted by Markastic @ 04:38AM, 2/13/07 Garnished with whatever the customer wants. This is a recipe for a DRY martini, not a dirty, so the option is there for either an olive or lemon twist... or a combination of whatever the guest asks for. A dry martini, in 2007 means at the most a splash of Dry Vermouth (usually followed by spill) at the MOST. Typicall


In music, the B-52s were formed in which year? 1976, 1980 or 1984?

The B-52's on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography The first of many acts to cement the college town of Athens, Georgia, as a hotbed of alternative music, and one of the first American new wave acts to fuse retro-styled rock & roll with dance-friendly rhythms, the B-52s took their name from the Southern slang for the mile-high bouffant wigs sported by singers Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson, a look emblematic of the band's campy, thrift-store aesthetic. The five-piece group, which also included vocalist Fred Schneider, guitarist Ricky Wilson (Cindy's older brother), and drummer Keith Strickland, formed in 1976 after a drunken evening at a Chinese restaurant; the bandmembers had little or no previous musical experience, and performed most of their earliest shows with taped guitar and percussion accompaniment. In 1978, after gaining enough confidence to venture into a recording studio, the B-52s pressed up a few thousand copies of the single "Rock Lobster," which became a modest hit on the nascent alternative rock circuit. The B-52s soon traveled to New York City, playing their first paying gig at the famed rock club Max's Kansas City. Subsequent appearances at CBGB brought the group to the attention of the New York press, and in 1979 the B-52s signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. for the United States and Island for the U.K. and Europe; Island founder Chris Blackwell flew the band to the Bahamas, where they quickly recorded their self-titled debut album, a collection of manic, bizarre, and eminently danceable songs that scored an underground club hit with a reworked version of "Rock Lobster." The following year, they issued Wild Planet, which reached the Top 20 on the U.S. album charts; Party Mix!, an EP's worth of reworked material from the band's first two proper outings, appeared in 1981. Hoping to expand their musical approach, the B-52s recruited friend and fan David Byrne to produce their third album, but by all accounts, the bandmembers (and their record labels) were not happy with the results, which emphasized a darker, funkier sound and minimized Ricky Wilson's guitar and the group's playful side. Ultimately, Byrne and the B-52s walked away from the project, and six completed tracks were released as an EP, 1982's Mesopotamia. After a Schneider solo LP, 1984's Fred Schneider & the Shake Society, the group returned to the studio to record 1986's Bouncing Off the Satellites. While the album tried to put a brave face on a difficult situation, Ricky Wilson was seriously ill while recording the LP, and on October 12, 1985, Ricky died; originally his death was attributed to natural causes, but it was later revealed that he had succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses. In light of Wilson's death, the B-52s found it impossible to promote the new album, and they spent the next several years on hiatus. In 1989, the B-52s finally returned with Cosmic Thing, which became their most commercially successful effort to date. Marked by Strickland's move from drums to guitar and club-friendly production from Don Was and Nile Rodgers, the album launched several hit singles, including the party smash "Love Shack," "Roam," and "Deadbeat Club." In 1990, Cindy Wilson retired from active duty, leaving the remaining trio to soldier on for 1992's Good Stuff. A year later, dubbed the BC-52s, they performed the theme song for the live-action feature The Flintstones. In 1996, Fred Schneider released his second solo album, Just Fred, produced by Steve Albini and featuring accompaniment from members of the Didjits, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Six Finger Satellite, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. Cindy Wilson returned to the group for a tour supporting the release of the 1998 hits collection Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation. Four years later, the double-disc compilation Nude on the Moon: The B-52's Anthology would dive deeper into their catalog by featuring rare tracks, live recordings, and remixes along with the hits.  In 2008, after 16 years


Who is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the top four flights of the English leagues, in the FA Cup and League Cup, and at international level?

San Francisco Bay Area — News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds: SFGate 24 Comments The influx of foreign talent in the Premier League has brought about an unprecedented depth of scoring talent over the last decade, with many overseas imports making their way into the annals of English football. January 21 marks the three-year anniversary of Clint Dempsey 's 2012 hat-trick against Newcastle United, steering Fulham almost single-handedly to a 5-2 win over the Magpies. That accolade to this date makes Dempsey the only American ever to bag a hat-trick in the English first tier. In celebration of the Texan's accolade, we've pulled together a list of the greatest foreign talents to have marked their territory in the Premier League with a hat-trick, taking into account all players originating outside the United Kingdom. For some, this achievement was routine, while even some of the most world-class athletes could only manage the feat on one occasion. Regardless of how many hat-tricks they bagged, however, simply recording one is good enough to gain entry into our draw, paying respects to the foreign figures of past and present to have netted goals en masse. Phil Cole/Getty Images Tony Yeboah The only Ghanaian ever to score a Premier League hat-trick, former Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah twice bagged three-goal hauls during his time at Elland Road, both of which came in 1995. In two years among the English top flight, one of the Black Stars' most prominent attackers in history scored 32 goals, six of those coming against Ipswich Town and Wimbledon.   Robinho Many would suggest that Robinho's £33 million arrival at the Etihad Stadium in 2008 is where Abu Dhabi's money-fuelled ownership of Manchester City first began to rear its head as a future Premier League titan. In the five years since, not every player purchase has worked as desired—to say the least—and while Robinho's value to City was up for debate, he at least has a proud Premier League hat-trick to his name. The Brazilian put all three past Stoke City in a 3-0 defeat of the Potters in October 2008, just a month-and-a-half after his arrival in England, showing fans what they had to be excited for in future. Robinho's time with the Citizens ultimately ended quite bitterly and dragged out with a short-term loan at former club Santos, but there's no denying what a magnificent talent the former Selecao star was in his prime.   Savo Milosevic Savo Milosevic's three years at Villa Park were far from the most prolific of his career, but a hat-trick against Coventry City during his debut 1995-1996 campaign provided one particular highlight for the Serbian. He would later go on to find his most reliable scoring touch with Spanish sides Real Zaragoza, Espanyol and Celta Vigo, albeit never quite living up to the expectations established at Partizan Belgrade. 25. Andrei Kanchelskis Michael Steele/Getty Images Andrei Kanchelskis represented no fewer than four Premier League clubs during his playing career, but a combined 11 league appearances for Manchester City and Southampton meant the Russian didn't net a single goal for either outfit. Rather it was Manchester United and Everton who got the best out of his ability earlier in the 1990s, grabbing a hat-trick for each of those teams, both of which came in the 18 months building up to his first England departure. Arriving at Old Trafford from Shakhtar Donetsk in 1991, it took the enigmatic winger more than three-and-a-half years to bag his only United hat-trick, accounting for three of his 28 league goals with the Red Devils. After transferring to the Goodison Park in 1995—where he enjoyed a much more prolific scoring pattern—Kanchelskis showed more initiative, taking just six months to bag three in a 5-2 beating of Sheffield Wednesday in April 1996. Despite his instant impact on Merseyside, however, Kanchelskis was sold to Fiorentina in 1996 before he had a chance to get his second Everton season up and running. 24. Fabrizio Ravanelli Michael Steele/Getty Images The first of two iconic, Italian '90s strikers included i


Who was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final at Wembley?

MAN UNITED 1 EVERTON 0 FA CUP FINAL 1985 MORAN SENT OFF - YouTube MAN UNITED 1 EVERTON 0 FA CUP FINAL 1985 MORAN SENT OFF 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 Sep 28, 2008 Kevin Moran - first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final - still won though. COPYRIGHT BBC Category


Which team hold the record for the highest aggregate win in the Champions League, beating Sporting Lisbon 12-1?

Champions League Final Facts And Figures Champions League final facts and figures Champions League final facts and figures By Vision Reporter A A A Fill in your Name and Email Address to receive a Free Newsletter SATURDAY''S final will be the 58th since the competition began in the 1955-56 season, with Real Madrid winning the first five finals SATURDAY'S final will be the 58th since the competition began in the 1955-56 season, with Real Madrid winning the first five finals.   - Bayern Munich are third in the all-time list of finalists having appeared in nine previous finals, winning four times, in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 2001, and losing five times, in 1982, 1987, 1999, 2010 and last season, when they lost to Chelsea on penalties in Munich.   - Real Madrid have appeared in a record 12 finals since 1956, followed by AC Milan on 11. Saturday will be Munich's fifth in the Champions League era, only one behind Milan, whose six appearances were between 1993 and 2007.   - Borussia Dortmund are appearing in their second Champions League final after winning on their only other appearance in 1997, when they defeated Juventus 3-1 in Munich.   - Ottmar Hitzfeld is one of only three men to win the European Cup with two different clubs - leading Borussia Dortmund to their 1997 success and winning it with Bayern Munich in 2001.   - The only others to win it with two clubs are Ernst Happel, with Feyenoord in 1970 and SV Hamburg in 1983, and Jose Mourinho with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.   - Franz Beckenbauer became the first player to captain three successive European Cup-winning teams, with Bayern in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Although Real won five successive cups between 1956 and 1960, they had three different captains.  - Since the Champions League format was introduced in 1992-93, no side has won a greater percentage of their games to lift the trophy than Borussia Dortmund in 1997.   - They won nine of the 11 matches they played - 81.8 per cent. In contrast, when Manchester United won the competition in 1999 their winning percentage was a record low, 45.5 per cent.   - The following season, as defending champions, Borussia beat Bayern 1-0 on aggregate in the quarter-finals.   - The lowest attendance for any finals match was for the replayed final in 1974, when Bayern beat Atletico Madrid 4-0 at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels on Friday, May 17. Only 23,325 watched the match. A crowd of 48,772 watched the original 1-1 draw two days previously.   - Georg Schwarzenbeck scored Bayern's equaliser in the last minute of extra time to force that 1-1 draw, but Bayern experienced heartbreak in the last seconds of time added on for injury in the 1999 final, when Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored to give Manchester United a 2-1 victory in Barcelona - the most dramatic end to any European final.   - This will be the fourth time two clubs from the same country have played each other in the final following Real Madrid v Valenica in 2000, AC Milan v Juventus in 2003 and Manchester United v Chelsea in 2008. Those matches ended in victories for Real, Milan and United, with Milan and United winning on penalties.   - Bayern would become the first club to lift the European Cup twice on penalties if they were to succeed in a shootout. They beat Valencia 5-4 on penalties in 2001 after a 1-1 draw. They would also become the first club to feature in three shootouts in the final if the match ends in a draw, following last season's loss.   - Paulo Sousa became one of only two players to win the European Cup with two different clubs in successive seasons when Borussia Dortmund lifted the trophy in 1997. The previous season he was in the winning Juventus team. Marcel Desailly (Olympique Marseille 1993, AC Milan 1994) is the only other player to achieve the feat.   - Since Bayern won promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965, the two clubs have met 95 times in all senior comptitions, with Bayern winning 41 times, Borussia 25 with 29 matches drawn.   - The record score between the sides was Bayern's 11-1 win over Borussia in the Bundesliga in November


Who was the first goalkeepers to score a goal in the Premier League?

Watch the 5 Goals Scored By Goalkeepers in the Premier League From 2001-2013 [VIDEO] - World Soccer Talk Watch the 5 Goals Scored By Goalkeepers in the Premier League From 2001-2013 [VIDEO] Watch the 5 Goals Scored By Goalkeepers in the Premier League From 2001-2013 [VIDEO] Hussein Jiva November 4, 2013 Aston Villa , Blackburn Rovers , Everton , Leagues: EPL , Tottenham Hotspur 1 Comment In the past 13 years, roughly 0.38 goals per year have been scored by goalkeepers in the Premier League. So when a goalkeeper does score, it’s such a rare treat that it’s something you want to embrace and watch over and over again. Only five goalkeepers are in the folklore of Premier League keepers who have scored in England’s top flight. Here are the five goals from 2001-2013: Peter Schmeichel After having a mightily successful career at Manchester United, epitomized by the unforgettable 1999 treble, Peter Schmeichel was back in England, after a spell at Portuguese club Sporting CP, when he signed for Aston Villa. In 2001, he befittingly became the first goalkeeper to score a goal in the English Premier League against Everton. However his record breaking feat was not enough against the Toffees, as Villa went down 3-2 at Goodison Park. His goal, deep into injury time capped a personal milestone, further etching his name into the echelons of the English Premier League. However, Schmeichel did leave Manchester on a sour note, having played for United’s city rivals before hanging up his boots, and even managed to muster a clean sheet against his former employees — an action that definitely left a sour taste in the mouths of many United supporters. Brad Friedel The game was as tense as it could get, with Blackburn trailing 2-1 against Charlton in stoppage time back in 2004. Having won a corner, as had become the norm, even the goalkeeper joined in on the last action. Nine Blackburn players flooded the opposition’s penalty area in the hope of salvaging a draw. It was an unlikely source that came to the rescue.  Brett Emerton’s corner ended up at the feet of Paul Gallagher, who sent the ball back into the crowded penalty area, and goalkeeper Brad Friedel reacted first to the ball, unleashing a vicious left-footer into the net, much to the merriment of his colleagues and fans alike. The delighted American had surely rescued a point for his side — at least that was what he thought, only to let in an even later goal from Claus Jensen’s effort. Poor Brad was left licking his wounds, after having gone from hero to villain almost instantly. Paul Robinson We had all grown accustomed to the mammoth kicks by the England international. However, even with such knowledge having resided in our sub-conscious, no one was prepared for his magnificent punt back that led to a goal back in his Tottenham days. In 2007 at White Hart Lane, Paul Robinson made a mockery of Watford with his uncalculated yet perfectly executed goal against his then English nemesis Ben Foster, who had taken away the number one jersey from him in England’s game against Spain. Robinson launched the ball forward in a typical goalkeeper style, all the way into the opposition’s penalty area. Then, jaws dropped as the ball took an unexpectedly high bounce that deceived young Ben, bouncing over the Manchester United loaned keeper and settling innocently into the net. Wowzer! Tim Howard The American international, playing in a windy Merseyside encounter against Bolton in 2012, was yet another goalkeeper to have produced what seemed unthinkable — mostly due to the fact it was unintended. With the score at 0-0, what seemed like a routine clearance 92 yards away from the Bolton goal turned catastrophic for the Trotters when a gust of wind made the ball travel faster than anticipated, and was helped by an enormous bounce. The ball looped over Adam Bogdan and went into an empty net. Howard was left bemused by the goal, as too was Bogdan — albeit for different reasons. While Howard refused to celebrate, after being on the receiving end of a similar goal years back, Bogdan was left scratching his head


The Declaration of Arbroath was signed in which century?

The Declaration of Arbroath - Arbroath - Visit Angus Arbroath The Declaration of Arbroath Bernard de Linton, drafted the Letter of Arbroath, thought by many to be the most important document in Scottish history. This was a letter written to Pope John XXII on behalf of Robert the Bruce, and signed by most of the great and good of 14th Century Scotland . It asked the Pope to put pressure on Edward II of England to recognise Robert as the legitimate King of Scotland. It also asked him to remove the excommunication that had been placed on Robert after he had murdered the Red Comyn in a Dumfries church in 1306. From such auspicious beginnings, the growth of Arbroath continued over the years, but the real boom time came as the flax and engineering industries began to expand, leading to an ever-increasing population. If Arbroath's early growth depended heavily on Arbroath Abbey, the last few centuries have seen it look to the sea for its prosperity. And not just to fishing, though this has been, and continues to be, important to the town. Still a working port, Arbroath's harbour remains an attractive focal point for the town. Bookmark this page


Where in Scotland was the famous Irish manuscript The Book Of Kells illuminated?

Book of Kells: History, Illuminations Book of Kells Detail from the Book of Kells showing the heads of lions and chalices spouting vines: all examples of abstract Celtic art . One of the greatest illuminated manuscripts Detail from Book of Kells. LOOKING FOR ART     BOOKS? For more about Christianity and the arts,     see: Christian Art (c.150-2000). Opening Page to Gospel of John. A masterpiece of religious art from the 8th century. For details of the medieval European renaissance, under Charlemagne, see: Ottonian Art (900-1050) Introduction One of the great masterpieces in the History     of Irish art , and a world-famous example of early     Christian art , the Book of Kells (Leabhar Cheanannais) is the     most famous of the illuminated manuscripts ,     produced by Irish monks about 800 CE. Also known as the Book of Columba,     or the Gospel of Colum Cille, the Book of Kells includes the four Gospels     of the New Testament written in Latin, decorated with innumerable illuminations,     illustrations and miniature images in a blaze of colour. Although unfinished,     it is a wonderful example of medieval     Christian art and one of the best surviving examples of the Hiberno-Saxon     style or Insular art. It is on permanent display at Trinity     College Dublin Library in Ireland. The name "Book of Kells" comes from the Abbey of Kells in County     Meath , Ireland, where it was preserved during medieval times. When     was the Book of Kells written, where was it written, and who was the author     of the manuscript? These questions remain the subject of considerable     debate among scholars of monastic Irish     art , and there are a number of theories. According to the most widely     accepted explanation, the Book of Kells was created at the monastery in     Iona, and illuminated by at least four different artist-monks, whose names     are lost to history. Other art scholars have suggested that the manuscript     may have been produced at Lindisfarne (Holy Island) off the coast of Northumberland,     then moved to Iona and thence to Kells. Or lastly, it may have been produced     at an unidentified Scottish monastery. NOTE: For the world's earliest known illuminated     gospel text, please see: the Garima     Gospels (390-660) from Ethiopia.   Origins and History     of the Book of Kells The greatest achievement of Irish medieval     art , the Book of Kells, was formerly held to be earlier than the Lindisfarne     Gospels (which are dated approximately from 700 CE) but is now generally     assigned to the late eighth or early ninth century. It can only have been     made in one of two places: Iona or Kells. It seems probable, though, that     due to its resemblances to the Lindisfarne Gospels it was at least begun     at Iona (a traditional centre of holy learning and illumination, from     where Saint Columba launched his mission to Christianize Scotland and     where he was later buried), the base from which Lindisfarne had been colonized     about the year 635. Unfortunately, Vikings frequently raided the island, burning the monastery and killing the monks. In 804, after two Viking raids, the monks     of Iona fled from their exposed island monastery to Meath, in Ireland.     They obtained a grant of land at Cenannus (Kells) and established there     the metropolis of the Columban Order. But they regretted abandoning Iona     and made various attempts to resettle there, carrying with them the sacred     objects and books of the monastery. Finally in 849 all were brought back     to Kells, the great manuscript probably with them. That the manuscript was at Kells two centuries     later we know from an entry in the Annals of Ulster (1007). And     as it is hardly probable that such a work should have been begun during     the troubled years between 804 and 849 (and since most of its decor


Who was the last British monarch to have been born in Scotland?

Britain's Longest Reigning Monarchs - British Monarchy Family History British Monarchy Family History     Shown Below Are The Fifteen British Monarchs Who Have Reigned For Twenty Five Years Or More   Britain's longest reigning king, King George III   1 - Britain’s longest reigning monarch is it's present monarch Queen Elisabeth II who has reigned over the country, it's former commonwealth and it's fourteen overseas territories for over sixty three years. Elisabeth officially became monarch at the age of twenty five in February 1952 after the death of her father King George VI but she was not officially crowned for another sixteen months, in June 1953. Her coronation was the first in the world to be televised live and the first in the world to be filmed in colour. 2 - The country's second longest reigning monarch is House of  Hanover queen, Victoria, who ruled not only Britain but it's vast empire too during her mammoth sixty three year and seven month reign between 1837 and 1901, no mean feat for one who was born fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth in 1819.       3 - The country's third longest reigning monarch is the country's longest reigning king, House of Hanover monarch, George III, who ruled from 1760 until 1820 with a reign of  59 years and three months. However, due to both mental and physical illness, the last ten years of his monarchy had been overseen by his eldest son the Prince Regent, the future King George IV.     4 - King James I of England had already been King James VI of Scotland for thirty three years when he took the crown of England in 1603. He went on to rule as joint monarch of both countries for another twenty two years before his death in 1625, culminating in him overseeing a fifty seven year and eight month long reign in all. 5 - In fourth place is Plantagenet king, Henry III, who ruled England for a staggering fifty six years and one month between 1216 and 1272, after having come to the throne at the age of just ten years old.  6 - In fifth place is another Plantagenet king, Edward III, who attained his golden jubilee after a reign of of fifty years and four months between 1327 and 1377. He too began his reign as a young boy, coming to the throne at the age of just fourteen.  7- In sixth place is Tudor queen Elisabeth I, England’s last Tudor monarch and the most influential ruler in British royal history. Her forty five year and three month reign spanned the years between 1558 to 1603.   The inclusion of Elisabeth I on this list means that three of the country’s six queen regnants have attained rules of over forty five years.    8 - In seventh place is Lancastrian king, Henry VI, with a thirty eight year and eleven month long reign between 1422 and 1471. His reign began when he was just nine months old, making him England’s youngest ever monarch.    9 - The eighth longest reigning monarch is all time royal bad boy, Tudor king Henry VIII, whose infamous thirty seven years and nine month rule spanned the years between 1509 and 1547.  10 - Norman king, Henry I, was the eighth born child of William the Conqueror and as such was never born to be king, but circumstances changed all that and Henry ended up ruling England for thirty five years and three months between 1100 and 1135.      11 - Plantagenet king, Henry II,  was the son of Empress Matilda, who should have been the Queen of England herself but was usurped by her cousin Stephen of Bloise, an act which caused a nineteen year historical period known as the Anarchy.   Henry’s rightful place on the throne during his thirty four years and eight month long reign from 1154 until 1189 put an end to that awful period of English history and ensured that never again would a queen be denied her rightful place upon the English throne.    12 - King Edward I was another Plantagenet king who managed to attain over thirty four years on the throne, with a reign which spanned between 1272 and 1307, culminating in a thirty four year and seven month long reign.  13 - House of Hanover king, George II, was the last British king to be born on fore


During which century was Sir Walter Scott born?

Walter Scott Biography - life, family, childhood, children, name, story, history, school, young, son Walter Scott Biography Abbotsford, Scotland Scottish author The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott is recognized as the    master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors    of modern times. Early life Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 15, 1771, the     son of a lawyer with a long family tradition in law. By birth Scott was     connected with both the rising middle class of Britain and the     aristocratic (ruling class) Scottish heritage then passing into history.     As a child, Scott battled polio, a disease that attacks children and     impairs their development. Despite the ailment, Scott did enjoy a     relatively active and happy childhood. During these years he developed a     deep interest in literature and reading, especially the folk tales and     legends of his native Scotland. Scott was educated at Edinburgh University and prepared for a career in     law, but his true passions lay in history and literature. During his     years at the university, he read widely in English and Continental     literatures, particularly medieval and Renaissance romances from the     fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. He also enjoyed German romantic poetry and fiction, and the narrative folk poems known as ballads. Translations and poetry From these intense interests Scott's earliest publications     developed: a translation of Walter Scott. J. W. von Goethe's (1749–1832) play Götz von Berlichingen (1799) and other translations from German; Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–1803), a collection of ballads that generated great     interest in folk poetry; and a succession of narrative poems, mainly of     historical action. These poems—including The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810)—became best sellers, and Scott established his first     literary reputation as a poet of the romantic school, an artistic     movement developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During these years Scott also pursued a legal career, rising to the     official position of clerk of the Court of Session. His enormous     energies allowed him to engage in scholarly and journalistic activities.     His edition and biography of John Dryden (1631–1700), the English     poet and dramatist, published in 1808, remains of value. His politically     motivated founding of the Quarterly Review, a literary journal, helped make Edinburgh the most influential center     of British intellectual life outside London. In these years Scott also     began to create an estate, Abbotsford. He modeled its furnishings and     architecture on the traditions of the medieval era (c. 470– 1470 C.E. , also known as the Middle Ages). Waverley novels When sales of Scott's verse narrative Rokeby (1813) declined and a new poet, Lord Byron (1788–1824), appeared     on the literary scene, Scott began to develop another of his many     talents. Picking up the fragment of a novel he had begun in 1805, he     tried his hand at fiction, and his most fully characteristic novel, Waverley (1814), resulted. As its subtitle, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, established, Waverley was a historical novel about the 1745 rebellion to restore the Stuart     line to the British throne. By leading a young and foolish Englishman     through a wide range of Scottish classes, political factions (rival     groups), and cultural modes, Scott built up a substantial picture of an     entire nation's life at a dramatic historical period. The success of Waverley established Scott in the career of a novelist, but it did not establish     his name in that role. Unwilling to invest his career in fiction, he had     published Waverley anonymously (without the author's name). Finding that the mask     of anonymity had stimulated public interest, Scott signed


James IV was killed during which battle?

The sad tale of James IV’s body - BBC News BBC News The sad tale of James IV’s body By Dr Tony Pollard University of Glasgow 9 September 2013 Close share panel Image caption King James IV died at Flodden on 9 September 1513 Scotland's King James IV was killed at the Battle of Flodden 500 years ago. But what became of his body after the massacre? Earlier this year, the discovery of the body of Richard III, killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, beneath a car park in Leicester was front-page news. The obvious implication, that finding long lost kings was a piece of cake, has led to me being repeatedly asked if I am going to look for the body of James IV. His corpse, disfigured by arrow and bill, was identified after the battle and taken to Berwick, where it was embalmed and placed in a lead coffin before being transported to London. Image caption Dr Pollard is the director of Glasgow University's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology The recipient of this gory package was Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII, and in charge of the family business while the English king fought in France. She, in turn, sent the dead king's surcoat, blood-stained and slashed, to her husband with the recommendation that he use it as a war banner. Obvious choice As time passed however and Henry returned from France, there was the question of what to do with the troublesome Scottish king's body. Battle of Flodden Field More key moments in the history of Scotland The obvious solution would have been to bury it, with the monastery of Sheen in Richmond upon Thames, where it was residing, being the obvious choice for James's grave. It wasn't as simple as that though, as prior to Flodden, the Scottish king had been excommunicated from the church as punishment for breaking the Truce of Perpetual Peace, which was signed between Scotland and England in 1502 and strengthened by the marriage of James to Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor. In reality the excommunication was in retaliation for James's support of the French, who were at war with the Papacy of which England was an ally at the time. Under these circumstances a proper burial in consecrated ground was out of the question. So it was that the body of James was left to moulder in the woodshed of Sheen monastery, even after the Pope had granted permission for burial. Eventually, the desiccated corpse was forgotten about and by some act of carelessness the head became detached. The story then goes, for there isn't much hard evidence for some of this, that workmen played football with it, some time after which it was nabbed as a trophy by Elizabeth I's master glazier, who took it home. It was a sad, ignominious end for one of Scotland's most charismatic warrior kings Dr Tony Pollard It is not hard to imagine his wife growing tired of a musty old head cluttering up the place and insisting he get rid of it. Whatever the reason for disposing of it, the head was taken to Great St Michael's Church in Wood Street in the city of London, where it was dumped into a charnel pit, the last resting place of stray bones and crypt sweepings. The monastery of Sheen was eventually demolished after the Dissolution, and whether the king's headless corpse was buried there we shall probably never know, not least because looking for it would involve digging up a golf course. Nothing lasts forever, and the church in Wood Street was also done away with and today, after several redevelopments, the site is occupied by a pub. It was a sad, ignominious end for one of Scotland's most charismatic warrior kings, but perhaps it is he who will have the last laugh, especially if an archaeologist should be foolhardy enough to go looking for him, as the pub under which his head is said to rest is not called The King's Head, but The Red Herring.


Architect of the Battle Of Britain victory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding was born in what borders town?

Moffat mastermind of the Battle of Britain is honoured - Daily Record News Moffat mastermind of the Battle of Britain is honoured HUNDREDS paid tribute to the Moffat-born Architect of Deliverance, Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding on Sunday afternoon.  Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email HUNDREDS paid tribute to the Moffat-born Architect of Deliverance, Air Chief Marshal Lord Hugh Dowding on Sunday afternoon. The 38th annual Lord Dowding Commemorative Service at his memorial in Moffat’s Station Park had extra significance in marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and Dowding’s death 40 years ago. Among the special guests were Lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire Mrs Jean Tullock on behalf of The Queen; Dowding’s grandson Lord Piers Dowding, The Duke of Hamilton, Air Vice-Marshal David Whittaker; and Moffat’s Irene Park who instigated the public appeal in the 1970s which led to the service and memorial. She turned 90 this year. As a special honour to the leader of The Few, there was a fly-past by both a Hurricane and Spitfire. Tributes were made to the Battle of Britain mastermind who, as head of Bomber Command in World War II, orchestrated the Battle of Britain and kept German invasion from our shores 70 years ago. Under his guidance, research into radar was begun, aircraft construction switched from wood to metal, the Spitfire and Hurricane were developed, and Britain’s air defences were modernised so that our limited number of young pilots were equipped to fight off the might of the German Luftwaffe which outnumbered us by four to one. Dowding was hailed as the leader of “The Few” and dubbed “The Architect of Deliverance” by Sir Winston Churchhill, The poignant service saw representatives from many branches of the Airforce, the Royal British Legion, 2329 air training corps, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and Czech and Polish pilots. They laid wreaths at the bronze plaque and sandstone memorial by Scott Sutherland – sculpture of the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge – which was the backdrop for the commemorative service. Wreaths were also laid by Mrs Jean Purves on behalf of the town and Moffat Academy head boy and girl, Callum Hutchinson and Mhairi Reive, as well as Roger Morewood who flew in the battle of Britain. Dumfries and Galloway Pipe Band and Moffat Academy band provided music As well as tributes and benediction, a radio recording of Lord Dowding’s voice from a BBC radio broadcast of September 1946 was played during the event. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent


In New York in 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by what method?

6 August 1890 – William Kemmler | Execution of the day Execution of the day 6 August 1890 – William Kemmler William Kemmler The first person to go to the electric chair in America was William Kemmler. He was found guilty of murder after he butchered his partner. But he didn’t go quietly. Burying the hatchet Kemmler had killed his common-law wife Tilly Zeigler after he took a hatchet to her. And he was found guilty of murder in New York in 1890 and sentenced to go to the electric chair. Electrocution was highly controversial, but despite lobbies to get the penalty changed to a more humane method, his execution took place. Kemmler took his penalty very stoically. But the irony of his final words ‘Take it easy and do it properly, I’m in no hurry’ hit hard. Horse trials Understandably the electrocutors were in dire need of practice, this being their first time. Despite successfully electrocuting a horse as a trial run, they misjudged the current necessary to kill a man. According to the ‘New York Times’, R C Barnes, who had tuned the electric chair being used, went on record with the statement ‘no electrician who understands the subject and knows what the apparatus is can doubt that it will kill Kemmler’. But he had based his supposition on the fact that they’d use around 15,000 volts. Shallow fried In actual fact, a mere 1,000 volts coursed through Kemmler’s body for 17 seconds, on the presumption that that’d kill him. Despite the smell of frying flesh, Kemmler was still breathing at the end of his electrifying session. A second stint, this time of 2,000 volts ran through Kemmler’s body. The electricity caused his blood vessels to rupture and blood to ooze before his body eventually caught fire. The whole thing took an agonising eight minutes causing one spectator to comment: ‘They would have done better using an axe.’ Bookmark this site