What religion did Germany consider banning in 2007?

Germany Wants to Ban Scientology | The Tennessee ConserVOLiance Germany Wants to Ban Scientology Originally posted at Right Truth ‘ll be the first to admit that Scientology is a scam, but would anyone consider banning Islam? Heads would roll. From Wikipedia: Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially developed by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics.[1] Hubbard later characterized Scientology as an “applied religious philosophy” and the basis for a new religion.[1] Scientology encompasses a spiritual rehabilitation philosophy and techniques, and covers topics such as morals, ethics, detoxification, education and management. The first Church of Scientology was founded in 1953. In truth, Scientology is a money-making industry. The only good I’ve ever heard coming from Scientology is their detox program, which many Hollywood-types have taken advantage of — for a price. Germany could be asked to ban the U.S.-based Church of Scientology under a Hamburg security official’s proposal that contends the group violates human rights.Hamburg’s secretary of the interior, Udo Nagel, plans to seek a nationwide ban of Scientology at this week’s meeting of top German security officials, spokeswoman Ulrike Sweden said Monday. The German government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people. During the summer, it initially refused to allow the producers of a movie starring Scientology member Tom Cruise as Germany’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed, although it did not expressly state Scientology as its reason. If all 16 states agree to the proposal to ban Scientology, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble would be asked to initiate proceedings against it, Sweden said, confirming a report by Focus magazine. The report quotes Nagel saying that Scientology pursues “anti-constitutional goals in an aggressively fierce” manner that run counter to human rights and dignity. A spokeswoman for Scientology, Sabine Weber, called Nagel’s proposal “more than incomprehensible” and pointed out that the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Scientology when Russia denied its application to register as a religious community. The United States has said that Germany discriminates against some religious groups, including Scientology, that Germany does not recognize as a religion. ( SFGate) Like this:


Under what plant is it customary to kiss during the Christmas season?

Here’s the odd, sad truth about mistletoe. Plus, is the kissing custom a mystery? | Dictionary.com Blog Home  »  Calendar Events  » Here’s the odd, sad truth about mistletoe. Plus, is the kissing custom a mystery? Here’s the odd, sad truth about mistletoe. Plus, is the kissing custom a mystery? December 22, 2010 by:  Dictionary.com 64 Comments If you celebrate Christmas, it’s likely that at some point this season you’ll find yourself puckering up under a mistletoe branch. What is the tradition of kissing under a plant all about? And does the name have anything to do with human toes? Mistletoe is a European plant that grows parasitically on trees. The etymology of the word is uncertain. Because mistletoe can be spread through birds’ feces, it is possible that it comes from the German mist, which means “dung,” and tang, which means “branch.” (Hence, there is no connection between the toes on your feet and the plant hanging above your head.) The parasite is used to decorate homes during Christmas. When two people meet under a hanging of mistletoe, it is customary to smooch . The origin of this tradition is also shrouded in uncertainty, but one of the first descriptions comes from a book by Washington Irving published in 1820. And historically, mistletoe represents romance, fertility, and vitality. Now, let’s move on to the darker side of mistletoe. In Norse mythology, the plant plays a key part in a story with a violent conclusion; the god Balder is killed by his blind brother Hoor with, of all things, a mistletoe projectile. Also, in South Africa “bird lime,” or a juice made from mistletoe berries, is used as an adhesive to trap small birds. Coils of the sticky substance are placed on tree branches. When birds land on them, they get stuck. The birds can then be caught by hand. Here’s one more redemptive aspect of the plant. According to the National Cancer Institute, mistletoe is one of the most widely used alternative medicine therapies for people with cancer.


What country did the band ABBA hail from?

BIOGRAPHY: Abba Lifetime Born: 16 12 1946 Birth place: Stockholm, Sweden Both Benny Andersson's father and grandfather were musicians and he was introduced to the accordion at a very young age. Benny had no patience for regular music lessons, preferring to pick up the instrument and play it. With obvious musical talent, he was able to easily do this with almost any instrument. By the age of 18, Benny’s favourite was the piano. He was with girlfriend Christina Gronvall at this time. She had fallen pregnant with the first of their two children when Benny was only 15-years-old. After graduating from high school, Benny was invited to join The Hep Stars, a popular Swedish beat group with a huge teenage girl fanbase. It was during this time that he met fellow young songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus. Benny remained with The Hep Stars for a number of successful years, until they disbanded in the late 1960s. He then joined forces with Bjorn and they released an LP together. Shortly after that, Bjorn and Benny’s girlfriends, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, joined the duo. They formed the touring folk act Festfolket, which was not much of a success. The foursome then transformed into the legendary ABBA, finding international stardom and remarkable success. Bjorn Ulvaeus Born: 25 04 1945 Birth place: Gothenburg, Sweden Bjorn's first foray into music was with the folk music act The Hootenanny Singers, who had strong jazz and blues influences. They made their television debut in a Swedish talent contest in 1963. Bjorn joined up with Benny Andersson to write songs. One of these, 'Isn’t it Easy to Say', was a hit for The Hep Stars, and Bjorn sometimes guested with the band when they were on tour. At one point, it was suggested that The Hep Stars and The Hootenanny Singers merge to form one band, although this never happened. Stig Anderson, manager of The Hootenay Singers and founder of Polar Music, saw Benny and Bjorn’s collective potential and encouraged them to write more songs in order to release an album. They followed his advice and Polar Music released their album 'Lycka' ('Happiness') in 1970. Benny and Bjorn went on to release a further six singles. They also wrote a significant amount of music for the Polar label before joining with their girlfriends, Anni-Frid and Agnetha, to form ABBA, under the management of Stig Anderson. Anni-Frid Lyngstad Born: 15 11 1945 Birth place: Narvik, Norway Anni-Frid’s mother, young Norwegian Synni Lyngstad, had an affair with German officer, Alfred Haase, during World War II. It was at the end of the war, when he returned to his country, that Synni discovered she was pregnant with his child. She gave birth to Anni-Frid (Frida, as she was later known) in the small Norwegian town of Narvik. To avoid being punished as a collaborator, Synni took her baby daughter to Torshalla, Sweden. When Frida was only two-years-old, her mother died and her grandmother, who always encouraged her to sing, raised her. In 1957, at age 13, Frida made her stage debut at a Red Cross charity event. She met her boyfriend, Ragnar Fredriksson, when she was 15 and they had a son, Hans, when Frida was only 17. Shortly after Hans’s birth, Frida and Ragnar married and they had their second child, Lise-Lotte, a few years later. Frida, a part-time cabaret singer, was fully committed to her burgeoning music career and was not prepared to give it up to be a full-time mother. This caused tensions in the marriage and eventually they divorced. Frida left her children in the care of their father, Ragnar, and her grandmother (“Mamma”), and went to live in Stockholm. It was here that Frida met Benny Andersson, at the folkpark tour, and they were soon a couple. Benny invited her to sing backing vocals with Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn’s girlfriend, on the 'Lycka' album. Both women were uncredited for this work. Soon after this, the foursome became ABBA. Benny produced Frida’s only solo LP during the ABBA years, 'Frida Ensam' (1975), which included an earlier, Swedish hit single version of 'Fernando'. Agnetha Faltskog Born: 05 04 1950 Birth pla


On what TV show would you see a van called the Mystery Machine?

'Mystery Machine' Police Chase: Scooby-Doo Van, Where Are You?      A   A    A fleeing "Mystery Machine" van, like in "Scooby-Doo" cartoons, reached speeds of  more than 100 miles per hour before police in California called off their chase, according to KRCR-TV . The 1994 Chrysler minivan painted in "Scooby-Doo" colors sped away Sunday afternoon when police in Redding tried to stop it. The driver, identified by Redding Police as Sharon Kay Turman, 51, was wanted on a probation violation, said KRCR-TV. "Turman's speeds increased and she began to show a blatant disregard for motorist safety," said a Redding Police statement . "The pursuit was subsequently terminated in the area of Buenaventura and Highway 273. Redding Police officers backed off of Turman and she continued southbound on Highway 273 at a high rate of speed." The Shasta County Sheriff's Office and California Highway Patrol took up the chase after the Redding Police pursuit ended, according to the police report. A highway patrol helicopter picked up the van on a road near Anderson, south of Redding. "Turman continued to flee southbound on Highway 273 through the City of Anderson and went southbound onto Interstate 5," the police report continued. "It was reported that her speeds were well in excess of 100 miles per hour. Deputies terminated their pursuit of her in the area of Interstate 5 and Bowman Road in Tehama County." Turman reportedly abandoned the van in an area in northwestern Tehama County, where the vehicle was impounded, according to the Redding Police report.  Authorities were still attempting to locate Turman, the report stated. Some had a little fun with the Mystery Machine chase on social media. If it weren't for those meddlin' kids... https://t.co/sfGP4S1SII


What type of animal does mohair come from?

Mohair - What Is It And Where Does It Come From? Mohair A Luxury Fiber Mohair is often thought to come from a Mo. What is a Mo? I don't know.  But, I do know this - it is an animal fiber. This fine fiber actually comes from the Angora Goat. This goat is native to the Angora region of Turkey, but is now raised mainly in South Africa and the United States. The Angora goat grows beautiful long curly locks of fiber, as you can see in the photographs. This wonderful coat of fine fiber is sheared either once or twice a year, depending on the staple length (fiber length) required. These mohair fibers can be from 8 - 12 inches in length and come in a variety of shades. They used to be bred only in white so that the fiber could be dyed, though Angora goats are now bred in "reds" (apricot through to copper shades) or "blacks" (shades of grey through to black). The white takes dyes easily, evenly and holds them permanently. This is a very smooth, strong fiber, which will not shrink or felt as easily as wool. Its' fibers tend to stick out when felted in a  wool blend yarn and give a "halo" of fuzz over the felted project. Mohair will not crease or wrinkle easily and is very long lasting.  It is not entirely a rare fiber, but yarns containing mohair tend to be a little more expensive as it is considered a fairly luxurious fiber. These yarns, in general, tend to have a halo of fuzz around the strand. They can be worked up quickly into wonderfully warm but very lightweight scarves, shawls, sweaters, hats, etc. Angora goats are pretty easy to look after. They eat grass hay and pellets and are reasonably disease-resistant. They also love to eat, and are not harmed by, noxious weeds, which also makes them particularly useful for keeping the yard in check. Imagine having a herd of these cute, fiber producing goats taking care of your yard, leaving you more time to play with yarn and fibers. Sounds idyllic to me. Do give mohair a try - it's a wonderful fiber.


What 1978 horror film introduced Jamie Lee Curtis to the big screen?

Hollywood 12 - Halloween (1978) Halloween (1978) R After John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN premiered in a theatre in Kansas City, Missouri on October 25th, 1978, the horror film took the country by storm. Over 35 years later, it has earned the title of one of the most successful independent horror films of all time, launched a huge franchise and has been making audiences scream ever since its debut. This seminal film, directed by John Carpenter, who co-wrote the film with Debra Hill, also received a very rare honor when it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation. As a six year old, Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister on a cold Halloween night in 1963. After being locked away in prison for 15 years, he escapes and returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims including his surviving sister, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Celebrate the horror of Halloween and don’t miss your chance to see this classic horror film back on the big screen. CAST: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis DIRECTOR: John Carpenter


"What singer had two hit songs that started with ""Like a""?"

Party songs: part seven of 1000 songs everyone must hear | Music | theguardian.com 808 State 1989 Very much done a disservice by being lumped in by some with the whole Madchester movement, 808 State, named after the Roland TR-808 drum machine, were true electronic innovators. The original line-up was Martin Price, Graham Massey and Gerald Simpson, but the later soon went solo as A Guy Called Gerald and made his own mark with Voodoo Ray. Massey and Price brought in two fresh-faced DJs by the name of the Spinmasters, aka Darren Partington and Andy Barker, who also hosted a seminal radio station on Sunset Radio. Their first two albums, Newbuild and Quadrastate, were pioneering records, and their big crossover hit Pacific State still sounds like nothing else. LB Dancing Queen Abba 1976 Not so much a celebration of dancing, more a piece of reflective melancholy told from the position of the wallflower, a broken-hearted woman who takes vicarious pleasure in watching a 17-year-old dancer. But it’s the musical mix of light and shade that brings this psychodrama to life, the way in which an effortlessly funky disco beat and Benny Andersson’s triumphant piano pounding are slyly undercut by the neurotic strings and the bittersweet vocal delivery. JL AC/DC 1980 When vocalist Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning in 1980, AC/DC briefly considered calling it a day. Instead, they recruited singer Brian Johnson and released their best single a few months later. The sky-scraping verse, with its themes of immortality, was a typically audacious way for the band to reaffirm itself. The iconic riff remains a bedroom guitarist’s rite-of-passage, still pertinent in the Guitar Hero age, while the song’s surprisingly sparse arrangement predates modern minimalists such as Chicago rock trio Shellac. JP Because I Got High Afroman 2001 Joseph “Afroman” Foreman’s cautionary comedy about the drawbacks of the weed serves as the most effective anti-drug song of the 21st century thus far. A fondness for marijuana leads to an increasingly absurd chain of events in which the protagonist flunks his college class, misses his child support payments, gambles his money away, is unable to perform sexually, loses both his legs in a car accident and is left homeless. JL Aphex Twin 1999 Rumour has it that there is a demo version of this song, with Richard D James, aka Aphex Twin, playing the original idea for the song on guitar. Windowlicker might sound like the strangest song ever to gain mainstream appeal, but at its heart lies a really good tune – and that’s why, despite the permanently shifting song structure and the lunatic polyrhythms, it’s become a something of a classic. EW I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys 2005 In an explosion of buzzsaw guitar, Arctic Monkeys announced themselves to the world in spectacular style. Insanely addictive, it masked an observational narrative that made the simple act of eyeing a girl up in a nightclub sound like an act of espionage. Most of all, it made everyone who heard it want to dance – and instant megastars of its creators. Tom Jones, Joe Perry and Sugababes have all had stabs at it, cementing its status as the defining indie party track of the modern age. DM Ashford and Simpson 1979 Husband and wife team Ashford and Simpson were both songwriters and artists in their own right. As songwriters they wrote for Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and several Motown artists, where their hits included Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and You’re All I Need to Get By for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. As artists, their biggest hit was the schmaltzy Solid. In between, they wrote some of the greatest, sweeping orchestral disco songs of the late 70s. Bourgie Bourgie, spun regularly by the legendary DJ Larry Levan at seminal New York nightclub Paradise Garage, was pretty much disco perfection. Anyone who still thinks disco equals Saturday Night Fever should do themselves a favour and search this out. LB The B-52’s 1989 A seemingly effortless meld of Don Was’s slick big-band production, Fred Schneider’s fairground bark, the pipi


Aves is the taxonomical class of what type of animals?

Aves - Birds - Animalia Index Birds are amongst the most easily seen of wild animals,     they are probably also the most easily identifiable.  Superficially similar, they vary greatly in what they     eat, where they go and how they live their lives. Some     brave the weather all year round in the same region,     others fly thousands of miles to follow the sun, and/or     abundant food supplies. Aves - Birds - Animalia There are about 10,000 species of birds. They are found worldwide from    the deep Arctic to the deep Antarctic and all stations in between.    The fact they can fly in and fly out again means that they are    able to make short visits to many places to take advantage of    seasonal food supplies in a way that other animals can't. They    are able to make use of what otherwise would be very harsh environments    by visiting in the better months only. Birds are the most recently evolved of the vertebrate classes,    with the oldest fossils going back about 160 million years.    They are considered to be the modern descendants of the dinosaurs,    being the only direct evolutionary line that survived the extinction    event that wiped out all the other dinosaurs about 65 million    years ago. Typical Birds House sparrow (female), Passer     domesticus - Passeriformes A contender     for the commonest wild bird title. Originating in Europe     house sparrows are found across 2/3rds of the worlds     land surface. picture used     permission of David Friel Blue-eyed shag, Phalocrocorax     atriceps - Pelecaniformes The blue     ring surrounds the eye, it is not the iris,     the yellow wattle develops during the breeding season Snow petrels, Pagadroma nivea,     Procellariiformes Courtship behaviour, the female     out in front leads the male who must prove himself by     following her aerobatics that often take place close     up to cliff faces. In a relatively calm moment, the     male is calling to her. Red-billed quelea, Quelea     quelea - Passeriformes Another contender     for the commonest wild bird title. Found in sub-Saharan     Africa, there are estimated to be 1.5 billion of these     small birds, though other figures have put the number     at up to 10 billion. They are regarded as being a significant     pest as huge flocks can settle on and decimate crops     grown for human food. picture     - Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC2 Attribution-Share     Alike Generic license. Great tit, Parus major - Passerine (left) and Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos major - Piciforme (right) on a garden bird feeder. Almost anywhere in the world,     it is possible to put out a feeder in your garden and     start to attract the local bird life so you can see     it (fairly) close up. I use porridge oats mixed with     dripping to stuff the holes in this piece of wood in     my garden that hangs from a tree. Cool Birds Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis     adeliae - Strigiformes these are probably     two males rather than being a breeding pair. Penguins     usually mate for life, these are on the sea-ice in Antarctica     early in the spring, the males arrive first and make     a nest for the later arrival of the female. They often     travel together whether on ice or sea. Brown Pelican, Pelicanus     occidentalis urinator - Pelecaniformes.     A typical pelican, this one is from the Galapagos. Magnificent Frigate Birds*, Fregata magnificens - Pelecaniformes This group are heading out to sea to go fishing in the     Galapagos Islands. The ones with white under-bellies     are female, while the darker ones are male. These are     large birds with up to a 2.3m wingspan. *This is their     full name, we missed a trick there, we could have been     the "Magnificent Humans" if someone was paying attention. Ostrich, Struthio camelus - Struthioniformes Native to Africa where it is widespread,     the ost


What fictional character visited Lilliput and Brobdingnag?

SparkNotes: Gulliver’s Travels: Character List Gulliver’s Travels Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Gulliver -  The narrator and protagonist of the story. Although Lemuel Gulliver’s vivid and detailed style of narration makes it clear that he is intelligent and well educated, his perceptions are naïve and gullible. He has virtually no emotional life, or at least no awareness of it, and his comments are strictly factual. Indeed, sometimes his obsession with the facts of navigation, for example, becomes unbearable for us, as his fictional editor, Richard Sympson, makes clear when he explains having had to cut out nearly half of Gulliver’s verbiage. Gulliver never thinks that the absurdities he encounters are funny and never makes the satiric connections between the lands he visits and his own home. Gulliver’s naïveté makes the satire possible, as we pick up on things that Gulliver does not notice. Read an in-depth analysis of Gulliver. The emperor -  The ruler of Lilliput. Like all Lilliputians, the emperor is fewer than six inches tall. His power and majesty impress Gulliver deeply, but to us he appears both laughable and sinister. Because of his tiny size, his belief that he can control Gulliver seems silly, but his willingness to execute his subjects for minor reasons of politics or honor gives him a frightening aspect. He is proud of possessing the tallest trees and biggest palace in the kingdom, but he is also quite hospitable, spending a fortune on his captive’s food. The emperor is both a satire of the autocratic ruler and a strangely serious portrait of political power. The farmer -  Gulliver’s first master in Brobdingnag. The farmer speaks to Gulliver, showing that he is willing to believe that the relatively tiny Gulliver may be as rational as he himself is, and treats him with gentleness. However, the farmer puts Gulliver on display around Brobdingnag, which clearly shows that he would rather profit from his discovery than converse with him as an equal. His exploitation of Gulliver as a laborer, which nearly starves Gulliver to death, seems less cruel than simpleminded. Generally, the farmer represents the average Brobdingnagian of no great gifts or intelligence, wielding an extraordinary power over Gulliver simply by virtue of his immense size. Glumdalclitch -  The farmer’s nine-year-old daughter, who is forty feet tall. Glumdalclitch becomes Gulliver’s friend and nursemaid, hanging him to sleep safely in her closet at night and teaching him the Brobdingnagian language by day. She is skilled at sewing and makes Gulliver several sets of new clothes, taking delight in dressing him. When the queen discovers that no one at court is suited to care for Gulliver, she invites Glumdalclitch to live at court as his sole babysitter, a function she performs with great seriousness and attentiveness. To Glumdalclitch, Gulliver is basically a living doll, symbolizing the general status Gulliver has in Brobdingnag. The queen -  The queen of Brobdingnag, who is so delighted by Gulliver’s beauty and charms that she agrees to buy him from the farmer for 1,000 pieces of gold. Gulliver appreciates her kindness after the hardships he suffers at the farmer’s and shows his usual fawning love for royalty by kissing the tip of her little finger when presented before her. She possesses, in Gulliver’s words, “infinite” wit and humor, though this description may entail a bit of Gulliver’s characteristic flattery of superiors. The queen seems genuinely considerate, asking Gulliver whether he would consent to live at court instead of simply taking him in as a pet and inquiring into the reasons for his cold good-byes with the farmer. She is by no means a hero, but simply a pleasant, powerful person. The king -  The king of Brobdingnag, who, in contrast to the emperor of Lilliput, seems to be a true intellectual, well versed in political science among other disciplines. While his wife has an intimate, friendly relationship with the diminutive visitor, the king’s relation to Gulliver is limited to serious discussions about the history


"In what country did the movie ""The Last King of Scotland"" take place?"

Inside the big picture show. Jan. 31 2007 12:24 PM Based on True Events By Kim Masters   Catching up on homework: Well, we finally got around to slipping The Last King of Scotland into the DVD player. For some reason it took a while to bring ourselves to watch the bloody mayhem that must be a part of any movie about Idi Amin—and part of many films angling for Oscar. At the beginning, there was the inevitable "inspired by true events" claim that is also mandatory for many movies angling for Oscar. After that unfolds a preposterous tale—and there are major spoilers to come—that left us wondering, exactly which true events inspired this? At a glance, the only facts in the film are that there was a deranged dictator named Idi Amin in a place called Uganda and, at one time, a hijacked Air France airliner landed there. * The movie, based on an acclaimed novel by Giles Foden, tells the tale of a young Scottish doctor who finds himself a favorite of Idi Amin. The doctor can be rather plucky with Amin but generally ignores the growing evidence of the hideous truth. He busies himself with knocking up one of Amin's wives and then getting her an abortion. Unfortunately the boss is wise to him and has him hung by hooks thrust into his flesh. Far more fortunately, this hanging takes place at the airport at the exact moment when some Entebbe hostages are being released. A noble colleague sacrifices himself to free the bloodied doctor, who slinks off with the Entebbe hostages. His doomed savior admonishes him to tell the world of the outrages perpetrated in Uganda. Advertisement This series of astonishing events made us curious about the truth upon which the story was based. It was late, so we were left with Wikipedia. (In the Internet age, truth is easy to come by—right?) We found that the character of the young doctor was loosely based on a fellow named Bob Astles, who was neither Scottish nor a doctor. Twice married, he was an English adventurer who worked for Amin while running a pineapple farm as well as an aviation service. He later said, "I kept my eyes shut, I said nothing about what I saw, which is what they liked." Astles eventually became the head of Amin's anti-corruption squad. "Until today, what Astles did or did not do during Amin's brutal tenure is conjecture," the Wikipedia article concludes. "He was feared, and considered by many to be a malign influence on the dictator; others thought he was a moderating presence." It's imperative for novelists to invent, of course, but why does the film industry have a compulsion to palm off stories based on "true" events that are not just miles but light-years from the truth? Not that many people will see The Last King of Scotland—although more than might be expected, thanks to Forest Whitaker's almost assured best actor award. And how many of them will walk away thinking they've seen something that is more true than not? The bottom line is that Hollywood has little respect for the truth. When he was making JFK, Oliver Stone became enraged when George Lardner, a Washington Post reporter who had covered the assassination of John Kennedy, got hold of a script and denounced the story as preposterous. It wasn't fair, Stone said, to judge an unfinished movie by a screenplay. Pressed about whether the misrepresentations in the screenplay wouldn't also be in the film, Stone said the movie would represent an "essential truth," and that adherence to actual fact was less important. Advertisement And there you have the Hollywood attitude—the movie version is the one that counts. The only time we can remember that this approach was stuffed up the industry's nose was when the 1999 film The Hurricane was attacked for misrepresenting facts about boxer Rubin Carter. That episode did not teach the industry caution. Instead, a lot of time and expense is devoted to re-creating the look and feel of a period with no regard to what actually occurred. Many will defend the Hollywood way as an exercise of the artist's prerogative. And obviously there are many immortal stories told in historical settings. Bu


Tanner | Define Tanner at Dictionary.com Tanner [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891. tan1 verb (used with object), tanned, tanning. 1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically. 2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun. 3. verb (used without object), tanned, tanning. 4. the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air. 6. of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. 9. used in or relating to tanning processes, materials, etc. Idioms tan someone's hide, Informal. to beat someone soundly: She threatened to tan our hides if she found us on her property again. Origin Expand before 1000; 1920-25 for def 2; Middle English tannen to make hide into leather, late Old English *tannian (in past participle getanned; cf. tanner 1) < Medieval Latin tannāre, derivative of tannum oak bark, tanbark < Germanic; compare Old High German tanna oak, fir, akin to Dutch den fir Related forms Examples from the Web for tanner Expand Contemporary Examples Twitter Feed White Girl Problems Becomes a Book: Authors on Babe Walker Isabel Wilkinson January 30, 2012 Historical Examples The tanner in the bower gave approval with a cough, like Cupid with a sneeze; then he turned it to a snore. Mary Anerley R. D. Blackmore The name seems to have been applied also to the man who barked trees for the tanner. British Dictionary definitions for tanner Expand a person who tans skins and hides tanner2 (Brit) (formerly) an informal word for sixpence Word Origin noun 1. the brown colour produced by the skin after intensive exposure to ultraviolet rays, esp those of the sun 2. a light or moderate yellowish-brown colour 3. verb tans, tanning, tanned 4. to go brown or cause to go brown after exposure to ultraviolet rays: she tans easily 5. to convert (a skin or hide) into leather by treating it with a tanning agent, such as vegetable tannins, chromium salts, fish oils, or formaldehyde 6. (transitive) (slang) to beat or flog adjective tanner, tannest of the colour tan: tan gloves 8. used in or relating to tanning Derived Forms tannish, adjective Word Origin Old English tannian (unattested as infinitive, attested as getanned, past participle), from Medieval Latin tannāre, from tannum tanbark, perhaps of Celtic origin; compare Irish tana thin tan2 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for tanner Expand n. "sixpence," slang word first recorded 1811, of unknown origin. J.C. Hotten, lexicographer of Victorian slang, thinks it may be from tanner and skin, rhyming slang for "thin," presumably in reference to the smallness of the coin. Not to be confused with tenner, slang for "ten pound note," which dates from 1861. tan v. late Old English tannian "to convert hide into leather" (by steeping it in tannin), from Medieval Latin tannare "tan, dye, a tawny color" (c.900), from tannum "crushed oak bark," used in tanning leather, probably from a Celtic source (e.g. Breton tann "oak tree"). The meaning "make brown by exposure to the sun" first recorded 1520s. To tan (someone's) hide in the figurative sense is from 1660s. Related: Tanned; tanning. n. "bronze color imparted to skin by exposure to sun," 1749, see tan (v.). As a simple name for a brownish color, in any context, it is recorded from 1888. The adjective tan "of the color of tanned leather" is recorded from 1660s. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper


The Marine Corps Motto | Military.com The Marine Corps Motto Marine Corps News "Semper Fidelis" ("Always Faithful") is the motto of the Corps. That Marines have lived up to this motto is proved by the fact that there has never been a mutiny, or even the thought of one, among U.S. Marines. Semper Fidelis was adopted about 1883 as the motto of the Corps. Before that, there had been three mottoes, all traditional rather than official. The first, antedating the War of 1812, was "Fortitudine" ("With Fortitude"). The second, "By Sea and by Land," was obviously a translation of the Royal Marine's "Per Mare, Per Terram." Until 1848, the third motto was "To the Shores of Tripoli," in commemoration of O'Bannon's capture of Derna in 1805. In 1848, after the return to Washington of the Marine battalion that took part in the capture of Mexico City, this motto was revised to: "From the Halls of the Montezumas to the Shores of Tripoli" – a line now familiar to all Americans. This revision of the Corps motto in Mexico has encouraged speculation that the first stanza of "The Marines' Hymn" was composed by members of the Marine battalion who stormed Chapultepec Castle. It may be added that the Marine Corps shares its motto with England's Devonshire Regiment, the 11th Foot, one of the senior infantry regiments of the British Army, whose sobriquet is "the Bloody Eleventh" and whose motto is also Semper Fidelis. Related Topics


Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham Sleeps Naked With Husband | Fox News Victoria 'Posh Spice' Beckham Sleeps Naked With Husband Published        December 06, 2007 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Email Print NEW YORK –  Victoria Beckham goes to bed naked. And she's got a very good reason -- her husband. "You don't sleep with David Beckham," the 33-year-old Posh Spice tells Elle magazine in its January issue, on newsstands Tuesday. "I'm going to be naked if I'm getting in bed with him every night!" The Beckhams and their three young sons moved to Los Angeles this summer when her soccer-superstar husband signed to play with the Los Angeles Galaxy. "I'm very proud to be British, but here it's a lot more relaxed," she says. "It's the happiest as a family that we've ever been. I just love America." She is now on tour with the newly reunited Spice Girls. "I wanted my children to see that Mummy was a pop star," she says. "It was the last opportunity for them to stand in a crowd full of people screaming for the Spice Girls." Beckham says she was never a "natural." "It became very obvious from the start that I was never going to be the best singer or the best dancer or the best actress," she says. "You know, I've never been that good at anything, to be completely honest." Still, she's a natural when it comes to keeping herself in the media spotlight, from her cutting-edge haircut to her high-profile marriage. "I'm so camp! I'm such a gay man trying to get out," she says. "I don't give a (bleep) what anybody thinks." Advertisement


10 Rivers that flow through Europe's Capital Cities - 10 Most Today Leisure & Travel Below is a list of 10 rivers that flow through capital cities in Europe 1. River Thames, London , England – The River Thames flows through London and London’s major attractions are situated right along the banks of the river, such as the Big Ben and Westminster Palace, the Tower Bridge and Tower of London and the London Eye River Thames, London, England   2. The Seine, Paris , France – The Seine flows through Paris and a boat tour of the Seine River is considered one of the best attractions of Paris . A romantic activity in the most romantic destinations in the world. What else do you need? Another romantic activity is to put a love lock on the Pont des Arts Bridge over the Seine The Seine, Paris. Picture taken from the Eiffel Tower   3. The Tiber, Rome , Italy – The history of Rome relates to the Tiber River which flows through the heart of the city, and very close to Vatican City The Tiber and Vatican City, Rome, Italy 4. River Liffey, Dublin , Ireland – The Liffey river supplies much of Dublin’s water, and is also used for recreational purposes. The Temple Bar area lies on the south bank of the Liffey River Liffey, Dublin, Ireland   5. The Danube, Budapest , Hungary – The Danube is the second longest river in Europe, after the Volga. It is 2,872 km (1,785 mi) long and flows through 4 capital cities: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade. Budapest is the largest city on the Danube and is actually the unification of two parts on both banks of the Danube – Buda on the west bank and Pest on the east bank. They were unified to a single city in 1873 The Danube, Budapest, Hungary The Danube, Budapest, Hungary   6. Moskva River (Moscow River), Moscow , Russia – The Moskva river is 503 km (313 mi) long and flows through Moscow. The Kremlin is situated on the bank of the river Moskva River, Moscow. Picture taken from within the Kremlin   7. The Amstel, Amsterdam , the Netherlands – Amsterdam has countless artificial canals, but the Amstel river is flows naturally through the city The Amstel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands   8. Spree River, Berlin , Germany – The Spree river flows through the German states of Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin. It also flows through the Czech Republic. In Berlin itself, it passes very close to main attractions of Berlin in the heart of the city, such as Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag Spree River and the Berlin TV Tower, Berlin 9. Vltava River, Prague, Czech Republic – The Vltava river is the longest river in the Czech Republic. In Prague, it flows under Charles Bridge – one of the most famous bridges in the world , and just a short walking distance away from the river is the Old Town Square in Prague , one of the most famous city squares in the world Charles Bridge and Vltava river, Prague   10. Manzanares River, Madrid, Spain – In a way, the city of Madrid was founded thanks to the Manzanares river, as the city was first founded as a citadel overlooking the river by the Moors in the 9th century Manzanares River, Madrid


At Starbucks, what size is bigger than grande?

Starbucks Drinks Sizes Measurements Updated January 15, 2017. Question: Starbucks Sizes What's up with Starbucks' sizes? Why are they called things like 'Grande' instead of things like small, medium and large? And how big are Grandes and all the other cup sizes anyway? Answer: Good questions! It is generally thought that Starbucks named their sizes differently to set themselves apart. Much to the chagrin of local coffee shops, customers often request a Grande or Venti (which are not generally accepted cup sizes at other coffee shops!). Knowing how much coffee you're getting in each size can help you figure out how much caffeine is in your Starbucks drinks and, in the case of sweetened drinks and drinks containing milk and chocolate, how many calories and how much fat is in your drinks. Here's the low down on the different cup sizes Starbucks offers, as well as exceptions to these usual sizes: Demi -- Literally, 'demi' means 'half.' Unlike most Starbucks drink size names, it is of French origin (not Italian origin). The Demi size is the smallest size at Starbucks, and is used to describe an espresso drink size. It's three ounces (89 milliliters), which sounds tiny until you realize it's only for standard espresso shots , which are usually only about one ounce each. And that a double shot is usually under two ounces. Yikes! continue reading below our video How to Prevent Your Cutting Board from Sliding Short -- The 'Short' was one of the two original Starbucks cup sizes. (The other was 'Tall.' Makes sense.) It's a mere eight fluid ounces (240 mL), and aside from the Demi (which is mostly a size espresso shots), it's the smallest drink size available at Starbucks. For many people who drink coffee at home, six to eight ounces is a standard cup size. It's only available for hot drinks and it's not very popular at Starbucks (even though it's a completely normal amount of coffee to drink at home). Tall -- The 'Tall' is the other original Starbucks drink size. When Starbucks started, the Tall was basically a Large. Now, it's basically a Small. In fact, if you order a 'Small' at Starbucks, you get a Tall. A Starbucks Tall measures in at 12 US fluid ounces (350 milliliters). Grande -- Pronounced GRAWN-day, 'Grande' is Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French for 'Large,' but at Starbucks there are two even larger drinks: the Venti and the Trenti. The Starbucks Grande is 16 US fluid ounces (470 milliliters / 2.5 cups). Venti -- Pronounced VENN-tee, Venti is Italian for 20. A Venti is 20 ounces (590 milliliters), so in a way, this name makes sense... until you realize that none of the smaller portions have names that relate to their sizes numerically. Hmmm... Trenta -- Introduced in May, 2011, the 'Trenta' is the newest (and the largest) of Starbucks drink sizes. 'Trenta' means 30. You might be thinking, "Oh, it's a continuation of the Venti theme. It's 30 ounces." Nope. Strangely, it's 31 ounces (920 milliliters). It's almost as though 30 ounces wasn't enough to make it the 'Big Gulp' of the coffee world. The Trenta size is reserved for iced drinks only (including iced coffee , iced tea , lemonade and other drinks served over ice), and it usually costs about 50 cents more than a Venti of the same drink. These sizes apply for most hot Starbucks coffee drinks and espresso drinks . However, there are a few exceptions, the most noteworthy of which is the sizing of iced Venti drinks. Iced Venti Drinks are usually 24 ounces rather than 20 ounces. According to the Starbucks website, the Iced Cocoa Cappuccino is an exception to this -- the iced version is still 20 ounces (not the usual 24-oz Venti iced drink cup size).


Superman #185 - Superman's Achilles Heel! / Target Superman! (Issue) Superman #185 The Superman's Achilles Heel! / Target Superman! wiki last edited by Thor_Ul on 06/09/15 12:17AM View full history Cover by Curt Swan and George Klein. "Superman's Achilles' Heel!" written by Leo Dorfman, penciled and inked by Pete Costanza. (Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, red Kryptonite) "Target Superman!" part 1 "The Irresistible Clark Kent!" part 2 written by Leo Dorfman, penciled and inked by Jim Mooney (Superman, Lois, Perry White, Superman robots, Lana Lang (cameo) . Creators Close This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along     with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely     increase the time it takes for your changes to go live. Comment and Save Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other     Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll     send you an email once approved. Save your changes Thanks, we're checking your submission. Whoah, whoah... slow down there. Thanks! Your changes are live! Some of your changes are live Because you're new to wiki editing, we sent your    submission off to our moderators to check it over. Most    changes are approved within a few hours. We'll send an    email when it is. Once you've earned over points you'll be able    to bypass this step and make live edits to our system.    Until then, gain points by continuing to edit pages. You are currently banned from editing the wiki. Wiki submissions are currently disabled. No changes were submitted, nothing was done! Please make changes to the wiki! Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Some of your changes are   now live. However, some of your changes were sent to moderation because you do not   have enough points to make those live edits. You need points to   live edit the changes you commited. For the changes that went through, our robot math gave you points for this   submission. Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Your changes are   now live. Our robot math gave you points for this   submission.


When Jack fell down and broke his crown, who came tumbling after?

The Actual, True Meanings Of Classic Nursery Rhymes | SMOSH The Actual, True Meanings Of Classic Nursery Rhymes   Tweet Posted: Thu, 3/8/2012 - 3:06pm by Francesco Marciuliano We recited them as little kids. Parents tell them to their children. They’re even used as the titles for every single James Patterson mystery novel. But do we really know what we’ve actually been saying all those years?   Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/All the king's horses and all the king's men/Couldn't put Humpty together again   A quick reading of the rhyme above shows at no point does it ever mention that Humpty Dumpty is an egg. Some believe that’s because “humpty dumpty” was actually a new type of cannon used in the English Civil War, only to shatter when first lit. Others, however, believe the term refers to a type of brandy or a clumsy person, which together gives you “fall down drunk.” Of course, the fact that horses would be called upon to solder a military weapon back together or perform surgery on a problem drinker’s shattered spine tells us all we really need to know about Old England’s vocational and medical schools’ lax admissions policies.   Jack and Jill went up the hill/To fetch a pail of water/Jack fell down and broke his crown/And Jill came tumbling after   Why would anyone go up a hill for water when water travels downhill…unless this really isn’t a tale of liquid refreshment and unsure footing. One common interpretation is that it’s about the beheading of King Louis XVI (“lost his crown”) and his queen Marie Antoinette (“who came tumbling after”) during the French Revolution. But the small town of Kilmersdon, England proudly claims (to the point they make it a tourist attraction) that the poem is about a couple in 1697 who used to sneak up the hill for some alone time (making “fetch a pail of water” one of the more disturbing euphemisms for “sex”). The story goes that the woman got pregnant, the man died from a falling rock, and then the woman died in childbirth, thus resulting in one of the most depressing nursery rhymes ever since “I Shot Little Jack Horner Just to Watch Him Die.”   Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetops/When the wind blows, the cradle will rock/When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall/And down will come baby, cradle and all.   Unlike other rhymes whose sinister undertones only become apparent with research, “Rock-a-Bye baby” boldly states “dead infant” right at the get-go. So how did this high-octane nightmare fuel of a ditty come about? The leading theory is it hails from early U.S. settlers who reported how Native Americans often rocked their babies in cradles suspended from tree branches, allowing the wind to gently sway them to sleep (or a gust to hurl them into oblivion). A competing take is that it’s actually about birth, with the tree as the mother, the wind as her contractions, the bough as her water breaking, and the “cradle and all” as the placenta. That would not only make it a poem about life instead of death, but would also give it all the soothing bedtime story qualities of a child imagining his own head crowning from his mommy’s nether regions.   London Bridge is falling down/Falling down, falling down/London Bridge is falling down/My fair lady.   Very few examples of colossal structure damage lend themselves to toe-tapping rhymes or kindergarten playtime activities. But so it is with this poem about the destruction of London Bridge courtesy of Viking attack (as told in the competing Norse poem, “Pillage, Plunder, Prevent Foot Traffic”). Or it’s about the once-held belief that children were buried alive in the bridge’s foundation as a human sacrifice to what one could only assume were very specific water-spanning gods. Or it’s about how the bridge just naturally deteriorated over time, making the poem about as exciting as the nursery rhyme “Let’s Watch that Cheese Slowly Rot in the Hot Sun.”   Ring around the rosie/A pocketful of posies/Ashes, ashes/We all fall down!   It’s long been thought this poem was about England’s Great Plague (which was truly awesome in the w


Hatters were often “mad” because of exposure to what chemical element?

The Straight Dope: What caused the Mad Hatter to go mad? A Staff Report from the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board What caused the Mad Hatter to go mad? March 20, 2001 Dear Straight Dope: What caused the Mad Hatter to go mad? Did he sniff the glue in the hat? Was it mercury poisoning? --Jeff Imparato Dear Straight Dope: In a discussion of the recent Nicor debacle, the effects of mercury came up, namely that overexposure causes insanity. "In fact," I said, "that's the origin of the phrase 'mad as a hatter,' since people who made hats were exposed to mercury in the course of their work, and it was thus common for aging hatters to go mad." Someone else disagreed, saying that it was the people who wore the hats who were the "mad hatters," because of exposure to mercury residue on the hats. Can you straighten out this disagreement for us? — Don Blaheta The most famous Mad Hatter, of course, is the one from the Mad Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland, the partner of the March Hare. Both mad, of course. But Lewis Carroll did not invent the phrase, although he did create the character. The phrases "mad as a hatter" and "mad as a March hare" were common at the time Lewis Carroll wrote (1865 was the first publication date of Alice). The phrase had been in common use in 1837, almost 30 years earlier. Carroll frequently used common expressions, songs, nursery rhymes, etc., as the basis for characters in his stories. The origin of the phrase, it's believed, is that hatters really did go mad. The chemicals used in hat-making included mercurious nitrate, used in curing felt. Prolonged exposure to the mercury vapors caused mercury poisoning. Victims developed severe and uncontrollable muscular tremors and twitching limbs, called "hatter's shakes"; other symptoms included distorted vision and confused speech. Advanced cases developed hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms. 'Twas the hatters, not the wearers of hats. The hatters were exposed to the mercury fumes, which would have been long dissipated (or of insignificant strength) by the time the hat was worn. This use of mercury is now subject to severe legal restrictions (if not banned) in the U.S. and Europe. While this is the most widely accepted origin of the phrase, there are those who believe that the phrase was originally "mad as an adder" (meaning poisonous as the snake) which degenerated to hatter. Sounds pretty flimsy to me, but then etymology is not an empirical science. OK, having answered the question, I can't help but add some trivia. There have been many guesses about whether Carroll was satirizing any particular individual with his Mad Hatter, or whether Tenniel (the first and most famous illustrator of Alice) was caricaturing anyone. Speculation ranges from Theophilus Carter, a furniture dealer near Oxford (most likely) to Prime Minister Gladstone (highly implausible). Dropping the H, "Mad Adder" could imply a mathematician, such as Carroll himself.  But then we start to move into realms of, well, madness. As long as we're off the subject, the expression "mad as a March hare" refers to the frenzied capers of the male hare during March, its mating season. Evan Morris of The Word Detective says, "Of course, the hare's behavior probably only appears strange to us--we can only guess how our human courtship rituals might appear to a rabbit. In any case, March Hares can't be entirely bonkers because, after all, every summer brings a new crop of baby hares." Martin Gardner, author of the wonderful Annotated Alice, reports that two British scientists (Anthony Holley and Paul Greenwood, in Nature, June 7, 1984) made extensive observations of the behaviors of hares in the spring, and found no evidence that male hares go into a frenzy during the March rutting season. They concluded that the main courtship behavior of male hares during the entire breeding period (many months) is chasing females and then boxing with them. Behavior in March is no different from any other month. Of course, this would not be the first time that popular beliefs and scientific observation don't jibe,


Before the Euro, what was the name of Italy's currency?

ITL | Italian Lira | OANDA Italian Lira Note: This currency has been replaced by the Euro . Overview The Italian Lira was the official currency of Italy, prior to the introduction of the Euro in 1999. The Lira was pegged to the Euro at 1 Euro = 1,936.26 Lira. The Italian Lira was issued by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. Economy Italy has fewer global multinational corporations compared to other economies of similar size, but it has a large number of small and medium enterprises, clustered in several industrial districts, which are the backbone of its industry. Italian industry has often focused on the export of niche and luxury goods. This means that it is less able to compete with China and other emerging economies in Asia with regard to quantity, but can withstand competition from them on the basis of Italy’s higher-quality products. The country was the seventh largest exporter in 2009. Closer in Italy, business relationships are with other countries in the European Union, which holds approximately 59% of its total trade. Its major trading partners of the EU, in order of market share, are Germany (12.9%), France (11.4%), and Spain (7.4%). Tourism is one of the most dynamic and profitable sectors of the national economy, with 43.6 million international tourist arrivals and total revenue estimated at $38.8 billion in 2010. Italy is the fifth most-visited country in the world. History The Lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. Between 1999 and 2002, the Lira was officially a national subunit of the Euro . The term originates in the value of P pound of high purity silver, and as such is a direct cognate of the British Pound . In some countries, such as Italy, Cyprus and Malta, the words Lira and Pound were used interchangeably before the Euro was adopted in those countries in 2008. The letter L, sometimes in script form (₤), was the usual symbol. Until World War II, the Italian Lira was subdivided into 100 cents. Symbols and Names Centesimo = 1/100 of a Lira Denominations Bills: 1,000₤, 2,000₤, 5,000₤, 10,000₤, 50,000₤, 100,000₤, 500,000₤ Coins: 1₤, 2₤, 5₤, 10₤, 20₤, 50₤, 100₤, 200₤, 500₤, 1,000₤ Countries Using This Currency SITE MAP © 1996 - 2017 OANDA Corporation. All rights reserved. "OANDA", "fxTrade" and OANDA's "fx" family of trademarks are owned by OANDA Corporation. All other trademarks appearing on this Website are the property of their respective owners. Leveraged trading in foreign currency contracts or other off-exchange products on margin carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for everyone. We advise you to carefully consider whether trading is appropriate for you in light of your personal circumstances. You may lose more than you invest. Information on this website is general in nature. We recommend that you seek independent financial advice and ensure you fully understand the risks involved before trading. Trading through an online platform carries additional risks. Refer to our legal section here . Financial spread betting is only available to OANDA Europe Ltd customers who reside in the UK or Republic of Ireland. CFDs, MT4 hedging capabilities and leverage ratios exceeding 50:1 are not available to US residents. The information on this site is not directed at residents of countries where its distribution, or use by any person, would be contrary to local law or regulation. OANDA Corporation is a registered Futures Commission Merchant and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealer with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association . No: 0325821. Please refer to the NFA's FOREX INVESTOR ALERT where appropriate. OANDA (Canada) Corporation ULC accounts are available to anyone with a Canadian bank account. OANDA (Canada) Corporation ULC is regulated by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), which includes IIROC's online advisor check database ( IIROC AdvisorReport ), and customer accounts are protected by the Canadian Investor Protection Fund within specified limits. A brochure describing the nature and li


In what year did the California gold rush start?

The Gold Rush of 1849 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com The Gold Rush of 1849 The Gold Rush of 1849 Author The Gold Rush of 1849 URL A+E Networks Introduction The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000 (compared with the pre-1848 figure of less than 1,000). A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852. Google Discovery at Sutter’s Mill On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey , found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California . At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter, a German-born Swiss citizen and founder of a colony of Nueva Helvetia (New Switzerland). (The colony would later become the city of Sacramento.) As Marshall later recalled of his historic discovery: “It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold.” Did You Know? Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush. Just days after Marshall’s discovery at Sutter’s Mill, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, ending the Mexican-American War and leaving California in the hands of the United States. At the time, the population of the territory consisted of 6,500 Californios (people of Spanish or Mexican decent); 700 foreigners (primarily Americans); and 150,000 Native Americans (barely half the number that had been there when Spanish settlers arrived in 1769). News Spreads Though Marshall and Sutter tried to keep news of the discovery under wraps, word got out, and by mid-March at least one newspaper was reporting that large quantities of gold were being turned up at Sutter’s Mill. Though the initial reaction in San Francisco was disbelief, storekeeper Sam Brannan set off a frenzy when he paraded through town displaying a vial of gold obtained from Sutter’s Creek. By mid-June, some three-quarters of the male population of San Francisco had left town for the gold mines, and the number of miners in the area reached 4,000 by August. As news spread of the fortunes being made in California, the first migrants to arrive were those from lands accessible by boat, such as Oregon , the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii ), Mexico , Chile, Peru and even China. Only later would the news reach the East Coast, where press reports were initially skeptical. Gold fever kicked off there in earnest, however, after December 1848, when President James K. Polk announced the positive results of a report made by Colonel Richard Mason, California’s military governor, in his inaugural address. As Polk wrote, “The accounts of abundance of gold are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service.” The ’49ers Come to California Throughout 1849, people around the United States (mostly men) borrowed money, mortgaged their property or spent their life savings to make the arduous journey to California. In pursuit of the kind of wealth they had never dreamed of, they left their families and hometowns; in turn, women left behind took on new responsibilities such as running farms or businesses and caring for their children alone. Thousands of would-be gold miners, known as ’49ers, traveled overland across the mountains or by sea, sailing to Panama or even around Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America. By the end of the year, the non-native population of California was estimated at 100,000, (as compared with 20,000 at the end of 1848 and around 800 in March 1848). To accommodate the needs of the ’49ers, gold mining towns had sprung up all over


What is the Magna Carta? - Ask History Ask History June 19, 2013 By Mariel Synan Share this: What is the Magna Carta? Author What is the Magna Carta? URL Google Hundreds of years before American colonists revolted against the crown, rebel nobles in England drafted the Magna Carta to curtail the power of their own tyrannical monarch–King John. While the Magna Carta, signed in 1215, primarily secured liberties for England’s elite classes, its language protecting due process and barring absolute monarchy has guided the fundamental principles of common law in constitutions around the world for the last 800 years. The Magna Carta brought an end to the absolute power of English sovereigns as they, too, were required to be held accountable by the law. King John had a tumultuous relationship with Pope Innocent III, a controversial figure in the early 13th century who claimed supreme authority over European sovereigns. After opposing Stephen Langton’s appointment as archbishop of Canterbury in 1207, King John became the first English monarch to be excommunicated, so he struck back by taxing the Church and seizing portions of its lands. He was even more unpopular among the English barons, whom he taxed heavily to pay for his military defeats. In 1214, King John launched an unsuccessful invasion of France and taxed the English nobility again to pay for his war, sparking a revolt of the barons in 1215. To resolve the civil unrest and end the king’s abuse of power, Langton and a group of rebel barons drafted the Articles of the Barons, which became the Magna Carta. In fear that the rebellion would escalate to full-scale civil war and endanger his throne, King John affixed his seal on the document at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, making it Europe’s first written constitution. After only a few weeks, however, Pope Innocent III, who by then had reconciled with King John, voided the Magna Carta at the king’s urging. This reignited the violence between the monarchy and the barons, but after King John’s sudden death in 1216, the Magna Carta was reinstated under 9-year-old King Henry III. (It was revised in 1216, 1217 and 1225.) Ironically, the Magna Carta would inspire American colonists a few hundred years later to declare independence from the British themselves. Around one-third of the provisions in the United States’ Bill of Rights draw from the Magna Carta, particularly from its 39th clause: “No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land.” The four remaining copies of the original Magna Carta are housed at Salisbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral and the British Museum. Tags


Besides Mexico and Canada, what country is geographically closest to the United States?

North America Map / Geography of North America / Map of North America - Worldatlas.com World Facts North America History Anthropologists believe that North America's initial inhabitants arrived around 40,000 years ago by traversing the Bering Strait. Some experts feel that by using primitive boats, early man also migrated down the Pacific coast to South America; that debate continues. There is scientific evidence connecting indigenous Americans to Asian peoples, specifically from the eastern Siberian populations. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have been linked to North Asian populations by linguistic dialects and blood types. After the last glacial period ended some 12,500 years back, a wide variety of prehistoric cultures developed across the continent, north to south. The development of stone tools was one of the factors instrumental in that successful expansion. Long before the Europeans arrived, small groups developed throughout the Americas. Across the Great Plains hunter-gatherers existed on wild plants and animals, but they were eventually replaced by more sophisticated bands that farmed the land, raised some animals and improved their hunting skills. At about the time of Christ, the brown-skinned Arawak People migrated from Venezuela to the Lesser Antilles. Small groups settled on many islands in the southeastern Caribbean, eventually reaching the Greater Antilles, creating their largest settlements on the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica In the far-southern reaches of the continent important cultural advances were made by the Maya civilization. They developed written language, as well as far-reaching advances in art, architecture, astronomical systems and mathematics. From the years 250 to 900, they were at the pinnacle of their power. In North America, sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures continued to develop. Across regions of what is now the United States, social organization were building mound complexes, with some supporting sizable communities year-round. Native American societies continued to spread; the Inuit and the Aleut lived in domed-shaped dwellings in the Arctic regions while large groups inhabited the Subarctic parts of Alaska and western Canada. From the Northeast to the Southeast, and from the Plains to the Southwest, the expansion continued unabated. As large groups gained additional knowledge, they began to farm some familiar crops now used around the world, such as tomatoes and squash. Perhaps most importantly they developed farming techniques for one of the planet's major foods, maize (corn). The Vikings were seafaring north Germanic people who raided, traded, explored, and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia, and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. Using sturdy wooden longships they traveled as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. Leif Erikson is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland, Canada - circa 1000 AD In the 13th century, central Mexico was the center of the Aztec civilization. The Mayan culture was fading and the Aztec Empire now stretched across most of Mesoamerica, from Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. In 1492, after proposing a voyage of discovery to the then mostly-imagined New World, Christopher Columbus left Spain on an epic journey, financed by Isabella I and Ferdinand II, Queen and King of Spain. Within a few months he reached land in the Bahamas , and North America would change forever. After Columbus made his initial voyage to this New World, word of its potential riches spread across Europe and explorers and settlers by the thousands would eventually step ashore along the Atlantic Ocean coastline of North America. John Cabot explored the east coast of what would become Canada in 1497. Giovanni da Verrazzano explored the East Coast of North America from Florida to eastern Canada in 1524, and Jacques Cartier made a series of voyages on behalf of the French crown in 1534 and penetrated the St. Lawrence River. In 1500, the Spanish mad


Mork & Mindy (TV Series 1978–1982) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents, and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same. Creators: Mork's attempt to lock up his emotions backfires and each of his emotions boil to the surface. 8.3 When Mr. Bickley's blind son comes to town, he gets dumped on Mork and Mindy. 8.1 Mindy brings home a record of Robin Williams' "Reality,What A Concept" and she then notices that Mork greatly resembles the comedian on the album cover. Mork doesn't see it but people in Boulder,... 8.1 a list of 22 images created 06 Jan 2014 a list of 34 titles created 20 Jul 2014 a list of 38 titles created 24 Aug 2014 a list of 35 images created 27 Feb 2015 a list of 26 titles created 30 Mar 2015 Search for " Mork & Mindy " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Mork & Mindy (1978–1982) 7.2/10 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     Golden Globe. Another    4 wins & 12 nominations. See more awards  » Photos The Cunningham family live through the 1950s with help and guidance from the lovable and almost superhuman greaser, Fonzie. Stars: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross The misadventures of two single women in the 1950s and '60s. Stars: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander The misadventures of a large family united when two widowed people married. Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis A United States astronaut finds his life vastly complicated when he stumbles on to a bottle containing a female genie. Stars: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Bill Daily A witch married to an ordinary man cannot resist using her magic powers to solve the problems her family faces. Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Irene Ryan Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm. Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely. Stars: Fred Gwynne, Al Lewis, Yvonne De Carlo The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem. Stars: Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain The misadventures of a blissfully macabre but extremely loving family. Stars: John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew. Stars: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter This comedy drama focused on a family with eight very independent children. Stars: Dick Van Patten, Lani O'Grady, Connie Needham Edit Storyline Bizarre television comedy with Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, who is an alien sent to Earth in an egg, to investigate Earth and report back to his superiors. As an outsider, Mork is unfamiliar with human customs and often questions some of the strange traditions that we take for granted. Much of the humor relies on Williams' unique comic voices and mannerisms. The show was perhaps most famous for Mork's greeting, 'Nanu Nanu.' Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu> 14 September 1978 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Mork vom Ork See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia After the tragic death of Robin Williams , co-star Conrad Janis stated that Robin was "intelligent," and "had a photographic memory." He also said that he was "bright, happy, fun, high-spirited," and was "sweet, considerate, lovely, and courteous to everyone." See more » Quotes Eugene : [Seeing Holly for the first ti


In the US, the title esquire is used to describe a person who practices what profession?

Lawyer or Attorney     Dear Mr./Ms. (surname):   NOTE: Esquire, abbreviated Esq. is a courtesy title, and as such is used by others when officially addressing an attorney regarding a case he or she is providing representation. Esq. is not used by the attorney with his or her own name on letterhead or his or her business card and not used when addressing an attorney socially.        For more information on why this is true, see my post on this page How Do I Write My Name as an Attorney?        Individuals with a Juris Doctor will use the academic post-nominal abbreviation JD or J.D. in academic situations.         I get questions asking whether faculty at law schools are addressed as Dr. (Name) like their academic colleagues holding doctorates?  In practice, legal faculty are typically addressed as Mr./Ms. (Name) in style of their practicing legal colleagues.   FYI, here is what's come in to the Blog that relates to this office/rank.    For recent questions sent in, check out Robert Hickey's Blog .    For specific offices/ranks, check out Robert Hickey's On-Line Guide . How Do I Use "Esquire" An Attorney's Name in Writing?     I am not sure if I should write my name followed by               Esq., J.D.      Any help would be appreciated.          -- Kenneth Millard    I am an attorney and I do not use Esq. following my surname.  Although I am a practicing attorney, it strikes me that to insert the Esq. would project a self-importance I do not feel. What's the traditional way to use Esq.?          -- Robert Simpson Dear Mr. Millard:      In the much of the U.S.'s public's mind Esq.is used after a name to identify a lawyer in exactly the same way M.D. after a name identifies a doctor. But in fact they are not equivalent.     The traditional use by others in the U.S.A. is to to add it to the attorney's name when writing to a practicing attorney (e.g., on a letter) to note that the attorney is being addressed in his or her role as counsel in litigation. E.g.:           Kenneth Millard, Esq.     Use of Esq. is important among the ethics rules of the legal profession which require communications from an attorney (on one side) be with the opposing side's attorney rather than directly with the opposing side. By addressing the other side's attorney as Esq., the person initiating the communication is being clear that he or she is following correct procedure.      However, traditionally Esq. is not used reflexively ... that is, one does not call oneself an Esq. when presenting one's name on one's own letterhead or business card.  Thus on a business card or letterhead names of the principals, partners, associates, are be presented without post nominals:           Kenneth Millard           Attorney at Law      J.D. is most often used in academic contexts. If you are the author of a article that's published in an academic journal or teach at a university and are listed in the catalog, then using your specific academic degree is pertinent and traditional:           Kenneth Millard, J.D.      And finally:           Esq. and J.D. are not used in combination.           I'd say that it is very, very, very rare for a person holding a J.D. to want to be addressed as Dr. (name).           Dr. is not used after an attorney's name in any circumstance.                    -- Robert Hickey How to use Esq. with Academic Post Nominals?       I cannot find a reliable source that addresses the use of Esq. with my academic credentials.       I received a JD/MBA in 2004 and I am licensed to practice in both Georgia and Florida. Since most attorneys admitted to practice in my jurisdictions do not have graduate business credentials, I think there is a competitive advantage if my clients and prospective clients know that I have and MBA in addition to my law licenses. What is the proper way for me to include these post nominals on my business cards, letterhead and email signature block?               -- Gordon L. Pendleton, Atlanta, Georgia Dear CAM:         I include a chapter on courtesy titles and post-nominal abbreviations in my book. There is no me


What hurricane devastated south Florida in 1992?

Florida Hurricanes 1992   Florida Hurricanes 1992 Florida only had one hurricane in 1992, but it came on fast and furious.  Andrew hit the very tip of South Florida and the Florida Keys like a freight train. To give us a run-down on Andrew, I'm pleased to present the following article by Bruce Supranowicz. There's a lot of fascinating information here for weather-watchers! 1992 - South Florida is Devastated 1992 was a quiet tropical season, but the only storm which affected Florida will be long-remembered. It was Andrew, a category 5 hurricane which leveled some areas south of Miami. On August 16, Andrew formed as a tropical depression in the east-central tropical Atlantic, about 1600 miles east of the Windward Islands. It became a tropical storm the next day as it advanced steadily towards the west-northwest. This system didn’t strengthen much for a few days after that, as a persistent upper-level low was located to the northwest of Andrew, moving generally in tandem with the storm. The southwest shear from the upper low interfered with Andrew’s outflow and kept it disorganized. By August 20, Andrew, a weak and disorganized tropical storm located about 375 miles northeast of Puerto Rico, turned more towards the northwest as the upper-level low influenced its forward direction of motion. The tropical storm became so disorganized that there was barely a circulation at the surface, with a surface pressure of 1015 MB, an incredibly high pressure for a tropical storm. The fact that the circulation was still well-discernable at the mid-levels of the atmosphere was about the only thing holding it together. But then, things began to change. The upper-level low which had kept Andrew from strengthening moved away, to the north and northeast, and a strong ridge began to build to the northwest of Andrew. As Andrew came under the influence of this ridge, it veered to the west-northwest and then the west. It also started to strengthen. By midday on August 21, Andrew was located about 420 miles north of Puerto Rico with 60-MPH sustained winds. It was also becoming better-organized. Normally, a storm in that position would miss the Southeastern U.S. completely and perhaps the entire U.S. east coast, but the ridge to the north of Andrew continued to strengthen. In response, Andrew’s forward motion towards the west sped up, from a moderate 12 MPH pace to about 17 MPH. With conditions aloft finally ideal for strengthening, Andrew responded by increasing its sustained win speed from 60 MPH to 170 MPH in two days. By that time, midday on August 23, Andrew was a small but very vicious hurricane, located about 250 miles a little south of due east of Miami. As frantic Floridians were boarding up along the southeast coast of Florida, the first intermittent squalls of Andrew moved ashore. Andrew weakened somewhat from category 5 status but was still a very potent category 4 hurricane** with 150-MPH sustained winds when it hit the coast near Homestead, about forty miles southwest of Miami, early on August 24. Although intense, Andrew was small in size. Tropical storm-force winds extended only as far north as the West Palm Beach/Jupiter area, but the winds were progressively stronger the further south one went. While windows were blown out in some Miami skyscrapers along with downed palm trees in abundance along its boulevards, the real damage was confined to a 40-mile-wide area south of Miami to just south of Florida City, near Homestead. Those areas looked like a war zone. Some homes were completely destroyed and only the hollowed-out frames were left from some department stores. The metal frames of large auto dealership signs along U.S. 1 near Homestead were completely twisted and warped. The Australian pine trees still left standing were completely stripped, while the others were snapped like twigs. Andrew continued westward through extreme south Florida and moved out into the Gulf of Mexico later on August 24. It gradually turned towards the west-northwest and northwest over the next day while a ca


The star Betelgeuse is pronounced like what two English words?

pronouncing Betelgeuse Astronomy pronouncing Betelgeuse If this is your first visit, be sure to  check out the FAQ by clicking the  link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,  select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Results 1 to 15 of 15 5,217 pronouncing Betelgeuse Brian Cox annoyed me on Stargazing Live the other day by coming up with a completely new pronunciation for "Betelgeuse"; "Bettle-gus". With a hard g. Now I can understand him wanting to avoid saying "Beetle Juice" (actually I can't but I'll get to that in a moment) BUT.. while no one really knows what "Betelgeuse" actually means, the one thing everyone accepts is that the "-elgeuse" comes from "al-Jawza", which means "the central one", and thus the one thing you should never, ever do is pronounce the g hard. Aside from this mangling of basic Arabic, what annoyed me even more is this bizarre hatred British public educators have for the "Beetle Juice" pronunciation. Patrick Moore even insisted on spelling it "Betelgeux". OK so "beetle juice" sounds a bit childish but no more so than "Uranus", however one decides to pronounce that, so what's the problem? It fits in perfectly well with English usage: "Betel", a mild drug used in eastern Asia; is and always has been pronounced like "beetle" in English. "ge", pronounced soft, as all dictionaries agree. "use", is pronounced "yoose" or "yooze" in English, leaving with two possible options: "Beetle Jews", which sounds anti-Semitic or "Beetle Juice". I think the winner here is fairly clear. "Occam" is the name of the alien race that will enslave us all eventually. And they've got razors for hands. I don't know if that's true but it seems like the simplest answer." Stephen Colbert. 28ï¿½10'30"N  16ï¿½44'31"W Posts 2,248 Originally Posted by parallaxicality ... what annoyed me even more is this bizarre hatred British public educators have for the "Beetle Juice" pronunciation. Patrick Moore even insisted on spelling it "Betelgeux". . This hatred is news to me. I have only ever heard it pronounced rather like "Beetle Juice" in the UK, and despite the spelling I think I might have noticed if Patrick Moore had had a radically different pronunciation. (I can't of course swear that I ever heard him say it, but I saw vast numbers of his TV series in my youth.) pronouncing Betelgeuse Originally Posted by parallaxicality Brian Cox annoyed me on Stargazing Live the other day by coming up with a completely new pronunciation for "Betelgeuse"; "Bettle-gus". With a hard g. Now I can understand him wanting to avoid saying "Beetle Juice" (actually I can't but I'll get to that in a moment) BUT.. while no one really knows what "Betelgeuse" actually means, the one thing everyone accepts is that the "-elgeuse" comes from "al-Jawza", which means "the central one", and thus the one thing you should never, ever do is pronounce the g hard. I wonder, how do you pronounce "centurion"? How about "Jerusalem"? But having said that, I use beetle-juice and see no problem with that. As above, so below


What is the English translation of the Latin word “Rex”?

Rex Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary › a Latin word meaning " king ", used to show the side in a court case that is the state , when there is a king Compare


Ma Bell was the nickname of which company?

IS3130 PART 1.docx - company was nicknamed Ma Bell. The United States Justice IS3130 PART 1.docx IS3130 PART 1.docx - company was nicknamed Ma Bell. The... SCHOOL View Full Document ERROL BENJAMIN JOSHUA EDOUARD IS3120 Week 1 part 1 The name of the business that we choose is AT&T. AT&T provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. AT&T was establish in 1885 and became the primary phone company in the United States of America. AT&T has about 243 thousand employees worldwide. AT&T headquarters is in New York City. Throughout most of the 20th century, AT&T held a monopoly on phone service in the United States through a network of companies called the Bell System. At this time, the This is the end of the preview. Sign up to                   access the rest of the document. Unformatted text preview: company was nicknamed Ma Bell. The United States Justice Department opened the case United States v. AT&T in 1974. This was prompted by suspicion that AT&T was using monopoly profits from its Western Electric subsidiary to subsidize the cost of its network, a violation of anti-trust law.[10] A settlement to this case was finalized in 1982, leading to the company's forced split in 1984 into seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, commonly known as Baby Bells. Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell, and BellSouth are some of the companies formed from MaBell.... ERROL BENJAMIN UNIT 9 ASSIGNMENT: VLSM REDESIGN IS3120 Variable Length Subnet Mask, a unit 9 assignment.docx


What is the biggest stadium in the United Kingdom?

The 10 Biggest Football (Soccer) Stadiums in the United Kingdom (by capacity) The 10 Biggest Football (Soccer) Stadiums in the United Kingdom (by capacity) Updated on March 6, 2013 Source 10+1. Anfield 45,276 This stadium is the home of Liverpool F.C. Most true football fans, or people who just know something about this sport and have heard about the Liverpool F.C. , might think that the team has a large stadium, at least the forth or third on the list. I can assure you: it is only the 11th. The Anfield is a football stadium nowhere else but in Liverpool. It was built in 1884. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since 1892, when they formed. Before that year it was the home of Everton F.C. (Then they moved to Goodison Park). The record attendance in the stadium was noted in 1952 on an FA cup match against the Wolverhampton Wanderers, 61,905 people were curious to watch it. The Liverpool F.C. is popular with their amazing performance at the Anfield. The team had a wonderful winning period, that included 85 matches at home, which is an astonishing fact (scored 212 goals <> Got 35). Soo... Do you like the Liverpool F.C.? Yes, of course! They're awesome! No, and I will go to hell for this! Source 10. City of Manchaster Stadium 47,805 This stadium is also called as Etihad stadium because of the sponsor of the team it hosts. That team is the Manchester City. The City of Manchester stadium is a bit newer than the Liverpool’s one. It was built about 120 years after the Anfield. This great stadium hosted the Premier League Final match in 2012. The Manchaster City won the P. League with two last-minute goals by Edin Dzeko and Kun Agüero. Those goals were scored in the 92th (2-2) and the 94th (3-2) minutes. With the 2 unbelieveble goals the City got 3 points for the match and the final result became 89 pts for City which was equal to Manchester United's 89 points, and the City won the league because of the better goal difference. This stadium also hosted the Final of the UEFA Cup (Europe League now) in 2008. Source 9. Stadium of Light 49,000 The Stadium of Light is a football stadium in Sunderland. Sunderland A.F.C. is a Premier League team. The structure was built in 1997 with 42,000 seats (It was renewed in 2002 and 7 thousand seats were added). The Highest attendance in league at the stadium was recorded in 2002 on a match against Liverpool, but even then the stadium was not full. As the other ones, this stadium also hosts events apart from football competitions. Great musicians played there as Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Rihanna, Pink and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Source 8. Ibrox Stadium 51,082 The one of the greatest stadiums in Scotland is the Ibrox Stadium. The edifice is the home of Rangers F.C. in Glasgow. Ibrox is the 3rd biggest football stadium in Scotland after the Hampden Park and the Celtic Park. It was built in 1899 with the name Ibrox Park. The Ibrox Park was completely rebuilt in 1971 after the tragical Ibrox disaster, when 66 people died and more than 250 got injured. The record attendance of the stadium is an awesome number: 118,567 which was recorded in 1939 on the Old Firm (the big opponent’s match Rangers vs Celtic). This is definitely the absolute record for any British league matches. This number means that, considering the population of Scotland in 1940, every 39th Scottish person was in the stadium. Source 7. Hampden Park 52,063 The Hampden Park stadium is the 2nd largest one in Scotland. Hampden Park is used by the Scotland National Football team, also by the Queen’s Park F.C. Hampden was the largest stadium when it was built (1903) with 100,000 seats. The capacity reached 150.000 between 1927 and 1937. The record attendance derives from that time with 149,415 for a Scotland v England match 1937. 149,415 is the record of all European international matches. World record of attendance on club matches was recorded here too: 147,365 on a Celtic v Aberdeen meeting. After taking tighter safety regulations the stadium had been rebuilt, which meant the decreasing of the capacity. Hampden is a UEFA category four stad


What do you call a group of ...? | Oxford Dictionaries Home Explore Language questions The English language What do you call a group of ...? What do you call a group of ...? Many of the following terms belong to 15th-century lists of 'proper terms', such as those in the Book of St Albans attributed to Dame Juliana Barnes (1486). Some are fanciful or humorous terms which probably never had any real currency, but have been taken up by antiquarian writers, notably Joseph Strutt in Sports and Pastimes of England (1801). People a malapertness (= impertinence) of pedlars a pity of prisoners a glozing (= fawning) of taverners Animals a herd or pace of asses a troop of baboons a swarm or drift or hive or erst of bees a flock or flight or pod of birds a herd or gang or obstinacy of buffalo a bellowing of bullfinches a clowder or glaring of cats a herd or drove of cattle a brood or clutch or peep of chickens a chattering or clattering of choughs a rag or rake of colts a covert of coots a herd or mob of deer a pack or kennel of dogs a school of dolphins a flight or dole or piteousness of doves a raft or bunch or paddling of ducks on water a safe of ducks on land a fling of dunlins a herd or parade of elephants a gang or herd of elk a busyness of ferrets a charm or chirm of finches a shoal or run of fish a swarm or cloud of flies a skulk of foxes a gaggle of geese on land a skein or team or wedge of geese in flight a herd of giraffes a flock or herd or trip of goats a band of gorillas a pack or covey of grouse a down or mute or husk of hares a cast of hawks a bale or turn of turtles a bunch or knob or raft of waterfowl a school or pod or herd or gam of whales a company or trip of wigeon a sounder of wild boar a destruction of wild cats a team of wild ducks in flight a bunch or trip or plump or knob (fewer than 30) of wildfowl a drift of wild pigs a pack or rout of wolves a fall of woodcock a herd of wrens a zeal of zebras You can read more about collective nouns on the Oxford Dictionaries blog . Here you will find more details about the history of collective nouns and their origins.   See other FAQs about language . Take a look at some vocabulary questions .


What river flows through Budapest and Vienna?

Danube River, Budapest, Hungary, 3342 insider tips, photos, reviews & tickets   Budapest Sightseeing Tour by Land and Water "You don’t have to choose between touring the beautiful city on four wheels or taking in the sights from the deck of a pleasure boat! After meeting your guide in central Budapest you’ll do both on board your comfortable amphibious coach. Heading down the busy streets of the capital your coach will take you past all its highlights. See the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the first example of Neo-Renaissance architecture in Budapest completed in 1865. Then go by the Hungarian Parliament building seat of the National Assembly and the largest Parliament building in Europe. Admire the exterior limestone ornaments as your guide describes the Gothic Revival style. When you've covered a lot of ground   Budapest City Tour with Danube River Sightseeing Cruise Ticket "Leave your centrally located Budapest hotel in an air-conditioned minivan and head for the famous Chain Bridge on the Danube River. View the massive edifice which was built in 1849 and was the first permanent bridge between Buda and Pest. Pass the vast neo-Gothic Parliament Building and cross the Margaret Bridge to the UNESCO-listed Buda Castle District. This fortified hilltop district dates to the 13th century and reached it zenith in the 15th century when Hungary’s King Matthias built a palace here. Explore the cobbled streets and view its showpiece monuments such as the Matthias Church and Buda Castle (also called the Royal Palace). Then walk onto the Fisherman’s Bastion terrace to drink in the stunning views of the city and Danube below.After a stop at Gellért Hill cross the Elizabeth Bridge and head into Pest to see the Central Market Hall Dohány Street Synagogue   Budapest Combo: Private Entrance to Szechenyi Spa plus Danube Cruise "This package features full day entrance to the largest thermal spa of Europe The Szechenyi Spa and a Lunch & Cruise or Cocktail & Cruise down the magnificent Danube. Get to know the true meaning of relaxation within the walls of the Szechenyi Spa!Guests may enter via the fast track entrance lane which means you don't need to waste time waiting on your holiday! Hot thermal water temperature enables you to enjoy the outdoor view even when its cold outside. Steam baths wave and swimming pools are all open for visitors.Admire the beauty of Budapest in daylight  on the balcony of a classy sightseeing cruise!Take a glimpse at your surrounding on the 15 hours long cruise on the Danube under the 6 bridges of the Hungarian capital. The panorama of Budapest is unmatched through the entire globe


Pearly Gate jokes, humor by JavaCasa An old lady was on a flight.  She was sitting beside a young       businessman. After the in-flight meal she took out her Holy Bible and starts her       devotion.  The businessman glances at her and said.   Do you really believe       those stuff in the  Bible is true? "Well, yes, as a matter of fact I do," said the old lady. "Yeah, right..." the man scoffs, "like... what's that guy's name,       the one who got  swallowed by a whale..." "You mean Jonah?" "Yeah, Jonah, I mean, how do you actually survive for 3 days in a       fish's bowel?" "I don't know," replied the old lady, "but I can ask him when I see him in heaven  someday." Feeling smart, the young man said: "Ok, but what if he's not in       heaven because he  went to hell?" "Then young man, *you* can ask him" replied the old lady calmly. Pearly       Gates? Over the massive, carved front doors of a church, these words were       inscribed: "The Gates of Heaven". Below that was a small cardboard       sign which read: "Please use other entrance."             A man had just had a severe heart opperation and as       he was coming to a nun was holding his hand and gently patting it.       We he opened his eyes she said, "I hate to ask at a time like this       but do you have insurance?" "No mam, he replied." "Well do you have enough cash to pay your bill?" "No mam," he       replied again. "Do you have any relatives who can help you?" "Only a       spinster sister who is a nun," he replied. "Oh," said the nun, "she       is no spinster, she is married to God!" "Well send the bill to my       Brother-in-law," he replied.   A pastor always used the phrase, "It might be worse," when some       calamity would come his way. One day a friend said to him, "I've       something to tell you, and you won't be able to use your favorite       phrase. I dreamt last night that I died and went to hell."  "It       might be worse," said the preacher.   The friend came unglued: "man       alive, how could it be worse?"  to which the pastor replied: "it       might be true."   three friends all died and went to heaven at the same time. Saint       Peter meet them at the gates and said to one of them "welcome to       Heaven! here is your reward." after saying that Saint Peter       immediately handcuffed him to a extremely unattractive woman. "Saint       Peter! why is this my heavenly reward?" the man asked? Saint Peter replied, "when you were five you killed a bird with a       stone." Saint Peter then turned to the next guy and did the exact       same thing for the exact same reason. He was asked the same question       and answered the same. finally he turned to the third guy and said, "Welcome to Heaven! Here is your reward." the third man was       immediately handcuffed to a beautiful girl. extremely happy the man       walked off. the other two men, who had stuck around to see what       their friends fate was, were outraged. "How come he  gets a       beautiful girl and were stuck with these? We can name a few things       that he did that were worse than ours!" Saint Peter said, "When she       was five she killed a bird with a stone." Joke A young couple were killed in an accident on the day before their       wedding. When they arrived at the Pearly Gates, St. Peter asked if       there was anything he could do to make being in heaven even more       pleasant. So they explained about dying the day before their wedding       and asked if it was possible to be married in heaven. "No problem," said St Peter, "leave it with me." A hundred years or so later they met St Peter and asked about the       wedding. "Everything is being arranged," he assured them. Another hundred years passed, and they met St Peter again. They       reminded him about the weddi