In legal usage what name is given to laws that restrict the maximum time legal proceedings may be initiated after an event occurs?

Estate legal definition of estate Estate legal definition of estate http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/estate Related to estate: estate tax , Estate planning , Probate estate Estate The degree, quantity, nature, and extent of interest that a person has in real and Personal Property . Such terms as estate in land, tenement, and hereditaments may also be used to describe an individual's interest in property. When used in connection with probate proceedings, the term encompasses the total property that is owned by a decedent prior to the distribution of that property in accordance with the terms of a will, or when there is no will, by the laws of inheritance in the state of domicile of the decedent. It means, ordinarily, the whole of the property owned by anyone, the realty as well as the personalty. In its broadest sense, the social, civic, or political condition or standing of a person; or, a class of persons grouped for social, civic, or political purposes. There are several types of estates that govern interests in real property. They are freehold estates, nonfreehold estates, concurrent estates, specialty estates, future interests, and incorporeal interests. Freehold Estates A freehold estate is a right of title to land that is characterized by two essential elements: immobility, meaning that the property involved is either land or an interest that is attached to or has been derived from land, and indeterminate duration, which means there is no fixed duration of ownership. There are three kinds of freehold estates: a fee simple, a fee tail, and a life estate. Fee Simple Absolute A fee simple absolute is the most extensive interest in real property that an individual can possess, since it is limited completely to the individual and his or her heirs and assigns forever, and it is not subject to any limitations or conditions. For example, an individual might purchase a plot of land for which the deed states that the grantor transfers the property "to grantee and his or her heirs," which would have the legal effect of creating a fee simple absolute. The grantee has the right to immediate and exclusive possession of the land, and he or she can do whatever he or she wants with it, such as grow crops, remove trees, build on it, sell it, or dispose of it by will. This type of estate is deemed to be perpetual. Upon the death of the owner, if no provision has been made for its distribution, the land will automatically be inherited by the owner's heirs. Fee Simple Determinable A fee simple determinable, which is also referred to as a base fee or qualified fee, is one that continues until the occurrence of a specified event. When such an event occurs, the estate will terminate automatically by operation of law, at which time the ownership reverts to the grantor or his or her heirs. For example, a grantor makes the following conveyance: "To grantee and his or her heirs so long as it is used for school purposes." The grantor's intent is clearly indicated when he or she creates the estate. When the grantee ceases to use the land for school purposes, the grantor has the right to immediate possession. The grantee's estate is restricted to the period during which the land is used for school purposes. The interest of the grantor is known as a possibility of reverter. Ordinarily the words until or as long as indicate the creation of a special limitation. Fee Simple Subject to a Condition Subsequent A fee simple subject to a condition subsequent is an estate that terminates only upon the exercise of the power of termination, or right of reentry, for the violation of a particular condition. It differs from a fee simple determinable in that the latter expires automatically, by operation of law, upon the happening of the event specified. A fee simple subject to a condition subsequent continues even after the occurrence of the event until the grantor divests the estate or ends it through the exercise of his or her power to terminate. For example, the grantor conveys land "to grantee and his or her heirs, but if the premises are used


Founded in 1816 the Fitzwilliam Museum of art and antiquities is in which English city?

Fitzwilliam Museum on AboutBritain.com Cambridgeshire CB2 1RB The Fitzwilliam Museum was founded in 1816 by the bequest of the VIIth Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion to the University of Cambridge . It contains magnificent collections of works of art and antiquities of national and international importance spanning centuries and civilisations. Highlights include antiquities from Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Cyprus, oriental art, Korean ceramics, English and European pottery and glass, sculpture, furniture, armour, illuminated manuscripts, coins and medals, Japanese prints, masterpieces of painting and drawing by Domenico Veneziano, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, outstanding works by great British artists including Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs and Constable and a fine collection of 20th century art. Visitor Information Education Service, Courses and Events - telephone for information and booking. Families with children welcome, free family activity kits and trails available Group Visits should be booked in advance Shop and Cafe in museum Courtyard Seasonal North Lawn Café Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum Access: please use Courtyard Entrance for street level access See museum website for temporary exhibitions, special displays and events Share this article


Which office of state has been held at various times since 1992 by the constituency MPs for Blackburn, Redditch, Rushcliffe and Maidenhead?

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FOREST GATE NORTH
Newham council, North London
Caused by the resignation of Labour councillor Ellie Robinson, who has taken up a new post with the London Assembly as an advisor to Mayor Sadiq Khan.  She was first elected to Newham council in 2010.

Woodford Road, Forest Gate

It's worth saying a few things here to start this week's column.  June is normally a busy month for local by-elections, as vacancies from April and May are cleared before the summer holidays and we start to deal with what might be termed "collateral damage" from the May elections as councillors move on to bigger and better things which they have been newly elected to.  The Labour takeover of City Hall in May has led to quite a lot of such collateral damage, with two by-elections this week arising from councillors leaving to take up posts in Mayor Khan's administration and several more in the pipeline, including a by-election for the elected mayoralty of Hackney which will see an entire London borough go to the polls.  However, this year the EU referendum - with which no other poll could be combined, although the returning officer for Windsor and Maidenhead didn't get that message - has had the effect of pushing most of June's vacancies back into July where they are being compressed into a much shorter period before the summer holidays.  This means that your columnist has twenty wards to write about over this week and the next, so apologies to my readers (hello Sid, hello Doris) if there is less detail here and next week than you might have come to expect.  Having said that, in the case of Forest Gate North your columnist is very grateful for help received this week from Tim Roll-Pickering, who is the election agent for the Conservative candidate.

So it is that we start the week in West Ham.  Forest Gate North is the part of Forest Gate lying to the north of the Great Eastern railway line, with Forest Gate station on the ward's southern boundary and Maryland station just off the south-western corner; wholly within the ward is Wanstead Park station on the Gospel Oak-Barking line, although that's currently closed for electrification works.  This is a long and thin ward running from west to east which has been left relatively untouched by the redevelopment seen in Stratford and the Royal Docks


Turner Contemporary, a gallery and visual arts centre, is situated in which British town, the birthplace of Tracy Emin?

thanetonline: Margate the Turner Contemporary sun sea sand pictures thanetonline News and Thanet issues. Ramsgate Margate and Broadstairs are the three main towns on The Isle of Thanet situated in the far southeast of England. I run the bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 100 books about the history of this area click here to look at them. Monday, 4 July 2011 Margate the Turner Contemporary sun sea sand pictures  I suppose in a sense visiting the Turner Contemporary is a bit similar to visiting a religious shrine of some unfamiliar tribe of humanity. There is a bit of a sense of the god being contemporary art, and this shrine to that god is in a different geographical area to the one indigenous to the worshipers of that god. Discussions about the Turner Contemporary are likely to very odd, I often find myself having them with people in my bookshop, partly I think because of the books I sell about the local area. One way or another if you develop an interest in this area you eventually wind up in my bookshop trying to find out a bit more about the aspect of the Isle of Thanet you are interested in. My bookshop is on the local tourist loop, to an extent. Hence strange conversations about local landmarks. One sort of conversation goes a bit like this: Customer: “That Turner Centre is a waste of money.” Me: “Well it does seem to have brought some more visitors to the area.” Customer: “It would have been better if it has some Turners in it.” Me (wondering a bit about the pronunciation of Souffrier): “Well what did you think of, The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains? Customer: What? Me: The painting by Turner that is in display in the gallery. Customer: I haven’t actually been inside the gallery. Another sort of conservation goes a bit like this. Customer: I’ve just been to the Turner Contemporary and though it was a load of rubbish. Me: What all of it? There are several artists of international standing exhibiting there, what did you think of the Daniel Burrell? Customer: Which one was that? Me: The stripes and the mirrors, on and by the window in foyer? Customer: Oh I thought that was part of the building. Then there are the people who say they like the exhibition, in a way these are even more difficult to understand. I perhaps would say something like, don’t you think the Burrell is a bit dated to feature in a contemporary art exhibition, when the statement was more a 60s reactionary one. The customer is just as likely to say, what Burrell? Anyway all that aside for the moment, I still haven’t got anywhere with the design faults and the other problems that I highlighted recently, see http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2011/05/fine-tuning-turner-contemporary-margate.html As you can see from the picture above the floor is still a bit of a mess. Where one goes when so much money has been spent from local tax contributions and there seems to be no real desire to solve fairly minor errors, I just don’t know. I am fairly certain that if the local council had commissioned some fairly ordinary and utilitarian building with these problems, then there would have been some effort to put them right. Any other public building that had had its floor all hacked up like that would have had the floor put right by now. Little things like positioning seats too low to see over the adjacent wall, surely with a multimillion pound project shouldn’t just be allowed to pass muster. On to yesterdays pictures, here http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/711/id6.htm Anyway apart from the relatively minor faults I have mentioned the gallery does seem to be helping to bring Margate back to life, so onto the pictures. For anyone new to this, I always publish the whole lot on my camera card, not just the ones that came out ok, this isn’t much work and some people like to see them all. When I turned up it was low tide and a bit smelly because of the seaweed, the compensation was there were some good reflections that help the photography. I soon flagged though and had a cup of tea at BeBeached on the harbour arm. There was very little


Which mountain range stretches for 1600 miles and has Mount Toubkal as its highest point at 13,671 feet?

Mountains and Mountain Ranges - 8 | Britannica.com Mountains and Mountain Ranges landform that rises prominently above its surroundings, generally exhibiting steep slopes, a relatively confined summit area, and considerable local relief. Displaying 601 - 700 of 753 results Satpura Range range of hills, part of the Deccan plateau, western India. The hills stretch for some 560 miles (900 km) across the widest part of peninsular India, through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states. The range, the name of which means “Seven Folds,” forms... Savoy Alps northwestern spurs of the Graian Alps in southeastern France between Lake Geneva (north), the middle Rhône River (west), and the Arc and Isère river valleys (south). The highest peak is Pointe de la Grande Casse (12,631 feet [3,850 m]), a part of the... Sawatch Range segment of the southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado, U.S., extending southeastward for 100 miles (160 km) from the Eagle River to the city of Saguache (a variant spelling of Sawatch). Bounded by the Arkansas River (east) and the Elk Mountains... Sawdāʾ, Qurnat al- peak situated within the Lebanon Mountains in northern Lebanon, 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Beirut. At 10,131 feet (3,088 metres), it is the highest peak in Lebanon. Sayan Mountains large upland region lying along the frontiers of east-central Russia and Mongolia. Within Russia the mountains occupy the southern parts of the Krasnoyarsk kray (territory) and Irkutsk oblast (region), the northern part of Tyva (Tuva), and the west of... Selkirk Mountains major subdivision of the Columbia Mountains, extending for 200 miles (320 km) in a southeasterly arc, mostly in British Columbia, Canada, and just across the U.S. border into northern Idaho and Washington. Bounded by the Purcell Mountains (east) and... Selwyn Mountains mountain range in Yukon and Northwest Territories, northwestern Canada. Part of the Rockies, they trend northwest-southeast and rise to 9,750 feet (2,972 metres) in Keele Peak. Seshachalam Hills hill ranges of the Eastern Ghats, southern Andhra Pradesh state, southeastern India. Formed during Precambrian time (i.e., earlier than about 540 million years ago), the ranges contain sandstone and shale interbedded with limestone and are highly dissected,... Shaʿnabī, Mount Ash- mountain (5,066 feet [1,544 m]) that is the highest in Tunisia. It is part of a spur of the Tebéssa (Tabassah) Mountains, which are part of the Saharan Atlas Mountains. The mountain lies near the Algerian border, 6 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Al-Qaṣrayn... Shasta, Mount peak (14,162 feet [4,317 metres]) of the Cascade Range in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, northern California, U.S. The peak lies 77 miles (124 km) north of the city of Redding. An impressive double-peaked dormant volcano, it dominates the landscape... Shebshi Mountains mountain range in eastern Nigeria, extending approximately 100 miles (160 km) in a north-south direction between the Benue and Taraba rivers. Its Dimlang (Vogel) Peak is one of the highest points—with an elevation of 6,699 feet (2,042 metres)—in Nigeria,... Shevaroy Hills outlying range of the Eastern Ghats, north-central Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The Shevaroy Hills occupy an area of about 150 square miles (390 square km). The highest peaks are in the southwest, reaching 5,231 feet (1,594 metres) at Sanyasimalai... Ship Rock volcanic neck with radiating dikes located in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, U.S. The landmark stands 1,400 feet (420 metres) above the surrounding area and is the basis of local Navajo legends. Solidified in the vent of an ancient volcano, the... Sierra Madre mountain system of Mexico. It consists of the Sierra Madre Occidental (to the west), the Sierra Madre Oriental (to the east), and the Sierra Madre del Sur (to the south). These ranges enclose the great central Mexican Plateau, which itself is a part... Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountain range in Chiapas state, southern Mexico. The Sierra Madre de Chiapas is a crystalline range of block mountains extending to the southeast along the Pacif


Give a year in the life of Pierre De Fermat, the French mathematician and lawyer known for his last theorem.

Pierre de Fermat PIERRE DE FERMAT Yogita Chellani Term Paper, History of Mathematics, Rutgers The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat(1601-1665) was possibly the most productive mathematician of his era, making many contributions, some of which were to calculus, number theory, and the law of refraction. We will survey those contributions here, paying particular attention to his work in number theory. The following account of Fermat's background is taken from Mahoney's book, The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat. Pierre de Fermat was born on August 17, 1960, in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, a small town near Toulouse in the south part of France, near the border with Spain. His father, Dominique Fermat, was a wealthy leather merchant who held the position of "second consul" of Beaumont-de-Lomagne, a governmental position similar to the position of mayor in our time. His mother, Claire, née de Long, was the daughter of a prominent family. Fermat had a brother, Clément, and two sisters, Louise and Marie. While relatively little is known of Fermat's early education, it is known that he was of Basque origin and received his primary and secondary education at the monastery of Grandsl ve, run by the Cordeliers (Franciscans), in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. For his advanced studies he first attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620's. In Bordeaux (1629) Fermat began his first serious mathematical researches, where he gave a copy of his restoration of Appollonius's Plane Loci to one of the mathematicians there. In Bordeaux he contacted Beaugrand and during this time he produced work on maxima and minima. He gave his work to Etienne de'Espagnet, who shared mathematical interests with Fermat. From Bordeaux Fermat went to study at the University of Law at Orléans. On May 1, 1631 he received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws. Fermat's choice of a legal career was natural and typical of his time, for his father's wealth and his mother's famil y background. To be in this career was an avenue to a higher social status and political power. After graduating he purchased the office of councillor at the parliament in Toulouse. Soon after that he acquired a wife. She was his cousin fourth removed, Lo uise de Long. He gave a dowry of 12,000 livres, which was not a problem for the young lawyer. Soon after, he served in the local parliament and became councillor, or legislator. His entire family, now including his father-in-law, were members of the upper class. Mahoney tells us how this affected his social status as well. "Fermat's offices made him a member of that social  class also and entitled him to add the "de" to his  name, which he did from 1631 on." (Mahoney, p.16) The "de" is the mark of nobility in France. Very little is known about Fermat's private life. He had five children, Clément-Samuel, Jean, Claire, Catherine, and Louise. Clément-Samuel was the oldest and closest to Fermat. He may have shared many mathematical interests with Fermat. Clément-Samuel eventually inherited his father's office of councillor. For the remainder of his life Fermat lived in Toulouse, but he also worked in his hometown of Beaumont-de-Lomagne, and the nearby town of Castres. First he worked in the lower chamber of Parliament, but then in 1638 he was appointed to the higher chamber , and finally in 1652 he was promoted to the highest level in the criminal court. This position was usually given to people of seniority, but since the plague had struck in the early 1650's, many of the older men had died. Fermat himself was struck down w ith the plague. In 1653 his death was wrongly reported; Fermat had survived. This account of Fermat's background and life was taken from [Mahoney, pp. 15-17]. Fermat contributed to the development of the calculus through his work on the properties of curves. He found the areas bounded by these curves, though a summation process. As Bell states, "The creators of calculus, including Fermat, relied on geometric and physical(mostly kinematical and dynamica


Miley Cyrus came to prominence playing which title role on TV as a teenager who leads a double life as a singer?

Watch Hannah Montana Online Free. Hannah Montana Episodes at watchepisodes3.com MiriamBlessing 10 /10 this is my childhood! literally i grew up watching this and that's so raven and all the good old disney Hannah Montana is such a hilarious show i dare you to not laugh while watching this! and i still love miley cyrus and i'll always support her no matter what anyone says because she's not a bad person like you think, get to know her first then judge! Gah, for crap's sake!! 2 /10 Personally and truthfully, I hate this show. I hated it from the start but I still can't pull myself to rate this show a 1 because, to be honest, I l ... See Full Comment Personally and truthfully, I hate this show. I hated it from the start but I still can't pull myself to rate this show a 1 because, to be honest, I liked SOME of the episodes. But now, it's so unrealistically pitiful. Like how a bunch of people commented on her wig. I absolutely agree, I mean, you can't just put on a wig and expect everybody to not recognize you, how is that possible? It's not! Basically it's like sending out little signals to kids telling them that, it's okay to pretend to be someone else. When it's not. Settle on one! Be a rock star or be a regular kid, you can't have both of those ways. And what's with Jake Ryan Vampire Slayer Dude? One episode he's all sweet and loving and the next he's all super conceited. This show is so indecisive, it kills me.Anyway, the acting, eh not so good. I've seen way better. And when Miley Cyrus speaks, I'm like "Lay off the cigarettes!" Her voice really really bothers me. Truly I only like Emily Osment and even then they make her look bad by causing her to be selfish about her friendship with Miley. I feel sorry for Mitchel Musso//Oliver whatever. He's one of Miley's best friends and he's a freaking background sidekick character! Oh and when there was that episode with Dolly and Miley grandma or whatever and Miley and Emily had to dress up to show how they acted, well that little get-up for Miley suited her. HA, no wonder she chose to pretend she's Dolly. Miley's freaking selfish in general, mean, sarcastic, and not a real person. Idk...I just give it a 2 out of 10. My rant's done. wouldn't even give it a one 1 /10 One thing to say that just needs to be said which sums up this show in a nut shell : Disney have lost all credibility. First of all, to be fair, I am ... See Full Comment One thing to say that just needs to be said which sums up this show in a nut shell : Disney have lost all credibility. First of all, to be fair, I am not a young kid so I don't know how young kids feel about this show, but the show consists of (apparently) teenagers. When are Disney going to stop trying to pull off a show about teenagers? Either stop being so conservative and actually show what real teenagers are like or stop humiliating these poor kid actors who are reduced to portraying ultimately complete dorks on the screen. This show is embarrassingly unfunny- Billy Ray Cyrus had one hit album like what a million years ago and now thinks of himself as an actor? Its painful to watch him act and I think bad acting is genetic because shes even worse. The only remotely funny people in the show are Mylee's two friends whom are still not given much to work with script wise but could probably be funny doing something real. The show is simply stupid and made for the mentally retarded. It offers no intelligence, no wit - just the same boring storyline every single episode with the same processed no good acting- I am still scratching my head as to why this show has done so well. Please God - just do us all a favour and take it off the air? A American 'comedy'. cough. 1 /10 Hannah Montana is a famous pop' singer who has to lead a double life (by her own will it appears) as a normal pre-teen in Malibue, California. That s ... See Full Comment Hannah Montana is a famous pop' singer who has to lead a double life (by her own will it appears) as a normal pre-teen in Malibue, California. That sounds good, doesn't it? No. In fact this is one of the worst '


Wasps rugby union club relocated in December 2014 from Wycombe Wanderers to share which other Football League club's ground?

Wasps confirm opening Ricoh Arena fixture - BBC Sport BBC Sport Wasps confirm opening Ricoh Arena fixture 15 Oct 2014 From the section Rugby Union Share this page Read more about sharing. Wasps' first game at the Ricoh Arena was the Heineken Cup clash with Munster back in 2007 Wasps have confirmed their first game at the Ricoh Arena will be the Premiership meeting with London Irish on Sunday, 21 December. The traditionally London-based club are moving 82 miles north of their current High Wycombe home to play in Coventry. Nearly 3,000 people have signed a petition to protest against the move, which has seen the club buy a 50% stake in the Ricoh Arena as part of the deal. Coventry City will continue to play there still as tenants of the stadium. Wasps chief executive Nick Eastwood has previously described the move as a "watershed moment" in the club's history. The ruling authority on Wasps' move to Coventry Wasps' move to the Ricoh Arena was ratified by the Professional Game Board (PGB), which is made up of members from various bodies, including the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby. The RFU had already approved the ground for use as a suitable stadium for Premiership rugby - and would only have opposed the move had it involved the whole club moving 'outside its constituent body'. Wasps' relocation to the Midlands is purely for matches and should not come into conflict with the Academy systems run by other professional clubs in the Midlands - champions Northampton, Premiership rivals Leicester and Championship side Worcester, who opened a new regional development centre in the city, at Broadstreet RFC, in May. The club were reportedly an hour from administration when businessman Derek Richardson took over last year, but they continue to lose £3m a season playing at Wycombe Wanderers' Adams Park ground, and Eastwood has said the move will secure the long-term future of the team. Wasps have played at Adams Park in High Wycombe for the past 12 years. Coventry already has a long-established rugby union club, Coventry, which was formed more than 130 years ago and currently plays in National League One. The city's councillors supported a deal to sell the authority's share in ACL - the company that runs the Ricoh Arena - to the Premiership club. The council said the move guaranteed Coventry City Football Club's continuing tenancy at the stadium. The football club, who recently returned to the stadium after a two-year dispute over rent, would also have "primacy over match fixtures", it added. Share this page


Give a year in the life of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish mathematician and astronomer.

Nicolaus Copernicus Essay - 663 Words Nicolaus Copernicus His Life: Throughout history people have always looked up at the sky and wondered about the universe. Some just wonder while others attempt to solve this mystery. One of the people who had endeavored to solve it was Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus was born in the present day town of Torun, Poland in February of 1473. While still a young boy, Copernicus was put in custody of his uncle when his father died. His uncle made sure that his nephew got the best education they could obtain. This is how Copernicus was able to enter the University of Krakow, which was well known for its mathematics, and astronomy programs. After finishing in Krakow, he was inspired to further his education by going to the University of Bologna in Italy. While there, he roomed with Domenico Maria de Novara, the mathematics professor. In 1500, Copernicus lectured in Rome and in the next year, obtained permission to study medicine at Padua. Before returning to Poland, he received a doctorate in canon law from the University of Ferrara. Copernicus lived with his uncle in his bishopric palace. While he stayed there he published his first book which was a translation of letters written by the 7th century writer, Theophylactus of Simocatta. After that he wrote an astronomical discourse that laid the foundation of his heliocentric theory; the theory that the sun is the center of our solar system. However, it was 400 years before it was published. After leaving his uncle, he wrote a treatise on money, and began the work for which he is most famous, On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, which took him almost 15 years to write. It is ironic that what he devoted a good part of his life would not be published until he was on his deathbed. His Theory: To understand the contribution Copernicus made to the astrological community, you first need to understand the theory that had been accepted at the time of Copernicus. The question of the arrangement of the... Aristotle vs. Copernicus Essay ...Aristotle vs. Copernicus Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shared with Plato the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. He remained there for about 20 years, as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato died in 347 bc , Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, where a friend... 1501  Words | 4  Pages Nicolaus Copernicus Essay ...Nicolaus Copernicus MATHEMATICIAN ASTRONOMER SCIENTIST CANON ARTIST PHYSICIAN A paper by the project team of: Laurie McCarthy Tamonica Brown Eric Thomas QUANTITATIVE REASONING 202 Mrs. Terry White – instructor  Outline of paper Quotes from Men In Black, the movie and Nicolaus Copernicus on his work I. Nicolaus Copernicus – general biography A. Father of modern astronomy 1. Born at the start of The... 3039  Words | 12  Pages Nicolaus Copernicus Essay ...Nicolaus Copernicus’s and his Adventures in life Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who got his name after his father. He was born on February 19th 1473 in Torun, Poland and died on May 24th 1543 in Frombork (Frauenburg). He changed people’s worldviews by proving Ptolemy’s theory of the universe wrong and creating a different one with mathematics and observations. Copernicus’s theory stated that the sun is in the middle... 872  Words | 3  Pages Nicolaus Copernicus Essay ...Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus, who lived from 1473 until 1543, is known for his idea that the sun is motionless at the center of the universe and that the earth and other planets all revolve around it. This Polish astronomer revolutionized beliefs involving the universe, making his thoughts controversial in his time, but common knowledge in our own (Westman). Before the time of Copernicus, people had... 887  Words | 3  Pages Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution Essay ...Erin Arroz Professor Rebecca Koerselman Western Civiliz


Striker Samuel Eto'o who signed for Everton in 2014 has represented which country in the FIFA World Cup?

Love Everton Forum | Breaking News and Everton Discussion At Everton between 2014 - 2015 Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o signed for Everton on 26 August 2014. The vastly-experienced striker joined on a free transfer and put pen-to-paper on a two-year deal. Joining Real Madrid's youth academy as a 16-year old in 1997, Eto'o would be loaned out to CD Leganes and Espanyol before making a name for himself at Real Mallorca. An initial loan was turned into a club record signing of £4.4million and he struck over 50 goals across four seasons for the Spanish side. A late Eto'o brace secured the Copa del Rey trophy in 2003. Leaving the club as their all-time leading domestic league scorer, the pacey forward signed for Barcelona in the summer of 2004 for a fee of £24million. At the Camp Nou, he would go on to hit over 100 goals across four trophy-laden campaigns. A league title in his debut season was followed by the La Liga top scorer award in 2005/06 and his first Champions League medal. In his last season at Barcelona, Eto'o weighed in with 36 goals including vital strikes in the Champions League final and title run-in as the Catalans completed a historic treble. He joined Inter Milan that summer and became the first player to win consecutive European continental trebles following with Champions League, Serie A and Italian SuperCup successes. Switching to Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala in 2011, he later signed for Chelsea to work with former Inter mentor Jose Mourinho in 2013.  His one-year deal ran out at the end of the campaign in which he netted 12 goals in 34 appearances. On the international front, Eto'o has 118 caps and a record 56 goals for his country. He was part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament and has participated in three World Cups. He has featured in six Africa Cup of Nations, helping Cameroon to be crowned champions twice. He is the most decorated African player of all time, having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times, while he came third in the FIFA World Player of the Year vote in 2005. Samuel left Everton in January 2015, and signed a 2 1/2 year deal with Sampdoria, before again moving on in the June to Turkish side Antalyaspor. Source: Evertonfc.com


Paul Staines blogs about 'parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy' under what name, that of the real name of an historically significant plotter?

BBC - See Also Clare Spencer | 15:06 UK time, Monday, 31 January 2011 A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites. The Times' most popular story tells the distilled wisdom of a sex diary researcher . Arianne Cohen says the sex diarists who are happy all have two things in common: they know what their needs are and they feel as if they are on the path to having them met. One of the Guardian's most popular stories is Charlie Brooker's take on the phone-hacking scandal . "It's like Watergate, but better, because it stars Sienna Miller and Steve Coogan. Excitingly, the bigger the scandal gets, the greater the likelihood that one day we'll get to see them playing themselves in the movie adaptation," he says. The Telegraph's most read story says Tunisia and Egypt's protests show the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that import grain . Ambrose Evans-Pritchard predicts food protests will spread to Asia. Slate magazine's most read article is headlined "the enema of your enemy is your friend". It's based on news that faecal transplants are being used to cure c difficile infections. Proving popular with New Scientist readers is a study which disputes previous beliefs that brains measure time by using an internal clock that generates events at a relatively regular rate. Instead, it found busy people feel time passing slower . Post categories: greenroom Mark Kinver | 14:35 UK time, Monday, 31 January 2011 This edition of Green Room takes a look at the growing row over UK government plans to dispose of land owned by the Forestry Commission, and how a disease has left conservationists fearing for the long-term future of some of the nation's most loved trees. If you can't go into the woods today... As the UN Year of Forests prepares for its official launch, the UK government finds itself facing a growing level of opposition to its consultation on disposing of land owned by the Forestry Commission .   The Sunday Telegraph newspaper is leading the media charge with its Save our Forests campaign . A growing number of high-profile people are lending their names to the call to keep the forests in public ownership. Broadcaster (Lord) Melvin Bragg, according to the Guardian, has described plans to sell off forests within the Lake District as "political vandalism" . However, it is worth remembering that the UK does not have a forest culture that is deeply engrained in its national history, in comparison with other European nations such as Germany. The Forestry Commission was established back in 1919, when it was realised that the nation was so dependant on timber imports from forest-rich nations  that its industrial might was vulnerable during wartime to shipping blockades. For decades, from the time the commission planted its first trees on 8 December 1919 in Devon, the dominant view was that the UK tree management policy should follow a "whatever the cost" attitude. However, the combination of the emergence of alternative materials and net afforestation in Europe saw this argument lose weight. Instead the commission evolved into a multi-objective organisation as a result of the public's increasing demand for recreation and environmental services such as nature protection. By the end of the 1990s, a greater volume of broadleaved species were being planted than conifers. This is not the first time that a government has attempted to dispose of commission-owned forests in order to boost the public coffers. During the 1980s and early 1990s, some forests were sold by the then-Conservative government. However, ministers again faced strong opposition, so plans for further privatisation were ditched in the mid-1990s. Among the current concerns being voiced by campaigners is that the majority of bidders will be organisations that will want to develop the land. Trees face uncertain future Whether or not this will be the case remains to be seen, but it does not appear to be a good time to buy a woodland, either broadleaf or conifer. There is growing concern about the possible impact of a disease that has now being recor


The title of TV show Strictly Come Dancing is based upon the name of a previous BBC show and which 1993 Baz Luhrman film?

It’s been compared to Game of Thrones, but the BBC’s new Viking drama The Last Kingdom actually gives an insight into the true story of the birth of England… It is the late ninth century and much of the country has fallen to the Danes – leaving just a single kingdom holding out against the invaders, in the country we know today as England. Enter Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the colourful and full-blooded warrior, son of a Saxon nobleman. As we follow Uhtred’s story, so we follow the story of the birth of a nation.   A different game of thrones In the Dark Ages, what we now call England was a series of separate kingdoms, each of which was run by individual kings – and each of which was threatened by the invasion of the Norsemen, those ravaging warlords from the North. Although billed as the ‘next Game of Thrones’, The Last Kingdom is rather less salacious and more realistic in nature. The series offers a down-to-earth account of the history of our little island, with plenty of sword action, shield walls and marauding Vikings on offer. Based on the first book in the popular series of Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell (of Sharpe fame), the BBC series captures the spirit of the novels and (albeit with a bit of poetic license) gets under the skin of the Anglo-Saxons’ cultural values and way of life. This is an age of heroism and hall-burning, where valiant warriors fight, drink and feast, and where the end of life for a Viking means taking their seat in the hall of Valhalla – where they pretty much carry on doing the same sort of thing.   Saxons vs Danes For our hero Uhtred, played by Alexander Dreymon [above], the battle between the Saxons and the Danes is also something of an internal one. The story begins when he is just ten years old – at which point he is actually called Osbert. After witnessing the murder of his older brother (Uhtred), his father (also Uhtred!) renames the young boy Uhtred in place of his dead brother, thus carrying on the family tradition. (Think of Magnus Magnusson and you get the idea.) Shortly after his brother’s death, his father (played very convincingly by Matthew Macfadyen) meets his own violent end at the hands of the Danes. Young Uhtred is kidnapped from his family stronghold of Bebbanburg (Bamburgh in Northumbria) and becomes a slave to the Danes, and Uhtred’s own uncle usurps his rightful position as Lord of Bebbanburg. However, inspired by the obvious bravery of the boy, the Danish chieftain – with the suitably fierce epithet Ragnar the Fearless – raises Uhtred as his own son, and it is with the Earl Ragnar that Uhtred receives his training as a warrior. Thus Uhtred becomes Uhtred Ragnarson, and to all intents and purposes considers himself a Dane. However, his mixed upbringing leaves him with something of an identity crisis. So it is that when the lively and much-loved Ragnar dies in a revenge hall-burning incident, Uhtred makes the choice to follow Alfred of Wessex and offer his services in protecting the last remaining kingdom of Wessex against the Danes – with the ultimate aim of reclaiming his birthright at Bebbanburg.   Alfred’s Great British Bake-off Alfred of Wessex is, of course, Alfred the Great – the king who famously burnt the cakes. Legend has it that when Alfred fled to the Somerset Levels, he was offered shelter by a peasant woman who asked him to keep an eye on some cakes she was cooking. However, with his mind on other things Alfred neglected to do so and the cakes were ruined, leading to a right royal ear-bashing from the peasant. So did Alfred the Great’s British Bake-off really happen? It’s likely that the story is no more than a legend. However, we do know that Alfred was responsible for promoting the education, in English, of all free-born men and that he arranged for many important works to be translated into the English language, thus protecting our early English culture. In The Last Kingdom, it is under King Alfred of Wessex that Uhtred learns to read and write, and we see the beginnings of the birth of a nation in Alfred’s vision of a single, united kingdom.   A clash of


Sharing its name with a city, which secret underground organisation is said to have arranged the expatriation of many former Nazis to South America including Adolf Eichmann?

Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny - "The most dangerous man in Europe" INDEX Otto Skorzeny (12 June 1908 ï¿½ 5 July 1975) was an SS-Obersturmbannfï¿½hrer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. After fighting on the Eastern Front, he became known to the world in September 1943, when boastful German radio broadcasts hailed the previously unknown Skorzeny as "The most dangerous man in Europe" for his key role in the successful and daring airborne raid to rescue the ousted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who was secretly imprisoned at the almost inaccessible summit of Gran Sasso, the highest mountain in the Italian Apennines, on September 12, 1943. This was just the first of Skorzeny's successes as Hitler's commando leader. With the successes that followed, western media too, called Otto Skorzeny "The most dangerous man in Europe". Skorzeny was also the leader of Operation Greif, in which German soldiers were to infiltrate through enemy lines, using their opponents' language, uniforms, and customs. At the end of the war, Skorzeny was involved with the Werwolf guerrilla movement and the ODESSA network where he would serve as Spanish coordinator. Although he was charged with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention in relation with Operation Greif, the Dachau Military Tribunal acquitted Skorzeny after the war. Skorzeny fled from his holding prison in 1948, first to France, and then to Spain. Prewar years Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna into a middle-class Austrian family with Polish roots which had a long history of military service. In addition to his native German, he spoke excellent French. In his teens, Otto once complained to his father of the austere lifestyle that his family was suffering from, by mentioning he had never tasted real butter in his life, because of the depression that plagued Austria after its defeat in World War I. His father prophetically replied, "There is no harm in doing without things. It might even be good for you not to get used to a soft life." In his memoir, regarding his school years, he noted "I recall that I found realistic subjects like mathematics, geometry, physics and chemistry quite easy, while I had to struggle with the foreign languages, French and English." He wanted to be an engineer like his father and brother, he added, thus he enrolled in the Technische Hochschule Wien on his eighteenth birthday. During the winter of 1928 to 1929, he took and passed his first state examinations. "The only political activity in which I participated during my school days was the official demonstration in favor of union with Germany", he noted in his memoir, but he did join a student organization that was soon absorbed into Heimwehr ("Home Guard"), which he said he was disappointed to see becoming a political party. In 1931, he received a degree in engineering and passed the final state examinations to be a certified engineer, quickly finding a job as a manager of a small building business. Though Skorzeny's skill as an engineer would later prove quite useful in planning his missions of terrorism and sabotage, his time in the Schlagende Verbindung (dueling society) 'Burschenschaft Markomannia' would prove the most influential part of his college experience. Skorzeny was a noted fencer as a university student in Vienna and fought his first duel during his freshman year. He engaged in thirteen personal combats. The tenth, in 1928 resulted in a wound that left a dramatic dueling scarï¿½known in academic fencing as the coveted Schmiss (German for "smite" or "hit"), on his cheek - -the "scars of honor," which would earn him the nickname of "Scarface" among the Americans during World War II. Skorzeny would later credit his success in war to his experiences in the dueling society: During the war I never felt that afraid than when I had to fought my first single combat in front of my classmates. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting


What is the better known name of the Antoinette Perry Awards?

Antoinette Perry | American actress and director | Britannica.com American actress and director Alternative Title: Mary Antoinette Perry Antoinette Perry Otto Preminger Antoinette Perry, in full Mary Antoinette Perry (born June 27, 1888, Denver , Colo., U.S.—died June 28, 1946, New York , N.Y.), American actress and director in whose honour the American theatre’s Tony Awards are named. Perry frequently traveled in the summer with an aunt and uncle who were touring actors. She made her theatrical debut in Mrs. Temple’s Telegram in Chicago in June 1905; later that year she made her New York debut in the same play. Over the next four years she appeared in Lady Jim, David Belasco ’s The Music Master, and A Grand Army Man. In 1909 she married Frank W. Frueauff, a Denver businessman, and during the marriage her connection with the theatre was limited to aiding talented young people, notably composer Deems Taylor. Her husband died in 1922, and in 1924 Perry returned to the stage in Zona Gale ’s Mr. Pitt. Subsequently, she appeared in Minick (1924), Caught (1925), The Masque of Venice (1926), and Electra (1927), among other plays. In 1928 Perry made her directorial debut with Goin’ Home. Preston Sturges ’s Strictly Dishonorable, which opened on Broadway in September 1929 and ran for 557 performances, was Perry’s first great success as a director. Working with producer Brock Pemberton, with whom she shared a professional and personal alliance for two decades, she subsequently directed such plays as Divorce Me Dear (1931), Ceiling Zero (1935), Red Harvest (1937), Clare Boothe Luce ’s Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), Janie (1942), Pillar to Post (1943), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvey (1944). She helped found the American Theatre Wing (ATW), which operated the well-known Stage Door Canteens in several cities and otherwise provided hospitality and entertainment for servicemen, and was its chairman from 1941 to 1944. She also staged an ATW production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Katharine Cornell , for Allied military audiences in Europe (1944–45). In 1947, a year after Perry’s death, the ATW established the annual Antoinette Perry Awards—known as Tony Award s—for distinguished theatrical performance, direction, production, design, composition , and other accomplishments on the New York stage. Learn More in these related articles:


From which language do we take the words commando and marmalade?

The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed From Them | Mental Floss The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed From Them istock Like us on Facebook English is known as a magpie language that picks up words from almost every other language and culture it comes in contact with, from Abenaki to Zulu . And although some languages have understandably widened the English vocabulary more than others, modern English dictionaries contain more of a geographical melting pot than ever before.  Listed here—in order by number of native speakers—are the world’s top 20 languages ( according to Ethnologue , a global catalog of the 7000 languages currently in use worldwide). Alongside each entry on the list are just some of the words which English has borrowed from it.  1. CHINESE: 1197 million native speakers (MANDARIN: 848 million) Linguistically speaking, Chinese is a “ macrolanguage ” that encompasses dozens of different forms and dialects that together have just short of 1.2 billion native speakers. By far the most widely spoken variety of Chinese , however, is Mandarin, with 848 million speakers alone—or roughly 70 percent of China’s entire population. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Chinese words have been recorded in English since the mid-16th century, with the earliest examples including the likes of tai chi (1736), ginseng (1634), yin and yang (1671), kumquat (1699) and feng shui (1797). One of the earliest of all is lychee (1588).  2. SPANISH: 399 million One quarter of the world’s 399 million Spanish speakers live in Mexico, although other important Hispanophone countries include Colombia (41 million), Argentina (38.8 million), and Venezuela (26.3 million); there are almost as many native Spanish speakers in the United States (34.2 million) as there are in Spain (38.4 million). In English, Spanish loanwords are characterized by terms from weaponry and the military (guerrilla, flotilla, armada, machete), animal names (chinchilla, alligator, cockroach, iguana), and terms from food and drink (potato, banana, anchovy, vanilla). 3. ENGLISH: 335 million According to Ethnologue , the English language’s 335 million native speakers include 225 million in the United States, 55 million in the United Kingdom, 19 million in Canada, 15 million in Australia, and just short of 4 million in New Zealand. But English is one of the world’s most widespread languages: mother-tongue speakers are recorded in 101 different countries and territories worldwide, 94 of which class it as an official language. Moreover, if the number of people who use English as a second language or lingua franca were included, the global total of English speakers would easily rise to over one billion.  4. HINDI: 260 million The world’s 260 million native Hindi speakers are mainly found in India and Nepal, while an estimated 120 million more people in India use Hindi as a second language. As with all Indian languages, a great many Hindi loanwords found in English were adopted during the British Raj in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but long before then the likes of rupee (1612), guru (1613), pilau (1609), pukka (1619), myna (1620) and juggernaut (1638) had already begun to appear in English texts.  5. ARABIC: 242 million Like Chinese, Arabic is technically another macrolanguage whose 242 million native speakers—spread across 60 different countries worldwide—use a range of different forms and varieties. The first Arabic loanwords in English date from the 14th century, although many of the earliest examples are fairly rare and obsolete words like alkanet (a type of dye, 1343) and hardun (an Egyptian agama lizard , 1398). Among the more familiar Arabic contributions to English are hashish (1598), sheikh (1577), and kebab (1698). 6. PORTUGUESE: 203 million The population of Portugal is just under 11 million, but the global Lusophone population is boosted enormously by Brazil’s 187 million native speakers. Etymologically, Portuguese and Spanish loanwords are often tricky to differentiate because of the similarities betwee


Which palatial villa, located just over a mile west of Chichester, is believed to have been the residence of king Cogidubnus, a 1st century ally of the Romans?

Archaeology Wordsmith Archaeology Wordsmith CATEGORY: site DEFINITION: A Neolithic cave site in France with a Bandkeramik camp from c 5000 BC. There was hunting, pottery, domesticated animals, and cultivated cereals. This was followed by Rössen occupation c 4000-3500 BC. Hadrian's Villa CATEGORY: site DEFINITION: An Imperial country residence built c 125-134 AD at Tivoli near Rome by the emperor Hadrian. This villa is considered the epitome in architecture and elegance of the Roman world. The imperial garden city included baths and bath buildings, libraries, sculpture gardens, theaters, alfresco dining halls, pavilions, and private suites. Significant portions of the complex have survived to modern times. Hadrian himself was unable to enjoy his villa for long, as he died in 138. lake dwelling SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: lake village CATEGORY: term DEFINITION: A type of Neolithic settlement found common in prehistoric Europe in areas with many lakes, such as Switzerland, Germany, and north Italy. Such a settlement was formerly on the edge of a lake but is now buried by lakeshore sediment or underwater. They should properly be labeled lakeside villages, since in most cases they were constructed on the shore and not on stilts over the water, as was formerly believed. They were, however, frequently constructed on timber platforms and subsequently rising water levels in the lakes have preserved these platforms and much other wooden material, as well as artifacts of other organic substances. Cultures in which lake villages were common include Chassey, Cortaillod, Horgen, and Polada. Middle Missouri Tradition SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: Plains Village Indian CATEGORY: culture DEFINITION: One of three broad cultural traditions (along with Central Plains and Coalescent) which constitute the Plains Village Indian or Plains Village Pattern of c 1000-1500 AD. There were many permanent farming village sites along the central Missouri River trench in North and South Dakota. The culture is characterized by a specially developed strain of cold-resistant, quick-maturing maize, by the bison scapula hoe, and by permanent dwellings in the form of the semisubterranean timber-and- earth lodge. Often palisaded and constructed on high promontories overlooking a river, villages of over 100 dwellings are quite common. Ceramics, though Woodland derived, bear evidence of some Mississippian influence, such as shell tempering. The tradition disappeared, due to drought and/or alien incursions, by 1500. Historic tribes such as the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa are thought to be the cultural heirs to the tradition. Pianello SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: Proto-Villanovan CATEGORY: site DEFINITION: A site near Ancona, near the Italian Adriatic coast, with a large urnfield cemetery of c 1100 BC. It is the type site of a group scattered through much of Italy and often labeled Proto-Villanovan. The ashes, sometimes accompanied by an arc fibula or quadrangular razor, were buried in a small biconical urn and covered with inverted bowls used as lids. Plains Village tradition SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: Plains Village Indian CATEGORY: culture DEFINITION: Name given to group of cultures of the central and eastern plains of North America between 900-1850 AD, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Contemporaneous with Mississippian tradition of Eastern Woodlands, it represents a fusion of that tradition with the Plains variant of the Woodland tradition. The Plains Village tradition was characterized by large habitation structures in settlements that were often fortified. Subsistence dependent on hunting, farming along rivers, beans/squash/maize, and the pottery was related to Mississippian and had incised decoration and rim adornment. When drought forced abandonment of the central plains, the inhabitants moved to the Middle Missouri area (North, South Dakota) and formed the Coalescent Tradition. vicus SYNONYMS OR RELATED TERMS: pl. vici; village CATEGORY: term DEFINITION: In Roman times, the smallest division of housing, roughly equivalent to a village or to


After a dispute about rent, Coventry City moved from the Ricoh Arena in 2013 to share with which Football League club?

Coventry City groundshare with Northampton 'a disaster' - BBC News BBC News Coventry City groundshare with Northampton 'a disaster' 4 July 2013 Close share panel Image caption The Ricoh Arena has been Coventry City's home since 2005 A long-running rent dispute between Coventry City and the owners of the football club's stadium looks set to see the Sky Blues play home matches in Northampton next season. The deal would see Coventry - a Premier League team until 12 years ago and FA Cup winners as recently as 1987 but now in the third tier of English football - play home games 34 miles from the city. Fans have already begun to voice their anguish at the idea of their club leaving Coventry, even if only on a temporary basis. Pat Raybould has been a Coventry City supporter for about 55 years and says she has missed only one home game and one away game in that time. She is "gutted" the Sky Blues look set to share Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium for the next three seasons but said she felt it would not be fair to the players or management to no longer attend matches. But, she said, she has "a principle" that Coventry City should play in Coventry. "I jumped one side of the fence to the other over the past few weeks. My problem is, having supported them for that long, I want to support the team," she said. Olympic venue Ms Raybould said she did not drive, but "if logistics are right", she was 99% sure she would go to Northampton. Image caption Former boss John Sillett said the people of Coventry "don't deserve" a 70-mile round trip for home games But she said she would only pay for a ticket and "won't put any extra money into the club" by buying programmes or shirts. Coventry City played at Highfield Road for 106 years - including the halcyon days of the FA Cup win and a 34-year unbroken spell in the top flight - before moving to the Ricoh Arena in 2005. The new, larger stadium, outside the city centre, also hosts concerts and was used as one of the venues for the London 2012 Olympic football. But it has never staged Premier League football, with the Sky Blues unable to regain top flight status and indeed relegated to League One a year ago. Football groundshares Charlton Athletic played at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park and West Ham's Upton Park from 1985-92 Bristol Rovers played home games in Bath from 1986-96 Wimbledon left Plough Lane for Selhurst Park before being moved to Milton Keynes Brighton and Hove Albion played in Gillingham from 1997-99 after the Goldstone Ground was sold Fulham shared QPR's Loftus Road from 2002-04 while Craven Cottage was being redeveloped Rotherham played in Sheffield for four seasons until a new stadium opened last year Sisu, owners of the club since 2007, had been looking at options for a new stadium after being involved in a rent dispute with Ricoh owners Arena Coventry Ltd (ACL) for over a year. The club put itself into administration earlier this year after being taken to court to face an administration order from ACL over a year's unpaid rent of £1.3m. But the plan to hire Northampton's ground for home games, which still needs approval from the Football League, has come despite an offer from the stadium's owners to allow City to use the Ricoh Arena rent-free next season. Supporter Mike Grimes said he was concerned how the change would affect his mother, who has been a season ticket holder for more than 40 years. 'Terribly sad day' He said: "We have a great stadium in Coventry. Why they think this move is in any way sustainable is beyond me. "The people I feel the most sorry for are the older loyal fans who have seen us rise and then fall so ungracefully, thanks to bad leadership. The Sky Blues at the Ricoh The Sky Blues left Highfield Road, their home for 106 years, in 2005 to move into the 32,000-capacity Ricoh Arena The club avoided administration after Sisu took over the club in December 2007 April 2012 - The club are relegated to League One, the third tier of English football August 2012 - The club is given more time to repay in excess of £600,000 in rent and other bills March 2013 -


The Emperor Showa was known by what name during his lifetime?

Hirohito biography | birthday, trivia | Japanese Royalty | Who2 Hirohito Biography Royalty   Hirohito ruled Japan for more than six decades of the 20th century, during a period in which the nation aggressively pursued political dominance in Asia, withstood the devastation of World War II and rebuilt itself into a global economic powerhouse. Taking the official name Showa (“Enlightened Peace”), he began his long reign in 1926, with a divine claim to the throne as the 124th emperor in direct lineage to Amaterasu, a mythological sun goddess. At the close of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur , in charge of the U.S. occupation of Japan, kept Hirohito on the throne rather than charge him with war crimes, and Hirohito renounced his divinity and agreed to adopt a constitutional monarchy. During Hirohito’s lifetime he was often depicted as a benign and even passive bystander to events, more interested in marine biology than geopolitics. Since his death in 1989, that image has been challenged by critics who argue that Hirohito encouraged the military aggression toward China in the early 1930s, participated in the planning of the attacks on Pearl Harbor (1941) and prolonged the war against the U.S. and Great Britain unnecessarily. After his death in 1989, Hirohito was succeeded by his son, the Emperor Akihito. Extra credit Hirohito, also known as Tenno Showa or Emperor Showa, was the son of Emperor Taisho and grandson of Emperor Meiji; the most recent addition to the royal line is Hirohito’s great-grandson Prince Hisahito , born in 2006… Hirohito’s 62-year reign was the longest in Japanese history.


Whose mother was the subject of a boy's infatuation in a top 20 hit single by the Fountains of Wayne in 2003?

stacy s mom : definition of stacy s mom and synonyms of stacy s mom (English) Stacy's Mom at Youtube.com "Stacy's Mom" is a hit single by American band Fountains of Wayne , released in 2003 and taken from their album Welcome Interstate Managers . "Stacy's Mom" appeared in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (#21) and was one of the first songs to reach the #1 spot on the "Most Downloaded Songs" list of the iTunes Music Store . It reached #11 in the UK Singles Chart . It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance at the 2004 awards . The video reached #1 on both MTV 's TRL and VH1 's VSpot Top 20 Countdown . The song was included on the setlist for Guitar Hero: Van Halen as a guest act. It also appeared in an episode of the television series Psych . The song ranks #350 on Blender 's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born [1] and #88 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '00s. [2] Contents 7 External links   Music "Stacy's Mom" was written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger . Stylistically it is power pop . It begins with an intro similar to the one in " Just What I Needed " by The Cars . Overall it presents the listener with a very accessible melody starting with a I - IV - V - IV chord progression in E major , and launches into a crescendo as a segue to the refrain that is complete with vocal harmonies. Standard rock instrumentation comprises the orchestration : drums, bass, guitar, vocals, and keys . [3]   Subject matter "Stacy's Mom" is about a 12-year old boy's fantasies about his friend Stacy's mother. The boy spends time with Stacy in an attempt to get closer to her mother; hence the name of the song.   Music video   Stacy catches the boy masturbating in her bathroom The music video , directed by Chris Applebaum , pays homage to the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High . The video features several comedic scenes illustrating the boy's attempts to get closer to Stacy's mother, the object of his affections and fantasies. There is a scene which shows Stacy wearing red heart-shaped sunglasses , which are very similar to the ones on the promotional picture for the 1962 film Lolita . The video begins with the boy ( Shane Haboucha ), Stacy (Gianna Distenca) and some other children standing at a school crossing. Stacy's mother ( Rachel Hunter ) then pulls up in front of them to pick up Stacy. The boy and his friends gaze at her in awe. The boy later goes over to Stacy's house and is seen lying on a lilo in her backyard swimming pool while wearing large, dark shades . He sees Stacy's mother come into her kitchen and then watches her remove her skirt and top to reveal black underwear. Stacy gives the boy a bottle of soda and, as he sees Stacy's mother remove her bra, he spills it on himself. Since his eyes are hidden by his shades, Stacy laughs, thinking that he is just clumsy. After a scene with the band during the chorus, Stacy is shown sunbathing while the boy mows her lawn. Stacy's mother comes out wearing just a towel and is given a massage on both her back and front. The masseur gives the boy a look of amusement, since he gets to look at Stacy's mother naked and the boy doesn't. The boy is distracted by the massage and ends up knocking over Stacy's birdhouse with the lawnmower . The video then cuts to him and Stacy watching Fountains of Wayne on TV, before the boy imagines Stacy's mother as a pole dancer teasing him. Near the end of the video, it is implied that the boy begins to masturbate by the bathroom window while staring at Stacy's mother coming out of the pool in her red two-piece swimsuit. [4] Before he finishes, Stacy opens the bathroom door, ignoring a sign saying Ocupado and catches him in the act. Then, as in the movie, she quickly closes the door and starts laughing, showing that she might be thinking the boy is masturbating to her own image and not her mother's. [5]   References to The Cars There are several references to The Cars in the video: a license plate reads "I ♥ RIC", a reference to Ric Ocasek ; one of the boys in the opening scene has dark hair, sun glasses, and


Plovdiv and Varna are respectively the second and third biggest cities in which European country?

Varna, Bulgaria - Tourist and Property Information Varna Featured in a Financial Times Article The city of Varna (population 314 539) is situated at the Bay of Varna, 470 km east of Sofia. Varna is the biggest city at the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and was once again named The Best City to Live in in Bulgaria in 2008. It is situated at the same latitude with Cannes, Nice, Monaco and Livorno. It is nestled in the deep valley between the Frengen Plateau and the Avren Plateau, where two lakes were formed during the polyotsen - the Beloslav Lake is to the west of the city and the other - Varna Lake is within the limits of the city itself. Varna is a city over 11 km long, its width, including the new residential quarters is nearly 9 km. The city is like an amphitheater and follows the curves of the Bay of Varna. It is surrounded by lots of gardens, vineyards and deciduous groves. Almost the whole territory is occupied with private country-houses and their small farms. The city is a regional administrative centre. HISTORY Varna has a history that could be traced back for thousand years. Due to its favourable location and visibility of almost 270 degrees the small cape, which now hosts the sea station, was inhabited by an ancient Thracian tribe - Corbisy in their small fishermen's settlement. In 6th century BC a Greek polis (settlement) inhabited by colonists and settlers from Millet emerged here under the name of Odessos. The town became a fishing and farming colony and later on in the 5th century BC it turned into a real centre of commerce. Up to the Roman domination the Thracian god Darzalas was worshiped rather than the common gods Apollo and Dionyssus. Old Greek and Roman sources evidence that in Darzalas' honour processions, mysteries, games and competitions were organized. The town had been under the siege of the troops of Alexander of Macedonia in the middle of the 4th century BC but after the siege was put down the town was given autonomy within the limits of his Empire. After the uprising and its liberation during the rule of Lisimah the town re-established its supremacy at the north Black Sea coast. Up to the 1st century BC it was an independent polis and minted coins with the effigy of its patron god. Conquered by Mark Lukulus' legions, it became a Roman regional centre of great importance. There the great epic poet of Rome Ovidii stayed in his way to the town of Tommy (nowadays Kyustendzha, Romania) where he was sent on exile. Gradually Odessos lost its supremacy in the region, which was then gained by the town of Martsianopolis (nowadays Devnya) founded by the Emperor Trayan. Being conquered and devastated several times during the barbarian invasions it was for some time within the Byzantine Empire then out of its territories. In 9th century it was already called Varna. It is supposed that the name originates from the horse people in Central Asia-toponymy (name of an area) and hydronymy (name of a water basin) in India (the river that runs into the Ganges at Varanassi) and from the concept of caste (colour). After the numerous wars between Bulgaria and Byzantine, the town was included in the territory of Bulgaria in the beginning of the 13th century during the reign of King Kaloyan. Its defence system consisted of three strongholds: one - at the Cape Galata; other - at Cape St. Dimitar and the third, called Petrich was near the lake of Beloslav. Despite its reliable defense system, the town was conquered by the Turks in 1391 and it soon declined. In 1444, during the crusade of the Polish king Vladislav Yagello (Varnenchik) and the Hungarian leader Yanosh Huniady, the town was under the siege of the knights. Despite the fact that the troops of the Christian coalition fought bravely they suffered a complete defeat. The young king Vladislav was killed. The citizens of Varna built a mausoleum in his honour. In the course of time the town more and more acquired an Oriental outlook. Many Turks settled there. Mosques, konaks (town-halls) and Turkish baths were built. The construction of churches was strongly forbidden for


Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara are respectively the second and third biggest cities in which European country?

Romania Online Romania Online Site focussed on Romania. Links and information about the country, people, economy and popular places to visit. Pictures and videos from Romania Pages the Danube Delta and Black Sea Coast Moldavia and Bucovina Monasteries Economy - overview Romania, which joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, began the transition from Communism in 1989 with a largely obsolete industrial base and a pattern of output unsuited to the country's needs. The country emerged in 2000 from a punishing three-year recession thanks to strong demand in EU export markets. Domestic consumption and investment fueled strong GDP growth, but led to large current account imbalances. Romania's macroeconomic gains have only recently started to spur creation of a middle class and to address Romania''s widespread poverty. Corruption and red tape continue to permeate the business environment. Inflation rose in 2007-08, driven by strong consumer demand, high wage growth, rising energy costs, a nation-wide drought, and a relaxation of fiscal discipline. As a result of the increase in fiscal and current account deficits and the global financial crisis, Romania signed on to a $26 billion emergency assistance package from the IMF, the EU, and other international lenders. Worsening international financial markets, as well as a series of drastic austerity measures implemented to meet Romania''s obligations under the IMF-led bail-out agreement contributed to a GDP contraction of 6.6% in 2009, followed by a 1.1% GDP contraction in 2010. The economy returned to positive growth in 2011 due to strong exports, a better than expected harvest, and weak domestic demand. In 2012, however, growth slowed to less than 1%, partially due to slackening export demand and an extended drought that resulted in an exceptionally poor harvest. In March 2011, Romania and the IMF/EU/World Bank signed a 24-month precautionary stand-by agreement, worth $6.6 billion, to promote fiscal discipline, encourage progress on structural reforms, and strengthen financial sector stability. The Romanian authorities announced that they do not intend to draw funds under the agreement. Romania's population Romania's population is 21,848,504 (july 2012). Like other countries in the region, its population is expected to gradually decline in the coming years. Romanians are 88.5% of the population, Hungarians 6.5% and Romani people 2.5%. Hungarians constitute a majority in the counties of Harghita and Covasna. Ukrainians, Germans, Lipovans, Turks, Tatars, Serbs, Slovacks, Croats, Greeks, Bulgarians, Russian, Jews, Czech, Poles, Italians, Armenians, as well as other ethnic groups, account for the rest of the population. As of 2009, there were also approximately 133,000 immigrants living in Romania, primarily from Moldova, and China. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, a significant number of Romanians emigrated to other European countries, North America or Asia, due to better working conditions and academic possibilities offered abroad.  The official language of Romania is Romanian, a Romance language related to Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese. Romanian is spoken as a first language by 91% of the population. Hungarian and Vlax Romani are the most important minority languages, spoken by 6.7% and 1.1% of the population, respectively. Until the early 1990s, there were also a substantial number of German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons, even though most have since emigrated to Germany, leaving only 45,000 native German speakers in Romania. There are approximately 32,000 Turkish speakers in Romania. English and French are the main foreign languages taught in schools. English is spoken by 5-6 million Romanians, French is spoken by 4–5 million, and German, Italian and Spanish are each spoken by 1–2 million people. An overwhelming majority of the country's citizens identify themselves as Christians. 86.7% of the country's population identified as Orthodox Christian. Other major Christian denominations include Protestantism (5.2%), Roman Catholicism (4.7%) and the Romani


Prior to the introduction of the franc in 1795 what was the currency of France?

French Franc - F Definition | Investopedia French Franc - F DEFINITION of 'French Franc - F' A currency used in France, prior to the introduction of the euro. The French franc, whose symbol was "F" or "FF," was the national currency until the euro was introduced for accounting purposes in 1999, and as coins and banknotes in 2002. The French franc was also used in Andorra, which had no national currency of its own, with legal tender. Coins worth one livre tournois between 1360 and 1641 were called francs; the name became common terminology for coins of this value. Other countries that used the franc include French Polynesia, Monaco, Saar and Saarland. BREAKING DOWN 'French Franc - F' The French franc was divided into subunits called centimes. Coins were available in 5, 1, and 20 centimes; 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 francs. Banknotes were available in denominations of 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 francs. The franc was established in 1360 by King John II. The name stems from the inscription "Johannes Dei Gratia Francorum Rex," which translates to "John by the grace of God King of the Franks." In 1795, the decimal franc was established as the national currency, where 1 franc was equal to 10 decimes, which were equal to 100 centimes of 4.5 grams of silver. The new franc was introduced in 1960, which was worth 100 of the old francs. Holders of franc coins could exchange them for euros at the Banque de France until February 2005; banknotes can be exchanged until February 2012. Trading Center


Which 6 letter English word is derived from the Greek meaning ten thousand?

12 Greek Words You Should Know 12 Greek Words You Should Know By Daniel Scocco Along with Latin, Greek is probably the language that most influenced other languages around the world. Many English words derive directly from Greek ones, and knowing their origin and meaning is important. Below you will find 12 Greek words that are commonly used in our society. The next time you hear someone saying “Kudos to you,” you will know where it comes from. 1. Acme The highest point of a structure. The peak or zenith of something. One could say that Rome reached the acme of its power on 117 AD, under the rule of Trajan. The acme of modular, factory-built, passively safe reactor design, however, is found in South Africa. People there have been experimenting with so-called pebble-bed reactors for decades. (The Economist) 2. Acropolis Acro means edge or extremity, while polis means city. Acropolis, therefore, refers to cities that were built with security purposes in mind. The word Acropolis is commonly associated with Greece’s capital Athens, although it can refer to any citadel, including Rome and Jerusalem. The Beijing Olympics torch relay reached the ancient Acropolis in Athens on Saturday amid heavy police security and brief demonstrations by small groups of protesters. (New York Times) 3. Agora The Agora was an open market place, present in most cities of the ancient Greece. Today the term can be used to express any type of open assembly or congregation. The most characteristic feature of each settlement, regardless of its size, was a plaza—an open space that acted as a cemetery and may have been a marketplace. It was also, the archaeologists suspect, a place of political assembly, just as the agora in an ancient Greek city was both marketplace and legislature. (The Economist) 4. Anathema Anathema is a noun and it means a formal ban, curse or excommunication. It can also refer to someone or something extremely negative, disliked or damned. Curiously enough, the original Greek meaning for this word was “something offered to the gods.” Some thinkers argue that while collaboration may work for an online encyclopedia, it’s anathema to original works of art or scholarship, both of which require a point of view and an authorial voice. (USA Today) 5. Anemia Anemia refers to a condition characterized by a qualitative or quantitative deficiency of the red blood cells (or of the hemoglobin). Over the years, however, the term started to appear in other contexts, referring to any deficiency that lies at the core of a system or organization. In comments to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, the lone dissenter in last week’s decision to keep the federal funds target at 2%, said the U.S. faces “a sustained period of anemia” and that “in the second half of this year we will broach zero growth.” Last week Fisher wanted higher rates, his fifth-straight dissent in favor of tighter policy. (The Wall Street Journal) 6. Ethos Translated literally from the Greek, ethos means “accustomed place.” It refers to a disposition or characteristics peculiar to a specific person, culture or movement. Synonyms include mentality, mindset and values. Consumerism needs this infantilist ethos because it favors laxity and leisure over discipline and denial, values childish impetuosity and juvenile narcissism over adult order and enlightened self-interest, and prefers consumption-directed play to spontaneous recreation. (Los Angeles Times) 7. Dogma Dogma refers to the established belief or set of principles held by a religion, ideology or by any organization. Dogmas are also authoritative and undisputed. Outside of the religious context, therefore, the term tends to carry a negative connotation. Notice that the plural is either dogmata or dogmas. It’s not a new type of web, it’s just where the web has got to – it’s also a terrific excuse for much chatter on the blogging circuit, and a huge amount of dogmatism. (Financial Times) 8. Eureka The exclamation Eureka is used to celebrate a discovery, and it can be translated to “I have found!”. It i


In which Irish institution is the Book of Kells normally exhibited?

The Book of Kells: Introduction THE BOOK OF KELLS INTRODUCTION ITS weird and commanding beauty; its subdued and goldlessA word by way of Preface. colouring; the baffling intricacy of its fearless designs; the clean, unwavering sweep of rounded spiral; the creeping undulations of serpentine forms, that writhe in artistic profusion throughout the mazes of its decorations; the strong and legible minuscule of its text; the quaintness of its striking portraiture; the unwearied reverence and patient labour that brought it into being; all of which combined go to mate up the Book of Kells have raised this ancient Irish volume to a position of abiding preeminence amongst the illuminated manuscripts of the world. Many attempts have been made to reproduce its unique illuminations; and, so far as form and outline are concerned, the reproductions have been as far as possible successful. But all such efforts have up till now failed to give a living representation of its marvellous pages—for without its colour harmonies no reproduction can be regarded as adequate from the point of view of art. The last important attempt at reproduction in colour was made about forty years ago; but the scientific knowledge of the time was unequal to the strain sought to be put upon it. In the years which have since elapsed the science of light, photography, and colour-reproduction has made rapid advances towards an accuracy which was unknown when the earlier attempts were published; and it is only by the aid of such advancement that the production of the present volume has become possible. In this respect the work now published differs from all its predecessors; for, though still distant from absolute perfection, the reproductions here given will be found to be infinitely closer to the originals in the important matter of actual colour than any of the so-called facsimiles which up to the present have been included in any published work. For this reason the present volume should not be regarded as in any sense a rival of the uncoloured reproductions which have already appeared of the Book of Kells. Its office is rather to supplement in colour what has already been accomplished by ordinary photography and monochrome; to add a new value to previous efforts with the assistance of the most recent methods and processes of polychromatic p. 2 photography and colour-printing. Looked at from this standpoint one may fairly claim for the work here produced that it fills with some measure of satisfaction a gap in the pictorial history of Celtic illumination, and affords as it were a nearer view of one of the most interesting and beautiful manuscripts which have yet come from the hands of man.   The ancient town of Kells.The town of Kells, in County Meath in Ireland, lies some twenty miles west of Drogheda and the Irish Channel. It was known in days as early as St. Patrick's in the Latinised form of Cenondæ, bearing at a somewhat later date the name of Cenannus and Kenlis. Kennansa was its old Irish appellation. Within its narrow precincts to-day there are still standing three very ancient and well-known Irish stone crosses with characteristic carvings on them; an old church, the rebuilt remains of which date from the year 1578; a round tower—one of the many to be found still in Ireland; and a building which has long been described as the House of St. Columb. Of the famous Monastery of Cenannus, or Kells, no trace remains—either of wall or foundation—but persistent tradition, with a strength that not infrequently outlasts both stone and mortar, has ascribed the founding of this vanished monastic institution to St. Columba. Irish historians have fixed the date of its foundation as about the year 550 A.D. St. Columba, or Colum Cille.Columba himself, otherwise known as Colum Cille (i.e., Columb of the Church), was born in the north-west of Ireland about 521 A.D. He is represented, according to ancient chronicle, as having resigned his hereditary claim on the Kingship of the island with the object of devoting himself to a monastic life. About the year 553 he founded a mo


The name of which Australian city is a word that means meeting place in aboriginal?

What does that mean? Aboriginal place names, What's in Australia?, Australia: you're standing in it!, SOSE Year 4, NSW | Online Education Home Schooling Skwirk Australia 0 Exams Introduction Aboriginal people have names for all the places in Australia. A place could be named for the way it looks, the animals that live there or things that may have happened there according to Dreaming stories. When the British settled in Australia they also gave names to places. Sometimes they used the same name for a place that the local Aboriginal people used. Sometimes they changed the name a little bit because they did not hear it properly. Here are some examples of Aboriginal place names and what they mean. Canberra Canberra, the name of Australia's capital city, comes from an Aboriginal word which means 'meeting place'. The original word was kamberra and comes from the language of the local Ngunnawal people. See image 1 Ballarat Ballarat, a city in Victoria, comes from the Aboriginal word balaarat which means 'a resting place' or 'a camping place'. See image 2 Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga is one of New South Wales' largest regional cities. The word 'wagga' comes from the Aboriginal word for 'crow'. Therefore 'Wagga Wagga' means 'place of many crows'. See image 3 Do you know any other Aboriginal place names? See if you can find all the words about Aboriginal place names in the word find! Other Chapters


What nickname is usually given to symphony no. 101 by Joseph Haydn? The name alludes to the metronomic qualities of the opening movement.

Abert, Anna Amalie. "Das Nachleben des Minnesangs im liturgischen Spiel." Die Musikforschung 1 (1948): 95-105. Index classifications: Monophony to 1300 Abraham, Gerald. "The Folk-Song Element." Chap. in Studies in Russian Music. London: W. Reeves, [1935]. In the use of folk tunes, Glinka was concerned with nothing more than stringing them together into frankly popular fantasias. Efforts of later composers to fuse these tunes into complicated musical organisms (sonata-form on the symphonic scale) failed, according to Abraham, (1) because folk songs are not suited to such treatment and (2) because these composers had a fundamentally wrong conception of Russian folk music as homophonic. The discovery of the polyphonic nature of a great deal of Russian folk-music came just too late to influence the development of Russian art music. The only successful symphonic handling of folk tunes was a matter of "good taste," being shown in the avoidance of virtuosity in the treatment of the material and in not making it an excuse for "talking about oneself." To absorb a great deal of the folk idiom (as Mussorgsky did) and invent original themes from that root was a more successful way to get around the implications of using an original folk tune. Works: Borodin: Prince Igor (46); Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 (47), Symphony in F Minor (48f), 1812 Overture (48); Rimsky-Korsakov: Hundred Russian Folk-Songs, Op. 24 (47f), Overture on Russian Themes (48), Easter Festival Overture (54), Capriccio Espagnol (54), Sinfonietta, Op. 31 (55); Balakirev: Overture on Three Russian Themes in B Minor (48), A Thousand Years (52f.); Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (55); Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (55). Sources: Sidel Vanyz (47), Vo pole bereza stoyala (48), "Over the field creeps the mist" (56). (AG) Index classifications: 1800s Abraham, Gerald. "Operas and Incidental Music." In The Music of Tchaikovsky, ed. Gerald Abraham, 124-83. 2d ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1974. Index classifications: 1800s Abraham, Lars Ulrich. "Trivialität und Persiflage in Beethovens Diabelli-Variationen." In Neue Wege der musikalischen Analyse. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt 6, 7-17. Berlin: Merseburger, 1967. Works: Beethoven: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120. Index classifications: 1800s Adams, Courtney. "The Early Chanson Anthologies Published by Pierre Attaingnant (1528-1530)." Journal of Musicology 5 (Fall 1987): 526-48. Among the Attaingnant publications between 1528 and 1530, there are several cases of borrowings and duplications of the following kinds: (1) In four pieces (out of approximately 350) duplication involves more than one part. (2) The borrowing of a single melodic line from a four-part chanson for use in another chanson à 4 is rare. (3) Cases in which three- and four-voice works share the same text have a musical connection: they mostly share the superius. That one chanson is modeled on another one is difficult to prove. But if two chansons employ similar melodic contours, use the same cadential note for each phrase, and duplicate a harmonic passage as well, then the argument for borrowing is good. Works: Attaingnant: Or plaise a Dieu (533), En souspirant (534), Une pastourelle gentille (534), En regardant son gratieux maintien (535). Sources: Attaingnant: En devisant (533), Si vostre couer (534), Quand vous vouderz faire une amye (534), En regardant son gratieux maintien (535), De toy me plaintz (536). (AG) Index classifications: 1500s Adams, Courtney. "Some Aspects of the Chanson for Three Voices During the Sixteenth Century." Acta Musicologica 49 (1977): 227-50. While some three-part pieces written before 1520 were given a si placet fourth part, the majority of concordant three- and four-part chansons show the reverse: four-part chansons before 1550 were most often turned into three-part pieces by removing a line, usually the contratenor. In evaluating individual pieces to determine the presence of preexistent material, the following should be co


Which US President who was in office 1923-29, was the only one to be born on 4th July?

Who Is the Only U.S. President Born on July 4? Only one U.S. president was born on July 4. It’s not Ann Landers, Neil Simon or Gina Lollobrigida, although they were all born on the 4th of July. And Malia Obama, daughter of President Barack Obama was born on July 4, 1998, but she’ll have to wait a few years still if she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and become the 2nd U.S. president born on July 4. Only U.S. President Born on July 4 The only American president to have been born on the 4th of July is Calvin Coolidge . The 30th president of the United States was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. He was the first of two children born to John Calvin Coolidge Sr. and Victoria Josephine Moor. Coolidge’s younger sister, Abigail Grace Coolidge, died at the age of 15, just six years after his mother had passed away, presumably from tuberculosis . Coolidge Sr. went on to remarry and live a life of public service on a local level while his son moved to Massachusetts to learn and practice law. There, the future president rose through the political ranks, holding positions as City Councilman, City Solicitor, Representative in the state legislature, mayor of Northampton, MA, Massachusetts State Senator, Lieutentant Governor, and Governor of Massachusetts. All of this happened from 1898 to 1918. Then, in 1920, Calvin Coolidge was selected to run for Vice President alongside Ohio Senator, Warren G. Harding . At the time, the office of vice president did not come with many official duties, but Coolidge became well-known in Washington society, probably due more to the outgoing nature of his wife Grace than anything else. In 1923, while on a speaking tour in California, President Harding died suddenly of a heart attack according to the Naval doctors who examined him. Harding’s wife, Florence, would not consent to an autopsy, leading some to believe that she had been involved in a plot to kill him. Nonetheless, Harding’s death meant that Calvin Coolidge would succeed him as the 30th president. He was sworn in by his father, a notary public, in his family home in Vermont on August 3, 1923 at 2:47 a.m. The following day, he returned to Washington, where he was resworn by District of Columbia Supreme Court Justice Adolph A. Hoehling. The next year, 1924, Coolidge was elected president in his own right. He served one term and chose not to run for re-election in 1928, but instead return to Northampton with his wife. There, he served as chairman, honorary president, director, trustee and board member to various organizations, societies, foundations and colleges. Calvin Coolidge, who is the only U.S. president born on July 4, died suddenly of a heart attack on January 5, 1933. U.S. Presidents Who Died on July 4 Although Calvin Coolidge is the only U.S. president born on July 4, three of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson , John Adams and James Monroe all died on Independence Day. Interestingly, Jefferson and Adams both died on July 4, 1826, leaving Charles Carroll as the last remaining signer of the Declaration of Independence 50 years to the day after they signed it. James Monroe, the 5th president of the United States, died on July 4, 1831. Calvin Coolidge, the only U.S. president born on July 4, spent half of his life in office, serving and protecting the people of Massachusetts and the citizens of the United States, following in the footsteps of the three founding fathers who died on his birthday, and setting the example for future leaders. And who knows? Perhaps in the next few decades, another president who was born on July 4 will take the Oath of Office and lead the United States in wisdom and progress just as Coolidge did.