Who was the drummer of the pop group Slade?

Ambrose Slade Ambrose Slade bass guitar, piano, violin, vocal Don Powell drums At the end of 1967, The 'N Betweens (see The 'N Betweens ) were sent over to Germany for a month booking at the legendary 'Star-Club' in Hamburg but returned after a few weeks because of disagreements they had with the club management. The Astra Agency next sent them to the Bahamas during the summer of 1968 to play a six week booking at the luxury Tropicana Club. "They were just four kids having a ball, and their audience was having a great time too" As can be expected, the Bahamas booking started as an enjoyable one for the 'N Betweens until the hotel where they were staying changed management leaving the band members responsible for unpaid hotel bills. Because of this, the group were forced to stay there longer to work until they had paid off the debt. This experience changed the band considerably. Noddy said; "Previously we had been playing mainly Motown, R&B and a bit of pop. After the Bahamas, our repertoire totally changed." While there, the band had been exposed to and learned a lot of American rock music that hadn't yet been released in Britain such as Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild' which they started using to close their show. Eventually after more than four months in the Bahamas, they were able to get enough money to fly themselves and their equipment back to England but this episode strained and ultimately ended the relationship that the group had with the Astra Agency. After securing new management with Wolverhampton's Roger Allen agency (who had also managed The Montanas and The Californians ), the 'N Betweens were able to get a recording deal with Phillips Records and in February of 1969 recorded an album's worth of songs consisting mostly of material they were currently performing on stage. Interestingly, the tracks included covers of 'Knocking Nails Into My House' and 'Fly Me High' by fellow Brum groups Idle Race and Moody Blues respectively. By this time, the 'N Betweens had adopted a rather trendy 'hippie' image for their appearance complete with long hair, kaftans and beads. The record company had the group change their name and so The 'N Betweens became "Ambrose Slade", billing themselves initially as "Ambrose Slade - Formerly The 'N Betweens", so as not to confuse their fans in the Midlands. The record company also advised the group to get London-based management and so through various connections, Ambrose Slade was introduced to Chas Chandler who was well known in the British music business. Chas Chandler started his career in music as bass guitarist for 'The Animals', the well known and successful group from Newcastle who had a run of hit records starting in 1964 with 'House Of The Rising Sun'. Despite The Animals international success, the band members made little money from their records and split up in 1966 with Chandler using connections he had made to go into the business side of pop music. Chas Chandler had discovered Jimi Hendrix in New York in 1966 and after arranging for him to go to London, managed Hendrix's career for the next two years. This association made Chandler a rich and respected figure in the London music scene and by 1969 he was looking for a new group to produce and manage. Chas first saw Ambrose Slade perform at 'The Rasputin Club' in London. Years later he told interviewer Keith Altham; "I walked into the place and there was a group playing live... somehow their exhuberance was like a breath of fresh air. They were just four kids having a ball and their audience was having a great time too. They weren't trying to be the greatest musicians in the world but they were enjoying themselves and getting across to others." "So stand by for a group that will really blow your mind... Ambrose Slade is for real!" Chas Chandler was as impressed by Ambrose Slade as they were of him. After taking over as manager, he booked the group to perform at influential venues as well as keeping them on the road full time to help pay for better equipment and promotion. Note: Chas Chandler also checked out the Wolverhampto


"In Kipling's poem "" For all we have and are"", who is at the gate?"

"For All We Have And Are" 1914 For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and stone!     Though all we knew depart,     The old Commandments stand: --     "In courage keep your heart,     In strength lift up your hand." Once more we hear the word That sickened earth of old: -- "No law except the Sword Unsheathed and uncontrolled." Once more it knits mankind, Once more the nations go To meet and break and bind A crazed and driven foe. Comfort, content, delight, The ages' slow-bought gain, They shrivelled in a night. Only ourselves remain To face the naked days In silent fortitude, Through perils and dismays Renewed and re-renewed.     Though all we made depart,     The old Commandments stand: --     "In patience keep your heart,     In strength lift up your hand." No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live?


Which actor played the third Dr Who on television?

11 Actors Who Have Played The Doctor | Mental Floss 11 Actors Who Have Played The Doctor Image credit:  Like us on Facebook There have been many actors who have portrayed the Doctor in various settings, but eleven have been the official Doctors. We'll look at all of them here. 1. William Hartnell Veteran character actor William Hartnell was born in 1908 to humble beginnings; his mother was unwed, he never knew his father, and his first career move was into petty crime. A boxing instructor got him started on horse racing, but he found his real passion when he got a job as a stagehand at the age of 18. He quickly got into acting, working constantly with only a break to serve in World War II in an armored regiment. He ended up typecast in comic tough-guy roles (you can see one of them in The Mouse That Roared), and when Verity Lambert offered him the part of a mysterious time traveler in an educational show aimed at children, he jumped at the part. He created a character who was highly intelligent but not always as wise as he thought himself, brilliant but forgetful, cantankerous but with a deep compassion under the surface. He enjoyed the role tremendously, but by 1966, his health was deteriorating due to arteriosclerosis and he had to quit. The producers came up with the idea of having his character transform into a new actor, and Hartnell suggested Patrick Troughton, who was approached and accepted the part. Hartnell reprised his role once more for the tenth anniversary special, "The Three Doctors," but his health had deteriorated more than the production crew realized and his part had to be rewritten to accommodate his capabilities; it was his final work as an actor, and he passed away in 1974 at the age of 67. 2. Patrick Troughton Born in 1920, Patrick Troughton went directly into an acting career and was undergoing formal training in New York City when World War II broke out. He returned to England and joined the Navy, where he had a decorated career before returning to the theater, gaining a reputation as a reliable and versatile character actor. In 1953, he became the first person to play Robin Hood on television and found a succession of television, film, and radio roles afterward before Innes Lloyd, the new producer of Doctor Who, approached him in 1966 about succeeding William Hartnell in the title role. He ended up playing the role as what series creator Sydney Newman called a "cosmic hobo," inspired partly by silent film star Charlie Chaplin — brilliant, a bit egotistical, and also a bit of a comedian. He'd sometimes play the recorder, a significant change from the First Doctor, who had no apparent musical talent, and it was during this era that the sonic screwdriver was first seen. After three years, he decided to move on, although he returned three more times to reprise the role, in "The Three Doctors," "The Five Doctors," and "The Two Doctors." He returned to his work as a character actor after his time on Doctor Who, working hard despite doctors' advice due to major heart problems. In 1987, he defied doctor's orders to stay in the country and recuperate and went on one more convention tour. He died on March 27, 1987, in Columbus, Georgia. (I actually saw him once, and got his autograph, earlier in the same U.S. tour. He seemed in good health, but, well, he was a very good actor.) Acting was in his blood; several of his children and grandchildren have gone into acting. The youngest of these is Harry Melling, whom Harry Potter fans know as Dudley Dursley. 3. Jon Pertwee Born in 1919, and thus actually a year older than the man he would replace, Jon Pertwee was born into a family that already had a lot of actors in it. Like the first two Doctors, he joined the military in World War II; although his service wasn't as distinguished as Troughton's, he did acquire an interesting souvenir: he woke up one morning after a drunken shore leave to find a tattoo on his arm, which made a brief appearance in his debut episode of Doctor Who. After the war, he became known as a comic actor on stage, television, and film. Whe


Edward Budding, the Father of the Lawnmower - Stuff of Genius - YouTube Edward Budding, the Father of the Lawnmower - Stuff of Genius Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 28, 2013 Before 1830, trimming a lawn was time-consuming and difficult. At least, that is, until a fabric-shaving machine inspired Edward Budding to invent the lawnmower -- and save future landscapers from countless hours of hacking at the ground with scythes. Stuff of Genius tells the story behind everyday inventions. From the bikini to super wheat and everything in between. Viewers will learn the stories of unsung inventor heroes and their trials, tribulations and successes. Check out new episodes every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Please subscribe to Stuff of Genius:


In which English town was Wilfred Owen born?

BBC - History -   Historic Figures: Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) Historic Figures z Wilfred Owen    © Owen was an English poet whose work was characterised by his anger at the cruelty and waste of war, which he experienced during service on the Western Front. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager. In 1915 he returned to England to enlist in the army and was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment. After spending the remainder of the year training in England, he left for the western front early in January 1917. After experiencing heavy fighting, he was diagnosed with shellshock. He was evacuated to England and arrived at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in June. There he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who already had a reputation as a poet and shared Owen's views. Sassoon agreed to look over Owen's poems, gave him encouragement and introduced him to literary figures such as Robert Graves. Reading Sassoon's poems and discussing his work with Sassoon revolutionised Owen's style and his conception of poetry. He returned to France in August 1918 and in October was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. On 4 November 1918 he was killed while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The news of his death reached his parents on 11 November, Armistice Day. Edited by Sassoon and published in 1920, Owen's single volume of poems contain some of the most poignant English poetry of World War One, including 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.


What was the name of Ghana before it gained independence?

Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence | South African History Online South African History Online Home » Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence Gold Coast (Ghana) gains independence Ghana Flag. Source: www.cia.gov Wednesday, 6 March 1957 On 06 March 1957, the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Ghana was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who transformed the country into a republic, with himself as president for life. The country made history in the continent by becoming the first country to gain independence. Before it was colonised, Ghana was made up of a number of independent kingdoms, including Gonja and Dagomba in the north, Ashanti in the interior, and the Fanti states along the coast. In 1482 the first European fort was established by the Portuguese at Elmina. References: • Biography.com, ‘Kwame Nkrumah’ , [online], Available at www.biography.com [Accessed: 13 February 2012]


Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were prominent members of which German Expressionist Art movement based in Berlin?

Wassily Kandinsky Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story Like The Art Story on Facebook Follow The Art Story on Google+ "Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." Synopsis One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an aesthetic experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions of the public. He believed that total abstraction offered the possibility for profound, transcendental expression and that copying from nature only interfered with this process. Highly inspired to create art that communicated a universal sense of spirituality, he innovated a pictorial language that only loosely related to the outside world, but expressed volumes about the artist's inner experience. His visual vocabulary developed through three phases, shifting from his early, representative canvases and their divine symbolism to his rapturous and operatic compositions, to his late, geometric and biomorphic flat planes of color. Kandinsky's art and ideas inspired many generations of artists, from his students at the Bauhaus to the Abstract Expressionists after World War II. Key Ideas Painting was, above all, deeply spiritual for Kandinsky. He sought to convey profound spirituality and the depth of human emotion through a universal visual language of abstract forms and colors that transcended cultural and physical boundaries. Kandinsky viewed non-objective, abstract art as the ideal visual mode to express the "inner necessity" of the artist and to convey universal human emotions and ideas. He viewed himself as a prophet whose mission was to share this ideal with the world for the betterment of society. Kandinsky viewed music as the most transcendent form of non-objective art - musicians could evoke images in listeners' minds merely with sounds. He strove to produce similarly object-free, spiritually rich paintings that alluded to sounds and emotions through a unity of sensation. Most Important Art Composition VII (1913) Commonly cited as the pinnacle of Kandinsky's pre-World War I achievement, Composition VII shows the artist's rejection of pictorial representation through a swirling hurricane of colors and shapes. The operatic and tumultuous roiling of forms around the canvas exemplifies Kandinsky's belief that painting could evoke sounds the way music called to mind certain colors and forms. Even the title, Composition VII, aligned with his interest in the intertwining of the musical with the visual and emphasized Kandinsky's non-representational focus in this work. As the different colors and symbols spiral around each other, Kandinsky eliminated traditional references to depth and laid bare the different abstracted glyphs in order to communicate deeper themes and emotions common to all cultures and viewers. Preoccupied by the theme of apocalypse and redemption throughout the 1910s, Kandinsky formally tied the whirling composition of the painting to the theme of the cyclical processes of destruction and salvation. Despite the seemingly non-objective nature of the work, Kandinsky maintained several symbolic references in this painting. Among the various forms that built Kandinsky's visual vocabulary, he painted glyphs of boats with oars, mountains, and figures. However, he did not intend for viewers to read these symbols literally and instead imbued his paintings with multiple references to the Last Judgment, the Deluge, and the Garden of Eden, seemingly all at once. Oil on canvas - Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Like The Art Story on Facebook Biography Childhood Wassily (Vasily) Wassilyevich Kandinsky was born in 1866 in Moscow to well educated, upper-class parents of mixed ethnic origins. His father was born close to Mongolia, while his mother was a Muscovite, and his grandmother was from the German-speaking Baltic. The bulk of Kandinsky's childhood was spent in


"Who had a UK hit in the 1960s with the song"" Juliet""?"

The Four Pennies - Juliet - YouTube The Four Pennies - Juliet Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 28, 2013 Category


Name the Confederate warship built at Birkenhead and sunk off Cherbourg.

Liverpool - The Home of the Confederate Fleet - Liverpool - LocalWiki Liverpool - The Home of the Confederate Fleet Stainless Banner The unofficial Confederate embassy at Frazer Trenholm in Rumford Place During the American civil war, Liverpool was the unofficial home of the Confederate fleet. Three significant acts of the war involved Liverpool: The first act of the war - the first shot of the civil war was fired by a cannon made in Lydia Anne Street. The very last act of the war - Captain Waddell of the CCS Shenandoah walking up the steps of Liverpool Town Hall surrendering his vessel to the Lord Mayor, after sailing 'home' from Alaska to surrender. The last shot fired in the conflict was by CSS Shenandoah on  22 June 1865 at a Northern Union whaling ship in the North Pacific Ocean.  The last official lowering of the Confederate flag - Was on CSS Shenandoah on the River Mersey at Liverpool oversaw by the Royal Navy. At the outbreak of war the Northern Union fleet blockaded Confederate ports to prevent trade and supply of munitions of war. The Confederacy had no navy and proceeded to build one from Liverpool. The British government was officially neutral in the dispute not recognising the Confederacy. Cotton importers Frazer Trenholm in Rumford Place acted as the unofficial Confederate embassy where operations were conducted.  The Northern Union consulate was a few minutes walk away in Tower Buildings, Water Street. Commander Bulloch of the Confederate Navy was based in Liverpool, whose prime task was to assemble and run a navy.  He never returned to America after the conflict remaining in Liverpool for the rest of his life, and now lays in Toxteth Cemetery.  Britain's official stance was that the country, and its empire, was not to supply the means of war to the breakaway Confederate state. Liverpool ignored officialdom supplying what the Confederacy wanted against the policy and direction of the British government. Liverpool provided armaments and provisions of war of all kinds, merchant ships and crews and essentially warships and the crews to man them. Forty two blockade runners, ships to outrun the Northern Union naval blockade placed on Confederate ports, were built on the River Mersey for the Confederacy, including the SS Banshee, the first steel hulled ship to cross the Atlantic.  The city also provided ships for the Northern Union. Liverpool merchants were taking a gamble supplying the Confederacy with many becoming bankrupt after the war not being paid for the goods they supplied. Northern Union Spy Network Formed in Liverpool The British government stated that the country would not supply the means of war to the Confederacy. Liverpool's involvement in supplying the Confederacy was so extensive the Northern Union established an effective spy network in Liverpool headed by the Northern Union consul to Liverpool, Thomas Dudley,  The network consisted of locally hired men of over 100 strong.  Information was relayed back to Washington. This was President Lincoln’s largest espionage network operating throughout the entire war. The network identified the construction of Confederate navy vessels, preventing construction or delivery when possible and identifying provisions of war destined for the south. Lancashire Reduced to Mass Poverty The American civil war caused great poverty in the hinterland of Lancashire where the prime industry was cotton processing and weaving. The Lancashire mills used mainly southern American cotton. The whole region was reduced to starvation levels affecting over half a million people. Cotton was eventually sourced elsewhere in the world, however the lead time was lengthy and never closed the gap. Threat of War Between the Northern Union and Britain Laird's shipyard was clandestinely building for the Confederacy two iron hulled rams - armoured, iron, twin rotating turreted ships, the most advanced in the world at the time. The ships were a quantum leap in naval fighting ship design and construction.  The two ships would have decimated the wooden Northern Union fleet. The spy network rela


in which battle of 1403 was Harry Hotspur killed?

The Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403 The Battle of Shrewsbury Rent a Castle Whether it's a folly for 2 or a fort for 20, try our castles for rent page. By  Ellen Castelow , Contributing Writer  |   Comments Although the powerful Percy family had supported the Lancastrian King Henry IV when he took the throne from Richard II in 1399, the rebellion of 1403 stemmed from the king’s failure to sufficiently reward the family for the costs they had incurred in doing so. In addition, as if to add insult to injury, the infamous Sir Henry Hotspur Percy (so named for his fiery temperament) who had been successfully campaigning against the rebellious Welsh patriot Owain Glyndŵr had not received payment for his services. A tad annoyed with the king, the Percys formed an alliance with Glyndŵr and Edward Mortimer to conquer and divide up England. With a hastily mustered force Hotspur set off for Shrewsbury to join forces with the other rebels. By the time he reached the town Hotspur’s army had grown to around 14,000 men; most notably he had recruited the services of the Cheshire archers. Hearing of the plot against him, the king had hurried to intercept Hotspur and both armies faced each other on 21 July 1403. When negotiations for a happy compromise failed, the battle finally started a few hours before dusk. For the first time on English soil, massed troops of archers faced each and demonstrated "the deadliness of the longbow ". In a closely fought encounter Hotspur was killed, apparently shot in the face when he opened his visor (as shown on the picture to the right). With the loss of their leader, the battle came to abrupt end. To quash rumours that he had in fact survived the battle, the king had Hotspur quartered and put on display in various corners of the country, his head being impaled on York’s north gate. The brutal lesson learned in the effectiveness of the longbow would be remembered by Prince Henry, later Henry V, just a few years later on the battlefields of France.


What was the title of the Sex Pistol's first UK single?

Sex Pistols Timeline | Sex Pistols | The Official Website Sex Pistols Timeline   1972 While bunking off school Steve Jones and Paul Cook – together with Wally Nightingale – decide to form a band. Steve is singer, Paul drummer and Wally guitarist. 1973 Until they can think of something better they are calling themselves either “The Strand” or “The Swankers”. 1974 Glen Matlock joins as bassist. Matlock had been working in Malcolm McLaren’s shop ‘Let It Rock’. Where Steve and Paul would often hang-out; pestering Malcolm to take an interest in their band. 1975 Malcolm McLaren finally becomes the bands manager. Wally Nightingale leaves. Steve Jones moves to lead guitar. Malcolm suggests the name “QT Jones & His Sex Pistols”. Later shortened to “Sex Pistols”. After being spotted on London’s Kings Road – with hacked green hair and a homemade “I HATE Pink Floyd” T-shirt – John Lydon is invited to audition as singer at Malcolm McLaren’s shop. Sex Pistols, with John Lydon, play their first ever live show at St Martin’s College of Art, London, November 6th 1975. 1976 The Pistols begin to play live regularly throughout London and Britain. They also play their first shows abroad in Paris. Sex Pistols sign to EMI and release their debut single ‘ Anarchy in the UK ‘. Appear on ‘Today’ show. Interviewer Bill Grundy goads the band into swearing live on early evening TV. Due to the media furore the band find themselves banned from playing live in the UK. 1977 EMI sack the Sex Pistols. Bassist Glen Matlock leaves to be replaced by Sid Vicious . Pistols sign to A&M Records. 10 days later they sack the Pistols. Sign to Virgin Records and release 2nd single ‘ God Save The Queen ‘ during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations. Despite technically outselling the Number 1 record it only peaks at Number 2. Members of the band are attacked in the streets. Record their debut album ‘ Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols ‘ with producer Chris Thomas. The album is released in October and preceded by 2 singles ‘ Pretty Vacant ‘ and ‘ Holidays in the Sun ‘. 1978 Pistols tour USA. They split up after last date in San Francisco. John returns to the UK. Paul and Steve head to Brazil to team up with Train Robber Ronnie Biggs. Sid overdoses and is admitted to Hospital. First post-Rotten single is released. Double A-side featuring Sid Vicious’ cover version of ‘My Way’ and ‘No One is Innocent’ with Ronnie Biggs on vocals. Sid’s girlfriend Nancy Spungen is found dead in the couple’s New York hotel room. Sid is chief suspect and is charged with her murder. He has no memory of the events. 1979 Sid Vicious fatally overdoses while released on bail from New York’s Rikers Island Prison. He is just 21. Malcolm McLaren continues work on a film of the Sex Pistols story. Several singles featuring either Sid Vicious or Steve Jones on vocals are released to fund the film. John Lydon begins court action against Malcolm McLaren over contract rights and unpaid moneys. A receiver is appointed to control the Sex Pistols assets, and the forthcoming film. 1980 The release of ‘ The Great Rock n Roll Swindle ‘ film. Malcolm McLaren’s fictionalised satire of the Sex Pistols story. 1986 John Lydon’s case against Malcolm McLaren finally comes to the High Court in London. McLaren agrees to hand control of the band’s assets back to the Sex Pistols. 1996 The Pistols original line-up returns – Lydon, Cook, Jones & Matlock – for the ‘Filthy Lucre’ world tour. Over 70 dates throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan & Australasia. Appear live on BBC ‘Top of the Pops’. Banned from playing Northern Ireland on grounds of “blasphemous content”. Release of album ‘ Filthy Lucre Live ‘ recorded in front of 30,000 people at their homecoming show in London’s Finsbury Park. 2000 Release of ‘ The Filth and the Fury ‘ – a feature length Sex Pistols documentary containing new interviews with the band, unseen footage and archive material. 2002 To celebrate their Silver Jubilee Sex Pistols play a special show at London’s Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. They perform virtually the


Which actor played Barnes Wallis in the film The Dambusters?

Sir Barnes Wallis - "The Dam Busters" The Dam Busters (1955) The film The Dam Busters premiered on 16th/17th May 1955 (the 12th anniversary of the raid), attended by numerous survivors of the raid. Overall, the film is a very good portrayal of the story of the development of the "bouncing bomb" and Operation Chastise itself (and of the characters involved in the story), but like all cinematic versions, there are some inaccuracies, omissions or inconsistencies (for whatever reason). This list gives some detail on the factual inaccuracies in the film: Upkeep: the bomb shown beneath the attacking Lancasters in the film  is too large and too spherical in shape; this suggests continuity with the  earlier footage of real test drops, but is more likely due to the secret  nature of the Upkeep weapon (it was still secret when the film was made,  details only being released in 1963 - hence in some of the real test drop footage from  the Wellington and Mosquito, the bomb is masked out by a black disc). There is no hint of the mechanism used to spin the bombs, this feature going  unmentioned in the film as it was still secret.  The shots of the bombs bouncing towards the   dams in the film are actually archive shots of Highball tests on Loch   Striven. [There is no archive footage of Upkeep test drops with a   suitable background.] Other Aircraft: During the crew briefing in the film (and very  prominently in the cinema trailer for the film), Gibson remarks   that 617 will be the only squadron operating that night. This is also stated   in Gibson's book and Morpurgo's biography of Wallis, although Sweetman and  Cooper note   that other squadrons were flying that night (including "gardening" (mine-laying) operations all along the enemy coast (with 54 aircraft, one of  which was lost), and a 9 Mosquito raid on  Berlin; major bombing raids were off due to the full moon). [Cooper and Sweetman  are   correct, according to the Bomber Command  diary for May 1943 .] The spotlights: The idea of the triangulated spotlamps to set the  aircraft height is shown as being Gibson's, during a visit to the theatre; in  fact it was Benjamin Lockspeiser (Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Supply) who came up with the idea, it having been  used as far back as World War I. Also in the film, the height spotlamps are shown under the nose and   tail of the Lancasters; in fact the second spotlamp was in the rear of the   bomb bay. In many art prints of the dams raid, the spotlamp beams are  incorrectly shown shining down directly beneath the aircraft (where they could  not have been seen from the cockpit). Hitting the dams: In the film, all the mines hit the dams (with the   exception of Hopgood's at the Mï¿½hne and Maudley's at the Eder) and it   appears to take several hits to break the dams, contrary to Wallis' theory   that one hit in the right place would be enough. In fact, it was the   first correctly placed mine which actually broke the dam in each case, just   as Wallis predicted. The last mine was dropped at the Mï¿½hne (by   Maltby) just as the dam was already crumbling following the hit by Young. [This error, which actually reflects badly on Wallis, is probably down to   wanting it to appear as though all the aircraft bombed accurately.] The Eder: In the film, the second mine dropped at the Eder (by   Maudslay) is dropped too late and the explosion causes the aircraft to crash   into the hillside after a last faint radio message. However, it is now known   that Maudslay's aircraft actually crashed in Holland, so it was either not   damaged by the explosion of the mine (other than perhaps the radio), or took   longer to succumb to the damage than is suggested. [This error is probably   due to the records of the time which showed Maudslay as lost over the Eder.] The Sorpe: Although mentioned as one of the raid's targets during   the crew briefing in the film, the actual attack on the dam, and the   different method of attack, are not shown. [This omission is pro


"If a dish is described as ""A La Lyonaisse"" what must it contain?"

About Us - Culinary Traditions - St. Landry Parish, LA - Cajun, Creole, Zydeco It’s Gumbo for Your Soul Culinary Traditions We Live our Culture! Each day in St. Landry Parish we engage in enduring traditions of history and culture such as dancing to the exciting sounds of Cajun and zydeco music while enjoying the cuisine loved the world over. With its dramatic history and diverse cultures, St. Landry Parish boasts une différence, which few if any, places in America can claim today. The influences here—Native American, European, African, Acadian, and American—have mixed and matched for more than three centuries to produce the rich and colorful experience that is St. Landry Parish today. From boudin to yams and a little seasoning on the side, St. Landry Parish is the “Prairie Home Cooking” loop of Louisiana Culinary Trails and home to internationally known Chef Paul Prudhomme, Tony Chachere’s Creole Cajun Seasoning and Bayou Teche Brewing featuring its own brand of Craft Beers that complement the region's local Cajun and Creole Cuisine. Local restaurants offer exclusive settings in historic landmarks featuring great Cajun and Creole food. And our many festivals celebrate our culinary treats like cracklins and étouffée! Located in central southwest Louisiana in Cajun Country, 20 minutes north of Lafayette and two hours west of New Orleans, St. Landry Parish is a gateway to the Atchafalaya Basin, and part of the Bayou Teche Corridor , within the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area. By traveling our Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byway , you’ll be sure to visit our many historic communities. Discover the Prairie Home Cooking trail's " Don't Miss Dishes " according to Food Network Star Season 11 competitor, Jay Ducote. Culinary History As St. Landry Parish is the site of one of the oldest European settlements in Louisiana, le Poste des Opélousas, an administrative territory established by the French in 1720, its' cuisine naturally reflects its dramatic history and diverse cultures. Home of the Opelousas Indians, the district was larger than some European empires of the day. By 1791, the military outpost had been governed by the French and the Spanish and was also settled by some English, Scotch, Irish and German colonists, as well as a group of Acadian exiles who managed to find their way to the lush and fertile lands of the district.  They found the area perfect for agriculture and raising cattle and the government post soon developed as a commercial center serving their farms and plantations. Men and women of African heritage began arriving in the 1700s as slaves with the first Europeans and in the late 1700s as gens de couleur libres or free people of color. With this in mind, one might best describe the history of St. Landry Parish’s cuisine as that of a cultural gumbo! The mild climate and rich soils allow a wide variety of vegetables to be grown year around. Also, our many bayous and rivers and close proximity to the coast make seafood an important ingredient in our cuisine.  What typifies the area's cuisine today? Our French, Creole and Cajun culinary traditions of making the most delectable fare with the simplest of ingredients are still recreated today. Food is a “religion” in this part of the world and it’s the love and attention that goes into every dish—from the field to the table that is celebrated with every meal. The holy trinity includes onions, bell peppers, and celery. What are the area’s ingredients? Rice, soybeans (vegetable oil), corn, okra, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, figs, pecans, pond-raised crawfish, catfish, cattle, and poultry including guinea hens What are the area’s unique dishes? The indigenous dishes to this area would be our stews, gumbos, bisques and fricasseés. What makes them unique to this area is that they all are made with “roux”. A roux is the combination of oil and flour in equal parts that is cooked by stirring constantly until it becomes a dark brown color, often compared to that of peanut butter. This base imparts a flavor that is rich and distinct. It also acts as a thickener to the


To the nearest 1000, what is the crowd capacity on Centre Court at Wimbiedon?

Wimbledon Championships Tickets | Access Tickets Wimbledon Championships What cost a memory that lasts a lifetime?     A quite, slightly upmarket, suburban area of south west London. A conurbation seven miles from Charing Cross and also the last stop on one branch of the London underground district line. But Wimbledon is also home to the oldest and most revered tennis tournament on the planet, and for two summer weeks every year Wimbledon becomes the focus of not only tennis enthusiasts but World news, as the seeded players progress through the rounds towards the finals.  Played in London since 1877 Wimbledon is one of four tournaments that make up the “Grand Slam” -  the others are the Australian Open, French Open, and the US Open. Wimbledon is the only one of the four still played on grass. Wimbledon has 19 grass courts, plus grass practice courts, but invariably most attention is focused on the Centre court and court number one and it’s these two courts – which are only used during the championship fortnight - that see the greatest demand for tickets. Centre court has a capacity of 15,000 and number one court a capacity of slightly over 11,000.  Every five years approx 2500 debentures are issued for Centre court and 1000 for court number one. These debentures which are issued for a five year period can be sold in various formats and are the prime method by which visitors obtain seats for the championships. Prices are high, but if you are a tennis fan it’s the most  unique sport experience you are ever likely to enjoy.    The Championships at Wimbledon are steeped in tradition. There is a strict dress code for all the players, and the officials, which dictates specifically on colours and styles. The men’s and women’s competitions are referred to as “gentlemen’s” and “ladies”. From 1947 the ball boys and ball girls, considered integral to the smooth running of the competitions, were supplied by Goldings, a Barnardos charity school for vulnerable youngsters. This was changed in 1969 and since then the ball boys and girls have come from local schools, starting in 2008 from schools in nearby Wandsworth, Merton, Kingston, and Sutton. Until 2003 players were required to curtsy if members of the Royal Family were in attendance. That tradition was ended by His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, and players are now required to curtsy only if the Prince of Wales or Her Majesty the Queen are present. Wimbledon receives extensive media coverage across the World. Wimbledon has its own official radio station that broadcasts locally throughout the tournament and is also available online, its listening numbers have been reported at around 600,000. TV coverage on the BBC is extensive and world renowned. On July 1st 1967 the first official BBC colour TV broadcast featured 4 hours of tennis from Wimbledon, another historic footnote. Giant screens are erected around London to enable those not able to obtain tickets to enjoy the games and embrace the atmosphere generated by a crowd. Wimbledon is also famous for the traditional strawberries and cream consumed by the spectators. Every year 2 million strawberries, weighing approximately 28,000kg are served, along with 28,000 bottles of champagne, 100,000 pints of beer, and 190,000 sandwiches. The catering staff number around 1800. Wimbledon - what cost a memory that lasts a lifetime


"Which actress played Annie Oakley in the film ""Carry on Cowboy""?"

Carry on Cowboy YIFY subtitles source CARRY ON COWBOY (Gerald Thomas, 1965) ***7/10 This is not only one of the best sustained efforts from the “Carry On” crew but a classic film in its own right. I had mentioned it as a rare example of a British Western spoof when I recently watched THE FROZEN LIMITS (1939) with The Crazy Gang; incidentally, the film’s style is pretty close to that of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) – but it actually anticipates Mel Brooks by almost a decade! There are so many inspired gags in this outing (right from the opening sequence with the black-clad Rumpo Kid arriving in town and immediately gunning down three men, only to then ask himself “I wonder what they wanted?”) that it’s hard to remember them all – even a mere couple of hours later. Notable, however, is the merciless lampoon of the Wyatt Earp legend by making its namesake here (played by soon-to-be Dr. Who Jon Pertwee) – and whom the Mayor even addresses as Twerp – completely useless, being both short-sighted and hard of hearing! The “Carry On” stalwarts are in top form, foremost among them Sidney James (as the afore-mentioned Rumpo Kid, amiable outlaw leader – in urgent need of cash at the saloon, he excuses himself to casually hold-up the bank situated just opposite!), Kenneth Williams (as the Mayor of Stodge City – reportedly, he lifted his American accent from legendary comedy producer Hal Roach), Jim Dale (as Marshall P. Knutt, a sanitary engineer mistaken for the new sheriff because of his name!), Charles Hawtrey (as the unlikeliest Indian Chief ever – he’s actually introduced emerging from a tepee-cum-lavatory!) and Joan Sims (as the traditionally sultry saloon hostess); besides, Angela Douglas (who subsequently appeared in three more “Carry Ons” and would later become Mrs. Kenneth More!) – playing the real-life Annie Oakley – makes for an extremely charming gun-toting heroine. The last third of the film turns into a spoof on the seminal HIGH NOON (1952) – with Dale left to face James and his gang alone in a delightful, and most original, climax. Incidentally, the sheriff’s heroic resistance of a stagecoach raid by Hawtrey’s Indian warriors (ending with James – who engineered it – disappointingly quipping, “I’ve met braver cowards than you braves!”) was actually the work of Douglas i.e. in the vein of THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962); Dale’s subsequent awkward coaching in the handling of firearms, then, is hilarious. Another influence from classic Westerns is in the catfight between Sims and Douglas – in this case drawing on DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939). While CARRY ON COWBOY’s send-up of a popular genre easily makes it one of the gang’s best-known entries, I was surprised to learn that it’s not held in highest regard by even staunch fans of the series – such as the people behind the official “Carry On” website, citing its (deliberate) lack of authenticity as a major drawback; I couldn’t disagree more since, to my mind, the level of humor and ingenuity displayed throughout is soaring indeed for this erratic (and idiosyncratically crude) brand-name... source camp cowboys6/10 I know the credit for the definitive comedy western mostly goes to Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles I think this is a pretty good contender. Weserns are often pretty funny to watch these days any way because apart from notable exceptions the genre seems a little camp these days. Its a very classy carry on and the budget seems much more generous than other offers in the series. The sets are very impressive and the costumes look wonderful. The outdoor locations are much more convincing than other efforts. I must check to see where it was filmed as it certainly looks like the west in USA. The English team handle the American accents very well and the ever reliables are all in fine form. If at times the accents sound a little like the south of London it actually adds to the fun of the proceedings.Having been to USA several times let me assure you the accents are accurate. Williams is very good as always and Joan Sims looks lovely and proves yet again what a great star she was


Alfred Butts created which board game in 1938?

Alfred Mosher Butts | Board Game Designer | BoardGameGeek Alfred Mosher Butts Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was an American architect who invented the board game Scrabble in 1938. He is also posthumously credited as a designer of some Scrabble variants that were created after his death. Updating...


"In the poem by Tennyson, the line ""I am here at the gate alone"" is addressed to whom?"

Project MUSE - The Domestic and the Disruptive: A Musical Setting of Tennyson’s <i>Maud</i> Joanna Swafford (bio) Although critics have recently focused attention on the connections between music and poetry, few have addressed the relationship between Victorian poems and their musical song settings. The increased demand for inexpensive sheet music and pianos caused a proliferation of such settings, and much of the British public may have been more familiar with now-canonical poems through their musical versions than through the silence of the page. Because these songs were so popular and culturally significant, only by examining them can we fully understand the poems that served as their text. Michael William Balfe’s famous 1857 setting of lyric 22 of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s monodrama Maud (1855) provides an example of a setting as “a reading, in the critical as well as the performative sense of the term” ( Kramer 127 ). Although the piece can be played to sound like a naive love song, its dissonances, unexpected harmonies, and constantly shifting tonal centres subtly undercut the speaker’s sense of certainty and sanity, as does the text itself, making the song, like the poem, both participate in and disrupt the sentimental tradition. 1 In this segment of Maud, the speaker praises Maud, a young woman whom he believes promised to him from birth, and entreats her to leave a party for an illicit meeting in her garden. The poem resembles a traditional love lyric in which the speaker invokes the pastoral tradition and extols the beauty of both his beloved and his surroundings: 2 Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. (1–6) The speaker’s allusions to flowers and belief in his love’s strength cast the poem as part of the Victorian sentimental and domestic tradition. Balfe’s setting emphasizes this domestic, sentimental quality. It is in a major key and has a gracefully lilting melody (measures 1–11), and its repetition and ornamentation adhere to the generic conventions of the parlour song: the singer repeats the phrase “I am here at the gate alone,” as well as words and phrases such as “come” or “shine out” to dramatize the speaker’s desperation. Balfe also wrote a fermata over the word “gate” to indicate the speaker’s passion and attempts to restrain himself. In a later verse, as Robert Inglesfield points out, the speaker describes Maud as “Queen lily and rose in one” (56), an allusion to the verse in the Song of Solomon (2.1) in which the bride declares, “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys” (qtd. [End Page 28] in Inglesfield 122). This allusion conveys the speaker’s belief in his beloved’s transcendent beauty and in the Biblical perfection of their love. To portray this sentiment, the music is marked dolce and pianissimo, directions that when coupled with the harp-like arpeggios in the accompaniment, appear to render this section as the idyllic garden that the Song of Solomon describes. In the final verse, the speaker breathlessly expresses his excitement at Maud’s arrival, the anapests echoing his pounding heart: She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed. (68–71) Balfe’s setting again performs the speaker’s emotions through a sequence of dissonances followed by resolution (measures 72–80). This pattern, marked accelerando, creates the sense of excitement and forward momentum the speaker feels, and the setting ends on a triumphant cadence that expresses joy at the lovers’ impending union. Even the circumstances in which this song would be performed emphasize a sentimental interpretation: as Derek Scott has observed, parlour songs, also known as drawing-room ballads, encompassed many different styles designed for performance in the middle-class home. They were frequently dismissed as sentimental because of their focus on love, gardens, and other such domestic themes


Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, was known by what name when it was part of Yugoslavia?

Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital - The New York Times The New York Times Travel |Uncovering Charms in Montenegro’s Capital Search Continue reading the main story Photo A scene at one of the many bars on Bokeska Street in Podgorica. Credit Djamila Grossman for The New York Times For more than a decade after the breakup of Yugoslavia, Montenegro — the smallest of the country’s six republics — seemed to hold no place in the traveler’s mind beyond that of Serbia’s little sidekick. Now independent since 2006, the Adriatic nation sandwiched between Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania is quickly enticing Western travelers with a promising mix of history, beauty and culture. And for many English-speakers the country remains a largely unknown gem — a Croatia before Croatia was cool. It certainly has a lot to offer: a 180-mile-long coast whittled with spectacular ports like the walled towns of Budva and Kotor, immense valleys and dawdling rivers seasoned with wild water chestnuts. Few visitors spend much time in Podgorica, Montenegro’s pocket-size capital, because opinions like “not much there for tourists” creep into the reviews. But during my two visits to Montenegro over the last year, I found Podgorica to be surprisingly pleasant, with lively cafes, intriguing neighborhoods and no shortage of charms and moving encounters. My connecting flight from Paris touched down on a sunny afternoon last fall at the Aerodrom Podgorica, code TGD, a reminder of Yugoslavia’s Communist days when the city was known as Titograd. From the air I had squinted through the piercing glare of Lake Skadar, a national park, to absorb the terrifying peaks of the 8,000-foot-high Prokletije mountains that marked the Albanian border. Montenegro, or Crna Gora in Montenegrin, means “black mountain,” and the rugged fastness of the landscape makes the name an obvious choice. Yet everything below me was so green, a patchwork of rolling farmland stitched together with rivers and creeks. It felt like flying into a Balkan Montana. Podgorica, pronounced PAWD-go-ree-tsa, was no Bozeman but a place burbling with progress all the same. NATO had bombed the areas around the airport in 1999 when Serbs used it as a regrouping area after raids into neighboring Kosovo. Montenegro was largely spared much of the NATO wrath because Milo Djukanovic, who was president of Montenegro at the time, worked to distance his country from the Serbs during the war. By 2006, a majority of Montenegrins voted to part ways with Serbia for good, and the breakup happened peacefully. “It was like a marriage that just wasn’t working,” Ninoslav Markovic, a Podgorica native who studied tourism in the World Heritage city of Kotor, told me later. “There was some anger but no big fight.” Photo A view of Podgorica from Gorica, the hill that gives the city its name. Credit Djamila Grossman for The New York Times I struggled to spot any signs of the conflict on the ride into the city. Shiny BMWs and Mercedeses glided along a well-sealed road, past roundabouts, furniture stores and mechanic shops. Most of the buildings were squat, soulless apartment complexes with splashes of color from laundry draped over balconies. A donkey pulled a wood cart along the shoulder. In searching for a place to stay I zeroed in on the Hotel Crna Gora, built in 1953, once the finest hotel in Podgorica. Back in the day it had been a place for the Communist Party elite. Looking at it now I saw little more than a drab concrete cube but quickly realized this was special in its own right. It had a bright lobby and dim hallways enlivened with long licks of red carpet. Over the decades the hotel had become a mini-repository for paintings by eminent Montenegrin and Yugoslav artists like Petar Lubarda and Milo Milunovic. My room had a creaky but comfortable bed next to an antique radio that probably wasn’t intended to be an antique. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The hotel will become a Hilton, and since my visit, construction crews have demolished large portions of the hotel as part of a $56 million ren


In which English town or city is the Titanic brewery?

Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic RAPHAEL SATTER Share View photos A woman looks at a photograph of the Grand Staircase from the Titanic, at SeaCity Museum in Southampton, England,Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The new museum will open in the City of Southampton on April 10, 100 years after the ill fated Titanic sailed from the City's docks. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) More SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Somewhere between the black Titanic teddy bears and the pale Iceberg beer, the Titanic Barbie doll and the "Tubtanic" bath plug, the global obsession with the story of the doomed ocean liner began to border on the absurd. A new museum opening April 10 in the English port city of Southampton has taken this into account, explaining how the world has reported, retold, and sometimes become utterly fixated on the fateful night in April 1912 that saw the White Star liner sink beneath the waves. "We're looking to tell a different part of the Titanic story," said city council member Mike Harris, speaking Tuesday at a preview event for Southampton's recently built SeaCity Museum. The museum had plenty of material to draw on. The ship is at the center of one of the world's best-known tales and one of the best-selling films in Hollywood history. Nearly 100 years to the day since it went down, claiming 1,514 lives, the demise of the reputedly unsinkable ship continues to fascinate, launching films, books, television mini-series and — here and elsewhere — museums. SeaCity's first temporary exhibit, "Titanic: The Legend," looks at how the circumstances of the ship's voyage has turned into a global obsession. A world map charts some of the 1,160 Titanic memorials spread across 34 countries, including India, Croatia and Russia. Screens broadcast clips from five different Titanic films, from James Cameron's global blockbuster "Titanic" to the 1912 silent film, "In Night and Ice," which appeared only weeks after the ship sank. The merchandise appeared almost as quickly. The exhibit carries examples of German plush toy maker Steiff's black "mourning bears," bought as a symbol of solidarity with the victims. Cheaper were the "in memoriam" postcards bearing pictures of the luxury cruiser. Recent years have seen the proliferation of more varied offerings — from jigsaw puzzles to video games and more. The Titanic brewery, founded in 1985 in the English town of Stoke-on-Trent, offers a range (or "fleet") of Titanic-themed ales, including "Steerage," ''Lifeboat" and "Capt. Smith's," an homage to the hometown hero who went down with the ship. Beer not to your taste? Use a "Gin and Titonic" mold to make ship- and iceberg-shaped ice cubes for your cocktails. The product's tag line: "Sink one in your drink." SeaCity — which scoured the Internet for many of its items — came up with a wide range of kitsch. The "Tubtanic" bath plug lets you splash along with a toy version of the ocean liner as you wash your hair. There are paperweights, in case you'd like the sinking ship to anchor your "In" tray. The Titanic-branded golf balls, one imagines, can help excuse a disastrous swing. Titanic memorabilia collector John Creamer put it best in his written introduction to one of the exhibits. "There's some weird stuff out there," he said. The Southampton museum — built on the site of a disused court building — is merely the latest in a string of Titanic offerings to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the doomed ship's voyage in April 1912. Last Saturday, Belfast opened its impressive 100-million pound ($160 million, €120 million) Titanic Belfast visitor center to celebrate the city where the ship was built. ___


With a character in which novel does Starbuck's coffee chain share its name?

Starbuck biography | birthday, trivia | Fictional Sailor | Who2 Starbuck Biography Fictional Sailor   Starbuck is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by author Herman Melville . Strong and steady, Starbuck serves as first mate on the whaling ship Pequod under the command of the mad Captain Ahab. Starbuck tries to stop Ahab’s obsessive hunt for Moby-Dick, but loyal at the last, he dies at sea with Ahab and his crew after a final battle with the great while whale. The Starbucks coffee chain took its name from the character. Extra credit Unrelated characters named Starbuck also appear in the play The Rainmaker (which debuted on Broadway in 1954) and in the sci-fi TV show Battlestar Galactica (1978-79, with Lt. Starbuck played by Dirk Benedict)… Starbuck was played by actor Leo Genn in the 1956 film which starred Gregory Peck as Ahab.


Situated on Mars, what is the name of the iargest volcano in the Solar System?

Mars Exploration: Multimedia (largest volcano in the solar system!)   3-D view of Olympus Mons The largest of the volcanoes in the Tharsis Montes region, as well as all known volcanoes in the solar system, is Olympus Mons.                   Olympus Mons is a shield volcano 624 km (374 mi) in diameter                   (approximately the same size as the state of Arizona), 25 km                   (16 mi) high, and is rimmed by a 6 km (4 mi) high scarp. A caldera                   80 km (50 mi) wide is located at the summit of Olympus Mons.                   To compare, the largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa.           Mauna Loa is a shield volcano 10 km (6.3 mi) high and 120 km                   (75 mi) across. The volume of Olympus Mons is about 100 times                   larger than that of Mauna Loa. In fact, the entire chain of Hawaiian                   islands (from Kauai to Hawaii) would fit inside Olympus Mons! MOC image of Olympus Mons Why is Olympus Mons so big? The main difference between the volcanoes on Mars and Earth is                  their size; volcanoes in the Tharsis region of Mars are 10 to 100                  times larger than those anywhere on Earth. The lava flows on          the Martian surface are observed to be much longer, probably a                  result of higher eruption rates and lower surface gravity. Another reason why the volcanoes on Mars are so massive is                   because the crust on Mars doesn't move the way it does on Earth.                   On Earth, the hot spots remain stationary but crustal plates are                   moving above them. The Hawaiian islands result from the                   northwesterly movement of the Pacific plate over a stationary                   hotspot producing lava. As the plate moves over the hotspot,                   new volcanoes are formed and the existing ones become extinct.                   This distributes the total volume of lava among many volcanoes                   rather than one large volcano. On Mars, the crust remains stationary           and the lava piles up in one, very large volcano. For more on Olympus Mons:


In which English city would you find Chamberlain Square and the Rotunda?

Chamberlain Square (Birmingham, England): Top Tips Before You Go - TripAdvisor “Just just treat this as a thoroughfare” Reviewed June 21, 2015 This square is located between the more well regarded Victoria Square and the Paradise Forum shopping precinct, through which you can access Centenary Square. Many people treat this square as a thoroughfare, but I recommend that you stop and take a look. The façades of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Birmingham Town Hall are quite beautiful and although... More  Helpful?


By what name was pop and rock singer Larry Lurex better known?

Freddie Mercury | Biography & History | AllMusic google+ Artist Biography               by Greg Prato Combining theatrics and an outrageously flamboyant stage persona with his fine natural-born talent (he possessed one of the greatest voices in all of music and penned some of pop's most enduring and instantly recognizable compositions), one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers/showmen was unquestionably Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury . Born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946, in Zanzibar to Persian parents (his father worked as a high court cashier for the British government), young Farrokh was nicknamed Freddie by fellow classmates while attending an English boarding school, and adopted the moniker. Freddie soon discovered his love for art and music, both subjects that he explored voraciously (he began taking piano lessons around this time), putting his newly found piano talent to use as he played in rock & roll bands with friends. Due to political upheaval in Zanzibar, Freddie and his family fled Zanzibar for England in 1964. Back in England, Freddie enrolled in the Ealing College of Art and fell under the spell of guitar wizard Jimi Hendrix . It was while attending Ealing that Freddie befriended a fellow aspiring musician, bassist Tim Staffell , who was a member of a local band called Smile . Freddie soon began attending Smile 's rehearsals and struck up a friendship with the group's other members, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor . Inspired by his new friends, he began playing in bands himself (such as Ibex, Wreckage , and Sour Milk Sea, among others), but instead of just playing piano as he did back in Zanzibar, he began singing. To pay the bills, Freddie opened up a stall on Piccadilly Circus with Taylor , selling clothing geared toward fellow rock musicians. By 1970, Freddie had become frustrated that his music career had yet to blossom, and when he heard that Staffell had left Smile , Freddie promptly took his place, finally uniting musically with May and Taylor . Inspired by the heavy rock of Led Zeppelin / Hendrix as well as the vocal harmonies of the Beatles and the over the top look of the burgeoning glam rock movement ( David Bowie and T. Rex ), the new group decided to mix up all these influences in one big melting pot, resulting in the formation of Queen . Sensing that it was only natural that a soon-to-be rock star should have an equally grand name, Bulsara soon became Freddie Mercury . The new band honed their sound throughout the early '70s (ultimately signing with EMI in England and Elektra in the U.S.), and after going through a succession of bassists, finally found a permanent member, John Deacon , just prior to the recording of their first album. But just before the release of Queen 's self-titled debut in 1973, Freddie issued the solo single "I Can Hear Music"/"Going Back" (with his Queen bandmates backing him) under the pseudonym Larry Lurex . The single sank from view shortly after release, while Queen 's debut fared little better. It was during an early Queen show that Freddie 's mike stand accidentally snapped in half, and instead of replacing it, Mercury carried on with the damaged stand, which ultimately became an on-stage trademark for the singer. Dressed in outrageous Zandra Rhodes -designed threads, dolled up in makeup/eyeliner, and wearing black nail polish on his right hand, Freddie instantly stood out from the rest of the then-current rock pack. Although there was speculation about his sexuality throughout his career, Mercury refused to confirm or deny that he was bisexual during his lifetime. Slowly but surely, Queen built up an enormous and dedicated worldwide following due to their bombastic stage show and such hit releases as 1974's Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack , but it was the Mercury -penned "Bohemian Rhapsody" off 1975's breakthrough A Night at the Opera that solidified Queen as one of rock's top bands. Further hit albums followed: 1976's A Day at the Races , 1977's News of the World , 1978's Jazz , and 1979's Live Killers , during which Freddie


Napoleon defeated at Waterloo - Jun 18, 1815 - HISTORY.com Napoleon defeated at Waterloo Publisher A+E Networks At Waterloo in Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history. The Corsica-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe, and Napoleon returned home from his Egyptian campaign to take over the reigns of the French government and save his nation from collapse. After becoming first consul in February 1800, he reorganized his armies and defeated Austria. In 1802, he established the Napoleonic Code, a new system of French law, and in 1804 was crowned emperor of France in Notre Dame Cathedral. By 1807, Napoleon controlled an empire that stretched from the River Elbe in the north, down through Italy in the south, and from the Pyrenees to the Dalmatian coast. Beginning in 1812, Napoleon began to encounter the first significant defeats of his military career, suffering through a disastrous invasion of Russia, losing Spain to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, and enduring total defeat against an allied force by 1814. Exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean, he escaped to France in early 1815 and set up a new regime. As allied troops mustered on the French frontiers, he raised a new Grand Army and marched into Belgium. He intended to defeat the allied armies one by one before they could launch a united attack. On June 16, 1815, he defeated the Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher at Ligny, and sent 33,000 men, or about one-third of his total force, in pursuit of the retreating Prussians. On June 18, Napoleon led his remaining 72,000 troops against the Duke of Wellington’s 68,000-man allied army, which had taken up a strong position 12 miles south of Brussels near the village of Waterloo. In a fatal blunder, Napoleon waited until mid-day to give the command to attack in order to let the ground dry. The delay in fighting gave Blucher’s troops, who had eluded their pursuers, time to march to Waterloo and join the battle by the late afternoon. In repeated attacks, Napoleon failed to break the center of the allied center. Meanwhile, the Prussians gradually arrived and put pressure on Napoleon’s eastern flank. At 6 p.m., the French under Marshal Michel Ney managed to capture a farmhouse in the allied center and began decimating Wellington’s troops with artillery. Napoleon, however, was preoccupied with the 30,000 Prussians attacking his flank and did not release troops to aid Ney’s attack until after 7 p.m. By that time, Wellington had reorganized his defenses, and the French attack was repulsed. Fifteen minutes later, the allied army launched a general advance, and the Prussians attacked in the east, throwing the French troops into panic and then a disorganized retreat. The Prussians pursued the remnants of the French army, and Napoleon left the field. French casualties in the Battle of Waterloo were 25,000 men killed and wounded and 9,000 captured, while the allies lost about 23,000. Napoleon returned to Paris and on June 22 abdicated in favor of his son. He decided to leave France before counterrevolutionary forces could rally against him, and on July 15 he surrendered to British protection at the port of Rochefort. He hoped to travel to the United States, but the British instead sent him to Saint Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. Napoleon protested but had no choice but to accept the exile. With a group of followers, he lived quietly on St. Helena for six years. In May 1821, he died, most likely of stomach cancer. He was only 51 years old. In 1840, his body was returned to Paris, and a magnificent funeral was held. Napoleon’s body was conveyed through the Arc de Triomphe and entombed under the dome of the Invalides. Related Videos


What is the name of the Gulf separating the coast of northern Vietnam from China and into which the Red River flows?

Vietnam - 2 | Britannica.com Vietnam country occupying the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia. Displaying 1 - 100 of 167 results Adams, Eddie American photojournalist who won hundreds of awards during his 45-year career and counted 13 wars among the events he covered but was most renowned for the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph he took in 1968 at the moment a South Vietnamese general shot... Annam French-governed Vietnam or, more strictly, its central region, known in precolonial times as Trung Ky (Central Administrative Division). The term Annam (Chinese: “Pacified South”) was never officially used by the Vietnamese to describe their country,... Annamese Cordillera principal mountain range of Indochina and the watershed between the Mekong River and the South China Sea. It extends parallel to the coast in a gentle curve generally northwest-southeast, forming the boundary between Laos and Vietnam. A fairly continuous... ASEAN international organization established by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in 1967 to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development and to promote peace and security in Southeast... ASEAN Regional Forum ARF the first regionwide Asia-Pacific multilateral forum for official consultations on peace and security issues. An outgrowth of the annual ministerial-level meeting of members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the states serving... Asia the world’s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia is more a geographic term than a homogeneous continent, and the use of the term to describe such a vast area always carries the potential... Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC organization that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional economic blocs (such as... Bac Lieu city, eastern Ca Mau Peninsula, southern Vietnam. It has a hospital and a commercial airport and is linked by highway to Ho Chi Minh City, 120 miles (195 km) to the northeast. In addition to rice growing, there is mat making; on the coast, salt is obtained... Bach Long Vi island of northern Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, halfway between the mouth of the Red River (Song Hong) near Nam Dinh and the Chinese island of Hainan. The island is a plateau that rises abruptly to 190 ft (58 m) above sea level and is fringed with... Bao Dai the last reigning emperor of Vietnam (1926–45). The son of Emperor Khai Dinh, a vassal of the French colonial regime, and a concubine of peasant ancestry, Nguyen Vinh Thuy was educated in France and spent little of his youth in his homeland. He succeeded... Ben Thuy town, northern Vietnam, on the Ca River, just southeast of the urban centre of Vinh. Just upstream from where the Ca River enters the Gulf of Tonkin where it meets the South China Sea, Ben Thuy serves as the outport of Vinh, and much of the trade of... Ben Tre city on the flat Mekong River delta, southern Vietnam. Ben Tre is linked by highway and ferry boat to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) 53 miles (85 km) to the northeast. It is served by a commercial airfield and functions as a link on the My Tho-Phu... Bien Hoa city, southern Vietnam. It is located 19 miles (30 km) northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), on the left bank of the Dong Nai River, northeast of the Mekong River delta. Bien Hoa is one of the oldest cities of southern Vietnam. The French... Black River one of the chief tributaries of the Red River (Song Hong) in southeastern Asia. Nearly 500 miles (800 km) long, the river rises in central Yunnan province in southwestern China and flows southeastward into northwestern Vietnam on a course parallel to... Buon Me Thuot largest city in the central highlands of southern Vietnam. It lies at an elevation of 1,759 feet (536 metres) at the southern end of the Dac Lac Plateau, 55 miles (89 km) north-northwest of


Which US city was ravaged by a Great Fire in 1871 that left thousands homeless?

Chicago Fire of 1871 - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Chicago Fire of 1871 A+E Networks Introduction The Chicago Fire of 1871, also called the Great Chicago Fire, burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, and destroyed thousands of buildings, killed an estimated 300 people and caused an estimated $200 million in damages. Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans or even a meteor might have been responsible for the event that left an area of about four miles long and almost a mile wide of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Following the blaze, reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth. Google Chicago Fire: October 1871 In October 1871, dry weather and an abundance of wooden buildings, streets and sidewalks made Chicago vulnerable to fire. The Great Chicago Fire began on the night of October 8, in or around a barn located on the property of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary at 137 DeKoven Street on the city’s southwest side. Legend holds that the blaze started when the family’s cow knocked over a lighted lantern; however, Catherine O’Leary denied this charge, and the true cause of the fire has never been determined. What is known is that the fire quickly grew out of control and moved rapidly north and east toward the city center. Did You Know? The same day the Great Chicago Fire began, a fire broke out in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, in which more than 1,000 people perished. The fire burned wildly throughout the following day, finally coming under control on October 10, when rain gave a needed boost to firefighting efforts. The Great Chicago Fire left an estimated 300 people dead and 100,000 others homeless. More than 17,000 structures were destroyed and damages were estimated at $200 million. The disaster prompted an outbreak of looting and lawlessness. Companies of soldiers were summoned to Chicago and martial law was declared on October 11, ending three days of chaos. Martial law was lifted several weeks later. Chicago Fire: Aftermath The month after the fire, Joseph Medill (1823-99) was elected mayor after promising to institute stricter building and fire codes, a pledge that may have helped him win the office. His victory might also be attributable to the fact that most of the city’s voting records were destroyed in the fire, so it was next to impossible to keep people from voting more than once. Despite the fire’s devastation, much of Chicago’s physical infrastructure, including its transportation systems, remained intact. Reconstruction efforts began quickly and spurred great economic development and population growth, as architects laid the foundation for a modern city featuring the world’s first skyscrapers. At the time of the fire, Chicago’s population was approximately 324,000; within nine years, there were some 500,000 Chicagoans. By 1890, the city was a major economic and transportation hub with an estimated population of more than 1 million people. (In America, only New York City had a larger population at the time.) In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition, a tourist attraction visited by some 27.5 million people. Today, the Chicago Fire Department training academy is located on the site of the O’Leary property where the Great Chicago Fire started. In 1997, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution exonerating Catherine O’Leary, an Irish immigrant who died in 1895, and her cow. Tags


Many British hill tops have a trig point placed by the Ordnance Survey. What is the word 'trig' short for?

Ordnance Survey | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Grid square TF, shown at a scale of 1:250,000. The map shows The Wash and the North Sea, as well as places within the counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Part of an Ordnance Survey map at 1 inch to the mile scale from a New Popular Edition map published in 1946 Ordnance Survey, an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, [1] is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, [2] producing maps of Great Britain (and to an extent, the Isle of Man). It does not produce maps of Northern Ireland . It is one of the world's largest producers of maps. The name reflects its creation together with the original military purpose of the organisation (see ordnance and surveying) in the first instance in mapping Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the last Jacobite Rebellion, which included the last pitched battle on British soil at the Battle of Culloden . Moreover there was not only a recent history of conflict in the region, but the tendency for wars to break out in Britain had a precedent stretching back centuries. The government's fears, and with it the justification for the importance of military mapping among other things, were vindicated later during the Napoleonic Wars when there was a threat of invasion from France, and its logo includes the War Department's broad arrow heraldic mark. Ordnance Survey mapping is usually classified as 'large scale' (i.e. showing more detail) or 'small scale'. Large-scale mapping comprises maps at six inches to the mile or more (1:10,560, superseded by 1:10,000 in the 1950s); it was available in sheet-map form until the 1980s, since when it has become digital. Small-scale mapping comprises maps at fewer than six inches to the mile and includes the "leisure maps", such as the popular one inch to the mile and its metric successors, still available in traditional sheet-map form. Ordnance Survey of Great Britain maps are in copyright for 50 years after publication date. Some of the Copyright Libraries hold complete or near-complete collections of pre-digital O.S. mapping. Contents Edit The roots of Ordnance Survey go back to 1747, when Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson proposed the compilation of a map of the Scottish Highlands to facilitate the subjugation of the clans following the Jacobite rising of 1745 . [3] In response, King George II commissioned a military survey of the Highlands, and Watson was placed in charge under the command of the Duke of Cumberland . Among his assistants were William Roy , Paul Sandby , and John Manson. The survey was produced at a scale of 1 inch to 1000 yards (1:36,000). [4] The labours of Watson and Roy, in particular, resulted in The Duke of Cumberland's Map, now in the British Library. Roy would go on to have an illustrious career in the Royal Engineers, and he was largely responsible for the British share of the work in determining the relative positions of the French and British royal observatories. This work was the starting point of the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1783–1853), and led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey itself. Roy's technical skills and leadership set the high standard for which Ordnance Survey became known. Work was begun in earnest in 1790 under Roy's supervision, when the Board of Ordnance (a predecessor of part of the modern Ministry of Defence ) began a national military survey starting with the south coast of England. By 1791, the Board received the newer Ramsden theodolite (an improved successor to the one that Roy had used in 1784), and work began on mapping southern Great Britain using 5-mile baseline on Hounslow Heath that Roy himself had previously measured and that crosses the present Heathrow Airport . A set of postage stamps, featuring maps of the Kentish village of Hamstreet , was issued in 1991 to mark the bicentenary. In 1801, the first one-inch-to-the-mile (1:63,360 scale) map was published, detailing the county of Kent, with Essex following shortly


What is the family name of an England 1966 football world cup winner and his nephew, an England 2003 rugby union world cup winner?

England 1966 World Cup win, 50th anniversary - what Three Lions did after Wembley triumph - Mirror Online England 1966 World Cup win, 50th anniversary - what Three Lions did after Wembley triumph Here, we run the rule over how England's men followed up on that World Cup win  Share Top row left to right: trainer Harold Shepherdson, Nobby Stiles, Roger Hunt, Gordon Banks, Jack Charlton, George Cohen, Ray Wilson, Manager Alf Ramsey, and bottom row, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, Alan Ball and Bobby Charlton (Photo: Getty)  Share Get football updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email The class of 1966 still remain England's sole side to lift a trophy at a major tournament. Here, we run the rule over how England's men followed up on that World Cup win. GORDON BANKS Went on to win 73 England caps and make 628 club appearances in a 15-year career. Still famed for his stunning save from Pele's header in England's 1970 World Cup clash with Brazil. Helped Stoke to the 1972 League Cup though lost the sight in one eye in a car crash in October later that same year, that ultimately ended his professional career. Enjoyed a brief managerial stint with Telford United. Gordon Banks is considered England's greatest ever goalkeeper (Photo: Getty) Read More Watch Next GEORGE COHEN Fulham defender Cohen was forced to retire through injury aged 29, having amassed 459 appearances for the Craven Cottage club. Cohen struggled with bowel cancer for 14 years in the 1980s. He later opted to sell his World Cup winner's medal, though Fulham purchased the item to display it at Craven Cottage. Nephew Ben Cohen helped England win the Rugby World Cup in 2003. Awarded the MBE in 2000. George Cohen was awarded the MBE in 2000 JACK CHARLTON Made 629 appearances for Leeds and collected 35 England caps, before turning attention to a successful managerial career. After stints with Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle, Charlton stepped up to lead the Republic of Ireland. Charlton led the Irish to the last 16 of World Cup 1994, his side falling 2-0 to Holland. Appointed an OBE in 1974 and awarded honorary Irish citizenship in 1996, being made a freeman of the city of Dublin in 1994. Still lives in his native north east. Jack Charlton collected 35 England caps (Photo: Getty) BOBBY MOORE Widely accepted as England's greatest centre-half and one of the best anywhere of all time, the World Cup-winning captain died from bowel and liver cancer in February 1993, aged 51. Won 108 caps for England, representing West Ham with distinction, before enjoying spells at Fulham and in America. Moore's widow Stephanie founded the Bobby Moore Fund in 1993, to raise money for research into bowel cancer and raise public awareness of the disease. Bobby Moore - captain, leader, legend (Photo: Getty) RAY WILSON England's left-back has kept the lowest profile of the 1966 winners. Wilson built a successful undertaker's business in Huddersfield after his football career, but retired from his second career in 1997. Lives in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield. Ray Wilson went on to build a successful undertakers business in Huddersfield NOBBY STILES Midfielder Stiles ended up with 28 England caps but went on to rack up 392 appearances for Manchester United before a move to Middlesbrough in 1971. A career in coaching followed, with two stints at Preston, before a short-lived tenure at West Brom. Stiles worked as a youth team coach at Manchester United between 1989 and 1993, helping oversee the development of the renowned class of '92 that included the likes of David Beckham and the Neville brothers. Nobby Stiles, England's talented midfielder, helped guide Man United's Class of '92 (Photo: Getty) ALAN BALL Ball died of a heart attack in April 2007, aged 61. The combative midfielder excelled in stints with Blackpool, Everton and Arsenal, while also winning 72 England caps. After more than 800 club appearances Ball then moved into management, twice taking charge at Portsmouth along with stints at Sou


Who wrote the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?

SparkNotes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Plot Overview Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Context Character List Rosencrantz and Guildenstern wander through a featureless wilderness, flipping coins, which keep coming up heads. Each time a coin lands on heads, Rosencrantz wins it. While Guildenstern worries about the improbability of a coin landing on heads so many times in a row, Rosencrantz happily continues flipping. Guildenstern wonders if they have entered a world where the laws of chance and time are absent. The pair struggles to recall why they are traveling and remember only that a messenger called them. They encounter a troupe of actors, known as the Tragedians. The leader of the group, called the Player, indicates that the Tragedians specialize in sexual performances and gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern the chance to participate for a fee. Guildenstern turns the improbable coin-flipping episode to their advantage by offering the Player a bet. The Player loses but claims he cannot pay. Guildenstern asks for a play instead. Guildenstern starts to leave as the Tragedians prepare, and Rosencrantz reveals that the most recently flipped coin landed tails-up. The scene changes suddenly. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are now inside Elsinore, the royal castle of Denmark, watching as Hamlet and Ophelia burst onstage and leave in opposite directions. Mistaking Rosencrantz for Guildenstern, Claudius explains that he sent for the pair so that they could ascertain what is bothering Hamlet, their childhood friend. Bewildered, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern discuss how they might probe Hamlet for the cause of his supposed madness. They play a game of question-and-answer, further confusing themselves about their purpose and even their identities. Guildenstern suggests that he pretend to be Hamlet while Rosencrantz questions him. They realize that Hamlet’s disturbed state is due to the fact that his father, the former king of Denmark, has recently died, and the throne has been usurped by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who also has married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern overhear Hamlet speaking riddles to Polonius. Hamlet confuses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with an enigmatic speech. Polonius comes in to tell Hamlet that the Tragedians have arrived. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern despair about how little they learned of Hamlet’s feelings. They cannot decide whether he is insane. Polonius, Hamlet, and the Tragedians enter, and Hamlet announces that there will be a play the next day. Hamlet leaves, and Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the Player discuss the possible causes of Hamlet’s strange behavior. The Player departs while Rosencrantz and Guildenstern discuss what happens after death. As Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, and Ophelia enter, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern explain that Hamlet wants them all to attend the play. The group leaves, but Hamlet enters. Not noticing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet wonders whether he should commit suicide. Ophelia enters, praying. After a short conversation, she and Hamlet exit. Alfred, one of the Tragedians, arrives dressed as Gertrude. The other Tragedians enter to rehearse their play, which parallels Claudius’s rise to power and marriage to Gertrude. Ophelia enters, crying, followed by an angry Hamlet, who tells her to become a nun, then quickly departs. Claudius and Polonius enter and leave with Ophelia. The Player explains the tragic aspects of the Tragedians’ play, which metaphorically retells the recent events at Elsinore and foreshadows the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They discuss whether death can be adequately represented on stage. The scene goes black. In darkness, voices indicate that the play has disturbed Claudius. The next day, Claudius and Gertrude ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find Hamlet, who has killed Polonius. Alone again, the pair concocts a plan to trap Hamlet with their belts, but they fail as Hamlet enters from an unexpected direction and immediately leaves, carrying the dead Polonius. Rosencrantz and Guild


Which constituency returned Douglas Carswell as the first UKIP MP in October 2014?

UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win - BBC News BBC News UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win 10 October 2014 From the section UK Politics comments Read more about sharing. Close share panel Media captionFormer Tory MP Douglas Carswell becomes the first UKIP candidate to be elected to the House of Commons The UK Independence Party has gained its first elected MP, with Douglas Carswell taking the seat of Clacton by 12,404 votes. Mr Carswell, who defected from the Conservatives, knocked his old party - which enjoyed a 12,068 majority at the 2010 election - into second place. UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he had "shaken up British politics". In the night's other by-election, Labour held on to Heywood and Middleton but UKIP slashed its majority to 617. Mr Farage told BBC Breakfast UKIP could hold the balance of power after next year's general election. He said UKIP's second place in Heywood and Middleton was "even more significant" than its win in Clacton, saying the party was now the main opposition to Labour in northern cities. "Something big is happening here. People want change, they have had enough of career politicians in three parties." Mr Farage said he expected more Conservative MPs to join UKIP following the defection of Mr Carswell and Mark Reckless, who has triggered a by-election in Rochester and Strood, Kent. "I think it would be very surprising if more people did not come across", he said, saying he had also spoken to Labour MPs "frustrated that they are not able to change things in British politics". Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast the result in Clacton was a "wake-up call" saying that while UKIP were a threat to all the Westminster parties, they "cost Conservatives seats", so put Labour leader Ed Miliband "one step closer to Downing Street". Media captionEd Miliband said the Tories lost in "their own backyard" in the Clacton by-election Prime Minister David Cameron said : "If you see a big UKIP vote you end up with Ed Miliband as prime minister, Ed Balls as chancellor, Labour in power." BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the Conservative strategy of saying a UKIP vote helped Labour was "the only way they think they can get those voters back". The UKIP vote could still "slump back" at the general election, or it could "carry on breaking every prediction and really make a breakthrough", he added. 'Humility, modesty' Speaking in Heywood, where he congratulated winning candidate Liz McInnes, Mr Miliband said UKIP voters did not think political parties listened to them or that the country represented them. He said Labour had changed and realised it was "not prejudiced" to worry about immigration, but said he did not think UKIP could "represent the interests of working people". The next election would be a fight against "disillusionment and despair", he predicted. Speaking on a walkabout with Mr Farage in Clacton on Friday morning, Mr Carswell, who gained 21,113 votes - 60% of the total - said he did not want to be UKIP leader. and said his old party had "smeared" Mr Reckless since his defection. In his acceptance speech he told UKIP supporters there was "nothing that we cannot achieve". Addressing the people of his constituency, he said: "I resigned from parliament to face this election because I answer first, foremost and last to you. You are my boss. I will not let you down. "To my new party I offer these thoughts: humility when we win, modesty when we are proved right. If we speak with passion, let it always be tempered by compassion." Image copyright AP Image caption Mr Carswell overturned a Conservative majority in Clacton Image copyright PA Image caption Liz McInnes retained Heywood and Middleton for Labour but with a reduced majority Image copyright Getty Images Image caption UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Mr Carswell was "a brave and honourable man" He also addressed the party's prospects on a wider front, saying "we must be a party for all Britain and all Britons: first and second generation as much as every other". "Our strength must lie in our breadth. If


Which chemical element comes next in order of atomic number: hydrogen, helium, lithium, ............?

Lithium   - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table Chemistry in its element: lithium (Promo) You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. (End promo) Chris Smith Hello, this week to the element that tops group one and gives us lighter aircraft and armoured plating.  It also keeps grease running at arctic temperatures, powers pacemakers and lies at the heart of the hydrogen bomb. Matt Wilkinson Lithium is rare in the Universe, although it was one of the three elements, along with hydrogen and helium, to be created in the Big Bang. The element was discovered on Earth in 1817 by Johan August Arfvedson (1792-1841) in Stockholm when he investigated petalite, one of the first lithium minerals to be discovered. (It was observed to give an intense crimson flame when sprinkled on to a fire.) He deduced that petalite contained an unknown metal, which he called lithium from the Greek word for a stone, lithos, although he never actually produced any. He reasoned that it was a new alkali metal and lighter than sodium. However, unlike sodium, which Humphry Davy had isolated in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide, Arfvedson was unable to produced lithium by the same method. A sample of lithium metal was finally extracted in 1855 and then by the electrolysis of molten lithium chloride. Once lithium's discovery had been announced others soon found it to be present in all kinds of things such as grapes, seaweed, tobacco, vegetables, milk and blood. Another lithium ore is spodumene, which like petalite is a lithium aluminium silicate, and there is a large deposit of this ore in South Dakota. World production of lithium compounds is around 40 000 tonnes a year and reserves are estimated to be around 7 million tonnes. Industrial production of the metal itself is reported to be about 7500 tonnes a year, and this is produced by the electrolysis of molten lithium chloride and potassium chloride in steel cells at temperatures of 450oC. Lithium is moderately toxic as discovered in the 1940s when patients were given lithium chloride as a salt substitute. However, in small doses it is prescribed as a treatment for manic depression (now called bipolar disorder). Its calming effect on the brain was first noted in 1949, by an Australian doctor, John Cade, of the Victoria Department of Mental Hygiene. He had injected guinea pigs with a 0.5% solution of lithium carbonate, and to his surprise these normally highly-strung animals became docile, and indeed were so calm that they would sit in the same position for several hours. Cade then gave his most mentally disturbed  patient an injection of the same solution. The man responded so well that within days he was transferred to a normal hospital ward and was soon back at work. Other patients responded similarly and lithium therapy is now used all around the world to treat this mental condition. How it works is still not known for certain, but it appears to prevent overproduction of a chemical messenger in the brain. Lithium is used commercially in various ways. Lithium oxide goes into glass and glass ceramics. Lithium metal goes into alloys with magnesium and aluminium, and it improves their strength while making them lighter. Magnesium-lithium alloy is used in protective armour plating and aluminium-lithium reduces the weight of aircraft thereby saving fuel. Lithium stearate, made by reacting stearic acid with lithium hydroxide, is an all-purpose high-temperature grease and most greases contain it. It will even work well at temperatures as low as -60oC and has been used for vehicles in the Antarctic. Lithium batteries, which operate at 3-volts or more, are used in devices where compactness and lightness are all-important. They are implanted to supply the electrical energy for heart pacemakers. They function with lithium as the anode, iodine as the solid electrolyte, and manganese oxide as the cathode - and they have a lifespan of ten years. This longevity has been extended to lithium batteries