Who was the first woman to make a solo flight from England to Australia in 1930?

Women in Aviation - Timeline of Women in Flight 1784 - Elisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly - in a hot air balloon 1798 - Jeanne Labrosse is the first woman to solo in a balloon 1809 - Marie Madeleine Sopie Blanchard becomes the first woman to lose her life while flying - she was watching fireworks in her hydrogen balloon 1851 - " Mademoiselle Delon " ascends in a balloon in Philadelphia. 1880 - July 4 - Mary Myers is the first American woman to solo in a balloon 1903 - Aida de Acosta is the first woman to solo in a dirigible 1906 - E. Lillian Todd is the first woman to design and build an airplane, though it never flew 1908 - Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly an airplane solo 1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche obtains a license from the Aero Club of France, the first woman in the world to earn a pilot's license 1910 - September 2 - Blanche Stuart Scott, without permission or knowledge of Glenn Curtiss, the airplane's owner and builder, removes a small wood wedge and is able to get the airplane airborne -- without any flying lessons -- thus becoming the first American woman to pilot an airplane continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States 1910 - October 13 - Bessica Raiche's flight qualifies her, for some, as the first woman pilot in America -- because some discount the flight of Scott as accidental and therefore deny her this credit 1911 - August 11 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman licensed pilot 1911 - September 4 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly at night 1912 - April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to pilot her own aircraft across the English Channel 1913 - Alys McKey Bryant is the first woman pilot in Canada 1916 - Ruth Law sets two American records flying from Chicago to New York 1918 - The US postmaster general approves the appointment of Marjorie Stinson as the first female airmail pilot 1919 - Ruth Law becomes the first person to fly air mail in the Phillipines 1921 - Adrienne Bolland is the first woman to fly over the Andes 1921 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American, male or female, to earn a pilot's license 1922 - Lillian Gatlin is the first woman to fly across America as a passenger 1928 - June 17 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic -- Lou Gordon and Wilmer Stultz did most of the flying 1929 - August - first Women's Air Derby is held, and Louise Thaden wins, Gladys O'Donnell takes second place and Amelia Earhart takes third 1929 - Florence Lowe Barnes - Pancho Barnes - becomes the first woman stunt pilot in motion pictures (in "Hell's Angels") 1929 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first president of the Ninety-Nines , an organization of women pilots. 1930 - May 5-24 - Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia 1930 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first woman to earn a glider pilot license 1931 - Ruth Nichols fails in her attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic, but she breaks the world distance record flying from California to Kentucky 1931 - Katherine Cheung becomes the first woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a pilot's license 1932 - May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic 1932 - Ruthy Tu becomes first woman pilot in the Chinese Army 1934 - Helen Richey becomes the first woman pilot hired by a regularly schedule airline, Central Airlines 1934 - Jean Batten is the first woman to fly round trip England to Australia 1935 - January 11-23 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the American mainland 1936 - Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic east to west 1936 - Louise Thaden and Blance Noyes beat male pilots also entered in the Bendix Trophy Race, the first victory of women over men in a race which both men and women could enter 1937 - July 2 - Amelia Earhart lost over Pacific 1938 - Hanna Reitsch becomes the first woman to fly a helicopter and the first woman to be licensed as a helicopter pilot 1939 - Willa Brown, first African American commercial pilot


CRP (or CREEP) was The Committee to Re-elect which US president?

Watergate - The Committee to Re-elect the President The Committee to Re-elect the President Nixon Forms the CRP The Committee to Re-elect the President, abbreviated as CRP, later nicknamed CREEP, was a fund-raising organization for President Nixon's 1972 election campaign. Many of its members were later indicted with criminal charges relating to their actions within the CRP. The members of the Committee to Re-elect the President were: Kenneth H. Dahlberg - Campaign Midwest Finance Chairman E. Howard Hunt - Campaign member Fred LaRue - Campaign Political Operative G. Gordon Liddy - Campaign member Jeb Stuart Magruder - Campaign Manager James W. McCord - Campaign Security Coordinator John N. Mitchell - Campaign Director Donald Segretti - Campaign Political Operative Hugh W. Sloan, Jr. - Campaign Treasurer Maurice Stans - Campaign Finance Chairman "Dirty Tricks" Donald Segretti was in charge of the many "dirty tricks" carried out by the CRP. These acts included the break-in to Nixon critic Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, the FBI investigation of CBS reporter Daniel Schorr, and plans by G. Gordon Liddy to have newspaper columnist Jack Anderson assassinated. CRP funds amounting to $500,000 were used to pay lawyer's fees for the five Watergate burglars. When discovered, this linked the crime back to the White House, igniting a huge political scandal.


"Which US TV show's theme song, by Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, performed by Portnoy, contained the line ""Where Everybody Knows Your Name""?"

Gary Portnoy : The Cheers Story The Cheers Story The Story Behind The Cheers Theme   FATE In the fall of 1981, Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart were at a crossroads in their respective lives. Gary was in between songwriting partners and had just been fired as a staff writer for a major music publisher, and Judy had recently enrolled the youngest of her three kids in the first grade. One night Judy was out to dinner and found herself seated next to a Broadway producer who was looking for someone to compose the score for his new musical. Almost on a whim, Portnoy and Hart decided to take a shot at collaborating on the songs for the musical entitled “Preppies”. (Gary had never written for the theatre before and Judy had never written a song!) They began the project with low expectations (but very high spirits!) Working on an upright piano in the bedroom of Judy’s Central Park West apartment, they composed the opening musical number to “Preppies”. The song was called “People Like Us”. It had a lilting melody and its lyrics poked fun at the lifestyle of decadent old-money WASPs. Several months later Gary and Judy were contacted by a Hollywood producer. It seemed that he had heard a tape of “People Like Us” and was calling to tell them that even though they did not know it, they had written the theme song to “Cheers”, a new show that would be debuting on NBC the following fall. The producer told Gary and Judy that all they needed to do to seal the deal was re-write the words to “People Like Us” and make the new lyrics relate to a bunch of likeable losers who populated a certain bar in Boston. The new songwriting team was ecstatic over this unlikely turn of events- this “gift” that had fallen into their laps seemingly from out of nowhere. For Gary, it was a struggling songwriter’s fantasy come-to-life. However, when the producers of “Preppies” heard that the opening number from their Broadway musical was about to be revoked, re-written, and offered up as the theme song to a TV sitcom, all hell broke loose. They had a binding contract and “People Like Us” was not going anywhere. “It is ours!” they declared. And legally, so it was. Check out “People Like Us” by clicking the player below. People Like Us http://www.garyportnoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/peoplelikeus.mp3 BACK TO SQUARE ONE Portnoy and Hart were disheartened beyond words at having lost the chance to have a theme song on national television. They approached the producers of “Cheers” who encouraged them to take a shot at composing another song for their new sit-com. At first, it was very frustrating (and somewhat depressing) for Gary and Judy to sit down and attempt to write a Theme for Cheers, when they had already written The Theme From Cheers without even knowing it. So they opted to do what neither of them had ever done before or since: copy their own song!! What resulted was a composition called “My Kind Of People”, a somewhat transparent (but not unpleasant) alter ego of “People Like Us”. Listen to “My Kind Of People” My Kind Of People http://www.garyportnoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mykindofpeople.mp3 The new song was promptly rejected by the producers of “Cheers”, who suggested to the songwriting duo that they let go of what was gone (“People Like Us”) and follow wherever their creative muse might lead them. They also then sent the two songwriters the script to the first episode of Cheers. Even though neither of them had had any experience “reading” sit-coms, Gary had spent most of his chubby childhood watching them, and both he and Judy were immediately blown away by what they found within the pages of the “Cheers” script entitled “Give Me A Ring Sometime”. The writing was clever and crisp, the characters were sharply drawn, the humor was honest and unforced, and the bar setting offered limitless dramatic and comedic possibilities. “Cheers” was a ten. Maybe even an eleven!! More determined than ever, the two friends again convened at the upright Yamaha and set about to try to capture in a theme the essence of what they had read in that incredible script. Th


What is the familiar name for the British flag?

History of the British Flag - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) History of the British Flag History of the British Flag English National Flag In 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth I's death, England and Scotland existed as completely separate nations, each with their own monarch and parliament. Elizabeth, being a spinster and therefore childless, expressed a deathbed wish that her cousin, King James VI of Scotland, be named as her successor to the English throne. Thus, the Scottish monarch was projected into the unique position of ruling two nations simultaneously. He ruled Scotland as King James VI and England as King James I.   Scottish National Flag The English national flag at this period consisted of a simple red cross fully imposed upon a plain white field, this being the emblem of St. George, England's patron saint. The Scottish national flag consisted of a diagonal, or X-shaped, white cross, fully imposed upon a medium blue field. This was the emblem of St. Andrew, Scotland's patron saint. In the spring of 1606, to symbolize the monarchical unification of the two nations under himself, James created a banner to this end, by fully superimposing the English red cross (with a narrow white border to represent its normal white field) upon the Scottish flag. This became known as the Union Flag, and it was the forerunner of the present flag of Great Britain.   Union Flag 1606-1801 In the decree of issuance of the new flag, James stipulated that all ships of both English and Scottish registry were to fly this flag from atop their mainmasts. The Cross of St. George was to be flown from the foremasts of the English ships, while the Cross of St. Andrew was to be flown form the foremasts of the Scottish ships. As the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery were of English registry and did not embark upon their historic voyage until December of 1606, it logically follows that on this voyage their flags conformed to the royal decree of the preceding spring.   Irish National Flag The Union Flag, created by James in 1606, continued in use as a purely symbolic banner until 1707. Then, during the reign of Queen Anne, the parliaments of England and Scotland were united to form the new nation of Great Britain, and Anne officially adopted the 101 year old banner as the national flag of the newly created nation. In 1801, when Ireland became a part of Great Britain, the Union Flag was redesigned to include the Cross of St. Patrick (red, diagonal), the patron saint of Ireland. It is in this form that the British flag exists today.


What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation?

What Is the Book of Revelation About? What Is the Book of Revelation About? Frequently Asked Questions Does Revelation say only 144,000 people will go to heaven? Is the United States or Israel mentioned in Revelation? Does Revelation predict present and future events? What is the mark of the beast? What does the number 666 mean? What do the four horsemen represent in Revelation? Were the seven churches actual places? The book of Revelation is difficult to understand and inspires a wide range of questions, especially since there are many competing interpretations. Author One day in about the year 95 A.D., a man named John had a vision from heaven.  The book of Revelation is John's record of that vision ( Revelation 1:9-11 ).  John was a Christian leader of Jewish origin who was in exile on the Roman  prison island of Patmos. We don't know why John was exiled to Patmos, but  it may have been for refusing to worship the Roman emperor Domitian, who  had declared himself a god. Tradition says John the apostle ( Mark 3:14-19 )  was the author of both Revelation and the Gospel of John, but that is not  certain. The author does not identify himself as an apostle. Literary Form The book of Revelation (also called The Revelation of John or The Revelation of St. John the Divine) is an example of "apocalyptic"  writing - a form that delivers a message using symbols, images and numbers.  Parts of the Old Testament, particularly in the book of Daniel, are also  written in the apocalyptic genre. Many of the symbols and images in Revelation  have parallels in the Old Testament. Apocalyptic writing is characteristic of times of persecution. Some of  the symbols and images in Revelation equate the Roman emperor with Satan  and depict the ancient Roman Empire as the ultimate evil. As a prisoner  of the Romans, John could not communicate that message in plain language,  but the apocalyptic form was ideal for recording John's heavenly vision.  John's writing would have been just nonsense to his Roman captors. But the  Christians of Asia Minor were familiar with the Old Testament and the apocalyptic  writings and would be able to understand it. Revelation is also a prophecy ( Revelation 1:1-3 ). We often think of prophecy  as a prediction of the future, but the original Greek word, propheteia,  means "speaking the mind of God." A prophecy may predict the future,  or it may not ( Matthew 26:65-68 , 1 Timothy 4:14 , Revelation 19:10 , 22:7 ). Revelation is also known as The Apocalypse from its original Greek  title. The word "apocalypse" has come to be associated with cataclysmic  disaster, judgment day or the end of the world. However, its true meaning  is an unveiling or revelation of things known only to God. Purpose Revelation was written as a letter to be circulated among the Christian  churches at seven important cities in Asia Minor: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum,  Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea ( Revelation 1:9-11 ). Asia Minor was a region of the Roman Empire that is now the western part  of the country of Turkey. Patmos is a small, rocky island off its coast.  The map at right shows these sites at the time Revelation was written. There had been several waves of persecutions of Christians by Roman authorities.  The vision John received offered encouragement to persecuted Christians  and assurance that God was still in control. The forces of evil, particularly  the Roman Empire, would eventually be utterly destroyed by God. Revelation offers comfort and encouragement to Christians of all ages  that God is firmly in control. When the time is right, the forces of evil  that seem to dominate our world will be utterly destroyed, and God's eternal  kingdom will come into its fulfillment. In particular, John's vision offered  encouragement and comfort to the persecuted Christians of Asia Minor that  their suffering was not in vain. God would surely triumph and destroy the  evil Roman Empire that was the source of their persecution. Interpretation Revelation o


What is the name given to a class of coal that contains a high percentage of fired carbon and burns smokelessly with intense heat?

The Development of the Anthracite-Burning Locomotive - Paul T. Warner The Development of the Anthracite-Burning Locomotive   Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 52 pp 11 – 28.   Ed. Illustrations added by J. McVey   During the latter part of the eighteenth century, the pioneers living in certain sections of eastern Pennsylvania became much interested in peculiar mineral known as "stone coal" or "black stone". As early as 1768 it was known that it had combustible properties; but owing to the difficulty in igniting it, the abundant supply of wood fuel available, and the poor transportation facilities of that time, its use spread slowly. Records indicate that it was being used for blacksmithing in 1769, and that deposits were located near Mauch Chunk in 1791. In 1803 a load of stone coal was taken to Philadelphia, and attempts were made to burn it in the boiler of a steam engine at the water works; but as the fire was extinguished in consequence, the coal was broken up and scattered over the sidewalks in place of gravel.   Stone coal--now known as anthracite, or hard coal--was first placed in the market in 1807, when a certain Abijah Smith loaded 50 tons of it in an "ark" at Plymouth, near Wilkes‑Barre, and floated it down the Susquehanna to Columbia, Lancaster County, where he tried to sell it; but there were no buyers. In the following year, one Jesse Fell made the experiment of burning stone coal in the fire place in his home, and reported that "it made a clearer and better fire, at less expense, than burning wood in the common way."   Anthracite was first mined by the use of powder in 1818, and thereafter its production rapidly increased. In that year the Lehigh Navigation Company was organized, and the coal was soon being regularly floated down river to Philadelphia in unwieldy boxes called "arks", which were steered by long oars or sweeps. As it was difficult to get the arks back, they were demolished after being unloaded, the lumber was sold and the iron‑work returned overland to Mauch Chunk, a distance of 80 miles. By the time the first railroads were in operation the value of hard coal as fuel was fully recognized, and one of Pennsylvania's greatest industries had become firmly established.   Anthracite is the densest, hardest and most lustrous of all coals, and its combustible content consists almost entirely of carbon. It burns with very little flame, and with practically no smoke. In contrast, a true bituminous coal contains a relatively large amount of so‑called volatile matter which, on the application of heat, is driven off in the form of a gas. The principal constituents of this gas are hydrogen and carbon, and if the temperature is not sufficiently high, and the air supply is inadequate, the carbon deposits as soot, which forms the principal coloring matter in smoke. In any event the volatile matter burns, not on the grate, but in the space above it. For this reason anthracite is a slower burning fuel than bituminous coal, but the heating values of the two are practically equal. Hence to produce a given amount of steam in a given time we must burn as many pounds of anthracite as of bituminous, but as the former burns more slowly, a far larger grate must be provided on which to consume it. The main problem with which the early designers of hard coal burning locomotives had to contend was that of providing sufficient grate area, and the story of the development of the hard coal burner deals chiefly with the struggle to solve this problem.   The first locomotive used in this country was the Stourbridge Lion, imported from England; and records state that when it was experimentally fired up at New York in June, 1829, Lackawaxen hard coal was used as fuel. It should also be noted that the first railroad to operate commercially in America--the Baltimore and Ohio--burned anthracite in its earliest locomotives. The Tom Thumb, built by Peter Cooper of New York, which made its first successful trip at Baltimore on August 28, 1830, was a hard coal burner. History records that the boiler of this litt


What is the largest island of Denmark, that includes the cities of Copenhagen and Helsingr?

Helsingør  -The official website of Denmark Krongborg Castle. Photograph: Jon Nordstrøm, VisitDenmark  The riviera of the Nordic region and Kronborg Castle Helsingør lies in the middle of Northern Europe's riviera close to Grib Forest, with bathing beaches such as Hornbæk and Gilleleje within easy reach. At the entrance to the Øresund lies the Renaissance castle Kronborg, which is known throughout the world as the Elsinore of Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the area around Helsingør, there are other castles worth a visit, such as Fredensborg, Frederiksborg, Marienlyst, Gurre Slot and Vor Frue Kloster. Louisiana, Karen Blixen and a maritime museum Helsingør is the principal city in northern Zealand with quaint pedestrian streets and a cathedral, Sankt Olai Kirke, located in the centre. From Helsingør harbour, there is a frequent car ferry service to Helsingborg in Sweden. Kronborg castle also houses the Danish Maritime Museum. If you like art, you will enjoy viewing the collections at Louisiana and Nivaagaard. The Karen Blixen Museum south of Helsingør offers a unique insight into the life of the Danish writer.  [Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit the related document.] [Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may visit] explore Denmark


What was the name of the temporary harbours that were towed to the French coast to facilitate D Day landings on 5 and 6 June 1944?

'Port Winston' harbour built off Normandy after D-Day uncovered on the seabed 69 years on | Daily Mail Online comments These ghostly images reveal the forgotten harbour built off the coast of Normandy that for six months after D-Day became the world's busiest docks. British scientists have found the remnants of Mulberry B on the Channel seabed, which allowed the Allies to land troops, vehicles and equipment on French soil without having to capture a port first. The makeshift harbour, nicknamed Port Winston because it was the brainchild of Churchill, was the size of Dover and is considered to be one of the greatest military achievements of all time. Discovery: The foundations of an breakwaters of Mulberry B - the celebrated World War Two harbour of Normandy - has been found by British scientists Remarkable: The temporary harbour (pictured in 1944) was Churchill's brainchild and allowed troop, vehicles, weapons and supplies to be brought into France with ease Vast: A vertical aerial photograph of Mulberry B taken by 541 Squadron on 27 October 1944 shows its scale and design Its development was even described by Albert Speer - Hitler's architect and armaments minister - as 'genius'. It allowed 220,000 men, 50,000 vehicles and 600,000 tones of supplies to be landed in France and undoubtedly helped win the war.  RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Experts from the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), which is part of the Ministry of Defence, have found that its structure still remains remarkably intact just months before the 69th anniversary of its construction. They fired a 'multi-beam echo sounder' at the sea bed off Arromanches Sur Mer and the 3D images it produced show that large sunken 'beetles', which supported floating roadways, can be found at a depth of five metres. There are also large chunks of breakwater structures. which protected it from storms. 'It was amazing to discover how much remained despite being pounded by the sea for all those years,' said Chris Howlett, who was leading the UKHO research. Structure: This 3D image shows a concrete beetle resting upright on the seafloor just north of the historic harbour Haunting: The long length of breakwaters and floating 'beetles' has been found at a depth of five metres off the Normandy coast Winston Churchill had proposed a similar concept in World War One but it became a reality in the next war thanks to Welsh engineer Hugh Iorys Hughes. Mulberry B was one of two temporary harbours built after D-Day. Mulberry A was installed at Omaha Beach, for American invasion forces; Mulberry B was set up at Arromanches (Gold Beach) for the British and Canadians. Only two weeks after D-Day, a massive storm destroyed Mulberry A. Mulberry B also sustained some damage, but was reinforced to keep it operable at least until the end of October. Winston Churchill personally ordered the temporary harbours, sending a directive on May 30, 1942 to Admiral Mountbatten (centre), the head of combined operations. Hitler's architect Albert Speer (far right, with the Fuhrer) called the jetties 'an idea of simple genius' Mulberry B was left open until November 19 and Hughes was involved throughout, making adjustments and reinforcements. The pre-fabricated harbours were towed across the English Channel in chunks and put into place on the Normandy beaches. The plans were drawn up during an intensive seven-week period, from June 17 to August 6, 1942 - two years before D-Day. Churchill personally ordered the temporary harbours, sending a directive on May 30, 1942 to Admiral Mountbatten, the head of combined operations. It stated curtly: 'Piers for use on beaches. They must float up and down with the tide. The anchor problem must be mastered. Let me have the best solution worked out. Don’t argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.' Defence: A photo taken from the gun turret at high tide, probably showing Mulberry B's western breakwater. Note the open tops and gun turrets, equipped with a 40mm anti aircraft gun Pride: Piers being built in a dry dock in Britain, probably in


"From which sport do we get the expression ""Bowled a googly""?"

Bowl - Idioms by The Free Dictionary Bowl - Idioms by The Free Dictionary http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/bowl Related to bowl: Super Bowl bowl (someone) a googly To present someone with a question, situation, or piece of information that is surprising or unexpected. Taken from cricket, in which a "googly" is a ball thrown counter to that which the batsman expects. Primarily heard in UK. Dave really bowled me a googly when he asked if I'd like to go on a date with him. The manager bowled us a googly by announcing we'd have this Friday off. See also: bowl , googly a goldfish bowl A place, situation, or environment in which one has little or no privacy. A reference to the (typically) spherical bowls in which pet fish are often kept, which can be seen into from all sides. One of the prices of success for a pop star is having to live in a goldfish bowl under the scrutiny of the public eye. I feel like I'm in a goldfish bowl working at this new company, with all their security cameras posted everywhere. See also: bowl , goldfish sell (one's) birthright for a bowl of soup To exchange something of great, important, or fundamental value for some financial gain that proves to be of little, trivial, or no value but which appears to be attractive or valuable on first reckoning. (A variant of "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage," an allusion to Esau in Genesis 25:29–32, who sells to Jacob his birthright to his family's estate for a bowl of lentil stew (pottage).) If we allow our obsession with job creation to undermine the health of the environment, humanity will ultimately end up selling its birthright for a bowl of soup. See also: birthright , bowl , of , sell , soup slop bowl dated A bowl or other receptacle into which the dregs and leftovers of tea or coffee are collected from drinkers' cups (i.e., so that they may be refilled with a fresh drink). Tabitha, will you please come take the slop bowl away and empty it? It's becoming conspicuously full. See also: bowl , slop turd in the punchbowl vulgar slang Something or someone that spoils, ruins, or needlessly complicates a situation or circumstance; a disagreeable nuisance or source of irritation. For these greedy corporate executives, restrictions put in place by regulators to protect consumers are just turds in the punchbowl. Not to be the turd in the punchbowl, but I really think we should take this money we found to the police, instead of keeping it for ourselves. See also: turd bowl of cherries Wonderful; very pleasant. Typically used in the metaphoric expression, "life is (not) just a bowl of cherries." I got a promotion and got engaged in the span of a week! Life is just a bowl of cherries these days! bowl someone over   1. Lit. to knock someone over. (Fixed order.) We were bowled over by the wind. Bob hit his brother and bowled him over. 2. Fig. to surprise or overwhelm someone. (Fixed order.) The news bowled me over. The details of the proposed project bowled everyone over. See also: bowl bowl up to fill a pipe bowl with smokable material. The detective bowled up and struck a match. Roger bowled up, but forgot to light his pipe. See also: bowl , up Life is just a bowl of cherries. Prov. Everything is going well.; Life is carefree. (Often used ironically, as in the second example.) The real estate salesman tried to convince us that life in the suburbs is just a bowl of cherries. Jill: Hi, Jane. How are you? Jane: Oh, my alarm clock didn't go off this morning, and then my car wouldn't start, and I missed the bus and got to work late, and I just found out my rent's going up fifty dollars a month. Life is just a bowl of cherries. bowl somebody over also bowl over somebody 1. to cause someone to fall by hitting them with your body Reagan burst through the door, practically bowling over Jeanne. 2. to completely surprise someone I was totally bowled over by the beautiful gift from the office staff. The party completely bowled him over. Etymology: based on the game of bowling, in which a ball is rolled toward a group of wooden objects with the intention of making the


"Which one of four ""big cats"" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?"

Jaguar (Big Cat) - Facts, Information & Pictures Image Source The Jaguar (Panthera onca), is a New World mammal of the ‘Felidae family’. It is one of four ‘big cats’ in the ‘Panthera’ genus, along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World. The jaguar is the third largest feline after the tiger and the lion. The jaguar is the largest and most powerful feline in the Western Hemisphere. The Jaguars present range extends from Mexico (with occasional sightings in the southwestern United States) across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. Jaguar Characteristics The Jaguar is a compact and well-muscled animal. Rainforest jaguars are generally darker and considerably smaller than those found in open areas, possibly due to the fewer large herbivorous prey in forest areas. Jaguars grow to be about 1.62 – 1.83 metres (5.3 – 6 feet) in length and stand about 67 – 76 centimetres (27 – 30 inches) tall at the shoulders. Their tail is 2 – 3 feet (0.6 – 0.9 metres) long. Jaguars weigh around 36 kilograms (80 pounds). Larger jaguars have been recorded as weighing 131 – 151 kilograms (288 – 333 pounds). The base coat of the jaguar is generally a tawny yellow in colour, but can range to reddish-brown and black. The jaguar is covered in ‘rosettes’ for camouflage in its jungle habitat. The spots vary over individual coats and between individual Jaguars. The ‘rosettes’ may include one or several dots and the shape of the dots varies. The spots on the head and neck are generally solid, as are those on the tail, where they may merge to form a band. The underbelly, throat and outer surface of the legs and lower flanks are white. Rare albino individuals, sometimes called ‘white panthers’, occur among jaguars, as with the other big cats. The jaguar physically most closely resembles the leopard, although the jaguar is of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger. ADVERTISEMENT Jaguars are the second strongest of all mammals. The jaguar has a short, stocky limb structure which makes it well adaptable to climbing, crawling and swimming. Their heads are robust and their jaw is extremely powerful. Jaguar Diet Jaguars are carnivores (meat-eaters). Jaguars will eat a variety of animals including birds, eggs and mammals including capybaras, peccaries, tapirs, turtles and alligators. Jaguars often bury their prey after killing it, so that they can eat it later. The jaguar is often described as nocturnal, but is more specifically crepuscular (peak activity around dawn and dusk). The jaguar is a largely solitary, stalk-and-ambush predator and is opportunistic in prey selection. It is also an apex predator (predators that, as adults, are not normally preyed upon in the wild in significant parts of their range by creatures not of their own species) and a keystone predator, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of prey species. The jaguar has developed an exceptionally powerful bite, even compared to the other big cats. This allows it to pierce the shells of armoured reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method. The jaguar bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain. It has been reported that an individual jaguar can drag a 360 kilograms (800 pounds) bull 8 metres (25 feet) long in its jaws and crush the heaviest bones. The jaguar hunts wild animals weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds) in dense jungle and its short and sturdy physique is therefore an adaptation to its prey and environment. Jaguar Habitat Jaguars are large, wild, graceful cats that live in rainforests, swamps, deserts and shrubby areas. These solitary felines often have dens in caves. It is strongly associated with the presence of water and is, along with the tiger, a very good swimmer. Jaguar Behaviour Jaguars are territorial. Like most cats, the jaguar is solitary outside mother-cub groups. Adults generally meet only to court and mate and carve out large territories for themselves. Female territori


The Glenn Miller Orchestra | Florence Civic Center The Glenn Miller Orchestra Feb 6 , 2014 Nick Hilscher and The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra performs an incredible evening filled with musical and visual entertainment.  The Miller Sound has its own distinctive tones and lives forever. Come enjoy a beautiful Moonlight Serenade in our grand ballroom at cabaret table seating! Back in the days of the big band era of the forties, any dance band “worth its salt” had a distinctive theme song. It was the musical signature with which they signed on and signed off at their engagements and radio broadcasts. The theme of Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was the beautiful Moonlight Serenade, and it is still the signature tune of the Glenn Miller Orchestra today. Interestingly enough, Glenn Miller originally wrote the music of the song himself as an exercise for a course in arranging. He composed it long before he organized his band, when he was a trombonist and arranger with Ray Noble’s famous band. Today, it is considered a standard in the field of popular music with its popularity as an instrumental continuing undiminished through the years.  It is now more than 75 years since Glenn Miller first succeeded with the Orchestra, which still bears his name until this day. Except for a few years following his disappearance, Glenn’s orchestra and music have been heard around the world continuously since 1938. Please Note: No audio or video recording and no flash photography permitted. Location: GA $25.00, VIP $30.00 Ticket Info: $25.00 General Admission Cabaret Table Seating.  $30.00 VIP Cabaret Table Seating.  Max 6ppl per table.  -additional fees may apply Showings:


Which city held the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?

London 2012 Summer Olympics - results & video highlights Official Reports arrow The London 2012 Games were centred around the Olympic Park in east London, which is the site of a number of new sports venues. Up to 180,000 spectators a day entered the Park to enjoy the Games, making it the principal focus of Olympic activity. The main venues – the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Velodrome and BMX Circuit, as well as the hockey, handball and basketball arenas – were easily accessible through a network of footbridges and walkways within the Park. The Olympic Village was within walking distance of all the venues in the Park, enhancing the experience for athletes and officials. The use of other prestigious venues – such as Wembley Stadium for football, the All-England Club in Wimbledon for tennis, Lord’s Cricket Ground for archery and Horse Guards Parade for beach volleyball – was also a feature of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London 2012 Games included a four-year Cultural Olympiad. It reached a climax with the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on 27 July 2012, starting a 60-day festival of sport and culture across the UK, as the Olympic and Paralympic spirit crosses the world once again. London 2012 by numbers The Olympic Games are one of the biggest and most complex events in the world, as highlighted by some of these mind-boggling facts and figures: 26 sports, featuring 39 disciplines, were contested during the Games across 34 venues The Olympic Park, which held nine venues, was 2.5sq km in size – equivalent to 357 football pitches 8.8 million tickets were available for the London 2012 Olympic Games About 10,500 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees took part in the Games, with 302 medal events being held Over 21,000 accredited media communicated the Games to a potential worldwide audience of 4 billion people There were also 2,961 technical officials and 5,770 team officials A total workforce of around 200,000 people, including more than 6,000 staffs, 70,000 volunteers and 100,000 contractors, were involved in the Games LOCOG had sourced over one million pieces of sport equipment for the Games, including 510 adjustable hurdles for athletics, 600 basket balls, 2,700 foot balls and 356 pairs of boxing gloves During the Games, 20 million spectator journeys were made in London, including three million on the busiest day of the Games Approximately 14 million meals were served at the Games, including 45,000 per day in the Olympic Village On the obverse, the traditional goddess of victory flies into the Panathinaikos stadium bringing victory to the best athlete. For these Games, the figure of victory is accompanied by the specific inscription: “ XXX Olympiad London 2012 ”. The reverse features an abstract design with the 2012 Games emblem at its centre as a metaphor for the modern city. The design also includes a ribbon representing London’s Thames river and an interlocking grid pattern that radiates from the centre and pulls the design together, giving it a sense of outreach while also representing the achievements and efforts of Olympic athletes. A square, which encases the balance of the design, opposes the circular shape of the medals and emphasizes its focus on the centre, reinforcing the sense of ‘place, as in a map inset. More info Wenlock Wenlock takes his name from the town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire, which still hosts the traditional Much Wenlock Games. These were one of Pierre de Coubertin's sources of inspiration for the modern Olympic Games. Number of torchbearers: around 500 in Greece and 8 000 in Great Britain Total distance: 15 775 km including 2 900 km in Greece and 12 875 in Great Britain Countries crossed: Greece, Great Britain More info The official report published by the LOCOG consists of a single set of two commemorative books published by Wiley (The official commemorative book; The Games, Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic Journey to London 2012) and a DVD, “London 2012 Olympic Games: official report”. This bilingual DVD, in English and French, contains all the official texts a


"From which game do we get the expression ""On a roll""?"

Roll | Define Roll at Dictionary.com roll verb (used without object) 1. to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a ball or a wheel. 2. to move or be moved on wheels, as a vehicle or its occupants. 3. to flow or advance in a stream or with an undulating motion, as water, waves, or smoke. 4. to extend in undulations, as land. 5. to elapse, pass, or move, as time (often followed by on, away, or by). 6. to move as in a cycle (usually followed by round or around): as soon as summer rolls round again. 7. to perform a periodical revolution in an orbit, as a heavenly body. 8. to emit or have a deep, prolonged sound, as thunder, drums, etc. 9. to trill, as a bird. 10. to revolve or turn over, once or repeatedly, as a wheel on an axis or a person or animal lying down. 11. to turn around in different directions or in a circle, as the eyes in their sockets. 12. to rock from side to side in open water. Compare heave (def 14b), pitch 1 (def 20). to sail with a side-to-side rocking motion. 13. to walk with a swinging or swaying gait. 14. Informal. to begin to move or operate; start; commence: Let's roll at sunrise. Informal. to go forward or advance without restrictions or impediments: The economy is finally beginning to roll. 16. to curl up so as to form a tube or cylinder. 17. to admit of being formed into a tube or cylinder by curling up. 18. to be spread out after being curled up (usually followed by out). 19. to spread out as under a roller: The paint rolls easily. 20. Aviation. (of an aircraft or rocket) to deviate from a stable flight attitude by rotation about its longitudinal axis. verb (used with object) 21. to cause to move along a surface by revolving or turning over and over, as a cask, a ball, or a hoop. 22. to move along on wheels or rollers; convey in a wheeled vehicle. 23. to drive, impel, or cause to flow onward with a sweeping or undulating motion: The wind rolled the waves high on the beach. 24. to utter or give forth with a full, flowing, continuous sound: rolling his orotund phrases. to cause to revolve or turn over or over and over: to roll oneself on one's face. 27. to cause to sway or rock from side to side, as a ship. 28. to wrap (something) around an axis, around upon itself, or into a cylindrical shape, ball, or the like: to roll string. to make by forming a tube or cylinder: to roll a cigarette. to spread out flat (something curled up) (often followed by out): He rolled the map out on the table. 31. to wrap, enfold, or envelop, as in some covering: to roll a child in a blanket. 32. to spread out, level, smooth, compact, or the like, as with a rolling pin , roller , the hands, etc.: to roll dough; to roll a tennis court. 33. to form (metal) in a rolling mill . 34. to tumble (metal pieces and abrasives) in a box or barrel in such a way that their relative positions remain the same. 35. to beat (a drum) with rapid, continuous strokes. 36. (in certain games, as craps) to cast, or throw (dice). 37. Printing. to apply (ink) with a roller or series of rollers. 38. Slang. to rob, especially by going through the pockets of a victim who is either asleep or drunk. noun 39. a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll. 40. a list, register, or catalog, especially one containing the names of the persons belonging to a company, class, society, etc. 41. anything rolled up in a ringlike or cylindrical form: a roll of wire. a number of papers or other items rolled up together. 43. a length of cloth, wallpaper, or the like, rolled up in cylindrical form (often forming a definite measure). 44. a cylindrical or rounded mass of something: rolls of fat. some article of cylindrical or rounded form, as a molding. 46. a cylindrical piece upon which something is rolled along to facilitate moving. 47. a cylinder serving as a core upon which something is rolled up. 48. a roller with which something is spread out, leveled, crushed, smoothed, compacted, or the like. 49. Cookery. thin cake spread with jelly or the like and rolled up. a small cake of bread, origi


"Who wrote the plays ""Waiting For Godot"", ""Endgame"", ""Play"", ""Happy Days"" and ""Krapp's Last Tape""?"

SparkNotes: Endgame: Context SparkNotes Table of Contents Plot Overview Samuel Beckett's minimalist, bleak writings about alienation, death, and language made him one of the 20th-century's most influential playwrights, one of the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd, and a favorite of academic and avant- garde intellectuals alike. Beckett was born in Foxrock, Ireland, in 1906, lived an unhappy but uneventful childhood, and after he graduated from Trinity College, moved to Paris. There he became friends with fellow Irish expatriate James Joyce, and became the venerable author's personal assistant, taking dictation for Joyce's novel Finnegan's Wake, which was no simple task. The men's friendship was broken after Beckett rejected the advances of Joyce's schizophrenic daughter, Lucia. Beckett proclaimed he had no feelings that were human. During World War II, Beckett joined the French Resistance and fled from the Nazis; he hid in a village in Southern France with his girlfriend, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, for over two years (he and Dechevaux-Dumesnil would marry in 1961). He wrote poetry and prose while in France, but it was not until his French-language theatrical masterpiece—Attendant en Godot—which he later translated into English as Waiting for Godot—was staged in Paris in 1953 that Beckett gained his own renown. The play was hailed for its stark portrayal of two tramps who wait endlessly on a deserted road for a man named Godot who never arrives. Beckett was also later recognized for his novel trilogy written in the late 40s and 50s: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. While Beckett considered himself separate from the French Existentialist playwrights, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugène Ionesco, their shared themes and technical innovations united them under the umbrella "Theatre of the Absurd." Taken from an essay of French philosopher Albert Camus, the Absurdists believed that the world was beyond rational explanation, that the universe was chaotic, and that man had to commit himself to something important to make life meaningful. They employed new techniques to communicate their ideas; while the static, stripped action and dialogue of Beckett's plays may now seem like bad performance art, at the time they were revolutionary (and remain so, for many devotees). He focused especially on silences and the unspoken desires of humans, and the ways death dominates our thoughts. Endgame is considered, alongside Godot, Beckett's theatrical masterpiece. It was first performed in London on April 3, 1957, in French under the less catchy title Fin de partie; Beckett wrote much of his work in French, later translating it into English, under the assumption that writing in a foreign tongue would force linguistic discipline. He developed his work in Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1961). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, but refused to go to Switzerland to accept the award in person (it is also rumored that he gave the prize money to needy artists). He continued writing for the theater, as well as for radio and television, through the 60s and 70s, though he never regained the startling success he had with his early plays. He maintained a quiet life in Paris until his death, of respiratory problems, on December 22, 1989. His influence is far- reaching; his plays are still among the most-performed in the world, and actors as varied as Buster Keaton and Robin Williams have tackled his philosophical, comic roles. The name Samuel Beckett transcends mere ideas or theatrical schools; it stands for a cosmic and comic vision of pessimism and paralysis, despair and destiny, wanting and waiting. More Help


Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?

England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60 England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60 Philip  V. Allingham , Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario [ Victorian Web Home —> Victorian Political History —> Victorian Social History —> The British Empire —> Opium Wars ] The Opium Trade, Seventh through Nineteenth Centuries he Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars were the direct result of China's isolationalist and exclusionary trade policy with the West. Confucian China's attempts to exclude pernicious foreign ideas resulted in highly restricted trade. Prior to the 1830s, there was but one port open to Western merchants, Guangzhou (Canton) and but one commodity that the Chinese would accept in trade, silver. British and American merchants, anxious to address what they perceived as a trade imbalance, determined to import the one product that the Chinese did not themselves have but which an ever-increasing number of them wanted: opium. Before 1828, large quantities of the Spanish silver coin, the Carolus, flowed into China in payment for the exotic commodities that Europeans craved; in contrast, in the decade of the 1830s, despite an imperial decree outlawing the export of yellow gold and white silver, "only $7,303,841 worth of silver was imported, whereas the silver exported was estimated at $26,618, 815 in the foreign silver coin, $25,548,205 in sycee, and $3,616,996 in gold" (Kuo, p. 51). although the Chinese imperial governed had long prohibited the drug except for medicinal use, the "British Hong" (companies such as Dent, Jardine, and Matheson authorized to operate in Canton) bought cheaply produced opium in the Begal and Malwa (princely) districts under the auspices of the British East India Company , the number 150 lb. chests of the narcotic being imported rising from 9,708 in 1820 to 35,445 in 1835. With the British government's 1833 cancellation of the trade monopoly enjoyed by the East India Company, cheap opium flooded the market, and China's net outflow of silver amounted to some 34 million Mexican silver dollars over the course of the 1830s. 67th Foot taking [a] fort. [Clock on thumbnail for larger image/] As the habit of smoking opium spread from the idle rich to ninety per cent of all Chinese males under the age of forty in the country's coastal regions, business activity was much reduced, the civil service ground to a halt, and the standard of living fell. The Emperor Dao guang's special anti-opium commissioner Lin Ze-xu (1785-1850), modestly estimated the number of his countrymen addicted to the drug to be 4 million, but a British physician practising in Canton set the figure at 12 million. Equally disturbing for the imperial government was the imbalance of trade with the West: whereas prior to 1810 Western nations had been spending 350 million Mexican silver dollars on porcelain, cotton, silks, brocades, and various grades of tea, by 1837 opium represented 57 per cent of Chinese imports, and for fiscal 1835-36 alone China exported 4.5 million silver dollars. The official sent in 1838 by the Emperor Dao guang (1821-1850) of the Qing Dynasty to confiscate and destroy all imports of opium, Lin Ze-xu, calculated that in fiscal 1839 Chinese opium smokers consumed 100 million taels' worth of the drug while the entire spending by the imperial government that year spent 40 million taels. He reportedly concluded, "If we continue to allow this trade to flourish, in a few dozen years we will find ourselves not only with no soldiers to resist the enemy, but also with no money to equip the army" quoted by Chesneaux et al., p. 55). By the late 1830s, foreign merchant vessels, notably those of Britain and the United States, were landing over 30,000 chests annually. Meantime, corrupt officials in the hoppo (customs office) and ruthless merchants in the port cities were accumulating wealth beyond "all the tea in China" by defying imperial interdictions that had existed in principle since 1796. The standard rate for an official's turning a blind eye to the importation of a single crate of opium was


How many signs of the Zodiac are neither inanimate nor human?

Zodiac Signs: Ancient To Modern History | Lifescript.com This article has been written by an outside contributor. It has not been reviewed by the LifeScript editorial staff for accuracy. Zodiac Signs: Ancient To Modern History By Teresa Opdycke Are You the One? The art and science of astrology began thousands of years ago. That’s when ancient people noticed that certain stars were always in specific locations at the same time each year. Read on to discover how the 12 zodiac signs got their names… Ever wonder why so many zodiac signs are represented by animals? It’s because the word “zodiac” comes from an ancient Greek word (zodiakos) that means “circle of animals,” according to the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA). That’s how we get Aries the ram, Leo the lion, Pisces the fish and so on. Each zodiac sign represents one-twelfth of the path traveled by the sun during the year. Ancient people observed the sun’s location during annual weather events, like rain. That’s how Aquarius, the “water bearer,” for example, came to be identified with the rainy season, the AFA reports. From these observations, they created the art/science of astrology as a way to explain times of chaos and times of abundance. Month after month, year after year, astrologers of the day – often considered “wise men” – plotted the movements of heavenly bodies and offered predictions based on their discoveries. The Babylonians are credited with giving birth to astrology in the West, according to the AFA. By at least 1800 B.C., the people of ancient Babylon had embraced learning, created a writing system, and made their city a center for education. Astrology today is a mixture of philosophy, art and science that melded together over the centuries as many thousands of people practiced and fine-tuned their astrological knowledge. Ancient Egyptians also divided the sun’s journey into 12 sections – equal zones of celestial longitude that became the 12 signs of the zodiac. Each sign is associated with its place in the annual cycle of seasons and with the constellations that lie along the sun’s annual path. The Greeks learned about astrology from the Babylonians in the fourth century B.C., according to the AFA. Learned astrologers became advisors to kings, pharaohs and emperors. Their job in ancient times included predicting wars, weather and probable outcomes of business conducted by people. It’s quite likely that Plato taught astrology to his favorite pupil, Aristotle. Throughout Western history, astrology has fallen in and out of favor. It was considered evil by the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages, but interest in astrology was sparked again during the Renaissance. In the 19th century, astrology enjoyed renewed interest in some areas, but was outlawed in others. Today, reading one’s daily horoscope in the newspaper or online is an everyday ritual for some. Serious students of astrology continue to study the zodiac, “read” the stars, plot out horoscopes and look to the heavens for guidance in their everyday lives, as the wide variety of astrology websites proves. The American Federation of Astrologers, created to promote knowledge about “the science and art of astrology” is celebrating its 75th year in 2013. Signs of the Zodiac The Romans learned astrology from the Greeks, and appointed names to each of the 12 zodiac signs and 12 houses – names by which westerners still call them today. Each house resides within one of the four realms: fire, air, water and earth. Aries the Ram Today, Aries is the first house in which the sun resides before beginning its year-long journey across the sky. The constellation Aries appears in the sky as a ram looking behind and admiring its own fleece. Aries is called the “sign of sacrifice,” harking back to a myth of a sheep with a golden fleece offering himself as sacrifice after performing a service. Taurus the Bull More than 2,000 years ago, Taurus, not Aries, was the first of our zodiac signs. That’s because each sign spends approximately 2,150 years in each position in the sky. In ancient times, Taurus in


"Which Beatle played ""Youngman Grand"" in ""The Magic Christian"" 1969, with Peter Sellers?"

The Magic Christian (1969) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought with money. Director: a list of 33 titles created 05 Feb 2012 a list of 25 titles created 17 Jul 2013 a list of 35 images created 27 Feb 2015 a list of 32 titles created 3 months ago a list of 41 titles created 1 week ago Title: The Magic Christian (1969) 6.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character. Director: Alvin Rakoff A thirty-something square falls in love with a hippie and decides to "drop out" himself. Director: Hy Averback A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life. Director: Anthony Simmons In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As ... See full summary  » Director: Roy Boulting Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again ... See full summary  » Director: Vittorio De Sica A corrupt hospital administrator decides to get as much money as possible from the patients by any means necessary - lie, cheat or steal. Director: Rod Amateau William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash. Director: Joseph McGrath Psycho stalks go-go dancer from Las Vegas to L.A. Director: James Neilson Edit Storyline Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the season, the inaugural voyage of the new pleasure cruiser The Magic Christian. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com> The Magic Christian is: antiestablishmentarian, antibellum, antitrust, antiseptic, antibiotic, antisocial & antipasto. See more  » Genres: 12 December 1969 (UK) See more  » Also Known As: Um Beatle no Paraíso See more  » Filming Locations: First film acting role of Graham Chapman . See more » Goofs At Auchengillen Station, Guy Grand's car is blocked by a police car which pulls to a halt across its path. After a brief conversation, Grand's car drives off unimpeded. The Police Car has shifted to the side. See more » Quotes Traffic warden #27 : What's your game, Mister? Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE : [riffling a wad of bills under the warden's nose, to persuade him to eat a parking ticket] Grand is the name, and, uh - money is the game. Would you care to play? (Lincoln, England) – See all my reviews This comedy passed me by when it was released in 1969. I had seen CASINO ROYALE and WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? and automatically in my subconscious somehow roped this movie in with those two turkeys. I had always avoided it on purpose whenever the movie turned up on TV. The only reason I gave it a go this time was the fact that comedian Paul Merton gave it such a wonderful review on his recent "Paul Merton's Perfect Night In" show on BBC2. I am pleased I finally gave it a go, I


"Woody Guthrie, tired of radio overplaying Irving Berlin's ""God Bless America"", wrote a song in 1940 now known as what?"

Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" To the right with a light from above Make her victorious on on land and foam God Bless America ,my home sweet home It is obvious that the word 'right' had to be changed [...] In 1938 there was a right and a left and it had a different significance. So in changing it the song was improved when I said 'stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.'" (Kimball/Emmet, p. 322) He also cut out the line “make her victorious...” because he wanted it to be a “peace song”, not a war song. The introductory verse was written in 1938 (see Barrett, p. 172). In find no reference that it had been part of the original song: While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. God bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above From the mountains, To the prairies, To the ocean white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home A song “God Bless America” had been written by Robert Bird Montgomery in 1834:  God bless the land that gave us birth! No pray'r but this know we. God bless the land, of all the earth, The happy and the free. And where's the land like ours can brave The splendor of the day. And find no son of hers a slave? God bless America! God bless the land that gave us birth. God bless America! Another precursor was “ The Colored Volunteers ” (ca. 1860s), a song about the black soldiers fighting for their freedom:  Give us a flag all free without a slave, We will fight to defend it as our fathers did so brave Onward boys, onward, it's the year of jubilee, God bless America, the land of liberty.  But Berlin’s “God Bless America” had an even more important personal background.  “It’s title had been inspired by Berlin’s mother who, despite their poverty as Berlin was growing up, would frequently murmur, ‘God Bless America.’ ‘And not casually,’ Berlin recalled, ‘but with emotion which was almost exaltation’ (Furia, p. 192) That is what the song is all about: gratitude for America as the country that gave a persecuted minority a new home. He is stating the difference between living in a "land that's free" - no matter how hard it is - and living under a despotic regime. His family had suffered from anti-Semite pogroms in Russia (NYT, 28.7.1940, see Jablonski, p. 3ff) and he “has never forgotten that he is the son of a poor rabbi [sic! i.e. cantor] who found a refuge for himself and his family in America” (NY Times, 20.8.1944). The words “God Bless America” won added poignancy in 1938 against the background of massive anti-Semitism in Germany. It had been only a couple of months since Hitler had overtaken Austria and started a new wave of pogroms that were widely reported in American newspapers (MacGregor Burns/Dunn, p. 407/8). The modern use of the phrase “God Bless America” obviously started with Berlin’s song. Checking the archives of the New York Times I found only 18 records for the years from 1851 to 1937.  Most of them were simple expressions of gratitude for America by non-Americans with no theological or nationalistic background and that’s exactly the way Mrs. Baline and then Irving Berlin himself used it. Only since November 1938 it occurs regularly, at first mostly referring to that song. So in some way everyone who says “God Bless America” today is - often unknowingly -  using the words of an immigrant mother, one of those courageous women who with her husband and children  made the long trip to America in search of a better future. Irving Berlin regularly built his songs about catchphrases from everyday speech and this is no exception.    “Home Sweet Home” refers to the most famous home song of the 19th century by John Howard Payne and Henry Bishop, a song especially popular during the Civil War. The line “be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” was surely resonating in the background of “God Bless America” at that time. Mid Pleasures and palaces though I may roa


What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?

Adrenal Glands and The Autonomic Nervous System Adrenal Glands and The Autonomic Nervous System Add Remove The question: The adrenal glands are in part controlled by the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system . Name the hormones involved in this regulation and the functions of each I know that the sympathetic is adrenaline and noradrenaline. I can't find what the parasympathetic hormones are. I know they slow heart rate and reduce blood pressure and induce a state of relaxation. I can find the functions of the hormones if someone could point me in the direction of where to find out which hormones I need to write about! Thanks Solution Preview To find the answer, we must find out the anatomy of the adrenal glands which will give you the innervation, and then look for the physiology which will give you what they secret and the effects. The adrenal glands are divided into medulla (inner part) and cortex (outer part). The innervation of the medulla derives from the sympathetic ganglions. In fact the adrenal medulla cells are considered modified sympathetic postganglionic neurons (McCorryl,. 2007). The medulla produces epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine (noradrenaline) and dopamine. "Norepinephrine causes a marked increase in peripheral vascular resistance as a result of ... Solution Summary Discussion of the relationship between the hormones secreted by the adrenal glands and the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. $2.19


Which mountain range crosses North Africa for over 1500 miles from Cape Nun on the Atlantic Coast to Cape Bon on the Mediterranean?

The New International Encyclopædia/Africa - Wikisource, the free online library The New International Encyclopædia/Africa 1500566 The New International Encyclopædia — Africa AF′RICA (Lat. Africa, from Afer, inhabitant of Africa; of uncertain derivation, possibly of Phœnician origin. It seems to have been originally the designation of Carthage, as the colony of Tyre, and later extended to the whole continent. It is certain that the name Africa was first applied to the neighborhood of Carthage—the part first known to the Romans—and Afrygah, or Afrikiyah, is still applied by the Arabs to the land of Tunis). A continent of the eastern hemisphere, and in point of size the second of the great land divisions of the globe, with an area of about 11,230,000 square miles, exclusive of islands. The continent ranks third in size only by virtue of an unwarranted composite naming of the American continents. Africa is an independent continent in even less degree than is either of the two Americas, for it forms the southwesterly extension of the Old World land-mass, and it lies in close proximity to Asia and Europe, with both of which continents it has, during long periods of past geological time, been intimately united by broad isthmuses. In form Africa consists of two parts, a northern ellipsoid, with an east and west longitudinal axis, comprising the Sahara-Sudan region, and a southern triangular limb attached to the southern side of the eastern half of the northern portion, and consisting of the Congo region and the South African highlands. Somewhat north of the middle point of the eastern side of the continent, a massive triangular projection, the Somali Peninsula, extends almost 1000 miles toward the Indian Peninsula of Asia. The extreme length of Africa from Cape Blanco in Tunis (lat. 37° 20′ N. ), its most northerly point, to its southern termination. Cape Agulhas (lat. 34° 51′ S.), is about 5000 miles in an almost north and south direction; and its greatest width from its western outpost, Cape Verde (long. 17° 30′ W.), to its eastern apex, Ras Hafun, on Cape Guardafui (long. 51° 28′ E.), is about 4500 miles in an almost west and east direction. The northern and southern points of the continent are almost equidistant from the equator; so that Africa, compared with South America, has a greater proportion of its area situated in the torrid zone. At its northeast corner, by the Isthmus of Suez, Africa has a geographic union ninety miles wide with Asia. Until a comparatively recent period it had a much closer union, for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now occupy the deep, narrow basin of a rift valley that has been formed since Pliocene time. On the north, the Mediterranean Sea separates Africa from Europe by a wide and deep basin that is restricted at its western end, so that the shores of Spain and Morocco approach to within about nine miles of each other. This northern Mediterranean coast is broken only by the broad and shallow embayment that holds the gulfs of Cabes and Sidra. The western extension, from Gibraltar to Cape Palmas, projects into the Atlantic Ocean with a regularly rounded coast line that is almost unbroken by bays or peninsulas, capes Blanco and Verde being inconspicuous projections. From Cape Palmas the coast runs eastward along the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea for about 1200 miles to Kamerun and thence in an undulating line, slightly east of south, for nearly 3000 miles to Cape Agulhas at the southern extremity of the continent, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. The eastern coast of the southern limb, washed by the Indian Ocean, extends from Cape Agulhas with gentle curves for 3600 miles to Cape Guardafui at the apex of the Somali Peninsula. The coast line of Africa is peculiar in that it presents a remarkably even front, almost unbroken by bays and peninsulas, contrasting strongly in this respect with the coast lines of Europe, Asia, and North America, but resembling that of South America. The length of the coast line of Africa, 18,400 miles, bears a smaller proportion to the shortest possible per


Which city was settled by the French in 1718, ceded to Spain in 1763, fell to France in 1800, and was bought by the USA in 1803?

French Colonial Louisiana | Entries | KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana French Colonial Louisiana Entries » French Colonial Louisiana Rudolph Bohunek painted this portrait of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville c. 1910. Along with his older brother, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Bienville helped establish New Orleans. Learn more » French colonial Louisiana refers to the first century of permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans contributed to the development of a complex frontier society at the geographic nexus of the Americas. Although the French regime considered Louisiana to be a failed colonial enterprise, the diverse peoples of the territory proved essential to the nature of imperial relations among French, Spanish, English, and American interests during the eighteenth century. The multicultural composition of the Lower Mississippi Valley remained strong even after the cession of Louisiana to Spain in 1763, the retrocession to France in 1800, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, effectively making the state of Louisiana both representative of the diversity of the United States and unique for its distinctive colonial past.   The La Salle Expeditions, 1682–1689 Spanish explorers “discovered” segments of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico during the sixteenth century. The chief goal of Juan Ponce de León, Hernando de Soto, and other Spaniards was to find a navigable waterway to the Pacific Ocean. Like the Spanish, French colonial officials in Canada harbored dreams of crossing North America by water. Rumors of the existence of a “great river” connecting the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico reached French missionaries and traders during the 1660s. The governor of Canada commissioned Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a French merchant, to lead a small expedition down the great river. They reached the Arkansas River in 1673, but went no farther after the Quapaw warned them of supposedly hostile native groups and Spanish posts in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In 1677, Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle , and Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau, received a fur trade monopoly in the Illinois Country. The trading scheme produced little profit. La Salle then shifted his attention to the development of colonies farther south along the great river. Joined by his lieutenant Henri de Tonti and several adventurers, La Salle entered the waters of the great river in February of 1682. They built temporary stockades at Fort Prudhomme (near present-day Memphis) and the Arkansas River. On April 9, 1682, at the junction of the bird-foot delta near the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle claimed the river and its drainage basin for King Louis XIV, thus the name Louisiana. He gave the name Colbert to the great river in recognition of his patron and French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. He then calculated what he thought was the mouth’s latitude, returned northward to Canada, and started planning for the establishment of a colony on the Colbert River. La Salle secured a contract for the colonization of Lower Louisiana from Louis XIV in 1682. Two years later, La Salle’s small fleet left the French port of La Rochelle, with roughly 100 soldiers, a year’s worth of supplies, and 280 men, women, and children. They stopped at the French island Saint Domingue before making landfall somewhere between Grand Isle and the Atchafalaya Bay in December 1684. Because of a latitudinal miscalculation, the La Salle expedition continued west until it reached the entrance of Matagorda Bay in present-day Texas. La Salle sent one ship back to France with news of the colony’s uncertain future. He then led three overland expeditions in search of the missing Colbert River. Most of his companions either died or deserted during the first two trips. On the third expedition of 1687, several men murdered La Salle and continued moving east until they reached the Arkansas River and then traveled onward to Canada and France. A Spanish search party found the abandoned Matagor


"When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below ""No trumps""?"

Hoyle's Games Modernized/Auction Bridge - Wikisource, the free online library Hoyle's Games Modernized/Auction Bridge 1310309 Hoyle's Games Modernized — Auction Bridge AUCTION BRIDGE. A lively offshoot from the preceding game, which has recently become very popular in some of the London Clubs. So highly is it ranked in many quarters, that a well-known player has given it as his opinion that "in a year or two we shall only remember Bridge as the son of Whist and the father of Auction." Having in view the strong element of gambling which the latter game contains, and the expectedly heavy losses which may be incurred by the unwary player, the writer opines that a good many impecunious folk are likely to remember it only as being connected with their "uncle." It is, in fact, a combination of Bridge and Poker. In all that takes place after the declaration has been finally determined, it is pure Bridge, with an extra infusion of "double dummy," due to inferences from the course of the bidding. In the bidding itself, which leads up to the final declaration, the qualities of the Poker-player are pre-eminent—cool but rapid judgment, shrewd reading of character, a happy instinct when to "lie low" and when to "bluff"; when to make a spurt forward for game, and when to egg the opponents on beyond the limits of discretion, and to leave them in the lurch! By the adherents of the new game—who are head over ears in love with it, and are consequently blind to all its weak points—it is contended that the "gambling" argument brought against it is as fallacious as it was when urged against Bridge proper, and that, to redress the balance, it is only necessary to readjust the value of the points. This is not true. Poker is an excellent game, but no readjustment of values will ever place it on the same plane as games of science, because the qualities of brain and temperament upon which it is based are essentially distinct from the qualities of analysis and combination such as go to the making of (say) a first-class Chess-player. There is, undoubtedly, a greater difference in kind between Auction Bridge and Bridge than there is between Bridge and Whist; whether that difference renders Auction "inferior" or "superior," however, is a moot question which every card-player must decide for himself. There are many who regard the additional spice of hazard, not as a defect, but as a merit. The Laws of the game, which for some time were in a state of flux, have now been settled as authoritatively as those of Bridge or Whist. It will only be necessary to set out verbatim those Laws which differ from the Laws of Bridge. As regards the remainder, the reader is referred to the preceding Bridge Code.   THE LAWS OF AUCTION BRIDGE. (Framed by a Joint Committee of the Portland and Bath Clubs, 1908; and reprinted, by permission, so far as they differ from the Laws of Bridge.) 1. As in Bridge. 2. A game consists of thirty points obtained by tricks alone, when the declarer fulfils his contract, which are scored below the line, exclusive of any points counted for Honours, Chicane, Slam, or under-tricks, which are scored above the line. 3. As in Bridge. 4. When the declarer fulfils his contract, each trick above six counts, &c. (as in Bridge). 5 to 10. As in Bridge. 11. At the end of the rubber, the total scores for tricks, Honours, Chicane, and Slam obtained by each player and his partner are added up, 250 points are added to the score of the winners of the rubber, and the difference between the two scores is the number of points won, or lost, by the winners of the rubber. 12 to 46. As in Bridge. 47. The dealer, having examined his hand, must declare to win at least one odd trick, either with a trump suit, or at "no trumps." 48. After the dealer has made his declaration, each player in turn, commencing with the player on the dealer's left, has the right to pass the previous declaration, or to double, or re-double, or to overcall the previous declaration by making a call of higher value. A call of a greater number of tricks in a suit of lower value, which equals th


Which dancer had success on stage with his sister Adele before achieving fame in films with Ginger Rogers?

Fred Astaire - Biography - IMDb Fred Astaire Biography Showing all 82 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (3) | Trivia  (46) | Personal Quotes  (26) Overview (4) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Johanna (Geilus) and Fritz Austerlitz, a brewer. Fred entered show business at age 5. He was successful both in vaudeville and on Broadway in partnership with his sister, Adele Astaire . After Adele retired to marry in 1932, Astaire headed to Hollywood. Signed to RKO, he was loaned to MGM to appear in Dancing Lady (1933) before starting work on RKO's Flying Down to Rio (1933). In the latter film, he began his highly successful partnership with Ginger Rogers , with whom he danced in 9 RKO pictures. During these years, he was also active in recording and radio. On film, Astaire later appeared opposite a number of partners through various studios. After a temporary retirement in 1945-7, during which he opened Fred Astaire Dance Studios, Astaire returned to film to star in more musicals through 1957. He subsequently performed a number of straight dramatic roles in film and TV. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu> Spouse (2) ( 12 July  1933      - 13 September  1954) (her death) (2 children) Trade Mark (3) Often wore top hat and tails His unique dancing Ending an active dance sequence by calmly strolling off Trivia (46) Ranked #73 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997] Following his death, he was interred at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, California, where longtime dancing partner, Ginger Rogers , is located. The evaluation of Astaire's first screen test: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." Astaire disguised his very large hands by curling his middle two fingers while dancing. First met lifelong best friend Irving Berlin on the set of Top Hat (1935). After Blue Skies (1946), New York's Paramount Theater generated a petition of 10,000 names to persuade him to come out of retirement. Born at 9:16pm-CST The only time he and Gene Kelly ever danced together on screen (other than the linking-segments in the 1976 compilation movie, That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)) was in one routine, titled "The Babbitt and the Bromide" in the 1946 movie Ziegfeld Follies (1945). Appears on the cover of The Beatles ' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. He was one of the first Kennedy Center Honorees in 1978. Don McLean 's song "Wonderful Baby" was written with Astaire in mind; Astaire reportedly loved the song, and recorded it for an album. Made a cameo appearance in John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's film Imagine (1972), escorting Yoko through a doorway; after one successful take, he asked to try again, believing he could do a better job. In 2000, the following album was released as a tribute to him: "Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire". All songs were performed by Stacey Kent . He was voted the 19th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. His legs were insured for one million dollars. Famously wore a necktie around his waist instead of a belt, an affectation he picked up from his friendship with actor Douglas Fairbanks but often mistakenly attributed to Astaire alone. He was voted the 23rd Greatest Movie Star of All Time by Premiere magazine. Named the #5 Greatest Actor on the 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute. Born only 18 months after his sister Adele Astaire . Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna 's song "Vogue" He and Ginger Rogers appeared in 10 movies together: Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936), Shall We Dance (1937), Carefree (1938), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) and The Barkleys of Broadway (1949). Although he spent most of his childhood touring on the vaudeville circuit, he would occasionally settle down with his family and their neighbors and friends, who were almost all families of Austrian immi


What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?

What If? Chapter 6: What If Katherine Howard Hated Jane?, a tudors fanfic | FanFiction By: ChloboShoka A series of "what if..." one shots. Open to requests. Recent One Shot: What If Katherine Howard Was Faithful? Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Drama - Catherine Howard, King Henry VIII - Chapters: 9  - Words: 4,865 - Reviews: 41 - Favs: 26 - Follows: 17 - Updated: 1/2/2013 - Published: 10/21/2012 - Status: Complete - id: 8630514 +  -     Full 3/4 1/2    Expand Tighten   < Prev Next > What If Katherine Howard Hated Jane Seymour? She was her best friend and Katherine Howard had lost the best cousin she ever had. She never really knew Anne Boleyn, but something inside her told her that she was a remarkable woman and a brave queen. Katherine had heard so many things about her cousin, some of it she thought was a lot of old rubbish. She was a modern girl living in a society with ancient traditions: it was just how Katherine felt. Katherine held one lady responsible for her cousin's downfall and the shame of her family. Queen Jane Seymour, King Henry's third wife and the mother of Prince Edward. Katherine had hoped that the home-wrecker would die of puerperal fever. Lady Rochford may have forgiven Queen Jane, but Katherine would rather die than forgive Jane for what she had done. Katherine Howard wanted revenge on Jane Seymour. Katherine's uncle encouraged it as well. Her family pressurized her into becoming Jane's lady-in-waiting. Katherine hated it, despite Jane Seymour coming across as a kind and gentle lady. Jane's mousy blonde hair and sugary voice made Katherine want to vomit. Katherine saw Jane's kindness as nothing but a veil to hide her family's nasty plots. "Lady Culpepper," Jane whispered to Katherine as soon as the two of them were alone. "I feel as if I have done something wrong to you. But I do not know what I've done." Katherine lifted her eyes off the floor and rolled them to Queen Jane. "You know what's you've done." "You have to tell me," Jane implored. She had her hand on her heart as she said, "And then we can make it right." "Why do always have to pretend to be innocent?" Katherine shrieked with her eyes red with tears. "You can never make it right. God will never save you." "Lady Culpepper," Jane gasped. "What is the matter?" "YOU KILLED MY COUSIN!" Katherine screamed. Princess Mary was sitting in the corner, reading a section from the bible the entire time they were there. Mary and Jane had a very special bond together. Disturbed by Katherine's outburst, Mary slammed her bible shut and stood in front of her stepmother. "That is no way to talk to the Queen Of England," said Mary firmly. "It's got nothing to do with you," Katherine snapped at Mary. "My cousin, Anne Boleyn was a great woman and if it hadn't have been for you, she would still be alive." Nobody said a word, but the maids peeped into the room curious to what was going on. At that point, Katherine was so mad she was steaming. Jane said nothing, which frustrated Katherine. "Why don't you say something?" Katherine had her left hand out ready to slap her, but Princess Mary intervened just in time and Katherine's legs landed on the floor. Jane looked disappointed, but she didn't look away from Katherine. "Anne Boleyn was not a good person," Mary declared. "Her death was her own fault and in God's will." By looking at the sheer disgust in Mary's face, Katherine knew that Mary had a lot more to say to her, but her catholic beliefs stopped her from saying it. She had no religious boundaries. Others had always considered her upbringing as dangerous. "You should take some rest Lady Culpepper," Queen Jane said to Katherine. "Give you some time to reflect on what you've said. This isn't worth losing your head over." Katherine jumped out and ran out of Jane's rooms. She continued to run around the house until her eyes met her husband, Thomas Culpepper. "God may not know who I am," Katherine screamed at the top of her voice. She marched in front of Culpepper and clenched her fists together as her arms were spread out. Culpepper stroked her elbows as he wat


The publication of which book by Salman Rushdie led to threats on his life by Ayatollah Khomeini?

Rushdie in hiding after Ayatollah's death threat | Books | The Guardian Rushdie in hiding after Ayatollah's death threat Wednesday 15 February 1989 06.43 EST First published on Wednesday 15 February 1989 06.43 EST Close This article is 27 years old Mr Salman Rushdie was in hiding under police protection last night and unrepentant about the contents of his novel, The Satanic Verses, which yesterday provoked the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, to call for his execution. The Foreign Office hopes for clarification from the Iranian government, amid fears that Islamic anger at the book could overshadow improving relations between London and Tehran and efforts to free hostages believed held by pro-Iranian factions in the Lebanon. A Foreign Office spokesman said reports of the Ayatollah's comments were 'a matter for serious concern.' The Iranian threat to Mr Rushdie was broadcast by Tehran radio, which quoted the Ayatollah saying: 'I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all the Muslims to execute them wherever they find them.' Assailants who died in the process would be instant martyrs to Islam. The Iranian prime minister, Mr Mir-Hossein Mousavi, pronounced today a day of mourning against the book. The threat to Mr Rushdie's life is the latest twist in a saga of increasingly violent opposition to his book by Muslims who insist it is blasphemous about the prophet Mohammed. It has been banned in India, where Mr Rushdie was born a Muslim in 1947, and in South Africa. Last month, copies were burned in Bradford, Yorkshire, and last weekend five protesters were shot dead by police during demonstrations in Islamabad, Pakistan. Mr Rushdie asked for police protection immediately after the Ayatollah's threat. Last night Scotland Yard would only say the threat was being taken seriously. The office of the book's publishers, Viking, had police on duty and cars were being checked. When Mr Rushdie's wife, Ms Mari Anne Wiggins, left their north London home yesterday afternoon, she said he was 'was absolutely terrified' by the threat. 'The Ayatollah Khomeini has issued a threat to kill my husband. The best thing for him to do now is to stay in hiding with a Special Branch man at his side.' However, Mr Rushdie was not cowed. 'Frankly I wish I had written a more critical book,' he said during a television interview. 'A religion that claims it is able to behave like this, religious leaders who are able to behave like this, and then say this is a religion which must be above any kind of whisper of criticism, that doesn't add up.' Nonetheless, he was taking the threat seriously. He said on BBC Radio 4: 'I'm very sad that it should have happened. It's not true that this book is a blasphemy against Islam. I doubt very much that Khomeini or anyone else in Iran has read the book or more than selected extracts out of context.' Strength of feeling against Mr Rushdie was expressed yesterday by some leaders of Britain's Muslim community in comments which several Conservative MPs claimed amounted to incitement to murder. Mr Iqbal Sacranie, of the UK Action Committee on Islamic Affairs, said: 'Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him .. his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah.' Mr Sayed Abdul Quddus, joint secretary of the Council for Mosques in Bradford, said: 'I totally agree with what Ayatollah Khomeini has said in public. Every Muslim blames Salman Rushdie. If any Muslim will get a chance, he won't avoid it and he should not. Why not? He (Rushdie) has tortured every Muslim. Why should people be brutally murdered and loose their lives and Salman Rushdie not pay.' Asked precisely where the book offenced the Prophet, Mr Quddus, said: 'In every sentence, the whole contents of the book, is blasphemous and is full of shit.' However, there was a more moderate response from one Muslim lead


Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in what part of the atom?

Definition Atom The atom is a basic unit of matter consisting of a dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons (except in the case of Hydrogen-1, which is the only stable isotope with no neutron). The electrons of an atom are bound to the nucleus by the electromagnetic force. Likewise, a group of atoms can remain bound to each other, forming a molecule. An atom containing an equal number of protons and electrons is electrically neutral, otherwise it has a positive or negative charge and is an ion. An atom is classified according to the number of protons and neutrons in its nucleus: the number of protons determines the chemical element, and the number of neutrons determine the isotope of the element. The name atom comes from the Greek ἄτομος/átomos, α-τεμνω, which means uncuttable, something that cannot be divided further. The concept of an atom as an indivisible component of matter was first proposed by early Indian and Greek philosophers. In the 17th and 18th centuries, chemists provided a physical basis for this idea by showing that certain substances could not be further broken down by chemical methods. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, physicists discovered subatomic components and structure inside the atom, thereby demonstrating that the 'atom' was not indivisible. The principles of quantum mechanics were used to successfully model the atom.[1][2] Relative to everyday experience, atoms are minuscule objects with proportionately tiny masses. Atoms can only be observed individually using special instruments such as the scanning tunneling microscope. Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in the nucleus,[note 1] with protons and neutrons having roughly equal mass. Each element has at least one isotope with unstable nuclei that can undergo radioactive decay. This can result in a transmutation that changes the number of protons or neutrons in a nucleus.[3] Electrons that are bound to atoms possess a set of stable energy levels, or orbitals, and can undergo transitions between them by absorbing or emitting photons that match the energy differences between the levels. The electrons determine the chemical properties of an element, and strongly influence an atom's magnetic properties. Source: WikepediA


Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?

French Culture in the Channel Islands   Quick Jump Menu to all the islands   This page is devoted to the culture of the  Channel Islands which is particularly  French.  Keep coming back as we intend to add to this on a regular  basis. For more tourist related information go to The Jersey Page and The Guernsey Page .  There is also a page  devoted to the Jersey Patois - Jï¿½rriais .   The Channel Islands were, at one time, part of France and for centuries  have retained French features and culture.  Politically linked to  Brittany from 911 until 933 they became a part of Normandy (then linked  to England) until  1203. The legal system set up by the Normans  still exists today and for instance  Jersey advocates had to  undertake studies in Caen. In 1204 England lost Normandy to King  Philippe Auguste of France and the Channel Islands had a choice and  decided to owe allegiance to the English crown and to be governed as a  separate entity by the Kings and Queens of England.    At  one stage French and Channel Islands Patois were spoken more commonly  than English. French was the official language and patois spoken in the  home.  The arrival of the English - encouraged by easier travel to  the islands on steamers and the presence of the English army in the  1800's - meant that the islands started to become a little "anglicised".   However the French influence was always strong and still remains so with  place names and street names in that language.    Interestingly the Normans not only invaded England in 1066, they had  also gone to Sicily and the Sicilian language is closer to Norman French  than Italian.   La Fï¿½te  Nouormande is an annual event to celebrate and perpetuate  the links between the islands and Normandy and which is held alternately  in Jersey, Guernsey and Normandy.  Many people wear traditional  dress, and there are dances and Norman songs. There are a variety of  attractions including stalls selling traditional produce and it is great  fun.   To quote La Fete Nourormande website: "Every year the Fï¿½te Nouormande brings  together those who still speak our old Norman languages ï¿½ from Jersey,  from Guernsey and from the Norman mainland". It was held in Guernsey (Dgï¿½rnï¿½sy) in 2003  and 2006 Jersey in 2002 and  2005  and in 2007 in Briquebec in Normandy.  Click here to go to the charming  site about Normandy - Magï¿½ne which tells you all about the Norman  language, customs and songs and has information about the Briquebec Fete  which was held in May.    The next Fete is to be held in Jersey (Jï¿½rri)  in 2008 on 24-26 May 2008       We start with the largest island  Jersey and move down to the smallest which is Brechou. Please scroll  down.   Mrs    Nicole Hervï¿½, Boqueho, 6 Tower    View La Grande Route de St Martin, Jersey JE2    3ZN Tï¿½l. +44 1534 854 596   Jersey Family History    Society -    visit Alex Glendinning's informative pages   Jersey Heritage Trust - to quote them: "are responsible for the island's major historic sites,    award-winning museums and public archives.  hold collections of    artefacts, works of art, documents, specimens and information relating to    Jersey's history, culture and environment."   Jersey Norman French  - Jersiais  Here are some examples.  Visit  The L'Assembliee d'Jï¿½rriais to find out more.   Also go    to to Language Museum to see more written Jersey French. Also go to http://www.language-museum.com/f/french-   Bailiwick of Guernsey - Guernsey,  Alderney, Sark and Herm Events 2007   For  tourist information about the Guernsey  Bailiwick please visit the Guernsey  Tourism Site  www.guernseytouristboard.com - from where the pictures on the Guernsey section of this page originate.  We are happy to    provide information and also to promote the culture and naturalness that    is Guernsey.  The other islands forming the Bailiwick of Guernsey are  Alderney, Sark, Herm, Brechou, Lihou and Jethou.    Alliance francaise de Guernsey 01481 255


What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?

1000+ images about antique: telescopes on Pinterest | Civil wars, Auction and Pique Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas antique: telescopes The earliest recorded working telescopes were the refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608. Their development is credited to three individuals: Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, who were spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar.Galileo heard about the Dutch telescope in June 1609, built his own within a month, and greatly improved upon the design in the following year. 11 Pins867 Followers