The Fynbos, an area of grassland and thicket, lies in which African country?

Fynbos Biome Fynbos Biome [Renosterveld] [Fynbos] The Fynbos Biome is considered by many to be synonymous with the        Cape Floristic Region or Cape Floral Kingdom. However, the "biome"        refers only to the two key vegetation groups (Fynbos and Renosterveld)        within the region, whereas both the "region" and the "kingdom" refer        to the general geographical area and include other vegetation types        in the Forest, Nama Karoo, Succulent Karoo and Thicket Biomes, but        exclude peripheral outliers of the Fynbos Biome such as the Kamiesberg,        North-western and Escarpment Mountain Renosterveld (59,60) and Grassy        Fynbos (65) east of Port Elizabeth. However, the contribution of        Fynbos vegetation to the species richness, endemicity and fame of        the region is so overwhelming, that the Cape Floristic Region and        Cape Floral Kingdom can be considered to be "essentially Fynbos." The Cape Floral Kingdom is the smallest of the six Floral Kingdoms        in the world, and is the only one contained in its entirety within        a single country. It is characterized by its high richness in plant        species (8 700 species) and its high endemicity (68% of plant species        are confined to the Cape Floral Kingdom). The Cape Floral Kingdom        thus compares with some of the richest floras worldwide, surpassing        many tropical forest regions in its floral diversity. In South Africa, over one third of all plant species occur in the        Cape Floral Kingdom, even though the Kingdom occupies less than        6% of the area of the country. This is not primarily due to the        large number of vegetation types in the Cape Floral Kingdom. Over        7 000 of the plant species occur in only five Fynbos vegetation        types, with perhaps an additional 1 000 species in the three Renosterveld        vegetation types. The contribution of Succulent and Nama Karoo,        Thicket and Forest vegetation types in the region to the plant species        diversity is thus relatively small. Thus, although the Cape Floral        Kingdom contains five biomes, only the Fynbos Biome, comprising        the Fynbos and Renosterveld vegetation groups, contains most of        the floral diversity. Furthermore, the Cape Floral Kingdom traditionally        does not include the Fynbos and Renosterveld vegetation outliers        to the north and east. Including these would mean that endemicity        would approach 80%, the highest level of endemicity on any subcontinent. Distressingly, some three-quarters of all plants in the South African        Red Data Book occur in the Cape Floral Kingdom: 1 700 plant species        are threatened to some extent with extinction! This is much more        than one would expect based on either the area of the Kingdom (6%)        or its plant numbers (36%). This again reflects the unique nature        of Fynbos vegetation: many Fynbos species are extremely localized        in their distribution, with sets of such localized species organized        into "centres of endemism." The city of Cape Town sits squarely        on two such centres of endemism and several hundred species are        threatened by urban expansion. However, a more serious threat is        alien plants, which infest large tracts of otherwise undisturbed        mountains and flats: their impact on these extremely localized species        is severe. Aliens are thus the major threat to Fynbos vegetation        and its plant diversity, especially in the mountains. On the lowlands        and on the less steep slopes the major threat is agriculture - new        technologies, fertilisers and crops are steadily eating into our


What was the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envoy, who was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987?

Secret life of Terry Waite, archbishop’s envoy: from the archive, 28 January 1987 | World news | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close In a sense, Terry Waite was no stranger to disappearance long before he went this time to the Lebanon . He had already disappeared in his own press cuttings. The cuttings libraries of Fleet Street bulge with clippings on the achievements of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy in freeing hostages during the past seven years. But the man himself, despite his 6ft 8in figure, black beard and blazingly direct eyes, remains incongruously elusive. Waite has consistently shown a reluctance to talk unless it is to the purpose — the purpose being to save the lives of victims, not to inflate himself. How many of the millions who have regularly seen his face on the small screen know where he was born (Cheshire); who his father was (a police sergeant from a family in trade); where he was educated (Wilmslow county secondary school and the Church Army College); where he lives (Blackheath); whether he is married (her name is Frances); whether he had children (three daughters, one son); what his temperament is (restless, with a loathing for sitting long at a desk); what his clubs are (Travellers, though that might be guessed); and what he believes in apart from Christianity (Jung). Waite constantly quotes the psychiatrist who, of the great three (Freud, Adler, Jung), is most compatible with the religious approach to life, preaching that the individual exists in a collective unconscious that is beyond time and individuality. He listens to Mozart, the most self-effacing and least earthbound of the great composers. It is not the profile of a man who will suddenly lose his sense of identity even if he is in captivity: friends and colleagues insist that he has enormous reserves of both faith and humour to draw upon. His humour, Canon Michael Moore, chaplain at Hampton Court, said yesterday, was the vital ingredient that enabled Waite to reach all sides. “Unless you have that contact in humour with the other person, you don’t make that progress. He has a very light touch. He is able to collapse in joyful laughter that will draw the whole room into guffaws. But he is sensitive to national sensibilities — he has never put a foot wrong that I know of.” A colleague at Lambeth Palace said Waite was in every sense larger than life. “He strikes me as hardly of this century. He makes me think of one of those great Victorian explorers who went striding across Africa. In a curious way, that’s one of the reasons for his success: he does things that other people would think impossible.” The limbo may have given the envoy time to think about how much longer he can be effective. He has already said he is considering his future. It is unlikely that personal danger will weigh much in his lone but not lonely thoughts. Terry Waite was taken hostage in Beirut on 20 January 1987; he spent almost five years in captivity until his release in November 1991 .


John Dryden became the first official British what during the reign of King Charles ll?

John Dryden | Poetry Foundation Poetry Foundation Poet Details 1631–1700 After John Donne and John Milton , John Dryden was the greatest English poet of the seventeenth century. After William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson , he was the greatest playwright. And he has no peer as a writer of prose, especially literary criticism, and as a translator. Other figures, such as George Herbert or Andrew Marvell or William Wycherley or William Congreve, may figure more prominently in anthologies and literary histories, but Dryden's sustained output in both poetry and drama ranks him higher. After Shakespeare, he wrote the greatest heroic play of the century,  The Conquest of Granada (1670, 1671), and the greatest tragicomedy, Marriage A-la-Mode  (1671). He wrote the greatest tragedy of the Restoration, All for Love (1677), the greatest comitragedy, Don Sebastian (1689), and one of the greatest comedies, Amphitryon (1690). As a writer of prose he developed a lucid professional style, relying essentially on patterns and rhythms of everyday speech. As a critic he developed a combination of methods—historical, analytical, evaluative, dialogic—that proved enabling to neoclassical theory. As a translator he developed an easy manner of what he called paraphrase that produced brilliant versions of Homer, Lucretius, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Persius, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer , and above all Virgil. His translation of The Aeneid remains the best ever produced in English. As a poet he perfected the heroic couplet, sprinkling it with judicious enjambments, triplets, and metric variations and bequeathing it to Alexander Pope to work upon it his own magic. Dryden the poet is best known today as a satirist, although he wrote only two great original satires, Mac Flecknoe (1682) and The Medall (1682). His most famous poem, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), while it contains several brilliant satiric portraits, unlike satire comes to a final resolution, albeit tragic for both David and his son. Dryden's other great poems— Annus Mirabilis (1667), Religio Laici (1682), The Hind and the Panther (1687), Anne Killigrew (1686), Alexander's Feast (1697), and "To My Honour'd Kinsman" (1700)—are not satires either. And he contributed a wonderful body of occasional poems: panegyrics, odes, elegies, prologues, and epilogues. Dryden was born 9 August 1631 into an extended family of rising Puritan gentry in Northamptonshire. But as a teenager he was sent to the King's School at Westminster to be trained as a King's Scholar by the brilliant Royalist headmaster Richard Busby. Dryden's family sided with the Commonwealth; however, in his first published poem, the elegy "Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings"—included in a commendatory volume (1649) of verses upon this young aristocrat's untimely death from smallpox—Dryden revealed Royalist sympathies in oblique references to rebellion and regicide. In a bold opening for a young (Puritan) poet—and such bold openings were to become characteristic—Dryden hurls a series of theodicean questions about why the good die young. In the middle of the poem he proffers the only answer the poem yields: "The Nations sin." He seems indirectly to identify this sin when subsequently describing the pustules of Hastings's smallpox: "Who, Rebel-like, with their own Lord at strife, / Thus made an Insurrection 'gainst his Life." What would perhaps have been worse to Dryden's family is his patent refusal to add religious consolation at the end of the elegy. Instead, he suffocates his continuing theodicean challenge—could Heaven choose "no milder way" than the smallpox to recall Hastings?—by the tears of grief instead of the prayers of faith and outrageously suggests that Hastings's disappointed fiancée mate with his soul and engender ideal representations of him. The brash youngster may have been suggesting that she patronize such poets as himself and such ideal "Irradiations" as the current poem. Aside from two other minor juvenilia (one in a private letter)—and perhaps because of family pressure—Dryden did not go public again until he h


What does ‘Na’ represent in the periodic table?

Sodium»the essentials [WebElements Periodic Table] CAS Registry ID : 7440-23-5 The picture above shows the colour arising from adding common salt (NaCl) to a burning mixture of potassium chlorate and sucrose. The chemistry of sodium is dominated by electron loss to form Na+. Cartoon by Nick D Kim ( [Science and Ink] , used by permission). Sodium: historical information Sodium was discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1807 at England. Origin of name : from the English word "soda" (the origin of the symbol Na comes from the Latin word "natrium"). Until the 18th century no distinction was made between potassium and sodium. This was because early chemists did not recognise that "vegetable alkali" (K2CO3, potassium carbonate, coming from deposits in the earth) and "mineral alkali" (Na2CO3, sodium carbonate, derived from wood ashes) are distinct from each other. Eventually a distinction was made. Sodium was first isolated in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy, who made it by the electrolysis of very dry molten sodium hydroxide, NaOH. Sodium collected at the cathode. Davy isolated potassium by a similar procedure, also in 1807. Shortly after, Thenard and Gay-Lussac isolated sodium by reducing sodium hydroxide with iron metal at high temperatures. Sodium is one of the elements which has an alchemical symbol, shown below (alchemy is an ancient pursuit concerned with, for instance, the transformation of other metals into gold). alt="alchemical symbol of sodium"> Sometime prior to the autumn of 1803, the Englishman John Dalton was able to explain the results of some of his studies by assuming that matter is composed of atoms and that all samples of any given compound consist of the same combination of these atoms. Dalton also noted that in series of compounds, the ratios of the masses of the second element that combine with a given weight of the first element can be reduced to small whole numbers (the law of multiple proportions). This was further evidence for atoms. Dalton's theory of atoms was published by Thomas Thomson in the 3rd edition of his System of Chemistry in 1807 and in a paper about strontium oxalates published in the Philosophical Transactions. Dalton published these ideas himself in the following year in the New System of Chemical Philosophy. The symbol used by Dalton for sodium is shown below. [See History of Chemistry, Sir Edward Thorpe, volume 1, Watts & Co, London, 1914.] Sodium around us Read more » Sodium is a vital element. The human diet must contain a sensible amount of sodium. The sodium cation is the main extracellular (outside cells) cation in animals and is important for nerve function in animals. The importance of sodium as salt in the diet was recognized well before sodium itself was understood to be an element. This recognition formed the basis of trading of salt deposits lining the Dead Sea in biblical times by the Romans. Prolonged sweating results in sodium ion loss in sweat and it is most important that the sodium ion is replaced through proper diet. Sodium is never found as the free element ("native") in nature as it is so reactive. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the earth's crust at about 2.6 - 3.0%. The most common mineral is rock salt (sodium chloride, NaCl, or halite), but it occurs in many other minerals including sodium borate (borax), sodium carbonate (soda), sodium nitrate (Chile saltpetre). and sodium sulphate (thenardite). In those species, however, it is the anions that are the reason for mining. Sodium is present in some abundance in the sun and other stars andclearly identifiable by the sodium D lines which are very prominent in the solar spectrum and those of other stars. Abundances for sodium in a number of different environments. More abundance data » Location Second ionisation energy : 4562 kJ mol‑1 Isolation Isolation : sodium would not normally be made in the laboratory as it is so readily available commercially. All syntheses require an electrolytic step as it is so difficult to add an electron to the poorly electronegative sodium ion Na+. Sodium is present as salt (sodiu


Which British female singer released a double A-side, featuring ‘Footprints in the Sand’ and ‘Better in Time’, in aid of Sport Relief?

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Universal Product Codes are more commonly known by what name?

How to Find a Store From a UPC Code How to Find a Store From a UPC Code How to Find a Store From a UPC Code March 31, 2015 By: Harjinder Singh The Universal Product Code--or UPC as it more commonly known--refers to a specific category of barcodes. UPC codes are used in the retail Industry for product identification and inventory management. If you know the UPC number for a product you can use it to conduct online research to determine which stores offer that product. There are several benefits to this. First, you can search for a specific product online and compare prices with multiple retailers and online vendors. Secondly, you can determine the location of the stores offering the product. Barcodes can give you insight regarding where the product is available. Step Enter the UPC number into any search engine of your choice to begin the search. If available, use the shopping option to tailor your search. The results will provide a complete list of retailers and online vendors that currently carry the product you are looking for. Step Use a specialized UPC search portal if the first step doesn't yield any results. You may want to consider using websites such as upcdatabase.com or checkupc.com. Additional resources are provided with this article. Step Contact an individual store and inquire about the product based on the UPC number. This step may require the most amount of work, considering that you may have to call individual stores to determine if the product is available. As a last resort, it can be a useful way of finding specialty or limited edition items. Step Once you know which store has the product you're looking for, the next step is to determine where exactly the store is located. The most convenient way to do this would be to conduct a search on a mapping website.


The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station is in which country?

Ferries-Car rentals   Exploration and     Planning started already in 1947 and was continued for two years in this     50 km� High Temperature Area, one of at least 27 such resources, which     are directly connected with the most volcanic regions of the country.  A few experimental boreholes were drilled for the evaluation of     the exploitable power and the chemical composition of the steam. After a rather long     intermission exploration and research continued with shorter intervals     from 1965 to 1986.  The construction of the Geothermal Power station was     commenced in 1987 and continued incessantly until the cornerstone was     laid on May the 13th 1990.  It     was officially started on September 29th the same year. The Hengill Area is     amongst the largest High Temperature Areas of the country.  The geothermal activity is closely connected to three active     volcanic systems in the region.  The     source of the natural- and artificial (boreholes) thermal activity in     and in the vicinity of the horticultural village Hveragerdi to the south     of the mountain range is an extinct central volcano, called 'The     Grenjadalur System'.  North     of it is still another one, called 'The Hromundartindur System', which     was last active about 10.000 years ago.  The westernmost of the three systems, The Hengill System, has     erupted several times during Holocene and every now and then we are     reminded of the natural forces at large by tremors and earthquakes. The Nesjahraun Lava     field was created during a fissure eruption of the Kyrdalur Fissure near     the Power station 2000 years ago and at the same time the largest island     of the lake came into being. Results of extended     research have shown that the precipitation in the mountains north of the     geothermal areas percolates deep down into the earth and then flows     through subterranean faults and fissures to lower regions.  On its way the water is heated by the hot rock and resurfaces as     boiling water or steam through fissures extending to the surface or can     be reached by boreholes where there is no obvious thermal activity on     the surface.  According to     the scientists, the hot water travels at a depth of only 3 km on the     average, but in places it comes as close as 1 km to the surface. Because of extended     recent volcanic activity in the area, the rock strata are relatively     young.  The uppermost 500 m     consist of hyaloclastites but beyond that are differently thick layers     of basaltic lavas.  Dykes     become more frequent at greater depths and at 1400 - 1600 m they are     prevailing.  Water veins are     common at the margins of the dykes, especially if they are acidulous. The geothermal gradient     of the 'Kyrdalssprunga Volcanic Fissure' is the greatest in the area.  At sea level the temperature is 100�C and at 2000 m it exceeds     350�C. Since 1972 the     boreholes drilled have been fitted for future exploitation.  The results have been extremely good.  The average hole yields up to 60 mw. of exploitable power on the     average, sufficient for the central heating of a habitation of 7500     people. All together 23 holes     have been sunk, thereof 13 exploitable.  Four of them were connected at the first stage.  Their total output equals 140 mw.  At the end of the second stage additional 100 mw. will be     exploited, of which 50 were pipelined to the power station in 1991.  The remaining 50 MW will be activated this year (1994) bringing     the total output of the station up to at least 200 mw.  The power station is designed for a maximum output of 400 mw.     in the year 2010 and according to estimates the present area can be     exploited economically with an average 300 mw. output for at least 30     years. Simultaneous     exploitation of the excess steam for electrical production is ideal.  Then t


Argentina Native Animals | Globerove Globerove > Argentina > Argentina Native Animals Argentina Native Animals By Globerover on March 29, 2010 in Argentina Interested in the native animals of Argentina? Read our guide for facts & information about some unusual animal species found in Argentina… The wildlife in Argentina varies by climatic regions with different animals living in the subtropic northern jungles and the subarctic southern areas. Some of the animals are endangered due to loss of habitat or hunting while others flourish. Not all the animals living in the wild in Argentina are native to the country. Wild boars are descendant from pigs imported by Europeans. Trout and some species of deer were also imported from other parts of the world. The Northern Jungles The subtropical climate in the north of Argentina makes it a wildlife paradise. The capybara, the largest rodent in the world makes its home in the wetlands of the north with crocodiles and a species of caiman indigenous to Argentina. Other mammalians include the bush dog, the raccoon, the tapir, small primates and the peccary. A variety of tortoise and turtle species thrive in this warm, wet region adjacent to the Amazon River. Colorful birds are plentiful and can be seen flying through the jungles. There are flamingos, toucan and many species of hummingbird. Within the country there are over 1000 different species of birds, with seven non-native species, 70 rare species and 45 endangered species. Parrots and Macaws abound in the northern jungles and many more mundane species like swallows, pigeons, doves owls and swifts also share the skies. The jaguar is a native of the northern jungles and is an endangered species in the wild. Ocelots are also found in the area and pumas are more common in the western mountains of the country. Snakes and lizards are also abundant and visitors are advised to use caution since while the majority of species are harmless, some including South American rattlesnake species, are venomous. Western Plains and Southern Argentina Giant armadillos inhabit the pampas, although they are in danger of extinction. Llamas, guanacos and vicuna can be found in the Andes Mountains, although vicuna, a llama like animal, is also on the endangered list. In the sub arctic south, whales are struggling for survival and penguin populations are dwindling. The rhea, a large flightless bird, is also found in the central and southern areas of the country. Of the 2500 species of wildlife native to Argentina, about 500 are considered endangered or at risk. The endangered animals include 60 species of fish, several types of deer, and many types of reptiles and birds. The Amazon caiman, once abundant in both Argentina and Brazil, has been hunted almost to extinction for its skin. The government of Argentina has taken steps to protect as many of these at risk and endangered species as possible and has created sanctuaries and parks where the animals are protected from hunters and habitat loss.


Which country hosted the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup?

BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Internationals | France to host 2007 World Cup France to host 2007 World Cup RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 French bid explained France have beaten England for the right to stage the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced. France won all but three of the possible 21 IRB votes at a meeting in Dublin on Thursday. England's attempt to introduce a Nations Cup for emerging countries did not find favour, with the IRB Council opting to preserve the existing format. But under the French bid, Wales, Scotland and Ireland will be allocated a pool each during the tournament. Referring to England's proposal for a reduced 16-team format IRB chairman, Syd Millar, said: "The council was overwhelmingly of the view that the structure should remain as it is." The tournament will take place between 7 September and 20 October, 2007. France have opted for a traditional format with 20 teams divided into four pools. KEY FACTS 48 matches between 7 Sept-20 Oct Wales, Scotland and Ireland three first-round matches each, with a quarter-final in the Millennium Stadium French stadia: Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Lens, St Etienne, Lyon, the Stade de France and Parc des Princes The top two from each pool will qualify for the quarter-finals. In contrast, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) proposed that 16 teams would contest the tournament, while another 20 would compete in a new Nations Cup competition A Super Eight pool stage, similar to the Super Sixes at this year's Cricket World Cup, would have replaced knockout quarter-finals in an effort to give more exposure to the top sides. Both countries made individual bids after general agreement that the tournaments in 1991 (hosted by England) and 1999 (Wales) were too unwieldy because games were staged throughout Britain, Ireland and France. England and France subsequently made compromises in an effort to woo votes from the 21 council members. It's staggering slap in the face for the RFU BBC rugby union correspondent Ian Robertson England's claim that their bid would generate ï¿½100m for the game was dismissed by the FFR who said that a likely 40% rise on the 1999 competition's ticket price was exaggerated. The FFR said their own project would bring in around ï¿½50m. This year's World Cup in Australia runs from 10 October to 22 November.


Which US actor is the voice of Mr Fox in the 2009 animated film ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’?

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection Close What are dual-format editions? Dual-format editions include both Blu-ray and DVD versions of a film in a single package. All supplements are available across both formats.   Spine #700 Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family in a new foxhole in a beautiful tree—directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation featuring vibrant performances by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, and Bill Murray. Cast Disc Features DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION: Digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Audio commentary featuring Anderson Storyboard animatic for the entire film Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score Interviews with cast and crew Puppet animation tests Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets Animated awards acceptance speeches Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based Fantastic Mr. Dahl, an hour-long 2005 documentary about the author Gallery of Dahl’s original manuscripts Discussion and analysis of the film Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Erica Wagner; a 2002 article on Dahl’s Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera New cover by Turlo Griffin, with F. Ron Miller Current Posts


The 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in which country?

Rio 2016 Olympics - Schedule, Medals, Results & News   More info The Rio 2016 emblem is inspired by the organisers’ vision, which is: “All Brazilians uniting to deliver the greatest festival on earth and proudly advancing our national promise of progress.” It has, as its essence, the concepts of passion and transformation, which both reflect modern-day Brazil. This positioning is supported by four pillars – harmonious diversity, contagious energy, exuberant nature, and the Olympic spirit. These have all been masterfully combined to give Rio 2016 its colourful identity. This emblem is not only a symbol of Rio’s and Brazil’s hopes for these Games but also for the future of the city and country. IOC On the obverse, Nike, goddess of victory, flies into the Panathinaikos stadium bringing triumph to the best athlete. For these Games, her figure is accompanied by the specific inscription: “XXXI Olympiada Rio 2016”. The reverse features laurel leaves – a symbol of victory in the ancient Greece, in the form of the wreaths awarded to competition winners. They are surrounding the Rio 2016 Olympics logo. Bearing a design that celebrates the relationship between the strengths of Olympic heroes and the forces of nature, the 500g gold, silver and bronze medals have been made with sustainability at their heart. The silver and bronze medals have been produced using 30 per cent recycled materials while the ribbons are made from 50 per cent recycled PET. Meanwhile, the gold medals are completely free of mercury. The gold medals are purer than ever, meeting sustainability criteria from extraction to refining, as well as meeting strict environmental and labour laws. They make use of recycled raw silver at 92.5 per cent purity, coming from leftover mirrors, waste solders and X-ray plates. And 40 per cent of the copper used in the bronze medals came from waste at the Mint itself. The substance was melted and decontaminated to provide material for the medals. Number of medals: 812 gold, 812 silver and 864 bronze. Weight: 500g Mint: Brazilian Mint The city of Rio de Janeiro hosted the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. This followed three rounds of voting by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 2 October 2009 at the 121st IOC Session, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rio 2016 Alex Ferro Seven cities were initially proposed by their National Olympic Committees to host the 2016 Games: Chicago (USA), Prague (CZE), Tokyo (JPN), Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Baku (AZE), Doha (QAT) and Madrid (ESP). On 4 June 2008, the IOC Executive Board selected four cities to enter the Candidate City phase of the bid process. Listed in the official order of drawing of lots, these cities were: Chicago (USA) Rio de Janeiro (BRA) Madrid (ESP) During the vote on 2 October 2009, Rio de Janeiro eventually triumphed by taking 66 votes compared to Madrid's 32. This gave Rio the majority that it needed to be elected as the host city for the 2016 Games. Rio had to overcome stiff competition, however, in the form of Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid in order to get the Games. 21st IOC Session, 2 October 2009, Copenhagen: Election of the Host City of the XXXI Games of the Olympiad Rounds


Which English King was known as ‘The Hammer of the Scots’?

BBC - Scotland's History - Edward I, King of England. Scotland's History Articles Edward I, King of England. Born 1239, died 1307. Reign 1272 – 1307 Edward I, King of England. Born 1239, died 1307. Reign 1272 – 1307 One of the most effective English kings, Edward was also one of Scotland's greatest adversaries. Through his campaigns against Scotland he would come to be known after his death as 'Scottorum malleus' – the Hammer of the Scots. Intelligent and impatient, Edward proved to be a highly effective king. The reign of his father, Henry III, was marked by internal instability and military failure. Upon succeeding to the throne on 1272 Edward did much to rectify these issues. He managed to control and placate the unruly English barons and unite them behind him. A learned scholar, Edward also took great personal interest in matters of administration and government and introduced reforms and ideas learnt whilst staying abroad in the family-held territory of Gascony. He also made great use of his Parliament – a strategy that helped maintain stability in the country and, more importantly for Edward, brought in regular sums of money to enable Edward to pursue his ambitions. Edward also devised far uglier means of raising money. In 1275 Edward issues the Statute of Jewry that persecuted the Jewish population of England and imposed severe taxation on them. Proving both lucrative and popular, Edward extended this policy further. In 1290 the Jews were expelled from England – minus their money and property. The money raised from this dark practise was used to fund his his ambition to be overlord of the Scotland and Wales. As a younger man Edward forged an impressive reputation as a man of action. Domestically and abroad Edward proved himself as a soldier and a leader of men. In 1266 Edward received international accolade for his role in the 8th and 9th Crusades to the Holy Land where he helped secure the survival of the beleagured coastal city of Acre. It was while returning from the Crusade that Edward learned that his father, Henry III, had died and that he was now the King of England. Ambitious and impulsive, Edward wasted no time in enforcing his will on his neighbours. As an ominous precursor for his plans for Scotland, Edward attacked Wales. Edward attacks Wales During the 1250s Edward's father, Henry III, had mounted military campaigns in an attempt to control and dominate Wales. After a series of disastrous defeats Henry was forced to negotiate a peace that saw the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd extend his territories into England. Henry also had to recognise the royal status of Llewelyn as Prince of Wales. Llywelyn in turn was to acknowledge Henry as his overlord. Edward had experienced these failed campaigns first hand as part of his father's retinue and was determined not to repeat the same mistakes. Using the pretence of Llywelyn's refusal to pay homage to him in 1274 Edward raised a sizeable army and invaded Wales. Llywelyn was defeated and stripped of his territories. In another uncanny foreshadowing of events to come in Scotland Edward's complete conquest of his neighbour was to be thrown into doubt by a courageous campaign for liberation. In 1282 Llywelyn's brother Dafydd sparked a rebellion to rid Wales of English dominance. With Edward caught off-guard the rising had initial success. The death of Llywelyn in battle turned the tide for Edward however. Soon after Dafydd was captured and executed. Without strong leadership the Welsh rising failed. To consolidate his stranglehold, Edward built a series of impressive castles across Wales (such as Caernarfon Castle) and in 1284 Edward issued the Statute of Rhuddlan that effectively annexed Wales and made it a province of England. The title Prince of Wales was handed to Edward's eldest son, Prince Edward (later Edward II) – a practise that continues to this day. Edward plots against Scotland In 1287 Alexander III, King of Scots, died suddenly after falling from his horse at Kinghorn. The succession crisis that followed presented Edward with a golden opportunity to


Oscine relates to what type of creatures?

Oscine - definition of oscine by The Free Dictionary Oscine - definition of oscine by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oscine Related to oscine: oscine bird os·cine n. Any of various passerine birds of the suborder Passeri (formerly Oscines); a songbird. [From New Latin Oscinēs, former suborder name, from Latin oscinēs, pl. of oscen, bird used in augury; see kan- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] os·cine adj. oscinine adj (Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to the Oscines, a suborder of passerine birds that includes most of the songbirds [C17: via New Latin from Latin oscen singing bird] os•cine (ˈɒs ɪn, -aɪn) adj. 1. of or pertaining to birds of the suborder Oscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising members of the order that have highly developed vocal organs. n. 2. an oscine bird; songbird. [1880–85; < New Latin Oscines < Latin oscen songbird] ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Oscines , Passeres , suborder Oscines , suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds songbird , songster - any bird having a musical call honey eater , honeysucker - Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar accentor - small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia lark - any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing wagtail - Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks pipit , titlark , lark - a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage finch - any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds honeycreeper - small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar weaver finch , weaverbird , weaver - finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests flycatcher , Old World flycatcher , true flycatcher - any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing thrush - songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast warbler - a small active songbird babbler , cackler - any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae bird of paradise - any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area American oriole , New World oriole , oriole - American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow Old World oriole , oriole - mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black starling - gregarious birds native to the Old World corvine bird - birds of the crow family Australian magpie - black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies Mimus polyglotktos , mockingbird , mocker - long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds Dumetella carolinensis , gray catbird , grey catbird , catbird - North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing mocking thrush , thrasher - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs New Zealand wren - birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens tree creeper , creeper - any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet nuthatch , nutcracker - any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects


In the Harry Potter novels, what is the name of Neville Longbottom’s toad?

Neville Longbottom | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Neville and his classmates in Gilderoy Lockhart's first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson Neville's first appearance in 1992 was after the start-of-term feast, where he applauded Harry and Ron for flying a car to Hogwarts. The following morning when Ron received a Howler from his mother, Neville urged him to open it quickly. [19] In Gilderoy Lockhart 's first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, a pair of Cornish pixies picked Neville up by the ears and hung him, by his cloak, from a chandelier. Moments later, he crashed back to the ground when the chandelier collapsed. [19] After the basilisk attack on Colin Creevey , Neville feared that he might be attacked, due to his poor magical skill, and tried to protect himself by purchasing a large, "evil-smelling" green onion, a pointed purple crystal, and a rotting newt tail. However the other students pointed out that Neville should be all right; he was a pure-blood and thus unlikely to be attacked. However, he thought he was very close to being a Squib and was still in danger anyway. [20] The first and last meeting of the Duelling Club that Neville attended Neville attended the first (and only) meeting of Lockhart's Duelling Club . To practise the Disarming Charm , Neville was paired with Justin Finch-Fletchley . When Lockhart suggested the pair to volunteer spell blocking, Snape shot this down, claiming that Neville had difficulty with the simplest spells, and they would have to send what was left of Justin to the hospital wing in a matchbox. [20] Shortly after Valentine's Day, Neville informed Harry that his belongings had been searched by someone . [21] Third year Severus Snape: "Possibly no one's warned you, Lupin, but this class contains Neville Longbottom. I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult. Not unless Ms Granger is hissing instructions in his ear." Remus Lupin: "I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation, and I am sure he will perform it admirably." — Professors Snape and Lupin on Neville and his skills [src] Dementors board the Hogwarts Express and enter the compartment that the trio , Neville, Ginny, and Professor Lupin are in On the train ride to Hogwarts for his third year, Neville became alarmed when the Hogwarts Express simply stopped. He entered the compartment Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron and Ginny Weasley were in to find out what had happened. A Dementor then entered the compartment, negatively affecting all the students within, though to varying degrees. Then new Professor Lupin gave them chocolate telling them it would help them fell better about the shock. After arriving at Hogsmeade Station, Neville told people about the experience in the compartment. [22] This made its way to Draco Malfoy , who taunted Harry about fainting. [23] In their first Divination class, Neville accidentally broke two of Professor Trelawney 's tea cups while reading tea leaves. As the class departed, Professor Trelawney warned him that he would be late next class and urged him to work hard to catch up with everyone else. In Care of Magical Creatures class, Neville practised bowing to a hippogriff ; he constantly backed away from the animal, which did not seem to want to bow back. [23] The next day in Potions , Neville again managed to earn the ire of Professor Snape . He somehow was able to turn his Shrinking Solution orange instead of green. To ensure Neville would get the potion right, Snape told him that he would feed some of it to Neville's toad, Trevor , at the end of the class. Desperately, he asked Hermione for help; she whispered instructions to him out of the corner of her mouth. By the end of class, he was able to turn his potion green, and successfully shrunk Trevor from a toad to a tadpole. Upon returning Trevor to his proper size, Snape took five points from Hermione simply to spite the Gryffindors . [24] Neville's Boggart , Professor Snape Later that day, Neville helped Professor Remus Lupin's first practical Defence Against the D


If a person is born on 10th January, what zodiac sign do they have?

Birthday Horoscope January 10th Capricorn, If your Birthday is January 10 Birthday Horoscope for January 10th If your Birthday is January 10 and your Zodiac Sign is Capricorn Birthday Persona Profile People born specifically on the 10th of January have an innovative practical approach to life and are very good at solving problems. Like a typical Capricorn Goat you are strong willed, a little too serious natured but reliable and enthusiastic. Astrologically the Sun is the celestial body that rules this particular day and gives you an adventurous edge to your personality. If you have this birthday you are inclined to be a private person but one that is willing to take more risks than any other Capricorns. Individuals with a January the tenth birthday usually possess an entrepreneurial spirit and like to keep busy. You have a cheerful and friendly nature but prefer one or two close friends rather than many. Although you are quite sociable you also appreciate moments alone to gather your thoughts. You can also be extremely uncompromising are sometimes a bit blunt when expressing your views and opinions. Work and Finances The pursuit of a satisfying career to a person born on the tenth of January is important as they tend to find most jobs boring. You have good leadership skills and can deal well with high degrees of pressure and multi tasking. Your unconventional but effective approach to getting things done is a result of your ability to think and act simultaneously. Finances are usually easy for you to manage although you do have to restrain yourself from overspending occasionally. With a love of luxurious things and the latest trends and gadgets most of you just cannot seem to resist snapping up a bargain. Personal Relationships Emotionally you are typical of your zodiac sign and are rather reserved when it comes to the idea of love and romance. The person born on the tenth day of January is excellent at hiding their feelings but they long to be appreciated and feel loved. So they generally discover a way of attracting attention without having to open up, especially at the beginning of a relationship. You usually have a high sex drive and will search for a partner that shares your enthusiasm and energy in this area. A suitable mate will also need to share your probable love of the great outdoors and all things natural. You will have few insecurities within a long term soul mate partnership aside from sometimes being overly protective. Once settled in a personal relationship you are less restless and more open with your emotions. Health Health wise those born on January 10th are most often quite robust and rarely seem to fall ill but they can suffer from stress. This is because you tend to be sometimes overly realistic about things and possibly not open enough about how you really feel. People born on this day are likely to be frequently tense due to high expectations of themselves and others. This can lead to little niggling complaints like slight posture problems, indigestion or tension headaches. Learning how to unwind effectively and on a regular basis is advised to prevent tenseness building and causing any issues. Strengths and Weaknesses Your main strengths of character are in your acute realism, and your calm but authoritative and determined manner. These set of positive characteristics will help you find happiness, security and success in life and they far outweigh any of your negative traits. The main Weakness in the personalities of those born on January 10th is the emotional armor you always insist on wearing in an attempt to avoid getting hurt. This guarded stance and your tendencies to sometimes be a touch insensitive, or display jealousy, are just tiny imperfections in an otherwise lovely personality. Dreams and Goals Being born on the 10th of January means that your dreams and goals are not usually concentrated in one area. Your main wishes are for equal contentment in all parts of your life so whatever you do will be in the hope of fulfilling this desire. A solid committed relationship is at the heart of a


Which famous racehorse is buried next to the finishing post of the Aintree Racecourse?

United Kingdom Horse Racing Greats | Race Horses | HorseRacing.co.uk Want your site listed here? Contact Us . United Kingdom Horse Racing Greats Horse racing is one of the few sports which has difficulty identifying the true 'sporting hero'. Trainers, jockeys and horses jostle to be praised for their performances, their skill and the transformations they have achieved. While there is prize money for owners, trainer and jockeys, there are not many ways of congratulating a horse to a win. This side takes a moment to acknowledge the true heroes of equestrian sports - the horses themselves. Famous Flat Race Horses Yeats Foaled in 2001, Yeats is one of the living legends in British flat racing. The Irish-born and trained bay stallion is the only horse to win the Ascot Gold Cup , one of Britain's most prestigious races, four years in a row. In 2006 Yeats embarked on a winning rampage not even the most experienced opponents could stop. He defeated his Ascot crown in 2007,2008 and 2009; making the 2010 Ascot Gold Cup one of the most anticipated races of all time, with a whole nation holding its breath to see if the miracle thoroughbred can top his success with a fifth consecutive win. Nijinsky Although Nijinski was born in Canada, he was shipped to Ireland for training at such an early age that the British racing public happily accepted him as one of their own. Seemingly intent on making his name from the very start, Nijinsky began to built his reputation as a splendid race horse from an early age; and succeeded in becoming the champion two-year-old of both England and Ireland in 1969. The next year, as soon as he had reached racing maturity, Nijinski proceeded to win the 2,000 Guineas Stakes at the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby . Off to a flying start he continued his winning streak, taking first place at the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and the Doncaster St. Leger Stakes - which made him the first horse in 35 years to complete a winning English Triple Crown. Nijinsky has been the subject of a documentary narrated by Orson Wells, and was voted 'Horse of the Millennium' posthumously in a 2000 poll of The Sun. Brown Jack Initially, Brow Jack (1924-1948) began his career in jump racing, premiering as a four-year-old in 1928 by winning seven of his ten starts, among them the Cheltenham Champions' Hurdle. Despite his obvious prowess on the jump track, Brown Jack's owner, Sir Harold Wernher, decided to try his charge in the more lucrative flat races. In the same year of his hurdling victories, Brown Jack won the Ascot Stakes on the flat. He then set a record winning the Queen Alexandra Stakes for six consecutive years (1929-1934). 1930 saw Brown Jack racing to victory at the Goodwood Cup and the Doncaster Cup; 1931 he was the first across the line in the Ebor Handicap and the Chester Cup, and also took home the Rosebery Memorial Plate. To salute his stellar career, a bronze statue of Brown Jack was erected at Ascot where it can still be seen today. Famous National Hunt Race Horses Best Mate Born in 1995 and a frequently sick and weakened foal, Best Mate went on to become one of the most revered horses in UK jump racing history. He achieved three consecutive wins at the Cheltenham Gold Cup from 2002 to 2004; matching the thus far unbeaten record of Arkle. Although he started in a comparably small number of 22 races during his career, Best Mate put his best foot forward every time; never finishing worse than second. With 14 wins and seven second places, it was a shock when Best Mate collapsed and died on site at Exeter Race Course on 1st November 2005, after being pulled out of his 22nd race by his jockey Paul Carberry. His ashes were buried beside the winning post at Cheltenham Racecourse. Arkle Until Best Mate came along Arkle was the last horse to have won three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups (1964, 1965, 1966). This Irish Thoroughbred was the first horse in British racing history to be recognised and talked about outside 'racing circles' - meaning that anyone who read the paper or listened to the radio knew of th


In which European country is the Great Belt Bridge?

E20 Denmark: Great Belt Bridge (2014) - YouTube E20 Denmark: Great Belt Bridge (2014) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 14, 2014 Driving across the longest suspension bridge in Europe, the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark. Category


The Clarin is the best-selling daily newspaper in which South American country?

Press Freedom: Media Reform Gets Personal in Argentina January 17, 2017 last updated 14:26 ET Press Freedom: Media Reform Gets Personal in Argentina Anastasia Moloney Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 When 200 tax inspectors made a surprise visit last week to the editorial offices of Clarin, one of Latin America's largest newspaper and cable TV companies, it was clear that the simmering tensions between the media giant and Argentine President Cristina Fernandez had reached new heights. The day after the raid, the Clarin newspaper ran with the headline: "Official operation of intimidation against Clarin." ... × Cancel during trial and pay nothing. Just $25 quarterly after trial. Try It FREE Cancel during trial and pay nothing. Just $75 annually after trial. Try It FREE


Winston Churchill’s tribute ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’, was paid to which of the UK’s armed forces?

Cover Story - Churchill, the RAF and Naval Cover Story - Churchill, the RAF and Naval Finest Hour Cover Story - Churchill, the RAF and Naval Finest Hour 127, Summer 2005 Page 22 By Robert A. Courts CHURCHILL’S VIEW on interchangeability of service equipment is still something that Western air forces are implementing today....The RAF and USAF seek to achieve as great a spread of mission roles as possible by using the same aircraft types. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few,”1 Winston Churchill exclaimed in his famous tribute to Fighter Command. The phrase came to him as he was driving home in silence after witnessing, at Uxbridge,2 the high drama of the Luftwaffe’s massive attack on southern England in August 1940. “Do not speak to me. I have never been so moved,” was Churchill’s first comment on getting into the car, and, as he reflected on the bravery of the young men who fought and wheeled and died above his head, he realised quite how much Britain, and the free world, owed to them. With the benefit of hindsight, it is interesting to consider how how much the Royal Air Force owed to Winston Churchill, without whose patronage the service would have had a much harder job in surviving, and whose world-famous legend would certainly not be as great as it is now. For when, as Secretary of State for War and Air in the early Twenties, Winston Churchill was speaking of “strangling Bolshevism in its cradle,” senior figures in the Army and Navy were thinking the same unfriendly thoughts towards the nascent RAF, then only a few years old.3 Churchill’s support of military aviation goes back over ten years before even that point. When at the Board of Trade, and a member of the Committee for Imperial Defence in 1909, he intervened in one of the first debates about aviation to say that the problem was a “most important one, and we should place ourselves in communication with Mr. Wright [Orville] and avail ourselves of his knowledge.”4 When he arrived at the Admiralty in 1911, this interest continued. With his usual unquenchable relish for new technology and ideas, he used his tenure to set up and foster the Royal Naval Air Service: a project that took him three attempts in the face of determined opposition from the Treasury. Churchill’s doggedness was rewarded. In the run-up to the First World War, the Royal Flying Corps claimed entire responsibility for aerial home defence. As Churchill explained in The World Crisis: “When asked how they proposed to discharge their duty, they admitted sorrowfully that they had not got the machines and could not get the money.”5 Thus arrived the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), which Churchill set up using his Admiralty budget to undertake the vital task of protecting Britain from air attack, especially the Navy’s vital dockyards and oil refineries. The RFC’s airplanes, meanwhile, were almost exclusively allocated to reconnaissance tasks for the British Expeditionary Force. In the light of Churchill’s determination that the new weapon of the air should be an aggressive one, it is not surprising that Sir Martin Gilbert, his official biographer, found that “the Naval Wing paid more attention than was paid by the Military Wing to the use of the aeroplane as a fighting machine.”6 Clearly Churchill must gain some of the credit for fostering the use of the aircraft in such a way that it was to become the dominant weapon in modern warfare. Churchill’s involvement in the formation of the RNAS was deep and sincere. With his usual attention to detail, he wrote a number of minutes, dealing with everything from aircraft design to the buildings on Naval Air Stations. He even turned his attention to the effect of the word “canteen” on “strict Scottish bosoms”!7 Opinions differ on whether Churchill’s tendency to micro-manage was a help or a hindrance, but it seems likely that his interest in his brainchild was apt to keep the department in charge “on their toes.”8 In any case, as Randolph Churchill claims in the official biography, “the First Lord’s attention to detail scarce


The painting, La Jaconde, is better known by what name?

WebMuseum: Leonardo da Vinci: La Joconde Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Mona Lisa (1479-1528), also known as La Gioconda , the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; 1503-06 (150 Kb); Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in); Musee du Louvre, Paris This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa's enigmatic expression, which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame. Reams have been written about this small masterpiece by Leonardo, and the gentle woman who is its subject has been adapted in turn as an aesthetic, philosophical and advertising symbol, entering eventually into the irreverent parodies of the Dada and Surrealist artists. The history of the panel has been much discussed, although it remains in part uncertain. According to Vasari, the subject is a young Florentine woman, Monna (or Mona) Lisa, who in 1495 married the well-known figure, Francesco del Giocondo, and thus came to be known as ``La Gioconda''. The work should probably be dated during Leonardo's second Florentine period, that is between 1503 and 1505. Leonardo himself loved the portrait, so much so that he always carried it with him until eventually in France it was sold to Franï¿½ois I, either by Leonardo or by Melzi. From the beginning it was greatly admired and much copied, and it came to be considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait. It became even more famous in 1911, when it was stolen from the Salon Carrï¿½ in the Louvre, being rediscovered in a hotel in Florence two years later. It is difficult to discuss such a work briefly because of the complex stylistic motifs which are part of it. In the essay ``On the perfect beauty of a woman'', by the 16th-century writer Firenzuola, we learn that the slight opening of the lips at the corners of the mouth was considered in that period a sign of elegance. Thus Mona Lisa has that slight smile which enters into the gentle, delicate atmosphere pervading the whole painting. To achieve this effect, Leonardo uses the sfumato technique, a gradual dissolving of the forms themselves, continuous interaction between light and shade and an uncertain sense of the time of day. ï¿½ 19 Jun 2006, Nicolas Pioch - Top - Up - Info Thanks to the BMW Foundation, the WebMuseum mirrors , partners and contributors for their support.


Sandra Bullock played FBI agent Gracie Hart in which 2000 film?

Miss Congeniality (2000) - 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 From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV ON DISC ALL An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event. Director: a list of 22 titles created 23 Feb 2012 a list of 49 titles created 13 May 2013 a list of 25 titles created 17 Apr 2015 a list of 46 titles created 11 months ago a list of 30 titles created 10 months ago Search for " Miss Congeniality " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb 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. Nominated for     2     Golden Globes. Another    7 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards  » Videos After Cheryl Frasier and Stan Fields are kidnapped, Gracie goes undercover in Las Vegas to find them. Director: John Pasquin When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined. Director: Robert Luketic A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. Director: Anne Fletcher A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him. Director: Marc Lawrence     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X   Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made. Director: Donald Petrie After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with. Director: Anne Fletcher A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. Director: David Frankel A girl makes a wish on her 13th birthday and wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman. Director: Gary Winick     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X   When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks in London, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguises herself as him, and proceeds to fall for one of her soccer teammates. Little does she realize she's not the only one with romantic troubles, as she, as he, gets in the middle of a series of intermingled love affairs. Director: Andy Fickman A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love. Director: Garry Marshall Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing. Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money. Director: Tom Vaughan Edit Storyline Undercover FBI agent Gracie Hart shows no signs of having any femininity in her demeanor or appearance. Generally a bright and capable agent, she is in trouble at work when she makes an error in judgment in a case which results in a near disaster. As such, one of her by-the-books colleagues, Eric Matthews, who has never shown any inclination of thinking outside the box, is assigned to lead the high profile case of a terrorist coined The Citizen instead of her, while she is facing possible disciplinary action. Gracie pieces together the evidence to determine that The Citizen's next target will be the Miss United States beauty pageant. The pageant represents everything that Gracie abhors. Despite Gracie's mannish demeanor, Eric, with no other undercover female agent


Gloucester Old Spot is a breed of which animal?

Breeds of Livestock - Gloucestershire Old Spots Swine — Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science Breeds of Livestock - Gloucestershire Old Spots Swine Breeds of Livestock - Gloucestershire Old Spots Swine Gloucestershire Old Spots Also   Known By: Gloucester, Gloucester Old Spot, Goucestershire Old Spot The Gloucestershire Old Spots is a black and white breed that is predominantly   white in color. In recent years, selection has been towards less black and   now only a spot or two are usually found. The breed also has a heavy drooped   ear. Gloucestershire Old Spots originated in the Berkeley Valley region   of England and have now spread throughtout the UK. The origin of the breed   is unknown but is probably from the native stock of the area along with introductions   of various breeds. In 1855, Youatt and Martin mentioned there was a native   stock in Gloucestershire that was of an unattractive dirty white color. The Old Spots are among the large size pigs in England. At one time,   they were called the Orchard Pig because they were partially raised on windfall   apples and whey - waste agricultural products of the area. Gloucestershire Old Spots are said to be good foragers or grazers.   This is not surprising considering the type of feeding practiced in the original   home of the breed during its early development. The sows of the breed are   known for large litters and high milk production. Prolificacy and milk production   have been characteristics sought by practical producers everywhere. A Gloucestershire Old Spots breed society was formed in 1913. And while   it has never become a dominant breed in its native country or in any other   country, it has had an influence on the world's swine production. There is   little doubt the breed contributed more than just some influence on the color   pattern to the Spot and was   also used in the development of the Minnesota No.3 breed in the United States.


A lumpectomy is the surgical removal of a lump from which part of the body?

Breast lump removal: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia URL of this page: //medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002918.htm Breast lump removal Breast lump removal is surgery to remove a lump that may be breast cancer. Tissue around the lump is also removed. This surgery is called a lumpectomy. When a noncancerous tumor such as a fibroadenoma of the breast is removed, it is often called an excisional breast biopsy, instead of a lumpectomy. Description If the breast cancer can be seen on imaging tests but the doctor cannot feel it when examining you, a wire localization will be done before the surgery. A radiologist will use a mammogram or ultrasound to place a needlewire (or needlewires) in or near the abnormal breast area. This will help the surgeon know where the cancer is so that it can be removed. Breast lump removal is done as an outpatient surgery most of the time. You will be given general anesthesia (you will be asleep, but pain-free) or local anesthesia (you are awake, but sedated and pain-free). The procedure takes about 1 hour. The surgeon makes a small cut on your breast and removes the cancer and some of the normal breast tissue around it. A pathologist examines a sample of the removed tissue to make sure all the cancer has been taken out. When no cancer cells are found near the edges of the removed tissue, it is called a clear margin. To see if cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, your surgeon may also remove lymph nodes in your armpit. Sometimes, small metal clips will be placed inside the breast to mark the area of tissue removal. This makes the area easy to see on future mammograms, and it helps guide radiation therapy, when needed. The surgeon will close your skin with stitches. These may dissolve or need to be removed later. Rarely, a drain tube may be placed to remove extra fluid. Your doctor will send the lump to a laboratory for more testing. Why the Procedure is Performed Surgery to remove a breast cancer is most often the first step in treatment. The choice of which surgery is best for you can be difficult. It may be hard to know whether lumpectomy or mastectomy (removal of the entire breast) is best. You and the health care providers who are treating your breast cancer will decide together. In general: Lumpectomy is often preferred for smaller breast lumps. This is because it is a smaller procedure and it has about the same chance of curing breast cancer as a mastectomy . Mastectomy to remove all breast tissue may be done if the area of cancer is too large to remove without deforming the breast. You and your doctor should consider: The size of your tumor Where it is in your breast If there is more than one tumor How much of the breast is affected The size of your breasts Your age Your general health, including whether you have reached menopause Risks


In June 1938, Action Comics #1 was published, featuring which comic book hero for the first time?

SUPERMAN SOARS! Rare 1938 comic book sells for record $2M - The Washington Post SUPERMAN SOARS! Rare 1938 comic book sells for record $2M The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! By Michael Cavna By Michael Cavna November 30, 2011 Follow @comicriffs An issue of "Action Comics No. 1" -- featuring the first appearance of Siegel and Shuster’s Superman — sold for $2,161,000 at an online auction ending Wednesday night. (AP / Metropolis Collectibles, Inc./ComicConnect Corp.) THE MAN OF STEEL has just secured the Record Deal. The first superhero to launch the comic-book industry is now comics’ first $2-million man. A rare 1938 comic book that features Superman’s historic debut sold at auction Wednesday night for $2.16-million, the auction/consignment site ComicConnect tells Comic Riffs. The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million set in 2010 by the same issue, according to ComicConnect and sister partnership Metropolis Collectibles, which also conducted last year’s record sale. “The buyer was extremely excited about the prospect of bidding on this,” ComicConnect/Metropolis COO Vincent Zurzolo tells Comic Riffs minutes after the bidding closed at 7:25 p.m. ET. “I think he had an adrenalin rush for the last two hours. “As soon as he won it, he gave me a call and thanked me. ...,” Zurzolo continues. “He’s very excited to have it. This is a guy who loves owning the best of the best.” Zurzolo says he is not at liberty to disclose the identity of the buyer, but he could acknowledge that “this is a customer we have a relationship with.” The record-setting book is graded to be in “9.0” condition — the best copy of Action Comics No.-1 Zurzolo says he’s ever seen. Reported stolen in 2000, the book was recovered early this year in a storage locker near Los Angeles. It was “raw” and not protected, found in a stack of magazines, says Zurzolo, noting how surprised he was that it weathered the lost decade so well. “We thought it was going to be creased, but it was beautiful,” he tells Comic Riffs. “It is so close to perfect. This book has got freshness and bounce ... it’s simply stunning.” There are estimated to be about 100 extant copies of the issue, few in good condition. In 2010, there was a  spasm of big-spending  on Action Comics No.-1and Detective Comics No.-27 (Batman’s debut), with the ping-ponging record escalating to more than $1.5-million. When Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster debuted Superman in the summer of ‘38, the cover cost was 10 cents. Metropolis Collectibles says the current “9.0” issue has twice before been the most valuable comic book: It set records when it sold in 1992 (for $86,000) and again in 1997 ($150,000). At the time the “9.0” book went missing, it reportedly was owned by actor Nicolas Cage; the Oscar-winning actor is a Super-fan who once was cast to play the Last Son of Krypton himself. (The actor — whose stage name reportedly was inspired by comic character Luke Cage — in 2005 gave his newborn son the same birth name as that of Superman: Kal-El.) ComicConnect said it could not disclose the previous owner, but Zurzolo says that his New York-based company was involved with authorities and the owner in the recovery of the record-setting book. “There are not many times when you get to be the hero,” Zurzolo tells Comic Riffs, “but this one time, we were.”


London is a city in which Canadian province?

In which Canadian province is London located? | Reference.com In which Canadian province is London located? A: Quick Answer In Canada, London is in the province of Ontario. It is the 10th biggest city in the Canada and is named after the English capital city of London. Just like the original London, it is set on a river called Thames.


In the children’s story ‘Peter Pan, what is Captain Hook’s first name?

Captain Hook (Character) - Biography biography from Hook (1991) The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Warning! This character biography may contain plot spoilers. Visit our Character Biography Help to learn more. Character Biography History Discuss J.A.S. Hook, Cptn., as Captain James Hook signs his infamous name, is arguably the most ruthless villain in film history. Forever bent on destroying Peter Pan, Hook even kidnaps a grown Pan's children ("Hook"). Hook's "indefatiguable good form" is his most telling attribute (at least, according to himself), while most view him despicable, yet their favorite villain. It is hard not to respect, if not outright look up to, such a man. Captain Hook will forever remain one of the greatest villains in cinematography history. Captain Hook is the main villain in "Peter Pan". He is a pirate captain who wants to kill Peter Pan and take over Neverland. However, Peter defeats him every time they fight. He has a hook on his right arm because Tick Tock the Crocodile ate his hand after Peter cut it off and threw it overboard. Tick Tock wants to eat the rest of him, thus he is the one thing Hook fears. Tick-Tock also swallowed Hook's clock, thus the ticking of the clock announces his arrival and allows Hook to escape. He resembles Wendy Darling's father. In "Return to Neverland", he kidnaps the daughter of the now grown-up Wendy, so Peter Pan has to rescue her. In "Hook", the spell that was placed on Peter Pan was broken, and he finally aged to an adult. Buy aging, he also forgot who he was, and he lives as a lawyer called Peter Banning. When Hook kidnaps Peter's sons, Peter has to rescue them, and the Lost Boys help Peter regain his memories. Since Hook is bored with just trying to kill Peter, he tries to get revenge on him by making Peter's kids love him instead. In the end, Hook is crushed under a statue of Tick-Tock, killing him. The Disney movie "Peter Pan" is adapted as a world, Neverland, in "Kingdom Hearts" and "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories". In "Kingdom Hearts", Hook teams up with Riku to capture Wendy because they believe is a Princess of Heart. She is not, and Sora, Donald, Goofy and Peter Pan defeat him. In "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories", he kidnaps Wendy again, only this time for personal reason, So Sora, Goofy, Donald and Peter defeat him again. He is one of the guests in "House of Mouse", and he was one of the Disney villains in "House of Villains". He is one of the fairy tale villains in Prince Charming's villain army in "Shrek the Third". He also appeared in "Shrek 2". Page last updated by Crimsonrose00 , 7 years ago


The company Starbucks is reportedly named after a character in which novel?

Starbucks is Named After a Moby Dick Character | Broken Secrets Starbucks is Named After a Moby Dick Character By Chad Upton | Editor In 1971, an English teacher, a history teacher and writer started a coffee roasting business in Seattle. It’s not surprising that such an intellectual group would have an affinity for classics like Moby Dick. In fact, Starbucks was nearly called Pequod, the name of the whaling ship in Moby Dick. Thankfully, one of the partners rejected the name. Instead, they went with Starbucks, the name of Pequod’s first mate. Although Starbuck was a fictional young quaker from Nantucket, there were a number of real sailors from that era named “Starbuck.” Naming a coffee company was not the first time the Starbuck name was borrowed either. There is an island in the South Pacific, a popular region for whaling, called Starbuck Island. Starbuck Island was heavily mined for phosphate in the late 1800s and many ships were wrecked there. The high frequency of shipwrecks was probably caused by the reefs that surrounded the island, but there is a mythical explanation too. In Greek Mythology there are seductresses who lure sailors to shipwreck on the coast of their islands. These mythical creatures are called Sirens and the Starbucks logo contains one.


Hellen was the mythological patriarch of which European country?

Helen | Greek mythology | Britannica.com Greek mythology Alternative Titles: Helen of Troy, Helene Related Topics Aphrodite Helen, Greek Helene, in Greek legend , the most beautiful woman of Greece and the indirect cause of the Trojan War . She was daughter of Zeus , either by Leda or by Nemesis , and sister of the Dioscuri . As a young girl she was carried off by Theseus , but she was rescued by her brothers. She was also the sister of Clytemnestra , who married Agamemnon . Her suitors came from all parts of Greece, and from among them she chose Menelaus , Agamemnon’s younger brother. During an absence of Menelaus, however, Helen fled to Troy with Paris , son of the Trojan king Priam ; when Paris was slain, she married his brother Deiphobus, whom she betrayed to Menelaus when Troy was subsequently captured. Menelaus and she then returned to Sparta , where they lived happily until their deaths. The abduction of Helen, bas-relief; in the Lateran Museum, Rome. Alinari/Art Resource, New York According to a variant of the story, Helen, in widowhood, was driven out by her stepsons and fled to Rhodes , where she was hanged by the Rhodian queen Polyxo in revenge for the death of her husband, Tlepolemus, in the Trojan War. The poet Stesichorus , however, related in his second version of her story that she and Paris were driven ashore on the coast of Egypt and that Helen was detained there by King Proteus . The Helen carried on to Troy was thus a phantom, and the real one was recovered by her husband from Egypt after the war. This version of the story was used by Euripides in his play Helen. Helen Brought to Paris, oil on canvas by Benjamin West, 1776; in the Smithsonian American … Photograph by pohick2. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Museum purchase, 1969.33 Helen was worshipped and had a festival at Therapnae in Laconia ; she also had a temple at Rhodes, where she was worshipped as Dendritis (the tree goddess). Like her brothers, the Dioscuri, she was a patron deity of sailors. Her name is pre-Hellenic and in cult may go back to the pre-Greek periods. Learn More in these related articles:


In November 1952, which Agatha Christie murder-mystery play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre, London?

Mousetrap opens in London - Nov 25, 1952 - HISTORY.com Mousetrap opens in London Publisher A+E Networks “The Mousetrap,” a murder-mystery written by the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The crowd-pleasing whodunit would go on to become the longest continuously running play in history, with more than 10 million people to date attending its more than 20,000 performances in London’s West End. When “The Mousetrap” premiered in 1952, Winston Churchill was British prime minister, Joseph Stalin was Soviet ruler, and Dwight D. Eisenhower was president-elect. Christie, already a hugely successful English mystery novelist, originally wrote the drama for Queen Mary, wife of the late King George V. Initially called “Three Blind Mice,” it debuted as a 30-minute radio play on the queen’s 80th birthday in 1947. Christie later extended the play and renamed it “The Mousetrap”—a reference to the play-within-a-play performed in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” On November 25, 1952, 453 people took their seats in the Ambassadors Theatre for the London premiere of Christie’s “Mousetrap.” The drama is played out at “Monkswell Manor,” whose hosts and guests are snowed in among radio reports of a murderer on the loose. Soon a detective shows up on skis with the terrifying news that the murderer, and probably the next victim, are likely both among their number. Soon the clues and false leads pile as high as the snow. At every curtain call, the individual who has been revealed as the murderer steps forward and tells the audience that they are “partners in crime” and should “keep the secret of the whodunit locked in their heart.” Richard Attenborough and his wife, Sheila Sim, were the first stars of “The Mousetrap.” To date, more than 300 actors and actresses have appeared in the roles of the eight characters. David Raven, who played “Major Metcalf” for 4,575 performances, is in the “Guinness Book of World Records” as the world’s most durable actor, while Nancy Seabrooke is noted as the world’s most patient understudy for 6,240 performances, or 15 years, as the substitute for “Mrs. Boyle.” “The Mousetrap” is not considered Christie’s best play, and a prominent stage director once declared that “‘The Mousetrap'” should be abolished by an act of Parliament.” Nevertheless, the show’s popularity has not waned. Asked about its enduring appeal, Christie said, “It is the sort of play you can take anyone to. It is not really frightening. It is not really horrible. It is not really a farce, but it has a little bit of all these things, and perhaps that satisfies a lot of different people.” In 1974, after almost 9,000 shows, the play was moved to St. Martin’s Theatre, where it remains today. Agatha Christie, who wrote scores of best-selling mystery novels, died in 1976. Related Videos


What is the only number in the English language which is spelt using the same number of letters as the number itself?

MURDEROUS MATHS: The most pathetic and useless facts... The Most Pathetic Fact in Maths The 8th MM book is full of P.U.F.s (Perfectly Useless Facts) so before it was published we asked everyone to vote for the most pathetic, irritating and useless fact in maths! ☺ Many thanks to the thousands of you who voted, and you'll find the full results of our poll in "NUMBERS: the Key to the Universe". Here are the facts - which one would YOU choose as the most pathetic? (Check your answer with our result at the end of the list.) If you multiply 1089 x 9 you get 9801. It's reversed itself! This also works with 10989 or 109989 or 1099989 and so on. 1 is the only positive whole number that you can add to 1,000,000 and you get an answer that's bigger than if you multiply it by 1,000,000 19 = 1 x 9 + 1 + 9 and 29 = 2 x 9 + 2 + 9. This also works for 39,49,59,69,79,89 and 99. 153, 370, 371 and 407 are all the "sum of the cubes of their digits". In other words  153=13+53+33 If you divide any square number by 8 you get a remainder of 0, 1 or 4. 2 is the only number that gives the same result added to itself as it does times by itself If you multiply 21978 by 4 it turns backwards There are 12,988,816 different ways to cover a chess board with 32 dominoes. Sixty nine squared = 692 = 4761  and sixty nine cubed = 693 = 328509.  These two answers use all the digits from 0 to 9 between them. You can chop a big lump of cheese into a maximum of 93 bits with 8 straight cuts In the English language "forty" is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order. 1 � 37 = 0�027027027...  and 1 � 27 = 0�037037037... 132 = 169 and if you write both numbers backwards you get 312 = 961. This also works with 12 because 122 = 144 and 212 =441. 1/1089 = 0�00091827364554637281... (And the numbers in the 9 times table are 9,18,27,36...) 8 is the only cube that is 1 less than a square. To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719  by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front. It's the only number that does this. (Thank goodness!) The number FOUR is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself 1x9 +2 = 11 , 12x9 +3 = 111 , 123x9+4 = 1111 and so on. Have you decided which fact you think is the MOST pathetic? If you want to see our winner, click and drag your mouse across the blank box: * Fact 11 was easily voted the most pathetic! * ☺ Some visitors even sent their own facts which we've included here. Do you have a pathetic number fact that we should include? If so  please let us know! The best ones will appear here. AL enlightened our lives by telling us that TWENTY NINE is the only number that is written with as many strokes as its numerical value! (You need to write Y with 3 strokes) Gareth Latty tells us that there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in a game of chess! Matthew Sheeran says that 3,608,528,850,368,400,786,036,725 has 25 digits and divides by 25. BUT... it you just take the first n digits, the result will divide by n. For example, 360852 are the first 6 digits and 360852 divides by 6. Charles Symons tells us that he likes the 1729 fact - it's the lowest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways! In other words: 1729= 93+ 103 OR 13+ 123 Philip Davies says that an "octillion" is the lowest positive number to contain a letter "c". How mind numbingly useless - we salute you Philip! However a visitor called Peter pointed out that one octillionth is smaller... Philip Davies (again) says that "ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order. Sylvan Golden says that the biggest number you can make with three digits and any operators is 9 to the power of 9 to the power of 9. As 99 = 387420489, the final number is 9387420489 = er...well actually as it has about 200 million digits we won't bother writing it out! The PURE MATHEMATICIANS say that you can make an even bigger nu


The pudu is the world’s smallest species of which animal?

World's Smallest Deer Species 'Pudu Puda' born at Queens Zoo : Animals : Nature World News World's Smallest Deer Species 'Pudu Puda' born at Queens Zoo By Staff Reporter May 17, 2014 10:28 AM EDT The Queens Zoo, April 29, witnessed the arrival of a southern pudu fawn, a member of world's smallest deer species "Pudu puda". The female fawn weighed one pound at birth, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo announced Friday. Average age of the Pudus in captivity is 12.5 years and officials estimate that the female fawn at the zoo will weigh 20 pounds as an adult. Pudu puda are tiny, reaching a length of just 23 to 32 inches. These solitary creatures live in the temperate forests of Argentina and Chile. They are shy and bark when they sense danger and start running in a zig zag manner to outrun predators. These puny little deers are considered good jumpers and sprinters. Pudus are expert navigators and use a complex trail of markings. Each Pudu's territory ranges from  40-60 acres . "The Queens Zoo breeds Pudu as part of the Species Survival Program (SSP), a cooperative breeding program designed to enhance the genetic viability and demographic stability of animal populations in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums,"  WCS said in a  news release . International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classifies Pudu as endangered animals. Habitat loss, introduction of European animals in the region and presence of dogs have led to a decrease in Pudu numbers. Chile has been able to prevent the species from going extinct by preserving habitat. According to  IUCN , fewer than 10,000 of these deer live in the wild. WCS said that it is using research and conservation practices in Pudu's range countries to help save the animals from extinction.


Pedology is the study of what in its natural environment?

What Is Pedology | Pedologists | Pedology Definition | Meaning Of Pedology | Define Pedology | Soil Pedology | Academic Room Tweet Pedology (from Greek: πέδον, pedon, "soil"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is the study of soils in their natural environment. It is one of two main branches of soil science, the other being edaphology. Pedology deals with pedogenesis, soil morphology, and soil classification, while edaphology studies the way soils influence plants, fungi, and other living things.   Overview   Soil is not only a support for vegetation, but it is also the zone beneath our feet (the pedosphere) of numerous interactions between climate (water, air, temperature), soil life (micro-organisms, plants, animals) and its residues, the mineral material of the original and added rock, and its position in the landscape. During its formation and genesis, the soil profile slowly deepens and develops characteristic layers, called 'horizons', while a steady state balance is approached.   Soil users (such as agronomists) showed initially little concern in the dynamics of soil. They saw it as medium whose chemical, physical and biological properties were useful for the services of agronomic productivity. On the other hand, pedologists and geologists did not initially focus on the agronomic applications of the soil characteristics (edaphic properties) but upon its relation to the nature and history of landscapes. Today, there's an integration of the two disciplinary approaches as part of landscape and environmental sciences.   Pedologists are now also interested in the practical applications of a good understanding of pedogenesis processes (the evolution and functioning of soils), like interpreting its environmental history and predicting consequences of changes in land use, while agronomists understand that the cultivated soil is a complex medium, often resulting from several thousands of years of evolution. They understand that the current balance is fragile and that only a thorough knowledge of its history makes it possible to ensure its sustainable use.   Concepts Complexity in soil genesis is more common than simplicity. Soils lie at the interface of Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Therefore, a thorough understanding of soils requires some knowledge of meteorology, climatology, ecology, biology, hydrology, geomorphology, geology and many other earth sciences and natural sciences. Contemporary soils carry imprints of pedogenic processes that were active in the past, although in many cases these imprints are difficult to observe or quantify. Thus, knowledge of paleoecology, palaeogeography, glacial geology and paleoclimatology is important for the recognition and understanding of soil genesis and constitute a basis for predicting the future soil changes. Five major, external factors of formation (climate, organisms, relief, parent material and time), and several smaller, less identifiable ones, drive pedogenic processes and create soil patterns. Characteristics of soils and soil landscapes, e.g., the number, sizes, shapes and arrangements of soil bodies, each of which is characterized on the basis of soil horizons, degree of internal homogeneity, slope, aspect, landscape position, age and other properties and relationships, can be observed and measured. Distinctive bioclimatic regimes or combinations of pedogenic processes produce distinctive soils. Thus, distinctive, observable morphological features, e.g., illuvial clay accumulation in B horizons, are produced by certain combinations of pedogenic processes operative over varying periods of time. Pedogenic (soil-forming) processes act to both create and destroy order (anisotropy) within soils; these processes can proceed simultaneously. The resulting soil profile reflects the balance of these processes, present and past. The geological Principle of Uniformitarianism applies to soils, i.e., pedogenic processes active in soils today have been operating for long periods of time, back to the time of appearance of organisms on the land surface. These proce