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In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip, what was the name of Daddy Warbucks's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban?

Gisel questions1 - Pastebin.com Gisel questions1 What is the name of Dr. Seuss 's egg-hatching elephant ? horton Who was Clark Kent 's high school sweetheart ? lana lang What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ? `` A study in scarlet '' To whom did Herman Melville dedicate his novel , Moby Dick ? nathanial hawthorne What was the name of the girlfriend of Felix the Cat ? phyllis Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life , in `` France ? sebastian melmoth What was Scarlett O'Hara 's real first name ? katie How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island ? 24|twenty four George G. Moppet was the father of what comic strip character ? littlee lulu What one word was intentionally left out of the movie version of Mario Puzo 's novel , `` The Godfather '' . even though this word was the working title of the book ? mafia In the comic strips , what was the name of Mandrake the Magician 's giant partner ? lothar What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell 's Animal Farm ? nepoleon Tess Trueheart is the wife of what comic strip character ? dick tracy In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip , what was the name of Daddy Warbucks 's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban ? punjab The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a best-selling novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid-70 's . Under what name did it eventually terrify the reading and film going public ? jaws What famous American writer was granted a patent for a best-selling book that contained no words ? mark twain The Emerald City was the working title of which classic novel ? `` The wonderful wizard of oz '' What book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he killed John Lennon on 12/8/80 ? catcher in the rye In the 1953 biopic about the famous Houdini who played the starring role ? tony curtis O'Hare International airport is in which city ? chicago Rap originated In what country ? usa|united states After the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the U.S. declared war on which country ? japan What was the movie `` Twister `` about ? tornados What is the name of the prehistoric town in which The Flintstones live ? bedrock Barbie dolls were first made in which 20th-century decade ? 50's|50s|1950s American supermarkets introduced what kind of codes in the mid 70s ? barcodes|bar codes How many carats is pure gold ? 24|twentyfour|twenty four Carlos Estevez is better known as whom ? charlie sheen A 2000 year old , life size terracotta army was discovered in which country ? china How long did the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 last ? 6 days|six days RAW Paste Data What is the name of Dr. Seuss 's egg-hatching elephant ? horton Who was Clark Kent 's high school sweetheart ? lana lang What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ? `` A study in scarlet '' To whom did Herman Melville dedicate his novel , Moby Dick ? nathanial hawthorne What was the name of the girlfriend of Felix the Cat ? phyllis Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life , in `` France ? sebastian melmoth What was Scarlett O'Hara 's real first name ? katie How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island ? 24|twenty four George G. Moppet was the father of what comic strip character ? littlee lulu What one word was intentionally left out of the movie version of Mario Puzo 's novel , `` The Godfather '' . even though this word was the working title of the book ? mafia In the comic strips , what was the name of Mandrake the Magician 's giant partner ? lothar What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell 's Animal Farm ? nepoleon Tess Trueheart is the wife of what comic strip character ? dick tracy In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip , what was the name of Daddy Warbucks 's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban ? punjab The Terror of the Monster was

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The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a best-selling novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid-70's. Under what name did it eventually terrify the reading and film going public?

Gisel questions1 - Pastebin.com Gisel questions1 What is the name of Dr. Seuss 's egg-hatching elephant ? horton Who was Clark Kent 's high school sweetheart ? lana lang What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ? `` A study in scarlet '' To whom did Herman Melville dedicate his novel , Moby Dick ? nathanial hawthorne What was the name of the girlfriend of Felix the Cat ? phyllis Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life , in `` France ? sebastian melmoth What was Scarlett O'Hara 's real first name ? katie How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island ? 24|twenty four George G. Moppet was the father of what comic strip character ? littlee lulu What one word was intentionally left out of the movie version of Mario Puzo 's novel , `` The Godfather '' . even though this word was the working title of the book ? mafia In the comic strips , what was the name of Mandrake the Magician 's giant partner ? lothar What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell 's Animal Farm ? nepoleon Tess Trueheart is the wife of what comic strip character ? dick tracy In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip , what was the name of Daddy Warbucks 's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban ? punjab The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a best-selling novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid-70 's . Under what name did it eventually terrify the reading and film going public ? jaws What famous American writer was granted a patent for a best-selling book that contained no words ? mark twain The Emerald City was the working title of which classic novel ? `` The wonderful wizard of oz '' What book was Mark David Chapman carrying with him when he killed John Lennon on 12/8/80 ? catcher in the rye In the 1953 biopic about the famous Houdini who played the starring role ? tony curtis O'Hare International airport is in which city ? chicago Rap originated In what country ? usa|united states After the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the U.S. declared war on which country ? japan What was the movie `` Twister `` about ? tornados What is the name of the prehistoric town in which The Flintstones live ? bedrock Barbie dolls were first made in which 20th-century decade ? 50's|50s|1950s American supermarkets introduced what kind of codes in the mid 70s ? barcodes|bar codes How many carats is pure gold ? 24|twentyfour|twenty four Carlos Estevez is better known as whom ? charlie sheen A 2000 year old , life size terracotta army was discovered in which country ? china How long did the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 last ? 6 days|six days RAW Paste Data What is the name of Dr. Seuss 's egg-hatching elephant ? horton Who was Clark Kent 's high school sweetheart ? lana lang What was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ? `` A study in scarlet '' To whom did Herman Melville dedicate his novel , Moby Dick ? nathanial hawthorne What was the name of the girlfriend of Felix the Cat ? phyllis Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life , in `` France ? sebastian melmoth What was Scarlett O'Hara 's real first name ? katie How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island ? 24|twenty four George G. Moppet was the father of what comic strip character ? littlee lulu What one word was intentionally left out of the movie version of Mario Puzo 's novel , `` The Godfather '' . even though this word was the working title of the book ? mafia In the comic strips , what was the name of Mandrake the Magician 's giant partner ? lothar What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell 's Animal Farm ? nepoleon Tess Trueheart is the wife of what comic strip character ? dick tracy In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip , what was the name of Daddy Warbucks 's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban ? punjab The Terror of the Monster was

World War 2 history: memories from the day war broke out ...

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Who was British Prime Minister when World War II broke out?

World War 2 history : memories from the day war broke out told to Melvyn Bragg - Telegraph World War Two World War 2 history : memories from the day war broke out told to Melvyn Bragg Seventy years ago this Thursday , Neville Chamberlain announced that Britain was at war with Germany . For a new documentary , Melvyn Bragg sought the recollections of people – from evacuee to aristocrat , soldier to refugee – on whose lives that first day of conflict left an indelible imprint King George VI shakes hands with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as he left No,10 Downing Street following the declaration of war with Germany after the invasion of Poland . Photo : GETTY 5:19PM BST 27 Aug 2009 The 'voice ' of the BBC in 1939 was that of Alvar Lidell ; a measured , cultivated tone , calm and authoritative . It is probably true to say that almost everyone in Britain was listening to what was then called the wireless on the morning of Sunday , September 3 1939 . The wireless had become the oracle through which the nation was to learn its fate . 'At 11.15 , ' Lidell said , 'that is , in about two minutes , the Prime Minister will broadcast to the nation . Please stand by . ' From diaries and testaments , oral and written , we know that people braced themselves for the worst . In those two minutes , there was time for older listeners to remember the blight and deaths and deep wounds of the First World War ; time for the prescient to call up regrets for the British government 's non-interference in Spain , a lost opportunity , perhaps , to check the fascists ; time for a few to curse the policy of appeasement , and for many to be forced to ponder on the headlines of the previous two days , which had reported the heavy civilian bombing of Poland by the Germans . Already , the entire population of Britain had gas masks in case Hitler launched a poisonous gas attack . Mass evacuation plans for children were under way . Back-garden bomb shelters were being built . Above London , in the blue skies on that idyllic late-summer Sunday morning , as the churches emptied their larger-than-usual numbers for the early services , barrage balloons floated high , as if announcing a party . At 11.15 , the Prime Minister , Neville Chamber­lain , delivered his broadcast from the Cabinet Room of 10 Downing Street , struggling to keep the anguish from his voice . 'This morning , the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note , stating that unless we heard from them – by 11 o'clock – that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . ' Then came the words most feared by all . ' I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that , consequently , this country is at war with Germany . ' The greatest and most destructive war in history had begun . Fifty-five million lives would be lost ; there would be the Holocaust , the atom bomb , the making and breaking of empires and nations . The world would change utterly – all foretold in that grave announcement on a balmy Sunday morning in London almost 70 years ago . Related Articles Foyle 's War creator on the dark side of the war 17 Aug 2009 I suggested to ITV that we make a television programme about that particular day . I am as aware as anyone that history moves in decades and not days , and that events come from undercurrents , and huge tides crash on to the shore after a long journey . But this was a chance to mark and record that breaking on the shore , that one day when it was said all over the world , 'It 's war . ' The idea was simple : to find out what had happened on that day from film archives and personal recollections – not only in Britain , but in Germany , France and beyond . My own stake in this was that I was born a month after war was declared . My childhood was experienced in the presence of war , the games we played were war games , the daily rituals were war-related , such as the blackout that covered the windows so that no chink of light could help the German bombers

Oflag IVC | Colditz Castle Tours

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How was Oflag IVC prison camp better known?

Oflag IVC | Colditz Castle Tours Colditz Castle Tours “ The whole story of Colditz will , no doubt , one day be told , and it will make an enthralling story ; but it must be written by one of the men who was there . ” ‘ Escape and Liberation , 1940-1945′ by A.J.Evans . These words , by the author of ‘ The Escape Club ’ , one of the greatest escape books of the First World War and one which inspired Pat Reid , British Escape Officer at Colditz from 1940-1942 , to ultimately make a ‘ Home Run ’ succinctly describe our own personal views of the ‘ Colditz Story ’ . Therefore when we re-tell the story of Colditz we use primary source information from both the POW and German perspectives . We would encourage anyone who is inspired by this website to read all the relevant books and do what they can to keep the memory of these men , of all nationalities , on whatever ’ side ’ to live on through generations to come . To this end we have constructed a suggested reading list for Colditz books which name some of the lesser known works on Colditz which are a must read . During WW2 the Castle was located in the very centre of a Greater Nazi Germany , ideally located for a PoW Camp far from any neutral frontiers . In the Cold War it was located in the East of what was the DDR , or East Germany . Today it lies on the eastern borders of a once again unified Germany . For many years the castle fell into disrepair but recent investments have seen great changes , some good , some maybe not so . It is a constant battle to preserve WW2 areas but what one can not deny is the sense of atmosphere that penetrates the thick mediaeval walls and transports you back in time to ‘ daring tales of do ’ . There is only one way to ‘ keep the spirit ’ of Colditz alive… . that is by going . We visit Colditz more than anyone else and have guided more guests than anyone else . To this end we share our expertise and exceptional local knowledge gained from many years of experience with you and bring out the very best in local German hospitality to make your “ Escape to Colditz ” a once in a lifetime experience .

Theodore Roosevelt Biography (U.S. President)

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Who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as President?

Theodore Roosevelt Biography ( U.S. President ) Died : 6 January 1919 ( arterial blood clot ) Birthplace : New York City , New York Best known as : President of the United States , 1901-1909 Teddy Roosevelt was a weak and asthmatic child who grew up to be one of the most robust and ambitious U.S. presidents ever . A former New York City police commissioner ( 1895-97 ) , author , and hero of the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ) , he reluctantly accepted an offer to become William McKinley 's vice president upon McKinley 's re-election in 1900 . When McKinley was assassinated in 1901 , Roosevelt became the youngest man ever to become president . ( He was 42 . ) He served two terms , built up the Navy , used `` battleship diplopmacy '' to create an independent Panama and then build the Panama Canal , won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War , designated dozens of national forests , parks , and monuments , and strengthened the executive branch through his progressive agenda and the sheer force of his personality . He is often remembered for his policy pronouncement , `` Speak softly and carry a big stick . '' He was succeeded in 1909 by William Howard Taft . Roosevelt ran for president again in 1912 , as a candidate of the National Progressive ( or `` Bull Moose '' ) Party ; he beat Taft but came in second to the next president , Democrat Woodrow Wilson . In the last years of his life he traveled widely , explored Brazil , supported America 's entry into World War I , and published several books including Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography in 1913 . Extra credit : Teddy Roosevelt was fifth cousin to a later president , Franklin Roosevelt … Teddy was the first president to visit a foreign country , Panama , in 1906… He was also the first American to win a Nobel Prize… He was the 26th U.S. president… The Rough Riders were an all-volunteer cavalry regiment organized by Roosevelt and Leonard Wood in 1898 ; on July 1 of that year he led the Rough Riders on successful charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Heights ( better known as San Juan Hill ) near Santiago , Cuba , thus cementing his fame in America… John F. Kennedy remains the youngest man ever elected president , at the age of 43… Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880 ; he attended law school at Columbia but did not graduate… Roosevelt was married to the former Alice Hathaway Lee from 1880 until her death after giving birth to their daughter Alice in 1884 . He married Edith Kermit Carow in 1886 , and they had five children : Theodore , Jr. ( b . 1887 ) , Kermit ( b . 1889 ) , Ethel ( b . 1891 ) , Archibald ( b . 1894 ) and Quentin ( b . 1897 ) . Quentin , a pilot , was killed in France in World War I… Teddy ’ s mother died the same day as his first wife , 14 February 1886 . Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2 ? , LLC . All rights reserved .

Tapestry Revisited - A Tribute To Carole King: Various ...

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To whom did the Bee Gees pay tribute in Tapestry Revisited?

Tapestry Revisited - A Tribute To Carole King : Various artists : Amazon.co.uk : MP3 Downloads TITLE added to MP3 Basket Tapestry Revisited - A Tribute To Carole King MP3 Download , 14 Jul 2009 `` Please retry '' Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace . To enjoy Prime Music , go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.co.uk ( UK ) . Fix in Music Library Sold by Amazon Media EU S.à r.l .. By placing your order , you agree to our Terms of Use . Popular Albums Original Release Date : 14 July 2009 Release Date : 14 July 2009 Label : Rhino Atlantic Record Company Required Metadata : Music file metadata contains unique purchase identifier . Learn more . Total Length : 50:43 By Amanda Richards VINE VOICE on 10 Mar . 2006 Format : Audio CD One of the best albums of the '70s , redone by some of the best talents in the business . It 's pretty darn hard to improve on a classic , but Rod Stewart , Aretha Franklin , Amy Grant , Richard Marx , Celine Dion , the Bee Gees and Bebe and Cece Winans , among others certainly give it their best shot . Rod Stewart singing `` So Far Away '' is a classic by itself , but also look for Richard Marx ' version of `` Beautiful '' ; Bebe and Cece Winans ( with Aretha Franklin ) putting a world of soul into `` You 've Got A Friend '' ; Faith Hill 's `` Where You Lead '' and the Bee Gees ' `` Will You Love Me Tomorrow ? `` . The Manhattan Transfer also perform a great `` Smackwater Jack '' . Not quite the original , but a very reasonable facsimile thereof

James Caan - IMDb

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Who was born first, James Caan or Michael Douglas?

James Caan - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Director A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status , James Caan is New York-born and bred . He was born in the Bronx , to Sophie ( Falkenstein ) and Arthur Caan , Jewish immigrants from Germany . ... See full bio » Born :

Cheap Ferries from Brindisi to Zante | Cheap Ferry Tickets ...

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In which country is the deepwater ort of Brindisi?

Cheap Ferries from Brindisi to Zante | Cheap Ferry Tickets & Cross Channel Ferries Cheap Ferries from Brindisi to Zante Brindisi is a small ancient city at the southern tip of Italy . It is a popular docking station for ocean steam liners due to its deepwater harbour . When passing through Brindisi either for leisure or to catch a passenger ferry , be sure to visit a couple local attractions such as the Frederick II castle and the numerous cathedrals . For those that wish to connect to the Italian seaport city of Brindisi from Zante , the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines Ferries links the two together . The company has served ferry routes across the Eastern Mediterranean Sea for more than 100 years . Travellers would never guess that only two vessels operated the services across the sea as routes are nearly almost on time and very efficient . As the birthplace of Greek National Anthem writer , D. Solomos , Zante ranks number three in terms of the size of the Ionian Islands . The ferry port is located just next to the main town for those who wish to explore the surrounding islands . For those with a bit more time to spare , be sure to stop by the Venetian Fortress or Bohali Hill . When travelling from Brindisi to the surrounding Greek islands , it is best to plan ahead . Depending on your travelling budget , prices vary for ferry rides throughout the year . For those on a tighter budget , the winter and low season offer fares for considerable cheaper prices than during the high or medium seasons . However , whenever you decide to travel , be sure to book in advance to ensure a seat . Hellenic Mediterranean Lines has a direct ferry service departing Brindisi to Zante with varying timetables throughout the year . Blue Star Ferries also offers ferry services from Brinidisi to surrounding islands . Superfast Ferries are another option for navigating around the Eastern Mediterranean from Brindisi .

American National Biography Online

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The word anchorman was credited by Sig Michelson about which CBS News Legend?

American National Biography Online Click Print on your browser to print the article . Close this window to return to the ANB Online . Walter Cronkite anchors his last CBS election night special in New York City , 4 November 1980 . Associated Press Cronkite , Walter Leland , Jr. ( 4 Nov. 1916-17 July 2009 ) , broadcast journalist , was born in Saint Joseph , Missouri , the son of Walter Leland Cronkite , a dentist , and Helen Fritsche Cronkite . Shortly after his birth , the family moved to Kansas City . When he was ten years old his father accepted a position with a dental college in Houston , Texas . There , at San Jacinto High School , Cronkite 's love of journalism emerged . Starting as the sports editor of the Campus Cub , Cronkite became editor in his senior year . Fred Birney , a veteran newspaper editor , encouraged the young journalist to enter a contest sponsored by the Texas Interscholastic Press Association . In the summer of 1933 Cronkite 's victory , and Birney 's assistance , helped land Cronkite a job as a copy boy at the Houston Post , one of three daily newspapers serving the growing Texas metropolis . That fall Cronkite enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin . Although he loved journalism , he did not consider it an appropriate career for a college graduate . Instead he pursued mining engineering , but the inability to pass a first-year physics course forced him to reconsider his major . Cronkite began studying journalism amid a variety of extracurricular activities . He wrote for the Daily Texan , acted in productions of the University Curtain Club , and broadcast sports reports for radio station KNOW . Cronkite enjoyed student journalism , and upon hearing that William Randolph Hearst 's International News Service ( INS ) was opening a bureau at the Texas state capitol , he obtained a part-time position as an office boy . `` That job , '' Cronkite later recalled in his autobiography , `` may have been one of the best breaks of my life . '' He became engrossed in Texas politics , eventually withdrawing from the university upon receiving a full-time job offer from the Scripps-Howard Austin bureau . The Houston Press was a Scripps-Howard paper , and Cronkite returned to Houston when a newsroom position became available there in 1935 . He lasted one year in the Houston Press newsroom before being hired by the new radio station KCMO in Kansas City , Missouri . Cronkite reported sports , news , and weather . The KCMO audience knew Cronkite by the imposed pseudonym `` Walter Wilcox , '' the station 's way of controlling a popular broadcaster 's `` brand '' identity should he later depart . It was at KCMO that Cronkite first met Mary Elizabeth ( Betsy ) Maxwell , a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the station 's advertising writer . Cronkite and Maxwell married in 1940 ; they had three children . By this time , Cronkite had begun working for the United Press ( UP ) wire service . In 1939 he obtained a reporter 's position in the Kansas City bureau ; his assignments included reporting from various locales in the American Southwest . In El Paso , Texas , Cronkite opened a new UP bureau , where he regularly rewrote newswire stories for local radio broadcasts . He continued dabbling in radio , and when executives from the Oklahoma City radio station WKY found Cronkite in El Paso , they offered him a sports announcing position . The WKY job tripled his UP salary , and he moved to Oklahoma to broadcast University of Oklahoma football games . Yet Cronkite missed Missouri , and when offered a public relations position in Kansas City with the newly organized Braniff Airways , he left WKY . Within a year he was back working for UP and pressing his supervisors for an overseas reporting assignment . The war in Europe had grown more pronounced , but his requests were rebuffed until after Pearl Harbor . In early 1942 he was assigned to report on the North Atlantic convoys . That fall Cronkite covered the invasion of North Africa by the U.S. Army . After a brief return to the United States , he moved to UP 's London office . He was assigned to report on the air forces of the United States and Great Britain , in particular the U.S. Ninth Air Force . Cronkite worked closely with several journalistic colleagues in a team that

SparkNotes: The Picture of Dorian Gray: Plot Overview

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Who wrote The Picture Of Dorian Gray?

SparkNotes : The Picture of Dorian Gray : Plot Overview The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Context Character List In the stately London home of his aunt , Lady Brandon , the well-known artist Basil Hallward meets Dorian Gray . Dorian is a cultured , wealthy , and impossibly beautiful young man who immediately captures Basil ’ s artistic imagination . Dorian sits for several portraits , and Basil often depicts him as an ancient Greek hero or a mythological figure . When the novel opens , the artist is completing his first portrait of Dorian as he truly is , but , as he admits to his friend Lord Henry Wotton , the painting disappoints him because it reveals too much of his feeling for his subject . Lord Henry , a famous wit who enjoys scandalizing his friends by celebrating youth , beauty , and the selfish pursuit of pleasure , disagrees , claiming that the portrait is Basil ’ s masterpiece . Dorian arrives at the studio , and Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry , who he fears will have a damaging influence on the impressionable , young Dorian . Basil ’ s fears are well founded ; before the end of their first conversation , Lord Henry upsets Dorian with a speech about the transient nature of beauty and youth . Worried that these , his most impressive characteristics , are fading day by day , Dorian curses his portrait , which he believes will one day remind him of the beauty he will have lost . In a fit of distress , he pledges his soul if only the painting could bear the burden of age and infamy , allowing him to stay forever young . After Dorian ’ s outbursts , Lord Henry reaffirms his desire to own the portrait ; however , Basil insists the portrait belongs to Dorian . Over the next few weeks , Lord Henry ’ s influence over Dorian grows stronger . The youth becomes a disciple of the “ new Hedonism ” and proposes to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure . He falls in love with Sibyl Vane , a young actress who performs in a theater in London ’ s slums . He adores her acting ; she , in turn , refers to him as “ Prince Charming ” and refuses to heed the warnings of her brother , James Vane , that Dorian is no good for her . Overcome by her emotions for Dorian , Sibyl decides that she can no longer act , wondering how she can pretend to love on the stage now that she has experienced the real thing . Dorian , who loves Sibyl because of her ability to act , cruelly breaks his engagement with her . After doing so , he returns home to notice that his face in Basil ’ s portrait of him has changed : it now sneers . Frightened that his wish for his likeness in the painting to bear the ill effects of his behavior has come true and that his sins will be recorded on the canvas , he resolves to make amends with Sibyl the next day . The following afternoon , however , Lord Henry brings news that Sibyl has killed herself . At Lord Henry ’ s urging , Dorian decides to consider her death a sort of artistic triumph—she personified tragedy—and to put the matter behind him . Meanwhile , Dorian hides his portrait in a remote upper room of his house , where no one other than he can watch its transformation . Lord Henry gives Dorian a book that describes the wicked exploits of a nineteenth-century Frenchman ; it becomes Dorian ’ s bible as he sinks ever deeper into a life of sin and corruption . He lives a life devoted to garnering new experiences and sensations with no regard for conventional standards of morality or the consequences of his actions . Eighteen years pass . Dorian ’ s reputation suffers in circles of polite London society , where rumors spread regarding his scandalous exploits . His peers nevertheless continue to accept him because he remains young and beautiful . The figure in the painting , however , grows increasingly wizened and hideous . On a dark , foggy night , Basil Hallward arrives at Dorian ’ s home to confront him about the rumors that plague his reputation . The two argue , and Dorian eventually offers Basil a look at his ( Dorian ’ s ) soul . He shows Basil the now-hideous portrait , and Hallward , horrified , begs him to repent . Dorian claims it

Best 90s Songs - Stereogum

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Who had a big 90s No 1 with This Is How We Do It?

Best 90s Songs - Stereogum 34 Third Eye Blind – “ Semi-Charmed Life ” 35 Oasis – “ Wonderwall ” 36 C+C Music Factory – “ Gon na Make You Sweat ( Everybody Dance Now ) ” 37 Green Day – “ Good Riddance ( Time of Your Life ) ” 38 Christina Aguilera – “ Genie In A Bottle ” 39 Goo Goo Dolls – “ Iris ” 40 Color Me Badd – “ I Wan na Sex You Up ” 41 Spin Doctors – “ Two Princes ” 42 Collective Soul – “ Shine ” 43 En Vogue – “ My Lovin ’ ( You ’ re Never Gon na Get It ) ” 44 The Fugees – “ Killing Me Softly With His Song ” 45 Hootie & the Blowfish – “ Only Wan na Be With You ” 46 Shania Twain – “ You ’ re Still the One ” 47 Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch – “ Good Vibrations ” 48 Matchbox Twenty – “ 3 AM ” 49 Jewel – “ Who Will Save Your Soul ” 50 Alice in Chains – “ Man in the Box ” 51 Tupac ( Feat . Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman ) – “ California Love ” 52 Sugar Ray – “ Fly ” 53 Naughty by Nature – “ O.P.P . ” 54 Joan Osborne – “ One of Us ” 55 Fiona Apple – “ Criminal ” 56 L.L . Cool J – “ Mama Said Knock You Out ” 57 Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule – “ Can I Get A… ” 58 Sophie B. Hawkins – “ Damn , I Wish I Was Your Lover ” 59 Weezer – “ Buddy Holly ” 60 Bell Biv DeVoe – “ Poison ” 61 Sheryl Crow – “ All I Wan na Do ” 62 Live – “ I Alone ” 63 The Notorious B.I.G . ( Feat . Mase & Puff Daddy ) – “ Mo Money Mo Problems ” 64 The Presidents of the United States of America – “ Peaches ” 65 Digital Underground – “ The Humpty Dance ” 66 Edwin McCain – “ I ’ ll Be ” 67 Deee-Lite – “ Groove Is In The Heart ” 68 Will Smith – “ Gettin ’ Jiggy Wit It ” 69 Korn – “ Freak on a Leash ” 70 Jamiroquai – “ Virtual Insanity ” 72 Barenaked Ladies – “ One Week ” 73 Marcy Playground – “ Sex and Candy ” 74 Cher – “ Believe ” 77 Ice Cube – “ It Was a Good Day ” 78 Lenny Kravitz – “ Are You Gon na Go My Way ” 79 Meredith Brooks – “ Bitch ” 80 Right Said Fred – “ I ’ m Too Sexy ” 81 Paula Cole – “ I Don ’ t Want to Wait ” 82 Geto Boys – “ Mind Playing Tricks on Me ” 83 The Breeders – “ Cannonball ” 85 Cypress Hill – “ Insane In The Brain ” 86 The Cranberries – “ Linger ” 87 Billy Ray Cyrus – “ Achy Breaky Heart ” 88 Duncan Sheik – “ Barely Breathing ” 89 Liz Phair – “ Never Said ” 90 New Radicals – “ You Get What You Give ” 91 Sarah McLachlan – “ Building a Mystery ” 92 Public Enemy – “ 911 Is A Joke ” 93 Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – “ Stay ” 94 Fastball – “ The Way ” 95 Montell Jordan – “ This is How We Do It ” 96 Nelson – “ ( Can ’ t Live Without Your ) Love and Affection ” 97 Prince & The New Power Generation – “ Gett Off ” 98 EMF – “ Unbelievable ”

Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory - Tourism Australia

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Which national park, famous for aboriginal rock paintings, is near Darwin?

Kakadu National Park , Northern Territory - Tourism Australia Kakadu National Park Australia.com does not support the internet browser you are using . Please upgrade to a more recent browser so that you can explore the destinations and experiences that await you as you plan your Australian holiday . Welcome to the official Australian tourism website . This site uses cookies . Find out more . Today 's weather at Kakadu National Park Come and explore World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park , around three hours east of Darwin . Immerse yourself in World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park , a natural and cultural wonder around three hours from Darwin . Discover detailed Aboriginal art galleries , hike to the top of rugged escarpments and cruise the wetlands past waterlilies , waterfalls , crocodiles and migratory birds . Drive the Nature 's Way route from Darwin , or add Katherine and Arnhem Land for a longer Top End adventure . What you can see in Kakadu See rare flora and fauna , four wheel drive to stunning gorges and see Aboriginal rock art created by the Dreamtime ancestors of the traditional owners . Kakadu National Park Highlights Kakadu National Park Highlights It has been 30 years since Crocodile Dundee captivated the international film market , shining a spotlight on Australia ’ s Northern Territory . The spectacular scenery of the Northern Territory and rugged Kakadu landscapes have certainly not lost any of their appeal , and there are so many ways you can experience Kakadu . The Ancient Art of Kakadu The Ancient Art of Kakadu The Ancient Art of Kakadu In amongst the wetlands , wildlife and rugged gorges , World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park holds one of the highest concentrated areas of rock art in the world . As many as 5,000 Aboriginal sites have been found here , including rock art , shelters , stone tools , grindstones and ceremonial ochre . This detailed , dramatic record of life in Kakadu stretches back more than 50,000 years - from the first evidence of human occupation to the arrival of Europeans . Litchfield National Park Litchfield National Park , with its lush woodlands , spectacular waterfalls , sparkling plunge pools and tall termite mounds is an increasingly popular trip from Darwin . In Northern Territory terms it 's just a short two-hour drive away . What 's more all the main natural attractions - including Buley Rockhole and the dramatic Florence , Tolmer and Wangi falls - are easily accessible from Litchfield 's main road . Check out the cleverly-constructed termite mounds , swim in pandanus-lined pools and take scenic walks on a day trip . Or stay , camp and hike or 4WD to the more remote reaches of the park . Guide to Arnhem Land Bordered by Kakadu National Park , the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria , Arnhem Land is a vast , unspoiled wilderness area of more than 97,000 square kilometres ( 37,452 square miles ) . Rich in Aboriginal culture , Arnhem Land offers unique indigenous experiences , rock art and some of the best fishing in the world . Nature 's Way Wind through the Adelaide and Mary River wetlands to World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park . Here you can bushwalk through rugged escarpments and lush rainforest and discover a treasure trove of Aboriginal rock ark . Learn about the Territory 's pioneering history in Pine Creek and swim in crystal-clear waterholes in the tarzan landscape of Litchfield National Park . You can do this dream drive on a fully sealed road in a two-wheel-drive vehicle . Katherine The Northern Territory 's Katherine region stretches from Dunmarra in the south to the Daly River region in the north . In total it covers an incredible 480,000 sq kilometres . From east to west it touches both the Queensland and West Australian borders . Katherine and its surrounds are the place to go for true outback adventure and indigenous experiences . Guide to Northern Territory Tropical Summer Guide to Northern Territory Tropical Summer Take a look at what ’ s happening in and around Kakadu Your first steps to Kakadu Just three hours drive from Darwin , there are many points of interest in Kakadu National Park . Nourlangie Rock { `` data '' : [ { `` name '' : '' Western Australia '' , '' id '' : '' ||WA '' } , { `` name '' : '' Southern Rural Heritage , Western Australia '' , '' id '' : '' |79000572|WA '' } , { `` name '' :

Gloria (TV Series 1982–1983) - IMDb

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In TV's All In The Family what was Mike and Gloria's son called?

Gloria ( TV Series 1982–1983 ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title . Some parts of this page wo n't work property . Please reload or try later . X Beta I 'm Watching This ! Keep track of everything you watch ; tell your friends . Error This spin-off of `` All in the Family '' features the further adventures of Gloria Stivic and her son Joey . She and Mike are separated and she 's gotten a job in a veterinarian 's office . Creators : a list of 24 titles created 13 Jun 2011 a list of 40 titles created 10 Dec 2013 a list of 6 titles created 03 Jun 2014 a list of 25 titles created 26 Sep 2014 a list of 818 titles created 1 month ago Search for `` Gloria `` 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 . Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title ? The further misadventures of Archie Bunker , now the owner of a local pub , and his regulars . Stars : Carroll O'Connor , Danielle Brisebois , Allan Melvin A working class bigot constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day . Stars : Carroll O'Connor , Jean Stapleton , Rob Reiner 704 Hauser ( TV Series 1994 ) Comedy Controversial show about a politically correct multi-ethnical family who moves into Archie Bunker 's old house . Stars : John Amos , Lynnie Godfrey , T.E . Russell Checking In ( TV Series 1981 ) Comedy The misadventures of Florence Johnson , a hotel maid who was previously seen serving the Jeffersons . Stars : Marla Gibbs , Patrick Collins , Robert Costanzo The sit-com takes us into the further adventures of the characters from the movie of the same name . Stars : Rachel Dennison , Valerie Curtin , Sally Struthers Emily Cates is left at home alone when a stranger breaks in and holds her hostage . Director : Ivan Nagy Edit Storyline This spin-off of `` All in the Family '' features the further adventures of Gloria Stivic and her son Joey . She and Mike are separated and she 's gotten a job in a veterinarian 's office . Did You Know ? Trivia Carroll O'Connor was asked by Sally Strothers to play Archie in.the pilot but he refused because he thought the show was a bad idea . See more » Connections ( United States ) – See all my reviews All in the Family actually spun off another show . You actually forgot another spin-off . Marla Gibb 's character Florence from The Jeffersons was spun off in a series called Checking In ( 1981 ) . It did not last and her character returned to her original show . That was a plus for The Jeffersons . She was brilliant on the original show but the writing was very weak on her spin-off . Another show that caused multiple spin-offs was Love American Style ... which gave us Happy Days which gave us Laverne and Shirley , Mork and Mindy , Joanie Loves Chacchi and Out of the Blue . In Mork and Out characters appeared only once in Happy Days and then they were spun off into their own series . 2 of 8 people found this review helpful . Was this review helpful to you ? Yes

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — Free listening, videos ...

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Who sang with Crosby, Stills and Young?

Crosby , Stills , Nash & Young — Free listening , videos , concerts , stats and photos at Last.fm 70s Crosby , Stills , Nash & Young is a folk-rock supergroup formed when Crosby , Stills & Nash ( Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield , David Crosby from the Byrds , and Graham Nash from the Hollies ) asked Neil Young , also of Buffalo Springfield to join them in 1969 and form `` Crosby , Stills , Nash & Young '' . Commonly referred to by their initials CSNY , the band is primarily known for their four-part vocal harmonies . They were one of the few North American groups that rivaled the Beatles… read more

BBC - Primary History - Famous People - John Logie Baird

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In which John Logie Baird invent television?

BBC - Primary History - Famous People - John Logie Baird John Logie Baird Why is Baird famous ? What Baird did John Logie Baird was a pioneer of television . Other people helped to invent television ( TV ) . But Baird was the first to show TV pictures to the world . When did he live ? Baird was born in 1888 . He was born before there was radio or television . There were few cars on the roads , and no planes in the skies . When Baird died in 1946 , there were rockets , jet planes , the first computers - and television . TV changed the world Baird 's television showed 'live ' pictures in people 's homes . TV today works on a different system from Baird 's . However , by showing that TV was possible , Baird helped change the world . Today , almost every home has television . Growing up Baird 's family John Logie Baird was born in Scotland . He lived in the small fishing town of Helensburgh . His father John was a Christian church minister . His mother , Jessie Inglis , was from Glasgow . John was born on 13 August 1888 . He had an older brother James , and two older sisters , Annie and Jean ( known as 'Tottie ' ) . School days John hated school . He was often ill , so he missed lessons . He did not like games lessons , after which the boys had to take cold baths ! He saved his pocket money to buy a camera . He was excited by cameras , cars and telephones . The young engineer When John was 12 , he made his own telephone . He joined his phone to the homes of four friends , by hanging wires from trees and chimneys . He had to take down his wires after the driver of a horse bus had his hat knocked off ! John and his friend Godfrey made a glider . Somehow it flew off the roof with John in it ! He was lucky not to be badly hurt when the glider crashed in the garden . Ahead of the times The Bairds ' house was the first in the town to have electricity . At 13 , John built a generator , to make electric power to light the house . Sometimes he behaved like an absent-minded professor . How his cousins laughed when he scratched his head , holding a sticky porridge spoon ! Becoming an inventor Student days Baird liked science . He loved stories about the future . One day people might send pictures through the air . Radio ( then called 'wireless ' ) did this with sounds . Why not pictures ? In 1906 , aged 18 , Baird went to college in Glasgow to study engineering . It took him eight years to finish , because he had time off for illness . Making money World War I began in 1914 . Baird tried to join the Army , but was unfit . So he worked in a factory . He did not like it , and felt sorry for factory workers . He went into business on his own , hoping to get rich . Baird in business Baird sold medicines . He invented a shaving razor made of glass ( so it would not rust ) . He sold extra warm socks for soldiers . He was still not well . His doctor told him he needed sunshine . So Baird went to the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean . He started a factory making jam and pickles . Mystery experiments People passing Baird 's house were puzzled . What were those strange flashing lights ? Baird was busy with experiments . He was trying to send pictures through the air . Back to London Back in Britain , Baird started a shop in London . He sold a soap called 'Baird 's Speedy Cleaner ' . In 1923 , he moved to Hastings , beside the sea . One day he wrote to a friend , ' I have invented a means of seeing by wireless [ radio ] ' . His friend said , 'stick to soap ' ! Moving pictures By the 1920s people could watch films in cinemas . The films were 'silent ' ( no sound ) . At home , people could listen to the 'wireless ' , but

Licence to Kill (song) - James Bond Wiki - Wikia

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Who sang the title song for the Bond film License To Kill?

Licence to Kill ( song ) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Licence to Kill ( song ) Share Ad blocker interference detected ! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising . We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you ’ ve made further modifications . Remove the custom ad blocker rule ( s ) and the page will load as expected . Licence to Kill is the theme song of the Bond film of the same name . It was written by Narada Michael Walden , Jeffrey Cohen , and Walter Afanasieff . The song was performed by the legendary `` Empress of Soul '' , Gladys Knight . Lyrics I feel , I 've got to hold on to your love , Hey baby , thought you were the one who tried to run away , ohh , baby , was n't I the one who made you want to stay ? please do n't bet that you 'll ever escape me , once I get my sights on you . Got a license to kill , and you know I 'm going straight for your heart , got a license to kill , anyone who tries to tear us apart , license to kill . Hey baby , think you need a friend to stand here by your side ? yes you do , ohh , baby , now you can depend on me to make things right , please do n't bet that you 'll ever escape me , once I get my sights on you . Got a license to kill , and you know I 'm going straight for your heart , got a license to kill , anyone who tries to tear us apart . Say that somebody tries to make a move on you , In the blink of an eye , I will be there too , and they better know why I 'm gon na make them 'em pay , till their dying day ,

Michael Jackson — Black or White — Listen ... - Last.fm

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Black or White came from which Michael Jackson album?

Michael Jackson — Black or White — Listen , watch , download and discover music for free at Last.fm dance `` Black or White '' is the lead single from Michael Jackson 's Dangerous album . It was released in November , 11 1991 . `` Black or White '' is a mix of rock , and dance-pop.Written , composed , and arranged by Jackson with the rap lyrics by Bill Bottrell , it is a song that promotes racial harmony . The song 's introduction and main riff are performed by guitarist Slash and Bill Bottrell . The song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 , the UK Singles Chart… read more Do n't want to see ads ? Subscribe now Similar Tracks

Keyboard problems with my laptop - TechSpot Forums

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On a computer keyboard, which letter is between G ad J?

Keyboard problems with my laptop - TechSpot Forums TechSpot Forums 1 2 3 Next > I bought a laptop recently and one day I fell asleep while watching a movie on it and I think my daughter might have spilled something on it because when I woke up certain keys type more than one character when you touch them . ex . i8 w\ j7 Is this a fixable problem ? Can I somehow take the keys off and clean under them ? I tried reformatting and reinstalling windows but to no avail . help me please # 1 Nodsu TS Rookie Posts : 5,837 +6 Yes , you can open the thing up and clean it . You might want to let professionals do it though - laptops are rather difficult to take apart and put together . Matrim TS Rookie Topic Starter kinda what I figured but I was hoping I could do it myself Oh well NINA412 TS Rookie AM having problems with Keyboard with my laptop can someone please help me .......... my key board types different letters if i hit like letter `` M '' i get letter `` O '' `` K '' brings figure `` 2 '' instead .... AND i - 5 CAN SAMEONE TELL ME IF I CAN fix this on my own THANK YOU Peddant TS Rookie Posts : 1,446 Matrim said : Is this a fixable problem ? Can I somehow take the keys off and clean under Click to expand ... This tells you what ` s possible - http : //www.computing.net/howto/simple/keyboard/ # 5 Nodsu TS Rookie Posts : 5,837 +6 You have turned Num Lock on and you get the numbers that are printed on these very keys . Turn off Num Lock . tdeg TS Rookie Posts : 119 What kinda of laptop is it ? We can probably provide better information if you give us more . keyboard problem with my laptop i have gatway laptop can you please help me ? thank you howard_hopkinso TS Rookie Posts : 24,177 +19 Hello and welcome to Techspot . Nodsu said : You have turned Num Lock on and you get the numbers that are printed on these very keys . Turn off Num Lock . Click to expand ... Have you made sure that numlock is not activated , as Nodsu suggested ? Regards Howard : wave : : wave : my Num Lock oof i have gatway laptop .... AM having problems with Keyboard can someone please help me .......... my key board types different letters if i hit like letter `` M '' i get letter `` O '' `` K '' brings figure `` 2 '' instead .... AND i - 5 CAN SAMEONE TELL ME IF I CAN fix this on my own i have the Num Lock off THANK YOU howard_hopkinso TS Rookie Posts : 24,177 +19 If it ` s not a numlock problem , It ` s probably a faulty keyboard . You did say that there might have been something spilled on it . Nodsu did suggest you take it in and let the pros have a look at it . Regards Howard Gateway Laptop Keyboard problem Nina412 : I had the exact problem with my keyboard today . If you look at the bottom row of keys on the left hand side , there is a fn key , next to the Ctrl key -press and hold the fn key and then hit f9 key . This will fix your problem hchackenbush TS Rookie Thanks & Props after hours and hours with gateway techs i was told to buy a new keyboard . in my gut i knew that it was not mechanical and tried all remedies to no avail . i have used an external keyboard for months now but never totally gave up . imagine , just a press of 2 buttons fixed my keyboard . thanks tialoves and now barryloves tia and techspot . : grinthumb # 13 Denman007 TS Rookie Posts : 31 Gateway is the worst . I once had a techie try to copy a 4 meg file to a floppy . When that did n't work , he zipped it to a 3 meg file and tried to copy that to a floppy disk . lol Bunch of * * * * * s

Trotsky assassinated in Mexico - Aug 20, 1940 - History.com

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In which country was the Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered?

Trotsky assassinated in Mexico - Aug 20 , 1940 - HISTORY.com Trotsky assassinated in Mexico Publisher A+E Networks Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City . The killer–Ramón Mercader–was a Spanish communist and probable agent of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin . Trotsky died from his wounds the next day . Born in the Ukraine of Russian-Jewish parents in 1879 , Trotsky embraced Marxism as a teenager and later dropped out of the University of Odessa to help organize the underground South Russian Workers ’ Union . In 1898 , he was arrested for his revolutionary activities and sent to prison . In 1900 , he was exiled to Siberia . In 1902 , he escaped to England using a forged passport under the name of Leon Trotsky ( his original name was Lev Davidovich Bronshtein ) . In London , he collaborated with Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin but later sided with the Menshevik factions that advocated a democratic approach to socialism . With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905 , Trotsky returned to Russia and was again exiled to Siberia when the revolution collapsed . In 1907 , he again escaped . During the next decade , he was expelled from a series of countries because of his radicalism , living in Switzerland , Paris , Spain , and New York City before returning to Russia at the outbreak of the revolution in 1917 . Trotsky played a leading role in the Bolsheviks ’ seizure of power , conquering most of Petrograd before Lenin ’ s triumphant return in November . Appointed Lenin ’ s secretary of foreign affairs , he negotiated with the Germans for an end to Russian involvement in World War I . In 1918 , he became war commissioner and set about building up the Red Army , which succeeded in defeating anti-communist opposition in the Russian Civil War . In the early 1920s , Trotsky seemed the heir apparent of Lenin , but he lost out in the struggle of succession after Lenin fell ill in 1922 . In 1924 , Lenin died , and Joseph Stalin emerged as leader of the USSR . Against Stalin ’ s stated policies , Trotsky called for a continuing world revolution that would inevitably result in the dismantling of the increasingly bureaucratic Soviet state . He also criticized the new regime for suppressing democracy in the Communist Party and for failing to develop adequate economic planning . In response , Stalin and his supporters launched a propaganda counterattack against Trotsky . In 1925 , he was removed from his post in the war commissariat . One year later , he was expelled from the Politburo and in 1927 from the Communist Party . In January 1928 , Trotsky was deported by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Alma-Ata in remote Soviet Central Asia . He lived there in internal exile for a year before being banished from the USSR forever by Stalin . He was received by the government of Turkey and settled on the island of Prinkipo , where he worked on finishing his autobiography and history of the Russian Revolution . After four years in Turkey , Trotsky lived in France and then Norway and in 1936 was granted asylum in Mexico . Settling with his family in a suburb of Mexico City , he was found guilty of treason in absentia during Stalin ’ s purges of his political foes . He survived a machine gun attack carried out by Stalinist agents , but on August 20 , 1940 , fell prey to Ramón Mercader , a Spanish communist who had won the confidence of the Trotsky household . The Soviet government denied responsibility , and Mercader was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Mexican authorities . Related Videos

A world without love - Peter and Gordon - YouTube

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Which duo had a 60s No 1 with A World Without Love?

A world without love - Peter and Gordon - YouTube A world without love - Peter and Gordon 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 . Uploaded on Nov 25 , 2007 This is Lennon/McCartney masterpiece A World Without Love . Peter and Gordon were one of the greatest pop-rock duos of the sixties , formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller Category

Tennessee Williams Biography - life, family, children ...

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In which US state was Tennessee Williams born?

Tennessee Williams Biography - life , family , children , parents , name , story , death , wife , school Tennessee Williams Biography New York , New York American dramatist , playwright , and writer Tennessee Williams , dramatist and fiction writer , was one of America 's major mid-twentieth-century playwrights . He is best known for his powerful plays , A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Becoming Tennessee Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus , Mississippi , on March 26 , 1914 , the second of three children of Cornelius and Edwina Williams . His father , a traveling salesman , was rarely home and for many years the family lived with his mother 's parents . As a result , the young boy developed a close relationship with his grandfather , and also his older sister , Rose . William 's family life was never a happy one . His parents were resentful of each other , his mother once describing her husband as `` a man 's man '' who loved to gamble and drink . When his father obtained a position at a shoe factory , the family moved to a crowded , low-rent apartment in St. Louis , Missouri . About this time , young Thomas adopted the name Tennessee ( presumably because many of his descendants hailed from that state ) . Williams grew to hate St. Louis . He and his sisters were often ridiculed by other students because of their Southern accent . He also skipped school regularly and did poorly in his studies , preferring instead to escape into the world of reading and writing . At the age of sixteen Williams published his first story . The next year he entered the University of Missouri but left before taking a degree . He worked for two years for a shoe company , spent a year at Washington University ( where he had his first plays produced ) , and earned a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of Iowa in 1938 , the year he published his first short story under his literary name , Tennessee Williams . In 1940 the Theatre Guild produced Williams 's Battle of Angels in Boston , Massachusetts . The play was a total failure and was withdrawn after Boston 's Watch and Ward Society banned it . Between 1940 and 1945 he lived on grants ( donated money ) from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters , on income scraped together from an attempt to write film scripts in Hollywood , and on wages as a waiter-entertainer in Greenwich Village in New York City . Accomplished playwright With the production of The Glass Menagerie Williams 's fortunes changed . The play opened in Chicago , Illinois , in December 1944 and in New York City in March ; it received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Sidney Howard Memorial Award . You Touched Me ! , written with Donald Windham , opened on Broadway in 1945 . It was followed by publication of eleven one-act plays , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton ( 1946 ) , and two California productions . When A Streetcar Named Desire opened in 1947 , New York audiences knew a major playwright had Tennessee Williams . Library of Congress . arrived . A Streetcar Named Desire won a Pulitzer Prize . The play combines sensuality , melodrama , and lyrical symbolism ( a poetic representation of significant things ) . A film version was directed by Elia Kazan ( 1909– ) and their partnership lasted for more than a decade . Although the plays that followed Streetcar never repeated its overwhelming success , they kept Williams 's name on theater marquees and in films . His novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ( 1950 ) and three volumes of short stories brought him an even wider audience . Some writers consider Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ) Williams 's most sensitive play . While The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) played to appreciative audiences , Camino Real ( 1953 ) played to confused ones . Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ) was a smashing success and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize . Baby Doll ( an original Williams-Kazan film script , 1956 ) was followed by the dramas Orpheus Descending ( 1957 ) , Garden District ( 1958 ; two one-act plays , Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer ) , Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1959 ) , Period of

Golda Meir Biography (Prime Minister of Israel) - Infoplease

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Who was Israeli Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974?

Golda Meir Biography ( Prime Minister of Israel ) Prime Minister of Israel Died : 8 December 1978 ( cancer ) Birthplace : Kiev , Russia ( now the Ukraine ) Best known as : The first female prime minister of Israel Name at birth : Goldie Mabovitch Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most visible women in international affairs for nearly two decades . Born in Russia but raised in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , she settled on a kibbutz in British Mandate Palestine with her American husband , Morris Meyerson , in 1921 . As Golda Meir ( her adopted name ) , she became active in Zionist politics , and after Israel gained independence in 1948 she served as ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1948 ) , was elected to the Knesset ( 1949 ) and was named the country 's foreign minister ( 1956-65 ) . Strong-willed and fiercely protective of Israel , she became an international symbol of Israeli resolve . After the death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1969 , Meir came out of retirement to become , at age 71 , prime minister . Her handling of the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 ( the Yom Kippur War ) was widely critized , as were her attempts to garner peace for Israel after the war , and she resigned in 1974 . She was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin . Meir published an autobiography , My Life , in 1975 . Extra credit : Meir and Meyerson were married in 1917 . They separated in 1928 , but never divorced . They had two children : Menaham ( b . 1924 ) and Sara ( b . 1926 ) … She was played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1982 TV movie A Woman Called Golda… In the stage play , Golda , she was portrayed by Anne Bancroft . Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2 ? , LLC . All rights reserved .

Jersey Boys Movie vs True Story - Real Frankie Valli ...

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Bob Gaudio and Nick Massi sang with which group?

Jersey Boys Movie vs True Story - Real Frankie Valli , Tommy DeVito Born : February 9 , 1943 Birthplace : Newark , New Jersey , USA When we were trying to get Jersey Boys off the ground , I 'd get , 'The Four Seasons ? Who 's going to care ? There 's the Beatles , there 's the Rolling Stones . ' But people know those stories . Here was a story no one knew . -Frankie Valli ( Parade Magazine , June 6 , 2014 ) Questioning the Story : Did actor and fellow New Jersey native Joe Pesci really introduce Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito to future Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio ? Joe Pesci ( center ) at the 2006 Tony Awards with friends Frankie Valli ( left ) , Bob Gaudio ( back ) , and Tommy DeVito ( right ) . Yes . According to the Jersey Boys true story , Hollywood actor Joe Pesci ( Goodfellas , Casino , My Cousin Vinny ) was a friend of group member Tommy DeVito . Pesci was around during the group 's formation and was responsible for introducing DeVito and Valli to singer/songwriter Bob Gaudio . In addition to the Jersey Boys movie , Joe Pesci is also featured in the musical . Keep an eye out for the movie scene where the Joe Pesci character , portrayed by Joseph Russo , repeats the real Joe Pesci 's famous line from Goodfellas , `` Funny how ? '' Was Joe Pesci 's character from Goodfellas , Tommy DeVito , inspired by Four Seasons band member Tommy DeVito ? No . Despite Joe Pesci having been friends with The Four Seasons members , specifically Tommy DeVito , the character named Tommy DeVito that Joe Pesci plays in director Martin Scorsese 's 1990 film Goodfellas is not based on The Four Seasons band member . Did some of The Four Seasons members really have prison records ? Yes . Several of The Four Seasons members had been behind bars at one time or another , most notably Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi . Tommy DeVito , portrayed by Vincent Piazza in the movie , was in and out of prison . `` Yeah , I went to jail seven or eight times , '' says DeVito . `` I 'm not proud of it , but I 'm not ashamed of it . My neighborhood was rough . If you come out alive , that 's an achievement . '' -Vegas Seven The media never caught wind of the group 's sordid history , a detail that in the 1960s would have likely kept them from becoming stars . Instead , the band put forth a clean-cut image that mainstream audiences embraced without hesitation . `` We were so afraid that if anybody found out we had members who 'd done time , radio and record companies would n't have anything to do with us , '' says the real Frankie Valli . -Parade Magazine Did they really change the name of their group to The Four Seasons after seeing the name on a bowling alley sign ? Yes . Like in the Jersey Boys movie , the true story reveals that they came up with the name after auditioning for a cocktail lounge gig in a large suburban bowling alley in Union , New Jersey in early 1961 . They were turned down for the job but decided to use the name of the lounge as their new moniker . The real Bob Crewe ( bottom right ) was perhaps most influential for his role in co-writing and producing The Four Seasons hit 1967 single `` Ca n't Take My Eyes Off You '' . Actor Mike Doyle ( top ) portrays Bob Crewe in the movie . Were Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito really friends with mobster Angelo `` Gyp '' DeCarlo ? Yes . `` I got to know these guys because they owned the bars , '' says Valli . `` They did n't call me to say , 'Hey , here 's what we 're doing next week ! ' '' Frankie says that while playing those bars he made more money in tips than from his pay . The biggest tips came from guys like Gyp DeCarlo , who Frankie says was like a father to him . `` He always said , 'Stay out of trouble . Do n't join any gangs . ' '' -Parade Magazine `` I was never part of the mob , '' says the real Tommy DeVito , despite also admitting , like Valli ,

Anjelica Huston - Biography - IMDb

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In which country was Angelica Huston born?

Anjelica Huston - Biography - IMDb Anjelica Huston Biography Showing all 59 items Jump to : Overview ( 3 ) | Mini Bio ( 1 ) | Spouse ( 1 ) | Trivia ( 39 ) | Personal Quotes ( 13 ) | Salary ( 2 ) Overview ( 3 ) 5' 10 '' ( 1.78 m ) Mini Bio ( 1 ) Anjelica Huston was born on July 8 , 1951 in Santa Monica , California , to prima ballerina Enrica `` Ricki '' ( Soma ) and director and actor John Huston . Her mother , who was from New York , was of Italian descent , and her father had English , Scottish , and Scots-Irish ancestry . Huston spent most of her childhood overseas , in Ireland and England , and in 1969 first dipped her toe into the acting profession , taking a few small roles in her father 's movies . However , in that year her mother died in a car accident , at 39 , and Huston relocated to the United States , where the tall , exotically beautiful young woman modeled for several years . While modeling , Huston had a few more small film roles , but decided to focus more on movies in the early 1980s . She prepared herself by reaching out to acting coach Peggy Feury and began to get roles . The first notable part was in Bob Rafelson 's remake of the classic noir movie The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ) ( in which Jack Nicholson , with whom Huston was living at the time , was the star ) . After a few more years of on-again , off-again supporting work , her father perfectly cast her as calculating , imperious Maerose , the daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man ( Nicholson again ) in his film adaptation of Richard Condon 's Mafia-satire novel Prizzi 's Honor ( 1985 ) . Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance , making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent ( her father and grandfather Walter Huston ) had also won one . Huston thereafter worked prolifically , including notable roles in Francis Ford Coppola 's - Gardens of Stone ( 1987 ) , Barry Sonnenfeld 's film versions of the Charles Addams cartoons The Addams Family ( 1991 ) and Addams Family Values ( 1993 ) , in which she portrayed Addams matriarch Morticia , Wes Anderson 's The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ( 2004 ) . Probably her finest performance on-screen , however , was as Lilly , the veteran , iron-willed con artist in Stephen Frears ' The Grifters ( 1990 ) , for which she received another Oscar nomination , this time for Best Actress . A sentimental favorite is her performance as the lead in her father 's final film , an adaptation of James Joyce 's The Dead ( 1987 ) -- with her many years of residence in Ireland , Huston 's Irish accent in the film is authentic . Endowed with her father 's great height and personal boldness , and her mother 's beauty and aristocratic nose , Huston certainly cuts an imposing figure , and brings great confidence and authority to her performances . She clearly takes her craft seriously and has come into her own as a strong actress , emerging from under the shadow of her father , who passed away in 1987 . Huston married the sculptor Robert Graham in 1992 , The couple lived in the Los Angeles area before Graham 's death in 2008 . - IMDb Mini Biography By : Larry-115 Spouse ( 1 ) Daughter of John Huston and Ricki Soma . Lived in Ireland when she was young . Younger sister of Tony Huston . She had a brief career as a model . Currently lives in Pacific Palisades , California . Is the third generation of Oscar winners . Attended Kylemore Abbey High School in Connemara , Ireland . Granddaughter of Walter Huston . Cat lover -- during an appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1996 ) , she divulged that she has eight outdoor cats and three indoor cats at her Venice , California home . Was offered the role of Annie Wilkes in the horror film Misery ( 1990 ) , which she turned down . The role went to Kathy Bates . In Blood Work ( 2002 ) ,

Carrasco International Airport, Uruguay (Code :: MVD ...

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Carrasco international airport is in which country?

Carrasco International Airport , Uruguay ( Code : : MVD ) | Montevideo Airport Map , Carrasco International Airport Code Timezone : America/Montevideo Carrasco International Airport Timezone : GMT -03:00 hours Current time and date at Carrasco International Airport is 19:51:41 PM ( UYT ) on Friday , Jan 13 , 2017 Looking for information on Carrasco International Airport , Montevideo , Uruguay ? Know about Carrasco International Airport in detail . Find out the location of Carrasco International Airport on Uruguay map and also find out airports near to Montevideo . This airport locator is a very useful tool for travelers to know where is Carrasco International Airport located and also provide information like hotels near Carrasco International Airport , airlines operating to Carrasco International Airport etc ... IATA Code and ICAO Code of all airports in Uruguay . Scroll down to know more about Carrasco International Airport or Montevideo Airport , Uruguay . Carrasco International Airport Map - Location of Carrasco International Airport Load Map This page provides all the information you need to know about Carrasco International Airport , Uruguay . This page is created with the aim of helping travelers and tourists visiting Uruguay or traveling to Montevideo Airport . Details about Montevideo Airport given here include Carrasco International Airport Code - IATA Code ( 3 letter airport codes ) and ICAO Code ( 4 letter airport codes ) Coordinates of Montevideo Airport - Latitude and Longitude ( Lat and Long ) of Carrasco International Airport Location of Carrasco International Airport - City Name , Country , Country Codes etc ... Carrasco International Airport Time Zone and Current time at Carrasco International Airport Address and contact details of Carrasco International Airport along with website address of the airport Clickable Location Map of Carrasco International Airport on Google Map . General information about Uruguay where Carrasco International Airport is located in the city of Montevideo . General information include capital of Uruguay , currency and conversion rate of Uruguay currency , Telephone Country code , exchange rate against US Dollar and Euro in case of major world currencies etc ... MVD - Carrasco International Airport IATA Code and SUMU - Carrasco International Airport ICAO code

Chancellor Album Discography - bsnpubs.com

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Which record company signed Fabian?

Chancellor Album Discography Chancellor Album Discography By David Edwards and Mike Callahan Last update : September 2 , 2005 Chancellor records was established in Philadelphia in 1957 by Bob Marcucci and Peter DeAngelis . They were originally housed in a hotel , which had a restaurant called the Chancellor Room , from whence they got their name . The record company benefitted from the exposure they were able to get on the locally-based but nationally broadcast American Bandstand . Almost from the start , Chancellor was distributed by ABC- Paramount . Bob Marcucci was one of the great promoters in rock and roll . He could take good looking , ethnic type teenagers of questionable singing talent and promote them into rock and roll stars . The 1980 movie `` Idolmaker '' was loosely based on Bob Marcucci . The story of how he found Fabian has become a legend . According to Fabian , who was 14 at the time , `` I lived next door to a friend of Bob 's . My father had had a heart attack , and there was an ambulance in front of our house . Bob was passing by and thought that his friend might be in trouble . He rushed up , and discovered that his friend was OK . He saw me , and asked if I 'd ever thought about making records . I said that I had n't , but he kept persisting . Several months later , I signed with him . '' Frankie Avalon was another of Chancellor 's stars , actually signed even before Fabian . Although he fit the `` teen idol '' image , he had been an accomplished musician for years , playing trumpet for a Philadelphia combo named Rocco and the Saints ( led by a schoolteacher ) . He had recorded starting in 1952 ( for RCA ) and made many television appearances by the time he decided he wanted to be a singer and signed with Marcucci , figuring if James Darren could be a singing star , why not try it himself ? Both Frankie Avalon and Fabian put a long series of hits on the charts from 1958 to 1962 , which pretty much kept the label afloat . By 1962 , however , Fabian had stopped singing to concentrate on making movies . Frankie Avalon had also stopped having hits and was making a series of `` beach '' movies in Hollywood . With their two major stars gone , Chancellor faded . They tried to make dance records , following in the footsteps of another Philadelphia label , Cameo-Parkway , but were not successful . For all the reputation for finding handsome teen idol-type singers , by the time 1962 rolled around , Marcucci was putting together groups like the Panics who had little of the national appeal of a Frankie Avalon or Fabian . A cover shot of the Panics shows sisters Cindy and Misty ( with frightening makeup and expressions ) dancing in front of an oldish looking saxophone player ( Tony Ferri ) . [ Sonny Richards ( drums ) , Dick Sharp ( guitar ) and Peter Mastrangelo ( keyboards ) rounded out the group . ] In this case , `` The Idolmaker '' failed . The hit `` Party Lights '' by Claudine Clark was pretty much the last gasp for Chancellor Records . Except for perhaps the earliest recordings , the Chancellor material was recorded in stereo . They issued several stereo 45s in 1959-60 . Many of the label 's hits , however , never made it to LP , and there have been consistent rumors over the years that some tapes were misplaced . The recent CD issues on Taragon are listed here as an indication of stereo availability on the label . The Chancellor record numbers below are given with the mono number ( e.g. , CHL-5011 ) first , followed by the stereo number ( e.g. , CHLS- 5011 ) . The earliest Chancellor label was pink with black printing , `` CHANCELLOR '' in block letters above the center hole , curved on the perimeter of the label . Deejay versions of this label were white with black print , and this design was used for the deejay labels considerably after the design changed to the black label . The second label is black with silver printing , above the center hole is `` Chancellor '' in red , above which is a crest in red , blue and yellow , with a white banner underneath reading `` Que Je Surmonte '' ( French for `` That I May Overcome , '' which

Helicopter Pilots Break Round-the-World Speed Record - WIRED

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Ron Bower and John Williams set a speed record for going round the world in a what?

Helicopter Pilots Break Round-the-World Speed Record | WIRED Helicopter Pilots Break Round-the-World Speed Record subscribe 6 months for $ 5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger . 3 hours There is no future . There is no past . There is only Donald Glover rocking this look . bit.ly/2jEg1wW Author : Dave Demerjian . Dave Demerjian Gear Date of Publication : 08.18.08 . Time of Publication : 1:18 pm . 1:18 pm Helicopter Pilots Break Round-the-World Speed Record Two pilots have flown a helicopter around the world in a record 13 days , breaking the previous record by four days during a trip that took them through 15 countries , 24 time zones and 30 states . Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik landed at LaGuardia Airport at 10:15 a.m. today , ending a whirlwind global journey that started with a record-setting jaunt across the Atlantic but nearly fell apart in Russia when lousy airports and an engine problem threatened to sideline them . But they kept at it , pushing themselves and their aircraft to the limits in pursuit of a dream . `` Both Steve and I love a challenge , '' Kasprowicz told us . `` We figured flying around the world was pretty big . '' Kasprowicz is an aircraft junkie with 30 years of experience who knows his way around a chopper . Earlier this year , he and Sheik flew from New York to Los Angeles in 15 hours , 9 minutes and 10 seconds to set a new transcontinental helicopter-speed record . He got the idea for a round-the-world helicopter run two years ago when he first saw the AgustaWestland Grand and its two Pratt & Whitney PW207C Turboshaft engines . With a range of 575 miles and a maximum cruising speed of 175 mph , it is , Kasporwicz says , unparalleled in sophistication and performance . `` I knew that if there was a rotorcraft that could help me break some records , it would be the Grand , '' he told us . But he and Sheik didn ’ t want to just break the record , they wanted to obliterate it and do it in a bone-stock chopper . The record they were gunning for — 17 days , 6 hours , 14 minutes and 25 seconds — was set 12 years ago in a Bell 430 outfitted with an extra fuel tank , a bunk and other mods . The Grand Adventure 2008 started August 7 in New York and followed a carefully plotted course that took them 20,000 nautical miles — roughly the circumference of Earth at the Tropic of Cancer — around the world to the east . They steered clear of the polar regions and avoided commercial airports to avoid landing and refueling delays . The first week went off without a hitch . Kasprowicz and Sheik made it from New York to London in a stunning 40 hours and 41 minutes , shattering the previous record by a whopping 35 hours . Europe was a piece of cake , but Russia — as they expected — was a bear . They arrived on the 13th , but construction at one airport and a fuel shortage at another cost them almost a full day . Things went from bad to worse after taking off from the Siberian city of Magadan — the oil temperature in one of the copter ’ s two engines rose so high Kasprowicz had to shut it down to avert crippling damage . They finally sorted things out with some help from local mechanics , but they lost still more precious time . `` Russia was probably the most stressful part of the trip , '' Kasprowicz says . `` If I had to pick the biggest challenge , that would probably be it . '' They made up for it after crossing the Bering Sea and reaching North America , pulling out all the stops on a mad dash across North America and handily beating the record Ron Bower and John Williams set in 1996 . We still don ’ t have an official time — the folks organizing the Grand Adventure say it ’ s got to be confirmed and won ’ t be available until tonight . As for Kasprowicz , he says he ’ s never been so exhausted and ready for some serious sack time . Then he ’ ll figure out what ’ s next . `` Round the world is pretty big , '' he says . `` I ’ ve got some ideas , but for now

Paul Graham at the Winogrand Retrospective - The New Yorker

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What was the profession of New Yorker Garry Winogrand?

Paul Graham at the Winogrand Retrospective - The New Yorker Paul Graham at the Winogrand Retrospective By July 11 , 2014 El Morocco , New York , 1955 . From the estate of Garry Winogrand , courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery , San Francisco . Credit View full screen Paul Graham discovered photography as an English college student in the nineteen-seventies , while studying microbiology at the University of Bristol . One afternoon , at the library , he came upon a bookshelf with American photography books by Walker Evans , Robert Frank , and Lee Friedlander . A couple years later , he walked into a bookshop and found a catalogue for Garry Winogrand ’ s “ Public Relations. ” Graham was impressed by Winogrand ’ s portraits of Manhattan in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies , but he also thought , “ Maybe I could do this . ” “ I ’ m not a Winogrand expert , ” Graham said the other day , outside the Winogrand retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . A slightly built man , with unspringy black curls and a youthful mien , Graham was wearing a plaid shirt , gray-blue sneakers , and a pair of Clark Kent glasses . “ I don ’ t know how many wives he had . I ’ m just a fan . But I ’ m not a blind fan. ” Graham , who won the prestigious Hasselblad Award in 2012 , said that he took inspiration for “ A Shimmer of Possibility , ” his own study of American life , from Winogrand ’ s koan-like belief that “ there is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described . ” Winogrand worked in a daily blur of productivity . Between 1950 , when he began making forays from the Bronx to photograph midtown street life , and 1984 , when he died of cancer , at fifty-six , he exposed twenty-six thousand rolls of film . He also left behind two hundred and fifty thousand undeveloped images ; some can be seen in the current retrospective . “ He was nonstop , voracious , incredible work ethic , out every morning , ” Graham said , on his way into the galleries . Inside the exhibition , Graham wandered until something snapped him into focus . He paused at a photograph of a muscular young man hoisting a woman aloft and wrestling her toward the surf , from 1952 . “ The thing about these early ones , they strike me as the work of someone who hasn ’ t found his voice . They ’ re of that era of Time-Life photojournalism—someone trying to unshackle himself from popular journalism ’ s obligatory good cheer , the clanking boxcars of magazine narrative. ” A little further on , he admired photographs of elderly people with much seemingly on their minds , none of it optimistic , standing on street corners sometime around 1960 . “ We ’ ve charged ahead ten years , and it ’ s already much richer , ” Graham said . “ It ’ s him photographing on his own gambit . He ’ s gone rogue ! It ’ s haphazard , disorienting . ” Graham came to a sudden stop before an image of a well-dressed young white woman and a well-dressed black man at the Central Park Zoo in 1967 . Each was carrying a chimpanzee . “ That ’ s the most famous one , ” he said . “ It was highly controversial at the time . Was it a simplistic comment on biracial couples ? She ’ s improbably beautiful . He ’ s improbably handsome . She seems a bit weighed down by her chimp , as a baby might weigh you down . I bet Garry loved that controversy ! ” Winogrand also achieved notoriety as a man who , as Graham put it , “ went around photographing women he found attractive . Obviously it was part of his masculine nineteen-sixties id. ” Not far from an image of a woman with a large beaded necklace , a larger hat , white gloves , and an unforgettable gaze were shots of beggars and disabled people . “ I love that nothing stopped Garry ethically . You ’ re not supposed to photograph panhandlers , someone who suffers from dwarfism , or leer at beautiful strange women . He ’ d just put out his lens and do it . Unfortunately , a lot of photographers took that message and got highly aggressive in the streets , trying to provoke reaction . That makes me sad

Amelia Earhart - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society

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Amelia Earhart was born in which state?

Amelia Earhart - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society Amelia Earhart Aviatrix . Born : July 24 , 1897 , Atchison , Kansas . Married : George Palmer Putnam , February 7 , 1931 . Died : July 1937 . Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24 , 1897 , in Atchison , to Samuel `` Edwin '' Stanton and Amelia ( Otis ) Earhart . She and her younger sister , Grace Muriel , lived in the home of their grandfather , Alfred Otis , and attended a private school . Earhart was inspired to create a home version of the roller coaster she saw at the 1904 St. Louis World ’ s Fair . The car and passenger tipped over at the edge of the roof but she said it was `` just like flying . '' In 1908 the family moved to Iowa , Minnesota , and Illinois , as her father searched for work . During World War I Earhart worked as a nurse ’ s aide with the Red Cross and after the war as a social worker in Boston . When her parents relocated to California , she moved to Long Beach and there in 1921 began flying lessons with Neta Snook . She soon bought an airplane and the following year broke the women 's altitude record . The 1928 trans-Atlantic flight of the Fokker Friendship launched Earhart 's career and established her name . As a passenger on the flight , she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and wrote of her experience in 20 Hrs . 40 Min. , published by George Palmer Putnam . Earhart and Putnam married February 7 , 1931 . Earhart set a record flying solo across the Atlantic in her Lockheed Vega . She flew the 14-hour , 56-minute flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in May 1932 . That year Earhart was elected president of the Ninety-Nines , an organization of women pilots . She set more records—the first woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast and the first person to solo over the Pacific from Honolulu , Hawaii , to Oakland , California . On public speaking tours , Earhart encouraged women to follow their dreams . She accepted an appointment at Purdue University , which helped finance her . On March 17 , 1937 , she began her 29,000-mile flight around the equator with a crew of three—Fred Noonan , Harry Manning , and Paul Mantz . Departing from Oakland , California , the flight headed west to Hawaii . Earhart had difficulty during takeoff in Honolulu and the Electra sustained heavy damage . Following repairs , Earhart and Noonan departed from Miami , Florida , on June 1 and headed east . At approximately 22,000 miles into the flight , they landed June 29 in Lae , New Guinea . On July 2 they departed for their 2,556-mile flight to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific . The U.S. Coast Guard cutter , Itasca , was assigned to track the plane during this leg of the flight . The Electra 's last transmission was received by the Itasca at 8:43 a.m. A large search effort was begun to find the lost Electra . Earhart and Noonan were never found , and their disappearance remains a mystery to this day . View primary sources related to Amelia Earhart in Kansas Memory . Inducted into the Kansas Walk of Honor in 2012 . Entry : Earhart , Amelia Author : Kansas Historical Society Author information : The Kansas Historical Society is a state agency charged with actively safeguarding and sharing the state 's history . Date Created : August 2002 The author of this article is solely responsible for its content . Kansas Memory Our online collections contain more than 500,000 images of photos , documents , and artifacts , which grows daily . Find your story in Kansas through this rich resource !

Phil Collins - Hits - Amazon.com Music

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What was Phil Collins' last UK No 1 of the 80s?

Phil Collins - Hits - Amazon.com Music Phil Collins Page 1 of 1 Start over Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon.com . When you click on a Sponsored Product ad , you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it . To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products , click here . Ad feedback Special Offers and Product Promotions Certified Multi-Platinum ( 2 times ) by the RIAA . ( 2/01 ) Amazon.com For better or worse , Phil Collins 's `` In the Air Tonight '' was the `` Stairway to Heaven '' of the '80s , winning radio stations ' listener polls and even lending its designer threat to an episode of Miami Vice . Hits recalls the days when the Collins name on a disc ensured its immediate embrace by programmers and the public . How you feel about these songs will depend on how you felt about them then ; despite the undeniable niceness of `` Take Me Home '' and `` One More Night , '' they 're unlikely to win over anyone who did n't adore them to begin with . Those who cared , though , will no doubt be gladdened to find most of Collins 's biggest tunes together on one disc . -- Rickey Wright Track Listings 2 . Dance Into The Light 3 . Another Day In Paradise 4 . Easy Lover 5 . You Ca n't Hurry Love 6 . Two Hearts 7 . I wish it would rain down 8 . Against All Odds ( Take A Look At Me Now ) 9 . Something Happened On The Way To Heaven 10 . Separate Lives ( Love Theme From White Nights ) 11 . Both Sides Of The Story 12 . One More Night 14 . A Groovy Kind Of Love 15 . In The Air Tonight ( Extended ) 16 . Take Me Home Audio CD ( September 25 , 1998 ) Original Release Date : October 6 , 1998 Number of Discs : 1 By Jeff Pearlman on December 26 , 2012 Format : Audio CD|Verified Purchase I resisted this for a long time because of what 's missing but finally gave in and got it . * Missing , of course , are `` I Missed Again '' , `` Do n't Lose My Number '' , and `` Do You Remember ? `` , among several lower-charting hits . But , at 74 minutes , there was probably only room for one more song . I feel that `` I Missed Again '' should have been that song : it was Collins ' first solo hit and one of his best . Over time , `` True Colors '' pales even more in comparison to the other songs here . However , it was hardly unusual to include a new song on a hits disc and it did become a sizable Adult Contemporary ( and minor pop airplay ) hit . What 's here are the bulk of Collins ' biggest chart hits through 1998 ( `` You 'll Be In My Heart '' came after this was released ) , and they are great . This collects soundtrack hits from `` Buster '' ( `` A Groovy Kind of Love '' and `` Two Hearts '' ) and `` White Nights '' ( `` Separate Lives '' , a duet with Marilyn Martin ) . It also includes `` Easy Lover '' , the # 2 duet with Philip Bailey , from Bailey 's album `` Chinese Wall '' . When these were hits , I was actually a bit resentful of Phil Collins ' saturation airplay . I could n't understand why other pop/AC icons I enjoyed , such as Barry Manilow , Neil Diamond , and James Taylor , could barely dent the chart while Collins and Lionel Richie were played constantly . Of course , this was a radio programming choice and had nothing to do with the artists . I have grown to appreciate these songs more over time . Phil Collins did n't look like your typical Top 40 pretty boy , and pulled off this string of hits with humor , class , and taste . As of 2012 , sadly , pop radio is as deaf to Phil as it was to the above stars back in the day . This should have been a 2-disc set , with all Phil 's 28 chart hits plus some

June 15, 1919: First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic | WIRED

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In which year did Alcock and Brown make their Atlantic crossing?

June 15 , 1919 : First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic | WIRED June 15 , 1919 : First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic subscribe 6 months for $ 5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger . Author : Jason Paur . Jason Paur Date of Publication : 06.15.10 . Time of Publication : 12:00 am . 12:00 am June 15 , 1919 : First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic 1919 : John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog in Clifden , Ireland , marking the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic . It ’ s a good bet to win a drink at a bar : “ Do you know who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic in an airplane , nonstop ? ” Most takers think it ’ s Charles Lindbergh . But the true answer is the kind of knowledge only the most die-hard aviation geeks would know : Alcock and Brown . In 1913 , the British newspaper the Daily Mail offered a prize of 10,000 pounds sterling ( about $ 1.1 million in today ’ s money ) to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic . But World War I intervened the following year before anybody could make an attempt , and the competition was suspended . In reality , it was unlikely anybody could have made the crossing in 1913 . But by the end of the war , aviation technology had improved significantly . In late 1918 , the competition to fly across the Atlantic resumed and stipulated the flight must be made in less than 72 hours . With fighting still fresh in the minds of the British , a new rule prevented teams of “ enemy origin ” to enter . By the spring of 1919 , several teams had gathered in St. Johns , Newfoundland , vying to be the first to cross the Atlantic and collect the prize . There were so many teams that Alcock and Brown had a difficult time finding a suitable field they could use as a runway for their flight . There were no airports in the area . The Vickers Vimy airplane they had prepared for the attempt back in England was still en route by steamship , and other teams had already set up camp at the best locations . The Vickers Vimy was a large airplane for the time . The twin engine bomber was developed for use in World War I , but it wasn ’ t ready until after the war had ended , and it never saw combat over Europe . With a wingspan of more than 67 feet , the biplane was powered by a pair of 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce engines producing 360 horsepower each . The airplane used for the record-setting attempt was modified by removing the bomb racks and adding extra fuel tanks , so it could carry 865 gallons for the flight . The pilot and navigator sat in an open cockpit at the front of the airplane . By mid-May , one of the rival teams had flown nearly 20 hours east across the ocean before engine troubles forced the crew to ditch at sea . Fortunately , the plane crashed near a ship that was able to rescue the two-man crew . Another attempt at the prize ended in a crash before the airplane was even able to get airborne . The Vickers Vimy arrived in Newfoundland on May 26 . Two teams had failed to make the crossing , and the prize was still up for grabs , as was some good real estate for a suitable runway . The team was allowed to use a small field to assemble the airplane , but it was not long enough for the heavily fuel-laden airplane to take off . The Vimy arrived in 13 crates and was assembled in a large canvas tent in just two weeks . At the same time the airplane was being assembled , Alcock had found a suitable takeoff field . Groups of people worked to clear rocks and fill ditches to make it smooth enough for use as a runway . After a few days waiting out bad weather , the decision was made to fuel the airplane at its new field and make an attempt for the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic . ( A U.S. Navy Curtiss seaplane had flown from Newfoundland to Portugal in May , after a 10-day stop in the Azores . ) After a few last-minute repairs to fix a broken landing gear that failed under the

Approving Statehood: When did your State Join the Union?

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What state had its bi-centenary of joining the Union a year after North Carolina?

Approving Statehood Approving Statehood : When did your State Join the Union ? Learn what year your state joined the Union and became part of the `` United States of America '' . Choose the first letter of the state you 're looking for : Or read about the U.S . Territories The 50 States Alabama entered the Union on December 14 , 1819 . In January 1861 , Alabama seceded from the Union , and on February 4 , delegates from six states met at Montgomery and formed the Confederate States of America , with Montgomery as the capital . After the Civil War , Alabama reentered the Union . Alaska Alaska became the 49th State on January 3 , 1959 ; it was the first new state in the Union since 1912 . Arizona became the 48th state on February 14 , 1912 . Arkansas Despite opposition in Congress to a new slave state , Arkansas became a state on June 15 , 1836 . Arkansas Governor Henry M. Rector seized Fort Smith and Arkansas joined the Confederacy in 1861 reentering the Union at War 's end . California Congress hesitated to welcome a new free state , but because of its booming population and the discovery of gold , California was admitted in September , 1850 . Colorado After three tries Colorado was made a state on August 1 , 1876 . Connecticut Connecticut , one of the thirteen colonies , became the fifth state on January 9 , 1788 . Delaware Delaware , one of the thirteen colonies , gained its distinction as the `` First State '' when it was the first to ratify the Constitution on December 7 , 1787 . Florida Florida became a state on March 3 , 1845 , a move delayed by the reluctance of Congress to admit another slave state , and it joined the Confederacy on January 10 , 1861 , re-entering the Union at war 's end . Georgia Georgia , one of the thirteen colonies , ratified the U.S. Constitution on January 2 , 1788 , becoming the fourth state to do so ; it joined the Confederacy on January 19 , 1861 , and reentered the Union after the Civil War . Hawaii Hawaii became the Fiftieth state on August 21 , 1959 Idaho Idaho became a state on July 3 , 1890 . Illinois Illinois became the 21st state on December 3 , 1818 . Indiana Indiana became the 19th state on December 11 , 1816 . Iowa On December 28 , 1846 , Iowa became the first free state in the old Louisiana Territory . Kansas Kansas became a free state on January 29 , 1861 , after seven years of bloody feuding between residents over whether to be admitted as a slave or free state . Kentucky Kentucky became the first state to be carved from the great western wilderness . Louisiana Louisiana became the 18th state on April 30 , 1812 . It joined the Confederacy on January 26 , 1861 and reentered the Union after the Civil War . Maine Maine became the 23rd state on March 15 , 1820 . Its admission to the Union balanced the simultaneous admission of Missouri as a slave state . Maryland Maryland became the seventh state on April 28 , 1788 . During the Civil War , President Abraham Lincoln placed Maryland under military control . Massachusetts Originally part of the thirteen colonies , Massachusetts became a state on February 6 , 1788 . Michigan became the 26th state on January 26 , 1837 . Minnesota On May 11 , 1858 Minnesota became the 32 state . Mississippi On December 10 , 1817 , Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state . Missouri Missouri was admitted as a slave state on August 10 , 1821 , after an agreement known as the Missouri Compromise in which Maine was admitted as a free state . Montana Montana achieved statehood on November 8 , 1889 . Nebraska President Andrew Jackson vetoed the Nebraska statehood bill of 1866 , but Congress overrode his veto , and Nebraska became a state on March 1 , 1867 . Nevada On October 31 , 1864 , at the urging of President Abraham Lincoln , Nevada became a state . Only

Oklahoma Music Trail: Charlie Christian | TravelOK.com ...

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With which instrument was Charlie Christian associated?

Oklahoma Music Trail : Charlie Christian | TravelOK.com - Oklahoma 's Official Travel & Tourism Site Charlie Christian Born : 7 / 29 / 1916 Died : 3 / 2 / 1942 Charlie Christian , an early pioneer of the electric jazz guitar and “ Father of Bebop , ” was born on July 29 , 1916 to parents Clarence and Willie Christian . Although Charlie Christian ’ s career was tragically cut short by his untimely death in 1942 , he forever impacted the world of music . Christian is credited with bringing the guitar out of the rhythm section and making it a solo instrument during the era of jazz . No longer was the guitar seen as merely a back-up to the saxophone , trumpet and clarinet , widely accepted as the era ’ s powerhouse instruments . Charlie brought the same musical expressiveness to solo guitar work , setting the stage for the guitar ’ s elevated presence in genres such as Western swing , country , rockabilly and rock and roll . Christian was raised in a musically talented family that moved from Texas to Oklahoma City in 1918 when young Charlie was only two years old . By age 10 , Charlie had learned to play the trumpet , following in the footsteps of his father and older brothers , who had already mastered the instrument . At age 12 , the young musician switched his focus from the trumpet to the guitar , fashioning his own crudely made guitars out of discarded cigar boxes and learning how to strum a beat on them . Christian attended Douglass High School in Oklahoma City and cut his musical teeth in Deep Deuce , an African American neighborhood that centered around Northeast 2nd Street in downtown . Deep Deuce became a hotbed for jazz and welcomed popular musicians such as Count Basie , Sarah Vaughan , Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington during its heyday . Charlie bought his first electric guitar , a Gibson ES-150 – an instrument that would forever change his musical career and , because of his mastery of it , the future of music itself . In 1930 , when Charlie was only 14 years old , he landed his first gig as a guitarist , playing acoustic guitar solos for songs such as “ Sweet Georgia Brown , ” “ Tea for Two , ” and “ Rose Room ” during a performance by the Don Redman Orchestra at Honey Murphy ’ s Club in Oklahoma City . Charlie began making the rounds within Deep Deuce ’ s nightclub scene , then-known as the hottest jazz and blues district in the region , while studying guitar and learning musical theory with his boyhood friend T-Bone Walker under the watchful eye of Ralph “ Big-Foot Chuck ” Hamilton . In 1934 , Christian began performing as a bassist for the Alphonso Trent Band . The group toured regionally with stops in Kansas City , Dallas , Little Rock and Tulsa , among others . He spent the next few years touring with The Jolly Jugglers , Anna Mae Winburn Orchestra and the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra . In 1937 , Christian discovered the electric guitar when he met Count Basie ’ s guitarist Eddie Durham while playing a show back in Oklahoma City . Eddie , who is credited with having recorded one of the first amplified guitar solos , began giving the young Charlie pointers on how to master the instrument . “ I never saw anyone learn so fast , nor have I seen anyone rise to the top so quickly , ” Durham later remarked . Soon afterward , Charlie bought his first electric guitar , a Gibson ES-150 – an instrument that would forever change his musical career and , because of his mastery of it , the future of music itself . While working at The Dome in Bismarck , North Dakota , Christian met jazz guitarist Mary Osborne who heard him play the electric guitar . Osborne later recalled that it was `` the most startling thing '' she ever heard , a sound akin to that of a “ garbled saxophone. ” Charlie had successfully changed the electric guitar from a rhythm instrument into a solo presence in the orchestra while pioneering a single-string technique later emulated by the likes of B.B . King and Chuck Berry . `` I never saw anyone learn so fast , nor have I seen anyone rise to the top so quickly . '' John Hammond , Benny Goodman ’ s brother-in-law , “ discovered ” Christian in 1939 , an event that led to Charlie playing with

History - Howrah Bridge

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In which country is the Howrah bridge?

Untitled Document Click on thumbnails for full sized pictures A Flashback : The Seamless Bonds of Time The end of the 17th Century Kolkata witnessed the gradual emergence of the city of Kolkata brought about by the merger of three villages - Kolkata , Sutanati & Gobindapur , on the eastern bank of the river Hooghly , the other name of River 'Ganga ' . On the western bank , Howrah came up as a bustling site of commerce . The twin cities of Calcutta ( re-named as Kolkata in the year 2001 ) , and Howrah , were separated by the River Hooghly , and shared a common historical linkage towards the eventual construction of the Rabindra Setu , more commonly known as Howrah bridge . While Kolkata , from a small sleeping hamlet of artisans and mercantile community eventually developed , as a commercial hub of a modern metropolitan city , Howrah ( virtually the store house of raw material resources ) became its industrial satellite . Kolkata was declared the capital of India by the British and remained so till 1911 . The railway station at Howrah set up in the year 1906 and the bridge ( later popularly known as Howrah Bridge ) thus served as the logistic link with the country 's one of the oldest metropolies , Kolkata . The Legislative department of the then Government of Bengal passed the Howrah Bridge Act , in the year 1871 , under the Bengal Act IX of 1871 . Sir Bradford Leslie 's famous floating pontoon bridge , the earlier avatar of the modern Howrah Bridge , was initially set up in 1874 , almost coinciding with the establishment of the port of Calcutta in 1870 ( www.kolkataporttrust.gov.in ) . For the convenient plying of passenger and vehicular traffic , the pool was connected as a whole . However , this was unfastened everyday , particularly during the night for safe passage of steamers , boats and other marine vehicles . From 19th August , 1879 , the bridge was illuminated by fixing electric poles at the centre.This was done by using the electricity rendered from the dynamo at the Mallick GhatPumping Station . The Bridge was then 1528 ft. long and 62 ft. wide . On both sideswere pavements 7 ft. wide for the sake of pedestrians . The 48 ft. road in between , was for plying of traffic . '' The emergence of Kolkata as the political capital of the nation and expanding volume of merchandise routed through the port of Kolkata had a synergistic effect on the commercial importance of the bridge . The location of the initial pontoon bridge , was around 100 yards down-stream of the present Howrah Bridge ( renamed as Rabindra Setu in the year 1965 ) after Rabindranath Tagore , the philosopher - bard and one of the most important nineteenth century renaissance personalities to leave a lasting impression on modern India . The Early Initiatives The newly appointed Port Commissioners in 1871 were also appointed Bridge Commissioners and were enjoined to take charge of the structure . The Commissioners took over the management of the Howrah Bridge in February , 1875 . Since the early part of the 20th Century , the bridge showed signs of duress for catering to the increased traffic load . The Commissioners of Port of Calcutta instituted a Committee under the convenorship of Mr. John Scott , the then Chief Engineer of the Port . The other members included Mr. R.S . Highet , Chief Engineer , East Indian Railway and Mr. W.B . MacCabe Chief Engineer , Calcutta Corporation . The telling observations made by the Committee make a fascinating reading even today . The committee observed that `` bullock carts formed the eight - thirteenths of the vehicular traffic ( as observed on 27th of August 1906 , the heaviest day 's traffic observed in the port of Commissioners '' 16 day 's Census of the vehicular traffic across the existing bridge ) . The road way on the existing bridge is 48 feet wide except at the shore spans where it is only 43 feet in road ways , each 21 feet 6 inches wide . The roadway on the new bridge would be wide enough to take at least two lines of vehicular traffic and one line of trams in each direction and two roadways each 30 feet wide , giving a total width of 60 feet of road way which are quite sufficient for this purpose .................... The traffic across the existing floating bridge Calcutta & Howrah is very heavy and it is obvious if the new bridge is to be on

U.S. Department of State - Background Note: Brunei

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What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Brunei?

Brunei Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Fact Sheet August 19 , 2016 More information about Brunei is available on the Brunei Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet . .S.-BRUNEI RELATIONS Brunei Darussalam is a Malay Muslim Monarchy located at the heart of Southeast Asia , the focus of the U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific . Although the United States and Brunei concluded their Treaty of Peace , Friendship , Commerce and Navigation in 1850 , which is still in effect , the current era of U.S.-Brunei relations began in 1984 when Brunei became fully independent from the United Kingdom and the United States and Brunei established diplomatic relations . A memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation was signed in 1994 . In 2011 , Brunei and the United States held an inaugural Senior Officials Dialogue , creating a new forum for high-level coordination and communication . The most recent iteration of this dialogue was a High-level Officials Meeting in London in November 2015 which covered issues including trade , security , human rights , defense , regional cooperation , and academic exchanges . The two countries work closely together on a bilateral and regional agenda to tackle some of the most pressing issues . The contemporary U.S.-Brunei relationship enters its fourth decade in a position of strength , based on the unprecedentedly intensive and productive bilateral engagement in 2013 , when Brunei provided solid leadership for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) as the 2013 ASEAN Chair . Brunei 's armed forces engage in joint exercises , training programs , and other military cooperation with the United States , with the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training ( CARAT ) exercise at the core of the bilateral defense relationship . Bruneian military personnel have attended U.S. military academies and in 2014 the first U.S. military student attended the Brunei Command and Staff Course . The United States and Brunei have also partnered to provide English language instruction in ASEAN countries , promote entrepreneurship , and expand educational opportunities and people-to-people connections . The United States and Brunei share a commitment to protecting the environment and in 2013 Brunei became the first nation in the world to ban all trade relating to sharks . U.S. Assistance to Brunei The United States provides no foreign assistance to Brunei . Bilateral Economic Relations The key to economic relations with Brunei is the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement ( TPP ) , which was signed in October 2015 by the United States , Brunei , and 10 other countries . Brunei is proud of its distinction as a member of the P-4 , or the four founding members of the TPP . Brunei encourages foreign investment in the domestic economy through various incentives , marketing the country as an opportunity for investors in new industries and economic activities , although oil and gas and government spending still account for most of Brunei ’ s economic activity . Brunei 's non-petroleum industries include manufacturing , construction , agriculture , forestry , fishing , and services . U.S. firms are working in the energy sector , in financial services , and consulting for government projects , and U.S. franchises and brands are opening and thriving in Brunei . U.S. exports to Brunei are on an upward trajectory , particularly in civil and defense-related avionics . Aircraft that Brunei has procured from the United States in recent years include Sikorsky Black Hawk S70i helicopters and Boeing 787 Dreamliners . Brunei 's Membership in International Organizations Brunei gives its ASEAN membership the highest priority in its foreign relations . Brunei and the United States belong to a number of the same international organizations and forums including the United Nations , the International Monetary Fund , the World Bank , the World Trade Organization , the East Asia Summit , the ASEAN Regional Forum , and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum . Bilateral Representation The U.S . Ambassador to Brunei is Craig Allen ; other principal embassy officials are listed in the Department 's Key Officers List . Brunei maintains an embassy in the United States at 3520 International Court , NW , Washington , DC 20008 ; tel . 202-237-1838 . You can learn more from the Embassy webpage at http : //brunei.usembassy.gov/ or by following the Embassy on social media including Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter ( USEmbassyBSB ) . More information about Brunei is available from the Department of State and other online sources , some of which are listed here :

Norvell "Oliver" Hardy (1892 - 1957) - Genealogy - Geni

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What was Oliver Hardy's real first name?

Norvell `` Oliver '' Hardy ( 1892 - 1957 ) - Genealogy Norvell `` Oliver '' Hardy `` Babe Hardy '' , `` Oliver Hardy '' , `` Oliver Norvell Hardy '' , `` Oliver N. Hardy '' Birthdate : in North Hollywood , California , USA Cause of death : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : `` ... of -n pay a final tribute to- day to Oliver Hardy , 65 , the fat funnyman of the slapstick era , 'ho died Wednesday . Hardy 's old ' . '' Sta ... Date : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : `` ... and Hardy died today j Death came at the home ol Mrs Monnie L Jones his moth erinlaw He had suffered a par alytic stroke last Sept 12 ... Date : Aug 7 1957 - Los Angeles , California , USA Father 's last name : Jan 18 1892 - Harlem , Georgia Death : Aug 7 1957 - North Hollywood , California Parents : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : ... human historv s a mother . COMIiUIAX DIES NORTH HOLLYWOOD , Cahf . Oliver Hardy , the rotund half o ! the movie comedy team of Laure ! and Har ... Date : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : `` ... and Hardy , died today . Death came at the home of Mrs. Monnic L. Jonub . his mother-in- law . He had suffered paralytic stroke last Sept ... Date : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : ... Virginia . '' Services Are Held In Beverly Hills For Comedian Hardy BEVERLY HILLS . Calif. Masonic funeral services were held Friday for com ... Date : NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text : `` ... a final tribute , iof day to Oliver 'Hardy , 65 , the fat funnyman of the slapslick era , who'died Wednesday : Hardy 's old partner and fri ... Date : Compilation of Published Sources Text : ... comedian Oliver ( Babe ) Hardy haa broughfioa close one of the greateit eras ... In comedy . The fall guy half of the Uurel and Hardy slaps ... Date : Australian Newspapers Text : ... Hotel be- fore going to the course were Major and Mrs. Holt Hardy ( Mrs. Hardy was before her re- cent marriage Miss Sue ... ; Itrbutll h ... Publication : Feb 8 1940 - Sydney , New South Wales , Australia Page : Australian Newspapers Text : ... Tattersall 's Hotel before going to the course were Major and Mrs. Holt Hardy ( Mrs. Hardy was before her recent marriage Miss Sue Russell ... Publication : Feb 17 1940 - Melbourne , Victoria , Australia Page : Australian Newspapers Text : ... ears . After the marriage her husband commenced going out at night playing cards . He gave her no money for her support , but used to bring ... Publication : Feb 23 1940 - Newcastle , New South Wales , Australia Page : stepmother About Oliver Hardy American comedic actor Oliver Hardy was one half of the famous Laurel and Hardy , the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years , from 1927 to 1955 . Hardy ’ s screen character was noted for his genteel pomposity , his tie twiddle , and long suffering look while dealing with Stan ’ s character and his well-meaning but ultimately frustrating on screen antics . Unlike his future screen partner Stan Laurel , Hardy did not come from a show business family . He was born Norvell Hardy on January 18 , 1892 in Harlem , Georgia . His father was a lawyer who died when Hardy was ten ; his mother was a hotel owner in both his native Georgia and in Florida . Sometime prior to 1910 , Hardy began styling himself `` Oliver Norvell Hardy '' , with the first name “ Oliver ” being added as a tribute to his father . He appeared as “ Oliver N. Hardy ” in the 1910 U.S. census , and in all subsequent legal records , marriage announcements , etc. , Hardy used “ Oliver ” as his first name . The young Hardy became fascinated with show business through the stories spun by the performers who stayed at his mother 's hotel , and at age eight he ran away to join a minstrel troupe . Possessing a beautiful singing voice , Hardy studied music for a while ,

Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport profile ...

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Benito Juarez international airport is in which country?

Mexico City-Benito Ju�rez International Airport profile - Aviation Safety Network XA-SEJ Mexicana 27 near Mexico City- ... A1 Aircraft that departed Mexico City-Benito Ju�rez International Airport 40 occurrences in the ASN safety database date

Vicki Lawrence The night the lights went out in Georgia ...

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Who had a 70s No 1 hit with The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?

Vicki Lawrence The night the lights went out in Georgia 1973 - YouTube Vicki Lawrence The night the lights went out in Georgia 1973 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 Dec 24 , 2013 Vikki Lawrence The night the lights went down in Georgia Category Standard YouTube License Music

Born On The Same Day | People born on exactly the same day ...

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Which famous actress was born on exactly the same day as gymnast Olga Korbut?

Born On The Same Day | People born on exactly the same day ( but they 're not twins ) . | Page 25 Born On The Same Day Posted on January 23 , 2011 by Born On The Same Day Olga Korbut Olga Valentinovna Korbut ( b . May 16 , 1955 in Hrodna ) , also known as the Sparrow from Minsk , is a Belarusian , Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at theSummer Olympics , in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team . Debra Winger Mary Debra Winger ( born May 16 , 1955 ) is an American actress . A three-time Oscar nominee , she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment , for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983 , and in A Dangerous Woman , for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 1993 . Hazel O ’ Connor Hazel O ’ Connor ( born 16 May 1955 , Coventry , England ) is an English singer-songwriter and actress . She became famous in the early 1980s with hit singles “ Eighth Day ” , “ D-Days ” and “ Will You ” , as well as starring in the film Breaking Glass . Links : Posted on January 23 , 2011 by Born On The Same Day Ritchie Valens Ritchie Valens ( born Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes ; May 13 , 1941 – February 3 , 1959 ) was a Mexican-American singer , songwriter and guitarist . Valens ’ recording career lasted only eight months . During this time , however , he scored several hits , most notably “ La Bamba ” , which was originally a Mexican folk song that Valens transformed with a rock rhythm and beat that became a hit in 1958 . On February 3 , 1959 , on what has become known as The Day the Music Died , Valens was killed in a small-plane crash in Iowa , a tragedy that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. “ The Big Bopper ” Richardson . Valens was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 . Joe Brown Photo by Garry Knight Joe Brown , MBE ( born Joseph Roger Brown , 13 May 1941 , Swarby , Lincolnshire ) is an English entertainer . Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer andguitarist for more than five decades . He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s . He made six films , presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2 , appeared on the West End stage and has written an autobiography . Miles Kington Miles Beresford Kington ( 13 May 1941 – 30 January 2008 ) was a British journalist , musician ( a double bass player for Instant Sunshine and other groups ) and broadcaster . Links : Posted on January 23 , 2011 by Born On The Same Day Catherine Tate Catherine Tate ( born 12 May 1968 ) is a British actress , writer and comedian . She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards . Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show , Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who and later reprised her role , becoming the Doctor ’ s companion for the fourth series in 2008 . Tony Hawk Photo by Tinou Bao Anthony Frank Hawk ( born May 12 , 1968 ) , better known as Tony Hawk , is an American professional skateboarder . Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 ( a 2.5-revolution aerial spin ) as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision . He is widely considered one of the most successful and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding . Links : Posted on January 22 , 2011 by Born On The Same Day Leslie Charteris Leslie Charteris ( 12 May 1907 , Singapore– 15 April 1993 ) , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin , was a half-Chinese , half English author of primarily mystery fiction , as well as a screenwriter . He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar , alias “ The Saint . ” Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn ( May 12

IRIS - Greek Goddess of the Rainbow, Messenger of the Gods

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In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the rainbow?

IRIS - Greek Goddess of the Rainbow , Messenger of the Gods Iris Iris , Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C. , Rhode Island School of Design Museum IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods . She was often described as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera . Iris was a goddess of sea and sky -- her father Thaumas `` the wondrous '' was a marine-god , and her mother Elektra `` the amber '' a cloud-nymph . For the coastal-dwelling Greeks , the rainbow 's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and sea , and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea . Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own . In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess . Her name contains a double meaning , being connected with both the Greek word iris `` the rainbow '' and eiris `` messenger . '' Iris is depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as a beautiful young woman with golden wings , a herald 's rod ( kerykeion ) , and sometimes a water-pitcher ( oinochoe ) in her hand . She was usually depicted standing beside Zeus or Hera , sometimes serving nectar from her jug . As cup-bearer of the gods Iris is often indistinguishable from Hebe in art . FAMILY OF IRIS PARENTS [ 1.1 ] THAUMAS & ELEKTRA ( Hesiod Theogony 265 , Apollodorus 1.10 , Hyginus Pref , Nonnus Dionysiaca 26.350 ) [ 1.2 ] THAUMAS ( Plato Theatetus 155d , Callimachus Hymn 5 , Ptolemy Hephaestion 6 , Ovid Met . 4.479 , Vergil Aeneid 9.2 , Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.20 ) [ 1.3 ] THAUMAS & OZOMENE ( Hyginus Fabulae 14 ) OFFSPRING [ 1.1 ] POTHOS ( by Zephryos ) ( Alcaeus Frag 257 ; Eustathius on Homer 555 , Nonnus Dionysiaca 47.340 ) ENCYCLOPEDIA IRIS ( Iris ) , a daughter of Thaumas ( whence she is called Thaumantias , Virg . Aen . ix . 5 ) and Electra , and sister of the Harpies . ( Hes . Theog . 266 , 780 ; Apollod . i . 2 . § 6 ; Plat . Theaet . p. 155. d ; Plut . de Plac . Philos . iii . 5 . ) In the Homeric poems she appears as the minister of the Olympian gods , who carries messages from Ida to Olympus , from gods to gods , and from gods to men . ( Il . xv . 144 , xxiv . 78 , 95 , ii . 787 , xviii . 168 , Hymn . in Apoll . Del . 102 , & c. ) In accordance with these functions of Iris , her name is commonly derived from erô eirô ; so that Iris would mean `` the speaker or messenger : '' but it is not impossible that it may be connected with eirô , `` I join , '' whence eirênê ; so that Iris , the goddess of the rainbow , would be the joiner or conciliator , or the messenger of heaven , who restores peace in nature . In the Homeric poems , it is true , Iris does not appear as the goddess of the rainbow , but the rainbow itself is called iris ( Il xi . 27 , xvii . 547 ) : and this brilliant phenomenon in tile skies , which vanishes as quickly as it appears , was regarded as the swift minister of the gods . Her genealogy too supports the opinion that Iris was originally the personification of the rainbow . In the earlier poets , and even in Theocritus ( xvii . 134 ) and Virgil ( Aen . v. 610 ) Iris appears as a virgin goddess ; but according to later writers , she was married to Zephyrus , and became by him the mother of Eros . ( Eustath . ad Hom . pp . 391 , 555 ; Plut . Amat . 20 . ) With regard to her functions , which we have above briefly described , we may further observe , that the Odyssey never mentions Iris , but only Hermes as the messenger of the gods : in the Iliad , on the other hand , she appears most frequently , and on the most different occasions . She is principally engaged in the service of Zeus , but also in that of Hera , and even serves Achilles in calling the winds to his assistance . ( Il .

History Jeopardy Template - jeopardylabs.com

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According to legend, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot?

History Jeopardy Template Who is the Medici Family Who was the wealthy family in Florence that funded many artists during the Renaissance ? 100 Who is Prometheus Who is that man that brought fire to the people of Greece by breaking off a piece of the sun ? 100 Who is Helen of Sparta The Trojan War began because of the abduction of which Spartan queen according to classical sources ? 100 What was the river that Egyptian civilizations depended on for flooding and irrigation ? 100 After what explorer is our continent named ? 200 What is Legalism What was the ancient Chinese philosophy that was used to bring an end to the Warring States Period in ancient China ? 200 Who was the very wealthy king who loved gold more than anything ? 200 In what year was the last battle of the War of 1812 ? 200 What type of belief system did most early civilizations have ? 200 Who is that Spanish explorer that conquered the Incan empire ? 300 What was the pictographic script used by the ancient Egyptians involving symbols ? 300 Who was the god that was thrown off Mount Olympus because he was ugly ? 300 During the Fourth Crusade , the pope excommunicated the Crusaders because they sacked what Christian city ? 300 What is the Shang Dynasty What Chinese dynasty used tortoise shells and 'oracle bones ' to communicate with the spirits which led to the first examples of Chinese writing ? 300 Who is known as the first man to sail all the way around the world ? 400 What is `` Ring around the Rosie '' What is the song that children sing for fun , but actually describes the Black Death that spread across Europe ? 400 Artemis and who were the twins that Zeus had with Leto ? 400 Who is Henry Tudor The War of Roses was fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks , but was one by a leader of neither party named who ? 400 Who is the Nazca Who of this early Andes Mountains civilization carved enormous pictographs or glyphs into the desert floor that might be a form of ancient calendar ? 400 Who crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean ? 500 What is 1886 What is the year in which the United States was presented with a monumental gift from France ? 500 Who is Paris According to legend , who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel , his only vulnerable spot ? 500 What is the Treaty of Westphalia What was the resolution of the 30 Years War ? 500 What is Papua New Guinea Jarred Diamond began searching the world for answers to a question posed by Yali , a native of what tropical country where Diamond did his early research ? 500

Hades - Greek Mythology

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In Greek mythology, who was the queen of the underworld and wife of Hades?

Hades Hades See More Hades Pictures > Hades was the brother of Zeus and Poseidon . After the overthrow of their father , Cronus , he drew lots with them to share the universe . He drew poorly , which resulted in becoming lord of the underworld and ruler of the dead . Nevertheless , he was not considered to be death itself , as this was a different god , called Thanatos . Greedy like his brother Poseidon , he was mainly interested in increasing his subjects , and anyone whose deeds resulted in people dying was favoured by him . The Erinnyes ( the Furies ) were welcomed guests in his kingdom . The Greeks were not keen on uttering his name , afraid of causing some kind of reaction that would end up with them dead sooner . Instead , they decided to give him another name , Plouton , deriving from the Greek word for wealth , due to the precious metals mined from the earth . Thus , Hades also became the god of wealth . Although an Olympian , Hades preferred the Underworld and rarely left his kingdom . His weapon was a pitchfork , which he used to create earthquakes , similar to the way Poseidon used his trident . He also had a helmet of invisibility , which he had received as a gift from the Cyclopes , in order to use it during the clash of the Titans . He was married to Persephone , daughter of Demeter , whom Hades abducted and carried down to the Underworld . Hades Is also called Pluto , Dis Pater , Orcus , Plouton .

Tom Lehrer (Music) - TV Tropes

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"Which entertainer said, ""He was into animal husbandry--until they caught him at it?"

Tom Lehrer ( Music ) - TV Tropes Tom Lehrer You need to login to do this . Get Known if you do n't have an account Share WMG `` Come back tomorrow night , we 're gon na do� fractions . '' `` I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes , you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene—or , as they say in New York , sophisticated . '' —Tom Lehrer Thomas Andrew Lehrer ( born April 9 , 1928 ) is an American satirist who managed to achieve remarkable popularity and impact on popular culture , despite having produced only three albums ' worth of material in the 1950s and '60s before retiring to a life in academia as a mathematician . Lehrer 's pieces often take the form of witty parodies of various popular song forms . Other common themes in his work are disapproval of nuclear war , Cold War politics , and folk singing . Of course , he undercuts that last by putting forth as perfect a rendition of such songs as can be done with only a piano ( `` imagine that I am playing an 88-string guitar '' , as he said in his intro to `` The Folk Song Army , '' on his 1965 album That Was the Year That Was ) as accompaniment . He also wrote 10 songs for the children 's educational series The Electric Company ( 1971 ) . Lehrer is still alive , and occasionally performing . At the 80th birthday party of a fellow mathematician and friend Irving `` Kaps '' Kaplansky , he dusted off a handful of mathematics songs to an appreciative crowd of students and fellow mathematicians . `` Weird Al '' Yankovic cites Tom Lehrer as one of his inspirations , while Dr Demento has described him as `` the greatest musical satirist of the 20th Century . '' Lehrer 's own inspirations notably include Gilbert and Sullivan , Danny Kaye and Cole Porter . He also claimed to have invented the Jell-O shot as a way of circumventing military base regulations , though the idea goes at least as far back as the 1862 book , How to Mix Drinks or The Bon-Vivant�s Companion . More of Tom Lehrer ( 1959 ) An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer ( 1959 ) note A live album with the material from More of ... Revisited ( 1960 ) note A live album with the material from Songs by ... ; the CD version also contains two songs he wrote for The Electric Company ( 1971 ) That Was the Year That Was ( 1965 ) Mr. Lehrer 's works display examples of : Acting Unnatural : In one of Tom Lehrer 's compositions for The Electric Company ( 1971 ) , `` L-Y '' , this trope comes into play in the second verse . Enhanced by the animation for the song , in which the `` secret agent man '' leans against the safe he is trying to open while playing with a yo-yo and smiling ear to ear . You 're a secret agent man Who 's after the secret plan How do you act so they do n't know you 're a spy ? Ah-normally ( Not-So-Innocent Whistle ) Normally ( whistles again ) Normal ... L-Y ! Alma Mater Song : `` Bright College Days '' . `` Fight Fiercely , Harvard '' . It is actually a parody of a Football Fight Song , but Harvard is Tom Lehrer 's alma mater . Arson , Murder , and Jaywalking : The final verse of `` The Irish Ballad '' : And when at last the police came by Her little pranks she did not deny For to do so she would have had to lie ... And lyin ' she knew was a sin . Inverted with the the review-quotes he included on at least one of his album covers : `` More desperate than amusing '' � New York Herald Tribune `` He seldom has any point to make except obvious ones '' � The Christian Science Monitor `` Mr. Lehrer 's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste . '' � New York Times `` Obvious , jejune , and remarkably unsophisticated . '' � London Evening Standard From the introduction to `` In Old Mexico '' : He majored in animal husbandry until they ... caught him at

Names – Nelson Mandela Foundation

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What is Nelson Mandela's middle name?

Names – Nelson Mandela Foundation Names The late Mr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sometimes referred to by other names . Each name has its own special meaning and story . When you use them you should know what you are saying and why . So here is a brief explanation of each name : Rolihlahla This was Mr Mandela ’ s birth name : it is an isiXhosa name that means “ pulling the branch of a tree ” , but colloquially it means “ troublemaker ” . His father gave him this name . Nelson This name was given to him on his first day at school by his teacher , Miss Mdingane . Giving African children English names was a custom among Africans in those days and was influenced by British colonials who could not easily , and often would not , pronounce African names . It is unclear why Miss Mdingane chose the name “ Nelson ” for Mr Mandela . Madiba This is the name of the clan of which Mr Mandela was a member . A clan name is much more important than a surname as it refers to the ancestor from which a person is descended . Madiba was the name of a Thembu chief who ruled in the Transkei in the 18th century . It is considered very polite to use someone ’ s clan name . Tata This isiXhosa word means “ father ” and is a term of endearment that many South Africans use for Mr Mandela . Since he was a father figure to many , they call him Tata regardless of their own age . Khulu Mr Mandela is often referred to as “ Khulu ” , which means great , paramount , grand . The speaker means “ Great One ” when referring to Mr Mandela in this way . It is also a shortened form of the isiXhosa word “ Tat'omkhulu ” for “ grandfather ” . Dalibhunga This is the name Mr Mandela was given at the age of 16 once he had undergone initiation , the traditional Xhosa rite of passage into manhood . It means “ creator or founder of the council ” or “ convenor of the dialogue ” . Related

Barry Clifford, at it again! | PiratesAhoy!

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Barry Clifford found fame discovering what?

Barry Clifford , at it again ! | PiratesAhoy ! Please take a moment to read our Welcome Message and Forum Rules . Barry Clifford , at it again ! Tweet by Thagarr , Aug 20 , 2010 at 10:04 AM Thagarr Pining for the Fjords ! Staff Member Administrator Creative Support Storm Modder News Gatherer Hearts of Oak Donator Joined : Steeler Country [ imgleft ] http : //lh6.ggpht.com/_cQOyQjTP3GY/SzdzZcJpthI/AAAAAAAAAIU/lTv6nE8qBxo/pa-logo.gif [ /imgleft ] In late September , Barry Clifford will be off to an island off the east coast of Madagascar to do what he does best , explore sunken pirate ships ! Clifford is headed to the small island of Île Sainte-Marie This is the first major expedition that I know of to search for pirate history in the area . It makes sense as these were some of the most pirate infested waters of the Golden Age ! Ile Sainte-Marie , or St. Mary 's Island as it is known in English , became a popular base for pirates throughout the 17th and 18th centuries due to several reasons : it was not far from the maritime routes along which ships returning from the East Indies sailed in transit , their holds overflowing with wealth , it was provided with bays and inlets protected from storms and finally , it had abundant fruit and was situated in quiet waters . Legendary pirates like William Kidd , Robert Culliford , Olivier Levasseur , Henry Every , and Thomas Tew , lived in the île aux Forbans , an island located in the bay of Sainte Marie 's main town , Ambodifotatra . Many of them would found a family line . A lot of vestiges of this history remains at Sainte Marie . For example , several authentic pirate vessels still lie within a few meters of the surface in the Baie des Forbans . Two of these have been tentatively identified as the remains of Captain Kidd 's Adventure Galley and Captain Condent 's Fiery Dragon . The utopian pirate republic of Libertatia was also rumored to exist in this area , although the republic 's existence , let alone its location , has never been proven . Click to expand ... Barry Clifford made a name for himself in 1984 by discovering the first authentic pirate shipwreck ever found , The Whydah ! If you have n't read up on the Whydah , it is really quite fascinating , this single wreck has done more to give a picture of what real pirate life was like than almost any other source . You can read more about it HERE ! This time Clifford will be looking to explore 5 sunken ships he first discovered in 1999 , and he also has plans to explore some underwater tunnels in the area . This time , he will be looking for artifacts of the pirate Olivier Le Vasseur , known as `` The Buzzard . '' I ca n't wait to see just what this expedition uncovers , it should be fascinating to say the least ! P'town explorer heading to pirate ships PROVINCETOWN — Pirating the world 's great sailing ships in the Indian Ocean was a career option in the early 1700s . In late September , underwater explorer Barry Clifford of Province-town will head to an island off the east coast of Madagascar to get to the bottom of it . Clifford first discovered five antique ships sunken in the harbor of Sainte Marie Island in 1999 and 2000 along with underwater tunnels that may hold the stashes of renowned French pirate Olivier Le Vasseur , known as `` The Buzzard . '' `` The Buzzard '' was an apprentice pirate with Capt . `` Black Sam '' Bellamy , Clifford told the Times yesterday . Bellamy captured 50 ships in the Caribbean and the Atlantic , including the Whydah in 1717 , a three-masted English slave ship with silver and gold treasure that sunk off Wellfleet three months after it was seized . Clifford discovered the Whydah wreck in 1984 , shooting him to fame . Artifacts from the Whydah are housed at Clifford 's museum at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown and a National Geographic exhibition `` Pirates of the Whydah , '' in cooperation with Clifford , is currently touring museums across the country . The shipwrecks off Sainte Marie Island , which Clifford calls `` pirate central '' of the late 1600s and early 1700s , include the Adventure Galley , a ship of Scottish pirate William Kidd , and the Fiery Dragon , commanded by pirate William Condon , according to Clifford . Three

Christopher Reeve | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos ...

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What was Christopher Reeve's first movie?

Christopher Reeve | Biography , Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie twitter Biography by Sandra Brennan Though he has played a variety of leading roles , tall , dark , and wholesomely handsome Christopher Reeve will always be the definitive Superman to an entire generation of `` Man of Steel '' fans . That his definitive character was such a model of physical prowess only serves to intensify the tragedy of Reeve 's post-Superman years , marked by a 1995 horseback riding accident that left him almost completely paralyzed . A native of New York City , Reeve was born to journalist Barbara Johnson and professor/writer Franklin Reeve on September 25 , 1952 . When he was four , his parents divorced , and Reeve and his brother went with their mother to Princeton , NJ , after she married her second husband , a stockbroker . Reeve became interested in acting at the age of eight , an interest that complemented his musical studies at the time . The following year , he made his professional acting debut in a production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta at Princeton 's McCarter Theater . He would continue to work with the theater through his early teens and further enhanced his resumé at the age of 15 , when he received a summer apprenticeship to study drama in Williamstown . The following year , he secured his first agent . Reeve went on to major in English and music at Cornell University . Following his graduation , he pursued a master 's degree in drama at Juilliard and then studied under actor John Houseman 's tutelage before heading to Europe to work at London 's Old Vic and the Comedie Française of Paris . Upon his 1974 return stateside , Reeve took over the role of Ben Harper on the long-running soap opera Love of Life ; he stayed with the show through 1978 . During this period , he made his Broadway debut , starring opposite Katharine Hepburn in a production of A Matter of Gravity . Though he had made his feature-film debut with a small role in the undersea adventure Gray Lady Down ( 1977 ) , Reeve did not become a star until he beat out a number of big name actors , including Robert Redford , Sylvester Stallone , and Clint Eastwood , to don the metallic blue body stocking and red cape in Richard Donner 's 1978 blockbuster Superman : The Movie . Though the film abounded with exuberant , sly humor , Reeve played his Superman straight , giving him great charm , a touch of irony , and a clumsy wistfulness , thereby creating a believable alien hero who masquerades as a bungling newsman and pines for the love of unknowing colleague Lois Lane . The film was one of the year 's most popular and earned Reeve a British Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer . He went on to reprise the role in the film 's three sequels , none of which matched the quality and verve of the original . In a concerted effort to avoid typecasting , Reeve attempted to prove his versatility by essaying a wide variety of roles . In 1980 , while Superman II was in production , he returned to Broadway to appear as a gay amputee in Lanford Wilson 's Fifth of July . That same year , he also starred in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time , playing a Chicago playwright who travels back in time to capture the attentions of a beautiful woman ( Jane Seymour ) . Though generally cast as a good guy , Reeve occasionally attempted darker characters . In Deathtrap ( 1981 ) , he played a crazed playwright , while he portrayed a corrupt priest in the dismal Monsignor ( 1982 ) and a reporter entangled in the prostitution industry in Street Smart ( 1987 ) . Reeve returned to television in Sleeping Beauty , an entry in Shelley Duvall 's distinguished Faerie Tale Theater . He subsequently had success appearing in television movies such as Anna Karenina ( 1985 ) and Death Dreams ( 1992 ) . In the late '80s , Reeve became involved in various social causes and co-founded the Creative Coalition . He was also active with Amnesty International , even going to Chile in 1987 to show support for imprisoned authors . His interest in improving the world is apparent in the earnest but much-panned Superman IV : The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ) , for which he wrote the story . By the mid-'90s , Reeve was still busy juggling his film , television , and stage work . It all

Mike Porcaro dies at 59; bassist played with two brothers ...

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The Porcaro Brothers featured in which group?

Mike Porcaro dies at 59 ; bassist played with two brothers in rock band Toto - LA Times Mike Porcaro dies at 59 ; bassist played with two brothers in rock band Toto Toto Jim Shea / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images The Grammy-winning rock group Toto in 1984 : Mike Porcaro , left , Steve Porcaro , David Paich , Jeff Porcaro , Steve Lukather and Fergie Frederiksen . The Grammy-winning rock group Toto in 1984 : Mike Porcaro , left , Steve Porcaro , David Paich , Jeff Porcaro , Steve Lukather and Fergie Frederiksen . ( Jim Shea / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images ) Steve Chawkins Mike Porcaro , a bass player who performed along with his two brothers in the rock group Toto , dies at 59 Mike Porcaro , a bass player who performed along with his two brothers in the rock group Toto , died Sunday at his Los Angeles home . He was 59 . Porcaro had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , a degenerative neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig 's disease . -- -- -- -- -- -- FOR THE RECORD Mike Porcaro : A news obituary in the March 17 California section of Mike Porcaro , former bass player with the rock group Toto , said he was born in Hartford , Conn . He was born in South Windsor , Conn . Notable Deaths Photos of leaders , stars and other notable figures who died in 2015 . -- -- -- -- -- -- His death was announced in a Facebook post by his brother Steve , a former keyboardist for the Grammy-winning band . A third Porcaro brother , Jeff , was Toto 's drummer . He died of a heart attack at his Hidden Hills home in 1992 . The sons of studio session percussionist Joe Porcaro , the brothers attended Grant High School in Van Nuys and honed their skills in a garage their family had transformed into a rehearsal and recording studio . Jeff , Steve and four other musicians formed Toto in 1978 . Mike joined after David Hungate , the group 's original bass player , left in 1982 . In 1983 , Toto won a best-album Grammy for `` Toto IV , '' a best-song Grammy for `` Rosanna '' and several other Grammy awards . On that February evening in the Shrine Auditorium , Joe Porcaro performed in the pit orchestra as his sons collected their music industry honors . Born May 29 , 1955 , in Hartford , Conn. , Michael Joseph Porcaro performed with Seals and Crofts , Boz Scaggs and other groups before signing on with Toto . When he was 50 , he noticed a puzzling weakness in his hands and fingers . Doctors diagnosed him with ALS in 2006 and he retired the following year . Toto went on hiatus in 2008 but returned two years later , staging a summer tour to benefit Porcaro and draw attention to ALS .

Iggy Azalea explains her stage name in new series ‘A.K.A ...

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What is Iggy Pop's real name?

Iggy Azalea explains her stage name in new series ‘ A.K.A. ’ - AXS Iggy Azalea explains her stage name in new series ‘ A.K.A . ’ By : Tarringo Vaughan Aug 22 , 2014 235 1 y2014m08d22 19843 Rapper Iggy Azalea is on fire and her musical career seems to just be getting started . The “ Fancy ” rapper is preparing to make her debut at this Sunday ’ s 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with collaborator Rita Ora , but in the meantime Azalea has taken the time to explain her stage name . On Thursday , the Australian rapper was the first celebrity to appear in the new Vevo original series “ A.K.A. ” and explained just where she got her name . The show , which premiered on Thursday , Aug. 21 , has stars explain how they got their stage names . Azalea ’ s stage name came as a “ two-part saga. ” She starts off saying : My name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly , but you guys probably know me as Iggy Azalea . And that ’ s how it ’ s gon na stay . ” Interestingly , the first part of her name originated from her dog of the same name . Her dog , Iggy , was named after Iggy Pop . She loved her dog very much and went on to explain an incident involving her favorite pet . One time he got bitten by a snake , ” She shared . “ And he couldn ’ t move his legs , and I realized he had killed the snake . ” After he survived the incident and was back to his old self , she got a name-plate necklace made in his honor . She continued . Everybody started to think that my name was Iggy so it kind of became my nickname and I took it on board and started rapping with it . ” The second part of her name actually comes from her grandfather , who disapproved of her just having a one-word stage name . He told her that a good stage name should have a certain number of syllables and just going by Iggy wasn ’ t cutting it . She recalled , ( He ) said to me , ‘ You can ’ t have a one-word stage name ' ... It made perfect mathematical sense . So I had to think of a good last name . ” After much thought , she went with the name of the street her mother and family live on . So basically she went with the name of her pet and the street her family lives on to come up with Iggy Azalea . The rap star is now a household name and would like to forget her born name Amethyst . Other celebrities to appear in the series are Common , Future , G-Easy , and Daddy Yankee . Should be interesting to see if any of them can top Azalea ’ s story . By : Tarringo Vaughan

Montreal-Dorval International Airport, QC profile ...

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Dorval International airport is in which country?

Montreal-Dorval International Airport , QC profile - Aviation Safety Network Montreal-Dorval International Airport , QC profile Last updated : 5 November 2013 Canada IATA code : YUL ICAO code : CYUL Elevation : 118 feet / 36 m Opened : 1941 Notams : Notams for CYUL Airport history : SEP 1941

Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three Dog Night Songfacts

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Who wrote the song Momma Told Me Not To Come?

Mama Told Me ( Not to Come ) by Three Dog Night Songfacts Songfacts This was written by Randy Newman , the nephew of Academy Award-winning composer Lionel Newman . The song is about a party that left a `` bad taste '' in the writer 's mouth . The drug scene was fairly new to American middle-class youth at that time . This song has the distinction of being the very first # 1 hit on the American Top 40 syndicated radio program . The show , hosted by Casey Kasem , became popular on AM radio throughout the world until its decline in the mid-1990s . This beat out The Beatles ' `` The Long and Winding Road `` ( their last hit record before the final breakup ) and Elvis Presley 's `` The Wonder of You '' for top chart honors in early August 1970 . > > Suggestion credit : Charles - Charlotte , NC , for above 2 Newman 's original version was included on his 1970 album 12 Songs . His version was only 2 minutes 12 seconds , over a minute shorter than Three Dog Night 's version . Cory Wells , who sang lead on this track , was the Three Dog Night band member who pushed to record it . He was a big fan of the song and played it with his previous band . > > Suggestion credit :

Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) 1965 | The ...

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Who founded the Organization of Afro American Unity?

Organization of Afro-American Unity ( OAAU ) 1965 | The Black Past : Remembered and Reclaimed Organization of Afro-American Unity ( OAAU ) 1965 Malcolm X at the Founding Rally of the OAAU , Audubon Ballroom , New York City , 1964 Image Ownership : Public Domain The Organization of Afro-American Unity ( OAAU ) was founded by Malcolm X , John Henrik Clarke , and other black nationalist leaders on June 24 , 1964 in Harlem , New York . Formed shortly after his break with the Nation of Islam , the OAAU was a secular institution that sought to unify 22 million non- Muslim African Americans with the people of the African Continent . The OAAU was modeled after the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) , a coalition of 53 African nations working to provide a unified political voice for the continent . In the coalition spirit of the OAU , Malcolm X sought to reconnect African Americans with their African heritage , establish economic independence , and promote African American self-determination . He also sought OAAU representation on the OAU . The OAAU was designed to encompass all peoples of African origin in the Western hemisphere , as well those on the African continent . Malcolm X insisted that progress for African Americans was intimately tied to progress in Africa , and outlined a platform of five fronts for this progress called `` The Basic Unity Program . '' This program called for Restoration , Reorientation , Education , Economic Security , and Self-Defense as a means of promoting Pan-African unity and interests . With a strong focus on education as the primary means of repairing the damages of slavery , economic discrimination , and physical violence directed towards African Americans , the OAAU hoped to foster pan-African consciousness . Among the more controversial positions taken by the OAAU was the suggestion that leaders of African states held more legitimate political power for African Americans than did the American government . At the founding conference , Malcolm X stressed the importance of escaping terms like `` negro , '' `` integration , '' or `` emancipation , '' insisting that such language was inherently pejorative and antithetical to the ideology of the OAAU . The OAAU called for African American-run institutions within the black community as well as increased participation in mainstream politics . In order to keep the OAAU strictly in African American hands , Malcolm X insisted that there be no monetary donations from non-African sources . The organization also refused membership to whites . After Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom on February 19 , 1965 , the fledgling movement died . Malcolm 's half-sister Ella Collins took over the OAAU , but without his charismatic leadership , most members deserted the organization . Nonetheless the OAAU became the inspiration for hundreds of `` black power '' groups that emerged during the next decade . Sources : Bruce Perry , Malcolm : The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America ( Tarrytown , N.Y. : Station Hill Press , 1991 ) . ; http : //www.panafricanperspective.com/mxoaaufounding.html Contributor :

Magellan Mission to Venus - NASA

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Which NASA space probe was launched to Venus in 1989?

Magellan Mission to Venus Magellan Mission to Venus The Magellan spacecraft was launched on May 4 , 1989 , arrived at Venus on August 10 , 1990 and was inserted into a near-polar elliptical orbit with a periapsis altitude of 294 km at 9.5 deg . N. Radio contact with Magellan was lost on October 12 , 1994 . The primary objectives of the Magellan mission were to map the surface of Venus with a synthetic aperture radar ( SAR ) and to determine the topographic relief of the planet . At the completion of radar mapping 98 % of the surface was imaged at resolutions better than 100 m , and many areas were imaged multiple times . The image at the top of the page shows the 30-km diametar crater Adivar , with a jet-like streak extending off to the left . The streak , which measures over 500 km in length , is probably the result of the initial crater-forming impact . ( This image is from C1-MIDR 15N077 ; 1 , framelet 52 , Magellan CD-ROM MG_0019 . ) The mission was divided up into `` cycles '' , each cycle lasted 243 days ( the time necessary for Venus to rotate once under the Magellan orbit - i.e . the time necessary for Magellan to `` see '' the entire surface once . ) The mission proceeded as follows : 04 May 1989 - Launch 10 Aug 1990 - Venus orbit insertion and spacecraft checkout 15 Sep 1990 - Cycle 1 : Radar mapping ( left-looking ) 15 May 1991 - Cycle 2 : Radar mapping ( right-looking ) 15 Jan 1992 - Cycle 3 : Radar mapping ( left-looking ) 14 Sep 1992 - Cycle 4 : Gravity data acquisition 24 May 1993 - Aerobraking to circular orbit 03 Aug 1993 - Cycle 5 : Gravity data acquisition 30 Aug 1994 - Windmill experiment 12 Oct 1994 - Termination experiment - loss of signal 13 Oct 1994 - Presumed loss of spacecraft More detailed information about the cycles is available . A total of 4225 usable SAR imaging orbits was obtained by Magellan . Each orbit typically covered an area 20 km wide by 17,000 km long , at a resolution of 75 m/pixel . This raw SAR data was processed into image strips called full-resolution basic image data records ( F-BIDRs ) . Adjacent F-BIDRs were then assembled into full-resolution mosaicked image data records ( F-MIDRs ) . These images were then compressed once ( by a factor of 3 ) , twice ( 9 ) , or 3 times ( 27 ) , to give C1- , C2- , and C3-MIDRs . The MIDRs are available on the Magellan MIDR CD-ROMs from NSSDCA . More details about using Magellan CD-ROM 's are also available , as are answers to frequently asked questions about the CD-ROMs and MIDRs . In addition , a CD-ROM Browser is available courtesy of the PDS Microwave Subnode . Other data was also collected by Magellan and is available at the NSSDCA . Altimetry and radiometry composite data records ( ARCDR ) are available on the ARCDR CD-ROMs . Magellan also collected radar emissivity , radar reflectivity , slope , and topographic data , available on the GxDR CD-ROMs , and gravity and radio occultation data . The USGS has also produced a set of full-resolution mosaics called FMAPs . All the Magellan CD-ROMs mentioned above have been produced under the auspices of the Planetary Data System , and have PDS formats and labels . Below is shown a global map of radar reflectance . The Magellan mission scientific objectives were to study land forms and tectonics , impact processes , erosion , deposition , chemical processes , and model the interior of Venus . Magellan showed us an Earth-sized planet with no evidence of Earth-like plate tectonics . At least 85 % of the surface is covered with volcanic flows , the remainder by highly deformed mountain belts . Even with the high surface temperature ( 475 C ) and high atmospheric pressure ( 92 bars ) , the complete lack of water makes erosion a negligibly slow process , and surface features can persist for hundreds of millions of years . Some surface modification in the form of wind streaks was observed . Over 80 % of Venus lies within 1 km of the mean radius of 6051.84 km . The mean surface age is estimated to be about 500 My . A major unanswered question concerns whether the entire surface was covered in a series of large events 500 My ago , or if it has been covered slowly over time . The gravity field of Venus is highly correlated

Garry Kasparov | Russian chess player | Britannica.com

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Harry Weinstein became a world champion under which name?

Garry Kasparov | Russian chess player | Britannica.com Russian chess player Alternative Titles : Garri Kimovich Kasparov , Garri Weinstein , Harry Weinstein Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov , in full Garri Kimovich Kasparov , original name Garri Weinstein or Harry Weinstein ( born April 13 , 1963 , Baku , Azerbaijan , U.S.S.R. ) , Russian chess master who became the world chess champion in 1985 . Garry Kasparov contemplating his next move against former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov … Abilio Lope/Corbis Kasparov was born to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother . He began playing chess at age 6 , by age 13 was the Soviet youth champion , and won his first international tournament at age 16 in 1979 . Kasparov became an international grandmaster in 1980 . From 1973 to 1978 he studied under former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik . Kasparov first challenged the reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov in a 1984–85 match , after he survived the Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE ; the international chess federation ) series of elimination matches . Kasparov lost four out of the first nine games but then adopted a careful defensive stance , taking an extraordinarily long series of drawn games with the champion . With Kasparov finally having won three games from the exhausted Karpov , FIDE halted the series after 48 games , a decision protested by Kasparov . In the two players ’ rematch in 1985 , Kasparov narrowly defeated Karpov in a 24-game series and thereby became the youngest official champion in the history of the game . In 1993 Kasparov and the English grandmaster Nigel Short left FIDE and formed a rival organization , the Professional Chess Association ( PCA ) . In response , FIDE stripped the title of world champion from Kasparov , who defeated Short that same year to become the PCA world champion . In 1995 he successfully defended his PCA title against Viswanathan Anand of India . In 1996 Kasparov defeated a powerful IBM custom-built chess computer known as Deep Blue in a match that attracted worldwide attention . Kasparov and the team of Deep Blue programmers agreed to have a rematch in 1997 . Deep Blue ’ s intelligence was upgraded , and the machine prevailed . Kasparov resigned in the last game of the six-game match after 19 moves , granting the win to Deep Blue . In 2000 Kasparov lost a 16-game championship match to Vladimir Kramnik of Russia . Garry Kasparov playing against Deep Blue , the chess-playing computer built by IBM . Adam Nadel/AP Kasparov retired from competitive chess in 2005 , though not from involvement in chess . In particular , he produced an acclaimed series of books , Kasparov on My Great Predecessors ( 2003–06 ) , that covered all the world chess champions from Wilhelm Steinitz through Karpov , as well as many other great players . He also kept in the public eye with his decision in 2005 to start a political organization , the United Civil Front , to oppose Russian Pres . Vladimir Putin . In 2006 Kasparov was one of the prime movers behind a broad coalition of political parties that formed the Other Russia , a group held together by only one goal : ousting Putin from power . In 2007 , following several protest marches organized by the coalition in which Kasparov and other participants were arrested , the Other Russia chose Kasparov as its candidate for the 2008 presidential election but was unable to nominate him by the deadline . Learn More in these related articles : in chess ( game )

Good Morning, Vietnam DVD (1987) Directed by Barry ...

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Who directed Good Morning Vietnam?

Good Morning , Vietnam DVD ( 1987 ) Directed by Barry Levinson ; Starring Robin Williams ; Touchstone / Disney | OLDIES.com - Adrian Cronauer ( Robin Williams ) to radio audience Entertainment Reviews : `` ... Williams is an extraordinary performer ... '' New York Times - 12/23/1987 `` ... Exceptionally strong .... Williams 's performance , though it 's full of uproarious comedy , is the work of an accomplished actor . GOOD MORNING , VIETNAM is one man 's tour de force ... '' Entertainment Weekly - 09/06/1996 Rating : B+ Variety - 12/23/1987 `` ... GOOD MORNING , VIETNAM is pure Robin Williams vehicle and gives the performer his best chance yet to display his manic talent on screen . It 's an impressive act ... '' Los Angeles Times - 12/25/1987 `` ... Williams at the mike is like a man possessed , purified , liberated . Startling chains of ideas and wild leaps of imagery pour out of him ... '' Description by OLDIES.com : Unarmed and Dangerously Funny ... When the U.S. Army engages irreverent , nonconformist radio deejay Adrian Cronauer , it unleashed a secret , if unpredictable , weapon : laughter . Academy Award winner Robin Williams ( Best Supporting Actor , Good Will Hunting , 1997 ) shakes up 1965 Saigon in the role that garnered him his very first Oscar nomination . Imported by the military to host an early a.m. radio show , Cronauer ( Williams ) blasts the formerly serene , sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home . The G.I.s love him , the top brass is up in arms . Riddled with sidesplitting comic salvos , bittersweet bombshells and hot '60s rock 'n ' roll , this landmark film chronicles one man 's raucous Saigon adventures amidst a world gone mad . Featuring all-new bonus material that includes hilarious outtakes from Robin Williams ' `` raw '' monologues , this Special Edition of Good Morning Vietnam scores a direct hit every time you watch ! Product Description : Set in 1965 ; Produced and released in 1987 . In GOOD MORNING , VIETNAM , which is based on a true story , Cronauer ( Robin Williams ) is a nonconformist with a wicked sense of humor who is transferred from Crete to Saigon . Outrageous and over the top , Cronauer speaks in accents , creates characters , pokes fun at everyone -- including the President -- and spins banned rock and roll tunes . While his antics amuse the masses , they also put him in hot water with his superior officers , particularly Lt. Steven Hauk ( Bruno Kirby ) , who would prefer that the radio show be censored , sanitized , and completely noncontroversial . Cronauer takes his show outside the radio station when he starts to teach Vietnamese locals English in an effort to meet pretty , demure Trinh ( Chintara Sukapatana ) . He befriends Trinh 's brother , Tuan ( Tung Thanh Tran ) , who becomes an unlikely comrade in uncertain times . Directed by Barry Levinson ( DINER , AVALON ) , the film features a tour-de-force performance from Williams , who improvised much of the comedy used in the radio shows , earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor . Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment : Good Morning Vietnam Academy Award ( R ) -winner Robin Williams shakes up 1965 Saigon in the role critics agree he was born to play -- irreverent , nonconformist deejay Adrian Cronauer . Imported by the Army for an early a.m. radio show , Cronauer blasts the formerly staid , sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home . The G.I.s love him -- but the brass is up in arms ! Riddled with sidesplitting comic bombshells and studded with hot '60s hits , the film depicts Cronauer 's raucous Saigon adventures amid a world gone mad . GOOD MORNING VIETNAM is a direct hit -- the classic Robin Williams comedy ! Keywords : Theatrical release : December 23 , 1987 . Filmed in Thailand . GOOD MORNING , VIETNAM is number 100 on the American Film Institute 's list of America 's 100 Funniest Movies . In real life , Adrian Cronauer became a popular Detroit deejay . The scenes in which Adrian Cronauer ( Williams ) wears military fatigues while doing his show from the radio station were shot specifically for the trailer , to give the film more of

Bette Davis - Biography - IMDb

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What was Bette Davis's real first name?

Bette Davis - Biography - IMDb Bette Davis Biography Showing all 210 items Jump to : Overview ( 5 ) | Mini Bio ( 1 ) | Spouse ( 4 ) | Trade Mark ( 3 ) | Trivia ( 108 ) | Personal Quotes ( 80 ) | Salary ( 9 ) Overview ( 5 ) The First Lady of Film Height 5' 3 '' ( 1.6 m ) Mini Bio ( 1 ) Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5 , 1908 , in Lowell , Massachusetts , to Ruth Augusta ( Favor ) and Harlow Morrell Davis , a patent attorney . Her parents divorced when she was 10 . She and her sister were raised by their mother . Her early interest was dance . To Bette , dancers led a glamorous life , but then she discovered the stage , and gave up dancing for acting . To her , it presented much more of a challenge . After graduation from Cushing Academy , she was refused admittance to Eva Le Gallienne 's Manhattan Civic Repertory . She enrolled in John Murray Anderson 's Dramatic School and was the star pupil . She was in the off-Broadway play `` The Earth Between '' ( 1923 ) , and her Broadway debut in 1929 was in `` Broken Dishes '' . She also appeared in `` Solid South '' . Late in 1930 , she was hired by Universal , where she made her first film , called Way Back Home ( 1931 ) . When she arrived in Hollywood , the studio representative who went to meet her train left without her because he could find no one who looked like a movie star . An official at Universal complained she had `` as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville `` and her performance in The Bad Sister ( 1931 ) did n't impress . In 1932 , she signed a seven-year deal with Warner Brothers Pictures . Her first film with them was Seed ( 1931 ) . She became a star after her appearance in The Man Who Played God ( 1932 ) , known as the actress that could play a variety of very strong and complex roles . More fairly successful movies followed , but it was the role of Mildred Rogers in RKO 's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) that would give Bette major acclaim from the film critics . She had a significant number of write-in votes for the Best Actress Oscar , but did n't win . Warner Bros. felt their seven-year deal with Bette was more than justified . They had a genuine star on their hands . With this success under her belt , she began pushing for stronger and more meaningful roles . In 1935 , she received her first Oscar for her role in Dangerous ( 1935 ) as Joyce Heath . In 1936 , she was suspended without pay for turning down a role that she deemed unworthy of her talent . She went to England , where she had planned to make movies , but was stopped by Warner Bros. because she was still under contract to them . They did not want her to work anywhere . Although she sued to get out of her contract , she lost . Still , they began to take her more seriously after that . Returning after losing her lawsuit , her roles improved dramatically . In 1938 , Bette received a second Academy Award nomination for her work in Jezebel ( 1938 ) opposite the soon-to-be-legendary Henry Fonda . The only role she did n't get that she wanted was Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) . Warners would n't loan her to David O. Selznick unless he hired Errol Flynn to play Rhett Butler , which both Selznick and Davis thought was a terrible choice . It was rumored she had numerous affairs , among them George Brent and William Wyler , and she was married four times , three of which ended in divorce . She admitted her career always came first . She made many successful films in the 1940s , but each picture was weaker than the last and by the time her Warner Brothers contract had ended in 1949 , she had been reduced to appearing in such films as the unintentionally hilarious Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ) . She made a huge comeback in 1950 when she replaced an ill Claudette Colbert in , and received an Oscar nomination for , All About Eve ( 1950 ) . She worked in films through the 1950s ,

National Institute on Aging | The Leader in Aging Research

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In which decade was Alzheimer's disease first clinically described?

National Institute on Aging | The Leader in Aging Research 100 years ago ... Diciembre 1 , 2006 The year 2006 marked the 100th anniversary of Dr. Alois Alzheimer ’ s presentation of a case study of a 51-year-old German woman , Auguste D. , who had been admitted to a hospital in 1901 with an unusual cluster of symptoms . Those symptoms included reduced comprehension and memory , aphasia , disorientation , unpredictable behavior , paranoia , auditory hallucinations , and pronounced psychosocial impairment . When Dr. Alzheimer first observed her in 1903 , Auguste D. was bedridden , incontinent , and was becoming increasingly disoriented , delusional , and incoherent . She eventually required assistance to be fed , was unable to speak , and was often hostile . Hospital staff tried to keep her as safe and comfortable as possible , but little else could be done to treat her illness , and she died on April 8 , 1906 . Dr. Alzheimer used the latest medical techniques and innovations , including a new silver tissue-staining method and greatly improved microscopes , to conduct the post mortem study of Auguste D. ’ s brain tissue . No stranger to the fields of pathology and psychiatry , Dr. Alzheimer was involved in a wide range of clinical studies of manic depression and schizophrenia . He worked at the Royal Psychiatric Clinic in Munich , Germany , for Dr. Emil Kraepelin , a leading psychiatrist . Dr. Kraepelin believed that most mental illnesses were actually organic brain diseases , as opposed to his rival , Dr. Sigmund Freud , who maintained that most mental illnesses were psychoses of the mind . Dr. Kraepelin ’ s Handbook of Psychiatry , was the first systematic classification of mental diseases . The first “ Alzheimer ’ s ” case was presented at a meeting of the South-West German Society of Alienists ( “ alienists ” were superintendents of early “ insane asylums ” and were usually psychiatrists ) on November 3 , 1906 . Dr. Alzheimer ’ s paper , “ Regarding a Curious Disease of the Cortex , ” described numerous globs of sticky proteins in the spaces between neuron cells and “ a tangled bundle of fibrils ” within cells throughout the cortex . These sticky proteins ( plaques ) and fibrils ( tangles ) had previously been seen only in the brains of much older patients diagnosed with “ senile dementia. ” At age 51 , Auguste D. was thought to be far too young to be suffering from senile dementia , and Dr. Alzheimer ’ s “ new ” disease was initially classified as “ presenile dementia. ” Because of her age , clinicians did not consider the possibility that the plaques and tangles Dr. Alzheimer described could also be the cause of dementia in old age , thus the characterization as presenile dementia . Dr. Alzheimer and his colleagues studied the histology of 5 cases with similar brain pathologies during the first decade of the new century . Although other researchers had linked the presence of plaques to symptoms of dementia seen in older people , it was Dr. Alzheimer who first observed both plaques and tangles in a younger patient . It was not until 1910 that the term “ Alzheimer ’ s disease ” was coined by Dr. Kraepelin in his 8th edition of the Handbook of Psychiatry . He stated that “ a particular group of cases with extremely serious cell alterations was described by Alzheimer…the plaques were excessively numerous and almost one-third of the cortical cells had died off . In their places , were peculiar , deeply stained bundles of neurofibrils. ” He mentioned “ Alzheimer ’ s disease ” for the first time , stating , “ The clinical interpretation of this Alzheimer ’ s disease is still unclear . Although the anatomical findings suggest that we are dealing with a particularly serious form of senile dementia , the fact is that this disease sometimes starts as early as in the late forties . ” In 1912 , Dr. Alzheimer accepted an appointment as full professor of psychiatry at the University of Breslau ( now Wroclaw , Poland ) , but his health deteriorated , and he was never able to fully carry out his university duties . From October 1915 onward , Alois Alzheimer became increasingly ill and finally died on December 19 , 1915 . “ In his day , Dr. Alzheimer ’ s discoveries were enormous strides forward . I believe that , just as Drs . Alzheimer and Kraepelin established the clinical pathways for researching this disease 100 years ago , we are creating strong foundations—in neuroimaging

Astrology: Glenda Jackson, date of birth: 1936/05/09 ...

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What star sign is Glenda Jackson?

Astrology : Glenda Jackson , date of birth : 1936/05/09 , Horoscope , Astrological Portrait , Dominant Planets , Birth Data , Biography 1st Fire sign - 1st Cardinal sign ( spring equinox ) - Masculine In analogy with Mars , his ruler , and the 1st House Aries governs the head . His colour is red , his stone is the heliotrope , his day is Tuesday , and his professions are businessman , policeman , sportsman , surgeon ... If your sign is Aries or your Ascendant is Aries : you are courageous , frank , enthusiastic , dynamic , fast , bold , expansive , warm , impulsive , adventurous , intrepid , warlike , competitive , but also naive , domineering , self-centred , impatient , rash , thoughtless , blundering , childish , quick-tempered , daring or primitive . Some traditional associations with Aries : Countries : England , France , Germany , Denmark . Cities : Marseille , Florence , Naples , Birmingham , Wroclaw , Leicester , Capua , Verona . Animals : Rams and sheeps . Food : Leeks , hops , onions , shallots , spices . Herbs and aromatics : mustard , capers , Cayenne pepper , chilli peppers . Flowers and plants : thistles , mint , bryonies , honeysuckles . Trees : hawthorns , thorny trees and bushes . Stones , Metals and Salts : diamonds , iron , potassium phosphate . Signs : Taurus 1st Earth sign - 1st Fixed sign - Feminine In analogy with Venus , his ruler , and the 2nd House Taurus governs the neck and the throat . Her colour is green or brown , her stone is the emerald , her day is Friday , her professions are cook , artist , estate agent , banker , singer ... If your sign is Taurus or your Ascendant is Taurus : you are faithful , constant , sturdy , patient , tough , persevering , strong , focused , sensual , stable , concrete , realistic , steady , loyal , robust , constructive , tenacious . You need security , but you are also stubborn , rigid , possessive , spiteful , materialistic , fixed or slow . Some traditional associations with Taurus : Countries : Switzerland , Greek islands , Ireland , Cyprus , Iran . Cities : Dublin , Palermo , Parma , Luzern , Mantua , Leipzig , Saint Louis , Ischia , Capri . Animals : bovines . Food : apples , pears , berries , corn and other cereals , grapes , artichokes , asparagus , beans . Herbs and aromatics : sorrels , spearmint , cloves . Flowers and plants : poppies , roses , digitales , violets , primroses , aquilegia , daisies . Trees : apple trees , pear trees , fig-trees , cypresses , ash trees . Stones , Metals and Salts : copper , calcium and potassium sulphate , emeralds . Signs : Gemini 1st Air sign - 1st Mutable sign - Masculine In analogy with Mercury , his ruler , and the 3rd House Gemini governs the arms , the lungs and the thorax . His colour is green or silver , his stone is the crystal , his day is Wednesday , his professions are journalist , lawyer , presenter , dancer , salesman , travel agent , teacher ... If your sign is Gemini or if your Ascendant is Gemini : you are expressive , lively , adaptable , quick-witted , humorous , sparkling , playful , sociable , clever , curious , whimsical , independent , polyvalent , brainy , flexible , ingenious , imaginative , charming , fanciful but also capricious , scattered , moody , shallow , inquisitive , opportunistic , unconcerned , selfish , fragile , ironical or changeable . Some traditional associations with Gemini : Countries : Belgium , Wales , United-States , Lower Egypt , Sardinia , Armenia . Cities : London , Plymouth , Cardiff , Melbourne , San Francisco , Nuremberg , Bruges , Versailles . Animals : monkeys , butterflies , parrots , budgerigars . Food : dried fruits , chestnuts , ground-level vegetables : peas , broad beans , etc . Herbs and aromatics : aniseed , marjoram , lemon balm , cumin . Flowers and plants : lilies of the valley , lavenders , myrtle , ferns , Venus-hair-ferns , bittersweets . Trees : nut trees such as chestnut trees . Stones , Metals and Salts : agates , mercury , silicas and potashes . Signs : Cancer 1st Water sign - 2nd Cardinal sign

Super Bowl XXV Game Recap - NFL.com

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Who won Super Bowl XXV?

Super Bowl XXV Game Recap New York 20 , Buffalo 19 SuperBowl.com wire reports Scott Norwood 's potential game-winning field goal attempt sailed wide right . ( AP ) The NFC champion New York Giants won their second Super Bowl in five years with a 20-19 victory over AFC titlist Buffalo . New York , employing its ball-control offense , had possession for 40 minutes , 33 seconds , a Super Bowl record . The Bills , who scored 95 points in their previous two playoff games leading to Super Bowl XXV , had the ball for less than eight minutes in the second half and just 19:27 for the game . Fourteen of New York 's 73 plays came on its initial drive of the third quarter , which covered 75 yards and consumed a Super Bowl-record 9:29 before running back Ottis Anderson ran one yard for a touchdown . Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler kept the long drive going by converting three third-down plays – an 11-yard pass to running back David Meggett on third-and-eight , a 14-yard toss to wide receiver Mark Ingram on third-and-13 , and a 9-yard pass to Howard Cross on third-and-four-to give New York a 17-12 lead in the third quarter . Buffalo jumped to a 12-3 lead midway through the second quarter before Hostetler completed a 14-yard scoring strike to wide receiver Stephen Baker to close the score to 12-10 at halftime . Buffalo 's Thurman Thomas ran 31 yards for a touchdown on the opening play of the fourth quarter to help Buffalo recapture the lead 19-17 . Matt Bahr 's 21-yard field goal gave the Giants a 20-19 lead , but Buffalo 's Scott Norwood had a chance to win the game with seconds remaining before his 47-yard field-goal attempt sailed wide right . Hostetler completed 20 of 32 passes for 222 yards and one touchdown . Anderson rushed 21 times for 102 yards and a touchdown to capture most-valuable-player honors . Thomas totaled 190 scrimmage yards , rushing 15 times for 135 yards and catching five passes for 55 yards . Information

Robert Mueller Municipal Airport - citiCite

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Robert Mueller Municipal Airport is in which US state?

Mueller Community - Wiki Pages Wiki Pages You are NOT logged in . Robert Mueller Municipal Airport The following Wiki page content has been contributed by citiCite users . Pages Navigation Revision History The Robert Mueller Municipal Airport was located just a few miles northeast of downtown Austin , Texas and served as the city 's only commercial airport from 1936 until 1999 . After closing its doors , it was eventually designated to be a planned urban development for the city of Austin . Groundbreaking for the new Mueller Community began in 2007 . Contents 3 RMMA Closes Before Mueller The event credited for beginning aviation in Austin was a stop on Cal Rodger 's ( Calbraith Perry Rodgers ) famous flight of the `` Vin Fiz '' . As part of a promotional type event for the Ridgetop subdivision just north of Hyde Park , Rodgers landed in an open field on October 20th , 1911 . The actual location of his landing was somewhere between 45th and 51st streets , and Duval and Red River . This was one of his 23 planned stops around the state of Texas before continuing west on the transcontinental flight towards the Pacific . The spectacle was observed by three or four dozen local Austin residents . Although some aviation continued in Austin , it was just prior to the 1920s that the United States Army began practicing taking off and landing biplanes on a small dirt strip known as Penn Field . Penn Field was located just south of St. Edward 's University around what is today the intersection of South Congress and Alpine Road and marks what was the first officially sanctioned landing field in Austin . Incidentally the name of the airstrip , Penn Field , was selected to honor the first central Texas pilot to lose his life in World War I as a result of aerial combat . Planning for Mueller Although Rodgers touched down in 1911 and Penn Field was in use , it would still be 25 years before Austin would first open the doors to commercial traffic . In the late 1920 's , the Austin City Council petitioned the Army Corps at Kelly Field in San Antonio to send a pilot over the Austin city limits . His job was to find and select the most suitable site for a municipal airport . The Army sent Lt. Claire Chennault , later to become the famous General Chennault of the World War II “ Flying Tigers , ” who recommended the Matthews farm tract located four miles northeast of downtown Austin ( on what is today the Mueller Community ) . In 1928 the voting populous of Austin approved bonds for building an municipal airport . The Robert Mueller Municipal Airport would be the first in Austin and was named after city council member Robert Mueller . Mueller died in January of 1927 while still serving the City of Austin , and sadly just a few short months after he was elected to office . The Austin American ( the newspaper at the time ) wrote the following about Mueller : `` ... it was helping his city which has probably hastened his death , for on that night , according to members of the city council , he told them he was ill about 10 o'clock , and they asked him to stay a little while longer for the budget was almost planned and they needed his guidance . He remained , and every little while he would remark he was sick , but finally , with plans nearly completed , he went home at 11:30 o'clock . '' The Robert Mueller airport was officially dedicated on October 14 , 1930 although it would n't open for commercial service until 1936 . RMMA Closes Robert Mueller Municipal Airport closed to commercial passenger traffic on May 22 , 1999 , and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport opened to the public on May 23 , 1999 . Robert Mueller Municipal Airport remained open for general aviation use through June 22 , 1999 .

Harvard's Black Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

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In what year were women first admitted to Harvard?

Harvard 's Black Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard 's Black Admissions By Keith Butler , September 1 , 1974 IN 1968 , just after Martin Luther King was assassinated , Harvard and other white universities agreed to make concerted efforts to increase their schools ' black student enrollments . The plan was to admit more blacks until the percentage of each race within the student body mirrored the distribution of races in the country as a whole . Consequently , the number of black students admitted increased over 100 per cent from 1968 to 1969 . One hundred of the 1250 freshmen enrolled in 1969 were black . Though the ratio fell short of the 12 per cent figure representing the blacks ' share of the national population , those who pushed for increased black enrollment were pleased by Harvard 's apparent effort . For three years , 1969 to 1971 , the number of blacks enrolled in Harvard 's freshmen class hovered near the 100 mark . In 1972 , the number dropped to 88 and then dropped to 77 in the present freshmen class . In the last two years the number of blacks enrolled at Harvard has decreased nearly 25 per cent . The University claims that the decline in the number of black enrollees was unplanned , but official explanations for the phenomenon are unconvincing . Admissions officers have cited two reasons for the 25 per cent decline in black enrollment . First , teacher strikes in major Eastern urban centers interfered with recruiting . Second , black undergraduates now are less enthusiastic about recruiting new blacks than they have been in the past years . The first explanation is faulty because Philadelphia was the only Eastern urban center plagued by teacher strikes in 1972-1973 and very few Harvard blacks prep in Philadelphia 's public schools . The second explanation is difficult to attack statistically , but the perverse logic behind it is evident . Claims by admissions officers that black undergraduates were insufficiently enthusiastic about recruiting suggest that black students are ultimately responsible for duties which other students can leave up to the admissions office . While every student should contribute something to recruiting , ultimate responsibility for the composition of a new class lies with the admissions office . When an important component of the student body drops 25 per cent in size the University , not undergraduates , is to be blamed . Ironically , admissions had engineered a 100 per cent increase in the number of black enrollees when there were very few black undergraduates around to lend assistance with recruiting . SUCH SIGNIFICANT declines in enrollment probably do not occur without some type of change in admissions practices . At present , black students are more vulnerable to policy changes than any other group . As new members of the Harvard student community , blacks do not have an alumni or faculty power base to deal with admissions policy . WASPs and Jews have either one or both of these two powerful supports in their corner . As ethnic groups jockey for more slots in the College , places that belong to black students are least secure . Now that student activism has passed , black students have lost their only means of influencing Harvard admissions policy . Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters . While it is not blacks 's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit , it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions . If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them . Martin Luther King 's assassination stirred both intellectual and emotional commitments to solve America 's social problems . In 1968 Harvard gave the impression that it was making a serious and conscious decision to institutionalize the admission of a representative number of blacks in the College . In 1973 , it seems that Harvard 's pledge to enroll more blacks was no more than an emotional reaction to a tragedy . This year 's admission decision will be a decisive test of the validity of Harvard 's commitment to black admissions .

Kraków-J. Paul II Balice International Airport profile ...

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Balice international airport is in which country?

Krak�w-J . Paul II Balice International Airport profile - Aviation Safety Network Poland IATA code : KRK ICAO code : EPKK Elevation : 791 feet / 241 m Notams : Notams for EPKK Airport history : Krak�w Airport Krak�w-J . Paul II Balice International Airport Commercial flights ( passengers and cargo ) per year : year

Heinz | Heinz Story

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What was the first name of the original food manufacturer Mr. Heinz?

Heinz | Heinz Story Heinz Story open menu Heinz Story The story of how Heinz came to be one of the world 's best loved brands began over 140 years ago . Take a trip back with us , and find out how Henry J Heinz ensured his name would become associated with quality , variety and good taste by food lovers everywhere . 1869 In the beginning Two young American businessmen , Henry J Heinz and L Clarence Noble , launch Heinz & Noble . Their first product is Henry 's 'pure and superior ' grated horseradish , bottled in clear glass to show its purity . The horseradish is grown on a garden patch given to Henry by his parents . 1876 The world 's first taste of ketchup Henry sets up business with two of his relations , launching F & J Heinz Company , with Henry as manager . In the US , they launch Heinz Tomato Ketchup followed by a launch in the UK in 1886 . 1886 ' I think Mr Heinz , we will take the lot ' Henry sells his first products ­ 'seven varieties of our finest and newest goods ' ­ to London 's famous Fortnum & Mason food store . 1896 An historic train journey Riding the New York railway he saw a poster for a shoe company advertising its 21 styles of shoe . He is taken with the ad and totting up the number of products that his company produced , settles on 57 - although there were more , even then ! On that journey Heinz 57 Varieties was born . 1910 Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup was imported into the UK . 1920s UK production starts Heinz is still exporting Baked Beans , Spaghetti and Tomato Ketchup to the UK from America and Canada . When production expands to the UK , 10,000 tonnes are produced here in the first year . 1930s You got ta talk the talk Heinz salesmen are expected to be at least 6ft tall , impeccably dressed and particularly eloquent at promoting Heinz products . Their equipment ­ including chrome vacuum flasks , pickle forks and olive spears ­weighs about 30lbs ! 1931 Hard times , good food Howard Heinz , Henry 's son , fights the big Depression by adding ready-to-serve soups and baby food to the Heinz range . Feeding families looking for value , taste and quality , they become top sellers 1940s What , no ketchup ? Because of the war , ingredients are in short supply . Heinz Tomato Ketchup does not appear on shelves in the UK from 1939 until 1948 . What on earth did they do without it ? Eat more Heinz Salad Cream , that 's what . 1944 Beans for victory ! Because of its major contribution to wartime food production , our Harlesden factory is bombed at least twice . Production carries on regardless as Heinz is so vital to maintaining food resources . 1951 A right Royal result The Royal Warrant is granted , and in 1954 granted again as Purveyors of Heinz Products to HM Queen Elizabeth II . 1955 Heinz goes on air for the first time 'Heinz 57 ' varieties are advertised on the new ITV channel . Colour posters were also produced . The jingle went : 'Heinz 57 , Heinz 57 . You 've a family to feed . Heinz have everything you need . Ready when you are , yes indeed . That 's Heinz 57 ! 1959 Wigan goes bean bonkers Heinz opens a Beans factory in Wigan on 21 May 1959 . It uses 1,000 tonnes of dry beans every week . That 's a lot of beans . 1961 The biggest promotion in the UK ever ! Heinz give-away 57 Mini-Minors in a soup competition . From then on Heinz ca n't stop ; we give away 57 caravans , 57 holidays and much , much more . 1967 The most famous slogan of them all is born Remember it ? A million housewives everyday pick up a tin of beans and say : 'Beanz Meanz Heinz . ' 1986 Heinz commemorates 100 years of providing British families with quality convenience foods . 1987 Ketchup gets the easy , squeezy treatment The plastic Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle is launched . Now it is easier than ever to enjoy the world 's favourite tomato ketchup with your

Convention Between the US And Panama (Panama Canal), 1903

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Panama proclaimed independence in 1903 from which country?

Internet History Sourcebooks Modern History Sourcebook : Convention Between the US And Panama ( Panama Canal ) , 1903 When Colombia refused to allow the United States to build a canal across the Panama isthmus , in 1903 , the US intervened to dissect Panama from the rest of Columbia , set up the Republic of Panama , and established the following convention.For the Construction of a Ship Canal to Connect the Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans . Signed at Washington , November 18 , 1903 . Ratification advised by the Senate , February 23 , 1904 . Ratified by the President , February 25 , 1904 . Ratified by Panama , December 2 , 1903 . Ratifications exchanged at Washington , February 26 , 1904 . Proclaimed , February 26 , 1904 . By the President of the United States of America.A ProclamationWhereas , a Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington , on the eighteenth day of November , one thousand nine hundred and three , the original of which Convention , being in the English language , is word for word as follows : Isthmian Canal ConventionThe United States of America and the Republic of Panama being desirous to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , and the Congress of the United States of America having passed an act approved June 28 , 1902 , in furtherance of that object , by which the President of the United States is authorized to acquire within a reasonable time the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia , and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama , the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries , The President of the United States of America , John Hay , Secretary of State , andThe Government of the Republic of Panama , Philippe Bunau - Varilla , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Panama , thereunto specially empowered by said government , who after communicating with each other their respective full powers , found to be in good and due form , have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : Article IThe United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama.Article IIThe Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity , the use , occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction , maintenance , operation , sanitation and protection of said Canal of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the Canal to be constructed ; the said zone beginning in the Caribbean Sea three marine miles from mean low water mark and extending to and across the Isthmus of Panama into the Pacific Ocean to a distance of three marine miles from mean low water mark with the proviso that the cities of Panama and Colon and the harbors adjacent to said cities , which are included within the boundaries of the zone above described , shall not be included within this grant . The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity , the use , occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction , maintenance , operation , sanitation and protection of the said Canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction , maintenance , operation , sanitation and protection of the said enterprise.The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity , all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto , the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama , named Perico , Naos , Culebra and Flamenco.Article IIIThe Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights , power and authority within the zone mentioned and described in Article II of this agreement , and within the limits of all auxiliary lands and waters mentioned and described in said Article II which the United States would possess and exercise , if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire

Ronald Reagan | whitehouse.gov

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How old was Ronald Reagan when he became US President?

Ronald Reagan | whitehouse.gov Air Force One Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan , originally an American actor and politician , became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989 . His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home , with the goal of achieving `` peace through strength '' abroad . At the end of his two terms in office , Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution , which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government . He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore `` the great , confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism . '' On February 6 , 1911 , Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico , Illinois . He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College . There , he studied economics and sociology , played on the football team , and acted in school plays . Upon graduation , he became a radio sports announcer . A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood . During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films . From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman , he had two children , Maureen and Michael . Maureen passed away in 2001 . In 1952 he married Nancy Davis , who was also an actress , and they had two children , Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott . As president of the Screen Actors Guild , Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry ; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative . He toured the country as a television host , becoming a spokesman for conservatism . In 1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes ; he was re-elected in 1970 . Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush . Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office . Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter . On January 20 , 1981 , Reagan took office . Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin , but quickly recovered and returned to duty . His grace and wit during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to soar . Dealing skillfully with Congress , Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth , curb inflation , increase employment , and strengthen national defense . He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government expenditures , refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit . A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes . Their victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro . In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code , which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes . At the end of his administration , the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression . In foreign policy , Reagan sought to achieve `` peace through strength . '' During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent , but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union . In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles . Reagan declared war against international terrorism , sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub . By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf , he maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war . In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine , he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America , Asia , and Africa . Overall , the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity , and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp . The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “ The Presidents of the United States of America , ” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey . Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association . For more information about President Reagan , please visit

Spring Turning | Reynolda House Museum of American Art

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Which Iowa-born artist painted American Gothic and Spring Turning?

Spring Turning | Reynolda House Museum of American Art This object is currently on view . Description A high horizon line running along the exaggerated width of the composition paradoxically creates simultaneous feelings of expansion and compression in this depiction of an eastern Iowa landscape . The primary subject of Spring Turning , 1936 , an oil painting on Masonite panel , is the remembered landscape of Grant Wood ’ s childhood in Anamosa , Iowa . There is no visual evidence of twentieth century progress in this setting—no automobiles , farm machinery , paved roads , or electric wires . Wood scholar Wanda Corn describes it as “ man liv ( ing ) in complete harmony with nature ; he is the earth ’ s caretaker , coaxing her into abundance , bringing coherence and beauty to her surfaces ” ( see Wanda Corn , Grant Wood : The Regionalist Vision , New Haven : Yale University Press , 1983 , 90 ) . The painting was first exhibited at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1936 and on February 8 , 1937 was featured in a full-color two-page spread in Life magazine ( see Erika Doss , Benton , Pollock and the Politics of Modernism , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1991 , 175 ) . The landscape shown has been segmented into fields for cultivation . The composition encompasses four fields , side by side in pairs and receding at a diagonal away from the picture plane . Their geometric demarcation is man-made , indicated by the plowed furrows that are being turned under in preparation for planting , the rusty red-orange furrows highlighted against the velvety green growth . Each field is surrounded by posthole fences . One can see the fence posts but not the strung wires , thus reinforcing the repetition of the posts as hemmed stitches on a vast quilt . The left of the rear fields has been completely plowed , while the other three are in the process of being plowed . The tiny form of a farmer works the square from the outside to its center . There is a hint of one work-team silhouetted against the sky . The foreground field is being worked by a farmer and team of draft horses , while the mid-ground field is being worked by a farmer driving a team of oxen . In the bottom right third of the composition , a small bridge crosses a shaded stream . At the far end of the recessional diagonal created by the contour of the foreground hill is a single tree casting a shadow , as if in response to the distant pink-flowering tree back by the foot bridge . Along the left edge of the composition , tucked into the far side of a hill , a farmhouse is partly visible , along with grazing cattle in the adjoining field . Slightly above and to the right , barely visible against the sky on the farthest hill , is yet another work team , while the next hill over is topped by a very tiny weathervane against the sky . The bright blue sky is scattered with clouds , but rather than appear rounded these clouds seem to square themselves up parallel to the fields below them . The overall dominance of geometric forms in this landscape and an almost deliberate minimization of pattern and decoration may be traced to Wood ’ s studies under Ernest Batchelder . Specifically , critic James Dennis says that Batchelder would have been familiar with the art teachings of Arthur Wesley Dow , whose art manual Composition was first published in 1899 and was reissued several times through the 1940s . A quote of Dow ’ s seems especially applicable to Spring Turning : “ Take any landscape that has some good elements in it , reduce it to a few main lines , and strive to present it in the most beautiful way ” ( see James M. Dennis , Renegade Regionalists : The modern independence of Grant Wood , Thomas Hart Benton , and John Steuart Curry , Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1998 , 185 ) . While studying in Munich in 1928 , Grant Wood grew to admire the Northern Renaissance artists Jan van Eyck , Hans Memling , and Hans Holbein the Younger , and this admiration is evident in his most celebrated artwork , American Gothic ( 1930 ) . Instead of a donor and saint with attributes , there are a farmer and farmwoman . Wood originally intended the pair to be father and spinster daughter but they have generally been perceived as a married couple . The highly

The Airline of Indonesia - Garuda Indonesia

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Which country does the airline Garuda come from?

The Airline of Indonesia - Garuda Indonesia Check In Terms & Conditions Web Check-In < Important > Each booking is only allowed one Online Check-in . If there is more than one passenger on a booking , all passengers must check-in all at once , otherwise the remaining passenger ( s ) will not be able to do Online Check-in and it can only be done at the airport . Online Check-in service is available from 24 hours to 4 hours before departure ; for domestic flights departing from Jakarta ( CGK ) , the online check-in is available from 24 hours to 2 hours before departure . Online Check-in is not available for the following passengers : Passengers without e-ticket Infants under 2 years old who are not occupying a seat . Passengers who need special assistance at the airport , such as pregnant passengers , children younger than 12 years old who travel alone , Unaccompanied Minor ( UM ) , the passengers that require wheelchair , stretcher case , or any other special handlings at the airport . Group bookings ( more than 9 persons ) The system will automatically assign you a seat , but you can change it by accessing the preferred seat option in our Online Check-in function . For international flights , please show your Online Boarding Passes ( both PDF and QR barcode boarding pass ) to the Airport Check-in Counter before boarding . For international flights , please make sure that your passport is valid up to at least 6 months from the travel date and secure other valid travel documents such as any visa documents required for the trip . Present them to the Airport Check-in Counter before boarding . Boarding gate number and seat number may change without prior notice for the following reasons : the circumstances at the airport on the day of the flight or a change of aircraft . You may check boarding gate updates on the airport information display system at the airport . If you fail to complete the Online Check-in procedure due to technical problems such as printer or system error , please refer to the instructions on the page and complete the boarding procedure at the Airport Check-in Counter . Information : To use Online Check-in , please use your e-ticket with confirmed reservation . For prompt customs and immigration procedures , please bring your passport and fill in your passport information during Online Check-in . Passengers with connecting flights can check-in sequentially . Please arrive early for quarantine and security checks . Please complete the check-in procedure at the Airport Check-in Counter at least 60 minutes before departure for domestic flights , and 90 minutes before departure for international flights . Carry-on baggage should be limited to one piece , must not weigh more than 7 kg ( for both Economy and Business Class ) , with maximum size : 56 cm length , 23 cm width , and 36 cm height ( for CRJ and ATR Aircraft type maximum size is 41 cm length , 17 cm width , and 34 cm height ) . Make sure that you are not carrying any valuable items in your checked baggage For the safety and security of our passengers , crew , and the aircraft , please make sure that you are not carrying any dangerous items in your carry-on and checked baggage . Please click here for baggage restrictions information details Please make sure that you pack your own baggage or supervise the person who does it for you . The Airport Check-in Counter will be closed 45 minutes prior to departure for international flights and 30 minutes prior to departure for domestic flights . For flights departing from Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport , the Airport Check-in Counter is closed 45 minutes prior to scheduled departure for domestic flights . Boarding Gate is opened 120 minutes prior to departure and aircraft door is closed 10 minutes prior to departure . Passengers who want to cancel must report to the Airport Check-in Counter or Garuda Indonesia Call Center . For further information please contact the Garuda Indonesia Call Center at 0804-1-807-807 ( within Indonesia region only ) or +62-21-2351 9999 . I have read Online Check-in notice and information Check My Flight

Sarah Vaughan | Biography & History | AllMusic

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Sarah Vaughan first joined which band as singer?

Sarah Vaughan | Biography & History | AllMusic google+ Artist Biography by Scott Yanow Possessor of one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century , Sarah Vaughan ranked with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday in the very top echelon of female jazz singers . She often gave the impression that with her wide range , perfectly controlled vibrato , and wide expressive abilities , she could do anything she wanted with her voice . Although not all of her many recordings are essential ( give Vaughan a weak song and she might strangle it to death ) , Sarah Vaughan 's legacy as a performer and a recording artist will be very difficult to match in the future . Vaughan sang in church as a child and had extensive piano lessons from 1931-39 ; she developed into a capable keyboardist . After she won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater , she was hired for the Earl Hines big band as a singer and second vocalist . Unfortunately , the musicians ' recording strike kept her off record during this period ( 1943-44 ) . When lifelong friend Billy Eckstine broke away to form his own orchestra , Vaughan joined him , making her recording debut . She loved being with Eckstine 's orchestra , where she became influenced by a couple of his sidemen , Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie , both of whom had also been with Hines during her stint . Vaughan was one of the first singers to fully incorporate bop phrasing in her singing , and to have the vocal chops to pull it off on the level of a Parker and Gillespie . Other than a few months with John Kirby from 1945-46 , Sarah Vaughan spent the remainder of her career as a solo star . Although she looked a bit awkward in 1945 ( her first husband George Treadwell would greatly assist her with her appearance ) , there was no denying her incredible voice . She made several early sessions for Continental : a December 31 , 1944 date highlighted by her vocal version of `` A Night in Tunisia , '' which was called `` Interlude , '' and a May 25 , 1945 session for that label that had Gillespie and Parker as sidemen . However , it was her 1946-48 selections for Musicraft ( which included `` If You Could See Me Now , '' `` Tenderly '' and `` It 's Magic '' ) that found her rapidly gaining maturity and adding bop-oriented phrasing to popular songs . Signed to Columbia where she recorded during 1949-53 , `` Sassy '' continued to build on her popularity . Although some of those sessions were quite commercial , eight classic selections cut with Jimmy Jones ' band during May 18-19 , 1950 ( an octet including Miles Davis ) showed that she could sing jazz with the best . During the 1950s , Vaughan recorded middle-of-the-road pop material with orchestras for Mercury , and jazz dates ( including Sarah Vaughan , a memorable collaboration with Clifford Brown ) for the label 's subsidiary , EmArcy . Later record label associations included Roulette ( 1960-64 ) , back with Mercury ( 1963-67 ) , and after a surprising four years off records , Mainstream ( 1971-74 ) . Through the years , Vaughan 's voice deepened a bit , but never lost its power , flexibility or range . She was a masterful scat singer and was able to out-swing nearly everyone ( except for Ella ) . Vaughan was with Norman Granz 's Pablo label from 1977-82 , and only during her last few years did her recording career falter a bit , with only two forgettable efforts after 1982 . However , up until near the end , Vaughan remained a world traveler , singing and partying into all hours of the night with her miraculous voice staying in prime form . The majority of her recordings are currently available , including complete sets of the Mercury/Emarcy years , and Sarah Vaughan is as famous today as she was during her most active years .

Cagliari / Elmas Airport - Air Miles Calculator

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Elmas international airport is in which country?

Cagliari / Elmas Airport Search Airport : Airport : Cagliari / Elmas Airport City : Cagliari Country : Italy IATA Code : CAG ICAO Code : LIEE Coordinates : Latitude : 39°15′5″N , Longitude : 9°3′15″E Runways : Direction : 14/32 , Length : 9196 x 148 ft , Elevation : 9 ft Current local time : 21:50 CET ( 2017-01-18 ) Standard time zone : UTC/GMT +1.0 Daylight saving time : UTC/GMT +2.0 Sunrise : 07:40 Sunset : 17:27 Website : Cagliari / Elmas Airport Wikipedia link : Wikipedia - Cagliari / Elmas Airport Location and map Cagliari / Elmas Airport is located approximately 3,9 miles ( 6,3 km ) southwest of Sestu and about 4,1 miles ( 6,6 km ) southeast of Assemini .

Jean Batten (1909 -1982), New Zealand Pioneer Aviatrix

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Which pioneering aviator had a plane called Percival Gull?

Jean Batten ( 1909 -1982 ) , New Zealand Pioneer Aviatrix De Havilland Gipsy Moth Biplane G-AALG * England - India ( * Originally owned by The Prince of Wales 5 Sep 29 - 4 Feb 33 ) 1934 De Havilland Gipsy Moth Biplane G-AARB England - Australia ( women 's record ) 10,500 miles in 14 days 22 hours 30 minutes 1935 De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AARB Australia - England in 17 days 15 hours . First woman to make return flight . Percival Gull Monoplane G-ADPR England - Brazil : 5000 miles in 61 hours 15 minutes elapsed time . World record for any type of aeroplane . Also fastest crossing South Atlantic Ocean , 13 1/4 hours , and first woman to make England - South America flight . 1936 Percival Gull Monoplane G-ADPR England - New Zealand . World record for any type . 14,224 miles in 11 days 45 minutes total elapsed time , including 21/2 days in Sydney . Also first direct flight from England to Auckland . Also world record for fastest flight between Australia and New Zealand ( 101/2 hours ) . Established on same flight : England - Australia solo record , 10,500 miles in 5 days 21 hours total elapsed time . 1937 Percival Gull Monoplane G-ADPR Australia - England solo record , 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes . First person to hold both England - Australia and Australia - England solo records at the same time . The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Jean Batten http : //www.nzedge.com/heroes/batten.html New Zealand Speedsters - Jean Batten - Hine-o-te-Rangi ( Daughter of the Skies ) - She was the manifestation of triumph and hope through the dark days of the depression . In 1934 she smashed the world record between England and Australia by six days . In 1936 she made the first ever direct flight between England and New Zealand . Jean Batten stood for adventure , daring and exploration . ... more Batten , Jean Gardner 1909-1982 Aviator http : //www.nzhistory.net.nz/dnzb/vol4/Batten.htm One of the great international aviators of the 1930s , Jean Gardner Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua , the only daughter of a dentist , Frederick Harold Batten , and his wife , Ellen ( Nellie ) Blackmore . She was christened Jane after her grandmother , but soon became known as Jean . ... more Famous New Zealanders - Jean Batten 's Principal Achievements 1933 : England - India . De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AALG 1934 : England - Australia ( women 's record ) 10,500 miles in 14 days 22 hours 30 minutes 1935 : Australia - England in 17 days 15 hours . First woman to make return flight . De Havilland Gipsy Moth G-AARB At right , Jean Batten at Croydon , England on April 29 , 1935 after her solo flight from Australia to England Jean Batten takes delivery of her new aircraft , a Percival Vega Gull at Gravesend Airport , September 1 , 1935 http : //www.carjam.ic24.net/airport3.htm 1935 : England - Brazil : 5000 miles in 61 hours 15 minutes elapsed time . World record for any type of aeroplane . Also fastest crossing South Atlantic Ocean , 13 1/4 hours , and first woman to make England - South America flight . Percival Vega Gull Monoplane G-ADPR 1936 : England - New Zealand . World record for any type . 14,224 miles in 11 days 45 minutes total elapsed time , including 21/2 days in Sydney . Also first direct flight from England to Auckland . Also world record for fastest flight between Australia and New Zealand ( 101/2 hours ) . Established on same flight : England - Australia solo record , 10,500 miles in 5 days 21 hours total elapsed time . Percival Vega Gull Monoplane G-ADPR 1937 : Australia - England solo record , 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes . First person to hold both England - Australia and Australia - England solo records at the same time . Percival Vega Gull Monoplane G-ADPR . and now , complete , with full acknowlegement to the individual sources , four shorter essays , ideal for school projects etc . Jean Gardner Batten ( 1909 - 1982 ) http : //www.xrefer.com/entry/359291 Born in Rotorua , Jean had an early ambition to fly , and particularly to fly solo from England to New Zealand . In 1929 she went to England to join the London Aeroplane Club and gained private and commercial licences by 1932

Margaret Thatcher | Facts Accomplishments Life

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Which British political figure became Baroness Kesteven?

Margaret Thatcher | Facts Accomplishments Life View articles featuring Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher Summary Margaret Thatcher was Great Britain ’ s first female prime minister , serving three consecutive terms in office 1979–1990 . Her economic and social policies evolved into a political philosophy known as Thatcherism , similar to Reaganomics in the United States , and part of a world-wide neoliberal movement in the 1980s . She was dubbed the Iron Lady by a Soviet newspaper following a speech she gave in 1976—a nickname that she proudly claimed . Margaret Thatcher ’ s Early Life Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13 , 1925 , to Alfred and Beatrice Roberts in the market town of Grantham , Lincolnshire , England . Her parents ran a grocery business and lived in an apartment above the shop . They were Methodists who were very involved in the local congregation , raising Margaret and her older sister Muriel in an atmosphere that emphasized self-help , charity , and personal truthfulness . Alfred Roberts was a local councilor in Grantham and a Conservative , and the family would often discuss current political issues . Margaret attended a local state school and won a place at Somerville College , Oxford , where she studied chemistry from 1943 to 1947 . She was elected president of the student Conservative Association at Oxford in 1946 and met many prominent politicians . Her final year , she studied x-ray crystallography with Dorothy Hodgkin , who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964 . After obtaining her degree , Margaret became a research chemist at BX Plastics near Colchester . She was still highly involved in politics , and in the 1950 and 1951 General Elections she ran as the Conservative candidate for Dartford . Although she lost both times , she received national publicity as the youngest female candidate in the country . She also met her husband , Denis Thatcher , in Dartford . He was a local businessman and oil industry executive . After their marriage , Thatcher was able to resign her position at BX Plastics and become a lawyer specializing in taxation . On August 15 , 1953 , she gave birth to twins Mark and Carol and six months later passed the bar exam . Thatcher Elected To Parliament In 1959 , Thatcher was elected as Member of Parliament for Finchley . By 1961 , she was given a junior office in the administration of Harold Macmillan , Prime Minister from January 1957 to October 1963 . When the Conservatives were in Opposition from 1964-1970 , Thatcher served continuously in various shadow cabinet positions and was appointed Education Secretary when Edward Heath became Prime Minister in 1970 . The Heath government was elected on promises of economic revival that would be spurred by introducing more free market policies and taming the trade unions but became one of the most interventionist governments in British history . Thatcher herself faced a difficult job as Education Secretary at the height of student radicalism , with protesters disrupting her speeches , harsh criticism in the opposition press for not being liberal enough , and criticism from Conservatives for veering too far to the left . Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher When the Heath Government lost a second General Election in October 1974 , Thatcher decided to run against Heath for the leadership of the Conservative Party and won in February 1975 , becoming the first woman to lead a Western political party and to be Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons . The economic difficulties experienced by the United Kingdom under the Labour government—requiring credit from the International Monetary Fund in 1976 and causing extensive trade union strikes over pay demands in the winter of 1978–1979—swung public opinion back to the favor of the Conservatives . In the General Election of May 1979 , Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . The Thatcher government had pledged to turn Britain ’ s economic decline around , mainly by increasing taxes and balancing the budget . By the spring of 1981 , recovery had begun , followed by eight years of steady growth . Thatcher demonstrated her confidence , determination , and decisiveness again during the Falklands War—on April 2 , 1982 , Argentina invaded the British-held Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island . Although she first pursued a diplomatic resolution , a British military task force was on-hand when that effort failed . The Falklands were back under British control in 74 days , with Argentina surrendering on June 14 , 1982 . The Conservative government was reelected in June 1983 with its Parliamentary majority more than tripled

Henri Becquerel - Biographical - Nobel Prize

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Henri Becquerel shared a Nobel prize for his work in discovering what?

Henri Becquerel - Biographical Henri Becquerel The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Henri Becquerel , Pierre Curie , Marie Curie Share this : Henri Becquerel - Biographical Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris on December 15 , 1852 , a member of a distinguished family of scholars and scientists . His father , Alexander Edmond Becquerel , was a Professor of Applied Physics and had done research on solar radiation and on phosphorescence , while his grandfather , Antoine César , had been a Fellow of the Royal Society and the inventor of an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores . He entered the Polytechnic in 1872 , then the government department of Ponts-et-Chaussées in 1874 , becoming ingénieur in 1877 and being promoted to ingénieur-en-chef in 1894 . In 1888 he acquired the degree of docteur-ès-sciences . From 1878 he had held an appointment as an Assistant at the Museum of Natural History , taking over from his father in the Chair of Applied Physics at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers . In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Natural History at the Paris Museum . He became a Professor at the Polytechnic in 1895 . Becquerel 's earliest work was concerned with the plane polarization of light , with the phenomenon of phosphorescence and with the absorption of light by crystals ( his doctorate thesis ) . He also worked on the subject of terrestrial magnetism . In 1896 , his previous work was overshadowed by his discovery of the phenomenon of natural radioactivity . Following a discussion with Henri Poincaré on the radiation which had recently been discovered by Röntgen ( X-rays ) and which was accompanied by a type of phosphorescence in the vacuum tube , Becquerel decided to investigate whether there was any connection between X-rays and naturally occurring phosphorescence . He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts , which phosphoresce on exposure to light . When the salts were placed near to a photographic plate covered with opaque paper , the plate was discovered to be fogged . The phenomenon was found to be common to all the uranium salts studied and was concluded to be a property of the uranium atom . Later , Becquerel showed that the rays emitted by uranium , which for a long time were named after their discoverer , caused gases to ionize and that they differed from X-rays in that they could be deflected by electric or magnetic fields . For his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity Becquerel was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 , the other half being given to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of the Becquerel radiation . Becquerel published his findings in many papers , principally in the Annales de Physique et de Chimie and the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences . He was elected a member of the Academie des Sciences de France in 1889 and succeeded Berthelot as Life Secretary of that body . He was a member also of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Royal Academy of Berlin , amongst others . He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1900 . He was married to Mlle . Janin , the daughter of a civil engineer . They had a son Jean , b . 1878 , who was also a physicist : the fourth generation of scientists in the Becquerel family . Antoine Henri Becquerel died at Le Croisic on August 25 , 1908 . From Nobel Lectures , Physics 1901-1921 , Elsevier Publishing Company , Amsterdam , 1967 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel . It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures . To cite this document , always state the source as shown above .

Playwright Oscar Wilde , Biography and Plays

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Who took the assumed name Sebastian Melmoth when living in Paris?

Playwright Oscar Wilde , Biography and Plays Born : October 16th , 1854 Died : November 30th , 1900 Although his given name was Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills , most lovers of his plays , fiction , and essays know him as Oscar Wilde . Born and raised in Dublin , Ireland , his father was an esteemed surgeon . His father ’ s career and Oscar ’ s scholarships enabled the young man to attain an impressive college education : Trinity College , Dublin ( 1871 – 1874 ) Magdalen College , Oxford ( 1874 – 1878 ) During his college years , he became part of the “ Oxford Movement , ” a group that expounded upon the virtues of classical culture and artistry . Also during his studies , Wilde became a devotee of the school of aestheticism , the belief that art should be created for the sake of beauty and not as a lesson in ethics . ( In other words , he believed in “ art for the sake of art ” ) . Throughout his college days , he exhibited a cunning wit and a love of attention . This increased when he moved to London in 1878 . His first plays ( Vera and The Duchess of Padua ) were tragedies ( not simply because they were depressing but also because they were dismal failures ) . continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World Scholars often debate the sexual identity of Oscar Wilde , labeling him either homosexual or bisexual . Biographers indicate that he had physical relationships with other males as early as age 16 . However , in 1884 he married wealthy heiress Constance Lloyd . Thanks to her father ’ s fortune , Wilde was freed from economic concerns , and he focused more on his creative endeavors . By 1886 Oscar and Constance had two sons , Cyril and Vyvyan . Despite his seemingly idealistic family dynamic , Wilde still loved being a celebrity – and still loved the decadent parties and homosexual affairs which his social status afforded . His greatest successes occurred when he began writing comedies for the stage : Lady Windermere ’ s Fan : A stormy and amusing four act comedy about an adulterous husband and a wife that decides that two can play at this game . What begins as a tale of romantic hi-jinks and amorous revenge turns into a tale with an unusual moral for its time : LADY WINDERMERE : There is the same world for all of us , and good and evil , sin and innocence , go through it hand in hand . To shut one ’ s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice . The play ends with the reconciliation of both the philandering husband and errant wife , with the agreement to keep their past affairs a secret . An Ideal Husband : A delightful comedy of manners about a lovably roguish bachelor who learns about honor , and his highly honorable friends who learn that the are not as righteous as they feign to be . In addition to the romantic aspects of this comedy , An Ideal Husband offers a critical look at a woman ’ s capacity for love in contrast with a man ’ s capacity . For more on this subject , read Wilde ’ s monologue spoken by the character Sir Robert Chiltern . The Importance of Being Earnest : One of Oscar Wilde ’ s more boastful quotes about himself happened when the famous author was visiting America . A New York customs officer asked if he had any goods to declare . Wilde replied , “ No , I have nothing to declare ( pause ) except my genius. ” If Wilde was justifed in such self-love it is perhaps because of his most acclaimed play , The Importance of Being Earnest . Of all the plays , this is the most merry , and perhaps the most balanced with witty dialogue , romantic misunderstandings , and laughter-inducing coincidences . Oscar Wilde on Trial : Sadly , Wilde ’ s life did not end in the manner of his “ drawing room comedies. ” Oscar Wilde had an intimate relationship with Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , a considerably younger gentleman . Douglas ’ father , the Marquis of Queensbury , publicly accused Wilde of sodomy . In response , Oscar Wilde took the Marquis to

since the signing of the ANZUS treaty in 1951 - State

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Who signed the Pacific Security Treaty with the USA in 1951?

Milestones : 1945–1952 - Office of the Historian Milestones : 1945–1952 The Australia , New Zealand and United States Security Treaty ( ANZUS Treaty ) , 1951 The Australia , New Zealand and United States Security Treaty , or ANZUS Treaty , was an agreement signed in 1951 to protect the security of the Pacific . Although the agreement has not been formally abrogated , the United States and New Zealand no longer maintain the security relationship between their countries . Secretary of State Dean Acheson speaking at an ANZUS Conference At the onset of the Second World War , both Australia and New Zealand were members of the British Empire , so when Britain entered the conflict they did as well . During the course of the war , these two geographically isolated nations faced the threat of direct attack for the first time in their histories as modern states . As the Japanese expanded south into the Pacific Ocean , mainland Australia and especially the city of Darwin suffered frequent Japanese air raids in 1942 and 1943 . After the sudden fall of the strategically important British colony of Singapore to the Japanese on February 15 , 1942 , the Antipodean nations expressed concern that the British Government was too focused on the war in Europe to protect its colonies properly and they began for the first time to look to the United States to help ensure their security . As the other Allied powers turned their attention to the reconstruction of postwar Europe and Japan in the post World War II era , the governments of Australia and New Zealand remained concerned about the possibility of future Japanese expansionism and grew apprehensive about the rise of communism , particularly in East Asia . Even before the war ended , Australia and New Zealand signed an agreement stating that they had common goals and would work together in the international arena ; at the time , the agreement was for both nations the first treaty negotiated independently , and it reflected the concern that the major powers of the United States and the United Kingdom may not take Australian and New Zealander issues into account in their postwar planning . The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 , in which the United Kingdom , Canada , and the United States alongside the Western European powers committed to a mutual defense arrangement , further prompted the geographically distant countries of Australia and New Zealand to seek their own security guarantee and means of integration in the international system in the postwar order . Australia initially considered the idea of a regional pact in the Pacific in the 1930s , and in 1946 , at a meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers , it suggested that the major powers of the British Commonwealth form a regional defense system . If such an organization were created , the members could then invite the United States and other countries with strong interests in the Pacific to join . At that time , however , the United States was not yet prepared to commit itself to formal security arrangements in the Pacific . During the late 1940s , the United States was heavily engaged in the rebuilding of Japan , but the United States did not extend its defense interests far beyond Japanese territory before the Korean War . In response to Australian suggestions for a regional coalition , U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated that formal treaties with the South Pacific nations were unnecessary , as any real attack on Australia or New Zealand would elicit a U.S. response even without formal treaties in place to guarantee it . Moreover , the situations in the Atlantic and the Pacific were quite different , so there was no question of simply creating a “ Pacific Treaty Organization ” to parallel NATO . The Pacific Ocean was much larger , and the nations that bordered it were far more culturally and linguistically diverse than the nations of the North Atlantic . Other considerations led the United States to hesitate to commit to a regional organization in the Pacific as well . A number of the countries in Southeast Asia were still under colonial rule , or in the process of developing as independent states , and therefore neither they nor their colonial governments were in a position to make regional security commitments . At this time , the United States was also faced with the critical situation in Europe , including the occupation and support of West Germany and West Berlin and facing what it saw as the Soviet threat on that continent . There were fewer immediate economic or political threats to force

Panama Canal | canal, Central America | Britannica.com

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How many miles long is the canal which links the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?

Panama Canal | canal , Central America | Britannica.com canal , Central America Alternative Title : Canal de Panamá Related Topics Central America Panama Canal , Spanish Canal de Panamá , lock -type canal , owned and administered by the Republic of Panama , that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama . The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 40 miles ( 65 km ) and from deep water in the Atlantic ( more specifically , the Caribbean Sea ) to deep water in the Pacific about 50 miles ( 82 km ) . The canal , which was completed in August 1914 , is one of the two most-strategic artificial waterways in the world , the other being the Suez Canal . Ships sailing between the east and west coasts of the United States , which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America , shorten their voyage by about 8,000 nautical miles ( 15,000 km ) by using the canal . Savings of up to 3,500 nautical miles ( 6,500 km ) are also made on voyages between one coast of North America and ports on the other side of South America . Ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia can save as much as 2,000 nautical miles ( 3,700 km ) by using the canal . A small tugboat leads a large ship out of one of the Panama Canal ’ s locks . Danny Lehman/Corbis Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Pinterest The third lock systems of the Third Set of Locks Project , begun in 2007 , were inspired by the Berendrecht lock in Antwerp , Belgium , and water-saving basins used in canals in Germany . Some 190,000 tons of steel , mostly from Mexico , are entrenched in heavily reinforced concrete to build the lock chambers on the Atlantic and Pacific sides , and the new lock gates measure up to 33 feet ( 10 metres ) wide , 98 feet ( 30 metres ) high , and 190 feet ( 58 metres ) long . The new chambers and basins , which will control the water flowing from Gatún Lake , were designed to minimize the turbulence of water flow and the disturbance to transiting vessels . The basins were completed in June 2016 and include 158 valves consisting of 20,000 tons of structural material . Officials say those water-saving basins are the largest in the world and facilitate a 60 percent reuse of water . Whereas the existing locks use 52 million gallons ( 197 million litres ) with each use , the new locks use 48 million gallons ( 182 million litres ) . Breakwaters Long breakwaters have been constructed near the approach channels in both oceans . Breakwaters extend from the west and east sides of Limón Bay ; the west breakwater protects the harbour against severe gales , and the east one reduces silting in the canal channel . On the Pacific side a causeway extends from Balboa to three small islands ( Naos , Perico , and Flamenco ) and diverts crosscurrents that carry soft material from the shallow harbour of Panama City into the canal channel . Operation Pearl Harbor attack Traffic through the Panama Canal is a barometer of world trade , rising in times of world economic prosperity and declining in times of recession . From a low of 807 transits in 1916 , traffic rose to a high point of 15,523 transits of all types in 1970 . The cargo carried through the canal that year amounted to more than 132.5 million long tons ( 134.6 million metric tons ) . Although the number of annual transits has decreased since then , the canal carries more freight than ever before because the average size of vessels has increased . There were nearly 210 million long tons ( 213 million metric tons ) of cargo through the canal in 2013 . The principal trade routes served by the Panama Canal run between the following points : the east coast of the U.S. mainland and Hawaii and East Asia ; the U.S. east coast and the west coast of South America ; Europe and the west coast of North America ; Europe and the west coast of South America ; the east coast of North America and Oceania ; the U.S. east and west coasts ; and Europe and Australia . Trade between the east coast of the United States and East Asia dominates international canal traffic . Among the principal commodity groups carried through the canal are motor vehicles , petroleum products , grains

Hairstory - Hair the Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado ...

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Who founded the off-Broadway theater where Hair had its premier?

Hair the Musical by Gerome Ragni , James Rado , and music by Galt Macdermot Hairstory The Story Behind The Story James Rado is at the heart and root of the origin . In his early teens he knew what he wanted to do , his dream , to write a Broadway musical . He had become a fan of the genre , and he made first stabs at writing one . In college he majored in Speech & Drama and became a songwriter . He co-authored 2 musical shows at the University of Maryland : `` INTERLUDE '' and , a year later , `` INTERLUDE 2 . '' After graduation , followed by two years in the U.S.Navy , he returned to school in Washington , D.C. for graduate work at Catholic University , where he co-authored a musical revue called `` CROSS YOUR FINGERS . '' He wrote the lyrics and music for all his songs . He moved to New York City , but it would be another 10 years before he would write a fourth musical for the stage . ( During that intervening decade , besides holding down a `` make-a-living '' job , he wrote pop songs and recorded his own band , known as '' James Alexander and the Argyles , '' and he began to study acting in earnest . ) Upon meeting Gerome Ragni , he saw some of Jerry 's poetic writings and asked him to collaborate on a new show . They began a voluminous creation . One day they were in the Whitney Museum of Art on Madison Avenue , going from painting to painting , when they came upon a rather unique one by an American artist , Jim Dine . Looking to see the name of it , Jim Rado said to Jerry Ragni , `` What an odd title for a painting ... Hair . '' Several months later they found that title most apropos for the show they were writing about hippiedom and the troubles of America . HAIR 's world debut was in New York City in October 1967 , off-Broadway , on the heels of the Summer of Love . Jerry and I had written HAIR for the uptown big theatre audiences . It was designed to invade Broadway territory , but we could n't get a tumble from any of the Broadway producers . `` Not our cup of tea , '' they would say . We retreated from our firm intention , in response to an offer of a 6-week run for HAIR as the opening attraction at a new theater . The old Astor Library , gutted and under fresh construction , became The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater , and the producer Joseph Papp chose HAIR to be the premiere presentation in his experimental space , the Anspacher Theater . ( Papp had produced free Shakespeare in Central Park for years , but was now branching out , to embrace the excitement of the avant garde theater movement . ) Quite a wonderful opportunity , we thought ; if we could n't get HAIR on-Broadway , at least we could jump-start it downtown in the Joseph Papp spotlight of a new New York theater , in the East Village at that , where the play itself was set . As directed by Gerald Freedman , with choreography by Anna Sokolow , the `` Public '' proved to be a perfect `` out-of-town tryout . '' A Guy , a Kid and a Cat A guy from Washington , D.C. ( James Rado ) and a kid from Pittsburgh . Pa. ( Gerome Ragni ) met in New York City when they were cast together in a new off-Broadway endeavor , HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND DIE , a musical revue whose theme was Capital Punishment . Following the shortest run in show biz ( one night ) , the two young men continued their friendship and soon set out to write their own show , a musical they entitled HAIR . The two became three when they joined up with a cat from Montreal , Canada ( Galt MacDermot ) who had settled into the New York area to live and who set their songs to music . HAIR was created as an original idea by Gerome Ragni ( Jerry ) and , myself , James Rado ( Jim ) . We collaborated on the story , text , characters , dialogue and lyrics beginning in late 1964 , continuing over the years 1965 , 1966 and 1967 . From the start , I envisioned that the score of HAIR would be something new for Broadway , a kind

Oldest Airline in the World - BootsnAll Toolkit

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Established in 1919, which is the world's oldest surviving airline?

Oldest Airline in the World - BootsnAll Toolkit Home » Traveler 's Toolkit » Oldest Airline in the World Oldest Airline in the World Tweet Q : Which is the oldest airline ? Tracing the genealogies of various carriers can be complicated , as many companies have changed names and identities . But most airline historians ( there really are such things ) agree that the world ’ s oldest continuously operating airline is Amsterdam-based KLM ( that ’ s Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij for those of you speaking Dutch ) , which lists its founding date as 1919 . Other pioneers include Colombia ’ s Avianca , also harking back to 1919 , and even the national airline of Bolivia , LAB , which started flying in 1925 . In the USA , Northwest is the oldest , beginning operations in 1926 . ( Northwest ’ s pilot uniforms pay tribute to their airline ’ s origins as a mail carrier by featuring the words ‘ US Mail ’ in the center of their emblems . ) As many people know , KLM and Northwest joined several years ago in the first of the big strategic alliances , but for whatever reason they never exploited their status as two of the world ’ s first airlines . This Q & A is part of a collection that originally appeared on Salon.com . Patrick Smith , 38 , is an erstwhile airline pilot , retired punk rocker and air travel columnist . His book , Ask the Pilot ( Riverhead ) was voted “ Best Travel Book of 2004 ” by Amazon.com . Patrick has traveled to more than 55 countries and always asks for a window seat . He lives near Boston .

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent ...

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"Which US First Lady said, ""No one can make you feel interior unless you consent?"""

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent | Quote Investigator No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent Eleanor Roosevelt ? Reader ’ s Digest ? Apocryphal ? Anonymous ? Dear Quote Investigator : There is a remarkably insightful statement about self-esteem that is usually credited to Eleanor Roosevelt , the diplomat and former First Lady : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent . This is one of my favorite quotations , but I have not been able to determine when it was first said . One quotation dictionary claimed that the saying was in the autobiography “ This is My Story ” by Roosevelt , but I was unable to find it . Did Eleanor Roosevelt really say this ? Could you tell me where I can locate this quotation ? Quote Investigator : This popular aphorism is the most well-known guidance ascribed to Roosevelt . Quotation experts such as Rosalie Maggio and Ralph Keyes have explored the origin of this saying . Surprisingly , a thorough examination of the books the First Lady authored and her other archived writings has failed to discover any instances of the quote [ QVFI ] . Yet , the saying has been attributed to Roosevelt for more than seventy years . The earliest example located by QI appeared in the pages of the widely-distributed periodical Reader ’ s Digest in September of 1940 [ RDFI ] : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent . Eleanor Roosevelt Thus , from the beginning the phrase was credited to Roosevelt . However , no supporting reference was given in the magazine , and the quote stood alone at the bottom of a page with unrelated article text above it . Recently , QI located some intriguing evidence , and he now believes that the creation of this maxim can be traced back to comments made by Eleanor Roosevelt about an awkward event in 1935 . The Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt administration was invited to give a speech at the University of California , Berkeley on the Charter Day of the school . The customary host of the event was unhappy because she felt that the chosen speaker should not have been a political figure . She refused to serve as the host and several newspaper commentators viewed her action as a rebuff and an insult . Eleanor Roosevelt was asked at a White House press conference whether the Secretary had been snubbed , and her response was widely disseminated in newspapers . Here is an excerpt from an Associated Press article [ ERNC ] : “ A snub ” defined the first lady , “ is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior . To do so , he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior . ” She made clear she didn ’ t think the labor secretary fell within the category of the “ snubable . ” Note that this statement by Roosevelt in 1935 contained the key elements of the quotation that was assigned to her by 1940 . One person may try to make a second person feel inferior , but this second person can resist and simply refuse to feel inferior . In this example , the labor secretary refused to consent to feel inferior . The precise wording given for Roosevelt ’ s statement varied . Here is another example that was printed in a syndicated newspaper column called “ So They Say ! ” the following week . The columnist stated that the following was the definition of a “ snub ” given by Roosevelt [ OWFI ] : I think it is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior . First , though , you have to find someone who can be made to feel inferior . Here are additional selected citations in chronological order . Sometime between 1935 and 1940 some unknown person synthesized a compact and stylish aphorism based on the commentary made by Eleanor Roosevelt , and that statement was published in the Reader ’ s Digest . Roosevelt may have performed this reformulation herself , but currently there is no evidence to support that possibility [ RDFI ] : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent . Eleanor Roosevelt The next month , in October of 1940 the saying appeared as the first line of an editorial in a newspaper from Iowa . The words were placed between quotation marks , but no attribution

Super Bowl X Game Recap - NFL.com - Official Site of the ...

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Who won super bowl X?

Super Bowl X Game Recap Pittsburgh 21 , Dallas 17 SuperBowl.com wire reports The Steelers won the Super Bowl for the second year in a row on Terry Bradshaw 's 64-yard touchdown pass to Lynn Swann and an aggressive defense that snuffed out a late rally by the Cowboys with an end-zone interception on the final play of the game . In the fourth quarter , Pittsburgh ran on fourth down and gave up the ball on the Cowboys ' 39 with 1:22 to play . Roger Staubach ran and passed for two first downs but his last desperation pass was picked off by Glen Edwards . Dallas 's scoring was the result of two touchdown passes by Staubach , one to Drew Pearson for 29 yards and the other to Percy Howard for 34 yards . Toni Fritsch had a 36-yard field goal . The Steelers scored on two touchdown passes by Bradshaw , one to Randy Grossman for seven yards and the long bomb to Swann . Roy Gerela had 36- and 18-yard field goals . Reggie Harrison blocked a punt through the end zone for a safety . Swann set a Super Bowl record by gaining 161 yards on his four receptions . Information

Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister and President of Kenya

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Jomo Kenyatta was born into which tribe?

Jomo Kenyatta , first Prime Minister and President of Kenya Jomo Kenyatta [ joh ' moh kehn yah ' tah ] first Prime Minister and President of Kenya Kamau wa Ngengi was born about 1890 in the village of Ichaweri , Gatundu , in British East Africa , a member of the Kikuyu tribe . He was educated at the Church of Scotland Mission at Kikuyu , and baptized in 1914 with the name John Peter ( which he later changed to Johnstone Kamau ) . During the First World War he lived with Maasai relatives in Nairobi , where he worked as a government clerk . Overseas Work and Study In 1922 , while still living in Nairobi , Kamau joined the Kikuyu Central Association ( KCA ) , a political protest movement . By 1928 , as secretary of the association , he was chief advocate for Kikuyu land rights . In 1929 the KCA sent him to London to lobby for their views ; he also wrote articles to British newspapers about the matter . After a brief return to Kenya , he enrolled at Woodbrooke Quaker College in Birmingham , England , in 1931 . From 1931 to 1946 he worked and studied in Western Europe and Moscow . By 1938 he had adopted the name Jomo Kenyatta ( Burning Spear Beaded Belt ) , and it was under this name that he published Facing Mount Kenya , his thesis for the London School of Economics . During this period he continued to lobby on behalf of Kikuyu land rights . During World War II , Kenyatta worked at a British farm in Sussex to avoid conscription into the British Army . He also lectured on Africa for the Workman 's Education Association . Return to Africa On returning to Africa in 1946 , Kenyatta became a principal of Kenya Teachers College . In 1947 he was elected president of the newly-founded Kenya African Union ( later Kenya African National Union , or KANU ) . In 1952 , Kenyatta was charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British and , despite his denials , was sentenced to seven years in prison , after which he spent two more years in exile in a remote part of Kenya . Leadership of Kenya On May 14 , 1960 , Kenyatta was elected president of KANU , even though he was still in exile . The state of emergency in Kenya was lifted in December 1960 , and Kenyatta was finally fully released on August 21 , 1961 . In 1962 he was admitted into the Legislative Council , where he played a crucial role in the creation of a new constitution . Kenyatta became Prime Minister of the autonomous Kenyan government on June 1 , 1963 , and retained the position after independence was declared on December 12 , 1963 . Kenya became a republic on December 12 , 1964 , and Kenyatta became its first President . He was re-elected in 1966 , 1969 , and 1974 . Despite having helped gain Kenya 's independence from Great Britain , Kenyatta sought to maintain good relations with that country , even encouraging white residents to remain in Kenya and allowing many colonial-era civil servants to keep their jobs . He asked for , and received , British help against Somali rebels in the northeast , and against an army mutiny in Nairobi . Kenyatta is credited with making Kenya one of the most politically stable nations in Africa . His period in Kenyan history is also known as one of economic progress as well as agricultural , industrial and educational advances . President Jomo Kenyatta died in Mombasa on August 22 , 1978 , and was buried in Nairobi on August 31 . Wives and Children

Color Me Badd - Slow Motion - YouTube

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Bryan Abrams, Sam Walters, Mark Calderon and Kevin Thornton formed which group?

Color Me Badd - Slow Motion - YouTube Color Me Badd - Slow Motion 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 . Uploaded on Feb 28 , 2010 Color Me Badd was a male R & B/Pop vocal group which was formed in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma in the early 1990s . The members were Bryan Abrams , Mark Calderon , Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton . The group , whose R & B harmony vocals and image that appealed to Pop and R & B audiences , were discovered by Robert Bell , a member of Kool & The Gang . The group had five U.S. hit singles from their debut album , C.M.B. , released in 1991 . The singles were ' I Wan na Sex You Up ' , ' I Adore Mi Amore ' , 'All 4 Love ' , 'Thinkin Back ' , and 'Slow Motion ' . ' I Wan na Sex You Up ' was also featured on the New Jack City movie soundtrack in 1991 , and 'Forever Love ' was on the Mo Money movie soundtrack in 1992 . The group released four albums between 1991 and 1998 , as well as a remix album in 1992 . As their success faded , they group broke up 2000 , with the members going about their separate ways . Sam Watters is a record producer who acheived success with a lot of Pop Music artists during the 2000s . Kevin Thorton is a Gospel singer and has recorded a solo album , Mark Calderon works in the insurance industry , and lead singer Bryan Abrams has recently appeared in a VH-1 reality show titled Mission Manband . Category

World SCRABBLE Championship - NASPAWiki

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When was the Scrabble World championship first held?

World SCRABBLE Championship - NASPAWiki World SCRABBLE Championship Switch to full version . The World SCRABBLE® Championship ( WSC ) was the world ’ s top international SCRABBLE championship tournament . Although it ceased to be held under this name in 2011 , this page also lists its successor events , which continue to fill the same role within the global competitive SCRABBLE community . It is currently sponsored solely by Mattel , Inc . The tournament rules and word list are set by the World English-Language Scrabble Players ' Association ( WESPA ) . The involvement of NASPA is limited to selecting the American and Canadian teams and to the participation of Copresident John Chew as event director . For more information about the next event , see 2014 World SCRABBLE Championship . Contents 14 1991 History The first WSC was organized by Philip Nelkon of Mattel in London in 1991 and won by Peter Morris , a Canadian residing in the United States , who defeated American Brian Cappelletto in a best-of-three finals . Two years later in 1993 , the National SCRABBLE Association under John D. Williams , Jr. organized the next event , sponsored by Hasbro and directed by Michael R. Wise in New York City . It was won by Mark Nyman of England . From then until 2003 , the WSC was organized and sponsored in biennial alternation by Hasbro and Mattel , during which period Americans and Canadians won two more titles each , and and Thailand one . From 2005 to 2011 , the event was organized and sponsored by Nelkon and Mattel . In 2013 and 2014 , Mattel licensed Mind Sports International ( MSI ) to hold the 2013 World SCRABBLE Championship in place of the WSC . WESPA has announced that they will be holding the 2015 WESPA Invitational Masters as a replacement event for the WSC in Perth , Australia .

Arlanda Airport Information - Cheapflights

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Arlanda international airport is in which country?

Arlanda ( ARN ) Airport Guide | Terminals & Parking , Airport Code , Car Rental & More Information | Cheapflights +46 ( 0 ) 8 797 6000 Airport Overview Stockholm Arlanda Airport ( ARN ) , commonly referred to as Arlanda , is Sweden ’ s largest international airport and the third largest in the Nordic countries . It is situated 23 miles ( 37 km ) north of the city of Stockholm , near the town of Marsta . In 2010 , it served 17 million passengers . Arlanda Airport has four terminals . International flights are served by Terminals 2 and 5 , while domestic flights are served by terminals 3 and 4 . A central building , SkyCity , connects Terminals 4 and 5 and houses a business center and a number of shops and restaurants . Each terminal also has its own selection of retail outlets and eateries . In general , Arlanda Stockholm Airport is highly efficient and has all the facilities you ’ d expect from a world-class , high-volume airport . Staff are helpful and proficient in English , signage is clear and user-friendly , and transport to and from the city is plentiful . There simply couldn ’ t be a better place to begin or end your Nordic vacation . Terminal Transfer A free shuttle service runs between the terminals and to the long-term car parks . Getting into Town Train : There are two railway stations at Arlanda Airport , namely Arlanda South and Arlanda North , and a third , Arlanda Central Station , under Skycity . Arlanda South is closest to Terminals 2 , 3 and 4 , while Arlanda North is closest to Terminal 5 ; Arlanda Central Station mainly serves trains departing on long-distance trips . The fastest train is the Arlanda Express , which travels nonstop between the airport and central Stockholm every 20 minutes . A one-way ticket costs SEK 260 ( £25 ) . Taxi : Taxis are located outside each terminal . A trip to the center of town costs SEK 450-500 ( £44-£49 ) and takes 35-40 minutes . Bus : Various buses and coaches , many of which operate on environmentally friendly biofuel , run between the airport and the city center of Stockholm . Fare is SEK 90-120 ( £9-£12 ) and journey time is 35-45 minutes . Car Parking Outdoor car parks and multi-story parking garages are situated close to all four terminals , while low price long-term lots are located further away from the airport . Rates for outdoor and multi-story lots are SEK 80 ( £8 ) per hour , with maximum rates ranging between SEK 210-310 ( £20-£30 ) per day and SEK 1470-2170 ( £144-£213 ) per week . Long-term parking , available at the Arlanda Langtid Alfa and Arlanda Langtid Alfa Beta lots , costs SEK 50 ( £5 ) per hour and SEK 110 ( £11 ) for one to four days , with longer stay options and reduced rates applying thereafter . A shuttle travels between these lots and the terminals every eight to 15 minutes . Information Desks Information desks are located in terminals 2 , 4 and 5 . Airport Facilities Money and communications : ATMs , currency exchange and post office . Luggage : There are left-luggage and lost-and-found facilities . Conference and business : Terminals 2 and 5 have lounges with fax , copying machines and Internet access . The Sidewalk Express provides Internet points in the SkyCity Plaza and Terminals 2 , 4 and 5 . The Arlanda Conference and Business Center is located in SkyCity and provides 48 conference rooms with a capacity of two to 700 people , in addition to exhibition halls that can accommodate up to 1,000 guests . Wi-Fi , photocopiers , fax machines and mobile phone chargers are also available . Other facilities : A chapel , hairdresser , dry cleaner , showers and fitness center , in addition to a doctor ’ s surgery , a pharmacy and childcare facilities . Terminals 4 and 5 have public Internet workstations . Wi-Fi : Paid-for Wi-Fi is available throughout all terminals . Shopping : Terminals 2 , 4 and 5 each feature a good variety of retail outlets stocking everything from high-end fashion items and fragrances to electronics , home decor , gifts , toys , books and newspapers . Reputable outlets include Hugo Boss , Lacoste , Motiv Stockholm , Wasa Crystal and WHSmith , to name a few . There are also a number of tax-free shops selling perfumes , cosmetics , clothing and whiskies .

Mala Album Discography - bsnpubs.com

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Which singer formed his own Berlee record label?

Mala Album Discography Mala Album Discography By David Edwards and Mike Callahan Last update : June 17 , 2003 Mala Records was formed in 1959 as a subsidiary to Bell Records by Bell 's President , Al Massler . It was purchased in late 1961 by Larry Utall , then-owner of the Madison label . Utall closed Madison down and shifted his artist roster to the Bell labels . Mala 's singles series started in 1959 with a long-forgotten disc by the Hi Boys , `` Billy Boy '' / '' Draw '' [ Mala 400 ] . About a dozen singles were issued the first year , including singles by Sy Oliver , Herb Lance ( who two years later charted with the Classics on the Promo label with `` Blue Moon '' ) , Jeanie Allen , and the Hully Gully Boys . Another dozen singles in 1960 were also by largely unknowns , but they did include a pair of early singles by David Gates ( `` What 's This I Hear '' / '' You 'll Be My Baby '' , Mala 413 , and `` Happiest Man Alive '' / '' The Road That Leads To Love '' , Mala 418 ) . The year 1961 brought another eighteen mostly forgettable singles , with another David Gates offering mixed in ( `` Jo-Baby '' / '' Teardrops In My Heart '' , Mala 427 ) . Early in 1962 , Mala issued a single by R. Dean Taylor ( `` I 'll Remember '' / '' It 's A Long Way To St. Louis '' , Mala 444 ) , almost a decade before his `` Indiana Wants Me '' hit in 1970 . David Walker , once the lead singer for the gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy , hit psudonymously as Bunker Hill with `` Hide and Go Seek , Part 1 '' [ Mala 451 ] , which made # 33 . Although Walker had several followup singles , both under his own name and as Bunker Hill , none caught on . In 1963 , perennial label-wanderer Link Wray ( and his Ray Men/Wraymen ) signed with Mala for two singles ( `` Hold It '' / '' Big City After Dark '' , Mala 456 by Ray Vernon and the Ray Men , and `` Dancing Party '' / '' There 's A Hole In The Middle Of The Moon '' , Mala 458 , by Link Wray and the Wraymen ) . Near the end of 1963 , the BigTop label folded and Mala took over many of their artists . Don & Juan , Johnny & the Hurricanes , and the Royaltones appeared on Mala about that time . Del Shannon , BigTop 's major artist , formed his own label , Berlee , upon leaving BigTop in 1963 , but lack of distribution soon discouraged Del , and he eventually settled in at sister label Amy in 1964 . In 1964 , Mala scored its biggest hit yet with Ronny and the Daytonas ' `` G.T.O. , '' a song directed at the then-current car craze and celebrating Pontiac 's hot new model of the same name . Ronny and the Daytonas were a Nashville studio group . `` Ronny '' is John `` Bucky '' Wilkin , backed by a cast of famous Nashville session men , including Bobby Russell , Chips Moman , Johnny MacRae , and others . A completely different touring group was formed for public appearances . The touring group later recorded as the Hombres ( `` Let It Out , Let It All Hang Out '' on Verve-Forecast ) . Because of the huge hit , `` G.T.O. , '' Mala re-started their album series with an LP of the same name [ Mala 4001 ] . When the group hit with `` Sandy '' about two years later , Mala followed with a second album , Sandy [ Mala 4002 ] . Other artists on the roster in 1964 included the Del Satins ( Dion 's backup group after splitting with the Belmonts ) , ex-Madison artists Nino & the Ebbtides and Gary Stites , the Rag Dolls ( `` Dusty '' ) , and Nashville songwriter Chip Taylor ( later to write the garage-rock anthem `` Wild Thing '' ) . 1965 brought Jimmy Clanton , veteran hitmaker from the Ace label of Jackson , Mississippi , to Mala , but he failed to recapture the magic that got him a number of hits in 1959-63 . Also that year , Little Caesar and the Consuls had a hit with `` ( My Girl ) Sloopy '' [

Till I Loved You - Barbra Streisand | Songs, Reviews ...

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Who duetted with Barbra Streisand on Till I Loved You in 1988?

Till I Loved You - Barbra Streisand | Songs , Reviews , Credits | AllMusic Till I Loved You google+ AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann Barbra Streisand 's first album of new studio material in four years , Till I Loved You was led by its title song , a duet with Streisand 's current paramour , actor Don Johnson , on a tune from a Columbia Records pet project , a studio musical called Goya , written by Maury Yeston ( composer of the Broadway show Nine ) , that the label was encouraging its artists to promote . That embarrassing recording made the album as a whole seem worse than it was . But Till I Loved You , which was given over to newly written romantic ballads by people like Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager , still was n't very good . Eighteen songwriters , six producers , nine recording studios : like Emotion , Till I Loved You was a big-budget effort . But it was like a movie with a great star , great production values , and a mediocre script , so how much you liked it depended on how much you liked Streisand , and it sold to her fans only . Track Listing

December 21st – The first crossword puzzle is published ...

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What was first published on 21st December 1913 in the New York World?

December 21st – The first crossword puzzle is published | What Happened Today in History ? What Happened Today in History ? December 21st – The first crossword puzzle is published The first crossword puzzle published , by Arthur Wynne on December 21st , 1913 On this day in 1913 , exactly one hundred years ago , the first crossword puzzle was published in the New York World . Though crosswords had been invented earlier in the 19th century , it was not until Arthur Wynne , an English journalist from Liverpool , published the crossword that this time-killer became popular worldwide . Following the first publication of Wynne ’ s crossword in 1913 , the word puzzle quickly spread to other newspapers . Much like the Sudoku craze that took over in the mid-2000s ( hard to believe it is only that old ! ) , the crossword puzzle was an instant hit . Interestingly , in the 1920s there were negative reactions to the increased popularity of the crossword . Here are a few I found particularly interesting ( taken from the Wikipedia article ) : The New York Public Library ( 1921 ) : “ The latest craze to strike libraries is the crossword puzzle , ” and complained that when “ the puzzle ‘ fans ’ swarm to the dictionaries and encyclopedias so as to drive away readers and students who need these books in their daily work , can there be any doubt of the Library ’ s duty to protect its legitimate readers ? ” The New York Times ( 1924 ) : “ A sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words the letters of which will fit into a prearranged pattern , more or less complex . This is not a game at all , and it hardly can be called a sport… [ solvers ] get nothing out of it except a primitive form of mental exercise , and success or failure in any given attempt is equally irrelevant to mental development . ” The New York Times would not print crosswords in its pages until 1942 ; ironically , the New York Times crossword is now one of the most played crosswords in America . Crosswords have appeared in multiple languages since Wynne ’ s 1913 crossword , including many European languages such as French , Italian , Portuguese , Spanish , German , and Russian . Japanese crosswords also exist , where instead of placing a letter in a box , a syllable is often placed ( in katakana , one of the three written “ alphabets ” in the Japanese language ) . Related articles

Home | Dallas Museum of Art

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In which American state are the Merril Collection and the Burke Museum of Fine Arts?

Home | Dallas Museum of Art E-Mail Sign-up The Dallas Museum of Art is supported , in part , by the generosity of DMA Members and donors , the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs , and the Texas Commission on the Arts . All contents © 2017 Dallas Museum of Art . All rights reserved . Please note that any use of content downloaded or printed from this site is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use , including “ fair use ” as defined by U.S. copyright laws .

Mets-Red Sox: The Story of the Ball That Got Through Billy ...

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Which actor paid $93,500 for the baseball which rolled between Bill Buckner's legs in game six of the 1986 World Series?

Mets-Red Sox : The Story of the Ball That Got Through Billy Buckner 's Legs | Bleacher Report Mets-Red Sox : The Story of the Ball That Got Through Billy Buckner 's Legs By Ash Marshall , Senior Analyst May 24 , 2010 Use your ← → ( arrow ) keys to browse more stories 1.7K 21 Comments `` A little roller up along first ... behind the bag . It gets through Buckner . Here comes Knight , and the Mets win it . '' It 's a call that Mets fans have heard hundreds of times , and it 's a call that never , ever gets old . It 's the same call that brings Red Sox fans close to tears , and it 's the call that reinforced the Curse of the Bambino . Mets fans of a certain age will tell you exactly where they were when Mookie Wilson 's groundball down the line went between Billy Buckner 's legs , and for people in New York , it is one of the most defining plays in the club 's 48-year history . ESPN voted it as the second most memorable moment of the last 25 years ( losing out only to the 1980 Miracle on Ice victory in Lake Placid which topped the 100-strong list ) and the Mets voted it as their No . 1 historic moment of all time . Lost in the excitement of Ray Knight hopping and jumping towards home plate on that October night in 1986 was the ball that created history . As the fans celebrated and the Red Sox filed away , right field umpire Ed Montague snatched it up from the floor , took a pen , and marked a small ' X ' near the seam . Who would have known that some 24 years later it would be on display for fans everywhere to enjoy . The baseball that Mookie hit—yes , the baseball—is now on display in the New York Mets Hall of Fame and Museum , and I had the chance to speak with the owner of the famous ball , L.A.-based songwriter Seth Swirsky . `` It was picked up in the outfield by the right field umpire and he put an ' x ' on it and gave it to the Mets traveling secretary Arthur Richman , '' Seth said . `` Arthur then went into the clubhouse and gave it to Mookie and said 'This is the one ' and Mookie kissed it , everybody kissed it , and there is a tobacco stain , and there was just this big celebration , and the Mookie wrote on it 'To Arthur , the ball won it for us . ' '' After holding onto the ball for several years , Richman eventually put it up for auction in 1992 . Tina Mannix , the senior director of marketing at the New York Mets , said : `` Arthur got the ball from one of the umpires and Mookie actually told me that Arthur called him to ask for his permission to sell it and give the money to charity . I had always heard , 'Grr Arthur Richman sold it . ' I never knew that he had sold it for charity and I never knew that he had asked Mookie 's permission to , which I think was great . '' Just to be sure that the ball up for auction was the “ Buckner Ball ” —as it came to be known—Arthur also wrote a letter to verify the ball ’ s authenticity . Dated May 26 , 1992 , he wrote : “ This is the actual baseball , hit by Mookie Wilson , which went between Bill Buckner ’ s legs in the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox at Shea Stadium Flushing , New York . `` Ed Montague , who was the right field umpire for that game , picked up the baseball . He later presented it to me , saying that he thought I would appreciate having it more than he would…This baseball is 100 percent authentic . '' The ball was eventually snapped up by actor Charlie Sheen for $ 93,500 , and the star held on to the ball for almost eight years until he decided to part with a lot of his sporting memorabilia collection in 2000 . Seth said that when the ball was originally up for auction in 1992 , he wasn ’ t collecting at that point

Buster Keaton - Biography - IMDb

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What was Buster Keaton's actual first name?

Buster Keaton - Biography - IMDb Buster Keaton Biography Showing all 107 items Jump to : Overview ( 5 ) | Mini Bio ( 2 ) | Spouse ( 3 ) | Trade Mark ( 4 ) | Trivia ( 52 ) | Personal Quotes ( 25 ) | Salary ( 16 ) Overview ( 5 ) 5' 5 '' ( 1.65 m ) Mini Bio ( 2 ) When at six months of age he tumbled down a flight of stairs unharmed , he was given the name `` Buster '' by Harry Houdini who , along with W.C. Fields , Bill Robinson ( `` Bojangles '' ) , Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson shared headlines with `` The Three Keatons '' : Buster , his father Joe Keaton and mother Myra Keaton . Their act , one of the most dangerous in vaudeville , was about how to discipline a prankster child . Buster was thrown all over the stage and even into the audience . No matter what the stunt , he was poker-faced . By the time Buster turned 21 , however , his father was such a severe alcoholic that the stunts became too dangerous to perform and the act dissolved . He first saw a movie studio in March 1917 and , on April 23 , his debut film , Roscoe 'Fatty ' Arbuckle 's The Butcher Boy ( 1917 ) , was released . He stayed with Fatty through 15 two-reelers , even though he was offered much more to sign with Fox or Warner Bros. after returning from ten months with the U.S. Army ( 40th Infantry Division ) in France . His first full-length feature , The Saphead ( 1920 ) , established him as a star in his own right . By the middle of 1921 he had his own production company -- Buster Keaton Productions -- and was writing , directing and starring in his own films . With a small and close team around him , Keaton created some of the most beautiful and imaginative films of the silent era . The General ( 1926 ) , his favorite , was one of the last films over which he had artistic control . In 1928 he reluctantly signed with MGM after his contract with independent producer Joseph M. Schenck expired . MGM quickly began to enforce its rigid , mechanized style of filmmaking on Keaton , swamping him with gag writers and scripts . He fought against it for a time , and the compromise was initially fruitful , his first film for MGM -- The Cameraman ( 1928 ) -- being one of his finest . However , with his creativity becoming increasingly stifled he began to drink excessively , despondent at having to perform material that was beneath him . Ironically , his films around 1930 were his most successful to date in terms of box-office receipts , which confirmed to MGM that its formula was right . His drinking led to a disregard for schedules and erratic behavior on the MGM lot , and a disastrous confrontation with Louis B. Mayer resulted in him being fired . The diplomatic producer Irving Thalberg attempted to smooth things over but Keaton was past caring . By 1932 he was a divorced alcoholic , getting work where he could , mostly in short comedies . In 1935 he entered a mental hospital . MGM rehired him in 1937 as a $ 100-a-week gag writer ( his salary ten years before was more than ten times this amount ) . The occasional film was a boost to this steady income . In 1947 his career rebounded with a live appearance at Cirque Medrano in Paris . In 1952 James Mason , who then owned Keaton 's Hollywood mansion , found a secret store of presumably lost nitrate stock of many of Buster 's early films ; film historian and archivist Raymond Rohauer began a serious collection/preservation of Buster 's work . In 1957 Buster appeared with Charles Chaplin in Limelight ( 1952 ) and his film biography , The Buster Keaton Story ( 1957 ) , was released . Two years later he received a special Oscar for his life work in comedy , and he began to receive the accolades he so richly deserved , with festivals around the world honoring his work . He died in 1966 , age 70 . Older brother of Harry Keaton and Louise Keaton . Unlike many silent movie stars , Buster was eager to go into sound considering he had a fine baritone voice with no speech impediments and years of stage experience , so dialogue was not a problem .

~The Siri Thesis - The Pope in Red - "Cardinal Siri ...

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From 1903 to 1958, every Pope--bar one--took which name?

~The Siri Thesis - The Pope in Red - `` Cardinal Siri '' Gregory XVII~ Links THE SIRI THESIS ( FACT ) : A Cardinal on the Move : picture of His Eminence , Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa , Italy , at the Ospedale Galliera ( a Hospital in Genoa of which he was the President ) approximately one year before he was elected the Pope of the Catholic Church on October 26 , 1958 A.D. , ( and ) chose the name Gregorius XVII `` Father , the Blessed Virgin is very sad because no one heeds her message ; neither the good nor the bad . The good continue on with their life of virtue and apostolate , but they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima . Sinners keep following the road of evil because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them . Believe me , Father , God is going to punish the world and very soon . The chastisement of heaven is imminent . In less than two years , 1960 will be here and the chastisement of heaven will come and it will be very great . Tell souls to fear not only the material punishment that will befall us if we do not pray and do penance but most of all the souls who will go to hell . '' ( -Exact words of Sister Lucy ( visionary at Fatima ) in an interview with Father Augustin Fuentes on December 26 , 1957 A.D. , giving clear forewarning that the imminent chastisement of heaven for man 's sins , would unmistakably occur before 1960 A.D . ) Forward The Siri `` Thesis '' ( FACT ) holds that actually Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was elected Pope , after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 , but the newly-elected Pope ( Gregory XVII , formerly Cardinal Siri ) was * put under grave duress , threatened- prevented from taking the Papal Chair ( i.e . publically proclaiming His Pontificacy ) and replaced by Angelo Roncalli ( John XXIII ) . There is evidence that in 1958 , during the Conclave , the enemies of the Church were threatening `` Siri '' with mass destruction if he took the Chair of Peter ( i.e . as stated `` Cardinal Siri '' after being canonically elected , accepted the papacy and chose the name Gregory XVII - the 5th column enemies within the Conclave walls themselves , then used ferocious and vicious , real threats against Pope Gregory XVII , if he publically were to announce he was the True Pope . ) Pursuant to this thesis , all of the apparent 'popes ' after Pope Pius XII were/are imposters ( Anti-popes ) , as `` Siri '' was the true Pope . * '' Resignation is invalid by law if it was made out of grave fear unjustly inflicted , fraud , substantial error , or simony '' ( 1917 Code of Canon Law , Canon 185 ) . `` Siri '' ( a.k.a . Pope Gregory XVII ) expired on May 2 , 1989 A.D. , and is said to have passed on the true pontificate to an as yet unknown successor , who will emerge in due time after the eclipse of the Church predicted at LaSalette has come to an end . It was a suppressed pontificate in the person of Cardinal Joseph Siri of Genoa , who was canonically elected in 1958 , but immediately overthrown , and was intimidated into keeping silent about his status ( as were his cardinals ) for 31 years . The Pious Shepherdess Melanie Calvat , Seer at La Salette , France ( c. 1846 A.D . ) `` The Church will be eclipsed . At first , we will not know which is the true pope . '' -Melanie Calvat For , in commenting on this part of the secret , Melanie said to the French Abbot Combe , `` The Church will be eclipsed . At first , we will not know which is the true pope . Then secondly , the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will cease to be offered in churches and houses ; it will be such that , for a time , there will not be public services any more . But I see that the Holy Sacrifice has not really ceased : it will be offered in barns , in alcoves , in caves , and underground . '' ( Abbot Combe : `` The Secret of Melanie and the Actual Crisis '' , Rome , 1906 , p. 137 ) ``

Julie Christie - Biography - IMDb

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In which country was Julie Christie born?

Julie Christie - Biography - IMDb Julie Christie Biography Showing all 110 items Jump to : Overview ( 4 ) | Mini Bio ( 1 ) | Spouse ( 1 ) | Trade Mark ( 3 ) | Trivia ( 67 ) | Personal Quotes ( 28 ) | Salary ( 6 ) Overview ( 4 ) 5' 3 '' ( 1.6 m ) Mini Bio ( 1 ) Julie Christie , the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called `` the most poetic of all actresses '' , was born in Chukua , Assam , India , on April 14 , 1941 , the daughter of a tea planter , Frank St. John Christie , and his wife , Rosemary ( Ramsden ) , who was a painter . Her family was of English , and some Scottish , origin . The young Christie grew up on her father 's tea plantation before being sent to England for her education . Finishing her studies in Paris , where she had moved to improve her French with an eye to possibly becoming a linguist ( she is fluent in French and Italian ) , the teenager became enamored of the freedom of the Continent . She also was smitten by the bohemian life of artists and planned on becoming an artist before she enrolled in London 's Central School of Speech Training . She made her debut as a professional in 1957 as a member of the Frinton Repertory of Essex . Christie was not fond of the stage , even though it allowed her to travel , including a professional gig in the United States . Her true métier as an actress was film , and she made her screen debut in the science-fiction television serial A for Andromeda ( 1961 ) in 1961 . Her first film role was as the unlikely fiancé of Leslie Phillips in the Ealing-like comedy Crooks Anonymous ( 1962 ) , which was followed up by an ingénue role in another comedy , The Fast Lady ( 1962 ) . The producers of the `` James Bond '' series were sufficiently intrigued by the young actress to consider her for the role that subsequently went to Ursula Andress in Dr. No ( 1962 ) , but dropped the idea because she was not busty enough . Christie first worked with the man who would kick her career into high gear , director John Schlesinger , when he choose her as a replacement for the actress originally cast in Billy Liar ( 1963 ) . Christie 's turn in the film as the free-wheeling `` Liz '' was a stunner , and she had her first taste of becoming a symbol if not icon of the new British cinema . Her screen presence was such that the great John Ford cast her as the Irish prostitute , Daisy Battles , in Young Cassidy ( 1965 ) . Charlton Heston wanted her for his film The War Lord ( 1965 ) , but the studio refused her salary demands . Although Amercan magazines portrayed Christie as a `` newcomer '' when she made her breakthrough to super-stardom in Schlesinger 's seminal Swinging Sixties film Darling ( 1965 ) , she actually had considerable work under her professional belt and was in the process of a artistic quickening . Schlesinger called on Christie , whom he adored , to play the role of mode `` Diana Scott '' when the casting of Shirley MacLaine fell through . ( MacLaine was the sister of the man who would become Christie 's long-time paramour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , Warren Beatty , whom some , like actor Rod Steiger , believe she gave up her career for . Her Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ) co-star , Steiger -- a keen student of acting -- regretted that Christie did not give more of herself to her craft ) . As played by Christie , Diana is an amoral social butterfly who undergoes a metamorphosis from immature sex kitten to jaded socialite . For her complex performance , Christie won raves , including the Best Actress Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Film Academy . She had arrived , especially as she had followed up Darling ( 1965 ) with the role of `` Lara '' in two-time Academy Award-winning director David Lean 's adaptation of Boris Pasternak 's Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ) , one of the all-time box-office champs . Christie was now a superstar who commanded a price of $ 400,000 per picture , a fact ruefully noted in Charlton Heston 's diary (

Katzenjammer Kids - Comics Kingdom

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Which artist created the Katzenjammer Kids?

Katzenjammer Kids by Hy Eisman - Katzenjammer Kids Comic Strip | Comics Kingdom About this Comic The Authors The Characters Rudolph Dirks created The Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 for the American Humorist , the famed Sunday supplement of the New York Journal . Inspired in part by `` Max Und Moritz , '' the famous German children 's stories of the 1860s , The Katzenjammer Kids featured the adventures of Hans and Fritz , twins and fellow warriors in the battle against any form of authority . `` The Katzies '' rebelled against Mama ( their own mother , of course ) , der Captain ( the shipwrecked sailor who acted as their surrogate father ) and der Inspector ( dreaded representative of the school authorities ) . The oldest comic strip still in syndication , The Katzenjammer Kids was adapted to the stage in 1903 and inspired countless animated cartoons . The U.S . Postal Service also saluted the Katzies with a commemorative stamp . Hy Eisman Hy Eisman was born March 27 , 1927 , in Paterson , N.J . He began his career when he created a comic strip for his high school newspaper . After a brief stint in the military , Eisman worked as ghost artist for the popular Kerry Drake comic strip . He soon turned his pen to the comic-book industry , drawing for various publishers of such titles as Nancy , The Munsters , Tom and Jerry and Little Lulu . Eisman 's career as a cartoonist took off in 1967 , when he started to draw Little Iodine . He really brought the adventures of the bratty , pony-tailed Iodine to life . He left that strip in 1986 to chronicle the adventures of those two more-famous brats , The Katzenjammer Kids , the world 's oldest continuing comic strip . In 1994 , Eisman added another comic legend to his repertoire when he started drawing the Sunday Popeye strip , which stars Popeye , the salty sailor man , and his crew of lovable co-stars : Olive Oyl , Swee ' Pea , Wimpy and Bluto , all of whom were created by E.C . Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1919 . Popeye made his first appearance in 1929 . He was an instant sensation who would go on to star in hundreds of cartoons , comic books , his own radio show and even a live-action feature film starring Robin Williams . King Features Syndicate distributes Popeye to newspapers worldwide . Eisman received the Comic Book Humor Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1975 and 1984 . He lives in New Jersey and is an instructor at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover , N.J . Hans and Fritz Katzenjammer The Katzies , as they are often called , are born troublemakers . Their neat clothes and innocent faces conceal their deep-seated ability to do mischief . These two juvenile anti-heroes were the original troublesome twosome . Katzenjammer in German literally means `` the howling of cats , '' and it is also German slang for a hangover . A hangover would be a pleasure compared to the dire antics of Hans and Fritz , who play tricks on neighbors , pets , tradesmen , and any other available target , including their own mother . Mama Apparently a widow , this stay-at-home mom tries , vainly sometimes , to turn a blind eye to her mischievous offspring 's brazen antics and blatant disregard for authority . Der Captain and Der Inspector Der Captain is actually a boarder in the Katzenjammer household , and the perpetual butt of Hans and Fritz' pranks . Der Inspector is the local truant officer , but he seldom catches the ever-inventive brotherly twosome . All too often the grownups ' plans to turn the tables on these two devilish kids come back to haunt them .

Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel - Amazon.com Music

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Who had a 60s No 1 hit with Johnny Angel?

Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel - Amazon.com Music Shelley Fabares Audio CD , July 19 , 2005 `` Please retry '' $ 5.99 & FREE Shipping on orders over $ 49 . Details Only 12 left in stock ( more on the way ) . Ships from and sold by Amazon.com . Gift-wrap available . Frequently Bought Together One of these items ships sooner than the other . Show details Buy the selected items together This item : Johnny Angel by Shelley Fabares Audio CD $ 5.99 Only 12 left in stock ( more on the way ) . Ships from and sold by Amazon.com . FREE Shipping on orders over $ 49 . Details Ships from and sold by Amazon.com . FREE Shipping on orders over $ 49 . Details Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items . In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading . Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Your cost could be $ 0.00 instead of $ 5.99 ! Get a $ 50 Amazon.com Gift Card instantly upon approval for the Amazon Rewards Visa Card Apply now Editorial Reviews Includes Johnny Angel ; Bye Bye Birdie ; Johnny Loves Me ; I 'm Growing Up ; Telephone ( Wo n't You Ring ) , and more . Track Listings 5 . Ronnie Call Me When You Get A Chance 6 . I Left A Note To Say Goodbye 7 . Welcome Home 8 . Telephone ( Wo n't You Ring ) 9 . Football Season 's Over Audio CD ( July 19 , 2005 ) Original Release Date : July 19 , 2005 Number of Discs : 1 By Jay on July 1 , 2010 Format : Audio CD If you are a fan of Shelley Fabares and love listening to the girl singers from the late 50s early 60s you will really enjoy listening to this cd . Johnny Angel has always been my all time favorite song and I have always thought that Shelley had a beautiful singing voice . These songs have an innocence and charm to them that made this music very pleasant and relaxing to listen to . I love listening to all these songs and hearing this music makes me feel very happy . I love also listening to the other girl singers from that same time period- Connie Francis - Annette - Brenda Lee - Connie Stevens - Lesley Gore . You will be very happy to have this cd in your collection . By the way I am 51 years old and I am a child of the 60s and a teenager of the 70s - so I discovered this music in 1976 when I was 17 . At that time no one my age was listening to this music or even heard of it . After listening to this music for 34 years it still gives me so much pleasure to hear it . If anyone would like to comment on my review I look forward to hearing from you . Jay

Robert Zemeckis - IMDb

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Who directed Back To The Future?

Robert Zemeckis - IMDb IMDb Producer | Writer | Director A whiz-kid with special effects , Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making ( Steven Spielberg produced many of his films ) . Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale , Robert 's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy ( Romancing the Stone ( 1984 ) , 1941 ( 1979 ) ) and special effect vehicles ( Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ) and Back to ... See full bio » Born : What Makes the Golden Globe Awards So Entertaining ? IMDb Special Correspondent Dave Karger breaks down why the Golden Globes are so much more entertaining than other award shows . Do n't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section . a list of 42 people created 18 Jul 2011 a list of 28 people created 05 Oct 2011 a list of 40 people created 30 Jan 2013 a list of 35 people created 01 Sep 2013 a list of 46 people created 10 months ago Do you have a demo reel ? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Robert Zemeckis 's work have you seen ? User Polls Won 1 Oscar . Another 33 wins & 34 nominations . See more awards » Known For The Ark ( TV Series ) ( executive producer ) ( announced ) 2016 Allied ( producer - produced by ) - Snap Ending ( 1997 ) ... ( executive producer ) - Panic ( 1997 ) ... ( executive producer ) 1996 The Frighteners ( executive producer ) 1995 W.E.I.R.D . World ( TV Movie ) ( executive producer ) 1993 Johnny Bago ( TV Series ) ( producer ) 1992 Trespass ( executive producer ) 1992 Two-Fisted Tales ( TV Movie ) ( executive producer ) 1984 Used Cars ( TV Movie ) ( executive producer ) Hide 1980 Used Cars ( written by ) 1979 1941 ( screenplay ) / ( story ) 1972 The Lift ( Short ) ( written by ) Hide 1991 Make It Happen ( Video short ) Hide 2003 Idle ( Short ) ( project mentor ) Hide 2016 The Amazing Walk ( Video documentary short ) Himself 2016 The Walk : Pillars of Support ( Video documentary short ) Himself 2015 Le grand journal de Canal+ ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 2013 Cinema 3 ( TV Series ) Himself 2012 Piers Morgan Tonight ( TV Series ) Himself - Guest 2012 Good Morning America ( TV Series ) Himself - Guest 1994-2012 Charlie Rose ( TV Series ) Himself - Guest 2012 The Hour ( TV Series ) Himself 2011 Ace of Cakes ( TV Series ) Himself 2010 Tales from the Future ( TV Mini-Series documentary ) Himself 2008 Beowulf : Mapping the Journey ( Video documentary short ) Himself ( uncredited ) 2008 Creating the Ultimate Beowulf ( Video documentary short ) Himself 2008 The Art of Beowulf ( Video documentary short ) Himself 2008 The Origins of Beowulf ( Video documentary short ) Himself 2005 Biography ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 2004 4Pop ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 1997-2004 HBO First Look ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 2001 The Island ( Video short ) Himself 2001 The Making of 'Cast Away ' ( Video documentary short ) Himself 1997 The Directors ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 1997 Mundo VIP ( TV Series ) Himself 1997 Bl ! tz ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 1991 The Media Show ( TV Series ) Himself 1989 First Works ( TV Movie documentary ) Himself 1987 Citizen Steve ( Documentary short ) Himself - Writer 2015 Some Jerk with a Camera ( TV Series documentary ) Himself 2014 The Goldbergs ( TV Series ) Himself 2014 A to Z ( TV Series ) Himself 2003 Who Made Roger Rabbit ( Video documentary short ) Himself 1 Print Biography | 7 Interviews | 6 Articles | 2 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Height : Did You Know ? Personal Quote : From

The Death of Che Guevara: U.S. declassified documents

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Where was Che Guevara killed?

The Death of Che Guevara : U.S. declassified documents The Death of Che Guevara : Declassified By Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No . 5 For more information contact : Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv @ gwu.edu Washington , D.C. – On October 9th , 1967 , Ernesto `` Che '' Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers , trained , equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives . His execution remains a historic and controversial event ; and thirty years later , the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia , his capture , killing , and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world . As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara , the National Security Archive 's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA , State Department , and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death . This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive , and by authors of two new books on Guevara : Jorge Castañeda 's Compañero : The Life and Death of Che Guevara ( Knopf ) , and Henry Butterfield Ryan 's The Fall of Che Guevara ( Oxford University Press ) . The selected documents , presented in order of the events they depict , provide only a partial picture of U.S. intelligence and military assessments , reports and extensive operations to track and `` destroy '' Che Guevara 's guerrillas in Bolivia ; thousands of CIA and military records on Guevara remain classified . But they do offer significant and valuable information on the high-level U.S. interest in tracking his revolutionary activities , and U.S. and Bolivian actions leading up to his death . DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CIA , The Fall of Che Guevara and the Changing Face of the Cuban Revolution , October 18 , 1965 This intelligence memorandum , written by a young CIA analyst , Brian Latell , presents an assessment that Guevara 's preeminence as a leader of the Cuban revolution has waned , and his internal and international policies have been abandoned . In domestic policy , his economic strategy of rapid industrialization has `` brought the economy to its lowest point since Castro came to power , '' the paper argues . In foreign policy , he `` never wavered from his firm revolutionary stand , even as other Cuban leaders began to devote most of their attention to the internal problems of the revolution . '' With Guevara no longer in Cuba , the CIA 's assessment concludes , `` there is no doubt that Castro 's more cautious position on exporting revolution , as well as his different economic approach , led to Che 's downfall . '' U.S. Army , Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Activation , Organization and Training of the 2d Battalion - Bolivian Army , April 28 , 1967 This memorandum of understanding , written by the head of the U.S. MILGP ( Military Group ) in Bolivia and signed by the commander of the Bolivian armed forces , created the Second Ranger Battalion to pursue Che Guevara 's guerrilla band . The agreement specifies the mission of a sixteen-member Green Beret team of U.S. special forces , drawn from the 8th Special Forces division of the U.S. Army Forces at Southcom in Panama , to `` produce a rapid reaction force capable of counterinsurgency operations and skilled to the degree that four months of intensive training can be absorbed by the personnel presented by the Bolivian Armed Forces . '' In October , the 2nd Battalion , aided by U.S. military and CIA personnel , did engage and capture Che Guevara 's small band of rebels . White House Memorandum , May 11 , 1967 This short memo to President Lyndon Johnson records U.S. efforts to track Guevara 's movements , and keep the President informed of his whereabouts . Written by presidential advisor , Walt Rostow , the memo reports that Guevara may be `` operational '' and not dead as the CIA apparently believed after his disappearance from Cuba . CIA , Intelligence Information Cable , October 17 , 1967 This CIA cable summarizes intelligence , gathered from September 1966 through June 1967 , on the disagreement between the Soviet Union and Cuba over Che Guevara 's mission to Bolivia . The cable provides specific information on Leonid Brezhnev 's objections to `` the dispatch of Ernesto Che Guevara to Bolivia '' and Brezhnev 's decision to send the Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosygin 's visit to

Tennille on the Captain: `I've never felt loved by him ...

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Daryl Dragon used which name when he formed a 70s duo?

Tennille on the Captain : ` I 've never felt loved by him ' - Entertainment - Daytona Beach News-Journal Online - Daytona Beach , FL Tennille on the Captain : ` I 've never felt loved by him ' Wednesday Apr 13 , 2016 at 12:46 PM Apr 13 , 2016 at 12:47 PM By MIKE CIDONI LENNOXAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES —�It was n't love but inertia that kept them together . That 's the essence of `` Toni Tennille : A Memoir '' ( Taylor Trade Publishing ) , which details the relationship of Daryl `` the Captain '' Dragon and Toni Tennille , better known as ` 70s pop-music duo the Captain & Tennille . They had a top-40 pop-chart run from 1975-1980 with hits including `` Love Will Keep Us Together '' and `` Do That to Me One More Time . '' There was a Grammy , a TV series , millions of album sales and a fan club . Yet Toni Tennille says their marriage , which lasted from 1975 to 2013 , was a flop . `` I 've never felt loved by him , '' Tennille , now 75 , said in a phone interview from her home in Lake Mary , Florida . `` He just did not seem to be able to do that . '' ( Dragon , in a written statement , declined a request for an interview . ) The couple met in 1972 near the end of the run of an ecological stage musical that Tennille had written . Dragon , who was called `` Captain of the Keyboards '' by the Beach Boys , was hired for the musical 's band . `` I loved him madly at the very beginning , '' she said . `` In my mind 's eye , he was this one thing . But the truth was , he was this other thing that I would find out I would never , ever be able to change . '' Tennille said Dragon 's behavior over the years became increasingly eccentric , which slowly wore her down . He began to prefer the isolation of his bedroom , she said , and after he developed tremors , she eventually transitioned to full-time caretaker though she says he could have taken care of himself at that time . So why did she stay ? `` I did n't want to let the fans down , '' she said . Tennille filed for divorce in January 2014 . She said the split was amicable . The couple , who co-own a music publishing company , talk about personal and professional matters weekly , she said . Dragon , 73 , lives in Prescott , Arizona , where he 's doing OK physically and is getting full-time care at home , Tennille said . `` He has nothing that 's life-threatening . He 's probably going to outlive all of us . But it 's sad to me when I think of what Daryl could have been , what more he could have contributed . '' Tennille has family nearby in Florida . She gardens , she 's a birder and , yes , she plays piano every once in a while but just for herself . `` You know , they called Harper Lee a recluse , '' she said . `` But she was n't . She had a life in her hometown with friends and family whom she loved and they loved her . And she was happy . And that 's my dream : to have a quiet life . To be happy . To have a life like Harper Lee did . '' About Us

Rhode Island Population demographics 2016, 2015

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Which has the highest population, Rode island or South Dakota?

Rhode Island Population demographics 2016 , 2015 Population of 15 to 24 year olds : 11,081 Population of 25 to 34 year olds : 21,658 Population of 35 to 44 year olds : 17,193 Population of 45 to 54 year olds : 26,359 Population of 55 to 59 year olds : 14,394 Population of 60 to 64 year olds : 13,895 Population of 65 to 74 year olds : 19,744 Population of 75 to 84 year olds : 18,128 Population of 85 year olds and over : 11,587 Demographic population of homes with people 60 year olds and over households in Rhode Island containing people over 60

Oliver Reed - Biography - IMDb

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What was Oliver Reed's real first name?

Oliver Reed - Biography - IMDb Oliver Reed Biography Showing all 114 items Jump to : Overview ( 5 ) | Mini Bio ( 1 ) | Spouse ( 2 ) | Trade Mark ( 4 ) | Trivia ( 65 ) | Personal Quotes ( 35 ) | Salary ( 2 ) Overview ( 5 ) 5' 11 '' ( 1.8 m ) Mini Bio ( 1 ) Oliver Reed was born on February 13 , 1938 in Wimbledon , London , England as Robert Oliver Reed . He was an actor , known for Gladiator ( 2000 ) , Oliver ! ( 1968 ) and Tommy ( 1975 ) . He was married to Josephine Burge and Kate Byrne . He died on May 2 , 1999 in Valletta , Malta . Spouse ( 2 ) Outspoken views a trademark especially his opinions of his co-stars or women in general . Marvellous speaking voice Often sported a thick handle-bar moustache Ocean blue eyes Trivia ( 65 ) Shared the same dentist as horror star Christopher Lee Needed 36 stitches to repair cuts on his face after a bar fight in 1963 . The incident left him with a permanent scar , which he initially feared would put an end to his screen career . He had two brothers . David Reed became his business manager and his half-brother Simon Reed became his press agent . Nephew of the film director Sir Carol Reed , who directed him in one of his best roles , as the villainous Bill Sikes in Oliver ! ( 1968 ) . Father of Mark Thurloe Reed ( born January 21 , 1961 ) with his first wife Kate Byrne and of Sarah Reed ( born 1970 ) from his 12-year relationship to dancer Jacqueline Daryl . He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan 's Jamaica rum , eight bottles of German beer , numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac , and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling . His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira , almost £450 , about $ 594.72 . He was severely injured and almost died during the filming of The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) when he was stabbed in the throat during the windmill duel scene . Grandson of actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in 1904 . His first job ( at the age of 17 ) was as a bouncer at a Soho nightclub . Was dyslexic . Cousin of actress Tracy Reed and of the actor David Tree . He was related by marriage to fellow actor Edward Fox , who was once married to his cousin , Tracy Reed , daughter of director Sir Carol Reed . Narrowly missed out on playing superspy James Bond because of his love of alcohol and fighting . A new biography of the star uncovered a letter from Bond mastermind Albert R. Broccoli outlining how close he came to replacing Sean Connery in the role . Broccoli wrote , `` With Reed we would have had a far greater problem to destroy his image and re-mold him as James Bond . We just did n't have the time or money to do that . '' According to Cliff Goodwin , author of the book `` Evil Spirits '' , `` Oliver was probably within a sliver of being cast as Bond . '' He adds , `` But by 1968 his affairs were public and he was already drinking and fighting - as far away from the refined Bond image as you could get . `` . By the mid-1970s he was considered by many to be Britain 's biggest movie star . He declined roles in The Sting ( 1973 ) and Jaws ( 1975 ) because he did n't want to relocate to Los Angeles . Both of these roles were taken by fellow British hellraiser Robert Shaw . However , a Hollywood executive claimed , `` Reed did n't turn us down . We turned him down . We like our stars to have respect - Oliver Reed did n't respect anyone and he showed it . '' The actor he admired most was Errol Flynn . He was a close friend of The Who 's drummer Keith Moon . In 1973 Steve McQueen flew to England to meet Reed and discuss a possible film collaboration . `` Reed showed me his country

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Which country does the airline Sansa come from?

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What was Elvis's last No 1 in his own lifetime?

Elvis faithful ca n't visit site of his last No . 1 - USATODAY.com Elvis faithful ca n't visit site of his last No . 1 Posted Enlarge Handout Elvis Presley 's last No . 1 hit , `` Suspicious Minds , '' was recorded at American Sound Studio in Nashville , Tenn . The studio folded in 1972 , and the building was later torn down . MEMPHIS ( AP ) — Elvis Presley fans flocking to Memphis this weekend to remember the day he died are being encouraged to also celebrate the 40th anniversary of his final No . 1 hit single , `` Suspicious Minds . '' While they can tour Graceland , the estate where he died 32 years ago , or Sun Studio , which helped make him the King of Rock 'n ' Roll , the Elvis faithful ca n't see the place where that hit record was made . There 's nothing left , not even a historical marker , to remind people of the sessions that produced the `` From Elvis in Memphis '' album . MOVIE MARATHON : TCM honors Elvis American Sound Studio folded in 1972 and the building was later torn down . In its place is a beauty shop and a crumbling parking lot . `` I have n't been back there to see , '' said Chips Moman , who ran the studio and produced the 1969 Elvis sessions . `` I put it out of my mind . '' But in 1969 , American Sound Studio was at the top of its game , in the middle of a three-year span that would yield more than 100 hit records for artists that included B.J . Thomas , Neil Diamond and Dusty Springfield . Presley , meanwhile , had spent much of the previous years filming and recording soundtracks to his largely forgettable movies . He had n't recorded in Memphis since leaving the Sun label in 1955 . But he was also coming off the roaring success of his televised comeback special in December 1968 and proved willing to take some risks in hopes of charting his first No . 1 hit in six years . `` All of us had always liked Elvis , his early stuff , '' Moman , 72 , said in a telephone interview from his home in LaGrange , Ga. `` We did n't like all that movie stuff , so when we got our chance we wanted to cut some stuff that we liked . '' Initially , it did n't appear Presley was going to want to move in a different direction . He arrived at the studio in January 1969 with his sizable entourage of friends and handlers , and some potential songs were presented to Moman and the band . `` And of course all those guys were boogalooing to all those terrible songs , '' recalled Bobby Wood , 68 , piano player for the 827 Thomas Street Band . `` And we were just standing around wondering , 'What in the world is going on here ? '' ' Wood said he was approached by Elvis confidant George Klein and asked what he thought about the songs . He answered frankly that he thought `` they were a bunch of crap '' and was shocked when Klein carried that message back to Presley . `` I did n't know whether Elvis was going to say 'Get out of here , ' or what , '' Wood said . `` But he just started laughing , and he was laughing to the top of his voice . So I knew he was all right after that . '' The entourage began melting away as Presley began to gel with Moman and the house band in overnight recording sessions . He agreed to record `` In the Ghetto , '' unusual in Elvis ' repertoire for its social commentary on the cycle of crime and poverty , and `` Suspicious Minds , '' which became a centerpiece of his live Las Vegas performances that would begin that year . `` I knew that he was only a good song away from being as big as he ever was , '' Moman said . `` I knew Elvis had what it takes . `` We just gave him something new , and a new kind of groove . '' Four years later and well into his jumpsuit-and-cape era , Elvis returned to Memphis to record at Stax Records in an effort to recapture the feel from the American sessions . Wood and several other members

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Who choreographed the first performance of Copland's Rodeo?

Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch . 49-60 - Exam 1 ) Ruth Crawford was the Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch . 49-60 Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch . 49-60 - Exam 1 ) Ruth ... SCHOOL View Full Document Exam • 1 ) • Ruth Crawford was the first woman ever to be awarded a prestigious : ( 2.5pts ) • Fibonacci Fellowship in numerical based composition . • Grammy Award in composition . • Guggenheim Fellowship in composition . • Emmy Award in performance . Answer : Corre ct Points : 2.5 • 2 ) • Ruth Crawford was the mother of : ( 2.5pts ) • Taylor Dane . • Bob Dylan . • Pete Seeger . • John Lennon . Answer : Corre ct Points : 2.5 • 3 ) • William Grant Still 's `` A Black Pierrot '' is based upon the poetry of : ( 2.5pts ) • Robert Frost . • Langston Hughes . • Edgar Allen Poe . This preview has intentionally blurred sections . Sign up to view the full version . View Full Document • the unknown poet . Answer : Corre ct Points : 2.5 • 4 ) • In `` Hoe-Down '' from Rodeo , Aaron Copland orchestrates his music in an extremely open fashion , which means he : ( 2.5pts ) • composes in a public area where all can see him working . • uses the full range of registers from highest to lowest and leaves much space between groups . • leaves some parts unwritten and '' open '' for improvisation . • uses no cadences or final sounds , keeping the movements open for additions and improvements . Answer : Corre ct Points : 2.5 • 5 ) • The American dancer who danced the role of the Cowgirl in the premiere of Copland 's Rodeo in 1942 was : ( 2.5pts ) • Agnes de Mille , who also choreographed this production and is one of the most influential figures in American ballet . • Martha Graham , who barely beat out her friend Agnes de Mille for the role . • Bob Fosse , who choreographed many Broadway shows won numerous awards throughout his career . • Ginger Rogers , who also danced in many classic American films with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire . Answer Corre : ct Points : 2.5 • 6 ) • Aaron Copland received : ( 2.5pts ) • The Congressional Gold Medal award in 1986 . • no awards during his lifetime . • the modern ballet Composer d'excellence award immediately after the premiere of Rodeo . • This preview has intentionally blurred sections . Sign up to view the full version .