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| birthname     = Sandra Annette Bullock
| birth_place    = Arlington, Virginia, United States
| height        = 5' 8 (1.73 m)
| notable_works = Annie in Speed and Speed 2: Cruise ControlAngela Bennett/Ruth Marx in The NetSally Owens inPractical MagicSarah Lewis inForces of NatureGwen Cummings in28 DaysGracie Hart inMiss Congeniality andMiss Congeniality 2: Armed and FabulousJean Cabot in CrashKate Forster inThe Lake HouseLinda Hanson in Premonition| sagawards     = Best Cast - Motion Picture2005 Crash| yearsactive   = 1987 - present
| spouse        = Jesse James (m. 2005-2010)
| children      = Son
| parents       = John BullockHelga Meyer (deceased)
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| alma mater    = East Carolina University
| networth      = $85 million
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Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American-German movie actress.
She became famous in the 1990s, after roles in successful movies, including Speed and While You Were Sleeping.
After that, she became a very respected actress, especially after 2004 movie Crash''.
She is the 14th richest female celebrity with a fortune of around $85 million.
She filed for divorce from her husband in April 2010 after reports of unfaithfulness by him.
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, which is a suburb of Washington, D.C. Her parents are called John Bullock and Helga Meyer, and she has a sister called Gesine.
Sandra's mother was German, and Sandra spent lots of time in Germany when she was a child.
She went to Washington-Lee High School and was a cheerleader.
She went to East Carolina University.
She then moved to New York City to try to become an actress.
Sandra Bullock first appeared in some TV movies, such as "Hangmen" and "Bionic Showdown".
She also appeared in the movies "Love Potion No.
9" and "Demolition Man", which were quite successful movies.
She then appeared in "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping", which made her famous.
She then starred more successful movies like "Miss Congeniality", "Two Weeks Notice", "Crash" and "The Lake House".
Recently, she starred in the movies "The Proposal" and "The Blind Side".
She received an Academy Award for her role in "The Blind Side".
Sandra Bullock has been in relationships with Tate Donovan, Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling.
She then married Jesse James in 2005, but divorced him in 2010 after reports that he cheated on her.
Bullock has one son, a boy named Louis Bardo Bullock.
She adopted him in 2010.
Miami Ink is an American television show on TLC about a tattoo shop in Miami, Florida.
2008 American television series endings
It was heavy and tank-like at about 6.6 m (22 ft) long.
It had bony plates on its back and head, many sharp spikes along its back and tail and four large spikes jutting out from its shoulders on each side.
To protect itself from predators, it may have crouched down on the ground to protect its defenceless underbelly.
Adaminaby () is a town in southeast New South Wales, Australia on the Snowy Mountains Highway.
The first town of Adaminaby was in the way of a new dam built on the Eucumbene River as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
In 1957 more than 100 buildings were relocated to a new site 10 kilometres away where they would not be flooded.
The name, Adaminaby is an Aboriginal word meaning a camp, or a resting place.
The town first started during the gold rush to Kiandra, New South Wales|Kiandra in 1860.
It was first called Seymour, but the name was changed to Adaminaby in 1886.
Tropical Storm Delta was a late-forming tropical storm which affected the Canary Islands and Morocco as a strong extratropical storm.
It was also the twenty-sixth tropical or subtropical storm of the active 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
Tropical Storm Delta formed out from an extratropical cyclone that slowly gained tropical characteristics.
It was also a subtropical storm for a very short time before becoming Tropical Storm Delta on November 22.
Delta then moved slowly and stubbornly to the Canary Islands.
It became extratropical again on November 29, just before passing north of the islands.
On November 22, a non-tropical low pressure system in the central Atlantic Ocean began to gain some tropical characteristics.
Late that afternoon the low became Subtropical Storm Delta, while located over 800 miles (1300 km) west-southwest of the Azores.
Originally, the National Hurricane Center thought that the storm had already gained enough tropical characteristics to be classified as a regular tropical storm, but in post-storm analysis this was changed.
The storm's circulation became more organized and Delta became a tropical storm on November 24.
It strengthened further to its maximum strength of 70 mph (110 km/h) winds later that day, just below hurricane strength.
The official forecast at this time predicted that Delta would strengthen further and become a minimal hurricane, but this did not happen.
Anyhow, Delta kept this strength for a few days as it moved slowly and zig-zaggedly in the central Atlantic.
As wind shear increased over the storm, a Delta began weakening on November 25 and by the end of the next day Delta had weakened into a very weak tropical storm.
Some of the computer models showed that the weakening tropical storm could be absorbed by a developing low to the west, which a few days later became Hurricane Epsilon.
This did not happen, and Tropical Storm Delta began to move to the northeast.
As Delta sped up to the northeast heading to the Canary Islands, it strengthened again, reaching a second peak of just below hurricane strength on November 27.
In post-storm analysis, the National Hurricane Center said that Delta had probably reached hurricane strength for a very short time during that day; but the data was not persuading enough to upgrade the storm to hurricane status.
On November 28, as Delta moved closer to the Canary Islands, Tropical Storm Delta lost much of its tropical characteristics.
The extratropical storm, which maintained winds of near-hurricane strength, came close to about 105 miles (165 km) while north of the islands that night.
The storm later made landfall on  Morocco early on November 29 and quickly weakened overland, dissipating later that day over northwestern Algeria.
A lot of damages was reported in the Canary Islands from the effects of Delta, where it was described as a "historic" event, as hurricanes are very rare there.
The islands of Tenerife and La Palma were hardest hit, with many uprooted trees and landslides reported there.
The strongest gust recorded at La Palma was 152 km/h (95 mph), and at Tenerife the maximum gust was 147 km/h (90 mph).
One hospital had to be evacuated and several airports were closed across the islands.
In all, more than 225,000 customers lost electricity and many lost telephone service.
Also, a famous natural tourist attraction, El Dedo de Dios (or God's finger), a geological feature which had been pointing towards the sky for more than a millennium and an important landmark for the Canary Islands, was destroyed by Delta's winds and wave movement along Gran Canaria's shore.
Gran Canaria it was the island that suffered more damages in its Patrimony, since besides the storm destroyed centenary windows and crosses, the cover of the Cueva Pintada in Galdar, and stopped prisoners and without light several villages of the center of the island.
Delta claimed seven lives; six of them were immigrants that were on a boat which sank off the Canary Islands and 12 were reported missing.
The seventh was a result of winds throwing a man off a house while it was being repaired during the storm.
The total damage caused by Tropical Storm Delta throughout the islands was estimated to be over €312 million ($364 million 2005 US dollars).
Delta was also blamed for a 10-15% reduction of the islands tuna catch, as it kept the fishermen in port for several more days.
Delta was described as a "normal atmospheric disturbance" in Morocco and no damage was reported there.
In fact, it was welcomed as farmers needed the rain there to finish the sowing of cereal crops.
NHC's Tropical Cyclone Report on Tropical Storm Delta
NHC's archive on Tropical Storm Delta
Picture gallery of El Dedo de Dios before and after Tropical Storm Delta
High and Mighty Color (ハイ・アンド・マイティ・カラー, Hai ando Maiti Karā?)
is a Japanese rock band signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan.
Their single Ichirinno Hana was used as an OP song for the anime show, Bleach.
Maki – vocals
Yuusuke – vocals
Kazuto - guitar
Meg – guitar
Mackaz – bass
Sassy – drums
47th Japanese Record Grand Prix Rookie of the Year Award for 2005
SMEJ artist page
High and Mighty Color at oricon.co.jp
2004 establishments in Japan
The Fall of Man (also called "The Story of the Fall" or "The Fall") is the story in the book of Genesis in the Torah (Old Testament) of when Adam and Eve, in God's eyes, lost their innocence.
Genesis says that Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge even after God told them it was not allowed.
Adam and Eve lost their innocence and were thrown out of the Garden of Eden, where the Tree of Knowledge was.
In Christian religion, all of man lost their innocence because Adam and Eve disobeyed God and had to be punished, so man can now tell good from bad and life from death.
The Fall, for many Christians, means humans can not make themselves holy enough to get into Heaven when they die.
It is only possible to get into heaven because Jesus Christ sacrificed himself.
Islam says the Fall was just a historic event and did not change human nature at all.
It says Adam and his wife were thrown out of the Garden of Eden and forced to work and suffer because Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge.
But God still gave others who were still loyal to him the chance to get into Heaven.
According to Jewish tradition, Adam and Eve had the free will to rebel against God's first commandment.
One of God's first commandments was not to eat from the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
Adam and Eve ate from its fruits and had to pay a price.
They were thrown out of the Garden of Eden, which is called Paradise, and they had to suffer and work to survive.
Adam and Eve also became "like God" when they ate the fruit from the tree.
They got the gifts of knowledge, wisdom, and self-awareness—things that seperate humans from animals.
Judaism teaches that eating the fruit was disobedience, but not sin.
Unlike Christianity, Judaism teaches that sin can not be inherited, and that people do not inherit Original Sin.
If a sin is committed, you may pray directly to God and ask for forgiveness, and if the sin has affected another person, you may also ask their forgiveness.
Judaism says every person can get to heaven and be—once more—near to God.
You do not have to be Jewish to get into heaven.
Judaism teaches these things about The Fall:
God loves all people.
People should use God's gifts well.
God's gifts are:
Human virtues
Jews must take extra care to use these gifts well.
Jews must be lovingly loyal to God.
That is, they must loyally carry the burden that comes from knowing Judaism, and must joyfully obey God.
Christians generally believe that everyone who is related to Adam is born with sin and would never make it into Heaven.
Jesus, who was related to Adam only through Jesus' mother, had no sin, and died to remove the sins of those who believe in him.
They believe that whoever believed in Jesus Christ was given a "second chance" to get back into Heaven, shown in John the Apostle's Gospel: "...God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life." (
John 3:16, ERV) Different types of Christianity have slightly different ways of viewing the fall and salvation through Jesus.
You can see the different views below.
Calvinism and Puritanism
Calvinists believe that God chooses the humans who were going to go to Heaven and those who were not.
Humans do not get a choice in "spiritual matters".
Puritans took this one step farther.
Puritans said that humans could do nothing to be able to get to Heaven.
They said that no matter how good a person was, if he had not been chosen by God at birth, he would not go to Heaven.
However, one could lose the right to go to Heaven by being bad.
Protestants believe that when Jesus sacrificed himself, he made man free from sin forever.
Other people believe that when Jesus sacrificed himself, man was free from sin but he was not certain that he would still get into Heaven.
This view is quite neutral towards history.
It says Bible stories that man failed in the Garden of Eden and needed to be saved are explanations of deeper spiritual truths.
Some also say that Jesus Christ was God trying to start a new relationship with man.
Eastern Orthodoxy believes that a son is not guilty of the sins of his father (so sin is not passed down from Adam).
They believe that men and women are forced to sin because of the world around them and thy have to try and resist if they want to go to Heaven.
But they still believe that Adam caused all humanity to have to work for this.
The emphasis on free will is great: even the sinful people can be saved through synergy with God's grace.
Mormons say that when Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge it was not wrong, but was just a "demotion", like going from one good job to another, less good job.
A step down but progressing in a forward direction.
Mormons refer to The Fall as a Transgression.
For Mormons a sin is the act of doing something contrary to the known will of God and to do so willing with full knowledge.
Transgression, on the other hand, is the violation of a law or rule.
So for Mormons, all sins (willfully disobedience) are transgressions but not all transgressions (violations) are sins.
Since Adam didn’t have knowledge of good and evil before partaking of the forbidden fruit, so his act was a transgression of the law, not a sin against the law.
Before eating the fruit, Adam could never die.
Because he could never die, he could never go to heaven.
Eating the fruit made it so that Adam could die, so that later he could go to heaven.
It also made it so that Adam and Eve could have children, so that everyone would have a chance to live, die, and go to heaven.
Mormons say that if one follows the Plan of Salvation, that person can go to heaven.
Mormons believe that:
Men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.
Through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
The first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are:
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins
Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Unification Church believe that Adam and Eve had sexual relations before they were married, and so they got thrown out of the Garden of Eden.
They believe that a Blessing Ceremony can "wash" this sin away.
Unity Church
Unitarian Universalists believe that people are inherently good, and that it is their most precious gift, free will, that allows people to sometimes act wrongly, rather than predestination or external temptation.
The Fall is story, metaphor, allegory, not a history.
The Fall in books
Philip Pullman wrote a series called His Dark Materials and he says in the book that The Fall was a good thing.
It was when humans became free to learn.
Pullman believes that it is not worth being innocent if the price is not knowing the truth.
C.S. Lewis wrote a book called Perelandra where Adam and Eve were on the planet Venus rather than the classic Garden of Eden.
Albert Camus wrote a book called The Fall where a man tells another man in a bar in Amsterdam called "Mexico City" why he did not want to rescue a man who was trying to kill himself by jumping off a bridge into a canal.
In the manga (or comic-book) Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Fall is often talked about, and at the end, an attempt to clean Adam's sin is performed and a new genesis is started.
The Fall of Man Genesis 3:1
The Genesis Pursuit: The Lost History of Jesus Christ - A textual and scriptural examination of the Fall of Man and its relationship to the gospels, the coming of Jesus Christ and why Christ had to die.
The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
It is approximately 1,450 miles (2,330 km) long.
It drains a part of the dry regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California.
The heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for the Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico.
Now it no longer always reaches the sea.
On its way the Colorado River runs through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico.
The Colorado River drains 242,900 sq mi (629,100 km²).
Total flows of the river range from 4000 cubic feet per second (570 m³/s) in droughts to 1,000,000 ft³/s (28,000 m³/s) in severe floods.
With the construction of massive power dams on the lower course of the river, floods of over 70,000 ft³/s (2000 m³/s) are rare.
The mean flow of the total river before diversion is 22,000 ft³/s.
Rivers of Mexico
Rivers of Arizona
Rivers of Colorado
Rivers of Utah
Cola is a type of carbonated drink that was made from the kola nut in the past, although other foods are often used now.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are types of cola.
120 years ago, only 9 glasses of cola were sold each day, but now, around 14 million cola drinks are drank in the world every day.
Cola is usually made cold in a fridge, so it can be more refreshing, and helps to retain its fizziness.
Cola used to contain cocaine from the coca leaf, but that was removed.
Harald I becomes King of England.
Harthacanute becomes king of Denmark.
Magnus I becomes king of Norway.
William II (the future William I of England) becomes duke of Normandy.
Construction on the cathedral of Saint Sabino begins in Bari.
Koper is awarded town rights.
1 July–3 July — Robert I Duke of Normandy at Bythinian Nicaea while on pilgrimage
October 18 — Sancho III of Navarre
November 4 — Jaromír, duke of Bohemia
November 12 — Canute the Great, King of England, of Denmark, of Norway, some of Sweden, and the territories near the legendary Jomsviking stronghold Jomsburg.
Slash (musician) (born Saul Hudson in 1965), Velvet Revolver & ex-Guns N' Roses  guitarist.
Slash (punctuation), the "/" punctuation character also called virgule (=a solidus is a typographic variant).
Slash chord, in popular music.
Slash (fanzine), a punk rock fanzine founded in 1977.
Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction dealing with homosexual relationships or sexual encounters.
Slash (logging), woody debris generated by timber harvesting
Slash (wrestler), professional wrestler.
Slash notation, a form of music notation.
Slash Pine, a tree native to the southeast United States.
Slash Records, a punk record label.
Slash (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fictional universe.
Slash (weblog system), the weblogging software which powers the Slashdot website.
Slash and burn, an agricultural procedure.
Slash'EM, a variant of the computer game NetHack
Feynman slash notation, of quantum field theory.
Slash rating, a US National Electrical Code circuit interrupt hardware qualifier.
Saul Hudson (born 23 July 1965), better known by his stage name Slash, is an English-American musician.
Originally from Stoke-on-Trent, his family moved to Los Angeles, California when Hudson was a child.
Slash is best known for being lead guitarist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1996.
After leaving the band Slash first formed Slash's Snakepit and then later co-founded Velvet Revolver with his former Guns N' Roses bandmates Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum.
Hurricane Beta was the twenty-third named storm, fourteenth hurricane, and seventh major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
It formed in the southwestern part of the Caribbean Sea on October 26 and made landfall on the eastern coast of Nicaragua on October 30 as a strong Category 2 hurricane.
Although Beta did create a lot of damage, it was somehow less than originally expected.
Late on October 26, a broad area of low pressure in the southwestern part of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Costa Rica developed and became Tropical Depression Twenty-Six.
At the second full advisory six hours later, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Beta.
Beta strengthened into a hurricane at 2 am EDT October 29, after spending a few hours on the border between tropical storm and hurricane strength.
Beta reached maximum windspeeds of 115 mph (185 km/h) making it a Category 3 hurricane by 4 am EST October 30.
The Colombian island of Providencia, about 140 miles off the coast of Nicaragua, was in danger to hurricane force winds for several hours as the center of the storm moved slowly very close to the island.
Original reports stated major damages to homes and a temporary loss of communications with the islanders.
Beta made landfall in the morning of October 30 near the town of Sandy Bay Sirpi, 310 kilometres northeast of the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, as a strong Category 2 hurricane, destroying many buildings and knocking down trees.
It weakened as it moved onto land and dissipated into a remnant low pressure system.
If the system continued to move westward, the remnant low could have probably re-strengthened after it entered the Pacific Ocean.
If the storm had regenerated, a new number and name would have been given.
The remnants of Hurricane Beta poured heavy rain over parts of the Central America on Monday, making forecasters to warn of deadly landslides and flooding as the storm began to dissipate.
There were numerous reports of damage but fortunately no deaths were reported, although there were several reports of injuries and people missing.
The storm finally dissipated late in the evening of October 30.
Although Beta had moved out to sea, several rain bands from the remnant continued to fall on Nicaragua and Honduras on October 31.
Nicaraguan government officials said that if the hurricane had hit larger coastal cities such as Puerto Cabezas or Bluefields as was first predicted, it would have been a disaster.
Hurricane Beta was the first hurricane to be named after a letter in the Greek alphabet, because the first tropical system to be named with a Greek letter, Tropical Storm Alpha, did not reach hurricane strength.
In Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, local officials announced a curfew to help stop looting and worked to cut off electricity throughout the city to stop possible injuries.
60,000 people were moved into shelters.
Thousands of residents striggled through heavy rain to reach shelters.
Many experts, including national meteorology director Milagros Castro, warned of the threat of mudslides, especially since Beta was a slow-moving storm.
In Honduras, the government also kept a red alert for the storm and an emergency committee was working on moving 150,000 people from areas of the capital, Tegucigalpa, that would be in danger to flooding and mudslides.
Evacuations were being readied in five of the country's eighteen departments.
Civil defense officials have declared an alert in neighboring El Salvador, fearing the threat of mudslides after Hurricane Stan destroyed much of the area.
The preparations eventually turned out to be very serious, since there was no deaths reported in spie of the large damages.
On the island of Providencia, roofs were ripped off from dozens of wooden homes, the island's main communications tower was knocked over and a tourist footbridge was destroyed.
But most of the 5,000 islanders stayed safe by climbing Providencia's many hills to ride out the storm in brick shelters.
At least thirty people are reported to have been injured during Hurricane Beta's destruction upon the island.
Beta wiped out most of the town of Sandy Bay as it made landfall.
Local reports said the town's population of 3,000 had mostly evacuated in advance.
Wooden huts made most of the housing in Sandy Bay, and about eighty percent of it was thought to be uninhabitable.
Trees were knocked down and roofs were ripped off from houses during Hurricane Beta's attack on the country.
At least one pier was damaged.
Many herds of cattle were killed by the storm.
700 people were trapped in Tasbapauni, a town separated from the mainland by a lagoon.
Eighty percent of homes in Tasbapauni are thought to be damaged very badly.
Some 200 homes in Laguna de Perlas' seventeen lake-front villages are reported to have been damaged a lot.
Though the storm's remnants were expected to drop an additional four to eight inches on the already water logged ground, President Enrique Bolaños said his country had escaped a major disaster.
He promised to quickly get aid to separated towns cut off by flooding and landslides.
Nicaraguan Civil Defence Chief Col.
Mario Perez Cassar said eighty per cent of the buildings on the central coast where the hurricane hit were heavily damaged or destroyed.
One person was reported to be injured and four people were reported missing in Nicaragua.
The four missing men were later found alive on a boat that had been swept out into the Caribbean.
A passing Panamanian-registered tanker ship found the four, all Miskito Indians, adrift about forty eight kilometres off the Nicaraguan coast after their gasoline ran out.
In Honduras, Beta left fifty communities separated and broke bridges in the northeastern provinces of Gracias a Dios, Atlantida and Colon on the coast.
Strong winds knocked down signs, fences, trees and electricity and telephone poles, cutting off power and communication in hundreds of communities and at least two highways were blocked.
Authorities evacuated more than 7,800 people from north of the Nicaraguan border after four rivers overflowed from rain caused by Beta.
The national soccer league stopped all of its games.
The airports at La Ceiba and Roatan on the coast were operating intermittenly because of poor visibility, strong winds and flooding.
Flooding damaged rice, corn and bean fields.
High waters also sent snakes out of the jungle into urban areas, although there were no reports of snakebites.
NHC Beta Report (PDF file)
The NHC's archive on Hurricane Beta.
CNN: Hurricane Beta belts Nicaragua
2005 in North America
History of Colombia
Billie Joe Armstrong (born 17 February 1972 in Oakland, California) is an American musician and the lead singer and guitarist for the punk band Green Day.
He also has numerous side projects as a vocalist, lyricist and guitarist in Foxboro Hot Tubs, Pinhead Gunpowder and The Network.
He is of Cherokee, English, German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Native American, Scottish, Spanish and Welsh descent.
Armstrong was given his first guitar "Blue", a Fernandes Stratocaster, at the age of 11 by his father, Andy, who died soon after.
He and childhood friend Mike Dirnt started Sweet Children, their first band which eventually developed into Green Day in 1987.
They added drummer John Kiffenmeyer (Al Sobrante).
Sobrante left the band to go to college as they were making waves and gaining popularity.
Frank Edwin Wright III (famously known as Tre Cool) replaced him as the permanent drummer making the official line up of Green Day in 1989.
The band gained a following in the punk scene in California, particularly in the Gilman Street Scene.
They released three EPs (1000 hours, 39/Smooth and Slappy) before releasing two LPs, one being a compilation of the EPs (1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hour) in 1991 and Kerplunk later in the same year.
With the release of their first major label album Dookie the band gained worldwide attention.
Their intentions were not to sell out but just to make music.
Unfortunately the popularity did not do well with the Gilman scene and they were exiled.
However, despite those rough years the band became increasingly popular.
Armstrong is openly bisexual.
He is married and lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Adrienne Armstrong and two sons Jakob and Joseph!
Singers from Berkeley, California
Writers from Berkeley, California
Writers from Oakland, California
Singers from Oakland, California
Musicians from Oakland, California
The Importance of being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
It was first performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London.
In the play, the protagonists make up people who are not real to try to make their lives easier.
The play's most important themes are the light humourous way it treats serious things like marriages and the satire of Victorian ways.
At the time the play came out, reviews all praised the play's humour.
However, some people wanted better social messages, while others thought that it was the best play Wilde had ever written.
It is Wilde's most popular play.
The plot is about two men who try to woo their respective lovers by convincing each that their name is Ernest.
The play includes many puns and plays on words.
Even the title is a pun, because "Ernest" is a man's name and "earnest" is a word that means "serious, honest, and sincere."
The play is about morality, style, and hypocrisy, among others, but it is noted for being humorous and lighthearted.
The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall.
The Marquess of Queensberry, father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde's lover, planned to present Wilde a bouquet of spoiling vegetables and disrupt the show.
Wilde was tipped off, and Queensberry was refused admission.
Soon afterwards the feud came to a climax in court, and Wilde's new notoriety caused the play, despite its success, to be closed after just 86 performances.
After imprisonment, he wrote no further comic or dramatic work.
The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere and adapted for the cinema on three occasions, in 1952, 1992 and 2002.
Unlike many other plays at this time, The Importance of Being Earnest'''s light story was not about serious social or political issues.
This was something that reviewers at that time were not sure what to think about.
Though they were not sure of how serious Wilde was, they agreed that the play was clever, funny, and popular.
George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review.
He said that comedy plays should not only be funny but touching, saying, "I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter".
Later in a letter he said that the play was "extremely funny" but "really heartless".
Opera and radio
BBC Radio 4 made a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995.
It was directed by Glyn Dearman.
Dame Judi Dench was "Lady Bracknell", Sir Michael Hordern was "Lane", Michael Sheen was "Jack Worthing", Martin Clunes was "Algernon Moncrieff", John Moffatt was "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Miriam Margolyes was "Miss Prism", Samantha Bond was "Gwendolen" and Amanda Root was "Cecily".
The production came out on audio cassette by Hodder Headline Audiobooks with BBC Enterprises ().
On 13 December 2000, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new radio adaptation directed by Howard Davies.
In this radio adaption, Geraldine McEwan was "Lady Bracknell", Simon Russell Beale was "Jack Worthing", Julian Wadham was "Algernon Moncrieff", Geoffrey Palmer was "Rev. Canon Chasuble", Celia Imrie was "Miss Prism", Victoria Hamilton was "Gwendolen" and Emma Fielding was "Cecily".
The music was written by Dominic Muldowney.
The production was released on audio cassette by the BBC Radio Collection ().
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The Importance of Being Earnest on Project Gutenberg
The Importance of Being Earnest – full text and reviews.
The Importance of Being Earnest – Audio Book on LibriVox
The Importance of Being Earnest study guide and teaching guide – themes, quotes, analysis, multimedia
British plays
Puerto Cabezas is a city in Nicaragua.
It is the capital of the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (RACCN).
Tegucigalpa is the biggest and capital city of Honduras.
As of 2006, the city has a total population of 1,200,000 residents.
Cities in Central America
Settlements in Honduras
1578 establishments
1570s establishments in North America
Founding of Marrakech by the Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal.
Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict founded in Affligem, Belgium.
Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)
The Zappanale is a music festival held every year in honour of the musician and composer Frank Zappa.
It happens in the beginning of August at the town of Bad Doberan, Germany.
Zappanale homepage
Arf-Society
Burlington Airpark  is an airport in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
It has two runways.
The airport is privately owned by Vince Rossi.
The airport was created by Victor and Gwen Kovachik in 1962.
It is a very popular airport for Toronto-area pilots.
Runways
The airport's first runway is  and is made of asphalt and turf.
The second runway is  and is made of turf.
Burlington Airpark Website
Kovachik Airport Services
Transport in Ontario
Airports in Canada
Pratibha Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician.
She was the first woman to become the President of India serving from 2007 through 2012.
Before becoming President, she was the Governor of Rajasthan and served as that from 2004 to 2007.
One of her many achievements is Order of Aztec Eagle which she received in 2019.
It is Mexico's highest civilian award.
Presidents of India
Governors of Rajasthan
The lily is a genus of flowering plant.
There are many species of lilies, like trumpet lilies and tiger lilies.
They are usually quite tall, and are perennials.
Lilies grow in Europe, North America, and Asia.
There are more than 100 species, and many cultivated varieties.
They also come in various colours.
It tends to grow wild in the forest and a grassy plain of a mountainous area, but several kinds grow wild on wet ground.
A lily's petals come in multiples of three.
The fleur de lys is a stylized depiction of the lily.
Some Lilium species are toxic to cats, especially Lilium longiflorum.
The mechanism is not exactly known but it involves damage to the kidneys, which can cause acute renal failure.
Veterinary help should be sought, as a matter of urgency, for any cat that is suspected of eating any part of a lily – including licking pollen that may have brushed onto its coat.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118558
Tropical Storm Zeta was the twenty-eighth and last storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
It formed very late during the year on December 30, after the official end of the season, and was a very rare tropical cyclone to live during two calendar years.
Tropical Storm Zeta formed on December 30 in the central Atlantic Ocean, where it stayed far away from land during its whole lifetime.
While every forecast given to the storm predicted it to dissipate quickly, Zeta, like Hurricane Epsilon, denied those advisories.
Zeta reached to its maximum strength on January 2 until finally dissipating on January 8, also bringing the close to the end of the 2005 season.
Late on December 29, 2005, a tropical depression developed in the east-central Atlantic Ocean from a frontal trough and strengthened into a tropical storm early the next day.
As this was more than four weeks after the official end of the season, the National Hurricane Center did not actually classify the system until after it had already become a tropical storm.
The new bound storm originally moved to the northwest but stopped for a few hous late on December 31 before moving west.
As Tropical Storm Zeta slowly gained strength, it had many characteristics similar to Hurricane Epsilon, like when the National Hurricane Center constantly forecasted that Zeta would weaken because of the high wind shear; but Zeta still held onto its strength, like Epsilon had done.
Tropical Storm Zeta weakened a little bit on January 2, before strengthening again to its maximum strength with 65 mph (100 km/h) winds on the same day.
One of the models suggested that Zeta could strengthen further and become a hurricane but this did not happen.
Tropical Storm Zeta continued to reject forecasts of weakening and on January 4, so much frustration made NHC forecaster, Dr. Lixion Avila to say that he had "run out of things to say".
The effects huge amount of wind shear finally began to affect the storm itself on January 4, as Zeta's strength began to weaken.
This made Tropical Storm Zeta to weaken into a very weak tropical storm.
The NHC still continued to overestimate how fast Zeta would dissipate and early on January 5 they actually downgraded Zeta to a depression, which was later confirmed to have been wrong.
Zeta continued to move west-northwestward, barely holding on to tropical storm status before becoming disorganized again.
Zeta weakened into a tropical depression on January 6 and dissipated into a remnant later that day, finally bringing an end to the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
But the remnant low still its identity for one more day before it dissipated 660 miles (1060 km) southeast of Bermuda.
Several of the people that were taking part in the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race were affected with heavy seas and strong, unpleasant winds from Tropical Storm Zeta.
The ship Liberty Star made several reports of strong winds from Tropical Storm Zeta, including one of 40 mph (65 km/h) winds early on December 31, when the ship was about 45 miles (75 km) north from the center of the storm.
Because Tropical Storm Zeta never came close to land, no coastal watches or warnings were given out.
There were no reports of damages or deaths from Zeta.
When Tropical Storm Zeta formed at 0600 UTC on December 31, it became the second latest-forming tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, forming about six hours earlier than Hurricane Alice did in 1954.
Zeta is only the second Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to have lived through two calendar years (after Alice).
Tropical Storm Zeta also extended the record number of storms to form in the 2005 season to twenty-eight, seven more than the previous record held by a hurricane season from 1933.
It was also the only Atlantic storm to have a name beginning with the letter "Z", since the list of names for Atlantic storms do not have a "Z" name.
NHC Zeta Report
NHC's archive on Tropical Storm Zeta
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.
He was most popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Both the stems and the leaves can be eaten.
Growing lettuce
Lettuce can be grown in many parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, and North America, in temperate climates.
It will turn more bitter tasting in hot weather.
You can grow lettuce during winter in a greenhouse.
Eating lettuce
In some countries, it is often eaten cold and raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, sandwichs, and many other dishes.
In some places, including China, lettuce is eaten cooked.
Lettuce contains very little energy or nutrients.
Kinds of lettuce
Most lettuce leaves are green, but some are red.
Most lettuce leaves taste bitter.
Some kinds of lettuce grow in a head shape like cabbage, while the leaves of some kinds grow more loosely.
The name of the plant in English, lettuce, and in Latin, lactuca, come from lactis, the Latin word for milk, because the juice of the plant looks like milk.
History of lettuce
Wild lettuce plants were eaten by the Romans and Egyptians.
The ancient Greeks were among the first people to grow lettuce as a crop.
It was one of the first plants brought to the New World by Christopher Columbus.
Hadrosaurus (Hadrosaurus foulkii) was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period.
Is the only species in its genus and is the official state dinosaur of New Jersey.
William Alan Shatner  (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter, singer and space tourist.
He became famous for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven more movies.
Shatner has written a series of books telling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of Star Trek.
He also played the role as veteran police sergeant T.J. Hooker, from 1982 to 1986.
He has since worked as a musician, bestselling author, producer, director, and celebrity pitchman, most notably for Priceline.com.
He played attorney Denny Crane on the television drama Boston Legal, for which he has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award.
On October 13, 2021 he was the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board the Blue Origin NS-18; He went beyond the Kármán line.
He trained as a Shakespearean actor and appeared in many plays.
Before Star Trek, Shatner appeared in other TV shows such The Outlaws, 1960's The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, and movies.
His first movie was in 1951.
He starred in the movie Incubus that was filmed only in Esperanto.
Shatner's daily vlogs on "ShatnerVision"
Shatner at Amazon Reviews
William Shatner Interview at Slashdot
Shatner at Fame Tracker
NY Times story on Shatner's "Has Been" album with Ben Folds
Actors from Montreal
Canadian television directors
Space tourists
Writers from Montreal
Martha Maria Yeardley Smith (born July 3, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, comedian and writer.
She is known for being the voice of Lisa Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.
The Daily Targum's interview with Yeardley Smith in 1997  (from The Simpsons Archive)
Simpsons Illustrated's interview with Yeardley Smith in 1992  (from The Simpsons Archive)
Yeardley Smith's interview in Newsweek, discussing her one-woman show More and her struggles with bulimia
Yeardley Smith at Voice Chasers
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She came to fame in the late 1990s, after many movies that showed her beauty, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things and The World Is Not Enough.
DealMemo.com interview  (May 23, 2002)
Cinema Confidential interview (February 2, 2001)
Models from Illinois
Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress.
She is famous for her roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thriller movies, including Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy and High Crimes.
"YouthAids Ambassador Ashley Judd launches U.S.-funded Newstart Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centre (VCT) for HIV/AIDS in Cape Town" , Diplomatic Mission of the United States of America, January 31, 2005.
"This is What a Feminist Looks Like"
Marie Claire Interview on Feminism and Choice
In 1999, the American Film Institute named her among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No.
Time article
Photographs of Barbara Stanwyck
Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel.
She has been named one of People's most beautiful people in the world three times.
Shields started being a model when she was 11 months old.
Ford Models started their children's division for Shields.
She first acted in Alice, Sweet Alice, a 1976 slasher film.
Her next film was Pretty Baby.
In it she played a child prostitute called Violet.
She was 12 when it was released and was naked in the film.
Some people said this was child pornography and Shields got a lot of attention from this.
In February 1980 she was the youngest model ever to be on the cover of Vogue (magazine).
She was 14.
Later that year she was in adverts for Calvin Klein jeans.
In 1981, she starred in The Blue Lagoon.
From 1996 to 2000, Shields was the main character in the sitcom Suddenly Susan.
On April 19, 1997, Shields married Andre Agassi.
She later married Chris Henchy with whom she has two daughters.
Relationship with Michael Jackson
On July 7, 2009 Shields gave a speech at Michael Jackson's memorial service.
Jackson and Shields met when she was 13.
They became friends instantly.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Shields said, “There were times when he would ask me to marry him, and I would say, ‘You have me for the rest of your life, you don’t need to marry me, I’m going to go on and do my own life and have my own marriage and my own kids, and you’ll always have me’.”
In his 1993 interview with Oprah, Jackson said that he was dating Shields.
However, in the 2009 Rolling Stone interview Shields said the last time she saw Jackson was 1990.
Brooke Shields' fansite
"Regarding Ardy": an online short film with Brooke Shields
The "Runaway Bunny" violin concerto, by Glen Roven and narrated by Brooke Shields
American musical theatre actors
The Fujita scale is a scale used for rating tornado strength, based on the damage tornadoes cause on human-built buildings and vegetation.
The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists (and engineers) after a ground and/or aerial damage inspection; also including analysis of available sources such as eyewitness accounts and damage images and/or videos.
It was replaced with the Enhanced Fujita scale in the United States in February 2007.
Canton Ticino or Ticino ([]; French and German: Tessin [] and []) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland.
The written language is Italian in almost the entire canton (except the Walser municipality of Bosco Gurin, where it is German).
It surrounds the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia.
Together with areas of the canton of Graubünden it makes up the so-called Svizzera Italiana (Italian Switzerland).
Lombard dialects (Ticinese) are still spoken, especially in the valleys, but they have no official status.
It is named after the Ticino river.
The canton of Ticino is located in the south of Switzerland.
It is almost entirely surrounded by Italy which lies to its east, west and south.
To the north lie the cantons of Valais and Uri, to the northeast the canton of Graubünden.
Its area is 2,812 km², of which about three quarters are considered productive.
Forests cover about a third of the area, but also the lakes Maggiore and Lugano make up a considerable part of the total area.
These lakes are known with the above listed names, but are officially named Lake Verbano and Lake Ceresio.
The canton is split geographically in two parts by the Monte Ceneri pass.
The northern, more mountainous part, called Sopraceneri, is formed by the two major Swiss valleys around the lake Maggiore:  Ticino Valley and Maggia Valley.
The southern part, called Sottoceneri, is the region around the Lake Lugano.
The River Ticino is the largest river in the canton.
It drains most of the canton, flowing from the northwest through the Bedretto Valley and the Leventina valley to enter Lake Maggiore near Locarno.
Its main tributaries are the Brenno in the Blenio Valley and the Moesa in the Mesolcina Valley in Graubünden.
The lands of the canton are shaped by the river, which in its mid portion forms a wide valley, commonly known as the Riviera.
The western lands of the canton, however, are drained by the Maggia River.
The Verzasca Valley is located between the Ticino river and the Maggia river.
There is also a smaller area that drains directly into the Lake Lugano.
Most of the land is considered within the Alps, but a small area is part of the plain of the River Po which drains the north of Italy.
In ancient times the area of what is today Ticino was settled by the Lepontii, a Celtic tribe.
After the fall of the Western Empire, was ruled by the Ostrogoths, the Lombards and the Franks.
Around 1100 CE it was the centre of struggle between the free communes of Milan and Como: in the 14th century it was definitively acquired by the Visconti, Dukes of Milan.
In the 15th century the Swiss Confederates conquered the valleys south of the Alps in three separate conquests.
The Canton of Uri conquered the Leventina Valley in 1440.
Between 1403 and 1422 some of these lands were already annexed by forces from Uri, but subsequently lost.
In a second conquest Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden gained the town of Bellinzona and the Riviera in 1500.
Some of the land and the town Bellinzona itself were previously annexed by Uri in 1419 but lost again in 1422.