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To alleviate this problem, McConnel proposed that the doors on one side of each carriage be permanently barred and the track slewed off-centre beneath the bridges.
This would allow adequate clearance at least on the side with doors and mean that passengers could get out of the carriages if the train stopped underneath a bridge.
Tyler agreed to this arrangement, and to this day all carriages on the Talyllyn have doors on one side only, an unusual feature for a public railway.
This feature is however shared with the neighbouring Corris Railway, though for different reasons.
Tyler also required that improvements be made to the railway's first two steam locomotives, as locomotive No.
1 suffered from excessive "vertical motion" and No.
2 was said to suffer from "horizontal oscillation".
1 was returned to its manufacturer where a set of trailing wheels was added to reduce the rear overhang.
The springs on No.
2 were adjusted and the crank pins shortened to reduce its oscillation.
Success after McConnel: 1886-1880s
The railway opened with two locomotives, one was a carriage and the other carried goods.
They were ran under a "one engine in steam" rule to make sure they did not crash into each other.
At the beginning, locomotives were kept in a shed made of wood at Ty Dwr at the Abergynolwyn station.
This was when the main engineering department of the Tayllyn was being built at .
The engineering department opened up on February 17 1867.
When Talyllyn opened there were two train stations it visited, one at Pendre and the other at Abergynolwyn.
In 1867, the station at  opened.
In 1873,  and  stations opened.
Eventually, a line that ran from the Abergynolwyn station to the actual village of Abergynolwyn was opened.
People could take an incline down a hill from the station to the town.
From there, people could take a one of the many trams that ran through the village.
Supplies like coal, building materials, and other things were sent down the incline from the train station to the village.
The railway used steam locomotives when it opened.
The two original locomotives were made by Fletcher, Jennings & Co. of Whitehaven in Cumbria.
Both of them are still used today but many of the parts inside and outside have been replaced.
Talyllyn has a rare gauge.
This is thought to match the gauge at Corris Railway.
The locomotives at Talyllyn might be the oldest of their kind for making sure they fit that type of gauge.
The locomotives, Talyllyn and Dolgoch used to carry slate from the quarry at Tywyn.
It also carried other things.
Trains that carried people, called passenger trains, traveled between Abergynolwyn, Dolgoch and Pendre.
Men who worked on the quarries also traveled on trains, despite those trains not being able to be used by the public.
Those trains traveled from Abergynolwyn to Alltwyllt and into Nant Gwernol.
The line was very successful when it opened.
As of 1880, 300 people worked in the local slate industry.
Over  of slate was sent by train each year.
Over 11,500 people first road the trains in 1867.
By 1877, over 23,000 people were using the train.
Less money is made: 1880s-1910
Starting in the 1880s, the "Grand Tour" was popular with people visiting the area, called tourists.
People could take the Talyllyn and Corris trains and go through Tal-y-llyn Lake and Cadair Idris.
Then, when they returned, they could use Cambrian Railways trains.
The need for slate slowed down for the last twenty years of the 1880s.
Many quarries fired people or closed.
Even the quarries that dug up more slate due to other quarries closing often closed eventually.
This made the need for the trains less, and made the railroad companies make less money.
Haydn Jones : 1911-1950
Eventually, the biggest quarry in the area, Bryn Eglwys closed.
Most of the people who had jobs in Abergynolwyn worked at that quarry.
Many people were hurt by the closure.
A man who lived in Abergynolwyn, named Henry Haydn Jones bought Bryn Eglwys.
He also became a MP for the Liberal representing Merioneth.
The quarry, which had closed, reopened in January 1911.
Haydn Jones had no money to put into the quarry.
But, when workers started mining in the quarry they pulled slate from the "Broad Vein" section.
That section had slate that was very hard.
It was not popular and most people did not want to buy it.
They stopped getting slate from the Broad Vein and started getting slate from the "Narrow Vein," which had slate that was softer and that people wanted to buy.
It was very expensive to build a new mind in the Narrow Vein.
So, to save money, Haydn Jones made very small entrances into the mine, which were considered unsafe by many people.
The sales of slate rose during World War I because people started building new buildings after they were destroyed in the war.
After the war ended, and after 1920, people started traveling more to see the sights of Britain.
The number of people who wrote on the Talyllyn rose and places that once stored slate were used to seat people, instead.
Tourists could even rent slate wagons, which were used to transport slate only, as a fun thing to experience.
A Gravity railway was used to move people on the wagons.
People were no longer able to ride in the wagons as of the 1930s.
Tourists brought more money into the area and helped the railway survive, but, Haydn Jones never made money.
The rental contract on Bryn Eglwys ended in 1942.
But, Haydn Jones could renew it each year.
People were still visiting the area as tourists.
In October 1942, two return trains ran on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
The trip was 45 minutes long one way.
They did not let people ride the trains on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
In 1946, the was a collapse in Bryn Eglwys.
The quarry was called unsafe and people could not use it.
It was closed.
Haydn Jones kept running the railway and said he would do so until he died.
In 1947, most of the railroads in Britain were bought by the government.
Talyllyn remained owned by Haydn Jones.
Between 1947 and 1949, people could ride the train two days a week.
Haydn Jones died on July 2 1950.
The railway kept running until October 6.
Saving the railway: 1951-1960
In 1949, Tom Rolt, who was a writer, visited the railway.
David Curwen, who was a locomotive engineer, visited with him.
In the summer of 1950, Rolt wrote a letter to the Birmingham Post.
He told them that it was important to rescue Talyllyn.
Many people had interest in this.
On October 11 1950,  a meeting was held about it in Birmingham at the Imperial Hotel.
About 70 people attended.
Rolt told them that he thought they should make a committee, or a team, to look into buying the railway.
The committee met again on October 23.
They met with the people who ran Haydn Jones' finances after he had died.
It was very hard due to the law to make the committee the owners of the railway.
Both the committee and Haydn Jones' people thought it was a good idea to have Jones' stop being the owner.
They decided to make a new company, called Talyllyn Holdings, the owner.
The company was a mix of people from the committee and from Jones' group.
The company started running the railway on February 8 1951.
They changed the name of the company to a non-profit called the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society.
The Society started to advertise that they wanted to save the railway and asked for people to donate money.
They also wanted to find people to volunteer to help run the railway.
By May, almost 650 people had donated and became members of the Society.
The railway re-opened on Whit Monday, on May 14 1951.
Trains ran between Wharf and Rhydyronen.
Starting on June 4, trains ran daily until the summer.
David Curwen was the Chief Mechanical Engineer.
When the railway re-opened again it needed a lot of work done to it to fix things and update it.
They bought two more steam locomotives from Corris Railway in 1951.
They were named Sir Haydn and Edward Thomas.
In 1951, Sir Haydn became the first new locomotive to travel on Talyllyn Railway in over 80 years.
It derailed a lot because the Talyllyn Railway was slightly wider than the Corris Railway.
Eventually this was fixed by changing the width of the railway and changing parts of the locomotive wheels.
The Edward Thomas needed a lot of service, but it was too expensive to fix.
A man who was on the Preservation Society board of directors, John Alcock, had his company, the Hunslet Engine Company fix it for free.
Another locomotive was donated to the Society by an engineering company in Birmingham called Abelsons Limited.
The locomotive was named Douglas.
It was built for the depot railway and was used by the RAF Calshot until 1945.
It started being used by the public in 1954.
Through the 1950s volunteers and Society staff members helped fix the railway tracks.
On May 22 1957, the BBC produced a live television program at the railway.
Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Huw Weldon road the train from Dolgoch to Abergynolwyn.
As a result of the television program, more people used the train.
Over 57,000 people road the train that summer.
The money that those people paid helped the Society improve the railway.
In 1958, the original Talyllyn locomotive was put back in service.
At the Tywyn Wharf train station a museum was opened.
It is called the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.
The first object that was displayed at the museum was the Guinness Brewery locomotive.
It was donated to the museum in 1952.
The museum opened in 1956.
British narrow gauge railways
List of 2 ft 3 in gauge railways
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Talyllyn Railway website
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
Railway with a Heart of Gold, a slightly tongue-in-cheek documentary about the railway, filmed in the early 1950s by American film-maker Carson Davidson.
1866 establishments in the United Kingdom
1860s establishments in Wales
The Hill of Howth Tramway, or just Howth Tram, operated from June 1901 to June 1959 and served Howth Head, near Dublin, Ireland.
The service was run by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I)), which viewed it as a way to bring more customers to its railway stations at Sutton and Howth.
A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" overhead wire to the control and propulsion equipment of a tram or trolley bus.
The use of overhead wire in a railway electrification system is said to be the 1880 invention of Frank J. Sprague.
A bow collector is one of the three main devices used on tramcars to transfer electric current from the overhead lines above to the tram below.
While once very common in continental Europe, it has now been largely replaced by the pantograph.
A pantograph is a device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams.
The term stems from the resemblance to pantograph devices for copying writing and drawings.
In ice hockey, an assist is when up to two players of the scoring team shoots, passes or sends the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which made the goal.
This usually means that they "assisted" in the goal.
At most, there can only be 2 assists for each goal.
NHL Rulebook, Rule #57 - Goals and Assists
Water Stratford is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.
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This is an alphabetical list of towns and villages in Northern Ireland.
The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city status in the United Kingdom).
Town - population of 4,500 or more
Small Town - population between 4,500 and 10,000
Medium Town - population between 10,000 and 18,000
Large Town - population between 18,000 and 75,000
Intermediate settlement - population between 2,250 and 4,500
Village - population between 1,000 and 2,250
Small villages or hamlets - population of less than 1,000
Acton, Aghacommon, Aghadowey, Aghadrumsee, Aghagallon, Aghalee, Ahoghill, Aldergrove, Altamuskin, Altishane, Altmore, Annaclone, Annaghmore, Annahilt, Annahugh, Annalong, Annsborough, Antrim, Ardboe, Ardgarvan, Ardglass, Ardmore,  Ardstraw, Armoy, Arney, Articlave, Artigarvan, Artikelly, Atticall, Aughafatten, Augher, Aughnacloy
Ballela, Ballerin, Ballinamallard, Ballintoy, Balloo, Ballybogy, Ballycarry, Ballycassidy, Ballycastle, Ballyclare, Ballyeaston, Ballygalley, Ballygawley, Ballygowan, Ballyhalbert, Ballyhornan, Ballykelly, Ballykilner, Ballylesson, Ballylinney, Ballymacmaine, Ballymacnab, Ballymagorry, Ballymartin, Ballymaguigan, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Ballynahinch, Ballynure, Ballyrashane, Ballyrobert, Ballyronan,  Ballyrory, Ballyscullion, Ballyskeagh, Ballystrudder, Ballyvoy, Ballywalter, Balnamore, Banagher, Banbridge, Bangor, Bannfoot, Belcoo, Bellaghy, Bellanaleck, Bellarena, Belleek, Belleeks, Benburb, Bendooragh, Beragh, Bessbrook, Blackskull, Blackwatertown, Blaney, Bleary, Boho, Brackaville, Bready, Brockagh, Brookeborough, Broomhill, Broughshane, Bryansford, Buckna, Burnfoot, Burren, Bushmills
Galbally, Gamblestown, Garrison, Garvagh, Garvaghey, Garvetagh, Gawley's Gate,  Gibson's Hill, Gilford, Gillygooly, Glack, Glebe, Glenarm, Glenavy, Glenmornan, Glenoe, Glenone, Glynn, Gortaclare, Gortin, Gortnahey, Goshedan, Gracehill, Grange Corner, Granville, Greencastle, Greenisland, Greyabbey, Greysteel, Groggan, Groomsport, Gulladuff
Lack, Landahaussy, Largy, Larne, Lawrencetown, Letterbreen, Lettershendoney, Limavady, Lisbellaw, Lislea, Lisnadill, Lisnarick, Lisnaskea, Loughbrickland, Loughgall, Loughgilly, Loughguile, Loughinisland, Loughmacrory, Loup, Lower Ballinderry, Lurgan, Lurganare, Lurganure, Lurganville.
Leitrim
Macken, Macosquin, Madden, Maghaberry, Maghera, Magheraconluce, Magherafelt, Magheralin, Magheramason, Magheramorne, Magheraveely, Maghery,  Maguiresbridge, Markethill, Martinstown, Maydown, Mayobridge, Mazetown, Meigh, Middletown, Milford, Millbank, Mill Bay, Millisle, Milltown (Co. Antrim), Moira, Monea, Moneyglass, Moneymore, Moneyneany, Moneyreagh, Moneyslane, Monteith, Moortown, Moss-Side, Mountfield, Mountjoy, Mounthill, Mountnorris, Moy, Moygashel, Mullaghbawn, Mullaghboy, Mullaghbrack, Mullaghglass, Mullavilly-Laurelvale
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Ballycastle, Ballyclare, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Ballynahinch, Banbridge, Bangor, Belfast
Carrickfergus, Carryduff, Coalisland, Coleraine, Comber, Cookstown, Craigavon
, Donaghadee, Downpatrick, Dromore, Dundonald, Dungannon
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Larne, Limavady, Lisburn, Lurgan, Londonderry
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Portadown, Portrush, Portstewart
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Burnt Hill is a hamlet in Berkshire, England.
It can be found in the civil parish of Yattendon.
Villages in Berkshire
Bar Hill is a village that can be found about 4 miles (7 km) northwest of Cambridge, in South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England.
In 2001 there were 4,233 people living in Bar Hill.
Yielden is a village in Bedfordshire.
It is near the borders with Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.
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en:Scorţeni, Prahova
Dartmouth College () is a private, coeducational university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"
it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.
In addition to its undergraduate liberal arts program, Dartmouth has medical, engineering, and business schools, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences.
With a total enrollment of 5,848, Dartmouth is the smallest school in the Ivy League.
The college was established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock who wanted to use the college to Christianize the Native Americans.
In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance "whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 1800s.
Dartmouth alumni, from Daniel Webster to the many donors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have been famously involved in their college.
Dartmouth is on a rural 269-acre (1.1 km²) campus in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.
Given the College's isolated location, participation in athletics and the school's Greek system is high.
Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I. Students are also well known for preserving a variety of strong campus traditions.
1769 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Oldham Athletic Football Club is a football that plays in Football League One.
The club plays its games at Boundary Park in Oldham, England.
The club was created as Pine Villa Football Club in 1895, but changed to the current name in 1899.
Almost immediately, Oldham became a professional team before joining the Football League in 1907.
After struggling between the First World War and the Second World War, they became more stable in 1969—when legendary manager Jimmy Frizzell took over.
Under Frizzell, the club won 200 of their 544 competitive games and were promoted to higher levels twice.
After leaving in the summer of 1982, Joe Royle took over as the club's manager during which time Oldham again had a successful period.
Under Royle, the club won 225 games of 608—a slightly higher winning percentage than under Frizzell.
In the early 1990s, under Royle, Oldham reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup and the final of the Football League Cup, losing every time.
However, in the 1990–91 season, the club won the Football League Second Division and were promoted to the First Division for the first time in over 70 years.
In the 1992–93 season, Oldham was a group of 24 teams that were the founding members of the Premier League—England's top division of football.
After Royle's departure to Everton F.C., Oldham struggled and were relegated twice in four seasons.
In the early 2000s, Oldham Athletic almost went bankrupt.
Businessman Chris Moore decided to purchase the club, promising to return to the Premier League within five years.
However, later that season, he left the club, which also left behind much debt and a weak team.
However, another businessman purchased the club in 2004, saving them from liquidation.
In the 2006–07, under current manager John Sheridan, Oldham almost were promoted to the Football Championship, but lost in the semi-final of the play-offs.
1895-1899 Pine Villa F.C.
1899-present Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
Bagpuss is a popular  children's television series shown on BBC television.
It was shown in 1974.
Although only 13 episodes were made, it was so popular that it was repeated regularly until 1987.
The series was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms.
The character Bagpuss was a toy cat.
Bagpuss was described in each programme as "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams".
Each programme began in the same way.
It started by looking through old sepia photographs as these words were spoken:
"Once upon a time,
not so long ago,
there was a little girl and her name was Emily.
And she had a shop."
There was a shop called “Bagpuss & Co”.
The cat sat in the shop window.
The owner of the shop was a little girl named Emily.
The shop did not sell anything.
Instead, Emily would find things that were broken and lost.
She fixed them and put them in the shop window.
Emily hoping that the owners of the things would come and get them.
She would leave the fixed thing in front of her favourite toy: the stuffed cat Bagpuss.
Each programme began with these words:
"Bagpuss, oh, Bagpuss
Oh, fat, furry cat puss,
Wake up and look at the thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light.
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.
"When Emily had left, Bagpuss would wake up.
The programme changed from sepia to colour film, and the toys in the shop would come to life.
There was Gabriel the toad, a rag doll called Madeleine, and a wooden woodpecker which was a bookend (something to stop a row of books falling over) called Professor Yaffle.
Professor Yaffle spoke like a clever professor.
He had a German accent and wore a pince-nez.
He would look at the object and tell the audience what it was used for.
There were also some mice.
They lived in the “mouse organ” (a pun on the word mouthorgan).
The mouse organ played music and the mice squeaked in high voices.
All the voices except those of Madeleine and Gabriel were done by  Oliver Postgate who also wrote the stories.
At the end of the programme, Bagpuss would yawn again and fall asleep.
The colour changed back to sepia and the toys became toys again as these words were spoken:"Bagpuss give a big yawn, and settled down to sleep.
And of course when Bagpuss goes to sleepAll his friends go to sleep too.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ,Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
And Professor Yaffle was a carved, wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat.
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams, but Emily loved him.
"References
Obituary of Oliver Postgate, Independent'' 10 Dec 2008, p. 34
Bagpuss at bbc.co.uk
Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.
He made several series of children’s programmes for British television.
They all became very popular.
They include  Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss.
They were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin.
They were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.
In a 1999 poll, Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
He was born in Hendon, Middlesex, England.
He went to Woodstock School and Woodhouse County Secondary School in London.
When World War II started he was evacuated to Devon and he finished his studies at Dartington Hall School.
He refused to fight in the war, so he was sent to prison.
However, he was soon let out because he volunteered to be a stretcher bearer for the Red Cross.
In 1948 he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but he never became a professional actor.
He was more interested in animation.
He created the character of a pig made out of cardboard that played the violin.
The BBC were not interested in his idea.
Seven years later he joined the ITV London company Associated-Rediffusion as a stage manager.
He worked on children’s programmes and made props.
Television programmes
Postgate thought he could make better programmes than the ones he was working on, so he created Alexander the Mouse, a story about a mouse that was born to be king.
Postgate met an artist called Peter Firmin.
He was good at drawing animation characters.
The two men started to work together and for 30 years they created their well-known television series, running their own company called Smallfilms.
The characters in their stories were moved by magnets under a table.
They created The Saga of Noggin the Nog (1959-1965).
It was based on old Norse legends.
Then came The Seal of Neptune (1960), a story about horses that lived under the sea.
They created The Pogles which was about a witch, but after the first broadcast it was thought to be too frightening for children.
Then came The Clangers (1969-1974 which was their first colour production.
Their most famous creation was Bagpuss, the story of a toy cat made of rags that sat in a shop window.
In 1987 the University of Kent at Canterbury awarded an honorary degree to Postgate.
Postgate said that it should really be  Bagpuss who got the degree.
He later showed Bagpuss wearing academic dress
Postgate married Prudence Myers in 1957, becoming stepfather to her three children The couple had twin boys in 1959 and another son in 1964.
Prudence died in 1982.
Naomi Linnell was his partner in the last years of his life.
He wrote an autobiography Seeing Things which was published in 2000.
In his book he looked back at the programmes he made.
He explained why they were so popular by saying: “They are simple, and they are well-founded in a safe place.
They are full of fun and, like a good meal, they are rich and satisfying.”
Oliver Postgate's personal web pages
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The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom's five National Garden Festivals.
It was held between May and October 1990, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
The festival took place for 157 days.
Over three million people went to the festival.
1990s in England
The Glasgow Garden Festival was the third of the United Kingdom's five National Garden Festivals.
It was the only one to take place in Scotland.
It was held in Glasgow between April and September 1988.
1988 in the United Kingdom
An animator is an artist who makes drawings for movies.
The animator makes many drawings which are called "frames".
These are played very quickly, one after another, to create animation.
It makes it look as if the pictures are moving.
Animators can work in many areas including movies, television, video games, and the internet.
There are many ways of making animations.
Animators usually work with other people to form a team.
These may be other animators, but can also include layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), background artists (who paint the "scenery"), voice actors who speak the words, and musicians who make the music.
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The British Rail Class 116 diesel multiple units were built by BR Derby from 1957 to 1961.
Richard 'Ricky' Spragia (born May 26, 1956) is a former Scottish footballer who currently manages Sunderland.
He was appointed in late December 2008 after the previous manager Roy Keane walked out after a run of bad results which had left Sunderland towards the foot of the table.
In his first four games as caretaker manager he managed two wins and a draw and this was enough to get him the unanimous vote of the board and was appointed with a permanent contract on December 27, 2008.
The official Flag of Austria is the flag of the European country, Austria.
It has three horizontal stripes, two red ones and a white one.
The British Rail Class 119 DMUs were used on the Western Region and on services in the Midlands that used units that were based at Tyseley Depot.
Soon after they were introduced, many of the DMUs were moved to Cardiff.
This was so that they could serve the intermediate stations on outer suburban services from London Paddington to Oxford.
These were as 7-car sets, with the addition of Hawksworth composites adapted to run as DMU trailers.
Donna  Noble is a character in the British television series Doctor Who.
She is played by Catherine Tate.
She is a secretary from Chiswick, London.
She is a companion of the Tenth Doctor.
She appears in one scene at the end of the last episode of the 2006 series, "Doomsday" (named in the credits only as "The Bride"), and in the second Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride".
The character returned as The Doctor's  full-time companion for the whole of the fourth series in 2008.
During the 2006 series Christmas episode "The Runaway Bride", Donna Noble is a temporary secretary at H.C. Clements in London, a security firm which, unknown to her, concealed the Torchwood Institute up until its collapse following the events of "Doomsday", and was then taken  over by an alien intelligence.
Her parents are Geoff and Sylvia Noble.
On Christmas Eve, the day of her wedding, she is accidentally pulled into the TARDIS because she has been drugged with Huon particles by her fiancé, Lance Bennett, because he was told to do so by Empress of the Racnoss.
She aids the Doctor in defeating the Racnoss Empress, but says no to his invitation to travel with him — she is frightened not only by his adventures, but also by the Doctor himself.
Having seen him commit genocide on the Racnoss, she urges him to find a new companion to act as his moral support.
It was revealed later in "Turn Left" that the Doctor would have been killed while stopping the Racnoss if Donna was not there.
Reappearing in April 2008's Series four premiere, "Partners in Crime", Donna has become dissatisfied with regular life and more interested in the bigger picture.
She regrets declining the Doctor's offer and has been investigating unusual phenomena in the hopes of finding the Doctor for some time.
When investigating Miss Foster and Adipose Industries, the Londoner and the Time Lord are finally re-united.
She expresses her regret to the Doctor for not joining him and after stopping Foster's plans to convert the whole of London into Adipose children she joins him in the TARDIS as a regular companion.
She makes it explicit, however, that she has no romantic attachment to him as Martha Jones and Rose Tyler did.
In "The Fires of Pompeii", Donna continually argues with the Doctor over the moral issue of whether or not he should save the inhabitants of Pompeii from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius the next day.
Ultimately, they are forced to cause the eruption to happen, weighing the destruction of the city against the fate of the whole world.
Donna was the Doctor's full time companion for all 13 episodes of Series 4.
Her return to the series sees her with her maternal grandfather, recurring character Wilfred Mott, as well as her mother, Sylvia.
Mott is played by Bernard Cribbins, whose appearance as a newspaper seller in Voyage of the Damned was merged into his new role following the death of Howard Attfield who played Donna's father in "The Runaway Bride".
Donna has encountered the Racnoss, the Adipose, the Pyroviles, the Ood, the Sontarans, The Hath, Vespiforms, the Vashta Nerada, the Judoon, the Shadow Proclamation, and the Daleks.
In the final episode of the fourth series Journey's End the Doctor erased Donna's memory of him and left her on Earth.
He warned that she'd "burn up" if she remembered him.
Donna is involved in The End Of Time.
At Donna's Marriage, The Doctor gives Sylvia a winning Lottery ticket before moving on to meet the first of his companions, Rose Tyler.
Donna's Story in 25 Seconds  at BBC.co.uk
Donna Noble on the BBC's Doctor Who website
The Class 120 was a cross-country DMU.
It was made up of three units.
The first unit was built in 1958 at the British Rail Swindon Works.
Sixteen Class 121 single-car driving motor vehicles were built from 1960, numbered 55020-55035.
These were supplemented by ten trailer vehicles, numbered 56280-289 (later renumbered 54280-289).
They had a top speed of 70 mph, with slam-doors, and vacuum brakes.
The driving motor vehicles were nicknamed "Bubble Cars" by some enthusiasts.
The British Rail Class 122 diesel multiple units were built by Gloucester RC&W in 1958.
Twenty single-car driving motor vehicles, called "Bubble Cars", were built, numbered 55000-55019.
These were supplemented by ten trailer vehicles, numbered 56290-299 (later renumbered 54290-299).
The Class 123 was a design of Diesel Multiple Unit built for British Rail in 1963.
They were built by British Rail at Swindon Works, and designed like all Swindon units as inter-city sets.
Ten of the four-car sets were built and introduced in 1963.
The units bear a visible similarity to the British Rail Class 309, however there is no 'relation' here as the two types were built by different manufacturers for different markets.
The British Rail Class 124 was a class of initially six-car Diesel Multiple Units used and built specifically for the trans-pennine route.
They were progressively shortened during their lifetime, finally finishing as three-car sets.
They were all withdrawn by the late 1980s.
There was a movement to preserve a set of this class, however it was unsuccessful and eventually all were lost.
The Class 125 was a design of three car Diesel Multiple Unit built for British Rail in 1958.
They were high-density units, externally very similar to the Class 116.
They were built specifically for the Lea Valley Line, were all withdrawn in 1977, and none survive to this day.
Like many first-generation DMU classes, they never carried their 125xxx TOPS set numbers.
The introduction of what became the Class 126 diesel multiple units originated in a British Transport Commission report of 1952 that suggested the trial use of diesel railcars.
BR's Swindon Works were chosen to design and build express units for the ex-North British Railway Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street route.
Swindon built a second batch in 1959/60 for use on services from Glasgow to Ayrshire.
The British Rail Class 127 diesel multiple units were built by BR Derby in 1959.
Thirty 4-car units were built, formed of two outer driving motor vehicles, sandwiching two intermediate trailers.
The technical description of such as 4-car unit was DMBS + TSL + TS + DMBS.
British Rail Class 128 was a class of diesel multiple unit, built for British Rail.
Introduced in 1959, ten of the class were built by British United Traction, each with two 230 hp Leyland engines.
The class was built specifically for parcels, and did not feature any passenger accommodation; fitted out with parcel racks and bike storages at each end.
The last members of the class were withdrawn in 1991, and none were preserved.
Class info from railcar.com
The Class 129 was a class of single-car Diesel Multiple Unit built in 1955 for British Rail.
Only three were built by Cravens and were introduced in 1958.
The class was built for parcels traffic like the Class 128.
One unit (55997) survived into departmental service being named 'Hydra'.
The driving ends of a Class 129 car bore a visible similarity to that of the British Rail Class 105.
The Master is a  character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
He is an evil Time Lord and is one of the biggest enemies of the Doctor.
When the Master first appeared in 1971, he was played by Roger Delgado.
Delgado continued in the role until his death in 1973.
Afterwards, Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers played a decayed version of the Time Lord, until Anthony Ainley assumed the part in 1981.
He remained until Doctor Who'''s cancellation in 1989.
In 1996, the Master was played by Eric Roberts in the TV movie.
In the revived series, Derek Jacobi provided the character's re-introduction before handing over to John Simm, who portrayed the Master in the end of the 2007 series.
Michelle Gomez took over the role in 2014.
History in the show
The Master was once a childhood friend of the Doctor.
In "The Sound of Drums" (2007), there is a brief clip of the young Master as the Doctor talks about his childhood.
When they joined the Time Lord Academy at the age of eight, they were taken to look into the Untempered Schism.
This was a portal through which you could see the time vortex (the tunnel the TARDIS travels through as it travels in time) and see the full power of the Time Lords.
He suggests that this is what made the Master go mad.
A would-be universal conqueror, the Master wants to control the universe (in The Deadly Assassin his ambitions were becoming "the master of all matter", and in "The Sound of Drums" he acknowledges that he chose his own name).
His most distinctive ability is that of hypnotising people by fixing them with an intense stare, often accompanied by the phrase, "I am the Master, and you will obey me."
Some suspect that a character known as the War Chief in the episode "The War Games" is actually the Master in disguise.
The Master and the Doctor are shown to have similar levels of intelligence, and were classmates on Gallifrey.
This is mentioned several times in different stories (The Five Doctors, The Sea Devils and Terror of the Autons).
In the 2007 episode "Utopia", the Doctor calls the disguised Master a genius and shows an immense admiration for his intellect before discovering who he is.
Both the Doctor and the Master have been shown to be skilled hypnotists, although the Master's capacity to dominate – even by stare and voice alone – has been shown to be far more pronounced.
The Master is also known to always survive death with no explanation other than "I escaped."
In the original Doctor Who series, the Master's TARDISes have fully functioning chameleon circuits and have appeared as many things.
By the time of the new series, it is unclear whether any of the Master's TARDISes still exist.
In "Rise of the Cybermen", the Tenth Doctor claims that his TARDIS is the last one in existence although at the time of his saying this, he also thought he was the last Time Lord.
In "Utopia", the Master resorts to stealing the Doctor's TARDIS, with no explanation of how he travelled from the Time War to the end of the universe.
The Master has also been featured in spin-offs of the series, which are of unclear canonicity and may not take place in the same continuity.
The Master in these stories is, nevertheless, recognisably the same person.
One of the most important of these other appearances is David A. McIntee's "Master trilogy" of novels comprising The Dark Path and First Frontier in the Virgin Publishing lines and The Face of the Enemy for BBC Books, and the Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions, in which Geoffrey Beevers has once again played the Master.
Alex MacQueen has also played the Master in Big Finish audio dramas.
The Master returns in a new body and guise, that of a street preacher, in the previously mentioned Doctor Who Magazine (DWM) comic strip story The Fallen, although the Doctor does not recognise him.
The Master reveals himself a few stories later, in The Glorious Dead (DWM 287-296).
The Master had survived the events of the television movie by encountering a cosmic being named Esterath in the time vortex.
Esterath controls the Glory, the focal point of the Omniversal spectrum which underlies all existence.
The Master's scheme to take control of the Glory fails, and he is banished to parts unknown (see Kroton).
In Character Assassin (DWM 311), the Delgado Master visits the Land of Fiction and steals part of the technology behind it, wiping out several nineteenth century fictional villains as he goes.
He can also be seen in the following comic strips set during the Pertwee era:
"The Glen of Sleeping" by Gerry Haylock and Dick O'Neill (TV Action 107-111)
"Fogbound" by Frank Langford (Doctor Who Holiday Special 1973)
"The Time Thief" by Steve Livesey (Doctor Who Annual 1974)
"The Man in the Ion Mask" by Brian Williamson and Dan Abnett (Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1991)
A "Vote Saxon" sticker appears on a U.S. Mail Box, as does graffiti on a wall also saying "Vote Saxon" in "X-Factor" #28 Vol.
The Doctor Who role-playing game published by FASA in 1985 has two modules that give information about the Master.
The modules identify the Meddling Monk as an alias the Master has used in the past.
"The Feast of the Stone" - short story featuring the Shalka'' Master on the BBC website.
The Canon Keeper's Guide to Doctor Who — "The Master's Travels"  - a speculative chronology of the Master's appearances in television, novels and audio plays (scroll down)
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Dartmouth University was a university in New Hampshire which existed from 1817 to 1819.
It was the result of an attempt by the state legislature to change Dartmouth College, a private college, into a public university but it did not happen.
1819 disestablishments
19th-century establishments in New Hampshire
Disestablishments in New Hampshire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972), commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is an English musician.
He is the lead singer of Scottish band Franz Ferdinand.
Kapranos was born in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire to an English mother and Greek father.
Death from Above 1979 is a Toronto-based Canadian band with two members.
The members were Jesse F. Keeler on bass guitar, synths and backing vocals, and Sebastien Grainger on vocals and drums.
2011 establishments in Canada
Valentin Berlinsky (born Irkutsk, 19 January, 1925; died 15 December, 2008) was a Russian cellist.
He played with the world-famous Borodin Quartet from 1945 when it was founded, and was a member until he retired in 2007.
Valentin Berlinsky was born in Irkutsk, Siberia.
His father had learned the violin with the famous teacher Leopold Auer.
He had formed his own string quartet, the Berlinksy Quartet, who had played in many parts of the Soviet Union.
Valentin learned the violin from his father.
Soon he was sent to Moscow where he studied the cello and played with the Moscow Youth Orchestra.
He played in a student concert together with Mstislav Rostropovich in 1938.
For many years Berlinsky taught the cello at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow.
He did not often perform as soloist.
He preferred being a member of a chamber music group.
The Borodin Quartet
In 1945 four young players formed a string quartet called the Moscow Conservatoire Quartet.
Mstislav Rostropovich was the cellist, Rostislav Dubinsky and Nina Barshai played the violins and Rudolf Barshai played the viola.
However, after a couple of weeks Rostropovich found he was too busy, so he suggested that Berlinsky should take his place.
The four players that now formed the quartet signed an oath that they would be loyal and stay together as a group.
They signed the oath with their own blood.
Valentin often showed this piece of paper to people.
For 60 years he kept a careful record of all the concerts they played.
They called themselves the Borodin Quartet after the composer Alexander Borodin.
The four musicians first met Dmitri Shostakovich in 1946.
They became famous for playing his string quartets.
Shostakovich was to compose 15 string quartets.
The Borodin Quartet were the most famous string quartet in the Soviet Union, but it was difficult for them to get permission to play in other countries until the fall of the Soviet Union.
Valentin Berlinsky retired from the Borodin Quartet in September 2007.
His place was taken by his pupil, Vladimir Balshin, but Berlinsky still continued to help the quartet.
He died on 15 December 2008, in Moscow, after a long illness.
His daughter Lyudmila is a pianist.
Obituary to Valentin Berlinsky, The Daily Telegraph, 23 Dec 2008 p. 23
Steve Lamacq (born 16 October 1965) is a disc jockey for BBC radio stations.
He is known by his nicknames Lammo or "The Cat".
He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire and grew up in Essex.
Intern is the job title given to people who work in an organization that has an internship program.
It is similar to an apprenticeship but is the term more commonly used if the work takes place in office environments.
The work in an internship is expected to be part of the desired learning experience for the intern.
The specific requirements for being an intern vary widely.
Internship positions are posted online similarly to job postings but focus instead on engaging students in real-world projects before they have completed their studies.
Internships are usually temporary positions, often lasting between one school term and one year.
Interns are sometimes given longer-term job opportunities.
People who have been named or nicknamed The Master:
Edward Butowsky
Fictional characters called The Master:
Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
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The Symphonie fantastique is a symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz.
It is one of the most famous Romantic works for orchestra.
The official title of the piece is Episode de la Vie d’un Artiste (An Episode in the Life of the Artist), but it is always called by its subtitle Symphonie Fantastique which means Fantasy Symphony.
The “Fantasy” refers to the story that is described by them music. (
Fantasy Symphony is a better translation than Fantastic Symphony because fantastique is not like the modern meaning of the English word fantastic).
The symphony lasts about 45 minutes and is divided into 5 movements.
Berlioz himself wrote down the story that the music describes, just as Beethoven had done with his Sixth Symphony.
Berlioz’s work is about a young artist.
In the music the young artist is represented by a tune.
This tune is often heard during the symphony.
That is why it is called an “idée fixe”, which means a “fixed idea”, i.e. an idea that keeps coming again and again.
An idée fixe is what Wagner would have called a leitmotif (a tune which is always used to describe a particular person or thing in a piece of music).
The first performance took place at the Paris Conservatoire in December 1830.
Berlioz made several changes to the music between 1831 and 1845.
The instruments used
The symphony is an example of programme music because it describes something apart from the music.
In this case it describes a story.
This is what the composer wrote:
A young artist was deeply in love with a girl who did not love him.
He felt so desperately sad that he tried to poison himself with opium.
He did not take enough to kill him.
It just made him fall into a deep sleep.
In this sleep he imagined all sorts of things.
His beloved came to him in a dream.
She changes into a musical theme (the idée fixe) which he just cannot forget.
He imagines her love and his tender feelings for her.
He meets her at a ball.
He finds his beloved among the crowd.
In the country he hears two shepherds who call to one another on their pipes.
The trees sway gently in the wind.
The young artist starts to feel happier.
Then he sees his beloved again.
He starts to worry that she may not want him any more.
The shepherd music starts again, but it is only one of the shepherds playing.
Far away a thunderstorm is heard.
He dreams that he has killed his beloved in a fit of anger.
He is now being taken to the scaffold where he will have his head chopped off.
A march is played as he is taken away.
For a moment he thinks of his beloved again, then the axe falls and he is executed.
The artist is at the Witches’ Sabbath.
There are lots of ghosts and monsters around who have come to watch him being buried.
His beloved is heard, but her tune now sounds horrible.
She has come to the Sabbath.
She joins the witches and they dance while the funeral music is heard.
The first movement: Rêveries - Passions (Daydreams - Passions)
The first movement has a slow introduction.
The tune heard on the violins is already nearly like the idée fixe.
The idée fixe is heard in its full form when the music goes into the fast section.
It is played by the violins and solo flute.
The rhythm that the lower string instruments play underneath is very agitated.
The form of the movement is not much like the traditional sonata form.
Berlioz was more interested in the idée fixe which keeps haunting the young artist all the way through.
The second movement: Un bal (A ball)
The ball (i.e. a party with dancing) is represented in the music by a lively waltz.
The two harps make it sound very graceful.
Twice the waltz is interrupted by the idée fixe.
The third movement: Scène aux champs (Scene in the country)
The two shepherds who are playing to one another are represented by a cor anglais (sitting in the orchestra) and an oboe which is played offstage so that it sounds distant.
Then the main gentle countryside theme is heard on solo flute and violins.
The idée fixe returns in the middle of the movement.
The sound of distant thunder at the end of the movement is played by four timpani.
The fourth movement: Marche au supplice (March to the scaffold)
The movement starts with timpani rumbling and horns starting up the march theme.
Then the cellos and double basses start the march in its full form, soon taken over by the violins.
Just before he is executed there is a short repetition of the idée fixe on a solo clarinet, then the axe falls (a loud chord) and his head falls into the basket (one plucked note passed from the violins, through the violas, cellos and then double basses).
The fifth movement: Songe d'une nuit de sabbat (Dream of a witches' Sabbath)
The idée fixe has now become a "vulgar dance tune", it is played on the E-flat clarinet.