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The Diderot effect is a phenomenon from sociology, which was named after Denis Diderot, who first described it in an essay.
In the essay, Diderot talked about a robe he used to wear in the bathroom: The old robe was a little shabby, but useful.
When he was given a new robe, the new robe was more shiny, and nicer, but it did not fit well with the other clothes.
Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown: I was absolute master of my old dressing gown,” Diderot writes, “but I have become a slave to my new one … Beware of the contamination of sudden wealth.
The poor man may take his ease without thinking of appearances, but the rich man is always under a strain.
So, the Diderot effect describes that people often show a tendency to buy more goods after they bought one item.
It is said that they do this to restore the general perception they had about their belongings.
Game Freak, Inc. is a Japanese video game company that makes video games for Nintendo game consoles.
It is most well known for developing the Pokémon series of role-playing video games.
Game Freak was originally a gaming magazine created by Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in the 1980s.
On April 26, 1989, Tajiri and Sugimori started a video game company with the same name.
Official Game Freak website
She is known for her poem "Goblin Market", the "Remember" and her sonnets.
She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the British Isles: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set to music by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Harold Darke and by other composers.
Biography at poets.org
Thanet is the most northeastern part of Kent, South East England.
About 135,000 people live in Thanet.
It was originally an island and was created as a local council area on 1 April 1974.
It includes the towns of Broadstairs and Ramsgate and Margate, where its headquarters are.
Visit Thanet
A gyre is a large system of ocean currents moving in a circle.
Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effect.
Because the Earth is rotating, ocean currents in the northern hemisphere tend to move in a clockwise direction and currents in the southern hemisphere move in an anti-clockwise direction.
The Coriolis force acts most strongly on the wind, and the wind then creates a torque that tends to spin the ocean currents.
The Earth rotates from the west towards the east, and the Coriolis effect becomes more intense toward the poles.
Because of this, gyres form strong currents on the western side of oceans, so they are pushed against the eastern coast of continents.
The vorticity (the strength of the torque force) is balanced out by frictional surface currents, which normally act against the spin of the water.
However, in the middle of the ocean, the effects of friction are very weak.
The term gyre can be used to mean any type of vortex in the air or the sea, but it is most used in oceanography for the major ocean current systems.
Major gyres
Indian Ocean Gyre
North Atlantic Gyre
North Pacific Gyre
South Atlantic Gyre
South Pacific Gyre
Other gyres
Tropical gyres
Atlantic Equatorial Current System
Pacific Equatorial Current System
Indian Monsoon Gyres
Subtropical gyres
The centre of a subtropical gyre is a high pressure area, which the ocean moves around.
The high pressure in the centre is due to the westerly winds on the northern side of the gyre and easterly winds on the southern side of the gyre.
These cause frictional surface currents towards the latitude at the centre of the gyre.
Subpolar gyres
Subpolar gyres form at high latitudes (around 60°).
The ocean moves around a low pressure area.
Surface currents generally move outward from the centre of the system.
Cyclone and Anticyclone
Wind-driven surface currents: Gyres
Physical Geography - Surface and subsurface ocean currents
Striptease is a 1996 comedy-drama movie.
Striptease is based on a novel by the same name, which was released three years prior to the movie.
The stories in this movie are about an exotic dancer who gets involved in serious child custody matters and corrupt politics.
Demi Moore is exotic dancer Erin Grant, who was earlier a Federal Bureau of Investigation secretary.
Also in the movie is Burt Reynolds as Congressman David Dildeck and Rumer Willis (Moore's real-life daughter) as Erin's daughter Angela.
Striptease got negative reviews similar to Showgirls the previous year.
Unlike Striptease, however, Showgirls became a strong cult favorite within one decade after its release.
Goderich is a town in the Ontario, Canada.
It is the county seat of Huron County.
The town was founded by William Dunlop in 1827.
It is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich.
The town was officially incorporated in 1850.
The population of Goderich is 7,521 in 2011.
The area of the town is 7.91 square kilometers.
Goderich is located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, at the mouth of the Maitland River.
Queen Elizabeth II said that Goderich was "the prettiest town in Canada."
But no reigning monarch has ever visited the town.
Tourism is important to the local economy.
Tourists come for the sunsets over the lake.
Goderich contains many places that are listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP).
The Huron Historic Gaol is a National Historic Site.
It served as the prison of Huron County from its opening in 1842 until 1972.
The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in mines.
It was invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy.
It is a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen.
It was created for use in coal mines, where explosions happened in the presence of methane and other flammable gases.
Those gases, called firedamp or minedamp, did not ignite a shielded flame.
The wire mesh put flames out.
The lamp also warned the men of carbon dioxide or methane.
The flame would burn higher, and with a blue tinge.
Modern versions of the lamp are still used to test mine gases, but the light for working is now electric.
Davy, Humphry 1816.
On the fire-damp of coal mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 106: 1.
Substance abuse, or drug abuse, happens when a person uses a drug over and over again, in ways that hurt their health.
The person is using the drug to change their mood or to feel better, not for any healthy reason.
Sometimes when the person uses the drug for a long time, they will start to act differently.
Some of the drugs are illegal to have or use, or can have certain limits that the person does not follow.
Someone who thinks that they need a drug is called an addict.
Is it substance abuse?
Substance abuse can have different symptoms in different people. “
Drug abuse” is not used in the DSM or ICD.
In the DSM, the term “substance abuse” is used instead to mean the misuse of one of ten different types of drugs.
A person can also become dependent on drugs.
Repetitive use of a drug can cause dependence as well as tolerance.
Tolerance happens when it takes more of a drug to produce the same effect than a previous time.
The term “drug misuse” is sometimes used when the drug being used is a prescription medication that are classified as sedatives (medicines that make someone calm), anxiolytics ( make someone less worried or anxious), analgesics (medicines that reduce pain), or stimulants (medicines that give someone more energy).
Someone who abuses there drugs may have to illegally buy them from someone who gets them from doctor.
Not everyone agrees on the definition of substance abuse.
Different countries have different rules for what is a drug and what drugs are illegal.
People also do not agree about what is abuse.
In most Western countries, one glass of wine is acceptable, but drinking more than one bottle at once is abuse.
To some people, any drinking can be seen as abuse.
In the United States, any use of marijuana
What causes people to abuse substances?
In many cases, when a person is using drugs, their thinking and behaviors change.
Sometimes, they commit crimes while using drugs.
They may do things that are not safe, like drive a car while drunk.
When people abuse drugs over a longer time, their personalities often change as well.
The people who abuse drugs are often addicted.
Since many of these drugs are illegal, very often drug users have problems with the law.
There are two major ideas about why people abuse drugs.
Many people believe that both can be true for different cases or with different people, which is one reason why different treatments work better or worse for different people.
One idea about why people use drugs is because of their genes.
When a person's parents or grandparents have been addicted to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or even coffee, the same genes that made them become addicted could be passed down to any of their children.
When someone is born with the genes that increase addiction, it causes their brain and body to become dependent on drugs very quickly.
But even if a person's genes make it easier for them to become addicted to drugs, that person still need to try a drug first, before they can become addicted on it.
This idea also means that different people can have harder or easier time stopping drugs after they are already addicted.
The second major idea is that drug use is a habit that becomes harmful.
It is always very hard to stop bad habits, but in this idea, drugs are one of the strongest bad habits because drugs cause so many changes in the brain.
Each time a person uses drugs, the parts of the brain that think about drugs become stronger and stronger.
In this idea, if a person likes drugs, that person starts to plan their day around using drugs.
To stop a habit as strong as drug use, many other things about that person's life must also change.
This idea also means that, the longer a person takes drugs, the harder it is for them to stop taking drugs.
What kind of drugs are abused?
Taking illegal drugs (like heroin or cocaine)
Using legal medicines to feel good, not for what they are supposed to treat (for example, taking oxycodone to feel very good, not as a painkiller)
Taking too much of a drug on purpose (for example, taking more than a normal amount of oxycodone because it will make the euphoria from the drug even better)
Some of the most commonly abused illegal drugs are:
Cocaine, including crack cocaine
MDMA (also called Ecstasy or Molly)
Methamphetamine (also called meth), including crystal methamphetamine
Synthetic cannabinoids (a man-made drug that includes the main chemical in marijuana; also called K2 or Spice)
Legal drugs and medicines
Some of the most commonly abused legal drugs and medicines are:
Nicotine (the drug in cigarettes)
Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines that include dextrometorphan (DMX)
Prescription opioids (strong painkillers), like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone
Prescription sedatives (drugs that make people feel relaxed or sleepy), like barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and sleep medicines
Prescription stimulants (drugs that make people feel more awake and have more energy), like medicines used for ADHD
Substance abuse, depression, and suicide
People who abuse drugs have a high rate of suicide.
This is because of the changes in the brain caused by drugs, both when they are being used and the changes they cause over time.
Another cause is the loss of family and friends because of the drug abuse.
In the United States, about 30% of all people who perform suicide have abused alcohol at some point.
Treating substance abuse
Treatment of substance abuse can include both therapy and medicine.
Therapy for substance abuse helps people not use drugs when they feel they need to.
For children and young adults, both the child and the family may have therapy.
The child will learn how to not abuse, and the family will learn how to help the child.
The organization Alcoholics Anonymous helps people with alcohol abuse.
For some kinds of substance abuse, medicine can be used to help.
Some of these medicines, such as methadone, stop the drug from working in the brain.
Other medicines can cause people to feel ill if they use the substance that they abuse.
Some medicines, like bupropion, makes people stop wanting the drug so much.
Many substances can cause withdrawal.
Withdrawal is group of bad feelings that happen when someone stops taking a drug suddenly, if they were regularly taking that drug before.
For someone to have withdrawal, they must be dependent on the drug.
Different drugs cause different things to happen during withdrawal.
They can also cause different amounts of trouble for the person in withdrawal.
Withdrawal for some drugs, like heroin and other opiates, can be dangerous or deadly, and should be done with a doctor or nurse taking care of the person in withdrawal.
About 9% of Americans have a substance abuse issue.
Young people are the most likely to experiment with and abuse drugs.
Drug abuse affects about 5% of adolescents.
More men than women have substance abuse disorder, though women are more likely to have an issue with abusing prescription medication.
Children who have parents with substance abuse issues are more likely to have a substance abuse issue when they grow up.
Special populations
Certain groups of people are more likely to develop substance abuse issues.
One group is immigrants or other people who have left their home country.
They often have issues in their new country, and some use drugs as a way to feel better.
Another group that is at risk is homeless children.
They will use drugs to become closer to each other.
A third group that is at risk is musicians.
They may use stimulants to make themselves more active and happy.
Singers can also hurt themselves if they use drugs that are inhaled.
The first official definition for substance abuse was made in 1932 by the American Psychiatric Association.
This definition was only used for when the substance was illegal and not being used as medicine.
In 1966, the American Medical Association defined abuse as the drug being given by someone to themselves without a doctor.
The first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) had drug abuse as a symptom of other psychological issues.
In the third edition, substance abuse was made its own issue.
The DSM also has drug abuse as a different issue than drug dependence, which is defined as compulsive use of a drug.
Most countries have laws that make having or using certain drugs illegal.
The rules for these drugs can be different between countries or in different parts of the same country.
Many drugs that are illegal in several places are sold to make money for groups known as drug cartels.
Drug abuse can also cause issues in a country’s economy.
According to the European Union, about 2.5 billion dollars are lost each year because of people abusing drugs.
This loss comes from people not going to work or having to go to the hospital because of side effects of the drug.
In the United Kingdom, about 29 billion dollars a year are lost.
This number does not include the cost of police or other law enforcement.
In the United States, the cost was 181 billion dollars in 2002.
This number includes costs because of health issues, loss of work, law enforcement, and welfare programs.
Ella Marija Lani Yellich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known by her stage name Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter.
She was signed to Universal Music at the age of 13.
Lorde's first album, Pure Heroine, was released in September 2013.
It was followed by Melodrama in 2017.
Her first single, "Royals", was released on Republic on 8 March 2013.
It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, in Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand and number two in Australia.
It made her the first solo artist from New Zealand to have a number one in the US. "
Royals" also made her the youngest person (age 16) to have a US number one in 26 years.
A controversial article on Feministing by Veronica Bayetti Flores described the song 'deeply racist'.
Music and culture critic Ed Hightower has offered an appraisal of Lorde's song that rejects Flores' accusation.
The song has been covered by Pixie Lott, Neon Jungle, and Mutya Keisha Siobhan.
Her second single "Tennis Court" did not reach the Hot 100.
It was a number one in NZ in its first week of release.
It made her the first New Zealand artist to have four songs in the top 20 at once.
Her third single "Team" was leaked and then released on 13 September in the US.
It reached number 6 on the Hot 100 and number 3 in the NZ top 40.
It is one of the songs on Pure Heroine that Lorde wrote on her own.
She has released three other promo singles, "Bravado", "Buzzcut Season", and "Ribs". "
Million Dollar Bills", "Swingin' Party", and "The Love Club" have also charted.
Her first album Pure Heroine was released by Universal Music on 30 September 2013 in the US.
Virgin Records released it in the UK in October.
It reached number one in the iTunes chart in Canada, Australia, the US, and New Zealand.
The album was co-written and produced by Joel Little.
She released her first EP, Love Club, online for free in November 2012.
It debuted at number two in Australia and New Zealand and reached twenty-three on the US Billboard 200.
It contains 5 songs.
The US iTunes version contains "Swingin' Party" as track 2 instead of "Royals".
The NZ iTunes version has a bonus track, "Bravado" (Fffrrannno Remix).
Her cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears was in the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.
It reached number fourteen in the NZ chart.
In November 2013, she signed with Songs Music to have the rights to her songs.
This made her a millionaire.
Lorde writes most of her songs with Joe Little, so she owns 50% of the copyright to her songs.
Lorde released a new single on 13 December 2013, called "No Better".
It was later included on the extended edition of Pure Heroine.
In January 2014, the song "Team" had reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Lorde was nominated for four Grammy Awards in December 2013.
The nominations were Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.
She was the youngest person to ever be nominated for Record of the Year.
She performed "Royals" at the awards ceremony.
Lorde was born in Takapuna, Auckland.
She is a sex positive feminist.
In an interview with Huffington Post she said, "I've seen people compare me to just about every female slightly alt[ernative] female musician because people feel the need to put females with other females, which I guess I understand, but I think I'm different because my music is accessible, but it's also smart and those are two things that don't often go together musically."
New Zealand singer-songwriters
The Britons (also called Brythons) were the people who spoke a Celtic language known as Common Brittonic.
They lived in Great Britain during the Iron Age, Roman Britain and the Sub-Roman period following the Romans' departure from Britain.
Following the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, who occupied most what is now the country of England, some of the Britons migrated to Wales, Cornwall and southern Scotland, while others moved to Armorica and renamed it Brittany.
Those who remained were absorbed into Anglo-Saxon society.
The name of the Britons in the modern English language is borrowed in part from , and in part from the French language of the Middle Ages ().
During Roman Britain, the Latin word  and its plural, , took the place of the Romans' earlier word for a person from Britain, , and its plural, the .
The people of Roman Britain (the Romano-British population) named themselves  in Latin.
Other people also named the Britons this way:  the work of the Roman historian Procopius names them as  and in Ireland, the Britons were named the .
Some modern Celtic languages also use this form for Britain was well:  and .
The Anglo-Saxon historian Bede, writing in Latin, used the name , with the plural .
The "e" vowel in this spelling could be taken from the Anglo-Saxon language's word for the Britons: , also spelled Britt-, Bryt, Brytt-, Bret, and Brit.
The Anglo-Saxons probably took this name from the Romano-British.
The  was a word used in Britain from the 5th century.
Whether the Anglo-Saxons took the name Brett from the Latin name or from a British word of the same meaning is unknown.
The Anglo-Saxons must have started using the word Brett by the 6th century.
If they had copied the British word at a later time, the word would have had -th- instead of -t-, like the .
In that case, the Old English copy would have had -þ- or -ð- in the place of -tt-.
The name continued to be used in Middle English, with the spellings Bret, Brette, Brettis.
Middle English also used the forms Brut and Brutt-, with the spelling copied from the name of Brutus of Troy.
Mythology in the Middle Ages said that Britain was named after Brutus.
In Early Modern English, the forms Brett and Britt were used.
The spellings Bret and Brit were used in Scots.
The first Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford, John Rhys, was the first person to use the name "Brython" (from ) in academia as another English language word for the Britons.
He named the languages of the Britons "Brythonic", or the "Brythonic languages".
Rhys used these names to be clear about what he meant, because names like "British" can be ambiguous (with more than one meaning). "
Brythonic" and "Brythonic languages" are names that are no longer common.
The names "Brittonic" and "Brittonic languages" are now more common in linguistics (the study of languages).
Celtic tribes
From the Iron Age onward, Britain was divided among a variety of Celtic tribes.
When the Romans came, many of the tribes adopted Roman culture and the Latin language.
The Brigantes - Controlled what would later be much of Northern England.
The Carvetii - Located in the area of the Solway Plain just north of Hadrian's Wall.
The Corieltauvi - They lived in what is now the East Midlands.
The Cornovii - Lived in what is now the West Midlands.
The Parisii - Occupied what is now East Yorkshire.
The Atrebates - Occupied what is now West Sussex, parts of Hampshire and Surrey.
The Belgae - Were in and around the county of Hampshire.
The Cantiaci - Lived in and gave their name to the modern county of Kent
The Catuvellauni - Occupied what would later be Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
The Iceni - Were in area of what was later Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
The Regnenses - They occupied what would be East Sussex and Surrey.
The Trinovantes - Controlled Essex and parts of Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
The Deceangli - Their territory included north-east Wales.
The Demetae - Gave their name to Dyfed; also inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
The Dobunni - Their territory included Northern Somerset, Bristol, and Gloucestershire.
The Dumnonii - Occupied what would be Cornwall and Devon.
The Durotriges - Occupied the later area of Dorset and western Hampshire.
The Gangani - They occupied much of north-western Wales.
The Ordovices - They lived in northern Wales and Anglesey
The Silures - Their territory included modern Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorganshire.
The Kingdom of the Britons, BBC Scotland's History
Celtic Britons, BBC Wales History
Big Time Rush (BTR) is an American television series created by Scott Fellows.
It originally aired on Nickelodeon.
It stars the boy band of the same name, which includes Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos Pena Jr., and Logan Henderson.
The show centers on four hockey players from Minnesota who were selected to form a boy band in Los Angeles.
Aired on November 28, 2009, the series continued for four seasons.
It ended with an hour-long finale special called "Big Time Dreams".
Clonazepam is an anticonvulsant.
This means it can be used to stop seizures.
It is also used to lessen states of fear.
It is an anxiolytic.
It is a benzodiazepine.
Benzodiazepines are very addictive.
Clonazepam is used to treat certain forms of epilepsy.
It is also used to treat certain disorders of sleep, such as sleepwalking.
In certain cases it is used as an off-label drug in psychiatry.
It is also used for panic disorders.
Clonazepam works by increasing the activity of gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA).
This is a chemical that sends signals throughout a person’s nervous system.
If a person does not have enough GABA, their body may be in an excited state.
This may cause them to have panic attacks or seizures.
When a person takes this drug, they will have more GABA in their body.
This will help them have fewer panic attacks and seizures.
It is not recommended that you take clonazepam with an opioid medication since this combination can more easily lead to loss of consciousness, respiratory depression, and overdose death.
Similarly, drinking alcohol while taking the medication is also extremely dangerous and can result in accidental overdose.
Clonazepam side effects
Clonazepam can cause mild or serious side effects.
drowsiness
problems with walking and coordination
Tenant farming is when the person who works the farmland does not own the land themselves.
The farmer pays rent  to the landowner, either with cash or with a portion of the produce.
When the rent is a share of the crop, it is sharecropping.
Hope Springs is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama movie directed by David Frankel and written by Vanessa Taylor.
It stars Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Mimi Rogers, Jean Smart, and Steve Carell.
The movie was released on August 8, 2012.
It received generally positive reviews and the cast was praised for their performances.
It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and won a People's Choice Award.
A mockbuster (also called a knockbuster or a drafting opportunity) is a movie made to take advantage of the publicity of a similar major movie.
These types of movies are often made on a low budget.
They are made to be released direct-to-video at the same time that the original movie is released in theaters or on video.
Mockbusters are often made to make customers mistakenly buy the movie instead of the one that they wanted.
For example, someone may think that they are buying Transformers, but they are actually buying Transmorphers, a mockbuster that was released in 2007.
Because of this, a mockbuster will often use a title similar to the original movie.
Many mockbusters are made in a different country than the one that the original movie was made in.
There are many Turkish, Italian, German, French and Brazilian versions of American movies, as well as sequels that were not made by the people who made the original movie.
There are also television shows that are mockbusters, such as Nutri Ventures, a rip-off parody of the original Powerpuff Girls, Coconut Fred, a rip-off of SpongeBob SquarePants, and other television show rip-offs.
Animated movie mockbusters are Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale, a rip-off of Charlotte's Web; Ratatoing, a rip-off of Ratatouille); The Little Panda Fighter and Chop Kick Panda, rip-offs of Kung Fu Panda, and many more movie mockbusters.
The Mockbuster at TV Tropes
Ceol (also known as Ceola or Ceolric) was the King of the Gewisse, also called the King of Wessex.
He ruled from 591 to 597.
He was first an underking until 592 when he replaced his uncle Ceawlin of Wessex as king.
Ceol was the grandson of Cynric.
He was also the brother of Ceolwulf.
He was underking to his uncle Ceawlin, king of the Gewisse.
In 592 Ceawlin was driven out of power.
This was the result of losing in a battle at Woddesbeorg (or Wodnesbeorg).
The chronicle says there was a great slaughter, presumably this was among the Gewisse (West Saxons).
If the story in the chronicle is correct the older king Ceawlin was removed from his throne by his nephew, Ceol.
In 593 Ceawlin, along with a Cwichelm and a Crida (both otherwise unknown) died.
Ceol ruled until 577 when he was succeeded by his brother Ceolwulf.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not say when he died.
But he either died in 577 or shortly afterwards.
570s deaths
This is a list of characters in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Escalus (Prince) is the political ruler of Verona.
He is the cousin of MERCUTIO and PARIS
Count Paris is a nobleman of Verona and the cousin of PRINCE ESCALUS and MERCUTIO.
He is in love with JULIET and is CAPULET's choice for her to marry.
He is killed by ROMEO at the end of the play.
Lord Montague is a powerful nobleman of Verona and the head of the Montague family.
He is Romeo's father.
Lady Montague is Montague's wife and Romeo's mother.
Romeo Montague is the son of Lord and Lady Montague.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonard Whiting, Douglas Booth and Leslie Howard have played Romeo in movie adaptations of the play.
Benvolio is a member of House Montague and ROMEO's cousin.
Capulet is a powerful nobleman of Verona and the head of the Capulet family.
He is Juliet's father.
Lady Capulet is CAPULET's wife and JULIET's mother.
Juliet Capulet is barely a young adult when she meets and falls in love with a family enemy, Romeo Montague.
When Juliet's parents arrange a marriage for Juliet with Count Paris, she takes a potion that will make her appear to be dead.
Claire Danes, Norma Shearer, Hailee Steinfeld and Olivia Hussey have played Juliet in the movies.
Friar Lawrence is an old clergyman who secretly marries Romeo and Juliet.
Juliet's Nurse is about 28 years old.
She has a well known speech in which she recalls Juliet's babyhood.
Tybalt is a hot-headed young man always looking for a fight.
He is Juliet Capulet's cousin.
He kills Mercutio in a duel and is later killed by Romeo.
Basil Rathbone and Michael York have played Tybalt in the 1936 and 1968 movie adaptations.
Mercutio is a young man and friend to Romeo.
Balthasar is ROMEO's personal servant in House Montague.
Abraham is a servant in House Montague
Samson is a servant of House Capulet.
Gregory is a servant of House Capulet.
Peter is the NURSE's personal servant in House Capulet.
Apothacary is a pharmacist who sells Romeo the poison that he uses to kill himself.
Friar John is a a clergyman in the same group as FRIAR LAURENCE whom he uses to try and send a message to ROMEO.
Rosaline  is the gorgeous and aloof woman Romeo crushes on until he meets the love of his life, Juliet.
But, um, don't get excited, because we never see her, she has no speaking part, and she isn't even listed in the dramatis personae (the cast list).
So, why the heck are we talking about Rosaline in our "Character Analysis"?
Well, we may not hear directly from Rosaline (or even see her unless we watch, say, Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation of the play), but we do hear a lot about her from one of the play's major characters, Romeo.
capulet Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Friar John We know very little of Friar John's personality.
Certainly he is willing to help Friar Lawrence so we might say that he is obedient or kind.
He is caught up in a quarantine so we know that his inability to deliver the letter wasn't because of cowardice or bad intent.
All we can say for sure is that Friar John tries to help Friar Lawrence.
He has no idea what is in that letter.
We know that he does make the attempt but that is about all we know.
It is difficult to draw conclusions about Friar John's personality from our limited contact with him in the story.
Gravity is released in 2013 British-American space drama science fiction thriller movie.
It is a 3D movie.
It was co-written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
The movie stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts from a space shuttle destroyed by debris.
2010s American drama movies
The Million Second Quiz is an American television game show.
It aired on NBC from September 9 to September 19, 2013.
It follows a group of contestants who compete for up to $2 million in a game show that lasts for 1,000,000 seconds (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds).
NBC aired the show for one hour each day (except for Sunday the 15th, and the final episode was two hours), while the rest of the show aired on the Million Dollar Quiz internet application and NBC.com.
It is hosted by Ryan Seacrest.
The show takes place in a large hourglass-shaped structure in Midtown Manhattan near the Lincoln Tunnel.
Contestants play for 24 hours a day for 1,000,000 seconds, or around eleven and a half days.
At any given time, a contestant is sitting in the "Money Chair" and earning money, while defending his/her position in the chair in bouts against another contestant.
Contestants earn $10 a second they are in the chair, even when bouts are not being played and during commercial breaks.
Only the four contestants with the highest amount of money keep their winnings when the million seconds are up.
Each bout lasts for a set number of seconds.
All questions are multiple choice with four possible answers.
Contestants use keypads to lock in their answers.
The players cannot see each other's answers.
They have five seconds to do so when the question is asked.
Televised bouts
During the episodes that are seen on television, there are three bouts: the "Challenger" bout (300 seconds, or 5 minutes), the "Line Jumper" bout (300 seconds in the first episode, 400 seconds, or 6 minutes 40 seconds, from the second episode on), and the Winner's Defense" bout (400 seconds in the first through ninth episodes, 500 seconds, or 8 minutes 20 seconds, in the 10th episode).
Questions start at one point each.
Every 100 seconds, the value of the questions increase by one point.
At any time, a contestant may choose to "double" instead of answering the question.
If the contestant does so, the question's value is doubled, and the opponent has to either answer the question or "double back", which quadruples the point value and forces the person who the question was given to answer.
If a doubled or doubled-back contestant answers incorrectly or does not answer in five seconds, the opponent gets the points.
Contestants can choose to double as often as they want during a bout.
At the end of a bout, the contestant with the higher score wins and either stays in the "Money Chair" or replaces the current contestant in it.
If both contestants have the same number of points at the end of a bout, a question is asked, and the contestant who answers correctly first wins the bout.
If both contestants answer incorrectly, the contestant with the higher amount of money wins.
The "Challenger" bout has a contestant who has successfully gone through an on-site tryout process.
The "Line Jumper" bout has a contestant who has gotten a high enough score on the Million Second Quiz internet application, allowing them to skip the tryout and go on the show.
The four contestants with the most amount of money live in the "Winners' Row".
This is a living area that is set up next to the hourglass.
They are at risk of being replaced if another contestant gets a higher score than them.
During a "Winner's Defense" bout, the current "Power Player"  (the contestant who had the highest number of correct answers playing along in "Winners' Row" that day) chooses one of the four "Winners' Row" contestants, who can be him/herself, to play against the contestant who is currently in the "Money Chair".
The winner gets all of the loser's winnings in addition to their own winnings, while the loser is out of the game.
Non-televised bouts
Bouts that are not shown on television last for 500 seconds.
Every question is worth one point.
Contestants cannot double in these bouts.
Four bouts are played in an hour; with a five-minute pause after each of the first three.
The fourth bout is followed by an 11-minute break.
During this time, a contestant may eat, drink, or use the bathroom.
Contestants earn money during the five-minute pauses, but not during the 11-minute break.
After 1,000,000 seconds, the four contestants with the most amount of money keep all of the winnings they have earned.
They face in a series of three bouts, which are as follows:
The contestant with the fourth and third-most amount of money face off in a 400 second bout.
The contestant who won the first bout faces against the contestant with the second-most amount of money in a 400 second bout.
The contestant who won the second bout faces against the contestant with the most amount of money in a 500 second bout.
The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama movie.
The movie is about two families in New Canaan, Connecticut who are dealing with politics and serious social matters in November 1973.
These two families do that using adultery, alcohol and sexual experimenting.
Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood and Kevin Kline are in the cast.
The Ice Storm received very positive reviews from the critics.
Its performance at the box office, however was terrible: the movie only got back close to half its $18 million budget.
This movie was released in the United States in autumn 1997.
Screenplays by James Schamus
Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) was an English writer.
She was known for her books for children.
Some of her novels, such as The Railway Children, have been made into films.
Bio at spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Artemisia is a 1997 French and Italian erotic and biographical movie.
It is about Artemisia Gentileschi, a 17th-century Italian painter.
She is as talented as her father, who is also a painter.
At that time in Italy, women were not allowed to paint humans in the nude.
But Artemisia is very much determined.
The movie got very positive reviews.
The MPAA originally gave Artemisia an NC-17 rating.
On appeal, the rating was changed to an R-rating.
Movies directed by Agnès Merlet
A scale in both C major and A minor can be played on a piano or other keyboard instrument using only the white keys.
Geoffroi de Charny ( 1300 – 19 September 1356) was the Lord of Lirey, a French knight and a writer.
Sir Geoffroi was born of an important French family.
Throughout his life he fought many battles for France.
He fought in the Crusades and many times throughout the war with England.
He was always loyal to his King, Jean II, King of France and died at the Battle of Poitiers protecting him.
Throughout his lifetime he was well known and well respected by both the French and the English kings and nobles.
At Poitiers he was chosen to carry the Oriflamme into battle.
The Oriflamme was the Kings banner and this was a great honor given to a knight by the King.
He was also one of the Knights chosen to fight close to and protect the King.
De Charny was said to be a "true and perfect Knight".
Jean de Joinville was de Charny's grandfather's.
He was a close friend of King Louis IX and author of his biography.
In the same tradition, Sir Geoffroi wrote three books in his time.
His most famous book was "A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry".
In this book he shared his great skill and knowledge of combat.
The second book written by de Charny is entitled, "Requests (or Questions) for jousting tournaments and war".
It was written about 1352 to the Knights of the Order of the Star which Sir Geoffroi founded.
This book was written in the form of questions.
His third book was the book "Charny", describes the life of a knight and lists the qualities a good knight must possess.
Charny fought in Flanders and Tournay.
He was taken prisoner but was ransomed because the King considered him so important.
He fought in many major battles during the Hundred Years' War such as the battles of Calais, Crecy and Poitiers.
Sir John Chandos was a close friend and biographer of Edward, the Black Prince, the eldest son of King Edward III of England.
Chandos was a famous knight himself.
He was an educated man and wrote down the events of a great meeting of both sides before the Battle of Poitiers.
He wrote that at that meeting Sir Geoffroi tried to avoid a great bloodshed by proposing a smaller battle where 100 knights on each side would do battle with each other and the outcome would decide the battle.
Chandos writes that Charny was trying to find an honorable solution to avoid a great many more deaths.
The Black Prince refused that offer.
Charny’s predictions turned out to be true and indeed a great many nobles on both sides lost their life that day, including de Charny himself.
Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man (represented in the Pilgrim Badge shown here) existed in the small town of Lirey in France around the years 1353 to 1357 in the possession of Geoffroi de Charny.
The cloth itself is controversial.
Some believe it is a fake, while others believe the shroud to be the true burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
1300 births
A mixtape (or mixed-tape) is any compilation of songs recorded onto a cassette tape or other storage medium.
A mixtape usually shows the kind of music that the person who made it likes to listen to.
It can range from a randomly selected list of favourite songs, to a conceptual mix of songs of the same genre or mood.
Making mixtapes may be considered an art form.
Caius or Gaius was a lawyer who lived in the 2nd century.
Very little is known about his life, but he left a scholarly work on Roman law, called Institutiones.
The Law of Citations, introduced in the year 426, made him one of the authorities of Roman law, together with Ulpian, Paulus, Papianus and Modestinus.
Pascal's simplex is a mathematical term.
A simplex gives a generalisation of a triangle.
Pascal's simplex gives the generalisation of Pascal's triangle.
Corey Michael Locke (born May 8, 1984) is a Canadian ice hockey player.
He has played for the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and the Ottawa Senators.
He also played for Turku (Finland).
Corey Locke at Hockey-Reference
A harrow is a farm tool.
It is an implement for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil.
In this way it is different from a plow, which cuts deeper into the soil.
A plow also lifts up the soil and tips it over, but a harrow works mostly by cutting into the soil and breaking it up.
Harrowing is often carried out on fields to follow the rough surface left by plowing.
The purpose of this harrowing is generally to break up clods (lumps of soil) and to provide a finer finish, a good tilth or soil structure that is good for planting seeds.
It may also be used to remove weeds and to cover up seed after sowing.
There are four general types of harrows: disc harrow, tine harrow, chain harrow and chain disk harrows.
Harrows were originally pulled by draft animals, such as horses, mules, or oxen, or in some times and places by people.
In modern practice they are almost always pulled by tractors, either from a drawbar or mounted on the three-point hitch.
Harrows may be of several types and weights, depending on their purpose.
They almost always consist of a rigid frame that holds discs, teeth, linked chains, or other means of moving soil—but tine and chain harrows are often only supported by a bar at the front of the set.
Disc harrows are typically used for heavy work, such as following plowing to break up the sod.
The discs have notched edges and are slightly curved to help them catch the soil and rotate.
This helps mix the soil, instead of leaving ridges and trails behind.
In addition, there are various types of power harrow, in which the cultivators are power-driven from the tractor rather than working by being dragged.
Giant disc harrows can be used in place of a plow in rough areas with tree stumps and rocks.
Chain harrows are often used for lighter work such as levelling the tilth or covering seed.
They can also be used on pastures to spread out manure, or for smoothing a playing field, such as a baseball infield.
Tine harrows are used to prepare the field before planting, to remove small weeds in growing crops and to loosen the soil between rows.
This lets water soak into the ground easier.
A tine is a metal bar pointing to the ground.
Unlike a disc, it does not rotate.
The chain and disk rotate to stay clean while breaking up the top surface to about 1 inch (3 cm) deep.
A smooth seedbed is prepared for planting with one pass.
Depending on the type of soil and the crop being planted, one or more types of harrows may be used to get the soil ready for planting.
If the soil is very light so that it might easily be wind-blown, a roller can be used at the end to settle it.
A drag is a name for a heavy harrow, often a chain type.
Bell Laboratories (or Bell Labs) is part of the French company Alcatel-Lucent which in turn is owned by Nokia.
It is a research subsidiary of the company, and is based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States.
AT&T created Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925.
It works on creating new things.
Bell Labs in the 20th century did much scientific research.
Work done there has won seven Nobel Prizes.
Ceawlin (also spelled Ceaulin and Caelin) († 593) was the King of the Gewisse, also called the King of Wessex.
He ruled from 560 to 592.
He was the second king to be overlord over all the English south of the River Humber.
War leader and king
Ceawlin was the son of Cynric.
He is mentioned as fighting alongside his father against the Bretons at Branbury in 556.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Ceawlin became king of the West Saxons in 560.
Bede states Ceawlin was the second king to rule the southern English as overlord.
The informal term for a king that ruled over other kings was bretwalda.
The term comes from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and means 'Britain ruler'.
These overkings typically received tribute from other Anglo-Saxon kings in the south.
In 577 Ceawlin, with his son Cuthwine, led the Gewisse against the Britons at 'Deorham' (Dyrham in Gloucestershire).
They reportedly killed three kings, Coinmail, Condidan, and Farinmail.
Ceawlin and Cuthwine captured Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath.
West Saxons then colonized the lower Severn valley.
The importance of this victory was that it gave the West Saxons access to the western sea.
This also divided the Britons so they could no longer communicate by land.
But it was territory later Wessex kings would not be able to hold.
In 584 Ceawlin defeated the Britons at Fethanlea (Oxfordshire) but his ally Cutha was killed there.
About 592 Ceawlin fought a battle at Woddesbeorg (or Wodnesbeorg) also called  Adam's Grave, east of Devizes in Wiltshire.
There was a 'great slaughter' but nothing was said as to who he fought; Britons or Anglo-Saxons.
But it was over this loss that Ceawlin was driven out of power.
His nephew Ceol replaced him as king in 592.
Ceawlin died in 593.
At the end of his reign, the Gewisse or West Saxons held the lands of Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and much of Gloucestershire.
590s deaths
Meet the Press is an American television news/interview show that airs on NBC.
It began on November 6, 1947.
It is the longest-running television show in American television history.
The show's format has a long one-on-one interview with a person who works in politics.
There may also be a discussion with either members of Congress or political commentators.
Meet the Press began on radio in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press.
It was a show that was used to promote The American Mercury, an American magazine that was issued from 1924 to 1981.
The show moved to television with a shorter title of just Meet the Press on November 6, 1947.
Over the years, the show has had eleven hosts called "moderators".
The first moderator was Martha Rountree.
The current moderator is David Gregory, who has hosted the show since December 2008.
Tim Russert is the show's longest-lasting moderator.
He hosted from 1991 to his death on June 13, 2008.
This is a list of moderators who have hosted Meet the Press.
Meet the Press official website
60th anniversary background information
The MultiMediaCard (MMC) is a flash memory card standard.
It was developed by SanDisk and Siemens AG for use in the consumer market.
The card is about the size of a postage stamp: 24 mm × 32 mm × 1.4 mm.
Gaius, sometimes spelled Caius, was a common given name in Latin.
When written, it is often abbreviated C.; the abbreviation goes back to before the Roman alphabet distinguished between the letters C and G.
Caligula, the Roman emperor
Gaius Caesar, adopted son of emperor Augustus
Gaius (jurist),a lawyer of the 2nd century; one of the authories on Roman law
Gaius the Platonist, a 2nd century philosopher
Pope Caius, a bishop of Rome in the 3rd century
Gaius Cassius Longinus, senator
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, historian
Gaius Terentius Varro, senator; commander in the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War
Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator
Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Iulius Vindex
Amanda Lee Modano (earlier last name: Williford, also called Willa Ford; born January 22, 1981, Florida) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality.
She released her very first studio record, Willa was Were, in July 2001.