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Who sang the Bond theme form From Russia With Love?

MATT MONRO ~ From Russia With Love ~ - YouTube MATT MONRO ~ From Russia With Love ~ Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 20, 2013 The Matt Monro theme song from the James Bond movie, "FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE", Category

Which company was responsible for the oil spill in New York harbor in 1990?

Miller Environmental Group Inc - Timeline - Miller Environmental Group Inc James Miller Sr. founds what became Miller Environmental Group, Inc. Port Jefferson Spill After a day of fishing Jim Miller Sr. and crew were making their way back to the dock in Port Jefferson when they were called upon to assist in the cleanup of an oil spill from a local petroleum terminal in Port Jefferson Harbor and MEG was born. 1976 Slick of ’76 Slick of ’76 – Oil Spill St. Lawrence Seaway – MEG responds with the Landing Craft Barbara Miller to assist equipment, personnel, and oil spill debris/waste movement between the impacted islands. Image credit to NCPR. 1977 Ethel H In February of 1977, at approximately 1900, the Ethel H (II) ran aground on Con Hook Rock in the Hudson River near West Point, New York, while being towed by a tug. The forward section of the barge began taking on water. The vessel was lightered and prevented from sinking, however it had begun to spill oil that became trapped in ice. The cleanup lasted until April on the Hudson River. 1977 MEG moves to Hagerman and purchases South Bay Boatworks on the Patchogue River. 1978 Mt. Sinai Harbor Oil Spill The Mt. Sinai Harbor Oil spill was described as the largest oil spill during that times in Long Island. 1979 Seaspeed Arabia Seaspeed Arabia grounded in the Kill Van Kull off Bayonne, New Jersey. Two port fuel tanks were ruptured and approximately 3,000 barrels of combined No. 2 diesel fuel and No. 6 heavy fuel oil spilled into the New York Upper Harbor. 1979 Seaspeed Arabia Seaspeed Arabia grounded in the Kill Van Kull off Bayonne, New Jersey. Two port fuel tanks were ruptured and approximately 3,000 barrels of combined No. 2 diesel fuel and No. 6 heavy fuel oil spilled into the New York Upper Harbor. 1985 Island Park Spill LILCO Island Park Spill - In February of 1985 over 500,000 gallons of #2 Oil spilled in Island Park, NY. High winds of up to 90 mph whip the oil containment boom out of the water. 1989 Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Photo credit to USCG 1990 BT Nautilus Oil Spill The 811ft BT Nautilus ran aground and spilled 260,000 gallons of thick No. 6 oil in the Kill van Kull waterway near Staten Island, NY. 1991 1992 OPA 90 Passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 improving on the previous legislation known as the Clean Water Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. NRC Formation of National Response Corporation 1993 Response to Tampa Collision. Photo credit USCG 1993 Response to San Jacinto River Floods 1994 Response to Puerto Rico Barge Grounding 1995 Response to Eagle Point Spill in Westville, NJ 1996 Response to TWA Flight 800 1996

In which country was Arnold Schwarzenegger born?

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Biography - IMDb Arnold Schwarzenegger Biography Showing all 733 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (9) | Trivia  (146) | Personal Quotes  (550) | Salary  (22) Overview (4) 6' 2" (1.88 m) Mini Bio (1) With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and one day be the Governor of California!? The amazing story of megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger is a true "rags to riches" tale of a penniless immigrant making it in the land of opportunity, the United States of America. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947, in the town of Thal, Styria, Austria, to Aurelia (Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger, the local police chief. From a young age, he took a keen interest in physical fitness and bodybuilding, going on to compete in several minor contests in Europe. However, it was when he emigrated to the United States in 1968 at the tender age of 21 that his star began to rise. Up until the early 1970s, bodybuilding had been viewed as a rather oddball sport, or even a mis-understood "freak show" by the general public, however two entrepreneurial Canadian brothers Ben Weider and Joe Weider set about broadening the appeal of "pumping iron" and getting the sport respect, and what better poster boy could they have to lead the charge, then the incredible "Austrian Oak", Arnold Schwarzenegger. Over roughly the next decade, beginning in 1970, Schwarzenegger dominated the sport of competitive bodybuilding winning five Mr. Universe titles and seven Mr. Olympia titles and, with it, he made himself a major sports icon, he generated a new international audience for bodybuilding, gym memberships worldwide swelled by the tens of thousands and the Weider sports business empire flourished beyond belief and reached out to all corners of the globe. However, Schwarzenegger's horizons were bigger than just the landscape of bodybuilding and he debuted on screen as "Arnold Strong" in the low budget Hercules in New York (1970), then director Bob Rafelson cast Arnold in Stay Hungry (1976) alongside Jeff Bridges and Sally Field , for which Arnold won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture". The mesmerizing Pumping Iron (1977) covering the 1975 Mr Olympia contest in South Africa has since gone on to become one of the key sports documentaries of the 20th century, plus Arnold landed other acting roles in the comedy The Villain (1979) opposite Kirk Douglas , and he portrayed Mickey Hargitay in the well- received TV movie The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980). What Arnold really needed was a super hero / warrior style role in a lavish production that utilized his chiseled physique, and gave him room to show off his growing acting talents and quirky humor. Conan the Barbarian (1982) was just that role. Inspired by the Robert E. Howard short stories of the "Hyborean Age" and directed by gung ho director John Milius , and with a largely unknown cast, save Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones , "Conan" was a smash hit worldwide and an inferior, although still enjoyable sequel titled Conan the Destroyer (1984) quickly followed. If "Conan" was the kick start to Arnold's movie career, then his next role was to put the pedal to the floor and accelerate his star status into overdrive. Director James Cameron had until that time only previously directed one earlier feature film titled Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981), which stank of rotten fish from start to finish. However, Cameron had penned a fast paced, science fiction themed film script that called for an actor to play an unstoppable, ruthless predator - The Terminator (1984). Made on a relatively modest budget, the high voltage action / science fiction thriller The Terminator (1984) was incredibly successful worldwide, and began one of the most profitable film franchises in history. Th

Who had an 80s No 1 with Don't You Want Me?

The Human League - Don't You Want Me - YouTube The Human League - Don't You Want Me Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Feb 27, 2009 Music video by The Human League performing Don't You Want Me (2003 Digital Remaster). Category

Which star of Hannah And Her Sisters has a child called Free?

Hannah and Her Sisters Movie Review (1986) | Roger Ebert Woody Allen 's "Hannah and Her Sisters," the best movie he has ever made, is organized like an episodic novel, with acute little self-contained vignettes adding up to the big picture. Advertisement Each section begins with a title or quotation on the screen, white against black, making the movie feel like a stately progression through the lives of its characters. Then the structure is exploded, time and again, by the energy and the passion of those characters: an accountant in love with his wife's sister, a TV executive who fears he is going to die, a woman whose cocaine habit has made her life a tightrope of fear, an artist who pretends to be strong but depends pitifully on his girlfriend. By the end of the movie, the section titles and quotations have made an ironic point: We try to organize our lives according to what we have read and learned and believed in, but our plans are lost in a tumult of emotion. The movie spans two years in the lives of its large cast of characters - New Yorkers who labor in Manhattan's two sexiest industries, art and money. It begins and ends at family Thanksgiving dinners, with the dinner in the middle of the film acting as a turning point for several lives. Advertisement It is hard to say who the most important characters are, but my memory keeps returning to Elliot, the accountant played by Michael Caine , and Lee, the artist's girlfriend, played by Barbara Hershey . Elliot is married to Hannah ( Mia Farrow ), but has been blind-sided with a sudden passion for Lee. She lives in a loft with the tortured artist Frederick (Max von Sydow), who treats her like his child or his student. He is so isolated from ordinary human contact that she is actually his last remaining link with reality. Lee and Hannah have a third sister, Holly ( Dianne Wiest ). They form parts of a whole. Hannah is the competent, nurturing one. Lee is the emotional, sensuous earth mother. Holly is a bundle of tics and insecurities. Advertisement When they meet for lunch and the camera circles them curiously, we sense that in some ways the movie knows them better than they will ever know themselves. And to talk about the movie that way is to suggest the presence of the most important two characters in the movie, whom I will describe as Woody Allen and Mickey. Mickey is the character played by Allen; he is a neurotic TV executive who lives in constant fear of death or disease. He was married to Hannah at one time and fathered her twin boys (after yeoman efforts). Even after Hannah's marriage to Elliot, Mickey remains a member of the family, circling its security with a winsome yearning to belong. The family itself centers on the three women's parents, played by Maureen O'Sullivan and Lloyd Nolan as an aging show-business couple who have spent decades in loving warfare over his cheating and her drinking and their mutual career decisions. Advertisement If Mickey is the character played by Woody Allen in the movie, Allen also provides another, second character in a more subtle way. The entire movie is told through his eyes and his sensibility; not Mickey's, but Allen's. From his earlier movies, especially " Annie Hall " and " Manhattan ," we have learned to recognize the tone of voice, the style of approach. Allen approaches his material as a very bright, ironic, fussy, fearful outsider; his constant complaint is that it's all very well for these people to engage in their lives and plans and adulteries, because they do not share his problem, which is that he sees through everything, and what he sees on the other side of everything is certain death and disappointment. Allen's writing and directing style is so strong and assured in this film that the actual filmmaking itself becomes a narrative voice, just as we sense Henry James behind all of his novels, or William Faulkner or Iris Murdoch behind theirs. Advertisement The movie is not a comedy, but it contains big laughs, and it is not a tragedy, although it could be if we thought about it long enough. It suggests that mod

Who had 70s hits with Have You Seen Her and Oh Girl?

The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" - YouTube The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 10, 2009 The Chi-lites "Have you seen her" original song Category

In which decade of the 20th century was Father's Day first celebrated?

Father’s Day - Holidays - HISTORY.com Father’s Day A+E Networks Introduction On June 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States. Google Mother’s Day: Inspiration for Father’s Day The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers. In 1870, the activist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation” calling on a “general congress of women” to “promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, [and] the great and general interests of peace.” Did You Know? There are more than 70 million fathers in the United States. However, Mother’s Day did not become a commercial holiday until 1908, when–inspired by Jarvis’s daughter Anna, who wanted to honor her own mother by making Mother’s Day a national holiday–the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia sponsored a service dedicated to mothers in its auditorium. Thanks in large part to this association with retailers, who saw great potential for profit in the holiday, Mother’s Day caught on right away. In 1909, 45 states observed the day, and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution that made the second Sunday in May a holiday in honor of “that tender, gentle army, the mothers of America.” Origins of Father’s Day The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm–perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products–often paid for by the father himself.” Father’s Day: Controversy and Commercialism During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.” Paradoxically, however, the Depression derailed this effort to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards. When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and su

"What was the name of the ""girl with kaleidoscope eyes"" in a Beatles song?"

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS LYRICS - THE BEATLES Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, And she’s gone. Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Ah... Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain, Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers That grow so incredible high. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, Waiting to take you away. Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, And you’re gone. Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Ah... Picture yourself on a train in a station, With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties. Suddenly, someone is there at the turnstile: The girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Ah... Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Ah... Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Lucy in the sky with diamonds! Thanks to Emylia Hawke for submitting Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lyrics.

Will Rogers airport was built in which US state?

Book Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Hotels.com Love the breakfast and cocktail hour Dec 17, 2016Genuine Hotels.com guest review Doyle, us3 night family trip Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City Outstanding5.0 / 5 Good place to stay when driving through the area. Check in was quick and the hotel was clean and bright. There is not much around there but the guest clerk suggested some restaurants not too far away. Nov 18, 2016Genuine Hotels.com guest review A Traveler, us1 night romance trip Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City Outstanding5.0 / 5 A must stay in Oklahoma. What a great staff and facility. Very welcoming for my spouse and I. Your having a pet friendly hotel made our visit perfect. Nov 24, 2016Genuine Hotels.com guest review A Traveler, us1 night family trip Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City Good3.0 / 5 Everything was great except the room had a smell to it, like sewer or urine. Once we were in the room for a while it wasn't too bad, just when entering it had that smell. We didn't ask to be moved because we were close to our kids room so we just put up with it. Nov 19, 2016Genuine Hotels.com guest review A Traveler, us1 night family trip Embassy Suites Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City Poor1.0 / 5 We checked into our room,both beds had a bug in each of them. We told the front desk and we checked out,we were lot there less than 30 minutes.We have stayed In Embassy Suites several times,they have always been our favorite place to stay Until this time. James& Denise Husky Oct 28, 2016Genuine Hotels.com guest review A Traveler, us1 night romance trip

What writer was expelled from West Point for showing up for a public parade wearing only a white belt and gloves?

use belt in a sentence, how to spell belt, What is the meaning and spelling of? Make example sentences for English words and Examples of Usage Example Sentences for "belt" Author Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point Military Academy for showing up for a public parade wearing only a white belt and gloves. He was given five lashes of the headmaster's leather belt as punishment. The little boy held onto his father's belt loop as they walked through the store. My belt is too loose, I'm afraid my pants are going to fall down. Writer Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point Military Academy for showing up for a public parade wearing only a white belt and gloves. Wearing a seat belt significantly reduces your chance of serious injury or death in a car crash. A plumber's tool belt weighs about 10 kilograms when all his wrenches and everything are on it. Whenever I drive, I fasten my seat belt to protect myself. He would still be alive if he had worn his seat belt during the car crash. It's the law always buckle your safety belt in cars and airplanes. Since I lost a little weight, my belt got loose. The red belt sets off her black dress. The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like our one. Suddenly the plane begins to rock and the seat belt signs come on. She is wearing a leather belt around her waist. Only first 15 results shown. The Manila selfie museum encouraging visitors to take pictures with art Have you ever liked a piece of art so much you feel like you’re part of it? Well, a museum in the Philippines is helping people do just that. Art in Island, a museum in Manila, created by a group of Korean artists, features over a hundred unique three dimensional paintings that encourage people to pose in front of them. Each artwork is created in such a way that when... Nazi hideout in Argentina Was this a hideout for German Nazi officers? Deep in Argentina’s northern jungle, archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what may have originally been a Nazi hiding place. “It’s a defendable site, a protected site, an inaccessible site, where you can live peacefully in hiding. We believe we’ve found a refuge for the Nazi hierarchy.”Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires... Family lives with lions When most people tell you they have a couple of cats at home, these probably aren't the type of cat you’d expect, but for one family in Gaza, these lion cubs are their household pets. Lioness Mona and Alex, who’s a male, were born in the battle-torn Gaza Strip to parents that were smuggled through a ... Read More Window cleaners have an accident A terrifying ordeal for two window cleaners in China, as the platform they were working on began swinging violently and smashing into the building. The incident, which took place outside the 91st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, lasted for 15 minutes with their cradle slamming into a wall at one point, sending glass flying into the building and down to the ground.

"What couple live next door to Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead in ""Blondie""?"

Blondie (Comic Strip) - TV Tropes WMG One of the longest-running (from September 8, 1930) and most popular Newspaper Comics of all time, and still fairly funny even after all this time, Blondie stars Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard salaryman with a strange haircut, one button on his shirt, and a love of monstrous sandwiches. He is Happily Married to Blondie , who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. Their children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, who resembles her mother. The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. Other recurring characters are Mean Boss J.C. Dithers, Mouthy Kid Elmo, neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, mailman Mr. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers, and the chef at the local diner. Pretty much a Slice of Life comic at this point, the characters have been stuck at the same age since the early 1950s . Dagwood was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J.C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. 80 years have severely eroded the original Fish out of Water aspect of his character. Blondie's creator, Murat "Chic" Young, continued to write and draw the strip until his death in 1973, after which his son Dean took over in collaboration with a succession of artists (currently John Marshall). Derivative works include a series of comedy films (and long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, two single-season sitcoms (produced in 1957 and 1968), and two animated TV specials in the late 80s (from Marvel Productions, who had worked with King Features earlier on Defenders of the Earth ). Not to be confused with the band . This comic provides examples of: Adorkable : Dagwood is this to some extent. Until recent years this focused on his clumsiness, but now centers on his social awkwardness.

Who was the Lone Ranger's great grand-nephew?

Masked Men: A Chronology of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet Masked Men: A Chronology of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet   by Mark Ellis, Matthew Baugh, and Win Eckert   Mark Ellis writes: Writing a coherent chronology for the Lone Ranger was a difficult task for a variety of reasons. The Masked Man has appeared in so many different mediums with attendant revisions and embellishments regarding his origin it was almost impossible to reconcile and meld them all into a single whole. To simplify matters, I restricted the chronology to visual media--films, the three TV series and books. Even that decision isn't satisfactory, since I didn't have access to the 8 issues of the Lone Ranger pulp magazine, the Big Little Books, or the many years worth of newspaper strips and comic book stories. Fortunately, I did have a complete set of the Lone Ranger novels published between 1936-57 With only a couple of exceptions, the long-running radio series isn't included because I've heard very few of its 2,596 episodes. It went off the air the year I was born and they weren't regularly re-run like the TV show. Also, since so many of the TV episodes were adapted from the radio segments, to try and include them seemed like a duplication of effort. I used 1981's feature film, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, as the basic foundation for information about his early years. Despite its many flaws, this film was remarkably faithful to most of the elements in the mythos, including references to the Ranger's nephew, Dan, Jr. This is not a perfect chronology and I prefer to view it as a work in progress. I welcome anyone to add to it. Win Eckert writes: With respect to the Green Hornet information, I have heard very few of the original radio episodes. This chronology certainly encompasses those adventures, but they are not listed individually. The same goes for the Green Hornet comics from the '40s, of which I have only a few. This timeline is based on NOW Comics' attempt to resolve the different versions of the Hornet into a generational continuity, which I felt was a thoroughly enjoyable and admirable effort. It also includes the 1940s serials, the 1960s television series, novels, Big Little Books which I have, and Whitman Books. As Mark said, suggestions for additions are welcome. Legend: R = The Lone Ranger radio episodes TLR-TV= The Lone Ranger television series N = Novel TLR-A = The first Lone Ranger animated series TNALR-A = The second Lone Ranger animated series, The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger TLR-S = The first Lone Ranger serial, The Lone Ranger TLRRA-S = The second Lone Ranger serial, The Lone Ranger Rides Again C = It Crawls! = Topps Comics' Lone Ranger & Tonto mini-series LOTLR = The Legend of the Lone Ranger movie FF = The two Lone Ranger feature films, The Lone Ranger and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold 1842 Dan Reid is born on a homestead near Del Rio, Texas. Sept. 14, 1850 Tonto is born. 1860 John saves Tonto's life from a band of outlaw raiders. The same raiders go on to kill his parents and burn their ranch. John is adopted into the Potawatomai tribe as Tonto's blood brother. Tonto gives John an amulet to symbolize their friendship and bestows upon him the name, "Kemo Sabe," which means trusted friend (in some versions, it means trusty scout). Later that year, Dan comes searching for his younger brother and sends him to Detroit to live with their Aunt Martha (LOTLR). Note: The 1854 date provided in the film is in error. 1861 The American Civil War begins. John is too young to participate, but Dan probably does. It is not known what side he fought on, but it is during or shortly after the war that he meets a fine woman from Richmond, Virginia named Linda. 1863 The battle of Chattanooga takes place on Nov. 23-25. The Confederates' failure to take the city puts an end to their hopes of occupying Tennessee

"Psychologist William Moulton Marston, inventor of the polygraph, or lie detector, also created a famous comic book heroine,. Who was she?"""

DiSC Profile - William Moulton Marston: developer of the DISC Model Theory, Lie Detector, and Wonder Woman | DiscProfile.com Born: May 9, 1893 in Cliftondale, MA Died: May 2, 1947 in Rye, NY, from cancer Wife: Elizabeth Holloway (m. 1915, two children) Polyamorous partner: Olive Byrne (former student, two children) Education: BA from Harvard University (1915), LLB from Harvard Law School (1918), PhD in psychology from Harvard University (1921), teacher at American University Comic Book Hall of Fame induction: 2006 The Lie Detector - Marston's earliest professional years Having discovered a correspondence between blood pressure and lying, he built a device to measure changes in a person's blood pressure while the subject was being questioned. Marston formally published his early polygraph findings in 1917 on the lie detection invention he first constructed in 1915. During the 1920s and 30s Marston was an active lecturer and consulted with government groups. Unlike many psychologists of the time, he was more interested in the behavior of the general population of people rather than abnormal psychology. He gained the attention of the federal government for his research. He also sought the attention of the courts and the public by publishing widely and seeking publicity. Following the Lindbergh kidnapping in the 1930s, Marston offered his services to the Lindbergh family. Psychology, Emotions and Behavior – Marston's DISC model In the early 20s Marston's work continued to be significant in the courts and legal system; however, it evolved in 1924 when he first studied the concepts of will and a person's sense of power and their effect on personality and human behavior. His work in consciousness, colors, primary emotions and bodily symptoms also contributed greatly to the field of psychology. The picture to the right shows Marston's Emotions of Normal People, the 1928 book which formally presenting his findings. He published a second book, Integrative Psychology, in 1931. DISC came, by design, from Marston's search for measurements of the energy of behavior and consciousness. Marston did not develop an assessment or test from his model, although others later did. He did, however, apply his model and theory in the real world when he consulted with Universal Studios in 1930 to help them transition from melodramatic silent pictures to movies with audio and the need for more natural gestures and facial expression by actors. Links:     Emotions of Normal People, Google books Writing for the public - Entertainment and self-help books Venus With Us: A Tale of the Caesar, a historical novel was published in 1932. It was republished in 1953 as The Private Life of Julius Caesar after Marston's death to capitalize on the release of a film by Universal with the same name. Three other books followed on topics of popularity, courage, attitudes and determination. They were mass-marketed to the public in the emerging self-help industry. Ever a devotee of entertainment, he even wrote a biography, F.F. Proctor, Vaudeville Pioneer, in 1943 in the midst of his greatest contribution to entertainment, Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman - William Moulton Marston as Charles Moulton Marston was schooled in the Greek and Roman classics as a young man. He was also intimately and personally involved with the earliest movements for women's rights, including issues of birth control, voting and career equity. Knowing that, it is no surprise that William Moulton Marston's most famous work is the creation of the comic book heroine, Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman emerges on the scene in December 1941 in issue #8 of All Star Comics. She is created and presented with Greek and Roman goddess archetypes. Her heroic behaviors show strong will, power, and the use of the behavioral style dimensions of DISC--dominance, influence, submission, and compliance—to accomplish her missions. It would seem that neither Max Gaines of DC Comics nor William Moulton Marston were absolutely certain how a female heroine would be accepted. Max Gaines introduced the heroine in the back of a comic

"""Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,"" was the first line of what Daphne du Maurier novel?"

Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca - Strand Mag by The Strand Magazine by Charles L.P. Silet Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The opening line to Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel, Rebecca is one of the great opening lines in English fiction. In one stroke, du Maurier establishes the voice, the locale, and the dream-like atmosphere of the story. It’s not surprising that Alfred Hitchcock used the same opening line for his celebrated cinematic adaptation of the novel—one which many critics feel is among his most accomplished. Although Daphne du Maurier was one of the most popular authors of her day and wrote or edited dozens of books—biographies, plays, and collections of letters as well as works of fiction— she is best remembered today for only a handful of novels including, of course, Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier was born on May 13, 1907 in London to Muriel Beaumont, an actress, and Gerald du Maurier, an actor and theatrical manager. Gerald’s father, George, was a famous illustrator, especially known for his work in the British humor magazine Punch. He was also the author of three best-selling novels: Peter Ibbetson, Trilby (with its famous character Svengali), and The Martins. The du Mauriers were well-established in the artistic world, so Daphne—the middle child of three girls—grew up in a privileged and slightly bohemian environment, one in which she met the famous of the London stage as well as the popular writers of the day. Daphne received the usual haphazard education of young women of her class and time. However, she read voraciously, especially in the standard British classics. After finishing at a school near Paris, she moved into the family home, Ferryside, in the harbor town of Fowey on the Cornish coast. Later she rented a local estate, Menabilly, located nearby, which became one of the models for Manderley. For most of her adult life she resided primarily in the area around Fowey (except when she left to travel with her husband, F.A.M. (Boy) Browning, who was a professional soldier) and set a number of her novels, including Rebecca, in that area. Du Maurier was blessed with an active imagination and made up stories to act out with her two sisters as they were growing up. Often based on the fiction she was reading, these stories of adventure and romance set the tone for her later best-selling fiction. She began writing short stories in the late 1920s. Her first publication, “And Now to God the Father,” appeared in the May 8th issue of The Bystander, edited by her uncle Willie Beaumont, her mother’s brother. As she later would write in her autobiography, Myself When Young (1977), “I went self-consciously into the W.H. Smith’s [the booksellers] in Fowey and bought a copy, hoping the girl behind the counter did not know why I was getting it.” Du Maurier’s self-effacing reaction to her first publication was characteristic of her response to her later fame as well. She remained leery of self-promotion and publicity throughout her professional life. Although she sold a number of other short stories to The Bystander, she quickly realized that if she was going to reach financial independence as a writer, she would have to turn her hand to longer works. During the autumn of 1929 she began her first novel, The Loving Spirit, which became the first of her many books inspired by her life in Cornwall. In The Loving Spirit, du Maurier first put to use the combination of romance, adventure, history, and a sense of atmosphere that would characterize all of her later fiction. It was a winning combination. Over the next fifty years she turned out a couple of dozen books, half of which—and the most memorable—were set in Cornwall. One of the most famous, Jamaica Inn, was suggested in part by a stay in the old coaching inn, long associated in local history with the Cornwall smuggling trade. Although her first novels, The Loving Spirit (1931), I’ll Never Be Young Again (1932), The Progress of Julius (1933), and Jamaica Inn (1936), sold well and established her as an author in Great Britain, it was the publication of Reb

"What is the actual title of Leonardo da Vinci's ""Mona Lisa""?"

Mona Lisa | painting by Leonardo da Vinci | Britannica.com painting by Leonardo da Vinci Written By: sfumato Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci , probably the world’s most-famous painting . It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence , and it now hangs in the Louvre , in Paris , where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The poplar panel shows evidence of warping and was stabilized in 1951 with the addition of an oak frame and in 1970 with four vertical braces. Dovetails also were added, to prevent the widening of a small crack visible near the centre of the upper edge of the painting. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination. Mona Lisa, oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, … The Print Collection—Heritage-Images Overview of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, with a discussion of the … Contunico © ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Mainz The Mona Lisa and its influence These signs of aging distract little from the painting’s effect. In its exquisite synthesis of sitter and landscape, the Mona Lisa set the standard for all future portraits. The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape. Yet this simple description of a seemingly standard composition gives little sense of Leonardo’s achievement. The sensuous curves of the sitter’s hair and clothing, created through sfumato (use of fine shading), are echoed in the shapes of the valleys and rivers behind her. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter’s faint smile—reflects Leonardo’s idea of the cosmic link connecting humanity and nature, making this painting an enduring record of Leonardo’s vision. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent There has been much speculation and debate regarding the identity of the portrait’s sitter. Scholars and historians have posited numerous interpretations, including that she is Lisa del Giocondo (née Gherardini), the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo del Giocondo, hence the alternative title to the work, La Gioconda. That identity was first suggested in 1550 by artist biographer Giorgio Vasari . Another theory was that the model may have been Leonardo’s mother, Caterina. That interpretation was put forth by, among others, Sigmund Freud , who seemed to think that the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile emerged from a—perhaps unconscious—memory of Caterina’s smile. A third suggestion was that the painting was, in fact, Leonardo’s self-portrait, given the resemblance between the sitter’s and the artist’s facial features. Some scholars suggested that disguising himself as a woman was the artist’s riddle. The sitter’s identity has not been conclusively proven. In an attempt to settle the debate, art and forensic experts in August 2013 opened the tomb of the Giocondo family in Florence in order to find Lisa del Giocondo’s remains, test her DNA, and recreate an image of her face. Whatever the sitter’s identity, the influence of the Mona Lisa on the Renaissance and later times has been enormous. The Mona Lisa revolutionized contemporary portrait painting . Leonardo’s preliminary drawings encouraged other artists to make more and freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. Through the drawings his Milanese works were made known to the Florentines. Also, his reputation and stature as an artist and thinker spread to his fellow artists and assured for them a freedom of action and thought similar to his own. One such painter was the young Raphael , who sketched Leonardo’s work in progress and adopted the Mona Lisa format for his portraits; it served as a clear model for his Portrait of Maddalena Doni (c. 1506). Art & Architecture: Fact or Fiction? Leonardo even influenced the fashion in which artists dressed their subjects. In his Treatise on Pai

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, Hiawatha, what was the name of Hiawatha's wife?

Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha, The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village. Hardly from his buried wigwam Could the hunter force a passage; With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly walked he through the forest, Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints, In the ghastly, gleaming forest Fell, and could not rise from weakness, Perished there from cold and hunger.   Oh the famine and the fever! Oh the wasting of the famine! Oh the blasting of the fever! Oh the wailing of the children! Oh the anguish of the women!   All the earth was sick and famished; Hungry was the air around them, Hungry was the sky above them, And the hungry stars in heaven Like the eyes of wolves glared at them!   Into Hiawatha's wigwam Came two other guests, as silent As the ghosts were, and as gloomy, Waited not to be invited Did not parley at the doorway Sat there without word of welcome In the seat of Laughing Water; Looked with haggard eyes and hollow At the face of Laughing Water.   And the foremost said: "Behold me! I am Famine, Bukadawin!" And the other said: "Behold me! I am Fever, Ahkosewin!" Shuddered as they looked upon her, Shuddered at the words they uttered, Lay down on her bed in silence, Hid her face, but made no answer; Lay there trembling, freezing, burning At the looks they cast upon her, At the fearful words they uttered.   Forth into the empty forest Rushed the maddened Hiawatha; In his heart was deadly sorrow, In his face a stony firmness; On his brow the sweat of anguish Started, but it froze and fell not.   Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting, With his mighty bow of ash-tree, With his quiver full of arrows, With his mittens, Minjekahwun, Into the vast and vacant forest On his snow-shoes strode he forward.   "Gitche Manito, the Mighty!" Cried he with his face uplifted In that bitter hour of anguish, "Give your children food, O father! Give us food, or we must perish! Give me food for Minnehaha, For my dying Minnehaha!" Through the forest vast and vacant Rang that cry of desolation, But there came no other answer Than the echo of his crying, Than the echo of the woodlands, "Minnehaha! Minnehaha!"   All day long roved Hiawatha In that melancholy forest, Through the shadow of whose thickets, In the pleasant days of Summer, Of that ne'er forgotten Summer, He had brought his young wife homeward From the land of the Dacotahs; When the birds sang in the thickets, And the streamlets laughed and glistened, And the air was full of fragrance, And the lovely Laughing Water Said with voice that did not tremble, "I will follow you, my husband!"   In the wigwam with Nokomis, With those gloomy guests that watched her, With the Famine and the Fever, She was lying, the Beloved, She, the dying Minnehaha.   "Hark!" she said; "I hear a rushing, Hear a roaring and a rushing, Hear the Falls of Minnehaha Calling to me from a distance!" "No, my child!" said old Nokomis, "'T is the night-wind in the pine-trees!" "Look!" she said; "I see my father Standing lonely at his doorway, Beckoning to me from his wigwam In the land of the Dacotahs!" "No, my child!" said old Nokomis. "'T is the smoke, that waves and beckons!" "Ah!" said she, "the eyes of Pauguk Glare upon me in the darkness, I can feel his icy fingers Clasping mine amid the darkness! Hiawatha! Hiawatha!" Far away amid the forest, Miles away among the mountains, Heard that sudden cry of anguish, Heard the voice of Minnehaha Calling to him in the darkness, "Hiawatha! Hiawatha!"   Over snow-fields waste and pathless, Under snow-encumbered branches, Would that I had perished for you, Would that I were dead as you are! Wahonowin! Wahonowin!"   And he rushed into the wigwam, Saw the old Nokomis slowly Rocking to and fro and moaning, Saw his lovely Minnehaha Lying dead and cold be

How many husbands did the Wife of Bath have, as reported in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue The Wife of Bath’s Prologue The Wife of Bath’s Prologue → The Miller’s Prologue and Tale The Wife of Bath’s Prologue (continued) From the beginning through the Wife of Bath’s description of her first three husbands Fragment 3, lines 1–451 Summary The Wife of Bath begins the Prologue to her tale by establishing herself as an authority on marriage, due to her extensive personal experience with the institution. Since her first marriage at the tender age of twelve, she has had five husbands. She says that many people have criticized her for her numerous marriages, most of them on the basis that Christ went only once to a wedding, at Cana in Galilee. The Wife of Bath has her own views of Scripture and God’s plan. She says that men can only guess and interpret what Jesus meant when he told a Samaritan woman that her fifth husband was not her husband. With or without this bit of Scripture, no man has ever been able to give her an exact reply when she asks to know how many husbands a woman may have in her lifetime. God bade us to wax fruitful and multiply, she says, and that is the text that she wholeheartedly endorses. After all, great Old Testament figures, like Abraham, Jacob, and Solomon, enjoyed multiple wives at once. She admits that many great Fathers of the Church have proclaimed the importance of virginity, such as the Apostle Paul. But, she reasons, even if virginity is important, someone must be procreating so that virgins can be created. Leave virginity to the perfect, she says, and let the rest of us use our gifts as best we may—and her gift, doubtless, is her sexual power. She uses this power as an “instrument” to control her husbands. At this point, the Pardoner interrupts. He is planning to marry soon and worries that his wife will control his body, as the Wife of Bath describes. The Wife of Bath tells him to have patience and to listen to the whole tale to see if it reveals the truth about marriage. Of her five husbands, three have been “good” and two have been “bad.” The first three were good, she admits, mostly because they were rich, old, and submissive. She laughs to recall the torments that she put these men through and recounts a typical conversation that she had with her older husbands. She would accuse her -husband of having an affair, launching into a tirade in which she would charge him with a bewildering array of accusations. If one of her husbands got drunk, she would claim he said that every wife is out to destroy her husband. He would then feel guilty and give her what she wanted. All of this, the Wife of Bath tells the rest of the pilgrims, was a pack of lies—her husbands never held these opinions, but she made these claims to give them grief. Worse, she would tease her husbands in bed, refusing to give them full satisfaction until they promised her money. She admits proudly to using her verbal and sexual power to bring her husbands to total submission. Analysis In her lengthy Prologue, the Wife of Bath recites her autobiography, announcing in her very first word that “experience” will be her guide. Yet, despite her claim that experience is her sole authority, the Wife of Bath apparently feels the need to establish her authority in a more scholarly way. She imitates the ways of churchmen and scholars by backing up her claims with quotations from Scripture and works of antiquity. The Wife carelessly flings around references as textual evidence to buttress her argument, most of which don’t really correspond to her points. Her reference to Ptolemy’s Almageste, for instance, is completely erroneous—the phrase she attributes to that book appears nowhere in the work. Although her many errors display her lack of real scholarship, they also convey Chaucer’s mockery of the churchmen present, who often misused Scripture to justify their devious actions. The text of the Wife of Bath’s Prologue is based in the medieval genre of allegorical “confession.” In a morality play, a personified vice such as Gluttony or Lust “confesses” his or her sins to t

What was the name of the she-ape that rescued the infant Tarzan and raised him to be Lord of the Apes?

Tarzan | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia “He was confused at first, as if he had never seen another human before. His eyes were intense... and focused, and... I've never seen such eyes.” ―Jane about Tarzan Tarzan is the protagonist and titular character of Disney 's 1999 animated feature film of the same name . Commonly known as the "Lord of the Jungle", Tarzan was rescued and raised by a colony of apes after his parents were killed by the bloodthirsty Sabor . As the years passed, he turned into an ape-man, protecting all of the apes, and never knowing the outside world, apart from the jungle. Contents Background Personality Tarzan is an extremely brave, loyal, and honorable character. He cares deeply about his family and friends and was willing to risk his life to save them. He has also been known to be willing to rescue his enemies; an example of this was when Clayton was about to fall to his death, and Tarzan exclaimed "Clayton! Clayton, don't!" and reached out to save him, even though Clayton had fatally wounded Kerchak and attempted to kill him and kidnap his whole gorilla family. This also proves that, like most heroes, he is one to spare the antagonist mistakenly. In his youth, Tarzan was playful and fun loving, but also felt like an outcast due to the fact that he was human. Until Jane Porter , her father , and Clayton arrived he had never seen another human before and was, therefore, unaware of what species he was. And as an adult, he had matured into a more serious character but still displayed a playful and friendly side when around his family and friends. Tarzan was also very curious and when he heard a gunshot he went to investigate while the rest of his family moved deeper into the jungle. It was because of his curious nature that he met Jane, Professor Porter, and Clayton. In the Legend of Tarzan series, he has shown to take over as leader and while he retains the majority of his personality from the film, there are some other aspects explored and expanded. For example, he shows a hatred of leopards (understandably so since they killed his parents and attacked him and his family in the past) and refused to accept a baby cub that Jane found. He also displayed very similar traits to Kerchak as he refused to accept the baby because it was different and a threat to him and his family (which is very similar to Kerchak's reaction to Tarzan growing up and Jane defending the cub as Kala defending Tarzan). This could imply that Kerchak influenced Tarzan. Also, he hates hunters and is very protective of the forest, often kicking the hunters out and destroying their guns. Another aspect is his leadership, where another gorilla challenged him for leadership and won because Tarzan saved him. However, the gorilla mistakenly lead the pack to a different route than Tarzan which turned out to be a pit of tar housing a ferocious gigantic snake. Tarzan not only rescued his pack but ingeniously hid himself and his friends with mud so the snake couldn't see them. Another aspect seen is when his personal life with Jane, her father, and humans, in general, tend to interfere with his duties as pack leader. Once the gorillas were kicked out of their home and he had to choose between staying with his family or with Jane because Jane and her father (As humans) couldn't live with them. The gorilla that challenged Tarzan also stated he let his personal life get in the way of his duties and when Jane's friends came to visit and he unintentionally embarrassed her in front of them, he tried to act civilized to impress them. He has also shown to surprisingly romantic, as shown through his interactions with Jane, often complimenting her protecting her, and giving her flowers while proclaiming her to be the best woman there is. He takes romance seriously, as shown when he was forced to act in a movie about him in "Silver Screen" and was told to kiss a woman he didn't love saying how confusing acting was. He is also good at telling when people are telling lies, though he can be tricked. He is also noted for being fairly intelligent, as

"What words did Lewis Carroll combine to come up with the term ""chortle"" in Through a Looking-Glass?"

10 whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll 10 whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll Angela Tung Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice Through The Looking Glass. Rischgitz/Getty Images January 25, 2013 10 things you need to know today Today's best articles The week's best photojournalism Daily business briefing This Sunday is the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the English mathematician and writer whose most famous works include Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark. Such works featured Carroll's specialty: coining blends and nonce words. Here are ten of our favorites: 1. boojum The boojum is "a particularly dangerous variety of ' snark ,'" an imaginary creature of Carroll's invention. The word boojum has inspired the naming of everything from "a species of tree... native to Baja California, Mexico" (found in 1922 by plant explorer Godfrey Sykes , who proclaimed, "It must be a boojum!"); to a supersonic cruise missile that "was determined to be too ambitious a project... and was canceled in 1951"; to "a geometric pattern sometimes observed on the surface of superfluid helium-3," as named by physicist David Mermin in 1976. Example: But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, / If your Snark be a Boojum!  For then / You will softly and suddenly vanish away, / And never be met with again!" — Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark , 1876 2. chortle To chortle means "to exclaim exultingly, with a noisy chuckle." According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Carroll coined the word as a blend of chuckle and snort. Example: "He chortled in his joy." —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass , 1871 3. frabjous  Frabjous means "great, wonderful, fabulous," and is a blend of either fabulous and joyous, or fair and joyous. "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" cries the narrator of The Jabberwocky upon learning that the Jabberwock has been slain. Example: "'O frabjous day!' rejoiced Emma Dean, using her bath towel as a scarf and performing a weird dance about the room." 4. galumph Galumph means "to move heavily and clumsily," and is a blend of gallop and triumph. Example: "I struggle to keep up on an particularly cold winter evening as I galumph my way across rough downland in pursuit of a tour guide." — Ian Vince, " Stonehenge Landscape Can Still Surprise with Its Stunning Vistas ," The Telegraph, January 14, 2010 5. jabberwocky The Jabberwocky is "a nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll," while the Jabberwock is "a fantastical dreaded monster with flaming eyes who is depicted" in the poem. Regarding the word itself, according to Carroll: "The Anglo-Saxon word 'wocer' or 'wocor' signifies 'offspring' or 'fruit'. Taking 'jabber' in its ordinary acceptation of 'excited and voluble discussion.'" Jabberwocky came to mean "nonsensical speech or writing" around 1908, says the OED. Example: "In theory, the pledge could do most of the same work if we had children say it in Anglo-Saxon or Arapaho, or if we replaced it with the lyrics to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.' They're going to turn the words into jabberwocky anyway." — Geoff Nunberg, " I Pledge Allegiance to Linguistic Obfuscation ," NPR, March 30, 2010 6. mimsy  Mimsy was coined by Lewis Carroll in 1855 as a blend of miserable and flimsy. According to the OED, by 1880 mimsy also came to mean, in British English, "prim; careful; affected; feeble, weak, lightweight." Mim is a much older word meaning "primly silent," either imitative of the pursing up of the mouth, or coming from the Scottish Gaelic min, "delicate, meek." Example: "I mean, their hair looks like it was designed on a Spirograph in the dark, then carelessly flopped on to them from atop a rickety step ladder, while their fans are all exactly the kind of mimsy mugginses who 'Instagram' pictures of wheelie bins to stick on their Tumblr, because, you know, it's properly, like, photography, yeah?" — Gareth Aveyard, " This Week's New Singles ," The Guardian, January 6,

"Shakespeare wrote that ""brevity is the soul of wit."" What did noted wit Dorothy Parker say it was?"

Did you know? Did you know? One third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper. Gerald Ford said �I�ve watched a lot of baseball � on the radio�? In Connecticut a pickle must bounce to be legal. Shakespeare wrote that �brevity is the soul of wit.�  Noted wit Dorothy Parker said it was �The soul of lingerie.� Thinking that its parents were a camel and a leopard, the Europeans once called the animal a �camelopard.� The African elephant produces the loudest sound of any animal, 188 decibels. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving. 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes. According to an old age custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism. City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folk do. Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930. The average child will eat 1,500 PB sandwiches by high school graduation. Shawnee Indian Chief Tecumseh was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Thames during the war of 1812.  He was a powerful orator who defended his people against white settlement.  When the war of 1812 broke out, he joined the British as a Brigadier General. When Edison was twelve years old, he began to lose his hearing. There are a number of stories that have been told about how this happened. Edison had Scarlett Fever as a child, but all the boys in Edison's' family also lost their hearing. Sources: triviacountry.com; alltrivia.net; funfunnyfacts.com; corsinet.com; historyplace.com; apecsec.org photo: freedigitalphotos.net October 2, 2015

What is the native country of Agatha Chrisitie's detective Hercule Poirot?

Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot | Old Time Radio    Detective   Rare   Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot (update) with additional episodes and special recordings: Hercule Poirot is the greatest detective ever? Certainly a gripping favorite from Agatha Christie! 13 old time radio show recordings available in the following formats: Play a sample episode from February 22, 1945: "The Careless Victim" About this Old Time Radio Show Text on OTRCAT.com ©2001-2017 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved. Reproduction is prohibited. Detective Mystery and Drama (1945-1947) One of the greatest mystery writers of all time was Agatha Christie , and one of her most popular characters was an uppity little Belgian by the name of Hercule Poirot. Poirot appeared in 33 of Christie's novels and 51 short stories between 1920 and 1975. The character has appeared in a number of radio programs, movies, and TV shows. Christie created Hercule Poirot for her first book (written in 1916, but unpublished until 1920). The little Belgian detective had been a police detective in his native country, but expanded internationally after the German occupation during WWI. He is well known for his fastidiousness towards his appearance, especially the mustache he vainly cultivates. His stomach is known to be very sensitive, and he takes great pains to protect it from the trauma of air and sea travel. As popular as he was, Ms. Christie herself eventually grew tired of him, finding him "insufferable" by 1930, and thirty years later calling him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She felt, however, that it was her duty as an author to give the public what they wanted, and they wanted Poirot. She did kill him off in the novel Curtain, written during WWII , but unpublished until the year before her own death. When the novel was published in 1975, the New York Times published an obituary for Poirot, one of the few fictional characters so honored. Poirot had several appearances on the radio and in Orson Welles ' Campbell's Playhouse adaptation of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ". The 1945 Mutual series starred character actor Harold Huber in the title role. The series used none of Christie's own stories, although the author introduced the first broadcast from London via shortwave. Huber had been previously seen as a cop in several Charlie Chan films, and would also play Fu Manchu on the radio. This collection contains eleven Hercule Poirot broadcasts and episodes from Campbell's Playhouse (starring Orson Welles ) and Murder Clinic featuring Poirot. For more brainy detectives, see also: Softboiled Detectives . This collection is also included in the Agatha Christie Collection. Text on OTRCAT.com ©2001-2017 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved. Reproduction is prohibited. These classic recordings are available in the following formats: MP3 CD Standard Audio Cd Instant Download MP3 CDs are delivered by mail. These archival quality MP3 CDs are playable in your computer and many MP3 player devices. 13 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00 total playtime 6 hours, 10 min Click here to see disc contents 13 shows - total playtime 6 hours 10 minutes Campbell Playhouse 391112 36 Murder of Rodger Ackroyd.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450112 00 Case Of Roving Corpse.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450114 00 Case Of Roving Corpse.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450222 01 Case Of Careless Victim.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450503 11 Murder Wears A Mask.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450517 13 Death In Golden Gate.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450712 21 Rendezvous With Death.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450719 22 Deadest Man In World.mp3 Hercule Poirot 450913 30 Adventure Of Money Mad Ghoul.mp3 Hercule Poirot 451116 39 Trail Led To Death.mp3 Hercule Poirot 451123 40 Murder Is A Private Affair.mp3 Hercule Poirot 451130 41 Bride Wore Fright.mp3 Murder Clinic 421006 Tragedy Of Marsdon Manor.mp3 MP3 downloads are available instantly after purchase! 13 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00 total playtime 6 hours, 10 min Click here to see disc contents 13 shows - total playtime 6 hours 10 minutes Campbell Playhouse 391112 36 Murder of Rodge

In the Robin Hood stories, what was the real name of Little John?

The Baldwin Project: Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall   THE MEETING OF ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN [9] WHEN Robin first came to live in Sherwood Forest he was rather sad, for he could not at once forget all he had lost. But he was not long lonely. When it became known that he had gone to live in the Green Wood, other poor men, who had been driven out of their homes by the Normans, joined him. They soon formed a band and were known as the "Merry Men." Robin was no longer Robin of Huntingdon, but Robin of Sherwood Forest. Very soon people shortened Sherwood into Hood, though some say he was called Hood from the green hoods he and his men wore. How he came to have his name does not matter much. People almost forgot that he was really an earl, and he had become known, not only all over [10] England, but in many far countries, as Robin Hood. Robin Hood was captain of the band of Merry Men. Next to him came Little John. He was called Little John because he was so tall, just as Midge the miller's son was called Much because he was so small. Robin loved Little John best of all his friends. Little John loved Robin better than any one else in all the world. Yet the first time they met they fought and knocked each other about dreadfully. "How they came acquainted, I'll tell you in brief, If you will but listen a while; For this very jest, among all the rest, I think it may cause you to smile." It happened on a bright, sunshiny day in early spring. All through the winter Robin and his men had had a very dull time. Nearly all their fun and adventures happened with people travelling through the forest. As there were no trains, people had to travel on horseback. In winter the roads were so [11] bad, and the weather so cold and wet, that most people stayed at home. So it was rather a quiet time for Robin and his men. They lived in great caves during the winter, and spent their time making stores of bows and arrows, and mending their boots and clothes. This bright, sunshiny morning Robin felt dull and restless, so he took his bow and arrows, and started off through the forest in search of adventure. He wandered on for some time without meeting any one. Presently he came to a river. It was wide and deep, swollen by the winter rains. It was crossed by a very slender, shaky bridge, so narrow, that if two people tried to pass each other on it, one would certainly fall into the water. Robin began to cross the bridge, before he noticed that a great, tall man, the very tallest man he had ever seen, was crossing too from the other side. "Go back and wait till I have come over," he called out as soon as he noticed the stranger. [12] The stranger laughed, and called out in reply, "I have as good a right to the bridge as you. You  can go back till I  get across." This made Robin very angry. He was so accustomed to being obeyed that he was very much astonished too. Between anger and astonishment he hardly knew what he did. He drew an arrow from his quiver and fitting it to his bow, called out again, "If you don't go back I'll shoot." "If you do, I'll beat you till you are black and blue," replied the stranger. "Quoth bold Robin Hood, Thou dost prate like an ass, For, were I to bend my bow, I could send a dart quite through thy proud heart, Before thou couldst strike a blow." "If I talk like an ass you talk like a coward," replied the stranger. "Do you call it fair to stand with your bow and arrow ready to shoot at me when I have only a [13] stick to defend myself with? I tell you, you are a coward. You are afraid of the beating I would give you." Robin was not a coward, and he was not afraid. So he threw his bow and arrows on the bank behind him. "You are a big, boastful bully," he said. "Just wait there until I get a stick. I hope I may give you as good a beating as you deserve." The stranger laughed. "I won't run away; don't be afraid," he said. Robin Hood stepped to a thicket of trees and cut himself a good, thick oak stick. While he was doing this, he looked at the stranger, and saw that he

The Last Of The Really Great Whangdoodles and Mandy are children's books written by what well-known Oscar-winning actress?

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Chapter One I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was "home." My father was driving his secondhand Austin 7; my mother was in the passenger seat beside him holding me on her lap. As we approached our modest house, Dad braked the car to turn onto the pocket-handkerchief square of concrete by the gate and apparently I quietly, tentatively, said the word. "Home." My mother told me there was a slight upward inflection in my voice, not a question so much as a trying of the word on the tongue, with perhaps the delicious discovery of connection ... the word to the place. My parents wanted to be sure they had heard me correctly, so Dad drove around the lanes once again, and as we returned, it seems I repeated the word. My mother must have said it more than once upon arrival at our house-perhaps with satisfaction? Or relief? Or maybe to instill in her young daughter a sense of comfort and safety. The word has carried enormous resonance for me ever since. Home. The river thames begins as a trickle just above Oxford in an area referred to in old literature as "Isis." The trickle has become a fair river and fordable by the time it reaches the great university city, and from there it winds its way through the English countryside,changing levels from time to time, spewing through the gates of some exquisitely pretty locks, passing old villages with lovely names like Sonning, Henley, Marlow, Maidenhead, and Bray. It flows on through Windsor and Eton. Wicked King John signed the Magna Carta at a picturesque stretch of the Thames called Runnymede. It progresses through the county of Surrey, past Walton-the village where I was born-past the palace of Hampton Court where Sir Thomas More boarded the water taxis that carried him downriver after his audiences with Henry VIII, and continues through the county town of Kingston, on to Richmond and Kew. Finally it reaches London, gliding beneath its many bridges, passing the seat of British government, the Houses of Parliament, before making its final journey toward Greenwich and the magnificent Thames Estuary into the North Sea. Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways-water in general, water sounds-there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent. The name "Walton" probably derives from the old English words wealh tun (Briton/serf and enclosure/town). Remnants of an ancient wall were to be found there in my youth. Walton is one of three closely related villages, the others being Hersham and Weybridge. When I was born, they were little more than stops on the railway line leading out of London into the county of Surrey. Hersham was the poor relative and had once been merely a strip of woodland beside another river, the Mole. It was originally occupied by Celts, whose implements were found in large numbers in the area. The Romans were there, and Anglo-Saxons were the first settlers. Hersham was very much a fringe settlement. Walton, slightly better off, was a larger village; Weybridge was altogether "upmarket." Walton's small claim to fame was its bridge over the Thames. A very early version was painted by Canaletto; J. M. W. Turner painted a newer bridge in 1805. The span was reconstructed again long ago, but in my youth the bridge was so old and pitted that our bones were jarred as we rattled over it, and I was able to peer through the cracks and see the river flowing beneath. Driving across, away from the village, usually meant that I was leaving home to go on tour with my parents. Crossing back, though, was to know that we were in familiar territory once again. The river was our

By what pseudonym is writer Frederick Dannay Manfred Bennington Lee better known?

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Tagged:  Author | House name Pseudonym used by US cousins Frederick Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B Lee (1905-1971) for a lengthy sequence of crime-fiction novels and short stories featuring amateur detective Ellery Queen, beginning with The Roman Hat Mystery (1929). For many years these were characterized by rigorously logical deductions and a "Challenge to the Reader" to solve the puzzle before the final explanation. Media spinoffs included the syndicated radio show The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1939-1948), its television adaptation under the same title (1950-1952) and the considerably better NBC television series Ellery Queen (1975-1976). Although there is no fantastic content, the Queen franchise has some sf interest because – as with Leslie Charteris – "Queen" eventually became a House Name under which several sf authors ghosted novels based on detailed outlines by Dannay. (The Queens' normal procedure was for Dannay to devise the plot and Lee to draft the story, after which both made revisions; ghosted titles were similarly revised.) Theodore Sturgeon wrote The Player on the Other Side (1963). Avram Davidson wrote And On the Eighth Day (1964) – set in an isolated community practising an offbeat Religion – The Fourth Side of the Triangle (1965) and a version of The House of Brass (1968): the last was rejected by the Queens, and the synopsis was expanded by Manfred B Lee as usual. A Study in Terror (1965), a period film about Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper , was novelized by Paul W Fairman : the Queens inserted modern frame-story episodes and the result appeared as A Study in Terror (1966; vt Sherlock Homes Versus Jack the Ripper 1967) as by Queen. All these are "main sequence" Queen novels with Ellery Queen as sleuth. Additionally, Edward D Hoch , Milton Lesser , Charles W Runyon and Jack Vance contributed to a secondary run of less intellectual Queen thrillers, published as paperback originals, whose crimes are investigated by other detectives – see Checklist. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, a US monthly Digest , has been published since 1941 when it was launched by Mercury Publications (its characteristic appearance, shared with its younger sibling The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , was created by Mercury's head of design, George Salter ); the journal naturally focuses on crime fiction but has occasionally published sf/fantasy, usually with Crime and Punishment themes. Examples include Jorge Luis Borges 's "The Garden of Forking Paths" (August 1948; trans by Anthony Boucher of title story of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, coll 1942), Gerald Heard 's "The President of the United States, Detective" (March 1947) as by H F Heard (see Climate Change ), Poul Anderson 's "The Martian Crown Jewels" (February 1958), Fredric Brown 's "Crisis, 1999" (August 1949), Ray Bradbury 's, "The Town Where No One Got Off" (October 1958), Avram Davidson 's The Last Wizard (December 1972; 1999 chap), Harry Harrison 's "I Always Do What Teddy Says" (June 1965) and John T Sladek 's "Capital C on Planet Amp" (December 1966; vt "Is There Death on Other Planets?" in The Steam-Driven Boy, coll 1973). Dannay, as Queen, was editor-in-chief from the magazine's inception until his death in 1982. Managing editors included Robert P Mills 1948-1958 and Paul W Fairman 1958-1963. [DRL] Frederick Dannay, born Daniel Nathan born New York: 20 October 1905 died White Plains, New York: 3 September 1982 Manfred Bennington Lee, born Manford Lepofsky born New York: 11 January 1905 died Waterbury, Connecticut: 3 April 1971 works (highly selected) Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (London: Victor Gollancz, 1967) [tie: vt of the above: Sherlock Holmes : Jack the Ripper : Ellery Queen: hb/nonpictorial] The House of Brass (New York: New American Library, 1968) [draft by Avram Davidson was rejected: Ellery Queen: hb/] The Tragedy of Errors (Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen and Landru, 1999) [coll: comprising Dannay's outline for the unwritten title novel, six uncollected stories (one ghosted by Edward D

How many times did Ernest Hemingway revise the last page of A Farewell To Arms?

‘A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings - The New York Times The New York Times Books |To Use and Use Not Search Continue reading the main story In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of “A Farewell to Arms,” his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.” Those endings have become part of literary lore, but they have never been published together in their entirety, according to his longtime publisher, Scribner. A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition is the result of an agreement between Hemingway’s estate and Scribner, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Photo Ernest Hemingway in 1947. Credit John F. Kennedy Library and Museum It is also an attempt to redirect some of the attention paid in recent years to Hemingway’s swashbuckling, hard-drinking image — through fictional depictions in the best-selling novel “The Paris Wife” and the Woody Allen film “Midnight in Paris,” for instance — back to his sizable body of work. Continue reading the main story “I think people who are interested in writing and trying to write themselves will find it interesting to look at a great work and have some insight to how it was done,” Seán Hemingway, a grandson of Ernest Hemingway who is also a curator of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said in an interview. “But he is a writer who has captured the imagination of the American public, and these editions are interesting because they really focus on his work. Ultimately that’s his lasting contribution.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story The new edition concludes that the 39 endings that Hemingway referred to are really more like 47. They have been preserved in the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston since 1979, where Seán Hemingway studied them carefully. (Bernard S. Oldsey, a Hemingway scholar, listed 41 endings in his book “Hemingway’s Hidden Craft,” but Seán Hemingway found 47 variations in manuscripts preserved at the Kennedy Library.) The alternate endings are labeled and gathered in an appendix in the new edition, a 330-page book whose cover bears the novel’s original artwork, an illustration of a reclining man and woman, both topless. For close readers of Hemingway the endings are a fascinating glimpse into how the novel could have concluded on a different note, sometimes more blunt and sometimes more optimistic. And since modern authors tend to produce their work on computers, the new edition also serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process. (When asked in the 1958 Paris Review interview with George Plimpton what had stumped him, Hemingway said, “Getting the words right.”) Photo The new edition, with the original cover art. The endings range from a short sentence or two to several paragraphs. In No. 1, “The Nada Ending,” Hemingway wrote, “That is all there is to the story. Catherine died and you will die and I will die and that is all I can promise you.” The “Live-Baby Ending,” listed as No. 7, concludes, “There is no end except death and birth is the only beginning.” And in No. 34, the “Fitzgerald ending,” suggested by Hemingway’s friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway wrote that the world “breaks everyone,” and those “it does not break it kills.” “It kills the very good and very gentle and the very brave impartially,” he wrote. “If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Hemingway also left behind a list of alternate titles, which are reprinted in the new edition. They include “Love in War,” “World Enough and Time,” “Every Night and All” and “Of Wounds and Other Causes.” One title, “The Enchantment,” was crossed out by Hemin

What was art-world guru Andy Warhol's name at birth?

Andy Warhol - Biography - IMDb Andy Warhol Jump to: Overview  (5) | Mini Bio  (2) | Trade Mark  (4) | Trivia  (22) | Personal Quotes  (17) Overview (5) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (2) Andrew Warhol's father, Ondrej, came from the Austria-Hungary Empire (now Slovakia) in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around some time, the family moved to Pittsburgh. During his teenage years, Andy suffered from several nervous breakdowns. Overcoming this, he graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945, and enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), graduating in June 1949. During college, he met Philip Pearlstein , a fellow student. After graduation, Andy Warhol (having dropped the letter 'a' from his last name) moved to New York City, and shared an apartment with Pearlstein at St. Mark's Place off of Avenue A for a couple months. During this time, he moved in and out of several Manhattan apartments. In New York, he met Tina Fredericks , art editor of Glamour Magazine. Warhol's early jobs were doing drawings for Glamour, such as the Success is a Job in New York, and women's shoes. He also drew advertising for various magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazzar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards. During the 1950s, he moved to an apartment on East 75th Street. His mother moved in with him, and Fritizie Miller become his agent. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Hugo Gallery, New York, of drawings to illustrate stories by Truman Capote . He started illustrating books, beginning with Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. Around 1953-1955, he worked for a theater group on the Lower East Side, and designs sets. It is around that time that he dyed his hair silver. Warhol published several books, including Twenty Five Cats Named Sam, and One Blue Pussy. In 1956, he traveled around the world with Charles Lisanby , a television-set designer. In April of this year, he was included in his first group exhibition, Recent Drawings USA, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He began receiving accolades for his work, with the 35th Annual Art Directors Club Award for Distinctive Merit, for an I.Miller shoe advertisement. He published In The Bottom Of My Garden later that year. In 1957, received 36th Annual Art Directors Club Medal and Award of Distinctive Merit, for the I.Miller show advertisements, and Life Magazine published his illustrations for an article, "Crazy Golden Slippers". In 1960, Warhol began to make his first paintings. They were based on comic strips in the likes of Dick Tracy, Popeye, Superman, and two of Coca-Cola bottles. In 1961, using the Dick Tracy comic strip, he designed a window display for Lord & Taylor, at this time, major art galleries around the nation begin noticing his work. In 1962, Warhol made paintings of dollar bills and Campbell soup cans, and his work was included in an important exhibition of pop art, The New Realists, held at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. In November of this year, Elanor Ward showed his paintings at Stable Gallery, and the exhibition began a sensation. In 1963, he rented a studio in a firehouse on East 87th Street. He met his assistant, Gerard Malanga , and started making his first film, Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964). Later, he drove to Los Angeles for his second exhibition at the Ferus Gallery. In November of that year, he found a loft at 231 East 47th Street, which became his main studio, The Factory. In December, he began production of Red Jackie, the first of the Jackie series. In 1964, his first solo exhibition in Europe, held at the Galerie Ileana Sonnebend in Paris, featured the Flower series. He received a commission from architect Philip Johnson to make a mural, entitled Thirteen Most Wanted Men for the New York State Pavilion in the New York World's Fair. In April, he received an Independent Film Award from Film Culture magazine. In November, his first solo exhibition in the US was held at Leo Ca

What was the maiden name of Blondie Bumstead, the comic-strip wife of hapless Dagwood Bumstead?

Chic’s Blondie | The Comics Journal BY R.C. Harvey Sep 13, 2012 Blondie, Chic Young’s monument to syndicated newspaper comics, began as a “flapper” strip about a dizzy young blonde named, with unrelenting perspicacity, Blondie. This was Young’s fourth pretty girl strip: starting October 31, 1921, he’d done The Affairs of Jane at N.E.A. for six months until March 18, 1922; and then he’d come to New York and done Beautiful Bab for Bell Syndicate for almost a year (July 10, 1922 – April 14, 1923) before joining the King Features art department in 1923 and, after a suitable apprenticeship, creating Dumb Dora on June 30, 1924. Dora proved popular enough to last longer than its forerunners, and when the 1929 stock market crash wiped out his savings, Young, thinking he had leverage, lobbied for more money.   But he met immediately a parsimonious obstacle in Joseph V. Connolly, King’s energetic and imaginative general manager, who was not inclined in the direction of salary increases. Young threatened to quit; Connolly still resisted. So Young packed himself and his wife off to the French Riviera to make his point. When Connolly wired, pleading him to return, Young consented—but only for a bigger piece of the action and ownership of the new strip he would concoct. Connolly agreed, provided Young could come up with an acceptable creation. Returning to New York, Young spent the summer of 1930 devising a new strip. It was yet another pretty girl feature so it couldn’t have taken that much devising, but this one would reign as one of the world’s most widely circulated strips for longer than just about anybody. But, as we shall see anon, it did not achieve this prominence as a pretty girl strip. By the time Young got to Blondie, he had honed his drawing style. Although the mannered manikin poses persisted in his renderings of his heroine, his line was a little freer, lighter, better suited for limning Blondie’s lithe winsome figure. His spotting of solid blacks gave the pictures a pleasant, eye-appealing accent, and his deployment of gray tones molded figures as well as imparting visual variety to the passing scenes. And Blondie’s wardrobe had achieved a frilly femininity that Dora’s only hinted at. Some of the daintiness slowly disappeared over the years, but Young and his assistants always turned out a fashionably attired and physically appealing Blondie, perhaps the sexiest comic strip character in the funnies. In the 1950s, the stylistic tropes of Young’s drawings assumed iconic status: it was as unthinkable to alter the number of curls on Blondie’s head as it was to eliminate Dagwood’s antenna. The characters in the strip were always severely “on model.” But Blondie’s figure had expanded somewhat: as Liberty Meadows’ Frank Cho observed (while fighting to preserve Brandy’s figure), Blondie’s bust was the stuff of Playboy dreams. As a limner of the curvaceous gender, Young had unlikely roots. Although born in Chicago in 1901, he grew up in south St. Louis where his family moved early in the century. The south side of St. Louis was an enclave of German-Americans so Chic’s Lutheran father, a shoe salesman, felt at home, and his children inherited such stolid Teutonic neighborhood traits as stubbornness, dedication, and frugality. Nothing artistic inherent in that mix, but art dominated in the family milieu. Chic’s mother was a painter who encouraged artistic expression in her children. Her daughter was a commercial artist before she married; Chic’s older brother, Lyman, would make a life’s work out of a boys adventure strip, Tim Tyler’s Luck; and another brother, Walter, painted. Lyman encouraged Chic (whose actual name was Murat Bernard) to pursue drawing, and Chic dutifully scribbled away. In high school, his pictures decorated the yearbook. But his father’s practicality urged him into other pursuits as a way of earning money. (His father, reported Rick Marschall in Blondie and Dagwood’s America, “never quite understood how artists could think they were doing honest work.”) After school, the teenaged Chic worked as a postal clerk

What famous comic strip character was inspired by the 1936 Henry Fonda film Trail of the Lonesome Pine?

Al Capp (Cartoonist) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Show Less In early 1932, Capp hitchhiked to New York City. … Read More He lived in "airless rat holes" in Greenwich Village and turned out advertising strips at $2 apiece while scouring the city hunting for jobs. He eventually found work at the Associated Press when he was 23 years old. Read Less By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan. … Read More Capp changed the focus and title to Mister Gilfeather, but soon grew to hate the feature. Read Less He left the Associated Press in September 1932. … Read More Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends. Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class. She died in 2006 at the age of 96. Read Less 1933 23 Years Old Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. "I was 23, I carried a mass of drawings, and I had nearly five dollars in my pocket. … Read More People were sleeping in alleys then, willing to work at anything." There he met Ham Fisher, who hired him to ghost on Joe Palooka. During one of Fisher's extended vacations, Capp's Joe Palooka story arc introduced a stupid, coarse, oafish mountaineer named "Big Leviticus," a crude prototype. (Leviticus was actually much closer to Capp's later villains Lem and Luke Scragg, than to the much more appealing and innocent Li'l Abner.) <br /><br /> Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li'l Abner. He based his cast of characters on the authentic mountain-dwellers he met while hitchhiking through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager. (This was years before the Tennessee Valley Authority Act brought basic utilities like electricity and running water to the region.) Leaving Joe Palooka, Capp sold Li'l Abner to United Feature Syndicate (now known as United Media). The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers—including the New York Mirror—and was an immediate success. Alfred G. Caplin eventually became "Al Capp" because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame. Capp had it changed legally in 1949. Read Less 1934 24 Years Old …  The strip's popularity grew from an original eight papers, to ultimately more than 900. At its peak, Li'l Abner was estimated to have been read daily by 60 to 70 million Americans (the U.S. population at the time was only 180 million), with adult readers far outnumbering children. Many communities, high schools and colleges staged Sadie Hawkins dances, patterned after the similar annual event in the strip. <br /><br />Li'l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing. In response to the question “Which side does Abner part his hair on?," Capp would answer, “Both.” Capp said he finally found the right "look" for Li'l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936). Read Less In later years, Capp always claimed to have effectively created the miniskirt, when he first put one on Daisy Mae in 1934. … Read More Li'l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently over the next 35 years. Gould was personally parodied in the series as cartoonist "Lester Gooch"—the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged "creator" of Fosdick. The style of the Fosdick sequences closely mimicks Tracy, including the urban setting, the outrageous villains, the galloping mortality rate, the crosshatched shadows, and even the lettering style. In 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes.<br /><br /> Fearless

What was the original name of the orphan created in 1924 by cartoonist Harold Gray in the comic strip we know as Little Orphan Annie?

Harold Gray, Original Creator of Little Orphan Annie Harold Gray, Original Creator of Little Orphan Annie May 30, 2010   Oval, blank eyes look back from the page at the reader, not giving any sense of the spunk that took Annie safely from one adventure to another. Harold Gray debuted Little Orphan Annie in 1924, a little girl that captured comics readers' hearts. After 85 years, Annie retired from print on June 13, 2010, but that girl is not finished with the limelight just yet...   Born in Kankakee, Ilinois on January 20, 1894, Harold Lincoln Gray grew up apparently interested in science. In 1917, he earned a Bachelor of Science engineering degree from Perdue University. A Lafayette newspaper gave Gray his first job out of school, then the young man was detoured by a stint in the army as a bayonet instructor during World War One. After the war, Gray accepted a job with the Chicago Tribune's art department at $15 week salary. He moved up to an assistant post with "The Gumps" cartoonist, Sydney Smith. Gray also began developing strip ideas of his own, submitting and receiving rejections for four years, said William Dunn in Ron Goulart's The Encyclopedia of American Comics, from 1897 to the Present (Promised Land Productions, New York 1990).   Gray created an adventure strip with a sturdy, brave child hero called Little Orphan Otto, and submitted the comic strip to Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, then editor with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. The cartoonist's strength was not in the art - his drawings were considered stiff, primitive and without grace - but he was a true master at telling a story. Captain Patterson told Gray to make the lead character a girl instead, and the strip was accepted into syndication. Debuting in newspapers on August 5, 1924, Little Orphan Annie featured a girl struggling in the classic rags-to-riches tale, with a big dose of the cartoonist's political views added. After offending several newspapers and having the strips removed, Gray learned to temper his "strongly conservative views", but said Dunn, "the strip was often controversial."   After a few weeks in print, Gray added a character that would take on a life of his own. "Oliver Daddy Warbucks" adopted Annie from the Orphanage. The good life for Annie would only last for a while, then she was in danger or on a grand adventure. Fending for herself in the big world with her dog, Sandy, Annie always kept a bright outlook until she got herself out of the mess and found her adoptive father again. The Little Orphan Annie comic strip was so popular with readers that on one occasion when the instalment was left out of the daily newspaper, the error "caused more rumpus on the Tribune switchboard than a world war, a big league baseball game or the bombing of the post office," said Phil Rosenthal in the Chicago Tribune, May 12, 2010.   The success of Little Orphan Annie enabled Gray to syndicate another comic strip, "Maw Green". In it, Gray made statements on life and politics from an Irish point of view. "Maw Green" ran until Gray died in 1968. (Gray was against gas rationing, welfare, income taxes and other policies of the day.) Knowing his artistic skills were unusual for a cartoonist, Gray siad, I know what I want and do the best I can." The blank eyes of characters in Little Orphan Annie almost became Gray's signature, leaving the reader to interpret the mood themselves. Working generally on his own, Gray employed his cousins Edwin and Robert Leffington as his assistants, only for lettering and background work. Edwin became a cartoonist in his own right in 1933 with his creation, "Little Joe". When Edwin died in 1936, his brother Robert took over "Little Joe" until it ended in the late 1950s.   Gray described his Annie character as "tougher than hell, with a heart of gold and a fast left, who can take care of herself because she has to." The cartoonist became a multi-millionaire from his creation. Annie was transformed into a radio personality for 13 years beginning in the 1930s; she was on the movie screen for the first time in 1932 and aga

What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's pet golden cocker spaniel ?

Project MUSE - Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Dog Days Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Dog Days Kevin A. Morrison (bio) Abstract Nineteenth-century female poets frequently wrote about their pets. A pervasive tendency among contemporary critics has been to dismiss these poems as engaged in the conventions of mawkish, sentimental anthropomorphism that modernist writers, lauded for inaugurating a process of seriously rethinking human and nonhuman animal relations in terms of reciprocity and responsibility, are seen to debunk. This view has forestalled any real analysis of how Victorian women writers themselves, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in particular, actively inquired into the epistemology and phenomenology of love across the species divide. This paper argues that Barrett Browning’s poems about—and frequent references in her letters to—her cocker spaniel Flush, which have frequently been looked on with embarrassment by literary critics and biographers alike, are actually contiguous with the theoretical concerns about love, kinship, and intimacy that occupy much of her literary and epistolary output. Critics and biographers of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, although rarely invoking Sigmund Freud, often draw loosely on the psychoanalytic category of substitution when recounting key details of her life. 1 According to this line of thinking, her brother Edward (or “Bro,” as she affectionately called him) constitutes the prototype of every subsequent relationship she entered into after his drowning in 1840 at the age of thirty-three off the southern coast of Devonshire. There is, of course, much evidence for this assertion. Barrett frequently defined her relationship with Bro in terms of harmony and organic wholeness. “There was no harsh word, no unkind look” from her brother throughout her life, she once recounted; “A leaf never shook till the tree fell. The shade was over me softly till it fell.” 2 The poet considered Bro her “best beloved” and her “first and chiefest affection”; she loved him “best in the world beyond comparison and rivalship” and received from him nothing but “the tenderest affection.” 3 Hence, critics have repeatedly concluded that in every subsequent relationship, Barrett attempted to find a suitable replacement for the lost object of her affections. 4 Enter Mary Russell Mitford and her cocker spaniel Flush. Four years before Bro’s drowning, Mitford was already providing Barrett with a sounding board for her ideas and serving as an increasingly significant source of moral and intellectual support. After Bro’s death, Mitford was in a position to help Barrett “turn again to life and to high poetic aspirations.” 5 Dorothy Mermin has pointed out that “Miss Mitford gave her young friend what she needed: flowers, . . . letters full of warmth and affection and the daily bustle of life, and literary encouragement.” 6 Perhaps the greatest gift that Mitford gave Barrett, however, was the puppy of her own dog, each bearing the name Flush. Margaret Forster remarks that “Mitford empathised completely with [Barrett’s] anguish” over Bro’s death and believed that the cocker spaniel would provide, “if not anything as insulting as distraction, an outlet for her distress, [and] some tangible comfort.” 7 In such accounts, Flush becomes a substitute for “the tenderest affection[s]” Barrett received from and showered on Bro: “Even when perfectly aware that she was being faintly ridiculous Elizabeth could not restrain herself: all the demonstrative love of which she was capable gushed out over Flush.” 8 Peter Dally similarly remarks that although her “loss was irreparable” and “no one could take [End Page 93] Bro’s place,” Barrett “now had a companion who spent much of his time on her bed.” 9 Flush, on the one hand, is often figured by biographers as bestowing physical affection on and generating much amusement for Barrett. Mitford, on the other hand, is often seen as drawing out Elizabeth’s poetic sensibilities, which prepares her to enter her union with Robert Browning on an equal literary footing. Both helped to ease Barrett’s

The title of what poetic drama by Robert Browning was used to name a Kentucky town?

Robert Browning: Poems E-Text | Notes | GradeSaver The poem tells in detail an actual incident, and was written as a protest against vivisection. 3. =Sir Olaf=. A conventional name in romances of mediaeval chivalry. 6. A satire upon Byronism. Manfred and Childe Harold are heroes of this type. Note the abruptness and vigor of the style. Where does it seem effective? Where unduly harsh? Why does the poet welcome the third bard? What things does the poem satirize? INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP. (PAGE 17.) The incident is real, except that the actual hero was a man, not a boy. 1. =Ratisbon= (German Regensburg). A city in Austria, stormed by Napoleon in 1809. 11. =Lannes=. Duke of Montebello, a general in Napoleon's army. 20. This sentence is incomplete. The idea is begun anew in line 23. What two ideals are contrasted in Napoleon and the boy? By what means is sympathy turned from one to the other? Show how rapidity and vividness are given to the story. HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX. (PAGE 19.) Browning thus explains the origin of the poem: "There is no sort of historical foundation about Good News from Ghent. I wrote it under the bulwark of a vessel off the African coast, after I had been at sea long enough to appreciate even the fancy of a gallop on the back of a certain good horse 'York,' then in my stable, at home." It would require a skilful imagination to create a set of circumstances which could give any other plausible reason for the ride to "save Aix from her fate." 14. =Lokeren=. Twelve miles from Ghent. 15. =Boom=. Sixteen miles from Lokeren. 16. =Dueffeld=. Twelve miles from Boom. 17. 19, 31, etc. =Mecheln= (Fr. Malines), =Aershot=, =Hasselt=, etc. The reader may trace the direction and length of the ride in any large atlas. Minute examinations of the route are, however, of no special value. Note the rapidity of narration and the galloping movement of the verse; the time of starting, and the anxious attention to the time as the journey proceeds. How are we given a sense of the effort and distress of the horses? How do we see Roland gradually emerging as the hero? Where is the climax of the story? Note, especially, the power or beauty of lines 2, 5, 7, 15, 23, 25, 39, 40, 47, 51-53, 54-56. HERVE RIEL. (PAGE 22.) (Published in the Cornhill Magazine, 1871. Browning gave the L100 received for the poem to the fund for the relief of the people of Paris, who were starving after the siege of 1870.) The cause of James II., who had been removed from the English throne in 1688, and succeeded by William and Mary, was taken up by the French. The story is strictly historical, except that Herve Riel asked a holiday for the rest of his life. 5. =St. Malo on the Rance=. On the northern coast of France, in Brittany. See any large atlas. 43. =pressed=. Forced to enter service in the navy. 44. =Croisickese=. A native of Croisic, in Brittany. Browning has used the legends of Croisic for poetic material in his Gold Hair of Pornic and in The Two Poets of Croisic. 46. =Malouins=. Inhabitants of St. Malo. 135. =The Louvre=. The great palace and art gallery of Paris. Note the suggestion of the sea, and of eager hurry, in the movement of the verse. Compare the directness of the opening with that of the preceding poem: What is the advantage of such a beginning? How much is told of the hero? By what means is his heroism emphasized? How is Browning's departure from the legend a gain? Observe the abrupt energy of lines 39-40; the repetition, in 79-80; the picture of Herve Riel in stanzas viii and x. PHEIDIPPIDES. (PAGE 30.) The story is from Herodotus, told there in the third person. See Herodotus, VI., 105-106. The final incident and the reward asked by the runner are Browning's addition. [Greek: =Chairete, nikomen=]. Rejoice, we conquer. 4. =Zeus=. The chief of the Greek gods (Roman Jupiter). =Her of the aegis and spear=. These were the emblems of Athena (Roman Minerva), the goddess of wisdom and of warfare. 5. =Ye of the bow and the buskin=. Apollo and Diana. 8. =Pan=. The god of nature, of the fields and their fruits. 9. =A

What did L. Fran Baum, author of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, call his home in Hollywood?

L. Frank Baum | Oz Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia THE ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ "Never give into despair, for behind every gloomy cloud, there is a bright Rainbow..." ―Lyman Frank Baum R.I.P Dorothy Toto and their three comrades travel to the Emerald City. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow 1900 L. Frank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919) was an American stage performer, actor, poet and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow , of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He named himself Royal Historian of Oz and wrote thirteen sequels , nine other fantasy novels , and a plethora of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. The Original 14 Classic Oz Books by Baum All In Order. Baum would become an iconic figure in story telling. He is responsible for giving a very special gift of spellbinding magic and comort to millions of people from all over the world. Decades later people still could not forget nor resist from falling under his spell and in love with his fictional creations of Wicked Witches, magic shoes and flying Monkeys. An entrancing phenomenon, even over one hundred years after his Death. Baum is a legend in literature, and best known as the man who wrote and told the very first American Fairytale; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz of 1900. Baum's childhood and early life The Royal Historian of Oz! Frank was born in Chittenango, New York, into a devout Methodist family of German (father's side) and Scots-Irish (mother's side) origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum , only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Frank grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise. As a young child Frank was tutored at home with his siblings , but at the age of 12 he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. Frank was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. But after two utterly miserable years at the military academy, he was allowed to return home. Frank Joslyn Baum claimed that this was following an incident described as a heart attack, though there is no contemporary evidence of this. A younger L. Frank Baum. Frank started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. His father bought him a cheap printing press, and Frank used it to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal with the help of his younger brother, Harry Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close. The brothers published several issues of the journal and included advertisements they may have sold. By the time he was 17, Baum had established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with his friends. L. Frank Baum At about the same time Frank embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with the theater, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy. His first such failure occurred when a local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes, with the promise of leading roles that never came his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre—temporarily—and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse. At one point, he found another clerk locked in a store room dead, an apparent suicide. This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros . At the age of 20, Baum took on a new vocation: the breeding of fancy poultry, which was a national c

What exotic city was featured in National Geographic magazine's first photo story in 1905?

National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com Published: September 2015 How a Remote Peak in Myanmar Nearly Broke an Elite Team of Climbers On one of mountaineering’s most dangerous journeys, group was pushed to the limit by physical and mental challenges. By Mark Jenkins Photographs by Cory Richards Photograph above by Renan Ozturk The wind slams into me, and I desperately grip my ice axes to keep from being ripped off the mountain face. I push my head against the snow, calm myself, and look down. Beneath my crampons is a 5,000-foot drop. It’s like looking down from the open door of an airplane. I am roped to my two companions, with nothing attaching us to the mountain. A fall here would send all three of us plummeting to our death. When the wind subsides, I pound an aluminum stake into the snow and clip the rope to it. It wouldn’t hold if I were to fall but gives me enough psychological comfort to continue. I concentrate, methodically swinging my ice tools and kicking my crampons. At a rock rampart I place an anchor and belay my partners, Cory Richards and Renan Ozturk, across the chasm. “Nice lead, dude!” Cory shouts above the roar of the wind when he arrives. He climbs onward, slanting left, searching for a passage up through the granite and snow. When Renan reaches me, there is no room on my ledge, so he traverses out to his own perch. Cory carefully tiptoes the teeth of his crampons along a thin ledge above us and disappears from sight. Renan and I wait, hunched against the wind. We stomp our feet and painfully slap our gloved hands. We are too far apart to talk. We just stand there, together but alone, on the side of the snow-plastered cliff more than three miles in the sky. After a half hour we begin to freeze. After an hour we can no longer feel our fingers or toes. “I can’t take it anymore,” Renan yells through his frozen beard. “My feet are gone. I have to start moving.” We don’t know what Cory is doing above us, but we’re so cold it doesn’t matter. Renan starts climbing, then I follow. We’re all still roped together, so it’s crucial that none of us fall. The rope is supposed to be secured to the mountain to catch a fall, but mortal predicaments like this happen often in mountaineering. When there are no good anchors, your partners become your anchors, physically and emotionally. You must trust your life to their judgment and ability, and they entrust their lives to yours. This is the code of the mountains. Stretched to the limit, the team—which included (left to right) videographer Renan Ozturk, author Mark Jenkins, photographer Cory Richards, climber Emily Harrington, and expedition leader Hilaree O’Neill—began running low on food on the hike out. “None of us anticipated we’d get that strung out,” says Cory. Renan and I halt in a small rock recess overlooking the north face of the mountain. Through blowing spindrift we can see Cory traversing another expanse of snow. It is too dangerous for Renan and me to keep moving. Again, we must wait. We huddle close, but we’re still freezing. The wind swirls around our bodies, howling and biting at us like invisible hyenas. “My feet are turnaround cold,” Renan says. What he means is that they’re close to frostbite. I wonder, for at least the tenth time on this expedition, whether this is the end of our quest to climb the highest peak in Myanmar—a journey that has pushed us to our physical and emotional limits. Far below us on the mountain, our other team members are pulling for us in spirit. Our base camp manager, Taylor Rees, is at the foot of the mountain. The previous day we left Hilaree O’Neill and Emily Harrington at camp 3, a tent nested on a snowy ridgeline, where our weary team had a bitter argument over who would try for the summit. I tell Renan to take off his boots and place his feet underneath my down parka, against my chest. He has socks on, and my chest isn’t exactly a furnace, but it’s the best we can do. When Cory makes his way around a rock buttress, we start moving. An hour passes before we finally regroup on a thin ledge. Our immediate goal remains far abov

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TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.

For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday?

TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.

How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling?

TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.

"In the Bible, for what ""price"" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob?"

TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.

What bird is named for the apostle Peter?

TRIVIA - THE BIBLE TRIVIA - THE BIBLE Bible Trivia questions and answers. How much time did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale? A. Three days and three nights. Why did a Bible published in London in 1632 become known as the Wicked Bible? A. Because "not" was missing from the seventh commandment, making it "Thou shalt commit adultery." The name of God is not mentioned in only one book of the Bible. Which one? A. The Book of Esther. What kind of wood was used to make Noah's Ark? A. Gopher wood, according to Genesis 6:14. Who was the only Englishman to become Pope? A. Nicholas Breakspear, who was Adrian IV from 1154 to 1159. For what event in February 1964 did evangelist Billy Graham break his strict rule against watching TV on Sunday? A. The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." According to the Bible, what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark and to seal the basket in which the infant Moses was set adrift on the Nile? A. Pitch, or natural asphalt. How old was Moses when he died? A. He was 120 years old, according to the Bible (Deuteronomy 34:7). How tall was Goliath, the Philistine giant slain by David with a stone hurled from a sling? A. "Six cubits and a span," What biblical Babylonian king cast Daniel into the lion's den for praying to God in defiance of a royal decree? A. Darius the Mede (Book of Daniel, Chapter 6). What is the longest name in the Bible? A. Mahershalalbashbaz, which is also written Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (Isaiah 8:1). In the Bible, which of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse? A. War (Book of Revelation). How many books of the Bible are named for women? A. Ruth and Esther. What language is Jesus believed to have spoken? A. Aramaic -- an ancient language in use on the north Arabian Peninsula at the time of Christ. A modern version of the language is spoken today in Syria and among Assyrians in Azerbaijan. In the Bible, for what "price" did Esau sell his birthright to his younger twin brother, Jacob? A. Pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:29-34). What did the lords of the philistines offer Delilah for revealing the secret of Samson's strength? A. They promised the sum of 1,100 pieces of silver each, according to the Bible (Judges 16:5). In the Old Testament, who was Jezebel's husband? A. Ahab, King of Israel (I Kings 16:28-31). What bird is named for the apostle Peter? A. The petrel, from a diminutive form of Petrus, or "Peter," in Latin. What was the first town in the United States to be given a biblical name? Hint: Its name is the most common biblical place name in the country. A. Salem, Massachusetts. Salem is the shortened form of Jerusalem, which means "the city of peace" in Hebrew. In the Bible, who did the sun and moon stand still before? A. Joshua.

Who is the only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible?

Sarah, Sarai, Sara - All the Women of the Bible - Bible Gateway Sarah, Sarai, Sara The Woman Who Became Mother of Nations Scripture References— Genesis 11:29-31; 12:5-17; 16:1-8; 17:15-21; 18; 20:2-18; 21:1-12; 23:1-19; 24:36, 37; 25:10, 12; 49:31; Isaiah 51:2; Romans 4:19; 9:9; Hebrews 11:11; 1 Peter 3:6 Name Meaning—Among the classified names of the Bible are those known as sacramental names, and are so-called because they were names given by God Himself, or under His inspiration in association with a particular promise, covenant or declaration of His, as to the character, destiny or mission of those distinctly named. Thus a sacramental name became a sign and seal of an established covenant between God and the recipient of such a name. Two Bible characters bearing sacramental names are Abraham and Sarah, both of which signify the gracious purposes and promises of God. The wife of the patriarch was originally known as Sarai, meaning “princely” or “a princess.” Elsdon C. Smith suggests it may signify “contentious” or “quarrelsome,” but was changed, not accidentally, or by the whim of the bearer, but by God Himself that it might be a sign of His purpose, into Sarah, implying the princess, a princess or princesses, the source of nations and kings. Sarah or “chieftainness,” the feminine of Sar, meaning a “captain” or “commander” is repeatedly used in this sense as a common noun as, for instance, by Isaiah who renders it “queen” ( Isaiah 49:23 ). It has been observed that among ancient Jews there was a sort of a cabalistic translation that “the Hebrew letter yod signifies the creative power of God in nature, while the letter hay symbolizes the state of grace—that state into which Sarah had entered after receiving the covenanted promises.” The promise of ancestorship of many nations came with the change of the name of Sarai to Sarah. “I will bless her and she shall become nations.” She was thus associated with her husband in the great blessing of the covenant whose name was also changed from Abram to Abraham. The former, original name means a “high, or honored father,” the latter, “a father of many nations.” The Apocrypha speaks of Abraham as “a great father of a multitude of nations” ( Ecclesiasticus 44:19-21 ). The root idea of Sarah means “to rule,” and fits the personality of the bearer. It was a name intended as a seal of the promise given to Abraham, “kings of peoples shall be of her.” Paul has an allegorical reference to Sarah as one who typified the gospel dispensation, “Jerusalem which is above ... which is the mother of us all” ( Galatians 4:26 ). Thus, Sarah was to be the princess, not only “because she was to be the ancestress of a great nation literally, of many nations spiritually, but also because the rank and power were to be possessed by her descendants, or rather because the people descended from her were to be ruled over by a regal dynasty, by a succession of kings of their own race and lineage, is derived from her.” In the genealogy of the descendants of Esau, Sarah’s grandson we read, “These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.” The line of kings descended from Sarah terminated in God’s Anointed One, the Messiah, whose “kingdom is not of this world.” The sacramental name of Sarah, therefore, also symbolizes the spiritual seed, the whole multitude of believers of all nations who are “kings and priests unto God.” Then the personal application of the changed name must not be forgotten. Called Sarah by God and the Angels ( Genesis 17:15; 18:9 ), she exhibited the traits of a princess, “wielding a sceptre by the magic of which she could lord it over men’s hearts after her own will, even bring kings to her feet. If she came into the world with a will of her own as her dowry, nature further assisted her in developing it by the great beauty of her face and the grace of her stature. By these gifts she made her wish a command and disarmed opposition.” Both in bearing and character she illustrated the significance of her name. Through the long, lon

What is the most common name in the Bible--shared by 32 people in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament?

Catalogue and List of Divine Titles of God Catalogue and List of Divine Titles of God       The following will send shivers up the spine of every Jehovah's Witness! To their horror, the divine name underwent change and development. "God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the Lord; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them." (Exodus 6:2-3) From Adam to Moses, God's name was "El-Shaddai" (God Almighty). From Moses to Christ, God's name was YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah). For Christians the name of God is JESUS! "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) Certainly the Jews never foresaw the time when YHWH would no longer be used as the name for God and it would be replace with Jesus! But actually, in God's providence, the Jews were actually part of the change. The Septuagint was a translation in 250 BC from the Hebrew Old Testament by 70 scholars into Greek. They translated YHWH as LORD (Kurios). It was no mistake that the Holy Spirit Himself continued in this tradition in the New Testament. God ordained that YHWH would never once be found in the original Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. Of course the New World Translation (sectarian paraphrase used only by JW's) adds YHWH into the English New Testament where never found in the underlying Greek. The Watchtower has actually added to the word of God and will be punished according to the curses of Revelation for doing such! Meanwhile, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses are also deceived.   Primary Old Testament Names For God: English Gen 2:4; 15:2; Ex 6:3 Lord YH (Yah) (abbreviated form of Yahweh) 49x Psalm 68:4 I Am That I Am Eheyeh asher Eheyeh 1x El-Shaddai (Might of the Powerful Ones) Genesis 17:1 Cela (craig) Tzur (rock or strength) Ps 18:2 (used interchangeably) YHWH-sabaoth (Lord of Armies) 285x 1 Samuel 1:3 YHWH-jireh: will see or provide Genesis 22:14  YHWH-nissi: our banner or victory Exodus 17:15  YHWH-shammah: Present and available when needed Ezekiel 48:35  Additional OT Names Of God The Name: [HaShem] (Leviticus 24:16) God Of Abraham, God Of Isaac, And God Of Jacob: (Exodus 3:15) The Great Mighty Awesome God: (Deuteronomy 10:17) Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Father Of Eternity, Prince Of Peace: (Isaiah 9:6) Father: (Isaiah 64:8) Spirit Of God: (Genesis 1:2) The Spirit Of The LORD God: (Isaiah 61:1) The Spirit Of The LORD, The Spirit Of Wisdom And Understanding, The Spirit Of Counsel and Strength, The Spirit Of Knowledge And The Fear Of The LORD: (Isaiah 11:2) Holy One Of Israel: (Psalm 78:41) Upright One: (Isaiah 26:7) Light Of Israel: (Isaiah 10:17) Light To The Nations: (Isaiah 42:6) Our Dwelling Place: (Psalm 90:1) Fortress: (Psalm 91:2) Tower Of Strength: (Psalm 61:3) Refuge: (Psalm 46:1) Rock Of My Strength: (Psalm 62:7) Rock Of Israel: (2 Samuel 23:3) Stone: (Psalm 118:22) Stone of Israel: (Genesis 49:24) Cornerstone: (Psalm 118:22) My Portion In The Land Of The Living: (Psalm 142:5) The Portion Of My Inheritance: (Psalm 16:5) My Cup: (Psalm 16:5) Crown and Daidem: (Isaiah 28:5) Potter: (Isaiah 64:8) Tent Peg, Bow Of Battle: (Zechariah 10:4) Husband: (Isaiah 54:5) Creator Of Israel: (Isaiah 43:15) Shepherd: (Genesis 49:24) Shepherd Of Israel: (Psalm 80:1) Messenger Of The Covenant: (Malachi 3:1) Redeemer: (Psalm 19:14) Redeemer of Israel: (Isaiah 49:7) Deliverer: (Psalm 144:2) King Of Israel: (Zephaniah 3:15) King Of Glory: (Psalm 24:7) Lord Of All The Earth: (Micah 4:13) Ancient of Days: (Daniel 7:9) The Most High: (Deuteronomy 32:8) Covenant To The People: (Isaiah 42:6) Shiloh: (Genesis 49:10) The Arm Of The Lord: (Isaiah 53:1) Ruler In Israel: (Micah 5:2) Messiah The Prince: (Daniel 9:25)   New Testament Names For God The Father (This section compiled by Loren Jacobs) Father: (Matthew 6:9) God The Father: (2 Timothy 1:2) Father Of Our Lord Yeshua The Messiah: (Colossians 1:3) The Father Of Lights: (James 1:17) The Father Of Glory: (Ephesians 1:17) The Father O

In what language was the New Testament originally written?

In what language was the Bible first written? | Biblica - The International Bible Society In what language was the Bible first written? In what language was the Bible first written? The first human author to write down the biblical record was Moses. He was commanded by God to take on this task, for Exodus 34:27 records God’s words to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” And what language did he use? He wrote in his native language, called Hebrew. Hebrew is one of a group of languages known as the Semitic languages which were spoken throughout that part of the world, then called Mesopotamia, located today mainly in Iraq. Their alphabet consisted of 22 letters, all consonants. (Imagine having an alphabet with no vowels! Much later they did add vowels.) During the thousand years of its composition, almost the entire Old Testament was written in Hebrew. But a few chapters in the prophecies of Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in a language called Aramaic. This language became very popular in the ancient world and actually displaced many other languages. Aramaic even became the common language spoken in Israel in Jesus’ time, and it was likely the language He spoke day by day. Some Aramaic words were even used by the Gospel writers in the New Testament. The New Testament, however, was written in Greek. This seems strange, since you might think it would be either Hebrew or Aramaic. However, Greek was the language of scholarship during the years of the composition of the New Testament from 50 to 100 AD. The fact is that many Jews could not even read Hebrew anymore, and this disturbed the Jewish leaders a lot! So, around 300 BC a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek was undertaken, and it was completed around 200 BC. Gradually this Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, was widely accepted and was even used in many synagogues. It also became a wonderful missionary tool for the early Christians, for now the Greeks could read God’s Word in their own tongue. So the New Testament authors wrote in Greek. They did not, however, use really high-class or classical Greek, but a very common and everyday type of Greek. For many years some scholars ridiculed the Greek of the New Testament because many of its words were strange to those who read the writings of the great Greek classical authors such as Plato and Aristotle. But later many records were uncovered of ordinary people, and amazingly there were the same common terms used in everyday speech! The ridicule dried up accordingly. The earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Old Testament were discovered in 1947. They are part of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls and actually date back to the first century BC. Even though they are at least 900 years older than any parts of the Bible we had before this, they are not the originals. They are copies. The originals have all been lost or destroyed. But we are not at all doubtful that we may not have the original text. Copying by scribes was done with great care in those days and because the text was regarded as sacred, the copyists were extremely painstaking. Today some 5000 hand-copied documents exist of all or part of the Bible, and they agree in 98% of the text! No other ancient writing has this amount of underlying support with such amazing agreement as to the text. Yes, we do have what God wanted us to have! By way of translation, we now have His revelation in our own language and in 2300 other languages, too. Today we have the very Bible that comes to us from the three languages used in the original. Truly we can say, “God speaks my language, too!” Back to FAQs Do you have questions about the Bible? Visit our FAQs page for in-depth answers to important questions.

What was the total population of the world at the time of Christ?

World Population Since Creation World Population Since Creation Display created by Ed Stephan http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/ The Antediluvian World Genesis 4 and 5 records the history of the Antediluvian world in a highly condensed account. From the genealogical list, which is probably complete without any gaps, the time between Adam and the flood of Noah---which occurred when the latter was 600 years old---can be calculated to be almost exactly 1656 years. If one takes Barry Setterfield's chronology as more accurate, the time period from Adam to the Flood was 2256 years. During this time period, man was much healthier than he is now; the gene pool, less corrupted by subsequent harmful mutations and other defects; and the environment on earth, was much more favorable to good health and long life, as can be seen by the recorded pre-flood longevities. While classical evolutionary theory presupposes earth's early atmosphere was a reducing atmosphere (devoid of Oxygen) newer scientific evidence confirms what Bible scholars had previously suspected: the earth's ancient atmosphere probably contained a larger fraction of oxygen than it does at present. It is even possible that photosynthesis in plant life was more efficient than it is now. A warmer average climate in ancient times would also mean a higher rate of oxygen generation by the more numerous plant life. At age 65, Enoch became the father of a son whom he named Methuselah, a name which means "when he dies it (the flood) shall come." Enoch went on to walk with God another 300 years and was taken up ("translated") into heaven by God without dying. Methuselah survived to age 969, the oldest man who ever lived. True to prediction, the flood came the year Methuselah died. Ray C. Stedman in his book Understanding Man has analyzed the meaning of the names of the descendants in the line of Seth to Noah and gives the following explanation: "a way of escape [for man] is indicated again in a most fascinating way in this chapter by the meaning of the names listed. There is some difference among authorities as to the meaning of these names, depending upon the root from which they are judged to be taken. But one authority gives a most interesting sequence of meanings. The list begins with Seth, which means 'Appointed.' Enosh, his son, means 'Mortal;' and his son, Kenan, means 'Sorrow.' His son Mahalalel, means 'The Blessed God.' He named his boy Jared which means 'Came Down,' and his boy, Enoch, means 'Teaching.' Methuselah, as we saw, means 'His death shall bring;' Lamech means 'Strength,' and Noah, 'Comfort.' Now put that all together: God has Appointed that Mortal man shall Sorrow; but The Blessed God, Came Down, Teaching, that His Death Shall Bring, Strength and Comfort. "Is this book (Genesis) from God? God has given you and me a life to watch just as Methuselah's generation watched his. It is your own life. God has written "Methuselah" on each one of us. "His death shall bring it," or "When he dies, it will come." How far is it till the end of the world for you? When you die. That is the end of the world. That is the end of man's day. Is it fifty years from now, ten, tomorrow? Who knows? But at any moment, when he dies, it will come."   Population Growth Estimates Growth of world population during various epochs of earth history can be calculated by a well-known formula: In this formula Pn is the population after n generations beginning with one man and one woman; n is the number of generations---found by dividing the total time period by the number of years per generation. The variable x can be thought of as the number of generations that are alive when P(n) is evaluated. Therefore, if x is 2, the generations that are alive are generations n and n-1. This means that only a generation and its parents are alive. It seems reasonable to choose x = 3 most of the time. Taking x = 3 means that when P(n) is evaluated generations n, n-1, and n-2 are all alive. C is half the number of children in the family. If each family has only two children, the population growth

Who were the parents of King Solomon?

King Solomon | Jewish Virtual Library Tweet The biblical King Solomon was known for his wisdom, his wealth and his writings. He became ruler in approximately 967 B.C.E. and his kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the north to Egypt in the south. His crowning achievement was the building of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem . Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the biblical books of Kings I and Chronicles II . Solomon was the son of King David and Bathsheba. Solomon was not the oldest son of David , but David promised Bathsheba that Solomon would be the next king. When David’s elder son Adonijah declared himself king, David ordered his servants to bring Solomon to the Gihon spring where the priest anointed him while David was still alive. Solomon inherited a considerable empire from his father. At first Solomon was faced with opposition. Two of David’s closest advisors, Joab son of Zeruiah and the priest Abiathar, sided with Adonijah. When Adonijah came to Solomon and requested the king’s servant as a wife, Solomon saw that this was a veiled threat to take over his kingdom and sent a messenger to kill Adonijah. He banished Abiathar to the city of Anathoth. Solomon then followed his father’s last instructions in which David had ordered him to kill both Joab and one of his father’s enemies, Shimei son of Gera. Solomon thus overcame the last potential threats to his kingdom. He then appointed his friends to key military, governmental and religious posts. Solomon accumulated enormous wealth. He controlled the entire region west of the Euphrates and had peace on his borders. Kings I states that he owned 12,000 horses with horsemen and 1,400 chariots. Remains of stalls for 450 horses have in fact been found in Megiddo . Solomon strengthened his kingdom through marital alliances. Kings I records that he had 700 wives and 300 concubines, although some regard this number as an exaggeration.2 He had a large share in the trade between northern and southern countries. He established Israelite colonies around his province to look after military, administrative and commercial matters. The empire was divided into twelve districts, with Judah constituting its own political unit and enjoying certain privileges. Although Solomon was young, he soon became known for his wisdom. The first and most famous incident of his cleverness as a judge was when two women came to his court with a baby whom both women claimed as their own. Solomon threatened to split the baby in half. One woman was prepared to accept the decision, but the other begged the King to give the live baby to the other woman. Solomen then knew the second woman was the mother. People from surrounding nations also came to hear

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To whom did Herman Melville dedicate his novel, Moby Dick?

Herman Melville Herman Melville Usually ships 2-3 business days after receipt of order. Quantity Volume 2, 1851-1891 Hershel Parker Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Biography and Autobiography Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all," Parker concluded, "this was the happiest day of Melville's life." Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891 chronicles Melville's life in rich detail, from this ecstatic moment to his death, in obscurity, forty years later. Parker describes the malignity of reviewers and sheer bad luck that doomed Moby-Dick to failure (and its author to prolonged indebtedness), the savage reviews he received for his next book Pierre, and his inability to have the novel The Isle of the Cross—now lost—published at all. Melville turned to magazine fiction, writing the now-classic "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," and produced a final novel, The Confidence Man, a mordant satire of American optimism. Over his last three decades, while working as a customs inspector in Manhattan, Melville painstakingly remade himself as a poet, crafting the centennial epic Clarel, in which he sorted out his complex feelings for Hawthorne, and the masterful story "Billy Budd," originally written as a prose headnote to an unfinished poem. Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. The concluding volume of Herman Melville: A Biography confirms Hershel Parker's position as the world's leading Melville scholar, demonstrating his unrivaled biographical, literary, and historical imagination and providing a rich new portrait of a great—and profoundly American—artist. Hershel Parker is the author of Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons and Reading "Billy Budd"; co-editor, with Harrison Hayford, of the landmark 1967 Norton Critical Edition of Moby-Dick, wholly revised in 2001; and Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. He lives in Morro Bay, California. "Parker's impressive scholarship and a vigorous analysis are cause for celebration. Too often reviewers misuse the word 'definitive'; not so in this case. The meticulous Parker has practically reconstructed Melville's DNA and in doing so has rendered American literature a signal service. Parker recounts Melville's chronic bad luck, epic writing binges, failed lectures, surreal visions and troubled marriage. It's a saga of genius refusing to be derailed. But Parker unearths a plethora of new material, including previously unknown family correspondence and even the title and plot of Melville's long-lost novel, The Isle of the Cross." — Douglas Brinkley - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Through prodigious archival research, Parker creates a compelling narrative out of the last forty years of Melville's life, as he struggled with the spectre of failure... It is unlikely that a more searching or truthful biography of Melville will appear in the foreseeable future; the two volumes Parker has now published on one of America's finest writers are not only the fullest account we have of him but, quite probably, the final word." — Richard Gray - Literary Review "Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of

"Under what assumed name did Oscar Wilde live out the last three years of his life, in ""France?"

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What was Scarlett O'Hara's real first name?

Scarlett Name Meaning & Origin | Baby Name Wizard Scarlett Name Meaning & Origin US Popularity of Scarlett Over Time Sister & Brother Names Know a Scarlett? What are her siblings named? Enter Sibling Name F Age Share what you know! Personal experiences with the name Scarlett: | Edit My Cousins Name is Scarlett, we're fairly close but she is incredibly stuck up about it. She's decide that Scarlett is the most regal name possible. We all call her Lettie most of the time, but she insists on being introduced to people as Scarlett, and pretty much tells people that she's the Queen of life. My name is Scarlett, and I'm named after my mother's best friend Scarlett. I have red hair so people think I was named for my hair, but I wasn't. I'm 45, and when I was a kid people always made fun of my name and 80% of the teachers called me Charlotte because they couldn't remember "Scarlett". During graduate school I worked in a bookstore and I used to wear a name tag that said "Emma", because the jokes about my name were annoying. I was so excited when Scarlett Johansson became famous, because she made the name Scarlett seem exotic and beautiful. We named our daughter Scarlett Evelyn. We had tossed the name around for a few months and settled on Trinity Elise instead, but when I was pregnant with her, I felt her kicking very strongly and I knew she was going to be feisty. I knew that there was no way she could be anything other than a Scarlett. And nowadays, the name suits her perfectly! My daughter's name is Scarlett Eloise. Eloise is my middle name. My husband and I love the colour red so we thought the name would be fitting. We also wanted a name that started with S because our other daughter's name is Sabrina. I think Scarlett is a beautiful, classic name and it suits our little girl. My name is Scarlett and I have enjoyed growing up with the name. It is unique and people compliment me on it. The only downside is that I am very often called Charlotte and that gets frustrating. It is also infuriating when people spell it with one 't'. Once I correct someone, though, they usually don't forget again. Starbucks is also a nightmare. I have even gotten "Starlet". I also hate the choice of nicknames. My sisters call me Scarlie. I hate the nickname Scar! People will sometimes tease me about it but overall it is a great name. Nicknames for Scarlett: | Edit Scatt Meanings and history of the name Scarlett: | Edit Originated from an English and Irish surname, as explained in "Gone With the Wind" ("There were the Scarletts who had fought with the Irish Volunteers for a free Ireland and been hanged for their pains.") It was an occupation name given those who dealt in scarlet, a type of fine and expensive woolen cloth, in medieval times. Scarlet actually was made in many colors, but the most popular was carmine red; this popularity also gave the cloth's name to a word for bright red, "scarlet", still used today. Scarlet was comparatively elastic due to the technique of twisting the yarn in weaving it, and was often used for stockings and tights. The character Will Scarlett in "Robin Hood" also got his surname from this occupation. Famous real-life people named Scarlett: | Edit Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (b. 1984) - American actress Scarlett Noel Pomers (b. 1988) - American actress Scarlett Leithold (b. 1999) - American model Scarlett in song, story & screen: | Edit Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With the Wind". Her full name was actually Katie Scarlett O'Hara, in honor of her paternal grandmother Katie Scarlett. Scarlett, eccentric friend of Hugh Grant's character in film "Four Weddings and a Funeral" ("My name's Scarlett, like O'Hara, only less trouble ...") Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen - One of the main characters is called Scarlett Scarlett, beautiful main character in the story L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad Scarlett, name of main character from Cathy Cassidy's book "Scarlett", a rebellious redhead

How many years did Robinson Crusoe spend shipwrecked on his island?

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

"What one word was intentionally left out of the movie version of Mario Puzo's novel, ""The Godfather"". even though this word was the working title of the book?"

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In the comic strips, what was the name of Mandrake the Magician's giant partner?

Mandrake the Magician by Fred Fredericks -- Created by Lee Falk - Mandrake the Magician Comic Strip | Comics Kingdom About this Comic The Authors The Characters A true classic and a standard among comic strips, Mandrake the Magician has been mystifying readers since 1934! Mandrake the Magician was created by Lee Falk during the Great Depression, a time in our nation's history when adventurous comic strips became popular for their morale-building appeal. The dapper, mustached magician remains one of the most famous characters in the comic strip medium, his adventures appearing in newspapers worldwide. Mandrake uses his legendary powers of hypnotism and illusion to combat crime, and has worked his debonair magic to find a place in the hearts of comic strip fans everywhere. Many comic strips and comic books throughout the history of the medium have starred mystics and magicians. Over the years, characters such as Merzah the Mystic, Sargon the Sorcerer and Zanzibar the Magician have worked their magic on readers, but none have displayed the longevity of the Mandrake the Magician comic strip. Mandrake was also the first comic strip with a racially integrated cast of crime-fighters. Mandrake's partner in adventure is the gigantic Lothar, and the two of them have been fighting evildoers for decades! Mandrake is also aided by his wife, the lovely and exotic Princess Narda. Falk originally drew the Mandrake strip but soon turned the job over to artist Phil Davis, who illustrated the silken illusionist's doings for more than 30 years. When Davis passed away, Falk recruited current Mandrake artist Fred Fredericks. Lee Falk passed away in March of 1999, but his legacy lives on with Mandrake the Magician. Fred Fredericks Fred Fredericks was born in 1929 in Atlantic City, N.J. and was in the Marine Corps from 1950-1953. Fredericks went to Cartoonists and Illustrators School now the School of Visual Arts on the GI Bill. He wrote and illustrated history comic strips in regional papers. In 1960, he began working with the Dell and Gold Key comic books doing funny animals and adventure titles. He joined King Features in 1965 to take over the art for Mandrake the Magician, daily and Sunday. Ruminating on his Mandrake work, Fredericks says, “The best part was working with the great Lee Falk.” Fredericks took over the writing of the strip when Lee, whom he says “was one of a kind,” passed in 1999. Fredericks lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Frances, and has two children, Connie and Patrick. Lee Falk Leon "Lee" Falk is the creator of two of the most successful and longest-running action-adventure strips in the history of comic art: Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. Falk was born in St. Louis in 1911. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent four years writing copy and directing radio shows for an advertising agency in St. Louis. Once he was comfortably situated as the producer of two of the most sensationally successful features in daily newspapers, Falk took to globetrotting. For many years, the adventures of both The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician were as often as not set to paper in hotel rooms in one of the world's great capitals. The inexhaustible stories continued to come one after another even as World War II intervened. Immediately after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the patriotic Falk took on duties in secret intelligence operations with the Office of War Information and became chief of its radio foreign language division. In 1944, Falk enlisted in the United States Army. Up until the time of his death in 1999, the expert storyteller still roamed every corner of the globe and continued to mastermind the daily and Sunday newspaper adventures of both The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. Mandrake A suave and sophisticated man of mystery, Mandrake often battles the most remarkable and inventive villains while attired in formal black-tie and tails. Equally at home at a swank society affair or among the colorful denizens of the underworld, Mandrake is world famous for his many remarkable feats. His powers do not come f

What was the name of the pig leader in George Orwell's Animal Farm?

SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Character List Character List Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Napoleon -  The pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses military force (his nine loyal attack dogs) to intimidate the other animals and consolidate his power. In his supreme craftiness, Napoleon proves more treacherous than his counterpart, Snowball. Read an in-depth analysis of Napoleon. Snowball -  The pig who challenges Napoleon for control of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. Based on Leon Trotsky, Snowball is intelligent, passionate, eloquent, and less subtle and devious than his counterpart, Napoleon. Snowball seems to win the loyalty of the other animals and cement his power. Read an in-depth analysis of Snowball. Boxer -  The cart-horse whose incredible strength, dedication, and loyalty play a key role in the early prosperity of Animal Farm and the later completion of the windmill. Quick to help but rather slow-witted, Boxer shows much devotion to Animal Farm’s ideals but little ability to think about them independently. He naïvely trusts the pigs to make all his decisions for him. His two mottoes are “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right.” Read an in-depth analysis of Boxer. Squealer -  The pig who spreads Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals. Squealer justifies the pigs’ monopolization of resources and spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success. Orwell uses Squealer to explore the ways in which those in power often use rhetoric and language to twist the truth and gain and maintain social and political control. Read an in-depth analysis of Squealer. Old Major -  The prize-winning boar whose vision of a socialist utopia serves as the inspiration for the Rebellion. Three days after describing the vision and teaching the animals the song “Beasts of England,” Major dies, leaving Snowball and Napoleon to struggle for control of his legacy. Orwell based Major on both the German political economist Karl Marx and the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilych Lenin. Read an in-depth analysis of Old Major. Clover -  A good-hearted female cart-horse and Boxer’s close friend. Clover often suspects the pigs of violating one or another of the Seven Commandments, but she repeatedly blames herself for misremembering the commandments. Moses -  The tame raven who spreads stories of Sugarcandy Mountain, the paradise to which animals supposedly go when they die. Moses plays only a small role in Animal Farm, but Orwell uses him to explore how communism exploits religion as something with which to pacify the oppressed. Mollie -  The vain, flighty mare who pulls Mr. Jones’s carriage. Mollie craves the attention of human beings and loves being groomed and pampered. She has a difficult time with her new life on Animal Farm, as she misses wearing ribbons in her mane and eating sugar cubes. She represents the petit bourgeoisie that fled from Russia a few years after the Russian Revolution. Benjamin -  The long-lived donkey who refuses to feel inspired by the Rebellion. Benjamin firmly believes that life will remain unpleasant no matter who is in charge. Of all of the animals on the farm, he alone comprehends the changes that take place, but he seems either unwilling or unable to oppose the pigs. Muriel -  The white goat who reads the Seven Commandments to Clover whenever Clover suspects the pigs of violating their prohibitions. Mr. Jones -  The often drunk farmer who runs the Manor Farm before the animals stage their Rebellion and establish Animal Farm. Mr. Jones is an unkind master who indulges himself while his animals lack food; he thus represents Tsar Nicholas II, whom the Russian Revolution ousted. Mr. Frederick -  The tough, shrewd operator of Pinchfield, a neighboring farm. Based on Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, Mr. Frederick proves an untrustworthy neighbor. Mr. Pilkington -  The easygoing gentleman farmer who runs Foxwood, a neighboring farm. Mr. Frederick’s bitter enemy, Mr. Pilkington represents the

Tess Trueheart is the wife of what comic strip character?

Tess Tracy | Dick Tracy Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit When Tracy was framed for counterfeiting by Stooge Viller , Tess found it hard to believe Tracy's innocence and sadly broke up with him again. Viller had his sights on Tess and started dating her. Tess discovered evidence that Stooge had framed Tracy. Stooge panicked and shot Tess just as she was about to call police headquarters. Chief Brandon and Pat Patton found her in her apartment, the bullet having hit her in the arm. Before she passed out said that Tracy was framed and she had proof. Tracy and Junior apprehended Stooge and Tracy reconciled with Tess again. She recovered from her injury shortly thereafter. Tess was kidnapped on multiple occasions during the 1930s, including as part of plots by Big Boy and Bookie Joe . She was always rescued or managed to escape relatively unharmed.  During the Tracy's encounter with the writer Jean Penfield , Penfield planted a story in the newspaper that she and Tracy were engaged to be married. Despite Tracy's objections, Tess believed the story and confronted Penfield. This dispute was later used by the lawyer Spaldoni to lure Tess to Penfield's home, where he shot Penfield and framed Tess for the murder. Tess was arrested, but was later freed when Spaldoni confessed. At one point, Tess and Dick grew apart and Tess started seeing an ex-baseball player named Edward Nuremoh ("Homerun" spelt backwards). Dick and Tess had a brief conversation during which their engagement was broken off. Unbeknownst to Tess, her marriage to Nuremoh was part of a scheme he concocted so he could collect a wealthy aunt's money. Nuremoh killed his aunt and framed a dim-witted cousin for her murder. Tracy was assigned to the investigation, and he and Tess were rather cold and distant to each other. Acting on her own, Tess discovered evidence linking Edward to the murder. Edward admitted in a crazed, sinister voice that he had indeed killed his aunt. He chased Tess through the craggy heights of his family's land, throwing rocks and pointing a gun at her. Nuremoh's real girlfriend Lola prevented him from killing Tess by inadvertently jumping in front of a bullet. Realizing what he had done, Nuremoh held his dead girlfriend in his arms and jumped off a 130 ft. cliff. Tracy and the police arrived on the scene shortly thereafter and attempted to console the distraught Tess. Upon leaving the Nuremoh houshold, Tess was confronted by John Lavir ("Rival" spelt backwards), Lola's brother who was seeking to avenge his sister. Tess had become somewhat mentally unhinged and she took a liking to Lavir. She forgave him for attempting to force her car off the road, and the two went off together. Tess became a partner in Lavir's dog training business, but soon discovered that he dealt in stolen dogs. She began to surreptitiously return the stolen dogs at night, but Lavir discovered this and confronted her. The two struggled in Lavir's kennel. During the struggle, one of Lavir's attack dogs was freed and a window was broken. Tess grabbed a piece of broken glass and forced Lavir off her. Lavir died of a severe neck wound, and Tess was held on suspicious of manslaughter. Tracy, using forensic evidence, was able to prove that Lavir's wounds were caused by the dog, and Tess was freed. She and Tracy reconciled. Later, Tess was the leader of the girl scout troop that discovered the weakened Tracy, following his escape from Stooge Viller's abandoned well death-trap. She would also go on to aid in the investigation of Yogee Yamma , posing as a broken-hearted woman seeking advice. Tess encountered the criminal Pruneface when he rented a room from her mother. Tess became suspicious of his activities and informed Tracy of her concerns. During the second World War, Tess became a member of the Women's Army Corps as a non-commissioned officer. When the Brow was hiding on the beach, he encountered Tess and obtained her gas ration coupons. His accomplice Doc then stole her license plates and knocked her unconscious with a pair of bolt cutters. Tess recovered, and her stolen plat

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

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

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

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

Who wrote the story upon which Alfred Hitchcock based his 1963 suspense film The Birds?

Did you know? Did you know? More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain life. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk. To sell your home faster and for more money, paint it yellow. Daphne du Maurier, best known for Rebecca, wrote the story upon which Alfred Hitchcock based his 1963 suspense film The Birds. Scarlett O�Hara�s real first name was Katie                            . Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner. The average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring in a lifetime. The word �queue� is the only word in English that is pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. If a frog�s mouth is held open too long the frog will suffocate. In Disney�s fantasia, the Sorcerer name is Yensid which is Disney spelled backwards. Tablecloths meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second. Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in �A Christmas Carol,� three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were Little Larry, Puny Pete, and Small Sam. Around 1900, the Addis Brush Company started producing the first artificial Christmas tree. It was made from the same material that they used for their toilet brushes. Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.     Sources: funfunnyfacts.com, trivia country.com, alltrivia.net. qsl.net, strangefacts.com, funtrivia.com, corsinet.com.    December 6, 2013

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

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

How was Oflag IVC prison camp better known?

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

Who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as President?

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

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

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

Who was born first, James Caan or Michael Douglas?

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

In which country is the deepwater ort of Brindisi?

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

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

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

Who wrote The Picture Of Dorian Gray?

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

Who sang the title song for the Bond film You Only Live Twice?

You Only Live Twice (1967) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) Approved | Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material), Roald Dahl (screenplay) Stars: From $10.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 23 titles created 05 Mar 2013 a list of 24 images created 25 Jul 2014 a list of 23 titles created 10 Dec 2014 a list of 26 titles created 29 Dec 2015 a list of 26 titles created 3 months ago Title: You Only Live Twice (1967) 6.9/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards  » Videos James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. Director: Guy Hamilton 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Director: Terence Young James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Edit Storyline When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war. Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk> You Only Live Twice...and "TWICE" is the only way to live! See more  » Genres: 13 June 1967 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice See more  » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The primary reason for converting the Toyota 2000GT coupes into convertibles was Sean Connery 's height; he was simply too tall to fit into the GT which was notoriously too small for anyone over 5'8". Connery's heigh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who sang with Crosby, Stills and Young?

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

In which John Logie Baird invent television?

BBC - Primary History - Famous People - John Logie Baird John Logie Baird   Why is Baird famous? What Baird did John Logie Baird was a pioneer of television. Other people helped to invent television (TV). But Baird was the first to show TV pictures to the world. When did he live? Baird was born in 1888. He was born before there was radio or television. There were few cars on the roads, and no planes in the skies. When Baird died in 1946, there were rockets, jet planes, the first computers - and television. TV changed the world Baird's television showed 'live' pictures in people's homes. TV today works on a different system from Baird's. However, by showing that TV was possible, Baird helped change the world. Today, almost every home has television. Growing up Baird's family John Logie Baird was born in Scotland. He lived in the small fishing town of Helensburgh. His father John was a Christian church minister. His mother, Jessie Inglis, was from Glasgow. John was born on 13 August 1888. He had an older brother James, and two older sisters, Annie and Jean (known as 'Tottie'). School days John hated school. He was often ill, so he missed lessons. He did not like games lessons, after which the boys had to take cold baths! He saved his pocket money to buy a camera. He was excited by cameras, cars and telephones. The young engineer When John was 12, he made his own telephone. He joined his phone to the homes of four friends, by hanging wires from trees and chimneys. He had to take down his wires after the driver of a horse bus had his hat knocked off! John and his friend Godfrey made a glider . Somehow it flew off the roof with John in it! He was lucky not to be badly hurt when the glider crashed in the garden. Ahead of the times The Bairds' house was the first in the town to have electricity. At 13, John built a generator , to make electric power to light the house. Sometimes he behaved like an absent-minded professor. How his cousins laughed when he scratched his head, holding a sticky porridge spoon! Becoming an inventor Student days Baird liked science. He loved stories about the future. One day people might send pictures through the air. Radio (then called 'wireless') did this with sounds. Why not pictures? In 1906, aged 18, Baird went to college in Glasgow to study engineering. It took him eight years to finish, because he had time off for illness. Making money World War I began in 1914. Baird tried to join the Army, but was unfit. So he worked in a factory . He did not like it, and felt sorry for factory workers. He went into business on his own, hoping to get rich. Baird in business Baird sold medicines. He invented a shaving razor made of glass (so it would not rust). He sold extra warm socks for soldiers. He was still not well. His doctor told him he needed sunshine. So Baird went to the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. He started a factory making jam and pickles. Mystery experiments People passing Baird's house were puzzled. What were those strange flashing lights? Baird was busy with experiments . He was trying to send pictures through the air. Back to London Back in Britain, Baird started a shop in London. He sold a soap called 'Baird's Speedy Cleaner'. In 1923, he moved to Hastings, beside the sea. One day he wrote to a friend, 'I have invented a means of seeing by wireless [radio]'. His friend said, 'stick to soap'! Moving pictures By the 1920s people could watch films in cinemas. The films were 'silent' (no sound). At home, people could listen to the 'wireless', but only 1 million people in Britain had radios. No one had yet seen moving pictures at home - television. Baird's first TV picture To make his first TV in 1924, Baird used boxes, biscuit tins, sewing needles, card, and the motor from an electric fan. His first TV picture showed a cross cut out of card. Baird's TV used spinning discs. His idea was to scan an image (the cross) with a spinning disc with tiny holes. Light from the image came through the holes in flashes. Baird then changed the flashes of light into electric signals. He sent the signal

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

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

Black or White came from which Michael Jackson album?

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

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

Keyboard problems with my laptop - TechSpot Forums TechSpot Forums 1 2 3 Next > I bought a laptop recently and one day I fell asleep while watching a movie on it and I think my daughter might have spilled something on it because when I woke up certain keys type more than one character when you touch them. ex. i8 w\ j7 Is this a fixable problem? Can I somehow take the keys off and clean under them? I tried reformatting and reinstalling windows but to no avail. help me please #1 Nodsu TS Rookie Posts: 5,837   +6 Yes, you can open the thing up and clean it. You might want to let professionals do it though - laptops are rather difficult to take apart and put together.   Matrim TS Rookie Topic Starter kinda what I figured but I was hoping I could do it myself Oh well NINA412 TS Rookie AM having problems with Keyboard with my laptop can someone please help me ..........my key board types different letters if i hit like letter "M" i get letter "O" "K" brings figure "2" instead .... AND i - 5 CAN SAMEONE TELL ME IF I CAN fix this on my own THANK YOU Peddant TS Rookie Posts: 1,446 Matrim said: Is this a fixable problem? Can I somehow take the keys off and clean under Click to expand... This tells you what`s possible - http://www.computing.net/howto/simple/keyboard/   #5 Nodsu TS Rookie Posts: 5,837   +6 You have turned Num Lock on and you get the numbers that are printed on these very keys. Turn off Num Lock.   tdeg TS Rookie Posts: 119 What kinda of laptop is it? We can probably provide better information if you give us more.   keyboard problem with my laptop i have gatway laptop can you please help me? thank you howard_hopkinso TS Rookie Posts: 24,177   +19 Hello and welcome to Techspot. Nodsu said: You have turned Num Lock on and you get the numbers that are printed on these very keys. Turn off Num Lock. Click to expand... Have you made sure that numlock is not activated, as Nodsu suggested? Regards Howard :wave: :wave: my Num Lock oof i have gatway laptop.... AM having problems with Keyboard can someone please help me ..........my key board types different letters if i hit like letter "M" i get letter "O" "K" brings figure "2" instead .... AND i - 5 CAN SAMEONE TELL ME IF I CAN fix this on my own i have the Num Lock off THANK YOU howard_hopkinso TS Rookie Posts: 24,177   +19 If it`s not a numlock problem, It`s probably a faulty keyboard. You did say that there might have been something spilled on it. Nodsu did suggest you take it in and let the pros have a look at it. Regards Howard Gateway Laptop Keyboard problem Nina412: I had the exact problem with my keyboard today. If you look at the bottom row of keys on the left hand side, there is a fn key, next to the Ctrl key -press and hold the fn key and then hit f9 key. This will fix your problem   hchackenbush TS Rookie Thanks & Props after hours and hours with gateway techs i was told to buy a new keyboard. in my gut i knew that it was not mechanical and tried all remedies to no avail. i have used an external keyboard for months now but never totally gave up. imagine, just a press of 2 buttons fixed my keyboard. thanks tialoves and now barryloves tia and techspot.:grinthumb   #13 Denman007 TS Rookie Posts: 31 Gateway is the worst. I once had a techie try to copy a 4 meg file to a floppy. When that didn't work, he zipped it to a 3 meg file and tried to copy that to a floppy disk. lol Bunch of *****s. I currently have 4 problems with my Gateway and they want a min of $250 just to send it in.   Hi It has been a while for me but Iam back. This Keyboard problem may be solved if you are able to read and fallow instructions, Log on to gateway and look for the model of your laptop and search for the manual, once there look for the replacement parts section, it shows you step by step on how to remove the entire laptop in pieces, if you have never attempted this try labeling the parts and screws in the order you have remove them, when you get to the keyboard use cotton swabs to clean between hard to reach places. Good Luck

In which town or city was General Motors founded?

This is Flint, Michigan, in all its pain and all its glory | Grist Trust in the Rust Belt This is Flint, Michigan, in all its pain and all its glory By Wes Janz on Feb 17, 2011 Tweet Buick City parking lot, 2010.Photos: Wes Janz, except when notedCross-posted from Places [at] Design Observer , an online journal of architecture, landscape and urbanism, published in partnership with Design Observer. “Distressed are big chunks of Detroit, Flint, Gary, Chicago, East St. Louis, and Cincinnati.” This is what I wrote after completing the weeklong Midwess Distress Tour  with my Ball State colleague Olon Dotson and a dozen architecture students in October 2006. “Depressed. Dysfunctioned. Disoriented. Devolved. Dissed. Dissing. How many abandoned buildings should I photograph and take others to photograph before we get the picture? How many houses do you have to see being torn from a city’s fabric before the tearing of one life from another no longer registers? When should you stop, or start, caring?” After “Midwess,” I saved an email that Glenn Johnson, a property manager at a local land bank who led our tour of Flint, wrote to one student: “I was born here. I would never leave here for good. All that it is and all that it isn’t,” Glenn wrote, “Flint, Michigan, will always be home to me.” Flint is a city I return to, its deep decline and the determination I find among its residents haunting me, challenging me. We did a second weeklong driving tour in October 2008 — again with Olon, and with planning professor Nihal Perera and a group of students — to Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio; Braddock, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; and Camden, New Jersey. This tour, the Distress Too Tour , along with  estimates of 10,000 to 12,000 abandoned houses in my home city of Indianapolis, led to more questions. I became convinced that the pain of the Rust Belt has got to be understood, especially by today’s students, by our future architects and designers. This world of central city abandonment, institutional racism, intransigent poverty, unending decline of the physical infrastructure — this is a world they need to know, to come to grips with and maybe get involved with as citizens and as architects. That meant that I had to get involved, had to dig deeper into one place to give dimension and depth to my curiosity. I needed to know more about Flint and its people. Flint is where the American automaker General Motors was founded in 1908. The city grew as a company town, with several generations of workers and families benefitting from the coast to coast appetite for automobiles that followed both World Wars. Forty years ago, Flint was still home to 190,000 people, with 80,000 locals employed in GM plants. When community leaders imagined the future, they did so with confidence, envisioniong a Flint, their “Vehicle City,” with 250,000 residents. This was, this would be, a place that mattered. Buick City, 1913.Photo: Michigan Radio Picture ProjectFlint is shrinking. Over time, the hubris of the Big Three, of GM, Ford, and Chrysler — evident in the declines in product quality, the inroads made by foreign auto manufacturers and the assaults targeted at unions nationwide — brought down the U.S. auto industry and buckled the day-to-day routines, expectations, and dreams of all Flintians. Between the years following WWII and today, GM eliminated 70,000 local jobs (if not more) and 85,000 people (if not more) moved out. Auto assembly line worker Ben Hamper, in his autobiographical Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line, described this decline and his own devolution as a third-generation GM “shoprat” in the ’70s and ’80s. “What this place lacks in ambience it makes up in ambulance,” he wrote. Flint is fading. With the loss of so much of its industrial base, the economic picture for post-industrial Michigan is pitch-dark. There is less and less governmental support for schools, public transportation, family assistance. “We can no longer afford to live outside

In which country was the Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered?

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

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

A world without love - Peter and Gordon - YouTube A world without love - Peter and Gordon Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Nov 25, 2007 This is Lennon/McCartney masterpiece A World Without Love. Peter and Gordon were one of the greatest pop-rock duos of the sixties, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller Category

In which US state was Tennessee Williams born?

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

Who was Israeli Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974?

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

Bob Gaudio and Nick Massi sang with which group?

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

In which country was Angelica Huston born?

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

Carrasco international airport is in which country?

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

Which record company signed Fabian?

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

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

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

What was the profession of New Yorker Garry Winogrand?

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

Amelia Earhart was born in which state?

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

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

Phil Collins - Hits - Amazon.com Music Phil Collins Page 1 of 1 Start over Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon.com. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . Ad feedback Special Offers and Product Promotions Certified Multi-Platinum (2 times) by the RIAA. (2/01) Amazon.com For better or worse, Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" was the "Stairway to Heaven" of the '80s, winning radio stations' listener polls and even lending its designer threat to an episode of Miami Vice. Hits recalls the days when the Collins name on a disc ensured its immediate embrace by programmers and the public. How you feel about these songs will depend on how you felt about them then; despite the undeniable niceness of "Take Me Home" and "One More Night," they're unlikely to win over anyone who didn't adore them to begin with. Those who cared, though, will no doubt be gladdened to find most of Collins's biggest tunes together on one disc. --Rickey Wright Track Listings   2. Dance Into The Light   3. Another Day In Paradise   4. Easy Lover   5. You Can't Hurry Love   6. Two Hearts   7. I wish it would rain down   8. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)   9. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven   10. Separate Lives (Love Theme From White Nights)   11. Both Sides Of The Story   12. One More Night   14. A Groovy Kind Of Love   15. In The Air Tonight (Extended)   16. Take Me Home Audio CD (September 25, 1998) Original Release Date: October 6, 1998 Number of Discs: 1 By Jeff Pearlman on December 26, 2012 Format: Audio CD|Verified Purchase I resisted this for a long time because of what's missing but finally gave in and got it.* Missing, of course, are "I Missed Again", "Don't Lose My Number", and "Do You Remember?", among several lower-charting hits. But, at 74 minutes, there was probably only room for one more song. I feel that "I Missed Again" should have been that song: it was Collins' first solo hit and one of his best. Over time, "True Colors" pales even more in comparison to the other songs here. However, it was hardly unusual to include a new song on a hits disc and it did become a sizable Adult Contemporary (and minor pop airplay) hit. What's here are the bulk of Collins' biggest chart hits through 1998 ("You'll Be In My Heart" came after this was released), and they are great. This collects soundtrack hits from "Buster" ("A Groovy Kind of Love" and "Two Hearts") and "White Nights" ("Separate Lives", a duet with Marilyn Martin). It also includes "Easy Lover", the #2 duet with Philip Bailey, from Bailey's album "Chinese Wall". When these were hits, I was actually a bit resentful of Phil Collins' saturation airplay. I couldn't understand why other pop/AC icons I enjoyed, such as Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, and James Taylor, could barely dent the chart while Collins and Lionel Richie were played constantly. Of course, this was a radio programming choice and had nothing to do with the artists. I have grown to appreciate these songs more over time. Phil Collins didn't look like your typical Top 40 pretty boy, and pulled off this string of hits with humor, class, and taste. As of 2012, sadly, pop radio is as deaf to Phil as it was to the above stars back in the day. This should have been a 2-disc set, with all Phil's 28 chart hits plus some LP cuts like "Like China" from "Hello, I Must Be Going". *Now I see that there is an import 2-disc set that has most of the hits this is missing. With the exception, oddly, of "Take Me Home". By Tom Hockman on August 27, 2013 Format: Audio CD|Verified Purchase I was a big fan of Phil Collins work in Genesis and solo work from 1980 - 85. The guy couldn't miss. Every project he was on was a huge hit. By 1986, Geneisis was getting lamer and I began to get Phil overload. I ignored his work thereafter, but couldn't help hearing some song on the soft rock stations and soundtracks. Listening to t

What was Al Pacino's first movie?

Al Pacino - Biography - IMDb Al Pacino Biography Showing all 198 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (2) | Trade Mark  (5) | Trivia  (104) | Personal Quotes  (75) | Salary  (8) Overview (4) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (2) One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of film's greatest decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies. Pacino was born on April 25, 1940, in the Bronx, New York, to an Italian-American family. His parents, Rose (Gerardi) and Sal Pacino , divorced when he was young. His mother moved them into his grandparents' house. Pacino found himself often repeating the plots and voices of characters he had seen in the movies, one of his favorite activities. Bored and unmotivated in school, the young Al Pacino found a haven in school plays, and his interest soon blossomed into a full-time career. Starting on the stage, he went through a lengthy period of depression and poverty, sometimes having to borrow bus fare to make it to auditions. He made it into the prestigious Actors Studio in 1966, studying under legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg , creator of the Method Approach that would become the trademark of many '70s-era actors. After appearing in a string of plays in supporting roles, he finally hit it big with "The Indian Wants the Bronx", winning an Obie award for the 1966-67 season. That was followed by a Tony Award for "Does the Tiger Wear a Necktie?". His first feature films made little departure from the gritty realistic stage performances that earned him respect: he played a junkie in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) after his film debut in Me, Natalie (1969). What came next would change his life forever. The role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972) was one of the most sought-after of the time: Robert Redford , Warren Beatty , Jack Nicholson , Ryan O'Neal , Robert De Niro and a host of others either wanted it or were mentioned for it, but director Francis Ford Coppola had his heart set on the unknown Italian Pacino for the role, although pretty much everyone else--from the studio to the producers to some of the cast members--didn't want him. Though Coppola won out through slick persuasion, Pacino was in constant fear of being fired during the hellish shoot. Much to his (and Coppola's) relief, the film was a monster hit that did wonders for everyone's career, including Pacino's, and earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Instead of taking on easier projects for the big money he could now command, however, Pacino threw his support behind what he considered tough but important films, such as the true-life crime drama Serpico (1973) and the tragic real-life bank robbery film Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He opened eyes around the film world for his brave choice of roles, and he was nominated three consecutive years for the "Best Actor" Academy Award. He faltered slightly with Bobby Deerfield (1977), but regained his stride with ...and justice for all. (1979), for which he received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. This would, unfortunately, signal the beginning of a decline in his career, which produced such critical and commercial flops as Cruising (1980) and Author! Author! (1982). He took on another vicious gangster role and cemented his legendary status in the ultra-violent cult hit Scarface (1983), but a monumental mistake was about to follow. Revolution (1985) endured an endless and seemingly cursed shoot in which equipment was destroyed, weather was terrible, and Pacino became terribly ill with pneumonia. Constant changes in the script also further derailed a project that seemed doomed from the start anyway. The Revolutionary War film is considered one of the worst films ever, not to mention one of the worst of his career, resulted in his first truly awful reviews and kept him off the screen for the next four years. Returning to the stage, Pacino has done much to give back and contribute to the theatre, which he considers his first love. He directed

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

June 15, 1919: First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic | WIRED June 15, 1919: First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic subscribe 6 months for $5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger. Author: Jason Paur. Jason Paur Date of Publication: 06.15.10. Time of Publication: 12:00 am. 12:00 am June 15, 1919: First Nonstop Flight Crosses Atlantic 1919: John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog in Clifden, Ireland, marking the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. It’s a good bet to win a drink at a bar: “Do you know who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic in an airplane, nonstop?” Most takers think it’s Charles Lindbergh. But the true answer is the kind of knowledge only the most die-hard aviation geeks would know: Alcock and Brown. In 1913, the British newspaper the Daily Mail offered a prize of 10,000 pounds sterling (about $1.1 million in today’s money) to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic. But World War I intervened the following year before anybody could make an attempt, and the competition was suspended. In reality, it was unlikely anybody could have made the crossing in 1913. But by the end of the war, aviation technology had improved significantly. In late 1918, the competition to fly across the Atlantic resumed and stipulated the flight must be made in less than 72 hours. With fighting still fresh in the minds of the British, a new rule prevented teams of “enemy origin” to enter. By the spring of 1919, several teams had gathered in St. Johns, Newfoundland, vying to be the first to cross the Atlantic and collect the prize. There were so many teams that Alcock and Brown had a difficult time finding a suitable field they could use as a runway for their flight. There were no airports in the area. The Vickers Vimy airplane they had prepared for the attempt back in England was still en route by steamship, and other teams had already set up camp at the best locations. The Vickers Vimy was a large airplane for the time. The twin engine bomber was developed for use in World War I, but it wasn’t ready until after the war had ended, and it never saw combat over Europe. With a wingspan of more than 67 feet, the biplane was powered by a pair of 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce engines producing 360 horsepower each. The airplane used for the record-setting attempt was modified by removing the bomb racks and adding extra fuel tanks, so it could carry 865 gallons for the flight. The pilot and navigator sat in an open cockpit at the front of the airplane. By mid-May, one of the rival teams had flown nearly 20 hours east across the ocean before engine troubles forced the crew to ditch at sea. Fortunately, the plane crashed near a ship that was able to rescue the two-man crew. Another attempt at the prize ended in a crash before the airplane was even able to get airborne. The Vickers Vimy arrived in Newfoundland on May 26. Two teams had failed to make the crossing, and the prize was still up for grabs, as was some good real estate for a suitable runway. The team was allowed to use a small field to assemble the airplane, but it was not long enough for the heavily fuel-laden airplane to take off. The Vimy arrived in 13 crates and was assembled in a large canvas tent in just two weeks. At the same time the airplane was being assembled, Alcock had found a suitable takeoff field. Groups of people worked to clear rocks and fill ditches to make it smooth enough for use as a runway. After a few days waiting out bad weather, the decision was made to fuel the airplane at its new field and make an attempt for the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic. (A U.S. Navy Curtiss seaplane had flown from Newfoundland to Portugal in May, after a 10-day stop in the Azores.) After a few last-minute repairs to fix a broken landing gear that failed under the weight of the fuel, Alcock and Brown lifted off from Lester’s Field on the afternoon of June 14. Brown radioed the message, “All well and started,” to announce they had begun their journey. Unfortunately, it would be the first and last radio message the crew would

Which movie director was born on exactly the same day as actor Tommy Lee Jones?

Tommy Lee Jones - Biography - IMDb Tommy Lee Jones Biography Showing all 71 items Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trade Mark  (5) | Trivia  (38) | Personal Quotes  (16) | Salary  (5) Overview (3) 6' (1.83 m) Mini Bio (1) Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys in Dallas, on a scholarship, and went to Harvard on another scholarship. He roomed with future Vice President Al Gore and played offensive guard in the famous 29-29 Harvard-Yale football game of '68 known as "The Tie." He received a B.A. in English literature and graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969. Following college, he moved to New York and began his theatrical career on Broadway in "A Patriot for Me" (1969). In 1970, he made his film debut in Love Story (1970). While living in New York, he continued to appear in various plays, both on- and off-Broadway: "Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1969); "Four on a Garden" (1971); "Blue Boys" (1972); "Ulysses in Nighttown" (1974). During this time, he also appeared on a daytime soap opera, One Life to Live (1968) as Dr. Mark Toland from 1971-75. He moved with wife Kate Lardner , granddaughter of short-story writer/columnist Ring Lardner , and her two children from a previous marriage, to Los Angeles. There he began to get some roles on television: Charlie's Angels (1976) (pilot episode); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976); and The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977). While working on the movie Back Roads (1981), he met and fell in love with Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he later married. More roles in television--both on network and cable--stage and film garnered him a reputation as a strong, explosive, thoughtful actor who could handle supporting as well as leading roles. He made his directorial debut in The Good Old Boys (1995) on TNT. In addition to directing and starring in the film, he co-wrote the teleplay (with J.T. Allen ). The film, based on Elmer Kelton 's novel, is set in west Texas where Jones has strong family ties. Consequently, this story of a cowboy facing the end of an era has special meaning for him. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Maria Vitale <maria.vitale@runningb.com> Spouse (3) Known both on-screen and off-screen for his crusty, cranky persona Often plays hard-edged but sarcastic law enforcement and military officers Often plays real-life historical figures (Thaddeus Stevens, Howard Hughes, Gary Gilmore, Ty Cobb, Oliver Lynn, Clay Shaw) Deep gravelly voice with thick Texas accent Trivia (38) Never took an acting class. He and Al Gore were roommates while the two were students at Harvard University. The two remain close friends. Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre ranch near San Antonio, TX. Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites Harvard University's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall. Father's name was Clyde C. Jones -- he did not have a middle name, just an initial. Real-life son, Austin Leonard Jones , played his son, Tommy, in Screen Two: Double Image (1986). According to author Erich Segal , Jones and his then Harvard roommate Al Gore , were the models for the character of Oliver in Love Story (1970). Injured after falling from horse during polo match. [October 1998] Writes most of his own most memorable lines in films: The Fugitive (1993)... when Richard Kimble ( Harrison Ford ) tells Marshal Gerard, "I didn't kill my wife," Gerard replies, "I don't care!" Under Siege (1992)... William Strannix's speech after he loses his mind: "Saturday morning cartoons... This little piggy... " Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) ... John Neville's revealing speech at the end of the movie. Ten days after graduating from Harvard, he landed his first role in the Broadway production of "A Patriot for Me" (with Maximilian Schell ), which closed after 49 performanc

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

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

With which instrument was Charlie Christian associated?

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

In which country is the Howrah bridge?

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

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

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

What was Oliver Hardy's real first name?

Norvell "Oliver" Hardy (1892 - 1957) - Genealogy Norvell "Oliver" Hardy "Babe Hardy", "Oliver Hardy", "Oliver Norvell Hardy", "Oliver N. Hardy" Birthdate: in North Hollywood, California, USA Cause of death: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: "...of -n pay a final tribute to- day to Oliver Hardy, 65, the fat funnyman of the slapstick era, 'ho died Wednesday. Hardy's old '.''Sta... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: "...and Hardy died today j Death came at the home ol Mrs Monnie L Jones his moth erinlaw He had suffered a par alytic stroke last Sept 12... Date: Aug 7 1957 - Los Angeles, California, USA Father's last name: Jan 18 1892 - Harlem, Georgia Death: Aug 7 1957 - North Hollywood, California Parents: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: ... human historv s a mother. COMIiUIAX DIES NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Cahf. Oliver Hardy, the rotund half o! the movie comedy team of Laure! and Har... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: "...and Hardy, died today. Death came at the home of Mrs. Monnic L. Jonub. his mother-in- law. He had suffered paralytic stroke last Sept... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: ... Virginia." Services Are Held In Beverly Hills For Comedian Hardy BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. Masonic funeral services were held Friday for com... Date: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Text: "...a final tribute, iof day to Oliver 'Hardy, 65, the fat funnyman of the slapslick era, who'died Wednesday: Hardy's old partner and fri... Date: Compilation of Published Sources Text: ... comedian Oliver (Babe) Hardy haa broughfioa close one of the greateit eras ... In comedy. The fall guy half of the Uurel and Hardy slaps... Date: Australian Newspapers Text: ... Hotel be- fore going to the course were Major and Mrs. Holt Hardy (Mrs. Hardy was before her re- cent marriage Miss Sue ... ; Itrbutll h... Publication: Feb 8 1940 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Page: Australian Newspapers Text: ... Tattersall's Hotel before going to the course were Major and Mrs. Holt Hardy (Mrs. Hardy was before her recent marriage Miss Sue Russell... Publication: Feb 17 1940 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Page: Australian Newspapers Text: ...ears. After the marriage her husband commenced going out at night playing cards. He gave her no money for her support, but used to bring ... Publication: Feb 23 1940 - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Page: stepmother About Oliver Hardy American comedic actor Oliver Hardy was one half of the famous Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955. Hardy’s screen character was noted for his genteel pomposity, his tie twiddle, and long suffering look while dealing with Stan’s character and his well-meaning but ultimately frustrating on screen antics. Unlike his future screen partner Stan Laurel, Hardy did not come from a show business family. He was born Norvell Hardy on January 18, 1892 in Harlem, Georgia. His father was a lawyer who died when Hardy was ten; his mother was a hotel owner in both his native Georgia and in Florida. Sometime prior to 1910, Hardy began styling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy", with the first name “Oliver” being added as a tribute to his father. He appeared as “Oliver N. Hardy” in the 1910 U.S. census, and in all subsequent legal records, marriage announcements, etc., Hardy used “Oliver” as his first name. The young Hardy became fascinated with show business through the stories spun by the performers who stayed at his mother's hotel, and at age eight he ran away to join a minstrel troupe. Possessing a beautiful singing voice, Hardy studied music for a while, but quickly became bored with the regimen; the same boredom applied to his years at Georgia Military College (late in life, Hardy claimed to have briefly studied law at the University of Georgia, but chances are that he never got any farther than filling out an application). Heavy-set and athletic, Hardy seemed more interested in sports than in anything else; while still a teenager, he umpired local baseball games, putting on such an intuitively comic display of histrionics that he invariably reduced t

Benito Juarez international airport is in which country?

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

Vicki Lawrence The night the lights went out in Georgia 1973 - YouTube Vicki Lawrence The night the lights went out in Georgia 1973 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Dec 24, 2013 Vikki Lawrence The night the lights went down in Georgia Category Standard YouTube License Music

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

Born On The Same Day | People born on exactly the same day (but they're not twins). | Page 25 Born On The Same Day Posted on January 23, 2011 by Born On The Same Day Olga Korbut Olga Valentinovna Korbut (b. May 16, 1955 in Hrodna), also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at theSummer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team. Debra Winger Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. A three-time Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 1993. Hazel O’Connor Hazel O’Connor (born 16 May 1955, Coventry, England) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She became famous in the early 1980s with hit singles “Eighth Day”, “D-Days” and “Will You”, as well as starring in the film Breaking Glass. Links: Posted on January 23, 2011 by Born On The Same Day Ritchie Valens Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959) was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Valens’ recording career lasted only eight months. During this time, however, he scored several hits, most notably “La Bamba”, which was originally a Mexican folk song that Valens transformed with a rock rhythm and beat that became a hit in 1958. On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as The Day the Music Died, Valens was killed in a small-plane crash in Iowa, a tragedy that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Valens was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Joe Brown Photo by Garry Knight Joe Brown, MBE (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, Swarby, Lincolnshire) is an English entertainer. Brown has worked as a rock and roll singer andguitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s. He made six films, presented specialist radio series for BBC Radio 2, appeared on the West End stage and has written an autobiography. Miles Kington Miles Beresford Kington (13 May 1941 – 30 January 2008) was a British journalist, musician (a double bass player for Instant Sunshine and other groups) and broadcaster. Links: Posted on January 23, 2011 by Born On The Same Day Catherine Tate Catherine Tate (born 12 May 1968) is a British actress, writer and comedian. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards. Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who and later reprised her role, becoming the Doctor’s companion for the fourth series in 2008. Tony Hawk Photo by Tinou Bao Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), better known as Tony Hawk, is an American professional skateboarder. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 (a 2.5-revolution aerial spin) as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision. He is widely considered one of the most successful and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding. Links: Posted on January 22, 2011 by Born On The Same Day Leslie Charteris Leslie Charteris (12 May 1907, Singapore– 15 April 1993), born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias “The Saint.” Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Hepburn co-starred with screen legends including Cary Grant ( Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story ), Humphrey Bogart(The African Queen), John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn), Laurence Olivier (Love Among th

The diet of what mythical monster periodically included seven youths and seven maidens?

Glossary of Asian Art Every culture must find a way to reconcile the polar opposites – male/female, good/bad, sky/earth, birth/death – that are characteristic of the human condition. Additive or non-dualistic cultures (Asian) accept such contradictions as imperfectly perceived parts of a greater unity: both/and, rather than either/or. Dualistic cultures (European) reject contradiction and spend enormous effort to resolve it. Ancient Egypt is uniquely a bit of both, since it accepts contradictions (additive, like the East) but also holds them in tension (dualistic, like the West). Everyone who was anyone, in the ancient world, wanted to have a good afterlife. Elites were buried with their favorite and most precious objects: weapons and pots, ceramics and bronzes, bangles, jewels, figurines, animals, and human sacrifices. This is a cultural universal, that is attested in all times and all places. Tomb walls, for those who could afford it, would be decorated with painted scenes depicting the honors of the deceased in life, and his hoped-for activities in the afterlife. For Chinese grave goods in particular, see: mingqi . Agastya, who is worshiped as an avatar of Shiva , was a legendary guru who spread the worship of Shiva throughout India. His attributes include a pot belly, a beard, and a water bottle. The Vedic god of fire, and directional guardian of the southeast. He holds an offering spoon and rides a ram. Additional attributes may include a beard, a staff, a water jar, and prayer beads. The popular center (Greek agora, Roman forum) of a classical city; its chief market and gathering place. (Also Erawan) The three-headed elephant upon which Indra rides. The third Mughal Emperor , known for his religious tolerance and the cultural brilliance of his reign. An ornament on the ridge of a roof. The Indonesian warrior ideal of imperturbability, that is similar to the Greek sophrosyne . The ribbed disk at the top of a shikhara . "Mother," one of the forms of Devi . A type of early Christian pulpit, that was accessed by a triangular flight of stairs, the prototype of the Islamic minbar . Amitabha, or Amida in Japan, is the Buddha of the Western Pure Land. He is associated with Avalokiteshvara and is easy to worship: just call on his name, and you will be reborn on top of a lotus in the Western Paradise. The cult of Amida supplied a practicable route to salvation for all, becoming especially popular in Japan from the 11th century onwards. A group of five Buddhist deities with Amida at the center. From left to right, the figures are: Guanyin , a disciple, Amida , another disciple, and Mahasthamaprapta . See also: Table Of Buddhist Deities . The Buddha of Longevity, a form of Amitabha . (Indonesia) A culturally-defined state of murderous rage. (Egypt) Originally a local god of Thebes, Amun became the chief god of Egypt during the New Kingdom, when his priesthood achieved a great measure of political power and religious control vis-a-vis the temples of Egypt's many other gods. His name means "Hidden," referring to the wind or air. Ananta, also known as Shesha, is the cosmic serpent on which Vishnu sleeps, sits, or reclines (Anantashayana/Anantasayin), as he dreams the universe into existence. Shesha, "The One Who Remains," personifies the primordial substance out of which the universe is formed, that continues to exist when the universe ends, and that fuels the start of the next cosmic cycle. He is called Ananta, or "Endless," because the primordium is eternal and the cycle of cosmic birth and death repeats forever. A disciplined process, pioneered by Dutch archaeologists in the early 20th century, of rebuilding the ruined stone and brick temples of India and Southeast Asia. It consists of the following steps: (1) The location of every existing block is carefully recorded. (2) The remains of the temple are disassembled, block by block. (3) The temple is then rebuilt, using knowledge preserved by the previous steps. (4) During reconstruction, any missing pieces are substituted by blank stones, and the entire structure is made ar

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

IRIS - Greek Goddess of the Rainbow, Messenger of the Gods Iris Iris, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Rhode Island School of Design Museum IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods. She was often described as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera . Iris was a goddess of sea and sky--her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a marine-god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a cloud-nymph. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks, the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and sea, and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea. Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own. In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess. Her name contains a double meaning, being connected with both the Greek word iris "the rainbow" and eiris "messenger." Iris is depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as a beautiful young woman with golden wings, a herald's rod (kerykeion), and sometimes a water-pitcher (oinochoe) in her hand. She was usually depicted standing beside Zeus or Hera, sometimes serving nectar from her jug. As cup-bearer of the gods Iris is often indistinguishable from Hebe in art. FAMILY OF IRIS PARENTS [1.1] THAUMAS & ELEKTRA (Hesiod Theogony 265, Apollodorus 1.10, Hyginus Pref, Nonnus Dionysiaca 26.350) [1.2] THAUMAS (Plato Theatetus 155d, Callimachus Hymn 5, Ptolemy Hephaestion 6, Ovid Met. 4.479, Vergil Aeneid 9.2, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.20) [1.3] THAUMAS & OZOMENE (Hyginus Fabulae 14) OFFSPRING [1.1] POTHOS (by Zephryos ) (Alcaeus Frag 257; Eustathius on Homer 555, Nonnus Dionysiaca 47.340) ENCYCLOPEDIA IRIS (Iris), a daughter of Thaumas (whence she is called Thaumantias, Virg. Aen. ix. 5) and Electra, and sister of the Harpies. (Hes. Theog. 266, 780; Apollod. i. 2. § 6; Plat. Theaet. p. 155. d; Plut. de Plac. Philos. iii. 5.) In the Homeric poems she appears as the minister of the Olympian gods, who carries messages from Ida to Olympus, from gods to gods, and from gods to men. (Il. xv. 144, xxiv. 78, 95, ii. 787, xviii. 168, Hymn. in Apoll. Del. 102, &c.) In accordance with these functions of Iris, her name is commonly derived from erô eirô; so that Iris would mean "the speaker or messenger:" but it is not impossible that it may be connected with eirô, "I join," whence eirênê ; so that Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, would be the joiner or conciliator, or the messenger of heaven, who restores peace in nature. In the Homeric poems, it is true, Iris does not appear as the goddess of the rainbow, but the rainbow itself is called iris (Il xi. 27, xvii. 547): and this brilliant phenomenon in tile skies, which vanishes as quickly as it appears, was regarded as the swift minister of the gods. Her genealogy too supports the opinion that Iris was originally the personification of the rainbow. In the earlier poets, and even in Theocritus (xvii. 134) and Virgil (Aen. v. 610) Iris appears as a virgin goddess; but according to later writers, she was married to Zephyrus, and became by him the mother of Eros. (Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 391, 555; Plut. Amat. 20.) With regard to her functions, which we have above briefly described, we may further observe, that the Odyssey never mentions Iris, but only Hermes as the messenger of the gods: in the Iliad, on the other hand, she appears most frequently, and on the most different occasions. She is principally engaged in the service of Zeus, but also in that of Hera, and even serves Achilles in calling the winds to his assistance. (Il. xxiii. 199.) She further performs her services not only when commanded, but she sometimes advises and assists of her own accord (iii. 122, xv. 201. xviii. 197. xxiv. 74, &c.). In later poets she appears on the whole in the same capacity as in the Iliad, but she occurs gradually more and more exclusively in the service of Hera, both in the later Greek and Latin poets. (Callim. Hymn. in Del. 232; Virg. Aen. v. 606; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 288, 432; Ov. Met. xiv. 830, &c.) Some poets describe Iris actually as t