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May 19, 1869 saw what two railroads meet at Promontory Summit, Utah, creating the first Transcontinental Railroad? | First Transcontinental Railroad First Transcontinental Railroad This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy . (August 2016) This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding or removing subheadings . (August 2016) At the ceremony for the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, Utah , May 10, 1869 Transcontinental Railroad 75th Anniversary Issue stamp of 1944 The First Transcontinental Railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the " Overland Route ") was a 1,912-mile (3,077 km) contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay . [1] The rail line was built by three private companies over public lands provided by extensive US land grants. [2] Construction was financed by both state and US government subsidy bonds as well as by company issued mortgage bonds. [3] [4] [5] [N 1] The Western Pacific Railroad Company built 132 mi (212 km) of track from Oakland / Alameda to Sacramento, California . The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (CPRR) constructed 690 mi (1,110 km) eastward from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (U.T.) . And the Union Pacific built 1,085 mi (1,746 km) from the road's eastern terminus at Council Bluffs near Omaha, Nebraska westward to Promontory Summit. [7] [8] [9] The railroad opened for through traffic on May 10, 1869 when CPRR President Leland Stanford ceremonially drove the gold "Last Spike" (later often referred to as the " Golden Spike ") with a silver hammer at Promontory Summit . [10] [11] The coast-to-coast railroad connection revolutionized the settlement and economy of the American West . It brought the western states and territories into alignment with the northern Union states and made transporting passengers and goods coast-to-coast considerably quicker and less expensive. Paddle steamers linked Sacramento to the cities and their harbor facilities in the San Francisco Bay until 1869, when the CPRR completed and opened the WP grade (which the CPRR had acquired control of in 1867–68 [N 2] [N 3] ) to Alameda and Oakland. The first transcontinental rail passengers arrived at the Pacific Railroad's original western terminus at the Alameda Mole on September 6, 1869 where they transferred to the steamer Alameda for transport across the Bay to San Francisco. The road's rail terminus was moved two months later to the Oakland Long Wharf about a mile to the north. [15] [16] [N 4] Service between San Francisco and Oakland Pier continued to be provided by ferry. The CPRR eventually purchased 53 miles of UPRR-built grade from Promontory Summit (MP 828) to Ogden, U.T. (MP 881), which became the interchange point between trains of the two roads. The transcontinental line was popularly known as the Overland Route after the principal passenger rail service that operated over the length of the line until 1962. [19] Contents Origins[ edit ] Title page of Dr. Hartwell Carver's 1847 Pacific Railroad proposal to Congress Building a railroad line that connected the United States coast-to-coast was advocated in 1832 when Dr. Hartwell Carver published an article in the New York Courier & Enquirer advocating building a transcontinental railroad from Lake Michigan to Oregon. In 1847 he submitted to the U.S. Congress a "Proposal for a Charter to Build a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean", seeking a congressional charter to support his idea. [20] [21] Preliminary exploration[ edit ] The official poster announcing the Pacific Railroad's grand opening. Congress agreed to support the |
What famed Yankee, widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers ever, was known for his malapropisms, such as “It ain’t over till it’s over,” and “It’s deja vu all over again”. | Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame catcher for Yankees, dies - CNN.com Yogi Berra's malapropisms made him one of the most quoted Americans He was the backbone of a New York Yankees dynasty Berra played on teams that won 10 World Series rings, coached on three others (CNN) Yogi Berra , one of the greatest catchers in baseball history who also was known for his humorous malapropisms , has died. He died Tuesday night, the Yogi Berra Museum said. He was 90. Praising Yogi Berra: Politicians weigh in Berra was one of only two catchers to win the MVP award three times. He was an All-Star 15 times and was selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But it is for his sometimes mystifying utterances, or Yogisms , that he is more widely known. It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Yogi Berra passed away Tuesday night at the age of 90. #YogiBerra pic.twitter.com/0BSctBzhTb — Yogi Berra Museum (@Yogi_Museum) September 23, 2015 Perhaps his most famous observation was, "It ain't over till it's over." But that quote was like some Yogisms, likely a paraphrase of what Berra actually said -- in this case about his team's chances to win the pennant despite being in fifth place late in the season. Read More Berra was the backbone of a New York Yankees dynasty that won 10 World Series championships, an individual record. He also caught the only World Series no-hitter -- Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956. According to Larsen, he threw every pitch Berra called for, never once disagreeing. He was loved by his former teammates and Yankees who played after him. "To those who didn't know Yogi personally, he was one of the greatest baseball players and Yankees of all time. To those lucky ones who did, he was an even better person," said former Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter on his Players Tribune website. "To me he was a dear friend and mentor. He will always be remembered for his success on the field, but I believe his finest quality was how he treated everyone with sincerity and kindness." He was born Lawrence Peter Berra, the son of Italian immigrants. One version has it that he earned the nickname "Yogi" from a childhood friend who said the snake charmer in a movie looked like Berra. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade to help support his family by playing baseball, then later served in the U.S. Navy. As a 19-year-old, he saw combat on D-Day, as part of a crew of rocket boat drawing enemy fire, according to New Jersey.com . On the field His early years on the field weren't so successful. "My first two years, I was awful. I was terrible," Berra told CNN in a 2003 interview. He said his fingers were so short that they had to be painted just to be more visible to pitchers. But Berra became a tough out at the plate, especially with runners on base. He had 1,430 runs batted in, tops among catchers. He hit 358 home runs during the regular season in his career while striking out just 414 times. Behind the plate he was considered a superb game caller and he threw out almost half the men who tried to steal a base against him. The late Casey Stengel, who managed Berra for years, credited much of the Yankees' pitching success to his catcher. "Why has our pitching been so great? Our catcher, that's why. He looks cumbersome, but he's quick as a cat," Stengel once said, according to the Baseball Hall of Fame website. Larsen told Baseball America that Berra was very low key. "He never got that excited. He handled it well, the good and the bad," he said Wednesday. What a Beautiful Man...What A Beautiful Spirit. Celebrate the Life of Yogi Berra Today. pic.twitter.com/dBp31lv9nD |
Born Karl Friedrich Hieronymus on May 11, 1720, what German born member of the nobility was well known for outrageous tall tales, such as riding cannonballs, travelling to the Moon, and escaping from a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair? | Baron Munchausen : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki More info on Baron Munchausen Wikis Baron Munchausen: Wikis Advertisements Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics (Redirected to Baron Münchhausen article) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about a historical and literary character. For the psychiatric disorder, see Münchausen syndrome . For the film and radio personality, see Jack Pearl . For the 1988 film, see The Adventures of Baron Munchausen . A portrait of Baron Karl Münchhausen ca. 1740 as a Cuirassier in Riga. Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797) (often spelled Munchausen in English) was a German baron born in Bodenwerder , who in his youth was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , and later joined the Russian military . He served until 1750, in particular taking part in two campaigns against the Ottoman Turks . Returning home, Münchhausen supposedly told a number of outrageous tall tales about his adventures. He died in his birthplace of Bodenwerder . According to the stories, as retold by others, the Baron's astounding feats included riding cannonballs , travelling to the Moon , and escaping from a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair (or bootstraps , depending on who tells the story). Contents 7 External links Life Born in Bodenwerder , Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Münchhausen was page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , and moved to his employer to the Russian Empire in 1737/38. He followed Anthony Ulrich as a page during the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739) . In 1737 he attended the siege of Turkish Fortress of Ochakiv . He was named a cornet in the Russian cavalry regiment ”Brunswick- Cuirassiers “ when Anthony Ulrich became Russian generalissimo in 1739. In 1740, he was promoted to lieutenant . He was stationed in Riga , but participated in two campaigns against the Swedes in 1740 and 1741. When Anthony Ulrich was imprisoned in 1741, Münchhausen remained in the service of the Russian military. In 1750, he was named a Rittmeister , a cavalry captain . In 1744, he married Jacobine von Dunten at Pernigel ( Latvian : Liepupe) near Dunteshof ( Latvian : Duntes muiža) in Livonia . After his retirement, he lived with his wife at his manor in Bodenwerder until her death in 1790. Here, he acquired a reputation for his witty and exaggerated tales; at the same time, he was considered an honest man in business affairs. Münchhausen remarried in 1794; the marriage ended in a contested, ruinous divorce. Münchhausen died childless in 1797. Adaptations Doré 's caricature of Münchhausen The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe , as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, also called The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. However, much of the humorous material in them is borrowed from other sources. Indeed, the Baron himself was not notable for immodesty within his profession and relative to his accomplishments, and Raspe's publication rather damaged his reputation. Most historians agree that Munchhausen disapproved of some of the more outrageous of the tall tales that Raspe's book attributed to him. Some of it is said to be a spoof based upon James Bruce [citation needed]. In 1786, Gottfried August Bürger translated Raspe's stories back into German, and extended them. He published them under the title of Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande: Feldzüge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen ("Marvellous Travels on Water and Land: Campaigns and Comical Adventures of the Baron of Münchhausen"). Bürger's version is the one best known to German readers today. In the 19th century, the story had undergone expansions and transformati |
What is the name given to the type of journalism created by Hunter Thompson in which reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories? | Hunter Thompson : Wikis (The Full Wiki) The Full Wiki More info on Hunter Thompson Wikis Hunter Thompson: Wikis Advertisements Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics (Redirected to Hunter S. Thompson article) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson at the Miami Book Fair International of 1988 Born Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Influences Mark Ames , Lester Bangs , Cameron Crowe , P. J. O'Rourke , Matt Taibbi , Cintra Wilson , Rolling Stone magazine Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism , a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is also known for his use of psychedelics , alcohol , firearms , and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism . Contents 8.2 Source material Early years Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky , the first of three sons to Jack Robert Thompson (1893 - July 3, 1952), an insurance adjuster and a World War I veteran, and Virginia Davidson Ray (1908–1998), a reference librarian. His parents met after being introduced by a mutual friend from Jack's fraternity in 1934, and married in 1935. [1] The Thompson family resided in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of the Highlands in Louisville. Jack Thompson died of myasthenia gravis , a neuromuscular disease , on July 3, 1952, when Hunter was 14 years old, leaving three sons—Hunter, Davison, and James (February 2, 1949 – March 25, 1993) [2] —to be brought up by their mother. Contemporaries indicated that after Jack's death, Virginia became a " heavy drinker ." [1] [3] Advertisements Education Interested in sports and athletically inclined from a young age, Thompson joined Louisville's Castlewood Athletic Club, a sports club for teenagers that prepared them for high-school sports , where he excelled in baseball , though he never joined any sports teams in high school, where he was constantly in trouble. [1] Thompson attended the I.N. Bloom Elementary School, and then Atherton High School , transferring to Louisville Male High School in 1952 following the death of his father. That same year he was accepted as a member of the Athenaeum Literary Association , a school-sponsored literary and social club that had been founded at Male High in 1862. Its members at the time, generally drawn from Louisville's wealthy upper-class families, included Porter Bibb , who became the first publisher of Rolling Stone . As an Athenaeum member, Thompson contributed articles and helped edit the club's yearbook The Spectator; however, the group ejected Thompson from its membership in 1955, citing his legal problems. [1] Charged as an accessory to robbery after having been in a car with the person who committed the robbery, Thompson was sentenced to serve 60 days in Kentucky's Jefferson County Jail. He served 30 days of his sentence, and joined the U.S. Air Force a week after his release. [1] Military career Thompson did his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas , and later transferred to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois to study electronics . He applied to become a pilot but was rejected by the Air Force's aviation - cadet program. In 1956, he transferred to Eglin Air Force Base , near Pensacola, Florida . There he worked in the information-services department and became the sports editor of the base's newspaper, The Command Courier. In this capacity, he covered the Eglin Eagles, a base football team that included such future professional stars as Max McGee and Zeke Bratkowski . Thompson traveled with the team around the U.S., covering its games. In 1957, he also wrote a sports column anonymously for The Playground News , a local |
For a point each, name the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” | Filthy Words by George Carlin The following is a verbatim transcript of "Filthy Words" (the George Carlin monologue at issue in the Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation) prepared by the Federal Communications Commission: Aruba-du, ruba-tu, ruba-tu. I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't say, that you're not supposed to say all the time, ['cause] words or people into words want to hear your words. Some guys like to record your words and sell them back to you if they can, (laughter) listen in on the telephone, write down what words you say. A guy who used to be in Washington knew that his phone was tapped, used to answer, Fuck Hoover, yes, go ahead. (laughter) Okay, I was thinking one night about the words you couldn't say on the public, ah, airwaves, um, the ones you definitely wouldn't say, ever, [']cause I heard a lady say bitch one night on television, and it was cool like she was talking about, you know, ah, well, the bitch is the first one to notice that in the litter Johnie right (murmur) Right. And, uh, bastard you can say, and hell and damn so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't and ever and it came down to seven but the list is open to amendment, and in fact, has been changed, uh, by now, ha, a lot of people pointed things out to me, and I noticed some myself. The original seven words were, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the ones that will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and (laughter) maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor (laughter) um, and a bourbon. (laughter) And now the first thing that we noticed was that word fuck was really repeated in there because the word motherfucker is a compound word and it's another form of the word fuck. (laughter) You want to be a purist it doesn't really -- it can't be on the list of basic words. Also, cocksucker is a compound word and neither half of that is really dirty. The word -- the half sucker that's merely suggestive (laughter) and the word cock is a half-way dirty word, 50% dirty -- dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it. (laughter) Uh, remember when you first heard it, like in 6th grade, you used to giggle. And the cock crowed three times, heh (laughter) the cock -- three times. It's in the Bible, cock in the Bible. (laughter) And the first time you heard about a cock-fight, remember -- What? Huh? naw. It ain't that, are you stupid? man. (laughter, clapping) It's chickens, you know, (laughter) Then you have the four letter words from the old Anglo-Saxon fame. Uh, shit and fuck. The word shit, uh, is an interesting kind of word in that the middle class has never really accepted it and approved it. They use it like, crazy but it's not really okay. It's still a rude, dirty, old kind of gushy word. (laughter) They don't like that, but they say it, like, they say it like, a lady now in a middle-class home, you'll hear most of the time she says it as an expletive, you know, it's out of her mouth before she knows. She says, Oh shit oh shit, (laughter) oh shit. If she drops something, Oh, the shit hurt the broccoli. Shit. Thank you. (footsteps fading away) (papers ruffling) Read it! (from audience) Shit! (laughter) I won the Grammy, man, for the comedy album. Isn't that groovy? (clapping, whistling) (murmur) That's true. Thank you. Thank you man. Yeah. (murmur) (continuous clapping) Thank you man. Thank you. Thank you very much, man. Thank, no, (end of continuous clapping) for that and for the Grammy, man, [']cause (laughter) that's based on people liking it man, yeh, that's ah, that's okay man. (laughter) Let's let that go, man. I got my Grammy. I can let my hair hang down now, shit. (laughter) Ha! So! Now the word shit is okay for the man. At work you can say it like crazy. Mostly figuratively, Get that shit out of here, will ya? I don't want to see that shit anymore. I can't cut that shit, buddy. I've had that shit up to here. I think you're full of shit myself. (laughter) He don't know shit from Shinola. (laugh |
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May 14, 1804 saw what group break camp at Camp Dubois for 2 year expedition to the Pacific coast and back? | Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Lewis and Clark Study Resource Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Long before he became the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson had dreamed of sending explorers across North America. When Jefferson took office in 1801, most of the United States population lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Knowledge of the western part of the continent was limited to what had been learned from French traders and fur trappers and Spanish and British explorers. On January 18, 1803, President Jefferson sent a secret letter to Congress asking for $2,500 to fund an expedition to the Pacific Ocean. He hoped to establish trade with the Native American people of the West and find a water route to the Pacific. Jefferson also was fascinated by the prospect of what could be learned about the geography of the West, the lives and languages of the Native Americans, the plants and animals, the soil, the rocks, the weather, and how they differed from those in the East. President Jefferson's choice to lead an expedition was Meriwether Lewis, his former secretary and a fellow native of Albemarle County, Virginia. Having reached the rank of captain in the U.S. Army, Lewis possessed military discipline and experience that would prove invaluable. While in the Army, Lewis had served in a rifle company commanded by William Clark. It was Clark whom Lewis chose to assist him in leading this U.S. Army expedition, commonly known today as the "Corps of Discovery." On February 28, 1803, Congress appropriated funds for the Expedition, and Jefferson's dream came closer to becoming a reality. It was important for Lewis to gain certain scientific skills and to buy equipment that would be needed on the journey. In the spring of 1803, Lewis traveled to Philadelphia to study with the leading scientists of the day. Andrew Ellicott taught Lewis map making and surveying. Benjamin Smith Barton tutored Lewis in botany, Robert Patterson in mathematics, Caspar Wistar in anatomy and fossils, and Benjamin Rush in medicine. While in Philadelphia Lewis purchased many of the items required for the journey. His shopping list included scientific instruments such as a chronometer and a sextant, an air rifle, arms and ammunition, medicines, ink and other materials for journal keeping, and a large array of other items, including 193 pounds of portable soup, a corn mill, mosquito netting, blankets, oiled linen for making tents, candles, tools, and reference books. Lewis also purchased gifts for Native Americans. It was well known that in Indian cultures gift exchange was an important sign of friendship and allegiance. To prepare for this, he bought glass beads, mirrors, scissors, thimbles, needles, tobacco, knives, and peace medals. Through the exchange of gifts, and following Jefferson's instructions to treat the Indians "in the most friendly and conciliatory manner," it was hoped that knowledge of them could be acquired and trade increased. While Lewis was back in Washington in July 1803, the United States's purchase of the Louisiana territory from France was announced. Now the journey was even more important. Lewis and his party would be exploring land that belonged to the United States. Armed with Jefferson's letter of instructions, Lewis traveled to Pittsburgh and then set out on the Ohio River. At Clarksville, in present-day Indiana, he met up with William Clark. They packed the keelboat, which Lewis had designed, and two pirogues (canoe-like boats) with supplies and headed downriver. They were accompanied by some recruited soldiers, Clark's African-American slave York, and Lewis's Newfoundland dog Seaman. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803-04 at Camp Dubois on the east bank of the Mississippi River, upstream from St. Louis. Here the captains recruited more men, increasing the ranks of the "Corps of Volunteers for Northwest Discovery" to more than 40. As spring approached, the members of the Expedition gathered food and supplies and packed them into b |
Paul Revere, patriot and midnight rider, actually made his living in what profession? | The Five Riders The Five Riders Glossary of Terms Voices of the Revolution: The Five Riders Thanks to the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere is often credited as the sole rider who alerted the colonies that the British were coming. Yet, despite this tale, there were many riders who went out the night of April 18 and in the years following, warning the colonists of the approach and movement of the British forces. Four men and one woman made late night rides, alerting the early Americans of what dangers lay ahead. They were Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, Israel Bissell, William Dawes, and Sybil Ludington. Paul Revere Poets, historians, and schoolbooks have retold the story of the legendary ride of Paul Revere for more than two centuries. The most popular retelling is the poem entitled "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins: Paul Revere's Ride Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. Thanks to Longfellow, hardly a scholar or school child alive does not know the name of Paul Revere, and why he was important. Although his role has been embellished, it was still a significant one. Paul Revere, born in Boston in 1734 to a French Huguenot father and Bostonian mother, started his young life training to be a silversmith. After the death of his father in 1754, Paul enlisted in the provincial army to fight in the French and Indian War for the simple fact that it was the best job around. When the war was over, he returned to Boston to take over his father's silversmith business, only to fall into financial difficulties during the Stamp Act of 1765 . Frustrated by this gave him cause to join the Sons of Liberty , a group of men initially responsible for organizing early revolution efforts and develop a close association with Joseph Warren. On the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren sent Revere to send the signal to Charlestown that the British troops were on the move. Revere rode through northern Boston, through what is now Medford, Somerville, and Arlington warning the American patriots about the enemy's movement. Contrary to popular beliefs, Paul Revere never shouted the phrase "the British are coming," and instead rode swiftly and in secrecy northward. His journey ended in Lexington where he met other Sons of Liberty John Hancock and Samuel Adams . Afterwards, after meeting up with William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, the three men went their separate ways to improve their chances of escape from British officers stationed along the road. Revere would be captured by the British, but his comrades would be more successful in their journeys. William Dawes William Dawes Joseph Warren would not just send out Paul Revere that night, but would commission William Dawes to make the ride to warn the colonial minutemen as well. In 1896, American poet Helen F. Moore would be among the first to correct this minor oversight of history when she composed a parody of Longfellow's poem with her own version: Tis all very well for the children to hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere; But why should my name be quite forgot, Who rode as boldly and well, God wot? Why should I ask? The reason is clear- My name was Dawes and his Revere. Dawes was born in Boston in 1745, and would become a successful tanner and eventual member of the Boston militia. On the night of April 18, Joseph Warren assigned Dawes, along with Revere, the mission of riding north to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock of their impending arrest, and to alert the colonial minutemen that the British were on the move. Dawes would arrive in Lexington approximately half an hour after Revere, because the latter's horse had supposedly been faster. Israel Bissell Ride to Philadelphia From the Hancock-Clark house in Lexington, the two men chose to ride onto Concord, meeting Samuel Prescott along the way. Unfortunately, they were met along the road by Britis |
What state, known as Child of the Mississippi or the Pelican State, among others, joined the Union on April 30, 1812? | 1000+ images about louisiana on Pinterest | Jazz, License plates and The pelican Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Many area boats are damaged or destroyed, in the background boats that were sunk by the storm remain in the waterway Southern Louisiana, September 12, 2005 -fema/illinoisphoto.com- Large boats remain on this road, closing it to traffic. See More |
Featuring prominently in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the pirate Edward Teach is better known by what name? | coins and more: 74) Famous Pirates of the Caribbean: 2) Edward Teach or Blackbeard the Pirate:(1680 – 22.11.1718): 74) Famous Pirates of the Caribbean: 2) Edward Teach or Blackbeard the Pirate:(1680 – 22.11.1718): 74) Famous Pirates of the Caribbean: 2) Edward Teach or Blackbeard the Pirate: (1680 – 22.11.1718): i) A two dollar coin issued by New Zealand Mint on behalf of Niue Islands ii) A one dollar coin issued by Perth Mint Australia on behalf of Tuvalu Islands: Edward Teach (nicknamed Blackbeard and also mentioned as “Edward Thatch” or “Thack” or “Theach” or “Thatche”) was presumed to be born in Bristol, England. His name has also been mentioned as Edward Drummond, but he always introduced himself as Edward Teach. He was a notorious English pirate who started his career as a sea-farer during Queen Anne’s War on a Privateer (defined as an armed vessel owned and officered by private persons and holding a commission from the Government called a “letter of marque" authorising the owners to use it against a hostile nation, especially in the capture of merchant shipping). Commencement of career as a pirate: Later, he settled in the Caribbean island of New Providence which was a known pirate haven/destination (Some of the best-known pirate bases were New Providence, in the Bahamas from 1715 to 1725, Tortuga established in the 1640s and Port Royal after 1655). The period during which the pirates were most successful was from 1700 till about 1730s. Caribbean piracy had arisen out of the race for trade and colonisation among the European Empires of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and France. In New Providence, Teach joined the crew of Captain Benjamin Hornigold in 1716, a pirate in his own right, operating out of New Providence. Hornigold gave him the command of a “sloop” which had been captured on the High Seas and fitted with six cannon and having a crew of 70 men (A sloop is a small one-masted, fore and aft rigged ship/vessel, carrying guns/cannon only on its upper deck). Both Hornigold and Teach was involved in several acts of piracy sailing in their two-ship fleet which was later expanded, with more acquisitions on the High Seas. They were joined by Stede Bonnet on board a ship called “Revenge” making it a fleet of three ships at their disposal. Later, they captured another vessel making it a total of 4 vessels in their “pirate fleet”. Hornigold retired from his career in piracy taking two ships with him and was granted the King’s Pardon, while Teach and Bonnet continued with their acts of piracy on the remaining two ships. Changing his Flagship to “Queen Anne’s Revenge”: Subsequently, on one of his voyages Teach captured a French Merchant ship “La Concorde” (a powerful 300-ton , 26 cannon vessel and carrying a cargo of slaves) after a fierce cannonade and forced its Captain to surrender. He rechristened the ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”, re-fitting it with 40 guns, making it his flagship. Teach, ever generous to his adversaries, gave the crew of “La Concorde” one of his smaller sloops , which they rechristened “Mauvaise Rencontre” (Bad Meeting) to sail back to Martinique. Teach’s fleet grew to more than 300 men spread over the three ships at his command. The other two ships, apart from “Queen Anne’s Revenge” were a Briganteen (two masted ship , square rigged on the forward mast, fore and aft rigged on the mainmast,having ten cannon) and a Sloop (having 12 cannon on its upper deck). Some later accounts put his fleet at two ships for some time. In December 1717, Teach boarded and ransacked a merchant sloop “Margaret”, whereafter, the merchant ship was allowed to continue to its destination on Saint Christopher Island, where the Captain lodged a formal complaint with the Governor. His most memorable battle was against a powerful warship the “HMS Scarborough” which enhanced his reputation. Awe-inspiring and Fearsome appearance: Teach gained notoriety as a fearsome pirate, mainly on account of his thick black beard and his fearsome demeanour. His forte during acts of piracy was that he used to tie smoulde |
A squabble over a pig started a famous 13 year feud between what two Appalachian families? | The Hatfield & McCoy Feud | HISTORY Shop The Hatfield & McCoy Feud The Hatfields and McCoys. Mere mention of their names stirs up visions of a lawless and unrelenting family feud. It evokes gun-toting vigilantes hell-bent on defending their kinfolk, igniting bitter grudges that would span generations. Yet many people familiar with these surnames may know little about the faded history of these two families and the legends they inspired. Who were the Hatfields and McCoys, and what was the source of this vicious and violent clash between the families? During the most heated years of the feud, each family was ruled by a well-known patriarch. William Anderson Hatfield, known as “Devil Anse,” had the appearance of a backwoods, rough-hewn mountain dweller. By the 1870s Devil Anse was an increasingly successful timber merchant who employed dozens of men, including some McCoys. On the other side of the feud stood Randolph “Old Ranel” McCoy. Though not as prosperous as Devil Anse, Randolph owned some land and livestock. Both families lived along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, which snaked along the boundary between Kentucky and West Virginia, and both families had complex kinship and social networks. Family loyalty was often determined not only by blood but by employment and proximity. The families even intermarried and sometimes switched family loyalties, even once the feud had started. The first event in the decades-long feud was the 1865 murder of Randolph’s brother, Asa Harmon McCoy, by the Logan Wildcats, a local militia group that counted Devil Anse and other Hatfields among its members. Many people—even members of his own family—regarded Asa Harmon, who had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as a traitor. While some have surmised that his murder set the stage for the feud, most historians now see this incident as a standalone event. Relations between the two families continued to sour over the next decade before flaring again over a seemingly small matter: a dispute over a single hog. In 1878 Randolph McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield, a cousin of Devil Anse, of stealing one of his pigs, a valuable commodity in the poor region. Floyd Hatfields’s trial took place in McCoy territory but was presided over by a cousin of Devil Anse. It hinged on the testimony of star witness Bill Staton, a McCoy relative married to a Hatfield. Staton testified in Floyd Hatfield’s favor, and the McCoys were infuriated when Floyd was cleared of the charges against him. Two years later, Staton was violently killed in a fracas with Sam and Paris McCoy, nephews of Randolph. Sam stood trial for the murder but was acquitted for self-defense reasons. Within months of Staton’s murder, a heated affair of a different sort was set ablaze. At a local election day gathering in 1880, Johnse Hatfield, the 18-year-old son of Devil Anse, encountered Roseanna McCoy, Randolph’s daughter. According to accounts, Johnse and Roseanna hit it off, disappearing together for hours. Supposedly fearing retaliation from her family for mingling with the Hatfields, Roseanna stayed at the Hatfield residence for a period of time, drawing the ire of the McCoys. Although they certainly shared a romance, it rapidly became clear that Johnse was not about to settle down with Roseanna. Several months later he abandoned the pregnant Roseanna and quickly moved on. In May 1881 he married Nancy McCoy, Roseanna’s cousin. According to the romanticized legend, Roseanna was heartbroken by these events and never recovered emotionally. The real turning point in the feud, according to most historical accounts, occurred on another local election day in August 1882. Three of Randolph McCoy’s sons ended up in a violent dispute with two brothers of Devil Anse. The fight soon snowballed into chaos as one of the McCoy brothers stabbed Ellison Hatfield multiple times and then shot him in the back. Authorities soon apprehended the McCoys, but the Hatfields interceded, spiriting the men to Hatfield territory. After receiving word that Ellison had died, they bound the McCoys to some |
Featured in the musical The King and I, what country was formerly known as Siam until June 23, 1939, and again from 1945 to May 11, 1949? | Thailand facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Thailand Prates Thai CAPITAL: Bangkok (Krung Thep) FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1917, consists of five horizontal stripes. The outermost are red (symbolizing the Thai people); those adjacent are white (symbolizing Buddhism ); the blue center stripe (representing the monarchy) is twice as high as each of the other four. ANTHEM: There are three national anthems: Pleng Sansen Phra Barami (Anthem Eulogizing His Majesty); Pleng Chard Thai (Thai National Anthem); and Pleng Maha Chati (Anthem of Great Victory), an instrumental composition. MONETARY UNIT: The baht (b) is divided into 100 satang. There are coins of 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 stangs and 1, 5, and 10 baht, and notes of 50 satang and 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 60, 100, and 500 baht. b1 = $0.02442 (or $1 = b40.95) as of 2005. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: The metric system is the legal standard, but some traditional units also are used. HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, 1 January; Chakkri Day, 6 April; Songkran Day, mid-April; Coronation Day, 5 May; Queen's Birthday, 12 August; Chulalongkorn Day, 23 October; King's Birthday, 5 December; Constitution Day, 10 December. Movable holidays include Makabuja Day, Plowing Festival, and Visakabuja Day. TIME: 7 pm = noon GMT. LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT Comprising an area of 514,000 sq km (198,456 sq mi) in Southeast Asia , Thailand (formerly known as Siam) extends almost two-thirds down the Malay Peninsula, with a length of 1,648 km (1,024 mi) n–s and a width of 780 km (485 mi) e–w. Comparatively, the area occupied by Thailand is slightly more than twice the size of the state of Wyoming. It is bordered on the ne and e by Laos , on the se by Cambodia and the Gulf of Thailand (formerly the Gulf of Siam), on the s by Malaysia , on the sw by the Andaman Sea, and on the w and nw by Myanmar , with a total boundary length of 8,082 km (5,022 mi), of which 3,219 km (2000 mi) is coastline. Thailand's capital city, Bangkok, is located on the Gulf of Thailand coast. TOPOGRAPHY Thailand may be divided into five major physical regions: the central valley, the continental highlands of the north and northwest, the northeast, the southeast coast, and the peninsula. The heartland of the nation is the central valley, fronting the Gulf of Thailand and enclosed on three sides by hills and mountains. This valley, the alluvial plain of the Chao Phraya River and of its many tributaries and distributaries, is 365 km (227 mi) from north to south and has an average width of 160–240 km (100–150 mi). On this plain, and most especially on its flat deltaland bordering the Gulf, are found Thailand's main agricultural wealth and population centers. The continental highlands lie north and west of the central valley. They include North Thailand, surrounded on three sides by Myanmar ( Burma until June 1989) and Laos, which is a region of roughly parallel mountain ranges between which the Nan, Yom, Wang, Ping, and other rivers flow southward to join and create the Chao Phraya in the central valley. In the northernmost tip, drainage is northward to the Mekong River; on the western side, drainage runs westward to the Salween in Myanmar. Most of the people of North Thailand live in small intermontane plains and basins that are generally widenings in the major river valleys. Doi Inthanon (2,576 m/8,451 ft) is the highest point in Thailand. Along the Myanmar border from North Thailand to the peninsula is a sparsely inhabited strip of rugged mountains, deep canyons, and restricted valleys. One of the few natural gaps through this wild mountain country is Three Pagodas Pass along the Thailand-Myanmar boundary, used by the Japanese during World War II for their "death railway" (now dismantled) between Thailand and Myanmar. The northeast, much of it often called the Khorat, is a low, undulating platform roughly 120 to 210 m (400–700 ft) above sea level in the north and west, gradually declining to about 60 m (200 ft) in the southeast. Hill and mountain ranges and scarps separate the northeast from the central valley on the we |
Before scattering itself over Western Australia, May 14, 1973 saw the US launch what first ever space station, which orbited the earth for 6 years, even though it was only visited 3 times? | Skylab Space Station Tweet on Twitter Skylab was the first US space station and the world’s first big space station. It was launched on May 14th, 1973 by a Saturn V Rocket. Skylab Space Station was assembled from Saturn V and Apollo components. Skylab’s purpose was to serve as a laborarory for scientific experiments in space until February 1974. An Apollo Spacecraft was used to transport the crew to Skylab and to return them to the Earth’s surface. It was a launched on a Saturn 1B rocket. Skylab was used to study: – the Sun. – microgravity research – learn more about Earth. – to test the effects of long-duration space flights and to see how the human body reacts in space – to helped us learn to live and work in space. – to conduct a variety of scientific and technological experiments, such as metallic-crystal growth in the weightless state. – and function as a laboratory in earth orbit. Skylab Specifications: Structure Weight: 91 metric ton (100-ton) Height: 36 metres (118 feet) Diamater: 6.7 metres (22 feet) Altitude of Orbit: 435km (270 miles) Orbital Mass: 77,088kg Habitable Volume: 283 cubic metres (10,000 cubic feet) Skylab Space Station was a modified third stage of a Saturn V moon rocket. Skylab was actually the refitted S-IVB second stage of a Saturn IB booster (from the AS-212 vehicle), a leftover from the Apollo program originally intended for one of the canceled Apollo earth orbital missions. A product of the Apollo Applications program (a program tasked with finding long-term uses for Apollo program hardware). Skylab consisted of five parts: Orbital Workshop was the living and working area for the crew. Airlock Module was used by the Astronauts to access the outside of Skylab for spacewalks. Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) was attached to one end of the cylindrical workshop. It was used to study our sun, stars and earth with no atmospheric interference. Multiple Docking Adapter allowed more than one Apollo spacecraft to dock to the station at once. The Saturn Instrument Unit (IU) was used by NASA teams in Huntsville to reprogram the space station using a massive ring of computers. The unit was used to guide Skylab itself into orbit. IU also controlled the jettisoning of the protective payload shroud and activated the onboard life support systems, started the solar inertial attitude maneuver, deployed the Apollo Telescope mount at a 90-degree angle and deployed Skylab’s solar wings. SKYLAB FLIGHTS Skylab orbited Earth 2,476 times during the 171 days and 13 hours of its occupation during the three manned Skylab missions. Astronauts performed ten spacewalks totalling 42 hours 16 minutes. Skylab 1 – May 14, 1973 Unmanned A two-stage version of the Saturn V rocket launched Skylab to orbit on May 14, 1973 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida. During the launch, the station was damaged. A critical meteoroid shield and one of the station’s two main solar panels were ripped off and the other solar panel was not fully stretched out. That meant that Skylab had little electrical power and the internal temperature rose to 126 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius). Originally it was planned that a crew would be launched from Earth the next day to inhabit the space station. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff, however, a critical meteoroid shield ripped off, taking one of the craft’s two solar panels with it and preventing the other from deploying properly. Ground command maneuvered Skylab so its solar panels faced the Sun to provide as much electricity as possible. But because the meteoroid shield was gone (which also operated as a sun shield), temperatures inside the workshop rose to 126˚F (52˚C). The launch of Skylab 2 (the first crew to inhabit the space station) was postponed for 10 days while scientists, engineers, astronauts and management personnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and elsewhere developed procedures and trained the crew to make the workshop habitable. At the same time, engineers “rolled” Skylab to lower the temperature of the workshop. Almost immediately, technical |
Which controversial politician of the 1950s earned the nickname Tail-gunner Joe, from his service during WWII? | Joseph McCarthy | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Distinguished Flying Cross Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread subversion. [1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, his tactics and inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate. The term McCarthyism , coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more generally in reference to demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents. [2] Born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, McCarthy earned a law degree at Marquette University in 1935 and was elected as a circuit judge in 1939, the youngest in state history. [3] At age 33, McCarthy volunteered for the United States Marine Corps and served during World War II. He successfully ran for the United States Senate in 1946, defeating Robert M. La Follette, Jr. After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in February 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department. [4] McCarthy was never able to prove his sensational charge. In succeeding years after his 1950 speech, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Harry S. Truman , the Voice of America, and the United States Army . He also used various charges of communism, communist sympathies, disloyalty, or homosexuality to attack a number of politicians and other individuals inside and outside of government. [5] Not as widely known as McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade were his various attempts to intimidate, and expel from government positions, persons whom he accused, or threatened to publicly accuse, of homosexuality. Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson has written: "The so-called ' Red Scare ' has been the main focus of most historians of that period of time. A lesser-known element…and one that harmed far more people was the witch-hunt McCarthy and others conducted against homosexuals." [6] This anti-homosexual witch-hunt McCarthy and others waged alongside their "Red Scare" tactics has been referred to by some as the " Lavender Scare ". [7] With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the death of Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming by suicide that same year, [8] McCarthy's support and popularity faded. And, on December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion. McCarthy died in Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis ; it is widely accepted that this was caused, or at least exacerbated, by alcoholism. [9] Contents Edit McCarthy was born on a farm in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin , near Appleton , the fifth of seven children. [10] [11] His mother, Bridget Tierney, was from County Tipperary, Ireland. His father, Timothy McCarthy, was born in the United States, the son of an Irish father and a German mother. McCarthy dropped out of junior high school at age 14 to help his parents manage their farm. He entered Little Wolf High School, in Manawa, Wisconsin , when he was 20 and graduated in one year. [12] McCarthy worked his way through college from 1930 to 1935, studying first engineering, then law, and eventually earning a law degree at Marquette University in Milwaukee. [13] He was admitted to the bar in 1935. W |
Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock, and Jersey Giant are all types of what? | Hybrid For Sale | Chickens | Breed Information | Omlet - Adam, 27 May 2014 I have owned four of these for about 2 years now and their egg production is great we get 3-4 eggs a day and they lay right through winter to. The ISA warren is the type of brown hen typically used in battery farming and have been bred not to go broody however this is not un heard off as there are exceptions. These hens are kind and affectionate and can be tamed easily and often enjoy cuddles. These chickens generally prefer free range and will get bored easily if kept in a small run. The only downside to this breed is they are very rough foragers and enjoy digging and will easily damage young plant shoots so if your a garden proud person maybe you will need to find a less damaging breed of chicken e.g pekins. In conclusion this breed is very rewarding and a great addition to any garden. Skylines and bluebells - Nic, 8 February 2014 I have two of each, have had them for around 3 months now. The bluebells might still be on the young side so no eggs yet from them but my lovely Skylines, Kiki and Rio have laid almost every day ...beautiful blue eggs too, my friends love it when I can spare the odd half dozen! Find the bluebells a little skittish and because they're the biggest birds in my flock and also grey coloured unlike the others (I also have 3 ex bats) they're at the bottom of the pecking order. Perhaps I should get some more to even the odds out. - Brandon, Excellent layer and I good breed to have :) fantastic |
Best known for their Seal of Approval, the first issue of what women's magazine was introduced in May 1885? | Good Housekeeping Research Institute Timeline - History of Consumer Advocacy Oct 31, 2015 Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Launched on May 2, 1885 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Good Housekeeping magazine described its lofty mission as "to produce and perpetuate perfection — or as near unto perfection as may be attained in the household." Today, Good Housekeeping along with its legendary consumer product testing facility the Good Housekeeping Institute and consumer emblems, the Good Housekeeping Seal and Green Good Housekeeping Seal, is an American institution. Purchased in the U.S. by Hearst in 1911, Good Housekeeping now has nearly 17 million readers of the print and digital editions, 12-plus million readers on its website, and more than 3 million social media followers. Most Popular Throughout its history, Good Housekeeping has been the go-to magazine for American women, providing them with news, trends, real-life and fiction stories, advice, recipes, and product recommendations. Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include Somerset Maugham, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Betty Friedan, whose 1960 seminal article "Women are People, Too" was a precursor to her groundbreaking 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. The Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel House at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair was a showcase for affordable, fireproof, prefabricated housing that blended modern technology and furnishings. Countless celebrities, political leaders, advice gurus like Heloise and Peggy Post , and famous chefs have been featured in the magazine. Yet what sets Good Housekeeping apart from all other women's magazines is that its beauty, home organizing, cleaning, nutrition, cooking and home appliance, consumer electronic, and other product recommendations are based on the expertise of the Good Housekeeping Institute. And the thousands of recipes that are printed in the magazine, online, and numerous Good Housekeeping cookbooks are all triple tested in the Test Kitchen at the Good Housekeeping Institute. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Founded in 1900, the Good Housekeeping Institute was, at first, called the Good Housekeeping Experiment Station. The invention of electricity had introduced many new labor-saving home appliances but few consumers had any real knowledge of their operation and maintenance. With the goal of studying "the problems facing the homemaker and to develop up-to-date firsthand information on solving them," the staff at the GH Experiment Station tested products and housekeeping methods and published articles about their discoveries and observations. They also reprinted advice from readers who wrote them. One reader offered a cure for callouses (she used olive oil and cotton); another reader advised about how to launder lace drapes; and another gave tips about the best way to clean a meat chopper. Testing of products at the Good Housekeeping Institute has always been conducted using state-of-the-art lab equipment as well as feedback from consumer testers. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Concerned about adulteration and misbranding, home economists on staff also tested foods for purity and published, starting in 1905, a "Roll of Honor for Pure Food Products" each month. All this testing (at what was now called the Good Housekeeping Institute) resulted, in December 1909, with the beginning of the "Tested and Approved List" of all household products that were found to meet the Institute's standards of excellence. Good Housekeeping's Seal became so well known that, it has become part of the lexicon with celebrities, governments, manufacturers, basically — everyone — using it. Most Popular Today the Good Housekeeping Institute is located in the Hearst Tower in New York City and staffed by chemists, biologists, nutritionists, engineers, home economists, and culinary experts who evaluate thousands of consumer products each year, from microwaves and mascaras to vacuums and towels. These reviews are highlighted in the magazine and online . When products are evaluated for the Good Housekeeping Seal and t |
The 2004 film “The Motorcycle Diaries” was a biopic about what asshat South American revolutionary, who was born on May 14, 1928? | Che Guevara - Military Leader - Biography.com Military Leader Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary allied with Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution. IN THESE GROUPS “Better to die standing than to live on your knees.” “There are no borders in this struggle to the death.” “The road is long and full of difficulties.” “Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.” “Cuba was developed as a sugar factory of the United States.” “Guerrilla warfare is a people's warfare.” “One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.” “Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” “I don't care if I fall, as long as someone picks up my gun and keeps shooting.” “It's not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.” Che Guevara Che Guevara - Mini Biography (TV-PG; 3:53) Born in Argentina on in 1928, Che Guevara traveled to South America during his youth, a trip that spurred his Marxist beliefs. He aided Fidel Castro in overturning the Cuban government. Synopsis Born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928, Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna studied medicine before traveling around South America, observing conditions that spurred his Marxist beliefs. He aided Fidel Castro in overturning the Batista government in the late 1950s, and then held key political offices during Castro's regime. Guevara later engaged in guerrilla action elsewhere, including in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed in 1967. Doctor Che Guevara was born into a middle-class family on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. He was plagued by asthma in his youth but still managed to distinguish himself as an athlete. He also absorbed the left-leaning political views of his family and friends, and by his teens had become politically active, joining a group that opposed the government of Juan Perón . After graduating from high school with honors, Guevara studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, but in 1951 he left the school to travel around South America with a friend. The poor living conditions he witnessed on their nine-month journey had a profound effect on Guevara, and he returned to medical school the following year, intent on providing care for the needy. He received his degree in 1953. Guerrilla However, as Guevara's interest in Marxism grew, he decided to abandon medicine, believing that only revolution could bring justice to the people of South America. In 1953 he traveled to Guatemala, where he witnessed the CIA-backed overthrow of its leftist government, which only served to deepen his convictions. By 1955, Guevara was married and living in Mexico, where he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl , who were planning the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista 's government. When their small armed force landed in Cuba on December 2, 1956, Guevara was with them and among the few that survived the initial assault. Over the next few years, he would serve as a primary adviser to Castro and lead their growing guerrilla forces in attacks against the crumbling Batista regime. Minister In January 1959 Fidel Castro took control of Cuba and placed Guevara in charge of La Cabaña prison, where it is estimated that perhaps hundreds of people were executed on Guevara's extrajudicial orders. He was later appointed president of the national bank and minister of industry, and did much to assist in the country's transformation into a communist state. In the early 1960s, Guevara also acted as an ambassador for Cuba, traveling the world to establish relations with other countries, most notably the Soviet Union, and was a key player during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also authored a manual on guerrilla warfare, and in 1964 delivered a speech to the United Nations in which he condemned U.S. foreign policy and the apartheid in South Africa. Martyr By 1965, with the Cuban economy in shambles, Guevara left his post to export his revolutionary ideologies to other parts of the world. He traveled first to the Congo to train troops |
Who used the advertising slogan "be all that you can be"? | Slogans - TV Tropes Slogans You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share YMMV One of the first ways developed to hook a customer and make him remember a product was to associate a short phrase or sentence with it — in effect creating a Catch Phrase linked to a product rather than a character. Like a Catch Phrase , a slogan needs to be short and punchy if it's to work optimally, but long(er) ones are not unknown — during the 1980s, it seemed like some companies were trying to cram an entire feel-good mission statement into their products' slogans. The best slogans have almost no inherent meaning but are memorable enough that they bring their product immediately to mind. Particularly good slogans can be used for decades and become permanently associated with their product. Other products change their slogans with monotonous regularity. Slogans can be incorporated into a Jingle for a double punch. Sometimes the punchline of a commercial can become a slogan, intentionally or not. Slogans do not necessarily translate well into other languages — see Bite The Wax Tadpole . See also Our Slogan Is Terrible (for bad examples of slogans, some of which may be intentional ) and Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy . Examples: "Call for Philip Morris!" (Better known for its use on radio, but was heard on TV in its early days, particularly on I Love Lucy .) The same goes for a rival tobacco company's slogan: "I'd walk a mile for a Camel." Lucky Strike had several, including "Be happy, go Lucky," "It's toasted!" and "L.S./M.F.T." (Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco). The latter two are still printed on their packaging. "Winston tastes good like a *clap clap* cigarette should!" "The Stronger Soaker-upper!" and "The Quicker Picker-upper!" (Bounty paper towels) Coca-Cola is one of the best examples, as it's had dozens, starting with the straightforward "Drink Coca-Cola" in 1886; it unveils a new slogan every few years. Some of the more memorable ones during the last few decades include "Coke is it", "I'd like to buy the world a Coke", "Coke adds life", "The pause that refreshes", "Have a Coke and a smile", "Always Coca-Cola", "Red, white and you", "Can't beat the feeling" "Can't beat the real thing", and the elegantly simple "Enjoy". Previously "Taste the Coke Side of Life", recently it's "Open Happiness". General Electric: "We bring good things to life." Now "Imagination At Work". Burger King's most famous slogan was "Have it your way". In Australia, where the affiliated (but not identical) company is called Hungry Jack's, the slogan is "The burgers are better at Hungry Jack's". The BK Kids Meal's successor, the BK Crown, has "Imagination Is King". McDonald's, as of 2006, is using "i'm Lovin' it!". They've also used "Did somebody say McDonald's?" and "It's a good time for the great taste of McDonald's", among others; one promotion in the 1970s turned the entire ingredients list for a Big Mac into a slogan/jingle that many Baby Boomers can still recite today. "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun." Or, as it was usually said "TwoAllBeefPattiesSpecialSauceLettuceCheesePicklesOnionsOnASesameSeedBun." "You deserve a break today." Maxwell House Coffee: "Good to the last drop!" The company used to claim the phrase originated from a comment Theodore Roosevelt made while drinking a cup of their coffee; they later admitted the slogan was actually a fabrication of their advertising department. deBeers: "A diamond is forever." Wendy's: "Where's the beef?" Smith Barney brokerage: "We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it." "Pork — the other white meat." "Beef — it's what's for dinner." "The American Express Card — don't leave home without it." Also "That'll do nicely!" - created by Salman Rushdie . Visa—It's Everywhere You Want to Be." "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard" "Budweiser — the King of Beers." "This Bud's for you." Motel 6: "We'll leave the light on for you." Nike: "Just do it." "Radioshack: The Technology Store." "D |
What entertainer, who was commonly known as Ol' Blue Eyes, or The Chairman of the Board, died on May 14, 1998? | Frank Sinatra - Biography - IMDb Frank Sinatra Biography Showing all 190 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trade Mark (7) | Trivia (127) | Personal Quotes (35) | Salary (11) Overview (5) 14 May 1998 , Los Angeles, California, USA (bladder cancer, and heart and kidney disease) Birth Name 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A. system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four, then with Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey . With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), his image was shaped into that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy Barbato . In 1942 he started his solo career, instantly finding fame as the king of the bobbysoxers--the young women and girls who were his fans--and becoming the most popular singer of the era among teenage music fans. About that time his film career was also starting in earnest, and after appearances in a few small films, he struck box-office gold with a lead role in Anchors Aweigh (1945) with Gene Kelly , a Best Picture nominee at the 1946 Academy Awards. Sinatra was awarded a special Oscar for his part in a short film that spoke out against intolerance, The House I Live In (1945). His career on a high, Sinatra went from strength to strength on record, stage and screen, peaking in 1949, once again with Gene Kelly, in the MGM musical On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). A controversial public affair with screen siren Ava Gardner broke up his marriage to Nancy Barbato and did his career little good, and his record sales dwindled. He continued to act, although in lesser films such as Meet Danny Wilson (1951), and a vocal cord hemorrhage all but ended his career. He fought back, though, finally securing a role he desperately wanted--Maggio in From Here to Eternity (1953). He won an Oscar for best supporting actor and followed this with a scintillating performance as a cold-blooded assassin hired to kill the US President in Suddenly (1954). Arguably a career-best performance--garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor--was his role as a pathetic heroin addict in the powerful drama The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Known as "One-Take Charlie" for his approach to acting that strove for spontaneity and energy, rather than perfection, Sinatra was an instinctive actor who was best at playing parts that mirrored his own personality. He continued to give strong and memorable performances in such films as Guys and Dolls (1955), The Joker Is Wild (1957) and Some Came Running (1958). In the late 1950s and 1960s Sinatra became somewhat prolific as a producer, turning out such films as A Hole in the Head (1959), Sergeants 3 (1962) and the very successful Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964). Lighter roles alongside "Rat Pack" buddies Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were lucrative, especially the famed Ocean's 11 (1960). On the other hand, he alternated such projects with much more serious offerings, such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), regarded by many critics as Sinatra's finest picture. He made his directorial debut with the World War II picture None But the Brave (1965), which was the first Japanese/American co-production. That same year Von Ryan's Express (1965) was a box office sensation. In 1967 Sinatra returned to familiar territory in Sidney J. Furie 's The Naked Runner (1967), once again playing as assassin in his only film to be shot in the U.K. and Germany. That same year he starred as a private investigator in Tony Rome (1967), a role he reprised in the sequel, Lady in Cement (1968). He also starred with Lee Remick in The Detective (1968), a film daring for its time with its theme of murders involving ric |
What company was operating the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform that recently began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion? | Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 | oil spill, Gulf of Mexico | Britannica.com Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 oil spill, Gulf of Mexico Written By: Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, also called Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico , approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana —and its subsequent sinking on April 22. Debris and oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it sank on April 22, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard The explosion The Deepwater Horizon rig, owned and operated by offshore-oil-drilling company Transocean and leased by oil company BP , was situated in the Macondo oil prospect in the Mississippi Canyon, a valley in the continental shelf. The oil well over which it was positioned was located on the seabed 4,993 feet (1,522 metres) below the surface and extended approximately 18,000 feet (5,486 metres) into the rock. On the night of April 20 a surge of natural gas blasted through a concrete core recently installed by contractor Halliburton in order to seal the well for later use. It later emerged through documents released by Wikileaks that a similar incident had occurred on a BP-owned rig in the Caspian Sea in September 2008. Both cores were likely too weak to withstand the pressure because they were composed of a concrete mixture that used nitrogen gas to accelerate curing. Fireboat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in … Video courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Once released by the fracture of the core, the natural gas traveled up the Deepwater rig’s riser to the platform, where it ignited, killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The rig capsized and sank on the morning of April 22, rupturing the riser, through which drilling mud had been injected in order to counteract the upward pressure of oil and natural gas. Without any opposing force, oil began to discharge into the gulf. The volume of oil escaping the damaged well—originally estimated by BP to be about 1,000 barrels per day—was thought by U.S. government officials to have peaked at more than 60,000 barrels per day. Leaking oil Triangle shirtwaist factory fire Although BP attempted to activate the rig’s blowout preventer (BOP), a fail-safe mechanism designed to close the channel through which oil was drawn, the device malfunctioned. Forensic analysis of the BOP completed the following year determined that a set of massive blades known as blind shear rams—designed to slice through the pipe carrying oil—had malfunctioned because the pipe had bent under the pressure of the rising gas and oil. (A 2014 report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board claimed that the blind shear rams had activated sooner than previously thought and may have actually punctured the pipe.) Map depicting the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, caused by the explosion of an oil rig … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Efforts in May to place a containment dome over the largest leak in the broken riser were thwarted by the buoyant action of gas hydrates —gas molecules in an ice matrix—formed by the reaction of natural gas and cold water. When an attempt to employ a “ top kill,” whereby drilling mud was pumped into the well to stanch the flow of oil, also failed, BP in early June turned to an apparatus called the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) cap. With the damaged riser shorn from the LMRP—the top segment of the BOP—the cap was lowered into place. Though fitted loosely over the BOP and allowing some oil to escape, the cap enabled BP to siphon approximately 15,000 barrels of oil per day to a tanker. The addition of an ancillary collection system comprising several devices, also tapped into the BOP, increased the collection rate to approximately 25,000 barrels of oil a day. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent In early July the LMRP cap was removed for several days so that a more permanent seal could be installed; this capping stack was in place b |
What is the southern most point of land in South America? | Chile: Maps, History, Geography, Government, Culture, Facts, Guide & Travel/Holidays/Cities Bachelet Regains the Presidency Geography Situated south of Peru and west of Bolivia and Argentina, Chile fills a narrow 2,880-mi (4,506 km) strip between the Andes and the Pacific. One-third of Chile is covered by the towering ranges of the Andes. In the north is the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert, and in the center is a 700-mile-long (1,127 km) thickly populated valley with most of Chile's arable land. At the southern tip of Chile's mainland is Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world, and beyond that lies the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego, an island divided between Chile and Argentina. The southernmost point of South America is Cape Horn, a 1,390-foot (424 m) rock on Horn Island in the Wollaston group, which belongs to Chile. Chile also claims sovereignty over 482,628 sq mi (1,250,000 sq km) of Antarctic territory; the Juan Fernández Islands, about 400 mi (644 km) west of the mainland; and Easter Island, about 2,000 mi (3,219 km) west. Government Republic. History Chile was originally under the control of the Incas in the north and the nomadic Araucanos in the south. In 1541, a Spaniard, Pedro de Valdivia, founded Santiago. Chile won its independence from Spain in 1818 under Bernardo O'Higgins and an Argentinian, José de San Martin. O'Higgins, dictator until 1823, laid the foundations of the modern state with a two-party system and a centralized government. The dictator from 1830 to 1837, Diego Portales, fought a war with Peru from 1836—1839 that expanded Chilean territory. Chile fought the War of the Pacific with Peru and Bolivia from 1879 to 1883, winning Antofagasta, Bolivia's only outlet to the sea, and extensive areas from Peru. Pedro Montt led a revolt that overthrew José Balmaceda in 1891 and established a parliamentary dictatorship lasting until a new constitution was adopted in 1925. Industrialization began before World War I and led to the formation of Marxist groups. Juan Antonio Ríos, president during World War II, was originally pro-Nazi but in 1944 led his country into the war on the side of the Allies. In 1970, Salvador Allende became the first president in a non-Communist country freely elected on a Marxist program. Allende quickly established relations with Cuba and the People's Republic of China, introduced Marxist economic and social reforms, and nationalized many private companies, including U.S.-owned ones. In Sept. 1973, Allende was overthrown and killed in a military coup covertly sponsored by the CIA, ending a 46-year era of constitutional government in Chile. |
On May 14, 1804, what group broke their winter camp, at Camp DuBois, before heading up the Missouri river to start their 2 1/2 year journey? | Lewis and Clark’s Trail through Missouri River Country | Montana's Missouri River Country CULBERTSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 406-787-5821 SIDNEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 406-482-1916 THE FAIRVIEW-KORNER MOTEL 406-742-5259 APRIL 30, 1805 – MAY 8, 1805 Brockton to Fort Peck Continually impressed with the landscape, Clark declared, “the Countrey” on both Sides have a butifull appearance.” In this area near Brockton, the prairie north of the Missouri slopes gradually down toward meandering river bottoms and extensive stands of cottonwoods, while badlands and bluffs guard the south. May 1, a particularly nasty storm with waves several feet high caused all forward motion to be halted at noon. The next morning Clark described, “a verry extroadernaley Climate, to behold the trees Green & flowers Spred on the plain & Snow an inch deep.” After a late 3 p.m. start, making only about five miles, they camped on the north bank near where MT Highway 251 crosses the river between Brockton and Poplar. The crew overnighted several miles above Poplar and the mouth of today’s Poplar River on May 3. The Captains gave the waterway a different name, ” … we saw an unusual number of Porcupines from which we determined to call the river after that anamal, and accordingJy denominated it Porcupine river. “They also christened the present Redwater River in this area, “2000 mile creek,” estimating it was 2,000 miles from St. Louis. That evening, while Clark hiked to the top of one of the rises and saw the Little Rocky Mountains far to the west, Lewis penned, “the country in this neighborhood of this river, and as far as the eye can reach is level, fertile, open and beatifull beyond description. ” Making 18 miles on the 4th, Lewis documented, “the river bottoms are very extensive … the fore part of this day the river was bordered with timber on both sides, a circumstance that is extreemly rare and the first that has occurred of anything like the same extent since we left the Mandans … I saw immence quantities of buffaloe in every direction,” The Corps then traveled another 14 or so miles and spent the evening of May 5 southeast of Wolf Point. Lewis wrote, ” … as usual saw a great quantity, of game today… The country is as yesterday beatifull in the extreme. ” As a result of years of river action, the approximate location of this campsite is now more than a mile from the river. With a favorable wind, the Corps covered a decent 25 miles and camped on May 6 just southwest of the small town of Oswego. “The country we passed today … is one of the most beautiful plains we have yet seen, it rises gradually from the river bottom … then becoming level as a bowling green … as far as the eye can reach … no appearance of birnt hills coal or pumicestone, ” so noted Lewis of the 15 miles to their encampment of May 7, a short way southwest of Frazer. On May 8, 1805, with a respectable 28 miles behind them, the Corps attained another of the landmarks predicted by the Hidatsa. Meriwether Lewis writes, ” … the water of this river posseses a peculiar whiteness, being about the colour of a cup of tea with the admixture of a tabelspoonfull of milk. from the colour of it’s water we called it Milk river. we think it possible that this may be the river called by the Minitares (Hidatsa) ‘the river that scolds at all others’ … ” Lewis climbed and noted the Milk River Hills that rise almost 700 feet above the floodplain of the Milk and Missouri, which can be ascended on their south side and reached via MT 24 across Fort Peck Dam. From these points one can view much of the terrain Lewis and Clark described, both along the Missouri on the north side of the hills and southwest out over Fort Peck Lake, once part of the Missouri River channel. According to their interpretation of information from the Hidatsa, they expected that the Rocky Mountains should not be far off; but oh, how wrong they would be. After this momentous day, the resting spot that night was just south of the Milk River confluence and northeast of the town of Fort Peck, Fort Peck Lake and the east border of the Charles M. R |
Cruella DeVil was a villainess in which animated Disney film? | Disney Preps Live-Action Cruella de Vil Film (Exclusive) | Hollywood Reporter 1:16pm PT by Borys Kit Disney Preps Live-Action Cruella de Vil Film (Exclusive) Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection; Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Cruella de Vil (Inset: Aline Brosh McKenna) UPDATED: The writer for the studio's live-action "Cinderella" has been hired to pen the script for what is being titled "Cruella." After making a movie centered on Maleficent, the villainess from Sleeping Beauty, Disney is setting its sights on another bad lady: Cruella de Vil. Aline Brosh McKenna has been hired to pen Cruella, which will bring the dog-fur-loving fashionista from 101 Dalmatians into a live-action feature to be produced by Andrew Gunn, who produced Sky High and Bedtime Stories for the studio. McKenna will also produce. De Vil first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians but became a Disney icon with the 1961 animated movie. And it's not the character's first incarnation in a live-action feature. Glenn Close memorably played the character in 1996's 101 Dalmatians and the 2000 sequel, 102 Dalmatians. In fact, Close is in involved with Cruella, acting as an executive producer. |
What comic strip, created by Gary Trudeau in 1970, features characters such as Zonker Harris, B.D., Boopsie, and Mark Slackmeyer? | Doonesbury | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia All The Tropes Wiki File:Time-magazine-cover-doonesbury 1179.jpg Doonesbury is an American newspaper comic strip written and drawn by Gary Trudeau which mixes political satire with college satire and later soap opera plots. A long runner (38 years, 40 years if you don't count the two year hiatus), the series involves a cast of hundreds. The series began as a college satire (featuring nerdy Mike Doonesbury and his perpetual helmet wearing jock roommate B.D.) in 1970; within a couple of years the main cast expanded to feature Zonker Harris (a hippie slacker), Mark Slackmeyer (left-wing radical), JJ Caucus and Barbara Ann "Boopsie" Boopstein (Mike and B.D.'s respective girlfriends), and Zonker's uncle Duke (who was a stand-in for writer Hunter S. Thompson ). While it had its genesis mocking Ivy League college life, the series found its footing when the strip expanded into full-blown political satire. B.D. joined the military (to escape having to write a term paper) and Uncle Duke got himself an ambassadorship to China, which led to him getting his own sidekick, the long-suffering Honey Huan. Despite the expanded scope of the series, the characters remained college students for about 13 years, with the only real change being the group moving off campus into a commune. This changed with a two year Series Hiatus in 1983-1984; Gary Trudeau came up with the idea of doing a musical based upon the strip which centered around the graduation of the characters from college. After a brief run on Broadway, the strip returned, now moving in real time as the characters grew older, married, had kids, divorced, and died. The strip also became more biting with its political satire, with new characters like Roland Hedley (who was introduced prior to the hiatus) and surrealistic storylines like Hedley's tour of Ronald Reagan 's brain and Mr. Butts, a life-sized talking cigarette who shills for the tobacco industry. This strip won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and is generally considered liberal on the Strawman Political scale. It's so well-known for its political content that some papers choose to run it on the editorial pages rather than the comics pages, sometimes opposite Mallard Fillmore . (And for some inexplicable reason, the Washington Post runs the strip on its gossip page.) In Britain the strip is carried in The Guardian, which tried to drop it in 2005. This did not go down well. This strip includes examples of: Alien Geometries : Donald Trump 's hair, which conveniently obscures his face . All Just a Dream : A number of the more surreal strips are explained this way. A recurring series during the 90s had a talking cigarette named Mr. Butts, who represented the tobacco industry, trying to sell kids on smoking (and always succeeding). These were recurring nightmares of Mike Doonesbury. The strips would usually end with Mike lying awake in bed making an exasperated remark. Later on, Mr. Butts crossed over into the strip's real world with no explanation, interacting with characters and even testifying before congress. Despite this, Mike assured people that Mr. Butts was just a figment of his imagination. And I Must Scream : Toggle shortly after his accident, being unable to speak at all and then only in short bursts. He's gotten better with time though. Animated Adaptation : A rarely seen Doonesbury primetime cartoon special was made and aired in 1977. Anyone Can Die : Doonesbury was the first mainstream humor comic strip to kill off a character, which caused quite a stir at the time (1986) and landed it on the cover of Time magazine. The deceased, Dick Davenport, was an elderly birdwatcher who had been a recurring character for years. He suffered a massive heart attack while birding but managed to stay alive just long enough to fulfill his life's dream of photographing an extremely rare bird (his last word, spoken right after snapping the picture, was "Immortality.") Andrew, a college friend of Joanie's, died of AIDS just after hearing the CD of The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds. Later, |
May 15, 1928 saw what iconic film character introduced in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy? | Film History Milestones - 1928 Event and Significance 1928 RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures, evolving originally from the Mutual Film Corporation (1912), was created in the merger of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the Film Booking Office (FBO) and Keith-Albee-Orpheum, a major Vaudeville corporation. It was established as a subsidiary of RCA and joined the ranks of the major Hollywood studios. 1928 Director Roy William Neill's The Viking (1928) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3. 1928 By 1928, Hollywood's major film studios had signed an agreement with AT&T/Western Electric's licensing division (ERPI, or Electrical Research Products, Inc.) to use their audio technologies to produce films with sound. They proceeded with the conversion of production facilities and theaters for sound film. This led to an explosion in the popularity of sound in cinema. 1928 The first 'Mickey Mouse' short animated film, Plane Crazy (1928), was debuted on May 15, 1928. The character of an animated mouse (future Mickey Mouse) was modified from Disney's earlier character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was introduced in 1927. 1928 The first all-talking cartoon short, Paul Terry's Dinner Time (1928) with synchronized sound was premiered, preceding Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928) by about a month. It was made after Warner Bros.' success with The Jazz Singer (1927) . 1928 Walt Disney also introduced the first popular animated cartoons with synchronized sound later in this year: Steamboat Willie (on July 29, 1928, in limited release) and Galloping Gaucho (on August 2, 1928). Steamboat Willie - Mickey's first sound cartoon, was then re-released on November 18, 1928 with sound and premiered at the 79th Street Colony Theatre in New York - it was Disney's first cartoon with a post-produced synchronized soundtrack (of music, dialogue, and sound effects) and was considered Mickey Mouse's (and Minnie's) screen debut performance and birthdate. It was the first sound cartoon that was a major hit. Walt Disney provided the voice for Mickey until his death. 1928 The Best Picture-nominated western film In Old Arizona (1928), made by directors Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, was released. It was the first full-length talkie film to be shot outdoors (on location) and not in a studio, as well as the first sound western film. 1928 The gangster melodrama The Lights of New York (1928) was released by Warner Brothers as the first 100% all-talking feature film, as a result of the phenomenal success of The Jazz Singer (1927) with just a few minutes of sound. This first Warner Bros. gangster film was unexpectedly successful, grossing over $2 million. 1928 Warner Brothers' second 'all-talking' picture was The Terror (1928) - director Roy Del Ruth's adaptation of Edgar Wallace's play regarding a haunted house terrorized by a homicidal asylum escapee. The film's many ads capitalized on the new feature of sound (creaking doors, howling winds, organ music), heard with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process: "It will thrill you! Grip you! Set you into tremors of awe. HEAR this creepy tale of mystery - the baffling story of a detective's great triumph. With voices and shadows that will rack your nerves and make you like it. Come, hear them talk in this Vitaphone production of the play that has gripped London for over 3 years." 1928 Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's startling and influential The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) used minimal sets, extremely oblique and other unusual camera angles, and excruciatingly huge close-ups to create a virtually new visual language soulfully expressive of the martyr's (Maria Falconetti) suffering psychology. 1928 Future star John Wayne (a former prop man) has often been credited as making his debu |
How many gold stars are there on the blue background of the European Union flag? | EUROPA - The European flag Europa The European flag The European flag symbolises both the European Union and, more broadly, the identity and unity of Europe. It features a circle of 12 gold stars on a blue background. They stand for the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe. The number of stars has nothing to do with the number of member countries, though the circle is a symbol of unity. History of the European flag The history of the flag goes back to 1955. The Council of Europe - which defends human rights and promotes European culture – chose the present design for its own use. In the years that followed, it encouraged the emerging European institutions to adopt the same flag. In 1983, the European Parliament decided that the Communities’ flag should be that used by the Council of Europe. In 1985, it was adopted by all EU leaders as the official emblem of the European Communities, later to become the European Union. In addition, all European institutions now have their own emblems . Commemorative euro coin: 30 years of the EU flag To mark the 30th anniversary of the decision by EU leaders to adopt the flag as an EU emblem, the 19 euro area countries are issuing a special commemorative coin. Following an online competition held in 2015 by the European Commission, citizens and residents of the euro area selected the design created by Georgios Stamatopoulos, an engraver at the Bank of Greece. It comprises 12 stars that morph into human figures embracing the birth of a new Europe. Take a look at the winning design. Reproduction in 2 colours white & blue (17 Kb) |
What country was formerly known as Siam until June 23, 1939, and again from 1945 to May 11, 1949? | Thailand - Travellers Forum Tweet MapsGuides to your bookmarks Thailand - Travellers Forum Thailand is a very interesting place to visit - and many people have been there. What are their experiences and adventures? You can read it here - on the page Thailand: discussion forum, experiences, adventures, tips, opinions, problems, challenges... Add your opinions and experiences if you can. Help other people. Search If you want to see - in this forum - entries from travellers, who use another language, switch to the language, please. Just click to the language on the left side. You can switch back to this language anytime. Phuket, not only beaches Phuket it is not only beaches. We have visited Khao Phra Taew wildlife and forest reserve and it was great. Not exactly wild jungle, but nice paths, a lot of trees and flowers and sometimes some animal (especially birds, but not only). So you don't need to spend one week on Phuket only on sunbathing. author: Waaa | inserted: 22. 06. 2008, 16:21:44 | reply >> Do not insert html tags please. They will not work. << Transcribe 4 numbers from the picture please: Rules Insert only entries which may be useful for other readers. You are welcome to write your own experiences from Thailand, your evaluation of different places and your tips, where to go. It will be good if you mention any problems and their solutions. And tell us, if your holidays here were good or bad. Please be polite to other people in this forum. And do not spam this forum, please. We delete this kind of entries. Thailand on the Internet Are you looking for more information? On the Internet there are a lot of information. Here are some advices: Thailand may have different names in different languages. For example Thajsko, Thailand, La Thaïlande, Tailandia. Use these names in search engines. It is good idea to precisely specify what are you looking for. If you need information about a place, use the name in a search engine. You may use other names of the place as well. If you need - for example - an information about history of the place, add the word history to the search engine. What Others say The Kingdom of Thailand (Thai: ราชอาณาจักรไทย) is a country in Southeast Asia. To its east lie Laos and Cambodia; to its south, the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia; and to its west, the Andaman Sea and Burma. Its capital and largest city is Bangkok. The country's official name was Siam (Thai: สยาม, RTGS: Sayam origin unknown) until 23 June 1939, when it was changed to Thailand; it was renamed Siam between 1945 and 11 May 1949, after which the name Thailand was once again adopted. The word Thai (ไทย) is not, as commonly believed to be, derived from the word Tai (ไท) meaning "free" in the Thai language; it is, however, the name of an ethnic group from the central plains (the Thai people).[citation needed] A famous Thai scholar argued that Tai (ไท) simply means "people" or "human being" since his investigation shows that in some rural areas the word "Tai" was used instead of the usual Thai word "khon" (คน) for people. With that in mind the locals seemed to have also accepted the alternative meaning and will verbally state that it means "Land of the free". Ratcha Anachak Thai means "Kingdom of Thailand" or "Kingdom of Thai". Etymologically, its components are: -Ratcha- (from Sanskrit raja, meaning "king, royal, realm", from Sanskrit) ; -ana- (from Pāli, "authority, command, power", itself from Sanskrit ājñā, same meaning) -chak (from Sanskrit chakra, meaning "wheel", a symbol of power and rule). The region known today as Thailand has been inhabited by humans since the paleolithic period (about 10,000 years ago). Prior to the fall of the Khmer Empire in the 13th century, various states thrived there, such as the various Tai, Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms, as seen through the numerous archaeological sites and artifacts that are scattered throughout the Siamese landscape. Prior to the 12th century however, the first Thai or Siamese state is traditionally considered to be the Buddhist kingdom of Sukhothai, which was founded in 1238. |
May 14, 1973 saw the US launch what first ever space station, which orbited the earth for 6 years, even though it was only visited 3 times? | Skylab Space Station Tweet on Twitter Skylab was the first US space station and the world’s first big space station. It was launched on May 14th, 1973 by a Saturn V Rocket. Skylab Space Station was assembled from Saturn V and Apollo components. Skylab’s purpose was to serve as a laborarory for scientific experiments in space until February 1974. An Apollo Spacecraft was used to transport the crew to Skylab and to return them to the Earth’s surface. It was a launched on a Saturn 1B rocket. Skylab was used to study: – the Sun. – microgravity research – learn more about Earth. – to test the effects of long-duration space flights and to see how the human body reacts in space – to helped us learn to live and work in space. – to conduct a variety of scientific and technological experiments, such as metallic-crystal growth in the weightless state. – and function as a laboratory in earth orbit. Skylab Specifications: Structure Weight: 91 metric ton (100-ton) Height: 36 metres (118 feet) Diamater: 6.7 metres (22 feet) Altitude of Orbit: 435km (270 miles) Orbital Mass: 77,088kg Habitable Volume: 283 cubic metres (10,000 cubic feet) Skylab Space Station was a modified third stage of a Saturn V moon rocket. Skylab was actually the refitted S-IVB second stage of a Saturn IB booster (from the AS-212 vehicle), a leftover from the Apollo program originally intended for one of the canceled Apollo earth orbital missions. A product of the Apollo Applications program (a program tasked with finding long-term uses for Apollo program hardware). Skylab consisted of five parts: Orbital Workshop was the living and working area for the crew. Airlock Module was used by the Astronauts to access the outside of Skylab for spacewalks. Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) was attached to one end of the cylindrical workshop. It was used to study our sun, stars and earth with no atmospheric interference. Multiple Docking Adapter allowed more than one Apollo spacecraft to dock to the station at once. The Saturn Instrument Unit (IU) was used by NASA teams in Huntsville to reprogram the space station using a massive ring of computers. The unit was used to guide Skylab itself into orbit. IU also controlled the jettisoning of the protective payload shroud and activated the onboard life support systems, started the solar inertial attitude maneuver, deployed the Apollo Telescope mount at a 90-degree angle and deployed Skylab’s solar wings. SKYLAB FLIGHTS Skylab orbited Earth 2,476 times during the 171 days and 13 hours of its occupation during the three manned Skylab missions. Astronauts performed ten spacewalks totalling 42 hours 16 minutes. Skylab 1 – May 14, 1973 Unmanned A two-stage version of the Saturn V rocket launched Skylab to orbit on May 14, 1973 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida. During the launch, the station was damaged. A critical meteoroid shield and one of the station’s two main solar panels were ripped off and the other solar panel was not fully stretched out. That meant that Skylab had little electrical power and the internal temperature rose to 126 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius). Originally it was planned that a crew would be launched from Earth the next day to inhabit the space station. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff, however, a critical meteoroid shield ripped off, taking one of the craft’s two solar panels with it and preventing the other from deploying properly. Ground command maneuvered Skylab so its solar panels faced the Sun to provide as much electricity as possible. But because the meteoroid shield was gone (which also operated as a sun shield), temperatures inside the workshop rose to 126˚F (52˚C). The launch of Skylab 2 (the first crew to inhabit the space station) was postponed for 10 days while scientists, engineers, astronauts and management personnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and elsewhere developed procedures and trained the crew to make the workshop habitable. At the same time, engineers “rolled” Skylab to lower the temperature of the workshop. Almost immediately, technical |
An open air ballpark build in 2004, what National League baseball team plays at Petco Park? | Petco Park - San Diego Padres Petco Park One of the many great items in our Padres Store . Baseball Pilgrimages Questions or comments For 35 years the Padres were banished to the outskirts of San Diego, playing in a stadium built for football. In fact, of all the multipurpose stadiums that hosted Major League Baseball and the NFL, only the Padres played second fiddle to a football team when it came to scheduling priority. That all changed in 2004, when San Diego opened a downtown ballpark. Petco Park was built at a cost of $456.8 million on 18 acres of land in the heart of downtown San Diego. Very few ballparks in the Major Leagues can boast of such a prime location, as Petco Park was beautifully woven into the fabric of the city and is surrounded by the skyscrapers of the San Diego skyline. Constructed of materials designed to reflect the local landscape, Petco Park has a sandstone and stucco exterior that was patterned after the sandy colored San Diego cliffs and beaches. Certain parts of the exterior, such as the staircases between the lower and upper decks, look like bunkers, befitting the large contingent of military stationed in the area. All exposed steel is painted white (think sailboats and ocean whitecaps) and all seats are painted blue (like the ocean). The San Diego friendly design shows off the best the city has to offer and some local icons can be seen from various points in the ballpark. The Coronado Bridge runs parallel to Petco and is easily seen from the upper deck concourse, as is the San Diego Bay. The hilltop of Balboa Park, home to the San Diego Zoo, peeks through the skyscrapers beyond center field. San Diego is renowned for its leisurely lifestyle and one of Petco Park�s signature features, the Park at the Park, is a year-round destination for baseball fans and local citizens. The Park at the Park is literally a 2.7-acre park within the confines of the ballpark in the outfield. When no games are being played, the Park at the Park serves as a free local park for area residents, but during the game it�s a hot spot for Padres fans and families, as a line of specialty concession stands and a mini wiffle ball field complement the large elevated grass berm. A Park Pass, as the Padres refer to them, is just $5 and many fans bring beach towels to plop down in the grass. Most of the �seating� is obstructed view, as the batter�s eye blocks much of the playing field. The Padres recognized this and added a large screen TV to the back of the batter�s backdrop so fans in the park can follow the action. The park isn�t of much use to hardcore baseball fans, but a perfect place for casual fans and families to spend an afternoon. The lawn seating in the Park can accommodate approximately 2,000 fans, so the ballpark�s actual capacity is greater than the listed 42,445 fixed seats. The Padres have some innovative standing room options, highlighted by the �beach� in center field. The beach is a sand-covered section in front of the amphitheater style bleachers where fans can watch the game directly behind the glass paneled outfield fence. One of the most unique vantage points in baseball, fans sit on the sand floor during the game so they won�t block the view of the fans sitting in the bleachers directly behind them. From a distance (and on TV) it looks like fans are standing in the two sections of bleachers, which actually have booster style seats that are first come, first served. The only brick found inside the ballpark is a dandy. The century-old Western Metal Supply Company building, originally scheduled for demolition to make way for Petco Park, was preserved and incorporated into left field. The four-story brick building is the ballpark�s most striking architectural feature and its focal point. The Western Metal Supply Co. building serves many uses at Petco. The left-field foul pole is attached to it. The Padres Team Store is in its first floor and has an entrance to the Knothole Gang-type standing room area in left field. Suites are on the second and third floors and a re |
Rennet, an enzyme obtained from the lining of the 4th stomach of young, unweaned calves, is a key ingredient in the production of what? | Non-Vegetarian Foods to Watch Out For Warning: 8 Common Foods You Thought Were Vegetarian Written by Matt Frazier When you’re a new vegetarian , it’s easy to make mistakes. Chances are, you’ve already messed up by eating something you thought was safe, only to realize later that it contained, say, chicken broth. Or in my case—yum—stomach enzymes and fish bladders. If so, shake it off. Consider it a lesson learned and give yourself a pat on the back for caring enough to even think twice about what you eat. And know that by reading this list, you’ll have avoided a bunch more potential mistakes, every single one of which I’ve made during my first year as a vegetarian. Soups Many, many soups, especially in restaurants, are made with chicken stock, beef stock, or fish stock. And you’ll find ham stock in most split pea soups. Even Campbell’s Vegatable soup isn’t so mmm-mmm-chicken-friendly; look for their Vegetarian Vegetable instead. French onion soup is one that seems so obvious now, but when we were fresh new vegetarians, my wife and I most definitely chowed down on some. Thankfully, 1000 Vegan Recipes (affiliate link) has a good animal-free version of this classic. Salad Dressings Lots of restaurant salad dressings (often the best tasting ones, sad to say) start with bacon fat, even when the menu doesn’t mention bacon. Caesar dressing, of course, contains anchovies, if you’re being served the real thing (but here’s a vegan one from Post-Punk Kitchen ). There are going to be times when you eat out and salad is the only decent vegetarian choice for lunch or even dinner. Just make sure it actually is vegetarian. Cheese Yep, now I’m going to be that jerk who tells you not all cheese is vegetarian. I was traumatized to learn that Parmigiano-Reggiano, the nuttiest, most flavorful, most classic cheese in the world (in my opinion, anyway) is made with rennet . And rennet, for the unenlightened, is a nice way of saying “enzymes from animals’ stomachs.” And guess how they get those enzymes out? Parmigiano-Reggiano is actually required by law to be made with rennet, and you’ll find rennet in many other authentic imported cheeses (Pecorino Romano is another one). While some domestic cheeses list rennet as an ingredient, others simply say “enzymes,” leaving the buyer unsure whether or not any stomachs are being ripped open to get those goodies. Your best bet, if you’re unsure, is to choose “vegan parmesan,” a combination of nutritional yeast and, sometimes, nuts that actually does a pretty good job of pretending. Worcestershire Sauce Standard Worcestershire sauce is made with anchovies. Annie’s Naturals makes a vegan Worcestershire sauce that tastes exactly the same, and in most vegetarian recipes you can probably substitute soy sauce and some spices. And that’s about all there is to say about Worcestershire Sauce. Tortillas Remember that elementary school story that kids liked to pass around at lunch about the middle of Oreo cookies being pure lard? Well, it’s not true; Oreos don’t contain lard anymore, if they ever did. But guess what does? If you said “tortillas,” I say si! Fortunately, many brands have removed the animal fat from their tortillas, but it’s still worth a check. And if you’re eating out at a Mexican restaurant, it’s probably more likely that the tortillas are made with lard. Now, if you’re talking really classy Mexican restaurants, rest assured that Taco Bell’s tortillas (and refried beans, another seemingly-vegetarian food to look out for) do NOT contain lard, according to Vegetarian-Restaurants.net . Neither does anything at Baja Fresh , but I can’t tell for sure about Chipotle. Proceed con cuidado. [Update: Chipotle has tweeted to me that their tortillas are lard-free and pinto beans are now vegan-friendly!] Gummy Bears Image via Wikipedia Sorry, vegetarian marathoners—those gummy bears the nice people hand out at mile 20 are not for you. Most likely, they contain gelatin , which comes from animal bones, connective tissue, and organs. Sweet. According to Wikipedia, some gummy bears are made with |
What does the DSM-IV define as: A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following: (1) avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection (2) is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked (3) shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed (4) is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations (5) is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy (6) views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others (7) is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing | abnormal lecture on antisocial Dale L. Johnson ����������� In the view of many people, the personality disorders are at the heart of abnormal psychology.� In that judgment they are thinking of antisocial personality disorder and the strange, unnecessary cruel, violent behavior that is part of this disorder. There is more to the personality disorders, and some aspects of the disorders are virtually unknown to the general public. ����������� There have always been conceptual problems with the personality disorders. They were first defined in terms of psychoanalytic theory, and remnants of that theory remain. However, with the revolution in thinking that resulted in the DSM-III the old theory had to go as it was not based on scientific evidence. The new personality disorders are based on scientific evidence, but for some of the disorders this evidence is scant. In addition, it has been difficult to sort out the key elements of the disorders. For example, Avoidant Personality Disorder is characterized by an avoidance of interpersonal relations. There is a fear of rejection and much anxiety. Perhaps this disorder should be placed with the anxiety disorders instead of the personality disorders. ����������� Another problem is related to the basic form of these disorders. They are assumed to be abnormal extensions of normal behavior. Thus, it is normal to be socially reticent or introverted, but it is schizoid and abnormal to find relations with other people unnecessary at all. The disorders exist on a continuum, a matter of degree of severity, but in the DSM-IV they are treated as though they are categorical entities. One either has a personality disorder or one does not. ����������� There may be a conceptual problem in the Personality Disorders scheme in that people so often are diagnosed as having more than one disorder. This was apparent in the diagnosis of John Hinkley, the man who shot President Reagan. At his trial he was given the following diagnoses by various experts: schizoid, narcissistic, borderline, passive-aggressive (other experts said he had schizophrenia, and the jury believed them). ����������� The continuum idea holds that personality disorders are like traits. That is, they are relatively enduring aspects of personality that are not influenced much by immediate circumstances. The depression that occurs after the loss of a loved one is thought of as a emotional state; something that is linked to a particular circumstance and may occur even in people who are ordinarily happy. Traits persist. They are a feature of a person without regard to the circumstances. ����������� If the dimensional view of personality disorders is taken seriously then one begins with a set of scientifically derived personality characteristics. These characteristics have been identified using a statistical technigue called factor analysis. In this a large number of questionnaire items are presented to a large group of subjects. The responses to these items are then factor analyzed to see which items are similar to each other. These similarities are called factors. Thousands of factor analytic studies have resulted in five factors (See figure below). Each factor is a dimensional structure with one form of the factor at one end, and the opposite at the other end. These factors comprise the main elements of human personality. The factors emerge in studies of human personality everywhere in the world. ����������� If these are basic personality factors, then personality disorders should be based on these, but they are not in the DSM-IV. Perhaps they will be in some future DSM. If you examine the Big Five Factors and compare them with some of the DSM-IV disorders you can see that Antisocial Personality might be negatively linked to the Agreeableness Factor. Schizoid Personality might be negativelyassociated with the Extraversion Factor, and so on. It may be, however, that the Big Five Fac |
According to the proverb, a fool and his money are soon what? | The Proverbs of Solomon Proverbs 10:4 Before you can save or invest money, you must earn it. Solomon emphasized diligence as a key to financial success. A lazy person will be poor, and most poor are relatively lazy. But the labors of the diligent man will acquire riches. Proverbs 13:23 Is the idiom true, A fool and his money are soon parted? It is, and it was. Solomon saw the poor gather large harvests, but they never had anything left at the end of the year. Their lack of financial judgment cost them their income. Proverbs 21:20 A man who works hard, saves some of all income, and restrains his spending will have an estate. But a fool cannot resist the urge to blow his income on things he does not need. He will never have an estate or anything nice in life. Proverbs 11:24 A great way to get ahead is to give your money away! It is true! Business schools are not smart enough to know it, but Solomon did. If you stingily hold back to protect assets, you will lose; if you throw it away, you will prosper! Proverbs 14:15 Bernie Madoff made off with $50 billion of other's money. The next Bernie may scam you, unless you learn to think critically. Solomon knew more about frauds and hoaxes than any man, and he gave a simple rule to protect you. Proverbs 11:15 Most financial loss and risk can be avoided, if you strict about your commitments. Risk is the danger of something else taking your money from you. But you can be sure in your estate, if you hate the right things that Solomon teaches. Hard work works! Talking about a business opportunity does not! Called multi-level marketing or direct sales, they rely on rah-rah meetings to get you to buy overpriced products in hope you might become a millionaire. Proverbs 30:25 Saving money is not just a good idea or possible use of income. It is a commandment of God, and He created a little creature to teach you the lesson – the ant! They work hard all summer, and they save much food for winter. Proverbs 21:17 Are you a spendthrift? You cannot prosper. It is not the high cost of living hurting you, but rather the cost of high living. Stop spending beyond your income. Wise men do not spend all they make, but fools do and die poor. Proverbs 3:9 You can honor God by obedience, worship, prayer, and singing. But you can also do it by firstfruits giving (no other kind will work). If you put Him first this way, He will put you first in line for financial blessings. Read it. You have to spend money to make money. If you have heard this before, it was taken from this proverb. Wise men invest savings in income-producing assets to leverage their ability and time to get ahead faster than others. Slow down! Especially with money! Haste makes waste! God and Solomon order you to slow down, because ambitious and impulsive decisions reveal a covetous and greedy man, and poverty is coming to those hasty to be rich. |
What would a conchologist be interested in? | Philippine Marine Mollusks Book Volume IV: Philippine Marine Mollusks Volume IV starts with a foreword of Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion. She is Professor in the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she occupies the Chair of the Marine Science Institute. Gisela ... click here to read more. Visaya Vol. 4 No. 5 Huang, S., Fu, I. & Poppe, G. T.: Taiwanese and Philippine Colloniidae. Nomenclatural Remarks and the Description of 17 New Species (Gastropoda: Colloniidae). Anseeuw, P.: Two New Pleurotomariid Subsp... click here to read more. VISAYA Vol. 4 No. 4 Govaert, F., Deprez, J. & Vandenberghe, P.: The western range subspecies of Umbilia hesitata (Iredale, 1916) (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Fehse, D.: On the identity of Hespererato pallida Oleinik, Petuch... Iconography The Superfamily Stromboidea - Addenda and Corrigenda. - In: A Conchological Iconography During the last fifteen year, passed after the publication of the volume "A Conchological Iconography - The Family Strombidae", by Kreipl & Poppe (1999), a lot of new knowledge has been accumulated co... click here to read more. Gloria Maris 29 years of ‘Gloria Maris’, the journal from the Royal Belgian Society of Conchology. The years 1962 to 1991 are now online as a searchable archive! click here to browse. Hawaiian Shell News Archive 44 years of Hawaiian Shell News is a now online as a searchable archive containing all issues from 1960 until 2011. click here to browse. Of Sea and Shore 34 years of 'Of Sea and Shore', the journal created and maintained by Tom Rice. The complete set is now online as a searchable archive containing all issues from 1970 to 2004! click here to browse. Rossiniana Rossiniana or 'Bulletin de l'Association Conchyliologique de N.C.' is a journal published from 1978 until 1995. In total 62 issues appeared with original descriptions, travel stories, interesting finds and many more articles. |
When setting the table for a formal dinner, does the fork(s) go on the left or the right of the plate? | The Formal Place Setting - The Emily Post Institute, Inc. The Formal Place Setting Find another article | View next article | Share this article The formal place setting is used at home for a meal of more than three courses, such as a dinner party or a holiday meal. It’s simply the informal place setting taken to the next level, adding glassware, dishes and utensils for the foods and beverages served with the additional courses. It’s also used at high-end restaurants that serve multiple courses. Everything on your table should be crisp and sparkling. White linens are still considered the most formal, but colored or patterned tablecloths or place mats, and napkins can be just as elegant. Other possible elements include candles, a centerpiece or multiple flower arrangements, and place cards. Place mats (if used) are entered in front of each chair, about one to two inches from the edge of the table. A tablecloth is spread to hang evenly on each end and on the sides. The average drop is 12 to 18 inches, but don’t worry if it is a little long or short—you just don’t want it hanging too low, or it will end up in the diners’ laps. The most formal table is strictly symmetrical: centerpiece in the exact center, an even number of candlesticks, place settings spaced evenly around the table, silverware lined up and at the same distance from the edge of the table. The space not taken up by place settings is your available real estate. Feel free to vary flower arrangements and decorations as you like, creating a balanced and pleasing tablescape. Be careful not to overcrowd the table, and arrange your decorations so diners seated opposite can see each other. In General: Knife blades are always placed with the cutting edge toward the plate. No more than three of any implement are ever placed on the table, except when an oyster fork is used in addition to three other forks. If more than three courses are served before dessert, then the utensils for the fourth course are brought in with the food; likewise the salad fork and knife may be brought in when the salad course is served. Dessert spoons and forks are brought in on the dessert plate just before dessert is served. The placement of utensils is guided by the menu, the idea being that you use utensils in an “outside in” order. For the illustrated place setting here, the order of the menu is: Appetizer: Shellfish Entrée Salad (a) Service Plate: This large plate, also called a charger, serves as an underplate for the plate holding the first course, which will be brought to the table. When the first course is cleared, the service plate remains in place for any other courses, such as a soup course, until the plate holding the entrée is served, at which point the two plates are exchanged. The charger may serve as the underplate for several courses which precede the entrée. (b) Butter Plate: The small butter plate is placed above the forks at the left of the place setting. (c) Dinner Fork: The largest of the forks, also called the place fork, is placed on the left of the plate. Other smaller forks for other courses are arranged to the left or right of the dinner fork, according to when they will be used. (d) Fish Fork: If there is a fish course, this small fork is placed to the left of the dinner fork because it is the first fork used. (e) Salad Fork: If the salad is served after the entrée, the small salad fork is placed to the right of the dinner fork, next to the plate. If the salad is to be served first, and fish second, then the forks would be arranged (left to right): salad fork, fish fork, dinner fork. (f) Dinner Knife: The large dinner knife is placed to the right of the dinner plate. (g) Fish Knife: The specially shaped fish knife goes to the right of the dinner knife. (h) Salad Knife (Note: there is no salad knife in the illustration): If used, according to the above menu, it would be placed to the left of the dinner knife, next to the dinner plate. If the salad is to be served first, and fish second, then the knives would be arranged (left to right): dinner knife, fish knife, sala |
What bumbling, inept cartoon character superhero’s alter ego was mild-mannered police station janitor Penrod “Penry” Pooch? | Hanna-Barbera - Classic Retro Cartoon Links Classic Retro Cartoon Links 2 Stupid Dogs is about a big dog and a little dog, neither of whom, as the title explains, is very intelligent, and their everyday misadventures. The Banana Splits The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television program that featured both live action and animated segments Clue Club The show centers around four adolescent friends who open the titular private investigation agency out of Larry's suburban residence. Dastardly & Mutley Wacky Races The cartoon had an unusually large number of regular characters, with twenty-three people and animals spread among the 11 race cars. The Flintstones Set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock. In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen Wally Gator A Cajun alligator. He is more comfortable when he is at home, in the city zoo. Mr. Twiddle is the zookeeper that keeps a close watch on Wally because sometimes he escapes to check out what things are like outside. Hong Kong Phooey Hong Kong Phooey, is a superhero who uses Chinese martial arts to fight crime. Hong Kong Phooey is the secret alter ego of Penrod "Penry" Pooch, a "mild-mannered" police station janitor. Huckleberry Hound A blue dog that speaks with a Southern drawl and has a relaxed, sweet, and well-intentioned personality. Yogi Bear Yogi Bear was the first breakout character created by Hanna-Barbera, and was eventually more popular than Huckleberry Hound. Frankenstein Jr. Taking place in Civic City, boy scientist Buzz Conroy and his father Professor Conroy fight supervillains with the aid of a powerful heroic robot named "Frankenstein Jr." Johnny Bravo Stars a muscular beefcake young man named Johnny Bravo who dons a pompadour hairstyle and an Elvis Presley-like voice and has a forward, woman-chasing personality. Loopy De Loop A gentleman wolf who mangled the English language in his bid to converse in a bad French-Canadian accent, and always wore a characteristic tuque knit cap. Pac Man The show follows the adventures of the title character, Pac-Man his wife Pepper, their child Pac-Baby , their dog Chomp-Chomp and their cat Sour Puss. Yippee Yappee & Yahooey Are dogs who serve the King as his royal guards. They must always protect, serve and obey the King. At times, the three heroes find themselves fighting a fire-breathing dragon and other villains. Qiuck Draw McGraw A sheriff in a series set in the Arizona Territory of the Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey who spoke English with a Mexican accent. The Ruff & Reddy Show Starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat , and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog. Was originally broadcast in black and white until fall 1958. Squiddly Diddly The round-headed, sailor-hatted Squiddly, more octopus than squid in appearance, who is captive in an aquatic park known as Bubbleland, and resides in a pool with his name on it. The Smurfs The characters included Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, the evil Gargamel, his cat Azrael, and Johan and his friend Peewit. The Smurfs was nominated multiple times for Daytime Emmy awards. Grape Ape A 40-foot-tall purple gorilla with the mind of a child. His catch phrase is saying his name twice ("Grape Ape, Grape Ape") He travels the countryside with his canine pal Beegle Beagle. Top Cat A frequent plot-line revolved around the local beat policeman, Charles "Charlie" Dibble, NYPD and his ineffective attempts to evict the gang from the alley. Yakky Doodle Yakky is always one to run into danger when it is most expected. This usually comes in the form of the show's main antagonist Fibber Fox or secondary villain Alfy Gator. The Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan Mr. Chan, his children, nieces nephews and their dog Chu Chu solve mysteries around the city, with the children helping their father/uncle in every episode. Birdman And The Galaxy Trio An ordinary human endowed by the sun god Ra with the ability to shoot solar rays fro |
Acting as labor companions, what word, originally meaning female slave in Greek, describes women who gives support and help to a pregnant woman before, during and after childbirth? | Medical Library and Physician's Directory, Health Information - Vocabulary Course Vocabulary Course To introduce friends to any aspect of the Doctors� Medical Library, click on the icon on each page. To print any page of the Doctors� Medical Library, click on the icon on each page. D & C (D and C): Dilatation and curettage, a minor operation in which the cervix is expanded enough (dilatation) to permit the cervical canal and uterine lining to be scraped with a spoon-shaped instrument called a curette (curettage). Dacryoadenitis: Inflammation of a lacrimal gland (the gland that produces tears). (Dacryo-: A combining form denoting tears) Dacryocyst: The lacrimal sac; tear sac. The dilated (widened) upper end of the nasolacrimal duct, the passageway that permits tears to drain into the nasal cavity. Dacryocystorhinostomy: The surgical creation of a passage between the lacrimal sac (tear sac) and the nasal cavity to permit the drainage of tears. Dacryocystorhinostomy may be done to remedy an obstructed nasolacrimal duct. Dactyledema: Swelling of the fingers or toes. (Dactyl-, -dactyl: Prefix or suffix denoting involvement of the digits (fingers or toes) Dactylitis: Inflammation of a digit (either a finger or a toe). Daily Value: DV, a term on food labels based on the RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance) designed to help consumers use food label information to plan a healthy diet. The Daily Value serves as a basis for declaring on the label the percent of the DV for each nutrient that a serving of the food provides. For example, the Daily Value for fat, based on a 2,000-calorie diet, is 65 grams (g). A food that has 13 g of fat per serving would state on the label that the "percent Daily Value" for fat is 20 percent. The DV also provides a basis for thresholds that define descriptive words for nutrient content, called descriptors, such as "high fiber" and "low fat." For example, the descriptor "high fiber" can be used if a serving of food provides 20 percent or more of the Daily Value for fiber - that is, 5 g or more. Daltonism: Colorblindness of the red-green type (also known as deuteranopia or deuteranomaly). The term "Daltonism" is derived from the name of the chemist and physicist, John Dalton (1766-1844). Dalton described his and his brother's affliction of colorblindness with defective perception of red and green in the first scientific paper he published. It was entitled "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours, with observation" (Mem Literary Philos Soc Manchester 5: 28-45, 1798). It is the first recognized account of red-green colorblindness. Dancing mania of Maracaibo (Huntington disease) (Saint Vitus Dance): Beginning in the 1950s Dr. Americo Negrette observed a number of people with a dancing mania in villages along Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The syndrome was then called el mal (the bad meaning in context the sickness) or el mal de San Vito (the sickness of Saint Vitus). Dr. Negrette diagnosed and reclassified the dancing mania as Huntington disease. In 1981, a field trip to Lake Maracaibo led to the collection of blood samples and the creation of an Huntington disease pedigree and in time to the discovery of the causative gene. Dander: Tiny scales shed from human or animal skin or hair. Dander floats in the air, settles on surfaces and makes up much household dust. Cat dander is a classic cause of allergic reactions. Dandruff: A mild skin condition that produces white flakes that may be shed and fall from the hair. Dandruff is due to the sebaceous glands overworking. (The sebaceous glands keep the skin properly oiled.) Another cause of dandruff is fungus, especially one called Pitrosporum ovale. (Most people have this fungus, but people with dandruff have more.) Dandy fever: An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache, fever, prostration, severe joint and muscle pain, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and rash. The presence (the "dengue triad") of fever, rash, and headache (and other pains) is |
May 15, 1940 saw the first restaurant in what fast food franchise, now the worlds largest, open in San Bernadino, Ca? | World’s First McDonald Restaurant | Amusing Planet World’s First McDonald Restaurant Kaushik Thursday, September 06, 2012 2 comments Advertisement The world's largest chain of fast food restaurants that serve around 68 million customers each day in 119 countries began operation in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant run by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California. The original restaurant was named "McDonald's Famous Barbeque" and served over forty barbequed items. In October 1948, after the McDonald brothers realized that most of their profits came from selling hamburgers, they closed down their successful carhop drive-in to establish a streamlined system with a simple menu of just hamburgers, potato chips, and orange juice. The following year, French fries and Coca-Cola were added to the menu. This simplified menu and food preparation using assembly line principles allowed them to sell hamburgers for 15 cents, or about half as much as at a sit-down restaurant. McDonald Brother's store in San Bernadino, California In 1953, the McDonald brothers began to franchise their successful restaurant, starting in Phoenix, Arizona and Downey, California; the latter is today the oldest surviving McDonald's restaurant. In 1954, the McDonald brothers licensed Ray Kroc, a seller of Multimixer milkshake machines, to setup McDonald restaurants throughout the country. Subsequently a new restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois, near Chicago, on April 15, 1955, the same day that McDonald became a corporation. The company usually refers to this as The Original McDonald's as it marked the beginning of the phenomenal growth of the most popular fast food franchise in history. Both McDonalds at San Bernardino, California and Des Plaines, Illinois, now houses replica museum with exhibits such as the original fry vats, milkshake Multimixers, which Kroc had sold when he first encountered the San Bernardino McDonald's restaurant, soda barrels and grills, attended to by a crew of male mannequins in 1950s uniforms. Visitors can walk in through the back, or peek through the order windows in front. There is also a collection of vintage ads, photos and a video about McDonald's history. Photo from the 1950's. Customers at a McDonald's restaurant Photo from 1955, of Ray Kroc's first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois Exterior shot of the first store in Des Plaines, Illinois Original crew members in front of first store in Des Plaines, Illinois. Exterior view of the first McDonald's fast food restaurant with its neon arches illuminated at night, Des Plaines, Illinois. Circa 1955 The site of the first McDonald's restaurant, San Bernardino, California. Only part of the sign remains from the original structure McDonald Museum at Des Plaines, Illinois The first McDonald's Drive-Thru established in Sierra Vista, AZ Fred Turner and Ray Kroc looking at blueprints of future McDonald's restaurant The oldest operating McDonald's on Lakewood and Florence in Downey, California, was the chain's third restaurant and the second to be built with the Golden Arches. The restaurant is almost unchanged in appearance since it opened in 1953. McDonald Museum at Des Plaines, Illinois Inside McDonald Museum at Des Plaines, Illinois McDonald's ad from the Grand Opening |
On May 10, 1893, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Nix v. Hedden, which address the issue of whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. Which one is it? | Legal Solutions Blog Today in 1893: The Supreme Court rules that tomatoes are vegetables, not fruits - Legal Solutions Blog Are corporations “people”? Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? You may have noticed that one of those questions seems a bit out of place. No, I’m not referring to the “Obamacare” one; I’m talking about the “tomato” question. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court did, indeed, answer that question in 1893’s Nix v. Hedden , decided 120 years ago today. You are probably wondering what led to the Court’s deciding such a question. The law at issue in Nix is the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, which imposed a tax on imported vegetables of 10% ad valorem (of its value). This tax didn’t apply to fruits. The importers, John Nix, John W. Nix, George W. Nix, and Frank W. Nix, brought suit against the port collector to recover the duties paid for their imported tomatoes, arguing that since tomatoes are, botanically speaking, a fruit, the tariff didn’t apply. At trial, both parties read the definitions of “fruit,” “vegetable,” “tomato,” and several other fruits and vegetables from Webster’s, Worcester’s, and the Imperial Dictionaries. One witness also testified that the terms “fruit” and “vegetable” hadn’t acquired any special meaning in trade or commerce distinct from those definitions read from the dictionaries. The trial court granted the port collector’s motion for a directed verdict, and the Nixes appealed. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. However, the Court didn’t look at the dictionary definitions read at trial since, according to the Court, “dictionaries are admitted, not as evidence, but only as aids to the memory and understanding of the court.” Thus, the Court only looked at the “ordinary meaning” – that is, “the common language of the people” – since the evidence at trial established that the words “fruit” and “vegetable” have not “acquired any special meaning in trade or commerce.” Although the Court conceded that, “[b]otanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine,” it further held that the common conception of the produce is as a vegetable. The Court made the same distinction with “cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas” (none of which are vegetables, botanically speaking). In explaining its decision, the Court stated that the tomato is a vegetable since it is served as part of the main course of a meal, “and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.” If you can believe it, the Court actually had directly relevant precedent to rely on in making this decision: Robertson v. Salomon , decided four years earlier. Salomon, like Nix, dealt with the definition of “vegetable” under the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883. Instead of deducing the identity of the tomato, Salomon resolved the question of whether white beans were “seeds” (and exempt from taxation under the tariff) or “vegetables.” Although the bean is botanically a seed, the Court reached the same conclusion as it later did in Nix: that the common conception of beans is as a vegetable, since they are most often produced as food, not as seeds to be planted. Regardless of how the Supreme Court ruled in either case, a tomato is still a fruit and a bean is still a seed. But as a testament to the great power wielded by the high court, even when the Court is unequivocally wrong in a decision, it’s still correct. And this maxim isn’t any less true today than it was 120 years ago. |
May 13, 1958 saw the trademark for what product, developed by Swiss engineer George de Mestral based on the hook and loop properties he observed on burrs on his dog following a hunt? | Do I Know This ? Do I Know This ? Updated May 17, 2013, 12:23 AM Have you ever wondered who's got the most number of top singles in U.K ? Have you ever wondered which company is the world's top Global Brand ? Have you ever wondered which country has got the most or the highest number of Netizens ? Use template Amazing Facts 100 amazing & unknown facts! # Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. # The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. # The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. # Ants never sleep! # When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. # Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. # An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. # “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. # Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years. # Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted. # Butterflies taste with their feet. # A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. # It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. # Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. # Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. # No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. # Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” # Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. # Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. # The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. # The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. # The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. # The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. # The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. # Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand. # TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. # You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. # Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton. # Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. # The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle. # A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why! # The “spot” on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes – he was an albino. ’7′ was because the original containers were 7 ounces and ‘UP’ indicated the direction of the bubbles. # Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system. # Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster. # There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” # If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. # Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. # The original name for butterfly was flutterby. # By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. # Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. # Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. # Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”. # The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. # Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. # The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.” # All Polar bears are left-handed. # In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. # “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.” # Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family. # Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. # The only 15 letter word |
From which part of a tree do we get the spice cinnamon? | The Truth About Where Cinnamon Comes From | The Huffington Post The Truth About Where Cinnamon Comes From 03/17/2014 07:00 am ET | Updated Mar 17, 2014 430 Alison Spiegel Food writer and editor Getty Do you know where cinnamon comes from? It's a spice we use all the time, but do you know where it grows and how it comes to be in our cinnamon buns? Cinnamon is one of those sweet spices that is so versatile -- in and outside the kitchen -- that we might even take it for granted sometimes. It goes well in savory dishes like soups and tagines, and can do wonders on meat and chicken. It also shines in desserts, like churros and cobblers, and is your best friend at breakfast. You can also use it in your beauty routine . It can help out around the house and it may even have some healing properties . Cinnamon makes us think of Christmas and cozying up in front of the fire, but it also makes us think of apple pie in the fall and cinnamon sugar doughnuts at the summer farmers market. As much as we use cinnamon, it's not wholly apparently where we get it from. Its origin may surprise you, but if you give that cinnamon stick a second look, it will probably start to make a whole lot of sense. Cinnamon comes from bark. Dinodia Photos via Getty Images Specifically, it comes from the inner layer of bark derived from dozens of varieties of evergreen trees that belong to the genus Cinnamomum. Cinnamon farmers first shave the outer bark off the trees, and then shave off the inner bark -- the cinnamon layer. Davor Lovincic via Getty Images The cinnamon is then dried for use. When cinnamon is dried, it naturally curls up into "quills." s-cphoto via Getty Images |
The golden spike, driven at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869, is famous for completing what? | May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Links Nation by Rail | WIRED May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Links Nation by Rail subscribe 6 months for $5 - plus a FREE Portable Phone Charger. On Twitter 11 hours Some people think LeBron flopped during this mid-game collision. So we used physics to calculate how hard he was hi… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… Author: Keith Barry. Keith Barry Date of Publication: 05.10.10. Time of Publication: 12:00 am. 12:00 am May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Links Nation by Rail 1869: Four years after the Civil War, the United States is joined from coast to coast by a transcontinental railroad, as a ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah. Travel time from Atlantic to Pacific will soon fall from as much as six months, down to one week. In an early example of a staged media event , two locomotives sat a mere rail tie apart from each other as crowds of people looked on. Railroad financier and former California Governor Leland Stanford drove a single golden spike into the final tie with a silver hammer. The rail lines from east and west were joined. A telegraph operator let the whole country know with a single message: “DONE!” Congress had ordered the rail line built seven years earlier, because westward expansion had been hampered by the dangerous six-month wagon-train journey over the Oregon and California trails. The Central Pacific Railroad would build the line eastward from Sacramento, California, and the Union Pacific was to build the segment westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mountains, rivers and the Civil War dictated where the rail lines could be built. Though the work of the two companies eventually met, their founders, labor and use of government funds could not have been more different. The Central Pacific was funded by the famed “Big Four” — Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker — and relied on recent Chinese immigrants from California and Mormon laborers from Utah to perform the often deadly work of installing rail ties and blasting through mountains. The Union Pacific, led by former cotton smuggler and medical doctor Thomas C. Durant, would use the government’s preoccupation with the Civil War to its advantage. Since the government paid Union Pacific for each mile of track it laid, Durant had workers install large amounts of unnecessary track across land that he owned. After the war’s end, Union Pacific hired Union and Confederate war veterans and recent Irish immigrants, and ended up completing two-thirds of the entire railway. Later, Durant and other Union Pacific honchos were caught in the Credit Mobilier scandal : overcharges that poured into a separate construction company and bilked the railroad’s public investors. None of that mattered at 2:47 p.m. on May 10, 1869, when the golden spike was driven into the ground. It bore the phrase, “May God continue the unity of our Country as this Railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world,” a pronouncement made all the more meaningful by the war that had intervened in the railroad’s creation. The golden spike was eventually removed from the tie, to be replaced with a normal steel spike. Despite the ceremony, it was another year before bridges and extensions created an all-rail link between Atlantic and Pacific. Then, in 1904, the Lucin Cutoff spanned Utah’s Great Salt Lake, rendering the Promontory Summit rails redundant. The rails from Promontory were recycled during World War II, but the spike itself lives on at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center. Promontory Summit is home to the Golden Spike National Historic Site , and the spike adorns Utah’s state quarter, unveiled in 2006. Source: Various |
In what language game, common among children, is the first consonant cluster moved to the end of the word and followed by an ay? | The Secret Languages of English, a guest post by Kristy Evans | Welcome to Literary Ashland Welcome to Literary Ashland Posted on April 20, 2013 by Ed Battistella The Secret Languages of English Many Americans, particularly those of a younger generation and vernacular, have most likely at one time or another learned or at least heard an alteration of the English language that was used for the purpose of secrecy and amusement, the most common being Pig Latin. These “secret” languages, or language games, are not entire languages on their own, but rather manipulations of already-established languages. Therefore, language games could potentially be created from nearly any language around the world and there are many that exist already, from English to Afrikaans to Dutch to Chinese to French, and so on (Language). Traditionally passed down as an oral language, the purpose of a language game stems from the concept of causing the language to become incomprehensible to listeners with an untrained ear. Sarah G. Thomason explains in her article, “Language Contact and Deliberate Change” that a “common motivation for introducing deliberate changes on a large scale is to keep outsiders at a distance – a linguistic distance – either by making a language unintelligible to outsiders who are fluent bilinguals or by preventing outsiders from learning the language in the first place. This phenomenon is familiar to anyone who ever learned a ‘secret language’ like Pig Latin or invented one as a child” (Thomason 51). For this reason, it is common for language games to be used especially amongst the younger generation, in an attempt to conceal their speech from unwanted listeners. However, a language game may also take the form of an argot, which is more often used amongst thieves and other criminals to prevent outsiders from listening in. There are countless variations of language games in the English language alone. Although they can be classified according to language (Pig Latin – English, Allspråket – Sweden, etc.), another way to classify language games is by function. Each language game has its own system and set of rules; some with more than others. For example, language games that are created by inserting a “code syllable” before the vowel in each syllable can all be categorized into the Gibberish family, such as in the Ubbi Dubbi language. Another category is for language games in which a consonant is added after the vowel in each syllable and then the vowel is repeated, such as in Double Talk (Language). Although there are a set number of language games that are more common and have been around longer than others, (i.e. Pig Latin), they are a never ending and constantly-evolving systematic form of word play that can be formed and used by just about anyone, especially those who enjoy playing with language. In an article titled, “Play and Metalinguistic Awareness: One Dimension of Language Experience,” Courtney B. Cazden discusses how “there appears to be considerable individual variation in linguistic awareness. Some speaker-hearers are not only very conscious of linguistic patterns, but exploit their consciousness with obvious pleasure in verbal play, e.g., punning and versifying, solving crossword puzzles, and talking Pig Latin” (Cazden 30). As stated before, the most well-known and easily identifiable language game is that of Pig Latin, in which the first consonant or consonant cluster is moved to the end of the word and an ay is added to it (thus the word ‘hello’ becomes ‘ellohay’). Though its precise origins are unknown, it has supposedly been around since the late 1800s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1895, Pig Latin was mentioned in the magazine The Atlantic, “They all spoke a queer jargon which they themselves had invented. It was something like the well-known ‘Pig Latin’ that all sorts of children like to play with.” Pig Latin was also famously used by Thomas Jefferson in letters to relatives and close friends for the purpose of privacy. However, Pig Latin did not amass its greatest popularity in America until |
If you are driving around the streets of Liberty City shooting people, which computer game series are you playing? | San Andreas Crime City II - Android Apps on Google Play San Andreas Crime City II Description ***** Introducing Jet Pack, Drive a Sports Bike, Swim in Ocean ***** Intro：San Andreas Crime City 2 : Gangster Story is one of the best action games in 2016! In this game you are gangster - hero, who doesn't afraid anything. In your city mafia ruling the streets. Savage, aggressive criminals are everywhere. They shooting, kill people, rob banks and stores. There is a criminal chaos in the city. It's time to show everyone who’s boss by shooting rivals and ruling the streets. You are not policeman. You are a gangster, who don't need for glory - you have a greed for revenge. You have a big gun and must to kill as much as possible bandits with guns, knifes and other weapons. Are you ready to rescue a people from horrible life among blood, shots, bandits and killers? You as a player are given a full sized city where you can go nuts, but don’t go on a rampage because then the cops will be upon you. The action in this crime simulator 3D game revolves around shooting and killing your enemies. To stop these criminals you have to complete a lot of missions and you need to learn how to fly helicopter and jet planes. San Andreas Crime City is action packed with lots of missions. When you are driving around in San Andreas you can look on the minimap for missions or you can use the quick buttons to start right away a mission. Download the game for free. Features: 2 1,690 1 7,113 U'd be stupid to download Who ever tried to make this game don't quit ur day job... This is worst than a crap swandwich I mean totally bombs like a diarrhea slushy...sorry not sorry.. Be blessed! But kiss the devils butt hole for making this game. Toddles. ANZAR AHMAD Good game But you can add more things in it like we spawn vehicles.adding more locations will me good and as we can have a bank and a hospital in which we can really go in.there has to be apartments in which we have to buy them and can go in to rest.if you developer added these things and what others say this game will be the bestest in the world.everything is cool in it but graphics problem and controls too.adding these will give you 5 stars by me barbie jonse So cool but ... If it had more things like planes or bikes or more places like he can travel to another city with the chopper or the boat or ...it would be better if we could go shopping too or the city had a hospital that you can actually go in it...or police cars and police station... if you add this things it would be awesome... 👍👍👍👍👍 Piyush Shrivastava Please request DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME IT TAKES VERY LONG TIME TO OPEN AND STOP ALWAYS. IT IS A VERY AND STUPID GAME faBe g It don't move right and to frustrating. And how you get that big as pack off the back Harjeet Kaur Better than others First I downloaded old version of S. C.C then new . New version was also good now I am playing the best game ever . But it should have some improvement like 1 gun should be free and police should be everywhere User reviews December 27, 2016 U'd be stupid to download Who ever tried to make this game don't quit ur day job... This is worst than a crap swandwich I mean totally bombs like a diarrhea slushy...sorry not sorry.. Be blessed! But kiss the devils butt hole for making this game. Toddles. Full Review ANZAR AHMAD September 17, 2016 Good game But you can add more things in it like we spawn vehicles.adding more locations will me good and as we can have a bank and a hospital in which we can really go in.there has to be apartments in which we have to buy them and can go in to rest.if you developer added these things and what others say this game will be the bestest in the world.everything is cool in it but graphics problem and controls too.adding these will give you 5 stars by me Full Review barbie jonse September 2, 2016 So cool but ... If it had more things like planes or bikes or more places like he can travel to another city with the chopper or the boat or ...it would be better if we could go shopping too or the city had a hospital that you can actua |
Who is missing: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Endeavor, and Atlantis? | Hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed Search Terms: Highlight Matches hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed [ link to cyber-space-war.blogspot.com ] The late David J Meyer, a minister who warned about dangers of the occult and secret societies, is prescient in this January 1995 Last Trumpet Newsletter: "I would like to mention that the program of the Illuminati is revealed in the names of the space shuttles. The United States used to have six but now has five space shuttles. The names of these are: 1. Columbia, 2. Enterprise, 3. Endeavor, 4. Discovery, 5. Atlantis. If we take that exact order, we will find that a message is formed. We know that the name Columbia is taken from the Washington D.C. or District of Columbia, where the Illuminati is actively utilizing the the United States Government for its own purposes. Enterprise is the name given to the plan to bring forth the new world government. Endeavor is the labor required by the Illuminists to bring forth the New World Order. Discovery is the discovery of the New Empire that is to be brought forth from the ashes of the old. Atlantis is the name given to the New Empire. The legend of the lost continent of Atlantis reveals that it was a Socialist Superstate that controlled ancient Europe. It is the Illuminists who are trying to bring forth a New Atlantis, which is to rise again. If we take these names of the space shuttles in order, we come up with an interesting sentence as follows: Columbia in a great Enterprise will Endeavor to Discover Atlantis. It is interesting that the shuttle named "Challenger" was destroyed! The conspirators love to speak and communicate in secret or cryptic language, but God reveals all of their secrets." Anonymous Coward (OP) Re: hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed Anonymous Coward Re: hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed good find -- i will talk about it on my talk show , you are welcome to call in Anonymous Coward Re: hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed Hidden. In. Plain. View. Very nice, guidance of the truth, brothers. Anonymous Coward Re: hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed EXCELLENT ANAYLSIS!! That's EXACTLY HOW they DO IT. Just like 9-1-1... Anonymous Coward (OP) Re: hidden naming of NASA space shuttles - A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis... and all Challengers shall be destroyed :buffalobump: [ link to cyber-space-war.blogspot.com ] The late David J Meyer, a minister who warned about dangers of the occult and secret societies, is prescient in this January 1995 Last Trumpet Newsletter: "I would like to mention that the program of the Illuminati is revealed in the names of the space shuttles. The United States used to have six but now has five space shuttles. The names of these are: 1. Columbia, 2. Enterprise, 3. Endeavor, 4. Discovery, 5. Atlantis. If we take that exact order, we will find that a message is formed. We know that the name Columbia is taken from the Washington D.C. or District of Columbia, where the Illuminati is actively utilizing the the United States Government for its own purposes. Enterprise is the name given to the plan to bring forth the new world government. Endeavor is the labor required by the Illuminists to bring forth the New World Order. Discovery is the discovery of the New Empire that is to be brought forth from the ashes of the old. Atlantis is the name given to the New Empire. The legend of the lost continent of Atlantis reveals |
Name the 1993 movie from its plot summary: "A married woman agrees to have sex with another man for $1,000,000." | Indecent Proposal (1993) - 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 A millionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for a night with the wife. Director: a list of 27 titles created 06 Jan 2011 a list of 39 titles created 07 May 2011 a list of 31 images created 15 Aug 2014 a list of 30 titles created 31 Dec 2015 a list of 25 images created 2 weeks ago Search for " Indecent Proposal " 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. 7 wins & 8 nominations. See more awards » Videos A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life. Director: Barry Levinson A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling. Director: Adrian Lyne A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. Director: Adrian Lyne A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her. Director: Andrew Bergman A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved. Director: Paul Verhoeven A remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Dial M for Murder (1954). Director: Andrew Davis Carly Norris is a book editor living in New York City who moves into the Sliver apartment building. In the apartment building, Carly meets two of her new neighbors, author Jack Lansford who... See full summary » Director: Phillip Noyce A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated. Director: Adrian Lyne Edit Storyline A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship. Written by Ed Sutton <[email protected]> A husband. A wife. A millionaire. A proposal Genres: Rated R for sexuality and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 7 April 1993 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Ein unmoralisches Angebot See more » Filming Locations: Andie MacDowell was considered for the role of Diana Murphy. See more » Goofs David has shaved the right side of his face removing the shaving cream but when he comforts her he still has the shaving cream all over his face. See more » Quotes [first lines] David : [sitting on a pier] Losing Diana is like losing a part of me. I thought nothing could change the way we felt about each other. I thought we were invincible. Diana : [riding in a bus] Someone once said, if you want something very badly, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. I knew one thing, I was David's to begin with, and he was mine. Money can't buy love. Or a decent script apparently. 11 July 2005 | by hall895 (New Jersey) – See all my reviews Mind-numbingly boring, utterly predictable and in the end simply laughable. That pretty much sums up the disaster that is Indecent Proposal. Starting with a decent premise the whole thing just unravels and becomes a complete mess. Basically the story boils down to the question, "would you let your wife sleep with another man for one million dol |
Friday marks the anniversary of the explosion of Mt. St Helens, claimed to be the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the US, when it erupted in what year? | 1000+ images about Mt Saint Helens on Pinterest | Saints, Washington and Washington state Forward Harry Randall Truman (October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980) was a resident of the U.S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave his home. He was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake. The lodge was located at the south end of Spirit Lake at the foot of the mountain and was in the danger zone at the time of the eruption. |
Members of which branch of the U.S. military are sometimes referred to as jarheads? | Why Are United States Marines Called Jarheads? | eHow Why Are United States Marines Called Jarheads? Why Are United States Marines Called Jarheads? By Contributing Writer There several common nicknames for marines -- leathernecks, devil dogs and jarheads. While all may prove controversial, they are affectionate at the same time, and jarhead is one of the most popular. History There is evidence that U.S. Navy and Merchant Marine sailors began referring to marines as jarheads during World War II. Before that, they were known mostly as leathernecks and devil dogs. The term has since stuck and made it to popular usage. Identification The term jarhead stems from the Marine Corps' dress blue uniform, which features a stiff collar and a flat-topped hat. Both of these items may have led to the jar comparison because of the lack of head mobility marines exhibit while in dress blues. Effects If this uniform theory is true, the jarhead name comes from the same logic that named marines "leathernecks" -- a nickname that also refers to their stiff collar and demeanor. Theories/Speculation There are other origin stories related to the jarhead name -- one is that it's a corruption of "gyrene," a very old moniker for marines. Others yet claim it may be an attempt at insulting marines -- sailors were implying their heads were like empty jars. Time Frame A related piece of slang is "jughead," a name for pack mules that were a mainstay of logistics for the Marine Corps up until World War I. Marines have always taken great pride in being stubborn -- like mules. Famous Ties Several books and movies have been released with jarhead in their title, most famously the 2005 Sam Mendes movie Jarhead starring Jake Gyllenhaal. |
What can be a fictional president, a fruit cultivar, and a book of quotations? | The West Wing - Wikiquote The West Wing Jump to: navigation , search The West Wing (1999–2006) is a television show about a fictional United States presidential administration, set mainly in the West Wing of the White House. Pilot [ edit ] Flight Attendant: Sir, I'm going to have to ask that you turn off your cellular phone. Toby : We're flying in a Lockheed Eagle Series L-1011 . Came off the line twenty months ago. Carries a Sim-5 transponder tracking system. And you're telling me I can still flummox this thing with something I bought at Radio Shack ? C.J. : Is there anything I can say other than "The President rode his bicycle into a tree?" Leo : He hopes never to do it again. C.J.: Seriously, they're laughing pretty hard. Leo: He rode his bicycle into a tree, C.J. What do you want me to – "The president, while riding a bicycle on his vacation in Jackson Hole, came to a sudden arboreal stop." What do you want from me? C.J.: A little love, Leo. Leo: [on the phone with the New York Times ] 17 across. Yes, 17 across is wrong... You're spelling his name wrong... What's my name? My name doesn't matter. I am just an ordinary citizen who relies on the Times crossword for stimulation. And I'm telling you that I met the man twice. And I recommended a pre-emptive Exocet missile strike against his air force, so I think I know how... C.J.: Leo. Leo: They hang up on me every time. C.J: That's almost hard to believe. Sam : Ms. O'Brien, I understand your feelings, but please believe me when I tell you that I'm a nice guy having a bad day. I just found out the Times is publishing a poll that says a considerable portion of Americans feel the White House has lost energy and focus. A perception that's not likely to be altered by the video footage of the President riding his bicycle into a tree. As we speak, the Coast Guard is fishing Cubans out of the Atlantic Ocean while the Governor of Florida wants to blockade the Port of Miami. A good friend of mine's about to get fired for going on television and making sense, and it turns out I accidentally slept with a prostitute last night. Now would you please, in the name of compassion, tell me which one of those kids is my boss's daughter? Mallory : That would be me. Sam: You. Sam: Leo's daughter's fourth-grade class. Mallory: Yes. Sam: Well, this is bad on so many levels. John Van Dyke: The First Commandment says "Honor thy father." Toby: No, it doesn't! Toby: It doesn't! [C.J. tries to stop him] No! If I'm gonna make you sit through this preposterous exercise, we're gonna get the names of the damn Commandments right! Mary Marsh: Okay, here we go. Toby: "Honor thy father" is the Third Commandment! Van Dyke: Then what's the First Commandment? President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : "I am the Lord your God; thou shalt worship no other god before me." [enters the room, walking with a cane] Boy, those were the days, huh? Van Dyke: If our children can buy pornography on any street corner for five dollars, isn't that too high a price to pay for free speech? Bartlet : No. Van Dyke: Really? Bartlet: On the other hand, I do think that five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography. C.J.: Why don’t we all sit down? Bartlet: No. Let’s not, C.J. These people won’t be staying that long. May I have some coffee, Mr. Lewis? Al, how many times have I asked you to denounce the practices of a fringe group that calls itself The Lambs of God? Caldwell: Sir, it’s not up to me to— Bartlet: Crap. It is up to you, Al. You know, my wife, Abbey, she never wants me to do anything while I’m upset. [a staffer hands him coffee] Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Twenty-eight years ago, I come home from a very bad day at the State House . I tell Abbey I’m going out for a drive. I get in the station wagon and put it in reverse, and pull out of the garage full speed. [Leo and Sam appear in the doorway and quietly enter into the room.] Except I forgot to open the garage door. Abbey told me to not drive while I was upset and she was right. She was right yesterday when she told me not to get on that damn bicycle while I was upset, but I di |
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What brand of cereal has used a leprechaun as its mascot since 1964? | Breakfast cereal mascots: Beloved and bizarre - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS News Breakfast cereal mascots: Beloved and bizarre Next A 2011 article in Pediatrics magazine found that children who had been asked to taste a "new" cereal reported liking the same cereal more if there were a popular character depicted on the box. "The use of media characters on food packaging affects children's subjective taste assessment," the study concluded. Little surprise, given the long history of breakfast cereal manufacturers marketing their wares with the help of colorful cartoon characters or figures already familiar from TV, movies and comic books. The following gallery shows some of the more famous (and infamous) breakfast cereal mascots. Left: Quisp, introduced in 1965 by Quaker Oats, was discontinued in the 1970s, but in recent years has returned to Earth via online outlets. By CBSNews.com senior editor David Morgan Credit: CBS News In 1952 one of Kellogg's iconic products -- sugar-frosted flakes -- was introduced with a roar by Tony the Tiger ("They're grrrrrrrrreat!"). Credit: CBS News By 1933 the elves "Snap, Crackle and Pop" had become the official spokespersons of Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Credit: CBS News In 1971 General Mills introduced two cereals featuring monsters: Count Chocula (a chocolate-flavored cereal, with chocolate-flavored marshmallow bits), and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. The following year saw the entry of Boo Berry. Although all three cereals are still produced to this day, another monster cereal did not fare so well: Fruit Brute, which was discontinued in the 1980s. Credit: CBS News Fruit Brute was succeeded by Fruity Yummy Mummy, a fruit flavor-frosted cereal with vanilla flavor "monster mallows." Like Fruit Brute, Fruity Yummy Mummy did not stalk grocery store aisles for long. Credit: CBS News The Quaker Oats Man dates back to 1877, and was the first registered trademark for a cereal. Credit: CBS News In 1972 Ralston launched Freakies, a presweetened cereal that was "grown" at the site of the legendary Freakies Tree. Helping youngsters dig into their Freakies were seven freaky creatures named BossMoss, Cowmumble, Gargle, Grumble, Goody-Goody, Hamhose and Snorkeldorf. Credit: CBS News Cocoa Puffs (similar to General Mills' Kix, but with chocolate) was introduced in 1958. A few years later Sonny the Cuckoo Bird was created as its mascot ("I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!"). Credit: CBS News In the 1960s So-Hi (named as such because he was, well, only "so high") was the Oriental advertising icon for Post's Sugar Sparkled Rice Krinkles. So Hi was one of several Post cereal mascots that were developed by General Foods and the Ed Graham advertising agency. In 1964 the various characters were grouped into a TV series, "Linus the Lionhearted," featuring such vocal talents as Sheldon Leonard, Sterling Holloway, Carl Reiner, Ruth Buzzi, Jesse White and Jonathan Winters. The series ran on CBS and ABC for five years. Credit: John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University When King Vitamin was introduced in 1970, Quaker Oats used as its mascot a cartoon character designed by Jay Ward, the creator of the immortal "Rocky & Bullwinkle." King Vitamin's voice was that of Joe Flynn of "McHale's Navy." The cartoon character was soon replaced by a very flesh-and-blood King Vitamin, who ruled until 2000. Then, the royal scepter was handed over to a new, redesigned cartoon figure. Credit: CBS News The precursor to Sugar Bear, which hawked Post's Sugar Crisp cereal, was a trio of bears, named Dandy, Handy and Candy. The three bears are probably the only breakfast mascots to be immortalized in song by Rosemary Clooney, for Columbia Records in 1951. Credit: CBS News In 1990 a cereal combining rice, corn, wheat and oats was marketed as Bigg Mixx. Its mascot was a creature similarly conjured up from sundry sources, sporting a rooster's head, moose antlers, a pig's snout, and a wolf's fur. Neither the stalking hulk of Bigg Mixx nor its cereal namesake were around for long. Credit: CBS News In |
"Plane Crazy" was the first cartoon to introduce what now iconic cartoon character, when it debuted on May 15, 1928? | Mickey Mouse - The Ageless Icon | Cartoon Characters | Cartoon Characters Mickey Mouse ← prev As the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey Mouse is certainly a known figure to almost every kid in the world. He has easily become one of the most easily recognized cartoon characters, with his iconic white gloves, red shorts, and huge yellow shoes. Mickey has been featured not just on film and television, but even on comic books, video games, and every Disney merchandise imaginable. Get to know more about this famous cartoon character as you read along. Contents Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks Species: Mickey Mouse History Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Mickey Mouse’s history goes a long, long way in the history of animation. However, he is not the first cartoon character created by Disney Studios. In fact, he was created only as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. But because of a misunderstanding between Walt Disney and Universal Studios, which owned the Oswald cartoon, the two companies separated and Disney established the new Disney Studio, together with a few employees that remained loyal to the animation company. The new Disney Studio essentially started from scratch as the remaining employees thought of ideas for a new cartoon character that will carry the name of the animation studios. Several ideas cropped up, including cats, dogs, cows, horses, and even frogs. But at last, Walt Disney got inspired by a tame mouse at his desk, so Ub Iwerks started creating a new mouse character that was eventually named Mortimer Mouse. The name Mickey Mouse was given due to the insistence of Disney’s wife, Lillian. How Old is Mickey Mouse? Mickey’s birthday can be traced back to when Mickey was created. The preliminary sketches of Hugh Harman that led to Iwerks’ eventual conceptualization of the character began in 1925. Mickey’s screen testing started in May 1928 for the cartoon short Plane Crazy, although this one failed to impress the audiences. The second Mickey Mouse short did not even push through due to lack of distributor. Steamboat Willie The first Mickey short that had a distributor was titled, Steamboat Willie, a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a silent comedy film released in May 1928. Steamboat Willie was released a few months later on November 18, 1928. Since Iwerks incorporated sound in this short film, audiences and critics alike were impressed by this innovative idea in an era of silent films. Because of Steamboat Willie’s success, November 18, 1928 was officially declared as Mickey Mouse’s onscreen debut or birthday. He quickly rose to popularity as one of the most prominent cartoon characters of that era. Old Mickey Mouse Vintage Mickey Mouse The Mickey Mouse being seen today is not the vintage Mickey that Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney created in the past. There are differences when it comes to the littlest details, although the old Mickey can still be easily recognized by today’s generation. For instance, Mickey’s head has always been featured as having a circular design, especially in his ears. In fact, the symbol of three circles used to depict Mickey back then is still being used until now by the Disney Company. It has certainly become his personal trademark and this design extends up to the present generation. Originally, Mickey’s body was also circular in nature, but he was later redesigned by animator Fred Moore to have a pear-shaped body—a move which Walt Disney himself approved of. Mickey Mouse with Gloves Mickey’s hands only had three fingers and one thumb. However, his white gloves were given to him only in the 1929 Mickey Mouse film, The Opry House, as a way of contrasting his hands from his black body. This was very helpful during the time of black and white screens. The first two Mickey shorts featured the cartoon character with large white eyes outlined in black. The black outlines were then removed in Steamboat Willie. In 1938, Fred Moore reimagined Mickey’s eyes as small and white with black pupils, and his face was given a Caucasian skin tone in contrast to his previously plain white face. Mickey |
According to Old West Legend (and a Bob Dylan song), who shot Billy the Kid? | Timeline . Billy the Kid . American Experience . WGBH | PBS New York Harbor, 1859 Late 1859 Henry McCarty is believed to be born to an Irish immigrant named Catherine McCarty. Although the identity of his father is uncertain, Henry probably lived alone with his mother in the slums of New York City before moving to Indianapolis some time in the next decade. March 1, 1873 Catherine McCarty marries William Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico. By this time, Catherine has developed tuberculosis, and before long the family settles in Silver City to take advantage both of the local mining opportunities and of the better climate. September 16, 1874 After being confined to bed for months, Catherine McCarty Antrim dies of tuberculosis. Henry's stepfather expresses little interest in raising the teenage boy, and Henry will move in to a local boardinghouse run by Mrs. Sarah Brown. September 23, 1875 Henry is arrested for his role in a theft with his boardinghouse mate George Schaefer. According to the legend, Henry acted as a lookout while Schaefer robbed a Chinese laundry operator, stealing clothing and two pistols. Henry is charged with larceny and incarcerated. September 25, 1875 Shimmying up through the chimney, Henry escapes from the county jail and probably heads out to Chloride Flats where his stepfather is mining. At just 15, Henry begins his life as an outlaw. Henry's escape makes the Silver City Herald the following day -- it is the first story ever published about him. After Henry travels 500 miles in the New Mexican desert alone, Antrim reportedly gives Henry money and tells him to leave town. April 19, 1876 Henry arrives near Camp Grant in the Arizona territory, looking for work. He picks up some jobs on ranches in the area and earns the notorious label Kid, a common nickname for juvenile delinquents. The Kid quickly lives up to his moniker by gambling frequently and falling in with a gang led by local criminal John R. Mackie, who was known as a horse thief and suspected murderer. March 25, 1877 Along with Mackie, the Kid is arrested under the name "Henry Antrim alias Kid." The men are charged stealing three horses belonging to soldiers. Despite being shackled, the Kid manages to escape while guards are attending a local dance. August 17, 1877 The Kid brazenly returns to the area near Camp Grant, AZ, and joins a poker game where he exchanges insults with blacksmith Francis "Windy" Cahill. When Cahill reportedly pins Henry to the ground and slaps him, the Kid shoots Cahill. The Kid then flees back to the New Mexico Territory. Cahill will die the following day. Kid Antrim subsequently links up with a group of thieves south of Silver City. This band, known as "the boys," was part of a large outlaw network, a sort of organized crime syndicate of the Southwest. Frederick Nolan Late 1877 The Kid assumes the alias William H. Bonney. He is arrested and jailed in Lincoln County for possessing horses belonging to cattleman John Tunstall. Upon the Kid's release, however, the 24-year-old Tunstall hires him to work as a cowboy and gunman on his ranch. Robert McCubbin Bob Olinger February 18, 1878 Tunstall leaves his ranch with the Kid and four other men, transporting nine horses to Lincoln. On their way, a posse (possibly including James Dolan, Billy Matthews, Jesse Evans and Buckshot Roberts) orders Tunstall's livestock seized on behalf of Sheriff Brady. When Tunstall approaches the posse, members of the posse shoot and kill Tunstall. This event instigates what will come to be known as the legendary Lincoln County War. Robert McCubbin Richard Brewer Early March 1878 Dick Brewer, Tunstall's foreman, is appointed "special constable" by justice of the peace John Wilson, giving Brewer the power to make arrests. He immediately forms a group called the Regulators, a deputized posse that includes Billy the Kid. The Regulators consider themselves a lawful posse with license to avenge the murder of Tunstall, and they are paid $4 a day in their quest for revenge. Wasting little time, the Regulators capture three members of Dolan's posse. |
According to E. L. James, how many shades of grey are there? | E.L. James announces new book ‘Grey,’ told from Christian Grey’s point of view – EW.com Pinterest Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James announced Monday that she will publish a new version of her bestselling novel from S&M-happy billionaire Christian Grey’s point of view. Fans won’t have long to wait for Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian—the book comes out on June 18, the character’s birthday. According to a press release, the opening page of Grey reads: “This book is dedicated to those readers who asked… and asked… and asked… and asked for this.” “Christian is a complex character,” James said, “and readers have always been fascinated by his desires and motivations, and his troubled past. Also, as anyone who has ever been in a relationship knows, there are two sides to every story. It’s been a great pleasure to return to my happy place—writing, being with Christian and Ana in their universe, and working with the fantastic team at Vintage.” The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold over 125 million copies, making it one of the most successful publications in history. Show Full Article |
In Greek mythology, who was condemned to the eternal task of rolling a large stone up to the top of a hill each day, only to have it roll down again each night? | The Myth of Sisyphus The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of mortals. According to another tradition, however, he was disposed to practice the profession of highwayman. I see no contradiction in this. Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets. Aegina, the daughter of Aesopus, was carried off by Jupiter. The father was shocked by that disappearance and complained to Sisyphus. He, who knew of the abduction, offered to tell about it on condition that Aesopus would give water to the citadel of Corinth. To the celestial thunderbolts he preferred the benediction of water. He was punished for this in the underworld. Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of the conqueror. It is said also that Sisyphus, being near to death, rashly wanted to test his wife's love. He ordered her to cast his unburied body into the middle of the public square. Sisyphus woke up in the underworld. And there, annoyed by an obedience so contrary to human love, he obtained from Pluto permission to return to earth in order to chastise his wife. But when he had seen again the face of this world, enjoyed water and sun, warm stones and the sea, he no longer wanted to go back to the infernal darkness. Recalls, signs of anger, warnings were of no avail. Many years more he lived facing the curve of the gulf, the sparkling sea, and the smiles of the earth. A decree of the gods was necessary. Mercury came and seized the impudent man by the collar and, snatching him from his joys, led him forcibly back to the underworld, where his rock was ready for him. You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the aburd hero. He is,as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. As for this myth, one sees merely the whole effort of a body straining to raise the huge stone, to roll it and push it up a slope a hundred times over; one sees the face screwed up, the cheek tight against the stone, the shoulder bracing the clay-covered mass, the foot wedging it, the fresh start with arms outstretched, the wholly human security of two earth-clotted hands. At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time without depth, the purpose is achieved. Then Sisyphus watches the stone rush down in a few moments toward that lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain. It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock. If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fat |
Which hypocritical, ignorant Sarah Palin spawn recently shot their mouth off, claiming "We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home."? | Sarah Palin Just Yelled ‘Hoohah!’ And Now Our Week Is Complete we think that word means something different ... Sarah Palin Just Yelled ‘Hoohah!’ And Now Our Week Is Complete By HOOHAH! HOOHAH! So what’s gotten Sarah Palin all splodey sploding “HOOHAH!” everywhere? Oh, just this article about Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, that lists some typical shouty man Marine quotes from the man. They make Palin ‘scited enough to say “HOOHAH!”, you know, like Marines always say. HOOHAH! Here’s one of those quotes: “When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look at him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a p****” (Ed. — the word with the asterisks is “pussy,” which is the thing Donald Trump grabs, probably while he says “HOOHAH!”) Marines are always such Marines about everything. Beverly Hills surgeon explains at home fix for crepey skin around the arms, legs, and stomach. Here’s another quote: “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up there with you. I like brawling.” The guy is definitely quotable! HOOHAH! This is a good time to note that Marines do not say “HOOHAH!” actually. They say “OOH RAH!” In the Army, they say “HOOAH!” There is no branch of the American armed forces that yells vaginal euphemisms as a battle cry, and when Hillary Clinton told those Navy SEALs to kill Bin Laden, not even one of them yelled “WIZARD SLEEVE!” or “FUN TUNNEL!” (OR DID THEY?) But Sarah Palin does, we guess. While we’re quoting Mattis, who, yes, says fighty shit like that (but not “HOOHAH!”), we should note that he’s also said a few things in his time Trump and his idiot supporters would do well to listen to. Like how about this? “You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.” Hear that, fuckers? You LOST the popular vote, like really fucking bad, three million illegals did NOT vote in California, and the majority of Americans think you’re a bunch of embarrassing morons. You cannot avoid those brutal facts. “A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of Al Qaeda to defeat Al Qaeda.” Guess it’s a bit more complicated than BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF ‘EM, Donald! “The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.” HAHAHAHAHA, we like that one. Trump would do well to note that he shouldn’t be intimidated by talk of “6 inches,” and also that it happens to all guys, honest. Anyway, everybody have a great weekend, and remember to be like Sarah Palin and yell “HOOHAH!” at stuff, because that’s normal. His real name was Marion Morrison. data_ninja I’ve also heard it as “My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment”. Also: NAVY – Never Again Volunteer Yourself nastymagyar “HUBBA” has always worked for me. Moebym of the Rebel Alliance Vomit. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bbdf0d716199cf066a01f5c5afe5ab569ae7a9790bfef100e47d3635f0b6820f.gif elviouslyqueer Y’all calm down. That’s just the name she came up with for Bristol’s newest spawn. #facts Spotts1701, Resistance Pilot So earlier this week Trump took a whiz on India-Pakistan relations. So what does he do for an encore? Decides “Hey, why don’t I talk to the guys in Taiwan even though no President or President-elect has done that since we cut ties in 1979?” I’m sure the Chinese are just thrilled. data_ninja They will come up with another one for Trump. willi0000000 it’s always nice to get the program guide in time to make popcorn. WWIII will apparently be US, Russia and Pakistan v.s. China and India. [ just put the bag of unpopped on the windowsill . . . there will be a bright flash and it will all be popped ] TheoLib Better late than never to upvote? I got a good chuckle out of your |
What is the name for a large, slow moving, persistent body of ice that forms when the accumulation of snow exceeds its' rate of melting? | Glaciers And Climate Change Environmental Sciences Essay Glaciers And Climate Change Environmental Sciences Essay Published: Last Edited: 23rd March, 2015 This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. The article is mainly talk about the interaction between glaciers and climate change. Take the Tianshan No.1 Glacier as an example. Glacier produces in climate and by the impact of climate change. The glaciers change is the result of climate fluctuations. And glacier changes in turn acts on the natural environment that contribute to climate change. Tianshan No.1 Glacier has changed significantly in the past five decades, includes glacier surface firn characteristics, ice formation zones, ice temperature, thickness, area and terminus position, etc. These glacier changes related to temperature rise, and respond to recent climate variation. In addition, changes in the global climate and environment caused by glacier change, such as the increase of glacier runoff, sea-level rise, and the reduction of surface albedo caused by area shrinkage etc. The interaction between glacier and climate change not only has important impacts on global climate variation, but also has great significance for the study of climate and environment. 1. Introduction Glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. Its movement caused by the action of gravity. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of freshwater, supporting one third of the world's population. 11% of the world's land area is covered by glaciers. The glacier mainly distributed in the Antarctic, the Arctic and high-altitude regions of the middle and low latitudes. It is a product of the climate and a good indicator of climate, also it acts on climate. The glaciers change, especially changes in mountain glaciers, is a barometer of global climate change. Precipitation, temperature is the main climate factors that affecting glaciers. The precipitation decides glacier accumulation, and temperatures decide ablation. Therefore, the amount of precipitation, its distribution during the year, and interannual variability effect glacier recharge and activities. While the temperature impacts ice formation and glacial melt water. The precipitation and temperature codetermine the nature of the glacier, development and evolution. 1.1 Glacier mass balance Glacier mass balance is the key factor that links glacier fluctuations and climate change. Climate change leads to corresponding changes in the material balance state of glacier. While this kind of change in the mass balance of glacier can lead to change in glacier movement characteristics and glacier thermal regime, and thus lead to changes in the glacier terminus position, size and ice reserves. Glacier mass balance formular has two elements: glacier accumulation and ablation. Glacier ice accumulation occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitations, include rime ice, avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re-freezing of glacier melt water as superimposed ice. The ablation refers to the melting of snow or ice that runs off the glacier, evaporation, sublimation, calving, or erosive removal of snow by wind. Air temperature is typically the dominant control of ablation with precipitation exercising secondary control. With successive years in which accumulation exceeds ablation, a glacier will experience positive mass balance, its terminus will advance and vice versa. 1.2 Research Significance Current glacier recession under the global warming has aroused world-wide attention. The sensitivity of alpine glaciers to temperature change is found to be largely amplified. The number of retreating glaciers has improved significantly. For a number of glaciers, shrinkage rate appears to have accelerated since the 1990s. Increase melting speed of glaciers can lead to sea level rise and submerging of some coastal areas. Moreove |
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What is the name for the biology discipline that deals with the science of plant life? | Scientific Disciplines Scientific Disciplines Abstracts & Posters - Scientific Disciplines and Subdisciplines Although ABRCMS emphasizes interdisciplinary science, to manage the large number of student presentations, all abstracts must align with a single scientific discipline. When submitting an abstract, select the scientific discipline and corresponding subdiscipline that best describes the research. The discipline selected will be used to assign the abstract to the appropriate reviewers and on-site judges. 1. Biochemistry a. Biochemistry - The study of the chemical substances and vital processes occurring in living organisms. b. Biomolecules - The study of any organic molecule that is an essential part of a living organism. c. Metabolism - The study of chemical and physical processes in a living organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. d. Structural Biology - The study of the architecture and shape of biological macromolecules—proteins and nucleic acids in particular—and what causes them to have the structures they have. 2. Cancer Biology a. Cancer Biology - The study of irregularities and uncontrollable growth of individual cells, tissue or organ in any organisms. 3. Cell Biology a. Plant Biology - The study of plant life involving every aspect of the environment and interactions that such plants may exist in its natural or adapted state. b. Cell Biology - The study of cells, their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. c. Molecular Imaging - The study that seeks to exploit an increased and enhanced understanding of the molecular basis of disease through the design of novel imaging probes to specific molecular targets. 4. Chemistry a. Analytical Chemistry - The study of the chemical composition of natural and artificial materials, and developing the tools to elucidate such compositions. b. Environmental Chemistry - The study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in air, soil, and water environments and the effect of human activity on these. c. Inorganic Chemistry - The study of the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. d. Organic Chemistry - The study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds consisting primarily of carbon and hydrogen, but which may contain any number of other elements. e. Pharmaceutical Chemistry - The study of designing, synthesizing, and developing pharmaceutical drugs. f. Physical Chemistry - The study of the application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems within the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, and kinetics. 5. Developmental Biology and Genetics a. Developmental Biology - The study of the processes by which organisms grow and develop encompassing genetics, cell fate specification, differentiation and morphogenesis, as well as the molecular analysis of tissue and organ system anatomy. b. Evolution and Developmental Biology - The study of the relationship(s) between the evolution and development of an organism or group of organisms encompassing genetic, molecular, paleontological, population and molecular analyses, as well as theoretical (mathematical) and ecological analyses as they relate to organismal development and evolution. c. Genetics - The study of the inheritance of genes and the traits they cause, as well as the behavior of chromosomes in cell division and reproduction. 6. Engineering, Physics and Mathematics a. Bioengineering - The study of the principles of engineering to the fields of biology and medicine, as in the development of aids or replacements for defective or missing body organs. b. Biophysics - The study dealing with the forces that act on living cells of the body, the relationship between the biologic be |
If a cow is bovine and a horse equine, what is porcine? | Could Bovine, Porcine Rotavirus Affect Horses? | TheHorse.com Could Bovine, Porcine Rotavirus Affect Horses? Genomic research suggests that horses could also be susceptible to rotavirus from both cows and pigs. Photo: Photos.com We know that rotavirus—which causes severe diarrhea in foals—is a highly contagious virus that can spread rapidly through your foaling barn. But results of new genomic research from Asian scientists suggests that horses are also susceptible to rotavirus from both cows and pigs. “Our study, based on whole genomic analysis, has provided the first conclusive evidence that bovine and porcine rotavirus can be transmitted to horses,” said Souvik Ghosh, BVSc, AH, MVSc, PhD, lecturer in the department of hygiene at Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in Japan. Rotavirus is made up of 11 gene segments that can “reassert,” meaning they can blend with other rotavirus strains to create a new, mixed strain, Ghosh said. For example, previous study results have shown that a rotavirus from cattle could mix with a rotavirus from a horse to create a new rotavirus strain that has nine bovine gene segments and two equine segments. However, Ghosh’s study is the first to show that horses can be infected with rotavirus strains in which all 11 gene segments are bovinelike, meaning they are 100% bovine rotavirus strains. In other words, the disease can no longer be considered species-specific. In a pioneering study, Ghosh and colleagues carried out whole genomic analysis of rotavirus strains found in horses. These included three “common” strains and one “unusual” strain, found in diarrheic foals in Japan. The common strains turned out to be genomically very similar to other common equine rotavirus strains throughout the world. The unusual one, however, had 11 out of 11 bovine gene segments. In a previous study, Ghosh’s team analyzed the whole genome of another unusual strain of rotavirus in a foal and found it to have at least nine piglike segments. They could not definitively identify the other two segments, but they appeared to be either from pig or human rotaviruses, he said. Ghosh said he hopes his research will lead to better treatment and prevention of the highly contagious disease. “Information on whole genomes are essential to study the exact origin and evolution of viruses, interspecies transmission, and reassortment events,” he said. “Moreover, information on whole genomes may provide vital leads to the development of effective prophylactic or therapeutic strategies, and aid in monitoring vaccine efficacy.” |
On May 14, 1804, the Corp of Discovery, led by whom, departed Camp Dubois to start their journey by heading down the Missouri River? | Lewis and Clark : The Expedition of the Corps of Discovery - by Al Bredenberg These days, you can fly across the United States in six hours. Even if you have to take a car, you can do it in six days. But imagine what it would have been like two hundred years ago, when Meriwether Lewis , William Clark , and the other members of the Corps of Discovery traveled 3,700 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in non-motorized boats, on horseback, and on foot. Not only did they have no cars or airplanes to travel in, they also had to do it with no reliable map -- and they had to make their way through territory inhabited by Indian nations who couldn't necessarily be expected to smile upon a band of armed explorers. Planning the Expedition In 1803, when was President of the United States, the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This was a huge tract of over 800,000 square miles, taking in nearly the entire mid-section of North America from present-day Texas and Louisiana up to Montana and North Dakota. This almost doubled the size of the new country. Much of the new territory was unexplored. Jefferson decided to send an expedition up the Missouri River to its source in the western mountains and beyond to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson hoped that the expedition would be able to find the elusive Northwest Passage, a water route across the country, which would be a great boon to commerce. So in that same year, Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery under the command of his trusted private secretary, Meriwether Lewis. Besides seeking the Northwest Passage, Lewis was to map the new territory, assess its natural resources, and make contact with its inhabitants, befriending them if possible. Lewis recruited his friend William Clark to share equally in the command of the expedition, as well as a force of over 40 men. The members of the Corps of Discovery were soldiers, but their purpose was peaceful -- exploration, diplomacy, and science. Lewis was commissioned as a Captain of the Army of the United States, Clark as a Lieutenant (although this inferior rank was kept secret from the men, and Clark was always called "Captain"). Lewis purchased a large stock of supplies, including guns and ammunition, food, clothing, navigational instruments, and large numbers of goods to be used as gifts and barter for Indians. To carry the Corps and its cargo on the first leg of their journey, Lewis had a keelboat built, a 55-foot shallow-draft vessel capable of carrying about 12 tons of cargo. The boat had a sail, but was mostly propelled with oars and poles. The journey on the Missouri River would be over 2,000 miles -- upstream all the way. Up the Missouri The expedition started from St. Louis, where the Missouri empties into the Mississippi, on May 14, 1804. Along the way, Clark oversaw the men and carefully mapped the route. Lewis made scientific observations and collected specimens of animals and plants. The trip was arduous -- the men lived outdoors, hunted for food, and rowed the keelboat (along with two smaller boats) up the river, often towing the boat from the shore when the current got too heavy or the river became difficult to navigate. They fended off huge clouds of mosquitoes that swarmed around them. The party made only 12 or 14 miles on a good day. Along the way, the group made contact with Indian inhabitants of the land. During the first season of travel, they contacted the Missouris , the Omahas , the Yankton Sioux , the Teton Sioux (Lakota) , and the Arikaras. The captains would offer gifts, meet with the chiefs, and make speeches encouraging the Indian nations to make peace with one another and with their new "great father," President Jefferson. All were friendly except the Lakota, with whom the expedition had a confrontation that nearly became violent. By October, the Corps of Discovery had reached what is now North Dakota, but they were obviously nowhere near the Missouri's headwaters and winter was at hand |
What kind of animals are Old Major (an allegory of Marx and Lenin) and Napoleon (an allegory of Stalin), in George Orwell's classic 1945 novella Animal Farm? | SparkNotes: Animal Farm: Analysis of Major Characters Analysis of Major Characters Themes, Motifs & Symbols Napoleon From the very beginning of the novella, Napoleon emerges as an utterly corrupt opportunist. Though always present at the early meetings of the new state, Napoleon never makes a single contribution to the revolution—not to the formulation of its ideology, not to the bloody struggle that it necessitates, not to the new society’s initial attempts to establish itself. He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. Thus, the only project he undertakes with enthusiasm is the training of a litter of puppies. He doesn’t educate them for their own good or for the good of all, however, but rather for his own good: they become his own private army or secret police, a violent means by which he imposes his will on others. Although he is most directly modeled on the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Napoleon represents, in a more general sense, the political tyrants that have emerged throughout human history and with particular frequency during the twentieth century. His namesake is not any communist leader but the early-eighteenth-century French general Napoleon, who betrayed the democratic principles on which he rode to power, arguably becoming as great a despot as the aristocrats whom he supplanted. It is a testament to Orwell’s acute political intelligence and to the universality of his fable that Napoleon can easily stand for any of the great dictators and political schemers in world history, even those who arose after Animal Farm was written. In the behavior of Napoleon and his henchmen, one can detect the lying and bullying tactics of totalitarian leaders such as Josip Tito, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, and Slobodan Milosevic treated in sharply critical terms. Snowball Orwell’s stint in a Trotskyist battalion in the Spanish Civil War—during which he first began plans for a critique of totalitarian communism—influenced his relatively positive portrayal of Snowball. As a parallel for Leon Trotsky, Snowball emerges as a fervent ideologue who throws himself heart and soul into the attempt to spread Animalism worldwide and to improve Animal Farm’s infrastructure. His idealism, however, leads to his downfall. Relying only on the force of his own logic and rhetorical skill to gain his influence, he proves no match for Napoleon’s show of brute force. Although Orwell depicts Snowball in a relatively appealing light, he refrains from idealizing his character, making sure to endow him with certain moral flaws. For example, Snowball basically accepts the superiority of the pigs over the rest of the animals. Moreover, his fervent, single-minded enthusiasm for grand projects such as the windmill might have erupted into full-blown megalomaniac despotism had he not been chased from Animal Farm. Indeed, Orwell suggests that we cannot eliminate government corruption by electing principled individuals to roles of power; he reminds us throughout the novella that it is power itself that corrupts. Boxer The most sympathetically drawn character in the novel, Boxer epitomizes all of the best qualities of the exploited working classes: dedication, loyalty, and a huge capacity for labor. He also, however, suffers from what Orwell saw as the working class’s major weaknesses: a naïve trust in the good intentions of the intelligentsia and an inability to recognize even the most blatant forms of political corruption. Exploited by the pigs as much or more than he had been by Mr. Jones, Boxer represents all of the invisible labor that undergirds the political drama being carried out by the elites. Boxer’s pitiful death at a glue factory dramatically illustrates the extent of the pigs’ betrayal. It may also, however, speak to the specific significance of Boxer himself: before being carted off, he serves as the force that holds Animal Farm together. Squealer Throughout his career, Orwell explored how politicians manipulate language in an age of mass media. In Animal Farm, the sil |
In what century did the Renaissance begin? | When did the Renaissance begin? | eNotes When did the Renaissance begin? slchanmo1885 | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Posted on December 18, 2008 at 1:47 AM In the late fourteenth century (that means the late 1300's), a movement of literature, art, and philosophy began in Europe. This movement brought us such people as Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, Galileo, among many others. This was a time of great intellectual and cultural growth in the Western world that influenced many of the ideas, technology, and art we have today. like 9 dislike 0 enotechris | College Teacher | (Level 2) Senior Educator Posted on Why the Renaissance began is answered in the link: like 4 dislike 2 frizzyperm | College Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Posted on December 18, 2008 at 1:54 AM Current thinking is that it is 'wrong' to use the term 'Renaissance' because it suggests certains misunderstandings and that the preferred term is now the Early Mordern Period. However, Western European interest in ancient learning was accelerated by the reconquest of muslim Spain in the 1450 and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Urbino in Italy is supposed to have been the place that sparked off this sudden rush of culture, knowledge and discovery in the mid 15th century. like 14 dislike 1 smartatul111 | Student, Grade 9 | (Level 1) Honors Posted on July 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM ocial and political developments in the late Middle Ages gave rise to the spirit of the Renaissance. The Crusades (1096-1291)-the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers to win the holy land from the Muslims-brought Europeans into contact with other cultures and most importantly with Byzantine civilization. The remnant of the East Roman Empire, Byzantium had preserved the knowledge of ancient times. In addition, many texts thought to have been destroyed during the tribal ransacking of the West Roman Empire (in the fifth century a.d.) remained preserved in various translations throughout the Middle East. So it was during the Crusades that some of these were brought back to Europe, where classical scholars undertook the task of deciphering the West's cultural past. In northern Italy, a series of city-states developed independent of the larger empires to the north and south of them. These small states-Florence, Rome, Venice, and Milan, among others-gained prosperity through trade and banking, and as a result, a wealthy class of businessmen emerged. These community leaders admired and encouraged creativity, patronizing artists who might glorify their commercial achievement with great buildings, paintings, and sculptures. The most influential patrons of the arts were the Medicis, a wealthy banking family in Florence. Members of the Medici family supported many important artists, including Botticelli and Michelangelo. Guided by the Medici patronage, Florence became the most magnificent city of the period. One way patrons encouraged art was to sponsor competitions in order to spur artists to more significant achievement. In many cases, the losers of these contests went on to greater fame than the winners. After his defeat in the competition to create the bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral, architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) made several trips to take measurements of the ruined buildings of ancient Rome. When he returned to Florence, he created the immense il duomo (dome) of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, a classically influenced structure that became the first great monument of the Renaissance. like 7 dislike 0 September 3, 2011 at 3:19 PM The Renaissance, which means “new birth” or “resurrection” is generally considered to have started in Italy in the 1300s. It represented a resurgence of interest in classical learning and values, in discovery and exploration of the world, faith in logic, reason and the scientific method as sources of truth, and a celebration of the human mind and body in art and literature. It was also a period of clashes with traditional religious authority, as Copernicus challenged t |
What color are the helmets worn by UN peacekeeping troops? | Military beret | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Berets are in some countries particularly associated with elite units, who often wear berets in more unusual colours. Examples include the grey of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps , maroon of Commonwealth parachute troops and the Danish Jægerkorpset , the green of the Royal Marines Commandos , Finnish Marine Commandos (Coastal Jaegers), French Commandos (Bérets verts), French Foreign Legion , Irish Army Ranger Wing , Rhodesian Light Infantry and United States Army's Special Forces (Green Berets); the scarlet of the elite Soviet Internal Troops ( Spetsnaz ); the beige or tan of Commonwealth special forces units ( SAS ) and United States Army Rangers ; the grey of the new Polish GROM ; or the wide black of French Chasseurs alpins , the first military unit to have worn berets. History Edit Carlist forces in Spain, 1838 The informal use of berets by the military of Europe dates back hundreds of years, one example being the Blue Bonnet, that became a defacto symbol of Scottish forces in the 16th and 17th centuries. As an officially required military headdress, its use dates back to the Carlist Wars of Succession for the Spanish Crown in the 1830s by order of General Tomás de Zumalacárregui who wanted a local and non-costly way to make headgear that was resistant to the mountain weather and easy to care for and be used on formal occasions. Other countries followed suit after the creation of the French Chasseurs alpins in the early 1880s. These mountain troops were issued with a uniform which included several features which were innovative for the time, notably the large and floppy blue beret which they still retain. This was so unfamiliar a fashion outside France that it had to be described in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 as "a soft cap or tam o'shanter ." [1] Berets have features that make them very attractive to the military: they are cheap, easy to make in large numbers, can be manufactured in a wide range of colors, can be rolled up and stuffed into a pocket or beneath the shirt epaulette without damage, and can be worn with headphones (this is one of the reasons why tank crews adopted the beret). The beret is not so useful in field conditions for the modern infantryman, who requires protective helmets, and is usually not seen worn by infantry on operations. The beret was found particularly useful as a uniform for armored-vehicle crews, and the British Tank Corps (later Royal Tank Corps) adopted the headdress as early as 1918, despite complaints that the beret was "too foreign and feminine". German AFV crews in the late 1930s also adopted a beret with the addition of a padded crash helmet inside. The color black became popular as a tank-crew headdress, since it did not show oil stains picked up inside the interior of a vehicle. Black berets continue to be worn by armoured regiments throughout the Commonwealth. Berets have become the default military headdress of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, just as the morion , tricorne , shako , kepi , and peaked cap were each common headgear in their own respective eras. The beret is now worn by many military personnel of the majority of nations across the world. Military berets by country Dark blue — other personnel Navy Blue Berets are issued head-dress in the Royal Australian Navy ; however, they are most commonly worn by Clearance Divers and qualified Submariners - that said, they are still a regulation uniform item for any naval personnel. Blue berets in the Royal Australian Air Force , but only by qualified Airfield Defence Guards and Ground Defence Officers. Terracotta berets are worn by Multinational Force and Observers contingents. In all cases, the beret is pushed over to the right, and a badge (a.k.a. "flash" insignia) worn above the left eye. Austria Edit Austrian green beret. Berets are common in most parts of the Army , and are usually worn for special occasions, but also regularly by certain forces. Grass green — Infantry, all troops that do not wear another color Royal Blue — Enginee |
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May 15, 1940 saw brothers Richard and Maurice open their first restaurant in San Bernadino, CA, which later became what moderately famous fast food chain? | Comox Valley Record, May 15, 2014 by Black Press - issuu issuu THURSDAY May 15, 2014 Vol. 29• No. 39 ••• $1.25 inc. G.S.T. THIS PUBLICATION AVAILABLE ONLINE AT comoxvalley record.com COMOX VALLEY Woodland Gardens hosts the 12th annual Art & Bloom Festival page B1 Chimo’s Lauren Carr wins gold medal at Western Canadian championships page B9 RECORD A division of se T.O. .V.O. .G.U.E. .I.P.T. .I O. .N. . OF EYEW AL E FOR DET AILS. SEE STOR WORLD OF ACTIVITY Seminar addresses pertinent issues to Valley teens Girls’ Seminar. “You have the right to say no (to sex) without consequence. If there is coercion, manipulation, or pressure, you do not have the respect that you deserve. And young Renee Andor women, at your age, boyfriends are like Record Staff buses; there’s another You have the one right around the “You have the right to say no corner,” Vanston said, right to be unique. bringing laughs from You have the right without consethe audience. “You to be true to you. You quence. don’t have to put up have the right to be Dr. Claire Vanston with them if that’s yourself.” not what you want.” Nine hunThe seminar ran dred Grade 9 and 10 Comox Valley girls loudly from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monapplauded when they heard these day at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary final words from sexual health School, though it was organized educator Dr. Claire Vanston’s by Cumberland Junior School speech during the Be You Be True teacher Jina Taylor and her leadership class. Similar, but smaller events were held in Cumberland the past two years, and they featured FearlesslyGiRL’s leadership and empowerment speaker Kate Whitfield. About 250 students attended the first event at Cumberland Junior, and 450 attended the second. But, this year, because all Grade 9 and 10 girls in the district attended — about 900 girls — the seminar was moved to Isfeld’s gym. Taylor decided to change the format, too, and the seminar featured six presentations — including a video about the Comox Valley Girls Group, a talk about Internet safety and a presentation about the SafeTeen program — plus an introduction by Comox PHOTO BY RENEE ANDOR Valley School District superintendent Sherry Elwood. SEXUAL HEALTH educator During the break after the first Dr. Claire Vanston speaks to few presentations, Grade 9 Isfeld Grade 9 and 10 girls during student Alex Kramer said hearthe Be You Be True Girls’ ing Elwood’s story was inspiring. ❝ Seminar at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School. ... see SEMINAR ■ A6 PHOTO BY EARLE COUPER Players representing Cameroon (green) and United Arab Emirates (orange) square off in the U-11 boys’ division at the Mini World Cup 2014 Comox Valley Sunday morning. A total of 105 teams, some from as far away as the Yukon Territories, played 210 games over the course of two days at Valley View and Isfeld fields. SEWING MACHINE REPAIRS! A GRADUATION GIFT THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME. MSRP 399.00 Zebra $ Get it now for Over 35 Years of Experience. All Makes & All Models of Sewing Machines YOUR NORTH ISLAND AUTHORIZED JANOME/ELNA DEALER After the sale ■ Vacuum Repairs it’s the service ■ Sergers ■ Industrials ■ Scissor Sharpening that counts Affordable Sewing & Vacuum Centre 2885 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay next to Madman McKay A2 Thursday, May 15, 2014 • COMOX VALLEY RECORD www.comoxvalleyrecord.com This week’s eek’s feature: Hyundai ndai Windsor Plywood The experts you need to know for... PRESSURE TREATED DECK LUMBER 2843 Kilpatrick Ave, Courtenay GET FRESH PHOTO BY RENEE ANDOR Fifty-two Navigate students, (including a couple of staff members), play Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ with robo-axes, (robotic guitars made with Lego), setting a world record for the most people to play this song at once video-online on robo-axes. A short video of the record-setting rock-out, featuring Principal Jeff “Ritchie www.comoxvalleyrecord.com Blackmore” Stewart, can be seen at www.comoxvalleyrecord.com Quote of the Day And young women, at your age, ❝ boyfriends are like buses; there’s another one right around the corner. ❞ Dr. Clair Vanston LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: e-mail to letters@comoxvalleyre |
May 15, 1928 saw the introduction of what iconic character, when the 6 minute short Plane Crazy was publicly introduced, co starring Clarabelle Cow? | On Demand Weekly On Demand Weekly Tweet APARTMENT TROUBLES is a story about how Olivia and Nicole are codependent roommates who are definitely going to make it; they're just not sure how. When they get evicted from their shoebox apartment in Manhattan--conceptual art just doesn't cover the rent--they boldly take off to L.A. for the promise of sunshine. As one door slams shut, another opens--a tarot card reading later, the duo decide to take their performance art sensibilities to the mainstream by auditioning for a reality TV talent show. This madcap buddy film marks the screenwriting and directorial debuts of costars and real-life friends Jennifer Prediger (RED FLAG) and Jess Weixler (TEETH). Strong comedic performances by Megan Mullally (WILL & GRACE), Jeffrey Tambor (TRANSPARENT) and Will Forte (LAST MAN ON EARTH, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) reveal the vulnerability behind even their most bizarre behavior. APARTMENT TROUBLES (Gravitas Ventures) is available today! Jennifer Prediger & Jess Weixler's Top 10 Things You Should Know About APARTMENT TROUBLES Jennifer Prediger Jess Weixler 1. Jenny kisses Megan Mullally in this movie, and then Megan cries (in that order). 2. Jess kisses Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, and then yells at her (in that order). 3. No one gets to kiss Will Forte in this movie, but we sure tried every time the cameras stopped rolling. 4. Will Forte's mom, Patti Forte, the sweetest woman on earth who raised the 'Last Man on Earth' has a role in the movie. When Will's character is on the phone talking to his mom, he actually did talk to his mom, Patti, on the phone and called her a turkey. 5. We wear garbage couture that was handmade by our costume designer. If you watch this movie, you'll find many tips throughout on how to dress stylishly eccentric. 6. If you like the British cult film "Withnail and I" you may like this movie. If you haven't seen "Withnail and I", watch our movie first, then rent that one too and have yourself a madcap, buddy movie mini-marathon. 7. Lance Bass has a bitchy cameo in the movie. We realize we're doing a lot of name dropping on this list, but the last person we'll name drop here is Christopher Reid from Kid 'n Play who brings a little special something to the movie. 8. There's an inspiring, awkward speech given to actual strangers on the subway in NYC with a special performance by breakdancers we met and filmed on the train. 9. Jess eats an entire angel food cake in under 10 seconds. 10. Without insulting the rest of our cast, the cats in this movie gave incredibly captivating performances. Both cats are students of cinema and thus were named accordingly: Bobafet and Beetlejuice. Tweet WATER & POWER, tells the story of two brothers nicknamed Water & Power by their hard-working father who was an irrigation field man for the famed Department of Water & Power of Los Angeles (LADWP). From the blue-collar housing projects of the city’s Eastside to the very corridors of power where deals are made in the City of Angels. WATER & POWER explores a cautionary tale with a Chicano twist. Told in the classic L.A. noir style, with a darkly humorous tone. WATER (Enrique Murciano) is a rising political star and California state senator. POWER (Nicholas Gonzalez) is a top cop in the LAPD elite upper chain of command. Following an unexpected and unavoidable tragedy, the brothers find themselves in a seedy motel room on the eastern edge of Sunset Boulevard on a dark and rainy night. Can they survive the long night? Can there be Water without Power? Will they remember the tough love lessons taught to them by their hard-working father? Emilio Rivera Top 5 Things You Need To Know About WATER & POWER 1. We shot WATER & POWER in 12 Nights, 8 to 12 pages a Night. 2. Not a lot money but a lot of love went into this film. 3. I was In the play of WATER & POWER as the hitman who worked for the fixer at the taper , workshopped in Sundance with Richard Montoya playing the role of Norte / Sur and got to play the role of N/S for the film. It |
In Morse code, what was the radio distress signal used before the adoption of SOS in 1908? | SOS, CQD and the History of Maritime Distress Calls To Telegraph Office Main Page Welcome back to the Telegraph Office. This month we are going to diverge a little from talking about wire and wireless artifacts and talk about wireless telegraph distress signals. Mystery, intrigue as well as misinformation surrounds the origin and use of maritime distress calls. The general populace believes that "SOS" signifies "Save Our Ship." Casual students of radio history are aware that "CQD" preceded the use of "SOS." Why were these signals adopted? When were they used? Why did one replace the other? What is one likely to find by digging a little deeper? The practical use of wireless telegraphy was made possible by Guglielmo Marconi in the closing years of the 19th century. Until then, ships at sea out of visual range were very much isolated from shore and other ships. A ship could vanish from the high seas, and no one would know until that vessel failed to make a port connection. Marconi, seeing that wireless would not compete with wire telegraphy for land based communication, concentrated his efforts on ship to shore communications. Ships equipped with wireless were no longer isolated. The first use of wireless in communicating the need for assistance came in March of 1899. The East Goodwin Lightship, marking the southeastern English coast, was rammed in a fog in the early morning hours by the SS R. F. Matthews. A distress call was transmitted to a shore station at South Foreland and help was dispatched. By 1904 there were many Trans-Atlantic British ships equipped with wireless. The wireless operators came from the ranks of railroad and postal telegraphers. In England a general call on the landline wire was a "CQ." "CQ" preceded time signals and special notices. "CQ" was generally adopted by telegraph and cable stations all over the world. By using "CQ," each station receives a message from a single transmission and an economy of time and labor was realized. Naturally, "CQ" went with the operators to sea and was likewise used for a general call. This sign for "all stations" was adopted soon after wireless came into being by both ships and shore stations. At the first international congress of wireless telegraphy in 1903, the Italians recommended the use of "SSSDDD" to signal an emergency. "D" had previously been used internationally as the signal for an urgent message. The origin of "S" is not known, but it may have come from the first letter of the word ship, indicating a ship in distress. The sending of "SSSDDD" would signal all other stations to stop sending and leave the channel open for emergency traffic. Though discussed, it was not adopted. Deciding on a distress signal was put on the agenda for the next meeting in 1906. "DDD" would later be adopted for the silent signal, indicating all stations must cease sending. In 1904, the Marconi company filled the gap by suggesting the use of "CQD" for a distress signal. It was established on February 1 of that year by Marconi Company's circular No. 57. Although generally accepted to mean, "Come Quick Danger," that is not the case. It is a general call, "CQ," followed by "D," meaning distress. A strict interpretation would be "All stations, Distress." In the U.S. Senate hearings following the Titanic disaster, interrogator Senator William Smith asked Harold Bride, the surviving wireless operator, "Is CQD in itself composed of the first letter of three words, or merely a code?" Bride responded, "Merely a code call sir." Marconi also testified, "It [CQD] is a conventional signal which was introduced originally by my company to express a state of danger or peril of a ship that sends it." At the second Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference of 1906, the subject of a distress signal was again addressed. The distress signal chosen was "SOS." (The American distress signal "NC" for "Call for help without delay" was not adopted, although it remains as the international flag symbol for distress to this day.) Popular accounts portray the adoption of "SOS" as being derived from "S |
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Long before being canonized on 16 May, 1920, which historical figure, known as The Maid of Orleans, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France in 1431? | Joan of Arc - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Google Joan of Arc’s Early Life Born around 1412, Jeanne d’Arc (or in English, Joan of Arc) was the daughter of a tenant farmer, Jacques d’Arc, from the village of Domrémy, in northeastern France. She was not taught to read or write, but her pious mother instilled in her a deep love for the Catholic Church and its teachings. At the time, France had long been torn apart by a bitter conflict with England (later known as the Hundred Years’ War), in which England had gained the upper hand. A peace treaty in 1420 disinherited the French crown prince, Charles of Valois, amid accusations of his illegitimacy, and King Henry V was made ruler of both England and France. His son, Henry VI, succeeded him in 1422. Along with its French allies (led by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy), England occupied much of northern France, and many in Joan’s village, Domrémy, were forced to abandon their homes under threat of invasion. Did You Know? In a private audience at his castle at Chinon, Joan of Arc won the future Charles VII over by supposedly revealing information that only a messenger from God could know; the details of this conversation are unknown. At the age of 13, Joan began to hear voices, which she determined had been sent by God to give her a mission of overwhelming importance: to save France by expelling its enemies, and to install Charles as its rightful king. As part of this divine mission, Joan took a vow of chastity. At the age of 16, after her father attempted to arrange a marriage for her, she successfully convinced a local court that she should not be forced to accept the match. Joan’s Journey to Orléans In May 1428, Joan made her way Vaucouleurs, a nearby stronghold of those loyal to Charles. Initially rejected by the local magistrate, Robert de Baudricourt, she persisted, attracting a small band of followers who believed her claims to be the virgin who (according to a popular prophecy) was destined to save France. When Baudricort relented, Joan cropped her hair and dressed in men’s clothes to make the 11-day journey across enemy territory to Chinon, site of the crown prince’s palace. Joan promised Charles she would see him crowned king at Reims, the traditional site of French royal investiture, and asked him to give her an army to lead to Orléans, then under siege from the English. Against the advice of most of his counselors and generals, Charles granted her request, and Joan set off for Orléans in March of 1429 dressed in white armor and riding a white horse. After sending off a defiant letter to the enemy, Joan led several French assaults against them, driving the Anglo-Burgundians from their bastion and forcing their retreat across the Loire River. Downfall of Joan of Arc After such a miraculous victory, Joan’s reputation spread far and wide among French forces. She and her followers escorted Charles across enemy territory to Reims, taking towns that resisted by force and enabling his coronation as King Charles VII in July 1429. Joan argued that the French should press their advantage with an attempt to retake Paris, but Charles wavered, even as his favorite at court, Georges de La Trémoille, warned him that Joan was becoming too powerful. The Anglo-Burgundians were able to fortify their positions in Paris, and turned back an attack led by Joan in September. In the spring of 1430, the king ordered Joan to confront a Burgundian assault on Compiégne. In her effort to defend the town and its inhabitants, she was thrown from her horse, and was left outside the town’s gates as they closed. The Burgundians took her captive, and brought her amid much fanfare to the castle of Bouvreuil, occupied by the English commander at Rouen. Joan of Arc: From Witch to Saint In the trial that followed, Joan was ordered to answer to some 70 charges against her, including witchcraft, heresy and dressing like a man. The Anglo-Burgundians were aiming to get rid of the young leader as well as discredit Charles, who owed his coronation to her. In attempting to distance himself from an accused heret |
Killing 57 people and causing over $3 billion in property damage, the eruption o f Mount St. Helens occurred on May 18 of what year? | Mount St. Helens Eruptive History - Page 2 1 [ 2 ] 3 Lateral "blast" Within a few seconds after the onset and mobilization of the debris avalanche, the climactic eruptions of May 18 began as the sudden unloading of much of the volcano's north flank abruptly released the pent-up pressure of the volcanic system. The sudden removal of the upper part of the volcano by the landslides triggered the almost instantaneous expansion (explosion) of high temperature-high pressure steam present in cracks and voids in the volcano and of gases dissolved in the magma that caused the bulge of the cryptodome. The abrupt pressure release, or "uncorking," of the volcano by the debris avalanche can be compared in some ways to the sudden removal of the cap or a thumb from a vigorously shaken bottle of soda pop, or to punching a hole in a boiler tank under high pressure. At Mount St. Helens, the "uncorking" unleashed a tremendous, northward-directed lateral blast of rock, ash, and hot gases that devastated an area of about 230 square miles in a fan-shaped sector north of the volcano. To the south, the devastated area was much less, extending only a small distance downslope from the summit. Along with older volcanic debris, the blast also included the first magmatic material erupted by Mount St. Helens, indicating that the landslides and the ensuing blast had exposed the cryptodome magma. What appear to be blades of mown grass are actually large trees, some over 100 feet tall, flattened by the tremendous force of the lateral blast, even out to distances as far as 19 miles from the volcano (Photograph by Daniel Dzurisin). Although the lateral blast began some seconds later than the debris avalanche, the blast's velocity was much greater, so that it soon overtook the avalanche. Calculations have shown that the blast's initial velocity of about 220 miles an hour quickly increased to about 670 miles an hour. The average velocity did not surpass the speed of sound in the atmosphere (about 735 miles an hour). This observation is consistent with the lack of reports of loud atmospheric shocks or "sonic booms" from nearby observers such as Keith and Dorothy Stoffel in the light plane or survivors on the ground. In some areas near the blast front, however, the velocity may have approached, or even exceeded, the supersonic rate for a few moments. The blast was widely heard hundreds of miles away in the Pacific Northwest, including parts of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, and northern California. Yet, in many areas much closer to Mount St. Helens--for example, Portland, Oregon, only 50 miles away--the blast was not heard. Subsequent studies by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry demonstrated a so-called "quiet zone" around Mount St. Helens, extending radially a few tens of miles, in which the eruption was not heard. The creation of the "quiet zone" and the degree to which the eruption was heard elsewhere depended on the complex response of the eruption sound waves to differences in temperature and air motion of the atmospheric layers and, to a lesser extent, local topography. Even heard in another Country: Don Botten in Victoria B.C. said, "I heard it and thought it was the navy, firing ships guns, then I realized it was Mt. St. Helens. When I phoned my father, Bill Botten, who lived on the waterfront, he told me that as he pushed open his front door, the shock wave pushed it back in his face. I have often heard reports of the power of the mountain, but usually from the perspective of Washington state. The sound waves carried much farther, between Puget Sound and Juan de Fuca Strait, they built considerable force." This update recalled by Don during 30th anniversary, May 18, 2010 Border area of the lateral-blast zone. Dead trees of the "seared zone" (middle ground) stand between the flatteded trees of the "tree-down zone" (foreground) and unaffected forest (upper right) (Photograph by Lyn Topinka in April 1982). The near-supersonic lateral blast, loaded with volcanic debris, caused widespread devastation as far as 19 miles from the volcano. |
May 20, 1873, saw a patent granted to Jacob Davis and what San Francisco business man for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of work pants? | Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans - May 20, 1873 - HISTORY.com This Day in History: 05/20/1873 - Blue Jeans Patented This Day in History - May 20, 1873, was the day Levi patented the first pair of blue jeans. Jeans were unique at the time because of the metal rivets that reinforced the stressed areas. Workers found jeans to be very practical and last longer than normal cloth pants. Lead Story Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans Share this: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans Author Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans URL Publisher A+E Networks On this day in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world’s most famous garments: blue jeans. Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, in 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father. By 1850, Loeb had changed his name to Levi and was working in the family dry goods business, J. Strauss Brother & Co. In early 1853, Levi Strauss went west to seek his fortune during the heady days of the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, Strauss established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name and worked as the West Coast representative of his family’s firm. His new business imported clothing, fabric and other dry goods to sell in the small stores opening all over California and other Western states to supply the rapidly expanding communities of gold miners and other settlers. By 1866, Strauss had moved his company to expanded headquarters and was a well-known businessman and supporter of the Jewish community in San Francisco. Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, Nevada, was one of Levi Strauss’ regular customers. In 1872, he wrote a letter to Strauss about his method of making work pants with metal rivets on the stress points–at the corners of the pockets and the base of the button fly–to make them stronger. As Davis didn’t have the money for the necessary paperwork, he suggested that Strauss provide the funds and that the two men get the patent together. Strauss agreed enthusiastically, and the patent for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings”–the innovation that would produce blue jeans as we know them–was granted to both men on May 20, 1873. Strauss brought Davis to San Francisco to oversee the first manufacturing facility for “waist overalls,” as the original jeans were known. At first they employed seamstresses working out of their homes, but by the 1880s, Strauss had opened his own factory. The famous 501brand jean–known until 1890 as “XX”–was soon a bestseller, and the company grew quickly. By the 1920s, Levi’s denim waist overalls were the top-selling men’s work pant in the United States. As decades passed, the craze only grew, and now blue jeans are worn by men and women, young and old, around the world. Related Videos |
Who is the famous moneylender in Shakespeare’s tragic comedy “The Merchant of Venice”? | Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" - a tragic comedy? | Self-Publishing at GRIN Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" - a tragic comedy? Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2005, 18 Pages eBook (PDF) for only US$ 14.99 Download immediately without shipping costs. Readable on tablets and phones. Add to cart 3. Plot Structure: Comedy or Tragedy? 3.1. Venice 3.1.1. The flesh bond plot 3.1.2. Jessica, Lorenzo and Launcelot Gobbo 3.2. Belmont 4. Shylock: a Changing Character 5. Conclusion 6. References 1. Introduction It has often been said that one can measure the quality of a dramatic piece by the feedback it evokes; the more the reactions and opinions diverge the better the play. This definitely holds true for The Merchant of Venice. Hardly any other dramatic piece has experienced so many diverse receptions during four hundred years after its publication, as the following comments of two different authors show: Indeed, seen from any angle, The Merchant of Venice is not a very funny play, and we might gain a lot if, for the moment, we ceased to be bullied by its inclusion in the comedies. (Graham Midgely, qtd. in Holderness: 23) No other Shakespearean comedy before All’s Well That Ends Well (1602) and Measure for Measure (1604), perhaps no other Shakespearean comedy at all, has excited comparable controversy. (Walter Cohen: 47) Although the original title of the play, The Most Excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice (first print 1600), suggested it to be a history play, it had been labelled a comedy until the 18th century due to its happy ending and still today the drama can be found in several reference works under the entry of ‘comedy’. In the 19th century then it was re-interpreted as tragedy, whereas a parallel tradition put the main stress on the fairy tale elements in the piece. The perception of the play in the second half of the 20th century led, for obvious reasons from World War II, to the classification as ‘problem play’ (Schülting: 135). This paper shall try to solve the problem of assigning TMoV to a specific dramatic category by firstly giving an insight as to what criteria constitute different genres. In a second part, the plot structure will be analysed in order to illustrate that TMoV can indeed be seen as a mixture of different genres, but also to show the weaknesses of some arguments that are provided with the intention of forcing TMoV into certain schemes. The aim of a third section is to investigate the position of the Jew and Shylock, because he seems to be the key character in the reading of TMoV, as the multitude of interpretations of his role in the play demonstrate. 2. Defining the genre As already mentioned in the introduction it is rather difficult to definitely place The Merchant of Venice among one of the various existing dramatic forms. Different experts applied different criteria to the play in order to classify it, depending on the main interpretative emphasis. It is, however, important to also take a closer look at several dramatic forms and their definitions to build the foundations for a further discussion of assigning The Merchant of Venice to a certain genre, as it is not merely content but also form that characterize a play. 2.1. History play Today’s research describes ‘history play’, or ‘chronicle play’, as in its core based on documented historical events. In early times this implied that those forms of drama mostly included enormous battle scenes, whereas the Shakespearean era playwrights started to recount the lives of royal personages. Well known history plays by Shakespeare are for instance Richard II and Henry VIII In the case of The Merchant of Venice it can be said with great certainty that Shakespeare did not mean to dramatize history; with regard to the original title, ‘Historie’ is more likely to simply mean story, although the term ‘history’ in Elizabethan times was also applied to other plays that often included both, features of tragedy and comedy. However, the main differentiation of tragedy and history lies in the depiction of a social and political situation i |
Resulting in being tied to a rock and having his liver eaten on a daily basis by an eagle, the Greek Titan Prometheus stole what from the Greek Gods and gave it to mortals? | Full text of "Man's descent from the gods;" See other formats LIBRARY UNIVFR ..TV Of CALirONNM: SAN DIEGO r (W e^ MAN'S DESCENT FROM THE GODS MAN'S DESCENT FROM THE GODS OR, THE COMPLETE CASE AGAINST PROHIBITION BY ANTHONY M. LUDOVICI AUTHOR OF "A DEFENCE OF ARISTOCRACY," ETC. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LONDON: WILLIAM HEINBMANN. 1921. TO MR. AND MRS. EDMOND HUNT WITH THE AUTHOR'S AFFECTIONATE REGARD PREFACE THIS book has a strange history. The last event in the chain which brought it into existence was a debate on the question of Total Prohibition held at the Sesame Club in London on November 3rd, 1919, to which I was invited by the Committee in order to oppose the Bishop of Willesden, who was to advocate Total Prohibi- tion for these islands. I mention this most recent event first, because it was on the occasion of this debate that various thoughts and conjectures relating to prob- lems apparently as far apart as Greek mythology and modern diet, with which my imagination had been occupied for some considerable time, first crystallised into the theory which I have thought worthy of the serious treatment given to it in this essay. Among the other events connected with this book, I may mention: (1) The last great war and the enforced leisure, with its opportunities for meditation, which it frequently provided in the firing-line and out of it to a field-gunner like myself; (2) the writing of my Defence of Aristocracy in the years 1912, 1913, 1914, and the attention which I was compelled to pay, in the preparation of this book, to such questions as the drink and food of the people of England from the seventeenth century onwards; (3) the perusal of a friend's book in MS. on Dietetics, which first awakened my curiosity about accessory food factors; (4) the publication by the Medical Research Committee of their Report on the viii PREFACE Present State of our Knowledge concerning Accessory Food Factors; and finally (5) the first account I received, as a child, of the myth of Prometheus. The ancient Greek story of the Fire-stealer had always fascinated me. I did not, like Byron, ever make it the subject of a youthful literary essay, but it was not the less prominent in my thoughts on that account. Certain features connected with it always puzzled me, and as I grew older I became less and less satisfied with the various learned explanations of the myth and its principal figure, with which I became acquainted. The mystery surrounding it seemed to increase rather than to disperse beneath these scholarly dissertations, until latterly I even sympathised with the late Mr.. Andrew Lang in his reluctance to accept the most learned, the most ingenious, and certainly the most daring of all these explanations, the exceedingly erudite and ex- haustive work of Dr. Kuhn. It struck me then, and it strikes me still, that in any case Dr. Kuhn's interpretation must be rejected at all costs, even at the risk of doing violence to etymology, though this last extreme measure I do not believe to be in the least necessary, seeing that it fails to elucidate some of the most vital and therefore most interesting features of the myth. For many years, moreover, and despite repeated failures, I have been unable to repress a strong feeling that it must be possible to discover an explanation of the Fire-stealer legend, which would not only give a logical place to every important element in the myth, but also perhaps shed a little valuable light on the early history of mankind. A child can see that the stealing of fire from the gods must have been not only a vital, but perhaps the most vital PREFACE ix event in the early history of the human race. But what always puzzles a child, at least what always used to puzzle me was, (1) that it should have been necessary to steal fire from the gods; and (2) that the gods should have been apparently so immoderately angry once the theft had been committed. I need hardly say that learned |
First appearing in color in 1935's The Band Concert, what color pants does Mickey Mouse wear? | Mickey Mouse | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia ― Walt Disney [src] Mickey Mouse is an animated anthropomorphic mouse created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in the year 1928 . Mickey is, by far, The Walt Disney Company 's most famous character and serves as the company's mascot. Estimated as standing 2' 3" (69 cm) and weighing 23 pounds (10 kg), Mickey rapidly rose to the pinnacle of American culture, becoming the most popular cartoon character in the world and the prime influence of following cartoons. For over 86 years, he has signified The Walt Disney Company , animation, goodwill, fun, laughter, and most of all Walt Disney himself. It was said by Lillian Disney , his wife, that over the years, Mickey and Walt grew together and were mirrors of each other's personality. They both started off mischievous and cheeky, but as they grew older preferred to step out of the spotlight and observe others work their magic. President Jimmy Carter once said: "Mickey Mouse is the symbol of goodwill, surpassing all languages and cultures. When one sees Mickey Mouse, they see happiness." Mickey's 3-circle silhouette serves as the logo for most of Disney's subsidiaries, save for the ones that don't carry the 'Disney' or 'Walt Disney' label. Andy Warhol's portrait from The Art of Mickey Mouse used Warhol's famous pop art techniques on the classic mouse. Mickey is often cited as the world's most famous cartoon character of all time. Contents Background Personality Mickey's most widely known traits are his wholesomeness and charisma. In contrast to this, Mickey is also known for being exceptionally mischievous; due to his curiosity, optimism and occasional arrogance, Mickey has a habit of finding himself in a wide array of self-inflicted trouble—sometimes comedically ( Mickey's Airplane Kit ), sometimes highly consequentially ( Epic Mickey ). Nevertheless, he is also quick-thinking and crafty and is thusly able to save himself from the varying danger, ending out on top in the end. Because of his small size, he additionally relies on his trickster nature to get the best of his rivals. His craftiness is also put into good use when looking for ways to make life easier for himself, even if he knowingly has to break rules in the process, being somewhat of a schemer in this sense ( The Sorcerer's Apprentice , " Stayin' Cool "). As mentioned, Mickey is rather charismatic, and this is prominently displayed in his relationship with his longtime girlfriend, Minnie Mouse . The two are shown to be deeply in love with each other, and as such, Mickey has repeatedly gone to great lengths to both ensure Minnie's happiness, and to impress her (sometimes out of insecurity of losing her, as seen in Mickey Tries to Cook ). While he tries his best to avoid danger when possible, Mickey will immediately force himself to become a valiant hero when Minnie is put into danger. When protecting Minnie, Mickey proves himself to be quite skilled in combat, and his previously mentioned craftiness is, again, prominently featured. In turn, Minnie is an avid supporter of Mickey and openly returns his sentiments. Though she finds herself annoyed with Mickey's habit of forgetting special occasions and other important matters ( Rent Day , Runaway Brain ), she simultaneously serves as Mickey's better half, bringing out the best of him, even after his own flaws create significant mayhem. Despite his mischievousness and being lazy, Mickey is a reliable leader and is well-respected amongst his peers because of this. A great example of this can be seen in various cartoons in which Mickey stars alongside his best friends, the ill-tempered Donald Duck and exceptionally clumsy Goofy . With his intelligence and wit, he is able to handle issues fairly better than both Donald and Goofy, as his temper and clumsiness are not as distracting for himself as they are for his two comrades. The dynamic shared with Donald and Goofy also brings out two significant, yet greatly differing traits of Mickey's. Donald occasionally holds resentment towards Mickey, being envious of his success, thoug |
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The UW Huskies won the Pac-10 conference title in what sport, this last Sunday, when the men edged California? | UW men’s crew eyeing third Pac-10 title in four years | The Seattle Times UW men’s crew eyeing third Pac-10 title in four years Originally published May 14, 2010 at 6:26 pm Updated May 14, 2010 at 8:31 pm California, which won the race last year, is likely to again be UW's fiercest challenger. The races are Sunday at Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Share story Christian Caple It wasn’t the No. 1 Washington men’s varsity crew that everyone had their eyes on last week as Sunday’s Pac-10 championships at Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif., approached, nor was it the other three teams in the conference ranked in the top 20. Everyone was more concerned about the weather, a notoriously brutal, scorching downside to the otherwise highly regarded course. “I don’t think it will be as big of an issue,” UW men’s coach Michael Callahan said, referring to last season’s 100-plus degree temperatures during the race. “We’ve been looking at the weather, and it looks like it’s going to be cooler.” Forecasts in the mid-70s and a modified racing schedule that has both the men’s and women’s crews racing just one flight in the morning — as opposed to a morning heat followed by another in the scorching midafternoon — have the Huskies feeling a little, well, cooler leading up to this year’s conference races. Most Read Stories Unlimited Digital Access. $1 for 4 weeks. And it figures to be another good one for the Washington men, who have torn through the Pac-10 schedule en route to the top ranking in the latest USRowing poll. No. 2 California, which won the race last year, is likely to again be UW’s fiercest challenger. All that has the Huskies, winners of two of the past three Pac-10 championships, thinking about a repeat of last year’s sweep at the IRA national championships. “That’s on everyone’s mind, definitely,” UW junior and varsity captain Ty Otto said. “We have a lot of new guys in the boat, people that haven’t raced in the varsity level. We have a lot of people that are just really eager to make their mark on the program and get that (IRA title) for themselves.” The UW women, who head coach Bob Ernst thinks have finally sorted out their final personnel groupings, will be rowing in the No. 6 slot after several close losses earlier this year. Ernst said he thinks his squad is beginning to peak. “That varsity eight race for the women, when you figure that five of the top 10 crews in the rankings are all in the same conference, that just doesn’t happen anywhere in any sport,” Ernst said. The men’s varsity eight race begins at 11:30 a.m., and the women compete at 11:50. Christian Caple |
Offering service from Tacoma to Seattle and Seattle to Everett, what is the name of the train service offered by Sound Transit? | Rider news | Sound Transit Sound Transit Service change the weekend of September 10-11 August 31, 2016 Highlights of service changes effective September 10, 11, and 12 include: Link light rail: Angle Lake Station opens September 24. More information> Tacoma Link light rail: No changes Sounder: Southline: New midday trips added. More information and schedule> ST Express: Schedule adjustments to improve on-time performance. Route 535 Schedule adjustments to improve on-time performance. Route 545 Weekday trips added and schedule adjustments. Route 555 Weekday trips added and route changed in Bellevue. Route 556 Weekday trips added and route changed in Bellevue. Route 560 Schedule adjustments and route changed in Bellevue. Route 566 Weekday trips added. For more detailed information look in the new Ride the Wave guide on all Sound Transit vehicles. A .pdf of the new Guide is also available at: soundtransit.org/schedules The new schedules will be posted to the web the weekend of the service change. Environment in motion at Angle Lake Station August 31, 2016 The views from Angle Lake Station are some of the best on the Link light rail line. In fact, one of the goals of the station design was to have unobstructed views of the Sound and the mountains from the platform. It's the first elevated Link station after all. Get the details> New mid-day south line Sounder train starts Sept. 12 August 30, 2016 Sound Transit is adding a mid-day Sounder train to its popular south line service beginning Monday, Sept. 12th. The new train will provide flex-schedule workers and other riders an additional travel option for bypassing highway gridlock that now snarls traffic throughout the day. More details and schedule here> Football fan? Here are 4 tips for taking transit to the game August 29, 2016 When you're a football fan, the only real downside of going to a game is the traffic getting there and home. Taking transit makes it easy to get to the game without having to deal with parking. Here are some tips to make your game day a win! Link light rail celebrates seventh anniversary amid record-breaking ridership surge July 18, 2016 Sound Transit's Link light rail today enters its eighth year of service amid record-breaking ridership growth following the March opening of new stations serving Seattle's Capitol Hill and University of Washington areas. Read more How to survive a busy Link light rail train July 11, 2016 Since the University Link extension opened in March, we've seen exponential ridership growth on light rail. And you've probably felt it. Here's some tips on good transit manners to make a busy train ride more pleasant. Get out to these 12 summer events by transit June 17, 2016 See a movie under the stars, paddle around Lake Washington or listen to live music outside. It's summer after all! Here's a list of summer activities you can get to by bus or train. Q: What is the Sound Transit District? June 8, 2016 Occasionally we get asked about the Sound Transit District, how big is it, how many people call it home and what cities are included. (Hint: it's big!). Here's the details Angle Lake Station on track for fall opening June 3, 2016 Another new Link light rail station opens this year. The South 200th Link Extension project is 94 percent complete. The 1.6-mile extension south from SeaTac/Airport Station to Angle Lake Station includes a 1,050-stall parking garage. Read more 8 farmers markets you can get to by transit May 10, 2016 Farmers market season is heating up! Grab your reusable bags and ORCA card and head out for some fresh produce. Here's eight farmers markets easily accessible via a Sound Transit bus or train. Viaduct shutdown: What you need to know and do April 27, 2016 With on-ramp closures starting at 10 p.m. Thursday, April 28, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will close for about two weeks while tunnel boring machine Bertha passes underneath Highway 99. Start planning> University Link ridership sprints out of the starting gates April 20, 2016 Ridership on Link light rail since opening the two new stations at Capitol Hill an |
Historically categorized by their shape, what is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas dust, and some dark matter? | Galaxy - Solar System Solar System Galaxy Solar System Explanation ::-- Sun || Solar Planet || Mercury Planet || Jupitor Planet || Venus Planet || Earth Planet || Uranus Planet || Saturn Planet || Mars Planet || Neptune Planet || Dwarf Planet || Astroids || Comet || A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and an important but poorly understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Examples of galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (107) stars to giants with a hundred trillion (1014) stars, each orbiting their galaxy's own center of mass. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstellar clouds. In between these objects is a sparse interstellar medium of gas, dust, and cosmic rays. Dark matter appears to account for around 90% of the mass of most galaxies. Observational data suggests that supermassive black holes may exist at the center of many, if not all, galaxies. They are thought to be the primary driver of active galactic nuclei found at the core of some galaxies. The Milky Way galaxy appears to harbor at least one such object. Galaxies have been historically categorized according to their apparent shape; usually referred to as their visual morphology. A common form is the elliptical galaxy, which has an ellipse-shaped light profile. Spiral galaxies are disk-shaped with dusty, curving arms. Those with irregular or unusual shapes are known as irregular galaxies and typically originate from disruption by the gravitational pull of neighboring galaxies. Such interactions between nearby galaxies, which may ultimately result in a merging, sometimes induce significantly increased incidents of star formation leading starburst galaxys. Smaller galaxies lacking a coherent structure are referred to as irregular galaxies. There are probably more than 170 billion (1.7 × 1011) galaxies in the observable universe. Most are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter and usually separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). Intergalactic space (the space between galaxies) is filled with a tenuous gas of an average density less than one atom per cubic meter. The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations known as groups and clusters, which, in turn usually form larger superclusters. At the largest scale, these associations are generally arranged into sheets and filaments, which are surrounded by immense voids. Observation history The realization that we live in a galaxy, and that there were, in fact, many other galaxies, parallels discoveries that were made about the Milky Way and other nebulae in the night sky. The Milky Way The Greek philosopher Democritus (450–370 BC) proposed that the bright band on the night sky known as the Milky Way might consist of distant stars. Aristotle (384–322 BC), however, believed the Milky Way to be caused by "the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together" and that the "ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions." The Neoplatonist philosopher Olympiodorus the Younger (c. 495–570 AD) criticized this view, arguing that if the Milky Way were sublunary it should appear different at different times and places on the Earth, and that it should have parallax, which it does not. In his view, the Milky Way was celestial. This idea would be influential later in the Islamic world. The Arabian astronomer, Alhazen (965–1037), made the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax,and he thus "determined that because the Milky Way had no parallax, it was very remote from the Earth and did not belong to the atmosphere." The Persian astronomer Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1048) proposed the Milky Way galaxy to be "a collection of countless fragments of t |
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What soft drink, invented by Charles Hires in 1866, is traditionally flavored with the root of the sassafras plant? | ‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks - CSI Skeptic Authors Steven Salzberg and Joe Nickell to Receive Balles Prize in Critical Thinking June 14, 2013 Forbes columnist Steven Salzberg and author-investigator Joe Nickell will each be awarded the 2012 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, to be presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry at the CFI Summit in October. ‘Pop’ Culture: Patent Medicines Become Soda Drinks Skeptical Inquirer Volume 35.1, January/February 2011 Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water, has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. The soda fountains of yesteryear-a particularly American phenomenon-were in drug stores for a reason. Introduced in pharmacies at the end of the eighteenth century and increasing in the 1830s, they were an effective means of dispensing medications: adding a small amount of flavoring along with some seltzer (effervescent water) made medicine more palatable (New Orleans, n.d.; Mariani 1994, 291). As part of my studies of snake oil and other cure-alls (Nickell 1998, 2005, 2006)-which ranged over several years and included collecting antique bottles and ephemera and visiting such sites as the Coca-Cola museum-I was struck by the fact that several famous soft drinks had originated as patent medicines, which in turn had their origin in herbal and other folk remedies (see figure 1). Pharmacists claimed the added ingredients “made medicines taste so good, people wanted them, whether they needed them or not, and that's how soft drinks evolved” (New Orleans, n.d.). Figure 1 Advent of Soda ‘Pop' Mineral water, including naturally carbonated water (figure 2), has long been promoted as a curative for various ailments. As early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, scientists tried to duplicate nature's carbonation process. It fell to Dr. Joseph Priestley (discoverer of oxygen) to advance the first practical process in 1772, thus helping to launch the soda-water industry. In time, flavored soda waters caught on. Figure 2 Some early soda bottles, such as those for English ginger ale, had rounded bottoms, so they could not be stood upright. This prevented their corks from drying out and shrinking, which kept the gas pressure from causing them to “pop.”1 Later “pop” bottles had patented stoppers (again, see figure 2), including the familiar one from 1891 still used today, called the crown cork (a crimped metal cap with a cork liner) (Munsey 1970, 101–10). Root Beer and Sarsaparilla Two plant roots particularly, sarsaparilla and sassafras (figure 1), were early recognized for their potent flavor and presumed medicinal properties. In 1830, in his treatise on medical botany, Constantine Rafinesque described the American sassafras tree (an aromatic member of the laurel family) and its qualities, noting that “Indians use a strong decoction to purge and clear the body in the spring.” Sassafras has long been used as a tea and “home-remedy spring tonic and blood purifier” (Rafinesque 1830). (I dug the root as a boy in Kentucky, seemingly coming by my interest naturally: my great, great grandparents, Harry and Martha Murphy, were Appalachian herbalists and folk doctors.) Sassafras was an original, major ingredient in many recipes for root beer, which was brewed in the eighteenth century as a mildly alcoholic beverage. Reportedly, in 1870 an unknown pharmacist created a formula that he billed as a cure-all and offered to the public. However, it was not actually marketed until Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires produced a liquid concentrate in small bottles (see figure 3), introducing it at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. By 1893 the Hires family was selling bottled versions of their carbonated drink, thus securing a place in soft drink history (“History” 2010; “Root beer” 2010). One slogan was “Join Health and Cheer/Drink Hires Rootbeer [sic]” (Munsey 1970, 274). Figure 3 Ironically, in time, root beer's healthfulness was seriously questioned after safrol (a substance in s |
Many scientists believe the continents once formed a super continent, called what? | Facts About Pangaea The breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey About 300 million years ago, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one massive supercontinent called Pangaea, which was surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa. The explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the modern theory of plate tectonics , which posits that the Earth's outer shell is broken up into several plates that slide over Earth's rocky shell, the mantle. Over the course of the planet's 3.5 billion-year history, several super continents have formed and broken up, a result of churning and circulation in the Earth's mantle , which makes up most of planet's volume. This breakup and formation of supercontinents has dramatically altered the planet's history. "This is what's driven the entire evolution of the planet through time. This is the major backbeat of the planet," said Brendan Murphy, a geology professor at the St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. History More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of evidence. The first and most obvious was that the "continents fit together like a tongue and groove," something that was quite noticeable on any accurate map, Murphy said. Another telltale hint that Earth's continents were all one land mass comes from the geologic record. Coal deposits found in Pennsylvania have a similar composition to those spanning across Poland, Great Britain and Germany from the same time period. That indicates that North America and Europe must have once been a single landmass. And the orientation of magnetic minerals in geologic sediments reveals how Earth's magnetic poles migrated over geologic time, Murphy said. In the fossil record, identical plants, such as the extinct seed fern Glossopteris, are found on now widely disparate continents. And mountain chains that now lie on different continents, such as the Appalachians in the United States and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, were all part of the Central Pangaea Mountains, formed through the collision of the supercontinents Gondwana and Laurussia. Pangaea formed through a gradual process spanning a few hundred million years. Beginning about 480 million years ago, a continent called Laurentia, which includes parts of North America, merged with several other micro-continents to form Euramerica. Euramerica eventually collided with Gondwana, another supercontinent that included Africa, Australia, South America and the Indian subcontinent. About 200 million years ago, the supercontinent began to break up. Gondwana (what is now Africa, South America, Antarctica, India and Australia) first split from Laurasia (Eurasia and North America). Then about 150 million years ago, Gondwana broke up. India peeled off from Antarctica, and Africa and South America rifted, according to a 1970 article in the Journal of Geophysical Research . Around 60 million years ago, North America split off from Eurasia. Life and climate Having one massive landmass would have made for very different climactic cycles. For instance, the interior of the continent may have utterly dry, as it was locked behind massive mountain chains that blocked all moisture or rainfall, Murphy said. But the coal deposits found in the United States and Europe reveal that parts of the ancient supercontinent near the equator must have been a lush, tropical rainforest, similar to the Amazonian jungle, Murphy said. (Coal forms when dead plants and animals sink into swampy water, where pressure and water transform the material into peat, then coal.) "The coal deposits are essentially telling us that there was plentiful life on land," Murphy told Live Science. Pangaea existed for 100 million years, and during that time period several animals flourished, including the Traversodontidae , a family of plant-eating animals that includes the ancestors of mammals. During the Permian period , insects such as be |
Hazel, filbert, and kola are all types of what? | Hazel Tree Types, Pictures and Species of Hazelnuts (Corylus) Home » Tree Names Index » Genus: Corylus (Hazel Trees) Hazel Tree Types, Pictures and Species of Corylus Picture of a Hazelnut Tree Turkish Hazel Leaf (Corylus colurna) Hazel trees (Corylus) are a genus of 26 species , mainly deciduous trees and some large shrubs, that are all native to the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. These trees are also commonly known by their seed, a edible nut called a "Hazelnut", or a "cobnut". The trees may be commonly referred to as "Hazelnut Trees". See List of Hazel Vernacular Names for common names of the Corylus species in other languages. Hazel nuts, (Hazelnuts) The nuts of all species of Hazel (Corylus) are edible, however the species (Corylus avellana) is grown the most due to its higher production rate, and has many Cultivars . Hazelnuts can also be known as "Cobnuts" or "filbert nuts" . Hazelnuts are used in confectionery to make some pralines, in chocolate for some chocolate bars (such as Cadbury's), and in some hazelnut paste products (such as Nutella). In the United States, hazelnut butter is being promoted as a more nutritious spread than its peanut butter counterpart, as Hazelnuts contain significant amounts of thiamine and vitamin B6, as well as smaller amounts of other B vitamins. Hazelnuts are rich in protein and unsaturated fat. Identification of Hazel Trees; The shape and structure of the involucre, nut and also the growth habit (whether a tree or a shrub), are important, as well as the leaves in the identification of the different species of Corylus (Hazel). See List of Hazel Tree Species . Hazel tree species have simple, rounded leaves with a double serrated margin. Hazel flowers are produced very early in spring before the leaves, and are monoecious, with single-sex catkins, the male catkins are pale yellow and 5 ↔ 12 cm long, and the female ones are very small and largely concealed in the buds, with only the bright-red, 1 ↔ 3mm long styles being visible. Hazel seeds are nuts 1 ↔ 2.5cm long and 1 ↔ 2cm in diameter, surrounded by an involucre (husk) which partly to fully encloses the nut, (Hazelnut). Facts about the Corylus Genus of Trees Genus Latin Scientific Name = Corylus Genus Name Pronunciation: KOR-ih-lus |
May 18, 1980 saw the eruption of what, causing the death of 57 people and over $3 billion in damages? | Mount St. Helens Eruptive History - Page 2 1 [ 2 ] 3 Lateral "blast" Within a few seconds after the onset and mobilization of the debris avalanche, the climactic eruptions of May 18 began as the sudden unloading of much of the volcano's north flank abruptly released the pent-up pressure of the volcanic system. The sudden removal of the upper part of the volcano by the landslides triggered the almost instantaneous expansion (explosion) of high temperature-high pressure steam present in cracks and voids in the volcano and of gases dissolved in the magma that caused the bulge of the cryptodome. The abrupt pressure release, or "uncorking," of the volcano by the debris avalanche can be compared in some ways to the sudden removal of the cap or a thumb from a vigorously shaken bottle of soda pop, or to punching a hole in a boiler tank under high pressure. At Mount St. Helens, the "uncorking" unleashed a tremendous, northward-directed lateral blast of rock, ash, and hot gases that devastated an area of about 230 square miles in a fan-shaped sector north of the volcano. To the south, the devastated area was much less, extending only a small distance downslope from the summit. Along with older volcanic debris, the blast also included the first magmatic material erupted by Mount St. Helens, indicating that the landslides and the ensuing blast had exposed the cryptodome magma. What appear to be blades of mown grass are actually large trees, some over 100 feet tall, flattened by the tremendous force of the lateral blast, even out to distances as far as 19 miles from the volcano (Photograph by Daniel Dzurisin). Although the lateral blast began some seconds later than the debris avalanche, the blast's velocity was much greater, so that it soon overtook the avalanche. Calculations have shown that the blast's initial velocity of about 220 miles an hour quickly increased to about 670 miles an hour. The average velocity did not surpass the speed of sound in the atmosphere (about 735 miles an hour). This observation is consistent with the lack of reports of loud atmospheric shocks or "sonic booms" from nearby observers such as Keith and Dorothy Stoffel in the light plane or survivors on the ground. In some areas near the blast front, however, the velocity may have approached, or even exceeded, the supersonic rate for a few moments. The blast was widely heard hundreds of miles away in the Pacific Northwest, including parts of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, and northern California. Yet, in many areas much closer to Mount St. Helens--for example, Portland, Oregon, only 50 miles away--the blast was not heard. Subsequent studies by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry demonstrated a so-called "quiet zone" around Mount St. Helens, extending radially a few tens of miles, in which the eruption was not heard. The creation of the "quiet zone" and the degree to which the eruption was heard elsewhere depended on the complex response of the eruption sound waves to differences in temperature and air motion of the atmospheric layers and, to a lesser extent, local topography. Even heard in another Country: Don Botten in Victoria B.C. said, "I heard it and thought it was the navy, firing ships guns, then I realized it was Mt. St. Helens. When I phoned my father, Bill Botten, who lived on the waterfront, he told me that as he pushed open his front door, the shock wave pushed it back in his face. I have often heard reports of the power of the mountain, but usually from the perspective of Washington state. The sound waves carried much farther, between Puget Sound and Juan de Fuca Strait, they built considerable force." This update recalled by Don during 30th anniversary, May 18, 2010 Border area of the lateral-blast zone. Dead trees of the "seared zone" (middle ground) stand between the flatteded trees of the "tree-down zone" (foreground) and unaffected forest (upper right) (Photograph by Lyn Topinka in April 1982). The near-supersonic lateral blast, loaded with volcanic debris, caused widespread devastation as far as 19 miles from the volcano. |
What member of Public enemy, known for always being able to tell what time it was, had his own VH1 reality show? | Dean's Tribute to Public Enemy Chuck formed his rock side project (which also includes Professor Griff and guitarist Kyle Jason) in 1998 (see "PE's Chuck D, Professor Griff Go Rock Route With Confrontation Camp" ) and the band made its live debut in New York last summer (see "Chuck D On Possible Public Enemy-Confrontation Camp Tour" ). When word of the project surfaced two years ago, Professor Griff hinted at the band's sound, describing it to the MTV Radio Network as an "alternative aggressive rock, soul, poetry kind of thing," and promised to bring "beats that's gonna stick to the ribs and knock the drunk out of the average college student." 6.26.2000 Chuck D: Louder Than An MP3 (from VH1 website) by C. Bottomley After MP3.com turned around and attacked its online brother Napster last week, Chuck D has verbally bum-rushed the Web site's CEO, Michael Robertson. The executive recently supported a Recording Industry Association of America petition demanding an injunction against Napster while the embattled MP3-sharers fight off a lawsuit from the RIAA. Chuck D knew what time it was. "There's so many people jumping sides in this whole digital realm," he told Sonicnet's Richard B. Simon. "I guess [Robertson] decided to get off the raft and get on the Titanic. Somebody needs to tell Mike it's better to be in the raft." Robertson might have found the raft to be a little waterlogged. A federal judge ruled in April that MP3.com violated major-label copyrights by including their recordings in its My.MP3.com database without obtaining licenses first. Last week the company settled with BMG Entertainment and Warner Music Group for an undisclosed sum. The formerly ornery MP3.com has since made nice with the RIAA, in what's the first indication of cooperation between the music industry and the online world, whose technology is changing the way the former's product is distributed. That's why Robertson's name was found on the injunction demand alongside RIAA president/CEO Hilary Rosen, songwriter Mike Stoller, and others. "In my view, Napster is not designed to promote or share the music of unknown or lesser known artists," Robertson said in the petition. "The only way to find a song on Napster is to enter the name of the song and/or artist that the user wants to find." Robertson had also complained that Napster distributed music by MP3.com-exclusive artists without authorization. "It's never been about the music over the last couple of years; it's about figuring out ways that they can squeeze the consumer dollar," D observed of the latest wrangling. "When you're dealing with the airwaves and the free world, you can't talk about what you don't have or what you shoulda had. Eminem's sh*t has been pirated and bootlegged, and he still sold 3.3 million copies for Dre's label, so how could you just talk about 'Well, he could have sold 5.3 million?'" Chuck has since taken to the Net himself with a vengeance after turning his back on the music industry ("I basically just couldn't survive in it," he admits). The rapper is now involved with bringthenoise.com and publicenemy.com. He's also got a new rock band with PE member Professor Griff called Confrontation Camp. Those hoping to see Chuck D & Confrontation Camp on the Warped Tour, however, will be disappointed. Although the group was advertised on the bill, D has had to pull out. Said a Warped Tour spokesperson, "I don't know if they were ready to play live yet." Just when we were getting ready to put MP3s of their rehearsals on Napster, too. 6.22.2000 3:00 am edt Chuck D Criticizes MP3.com Chief For Siding With RIAA Against Napster: Rapper accuses recording industry of trying to maintain status quo, getting greedy for consumer dollars. (from SonicNet website) contributing Editor Richard B. Simon reports: Veteran Public Enemy rapper Chuck D criticized MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson for attacking Napster in a legal statement Robertson filed last week. "There's so many people jumping sides in this whole digital realm," Chuck D said. "I guess [Robertson] decided to get off the raft and get on |
How many bonus points does a Scrabble player receive when playing all 7 of their tiles in a single turn? | The Official Rules of Scrabble - How to Play Scrabble - Learn Scrabble Rules How to Play Scrabble Travel Scrabble Scrabble Rules - Scrabble Official Rules When playing Scrabble, anywhere from two to four players will enjoy the game. The object when playing is to score more points than other players. As words are placed on the game board, points are collected and each letter that is used in the game will have a different point value. The main strategy is to play words that have the highest possible score based on the combination of letters. The Scrabble Board A standard Scrabble board will consist of cells that are located in a large square grid. The board offers 15 cells high and 15 cells wide. The tiles used on the game will fit in each cell on the board. Scrabble Tiles There are 100 tiles that are used in the game and 98 of them will contain letters and point values. There are 2 blank tiles that can be used as wild tiles to take the place of any letter. When a blank is played, it will remain in the game as the letter it substituted for. Different letters in the game will have various point values and this will depend on how rare the letter is and how difficult it may be to lay that letter. Blank tiles will have no point values. Tile Values Below are the point values for each letter that is used in a Scrabble game. 0 Points - Blank tile. 1 Point - A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T and U. 2 Points - D and G. 3 Points - B, C, M and P. 4 Points - F, H, V, W and Y. 5 Points - K. 8 Points - J and X. 10 Points - Q and Z. Extra Point Values When looking at the board, players will see that some squares offer multipliers. Should a tile be placed on these squares, the value of the tile will be multiplied by 2x or 3x. Some squares will also multiply the total value of the word and not just the single point value of one tile. Double Letter Scores - The light blue cells in the board are isolated and when these are used, they will double the value of the tile placed on that square. Triple Letter Score - The dark blue cell in the board will be worth triple the amount, so any tile placed here will earn more points. Double Word Score - When a cell is light red in colour, it is a double word cell and these run diagonally on the board, towards the four corners. When a word is placed on these squares, the entire value of the word will be doubled. Triple Word Score - The dark red square is where the high points can be earned as this will triple the word score. Placing any word on these squares will boos points drastically. These are found on all four sides of the board and are equidistant from the corners. One Single Use - When using the extra point squares on the board, they can only be used one time. If a player places a word here, it cannot be used as a multiplier by placing another word on the same square. Starting the Game Without looking at any of the tiles in the bag, players will take one tile. The player that has the letter that is closest to “A” will begin the game. A blank tile will win the start of the game. The tiles are them replaced to the bag and used in the remainder of the game. Every player will start their turn by drawing seven tiles from the Scrabble bag. There are three options during any turn. The player can place a word, they can exchange tiles for new tiles or they can choose to pass. In most cases, players will try to place a word as the other two options will result in no score. When a player chooses to exchange tiles, they can choose to exchange one or all of the tiles they currently hold. After tiles are exchanged, the turn is over and players will have to wait until their next turn to place a word on the board. Players can choose to pass at any time. They will forfeit that turn and hope to be able to play the next time. If any player passes two times in a row, the game will end and the one with the highest score will win. The First Word Score When the game begins, the first player will place their word on the star spin in the centre of the board. The star is a double square and will offer a double word score. All playe |
What is the wife of an Earl called? | Earl | Define Earl at Dictionary.com earl noun 1. a British nobleman of a rank below that of marquis and above that of viscount: called count for a time after the Norman conquest. The wife of an earl is a countess. 2. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a governor of one of the great divisions of England, including East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex. Origin of earl Old English 900 before 900; Middle English erl, Old English eorl; cognate with Old Saxon erl man, Old Norse jarl chieftain Earl a male given name: from the old English word meaning “noble.”. Dictionary.com Unabridged Examples from the Web for earl Expand Contemporary Examples His wife is the niece of an earl who once worked as a lady-in-waiting to a royal duchess. The Kensington District Geraldine Edith Mitton He could remember clearly now, the earl's explanations of the action of the coronet. Millennium Everett B. Cole The Smuggler's Cave George A. Birmingham He thought of the names he had heard used by the guards of the earl. Millennium Everett B. Cole British Dictionary definitions for earl Expand noun 1. (in the British Isles) a nobleman ranking below a marquess and above a viscount Female equivalent countess 2. (in Anglo-Saxon England) a royal governor of any of the large divisions of the kingdom, such as Wessex Word Origin Old English eorl; related to Old Norse jarl chieftain, Old Saxon erl man Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for earl Expand n. Old English eorl "brave man, warrior, leader, chief" (contrasted with ceorl "churl"), from Proto-Germanic *erlo-z, of uncertain origin. In Anglo-Saxon poetry, "a warrior, a brave man;" in later Old English, "nobleman," especially a Danish under-king (equivalent of cognate Old Norse jarl), then one of the viceroys under the Danish dynasty in England. After 1066 adopted as the equivalent of Latin comes (see count (n.)). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper |
What famed Scottish author and physician, creator of Sherlock Holmes and The Lost World, had a birthday on the 22 May, 1859? | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline Writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Biography Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author, poet & physician. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, life and timeline. Quick Facts Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Famous as Jean Leckie (m. 1907â1930), Louisa Hawkins (m. 1885â1906) children Adrian Conan Doyle, Jean Conan Doyle, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, Denis Percy Stewart, Mary Louise education Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place Stonyhurst University of Edinburgh Image Credit http://www.culturalweekly.com/happy-birthday-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ Arthur Conan Doyle is the widely read Scottish author who created the legendary, world famous fictional character, 'Sherlock Holmes'. He authored more than 60 'Sherlock Holmes' mystery stories, which captivated readers and transported them into a world of mystery. Some of his notable 'Sherlock Holmes' works include, âStories of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes' and 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'. He also authored many non-fiction books, works of fantasy, science-fiction and wrote poetry. He has also published many historical novels. He created another fictional character named, âProfessor Challenger' and wrote a series of novels based on him. Born into a wealthy family in Edinburgh, Scotland, Doyle grew up listening to many enchanting tales narrated to him by his mother, Mary, a well read and masterful storyteller. He initially went to medical school and after he graduated he was briefly employed and later set up his own practice. Unfortunately, his medical career did not succeed and he began writing stories while he waited for patients, little knowing the fact that these stories would change his life forever. Childhood & Early Life Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Charles Altamont Doyle, a Victorian artist and Mary Foley. His parents were of Irish-Catholic descent. His family was affluent and well respected but his father was a heavy drinker and hence he was supported by his wealthy uncles. His mother was well read. When he was a child, she sparked his imagination with the great stories she narrated. From 1868, he began to attend Hodder Place, a Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school and later went to the Stonyhurst College. He subsequently went to the Stella Matutina Jesuit School in Feldkirch, Austria. In the year 1876, he enrolled at the medical school at the University of Edinburgh. During this period he also did many jobs and first began writing short stories. One of his earliest unpublished works of fiction was âThe Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe'. On September 6, 1879, his piece, âThe Mystery of Sasassa Valley', was published in the Chambersâs Edinburgh Journal. This was his first publication. That year, his non-fiction work, âGelsemium as a Poison' was also published. In 1880, he was employed as a physician abode the Greenland whaler 'Hope of Peterhead'. Following his graduation, he became a ship surgeon abode the âS SMayumbaâ. In 1882, he set up an independent medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. His practice did not prove to be very successful and he began writing stories while waiting for patients. Career In 1887, his piece âA Study in Scarlet' was first published in the Beeton's Christmas Annual. The piece received good reviews and first introduced the characters, 'Sherlock Holmes' and âDr John Watson'. In 1888, âA Study in Scarlet' was published in book form. This was one of the first novels of that time to use the magnifying glass as an investigative tool. The following year, his historical novel, âMicah Clarke' was published. In 1889, his novel âThe Mystery of Cloomber' was published while the year 1890 saw the publication of 'The Firm of Girdlestone', which was later made into a silent film of the same name. In 1890, he went on to study ophthalmology in Vienna, after which he moved to London. H |
Usually consisting of 16 points, what is the name of the figure on a map or a chart that indicates the cardinal directions? | Compass - definition of compass by The Free Dictionary Compass - definition of compass by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/compass n. 1. a. A device used to determine geographic direction, usually consisting of a magnetic needle or needles horizontally mounted or suspended and free to pivot until aligned with the earth's magnetic field. b. Another device, such as a radio compass or a gyrocompass, used for determining geographic direction. 2. A V-shaped device for describing circles or circular arcs and for taking measurements, consisting of a pair of rigid, end-hinged legs, one of which is equipped with a pen, pencil, or other marker and the other with a sharp point providing a pivot about which the drawing leg is turned. Also called pair of compasses. 3. Awareness or understanding of one's purpose or objectives: "Lacking a coherent intellectual and moral commitment, [he] was forced to find his compass in personal experience" (Doris Kearns Goodwin). 4. a. An enclosing line or boundary; a circumference: outside the compass of the fence. See Synonyms at circumference . b. A restricted space or area: four huge crates within the compass of the elevator. c. Range or scope, as of understanding, perception, or authority: The subject falls outside the compass of this study. See Synonyms at range . 5. Music See range. tr.v. com·passed, com·pass·ing, com·pass·es 1. To make a circuit of; circle: The sailboat compassed the island. 2. To surround; encircle: The trees compass the grave. 3. To understand; comprehend: "God ... is too great a profundity to be compassed by human cerebration" (Flann O'Brian). 4. a. To accomplish or bring about: "He compassed his end only by the exercise of gentle violence" (Henry James). b. To gain or achieve: "She had compassed the high felicity of seeing the two men beautifully take to each another" (Henry James). 5. To scheme; plot: compass the death of the king. adj. Forming a curve. [Middle English compas, circle, compass, from Old French, from compasser, to measure, from Vulgar Latin *compassāre, to pace off : Latin com-, com- + Latin passus, step; see pace1.] com′pass·a·ble adj. compass (ˈkʌmpəs) n 1. an instrument for finding direction, usually having a magnetized needle which points to magnetic north swinging freely on a pivot 2. (Mathematics) (often plural) Also called: pair of compasses an instrument used for drawing circles, measuring distances, etc, that consists of two arms, joined at one end, one arm of which serves as a pivot or stationary reference point, while the other is extended or describes a circle 3. limits or range: within the compass of education. 4. (Music, other) music the interval between the lowest and highest note attainable by a voice or musical instrument 5. archaic a circular course vb (tr) 6. to encircle or surround; hem in 7. to comprehend or grasp mentally 8. to achieve; attain; accomplish 9. obsolete to plot [C13: from Old French compas, from compasser to measure, from Vulgar Latin compassāre (unattested) to pace out, ultimately from Latin passus step] ˈcompassable adj (ˈkʌm pəs) n. 1. an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north. 2. Often, compasses. an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances, etc., consisting generally of two hinged, movable legs (often used with pair of). 3. the enclosing line or limits of any area; perimeter. 4. space within limits; scope: the broad compass of the novel. 5. the total range of tones of a voice or of a musical instrument. 6. due or proper limits; moderate bounds: to act within the compass of propriety. 7. a passing round; circuit: the compass of a year. adj. 8. curved; forming a curve or arc: a compass roof. v.t. 9. to go or move around; make the circuit of: to compass the city on foot. 10. to extend or stretch around; surround; encircle: A stone wall compasses the property. 11. to attain or achieve; accomplish; obtain. 12. to contrive; plot; scheme. 13. to make curved or circular. 14. to comprehend; grasp, as w |
Who is missing: Luke, Bo, Jesse, Coy, Vance? | TV ACRES: TV Character Bios > Luke and Bo Duke (The Dukes of Hazzard) Now, Jesse, we been makin' moonshine for over 200 years. Now, why's gamblin' any different? Jesse: Because. Makin' whiskey was a fam'ly tradition long before they was a US of A federal government to tell us that we couldn't. An' passin' a law didn't change the fam'ly ways none. B'sides! When we was makin' corn whiskey, we paid taxes on the corn. Gamblin's a vice. How you gonna tax vice? Luke: Yeah, but, this is somethin' different. Besides worrying about the terms of their probation, the Dukes' Boys main day-to-day threat was Boss Hogg, a fat little southern politician dressed in white who loved to eat and, even more, loved to frame the Duke Boys for crimes they didn't commit. Here's a short list of the many times Boss Hogg tried to get the goods on the Duke Boys. Boss hires two crooks disguised as Bo and Luke to rob an armored truck with a duplicate General Lee. Boss frames Bo and Luke for passing a bad check. Jesse signs away the Duke farm to go his bail. Boss hires a crooked magician to frame Bo and Luke for stealing the orphanage money and then asks Jesse for his moonshine recipe for the release of Bo and Luke. Boss frames Miz Tisdale for mail fraud and the Dukes hide her out at the farm. Boss frames the Dukes for possession of illegal gambling devices. Boss frames the Dukes for stealing a bag full of stolen credit cards left by thieves. Boss hires some crooks to rob the TV stores and frames Bo and Luke for it. Boss Hogg schemes to steal $1 million in old, raggedy bills marked to be burned at the Federal Reserve and plans on framing the Duke boys for the armored truck robbery so his bank can collect on the insurance money. Boss Hogg frames Bo and Luke for possession of illegal moonshine Boss has Coy, Vance and Daisy framed and sends them to Chickasaw County where they are arrested by Sheriff Little Bo and Luke are framed for gold robbery so Boss can to collect the insurance. Bo and Luke are suspected of running a smuggling ring when they deliver cars to Augie Detwiler - the owner of the derby in town Boss Hogg frames Bo and Luke for a series of tractor thefts committed by another group of thieves hired by the Boss. As for the Duke Boys, Luke Duke is the oldest of the cousins. He is an ex-Marine, musically inclined and the more responsible of the Duke cousins. Luke always slid across the hood of the General Lee, to quickly gain access to the passenger side of the car. Bo Duke, the younger womanizing cousin, did most of the driving, but |
What is the common name of the warning police officers give to arrestees that include phrases such as “You have the right to remain silent” and “You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning”? | united states - You have the right to one phone call when arrested - A Hollywood myth? - Skeptics Stack Exchange (Image Source ) According to Cracked.com the "one phone call" rule is a Hollywood invention. They base this on the information this attorney gives: The one phone call is another one of the urban myths. You may or may not be permitted to use the phone. Generally, out of courtesy they will allow you to make one phone call. Often there are phones in the jail, and people can make as many phone calls as they want as long as there is somebody to accept collect charges. Also heard in movies and TV-shows is the Miranda Warning (which is real): You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense. It stands to reason that if "you have the right to speak to an attorney", you should be provided with the means to do so (e.g a phone call). And according to this it is indeed so: An arrested person has the right, immediately after booking and, except when physically impossible, no later than three (3) hours after arrest, to make at least three (3) completed telephone calls. The calls are to be free if completed in the local calling area, and are at the arrestee's expense if outside the local area. The calls must be allowed immediately on request, or as soon as practicable. From what I can gather the "one phone call" is not a myth perpetrated by Hollywood, but indeed a right. So what's the truth? And what's the "phone call" policy in other countries? Do their 'Miranda' rights include a free phone call? Just to clarify: I merely mention the Miranda Warning because I'm speculating the 'phone call' rule might derive from there. But my question is not about Miranda, it's about whether or not the law actually grants you the right to a phone call. In Nevada: NRS 171.153 Right of person arrested to make telephone calls. 1. Any person arrested has the right to make a reasonable number of completed telephone calls from the police station or other place at which the person is booked immediately after the person is booked and, except where physically impossible, no later than 3 hours after the arrest. Such telephone calls may be limited to local calls, except that long distance calls may be made by the arrested person at his or her own expense. 2. A reasonable number of calls must include one completed call to a friend or bail agent and one completed call to an attorney. NRS 171.1537 Arrest of person with disability: Right to communicate by mail or telephone. When a person with a disability is detained in custody, the detaining authority shall make available a reasonable means of communication, at least pencil and paper, and at least two envelopes and first-class postage stamps. If the person with a disability so requests, the proper officer of the detaining authority shall make on the person’s behalf the same number and kind of telephone calls which a person arrested is authorized by law or custom to make and shall mail any letters written by that person. Similarly in California: (a) (1) Immediately upon being booked and, except where physically impossible, no later than three hours after arrest, an arrested person has the right to make at least three completed telephone calls, as described in subdivision (b). (2) The arrested person shall be entitled to make at least three calls at no expense if the calls are completed to telephone numbers within the local calling area or at his or her own expense if outside the local calling area. (b) At any police facility or place where an arrestee is detained, a sign containing the following information in bold block type shall be posted in a conspicuous place: The arrestee has the right to free telephone calls within the local calling area, or at his or her own expense if outside the local calling area, to t |
What is the name of the man in the top hat that serves as the mascot of the game Monopoly? | Mr. Monopoly | American Dad Wikia | Fandom powered by Wikia Share Rich Uncle Pennybags is the rotund old man in a top hat who serves as the mascot of the game Monopoly. Rich Uncle Pennybags was rechristened Mr. Monopoly, the nickname by which he was already popularly known, in a Hasbro marketing effort in 1999. He also is known as Whiff from all the casino slot machines. He also appears in the related games Advance to Boardwalk, Free Parking, Don't Go To Jail, Monopoly City, Monopoly Junior, and Monopoly Deal. The character first appeared on Chance and Community Chest cards in U.S. editions of Monopoly in 1936. Mr. Monopoly appears as one of Hayley 's unionized homeless "bums" in " Threat Levels " as he walks the picket line against Stan . As part of her foreplay in " Poltergasm ", Francine wants Stan to talk like the "Monopoly guy," but gets upset when it comes out as Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island. |
What famous brand of evaporated milk, created in 1899, got its start as the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company, in Kent, before changing its name and moving east of Seattle, founding a town in the process? | The Food Timeline--beverages Ancient brew & recipe ingredient too. "No one has yet managed to date the origins of beer with any precision, and it is probably an impossible task. Indeed, there are scholars who have theorized that a taste for ale prompted the beginning of agriculture, in which case humans have been brewing for some 10,000 years...Most archaeological evidence, however, suggests that fermentation was being used in one manner or another by around 4000 to 3500 B.C. Some of this evidence--from an ancient Mesopotamian trading outpost called Godin Tepe in present-day Iran--indicates that barley was being fermented at that location around 3500 B.C....We know that not much later the Sumerians were...making beer...At approximately the same time, people of the ancient Nubian culture to the south of Egypt were also fermenting a crude, ale-like beverage known as bousa." ---Cambridge World History of Food, Kenneth F. Kiple & Conee R. Ornelas [Cambridge University Press:Cambridge] 2000, Volume One (p. 620) "The brewing of beer may well have occurred soon after the production of cereal crops, and no doubt for a long time beer was home-produced and in the hands of the housewives responsible for preparing the 'gruel' or bread. Malting the grain is the first step in beer-brewing, but malting--that is, allowing the grains to germinate --was initially carried out to make the grains more palatable. After malting, besides being mixed into a nourishing gruel, the grains could also be dried, milled and baked into a more easily preserved kind of bread. Thus, the first production of beer may be reasonably considered as an accidental discovery resulting from the malting of grain for other purposes. When cereals came to be more often baked into bread and less often turned into gruel, malting was not so necessary and became part of the brewer's trade only. By the third millennium BC, Mesopotamia was already well versed in beer-brewing and old Sumerian texts mention eight barley beers, eight emmer beers and three mixed beers. Aromatic plants were added to the beer to improve the flavour and to assist in its preservation, and extra honey, cereals and malt gave varying added strengths. Up to the millennium, the grains were de-husked, but husked grains then began to be brewed and beer was drunk through the drinking-tubes to be seen in several relief carvings...Brewing followed much the same pattern in Egypt, where too it originally went hand in hand with baking...As early as the Pyramid Age five kinds of beer were noted...Indeed, it is considered that the ancient brewers probably made stronger beer than we now know, owing to the wild yeast which caused the fermentation that produced a greater alcohol content...Beer, to the Greeks and Romans, was a barbarian drink...The North European peoples of those days such as the Celts and the Germans did not yet know the wine-grape and the art of viticulture, so after the introduction of cereal agriculture their drink remained beer for a very long time." ---Food in Antiquity (p. 166-167) "...much of the artistic evidence of the early days of brewing in the Near East, the commencement of which we believe to be around 8,000 years ago, suggests a strong link with bread-making. This relationship seems to have been perpetuated by the time that the ancient Egyptians started to brew..." ---A History of Beer and Brewing, Ian S. Hornsey [RSC:Cambridge] 2003 (p. 10) Beer batter Our survey of country-specific cookbooks and beer history texts suggests beer batter, as we know it today, descends from northern Europe , possibly in the middle ages. Beer batter seems to gained popularity in the USA during the 1970s and 1980s. Several articles printed in the New York Times review restaurants featuring a variety of beer batter/deep fried vegetables and meats. Three of the most popular recipes are for onions, mushrooms and shrimp. "Beer is one of the world's most favorite drinks, and most Americans think of it as just that and nothing more. Curious, because it is by no means a novelty in cooking. In the |
Coming in various shades of amber, blue, brown, gray, green, hazel, and red, what portion of the eye is responsible for eye colors? | Human Eye Color Chart, With Fun Facts Human Eye Color Chart Like This Page? Please Share! Human eye color charts once were used to "predict" eye colors of children. In the most simplified versions of these charts, brown eyes are considered dominant over both blue and green eyes. And green eyes are thought to be dominant over blue eyes . While these concepts generally are true, the genetics of how eye colors are inherited turn out to be far more complicated than once thought. You can't simply determine the eye colors of grandparents and parents, then calculate the odds of what color a baby's eyes will be. In fact, you can belong to a family with many generations of brown-eyed individuals and still end up with green or blue eyes. Contrary to popular belief, it's also possible for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown-eyed child. Eye colors depend on the amount of pigment (melanin) found in the iris and how it is distributed. Light gray-blue eyes contain much less pigment than extremely dark brown eyes. And there are many shades of eye color in between. Some people are even born with eyes of two different colors, a condition known as heterochromia . Recommended For You TheraTears contains nutrients that match your natural tears. Get $2 off! Eye color percentages vary according to which population is studied. Obviously, the percentage of dark brown eyes found in Asian and African populations will be much higher than in European populations. And some day, blue may be a rare eye color. This is because more people now select mates outside usual cultural and ethic groups. So when a brown-eyed person marries someone with blue eyes, offspring are more likely to inherit the more dominant brown eyes. Example of a Human Eye Color Chart You can view examples of common human eye colors in the following chart, along with some fun facts. Home » Resources » Eye Color Chart References & Notes >> Don't it make my blue eyes brown: heterochromia and other abnormalities of the iris. Eye (The Scientific Journal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists; London). January 2012. [Page updated December 2015] Like This Page? Please Share! Recommended For You |
What Colorado census designated place was home to Columbine High School, home to the 1999 massacre perpetrated by a couple of major asshats? | Columbine High School massacre - Unionpedia, the concept map Yes, please No, thanks Columbine High School massacre The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the state of Colorado. [1] Beslan school siege The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or Beslan massacre) started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days and involved the capture of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children), ending with the death of 385 people. Blackjack Pizza Blackjack Pizza is a Colorado-based pizza delivery chain founded in 1983 by a former Domino's Pizza employee, Vince Schmuhl, because Domino's Pizza was the only major pizza delivery company in the Rocky Mountain region and he thought customers would appreciate an alternative. Blaming of Marilyn Manson for the Columbine massacre After the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, one dominant view was that the violent actions perpetrated by the shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, was due to violent influences in entertainment, specifically that in the music of Marilyn Manson. Expulsion (education) Expulsion, exclusion or withdrawing, refers to the removal/banning of a student from a school system or university for an extensive period amount of time due to a student persistently violating that institution's rules, or for a single offense of appropriate severity in extreme cases. Heart of America (film) Heart of America (also called Heart Of America: Home Room or simply Home Room; not to be confused with the 2002 film Home Room) is a 2002 drama film by German director Uwe Boll about a fictional school shooting in a suburban high school. Heart of America Foundation The Heart of America Foundation (also known as Heart of America or simply HOA) is a non-profit organization located in Washington, DC which has a national focus on providing students in need with the tools to read, succeed, and make a difference. Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is the fourth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released in November 2000 by Nothing and Interscope Records. The album marked a return to the industrial and alternative metal styles of the band's earlier efforts, after the modernized glam rock of Mechanical Animals. As their first release following the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999, Holy Wood was Marilyn Manson's rebuttal to accusations leveled against them in the wake of the shootings. The band's frontman, Marilyn Manson, described the record as "a declaration of war". A rock opera concept album, it is the final installment in a trilogy which includes Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals. After its release, Manson said that the overarching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order; Holy Wood, therefore, begins the narrative. It was written in the singer's former home in the Hollywood Hills and recorded in several undisclosed locations, including Death Valley and Laurel Canyon. At its release, Holy Wood received mixed-to-positive reviews; many critics noted that while ambitious, it fell short in execution. The album was not at first as commercially successful as the group's two previous releases, and took three years to receive a gold certification from the RIAA. Nevertheless, with worldwide sales of over nine million copies as of 2011, it has become one of the most successful of their career. It spawned three singles and an abandoned film project which was modified into the as-yet-unreleased Holy Wood novel. Marilyn Manson supported the album with the controversial Guns, God and Government Tour. On November 10, 2010, British rock magazine Kerrang! published a 10th-anniversary commemorative piece in which they called the album "Manson's finest hour... A decade on, there has still not been as eloquent and savage a musical attack on the media and mainstream culture... still s |
What disgraced former Cincinnati Reds baseball player is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053), and outs (10,328) | Pete Rose bet on baseball as player, notebook pages show | SI.com Pete Rose and Johnny Bench pose in the dugout during spring training in Tampa, Fla. Walter Iooss Jr./SI 1972 Rose shows off his trademark hustle during a spring training drill. By the start of the 1972 season, Rose was entering his 10th year with the Reds. He had also established himself as one of the game's best hitters, maintaining an average above .300 for seven straight years. Walter Iooss Jr./SI 1975 Rose poses during a SI cover shoot after leading the Reds to a World Series championship. Lane Stewart/SI 1975 Rose was the backbone of the Big Red Machine due to his hustle (including head-first slides) and his consistency at the plate. Heinz Kluetmeier/SI Rose with Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan of "The Big Red Machine." Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1976 Rose shows off his World Series ring outside the Plaza Hotel in New York. The 1976 Reds swept the Yankees 4-0 in the World Series and became the only team since the expansion of the playoffs (in 1969) to go undefeated in the postseason. New York Daily News/Getty Images 1978 Rose is honored at Shea Stadium after breaking the National League record for most consecutive games with a hit (44). Focus on Sport/Getty Images Rose fans clamor for his autograph. John Iacono/SI 1978 Rose was one of Cincinnati's most popular athletes, as evident by his bulging mailbox at Riverfront Stadium. Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1979 In 1979, the Phillies made Rose the highest-paid athlete in team sports when they signed him to a four-year, $3.2 million contract as a free agent. In Philadelphia, Rose joined a core of Larry Bowa, Mike Schmidt and Manny Trillo. The Phillies would go on to win the World Series the following season. Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1979 Rose tweaks the chin of six-year-old Mark McGraw as some of the Phillies and their sons got together during a spring training workout at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Fla. From left are Petey Rose, Mark McGraw, Aaron Boone and Brett Boone. Pitcher Tug McGraw (left) and catcher Bob Boone stand above the group. AP 1979 "Charlie Hustle" in action with the Phillies during a game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Heinz Kluetmeier/SI 1983 Rose and son Pete Jr. sit in the Phillies dugout. Though the Phillies reached the World Series in 1983, the season was a disappointment for Rose, who batted just .245 and lost his role as everyday starter. Heinz Kluetmeier/SI 1984 In 1984, Rose was given his release from the Phillies after he refused to accept a reserve role. He was signed to a one-year deal by the Expos. Heinz Kluetmeier/SI 1984 Rose tries on a Padres hat for size during a portrait session early in the 1984 season. Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1984 Despite his advanced age (43), Rose stayed in great shape and was traded to the Reds for infielder Tom Lawless in August 1984. He batted .365 for the remainder of the season. Heinz Kluetmeier/SI 1984 After being traded to the Reds, Rose took on the role of player-manager and led the team to a 19-22 record the remainder of the season. Ronald C. Modra/SI Rose takes notes before a Reds-Dodgers game at Riverfront Stadium. Ronald C. Modra/Sports Imagery/Getty Images 1985 Rose plays around with his one-year-old son, Tyler, before a game. By 1985, Rose had divorced his first wife (Kaarolyn Englehardt) and married Carol J. Woliung. The pair had Tyler shortly after their marriage. John Iacono/SI Rose and Carol Woliung play with Tyler at their home in Cincinnati. John Iacono/SI 1985 Rose lets the world know that he is No. 1 after connecting for his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's all-time record. AP Rose chats with Tommy Lasorda before a Reds-Dodgers game at Riverfront Stadium. Focus on Sport/Getty Images 1989 Despite his success on the field, Rose is best known for his banishment from baseball for gambling. The ruling came after the 225-page Dowd Report, which showed that Rose bet on Reds game while serving as the team's manager. Rose steadfastly denied these charges until 2004, when he published his autobiograph |
What company, the largest manufacturer of bb guns in the world, is famous for the Red Ryder line of lever action air rifles? | Daisy Outdoor Products Inc. - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Daisy Outdoor Products Inc. Daisy Outdoor Products Inc. - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Daisy Outdoor Products Inc. 400 West Stribling Road U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Daisy Outdoor Products is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of airguns, ammo and accessories. Each year we produce in excess of 5 million items, the bulk of which are airguns, the firm's specialty. In addition, Daisy works with a number of national youth organizations to provide young owners of Daisy products the opportunity to learn of the responsibility of gun ownership, through shooting education programs and also the excitement of national shooting competitions. History of Daisy Outdoor Products Inc. Daisy Outdoor Products Inc., based in Rogers, Arkansas, is the world's oldest and largest producer of air guns and air gun ammunition and accessories. Over its history, the private company has made almost 400 different models of BB and pellet guns and nearly 100 different models of toy guns. Although for a brief period it also manufactured a line of conventional firearms, today it primarily makes and markets air and gas propelled BB guns, air rifles, air pistols, CO2 pistols, and sling shots, all made and marketed with an eye to appealing to buyers of various ages and levels of experience. The company's most celebrated product is the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun, with over nine million sold since its introduction in 1940. In addition to its line of air guns and such accessories as targets and gun sights, the company offers an expanding line of Daisy-brand merchandise, including caps, T-shirts, clocks, tin signs, and a thermometer. Majority ownership of the company is now held by Charter Oak Capital Partners. 1880-88: Origins as the Plymouth Iron Windmill Co. Daisy had a rather inauspicious beginning, not as a maker of air rifles but of windmills. The company's founder, Clarence Hamilton, at some point before 1880, moved from his native state of Ohio to Plymouth, Michigan, and set up a watch repair shop in the left front window of a drug store owned by Roswald L. Root, whose store also accommodated the town's post office and the offices of its bank, the First National Bank of Plymouth. Although a watchmaker and jeweler by training, Hamilton was also an inventor and able tinkerer, set on trying out new ideas. One notion he came up with was an all metal, vaneless windmill, which, he thought, he could successfully manufacture and market. He soon had the backing of a group of local citizens, including Root and L.C. Hough, and in 1880 the fledgling company, the Plymouth Iron Windmill Co., went into production. The following year, Hamilton acquired a patent on his windmill, and thereafter, in 1882, secured the company's incorporation in Michigan, with a subscription of $30,000 in stock. In that year, too, the company bought 25 acres of land near downtown Plymouth and soon built a two-story, 8,000-square-foot building to house both the company's offices and its factory. Sales proved disappointing, and by January 1888 the company's investors were seriously thinking about liquidating and closing the business. However, after tabling a motion to do so, they made the decision to hang on for one more year. It proved a fortuitous move, thanks to one of Hamilton's newest gadgets--an air rifle--that he brought to a later board meeting. Air guns were not a complete novelty at the time, and Hamilton was certainly not the inventor of his type of air rifle. In fact, over a decade earlier, H.M. Quackenbush of Herkimer, New York, had started making air guns and is generally credited with developing the toy-type BB gun. Quackenbush started his business in 1872, after working for a time for Remington Arms. He first made and sold air pistols that he had patented the year before. His gun was cocked by pushing in its barrel, thereby compressing the gun's spring, a significant departure from methods used in e |
Leapin' lizards! Which comic strip, created by Harold Gray in 1924, is ending its 85 year run next month, which means dog Sandy is going to have to find another little red haired girl to hang around with? | Our (US) Heart Belongs to Daddy (Warbucks) Weekend Economists Salute the Old Man June 18-20, 2010 - Democratic Underground Our (US) Heart Belongs to Daddy (Warbucks) Weekend Economists Salute the Old Man June 18-20, 2010 Fri Jun-18-10 04:38 PM Original message Our (US) Heart Belongs to Daddy (Warbucks) Weekend Economists Salute the Old Man June 18-20, 2010 The word came to me from the Onion, of all places. Little Orphan Annie will cease publication this weekend, after 85 years of blind faith in America's corporate class. A brief history from Toonopedia: Distributed by: Chicago Tribune Syndicate First Appeared: 1925 Creator: Harold Gray The strip debuted on August 5, 1925...the idea of a self-reliant kid, alone against the world... "Gray's art style was stiff and primitive, and his characterizations unsubtle in the extreme. He has been accused, by almost everyone commenting on his work, of injecting a great deal of his very conservative political point of view into the strip. About the only thing he had going for him was an amazing ability to grab the reader's interest, drag him into the story, and make him come back the next day for another installment. But that's all a master storyteller � and Gray was a master � needs. The story formula was simple � rags to riches and back again, with a healthy dollop of homespun philosophy made up of grit, cheer, self-reliance, and good ol' pluck. The strip opened in an orphanage right out of Dickens, but within two months, Annie met Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, the self-made millionaire who introduced her to a life of ease and comfort. She and Daddy were soon separated, and Annie had to make her own way in the world, her only companion a large, nondescript dog named Sandy. Daddy came back into her life, but was soon gone again, in a cycle that Gray repeated over and over until his death in 1968. Whatever her station, Annie's spirit was unquenchable as she buckled down and did whatever it was that needed to be done, foiling any number of thugs, politicians, and other crooks along the way... Annie became a radio star in 1930, and remained on the air for 13 years. In 1932, she was the subject of her first movie, from RKO; and the second, from Paramount Pictures, followed six years later. Along with Dick Tracy, Terry & the Pirates and other Tribune Syndicate stars, she appeared in Dell's Super Comics from 1938-49; and scattered issues of her own Dell comic appeared from 1937-48. She was honored by appearing on a U.S. postage stamp in 1995, as were Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Rube Goldberg's inventions, and several other "Comic Strip Classics" . In 1977, she became the subject of a Broadway musical, titled Annie, which ran over 2,000 performances before it closed in 1983. In '82, that stage production formed the basis of her third movie. The play is still revived from time to time, most recently in a 1999 episode of the Walt Disney TV show. It even had a sequel, Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, which opened on Broadway in 1990. After Gray's death, several cartoonists tried to fill his shoes, but only he was capable of dishing up that peculiar mix of schmaltz and simple pragmatism without lapsing into self-parody. In 1974, the syndicate gave up, and simply started re-running old strips by Gray. Following her success on Broadway, however, the strip was revived, retooled and retitled. Under the name Annie, it was for two decades written and drawn by Leonard Starr, whose earlier strip, Mary Perkins On Stage, folded in 1979, just before he began his long run as Gray's successor. Starr drew an older Annie than Gray had (Gray's was perpetually 11 years old); and while making an attempt to capture something of Gray's style, did not do the strip as a slavish imitator of its creator. Starr retired in February, 2000. In June of that year, the new writer/artist team, Jay Maeder and Andrew Pepoy, gave Annie a complete makeover, maing her look almost like a denizen of the modern world." But WEE is more interested in Annie's Sugar Daddy, Oliver Warbucks, the obscenely wealthy, FDR-hating industria |
What ancient Egyptian artifact, discovered by the French in 1799, was instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, before eventually giving its name to a brand of computer language training software? | Rosetta Stone Replicas -- Own a full-size, 3-D replica -- Eight Innovations -- Courtesy of Rosetta Classic, LLC significance of this famous artifact. The �Rosetta Stone," as it is known, has become a metaphor... ...a metaphor for anything that is important to the process of decryption or the unraveling of a complex problem -- cracking a code of some sort. Perhaps even a universal metaphor for hope, creativity and perseverance for many who are trying to learn a new language, attempting to solve a relational puzzle, or seeking to decipher the cryptic issues of these tough economic times. Or, let's look at it from another perspective -- What if we have been able to "crack the code" to the development of what some might call the Rosetta Stone of replicas? ATTENTION: C-SUITE decision-makers in major companies. I am ready to email you a rather unique proposal for corporate sponsorship -- "The Mysterious Rosetta Stone" educational traveling exhibit for 7 years throughout America (6,000 sq.ft., 3 venues per year). Over $5M worth of branding and marketing at a fraction of the cost. Giant marketing footprint. We'll connect your company's brand to the rich history and drama surrounding the iconic Rosetta Stone. For more info: EMAIL Watch this unique 90 second "whiteboard" video... View from west bank of the Nile at the Ft. Rashid site (photo by Dr. Joel A. Freeman) The Rosetta Stone is much more than a roughly gouged, nicked rock that appears like it was shoved down the side of a mountain -- it is the key to an ancient civilization and a modern symbol of human discovery, conquest, and scholarship. Even if you are quite knowledgeable about the Rosetta Stone, perhaps you will learn some new things by the time you have finished reading this page. Plus, you just might know of someone who may want to own a stunning, museum-quality replica (45" tall x 30" wide x 11" thick, 95 lbs, 1:1) of the Rosetta Stone. You'll see the comparison between the real thing and the replica below, along with six distinctive & distinguishing features of this project. Review the eight innovations of the Rosetta Stone below, including a planned 3-D holographic image. You'll be pleasantly surprised. But first, let's take a step back in time... The Rosetta Stone was/is an irregularly shaped slab of granodiorite rock weighing about 1,700 pounds. The face has 14 lines of hieroglyphs (It is estimated that there were 29 lines prior to breakage), 32 lines of cursive Demotic, and, at the bottom, 54 lines of ancient Greek (language introduced after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great). All proclaim the same message (feel free to read it later). Historian, Richard Moore states, "The French attempt to exert influence over Egypt was due to economics, a political need to weaken Britain and the personal needs of General Napoleon Bonaparte, who saw the shadow of unemployment - and a loss of influence - looming as his armies in Italy were nearing the end of their successful struggles against Austria. Having seen the benefits of Britain's profitable colonies, France's Directory listened to Bonaparte's idea to invade Egypt, expel the ruling Marmalukes and establish a modern style of government friendly toward French ways." The Napoleonic Egyptian Campaign started in 1798. In 1799, as French soldiers were preparing to build the foundation for |
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