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What is the planet that Superman came from?

What Planet did Superman originally come from? - thinkypedia.com What Planet did Superman originally come from? thefbi answers: Krypton is a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe. No longer in existence, it is the native world of the superheroes Superman and Supergirl. Named after the chemical element krypton, the planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics #1 (June 1938); the planet was given its first full-fledged appearance in Superman (volume 1) #1 (1939). Krypton exploded as a result of highly unstable geological conditions. As originally depicted, the entire civilization and race of Krypton perished in the explosion, except for one survivor: the baby Kal-El, who was placed in an escape rocket by his father, Jor-El, and sent to the planet Earth, where Kal-El grew up to become Superman. In some versions of the Superman mythos, a few additional survivors, such as Krypto the Superdog, Supergirl, and the criminal inhabitants of the Phantom Zone, were also survivors of the cataclysm. (answers.com)

If you were going to examine a horse to determine its age, at what body part would you look?

How to Tell the Approximate Age of a Horse by Its Teeth By Katherine Blocksdorf Updated October 03, 2016. Telling a horse's age by its teeth is not 100% accurate, but it will give you an approximate range if you don't know the horse's actual date of birth. The younger the horse, the closer the teeth will match its real age. As horses age, a number of factors can affect the condition of the teeth and make it more difficult to estimate age. Things like basic maintenance , diet, grazing conditions, vices and genetics all play a role in how the horse's teeth themselves are aging. Baby Horse Teeth Foals get their first milk or deciduous teeth shortly after birth. The final milk teeth are grown in by the time the foal is about nine months old. The first permanent teeth begin to grow in when the horse is between two and three years old. It's not unusual for a horse owner to find a shed tooth in a feeder or on the ground. The milk teeth are shed gradually, and all of the permanent teeth are grown in by around age five. Milk teeth are paler in color and shorter than permanent teeth. Adult Horse Teeth The new permanent teeth are quite concave on their surfaces and these 'cups' along with the angle, shape and a groove on the outer vertical surface that gradually grows out, called Galyvane's groove, are the indicators of how old a horse might be. As the horse wears its teeth by grazing, the concave surfaces are worn flatter. By the time a horse is about eleven years old, it will have worn its teeth flat. How quickly this happens depends upon the type of grazing it has. Horses that graze grass on sandy ground will wear their teeth flatter than those fed only hay grown on clay type soil. At about age ten, Galvayne's groove begins to appear at the gum line. This groove will continue to grow out so that reaches the entire length of the tooth. By about age fifteen, the groove will reach half-way down the tooth. By the time a horse is in its mid-twenties the Galvayne's grove begins to disappear from the gum line, and if the horse lives long enough will disappear completely as the tooth naturally wears away.   Senior Horse Teeth As the horse ages, the angle of the teeth increases. The milk teeth are short and straight as are the newly erupted permanent teeth but as the horse ages, the teeth become more angled. This is where the saying 'long in the tooth' comes from, because as the angle increases, so does that length from gum line to chewing surface. The teeth also change in shape from oval, to more angular as the horse ages. The color of the teeth will probably be quite yellowed and stained. At some point after their late twenties, a horse may start losing teeth. Horse's teeth don't really grow for their whole lives, but have a lifespan of their own. As the horse loses more teeth, its health may suffer. It may be less able to chew tougher hays and grasses and require a diet tailored for older horses . Extra Horse Teeth Some horses may grow wolf teeth and tushes or canines , extra teeth that grow in the toothless bar of the horse's mouth between the front teeth and back. Sometimes these teeth may have to be removed if they interfere with the bit. These teeth usually come in by the time the horse is five years of age. Some horses will not have them, or for some, they may not be a problem. Care of Horse Teeth Because horse's teeth grow throughout most of their lifespan and may not wear evenly, your horse will need to be checked by a veterinarian or equine dentist about once per year. Your horse may need to be floated , removing any sharp edges or hooks that will prevent him from chewing properly and holding a bit or wearing a hackamore comfortably. Detailed Diagrams and Explanations of Horse Teeth While this is a general description of aging horses by their teeth, several university agricultural extensions have detailed fact sheets with diagrams that show horse's teeth at every stage of life. The PDF file from the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is quite good and easy to print out so you can take it to the barn and compare picture

What is the most common eye color in human beings?

Eye Color Guide - The Most Common Eye Colors Swimming Goggles Eye Color Guide - The Most Common Eye Colors The human eye is both beautiful and unique. Much like a fingerprint, each individual's eye color is specific only to them, with no others sharing the same shape, color and appearance. So what eye colors are the most common, and which are the rarest? What is the most common eye color? Which eye color is the rarest? Brown Eyes Brown eyes are the most common eye color in the world with over 55% of the world's population having brown eyes. Brown eye color is a dominant genetic trait, and is created by the presence of melanin in the eye. Over fifty percent of the world's population has brown eyes, with nearly all individuals from Africa and Asia sharing brown eye color. Brown eyes are typically darker than other eye colors, and they may even appear black in certain individuals. Hazel Eyes Hazel eyes are similar to brown eyes, although they are typically lighter in color, and have more of a green-yellow tint. Hazel eyes have a higher concentration of melanin (pigment) around the eye's border, which can result in a multi-colored appearance that varies between copper and green depending on the lighting. Most people estimate that around 5-8% of the world's population has hazel colored eyes. Blue Eyes Blue eyes are genetically recessive, and therefore much less common worldwide. Blue eyes are formed by the absence of pigments in the eye, where the blue color is formed by the scattering of light as it's reflected off the iris. While blue eyes are less common than brown eyes, they are frequently found from nationalities located near the Baltic sea in northern Europe. It's estimated that approximately 8% of the world's population has blue eyes. Green Eyes Green eye color is often confused with hazel eye color, yet is entirely separate and distinct. Green eye color is the rarest color found around the world, and it is estimated that only around 2% of the world's population has green colored eyes. Green eye color is a result of a mild amount of pigmentation in the eye with a golden tint. When combined with the natural blue scattering of the eye, the colors mix to give a green appearance. Green eye color is most common in northern and central Europe, but can also be found in western Asian cultures on rare occasion. Silver Eyes Silver eye color is also quite rare, although many consider silver eyes to be a variation of blue eye color. Like blue eyes, silver eyes are the result of a very low amount of pigmentation in the eye, which reflects a gray-silver appearance. Silver eye color is most common in eastern European countries, and is one of the rarer eye colors worldwide. Amber Eyes Amber eyes show off a yellow-copper tone, which results from the yellow colored pigment lipochrome. Amber eyes are very rare worldwide, and are most common in Asia and South American countries. Amber eye color can range from golden yellow to a more copper tone. Overall... if there is one thing we can agree on, it's that all eyes are unique and beautiful. Additionally, thanks to colored contact lenses , it's possible to change your eye color even if you were born with a common brown. Also, make sure to check out our Freshlook Contact Lenses , which are the most popular, and most widely recommended colored contact lens available.

Oct 7, 2001 saw the start of the war in Afghanistan, which is known as what?

How The War In Afghanistan Began - Business Insider print U.S. President George W. Bush sits after announcing that the U.S. and Britain had started bombing Afghanistan, in the Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, October 7, 2001 Reuters Photographer/REUTERS On October 7, 2001, 13 years ago today, the US launched its opening attacks against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The still-ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom, which is now the longest continuous war in American history , had begun. Then-president President George W. Bush announced the beginning of the US's war in Afghanistan at 1 pm eastern time that day, a Sunday. He  stat ed  that "on my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan." A day before the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair assured his public that any military involvement in Afghanistan would be tightly focused. The prime minister  ruled out  attacks against other nations involved in the planning of terrorism.  The first day of the war saw targeted airstrikes carried out by US and British forces against key pieces of Taliban infrastructure. Some of the targets bombed included training camps, defensible positions, and communications equipment. France, Germany, Australia and Canada  provided  further logistical support for the conflict's first bombing runs. Tomahawk cruise missile is launched from the USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) in a strike against al Qaeda training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, October 7, 2001. Reuters Photographer/REUTERS Newsweek  reported  on October 7, 2001 that three US Aegic cruisers and one destroyer in the Arabian Sea launched over 50 missiles against Taliban positions in Afghanistan. These attacks were complemented by the launch of Tomahawk cruise missiles from British and American submarines. Simultaneously, F/A-18s, B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s conducted bombing runs over Taliban positions.  As airstrikes began against Taliban positions, Bush said that the US was also undertaking humanitarian aid drops in an attempt to reassure the local population of America's good intentions.  "As we strike military targets, we will also drop food, medicine and supplies to the starving and suffering men and women and children of Afghanistan," Bush said in his address.  US ground forces for what would turn into an over decade-long fight against the Taliban were not fully in place. The New York Times  published  on October 6, 2001 that only a few dozen special forces operatives were deployed throughout the region in preparation for the coming assault on the Taliban's centers of power.  In addition to these limited number of special forces,  one thousand  US soldiers specially trained for mountain warfare were in place in Uzbekistan at the start of operations. The early rounds of US on-the-ground fighting on October 7th, 2001 involved US personnel fighting alongside soldiers from the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban group in Northern Afghanistan pushing south against the extremist regime's front lines.  A Northern Alliance soldier shoots a machine gun on the front line near the town of Alti Hoja in the north of Afghanistan, October 7, 2001. Afghan opposition forces fighting the ruling Taliban said on Sunday they had seized 11 villages in the central province of Ghor and were advancing on the provincial capital Cheghcharan. Reuters Photographer/REUTERS With the announcement of the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, Bush signaled that it would be a long, drawn-out conflict that would require "patience in all the sacrifices that may come."  The operation continues thirteen years later. When Kabul fell to coalition forces on November 13th, 2001, few could have expected that Operation Enduring Freedom — which had fulfilled one of its prime objectives in a matter of weeks — would become A

Lasting anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes, what are the intervals that make up a boxing match called?

Kettlebell Circuits for MMA, BJJ, and Martial Arts | Breaking Muscle Kettlebell Circuits for MMA, BJJ, and Martial Arts Coach          It is very easy to get lost in the moment during the tense theater of battle while watching a Brazilian jiu jitsu competition, boxing match, or mixed martial arts event. Competing martial artists generally practice their skills and train for hundreds of hours longer than their matches ever last, and the number of different training modalities necessary to be successful can be overwhelming. Conditioning the martial arts athlete might not be as easy as it seems at first and there are many schools of thought.   The martial arts athlete should be very wise when implementing any strength and conditioning training that does not directly involve enhancing specific combat skills. As a strength and conditioning coach for several MMA fighters, I have always lived by the philosophy that the training I do with these athletes should only enhance all of their other training. Most competitive combat sport athletes train at least twice a day and I have found that too many strength coaches overwork these athletes, as if it was another 10-round sparring session. Or, even worse, coaches implement ineffective conditioning programs that do not benefit the athlete or add to their overall training. I am not here to break down my athletes, or even more importantly, waste their time. I have to give them exactly what they need to complement their skills to be successful in competition.   Conditioning for the combat athlete is not exactly simple. These athletes need to have a balance between quick, explosive, and repetitive strength production, as well as have the endurance capacity to maintain these qualities over a match lasting anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes. Some coaches like implementing long runs. Though these runs might be effective for a completely unconditioned athlete who needs to create a foundation, if used too much you will have a weak and non-explosive athlete. On the other hand, if you solely concentrate on explosive work, such as Olympic lifting, you have an explosive athlete with little stamina, who better connect with the first couple of punches or else he/she is going to gas out and become a human punching bag for the opponent.   So, it sounds like an impossible task to train for both explosive strength and endurance and to do it without running your athlete to the ground. It can be accomplished, though, and one of the best tools I have found for the job is using the kettlebell for training circuits. By manipulating different weights, using dynamics exercises, and varying time intervals, kettlebells allow the combat athlete to be strong, explosive, and have a high level of endurance to maintain those qualities over the course of their match.   In this article I am going to show you how I use kettlebell circuits with my athletes. You do not need to train or even be a combat athlete to enjoy the benefits of these circuits. All you need is a kettlebell or two and the desire to get better.   When I create and customize kettlebell circuits for combat athletes there are a few concepts I consider when incorporating them into the athlete’s overall program:   Kettlebell exercises should be multi-joint movements that enhance athletic movements, like squats, lunges, and swings. Circuit times should be around a 2:1 work to rest ratio. I prefer 20-60 seconds of work and 10-30 seconds of rest. I also like to make the total circuit times replicate the rounds for their competition. For example, if a round in competition is 3 minutes then the circuit total time should be around 3 minutes of work as well. Each exercise should be safe to perform at a continuous and fast rate. The exercise selection should be balanced and organized properly. You want to incorporate double joint movements (squats, deadlifts, 2-arm swings) with unilateral (single-sided) movements as well (lunges, Romanian deadlifts, and 1-arm swings).   Below are some examples of strength and conditioning circuits I use to get my athletes in s

What is the name of former Beatle Paul McCartney's fashion designing daughter?

Paul McCartney Late To Daughter’s Fashion Show In Paris Paul McCartney Late To Daughter’s Fashion Show In Paris Dan Evon Paul McCartney was late to his daughter’s fashion show in Paris today. But don’t worry, the former Beatles member didn’t miss any of Stella McCartney’s fall-winter show. The young designer held her models backstage until Sir Paul was properly seated. According to the Seattle Times, the show started about a half hour late due to McCartney’s tardiness. The audience, which included U2 singer Bono, may have been a little upset by the shows delayed start but when they saw sir Paul walk across the stage all was forgiven. Reuters reports that McCartney walked across the stage singing “walk, walk, walk like a model” as he found his way to his seat. Paul McCartney may have been late to the show but he was glad that he made it. The former Beatle said that he thought Stella’s line was “beautiful.” Paul said: “I thought it was beautiful. Very strong, very clean.” Paul wasn’t the only one who thought that Stella’s show was a hit. The LA Times called it a knockout, saying that Stella’s line was “sophisticated” and “wearable” with a “practical femininity.” — Stella McCartney (@StellaMcCartney) March 4, 2013 Woman’s Wear Daily reports that Stella’s collection played with gender roles and pinstripes to create something “utterly engaging.” WWD writes: “Part of the appeal was that she pretty much extracted the androgyny; her chalky stripes may be the ancestral cloth of the lords of banking, but she delivered them with no small measure of distaff allure.” McCartney said after the show that she was trying to inject femininity into classic British tailoring. Stella said: “It’s that British tradition and classic tailoring – timeless pieces but redirected, injecting femininity, a curve, an insert as movement,” Here are some photos from Stella McCartney’s Winter 2013 collection. Paul McCartney Late To Daughter’s Fashion Show In Paris stella mccartney fashion stella mccartney plaid stella mccartney This isn’t the first time that Paul McCartney has attended one of his daughter’s shows. In fact, Sir Paul can frequently be seen admiring his daughter’s work as the models walk down the runway. After attending a Paris show a few years ago, Paul said: “I think she’s come a long way. It’s very chic and very modern and stylish. And I don’t think I would look very good in it at all. But I think it’s all very beautiful. She makes women look great.” Here’s a video of Paul and Stella at the fashion show from a few years ago.

How many yards wide is a professional football field?

Length of a Football Field (American) - The Physics Factbook Length of a Football Field (American) Safonov, Alexei. Physics 218 [ppt]. University of California. "1 football field = 100 yards" 91.44 m "The field measures 100 yards long and 53 yards wide." 91.44 m "Football." The Wonderland of Knowledge. 6th ed. Wonderland of Knowledge Corporation, 1954. "The game is played on a field 100 yards long and 160 feet wide." 91.44 m "Length:360 feet or 120 yards Width: 160 feet of 53 ⅓ yards" 109.73 m (with end zones) Stern, Hal S. American Football [pdf]. Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. December 24, 1997 "American football, which we shall call football from this point on, is played by two teams on a field 100 yards long with each team defending one of the two ends of the field (called goal lines)." 91.44 m (without end zones) "Let's get a football game started." If you were to say that to a European, holding a pigskin (another name for a football), they might look at you funny: just as you would look at them if they came to you holding a soccer ball. The reason for this is that although the word may be the same, its meaning is totally different. To American football is a word we all know; referring to a sport where 22 guys in uniform try to get the football past the opposing teams goal line. However, in Europe football is actually played with your feet and you try to kick the ball into the other teams net: We like to call that "soccer". In America, the rules of football are pretty complicated. You get four downs (or chances) to progress every 10 yards (9.1 m); which is easier said than done. If you fail to do so, the ball is turned over to the other team and they make a go for your goal line. It becomes pretty difficult to score when you have 11 steroid induced men running at you with the intention of knocking you to the ground. However, if you do happen to score, that is called a touchdown awarding you six points and a chance for a seventh which is acquired through goal kick. The field on which this enticing game is played is: 100 yards (91.4 m) long and 160 feet (48.8 m) wide plus 10 yards (9.1 m) on each end for the end zones. The position where you catch the ball (usually near your goal line) to the opposing goal line is a long way to go, and with the ovoid shape of the ball it becomes extremely difficult to regain possession once it has been lost because the ball bounces around in every which way. For those who can follow, the game is exhilarating both to watch and play. As for those who can't, there's always golf. Aleksandr Rozovskiy -- 2008 91.4 m (w/o end zone) When you hear the word football, what do you think about? A bunch of short skinny guys running around, trying to kick a round ball into a huge goal and ending up in a one-one tie? If you're an American, football means something more, much more. Twenty-two enormous guys wearing helmets and shoulder pads running at each other at full speed and colliding with a huge bang. That's what Americans think when they hear the word football, not that boring sport England calls football. Scoring in football is not easy. Your offensive team of eleven has four chances to gain 10 yards. If you gain the ten yards, you get another four chances to earn ten yards, until you either give the ball up to the other team, or score the six points. Football has many complicated rules, and for many, is impossible to understand and enjoy. But for those who do understand and love the game, they can tell you football is not just any sport. It's rough, tough, and most of the time, extremely violent. The rectangular field is 160 feet (48.5 m) wide and 360 feet (109.1 m) in length (53.3 yards, 120 yards respectively), including the two 10 yard (9.2 m) end zones. If you know the rules of the game, then you should know how hard it is to gain just one yard. Grasping onto the oval pebble-grained leather pigskin, you attempt to push your team closer to the end zone. If you think it's so easy to gain a yard or two, suit up and try to get

What type of food is Nori, which is often seen around sushi?

Sushi types News Types of sushi The common ingredient across all  kinds of sushi  is vinegared  sushi rice . Variety arises from fillings, toppings, condiments, and preparation. Traditional versus contemporary methods of assembly may create very different results from very similar ingredients. In spelling sushi, its first letter s is replaced with z when a prefix is attached, as in nigirizushi, due to  consonant mutation  called  rendaku  in Japanese.   Chirashizushi Chirashizushi (ちらし寿司, “scattered sushi”) is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of  sashimi  and garnishes (also refers to barazushi). Edomae chirashizushi ( Edo -style scattered sushi) is an uncooked ingredient that is arranged artfully on top of the sushi rice in a bowl. Gomokuzushi (Kansai-style sushi) consists of cooked or uncooked ingredients mixed in the body of rice in a bowl. There is no set formula for the ingredients; they are either chef’s choice or specified by the customer. It is commonly eaten because it is filling, fast and easy to make. Chirashizushi often varies regionally. It is eaten annually on  Hinamatsuri  in March.   Inarizushi Inarizushi (稲荷寿司) is a pouch of  fried tofu  typically filled with sushi rice alone. It is named after the Shinto god  Inari , who is believed to have a fondness for fried tofu. The pouch is normally fashioned as deep-fried tofu (油揚げ,abura age). Regional variations include pouches made of a thin omelette (帛紗寿司, fukusa-zushi, or 茶巾寿司,chakin-zushi). It should not be confused with inari maki, which is a roll filled with flavored fried tofu. A version of inarizushi that includes  green beans ,  carrots , and  gobo  along with rice, wrapped in a triangular aburage (fried tofu) piece, is a  Hawaiian specialty , where it is called cone sushi and is often sold in okazu-ya (Japanese  delis ) and as a component of  bento  boxes   Makizushi Makizushi (巻き寿司, “rolled sushi”), Norimaki (海苔巻き, “ Nori  roll”) or Makimono (巻物, “variety of rolls”) is a cylindrical piece, formed with the help of a bamboo mat, called a  makisu  (巻簾). Makizushi is generally wrapped in  nori  (seaweed), but is occasionally wrapped in a thin  omelette , soy paper, cucumber, or shiso (perilla) leaves. Makizushi is usually cut into six or eight pieces, which constitutes a single roll order. Below are some common types of makizushi, but many other kinds exist.   Futomaki (太巻, “thick, large or fat rolls”) is a large cylindrical piece, with nori on the outside. A typical futomaki is five to six centimeters (2–2.5 in) in diameter. They are often made with two, three, or more fillings that are chosen for their complementary tastes and colors. During the evening of the  Setsubun  festival, it is traditional in the  Kansai region  to eat uncut futomaki in its cylindrical form, where it is called ehō-maki (恵方巻, lit. happy direction rolls). By 2000 the custom had spread to all of Japan. Futomaki are often vegetarian, and may utilize strips of cucumber,  kampyō  gourd, takenoko  bamboo shoots , or  lotus root . Strips of  tamagoyaki   omelette , tiny fish  roe , chopped tuna, and  whitefish  flakes are typical non-vegetarian fillings.   Hosomaki (細巻, “thin rolls”) is a small cylindrical piece, with the nori on the outside. A typical hosomaki has a diameter of about two and a half centimeters (1 in).They generally contain only one filling, often tuna, cucumber, kanpyō, thinly sliced carrots, or, more recently, avocado. Kappamaki, (河童巻) a kind ofHosomaki filled with cucumber, is named after the Japanese legendary water imp fond of cucumbers called the  kappa . Traditionally, Kappamaki is consumed to clear the palate between eating raw fish and other kinds of food, so that the flavors of the fish are distinct from the tastes of other foods. Tekkamaki (鉄火巻) is a kind of Hosomaki filled with raw tuna. Although it is believed that the name “Tekka”, meaning ‘red hot iron’, alludes to the color of the tuna flesh or salmon flesh, it actually originated as a quick snack to eat in gambling dens called “Tekkaba” (鉄火場), much like the  sandwich . Negitoromaki (ねぎとろ巻) is

Daimler, Siemens, and chemical company BASF are all based in what country?

BASF | UANI BASF [email protected] Sources: According to its own reporting as of 2013, BASF maintained two wholly-owned subsidiaries in Iran, BASF Iran (PJS) Company and BASF Polyurethanes Pars (PJS) Company. (BASF Website, “ BASF Report 2013: BASF Group List of Shares Held 2013 pursuant to Section 313(2) of the German Commercial Code ”)  -- Burkhard Weimer, Managing Director at BASF Polyurethanes Pars, is listed as a member of the Board of Directors of the German-Iran Chamber of Commerce. (Deutsche-Iranische Industrie-unde-Handelskammer, “ Board of AHK Iran ”; LinkedIn, “ Burkhard Wiemer: Managing Director at BASF Polyurethanes Pars ,” accessed 4/22/14) -- "Islamic Republic of Iran Ambassador to Berlin Ali-Reza Sheikh-Attar said here Thursday despite the unjustly imposed western sanctions the economic relations of Iran and Germany have grown well on a continuous process... Several renowned German companies are involved in major Iranian infrastructure projects, especially in the petrochemical sector, like Linde, BASF, Lurgi, Krupp, Siemens, ZF Friedrichshafen, Mercedes, Volkswagen and MAN." (Zawya, " Envoy: Iran-Germany Economic Ties Growing Well Despite Sanctions ," 7/11/2013) -- "BASF first started doing business in Iran in 1959, a spokesman for the company said.  He said the company continues to operate in the country  and that it monitors its business activities in Iran to assure compliance with all legal requirements and trade regulations. The company also has sold chemical products to the United States military." The company has received $12.7 million in revenue and benefits from the US government for their investments in Iran during 2000-2009.  The company's business in Iran is currently active. (The New York Times, " Profiting from Iran, and the US ," 3/6/2010) -- "Germany's trade ties to Iran stretch back to the Middle Ages, and many of the companies currently there have been active in Iran for decades. Some 85 German companies have operations in Iran, from chemical maker BASF AG to Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Bayer AG, and others such as Linde AG and Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG are active there, according to the Hamburg-based German-Iranian Chamber of Commerce. More than 7,000 companies conduct business there through local representatives. Germany has become such a big trading partner for Iran because so many of its companies provide the machinery and engineering prowess Iran needs to improve its infrastructure." (The Wall Street Journal, " German Firms Feel Pressure Over Tehran Trade ," 10/3/09) -- "Several renowned German companies are involved in major Iranian infrastructure projects, especially in the petrochemical sector, like Linde, BASF, Lurgi, Krupp, Siemens, ZF Friedrichshafen, Mercedes, Volkswagen and MAN." (Payvand Iran News, " Iranian exports to Germany rose 50% last year ," 12/8/08) -- Listed by U.S. Government as doing business in Iran. (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, List of Companies Doing Business With State Sponsors Of Terror, Removed from the Internet in July 2007) Response:

The Proboscis Monkey is known for its very long what?

Proboscis Monkey - Mammals Mammals Follow It's Nature on Facebook Proboscis Monkey Also known as the Monyet Belanda, Bangkatan, or even the Long-nosed Monkey, the Proboscis Monkey is an arboreal Old World monkey. The monkey is most well known for its very large nose as well as its reddish brown color. The nose is the first thing to be seen on this monkey and that is because it is unlike any other primate nose that you will see. The unique nose, measuring up to seven inches in length, is only seen on the males and is thought to have something to do with a mating ritual. The nose does more than attract mates, it also swells with blood when the animal is angry or upset and makes warning calls louder and much more intense than other species. The Proboscis Monkey The males of this species are much larger than the females with the males being as large as 72 centimeters in length while the females are smaller at just 60 centimeters. The males usually weigh about 53 pounds and the females usually weigh in at about 25 pounds. The size difference of the Proboscis Monkey is the largest of any primate species. Habitat The Proboscis Monkey can most often be found in Borneo’s mangrove forests, swamps, and even the lowland riparian forests. The primates are known to move easily between dry land and shallow water and they even swim in deep water. What makes these primates unusual is that they move about from island to island, and in doing so they are often seen walking upright in a single file line. These monkeys basically move from area to area as they see the need to meet feeding and shelter needs. Diet The Long-Nosed Proboscis Monkey The Proboscis Monkey is known for the size of its belly and that is due in large part to what they eat. Because of what the primates eat, its digestive system is broken into compartments where bacteria digest cellulose and do away with toxins that the monkeys ingest from certain foods. This digestive system allows for the species to remain in the forest canopy and feed on plants that would otherwise make them quite ill. Because of the makeup of the digestive system, the contents of the Proboscis Monkey’s stomach make up for a quarter of their weight! One downfall of the system is that these primates are not able to digest ripe fruit; therefore they eat mostly seeds, leaves, mangrove shoots, and unripe fruits. Despite their ability to remain in the canopies of the rainforest the monkeys are often found swimming and are therefore picked up by fishermen and kept as pets or even captured for their skins. Due to hunting and the loss of natural habitat, there are only about 7,000 of them left the world over. The species is listed as endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’ red list. As a result, these monkeys should be protected and their habitat respected. Proboscis Monkey Image Gallery See what you can find... derzree its amazing how many animals i do not know.this is to thank you this website what a privilege to able to know and learn much about nature wow keep them out of cages! Sara The Proboscis monkey is SO awesome I even picked it to do on my report they are so interesting and what’s cool is no one even knows about them! sunraj I am very very happy Super, r.santhosh it very super, any new natural picture please send to my e.mail Yvonne Love your pics. Too bad I couldn’t get clear shots of these monkeys the last time I went to Kalimantan. So, can I use your close-up pics of them? Tried to click on ‘contact us’ but wasn’t able to get through. :S jeanea this monkey is so cute! i ust learned this website today mujahid ali khan i have never seen such ugly animals athirah i love this pic…this animal is so interesting and we should protect them like we protect ourselves…. Reagan The monkey reminds me of Squidward from Spongebob! It’s so cute in its own way! isha squidward in mammals version. hahahahaha, they are absolutely adorable.. You May Also Like...

What is the name of the anti-slavery novel written by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852?

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Harriet Beecher Stowe A+E Networks Introduction Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Beecher was the seventh child of the Reverend Lyman Beecher, a Congregational minister and moral reformer, and Roxanna Foote Beecher. She was schooled at the Pierce Academy and at her sister Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary, where she also taught. She moved with the family to Cincinnati in 1832, when her father was appointed president of Lane Theological Seminary. The spectacle of chattel slavery across the Ohio River in Kentucky and its effects on the acquiescent commercial interests of white Cincinnati moved her deeply. Google In 1836, she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, professor of biblical literature at Lane. The death of a son in 1849 led her away from her father’s Calvinism and gave supremacy in her views to the redemptive spirit of Christian love. By 1850, the family had moved to Maine , where, in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of that year, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), her most celebrated work. Sentimental and realistic by turns, the novel explored the cruelties of chattel slavery in the Upper and Lower South and exposed the moral ironies in the legal, religious, and social arguments of white apologists. The immense impact of the novel (it sold 300,000 copies in its first year) was unexpected. Antislavery fiction had never sold well; Stowe was not an established writer, and few would have expected a woman to gain a popular hearing on the great political question of the day. Some female abolitionists had shocked decorum in the 1840s by speaking at public gatherings, but they were widely resented. The success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin went far toward legitimizing, if not indeed creating, a role for women in public affairs. To the dismay of many northern radicals, Uncle Tom’s Cabin casually endorsed colonization rather than abolition. In fact, Stowe was unconcerned about the tactics that made slavery a political issue: for her, the problem was religious and emotional, and one that women were best equipped to confront. Her stated purpose, “to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race” and to urge that readers “feel right” about the issue, belongs to a feminist and utopian agenda that contemporary readers were slow to recognize. In the South, the book was read as sectional propaganda; in the North, it was read as a compelling moral romance. Although Stowe blamed the slave system itself as “the essence of all abuse” rather than the slaveholders and deliberately made its chief villain, Simon Legree, a displaced New Englander, the novel’s effect was to exacerbate regional antagonisms. Indeed, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which called forth anti-Tom novels from southern writers, so raised the temperature of the dialogue that Lincoln would later, half-seriously, apportion to Stowe some responsibility for starting the Civil War. Notable among Stowe’s subsequent works are A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853), documenting her case against slavery; Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856), also on slavery; and The Minister’s Wooing (1859), a historical novel that attacks Calvinism. Stowe also wrote realistic regional fiction, including The Pearl of Orr’s Island (1861), which influenced Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Her miscellaneous writings include Lady Byron Vindicated (1870), which created an international sensation by charging Lord Byron with incest, and Palmetto Leaves (1873), written at her winter home in Florida , which encouraged a Florida land boom. Thomas F. Gossett, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture (1985); Eric J. Sundquist, ed., New Essays on Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1986); Forrest Wilson, Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1941). ALBERT J. VONFRANK The Reader’s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. The groundbreaking series reimagined. ROOTS premieres Memorial Day at 9/8c on HISTORY. Tags

Disc, drum, and air are all types of what?

Comments View Full Screen Brake technology, just like suspension technology and fuel-system technology, has come a long way in recent years. What began in the '60s as a serious attempt to provide adequate braking for performance cars has ended in an industry where brakes range from supremely adequate to downright phenomenal. The introduction of components like carbon fiber, sintered metal and lightweight steel, along with the adoption of ABS, have all contributed to reduced stopping distances and generally safer vehicles (though ABS continues to provide controversy). One of the first steps taken to improve braking came in the early '70s when manufacturers, on a widespread scale, switched from drum to disc brakes. Since the majority of a vehicle's stopping power is contained in the front wheels, only the front brakes were upgraded to disc during much of this period. Since then, many manufacturers have adopted four-wheel disc brakes on their high-end and performance models as well as their low-line economy cars. Occasionally, however, as in the case of the 1999 Mazda Protege's, a manufacturer will revert from a previous four-wheel disc setup to drum brakes for the rear of the car in order to cut both production costs and purchase price. Why are disc brakes better than drum and how much, if any, loss of braking occurs when using rear drum brakes on a modern car? That's what we're going to find out in this edition of Tech Center. Friction and Heat Before you can appreciate the difference between drum and disc brakes, you have to understand the common principles that both systems use when stopping a car: friction and heat. By applying resistance, or friction, to a turning wheel, a vehicle's brakes cause the wheel to slow down and eventually stop, creating heat as a byproduct. The rate at which a wheel can be slowed depends on several factors including vehicle weight, braking force and total braking surface area. It also depends heavily on how well a brake system converts wheel movement into heat (by way of friction) and, subsequently, how quickly this heat is removed from the brake components. This is where the difference between drum brakes and disc brakes becomes pronounced. Drum Brakes Early automotive brake systems, after the era of hand levers of course, used a drum design at all four wheels. They were called drum brakes because the components were housed in a round drum that rotated along with the wheel. Inside was a set of shoes that, when the brake pedal was pressed, would force the shoes against the drum and slow the wheel. Fluid was used to transfer the movement of the brake pedal into the movement of the brake shoes, while the shoes themselves were made of a heat-resistant friction material similar to that used on clutch plates. This basic design proved capable under most circumstances, but it had one major flaw. Under high braking conditions, like descending a steep hill with a heavy load or repeated high-speed slow downs, drum brakes would often fade and lose effectiveness. Usually this fading was the result of too much heat build-up within the drum. Remember that the principle of braking involves turning kinetic energy (wheel movement) into thermal energy (heat). For this reason, drum brakes can only operate as long as they can absorb the heat generated by slowing a vehicle's wheels. Once the brake components themselves become saturated with heat, they lose the ability to halt a vehicle, which can be somewhat disconcerting to the vehicle's operator. Disc Brakes Though disc brakes rely on the same basic principles to slow a vehicle (friction and heat), their design is far superior to that of drum brakes. Instead of housing the major components within a metal drum, disc brakes use a slim rotor and small caliper to halt wheel movement. Within the caliper are two brake pads, one on each side of the rotor, that clamp together when the brake pedal is pressed. Once again, fluid is used to transfer the movement of the brake pedal into the movement of the brake pads. But unlike drum brakes, which allow heat to build up i

What is the trademarked name for the distinctive logo used Nike?

Trademark Definition | Investopedia Trademark What is a 'Trademark' A trademark is a recognizable insignia, phrase or other symbol that denotes a specific product or service and legally differentiates it from all other products. BREAKING DOWN 'Trademark' A trademark serves to exclusively identify a product or service with a specific company, and is a recognition of that company's ownership of the brand . Trademarked products are generally considered a form of property. Most countries have agencies through which businesses can have their products trademarked. In the United States, this function is served by the United States Patent and Trademark Office . A trademark can be a logo, like the Nike Swoosh, a slogan, or simply the name of a product. Some brands, like Kleenex, are so prominent that they have almost replaced the original word (tissue) in everyday language.  One of the main purposes of having a product trademarked is to protect the product from being used without permission of the source company. Most countries have patent laws which are designed to protect against copyright infringement . International copyright regulation is much more complicated, as there exists no universally recognized patent office.  To register a patent in the United States, a business must submit a patent application to the Patent Office, which will be reviewed by an attorney to determine that the patent has been registered in accordance with federal regulations and that it is a distinct product and does not infringe on the trademark rights of an existing patent. After the application has been reviewed, the patent is "published for opposition" for 30 days, during which time other companies can oppose the registration of the new patent. Trademarks can be bought and sold. Famously, Nike purchased the instantly recognizable Swoosh logo for only $35. Trademarks can also be licensed to other companies for an agreed-upon period of time or under certain conditions, which can result in crossover brands. Lego, a distinct company, has licensed many famous brands like Star Wars and DC Comics to produce Lego versions of popular products. These are also examples of the importance of branding products from a marketing perspective. Trademarks help distinguish products not only within the legal system, but to the consumer. History of the Trademark Trademark, as the word implies, is a mark that shows the trade of the maker. In 1266, King Henry III of England passed a law requiring all bakers to make a distinctive mark for all the bread they sold. The Löwenbraü brewery in Munich, Germany claims it has used a lion (Löwenbraü means "lion's brew") as its trademark since 1383. The first modern trademark law was promulgated in France in 1857, and Britain first issued its trademark law, the Merchandise Marks Act, in 1862. The British act made it a criminal offense to try and sell a product under the auspices of another manufacturer. In the U.S., Congress tried to pass a trademark law in 1870, but it was struck down by the Supreme Court that year. Congress tried again in 1881, which was revised into the Trademark Act in 1905.

If the TV parental warning includes the letters FV, what are they warning against?

The TV Parental Guidelines   Directed to Older Children This program is designed for children age 7 and above. It may be more appropriate for children who have acquired the developmental skills needed to distinguish between make-believe and reality. Themes and elements in this program may include mild fantasy violence or comedic violence, or may frighten children under the age of 7. Therefore, parents may wish to consider the suitability of this program for their very young children.     Directed to Older Children - Fantasy Violence For those programs where fantasy violence may be more intense or more combative than other programs in this category, such programs will be designated TV-Y7-FV.     General Audience Most parents would find this program suitable for all ages. Although this rating does not signify a program designed specifically for children, most parents may let younger children watch this program unattended. It contains little or no violence, no strong language and little or no sexual dialogue or situations.     Parental Guidance Suggested This program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children. Many parents may want to watch it with their younger children. The theme itself may call for parental guidance and/or the program may contain one or more of the following: some suggestive dialogue (D), infrequent coarse language (L), some sexual situations (S), or moderate violence (V).     Parents Strongly Cautioned This program contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch unattended. This program may contain one or more of the following: intensely suggestive dialogue (D), strong coarse language (L), intense sexual situations (S), or intense violence (V).

Made from red clay, what is the name of the talking horse companion of Gumby?

Art Clokey's Gumbyworld – Official Home of Gumby & Pokey Dynamite Entertainment to Release Retrospective Art Book of a True American Icon: Gumby Gumby, the unforgettable stop motion character, has entertained generations of fans since his introduction in the early 1950s. Now, Dynamite will release the essential compendium to his 60-year history in 2017, featuring an incredible retrospective on not only the characters themselves, but a look into the life of their creator: Art Clokey. New Deluxe Collection to Pay Tribute to The » Read more Here Comes Gumby in the Hollywood Christmas Parade Mark your calendars! Live parade, Sunday, November 27. TV airings throughout the season: listings available here. Gumby will make his way down the red carpet of the Hollywood Christmas Parade on Sunday, November 27.  A 60-foot inflatable Gumby joins the Gumby mascot and the Clokey family who will be presenting Gumby DVDs (compliments of NCircle Entertainment) and Gumby bendable toys (donated by N.J. Croce) to Toys » Read more Meet Gumby’s Godfather Tom Sarnoff Gumby Central spent some quality time with Tom Sarnoff, Gumby’s Godfather. Tom, a young executive at NBC studios in the 1950s and ‘60s, greenlit the very first Gumby Show, and he’s been involved with Gumby ever since. He has made tremendous contributions to the television industry. Here’s the interview: GC: When did you first meet Gumby creator Art Clokey? TS: I » Read more Gumby Jams with the Iconic Band RUSH! The iconic Canadian band RUSH has a new documentary, RUSH / Time Stand Still, which debuted in select theaters on November 3 and 17, 2016 in the U.S. and Canada. This fascinating documentary chronicles the final major tour of the legendary rock band. Gumby – RUSH connection RUSH members love Gumby! So much so, that they featured cuts to Gumby » Read more Gumby Pops up in Toy Exhibits Across the Country Gumby and Pokey are touring the U.S. Our dynamic duo (6” bendable toys from the ‘60s) are on display in the new exhibit: Toys of the ‘50s, 60s and 70s. Now appearing in its fifth U.S. city, the exhibit is drawing large crowds. This fun exhibit chronicles toys through three decades. And you guessed it… Gumby made the cut. Gumby. » Read more New Gumby DVDs: The 60’s Episodes, Vol. 2 Now Available Iconic Remastered Gumby Episodes–Always in Style Here come Gumby and Pokey in a new DVD gift set of wild and inventive late 60’s episodes! The Adventures of Gumby, 1960s, Volume 2 was just released on September 13, 2016. It contains over 40 clay-animated episodes, fully re-mastered from their original camera rolls and soundtracks. A great bonus—two Blockheads bendable toys are included. » Read more Read more

In mathematics, what name is given to the results of a division problem?

The meaning of division -- A complete course in arithmetic A divisor may not be 0 -- 6 ÷ 0 -- because any number times 0 will still be 0. Division by 0 is an excluded operation. As for 0 ÷ 0, that is ambiguous because it could be any number. Any number times the divisor 0 will equal the dividend 0. Example 1.   This figure shows how the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 go into -- are contained in -- 12. 6 goes into 12 two times.  12 ÷ 6 = 2. 4 goes into 12 three times.  12 ÷ 4 = 3. 3 goes into 12 four times.  12 ÷ 3 = 4. 2 goes into 12 six times.  12 ÷ 2 = 6. 1 goes into 12 twelve times.  12 ÷ 1 = 12. Example 2.   A bottle of juice contains 18 ounces. How many times could you fill a 6 ounce glass? Answer.  Any problem that asks "How many times?" is a division problem.  So the question is:  How many times is 6 ounces contained in 18? 18 ÷ 6 = 3. "18 divided by 6 equals 3." You could fill the glass 3 times. Here is the picture of 18 ÷ 6 : 6 goes into 18 three times.  That is, 3 × 6 = 18. Equivalently, we could subtract 6 from 18 three times. Here, on the other hand, is the picture of 18 ÷ 3: 18 can be divided into six 3's. 18 ÷ 3 = 6. "3 goes into 18 six times." 6 × 3 = 18. That is, 7.2 × 10 = 72. Example 4.   If it takes 3 yards of material to make a suit, how many suits could be made from a piece of material that is 15 yards?  Answer.   We have to cut 3 yards from 15 yards as many times as we can.  That number of times is 15 ÷ 3. 15 ÷ 3 = 5. 15 yd ÷ 3 yd = 5, because 5 × 3 yd = 15 yd. You could make 5 suits. This problem illustrates the following:  The dividend and divisor must be units of the same kind.  We can only divide yards by yards, dollars by dollars, hours by hours.  We cannot divide 8 apples by 2 oranges -- 8 apples ÷ 2 oranges = ? -- because there is no number times 2 oranges that will equal 8 apples What is more, we see that the quotient is always a pure number. Dividend ÷ Divisor = Quotient. It is the number that multiplies the divisor to produce the dividend. Example 5.   A bus is scheduled to arrive every 12 minutes.  In the course of 2 hours, how many buses will arrive? Answer.   How many times is 12 minutes contained in 2 hours?  But the units must be the same.  Since 1 hour = 60 minutes, then 2 hours = 2 × 60 = 120 minutes. Therefore, 120 minutes ÷ 12 minutes = 10. 10 times 12 minutes = 120 minutes. ( Lesson 4.) In the course of 2 hours, 10 buses will arrive. (See Problem 6 at the end of the Lesson.) Division into equal parts    2.   If we divide a number into equal parts, how can we know how many there are in each part?   If we divide into 2 equal parts, then to know how many there are in each part, divide by 2. If we divide into 3 equal parts, divide by 3.  And so on. That is why to divide the whole of something, which is 100%, into 100 equal parts -- that is, to find 1% of a number -- we divide by 100. ( Lesson 4, Question 6 .) Example 6.   If we divide 28 people into four equal parts, then how many will be in each part? In Lesson 15 we will see that we are taking a "quarter" or a "fourth" of 28 people.  Solution.   Divide by 4.  28 ÷ 4 = 7. There will be 7 people in each part. But that is the picture of 28 ÷ 7.  Why does 28 ÷ 4 give the right answer? Because of the order property of multiplication.  28 ÷ 4 = 7  means 7 × 4 = 28. 4 × 7 = 28. That means 28 is made up of four 7's. Example 7.    Christopher bought 3 shirts for a total of $66.  Each one cost the same.  How much did each one cost?  Solution.   If we divide $66 into 3 equal parts, we will know the answer. 66 ÷ 3 = ? What number times 3 will be 66? Equivalently, 3 times what number will be 66? 3 × 22 = 66. Each shirt cost $22. In Lesson 15 , we will speak simply of taking a third of $66, and the question of division never comes up. A problem in which we relate units of different kinds -- dollars per shirt, for example -- is called a rate problem, as we are about to see.  3.   A rate is typically indicated by per, which means for each or in each. In a calculation, per always indicates division. Example 8.   In a certain country, the unit of c

Played by Gary Cooper in the 1941 movie, what Tennessee born Medal of Honor winner killed 28 and captured 132 soldiers during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and was the most decorated US soldier of WWI?

1000+ images about Sergeant Alvin York on Pinterest | Soldiers, Tennessee and World War I Forward Alvin Cullum York was born on December 13, 1887, Pall Mall, Tennessee. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, York was drafted into the Army. York was awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted from corporal to sergeant for his single-handed capture of German soldiers and their battery of machine guns in the Argonne forest on October 8, 1918. Sergeant York, a movie based on York’s life, was released in 1941. Gary Cooper won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the famous doughboy. See More

Played by Denver Pyle during the 6 year run of the show, who was the patriarch of the Duke clan on The Dukes of Hazzard?

Denver Pyle | The Dukes of Hazzard Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Birthname: Denver Dell Pyle Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) [1] was an American film and television actor. Contents Biography Early life Pyle was born in Bethune in Kit Carson County in eastern Colorado, to farmers Maude W. and Ben H. Pyle; [2] he was the nephew of journalist Ernie Pyle and had one brother, Willis. After graduation from high school, Pyle briefly attended college before he decided to pursue a career in show business.He worked as a drummer and band member until the start of the Second World War, when he entered the Merchant Marine. Pyle would claim in later life that he was in fact was a U.S. Navy veteran who had been wounded in action at Guadalcanal. However the National Personnel Records Center stated in 1991 that there was no evidence that Denver Pyle had ever served on active duty in the Navy. Pyle’s statements were not resolved prior to his death; however. as a Merchant Mariner during World War II, Pyle would still have held creditable veteran status. [3] Career After the war ended, Pyle began his film career, having starred in several motion pictures and frequently on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He had a role as Thompson in the 1955 Audie Murphy war film To Hell and Back. He guest starred twice on NBC's 1955-1956 western anthology series Frontier, having appeared as Eben in "Mother of the Brave" and as Frank in "The Voyage of Captain Castle". That same season, he appeared three times on the religious anthology series, Crossroads on ABC. Pyle appeared twice on the western series My Friend Flicka. He appeared with Grant Withers in the 1959 episode "Tumbleweed Ranger" of the syndicated western 26 Men, true stories of the Arizona Rangers. He also appeared in the syndicated series Pony Express in the 1960 episode "Special Delivery". Pyle guest starred in the episode "Trail of the Dead", the story of five missing western prospectors, of Rod Cameron's syndicated series State Trooper. He appeared with Sammy Jackson in the episode "Resurrection" of the syndicated American Civil War drama Gray Ghost. He appeared twice as an unidentified bank robber in Duncan Renaldo's The Cisco Kid series. In 1954, Pyle played a henchman of Sam Bass in Jim Davis's syndicated series, Stories of the Century. In 1958, Pyle starred with Judith Evelyn in the episode "Man in the Moon" of the NBC docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors, hosted and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon. [4] Pyle made several appearances as "Briscoe Darling", the gruff patriarch of a clan of musical hillbillies, on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. He also appeared in a number of Westerns by John Ford, including The Horse Soldiers with William Holden and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He played a Tennessee soldier (called "Thimblerig") in John Wayne's The Alamo (1960). He appeared too in many television westerns, including the 1960 episode "Crime Epidemic" of the syndicated series Tombstone Territory, the 1961 episode "Hand of Vengeance" of the syndicated western Two Faces West, he appeared twice on the CBS series "Route 66" with Martin Milner and George Maharis, first in 1961 in the episode "The Newborn" and again in 1962 in the episode "A Long Piece Of Mischief", and the segment "Lawyer in Petticoats" of the NBC series Overland Trail (1960). One of his early roles was a villain in an Adventures of Superman television episode called "Beware the Wrecker". He appeared in the 1963-1964 season in ABC's drama about college life, Channing. He frequently appeared on Gunsmoke (14) and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater (7), Frontier Justice (2), all on CBS. He also is known for portraying both the suspect and the murder victim on the final Perry Mason episode; he was the only actor to play a victim, a suspect and the actual murderer (in a previous episode) on the series out of 6 appearances. He was Grandpa Tarleton in all 26 episodes of Tammy in the 1965-66 season. His most known television role may have been that of Uncle Jesse Duke in the CBS series The D

What is the name of the horse ridden by The Lone Ranger?

Wild Fire's Lone Ranger Pics with Silver MUSIC “a fiery horse with the speed of light ......Out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse silver” The Lone Ranger with Silver One of the most popular horses of all the western heroes. During the run of the television series few people realize that 2 different white Stallions filled the role of the wonder horse, Silver. Clayton Moore, who portrayed the Lone Ranger in the majority of the television shows, indicated they were Morabs, part Morgan and part Arabian. Wranglers and owners of the Silvers though have stated Silver#1 had Tennessee Walking Horse in his breeding and Silver#2 was half Arabian and half Saddle Bred Silver#1 was personally picked by Clayton from the ranch stock at the Hugh Hooker horse ranch in the San Fernando Valley in 1949 for use on the show just prior to the series launch. Hugh Hooker was the father of stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker. The white stallion Clayton decided on was a very large mount that stood a strong 17+ hands tall and presented a very majestic image. This white horse, whose true name was "White Cloud", was said to be 12 years old at the time, well trained and gentle. The actual ownership of Silver#1 is a little confusing but thanks to writer/author Ken Beck and his recent interviews with Bill Ward, it appears the Hooker horse ranch owned "White Cloud" initially but sold him to Bill Ward who was starting Studio Stables shortly after the series got rolling. Bill Ward was Clayton's stand in and stunt double as well as one of the shows wranglers early in the TV series (1949 through 1954). Silver#1 did not know many tricks but did have an impressive high rear and would stand still for anyone due to his gentle nature. The second Silver(Silver#2) of the TV series was actually purchased personally in about 1949 by George W. Trendle (the owner of the Lone Ranger show at that time). Who Trendle bought Silver#2 from was also until recently a complete enigma. One source claims Trendle bought the horse from an unidentified horse breeder on the east coast. Ken Beck, though, has recently discovered a source indicating that Silver #2 was actually foaled on a farm in 1945 near Danville, Iowa and named "Tarzen's White Banner". At age four, the horse was sold to a gentleman named Charles Van Dyke of Peoria, Illinois who then sold the stallion to George W. Trendle in late 1949. Trendle immediately renamed the horse "Hi-Yo Silver" which he had registered. Trendle previously owned another white stallion purchased in 1940 (and an extravagant silver laden saddle) for the public appearances of the radio Lone Ranger during the peak radio era of the 1940's. In 1952 Trendle's "Hi-Yo Silver" was shipped to California during the TV filming seasons to take over the role of Silver from Silver#1 while John Hart stepped into the TV role. Then during the non-filming season was based back in Michigan, to use for Lone Ranger public appearance tours and promotions. Silver#2 was trained by the well known trainer and handler, Glenn Randall, who also trained Roy Roger's horse, Trigger. Glenn also stabled the horse during the filming season. Silver#2 was the opposite of #1 in temperment being high strung as well as being a stallion and some had trouble riding him. He was well known on the set to 'react' and get skittish if he heard camera motors running. When Clayton returned to the show the following year, they continued the use of Silver#2 almost exclusively bringing old number 1 back usually only for scenes requiring a gentle, more obedient horse . Silver#2 was not quite as large as #1 but still weighed in at an impressive 1250 pounds and was the horse Clayton always went on the road with for publicity tours. Silver#2 was the only Silver that Clayton Moore toured with. A third white horse was "rented" from the Spahn Ranch for the episodes featuring "Dan Reid", the Lone Ranger's nephew. Dan's horse, per the story line, was named "Victor" and sired by Silver. When Mr.Trendle sold the Lone Ranger Show production rights to Jack Wrather in 1954 he init

October 12, 1901 saw the old moniker of Executive Mansion replaced with the more familiar White House, when what total badass declared it so?

Julia Grant Biography :: National First Ladies' Library St. Louis, Missouri Father: Frederick Fayette Dent, born 6 October 1786, Cumberland, Maryland; died 16 December 1873, the White House, Washington, D.C. Frederick Dent was one of five children between his parents, and also the half-brother of a son by his mother’s first marriage. His father George Dent was the surveyor of what would become Cumberland, Maryland and helped determine the town’s layout. Frederick Dent was born in a loghouse, but as family finances improved, it was torn down and replaced by a brick structure. Although he had no formal education, Frederick Dent was successful as a merchant early in life, leaving Cumberland in 1806 as an apprentice to David Shriver, who surveyed and cleared the land for the creation of a national road from Cumberland to what is now Wheeling, West Virginia. At some point shortly thereafter, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife. After relocating to Missouri Territory in 1816, he formed a partnership with George W. Rearick and later with Edward Tracey in St. Louis. His firm thrived to the point where he was able to retire as something of a country squire when Julia Dent was still young. He successfully invested in the purchase of one of the earliest known commercial steamboats, and employed it to begin trading along the Mississippi River, transporting such goods as coffee and sugar from New Orleans. Although he held no military rank, he took on the moniker of colonel, suggesting a southern plantation slave owner. Mother: Ellen Bray Wrenshall, born April 1793, Lancashire, England; married 22 December 1814, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; died 14 January 1857. Ellen Wrenshall immigrated to the United States with her parents, six sisters and one brother, according to her daughter, “at a very early age,” although the exact year is unknown. Her father John was a successful merchant of the British exporting firm Wrenshall, Peacock & Pillon, which primarily drew its profits by importing ginseng root to China. The family settled in Philadelphia. Although she grew up in a wealthy household, Mrs. Grant’s mother lived a socially restricted childhood, dictated by the rigorous adherence to Methodist principals which forbid dancing, card-playing and any alcohol consumption. She nevertheless received a finishing-school education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the name of which is unknown. One of the highlights of her younger years was being given shelter by Aaron Burr and his militia at an Alleghany Mountain tavern as she travelled from school back home to Philadelphia. In 1816, Julia Dent’s parents and their first child relocated from Pittsburgh to what was then a frontier country known as “Upper Louisiana,” which became St. Louis, Missouri, making the trip by flatboat and carriage. Birth Order and Siblings: Fifth of eight, four brothers, three sisters; John Cromwell Dent (1816-1889); George Wrenshall Dent (1819-1899); Frederick Tracy Dent (1820-1892); Louis Dent (1823-1874); Ellen “Nellie” Wrenshall Dent [Sharp] (1828-1885); Mary Dent (1825, died in infancy); Emily “Emma” Marbury Dent Casey (1836-1920) Ancestry: All of Julia Dent Grant’s ancestors were English in origin. Her paternal grandfather’s ancestor was Thomas Dent of Yorkshire, England, who immigrated in 1643 and settled near what would become the Washington, D.C. area, in Bladensburg, Maryland; her paternal grandfather George Dent was born there. Julia Grant claimed that her paternal grandmother’s name was Susanna Marbury and that her ancestors were wealthy landowners from Cheshire, England who made their home at an estate called Marburg Hall. This conflicts with several detailed genealogical records that indicate that her paternal grandmother was born as Susannah Dawson, and was the widow of a Joseph Dawson. Julia Grant did not seem to have invented this more aristocratic aspect of her ancestry, however, for she possessed an engraving of Marbury Hall on the assumption that it was an ancestral home, and one of her sisters was given the middle name of Marbury

Name the 1986 cult classic movie from the IMDB plot summary: "An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown."

Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Plot Summary - IMDb Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Plot Summary Showing all 6 plot summaries Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters. - Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for an immortal sorcerer named Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form. Now, Jack must save Wang's fiancee from Lo Pan and his henchmen, and win back his stolen truck. But how can he defeat an enemy who has no body? - Written by Mr. X When Jack Burton wins a card game against his long time friend Wang, Wang explains that he doesn't have Jack's earnings on him, and he'll pay Jack later, due to the fact that he has pick up his girlfriend at the airport. Seeing as how Jack wants his money as soon as possible, he offers to give Wang a ride to the airport. Unfortunately for the both of them, Wang's girlfriend is kidnapped, due to the fact that she is a chinese woman with green eyes, and in order for an immortal creature named David LoPan to turn back into a mortal human, he must marry her. Now it's up to Jack Burton, Wang, and their friends to save her before it's too late. - Written by Zack H. Wang chi's girlfriend has been kidnapped because she has emerald green eyes and has been selected to be Lo Pan's (an immortal creature) wife. By marrying her, Lo Pan can now become mortal again. So it's up to Jack Burten, Egg Shen, Wong and his friends to save her before it's too late. - Written by Michael Feller <[email protected]> Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of "double or nothing" to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn't have the cash on him and that'll he pay later because he's due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang's pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang's girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang's girl and stop the ruthless operation that's going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything's not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble...

Slaughterhouse-Five, the 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, is set against the backdrop of the Allied bombing of which German city during World War II?

Kurt Vonnegut Biography - life, children, story, death, wife, mother, son, book, information, born, college Kurt Vonnegut Biography Indianapolis, Indiana American writer, essayist, and dramatist Kurt Vonnegut is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his subtle criticisms and sharp portrayal of modern society. Early life Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of a successful architect, Kurt Sr., and his wife, Edith Sophia. Vonnegut was raised along with his sister, Alice, and brother Bernard (whom he spoke of frequently in his works). Fourth-generation Germans, the children were never exposed to their heritage because of the anti-German attitudes that had spread throughout the United States after World War I (1914–18; a war in which many European countries, some Middle Eastern nations, Russia, and the United States fought against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). Because of the Great Depression (the severe economic downturn in the 1930s), the Vonneguts lost most of their wealth and the household was never the same. Vonnegut's father fell into severe depression and his mother died after overdosing on sleeping pills the night before Mother's Day. This attainment and loss of the "American Dream" would become the theme of many of Vonnegut's writings. After attending Cornell University, where he majored in chemistry and biology, he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the World War II (1939–45; a war fought between the Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies: England, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States). This would set the stage for another crucial element for his writings when he was taken prisoner by the German army. Following the war, Vonnegut studied anthropology at the University of Chicago and later moved to Schenectady, New York, to work as a publicist for the General Electric Corporation. During this period, he also began submitting short stories to various journals, and in 1951, he resigned his position at General Electric to devote his time solely to writing. The novels Vonnegut published several novels throughout the 1950s and 1960s, beginning with Player Piano in 1952. Player Piano depicts a fictional city called Ilium in which the people have given control of their lives to a computer humorously named EPICAC, after a substance that causes vomiting. The Sirens of Titan (1959) takes place on several different planets, including a thoroughly militarized Mars, where the inhabitants are electronically controlled. The fantastic settings of these works serve primarily as a metaphor (comparison) for modern society, which Vonnegut views as absurd to the point of being surreal (irrational; dreamlike), and as a backdrop for Vonnegut's central focus: the hapless human beings who inhabit these bizarre worlds and struggle with both their environments and themselves. Vonnegut once again focuses on the role of technology in human society in Cat's Cradle (1963), widely considered one of his best Kurt Vonnegut. AP/Wide World Photos . works. The novel recounts the discovery of a form of ice, called ice-nine, which is solid at a much lower temperature than normal ice and is capable of solidifying all water on Earth. Ice-nine serves as a symbol of the enormous destructive potential of technology, particularly when developed or used without regard for the welfare of humanity. Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's reputation was greatly enhanced in 1969 with the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five, an antiwar novel that appeared during the peak of protest against American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955–75; when American forces aided South Vietnam in their fight against North

According to Greek mythology, the great weaver Arachne was turned into what by the goddess Athena, as punishment for her hubris?

Myth of Arachne, the spider woman - Greeka.com Discover the myth of Arachne, the spider woman The offence to the gods Arachne in Greek mythology, was a Lydian woman, thought by some to be a princess, who was highly gifted in the art of weaving. Born to Idmon, a famous dyer in Lydia, Arachne was no ordinary weaver and the very act of her weaving was sheer magic and a sight to behold. Soon news of Arachne's artistry spread far and wide and it is said that nymphs from the forests left their frolicking and gathered around Arachne to watch her weave. So moved were they by her skills that they remarked that she surely must have been trained by none other than Goddess Athena, the goddess of weaving. The weaving contest All this adulation was more than Arachne could handle and being an ordinary mortal who was quite vulnerable to human failings, she became quite arrogant about her superior skills. She was annoyed at being regarded as a pupil of Athena and began bragging about her skills, proclaiming herself to be far more superior to even Athena. Now, when the goddess of weaving heard of Arachne's bold claims, she was upset, but nonetheless decided to give the young woman a chance to regret her folly. Disguised as an old woman, Athena appeared before Arachne and warned her of the consequences of provoking the wrath of the gods, but Arachne was not a bit remorseful and challenged Athena to a contest, declaring that if she lost, she would accept any punishment that Athena would decide for her. That time Athena revealed her true form and accepted the challenge. The stage was set for a battle in which a god and a mortal pitted their artistic skills to decide who the better artist was. The nymphs who had come to watch Arachne weave shrank back, horrified at Arachne's audacity, but Arachne was unshakable and stood her ground. And so the contest began, Athena at her loom and Arachne at hers, each working with threads of gold and a splendid array of colors to decide who would outdo the other in this ultimate trial. What unfolded next was a feast for the eye. Athena created a tapestry replete with scenes from the history of the gods. She portrayed Zeus at the center of the Olympic pantheon as well as her own contest with Poseidon and her victory, which ultimately made the people of Athens name their city after her. At the corner of her tapestry, she artfully depicted humans who had dared to defy the gods and who had been punished without a trace of mercy. As for Arachne, she deliberately chose scenes that depicted the infidelities and amours of the gods. She vividly portrayed Zeus and his string of indiscretions. She showed how Zeus had turned into a swan to rape the Spartan queen Leda; a bull to entice Europa; an eagle to abduct Aegina; as a shower of gold to seduce Danae; and as a satyr to seduce Antiope. Arachne's work of art, according to the Latin narrative, featured twenty-one scenes of the various misdemeanors of the mighty gods, including Poseidon, Apollo, Dionysus and others. The transformation into a spider Although Arachne had shown little respect for the gods by choosing a subject that made a mockery of the supreme deities of the Olympus, even Athena had to admit that her work was brilliant and flawless. That, however, was not enough to calm down Athena who was incensed by Arachne's humiliating portrayal of the gods. At last, Athena destroyed in anger Arachne's tapestry and loom. Arachne, like many other foolish mortals, had dared to question the supremacy of the gods. She had, in her arrogance over her art, been blind to the consequences of challenging the gods. Still in anger, Athens transformed Arachne into a disgusting insect. She turned her into a spider ("arachni" in Greek), proclaiming that Arachne and all her descendants would henceforth hang forever from threads and be skillful weavers. An interesting fact that relates myth to history is that the art of weaving is said to have originated in Anatolia, a part of modern Turkey and spiders have been a constant source of inspiration for man to perfect his weaving skill. Th

What can be a piniped, a means of royal authentication, and a British soul singer?

Seal Seal Legal Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contracts and other instruments Seal (emblem), an emblem used as a means of authentication; both an impression in paper, wax, or other medium, and a device used to make this impression; also similar emblems in other media Seal (East Asia), a stamp used in East Asia as a form of a signature Cylinder seal, an engraved cylinder used to roll an impression onto a flat surface, such as clay Record sealing, the practice of making court records confidential. Biology Pinniped , a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals many of which are commonly called seal (although this group also includes walruses, which are rarely considered to be "seals") Military and scouting Fairey Seal, a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber aircraft, operated in the 1930s United States Navy SEALs, the Special Operations Forces of the American Navy Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS), a midget submarine operated by the United States Navy and United States Special Operations Command USS Seal, two American submarines. HMS Seal, two Royal Navy ships and one submarine. SEALA, a training course for Sea Scouts which people need to pass to be accepted in the academy. People Seal (musician) (born 1963), British soul singer-songwriter. Seal (1991 album). Barry Seal (1939 - 1986), a drug smuggler and CIA informant Brajendra Nath Seal (1864 - 1938), an Indian humanist philosopher and educator David Seal (born 1972), Australian soccer player Elizabeth Seal (born 1933), an Italian actress Jaynie Seal (born 1973), an Australian television presenter Jimmy Seal (born 1950), an English footballer Kevin Seal, an MTV VJ in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV Manuel Seal, Jr., an American songwriter-producer Mike Seal (born 1970), the Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mutty Lall Seal (1792–1854), a Bengali Indian businessman and philanthropist Paul Seal (born 1952), a former American football tight end in the National Football League Sudhangshu Seal (born 1945), a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India Tong Seal (born 1346 AD), legendary Burmese ruler Lou Seal, the mascot of the San Francisco Giants baseball team Places Seal, Kent, a village in England. Seals, Georgia, in America.

What Latin word, which means “word for word” is taken to mean a perfect transcription or quotation?

Take word - definition of take word by The Free Dictionary Take word - definition of take word by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/take+word  (wûrd) n. 1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes. 2. a. Something said; an utterance, remark, or comment: May I say a word about that? b. A command or direction; an order: gave the word to retreat. c. An assurance or promise; sworn intention: She has kept her word. d. A verbal signal; a password or watchword. 3. words a. Discourse or talk; speech: Actions speak louder than words. b. Music The text of a vocal composition; lyrics. c. Hostile or angry remarks made back and forth. 4. a. News: Any word on your promotion? b. Rumor: Word has it they're divorcing. 5. Used euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter: "Although economists here will not call it a recession yet, the dreaded 'R' word is beginning to pop up in the media" (Francine S. Kiefer). 6. Word a. See Logos . b. The Scriptures; the Bible. 7. Computers A set of bits that is of a fixed size and is typically operated on by a computer's processor. tr.v. word·ed, word·ing, words To express in words: worded the petition carefully. interj. Slang Used to express approval or an affirmative response to something. Sometimes used with up. Idioms: 1. A favorable comment: She put in a good word for me. 2. Favorable news. To have a brief conversation with (someone); speak to. have no words for To be unable to describe or talk about. in a word In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious. in so many words 1. In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words. 2. Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In so many words, the weather has been beastly. of few words Not conversational or loquacious; laconic: a person of few words. of (one's) word Displaying personal dependability: a woman of her word. take at (someone's) word To be convinced of another's sincerity and act in accord with his or her statement: We took them at their word that the job would be done on time. take (someone's) word for it To believe what someone says without investigating further. upon my word [Middle English, from Old English; see wer-5 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] word (wɜːd) n 1. (Linguistics) one of the units of speech or writing that native speakers of a language usually regard as the smallest isolable meaningful element of the language, although linguists would analyse these further into morphemes. 2. an instance of vocal intercourse; chat, talk, or discussion: to have a word with someone. 3. an utterance or expression, esp a brief one: a word of greeting. 4. news or information: he sent word that he would be late. 5. a verbal signal for action; command: when I give the word, fire!. 6. an undertaking or promise: I give you my word; he kept his word. 7. an autocratic decree or utterance; order: his word must be obeyed. 8. a watchword or slogan, as of a political party: the word now is 'freedom'. 9. (Computer Science) computing a set of bits used to store, transmit, or operate upon an item of information in a computer, such as a program instruction 10. as good as one's word doing what one has undertaken or promised to do 11. at a word at once 12. by word of mouth orally rather than by written means 13. in a word briefly or in short 14. my word! a. an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc b. Austral an exclamation of agreement 15. of one's word given to or noted for keeping one's promises: I am a man of my word. 16. put in a word for put in a good word for to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend 17. take someone at his word take someone at her word to assume that someone means, or will do, what he or she says: when he told her to go, she took him at his word and left. 18. take someone's word for it to accep

What insurance company uses an umbrella in its logo?

Seth Stevenson is a frequent contributor to Slate. He is the author of Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World . The Travelers umbrella has an interesting history, as corporate logos go. It dates back to at least 1870, when it appeared in a newspaper ad for the fledgling insurance company. It was reinvigorated in the late 1950s, when it was given its signature red hue. More recently, it spent a lost decade as the logo of Citigroup, after Citicorp and Travelers merged ( somewhat disastrously , it turned out) in 1998. Advertisement Travelers became an independent company again in 2002, but it left the umbrella behind with Citi. (Who hasn't forgotten an umbrella in a rush to leave an unpleasant gathering?) It wasn't until a year ago—when Citi re-branded, opting instead for a bland little arc emblazoned above the letters of its name—that the umbrella was at last set free. Travelers jumped at the chance to buy it back. How much did this cost? Travelers wouldn't tell me, but newspaper reports peg the transaction in the millions. "It was a substantial investment," says Shane Boyd, vice president of communications and branding for Travelers, "but we think well worth it." I'm inclined to agree. For a Hydra-headed financial products firm like Citigroup, the umbrella was never an apt metaphor. To me, it always conjured the array of disparate departments all crammed unhappily under the Citi name. For an insurance company, though, an umbrella is a perfect symbol: It shelters us when stormy weather hits. The logo's enduring appeal is perhaps best summed up by a Travelers executive, quoted in the New York Times in 1964: "It illustrates the concept of protection, it is friendly, it is warm, and it is very merchandisable." (Of course, a slot machine might be just as fitting a symbol for an insurer: You feed it money with the vague hope of a payout that may never be awarded.) After giving Citi a year to wipe the umbrella off all its signage, letterhead, and marketing materials (to avoid any overlap), Travelers is now putting the umbrella front and center. This new ad debuted during the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 round and is the first spot in what will be a yearlong campaign of ads built around the logo itself. Advertisement A whole campaign about a company's logo instead of about the service or product the company offers? Can this be wise? In this case, I think yes. Consider some recent, nonumbrella Travelers ads. In one, scientists reattach "lucky rabbit feet" to real rabbits, and we see the bunnies doing adorable rehab exercises . In another, a man representing risk (he has the word tattooed on his knuckles) wanders around in the wee hours of the night damaging expensive property . Both ads are clever, and I still remember them long after they stopped appearing on TV. But until I began researching this story, I couldn't have told you which product they were pitching. Brand awareness is a major issue for any insurance company. There's no eye-catching box you can carefully position on supermarket shelves and no tangible product the consumer might see around town. Yet you need to make sure that potential customers weighing their options will include you in the mix. A further challenge is that the insurance category is incredibly crowded when it comes to advertising, and huge spenders like Geico, Progressive, State Farm, and Allstate have been filling up the airwaves— becoming top-of-mind brands in part through the sheer ubiquity of their ads. Travelers says it can't compete with those massive marketing budgets, which are several multiples of its own. Instead, the company feels it can leverage its iconic umbrella to get more bang for the buck. Its consumer research shows that even now, after the logo's muddled recent history, people still very strongly associate it with Travelers. (Boyd wouldn't share his proprietary findings with me, but he claims the level of recall is quite remarkable.) Thus that memorable red umbrella—blown up to absurd proportions and plastered across television screens with judicious ad buys—will help jam

If bovine describes a cow, canine a dog, and feline a cat, what does vulpine define?

Leukogram Abnormalities - Circulatory System - Veterinary Manual Leukogram Abnormalities By R. Darren Wood, DVM, DVSc, DACVP, Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph Leukocyte Disorders Abnormalities of the leukogram include quantitative or numerical concentration abnormalities and WBC morphologic abnormalities. Numerical Abnormalities: WBC concentration values are interpreted by comparison with species-specific reference values. Interpretations should be made only by considering the absolute numbers. For reference values for total WBC and differential WBC concentrations in absolute numbers for common domestic species, see Table: Hematologic Reference Ranges . The total WBC concentration is more variable and often higher in neonates than in adults. Age-related reference values should be used to evaluate leukograms in young animals, especially species in which lymphocytes are more numerous (and neutrophils less numerous) in adults, such as ruminants. Generally, differential WBC patterns of adults are reached at about the age of sexual maturity. Abnormality in the total WBC concentration is useful only to alert the clinician to look for and interpret abnormalities in the cell distributions in the differential. When the total WBC is abnormal, one or more distributional abnormalities in the differential are likely. When the total WBC is normal, there still may be one or more distributional abnormalities in the differential. As a result, evaluation of the differential absolute values is the most important component of the leukogram. Leukocytosis is an increase in the total WBC concentration, whereas leukopenia is a decrease in the total WBC concentration. Changes in the concentrations of specific leukocyte types are more important for clinical interpretation purposes. Neutrophilia or neutrophilic leukocytosis is an increase in neutrophil concentration. Lymphocytosis is an increase in lymphocyte concentration. Monocytosis is an increase in monocyte concentration. Eosinophilia refers to an increase in eosinophil concentration, and basophilia to an increase in basophil concentration. Metarubricytosis is an increase in nucleated RBCs (nRBCs) in blood. Mastocytosis is an increase in mast cells in blood. Decreases in concentration of a cell type are indicated by the suffix “penia.” This is applied only to cell types in which a decrease is possible. It does not apply to cell types for which the concentration may be 0, such as monocytes, basophils, nRBCs, and any other abnormal cell type. Hence, neutropenia is a decrease in neutrophil concentration, lymphopenia is a decrease in lymphocyte concentration, and eosinopenia is a decrease in eosinophil concentration. Cytopenia is a nonspecific term indicating a decrease in cell concentration(s), but the cell type is not specified. Pancytopenia indicates all cell types are decreased, often to a severe degree. Terms used to describe or qualify abnormalities most often associated with inflammatory responses include various left shifts and leukemoid response. A left shift is an increase in concentration of immature, nonsegmented neutrophils, typically bands, but may also include metamyelocytes or even more immature forms. A regenerative left shift describes leukocytosis characterized by the combination of neutrophilia and a left shift. In this situation, the segmented neutrophils will be greater in concentration than bands and less mature forms. A degenerative left shift describes a neutrophil pattern characterized by normal to decreased total neutrophil concentration, but with a left shift in which the concentration of bands and less mature forms is greater than segmented neutrophils. This is an indication of maximal release from bone marrow in response to inflammation and signifies the presence of an acute, severe lesion. A leukemoid response describes a marked neutrophilia of a magnitude sufficient to indicate chronicity of an inflammatory response and corresponding substantial increase in granulopoiesis in the bone marrow. The magnitude is also such tha

Now considered one of the top legal minds on the court, the confirmation hearing for what current associate Supreme Court justice was marred by accusations of sexual harassment from attorney Anita Hill?

Clarence Thomas Makes Case for Recusal Clarence Thomas Makes Case for Recusal Saturday Sep 29, 2007 · 8:07 AM PDT 2007/09/29 · 08:07 × Tag History 219 Update:  PLEASE, DO NOT USE REFERENCES TO "UNCLE TOM" OR "UNCLE THOMAS."  These addresses do not reflect my sentiments nor those of DailKos.  Thank you. This diary is not a book review of Clarence Thomas's memoir, My Grandfather's Son.  The book is scheduled for release on Monday.  The Washington Post, however, found a copy and published a stunning article in today's edition.  This morning, Scott Simon interviewed Nina Totenberg on NPR and she indicated that a memoir of a sitting Associate Justice is unprecedented. Several of the quotes from the book provide an argument that Clarence Thomas should recuse himself in any case that involves a liberal party, including wiretapping, voting rights, women's rights, GLBT rights and affirmative action.  Definitely he should recuse himself from any case where the plaintiff is represented by the ACLU, NAACP and NARAL. Thomas has a sixteen year old axe to grind and the object of his fury, besides Anita Hill are liberal activists and Democratic Senators. Thomas writes that Hill was the tool of liberal activist groups "obsessed" with abortion and outraged because he did not fit their idea of what an African American should believe. "The mob I now faced carried no ropes or guns," Thomas writes of his hearings. "Its weapons were smooth-tongued lies spoken into microphones and printed on the front pages of America's newspapers. . . . But it was a mob all the same, and its purpose -- to keep the black man in his place -- was unchanged." Ironically, Thomas forgets the reverence these liberal activists held for Thurgood Marshall.  Well, I guess the liberals did want to keep Marshall in his place, that being a seat on the Supreme Court. By foolishly exposing his rabid contempt for liberal activists, Thomas has acknowledged his bias, reflected over the years in his decisions and votes.  I can't think of any lawyer representing a liberal cause who would believe they would get a fair hearing from a court so precariously divided. Not content to just attack the dirty hippies, Thomas lashes out at the Democrats who voted on his nomination. He compares then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) to the lying hypocrites in the old song "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by Undisputed Truth. About former senator Howard Metzenbaum (Ohio): "It would be kind to describe him as unlikable." Almost makes me want to run out and get my Joe Biden For President signs.  It is astonishing that a Supreme Court Justice would refer to a sitting Senator as a lying hypocrite. And Howell Heflin, the late senator from Alabama, was described by the press as "courtly," Thomas says, but his manner "made me think of a slave owner sitting on the porch of a plantation house." Interesting thing about his comment about Howell Heflin.  Heflin was no liberal.  He was pro-gun, anti-free choice, pro-school prayer, anti-extension of rights to homosexuals.  That being said, Heflin strongly supported affirmative action, not the image of a slave owner.  In addition, Heflin served with distinction in World War II, earning the Silver Star. Howard Metzenbaum was a force to be dealt with as he many times singlehandedly blocked bills he didn't like.  But, "unlikable"? Metzenbaum is the author of the Howard M. Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 (MEPA) (U.S. Public Law 103-82), which prohibits an agency or entity that receives Federal assistance and is involved in adoptive or foster care placements from delaying or denying the placement of a child on the basis of the race, color, or national origin of the adoptive or foster parent, or the child involved. (Quote from Wikipedia.) And of course, there is Anita Hill who, if memory serves me correctly, did not want to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He describes Hill as "touchy and apt to overreact" and says: "If I or anyone else had done the slightest thing to offend her, she would have complained loudly and instantly,

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Art Clokey, a pioneer in the field of stop motion clay animation, who is best remembered for what green shapeshifter?

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What is the name for the helical grooves in the barrel of a gun designed to impart spin on the projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy?

GUN DEFINITION | Woman Gun Review A accurize, accurizing : The process of altering a stock firearm to improve its accuracy. action : The physical mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech . The term refers to the method in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism. Actions are generally categorized by the type of mechanism used. A firearm action is technically not present on muzzleloaders as all loading is done by hand. The mechanism that fires a muzzle-loader is called the lock. ammunition or ammo: Gunpowder and artillery . Since the design of the cartridge , the meaning has been transferred to the assembly of a projectile and its propellant in a single package. B back bore, backbored barrel: A shotgun barrel whose internal diameter is greater than nominal for the gauge , but less than the SAAMI maximum. Done in an attempt to reduce felt recoil, improve patterning, or change the balance of the shotgun. bandolier or bandoleer: A pocketed belt for holding ammunition and cartridges . It was usually slung over the chest. Bandoliers are now rare because most military arms use magazines which are not well-suited to being stored in such a manner. They are, however, still commonly used with shotguns, as individual 12 gauge shells can easily be stored in traditionally designed bandoliers. barrel : A tube, usually metal , through which a controlled explosion or rapid expansion of gases are released in order to propel a projectile out of the end at a high velocity. ballistic coefficient or BC: a measure of projectiles ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional to the deceleration —a high number indicates a low deceleration. BC is a function of mass, diameter, and drag coefficient . In bullets it refers to the amount that drop over distance and wind drift will affect the bullet. bayonet lug : An attachment point for a bayonet . belt : ammunition belt is a device used to retain and feed cartridges into a firearm. belted magnum or belt: Any caliber cartridge, generally rifles, using a shell casing with a pronounced “belt” around its base that continues 2-4mm past the extractor groove . [1] This design originated with the British gunmaker Holland & Holland for the purpose of headspace certain of their more powerful cartridges. Especially the non-shouldered (non-“bottlenecked”) magnum rifle cartridges could be pushed too far into the chamber and thus cause catastrophic failure of the gun when fired with excessive headspace; the addition of the belt to the casing prevented this over-insertion. bipod : A support device that is similar to a tripod or monopod , but with two legs. On firearms, bipods are commonly used on rifles to provide a forward rest and reduce motion. The bipod permits the operator to rest the weapon on the ground, a low wall, or other object, reducing operator fatigue and permitting increased accuracy. black powder also called gunpowder: a mixture of sulfur , charcoal , and potassium nitrate . It burns rapidly, producing a volume of hot gas made up of carbon dioxide , water , and nitrogen , and a solid residue of potassium sulfide . [2] Because of its burning properties and the amount of heat and gas volume that it generates, gunpowder has been widely used as a propellant in firearms and as a pyrotechnic composition in fireworks . Modern firearms do not use the traditional black powder described here, but instead use smokeless powder . black-powder substitute : A firearm propellant that is designed to reproduce the burning rate and propellant properties of black powder (making it safe for use in black-powder firearms), while providing advantages in one or more areas such as reduced smoke, reduced corrosion, reduced cost, or decreased sensitivity to unintentional ignition. blank : A type of cartridge for a firearm that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot . When fired, the blank makes a flash and an explosive sound (report). Blanks are often used for simulation (such as in historical reenactments , theatre and movie special effects ), tr

Walmart is selling bags of Cheesy Poofs to promote the latest season of what popular TV show?

Comic-Con 2011: Wednesday & Thursday—Over 200 Photos | Giant Fire Breathing Robot Giant Fire Breathing Robot by David "DTJAAAAM" Ngo | July 29, 2011 in Comics , Cosplay , Events , Feature , Lifestyle | 0 Comments Last week, San Diego was once again invaded by the geek community as Comic-Con International 2011 took over downtown. Whether you’re a fan of comic books, toys, movies, or anime, you’re bound to find something you like within America’s most famous celebration of pop culture. As usual, I brought my camera along for my latest convention expedition in order to give everyone at home a look at the many cool and unusual sights from the world of Comic-Con. Hit the jump when you’re ready to see over 200 photos from preview night and the show’s opening day. WEDNESDAY Staying at the Omni Hotel in downtown San Diego wasn’t cheap, but it granted me convenient access to Comic-Con, which was only a few steps away. Quite a few of the event’s special guests also resided in the hotel, such artist Sergio Aragones and writer Grant Morrison. Ads featuring the cast of True Blood would stare at you each time you took a ride on the Omni’s elevators. Many of San Diego’s pedicabs were decorated with Comic-Con-related artwork, such as this one featuring characters from Elephantmen. Slightly across the street was the Hard Rock Hotel, which was emblazoned with ads from upcoming Sony Pictures films like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the Amazing Spider-Man. After answering what time it was, I was awarded a coin for a free slice of pizza and drink by this Adventure Time crew. There I am crouching awkwardly… Touring the streets of San Diego prior to preview night, I noticed unusual sights like the Museum of Conan Art. A LEGO® replica of Conan’s superhero alter ego, the Flaming C. Pedicabs featuring ads from FX shows drive by. Cartoon Network turned Ciro’s Pizza in to an Adventure Time-themed restaurant. The pizza parlor’s redesigned menu. The lights weren’t on as of yet, but that didn’t stop guests from coming in for some tasty Italian food. An Adventure Time painting hanging from one of the pizza parlor’s walls. Also nearby the convention center was Sega’s arcade, which had several of their upcoming console and portable games on demo. Right next door to it was a building showcasing monster trucks based off of Marvel’s most popular superheroes. A large advertisement fro Cowboys & Aliens was plastered on the Hilton. Once registration had officially opened, guests clamored to this section to pick up their badges and complimentary Warner Bros. swag bags. I’m happy to say that I received the Justice League design that I wanted. Here’s another look at the Hard Rock Hotel, which shows more of their Amazing Spider-Man banners. Further down the road, IGN and Sprint were busy setting up their outdoor gaming lounge. CNET and GameSpot were also preparing a gaming facility of their own right across from the convention. These signs promoting Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic were spotted near the exit to BioWare’s rooftop exhibit. Lou Ferrigno asks security whether or not they’ve spotted any villains who need to be smashed. A circular Underworld: Awakening ad hovers above the first aid station. This was actually only about 15% of the folks waiting to do some early shopping on preview night. As the exhibit hall opened for the evening, I noticed that very few people seemed to be cosplaying. Then again, I wouldn’t blame them since preview night’s basically all about spending your cash. One Bigfoot is provides better security than seven dwarves. By posing with the Retro Lancer from Gears of War 3 and posting the photo on NECA’s Facebook page, you’d have a chance to win one of your very own. Sweet! Dark Horse’s shop was one of my first shopping destinations, where I grabbed a convention-exclusive Domo-Kun for a friend. Several patriotic women were outside, spreading the word about the theatrical release of Captain America: The First Avenger. Professor Genki was escorted by two bikini girls from Saints Row: The Third. Unfortunately, this was a

Originally known as the Executive Mansion (until the greatest man ever, Teddy Roosevelt, made its nickname official), the cornerstone of what building was laid on Oct 13, 1792?

President Theodore Roosevelt - First thoughts about President Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Teddy Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909). Write here your first thoughts about President Theodore Roosevelt ... 07 Jan 2017     03:15 1919: President Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep of a pulmonary embolism at 60 yrs. 07 Jan 2017     02:28 Another speculation was that Dorothy represents the U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. 07 Jan 2017     01:18 TRUTH! "Trump has an extraordinary level of energy that we have not seen since Theodore Roosevelt in a President." 07 Jan 2017     00:00 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, died today in 1919 06 Jan 2017     23:52 Hey girl you must be former United Stater President Theodore Roosevelt because I named a stuffed bear after you. 06 Jan 2017     23:00 Theodore Roosevelt passed away on Jan. 6, 1919. Read about his life and legacy in this blog from our archives: 06 Jan 2017     22:58 On January 6, 1919 former President Theodore Roosevelt died at the age of 60. 06 Jan 2017     22:30 Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt died on this day in 1919 (the 26th US President from 1901-1909). 06 Jan 2017     22:13 1919: U.S. - the 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, died in his sleep of a heart attack at Oyster Bay, New York , aged 60. 06 Jan 2017     22:01 in 1919, President Theodore Roosevelt passed away at the age of 60. 06 Jan 2017     22:00 President Theodore Roosevelt while touring the South in 1905 told an aged group of Confederate Veterans in... 06 Jan 2017     21:39 Today in 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president, dies. His can opener from post-presidency trip to Africa in 1909: h… 06 Jan 2017     20:38 On this day in 1919, the 26th President of the United States died. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was a... 06 Jan 2017     20:11 "I can either run the country or I can attend to (my daughter) Alice, but I cannot possibly do both!" President Theodore Roosevelt 06 Jan 2017     20:05 "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." -President Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919. 06 Jan 2017     20:01 Theodore Roosevelt was not only the 26th President, he was also a father of 6 children. 06 Jan 2017     19:59 Theodore Roosevelt, the last good Republican United States President, died in 1919 06 Jan 2017     19:54 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States , died in 1919. 06 Jan 2017     19:52 On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States , Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. https:… 11 Dec 2016     04:49 110 years ago today—. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize . 10 Dec 2016     07:03 [President Theodore Roosevelt at the Dedication of the New State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania... 10 Dec 2016     03:06 :. 10th December. 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . 10 Dec 2016     00:32 All that needs to be said, Theodore Roosevelt, a great American President 09 Dec 2016     21:37 Theodore Roosevelt was 1st president to make halftime walk at 09 Dec 2016     16:48 President-elect Trump says he'll respect the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and protect land, anglers and hunters. 09 Dec 2016     08:23 Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest ever President at 42... 09 Dec 2016     07:42 10.12.1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ... 09 Dec 2016     01:49 Former President Theodore Roosevelt speaking to the National *** Business League in 1910. 08 Dec 2016     23:31 🇺🇸 has an “extraordinary level of energy we've not seen I think since Theodore Roosevelt in a president.” ~… 08 Dec 2016     23:09 "Criminals should be sterilized, and feebleminded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them..." - President Theodore Roosevelt 08 Dec 2016     21:45 As President Theodore Roosevelt said, "A thorough understanding of the Bible is worth more than a college education." 08 Dec 2016     21:25 "Believe you can, and you're half

Cinder Cone, composite, and shield are all types of what?

Types of Volcanoes: Shield, Cinder Cones & Composite Cones - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com Types of Volcanoes: Shield, Cinder Cones & Composite Cones Watch short & fun videos Start Your Free Trial Today An error occurred trying to load this video. Try refreshing the page, or contact customer support. You must create an account to continue watching Register for a free trial Are you a student or a teacher? I am a student Start Your Free Trial To Continue Watching As a member, you'll also get unlimited access to over lessons in math, English, science, history, and more. Plus, get practice tests, quizzes, and personalized coaching to help you succeed. Coming up next: Volcanic Eruption: Gases Released & Their Effects You're on a roll. Keep up the good work! Your next lesson will play in 10 seconds 0:06 Volcanoes Add to Add to Add to Want to watch this again later? Log in or sign up to add this lesson to a Custom Course. Custom Courses are courses that you create from Study.com lessons. Use them just like other courses to track progress, access quizzes and exams, and share content. Teachers Organize and share selected lessons with your class. Make planning easier by creating your own custom course. Students Create a new course from any lesson page or your dashboard. From any lesson page: Click "Add to" located below the video player and follow the prompts to name your course and save your lesson. From your dashboard: Click on the "Custom Courses" tab, then click "Create course". Next, go to any lesson page and begin adding lessons. Edit your Custom Course directly from your dashboard. Personalize: Name your Custom Course and add an optional description or learning objective. Organize: Create chapters to group lesson within your course. Remove and reorder chapters and lessons at any time. Share your Custom Course or assign lessons and chapters. Teacher Edition: Share or assign lessons and chapters by clicking the "Teacher" tab on the lesson or chapter page you want to assign. Students' quiz scores and video views will be trackable in your "Teacher" tab. Premium Edition: You can share your Custom Course by copying and pasting the course URL. Only Study.com members will be able to access the entire course. Create an account to start this course today Try it free for 5 days! Lesson Transcript Instructor: Rebecca Gillaspy Dr. Gillaspy has taught health science at University of Phoenix and Ashford University and has a degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic. The earth ejects lava, rock fragments, hot vapor and gases during volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes vary based on size, shape, composition and eruptive style. Learn about the different types of volcanoes, such as shield, cinder cone and composite cone. Volcanoes Volcanoes are a good way for the earth to blow off a little steam. More correctly, volcanoes are vents in the earth's crust through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor and gases are ejected. And, while they are all natural events in the life of Earth, there are different types of volcanoes. The types of volcanoes are differentiated based on their size, composition and explosive style. In fact, we could compare the different types of volcanoes to players on a football team. The tall and impressive composite cone volcanoes are much like the strong and confident quarterback. The broad and lower-to-the-ground shield volcanoes are much like the beefy lineman of the team. And, the fast-growing but smaller cinder cone volcanoes are much like the quick-moving and compactly built running backs of our team. Let's take a closer look at these three main types of volcanoes. Composite Cone Volcanoes Composite cone volcanoes, which are also called 'stratovolcanoes' or simply 'composite volcanoes,' are cone-shaped volcanoes composed of layers of lava, ash and rock debris. Composite cone volcanoes are grand sites and can grow to heights of 8,000 feet or more. Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier, which are both found in Washington State, are impressive examples of

October 11, 1975 saw the debug of SNL with what famed comedian as the host?

1975 Year In Review Video Timeline From Here – You Can Scroll Through Year 1975   Music/Entertainment/Celebrity/Hollywood Info/Trends/Trivia/TV News  "Lucy In The Sky" - A Pop Hit (Now) - By Elton John January – Singer Barbi Benton has her first album out - “Barbi Doll” on Playboy Records. She’s been the girlfriend of Hugh Hefner for six-and-a-half years. She use to be an extra on “Playboy After Dark”… Files for Divorce - Country singer Tammy Waynette (32) from singer-husband George Jones (43). She already filed for legal separation 16 months ago… ABC debuts “ AM America ” this week. It’s the first time the network is competing with the “Today Show.” The entertainment-information- news magazine is hosted by Bill Beutel, Stephanie Edwards and Peter Jennings. “Now every weekday - that fresh new morning show on ABC Television”...  Led Zepplin is getting making concert rounds for their new album “Physical Graffiti”… Mott the Hoople splits into two groups. Lead singer and guitarist Ian Hunter and guitarist Mick Ronson have formed a new band and the other members are auditioning lead singers…. The last legal links between the four Beatles are severed, but it’s said, the complex financial affairs could take years to unhinge. The partnership of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ring Starr is officially dissolved by a London judge, almost 4 years after McCartney issued a writ seeking the breakup… Elvis turns 40 this week (January 8). Friends say Elvis remained in his bedroom, dieting and worried about being “Fat and 40.” “He refused to see anyone until he gets down to his regular trim 180 pounds” said a friend who wants to remain anonymous. .. FBI agents have seized more than 500 copies of motion pictures and television shows from actor Roddy McDowall, as part of a federal crackdown on the multi-million-dollar film piracy industry… Motown - Berry Gordy, Motown records found and chief executive, will make his debut as a director in the upcoming production of “Mahogany,” starring Diana Ross… The Jefferson Starship adds another member from the old Jefferson Airplane -Marty Balin, who - in recent years, has been inactive and mostly performing in small clubs… On ABC-TV -  The debut of “Baretta,” and “Barney Miller”… Passing - Larry Fine , one of the original members of the Three Stooges comedy team, dies at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital after suffering a stroke. He was 73…. Elvis Presley is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Memphis for treatment of a liver problem which has caused a swelling or puffiness of the face. A friend says it has nothing to do with alcohol. “Elvis does not drink. The purpose of the hospital stay is to try to diagnose the nature of the ailment”… "Laughter In The Rain" - Neil Sedaka February - Sonny Bono sues his wife Cher for more than $24 million charging she conspired with recording executive David Geffen and lawyers to defraud him of profits from television, recording and personal appearance agreements. He says her refusal to continue their “Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” … Singer Rod Stewart meets 17-year-old Susan Ford (daughter of the President) at his Washington concert and is invited by her to the White House to dine. Stewart said he missed the invite because he was unable to rent a plane from New York and had to decline… Top Pop Hit Music Single – “Laugher In The Rain” – Neil Sedaka… Divorced - Singer Andy Williams and Claudine Longet on grounds of irreconcilable differences. They were married in 1961, but had been separated for four years. They have three children - Noelle (11), Christian (9) and Robert (5)… Humble Pie will disband after a month-long farewell tour around March. Leader singer Steve Marriott will become solo and has signed with A&M Records (interesting, because A&M will also sign member Peter Frampton and he will become a superstar)…. At the 17th annual Grammies - Stevie Wonder gets best male pop vocalist and Olivia Newton John gets best female pop vocalist. Record of the year - “I Honestly Love You” - Olivia Newton John Aretha Franklin - Best Rhythm and Blues

According to the pangram, what jumps over the lazy dog?

As Mark tweeted today, there used to be a page on Wikipedia listing pangrams in various languages. This was deleted yesterday for the kind of reasons that only Wikipedians have ( It is mostly comprised of nonsense phrases thought up by people who apparently find this sort of thing terribly clever ). Pangrams are words or sentences containing every letter of the alphabet at least once; the best known English example being A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog . As well as containing some rather amusing gems, the pangrams in languages other than English can be occasionally useful for designers of all sorts. For that reason I have resurrected the page of pangrams here, pretty much as it was in Wikipedia. Contents Perfect pangrams in English (26 letters)[ edit ] Without abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, initialisms, isolated letters, proper nouns, Roman numerals[ edit ] Cwm fjord veg balks nth pyx quiz. (Relaxing in basins at the end of inlets terminates the endless tests from the box.) Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz. (Carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person.) [1] Jink cwm, zag veldt, fob qursh pyx. (Cross valley and plain to steal coins from Saudi mint. – created by Stephen Wagner) Junky qoph-flags vext crwd zimb. (An Abyssinian fly playing a Celtic violin was annoyed by trashy flags on which were the Hebrew letter qoph.) Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox! (A short brimless felt hat barely blocks out the sound of a Celtic violin. – created by Claude Shannon ) Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck (A grass-plains wryneck climbs upon a male yak-cattle hybrid that was donated under Islamic law.) Bortz waqf glyphs vex muck djin. (Signage indicating endowments for industrial diamonds annoy filth-spreading genies. – created by Ed Spargo) With abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms or proper nouns, all restricted to dictionary words[ edit ] Jumbling vext frowzy hacks PDQ . (Being bounced around quickly annoyed the disheveled taxi drivers. – all words in high school dictionary) PR flacks quiz gym: TV DJ box when? (Public relations agent asks sports room, when do television disc jockeys fight?) Zing, dwarf jocks vex lymph, Qutb . (Making a high-pitched sound, short athletes annoy their white blood plasma and an Islamic saint. – created by Peter M. Lella) Zing, vext cwm fly jabs Kurd qoph . (Making a high-pitched sound, annoyed mountain basin insect sticks Hebrew letter.) Kat veld zubr gif cwm jynx qophs. (European bison of a shrubby African plain make digital image files of Semitic letters from valley wrynecks. – discovered by Da-Shih Hu) With abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, initialisms, isolated letters, proper nouns, Roman Numerals and not restricted to Dictionary Words[ edit ] A zenith of Xvurj’s cwm KL Gybdq Zombies play crwth, quj FDG xvnk Blowzy night-frumps vex’d Jack Q. Dwarf mobs quiz lynx.jpg, kvetch! (Crowd of midgets question picture of wildcat, then complain.) Frowzy things plumb vex’d Jack Q. G.B. fjords vex quick waltz nymph. Glum Schwartzkopf vex’d by NJ IQ. Gym DJ Beck vows phiz tranq flux. (Beck, the gymnasium DJ, promises a change in facial tranquilizers.) Jerk gawps foxy Qum Blvd. chintz. JFK got my VHS, PC and XLR web quiz. Jocks find quartz glyph, vex BMW. J.Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp. J.Q. Schwartz flung D.V. Pike my box. Jump dogs, why vex Fritz Blank QC? Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx. New job: fix Mr. Gluck’s hazy TV, PDQ! (includes 5 punctuation symbols ) Quartz glyph job vex’d cwm finks. (The act of carving symbols into quartz irritated ruffians from a Welsh river valley.) Quartz jock vends BMW glyph fix. The glib czar junks my VW Fox PDQ. Longer pangrams in English (in order of fewest letters used)[ edit ] Nymphs blitz quick vex dwarf jog. (27 letters) DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. (27 letters) (2 acronyms, 1 abbreviation and a US spelling) Big fjords vex quick waltz nymph. (27 letters) Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph. (27 letters) Waltz job vexed quick frog nymphs. (28 letters) (new variation on 29 letter version) Junk MTV qu

Known as The Centennial State, what was the 38th state to join the Union on August 1, 1876?

August 1, 1876 � Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. - Democratic Underground Sherman A1 (18,750 posts) August 1, 1876 � Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. Colorado (i/kɒləˈr�doʊ/,) is a U.S. state encompassing most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Southwestern United States, and the Mountain States. Colorado is the 8th most extensive and the 22nd most populous of the 50 United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Colorado was 5,187,582 on July 1, 2012, an increase of +3.15% since the 2010 United States Census. The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the R�o Colorado for the red colored (Spanish: colorado) silt the river carried from the mountains. On August 1, 1876, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation admitting Colorado as the 38th state. Colorado is nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it was admitted to the Union in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence. Colorado is bordered by the northwest state of Wyoming to the north, the Midwest states of Nebraska and Kansas to the northeast and east, on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma, on the west by Utah, and Arizona to the southwest. The four states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona meet at one common point known as the Four Corners, which is known as the heart of the American Southwest. Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. Denver is the capital and the most populous city of Colorado. Residents of the state are properly known as "Coloradans", although the term "Coloradoan" is still used

October 9th, 1967, saw the execution of major asshat Ernesto “Che” Guevara by soldiers from which South American Country?

The Death of Che Guevara: U.S. declassified documents The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified By Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 5 For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or [email protected] Washington, D.C. – On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world. As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA, State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death. This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive, and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Knopf), and Henry Butterfield Ryan's The Fall of Che Guevara (Oxford University Press). The selected documents, presented in order of the events they depict, provide only a partial picture of U.S. intelligence and military assessments, reports and extensive operations to track and "destroy" Che Guevara's guerrillas in Bolivia; thousands of CIA and military records on Guevara remain classified. But they do offer significant and valuable information on the high-level U.S. interest in tracking his revolutionary activities, and U.S. and Bolivian actions leading up to his death.     DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CIA, The Fall of Che Guevara and the Changing Face of the Cuban Revolution, October 18, 1965 This intelligence memorandum, written by a young CIA analyst, Brian Latell, presents an assessment that Guevara's preeminence as a leader of the Cuban revolution has waned, and his internal and international policies have been abandoned. In domestic policy, his economic strategy of rapid industrialization has "brought the economy to its lowest point since Castro came to power," the paper argues. In foreign policy, he "never wavered from his firm revolutionary stand, even as other Cuban leaders began to devote most of their attention to the internal problems of the revolution." With Guevara no longer in Cuba, the CIA's assessment concludes, "there is no doubt that Castro's more cautious position on exporting revolution, as well as his different economic approach, led to Che's downfall."   U.S. Army, Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Activation, Organization and Training of the 2d Battalion - Bolivian Army, April 28, 1967 This memorandum of understanding, written by the head of the U.S. MILGP (Military Group) in Bolivia and signed by the commander of the Bolivian armed forces, created the Second Ranger Battalion to pursue Che Guevara's guerrilla band. The agreement specifies the mission of a sixteen-member Green Beret team of U.S. special forces, drawn from the 8th Special Forces division of the U.S. Army Forces at Southcom in Panama, to "produce a rapid reaction force capable of counterinsurgency operations and skilled to the degree that four months of intensive training can be absorbed by the personnel presented by the Bolivian Armed Forces." In October, the 2nd Battalion, aided by U.S. military and CIA personnel, did engage and capture Che Guevara's small band of rebels.   White House Memorandum, May 11, 1967 This short memo to President Lyndon Johnson records U.S. efforts to track Guevara's movements, and keep the President informed of his whereabouts. Written by presidential advisor, Walt Rostow, the memo reports that Guevara may be "operational" and not dead as the CIA apparently believed after his disappearance from Cuba.   CIA, Intelligence Information Cable, October 17, 1967 T

What is the name of the race car driven by Speed Racer in the late 1960s series of the same name?

List of Speed Racer cars | Speed Racer | Fandom powered by Wikia List of Speed Racer cars List of Speed Racer cars 338pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Here is a list of cars from the Speed Racer Film and the original series Speed Racer (1967) , as well as various Speed Racer media. Contents In the 2008 Speed Racer Film The Augury is Racer X 's T-180 WRL race car. It's color and number a Augury re similar to that of his personal/rally car, originally called The Shooting Star in the original series (no name is officially given for his personal car in the movie). The Augury appears only in the 2008 film and Speed Racer The Videogame for Nintendo Wii and PS2. A race car driven by Prince Kim Jugger  of  Flathill Country . The Black Tiger is a formidible rally car. First appearing in the episode The Desperate Desert Race (Part 1) , The Black Tiger features a fully sealed cockpit and specially modified brake Black Tiger s. The Black Tiger sees its fair share of tragedy however, as it is first blown up and restored, just to be lost to the desert quicksand during a 1 on 1 desert race against Speed Racer . The Black Tiger is black and gold, with a red 4 on the hood, red highlights, and a yellow 4 on each side. Captain Terror's Car Captain Terror's Car Captain Terror is the leader of the infamous Car Acrobatic Team . He and the other members develop an early hatred for Speed Racer and the Mach 5 during the Big Alpine Race . Although his car is unammed Captain Terror's Car is a formidible racing machine with a skilled driver behind the wheel. Captain Terror's Car is red with yellow highlights and is number 11. A pale-green car driven by Sonic "Boom Boom" Renaldi in the movie. It is number 33, and sponsered by Codelian Chalkhead Autonomics. Replica Mach 5 The replica of the Mach 5 that was made by a man called Cumulus, to frame Speed for robbery in the episode "Mach 5 vs. Mach 5" The plan backfires when he is caught and put into jail. The Replica Mach 5 also had a Mismo Beam under it's hood. The fate of the car after this episode is unknown... A black and gray car driven by the Grey Ghost in the movie. Although never actually seen, various media hints Fumee that the Fumee can turn invisible. The car has overall great acceleration, but poor stats everywhere else. The car's number is 23 but the '3' is reversed showing the symbol 2E, representing the company Ecran Etablissement. GRX GRX In the Speed Racer (1967) series the GRX is a car named after its revolutionary prototype engine. Its sleek and fashionable body hides a fearsome car that has even taken the lives of several test drivers. The car is yellow in the anime, gold in it's various diecast versions, and purple with gold highlights in the film. It is first introduced in the episode The Fastest Car on Earth (Part 1) . In the Speed Racer Film the GRX is driven by Royalton Industries top driver Jack "Cannonball" Taylor . In the WRL Grand Prix it is outfitted with an illegal "spear hook" but until then had no other non-standard modifications. In the Speed Racer Film it is number 66. Hangul The Hangul The Hangul is Taejo Togokhan 's racer. Built by his fathers company, Togokahn Motors, The Hangul is the car Taejo used in the Casa Cristo. The Hangul is not officially named in the Speed Racer Film but is named in Speed Racer The Videogame . In both media however, Taejo Togokhan 's car is red, with black dragon "tattoos", and is number 77. Hydrophiidae The Hydrophiidae The Hydrophiidae is Snake Oiler 's T-180 . Unlike his rally car used in the Casa Cristo the Hydrophiidae is only seen a handful of times in the Speed Racer Film . It is however a playable car in Speed Racer The Videogame . The Hydrophiidae  is number 12, and is sponsored by the Hydra-cell racing tream. Mach 1 Mach 1 The Mach 1 is the first car Pops Racer

From the French for bottom of the bag, what is the name for a dead end street, usually circular at the end?

Cul-de-Sac vs. Dead-End Street: From a Real Estate Perspective | The Truth About Realty.com Cul-de-Sac vs. Dead-End Street: From a Real Estate Perspective Mr. Real Estate April 25, 2012 3 Comments » Cul-de-Sac Definition Even if you’ve never shopped for real estate, you’ve undoubtedly heard both the term “cul-de-sac” and “dead end.” And you’ve likely driven on both types of roads. Often times they are used interchangeably, but they are really two different things, regardless of what your very interested (and biased) real estate agent tells you. Let’s start by defining “cul-de-sac,” which in French literally means “bottom of the bag.” This expression can translate to “dead end” as well, since the bottom of the bag is also the end of the bag. Put another way, a dead-end is a street with no outlet, meaning there’s only one way in and one way out. The distinction with a cul-de-sac is that it has a circular end, meaning you can turn your car around in one seamless action, instead of having to pull an Austin Powers 40-point turn to get out of there. Bringing it all together, a cul-de-sac is a dead end street, but not all dead-end streets are cul-de-sacs. Make sense? Cul-de-Sac Is a Real Estate Plus If you have been looking for a new house lately, you may have seen the phrase “cul-de-sac” used to highlight a home’s value. But why? Well, as mentioned, a cul-de-sac is a circular dead-end street, so it’s not a through street. At first glance, this may sound like a negative. You’re trapped. But wait. That also means everyone and their mother won’t use your street as a shortcut on their daily commute each morning. That’s certainly a relief! It also means your street will be that much more quiet and peaceful. And your children should have a safer place to play, without having to constantly yell “car,” followed by, “game on!” So this is essentially why a cul-de-sac can bring value to a home that resides on one. Dead-End Streets Can Be a Dead End Conversely, a dead-end street may hurt a home’s value. Why? Well, dead-end streets that aren’t cul-de-sacs abruptly end. In other words, the end of the street usually has a wall blocking it off from other areas of the neighborhood, and there’s usually a big yellow sign that tells you it’s the end of the line. Doesn’t really give you that warm and fuzzy friendly neighborhood vibe, does it? Aside from this being visually unattractive, it also means there is a lot less surface area on the street. So if you get to the end of a dead-end street, it will be very difficult to turn around. Parking at the end of the street will also be very tricky, not to mention limited. So a pure dead-end street can be both an eyesore and a pain in the rear, which could equate to a lower house value. It’s not the end of the world, but you may feel a little claustrophobic and cramped. If you don’t believe me, drive down both a cul-de-sac and a dead-end and you’ll see what I’m talking about. You can actually feel the difference.

On Oct 14, 1912, what former president, and all around bad-assed, was shot during a campaign speech, and proceeded to deliver a 90 minute speech?

Titanic Newspaper Articles April 1- April 14, 1912 by BACM Research - issuu Will Be Collected by Americans Appointed by Taft Spec al to T c il.cw York Tur.ts W,\.SHINGTON March 31-NegoUa tlons ha~e no" reached a pomt where the State Departm"n hopes tl at a group of Southern banks rna:> be successful in 0.1" ranging for the $10000 000 Hand uran loan trom "hlch the Morgan group In New York has ."Ithdrawn as a result of the Senate s delav In l'atlfylng tho treaty The Southern banks through the Whltnev Central Trus and Sa~lngs Bank of New Orleans ha e made offers eliminating many of the features found objectionable by the Senate and these changes have al ready been accepted by the Honduran Congress The Morgan plan for [,nanemg railway de\ elopn;tent In Honduras has not been ~en by the Southern syndicate and their loan will be confllled to refunding the na tiona.! debt of Honduras The fees for the work of the bank m floating the loan are reduced from $450 000 to $300 000 The ract that the loan as now negotiated will come trom Southern sources instead of tram Wall Street is expected to attract DemocratIo support for fmal ratification of the agreement wben it reaches the treaty stage The otter of a $10000 000 loan by the ~orga.n grOUP recently was withdrawn '.rho Bouthern ba.nkers It is announced ~vo offered a simIlar amount under a new and radically dIfferent contract. 'rhey propose to limit the first Issuance CIt bonds to $6000000 and will require Of Honduras $300 000 a J ear to meet the cernce of the loan as compared With .~O.OOO a. year under the former contract. Il'he offIcIal announcement of the new lo~ issued to day by the State Depart JUent J?8.YB 1n part .. 'l'he Southern bankers lIm t the uses JCIf the!? loan exclus!. ely to the refund !n&' of the Honduran foreign debt and dis ~ the proposals of the Morgan group 't.b promote railroad bu alllg and other internal tmprovements and to settle internal debts and claims pending against the Honduran Government It was these prm;lsion" extendmg the aBeS of the loan beyond the settlement of the ~oreign debt that aroused critic sm against the Morgan contract ar d the Southern bankers assert that in el m nat inS these features they ha, e presented terms satisfactory to Honduras and that aoceptance of the loan may be expected - Their optimism as to Its fmal accept ance. however is based stmply upon the approval given their contract by Indlv d U{!l offlctals of the Go," ernment of Hon auras who have closely studied their otter With the general public In Hon uura.s the Southern bankers find them 6elves handicapped by a widespread ;prejudice toward loans In any form and say tha.t this oppos t on Das undoubtedlY been aUgIUented by the fa lure ot the Senate to ratifv the can' ention 11: the Senate rat fles the con.ention now and gh es to the " I Itney contract the taCIt approval which such actIOn 1m pUes it w II It is declared produce a ) wa" e of reaction m Honduras dissipating the blmd prejut! ce and Po., inS the way for a sane conSideration of the "\.. hltne~ contract on Its merlts The OPPOSition In Honduras to the loan COl ventlOn has been almost wholly due 1.0 ns connection w th the Morgan contract against v. hlCh popu lar opposttion had been aroused and" th the can.. entiOD dIvorced from that can tract and resubm tted III connection" Ith a. new contract indIrect! v approved by the United States Senate and Indorsed bv many promInent offic als 1n Honduras the bankers feel conftdent of its complete suc I t ces~he new offer as de!;crlbed by ,\ctlng "1:.ecretary Huntington Wilson is for a ($6000000 loan pa' able In fortv :years Wltll interest at the I ate of 5 per cent. and WIth a. sinking fund after fn e years of 1 per cent The bonds are to be secured by the customs re\ienue of Honduras col lected as prOVided for III the loan con ventlOn by '\'mer cans apPOinted by Hon dura.. with the approval of the President of the "LnltEd States Connec ed ",tb the New Orleans bankers is the fIrm of W,1 lIam C Sheldon & Co of New York E.en berole the New York bankers had WIthdrawn formalh the r offe

Kimchi, a fermented dish usually based on cabbage, radishes, green onions, or cucumber, is a staple of what country's food?

1000+ images about KIMCHI on Pinterest | Kimchi recipe, Cabbages and Korean style How to make Kimchi NEED TO TRY THIS CUZ ONE'S I KEEP BUYING FROM KOREAN STORE FERMENTS BUBBLES AND MAKES A TERRIBLE MESS IN FRIDGE!!!! See More

A block and tackle is an apparatus that utilizes what simple machine?

Block and tackle - definition of block and tackle by The Free Dictionary Block and tackle - definition of block and tackle by The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/block+and+tackle Also found in: Thesaurus , Medical , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . block and tackle Half the pull (p) is required to lift the weight (w) with a two-pulley block and tackle unit. block and tackle n. An apparatus of pulley blocks and ropes or cables used for hauling and hoisting heavy objects. block and tackle n (Mechanical Engineering) a hoisting device in which a rope or chain is passed around a pair of blocks containing one or more pulleys. The upper block is secured overhead and the lower block supports the load, the effort being applied to the free end of the rope or chain block′ and tack′le the ropes or chains and blocks used in a hoisting tackle. [1830–40] block and tackle (blŏk) A device consisting of a fixed pulley and a movable one, in which the rope attached to the load is passed over the fixed pulley, around the movable pulley, then back around the fixed one. Each pulley can have multiple grooves or wheels for the rope to pass over additional times. The more times the rope is passed around the two pulleys, the less effort is needed to raise a load. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: block and tackle - pulley blocks with associated rope or cable hoist - lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects pulley , pulley block , pulley-block , block - a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope Translations Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us , add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content . Link to this page: Write what you mean clearly and correctly. References in classic literature ? They divided it into cakes by methods too well known to require description, and these, being sledded to the shore, were rapidly hauled off on to an ice platform, and raised by grappling irons and block and tackle, worked by horses, on to a stack, as surely as so many barrels of flour, and there placed evenly side by side, and row upon row, as if they formed the solid base of an obelisk designed to pierce the clouds.

“We Report. You Decide.”, “The Most Powerful Name in News” , and “Fair & Balanced” are among the slogans used by what cable TV news channel?

The Most Biased Name in News | FAIR The Most Biased Name in News Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt By Seth Ackerman “I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.”–Rupert Murdoch (Salon, 3/1/01) Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives’ frequent denunciations of “liberal bias” in the media were part of “a strategy” (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: “If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.”   Rupert Murdoch (photo: Monika Flueckiger/World Economic Forum) But when Fox News Channel , Rupert Murdoch’s 24-hour cable network, debuted in 1996, a curious thing happened: Instead of denouncing it, conservative politicians and activists lavished praise on the network. “If it hadn’t been for Fox, I don’t know what I’d have done for the news,” Trent Lott gushed after the Florida election recount (Washington Post, 2/5/01). George W. Bush extolled Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snow–a former speechwriter for Bush’s father–and his “impressive transition to journalism” in a specially taped April 2001 tribute to Snow’s Sunday-morning show on its five-year anniversary (Washington Post, 5/7/01). The right-wing Heritage Foundation had to warn its staffers not to watch so much Fox News on their computers, because it was causing the think tank’s system to crash. When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives don’t feel the need to “work the ref.” The ref is already on their side. Since its 1996 launch, Fox has become a central hub of the conservative movement’s well-oiled media machine. Together with the GOP organization and its satellite think tanks and advocacy groups, this network of fiercely partisan outlets–such as the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaugh’s–forms a highly effective right-wing echo chamber where GOP-friendly news stories can be promoted, repeated and amplified. Fox knows how to play this game better than anyone. Yet, at the same time, the network bristles at the slightest suggestion of a conservative tilt. In fact, wrapping itself in slogans like “Fair and balanced” and “We report, you decide,” Fox argues precisely the opposite: Far from being a biased network, Fox argues, it is the only unbiased network. So far, Fox‘s strategy of aggressive denial has worked surprisingly well; faced with its unblinking refusal to admit any conservative tilt at all, some commentators have simply acquiesced to the network’s own self-assessment. FAIR has decided to take a closer look. “Coming next, drug addicted pregnant women no longer have anything to fear from the authorities thanks to the Supreme Court. Both sides on this in a moment.”–Bill O’Reilly (O’Reilly Factor, 3/23/01)  Roger Ailes at Fox Anniversary Event/Photo: AP/Jim Cooper Fox‘s founder and president, Roger Ailes, was for decades one of the savviest and most pugnacious Republican political operatives in Washington, a veteran of the Nixon and Reagan campaigns. Ailes is most famous for his role in crafting the elder Bush’s media strategy in the bruising 1988 presidential race. With Ailes’ help, Bush turned a double-digit deficit in the polls into a resounding win by targeting the GOP’s base of white male voters in the South and West, using red-meat themes like Michael Dukakis’ “card-carrying” membership in the ACLU, his laissez-faire attitude toward flag-burning, his alleged indifference to the pledge of allegiance–and, of course, paroled felon Willie Horton. Described by fellow Bush aide Lee Atwater as having “two speeds–attack and destroy,” Ailes once jocularly told a Time reporter (8/22/88): “The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it.” Later, as a producer for Rush Limbaugh’s short-lived TV show, he was fond of calling Bill Clinton the “hippie president” and lashing out at “liberal bigots” (Washington Times, 5/11/93). It is these two sensibi

Which sport announced a recent hiatus in the beginning of their season due to the inability to adopt on a new collective bargaining agreement?

Olympic Games | Ice Hockey Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Medalists Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was transferred permanently to the Winter Olympic Games programme in 1924. The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics . The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes until 1988, and the National Hockey League (NHL) did not allow its players to compete until 1998. From 1924 to 1988, the tournament started with a round-robin series of games and ended with the medal round. Medals were awarded based on points accumulated during that round. The games of the tournament follow the rules of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), which differ slightly from the rules used in the NHL . The tournament follows the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) rules on Use of performance enhancing drugs and the IIHF maintains a Registered Testing Pool, a list of top players who are subjected to random in-competition and out-of-competition drug tests. Several players have tested positive for banned substances since the 1972 Winter Olympics . In the men's tournament, Canada was the most successful team of the first three decades, winning six of seven gold medals. Czechoslovakia , Sweden and the United States were also competitive during this period and won multiple medals. Between 1920 and 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also counted as the Ice Hockey World Championship for that year. The Soviet Union first participated in 1956 and overtook Canada as the dominant international team, winning seven of the nine tournaments in which they participated. The United States won gold medals in 1960 and in 1980 , which included their " Miracle on Ice " upset of the Soviet Union. Canada went 50 years without a gold medal, before winning one in 2002 , and following it up with another in 2010 . Other nations to win gold include Great Britain in 1936 , the Unified Team in 1992 , Sweden in 1994 and 2006 and the Czech Republic]] in 1998 . Other medal-winning nations include Switzerland,Germany,Finland and Russia]]. In 1986, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to allow all athletes to compete in Olympic Games held after 1988. The NHL was initially reluctant to allow its players to compete because the Olympics are held in the middle of the NHL season, and the league would have to halt play if many of its players participated. However, NHL players were allowed to compete starting in 1998. The format of the tournament was adjusted to accommodate the NHL schedule; a preliminary round was played without NHL players or the top six teams—Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States—followed by a final round which included them. The tournament format was changed again in 2006; every team played five preliminary games with the full use of NHL players. In July 1992, the IOC voted to approve women's hockey as an Olympic event; it was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. The Nagano Organizing Committee was hesitant to include the event because of the additional costs of staging the tournament, but an agreement was reached that limited the field to six teams, and ensured that no additional facilities would be built. The Canadian and American teams have dominated the event, typically losing only to each other. The United States won the first tournament in 1998, while Canada won in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Contents Edit The first Olympic ice hockey tournament took place at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , Belgium . [1] At the time, organised international ice hockey was still relatively new. [2] The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the sport's governing body, was created on May 15, 1908, under the name Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace. [3] At the 1914 Olympic Congress in Paris, ice hockey was added to the list of optional sports that Olympics organisers could include. [4] The decision to include ice hockey for the 1920 Summer Olympics wa

From the Norwegian for Heavy Stone, what element, with an atomic number of 74, uses the symbol W?

It's Elemental - The Element Tungsten It's Elemental Melting Point: 3695 K (3422°C or 6192°F) Boiling Point: 5828 K (5555°C or 10031°F) Density: 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter Phase at Room Temperature: Solid Element Classification: Metal Period Number: 6    Group Number: 6    Group Name: none What's in a name? From the Swedish words tung sten, which mean "heavy stone." Tungsten's chemical symbol comes from its eariler, Germanic name, Wolfram. The name Wolfram comes from the mineral wolframite, in which it was discovered. Wolframite means "the devourer of tin" since the mineral interferes with the smelting of tin. Say what? Tungsten is pronounced as TUNG-sten. History and Uses: Tungsten was discovered by Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar, Spanish chemists and brothers, in 1783 in samples of the mineral wolframite ((Fe, Mn)WO4). Today, tungsten is primarily obtained from wolframite and scheelite (CaWO4) using the same basic method developed by José and Elhuyar. Tungsten ores are crushed, cleaned and treated with alkalis to form tungsten trioxide (WO3). Tungsten trioxide is then heated with carbon or hydrogen gas (H2), forming tungsten metal and carbon dioxide (CO2) or tungsten metal and water vapor (H2O). Pure tungsten is a light gray or whitish metal that is soft enough to be cut with a hacksaw and ductile enough to be drawn into wire or extruded into various shapes. If contaminated with other materials, tungsten becomes brittle and difficult to work with. Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metallic elements and is used to make filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes. Tungsten expands at nearly the same rate as borosilicate glass and is used to make metal to glass seals. Tungsten is also used as a target for X-ray production, as heating elements in electric furnaces and for parts of spacecraft and missiles which must withstand high temperatures. Tungsten is alloyed with steel to form tough metals that are stable at high temperatures. Tungsten-steel alloys are used to make such things as high speed cutting tools and rocket engine nozzles. Tungsten carbide (WC) is an extremely hard tungsten compound. It is used in the tips of drill bits, high speed cutting tools and in mining machinery. Tungsten disulfide (WS2) is a dry lubricant that can be used to temperatures as high as 500°C. Tungsten forms compounds with calcium and magnesium that have phosphorescent properties and are used in fluorescent light bulbs. Estimated Crustal Abundance: 1.25 milligrams per kilogram Estimated Oceanic Abundance: 1×10-4 milligrams per liter Number of Stable Isotopes: 2   ( View all isotope data ) Ionization Energy: 7.98 eV

For a point each, name the 2 countries surrounding the Kingdom of Swaziland.

Swaziland facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Swaziland Kingdom of Swaziland CAPITAL: Mbabane (administrative and judicial); Lobamba (royal and parliamentary) FLAG: Blue, yellow, crimson, yellow, and blue stripes with the shield and spears of the Emasotsha regiment superimposed on the crimson stripe. ANTHEM: National Anthem, beginning "O God, bestower of the blessings of the Swazi." MONETARY UNIT: The lilangeni (pl. emalangeni; e) of 100 cents is a paper currency equal in value to the South African rand, which also is legal tender. There are coins of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents, 1 lilangeni, and notes of 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 emalangeni. e1 = $0.16129 (or $1 = e6.2) as of 2005. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: The metric system replaced imperial weights and measures in September 1969. HOLIDAYS: New Year's Day, 1 January; Commonwealth Day, 2nd Monday in March; National Flag Day, 25 April; Birthday of King Sobhuza II, 22 July; Umhlanga (Reed Dance) Day, last Monday in August; Somhlolo (Independence) Day, 6 September; UN Day, 24 October; Christmas Day, 25 December; Boxing Day, 26 December. Movable religious holidays include Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Monday, Ascension, and the Incwala Ceremony. TIME: 2 pm = noon GMT. LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT A landlocked country in southern Africa, Swaziland has an area of 17,363 sq km (6,704 sq mi), extending 176 km (109 mi) n–s and 135 km (84 mi) e–w. Comparatively, the area occupied by Swaziland is slightly smaller than the state of New Jersey . It is bounded by Mozambique on the ne and by the Republic of South Africa (including the homelands) on the se, s, w, and n, with a total boundary length of 535 km (332 mi). Swaziland's capital city, Mbabane, is located in the northwest part of the country. TOPOGRAPHY The country is divided west-to-east into four well defined regions, the first three being of roughly equal breadth. The four regions extend north and south and are known as the high, middle, and low veld, and the Lebombo plain and escarpment. The high veld on the west has an average altitude of 1,050 m to 1,200 m (3445 to 3,937 ft). The middle veld averages about 450 to 600 m (1,476 to 1,969 ft), and the low or bush veld less than 300 m (984 ft). The Lebombo plain, at an average height of 610 m (2,000 ft), extends to the Lebombo escarpment, which is part of the Lebombo Mountains in the east. The entire country is traversed by rivers or streams, making it one of the best watered areas in southern Africa. The longest river is the Great Usutu, which stretches roughly from west to east across the center of the country for a total distance of 217 km (135 mi). CLIMATE The high veld has a humid near-temperate climate with about 140 cm (55 in) of mean annual rainfall. The middle veld is subtropical and somewhat drier, with about 85 cm (33 in) of annual rainfall; the low veld, almost tropical, is subhumid, receiving about 60 cm (24 in) of rain in an average year. Rainfall tends to be concentrated in a few violent storms in the summer (October–March). Temperatures range from as low as -3°c (27°f) in winter in the highlands to as high as 42°c (108°f) in summer in the lowlands. At Mbabane, temperatures average 20°c (68°f) in January and 12°c (54°f) in July. FLORA AND FAUNA Grassland, savanna, mixed bush, and scrub cover most of Swaziland. There is some forest in the highlands. Flora include aloes, orchids, and begonias. Large indigenous mammals include the blue wildebeest, kudu, impala, zebra, waterbuck, and hippopotamus; however, wildlife has become very scarce outside the protected areas. Crocodiles live in the lowland rivers. Bird life is plentiful and includes the European stork, sacred ibis, and gray heron. ENVIRONMENT The chief environmental problem is soil erosion and degradation, particularly because of overgrazing. Population growth and the increased demand for fuel has threatened the country's forests, and the resulting deforestation has contributed to the loss of valuable soil. Swaziland has at least four protected areas for wildlife—two wildlife sanctuaries

October 10, 1973 saw the resignation of which Maryland politician, Nixon's first vice president, following charges of tax evasion?

Vice President Agnew resigns - Oct 10, 1973 - HISTORY.com Vice President Agnew resigns Publisher A+E Networks Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. He was subsequently fined $10,000, sentenced to three years probation, and disbarred by the Maryland court of appeals. Agnew, a Republican, was elected chief executive of Baltimore County in 1961. In 1967, he became governor of Maryland, an office he held until his nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1968. During Nixon’s successful campaign, Agnew ran on a tough law-and-order platform, and as vice president he frequently attacked opponents of the Vietnam War and liberals as being disloyal and un-American. Reelected with Nixon in 1972, Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973, after the U.S. Justice Department uncovered widespread evidence of his political corruption, including allegations that his practice of accepting bribes had continued into his tenure as U.S. vice president. He died at the age of 77 on September 17, 1996. Under the process decreed by the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, President Nixon was instructed to the fill vacant office of vice president by nominating a candidate who then had to be approved by both houses of Congress. Nixon’s appointment of Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan was approved by Congress and, on December 6, Ford was sworn in. He became the 38th president of the United States on August 9, 1974, after the escalating Watergate affair caused Nixon to resign. Related Videos

What was the name of the gypsy girl that Quasimodo fell in love with in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo’s Love Letter To Medieval Paris | words that burn The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo’s Love Letter To Medieval Paris / juvenilemetaphysics Novels, if written properly, exist to cause the reader to either love or hate a time, person or place. Joyce’s Ulysses leaves those who are brave enough to finish the journey longing to visit Dublin; to be a part of the cobbled streets, the small highstreet shops and the bustling, fresh atmosphere which correlates with the Irish way of life. Who can say that they have read Fitzgerald’s illustrious classic, The Great Gatsby, and never once longed to see Long Island in the 1920s, to explore it with Nick Carraway’s ocular perspective? Martin Amis collects the dregs of the Manhattan underworld in Money, shaking the city’s brittle reputation; Philip Larkin relives his mortifying experiences as a undergraduate at Oxford in the subtly autobiographical Jill, and Emily Bronte caused the expanse of the Yorkshire Moors to become a literary minefield, visited by those in fear (and perhaps hope) that an unsettled spirit may press her hand against their window. Many novelists have taken their readers, lackadaisically, into constructed worlds of capital cities. If there is one book that shall remain a pillar of medieval Paris, that is a martyr to the city’s architecture and way of life in the ancient world, it is Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, translated, rather unusually, as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.  The Anglicised title is unusual for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the direct translation from French (and certainly the most accurate) is Notre Dame of Paris. The great structure of Notre Dame remains a stony, unchallenged metaphor in this slowly-unfurled tragedy of change and discovery. Secondly, Quasimodo, although often mistaken as such, is not the novel’s central character, but one of a select few. His story is explored at length alongside those of La Esmerelda, the sixteen year old gypsy, Claude Frollo, a scholar who took pity on Quasimodo when he was abandoned as an infant, and Pierre Gringoire, a playwright, who is married (albeit unconventionally) to Esmerelda. These characters have their own lives to live, and each run blackly through the pages, alongside each other in parallel streaks.  The novel opens in 1482, with the joint celebration of The Feast Of Fools and Twelfth Night. The Feast Of Fools, designed inexplicably for the people of Paris to laugh at the deformed, disabled and unfortunate citizens, sees the deaf, one eyed, hunchbacked Quasimodo, named after the weekend that follows Easter Sunday, being paraded through the streets like an animal. I have explained previously that tragic novels offer their readers a different kind of sadness – and Notre Dame delivers an unexpected blow, with sharp stabs of pain being offered amidst jocular sentences. There is a scene whereupon Quasimodo is being openly mocked, and as he is deaf, and unable to lip read under such extenuating circumstances, does not understand. He responds to the remarks by telling them his name, and is immediately shouted down by those who brand him as ‘scum.’ Perhaps the most devastating part for the reader is Quasimodo’s calm acceptance that he is hideous, an outcast, and too disgusting to be spared a glance. His cool comprehension of this is delivered, by Hugo, in eloquent paragraphs. The author makes no apology for the tragedy unfolding before him, for that is what Notre Dame is, a tragedy. For those that come to Notre Dame expecting instant gratification and a rewarding, mutually agreed, love story – select Wuthering Heights instead. Or Pride and Prejudice, if you wish for something less tumultuous and have a penchant for double weddings. It is a slow burning novel with an ending that shall make your unknowing soul plummet, filled with malevolent characters that have been previously damaged.  There is only one love story contained within the pages of this novel, and that is the one that exists between Victor Hugo and medieval Paris. The narrative is consciously put o

Oct 14, 1926 saw the introduction of what favorite A. A. Milne character, known for his love of hunny?

History of Winnie the Pooh | Winnie the Pooh About History of Winnie the Pooh During the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short. Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934. The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin , son of author A.A. Milne . It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood . These other characters , such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. The characters, Rabbit and Owl, were based on animals that lived, like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home, Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest , Sussex. It is this area on which the 100-Acre-Wood was based. 'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in 1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard , which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favorites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over! The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all over the world. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proven to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, twenty years after the release of the first feature-length animated film, Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off. In February 2000 Disney released the third Winnie the Pooh movie called 'The Tigger Movie', this time with the leading part for Tigger . © All rights reserved. 1998-2017 EMGJ consulting © Characters, pictures & their names Disney Content is property of its respective owners & is provided for informational & educational purposes only.

The Vitruvian Man, a famous drawing of a nude man in two superimposed positions with arms and legs apart, inscribed in a circle within a square, was drawn by whom?

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci – Facts & History of the Drawing View Complete Works Leonardo da Vinci drew The Vitruvian Man in approximately 1487 in one of his notebooks. This world-famous drawing is also known as the Canon of Properties or Proportions of Man. The Vitruvian Man blends art and science and showcases da Vinci’s interest in proportion. It also provides an example of da Vinci’s attempt to make connections between man and nature. The drawing currently resides in the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Italy and is rarely shown. History Leonardo da Vinci had a great interest in science as well as art. While the concepts of human proportion had been studied for centuries, his drawing was unique due to some modifications he made based upon his own observations. Multiple examples of anatomical sketches exist and may have served as inspiration or source material for da Vinci. However, his primary inspiration came from the work of Vitruvius, a famous Roman architect. His background in geometry and anatomy gave da Vinci a unique ability to apply geometric principles to his artwork and The Vitruvian Man provides an excellent example of his ability to blend science and art. The Drawing The Vitruvian Man is a pen and ink drawing done on paper with a wash over metal-point accompanied by handwritten notes. In the drawing, two male figures are superimposed upon each other. The figures are shown with arms and legs extended in differing degrees of extension. One figure shows the legs slightly apart and the arms extended straight out from the shoulders. The other figure shows the legs moderately spread and the arms extended partway above the shoulders. In both figures, the head and torso are completely superimposed. The male figures are inscribed within a circle and a square, showing the geometric proportion of the human body. Markings upon the bodies serve to identify points used in establishing proportional measurements. In addition, the drawing includes shading and details indicating musculature and anatomical elements such as joints and genitalia. The Notes The drawing includes handwritten notes above and below the drawing. The notes are based upon the work of Vitruvius who described the human body as an example or source of proportion in Classical architecture. The text above the drawing lists specific measurements based upon the human body. In this paragraph, da Vinci inscribes some of Vitruvius’ observations and provides geometric ratios based upon the extension of the arms and legs. The notes beneath the drawing continue listing specific anatomical proportions. While the top portion provides specific measurements, the bottom listing focuses on proportions of the human body. For example, da Vinci noted the span of outstretched arms is equal to height. Each point used in determining the listed proportions are marked in the drawing and a line indicating length or dimension is included beneath the anatomical figures. Interpretation While da Vinci clearly references Vitruvius and uses his work as a basis for The Vitruvian Man, this sketch goes beyond the mathematical proportions of the human body. While Vitruvius considered the body a source of architectural proportion, da Vinci extended the observations and work by correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. In da Vinci’s drawing, changes to the original source material include shifts in the position of the enclosing square and variations in the height of the extended arms. These changes show a greater understanding of anatomy gained through da Vinci’s study of the human body. Although the drawing consists of two superimposed images, the combinations of limb positions allow 16 different poses to be observed. In addition to the anatomical and artistic value of The Vitruvian Man drawing, mathematicians have studied the drawing extensively and found numerous proportional rules and formulas in da Vinci’s work. The drawing aligns to an octagon, which serves as a geometric framework for the proportions of the human body. Close analysis of the

October 12, 1997 saw the death of what famed singer, born Henry Deutschendorf, when he lost control of his aircraft and crashed into the ocean near Pacific Grove, CA?

The Johnsville News: June 2008 The Johnsville News by John Prittie © 2007 - 2008 His hips and his thighs, were American-sized Full of hamburg and cheese from Wisconsin But as big asses go his was bigger than most And he liked his kielbasa well seasoned The hotdogs he ate bowlin’ sometimes stayed in his colon While the beer just went straight to his belly And surrounded his chest like a warm goose-down vest That shook when he laughed like mint jelly In a hospital suite in Detroit they all meet Called the Gastro-Enterology Clinic The proctologist chimes let’s get started on time Because lads this won’t be any picnic The gurney they found took all six hundred pounds That’s what Mr. Fitzgerald weighed empty Then later that night the endoscope went out of sight In the rectum of Edmund Fitzgerald Does anyone know where potato chips go When you eat the whole bag in one sitting How they churn in your gut ‘till they turn for your butt It’s no topic for polite conversation And further below it’s the colo-recto, That takes in all the seeds you’ve been sewin’ It all gets passed along like an old sailor’s song, But that ain’t the north wind that’s a’blowin’ They get really big fees for colonoscopies And it helps fill the hospitals’ coffers But if you’ve let yourself go it’s much better to know For your wives and your sons and your daughters So the doctor said Ed put this mask on your head It’s time for your examination Your 50 years old and if you haven’t been told You’re one pretty unhealthy lookin’ specimen Edmund lay on his side fully anesthetized While the doctor played alien invader Through caverns so tall, they had nodes in the wall, ‘Bout the size of old rusty lake freighters And now the legend lives on from the nurses on down To the guys that mopped up at their peril And one medical journal even ran the internals Of the rectum of Edmund Fitzgerald ---- The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee." The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the "Gales of November" came early. The ship was the pride of the American side coming back from some mill in Wisconsin. As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most with a crew and good captain well seasoned, concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms when they left fully loaded for Cleveland. And later that night when the ship's bell rang, could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'? [...] Items of Interest: BusinessWeek The Housing Abyss -- Why the worst may be yet to come as forces battering the market gain strength. And the remedy coming from Congress? It's likely to fall short of the mark. The housing crisis is entering a new and frightening stage. On June 24, Standard & Poor's announced that the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index had fallen more than 15% in April from a year earlier. Adjusted for inflation, the decline is the biggest since 1940-42, according to data collected by Yale University economist Robert Shiller. The risk for the financial system and the economy is that the price drop, already horrifying, will start feeding on itself. When home values fall low enough, hard-pressed homeowners become less able or less willing to keep paying their mortgages. That forces lenders to repossess homes and then dump them back on the market at fire-sale prices, which depresses prices further and leads to even more foreclosures... ---- NY Times: As Housing Bill Evolves, Crisis Grows Deeper -- When Congress started fashioning a sweeping rescue package for struggling homeowners earlier this year, 2.6 million loans were in trouble. But the problem has grown considerably in just six months and is continuing to worsen. More than three million borrowers are in distress, and analysts are forecasting a couple of million more will fall behind on their payments in the coming year as home prices fall further and the economy weakens... Represent

Originally starring Jack Lord, and recently remade, what TV show popularized the phrase “Book ’em, Danno”?

IMDb: Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "MUTe" Most Popular People With Biographies Matching "MUTe" 1-50 of 110 names. Liam Neeson Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College, Newcastle. However, in 1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater and made his professional acting debut in the play "The Risen People". After two years, Neeson moved to Dublin's Abbey Theater where he performed the classics. It was here that he was spotted by director John Boorman and was cast in the film Excalibur as Sir Gawain, his first high-profile film role. Through the 1980s Neeson appeared in a handful of films and British TV series - including The Bounty , A Woman of Substance , The Mission , and Duet for One - but it was not until he moved to Hollywood to pursue larger roles that he began to get noticed. His turn as a mute homeless man in Suspect garnered good reviews, as did supporting roles in The Good Mother and High Spirits - though he also starred in the best-to-be-forgotten Satisfaction , which also featured a then-unknown Julia Roberts - but leading man status eluded him until the cult favorite Darkman , directed by Sam Raimi . From there, Neeson starred in Under Suspicion and Ethan Frome , was hailed for his performance in Woody Allen 's Husbands and Wives , and ultimately was picked by Steven Spielberg to play Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List . The starring role in the Oscar-winning Holocaust film brought Neeson Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor. Also in 1993, he made his Broadway debut with a Tony-nominated performance in "Anna Christie", in which he co-starred with his future wife Natasha Richardson . The next year, the two also starred opposite Jodie Foster in the movie Nell , and were married in July of that year. Leading roles as the 18th century Scottish Highlander Rob Roy and the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins followed, and soon Neeson was solidified as one of Hollywood's top leading men. He starred in the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Qui-Gon Jinn, received a Golden Globe nomination for Kinsey , played the mysterious Ducard in Christopher Nolan 's Batman Begins , and provided the voice for Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . Neeson found a second surprise career as an action leading man with the release of Taken in early 2009, an unexpected box office hit about a retired CIA agent attempting to rescue his daughter from being sold into prostitution. However, less than two months after the release of the film, tragedy struck when Richardson suffered a fatal head injury while skiing and passed away days afterward. Neeson returned to high-profile roles in 2010 with two back-to-back big-budget films, Clash of the Titans and The A-Team , and returned to the action genre with Unknown , The Grey , Battleship and Taken 2 , as well as the sequel Wrath of the Titans . Neeson was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to drama. He has two sons from his marriage to Richardson: Micheal Richard Antonio Neeson (born June 22, 1995) and Daniel Jack Neeson (born August 27, 1996). Donnie Yen Martial artist and Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen was born to newspaper editor Klyster Yen and martial arts master Bow Sim Mark. At the age of four Yen started taking up martial arts from his mother, who taught him wushu and tai chi until the age of eleven when his family emigrated to Boston, MA. From there he continued mastering wushi and tai chi. But after developing a huge interest in martial arts he eventually began getting into various others martial art styles, such as taekwondo, kick-boxing, boxing, karate etc. When Yen was sixteen his parents sent

Oct 11, 1975 saw the introduction of what TV staple, hosted by George Carlin, with Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests?

1000+ images about Saturday Night Live--the original--the best! on Pinterest | Chevy, Buck henry and Chevy chase On October NBC premiered a show called NBC’s Saturday Night. It featured a cast including Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, George Coe and Michael O’Donoghue and was produced by Lorne Michaels. See More

Rescued earlier today, in what country were 33 gold/copper miners trapped below surface, since August 5th, setting a world record for the long time trapped in a mine?

Chile Mining Accident (2010) - The New York Times The New York Times Supported by Chile Mining Accident (2010) News about Chile Mining Accident (2010), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. More Updated: Oct. 12, 2011 On Oct. 13, 2010, 33 miners who had been trapped underground for more than two months all returned to the surface after a successful rescue operation that inspired Chile and riveted the world. The miners traveled up a narrow, nearly half-mile rescue shaft in a specially designed capsule. The final phase of the long rescue effort took roughly 22 hours. Luis Urzúa, the shift leader who organized the miners’ lives while they were underground, was the last to come up. Many of the miners came bounding out of their rescue capsule as pictures of energy and health, able not only to walk, but, in one case, to leap around, hug everyone in sight and lead cheers. Their apparent robustness was testimony to the rescue diet threaded down to them through the tiny borehole that reached them on Aug. 22, but also to the way they organized themselves to keep their environment clean, find water and get exercise. The miners hoped to sell their stories as well as file a lawsuit against the mining company. But one year after their globally televised rescue, after the worldwide spotlight faded and the trips and offers dwindled, the miners said that most of them were unemployed and that many were poorer than before. The emotional distress has been more lasting than the publicity. In October 2011, nine miners were receiving sick-leave pay for prolonged post-traumatic stress; a handful of others say they are seeing private therapists. Background On Aug. 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2,300 feet below the surface. For 17 days, there was no word on their fate. As the days passed, Chileans grew increasingly skeptical that any of the miners had survived — let alone all of them. But when a small bore hole reached the miners’ refuge, they sent up a message telling rescuers they were still alive. A video camera threaded deep underground captured the first images of the miners, all apparently in good health. The discovery sparked jubilant celebrations nationwide as rescue efforts energized the country, which owes its prosperity to the rich copper mines in its northern region. The miners later used a modified telephone to sing Chile’s national anthem to the hundreds of teary-eyed relatives celebrating above. In Santiago, the capital, motorists honked their car horns and people cheered wildly on subway platforms. News reports suggested that ventilation shafts had survived the mine’s collapse, allowing enough fresh air to reach the chamber where the miners were trapped. The miners were able to use heavy equipment to provide light and charge the batteries of their head lamps, and they drank water from storage tanks to survive. They stripped off their shirts to endure the stifling heat but did not appear to be threatened by toxic gases such as methane, which can poison miners after cave-ins. Read More... Food was in short supply, and rescue crews used the tiny bore hole to thread down tubes containing sugars, water and liquid nutrients to help sustain the miners, while continuing the painstaking work of drilling another tunnel without causing another collapse. The thin shaft became an umbilical cord to keep the miners alive, from which they could receive information about the rescue efforts and communications from family members. On Oct. 9, 2010, two excruciating months later, a more sizable drill finally broke through to the miners. It created space for a rescue shaft through which the miners were raised, one by one, in a capsule especially designed to contain a human being. As the vast team of rescue workers, medical personnel, technicians and mining experts entered the final phase a few days later, the colorful scene reflected the huge scale of the operation that captured the attention of the world: more than 1,400 jou

"You are Now Free to Move About the Country" is the advertising slogan for what transportation company?

The Big Apple: “You are now free to move about the country” (Southwest Airlines) Entry from July 04, 2008 “You are now free to move about the country” (Southwest Airlines) Southwest Airlines began in 1967 as a low-cost airline based in Dallas, serving Houston and San Antonio. It is now one of the largest airlines in the United States. GSD&M Idea City came up with the famous Southwest slogan (trademarked in 1997): “You are now free to move about the country.” The slogan is accompanied by a “DING!” noise and is a take-off on a pilot’s frequent line of “You are now free to move about the cabin.” The slogan “You are now free to move about the county” was suspended for a time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wikipedia: Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. It is also the 6th largest U.S. airline by revenue. It also maintains the third-largest fleet of aircraft among all of the world’s commercial airlines. Southwest Airlines has carried more customers than any other U.S. airline since August 2006 for combined domestic and international passengers according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Southwest Airlines is one of the world’s most profitable airlines and in January 2008, posted a profit for the 35th consecutive year. History Southwest Airlines was originally incorporated to serve three cities in Texas as Air Southwest on March 15, 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. According to frequently-cited story, King described the concept to Kelleher over dinner by drawing on a paper napkin a triangle symbolizing the routes.(Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) Some of the incumbent airlines of the time (Braniff, Trans-Texas, and Continental Airlines) initiated legal action, and thus began a three-year legal battle to keep Air Southwest on the ground. Air Southwest eventually prevailed in the Texas Supreme Court, which ultimately upheld Air Southwest’s right to fly in Texas. The decision became final on December 7, 1970, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case without comment. That date is considered by many to be the de facto beginning of deregulation in the airline industry. (...) Advertisements The company has employed humor in its advertising. Slogans include “Just Plane Smart,” “The Somebody Else Up There Who Loves You” and “THE Low Fare Airline”. The airline’s current slogan is “A Symbol of Freedom”. A select history of print and video ads are available on the company website. Since the 1990s, Southwest has been running a television ad campaign based on the phrase “Wanna get away?” The commercials present comical, embarrassing situations in which people find themselves wanting to “get away”. Most ads are accompanied by the sound clip “[ding] You are now free to move about the country”; self-parody of the in-flight announcement that “you are now free to move about the cabin”. The Southwest Airlines television commercial, “Flight Attendant,” was named in Adweek’s ‘Best Spots’ in August 2006. GSD&M Idea City Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think we would fly with Herb Kelleher and help build the most successful airline in aviation history: Southwest Airlines. Nor did we ever imagine that we would ride with Sam Walton and help build the largest company in the world:  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Or cook with Norm Brinker and help build the most successful casual sit-down restaurant in America:  Chili’s. Never did we contemplate that we would climb with Ed Whitacre and help orchestrate the building of the largest telecommunications company in the world:  AT&T. Or create America’s Favorite Advertising Slogan: “Don’t Mess with Texas.” WELCOME TO A BLOG ALL ABOUT SOUTHWEST AIRLINES 6 August 2000, Rocky Mountain New

What semi-aquatic, fish eating mammal, related to the weasel, is prized for its fur and enjoyed for its playful nature?

Where Do River Otters Play? | Wonderopolis Wonder of the Day #1478 Where Do River Otters Play? Where do river otters play? What do river otters eat? How long can a river otter hold its breath? Tags: Listen Have you ever WONDERed whether animals play like we humans do? If you have a dog or a cat at home, you've probably seen them playing with balls and toys or even chasing each other around the yard . But what about wild animals? Nature experts will tell you that wild animals play, too. In fact, if you're ever near a river or marshy area, you may see some weasel -like animals running and sliding on their tummies into the water to create a big splash. What are we talking about? River otters, of course! The only river otter that can be found north of Mexico, the North American river otter thrives in rivers, lakes, streams, wetlands, and along the coasts of every state and territory of both the United States and Canada. The only places you won't find river otters are the dry desert areas of the southwestern U.S. Although they're difficult to track, river otters have maintained sustaining populations despite numerous threats from predators and habitat loss . Experts believe there are over 100,000 river otters occupying the waters of North America today. River otters have a long history in North America. Their rich furs were favorites of French fur traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to keeping them warm, their thick fur gives them a waterproof coating that helps them survive and thrive in their favorite aquatic environments. River otters like to live close to water, because their diet consists primarily of fish . However, they're actually semi- aquatic mammals, which means they can live on land, too. In fact, they usually live in burrows near the water and will snack on other types of food in the area, including insects, birds, shellfish, turtles, and frogs. If asked to choose one word that describes the river otter , most experts would choose "playful." Extremely social animals, river otters can often be seen in groups playing games. They also love to run and slide on their stomachs. If you spy a river otter in the wild, it's likely you'll catch a glimpse of it sliding on its tummy down a muddy bank and into the water. Experts note that these playful activities also serve an important purpose: they teach survival skills. In addition to strengthening social bonds, their games help them practice hunting techniques and mark their territory with their scent. Since they spend a lot of time in the water, river otters are very good swimmers. Of course, it helps that they're able to close off their ears and noses to keep water out. When hunting for fish, river otters can dive as deep as 60 feet. They're also capable of holding their breath for as long as eight minutes! Wonder Words (18)

What English comedian, who celebrates a birthday today, is known for characters such as Ali G, Borat, and Bruno, and will be starring as Freddie Mercury in an upcoming Queen movie?

Sacha Baron Cohen | News, Photos and Videos | Page 4 | Contactmusic.com Sacha Baron Cohen Sacha Baron Cohen Brian May Freddie Mercury Queen Says Cohen's claims against the content of the film are unfounded. Brian May is painfully truthful about his opinion of Sacha Baron Cohen after the comedian pulled out of the Freddie Mercury biopic over disagreements about the content of the movie. When Cohen suggested that producers wanted something that was essentially a watered down reality, May wasn't happy. Sacha Baron Cohen branded an a*** 'Grimsby' star Sacha Baron Cohen could well have made the perfect Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic that's currently in the works. However, he decided to walk away from the project once he realised that it wouldn't be as candid as he'd have liked. He opened up about the conflict on The Howard Stern Show, claiming that May was 'not a great movie producer' and only interested to 'protect their legacy as a band'. Sacha Baron Cohen Cohen had worked on the long-in-development biopic for six years before eventually pulling out of the project. Sacha Baron Cohen has finally revealed why he left the planned Freddie Mercury biopic, after working on the project for six years. Appearing on Howard Stern’s radio show , Cohen explained that differences with Mercury’s former bandmates over the direction of the film caused his exit, as the actor had wanted to include the wilder side of the frontman’s life. Sacha Baron Cohen has spoken out about the Freddie Mercury biopic. "There are amazing stories about Freddie Mercury," Cohen explained. "The guy was wild. He was living an extreme lifestyle There are stories of little people with plates of cocaine on their heads walking around a party." Sacha Baron Cohen Donald Trump Known as 'The Brothers Grimsby' in the States, Sony are nervous ahead of a scene in which the divisive Republican frontrunner contracts HIV. Cinema-goers who have been to see Sacha Baron Cohen ’s new comedy movie Grimsby – known as The Brothers Grimsby in the States – have been cheering a scene in which presidential hopeful Donald Trump is infected with HIV. However, a new report citing industry sources indicates that Sony, the studio behind the movie, was extremely nervous about the scene and pushed to have it cut from the final edit. In the event, because Cohen has final authority over the movie (a rare move in the industry for a producer/actor), it remained in the full theatrical release, according to The Huffington Post . Sacha Baron Cohen with wife Isla Fisher in February 2016 Continue reading: Sony Reportedly Anxious Over Donald Trump AIDS Scene In 'Grimsby' Sacha Baron Cohen - Sacha Baron Cohen arrives on a flight to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) - Lax, California, United States - Friday 26th February 2016 Sasha Baron Cohen - Sasha Baron Cohen wearing a German kit whilst entering a classic Mercedes-Benz outside Adlon Hotel in Mitte. - Berlin, Germany - Wednesday 24th February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen - Sasha Baron Cohen arriving at Berlin Tegel airport with a currywurst and beer in his hand to promote his latest movie Grimsby. at Berlin Tegel airport - Berlin, Germany - Tuesday 23rd February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen , Nobby - The World Premiere of 'Grimsby' held at the Odeon Leicester Square - Arrivals at Odeon Leicester Square - London, United Kingdom - Monday 22nd February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen - Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher seen leaving there London Hotel heading to The Grimsby Brothers premiere. - London, United Kingdom - Monday 22nd February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen , Nobby - The World Premiere of 'Grimsby' held at the Odeon Leicester Square - Arrivals at Odeon Leicester Square - London, United Kingdom - Monday 22nd February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen - Sacha Baron Cohen leaves his hotel wearing a dressing gown, to attend the premiere of his new film 'The Brothers Grimsby' - London, United Kingdom - Monday 22nd February 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen BAFTA Weighing in on the diversity in Hollywood debate. When it comes to racial inequality in the film industry, comedian Sacha Baron C

According to the nursery rhyme, who went “wee, wee, wee all the way home”?

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What legendary singer, dubbed the Prince of Motown, had his life cut a little short when he was gunned down by his father in 1984 following an argument?

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According to the National Park Service, which National Park is the most visited in the United States, with about 10 million visitors per year?

Record millions flocked to national parks last year - CNN.com 1 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 2. Blue Ridge Parkway – This spectacular overlook near Mount Mitchell on the Blue Ridge Parkway, No. 2 on the park service's list of most-visited sites, is in North Carolina. The parkway also crosses into Virginia. Hide Caption 2 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Great Smoky Mountains National Park, No. 3 on the list of most-visited park sites, is in North Carolina and Tennessee. It is also the No. 1 most-visited national park. Hide Caption 3 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 4. George Washington Memorial Parkway – George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington, Virginia and Maryland came in fourth place on this list of most-visited park sites in 2014. Hide Caption Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 5. Lincoln Memorial – The Lincoln Memorial in Washington came in fifth place for visitation. Hide Caption 5 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 6. Lake Mead National Recreation Area – The Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in both Arizona (shown here) and Nevada, came in sixth place on the National Park Service list of most-visited park sites. Hide Caption 6 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 7. Gateway National Recreation Area – The Sandy Hook Lighthouse in New Jersey is part of Gateway National Recreation Area, which is also in New York. It came in seventh place on the list. Hide Caption 7 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 8. Natchez Trace Parkway – The Natchez Trace Parkway, shown here near Tupelo, Mississippi, also crosses into Alabama and Tennessee. It came in eighth place on the most-visited sites list. Hide Caption 8 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 9. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park – The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which landed in ninth place on the park sites list, is in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia. Hide Caption 9 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 10. Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park nudged out last year's tenth place holder, the Delaware Water Gap National Creation Area, to claim the tenth place spot. Hide Caption 10 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Many of the most famous parks in the world are among the U.S. National Park Service's 59 headliner national parks. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which was the third most-popular park site in 2013 and 2014, was also the most popular national park for both years. Shown here is the view from Purchase Knob. Hide Caption 11 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 2. Grand Canyon National Park – Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona was the second most popular national park last year. Shown here is an inversion: cold fog trapped in the canyon by a "lid" of warm air. What makes it rare are the sunny skies accentuating the layers of air. Hide Caption 3. Yosemite National Park – Yosemite National Park, which celebrates the 125th anniversary of its existence as a national park in 2015 , was the third most-popular national park last year. Hide Caption 13 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 4. Yellowstone National Park – Yellowstone National Park, which is mostly in Wyoming but also in Idaho and Montana, was the fourth most-popular national park last year. Hide Caption 14 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 5. Rocky Mountain National Park – Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which turned 100 in 2014, moved up one spot in the rankings to take fifth place last year. Hide Caption 15 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 6. Olympic National Park – Olympic National Park in Washington state dropped one spot to sixth place last year. Hide Caption 16 of 20 Photos: Most-visited national park sites 2014 7. Zion National Park – Zion National Park in Utah remained in seventh place on the p

What artist, along with his wife, is best known for wrapping large structures in cloth, such as wrapping the Reichstag, islands in Biscayne Bay, and a bridge in Paris?

From Very Big to Very Small | Miami New Times From Very Big to Very Small Or sign in with a social account: FACEBOOK GOOGLE + TWITTER YAHOO! Don't have an account yet? Sign Up › Connect. Discover. Share. Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Enter your email or sign up with a social account to get started FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ YAHOO! Don't have an account yet? Sign Up › From Very Big to Very Small Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 4 a.m. Print Article The wrapped monumental structures of Christo and Jeanne-Claude must be seen in context, for they manifest much of their magnificence through the fleeting nature of their existence. So the exhibit "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Würth Museum Collection," comprising more than 65 collages, drawings, photographs, and scale models currently on view at the Bass Museum of Art, will hardly provide viewers with the profound aesthetic experience of seeing the real, finished installations. A quote attributed to Christo and Jeanne-Claude at the entrance of the show expresses it rather eloquently: "Any element of impermanence in an artwork creates a feeling of fragility, even vulnerability, as well as a sense of urgency about viewing it. There is at the same time an inherent awareness of the loss we feel at its absence, knowing that tomorrow it will be gone." You need to be there to absorb the "eternity of the moment," as German art critic Petra Kipphoff put it, before it vanishes forever. For those of us who have not had the opportunity to see these works in their actual context, this exhibit is the next best thing. It displays compelling documentation of the technical requirements and processes that eventually led to the completion of some of their more ambitious projects. (In 1983 many Miamians had the unique experience of actually participating in the creation of one of those projects, Surrounded Islands, in which eleven spoil islands in Biscayne Bay were encircled by vivid pink fabric.) Info "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Wrth Museum Collection" Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave, Miami Beach Through June 26. 305-673-7530. Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and his French wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, have always declined sponsorship, patronage, and commercial subsidy, and have funded their projects themselves from the sale of their preliminary work -- the materials on view at this show. The Würth collection includes illustrations of most of the artists' oeuvre, from the earliest to their most recent, The Gates, a dynamic installation of 7500 saffron-colored fabric panels suspended from frames ("gates") that snaked through the pathways in New York's Central Park. (The Gates was unveiled this past February 12 and remained up beyond its originally scheduled sixteen-day run due to immense popularity.) Upcoming Events Tickets Sat., Jan. 21, 4:00pm The Würth collection also includes actual pieces, such as 1963's Wrapped Road Sign, two triangular traffic signs covered with rope and fabric; and an example of the artists' Store Fronts series: architectural sculptures, created between 1964 and 1967, in which life-size glass windows are partly concealed by a cloth, thwarting the viewer from seeing what's within, unlike commercial façades bent on inviting us to look inside. But Christo and Jeanne-Claude later became known for much grander undertakings, relentless but still gentle and conscientious incursions upon the world's landscapes and urban edifices. After a scrupulously documented process of preparatory sketches, drawings, collages, scale models, and countless hours in negotiation with governmental agencies over public safety and environmental issues, the team launches colossal "wrapping" ventures: the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris (covered for two weeks in 1985), the Reichstag in Berlin (two weeks in 1995), the Little Bay coast in Australia (seven weeks in 1969), and Wrapped Trees, 178 trees wrapped in nearly 600,000 square feet of translucent fabric (Riehen, Switze

With a vote of 52-48, which US Supreme Court justice was confirmed on Oct 14, 1991, in spite of the allegations of sexual harassment by attorney Anita Hill?

Meet the 8 Sitting Supreme Court Justices - ABC News ABC News Meet the 8 Sitting Supreme Court Justices By GENEVA SANDS Mar 3, 2016, 10:52 PM ET 0 Shares WATCH In the Wake of Scalia's Death, What Happens Next in the Supreme Court 0 Shares Email President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court today, choosing a judicial moderate despite strong opposition from Senate Republicans who have vowed to block the pick until after the next president is elected. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 's unexpected death on Feb. 13 has left eight justices remaining on the bench. With Republicans saying they won't hold hearings or a vote on Obama's nominee until after the November elections, there is an increasing chance that Garland won't join the court until next year. "This vacancy will not be filled this year. We will look forward to the American people deciding who they want to make this appointment through their own votes,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said. The eight current justices attended Scalia's memorial service, where Justices Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paid tribute their late colleague and friend. Read more about the current justices' history and their pathway to the nation's highest court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Drew Angerer/Bloomberg/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Roberts , 61, was appointed to the court in 2005 by President George W. Bush, who nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States. He took his seat Sept. 29, 2005, after a 78-22 vote in the Senate approving his nomination to become the 17th chief justice. Roberts graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and received his law degree from Harvard three years later. He served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals before being appointed to the Supreme Court . Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, and has two children with his wife, Jane Marie Sullivan. Anthony M. Kennedy Mark Wilson/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Kennedy, 79, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. He was confirmed in a 97-0 vote , and joined the bench Feb. 18, 1988 after the failed nomination of Robert Bork . Kennedy received degrees from Stanford University, the London School of Economics and Harvard Law School. After serving in private practice, Kennedy was a Professor of Constitutional Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. He was a member of the California Army National Guard in 1961. Kennedy was on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals when he was nominated. He is married to Mary Davis and has three children. Kennedy was born in Sacramento, California. Clarence Thomas MCT/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas , 67, was nominated by President Bush in 1991. He was confirmed by the Senate in a 52-48 vote after partisan and contentious hearings , in which Anita Hill , a former aide to Thomas, testified to allegations of sexual harassment. Thomas denied the allegations in the highly publicized confirmation hearings and maintains his innocence. He joined the court on Oct. 23, 1991. Thomas graduated from Holy Cross College in 1971 and received his law degree from Yale Law School. He served as a Judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990-1991. Prior to his judgeship, he was the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas was born in the Pinpoint community near Savannah, Georgia. He married Virginia Lamp on May 30, 1987 and has one child by a previous marriage. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg , 82, was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court in 1993 while serving as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was confirmed in a 96-3 vote and joined the court on Aug. 10, 1993. She was a professor at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963–1972 and then at Columbia Law School from 1972–1980. Prior to her judgeship, Ginsburg worked

Who was the Secretary of State under both Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, best remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from the Russians in 1867?

Preserving Hudson Valley's historic landmarks quite the challenge [database search] - News - recordonline.com - Middletown, NY Preserving Hudson Valley's historic landmarks quite the challenge [database search] Saturday May 14, 2016 at 5:55 PM May 14, 2016 at 5:55 PM BETHEL — The peeling layers of pink and white paint lay bare the wooden clapboards of the White Lake Mansion House, so old they predate the start of the Civil War by more than a dozen years. The “cricket,” the juncture between the main building and an addition, is damaged, too. And the interior has been gutted. But thanks in part to a new roof and windows put in by former owners two decades ago, the 168-year-old Mansion House in Bethel has withstood the test of time, preservationists say. Historic Sites of the Hudson Valley DATABASE: Search all historic sites in New York State try{f_cbload("dc191000423535d82ca0496dbdd9","https:");}catch(v_e){;}Click here to load this CaspioCloud DatabaseCloud Database by Caspio If a developer has his way, the Mansion House — the first successful hotel built in Sullivan County and the oldest one still standing — could be razed to make way for a new hotel and spa on seven acres overlooking White Lake. He hopes to capitalize on the site on Route 17B, which is a short distance from Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and a 15-minute ride from the new Montreign Resort Casino at Adelaar going up in the Town of Thompson. Therein lies the tale. But the visible remnants of the Hudson Valley's rich history are threatened, perhaps irreversibly, by the lack of money or simply by the lack of will to save them. O&W Rail Station, City of Middletown Year built: 1893 Significance: For decades it was a key pillar of Middletown’s economy. In later years, it housed the O& W’s main offices. The station also was known for Seeholzer Restaurant — since the O& W, unlike many trains at the time, didn’t have dining cars, people would rush out to eat when the train stopped in Middletown. Passenger service ended in 1953, but the O& W offices still were there until the company liquidated in 1957. It then housed a variety of other shops, offices and bars at various points. It has been vacant for almost a decade, and was damaged by a fire in 2004 and another in late April this year. Owner: Middletown Community Health Center Work needed: Much of the guts of the three-story, 30,000-square-foot hulk was destroyed in a 2004 fire. Part of the roof has collapsed, windows are smashed and boarded up, and the building is filled with trash. Price tag: $15-18 million What’s being done: Things are in flux right now. After the center lost out on $7.9 million in state funding to help renovate the crumbling building and move its various health services there, they changed course and decided instead to move services to the former Horton Hospital. Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano said he’s working to preserve as much as possible of the building, even if it’s just the facade facing Wickham Avenue. MCHC officials are also in talks with the state to see if any of the $2.15 million previously awarded for the project can still be used towards the aging station. But DeStefano warns that if that isn’t successful the building may have to be demolished. Newburgh, for example, has the largest contiguous historic district in New York state, extending 445 acres from the Montgomery, Grand and Liberty streets corridor in the north to Washington's Headquarters in the south, said Orange County Historian Johanna Yaun. “Newburgh is known throughout the architectural community as a great tragedy,” Yaun said. “The buildings are not just old; they are representative of some of the finest work of the great 19th century architects.” Dutch Reformed Church - Newburgh Significance: National Historic Landmark designed by famed architect Alexander Jackson Davis Owner: City of Newburgh Work needed: Repairs to roof, walls, cornices, portico and tablature Price tag: $2.4 million is most recent estimate What's being done: Newburgh approved using $18,500 in Community Development Block Grant funds so the Preser

On Oct 12, 1901 which great US president gave the Executive Mansion its current name, The White House?

History | whitehouse.gov Holidays History This is really what the White House is all about. It’s the “People’s House.” It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that's why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can. Michelle Obama Our first president,  George Washington , selected the site for the White House in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen. After eight years of construction,  President John Adams  and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814. James Hoban was appointed to rebuild the house, and  President James Monroe  moved into the building in 1817. During Monroe’s administration, the South Portico was constructed in 1824, and  Andrew Jackson  oversaw the addition of the North Portico in 1829. During the late 19th century, various proposals were made to significantly expand the President’s House or to build an entirely new house for the president, but these plans were never realized. In 1902,Our first president, George Washington, selected the site for the White House in 1791. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen. After eight years of construction, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British set fire to the President’s House in 1814. James Hoban was appointed to rebuild the house, and President James Monroe moved into the building in 1817. During Monroe’s administration, the South Portico was constructed in 1824, and Andrew Jackson oversaw the addition of the North Portico in 1829. During the late 19th century, various proposals were made to significantly expand the President’s House or to build an entirely new house for the president, but these plans were never realized. The White House In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt began a major renovation of the White House, including the relocation of the president’s offices from the Second Floor of the Residence to the newly constructed temporary Executive Office Building (now known as the West Wing). The Roosevelt renovation was planned and carried out by the famous New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Roosevelt’s successor, President William Howard Taft, had the Oval Office constructed within an enlarged office wing. Less than fifty years after the Roosevelt renovation, the White House was showing signs of serious structural weakness. President Harry S. Truman began a renovation of the building in which everything but the outer walls were dismantled. The reconstruction was overseen by architect Lorenzo Winslow, and the Truman family moved back into the White House in 1952. Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from their early use as service areas, to the State Floor rooms, where countless leaders and dignitaries have been entertained, the White House is both the home of the President of the United States his family and a museum of American history. The White House is a place where history continues to unfold. White House Trivia There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels in the Residence. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators. At various times in history, the White House has been known as the "President's Palace," the "President's House," and the "Executive Mansion." President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901. Presidential Firsts while in office... President James Polk (1845-49) was the first President to have his photograph taken... President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09) was not only the first President to ride in an automobile, but also the first President to trav

Cimex lectularius, a small, parasitic insect, is better known as what?

Bed Bug Treatments ~Creature Control Give us the details of your issue and we'll get back to you shortly with information and how we can address it. The Bed Bug Epidemic Until a decade ago, it was assumed that bed bug problems were a thing of the past in the United States. This has all changed, however. From every region of the country reports are constantly coming out on increased bed bug activity; this activity is even reaching epidemic levels in some major cities. This bed bug explosion can be attributed to three main causes: Globalization, which, has led to an increase in international travel. Persons coming into or returning to the U.S. often unwittingly brought the pest with them, leading to the reintroduction of bed bugs into America. Greater mobility within the country as people continue to relocate in search of better employment opportunities. Movement of people generally means movement of bed bugs, since the bed bugs nest in furniture and household decor items. A general reduction is pest control expenses. Due to the recession many hotels, property managers and landlords have cut back expenses on pest control measures, which in turn has given the bed bugs more opportunity for expansion. In Michigan, bed bugs are on the rise in larger cities; bed bugs in Ann Arbor have been a particular problem; bed bugs in Detroit, Jackson and Lansing are also concerns, and many of these municipalities have invested in educating the public on bed bug identification and bed bug removal. However, smaller municipalities can also be effected, especially small motels that accommodate travelers from out of the area. Bed bugs have also been found in towns as small as Fowlerville, South Lyon, Fenton, Chelsea, Okemos, Williamston and Mason. About Bed Bugs The common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) is a small, parasitic insect that feeds off the blood of humans, though they will also feed on certain domestic animals. They have oval-shaped bodies and are extremely small (adults only grow to 4-5 millimeters) and usually have a rusty brown coloration, though they may appear red if they have been feeding recently. Bed bugs normally have a flattened body, but it becomes bloated and slightly elongated after they have been feeding. As their name suggests, beds are common hiding place for bed bugs. Their flattened body enables them to hide in any crack, crevice or fold. Mattresses, bed clothes, box springs, bed frames, cracks and crevices in walls or hard wood flooring are all potential hiding places. Bed bugs are also known to hide behind wall paper and in picture frames on the walls, as well as inside dresser drawers. Almost anything can be used as a nest, and bed bugs will always try to nest as close to their food source as possible. Bed bugs will generally feed every five to ten days, although they have been known to survive for up to a year without feeding. They are attracted to their hosts by carbon dioxide emitted from breathing, but also by body heat. Bed bugs feed nocturnally, coming out of their nest for a blood feeding that usually lasts about five minutes. When a bed bug bites a human, it injects anticoagulants and anesthetics that both numb the area around the bite and prevent the blood from clotting. Most people subject to bed bug bites sleep through the feeding and do not realize they have been bitten until later. Signs of Bed Bugs How do you know if you have bed bugs? The most common indicator is unexplained bites on the body, usually on the arms or legs, although it must be stressed that this alone is not enough to rule other possible causes. A more certain sign of a bed bug problem is tiny blood trails found on the sheets or around the seams of the mattress. After bed bugs feed, they tend to drip blood and fecal matter as they return from the feeding site to their nest. Large bed bug infestations are often accompanied by a distinctive odor, as well. The odor is generally musty and sweet-smelling; this unique smell has been described as resembling raspberries, moldy shoes, or almonds. Bed Bug Treatment Creature Control is committed

October 12, 1492 saw Christopher Columbus make landfall in the New World. In what current country did he touch shore?

Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal Author: Fiske, John Date: 1892 His four voyages (1492-93, 1493-96, 1498-1500, and 1502-04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization. Columbus was the eldest son of Domenico Colombo, a Genoese wool worker and small-time merchant, and Susanna Fontanarossa, his wife. He is widely thought to have been the first European to sail across the Atlantic Ocean and make landfall on the American continent. He made his voyages across the Atlantic under the sponsorship of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs of Aragon, Castile , and Leon in Spain . On the first and second voyages (Aug. 3, 1492-March 15, 1493 , and Sept. 25, 1493-June 11, 1496) Columbus sighted the majority of the islands of the Caribbean and established a base in Hispaniola (now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic ). On the third voyage (May 30, 1498-October 1500) he reached Trinidad and Venezuela and the Orinoco River delta. On the fourth (May 9, 1502-Nov. 7, 1504) he returned to South America and sailed from Cape Honduras to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Veragua, and Panama. Although at first full of hope and ambition, an ambition partly gratified by his title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea ," awarded to him in April 1492, and by the grants enrolled in the Book of Privileges (a record of his titles and claims), Columbus died a disappointed man. He was removed from the governorship of Hispaniola in 1499, his chief patron, Queen Isabella, died in 1504, and his efforts to recover his governorship of the "Indies " from King Ferdinand were, in the end, unavailing. In 1542, however, the bones of Columbus were taken from Spain to the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic ), where they may still lie. The period between the quatercentenary celebrations of Columbus ' achievements in 1892-93 and the quincentenary ones of 1992 saw great advances in Columbus scholarship. A huge number of books about Columbus have appeared in the 1990s, and the insights of archaeologists and anthropologists now complement those of sailors and historians. This effort has given rise, as might be expected, to considerable debate. The past few years have also seen a major shift in approach and interpretation; the older pro-European and imperialist understanding has given way to one shaped from the perspective of the inhabitants of the Americas themselves. According to the older understanding, the discovery of the Americas was a great triumph, one in which Columbus played the part of hero in accomplishing the four voyages, in being the means of bringing great material profit to Spain and to other European countries, and in opening up the Americas to European settlement. The second perspective, however, has concentrated on the destructive side of the European intrusions, emphasizing, for example, the disastrous impact of the slave trade and the ravages of imported disease on the native peoples of the Caribbean and the American continents. The sense of triumph has diminished accordingly, and the view of Columbus as hero has now been replaced, for many, by one of a man deeply flawed. While Columbus ' abilities as a navigator are rarely doubted in this second perception, and his sincerity as a man sometimes allowed, he is emphatically removed by it from his position of honor. The further interventions of political activists of all kinds have hardly fostered the reconciliation of these so disparate views. In an attempt at a balanced account attention will therefore first of all be restored to the nature and quantity of the surviving written and material sources about Columbus . All informed scholarly comment must depend primarily upon these. Then the admiral's achievements and failures will be examined in light of recent research. Finally, the focus will briefly return to the debate, in the full recognition that

According to the comic strip Peanuts, whom does Linus await each year, only to be disappointed when he never seems to visit the pumpkin patch?

Peanuts / Headscratchers - TV Tropes Timeline Why does Charlie Brown keep trying to punt the football when Lucy's holding it, if he knows she's going to pull it out of the way? And why DOES everyone in It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown blame Charlie for losing the Homecoming game when it was all Lucy's fault? Because Charlie Brown is the Butt Monkey . If he didn't get gimped continuously, the universe he inhabits would implode into a black hole. There are those who posit that that has already happened . Somewhere around the time a white-haired, red-eyed kid in a giant bio-mech bit the dust, another kid on the other side of the world put on an unexpected burst of speed and kicked a ball in what could best be described as a 30-meter punt of Ultimate Doom... I just got an awesome mental image of Charlie Brown running at Lucy and the football in slow-mo as Ode To Joy plays, with both of them exploding into LCL as CB's foot makes contact. Shortly after imagining that image, I imagined Lucy piloting Eva-02 in a red plug suit. "Shinji, you blockhead!" When Linus was a baby, he didn't have a blanket yet and he had a lot more hair Have an Internet. Hell, have fifteen. Wasn't Peppermint Patti in charge of that game? Considering she has some respect for ole' Chuck, I'm surprised she didn't tell Lucy to stop it. To add to the Evangelion crossover, Ode To Joy would, of course, be played by Schroeder on his piano. Charlie Brown keeps trying because he's gullible. Each time he initially refuses, but Lucy manages to convince him that this time will be different. It's a testament to both Chuck's naivety and optimism. I found the homecoming example a bit strenuous, but I'm guessing nobody noticed that Lucy moved the ball and they all thought Charlie just missed. (I never liked that one, because I think that's going too far even for Lucy. She likes to win too much to sabotage an actual game.) There is a cartoon that shows Charlie Brown punting the football. It was drawn by a political cartoonist, not Schulz, just after the 2006 elections. Just to be technical, Charlie Brown is trying to kick the ball, not punt it. Punting in football is when the person doing the kicking takes the snap directly and kicks the ball away. Just sayin'. When you have a person holding (Lucy in this case), it's a place kick. Because, as proven in what's considered to be the finale to the series, if he manages to walk away, he'll see the rest of the world, waiting, holding a football for him It just occurred to me, but couldn't a Lucy who was slightly quicker on the uptake have run the ball for at least a first down? I'll betcha the opposing team wouldn't have seen that coming. I have always liked the tragic poignancy of the theory that, on some level, Lucy actually does believes she will hold the football and allow Charlie Brown to kick it every time. For the record, Charlie Brown did manage to kick the ball once... Indirectly. Via Lucy's hand. Cue people being mad at him, and her swearing never to be that nice to him again. I think you're talking about the one where Charlie Brown went to the hospital for an unknown illness (he just felt "sick", and checked himself in), and Lucy swore she'd let him kick the football if he got better. So he gets better, then makes Lucy go through with it. He ends up kicking her * arm* , breaking it, and having her declare "The next time you go to the hospital, stay there!". Hold on, there was another time Charlie Brown kicked it. It was in the special "It's Magic, Charlie Brown," where Charlie Brown gets turned invisible by Snoopy and he finally manages to take Lucy by surprise. And it feels gooooood. The catch on this one is that, since he was invisible, there's no way to prove he actually kicked it. Also, in one of the last comics, Lucy has to go in for lunch and asks her little brother Rerun to do the honors of pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown. When Rerun comes in later, Lucy asks him if he pulled it away. Rerun responds "You'll never know," to Lucy's bewilderment and leaving us with an open and somewhat optimistic end

Immortalized in the movie Eight Men Out, the 1919 World Series was tainted by 8 members of what team throwing games to the World Series winning Cincinnati Reds?

An Account of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal and 1921 Trial The Black Sox Trial: An Account by  Douglas Linder  (c) 2010 The Debate Continues Readers interested in exploring this case in serious detail should join  the following group:  [email protected]  Special thanks to Bill Lamb, a member of the Black Sox Scandal Research Committee, for his helpful comments on an earlier version of this account. The 1919 Chicago White Sox It was almost unthinkable: players throwing the World Series?  Yet, that's what happened--or maybe didn't happen--in the fall of 1919. The players on the Charles Comiskey's 1919 Chicago White Sox team were a fractious lot.  The club was divided into two "gangs" of players, each with practically nothing to say to the other. Together they formed the best team in baseball--perhaps one of the best teams that ever played the game, yet they--like all ball players of the time--were paid a fraction of what they were worth.  Because of baseball's reserve clause, any player who refused to accept a contract was prohibited from playing baseball on any other professional team.  The White Sox owner paid two of his greatest stars, outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and third baseman Buck Weaver , only $6000 a year.  Comiskey's decision to save expenses by reducing the number of times uniforms were laundered gave rise to the original meaning of "The Black Sox."  Comiskey has been labeled the tyrant and tightwad whose penurious practices made his players especially willing to sell their baseball souls for money, but in fact he was probably no worse than most owners--in fact, Chicago had the highest team payroll in 1919.  In the era of the reserve clause, gamblers could find players on lots of teams looking for extra cash--and they did. In 1963, Eliot Asinof published Eight Men Out , a book about the Black Sox scandal which later became a popular movie and has, more than any other work, shaped modern understanding of the most famous scandal in the history of sports.  In Asinof's telling of history, the bitterness Sox players felt about their owner led members of the team to enter into a conspiracy that would forever change the game of baseball.  Asinof suggested that Comisky's skinflint maneuvers made key players ready to jump at the chance to make some quick money.  For example, Asinof wrote that Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte was intensely irritated when, in September of 1917, as Cicotte approached a 30-win season that would win him a promised $10,000 bonus, Comiskey had his star pitcher benched rather than be forced to come up with the extra cash.  Whether the story about the denied bonus or true is subject of dispute among baseball historians. More recently, several writers have questioned Asinof's explanation for the fix.  Gene Carney, for example, author of Burying the Black Sox, concluded that "the Sox who took the bribes were not getting even, they were just trying to get some easy money."  Whatever the reason, a long and complicated story unfolded in the fall of 1919.  One of the key players in the scandal, gambler Abe Attell, later summarized the fix as "cheaters cheating cheaters." It's a story that arises at a time when "the lines between gamblers and ballplayers had become blurred."  Some players were big bettors and some gamblers were former big league players.  Most teams, many historians believe, had at least one player on the roster willing to help tip a game for a little money.  Baseball in 1919, according to Carney, "was in the stranglehold of gamblers, and had been for some time." The Fix Arnold Rothstein Asinof contends that the idea of fixing the Series sprang into the mind of a tough thirty-one-year-old Sox first baseman named Chick Gandil.   Whether or not the initial idea was his, or that of a gambler, it is clear no player is more closely connected to the fix than Gandil.  In a 1956 Sports Illustrated interview, Gandil frankly admitted, "I was a ringleader."  Asinof placed the beginning of the fix in Boston, about three weeks before the end of the 1919 season.  Gandil asked an acqua

What Cuban favorite consists of white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, sparkling water and mint?

How To Make The Mojito - Best Drink Recipes - YouTube How To Make The Mojito - Best Drink Recipes Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 28, 2014 Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, sparkling water, and mint. The original Cuban recipe uses spearmint or yerba buena, a mint variety very popular on the island. Its combination of sweetness, refreshing citrus, and mint flavors is intended to complement the potent kick of the rum, and have made this clear highball a popular summer drink. The cocktail has a relatively low alcohol content (about 10 percent alcohol by volume). When preparing a mojito, lime juice is added to sugar (or syrup) and mint leaves. The mixture is then gently mashed with a muddler. The mint leaves should only be bruised to release the essential oils and should not be shredded. Then rum is added and the mixture is briefly stirred to dissolve the sugar and to lift the mint leaves up from the bottom for better presentation. Finally, the drink is topped with whole ice cubes and sparkling soda water. Mint leaves and lime wedges are used to garnish the glass. The mojito is one of the most famous rum-based highballs. There are several versions of the mojito. The Mojito translates to "Something a little wet",[8] never originally contained lime juice and La Bodeguita del Medio is more known for their food rather than drink, infact the mojito has never been on their menu. Cuba is the birthplace of the Mojito, although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate. One story traces the Mojito to a similar 19th century drink known as "El Draque", after Francis Drake. In 1586, after his successful raid at Cartagena de Indias Drake's ships sailed towards Havana but there was an epidemic of dysentery and scurvy on board. It was known that the local South American Indians had remedies for various tropical illnesses; so a small boarding party went ashore on Cuba and came back with ingredients for a medicine which was effective. The ingredients were aguardiente de caña (a crude form of rum, translates as fire water from sugar cane) added with local tropical ingredients; lime, sugarcane juice and mint. Drinking lime juice in itself would have been a great help in staving off scurvy and dysentery. Tafia/Rum was used as soon as it became widely available to the British (ca. 1650). Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was still the original combination of these ingredients. Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 19th century were instrumental in the cocktail's origin. Guarapo, the sugar cane juice often used in Mojitos, was a popular drink amongst the slaves who helped coin the name of the sweet nectar. There are several theories behind the origin of the name Mojito; one such theory holds that name relates to mojo, a Cuban seasoning made from lime and used to flavour dishes.[4][16] Another theory is that the name Mojito is simply a derivative of mojadito (Spanish for "a little wet") or simply the diminutive of mojado ("wet"). Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus vs traditional Isleno types. The Mojito was a favorite drink of author Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway made the bar called La Bodeguita del Medio famous as he became one of its regulars and he wrote "My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita. " This expression in English can still be read on the wall of the bar today, in his handwriting. Category

What's missing: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, The Universe, and Everything, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, and Mostly Harmless?

Life, the Universe and Everything : Douglas Adams : 9780345391827 Life, the Universe and Everything Paperback US$7.90 US$8.00 You save US$0.10 Free delivery worldwide Add to basket Add to wishlist Description Join Arthur Dent, earthling, "jerk," kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox... and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams it's always up in the air! show more Product details 104.14 x 172.72 x 17.78mm | 136.08g Publication date Fantasy Flap copy "HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it! "ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading." --The Arizona Daily Star show more Review quote Wild satire . . . the feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes. "Chicago Tribune " Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading. "Arizona Daily Star " "From the Trade Paperback edition."" show more About Douglas Adams Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and educated at Cambridge. He was the author of five books in the Hitchhiker s Trilogy, including The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"; "Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"; "and" "Mostly Harmless."" His other works include "Dirk Gently s Holistic Detective Agency"; "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"; "The Meaning of Liff "and" "The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd); and Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). His last book was the bestselling collection, The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002. You can find more about Douglas Adam's life and works at douglasadams.com. "From the Trade Paperback edition."" show more Follow us

Combining equal parts of yellow and blue produce what color?

4 Ways to Make Gray - wikiHow Using Color Theory 1 Mix black and white. Combining black and white will result in a color known as "neutral gray." [1] Neutral gray is the purest type of gray you can create because it has no other tint or hue. Equal parts of black and white should create a mid-tone gray. Vary the shade by adding more of either color. More black creates a darker gray, and more white creates a lighter gray. 2 Combine equal parts of complementary colors. Mixing two complementary colors will result in a color classified as "complementary gray." The basic color complements are: Red and green Making Gray Paint 1 Choose which type of gray to create. Neutral gray, complementary gray, and primary gray are easy to create with paint, but the best option depends on the paint colors you have and the desired application. Neutral gray can be a great way to tone done other colors without altering the actual hue. Overall, it works best when you know you'll need gray in its purest form. Complementary gray works best if you want to give cool or warm tints to the hue of the gray. Primary gray works well when you need to create shadows or pair the gray next to a brighter color. Since primary gray contains all three primary colors, it can make nearby secondary colors look brighter. 2 Combine equal amounts of the appropriate colors. Pour equal amounts of the involved colors into a paint dish or onto a paint palette. Mix thoroughly using a painter's stick until the colors are equally blended. To review, your color options are: Black and white Making Gray Frosting 1 Pick the type of gray. Neutral gray is the easiest to create when working with icing, but you can still make complementary and primary grays. It's best to stick with neutral gray if you want a pure hue, but you can consider the other two types if you'd prefer a tinted gray. Since readily available packages of liquid food color come with red, yellow, green, and blue, you'll need to create primary (red, yellow, blue) gray or complementary (red and green) gray if you plan to use standard liquid food coloring. If you buy specialty gel or paste food coloring, however, you can create any of the three types since these food colorings have a wider variety of color options. 2 Drop the involved colors into white icing. Spoon the needed amount of white frosting into a glass bowl. Gradually add the involved colors and mix until fully combined. As a reminder, the color options are: Black and white (note: you do not need to add white food coloring since the icing itself is white) [3] Blue and orange Making Gray Polymer Clay 1 Choose the gray you wish to create. You can make neutral, complementary, or primary gray using polymer clay. Choose whichever option appeals most to you. If you want to create a pure gray without any tint, it's best to create a neutral gray. If you do want to tint the gray, though, primary or complementary grays can simplify the process and reduce your overall number of supplies. 2 Pinch off equal parts of the involved colors. Grab equal amounts of each involved color. Knead the colors separately, then knead them together. Your color options are: Yellow and purple Red, yellow, and green To knead the colors together, simply stick the separate colors together and roll the mashed ball in between your hands, flattening and re-rolling as needed. Continue until no marbling remains. The colors should be evenly mixed into a solid gray. 3 Lighten the color, if desired. If you want to lighten the color without changing its value, knead a pinch of translucent clay into the ball of gray. [6] Translucent clay has no color, so it won't change the shade or hue of the gray. Instead, it will simply make the gray seem duller and less vibrant. When choosing how much translucent clay to use, the total amount should not exceed one-third the total amount of your gray clay. 4 Lighten the shade, if desired. When you want to lighten the actual shade of the gray, knead a small amount of white into the existing ball. You can add white regardless of the colors used to create the original

What unit of length is defined as the mean distance between the earth and the sun (approximately 149,597,871 km)?

astronomical unit (AU, or au) | unit of measurement | Britannica.com Astronomical unit (AU, or au) unit of measurement parsec Astronomical unit (AU, or au), a unit of length effectively equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun , defined as 149,597,870.7 km (92,955,807.3 miles). Alternately, it can be considered the length of the semimajor axis—i.e., the length of half of the maximum diameter—of Earth’s elliptical orbit around the Sun. The astronomical unit provides a convenient way to express and relate distances of objects in the solar system and to carry out various astronomical calculations. For example, stating that the planet Jupiter is 5.2 AU (5.2 Earth distances) from the Sun and that Pluto is nearly 40 AU gives ready comparisons of the distances of all three bodies. Comparative data for the Sun, planets, and other solar system objects object (average, except where ranges are given) mean density (g/cm3) inclination of equator to orbit (obliquity; in degrees) AU* 2-4.5 (main and outer belts) 300-600 5-30 (mainly between orbits of Jupiter and Neptune) 750-4,490 total possibly as much as 0.5 -- -- -- *One astronomical unit (AU) is the mean distance of Earth from the Sun, about 150 million km. **R following the quantity indicates retrograde rotation. In principle, the easiest way to determine the value of the astronomical unit would have been to measure the Earth-Sun distance directly by means of the parallax method. In this approach, two observers stationed at the ends of a long, accurately known baseline—ideally, a baseline as long as Earth’s diameter—would simultaneously record the position of the Sun against the essentially motionless background of the distant stars . Comparison of the observations would reveal an apparent shift, or angular (parallax) displacement, of the Sun against the remote stars. A simple trigonometric relationship incorporating this angular value and the baseline length then could be used to find the Earth-Sun distance. In practice, however, the method cannot be applied, because the Sun’s intense glare blots out the background stars needed for the parallax measurement . By the 17th century astronomers understood the geometry of the solar system and the motion of the planets well enough to develop a proportional model of objects in orbit around the Sun, a model that was independent of a particular scale. To establish the scale for all orbits and to determine the astronomical unit, all that was needed was an accurate measurement of the distance between any two objects at a given instant. In 1672 the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini made a reasonably close estimate of the astronomical unit based on a determination of the parallax displacement of the planet Mars —and thus its distance to Earth. Later efforts made use of widely separated observations of the transit of Venus across the Sun’s disk to measure the distance between Venus and Earth. Similar Topics

Wings sang behind what singing legend, which Guinness calls the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music?

Greatest Song Writers - Top Ten List - TheTopTens® Greatest Song Writers The Top Ten 1 Pal Waaktaar Savoy Unknown by many, Pals lyrics and melodies are a work of creative genius. The pop success of 'Take on me' left many believing a-ha were no more than a pop band, but later albums, and even other tracks from a-ha's debut album "Hunting High and Low" demonstrated that there was more to this composer than met the eye. 9 a-ha albums, 5 Savoy albums and a number of collaborations later, Pal Waaktaar-Savoy is a consummate writer, capable of setting a phrase or refrain in such a way as to twist emotion downwards, or send it soaring. He is, most definitely, my number 1 song writer. He is the greatest songwriter, every song he wrote was fantastic. Songs like "Out of blue comes green", Hunting High And Low", "East of the sun west of the moon" are masterpieces. We will never forget Morten's voice, Mags riffs and your wonderful songs. A-HA FOREVER I love his songs from a-ha and Savoy and I would be glad to hear new songs from him. A truly underrated songwriter and musician - this man doesn't get the amount of credit he deserves for his work with both a-ha and Savoy V 27 Comments 2 Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana and passed away on June 25, 2009. Michael Jackson was a singer, songwriter, producer, choreographer, entertainer and humanitarian. He donated (at least) a remarkable 300,000,000 dollars to charity. Michael is also known as The King ... read more . Michael so many amazing songs including "Billie Jean" "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" "Wanna Be Startin' Something" "Bad" "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" "Black or White" "Beat It" "Heal the World" "Earth Song" "They Don't Care About Us" "Stranger in Moscow" and much, much more... - MJforevertheKing The reason why he is the best songwriter is very simple: he wrote loads of songs that have a connection with him and ALL of his fans. They are all the better taken forward to the epicenter of Michael's creations. Moreover, in terms of quantity, Michael has still so many songs sleeping in vaults that will show in the future that he was still the King Of Songwriting. Wait for songs like "Breed", "ays in Gloucestershire" or "World Of Candy"! Michael's own solo written and produced tracks were always instant hits. Don't Stop til You Get Enough, You Rock My World, and Black Or White are just some examples of his greatness. Michael has written a few tacky songs, but of course never released them on an album and only gave us his best! One of the greatest songwriters of our generation, and easily one of the best ever! In terms of recognition, his captivating stage presence and dancing, I think, overshadows his gift for both singing and songwriting - gifts that make him one of my top favourite songwriters. Michael Jackson not only wrote some of the best lyrics (which created universal anthems), but he also executed them with his unmatched signing talent in great triumph that is still felt today and forever V 18 Comments 3 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer . he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016 . I am giving up on this site after seeing this. His songs are just songs they are poems that embody the whole word. He was considered the voice of his generation, the same generation that had the civil rights movement and Vietnam. Like a rolling stone is the most important song in the history of modern music. The reason he is so low has to be people don't know who he is anymore and because of that, to quote dr farnsworth "i don't want to live on this planet anymore" The guy has influenced practically every songwriter from Lennon to Jack White, and US presidents have even made references to his lyrics in their very inauguration speeches. Not only did he teach the world that good songs don't have to be about broken hearts by writing lyrics that actually seem relevant, he also wrote some of the finest melodies ever in his unique, yet down-to-earth style. This guy should be number one, for ever! - PeterLuke A

If you were a teenager living on Elm Street in 1984, what should you never do?

A Nightmare on Elm Street Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 124 out of 146 people found the following review useful: A movie that rejuvenated the slasher genre from United States 28 February 2005 By 1984, the slasher genre was wearing thin. Halloween bombed out with number 3, and Friday the 13th was falling into the dreadful mix of completely cliché horror. Without A Nightmare on Elm Street, that could have been it for the slasher film. With it, however, the genre was brought off the respirator for another 10 years when Craven did it again with Scream, but I digress. Wes Craven delivers a very original, creative, and well played out horror film that has the perfect level of plot, fright, gore, and imagination. The balance of these elements is key, as it gives you the best of all of them, without becoming too cliché, too bloody, or too silly. The movie keeps you with the characters throughout, who, unlike in the Friday the 13th series, aren't there only to be lined up for slaughter. To top all that off, there's the smart, fear-inspiring bogeyman Freddy Krueger, who is one of the greatest villains in cinema history. The combination of all these factors makes A Nightmare on Elm Street easily recognizable as a landmark in classic horror. Nancy and Tina are a little upset. They both are having terrifying nightmares of someone they can only describe as a man in a dirty sweater with knives for fingers, and Tina is having some guy issues. In fact, this nightmare shook Tina up so much that she has her friends over to keep her company, and has some great makeup sex with her man, Rod. Well, the man with the dirty sweater visits her subconscious once again, and she is inexplicably dragged to the ceiling and butchered, in an incredibly brutal, horrifying scene. Rod is arrested for the crime, and one by one, this mysterious specter assimilates Nancy and her friend's dreams. She keeps being stalked by this bogeyman, and after several episodes (that nearly puts her in the nuthouse), Nancy learns of a certain child murderer, Fred Krueger, who happened to use a glove with knives to kill the kids, and was also burned to death by the parents of the neighborhood. Now knowing what she's up against, Nancy prepares for battle, but how do you fight your dreams? An interesting approach is taken by Craven to solve that problem, leading to the final show down between the lion and the lamb. The whole ordeal ends with a twist so bizarre that you can't help but love it. When this movie was made, Halloween had set the stage, and Friday the 13th turned into what is now known as a cliché slasher. Wes Craven picked up on the psychological terror of Halloween, and the gore in Friday the 13th, and made it a psychologically chilling gory movie, while not turning to exploitation just to keep your interest. It stays terrifying by unbelievably violent and scary scenes while not going over-the-top. What makes these scenes effective is not only Craven's imagination, but the movie has a good, fear-inspiring villain. Freddy Krueger is the perfect horror villain because he's so brutal that it's terrifying. He hits home with everyone's idea of the bogeyman, but instead of hiding in your closet (where you can be safe from), he gets you in your dreams. There's virtually no way to stop him. How do you resist sleep? How do you resist dreaming? Of course, the idea is so outrageous that no one believes Nancy, which leaves the audience and the characters frustrated. The problem is, the person with the power is the person whose in control, and that's him. That's what allows Craven to build the tension in the movie. Again, like Carpenter's Halloween, Craven gets you attached to Nancy and her friends, instead of presenting characters in hopes of you being scared when they die, or just to pad the body count (and he still makes it gory without that factor). They're ordinary teenagers that a young audience can relate to, which is the target audience for this film. If you think about it, the movie is kind of goofy. A clown-like bogeyman who haunts your dreams with various wisecracks.

Who is the archenemy of Flash Gordon?

Ming The Merciless (Character) - Comic Vine Ming The Merciless The Ming The Merciless wiki last edited by fesak on 06/24/14 04:36PM View full history Origin When Flash Gordon and his friends land on the planet Mongo , they find it ruled by the evil Emperor Ming, a tyrant who quickly becomes his arch-enemy for many years. His hatred for Flash Gordon is only matched by his desire to rule the Universe, on the course of using his Machiavellian plot such as releasing the Purple Death on Earth as spite for Flash Gordon. Creation Published by King Features Syndicate , Ming the Merciless was created by Alex Raymond . Powers and Abilities Ming is possesses an incredible intellect, which he uses for evil purposes. Out-smarting Flash Gordon and setting traps up for him, devising vile schemes, and various other intentions. He is also able to use magic to aid in his plans, and appears to have technology that is fairly advanced. Other Media Charles Middleton as Emperor Ming Universal Pictures released three Flash Gordon cliffhanger serials in the 1930's and 40's and Charles Middleton played Emperor Ming in all three films. This writer has over 100 cliffhanger serials in his private collection and in his opinion no serial actor ever played a better villain than Charles Middleton did when he was Emperor Ming. Ming in Defenders of the Earth Ming was the primary antagonist in the 80's cartoon Defenders of the Earth, appearing alongside other King Features characters such as Flash Gordon , The Phantom , Mandrake & Lothar . Latest Images Close This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live. Comment and Save Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Save your changes Thanks, we're checking your submission. Whoah, whoah... slow down there. Thanks! Your changes are live! Some of your changes are live Because you're new to wiki editing, we sent your submission off to our moderators to check it over. Most changes are approved within a few hours. We'll send an email when it is. Once you've earned over points you'll be able to bypass this step and make live edits to our system. Until then, gain points by continuing to edit pages. You are currently banned from editing the wiki. Wiki submissions are currently disabled. No changes were submitted, nothing was done! Please make changes to the wiki! Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Some of your changes are now live. However, some of your changes were sent to moderation because you do not have enough points to make those live edits. You need points to live edit the changes you commited. For the changes that went through, our robot math gave you points for this submission. Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Your changes are now live. Our robot math gave you points for this submission.

What former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader gained stardom as a singer with her debut album Forever Your Girl, and has subsequently managed to milk her 15 minutes for the last 9+ years?

UnerasedHistory - Page 16 of 24 - "Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it" "Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it" Posted by Wayne Church on February 14, 2016 in 02 - February , Blog by month | ∞ Valentine’s Day National Have A Heart Day    Valentine’s Day Every February we celebrate Valentine’s Day by giving flowers, candy and cards to those we love. We do this in honor of Saint Valentine. You may be wondering, “Who is St. Valentine”? Time to brush up on your Valentine’s history! One legend has it that Valentine was an imprisoned man who fell in love with his jailer’s daughter. Before he was put to death he sent the first ‘valentine’ himself when he wrote her a letter and signed it ‘Your Valentine’, words still used on cards today. Another story which made Saint Valentine famous is this story. In ancient times, Saint Valentine was a person who helped people and heard their problems to find solutions. The main story started when the emperor of the time Claudius banned all marriages and engagements. The reason behind such act was that at that times, the war was ON and emperor thought was depressed due to the less participation of the young men. So he sorted out the problem by banning marriages so as the young men do not fall in love and hence will join the emperor’s army to fight. Valentine was helping the young couples to marry and when emperor sorted out St. Valentine, he ordered his men to throw Valentine into prison where he died on the 14th February 270 AD. From then, the day is celebrated as the Valentine’s Day.The other story related to the Valentine’s day is that Saint Valentine was a bishop who was killed by the emperor. Perhaps we’ll never know the true identity and story behind the man named St. Valentine, but this much is for sure…February has been the month to celebrate love for a long time, dating clear back to the Middle Ages. In fact, Valentines ranks second only to Christmas in number of greeting cards sent. The Valentine Week starts from the blossomy  Rose Day followed by the  Propose Day ,  Chocolate Day ,  Teddy Day ,  Promise Day ,  Kiss Day & Hug Day (21st) sequentially. The Valentine’s Day ends the Valentine Week on 14 February. Another valentine gentleman you may be wondering about is Cupid (Latin cupido, “desire”). In Roman mythology Cupid is the son of Venus, goddess of love. His counterpart in Greek mythology is Eros, god of love. Cupid is often said to be a mischievous boy who goes around wounding both gods and humans with his arrows, causing them to fall in love.   1 Corinthians 13:4-8  New King James Version (NKJV) Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.   “The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~ Scriptor Incompertus A bell is no bell ’til you

Traditionally, the concertmaster of a symphonic orchestra plays what instrument?

Symphony 101 | Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Shreveport Symphony Orchestra What is a symphony orchestra? A symphony orchestra is a collection of musicians who play instruments of four basic types: Strings: violins (smallest and highest in pitch), violas, cellos and double basses (largest and lowest in pitch). These players sit in a semicircle directly in front of the conductor and make up more than half the orchestra. Woodwinds: flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and related instruments. These players sit a few rows back from the conductor, in the center of the orchestra. Brass: trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and similar instruments. These instruments are the loudest, so you’ll see them at the back of the orchestra. Percussion: the drums, bells and other fascinating paraphernalia that are struck, plucked, rubbed, etc. This includes the kettledrums, the harp, and on occasion, the piano. Some works use lots of different percussion; others may have a single musician playing the kettledrums. The percussion section is also found at the back or side of the orchestra. How come there are more stringed instruments than anything else? The sound of each individual stringed instrument is softer than a brass or woodwind instrument. But in large numbers, they make a magnificent, rich sonority. What does the concertmaster do? The concertmaster sits in the first chair of the first violins. He acts as leader of that section, but also plays a leadership role with the orchestra as a whole. He is also the last orchestra musician to enter the stage before a concert and cues the principal oboist to “tune” the orchestra. Why do all musicians tune to the oboe? The penetrating tone of the oboe is easy for all players to hear, and its ability to sustain pitch is very secure. The principal oboist plays the note “A,” and all the players make sure their “A” is exactly on the same pitch as the oboe’s. This ensures that they all are in agreement about the tuning before the concert begins. Why do all the string players share stands? Fewer stands mean that the musicians, who are moving around quite a bit, have more room to play freely. Also, because the strings play more continuously than the other parts, their page turns can fall in inconvenient places where there should be no break in the music. Look closely and you’ll see that the player on the outside keeps playing, while the player on the inside briefly stops playing to turn the page.

What is the name for the New Orleans submarine sandwich usually consisting of fried seafood served on a baguette-like Louisiana French bread?

American Kitchen Classic Shrimp Po Boy Recipe - Food.com Cook 20 mins A Po' Boy is a traditional submarine sandwich from Louisiana. It almost always consists of a meat, usually roast meat or fried seafood, served on baguette-like New Orleans French bread, known for its crisp crust yet fluffy center. The name "po-boy" is, of course, a shortened version of "poor boy." The name stems from the fact that a po-boy used to be a very inexpensive way to get a very solid meal. Po' boys are made at home, sold pre-packaged in convenience stores, available at deli counters and make up a sizable percentage of the menu options at most neighborhood restaurants. Shrimp Po' boys can come dressed, such as this recipe is or just butter on the bread or with butter and ketchup, all made you way. Ingredients

What type of screw and screwdriver, designed to aid in automated manufacturing lines, features a small cross on the head of the screw?

Hobbit House Glossary The HobbitHouse Ilustrated Glossary of Woodworking terms FASTENER TERMS This set of terms having to do with fasteners and related terms is extracted from the general glossary shown here: GLOSSARY and links that are not local to this subset will put you back in the main glossary for images of wood itself, go here: wood id site NOTE: this sub-glossary is very much a work in progress; glue types, for example, are not yet well represented 270 degree hinge --- This refers to a hinge that allows a door to rotate 270 degees and thus allows it to open all the way to the outside side of a cabinet wall. This can only be achieved on a frameless full overlay cabinet design, and is best illustrated graphically, so see below. Note that there are two basic style of 270 degree hinges and the first is shown on the left side of the composite pic below and the other on the right side. Also, note that sometimes these hinges are called wrap around hinges or "wrap around inset" hinges or "double wrap around" hinges or "full back to back wrap around" hinges, but "wrap around hinge" normally means what is shown on that link. Examples: acorn nut --- A type of cap nut that is specifically shaped like an inverted acorn, which shape is purely decorative, not functional. Examples: Allen head --- A type of screw or bolt head that is designed for use with an Allen wrench . Allen head bolt --- A bolt with a hexagonal recess in the head requiring an Allen wrench , often used in woodworking machinery, among many other things. These may be in metric or SAE sizes. These are usually made out of strong steel , but occasionally you may find them in lighter grade steel or even aluminum. Allen head recesses are also used extensively in set screws . Other names for this item are "socket cap screw", "socket screw", and "socket head cap screw". Examples: Allen wrench --- A type of wrench that is a hexagonal -shaped metal bar, usually in the shape of an "L" but sometimes in the shape of a "T" and sometimes with a handle like what you find on a screwdriver but more often with a handle on the "T" portion, used to turn Allen head bolts and set screws . These may be in metric or English sizes and are sold both in sets and individually. Examples: anchor bolt --- A device for connecting timber members (or anything else, for that matter) to concrete or masonry. There are numerous styles, some of which involve drilling a hole in the concrete or masonry (in particular, see expansion anchor bolt ) and some of which involve embedding the bolt in concrete when it is poured so the bolt is in place when the concrete sets and the wood (or whatever) that is to be attached is drilled out and then placed over the bolt and attached with a nut . Anchor bolts are used for, among other thing, fastening the sill plate in a frame construction to the foundation . To prevent the plate timber from splitting, the anchor bolt nut is often put down over a plate washer . Examples of the most common type of anchor bolt which is an "L" shaped metal rod, threaded on the longer end: anchor hinge --- A particularly strong type of door hinge that has flaps on the (hinge) leaves to give extra attachment points to the door and frame; the flaps attach horizontally along the top edge of the door and the top surface of the frame. Most have these flaps on both leaves, but some (e.g. the two on the right side of the pic below) only have it on the frame leaf . Examples: annular ring nail --- A nail that has ridges around the circumference of the shank to provide extra holding power for applications such as wood to plywood bonding, flooring, roofing, and use in pallets. Although, as they are driven in, the ridges push the wood fibers aside, after they are in the fibers tend to expand back into the ridges thus giving better holding power than smooth-shank nails. The size and shape of the ridges varies considerably and they are often angled back up the shank so as to act like wedges, and sometimes they are actually tight spirals rather than just circumferential ridges. These nails ar

The Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel prize not awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. In what city does the ceremony actually take place?

The Nobel Prize Photo: Dan Hansson/TT The Nobel Prize – awarding great minds Every year in early October, the world turns its gaze towards Sweden and Norway as the Nobel Prize winners are announced. In December, this prestigious award is celebrated in Stockholm and Oslo. The prestigious award that captures the world’s attention The Nobel Prize is considered the most prestigious award in the world. Prize-winning discoveries include X-rays, radioactivity and penicillin. Peace Laureates include Nelson Mandela and the 14th Dalai Lama. Nobel Laureates in Literature, including Gabriel García Márquez and Doris Lessing, have thrilled readers with works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Grass is Singing. Every year in early October, the world turns its gaze towards Sweden and Norway as the Nobel Laureates are announced in Stockholm and Oslo. Millions of people visit the website of the Nobel Foundation during this time. The Nobel Prize has been awarded to people and organisations every year since 1901 (with a few exceptions such as during World War II) for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Nobel Day is 10 December. For the prize winners, it is the crowning point of a week of speeches, conferences and receptions. At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm on that day, the Laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature receive a medal from the King of Sweden, as well as a diploma and a cash award. The ceremony is followed by a gala banquet. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo the same day. Prize in Economic Sciences In 1968, Sweden’s central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The prize is based on a donation received by the Nobel Foundation in 1968 from the central bank to mark the bank’s 300th anniversary. The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, following the same principles as the Nobel Prizes. Legacy of Alfred Nobel The Nobel Prize is the legacy of Sweden’s Alfred Nobel (1833–1896). Prizes are awarded to ‘those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.’ When he signed his last will in 1895, Nobel declared that the bulk of his estate should be converted into a fund and invested in safe securities. The four institutions in Sweden and Norway (the two countries were united between 1814 and 1905) conferring the prizes were to be the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, the Academy in Stockholm and a committee of five people to be elected by the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget). The Nobel Foundation In 1900, the four institutions awarding the prizes agreed to create the Nobel Foundation, a private institution based on Alfred Nobel’s will. The Nobel Foundation would administer Nobel’s estate, totalling SEK 31 million, make public announcements and arrange the prize ceremonies. The total amount awarded each year is based on the most recent return on investment. The capital is currently worth around SEK 4 billion, almost double the value of the original estate when adjusted for inflation. The Nobel Prize in each category is currently worth SEK 8 million. There can be up to three recipients for each prize, who share the sum between them. Organisations affiliated with the prize The Nobel Prize is affiliated with several organisations and institutions entrusted with different tasks related to the prize. The Nobel Foundation Rights Association was established in 1999 to provide information through a variety of media about the Nobel Laureates and their achievements. This non-profit association serves as an umbrella organisation for four other entities: Nobel Media AB, which develops and manages programmes, productions and media rights of the Nobel Prize within the areas of digital and broadcast media, publishing as well as events; The Nobel Museum AB, housed in the Old Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) in Stockholm’s Old Town, creates interest and spreads knowledge around the

What mountain range separates the continents of Europe and Asia?

Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia? | Reference.com Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia? A: Quick Answer The Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains separate Europe from Asia. These two mountain ranges form a distinct border between Europe and Asia. Full Answer The idea of Europe as a geographical entity has always been somewhat indistinct. Its transition into Asia is permitted by a continuous land mass. To ease this distinction, geographers divide Europe at its highest points, which are the mountain ranges. The boundary between Europe and Asia is considered to proceed south from the Arctic Ocean along the Ural Mountains and then along the tops of the Caucasus Mountains. The Volga river is considered to be the separation between the European and Asian parts of these ranges.

Oct 14, 1926 saw the introduction of what favorite childhood character, known for his love of hunny?

History of Winnie the Pooh | Winnie the Pooh About History of Winnie the Pooh During the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short. Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934. The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin , son of author A.A. Milne . It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood . These other characters , such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. The characters, Rabbit and Owl, were based on animals that lived, like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home, Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest , Sussex. It is this area on which the 100-Acre-Wood was based. 'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in 1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard , which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favorites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over! The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all over the world. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proven to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, twenty years after the release of the first feature-length animated film, Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off. In February 2000 Disney released the third Winnie the Pooh movie called 'The Tigger Movie', this time with the leading part for Tigger . © All rights reserved. 1998-2017 EMGJ consulting © Characters, pictures & their names Disney Content is property of its respective owners & is provided for informational & educational purposes only.

In 1998, what name did Frito Lay add to its line of snack products that used the artificial fat substitute Olestra (anal leakage not withstanding)?

The Checkout RSS Feed   ( What's RSS? ) No Longer Making Light of Olestra There are a lot of people who don't like the Center for Science in the Public Interest . How do I know? Every time I write about this consumer-advocacy group, I get lots of e-mails and telephone calls complaining that the group is just a bunch of officious scaremongers, an obnoxious team of food police who are trying to curb our free choice to eat what we want when we want. One caller always leaves a message that I should identify the group as leftist liberal--and he does not mean that in a complimentary way. Say what you will about CSPI, but I'll say this: In the past few years, the group has repeatedly eked out one victory after another as it fights for more healthful food and clearer labeling on food it doesn't consider so healthful. Its most recent win: Frito-Lay will now post more prominent labels on its line of Light chips (Ruffles Light, Lay's Light, Doritos Light and Tostitos Light) to make it clear they contains olestra (or Olean) , the controversial fat substitute that CSPI says causes diarrhea, cramping and other unpleasant symptoms in a small percentage of consumers. Since 1998, when Frito-Lay first introduced Olestra to its chip lines (which were first labeled WOW!, then renamed to Light in 2004), CSPI has been loudly warning consumers about the potential side effects of Olestra. Initially, the Food and Drug Administration required food makers to post warning labels on food that contained Olestra, but in 2003, the agency dropped that requirement. CSPI has argued that Frito-Lay deliberately changed the WOW! name to light to deceive people into thinking the product was new, Olestra-free and of course, low-calorie. The group says more than 3,700 consumers have posted reports on the CSPI Web site about adverse reactions; the FDA, it says, has received more than 20,000 reports. So far, the FDA has not moved to accept the CSPI's request and order the warning label be reinstated. But in a settlement announced last week with CSPI, Frito-Lay agreed to prominently display an oval-shaped Olean logo and banner reading "made with olestra" on the front of its packages. On the back of the packages will be a short statement noting the presence of olestra. The agreement came after the CSPI threatened a class-action lawsuit against the snack maker. (See my earlier item on this.) Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzales said the company is making "minor packaging changes" even though the current version complies with all federal requirements. The changes "will make it a little easier" for consumers to recognize when products are made with olestra, she said. The Frito-Lay agreement will almost certainly mean more threatened lawsuits from CSPI. In the past year, the group has moved from asking the federal government to act on a variety of causes, including junk food practices, to filing the suits in Massachusetts. The consumer protection laws in that state are considered the most pro-consumer in the country. CSPI threatened to sue soft drink manufacturers for selling sodas in schools and the group is now crediting that threat to the May agreement , brokered by President Bill Clinton, in which soda makers announced they would pull sugary drinks out of schools. CSPI has also announced plans to sue Kellogg and Viacom/Nickelodeon for marketing junk-food to children under 8. That suit's on hold while CSPI and Kellogg discuss the matter. More litigation, "is more coming down the pike" says group spokesman Jeff Cronin. In other words, watch this space. By  |  June 8, 2006; 6:37 AM ET Legal Battles/Settlements

A peach / Looks good / With lots of fuzz / But man's no peach / And never wuz and Your shaving brush / Has had its day / So why not / Shave the modern way were roadside signs advertising what product from 1925 to 1963?

What are your favorite Burma Shave signs? What are your favorite Burma Shave signs?   Reply Tue 7 Jun, 2011 03:53 pm Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as coming "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma."[1] Demand was sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal. The result was the Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off. At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Philip Morris. The signs were removed at that time. The brand decreased in visibility and eventually became the property of the American Safety Razor Company. In 1997, the American Safety Razor Company reintroduced the Burma-Shave brand, including a nostalgic shaving soap and brush kit. In fact, the original Burma-Shave was a brushless shaving cream, and Burma-Shave's own roadside signs frequently ridiculed "Grandpa's old-fashioned shaving brush." Roadside billboards Set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66. Burma-Shave sign series appeared from 1925 to 1963 in most of the contiguous United States. The exceptions were New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada (deemed to have insufficient road traffic), and Massachusetts (eliminated due to that state's high land rentals and roadside foliage). Typically, six consecutive small signs would be posted along the edge of highways, spaced for sequential reading by passing motorists. The last sign was almost always the name of the product. The signs were originally produced in two color combinations: red-and-white and orange-and-black, though the latter was eliminated after a few years. A special white-on-blue set of signs was developed for South Dakota, which restricted the color red on roadside signs to official warning notices. This use of the billboard was a successful advertising gimmick during the early years of the automobile, drawing attention and passers-by who were curious to discover the punchline. As the Interstate system expanded in the late 1950s and vehicle speeds increased, it became more difficult to attract motorists' attention with small signs. When the company was acquired by Phillip Morris, the signs were discontinued on advice of counsel.[2] Some of the signs, instead of directly advertising the shaving cream, featured public safety messages (usually about speeding). Examples of Burma-Shave advertisements are at The House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Re-creations of Burma-Shave sign sets also appear on Arizona Highway 66, part of the original U.S. Route 66, between Ash Fork, Arizona and Kingman, Arizona (though they were not installed there by Burma-Shave during its original campaigns) and on Old U.S. Highway 30 near Ogden, Iowa. Other examples are displayed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan and the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia. Reply Tue 7 Jun, 2011 03:54 pm @BumbleBeeBoogie, Burma Shave road sign samples: The complete list of the 600 or so known sets of signs is listed in Sunday Drives and in the last part of The Verse by the Side of the Road.[3] The content of the earliest signs is lost, but it is believed that the first recorded signs, for 1927 and soon after, are close to the originals. The first ones were prosaic advertisements. Generally the signs were printed with all capital letters. The style shown below is for readability: Shave the modern way / No brush / No lather / No rub-in / Big tube 35 cents - Drug stores / Burma-Shave As early as 1928, the writers were displaying a puckish sense of humor: Takes the "H" out of shave / Makes it save / Saves complexion / Saves time and money / No brush - no lather / Burma-Shave In 1929, the prosaic ads began to be replaced by actual verses on four signs, with the fifth sign merely a filler for the sixth: Every shaver / Now can snore / Six more minutes / Than before / By using / Burma-Shave Your shaving

In what year was the first Nobel Peace Prize actually awarded, ostensibly to someone who earned it?

Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Learn more about the Nobel Peace Prize from 1901 to 2016. Number of Nobel Peace Prizes 97 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. It was not awarded on 19 occasions: in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972. Why were the Peace Prizes not awarded in those years? In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "If none of the works under consideration is found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph, the prize money shall be reserved until the following year. If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be added to the Foundation's restricted funds." During World War I and II, fewer Nobel Prizes were awarded. Shared and Unshared Nobel Peace Prizes 66 Peace Prizes have been given to one Laureate only. 29 Peace Prizes have been shared by two Laureates. 2 Peace Prizes have been shared between three persons. The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman. Why is that? In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "A prize amount may be equally divided between two works, each of which is considered to merit a prize. If a work that is being rewarded has been produced by two or three persons, the prize shall be awarded to them jointly. In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons." Number of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates * The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 130 Laureates - to 104 individuals and 26 organizations. Since Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) was awarded three times and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded twice there are 104 individuals and 23 organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1981 One Peace Prize Laureate Declined the Nobel Peace Prize The Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho , awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is the only person who has declined the Nobel Peace Prize. They were both awarded the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord. Le Doc Tho said that he was not in a position to accept the Nobel Prize, citing the situation in Vietnam as his reason. The Vietnam Conflict (1959-1975), was fought between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the United States-supported Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). The Southern and American forces were defeated and the war ended with unification of Vietnam under the communist government of the North. Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo Posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes There is one posthumous Nobel Peace Prize, to Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961. From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a Prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize. Before 1974, the Nobel Prize was also awarded posthumously to Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Nobel Prize in Literature 1931). Surprise Nobel Peace Prize Laureate? Many believe that Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but he was actually awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. In fact, Churchill was nominated both for the Literature Prize and for the Nobel Peace Prize. Explore the nomination database for the Nobel Prizes Peace Prize Laureates and their Fields The most common field for Nobel Peace Prize Laureates is the peace movement. It is the field for 39 Nobel Laureates. List of Peace Prize Laurea

How old must you be to serve on a jury in the city of Seattle?

Municipal Court of Seattle - Jury Duty FAQs Is Jury service mandatory? The United States Constitution and the Washington State Constitution guarantee the right to trial by jury. Failure to attend as directed may subject you to penalties provided by law. All King County residents are obligated by state law to serve as a juror unless they: Are not a United States citizen; Are under 18 years of age; Are unable to communicate in the English language; or If convicted of a felony, is not subject to community custody. What is my duty as a juror? As a juror, you must be fair and impartial. Your actions and decisions must be free of any bias or prejudice. You must apply the law given by the judge to the facts given during the trial to make a decision in a case. Municipal Court of Seattle What are my transportation options? We encourage you to use mass transportation to the courthouse as parking is limited and expensive. When you arrive for jury service you may choose to receive bus tickets, light rail or water taxi fare reimbursement or mileage reimbursement for your service term. We do not reimburse for parking. You will receive a bus ticket for the original trip to the courthouse at the time of check in for jury service. If you wish to receive a bus ticket prior to your arrival we would be happy to accommodate you if you give us sufficient time to allow for mail delivery. Call (206) 684-5688 or email [email protected] . Please include your Juror number and date of service. To plan your trip via Metro, click here. Use Fifth Avenue & Cherry Street or Fifth Avenue & James Street as your destination point. Top of FAQ Page ................ Jury Duty Home What if I recently served in another court as a juror? If you have served with any other jurisdiction, please contact that court and request written verification of your service. Forward that to us, along with the lower portion of the Seattle Municipal Court summons, and an exemption will be processed.. Top of FAQ Page ................ Jury Duty Home Is it possible to be excused from Jury Duty For a hardship exemption: If you need to be excused from service, please attach a letter explaining why it is difficult for you to serve at any time during the next year, and mail it to the address on your summons. Work related exemptions require a letter of explanation from your employer. All medical exemptions require a letter from your physician What types of cases are heard by jurors? Jurors in Seattle Municipal Court most commonly hear misdemeanor cases such as driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, shoplifting, assault, domestic violence, vehicle prowl, or prostitution. Jurors occasionally hear civil cases involving charges such as violation of building regulations or business license regulations. What do I do in the event of inclement weather? If the weather conditions are bad and the court determines that it will not require jurors to appear for court services, we will update our web site or you can call (206) 684-8118. You may also check

Which entertainment icon, with a 20 year career on television, is poised to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine next month?

stumbleupon Email Comment Playboy magazine is famous for two things; Hugh Hefner and naked, stunning women. The first issue was published in 1953 and it was such a success that it sold out almost instantly. More than 1.5 million copies are sold a year and in 2010 the Playboy brand generated an annual revenue of $210 million. During its vintage days, Marilyn Monroe even stripped down to nothing for a coveted spot in the magazine. By 1970, it had become the very first gentleman’s magazine to be printed in Braille. The rabbit logo has become one of the most recognised icons and titles on top shelves around the world. Anyone who’s given the opportunity to appear will reap the benefits of instant fame and access to some of the biggest and loudest parties at the Playboy Mansion. The coveted title of Playmate Of The Year has been won by models ever since 1957. The tradition of Playboy has been called out-dated and past-it by some, but there are still plenty of young women throwing their clothes off for the chance to appear on it’s pages. One thing for which Playboy is famous is convincing celebrities to, literally, reveal all. With names like Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra , Kim Kardashian and Kate Moss gracing the front covers like goddesses, Playboy is well known for exclusive, erotic photo shoots. Some other huge names attached to the publication are less widely remembered, most likely  brushed under the carpet now and kept hush hush by their PR teams. These are 20 celebrities you may have forgotten graced the covers of the original top-shelf mag. 20. Eva Herzigova via playboyblog.com The Czech born model and actress Eva Herzigova is most famous for her ‘Hello, Boys’ Wonderbra publicity campaign in 1994. It is more uncommonly known that the 5ft 11 inches beauty also got the cover and several pages in Playboy’s August 2004 issue, ten years after her famous campaign but still looking great and in shape. Models are known best for being paid to wear clothes not necessarily take them off but with her estimated worth currently at over $8million it hasn’t done her career any known damage at all. 19. Marge Simpson via justjared.com There have been cover girls for Playboy all different shapes and sizes, but when Marge Simpson graced the cover November 2009 and she featured in suggestive photos inside the issues. There were even doughnuts involved for the true The Simpsons but the majority of the pictures were safe for work as not even Marge would bare all for the issue. She did, however, feature her measurements. With hair included she stands at 6′ 6″ and measures exactly 26″-26″-26″ and her turn offs include ‘slim men who work out regularly’. It’s safe to assume Homer breathed a sigh of relief at that. 18. Charisma Carpenter Charisma Carpenter won fans worldwide when she appeared in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. She wanted to make the transition from television to film but it wasn’t looking great, as no big Hollywood features were snapping her up from casting calls. But her stunning looks did land her the cover of Playboy in 2004, and thanks to her role on Angel she was featured on many ‘hot babe’ lists, which really gave her the boost she was looking for. 17. Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett ’s entire career was full of constant requests to do nudity, she didn’t give in and kept her body under wraps until the age of 48 when she decided that if she was finally going to get naked then it would be for Playboy. In the December 1995 issue the Charlie’s Angels icon did the shoot. She had previously appeared on the cover 17 years earlier but she was not nude in the actual feature instead it was a ‘holiday pictorial’ and the star held onto her bikini top and bottoms. 16. Denise Richards In December 2004 the Starship Troopers actress, Denise Richards , was in a turbulent relationship with Charlie Sheen and had a five-month-old daughter with the actor. Showing to the world that women can still have killer figures even after childbirth she took the self-esteem boosting step of shooting for Playboy magazine. Her ten page spread of ‘erotic

Located in North Africa, Libya is the only country with a one color flag. What color is it?

Political Map of Libya - Ezilon Maps Libya Map - Political Map of Libya Zoom Map Description: The Political Map of Libya showing names of capital cities, towns, states, provinces and boundaries with neighbouring countries. Libya Facts and Country Information... Libya is a country that is situated in the North Africa and it is also officially known as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. You will find the Mediterranean Sea on the north of Libya and on its south you will find Niger and Chad. Egypt is located on its east and it is surrounded by Tunisia and Algeria on its west. More than 4/5th of the country is desert. Libya is considered to be the seventh largest country in the world. By area, it is considered to be the fourth largest country in Africa.   Cyrenaica, the Fezzan and Tripolitania are the traditional parts of Libya. As it has huge petroleum reserves and less population, Libya has the second highest GDP (PPP) per capita in the continent of Africa. The flag of the country only has one color and that is Green. You will also not find any design or sign on its national flag. Libya depends on its oil sector for income as the country exports oil to other nations. The income from this sector constitutes about 25% of the country's GDP. Tourism is still growing at a slow rate. The nation is popular for its Sahara Desert landscape and Ancient Roman and Greek ruins. The people from Libya are called Libyan.

On Oct 17, 1976, the Seattle Seahawks won their first ever game by beating which other expansion team?

Seattle Seahawks (1976-Present)   Historical Moments: 1976: Tragedy strikes the Seahawks before they even play their first game when Lloyd W. Nordstrom the expansion team's owner dies from a heart attack on January 20th while vacationing in Mexico. Nordstrom had been instrumental in landing an NFL team in the Pacific Northwest, and hiring the front office, but he never had a chance to see his team take the field. The Seahawks coached by Jack Patera finally play their first game on September 12th before a sold out Kingdome the expansion Seahawks played a solid game but had their desperation final pass intercepted in the endzone during a 30-24 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. The Seahawks would go on to lose their first five game before they beat the Buccaneers their brothers in expansion 13-10 in Tampa on October 17th. Three weeks later the Seahawks would earn their first home victory by beating the Atlanta Falcons 30-13 behind the 12-yard effort of Running Back Sherman Smith. These two wins would be the only on the season as the first year team completed a typical expansion-like record of 2-12. 1977: In one of the dumbest moves in franchise history the Seahawks trade their top pick in the draft to the Dallas Cowboys for three second round picks. The Cowboys would use the pick to select Running Back Tony Dorsett who would have a Hall of Fame career. In their second season the Seahawks shifted from the NFC West to the AFC West, as they lost five of their first six games. On October 30th the Seahawks would earn their second win of the season when Quarterback Jim Zorn returned from an injury and threw four Touchdown passes in a 56-17 win over the Buffalo Bills at the Kingdome. Two weeks later the Seahawks would get their first shutout over the Jets 17-0 in New York. The Seahawks would go on to finish with a 5-9 record, winning their final two games in the process. 1978: After splitting their first 12 games the Seahawks stun the Raiders 17-16 in Oakland beating them for the second time in the season. It was the first time any opponent had beaten the Raiders twice in the same season in 13 years. The Seahawks would go on to finish with a 9-7 record, as Wide Receiver Steve Largent has a breakout season with 1,168 receiving yards. 1979: The Seahawks stumble out of the gate losing four of their first five games. The Seahawks would recover in time to score a 31-28 comeback win over the Falcons in Atlanta in their first Monday Night Appearance. Howeverm, a week later they would suffer their most humiliating loss at the Kingdome where they put up negative yardage in a 24-0 loss to the Los Angeles Rams. The Seahawks would bounce back to win five of their final six games to finish with a 9-7 record for the second year in a row. 1980: The Seahawks would get off to another solid start winning four of their first seven games. However, defensive struggles would catch up with team as they lost their final nine games to finish with a 4-12 record. The Seahawks defense was torched for 408 points on the season as they lost several games by a Touchdown or less. 1981: The Seahawks get off to a terrible start losing six of their first seven games, on the way to a 6-10 season. Despite the struggles Steve Largent would have another stellar season with 1,224 receiving yards. 1982: The Seahawks stumble out of the gate losing their first two games before a two month player strike. When play resumed the Seahawks took the field with a new coach after Jack Patera was fired. Under the leadership of Interim Coach Mike McCormack the Seahawks would go 4-3 to finish with a 4-5 record. Following the season McCormack returned to the front office as Chuck Knox was hired as the new coach.   1983: Through the first 12 games the Seahawks play up and down football, sweeping the Los Angeles Raiders while enjoying a distinct home field advantage where fans perfected the NFL's first "wave."  Back-to-back road losses to the St. Louis Cardinals and Denver Broncos, however, led to a leveling 6-6 record." With their playoff hopes dwindling, the Seahawks beat the Kansas City

A dry goods shop specializes in selling what product?

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According to KFC, Colonel Sanders' original recipe contained how many herbs and spices?

KFC's secret recipe found in a scrapbook? KFC's secret recipe found in a scrapbook? Chicago Tribune might have stumbled upon fast food's most guarded secret: Colonel Sanders' original fried chicken recipe Post to Facebook KFC's secret recipe found in a scrapbook? Chicago Tribune might have stumbled upon fast food's most guarded secret: Colonel Sanders' original fried chicken recipe Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/2b9U2YO CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation KFC's secret recipe found in a scrapbook? Joseph Gerth , @Joe_Gerth Published 2:34 p.m. ET Aug. 19, 2016 | Updated 9:13 a.m. ET Aug. 20, 2016 Buy Photo Colonel Sanders (Photo: CJ File)Buy Photo The Chicago Tribune is reporting that it may have uncovered Col. Harland Sanders' secret original recipe for his famed fried chicken, the linchpin of KFC's global franchise of some 18,000 restaurants in 115 countries. In a story posted on the Tribune's website Friday, a freelance reporter for the newspaper said he stumbled upon the recipe at the home of Joe Ledington, a nephew of the colonel by marriage, while paging through a scrapbook once owned by Sanders' late wife, Claudia Sanders. But in an email to the Courier-Journal, a KFC spokesperson said the recipe isn't theirs. "Many people have made these claims over the years and no one has been accurate – this one isn't either," the email said. "Though, we imagine that might make some tasty fried chicken, too." Ledington, in an interview with the Courier-Journal, said the scrapbook was passed down through various family members since Claudia Sanders died in 1997. Ledington said the book – which contains photos of the Sanderses' wedding, original franchise agreements and original photos of overseas restaurant openings – has been in his possession about four years. The recipe was handwritten on a piece of paper tucked into an envelope that contained a copy of Claudia Sanders' will, he said. Ledington said he grew up mixing the herbs and spices at the Sanders Court and Cafe, the restaurant and motel where Sanders pioneered his now-famous recipe, working there from the time he was 8 or 9 years old for a quarter a day and access to the motel's swimming pool. "I was more excited about the pool than the money," said Ledington, a 67-year-old retired school teacher who lives in the home where he was reared, about 300 yards from Sanders' first restaurant. ►RELATED:  KFC secret recipe clues in Corbin, Ky​ KFC protects the recipe in a vault and has sued to keep its recipe secret in the past. According to the Tribune, Yum! replied with an email that said, "In the 1940s, Colonel Sanders developed the original recipe chicken to be sold at his gas station diner. At the time, the recipe was written above the door so anyone could have read it. But today, we go to great lengths to protect such a sacred blend of herbs and spices. In fact, the recipe ranks among America's most valuable trade secrets." So, does Ledington think the recipe is the real McCoy? "Yeah, I do," he said. "I don't want to get in an argument with Yum! Brands about it but ... I'm pretty sure that it's pretty close to the original." According to the Tribune, the recipe calls for two cups of flour, 2/3 tablespoons of salt, 1/2 tablespoon of thyme, 1/2 tablespoon of basil, 1/3 tablespoon of oregano, 1 tablespoon of celery salt, 1 tablespoon of black pepper, 1 tablespoon of dried mustard, 4 tablespoons of paprika, 2 tablespoons of garlic salt, 1 tablespoon of ground ginger and 3 tablespoons of white pepper. ►RELATED:  Colonel Sanders revived by KFC to boost sales Former Gov. John Y.  Brown Jr., who bought Kentucky Fried Chicken from Sanders in 1964 for $2 million before selling it in 1971, said he doesn't know the recipe but that he has doubts that Ledington's recipe is the real thing. Brown said it was Sanders who began the tradition of having two different companies make parts of the spice blend so that no one had the full recipe. "I wouldn’t pay atten

Judged by Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, what Fox show features a panel of finalists who dance with and against each other for fan votes?

So You Think You Can Dance - TV Series News, Show Information - FOX So You Think You Can Dance () About the show | Aired | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE is back for a 13th season that will feature a younger generation of dancers.  This season, dancers between the ages of 8-13, who are skilled in various dance styles, such as contemporary, tap, hip-hop, ballroom, animation or breaking, will be paired up with All-Stars to compete for the title of America’s Favorite Dancer. The new season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: THE NEXT GENERATION will feature returning host Cat Deeley and returning judges Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo.

What is the name of the tough fibrous structural protein found in fingernails and toenails?

Keratin | Define Keratin at Dictionary.com keratin noun 1. a scleroprotein or albuminoid substance, found in the dead outer skin layer, and in horn, hair, feathers, hoofs, nails, claws, bills, etc. Origin of keratin Examples from the Web for keratin Expand The Nuttall Encyclopaedia Edited by Rev. James Wood British Dictionary definitions for keratin Expand noun 1. a fibrous protein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in hair, nails, feathers, hooves, etc 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 keratin Expand n. basic substance of horns, nails, feathers, etc., 1847, from Greek keras (genitive keratos) "horn" (see kerato- ) + chemical suffix -in (2). Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Which insect, native to central Africa, is notorious for causing the sleeping sickness?

CDC - African Trypanosomiasis - General Information - East African Trypanosomiasis FAQs East African Trypanosomiasis FAQs To receive email updates about this page, enter your email address: Enter Email Address How can I prevent African trypanosomiasis and prevent other insect bites? What is East African trypanosomiasis? There are two types of African trypanosomiasis (also called sleeping sickness); each is named for the region of Africa in which they were found historically. East African trypanosomiasis is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which is carried by the tsetse fly. Each year, a few hundred cases of East African trypanosomiasis are reported to the World Health Organization. However, many cases are not recognized or reported and the true number of new cases is higher. Since 1967, 40 cases of East African trypanosomiasis have been diagnosed or treated in the United States, all among individuals who had traveled to eastern Africa. More on: West African Trypanosomiasis FAQs How is East African trypanosomiasis spread? A person will get East African trypanosomiasis if he or she is bitten by a tsetse fly infected with the Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense parasite. The proportion of tsetse flies that are infected with this parasite is low. The tsetse fly is found only in rural Africa. Is East African trypanosomiasis a serious illness? Yes. If a person fails to receive medical treatment for East African trypanosomiasis, death will occur, usually within months. Where can you become infected with East African trypanosomiasis? East African trypanosomiasis is found in parts of Eastern and Southeastern Africa. More than 95% of cases are reported from Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia. What are the signs and symptoms of East African trypanosomiasis? A bite by the tsetse fly is often painful and can develop into a red sore, also called a chancre. Fever, severe headaches, irritability, extreme fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and aching muscles and joints are common symptoms of sleeping sickness. Some people develop a skin rash. Progressive confusion, personality changes, and other neurologic problems occur after infection has invaded the central nervous system. If left untreated, infection becomes worse and death will occur within months. How soon after infection will I have symptoms of East African trypanosomiasis? Symptoms usually within 1 to 3 weeks after an infective bite. Back To Top What should I do if I think I may have African trypanosomiasis? If you suspect that you may have East African trypanosomiasis, immediately consult with your health care provider, who will order several tests to look for the parasite. A skin biopsy may be done if you have a chancre. Blood tests will be done and a spinal tap may also be performed. What is the treatment for East African trypanosomiasis? Medical treatment of East African trypanosomiasis should begin as soon as possible and is based on the infected person’s laboratory results. Medication for the treatment of East African trypanosomiasis is available through CDC. Hospitalization for treatment is usually necessary. Periodic follow-up exams that include a spinal tap are required for 2 years. Once infected, am I immune to East African trypanosomiasis? Even if you had the disease once, you can get re-infected. Who is at risk for contracting East African trypanosomiasis? Tsetse flies are found in woodland and savannah areas and they bite during daylight hours. Travelers to urban areas are not at risk. The persons most likely to be exposed to the infection are tourists, hunters, and others working in or visiting game parks. Villagers with infected cattle herds are also at risk. Can I take a medication to prevent East African trypanosomiasis? There is neither a vaccine nor recommended drug available to prevent East African trypanosomiasis. How can I prevent African trypanosomiasis and prevent other insect bites? Wear protective clothing, including long-sleeved shirts and pants. The tsetse fly can bite through thin fabrics, so clothing should be made of medium-weight mate

Citizen (of watch fame), JVC, and Olympus are all companies based in what country?

Learn and talk about EIKI, 1953 establishments in Japan, Companies based in Hyōgo Prefecture, Companies established in 1953, Display technology companies .com An EIKI EX-4000P movie projector with a filmlooper desgned by Studio 2M EIKI Industrial Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that manufactures LCD and DLP projectors , related accessories and overhead projectors . History[ edit ] EIKI was founded in 1953 in Osaka , Japan by four founders. (M. Matsuura, S. Yagi, K. Sekino & Y. Minagawa). [1] Initially the focus of the company was producing technology for classroom instruction but later on the company focused more on producing 16mm movie projectors for other fields. The name EIKI comes from the Japanese term "EIshaKI" meaning projector. EIKI 16mm projectors were innovative because their design included only half of the moving parts of popular projectors, thus making them less costly and easier to maintain. They were the largest manufacturer of such projectors. In 1974, EIKI opened EIKI International, Inc., their USA division in Laguna Niguel, CA. to distribute its products in the United States. In 1986, the Company acquired the business unit of the Bell & Howell company that had originated the audio visual industry some 50 years earlier. In 1988, EIKI Canada was created as a subsiary of EIKI International, Inc. In 1995, EIKI Deutschland, GmbH became the Company's first wholly owned office in Europe. And, in 1997 EIKI Czech was founded to establish a network of Dealer's across Central and Eastern Europe. Today, EIKI brand projection equipment is available in every major country in the world. EIKI was also one of the first manufacturers of LCD projector . Only one of the original four founding members is still alive today. In 2013, EIKI Industrial Co., Ltd. celebrated its 60th anniversary. Original courtesy of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIKI  —  Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. We're sorry, but there's no news about "EIKI" right now. Limit to books that you can completely read online Include partial books (book previews) Oops, we seem to be having trouble contacting Twitter Support Wikipedia A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. Please add your support for Wikipedia! Searchlight Group Digplanet also receives support from Searchlight Group. Visit Searchlight Copyright © 2009-2017 Digparty. All rights reserved.

Knitting uses needles. What tool does crocheting use?

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With a truck body on a car chassis, what Chevrolet product, produced from 1959-60, and 64-87, was a competitor to the Ford Ranchero?

Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Ranchero – The First Respectable Truck Curbside Classic: 1957 Ford Ranchero – The First Respectable Truck Paul Niedermeyer – December 26, 2014 (first posted 11/15/2011)   From today’s perspective, Rancheros – and their El Camino counterparts – are just cool, funky, fun and desirable, because of their unique configuration and, well; because they’re cool, funky and and fun. What else is needed? They long ago achieved cult status, and one can never go wrong showing up in one, regardless of whether that’s in Beverly Hills or Lubbock. And for anyone under the age of fifty or so, the reasons for their existence are self-evident: another opportunity for guys to express their disdain for sedans, and all the implications of domesticity they imply. The Anti-Paternity Mobile, as I tagged the 1969 Ranchero we did a while back. In today’s time frame, the dozen years between 1957 and 1969 may not seem like much, but back then, well; how old is rap? Think kids in 1969 were listening to Pat Boone? So to try to understand why Ford decided to build the first Ranchero in 1957, we need to make a huge jump, culturally speaking. And it involves this: in 1957, trucks were madly uncool. Nobody ever took a girl out in a truck in 1957, period. They’d beg, steal or borrow anything else; whatever it took. Trucks were nasty, dirty and as un-sexy as it got; might as well take a tractor to the prom. Enter the Ranchero. You probably can’t make out the text, but here’s the key lines from this ad: Because Ranchero, with its crisp modern lines, has a wonderful way of saying nice things about your company. Nice things like “progressive”…”up-to-date”…”good to deal with”. That’s why the Ranchero is excellent for any business – large or small – where customer impressions count. Does that implicate genuine trucks adequately enough? As in, you’re going to be seen as a crude, dirty, untrustworthy hick if you show up to fix Mrs. Smiths’ sink in a Ford F-100. Like I said, 1957 was a long time ago, and America’s embrace of the truck as the family truckster was as unimaginable as gay marriage. In that context, the Ranchero was as obvious as, and analogous to Ford’s 1958 Thunderbird: time to step up your game, dude! Imagine driving around your suburban neighborhood, and not seeing a genuine pickup truck, anywhere. To the best of my memory, that was the case when I arrived in Iowa City in 1960, and I was pretty observant. The first one appeared in 1964, a big Dodge double cab with a giant cab-over camper; the forerunner of the RV. And then our neighbors bought a new 1965 Chevy C10, because they were building a house in the country to move to. And of course, those were strictly second vehicles. And of course, there were exceptions, somewhere. Drive out of town, and every farm had a pickup. But there was always a sedan too. And you know which one got driven to church, game or the the dance. All which explains the divergent evolution of automobilus ute; as in Australian ute, or utility coupe, from the American counterpart. Even the lowliest of American farmers could afford a sedan, even if it meant driving a ten year old pickup. Not so in Australia. The ute was a necessary compromise of coupe and truck, because folks needed one vehicle to haul the barbed wire  as well as to drive to church on Sunday. The Ranchero was never conceived of in the same vein, and American “utes” and Ozzie utes are as different in their genealogy as coyotes and kangaroos. They both have tails, but that’s about the extent of it. And for what it’s worth, the Ranchero was hardly a brilliant idea, or sales success. Until the mid-late sixties, when Chevy’s El Camino became “cool”, an “individualistic” alternative to a Malibu coupe, the category’s sales were somewhere between modest and mediocre. Not that it probably hurt Ford any; the Ranchero shared a whole lot of body parts with its aptly-named stable-mate, the two-door Ranch Wagon. Even the tailgate was re-used. And presumably, Ford’s legendarily mediocre build quality for that year. Our example has been “improved” a b

The catchphrase of what Toy Story character was “To Infinity and Beyond”?

To Infinity and Beyond | Pixar Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia To Infinity and Beyond Share "To Infinity and Beyond!" is Buzz Lightyear 's famous catchphrase in the films Toy Story , Toy Story 2 , and Toy Story 3 , and the TV series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command . The phrase is not only said by Buzz, but is also said or referenced by other characters, notably Woody . The catchphrase served as a namesake for the book To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios . Contents Buzz Lightyear, just before demonstrating how he flies to the toys. The phrase is displayed on Andy 's Buzz Lightyear blanket. Andy, as he plays with Buzz Lightyear before the family outing at Pizza Planet . The phrase is heard in a commercial advertising Buzz Lightyear toys . Buzz Lightyear, just before jumping from the railing at Sid's house . Woody, impersonating Buzz Lightyear, as he tries to convince the toys that Buzz Lightyear is with him. Sid , as he takes Buzz Lightyear out of his room to be blown up. Woody, as he and Buzz Lightyear fly down slowly in the air while trying to catch up with the moving truck . Toy Story 2 Buzz Lightyear in the video game, as he uses his anti-gravity servos to propel himself back up. Andy, as he impersonates Buzz Lightyear in his little playtime before leaving for Cowboy Camp. Referenced by Buzz Lightyear, as he departs Andy's room to go on his mission to rescue Woody, by saying "To Al's Toy Barn , and beyond!" Utility Belt Buzz , as he prepares to "blast through the roof." Utility Belt Buzz, as the elevator takes him and the toys up to Al's Penthouse . Referenced by Woody, who tells Buzz Lightyear that he will have old Buzz Lightyear to keep him company "for infinity and beyond." Toy Story 3 Buzz Lightyear in Andy's realistic imagination, after lifting a train up out of a ravine. Referenced by Woody, as Buzz tells him that they will be together, to which Woody replies, "For infinity and beyond." Referenced again by Woody, after Buzz reawakens to his normal self from being hit by a television and asks where he has been, Woody replies, "Beyond infinity." Buzz's voice box says the phrase when Bonnie presses one of his talk buttons. Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV series In the pilot movie when Buzz is reversing the Uni-mind's corruption. In various pilot intros for the episodes. Trivia

The Japanese art of growing meticulously groomed miniature trees in indoor containers is known as what?

Bonsai Tree Information: General Information about Bonsai Trees Information History Bonsai trees are often thought to have originated from Japan, but records over 2,000 years old show trees being grown in China, as part of landscapes planted in shallow containers. Around 1,500 years ago trees, many of which would have been collected from mountainous regions, were first grown as individual specimens and these can be seen clearly on ancient Chinese line drawings. Several centuries later the Japanese began growing and training trees in pots and have developed the hobby to its current level. Chinese and Japanese bonsai are very different in style, with Chinese style trees being more freeform and trained mainly by pruning, whilst Japanese trees are meticulously groomed and shaped, appearing more natural. Misconceptions A common misconception about the hobby is that it is 'cruel', with the trees being starved in order to dwarf them. Nothing could be further from the truth! Bonsai trees require regular watering, feeding and repotting to keep them in optimum health and in many cases they are actually healthier that their counterparts in the wild, enjoying the same longevity. Some trees in Japan have recorded histories spanning several centuries and are often traditionally passed from generation to generation, keeping them in the same family during their long lifetime. Root pruning is a widespread horticultural technique, used by many gardeners to produce better root systems on plants grown both in pots and in the garden, and is not just associated with bonsai training. This practice facilitates the growth of a well developed, compact root system with many fine, fibrous roots which are so necessary for taking up nutrients and does not restrict the overall growth. Various branch and shoot pruning techniques are what actually dwarf the tree, in the same way as trimming a hedge keeps it from growing into a line of large trees. The Hobby The growing of bonsai, which translates literally as 'plant in a tray', is a truly satisfying hobby and combines both horticulture and art, creating trees that are often referred to as 'living sculptures'. Above all it is important that the trees are kept healthy and in excellent condition, as with any pot plant. Pruning and shaping does, however, require a certain amount of artistic imagination to visualise the future development of the trunk and branches. Bonsai should embody all that is so wonderful about trees that grow naturally in such a variety of shapes and sizes. Large specimen trees, ancient trees with hollow trunks, trees which have been shaped by severe weather conditions or even small forests can all be recreated in the confines of a pot. By growing trees in this way it is possible to have a mini-aboretum of delightful small trees in your own garden or even on a balcony, whatever the size. The timescale to create impressive bonsai is dependent upon the origin, species and general health of the tree. Trees grown from seed or cuttings will invariably take longer to create the images required than much older material, possibly collected from the wild or obtained as nursery stock, although it can be most rewarding to build a collection from a variety of different sources. However, actual age is not as important as the illusion of how old the tree appears - a well trained bonsai may look far older that it really is. Indoor or Outdoor? Many species of trees and woody shrubs are suitable for training as bonsai, but if planted in the garden they would grow into full-size trees - there is no such thing as a special 'bonsai species'. Pruning and shaping is required to create and maintain the desired shape and size. Some trees are often used to achieve the appearance of different species, e.g. a juniper can look very effective when trained in the image of a pine. Trees that would naturally grow outdoors must not be cultivated indoors, where they will not flourish, but will soon die. Occasionally outdoor bonsai may be viewed in the house, provided that a cool area is selected and that the duration i

What CNN news anchor was the “moderator” of yesterday’s presidential debate at Hofstra University in NY?

CPD: Moderators Moderators Aug 13, 2012   WASHINGTON, D.C. - Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and Michael D. McCurry, co-chairmen of the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced the moderators for the 2012 general election presidential and vice presidential debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates (as announced on October 31, 2011), are as follows:   Jim Lehrer , Executive Editor of the PBS NewsHour Wednesday, October 3, University of Denver, Denver, CO Vice presidential debate: Martha Raddatz , Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, ABC News Thursday, October 11, Centre College, Danville, KY Second presidential debate (town meeting): Candy Crowley , Chief Political Correspondent, CNN and Anchor, CNN's State of the Union Tuesday, October 16, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Third presidential debate: Bob Schieffer , Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News and Moderator, Face the Nation Monday, October 22, Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL   Fahrenkopf and McCurry said that, "The new formats chosen for this year's debates are designed to focus big time blocks on major domestic and foreign topics. These journalists bring extensive experience to the job of moderating, and understand the importance of using the expanded time periods to maximum benefit. We are grateful for their willingness to moderate, and confident that the public will learn more about the candidates and the issues as a result."   The format for the debates, announced on July 25, 2012, will be: First presidential debate   The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic. Vice presidential debate   The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question. Second presidential debate   The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization. Third presidential debate   The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.     All debates will take place from 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time. There will be no opening statements and two-minute closing statements in all the debates. In all the debates except town meeting, the CPD recommends that the candidates be seated at a table with the moderator. The CPD is undertaking an innovative internet-based voter education program that will encourage citizens to become familiar with the issues to be discussed in the debates, and to share their input with the debate moderators in advance of the debates. The program, which will be announced later this month, will be led by a coalition of internet leaders. The CPD has sponsored and produced all the presidential and vice presidential debates since 1987, the year it was established. For more information, please visit www.debates.org . © COPYRIGHT 2015 THE COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.