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Alborg Roedslet international airport is in which country? | Aalborg
Aalborg (, , ), also spelt Ålborg, is Denmark's fourth largest city with an urban population of 139,016.
The twin city Nørresundby is across the Limfjord. With a population of 215,379 (), the Municipality of Aalborg is the third most populous in the country after Copenhagen and Aarhus. By road Aalborg is southwest of Frederikshavn, and north of Aarhus. The distance to Copenhagen is .
The earliest settlements date to around AD 700. Aalborg's position at the narrowest point on the Limfjord | L.A. International Airport
"L.A. International Airport" is a song written by Leanne Scott that became an international pop hit for the American country singer Susan Raye in 1971.
The song was first recorded by David Frizzell in 1970. It reached #67 on the "Billboard" Country Singles chart.
Susan Raye recorded her version of the song in 1971, which became an international hit. It reached #9 on the "Billboard" Country Singles chart. On other charts, "L.A. International Airport" reached #54 | 4,400 | triviaqa-train |
What was Elton John's first US No 1 hit? | top of the "Billboard" 200, and began a streak of seven consecutive US number-one albums. The album reached number two in the UK, and spawned the hit singles "Rocket Man" and "Honky Cat".
The pop album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player" came out at the start of 1973 and reached number one in the UK, the US and Australia, among other countries. The album produced the hits "Crocodile Rock", his first US "Billboard | Rocket Man (song)
"Rocket Man" (officially titled "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and originally performed by Elton John. The song first appeared on Elton John's 1972 album "Honky Château" and became a hit single, rising to No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the US. On 5 October 2018, the song was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry | 4,401 | triviaqa-train |
In which decade was the Oral Roberts University founded at Tulsa? | local musicians J. J. Cale and Leon Russell in the 1960s and 1970s. The Tulsa Sound heavily influenced musicians Eric Clapton and Jimmy Markham. Musicians from Tulsa or who started their musical careers in Tulsa include Garth Brooks, The Gap Band, Hanson, Caroline's Spine, Ronnie Dunn, Gene Autry, David Gates, Jamie Oldaker, Jim Keltner, Bob Wills, David Cook, Broncho, Tyson Meade, John Moreland, John Calvin Abney, The Damn Quails, LANY, and JD McPherson. In 2012, Tulsa was ranked | History 1963–2007 Golden Eagle Broadcasting.
In January 1996 Golden Eagle Broadcasting, a small digital satellite Christian and family programming television network owned and operated by Oral Roberts University, was founded. Programming includes the Oral Roberts University Chapel Service, called "The Gathering," ORU sports, and other Christian programs not associated with ORU.
History 1997 Ramadan disruption.
In February 1997, on the 28th day of Ramadan, several students from Oral Roberts University reportedly disrupted services at a mosque in the city of Tulsa near the University of Tulsa. | 4,402 | triviaqa-train |
On which label did the Beach boys record most of their 60s hits? | Marks. Murry remembered that after "Surfin", the group had a difficult time being picked up by another label; "they [all] thought [the group was] a one-shot record."
After being turned down by Dot and Liberty, the Beach Boys signed a seven-year contract with Capitol Records. This was at the urging of Capitol executive and staff producer Nick Venet who signed the group, seeing them as the "teenage gold" he had been scouting for. On June 4, | Roger Nichols.
"Pet Sounds".
Asher met Wilson while recording at United Western Recorders in the 1960s. Asher was at the time a 26 year old lyricist and copywriter who had been working on advertising jingles. He was also a Beach Boys fan who felt that the group was distinct from most artists, releasing a string of hits where "you wouldn't even know, necessarily, that it was gonna be a Beach Boys record from the first bar or something." He also confessed: "I did | 4,403 | triviaqa-train |
Whose musical works included Composition For Orchestra and Philomel? | Philomel (Babbitt)
Philomel, a serial composition composed in 1964, combines synthesizer with both live and recorded soprano voice. It is Milton Babbitt’s best-known work and was planned as a piece for performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, funded by the Ford Foundation and commissioned for soprano Bethany Beardslee. Babbitt created "Philomel" in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, of which he was a founding member.
Synopsis.
The three sections of the piece are based on Ovid’s myth of Philomela | and pianist Ferruccio Busoni whose musical philosophy he shared.
Borgstrøm returned to Norway in 1903, the year in which his symphonic poem for piano and orchestra, "Hamlet", premiered to great acclaim in Oslo. The soloist at the premiere was the pianist Amalie Müller. Borgstrøm and Müller married the following year and she was to become a champion of his works. The period between 1903 and Amalie's death in 1913 marked Borgstrøm's most intense period of composition. Although, he is primarily known for his symphonic works, | 4,404 | triviaqa-train |
Where were the 2004 Summer Olympic Games held? | 2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (, ), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto "Welcome Home."
The Games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports. Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer | the opportunity to represent his nation at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games at the age of just 19.
Olympic Games.
He has represented the island in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games ranking 23rd, 2004 Summer Olympic Games ranking 9th, 2008 Summer Olympic Games ranking 5th and 2012 Summer Olympic Games where he finished in 11th place.
Olympic Games Sydney 2000.
Just a few months before turning 20, George Achilleos was named a member of Team Cyprus at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, held in Sydney, Australia. The | 4,405 | triviaqa-train |
When she died how old was Karen Carpenter? | Carpenter had the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, which was little-known at the time, and was briefly married in the early 1980s. She died at age 32 from heart failure caused by complications related to her illness. Her death led to increased visibility and awareness of eating disorders. Her work continues to attract praise, including being listed among "Rolling Stone"s 100 greatest singers of all time.
Early life.
Karen Anne Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter | favorite singers like Karen Carpenter and Barbra Streisand. Growing up, his parents entered him in many singing contests.
His mother, who had been suffering from heart disease, died when he was 13 years old. Her illness had left their family deep in debt. Being more than six months behind on their apartment rent and unable to sufficiently provide for the family, his father decided to move out and ask relatives to take in Pineda's siblings. To ease his father's burden, Pineda quit school and started working. | 4,406 | triviaqa-train |
In which state was Charles Schulz born? | Robert Ripley's syndicated panel, captioned, "A hunting dog that eats pins, tacks, and razor blades is owned by C. F. Schulz, St. Paul, Minn." and "Drawn by 'Sparky'" (C.F. was his father, Carl Fred Schulz).
Schulz attended Richards Gordon Elementary School in Saint Paul, where he skipped two half-grades. He became a shy, timid teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School. One well-known episode | Jim Jinkins
James Jinkins (born August 8, 1953) is an American animator, children's author and creator of the animated "Doug" television series which was later the basis for a feature film. Jinkins also created "PB&J Otter", as well as several other shows produced by his two companies, Jumbo Pictures and Cartoon Pizza.
He mostly took inspiration from Charles M. Schulz and Richard Scarry.
Background and career.
Jinkins was born in Richmond, Virginia, and lived there during his childhood. | 4,407 | triviaqa-train |
"Who wrote, ""What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?""" | Leisure (poem)
"Leisure" is a poem by Welsh poet W. H. Davies, appearing originally in his "Songs Of Joy and Others", published in 1911 by A. C. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology "Collected Poems" by the same publisher in 1916.
Structure.
The poem is written as a set of seven rhyming couplets.
Summary.
Although it was to become Davies' best known poem, it was not included in any of the five "Georgian Poetry" anthologies | H. Davies: "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare."
- The sonnet
The celebrated writers of English sonnets are included: Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton, William Shakespeare and John Milton, with later offerings by William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. The editors also include works by poets less known for writing sonnets, including George Meredith, William Morris and Rupert Brooke. The section ends with Brooke's "The Soldier": "If | 4,408 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was Oliver Stone born? | Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer and conspiracy theorist.
Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of "Midnight Express" (1978). He also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie "Scarface" (1983). Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama "Platoon" (1986), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the film received Best Picture. "Platoon" was the first in | " album, and met Kovic backstage at the Bottom Line Club in New York City the same year.
Films.
- 1973 – "Operation Last Patrol". Directed by Frank Cavestani and Catherine Leroy.
- 1989 – "Born on the Fourth of July" - (co-screenwriter with Oliver Stone). Directed by Oliver Stone.
Interviewed:
- 2005 – "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern". Directed by Stephen Vittoria.
- 2006 – "The | 4,409 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Ansett come from? | deck, with around 160 degrees of recline. Ansett Australia's retrofitted two Boeing 747-400 series aircraft equipped with these recliner seats mostly served the Australia-Asia (Hong Kong and Osaka) international flights. The recliner seats were equipped with inflight entertainment including personal televisions/touch screens with AVOD, personal telephones in every seat and laptop 110 V AC power outlets.
On Ansett International's 767 fleet, Business seating was in a 1-2-2 configuration, with recliner seats and AVOD similar, but not | annum from the Commonwealth government.
World War II was a time of boundless opportunities for Ansett. In 1942, he abandoned all his airline routes except Melbourne-Hamilton and concentrated on performing engineering work and charter flights for the United States Army Air Corps. The Essendon hangar was expanded and by war's end the tiny Ansett organisation was employing around 2,000 people. The Ansett organisation finished the war flush with cash but facing trouble trying to regain its airline routes which had been taken over by ANA.
In 1943, the | 4,410 | triviaqa-train |
Where is New York's Empire State College located? | in Saratoga Springs, New York.
History.
Empire State College was designed by then SUNY Chancellor Ernest Boyer in a document titled "Prospectus for a New University College." In 1971, Ernest L. Boyer, chancellor of the State University of New York, conceived a new college for the state’s public university: a college dedicated to adult, student-centered education. Empire State College would invite people into higher education by removing impediments to access such as time, location, institutional processes, and even curricular custom | a mailing list and was the first Website devoted to net.art, bbs.thing.net.
In 1996, he started his series of live online video streams. His first series is called "Empire 24/7" where he documented the Empire State Building in New York City. He documented it by setting up a digital still camera at The Thing's office located in New York's West Chelsea neighborhood. Every four seconds, the camera took a picture of the building and the images were sent and projected in a gallery at the ZKM Center for | 4,411 | triviaqa-train |
Where was Pablo Casals buried before he was finally laid to rest in Spain? | of revolutions and declared independence, leading to the Spanish American wars of independence that ended Spanish control over its mainland colonies in the Americas. King Ferdinand VII's attempt to re-assert control proved futile as he faced opposition not only in the colonies but also in Spain and army revolts followed, led by liberal officers. By the end of 1826, the only American colonies Spain held were Cuba and Puerto Rico.
The Napoleonic War left Spain economically ruined, deeply divided and politically unstable. In the 1830s and 1840s Anti | Pablo Casals Festival
The Pablo Casals Festival is a music festival created by the cellist and conductor Pablo Casals in 1950.
History.
Before the Second World War, Prades became the adopted village of Pablo Casals who no longer wanted to live in Spain after the 1936–1939 civil war won by the Francoists, while remaining in Catalonia; from then on, he refused to perform in public in protest.
Following the Second World War and this long period of silence, he was solicited by music lovers all over the world | 4,412 | triviaqa-train |
Santander international airport is in which country? | Santander Airport
Santander Airport , officially Seve Ballesteros–Santander Airport is an international airport near Santander, Spain and the only airport in Cantabria. In 2018 the airport handled 1,103,353 passengers and 11,258 flights, far more than in 1995 when it handled only 180,00 passengers. Since then, the traffic has declined following the trend in Spanish airports and the decrease in operations by some of the companies.
Name.
The airport is named after the famous golf player Seve Ballesteros, born in Pedreña, a few kilometres from the airport | Palonegro International Airport
Palonegro International Airport () is on a mountain ridge west of Bucaramanga in the Santander Department of Colombia. The airport provides the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area and surrounding towns with access to international and domestic flights.
The airport was built over the mountains surrounding the Bucaramanga plateau. A mountain road connects the city with the airport, which is located at about 1,200 m above sea level (The city of Bucaramanga is located at 950 m above sea level).
The airport bears the name of the nearby area | 4,413 | triviaqa-train |
In which year was Nigel Mansell Indy Car Champion? | Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, (; born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series (1993). Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART, becoming the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, and making him the only person to hold both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship simultaneously.
His career in Formula One spanned | One after the race, having won 24 races and 3 World Championships (, and ) in his career which started in . Only half points were awarded for the race, the first time it had happened in F1 since the wet 1984 Monaco Grand Prix.
- 1992: In his last F1 race before moving to the US-based Indy Car championship, World Champion Nigel Mansell qualified his Williams-Renault on pole position. He was taken out at the pits hairpin while leading on lap 18 by the McLaren-Honda | 4,414 | triviaqa-train |
Thomas Marshal was Vice President to which US President? | The Indiana constitution prevented Marshall from serving a consecutive term as governor. He made plans to run for a United States Senate seat after his term ended, but another opportunity presented itself during his last months as governor. Although he did not attend the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, his name was put forward as Indiana's choice for president. He was suggested as a compromise nominee, but William Jennings Bryan and his delegates endorsed Woodrow Wilson over Champ Clark, securing the nomination for Wilson. Indiana's delegates lobbied to | The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m²).
- August 20 – The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
- August 21–22 – Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team | 4,415 | triviaqa-train |
Which year was the first after 1927 that the USA lost the Ryder Cup on home soil? | team lost both the 1985 and 1987 matches. At the 1989 matches, the pressure was on the United States team and its captain, Raymond Floyd. At a pre-match opening celebration, Floyd slighted the European team by introducing his United States team as "the 12 greatest players in the world."
The competition saw the beginnings of a feud between Seve Ballesteros and Paul Azinger. Early in their singles match, Ballesteros sought to change a scuffed ball for a new ball under Rule of Golf 5–3. Somewhat unusually | races there that considerably predate the Indy 500.
Wisconsin is home to the nation's oldest operating velodrome in Kenosha where races have been held every year since 1927.
Sheboygan is home to Whistling Straits golf club which has hosted PGA Championships in 2004, 2010 and 2015 and will be home to the Ryder Cup golf competition between USA and Europe in 2020. The Greater Milwaukee Open, later named the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, was a PGA Tour tournament from 1968 to 2009 held annually in Brown Deer. In 2017 | 4,416 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Avensa come from? | Avensa
Avensa ("Aerovías Venezolanas Sociedad Anonima") was a Venezuelan airline headquartered in Caracas. It was in the process of financial restructuring, after it went into bankruptcy due to poor management in 2002, with Santa Barbara Airlines taking over its routes, although a single Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia continued to carry the Avensa name in service until it was grounded for good in 2004. Avensa operated from its hub at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetía.
Even though the airline ceased operations more than a decade ago, around | an upgraded bolt. New high flow solenoid valves are also available from ICDU website as well as Airsoldier.com
Drawbacks.
One of the main drawbacks for buying a Promaster is that it does not come stock with an ASA, which means that the owner will have to add one before he or she uses the marker.
Many users have reported a "break-in" period before the marker performs consistently, as is common in most markers.
The Promaster does not come stock with a clamping feedneck, a device | 4,417 | triviaqa-train |
What was the USA's biggest attack of the Vietnam War when it took place in February 1967? | fought in the Tra Binh Dong village near the border of Cambodia.
- February 17, 1967
Operation Bribie, or the Battle of Ap My An, was fought in Phước Tuy Province between Australian forces from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) and the Viet Cong, reinforced by North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) regulars.
- February 22, 1967
Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on February 22 | Battle of Lo Giang
The Battle of Lo Giang was a battle during the Vietnam War. It took place from 8-9 February 1968, when the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)'s 2nd Division attacked the Da Nang Air Base as part of the Tet Offensive. The attack was repelled by U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army units.
Background.
On 7 February 1968, the 1st Marine Division commander MG Donn J. Robertson informed III Marine Amphibious Force commander LG Robert E. Cushman Jr. that the PAVN 2nd | 4,418 | triviaqa-train |
What was Michael Keaton's first movie? | Michael Keaton
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, and director. He first rose to fame for his roles on the CBS sitcoms "All's Fair" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour" and his comedic film roles in "Night Shift" (1982), "Mr. Mom" (1983), "Johnny Dangerously" (1984), and "Beetlejuice" (1988). He earned further acclaim for his dramatic | players in the film who were under a long-term deal with AIP, the others including Donna Loren, Bobbi Shaw, Cheryl Sweeten, Mary Hughes, Michael Nader and Edward Garner.
It was also the first movie Buster Keaton made for AIP. Louis M Heyward claims casting Keaton was his idea as they had worked together previously on "The Faye Emerson Show". and the first movie Bobbi Shaw, is playing her "ya, ya" Swedish bombshell part, Keaton's partner.
Dorothy Lamour makes her | 4,419 | triviaqa-train |
What is Uma Thurman's middle name? | Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress and model. She has performed in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British "Vogue", Thurman starred in "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988). She rose to international prominence with her performance in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction", for which she was nominated for the Academy Award, the | Max von Schlebrügge
Max von Schlebrügge (born 1 February 1977) is a retired Swedish footballer. He played centre back.
He was signed by Brøndby in January 2008 from Anderlecht from Belgium.
His last name comes from his paternal grandmother from Germany, who is an older half sister of actress Uma Thurman's mother Nena von Schlebrügge, making Uma his first cousin once removed.
References.
- General
- Specific | 4,420 | triviaqa-train |
What was the name of NASA's manned space project whose astronauts were chosen in 1959? | orbit aboard Vostok 1 in April 1961, one month before Shepard's flight. In August 1962, they achieved an almost four-day record flight with Andriyan Nikolayev aboard Vostok 3, and also conducted a concurrent Vostok 4 mission carrying Pavel Popovich.
Space flight programs Manned programs Project Gemini (1961–1966).
Based on studies to grow the Mercury spacecraft capabilities to long-duration flights, developing space rendezvous techniques, and precision Earth landing, Project Gemini was started as a two-man program in 1962 to overcome the Soviets' | shuttle up to 12 astronauts to the planned space stations in the Apollo Applications Project (AAP). The only AAP project funded was Skylab – which used existing spacecraft and hardware – thereby eliminating the need for Big Gemini.
Pronunciation.
The constellation for which the project was named is commonly pronounced , the last syllable rhyming with "eye". However, staff of the Manned Spacecraft Center, including the astronauts, tended to pronounce the name , rhyming with "knee". NASA's public affairs office issued a statement | 4,421 | triviaqa-train |
In which country was Anjelica Huston born? | "A Story Lately Told" and "Watch Me".
Early life.
Huston was born in Santa Monica, California, and is the daughter of director and actor John Huston and prima ballerina and model Enrica Soma. Huston's paternal grandfather was Canadian-born actor Walter Huston. Huston has Scottish, Scotch-Irish, English and Welsh ancestry from her father, and Italian from her mother. Her father was also an Irish citizen. She spent much of her childhood in Ireland which she still considers home, | "My first child was born when I was 22. I was a man's man; I didn't discover women until I was married, and then it was too late.” He had romances with Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Anouk Aimee, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, and Anjelica Huston. According to his daughter Tatum O'Neal, he also had an affair with Melanie Griffith. In her 2014 memoir, Anjelica Huston claimed that O'Neal physically abused her.
Personal life Children.
O'Neal has four | 4,422 | triviaqa-train |
Who preceded Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt? | presidency after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Mubarak's presidency lasted almost thirty years, making him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha, who ruled the country from 1805 to 1848, a reign of 43 years. Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of demonstrations during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. On 11 February 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as president and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
On 13 April 2011, a prosecutor ordered Mubarak and both of | Alaa Mubarak
Alaa Mubarak ( ) (born 26 November 1960 in Cairo) is an Egyptian businessman and the elder of two sons of Hosni Mubarak, the former President of Egypt who served from 1981 to 2011, and his wife Suzanne Mubarak.
Early life and education.
Alaa Mubarak was born in Cairo to Suzanne Mubarak and Hosni Mubarak, who became President of Egypt in 1981, ousted in 2011. However, controversy sparked whether the two sons were called by their British names " Alan and Jimmy". | 4,423 | triviaqa-train |
What instrument is associated with Illinois-born John Lewis? | classical music. Many of his compositions for the MJQ and his own personal compositions incorporated various classically European techniques such as fugue and counterpoint, and the instrumentation he chose for his pieces, sometimes including a string orchestra.
In the early 1980s, Lewis's influence came from the pianists he enjoyed listening to: Art Tatum, Hank Jones and Oscar Peterson.
Music Piano style.
Len Lyons depicts Lewis's piano, composition and personal style when he introduces Lewis in Lyons' book "The Great Jazz Pianists": " | Ray Anderson (musician)
Ray Anderson (born October 16, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz trombone and trumpet player. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as someone who pushes the limits of the instrument. He is a colleague of trombonist George Lewis. Anderson also plays sousaphone and sings. He was frequently chosen in "DownBeat" magazine's Critics Poll as best trombonist throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Biography.
After studying in California, he moved to New York | 4,424 | triviaqa-train |
What type of aid was developed my Miller Hutchinson in the early years of the 20th century? | 1892 through 1895, and graduated from Auburn University (then called Alabama Polytechnical Institute) in 1897. While still in school he invented and patented a lightning arrester for telegraph lines in 1895.
At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, he volunteered and was appointed engineer for the United States Lighthouse Board, laying cables and mines to protect harbors in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hearing aids.
Hutchison assembled an electrical hearing aid for one of his friends; it was called the "akouphone" when | due to the number of others looking for the same type of job. The number of immigrants overall has shifted dramatically throughout the past 100 years. In 1910 it was at its peak at 15% being foreign born citizens, in 1970 it shrank to 4.7% and now has spiked to 13% in 2010. What makes the difference today is the demographic immigrating to the US. In the early 20th century that influx of immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe which was closer in cultural resemblance to the developed American culture of | 4,425 | triviaqa-train |
John Singer Sargent worked in which branch of the arts? | commissions, including portraits of Isabella Stewart Gardner, the famed Boston art patron. His portrait of Mrs. Adrian Iselin, wife of a New York businessman, revealed her character in one of his most insightful works. In Boston, Sargent was honored with his first solo exhibition, which presented 22 of his paintings. Here he became friends with painter Dennis Miller Bunker, who traveled to England in the summer of 1888 to paint with him en plein air, and is the subject of Sargent’s 1888 painting "Dennis Miller Bunker Painting | , Children of Asher Wertheimer, 1905, Tate
- Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie, 1905, Tate
- Almina, Daughter of Asher Wertheimer, 1908, Tate
- John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, New Orleans Museum of Art, Traditional Fine Arts Organization
- John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, The Jewish Museum, Traditional Fine Arts Organization
- John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Traditional Fine Arts Organization | 4,426 | triviaqa-train |
What was Gene Kelly's middle name? | Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen.
Best known today for his performances in films such as "An American in Paris" (1951), "Anchors Aweigh" (1945)— for which he was nominated | cooled considerably; as of April 2019, it holds a 43% "Rotten" rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The consensus states: "Though Barbra Streisand charms, she's miscast as the titular middle-aged widow in Gene Kelly's sluggish and over-produced final directorial effort." Eric Henderson of "Slant Magazine" said of the film: "More infamous for bringing Fox financially to its knees than for being the last major musical directed by Gene | 4,427 | triviaqa-train |
Which country does the airline Pluna come form? | PLUNA
PLUNA Líneas Aéreas Uruguayas S.A. was the flag carrier of Uruguay. It was headquartered in Carrasco, Montevideo and operated scheduled services within South America, as well as scheduled cargo and charter services from its hub at Carrasco International Airport.
On , only two days after the carrier's employees went on strike amid mounting financial difficulties, the Uruguayan government decided to close the airline down and to liquidate it. The carrier was wholly owned by the government at the time of its closure.
History.
History Foundation. | Aérea" (). Millington-Drake knew De Havilland's representative in Buenos Aires at the time, which helped in the acquisition of the airline's first aircraft. The airline flew two five-seater de Havilland Dragonflys from Montevideo to Salto and Paysandú. The two planes were christened "Churrinche" and "San Alberto", the latter in honor of the brothers' father. PLUNA flew 2,600 passengers in their first fiscal year, a huge success for that era. It also flew 20,000 pieces of mail and 70,000 newspapers | 4,428 | triviaqa-train |
Who directed A Passage To India? | A Passage to India (film)
A Passage to India is a 1984 British-American epic historical drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the play of the same name by Santha Rama Rau, which was in turn based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E.M. Forster.
Set in the 1920s during the period of the British Raj, the film tells the story of the interactions of several characters in the fictional city of Chandrapore, namely Dr. Aziz, Mrs | Premiere of "Luce" by J. C. Lee at Southwark Playhouse. In 2017 he directed "Julius Caesar" at the Bristol Old Vic, and developed and co-directed his own adaptation of "A Passage to India", which toured early in 2018 before a five-week run at The Park in London. His production of "Much Ado About Nothing" will open at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in April 2018.
He teaches and directs at Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Drama Centre | 4,429 | triviaqa-train |
What is Gregory Peck's real first name? | Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations, and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), "The Yearling" (1946), " | , and they became inseparable. They had a son, Anthony Peck (b. 1956), and a daughter, Cecilia Peck (b. 1958). The couple remained married until Gregory Peck's death. His son Anthony is an ex-husband of supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. His daughter Cecilia lives in Los Angeles.
Peck's eldest son, Jonathan, was found dead in his home on June 26, 1975, in what authorities believed was a suicide.
Peck had grandchildren from both marriages. One of his grandsons | 4,430 | triviaqa-train |
Golfer Bobby Jones was born in which state? | are the four most prestigious men's tournaments of the year. In chronological order they are: The Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open) and the PGA Championship.
The fields for these events include the top several dozen golfers from all over the world. The Masters has been played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, since its inception in 1934. It is the only major championship that is played at the same course each year. The | teacher, poet
- Archibald Henderson (1877–1963), professor of mathematics who wrote on many subjects
- Tripp Isenhour (born 1968), professional golfer
- President Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) practiced law in Salisbury.
- Bobby Jackson (1973–), NBA player
- Artemus James (born Andrew Shane Crawford), musician
- Bob Jones (1930–1989), state leader of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s
- Roland Jones (1813–1869), represented Louisiana in United States House of Representatives | 4,431 | triviaqa-train |
What was the world's first atomic-powered ship called? | one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built. (Soviet ice-breaker "Lenin" launched on December 5, 1957, was the first nuclear-powered civil ship.)
"Savannah" was deactivated in 1971 and after several moves has been moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, since 2008.
Origin.
In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed building a nuclear-powered merchant ship as a showcase for his "Atoms for Peace" initiative. The next | (SS-568), which had broken down off the coast of Ireland. The ship returned to New London with the submarine and then resumed operations along the east coast of the United States. During the early months of 1955, "Tringa" escorted USS "Nautilus" (SSN-571), the world's first atomic-powered ship, during her sea trials.
That fall, she joined USS "Albacore" (AGSS-569) for experiments at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The submarine rescue vessel conducted deep submergence tests on a | 4,432 | triviaqa-train |
Which architect designed the Seagram Building, New York City? | Seagram Building
The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The integral plaza, building, stone faced lobby and distinctive glass and bronze exterior were designed by German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Philip Johnson designed the interior of The Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. Kahn & Jacobs were associate architects. Severud Associates were the structural engineering consultants. The Seagram building was completed in 1958.
The building stands 515 feet | Orleans Tower
Orleans Tower (formerly Amoco Building), located at 1340 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 20-story, skyscraper designed in the international style by 3D/International. The international style grew in popularity during the sixties and seventies after the architect Mies Van Der Rohe designed the Seagram Building on Park Ave in New York City and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill designed the Sears Tower in the heart of downtown Chicago. The building is primarily used for leaseable office space, with | 4,433 | triviaqa-train |
In what year was the first performance of Copland's ballet Rodeo? | Rodeo (ballet)
Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", the ballet consists of five sections: "Buckaroo Holiday", "Corral Nocturne", "Ranch House Party," "Saturday Night Waltz", and "Hoe-Down". The symphonic version omits "Ranch House Party", leaving the other sections relatively intact.
Genesis.
The original ballet was choreographed by Agnes de Mille | mastered the ability to create a coherent, integrated composition from what was essentially a mosaic of divergent folk-based and original elements. In that sense, Copland's Populist works such as "Billy the Kid", "Rodeo", "Appalachian Spring" are not far removed from Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring". Within that framework, however, Copland preserved the American atmosphere of these ballets through what musicologist Elliott Antokoletz calls "the conservative handling of open diatonic sonorities", which fosters "a pastoral quality | 4,434 | triviaqa-train |
Ferihegy international airport is in which country? | minutes. From Terminal 2 passengers need to take bus 200E to Ferihegy vasútállomás (Ferihegy railway station). Since July 2017 the 100E shuttle bus service operates between Terminal 2 and Deák Ferenc tér in the city centre for a special fare.
Flixbus operates bus lines from the airport to numerous European cities including Prague, Timisoara, Sibiu and Vienna.
Ground transportation Mini buses and shuttles.
Several companies operate airport shuttles taking passengers to any destination in the city. Other shuttles and coach services exist to outlying towns in Hungary, | is the largest of all with more than 60 destinations.
Name.
Originally called Budapest Ferihegy International Airport ("Budapest Ferihegy Nemzetközi Repülőtér"), on 25 March 2011 it was officially renamed Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, in honor of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Modern Hungarian: "Liszt Ferenc".) Popularly, the airport is still called Ferihegy as before.
Ferihegy is the name of the neighborhood around the airport. The name is derived from that of Ferenc Xavér Mayerffy (1776–1845) | 4,435 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the defending champion when Virginia Wade won the Wimbledon singles? | first appearance in the final by beating the defending champion Chris Evert in a semifinal 6–2, 4–6, 6–1. In the final, she beat Betty Stöve in three sets to claim the championship, nine days before her 32nd birthday. Not only was 1977 the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Wimbledon Championships, but it was the Silver Jubilee year of Elizabeth II, who attended Wimbledon for the first time since 1962 to watch the final.
She was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in December 1977 when | Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, (born 10 July 1945) is a former professional tennis player from Great Britain. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles.
Three times a Grand Slam singles champion, her most famous success was winning Wimbledon on 1 July | 4,436 | triviaqa-train |
How many 'victories' did The Red Baron claim in aerial dogfights? | Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also known as the "Red Baron", was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.
Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming one of the first members of fighter squadron "Jagdstaffel 2" in 1916. He quickly distinguished himself as a | , when it was succeeded by the F-4 Phantom II (which was a development of a proposed "Super Demon", a larger and much heavier version of the F3H). Developed during the Korean War to counter the MiG-15, it did not claim any aerial victories with missiles or dogfights, although it flew over Lebanon and Quemoy in 1958.
In 1962, the F3H was redesignated F-3. The F3H-2N became the F-3C, the F3H-2M became MF-3B, and the F3H-2 changed to F-3B.
The last Demon-equipped | 4,437 | triviaqa-train |
Who first coined the term paradigm for all the factors that influence the scientist's research? | for. To illustrate the point, an experiment to test for the mass of neutrinos or the decay of protons (small departures from the model) is more likely to receive money than experiments that look for the violation of the conservation of momentum, or ways to engineer reverse time travel.
Mechanisms similar to the original Kuhnian paradigm have been invoked in various disciplines other than the philosophy of science. These include: the idea of major cultural themes, worldviews (and see below), ideologies, and mindsets. They have | ' was coined in 1993 by Stephen E. Finn to describe the semi-structured collaborative assessment paradigm developed by himself and colleagues at the Center for Therapeutic Assessment in Austin, Texas. Finn suggests differentiating the capitalized "Therapeutic Assessment" or the abbreviation, "TA" as the paradigm developed by himself and his colleagues and the lowercase "therapeutic assessment" as the more general term which describes a variety of humanistically based assessment models.
Research.
Results of research on therapeutic assessment show that subjects who received therapeutic assessment as opposed | 4,438 | triviaqa-train |
In which country was Sam Neill born? | Sam Neill
Nigel John Dermot Neill (born 14 September 1947), known professionally as Sam Neill, is a New Zealand actor, writer, producer, director, and vineyard owner. Born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, he moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. Neill first achieved recognition with his appearance in the 1977 film "Sleeping Dogs", which he followed with leading roles in "My Brilliant Career" (1979), "", "Possession" (both 1981), "A Cry in | The next twelve years brought Kavanagh no new films, though he continued to act on stage. Finally, he decided to return to screen acting with the theatrical film "The Ballroom of Romance" (1982), which put him in a romance with actress Brenda Fricker. The film was followed up with the small film "Attracta" (1983), and the made-for-television movie "The Country Girls" (1984), starring Sam Neill.
Kavanagh's next theatrical film was one of the | 4,439 | triviaqa-train |
What was Dorothy Parker's maiden name? | Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as "The New Yorker" and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, | Simon & Schuster, 1970.
- Marion Meade, "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?". New York: Villard, 1988.
- S. J. Perelman, "Dorothy Parker". In "The Last Laugh". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
External links.
- Dorothy Parker Society
- Algonquin Round Table
- Selected Poems by Dorothy Parker
- Parker's resting place
- Emdashes coverage of Dorothy Parker
- Dorothy Parker photo gallery; GettyImages | 4,440 | triviaqa-train |
In which month in 1997 was The Notorious B.I.G. gunned down? | The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or Biggie, was an American rapper. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Wallace was born and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His debut album "Ready to Die" (1994) made him a central figure in East Coast hip hop and increased New York City's visibility in the genre | Betha had his stage name shortened from Murda Mase to simply Mase to make him more marketable, and was featured on and in the video for 112's "Only You" with the Notorious B.I.G. He also appeared on many hit songs with other Bad Boy artists, including Puff Daddy's Can't Nobody Hold Me Down and Been Around the World and the Notorious B.I.G.'s Mo' Money, Mo' Problems, which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Career 1997-98: "Harlem World".
Mase | 4,441 | triviaqa-train |
What was the official occupation of Sir Anthony Blunt who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1979? | role, and his contribution was vital in the expansion of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, which opened in 1962, and organizing the cataloguing of the collection.
In 1947, Blunt became both Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, and the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where he had been lecturing since the spring of 1933, and where his tenure in office as director lasted until 1974. This position included the use of a live-in apartment on | Despite the difficulties of running a newspaper in the 1970s, he nurtured many notable talents, including Robert Fisk, Peter Hennessy and Paul Vallely. With his independent, earthy and instinctual style, he was't always happy within the confines of the editorial offices. In 1979, he oversaw the joint interviews, in "The Times" boardroom, with Sir Anthony Blunt after he was unmasked as the Fifth Man in the Cambridge Soviet spy ring. Heren drew fierce criticism from some newspapers after it became known he had asked for kippers to | 4,442 | triviaqa-train |
Which famous name was accused f the abduction of Stompie Seipei? | Stompie Seipei
James Seipei (1974–1 January 1989), also known as Stompie Moeketsi, or Stompie Sepei was a teenage United Democratic Front (UDF) activist from Parys in South Africa. He and three other boys were kidnapped on 29 December 1988 by members of Winnie Mandela's bodyguards, known as the "Mandela United Football Club". Moeketsi was murdered on 1 January 1989, the only one of the boys to be killed.
Activism.
Moeketsi joined the street uprising against Apartheid in April 1985 at age ten | "Paul has said that he was 'radicalised' in the Eastern Cape, where he gave shelter to activists fleeing from the security police during South Africa's apartheid days." He also served as Chair of the Detainees Parents Support Committee during 1982-83. (South African law during this time allowed detention without trial under certain circumstances).
In the Apartheid era Stompie Seipei.
In 1989 a media furor erupted following the abduction of four youths and the murder of James Seipei, also known as Stompie Sepei. | 4,443 | triviaqa-train |
What was the highest rank Charles Lindbergh attained? | Cross (United Kingdom)]]
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[[Category:University | modernness, and its efficiency is Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Informed officials here, in touch with what Colonel Lindbergh has been doing for his country abroad, are authority for this statement, and for the further observation that criticism of any of his activities-in Germany or elsewhere-is as ignorant as it is unfair." [[General Henry H. Arnold]], the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, wrote in his autobiography, "Nobody gave us much useful information about Hitler's air | 4,444 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the third wife of the leader of China's Long March? | for "Red Star Over China", and Agnes Smedley, whose accounts brought international attention to Mao's cause.
On the Long March, Mao's wife He Zizen had been injured by a shrapnel wound to the head. She traveled to Moscow for medical treatment; Mao proceeded to divorce her and marry an actress, Jiang Qing. Mao moved into a cave-house and spent much of his time reading, tending his garden and theorizing. He came to believe that the Red Army alone was unable to defeat the | Long March 1
The Long March 1 (长征一号), also known as the Changzheng-1 (CZ-1), was the first member of China's Long March rocket family.
History.
Development started in January 1965 as the Seventh Ministry of Machinery Industry issued a design task. The two stage liquid fueled DF-4 was modified by adding a third stage in order to make it to the desired orbit. Long March 1's second flight launched China's first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 to space on April 24, 1970 | 4,445 | triviaqa-train |
In 1985 Terry Waite returned to Beirut after securing the release of four British hostages where? | Envoy Hostage negotiator.
In 1980, Waite successfully negotiated the release of several hostages in Iran: Iraj Mottahedeh (Anglican priest in Esfahan), Dimitri Bellos (diocesan officer), Nosrat Sharifian (Anglican priest in Kerman), Fazeli (church member), Jean Waddell (who was secretary to the Iranian Anglican bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti), Canon John Coleman, and Coleman's wife. On 10 November 1984, he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation | that year.
In September 1989, it was reported that his wife Sunnie had been told that Mann was dead, by a man who asked to meet her in a Beirut shopping centre.
Release.
Jackie Mann was eventually released on 24 September 1991 after negotiations by the British and US governments succeeded in bringing about the release of several Western hostages. He had been held at the same time as other UK and Irish hostages in Lebanon, notably journalist John McCarthy, church envoy Terry Waite and author Brian Keenan. | 4,446 | triviaqa-train |
UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold was killed over which country? | Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( , ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. Hammarskjöld was the youngest person to have held the post, at an age of 47 years upon his appointment. His second term was cut short when he died in the crash of his DC-6 airplane (whose cause is still disputed) while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis. He is one of only | Form" (1966) and "To an Unknown Country" (1967), were both features dedicated to Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations who died in 1961.
His most noted radio dramatizations are "If This is a Man" (1965), a 140-minute adaptation of Stuart Woolf's translation of Primo Levi's "Se questo e un uomo", and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1966), a 135- minute adaptation of James Agee's book of the | 4,447 | triviaqa-train |
What was the autobiography of the first president of non-Apartheid South Africa called? | 's Fund, which he had founded in 1995. Although dismantling press censorship, speaking out in favour of freedom of the press, and befriending many journalists, Mandela was critical of much of the country's media, noting that it was overwhelmingly owned and run by middle-class whites and believing that it focused too heavily on scaremongering about crime.
In December 1994, Mandela published "Long Walk to Freedom", an autobiography based around a manuscript he had written in prison, augmented by interviews conducted with American journalist Richard | Ellen Kuzwayo
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo (29 June 1914 – 19 April 2006) was a women's rights activist and politician in South Africa, who was a teacher from 1938 to 1952. She was president of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1960s. In 1994 she was elected to the first post-apartheid South African Parliament. Her autobiography, "Call Me Woman" (1985), won the CNA Literary Award.
Early years.
Early years Family background.
Born Nnoseng Ellen Serasengwe, she | 4,448 | triviaqa-train |
Which terrorist group murdered Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro? | refused to negotiate, despite demands by family, friends and Pope Paul VI. In fact, Paul VI "offered himself in exchange ... for Aldo Moro".
During the investigation of Moro's kidnapping, General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa reportedly responded to a member of the security services who suggested torturing a suspected "brigatista", "Italy can survive the loss of Aldo Moro. It would not survive the introduction of torture." The Red Brigades initiated a secret trial where Moro was found guilty and sentenced to death. | of a youthful anti-fascist minority using violent means for just ends.
The group's most infamous act took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was negotiating a "compromesso storico", or "historic compromise", with the Communists. The kidnappers killed five members of Moro's police escort, and murdered Moro himself 54 days later.
In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators | 4,449 | triviaqa-train |
General Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave where in 1989? | for the two years as the last Commander of the 40th Army in Afghanistan. Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, crossing on foot the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu-Daria river on 15 February 1989, the day the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan was completed. He received the highest military award – the golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union after Operation Magistral had lifted the siege of the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan.
After the Afghan war, he was chosen as a candidate for Vice | Boris Gromov
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov (; born 7 November 1943 in Saratov, Russia) is a prominent Russian military and political figure. From 2000 to 2012, he was the Governor of Moscow Oblast.
Biography.
He graduated from a Suvorov military cadet school, the Leningrad Military Commanders School and later from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, as well as the General Staff Academy.
During the Soviet–Afghan War, Gromov did three tours of duty (1980–1982, 1985–1986, 1987–1989), and was best known | 4,450 | triviaqa-train |
In what year did Saddam Hussein become President of Iraq? | Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (; Arabic: ""; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) | from that country, which was incorporated in President George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address to support waging a preventive war against Iraq. See Iraq 2007 investigations for the aftermath of this claims and disclosures about them.
Kenneth Pollack, a former National Security Council expert on Iraq, who generally supported the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein, told Seymour Hersh that what the Bush administration did was
"... dismantle the existing filtering process that for fifty years had been preventing the policymakers from getting bad information. | 4,451 | triviaqa-train |
The Land of the Long White Cloud? | country as a whole was "Niu Tireni", an approximation of "New Zealand".
The expanded meaning of the word was popularised in the late 19th century. "Aotearoa" was used for the name of New Zealand in the 1878 translation of "God Defend New Zealand", by Judge Thomas Henry Smith of the Native Land Court—this translation is widely used today when the anthem is sung in Māori. Additionally, William Pember Reeves used "Aotearoa" to mean New Zealand in his history of the country | , and he named the land after it. Kupe's wife (in some versions, his daughter) was watching the horizon and called ("a cloud! a cloud!"). Other versions say the canoe was guided by a long white cloud in the course of the day and by a long bright cloud at night. On arrival, the sign of land to Kupe's crew was the long cloud hanging over it. The cloud caught Kupe's attention and he said "Surely is a point of land" | 4,452 | triviaqa-train |
What are the elongated ‘whale shaped’ hills caused by glacial action? | are ground moraines, also called "glacial drift", which often blankets the surface underneath the glacier downslope from the equilibrium line.
The term "moraine" is of French origin. It was coined by peasants to describe alluvial embankments and rims found near the margins of glaciers in the French Alps. In modern geology, the term is used more broadly, and is applied to a series of formations, all of which are composed of till. Moraines can also create moraine dammed lakes.
Glacial geology Drumlins.
Drumlins | 1920s.
The nearby Baraboo Hills are designated one of the "Last Great Places" by the Nature Conservancy because of their rare rocks, plants and animals. The hills were created by glacial action, and in some points poke up from the flat terrain to form a stark contrast. Some of these features were created when a glacial pocket was formed during the Wisconsin glaciation where the advance of the glacier halted, along the edge of what is known as the Driftless Area. Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin's largest | 4,453 | triviaqa-train |
The three basic types of rock are – igneous, metamorphic and which other? | % are syenites and 0.3% peridotites and dunites. The oceanic crust is 99% basalt, which is an igneous rock of mafic composition. Granites and similar rocks, known as meta-granitoids, form much of the continental crust. Over 700 types of igneous rocks have been described, most of them having formed beneath the surface of Earth's crust. These have diverse properties, depending on their composition and the temperature and pressure conditions in which they were formed.
Classification Sedimentary rock.
Sedimentary rocks are formed at the | Pyroxenite
Pyroxenite is an ultramafic igneous rock consisting essentially of minerals of the pyroxene group, such as augite, diopside, hypersthene, bronzite or enstatite. Pyroxenites are classified into clinopyroxenites, orthopyroxenites, and the websterites which contain both types of pyroxenes (see diagram below). Closely allied to this group are the hornblendites, consisting essentially of hornblende and other amphiboles.
They are essentially of igneous origin, though some pyroxenites are included in the metamorphic Lewisian complex of Scotland. The pyroxene-rich rocks, which result from the | 4,454 | triviaqa-train |
After the suicide of Ian Curtis his band Joy Division played on under which name? | . Joy Division's second and final album, "Closer", was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest charting releases.
The remaining members regrouped under the name New Order. They were successful throughout the next decade, blending post-punk with electronic and dance music influences.
History.
History Formation.
On 20 July 1976, childhood friends Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. Both | Touching from a Distance
Touching from a Distance is a biography written by Deborah Curtis. It details her life and marriage with Ian Curtis, lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk rock band Joy Division. In the book, Deborah Curtis speaks of Ian's infidelity, their troubled marriage, Ian's volatile and sometimes troubled personality, and his health problems (which included epileptic seizures and depression) that likely led to his suicide in 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first United States tour.
Adaptations | 4,455 | triviaqa-train |
Who told us to Rock The Casbah in 1982? | ; Entwistle threatened to quit, saying, "I don't intend to get off the road ... there's not much I can do about it except hope they change their minds." Townshend did not change his mind, and so the Who embarked on a farewell tour of the US and Canada with the Clash as support, ending in Toronto on 17 December 1982.
Townshend spent part of 1983 writing material for a Who studio album owed to Warner Bros. Records from a contract in 1980, but he found himself | vocal by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, it contained two "radio friendly" tracks. The leadoff single in the US was "Should I Stay or Should I Go", released in June 1982. Another Jones feature in a rock and roll style similar to "Train in Vain", it received heavy airplay on AOR stations. The follow-up, "Rock the Casbah", put lyrics addressing the Iranian clampdown on imports of Western music to a bouncy dance rhythm. (The singles were released in the opposite order | 4,456 | triviaqa-train |
An IRA car bomb in 1973 damaged which famous London building? | , 49 are from the Labour Party, 21 are Conservatives, and three are Liberal Democrat.
The UK government ministerial post of Minister for London was created in 1994 and currently occupied by Jo Johnson.
Administration Policing and crime.
Policing in Greater London, with the exception of the City of London, is provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, overseen by the Mayor through the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). The City of London has its own police force – the City of London Police | a retired RUC officer and his wife (James and Ellen Sefton) were killed when an IRA booby trap bomb exploded underneath their car on the Ballygomartin Road in Belfast. A civilian was slightly injured when the car struck her.
- 9 June 1990: the IRA bombed the headquarters of the British Army's Honourable Artillery Company in central London, wounding 19 people.
- 14 June 1990: a large IRA bomb badly damaged a building inside a British Army base at Hanover, West Germany.
- 20 June 1990 | 4,457 | triviaqa-train |
Where in Pennsylvania in the USA did a partial nuclear meltdown occur in 1979? | Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It was the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, the incident was rated a five as an "accident with wider consequences".
The accident began with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system | -H1.2)
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- Recumbent position in handbike mandatory (AP-bikes)
- Severe athetosis/ataxia/dystonia and no elbow extension limitation
- Asymmetric or symmetric quadriplegia with at least grade 2 spasticity in upper limb and lower limbs.
The cycle.
This classification can use an AP2 recumbent, which is a competition cycle that is reclined at 30 degrees and has a rigid frame. This classification can also use an AP3 hand cycle which is inclined at 0 degrees and is | 4,458 | triviaqa-train |
What do we call the sweetmeat Rahat Lokum? | Turkish delight
Turkish delight or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common flavors include cinnamon and mint. In the production process, soapwort may be used | "Bill Schock kept saying, 'What would you do if you were going to draw a boat that would be faster than a Cal 20?' That was the real yardstick boat at that time. We were sketching on the backs of napkins, as we do. "Right after that lunch, I had to fly to New York, and when I came back, there were all these messages on the desk, 'Call Bill Schock; Call Bill Schock,' so I called and said 'What do you | 4,459 | triviaqa-train |
Which Shakespearean character has a wife called Desdemona? | Othello
Othello ("The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story "Un Capitano Moro" ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. The story revolves around its two central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army and his treacherous ensign, Iago. Given its varied and enduring themes of racism, love, jealousy, | " (1943–44), which starred Paul Robeson in the title role, Webster as Emilia, and Ferrer's wife, Uta Hagen, as Desdemona. That production still holds the record for longest-running repeat performance of a Shakespearean play presented in the United States, going for 296 performances (it would be revived in 1945).
Ferrer produced and directed, but did not appear in, "Strange Fruit" (1945–46), starring Mel Ferrer.
Among other radio roles, Ferrer starred as detective Philo Vance | 4,460 | triviaqa-train |
What is the study of medicines? | Brazil); Nikolai Korotkov (Russia); Sir William Osler (Canada); and Harvey Cushing (United States).
As science and technology developed, medicine became more reliant upon medications. Throughout history and in Europe right until the late 18th century, not only animal and plant products were used as medicine, but also human body parts and fluids. Pharmacology developed in part from herbalism and some drugs are still derived from plants (atropine, ephedrine, warfarin, aspirin, digoxin, "vinca" alkaloids, taxol | In a society where people have more time for recreational activities, higher levels of education and a longer average lifespan, the general public has become much more interested in health, medical sciences and new bio-health technologies.
The hall aims to promote awareness of what is currently known about health and life sciences by providing a general overview of the field, linking the different sciences and techniques involved: these include the human body, anatomical sciences, the study of the senses, biomedicine, transplant operations, new medicines, genetics | 4,461 | triviaqa-train |
In which American sitcom did English actress Jane Leeves play a major character? | show progressed.
By country United States Sitcoms on US television 1980s.
"Cheers," which ran for eleven seasons, was one of the most successful sitcoms in the 80s, airing from 1982 to 1993. It was followed by a spin-off sitcom in the 90s, "Frasier". During its run, "Cheers" became one of the most popular series of all time and has received critical acclaim. In 1997, the episodes "Thanksgiving Orphans" and "Home Is the Sailor", aired originally in 1987 | say, it sounds like a huge waste of time." The appearance earned her a 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, her seventh Emmy win overall.
In June 2010, White took on the role of Elka Ostrovsky the house caretaker on TV Land's original sitcom "Hot in Cleveland" along with Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick. "Hot in Cleveland" was TV Land's first attempt at a first-run scripted comedy (the channel has rerun other sitcoms since | 4,462 | triviaqa-train |
In which country is the holiday resort of Sousse? | Sousse
Sousse or Soussa (, ; Berber:"Susa") is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants . Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. Its economy is based on transport equipment, processed food, olive oil, textiles, and tourism. It is home to the Université de Sousse.
Name.
"Sousse" and "Soussa | Tanjung Gemuk
Tanjung Gemuk (literally translated as the "Fat Fish") is a small coastal village near Port Dickson in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. Its beach is part of Port Dickson's long coastline fronting the Strait of Malacca.
There is a holiday resort, Glory Beach Resort, built approximately 5 years ago in Tanjung Gemuk. It is not a luxurious resort but an economic accommodation option which attracts many tourists from all over the country and even from countries around Malaysia because of its low price, good | 4,463 | triviaqa-train |
Which peninsula lies to the east of the Suez Canal? | from the canal. On the same day that the canal was nationalized Nasser also closed the Straits of Tiran to all Israeli ships. This led to the Suez Crisis in which the UK, France, and Israel invaded Egypt. According to the pre-agreed war plans under the Protocol of Sèvres, the Israelis invaded the Sinai Peninsula on 29 October, forcing Egypt to engage them militarily, and allowing the Anglo-French partnership to declare the resultant fighting a threat to stability in the Middle East and enter the war - officially | , and the 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, two armoured regiments and other forces, in the Suez Canal Zone until the early 1950s.
In 1959 Middle East Command was divided into two commands split by the Suez Canal.
The two parts were "British Forces Arabian Peninsula", which was based at Aden, and the rump of the former Command which was based in Cyprus and which in 1961 was renamed Near East Command.
Middle East Command was disbanded on 28 November 1967 and the command of British | 4,464 | triviaqa-train |
Which North African country has Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines? | over a period of some 600,000 years, the Messinian salinity crisis, before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago.
It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km (965,000 sq mi), representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called | excretion of excess salt gives the false impression that the turtle is crying.
Distribution.
The loggerhead sea turtle has a cosmopolitan distribution, nesting over the broadest geographical range of any sea turtle. It inhabits the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.
In the Atlantic Ocean, the greatest concentration of loggerheads is along the southeastern coast of North America and in the Gulf of Mexico. Very few loggerheads are found along the European and African coastlines. Florida is the most popular nesting site, with | 4,465 | triviaqa-train |
What is the Southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis? | auroral ovals are posted on the Internet.
In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis or the northern lights. The former term was coined by Galileo in 1619, from the Roman goddess of the dawn and the Greek name for the north wind. The southern counterpart, the aurora australis or the southern lights, has features almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone. The Aurora Australis is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, New | formation of a matrix.
In the 12th century, Bhāskara II lived in southern India and wrote extensively on all then known branches of mathematics. His work contains mathematical objects equivalent or approximately equivalent to infinitesimals, derivatives, the mean value theorem and the derivative of the sine function. To what extent he anticipated the invention of calculus is a controversial subject among historians of mathematics.
In the 14th century, Madhava of Sangamagrama, the founder of the so-called Kerala School of Mathematics, found the Madhava–Leibniz series | 4,466 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Jose Mourinho call ‘A specialist in failure’ because of an 8 year trophy drought? | the meeting with then Arsenal full-back Ashley Cole in January of that year. The pair had met to discuss transfer terms while Cole was still under contract to Arsenal, which was in breach of the Premier League rules. His fine was later reduced to £75,000 after a hearing in August. Later that year, he labelled Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger "a voyeur" after being irked at what he saw as the latter's apparent obsession with Chelsea. Wenger was furious with the remark and considered taking legal action against Mourinho | , who himself had played down any chance that Chelsea will win the league, stated that Wenger was a "specialist in failure", as the Arsenal manager had not lifted a trophy since 2005. Wenger later remarked saying that the comments made by Mourinho were 'silly and disrespectful', along with saying that Mourinho had 'embarrassed Chelsea'. Away from the Premier League and off-pitch antics, Arsenal gained their revenge over Liverpool with a 2-1 win in the FA Cup. This win ensured the Gunners progressed | 4,467 | triviaqa-train |
On which river does the city of Leeds stand? | a major mill town; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important. From being a market town in the valley of the River Aire in the 16th century, Leeds expanded and absorbed the surrounding villages to become a populous urban centre by the mid-20th century. It now lies within the West Yorkshire Urban Area, the United Kingdom's fourth-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.6 million.
Today, Leeds has become the | River Trent left the City Ground in an unplayable condition and again in 1968 when the Main Stand at the City Ground was destroyed by fire in a game against Leeds United.
A new stadium.
During the 1970s and 80s the stadium became increasingly dilapidated. The Meadow Lane End was demolished in 1978 and replaced by a building which housed new dressing rooms, a social club and a variety of other facilities designed to generate more income. There was no stand at this end for several years and Meadow Lane was reduced to | 4,468 | triviaqa-train |
What do native Cornish residents call Penwith? | It is also known as the Land's End Peninsula.
Geography.
The Penwith peninsula sits predominantly on granite bedrock that has led to the formation of a rugged coastline with many fine beaches. The contact between the granite and the adjoining sedimentary rock (mostly shales) is most clearly seen forming the cliffs at Land's End, the most westerly point in the district and this geology has resulted in the mining that has made Cornwall famous. Tin and copper have been mined in the area since pre-Roman times and | language [...] Dolly was a Cornish fishwife who tramped her fishy wares around Penwith and Penzance. At the latter place she gained the reputation of being the last native Cornish speaker, though she may not have been. Opinion is also divided about how much Cornish she could actually speak - though everyone agreed she could swear in Cornish."
Biography Later years, death, and legacy.
In 1768, Daines Barrington searched Cornwall for speakers of the language and at Mousehole found Pentreath, then a fish seller said to be | 4,469 | triviaqa-train |
On a Monopoly board what makes up the set with Coventry Street and Leicester Square? | , to the north; Charing Cross Road, to the east; Orange Street, to the south; and Whitcomb Street, to the west. The park at the centre of the Square is bound by Cranbourn Street, to the north; Leicester Street, to the east; Irving Street, to the south; and a section of road designated simply as Leicester Square, to the west. It is within the City of Westminster, north of Trafalgar Square, east of Piccadilly Circus, west of Covent Garden, and south | the area, and "Edward Street" was what is now the stretch of Broadwick Street between Wardour Street and Berwick Street, as shown by Roque. Neither side of the street was fully built up by 1720. John Rocque shows both roads very clearly on his large-scale map of 1746. From Oxford Street south to Meard Street is now "Wardour Street"; then south to Compton Street is "Old Soho"; then down to Coventry Street is "Princes Street". For the length of Leicester Square it | 4,470 | triviaqa-train |
Where in the body is the pineal gland? | system can be split up into the muscular system and the skeletal system.
Composition Systems Nervous system.
The nervous system consists of the body's neurons, which together form the nerves and ganglia which in turn form the brain and related structures. The brain is the organ of thought, emotion, memory, and sensory processing; it serves many aspects of communication and controls various systems and functions. The special senses consist of vision, hearing, taste, and smell. The eyes, ears, tongue, and nose gather information | the lacrimal glands, the carotid body, the salivary glands, and the thyroid gland.
Function Sympathetic Nervous System Pineal Gland.
The postganglionic axons of the SCG innervate the pineal gland and are involved in Circadian rhythm. This connection regulates production of the hormone melatonin, which regulates sleep and wake cycles, however the influence of SCG neuron innervation of the pineal gland is not fully understood.
Function Sympathetic Nervous System Carotid Body.
The postganglionic axons of the SCG innervate the internal carotid artery and form the internal carotid plexus. The internal | 4,471 | triviaqa-train |
Who played Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again? | Domino Vitali
Dominetta Vitali, known simply as Domino, is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond novel, "Thunderball". For the 1965 film adaptation of the same name, her name was changed to Dominique Derval, nicknamed Domino, and she was portrayed by French actress Claudine Auger. In the 1983 film adaptation "Never Say Never Again", her character was renamed Domino Petachi and she was portrayed by American actress Kim Basinger.
Biography.
Biography The novel.
Born Dominetta Petacchi | of the 1980s and 1990s, Basinger came to prominence for her performance of Bond girl Domino Petachi in "Never Say Never Again" (1983). She subsequently garnered acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role in "The Natural" (1984). She starred in the cult erotic film "9½ Weeks" (1986), and in Tim Burton's blockbuster "Batman" (1989), which remains the highest-grossing film of her career. For her femme fatale portrayal in "L.A. Confidential" | 4,472 | triviaqa-train |
Which band sang the title song to The World Is Not Enough? | The World Is Not Enough (song)
"The World Is Not Enough" is the theme song from the eponymous 1999 James Bond film, performed by American-Scottish alternative rock band Garbage. The song was written by composer David Arnold (who also scored the film) and lyricist Don Black, previously responsible for four other Bond songs, and was produced by Garbage and Arnold. "The World Is Not Enough" was composed in the style of the series' title songs, in contrast with the post-modern | . While Rush has had great success selling albums, "Take Off" is the highest charting single on the "Billboard" Hot 100 of Lee's career.
In 1982, Lee produced the first (and only) album from Toronto new wave band Boys Brigade. On the 1985 album "We Are the World", by humanitarian consortium USA for Africa, Lee recorded guest vocals for the song "Tears Are Not Enough". Lee sang "O Canada", the Canadian national anthem, at Baltimore's Camden | 4,473 | triviaqa-train |
In which movie did Bond first drive an Aston Martin DB5? | Set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of "Goldfinger", it contains material written, but previously unreleased, by Fleming. "Trigger Mortis" was released on 8 September 2015. Horowitz's second Bond novel, "Forever and a Day", tells the origin story of Bond as a 00 agent prior to the events of "Casino Royale". The novel, also based on unpublished material from Fleming, was released on 31 May 2018.
Publication history Novels and related works Young Bond.
The "Young | DB5 can be seen as Lady Penelope gets into Fab 1 in the first episode "Ring Of Fire".
See also.
- List of James Bond vehicles
External links.
- Aston Martin DB5 on Objectbook – Aston Martin DB5 resource
- Aston Martin DB5 "InternetMovieCarsDatabase.org"
- An original sales brochure for the DB5 "Aston.co.uk"
- Period DB5 sales literature and specification brochure "Aston.co.uk"
- Period original 1964 DB5 sales brochure "Aston.co.uk"
- 1964 Aston Martin DB5 saloon/convertible | 4,474 | triviaqa-train |
Which Roman God was the father of Romulus and Remus? | who had been displaced by his brother Amulius. In some sources, Rhea Silvia conceived them when their father, the god Mars, visited her in a sacred grove dedicated to him. Through their mother, the twins were descended from Greek and Latin nobility.
Seeing them as a possible threat to his rule, King Amulius ordered them to be killed and they were abandoned on the bank of the river Tiber to die. They were saved by the god Tiberinus, Father of the River, and survived with the care of | of god Jupiter and Dardanus. He is also an ancestor of Romulus, Remus and the Gens Julia. Together with his father, he is a major character in Virgil's "Aeneid", and he is depicted as one of the founders of the Roman race.
Mythology.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of the Trojan prince Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam. After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, taking his father Anchises and his | 4,475 | triviaqa-train |
What is the most common element in the human body after oxygen? | of the periodic table, which groups together elements with similar chemical properties (and usually also similar electronic structures).
Description Atomic number.
The atomic number of an element is equal to the number of protons in each atom, and defines the element. For example, all carbon atoms contain 6 protons in their atomic nucleus; so the atomic number of carbon is 6. Carbon atoms may have different numbers of neutrons; atoms of the same element having different numbers of neutrons are known as isotopes of the element. | the elements needed for life are relatively common in the Earth's crust. Aluminium, the third most common element in the Earth's crust (after oxygen and silicon), serves no function in living cells, but is harmful in large amounts. Transferrins can bind aluminium.
Molecules.
The composition of the human body is expressed in terms of chemicals:
- Water
- Proteins – including those of hair, connective tissue, etc.
- Fats (or lipids)
- Hydroxylapatite in bones
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Which Elgar piece is dedicated ‘ to my friends pictured within’? | Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the "Enigma Variations", the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including "The Dream of Gerontius", chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick | , tuba, timpani, side drum, triangle, bass drum, cymbals, organ (ad lib) and strings.
Structure.
The theme is followed by 14 variations. The variations spring from the theme's melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements, and the extended fourteenth variation forms a grand finale.
Elgar dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within" and in the score each variation is prefaced the initials, name or nickname of the friend depicted. As was common with painted portraits of the time, | 4,477 | triviaqa-train |
Who did Squeaky Fromme try to assassinate? | secure facility, and she served the remainder of her term at the federal women's prison in Dublin, California, where she worked in the UNICOR prison labor program for $1.25 per hour as the Lead Inmate Operating Accountant. Moore had the Federal Bureau of Prisons register number 04851-180.
In an interview in 2004, former President Ford described Moore as "off her mind" and said that he continued making public appearances, even after two attempts on his life within such a short time, because "a president | Eliminate Evil, Revive Good Times
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Which song started out as Good Morning To All? | " episode "Han Ukkah Solo", Erica Goldberg is challenged to write a Hanukkah song. She does, but her words are sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday To You". Her music teacher tells her she cannot use it because "I'd have to pay those old ladies hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I've already spent our budget on construction paper."
In the "30 Rock" episode "Goodbye, My Friend", "TGS" cast members begin to sing the song | Music. Lead vocalist Tom Higgenson says that the group "started covering it as a joke almost. We started learning it because we were number one for a few weeks and then we got knocked out of the number one spot by Sean Kingston, by this song. It's kind of like an ode to Sean." To close out the song guitarist Mike Retondo breaks into the chorus of "Stand by Me", which is also done in the cover version by Boyce Avenue, a nod to the fact that that | 4,479 | triviaqa-train |
Who wrote The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy? | Borstal Boy
Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates, with all the variety of the British Isles' many subtly distinctive accents intact on the page. Ultimately, Behan | film scores for "The Quare Fellow" (1962), "He Who Rides a Tiger" (1965) and "Georgy Girl" (1966). He also wrote a scholarly Offenbach biography (1980) and a memoir, "Da Capo Al Fine: A Life in Music" (2009). The former "remains one of the most important" Offenbach biographies.
For television he wrote the theme music for "The Duchess of Duke Street" (1976), "Wings" (1977), | 4,480 | triviaqa-train |
Sorted for Es and Whizz? | Sorted for E's & Wizz
"Sorted for E's & Wizz" is a song by the English band Pulp. Taken from their UK number one album "Different Class", it was released as a double A-sided single with "Mis-Shapes" in September 1995 and reached number two in the UK charts. It was Pulp's second successive number two hit in 1995.
Lyrics.
The song describes going to a rave "somewhere in a field in Hampshire", taking drugs | , Guts and Stuff" (2011)
- "Science Sorted: Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff" (2011), Science Sorted series
- "Does Farting Make You Faster?" (2012)
- "Supergeek: Robots, Space and Furry Animals" (2014)
- "Supergeek: Dinosaurs, Brains and Supertrains" (2014)
- "Poo! What Is That Smell?" (2014)
- "Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story", illustrated by Mike | 4,481 | triviaqa-train |
Which great historical warrior had a dog called Peritas? | Peritas
Peritas () was Alexander the Great's favorite dog, who accompanied him during his military exploits. The name Peritas seems to come from the Macedonian word for January.
History.
History The eponymous city.
Not much is known of the historical Peritas aside from a city named in his honor. Peritas' death, however it happened, was a venerable one. Like Alexander's horse Bucephalus, Peritas was awarded a city named in his honor, with a monument to his glory in its central square. | The breed of Peritas is hard to ascertain and remains unknown. Peritas is sometimes referred to as a Molosser or Bulldog, perhaps from the fierce nature of a few stories. Others will say Peritas would have been a greyhound.
History Tales of Peritas.
According to Pliny, it was perhaps his uncle Alexander the Molossian, king of Epirus (NW Greece), who delighted Alexander by giving him a dog which had attacked and beaten both a lion and an elephant. There is also the story of Alexander meeting Sophytes, | 4,482 | triviaqa-train |
What is the name of the dog in Jerome K Jerome’s novel Three Men In A Boat? | One of the most praised things about "Three Men in a Boat" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty.
The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as "Three Men in a Boat", it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, "The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow | 4,483 | triviaqa-train |
Which country is currently suspended from The Commonwealth? | 1 September 2009. The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma, confirmed that full suspension meant that Fiji would be excluded from Commonwealth meetings, sporting events and the technical assistance programme (with an exception for assistance in re-establishing democracy). Sharma stated that Fiji would remain a member of the Commonwealth during its suspension, but would be excluded from emblematic representation by the secretariat. On 19 March 2014 Fiji's full suspension was amended to a suspension from councils of the Commonwealth by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, | Zimbabwe formally terminated with effect from 7 December 2003 its membership in the Commonwealth. This confirmed President Mugabe’s decision to leave the organisation following the CHOGM statement issued in Nigeria, which indefinitely suspended Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth. On 19 November 2003, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe made a detailed statement on the whole affair to the Parliament of Zimbabwe.
The withdrawal marked only the third occasion (after South Africa in 1961 and Pakistan in 1971) that a country had withdrawn voluntarily, although Ireland had voluntarily declared itself a republic | 4,484 | triviaqa-train |
Which country withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003? | As hosts, Australia headed the medal table leading the way ahead of England, Canada, Scotland and New Zealand respectively. Zimbabwe made its first appearance at the Games, having earlier competed as Southern Rhodesia and as part of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
The 1986 Commonwealth Games were held in Edinburgh, Scotland and were the second Games to be held in Edinburgh. Participation at the 1986 Games was affected by a boycott by 32 African, Asian and Caribbean nations in protest at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's refusal to condemn | . Hong Kong was never a Commonwealth member but was a territory of a Commonwealth country; it ceased to be in the Commonwealth when the territory was handed over to China in 1997.
12. Ireland was represented as a single team from the whole of the island in 1930, and by two teams, representing the Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland in 1934. The Irish Free State was officially renamed Éire in 1937 but did not participate in the 1938 Games, and withdrew from the Commonwealth when it unilaterally declared that | 4,485 | triviaqa-train |
What is the study of the meaning of words? | simple statement of fact or a request to turn up the heat, depending on, among other things, whether or not it is believed to be in the listener's power to affect the temperature.
The sources of ambiguity Semantic meaning.
The relationship between words and their referents is called semantic. Semantics is the study of how meaning is conveyed through signs and language. Understanding how facial expressions, body language, and tone affect meaning, and how words, phrases, sentences, and punctuation relate to meaning are examples. | Ayaviri, Melgar
Ayaviri or Ayawiri (Aymara) is a town in Southern Peru, capital of the province Melgar in the region Puno. According to the 2007 Peruvian census, Ayaviri has a population of 22,667 people. Local festivities of note include the Festividad de Calendaria on January 24 and the Aniversario de la Provincia on October 25.
Meaning of the name.
The origin of the word “ayaviri” is one wrapped in uncertainty. What meaning can be inferred is through the etymological study of the words, suffixes | 4,486 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of creatures are jacamars and barbets? | white patch on the breast.
Behaviour.
Behaviour Diet and feeding.
Jacamars are insectivores, taking a variety of insect prey (many specialize on butterflies and moths) by hawking in the air. Birds sit in favoured perches and sally towards the prey when it is close enough. Only the great jacamar varies from the rest of the family, taking prey by gleaning and occasionally taking small lizards and spiders.
Behaviour Breeding.
The breeding systems of jacamars have not been studied in depth. They are thought to generally | year but fell to the Winnipeg Braves. The TPT Petes claimed their first Hamilton Spectator Trophy during the 1965-66 season, but were eliminated from the playoffs.
History Roger Neilson era (1966–1976).
The team became known as the Peterborough Petes Hockey Club in 1966–67, which was also the beginning of Roger Neilson's tenure as coach. The Petes would continue to wear the TPT logo on their sweaters until 1974–75, when their colours were changed to maroon and white and a new "Petes" logo was adopted. | 4,487 | triviaqa-train |
What is the study of the history and derivation of words? | , etymologists may often be able to detect which words derive from their common ancestor language and which were instead later borrowed from another language.
- The study of semantic change. Etymologists must often make hypotheses about changes in the meaning of particular words. Such hypotheses are tested against the general knowledge of semantic shifts. For example, the assumption of a particular change of meaning may be substantiated by showing that the same type of change has occurred in other languages as well.
Types of word origins.
Etymological theory recognizes | closed classes, usually consisting of few members, and in Japanese the formation of new pronouns from existing nouns is relatively common, though to what extent these form a distinct word class is debated.
Words are added to open classes through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, and borrowing. When a new word is added through some such process, it can subsequently be used grammatically in sentences in the same ways as other words in its class. A closed class may obtain new items through these same processes, but | 4,488 | triviaqa-train |
What kind of creatures are loggerheads and hawksbills? | with Olive Riley Turtles in the archipelagic country of the Philippines. A small group of islands in the southwest of the archipelago has been named the "Turtle Islands" because two species of sea turtles nest there: the hawksbill and the green sea turtle. In January 2016, a juvenile was seen in Gulf of Thailand. A 2018 article by The Straits Times reported that around 120 hawksbill juvenile turtles recently hatched at Pulau Satumu, Singapore. Commonly found in Singapore waters, hawksbill turtles have returned to areas such East Coast Park and | Warstrider series
The Warstrider series is a BattleTech-esque series by William H. Keith, Jr..
Description.
The series is based upon a futuristic world where Japan has taken control of Earth politics and of the majority of human colonies on other worlds. Humans are engaged in a war with creatures known only as Xenophobes. Human-kind has never managed to communicate with the creatures and only has their attacks to base what information is known about them on. Later books detail humanity's conflict with itself, and a | 4,489 | triviaqa-train |
Bryher is part of which island group? | Bryher
Bryher (, "place of hills") is one of the smaller of the inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly.
Geography.
The island has a length of , a maximum width of and an area of , including Shipman Head, which rises to at the northern end of the island. Bryher lies to the west of Tresco, and is separated from that island by the Tresco Channel, once the main anchorage for the islands and now an area where sandflats are exposed at low tide. Off | now been found on all the inhabited islands (except Bryher) and curiously also on Northwethel.
Other islands in the St Helen’s group Round Island.
Round Island () is a island to the north of St Helen's with an unmanned lighthouse on the summit. It is part of the "Pentle Bay, Merrick and Round Islands Site of Special Scientific Interest" (SSSI).
Other islands in the St Helen’s group Teän.
Teän () is a island between St Helen's, to the north | 4,490 | triviaqa-train |
Which is the most malleable of all metals? | well as most vehicles, many home appliances, tools, pipes, and railroad tracks. Precious metals were historically used as coinage, but in the modern era, coinage metals have extended to at least 23 of the chemical elements.
The history of metals is thought to begin with the use of copper about 11,000 years ago. Gold, silver, iron (as meteoric iron), lead, and brass were likewise in use before the first known appearance of bronze in the 5th millennium BCE. Subsequent developments include the production | Meinl Generation X line released in 2003. Previous Generation X models were made from malleable bronze. FX9 is described by Meinl as not being a bronze at all, and was previously described by their sales literature as containing tin rather than zinc. There is a minority view that the word "bronze" should be reserved for two-phase alloys, which may be their usage here.
Unlike cymbals, some gongs are made from several different metals fused together. Many different metals have been used. Parts of some traditional gongs | 4,491 | triviaqa-train |
Which world-famous song was originally entitled ‘Good Morning To All’? | " episode "Han Ukkah Solo", Erica Goldberg is challenged to write a Hanukkah song. She does, but her words are sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday To You". Her music teacher tells her she cannot use it because "I'd have to pay those old ladies hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I've already spent our budget on construction paper."
In the "30 Rock" episode "Goodbye, My Friend", "TGS" cast members begin to sing the song | and features the intro and outro from the famous Stars on 45 medleys. There was also 7" picture disc made available, which included a previously unreleased B-side entitled "Memory of You", originally called "Japan". Remixes by Wideboys and Utah Saints were also commissioned.
Release B-side.
There was a mild controversy surrounding the fact that the single's B-side "Memory of You" was only available on the vinyl format and not in CD or digital quality. The song was originally | 4,492 | triviaqa-train |
Where in the British Isles can the Laxey Wheel aka Lady Isabella be seen? | the terms were never honoured and a new monarchy was installed.
The Kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified in 1707 creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. Following an attempted republican revolution in Ireland in 1798, the Kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain were unified in 1801, creating the United Kingdom. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands remaining outside of the United Kingdom but with their ultimate good governance being the responsibility of the British Crown (effectively the British government). Although, the colonies of North America that would | Lady Isabella
Lady Isabella may refer to:
- People
- Lady Isabella Hervey (b. 1982), British socialite and actress
- Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451–1476)
- Isabella of Gloucester and Hertford (1226–1264)
- Isabella FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton (1668–1723)
- Isabella of Ibelin, Queen of Cyprus (1252–1282), Crusader noble in the city of Beirut
- Other uses
- Lady Isabel, 19th-century English child ballad
- Laxey Wheel, nicknamed Lady | 4,493 | triviaqa-train |
What term is used for chains of repeated groups of atoms e.g. DNA, proteins? | , before rejoining the helix. Topoisomerases are required for many processes involving DNA, such as DNA replication and transcription.
Helicases are proteins that are a type of molecular motor. They use the chemical energy in nucleoside triphosphates, predominantly adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to break hydrogen bonds between bases and unwind the DNA double helix into single strands. These enzymes are essential for most processes where enzymes need to access the DNA bases.
Interactions with proteins DNA-modifying enzymes Polymerases.
Polymerases are enzymes that synthesize polynucleotide chains from nucleoside | "). The tandem sequences may be of variable lengths, from two nucleotides to tens of nucleotides. These sequences are highly variable, even among closely related individuals, and so are used for genealogical DNA testing and forensic DNA analysis.
Repeated sequences of fewer than ten nucleotides (e.g. the dinucleotide repeat (AC)) are termed microsatellite sequences. Among the microsatellite sequences, trinucleotide repeats are of particular importance, as sometimes occur within coding regions of genes for proteins and may lead to genetic disorders. For example, Huntington | 4,494 | triviaqa-train |
Which band was formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith? | Smith met as teenagers in Bath, Somerset, England. The duo became session musicians for the band Neon, where they first met future Tears For Fears drummer Manny Elias. Neon also featured Pete Byrne and Rob Fisher who went on to become Naked Eyes. Smith and Orzabal's professional debut came with the band Graduate, a mod revival/new wave act. In 1980, Graduate released an album, "Acting My Age", and a single "Elvis Should Play Ska" (referring to Elvis Costello, not Presley | Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, before they finally broke up in December 1981.
- New Rhodes: (2001–present): Indie band consisting of James Williams, Joe Gascoigne, Jack Ashdown and Tim Desmond. In 2006 they released their first album "Songs From The Lodge" and in 2009 released their second LP, "Everybody Loves A Scene".
- The Numbers: Nick McAuley, Angelo Bruschini, Wayne Kingston and Lee Gardener. The band recorded for Heartbeat Records with the tracks "Cross-Slide" on | 4,495 | triviaqa-train |
Which war ended with the treaty of Panmunjom? | Panmunjom
Panmunjom, also known as Panmunjeom, now located in Kaesong, North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, was a village just north of the "de facto" border between North and South Korea, where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean War was signed. The building where the armistice was signed still stands.
Its name is often used as a metonym for the nearby Joint Security Area (JSA), where discussions between North and South Korea still take place in blue buildings that straddle the Military Demarcation | all parties. The US favors a bilateral statement with North Korea in anticipation of Chinese concerns about the presence of United States Forces Korea (USFK). Russian president Vladimir Putin, who reconfirmed the peace treaty with Japan ending World War II, said that North Korea's nuclear issue should be resolved in "a political and diplomatic manner". Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs endorsed the Panmunjom Declaration. Putin suggested that Trump halt US-South Korean joint military exercises during a 2017 diplomatic gathering in Germany, and Trump agreed | 4,496 | triviaqa-train |
By what name is Aragorn first known to the hobbits when they meet him in Bree? | have been inspired by, also means "hill". "Brill" is a modern contraction of "Bre-hyll". Both syllables of "Bre-hyll" mean "hill" – the first is Celtic and the second Anglo-Saxon.
Appearances.
Appearances In "The Lord of the Rings".
In "The Fellowship of the Ring", Frodo Baggins met Strider (Aragorn) at the largest and most popular inn in Bree, The Prancing Pony, owned by Barliman Butterbur. The hobbits | when Isildur reached for it and Sauron stomped on it. It is also not reforged into Andúril until the , when Arwen persuades Elrond to have elven smiths reforge it from the shards of Narsil and bring it to Aragorn. In the book, he actually wears the broken blade and shows it to the Hobbits when they meet at the "Prancing Pony" in Bree, and its reforging prior to the departure of the Fellowship is a decisive move toward kingship.
The incident involving Aragorn disarming reluctantly before entering king Théoden's palace | 4,497 | triviaqa-train |
Who was the target of Operation Neptune Spear? | Death of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six). The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA-led operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, | whose family occupied the structure's top two floors.
Operation Neptune Spear.
The official mission code name was Operation Neptune Spear. Neptune's spear is the trident, which appears on the U.S. Navy's Special Warfare insignia, with the three prongs of the trident representing the operational capacity of SEALs on sea, air and land.
Operation Neptune Spear Objective.
The Associated Press reported at the time two U.S. officials as stating the operation was "a kill-or-capture mission, since the U.S. doesn't kill | 4,498 | triviaqa-train |
Which member of Take That announced that he is to leave the group last month? | with Barlow's catalogue of self-written material, Martin-Smith decided to build his new-look boy band around Barlow's musical abilities. A campaign to audition young men with abilities in dancing and singing followed and took place in Manchester and other surrounding cities in 1990. At 22, Howard Donald was one of the oldest to audition, but he was chosen after he got time off work as a vehicle painter to continue the process. Prior to auditioning, Jason Orange had appeared as a breakdancer on the popular television | were selected to sign a five-month contract with a possible three-month extension in February. After the end of the project, 11 of the former Baito AKB members entered the yearly Draft Kaigi event aiming to become full members, while others expressed their desire to take part in the auditions for the newly planned NGT48 group.
On December 8, long-time member and general manager Minami Takahashi announced she will leave the group in December 2015 for the group's tenth anniversary. She recommended that Team K captain Yui | 4,499 | triviaqa-train |
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