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Alternative Fuels and Vehicles
Essay, Pages 5 (1036 words)
Vehicles that run on gasoline and diesel are negatively affecting the environment on a daily basis. It is time to move away from harmful fuels and make the switch to a more ecological option. A full transition to the use of alternative fuels will help pave a path towards a healthier environment. The fate of California's future is in the hands of all it's citizens and its best to act fast. For that reason, all vehicles sold in the State of California should be required to run on alternative fuels.
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This action will allow for a reduction of pollution, support for farmers that produce biofuel crops, a renewable source that can replace gasoline, promotion of reusing and recycling, and will help people save money.
To begin, requiring vehicles to run on alternative fuels will help diminish toxic emissions and noise pollution. For instance, "…the Mercedes A-class car and the Toyota RAV4, use methanol to produce the hydrogen for their fuel cells.
Both cars consume much less fuel than standard gasoline-powered cars…" (Cooper, pg. 972). In other words, vehicles that run on hydrogen are environmentally cleaner since they only emit water in the form of vapor and use less fuel. Also, according to Cooper, if regular gas vehicles keep being used, they will only continue to add to noise pollution while hydrogen fuel cell vehicles can potentially diminish this problem, as well as about 11 million barrels of oil daily by 2040 (Cooper, pg. 177). Hydrogen fuel cells are just one type of alternative fuel that can be used; there are several other ones that can be utilized which will still have a better output in terms of pollution and efficiency.
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As a result, one form of alternative fuel that people can use is hydrogen fuel cell vehicles since they reduce pollution.
Pollution Reduction
Following pollution reduction, alternative fuels can also help support farmer's businesses. An example of this, is biofuels made from corn since it "… has enormous appeal for growers and processors because it gives them a role in debates over energy policy and national security and allows them to make the case that their product is essential to achieving energy independence…" (Bettelheim, p. 799). Otherwise speaking, farmers have the opportunity to illustrate that other sources of energy are not needed if they can grow crops for biofuels. Farmers can grow other crops such as shrub trees, algae and soybeans for the production of biofuels (Schmidt, pg. A91). These are just a few options for crops that can be grown which means farmers are not limited to a single type of crop. Ultimately, farmers will be able to make good profit as well have choices from the type of crop needed to grow based off of the biofuel demand.
Furthermore, gasoline is not a renewable source, so it eventually has to be replaced; this is a chance for alternative fuels to be that solution. According to Inman, due to depleting oil and gas reserves, companies are looking towards resources such as tar sands which in turn are more difficult to extract from at the source (Inman, pg. 59). Since reserves are being exhausted, alternative fuels are a great solution because they are renewable and are able to be chosen in various types. On top of that, gasoline is a continuing distress because of "… petroleum price volatility…," as well as "… the energy crisis of the 1970s and ensuing military conflicts in the Middle East…"(Vedenov, Duffield, Wetzstein pg. 12). Simply put, gas prices can fluctuate randomly and dependence of reserves from the Middle East can cause chaos in terms of war. Subsequently, it is important to find a replacement for gasoline because the reserve sources are not going to last forever.
Recycling and Reusing Oils and Fats
Moreover, alternative fuels help promote reusing and recycling. For instance, fuels including "… biogas, or methane, can be produced on farms from the decomposition of animal wastes, and that hydrogen could power cars…" (Bettelheim, pg. 797). Specifically, alternative fuels such as biogas and methane can be made from animal waste which means that waste is being recycled and reused to power vehicles. In addition, as reported by Cooper, one can use recycled cooking oils and animal fats to produce biodiesel (Cooper, pg. 185). This emphasizes how versatile alternative fuels can be because they can also be made from recycling and reusing oils and fats. Instead of having to throw away these resources, people will have a chance to make a difference even if it is just a small gesture. Overall, alternative fuel vehicles should be implemented because the fuels promote reusing and recycling.
Lastly, alternative fuels will help people save money in the long run. For example, fuels such as "…biodiesel acts as a lubricant in the ultra- low sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuels now emerging to meet heightened pollu- tion standards in some states, protecting the en- gine against wear," (Schmidt, A 89). Essentially, biodiesel is helping engines from long term damage which means people will save money on maintenance of their vehicles. On the other hand, pure biodiesel, or "…B100 has strong solvent properties that liberate rust and other engine contami- nants, which plug filters and fuel injectors" (Schmidt, A 88). In other words, biodiesel can protect from decay blocks filters from functioning properly which is another plus for saving money on maintenance of vehicles. As a result, alternative fuels benefit the people since they help keep a vehicle's engine in good shape for a longer period of time.
It does not make sense for California to continue producing and selling vehicles that run on traditional gasoline and diesel fuel. With depleting oil reserves, toxic emissions, complications with the Middle East, and environmentally harmful extraction methods, it's time for a change. The technology for alternative fuel vehicles already exists, so there is no reason to make the switch. By implementing alternative fuel vehicles in California, other states or even countries around the world will begin to make the change as well. Hopefully people realize the dangers that will come with keeping gasoline vehicles and not acting on this situation.
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Prince of Peace, Lord of War
The Pilot Newspaper: Opinion
It seems that God and guns have become inextricably intertwined in the minds of some Americans, to the point where "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" may be turning from a humorous World War II novelty tune into an actual hymn.
For example, a couple of churches have made the news recently for giving not alms to the poor, but arms to their parishioners. Grace Baptist Church in Troy, N.Y., even advertised its giveaway of a brand-new AR-15 with a quote from John 14:27: "My peace I give unto you."
Fear not, however, that the arms may fall into the hands of the iniquitous. According to the story in The Albany Times Union, the winner would have to pass a background check before receiving his gun. One would think God's approval shown to the winner of the drawing by having his ticket pulled would be better than a background check, but I guess they need to render unto Caesar and all that.
Meanwhile, down in Paducah, Ky., the Lone Oak First Baptist Church held a big steak dinner at which 25 guns were raffled off.
"I brought a gun with me tonight," Pastor Chuck McAlister told the congregation. "I know that's controversial."
It also suggests a certain lack of trust in his flock, but whatever.
"This issue is not guns," McAlister told Fox News Detroit's Charlie McDuff. "The issue is men's hearts. Men who have their hearts changed through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ will handle guns responsibly."
Men, one supposes, like Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute. According to Ruse's bio, he has briefed a variety of government officials, including "members of the U.S. House and Senate," as well as "White House and National Security Council staff." He has "appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing U.N. and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC and Fox News." His writing career has included publication in right-leaning magazines and "on sites such as the National Review Online, Weekly Standard, Human Events, Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world."
So last week, Ruse went on American Family Radio and had this to say about a story of the Duke student who revealed that she's putting herself through college by appearing as an adult-film actress:
"My daughters go to a little private religious school, and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot."
Got that? This good Christian, this adviser to legislators and presidents, whose organization's mission statement says its purpose is "to defend life and family," says that people with whom he disagrees should be "taken out and shot."
This is a version of Christ's love with which I am not familiar. Aren't you guys glad that this believer is probably well-armed?
In fact, it seems like this whole idea of Jesus as the Prince of Peace is a little too wimpy for a lot of the folks at the American Family Association, owner of the above-mentioned American Family Radio.
The AFA's executive vice president, William (Jerry) Boykin, a former lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, recently told an audience at the Pro-Family Legislators Conference in Dallas that when Jesus returns in triumph, "that sword he'll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15." As the crowd laughed, he reiterated: "The sword today is an AR-15. If you don't have one, go get one. You're supposed to have one. It's biblical."
Funny, one would think the Son of the God who "thunders with his majestic voice, and … does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard" (Job 37:4) wouldn't need small arms. And it's true that Jesus did say "all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword," and something about "turning the other cheek," but really, who is this biblical Jesus anyway that he can argue with a former lieutenant general who tells us that owning an assault rifle is a biblical imperative?
More and more, it looks like America's gun aficionados are remaking God in their image, and that God of theirs sure does like guns. In a few years, will crossed rifles take their place on the altar beside the actual cross?
You might think it'll never happen, but I never thought I'd see churches giving away guns, either.
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Oskar Siira Sivertsen (born 15 February 2004) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Eliteserien club Kristiansund BK.

Club career
A youth academy graduate of Kristiansund, Sivertsen made his professional debut on 22 August 2020 in a 4–1 league win against Sarpsborg 08. He came on as an 89th-minute substitute for Liridon Kalludra and scored his first goal five minutes later.

International career
Sivertsen is a current Norwegian youth national team player.

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An Overview for Newbie's on Mahjong Online Games
Mahjong, a game customarily played in China, utilizes a bunch of tiles. These tiles are very like dominoes, that is, one side is plain and the other is printed or decorated. Each set of Mahjong tiles is separated in the accompanying manner:
First come 36 person tiles, then, at that point, 36 circle tiles, and 36 bamboo tiles, this is trailed by 12 mythical beast tiles, 16 breeze tiles, 8 season tiles lastly 8 blossom tiles.
Albeit numerous varieties of this game are accessible now, this game is typically played with 144 tiles and incorporates 4 players. The primary target of the game is straightforward; every player should draw the tiles and dispose of them.
Mahjong Solitaire is one more variety of the Mahjong game which includes a solitary player and a PC. The player can choose a design and the PC produces a game dependent on this format. The player needs to make sets of indistinguishable tiles and eliminate them from the board. He can't choose any tile that lies under another tile, or is to some degree covered by another tile. To dominate the match, the player should clear the board totally. This game includes key reasoning and players need to think and plan their slot gacor hari ini moves to win.
Mahjong is an exceptionally well known game, more in the east when contrasted with the west. The World Mahjong Organization (WMO) arranged in Beijing, China, is liable for getting sorted out the primary competition for World Championship.
This game started in China yet was brought toward the west in 1920, albeit composed records of the game have been seen as in as right on time as 1895 by an American anthropologist named Stewart Culin. Beginning in 1920s, the principal Mahjong sets were sold in the U.S. by Abercrombie and Fitch. At the point when this turned into a hit in the city of New York, Ezra Fitch imported more arrangements of Mahjong and sold an incredible 12,000 sets. In this manner this was acquainted with the west and a Mahjong craze assumed control over the entire country. Games researcher David Parlett accepts that even western games like Rummy and Conquian have been gotten from the round of Mahjong, as these games likewise include the idea of drawing and disposing of tiles.


That's my mothers (Anne Downey) car in the drivyway, 1957 Chevy. We lived next door to the church. It was built in 1891, land donated by the original owners of the house, also bulit in 1891.
I have lived acrossed the street from this church for 40 years. My grandfather Al Price was the treasurer for the Sunday School until they closed. It was a nice place in it's day. Too bad it still wasn't a church today.
I have a photo of the church bell that was in front of the church. Clark M Hunter 1845-1917 is buried in the Newport cemetery.


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This is a list of decisions of the United States Supreme Court that have been abrogated (superseded), in whole or in part, by a subsequent constitutional amendment or Congressional statute. This list does not included decisions overruled by the subsequent Supreme Court decisions.

By Constitutional amendment

By federal statute

Arbitration

Bankruptcy

Crime

Education

Environment

Veterans

Federal courts
Absolute and qualified immunity

 Anti-Injunction Act

 Magistrates

Private right of action

 Subject-matter jurisdiction

Habeas

Immigration

Labor

Native Americans

Patent

Quiet title

Securities fraud

Tax

Attempted abrogations

 Mixed results

See also
 List of overruled U.S. Supreme Court decisions

References

 William N. Eskridge, Jr., Overriding Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions, 101  331 (1991).

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Force Myanmar to take back Rohingyas
PM urges int'l community
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the international community to come up with specific effective steps to force Myanmar to take back their over one million forcibly displaced nationals living in Bangladesh as per the agreements signed between the two countries, reports UNB. "Bangladesh and Myanmar have inked bilateral agreements for the safe and permanent repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. To continue the pressure on Myanmar for implementing the agreements, I urge the international community to take specific effective steps," she said.
The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the Regional Hub of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Dhaka at Radisson Hotel. This IsDB Regional Hub will cover 19 countries like Singapore, Australia, Thailand, India.
She said Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) had given an instruction to stand beside the oppressed people and IsDB cannot remain silent when the Myanmar Rohingya people are facing ethnic cleansing. "So, to ensure the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingya, I request the IsDB to firmly stand beside them."
The Prime Minister said Bangladesh has been proactively responding to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis by keeping its border open and accepting the large influx of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals known as Rohingya despite having multifarious negative impacts on the local community and the country's ecosystem and resources. "We're giving shelter and food to the Rohingays on humanitarian ground."
Sheikh Hasina mentioned Bangladesh now wants them to go back to their own land.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, IsDB President Bandar MH Hajjar and Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam also spoke on the occasion.
Hasina said though Bangladesh is acclaimed internationally for good disaster management, it is still one of the most vulnerable countries that suffers and will continue to suffer for climate change. She said a good number of activities under the 'Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP)' are underway for mitigating the effects of climate change. "We've created 'Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund' with our own resources."
She said a 'Country Invest Plan (2016-2021)' has been prepared to determine the investment demand, current investment and investment gap that exists in environment, forest
and climate change sector.
"Some USD 11.7 billion will be required during the tenure of the investment plan; of which USD 4.7 billion has been invested from internal and external sources, that means there's an overall investment deficit of USD 7 billion. We need your extended financial support in this regard," she said.
The Prime Minister said Bangladesh has been striving to ensure socio-economic development in a sustainable manner. "We're working towards elevating our status to an upper middle-income country shortly. We've also set our next target of becoming a happy and prosperous country by 2041."
She thanked the IsDB for opening of the Dhaka Regional Hub as part of their recent decentralisation drive of operations from Headquarters to the client countries.
"This will definitely help IDB, one of the trusted development partners of Bangladesh, speed up its operational activities further and improve the quality and efficiency of its development interventions such as projects management, implementation and monitoring. This will also help IDB to be more intimate and closer to client countries in understanding the development needs and challenges as well as development priorities."
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the international community to come up with specific effective steps to force Myanmar to take back their over one million forcibly displaced nationals living in Bangladesh as per the agreements signed between the two countries, reports UNB. Bangladesh and Myanmar have inked bilateral agreements for the safe and permanent repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals. To continue the pressure on Myanmar for implementing the agreements, I urge the international community to take specific effective steps, she said. The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the Regional Hub of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Dhaka at Radisson Hotel. This IsDB Regional Hub will cover 19 countries like Singapore, Australia, Thailand, India. She said Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) had given an instruction to stand beside the oppressed people and IsDB cannot remain silent when the Myanmar Rohingya people are facing ethnic cleansing. So, to ensure the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingya, I request the IsDB to firmly stand beside them. The Prime Minister said Bangladesh has been proactively responding to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis by keeping its border open and accepting the large influx of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals known as Rohingya despite having multifarious negative impacts on the local community and the countrys ecosystem and resources. Were giving shelter and food to the Rohingays on humanitarian ground. Sheikh Hasina mentioned Bangladesh now wants them to go back to their own land. Finance Minister AMA Muhith, IsDB President Bandar MH Hajjar and Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Kazi Shofiqul Azam also spoke on the occasion. Hasina said though Bangladesh is acclaimed internationally for good disaster management, it is still one of the most vulnerable countries that suffers and will continue to suffer for climate change. She said a good number of activities under the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (BCCSAP) are underway for mitigating the effects of climate change. Weve created Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund with our own resources. She said a Country Invest Plan (2016-2021) has been prepared to determine the investment demand, current investment and investment gap that exists in environment, forest and climate change sector. Some USD 11.7 billion will be required during the tenure of the investment plan; of which USD 4.7 billion has been invested from internal and external sources, that means theres an overall investment deficit of USD 7 billion. We need your extended financial support in this regard, she said. The Prime Minister said Bangladesh has been striving to ensure socio-economic development in a sustainable manner. Were working towards elevating our status to an upper middle-income country shortly. Weve also set our next target of becoming a happy and prosperous country by 2041. She thanked the IsDB for opening of the Dhaka Regional Hub as part of their recent decentralisation drive of operations from Headquarters to the client countries. This will definitely help IDB, one of the trusted development partners of Bangladesh, speed up its operational activities further and improve the quality and efficiency of its development interventions such as projects management, implementation and monitoring. This will also help IDB to be more intimate and closer to client countries in understanding the development needs and challenges as well as development priorities.
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The adventures of 60 pilots and ground crewmen who flew or worked on the Spitfire during World War II A narrative description and condensed history of the Spitfire's construction, combat career, and postwar service tell all there is to know about the finest fighter of World War II. When the book Spitfire at War first appeared in 1974, it enjoyed critical acclaim, for the aircraft had never been described in such terms and detail before. It was followed by a second volume in 1985 and a third volume in 1990. All three volumes sold well and are hailed as classic works on the subject. These important works have been out of print for more than a decade, thereby denying them to the current breed of aviation buffs. The time has come to reissue the three books as a single volume, the author "cherry-picking" the choice cuts to produce the finest title on the mighty and beloved Spitfire.


Week 3 will focus on creating appropriate text alternatives for complex images and other more complex material, such as data tables and graphs. The assignment will provide you the opportunity to add alternate text to images.
In this video, we'll briefly review the process for entering alt text in Word.
other procedures for making tables more usable and accessible.
Excel is almost the same.
procedure described in this lesson in any of these three Office products.
we could manually scan our sample document for images and tables.
correcting accessibility issues in Word documents, including missing alt text.
A similar tool is available for PowerPoint and Excel.
correcting issues are almost identical for each Office program.
It will only flag images and tables without alt text.
the accessibility checker is not a feature of any Mac version, unfortunately.
still implement the techniques you viewed in this video on the Mac version.
you should turn on Ribbon under the View menu in Word for Mac.
This will display a ribbon panel similar to that displayed in the Windows version.
begin the process of checking the document for accessibility issues.
To start the accessibility checker, go to File.
By default, you'll view the options under the Info menu.
Select Check for Issues, and then Check Accessibility from the drop-down menu.
An inspection report will appear in a panel on the right side of the screen.
accessibility issues, you are working with an older document format.
Convert your document by selecting Convert from the File Info menu.
You should then be able to run the accessibility checker.
the inspection results displayed here are divided into errors and warnings.
Errors are more serious issues that need to be corrected.
Otherwise, they will block out some users from accessing content in the document.
some users to access the content.
by the issue, and the steps for correcting the error or warning.
missing alt text for four items, a table and three pictures.
We'll begin with the images.
we will be taken to the location of the item in the document.
Picture 2 is a photo of a wheelchair ramp in a park during the winter.
The caption informs us that this is a skating ring located in Ottawa, Canada.
instructions for adding alt text to the image.
control+mouse click on a Mac.
Select Format Picture on Word for Windows, and then Layout and Properties.
On Word for Mac, simply select ALT TEXT from the first Properties menu.
The alternate text should be entered in the Description field.
The content of the Description field is what is conveyed to assistive technology.
concise as possible, less than 100 characters.
information the image is conveying.
two individuals at a skating ring in Ottawa, Canada might be sufficient.
function of this wheelchair ramp.
providing access to a skating rink seems appropriate in this case.
Picture 2 has disappeared from the list.
Here we have entered the description we used for the alt text into the caption.
wheelchair ramp would be adequate for describing this item.
refer to caption or refer to preceding text.
when reaching that image, not knowing if they are missing crucial content.
Therefore, it is important not to leave the Description field blank for an image.
Let's look at one more unlabeled image, Picture 1.
reinforces the theme of design.
Therefore, we could could use alt text to identify it as decorative image.
other strategies for making tables more accessible.


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Spotted in Old Compton Street, Soho. PICTURE: Kevin Grieve/Unsplash
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10 disease-related memorials in London…1. The Broad Street pump…
by exploringlondon June 17, 2020
With 2020 to be sadly remembered as the year of COVID-19 (and St Paul's plans to commemorate those who have died in a permanent memorial in the cathedral), we thought we'd take a look memorials and monuments related to disease outbreaks of the past.
First up is a pump in Soho, a replica of the original Broad Street hand pump which lay at the centre of a cholera outbreak in 1854. Its commemorates the efforts of Dr John Snow, whose work in mapping the course of the outbreak lead to him identifying the pump as the source of the outbreak with the well beneath contaminated by human waste from an old cesspit.
The Yorkshire-born doctor's work, which subsequently led him to have the pump handle removed and thus prevent further spread of the disease, was a breakthrough in preventing the spread of cholera by showing the source was contaminated water (many people had previously thought was spread through the air, the so-called "miasma theory").
The replica pump was installed in what is now Broadwick Street, just outside The John Snow pub, in 1992 at the behest of the John Snow Society and Westminster Council. It was removed in 2015 as the area was redeveloped and was then re-installed – along with an explanatory plaque – in 2018.
It stands alongside a red granite block in the pavement which is said to mark the exact spot where the original pump was located (there's another plaque mentioning that on the pub).
There's also a blue plaque on the pub commemorating Snow's work to determine cholera was a water-born disease which was erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2008.
PICTURE: The memorial pump with the John Snow pub behind and the Royal Society of Chemistry blue plaque (Matt Brown/licensed under CC BY 2.0)
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London Pub Signs – The Sun and 13 Cantons…
by exploringlondon March 16, 2020 March 16, 2020
This unusually named Soho pub dates from the late 19th century although there is said to have been a pub here in the corner of Great Pulteney and Beak Streets since at least 1756.
The name relates to the fact that a significant Swiss population was once based in the area.
The pub was previously known as The Sun but that was destroyed by fire. When the rebuilt premises opened in 1882, '13 Cantons' was added to the name as a tribute to its many Swiss patrons (the Old Swiss Confederacy consisted of 13 cantons, although the number had grown past that in the early 19th century).
During the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, the now Grade II-listed pub became associated with the film and television industry which had made Soho its home – among those said to have patronised it were directors like Alan Parker and Ridley Scott as well as actors like Oliver Reed, Peter O'Toole and, more recently, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Russell Crowe and Gemma Arterton.
The pub has also hosted DJ nights in the basement bar in the late Nineties – Carl Cox and the Dust Brothers (which became the Chemical Brothers) were among those who worked their magic here.
The pub, which has recently undergone a refurbishment, is now part of the Fullers Group. For more, see www.sunand13cantons.co.uk.
PICTURES: Jim Linwood (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
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LondonLife – Gertrude Bell and Ronnie Scott commemorated…
Gertrude Bell – an adventurer, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat (who was at least partially responsible for the creation of the nation of Iraq) – has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on the Chelsea home that served as her London based for some 40 years. The three storey Georgian residence at 95 Sloane Street (pictured) belonged to Lady Olliffe, the mother of Bell's step-mother Florence. Bell, who spent much of her time in the Middle East, used the home as her London base between 1884, when she graduated from Queen's College, through to her last visit to London in 1925, including during an extended period in 1915 when she managed the Red Cross's Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department's office in Arlington Street. Meanwhile, jazz musician Ronnie Scott has also been honoured with a Blue Plaque which marks the site of his first club in Soho. Scott and fellow saxophonist Pete King opened jazz club in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street in Chinatown on 30th October, 1959 – 60 years ago this year. The club remained there for six years before moving to 47 Frith Street in 1965. Musicians including Zoot Sims, Johnny Griffin, Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, Benny Golson, Ben Webster, and Al Cohn all performed at the club while patrons included Harold Pinter, the Beatles, Peter O'Toole, and Spike Milligan. For more on English Heritage Blue Plaques, visit www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/. PICTURE: Google Maps
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What's in a name?…Great Windmill Street…
by exploringlondon October 21, 2019
This West End thoroughfare obviously, now associated with London's nightlife, owes its name to a windmill which once stood in the vicinity.
The windmill stood for at least 100 years before it was demolished in the late 17th or early 18th century – the rural land on which it stood was known as Windmill fields.
As the area now known as Soho was developed, the street, which runs between Brewer Street and Coventry Street (albeit split into two sections by Shaftesbury Avenue), was gradually constructed and by the early 1680s both sides of it had been developed.
Famous residents include the Scottish anatomist and physician William Hunter, who, built a large house at number 16 in 1767 which featured an anatomical theatre, dissecting rooms, library and museum. It now forms part of the Lyric Theatre and is recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque.
An upstairs room in the former Red Lion pub, located on the corner with Archer Street, is famous for being where Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were asked to write a program of action for the Communist League, published in 1848 as The Communist Manifesto.
Meanwhile, the former Windmill Theatre, which first opened in the 1930s and famously "never closed" during the Blitz, was known for its "Windmill Girls" in which nude girls posed motionless in what were known as "tableaux vivants", has long been associated with risqué entertainment. The establishment was owned by Laura Henderson, the subject of the 2005 film starring Dame Judi Dench, Mrs Henderson Presents.
The street is also home to the Trocadero complex, originally built in 1896 as a restaurant by J Lyons and Co – of Lyon's Corner Houses fame – to cater for theatre crowds on the site of what had been the Argyll Assembly Rooms, an establishment which become notorious as a meeting place for prostitutes and their customers. The Trocadero was redeveloped in the 1980s into a shopping and entertainment complex. There are now plans to build a hotel on the site.
Other landmarks include the Soho Parish School – the only school in Soho – which, located at number 23, traces its origins back to 1699 as well as St James Tavern, said to be built in the late 1890s on the site of an earlier tavern, The Catherine Wheel.
View down Great Windmill Street with The Lyric pub on the right and the former Windmill Theatre on the left (Pedro Szekely/licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)
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10 (more) historic London garden squares…2. Golden Square…
by exploringlondon September 18, 2019
This Soho square was laid out in the late 17th century, possibly by Sir Christopher Wren, and by the early 1700s most of the buildings surrounding the square were complete.
The name of the square is said to be a corruption of 'gelding' – the area, once apparently known as Gelding Close, was previously used for the grazing of geldings (there's also a story that the gelding was featured on a nearby inn sign which locals objected to, renaming it 'golden').
It was, at first, the place to be among the well-to-do – among early residents were Barbara Villiers, the Duchess of Cleveland and mistress of King Charles II, James Bridges, who became the 1st Duke of Chandos, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, a favourite of Queen Anne.
By the mid 18th century, however, the trendy crowd had moved to developments further west and the square subsequently became noted for the high number of foreign delegations which made their base here, including those of Bavaria, Russia, Genoa and Portugal, as well as foreign artists including Swiss painter Angelica Kauffmann – the first female member of the Royal Academy, and Anglo-Irish painter (and later Royal Academy president) Martin Archer Shee.
Other famous residents have included dancer Elizabeth Gamberini, singer Caterina Gabrielli and Scottish anatomist John Hunter (his former home is one of two marked with English Heritage Blue Plaques in the square). Thomas Jefferson, later a US president, stayed in Golden Square during March and April, 1786, in his only visit to London.
A couple of houses in the square – then occupied by the Bavarian minister Count Haslang – were attacked during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots. These properties were bought by James Talbot, the Roman Catholic Bishop for London, in 1788, so the Roman Catholic Church in Warwick Street could be build in the gardens behind.
The square had deteriorated somewhat by the time Charles Dickens placed it in his late 1830s story Nicholas Nickleby as the home of Ralph Nickleby, and it become the location of numerous boarding houses and small hotels as well as various professionals.
By 1900 the square had become closely connected with the wool trade with as many as 70 firms connected with it located here. Several such firms are apparently still located here but the square is better known these days for companies associated with the movie business.
The middle of the square was dug up for an air raid shelter in World War II but it was paved afterwards and the statue of King George II, attributed to John Van Nost and erected here in 1753 as part of beautification project (it has been suggested the statue actually represents King Charles II but that remains a matter of conjecture), returned to its place in the middle.
None of the original houses now remain but there are a number of residences which still have at least elements dating from late 18th century rebuilds including numbers 11, 21, 23 and 24.
PICTURE: Top – David Iliff (licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0); Right – David Adams; Below – RozSheffield (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Where's London's oldest…French patisserie?
by exploringlondon September 9, 2019
The oldest existing French patisserie in London is said to be Maison Bertaux, based in Greek Street in Soho.
The premises, where you can still indulge in delights including eclairs, croissants and delectable fruit tarts, was founded in 1871 by one Monsieur Bertaux, apparently a French communard from Paris.
It lies at the heart of what was then the city's French community and located at number 28, stands next door to another Soho landmark, the Coach and Horses pub.
Bertaux apparently ran the business until 1909 and it's since passed through a number of hands with current owners, sisters Michele and Tania Wade, reported as having taken over in 1988.
Famous patrons have reportedly included writers Virginia Woolf and Karl Marx, actors Steve McQueen and Nicole Kidman, artist Grayson Perry and musician Bob Geldof. The patisserie also famously made Lily Allen's wedding cake and hosted the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen's 25th birthday party.
Bastille Day celebrations are, of course, a highlight of the year.
For more, see www.maisonbertaux.com.
PICTURE: Google Maps.
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London Pub Signs – The Blue Posts…
by exploringlondon January 7, 2019
This Soho pub, located not far from Piccadilly Circus, takes its name from the blue posts which once stood out front.
A pub is believed to have stood on this site at 28 Rupert Street – now in Chinatown – since at least 1739 and is believed to have been updated substantially in about 1850. While the blue posts themselves are long gone, the building itself is now painted blue.
It has been suggested that the blue posts were simply placed out the front to mark the pub's location before street numbering systems were introduced – as in, "it's the place with the blue posts out the front", but there are a number of other suggestions for the origins of the name.
One is that the blue posts were used as border markers for the royal hunting ground which once stood or Soho. Another, perhaps more likely than the aforementioned, that they marked locations where you could hire sedan chairs from in times gone by.
Whatever the reason for its name, this small, Grade II-listed pub, which is located on the corner with Rupert Close, underwent a complete transformation in early 2018 by the team behind the Israeli eatery, The Palomar.
As well as a small pub in ground floor of the building, it also boasts a cocktail lounge on the upper floor called the Mulwray (apparently named for the character, Evelyn Mulwray, played by Faye Dunaway in the movie Chinatown) and a small restaurant in the cellar called Evelyn's Table (another Chinatown reference).
The Rupert Street establishment is one of several pubs with the same name in West End – others include one located nearby in Berwick Street, another in Newman Street, and yet another in Bennet Street in St James's. And that's just those in near proximity. So whatever the blue posts represented, it was clearly a relatively common feature in the area.
For more, see http://theblueposts.co.uk.
PICTURE: Ewan Munro (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)
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10 sites from Mary Shelley's London…10. Memorials to Percy Bysshe Shelley…
And so we come to the final in our series looking at London sites which tell part of the story of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein, the book which this year marks its 200th anniversary. Of course, one of the most influential figures in her life was her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, so to finish the series, we're taking a quick look at three sites memorialising him in London…
1. Poland Street, Soho. Shelley lived at number 15 after he was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for publishing a pamphlet on atheism. He wasn't here long – in August he eloped with Harriet Westbrook, then just 16, to Scotland. The building, which stands on the corner with Noel Street, features an English Heritage Blue Plaque and there's a massive mural on its side, Ode to the West Wind, which takes its name from a poem he wrote in 1819. It was painted by Louise Vines in 1989. PICTURE: Google Maps.
2. Broadwick Street, Soho. The impressive Spirit of Soho mural on the corner with Carnaby Street was created in 1991 and restored in 2006. It features the images of numerous famous figures from the district's history. As well as the likes of Casanova and Marx, Shelley also features – located a couple of people to the right of Casanova (here seen in red) at the base of the mural's central panel. PICTURE: Dun.can (image cropped; licensed under CC BY 2.0)
3. Westminster Abbey. There's no memorial to Mary Shelley in Westminster Abbey but in Poet's Corner – located in the South Transept – you will find a small memorial to her husband. The joint memorial (which also commemorates John Keats) was designed by sculptor Frank Dobson and unveiled in 1954 by then Poet Laureate John Masefield. It simply features two plaques – one bearing the name Shelley and the other Keats with their birth and death years – linked by a "swag of flowers" attached to a lyre at the top of each plaque.
And that brings and end to our series on Mary Shelley's London (although, of course there are still more sites associated with Shelley to explore!) . We'll recap the series next week before launching our next Wednesday special series…
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London Pub Signs – The French House…
by exploringlondon February 5, 2018
Opened in 1891 (albeit under a different name), this Soho institution was apparently founded by a German couple named Schmitt who ran it until the outbreak of World War I.
It was then sold to Belgian chef Victor Berlemont and it's at this point that some say the name, previously said to have been the Wine House, was changed to the York Minister (although there seems to be a bit of confusion about when the name changed).
Its French associations, meanwhile. were given a big boost during World War II when General Charles de Gaulle and Free French Army officers, in London following the fall of France, made it their HQ. In fact, some say that it was in this pub that de Gaulle wrote his famous speech against the Vichy settlement.
While it was often informally called the "French pub" thereafter, the name didn't officially change until it reopened after a fire in 1984.
M Berlemont's son Gaston, meanwhile, had succeeded his father in running the pub many years earlier – there's a story that when he walked into the pub after World War II, still dressed in his uniform, his father handed over the keys and left him to it. A well-loved Soho identity, the moustachioed Gaston remained at the helm until 1989 when the pub passed into the hands of some French House regulars.
Located at 49 Dean Street, The French House is known for its Bohemian links, particularly with the literary and artistic set. Dylan Thomas is said to have accidentally left his handwritten manuscript Under Milk Wood here while others associated with the pub include Irish poet and playwright Brendan Behan, artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, writer John Mortimer (of Rumpole fame) and actor Tom Baker (of Dr Who fame).
For more, see www.frenchhousesoho.com.
PICTURE: Tom (licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Exploring London's 10 most popular (new) posts of 2017 – Numbers 6 and 5…
by exploringlondon December 29, 2017
The countdown continues…
6. 10 (more) fictional character addresses in London – 8. A square in Soho?…
5. What's in a name?…Hanging Sword Alley…
Come back tomorrow for the next two…
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And so we begin our annual countdown of the 10 most popular (new) posts of the year, starting with number 10…
10. 10 (more) fictional character addresses in London – 3. 32 Brett Street, Soho…
9. 10 (more) fictional character addresses in London – 1. Fetter Lane, Old Jewry and Wapping…
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What's in a name?…Greek Street…
The moniker of this Soho street owes its origins to the Greek Orthodox Church – London's first – which was built in the area following an influx of Greeks in the 17th century.
The street was laid out in the 1670-80s and along with taverns, coffee houses and tradesmen's workshops, also had some aristocratic tenants such as the 5th Earl of Anglesey. Casanova stayed in the street when visiting in 1764 and writer Thomas de Quincey, author of Confessions of an Opium-Eater, also lodged here temporarily.
Other tenants have included Josiah Wedgwood who had a warehouse and showrooms here from 1774 to 1797. Number 1, the House of St Barnabas, was once the home of twice Lord Mayor of London, William Beckford, and also the location where Sir Joseph Bazalgette commenced work on designing the city's famed sewer system (it was then the offices of the Westminster Commissioners Sewers). It's now a private members club.
The church, meanwhile, was soon taken over by the French Protestants who came into the area and eventually demolished in 1936. A remnant of the church, an inscription which was once embedded in the wall of the church, was salvaged and apparently taken to the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Sophia in Bayswater.
Current premises based in the street include pubs like the Pillars of Hercules (number 7) and Coach and Horses (number 29) as well as establishments such as The Gay Hussar restaurant (number 2) and French patisserie Maison Bertaux (number 28).
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10 (more) fictional character addresses in London – 8. A square in Soho?…
by exploringlondon March 22, 2017
In Robert Louis Stevenson's famous 1886 story, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,the address of the home of Dr Henry Jekyll (and his alter-ego Mr Edward Hyde) is simply given as a square in Soho – then a rather seedy district.
Dr Jekyll is said to have bought the property from the heirs of a "celebrated surgeon". Like the man himself, the house has two characters and features a "blistered and distained" rear entrance used by the dastardly Mr Hyde.
In a BBC Scotland documentary broadcast several years ago, author Ian Rankin identified the house in which Jekyll and Hyde lived as being based on that which pioneering Scottish surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-1793) lived in on the east side of Leicester Square.
Hunter leased both the property at 28 Leicester Square (the present number 28 – the ground floor of which is a pub – is pictured) and another behind it (it fronted onto what was then Castle Street) in the 1780s. He then spent a good deal of money joining the two properties together, creating a complex of rooms which included space for his thousands of specimens (now in the Hunterian Museum) as well as an anatomy theatre. It was at the rear Castle Street entrance that he apparently received human cadavers, brought by so-called "resurrection men" for dissection.
The dualistic nature of the property fits with that of Jekyll and Hyde and while Leicester Square isn't usually considered part of Soho, it's at the least very close by.
"In the book, Stevenson gives a detailed description of the layout of Dr Jekyll's home," Rankin said in the documentary. "It is identical to John Hunter's."
He added that, despite Hunter's "fame and respectability" – he was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to King George III and was one of London's most sought-after doctors, "Hunter still demanded a constant supply of cadavers for his growing anatomy collection and teaching".
"Naturally Hunter's new home, in Leicester Square, was purpose-built for a surgeon's double life." Or for the respectable Dr Jekyll and brutish Mr Hyde.
Interestingly, the previous owner of Dr Jekyll's home us said to have been a Dr Denman – there was a Dr Thomas Denman who was a contemporary of John Hunter who was a pioneering obstetrician.
The Leicester Square property later became the site of the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art (more of that in an upcoming Lost London post).
PICTURE: Top – Number 28 Leicester Square as it is today/Google Maps; Below – A ground floor plan of John Hunter's residence made in 1792 (drawn in 1832) © Wellcome Images/CC BY 4.0
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Famous Londoners – Mary Seacole…
by exploringlondon February 20, 2017
Immortalised in a statue in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital on South Bank last year, Mary Seacole is the first named black woman to have a memorial statue made in her image in London.
Mary Jane Seacole (nee Grant) was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, the daughter of a Scottish army lieutenant, James Grant, and a mixed-race Jamaican woman who kept a boarding house for invalid soldiers. She was taught traditional medicine by her mother from a young age and travelled extensively, visiting other parts of the Caribbean including Cuba and Haiti as well as Britain – staying in London for about a year around 1821, during which she added to her knowledge of medicine.
In 1836, she married merchant Edwin Seacole (he was the godson of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson – some rumours have it that he was actually his illegitimate son) but he died only eight years later in 1844. She subsequently spent some time in Central America – opening a 'hotel' there and aiding in the response to an outbreak of yellow fever – before returning to Jamaica where she apparently provided nursing services at the British Army HQ in Kingston.
In 1854, Seacole returned to England and, amid reports of the hardships soldiers were facing in the Crimean War which had broken out the year before, asked the War Office to send her to the Crimea as an army nurse. She was refused on multiple occasions (some say because of her race; others because she was too late to join the teams of nurses that were sent) and so she headed to Crimea herself.
There, she founded the British Hotel near Balaclava which provided food, quarters and medical care for sick and convalescent officers. She also apparently rode out to the front line of battle where she cared for the sick and wounded and such was her fame that Mary became known as 'Mother Seacole', earning a reputation said to rival that of Florence Nightingale.
Seacole returned to England after the war in ill health and poverty and apparently such was her renown that a benefit festival was held in her honour in July, 1857, to raise funds for her to live on. That same year she published her memoir, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands.
Seacole returned to Jamaica in the early 1860s but was back in London by 1870. She died at her home in Paddington of 'apoplexy' on 14th May, 1881, and was buried in Kensal Green.
In 2004, Seacole was ranked the greatest Black Briton in an online poll. She has also been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque (located on her one-time residence at 14 Soho Square) and a City of Westminster Green Plaque in George Street on the Portman Estate.
The three metre high bronze statue of Mary, built through funds raised in a public appeal and installed using money granted by the government, is the work of sculptor Martin Jennings. It was unveiled by actress Baroness Floella Benjamin in June last year before a reported crowd of some 300.
A disk behind the statue is inscribed with the words of The Times' Crimean War correspondent Sir William Howard Russell, who wrote in 1857: "I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead."
Seacole remains somewhat of a controversial figure with some saying her recent fame has unfairly come at the expense of contemporary Florence Nightingale.
PICTURE: Matt Brown/Flickr/CC BY 2.0
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10 (more) fictional character addresses in London – 3. 32 Brett Street, Soho…
by exploringlondon February 8, 2017 February 8, 2017
The rather grim Adolf Verloc, the smut purveyor-come-spy and main protagonist of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (recently made into a BBC series starring Toby Jones), lives in a residence attached to a small shop in Soho.
The residence, where he lived with his wife Winnie, her mother and young, mentally affected brother Stevie, and shop, where he sold scandalous publications, photographs and other bric-a-brac, was located at 32 Brett Street in Soho.
Except there is no Brett Street in Soho.
While it has been suggested Conrad may have taken the name Brett Street from Brett Road in Hackney – near where Conrad had lodgings at one stage, it's also been put forward that Conrad based the streetscape on Irving Street (previously apparently known as Green Street) which runs between Leicester Square and Charing Cross Road (pictured above).
The street itself was named after actor Sir Henry Irving, whose statue stands at the junction with Charing Cross Road (pictured, it's located at the rear of The National Gallery), and is these days filled with eateries and cheap theatre ticket box offices aimed at tourists.
Conrad's book, which was set in 1886 but published in 1907, was loosely based around a bombing which took place in Greenwich in 1894.
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LondonLife – West End street scene…
Looking down Shaftesbury Avenue, the heart of London's Theatreland, in the West End. PICTURE: Pedro Szekely/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
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London Pub Signs – The Pillars of Hercules…
There's been a pub on the site of this Soho institution since before the 1700s, although the current building at 7 Greek Street is believed to date from the start of the 20th century.
The pub's name is an ancient one – it refers to two landmarks, the Rock of Gibraltar on the north side and Mount Hacho or Jebel Musa on the south side (there is apparently some dispute over which), that mark the entrance to the Mediterranean and are together known as the Pillars of Hercules. The name apparently comes from a legend that Hercules created the Strait of Gibraltar between them when pushed the two pillars apart apart and so separated Europe from Africa.
There's been several pubs in London which have borne this name although this particular premises does get a mention in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (a street which runs under the pub's archway is named after one of its characters, Dr Manette). There was apparently a similarly named tavern on the site of what is now Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner (that one gets a mention in Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling).
According to a sign on the pub, this Pillars of Hercules was also frequented by nineteenth century poet and cricket lower Francis Thompson, author of the poet The Hound of Heaven.
The current half-timbered pub – located just to the south of Soho Square – has apparently continued as a favoured locale for literary types. Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan are among more recent writers who have visited (along with Clive James who referred to it in the title of his collections of literary criticism, At the Pillars of Hercules).
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This Week in London – John Singer Sargent (and friends); Chinese New Year in Soho; and, 'Cravings' at the Science Museum…
• A major exhibition of the works of John Singer Sargent has opened at the National Portrait Gallery off Trafalgar Square this week. Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends – which has been organised in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – brings together a collection of the artist's intimate and informal portraits of his friends including Robert Louis Stevenson, Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin. Sargent (1856-1925), born the son of an American doctor in Florence, studied in Italy and France before scandal led him to move to England where he established himself as the country's leading portrait painter. He made several visits to the US during his career, painting portraits as well as decorative paintings for public buildings including the Boston Public Library and Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition runs until 25th May. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.npg.org.uk. PICTURE: Courtesy of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
• It's Chinese New Year and the celebrations kick off in London's Chinatown in Soho this Sunday. The day starts with a parade at 10am which runs from Duncannon Street to Shaftesbury Avenue featuring floats and Chinese lion and dragon teams. It will be followed by a free programme of events in Trafalgar Square which, starting at noon, include music, dance, acrobatics and martial arts. Other events are taking place at a range of locations across the West End. For more information, check out www.london.gov.uk/get-involved/events/chinese-new-year-2015.
• Ever wondered how your appetite is shaped by food? A new free exhibition at the Science Museum in South Kensington, Cravings: Can Your Food Control You? explores how the brain, 'gut brain' and bacteria influence our diets. Along with personal stories and objects as well as the use of science and tech to present the display, those who attend the exhibition will also be able to take part in a ground-breaking neurogastronomy experiment to explore how our senses influence appetite (the experiment is also available online – follow the link below). There's also a digital quiz where you can consider the ethical challenges that cravings, appetite control and food regulations pose. Runs until January next year. For more, see www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cravings.
• The history of the Foundling Hospital's Boy's Band is the subject of a display at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury. Foundlings at War: Military Bands is part of a series of exhibits supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund exploring the hospital's links with the military. The Boy's Band was established in 1847 and boys who joined increasingly went on to serve in the military. Runs until 10th May. For more, see www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk.
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What's in a name?…Limehouse
This part of East London is believed to take its name not from lime trees nor from a house bearing that name. Rather it owes its origins to the process by which chalk shipped from Kent was converted into lime.
The process of 'lime burning' – which took place in these parts on the northern bank of the River Thames – involves heating the chalk in a bottle-shaped kiln, also known as an oast. Hence 'lime oast' became corrupted into Limehouse.
The earliest reference to the name comes from the early medieval era but in later centuries the area was noted not so much for its lime-burning but its links with shipping – particularly following the opening on the Limehouse Cut in 1770 which linked the Thames with the River Lea and allowed goods to taken from the north of London directly to ships on the Thames without the need to navigate around the Isle of Dogs (see our earlier post on the Limehouse Cut). Limehouse Basin (pictured above, from the Limehouse Cut) opened in the early 19th century.
The area, which became increasingly industrialised as a result, is also known for its links to the Chinese community – and this included, in the Victorian era, opium dens, but the association ended around the 1950s by which time the Chinese community had largely moved to Soho (where Chinatown still stands today).
Among the area's most prominent buildings are the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed church, St Anne's Limehouse (pictured), and the historic pub, The Grapes.
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These tireless dogs will happily get in among thorns or enter icy water if it means getting the job done.
Naturally sociable, docile and patient, Spinone Italianos are skillful hunters on any terrain. They are excellent retrievers as well as pointers and move quickly with an extended trot.
In a survey of dog lovers in Italy, the Spinone Italiano came out as an ideal companion dog, which takes nothing away from its hunting skills.


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CATHERINE AMSLER vs. CITY OF QUINCY.
Present: RUGG, C.J., PIERCE, FIELD, LUMMUS, & QUA, JJ.
Notice. Evidence, Of notice, Letter.
Findings, warranted by evidence, that a notice under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, §§ 18, 19, as amended, sent by registered mail to a city clerk and delivered by the post office to the city messenger "sometime after" 8:59 A.M., and by him at the office of the city clerk the same day warranted a further finding that it was received by the city clerk on that day, although it bore the city clerk's office stamp stating delivery on the next day.
TORT. Writ in the District Court of East Norfolk dated April 12, 1934.
The action was heard by Mulhall, J., who found for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,000. A report to the Appellate Division for the Southern District was ordered dismissed. The defendant appealed.
J. D. Smith, City Solicitor, for the defendant.
O. A. Gallagher, for the plaintiff.
FIELD, J. This action of tort was brought in the District Court. The plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries sustained by her on February 3, 1934, by reason of a defective condition of a sidewalk on a public way in the city of Quincy "together with an icy condition". There was a finding for the plaintiff and a report to the Appellate Division. From an order of the Appellate Division dismissing the report the defendant appealed.
The only matter in controversy is whether "notice of the time, place and cause" of the plaintiff's injury was given seasonably. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 18, as amended by St. 1933, c. 114, § 1, provides that a "person so injured shall, within ten days thereafter . . . give to the . . . city . . . notice . . . ." G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 84, § 19, as amended by St. 1933, c. 114, § 2, provides that "Such notice shall be in writing . . . and may be given, in the case of a . . . city, to the mayor, the city clerk or treasurer . . . ."
The report sets out a "Finding" of the trial judge which, according to the report, "contains, by agreement of the parties, a statement of all of the evidence and facts material to the determination of the issues raised." In this "Finding" the following statements appear: "The notice was proper in form and content . . . . The attorney representing the plaintiff deposited and registered the piece of mail containing the notice at a post office in Boston on February 12, 1934, properly directed and addressed to the city clerk of the city of Quincy. This piece of mail was received at the Quincy post office at about 6:40 A.M. on February 13, 1934, and was delivered to Harry W. Tirrell, the city messenger, at the Quincy post office at some time after 8:59 A.M. on the same day. Tirrell signed and receipted for this registered piece of mail, which contained the notice, in behalf of the city clerk on February 13, 1934. The Quincy post office is located in the same general vicinity as the city hall where the city clerk has his office. Tirrell has been city messenger for forty-seven years, and it is part of his duties to collect at the Quincy post office the ordinary mail and to sign for and receive registered pieces of mail for all of the city departments. His practice was to return to City Hall,
sort the mail, and deliver it on the same day to the different departments. This has been his practice for forty-seven years.
"The notice . . . bears a stamp that it was received by the city clerk on February 14, 1934, at 10:20 A.M. Emery L. Crane, the city clerk, has no personal recollection as to when the notice was received. In his office the stamping of notices is a routine matter and may be handled either by himself, his assistant, or any one of three employees. Crane has been city clerk for twenty-four years and during his term of office the city messenger has signed for, received and delivered registered and ordinary mail that was directed to Crane as city clerk.
"1. I find . . . 7. That by virtue of custom in receiving mail by the city of Quincy . . . the delivery to the city messenger constituted delivery to the city clerk. 8. By inference I find that the notice was received in the office of the city clerk on February 13, 1934."
The appeal brings before this court for consideration only rulings of law made by the trial judge and reported by him to the Appellate Division and questions of law touching the action of the Appellate Division thereon. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231, §§ 108, 109. MacDonald v. Adamian, 294 Mass. 187, 190. These rulings are set out in a footnote. [Note p117]
The ruling requested by the defendant that there "is no evidence that either the mayor, city treasurer or city clerk received sufficient notice of the time, place and cause of the alleged injury" was denied rightly. The sufficiency of notice is attacked only on the ground that the notice referred to in the "Finding" was not received by the city clerk within ten days after the plaintiff's injury on February 3, 1934. There was, however, evidence from which the trial judge properly could infer -- as he did infer -- "that the notice was received in the office of the city clerk on February 13, 1934." The evidence was ample that this notice was received by the city messenger on that day and that at some time it reached the office of the city clerk. From this evidence and, in connection therewith, the evidence that the notice was received at the post office about 6:40 A.M. on February 13, 1934, and that the post office "is located in the same general vicinity as the city hall where the city clerk has his office," and the evidence of the duties of the city messenger and of his long continued practice after collecting mail to "return to City Hall, sort the mail, and deliver it on the same day to the different departments," the inference was warranted that in the regular course of business he delivered the notice at the office of the city clerk on February 13, 1934. Swampscott Machine Co. v. Rice, 159 Mass. 404, 406. Prudential Trust Co. v. Hayes, 247 Mass. 311, 314-315. Such a finding was not precluded by the evidence that the notice was stamped in that office on the next day. And a finding of such delivery at the office by a messenger whose duty it was to collect mail for the city clerk warranted a further finding that the notice was received by the city clerk on the day of its delivery at his office. McCabe v. Cambridge, 134 Mass. 484, 487. McCarthy v. Dedham, 188 Mass. 204, 206. Janse v. Boston, 201 Mass. 348, 349-350. See also Shea v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 173 Mass. 177, 179.
The specific finding of receipt of the notice "in the office of the city clerk on February 13, 1934," obviously does not rest on the other specific finding that "the delivery to the city messsenger constituted delivery to the city clerk,"
and is not vitiated by the latter finding, even if -- as we need not decide -- the latter finding was not warranted by the evidence or was erroneous in law. The requests for rulings granted and denied by the trial judge, other than the requested ruling already considered, were directed to the effect of delivery of the notice to the city messenger independent of receipt thereof in the office of the city clerk. They were rendered immaterial by the warranted finding that the notice was so received on February 13, 1934. Whether or not these requested rulings stated the law correctly the disposition made of them was not prejudicial to the defendant.
Order dismissing report affirmed.
[Note p117] The report states that "the plaintiff made the following requests for rulings: 1. The receipt of a notice by mail is a ministerial function or duty which may be delegated by the city clerk to the city messenger. 2. The city messenger . . . was acting as the servant, agent or delegate of the city clerk in receiving the notice at the post office and signing the receipt for the same in behalf of the city clerk. 3. The notice was received by the city clerk, within the meaning and intent of the statute as soon as it was taken into the physical possession of the city messenger from the post office in the city clerk's behalf and by his direction or with his approval. Said requests numbered 1 and 3 . . . for rulings were allowed . . . and request numbered 2 was 'allowed in so far as the city messenger was acting as a delegate of the city clerk'.
"The defendant submitted several requests for rulings, of which the following were denied . . . with a reference to the finding of the court on requests numbered 11 and 12. 8. There is no evidence that either the mayor city treasurer or city clerk received sufficient notice of the time, place and cause of the alleged injury. 11. Delivery of a notice under #18 and #19 c. 84 G. L. to the city messenger is not notice to the city clerk, mayor or treasurer. 12. The evidence shows that the city messenger was a clerk to collect the mail, but not an agent to act as deputy of the city clerk to receive notices and other documents in his stead."


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Is there a place for nature conservation in the Transkei?
M.M. Ntloko
Koedoe | Supplement | a1282 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v20i2.1282	| © 1977 M.M. Ntloko | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 09 December 1977 | Published: 10 December 1977
M.M. Ntloko, Republic of Transkei
The Republic of the Transkei is situated in the south-east of the Republic of South Africa and is bounded by the Cape Province, Natal, Lesotho and the Indian Ocean. The area of the country is some 43 200 km2, almost as large as Denmark and twice the size of Wales. It is a country made up of mountainous regions along the Lesotho border and the rest is made up mostly of rolling hills with deep river valleys. It is a summer rainfall region ranging between 500 mm and 1300 mm per year and thus the country may be termed well watered. Climatic conditions may be described as temperate with occasional frosts during the worst winter months.


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Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff (1749-1827) fue un diplomático y estadista austriaco. Entre 1787 y 1789 fue Ministro plenipotenciario de los Países Bajos Austriacos, gobernando en nombre del emperador José II.

Biografía
Ferdinand nació en Viena el 12 de enero de 1749, siendo miembro de la familia noble de Trauttsmandorff. Estudió en la Universidad de Viena y sirvió en el Reichskammergericht en Wetzlar. En 1772, contrajo matrimonio con Marie Caroline von Colloredo (1752-1832). A la muerte de su hermano en 1774, se convirtió en jefe de la familia, y conde y príncipe de Trauttmansdorff.

En 1780, fue seleccionado ministro austríaco en Regensburg, y en 1785 embajador imperial en al Arzobispado Electoral de Maguncia. En 1787, fue elegido ministro plenipotenciario del emperador en los Países Bajos Austríacos, efectivamente jefe de gobierno.

Llegó a Bruselas en octubre de 1787. Su mandato era impulsar las innovaciones que José II había determinado y que el anterior ministro plenipotenciario, el Conde Ludovico de Belgiojoso, se había visto obligado a retirar. En su celo por ejecutar la política imperial, Trauttmansdorff llevó a cabo un golpe de Estado el 18 de junio de 1789, rescindiendo los antiguos privilegios del condado de Hainaut, decretando la abolición del Concejo de Brabante, y encarcelando arbitrariamente muchos de los opositores de la política gubernamental. Su comportamiento dictatorial precipitó la Revolución de Brabante. El Conde Richard d'Alton, comandante general de las Fuerzas Imperiales en los Países Bajos Austriacos estaba en contra de tales drásticas reformas y las desaconsejó. En noviembre, empezó a ofrecer concesiones y a reconocer antiguas libertades, pero era demasiado tarde para detener el rechazo revolucionario a la autoridad austriaca. El 14 de diciembre de 1789, Trauttmansdorff huyó de Bruselas a Luxemburgo. Su correspondencia secreta con José II mientras era ministro plenipotenciario fue publicada en 1902.

Reingresó en el servicio imperial en 1793, siendo elegido Canciller para los Países Bajos en Viena. Acompañó al emperador Francisco II a Bruselas para su recepción como gobernante durante la breve restauración austriaca de 1793-1794.

Obras
Fragments pour servir à l'histoire des évenements qui se sont passés aux Pays-Bas depuis la fin de 1787 jusqu'en 1789 (Ámsterdam, 1790).

Referencias

Políticos de Austria del siglo XVIII
Diplomáticos de Austria
Diplomáticos del siglo XVIII
Ministros plenipotenciarios
Fallecidos en Viena
Políticos de Austria del siglo XIX


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Binge time: SBS On Demand offering 400 movies for free
By Rob Edwards 02 October 2014
Renting is so passe
400 movies at your fingertips
In a move that could hasten the final nail in the local video store's coffin and make IPTV providers nervous, SBS has announced that its SBS On Demand service will now boast a library of 400 movies.
You can spend your home entertainment pennies elsewhere, as the films are completely free, available for up to 12 months, and cater to a wide range of tastes.
Thrillers, comedies, and those naughty films SBS is infamous for are all ready to go right now, although we suspect Michael Bay fans may still choose to look elsewhere.
They're easy to access as well, with apps for Android, iOS, smart TVs and video game consoles. For a full list of SBS On Demand access points head to the SBS website.
The move follows the Film Festival of 100 Clicks back in March, when SBS experimented by offering 100 movies online. It was so successful that SBS has chosen to quadruple the library.
With 400 films to choose from are you unsure where to begin? If you're yet to see Pan's Labyrinth we think that's a good place to start.
Not sure where to access SBS On Demand? Why not check it out on Telstra's T-Box.
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"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Recession in Historical Perspective"
On April 2, 2009, J. Alfred Broaddus, former president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, and Paul A. Levengood, VHS president and CEO, discussed the current recession in the context of previous economic downturns in American history.
"One Nation Under Debt"
On September 4, 2008, Robert E. Wright delivered a talk on his book One Nation Under Debt. The United States was born in debt. Was this obligation a vital tool for forging national unity, or a monstrous burden? In One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe, Robert E. Wright follows our nation's debt from the founding to the credit crisis of today. A compelling and witty storyteller, Wright shows how the past can illuminate current financial woes. Dr. Wright teaches history at New York University's Stern School of Business.
"The Business of Virginia Has Always Been Business"
On September 13, 2007, Paul A. Levengood delivered a talk, "The Business of Virginia Has Always Been Business," that traced spectacular successes and dismal failures. And on July 24, 2008, Dr. Levengood explored the transformation of the South in the twentieth century. Dr. Levengood is the author of Virginia: Catalyst of Commerce for Four Centuries.
November 14, 2008 - Preserving the Environment, One Document at a Time: Historical Society Receives Grant to Process Virginia Environmental Endowment Records
The VHS was recently awarded a $127,600 grant from the Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE) to organize, archive, and preserve records related to the VEE's role in the state's recent environmental history.
May 18, 2007 - Success! Campaign Exceeds Goal. Virginia Historical Society Closes 175th Anniversary: Home for History Campaign at $57 Million
A $288,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation helped the Virginia Historical Society exceed the goal of its $55 million 175th Anniversary: Home for History Campaign. A new wing, wiht an innovative long-term business history exhibition, was also part of the six-year fundraising endeavor.
2007 - Richmond Region Visitors Guide 2007 advertises Virginians at Work
Read the article here. (Used with permission of the Richmond Metroplitan Convention and Visitors Bureau)
July 20, 2006 - New Wing Named to Honor Virginia Historical Society President and CEO
The new wing—a $16 million endeavor that is part of the larger campaign—was dedicated and named in honor of Charles F. Bryan, Jr., president and CEO of the society. Chairman of the Board, E. Claiborne Robins, Jr., announced this decision made by the Board of Trustees and revealed a large sign that dedicates the wing.
July 19, 2006 - Working Hard or Hardly Working? New Exhibition at Virginia Historical Society Tells Story of Virginians at Work
By focusing on ordinary people, Virginians at Work will take the often abstract theory behind the study of economic history and make it viable and accessible to the visitor. Objects, photographs, oral histories, manuscripts, and multimedia stations help Virginians at Work tell the story of how people have made a living and why jobs in Virginia have changed.
May/June 2006 - Virginia Review Magazine article by Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Charles F. Bryan, Jr., VHS president and CEO, wrote an article entitled "New Facility Addition For Virginia Historical Society to Cap 175th Anniversary."
May 22, 2006 - Richmond Times-Dispatch article focuses on the RBHC
Greg Edward's article in the Metro Business section discusses the origins of the RBHC, its major challenges, notable collections, and future plans. Read the article here. (Used with permission of the Richmond Times-Dispatch)


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BEIJING — China's exports rose in 2020 despite pressure from the coronavirus and a tariff war with Washington, boosting its politically volatile trade surplus to $535 billion, one of the highest ever reported. Exports increased 3.6% over 2019 to $2.
Jan 13, 2021 9:50 PM By: The Canadian Press
Updated Jan 13, 2021 10:05 PM
BEIJING — China's exports rose in 2020 despite pressure from the coronavirus and a tariff war with Washington, boosting its politically volatile trade surplus to $535 billion, one of the highest ever reported.
December exports to the United States were $4.6 billion. Imports of American goods were $1.6 billion, giving China a $3 billion surplus.
"In 2020, China made outstanding achievements in foreign trade, which did not come easy," said a statement by the General Administration of Customs of China. It warned against complacency, saying the global economic situation "is still grave and complex."
China fell behind on meeting those commitments but started to catch up as demand rebounded.
China is on track to be the only major economy to grow in 2020 while activity in the United States, Europe and Japan falls.
The world's second-largest economy shrank by 6.8% from a year earlier in the first three months of 2020. Growth rebounded to 3.2% in the second quarter and accelerated to 4.9% in the three months ending in September.
Chinese imports are growing faster by volume than by value because prices of oil and other commodities sank after anti-virus curbs on travel and business depressed global demand.
General Administration of Customs of China (in Chinese): www.customs.gov.cn
Joe McDonald, The Associated Press
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A list of essentials based on my amazing trip to Hajj. Not all of the below essentials may be required. Some take a long the extras as a personal choice.
Slippers x 2 – Ensure these are suitable whilst in Ihram and comfortable. Keep a spare in your bag whilst travelling to Arafat and Muzdalifah. A pair of croc slippers were really comfortable.
Lightweight sleeping bag for Muzdalifah. A light mat will do but not going to be as comfortable. You can purchase a mat from Saudi, if you don't want to carry the sleeping bag around.
Additional drugs such as Paracetamol, diarrhoea tablets, Dioraltye sachets (excellent for replacing lost body salts), cough drops/medicine, energy tablets, E45 cream or any other cream for cracked heels. The chemists at Saudi sell a really good cream for cracked heels which was really effective.
Snacks which will be useful between journey from Mina and Arafat and Muzdalifah such as few packs of biscuits and other dry food items. Again, can purchase from Saudi, but i took some high energy snacks with me. There are also people selling food and drink at Muzdalifah and drinks and food is offered at Arafat. But double check with your tour guide.
Tea bags if you only use your favourite tea :). I loved the lipton tea available at most Saudi shops.
A cheap phone (Dual band). Buy yourself a Saudi sim whilst you are there. Recommended that all family purchase one and you store each others contact numbers. You can also take your smart phone along with you to connect to hotel wifi.
Pocket Namaz Masala or a light one to pack in your bag whilst journey to Arafat and Muzdalifah.
Pain relief spray or deep heat rub (for muscular pain). Just incase it's required but again the chemists there offer this and employees are mainly english speakers.
Emergency contact numbers and worth keeping a copy with each family member when out and about. Also worth keeping hotel card with you.
Some will take a small kettle/iron along with them. Washing and ironing services are provided by most hotels so no need really, unless you want to save the cost on ironing services. Most tour guide off wash and ironing services as part of Hajj package so worth checking.
Drinking water bottle. Avoid tapped water, stick to zam zam water ?


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