Taxobox name Cacomantis image Cacomantis flabelliformis.jpg image caption Cacomantis flabelliformis regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Cuculiformes familia Cuculidae genus Cacomantis genus authority Salomon M ller S. M ller , 1843 Cacomantis is a genus of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. The genus name is derived from the Greek kakos meaning evil or ill boding and mantis for prophet and is derived from their association with rains being supposed to be predict ill fortune and bad weather. Most of them have a round nostril and are mainly in brown and gray colours. The tails are graduated and barred. The bars are transverse in sonneratii and oblique in all others. ref name Payne Payne, RB 2005 . The Cuckoos. Oxford University Press. p. 422 ref It contains the following species Banded Bay Cuckoo , Cacomantis sonneratii Plaintive Cuckoo , Cacomantis merulinus Rusty breasted Cuckoo , Cacomantis sepulcralis Grey bellied Cuckoo , Cacomantis passerinus Brush Cuckoo , Cacomantis variolosus Moluccan Cuckoo , Cacomantis heinrichi Chestnut breasted Cuckoo , Cacomantis castaneiventris Fan tailed Cuckoo , Cacomantis flabelliformis FieldianaZool31 571. The Pallid Cuckoo and White crowned Cuckoo are also sometimes placed in this genus. ref name Payne References reflist Category Cuculidae Cuculiformes stub br Cacomantis ca Cacomantis es Cacomantis eo Cacomantis fr Cacomantis it Cacomantis hu Cacomantis nl Cacomantis pl Cacomantis pt Cacomantis fi Pensask et ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2009 Infobox Indian Jurisdiction type village native name Chhuchhakwas other name ISLAMGARH district Jhajjar district Jhajjar state name Haryana nearest city DADRI parliament const assembly cons civic agency skyline NO skyline caption NO latd 28.583203 latm lats longd 76.526341 longm longs locator position right area total area magnitude altitude population total population as of population density 2856 sex ratio literacy area telephone 01251 postal code 124106 vehicle code range HR 14 coastline 0 climate precip temp summer 40 temp winter 15 website Chhuchhakwas lang hi is a village in Jhajjar district lang hi of Haryana state, India having pincode 124106. ref http jhajjar.nic.in PINcodesjjr.aspx ref It is located at 2 4 hrs distance from the big cities Delhi , Gurgaon and Rohtak . It is enroute from Delhi to Dadri . Owns Police Chowkey Govt. School Gram Panchayat 4 to 5 Private Schools Cable Network Provider Citation needed date May 2009 Famous For R.E.D Sr. Sec. School Citation needed date May 2009 Tractor Trolley Manufacturers Citation needed date May 2009 For boding school Bikaneri sweets Rest House Building with a big pond talab which was constructed by a Muslim emperor Paramount school chhuchhakwas paramount nursing college paramount b.ed.,j.b.t. college References references Why do you talk about Talab. It has completely deteriorated with the passage of time. If anybody is concerned about the heritage left by our predecessors, one must come forward. This Talab can still be developed as a big picnic spot by repairing it. Even Village Chhuchhakwas can get much revenue by fish breeding inside it and boating as well. Category Villages in Jhajjar district Haryana geo stub ... more details
Infobox handball club clubname TMS Ringsted image fullname short name founded December 15, 1997 ground Ringsted Hallen capacity chairman manager league season position website colour1 green colour2 black pattern la1 pattern b1 unknown pattern ra1 pattern sh1 leftarm1 body1 rightarm1 shorts1 pattern la2 pattern b2 pattern ra2 pattern sh2 leftarm2 body2 rightarm2 shorts2 TMS Ringsted is a team handball handball club from Ringsted , Denmark . Currently, TMS Ringsted competes in the men s Danish Handball League . The home arena of the club is Ringsted Hallen . History The club was founded on December 15, 1997, when Vetterslev H m G.F and Ringsted IF merged their first teams to create the new club. TMS is an abbreviation for Team Midtsj lland Team central Zealand , the area in which Ringsted is located are affectionately known by locals and fans as the Ring Stingers. The club gained their first promotion to the Danish Handball League in 2003 and are currently coached by world renowned handball expert Jamie Agnew. 2008 09 Male Team class wikitable valign center NR. NAME NATIONALITY valign center 1 S ren Westphal Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 12 Brian J rgensen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 2 Mads Knutzon Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 4 Mikkel Nordholm Pedersen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 5 Thomas Boding Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 6 Benjamin Rasmussen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 7 Rune Poulsen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 8 Mads Christiansen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 9 Thorri Bj rn Gunnarsson Image Flag of Iceland.svg 30px Iceland valign center 10 Lars Agersted Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 11 Ulrik Knudsen Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 14 Kristian Meldgaard Image Flag of Denmark.svg 30px Denmark valign center 15 Rasmus Wegmann Image F ... more details
Refimprove date June 2010 Sonia Dresdel 5 May 1909 18 January 1976 was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s. She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea , East Riding of Yorkshire , England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls . Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim Citation needed date June 2010 . In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier. Her most noted role ref http www.answers.com topic sonia dresdel ref was that of Mrs. Baines in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene s The Fallen Idol film The Fallen Idol , which starred Ralph Richardson , Mich le Morgan and Bobby Henrey . The film received Academy Awards nominations for Academy Award for Directing Best Director Sir Carol Reed and Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Best Screenplay . She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66. Selected filmography The World Owes Me a Living 1945 as Eve Heatherley While I Live 1947 as Julia Trevelyan This Was a Woman 1948 The Fallen Idol film The Fallen Idol 1948 as Mrs. Baines The Clouded Yellow 1951 as Jess Fenton The Third Visitor 1951 The Secret Tent 1956 as Miss Mitchum Browne Now and Forever 1956 film Now and Forever 1956 Death Over My Shoulder 1958 The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1960 The Break 1963 film The Break 1963 George and the Dragon film George and the Dragon 1967 1968 as Priscilla Public Eye TV series Public Eye 1968 as Mrs. Briggs Dixon of Dock Green 1968 as Mrs. Dewar The Caesars TV series The Caesars 1968 as Livia The Man in the Iron Mask 1968 as Duchesse de Chevreuse Last of the Long haired Boys 1968 Boy Meets Girl 1967 TV series Boy Meets Girl 1968 as Principessa di San Fernande ITV Saturday Night Theatre 1969 as Miss Despencer Wicked Women 1970 as Mrs. Boding Bachelor Father UK TV series Bachelor Father 1970 1971 as Mother Paul Temple 1971 as Agnes Armadyne Wives and Daug ... more details
Chabad Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner born 1932 was the secretary to the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson for over 40 years. Following Schneerson s death there were press report in which he expressed opposition to Yudel Krinsky , the sole executor of Schneerson s will and a political opponent. ref Two of rabbi s secretaries seen as front runners to replace him , Knight Ridder, New York Daily News, June 12, 1994. ref Groner was instrumental in the care of the Rebbe during his final year when he was no longer able to communicate effectively. The manner of his care was a source of great controversy within Chabad with some recommending his removal to a specialist hospital and others demanding he stay put at 770 Eastern Parkway . ref name gro As Key Anniversary Nears, Role of Lubavitch Leader Grows Less Grand , Jeffrey Goldberg, The Forward, January 21, 1994 ref Groner led the latter camp, while Krinsky led the former. ref name gro The controversy led to the resignation of one of Schneerson s doctors Dr. Eli Rosen. ref name gro He was a witness in 1988 to the signing of Schneerson s secular will a will that gave all the power over the organizational structures of Chabad to his primary rival Krinsky. ref Battle Among Lubavitch Erupts Over Rebbe s Will , Jeffrey Goldberg, The Forward, June 17, 1994 ref Groner was seen as part of the Chabad messianism messianist wing even going so far as adorn his car with messianist bumper stickers. ref name sec Second Schneerson Will Boding Ill for Top Aides Secret, Unsigned , Jeffrey Goldberg, The Forward, June 24, 1994 ref That Groner despite his years of service was not given any responsibility in the will was seen as a blow to his standing. ref name sec Groner reacted to the will by arguing that the will only transfers the responsibility of the Rebbe s property to Agudas Chassidei Chabad and did not attend the official reading. ref name sec Groner was a party to a bitter split between two groups of Schneerson s aides ... more details
Hrunting was a sword given to Beowulf hero Beowulf by Unferth in the ancient Old English language Old English epic poem Beowulf . Beowulf used it in battle against Grendel s Mother Beowulf Grendel s Mother . Beowulf is described receiving the sword in lines 1455 1458 And another item lent by Unferth at that moment of need was of no small importance the brehon handed him a hilted weapon, a rare and ancient sword named Hrunting. The iron blade with its ill boding patterns had been tempered in blood. It had never failed the hand of anyone who hefted it in battle, anyone who had fought and faced the worst in the gap of danger. This was not the first time it had been called to perform heroic feats. ref name heaney Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf . USA Norton, 2000. ref However, although the sword possessed great power and was claimed to have never failed anyone who used it, when Beowulf descended to the bottom of the lake to fight Grendel s Mother Beowulf Grendel s mother , the sword proved ineffective. As the fabulous powers of that heirloom failed, Beowulf was forced to discard it. ref name heaney Ibid line 1528 ref Hrunting s significance Sword s have great significance in the war centred Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon culture from which Beowulf arises. Therefore, emphasis is strongly placed on the exchange of weapons of war. Weapons such as swords circulated through Anglo Saxon society as inheritance through family, birthed through the monsters, found under magic rocks, and as rewards between lords and their subjects. ref Heinrich Harke, The Circulation of Weapons in Anglo Saxon Society in Rituals of Power From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, ed. Frans Theuws Boston, 2000 , 377 78. ref Occasionally such exchange was also seen between warriors. One example of a weapon as a gift is seen in the exchange of Hrunting. As Unfer Unferth passes his sword to Beowulf, he admits the loss of his glory, and his submission to this greater warrior. However, when Hrunting fails Beowulf in his ... more details
IPA notice Flapping redirects here. For other uses of the term, see Flap . Intervocalic alveolar flapping is a phonology phonological process found in many dialects of English language English , especially North American English and Australian English , by which either or both prevocalic preceding a vowel IPA t and IPA d surface as the alveolar tap IPA after sonorant s other than IPA , IPA m , and in some environments IPA l . after vowel butter after r barter after l faculty but not immediately post tonic alter IPA al t er , not IPA al er The term flap is often used as a synonym for the term tap , but the two can be distinguished phonetically. A flap involves a rapid movement of the tongue tip from a retracted vertical position to a more or less horizontal position, during which the tongue tip brushes the alveolar ridge. A tap involves a rapid backwards and forwards movement of the tongue tip. The sound referred to here is the alveolar tap IPA , not the flap IPA , and hence tapping is the correct term from a phonetic point of view see also flap consonant . However, no languages are known to contrast taps and flaps, and the term flapping is ingrained in much of the phonological literature, ref Giegerich, Heinz J. 1992 . English Phonology , pp. 225, 241. Cambridge University Press. ref so it is retained here. Flapping tapping is a specific type of lenition , specifically intervocalic weakening . For people with the merger these following utterances sound the same or almost the same class collapsible collapsed Homophonous pairs div class wikitable sortable IPA t , nt IPA d , n IPA Notes at em Adam IPA m at em add em IPA m atom Adam IPA m atom add em IPA m banter banner IPA b batter badder IPA b beating beading IPA bi betting bedding IPA b bitter bidder IPA b boating boding IPA bo , bo butting budding IPA b catty caddy IPA k i center sinner IPA s With pen pin merger . cited sided IPA sa d ... more details
Lines Written at Shurton Bars was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1795. The poem incorporates a reflection on Coleridge s engagement and his understanding of marriage. It also compares nature to an ideal understanding of reality and discusses isolation from others. Background During 1795, Coleridge met and became engaged to Sara Fricker. They met while Coleridge and Robert Southey planned to create an ideal government called Pantisocracy , and Coleridge intended that he should find a woman to join him in the new community. They eventually married on 4 October 1795 after some hesitation and uncertainty on Coleridge s side which caused him to leave her for London over the course of a few months. During the engagement, he wrote a few poems dedicated to her including the conversation poem The Eolian Harp and Lines Written at Shurton Bar . ref Ashton 1997 p. 74 ref The Lines were inspired by Coleridge s walk along the Shurton Bars and he sought to write the poem in order comfort Fricker before their marriage during his absence, many people opposed their marriage and grew distant from her. ref Jones 2000 p. 25 ref The poem was eventually published in Coleridge s 1796 Poems on Various Subjects see 1796 in poetry . ref Holmes 1989 p. 114 ref Poem Coleridge begins his poem by incorporating a quote from William Wordsworth , a poet that he would become close friends with following 1795 Nor now with curious sight I mark the glow worm, as I pass, Move with green radiance through the grass, An emerald of light. lines 3 6 The poem continues with words that express Coleridge s closeness to Fricker and are an attempt to comfort her before their wedding ref Jones 2000 pp. 25 26 ref O ever present to my view My wafted spirit is with you, And soothes your boding fears I see you all oppressed with gloom Sit lonely in that cheerless room Ah me You are in tears lines 7 12 Further into the poem is an image of alienation ref name Punter and Byron p. 15 Punter and Byron 2004 p. 1 ... more details
magazine date December 2007 Thoroughbred racehorse infobox horsename Showing Up image caption sire Strategic Mission grandsire Mr. Prospector dam Miss Alethia damsire T.V. Commercial sex Stallion horse Stallion foaled 2003 country United States colour Chestnut color Chestnut breeder Nellie M. Cox owner Lael Stables trainer Barclay Tagg record 10 7 1 1 earnings 1,660,500 race Coolmore Lexington Stakes 2006 br Colonial Turf Cup 2006 br Secretariat Stakes 2006 br Jamaica Handicap Jamaica Breeders Cup Handicap 2006 br Hollywood Derby 2006 awards honours updated May 11, 2007 Showing Up foaled 2003 in Kentucky is an United States American thoroughbred race horse . Foaled near Wilmore, Kentucky in 2003 at Peter Taafe s Taafe Farm, he was bred by Nellie M. Cox of Rose Retreat Farm. Showing Up spent the first year of his life on Nellie s Goochland, Virginia farm. The chestnut colt was sold as a yearling for 85,000 at the Keeneland Sales Keeneland September sale in 2004, but was later found and acquired as a two year old in training by the trainer Barclay Tagg for the owners of the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro for only 60,000 at Fasig Tipton Midatlantic sale in May 2005. Connections Showing Up is owned by Gretchen and Roy Jackson s Lael Stables in West Grove, Pennsylvania . He was trained by Barclay Tagg who also trained the dual classic winner Funny Cide and was ridden by Cornelio Velasquez. Bred for the turf on both sides, Tagg believed the colt would come alive on the grass, and he certainly proved that in his first turf run in the Colonial Cup, even though his sixth place showing in the Kentucky Derby dirt was more than credible. He s small, says Tagg, he s not that good looking he s not a robust horse by any means. He just goes out there and gets it done. Showing Up has a good long stride and high knee action, boding well for his racing future. Breeding His sire is Strategic Mission, a son of the hugely influential stud Mr. Prospector . Racing as a homebred for Cha ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books hi name The Silver Sword sub also known as Escape from Warsaw sub title orig translator image File The Silver Sword cover.jpg 200px image caption First edition cover author Ian Serraillier illustrator C. Walter Hodges cover artist country Great Britain , United States language English language English series genre publisher Jonathan Cape release date December 1956 english release date media type Print Hardcover later editions Paperback pages 192 pp 1956 isbn 0224606778 oclc 154290268 preceded by followed by The Silver Sword is a classic piece of children s literature written by Ian Serraillier , first published in the UK in 1956 by Jonathan Cape and then by Puffin Books in 1960. It has also been published in the U.S. under the title Escape From Warsaw . The story is based upon fact, although imaginary names are given to a few of the places mentioned. An eight part children s television series was produced by the BBC in 1957 at the Lime Grove Studios in London. Plot introduction In a later edition of The Silver Sword , the book was published with a summary. There are two summaries Note The characters in this book are fictitious, but the story is based upon true fact. Imaginary names have been given to a few of the places mentioned they are the villages of Boding and Kolina, the River Falken, the town of Falkenburg and the prison camp of Zakyna. All other place names are real and can be found on the map of Europe. The description of the Red Army on the march is based on eye witness accounts in J. Stransky s East Wind over Prague . Summary One found on page five of the book When Joseph Balicki escaped from his Nazi prison, it took him four and a half weeks to walk back to Warsaw. He was looking for his wife Margrit and his three children, Ruth, Edek and Bronia. But when he reached the city, there was hardly a street he recognized. Warsaw was one gigantic bomb site. As he sifted through the pil ... more details
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