Question: when did to kill a mockingbird become popular

Answer: 1960

"To Kill a Mockingbird"
it can't be any good."") and that general readers seem to feel they do not require analytical interpretation. Harper Lee has remained famously detached from interpreting the novel since the mid-1960s. However, she gave some insight into her themes when, in a rare letter to the editor, she wrote in response to the passionate reaction her book caused: ""Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners."" When the


Question: where does water come from in new york city

Answer: The Catskill Aqueduct

"Catskill Aqueduct"
well as the Schoharie Reservoir, which feeds into Ashokan. The aqueduct then enters Westchester County, New York, and flows to the Kensico Reservoir, which also receives water from the City's Delaware Aqueduct. It continues from the Kensico reservoir and terminates at the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers. The Hillview Reservoir then feeds City Tunnels 1 and 2, which bring water to New York City. If necessary, water can be made to bypass both reservoirs. Catskill Aqueduct The Catskill Aqueduct, part of the New York City water supply system, brings water from the Catskill Mountains to Yonkers where it connects to other


Question: who wrote the theme song for the winter olympics

Answer: Leo Arnaud

"Leo Arnaud"
that is soon joined by a distinctive theme in brass. The musical theme of ""Bugler's Dream"" is based on Joseph-David Buhl's ""Salut aux étendards"", a typical cavalry trumpet's call, composed during Napoleon's Consulate. Arnaud was commissioned by conductor Felix Slatkin to create a piece for his album ""Charge!"" in 1958. For this, he wrote ""The Charge Suite"", published by Shawnee Press, which included ""Bugler's Dream"". ABC began using the composition as the theme to its coverage of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, and in future Olympics. It was also used as the title piece for the series ""ABC's


Question: how long were the pyramids the tallest structure

Answer: over 3,800

"History of the world's tallest buildings"
to be tall, but its true height is not known. For thousands of years, the Great Pyramid in Egypt was the tallest ""structure"" in the world, but the Great Pyramid is not considered a building since it is not habitable. The earliest structures now known to be the tallest in the world were the Egyptian pyramids, with the Great Pyramid of Giza, at an original height of , being the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1300. From then until the completion of the Washington Monument (capped in 1884)


Question: how long were the pyramids the tallest structure

Answer: over 3,800

"History of science and technology in Africa"
step pyramid built at Saqqara is the oldest major stone building in the world. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. The earliest style of Nubian architecture included the speos, structures carved out of solid rock, an A-Group (3700–3250 BCE) achievement. Egyptians made extensive use of the process at Speos Artemidos and Abu Simbel. Sudan, site of ancient Nubia, has more pyramids than anywhere in the world, even more than Egypt, a total of 223 pyramids exist. Aksumites built in stone. Monolithic stelae on top of the graves of kings like King


Question: how long were the pyramids the tallest structure

Answer: over 3,800

"Great Pyramid of Giza"
chamber blocks of the Great Pyramid fit together with extremely high precision. Based on measurements taken on the north-eastern casing stones, the mean opening of the joints is only wide. The pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years, unsurpassed until the spire of Lincoln Cathedral was completed c. 1300. The accuracy of the pyramid's workmanship is such that the four sides of the base have an average error of only 58 millimetres in length. The base is horizontal and flat to within ±. The sides of the square base are closely aligned to the


Question: what year did bennie and the jets come out

Answer: 1974

"Eddie ""Rochester"" Anderson"
me. Gregory Peck said that he would be on my show"" Rochester: ""Good, good. I'll bet you had to pay him a lot of money"" Benny: ""You're wrong. He's going to do the show for nothing"". Rochester: ""How did you do that?"" Benny: ""Because I'm a very good salesman. I didn't come right out and ask him. I was very subtle"" Rochester: ""What did you do? Did you cut your wrist?"" At the conclusion of the trip, Benny remarks ""Thanks for the ride, Rochester. And oh by the way, you have a beautiful car!"" Upon Benny's death in 1974, a


Question: what year did bennie and the jets come out

Answer: in 1973

"Bennie and the Jets"
Bennie and the Jets ""Bennie and the Jets"" (also titled as ""Benny & the Jets"") is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The song first appeared on the ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" album in 1973. ""Bennie and the Jets"" has been one of John's most popular songs and was performed during John's appearance at Live Aid. The track is spelled ""Benny"" on the sleeve of the single and in the track listing of the album, but ""Bennie"" on the album vinyl disc label. ""Bennie and the Jets"" was featured on side one of the ""Goodbye Yellow Brick


Question: what is the song in red dead redemption

Answer: Far Away

"Red Dead Redemption"
of the Year awards from media outlets such as GameSpy, GameSpot, ""Good Game"", Computer and Video Games, and Machinima, among others. The game's music also received awards for its original score from GameSpot, Machinima.com, and Spike TV. José González also received an award from Spike for his original song ""Far Away"". The graphics received honors at the Korean Games Conference, and from the television program ""Good Game"". """" also received Best Downloadable content awards from Spike TV, G4 TV and Game Revolution. At the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, ""Red Dead Redemption"" won the Game of the Year, Best Song


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: eight

Croquet
on the northern terrace, between Eglinton Castle and the Lugton Water. The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops ""to ring the changes"", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through. In 1865 the 'Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet' was published by Edmund Routledge. Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland. There are several


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: six

Croquet
similar to those described above for Association Croquet with three major differences: This version of the game is easy for beginners to learn. The main Garden Croquet Club in the UK is the Bygrave Croquet Club which is a private club with five lawns. Other clubs also use garden croquet as an introduction to the game, notably the Hampstead Heath Croquet Club and the Watford Croquet Club. The American rules version of croquet, another six-hoop game, is the dominant version of the game in the United States and is also widely played in Canada. It is governed by the United


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: six

"Triple Peel"
complete the game with a sextuple peel (peeling the partner through its last six hoops). The sextuple peel is now considered one of the highest achievements in croquet, performed only by a handful of top international players. The triple peel, by contrast, is the highest aspiration of many good players at club level. Triple Peel A Triple Peel (TP) is a standard manoeuvre in top-level games of association croquet. To peel a ball in croquet is to send a ball, other than the striker's ball, through its next hoop, thereby scoring a point for that ball. The ball in question


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: eight

"Eglinton Country Park"
The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named 'Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle Croquet', which had small bells on the eight hoops 'to ring the changes', two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through. In 1865 the 'Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet' was published by Edmund Routledge. Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland. It is not known why the earl named it thus. A highly unusual landscape


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: six

Croquet
on croquet, was an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics. As with similar words with a French derivation, the final 't' is silent. British pronunciation puts the accent on the first syllable, American on the second: versus . Association croquet is the name of an advanced game of croquet, played at international level. It involves four balls teamed in pairs, with both balls going through every hoop for one pair to win. The game's distinguishing feature is the ""croquet"" shot: when certain balls hit other balls, extra shots are allowed. The six hoops are arranged three at each end of


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: six

Croquet
other three balls may be roqueted once in a turn before a hoop is run, after which they become available to be roqueted again. The winner of the game is the team who completes the set circuit of six hoops (and then back again the other way), with both balls, and then strikes the centre peg (making a total of 13 points per ball = 26). Good players may make ""breaks"" of several hoops in a single turn. The best players may take a ball round a full circuit in one turn. ""Advanced play"" (a variant of association play for


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: eight

"Billiard ball"
(down to half-size), and are sanctioned for use in some amateur leagues. Sets for American snooker are typically , with numbered colour balls. The set of eight colours used for snooker balls (including white) are thought to be derived from the game of croquet. Snooker was invented in 1884 by British Army officers stationed in India. Croquet reached its peak popularity at the same time, particularly amongst people in the same social context. The eight coloured balls of croquet use the same identical set of eight colours. There are many other similarities between croquet and snooker, which when taken together,


Question: how many hoops are used in a game of croquet

Answer: six

Croquet
games, there are regular world championships and international matches between croquet-playing countries. The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament. Many other countries also play. The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five. Croquet is popularly believed


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Kathleen Turner

"Robert Zemeckis"
The director was jobless until Michael Douglas hired him in 1984 to film ""Romancing the Stone"". A romantic adventure starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner, ""Romancing"" was expected to flop (to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then-in-the-works ""Cocoon"" fired Zemeckis as director), but the film became a sleeper hit. While working on ""Romancing the Stone"", Zemeckis met composer Alan Silvestri, who has scored all of his subsequent pictures. After ""Romancing"", the director suddenly had the clout to direct his time-traveling screenplay, which was titled ""Back to the Future"". Starring Michael J.


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Kathleen Turner

"Kathleen Turner"
how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."" ""Romancing the Stone"" was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984. Turner teamed with Douglas and DeVito again the following year for its sequel, ""The Jewel of the Nile"". Pre-production for the movie was fraught with conflict, because Turner refused to commit to the ""terrible"" script she had been delivered. When she said no, 20th Century Fox threatened her with


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Kathleen Turner

"Romancing the Stone"
in recent years. Since 2007, 20th Century Fox considered a remake of ""Romancing the Stone"" with the possibility of a ""reboot"" of a series. The roles of Jack Colton and Joan Wilder would be filled by Taylor Kitsch (or Gerard Butler) and Katherine Heigl. By 2011, the remake was re-worked as a television series. Romancing the Stone Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Diane Thomas. The film stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, and was followed by a 1985 sequel titled ""The Jewel of the Nile"". ""Romancing


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Alfonso Arau

"Alfonso Arau"
""The Wild Bunch"", chief bandit ""El Guapo"" in ""Three Amigos"" (USA, 1986), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, shady businessman Manuel in the comedy ""Used Cars"" (USA, 1980), and the smuggler ""Juan"" in ""Romancing the Stone"" (USA, 1984) starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film ""El rincón de las vírgenes"" (""The Virgins' Corner""), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood. The movie was set in


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Kathleen Turner

"Romancing the Stone"
Romancing the Stone Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Diane Thomas. The film stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, and was followed by a 1985 sequel titled ""The Jewel of the Nile"". ""Romancing the Stone"" earned over $86 million worldwide at the box office. It also helped launch Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas to the public as a capable leading man, and gave Zemeckis his first box-office success. Joan Wilder is a successful but lonely romance novelist in New York City whose editor believes she is waiting


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Michael Douglas

"Diane Thomas"
screenplay titled either ""Blonde Hurricane"" or ""Blond Hurricane"". Diane Thomas died in a car accident in October 1985, only six weeks before the sequel to ""Romancing the Stone,"" ""The Jewel of the Nile,"" was released. At the time, Thomas was busy writing for the movie ""Always"" for Steven Spielberg and was not available to write ""The Jewel of the Nile"". In an interview in the Special Edition DVD of ""Romancing the Stone"", Michael Douglas stated that he had purchased a Porsche for Thomas as a present for her work with him on ""Romancing"" and help with scenes on ""Jewel of


Question: who starred in the movie romancing the stone

Answer: Michael Douglas

"Michael Douglas"
of San Francisco"" in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including ""The China Syndrome"" (1979) and ""Romancing the Stone"" (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for ""Romancing the Stone"", in which he also starred, thus reintroducing himself to audiences as a capable leading man. After reprising his ""Romancing the Stone"" role as Jack Colton in the 1985 sequel ""The Jewel of the Nile"", which he also produced, and along with appearing in the musical ""A Chorus Line"" (1985) and the psychological thriller ""Fatal Attraction"" (1987), Douglas received widespread acclaim for


Question: who founded amazon where is the headquarters of amazon

Answer: Jeff Bezos

"Amazon (company)"
as a brick-and-mortar retailer. The acquisition was interpreted by some as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart's traditional retail stores. In 2018, for the first time, Jeff Bezos released in Amazon's shareholder letter the number of Amazon Prime subscribers, which is 100 million worldwide. In 2018, Amazon.com contributed to the Wikimedia Endowment. In November 2018, Amazon announced it would be splitting its second headquarters project between two cities. They are currently in the finalization stage of the process. The company was founded as a result of what Jeff Bezos called his ""regret minimization framework"", which described his efforts to fend


Question: who founded amazon where is the headquarters of amazon

Answer: Seattle, Washington

"Amazon Spheres"
Amazon Spheres The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories on the headquarters campus of Amazon in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed by NBBJ and Landscape Architect Site Workshop, the three glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee lounge and workspace. The domes, which range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants as well as meeting space and retail stores. They are located under the Day 1 building on Lenora Street. The complex opened to Amazon employees and limited public access on January 30, 2018. The spheres are reserved mainly for Amazon employees,


Question: who founded amazon where is the headquarters of amazon

Answer: Seattle, Washington

"Doppler (building)"
Doppler (building) Doppler, also known as Amazon Tower I, and Rufus 2.0 Block 14, is a office building in Seattle, Washington that houses the corporate headquarters of Amazon. It is part of the three-tower campus that Amazon is developing in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, located at the intersection of Westlake Avenue and 7th Avenue near the Westlake Center and McGraw Square. The tower houses 3,800 employees. The tower's name, Doppler, refers to the internal codename of the Amazon Echo voice-controlled speaker that launched in 2014. The Amazon campus, designed by Seattle architecture firm NBBJ, was approved by the Seattle Department


Question: who founded amazon where is the headquarters of amazon

Answer: Seattle, Washington

"Amazon Spheres"
campus and a twice-monthly weekend reservation program. Amazon Spheres The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories on the headquarters campus of Amazon in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed by NBBJ and Landscape Architect Site Workshop, the three glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panels and serve as an employee lounge and workspace. The domes, which range from three to four stories tall, house 40,000 plants as well as meeting space and retail stores. They are located under the Day 1 building on Lenora Street. The complex opened to Amazon employees and limited public access on January 30, 2018. The


Question: who is the longest railway station in india

Answer: Gorakhpur Junction

"Railway platform"
outer loop station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. In the UK, recent rules require new platforms to be straight. The longest railway platforms are: Railway platform A railway platform is an area alongside a railway track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger stations having multiple platforms. The world's longest station platform is at Gorakhpur Junction in India at 1,355.40 metres. The Appalachian Trail station in the United States, at the other extreme, has a platform which is only long enough for a single bench. Among some United States train conductors


Question: who is the longest railway station in india

Answer: Gorakhpur Junction

"Railway platform"
Railway platform A railway platform is an area alongside a railway track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger stations having multiple platforms. The world's longest station platform is at Gorakhpur Junction in India at 1,355.40 metres. The Appalachian Trail station in the United States, at the other extreme, has a platform which is only long enough for a single bench. Among some United States train conductors the word ""platform"" has entered usage as a verb meaning ""to berth at a station"", as in the announcement: ""The last two cars of this


Question: when was the last time mount etna exploded

Answer: 16 March 2017

"Mount Etna"
a few hours. Volcanic gas emissions from this volcano are measured by a Multi-Component Gas Analyzer System, which detects pre-eruptive degassing of rising magmas, improving prediction of volcanic activity. An eruption on 16 March 2017 injured 10 people, including a BBC News television crew, after magma exploded upon contact with snow. The Global Volcanism Program has assigned a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) to all of Mount Etna's eruptions since January 1955: In the 1970s Etna erupted smoke rings, one of the first captured events of this type, which are extremely rare. This happened again in 2000. Video footage of 8


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

MINIX
of MINIX as the basis for a freely distributed software system. When free and open-source Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and 386BSD became available in the early 1990s, many volunteer software developers abandoned MINIX in favor of these. In April 2000, MINIX became free and open-source software under a permissive free software license, but by this time other operating systems had surpassed its capabilities, and it remained primarily an operating system for students and hobbyists. MINIX MINIX (from ""mini-Unix"") is a POSIX-compliant (since version 2.0), Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture. Early versions of MINIX were created


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"Open-source video game"
While Linux operates on the open-source philosophy, this may not benefit game development. As of September 2015, the Steam gaming service has 1,500 games available on Linux, compared to 2,323 games for Mac and 6,500 Windows games. Just as in most other forms of software, free software was an unconscious occurrence during the creation of early computer games, particularly for earlier Unix games. These are mostly original or clone arcade games and text adventures. A notable example of this is BSD Games, a collection of interactive fiction titles. Game fan communities such as the modding community do include some aspects


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"UNIX System V"
SCO to be released by the end of 2004, but was apparently cancelled. It was supposed to support 64-bit systems. The industry has coalesced around The Open Group's Single UNIX Specification version 3 (UNIX 03). See also: Smallfoot In the 1980s and 1990s, a variety of SVR4 versions of Unix were available commercially for the x86 PC platform. However, the market for commercial Unix on PCs declined after Linux and BSD became widely available. In late 1994, Eric S. Raymond discontinued his ""PC-clone UNIX Software Buyer's Guide"" on USENET, stating, ""The reason I am dropping this is that I run


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

BSD/OS
renamed ""BSD/OS"". Later releases of BSD/OS also supported Sun SPARC-based systems. The marketing of BSD/OS became increasingly focused on Internet server applications. However, the increasingly tight market for Unix-compatible software in the late 1990s and early 2000s hurt sales of BSD/OS. On one end of the market, it lacked the certification of the Open Group to bear the UNIX trademark, and the sales force and hardware support of the larger Unix vendors. Simultaneously, it lacked the negligible acquisition cost of the open source BSDs and Linux. BSD/OS was acquired by Wind River Systems in April 2001. Wind River discontinued sales


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"Open-source video game"
OpenAL libraries and Linux Game Publishing created and maintain the free network layer Grapple. LGP also avoids publishing games similar to popular free titles. Many libraries/infrastructures have been created without corporate assistance however, such as the online gaming system GGZ Gaming Zone. In addition, various are free software such as the ZZT remake ""MegaZeux"", versions of Game Editor, the inspired G-Creator, Godot, Construct, and ZGameEditor. Individuals and teams have continued creating many popular free software games, starting really in the late 1990s to the present day. Many of these are clones such as ""Pingus"" (""Lemmings"" clone), ""SuperTux"" and ""Secret Maryo


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

Vi
codebase, they too switched over to Bostic's nvi, which they continue to use today. Despite the existence of vi clones with enhanced featuresets, sometime before June 2000, Gunnar Ritter ported Joy's vi codebase (taken from 2.11BSD, February 1992) to modern Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and FreeBSD. Initially, his work was technically illegal to distribute without an AT&T source license, but, in January 2002, those licensing rules were relaxed, allowing legal distribution as an open-source project. Ritter continued to make small enhancements to the vi codebase similar to those done by commercial Unix vendors still using Joy's codebase, including


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"Operating system Wi-Fi support"
support, although some third-party hardware manufacturers have made drivers and connection software that allows earlier OSes to use Wi-Fi. Linux, FreeBSD and similar Unix-like clones have much coarser support for Wi-Fi. Due to the open source nature of these operating systems, many different standards have been developed for configuring and managing Wi-Fi devices. The open source nature also fosters open source drivers which have enabled many third party and proprietary devices to work under these operating systems. See Comparison of Open Source Wireless Drivers for more information on those drivers. Operating system Wi-Fi support Operating system Wi-Fi support is the


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"Open-source video game"
the age of three-dimensional games in the early to mid 1990s, and free games started to make the switch themselves. ""Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring"" by Steve Baker, a game featuring the Linux mascot Tux, was an early example of a three-dimensional free software game. He and his son Oliver would later create other popular 3D free games and clones such as ""TuxKart"" and contribute to those by other developers such as ""Tux Racer"". The Genesis3D engine project, ""Crystal Space"" and ""Cube"" also spawned other 3D free software engines and games. ""FlightGear"" is another good example, especially noting


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

Vi
and sometimes to rhyme with ""bye"". In addition to various non–free software variants of vi distributed with proprietary implementations of Unix, vi was opensourced with OpenSolaris, and several free and open source software vi clones exist. A 2009 survey of ""Linux Journal"" readers found that vi was the most widely used text editor among respondents, beating gedit, the second most widely used editor, by nearly a factor of two (36% to 19%). vi was derived from a sequence of UNIX command line editors, starting with ed, which was a line editor designed to work well on teleprinters, rather than display


Question: an open-source clone of unix created in the early 1990s

Answer: Linux

"Tomboy (software)"
Tomboy (software) Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application written for Unix-like (including Mac OS X and Linux) and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment personal information management software and achieved widespread popularity as the default note taking application in early Ubuntu releases. As Ubuntu changed over time and its cloud synchronization software Ubuntu One came and went, Tomboy inspired various forks and clones. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match existing note


Question: who played cosette in les miserables on broadway

Answer: Ali Ewoldt

"Les Misérables (musical)"
about 16 hours. This allowed it to reach many cities and venues in its acclaimed, original Broadway form. The final company of the Third National Tour included Randal Keith as Valjean (Keith also played Valjean in the final company of the original Broadway engagement), Robert Hunt as Javert, Joan Almedilla as Fantine, Daniel Bogart as Marius, Norman Large (from Original Broadway Cast) as Monsieur Thénardier, Jennifer Butt (from Original Broadway Cast) as Madame Thénardier, Melissa Lyons as Éponine, Ali Ewoldt as Cosette, Victor Wallace as Enjolras, Meg Guzulescu and Rachel Schier alternating as Young Cosette and Young Éponine, and Austyn


Question: who played cosette in les miserables on broadway

Answer: Ali Ewoldt

"Ali Ewoldt"
in musical theatre in high school, she went on to graduate ""cum laude"" from Yale University, also doing some performing during her college years. Ewoldt performed the role of Princess Jasmine in Disneyland, and she also worked at the Tokyo Disney theme park before appearing in a U.S. tour of ""Les Misérables"". She began the tour as a member of the ensemble, and later understudied the role of Cosette, before she finally received the role during the tour. She then played Cosette in the ""Les Mis"" Broadway revival of 2006. From 2009 to 2011, Ewoldt starred in North American tour


Question: who played cosette in les miserables on broadway

Answer: Judy Kuhn

"Les Misérables (musical)"
joined playing Javert, and Max von Essen playing Enjolras. Ben Crawford and Mandy Bruno joined the cast that day too, playing Brujon and Éponine respectively. On 23 July 2007, Sarich took over the role of Valjean, following Gemignani's departure. On 5 September 2007, it was announced that John Owen-Jones (who was playing Valjean in London) was to join the Broadway cast. In return, Sarich would join the London cast in Owen-Jones' place. Judy Kuhn, who originated the role of Cosette, returned to the show after twenty years as Fantine, succeeding Salonga. The revival closed on 6 January 2008. A sit


Question: who played cosette in les miserables on broadway

Answer: Judy Kuhn

"Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert"
Wilkinson as Jean Valjean, Philip Quast as Inspector Javert, Michael Ball as Marius Pontmercy, Lea Salonga as Éponine, Judy Kuhn as Cosette, Ruthie Henshall as Fantine, Michael Maguire as Enjolras, Alun Armstrong as Thénardier, Jenny Galloway as Madame Thénardier, Adam Searles as Gavroche, Hannah Chick as Young Cosette, and several others, and was directed by John Caird. The performers were chosen from the London, Broadway and Australian productions of the show and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by David Charles Abell. It also aired on PBS part of the Great Performances series. The 10th anniversary concert of ""Les Misérables""


Question: who played the little boy in polar express

Answer: Daryl Sabara

"Daryl Sabara"
series ""Weeds"", ""House"", ""Dr. Vegas"", and was one of the judges on ""America's Most Talented Kids"". Sabara also voiced the main character, Hero Boy, in the 2004 animated version of ""The Polar Express"". He then played a Jewish young boy trying to have a nice Bar Mitzvah in ""Keeping Up with the Steins"" (formerly known as ""Lucky 13""), which received a limited release on May 12, 2006. He also guest starred in the Criminal Minds episode, ""P911"" where he played as a sexually molested child. He also provided the voice for Rex in ""Generator Rex"". He next appeared in the


Question: who played the little boy in polar express

Answer: Daryl Sabara

"The Polar Express (film)"
The Polar Express (film) The Polar Express is a 2004 American 3D computer-animated film based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using live action motion capture animation. The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen, with Tom Hanks in six distinct roles. The film also included a performance by Tinashe at age 9, who later gained exposure as a pop singer in the 2010s,


Question: who played the elephant man in the film

Answer: John Hurt

"The Elephant Man (film)"
podcasts and radio shows. The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy. The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore,


Question: who played the elephant man in the film

Answer: John Hurt

"The Elephant Man (film)"
The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy. The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore, and Eric Bergren from


Question: who played the elephant man in the film

Answer: John Hurt

"Joseph Merrick"
Merrick's life story became the basis of several works of dramatic art; these were based on the accounts of Treves and Montagu. In 1979, a Tony Award–winning play, ""The Elephant Man"", by American playwright Bernard Pomerance was staged. The character based on Merrick was played by Philip Anglim, and later by David Bowie and Mark Hamill. In 1980, a film ""The Elephant Man"", directed by David Lynch, was released; it received eight Academy Award nominations. Merrick was played by John Hurt and Frederick Treves by Anthony Hopkins. In 1982, US television network ABC broadcast an adaptation of Pomerance's play, starring


Question: who played the elephant man in the film

Answer: John Hurt

"Anthony Hopkins"
for himself as a screen actor, in 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in ""Young Winston"", and in 1977 he played British Army officer John Frost in the World War II-set film ""A Bridge Too Far"". Both of these films were directed by Richard Attenborough, who described Hopkins as “unquestionably the greatest actor of his generation”. In 1978 he starred in the psychological horror film ""Magic"" about a demonic ventriloquist's puppet. In 1980, he starred in ""The Elephant Man"" as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick (portrayed by John Hurt), a severely


Question: what is the origin of the name robinson

Answer: English language patronymic surname

"Robinson (name)"
Anglicization of such Jewish surnames as Rabinowitz and Rubinstein. Robinson, the compound word, is a rare given name, while its derivative, Robin, has the distinction of being both a masculine and feminine given name. Robinson (name) Robinson is an English language patronymic surname, originating in England. It means ""son of Robin (a diminutive of Robert)"". There are similar surname spellings such as Robison and Robeson. Robinson is the 15th most common surname in the United Kingdom. According to the 1990 United States Census, Robinson was the twentieth most frequently encountered surname among those reported, accounting for 0.23% of the population.


Question: what is the origin of the name robinson

Answer: English language patronymic surname

"Robinson (name)"
Robinson (name) Robinson is an English language patronymic surname, originating in England. It means ""son of Robin (a diminutive of Robert)"". There are similar surname spellings such as Robison and Robeson. Robinson is the 15th most common surname in the United Kingdom. According to the 1990 United States Census, Robinson was the twentieth most frequently encountered surname among those reported, accounting for 0.23% of the population. In Ireland, Robinson is only really common in Ulster. The two names had been used interchangeably in some areas of the province around the beginning of the 20th century. It can also be an


Question: who was the guy who died in glee

Answer: Cory Allan Michael Monteith

"Cory Monteith"
is done and we're never going to go back to it, so that resonates throughout the year."" The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 22, 2013, featured an extended tribute to Monteith by his ""Glee"" co-star Jane Lynch, along with four other actors who died in 2013. He was also featured in the ""In Memoriam"" segment of the 56th Grammy Awards. Shortly after his death, ""Glee"" fans raised money to ""name a star"" for Monteith, after being inspired by a scene featuring his character on ""Glee"". Cory Monteith Cory Allan Michael Monteith (; May 11, 1982 July 13, 2013)


Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show

Answer: Keith Thibodeaux

"Ricky Ricardo Jr."
Ricky Ricardo Jr. Enrique Alberto Ricardo IV, ""Little Ricky,"" is a fictional character from the American television series ""I Love Lucy"" (1951–57, with Ricky Jr. becoming a part of the show as of his birth in 1953) and ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"" (1957–60). Little Ricky was played by a number of actors, including James John Ganzer, twins Richard and Ronald Lee Simmons, twins Michael and Joseph Mayer and, most notably, Keith Thibodeaux, billed as Little Ricky. Although the ""I Love Lucy"" announcer and the opening credits of ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"" gave his stage name as ""Little Ricky"", in his


Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show

Answer: Keith Thibodeaux

"I Love Lucy"
morning. Unlike some programs that advance the age of a newborn over a short period, ""I Love Lucy"" at first allowed the Little Ricky character to grow up in real time. America saw Little Ricky as an infant in the 1952–53 season and a toddler from 1953 to 1956. However, for the 1956-57 season, Little Ricky suddenly aged by two years, becoming a young school-age boy from 1956 to 1960. Five actors played the role, two sets of twins and later Keith Thibodeaux, whose stage name when playing Ricky Ricardo Jr. was Richard Keith. (In the Superman episode, Little Ricky


Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show

Answer: Keith Thibodeaux

"I Love Lucy"
After the conclusion of the sixth season of ""I Love Lucy"", the Arnazes decided to cut down on the number of episodes that were filmed. Instead, they extended ""I Love Lucy"" to 60 minutes, with a guest star each episode. They renamed the show ""The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show"", also known as ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"". Thirteen hour-long episodes aired from 1957 to 1960. The main cast, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley and Little Ricky/Richard Keith (birth name Keith Thibodeaux) were all in the show. ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"" is available on DVD, released as ""I Love


Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show

Answer: Keith Thibodeaux

"Kathy Thibodeaux"
Kathy Thibodeaux Kathy Thibodeaux is an American ballet dancer who, in 1986, became co-founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Magnificat!. Born Kathy Denton, she studied under American Ballet Theatre’s Albia Kavan and Rex Cooper at the Jackson Ballet School (later Ballet Mississippi). In 1976, she married Keith Thibodeaux, a former child actor and musician, best known for playing Ricky Ricardo, Jr. (""Little Ricky"") in ""I Love Lucy"" and ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"" television shows. (He was credited for those series as Richard Keith.) In 1978, Kathy became one of Jackson Ballet Company’s first contracted dancers, dancing as a principal until


Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show

Answer: Keith Thibodeaux

"Richard Keith (actor)"
Richard Keith (actor) Keith Thibodeaux (born December 1, 1950) is a former American child actor and musician, best known for playing Little Ricky on the television sitcoms ""I Love Lucy"" and ""The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"". His last name, which was Cajun French, was changed by producer Desi Arnaz to ""Keith"" because ""Thibodeaux"" was too difficult to pronounce. He is the last living regular appearing cast member from ""I Love Lucy"". Thibodeaux showed skill on the drums at a young age, and was making $500 a week at the age of 3 while touring with the Horace Heidt Orchestra. His father


Question: when was clash royale released in the us

Answer: March 2, 2016

"Clash Royale"
games to 1 on the ""Crown Championship World Finals"". The 2018 ""Clash Royale Crown Championship"" is scheduled to be held in Asia. ""Clash Royale"" are part of an e-sport demonstration event during Asian Games 2018 held in Indonesia. Eight countries are able to participate after having qualified from their respective regional qualification with Indonesia automatically qualified as host. Clash Royale Clash Royale is a video game developed and published by Supercell. The game combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense, and multiplayer online battle arena. The game was released globally on March 2, 2016. ""Clash Royale"" reached $1 billion


Question: when was clash royale released in the us

Answer: March 2, 2016

"Clash Royale"
Clash Royale Clash Royale is a video game developed and published by Supercell. The game combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense, and multiplayer online battle arena. The game was released globally on March 2, 2016. ""Clash Royale"" reached $1 billion in revenue in less than a year on the market. ""Clash Royale"" is a tower rush video game which pits players in games featuring two or four players (1v1 or 2v2) in which the objective is to destroy the most amount of opposing towers, with the destruction of the ""King's Tower"" being an instantaneous win. After three minutes,


Question: when was clash royale released in the us

Answer: March 2, 2016

"Clash Royale"
4, 2016. The game was soft-launched on Android for those same countries on February 16, 2016 in the form of an Android application package. Both platforms received a global release on March 2, 2016. Upon its release, ""Clash Royale"" became the most downloaded and top-grossing app on the U.S. iOS App Store. ""Clash Royale"" mainly received positive reviews, with ""TouchArcade"" Eli Hodapp calling it ""absolutely phenomenal"" in his five-star review. ""Pocket Gamer"" Harry Slater gave the game a score of 9/10, summing up ""It's an incredible amount of rewarding fun, it's nail-biting at times, and there's content here that will


Question: german word for pleasure from someone else's pain

Answer: Schadenfreude

Cupid
brought the ""Amoretti"" poetry cycle (1595) of Edmund Spenser to a conclusion, and furnished subject matter for at least twenty works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop. The German poet and classicist Karl Philipp Conz (1762–1827) framed the tale as ""Schadenfreude"" (""taking pleasure in someone else's pain"") in a poem by the same title. In a version by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a writer of the German Enlightenment, the incident prompts Cupid to turn himself into a bee: Through this sting was Amor made wiser.
The untiring deceiver
concocted another battle-plan:
he lurked beneath the carnations and roses
and when a maiden came


Question: german word for pleasure from someone else's pain

Answer: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude
of terms, in which ""epikhairekakia"" stands as the opposite of ""phthonos"" (φθόνος), and ""nemesis"" (νέμεσις) occupies the mean. ""Nemesis"" is ""a painful response to another's undeserved good fortune"", while ""phthonos"" is a painful response to any good fortune, deserved or not. The ""epikhairekakos"" (ἐπιχαιρέκακος) person takes pleasure in another's ill fortune. Lucretius characterises the emotion in an extended simile in ""De rerum natura"": ""Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem"", ""It is pleasant to watch from the land the great struggle of someone else in a sea rendered great by turbulent winds."" The abbreviated Latin


Question: german word for pleasure from someone else's pain

Answer: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude
Displeasure at another's happiness is involved in envy, and perhaps in jealousy. The recent coinage ""freudenschade"" similarly means sorrow at another's success. Displeasure at another's unhappiness is sympathy, pity, or compassion. ""Sadism"" is pleasure derived from the ""infliction"" of pain, whereas schadenfreude is pleasure on ""observing"" misfortune and in particular the fact that the other somehow deserved the misfortune. Neologisms and portmanteau words were coined from the word as early as 1993, when Lincoln Caplan, in his book ""Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire"", used the word ""Skaddenfreude"" to describe the delight that competitors of Skadden


Question: german word for pleasure from someone else's pain

Answer: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. ""Schadenfreude"" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of ""Schaden"", ""damage, harm"", and ""Freude"", ""joy"". The German


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"Dell Curry"
the Charlotte Bobcats (now Charlotte Hornets). In 2016 Curry was the recipient of the Bobby Jones Award at the Athletes in Action All Star Breakfast, which is held each year at the NBA All Star Weekend. Curry lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Sonya Adams, who played volleyball at Virginia Tech, where they met; the couple have three children. His older son, Stephen, plays in the NBA for the Golden State Warriors. In 2014–15, Stephen won the NBA MVP award and led the Warriors to the NBA championship, and in 2015–16, he led his team to the highest


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2016

"Golden State Warriors"
29, 2016; the previous record of 44 was held by the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls team led by Michael Jordan. On April 13, 2016, Golden State set the NBA record for most wins in a single season. The team finished the season with a record of 73–9. On May 10, 2016, Stephen Curry was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the second straight season. Curry is the 11th player to win back-to-back MVP honors and became the first player in NBA history to win the MVP award by unanimous vote, winning all 131 first-place votes. Stephen Curry, Draymond Green


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2016

"2016–17 Golden State Warriors season"
win 30 road games in back-to-back seasons, joining the 1995–96 and 1996–97 Chicago Bulls. Stephen Curry set numerous three-point NBA records this season; including most three-pointers made in a single game with 13 and most consecutive games (regular-season and postseason combined) with a made three-pointer with 196. Curry also surpassed 300 three-pointers in the regular-season for the second time in NBA history; he finished with 324. Draymond Green won the Defensive Player of the Year Award at the NBA Awards, the first time a Warrior has won it. Kevin Durant won the NBA Finals MVP award, the third time a


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"2015–16 Golden State Warriors season"
points scored in an overtime period (regular-season or postseason). Stephen Curry was named Most Valuable Player on May 10, making it the third time a Warrior had won the award after Wilt Chamberlain won in the 1959–60 NBA season and Curry in 2014–15. Curry is the 11th player to win back-to-back MVP honors and is the first unanimous winner in NBA history with all 131 first-place votes. On May 11, the Warriors beat the Trail Blazers 125–121 in Game 5 to clinch the series and advance to the Western Conference Finals for the second consecutive year, where they faced the


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"NBA Most Valuable Player Award"
won the award: Wilt Chamberlain in the and Wes Unseld in the 1968–69 season. Hakeem Olajuwon of Nigeria, Tim Duncan of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Steve Nash of Canada and Dirk Nowitzki of Germany are the only MVP winners considered ""international players"" by the NBA. Stephen Curry in 2015–16 is the only player to have won the award unanimously. Shaquille O'Neal in 1999–2000 and LeBron James in 2012–13 are the only two players to have fallen one vote shy of a unanimous selection, both receiving 120 of 121 votes. Russell Westbrook, is the first to have played for a team


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015,

"Stephen Curry"
know that I've been thinking about them."" Also in 2015, after winning the MVP award following his impressive season, Curry donated his prize vehicle—a 2016 Kia Sorento—to the East Oakland Youth Development Center, a local non-profit organization located in the backyard of Oracle Arena. Curry is currently one of the most successful players in the NBA, and he has also become an international celebrity, on par with four-time MVP LeBron James. His flashy play and penchant for coming up big in the clutch have made him a fan favorite, and his smaller physique is said to have made his success


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2016

"Stephen Curry"
MVP by a unanimous vote and to lead the league in scoring while shooting above 50–40–90. That same year, the Warriors broke the record for the most wins in an NBA season en route to reaching the 2016 NBA Finals, which they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Curry helped the Warriors return to the NBA Finals in 2017 and 2018, where they won back-to-back titles. Curry is the son of former NBA player Dell Curry and older brother of current NBA player Seth Curry. He played college basketball for Davidson. There, he was twice named Southern Conference Player of the


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"2015 NBA Finals"
by 2014–15 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Stephen Curry, while the Cavaliers featured four-time league MVP LeBron James. Both teams entered the series with title droughts of four decades, with the Cavaliers having never won a title since their inception and the Warriors' last title having been in 1975. This was also the first time that both participating teams had first-year head coaches since the inaugural league finals in 1947, when the NBA was known as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It was the fifth consecutive finals appearance for James who played for the Miami Heat the previous four


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015,

"Don Nelson"
2007 playoff run to either trades or free agency. One bright spot was created in the 2009 NBA draft, when Nelson agreed with Larry Riley to draft Stephen Curry with their seventh overall pick, despite skepticism from critics. Curry went on to win back-to-back MVP awards and helped lead Golden State to championships in 2015, 2017, and 2018, along with Kevin Durant. On September 23, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, Nelson announced he would resign as head coach. The ""San Francisco Chronicle"" reported that new owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber wanted ""a young, up-and-coming coach"" to help revive the Warriors'


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"2016 NBA All-Star Game"
prior team record of 163. Stephen Curry added 26 points for the West, and teammates Anthony Davis scored 24 on 12-of-13 shooting and Kevin Durant tallied 23. The East's Paul George scored 41, which tied Westbrook's total from 2015 and was one short of Wilt Chamberlain's record. LeBron James totaled 13 points for a career record of 291 to pass Bryant, who retired with 290. Westbrook became the first player in All-Star history to win consecutive MVPs outright. Bob Pettit is the other player to have won back-to-back awards, winning in 1958 and sharing it with Elgin Baylor in 1959.


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2014–15

"Stephen Curry"
Stephen Curry Wardell Stephen Curry II ( ; born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Many players and analysts have called him the greatest shooter in NBA history. He is credited with revolutionizing the game of basketball by inspiring teams to regularly employ the three-point shot as part of their winning strategy. In 2014–15, Curry won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award and led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. The following season, he became the first player in NBA history to be elected


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2016

"2016–17 Golden State Warriors season"
Warrior has won it. The Warriors won the Team of the Year Award at the Espy Awards. Durant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green were all named to the All-Star Game, the first time Golden State have had four All-Stars and just the eighth time in NBA history a single team has had four players in the game. The Warriors were the only team with multiple players named to the All-NBA Team this season, with Curry, Durant and Green all selected. Bob Myers won the Executive of the Year Award, his second win in three years. The Warriors were


Question: when did stephen curry won the mvp award

Answer: 2015

"NBA Finals"
starting a regular season game that season. During the 2015–16 season, the Warriors broke the record for most wins in a season with a record of 73–9 and Curry won his second straight MVP award, as well as becoming the first unanimous MVP in history and shattering his own record for three-pointers made in a single season by over one hundred in the process. The Warriors fell to a 3-1 deficit in the Western Conference Finals against a Kevin Durant-led Oklahoma City Thunder team, but won three straight elimination games to take the series and advance to a second straight


Question: who scored the most points in a game nba history

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

"James Harden"
block in a 105–96 win over the Detroit Pistons. He became just the fourth NBA player in the last 25 years to post those totals in a single game and matched the third-highest point total for any NBA player in his team debut (most for Rockets debut). Two days later, he scored 45 points against the Atlanta Hawks. His 82 total points were the most scored by a player in his first two games with a team in NBA history, surpassing the previous mark held by Wilt Chamberlain, who scored 79 points in his first two career games with the


Question: who scored the most points in a game nba history

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

"Kobe Bryant"
Heat. Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers, and he led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, he scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in league history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in 2008. After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals, he led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the Finals MVP Award on both occasions. He continued to be among the top players


Question: who scored the most points in a game nba history

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

"Michael Jordan"
for points in a playoff game with 63 in Game 2. The Celtics, however, managed to sweep the series. Jordan had completely recovered in time for the 1986–87 season, and he had one of the most prolific scoring seasons in NBA history. He became the only player other than Wilt Chamberlain to score 3,000 points in a season, averaging a league high 37.1 points on 48.2% shooting. In addition, Jordan demonstrated his defensive prowess, as he became the first player in NBA history to record 200 steals and 100 blocked shots in a season. Despite Jordan's success, Magic Johnson won


Question: who scored the most points in a game nba history

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

"Los Angeles Lakers"
Kobe Bryant that ended his season after 78 games. The absence of Bryant was sorely felt as the Lakers were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs. Nevertheless, Bryant passed Lakers legend Wilt Chamberlain to become the fourth all-time leading scorer in NBA history on March 30, 2013, against the Sacramento Kings. On March 25, 2014, the Lakers scored 51 points in the third quarter against the New York Knicks, the most points scored in a quarter in the history of the franchise. The Lakers went on to miss the NBA playoffs


Question: who scored the most points in a game nba history

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

"Center (basketball)"
Most notably, Chamberlain is the only player in NBA history to average more than 50 points in a season and score 100 points in a single game (both in 1961–62 as a member of the Philadelphia Warriors). He also holds the NBA's all-time records for rebounding average (27.2), rebounds in a single game (55), and career rebounds (23,924). A lesser-known center of the era was Nate Thurmond, who initially played the forward position opposite Wilt Chamberlain for the San Francisco Warriors but moved to center after Chamberlain was traded to the new Philadelphia franchise. Although he never won a Championship,


Question: when did taylor swift's first album release

Answer: October 24, 2006

"Taylor Swift (album)"
2008 with the original album artwork, including the three new songs from the ""Taylor Swift Deluxe Edition"", as well as the radio edit of ""Picture to Burn,"" and an additional pop remix of ""Teardrops on My Guitar"". This version of the album was also released on vinyl in 2016. A karaoke version of ""Taylor Swift"" was released on January 27, 2009, containing the first fourteen tracks from the album on both CD+G and DVD. Swift's first broadcast performance of ""Tim McGraw"" was on October 24, 2006 on ""Good Morning America"". Other songs from ""Taylor Swift"" have been performed on television


Question: when did taylor swift's first album release

Answer: October 24, 2006

"Taylor Swift (album)"
Taylor Swift (album) Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 24, 2006, by Big Machine Records. Swift was 16 years old at the time of the album's release and wrote its songs during her freshman year of high school. Swift has writing credits on all of the album's songs, including those co-written with Liz Rose. Swift experimented with several producers, ultimately choosing Nathan Chapman, who had produced her demo album. Musically, the album is country music styled, and lyrically it speaks of romantic relationships, a couple of which Swift wrote from observing


Question: when did taylor swift's first album release

Answer: October 24, 2006

"Taylor Swift (album)"
during a four-month period before 2005 was over. ""Taylor Swift"" was released on October 24, 2006 with eleven tracks. Swift was highly involved in the album packaging, designing doodle graphics herself. She also personally capitalized specific letters in the lyrics from each song to spell out hidden messages, a feat she would also execute for her succeeding albums. On November 6, 2007, the album was released under the title ""Taylor Swift Deluxe Edition"" for a limited time. The deluxe edition contained three new songs: ""I'm Only Me When I'm with You"", ""Invisible"" and ""A Perfectly Good Heart"", the radio edits


Question: when did taylor swift's first album release

Answer: 2005

"Taylor Swift discography"
to the RIAA, Swift is the third-best-selling digital singles artist in the United States, with cumulative single certifications of 120 million digital downloads and on-demand streaming. Meanwhile, US total album sales stand at 46.5 million copies. With estimated sales of over 87 million albums and 153 million singles worldwide, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists. Taylor Swift discography American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's career began with a record deal with Big Machine Records in 2005 and the release of her eponymous debut album the following year. In the United States, ""Taylor Swift"" peaked at number five on the ""Billboard""


Question: when's the last time michigan won a national championship in basketball

Answer: 1989

"2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game"
2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship in 2016. Villanova defeated Michigan, 79–62. Donte DiVincenzo, a reserve player, scored 31 points for Villanova, and was named the


Question: when's the last time michigan won a national championship in basketball

Answer: 1989

"2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game"
180 countries. In Canada, the game aired on TSN. Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One. 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship


Question: when's the last time michigan won a national championship in basketball

Answer: 1989

"1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game"
to cut the Seton Hall lead to 79-78. After a defensive stop, Gerald Greene fouled Rumeal Robinson with three seconds left in overtime. Robinson made both free throws and after Seton Hall's last-second shot came up short, Michigan won its first national championship. 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final round of the 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 1988–89 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 1989 National Title Game was played on April 3, 1989 at the


Question: when's the last time michigan won a national championship in basketball

Answer: 1989

"2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game"
NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player. The Michigan Wolverines last won the NCAA Tournament in 1989. Their most recent appearance in the championship game was in 2013. At one point unranked in the AP Poll, Michigan won their final 14 games before the title game to end the 2017–18 regular season with a 28–7 win-loss record after winning the 2018 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. They earned the No. 3 seed in the West Regional. Michigan defeated the No. 14 Montana Grizzlies in the first round by a score of 61–47. They then reached the Sweet 16 by defeating


Question: when's the last time michigan won a national championship in basketball

Answer: 1989

"Dena Head"
Dena Head Dena Head (born August 16, 1970) is an American retired women's basketball player. She is best remembered as the first player ever drafted in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). At Salem high school in Canton, Michigan, Head was named Miss Basketball of Michigan. She won two National Championships and was an All-American. Dena played for Coach Fred Thomann, a former Michigan State University standout. Head attended the University of Tennessee and earned a degree in sports management. She played four years of basketball, winning the NCAA women's college basketball championship in 1989 and 1991. Head was named


Question: when did ireland gain its independence from england

Answer: 1922

"Governance of England"
Governance of England There has not been a government of England since 1707 when the Kingdom of England ceased to exist as a sovereign state, as it merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Kingdom of Great Britain continued from 1707 until 1801 when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which itself became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) in 1922 (in reality; in name in 1927) upon independence for most of the island of Ireland. The UK


Question: when did ireland gain its independence from england

Answer: In 1922

"Northern Ireland national football team"
Ireland and Southern Ireland. In 1922, Southern Ireland gained independence as the Irish Free State, later to become a republic under the name of Ireland. Amid these political upheavals, a rival football association, the Football Association of Ireland, emerged in Dublin in 1921 and organised a separate league and international team. In 1923, at a time when the home nations had withdrawn from FIFA, the FAI was recognised by FIFA as the governing body of the Irish Free State on the condition that it changed its name to the Football Association of the Irish Free State. The Irish FA continued


Question: when did ireland gain its independence from england

Answer: 1922

"Governance of England"
in certain areas; Governance of England There has not been a government of England since 1707 when the Kingdom of England ceased to exist as a sovereign state, as it merged with the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Kingdom of Great Britain continued from 1707 until 1801 when it merged with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which itself became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) in 1922 (in reality; in name in 1927) upon independence for most of the island of


Question: when did ireland gain its independence from england

Answer: 1922

"Northern Ireland Conservatives"
a level of independence. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the IUA dissolved. Its successor in Northern Ireland was the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). From 1922, the Conservative Party maintained formal links with the UUP, its members taking the Conservative whip in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, much like the then-independent Unionist Party of Scotland, which integrated into the party in England and Wales in the 1960s. This relationship broke down in 1972, following Unionist opposition to the proposed Sunningdale Agreement, when all but one of the UUP MPs resigned the Conservative whip. The sole


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Northern War plague outbreak"
Death is sometimes seen not as the start of the second, but as the end of the first pandemic – in that case, the second pandemic's start would be 1361; the end dates of the second pandemic given in literature also vary, e.g. ~1890 instead of ~1840. The plague during the Great Northern War falls within the second pandemic, which by the late 17th century had its final recurrence in western Europe (e.g. the Great Plague of London 1666–68) and, in the 18th century final recurrences in the rest of Europe (e.g. the plague during the Great Northern War in


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

"Great Plague of London"
Fields. In both of these localities, poor workers were crowded into ill-kept structures. Two suspicious deaths were recorded in St. Giles parish in 1664 and another in February 1665. These did not appear as plague deaths on the Bills of Mortality, so no control measures were taken by the authorities, but the total number of people dying in London during the first four months of 1665 showed a marked increase and another in 1855. By the end of April, only four plague deaths had been recorded, two in the parish of St. Giles, but total deaths per week had risen


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

"St Giles, London"
from the city settled in the St Giles district known for the generous charitable relief of the parish. Irish and French refugees were drawn to the area as well as ""St Giles blackbirds"", black servants reduced to begging. The 1665 Great Plague started in St Giles and the first victims were buried in the St. Giles churchyard. By September 1665, 8000 people were dying a week in London. By the end of the plague year there were 3,216 listed plague deaths in St Giles parish, which had fewer than 2,000 households. After the Restoration, the area was populated by Huguenot


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Plague of London"
they had ever been seen ..."". Plague cases continued to occur sporadically at a modest rate until the summer of 1666. On the second and third of September that year, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. However, it is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place. In fact, most of the later cases of plague were found in the suburbs, and it was the City of London itself that was destroyed by the Fire. According


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Charles II of England"
accounted for: For that his discourse was his own, his actions were the ministry's"". In 1665, Charles was faced with a great health crisis: the Great Plague of London. The death toll reached a peak of 7,000 per week in the week of 17 September. Charles, with his family and court, fled London in July to Salisbury; Parliament met in Oxford. Plague cases ebbed over the winter, and Charles returned to London in February 1666. After a long spell of hot and dry weather through mid-1666, what later became known as the Great Fire of London started on 2 September


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Plague of London"
Great Plague of London The Great Plague, lasting from 1665–1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long time period of the Second Pandemic, an extended period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics which began in China in 1331, the first year of the Black Death, an outbreak which included other forms such as pneumonic plague, and lasted until 1750. The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people—almost a quarter of London's population—in 18 months. The plague was caused by the ""Yersinia pestis"" bacterium, which is usually transmitted through the bite


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Stuart London"
September 1665 he wrote """"I have stayed in the city till above 7400 died in one week, and of them about 6000 of the plague, and little noise heard day or night but tolling of bells."" "" The Great Plague was immediately followed by another catastrophe, albeit one which helped to put an end to the plague. On the Sunday, 2 September 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a house in Pudding Lane in the southern part of the City. Fanned by an eastern wind the fire spread, and efforts to


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"History of London"
people, which was one fifth of the population. Samuel Pepys chronicled the epidemic in his diary. On 4 September 1665 he wrote ""I have stayed in the city till above 7400 died in one week, and of them about 6000 of the plague, and little noise heard day or night but tolling of bells."" The Great Plague was immediately followed by another catastrophe, albeit one which helped to put an end to the plague. On the Sunday, 2 September 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a bakery in Pudding Lane in


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

"Great Fire of London"
Pearson. Another monument marks the spot where the fire stopped: the Golden Boy of Pye Corner in Smithfield. According to the inscription, it was evidence of God's wrath on the City of London for the sin of gluttony that the fire started at Pudding Lane and stopped at Pye Corner. The Great Plague epidemic of 1665 is believed to have killed a sixth of London's inhabitants, or 80,000 people, and it is sometimes suggested that the fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which transmitted the plague,


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Answer: 1665

"Second plague pandemic"
may have reduced world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million by the year 1400. The plague returned at intervals with varying virulence and mortality until the early 19th century. In England, for example, the plague returned in 1360–63 killing 20% of Londoners and in 1369 killing 10–15%. In the 17th-century outbreaks were a series of ""great plagues"": the Great Plague of Seville (1647–52); the Great Plague of London (1665–66); and the Great Plague of Vienna (1679). In its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720–22, the Great Plague of 1738 (which hit Eastern


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

London
two months. The fortifications failed their only test when the New Model Army entered London in 1647, and they were levelled by Parliament the same year. London was plagued by disease in the early 17th century, culminating in the Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population. The Great Fire of London broke out in 1666 in Pudding Lane in the city and quickly swept through the wooden buildings. Rebuilding took over ten years and was supervised by Robert Hooke as Surveyor of London. In 1708 Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

"Great Plague of London"
preserve us all!"" Another source of information on the time is a fictional account, ""A Journal of the Plague Year"", which was written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. He had been only six when the plague struck but made use of his family's recollections (his uncle was a saddler in East London and his father a butcher in Cripplegate), interviews with survivors and sight of such official records as were available. By July 1665, plague was rampant in the City of London. The rich ran away, including King Charles II of England, his family and his court, who


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

Bumblescratch
were varied. On March 20, 2018 on the popular American quiz show, ""Jeopardy!"", the host Alex Trebek supplied the statement: """"Bumblescratch"", set in 1665-1666 London starts with a plague and ends with this other disaster."" to which the contestant correctly posited, ""What is the Great Fire of London?"" Bumblescratch Bumblescratch is an original sung-through musical with book, music and lyrics by Robert J. Sherman. The musical premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 4 September 2016 as a one night, celebrity gala charity event in aid of Variety, the Children's Charity (UK). This was done as part of weekend


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Plague of London"
gentry returned in their carriages accompanied by carts piled high with their belongings. The judges moved back from Windsor to sit in Westminster Hall, although Parliament, which had been prorogued in April 1665, did not reconvene until September 1666. Trade recommenced and businesses and workshops opened up. London was the goal of a new wave of people who flocked to the city in expectation of making their fortunes. Writing at the end of March 1666, Lord Clarendon, the Lord Chancellor, stated ""... the streets were as full, the Exchange as much crowded, the people in all places as numerous as


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries"
coffeehouses had a particular character during their height in popularity, spanning between 1660, after the Restoration of the monarchy, till their decline towards the end of the 18th century. Coffeehouses soon became the ""town's latest novelty."" A relaxed atmosphere, their relative cheapness and frequency contributed to coffeehouse sociability and their rise in demand. Despite two major setbacks faced by the coffeehouses during their height in popularity, the outbreak of the plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London that followed in 1666, the coffeehouse popularity did not wane. Ellis explains: ""Londoners could not be entirely subdued and there were


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

Loimologia
by John Quincy. ""Loimologia"" was one of the sources used by Daniel Defoe when writing ""A Journal of the Plague Year"" (1722). Loimologia Loimologia, or, an historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion is a treatise by Dr. Nathaniel Hodges (1629–1688), originally published in London in Latin (Loimologia, sive, Pestis nuperæ apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica) in 1672; an English translation was later published in London in 1720. The treatise provides a first-hand account of the Great Plague of London; it has been described as the best medical record of


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

Whitehall
1658. During the Great Plague of London in 1665, people boarded coaches at Whitehall, then at the edge of urban London, in an attempt to escape. The King and court temporarily moved to Oxford to avoid the plague, while Samuel Pepys remarked in his diary on 29 June, ""By water to Whitehall, where the Court is full of waggons and people ready to go out of town. This end of town every day grows very bad with plague"". By the 18th century, traffic was struggling along the narrow streets south of Holbein Gate, which led to King Street Gate being


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Plague of London"
to the Bills of Mortality, there were in total 68,596 deaths in London from the plague in 1665. Lord Clarendon estimated that the true number of mortalities was probably twice that figure. The next year, 1666, saw further deaths in other cities but on a lesser scale. Dr Thomas Gumble, chaplain to the Duke of Albemarle, both of whom had stayed in London for the whole of the epidemic, estimated that the total death count for the country from plague during 1665 and 1666 was about 200,000. The Great Plague of 1665/1666 was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Great Plague of London"
included Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton. In fact, out of the fire and pestilence flowed a renaissance in the arts and sciences in England. Plague pits have been archaeologically excavated during underground construction work. Between 2011 and 2015, some 3,500 burials from the 'New Churchyard' or 'Bethlam burial ground' were discovered during the construction of the Crossrail railway at Liverpool Street. ""Yersinia pestis"" DNA was found in the teeth of individuals found buried in pits at the site, confirming they had died of bubonic plague. Great Plague of London The Great Plague, lasting from 1665–1666, was the


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1665

"Epidemiology of plague"
of the plague of 1479–80 could have been as high as 20%. The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636, and ended with the Great Plague of London in 1665. In 1466, perhaps 40,000 people died of plague in Paris. During the 16th and 17th centuries, plague visited Paris for almost one year out of three. The Black Death ravaged Europe for three years before it continued on into Russia, where the disease hit somewhere once every five or six years from 1350 to 1490.


Question: when did the great plague of london start and end

Answer: 1666

"Peter Barwick"
Hodges in his account of the plague ""Loimologia"" for his services in London, while attending the daily service at the cathedral and working with the clergy there. Though the plague could not drive him from his home, the Great Fire of London did in 1666: his house was burned down with St Paul's, and he moved to the neighbourhood of Westminster Abbey. Here he lived for many years, on good terms with his neighbour Richard Busby, doing charity work and writing. He was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, 1687, and ‘elect’ from 26 March 1685 to


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Nigambodh Ghat"
Yudhishthira and Nigambodh Gate lie adjacent to the ghats, which one of last gates of the walled city of Old Delhi (Shahjahanabad) built during Mughal Empire. Nigambodh Ghat Nigambodh Ghat is located on the banks of the Yamuna river coast in New Delhi, situated on the Ring Road, Delhi at the back of the historic Red Fort. It consists of a series of bathing and ceremonial stepped piers leading to the waters of the river. It is most known for being the oldest burning ghat in Delhi for performing Antyesti (Antim Sanskar), Hindu funeral rites and also one of its


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Sahibi River"
Sahibi River The Sahibi river, also called the Sabi River , is an ephemeral, rain-fed river flowing through Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi states in India. It drains into Yamuna at Delhi, where its channeled course is also called the Najafgarh drain, which also serves as Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary. Sahibi is a seasonal river which is 120 km long and flows from Aravalli hills in Rajasthan to Haryana, of which 100 km is in Haryana. Several Ochre Coloured Pottery culture sites (also identified as late Harappan phase of Indus Valley Civilisation culture) have been found along the banks of Sahibi


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Hindon River"
Hindon River Hindon River, a tributary of Yamuna river, is a river in India that originates in the Saharanpur District, from Upper Shivalik in Lower Himalayan Range. The river is entirely rainfed and has a catchment area of . It flows between Ganges and Yamuna rivers for through Muzaffarnagar District, Meerut District, Baghpat District, Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida before it joins Yamuna river just outside Delhi. The Hindon Air Force Base of the Indian Air Force also lies on its bank in the Ghaziabad district on the outskirts of Delhi. Kali river, which originates in the Doon Valley and travels


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Sonia Vihar"
Yamuna bank of Sonia Vihar. All Other festivals of different communities are also celebrated time to time. Sonia Vihar water treatment plant of Delhi Jal Board has been functioning since 2006. It gets 80 cusecs of water from Upper Ganga Canal north of Muradnagar through large conduit pipes and treats the raw water to supply potable water to several parts of Delhi. Sonia Vihar Sonia Vihar(सोनिया विहार) is a north-east suburb of Delhi near Wazirabad on the bank of the river Yamuna. To the rest of Delhi citizens, it is known for its water treatment plant which supplies potable water


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Yamuna Pushta"
Yamuna Pushta Yamuna Pushta is the ""Pushta"" (embankment) on both sides of the Yamuna River in Delhi, starting from the ITO bridge and up to the Salimgarh Fort. It has also been home to riverbed cultivators, and over 100,000 residents a string of slum colonies (shantytown) for some 40 years, mostly on the western banks, like those near the Nigambodh Ghat (cremation ghats) near Old Delhi and a few on the eastern banks like those near Sakarpur village in East Delhi. Many of these slums were being demolished in 2004, after court orders which were part of the beautification drive


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

Shahdara
Meerut to Delhi. After Chandni Chowk, Shahdara is the among the oldest suburbs of Delhi. In the 18th century CE, Shahdara had grain warehouses and whoIesale grain markets which supplied the Paharganj grain market, across the Yamuna river. Shahdara contains two municipal council zones (Shahdara north and Shahdara south). Shahdara is the fourth station on Line 1 (Red Line) of the Delhi Metro. The Cross River Mall contains Shops, Cafes, Restaurants and a Movie Theatre. The Vikas Cine Mall contains an Indian Bank branch and a Movie Theatre. Shahdara is the location of a number of religious places. The Akshardham


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Sonia Vihar"
Sonia Vihar Sonia Vihar(सोनिया विहार) is a north-east suburb of Delhi near Wazirabad on the bank of the river Yamuna. To the rest of Delhi citizens, it is known for its water treatment plant which supplies potable water to several parts of Delhi. It lies in Karawal Nagar assembly area. Sonia Vihar is situated at a distance of about 26 km from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, 13 km from the New Delhi railway station and 10 km from Delhi Railway station. The nearest Metro station is Vishvavidyala Metro station, 4 km away. City public buses of Delhi Transport Corporation


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

Okhla
Okhla Okhla (Old Canal Housing & Land Authority) is a suburban colony located near Okhla barrage in South Delhi district of National Capital Territory of Delhi. It is more commonly known as Okhla Industrial Area (OIA) or Okhla Industrial Estate, an industrial suburb in South Delhi which is mainly divided into three Phases. Okhla has lent its name to the nearby planned township of NOIDA (New Okhla Industrial Development Area). Okhla is among one of the oldest villages in Delhi near the bank of Yamuna river. This can be judged from the making of Okhla canal (Agra Canal) by Britishers


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

Kunjpura
Kunjpura Kunjpura is a village in Karnal district, Haryana (prior to 1966 Punjab state), India, about 10 km northeast of Karnal city and about 130 km north of the national capital, Delhi. It is on the right bank (west bank) of the Yamuna River, off the Grand Trunk Road that runs from Amritsar to Delhi and further on to Calcutta. Kunjpura was founded by Nawab Najabat Khan in 1729. Kunjpura village has a fort with a long history. It was a major halting point for those who traveled from Khyber Pass to Delhi before modern metalled roads came to be.


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Nigambodh Ghat"
Nigambodh Ghat Nigambodh Ghat is located on the banks of the Yamuna river coast in New Delhi, situated on the Ring Road, Delhi at the back of the historic Red Fort. It consists of a series of bathing and ceremonial stepped piers leading to the waters of the river. It is most known for being the oldest burning ghat in Delhi for performing Antyesti (Antim Sanskar), Hindu funeral rites and also one of its busiest with 50–60 pyres burning every day. It also has an electric crematorium built in the 1950s and a CNG-run crematorium was added by the Municipal


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Ashokan Edicts in Delhi"
to prowl there. The second Ashokan pillar was shifted from Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi by Feruz Shah and erected at a location in the northern ridge of Delhi, close to his hunting palace, between the Chauburji-Masjid and Hindu Rao Hospital. It was an elaborately planned transportation, from its original location, using a 42-wheeled cart to bring it up to the Yamuna river bank and then further transporting it by the Yamuna river route using barges. As seen now, it is of height but the pillar was damaged in an explosion during the rule of Farrukshiar (1713–19). The five


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Delhi Metro"
– Dwarka Sector 9 on 1 April 2006, Barakhamba Road – Indraprastha on 11 November 2006, Indraprastha – Yamuna Bank on 10 May 2009, Yamuna Bank – Noida City Centre on 12 November 2009, and Dwarka Sector 9 – Dwarka Sector 21 on 30 October 2010. This line crosses the Yamuna River between Indraprastha and Yamuna Bank stations, and has India's second extradosed bridge across the Northern Railways mainlines near Pragati Maidan. A branch of the Blue line, inaugurated on 8 January 2010, takes off from Yamuna Bank station and runs for up to Anand Vihar in east Delhi. It


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Siege of Dwarasamudra"
17 November 1310, the Delhi army led by Malik Kafur marched from Delhi with Alauddin's symbol, the royal canopy. Their first stop was Tankal, a village located on the banks of the Yamuna River; the modern identity of this place is uncertain. Here, the minister of war Khwaja Haji held a review of the army over the next 14 days. The army left Tankal on 2 December 1310, and reached a place called Katihun in 21 stages. The modern identity of this place is also uncertain. After leaving Katihun, the Delhi army crossed hills, valleys and three rivers, the largest


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Delhi Ridge"
Delhi Ridge Delhi Ridge, sometimes simply called The Ridge, is a ridge in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India. The ridge is a northern extension of the ancient Aravalli Range, some 1500 million years old (compared to just 50 million for the Himalaya). The ridge consists of quartzite rocks and extends from the Southeast at Tughlaqabad, near the Bhatti mines, branching out in places and tapering off in the north near Wazirabad on the west bank of the river Yamuna, covering a distance of about 35 kilometres. The Delhi Ridge is said to be the green lungs for


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Wazirabad, Delhi"
Wazirabad, Delhi ""For other places with the same name, see Wazirabad (disambiguation)."" <br> Wazirabad () near Wazirabad barrage is a village in Delhi in the Nation Capital Region. It lies in the Civil Lines subdivision of the North Delhi district. Wazirabad is home to a Delhi Police Training Academy, the nearest police station is the Timar pur Police Station. The only bus stand in the area is the wazirabad x-ing bus stand. The village is located on the banks of the Yamuna river and the main road through the village is the Main Jagatpur Road.Wazirabad has an old or antique


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Environmental issues in Delhi"
just about anywhere. Noise pollution comes mainly from motorcycle and automobile traffic. Water pollution and a lack of solid waste treatment facilities have caused serious damage to the river on whose banks Delhi grew, the Yamuna. Besides human and environmental damage, pollution has caused economic damage as well; Delhi may have lost the competition to host the 2014 Asian Games because of its poor environment. Air pollution in Delhi is caused mainly by industry and vehicles. As many as 10,000 people a year may die prematurely in Delhi as a result of air pollution. According to one study, Delhi citizens


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

Baghpat
name from the Sanskrit word ""Vakyaprastha"" (Sanskrit: वाक्यप्रस्थ, lit. ""city of delivering speeches""). Inspired by such words and versions, the city was finally named Baghpat during the Mughal Era. Baghpat is located in western Uttar Pradesh, on the east bank of the Yamuna River. It is northeast of Delhi and west of Meerut, on the main Delhi–Sharanpur highway. Baghpat is the headquarters of Baghpat district, which is in the shape of a north-south rectangle. To the north of Baghpat district are Shamli and Muzaffarnagar districts, to the east Meerut district, to the south Ghaziabad district, and to the west, across


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Noorpur Muzbida Harsana"
It has an average elevation of 230 metres (754 ft). The village is located on the banks of river Yamuna. It is 58 km from Meerut City and is on the main Delhi – Saharanpur Highway around 40 km from Delhi.In the north of the district Bagpat there is district Muzaffarnagar,in the south district Ghaziabad,in the west river Yamuna and district Rohtak of Harayana. The distance to New Delhi from this village is 40 km. Educational institutions of Noorpur are: Noorpur has agriculture as its main industry. The area is fertile, being close to the river Yamuna/Jamuna. Main crops are


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Delhi Female Medical Mission"
medical and religious—the DFMM was to be ""a medical mission among the native women on Delhi, with the double objective of alleviating much physical suffering, and of taking a knowledge of Christianity to them in their secluded homes."" The Delhi Female Medical Mission was actually founded in 1867, when Winter returned to India. Between the years of 1867 and 1874, the Mission was just an open-air dispensary on the banks of the Yamuna River. The dispensary was located in Chandni Chowk, a market region in old Delhi. A ""temporary hospital"" with bed for ten women was later opened up alongside


Question: delhi is on the banks of which river

Answer: Yamuna

"Humayun's Tomb"
""Bagh-e Babur"" (Gardens of Babur) in Kabul (Afghanistan). Though the latter was the first Emperor to start the tradition of being buried in a paradise garden. Modelled on ""Gur-e Amir"", the tomb of his ancestor and Asia's conqueror Timur in Samarkand, it created a precedent for future Mughal architecture of royal mausolea, which reached its zenith with the Taj Mahal, at Agra. The site was chosen on the banks of Yamuna river, due to its proximity to Nizamuddin Dargah, the mausoleum of the celebrated Sufi saint of Delhi, Nizamuddin Auliya, who was much revered by the rulers of Delhi, and


Question: who ran the fastest 40 yard dash in the nfl

Answer: John Ross

"Rondel Menendez"
Rondel Menendez Rondel Menendez (born May 18, 1975) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the seventh-round of the 1999 NFL Draft out of Eastern Kentucky University. He shared the record for the fastest 40-yard dash time with Chris Johnson, recorded at the NFL Combine at 4.24 seconds. In 2017, his record was broken by John Ross, who ran a 4.22 second 40-yard dash. After accumulating 821 yards receiving in his first two years with Eastern Kentucky, Menendez accomplished a breakout season in his junior year, totaling 1,137 yards on 54 receptions.


Question: who ran the fastest 40 yard dash in the nfl

Answer: John Ross

"Dri Archer"
a passing touchdown. Archer was named the MAC Special Teams Player of the Year. He made the All-MAC first team as a running back and kick returner. He was also a finalist for the Paul Hornung Award. Archer was a consensus All-American. Source: At the NFL Scouting Combine, Archer ran the 40-yard dash in 4.26 seconds, which is the third fastest time ever recorded (Chris Johnson 4.24 and John Ross 4.22) since the NFL began electronic timing. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 3rd round (97th overall) in the 2014 NFL Draft. On September 7, 2014, Archer


Question: when was the book pride and prejudice written

Answer: 1813

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is a mashup combining Jane Austen's classic novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1813) with elements of modern zombie fiction, crediting Austen as co-author. It was first published in April 2009 by Quirk Books and in October 2009 a Deluxe Edition was released, containing full-color images and additional zombie scenes. The novel was adapted into a 2016 film starring Lily James and Sam Riley. Quirk Books editor, Jason Rekulak, developed the idea for ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"" after comparing a list of


Question: when was the book pride and prejudice written

Answer: 1813

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
instead, Steve Hockensmith authored the work. Steve Hockensmith wrote a sequel in the series titled ""Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After"", which was released on March 22, 2011. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is a mashup combining Jane Austen's classic novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1813) with elements of modern zombie fiction, crediting Austen as co-author. It was first published in April 2009 by Quirk Books and in October 2009 a Deluxe Edition was released, containing full-color images and additional zombie scenes. The novel was