the 20th Entry -- ThursdayNiteOut.ppt
1.A murder has just been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first class ticket to London by the train that left Slough at 7.42pm. He is in the garb of a Kwaker with a brown great coat on which reaches his feet. He is in the last compartment of the second first-class carriage .What is the significance of this line ???
2.Connect
27 April, 1936 -
16 December, 1937 -
23 May, 1938 -
13 January, 1939 -
21 May, 1941 -
15 September, 1941 -
14 April, 1943 -
7 August, 1943 -
31 July, 1945 -
2-4 May, 1946 –
23 July, 1956 -
29 September, 1958 -
11 June, 1962 -
16 December, 1962 –
This island received its name in 1775 when Spanish explorer Juan Manuel
de Ayala charted the San Francisco Bay, and named this tiny speck of land
La Isla de los Alcatraces, which translated to "Island of the Pelicans."
The small uninhabited island had little to offer, with its swift currents,
minimal vegetation, and barren ground.
15.Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits
of its decline
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured.
feasted, fed,
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name
combine?
I name thee, O Sakuntala! and all at once is said. "
16. These animals are classified as
Western _____________
Western Lowland ______________
Cross River_______________
Eastern______________
Mountain ____________
Eastern Lowland____________________
They gather in groups called harem
17.Which is the most photographed Indian Monument in the 19th century after the Taj
18. In 2005 why did the Isle of Man come under the limelight for 2 days ??
19.According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sobrino de Botin in Madrid, Spain is the oldest _____________ in existence today. It opened in 1725. The term ________ (from the French for restore) first appeared in the 16th century, meaning "a food which restores", and referred specifically to a rich, highly flavoured soup. It was first applied to an establishment in around 1765 founded by a Parisian soup-seller named Boulanger. The first ___________ in the form that became standard (customers sitting down with individual portions at individual tables, selecting food from menus, during fixed opening hours) was the Grand Taverne de Londres, founded in 1782 by a man named Beauvilliers.
20. This is believed to date back to the 16th century and refer to necessity for Catholic priests to hide in 'Priest Holes' ( very small secret rooms once found in many great houses in England) to avoid persecution from zealous Protestants who were totally against the old Catholic religion. If caught both the priest and members of any family found harbouring them were executed. The moral was that something unpleasant would surely happen to anyone failing to say their prayers correctly - meaning the Protestant Prayers, said in English as opposed to Catholic prayers which were said in Latin!
21.In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, Persephone was the daughter produced by the union of Zeus and Demeter. "And he [Zeus] came to the bed of bountiful Demeter, who bore white-armed Persephone, stolen by Hades from her mother's side".
Unlike every other offspring of an Olympian pairing, Persephone has no stable position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other gods, a goddess within Nature before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling [1], the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo and Hephaistos, had all wooed Persephone, but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the gods. Thus, Persephone lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the underworld, which, according to Olympian mythographers, did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her into the underworld. She was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs—and Athena and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says—, or Leucippe, or Oceanids— in a field in Enna when he came, bursting up through a cleft in the earth; the nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter (goddess of the Earth) searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told her what had happened.
The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton (1891).
Finally, Zeus, pressured by the cries of the hungry people and by the other gods who also heard their anguish, could not put up with the dying earth and forced Hades to return Persephone. But before she was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating three pomegranate seeds, (or six, or four according to some versions of the myth) which forced her to return to the underworld for one month each year for every seed that she ate. In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other gods that Persephone had eaten the pomegranate seeds. When Demeter and her daughter were together, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for four months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm of darkness
2.Connect
27 April, 1936 -
16 December, 1937 -
23 May, 1938 -
13 January, 1939 -
21 May, 1941 -
15 September, 1941 -
14 April, 1943 -
7 August, 1943 -
31 July, 1945 -
2-4 May, 1946 –
23 July, 1956 -
29 September, 1958 -
11 June, 1962 -
16 December, 1962 –
This island received its name in 1775 when Spanish explorer Juan Manuel
de Ayala charted the San Francisco Bay, and named this tiny speck of land
La Isla de los Alcatraces, which translated to "Island of the Pelicans."
The small uninhabited island had little to offer, with its swift currents,
minimal vegetation, and barren ground.
3.
3.Connect
4.
4.Identify
5.
5. Connect
6.
6.Describe
7.
7.Connect
10.
10.Connect
11.
11. Connect
12.
12. Identify the 2
13.The original 50 guineas ( somewhere close to $150) trophy was made in 1864 by Messrs. Elkington and Co. Ltd of Birmingham and is a copy of an electrotype by Caspar Enderlein from the pewter original in the Louvre.
14.Which is the most photographed Indian Monument in the 19th century after the Taj
15.Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits
of its decline
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured.
feasted, fed,
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name
combine?
I name thee, O Sakuntala! and all at once is said. "
16. These animals are classified as
Western _____________
Western Lowland ______________
Cross River_______________
Eastern______________
Mountain ____________
Eastern Lowland____________________
They gather in groups called harem
17.Which is the most photographed Indian Monument in the 19th century after the Taj
18. In 2005 why did the Isle of Man come under the limelight for 2 days ??
19.According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Sobrino de Botin in Madrid, Spain is the oldest _____________ in existence today. It opened in 1725. The term ________ (from the French for restore) first appeared in the 16th century, meaning "a food which restores", and referred specifically to a rich, highly flavoured soup. It was first applied to an establishment in around 1765 founded by a Parisian soup-seller named Boulanger. The first ___________ in the form that became standard (customers sitting down with individual portions at individual tables, selecting food from menus, during fixed opening hours) was the Grand Taverne de Londres, founded in 1782 by a man named Beauvilliers.
20. This is believed to date back to the 16th century and refer to necessity for Catholic priests to hide in 'Priest Holes' ( very small secret rooms once found in many great houses in England) to avoid persecution from zealous Protestants who were totally against the old Catholic religion. If caught both the priest and members of any family found harbouring them were executed. The moral was that something unpleasant would surely happen to anyone failing to say their prayers correctly - meaning the Protestant Prayers, said in English as opposed to Catholic prayers which were said in Latin!
21.In the Olympian pantheon, Persephone is given a father: according to Hesiod's Theogony, Persephone was the daughter produced by the union of Zeus and Demeter. "And he [Zeus] came to the bed of bountiful Demeter, who bore white-armed Persephone, stolen by Hades from her mother's side".
Unlike every other offspring of an Olympian pairing, Persephone has no stable position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other gods, a goddess within Nature before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling [1], the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo and Hephaistos, had all wooed Persephone, but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the gods. Thus, Persephone lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the underworld, which, according to Olympian mythographers, did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her into the underworld. She was innocently picking flowers with some nymphs—and Athena and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says—, or Leucippe, or Oceanids— in a field in Enna when he came, bursting up through a cleft in the earth; the nymphs were changed by Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter (goddess of the Earth) searched everywhere for her lost daughter. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told her what had happened.
The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton (1891).
Finally, Zeus, pressured by the cries of the hungry people and by the other gods who also heard their anguish, could not put up with the dying earth and forced Hades to return Persephone. But before she was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating three pomegranate seeds, (or six, or four according to some versions of the myth) which forced her to return to the underworld for one month each year for every seed that she ate. In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other gods that Persephone had eaten the pomegranate seeds. When Demeter and her daughter were together, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for four months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm of darkness
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