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• Gordon Ramsay at Claridges is considered the most glamorous of all of Ramsay’s London restaurants. It is estimated that it would cost approximately £72 for dinner and drinks as a bottle of house wine is priced at about £20. They offer a fixed price lunch of 3 courses, priced at £30. At Gordon Ramsay on Royal Hospital Road, you can expect to have to pay about £60 for dinner per person. A bottle of house wine here costs £18. This restaurant won the LondonEats.com Award for Best Overall Restaurant in 2003 and 2002. It also won the Time Out Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2002. At Gordon Ramsay’s Boxwood Café, a Set Lunch Menu is priced at £21 for 3 courses. The A La Carte Menu has starters which are from £7.50 to £13.50 while the mains are from £14 to £25. They offer a Taster Menu for £55 which comprises 6 courses. The house wine at this venue costs £26 per bottle.

• Which Is The Most Expensive Restaurant In The World?

  Posted: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:55:16 +0000

  This is the type of thing that Forbes compiles lists of. Keep in mind restaurants make their wild profits on alcohol, not on food. This list only details expensive food. As for expensive booze, the sky is the limit. For wildly extravagant dining experiences, head for Tokyo: The Aragawa will set you back US $277 per head for a basic beef-based meal (but said to be some of the finest beef in the world). Drinks may not be included. Toronto: Well, 2 hours north driving, actually. $213 per head, for farm-grown produce on Eigensinn Farm. Paris: Arpege, meals heavy on veg but still cost a fortune: plan on $211 per person. London: Sketch, $176 per person, features New French cuisine (don’t ask me how that differs from Nouveau cuisine). Zurich: Petermann’s Kunststuben, $151 per head for a 6 course meal (wine is extra, though). Sydney: Tetsuya’s Restaurant, $135. Classic basics. Berlin: Vitrum, $118 per head. Classic German cuisine under chandeliers. Vienna: Steirereck, $114 buys you a 6 course meal for one. Wine still extra, of course. Madrid: Zalacain: 3 courses for $108, Classic Spanish cuisine and modern fare. Amsterdam: Yamazato, Japanese theme, $108 gets you 7 courses.

• How Many People Died In The Blitz?

  Posted: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:39:50 +0000

  The Blitz was the non-stop bombing done on the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany. It occurred between 7th September 1940 and 16th May 1941. The bombing was done through Luftwaffe and it struck a number of cities and towns all across the United Kingdom, thought it main attack was concentrated on London. The Blitz bombing resulted in the death of forty three thousand people and shattered more than a million homes. The main objective of the German bombing strategy was to knock Britain out of the war, which it could not achieve. The Blitz bombing was the initial example of Strategic Bombing. The meaning of the German Word “Blitz” is “Lightning”. The last major attack of the Blitz Bombing occurred on 10th May 1941, this attack resulted in many important buildings like the British Museum, House of Parliaments and St James Palace either being destroyed or damaged.

• What Is The Function Of A Nucleus?

  Posted: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:32:01 +0000

  Nucleus is the master organelle of all living cells .It is called as the brain of the cell. All the major functions of the cell are performed under the instruction of nucleus. In animal cells it is present in the middle of the cell whereas in plant cells it is pushed towards the periphery. Nucleus contains chromatin material.The chromatin material consist of DNA which is the hereditary material of the cell.The major functions are:-
  1.It is involved in cell division.
  2.It stores all the information that is to be transferred to the next generation.
  3.Assembly of ribosomes takes place in the nucleolus present inside the nucleus.
  4.DNA replication and transcription processes take place inside the nucleus.
  Transcription is the formation of mRNA. This messenger RNA then plays its role in the translation, the process of protein synthesis.Thus the information generated by nucleus governs the formation of enzymes and other proteins that carry out all the processes of body.

• Why Did Mark David Chapman Shoot John Lennon?

  Posted: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:28:27 +0000

  Because he was seriously delusional. He had convinced himself that the only way to show himself an important person was to do something as audacious as killing one of the most influential pop idols of the 20th century. Chapman had a history of mental illness and drug addiction. He was working as a security guard in Hawaii when he travelled to New York City with the express purpose of killing Lennon. He made this trip several times, but only finally did the horrible act in December, 1980. Chapman was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for this cold-blooded and premeditated act. He’s been up for parole several times since the year 2000, but repeatedly denied. He is kept separate from other prisoners for his own safety, and still receives death threats daily in the mail. Chapman has occasional conjugal visits with his wife of 30 years, Gloria. He has claimed in his recent statements to the parole board that he now understands that Lennon was a real person, not just a cardboard cutout and pop icon. But the parole board has remained unconvinced that it would be safe to let him out.

• How Is The Name Hermione Pronounced?

  Posted: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:34:41 +0000

  Anyone who has read the Harry Potter books will know the answer to this one, because it is a cause of arguments in at least one of the books. The correct pronunciation is her-MY-o-nee, and not HER-mee-own as is often supposed. (Hermione is a main character in the JK Rowling series, Harry’s closest friend apart from Ron.) The name is ancient Greek in origin. It is derived from the messenger god Hermes (Mercury in Roman mythology) although the exact meaning is uncertain. In Greek mythology it is the name of the daughter of Helen of Troy and her husband Menelaus. Hermione marries her cousin Orestes (the son of Agamemnon, who later murders his mother, Clytemnestra.) To English speakers it may be better known as the name of the virtuous and patient wife of king Leontes in Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale,” who is wrongly accused of adultery; but it has never been a common name.

• What Are Tissues?

  Posted: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:32:59 +0000

  A tissue is a part of the body in which cells of the same type work together to perform the same function. Examples of human tissues include epithelial tissue ~ the thin sheets of tissue that line parts of the body such as the intestines and the lungs. Nervous tissue is formed from nerve cells and different types of nervous tissue form the nervous system, the brain, spinal cord and nerves. Muscular tissue contains specialised muscle cells that can respond to signals from nerves and bring about movement in the body. The study of how cells work together to form tissues is called histology. Histologists look at cross sections of tissues to see how the individual cells are arranged. They usually use a powerful light microscope to do this as electron microscopes are reserved for studying individual cells and the inside of cells. It is important for trainee doctors to recognise normal histology, and part of a doctor’s training involves work at the microscope as well as dissection and anatomy lessons.

• What Is Egypt’s Annual Rainfall In Inches?

  Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:09:06 +0000

  Egypt receives only about 3.15 inches of rain per year in some parts of the country. Rain mostly falls along the coast of Egypt. The wettest region of the country is the area around the city of Alexandria. On an average, it receives only about 7.87 inches of rain annually.

  

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  Alexandria has one of the highest percentages of relative humidity in the country. Sea breezes, however, help keep the moisture down considerably, and even though it is very humid, it is quite comfortable. As the rain moves southwards, the amount of rainfall received by the southern regions declines sharply. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, experiences very low relative humidity and receives only 0.39 inches of rain every year. On an average, the relative humidity in summer in Cairo on an average is about 77 per cent. The humidity is very low during the rest of the year and the areas south of the Egyptian capital receive extremely less rainfall.

• How Many Sonnets Did Shakespeare Write?

  Posted: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:05:53 +0000

  William Shakespeare was well known for his sonnets, many of which had love as the main theme. There were 154 sonnets that he wrote in total and 152 of them were published in ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ in 1609, and the other two sonnets were published previously in ‘The Passionate Pilgrim’ in 1599.

  

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  In addition to his sonnets, he also wrote a number of other poems, which were longer. In ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ some of the sonnets are actually a parody of some of the themes he covers, such as love and beauty. In ‘The Passionate Pilgrim’, number 138 and number 144 out of his collection of 150 sonnets appear. One of Shakespeare’s sonnets, (sonnet 18) is one of the more famous sonnets, and has been featured in many films such as ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘Clueless’. The line ‘Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May’ was also an inspiration, as the television programme ‘The Darling Buds of May’ took its name from this line.

• What Is The Deepest Mine In The World, And How Deep Is It?

  Posted: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:13:04 +0000

  The deepest mines are vertical shaft mines; they literally are just tunnels into the ground going straight down, with side tunnels off the sides. The records, so far, are for these types of mines to reach about 3.5 km down (just over 2 miles) into the Earth’s crust. Most of these are in South Africa, extracting gold and diamonds. Possibly the deepest is East Rand, which has working levels extending to 3585 meters. At that depth the pressure on the rock is enormous. So much so that that when a tunnel is created, the rock face (in the tunnel) is prone to exploding. These explosions are called rock burst, and account for something like 250 deaths each year in South African mines. It’s also very hot down this far into the Earth’s crust. So much so that people can only work with industrial strength air conditioning units. The Western Deep mines (also working depth to about 3.5 km deep) is being extended to 4.1 km deep. The plan is to eventually get to 5 km deep, but it’s a tall order. It just gets too hot (estimated temperatures of 70 deg. C being quoted) and dangerous (rock burst, again) to send people down there.

• What Do Our Tonsils Do?

  Posted: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:53:11 +0000

  Most people think we just have two tonsils, located on either side of the throat just behind the tongue. But this isn’t true. There are several pairs of tonsils of different sizes. Tonsils are small bundles of a special kind of tissue called “lymphoid”.Because of their location in the throat, they have a special job. They are the first line of defense against infections entering through the nose and mouth. The largest pair near the palate are “the palatine” tonsils. High in the back of the throat are some smaller ones. These are called “the adenoids”. Other small tonsils are found just below the surface in the back of the tongue, and there are still others in the back of the pharynx. The tonsils are covered by the same smooth membrane that lines the mouth. In the tonsils, this membrane dips down to form deep, thin pockets called “crypts”. The crypts trap germs and other harmful material from the mouth. The white blood cells surround the germs and help to destroy them. So fighting infection is the normal work of the tonsils. Sometimes germs become active inside the tissue of the tonsils, and this may cause inflammation of the whole tonsil. This inflammation is called “tonsillitis”. One or usually both palatine tonsils become enlarged red, and sore. The crypts are swollen and sometimes discharge thick pus. This is acute tonsillitis. It is an infection that happens suddenly and usually goes away in four or five days. Acute tonsillitis develops more often in childhood than in infancy or adulthood. It also happens more often during the winter months, when colds are common.

• What Was The Original Name Of Butterfly?

  Posted: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:26:57 +0000

  ‘Buttorfleoge’ was the Old English word used for butterflies. The apparent reason is that they believed that butterflies used to steal milk. This same belief gave rise to a similar word in Dutch and German.

  

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  There is an alternative folk etymology that the term has evolved as a contraction of the term ‘butter-coloured fly’. This term was generally used for the Brimstone Butterfly (that is the Gonepteryx rhamni), which often is the first butterfly of Spring. A lot of people are of the mistaken opinion that the word butterfly comes from a metathesis of the word “flutterby”. There are four stages in the lifecycle of a butterfy: Egg; larva (known as caterpillar); Pupa (chrysalis); Adult butterfly (imago). There are a lot of folk tales associated with butterflies. One Japanese superstition states that a person you love the most is coming to meet you if a butterfly enters your guestroom and sits behind the bamboo screen. On the contrary, a large number of butterflies is seen as a bad omen.

• In Which Year Was The First Electronic Computer Made?

  Posted: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:18:53 +0000

  The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), first electronic digital computer, was built during 1937-42. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University. Atanasoff is now credited to the discovery of the first digital computer. The ABC incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, parallel processing, and separation of memory and computing functions. It has been considered for a long time that the first electronic digital computer was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) and one can find that name in almost any Computer Science books as the first example of the first generation digital computer systems. ENIAC was built at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of John Mauchly and J. P. Eckert. Work on ENIAC began in 1943 and it was completed in 1946. However, in the early seventies it was proven that the ideas behind ENIAC were taken from the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) computer.

• How Many Calories Would You Burn Swimming For 30 Minutes?

  Posted: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:12:14 +0000

  The amount of calories burnt when swimming for 30 minutes is relative to body type, sex and metabolism, as well as the intensity of the exercise.

  

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  However, for a woman of average weight and size, 30 minutes of swimming should burn 285 calories for back stroke, 273 for breast stroke, 261 for fast crawl, 285 for slow crawl, 204 for side stroke, and 105 for treading water. These figures are based on an average weight of 123lb. In comparison, a man weighing an average of 170lb, would receive the following calorie results: 390 for back stroke, 375 for breast stroke, 360 for fast crawl, 390 for slow crawl, 270 for side stroke and 144 for treading water.

• Who Has The Highest Divorce Settlement?

  Posted: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:30:55 +0000

  The world’s highest divorce settlement or most expensive divorce is of Rupert Murdoch and His wife Anna Murdoch which is of $ 1.7 Billion. Take a look at
  World’s Most Expensive Divorce
  and
  List Of World’s Most Expensive Divorces-You need to scroll down the page to take a look at those list of divorces.
  

• What Three Colours Make Up White Light?

  Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:52:16 +0000

  White light is not specifically a colour, but rather a spectrum containing all the frequencies of visible light. It can be produced using three frequencies of light, or primary colours. The most common are red, green and blue, although any type of colour can be used. When combined at the appropriate intensity, these colours will produce a white effect. This process is employed on television and computer screens through different levels of intensity to produce varying degrees of colour.

• How Many Arms Does A Starfish Have?

  Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:43:57 +0000

  Starfish are from the family in the animal kingdom called the echinoderms. There are several species of starfish and their ‘arms’ are more properly called rays. Most species of five rays, but some can have four and some have nine. Some species have a variable number, but always four, five or nine. Pycnopodia helianthoides, the sunflower star starts with around 9 rays and then add more as they grow. Adults usually have over 20.

  

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  If a starfish loses one of its rays, it can quite often regenerate its tissue completely to form a new one. Usually, regeneration is only possible if the central part of the body, the part that doesn’t belong to the separate rays, is intact. Bizarrely, though, there are some species that can regenerate everything. Starfish from the Linckia species can be torn apart and a new starfish will grow up from each of the mangled fragments. The span of a starfish varies according to the species ~ the smallest are about 1 inch across from ray end to ray end and the largest are a whopping three feet.

• What GCSE’s Do I Need To Have To Get Into University?

  Posted: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:37:46 +0000

  You will need A levels first, and it depends on what you want to study; also, different universities have different requirements. If you wanted to study a science subject, for instance, you would normally be expected to have two or more science Games; but for other subjects eg arts, you wouldn’t. Having said that, universities love science subjects because fewer people are doing science now, so if you did have more than one science GCSE it would give you an advantage anyway. The best way to get an idea is pick a university or college you might be interested in, go to their website and look at their entrance requirements. You can usually contact them direct too if you have more questions. Good luck.

• Where Was The First Battle Of The American Civil War Fought?

  Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:02:13 +0000

  The first battle of the American Civil War was fought at Fort Sumter between the Union and Confederate armies. Fort Sumter was located in the Charleston Harbor, which was situated in the state of South Carolina. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, acting on its threat, which the Southern states had issued lest Abraham Lincoln gets elected as the next president of the United States. The battle at Fort Sumter was fought on the 12th of April in the year 1861. The reason for the fight was the conflict of land of the Fort Sumter between the Union and the Confederate States of America. The conflict soon turned into a full-fledged battle when both of the sides refused to give up Fort Sumter and despite of the strength of the Union army in terms of supplies and the number of soldiers, it was the Confederate army that won the first battle of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter.

• How Many Living Descendants Does William The Conqueror Have?

  Posted: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:45:17 +0000

  William the Conqueror (he of 1066 at the Battle of Hastings, England, all that) had at least 3 sons who survived infancy and an uncertain number of daughters (probably 7) with his wife Matilda.  All of the Royal Houses of Europe are descended from William and Matilda.  Anyone who can trace their ancestry to even a minor royale can claim descent. Assuming that most of William’s children had at least ten children, and keeping in mind that because these were wealthy people most of whose children tended to survive infancy, William and Matilda are ancestors to probably millions of people today.  One estimate is that between 1 and 1.5 million Americans alone can claim descent. Assuming that individuals in each generation produce an average of 5 children every 35 years, until 2005, that would allow 27 generations from 1066 to 1915 leaving 10*5^27 descendants, or approximately billions of  BILLIONS of descendants.. Assuming people never married their distant cousins (which they do).  Neverthless, it would be kind of surprising if many people of European ethnic origin aren’t descended from Wiliam the Conqueror.

• What are hawks’ enemies?

  Posted: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:37:42 +0000

  It has been said that crows are the enemies of the hawk. They have learned that ‘mobbing’ (the correct term) distracts the hawk so it can’t hunt and generally so badly annoys the bird that it leaves the area. With a hawk gone, the crows are safer so they’re really doing a ‘neighborhood watch’ which includes driving the ‘undesirables’ out of the neighborhood.

• How Does ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’ And ‘The Odyssey’ Compare?

  Posted: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:35:59 +0000

  First of all, the George Clooney character’s middle name is Ulysses (the Latin version of Odysseus.) LIke Odysseus, he has been imprisoned before the film starts (Odyssues is held captive by a beautiful nymph and Everett/ Ulysses is in a chain gang, but they both want to escape.) They also both want to go home to their wives -Oysseus to Penelope and Ulysses to Penny – and both wives are being courted by other men. On the way, they encounter some similar adventures. The episode with the “fishing girls” who rob Pete and apparently turn him into a frog, echoes two incidents in the Odyssey. There is the enchantress Circe, who sleeps with men and then turns them into pigs; and the Sirens, who sing to sailors and lure them to their deaths. Odysseu manages to outwit both. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, is similar to the “travelling salesman” who attacks the three friends. The way Everett comes home, winning fame and fortune, is also similar to Oysseus’ final triumph. The characters of the two men are rather similar too – both are a bit untrustworthy, but brave, resourceful and basically good-hearted. The film actually opens with a line from the Odyssey, but I can’t remember what it is.

• What President Took The Most Vacation Days During Their Term? Eisenhower Or Bush?

  Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:33:59 +0000

  There are a lot of conflicting figures flying around, but according to my best information it seems to be Bush, who has taken 418 days off so far (even more than Ronald Reagan, or certainly will be more by the time he stands down.) Eisenhower apparently spent 222 days playing golf, but doesn’t seemed to have equaled Bush’s record. It seems Jimmy Carter spent the most time in the office – about 80 days’ vacation.

• Do Lion-tiger Hybrids (ligers) Really Exist?

  Posted: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:54:44 +0000

  A lot of people have wondered about ligers since they were mentioned in the popular film Napoleon Dynamite a few years ago. Many have been surprised to learn that they actually do exist, as do tigons, lepons, and jaglions. Lions and tigers both belong to the genus Panthera meaning that they have enough common genetic material to make breeding possible.

  

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  These amazing and somewhat mythical sounding hybrids are not found in the wild as most big cats will breed only with their own kind. However, captive breeding programs have created a number of these cat combinations over the past two centuries. The above mentioned cat hybrids were more common during the late 19th century when they were used as attractions in traveling circuses and sideshows. To produce a liger, breeders will mate a male lion and a female tiger. The offspring can weigh up to 1,000 lbs and be up to 12 feet in length. Each liger is unique in appearance and they can have both stripes and spots. If the liger is male, the liger may even have a small mane.

• What Does The Proverb ‘See Rome And Die’ Mean?

  Posted: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:32:08 +0000

  The actual Italian proverb is “See Naples (Napoli) and die.” The idea is that Naples has everything, and when you’ve visited it you have really lived life to the full; there is nothing more to experience. The saying dates from when Naples was more of a national and cultural centre in Italy than it is now. (For instance, it is close to the ancient and now-extinct city of Pompeii.) Today if we think of the “ultimate place” to visit in Italy, we might well think of Rome, as people would have done 2000 years ago; this is one reason why the saying is often misquoted as “See Rome and die.” Another reason for the mistake is that there are so many other sayings about Rome in different languages. These include “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” and “All roads lead to Rome.” So it would be natural to assume that “See it and die” applied to Rome too.

• What Is The Difference Between Delegation And Decentralization?

  Posted: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:27:51 +0000

  Delegation is giving specific tasks and responsibilities to someone else, usually a junior. For instance, if you are an office manager and part of your work is to put new names into a database, you could delegate that to a trainee. Executives are often advised to “learn to delegate” because it’s easy to take on too much work rather than share the burden. Decentralisation is on a much bigger scale. It means moving power and authority away from the centre (usually national government) and handing it over to bodies or organisations outside the centre, especially regional organisations. In politics, this might mean that an area of policy – social housing, for instance – that used to be decided by the national government, is now the responsibility of local government, local councils and so on. The verb “to decentralise” is also quite often used, as in “We need to decentralise decision-making.”

• How Do You Work Out Scale On A Map?

  Posted: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:22:29 +0000

  If it is a map you’re drawing, the scale is the ratio of map distance to real-world distance. If it is a published map, the scale is usually found near the legend. It will often be of the form   1 in = 10 mi or   1 cm = 160 km or   1:125000 Here is a picture of different map scale indications. (Note: The above scales are all different, not equivalent.)

• Who Did The Voice Of KITT In The TV Series Of Knight Rider?

  Posted: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:06:30 +0000

  The voice of KITT was Willian Daniels, an Emmy-award winning actor, whose voice has made him his living. Born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from NorthWestern University, he has also been the president of the Screen Actors Guild in his long career. Daniels appeared as John Adams in the Musical 1776 and won his Emmy starring in St. Elsewhere. He played Dustin Hoffman’s father in the Graduate and also appeared in the Incredible Hulk, Scrubs and the King of Queens. Knight Rider is an American TV drama series which ran for four years but has survived on re-runs since the late Eighties! Most people realised who KITT was when watching the TV series Boy Meets World when the voice of KITT met the face of actor William Daniels, as he starred as Mr Feeny. KITTS arch nemesis was called KARR who was played in voice by Peter Cullen (who also voiced Optimus Prime in the Transformers).

• How Many Films Did John Wayne Die In?

  Posted: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:47:19 +0000

  Well, John Wayne died onscreen for 8 movies which are:

  

  Central Airport Reap the Wild Wind The Fighting Seabees Wake of the Red Witch The Sands of Iwo Jima The Alamo The Cowboys The Shootist Apart from these movies, He was shown dead at the beginning of the movie The Man who shot liberty Valance and the whole movie is his flashback. And In the movie The sea chase, at the end his ship is destroyed by the British and it can be implied that he died as a result.

• What Happened To Actor Mark Hamill After The Star Wars Films?

  Posted: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:38:57 +0000

  Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the first three of the Star Wars films, failed to achieve any further major on-screen success in his acting career.

  

  He performed in theatre productions and later carved out a second career for himself doing voice-acting in films, television episodes and computer games. In this, he achieved some distinction supplying the voice for the part of The Joker in the Batman television series. In 2004 he directed his own film for the first time, Comic Book : The Movie, a mockumentary about a group of comic fans who try to stop Hollywood mangling the creative vision of a legendary comic creator once it buys the rights to his work. Hamill later penned his own comic, The Black Pearl, which is being made into a video game and may later be made into a film. He has described himself as well-off financially, having sensibly invested the high earnings he had as an actor during his time in the limelight.

• How Do You Make Edible Salt?

  Posted: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:17:21 +0000

  To make edible salt there are two main methods are Solution mining and Solar salt production.  The former is the most commonly used procedure whereby both industrial and edible salt is produced in Northern Europe. In is achieved by pumping water into the underground salt deposits, after which saturated brine is produced and then it is pumped back to the surface.

  

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  The solar salt production method is used in hot countries. In this process salt is made by allowing heat from the sun to evaporate sea water in shallow pools or pans. This is not possible in colder countries. Another process of obtaining salt is Rock Salt mining which is an underground process. It entails drilling, blasting, and crushing the rock to dig out the salt. By this method the salt is physically dug out and the salt obtained from this method is used to maintain roads during the winter.

• What Does Sclerotic Mean?

  Posted: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:58:42 +0000

  The word sclerotic has two meanings. It is defined as something which is related to sclerosis and is also used to refer to a person who is suffering from sclerosis. Sclerotic is another word for hardened. It also means of or relating to the sclera or sclerotic tissue, which is a tissue of the eyeball. The word sclerosis is defined as a condition in which the organs which are within the nervous system of the human body, particularly the brain and the spinal cord, harden. Sclerosis is the name of the condition which results from the degeneration of such elements of the nervous system as the myelin sheath. The phrases that are closely related to the word sclerotic are sclerotic coat (the fibrous membrane or albuginea which is whitish in colour which, along with the cornea, forms the outer covering of the eyeball), sclerotic ring (the ring of bones which support the eye and which are located in the orbit of the skull of many vertebrate animals, except mammals and crocodiles) and sclerotic lesions (scar tissue which may develop in the liver, spleen or bones of people who are suffering from a progressive ailment called Gaucher disease).

• Why Do Dogs Lick People?

  Posted: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:38:45 +0000

  Licking is a universal behavior in canines and most dogs do this with passion. There are many theories behind licking. Some say that it is one of the ways it expresses itself with another of its breed or human beings. Hence it may be either to greet somebody or just show its happiness and pleasure to be close to the person of its liking.

  

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  Another theory states that the habit of licking in dogs as seen in most animals is a sort of cleaning ritual. Bitches also lick up puppies and do this for considerable amount of times and cleaning them up could be one reason for doing this. However, when a pup licks its mother, it could be asking for solid food. Similarly, when a dog licks the face of its owner, it could mean the same thing. Lastly some say, dogs lick human beings as they like the taste of salt. You may try and see if your dog licks you up more when you return home after a workout session, dripping with sweat!

• Which Continent Is Host To The Most Countries In The World?

  Posted: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:29:33 +0000

  Africa, with Asia coming a close second. As long as you consider Europe and Asia as separate, which is perhaps not justified. Africa has 54 countries on the continent, see list here. Depending how you count them, which ones might be considered part of Europe (like Turkey) and which are part of “Asia” Asia has between 32 and 51 countries (see list here). If the countries of Europe (45 in total, see list here) were included in a supercontinent of “Eurasia”, then Eurasia would beat out Africa by a massive margin (45+51=96). South America has only 13 nations on the mainland. North and Central America combined (including the Caribbean) have 24 countries (see list). My answers disagree with Wordy’s partly because some places get listed as countries when they might better be described as autonomous regions or occupied territories.

• What Function Does Iron Have In The Human Body?

  Posted: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:04:00 +0000

  Iron is one of the most common metals on the Earth and it is present as a mineral in many ores in rocks. It is also required by many life processes in animals and plants. Iron forms an important part of many proteins and enzymes that help the human body function efficiently. It is a component of haemoglobin, the protein involved in the movement of oxygen around the body. It is also required for the control of the cycle of cell division and growth and for cell differentiation. Almost two thirds of the iron in the human body forms the co-factor in haemoglobin and if the body does not absorb enough iron in the diet the ability of the body to transport oxygen is affected. Iron deficiency can lead to tiredness, dizziness, fainting, pale skin and an overall lack of energy. It also decreases the ability of the immune system to fight of infection. Iron also forms part of another protein called myoglobin, which supplies oxygen to active muscle cells.

• What Do Praying Mantis Eat?

  Posted: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:54:00 +0000

  I’ve done plenty of research… I keep a couple in my garden to protect the plants.. Planning on buying mantis eggs for the extra small pests like mites.

  

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  To the point.. THEY EAT MAINLY INSECTS.. And they go for the biggest ones they can find.. This includes: Grasshoppers, crickets, roaches, butterflies, moths, bees, spiders, flies, dragonflies, ect. . When it comes to small pests u usully need to get mantis eggs which hatch to little 4mm mantids which eat aphids, mites, etc. The best part about fully grown mantids is that they also eat rodents and small mammals/reptiles; such as birds, mice, snakes, geckos, salamanders, etc. The one thing i wanna know is… Do they really eat leaves when left no other choice? I always thought they roam around for a bit when they’re hungry lookin for usual prey, as opposed to sitting tight waiting for prey to cross paths.

• What Is Xenophobia?

  Posted: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:19:05 +0000

  Xenophonia is a fear of strangers.  It is not a phobia in the sense that a stranger will cause someone with xenophobia to have a panic reaction or attack, but it is a dislike of strangers and usually foreign strangers.

  

  Wetsun

  Most cultures are xenophobic to some extent in the sense that people will be polite to strangers, but will still prefer to live and work amongst people who share the same culture.  However, now immigration has become more common, people mix more with other cultures. For most people this is a good thing and they enjoy meeting people of different faiths, different belief systems etc, but some people find this distasteful and want foreigners to ‘go back home’. Xenophobia is usually different from racism in the sense that racists do not like people of different colours or cultures, whereas xenophobes are quite indiscriminate.  They just dislike all (foreign) strangers, whatever colour or race they are !

• Why Does Adding Sugar Make Boiling Water Temperature Higher?

  Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:54:16 +0000

  The boiling point of water depends on the pressure, however if sugar is added to water, then the pressure and hence the boiling point changes. The boiling point of a solution of sugar in water, or of a juice, under a given pressure, increases with the concentration of the solution. This is to say that decreasing purity also increases the boiling point.To explain in more detail, the increase in the boiling point of water depends on the number of molecules you add to the liquid. Sugar has very large molecules. Sugar has a molecular weight that is 3 times larger than that of salt. It does not split up in different particles when in water as salt does. So adding 7g of sugar into water you’re adding 700,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles to the water. As soon as any of the sugar dissolves in the water, the boiling point of the water will begin to rise by half a degree Celsius for every 180 grams of sugar dissolved. Sugar in the water should raise the boiling point of the solution, meaning that it will need to reach a higher temperature before it begins to boil. Thus taking longer to boil, but raising the overall boiling point.

• What Is Judaism?

  Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:08:25 +0000

  Judaism is the religion of the Jews. It originated more than 3500 years ago. It was founded in 1300 B.C. in Mesopotamia. It is an Abrahamic faith ~ it considers Abraham to be its patriarch. Judaism was founded by Moses and Abraham. People who practice Judaism are called the Jews. Christianity is an off shoot of Judaism. The Jews pray in a synagogue. The holy book of the Jews is called the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh. Hitler organized the Holocaust in order to wipe out Judaism. Judaism is one of the world’s few monotheistic religions ~ they believe that there is only one God. Judaism expects all Jews to play the role of leaders for other nations. Judaism believes that the people of Israel have been chosen by God. The Sephardic, which was based in Spain and the Ashkenazic which was based in German were two of the branches of Judaism. The modern version of Judaism is slightly difficult for an outsider to interpret because the lines between people and nation have gotten blurred over the years.

• What Is Prime Factorization?

  Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:17:16 +0000

  Prime factorization is writing a number as the product of prime numbers.

  Examples
  24 = 2*2*2*3 = 2³*3    (2 and 3 are prime numbers)
  11 = 11    (11 is a prime number)
  57 = 3*19
  _____
  It is easier to do prime factorization if you are familiar with the prime numbers under about 50. (These are the numbers that are missing from your times tables, because they are not the product of anything.)

• What Does The Phrase ‘Crossing The Rubicon’ Mean?

  Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:11:46 +0000

  “Crossing the Rubicon” means embarking on a course of action on which there is no going back. The phrase comes from the time when Rome changed from a republic to an empire. Julius Caesar, who was the governor of the Roman province of Gaul, took his armies across the river Rubicon, which marked the boundary between Gaul and Italy, to attempt to seize power in Rome. The governor of a Roman province had great power within his own domain, including direct command over large armies. Because of this, Roman rulers had feared that a governor might be tempted to use his armies to seize power in the capital. For this reason, they made it a capital offence for a Roman governor to take his armies outside the boundaries of his province into Italian territory. So, when Caesar took his armies across the Rubicon, he had made himself liable to execution, and would either succeed in his goal of becoming Roman dictator or would fail and be killed.

• How Many Toes Do Birds Have?

  Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:29:12 +0000

  Most birds have four toes on each foot with a claw at the end of each toe.  It is generally the claw which is used, more than the toe.  Different species of birds have different arrangements of toes which have evolved to suit their way of life.

  

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  Perching birds, such as robins have three toes pointing forward and one pointing backward on each foot.  This enables ease of grip when they are perching on a branch. Climbing birds such as parrots have two toes which point forward and two pointing backwards.   The back toe helps the bird retain its balance as it climbs. Birds which do not fly, but run have only three toes on each foot, all of which point forward.  However, the ostrich proves the exception to this rule, although a running bird it has only two toes on each foot, which again point forward, although it does not need any assistance with balance whilst climbing or perching.

• What Is A Carp?

  Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:25:30 +0000

  A carp is a freshwater fish that is found all over the world.  In some places carp have been introduced both for sport and human consumption and in others these fish are considered a pest.  Carp that have been domesticated and selectively bred are popular in Japan where they originated as an ornamental fish.

  

  corrieb

  Wild carp are brown or dark green in colour and are unremarkable in appearance.  They have two barbells or small whiskers that hang in front of their faces.  They have a low-slung mouth and eye and are somewhat plump and look like an oversized goldfish.  Carp have long dorsal fins, several small and evenly spaced fins along their lower bodies, and split tales.  These fish are known to grow to a remarkable size and weight.  In Europe, where carp are fished for sport, they have been documented at over 36 kgs (80 lbs).  Most areas in the United States consider carp to be an invasive pest.  Carp are omnivorous fish and they will consume anything and everything in their path, which often leads to waterways being muddied and aquatic plants being shredded.  The consequence of this feeding pattern is that native fish species find the area no longer inhabitable and will either die off or migrate.  Either result is damaging to the ecosystem.  Many states actively attempt to eliminate carp in order to save native species. Carp were originally introduced in the United States as food fish despite not being eaten in North America.  The fish is popular as food in other parts of the world despite being quite bony and needing careful filleting or preservation.  Depending on the environment in which the carp has been raised, it can have somewhat sweet flesh.  The firm white meat of the carp is extremely sensitive to environmental factors and can change significantly based on what type of food the carp has eaten and whether or not it has been exposed to any contaminants.  The majority of carp reared in the United States has accumulated levels of pollution that are unsuitable for human consumption. In Europe, carp are considered primarily a sport fish but are also eaten.  Anglers these challenging fish in lakes all over Europe, in the eastern nations in particular.  In Japan, brightly coloured carp are highly sought after and are known as ‘koi’.  Koi are often found in ornamental water features and lakes and some are surprisingly tame.  They will often accept food offered by hand or come to the water’s surface to ‘socialize’ with their human admirers.  Some koi will sell for extremely large sums.

• What Is The Difference Between A Midge And A Mosquito?

  Posted: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:49:06 +0000

  Midges are tiny two-winged biting insects, particularly abundant in wetter parts of the UK.

  

  Midges are actually a species of gnat (genus= Culicoides), that fly in swarms and are usually found near their breeding grounds.  Only the females feed on blood (they need protein to produce eggs).  The males feed on nectar.  Midges fly more slowly than walking humans, and they don’t like direct sun, very dry air (low humidity) or wind. At least 37 species of midge have been recorded in Scotland.  The overwhelming majority of the bites to people in western Scotland come from the Highland midge (latin name Culicoides impunctatus), which has a particularly fearsome reputation. Mosquitoes are related to midges (same taxonomic order, Diptera), but different taxonomic families (Culicidae for mozzies, and  Ceratopogonidae for midges).

  

  Like midges, male mosquitoes feed on nectar and only the females bite.  But mozzies stray further from their breeding grounds, can fly faster than midges, and don’t almost always feed in swarms.

• Why Do Frogs And Toads Have Nasty Slimy Skin?

  Posted: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:12:47 +0000

  Amphibians, which include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts have very delicate skin that has no obvious form of protection. To try to make themselves as safe as possible, amphibians have glands in their skin that secrete a slimy mucous. This keeps the skin moist when the animal is out of water and it acts as a sort of waterproof coating when the animal is in the water.

  

  Noël Zia Lee

  In frogs, the mucous acts as its main form of defence from predators because it makes the frog too slippery for predators to catch. Some amphibians secrete poisons and toxins into the secretions that coat their skin. In some species, these glands are spread evenly over the body surface but in others they just occur at key points. Toads have toxic skin glands just above their eyes called parotid glands and these are capable of squirting out poison to get a predator before it gets too close, rather than waiting until the predator takes a bite to get a dose of repelling toxin.

• What Is The Pancreas?

  Posted: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:57:01 +0000

  The pancreas is a vital glandular organ situated deep within the abdominal cavity behind the stomach next to the duodenum or small intestine in a horizontal position. It is about 8 inches in length and divided into three parts the head, body and tail.

  

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  It plays a fundamental part in the digestion process by secreting different types of digestive juices (exocrine functions) containing various enzymes essential for the breaking down of the vital nutrients like proteins and fats. It also secretes various hormones (endocrine functions) including insulin that helps in maintaining the level of glucose in the blood produced during the metabolism of carbohydrates, as well as ensuring its proper utilization by the body cells as a source of energy. The pancreas is made up of soft tissue that houses various types of groups of cells called islets of Langerhans that secrete different types of juices, which become active only when they reach the small intestine and mix with other juices like bile from the liver. Sometimes the pancreatic cells lose their ability to manufacture the juices in the required quantities inducing a chronic condition of poor digestion and weight loss or in some cases the juices attack the organ itself inducing inflammation and leading to a violent attack of vomiting and diarrhea known as acute pancreatitis most diseases of the pancreas are related to high intake of alcohol.  Or the beta cells within the pancreas stop producing insulin due to which the body cells fail to utilize the glucose in the blood essential for their basic processes, which is then passed through urine this condition is known as diabetes.

• What Is A Rainforest?

  Posted: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:44:23 +0000

  A rainforest can be described as a tall, dense jungle. It is called a rainforest because of the high amount of rain it gets each year. Rainforests have a minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750mm and 2000mm.

  

  Ted Percival

  The climate of a rainforest is very hot and humid, meaning that the animals and plants that live there have to learn to adapt to the climate. The largest tropical rainforests exist in the Amazon Basin (the Amazon Rainforest), Nicaragua (Los Guatuzos, Bosawas, and Indio-Maiz) and many other places. Places where temperate rainforests can be found include British Columbia, southeastern Alaska, western Oregon, and Washington, Scotland and Norway. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of new species of plants, insects and microorganisms are still undiscovered. Rainforests are divided into four different parts, each with different plants and animals, adapted for life in that particular area. Tropical rainforests are the source of many medicinal drugs, with over half the medications originating from the rainforest. Many foods originally came from tropical forests. Rainforests also have value as tourism destinations.

• What Is The Anomalous Expansion Of Water?

  Posted: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:09:57 +0000

  Water shows unusual expansion. If we take a cube of ice at -5°C and heat it, it expands till ice starts melting. During melting its temperature remains 0°C but its volume decreases. If heat is continuously supplied to water at 0°C, it further contracts up to 4°C and then it starts expanding. Thus water has its minimum volume and maximum density at 4°C. The anomalous expansion of water helps preserve aquatic life during very cold weather. When temperature falls, the top layer of water in a pond contracts, becomes denser and sinks to the bottom. A circulation is thus set up until the entire water in the pond reaches its maximum density at 4°C. If the temperature falls further, the top layer expands and remains on the top till it freezes. Thus even though the upper layer are frozen the water near the bottom is at 4°C and the fishes etc. can survive in it easily.

• Which Is The Longest River In Scotland?

  Posted: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:49:47 +0000

  The longest river in Scotland is the Tay with a total length of 193 km (120 miles) from its point of origin located in the Ben Lui near the town of Oban in the southern highland region of Scotland to its mouth at the Firth of Tay where the river empties in to the North Sea.

  

  Ross2085

  The river is the 7th longest river in the UK and the largest in terms of drainage area covering about 3220 km (2000 miles); its tributaries are the Almond, Isla, Braan, Tummel and Lyon. The river is known by several names especially in its earlier stages like river Connonish, the Fillan River and the Dochart River. The Tay in its later stages is a tidal river after passing through the town of Perth in Perth and Kinross before entering the Firth of Tay; the major city lying on the Firth is Dundee the fourth largest one in Scotland. The river Tay is known for occasionally flooding upstream near Perth; the river was also the site of an accident when the Tay Rail Bridge collapsed on December 28, 1879 when a train was passing over it.

• What Is Buddhism?

  Posted: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:59:14 +0000

  Buddhism was founded in India in the sixth century by Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince who renounced his wealth to pursue an ascetic lifestyle and spiritual perfection. He told his learning to his followers.

  

  Wonderlane

  Siddhartha achieved nirvana but decided to remain on earth to teach his followers how they could achieve of the spiritual enlightenment.  Siddhartha was known as the Buddha. There are 350 million followers of Buddhism today. The majority of Buddhists are living in the Central Asia, Korea, China, Japan and South Asia. According to Buddhism, there is suffering everywhere that originates in people’s desires from pleasure. Siddhartha offered a noble path as a route for transformation. This emphasizes on right seeing, thinking, action, efforts, mindfulness and mediation. Buddhism does not support the caste system. Buddhism stressed on the spiritual achievements rather than involvement in this world. Buddhism does not preach the creation of wealth and property.  Buddhism has good culture than the Hinduism. The people who belong from the Buddhism strictly follow the preaching of Siddhartha. The Buddhism stressed that this world is just a short period of life and the real life starts after the death of the person. Still there is large number of Buddhism.

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