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List of canals

2007-04-25T10:49:21Z

Kyril:

Canals are artificial waterways dug for purposes of navigation and/or land drainage.

=== Famous Canals ===

* The Grand Canal, [[China]]
* The Grand Union Canal ([[London-Braunstone]], Northants)
* The [[Leeds]] and [[Liverpool]] Canal
* The Bridgwater Canal (first modern canal in the world)
* The Foss Dyke ([[Roman]] canal in [[Lincolnshire]])
* The Panama Canal
* The Suez Canal

List of canals

2007-04-25T10:48:12Z

Kyril: New page: Canals are artificial waterways dug for purposes of navigation and/or land drainage. === Famous Canals === The Grand Canal, China The Grand Union Canal (London-Braunstone, Northa...

Canals are artificial waterways dug for purposes of navigation and/or land drainage.

=== Famous Canals ===

The Grand Canal, [[China]]
The Grand Union Canal ([[London-Braunstone]], Northants)
The [[Leeds]] and [[Liverpool]] Canal
The Bridgwater Canal (first modern canal in the world)
The Foss Dyke ([[Roman]] canal in [[Lincolnshire]])

Goole

2007-04-25T10:37:08Z

Kyril: New page: Port in East Yorkshire, England. Goole is the furthest inland seaport in the United Kingdom, situated at the junction of the Knottingley & Goole Canal and the River Ouse. I...

Port in [[East Yorkshire]], [[England]]. Goole is the furthest inland seaport in the [[United Kingdom]], situated at the junction of the Knottingley & Goole Canal and the [[River Ouse]]. It was founded in 1826 when the canal was opened as a transhipment point between the canal system and the river, navigable by sea-going vessels, and established a trade built largely on the export of coal.

Yorkshire

2007-04-25T10:33:01Z

Kyril:

'''Yorkshire''' used to be a county in Northern [[England]], and was once the largest county, divided into three 'Ridings' (OE ''thridings'', 'thirds'). However, the Local Government Act of 1972 broke it into three smaller counties - North, South and West Yorkshire, as well as transferring the East (and part of the West) Riding to Humberside, and parts of the traditional county to Durham, Cumbria and Greater Manchester.

The county has varied geography from the hills and mountains of the [[Pennines]] and North Yorkshire moors, to the flatlands of the Vale of York and the fen country of the Humberhead Levels. Principal cities in Yorkshire include [[Leeds]], Hull, [[Sheffield]], [[York]], and [[Goole]], Britain' most inland seaport.

Yorkshire borders with the counties of Greater Manchester, [[Lancashire]], [[Cumbria]], [[County Durham]], [[Cleveland]], [[Lincolnshire]], [[Nottinghamshire]], and [[Derbyshire]].

Historically, the symbol of Yorkshire was the white [[rose]]. The traditional game of Yorkshire is cricket, though in recent years the county side has lagged. Similarly, Yorkshire football teams no longer occuopy their former prominent positions in the footbal leagues.

Yorkshire people are supposed to be dour and of few words, careful with money but loyal friends once their reserve has been penetrated. A traditional rhyme runs:

''Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred''

''Strong in't arm and thick in't head''

Yorkshire is associated with the [[Yorkshire Pudding]].

[[Category:UK Counties]]

Liverpool

2007-04-25T10:27:09Z

Kyril:

A minor port city in the North West of England, it was originally awarded a [[City Charter]] by King John in 1208. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that Liverpool developed into a major global city. This prominence was based largely on trade, including [[tobacco]], [[sugar]] and a major involvement in the [[slave trade]]. The slave trade was abolished in 1806, however Liverpool continued to flourish as an industrial trade and financial industries center.

The city currently has a population of approximately 450,000, known as 'Scousers' after a popular local dish, with the wider [[Merseyside]] region having a population of 1.5 million. The popular culture and 'soul'of Liverpool has most memorably been portrayed by the author and dramatist Carla Lane in a number of highly-regarded television dramas including "The Liver Birds" and "Bread". Willy Russell and Alan Bleasdale are also noted playwrights from Liverpool and have effectively portrayed the misery and deprivation of 1980s Liverpool in dramas such as "The Black Stuff", "Educating Rita" and "Dole Scrounger".

Around 1911 Adolf Hitler visited his brother Alois who lived and worked in Liverpool.

British [[Prime Minister]] [[Harold Wilson]] later Lord Wilson of Rievaulx was [[Member of Parliament]] for the Liverpool constituency of Huyton from 1945 until 1979.

Famous natives of Liverpool:
* Cilla Black (singer, TV presenter)
* Anne Robinson (TV presenter and journalist)
* Tony Booth (actor and father-in-law of Tony Blair)
* Billy Butler (comedian)
* Jimmy Tarbuck (comedian)
* Ted Ray (comedian)
* John Prescott (comedian)
* Steven Gerrard (footballer)
* Robbie Fowler (footballer)
* Stan Boardman (comedian)
* Terry McDermott (footballer and archetypal Scouser)
* Ken Dodd (comedian and singer)
* Ricky Tomlinson (trade unionist, actor, comedian and banjo player)
* George Melly (jazz singer and author)
* Derek Hatton (politician and scally)
* Fanny Hare (actress)

Many of the above are strong ambassadors for Liverpool and despite worldy success display their loyalty by continuing to live nearby in the county of [[Buckinghamshire]].

==Culture==
* [[Merseybeat]]
* [[The Beatles]]
* [[Echo and the Bunnymen]]
* [[Tate Modern]]

==Sports==
* [[Everton FC]] Soccer
* [[Liverpool FC]] Soccer
* [[Liverpool St Helens]] RUFC
* [[St Helens RLFC]]
* [[Tranmere Rovers]] Soccer

[[Category:UK Towns and Cities]]

Lettuce

2007-04-25T09:40:34Z

Kyril: lettuce a narcotic

'''Lettuce''' is a leafy green [[vegetable]], often used raw in [[sandwich]]es and [[salad]]s. to add a fresh, subtle taste and crunchiness. It has a narcotic effect if eaten in abundance.

==Lettuce Varieties==
* Iceberg lettuce
* Romaine lettuce (''for [[Caesar]] salads'')
* Butterleaf lettuce
* Chinese lettuce
* Little Gem

[[Category:Food and drink]]

Talk:William Jennings Bryan

2007-04-23T19:39:03Z

Kyril:

==Obituary==

This is just vicious. I don't think we need this angry diatribe taking up the majority of the article. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 15:30, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

It is as condemnatory an obituary as I have seen - but such views of Bryan exist, and from a very influential figure, too. You could dilute it with more biographical information; if you delete it, at least leave the link for balance.

William Jennings Bryan

2007-04-23T19:29:23Z

Kyril:

'''William Jennings Bryan''' (1860-1925) was a Populist three-time Democratic presidential nominee, known as "The Great Commoner" due to his strong political support for farmers and laborers. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/bryan] He was notable for advocating that the United States switch from the [[gold standard]] to the silver standard (to back up the nation's money), and for his anti-evolution stances, which culminated in his participation in the [[Scopes trial]] in Dayton, [[Tennessee]] in 1925, shortly before his death. Bryan College, a private Christian college located in Dayton, is named for him.

[[H.L.Mencken]] wrote a powerful obituary of Bryan. It concludes:

''Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.

''Bryan was a vulgar and common man, a cad undiluted. He was ignorant, bigoted, self-seeking, blatant and dishonest. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses. It was hard to believe, watching him at Dayton, that he had traveled, that he had been received in civilized societies, that he had been a high officer of state. He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.''

''The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.''''

http://www.peeniewallie.com/2005/06/h_l_menckens_ob.html

William Jennings Bryan

2007-04-23T19:28:48Z

Kyril:

'''William Jennings Bryan''' (1860-1925) was a Populist three-time Democratic presidential nominee, known as "The Great Commoner" due to his strong political support for farmers and laborers. [http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/bryan] He was notable for advocating that the United States switch from the [[gold standard]] to the silver standard (to back up the nation's money), and for his anti-evolution stances, which culminated in his participation in the [[Scopes trial]] in Dayton, [[Tennessee]] in 1925, shortly before his death. Bryan College, a private Christian college located in Dayton, is named for him.

[[H.L.Mencken]] wrote a powerful obituary of Bryan. It concludes:

''Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.

Bryan was a vulgar and common man, a cad undiluted. He was ignorant, bigoted, self-seeking, blatant and dishonest. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses. It was hard to believe, watching him at Dayton, that he had traveled, that he had been received in civilized societies, that he had been a high officer of state. He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.

The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.''

http://www.peeniewallie.com/2005/06/h_l_menckens_ob.html