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Talk:Coriolis effect

2007-04-07T08:34:56Z

SirCliff: Unpleasant and unclean imagery

Is it '''really''' necessary to exploit such unpleasant lavatorial imagery? Surely one cold use the cleaner analogy of bath water exiting a bath via the plughole - thisn would be much more in keeping with the Conservapedia ethos.

HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

2007-04-07T08:24:30Z

SirCliff: New page: Born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, 4 August 1900. She married the Duke of York, second son of King George V, and gave birth to two daughters, Elizabeth (n...

Born Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, 4 August 1900. She married the Duke of York, second son of King George V, and gave birth to two daughters, Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) in 1926, and Margaret Rose in 1930. She stiffened her husbands resolve during the 1936 Adication Crisis when the playboy King Edward VIII was inamorated of the twice-married American divorcee Mrs Wallis Simpson, and the Duke of York became King George VI. As Queen, she cheered up Cockneys by visiting the east end of London during the Blitz, even when Buckingham Palace was bombed. After George VI died of smoking in 1952 she became Queen Mother and is happily known to generations as the Queen Mum. It is common practice to say God Bless Her when she is mentioned. She helped the Queen through various crises and also enjoyed horse racing and fishing. The Queen Mum died in 2002 aged 101. God bless you, Ma'am.

Balkans

2007-04-07T08:15:33Z

SirCliff:

The Balkans are the countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula. [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Macedonia]], [[Serbia and Montenegro]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Albania]], [[Greece]], & [[Turkey]] in Europe. The region derives its name from the Balkan mountain range in Bulgaria.

Liverpool

2007-04-06T23:55:24Z

SirCliff:

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 center focusing on the smelting and casting of iron, much of this scrap metal derived from cartwheel tyres, and continuing to this day in a flourishing, if specialised, trade in vehicle hub caps.

The city currently has a population of approximately 350,000, 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.

==Culture==
* [[Merseybeat]]
* [[The Beatles]]
* [[Tate Modern]]

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

[[Category:Cities]]
[[Category:United Kingdom]]

Gambit

2007-04-06T23:41:20Z

SirCliff: Gareth Hunt ans Mike Gambit

A gambit is a calculated risk, particularly of losing a pawn in chess, in order to obtain a strategic advantage.

Also a small tool used to attach a cantle to a sporran.

Mike Gambit was a character in mid-70s Brtish action series 'The New Avengers', played by coffee salesman Gareth Hunt (d.2007).

King

2007-04-06T23:35:05Z

SirCliff:

Can refer to:

*A male monarch.
*A certain kind of card in a standard deck.
*The most important piece in the game of [[chess]].
*A type of post in a medieval roof

Talk:Eva Peron

2007-04-06T23:31:23Z

SirCliff:

== "male "protector" doesn't seem appropriate for this site" ==

If this assertion is true though (and it seems plausible enough) should it be suppressed? Perhaps a 'Citation needed' tag would be more appropriate? Sometimes we have to take the truth, distasteful though it may be, as we find it.

After all, the Old Testament is full of "male protectors" and worse... I'm sure you wouldn't suggest censoring that... even though some books (the Song of Solomon springs to mind here) are full of material that's a bit unsuitable for impressionable readers. Just a thought. --[[User:Jeremiah4-22|Jeremiah4-22]] 19:16, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

Howay, MountainDew. You're not doing good work if you pretend to schoolchildren that a scarlet woman is a saint.

Ted Lowe

2007-04-06T23:10:47Z

SirCliff: New page: Ted "whispering Ted" Lowe (1919-1996) was the low-pitched 'voice of snooker' in the UK, commentating on all the Embassy World Championship tournaments in Sheffield up to his unfortunate de...

Ted "whispering Ted" Lowe (1919-1996) was the low-pitched 'voice of snooker' in the UK, commentating on all the Embassy World Championship tournaments in Sheffield up to his unfortunate demise. Lowe had never played snooker in his youth, but during naval srvice in 1946 was billeted in a hotel in Singapore with a large billiards and snooker room. He became forces champion in 1948, and, on return to 'civvy street', took up the cue to eke out a precarious profesional existence, becoming snooker world champion in 1953 and 1957, and billiards UK champion for the remarkable extended period 1953-1961. It was while playing an exhibition game against veteran BBC sports commentator John Snagge in 1960 that the question of his working for the BBC was first raised; he joined the Corporation in 1962 after his professional retirement. In private life he was a retiring man, enjoying his garden, topiary and the craft of amateur leather-working.

James Whale

2007-04-06T22:49:43Z

SirCliff: New page: Combative UK talk radio "shock jock", he established his reputation for short-fuse libertarianism on local radio in Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds in northern England, moving in the 1990s t...

Combative UK talk radio "shock jock", he established his reputation for short-fuse libertarianism on local radio in Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds in northern England, moving in the 1990s to the UK-wide TalkSport radio station. Despite an openly avowed scepticism towards religions of all kind, he provides a courteous if challenging environment for religious spokespeople on his late-night programme.

Plastique Bertrand

2007-04-06T22:45:39Z

SirCliff: New page: Belgian one-hit punkster with ''Ca plane pour moi'' (=That's OK by Me).

Belgian one-hit punkster with ''Ca plane pour moi'' (=That's OK by Me).

Eva Peron

2007-04-06T22:40:31Z

SirCliff:

{{stub}}Eva Perón was the second wife of Juan Domingo Perón, and First Lady of Argentina. She lived from 1919 until 1952, and held the role of First Lady from 1946 until her death in 1952. During her life she founded the Eva Perón Foundation, which worked to provide free health care to citizens, and built houses for the needy.

Born in rural Argentina she pursued a career in stage, radio, and film begining at the age of 15, and marking each step forward with a different male 'protector'. In 1944 Eva met Colonel Juan Peron and in 1945 they married. Then in 1946 Juan was elected first President of Argentina following a military coup. Over the course of the next six years, Eva became powerful in the Pro-Peronist trade union.

Eva then founded the Eva Peron Foundation, which was the nation’s first large scale female party. Eva Peron really had a desire to run for office as Vice President of Argentina but opposition from the nation’s military, elites, and her failing health never got her there.

== Popular Culture ==
Eva Perón is the subject of the musical ''[[Evita]]'' by [[Andrew Lloyd Weber]]. Although no longer on [[Broadway]], the cinematic version of the show, featuring [[Antonio Banderas]] as "Che" and [[Madonna]] as "Evita" is an exceptional production of the musical.

* Memorable lines:
: "Don't cry for me, Argentina, for I am ordinary... unimportant. And undeserving of such attention... unless we all are. I think we all are." - Evita
: "You let down your people, Evita! You were supposed to have been immortal. That's all they wanted: not much to ask for." - Che