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Billie Whitelaw, the British actress, is well known for her work with Samuel Beckett, yet she’s always been keen to emphasise her other achievements.

“My work with Beckett is a very small but very important part of my career.”

A brief resume of her career testifies to her diversity. During her stint with Sir Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre between 1964 and 1966, her roles included Maggie in “Hobson’s Choice”, Avonia Bunn in “Trelawny of the Wells, as well as her more famous Desdemona in “Othello”, which she originally turned down.

“I said no. He walked me up and down outside the Old Vic, put his arm around me and said “Meet me in my dressing room just before five o’clock.” When I got to his dressing-room he’d laid out all Jocelyn Herbert’s designs for the costumes for Desdemona and said, “Look at those. When you know you’re going to look like that, you’re 75% there. Now don’t be a silly girl; go home and learn your lines.” And I did… I went home and learned the lines.”

Desdemona proved to be a great milestone in Whitelaw’s stage career. She went on to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych. There she was in “The Greeks”, a 12 hour epic, adapted by John Barton, which chronicled the house of Aetrius. It included a dozen plays, among them “The Trojan Wars” and “The Agamemnon”, going right the way through the incredible saga.

“We worked on that for months and months. During the week we played the first part Monday, the second on Tuesday, the third on Wednesday … but each Saturday at 10 o’clock in the morning the curtain went up and we went through the whole lot and the curtain didn’t come down until 11 o’clock at night. It was the most exhilarating thing to do. You would see a bunch of actors dragging themselves through the stage door of the Aldwych at 8:30 in the morning looking like nothing on God’s earth — ashen faces and black rings under the eyes — and by about 11 o’clock we were all flying high on our own adrenaline.”

This incredible tour de force ran for 18 months in London and is seen as one of the company’s most innovative productions.

Billie Whitelaw’s career went from strength to strength. Her final work with Samuel Beckett was “Rockaby”, presented in America as part of a triple bill with two of his other works “Enough” and “Footfalls”. In seemingly complete contrast, she also created the voice for Aubra, one of the central characters in the film “The Dark Crystal”. This was produced by the creators of the Muppets, Jim Henson and Frank Oz. She’ll be reprising that role in “The Power of the Dark Crystal” which is due for release in 2008.

In the mid-1980s Billie worked on three films made for television. One of these, “Camille”, also stars Sir John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, and Rachel Kempson, and was shown on American television. The others, made by English companies, were “The Chain” by Jack Rosenthal (best-known here for his work on the screenplay “Yentl”) and a comedy, “Shady”, about which she was a little reticent.

“… a sort of bizarre lunatic comedy, which is either going to be a total disaster or a great cult movie. I don’t know, I play a doctor who is also a psychiatrist, who is also a member of the Secret Service, who is also a lesbian. Now, how about that for a role?”

You can read more of Tuppy Glossop’s thoughts on music and popular culture at his Web site, AtTheFamilyPlace.com

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Do you beat your children? What if someone else does it? What if this beating is done publicly with a cane right in front of the classmates and in fact entire school? What if this is done by the school principal of a very reputed school and not by some ignorant half educated drill master? In India, the authorities that be still haven’t woken up to the fact that it is illegal.

Yes it is happening and in this case too the incident would have been forgotten with just a shrug of the shoulders. The boy must have been naughty and what the hell, how can you discipline them and it’s after all for good of children. If teachers do this then they are doing it what we would do ourselves. Only that the boy committed suicide after couple of days. Did he do it because of public humiliation or some other factors?

I have suffered this indignation as a boy myself and till date I do not think it was needed. The scar on my mind is permanent. I am ready to reason that those days things were different and nobody thought in terms of going to the police over such issues. We suffered silently.

The school authorities of the reputed La Martinoere of Kolkata were gravely concerned after the suicide and in their self righteous indignation ‘warned’ the principal not to do it again. But then this is what the principal himself should have done himself instead of canning the boy in front of everyone. Only three light strokes, mind you, what’s the fuss about! But India’s public conscious revolted as it does whenever a blatant injustice perpetrated by unholy union between authorities that are supposed to take cognizance of such incidents and act, simply look the other way. It won’t allow the school to close the chapter.

The Principal,who should have been had on hot charcoals, defended himself and said that the suicide has nothing to do with the punishment and in any case action has been taken against him, so all is well. Will he consider stepping down? No way, why should he? Then nasty conjectures: why boy’s father lodges FIR (First Information Report) three months after the suicide, the boy had a troubled family background, etc. I would say to the principal,’there are authorities at appropriate level to ask such questions, you only tell us what made you do it’.

The media forgot to ask him one relevant question: will he do it again? I am sure answer would be interesting. I can guess, ‘ yes, it’s my responsibility to shape India’s future citizens’. He now must be anxious how to keep his job.

If caning is OK then why not the third degree methods used by police? They too can justify it. There is nothing like license to kill, a la James Bond for the simple reason, nobody can use such powers judiciously and know when to stop. I joined Military service and had to grow in a very strict disciplinary regime and philosophy. But I can say that tough it was but not demeaning.

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Here’s a list of flight schools in Michigan: http://www.bestaviation.net/schools/michigan.asp

Check out their websites to compare location, price, experience, etc. Contact the ones your interested and take a demo flight (or just start straight out with training).

You can get it done in a summer if you fly a couple times a week, sooner or longer depending on your time commitment. Average is about 6 months. And it’ll cost you about $6,000, but there are tons of flight training scholarships available.

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Since Greek and Roman times, man has strived to establish some type of a fortification for protection and shelter. Over the pursuing centuries these evolved into a form of military and residential places known as castles.

When William the Conqueror, conquered England in 1066, his armies quickly erected wooden palisades (a fence of stakes or iron railings forming an enclosure or defence) establishing a presence in the former Saxon kingdoms. Many of these fortresses were constructed on sites that had previously been fortified in pre-Roman times, then by the Romans themselves and lastly by the Saxons who established the first kingdoms there.

As times became less turbulent and settled, the Normans became integrated into every day life and were eventually accepted by the local populace. These wooden palisades slowly began to disappear, to be replaced with stone. Any new fortifications built from that time onward were constructed entirely from stone.

In Europe, this manifested into a design consisting of a single tower and outer buildings.

In the mountains there was no shortage of rocky hilltops on which to build these new bastions. In the lower lying areas, however, islands and peninsulas were much sought after for their ease of defence.

In the British Isles the Normans began to dig ditches to create a small hill or mound when one couldn’t be found to build on. These mounds became the first “motte and bailey” castles, some of which were built on top of old Iron Age hill forts.

A “motte” was the conical hill of dirt that was built as the main defence for the “keep”, which was were the Lord and his family resided and sought refuge whilst trying to govern their surrounding territory. The keep was basically a tower with one room per floor and usually contained 3 to 4 floors.

Later, a walled area known as a “bailey” began to appear around the keep with another at the base of the motte. Its function was to help protect the keep’s support functions which grew up around the original tower: grain storage, wood and metal workshops, military barracks, wells, chapels and sometimes a garden or a great hall where formal functions and meetings were held.

Over the intervening years, the design and style of British castles would appear in various forms throughout the castle building era.

Eventually, the motte itself began to be replaced with stone and a new style of British castle began to appear. These castles were built without the motte altogether. The tower keep, however, remained.

The ditch that had separated the “motte” from the bailey became a moat (a deep, wide defensive ditch surrounding a castle or town), either dry or stone-lined, or filled with water from a nearby river or lake. These Moats became a significant part of the castles design.

In the 12th century, the Crusaders began their travels to the Middle East in the name of god, encountered a differing style of castle to that which they had become accustomed to. One of the most popular style of castles encountered had curtain walls with mural towers: palisades but with towers along its length from which to fire on attackers. This developed into concentric walls, giving the besieging army multiple obstacles to overcome just to get into the castle. The tower keep sometimes became part of the wall in this type of fortification.

The advent of gunpowder and the development in weaponry, i.e. muskets and cannon from the 13th to 15th century, saw the rapid decline in the importance of building castles for defence, and yet again, another change in design. Castles had to be built with thicker and thicker walls. Eventually, evolution caught up. Not being able to keep abreast of technological advancements in fire power of the era, the defensive capability of these great castles was severely diminished, causing them to become obsolete.

In the 18th and 19th century British castles were built for very different reasons. The Aristocracy, who were nostalgic for the past, had the most wonderful and splendid castles built for their pleasure. The most passionate of these builders was (Mad King) Ludwig of Bavaria in the 19th century and his fairytale castle – Neuschwanstein.

I hope you enjoyed The Evolution of the British Castle – A short history

If you want to find out about more of the histories that lie behind some of Europe’s most picturesque, mysterious and notorious castles? Unravelling the legends and myths behind some of their most celebrated and not so renowned castles in a voyage of discovery and adventure…!

Then pay a visit to my website at Guide to Castles of Europe.

There you will discover the history and myths of some of Europe’s most famous castles: Windsor Castle, TheTower of London, Dracula’s Castle and Blarney Castle (the home of the Blarney stone) to name a few.

I look forward to sharing in your experiences and discoveries that you have made from your journeys around Europe, visiting her many picturesque and unique Castles. Send me a message with your tales and I will post them on my website, so that the world can discover these hidden treasures too.

Best wishes and have a great day!

Stuart Bazga

A Guide to Castles of Europe was born from childhood dreams and aspirations. It is my hope to educate and stimulate you into exploring these castles for yourselves.

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For most teens and tweens, summertime means hitting up the nearest beach, river, public pool, swimhole, or neighbor’s garden hose, depending on your locale. For some, it means traveling, or finally getting around to that oft-dreamed-of roadtrip. For others, it means bulking up in secret to astonish your friends and dismay your enemies. But for an increasing number of students, it means mandatory summer reading. Long gone are the carefree summer breaks of childhood, which stretched on for the better part of an eternity and actually made you miss class ever so slightly. And with a slew of summer blockbusters on their way – not to mention having your own car and the ID required for admission – it might seem doubtful that you’ll manage to get everything done on time. Especially considering how long it’ll take to sew your costume for the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Instead of letting it completely obliterate your will to achieve, try and let Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince help you. How’s that, you ask? This July 15th, when you’re camped outside the theater behind three hundred other people, or hiding out in the bathroom so you can sneak into a second showing, take a moment to think back on how the Harry Potter series made you, your friends, your kid cousin, your grandparents, and, let’s not kid ourselves, even the family dog feel about reading. These books galvanized an entire generation of readers, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and getting translated into nearly seventy languages. The best part of all? You can re-capture the feeling during a runtime of just two hours and twenty minutes, which is way less time than it takes to re-read the book (for us mere muggles, anyway). Meaning you can put this extra time toward – voila! – your required reading list.

While you’re at it, you can put some of these literature resources to good use. With study guides, in-depth analysis, fun facts, and essay-building tools, you’ll see how easy it is to apply your summer reading to what you already know. Take Moby-Dick’s Captain Ahab, for example, who is left disfigured after a nasty incident with a white whale and dedicates his life to hunting the monster down – just as Harry Potter is left scarred by a run-in with Voldemort and sacrifices everything to put an end to his terror. Or Prince Hamlet, who is arguably the angstiest protagonist in English literature and spends most of the play contemplating his father’s murder – just as Harry never fails to remind the gang that his parents were killed and his life sucks. (Let’s be honest: Harry gets pretty whiney for a book or two there.) With a little effort and a touch of creativity, you’ll be cranking out your summer reading in no time.

And of course if all else fails, you can always sneak in a second or third reading of Twilight. Harry will never know.

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poems and American History. It’s a perfect aid for students and teachers seeking guidance with advance study, essays and writing papers for topics like Moby-Dick. It promises to make learning and writing more fun and relevant.

Is it just me or does Prince Harry look like James Hewitt. Is this his real father?

I know there are rumors but now that he is older he looks just like this man. Do any royals have red hair?

There are similarities, but really only because both of them are redheads, and because we know James and Diana had an affair, we assume that Harry is his son. However, if you look at Diana’s family, Harry is the spitting image of her red headed sisters and even her brother Charles. He is a Spencer lookalike. Even their eyes are similar. I also agree that Harry has Charles’ ears. I am sure if the Royal family really thought Harry was James’ son, they would’ve done a DNA test years ago to find out for sure. Also, knowing James Hewitt, he would’ve sold the story for money and also tried to bribe the Royals – he’s the sort of nasty bugger that would do that sort of thing.

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