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Annabella Lwin
Annabella Lwin performing with Bow Wow Wow in Kant-Kino, Berlin, Germany in 1982.
Background information
Birth name	Myant Myant Aye
Born	October 31, 1968 (1968-10-31) (age 40)
Origin	Yangon, Myanmar
Genre(s)	Alternative rock, new wave, pop
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Years active	1980–present
Associated acts	Bow Wow Wow
Website	Official website www.myspace.com/annabellalwin

Annabella Lwin born on 31 October 1968) is an Anglo-Burmese singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow.

Biography

Myant Myant Aye (Burmese for “cool, cool, high”, the name given to her by a Burmese priest) to a Burmese father and an English mother in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar).

In 1980, at the age of thirteen while still a pupil at a mixed comprehensive school in London, she successfully auditioned, after being spotted singing in a dry cleaners where she worked, by a friend of pop Svengali and Ex-Sex Pistols Manager Malcolm McLaren. he then enlisted her in a new school Sylvia Young Theatre School,as she became the lead singer for his newly formed yet to be named group band Bow Wow Wow Mclaren re-named her ‘Bess Man’. The group’s biggest hits were the songs “Go Wild in the Country” in the U.K and U.S. “Do You Wanna Hold me?”& “I Want Candy”. Lwin created some controversy by posing nude (at the age of fifteen) for the cover of See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah! City All Over Go Ape Crazy, the group’s first full-length album.

Lwin was ousted by the three guys in the group in 1983 so they could form “Chiefs Of relief” leaving her to embark on a solo career, releasing Fever in 1986 (RCA 8061). She formed a new band, Naked Experience, as well as collaborating with other musicians and songwriters such as Billy Steinberg (Madonna, Divinyls) and Ellen Shipley (Belinda Carlisle), 1 song “Carsex” made top 10 dance charts but the follow up “Do What U Do”, produced by Steve Lironi (Hansen) never got an ‘official’ release, due to record label politics. She reunited with former bandmate Leigh Gorman to recreate the sound of Bow Wow Wow for a U.S tour in 1997. Annabella has toured all over the world during concert schedules since 2003. Appearances during the reunion included range of musicians from ‘new’ Eshan Khadaroo of Beat Kitchen and ‘established’, Adrian Young from No Doubt filling in on drums for the original member Dave Barbarossa. Original guitarist Matthew Ashman died in 1995 so various guitarists filled in trying to recapture his genius.

Lwin has also been recording original material as a solo artist, and is a featured vocalist on numerous transatlantic dance tracks with producer/DJ’s like Tony B (Groove radio), Jason Nevins and the Utah Saints. Some mystery surrounds her collaboration with the Utah Saints, as both her official site and the Utah Saints official site mention the collaboration but it appears never to have been available to buy. Her songwriting brought her into partnerships with Guy Chambers (a collaborator of Robbie Williams) and Michael Lattanzi (producer of Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Sly & Robbie, Anastasia, Jewel to name a few).

Since 2000 Annabella has performed several concerts for global charities like UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for needy children. She featured as a vocalist for Camp Freddy members, Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison for a Fundraising Tsunami concert. She also co-wrote and co-produced a solo song with record producer Carey Beare, donated exclusively to the Hands and Hearts Organization for Tsunami Relief in the Spring of 2005.

Lwin is a practising Buddhist.

References

1. ^ ’80s - Bow Wow Wow (Annabella Lwin) Russell A. Trunk, AnneCarlini.com. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
2. ^ Bow Wow Wow Official Site Retrieved 16 January 2007.
3. ^ ^{a b} The Unwitting Pop Music Pioneer MAXIMILLIAN MARK MEDINA, www.chopblock.com. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
4. ^ The Return of the Mohicans SCOTT HESS, Rolling Stone, 25 February 1998. Retrieved 4 December 2006.

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Army Group South (German: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of a number of German Army Groups during World War II.

Poland campaign

Germany used two army groups to invade Poland in 1939: Army Group North and Army Group South. In this campaign Army Group South was led by Gerd von Rundstedt and his chief of staff Erich von Manstein.

Eastern Front

Army Group South was one of three army groups into which the Germans organised their forces for Operation Barbarossa. Army Group South’s principal objective was to capture Ukraine and its capital Kiev. The Ukraine was a major center of Soviet industry and mining and had the good farmland required for Hitler’s plans for Lebensraum (’living space’).

Army Group South was then to advance up to the Volga River, subsequently draining a portion of the Red Army and thus clearing the way for the Army Group North and the Army Group Center on their approach to Leningrad and Moscow respectively.

To carry out these initial tasks its battle order included the First Panzer Group and the German Sixth, Seventeenth and Eleventh Armies, and the Romanian Third and Fourth Armies.

The German Sixth Army, which fought in the destructive Battle of Stalingrad, was later made part of Army Group South.

In preparation for Operation Blue, the 1942 campaign in southern Russia and the Caucasus, Army Group South was split into two armies: Army Group A and Army Group B.

In February 1943, Army Group Don and the existing Army Group B were combined and re-designated Army Group South. A new Army Group B became a major formation elsewhere.

On 4 April 1944, Army Group South was re-designated Army Group North Ukraine. Army Group North Ukraine existed from 4 April to 28 September.

In September 1944, Army Group South Ukraine was again re-designated Army Group South.

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St. Thomas High School
Bonitatem et Disciplinam et Scientiam Doce Me. Teach me Goodness, Discipline and Knowledge.
Address
4500 Memorial Drive Houston, Texas, (Harris County), 77007  United States
Coordinates	29°45?44?N 95°24?29?W? / ?29.76222°N 95.40806°W? / 29.76222; -95.40806Coordinates: 29°45?44?N 95°24?29?W? / ?29.76222°N 95.40806°W? / 29.76222; -95.40806
Information
Type	Private, All-Male
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic, Basilian
Established	1900
President	Fr. Ronald Schwenzer
Principal	Fr. John Huber
Asst. Principal	Chris Westman
Faculty	64
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	715
Student:teacher ratio	13:1
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Red and White
Athletics conference	TAPPS 6A
Mascot	Tiberus Eagle
Team name	Eagles
Accreditation(s)	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Average SAT scores	1150
Publication	The Carom (literary magazine)
Newspaper	The Eagle
Yearbook	The Aquin
Tuition	$10,800
Dean of Students	Michael McConnell
Admissions Director	Jon Moody
Athletic Director	Mike Netzel
Website	www.sths.org
Front entrance to the school

St. Thomas High School is a Roman Catholic university preparatory school for young men in Houston, Texas, United States. Founded in 1900, St. Thomas is the second oldest continuously operating private high school in Houston, behind Incarnate Word Academy which was founded in 1873. The school is operated by the Basilian Fathers in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

History

St. Thomas was established in 1900. The school was named after St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of students and education. St. Thomas has occupied its current (as of 2008) site since 1940. The school’s location in central Houston on the north bank of the Buffalo Bayou at Memorial and Shepherd which places it close to Downtown Houston. The campus is self-contained with a fine arts center, computer lab, library, gymnasium, chapel, and stadium, most housed in distinguished limestone buildings.

In May 2008 the school hired Craig Biggio, the long time Houston Astros second baseman and fan favorite, as a baseball coach.

Location

St. Thomas High School is situated west of Downtown Houston on the wooded banks of Buffalo Bayou, near the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, a public school operated by the Houston Independent School District.

Before St. Thomas

A majority of students at Saint Thomas come from various grade schools within the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Others come from other Christian schools such as Presbyterian School and Annunciation Orthodox School . Students from public elementary schools also choose to apply for admission to freshman year.

References

1. ^ “St. Thomas hires Biggio, Hollas (w/audio).” Houston Chronicle.

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.

History

James Parton, the owner of the history magazine American Heritage, was appalled by the permissiveness of Webster’s Third, published in 1961, and tried to buy the G. and C. Merriam Company so he could undo the changes. When that failed, he contracted with Houghton to publish a new dictionary. The AHD was edited by William Morris and relied on a usage panel of 105 writers, speakers, and eminent persons for usage notes.

Linguistics

The AHD broke ground among dictionaries by using corpus linguistics in compiling word-frequency and other information. The AHD made the innovative step of combining prescriptive elements (how language should be used) and descriptive information (how it actually is used); the latter was derived from text corpora.

Citations were based on a million-word, three-line citation database prepared by Brown University linguist Henry Kucera.

Usage Panel

For expert consultation on words or constructions whose usage is controversial or problematic, the American Heritage Dictionary relies on the advice of a usage panel, consisting of around 200 prominent members of professions whose work demands sensitivity to language. Present and former members of the usage panel include novelists (Isaac Asimov, Barbara Kingsolver, David Foster Wallace, and Eudora Welty), poets (Rita Dove, Galway Kinnell, Mary Oliver, and Robert Pinsky) playwrights (Terrence McNally and Marsha Norman), journalists (Liane Hansen and Susan Stamberg), literary critics (Harold Bloom), columnists and commentators (William F. Buckley, Jr. and Robert J. Samuelson), linguists and cognitive scientists (Steven Pinker and Calvert Watkins), and humorists (Garrison Keillor and David Sedaris).

The members of the panel are sent regular ballots asking about matters of usage; the completed ballots are returned and tabulated, and the results form the basis for special usage notes appended to the relevant dictionary entries. In many cases, these notes not only report the percentage of panelists who consider a given usage or construction to be acceptable, but will also report the results from balloting of the same question in past decades, to give a clearer sense of how the language changes over time.

Illustrations

It is also somewhat innovative in its liberal use of photographic illustrations, which at the time was highly unusual for general reference dictionaries, many of which went largely or completely unillustrated. It also has an unusually large number of biographical entries for notable persons.

First edition

The first edition appeared in 1969, highly praised for its Indo-European etymologies. In addition to the normally expected etymologies, which for instance trace the word ambiguous to a Proto-Indo-European root ag-, meaning “to drive,” the appendices included a seven-page article by Professor Calvert Watkins entitled “Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans” and “Indo-European Roots”, 46 pages of entries that are each organized around one of some thousand inferred Proto-Indo-European roots and the English words of the AHD that are understood to have evolved from them. These entries might be called “reverse etymologies”: the ag- entry there, for instance lists 49 words derived from it, as diverse as agent, essay, purge, stratagem, ambassador, axiom, and pellagra, along with information about varying routes through intermediate transformations on the way to the contemporary words.

Second and later editions

The second edition, published in 1980, omitted the Indo-European etymologies, but they were reintroduced in the third edition, published in 1992. The third edition was also a departure for the publisher because it was developed in a database, which facilitated the use of the linguistic data for other applications, such as electronic dictionaries. The fourth edition (2000) added Semitic language materials, including an analogous appendix of roots. As of 2009, it remains the current edition. Throughout the various editions, however, the AHD has a long tradition of inserting minor revisions (such as a biographical entry, with photograph, for each newly elected U.S. President) in successive printings of any given edition.

The AHD is larger than the desk dictionaries of the time but smaller than Webster’s Third New International Dictionary or The Random House Dictionary of the English Language.

There is a lower-priced college edition with monocolor printing.

See also

• English spelling reform
• Pronunciation respelling for English, which compares the pronunciation respelling scheme of the AHD with other dictionaries.

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The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson is a popular chick lit series for teenage girls, written by Louise Rennison. It is the diary of a teenage girl, Georgia, as she complains about school, is attracted to good-looking boys and is frustrated with the strangeness of the rest of her family (consisting of her mother, father, younger sister Libby and her crazy cats, Angus and Gordy).

The first novel in the series, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, describes her as a fourteen-year old girl without, but seeking, a boyfriend in her English community. As the series progresses, she begins to have more potential boyfriends, ending up with three regular contenders for the job, nicknamed the Sex God, the Italian Stallion and Dave the Laugh. In the latest installment ‘Stop in the Name of Pants!’, she has chosen which boy she wishes to date, but still has trouble with her feelings for others. In this confusion, readers hope to find a resolution to this conflict in future novels in the series. The tenth and final book in the series is set to be released 25th June 2009 in hard back cover.]

There is some debate about where the books are set. In the second book, they mention catching a bus to Deansgate, which is an area of Manchester in the North West of England, and which features an all boys and an all girls high school situated across the road from each other (Manchester High School for Girls and Manchester Grammar School). However, other signals point to the books being set in Brighton on Englands South coast, such as the fact they always meet by the clock tower and that they regularly go to Churchill Square, a popular shopping center in Brighton, and this is where Louise Rennison currently lives. Georgia and her friends also go camping in Ramsgate, which is in the South East of England, and, when Georgia is coming back from a holiday in Scotland, she talks about ‘nodding off for the whole of the Midlands’.

Georgia is fifteen through out all the books and although this is not specified we can tell this by the fact she mentions she is year 10. In the latest book, Stop in the Name of Pants!, she progresses to year 11.

Books

The series is made up of nine novels, the most recent of which was released in July 2008. The titles are:

1. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
2. It’s OK, I’m wearing really big knickers - (On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God in the US)
3. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
4. Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants
5. …and that’s when it fell off my hand - (Away Laughing on a Fast Camel in the US)
6. …and then he ate my boy entrancers (May 2005)
7. Startled By His Furry Shorts
8. Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing - (Love is a Many Trousered Thing in the US) (July 2007)
9. Stop in the Name of Pants! (July 2008)
10. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (June 2009)

Also in 2007, the short book Let the Snog Fest Begin!: Georgia Nicolson’s Guide to Life and Luuurve was released for World Book and Copyright Day. There is also a journal called “Fabbity-fab Journal”.

Characters

Georgia’s world is full of nutty and bizarre people. Some are listed below

The Ace Gang

• Jas (Jasmine Pollyanna) - Georgia’s exasperatingly annoying, but endearing, best friend. Prone to rambling on - annoys Georgia by talking about nature and her boyfriend Tom a.k.a. Hunky (brother of Robbie). She is also known as ‘Radio Jas’ and is constantly telling everyone Georgia’s secrets. She is the ’sensible’ one in the Ace Gang, often taking her work seriously. Her middle name is Pollyanna, because her mother liked the film. She wears enormous pantaloonies. In the first book she has a brother, however later in the series she denies this, the same is true for Ellen
• Rosie (Rosemary) - A close friend of Georgia. A Viking bride-to-be. Much like her boyfriend Sven, she is ‘not entirely normal’. This is verified by the fact that Rosie carries around a fake beard and a pipe at all times. Also known for her eccentric dancing. Referred to as wearing glasses several times during the first book. Has been called Rosemary Barnes as her last name and rosemary/rosie mees as a nickname.
• Jools (Julia)*not included in the movie adaptation* - A friend of Georgia. Good in an emergency e.g. usually has a secret lippy supply. Currently dating Rollo.
• Ellen - A close, and rather dim, friend of Georgia, who is known for dithering. She went out with Dave the Laugh (for eight and a half minutes), and after he dumped her, still had feelings for him, but at the end of ‘Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing’ seemed to go off him a little in favour of one of his friends, Dec. When discussing Rosies Viking wedding, she is told she should work out, so maybe she is overweight. In “Stop in the name of pants!” she starts dating Declan.
• Mabs (Mabel)*also not included in the movie adaptation* - A friend of Georgia. Is currently single but seemed to take a liking to Tom and Dave the Laugh’s friend Edward at the end of ‘Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing’. All round good egg.

Honourary bloke members of the Ace Gang

• Dave the Laugh (Hornmeister) - A very close friend of Georgia, who makes her, and everyone else for that matter, laugh. He was once her boyfriend, but only to make Robbie (the Sex God) jealous. They are also occasionally snogging partners. Dave is referred to as Georgia’s Horn Adviser when she suffers from red bottomosity - see slang column - in later books and helps her out with relationship troubles. Famously said he would like to be a girl so he could look at his nunga-nungas all day. Louise Rennison once said that she was thinking of letting him and Geogia get together.
• Tom Jennings - Robbie (the Sex God)’s younger brother and boyfriend of Jas. Actually, as boys go, not entirely mad.
• Sven - Rosie’s extremely tall boyfriend who has limited English and scares almost everyone he comes into contact with. From Reindeer Land (possibly). None of the Ace Gang are quite sure where he is from—not even his girlfriend. Described by Georgia as ‘half reindeer, half fool’ and ’spectacularly mad’. Owns many pairs of ludicrous flared trousers, including ones that have flashing lights down the seams, and at least one pair of furry shorts.

Trainee members of the Ace Gang

• Honor and Soph - Coming along nicely. Already involved in the snot disco inferno and the hilarious putting of a skeleton dressed as Mr. Attwood in his hut.

The Rest

• Mr. Bob Nicolson a.k.a. Vati - Long-suffering father of Georgia: once lived in New Zealand, and has a ridiculous beard. He enjoys acting in mysterious ways, whilst still being a strict parent at times, and sometimes acts like Il Ministrone. He is also part of a football team that he put together with a few of his other lardy friends, even though none of them are physically fit.
• Mrs. Connie Nicolson a.k.a. Mutti - Long-suffering mother of Georgia, with rather large nunga-nungas. Georgia mentions that her mother has no ‘moral code’, as she is always flirting with men.
• Robbie ‘The Sex God’ Jennings - Idol of affection for Georgia/first proper love. Used to be the lead singer of the Stiff Dylans until he moved to New Zealand and therefore had to leave the band. He does come back from New Zealand in the book ‘Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing’ and shows likings for Georgia, but Georgia’s affections have by then been transferred to Masimo, who replaced Robbie in the Stiff Dylans. He is described as extremely good-looking, and has black hair and very blue eyes.
• Mark Big Gob - The second person Georgia kissed. He once rested his hand on her nunga-nunga and she didn’t know why. He smokes and once got into a crazy fight with The Stiff Dylans, Robbie’s/Masimo’s band, during a dance. He also has a huge mouth, hence the name Mark Big Gob. He enjoys dating very short girls.
• Rollo - Friend of Tom and Dave the Laugh. Currently going out with Jools.
• Whelk Boy (Peter Dyer) - The first person Georgia kissed, but she broke up with him because he kept going straight into kissing her, and not letting her talk. She also disliked his kissing style, although she did originally go to him for kissing lessons. He is nicknamed ‘Whelk boy’ because his kissing style reminded Georgia of a whelk, i.e a slimy and generally unpleasant shellfish.
• Libby (Liberty) - Georgia’s young, supposedly adorable sister who thinks Georgia is half girl/half cat and sometimes refers to her as ‘Bad boy’ and ‘Gingey’. Libby is not potty trained yet and pees and poos everywhere inside, or outside, the house. She also uses bathroom humour frequently when she is talking and had a friend named Josh at kindy. Josh was eventually banned from playing at Libby’s house by his mother because Libby gave him a haircut with a bread knife and drew on his face with indelible ink.
• Uncle Eddie - Georgia’s loony, bald uncle. Later in the series it is noted that he has become somewhat of a male stripper for women’s parties (the ‘baldy-o-gram’), and is very popular at it. He is shown to be insane, but nice, with a terrible sense of humor.
• Herr Kamyer - Teacher of German and Physics. Georgia notes, ‘He has the double comedic value of being both German and the only male teacher in an all girls school.’ He once had malaria and now twitches when he speaks. He has awful dress sense, and dithers when he talks, like Ellen.
• Gorgey Henri - Groovy-looking French student teacher featured in some books.
• Madame Slack - French teacher at Georgia’s school.
• Ms. ‘Slim’ Simpson - Overweight headmistress of Georgia’s school. Known for her rolls of fat and all-over jelloidnosity.
• ‘Hawkeye’ Heaton - A horrible teacher at Georgia’s school. She has had it in for the Ace Gang ever since Georgia let out the locusts in the biology lab.
• Miss Stamp a.k.a. Adolfa - Physical Education teacher known for suspicious (most likely lesbian) interactions with her students. Also teaches Maths.
• Wet Lindsay - Robbie’s ex-girlfriend, whom Georgia hates. She is a rival to Georgia in terms of boys, and she has been known to have had certain relations with Robbie and Masimo. At Stalag 14, she has a role as a Prefect, and later head girl, but abuses this power to torment Georgia, her friends, and first formers. She is noted for her insect-stick legs, sticky-up nose, sticky-out ears, goggly eyes and small forehead. She puts ‘chicken fillets’ in her bra, so it appears that she has a small bust and is self-conscious about it.
• Astonishingly Dim Monica (ADM) - Wet Linsdsay’s best friend and fellow prefect
• Nauseating Pamela (P.) Green - A girl in school who breeds hamsters and wears large glasses. Georgia makes fun of her, but also defends her from the Bummers (see below). She has a large forehead and is described as fat.
• The Bummer Twins (Alison and Jackie) - Tarty and common girl bullies from Georgia’s school who always smoke and wear a lot of make-up. They get expelled for shoplifting.
• Elvis Attwood - The grumpy caretaker at Georgia’s school, called Elvis because he once threw his back out while dancing.
• Dr. John Gilhooley a.k.a. Dr. Clooney - The gorgeous and kind male doctor Georgia’s mum has a crush on.
• Angus - Georgia’s Scottish half wild cat. Likes to kill things and then hide them in Georgia’s bed as presents. He is the size of a small Labrador dog, and has tabby fur.
• Naomi - Angus’ love kitten. She is a pure-bred Burmese cat, and was regularly entered in cat shows before she had Angus’ kittens. Her name is not actually Naomi and the books never explain what her real name is.
• Gordy - Angus’ son/Libby’s pet. His parents are Angus and Naomi. Is cross-eyed, and likes to wrestle his own tail.
• Masimo ‘The Luuurve God’ Scarlotti - Italian-American singer. He becomes Georgia’s new idol of affection after Robbie goes to New Zealand.
• Call Me Arnold - The Vicar that attempts to make the Church more modern. He has extremely light blonde hair, that reminds Georgia of an albino.
• Dom - Member of The Stiff Dylans
• Chris - Member of The Stiff Dylans
• Ben - Member of The Stiff Dylans
• Miss Wilson - A jittery teacher at Georgia’s school. She teaches R.E. (Religious Education) and English. She has a peculiar dress sense, and bobbed hair.

Slang

This is the Ace Gang’s language.

• Arvie - Afternoon. From the Latin ‘arvo’. Possibly. As in the famous Latin invitation: ‘Lettus meetus this arvo.’
• Billy Shakespeare land - England
• ‘Blimey O’Reilly!’ or ‘Blimey O’Reilly’s trousers!’ - Irish expression of disbelief and shock. Maybe O’Reilly was a famous Irish bloke who wore big trousers. We may never know the truth.
• Blodge - Biology.
• Boboland - To go to sleep is ‘to go to bobos’, so if you go to bed you are going to boboland. Libby made it up and can be very violent if you don’t join in with her.
• Boy entrancers - False eyelashes.
• Bum-oley - Quite literally bottom-hole. Say it proudly with a smile and a Spanish accent.
• Bunged - Shoved. Put firmly in place.
• Cat patrol - A term used when a boy (cat) and his friends go out looking for ‘birds’, as in girls.
• Chav - A common, rude, rough person who wears naff clothes.
• Chrimbo - Christmas
• Clown car - Officially known as a Reliant Robin three-wheeler, but clearly a car built for clowns, made by an absolute loser called Robin.
• Conk - Nose. Based in history due to William the Conquerer having a big nose and because of this we called him William the Big Conk-erer. If you see what I mean.
• Double cool with knobs - ‘double’ and ‘with knobs’ are instead of saying ‘very’ a lot. Makes sentences quicker.
• Duffing up - Female equivalent of beating up. Not so violent and involves a lot of pushing and the occasional pinch.
• Emily Plankton - Nickname for Emmeline Pankhurst, the famous female suffragette.
• Erlack - ‘Yuck!’ or ‘Eww!’.
• Erlack a pongoes - Incredibly disgusting.
• Fabby - Fabulous.
• Fandango - Complicated Spanish dance. So a fandango is something complicated.
• Froglegs-a-gogo Land - France.
• Froggy - French.
• Gadzooks - Expression of surprise. Like, ‘Cor, love a duck!’, which doesn’t mean you love ducks or want to marry one.
• Geoggers - Geography.
• Goosegog - Gooseberry e.g. if two people want to snog and someone keeps hanging about talking, they are a gooseberry. Or for short, a goosegog, meaning someone who nobody wants around.
• Gorgey - Gorgeous.
• Hamburger-a-go-go-Land - USA.
• Hambergese - Person from Hamburger-a-go-go-land.
• General Horn - Being attracted to many people at the same time.
• Particular Horn - Being attracted to only one singular person.
• Cosmic Horn - Being attracted to everyone and everything in the universe.
• Kiwi-a-gogo-Land - New Zealand.
• Land of the Great White Clots - New Zealand. Play on ‘Land of the Great White Clouds’, the translation of the Maori name for New Zealand.
• Lederhosen-a-gogo Land - Germany.
• Lord Baden-Powell - Invented Scouts and camping, knots and going into the country for no reason. Ergo, Lord B-P was clearly as mad as a hen. He also invented enormous shorts, which he wore proudly.
• Lunck - Lunch (Interestingly, this term is never actually used during the course of the books).
• Marvy - Marvelous.
• Midget Gem - Little sweets made out of hard jelly stuff in different flavours. Jas loves them A LOT. Georgia never accepts them from her as she suspects Jas keeps them in her knickers.
• Nervy B - Nervous breakdown. See “Losing it Scale”
• Nippy Noodles - Cold.
• Nuddy-pants - Nude-coloured pants, which means no pants. So if you are in your nuddy-pants you are in no pants, i.e you are naked.
• Nunga-nungas - Basoomas. Breasts. They are called nunga-nungas because Ellen’s brother says that if you get hold of a girl’s breast and pull on it goes nunga-nunga-nunga. Singular form - Nunga.
• Sports Nunga-Nunga-holder - A sports bra. Basoomas can potentially knock you out if they’re big and you don’t wear it when running.
• Och Aye Land - Scotland.
• Over-the-shoulder boulder-holder - A nunga-nunga holder; bra.
• Pantalitzer doll - A terrifying Czech-made doll that sadistic parents buy for their children.
• Parky - Cold.
• Piddly-diddly Department - A place where one goes to pee.
• Pingy pongoes - A very bad smell. Usually to do with farting.
• Plight my troth - Give your word love-wise. Another way of saying ‘You are my one and only one’. So if you are ‘untrothed’, you can display red-bottomosity ad hoc and willy nilly.
• Pizza-a-gogo Land - Spaghetti-a-go-go Land; Masimoland, Italy.
• Poo parlour division - A place where one goes to poo.
• Red-bottomosity - Having the big red bottom. When a lady baboon is in the mood for love, she displays her red bottom to the male baboon. Otherwise he wouldn’t have a clue. Anyway, if you hear the call of the Horn you are said to be displaying red-bottomosity.
• S’laters - See you later.
• The Sound of Music - A film we all know. Includes many famous songs, like ‘The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music’, except to Georgia it is, of course, ‘The Hills are Alive with the Sound of PANTS’. Other examples include ‘You Are Sixteen Going On PANTS’ and the one about the national flower of Austria ‘EidlPANTS’.
• Spangleferkel - A kind of German sausage.
• Swiss-cheese-a-gogo-Land - Switzerland.
• Stalag 14 - School.
• Tart’s Wardrobe - girl’s toilets.
• Tatty Bye - ‘Tatty’ is another word for potato in olde English. Mrs Billy Shakespeare would say, ‘Shall we have tatties and pheasant for tea, Billy?’. So when you are saying goodbye, English people say ‘tatty bye’, and it quite literally means ‘goodbye potato’.
• Vino tinto - Now this is your actual Pizza-a-gogo talk. It quite literally means ‘tinted wine’. In this case the wine is tinted red.
• Waz - Another expression for piddly-diddly department. Boys expression.
• Wazzarium - A place where you go to have a waz. Boys toilets.
• ‘What in the name of pantyhose?!’ - Expression of annoyance, like ‘What on Earth?’.
• Whelk Boy - A whelk is a horrible shellfish thing that only the truly mad eat. Slimy and mucus-like. Whelk Boy is a boy who kisses like a whelk, i.e. a slimy mucus kisser.

These words and more are found in the back of the books in a glossary for the ‘dim’ readers. Georgia has her own definitions to explain each word, many of which are commonly-used British English slang words.

German Snogging Scale Taken from Stop in the Name of Pants!

1. Händchen halten
2. Arm umlegen
3. Abschiedskuss
4. Kuss, der über drei Minuten
5. Kuss mit geöffneten Lippen
6. Zungenkuss
7. Oberkörperknutschen—im Freien
8. Oberkörperknutschen—drinnen
9. Rummachen unterhalb der Taille
10. AUFS GANZE GEHEN

Let the Snog Fest Begin

‘Let the Snog Fest Begin’ is a short book by Louise Rennison featuring her popular character Georgia Nicolson, from the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. It was released in 2007 as a special £1 book for World Book Day.

Movie

The movie, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, is based on the first and second novels. Gurinder Chadha is the director, and there are plans to make further movies based on the books depending on the success of the first movie, which was recently released on DVD. ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ was released on the 25th of July 2008(UK) and is produced by Paramount and Nickelodeon Pictures.

References

1. ^ Template:Http://www.amazon.co.uk/Georgia-10-Confessions-Nicolson/dp/0061459356/ref=sr 1 1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231699811&sr=1-1
2. ^ “£1 Books”. World Book Day website. http://www.worldbookday.com/resources/4d.asp. Retrieved on 2007-08-19. 

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Sol de América

Full name	Club Sol de América
Nickname(s)	El Guerrero
Founded	January 5, 1947
Ground	Estadio Antonio Romero, Formosa, Argentina (Capacity: 33,000)
League	Torneo Argentino B
2007-08	8th Zone B (Survived relegation playoff)
Home colours Away colours

Club Sol de América are an Argentine Football club, from the Province of Formosa in Argentina. They currently play in Zone B of the regionalised 4th level of Argentinian football Torneo Argentino B.

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Sam Francis, Black and Red, oil on canvas 1950-1953, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923, San Mateo, California – November 4, 1994, Santa Monica, California) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured in a plane crash. He was in the hospital for several years, and it was while there that he began to paint. Once out of the hospital he returned to Berkeley, this time to study art.

Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. He spent the 1950s in Paris, having his first exhibition there in 1952. While there he became associated with Tachisme. He later spent time in Japan, and some have seen an influence from Zen Buddhism in his work.

Francis spent some time in Paris executing entirely monochromatic works, but his mature pieces are generally large oil paintings with splashed or splattered areas of bright contrasting colour. Areas of white canvas are often left to show through, and in later works, paint is sometimes confined to the edges of the canvas.

Francis returned to California during the 1960s and continued painting in Los Angeles. During the final three decades of his career his style of large scale bright Abstract expressionism was also closely associated with Color field painting. During the last year of his life, suffering from prostate cancer and unable to paint with his right hand after a fall, in a final burst of energy he used his left hand to complete a dazzling series of about 150 small paintings before he died. He was buried in Olema, in Marin County, California.

In the wake of the artist’s death, the Samuel L. Francis Foundation, Inc. (also known as the “Samuel L. Francis Art Museum, Inc.” or the “Sam Francis Foundation”) was founded. The Foundation not only serves as his official Estate, but also has a mission “to research, document, protect and perpetuate the creative legacy of .” The U.S. copyright representative for the Francis Foundation is the Artists Rights Society.

As of 2008, the Foundation is working to create a Catalogue Raisonné of Francis’s work. In addition to collecting information on known Francis works, they also have a page dedicated to “missing works” for which they are seeking any information interested parties may have.

See also

• Pontus Hultén
• Abstract Expressionism
• Tachisme
• Color field painting
• Lyrical Abstraction

Gallery

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: About the Artist page
2. ^ Marin Magazine “Sam Francis: The internationally acclaimed abstract expressionist spent his last days in West Marin” By Jim Wood. October 2007.
3. ^ Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: Mission page
4. ^ Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: Rights and Reproduction page
5. ^ Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: Catalogue Raisonné page
6. ^ Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: Missing Works page

• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
• Peter Plagens, “Sunny side up - abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis,” Artforum, March 1999.

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Flaminio Ponzio (1560-1613) was an Italian architect during the late-Renaissance or so-called Mannerist period, serving in Rome as the architect for Pope Paul V.

Ponzio was born in Viggiù near Varese, and he died in Rome. After juvenile training in Milan, he moved to Rome, where he worked briefly with Domenico Fontana.

Selected works

• Design of the Cappella Paolina (Chapel of Paul V) in Santa Maria Maggiore (1605-1611)
• Façade on Via Ripetta of Palazzo Borghese (1605-1607)
• Oratories of Saint Barbara and Saint Silvia on the Caelian Hill near San Gregorio Magno (1608)
• Villa Borghese Pinciana or (”Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill”; 1609-1613), also referred to as the Casino Nobile on the site, which presently is the suburban villa hosting the museum known as the Galleria Borghese. Originally commissioned by the rapacious mecenas, Scipione Borghese, who appears to have played a role in the design. He likely played a role in the design of the gardens and grounds surrounding the villa, and collaborated or was supplanted after his death by Vasanzio. Other architects who have been associated with the project are Jan Van Santen.
• Casa di Flaminio Ponzio (1610)
• Fountain of Acqua Paola on the Janiculum (1610)
• Restoration and creation of new cupola, for the church of Sant’Eligio degli Orefici
• Design of San Sebastiano, and of Palazzo Rosipigliosi in Quirinal Hill, both completed by Giovanni Vasanzio (1612)
• Palazzo Sciarra (1613)
• Villa Torlonia in Frascati

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Rhondda Line
Legend Treherbert Ynyswen Treorchy Ton Pentre Ystrad Rhondda Llwynypia Tonypandy Dinas Rhondda Porth Trehafod Merthyr Line and Aberdare Line Pontypridd Trefforest Trefforest Estate (closed Sundays) Taffs Well Radyr City Line Llandaf Cathays Coryton Line & Rhymney Line Cardiff Queen Street Butetown Branch Line Cardiff Central

The Rhondda Line is a commuter railway line in South Wales from Cardiff to Treherbert. The line follows the Merthyr Line as far as Pontypridd, where it then diverges to continue along the Rhondda Valley.

The places served by the line are listed below:

• Cardiff city centre
• Cathays
• Llandaf
• Radyr
• Taff’s Well
• Trefforest
• Pontypridd
• Trehafod
• Porth
• Dinas Rhondda
• Tonypandy
• Llwynypia
• Ystrad Rhondda
• Ton Pentre
• Treorchy
• Ynyswen
• Treherbert

The line is currently operated by Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) as part of the Valley Lines network. ATW replaced the previous franchise, Wales & Borders Trains in December 2003.

The first section of the line, as far as Pontypridd, is historically, part of the Taff Vale Railway, from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil. At Pontypridd the Rhondda branch diverges and follows the course of the Rhondda Valley. Now single track beyond Porth, the branch suffered from being singled in the early 1980s, just prior to the commencement of the revival of the Valley Lines network. By 1986 a passing loop was constructed at Ystrad Rhondda station (itself newly built, with the original station of that name renamed Ton Pentre), to enable a half hourly service to be introduced. Another new station was opened at Ynyswen on the same day.

In March 2007 it was announced that platforms on the branch are to be lengthened to enable 6 car trains to run, together with leasing of an additional 8 Class 150s for the whole network.

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