The Chichevache is a mythological European monster fabled to feed on good women. In Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales , this human faced cow is perpetually starved to skin and bone due to the scarcity of obedient and faithful wives. The Bicorne monster Bicorne or Bycorne, a counterpart to the Chichevache which fed on obedient and kind husbands, was reputedly fat and plump because of the plentiful supply of such men. Chaucer may have borrowed the French term chichifache thin face and put it with vache cow to make the similar term chichevache thin or meagre cow . ref http home.swipnet.se w 48250 mythology c chichevache.html Chichevache Bot generated title ref D. Laing Purves notes that The origin of the fable was French but John Lydgate Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. Chichevache literally means niggardly or greedy cow. ref Gutenberg no 2383 name The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems ref Here is the paragraph where the word appears, in the Clerk s Tale O noble wyves, full of heigh prudence, Lat noon no humylitee youre tonge naille Ne nor lat no clerk have cause or diligence To write of yow a storie of swich such mervaille, As of Grisildis Griselda , pacient and kynde, Lest Chichivache yow swelwe swallow in hire entraille. References references External links http www.bookrags.com ebooks 2383 215.html Nuttall Category Medieval European legendary creatures europe myth stub legendary creature stub ... more details
refimprove date February 2010 A quaintrelle is a woman who emphasizes a life of passion expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life s pleasures. Quaintrelles are not female dandies rather, they share the same philosophical underpinnings of dandies, developed within feminine nature and styles. Clarify date January 2010 Etymology Quaintrelle is often noted as an obscure word, with many spelling variations. The stem origin is coint , a 12th century word applied to things skilfully made, later applied to person of beautiful dress or refined speech. The Pilgrimage of the Lyt of the Manhode , about 1450, contains the line It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair By the 18th century, coint became quaint , used to denote elegance. The Middle English Dictionary defines queintelle as A person of fashion while the Norfolk Archaeology , Volume 37, defines quaintrelle as a feminine over dressed person . The New English Dictionary on Historical Principals defines quaintrelle as, a finely dressed woman. Famous Quaintrelles There are no universally agreed upon quaintrelles. Possible quaintrelles include Lady Blessington, Marchesa Casati , C. Z. Guest , Coco Chanel , Tamara de Lempicka and Marlene Dietrich . Category Dandy Category Human appearance Category History of clothing Western fashion Category Terms for females vocab stub culture stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 A playground parachute is a round multicolored nylon sheet commonly 20 to 30 feet in diameter. It may or may not have handles on the periphery. It is used by arranging children on the outside, who then vigorously wave the parachute up and down. The playground parachute is common in kindergarten and early elementary school physical education classes and organized Recess break recess , but it also aimed for people of all ages. Games played with a playground parachute Some activities with a playground parachute include Cat and mouse one child is placed on top of the parachute, and up to three children under the parachute. The cat tries to tag the mice, but the mice are hidden by the wavelike movement of the parachute. Ball games one or many beach balls or playground balls are placed on top of the parachute. The teacher may try to encourage teamwork by getting the children to catapult the ball by working in unison. Tepee The parachute is brought up, then the children raise their part of the parachutes over their heads and behind their back, and sit down. This creates an air pocket which resembles a tent. Trading Spaces At the count of three the parachute is brought up and the teacher may call out any of the colors the children are holding, the color across from each of the children this is used only with a parachute that has an odd number of each of the colors on the parachute , or just the children s names. After the teacher does so, those kids will run under the parachute and swich places with another kid. Shark and Lifeguard a child will go under the parachute and pick a victim to be pulled under, the victim will shout Lifeguard if the child who is the lifeguard didn t pull the victim out in time he she will suddenly become a shark and so on. References http creativeplay4less.com pp85 942.html Category Play ... more details
So Sweet Records is an independent record label , based out of Santa Monica , California . So Sweet Records has branches in the US, UK, and Japan. So Sweet Records is owned by Tehmina Adaya , a Los Angeles based entrepreneur, hotelier and music enthusiast. Vice President Paul Nugent manages A&R, while the label itself is managed by Yuki Hoang. Adaya and Nugent partnered in 2005 to start the label. ref cite web url http labeatconnection.com 2009 09 exclusive interview with so sweet records more 201 accessdate 2009 10 21 title labeatconnection.com ref Active Roster Le Castle Vania Computer Club Foamo Eli Smith Frankmusik Sharkslayer Bird Peterson Digiraatii Events Scion automobile Scion House Party South By Southwest Festival Exclusive parties and events at the Hotel Shangri La Santa Monica Hosted a Stage at Nocturnal Wonderland 2009 Swich Mad Decent Rusko musician Rusko Mad Decent Drop The Lime Trouble & Bass Feadz Ed Banger Records Skream Tempa Benga Tempa DJ Falcon Roule Daft Crew Frankmusik So Sweet Records Foamo So Sweet Records Eli Smith So Sweet Records Hosted a Stage at Electric Daisy Carnival 2009 Friday BOYS NOIZE , FAKE BLOOD, SHINICHI OSAWA, NICK CATCHDUBS, 12TH PLANET, COMPUTER CLUB, FOAMO, PAUL DEVRO, KRY LON , C TOWN Saturday SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, DIPLO, MAJOR LAZER, DJ AM, LE CASTLE VANIA , WILL BAILEY Presents BASS WEAZAL, BIRD PETERSON, KELEVRA, ELI SMITH , GRUM, SHARKSLAYER, THE CAPTAIN Collaborations Clothing So me MADSTEEZ Kesh Designer DEMONBABIES GRNappletree Previous Releases Shinichi Osawa Dan Deacon Remixes Simian Mobile Disco Kissy Sell Out Felix Cartal References reflist External links http www.myspace.com sosweetrecords Myspace http www.sosweetrecords.com So Sweet Records Website http www.twitter.com sosweetrecords So Sweet Records Twitter Category American independent record labels ... more details
Infobox figure skater name Diana Poth image Diana Poth 2003 NHK Trophy.jpg caption Poth in 2003. fullname Diana Poth altname country HUN formercountry AUT birth date Birth date and age 1981 8 6 df y birth place Budapest hometown residence death date death place height convert 165 cm ft abbr on partner formerpartner coach formercoach Gurgen Vardanian br Jerena Ipakjan br Istvan Simon br Tamara T gl ssy br Eszter Jurek choreographer formerchoreographer skating club Iceberg Skating Club, Budapest retired 2006 combined total 130.37 combined date 2003 NHK Trophy SP score 52.24 SP date 2003 NHK Trophy FS score 85.54 FS date 2003 Cup of Russia Diana Poth born 6 August 1981 in Budapest , Hungary is a Hungarian people Hungarian figure skater who has also competed for Austria . She has an Austrian mother. She began ice skating at the age of four because she need to burn out her nervous. Her first coach was Tamara Teglassy. With her as a coach, Diana got her best results as a junior. After the 1998 worlds championships, in which she finished in 10th position with an aswesome long program, she swich coaches and began to train with Andras Szaraz, Eszter Jurek. With them, she got her best result 4th in a European championships in 1999. For this moment, her results began to be worst. A couple of injuries, her nervous on the rink and a couple of things more, make her to swich coaches again and train with Jeranjak Ipakjan and Gurgen Vardanjan. Finally in April 2007 she decided to finish her sport live. Now, she is a coach in a Cardiff iceskating club. One of her students had got the junior national championship. She is the 1999 2000 Hungarian Figure Skating Championships Hungarian national champion . In 2001, she moved to Austria and competed for them the following season. She then returned to Hungary in October 2002 and currently competes for them. Diana is married to professional footballer G bor Gyepes . Results class wikitable Event 1994 95 1995 96 1996 97 1997 98 1998 99 1999 0 ... more details
Image HengwrtChaucerOpening.jpg thumb 250px The first lines from the General Prologue at the opening folio of the Hengwrt manuscript . br br Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote br The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, br And bathed every veyne in swich licour br Of which vertu engendred is the flour Image Chauser knight from prologue.png thumb 250px Illustration of the knight from the General Prologue. Three lines of text are also shown. The General Prologue is the assumed title of the series of portraits that precedes The Canterbury Tales . It was the work of 14th century England English writer and courtier Geoffrey Chaucer . Synopsis The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the general prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. Chaucer is in the The Tabard Tabard Inn , in Southwark , where he meets a motley crew of middle class folk from various parts of England. Coincidentally, they are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the Shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett Thomas Becket . In the Prologue, Chaucer seeks to describe their condition , their array , and their social degree To telle yow al the condicioun, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne, And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. The pilgrims include a The Knight s Tale knight , his son a The Squire s Tale squire , the knight s yeoman who maintains numerous resemblances to Robin Hood , a The Prioress s Tale prioress accompanied by a The Second Nun s Tale second nun and the The Nun s Priest s Tale nun s priest , a The Monk s Tale monk , a The Friar s Tale friar , a The Merchant s Tale merchant , a The Clerk s Tale clerk , a The Man of Law s Tale sergeant of law , a The Franklin s Tale franklin , a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a dyer, a tapestry weaver, a The Cook s Tale cook , a The Shipman s Tale shipman , a The Physician s Tale doctor of physic , a The Wife of Ba ... more details
Infobox company name JSTV logo File Japanese Satellite Television logo.png 100px launch March 1990 location city 65 Clifton Street, London , EC2A 4JE location country United Kingdom area served Europe and Middle East industry Satellite television Satellite broadcasting owner NHK Cosmomedia Europe Limited homepage http www.jstv.co.uk JSTV.co.uk nihongo Japanese Satellite Television , Nihongo Eisei H s , is a Japanese broadcaster in the Middle East , Europe , Russia and North Africa . Launched in March 1990, broadcasting from London , the channel has broadcast for two hours each night from 8pm GMT on the Lifestyle television channel Lifestyle transponder 5 on the Astra 1A satellite in analogue format frequency 11.273 MHz, time sharing with The Children s Channel , Lifestyle and The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox . On the 3rd of June it started using transponder 24 on Astra 1B , at frequency 11.567 MHz for 11 hours a day, using the VideoCrypt Videocrypt II encryption time sharing with The Children s Channel and later with CMT Europe . It eventually moved to transponder 53 frequency 10.773 to broadcast 24 hours a day. Analogue transmissions for JSTV on Astra ceased on the 31st of October 2001. The channel currently broadcasts in DVB S on Hot Bird 6, encrypted in Cryptoworks except some programmes and broadcasts programs of NHK , Fuji TV , TV Tokyo and other main Japanese broadcasters. News programs are mostly direct and Live from the original broadcaster, however several other programs such as Anime and Variety shows are not up to date. In July 2011 JSTV made its customers aware of an up and coming change to the encryption from Cryptoworks to Conax , the schedule of the swich over has not been made public. Not all programs are encrypted, BS News , News 7 and some English programs broadcast free to air . JSTV consists of two channels JSTV1 which broadcasts TV programmes, and JSTV2 which broadcasts part time TV programmes and 24hour Japanese rad ... more details
two other uses the fortress Fort Boyard fortification the 2011 US UK joint production Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge Infobox television format game show Game Show runtime UK 60 mins small inc. adverts small br France br 95 110 mins small 2010 small br small 60 120 mins 1990 2009 small company Adventure Line Productions creator Jacques Antoine , Jean Pierre Mitrecey, Pierre Launay starring Main Presenters br Melinda Messenger small 1998 2001 small br Jodie Penfold small 2003 small br Olivier Minne small French version 2003 small br Co hosts small br Leslie Grantham small 1998 2001 small br Christopher Ellison small 2003 small br Geoffrey Bayldon small 1998 2001 small br Tom Baker small 2003 small theme music composer Paul Koulak country flagcountry France location Fort Boyard fortification Fort Boyard network France 2 small France since 1992 small br Channel 5 UK TV channel Channel 5 small UK 1998 2001 small br Challenge TV Challenge small UK 2003 small picture format 4 3 small 1990 2007 small br 16 9 small most countries, 2008 small first aired French version br startdate 1990 7 7 df yes br Present br English version br startdate 1998 8 16 df yes br enddate 2003 12 3 df yes small UK small num series 127 small in total, all countries up to 2011 small br 22 small French version small br 5 small English version small num episodes 1,438 small overall total, all countries up to 2011 small br 254 small French version, at the end of 2011 season small br 78 small English version small related The Crystal Maze small 1990 1995 small br The Desert Forges small 2001 small br Interceptor TV series Interceptor small 1989 1990 small br The Fortress TV series The Fortress small 2010 2011 small br Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge br status Ended small in UK small br Continuing small in France small website http fort boyard.france2.fr Official French Fort Boyard production website http www.alp.tv productions fiche production fort boyard 42 Fort Boyard is a French game show created by J ... more details
TOCright TOClimit limit 3 English words first attested in Chaucer are a set of about two thousand English words that Geoffrey Chaucer is credited as being the first use found today in existing manuscripts . ref Cannon, p. 129 ref ref name cannon233 Cannon, pp. 231 233 ref ref name 2thousand cite web url http homepage.ntlworld.com vivian.c Words Chaucersnewwords.htm title Chaucer s words author Vivian Cook date work publisher accessdate 2010 02 28 ref This does not mean that he was the person to introduce these words into English, but that the earliest extant uses of these words are found in Chaucerian manuscripts. ref Cannon, pp. 226 230 ref ref Phelan, pp. 61 70 ref The words were already in everyday speech in 14th century England especially London and other parts of Europe. ref Baugh, pp. 193 4 ref ref Fisher, pp. 7 8 ref The claim is that these words are found for the first time in written manuscripts where he introduced them in one of his extensive works from 1374 1400 as the first author to use these particular words. ref name cannon233 Many of Chaucer s special manuscript words from the 14th century are used today br wikt absence absent , wikt accident accident , wikt add add , wikt agree agree , wikt bagpipe bagpipe , wikt border border , wikt box box , wikt cinnamon cinnamon , wikt desk desk , wikt digestion digestion , wikt dishonest dishonest , wikt examination examination , wikt finally finally , wikt flute flute , wikt funeral funeral , wikt galaxy galaxy , wikt horizon horizon , wikt infect infect , wikt ingot ingot , wikt latitude latitude , wikt laxative laxative , wikt miscarry miscarry , wikt nod nod , wikt obscure obscure , wikt observe observe , wikt outrageous outrageous , wikt perpendicular perpendicular , wikt Persian Persian , wikt princess princess , wikt resolve resolve , wikt rumour rumour , wikt scissors scissors , wikt session session , wikt snort snort , wikt superstitious superstitious , wikt theatre theatre , wikt trench trench , wikt ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced December 2011 verylong September 2009 cleanup November 2008 dablinks date December 2011 This is a list of places in Afghanistan . Afghanistan s capital city is Kabul . It is the powerhouse of the Economy of Afghanistan Afghan economy and is by far the largest city. According to 2006 estimates by the Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan , the ten largest cities in terms of population are Kabul 3 million Kandahar 450,300 Herat 349,000 Mazar i Sharif 300,600 Kunduz Qunduz 264,100 Taloqan Taluqan 196,400 Puli Khumri 180,800 Jalalabad 168,600 Charikar 153,500 Sheberghan 143,900 See also List of cities in Afghanistan compactTOC8 side yes top yes num yes style width 100 style vertical align top width 50 A Abas Ali Kala A in Ab Bala Ab Band District b B r k Ab Barik Ab Baskhsh Ab Chenar Ab Darrah Ab Gach Ab Gaj Ab Kalak or Ab Kolok Ab Kirka Ab Khoda i or Ab Khuda i Ab Khovar Ab Khovrak Ab Mazar Ab Qowl Ab Sarina Ab Shureh Ab Sora Ab Zumc or Ab Zumch Ab e Barik e Qowdi Ab e Barik or Abe Barik Ab e Barik e Qowdi or Ab i Bark i Qudi Ab e Garmak or Ab i Garmak or Ab i Gharmak or Abgarmak or Avgarmak or Awgarmak Ab e Kamari or Ab i Kamari Ab e Shir Ahmad or Ab e Sher Ahmad Ab i Barik i Ghalmani Aba or Abeh, Afghanistan Abeh Abad, Afghanistan Abad Abay, Afghanistan Abay Abdal e Pasha Khan or Abdal i Pasa Khan Abdana or Abdaneh Abdara or Abdarreh Abdaw Abdan e Shebaqli or Abdan i Shebaqli Abdul Ahad Bay Kamari Abdul Haq, Afghanistan Abdul Haq Abdul Karim Taraki Abdullah Kala Abdullahkan Abdurrahimkhel Abedkhel Abi Khana or Abi Khaneh Aboka Abparan Abpuda Abqol Abrejan Abresminkhel Abrosan or Abroshan or Abrowshan Absar or Abshar Abtu, Afghanistan Abtu Abu Abaida training camp Abu Jindal training camp Abzi Khuda Acakza i Acamazar or Achamazar Acek or Achek Aceska Achakzay Acheshka Ada, Afghanistan Ada Adam Khan, Afghanistan Adam Khan Adam Tash Adi Sana i Wazbi Adin, Afghanistan Adin Adina, Afghanistan Adina or Adini, Afghanistan Adini Adina Masjid ... more details
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