Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Friday, 9 March 2012 7 influential Italian women

  1. Trotula of Salerno (11th Century) - Considered the world’s first gynecologist
  2. Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436) - The first female professor to be accepted onto the board of the university of Bologna
  3. Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (1593-1653) - First great female Italian painter
  4. Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) - The first woman in the world to be officially awarded a university degree
  5. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) - Wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus
  6. Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899) - The first active woman politician
  7. Tina Anselmi (b. 1927) - Italy's first woman cabinet officer

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 7 classical music riots

riot (n) - early 13c., "debauchery, extravagance, wanton living," from O.Fr. riote (masc. riot) "dispute, quarrel"

  1. 1830 - Daniel Auber - La Muette de Portici
  2. 1905 - Richard Strauss - Salomé
  3. 1913 - Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
  4. 1914 - Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises
  5. 1926 - George Antheil - Ballet Mécanique
  6. 1926 - Béla Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin
  7. 1968 - Hans Werner Henze - Das Floß der Medusa

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 7 sites that blacked out in protest of SOPA/PIPA today

  1. Wikipedia
  2. Google (US Only)
  3. Eff
  4. The Oatmeal
  5. BoingBoing
  6. Mozilla Firefox (install page)
  7. Reddit

Wednesday, 4 May 2011 7 state leaders for the 1980s

  1. Margaret Thatcher - UK
  2. Ronald Reagan - USA
  3. François Mitterrand - France
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev - USSR
  5. Helmut Kohl - West Germany
  6. Saddam Hussein - Iraq
  7. Muammar Gaddafi - Libya

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 7 CIA Operations

  1. Project Artichoke
  2. Project MKCHickwit
  3. Operation Washtub
  4. Project MKUltra
  5. Project Coldfeet
  6. Project Dark Gene
  7. Operation Midnight Climax

Thursday, 17 February 2011 7 countries with recent anti-govenment protests

  1. Tunisia
  2. Egypt
  3. Bahrain
  4. Libya
  5. Iraq
  6. Yemen
  7. Jordan

Thursday, 13 May 2010 7 members of the UK coalition government

  1. George Osborne - Chancellor
  2. Theresa May - Home Secretary
  3. William Hague - Foreign Secretary
  4. Vince Cable - Business Secretary
  5. Eric Pickles - Communities Secretary
  6. Michael Gove - Education Secretary
  7. Caroline Spelman - Environment Secretary

Wednesday, 5 May 2010 7 Buckingham candidates I won't be voting for

  1. Nigel Farage (UKIP)
  2. Lynne Mozar (BNP)
  3. Simon Strutt (Cut the Deficit Party)
  4. Anthony Watts (Independant)
  5. Colin Dale (Monster Raving Loony Party)
  6. Patrick Phillips (Independant)
  7. David Hews (Christian Party)

Friday, 30 April 2010 7 appointments during George Washington's first term of office

  1. John Adams (Vice President)
  2. Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State)
  3. Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of Treasury)
  4. Henry Knox (Secretary of War)
  5. Edmund Randolph (Attorney General)
  6. John Jay (Chief Justice)
  7. James Wilson (Associate Justice)

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 7 items from Anthony Watts 'manifesto' for the candidature for MP of Buckingham constituency

These are direct quotes from the 'manifesto' that plopped through our door... seriously!

  1. Anonymous activity should be classified as criminal that includes others.
  2. Buses should have boots along the nearside by turning the seats inside the result would be no bags to make rubbish.
  3. Another underpass under the London Road with the participation of future developers opposite Tesco's both not for the benefit of those that cover their faces.
  4. A voter should show some respect or responsibility where he or she makes or made a living or it is bad husbandry.
  5. The high speed rail link when used for living in one city and making a living in another is silly but good for bulk collection and delivery of air passengers.
  6. I would like to see a bill passed that makes unauthorised development of residential facilities a criminal offence outside office hours to include all participants.
  7. I should not be standing for Buckingham constituency but I can do that when I'm dead.

Thursday, 8 April 2010 7 quotes in response to the digital economy bill

  1. An Amstrad when we wanted an Ipod
  2. In much better shape but still contained many draconian measures
  3. A sombre day for Britain's digital future
  4. A catastrophic disaster
  5. Blocking through injunction creates a high risk that legal content gets mistakenly blocked, or that people abuse the system
  6. An attack on everyone's right to communicate, work and gain an education
  7. A nightmare of unintended consequences

Friday, 26 March 2010 7 editorial cartoonists

  1. Gerald Scarfe
  2. Clive Uptton
  3. William Hogarth
  4. Nicholas Garland
  5. Peter Clark
  6. Michael Cummings
  7. Steve Bell

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 7 minority UK political parties

  1. Church of the Militant Elvis Party
  2. Happening Happy Hippy Party
  3. Teddy Bear Alliance
  4. Death, Dungeons and Taxes Party
  5. Fancy Dress Party
  6. New Millennium Bean Party
  7. Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Sunday, 28 February 2010 7 US Intelligence Agencies

  1. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  2. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
  3. National Security Agency (NSA)
  4. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  5. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS)
  6. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
  7. Coast Guard Ivestigative Service (CGIS)

Thursday, 18 February 2010 7 Canadian prime ministers

  1. Stephen Harper
  2. Paul Martin
  3. Jean Chrétien
  4. Kim Campbell
  5. Brian Mulroney
  6. John Turner
  7. Pierre Trudeau

Monday, 23 November 2009 7 Australian Prime Ministers

  1. Kevin Rudd : 2007 - present
  2. John Howard : 1996 - 2007
  3. Paul Keating : 1991 - 1996
  4. Bob Hawke : 1983 - 1991
  5. Malcolm Fraser : 1975 - 1983
  6. Gough Whitlam : 1972 - 1975
  7. Sir William McMahon - 1971 - 1972

Monday, 1 June 2009 7 revolutionary leaders

  1. Che Guevara
  2. Vladimir Lenin
  3. Pol Pot
  4. Fidel Castro
  5. Napoleon Bonaparte
  6. Mahatma Gandhi
  7. George Washington

Thursday, 28 May 2009 7 political ideologies

  1. Conservatism
  2. Marxism
  3. Anarchism
  4. Fascism
  5. Liberalism
  6. Communism
  7. Socialism

Friday, 24 April 2009 7 Chancellor of the Exchequer

  1. Alistair Darling
  2. Gordon Brown
  3. Kenneth Clarke
  4. Norman Lamont
  5. John Major
  6. Nigel Lawson
  7. Sir Geoffrey Howe

Tuesday, 24 March 2009 7 countries in the G7

  1. Canada
  2. France
  3. Germany
  4. Italy
  5. Japan
  6. United Kingdom
  7. United States of America