Jim Carrey

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (January 17, 1962) is a Canadian comedian and film actor from Newmarket, Ontario.
Carrey began stand-up comedy in 1979 while under the management of Leatrice Spevack, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario. After becoming a major hit in 1981 he began working at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles where he was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed him to open his tour performances. Carrey soon became interested in film and television, and with comedian Damon Wayans he landed a role in his brothers sketch comedy hit, "In Living Color". In a Hamilton Spectator interview, Carrey said, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill."
Some of his awards: Carrey have won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance.


Films :
"All in Good Taste"
"Finders Keepers"
"Once Bitten"
"Peggy Sue Got Married"
"The Dead Pool"
"Pink Cadillac"
"Yes Man"
"A Christmas Carol"
"Horton Hears a Who!"

and so on ...





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey ; http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/bio ; http://www.jimcarrey.com/

Flag of Canada

The National Flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf, is a red flag with a white square in its centre and on white backround there is a red maple leaf.
The official colors appointed to Canada by King George V in 1921. In 1965 it marked the first time a national flag had been officially adopted in Canada to replace the Union Flag. The maple leaf has served as a symbol celebrating the nature of what is now Canada since the 1700. The number of points on the leaf are not representing the ten provinces. The number and arrangement of the points of the maple leaf were chosen after wind tunnel tests showed the current design to be the least blurry.
The first flag known to have flown in Canada was the St George's Cross carried by John Cabot when he reached Newfoundland in 1497. The Royal Union Flag has been used in Canada since 1621.
Ever since the adoption of the Canadian flag in 1965, the Canadian government has sponsored programs to promote it.
National Flag of Canada Day is on 15 February.


Giant Canadian flag in downtown Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.





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Ice Hockey In Canada

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice and skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team's goal. Fighting is denied in rules. At the professional level in North America fights are unofficially condoned. It is the official national winter sport of Canada and it is VERY popular in there. Ice hockey has been a source of inspiration for numerous films, television episodes and songs in North American popular culture.

All twelve Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women Championships medals have gone to one of those seven countries (Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States), and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States. At Olympic Winter Games this year Canada won again :).
There is no doubt that hockey has been played for a long time in Canada and individual clubs were known a long time ago. The first organization actually dealing with the administration of the sport was the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC), which was organized on the 8th of December, 1886.


Women playing hockey at Rideau Hall circa 1890 (earliest known image of women's hockey)


The largest hockey attendance in history was on October 6, 2001, for a game commonly known as the Cold War. Two college hockey rivals, University of Michigan and Michigan State University, opened their season with a game in Michigan State's outdoor football arena, Spartan Stadium. A $500,000 sheet of ice was used, and the temperature was 30 °F (−1 °C). The game drew a record-breaking 74,554 spectators, smashing the previous number of 55,000 attendance during the Sweden vs. Soviet Union game during the world championship in Moscow.

The annual men's Ice Hockey World Championships are more highly regarded by Europeans than North Americans because they coincide with the Stanley Cup playoffs. Canada, the United States, and other countries with large numbers of NHL players have not always been able to field their best possible teams because many of their top players are playing for the Stanley Cup.
Hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924 (and at the summer games in 1920). Canada has won eight golden medals. Women's hockey has been played at the Olympics since 1998.






http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/57519/la_id/1.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lffkj9Xf8TY

Dick Francis

Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was an Welsh horse racing crime writer and retired jockey.


Francis was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales.He was the son of a jockey(human, who rides horses in horse racing) and stable manager. He left school at 15 without any qualifications, with the intention of becoming a jockey and became a trainer in 1938.
During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force, piloting fighter and bomber aircraft. After leaving the RAF in 1946, Francis became a celebrity in the world of British National Hunt racing. He won over 350 races, becoming champion jockey in the 1953–54 season. From 1953 to 1957 he was jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Francis wrote more than 40 international bestsellers. His first book was his autobiography The Sport of Queens (1957) which led to him becoming the racing correspondent for London's Sunday Express newspaper, remaining in the job for 16 years.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Francis

Fagott

A faggot is a kind of meatball. Faggots are a traditional dish in the UK, especially the Midlands of England. It is made from meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together.
The best-known commercial brand is Mr Brain's Faggots, a frozen food product available in Britain, which is made of liver and onions rolled into meatballs and served in a sauce. These faggots differ significantly from the traditional recipe.
A popular dish is "Faggots and Peas". This is a common combination in the Black Country area of the West Midlands, especially so since the 18th century industrialisation onwards, but also for hundreds of years prior. It is still common to see small butchers shops in the area selling Faggots to their own recipe for a cheap price.


Faggots are also known as "ducks" in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire, often as "savoury ducks". "In Leigh market in 1905 you could buy a savoury duck rolled up in an oatmeal cake."
The dish saw its greatest popularity with the rationing during World War II but has become less popular in recent years. Faggots are usually homemade and are to be found in traditional butchers' shops and market stalls.

Link:
http://www.welshicons.org.uk/html/faggot_and_peas.php




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was was a British novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13th 1916. His parents were Norwegian. The young Roald loved stories and books. His mother told Roald and his sisters tales about trolls and other mythical Norwegian creatures.
Roald kept a secret diary from the age of eight. "To make sure that none of my sisters got hold of it, I used to put it in a waterproof tin box tied to a branch at the very top of an enormous conker tree in our garden. I knew they couldn't climb up there. Then every day I would go up myself and get it out and sit in the tree and make the entries for the day."
Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At the age of eight, he and four of his friends were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead rat in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman called Mrs Pratchett who would always be forcing them to buy sweets. This was known amongst the five boys as the "Great Mouse Plot of 1924". This was Roald's own idea.
Dahl was very tall, 1.98 m in adult life. He was good at sports, being made captain of the school fives and squash teams, and also playing for the football team. He developed an interest in photography. During his years there, Cadbury, the chocolate company, would occasionally send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. Dahl apparently used to dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr Cadbury himself, and this proved the inspiration for him to write his third book for children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1963) and include references to chocolate in other books for children.
Some of his books: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Gremlins, A Fable for Supermen, The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr. Fox, James and the Giant Peach, My Uncle Oswald, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Matilda, ...

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Roald Dahl died in November 1990. The anniversary of Dahl's birthday on 13 September is celebrated as "Roald Dahl Day" in Africa and Latin America.




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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. In Australia and New Zealand, netball is the most popular sport played by women. The sport shares many similarities with basketball, having been derived from early versions of women's basketball. It developed as a distinct sport in the 1890s in England, from where it spread to other countries. Netball is popular in Commonwealth nations and is predominantly played by women.
Netball was first played in England in 1895 at Madame Österberg's College[3] and soon spread throughout Australia and indeed most British Commonwealth territories.
On the 6th June 1907 an exhibition of "Net Ball" was organised between the "Ladies" and "Gentlemen" of the Regent Street Polytechnic as part of a garden party to celebrate the opening of their sports ground in Chiswick (West London). Poly Netball Club can trace an unbroken heritage back to this match and are therefore seen as the world's oldest netball club.
The ball resembles a basketball but is lighter, smaller, slightly softer in construction, and generally white. There are seven players on each team.





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