Yesterday afternoon, TheMorgans and The Grandma visited MadameTussaud'sWax Museum as a prelude to a week of museums.
Today, the family has visited the ScienceMuseum, oneof the most interesting of London, perhaps the most amazing after the BritishMuseum.
Before the visit, the family has been practising some English grammar with TheSimple Future and the ObjectPronouns, and learning some vocabulary about The Weather. They also have been talking about Occitan poets and Gypsycommunity and their ways of transmitting information about the future through poetry and fortune telling.
Finally, The Grandma has explained the interesting history of La Torre del Rellotge, the old lighthouse of Barcelona,located in LaBarceloneta, the
fishermen neighbourhood, that has its own little story: it has the honour of
being one of the geodesic points where the scientist PierreFrançois André Méchain took the measurements he used as the basis of the metric system.
The Science Museum is a majormuseum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually in 2019.
Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the ScienceMuseum
does not charge visitors for admission, although visitors are requested
to make a donation if they are able. Temporary exhibitions may incur an
admission fee.
It is one of the five museums in the Science Museum Group.
The museum was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts
and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South
Kensington Museum, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
It
included a collection of machinery which became the Museum of Patents
in 1858, and the Patent Office Museum in 1863. This collection contained
many of the most famous exhibits of what is now the Science Museum.
In
1883, the contents of the Patent Office Museum were transferred to the
South Kensington Museum. In 1885, the Science Collections were renamed
the Science Museum and in 1893 a separate director was appointed.
The Art Collections were renamed the Art Museum, which eventually
became the Victoria and Albert Museum.
When
Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for the new building for the
Art Museum, she stipulated that the museum be renamed after herself and
her late husband. This was initially applied to the whole museum, but
when that new building finally opened ten years later, the title was
confined to the Art Collections and the Science Collections had to be
divorced from it.
On 26 June 1909 the Science Museum, as an independent entity, came into existence.
The Science Museum's
present quarters, designed by Sir Richard Allison, were opened to the
public in stages over the period 1919-28. This building was known as the
East Block, construction of which began in 1913 and was temporarily
halted by World War I. As the name suggests it was intended to be the
first building of a much larger project, which was never realized.
However, the museum buildings were expanded over the following years; a
pioneering Children's Gallery with interactive exhibits opened in 1931,
the Centre Block was completed in 1961-3, the infill of the East Block
and the construction of the Lower & Upper Wellcome Galleries in
1980, and the construction of the Wellcome Wing in 2000 result in the
museum now extending to Queen's Gate.
The Science Museum
consists of two buildings -the main building and the Wellcome Wing.
Visitors enter the main building from Exhibition Road, while the
Wellcome Wing is accessed by walking through the Energy Hall, Exploring
Space and then the Making the Modern World galleries at ground floor
level.
Today, The Winsors and The Grandma have met one of the most important scientist of all time, Charles Darwin,who contributed to the science of evolution.
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
Darwin's
theory of evolutionary selection holds that variation within species
occurs randomly and that the survival or extinction of each organism is
determined by that organism's ability to adapt to its environment. He
set these theories forth in his book The Origin of Species(1859).
Before the visit, the family has studied some English grammar with the Future Simple (Will/Won't), and they have talked about Tarot and the art of divination and cartomancy. They have also talked about how to build the future of countries and communities with the example of France, and two French spoken singers -EdithPiaf and Céline Dion.
Finally, they have talked about the figure of the sibyl from the ancient Greece to our days with the examples of The Song of Sibyl, the liturgical drama and a Gregorian chant, the lyrics of which comprise a prophecy describing the Apocalypse, that was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and the character of Professor Sybill Trewlaney in Harry Potter's saga.
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809-19 April 1882) was an Englishnaturalist, geologist and biologist, bestknown for his contributions to the science of evolution.
His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science.
In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.
Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey.
Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.
By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated
public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured
competing explanations which gave only a minor role to natural
selection, and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary
synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed
in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution.
Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Darwin's
early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at
the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine
invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge (Christ's College)
encouraged his passion for natural science.
His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's conception of gradual geological change, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.
Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin begandetailed investigations, and in 1838 conceived his theory of natural selection. Although he discussed his
ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research
and his geological work had priority.
He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay that described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.
Darwin's
work established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant
scientific explanation of diversification in nature. In 1871 he
examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).
His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms (1881), he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.
The publication of Darwin's theory brought into the open Charles Darwin'stheory of evolution through natural selection, the culmination of more than twenty years of work.
Thoughts
on the possibility of transmutation of species which he recorded in
1836 towards the end of his five-year voyage on the Beagle were followed on his return by findings and work which led him to conceive of his theory in September 1838.
He gave priority to his career as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's
uniformitarian ideas, and to publication of the findings from the
voyage as well as his journal of the voyage, but he discussed his
evolutionary ideas with several naturalists and carried out extensive
research on his hobby of evolutionary work.
He was writing up his theory in 1858 when he received an essay from AlfredRussel Wallace who was in Borneo, describing Wallace's own theory of
natural selection, prompting immediate joint publication of extracts
from Darwin's 1844 essay together with Wallace's paper as On the
Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of
Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in a presentation to
the Linnaean Society on 1 July 1858.
This attracted little notice, but spurred Darwin to write an abstract of his work which was published in 1859 as his book On the Origin of Species.
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic of a population over generations.
Charles Darwin popularised the term natural selection, contrasting it with artificial selection, which in his view is intentional, whereas natural selection
is not. Variation exists within all populations of organisms. This
occurs partly because random mutations arise in the genome of an
individual organism, and their offspring can inherit such mutations.
Throughout the lives of the individuals, their genomes interact with
their environments to cause variations in traits.
The environment of a genome
includes the molecular biology in the cell, other cells, other
individuals, populations, species, as well as the abiotic environment.
Because individuals with certain variants of the trait tend to survive
and reproduce more than individuals with other less successful variants,
the population evolves. Other factors affecting reproductive success
include sexual selection, now often included in natural selection, and
fecundity selection.
Natural selection acts on the phenotype,
the characteristics of the organism which actually interact with the
environment, but the genetic (heritable) basis of any phenotype that
gives that phenotype a reproductive advantage may become more common in a
population.
Over
time, this process can result in populations that specialise for
particular ecological niches (microevolution) and may eventually result
in speciation (the emergence of new species, macroevolution). In other
words, natural selection is a key process in the evolution of a
population.
Natural selection is a cornerstone of modern biology. The concept, published by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in a joint presentation of papers in 1858, was elaborated in Darwin's influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
He
described natural selection as analogous to artificial selection, a
process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by
human breeders are systematically favoured for reproduction.
The concept of natural selection originally developed in the absence of a valid theory of heredity; at the time of Darwin's writing, science had yet to develop modern theories of genetics.
The union of traditional Darwinian evolution
with subsequent discoveries in classical genetics formed the modern
synthesis of the mid-20th century. The addition of molecular genetics
has led to evolutionary developmental biology, which explains evolution at the molecular level.
While genotypes can slowly change by random genetic drift, natural
selection remains the primary explanation for adaptive evolution.
Today, The Fosters & TheGrandma has been reading about the tarot, the pack of playing cards sometimes relationed with divination, card reading and cartomancy. They have been predicting the future, and the best way to do it is to invent it.
Before, they have studied some English grammar with the FutureSimple and PossessiveAdjectives.
Finally, they have read OscarWilde's The Ghost of Canterville.
The tarot (first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini.
From their Italian roots, tarot playing cards spread to most of Europe evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and more recent games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen which are still played today.
In
the late 18th century, French occultists began to make elaborate, but
unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning, leading to the
emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy.
Thus there are two distinct types of tarot pack: those used for playinggames and those used for divination. However, some older patterns, such as the Tarot de Marseille, originally intended for playing card games, have also been used for cartomancy.
Like the common playing cards, tarot
has different suits which vary by region: French suits are used in
western, central and eastern Europe, Latin suits in southern Europe.
Cartomantic packs have their own symbols derived from the Latin suits.Each
suit has 14 cards: ten pip cards numbering from one (or Ace) to ten,
and four face cards (King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave/Page). In
addition, the tarot has a separate 21-card trump suit and a
single card known as the Fool. Depending on the game, the Fool may act
as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit. These tarot cards are still used throughout much of Europe to play conventional card games without occult associations.
Among English-speaking countries where these games are not widely played, only specially designed cartomantic tarot cards are readily available and they are used primarily for novelty and divinatory purposes.
The early French occultists claimed that tarot cards
had esoteric links to ancient Egypt, the Kabbalah, Indic Tantra, or the
I Ching and these claims have been frequently repeated by authors on
card divination ever since.
In the occult tradition, tarot cards are referred to as arcana;
with the Fool and 21 trumps being termed the Major Arcana and the suit
cards the Minor Arcana. However, these terms are not used by players of tarot card games.
Tarot cards, then known as tarocchi, first appeared in Ferrara and Milan in northern Italy, with a Fool and 21 trumps (then called trionfi) being added to the standard Italian pack of four suits: batons, coins, cups and swords.
Scholarship has established that the early European cards were probably based on the Egyptian Mamluk deck which followed the invention of paper from Asia into Western Europe and was invented in or before the 14th century.
By
the late 1300's Europeans were producing their own cards, the earliest
patterns being based on the Mamluk deck but with variations to the suit
symbols and court cards.
Today, The Weasleysand TheGrandmahaveestablished in BuckinghamPalace, the London royal residence, where AnneWeasley, the new Queen of the UK and 14 other commonwealth realms.
Before this autoproclamation, the familyhas studied the Future Simple, and themodals May & Might.
Buckingham Palace is a Londonroyal residence and theadministrativeheadquarters of themonarch of the United Kingdom.Located in the City of Westminster,thepalace is often at the centre of state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focal point for the British people at times of national rejoicing and mourning.
Originally known as Buckingham House, the building at the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 on a site that had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.
It was acquired by King George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte and became known as The Queen's House. During the 19th century it was enlarged by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, who constructed three wings around a central courtyard.
Buckingham Palace became the London residence of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.
The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the East Front, which contains the well-known balcony on which the royal family traditionally appears to greet crowds. A German bomb destroyed the palace chapel during the Second World War; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.
The original early-19th-century interior designs, many of which survive, include widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Sir Charles Long. King Edward VII oversaw a partial redecoration in a Belle Époque cream and gold colour scheme. Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House. The palace has 775 rooms, and the garden is the largest private garden in London. The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September and on some days in winter and spring.
In the Middle Ages, the site of the future palace formed part of the Manor of Ebury (also called Eia). The marshy ground was watered by the river Tyburn, which still flows below the courtyard and south wing of the palace. Where the river was fordable (at Cow Ford), the village of Eye Cross grew. Ownership of the site changed hands many times; owners included Edward the Confessor and Edith of Wessex in late Saxon times, and, after the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror. William gave the site to Geoffrey de Mandeville, who bequeathed it to the monks of Westminster Abbey.
In 1531, Henry VIII acquired the Hospital of St James, which became St James's Palace, from Eton College, and in 1536 he took the Manor of Ebury from Westminster Abbey. These transfers brought the site of Buckingham Palace back into royal hands for the first time since William the Conqueror had given it away almost 500 years earlier.
Various owners leased it from royal landlords, and the freehold was the subject of frenzied speculation during the 17th century. By then, the old village of Eye Cross had long since fallen into decay, and the area was mostly wasteland. Needing money, James VI and I sold off part of the Crown freehold but retained part of the site on which he established 1.6 ha mulberry garden for the production of silk.
Clement Walker in Anarchia Anglicana (1649) refers to new-erected sodoms and spintries at the Mulberry Garden at S. James's; this suggests it may have been a place of debauchery. Eventually, in the late 17th century, the freehold was inherited from the property tycoon Sir Hugh Audley by the great heiress Mary Davies.
Today, The Grandma has been enjoying one of her favourite TV Series of all time, Forever, the American fantasy crime drama centered on the characters of Dr.HenryMorgan and Detective Jo Martínez created by Matt Miller.
After this, she has revised some English grammar with TheGrangers, Future Simple and Prepositions of Place, again.
Forever is an American fantasy crime drama television series that aired on ABC as part of the 2014–15 fall television season.
Created by Matt Miller, it centers on the character of Dr. Henry Morgan, animmortal New York City medical examiner who
uses his extensive knowledge to assist the New York City Police
Department (NYPD) in solving crimes and to discover a way to end his
immortality. Flashbacks within each episode reveal various details of Henry's life.
The
series' network aired a sneak preview on September 22, 2014, and
resumed the series at 10 p.m. EST on September 23, 2014. Reception of
the series was mixed.
In
the United States, television critics were divided over the series'
similarity to other crime dramas and its premise. In contrast, voters in
several online polls ranked the series as one of the best of the
television season. Forever's broadcast was well-received in France and
Spain.
Although ABC gave the series a full-season episode order on November 7, 2014, it cancelled Forever after one season. ABC
cited the show's low ratings as the rationale behind the decision.
Television critics believed that other factors explained the network's
decision, as the show gained viewers who watched up to seven days later
on their DVRs. Fans of the series reacted strongly, creating a social
media campaign to save the series; despite these efforts, the series
remains canceled.
Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York City medical examiner
who studies the dead for criminal cases, and to solve the mystery of
his own immortality. His first death was 200 years ago while trying to
free slaves as a doctor aboard a ship in the African slave trade. Each
time he dies, Henry disappears almost immediately and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water. He has also stopped aging.
Henry's long life has given him broad knowledge and remarkable observation skills which impress most people he encounters, including New York PoliceDepartment Detective Jo Martinez (Alana de la Garza). Only antiquarian, Abe
(Judd Hirsch), whom Henry and his now-deceased wife Abigail found as a
newborn in a German concentration camp during World War II, knows that
he is immortal. Henry is stalked by Adam, who is also an immortal, and claims to have been alive for around 2,000 years.
As sad and dreadful as death may be, it forces us to cherish every moment because the truth is... Life is precious because it's finite.
Dr. Henry Morgan
Ioan Gruffudd as Doctor Henry Morgan.
Born in 1779, Henry is a New York City medical examiner who studies the dead for criminal cases and to solve the mystery of his immortality.
His
first death was in 1814 while trying to free slaves as a doctor aboard a
ship in the African slave trade. Since that time, Henry disappears each
time he dies and returns to life naked in a nearby body of water.
He has been married twice; his first wife Nora, whom he married before he became immortal, had him committed to an asylum, and his second wife, Abigail,
whom he met during the Second World War and remained with until 1984,
when she left to find somewhere they could be together without being
judged for Abigail's apparently greater age.
He abandoned his original career as a doctor in 1956 after he and a butcher were shot; Henry
chose to crawl away and die instead of trying to save the other man
because he feared others finding out his secret. Although knowledgeable
about many topics, Henry demonstrates a general lack of knowledge
about modern popular culture. He also dislikes cell phones but will use
one if necessary.
Alana de la Garza as Detective Jo Martínez.
Jo is a sharp, no-nonsense, determined
detective with the NYPD who is both intrigued and disgusted by Henry's
detailed medical knowledge when examining a corpse.
She finds his behavior to be out there,
but still relies on his insight for solving homicides. Originating from
a rough background with a law-breaking father, she is also a recent
widow; her husband was a lawyer who died of an unexpected heart attack
while running on a treadmill on a visit to Washington a year before she
met Henry. She is stationed at the 11th Precinct.
Joel David Moore as Lucas Wahl.
Henry's assistant in the Medical Examiner's office,
who expresses uncertainty about how little he knows about his boss, and
an uncanny memory for his daily activities. He studied film in college
before working in the medical examiner's office. He makes horror films
in his spare time.
Lucas tends to use popular culture references in his speech, many of which Henry does not understand.
Donnie Keshawarz as Detective Mike Hanson.
Jo's partner, who is stationed at the 11th Precinct. He was in a band when he was younger. He is married and has two sons. He also has a brother.
Judd Hirsch as Abraham "Abe" Morgan.
Henry's adopted son and main confidant. No one knows Dr. Henry Morgan better than his son, Abe. The keeper of Henry's immortality secret, although he has claimed that he worked with Henry's
father to explain their association to strangers. At the end of World
War II, he was rescued from Belsen, after surviving a death march from
Auschwitz.
He
currently owns an antique store where Henry uses the basement for his
immortality research on himself. Abe fought in the Vietnam War and has a
two-time ex-wife named Maureen Delacroix (Jane Seymour).
Abe's research into his family tree revealed that he is a distant relative of Henry's, as one of his ancestors was the illegitimate son of Henry's womanizing uncle.
Lorraine Toussaint as Lieutenant Joanna Reece.
Jo and Hanson's supervisor at the 11th Precinct.
MacKenzie Mauzy as Abigail Morgan.
Henry's second wife and Abe's adoptive mother.
Henry
met her toward the end of World War II when they were working as
medical personnel near one of the Nazi concentration camps. Over the
years, she worked as a nurse in addition to being a housewife.
The latest time period in which Abigail has been shown is 1982, when she was still married to Henry but looked a generation older than he (Janet Zarish); in 1984, she vanished without a trace despite Henry's best efforts to find her. Henry has acknowledged that the end of his relationship with Abigail caused him a lot of pain that prevents him from dating anyone for whom he has real feelings.
Burn Gorman as Lewis Farber/Adam.
A 2,000-year-old immortal who claims that he has been here since the beginning
and that he has not found a death for himself. Analysis of his blood
revealed that he had contracted several extinct diseases, including the
bubonic plague.
Adam was
tortured as part of the Nazis' research into his immortality, leaving
him with a hatred of the Nazis and a sympathy for other Holocaust
survivors, including Abe. Adam first appeared as Henry's appointed psychiatrist and convinced a patient that he could pass on his immortality.
Adam continued to try to find a lost dagger, one that not only caused Adam's first death but also was used to kill Julius Caesar. Adam appears in five episodes.
Yes, some memories are precious... and we need to hang on to them. But Emily Dickinson wrote, 'Forever is composed of nows,' and she's right. If we root ourselves too deeply in the past, we'll miss what's right in front of us.
Today, The Grangers and The Grandma have travelled from New York to AtlanticCity in New Jersey. Before this trip, they have studied the Future Simple,and Zero and FirstConditional clauses.
Finally, they have continuing reading Oscar Wilde's TheCanterville Ghost and they have predicted the future.
Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, known for its casinos, boardwalk, andbeaches.
In
2020, the city had a population of 38,497. It was incorporated on May
1, 1854, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township.
it
is located on Absecon Island and borders Absecon, Brigantine,
Pleasantville, Ventnor City, Egg Harbor Township, and the Atlantic
Ocean.
Atlantic City inspired the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, especially the street names.
Since 1921, Atlantic City has been the home of the Miss America pageant.
In 1976, New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City, and the first casino opened in 1978.
For
many years before the city was founded, the island site of the future
settlement was the summer home of the Lenape. While the precise date of
the first permanent occupation of what came to be Atlantic City
has not been precisely determined, it is commonly thought that in 1783
Jeremiah Leeds first built and occupied an all year home on the island.
However, it was not until 1850 that the idea arose to develop the
location into a resort town and in early 1853 the name Atlantic City was adopted.
The history of gambling in Atlantic City traces back to prohibition and the 1920s, with racketeer Louis Kuehnle running an underground hotel and casino. Enoch "Nucky" Johnson followed and furthered Atlantic City's rise through the Roaring Twenties as a destination for drinking, gambling, and nightlife.
In
1974, New Jersey voters voted 60%-40% against legalizing casino
gambling at four sites statewide, but two years later approved by
56%-44% a new referendum which legalized casinos, but restricted them to
Atlantic City.
Resorts Atlantic City was the first casino to open, in May 1978, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne.
Atlantic City is considered the Gambling Capital of the East Coast, and currently has nine large casinos.
In
2011, New Jersey's then 12 casinos employed approximately 33,000
employees, had 28.5 million visitors, made $3.3 billion in gaming
revenue, and paid $278 million in taxes. They are regulated by the New
Jersey Casino Control Commission and the New Jersey Division of Gaming
Enforcement.
In
the wake of the economic downturn following the Great Recession and the
legalization of gambling in adjacent and nearby states (including
Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania), four casino closures
took place in 2014: the Atlantic Club on January 13; the Showboat on
August 31; the Revel, which was Atlantic City's second-newest casino, on
September 2; and Trump Plaza, which originally opened in 1984, and was
the poorest performing casino in the city, on September 16.
Executives
at Trump Entertainment Resorts, whose sole remaining property at the
time was the Trump Taj Mahal, said in 2013 that they were considering
the option of selling the Taj and winding down and exiting the gaming
and hotel business. Trump Taj Mahal closed October 10, 2016, after
failing to come to terms with union workers.
Caesars
Entertainment executives have been reconsidering the future of their
three remaining Atlantic City properties (Bally's, Caesars and
Harrah's), in the wake of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by the
company's casino operating unit in January 2015.
In 2020, Bally's Atlantic City was acquired by Bally's Corporation.
Today, The Grandma has continued herEnglish classes with The Bishops in Castelldefels.
First, they have practised futuretense and indefinite pronouns composed by some, any and no.
Next, they have read some tarot cards and have predicted the future using Will/Won't, and they have expressed their best wishes using May.
It has been another interesting class where they have been talking about different themes like the troubadours, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Gypsy culture, and the importance of space and time in compositions and explanations.
Forever Young is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in California in November 1973. The song first appeared, in two different versions, a slow-pace and a fast-pace, on Dylan's fourteenth studio album Planet Waves.
A demo version of the song, recorded in New York City in June 1973, was included on Dylan's 1985 compilation Biograph. In the notes included with that album, Dylan is quoted as saying that he wrote Forever Young in Tucson, Arizona, thinking about one of his sons and not wanting to be too sentimental.
A live version of the song, recorded in Tokyo on 28 February 1978 and included on Dylan's album Bob Dylan at Budokan, was released as a European single in 1979.
Written as a lullaby for his eldest son Jesse, born in 1966, Dylan's song relates a father's hopes that his child will remain strong and happy.
It opens with the lines, May God bless and keep you always / May your wishes all come true, echoing the priestly blessing from the Book of Numbers, which has lines that begin: May the Lord bless you and guard you / May the Lord make His face shed light upon you. Not wishing to sound too sentimental, Dylan included two versions of the song on the album Planet Waves, one a lullaby and the other more rock-oriented.
In notes on Forever Young written for the 2007 album Dylan, Bill Flanagan writes that Dylan and the Band got together and quickly knocked off an album, Planet Waves, that featured two versions of a blessing from a parent to a child. In the years he was away from stage, Dylan had become a father. He had that in common with a good chunk of the audience. The song reflected it. Memorably recited on American television by Howard Cosell when Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight crown for the third time.
According to his website, Dylan performed the song live 493 times between its live debut in 1974 and its last outing in 2011. This includes a duet with Bruce Springsteen at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, in 1995. Dylan also performed the song live on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1993.
Rod Stewart recorded a song titled Forever Young that was released as a single and included on his 1988 album Out of Order. Stewart's manager, Arnold Stiefel, said, [I]t would be fair to say that while the melody and the music is not at all the same [as Dylan's song], the idea of the song is similar. The architecture of the lyrics of the song is very much from Dylan–there are definite similarities.
The similarities were enough to cause Stiefel to contact Dylan, who requested a share of the royalties, and Stewart agreed.
May you grow to be righteous May you grow up to be true And may you always know the truth And see the lights surrounding you May you always be courageous Stand upright and be strong And may you stay forever young.
Today, The Grandma has visited one of the most expensive neighbourhoods of New York City, Tribeca. She has wanted to know more about the Tribeca FilmFestival and its activities.
Meanwhile, The Newtons have been preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied the FutureSimple.
Tribeca, originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of Triangle Below Canal Street.
The triangle (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway,and Chambers Street. By the 2010s, a common marketing tactic was to extend Tribeca's southern boundary to either Vesey or Murray streets to increase the appeal of property listings.
The neighborhood began as farmland, then was a residential neighbourhood in the early 19th century, before becoming a mercantile area centered on produce, dry goods, and textiles, and then transitioning to artists and then actors, models, entrepreneurs and other celebrities.
The neighbourhood is home to the Tribeca Film Festival, which was created in response to the September 11 attacks, to reinvigorate the neighbourhood and downtown after the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks.
Tribeca is part of Manhattan Community District 1, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10007 and 10013. It is patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Tribeca is one of a number of neighbourhoods in New York City whose names are syllabic abbreviations or acronyms, including SoHo (South of Houston Street), NoHo (North of Houston Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy), NoMad (North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and BoCoCa, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens).
The name was coined in the early 1970s and originally applied to the area bounded by Broadway and Canal, Lispenard, and Church Streets. which appears to be a triangle on city planning maps.
Residents of this area formed the TriBeCa Artists' Co-op in filing legal documents connected to a 1973 zoning dispute. According to a local historian, the name was misconstrued by a newspaper reporter as applying to a much larger area, which is how it came to be the name of the current neighborhood.
The area now known as Tribeca, or TriBeCa, was farmed by Dutch settlers to New Amsterdam, prominently Roeleff Jansen (who obtained the land patent, called Dominie's Brouwery, from Wouter van Twiller in 1636) and his wife Anneke Jans who later married Everardus Bogardus. The land stayed with the family until 1670 when the deed was signed over to Col. Francis Lovelace.
In 1674 the Dutch took possession of the area until the English reclaimed the land a year later. In 1674, representing the Duke of York, Governor Andros took possession of the land.
Tribeca was later part of the large tract of land given to Trinity Church by Queen Anne in 1705.
In 1807, the church built St. John's Chapel on Varick Street and then laid out St. John's Park, bounded by Laight Street, Varick Street, Ericsson Place, and Hudson Street. The church also built Hudson Square, a development of brick houses which surrounded the park, which would become the model for Gramercy Park. The area was among the first residential neighbourhoods developed in New York City beyond the city's colonial boundaries, and remained primarily residential until the 1840s.
Several streets in the area are named after Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and the Lispenard family. Beach Street was created in the late 18th century and was the first street on or adjacent to the farm of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, which was just south of what is now Canal Street; the name of the street is a corruption of the name of Paul Bache, a son-in-law of Anthony Lispenard. Lispenard Street in Tribeca is named for the Lispenard family, and Bleecker Street in NoHo was named for Anthony Lispenard Bleecker.
By the early 21st century, Tribeca became one of Manhattan's most fashionable and desirable neighborhoods, well known for its celebrity residents. Its streets teem with art galleries, boutique shops, restaurants, and bars.
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Tribeca was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2021, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival.
Each year the festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories.
Today, The Stones and The Grandma continueconfined in their Hawaiian hotel. They have been reading a new chapter of OscarWilde's The Ghost of Canterville and talking about Future Simple (Predictions) and Adverbs of Manner.
The family has welcome a new member, Kailani, an Iván Stone's friend who is going to stay with the family, at least during their staying in the Polynesian island, and the have been reading their horoscopes.
The future is the time after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist forever, or temporary, meaning that it will end.
In the Occidental view, which uses a linear conception of time, the future is the portion of the projected timeline that is anticipated to occur In special relativity, the future is considered absolute future, or the future light cone.
In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be. Religious figures such as prophets and diviners have claimed to see into the future.
A future study, or futurology, is the science, art, and practice of postulating possible futures. Modern practitioners stress the importance of alternative and plural futures, rather than one monolithic future, and the limitations of prediction and probability, versus the creation of possible and preferable futures.
Predeterminism is the belief that the past, present, and future have been already decided.
The concept of the future has been explored extensively in cultural production, including art movements and genres devoted entirely to its elucidation, such as the 20th-century movement futurism.
In physics, time is the fourth dimension. Physicists argue that space-time can be understood as a sort of stretchy fabric that bends due to forces such as gravity. In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline, which is the same for all observers. In special relativity the flow of time is relative to the observer's frame of reference.
The faster an observer is traveling away from a reference object, the slower that object seems to move through time. Hence, the future is not an objective notion anymore. A more modern notion is absolute future, or the future light cone. While a person can move backward or forwards in the three spatial dimensions, many physicists argue you are only able to move forward in time.
In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists, and the future and past are unreal. Past and futureentities are construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is eternalism, which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally.
Another view, not held by many philosophers, is sometimes called the growing block theory of time -which postulates that the past and present exist, but the future does not.
Religions consider the future when they address issues such as karma, life after death, and eschatologies that study what the end of time and the end of the world will be.
In religion, Major Prophets are said to have the power to change the future.Common religious figures have claimed to see into the future, such as Minor Prophets and diviners. The term afterlife refers to the continuation of existence of the soul, spirit or mind of a human or animal after physical death, typically in a spiritual or ghostlike after world.
Deceased persons are usually believed to go to a specific region or plane of existence in this after world, often depending on the rightness of their actions during life, like the Ghost of Canterville.
Today, The Watsons and TheGrandma have continued studying their English for Sales course.
Today, they have been talking about the Future Simple and they have searched information about the horoscope, a good example of future predictions.
A horoscope is an astrological chart or diagram representing the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, astrological aspects and sensitive angles at the time of an event, such as the moment of a person's birth.
The word horoscope is derived from the Greek words ōra and scopos meaning time and observer,horoskopos, pl. horoskopoi, or marker(s) of the hour. Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, star-chart, cosmogram, vitasphere, radical chart, radix, chart wheel or simply chart.
It is used as a method of divination regarding events relating to the point in time it represents, and it forms the basis of the horoscopic traditions of astrology.
In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of solar Sun sign astrology; based strictly on the position of the Sun at the time of birth, or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology.
In particular, many newspapers and magazines carry predictive columns, written in prose that may be written more for increasing readership than tied directly to the Sun or other aspects of the solar system, allegedly based on celestial influences in relation to the zodiacal placement of the Sun on the month of birth, cusp -2 days before or after any particular sign, an overlap-, or decant -the month divided into 3 ten-day periods- of the person's month of birth, identifying the individual's Sun sign or star sign based on the tropical zodiac.
In Hindu astrology, birth charts are called Kundali which are very significant and are based on movement of stars and moon. All the auspicious things are started after checking the kundali of a person including the marriage in which the birth charts of the boy and girl are matched.
There are no scientific studies that have shown support for the accuracy of horoscopes, and the methods used to make interpretations are pseudo-scientific. In modern scientific framework no known interaction exists that could be responsible for the transmission of the alleged influence between a person and the position of stars in the sky at the moment of birth.
In all tests completed, keeping strict methods to include a control group and proper blinding between experimenters and subjects, horoscopes have shown no effect beyond pure chance. Furthermore, some psychological tests have shown that it is possible to construct personality descriptions and foretelling generic enough to satisfy most members of a large audience simultaneously, referred to as the Forer or Barnum effect.
The horoscope serves as a stylized map of the heavens over a specific location at a particular moment in time. In most applications the perspective is geocentric -heliocentric astrology being one exception.
The positions of the actual planets -including Sun and Moon- are placed in the chart, along with those of purely calculated factors such as the lunar nodes, the house cusps including the midheaven and the ascendant, zodiac signs, fixed stars and the lots.
Angular relationships between the planets themselves and other points, called aspects, are typically determined. The emphasis and interpretation of these factors varies with tradition. This means however the stars were placed at the time of birth for a person shows their characteristics and personality, including weakness. It is very similar to the Chinese Zodiac.
The Latin word horoscopus, ultimately from Greek ὡρόσκοποςnativity, horoscope, observer of the hour of birth, from ὥραtime, hour and σκόπος observer, watcher.
In Middle English texts from the 11th century, the word appears in the Latin form and is anglicized to horoscope in Early Modern English.
The noun horoscopy for casting of horoscopes has been in use since the 17th century (OED). In Greek, ὡρόσκοπος in the sense of ascendant and ὡροσκοπία observation of the ascendant is in use since Ptolemy.
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