Crossroads was a British soapoperatelevision series following the daily lives of the staff and guests of a fictional Birmingham motel. Crossroads was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling and ran from 1964 to 1988. Research Crossroads
In grammar, a diminutive is a word having a special affix which conveys the idea of littleness, and all other ideas connected with this, as tenderness, affection, contempt, etc. The opposite of diminutive is augmentative. In Latin, diminutives almost always ended in lus, la, or lum; as Tulliola, meum corculum, little Tullia, my dear or little heart; homunculus, a manikin. The Italian is particularly rich in diminutives and augmentatives, such compound diminutives as fratellinucciettinetto (a diminutive of frate, brother) being sometimes employed. Among English diminutive affixes are kin, as in manikin, a little man: pipkin, a little pipe: ling, as in gosling, a little goose; darling, that is, dearling, or little dear; and et, as in pocket, from poke, a bag or pouch; tablet, a little table. Diminutives are also formed, in colloquial and familiar language, by adding y or ie to the names, as Charley, Mousie, etc. Research Diminutive
Calluna is a genus of the family Ericaceae of which one species,
Calluna vulgaris (ling or common heather) occurs wild in Britain. The genus is marked from its allies by its rosy calyx, the four sepals of which are much longer than the bell-shaped corolla within. Outside the calyx are four green bracts. The tiny downy leaves imbricate in four rows. Research Calluna
Heath is the common name of many plants of the natural order Ericaceae. Those that belong to the genusErica have their leaves simple and entire; their flowers oval, cylindrical, or even swelled at the base; the corolla is four-cleft; the stamens eight, terminated by anthers which are usually notched or biaristate at the summit, and the fruit dry, four or eight-celled.
From 400 to 500 species are known, twelve or fifteen of which inhabit Europe, and have small flowers, whilst all the remainder are natives of South Africa. Many of them bear brilliantly coloured flowers. In Britain six species are enumerated, of which Erica tetralix and Erica cinerea are the most common, both with beautiful bell-shaped flowers. Another very common species is the common ling or heather, Calluna vulgaris (Calluna having been made a separate genus from Erica), a low shrub, which often covers exclusively extensive tracts of barren land. Research Heath
Ling is another name for Calluna. The ling (Molva molva) is a member of the cod family, and is found from Spitzbergen to the Straight of Gibraltar, and on the other side of the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Research Ling
Ma Yuan was a Chinese general. He was born in 14 BC at Mou-ling, now in Shensi province, China and died in 49 AD at Hunan. He helped to establish the Eastern Han dynasty after the usurpation of power by the minister WangMang ended the Western Han dynasty in 25 AD. Research Ma Yuan
Anna And The King is a period romance starring Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling and Tom Felton in a story about a recently widowed English woman hired by the King of Siam as tutor to his son in Bangkok. Anna And The King was directed by Andy Tennant in 1999. Research Anna And The King
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