A vapour trail is a trail of condensed water vapour that appears in the wake of an aircraft or rocket at high altitude. Vapour trails appear as a white streak, like long, thin, regular clouds, against the sky and quickly broaden and disintegrate. Research Vapour Trail
Arum is a genus of plants of the natural order Aracese. Arum maculatum (the common wake-robin, or lords-and-ladies) is abundant in woods and hedges in England and Ireland. It has acrid properties, but its corm yields a starch, which is known by the name of Portlandsago or arrow-root. At one time this was prepared to a considerable extent in Portland Island. All the species of this genus develop much heat during flowering. Research Arum
Green-dragon (Arisoema Dracontium) is a North American herbaceous plant of the arum family (Araceae). It is also known as wake-robin. Research Green-dragon
The Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a native British seagull so named after its call which sounds like 'kittee-wake kitte-wake'. The adult has white plumage with a blue-grey back and yellow bill and legs and black feet. Research Kittiwake
Francis Atterbury was an English prelate. He was born in 1662 and died in 1731. Educated at Westminster and Oxford. In 1687 he took his degree of MA and appeared as a controversialist in a defence of the character of Luther, entitled, Considerations on the Spirit of MartinLuther, etc. He also assisted his pupil, the Honourable Mr. Boyle, in his famous controversy with Bentley on the Epistles of Phalaris. Having taken orders in 1691 he settled in London, became chaplain to William and Mary, preacher of Bridewell, and lecturer of St Bride's.
Controversy was congenial to him, and in 1706 he commenced one with Dr. Wake, which lasted four years, on the rights, privileges, and powers of convocations. For this service he received the thanks of the lower house of convocation and the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Oxford. Soon after the accession of Queen Anne he was made Dean of Carlisle, aided in the defence of the famous Sacheverell, and wrote A Representation of the Present State of Religion.
In 1712 he was made Dean of Christ Church, and in 1713 Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster. After the death of the queen in 1714 he distinguished himself by his opposition to George I and having entered into a correspondence with the Pretender's party was apprehended in August, 1722, and committed to the Tower. Being banished the kingdom, he settled in Paris, where he chiefly occupied himself in study and in correspondence with men of letters. But even here, in 1725, he was actively engaged in fomenting discontent in the Scottish Highlands. He died in 1731, and his body was privately interred in Westminster Abbey. His sermons and letters are marked by ease and grace; but as a critic and a controversialist he is rather dexterous and popular than accurate and profound. Research Francis Atterbury
Hereward the Wake was an English patriot. After the Norman conquest he held out at the head of the English resistance for about a year in the Isle of Ely, until William penetrated into the marshes by building a causeway. Hereward escaped, but his fate after that is unknown. Research Hereward the Wake
James Hogg (known as the Ettrick Shepherd) was a Scottish poet. He was born in 1772 at Ettrick, Selkirkshire and died in 1835. After receiving a very scanty education, he began to earn his living by daily labour as a shepherd. His early rhymings brought him under the notice of Sir Walter Scott, by whose advice he published a volume of ballads under the title of The Mountain Bard. The failure of an ill-judged agricultural scheme brought him to Edinburgh, where he published the ForestMinstrel in 1810, and started a weekly periodical entitled The Spy, which, after a short time, became defunct. The appearance of the Queen's Wake in 1813, with its charming ballad of Kilmeny, established James Hogg's reputation as a poet. In 1815 he published his Pilgrims of the Sun, which was followed by Mador of the Moor, the Poetic Mirror (a collection of imitations of living poets), Queen Hynde, and Dramatic Tales, as well as by The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and other prose tales; the Jacobite Belies (partly written by Hogg), etc. From 1817 he had held the farm of Altrive from the Duke of Buccleuch at a merely nominal rent; but his farming schemes were never successful, and he was generally short of money. Research James Hogg
Anthony Michael Hall is an actor. He began acting at the age of eight and had his first role in Steve Allen's semi-autobiographical play 'The Wake'. He then appeared in the Lincoln Center production of 'St. Joan of the Microphone' and the Griffin Theatre's 'Segments of a Contemporary Morning'. On television, Hall played a young EdgarAllenPoe in the Emmy Award winning version of 'The Gold Bug' and Huck Finn in 'Rascals and Robbers'. He was also seen in such television films as ' Jennifer's Journey', 'The Body Human' , 'Orphans', 'Waifs and Wards' and 'Running Out'. At the age of 17, Hall also had the distinction of becoming the youngest regular cast member of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' during the 1985 - 1986 season. Research Anthony Michael Hall
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