How many times has Robert De Niro been nominated for an Oscar? An eight-time Academy Award nominee, De Niro won two Oscars for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) and Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980). He is also a six-time BAFTA Award nominee, and an eight-time Golden Globe Award nominee. Who […]
Who is the golfer in The Great Gatsby? Jordan Baker Years later, in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald created the character “Jordan Baker”–a champion golfer–based on Cummings. Is Jordan Baker a real person Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald based the character of Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby upon Cummings, just as the character Daisy Buchanan was modeled […]
What are the 5 main economic goals? Explain each of the five main economic goals: growth, efficiency, equity, security, freedom. Explain the economic goal of sustainability. Growth: an increase in the amount of goods and services produced per head of the population. What are the government’s economic goals? To maintain a strong economy, the federal […]
What happened in the Nestle baby milk scandal? Western companies including Nestlé and Danone are accused today of breaching an internationally agreed code on the promotion of baby milk in the developing world, which is contributing to the deaths of thousands of children. Every 30 seconds, campaigners claim, a baby dies from unsafe bottle feeding. […]
What will happen when Amitabh Bachchan will die? Amitabh Bachchan: When I die, my assets shall be shared equally between Shweta and Abhishek. Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has announced that he would leave an equal share of his assets to his daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda and son Abhishek Bachchan, in the interest of ‘gender equality’. […]
What is granular synthesis in audio? Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. By varying the waveform, envelope, duration, spatial position, and density of the grains, many different sounds can be produced. When was granular synthesis made? Granular synthesis was first suggested as a computer music technique for […]
Why does Delilah football chant? “It all began at an away game in Derby (in April 1987) where we were all in a pub and the police asked us not to sing a song with swear words on. So we put Delilah on the jukebox, and I got up on a table and started singing […]
Can Intel HD graphics 2000 Run GTA 4? Yes it will run without problem, but there will be slight lag in the game-play due to the graphics. Can 4GB RAM run GTA 4? Yes, it is indeed possible to play GTA IV with 4GB RAM. In fact, you could play it with integrated graphics as […]
Why did Jesus receive 39 lashes? Flogging. Historians who spend their lives studying these things (unlike you or I who don’t) say the 39 lashes came about because it was firmly held that 40+ would kill a man. So the 39 lashes were initiated to bring the average man to the edge of death. What […]
Has there ever been a sole survivor of a plane crash? At only 4-years-old, Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In the new documentary film, Sole Survivor, Crocker breaks her silence, discussing how the crash of the […]
