Category: Users’ questions

What is the form of Academic Festival Overture? Brahms Academic Festival Overture is a fun medley of rowdy student drinking songs, written as a tongue-in-cheek “thanks” for an honorary degree. It’s one of Brahms’s most popular pieces (alongside the Brahms lullaby), and shows the composer’s lighter side. Why did Johannes Brahms write Academic Festival Overture? […]

What are Series F funds? An F series mutual fund is a special type of loaded fund you can buy without paying a sales charge. F series funds are only available through fee-based advisers, not from commission-based advisers. Since F series funds do not pay commissions to advisers, they also come with lower annual fees. […]

Where is Disraeli buried? St Michael & All Angels, Hughenden Parish Church, United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli/Place of burial What nationality was Disraeli? British Benjamin Disraeli/Nationality Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield KG PC FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of […]

How do you do a bibliography for websites? Include information in the following order: author (the person or organisation responsible for the site) year (date created or last updated) page title (in italics) name of sponsor of site (if available) accessed day month year (the day you viewed the site) URL or Internet address (pointed […]

What are the basic table manners? Don’t take food from someone’s plate without asking their permission, it’s rude and they may not want to share. When you’re done with your meal, place your cutlery side by side. If you’re taking a break, place them in an X shape. Never,under any circumstance, pick up your plate/bowl […]

Does the military use Comtacs? Using the most advanced “talk-thru” capability, the COMTAC III ACH helps attenuate loud sounds – such as weapons fire or vehicle noise – to safe levels. Today, the COMTAC III ACH is fielded by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the U.S. Army Rapid Fielding Initiative (RFI), and Special Operations […]

What does reduction mean in orthopedics? Reduction is a surgical procedure to repair a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. This sense of the term “reduction” does not imply any sort of removal or quantitative decrease but rather implies a restoration: re (“back [to initial position]”) + ducere (“lead”/”bring”), i.e., “bringing back to normal”. […]

Do you put spaces around em dashes MLA? In the MLA Handbook, we show no space before and after dashes because that’s the standard format used by publishers in the United States. Typing spaces before and after dashes is a way to avoid this. Are there supposed to be spaces around an em dash? The […]

Do London cab drivers still do the Knowledge? As taxis can be hailed in the street and asked to go anywhere, taxi drivers must have a thorough knowledge of London. Anyone who wants to drive an iconic London cab must memorize them all: the Knowledge of London. The Knowledge was introduced as a requirement for […]

What are sky letters in English? Letters that we write upper three lines & having a stem that goes up to the line are called sky letters, for example, b,d,f,h,k,l,t are known as the sky letters. Letters that we write on lower three lines & having a stem that goes down to the line at […]