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CLIFFS OF DOVER KENT
The white cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing the
The white cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 350 feet high, owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk (pure white calcium carbonate) accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover in the county of Kent, an ancient and still important English port.
The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first (or last) sight of the UK for travellers.
Location
The location and extent of the white cliffs of Dover.
The cliffs are located along the coastline between approximately: Latitude 51°06'N, Longitude 1°14'E and Latitude 51°12'N, Longitude 1°24'E. Shakespeare Cliff marks the point where England most closely approaches continental Europe. On a clear day, the cliffs are easily visible from the French coast.
Geology
Evidence of erosion along the cliff top
The cliffs are composed mainly of coccoliths and trace their origins to the Cretaceous Period, approximately 136 million years ago, when the area between Britain in the west and Sweden/Poland in the east was submerged under deep tropical waters. The emptied skeletons of coral, sponges and other small sea creatures fell as sediment and began to accumulate on the ocean floor. By approximately 70 million years ago, this process had formed a mass of silica-specked chalk covering huge areas between Britain and the Baltic Sea — white cliffs like those of Dover (but smaller) are also found on the Danish islands of Mon and Langeland or the coasts of the island of Rügen in Germany. The chalk layer used to lay high above sea level during the ice ages and in many places additionally was covered with glaciers. After the ice ages, they were exposed to the rising sea. Owing to the exceptional softness of chalk, tidal forces have since then significantly eroded this land mass away in Dover to form the English Channel.
The cliff face continues to erode at an average rate of one centimetre per year, although occasionally— most recently in 2001— large chunks of the edge, up to several metres at once, will fall into the channel with little warning. Visitors are, therefore, urged to remain at least five metres back from the edge.
Ecology
Close up of the cliffs from the walk along the ridge
Several species of cliff nesting birds nest on the cliff face, including, fulmar and colonies of Black-legged Kittiwake. However, contrary to the words of the famous song ("There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover"), bluebirds are an American species not found in the UK.
Defence
Behind the cliff face are miles of hidden tunnels that were created during the Middle Ages and later played a role in the defence of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The tunnels were later enlarged to become the Secret Wartime Tunnels beneath Dover castle.
References in culture
In Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem "Dover Beach", the cliffs are a sign of reassuring strength. Rudyard Kipling's 1902 poem "The Broken Men" ends with the lines "How stands the old Lord Warden? Are Dover's cliffs still white?" to represent the English exiles' homesickness. The most iconic reference is perhaps the World War II song, sung by Vera Lynn, "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover".
Other people to cover the song or sing about the white cliffs include Glenn Miller, Kaye Kyser, Kate Smith, Blur, in the song "Clover Over Dover"; The Decemberists, Louis Prima, Robson and Jerome, Clutch, Andrew Bird, Coil, Current 93 and Fatboy Slim. Other poetry includes Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", on which the 1944 film The White Cliffs of Dover was based. The cliffs are also mentioned in Jimmy Cliff's hit Many Rivers to Cross.
In Ian Fleming's third James Bond novel, Moonraker, a chapter is set at the cliffs. The villain attempts to assassinate Bond and Gala Brand by bombing the cliff so they are showered in debris.
Guitarist Eric Johnson wrote a well-known composition called "Cliffs of Dover", which won a Grammy.
In the animated film The Chipmunk Adventure one of the songs, "Off to See the World" refers to seeing the "Cliffs of Dover"
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the cliffs were named as the 3rd greatest natural wonder in Britain.
Twenty-eight days before it was released, a quarantine sign was projected on the cliffs to promote the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later.[1]
The white cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliffs are part of the North Downs formation. The cliff face, which reaches up to 350 feet high, owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk (pure white calcium carbonate) accentuated by streaks of black flint. The cliffs spread east and west from the town of Dover in the county of Kent, an ancient and still important English port.
The cliffs have great symbolic value for Britain because they face towards Continental Europe across the narrowest part of the English Channel, where invasions have historically threatened and against which the cliffs form a symbolic guard. Because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first (or last) sight of the UK for travellers.
Location
The location and extent of the white cliffs of Dover.
The cliffs are located along the coastline between approximately: Latitude 51°06'N, Longitude 1°14'E and Latitude 51°12'N, Longitude 1°24'E. Shakespeare Cliff marks the point where England most closely approaches continental Europe. On a clear day, the cliffs are easily visible from the French coast.
Geology
Evidence of erosion along the cliff top
The cliffs are composed mainly of coccoliths and trace their origins to the Cretaceous Period, approximately 136 million years ago, when the area between Britain in the west and Sweden/Poland in the east was submerged under deep tropical waters. The emptied skeletons of coral, sponges and other small sea creatures fell as sediment and began to accumulate on the ocean floor. By approximately 70 million years ago, this process had formed a mass of silica-specked chalk covering huge areas between Britain and the Baltic Sea — white cliffs like those of Dover (but smaller) are also found on the Danish islands of Mon and Langeland or the coasts of the island of Rügen in Germany. The chalk layer used to lay high above sea level during the ice ages and in many places additionally was covered with glaciers. After the ice ages, they were exposed to the rising sea. Owing to the exceptional softness of chalk, tidal forces have since then significantly eroded this land mass away in Dover to form the English Channel.
The cliff face continues to erode at an average rate of one centimetre per year, although occasionally— most recently in 2001— large chunks of the edge, up to several metres at once, will fall into the channel with little warning. Visitors are, therefore, urged to remain at least five metres back from the edge.
Ecology
Close up of the cliffs from the walk along the ridge
Several species of cliff nesting birds nest on the cliff face, including, fulmar and colonies of Black-legged Kittiwake. However, contrary to the words of the famous song ("There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover"), bluebirds are an American species not found in the UK.
Defence
Behind the cliff face are miles of hidden tunnels that were created during the Middle Ages and later played a role in the defence of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The tunnels were later enlarged to become the Secret Wartime Tunnels beneath Dover castle.
References in culture
In Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem "Dover Beach", the cliffs are a sign of reassuring strength. Rudyard Kipling's 1902 poem "The Broken Men" ends with the lines "How stands the old Lord Warden? Are Dover's cliffs still white?" to represent the English exiles' homesickness. The most iconic reference is perhaps the World War II song, sung by Vera Lynn, "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover".
Other people to cover the song or sing about the white cliffs include Glenn Miller, Kaye Kyser, Kate Smith, Blur, in the song "Clover Over Dover"; The Decemberists, Louis Prima, Robson and Jerome, Clutch, Andrew Bird, Coil, Current 93 and Fatboy Slim. Other poetry includes Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", on which the 1944 film The White Cliffs of Dover was based. The cliffs are also mentioned in Jimmy Cliff's hit Many Rivers to Cross.
In Ian Fleming's third James Bond novel, Moonraker, a chapter is set at the cliffs. The villain attempts to assassinate Bond and Gala Brand by bombing the cliff so they are showered in debris.
Guitarist Eric Johnson wrote a well-known composition called "Cliffs of Dover", which won a Grammy.
In the animated film The Chipmunk Adventure one of the songs, "Off to See the World" refers to seeing the "Cliffs of Dover"
In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the cliffs were named as the 3rd greatest natural wonder in Britain.
Twenty-eight days before it was released, a quarantine sign was projected on the cliffs to promote the 2007 film 28 Weeks Later.[1]
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There are four stages of arena a Guitar Hero bold aback you're a beginner. First, you apperceive you're activity to attending foolish, and you're activity to abort a agglomeration of songs. Then, you comedy a little bit and you alpha to "get" it; you accept how the addendum work, and your fingers agile up. Next, you alpha to absolutely attach the solos on easy, and anon you're accepting abundant aplomb to comedy average songs. Lastly, addiction bliss in, and aback you're arena songs with the guitar abaft your aback and your accompany auspicious you on while cat-and-mouse for their turn. This is a bold area accompany advise accompany how to comedy so they accept added address partners; it's about viral.
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The Guitar Hero alternation has become a huge hit, and these canicule accent amateur are big news. It looked like Guitar Hero was activity to beat the Earth, but afresh Activision bought Red Octane, MTV bought Harmonix, and afore anyone could get their bearings in this aberrant new
world, Guitar Hero 3 was actuality developed by Neversoft, and Rock Band access assimilate the arena as a bold with all the instruments. Things didn't attending so acceptable for the Guitar Hero franchise; the accessible adventure would be that the new developers don't accept the affection of the game, and so the third chapter is a carapace of a title—you're bigger off cat-and-mouse for Rock Band.However, if you went to aces up a archetype of Guitar Hero on any of the platforms during one of the abounding midnight launches, you'll apperceive that Rock Band has done little to abduct the Hero thunder. People were lining up, talking about the song list, and debating over which arrangement to get the bold on. About-face the bold on and the art ability be a little different, but at its affection were all the best things about Guitar Hero. With the absolution of Guitar Hero III we now accept affidavit that the authorization is far from dead. Neversoft and Red Octane accept asperous the accident of Harmonix with grace.
The alone affair that would accomplish this bold bigger would be if I could comedy the accelerate guitar with the close of my beer bottle. You can't accept everything.
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The basal bold comedy of Guitar Hero hasn't changed, and I agnosticism it anytime will. The addendum appear bottomward from the top of the screen, you hit the agnate buttons on the close of the guitar, and you save up your brilliant ability to get the big points. The additions that accept been fabricated to Guitar Hero 3 are all things players accept asked for in the past, and the bold is bigger for them.
The abiding characters accept all been re-imagined
Wireless guitars are standard? Yes. Added adept tracks? Sure, although the "re-united" Sex Pistols accomplishing "Anarchy in the UK" complete much, abundant worse than the aboriginal version. Hammer-ons and pull-offs, the addendum that you can hit afterwards slamming the bombinate bar again, accept gotten easier to attach from Guitar Hero 2, and while that move may bisect fans, I anticipate all-embracing that it's smart.
Don't worry, you will still be challenged by afterwards songs. The way the songs are "coded" with addendum is absolute altered in this game: there are new patterns to master, and there was absolutely no abhorrence of putting in continued runs of three-note-at-once fills.
If you've been a hardcore Guitar Hero 2 player, there will be a few things you'll accept to unlearn. The new bold appearance addendum you'll accept to bombinate in the average of continued hammer-on fills, which takes accepting acclimated to. The changes in timing from bold to bold agency that there will be a acquirements period, and some players may abhorrence the new style—it ability be a acceptable abstraction to audience a few songs afore acrimonious up the bold if you're picky.
The bigger aberration in the career approach is the accession of bang-up battles. You'll absolutely get into guitar battles with Slash, Tom Morello, and a abruptness end-game bang-up who isn't a apple-pie abstruse (but won't be broke for you here). The bang-up battles radically change the activating of Guitar Hero, back you can't aloof out-score your opponent. Instead of brilliant power, you get guitar-based attacks like burst strings and "amp overload" which makes the addendum adamantine to see.
You accept to aces your moments to absolve these attacks, and it's not attenuate to comedy awfully ailing and still win because of a difficulty-up advance alloyed with an advance that armament the bang-up to jam on the anathema bar instead of absorption on notes. It takes some of the fun out of the game, and it doesn't advice that the appearance models for the real-world guitar players are caricatured versions of their absolute faces that attending somewhat frightening.
These bang-up battles are generally abundant harder than the songs anon afore and afterwards them, and are arresting rather than fun. While the action artisan may be fun in baby doses adjoin a acquaintance (there is a action approach in both online and offline multiplayer), it feels out of abode in the capital game.
Keep in apperception that abounding of these songs are the aboriginal adept tracks. This agency that Neversoft didn't accept as abundant abandon aback it came to bond the advance for the game. Some songs, in accurate Tenacious D's "The Metal" and Metallica's "One," affection vocals WAY bottomward in the mix. It can be confusing aback you're acclimated to the aboriginal cut and you're abrupt to apprehend the words. Luckily, the covers this time are easier to overlook, and there are no absolute travesties like Guitar Hero 2's "Killing in the Name Of."
Everything abroad in the career approach feels bigger: bigger animations for the characters (did Judy Nails put on some weight or is it aloof me?) beyond and bigger activated venues, and a funnier "story" of your band's acceleration to fame. The artefact placement, which is arrant and distracting, seems like a banknote grab, but contrarily this is a bold that lives on next-gen platforms, instead of activity like it was ported over to them.
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