Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Background[edit] Page from the original manuscript copy of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1864 Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862[4] (this popular date of the "golden afternoon"[5] might be a confusion or even another Alice-tale, for that particular day was cool, cloudy and rainy[6]), up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church): Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849) ("Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance Liddell (aged 10, born 1852) ("Secunda" in the prefatory verse); Edith Mary Liddell (aged 8, born 1853) ("Tertia" in the prefatory verse).[7] The journey began at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. Synopsis[edit] Chapter Twelve – Alice's Evidence: Alice is then called up as a witness. Characters[edit] Symbolism[edit]

Report: Hathaway 'freaked out' over Seyfried's dress It raised many a fashion watcher's perfectly plucked eyebrow: Why did Anne Hathaway pull the red carpet out from under her presumed Oscar designer, Valentino, and wear Prada instead? Especially considering that Valentino is a favorite of Hathaway's? (The house, which designed Hathaway's wedding dress, even sent out a release describing her choice: embroidered tulle. Fashionista.com has heard a rumor worthy of a scene in The Devil Wears Prada itself: Apparently, when Hathaway caught a glimpse of Les Mis co-star Amanda Seyfried's icy Alexander McQueen, she "freaked out" over its similarity to her Valentino gown. One of the site's particularly detail-minded readers dug up the potentially offending doppelganger of a dress, a couture gown from Valentino's spring 2013 collection. Whatever the truth, it's the most exciting sartorial scandal to strike the stylishly staid Oscars in years. UPDATE: Hathaway has released a statement to People. "I deeply regret any disappointment caused."

Browsing Web on iPad stinks, and Apple likes it that way When iPads were first introduced in 2010, an Apple press release promised that the "iPad's revolutionary Multi-Touch interface makes surfing the web an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer." The implication was that the web via the tablet would be unrecognizable and vastly superior: hoverboarding compared with surfing on my laptop and doggie paddling on my phone. Yet, here it is three years on, and we're still waiting for that "interactive and intimate" browsing experience (and hoverboards, for that matter). A recent study conducted by Onswipe revealed that iPads account for a whopping 98.1 percent of tablet traffic on websites. Safari is deliberately hobbled As more and more of the services we use on a daily basis have migrated to the cloud, the web browser has become the computer's most essential app. Surfing the web is far less pleasurable on an iPad. Of course, this is sort of the point. Why web browsing still matters What we've lost

Scientists Have Perfected Mouse Re-Cloning to the 25th Generation Perfect clones down to the 24th and 25th generations, doing what mice do, above. Image from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, via The AlphaGalileo Foundation Remember Dolly the Sheep? Having started her life in a test tube in 1996, she was the first animal cloned by scientists using a somatic cell (as distinct, say from a germline cell, or “gamete,” like sperm and eggs). It was also unusually short, at just six years. Researchers claim it's the first example of seamless, repeat cloning using the Dolly method—known as “somatic cell nuclear transfer” (SCNT)—in which the nucleus from an adult source animal is transferred to an egg with its nucleus removed. Scientists, including Dolly’s creator, have long felt the process was still too unstable—and too wasteful of precious eggs, given the failure rate—to be used on humans any time soon. To be sure, Dolly developed arthritis at the young age of four and died of a kind of lung cancer when she was not yet six.