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Pippa Taylor
Pippa may refer to: * Pippa (given name) * Pippa Bacca (1974–2008), performance artist * Kelly Ripa (born 1970), nicknamed Pippa, American talk show host * ''Pippa'' (film), a 2023 Indian film Fictional characters * Pippa Cross, a character in books by Libba Bray * Pippa Ross, a character in Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' * Pippa Saunders, a character in the show ''Home and Away'' * Pippa, a character in ''Dead Set'' (TV series) * Pippa, the protagonist of '' The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'', a 2009 film * Pippa Fitz-Amobi, the protagonist of the '' A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' book series * Pippa, a character in ''The Goldfinch'', ** The 2013 novel by Donna Tartt ** The 2019 film based on the novel Other uses * Pippa (doll), a British toy doll * 648 Pippa, a minor planet orbiting the Sun * PIPPA (Pressurised Pile Producing Power and Plutonium), a codename for the design of the Magnox reactor at Calder Hall nuclear power station Calder Hall Nuclear Power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa (given Name)
Pippa is a feminine given name and a hypocorism, short form, usually of Philippa. It came into greater use as an independent name in the Anglosphere following the publication of the 1841 verse drama ''Pippa Passes'' by English poet Robert Browning with the well-known lines "God's in his heaven— / All's right with the world!" The character was an innocent Italian girl, though the name is not in common use as a given name in Italy. Cultural connotations The name Philippa, or Philip in its vernacular form for both men and women, was used in the British royal family in medieval times. Philippa of Hainault was an early bearer. Pip and Pippa were traditional diminutives of the name. These early associations give the name a classic image with upperclass associations in the Anglosphere. The name has Human sexuality, sexual connotations in other cultures. Pippa is a Swedish language, Swedish crude slang term for sexual intercourse and an Italian language, Italian slang word for masturb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Good Girl's Guide To Murder
''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' is a young adult mystery crime debut novel by British author Holly Jackson. The novel is the first in a series of three novels and one novella: ''A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' (2019); ''Good Girl, Bad Blood'' (2020); ''As Good As Dead'' (2021); and ''Kill Joy'' (2021). All books were published by Electric Monkey in the United Kingdom and by Delacorte Press in the United States. The plot follows an investigation carried out by seventeen-year old true crime enthusiast Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi, a student in the fictional town of Little Kilton, Buckinghamshire. In the novel, she investigates the murder of popular student Andrea "Andie" Bell and the suicide of the supposed perpetrator Salil "Sal" Singh under the guise of a school project. Her objectives are to exonerate Sal, who she is convinced was falsely accused, and to uncover the true perpetrator, who Pip believes is still at large. A six-part television adaptation was released on BBC iPlay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station is a former Magnox nuclear power station at Sellafield in Cumbria in North West England. Calder Hall was the first full-scale nuclear power station to enter operation in the West, and was the sister plant to the Chapelcross plant in Scotland. Both were commissioned and originally operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. The primary purpose of both plants was to produce weapons-grade plutonium for the UK's nuclear weapons programme, but they also generated electrical power for the National Grid. Decommissioning by Sellafield Ltd started in 2005. The site is partially demolished and is expected that only the reactor cores and associated radiation shielding will remain by 2027, when it will enter a period of extended care and maintenance using the "safestore" principle, before final demolition. Description It was decided by the UK Government to proceed with the civil nuclear power programme in 1952, and construction at Calder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnox
Magnox is a type of nuclear power / production reactor that was designed to run on natural uranium with graphite as the moderator and carbon dioxide gas as the heat exchange coolant. It belongs to the wider class of gas-cooled reactors. The name comes from the magnesium-aluminium alloy (called magnesium non-oxidising), used to clad the fuel rods inside the reactor. Like most other generation I nuclear reactors, the magnox was designed with the dual purpose of producing electrical power and plutonium-239 for the nascent nuclear weapons programme in Britain. The name refers specifically to the United Kingdom design but is sometimes used generically to refer to any similar reactor. As with other plutonium-producing reactors, conserving neutrons is a key element of the design. In magnox, the neutrons are moderated in large blocks of graphite. The efficiency of graphite as a moderator allows the magnox to run using natural uranium fuel, in contrast with the more common commerc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
648 Pippa
648 Pippa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Photometric measurements made from the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory during 2012 gave a light curve In astronomy, a light curve is a graph (discrete mathematics), graph of the Radiance, light intensity of a celestial object or region as a function of time, typically with the magnitude (astronomy), magnitude of light received on the ''y''-axis ... with a period of 9.263 ± 0.001 hours and a variation in brightness of 0.31 ± 0.03 in magnitude. This is inconsistent with a period estimate of 5.2 ± 0.3 made in 2004. It was named after Pippa, the title character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's novel '' Und Pippa tanzt''. References External links * * 000648 Discoveries by August Kopff Named minor planets 000648 19070911 {{beltasteroid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa (doll)
Pippa was a "pocket-sized" fashion doll produced by British toymaker Palitoy between 1972 and 1980. She was a 6.5 inch fashion doll with numerous friends, fashions, an apartment, a car, even her own hair salon. Similar to Topper's Dawn doll, Pippa was marketed as "the pocket money fashion doll that puts fashion in your pocket". The small stature of the doll also meant that production costs were generally lower than market competitors such as Sindy and Barbie Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959. The toy was based on the German Bild Lilli doll, Bild Lilli doll which Hand .... The Pippa doll had many different fashionable clothing pieces, including miniskirts, minidresses and top and bottom combos. There were also more regal, formal dresses, and outfits relating to different jobs. Employing subtle makeover techniques and fashion variations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (film)
''The Goldfinch'' is a 2019 American drama film directed by John Crowley. It was written by Peter Straughan, who adapted the 2013 novel '' The Goldfinch'' by Donna Tartt. It stars Ansel Elgort as Theodore Decker, whose life changes after his mother dies in a terrorist bombing at a museum and a dying man convinces him to take a famous painting called '' The Goldfinch'' from the museum. Oakes Fegley, Aneurin Barnard, Finn Wolfhard, Sarah Paulson, Luke Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, and Nicole Kidman appear in supporting roles. The novel's film rights were sold to Warner Bros. and RatPac Entertainment in July 2014, with ICM Partners brokering the deal. Two years later, Crowley was hired to direct the film adaptation, and Elgort was selected to portray the lead role. Most of the remaining cast joined from October 2017 to January 2018. Filming began in New York City in January 2018 and moved to Albuquerque in April 2018 for the rest of the production. ''The Goldfinch'' premiered at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (novel)
''The Goldfinch'' is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Published in 2013, it followed '' The Little Friend'' in 2002. ''The Goldfinch'' follows 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting '' The Goldfinch''. Background Tartt has stated that she had been wanting to write about Amsterdam for 20 years, having lived for some time in the city after the success of ''The Little Friend''. She was partly inspired to write ''The Goldfinch'' after hearing about the Taliban’s destruction in 2001 of the historic statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She says: "There was nothing to write about, there was not really a story – but there was an idea that something so beautiful, a light at the heart of the world, could be just taken away, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
''The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder. The film premiered on February 9, 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival before opening in the United Kingdom on July 10. Following a showing at the Toronto International Film Festival, it received a limited release in the United States on November 27, 2009. Plot The film chronicles the life of Pippa Lee, with flashbacks of her tumultuous past. Pippa was the youngest child and only girl in her large Christian family. Her mother Suky was a neurotic mother with an obsessive fixation on her daughter's looks. By her teen years, Pippa discovers that her mother takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Bacca
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (December 9, 1974 – March 31, 2008), known as Pippa Bacca, was an Italian performance and feminist artist. On March 31, 2008, Pippa Bacca disappeared in Gebze in Turkey during an international hitchhiking trip to promote world peace under the motto, "marriage between different peoples and nations". Bacca and fellow artist Silvia Moro were symbolically wearing wedding dresses during their trek. On April 11, 2008, the police arrested a man who later confessed to her murder and led the authorities to the discovery of her body. Biography Early life Pippa Bacca was born in Milan on December 9, 1974, as Giuseppina Valeria Laura Maria Pasqualino di Marineo. Her father, Guido Pasqualino di Marineo, was originally from Naples and descended from Neapolitan nobility. Her mother, Elena Manzoni dei Conti di Chiosca e Poggiolo, likewise came from an affluent noble family of Sicilian origin. Baccas' mother was the older sister of the artist Piero Manzon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Set (TV Series)
''Dead Set'' is a British Satire, satirical Zombie film, zombie Horror fiction, horror television miniseries written and created by Charlie Brooker. The show takes place primarily on the set of a fictional series of the real television show ''Big Brother (British TV series), Big Brother''. The five episodes, aired over five consecutive nights, chronicle a Zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak that strands the housemates and production staff inside the ''Big Brother'' House, which quickly becomes a shelter from the undead. ''Dead Set'' is a production of Zeppotron, part of the Endemol group of production and distribution companies that produces the actual ''Big Brother''. The series first aired on E4 (TV channel), E4 starting on 27 October 2008, just six weeks after the end of ''Big Brother (British TV series) series 9, Big Brother 2008'' on the same channel. Cast Cameos by former ''Big Brother'' housemates Episodes Production Writing Charlie Brooker said that the basic idea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Saunders
Pippa Saunders is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away''. She made her screen debut in the episode broadcast on 4 June 2004. The character was played by twelve young actors, including Chloe Marshall who took over the role in 2007. Pippa made her last regular appearance on 2 April 2008, with the character departing town off screen in the following day's episode, but returned on 15 July 2013 with Piper Morrissey now playing the role. Pippa is Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy) and Sally Fletcher's (Kate Ritchie) daughter. Casting Pippa was played by twelve different child actors from her introduction in 2004 to her departure in 2008: Riley Stevens, Anouk Povaly, Noah Fraser, Isabelle Bell-Dickson, Jessica Taylor Lorenxo, Mia Szczenpanik, Leila Szczenpanik, Bojanna Main, Tameka Main, Phoebe Falconer, India Falconer and Chloe Marshall. Pippa returned along with her mother, Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie), on 15 July 2013. Piper Morrissey was cast in the role. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
