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Posh
Posh is an informal adjective for "upper class". It may also refer to: Entertainment * ''Posh'' (album), a 1980 album by Patrice Rushen *" Posh!", a 1968 song from the musical ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' * ''Posh'' (2006 TV series), a 2006 Philippine television drama * ''Posh'' (play), by the British playwright Laura Wade, first staged in 2010 **'' The Riot Club'', formerly titled ''Posh'', a 2014 film adaptation of the play Computing *Plain Old Semantic HTML, a term used by the microformat community to describe some uses of Semantic HTML *Poshlib, the Portable Open Source Harness * PowerShell, sometimes abbreviated PoSh Other *Victoria Beckham (born 1974), singer nicknamed "Posh Spice" while she was a member of the Spice Girls * Peterborough United F.C., an English football club, nicknamed "The Posh" *Received Pronunciation, sometimes known as a "posh accent" *Posh (Haganah unit), the commando arm of the Haganah during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine * Sexual Harassme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (; born 17 April 1974) is an English fashion designer, singer, and television personality. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Posh Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. After the Spice Girls split in 2001, Beckham was signed to Virgin Records, in which she released her self-titled debut solo album, which produced two UK Top 10 singles. Beckham has starred in five official documentaries and reality shows, including ''Victoria's Secrets'' (2000), ''Being Victoria Beckham'' (2002), ''The Real Beckhams'' (2003), ''Victoria Beckham - A Mile In Their Shoes'' (2004), and '' Victoria Beckham: Coming to America'' (2007). She has since made a cameo appearance in an episode of '' Ugly Betty'' (2007), and been a guest judge on '' Project Runway'' (2008), '' Germany's Next Topmodel'' (2009), and ''American Idol'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuristanis
The Nuristanis, formerly known as Kafiristanis, are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages. The Nuristanis reside mainly in the northeast of Afghanistan and northwest of Pakistan; between the Pashtun tribes of Kunar, Kalash in Pakistan's Chitral, and Tajiks of Badakhshan in the north. In the mid-1890s, after the establishment of the Durand Line when Afghanistan reached an agreement on various frontier areas to the British Empire for period of time, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan conducted a military campaign in Kafiristan and followed up his conquest with forced conversion of the Kafirs to Islam; the region thenceforth being known as ''Nuristan'', the "Land of Light". Before their conversion, the Nuristanis practiced a form of ancient Hinduism. Non-Muslim religious practices endure in Nuristan today to some degree as folk customs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riot Club
''The Riot Club'' is a 2014 British thriller drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Laura Wade, based on Wade's 2010 play '' Posh''. The film stars Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth. It is set among the Riot Club, a fictional all-male, exclusive dining club at the University of Oxford. When the play ''Posh'' premiered, the Riot Club was often described as a thinly veiled version of the real-life Bullingdon Club, although according to Wade it is entirely fictitious. Synopsis Alistair and Miles, both with aristocratic connections, start their first year at Oxford University. Miles is friendly and level-headed, cordially offering to switch rooms when Alistair's assigned room does not meet with his parents' approval, and beginning a relationship with Lauren, who has a working-class, Northern background. Alistair is an insecure, arrogant and cold-hearted snob. The two are tutorial partners at Oxford, where Alistair is blatant in his contempt for Miles and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posh (play)
''Posh'' is a play by the British playwright Laura Wade. It was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2010. The play concerns an Oxford University dining club called "The Riot Club", a fictionalised version of the Bullingdon Club. The first production, premiering shortly before the 2010 United Kingdom general election, received favourable reviews. Plot Ten members of "The Riot Club", an exclusive Oxford University dining club, have rented out a country pub's dining room for their termly dinner. Their president, James, who is about to leave university, is falling out of love with the club and promises the suspicious landlord Chris and his waitress daughter Rachel that he will keep things under control. While James avoids his presidential duties, others vie for his position. Inspired by his godfather Jeremy, a former Riot Club member and now a Conservative MP, Guy tries to impress the boys with a "ten bird roast'. Others are less restrained; one has hired Charlie, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poshlib
Posh is a software framework used in cross-platform software development. It was created by Brian Hook. It is BSD licensed and at version 1.3.002. The Posh software framework provides a header file and an optional C source file. Posh does not provide alternatives where a host platform does not offer a feature, but informs through preprocessor macros what is supported and what is not. It sets macros to assist in compiling with various compilers (such as GCC, MSVC and OpenWatcom), and different host endiannesses. In its simplest form, only a single header file is required. In the optional C source file, there are functions for byte swapping and in-memory serialisation/deserialisation. Brian Hook also created SAL (Simple Audio Library) that utilises Posh. Both are featured in his book "Write Portable Code". Posh is also used in Ferret and Vega Strike. See also * libslack Libslack is a library of general utilities designed to make UNIX/ C programming a bit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posh (album)
''Posh'' is a 1980 album released by R&B singer Patrice Rushen, her third album for Elektra Records and sixth album overall. The album was recently re-released on Wounded Bird Records, as were several other Rushen albums from the time. Following the '' Pizzazz'' album, ''Posh'' was the continuation of a string of R&B/pop albums that established Rushen as an R&B singer. "Look Up!," "I Need Your Love," "The Funk Won't Let You Down," "Time Will Tell" highlighted Patrice's reach into R&B territory. Whereas, songs such as the Stevie Wonder-esque "I Need Your Love" and the rock-leaning "Time Will Tell" were representative of her new progressive sound. This album was released just before her 1982 breakthrough album, '' Straight from the Heart''. Track listing #"Never Gonna Give You Up (Won't Let You Be)" (Patrice Rushen, Freddie Washington) - 6:50 #"Don't Blame Me" (Patrice Rushen, Angela Rushen, Clarence Bell) - 6:31 #"Look Up!" (Patrice Rushen, Charles Mims, Jr., Sheree Brown) - 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pish Posh
''Pish Posh'' is the name of a children's novel by American author Ellen Potter Ellen Potter (born 1960s) is an American author of both children's and adults’ books (as Ellen Toby-Potter). She grew up in Upper West Side, New York City and studied creative writing at Binghamton University and now lives in Candor in upstate N ..., first published in 2006. It tells the story of a young girl, Clara Frankofile, who is a pompous, snobbish 11-year-old who spends her evenings people-watching from a corner table in her parents' chic New York City restaurant, Pish Posh. Summary Ultra snobby, Clara Frankofile has everything an 11-year-old could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster and bumper cars... and all of New York City is afraid of her! Each night at the fashionable Pish Posh restaurant, she watches glittery movie actresses, princesses, and celebrities and decides who is important enough to stay...and who she will kick t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posh!
"Posh!" is an up tempo song and musical number from the popular 1968 Albert R. Broccoli motion picture, ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''. It is written by the songwriting team of Sherman & Sherman. It makes reference to the myth that the word "posh" is an acronym for " Port Out, Starboard Home". In the film it is sung when "Grandpa Potts" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is being carried away in his outhouse. He sees the situation as serendipitous until he finally meets his kidnapper, Baron Bomburst in Vulgaria. Use in stage musical The song is also featured prominently in the 2002 and 2005 stage musical versions of the film. In the stage musical versions, Grandpa sings the song to the children in the family dining room and not while being kidnapped. An extra verse was also added to the beginning of the stage version, to tell the story of when Grandpa sailed out from Liverpool.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine The song is reprised a few times and is used as "Grandpa's" leitmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough United F
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until 1974, when county boundary change meant the city became part of Cambridgeshire instead. The city is north of London, on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea to the north-east. In 2020 the built-up area subdivision had an estimated population of 179,349. In 2021 the Unitary Authority area had a population of 215,671. The local topography is flat, and in some places, the land lies below sea level, for example in parts of the Fens to the east and to the south of Peterborough. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre, also with evidence of Roman occupation. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, Medesha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posh (2006 TV Series)
''Posh'' is a 2006 Philippine television drama series broadcast by QTV. Directed by Joselito Altarejos, it stars Iwa Moto, Gian Carlos and Vaness del Moral. It premiered on June 24, 2006. The series concluded on December 23, 2006 with a total of 27 episodes. Cast * Iwa Moto * Gian Carlos * Vaness del Moral * Vivo Ouano * Rhea Nakpil * Princess Violago * PJ Valerio * Ivan Carapiet * Benjamin Alves * Ashley Gruenberg * Hayca Bunevacz * Nikki Bacolod Nikki Bacólod (born Monique Echieverri Bacólod on August 18, 1989), is a Filipina singer, television host, swimmer and actress. She is best known for placing as first runner up in the 2005 season of ABS-CBN's Search for the Star in a Millio ... References External links * 2006 Philippine television series debuts 2006 Philippine television series endings Filipino-language television shows Philippine teen drama television series Q (TV network) original programming Television series by Viva Television Television sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posh (Haganah Unit)
POSH ( he, פו"ש, also Romanized ''Fosh'', an abbreviation for Plugot Sadeh ( he, פלוגות שדה), ''lit.'' Field Companies) was an elite Jewish strike force that served as the commando arm of the Haganah during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine when the country was under British Mandate control. POSH members were hand-picked by Yitzhak Sadeh, commander of the Jewish Settlement Police. By March 1938, POSH had 1,500 trained fighters divided into 13 regional groups. They were armed with British SMLEs, grenades, rifles and some small arms, and operated in swift raids under Charles Orde Wingate's Special Night Squads The Special Night Squads (SNS) (Hebrew: ''Plagot Ha'Layla Ha'Meyukhadot'', פלוגות הלילה המיוחדות) was a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency military unit, established by Captain Orde Wingate in Mandatory Palestine in 1938 ..., taking full advantage of their mobility. POSH was disbanded in 1939 to create a larger force know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacha Posh
Bacha posh ( fa, بچه پوش, literally "dressed up as a boy") is a practice in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan in which some families without sons will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy. This enables the child to behave more freely: attending school, escorting her sisters in public, and working. Origins The custom is documented at least one century ago, but is likely to be much older, and is still practiced today. It may have started with women disguising themselves as men to fight, or to be protected, during periods of wartime. Historian Nancy Dupree told a reporter from '' The New York Times'' that she recalled a photograph dating back to the early 1900s during the reign of Habibullah Khan in which women dressed as men guarded the king's harem because officially, the harem could be guarded by neither women nor men. "Segregation calls for creativity," she said, "These people have the most amazing coping capability." Overview In Afghanistan, there is societal pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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