Although the Penny Black could be used to send a letter less than half an ounce anywhere within the United Kingdom, the Swiss did not initially adopt that system, instead continuing to calculate mail rates based on distance to be delivered.

Each episode ends ( as many cartoons did in the 1980s ) with Gadget ( and usually Penny and Brain also ) giving a public service announcement-in direct contrast with his dangerous job and risk-taking behavior in the show, with most of the tips having a connection with problems Gadget had experienced during the episode.

The Swiss Confederacy did not accept the resolutions of the Imperial Diet and explicitly refused to pay the Common Penny, one of the circumstances leading to the Swabian War of 1499 and the Confederacy's exemption from imperial legislation.

" The gesture made it into films of the time: the title character played by Julia Roberts did it in a polo scene in Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and characters played by Penny Marshall and Michael J.

Maurice LaMarche continued as Gadget's voice, reprising his role from the " Sunday Movie Toon ", " Inspector Gadget's Last Case ", as did Brian Drummond ( Dr Claw ) and Tegan Moss ( Penny ).

She is replaced in series six by character ' Penny ' ( Anouschka Menzies ), who did not return in series seven.

Also included in the package is Penny Serenade, a film Grant starred in but did not finance ( the film itself is in the public domain, but Republic created a colorized version of the film, which it owns ).

There were four judges ( Randall Abrahams, Dave Thompson, Marcus Brewster and Penny Lebyane in season one ; Brewster and Lebyane did not return for the second season and were replaced by Mara Louw-Thomson and Gareth Cliff ) who provided critiques of each contestant's performance.

Although Kanzi learned to communicate using a keyboard with lexigrams, Kanzi also picked up some American Sign Language from watching videos of Koko the gorilla, who communicates using sign language to her keeper Penny Patterson ; Savage-Rumbaugh did not realize Kanzi could sign until he signed " You, Gorilla, Question " to anthropologist Dawn Prince-Hughes, who had previously worked closely with gorillas.

A regular Sydney-Melbourne overland service began in 1838, as did embossed covers ( the world's second, after William Dockwra established the London Penny Post in 1680 ) prepaid postage, and by 1849 uniform postal rates were established by agreement between the colonies.

Although the Queen offered the Prince of Wales no direct counsel during that period, his kinsman and friend Norton Knatchbull, now Lord Brabourne, and his wife, Penny, did.

Ivy and Penny did not appear after Season 1.

According to the A & E Biography, on one episode of Lost In Space, Jonathan's character, Dr. Smith, did a groovy 1960s dance with Penny and Will Robinson ( Angela Cartwright and Bill Mumy ).

Page One Records stalwarts The Troggs were persuaded to join Penny Farthing but their label debut, Page's attempt at the Beach Boys hit " Good Vibrations " with Reg Presley's vocals, did not produce sizeable sales.

The Penny Black did not have the name of Great Britain printed on it, and do this day stamps of Great Britain do not have the country's name on them.

Collins also did a multitude of celebrity impressions, including Alanis Morissette, Angelina Jolie, Barbara Bush, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cher, Diane Sawyer, Jenny Jones, Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Hart, Courteney Cox, Madonna, Martha Stewart, Alecia Beth Moore ( Pink ), Cynthia Nixon, Shakira, Pamela Anderson, Teri Hatcher and Penny Marshall.

In the playoff loss to St. Louis that season, Penny did not play, Choi had one at bat ( hitless ) and Dodger catchers were 3-for-10.

It was written by Jon Vitti, who used the pseudonym " Penny Wise " in the closing credits because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show.

The full series did air in New Zealand beginning in December 2005 ; in the final episode, Long's wife Penny ( widely seen as the show's villain ) became the overall winner.

In that year, they had their hit single, " Dreams are Ten a Penny ", but the band itself did not exist at the time.

It followed the same plot as the original series, with the clumsy Gadget attempting to fight crime on his own, while Penny and her helpers did all the work.

Cree Summer voiced Penny in the modern segment, just as she did in the first season of the original series.

It was written by Jon Vitti, who used the pseudonym Penny Wise in the closing credits because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show, and it was directed by David Silverman.

Viewers had seemingly accepted the drug abuse, religious cults and crazy stalkers-plus the problematic re-cast of the leading character Dr Elly Fielding when Penny Cook quit and was replaced by Diane Craig-because, all along, the show did not take itself seriously and this made the relentless and sensational plots somewhat enjoyable as a form of escapism.

* In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Ra's al Ghul's body can be found zipped up in a body bag in the morgue part of Arkham Mansion near Dr. Penny Young's office, which serves as the answer to the riddle " It'll be a cold day in hell when this Ghul rises again .".

Baby brings her father to help, but he misinterprets Johnny's answer to a question he asked while treating Penny, and thus believes it is Johnny who impregnated her.

`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.

`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

`` Keith '', said Penny, `` Keith, you were wonderful.

`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.

Penny lowered her eyes.

Penny would not rise to his mood.

That was where he met Penny.

Penny knew him better, on her part.

The pretty little twittering WACS said he had the look of eagles -- and Penny, hating the cliche, had to admit that in this case it applied.

Penny and Keith had no romance.

That is, everyone but Keith and Penny.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Keith told Penny about his dream to return to India and Burma.

That was his true love, not Penny.

He and Penny would go out on tame elephants, raised from babyhood in the keddah.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

* Penny Florence and Nicola Foster ( eds.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

BBC Breakfast business bulletins are presented by Steph McGovern with Penny Haslam offering relief.

The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.