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Hendrik Willem van Loon visited Germany lots of times in the 1920s. In 1933, when the Nazis ruled Germany, they told him he could not visit Germany any more. In 1938, Hendrik wrote a book that he called Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler. This book said why Hendrik did not like Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf. (Mein Kampf means "My Battle" in the German language.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt liked Hendrik's book Our Battle very much. In 1940, Hendrik helped Roosevelt try to get to be President of the United States.

Things said by Van Loon
Someone once asked Hendrik Willem van Loon how to say his last name. He answered, "I still stick to the Dutch pronunciation of the double o—Loon like loan in 'Loan and Trust Co.' My sons will probably accept the American pronunciation. It really does not matter very much."
Books written by Van Loon
 These are the books that Hendrik Willem van Loon wrote. The dates show the first time each book was printed. The other names tell what publisher printed them.
The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913, Houghton Mifflin Co.
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915, Doubleday Page & Co.
The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, 1916, The Century Co.
A Short History of Discovery: From the Earliest Times to the Founding of Colonies in the American Continent, 1917, David McKay
Ancient man; the Beginning of Civilizations, 1920, Boni and Liveright
The Story of Mankind, 1921, Boni and Liveright
The Story of the Bible, 1923, Boni and Liveright
Witches and Witch-Finders, 1923, article from the June 1923 Mentor Magazine
The Story of Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Boni and Liveright
Tolerance, 1925, Boni and Liveright
The Liberation of Mankind: the story of man's struggle for the right to think, 1926, Boni and Liveright
America: The Story of America from the very beginning up to the present, 1927, Boni and Liveright
Adriaen Block, 1928, Block Hall
Multiplex man, or the Story of Survival through Invention, 1928, Jonathan Cape
Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Henry Holt
Man the Miracle Maker, 1928, Horace Liveright
R. v. R.: the Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930, Horace Liveright
If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam, in If, Or History Rewritten, edited by J. C. Squire, 1931, Simon and Schuster
Van Loon's Geography: The Story of the World We Live In, 1932, Simon and Schuster
"Gold" 1933, article from the Cosmopolitan March 1933
An Elephant Up a Tree, 1933, Simon and Schuster
An Indiscreet Itinerary or How the Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland by one who was actually born there and whose name is Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace
The Home of Mankind: the story of the world we live in, 1933, George G. Harrap
The story of inventions: Man, the Miracle Maker, 1934, Horace Liveright
Ships: and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935), 1935, Simon and Schuster
Around the World With the Alphabet, 1935, Simon and Schuster
Air-Storming: A Collection of 40 Radio Talks, 1935, Harcourt, Brace
Love me not, 1935
A World Divided is a World Lost, 1935, Cosmos Publishing Co.
The Songs We Sing (with Grace Castagnetta), 1936, Simon and Schuster
The Arts (with musical illustrations by Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon and Schuster
Christmas Carols (with Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon and Schuster
Observations on the mystery of print and the work of Johann Gutenberg, 1937, Book Manufacturer's Institute/New York Times
Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler, 1938, Simon and Schuster
How to Look at Pictures: a Short History of Painting, 1938, National Committee for Art Appreciation
Folk Songs of Many Lands (with Grace Castagnetta), 1938, Simon and Schuster
The Last of the Troubadours: The Life and Music of Carl Michael Bellman 1740-1795 (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon and Schuster
The Songs America Sings (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon and Schuster
My School Books, 1939, E. I. du Pont de Nemours
Invasion, being the personal recollections of what happened to our own family and to some of our friends during the first forty-eight hours of that terrible incident in our history which is now known as the great invasion and how we escaped with our lives, 1940, Harcourt, Brace
The Story of the Pacific, 1940, George G. Harrap
The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940, Simon and Schuster
Good Tidings (with Christmas songs by Grace Castegnetta), 1941, American Artists Group
The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with a short life of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of Rotterdam who also illustrated the Book, 1942
Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year, 1942, Simon and Schuster
Christmas Songs, 1942
The Message of the Bells (with music by Grace Castagnetta), 1942, New York Garden City
Fighters for Freedom: the Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson and Simon Bolivar, 1943, Dodd, Mead & Co.
The Life and Times of Scipio Fulhaber, Chef de Cuisine, 1943
Adventures and Escapes of Gustavus Vasa, and how they carried him from his rather obscure origin to the throne of Sweden, 1945
Report to Saint Peter, upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life - an unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, 1947, Simon and Schuster
Books about Van Loon

In popular culture
Francesco Guccini, a man from Italy who writes songs, wrote a song called "Van Loon". Guccini's father loved Hendrik Willem Van Loon's books. The song is on Guccini's music album called Signora Bovary.

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The Great Quest by Charles Hawes is an adventure story for children. It was a Newbery Honor book in 1922. George Varian drew the pictures. The Atlantic Monthly Press was its publisher.

Story
The story happens in 1826. It starts in Topham, Massachusetts. Topham is not a real town. In the story, Joe Woods lives in Topham with his uncle, who is named Seth Woods. Seth Woods has a friend named Cornelius Gleazen. Cornelius is a very bad man. Cornelius makes Seth sell all his things and use the money to buy a ship. Cornelius tells Seth that they will sail the ship to Guinea in Africa and dig up a lot of gold that Cornelius has buried there. Seth takes Joe and some other men with him on the trip. But when the ship stops in Cuba, Cornelius tells Seth and Joe that he lied. He really wants to take a lot of the people who live in Guinea away from their homes and bring them back to Cuba. He will sell them to people who live in Cuba. The people from Guinea will be slaves.
Seth and Joe are very angry, but they cannot stop Cornelius. They have to go to Guinea. In Guinea, they rescue a white girl. Her father was a preacher in Guinea, but the people who lived in Guinea did not like him. Cornelius and Seth die in Guinea. Joe and the other men who were on the ship travel back home from Guinea to Massachusetts. On the way, they stop in South America. One of the men stays there. When they get home, Joe marries the white girl that he rescued in Guinea, and they live happily ever after.

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The Great Quest on Project Gutenberg

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Raymond Neil "Ray" Combs, Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, and television game show host. He is best known for being the host of Family Feud from 1988 to 1994. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio.

Combs started out as a stand-up comedian. Because of his popularity, he became the host of Family Feud in 1988. He hosted it on CBS and in syndication until 1994. He also hosted another game show called Family Challenge from 1995 to 1996.

On June 2, 1996, after problems with his marriage and finances, Combs killed himself by hanging while in Glendale Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, California.

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The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) happened in the early morning of February 9 in the San Gabriel Mountains. It was at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley in southern California. The quake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. The damage was severe near the San Fernando Valley. The quake happened at 6am Pacific Standard Time. Sixty-four people were killed by the earthquake.

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Shirley Valentine is a 1989 British romantic comedy-movie. It stars Pauline Collins. Tom Conti plays her lover. Bernard Hill plays her husband. Alison Steadman plays her friend.

It is about a Liverpool housewife whose family gives her too little attention. She travels to Greece and has an affair with a local man.

The screenplay is by Willy Russell. It is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title.

This movie was released in August 1989 in the United States. The reviews for Shirley Valentine were mixed. The movie received several awards and was nominated for some Golden Globe and Academy Awards.
Main cast 
 Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw
 Tom Conti as Costas Dimitriades
 Julia McKenzie as Gillian
 Alison Steadman as Jane
 Joanna Lumley as Marjorie Majors
 Sylvia Syms as Headmistress
 Bernard Hill as Joe Bradshaw
 George Costigan as Dougie
 Anna Keaveney as Jeanette
 Tracie Bennett as Millandra Bradshaw
 Ken Sharrock as Sydney
 Karen Craig as Thelma
 Gareth Jefferson as Brian
 Gillian Kearney as young Shirley
 Catharine Duncan as young Marjorie
Awards and nominations
 Academy Award for Best Actress (Pauline Collins, nominee)
 Academy Award for Best Original Song (nominee)
 BAFTA Award for Best Film (nominee)
 BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pauline Collins, winner)
 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Pauline Collins, nominee)
 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (nominee)
 British Comedy Award for Top Comedy Film (winner)
 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (Pauline Collins, winner) 
 Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (winner)
 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (nominee)

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Life
Charles Boardman Hawes was born in Clifton Springs, New York. His father was named Charles T. Hawes. Charles Boardman Hawes grew up in Bangor, Maine. In 1911 he graduated from Bowdoin College. He was the editor of the student newspaper there. He studied at Harvard for one year. He worked for a magazine called The Youth's Companion until 1920. He was an editor for another magazine called The Open Road for Boys until he died in 1923. On June 1, 1916, Charles Boardman Hawes married Dorothea Cable. She lived in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her father was George W. Cable, who wrote books. Her mother was Louise S. Bartlett.
Charles Boardman Hawes had his first story book published in 1920. It was called The Mutineers: a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago. He had his second story book published in 1921. It was called The Great Quest: A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea. That book was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922. Honor Book means that it did not win but the judges thought that it was a good book anyway.
Charles Boardman Hawes wrote two more books before he died. One was called Gloucester, by Land and Sea. It was a true story about Gloucester, Massachusetts, which was the town where Hawes lived. This book was published two days after he died. The other book was called The Dark Frigate, Wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados by the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates. That book won the Newbery Medal for 1924. In 1962 The Dark Frigate also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Hawes Memorial Prize Contest
After Charles Boardman Hawes died, his publishers held a contest. A $2,000 prize was given to the best book that was like the book which Hawes wrote. The book that won was called The Scarlet Cockerel. It was written by a farm worker named Clifford MacClellan Sublette. Hawes's publishers printed The Scarlet Cockerel in 1925. They also printed two other books that they had gotten from the contest.
Writings by Charles Boardman Hawes
 The Mutineers: a tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920),  illustrated by George Edmund Varian (Little, Brown, 1919 or 1920) 
 The Great Quest; a romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921) (Little, Brown, 1921)
 Gloucester, by Land and Sea; the story of a New England seacoast town (Little, Brown, July 1923), illustrated by Lester G. Hornby — published two days after his death
The Dark Frigate; wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates (Atlantic Monthly Press, October 1923) (Little, Brown, 1923)
 "The Story of the Ship "Globe" of Nantucket", Atlantic Monthly (December 1923): 769–79
"A Boy Who Went Whaling", Atlantic Monthly 133:6 (June 1924): 797–805 
 Whaling (Doubleday, Page, 1924) — "Completed after the author's death by his wife."

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Killing Zoe is a 1994 French-American crime drama thriller movie. The subject is incidents in Paris, including robbing banks. The robbery at one Paris bank goes wrong. The police get involved and kill all except one of the robbers.

This movie was released in August 1994 in the United States. The movie received mixed reviews from the critics.

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Four Rooms is a 1995 American comedy movie set in a hotel on New Year's Eve.

It has four different stories:
 Honeymoon Suite - "The Missing Ingredient"
 Room 404 - "The Wrong Man"
 Room 309 - "The Misbehavers"
 Penthouse - "The Man from Hollywood"

The cast includes Tim Roth, Jennifer Beals, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino, and others.

Four Rooms got negative reviews from the critics. However, the movie earned back just beyond its actual budget.

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The Têt () is the largest river in Roussillon, southeastern France. The valley formed by the river, the Valley of the Têt (), was named as Region of Art and History () by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Geography
The Têt river is . Its source is on the northeastern side of Pic Carlit at an elevation of , in the municipality of Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes.

It crosses the Pyrénées-Orientales département (Northern Catalonia) from West to East and ends in the Mediterranean Sea, near Perpignan ().

Tributaries
The Têt has 43 tributaries; some of them are:
 Right tributaries:
 Riberola (or Torrent de la Valleta), 
 Carança, 
 Mantet (or Rivière du Ressac, Ruisseau d'El Callau), 
 Rotja, 
 Cady, 19.2 km, flowing from the Le Canigou mountain.
 Lentillà, 
 Lliscou, 
 Boulès (or Bolès), 
 Basse, 
 Left tributaries
 Castellane, 
 Caillan,
Towns along the river
Some towns and cities found along the river, with the Catalan name in parentheses, are:
 Mont-Louis (Mont-Lluis)
 Olette (Oleta)
 Villefranche-de-Conflent (Vilafranca de Conflent)
 Prades (Prada de Conflent)
 Perpignan (Perpinyà)

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 Station: 70474030, Option: Synthèse  
 La Tet  

Rivers of Pyrénées-Orientales
Cedric the Forester is a long story for children and young adults. It was written by Bernard Marshall. It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Story
Dickon Mountjoy tells the story. He is a Norman boy who lives in a castle in England in the 13th century. His best friend is Cedric, a boy who lives in a cottage in the forest. Cedric is very good at shooting with a bow and arrow. Dickon and Cedric grow up together and have many adventures. In the end, they help to get King John of England to sign the Magna Carta.

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Bernard Gay Marshall (August 23, 1875 - December 14, 1945) was an American writer. He wrote long stories about people who lived in the past. His stories were for children and young adults. One of his stories, Cedric the Forester, was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Life
Bernard Gay Marshall was born in North Easton, Massachusetts. His father was named Francis F. Marshall. His mother was named Helen F. Doten Marshall. He lived in North Easton until he grew up. He always wanted to be a writer who made up stories. He did not think he could earn much money by making up stories, so he worked at other jobs. Some of those jobs were playing music, writing down the words that people said when they talked about the law, and writing to tell people about how machines worked or about things that they could buy. During World War I he worked at making ships. In July 1903, Bernard Gay Marshall married Ida M. Conklin. They had one daughter. Her name was Harriet C. Marshall.
Writing
Bernard Gay Marshall wrote five adventure stories for children and young adults. He also wrote a lot of short stories and nonfiction articles for magazines. Some of these magazines were Sunset, Boys' Life, St Nicholas, Munsey's Magazine, The American Magazine, and The American Boy.

What People Thought About His Writing
His first book, Cedric the Forester, was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922. Some people said that Bernard Marshall's books were as good as Sir Walter Scott's books, but other people said they were not quite that good. A lot of people said that his books were so good that grown-ups and children should all read them.
List of Books by Bernard Gay Marshall
All of these books were published by D. Appleton, and the pictures were drawn by J. Scott Williams.
 Cedric the Forester was published in 1921. The book had 318 pages. The story was set in the time of the signing of the Magna Carta.
 Walter of Tiverton was published in 1923. The book had 263 pages. The story was set in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
 The Torch Bearers: A Tale of Cavalier Days was also published in 1923. The book had 317 pages. The story was set in the time of the English Civil War.
 Redcoat and Minuteman was published in 1924. The book had 277 pages. The story was set in the time of the American Revolution.
 Old Hickory's Prisoner: A Tale of the Second War for Independence was published in 1925. The book had 254 pages. The story was set in the time of the War of 1812.

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The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure is a book for children by William Bowen. It is a fantasy story. It was published by Macmillan in 1921. Reginald Birch drew the pictures. It was made a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1922.

Story
Freddie is five years old. He makes friends with Mr Toby Littleback, who owns a tobacco shop. Mr Toby lives with his Aunt Amanda. He also has a wooden statue named Mr Punch. The statue stands in front of Mr Toby's shop. One day, Freddie smokes some magic tobacco, which makes all the people in the tobacco shop go away on a magical adventure. At the end of the adventure, Freddie wakes up and finds that the story was all a dream. The magic tobacco made him fall asleep and dream about adventures.

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American fantasy books
American children's books
1921 books
Julia Ward Howe (27 May 1819 – 17 October 1910) was an American social activist, abolitionist and poet. She wrote several books and works of poetry. Her first book was an anonymous work of poetry that came out in 1854. It was titled Passion-Flowers.<ref name=Williams1>Gary Williams, Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), p. 1</ref> In November 1861 she wrote the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. Howe also focused on women's suffrage and pacifism. Howe was born in New York. She died from pneumonia at age ninety-one in Rhode Island.

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Anna Brownell Jameson (May 17, 1794 – March 17, 1860) was an English author. She wrote several books. She wrote Characteristics of Women in 1832. In 1842 she wrote Companion to the Private Galleries.

Jameson was born in Dublin, Ireland. She died in 1860, age 65.

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Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress. She performed in movies and television series. She began her career in the early 1950s. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1957. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1959. Beginning in 1964, she played Morticia Addams in the television show The Addams Family.

Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas. She died near Hollywood, California due to colon cancer at the age of 53.

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Missing in action (MIA) refers to a soldier who is reported to have gone missing during active service. The soldier may have been killed, injured, captured or deserted. It is not known what happened to them. If they are dead, neither their body nor grave can be found or identified. Going missing in action has been a risk for people in armed forces for as long as there has been war.

World War II 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
 MIAS-North America: 2,359
 MIAS-South America:   646
 MIAS-Europe:       20,908
 MIAS-Middle East:      16
 MIAS-Africa:          984
 MIAS-Asia/Pacific: 47,063
 Total of MIA US Servicemen/civilians: 72,350
According to official US Department of Army and Department of Navy casualty records, submitted to Congress in 1946 and updated in 1953, the combined possible total of missing service personnel worldwide is closer to approximately 6600 and probably considerably fewer. Since DPAA alone designates such WWII personnel as the crew of the USS Arizona and most of that of USS Oklahoma as both "missing" and "unaccounted-for" it is possible that DPAA records keeping may be somewhat idiosyncratic.

Korean War 

According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen: 7,550

Vietnam War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30,2021: Total of MIA US Servicemen/Civilians: 1,584

Cold War 
According to the US Dept of Defense as of December 30, 2021:
MIAS-Asia/Pacifc             108
MIAS-europe                    8
 MIAS-Gulf Wars/Middle East:   5
 MIAS-El Dorado Canyon/Africa: 1
Total of MIA Servicemen:      126
As of December 30,2021 Total US MIAS World War II to present: 81,616

Related pages 
 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
 Garden of the Missing in Action

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 DoD Instruction 1300.18  "Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies, and Procedures" From the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, January 8, 2008
 Graphic photos showing recovery of missing Russian soldiers' remains dating from the Second World War
 U.S.-Russia Joint MIA/POW Commission 
 Report of the State Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs at the Library of Congress
 Current status of MIA's from the Vietnam War
 Blog covers Widow’s travels to Vietnam in search of her MIA husband’s jet crash site in Que Son Mtns

 
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Sarah Roemer (born August 28, 1984) is an American model and actress. She acts mostly in independent movies. She played Lacey Kimble in The Grudge 2, a 2006 movie. She played  Ashley Carlson the following year in Disturbia. She also acted as Leila Buchanan in the NBC series The Event. Roemer was born in San Diego, California.

In 2015, Roemer married actor and model Chad Michael Murray.

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Christy Carlson Romano (born March 20, 1976) is an American actress and musician. She recorded songs for Disney-related movies. She was the voice for the title character in the show Kim Possible. She also played a trick-or-treat child in Everyone Says I Love You in 1988. Carlson Romano was born in Connecticut.

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Haemolymph (hemolymph) is a blood-like fluid in the circulatory system of insects and other Arthropods (spiders and crustaceans). Molluscs also have a similar circulatory system.

Insects and their relatives use a molecule called haemocyanin, which does the same job as haemoglobin does in vertebrates. Haemocyanin has a greenish colour, not red. The insect circulatory system has no veins or arteries. Their haemolymph moves around in the space called the haemocoel. The organs sit in the haemocoel and are bathed in the haemolymph. The 'heart' is little more than a single tube which pulses (squeezes).

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Story
This book tells about a young man named Jason who went on an adventure far away from home. He was looking for the Golden Fleece. He took fifty friends with him. His friends were the strongest and bravest people in the world. They were called the Argonauts, because they sailed in a ship called Argo. One of his friends, Orpheus, was the best singer and music maker in the world. In this book, while Jason and his friends look for the Golden Fleece, Orpheus tells them a lot of other stories about places they go and people they meet. Of all the stories in the book, the ones that are not the main story about Jason go in this order:
 Jason's mother tells Jason and his fifty friends the story of the Golden Fleece.
 Orpheus tells the Argonauts how the world began.
 The Argonauts land on an island where only women live. Orpheus tells the women the story of the goddess Demeter and how she lost her daughter Persephone. This story explains why winter happens.
Atalanta, who is one of the Argonauts, tells a story about how another girl named Atalanta was tricked into losing a race.
 Castor and Pollux tell the story of Pandora, Epimetheus, and Pandora's box. This story explains why bad things happen.
 The Argonauts pass the mountain where Prometheus is chained up. Orpheus tells how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings. This story teaches people not to want things they should not have.
 Orpheus tells the story of how Perseus killed Medusa. Medusa was a kind of monster called a Gorgon. Her hair was made of snakes. She looked so scary that anyone who looked at her was turned into stone.
After Jason gets the Golden Fleece, he hears that if he goes home right away his wicked uncle will kill him. So he and his fifty friends go and have other adventures instead. These are those adventures:
 They hunt the Calydonian boar, and Atalanta falls in love, but the man she loves is killed before they can get married.
 One of the Argonauts, Peleus, marries a sea nymph. He has a son, Achilles.
 Theseus, who is another one of the Argonauts, kills a monster called the Minotaur.
 Hercules is also one of the Argonauts. He does his well-known labors, which are hard jobs. Hercules also hears a funny story about frogs and mice fighting a big battle.
 Orpheus gets married, but his wife dies. Orpheus goes down to the place where dead people stay. He tries to bring his wife back. He does not get her back.

Finally it is safe for Jason to go back home. He goes home and lives happily ever after, and teaches younger people to have adventures.

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 The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles at Project Gutenberg

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Anna Nalick (born March 30, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Her first hit song, "Breathe (2AM)", was released in April 2005. She released the album Broken Doll & Odds & Ends in June 2011. Nalick was born in California.

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June Marlowe (November 6, 1903 – March 10, 1984) was an American actress. She worked a lot in the 1920s. She played schoolteacher Miss Crabtree in six of the Our Gang children's comedies. Those movies included Teacher's Pet, School's Out and Love Business. Marlowe was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She died from Parkinson's disease at the age of 80.

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Robert Jack Windham (born November 26, 1942 in Sweetwater, Texas - April 7, 2016) better known by his ring name, Blackjack Mulligan, was a retired American professional wrestler, author and former American football player.

Career
Before he started his professional wrestling career, Windham played football at Texas Western College, which is now known as the University of Texas at El Paso. He then left UTEP to play the pre-season for the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Wahoo McDaniel told Windham to train for professional wrestling and he trained with Verne Gagne. He would later join the American Wrestling Association and moved to the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
During his time in the WWWF, Windham became a villain called Blackjack Mulligan. Windham would later team with Jack Lanza which he formed the tag team, The Blackjacks with. He won the NWA American Tag Team Championship, NWA Texas Tag Team Championship, WWA World Tag Team Championship and the WWWF World Tag Team Championship during his time in The Blackjacks.

He also wrestled as a singles competitor and once competed for the WWWF Championship against Pedro Morales in Boston. During the match, Morales slashed Windham across his leg and arm with a knife. The wound became infected but Windham recovered.

He also teamed with André the Giant and Bill Eadie in the wrestling stable, The Machines.

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan inducted The Blackjacks into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.

Personal
He is part of the Windham wrestling family and is the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, the father-in-law of Mike Rotundo, and the grandfather of Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas.
Championships
Windham held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Championship Wrestling from Florida
NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Florida version) (one time)
NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (one time) - with Dusty Rhodes
European Wrestling Union
EWU World Super Heavyweight Championship (one time)
International Pro Wrestling
IWA World Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Larry Hennig
International Wrestling Federation
IWF Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (three times)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (one time) - with Ric Flair
NWA Big Time Wrestling
NWA American Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA American Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Blackjack Lanza
NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Blackjack Lanza
NWA Western States Sports
NWA International Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo version) (two times)
NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Dick Murdoch
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was named the PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year in 1978.
He was ranked #159 of the 500 best singles wrestlers by PWI during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
World Wrestling Association
WWA World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
WWA World Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Blackjack Lanza
World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
WWWF World Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Blackjack Lanza
References

Other websites
Official website
The Blackjacks on WWE.com

1942 births
American football players
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
New York Jets players
Sportspeople from Texas
WWE Hall of Fame
Românii au talent () is a TV show which started on 18 February 2011. The project is a franchise of Got Talent, developed by Simco Limited. The hosts of the show are Smiley and Pavel Bartoş. The judges are the Romanian singer Andra, Pro TV star and presenter Andi Moisescu and a well known Romanian dancer, Mihai Petre. It started on the a Romanian TV channel, ProTV. 

Romanian culture
Reality television series
2011 television series debuts
2011 establishments in Europe
21st-century establishments in Romania
The Cessna 188 is a single-engine agricultural aircraft. It was designed and built in USA between 1966 and 1983. It is used for crop dusting. More than 3900 examples were built.

Civil aircraft
Cessna aircraft
Agriculture in the United States
The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active stratovolcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After being dormant for a long time, it became active in 1995. It has been active since then. Because of its eruptions, no one can live on the south half of Montserrat. The capital city, Plymouth, was destroyed. About two thirds of the population had to leave Montserrat. It had been showing signs of erupting for a long time before it did. When it did erupt, 19 out of the 23 people that remained burned to death because of the pyroclastic flow which was . 

Volcanoes of North America
Geography of the Caribbean
Montserrat
The Bombardier CL-415 is a modernized variant of the famous Canadair CL-215. It's a twin-turboprops amphibious aircraft used for water bombing. Some are used for maritime patrol.

Users 

It is used in Canada, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Spain, and the USA.

Civil aircraft
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The Luxor Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk offered to Napoleon Bonaparte by Muhammad Ali Pasha. It was moved to Paris in  1830. It is currently installed in the center of the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris. It is sometimes also named Concorde Obelisk. It is 23 meters tall and weighs of 234 metric tons. It is built in Syenite.

Buildings and structures in Paris
Buildings and structures in Ancient Egypt
2nd millennium BC buildings and structures
The PVP for Petit Véhicule Protégé () is a light military car designed and built in France by Panhard. It is a four-wheel drive car. It is used by the French Army for reconnaissance. In 2013 the other countries that use it are Chile, Romania, and Togo. In France this vehicle will replace Peugeot P4.

Military of France
Automobiles
The Sowerby family was a British family of four generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists. 

James Sowerby (1757–1822)
James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871)
George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854)
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884)
George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921)
Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842)
John Edward Sowerby (1825–1870) 

Most of their work was on molluscs and their systematics. Together, they introduced many taxonomic names (sometimes the number 5000 is mentioned). 

All three of the G.B Sowerbys published extensively on the subject of conchology, which is the collection and study of shells. Even for professional taxonomists it is difficult to know which of the three "G.B. Sowerbys" is meant in a particular citation. The numbering system G.B. Sowerby I, II, or III helps. "Sowerby, 1870" can refer to either G.B. Sowerby II or G.B. Sowerby III.
References 
 Palmer, Katherine V. W. 1965. Who were the Sowerbys? Hawaiian Shell News. Available on a CD of back issues of HSN, ISSN 1543-6039.
 Petit R.E. 2009. George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

 
English naturalists
Craig Malcolm Robinson (born April 21, 1962) is an American college basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. He is a former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. His sister is U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. In the 1983 NBA Draft, Robinson was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers.

Head coaching record

References

Other websites
Northwestern University biography 
Brown University biography 
Oregon State University biography 
ChicagoNow interview with Craig Robinson, April 2010 
Interview with Robinson on the University of Chicago radio show Tomorrow with Alex Beinstein

1962 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
Obama family
Businesspeople from Chicago
Sportspeople from Chicago
American basketball players
Mary Brooks (better known as Ann Little; born February 7, 1891 – died May 21, 1984) was an American actress. She acted mostly in Westerns. She acted mostly in silent movies. Besides Westerns, she acted in some comedies and dramas. She retired from performing in movies while still popular in 1932.

Brooks was born in California. She died in Los Angeles at ninety-three.

American movie actors
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1891 births
1984 deaths
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Peyton Place is a novel by Grace Metalious. It was published in 1956. It is a "tell-all" book about the secrets of a small town in New England.  It sold more than 100,000 copies in its first month of release. The book was the basis for a movie of the same name starring Lana Turner, and a 1965 prime time television soap opera starring Mia Farrow and Dorothy Malone.

References
 Vanity Fair: Peyton Place's Real Victim

1956 books
20th-century American novels
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born and American-raised sculptor and painter. Her career was short. She worked with fiberglass and plastics. She also sculpted with other materials. Hesse was born near Hamburg, Germany. She moved to New York City.

Hesse died in 1970 from a brain tumor diagnosed the previous year.

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People from New York (state)
American sculptors
1936 births
1970 deaths
James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and illustrator. He did the illustration for many published works. English Botany and A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland were especially noteworthy.

Sowerby was the start of a family business which was carried on for several generations. The Sowerby family became a dynasty of illustrators and natural historians. They lived and worked in the London of the late 18th and the 19th centuries.

James Sowerby first worked with William Curtis, whose Flora Londinensis he illustrated. Early volumes of the first British botany journal, The Botanical Magazine (edited by Curtis), contained seventy of his illustrations.

In 1790, he began the first of several huge projects: a 36-volume work on English Botany which was published over the next 24 years. It contained 2592 hand-colored engravings and became known as "Sowerby's Botany".
A huge number of plants got their first formal publication here. The text, unattributed, was written by James Edward Smith. Sowerby set out to supplement English Botany with his own text and descriptions of Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms, 4 vols. 

A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland was written by James Edward Smith and illustrated by James Sowerby. It was the first monograph on the flora of Australia. It was intended to meet "the general interest in, and propagation of, the flowering species of the new antipodean colonies". Sowerby's own hand coloured engravings, based upon original sketches and specimens brought to England, were both descriptive and striking.

Sowerby's detailed and appealing plates in vivid colour and readable texts were intended to reach a growing readership interested in natural history.

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Sowerby family
English naturalists
British illustrators
1757 births
1822 deaths
Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) was a pet dog of the Obama family, the former First Family of the United States. Bo was a neutered male Portuguese Water Dog.

Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet. The final choice was made partly because Malia Obama's allergies made a hypoallergenic breed necessary.

Bo was occasionally given the title "First Dog of the United States of America". In August 2013, Bo was joined by Sunny, a female dog of the same breed.

Adoption 

The Obamas originally wanted to adopt a dog from an animal shelter, but made no promises. In the summer of 2008, Best Friends Animal Society, an animal welfare organization, gathered 50,000 signatures on a petition asking the family to adopt a shelter animal.
Bo is a gift through a breeder and is not a shelter dog. Dog expert Cesar Milan said Bo was part of a larger group known as "rescue dogs". He was unsuccessful in his first home when plans for him to be friends with an older female dog did not go well. The Obamas pledged a donation to the DC Humane Society in a show of support for shelter dogs.

Some animal welfare supporters criticized The White House for not adopting a shelter dog. The Humane Society of the United States released a statement thanking the Obamas "for taking in a second-chance dog," but also discouraged going through breeders.

Death
Bo died of cancer on May 8, 2021 at the Obama residence in Washington, D.C., at the age of 12.

References

Other websites

 American Kennel Club Congratulates Obamas
 Bo's First Day
 Bo The First Dog Website (Fan Club) 

Obama family
2008 births
2021 deaths
Cancer deaths in Washington, D.C.
United States presidential dogs
Marian Lois Robinson (née Shields; July 30, 1937) is the mother of Michelle Obama and mother-in-law of President Barack Obama.  She is the only living grandparent of Malia and Sasha Obama. She also has one granddaughter, Leslie Robinson, and two grandsons, Avery and Austin Robinson, from  her son, Craig Robinson.

According to her youngest brother Steve Shields, Robinson was the fourth of seven children—five girls, followed by two boys. Her father was a house painter and her mother was a licensed practical nurse.
Robinson married Fraser Robinson on October 27, 1960. She is now a widow. In addition to their daughter Michelle, they also had a son, Craig. Craig is the current coach of the Oregon State University men's basketball team. Robinson was formerly a secretary for mail-order retailer Spiegel and at a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama campaigned in 2008, Robinson cared for her granddaughters. Early in January 2009, it was reported that Robinson would move into the White House with the rest of the First Family (the president's family), so that she could continue to care for her granddaughters. She was the first grandmother to live in the White House since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration.  Some news agencies have called Robinson the "First Granny."

References

Other websites 
 "Marian Robinson", The New York Times
 "A Mother's Love: First Lady & Mom" , Essence magazine
 "An In-Law Is Finding Washington to Her Liking ", The New York Times
1937 births
Living people
African-American people
Obama family
People from Chicago
William Riley Dunham (1856–1921) wan an American politician. He was a member of the Indiana General Assembly from 1913 to 1915. He represented Hamilton and Tipton counties. An issue of the Kempton Courier in 1912 called Dunham "the man known by name by more men, women and children than any other one man in Tipton County".

Notable family members
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, great nephew of William Riley Dunham
Ann Dunham (1942–1995), American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama, great-great niece of William Riley Dunham
Barack Obama (1961-), 44th President of the United States, great-great-great nephew of William Riley Dunham

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Obama family
Politicians from Indiana
1856 births
1921 deaths
Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Barack Obama. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

References

Other websites

 "Family precedent: Obama's grandmother blazed trails'" USA Today, April 8, 2008
 "Remembering Madelyn Dunham"  Honolulu Advertiser, November 15, 2008, includes photo gallery and memorial service video

1918 births
1992 deaths
Obama family
People from Wichita, Kansas
The Citroën H is a van designed and built by French company Citroën from 1948 to 1981. It is also used as minibus.

H
1940s automobiles
1950s automobiles 
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The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is an American college basketball team. The team plays for the University of Kentucky. The team plays in Division I of the NCAA. As of 2023, Kentucky is the most successful NCAA Division I basketball team. The team has the highest percentage of wins in NCAA Division I.

National championships 

The following is a list of Kentucky's 8 National Championships:

References 

Basketball teams in the United States
A Turntable ladder is a kind of fire truck use for attack the fire in height. It's generally a truck with a mobile ladder. Some had a cradle.

Firefighting
Trucks
Nakhchivan or Nakhichivan may refer to:
 Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan
 Nakhchivan (city), capital of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
 Nakhichevan Airport, airport in Nakhchivan city
 Nakhichevan Khanate (1747–1828)
 Nakhchivansky Uyezd, Russian Empire (1849–1920)
 Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, ASSR of the Soviet Union (1921–1990)
 Nakhichevan District in the ASSR, renamed in 1991
 Nakhichevan field, oil and gas field
 Nakhchivan River, where Nakhchivan (city) is located 
 Nakhchivan Economic Region
 Nakhichevan-on-Don, Armenian settlement of Nor Nakchivan
The blue blanquillo (Malacanthus latovittatus, also known as the banded blanquillo, striped blanquillo, false whiting, sand tilefish or eye of the sea) is a species of tilefish. It is one of the many members of the family Malacanthidae. It is the only species within the genus Malacanthus.

Description
Fish from the family Malacanthidae have streamlined bodies and large crests on their head. They have relatively long dorsal fins and anal fins. The blue blanquillo gets its name from its mainly blue colour. It also has some shades of yellow, and can change colour in different situations. On their backs, there is a set of stripes that run across its body. Their belly is white. The colour of the head changes from a light blue to a pinkish mix during spawning season.