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From August 2011 to July 2016, all WWE TV programming became "Supershows" that had wrestlers from both Raw and SmackDown. This meant that the WWE Championship matches could happen at any WWE event. The brand extension came back in 2016 and the WWE Champion at the time Dean Ambrose was drafted to SmackDown Live and the championship has been there ever since.
Custom belt designs 
Special belts have been made to match the characters of some champions:
"Superstar" Billy Graham (red leather strap)
The Ultimate Warrior (white, blue, and purple leather straps)
Sgt. Slaughter (purple leather strap, changed to original black strap after beating The Ultimate Warrior)
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin ("Smoking Skull" belt)
John Cena (Spinner belt with a spinning WWE logo in the center)
Edge (Spinner belt with a "Rated-R Superstar" logo in the center)
The Miz (Spinner belt with WWE logo flipped upside down to look like the letter "M")
Daniel Bryan (Black leather strap replaced with wood and fabric)
 
A much bigger version of the belt was created for André the Giant before WrestleMania III, but he never wore it as champion. The belt Brahma Bull logo in the center that was made for the Rock was lost and was never on TV. Edge had created a special belt different from the "Rated R Spinner" one that he used for his second reign, but the plans were scrapped because of little time.
Related pages

 List of WWE Champions

References

Other websites 
 WWE Championship Title History

World Wrestling Entertainment championships
WWE Raw
1963 establishments
A micrometre (the American spelling is micrometer; symbol is µm) is a unit of length in the SI measurement system. It can also be called a micron. It is one millionth of a metre. A micrometre is often used as a measurement for small things like bacteria. Like the Angstrom it is used for radiation in or near the visible spectrum.

Units of length
SI units
A detention can be:

 Detention (2003 movie)
 Detention (school), a punishment used in schools
Detention (Cold Case Episode), Episode 58 (Series 3 Episode 12) of CBS TV Drama Cold Case.
 Detention (band), a band from New Jersey
 Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of a time
 Detention (TV series)
 Detention (imprisonment), imprisonment of somebody guilty or suspected of a crime 
 Immigration detention, imprisonment of unauthorised person entering a country
Trochenbrod (; ) was a Jewish shtetl (village) with an area 1,728 acres once in what is now western Ukraine, about 30 kilometers northeast of Lutsk. It used to be a part of Poland. It was also known as Sofievka or Zofiówka in Polish, named after Sofia, a Russian princess who donated land for the Jewish settlement.

History
Trochenbrod was founded in 1835, at first a farming colony which grew into a small town. The population grew from around 1,200 (235 families) in 1889 to 1,580 in 1897.

During the Polish-Soviet War, the town was captured by Poland. By 1938 the town's population, which was only Jewish, had grown to at least 3,000.  Most of the people worked in farming, dairy farming, or tanning.
There were seven synagogues in Trochenbrod. In 1940, the town, along with the rest of Western Ukraine, became part of the Soviet Union (see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). The rabbi at this time was Rabbi Gershon Weissmann. The Communists exiled him to Siberia after accusing him of being involved in underground salt trading.

When the Nazis later occupied Ukraine, they created a ghetto at Trochenbrod, bringing in Jews from nearby villages and towns. The Jews in the Trochenbrod ghetto were killed by the Nazis in August and September 1942. Most of the Jews of Trochenbrod as well as of the neighbouring village Lozisht were killed, as were the other Jews of Volhynia. The local Ukrainian police force helped to round up the Jews. Fewer than 200 Jews from the Trochenbrod ghetto and nearby areas lived through this killing. The village itself was burned. Now only fields and a forest can be found there.
A few of the people escaped the execution and destruction. At the end of the war, the number of people left was between 33 and 40; most were found in the area near Lutzk.

Trochenbrod in fiction
A fictional version of the shtetl, Trachimbrod, was featured in the 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer as well as in the 2005 film based on the novel.

Safran Foer's story describes fictional events in the village between 1791, the year in which the shtetl was first named, and 1941, when it was destroyed in the war. The main character of the book (who goes by the author's name and also by the name "The Hero") comes to Ukraine to look for a woman named Augustine, who saved his grandfather in the war.

Notes

References
  a book about the combined towns of Trochenbrod and Lozisht

Other websites
Trochenbrod & Lozisht community website 
1835 establishments
19th-century establishments in Ukraine
1830s establishments in Europe
Villages in Ukraine
Judith [ joo-dith ] is a female given name. It comes from the Hebrew word Yəhûḏîṯ, meaning either "praised one" or "a woman from Judea." The Judith from the Book of Judith was a Biblical hero. This name was ranked #959 on the US Popular Names in 2021.

People 

 Judith Barsi, American child actress (1978-1988)
 Judith Butler, American philosopher and gender theorist
 Judith Rich Harris, American psychology researcher (1938-2018)

References

Given names
The Book of Judith is part of the Bible.  It was written in or near 100 b.c.e.  It is in Bibles that follow the Catholic and Orthodox Canon.  Protestants and Jews treat the Book of Judith as part of the apocrypha and not part of the official canon.

In the book, an evil general named Holofernes is invading Israel.  He is waiting with his army outside the town of Bethulia and will not let the people in the town get any water to drink.  Judith tells the people of Bethulia not to give up.  She sneaks to Holofernes' camp and pretends to make friends with him.  He invites her to a meal, where he drinks much alcohol.  When he falls asleep, she cuts off his head.

History

The Book of Judith is probably not a story about something that really happened.  The book says that Holofernes was an Assyrian who worked for Nebuchadnezzar, but the real Nebuchadnezzar was a Babylonian ruler.
The book starts with, "In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned over the Assyrians in Nineveh."  Many ancient Hebrew stories started with words like these.  It is like saying "once upon a time": it tells the reader to expect a fairy tale.

In culture

Many, many artists have painted paintings of Judith killing or preparing to kill Holofernes.  For example, Artemisia Gentileschi and Gustav Klimt.

References

Old Testament books
Septuagint
1st-century BC books
Quinto is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website
Rancate was a municipality of the district Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 5 April 2009, the former municipalities of Arzo, Capolago, Genestrerio, Mendrisio, Rancate and Tremona merged into the municipality of Mendrisio.

References

Other websites

Former municipalities of Ticino
Riva San Vitale is a municipality of the district Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website
Rivera is a surname of Spanish beginnings that was the old spelling of ribera, the Spanish word for “riverbank”.

Individuals
By name
 Rivera, Albert (born 1979), politician
 Rivera, Alberto Magno Romero (1935–1997), anti-Catholic religious activist
 Rivera, Alexis, football player
 Rivera, Antonio (1963–2005), boxer
 Rivera, Aracely
 Rivera, Arturo (born 1945)
 Rivera, Benjamín, voice actor
 Rivera, Chita (born 1933), actress and dancer
 Rivera, Danny (born 1945), singer
 Rivera, Dennis Mario, Puerto Rican artist
 Rivera, Diego (1886–1957), Mexican muralist
 Rivera, Eliu
 Rivera, Erica (born 1988), American actress and singer
 Rivera, Filiberto (born 1983), basketball player
 Rivera, Francisco "Curro", Mexican bullfighter
 Rivera, Fructuoso (c. 1789–1854), Uruguayan politician
 Rivera, Gabriel
 Rivera, Geraldo (born 1943), journalist
 Rivera, Gianni (born 1943), Italian football player
 Rivera, Dr. Graciela (born 1921), singer
 Rivera, Luis Antonio (born 1930), Puerto Rican television personality and comedian
 Rivera, Guadalupe "Lupillo" (born 1972), Mexican banda singer
 Rivera, Guillermo (born 1975), baseball player
Rivera, Ismael (1931–1987), renowned composer and singer of salsa music
 Rivera, Jake, music producer
 Rivera, James, singer
 Rivera, Jamie, Filipino Christian music diva and a cancer survivor
 Rivera, Jenni, musician
 Rivera, Jerry (born 1973), salsa singer
 Rivera, Jim (born 1922), baseball player
 Rivera, Joel (born 1978), politician
 Rivera, Jorge, fighter
 Rivera, Jorge (born 1973), basketball player
 Rivera, Jose (born 1936), politician
 Rivera, Jose Ariel Jimenez (born 1966), actor, singer, songwriter
 Rivera, José (born 1955), playwright
 Rivera, José Antonio (born 1973), boxer
 Rivera, José Eustasio (1888–1928), Colombian writer
 Rivera, Juan Luis (born 1978), baseball player
 Rivera, Juan Maria Antonio, 18th century Spanish explorer
 Rivera, Juan "Savio Vega" (born 1966), wrestler
 Rivera, Leandro, Spanish actor
 Rivera, Leonor, childhood sweetheart of Filipino writer and doctor Jose Rizal
 Rivera, Lionel, politician
 Rivera, Luciano (1930–1988)
 Rivera, Mailon, actor
Rivera, Marco Anthony (born 1972), NFL player
 Rivera, Marian (born 1984), Filipino young actress and commercial model
 Rivera, Mariano (born 1969), Baseball pitcher from Panama
 Rivera, Marika (born 1919), actress
 Rivera, Mark, musician
 Rivera, Maura, Chilean ballerina
 Rivera, Mike (born 1976), baseball player
 Rivera, Naomi, politician
 Rivera, Oscar Lopez (born 1943)
 Rivera, Pedro Ignacio (c. 1759–1833), Bolivian revolutionary
 Rivera, Peter (born 1946), politician
 Rivera, Rachel, voice actress
 Rivera, René (born 1983), baseball player
 Rivera, Riberto Louis "Robbie", Puerto Rican house music producer and DJ
 Rivera, Robert
 Rivera, Ronald Eugene (born 1962), NFL player
 Rivera, Rubén Rivera (born 1973), baseball player
 Rivera, Sandy, American record producer, House music DJ and label owner
 Rivera, Saúl (born 1977), baseball player
 Rivera, Scarlet, American violinist
 Rivera, Sylvia Rae, (1951–2002), transgender activist
 Rivera, Temario C., professor
Rivera, Tomás (1935–1984), Chicano author, poet, and educator
 Rivera, Victor, wrestler
Variants
 de Rivera, José Antonio Primo, Spanish politician
 de Rivera, Miguel Primo, Spanish dictator
 Rivera Alers, Monserrate, musician
 Rivera Carrera, Norberto, Mexican cardinal
 Rivera Castillo, Efraín, musician
 Rivera Guerra, Carlos (born 1986), singer
 Rivera, Mendoza, Zuleyka Jerrís (born 1987), Miss Puerto Rico Universe and Miss Universe 2006
 Rivera Ordoñez, Francisco, Spanish bullfighter
 Rivera Pizarro, Alberto, Spanish footballer
 Rivera Santos, Ingrid Marie (born 1983), Miss World contestant

Places
 Rivera Department, Uruguay
 Rivera, Uruguay, capital of that department
 Rivera, Huila, Colombia
 Rivera, Switzerland
 Pico Rivera, California
 Rivera, a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Rivera was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 21 November 2010, the former municipalities of Bironico, Camignolo, Medeglia, Rivera and Sigirino merged into the new municipality of Monteceneri.

References

Other websites 

 Official website  

Former municipalities of Ticino
2010 disestablishments in Switzerland
Ronco sopra Ascona is a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites
Rovio is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

Municipalities in Lugano
San Nazzaro was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 25 April 2010, the former municipalities of Caviano, Contone, Gerra Gambarogno, Indemini, Magadino, Piazzogna, San Nazzaro, Sant'Abbondio and Vira Gambarogno merged to form the new municipality of Gambarogno.

References

Other websites 
 
 Official website  

Former municipalities of Ticino
For the municipality in Italy, see Sant'Abbondio (CO). For the church, see Basilica of Sant'Abbondio
Sant'Abbondio was a municipality of the district Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 25 April 2010, the former municipalities of Caviano, Contone, Gerra Gambarogno, Indemini, Magadino, Piazzogna, San Nazzaro, Sant'Abbondio and Vira Gambarogno merged to form the new municipality of Gambarogno.

References

Other websites 

  Official website 

Former municipalities of Ticino
Sant'Antonino is a municipality of the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Sant'Antonino is not to be confused with the municipality of Sant'Antonio in the same district.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities in Bellinzona
Sant'Antonio was a municipality, in the municipality of Bellinzona and the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

This municipality is not to be confused with the municipality of Sant'Antonino of the same district.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Former municipalities of Ticino
2017 disestablishments in Switzerland
Bellinzona
Savosa is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities in Lugano
Sementina was a municipality of the district Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

On 2 April 2017, the former municipalities of Camorino, Claro, Giubiasco, Gnosca, Gorduno, Gudo, Moleno, Monte Carasso, Pianezzo, Preonzo, Sant'Antonio and Sementina merged into the municipality of Bellinzona.

References

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Former municipalities of Ticino
2017 disestablishments in Switzerland
Bellinzona
Semione was a municipality of the district Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 1 April 2012, the former municipalities of Ludiano, Malvaglia and Semione merged to form the new municipality of Serravalle.

References

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Former municipalities of Ticino
Sessa is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 

Municipalities in Lugano
Sigirino was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 21 November 2010, the former municipalities of Bironico, Camignolo, Medeglia, Rivera and Sigirino merged into the new municipality of Monteceneri.

References

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Former municipalities of Ticino
2010 disestablishments in Switzerland
Sobrio was a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 10 April 2016, it was merged into the municipality of Faido.

References

Other websites 

 Official website  

Former municipalities of Ticino
2016 disestablishments in Switzerland
Sonogno was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It can be found in Valle Verzasca.

On 17 October 2020, the former municipalities of Brione (Verzasca), Corippo, Frasco, Sonogno and Vogorno merged to form the new municipality of Verzasca.

References

Other websites

  Official website 

Former municipalities of Ticino
Sonvico was a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Valcolla and Sonvico merged into the city of Lugano.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Former municipalities of Ticino
Neighbourhoods in Lugano‎
Sorengo is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in  Switzerland. Lago di Muzzano is in this municipality.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities in Lugano
Lago di Muzzano is a lake in Ticino, Switzerland. It is in the municipalities of Sorengo, Muzzano and Collina d'Oro. Its surface area is . It flows into Lake Lugano.

Lakes of Ticino
Nidfurn is a village and former municipality in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

It used to be its own municipality, until it was put together with 2 other municipalities to form Haslen.

Former municipalities of Glarus
Villages in Glarus
2006 disestablishments in Switzerland
Leuggelbach is a village and former municipality in the canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

It used to be its own municipality, until it was put together with 2 other municipalities to form the new municipality, Haslen.

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Former municipalities of Glarus
Villages in Glarus
2006 disestablishments in Switzerland
Agra is a village in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

This former municipality was put together with two other villages to form the new municipality of Collina d'Oro.

Former municipalities of Ticino
Villages in Ticino
Gentilino is a village in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

The former municipality was merged with two other villages to form the new municipality of Collina d'Oro.

Former municipalities of Ticino
Villages in Ticino
A Munro is any Scottish mountain with a height over 3,000 feet (914.4 metres).

Munro could also mean:

 Munro, Buenos Aires, a neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires
 USCGC Munro (WHEC-724), a High Endurance Cutter of the US Coast Guard
 Munro (surname), people with the surname Munro
 Clan Munro, a Highland Scottish clan

Other 
 Mount Munro, a peak on Cape Barren Island in Tasmania
 Munro Day, holiday celebrated each year on the first Friday in February by Dalhousie University
 Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport, an airport in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
 Monro
 Monroe
 Munroe
The phrase "brave new world" comes from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"

It could also mean:

In literature:
Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited, a non-fiction work also by Huxley

In film and television:
Brave New World (1980 movie), a 1980 TV-movie version of Huxley's book
Brave New World (movie), a 1998 TV-movie version of Huxley's book
Brave New World (TV series), an ABC TV mini-series about the possibilities of the 21st century
"Brave New World" (seaQuest 2032 episode), an episode of seaQuest 2032
In music:
 Albums:
Brave New World (album), a 2000 album by Iron Maiden
Brave New World (Steve Miller Band album), a 1969 album by the Steve Miller Band
Brave New World (Styx album), a 1999 album by Styx
Brave New World, a 1995 album by The Rippingtons.
 Songs:
"Brave New World," a song by Charlotte Church.
"Brave New World," a song from Motörhead's album Hammered (album).
"Brave New World," a song by Reagan Youth.
"Brave New World, a song by the Swedish band Covenant_
A song from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
"Brave New World," the title song of the Iron Maiden album mentioned above.
"Brave New World," a song by Iron Savior.
"Brave New World," the title song of the Styx album mentioned above.
"Brave New World," the main theme song of Namco X Capcom a tactical role playing game for the Ps2
"Brave New World," a song by Hedley
 Brave New World (band), an American electronic band from 1990-2000.
Other meanings:
Brave New World (role playing game), a superhero role-playing game set in a dystopian alternate reality
DCU: Brave New World, a one-shot comic book released in summer 2006 as part of DC Comics' One Year Later event.
In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Miranda is the beautiful daughter of the old Duke Prospero.

Miranda is a naive 15-year-old girl.  She and her father were cast away by her uncle Antonio who wanted the throne and has been on a deserted island since she was three. Her father Prospero sends Ariel, his spirit servant, to fetch Ferdinand and arranges things so that the two will come to love one another.
A homograph is one of a group of words that have the same spelling but have different meanings. They can also have different pronunciations.

For example:
Polish (nationality) and polish (to make things shine)
Dove (the bird) and dove (to dive)
Present (a gift), present (to show), and present (to be somewhere)
fine (feeling well), fine (a ticket)

Words
Orlande de Lassus (whose name is also spelt Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus, or Roland Delattre) (born Mons, Hainaut, probably in 1532 ; died Munich, 14 June, 1594) was a Franco-Flemish composer who lived in the last part of the Renaissance. Lassus and Palestrina are the two most famous composers of that time who were writing church music in a polyphonic style.

Life
He was born in Mons in the province of Hainaut in the Low Countries which is mostly what is today the south part of the Netherlands and Belgium. We know very little about his childhood. There is a story that, when he was a choirboy, he was abducted three times by another church who wanted him to sing in their choir because he had a beautiful voice. There is no proof that this story is true. At the age of twelve he left his country and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later to Milan in Italy and then to Naples where he worked until the early 1550s. Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who had a large household there. In 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. This was an excellent job for a man who was only 21 years old. However, he only stayed there a year. Later, in 1555, Palestrina took that job. Lassus left Rome to go home to the Low Countries to see his parents who were ill, but by the time he got home they were both dead.
We are not sure what he did between then and 1554. He may have gone to France and England. In 1555 he returned to the Low Countries and had some of his first works published in Antwerp. In 1556 he joined the court of Duke Albert V of Bavaria who was very keen on music and was trying to make music in his country as good as the music in Italy. Lassus was one of several Netherlanders to work there, and by far the most famous. He seems to have been happy in Munich and he stayed there. In 1558 he married the daughter of a maid of honour of the Duchess; they had two sons who both became composers. By 1563 Lassus had been made maestro di cappella. He stayed there for the rest of his life, although several other kings and aristocrats offered him jobs in other places. He had many honours, including being knighted by the Pope.
In 1590 his health started to be bad. In 1594 his employer decided it was costing him too much to employ Lassus, so he wrote a letter to him to say that he was dismissed (that he no longer had a job). Lassus never saw the letter, because that very same day he died.

His music 

Lassus composed a lot of church music. He had to compose masses for the morning and evening services. Many of these are parody masses, which means they were based on tunes from other compositions. Others were influenced by composers from Venice. 

He wrote many motets which were probably sung at services as well. In some of these motets he shows a sense of humour. For example, one of his motets makes fun about bad singers: the music stops and starts and stutters. It was a kind of musical joke. Sometimes he had to write music for special occasions. He had visited Italy several times and learned the Italian way of writing polyphonic music.
Lassus also wrote many songs in French (chansons) as well as German (Lieder). He also wrote madrigals. He even wrote drinking songs.

He never wrote anything that was strictly instrumental music.

References 

1530s births
1594 deaths
Renaissance composers
Franco-Flemish composers
Belgian composers
Mons is a town in Belgium and the capital of the Province of Hainaut. It is the fourth largest city of the Walloon part of Belgium where French is spoken. The town's name takes its roots from the Latin word mons which means mountain. In 2015, the city becomes the European Capital of Culture for the calendar year.

In 2007, 91,196 people lived there.

It is at 50° 27 North, 03° 56 East.

People born in Mons 

 Gilles Binchois, composer (15th century, birth in Mons is uncertain)
 Orlande de Lassus, composer (16th century)
 Guido de Bres, theologian (1522 to 31 May 1567)
 Giuseppe Grisoni, painter and sculptor (17th century)
 François-Joseph Fétis, musicologist, composer, critic, and teacher (18th century)
 François-Philippe de Haussy, first governor of the National Bank of Belgium (18th century)
 Paul Émile de Puydt, botanist, economist, and writer (19th century)
 Émile Motte, painter (19th century)

Twin cities 

 : Briare
 : Thoissey
 : Vannes
 : Sefton
 : Changsha
 : Little Rock, Arkansas

Other websites
Other websites 

 Official site of the city, in French.

References 

Municipalities of Hainaut
Provincial capitals of Belgium
Hainaut  (, , , , , ) is a province of the Walloon Region, one of the three regions of Belgium. Its capital is the city of Mons.

It is the westernmost province of the Walloon Region.

Geography
To the south of the province of Hainaut lies the French Nord department, while within Belgium it borders (clockwise from the North) on the Flemish provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and the Wallonian provinces of Walloon Brabant and Namur.

The province has an area of  with a population of about 1,351,000 in 2022. It is the province of the Walloon Region with the highest population.

The province of Hainaut is divided into seven arrondissements (arrondissementen in Dutch) with 69 municipalities.

The altitude of the province is between , in Celles, and , in L'Escaillère.

Administrative divisions
The province of Hainaut is divided into seven arrondissements (Ath, Charleroi, La Louvière, Mons, Soignies, Thuin, and Tournai-Mouscron) and a total of 69 municipalities.
Population by arrondissement
Population x 1,000 (on 1 January since 1980).

¹ Established in 2019.

² Change of municipalities in 2019.

References

Other websites 

 Official web site of the Hainaut province 
 Hainaut Développement
History 
The earliest evidence of human habitation in the district are rock-cut caves and megalithic burial sites of the Neolithic age. The Taliparamba-Kannur-Thalassery area abounds in rock-cut caves, dolmens, burial stone circles and menhirs, all of megalithic burial order. The district was part of the Chera kingdom, which ruled most of Kerala during the first several centuries CE. Later Kannur was the capital of the Kolattiri Rajas, whose kingdom had trading relations with Arabia and Persiain the 12th century and 13th centuries.

Kannur District witnessed one of the longest and bloodiest resistance to British rule in India. This revolt led by Pazhassi Raja in the 1792–1806 period kept a large part of the district in a state of war.
Kannur District played an important role in the Indian freedom movement. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, established a Malabar District committee in 1908. A branch of the All India Home Rule League, founded by Dr. Annie Besant, functioned in Thalassery during this period and among its active workers was V.K. Krishna Menon. By the end of 1939, a branch of the Communist Party of India was formally established at Pinarayi, a village near Thalassery.

References 

Cities in Kerala
The New Kingdom, is the period in ancient Egyptian history between (1570–1070 BC). During the New Kingdom Egypt was richer and more powerful than in all other periods of its history. It includes the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties.

Egypt expanded far south into Nubia and held wide territories in the Near East. Egyptian armies fought Hittite armies for control of modern-day Syria and Egyptian territory reached its maximum extent.

Important Pharaohs 
 

The Eighteenth Dynasty was ruled by some of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs including Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Hatshepsut. Queen Hatshepsut concentrated on expanding Egypt's external trade and sent a commercial expedition to the land of Punt. Thutmose III ("the Napoleon of Egypt") expanded Egypt's army and created the largest empire Egypt had ever seen.

Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of the Aten. He started a religion based on one god, Aten.
Ramesses II ("the Great") of the 19th Dynasty tried to get back territories in the Levant that had been held by the 18th Dynasty. In the Battle of Kadesh he led Egyptian armies against those of the Hittite king Muwatalli II. He was caught in the first recorded military ambush, but won the battle.

Timeline

Other websites 
 New Kingdom of Egypt - Aldokkan
 Middle East on the Matrix: Egypt, The New Kingdom  — Photographs of many of the historic sites dating from the New Kingdom

2nd millennium BC in Egypt
Former monarchies of Africa
The Moral Code of the Builder of Communism was a set of twelve rules.  It was made in the Soviet Union by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).  Every member of the Party was supposed to follow these rules.  So was every member of the Komsomol (a Communist group for young people ages 14-28).

History

The Moral Code was written at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in 1961.  It was part of the third CPSU Program, which was a plan for how to make the entire Soviet Union communist as part of the new Party Programme.

Some popular Soviet cliches are written in the Code.  In fact, the Code was written to include special phrases, either invented by Soviet thinkers, or borrowed. (For example, the famous quote "'One for all, and all for one" ("каждый за всех, все за одного") was taken from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.)

The Moral Code

The Moral Code of the Builder of Communism (as reported on Wikisource), with simple English explanations below, is:
1. Devotion to the cause of Communism, love of the socialist Motherland and of the socialist countries.
 Communism should be very important to you.  You should love your country, and all socialist countries.
2.  Conscientious labor for the good of society: he who does not work, neither shall he eat.
 You should work hard for the good of society - so everyone, not just you, can benefit.  A person who does not work will not eat.
3.  Concern on the part of everyone for the preservation and growth of public property.
 Everyone should do their best to protect public property (property which is owned by everyone) and to make it grow.
4.  High sense of public duty; intolerance of actions harmful to the public interest.
 Doing what is best for everyone should be very important to you.  You should never do or support anything that is not good for everyone.
5.  Collectivism and comradely mutual assistance: one for all and all for one.
People should not just care about themselves.  Everyone should care about everyone else.  Everyone should help each other.  Every person supports society, and society supports every person.
6.  Humane relations and mutual respect between individuals: man is to man a friend, a comrade, and a brother.
 People should respect each other and be good to each other.  Every man is a friend, comrade, and brother to every other man.
7.  Honesty and truthfulness, moral purity, unpretentiousness and modesty in social and private life.
 You should always be honest, do the right things, and be humble.
8.  Mutual respect in the family, concern for the upbringing of children.
 All family members should respect each other.  Raising children should be important to everyone.
9.  Irreconcilability towards injustice, parasitism, dishonesty, careerism, and profiteering.
You should never accept things that are not fair; people who do not do their fair share; people who are not honest; or people who try to get ahead and make money just for themselves.
10.  Friendship and brotherhood among all peoples of the USSR, intolerance of national and racial hatred.
 All people in the USSR should treat each other like friends and brothers.  You should never treat someone badly because of the country they are from or because of their race.
11.  Intolerance towards the enemies of communism, peace, and freedom of nations.
 Our goals are to have communism and peace, and for every country to be free.  Enemies of these things, who would try to stop us from reaching our goals, cannot be accepted. 
12.  Fraternal solidarity with the working people of all countries, and with all peoples.
 All working people are like brothers, and must stick together.
Comparisons to religion 
These rules may be compared to the Ten Commandments or the Bible.  For example, the Bible says: "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10).  This line was used in the Soviet Constitution of 1936 as well as the Moral Code.  Another example is the Commandment "you shall not commit adultery."  This is similar to the Code's rule about "mutual respect in a family, concern about the upbringing of children."

The Ten Commandments focus more on personal virtue - what a person should do, and how to treat other people.  The Code talks about how people should act as members of the society they live in.

A Russian legislator and Communist Party leader, Gennady Zyuganov, said the moral code could be compared to the Sermon on the Mount.

References 

20th-century establishments in the Soviet Union
Soviet culture
Communism
Political philosophy
1961 establishments
Wario is a character from Nintendo's popular video game series Mario.  He has appeared in most of the Mario Party and sports-related games, and has been the subject of a few video games of his own.

Characteristics
Wario wears purple overalls with a yellow shirt, and green, pointed shoes. He has a purple W on his hat, similar to how Mario has an M on his. Wario is Mario's rival. He is greedy, and loves money and garlic. He is fat, but also very strong. He often works together with Waluigi as his partner.
Appearances
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
Mario & Wario
Wario's Woods
Wario Blast
Virtual Boy Wario Land
Wario Land II
Wario Land 3
Wario Land 4
Wario Land: Shake It!
Mario's Super Picross
Picross 2
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 7
Mario Kart 8
Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium
Game & Watch Gallery 2
Game & Watch Gallery 3
Game & Watch Gallery 4
Mario Party
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Party 6
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 8
Mario Party DS
Mario Party 9
Mario Party 10
Super Mario Party
Mario Party Advance
Mario Golf
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
Mario Golf: Advance Tour
Mario Tennis
Mario Power Tennis
Mario Sports Mix
Dr. Mario 64
Wario World
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania in Europe)
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!
WarioWare: Twisted
WarioWare: Touched!
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
WarioWare: Snapped!
WarioWare D.I.Y.
WarioWare Gold
Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 DS
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
Mario Smash Football
Mario Strikers Charged Football
Yoshi's Island DS
Wario: Master of Disguise
Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Super Smash Bros. Melee (non-playable, as trophy)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Game & Wario
Reception

Wario ranked 10th on GameDaily's Top 10 Smash Bros. characters list. He also ranked seventh on GameDaily's top 10 ugliest game characters list; the authors referenced his snarling smile, moustache, and outfits. They also included him in a top 25 list of video game anti-heroes, stating that in spite of his greed, he's actually a "cool dude". Screwattack rated Wario as the 10th Biggest Douchebag in Gaming. IGN editor Travis Fahs commented that while he was not the most likable character, he has incredible confidence that overshadows his flaws and makes him an entertaining character. In an article written by Kombo editors Agustin Olvera and Stephen Smith, they exclaim their surprise that he had not appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee as a playable character, stating that he would be a great addition to the game.

Related pages
Wario Land series

References

Fictional Italian people
Mario series characters
Iconoclasm is a belief that people should reject religious images (like icons or monuments) by destroying or avoiding them. This is the opposite of idolatry, the worship of icons. Iconoclasm happens during important political or religious changes. It is generally distinct from destruction by foreigners, for example by Spanish conquistadors in America.  The term does not generally include the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (damnatio memoriae), for example Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt. 

People who support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts. This word is also used for people who are against established dogmata or conventions. Similarly, people who revere or venerate religious images are called idolators. In an Eastern Orthodox context they are known as iconodules, or iconophiles.
Iconoclasm may be carried out by people of a different religion, but is often the result of sectarian disputes between factions of the same religion. The two Byzantine outbreaks during the 8th and 9th centuries were unusual because the use of images was the main issue in the dispute, rather than a by-product of wider concerns. In Christianity, iconoclasm has generally been motivated by a literal interpretation of the Ten Commandments, which forbid the making and worshipping of "graven images" of God.

References 

Religious ethics
Christianity of the Middle Ages
The United Church of God (UCG) is a denomination of Christianity. It is one of many denominations to come out of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) in 1995. The Worldwide Church of God was started by Herbert W. Armstrong.

UCG calls itself "The United Church of God, an International Association", with the last three words italicized. This is so people do not confuse it with other churches. UCG is its own denomination.

Beginning
After Herbert Armstrong's death in 1986, leaders in the WCG began to change the teachings of the church. This started in 1994. They changed the teachings to be more like other Christian churches. Many of the members wished to keep the original teachings, which they believed were the same beliefs as the early church of the First Century. Because of this, they left to start their own churches. UCG was established in May 1995 and is the largest church to come out of the WCG.
Government
UCG is led by twelve men called the "Council of Elders". They are elected by a group of church ministers called the "General Conference of Elders." This is not like the WCG, which was led by one man only. The General Conference of Elders meets once a year in May to decide how money should be spent and how the church should be run. They also decide the teachings of the church and go to seminars. The council meets four times a year.

UCG's "Home Office" and is in Milford, Ohio, (a suburb of Cincinnati). This office is led by UCG's president, who is also the church's main spokesperson. He also leads the church's ministers and controls the printing of the church magazine, newsletter, and booklets. He is elected by the Council of Elders (COE) and can be removed by them.
Teachings
The UCG believes and worships like many other Christian churches, except:
 UCG believes that some Christian beliefs have been wrongly changed long ago in the early church. It believes they were changed by people who tried to mix their own ideas with Christian beliefs. It believes they did this because they hated Jews, or were pagan, or Gnostics, or Greek philosophers. These wrong ideas became traditions in the Catholic church and Protestant churches, which they believe go against the teachings of the Bible. So, for example, they don't worship holidays that started out as pagan, like Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and New Year's Day.
UCG does not believe in the Trinity. It believes that this was also a wrong idea that was later mixed into the teaching of the Bible. Instead, it believes that the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is the spirit/power of God and of Christ Jesus and is not a separate person. They believe that God "the Father" and Jesus Christ are two separate beings in the "God Family".
 UCG believes that Christians are begotten as children in the "Family of God", and after they die, at the return of Christ, they will be resurrected as spirit beings who are like God and will rule the universe with God as part of His family.
UCG believes Jesus Christ's main message was about the Kingdom he was coming to establish on earth to rule over all the nations. UCG believes that Christians will not go to heaven when they die, but will live and rule forever with Jesus Christ on earth. Later, they will also rule the universe with Jesus as part of the "God Family". UCG also believes that sinners who do not repent will not go to Hell, but will be simply be destroyed by God. It believes that the idea of "Hell", as some teach it, is not really in the Bible.
 UCG believes that the people of Western Europe (and early settlers of the United States) are from the Ten Lost Tribes of the northern kingdom of ancient Israel. It also believes that Jews today come from the ancient southern kingdom of Judah. They do not believe this because they believe that some races are better or worse than others, but because they believe there are prophecies about the United States and Europe in the Bible.
UCG believes that many laws in the Old Testament should be obeyed by Christians today, such as the Ten Commandments. They believe that certain foods such as pork and shellfish should not be eaten by Christians. They also believe the Holy Day festivals in the Old Testament should also be kept by Christians, including the "Days of Unleavened Bread", and the "Feast of Tabernacles". They also believe in observing the Sabbath on Saturday (from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset), and that Christians should not commit sexual sins. They do not believe in obeying the laws in the Old Testament about sacrifice, because they believe these laws were "fulfilled by the sacrifice of Christ."
UCG believes that people who do not know or really understand the truth of the Bible during their life will be given time to learn after a "Second Resurrection" to a new physical life, living again during the Millennium in God's Kingdom. If they still reject God's Holy Spirit and way of life, God will destroy them after the "Third Resurrection" along with former believers who had also rejected God. They are destroyed in the third resurrection (the "resurrection of fire") in the Lake of Fire, along with Satan and his demons.
 UCG teaches that members should give 10 percent of their income to the church to fund the gospel mission. Members are also taught to save a Second tithe, or another 10 percent for them to use themselves to observe festivals like the Feast of Tabernacles.
Ambassador Bible College
Ambassador Bible College (ABC) is an in-depth nine-month program where students can learn about the Bible, Christian living and the teachings of the United Church of God. The program also prepares young people to lead and serve, and it prepares them to teach future generations. Students study church teaching and all the books of the Bible thoroughly.

Mission and Media
UCG states: "The mission of the Church of God is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God in all the world, make disciples in all nations and care for those disciples." Their goal is to preach about "The Kingdom of God" to everyone, through the UCG website, through Twitter and YouTube, and through radio, magazines, booklets, and television.
UCG produces the following:
 Beyond Today magazine is UCG's main publication. It is a free magazine and is published every two months. The magazine contains articles about Bible prophecy, world news, church teachings and Christian living.
 The Beyond Today Television Program appears on WGN America and on the WORD Network and on 28 Public-access television cable TV stations. It also includes a multimedia website and a channel on YouTube and on Roku.
 Vertical Thought appears four times a year for young people, and appears on the internet only. It contains articles from both ministers and young people in the church.
 The United News is a newsletter about news within the United Church of God. It also includes articles about Christian living, and news about the death of church members, and births in their families.
UCG also has 33 booklets on different Bible teachings, and a 12-lesson Bible study course. It also has a monthly Bible reading program where the Bible is explained, and a number of articles. Kingdom of God Bible seminars began in September 2011 and are held at different locations around the world.
References

Other websites
 United Church of God - official web site.
 United Church of God - British Isles
 United Church of God - Canada
 United Church of God - Australia
 The Good News Magazine Online - Official website of the Good News Magazine.
 Beyond Today Online - Beyond Today Multimedia website.
 World News and Prophecy
 Vertical Thought
 Ambassador Bible College  - official web site.
 United Church of God Good Works Program  - official web site.
 Breaking Free Journal  - official web site.
 United Youth Camps  - official web site.
 United Church of God Council of Elders Website 
 United Church of God Feast of Tabernacles Website
 Radio Church of God Fundamental Beliefs comparable to UCG Fundamental Beliefs 
 Brief history of the United Church of God  - Official history from UCG website.
 Exit Support Network - Insider view of United Church of God and other Armstrongite groups and their teachings and treatment of membership
Nontrinitarianism
Organizations based in Ohio
1986 establishments in the United States
Christian organizations based in the United States
The Jewish–Roman Wars is the name given to a number of revolts of Jews in the province of Judea in the Roman Empire. These were directed against the Roman rule. 
 First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 AD) – also called the First Jewish Revolt or the Great Jewish Revolt.
 Kitos War (115–117) – sometimes called the Second Jewish-Roman War.
 Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135), also called the Second Jewish-Roman War (when Kitos War is not counted), or the Third (when the Kitos War is counted).

Further revolts by the Jews in Iudaea Province:
 War against Gallus (351), the Jewish revolt originating in Sepphoris.
 Revolt against Heraclius (613), the Jewish revolt originating in Tiberias.

Wars and battles of Ancient Rome
Triple Zero (000) is the national emergency number within Australia. If someone has an emergency situation that is life threatening or time critical, this number will connect them to a Telstra operator who will then connect them to the police, fire or ambulance service as required. 112 is a secondary emergency number that will direct calls to the Triple Zero answering point. It is against the law to use this number if there is no emergency.

History 
Before 1961, Australia did not have a national number for emergency services; each of the different emergency branches (police, fire department or ambulance) had their own number. In 1961, the Postmaster General (PMG) introduced the Triple Zero (000) number in most of the major Australian cities and by the end of the 1980s it had become nation-wide. The number Triple Zero (000) was chosen for several reasons, one of which was that it was easy to dial in darkness because the number zero was next to the finger stop on most Australian telephones.
Possible uses 
A person would dial Triple Zero (000) if they require a response from police, fire or ambulance for life threatening or time critical events.

Procedure 
When Triple Zero (000) is dialled, a Telstra operator will answer and ask the caller the following: “Emergency, police, fire or ambulance?”. The Telstra operator will then connect the caller to the required emergency service. The emergency service call taker will then ask the caller further, and send assistance as required.

Related pages
 9-1-1
 Emergency
 Police
 Ambulance
 Fire

References 

Emergency phone numbers
Australia