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The Southern Bantu languages, also known as Bantu zone S, are a group of languages in the Bantu language family. It was first described by Malcolm Guthrie in 1948. Guthrie's divisions of the Bantu languages were based on geography, not on language characteristics. The Southern Bantu languages, however, are also a valid linguistic group.

The Southern Bantu languages are a group of languages in the Niger-Congo language superfamily. The group includes all of the important Bantu languages of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. It also includes some important languages of southern Mozambique.

Languages
The Southern Bantu language group includes six sub-groups of languages:
 Chopi
 Nguni
 Shona
 Sotho-Tswana
 Tswa-Ronga
 Venda

Related pages
 Languages of South Africa
Estelle "Mama" Yancey (January 1, 1896–April 19, 1986) was an American blues singer. She was the wife of pianist Jimmy Yancey. She recorded often with her husband.

Life and career
Yancey, born Estelle Harris, grew up in Chicago, where she sang in church choirs and learned how to play the guitar. In 1917, when she was 21, she married Jimmy Yancey. She often sang with him at meetings and house parties in the 1930s and 1940s and performed with him at Carnegie Hall, New York in 1948. Because Jimmy Yancey was a great boogie-woogie/blues piano player, but a poor singer, Estelle recorded frequently with her husband. In 1943, the Yanceys recorded for Session Records, and went back into the studio to record the album Pure Blues for Atlantic Records. The session was just a few months before Jimmy Yancey's death that same year.
Estelle continued to perform and record. Mama Yancey's recordings with other pianists include "South Side Blues" for the Riverside label (1961), some records with Art Hodes for Verve Records in 1965, and Maybe I'll Cry with Erwin Helfer for the Red Beans label in 1983, recorded at age 87.

Estelle Yancey died April 19, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois.

Selected discography

References

Other websites 
Mama Yancey Bio

1896 births
1986 deaths
American blues singers
Singers from Chicago
George "Harmonica" Smith (born April 22, 1924 in West Helena, Arkansas; died October 2, 1983 in Los Angeles, California ) (born Allen George Smith) was an American blues harmonica player.

Life and career
Born in West Helena, Arkansas he was brought up in Cairo, Illinois.He began playing professionally in 1951. He joined Muddy Waters' band in 1954. He was again member of the band in 1966.He left Chicago and spent much of his adult life on the West Coast.

Smith played with the blues combo, Bacon Fat, and mentored its harmonica player Rod Piazza. After this he played harmonica for Big Mama Thornton in the 1970s. He appeared on her album Jail (1975).Another student of him was William Clarke.

On the few solo albums he recorded one can hear the influence of Little Walter on his harmonica playing.George "Harmonica" Smith died in 1983, in Los Angeles, California at the age of 59.

Selected Discography
 Harmonica Ace - Ace Records
 Harmonica Blues King - Dobre Records 1061

References
References

Other websites 
Biography at bluesharp.ca

1924 births
1983 deaths
Blues harp players
American blues musicians
Musicians from Arkansas
Rochester is a city in southeast Minnesota. It is Minnesota's third largest city, with about 115,700 people as of 2017. The Mayo Clinic is there. It was named after Rochester, New York.

On August 21, 1883, a strong tornado severely damaged much of the city. Almost 40 people were killed by the tornado.

 
County seats in Minnesota
Uchiwa, also known as round silk fan, is a traditional Japanese fan. It is often used to create a breeze to keep cool in hot weather. They are part of Chinese seasonal traditions and are often given as gifts during these times. Originally, circular fan were made from big leaves and animal hair. The purpose was to purify and pray. Over time they have changed, and are now made from bamboo and paper. There are many kinds of pattern; during the Han Dynasty they were often decorated by famous calligraphers. During the Edo period they were made as souvenirs for shrines. During the Meiji period they were admired by foreigners and imported to other countries. The  fan subsequently spread to other parts of Asia, including Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, and such fans are still used by Buddhist monks as "ceremonial fans".
History
The oldest uchiwa can be seen in the records of ancient China, as well as the wall paintings of Ancient Egypt. By the end of the Kōan (Muromachi period) period, uchiwa was made from bamboo and paper.

Function
Uchiwa is used to fan cooking and to keep cool. Some people use it to purify disease. Uchiwa is almost always used in summer festival dances.

References

Japanese culture
Alessandro Matri (born 19 August 1984) is an Italian football player. He plays for Brescia (on loan from Sassuolo) and Italy national team.

Statistics

Footballers from Lombardy
1984 births
Living people
Fabio Quagliarella (born 31 January 1983) is an Italian professional football player. He plays for and captains U.C. Sampdoria and Italy national team.

Club career statistics

International career statistics 

 Scores and results list Italy's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Quagliarella goal.

References

1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Campania
An expedition usually means a long journey or voyage done for a specific purpose, often exploratory, scientific, geographic, military or political in nature.

Some famous expeditions
 The Burke and Wills expedition in 1860—61 to cross Australia from south to north.
 The Central Australian Expedition of 1844 led by Charles Sturt to find an Australian inland sea.
 The Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804—06 to explore Louisiana.
 The Overland Expedition in 1897—98 to rescue whale ships trapped in ice.
 The Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1910—13 led by Robert Falcon Scott.

Exploration
Secret sharing is used as a term to refer to ways of sharing a secret among many people. Each person knows part of the secret that is shared, but a number of people need to cooperate to rebuild the secret. The knowledge of one person alone is not enough to reconstruct the secret. Adi Shamir and George Blakley developed the method independently of each other, in 1979.

One example where secret sharing is used is the RSA cryptosystem. It uses a secret key. If this key is distributed among many people, no single person can make a signature. Even if the part of one person is revealed or lost, a number of them can still make a signature. This is often used is areas where security is very important, such as banks, or the military.
The dealer hands each player their part of the secret. In an easier setup, the parts of the players can be combined to form the secret, but with each part there is extra information. Say that a secret needs five parts, and three parts are known. In this setup, guessing the two parts that are missing will be easier than guessing the secret awhen no parts are known. The other setup is said to be secure from the point of view of information theory, because knowing part of the required number of player parts will not change how difficult it is to guess the secret. 

There are different methods of secure secret sharing techniques.
Shamir's method
In this method, any t out of the n shares may be used to recover the secret. The idea is that a polynomial of degree t-1 is defined by t points on the polynomial: It takes two points to define a straight line, three to define a quadratic curve, four for a cubic, and so on. It takes t points ot define a polynomial of degree t-1. That way it is possible to build a polynomial, the first coefficient is the secret; there are n randomly picked coefficients. Each player receives one of the n coefficients. If there are at least t players, they can rebuild the original curve, and get the secret.

References

Cryptography
A zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a protocol used in cryptography. In such a protocol, two parties are communicating. The task of one party is to convince the other that it knows some secret, but without revealing the secret.

Example 

There is a well-known story showing some of the ideas of zero-knowledge proofs. Usually, the two parties in a zero-knowledge proof are called Peggy (the prover of the statement) and Victor (the verifier of the statement).

In this story, Peggy has uncovered the secret word used to open a magic door in a cave. The cave is shaped like a circle, with the entrance on one side and the magic door blocking the opposite side. Victor says he'll pay her for the secret, but not until he's sure that she really knows it. Peggy says she'll tell him the secret, but not until she receives the money. They devise a scheme by which Peggy can prove that she knows the word without telling it to Victor.
First, Victor waits outside the cave as Peggy goes in. They label the left and right paths from the entrance A and B. Peggy randomly takes either path A or B. Then, Victor enters the cave and shouts the name of the path he wants her to use to return, either A or B, chosen at random. Providing she really does know the magic word, this is easy: she opens the door, if necessary, and returns along the desired path.  Note that Victor does not know which path she has gone down.

However, suppose she did not know the word. Then, she would only be able to return by the named path if Victor were to give the name of the same path that she had entered by. Since Victor would choose A or B at random, he would have a 50% chance of guessing correctly. If they were to repeat this trick many times, say 20 times in a row, her chance of successfully anticipating all of Victor's requests would become very small.
For this reason, if Peggy reliably appears at the exit Victor names, he can conclude that she is very likely to know the secret word.

References 

Cryptography
Universidad del Desarrollo (Spanish for "University for development") is a private university in Chile. It has three campuses in Concepción and 3 other campuseses in Santiago de Chile. The school has about 10,000 students.

History 
The univerity was founded in 1990 by some Chilean economists.

Faculties 
 Architecture and Art
 Journalism
 Law
 Design
 Business and Economy
 Humanities and Education
 Political Sciences
 Engineering
 Medicine
 Psychology

Other websites 
 Universidad del Desarrollo official website

Private Chilean universities
Colleges and universities in Santiago de Chile
1990 establishments in Chile
Colleges and universities in Concepción
University of the Andes (Universidad de Los Andes) is a private university with headquarters located in Santiago de Chile. There are about 6,048 students.

History 
The university was founded on 1989.

Some Faculties 
 Journalism
 Law
 Business & Economy Sciences
 Engineering
 Sciences
 Medicine
 Psychology

Other websites 
 Universidad de Los Andes official website 

Private Chilean universities
Colleges and universities in Santiago de Chile
1989 establishments in Chile
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (also known as a CED) was a type of video disc. It was made in 1964 by the company RCA. The CED is similar to a record because it stores the video and sound as small groves on a black disk. Because of this, the CED is an analog disc format instead of a digital format like a CD. The CED is stored inside a plastic case to prevent the user from touching it, as it is very easy to damage. On the plastic case is a label that has the name of the movie on the disc as well as other information such as a summary of the movie.

History
The first CED was made in 1964 but were not available for purchase until 1981. About 200 movies were made available on CED. Each movie that was on CED was about $15 to $35 depending on the length of the movie. The CED did not sell well for many reasons; one is because the disc was not recordable, unlike video tape. The production of the CED stopped in 1986.
Details of a CED
CEDs are conductive vinyl platters that are 30.0 cm (11.8 in) in diameter. To avoid using the metric system to name their discs, they were called "12 inch discs" even though they were actually slightly smaller. Each side of the disc has grooves that are about 19 miles long and are 37 times smaller than the grooves on a regular phonograph record. When the disc is playing, it spins at about 450 times per minute and each rotation of the disc contained several frames of audio and visual information.
To read the disc, a titanium needle was placed very lightly on the outer edge of the disc. A small electric current was then passed through the center of the needle, where it would touch the bottom of the groove and read the audio information, which was stored in small holes. The needle would read these by detecting how much air was between the needle and the pit and then the electronics of the player would convert these into audio. The visual information was stored in the grooves and were read like a regular phonograph record. As the needle passed over the grooves, it would vibrate and the player would convert the vibrations into the pictures.

Video Discs
Superstars is TV program. The show is a sports competition between very good athletes from different sports. They try to win a series of athletic events similar to a decathlon.  Figure skating champion Dick Button developed the idea.  ABC bought it as a special for the winter of 1973. The first Superstars competition was held in Rotonda West, Florida in March 1973. The winner was pole vaulter Bob Seagren.  The BBC covered the competition and aired their own programme on December 31, 1973. The BBC version featured British athletes.
Competitors usually participate in ten different sporting events, including a 100-yard dash,  run, obstacle course, weightlifting, bowling, rowing, tennis, basketball, bicycle racing, and swimming. Sometimes the sports have changed over time and between the European and American competitions. For example, in the first USA competition, there was no obstacle course, but there was table tennis and baseball. Athletes get points for the position they finish in each event. The competitor with the most points at the end of all ten events is the winner.

List of American winners

Other websites
'The Superstars': a page describing the Superstars competitions over the years.
BBC Superstars website

Television game shows
is a dish of braised pork found in Nagasaki, Japan. The name literally means simmered square. Kakuni of pork is the dish which is boiled softly with sweet sake, soy sauce, and sake. It is very popular among Japanese people. When people visit Nagasaki, they often buy it as a souvenir.

Other websites

Japanese food
Pork
Meat dishes
Christina "Kiki" Cutter (b. July 24, 1949) is an alpine skier from the United States. She was the first American to win a World Cup skiing event. She came in first in the World Cup slalom race in 1968 in Oslo, Norway. She only competed in World Cup skiing for a just over three years. But, she had five World Cup wins. That was the U.S. record for most World Cup victories by a U.S. skier for eleven years from 1968 to 1979. Phil Mahre went past her total in 1979.

References

1949 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oregon
American skiers
Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It is next to the Atlantic Ocean on the Jersey Shore. Asbury Park is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. In the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 16,116.

Asbury Park started as a borough on March 26, 1874. It included parts of Ocean Township. Asbury Park became a city as of March 25, 1897.

The city is known for music. Bruce Springsteen comes from the city and started his career there.  The New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium called Asbury Park the sixth best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest.

References

Cities in New Jersey
Monmouth County, New Jersey
1874 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in New Jersey
Donkey Kong Country (also called DKC) is the first installment of the Donkey Kong Country series and the first game in the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy, overall. This video game was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is a platformer developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. The playable characters in this game are Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Donkey Kong Country was followed by two sequels: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! in 1995 and 1996.
The game was remade for the Game Boy Color in 2000 and was also remade again for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Donkey Kong Country was ported over to the Wii's Virtual Console in 2006 and 2007. On November 25, 2012, for reasons unknown, Donkey Kong Country and both its sequels were delisted from the Wii's Virtual Console worldwide except in South Korea, but on October 30, 2014, the games were relisted only in Europe and Australia. Around the same time, the games were released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Europe and Australia, in Japan on November 26, 2014, and in the United States and Canada on February 26, 2015. For handhelds, Donkey Kong Country was ported exclusively over to the New Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console in March 2016. It is one of the 21 games included on the Super NES Classic Edition and was made available for the Nintendo Switch Online on July 15, 2020.
Story
The story for Donkey Kong Country is about the Kremlings stealing Donkey Kong's bananas and kidnapping Donkey Kong's nephew Diddy and putting him in a barrel. After Donkey Kong saves Diddy Kong from the barrel, both Donkey Kong and his nephew go together to fight the Kremlings and other enemies so they can get back their large collection of stolen bananas.

Worlds
There are six worlds and a final boss battle on Gangplank Galleon sometimes referred to as a world. The worlds are;

Kongo Jungle 
Monkey Mines
Vine Valley
Gorilla Glacier
Kremkroc Industries Inc.
Chimp Caverns
Gangplank Galleon (sometimes considered as a world)

Bosses
There are seven bosses in Donkey Kong Country. These bosses include;

Very Gnawty
Master Necky
Queen B.
Really Gnawty
Dumb Drum
Master Necky Snr.
King K. Rool
Changes between the ports
Donkey Kong Country had received two remakes; one for the Game Boy Color and one for the Game Boy Advance. The Game Boy Advance version has a larger amount of changes, while the Game Boy Color version doesn't have as much changes. The changes are listed below;
Game Boy Color
This version contains three different title screens, one chosen out of random.
Even in the North American version, the game can have English, Spanish, French, German, or Italian chosen as the language. This is not present in the Japanese version.
The mode selection screen is made to resemble that of Donkey Kong 64.
Only one Kong can be present at once. When one of them is hit, the other one appears. The other Kong is located at the bottom-left part of the screen with a DK Barrel icon to indicate the that Kong is there.
The victory dance and victory music is taken out of the game.
The world map can be viewed all over by the player pressing SELECT and then uses the left or right buttons on the D-Pad to view the overworld of a world.
The Game Boy Color version added compatibility with the Game Boy Printer as Sticker Pads were also added.
Winky's Walkway has been extended from the original version and even features another Mini-Necky.
A new stage named Necky Nutmare has been added in this version. It appears in Chimp Caverns as the fourth level of the world. This stage is located after Funky's Flights and before Loopy Lights.
Two new minigames called Funky Fishing (this one reappears in the Game Boy Advance version under the title of Funky's Fishing) and Crosshair Cranky.
Candy's Save Point has been renamed to Candy's Challenge. This makes the game autosave after a level is completed.
Some of the music has been reused from Donkey Kong Land. Otherwise, it is an 8-bit remix of the SNES version's music.
The Cast of Characters is no longer featured before the end credits and is replaced with various screenshots which feature levels not seen in normal gameplay.
Donkey or Diddy transforms into Animal Buddies, rather than riding them. If the animal buddy is hit or if SELECT is pressed, the animal transforms back into Donkey or Diddy, depending on the controlled monkey.
Two additional difficulty settings have been added; there is one that removes DK Barrels, and another one that removes Star Barrels. These modes can be used once the game is completed for the first time to gain extra Sticker Pads.
There is no sunset in the level Orang-utan Gang and no rain in Ropey Rampage. Orang-utan Gang takes place during the day and Ropey Rampage is only nighttime.
The fifth world, Kremkroc Industries, Inc. is simply renamed to Kremkroc Industries.
The temple in Temple Tempest is blue instead of yellow.
In Slipslide Ride, the purple ropes are replaced with blue ropes which slide the player downwards, while white ones which replace the blue ones slide the player upwards. 
When a stage is completed, the stage's name when the stage is selected turns pink, instead of being marked with a "!" at the end of the stage's name.
Gnawties ride on top of the millstones, instead of inside them. The Gnawties on the millstone are also recolored to a regular red palette in favor of the Game Boy Color's limited color palette.
All of the Zingers in the game are yellow and do not appear in various colors.
Game Boy Advance
The world maps are redone to zoom in more. Some layout changes have also been done.
Starting from Vine Valley and onwards, some of the stages have been rearranged such as Croctopus Chase and Ice Age Alley.
Funky Fishing is renamed to Funky's Fishing. An all new minigame named Candy's Dance Studio also appears which replaces Candy's Challenge and Candy's Save Point from the previous two versions.
A new time attack mode called DK Attack has been added as a mode on the main menu.
There is a Hero Mode where players can play the game as a yellow Diddy Kong. Donkey Kong is excluded though.
Rock Kroc can be defeated by the use of Donkey Kong's hand slap while it is dormant. This also happens in the Japanese version of the original Donkey Kong Country.
Some enemies have changed colors. An example is a standard Kritter is originally green and is changed to purple or purple Klaptraps being changed to red.
A scrapbook feature has been added. This causes hidden cameras to hide all over Donkey Kong Island.
Several bosses have new strategies. This includes;
Queen B. - Uses smaller Zingers as a shield when she is attacked.
Really Gnawty - Causes stalagmites to fall with a giant pounce.
Dumb Drum - Can only be defeated by the use of a TNT Barrel rather than all the enemies having to be defeated.
Master Necky Snr. - During the first round, Master Necky aids Master Necky Snr. in battle. After one is defeated, the other one becomes more ferocious.
The game can be saved at anytime on the world map by pressing START.
Funky can be summoned on the world map when needed. This only happens after Funky is visited first.
Smaller animals appear as background elements such as spiders and rats.
The game saves the number of extra lives the player has collected. This feature was criticized by many as it removed the challenge from the game.
1994 video games
Game Boy Color games
Game Boy Advance games
Virtual Console games
Platform games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Hatchet is a 2006 supernatural horror and comedy movie set in the Louisiana bayou. A group of tourists learn that a legend is real and more scary than they thought. The movie was originally given a rating of NC-17 for extreme violence and gore, although it was later edited for an R-rating. This motion picture was released during 2007 in the United States.

Kane Hodder, Joel Murray, Richard Riehle, Robert Englund, Tony Todd, Patrika Darbo and John Carl Buechler star in the movie.

Other websites 

2006 movies
American horror movies
English-language movies
Movies set in Louisiana
American independent movies
Charismatic refers to Pentecostal style Christianity outside of Pentecostalism. (see Holy Spirit) The Book of Acts describes the apostles having supernatural gifts such as the power of healing and the ability to talk in other languages. Charismatics believe these gifts of the Holy Spirit are still available to Christians today.

Other websites
International Communion of Charismatic Churches

Evangelicalism
Christian movements and denominational families
The parietal bones are bones that are part of the human skull. They form the sides and the roof of the cranium. The Latin name for one such bone is os parietale. The musculus temporalis, which is used for chewing, is attached to the parietal bone.

Bones of the skull
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pronounced ), (born 4 October 1942) is a former Icelandic politician and the former Prime Minister of Iceland. She has been a politician for many years. She was  Iceland's Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security from 1987–1994 and 2007–2009. She has been a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for Reykjavík constituencies since 1978. She has been re-elected eight times. She became Iceland's first female Prime Minister on 1 February 2009, the world's first openly gay head of government of the modern era.

Jóhanna is a social democrat and Iceland's longest-serving  member of Parliament. In the 1990s, when she lost a bid to head the party, she lifted her fist and declared "Minn tími mun koma!" -- "My time will come!"—a phrase that became a popular Icelandic expression.

References

1942 births
Living people
Lesbians
LGBT politicians
People from Reykjavík
Prime Ministers of Iceland
Krasnodar () is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River, around  northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai (also known as Kuban). It had a population of 744,900 in 2010, 646,175 in 2002 and 620,516 in 1989.
Name
The city was founded on January 12, 1794 (Gregorian calendar) as Yekaterinodar ().  The original name meant "Catherine's Gift", both in recognition of Catherine the Great's grant of land in the Kuban region to the Black Sea Cossacks (later the Kuban Cossacks), and also in recognition of Saint Catherine, the Martyr, who is considered to be the patron of the city. After the October Revolution, Yekaterinodar was renamed Krasnodar (December 1920). There are two potential meanings for the new name of the city: Krasno- (Красно-), meaning either 'beautiful' (an older root) or 'red' (especially relevant considering the political atmosphere of the time); and -dar (-дар), meaning 'gift'. Thus, the city's name means either beautiful gift or red gift (i.e. 'gift of the reds')..

History
History

The origin of the city starts with a fortress built by the Cossacks in order to defend imperial borders and claim Russian ownership over Circassia, which was contested by Ottoman Turkey.  In the first half of the 19th century Yekaterinodar grew into a busy center of the Kuban Cossacks. It was granted town status in 1867. By 1888 about 45,000 people lived in the city and it became a vital trade center of southern Russia.  In 1897, an obelisk commemorating 200 year old history of Kuban Cossack Host was built in Yekaterinodar.

During the Russian Civil War the city changed hands several times between the Red Army and Volunteer Army, many Kuban Cossacks were committed anti-Bolsheviks who supported the White Movement.

During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Krasnodar was occupied by the German Army between August 12, 1942 and February 12, 1943. The city sustained heavy damage in the fighting but was rebuilt and renovated after the war.
In the summer of 1943, the Soviets began trials, including of their own citizens, for collusion with the Nazis and participation in war crimes. The first such trial was held at Krasnodar on July 14–17, 1943. This was the first public trial of the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. The Krasnodar tribunal pronounced eight death sentences, which were summarily conducted in the city square in front of a crowd of about thirty thousand people.

Famous Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, soprano Evgenia Kononova, cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, counterrevolutionary Andrei Shkuro and rhythmic gymnast Inna Zhukova were born in Krasnodar. Another notable native of Krasnodar is Greece basketball international Lazaros Papadopoulos, who emigrated to Greece with his Pontic Greek parents when he was 10 years old.

Main sights
Krasnodar is home to the steel lattice hyperboloid tower built by the Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov in 1928; it is near Krasnodar Circus.
Other attractions include St. Catherine's Cathedral, the State Arts Museum, a park and theatre named after Maxim Gorky, the beautiful concert hall of the Krasnodar Philharmonic Society, which is considered to have some of the best acoustics in southern Russia, State Cossack Choir and the Krasnodar circus

The most interesting place of Krasnodar is Krasnaya Street (which translates as "Red, Beautiful Street"). There are many sights there. In the beginning of this street one can see the Central Concert Hall; at the other end one can see the Avrora cinemacenter. A "Triumphal Arch" is in the middle of Krasnaya Street.

Transportation

The main airline is Kuban Airlines (at Krasnodar International Airport), and the largest hotels in the city include the Intourist, Hotel Moskva, and Hotel Platan. Krasnodar uses a 220 V/50 Hz power supply with two round-pin outlets, like most European countries.
Public transportation within Krasnodar consists of city buses, trolleybuses, trams, and marshrutkas. Trolleybuses and trams, both powered by overhead electric wires, are the main form of transportation in Krasnodar. Unlike Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar does not have a metro system.

Coat of arms
The coat of arms of Yekaterinodar was introduced in 1841 by the Cossack yesaul Ivan Chernik. The royal letter "E" in the middle is for Ekaterina II (Russian for Catherine II). It also depicts the date city was founded, the Imperial double headed eagle (symbolizing Tsar's patronage of Black Sea Cossacks), a bulawa of a Cossack ataman, Yekaterinodar fortress, and flags with letters "E", "P", "A", and "N" standing for Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I  and Nicholas I. Yellow stars around the shield symbolized 59 Black Sea stanitsas around the city.

International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Krasnodar has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):
 Tallahassee, United States
 Karlsruhe, Germany
 Burgas, Bulgaria
 Harbin, China
 Ferrara, Italy

Famous people
Anna Netrebko (b. 1971), opera singer
Alexander Tamanian (1878–1936), Armenian neoclassical architect

References

Other websites 

Official website of Krasnodar City Administration and City Duma
Krasnodar photographs 
Krasnodar news

Settlements established in the 18th century
1793 establishments
18th-century establishments in Russia
Cities and towns in Krasnodar Krai
Capitals of krais of Russia
Dom-2 (House-2) is a Russian reality television show created by TNT channel. In the show, contestants are building a house and trying to find someone to love in the process. Couples then compete for the house itself.

First episode of Dom-2 was aired on May 11, 2004. It remains the most highly-rated, profitable and long-running reality show on television in Russia. Dom-2 broadcasts on the TNT channel at 11 pm every day. It is hosted by Vlad Kadoni, Olga Orlova, and Kseniya Borodina.

After more than 3,000 episodes, as on August, 2012, it is the longest running reality show in the world. At December 18, 2020 TNT channel officially announced a House-2 lockdown. The last ultimate episode of show will come out at December, 30.
Seasons
 «House-2. Love» — May 11, 2004 — November 6, 2004
 «House-2. Wintering» — November 7, 2004 — February 28, 2005
 «House-2. The First Spring» — March 1, 2005 — May 31, 2005
 «House-2. Heat» — June 1, 2005 — August 31, 2005
 «House-2. That's Love!» — September 1, 2005 — November 14, 2005
 «House-2. New Love» — November 15, 2005 — August 31, 2006
 «House-2. Fallove» — September 1, 2006 — November 30, 2006
 «House-2. About Love» — December 1, 2006 — August 31, 2007
 «House-2. Dreams Come True» — September 1, 2007 — October 31, 2007
 «House-2. City of Love» — November 1, 2007 — November 14, 2010
 «House-2. City of Fat Stu» (Gleb and Danielles) — November 15, 2010 — present

Russia
2004 television series debuts
In naming a comet, the letter before the "/" is:
 "C" for a non-periodic comet
 "P" is a periodic comet
 "D" is a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated
 "X" is a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated –usually historical comets
 "A" for an object that was thought to be comet, but is actually a minor planet.

Some lists keep the "C" prefix for comets of with orbits longer than about 30 years until their return is confirmed.

References

Related pages
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Thomas Daniel "Tommy" Mottola (born July 14, 1948) is a music executive, producer and author. He is currently the Chairman of Mottola Media Group and previously the Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia  label, for nearly 15 years. He is  married to the Mexican actress and singer Thalía.

Early career
Mottola was born in The Bronx, New York. He graduated from Iona Grammar School in 1962 and Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, New York in 1966. He briefly attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York before dropping out. He initially had aspirations of a music career, and released with CBS Records, but his singing career was short-lived.

Wishing to stay in the industry, Mottola started Champion Entertainment Organization Inc. to manage other artists.  While working at the Chappell music-publishing company, he became the mentor to Philadelphia-based soul/rock performers Daryl Hall and John Oates.
His belief in the duo led him to push them relentlessly to do appearances and advertising promotions, including some of the first specialized music videos and one of the first modern "sponsored tours," for Beech-Nut's Care Free Gum, Panasonic, and Pontiac.

Hall & Oates paid tribute to him in their track "Gino (the Manager)" on their self-titled 1975 RCA release, better known as the Silver Album. Mottola also figured—this time, being mentioned by name—in "Cherchez La Femme," the 1976 dance hit by another Mottola act, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. ("Tommy Mottola / Lives on the road ...")

Raised as a Roman Catholic, Mottola converted to Judaism shortly before his marriage to Lisa Clark. That marriage, which ended in divorce in 1992, produced a daughter (Sarah) and a son (Michael, who is now a production assistant with MTV).

Brisbane rock band Regurgitator wrote a tribute song to him called "I Love Tommy Mottola" for their 1999 album "...Art".
CBS
In 1987, Mottola was chosen to run CBS Records at the age of 37.

Soon afterward, Sony Corporation closed on its deal to buy the CBS Records group unit from CBS, naming him President and CEO of the music division, where he succeeded his former mentor Walter Yetnikoff, who had originally brought Mottola into CBS. Mottola served as Chairman and CEO Sony Music Entertainment.
During his tenure, he transformed Sony into one of the most successful global music companies, expanding its businesses into over 60 countries, while creating one of the strongest management teams in the industry.  He revitalized Sony Music's publishing division by making such acquisitions as the Beatles catalogue and enabled Sony to become the first major music company to make available commercial digital downloads. He is widely well known for signing, developing, and nurturing the careers of Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Destiny's Child, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Gloria Estefan, the Dixie Chicks, Marc Anthony, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, among others. He also worked with Michael Jackson from the time he began recording his "Dangerous" (1991) album. Jackson would later state that his relationship with Mottola dissolved based on corruption in his working practices, publicly referring to him as a "racist" and "devil". "The recording companies really, really do conspire against the artists
." Jackson said.(source: Vh1).
Mariah Carey
In 1988, Brenda K. Starr, a Columbia artist, handed Mottola a demo tape from one of her backup singers.  Initially he tossed it aside, but later decided to listen to it.  He was impressed by the demo and tracked down the singer, a then-unknown Mariah Carey, and eventually signed her. Mottola is seen as the main architect for Mariah's success in the early years of her career.

In June 1993, Mottola and Carey married in a lavish ceremony, but the marriage was short-lived with the couple separating shortly before Christmas 1996 and divorcing in early 1998. In 2000, Carey, at the time Columbia's biggest selling artist, signed an $80 million contract with Virgin Records, but after the commercial and critical failure of her first album for the label, the Glitter soundtrack, Virgin dropped her from the company and it rescinded the $80 million contract. Carey later signed with Island Records.
Thalía
Mottola later went on to date other stars before dating Mexican singer Thalía, whom he married  December 2, 2000. They have a daughter together, Sabrina Sakaë (Oct 7, 2007). Their second child, a son, Matteo Alejandro was born on June 25th 2011 . He also is credited with creating the Latin Explosion in popular music by championing such Sony artists as Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan. Additionally, Mottola was the architect for some of Sony's biggest global brands such as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. During his 15-year tenure, Mottola built Sony up from a company with revenues of 800 million dollars a year to one with over 6 billion dollars of annual revenue by the year 2000.
In June 2010, he decided to sell his Ranch in Colorado, for an amount of 27.5 million dollars, as he was not spending time in it anymore and wanted to be closer to his family.
After Sony
Tommy Mottola was the head of Sony Music Entertainment until January 2003. Since leaving his post as chief of Sony Music, Mottola has been building a new entertainment company, complete with recorded music, television production, theater, and fashion, alongside a branding and management company launching. He was instrumental in re-launching the various careers of such artists as Grammy winner and Latin pop star Marc Anthony, and teen sensation Lindsay Lohan.  Later signings included Cassie Ventura in 2006 and Mika, who in 2007 had a #1 single in the UK.

A collaboration with former Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein has them teamed on two current projects for live theater, namely producers of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Mottola's TV production arm is currently producing and developing many shows for cable and network television.

Mottola bought out the rights to Casablanca Records (a then-diminished imprint of Polygram), and resurrected it, signing actress Lindsay Lohan, and singer Mika.
Philanthropy
Known also for his many philanthropic activities, Mottola has served on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Police Athletic League of New York City, T.J. Martell Foundation for Cancer, Leukemia and AIDS Research, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum, and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.

Cultural references
The character of Gene Balboa in the Channel 101 Internet TV Series Yacht Rock is loosely based on Mottola, in particular his time as manager of Hall and Oates.

The Australian band Regurgitator include the song "i love tommy mottola" on their 1999 album "...art".

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Enamel is a smooth hard covering substance. It may refer to:
 Tooth enamel, the hard mineralized surface of teeth
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Her fourth studio album, Make a Scene (released in 2011) and its third single "Bittersweet" achieved top 40 positions in the UK. In 2014, Ellis-Bextor released her fifth studio album, Wanderlust which became her highest charting album since Read My Lips. Her sixth album, the Latin-inspired Familia earned critical acclaim in 2016.

Early life  
Ellis Bextor was born in London. She is the daughter of television producer-director Robin Bextor and television presenter Janet Ellis.

Personal life 
Sophie has been married to musician Richard Jones since 25 June 2005. The couple have four sons together: born in 2004, 2009, 2012 and 2015.

Other websites 

Ellis-Bextor's official website
[ Sophie Ellis-Bextor] at Allmusic

I am Sophie Ellis-Bextor...  Heat World Interview (2009)

1979 births
Living people
British DJs
English pop singers
Models from London
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The Bayeux Tapestry is a  long embroidered cloth – not an actual tapestry – which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy called Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux.

The tapestry tells the story of the Norman conquest of England. The two combatants are the Anglo-Saxon English, led by Harold Godwinson, recently crowned as King of England, and the Normans, led by William the Conqueror.

The tapestry is regarded as one of the greatest examples of Anglo-Saxon art, because, though ordered by a Norman, it was made by English (Anglo-Saxon) artisans. It is also extremely important as a historical document.

In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period, this piece is conventionally referred to as a "tapestry", although it is not a true tapestry in which the design is woven into the cloth; it is in fact an embroidery.
The Bayeux tapestry is embroidered in wool yarn on a tabby-woven linen ground using two methods of stitching: outline or stem stitch for lettering and the outlines of figures, and couching or laid work for filling in figures. The linen is assembled in panels and has been patched in numerous places.

The main yarn colours are terracotta or russet, blue-green, dull gold, olive green, and blue, with small amounts of dark blue or black and sage green.

References 

1066 in England
Needlework
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The annals were initially created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple manuscript copies were made and distributed to monasteries across England and were independently updated. In one case, the chronicle was still being actively updated in 1154.

Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of equal historical value and none of them is the original version. The oldest seems to have been started towards the end of Alfred's reign, while the most recent was written at Peterborough Abbey after a fire at that monastery in 1116.
Almost all of the material in the chronicle is in the form of annals, by year; the earliest are dated at 60 BC, and historical material follows up to the year in which the chronicle was written, at which point contemporary records begin. These manuscripts collectively are known as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

The Chronicle is not unbiased: there are occasions when comparison with other medieval sources makes it clear that the scribes who wrote it omitted events or told one-sided versions of stories; there are also places where the different versions contradict each other.
Taken as a whole the Chronicle is the single most important historical source for the period in England between the end of Roman rule in Britain and the decades following the Norman Conquest. Much of the information given in the Chronicle is not recorded elsewhere. In addition, the manuscripts are important sources for the history of the English language; in particular, the later Peterborough Chronicle is one of the earliest examples of Middle English in existence.

Seven of the nine surviving manuscripts and fragments are now in the British Library. The remaining two are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

References 

Anglo-Saxons
Medieval literature
9th century in England
9th-century works
Chenab College Jhang is an intermediate college in Jhang, Pakistan. It is the main campus of Chenab group of colleges.

Colleges and universities in Pakistan
Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating to the 6th and early 7th centuries CE that is located near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. One contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, which are now held in the British Museum in London. Other sites had produced significant finds, but had previously been looted.

The ship-burial, probably dating from the early 7th century and excavated in 1939, is one of the most magnificent archaeological finds in England for its size and completeness, its meaning, the quality and beauty of its contents, and for the profound interest of the burial ritual itself.

References 

R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford et al., The Sutton Hoo ship-burial (3 Vols in 4) British Museum, London 1975, 1978, 1983.

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Archaeological sites in Suffolk
Essex
History of England
Art
7th-century works
6th-century buildings and structures
Å (or å) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish languages. It is an A with an overring. Å came from the Old Norse vowel á.

Meanings for Å 
 In science, å is used as a short form of angstrom.

Latin letters with diacritics
Vowel letters
Ø (small ø) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian and Faroese languages. The letter combination 'oe' is used instead in languages that do not use Ø in their alphabet.

Latin letters with diacritics
Vowel letters
Faroese might mean:

Anything related to the Faroe Islands
Faroese language
The Urbz: Sims in the City is a video game that was published by Electronic Arts and is developed by Maxis and Griptonite Games. The game is available for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS systems. The game was the third The Sims game for video game consoles and is also the second Sims game that was not released on the PC.

The point of the game is to go to each to nine Districts and build the reputation (which is called "Rep" in the game) of your sim and the districts. Rep is a measurement of how popular a character in the game is. When a character gains more reputation, they can gain access to larger apartments and also different Districts. In the end of the game, the character will have the largest apartment and be able to visit any of the Districts. 

The hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas provides several music for the game, which have also been translated into Simlish (sim language). The members of the group also appear as guest characters in the game.
Other websites
Official game website 

The Sims
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Ape Escape 3 is a video game that was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and was developed by Japan Studio. The game was only available for the PlayStation 2 system. The game was the third Ape Escape game in the Ape Escape.

The game was first released in Japan on July 14, 2005, and was later released in North America on January 17, 2006, in Europe on May 5, 2006, and in Australia on May 18, 2006. The game was then re-released in Japan on the PlayStation 2 on November 2, 2005.

The game received positive reviews with a X-Play giving it a 3/5, Game Informer gave it a 8.5/10, Computer Games Magazine gave it 90/100 and stated "This is the best and most spirited of the Ape Escapes, which is faint praise if you're only familiar with the recent half-assed PSP version.".

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