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The DS also has many new features. It has a new surround sound system. The DS (as well as the DS Lite) also has backwards compatibility with the Game Boy Advance (only single-player mode). However, the DS and DS Lite are incapable of playing Game Boy or Game Boy Color games. The DS features a touch screen, a screen often used for extra gameplay (like a PDA). The DS packaging comes with two styluses.

Competition
The Nintendo DS is one of the rivals of Sony's PlayStation Portable. However, both Nintendo and Sony state that their products were aimed at different people, so there is "technically" no competition. The DS has currently sold more units than the PSP has. In 2011, the DS briefly held the record for best-selling game console overall.

Handheld revisions

Nintendo DS Lite
Nintendo DS Lite

Nintendo later developed a newer version of the Nintendo DS, known as the Nintendo DS Lite. It was first announced on January 26, 2006 and released on March 2, 2006 in Japan, on June 1, 2006 in Australia, on June 11, 2006 in North America, on June 23, 2006 in Europe, and on January 18, 2007 in South Korea.

The DS Lite is compatible with the same games. It is smaller, lighter, and brighter and features a backlit screen. Because of its design, the Game Boy Advance games stick out in Slot 2. The second slot also features a cover for players to use when not in use. The DS Lite is sold in white, black, pink, blue, red, and silver. This console even has colors such as metallic rose, metallic silver, and black with white.

Nintendo DSi
Nintendo DSi

On October 2, 2008, Nintendo announced a third model titled the Nintendo DSi. It was released in Japan in 2008 and in 2009/2010 worldwide. It is bigger, thinner, and brighter than the DS Lite and the Game Boy Advance slot was removed (in place of an SD Card), which caused a lot of disappointment when it came out. Development of the DSi began in late 2006, shortly after the release of the DS Lite.

Nintendo DSi XL

A year later, Nintendo announced a fourth and final model in the DS family called the Nintendo DSi XL (called Nintendo DSi LL in Japan). Announced on October 29, 2009, it was released in Japan in 2009 and in 2010 worldwide. It is a larger version of the DSi and the biggest, heaviest, widest, and brightest of the four models. Like the DSi, the Game Boy Advance slot was removed.

Best-selling games
Some of the DS'''s best-selling games are Nintendogs, Super Mario 64 DS, Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros., Brain Age, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, and Advance Wars: Dual Strike.
Accessories
There are many accessories for the Nintendo DS, including different coloured styluses and protective cases. Some protective cases include the highly durable Nerf cases. Most DS systems have a screen protector and a car adapter used to charge the DS in a car.

Sales
In total, the DS'' family has sold 154.9 million units as of July 15, 2021, making it the best-selling handheld of all time, the best-selling Nintendo console, and overall, the second best-selling system behind the PlayStation 2. It has currently beaten the record of its sibling console (the Game Boy/Game Boy Color), which has sold 118.69 million.

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Nigel James Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. He has been in lots of movies. Neill has been in Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Event Horizon, Sirens and lots of other very famous movies. In recent years, he appeared in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Peter Rabbit (2018).

Neill was born on 14 September 1947 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland to a New Zealander father and English mother. He moved to New Zealand in 1954. He studied at Christ's College, Canterbury and at University of Canterbury. Neill was married to Lisa Harrow until they divorced in 1989. Then he was married to Noriko Watanabe. He has two children. Neill has New Zealand and Irish citizenships.

In March 2023, Neill revealed that he had been having chemotherapy treatment after being diagnosed with stage 3 T cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.

References

Other websites

 
 Two Paddocks official website
Actors from Northern Ireland
Irish movie actors
Irish stage actors
Irish television actors
Irish voice actors
New Zealand movie actors
New Zealand stage actors
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New Zealand voice actors
People from South Island
1947 births
Living people
Up to 1900 
1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1793 – Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1848 – March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
1901 – 1950 
1902 – Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
  1937   – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
1940 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy erupts killing 26 people and causing thousands to leave their homes.
1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
1951 – 1975 
1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 – The supertanker  runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 – Gold standard: The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 – Operation Menu: The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to get into South Vietnam.
1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 – Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1980 – 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster: A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
  1990   – In the largest art theft in United States history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 – Ozone Disco Club fire: A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
From 2001 
2012 – Joachim Gauck becomes President of Germany.
2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
2018 – Vladimir Putin is re-elected as President of Russia.
2019 – Three people are killed in a shooting on a tram in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Births
Up to 1800 
1075 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military commander (d. 1447)
1495 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
1548 – Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616)
1552 – Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610)
1555 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
1578 – Adam Elsheimer, German painter (d. 1610)
1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)
  1603   – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
1609 – Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1634 – Madame de La Fayette, French author (d. 1693)
1640 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)
1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)
1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)
1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
1780 – Miloš Obrenović, Serbian prince (d. 1860)
1782 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1789 – Charlotte Elliott, English poet, hymn writer, editor (d. 1871)
1798 – Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1801 – 1850 
1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864)
1814 – Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897)
1819 – James McCulloch, Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893)
1820 – John Plankinton, American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (d. 1891)
1823 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
1828 – Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1908)
1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (d. 1898)
1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1846 – Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (d. 1904)
1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (d. 1938)
1851 – 1900 
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
1862 – Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (d. 1915)
1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917)
1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)
1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)
  1877   – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945)
1878 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (d. 1956)
1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)
1884 – Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)
1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)
1890 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
1893 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1901 – 1925 
1901 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author & philosopher (d. 1990)
  1901   – William Johnson, American painter (d. 1970)
1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)
  1903   – E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist (d. 1944)
1904 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)
  1904   – Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
  1905   – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
1907 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)
1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)
1909 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)
  1909   – C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1911 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)
1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
1913 – René Clément, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
  1913   – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1915 – Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1922 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)
  1922   – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
  1922   – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
1923 – Andy Granatelli, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2013)
1925 – Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician (d. 2017)
  1925   – James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010)
1926 – 1950 
1926 – Peter Graves, American actor and director (d. 2010)
1927 – John Kander, American pianist and composer
  1927   – George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
  1927   – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
  1928   – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines (d. 2022)
1929 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
1930 – James J. Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1931 – John Fraser, Scottish actor
1932 – John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009)
1933 – Unita Blackwell, American activist and politician
1934 – Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
  1934   – Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician
1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician
1935   – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016)
  1937   – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter
  1938   – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer (d. 2017)
  1938   – Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor
  1938   – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver (d. 2017)
  1938   – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
1939 – Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
  1939   – Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor
1940 – Mark Medoff, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2019)
1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1942 – Kathleen Collins, African-American filmmaker and playwright (d. 1988)
1943 – Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
  1944   – Frank McRae, American football player and actor
  1944   – Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
  1945   – Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host
  1945   – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012)
  1945   – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009)
1946 – Michel Leclère, French race car driver
1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright
  1947   – Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter
  1947   – David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster
  1947   – B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (d. 1990)
1948 – Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  1948   – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
  1948   – Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1949 – Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
1950 – James Conlon, American conductor and educator
  1950   – Brad Dourif, American actor
  1950   – Linda Partridge, English geneticist and academic
  1950   – Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver
1951 – 1975 
1951 – Paul Barber, English actor
  1951   – Ben Cohen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's
  1951   – Bill Frisell, American guitarist and composer
  1951   – Timothy N. Philpot, American lawyer, author, and judge
1952 – Will Durst, American journalist and actor
  1952   – Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015)
  1952   – Bernie Tormé, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist 
  1952   – Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
  1952   – Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia
1953 – Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)
  1953   – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
1955 – Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
  1955   – Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game show host
1956 – Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
  1956   – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008)
  1956   – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
1957 – Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
1958 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990)
1959 – Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
1960 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
  1960   – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  1960   – Kevin Hague, New Zealand politician
  1960   – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
1961 – Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1962 – Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player
  1962   – Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
  1962   – Brian Fisher, American baseball player
  1962   – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist 
  1962   – James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  1962   – Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and director
  1962   – Volker Weidler, German race car driver and engineer
1963 – Jeff LaBar, American guitarist 
  1963   – Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer
1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
  1964   – Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver
  1964   – Jo Churchill, British politician
  1964   – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player
  1964   – Isabel Noronha, Mozambican movie director
1966 – Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 
  1966   – Peter Jones, English businessman
  1966   – Brian Watts, Canadian golfer
1967 – Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 
1968 – Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
  1968   – Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and manager
  1968   – Temur Ketsbaia, Georgian footballer and manager
  1968   – Paul Marsden, English businessman and politician
1969 – Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer 
  1969   – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
  1969   – Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan comedian and politician, President of Guatemala
  1969   – Shaun Udal, English cricketer
1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress
1971 – Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player
  1971   – Mike Bell, American wrestler (d. 2008)
  1971   – Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
  1971   – Kitty Ussher, English economist and politician
1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
  1972   – Reince Priebus, American lawyer and politician, 27th White House Chief of Staff
1973 – Luci Christian, American voice actress and screenwriter
1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  1974   – Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer 
1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
  1975   – Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster
  1975   – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player
  1975   – Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
From 1976 
1976 – Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress and producer
  1976   – Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player
  1976   – Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
  1976   – Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
1977 – Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
  1977   – Alex Jones, Welsh television presenter
  1977   – Danny Murphy, English footballer and sportscaster
  1977   – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player
  1977   – Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager
  1977   – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach
1978 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
  1978   – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
  1978   – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  1978   – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
1979 – Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality
1980 – Sébastien Frey, French footballer
1980   – Sophia Myles, English actress
  1980   – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
  1981   – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
  1981   – Leslie Djhone, French sprinter
  1981   – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress
  1981   – Kasib Powell, American basketball player
  1981   – Tom Starke, German footballer
  1981   – Doug Warren, American soccer player
  1981   – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player
1982 – Mantorras, Angolan footballer
  1982   – Chad Cordero, American baseball player
  1982   – Timo Glock, German race car driver
  1982   – Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Ethan Carter III, American wrestler
  1983   – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
  1983   – Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
  1983   – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
  1984   – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
  1984   – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver
  1985   – Marvin Humes, English singer 
  1985   – Vince Lia, Australian footballer
1986 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter
  1986   – Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
1989 – Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
  1989   – Lily Collins, English-American actress
  1989   – Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
  1989   – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
  1989   – Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer 
1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  1991   – Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player
1992 – Ryan Truex, American race car driver
1992 – Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model
1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
  1997   – Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player
Up to 1900 
978 – Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
1076 – Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1018)
1086 – Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036)
1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
1272 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
1308 – Yuri I of Galicia
1314 – Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244)
  1314   – Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar
1321 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
1582 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562)
1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 – John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
1745 – Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)
1781 – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)
1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
1900 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
1901 – 2000 
1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
1930 – Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)
1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1947 – William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
  1954   – Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1956 – Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
1973 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
  1977   – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
  1978   – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
1982 – Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
1983 – Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
1984 – Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
1986 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
1988 – Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
1990 – Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
From 2001 
2001 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author (b. 1914)
2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
  2003   – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
2007 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
2008 – Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
  2009   – Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (b. 1963)
2010 – Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (b. 1924)
2011 – Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)
2012 – Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
2012   – William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
  2012   – William G. Moore Jr., American general (b. 1920)
  2012   – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)
  2013   – Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947)
  2013   – Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2014 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951)
  2014   – Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953)
  2014   – Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943)
2015 – Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
  2015   – Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939)
  2015   – Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
2016 – Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)
  2016   – Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  2016   – Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992)
2016   – Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
2017 – Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
  2017   – Sergei Gimayev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
  2017   – Ashwin Sundar Indian racing driver (b. 1985)
  2017   – Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (b. 1932)
  2017   – Bernie Wrightson, American illustrator and comic book artist (b. 1948)
2018 – Barkat Gourad Hamadou, former Prime minister of Djibouti (b. 1930)
  2018   – Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese social commentator and historian (b. 1935)
  2018   – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, British politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
2019 – Egon Balas, Romanian mathematician (b. 1922)
  2019   – György Baló, Hungarian broadcaster (b. 1947)
  2019   – John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist, actor and movie director (b. 1952)
  2019   – Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (b. 1931)
  2019   – Kenneth To, Hong Kong-Australian swimmer (b. 1992)
Holidays and observances
 Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
 Christian feast day:
 Alexander of Jerusalem
 Anselm of Lucca
 Cyril of Jerusalem
 Edward the Martyr
 Fridianus
 Salvator
 March 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Earliest date on which Holy Wednesday can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the week before Easter (Christianity)
 Flag Day (Aruba)
 Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)
 Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia)
 Ordnance Factories' Day (India)
 Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia)
 Teacher's Day (Syria)

References

Days of the year
The year 1928 (MCMXXIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It was also a leap year starting on Saturday on the Julian calendar. This is before Tuesday, January 1, 1929, with an adoption of the Gregorian calendar from every state in the entire world.

Events 
 January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Kazakhstan
 February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird sends the first television signal across the Atlantic Ocean, from London to New York
 May 7 – The United Kingdom gives equal voting rights to women by passing the Representation of the People Act.  This law allows women to vote when they are 21 years old, like men.  Before this, women could not vote until they were 30.
 June 9 – Australian flyer Charles Kingsford Smith finishes the first airplane flight across the Pacific Ocean.
 September 28 – Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
 October 2 – Josemaria Escriva starts Opus Dei.

Births

January
Births

January 

 January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)

February 
 February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
 February 22 – Sir Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter
 February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician
 February 28 – Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor (d. 1976)
 February 29 – Joss Ackland, British actor

March 
 March 5 – Diana Coupland, British actress
 March 6 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
 March 20 – Fred Rogers, American television children's program host and writer (d. 2003)

April 

 April 7 – James Garner, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
 April 23 – Shirley Temple, American child actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
 April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C. (1973-1977)
 April 30 – Dickie Davies, British television sports presenter (World of Sport)

May
May 

 May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2020)
 May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter
 May 23
 Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
 Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
 May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (Cheyenne)

June 

 June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, British actor, comedian, writer and television game show host (d. 2003)
 June 14 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)

July 

 July 12
 Sir Alastair Burnett, British journalist and television newsreader (ITV)
 Kathy Staff, British actress (Crossroads, Last of the Summer Wine)
 July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)

August 
 August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (d. 2010)
 August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)

September 
 September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman, Family Guy)

October

November 

 November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (d. 2022)

December
December 

 December 1 - Malachi Throne, American television actor (d. 2013)
 December 12 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (d. 2008)
 December 30 – Bo Diddley, American rock and roll musician (d. 2008).

Deaths 
 February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and mathematician
A meteor is what you see when a space rock falls to Earth. It is often known as a shooting star or falling star and can be a bright light in the night sky, though most are faint. A few survive long enough to hit the ground. That is called a meteorite, and a large one sometimes leaves a hole in the ground called a crater. 

A rock that has not yet hit the atmosphere is called a meteoroid. Meteoroids may range in size from large pieces of rock to tiny dust particles floating in space that did not form planets. When the meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere they are usually going faster than the Earth's escape velocity of 13 km/sec or Mach 40. This makes them heat up and usually break apart. When the heat makes them glow, they are known as meteors.

Meteors are distinct from comets or asteroids, but some, especially those associated with meteor showers, are dust particles that came out of comets.
There are several types of meteorites including: stony, carbonaceous chondrites, and iron-nickel. Stony meteorites are named because they are largely made up of stone-like mineral material. Carbonaceous chondrites have a high carbon content. Iron-nickel meteorites are mostly iron often with significant nickel as well.

Meteorites happened often during the Late Heavy Bombardment. Nowadays they sometimes hurt people and property. The 2013 Russian meteor event did the most damage. Large meteorite strikes may have played a part in several of the mass extinctions, and so indirectly on the course of evolution. (see K/T extinction event; List of extinction events; Chicxulub crater)

Meteorite types

Chondrites 

Chondrites are stony (non-metallic) meteorites that are as old as the Solar System: 4.55 billion years. They sometimes contain amino acids and other organic molecules.
They have not been modified due to melting or other disturbances. They are formed when various types of dust and small grains that were present in the early solar system accreted to form primitive asteroids. They are the most common type of meteorite that falls to Earth: they are about 85 or 86 percent of all meteorites. 

Their study gives clues about the origin and age of the Solar System, the synthesis of organic compounds, the origin of life or the presence of water on Earth. Chondrites can be differentiated from iron meteorites by their low iron and nickel content.

Carbonaceous chondrites 
In 2021, a meteorite crashed on the Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe. It contained water that was a near-perfect match for that on Earth. The meteorite was picked up soon after it landed. This is a suggested source for the water on Earth.

Achondrites 
About 8 percent of meteorites show signs of melting and recrystallizing. They look rather like basalt or granite.

Iron meteorites
Iron meteorites 

Iron meteorites are meteorites made of an iron–nickel alloy. They are about 6 percent of all meteorites. This comes from the inner cores of early small proto-planets. The iron found in iron meteorites was one of the earliest sources of usable iron,  before humans invented smelting. That signalled the beginning of the iron age. Iron meteorites are easily found, because native iron is rare.

Siderolites 
Siderolites are stony-iron meteorites that have almost equal parts of iron and silicates. They are quite rare: only about 1 percent of all meteorites are siderolites.

Related pages
Meteor burst communication
Panspermia

References
Similarity can mean:

In mathematics:
 Similarity (geometry), when a shape looks the same as another shape, but has a different size or rotation
 Matrix similarity, a relation between matrices

In computer science:
 String metric, or string similarity
 Semantic similarity in computational linguistics

In other fields:
 In psychology, similarity (psychology)
 In music, musical similarity
 In chemistry, chemical similarity

Related pages
 Difference
 Equality (mathematics)
 Identity (philosophy)
Notepad is a word processing program, which allows changing of text in a computer file.  Notepad was created by the Microsoft corporation.  It is a text editor, a very simple word processor.  It has been a part of Microsoft Windows since 1985. The program has options such as changing the font, the font size, and the font style. The most common use for Notepad is to view or change (edit) text (.txt) files, though .dat and .ini files can be changed in Notpad as well. Many users find Notepad a simple program for creating webpages.

Unlike using special software programs to create webpages, a Notepad user must write their webpages directly in the HTML markup language.

Word processors
Microsoft Windows software
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 in Kiel – October 4, 1947 in Göttingen) was a physicist from Germany. He discovered quantum mechanics. He won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Life 
Planck came from an old fashioned, intelligent family.  His great-grandfather and grandfather were both theology professors in Göttingen; his father was a law professor in Kiel and Munich; and his paternal uncle was a judge.

Planck was born in Kiel, Holstein, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck; of his given names, Marx (a now not used variant of Markus or maybe simply an error for Max, which is actually short for Maximilian) was indicated as the primary name. However, by the age of ten he signed with the name Max and used this for the rest of his life.
He was the sixth child in the family, although two of his brothers and sisters were from his father's first marriage. Among his earliest memories was the marching of Prussian and Austrian troops into Kiel during the Danish-Prussian war of 1864. In 1867 the family moved to Munich, and Planck enrolled in the Maximilians gymnasium school, where he came under the tutelage of Hermann Müller, a mathematician who took an interest in the youth, and taught him astronomy and mechanics as well as mathematics. It was from Müller that Planck first learned the principle of conservation of energy. Planck graduated early, at age 17. This is how Planck first came in contact with the field of physics.

References

Other websites 

 Reflexions a propòsit de la teoria dels quanta (Simone Weil) 

1858 births
1947 deaths
German academics
German Nobel Prize winners
German theoretical physicists
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (; born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, producer, television host and television presenter.

Early life
Leno was born James Douglas Muir Leno in New Rochelle, New York on April 28, 1950. His mother Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993) was a homemaker. She was born in Greenock, Scotland and came to the United States at the age of 11. Leno's father, Angelo (1910–1994), was an insurance salesman, who was born in New York, to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and even though his high school guidance counselor recommended that he drop out of school, he later obtained a Bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973. Leno's only sibling was his late older brother Patrick, who was a Vietnam veteran and a lawyer.

Career
Career

The Tonight Show
Leno worked on late night television. He became host of The Tonight Show in 1992 when Johnny Carson retired. In 2007, during the writer's strike, Leno sided with the writers, even though he returned to his show after two months (without the writers besides himself) so that his staff would not be out of work. Despite leading the late-night ratings, he was forced out as host of the Tonight Show in 2009 to make way for Conan O'Brien. On March 1, 2010, became The Tonight Show host once again, because of poor ratings with both himself and Conan O'Brien. Leno hosted his last episode of the Tonight Show on February 6, 2014.

The Jay Leno Show
He was a star of a primetime comedy show, The Jay Leno Show, which ran from September 14, 2009 to February 9, 2010.

Acting
He guest-starred twice on the Nickelodeon TV series The Fairly OddParents as the Crimson Chin. His character's name uses the fact that Leno has a large and square chin.

Personal life
Personal life

Since 1980, Leno has been married to Mavis Leno; they have no children. Leno is dyslexic.

References

Other websites

 Official Tonight Show with Jay Leno web site
 Jay Leno's Car Collection
 Jay Leno's Columns at Octane magazine
 The New York Times on Leno's affiliation with McPherson College
 Live performance videos from the Tonight Show
 

1950 births
Living people
Actors from New York (state)
People from New Rochelle, New York
American movie actors
American television talk show hosts
Comedians from New York (state)
Emmy Award winners
Vancouver is a coastal city and major seaport on the mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city has a population of over 630,000 and is the largest city in British Columbia. Metro Vancouver has a population of over 2 million people. That makes it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has a mix of people from different cultures. Fifty-two percent of city residents have a first language that is not English.

History 

Native People began living in this area around 10,000-8,000 years ago.  These people were part of three main groups: the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh.

Vancouver was founded in 1886, and is named after British naval captain George Vancouver. Captain Vancouver explored the area around Vancouver and Vancouver Island in the 1790s.

Buildings and information 
The University of British Columbia is in Vancouver.
Vancouver also has Stanley Park which has beaches and totem poles. Nearby is Grouse Mountain which has good skiing and has a 2.9 km (1.8 mi.) hiking trail which is known as the Grouse Grind. Grouse Mountain also has an animal sanctuary, including wolves and bears.

The Lions Gate Bridge is also in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

Sports 

Vancouver has two ice hockey teams, the Vancouver Canucks (who play for the National Hockey League) and the Vancouver Giants (who play for the Western Hockey League).

The BC Lions of the Canadian Football League are based in Vancouver. The team has won 6 Grey Cups.

In soccer, Vancouver is home to the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. They play in the Major League Soccer (MLS).

The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and it was the first time Canada won a gold medal on Canadian soil.
Geography 
Vancouver is on a peninsula on the West Coast of Canada, less than a one-hour drive north of the Canada-U.S. border.
Between Vancouver and the Pacific Ocean to the west is a large island called Vancouver Island. Until the city was named in 1885, "Vancouver" referred to Vancouver Island. Some people mistakenly think that the city is on Vancouver Island. 
On the south shore of Vancouver is the Fraser River, which flows west into the Strait of Georgia. The water along the north shore is called Burrard Inlet.
The city has an area of 114 square kilometres (44 sq mi). The larger metropolitan area is 2,878 square kilometres (1,111 sq mi).
As with most of British Columbia, Vancouver is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC−8).
Climate 
Vancouver has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification). The average  precipitation per year is 1189 mm, mostly from October to April. High temperatures in the summer average 22 °C. The highest temperature ever recorded was 34.4 °C on July 30, 2009. On average, snow falls on only 11 days per year. The snow is usually wet, not very deep, and melts in the rain. On average, on only 4.5 days a year does the temperature not rise above freezing.

Housing in Vancouver
Vancouver has had  a housing affordability crisis for many years. It came in as the second-least affordable housing market compared with  90 other  metropolitan areas in different  countries. The only place  considered less  affordable was Hong Kong.
Vancouver has been criticized for saying that it provides many social housing units to residents. However social housing can refer to small apartments renting for $1,700 per month. There are people with household incomes of up to $120,000 living in social housing in Vancouver.

The government has been attempting to address the housing crisis situation by imposing  a series of taxes such as the Foreign-buyers tax  and Empty Homes Tax in 2016 and Speculation tax in 2018.

Rents in Vancouver were very high, and apartment vacancies were very low in 2019.

Media 

Vancouver Stations
CBUT (CBC)
CKVU (Citytv)
CHAN (Global Television Network)
CKNO (Knowledge Network)

Notable people

Notes

References

Other websites 

Official City of Vancouver website
Tourism Vancouver 

Olympic cities
Halifax (demonym Haligonian) may refer to:

Places

Australia
Halifax Bay, North Queensland

Canada
British Columbia
Halifax Range, a mountain range

Nova Scotia
Halifax (electoral district), a federal electoral district since Confederation
Halifax Regional Municipality, capital of Nova Scotia, established in 1996, which includes:
Halifax (former city), the former city
Halifax County, Nova Scotia, the former county
Mainland Halifax, a region of the Municipality
Halifax Peninsula, part of the core of the Municipality
Metropolitan Halifax, urban part of the Municipality
Halifax Stanfield International Airport, built in Enfield in 1960
Halifax West, a federal electoral district since 1979

Prince Edward Island
Halifax Parish, Prince Edward Island

United Kingdom
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England (original source of the word "Halifax")
Halifax (UK Parliament constituency)