Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Conservation
The basking shark has been hunted for its large liver, which has been sold in Japan, and has been burned and used in lamps by fishermen in the U.K, whilst the oil has been used in the manufacture of cosmetics. Due to the long amount of time it takes to mature, and the slow reproductive rate, the basking shark is vulnerable to over-fishing, and targeted populations are very slow to recover from targeted fisheries. Today the biggest threat comes from the demand for the fins for shark fin soup, and from accidental by-catches in the fishing industries. Although it is difficult to tell exactly, there has been a report that the population of basking sharks has decreased by 80% since 1950.

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Sharks
Chamber Taluka is an administrative subdivision (taluka) of Tando Allahyar District in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The city of Chambar is the capital.

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Tehsils of Sindh
Tando Allahyar District
A fortress is a building designed to be defended, which means it was very hard for enemies to get inside. Fortification kept the people inside safe. There is little difference between a fortress and a castle. Fortresses normally have thick stone walls, thicker but less tall than in castles so artillery cannot break them. There were very small windows, without glass, so that soldiers inside could fire out through them. As time passed, the weapons they used changed, from bow and arrow, crossbow, gun or cannon. Soldiers outside had great difficulty firing into such small windows. The people defending the fortress were also able to drop things like rocks and boiling oil on the heads of those below. Successful attacks were usually sieges. 

Fortresses were not designed for comfort. They were dark and often damp. The Tower of London is an example of a fortress.

Fortification
The modern Malay alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. It is used to write Malay.

It contains the same letters as the English language alphabet. Q, V, and X are not used in native Malay words. The Malay alphabet contains 26 letters:
Letter names and pronunciations
{| class="wikitable"
! Letter
! Name
! IPA
! Notes
|-
| align=center| Aa || e ||  or  ||
|-
| align=center|  Bb || bi ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Cc || si ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Dd || di ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ee || e || ,  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ff || ef ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Gg || ji ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Hh || ec ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ii  || i ||   ||
|-
| align=center|  Jj   || je ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Kk  || ke ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ll  || el ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Mm  || em ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Nn  || en || | 
|-
| align=center|  Oo  || o ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Pp  || pi ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Qq  || kiu ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Rr  || ar ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ss  || es ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Tt  || ti ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Uu  || iu ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Vv  || vi ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Ww  || dabaliu ||  ||
|-
| align=center|  Xx  || eks ||  /  ||
|-
| align=center|  Yy  || wai ||  ||
|-
|-
| align=center|  Zz  || zed ||  ||
|}
Diphthongs

Consonant combinations

Usage
Actual written examples of the Malay language:

Good day Apa khabar

What is your name? Siapa nama awak?

Do you speak Malay? Awak boleh cakap bahasa Melayu ke?

Related pages
 Malay language

Other websites
 Malay alphabet
 Omniglot
 Coba-coba(Cuba-cuba) Bahasa Indonesia ＆ Bahasa Melayu 
 Sistem Ejaan Bahasa Melayu 
 Pedoman Umum Ejaan Bahasa Melayu 

Alphabets
Central Plaza is a skyscraper in Hong Kong.  It is  tall. It has 78 floors. It was built in 1992. It is one of the tallest buildings in the world

Photo Gallery

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in the world

Other websites

 Emporis.com - Central Plaza
SkycraperPage.com – Central Plaza

Skyscrapers in China
Buildings and structures in Hong Kong
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) is a huge baleen whale. It is the second largest animal on Earth (the blue whale is the biggest). This whale is sometimes called the "greyhound of the sea" because of its fast swimming speed; it can swim up to 23 mph (37 km/hr) in short bursts. The fin whale is also called the finback, finner, razorback, common rorqual, and herring whale.

Description 
The fin whale is a streamlined whale that is found worldwide; it is most common in the North Atlantic. There are three separate populations of fin whales, one in the North Pacific, one in the North Atlantic, and one in the Southern Hemisphere; they do not interbreed. Many groups of fin whales migrate between feeding grounds and breeding grounds. This whale usually swims in pods of 3-7 whales but larger groups (up to 300 animals) may form at rich feeding grounds.
Diet and baleen 
Fin whales are filter feeders that eat plankton (tiny crustaceans like krill and copepods) and small fish from the water. They have very fine grey-black baleen that traps very small particles of food. Each side of the upper jaw has 270-470 baleen plates.

References

Baleen whales
James Skinner CB (1778 – December 4, 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India.

Skinner was born in India, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Skinner and a Indian lady from Bhojpur. Because of his Indian heritage, Skinner was unable to serve as an officer in the East India Company army and, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Mahratta army under Benoît de Boigne, where he soon showed military talent. He remained in the same service under Pierre Cuillier-Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the second Anglo-Maratha War all Anglo-Indians were dismissed from Mahratta service.

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1778 births
1841 deaths
British Indian Army officers
People from Maharashtra
Nauplion is a Greek city. It is in the Argolida's prefecture, in the east of Peloponnese peninsula. Near Nauplio is the historical city of Argos. Nauplio was the first capital of Greece. Nauplio is a coastal city. It has three castles. The most famous are the Palamidi castle, and Bourtzi castle which is on the islet in front of the port. The population of Nauplion is 13,124 inhabitants.

History 
Nauplion was the second capital of Greece. In 1834 the king Otto carried the capital to Athens. Nauplion was one of the first cities which were liberated during Greek War of Independence.

Sites of interest 

Nauplion has many sites of interest. The most interest sites are its three castle. Its old neighborhoods are also very beautiful places for visit. In Nauplion there are many old beautiful buildings from previous century. 

Cities in Greece
Lincoln is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 6,845.

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Cities in Alabama
Linden is a city in and the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama, United States. The population was 1,930 at the 2020 census.

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Cities in Alabama
County seats in Alabama
Lineville is a city in Clay County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 2,489.

References

Cities in Alabama
Lipscomb is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 2,086.

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Cities in Alabama
Livingston is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 3,436. The city is the county seat of Sumter County.

References

Cities in Alabama
County seats in Alabama
Luverne is a city in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 2,765. The city is the county seat of Crenshaw County.

Media
Radio station
WHLW 104.3 FM (Gospel)
Newspaper
Luverne Journal (weekly)

References

Cities in Alabama
County seats in Alabama
Iridaceae are perennial herbs from rhizomes, bulbs or corms comprising about 80 genera and 1,500 species. The leaves are distichous and have a sheathing, equitant base and a generally ensiform or linear blade with parallel venation. The flowers are bisexual, usually showy, and are actinomorphic or zygomorphic.

Some genera:
 Gladiolus
 Ixia 
 Iris
 Libertia
The Tampa Bay Area is an area in West Central Florida that includes Tampa and St. Pete. Among notable residents is John Cena, a WWE pro wrestler and former 3-time WWE Champion and reigning World Heavyweight Champion.

References 

Tampa, Florida
Metropolitan areas of the United States
Live at Wembley '86 is a set of two discs recorded by English rock band Queen.

It was recorded live on Saturday July 12, 1986 during the Magic Tour at Wembley Stadium in London, England and was released on May 26, 1992.

A DVD was released in June 2003. The album was re-sold in a new CD with bonus tracks in August 2003 in the United States as Live at Wembley Stadium after the DVD.

1992 albums
Queen (band) albums
Melbourne, Australia introduced trams in 1885 and now it is the largest tram network in the world, consisting of  of tracks, 450 trams, 25 routes, and 1,700 tram stops. The trams are powered using 600V DC delivered by overhead wires and run on standard gauge track. Currently operated by a private company, Yarra Trams under contract from the Victorian Government, the owner of the network. Melbourne's trams give a lot to the city's distinctive character and are loved by the people of Melbourne. 

In 2015-16, a total of 203 million passengers took rides on Melbourne’s trams.

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Public transport in Melbourne
Australia
Rail transport in Australia
Lincoln City F.C. is an English football team currently playing in Football League one (the third tier of the English football league system).

The team play at the 10,127 capacity Sincil Bank in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and are nicknamed the Imps after the legend of the Lincoln Imp. More recently, they have also been known as the Red Imps. Traditionally they play in red and white striped shirts with black shorts and red and white socks.

League position

Former position 

English football clubs
1884 establishments in England
Neamţ () is a county (judeţ) of Romania, in the historic region of Moldavia, with the county seat at Piatra Neamţ.

Demographics 
In 2002, it had a population of 557,000 and a population density of 99/km².

Romanians - 98.66%
Hungarians - 0.05%
Rromas - 1.08
Lipovans - 0.07%, and others

References

Other websites 

 www.piatra-neamt.net - Neamt info portal 
 prefecturaneamt.ro - The Neamt Prefecture
 judetulneamt.ro - Neamt county map 
 neamt.ro - a website about Neamt county 
 mont.ro - biggest newspaper in Neamt

Counties of Romania
The Retezat Mountains (, ) are one of the highest massifs in Romania. They are part of the Southern Carpathians. The highest peak is Peleaga (Vârful Peleaga), at an altitude of . Other important peaks are Păpuşa (Varful Păpuşa) and Retezat Peak (Vârful Retezat).

The Retezat Mountains have many glacial lakes. The largest glacial lake in Romania, Bucura Lake (lacul Bucura) is in these mountains. It covers  and is located at an altitude of  metres. The area also contains the Retezat National Park, Romania's first national park.

Other websites

Retezat page on SummitPost
Website of Retezat National Park
Maps of the Retezat
Jiu Valley Portal  - Romania's principal coalmining region and a gateway to the Retezat National Park
Retezat - photographs + information in Czech 
Alpinet

Mountain ranges of the Carpathians
Mountains of Romania
Swainsona formosa, commonly called Sturt's Desert Pea, is the floral emblem of South Australia It was named after explorer Charles Sturt.

This plant is a part of the pea family, Fabaceae. It is only found in Australia. It grows in the drier areas of the country except in Victoria. Explorer William Dampier was the first European to collect a sample of the plant. He found it growing in what is now called the Dampier Archipelago in Western Australia in 1699.

Other websites
 Download a line drawing of the plant

References

Plants of Australia
Faboideae
Gossypium sturtianum, commonly called Sturt's Desert Rose, is the floral emblem of the Northern Territory. It was named after explorer Charles Sturt who found the plant in creeks near the site of Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1844. He collected the seeds and brought them back for Robert Brown (1773-1858), a Scottish botanist, to study.

A stylized drawing of the flower is used on the Northern Territory's flag.

References

Plants of Australia
Malvaceae
The University of San Francisco, is a private Jesuit university founded in 1855 in San Francisco, California, and is the oldest university in San Francisco.

Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Landmarks in San Francisco
San Francisco
1855 establishments in the United States
1850s establishments in California
Hurricane Nora was the first hurricane to cause a significant danger to the Continental United States since Kathleen in 1976.

Part of a tropical wave that contributed to the formation of Hurricane Erika in the Atlantic moved into the Pacific and organized into Tropical Depression 16-E on September 16 and Tropical Storm Nora that same day. Nora became a hurricane in a favorable environment September 18 while moving northwest. Its motion then stalled over an upwelling of cooler water that weakened it.

On September 20, Nora again started moving. It reached its peak intensity of 115 knots and 950 mb  On September 21 and 22 it moved over the wake of Hurricane Linda. This weakened the storm pack down to a Category 1.
During this time, a trough developed that turned Nora to the northeast. This carried Nora over a favorable environment and towards Baja California. After restrengthening slightly, Nora made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Punta Eugenia and again south of San Fernando, both times as a hurricane.

Nora stayed a tropical storm as it moved into the United States. Yuma reported sustained gale-force winds. Rains were heavy, sometimes exceeding the "annual" rainfall for the area. Nora weakened to a depression while over California, and it dissipated September 26.

Nora killed two people in Mexico. One was killed by a downed power line in Mexicali, and the other was a scuba diving in underwater currents. No one in the United States was directly killed by Nora. However, the California Highway Patrol attributed several traffic accident deaths to the weather.
There was extensive damage to areas hit by Nora. Waves ruined dozens of homes. Roughly 350 to 400 people were left homeless in San Felipe, and winds uprooted trees and peeled roofs from homes in Puerto Peñasco.

In the United States, thousands were left without power in California and Arizona, and 16 telephone poles were downed in Seeley. Streets flooded in San Diego, Indio, El Centro, and Palm Springs. A remnant circulation continued aloft, and damaged trees and three homes in Utah. Total damages were "several hundred million dollars", as well as 40 million dollars to lemon trees.

Nora crossed an area of abnormally warm water near the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula. It restrengthened slightly before making its first landfall near Bahía Tortugas, Baja California Sur. When Nora was inland, the area of the storm located in the Gulf of California began to reintensify. Hurricane Nora then made a second landfall about 60 miles (95 km) south-southeast of San Fernando, Baja California.
On September 24, Arizona Governor Jane Dee Hull activated an emergency response center to prepare the state's response to the flash flooding the storm would cause on the dry desert floor, and Yuma residents began to fill approximately 55,000 sandbags to contain the possible flooding. Hull also activated the state's National Guard, and sent drinking water and electric generators to Yuma. Farther inland, the National Weather Service issued flash flood watches for western Arizona, southeastern California, southwestern Colorado, southern Nevada and southern Utah on September 26.

In the United States, there were no direct deaths blamed on the hurricane. However, the California Highway Patrol attributed three or four traffic fatalities in southern California to the weather.
Damage totals in the United States are not fully known, although media summaries of Nora included a loss to agriculture preliminarily estimated at several hundred million dollars, and at least one study places the figure at $150–200 million (1997 USD). It is estimated that $30–40 million (1997 USD) in damage to lemon trees occurred. Although Nora was significantly weakened, near hurricane-force winds were observed at the Dixie National Forest in southwestern Utah, where strong gusts sheared off the tops of large trees.

The Yuma radar indicated a small area of  rainfall totals along the northern Gulf of California coast of Baja California. In the United States, the largest total rainfall was recorded at the Harquahala Mountains in Arizona, where  of rainfall were recorded as a result of Nora, causing flash floods in western Arizona.
Near Phoenix, rainfall from the storm caused the Narrows Dam, a small earthen dam, to fail. In other locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah, more than  occurred in a few localized areas, sometimes with precipitation comparable to the entire local yearly average rainfall. Flooding was also reported in Somerton, San Diego, El Centro, Palm Springs and Indio, while 12,000 people lost power in Yuma, as well as Los Angeles and southwestern Utah.

Despite the damage, the World Meteorological Organization did not retire the name Nora during its meeting in the spring of 1998. As a result, it was used in the 2003 Pacific hurricane season and is on the list of names to be used in 2009.

References 

1997 in California
1997 Pacific hurricane season
1990s in Mexico
1990s in Arizona
Mureş (, ) is a county (judeţ) of Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. The capital of Mureş County is Târgu Mureş.

Geography 
Mureş County has an area of 6,714 km².

Population 
In 2002, about 582,000 people lived in Mureş County.

Divisions 
Mureş County has 4 municipalities, 7 towns and 91 communes.

Municipalities 
 Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) 
 Sighişoara (Segesvár)
 Reghin (Szászrégen) 
 Târnăveni (Dicsőszentmárton)

Towns 
 Iernut (Radnót) 
 Luduş (Marosludas) 
 Sovata (Szováta) 
 Miercurea Nirajului (Nyárádszereda) 
 Sărmaşu (Nagysármás) 
 Sângeorgiu de Pădure (Erdőszentgyörgy) 
 Ungheni (Nyárádtő)

Communes

References

Other websites 

  Mureş Info
  Mureş online

Counties of Romania
Transylvania
Hurricane Dog was the strongest hurricane in the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the fourth named storm of the season. Dog began on August 30 to the east of Antigua. After passing through the northern Lesser Antilles, the storm turned to the north and became a Category 5 hurricane. Dog reached its highest strength of 185 mph (295 km/h) winds over the ocean. The hurricane weakened and passed within 200 miles (320 km) of Cape Cod before becoming extratropical on September 12.

Hurricane Dog caused high damage to the Leeward Islands, and was said to be the strongest hurricane on record in Antigua. Many buildings were destroyed or damaged on the island. In the United States, the hurricane caused damage along the coast. It damaged several boats and caused 11 people to drown. Strong winds caused large power outages across southeastern New England. Damage along Hurricane Dog's track totaled to about $3 million (1950 USD, $25.7 million 2007 USD).

Other websites
 1950 Monthly Weather Review
Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
Hurricanes in the United States
1950 in the United States
Antigua and Barbuda
1950s in weather
Württemberg [], formerly known as Wirtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia. It was originally a Duchy but was raised to a Kingdom in 1806. 

Former states in Germany
States of the Holy Roman Empire
11th-century establishments in Germany
1918 disestablishments in Germany
Tiraspol (Russian: Тирасполь and Ukrainian: Тираспіль) is the second biggest city of Moldova and the capital city of Transnistria.

Cities in Moldova
Transnistria
Sukhumi or Sokhumi () is the capital and largest city of the breakaway independent state of Abkhazia.

Sokhumi was a multi-ethnic city. The people were Georgians, Abkhazians (Apsuans), Russians, Turks, Armenians and Greeks during Soviet Rule. During the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict Georgians in Abkhazia were forced to leave. Most Greeks have also left.

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Abkhazia
Settlements in Georgia (country)
Capital cities in Asia
Capital cities in Europe

Port cities and towns of the Black Sea
Tskhinvali is the capital city of South Ossetia.

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South Ossetia
Cities in Europe
Cities in Asia
Mariehamm () is the capital city of the Åland Islands, an autonomous region in Finland. As of January 2014, more than 11,400 people lived in Mariehamm. Many ships sail between Mariehamn and the port of Turku.

Other websites

 infopage

Cities in Finland
Åland Islands
Capital cities in Europe
Funchal is the capital city of Madeira, part of Portugal.  It is also the largest city of Madeira with 111,892 people.

Funchal is in a valley.  It has even temperatures all year round.  There is a rainier and slightly cooler season from October through March.  A drier and warmer season lasts from April through September.

Transportation
The harbor of Funchal used to be the only major port in Madeira. In 2007 cargo trade was moved to the port of Caniçal, 12 miles to the east. Funchal still serves cruise ships, ferries, and other tourist-related boats and yachts. 

A highway to Câmara de Lobos and Ribeira Brava is to the west. Santa Cruz, Machico and Caniçal can be reached to the east.

Madeira Airport is east of the city, in the municipality of Santa Cruz.

 
Madeira Islands
1424 establishments
Establishments in Portugal
1420s establishments in Europe
Simferopol () was the capital city of Crimea, Ukraine. It became the capital city of the Republic of Crimea on March 11, 2014.

Capitals of republics of Russia
Cities in Crimea
Structure and rules
A match between two players is made up of up to 11 rounds of boxing and chess sessions, starting with a four-minute chess round followed by two minutes of boxing and so on. Between rounds there is a one-minute pause, during which the players change their gear. The form of chess played is rapid chess in which each player has a total of twelve minutes for the whole game. Players may win by knocking out the other player, checkmate, a judge's choice, or if the other player runs out of chess time. If a player does not make a move in the round of chess, he will be given a warning by the referee and he must then make a move in the next 10 seconds.

History
History

The idea was started in 1992 by cartoonist Enki Bilal, and a match of chess boxing was a big story part of his graphic novel Froid Équateur. Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist, was took the idea from Bilal's book and started the sport in the spring of 2001. Rubingh decided that the method of play in the book, a boxing match with a chess match after, was not very good. Rubingh made the rules so a round of chess would come after a round of boxing.

The World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO), keeps control of the sport. The first world championship was in Amsterdam in 2003 and was won by Iepe Rubingh, the starter of the sport. The First European Chess Boxing Championship took place in Berlin on October 1, 2005 when Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev of Bulgaria beat Andreas D'Schneider of Germany after D'Schneider gave up in the seventh round.
In April 2008, the World Chess Federation, FIDE, posted a video on its website in which its president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov played a friendly chess boxing match in Elista. Also in April 2008 the UK's first Chess Boxing club was started in London by Great Britain Chess Boxing Organisation founder Tim Woolgar. In July 2008 in Berlin, a 19-year old Russian mathematics student Nikolai Sazhin won the title of "World Champion" in chess boxing by beating Frank Stoldt. Stoldt resigned in the 5th round after losing his queen.

Notes

Chess
Iepe B. T. Rubingh (; 17 August 1974 – 9 May 2020) was a Dutch  artist who was best known for starting chess boxing in 2003. He was born in Rotterdam.

Rubingh died on 9 May 2020 in Berlin, aged 45.

References

Other websites
His own website
An interview with the artist 

1974 births
2020 deaths
Dutch artists
Chess
People from Rotterdam
Teresa Stratas (born May 26, 1938) is a Canadian soprano opera singer and actress. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Stratas has won 3 Grammy Awards and been nominated for a Tony Award

References

Other websites

1938 births
Living people
Singers from Toronto
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Musical theater actors
North American opera singers
Sopranos
Actors from Toronto
Grammy Award winners
Beth Groundwater is an American author who has written two novels in the Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series, A Real Basket Case and To Hell in a Handbasket. The first, published in March, 2007, was put up for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007.  The sequel, To Hell in a Handbasket was published in May, 2009.  She writes in the Mystery genre, and has also written several short stories.

Writing career
Groundwater first began writing fiction in the fifth grade, and in high school took an outside study in English.  She went to the College of William and Mary and got a degree in Psychology and Computer Science in 1978.  She worked in another job until 1999, then she chose to become a writer.
After going to a few writers' meetings, she began writing short stories.  Seven were published before she met a literary agent who agreed to publish her first novel, A Real Basket Case.  It was published in 2007, and was put up for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007.  Of her short stories, eight have been published and one was written in Farsi.  Another of Groundwater's short stories has been made into a live play.

Awards
Groundwater's writings have won several awards.  Her first novel was put up for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007.  Groundwater's short stories have won awards also. Her short story "New Zealand" won first place in the 2003 PPW Paul Gillette Memorial Writing Contest, and was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Short Story Anthology Contest.  "Flamingo Fatality" won the Great Manhattan Mysteries Conclave Short Story Anthology Contest in 2005, and her 2005 short story "Lucky Bear" was first in the Storyteller Magazine Flash Fiction Contest.

Notes
Notes

Writers from Virginia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Yana (Yanina) Batyrshina (Russian:Яна (Янина) Фархадовна Батыршина, born October 07, 1979 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union)  is a former Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She competed for Russia. She was born to Tatar father and Jewish mother.

Russian gymnasts
1979 births
Living people
A Real Basket Case is a fictional mystery novel that was written by Beth Groundwater. It was published by Five Star Publishing on March 21, 2007. It was later re-published in large print in January 2008. The novel follows the story of Claire Hanover who sets out to find out who murdered her husband.

It was put up for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007. The sequel, To Hell in a Handbasket is scheduled to be published in 2009.

Awards 
Even though Beth Groundwater won the Princess of Rejection prize from the Sisters in Crime Guppies Chapter for having the second most rejections for her writings in the winter of 2005, A Real Basket Case was put up for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007.
Reviews 
The novel got good reviews in several large newspapers. Barbara Bibel from Booklist review said that, "This will appeal to Desperate Housewives fans and those who like cozies with a bit of spice." Kirkus Reviews called A Real Basket Case "A tense, exciting debut." Author J.B. Thompson praised the novel, but he also said the main character could have been written better.

References 

2007 books
21st-century American novels
Crime fiction books
Right Now is the debut album by X Factor winner Leon Jackson.

Tracklist 
 "Don't Call This Love"
 "Creative"
 "Stargazing"
 "All In Good Time"
 "Right Now"
 "You Don't Know Me"
 "Ordinary Days"
 "A Song For You"
 "Fingerprints"
 "Could Do Better"
 "Misty Blue"
 "Caledonia"
 "When You Believe" (UK Bonus Track)

Chart Performance

References

2008 albums
Debut albums
Pop albums
Jazz albums
Soul albums
Leon Jackson (born 30 December 1988) is a Scottish singer. He won the 2007 UK series of the television show The X Factor. His singles are "When You Believe", "Don't Call This Love" and "Creative". His album is Right Now.

References

1988 births
Living people
British pop musicians
British jazz musicians
Scottish rock musicians
Scottish singers
The X Factor winners
People from West Lothian
Karditsa is a Greek city. It is in the center of Greece in the district of Thessaly. It had 35,971 people according to the 2001 census. Karditsa is build on the large plain which is named Thessaly plain. It is the second largest plain in Greece. So it is an agricultural city. Near Karditsa is the city of Trikala. The west of Karditsa is the Agrafa range. Agrafa is a part of Pindus range.  

Cities in Greece
Gooloogong is a small town in New South Wales. It is built on the banks of the Lachlan River. It is 57km south east of Forbes, 34 km north west of Cowra and 358 km west of the state capital, Sydney. There are about 250 people living in Gooloogong.

The town was established in the 1860s on what was the Pastoral Lease 'Goolagong'of Edward Sheahan from around 1840.

The town was originally built much closer to the Lachlan River, but was moved to higher ground because of floods.

John O'Meally is buried in an unmarked grave in the Anglican cemetery at Gooloogong. He was a member of Ben Hall's gang. He was shot dead when the gang tried to rob the Campbell's farm, Goimbla Station, on November 19, 1863.

Facilities
Gooloogong has a hotel, shops and a park.

References

Towns in New South Wales
Boorowa is a small town in New South Wales. It is  from Yass. The town is built on the banks of the Boorowa River, which flows into the Lachlan River. The town was first called Burrowa. Boorowa and Burrowa are Aboriginal words in the Wiradjuri language meaning "birds". In 2008, there were 1350 living in Boorowa.

The first people to live in the area were the Wiraduri people. This was one of the largest tribes in New South Wales. They had several regular camping sites along the Lachlan and Boorowa Rivers. It is estimated that there were several thousand Wiradjuri people at the time of European settlement. A survey in 1851 showed that there were only 300 people left. Local Wiradjuri people were forced onto government reserves at Rye Park and Edgerton.
Early settlement
It is not known for sure who the first European explorers were in this area. Hamilton Hume and his neighbour, William Broughton, had explored the Yass area in 1821. They may have gone farther towards the Lachlan. Broughton had one of the first farms on the Boorowa River in 1828. By 1849, he had  of land in the area. Other early settlers were James Hassall in 1827. His family already had large farms at Cowra by 1823. His brother Tom Hassal, a clergyman and his wife Ann Marsden (daughter of Reverend Samuel Marsden) and other family members were given land in 1831. There was a law at the time which gave free land to the children of clergy.
Irish influence
Many of the settlers in Boorowa were from Ireland and the town shows their influence. Two early settlers in the 1820s were cousins, Roger Corcoran and Ned Ryan. They had been sent to Australia as convicts. Saint Patrick's Church, built in 1877 has a huge stained glass window brought from Ireland in 1881. It shows Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) the "Liberator of Ireland." The oldest building still standing in Boorowa is Shamrock Cottage, built in 1850, once the home of the owner of the Queens Arms Hotel.

Old buildings
There are many old buildings still standing in Boorowa. Webb and Crego's store, built in 1862, was robbed by bushranger Ben Hall in 1863. The Royal Hotel, built in 1860, is still a hotel although it is now called the Ram and Stallion Hotel. The Court House, built in 1884, is now an information centre for tourists.

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Guity Novin (born Guity Navran on April 21, 1944) is a Persian-Canadian painter and sculptor. She has started a movement in painting that she has named Transpressionism. She was born in Kermanshah, Iran, in 1944. She now lives and works in Vancouver and Toronto. Guity Novin was graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tehran in 1970. After leaving Iran, she moved to The Hague, Netherlands in 1975, and then to Manchester, UK where she completed her studies.

She moved to Canada in 1980 and lived and exhibited in Kingston (Ontario), Montreal, and Ottawa and finally settled in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She has introduced the Transpressionism style in 1994. By using this style she tries to convey her passionate philosophical ideas.

She has served on a UNESCO national committee of artists.

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Murringo is a small town in New South Wales. It is 25kms east of Young and 406 km west of the state capital, Sydney. The town was in the area often robbed by the bushranger, Ben Hall.

Early settlement
Europen settlers moved into the area in 1827. The first farm in the area was Marengo Station, 1833, owned by John Scarr. By 1840 there were about 40 people living in the area. When the town was laid out by the surveyors in 1849, they called the town Murringo. It has also been called Meringo, Marringa, Maringa, Muringo, Maringo and Marengo. In 1926 the town was officially called Murringo. In 1864, Ben Hall robbed John Scarr and his brother as they rode along the road to Burrowa.
The original plans included a market place, a big cemetery and large parks. When gold was found nearby at Lambing Flat in 1860, most of the people moved to the goldfields. Although there were only about 120 people living in the town, the people saved money and built the Christ Church Anglican Church in 1866. The foundation stone for the Sacred Heart Catholic Church was laid in 1871. A post office opened in 1857.

A number of historic buildings are still standing in Murringo. The church (1866), the Marengo Hotel, the police station (1880), the school (1870), school teacher's house (1879), the Plough Inn (a hotel) (built before 1860) and the Post Office (1857). A blacksmiths shop and cottage from the 1870's has been turned into a craft workshop.

Other websites
 Murringo Primary School 
 Murringo.com, Virtual Village

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Wellington is a town in New South Wales. It is where the Macquarie and Bell Rivers join. The town is the centre of the Wellington Shire Local Government Area. The town is 362kms from Sydney on the Great Western Highway and Mitchell Highway. The average summer temperatures are between 17.5º Celsius and 31.7º Celsius. In winter the temperatures are between 1.5º Celsius and 15º Celsius. In 2001 there were 4,672 people living in Wellington. There were 9,200 people living in the Wellington Shire.

History
The area was originally lived in by the Wiradjuri people. Explorer John Oxley was the first Europen to visit the area in 1817. He named it "Wellington Valley" after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Wellington was settled in the 1823 by Lieutenant Percy Simpson in early 1823 as a convict settlement. Farmers started settling along the Macquarie Valley. The convict settlement closed in 1831. In 1832 a Christian mission was started in the settlement for the Aborigines. A village called Montefiores was started on the north side of the Macquarie River crossing. The village of Wellington was officially listed in 1846 and was made a town in 1879. Wellington Shire Council was started in 1947.

Wellington is the second oldest New South Wales settlement west of the Blue Mountains. A hotel that opened in 1842 is the oldest hotel west of the Blue Mountains. It was also the site of the last recorded duel fought in Australia in 1854. The railway from Sydney reached Wellington in 1880.
Economy
Wellington is the centre of rich farm land. Lucerne and vegetables are grown on land beside the river. Wheat, wool, fat lambs and beef cattle are grown nearby. The town acts as a business centre for the district. However, now Orange and Dubbo have become bigger business centres.

In September 2008, a gaol, the Wellington Correctional Centre was opened. A Probation and Parole Office was also opened in the centre of town. Wellington Council hopes this will increase the number of jobs and bring visitors to the town.

The local newspaper The Wellington Times, owned by Rural Press, is printed three times a week.Home - ACM Ad Centre.

Transport
There is a daily train, the CountryLink XPT, which runs between Sydney and Dubbo.

The closest commercial airport is at Dubbo. There are regular daily flights from Sydney. There is a small airport ( Bondangora Airport) for private planes 12 km east of Wellington.
Nearby attractions
Lake Burrendong, a man-made lake. is 30 km south of the town. Its holds three and a half times more water than Sydney Harbour. Its water is used for farming. It is also visited by people wanting to fish, sail and water ski. Burrendong Arboretum is a sanctuary for endangered Australian plants and covers 1.60 km².

The Wellington Caves are millions of years old. The main cave is Cathedral Cave with the massive Altar Rock.

The Wellington Boot, a country racing festival is held in every year in March and April. There is also a winery, the Bell River Wine Estate. The Nangara Gallery has a collection of Aboriginal objects.

Famous people from Wellington 
 Ian O'Brien, Olympic gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics grew up in Wellington.
 Ben Austin, Paralyimpian, grew up in Wellington.

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Other websites

 Visit Wellington - Official website for visitors
 About Wellington and District 
 Travel Mate page

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Towns in New South Wales
A white Christmas means that at least an inch of snow has fallen on Christmas Morning. This is more common in some countries than in others.  

For example, in  the United Kingdom, there are not a lot of White Christmases; but in Canada, there is almost always a White Christmas. Ireland's last "official" White Christmas was in 2004.

White Christmases in Canada

White Christmases in the United States

Since the 1950's, there are less White Christmases in the USA.

White Christmases in the United Kingdom

Related pages
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Other websites 
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White Christmas Sweet from Australia 

Christmas
Binalong is a small town in New South Wales, Australia. It is 37 km north-west of Yass.

History
The Aboriginal people who lived in the area were part of the Ngunnawal people.  The first Europen to visit the area was Hamilton Hume in 1821. The name of the town is believed to come from either an Aboriginal word meaning 'towards a high place' or from 'Bennelong', the name of a famous Aborigine.

Binalong was outside the legal limits of European settlement in New South Wales. However farmers settled in the area before the law changed to allow settlement in 1839.  From 1847 there was a police camp at Binalong and a court. The old Cobb and Co inn was built at that time as a staging post for Cobb and Co coaches.
The town was officially listed in 1850. It was an important stop on the way for people going to look for gold at Lambing Flat. The school was started in 1861.  Gold also meant that there were bushrangers in the area.  The grave of John Gilbert is near the town in the field where the police kept their horses.  He was a member of Frank Gardiner's gang  and later Ben Hall's gang. He was shot dead by police in 1865.

Railway
The first railway station opened in 1875. The railway arrived in 1876.  The current building was put up when the railway line was moved in 1916. The station and the signal box are now closed.

Banjo Paterson
The family of the poet Banjo Paterson moved to the Binalong area in 1869 when he was five years old.  He went to the primary school in Binalong but later went to boarding school in Sydney. He only came home in the holidays.  Binalong features in a number of his poems, for example, Pardon, the son of Reprieve .  Paterson's father is buried in the local cemetery.

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Other websites 
Banjo Paterson's story of the place where he spent his childhood 
Binalong Public School
History of Binalong 

Towns in New South Wales
Astro can refer to:

 Astronomy
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 Astrodome, a sports stadium in Houston, Texas
 Chevrolet Astro, a mid-sized van made by Chevrolet
 Adobe Flash Player version 10, codenamed Astro
 Astro (satellite TV)
 "Astro", a fictional dog in the TV series The Jetsons
Astro is a subscription-based direct broadcast satellite service based in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It transmits digital satellite television and radio to households in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore. Astro is owned by MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems, which is a subsidiary of Astro All Asia Networks plc.

Related pages
 Astro corporate web site
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 Astro's Indonesia service website 
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Muscle Shoals is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of 2020, the population of the city was 16,275.

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Moulton is a city in Lawrence County, Alabama. It is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 3,398. The city is the county seat of Lawrence County.

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Montevallo is a city in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. A college town, it is the home of the University of Montevallo, a public liberal arts university with around 3000 students. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city of Montevallo was 7,229.

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Monroeville is a city in Monroe County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 5,951. The city is the county seat of Monroe County.

Literary fame 
Author Harper Lee was born and raised in Monroeville. In her book To Kill a Mockingbird, the fictional town of Maycomb is modeled on her hometown. The book received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Millbrook is a city in Autauga and Elmore counties in the U.S. state of Alabama.  The population was 16,564 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography 
Millbrook has a total area of 14.51 square miles.

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Madison is a city in Limestone and Madison counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 56,933.

Madison is close to the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, a major US army installation.  Redstone Arsenal expanded in the 2000s when it took over the work of other Army installations that closed.  Madison is one of the fastest growing communities in Alabama.  The region's economy is also supported by NASA (the Marshall Space Flight Center), and major defense contractors.

Madison is served by a good public school system and by numerous private schools.  Some of the accredited private schools are Madison Academy, Westminster Christian Academy, Randolph School, and Faith Christian Academy.

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Marion is the county seat of Perry County, Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,176. The city was first called Muckle Ridge. It was renamed after a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion.

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Midfield is a town in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 5,211.

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Fairhope is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama. It is on a sloping plateau, along the cliffs and shoreline of Mobile Bay. As of the 2020 census, 22,477 people lived there.

Notable residents 
Upton Sinclair (winter visitor), author (The Jungle)
Winston Groom, author (Forrest Gump)
Fannie Flagg, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, actress in the movie Grease and The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Dean Mosher, well known historical painter

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Fairfield is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a suburb of Birmingham.  The population was 10,000 at the 2020 census. Fairfield was founded in 1910.

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1910 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Alabama
Fultondale is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a northern suburb of Birmingham. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 9,876.

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Fruithurst is a city in Cleburne County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 235.

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Fort Payne is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877. The city is the county seat of DeKalb County.  The city calls itself the "Official Sock Capital of the World."

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurred here in 2003.

Local Attractions

Fort Payne has the headquarters for the nearby Little River Canyon National Preserve, a 14000 acre National Park Service facility.  The canyon itself is at Lookout Mountain outside the city limits.  Another attraction is DeSoto State Park, a smaller facility with a lodge, restaurant, cabins, and river access areas.

Education
Fort Payne is served by the Fort Payne City Schools system which includes:
Wills Valley Elementary (K-2)
Williams Avenue Elementary (3-4)
Fort Payne Middle School (5-8)
Fort Payne High School (9-12)

Fort Payne is also served by the Northeast Alabama Community College which is in Rainsville.

Health care
DeKalb Regional Medical Center- 134 bed facility
Media
Radio stations
WFPA-AM 1400 (News/Talk)
WZOB-AM 1250 (Country)
Newspapers
The Times-Journal
The DeKalb Advertiser

Transportation
  Interstate 59
 U.S. Highway 11
  Alabama State Route 35
Norfolk Southern Railway
 Isbell Field (municipal airport)
Notable natives and residents
Miles C. Allgood (1878–1977), United States Congressman
Jeff Cook,  Teddy Gentry, and Randy Owen, founders of the Country music band Alabama
Lt. Gen. Duward Crow (1919–1997), Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, USAF and Associate Deputy Administrator, NASA
Howard Finster (1916–2001), religious folk artist and Baptist minister
Flock Family (NASCAR drivers)
Bob Flock (1918–1964)
Fonty Flock (1921–1972)
Tim Flock (1924–1998)
Ethel Mobley (1920–1984)
Milford W. Howard, United States Congressman and writer
Lt. Gen. Forrest S. McCartney(ret.), USAF and director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center
Larry Nelson, professional golfer
Philip Ober (1902–1982), actor
Lilius Bratton Rainey (1876–1959), United States Congressman
Ron Sparks, Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nominee
Katherine Stinson, pioneer female pilot, fourth woman in the U.S. to become a licensed pilot

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Cities in Alabama
Fort Mitchell is a community of 1,400 people in Russell County, Alabama, USA. It is south of Phenix City. The area was first a garrisoned fort. It was meant to help defend the area during the Creek War.

Landmarks 
Fort Mitchell National Cemetery
Fort Mitchell Park

Unincorporated communities in Alabama
Foley is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. The 2020 census lists the population of the city as 20,335.

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Florence is a city in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. It is in the northwestern corner of the state.

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Florala is a city in Covington County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,923.

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