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Throughout the series, Rowling wrote Harry Potter as a gifted wizard apprentice. She stated in a 2000 interview with South West News Service that Harry Potter is "particularly talented" in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and also good in Quidditch. Rowling said in the same interview that until about halfway through the third book, his good friend Hermione Granger –written as the smartest student in Harry's year– would have beaten Harry in a magical duel. From the fourth book onwards, Rowling admits Harry has become quite talented in the Defence Against the Dark Arts and would beat his friend Hermione in a magical duel. His power is evident from the beginning of the series; specifically, Harry shows immediate command of a broomstick, produces a Patronus at an early age and survives several confrontations with Voldemort. Harry is able to speak and understand Parseltongue, a language associated with Dark Magic, which, according to Rowling, is because he harbours a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul
. After Voldemort destroys that soul piece in the seventh book's climax, Harry loses the ability to speak Parseltongue. Harry "is very glad" to have lost this gift.
According to Rowling, Harry's favourite book is Quidditch Through the Ages, an actual book that Rowling wrote (under the pseudonym Kennilworthy Whisp) for the Comic Relief charity.

Possessions

When Harry's parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort, they left behind a large pile of wizard's gold, used as currency in the world of magic, in a vault in the wizarding bank, Gringotts. This becomes Harry's source of paying for all of his Hogwarts textbooks, wizarding clothing, and spending money.
As is the case with most wizards in the Harry Potter series, his wand is among his most valued magical items. Harry's is made of holly, a wood Rowling chose because it is said to get rid of evil. It forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, whose wand is made of yew, which symbolises death. Rowling states she later learned that in the Celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month; and Harry's fictional birthday (31 July) is linked to holly. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also happened to get wands made from the appropriate woods identified the Celtic calendar, according to their fictional birth months.

Another valued and useful possession is Harry's Cloak of Invisibility. In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he gets it anonymously as a Christmas gift. He later learns it was given by Albus Dumbledore, who had it in turn from Harry's father.
Harry also owns half of a pair of two-way mirrors, given by his godfather Sirius Black, as a means of maintaining covert communications. In Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry and several friends are captured at Malfoy Manor, which Lord Voldemort was using as his headquarters, Harry uses the mirror to communicate with Aberforth Dumbledore, who sends rescue in the form of Dobby the House Elf.

After Sirius' death, all of his remaining possessions were passed along to Harry. This included the Black family residence, located at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, and all the contents and furnishings of the house, including Kreacher (the old Black family House Elf). Harry also inherited the remainder of Sirius' wealth in wizard's gold at Gringotts.
By the end of Deathly Hallows, Harry possesses all three Deathly Hallows: the Cloak of Invisibility, the Resurrection Stone, and the Elder Wand, They are three of the most powerful magical items in all of the wizarding-world. However, Harry lost the Resurrection Stone inside the Forbidden Forest, and decides to leave it there. Harry also takes the Elder Wand and lays it with Dumbledore's body, so the power of the wand might be extinguished if he dies a natural death.(In the movie, Harry destroys it by snapping it in half.) However, the new portrait of Dumbledore in the Headmaster's Office agrees that Harry should keep the Invisibility Cloak for himself, since it was his father's.
Family
In the novels, Harry is the only child of James and Lily Potter, but orphaned as an infant. Rowling made Harry an orphan from the early drafts of her first book. She felt an orphan would be the most interesting character to write about. However, after her mother's death, Rowling wrote Harry as a child longing to see his dead parents again, incorporating her own anguish into him. Harry's aunt and uncle kept the truth about their deaths from Harry, telling him they died in a car accident. Through his marriage to Ginny Weasley, Harry links the Peverell and the House of Black families. It is unknown whether there have been other links between the two families' history, but this is possible, as they are among the most prominent wizarding families.

In popular culture
In popular culture

In 2002, Harry Potter was voted No. 85 among the "100 Best Fictional Characters" by Book magazine and also voted the 35th "Worst Briton" in Channel 4's "100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate" program. In addition, Harry Potter is spoofed in the Barry Trotter series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a "Barry Trotter" appears as the eponymous anti-hero. On his homepage, Gerber describes Trotter as an unpleasant character who "drinks too much, eats like a pig, sleeps until noon, and owes everybody money." The author stated "[s]ince I really liked Rowling's books […] I felt obligated to try to write a spoof worthy of the originals."

In real life, Harry's iconoclastic appearance has become cult. According to halloweenonline.com, Harry Potter sets were the fifth-best selling Halloween costume of 2005. In addition, wizard rock bands like Harry and the Potters and others regularly dress up in the style of Harry Potter, sporting painted forehead scars, black wigs and round bottle top glasses.
Wizard rock is a musical movement dating from 2002 that consists of at least 200 bands made up of young musicians, playing songs about Harry Potter. The movement started in Massachusetts with the band Harry and the Potters, who cosplay as Harry during live performances

Harry Potter appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Nutcracker Sweet" voiced by Seth Green. He is shown to have Firebolt in a delicate place on himself. Quinton Flynn voices Harry Potter in the episode "Password: Swordfish." When the threat of the puberty creature Pubertis is known, Harry sees Dumbledore about this and receives a stone that might help him fight Pubertis. Upon confrontation with Pubertis, he rubs the stone two times, which summons ghosts to punch it. When it comes to the third time, (the stone starts "chafing") Dumbledore appears and tells Harry that the stone can only be warmed up three times (four if you take a week off) and that Pubertis cannot be destroyed since it lives in everyone.
In Epic Movie, a 2007 parody movie, he is played by Canadian comedian Kevin McDonald, whereas Harry is portrayed as being somewhat of a pervert as seen when Harry tries to touch Susan Pevensie's breasts.

Episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy has spoofed Harry as Nigel Planter. Unlike Harry, Nigel has an L-shaped scar on his forehead.

In an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Potter is referenced trice, once when Jimmy is watching a reel of movies rapidly (Where Hagrid says "You're a Wizard, Harry") and later in the filming for Jimmy's movie, as Jimmy plays a parody of Harry, called "Terry Bladder".

Wizards of Waverly Place once referenced Harry, as Justin was wearing a robe and glasses like Harry, to which Alex comments on with trying to guess who he looks like ("Barry something", "Jerry something", etc.)

References
References

Other websites 
Harry Potter Quotes for a Braver You
Harry Potter: Quick facts from the HP lexicon
 Harry Potter quotes from Mugglenet 
 123 Inspiring Quotes From The Harry Potter Series 
 Harry Potter Bibliography: Research and Criticism
 Harry Potter biography at The Harry Potter Encyclopedia 

Fictional characters introduced in 1997
Harry Potter characters
Oregon-grape, Berberis aquifolium  or Mahonia aquifolium is a shrub whose classification is in dispute, generally considered as Mahonia. Recently, this classification has been supported by their rusts. Originally, the Oregon Holly Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) is from the Pacific Northwest of United States of America. Cultivated in Europe, and bird dispersed has became a weed, not restricted to gardens

Other websites 
 Helemholts Centre for Enviornmental Research

References 

Ranunculales
Shrubs
Alma Center is a village in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. The population is 446 people as of 2000.  The area of Alma Center is about 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.

References

Other websites

The Blair Press Alma Center - Local newspaper 

Villages in Wisconsin
Settlements in Jackson County, Wisconsin
Almena is a village in Barron County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.  The population is 720 people as of 2000.  The area of Almena is about 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.

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Villages in Wisconsin
Almond is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 459 people in 2000.  The area of Almond is 1 square mile, thanks to the United States Census Bureau.

References

Villages in Wisconsin
Portage County, Wisconsin
Almond is a tree and the seed from that tree but may also refer to:
 Flowering almond, an ornamental shrub, also known as the Korean cherry 
 Indian almond, an ornamental shade tree also known as the Umbrella tree
 River Almond (Scotland)
 Almond, Wisconsin
 Almond (town), Wisconsin
 Almond, New York:
 Almond (village), New York
 Almond (town), New York
 West Almond, New York 
 Almond Township, Minnesota
 Almond Elementary School (Los Altos, California)

Almond is the surname of:
 Steve Almond, American author
 Edward Almond, American military officer
 Gabriel Almond, American Prolific Political Scientist
 James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor of Virginia
 Lincoln Almond, Governor of Rhode Island
 Marc Almond, English vocalist and recording artist
 David Almond, British writer
 Mark Almond, British writer
 Paul Almond, Canadian television and motion picture director and novelist
 Philipp van Almonde, Dutch vice Admiral

Related pages
 Mark-Almond, English music group of the 1970s
Amherst is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population is 1,035 people as of 2010.

References

Other websites

Village of Amherst website
AmherstPublic Schools
Amherst Girl Scouts

Villages in Wisconsin
Portage County, Wisconsin
Amherst Junction is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population is 305 people as of 2000.  Amherst Junction has an area of 1.2 square miles, of which .04 square miles is water.

References

Villages in Wisconsin
Portage County, Wisconsin
Amherst can mean:

Places

Canada
Amherst, Nova Scotia

United States
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst, Virginia
Amherst, Wisconsin
Professor Alan Dix of Lancaster University is an author of text books. He took part in the 1979 Maths Olympiad in Romania for the UK Team and got a silver medal.

Other websites 
Alan Dix Homepage
Lancaster University
Alan Dix's Cube Game

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English writers
Chien Hsin University (UCH; traditional Chinese:健行科技大學；simplified Chinese:健行科技大学) is a university in Jhongli City, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. CYU is also known as Chien Hsin Tech (健行科大).

Chien Hsin University opened in 1933 and now about 10,000 students go there. The university is noted for teaching and research in the science and engineering, especially energy engineering.

Other websites 
  Chien Hsin University

Colleges and universities in Taiwan
1933 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in Taiwan
Rosalía Castro de Murguía better known as Rosalía de Castro (24 February 1837 – 15 July 1885) was a Galician writer and poet.

A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician  and Castilian.

Works

In Galician
Poetry
 Cantares gallegos (1863)
 Follas novas (1880)

Prose
 Contos da miña terra I (1864)

In Spanish
Poetry
 La Flor (1857) (the Flower)
 A mi madre (1863) (to my mother)
 En las orillas del Sar (1884)

Prose
 La hija del mar (1859) (the daughter of the sea)
 Flavio (1861)
 El cadiceño (1863)
 Ruinas (1866)
 Las literatas (1866)
 El caballero de las botas azules (1867)
 El primer loco (1881)
 El domingo de Ramos (1881)
 Padrón y las inundaciones (1881)

Spanish writers
Spanish poets
Galician people
1837 births
1885 deaths
People from Santiago de Compostela
A road surface, or pavement (American English), is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended for vehicle or foot traffic that is used primarily as a road surface. "Pavement" in British English generally refers to a sidewalk or walkway.

In the past, permeable gravel surfaces, cobblestone and granite setts were extensively used. Those surfaces have mostly been replaced by asphalt or concrete laid on a compacted base course. Road surfaces are frequently marked to guide traffic. Permeable paving methods are now beginning to be used for low-impact roadways and walkways.

History 
In 1984 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie, while traveling in a wagon with her parents, wrote about the first time she saw pavement:
 

The first paved roads were created by the Carthaginians about 600 BC. The ancient Romeand destroyed Carthage but may have borrowed the idea of paved roads. They went on to build over  of roads throughout their empire.
Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. He is noted for building flat roads that required fewer horses to pull the wagons. His roads were well designed and supported heavy loads. John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that drained quickly. His roads were more durable and less muddy than soil-based roads.

Asphalt 
By 1870, in the United States roads were being built using asphalt spread with rakes and made compact by steam rollers. In 1894, Clifford Richardson, an American engineer, determined that roads paved with asphalt did not contain enough coarse gravel. He produced a specification for the most durable pavement of the time.
By 1907, 1907 natural asphalt was being used less than petroleum-based asphalt for roads. Automobiles became more popular and more roads were needed. This created new methods of producing asphalt. World War II created a need for better and stronger pavement on which to land heavy aircraft.

Concrete 
The ancient Romans were the earliest large-scale users of concrete. But after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, concrete was only used rarely. Concrete as a building material was redeveloped in the mid-18th century. One of the most significant uses of concrete pavement came about in the 1950s with the start of the Interstate Highway System in the US. There are about 45,000 miles of interstate highway in the US. About 60 percent is concrete.

References 

Road transport
The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) is a Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ministry's headquarters are still in Bonn and the second office is in Berlin.

History 
The Federal Ministry of Health Services () was formed in 1961. Between 1969 and 1991 it was part of the Federal Ministry of Youth, Family, and Health or Youth, Family, Women and Health

It became independent again as the Federal Ministry of Health in 1991. In 2002 it took over control of Social Security, but the in Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security () only lasted for three years. In 2005 it was reduced to just health, and the Social security part of its work went to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ()

Ministers
Ministers

Jobs of the BMG 
Some of the jobs of the federal Ministry of Health are:
 Keeping efficient the
 legal health insurance system
 nursing insurance system
 Protecting and improving the quality of the health service
 Protecting the interests of the patients
 Keeping membership rates
 Promote good health and prevention, including
 :Infection protection law

Other agencies
The BMG oversees:
 Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Products ()(BfArM) in Bonn
 Federal Centre for Health Education ()(BZgA) in Cologne
 German institute for medical documentation and information () (DIMDI) in Cologne
 Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (Pei), (Federal Office of Serums and vaccines) ()in Langen (Hesse.)
 Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) in Berlin
Other health ministries 
 The European commission deals with health matters through either the health and consumer protection office or the office for occupation, social matters and equal opportunities
 The state health ministries in Germany are often part of the state Department of Social Security. *In Austrian health is part of the Federal Ministry of Health and Women
 In Switzerland the health department is part of the Ministry of the Interior in Bern.

References

Other websites 
Official website
The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its first headquarters is in Bonn. It has a second base in Berlin.

Headquarters in Bonn.

Structure 
The Federal Ministry of the Environment () is in charge of the ecological policy of the federal government. It is also in charge of environmental protection. Being in charge of nuclear reactor safety helps the BMU protect the environment. The Federal minister appoints two junior ministers () to help him. These two help the minister in the Bundestag and in making policy, they have no power to make rules or change the way the department works.
814 people work for the ministry, in one of six departments:
 Department ZG: Central division, environmental protection
 Department AI: Climate protection, renewable energies and international cooperation
 Department WA: Water-supply, waste management, soil conservation and residual wastes
 Department IG: Pollution protection and health consequences, environment and traffic, plants and chemical safety
 Department N: Nature and protection of species, genetic engineering, countryside and forestry *Department RS: Radiation protection,

In addition,
 The Federal Office of Conservation Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN),
 the Federal Office of Radiation Protection Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS) and
 the Federal Environment Agency Umweltbundesamt

are controlled by the BMU.
If extra help is needed the BMU can get expert help from
 Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen (SRU), the Committee of Experts on Environmental Questions *Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU), The Scientific Advisory Board on Global Environment Changes
 the Reaktorsicherheitskommission (RSK), the Reactor Safety Commission
 the Strahlenschutzkommission (SSK),the Radiation Protection Commission
 the Störfall-Kommission (SFK), the "Disruptive Incident" Commission
 the Technischen Ausschuss für Anlagensicherheit (TAA) the Technical Committee on Systems Safety and
 the Umweltgutachterausschuss (UGA) Environmental Experts Committee.

In 2005 the BMU's budget was 769 million euros. This is about ten percent of the total amount spent on the environment by the federal government. This is because several other ministries also have money to spent on environmental tasks.
History 
The ministry was set up on 6 June 1986, about five weeks after the serious reactor disaster at Chernobyl. The Federal Government wanted to bring all responsibility for preventing a disaster in Germany, or clearing up if a disaster happened, under one ministry.

The first minister stayed for less than a year, because he became Minister President of Hesse. His successor became director of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP. The time when Angela Merkel was in charge was not very good for the BMU. Economic problems became more important than environmental protection .

The red-green coalition of 1998 saw Jürgen Trittin of (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) become minister. The idea of an environmental tax and ending nuclear power became important.

Ministers

Other websites 
Official website

Energy
Environment
Villa Los Almácigos is a city and municipality of the Santiago Rodríguez province, in northwestern Dominican Republic. It is also called Los Almácigos, or just simply Villa.

History
On 6 March 1863, there was a meeting in this town of the leaders of the Restoration War against Spain. The Dominicans had lost the first battles and in this meeting they decided to stop the fight for a moment and they went to Haiti to prepare for the next battles.

In 1937, it was named Villa Generalísimo in honor of the dictator Trujillo but in 1962 the town got again its old name.

Villa Los Almácigos was elevated to the category of municipal district of San Ignacio de Sabaneta by the law 659 of 2 May 1974. It is municipality since 19 September 1996.

Population
The municipality had, in , a total population of 11,183: 6,069 men and 5,684 women. The urban population was  of the total population.
Geography
Villa Los Almácigos is on the northern side of the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain range") and has a total area of , about  of the total area of the province of Santiago Rodríguez. The city is an elevation of , and at  to the west of Sabaneta, the capital of the province.

It does not have any municipal district (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality).

The municipality of Villa Los Almácigos has the municipality of Sabaneta to the north and east, the Elías Piña province to the south and the Dajabón province to the west.

Economy
The main economic activity of the municipality is farming.

References

Settlements in the Dominican Republic
1996 establishments in North America
1990s establishments in the Dominican Republic
Epic Records is an American record label with several sub-companies around the world. It is owned by Sony Music Entertainment, but was originally owned by CBS. The company started in 1953, and over the years has signed artists and bands such as Fiona Apple, Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, Pearl Jam, KISS, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Heart, Boston  and Modest Mouse.

Imprint labels
The following is a list of labels Epic Records has distributed:

Current
 Beluga Heights (2008–present)
 Collective Music Group (2012–present)
 DC Flag Records (2004–present)
 Freebandz (2012–present)
 Immortal Records (1994–present)
 Glowworm Records (2002–present)
 Battery Records (2004–present)
 Verity Gospel Music Group (2008–present)
 Vested in Culture (2012–Present)
 Volcano Entertainment (2006–present)
Former
 550 Music (1993–2000)
 Beluga Heights Records (2006–2008)
 Blue Sky (1974-1982)
 Caribou Records (1976-1985)
 Cold Chillin' Records (1993–1999)
 Date Records (1960s)
 Epic Records Nashville (? - May 2006)
 Epic Street (1993–1998)
 Cleveland International Records (1976-1983)
 CTI Records (1980)
 Tuff City Records (1983–1984)
 Hidden Beach Records (1998–2007)
 Gamble (1972-1975)
 Glacial Pace (mid-1990s)
 Invictus Records (1973-1976)
 Jet Records (1978-1983)
 Kirshner Records (1974-1983)
 LaFace Records
 MJJ Music (1991–2001, 2010)
 Nemperor Records (1977-1990)
 Ode Records (1967–1969, 1976–1979)
 OKeh Records (1965–1970, 1994–2000)
 Pasha Records (1979-1990)
 Philadelphia International Records (1971–1984)
 Portrait Records (1976–1992)
 Ruthless Records (1999-2009, defunct)
 Scotti Brothers (1979-1988)
 SOLAR Records (1989–1993)
 T-Neck Records (1972-1984)
 Tabu Records (1978–1991)
 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (1975-1977) (1981-1982)
 Work Records (1994–2000)
Epic Records artists

Current artists 

A Great Big World
Andre 3000
Avril Lavigne (Internationally with Epic; Domestically with Columbia UK)
Bando Jonez
Big Boi
Bobby Shmurda
Casey Veggies
Cashius Green
Chevelle
Ciara
Curtis Fields
Charlotte Church
Dead Sara
Dragana Mirkovic
Example
Fifth Harmony
Fiona Apple
Florrie (UK)
Future
Glee Cast. (UK)
In Flames
Janelle Monae
Joe Satriani
Jonn Hart
Jon Jonsson
Judas Priest
JLS (US)
Kat Dahlia
Kevin McHale
King L
Kongos
Mariah Carey 
Meghan Trainor
Michael Jackson 
Modest Mouse
Morgan James
Melanie Amaro
Mr. Probz
New Hollow
Nicole Scherzinger
Olly Murs (UK)
Outkast
Ozzy Osbourne
Paloma Faith (RCA Records Label in the UK) 
Quadron
Rough Copy
Rowdy Rebel
Sade
Sara Bareilles
SBOE
Sean Kingston
Snootie Wild
Tamar Braxton
TeeFLii
Tinashe (UK)
Tink
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Fray
The Last Internationale 
TLC
Travi$ Scott
Vinny Cha$e 
Wallpaper
Watch The Duck
We Are Toonz
Yo Gotti
Zara Larsson
Zaya
Related pages
List of record labels
Epic/Sony Records (Japanese branch of Epic Records)
RCA Records
Columbia Records

References

American record labels
1953 establishments in the United States
Aniwa is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population is 272 people as of 2000.  Aniwa has an area of 2.1 square miles, of which .04 square miles is water.

References

Villages in Wisconsin
Shawano County, Wisconsin
Mumpf is a municipality of the district Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

Municipalities in Rheinfelden
Murgenthal is a municipality of the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

Municipalities in Rheinfelden
Limerick () is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the historical province of Munster, in the midwest of Ireland. The city lies on the River Shannon, with three main crossing points near the city centre.  In 2022 there were 205,444 people living in the city. More than 34,000 were students and half the population were under 35.

Other websites 
 
 Limerick City Council 
 LimerickPride 
 Architecture of Limerick 
 Various online history resources from Limerick City Library 

 
County towns in Ireland
9th-century establishments in Europe
Establishments in the Republic of Ireland
Wexford (coming from Old Norse Veisafjǫrðr meaning "mudflat, stagnant pool", also Irish: Loch Garman, Latin: Menapia) is the county town of County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. It is found near the south-eastern tip of Ireland, close to Rosslare Europort. 

The town is connected to the capital, Dublin, via the N11 National Primary Route (European route E1), and the national rail network. It also has a major ferry port with modern terminal, Rosslare Europort. The port is in South East Wexford.

Other websites

County towns in Ireland
Drogheda ( or ) (Droichead Átha in Irish, meaning "Bridge of the Ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 56 km (35 mi) north of Dublin. 

Within legally defined boundaries, Drogheda is the second largest town in Ireland, behind its county neighbour, Dundalk; however, the town's total population (including suburbs and environs) is recorded to be 35,090, five inhabitants more than Dundalk.

References

Other websites 
 Drogheda Tourism
 Drogheda Borough Council
 Architecture of Drogheda 
 Photo Survey of Navan Drogheda existing railway line 
 Drogheda Port
 Drogheda Chamber of Commerce
 IDA Ireland, Drogheda profile 
 Drogheda's Municipal Art Gallery
 Drogheda United FC
 Droichead Arts Centre 

Towns in Ireland
County Louth
Muri can refer to:

Switzerland:
 Muri, a municipality in Switzerland
 Muri, a district of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland
 Muri Abbey
 Muri bei Bern

Estonia
 Muri, a village in Karksi Commune
 Muri, a village in Luunja Commune

Nigeria:
 Muri, a town and emirate in Nigeria

India
 Muri, Ranchi, a town in Ranchi district, Jharkhand

Other:
 MURI, Multi-University Research Initiative
 Andre Muri, Norwegian footballer
Hallstadt is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg. It is on the left bank of the river Main,  north of Bamberg. The town has a population of about 8500 people.

References

Other websites

Bamberg (district)
Muri is a municipality of the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

It was best known for the Muri Abbey, which dissolved in 1841.

References

Other websites

Municipalities in Muri
County Kildare () is an Irish county to the southwest of Dublin. It is in the province of Leinster. The name comes from the Irish, meaning church (Cill) of the oaks (Dara).

Other websites
 County Kildare Community Network
 http://www.kildare.ie
 http://www.kildarecoco.ie
Straffan () is a village in County Kildare, Ireland on the banks of the River Liffey, 25 km upstream of the Irish capital Dublin. 

With a population (according to the census of 2006) of 439 – an increase since 2002 of 32.2% – Straffan is the 31st most populous centre in County Kildare.

Other websites
 Development Plan
 Local area plan 
 Straffan Steam Museum Website 

Villages in Ireland
County Kildare
The 36th Ryder Cup Matches were held between 22 and 24 September 2006 at The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Team Europe won the competition by a score of 18½ to 9½, equalling their record winning margin of 2 years earlier. This was the first time Europe had achieved three successive victories. Swedish rookie Henrik Stenson made the winning putt, just moments after Luke Donald had sunk a putt to ensure Europe retained the trophy.

Other websites
 Official Ryder Cup site for Team USA 
 Official Ryder Cup site for Team Europe 
 Ryder Cup  Discussion
 Ryder Cup Diary
 Official K Club website

References

2006 in sports
Golf tournaments
Sport in the Republic of Ireland
County Kildare
2000s in the Republic of Ireland
2006 in Europe
Dawlish () is a town on the south coast of Devon, South West England. It is 12 miles from the County town of Exeter. The town has a population of around 13,000 people. During the eighteenth century, it grew from a small fishing port to become a well-known seaside resort.

The Great Western Railway runs along the sea.  It is the main line to Cornwall. In 2014 a storm washed it away and it was closed for 8 weeks.  It has now been reinforced with a much stronger sea wall.

Dawlish was one of the pumping stations for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's atmospheric railway which opened in 1846.

Other websites 
 infodawlish.co.uk  An informative look at the Town & Businesses of Dawlish                     
 Dawlish (DMOZ.org) 

Towns in Devon
Teignbridge

References
Newquay () is a town, civil parish, seaside resort, and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, South West England. It is bounded to the west by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and in the east by the Porth Valley. The town has been expanding inland (south) since it was founded. According to the 2001 census, it had a permanent population of 19,423. It is the largest holiday resort in Cornwall, and it is served by Newquay Airport. The large beach provides very good conditions for surfing. There are numerous shops, ranging from the usual charity shops to shops selling many different brands of surf clothing.  There are many places to enjoy eating within the town.
Climate
As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, Newquay experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest Met Office weather station is St. Mawgan/Newquay Airport, about 3.5 miles to the north east of the town centre. Temperature extremes in the area since 1960 vary from  in June 1976 and August 1995  down to  during January 1987.

References

Other websites 

 Newquay Town Council
 Treninick entry in the Domesday Book
 1st Newquay Scout Group
 Newquay Nightlife - Guide to bars, hotels, restaurants, beaches and more

Towns in Cornwall
Civil parishes in Cornwall
Cairnryan is a small Scottish village overlooking Loch Ryan and is notable today for its large modern ferry port, operated by P&O, which links Scotland with Larne in Northern Ireland. The village has been of vital importance in maritime history.

Other websites
 Larne Ferry Web - for news & history of ferries to Larne

Villages in Scotland
Dumfries and Galloway
Stranraer (Gaelic: An t-Sròn Reamhar, ) is a town in the south of Scotland in the west of the region of Dumfries and Galloway and in the county of Wigtownshire. It was formerly the ferry port connecting Scotland with Belfast in Northern Ireland.  Ferries now leave from Cairnryan.

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Towns in Dumfries and Galloway
Coleraine () is a very large town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland near to the mouth of the River Bann. It is  northwest of Belfast and  east of Derry City, both of which are linked by major roads and railway connections. George Best Belfast City Airport to the south–east, City of Derry Airport,  to the west, and the main regional airport, Belfast International Airport, to the south are all relatively accessible from Coleraine.

Notable people 
Famous people who have lived in Coleraine include the actor James Nesbitt, Andrew Bonar Law who was Prime minister of the United Kingdom for a short period in the 1920s, and also suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.

References

Other websites
 Coleraine Borough Council
 Coleraine Community Safety Partnership 
 Coleraine Youth Forum 

Towns in Northern Ireland
County Londonderry
County Down, (Contae an Dúin in Irish - meaning the Fort) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, and one of the nine counties of the ancient province of Ulster

The county forms an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). The estimated population in 1992 was 416,600, a more recent approximation puts it at about 516,000. The county town is Downpatrick, and the largest town is Bangor.

References

Further reading
 Harris, Walter (attributed). 1744. The Ancient and Present Stare of the County of Down...'''Dublin.
 The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909–48'', Joost Augusteijn, editor, District Inspector, Co. Down 1930s, 1919, .

Other websites
 County Down website
 Armagh and Down Tourism
 Culture Northern Ireland - Industrial Heritage of County Down 
 Down Gaelic Athletic Association/Cummann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste An Dún
 Genealogy indexes for County Down
  Ardglass Fishing port on East Down coast
Rostrevor (in Irish: Ros Treabhair, i.e. Trevor’s Wood, also Caislean Ruairi, i.e. Rory's Castle) is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on Carlingford Lough and the hill of Slieve Martin, at the base of the Mourne Mountains and on the Kilbroney River. It had a population of 2,444 in the 2001 Census. The town is known for its folk music festival, Fiddler's Green Festival . It is in the Newry and Mourne District Council area. The name 'Rostrevor' first appeared circa 1618 and was named after Rose Ussher (the daughter of Henry Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh) by her husband Edward Trevor (who came from Brynkynallt in Wales).

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Villages in Northern Ireland
County Down
1610s establishments in Europe
Establishments in Northern Ireland
Tropical Storm Chris was the fourth tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Forming on July 31 in the Atlantic Ocean east of the Leeward Islands from a tropical wave, Chris moved generally to the west-northwest, skirting the northern fringes of the Caribbean islands. Chris was a relatively short-lived storm, reaching a peak intensity with winds at 65 mph (100 km/h) on August 2, while positioned north of St. Martin. The storm gradually weakened before finally dissipating on August 5, near eastern Cuba.

Overall impact was minimal, amounting to moderate amounts of rainfall throughout its path. No deaths were reported.

Storm history
Storm history

A tropical wave moved westward off the coast of Africa on July 27. At first, deep convection was spread throughout the wave axis, though dry air greatly decreased the convection on July 28. The wind field remained well-defined as it continued westward, and deep convection increased two days later along the northern end of the wave axis. Dvorak classifications began on July 30 in response to an increase in vertical depth and organization of the convection. On July 31 a buoy recorded a change of wind direction from northeast to west, indicating a small low pressure area formed. Convective organization rapidly increased as it turned to the northwest, and the system developed into Tropical Depression Three on August 1 while located about 235 miles (375 km) east-southeast of Barbuda.
Forecasters originally predicted wind shear from an upper level low would prevent strengthening and cause dissipation within three days. However, the depression continued to organize as deep convection continued to develop near the circulation despite moderate amounts of wind shear, and the system strengthened into Tropical Storm Chris six hours after developing. The convection slowly covered the entire system, and by late on the 1st Chris reached winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) while passing 50 miles (80 km) north of the northern Leeward Islands. The structure of Chris continued to improve and become more symmetrical, and an upper level eye feature developed early on August 2. Outflow improved in all quadrants, as well, and the storm reached a peak intensity of 65 mph (100 km/h) shortly thereafter while located 120 miles (195 km) east of St. Thomas
. Thomas. Ins pite of the initial predictions of Chris intensifying to a hurricane as a ridge of high pressure forced it west-northwestward, upper level shear dissipated the well-defined inner core of the storm, and Chris started to weaken.
Early on August 3, strong wind shear over Chris removed the deep convection from the low level circulation, while a building ridge to its north turned the storm towards the west into an area of drier air. By mid-day on the 3rd the circulation was devoid of any convection within 85 miles (135 km), while the deeper convection spread across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Late on August 3, deep convection developed over the center of circulation again, though persistent vertical shear weakened Chris to a tropical depression on August 4. Because of computer models predicting lesser amounts of shear, forecasters mentioned the possibility of moderate strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico to a 60 mph (95 km/h) storm. However, convection remained minimal, and Chris degenerated into a remnant area of low pressure late on August 4. Late on August 5, convection increased in the remnants of the storm, and forecasters indicated the potential for slow development over the Gulf of Mexico due to marginally favorable conditions
. The redevelopment never happened, and the remnant circulation dissipated near Havana, Cuba on August 6.
When the National Hurricane Center published its first advisory on Tropical Depression Three, the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the British Virgin Islands also gave out Tropical Storm Warnings for their respective territories. When the depression strengthened to Tropical Storm Chris, Tropical Storm Warnings were also issued for Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint-Barthélemy, and Saint Martin. Three Royal Caribbean cruise ships changed their paths to avoid the storm. FEMA representatives coordinated with local emergency management officials in the United States Virgin Islands to determine if preparation necessities would be needed, such as hospital usage, shelters, and sand bags. In St. Thomas, all jet flights were cancelled in and out of the island, though small airlines were permitted to fly during the storm. Ferry service from Saint Martin to Anguilla was cancelled for a short period of time
. Saint Martin officials recommended citizens to secure all loose items, for coastal residents to prepare for high surf, and for construction sites to secure all loose equipment. A small craft advisory was also issued for coastal waters of Saint Martin due to strong waves from the storm.
In response to the storm's projected path into the Gulf of Mexico, prices for crude oil rose on the New York Mercantile Exchange at branch offices in London. Natural gas prices rose considerably in New York Mercantile Exchange electronic trading on August 2. Anticipation of a threat to supply by a potential Hurricane Chris coupled with high demand during an ongoing heat wave were cited as part of the reasons in the price move. In New Orleans, officials including Mayor Ray Nagin prepared for a possible evacuation of the city if Chris entered the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane. The evacuation plan included moving all residents out of the city as a worst-case scenario, intended to avoid a re-occurrence of Hurricane Katrina around 1 year prior. Florida Emergency Management requested 10 mobile recovery centers, and placed hospitals in the Florida Keys on standby for evacuation. Officials in Mississippi identified the need for 110 to assist in an evacuation process in case of a possible landfall
. Both Louisiana and Texas emergency operation centers monitored the progress of the storm, though did not execute any preparation action.
Impact
Damage caused by Tropical Storm Chris was minor and limited to just local flooding.
Rainfall reached up to 2 inches (50 mm) across portions of Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, and eastern Cuba, and reached 4 inches (100 mm) in some mountainous areas. In Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, heavy rainfall caused severe flooding. Las Américas reported 5.01 inches/127 mm of rainfall from Chris. Several people were left temporarily homeless from the flood waters entering their households. The flooding left many roads impassable near the capital city, and also resulted in landslides. The flooding also covered rice fields in the northeastern portion of the country. The National Office of Meteorology issued flood warnings for residents in low-lying areas and near rivers in the northeast and southeast portions of the country. Despite the flooding, overall damage was minor, and there are no casualties associated with Chris.

Related pages
 2006 Atlantic hurricane season

References

Other websites

 National Hurricane Center's archive on Tropical Storm Chris
2006 Atlantic hurricane season
Atlantic tropical storms
Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It is a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). The territorial capital and port of Charlotte Amalie is on the island. As of the 2000 census, Saint Thomas had 51,181 people, about 47% of the US Virgin Islands total. The district has a land area of 80.9 km² (31.24 sq mi).

Other websites 
Official sites
United States Virgin Islands  - Official Website for the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism
Districts of the United States Virgin Islands, United States Census Bureau 

Map
St. Thomas USVI Google Map - Satellite Map of St. Thomas, USVI

United States Virgin Islands
Saint John is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It is a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). It is the smallest of the three main USVI islands.

St. John is about 4 miles east of Saint Thomas, and 4 miles south and west of Tortola, part of the British Virgin Islands. It is 50.8 km² (19.61 sq mi) in area. It has a population of 4,197 (2000 census).

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Other websites 
Official sites
 St. John  - Official Website for the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism
 Cruz Bay Visitor Center  - Virgin Island National Park, U.S. Department of the Interior
 St. John, USVI  - Official site for the US Virgin Islands Hotel & Tourism Association
 VINP Archaeology -Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park Archaeology blog (provides weekly updates of National Park excavations on St. John)

Map
 St. John USVI Google Map - Satellite Map of St. John, USVI

United States Virgin Islands
Culebra (meaning snake in Spanish) has several meanings:
 Island of Culebra, part of Puerto Rico.
 Culebra Peak, the southernmost fourteener in Colorado, USA.
 Culebra (automobile), an English automobile manufactured in 1989.
 The Culebra Cut, an artificial valley located in the Panama Canal area, was renamed the Gaillard Cut in 1915.
Neuenhof is a municipality of the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Baden District, Aargau
Niederlenz is a municipality in Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Lenzburg
Niederrohrdorf is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Baden District, Aargau
Niederwil is a municipality of the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Bremgarten
Oberbözberg was a municipality, in the new municipality of Bözberg and district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

Other websites

Former municipalities of Aargau
2013 disestablishments in Switzerland
Oberentfelden is a municipality of the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Aargau District
Oberflachs was a municipality of the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, the former municipalities of Oberflachs and Schinznach-Dorf merged into the new municipality of Schinznach.

Other websites

Official Website of Oberflachs

Former municipalities of Aargau
Oberhof is a municipality of the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Laufenburg
The Federal Ministry of Finance () (BMF) is a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is based in Berlin and Bonn. It is led by the Minister of Finance, whose office is in the Detlev-Rohwedder House in Wilhelmstraße, Berlin. This was the old Reich Air Ministry Building. The ministry is supported by a scientific advisory board.

Responsibility
The ministry works out how much the government can spend each year, and how to raise that money, in income tax and other taxes.

To help it do this, the ministry controls :
 the Federal Forestry Commission, Bundesforstverwaltung
 Federal Spirits Monopoly Administration, Bundesmonopolverwaltung für Branntwein
 Federal Portfolio Management, Bundesvermögensverwaltung, and

Federal Ministers of Finance since 1949

Between 1990 and 1993, the senior civil servant () was Horst Köhler (CDU) who went on to become Federal President in, 2004.
Oberhofen was a municipality, in the new municipality of Mettauertal and district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

Former municipalities of Aargau
Oberkulm is a municipality in Kulm, in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Kulm
Oberlunkhofen is a municipality of the district of Bremgarten, in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Municipalities in Bremgarten
Obermumpf is a municipality of the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

Official website of the municipality of Obermumpf

Municipalities in Rheinfelden
Oberrohrdorf is a municipality of the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

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Other websites

Municipalities in Baden District, Aargau
A heat wave is a period of unusually warm or very hot weather, and may be accompanied by high humidity. "Heat wave" is not an exact term: Any weather that feels warmer than people expect, might be called a heat wave. For example, temperatures normal for a warmer climate might be called a "heat wave" by people living in a place that is usually cooler.  So a "heat wave" could mean a little warm weather, (like "several days as hot as summer, but in winter"), or temperatures so high they make history, (such as, "the hottest summer in a hundred years").

Related pages 
 List of heat waves

References

Other websites
 FEMA: Extreme Heat
 Hot Weather Tips 
 Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-1924 

Weather
Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. () (born June 11, 1956) was the mayor of New Orleans. He was first elected on March 2, 2002, to succeed his fellow Democrat, Marc Morial. Nagin gained international attention in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the New Orleans area.

In 2014, Nagin was convicted on twenty of twenty-one charges of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering related to bribes from city contractors before and after Hurricane Katrina and was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.

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