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Wendy Beckett (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British nun, television personality and art historian. She was born in South Africa.

Beckett became famous during the early 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience.

In 1997, Sister Wendy first appeared on television in the United States, on public television. That same year The New York Times described her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television".

Beckett died on 26 December 2018 at the Carmelite Monastery in Quidenham, Norfolk at the age of 88.

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Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and cover of the abdominal organs. Symptoms may include severe pain, swelling of the abdomen, fever, or weight loss.

Causes include perforation of the intestinal tract, pancreatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, stomach ulcer, cirrhosis, or a ruptured appendix.

Treatment often includes antibiotics, intravenous fluids, pain medication, and surgery.

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Diseases
was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was a member of the House of Representatives. He was born in Neyagawa, Osaka. He was an MP from 2003 to 2009 and again from 2012 until his death 2018.

Kitagawa died on December 26, 2018 in Osaka of complications from peritonitis, aged 67.

References

Other websites

 Official website  in Japanese.

1951 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from Osaka Prefecture
was a Japanese actress and singer. She was born in Dalian, Liaoning, China. She worked at Aoni Production. Fujita was known for her roles in Digimon Adventure, Zatch Bell!, Chihayafuru, Bonobono and in Fist of the North Star.

Fujita died of breast cancer on December 28, 2018 in Tokyo at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
Aoni Production profile 
Toshiko Fujita  at the Seiyuu database

1950 births
2018 deaths
Japanese movie actors
Japanese television actors
Japanese voice actors
Japanese singers
Deaths from breast cancer
Peter Denis Hill-Wood (25 February 1936 – 28 December 2018) was a British businessman. He was born in London. He was chairman of Arsenal Football Club. He also was vice-chairman of Hambros Bank. On 14 June 2013 Hill-Wood stepped down and was replaced as chairman of Arsenal by Chip Keswick.

On 28 December 2018, Hill-Wood died in London, aged 82.

References

Other websites
 Peter Hill-Wood at Cricket Archive

1936 births
2018 deaths
Businesspeople from London
Robert Jason Costanzo (born October 20, 1942) is an American actor. He was born in New York City. He is known as the voice double for Danny DeVito. His first role was in the 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon. He is also known for his voice role of Detective Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures and Static Shock

His movie roles include Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, City Slickers, and Down and Derby. His television roles include in Boston Legal, Hannah Montana, Friends, Days of Our Lives, The Golden Girls and as Commissioner Stenchler in the Sega CD game Sewer Shark.

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1942 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American video game actors
Actors from New York City
Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Midnight Cowboy, Once Is Not Enough, Airport '77, Capricorn One, The Pride of Jesse Hallam, Supergirl, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Heart of Midnight, and in Zorro, The Gay Blade.

She received one Academy Award nomination, three Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), four Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning one), and three Tony Award nominations.

Her best known stage roles were in The Affair (1962), Cactus Flower (1965), How Now, Dow Jones (1967), The Goodbye People (1968), the female version of The Odd Couple, (1985), and Jake's Women (1992).

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1939 births
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Bird Box is a 2018 American horror thriller movie. It was directed by Susanne Bier. The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Josh Malerman.  

The movie is about a woman, played by Sandra Bullock. Together with other people she hides from supernatural creatures. If a human sees such a creature, he kills himself. Later the woman must make it through a forest and river. She has a pair of children with her. Most of the time they are blindfolded to avoid the sight of the creatures. 

Other actors in the movie are Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Sarah Paulson, Colson Baker and John Malkovich. 

Bird Box had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 12, 2018. The movie began a limited release on December 14. Starting December 21, 2018 the movie was streamed worldwide on Netflix.

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2018 thriller movies
Movies based on books
American thriller movies
Netflix movies
Post-apocalyptic movies
Movies directed by Susanne Bier
Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%.

Freshwater fish differ from saltwater fish in several respects. Their gills must be able to diffuse dissolved gases while keeping the salts in the body fluids inside. Their scales reduce water diffusion through the skin: freshwater fish that have lost too many scales will die.

Threats

Habitat destruction 

Freshwater fish also die from habitat destruction. Dams not only interrupt linear water flow and cause major geological channel shifts, but also limit the amount of water available to fishes in lakes, streams and rivers and have the potential to change the trophic structure because of these alterations of the habitat and the limitations to movement and connectivity.
The purpose of a dam is to impound (store) water, kill freshwater fish, wastewater or liquid borne materials for any of several reasons, such as flood control, human water supply, irrigation, livestock water supply, energy generation, containment of mine tailings, recreation, or pollution control.

Coolwater fish 
Coolwater fish species prefer water temperature between the coldwater and the long warmwater species, around 60 to 80 °F (16–27 °C). They are found throughout North America except for the southern portions of the United States. Common coolwater species include muskellunge, northern pike, walleye, and yellow perch.

North American fish

Endangered species 

About four in ten North American freshwater fish are endangered, according to a pan-North American study, the main cause being human pollution. Since 1989, the number of fish species and subspecies to become endangered has risen from 40 to 61.

Related pages 

 Telescopefish
 Evolution of fish
 List of prehistoric bony fish genera

References
References 

 Borgstrøm, Reidar & Hansen, Lars Petter (red): Fisk i ferskvann - et samspill mellom bestander, miljø og forvaltning, Landbruksforlaget 2000
 Jonsson, Bror: «Fiskene» i Norges dyr - Fiskene 1, Cappelen 1992

Freshwater fish
Jason Austin Wiles (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the television series, such as Colin Robbins in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Maurice Boscorelli in Third Watch. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Other websites 
 

1970 births
Living people
Actors from Kansas City, Missouri
American movie actors
American television actors
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 253,335, making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. The county seat is Liberty. It was founded on January 2, 1822.

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1820s establishments in Missouri
1822 establishments in the United States
Missouri counties
Gitega is the capital of Burundi. It is also the second-largest city. Gitega is east of Burundi's largest city, Bujumbura. It is also the capital and largest city of Gitega Province.

History 
On 29 April 1972, the king Ntare V was killed in Gitega.

In March 2007, the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza said that Burundi was going to bring back its capital to Gitega, saying that it is a better location for a capital than Bujumbura.

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Cities in Burundi
National capitals in Africa
The Ant Bully is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure fantasy comedy movie written, edited and directed by Rich Moore And Eric Darnell And Executive Produced For BBC By: Mike Mitchell, Steven Spielberg, Joe Johnston, James Cameron, Kathleen Branagh And Andrew Stanton based on the 1999 children's book of the same name by John Nickle. And Original Developments Illumination Entertainment, Blue Sky Studios, Sony Pictures Animation And Blizzard Entertainment
 
Original Scoring By: James Newton Howard And Chris Bacon
Orchestratral And Scoring Conducted By: Pete Anthony And Gavin Greenaway
Recorded By: Nick Wollage And Shawn Murthy AT EMI Abbey Road And AIR Lyndhurst Hall, London UK
It features the voices of Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti, was produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone, John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn's DNA Productions, and was released in theatres on July 28, 2006, by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Concurrently with the general release, it was offered in big screen IMAX 3D, the format, also used with Blended.

Release Dates 

2006 movies
2006 animated movies
2006 computer-animated movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies composed by James Newton Howard
Tripureshwar is a village in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. 

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2707 and had 497 houses in it. 

The biggest river of the district, Netrawati river passes from this village.

References

Geography of Nepal
Villages in Asia
Yakovlev Yak-18 (Russian: Яковлев Як-18; NATO reporting name: Max) is a Soviet 2-seat military fighter designed by Yakovlev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Yakovlev is a Russian aircraft company. It is headquartered in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.

Other websites 

 Official website 

Aircraft companies
Companies based in Moscow
Manufacturing companies of Russia
James Kelvin "Kelly" Burnett (June 16, 1926 – December 22, 2018) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He played in the NHL for the New York Rangers. He was born in Lachine, Quebec.

Burnett died on December 22, 2018 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 92.

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New York Rangers players
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Sportspeople from Montreal
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Børge Ring (17 February 1921 – 27 December 2018) was a Danish screenwriter, director and animator. His 1978 short movie Oh My Darling won the Best Short Film award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, and his 1984 short movie Anna & Bella won the Best Animated Short Film award at the Academy Awards.

Ring died on 28 December 2018 in Ravenstein, Netherlands at the age of 97.

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Academy Award winning directors
Animators
Danish screenwriters
1921 births
2018 deaths
Danish movie directors
Muhammad Nadir Shah (,  – born Muhammad Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the military of Afghanistan. He and his son Muhammad Zahir Shah, who succeeded him, are part of the Musahiban.

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1933 deaths
Pashtun people
The United States one-cent coin, also called the penny, is a unit of currency. It equals one one hundredth of a United States dollar. The cent's symbol is ¢. Its front has shown the profile of President Abraham Lincoln since 1909, 100 years after his birth. Its back has shown the Union Shield since 2010.

The official name for this coin from the United States Mint is "cent".

References

American coins
Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was an officer of the German Army in World War II. Choltitz was born in Gräflich Wiese (now Łąka Prudnicka) next to Neustadt (now Prudnik).

He participated in occupation of Sudetenland in 1938 and in the invasion of Poland in 1939.

On 7 August 1944 he became the military governor of Paris. On 25 August he surrendered Paris to the Allies.  

He has been called the "Saviour of Paris" because he prevented its destruction. Choltitz said he defied Hitler's direct order for its destruction because it was militarily useless. Other reasons were his affection for Parisian history and culture, and his belief that Hitler had become insane.

Choltitz died on 5 November 1966 in Baden-Baden.

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1894 births
1966 deaths
German generals of World War II
German military personnel of World War I
Mary Poppins Returns is a 2018 fantasy musical comedy-drama movie. It is a sequel to the 1964 award-winning movie Mary Poppins. Like the first movie, it is also based on the book series of the same name by P. L. Travers.

Plot
In 1935 London, England, Michael Banks lives in his childhood home. He lives with his children Annabel, John and Georgie. His wife Kate died a year ago. For that reason, Ellen and Jane are helping him raise the children. However, Michael has taken out a loan from the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank to cover his expenses. William Weatherall Wilkins sends his partners to warn Michael that his house will be taken from him if he doesn't repay the loan by Friday. Michael and Jane remember their father left them shares in the bank that can cover the loan. They search the house for the certificate proving their ownership of the shares. During the search, Michael finds a kite. But there's no worth in it anymore, so he puts it out to give away.
While out in the park with Annabel and John, Georgie finds the kite and tries flying it. He ends up being pulled into the sky. He then comes down with Mary Poppins. She decides to take care of the three children as their nanny. She starts off by drawing them a bath. The bath leads down to an oceanic world. Mary Poppins denies anything in fantasy happened.

Michael goes to the bank to see if he can find proof of his shares. Wilkins, though, denies there are any records of them. Right after Michael leaves, Wilkins tears the record from the official book and burns it in the fireplace.

That evening, Annabel and John decide to sell their mother's "priceless" bowl to pay off the debt. But Georgie tries to stop them. The bowl ends up damaged because of the three fighting over it.
Cast
 Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins.
 Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack, a cockney lamplighter and former apprentice of Bert from the original film.
 Ben Whishaw as Michael Banks, Jane's brother, who is now working as a part-time teller at Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, and a struggling yet widowed artist. Matthew Garber portrayed the character in the original film.
 Emily Mortimer as Jane Banks, Michael's sister who is now working as a labor organizer. Karen Dotrice portrayed the character in the original film, and makes a cameo appearance as an elegant woman in Mary Poppins Returns.
 Pixie Davies as Annabel Banks: Michael's daughter.
 Nathanael Saleh as John Banks: Michael's older son.
 Joel Dawson as Georgie Banks: Michael's younger son.
 Julie Walters as Ellen: Michael's and Jane's long-time housekeeper. The character was previously portrayed by Hermione Baddeley in the original film.
Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes Jr.: the chairman of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank and William's uncle. The character was portrayed by Arthur Malet in the original film, while Van Dyke previously portrayed both Bert and Mr. Dawes, Sr. (Mr. Dawes, Jr.'s late father).
 Angela Lansbury as The Balloon Lady. The character does not appear in the original film but comes directly from the novels.
 Colin Firth as William "Weatherall" Wilkins: the currupt president of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.
Firth also voices a wolf in the animated Royal Doulton Bowl sequence.
 Meryl Streep as Topsy: Mary Poppins's eccentric Eastern European cousin who runs a fix-it shop within London.
 David Warner as Admiral Boom: a staunchly by-the-book retired naval officer, who is now confined to a wheelchair. Reginald Owen portrayed the character in the first movie.
 Jim Norton as Mr. Binnacle: Boom's first mate. Don Barclay portrayed the character, while David Tomlinson provided his voice in the original film.
Jeremy Swift as Hamilton Gooding: one of Wilkins's associates.
 Swift also voices a badger in the animated Royal Doulton Bowl sequence.
 Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Templeton Frye: one of Wilkins's associates.
 Holdbrook-Smith also voices a weasel in the animated Royal Doulton Bowl sequence.
 Noma Dumezweni as Miss Penny Farthing: Wilkins's secretary.
 Tarik Frimpong as Angus: Jack's fellow lamplighter.
Voices
 Edward Hibbert as Mary Poppins's Parrot Umbrella. He was previously voiced by David Tomlinson in the original Mary Poppins.
 Chris O'Dowd as Séamus the Coachman Dog in the animated Royal Doulton Bowl sequence.
 Mark Addy as Clyde the Horse in the animated Royal Doulton Bowl sequence.

Reception

Box office
As of December 30, 2018, Mary Poppins Returns has made $98.9 million in the United States and Canada. It made another $74.4 million in other territories. The total intake across the world was $173.3 million.

Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie a 78% rating, based on 265 reviews. On the Metacritic, the movie has a 65 out of 100 rating, with 53 critics, meaning "generally favorable reviews".

Awards

References

2018 fantasy movies
2018 comedy-drama movies
American fantasy-comedy movies
American musical comedy movies
Disney movies
Movies set in the 1930s
Movies set in London
Schlierbach is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Schlierbach can mean:
 Schlierbach (Göppingen), a community in the district of Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 Schlierbach, Haut-Rhin, commune in France
 Schlierbach, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Lucerne
 Schlierbach, Austria, a municipality in Upper Austria
Schweighouse-Thann is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Schwoben is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sentheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach is a new commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. Two communes Spechbach-le-Haut and Spechbach-le-Bas joined and became Spechbach on 1 January 2016.

References 

2016 establishments in France
Communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach-le-Haut was a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune Spechbach.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Spechbach-le-Bas was a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune Spechbach.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Seppois-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Seppois-le-Haut is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sewen is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sickert is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages 
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References 
INSEE commune file

Other websites

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sierentz is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. It is halfway between Mulhouse and Basel.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Steinbach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Soppe-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Zimmerbach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Dierks is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

Cities in Arkansas
De Graff is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Cities in Minnesota
Peter Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born/American televangelist. He was exposed in 1986 for using an earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife Elizabeth. She gave him the names, addresses and ailments of members of the audience during Popoff-led religious services. Popoff falsely said God revealed the information to him so he could cure them by faith healing.

Popoff went bankrupt in 1987. But he made a comeback in the late 1990s. Beginning around the mid-2000s, he bought television time to promote "Miracle Spring Water" on late-night infomercials. He referred to himself as a prophet. The Business Insider said: "No matter how many times his claims are debunked, he seems to bounce back with another version of the same old scam."

Popoff was born in West Berlin, Germany. He was raised in California.

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Television evangelists
American television personalities
People from California
1946 births
Living people
Yakovlev Yak-1 (Russian: Яковлев Як-1) was a Soviet WWII 1-seat fighter produced by Yakovlev.

World War II Soviet aircraft
Yakovlev Yak-7 (Russian: Яковлев Як-7) was a Soviet WWII 1-seat fighter developed by Yakovlev

References

World War II Soviet aircraft
Yakovlev Yak-52 (Russian: Яковлев Як-52) is a Soviet 2-seat trainer aircraft designed by Yakovlev.

World War II Soviet aircraft
Lawrence G. Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American scientist. He won the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet", and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002.

Roberts created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies. The ARPANET was a forerunner to the modern Internet.

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1937 births
2018 deaths
American computer scientists
Scientists from Connecticut
Elsa Bruckmann (23 February 1865 – 7 June 1946), born Princess Cantacuzene of Romania, was the wife of Hugo Bruckmann and tutor of Adolf Hitler. She held the "Salon Bruckmann".

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1865 births
1946 deaths
Princes and princesses
Romanian people
Tupolev Tu-16 (Russian: Туполев Ту-16; NATO reporting name: Badger) was a Soviet twin-engine heavy bomber designed by Tupolev. It has stayed in service for almost 70 years, and the Xian H-6, which is based on the Tu-16, is still flying today with the People's Liberation Army.

References

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Bombers
Tupolev Tu-14 (Russian: Туполев Ту-14; NATO reprting name: Bosun) was a Soviet twin-engine light bomber designed by Tupolev.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Bombers
Polikarpov Po-2 (Russian: Поликарпов По-2; NATO reporting name: Mule) was a Soviet 2-seat utility plane designed by Polikarpov.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Antonov An-8 (Russian: Антонов Ан-8; NATO reporting name: Camp) was a Soviet twin-turboprop, high-wing aircraft designed by Antonov.

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Soviet & Russian aircraft
is seinen manga series created by Tochi Ueyama. The story is about a salaryman who can cook well. The manga won a Special Award at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards. Full recipes for the dishes shown in each chapter are provided at the end of the chapter.

The anime of Cooking Papa was aired on TV Asahi Thursday every week from April 9, 1992 to May 25, 1995. It was produced by Eiken and directed by Tochi Ueyama. The anime series ran for 151 episodes. It was also aired in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Middle East.

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1990s television series
1992 anime television series
Anime series
Japanese television dramas based on manga
Manga series
Television series about families
Kiwano (Cucumis metuliferus), also known as horned melon, is a sweet tropical fruit. It is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family, Cucurbitaceae. It is also called "horned melon" since its fruit has horn-like spines. Ripe fruit has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh. Kiwano is native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is now grown in the United States, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand.

Kiwano is a traditional food plant in Africa. Along with the Gemsbok cucumber (Acanthosicyos naudinianus) and Tsamma (Citron melon), it is one of the few sources of water during the dry season in the Kalahari Desert. In northern Zimbabwe, it is called gaka or gakachika. There it is primarily used as a snack or salad, and rarely for decoration.

Cucurbitaceae
Melons
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., is a 2001 American science fiction drama movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay was by Spielberg  based on the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. 

The movie was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt. It is set in a futuristic post-climate change society. 

A.I. tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love.
The film takes place in the 22nd century with the effects of climate change changing the world. Henry and Monica are a couple whose child Martin is very sick and remains in a state of motionlessness (suspended animation). The couple acquires David, a robot capable of loving, to replace Martin. Martin gets better and returns. He becomes jealous of David. Martin tries to get David to do dangerous things that may hurt others. At a party, David tries to protect Martin but ends up almost drowning David. David is to be returned and destroyed, but Monica lets David stay in the woods. David wishes to be turned into a real boy by the Blue Fairy. David gets captured by a "Flesh Fair" but gets out, because the people believe he is really human. David travels with Joe. He eventually arrives in New York and meets his creator. He sees that there are other robots like himself and wants to kill himself. He jumps in the ocean and encounters a statue he believes to be the Blue Fairy
. Centuries later, humans are extinct, and other species find David and revive him. David wishes to become a boy. Instead, they use the genes of Monica's hair to recreate her so that David can live one more day with her.
Cast 
 Haley Joel Osment as David. Osment was Spielberg's first and only choice for the role. To portray the character, Osment avoided blinking his eyes and "programmed" himself with good posture.
 Frances O'Connor as Monica Swinton
 Sam Robards as Henry Swinton
 Jude Law as Gigolo Joe. To prepare for the role, Law studied the acting of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, whose movements Joe emulates.
 Jake Thomas as Martin Swinton
 William Hurt as Professor Allen Hobby
 Brendan Gleeson as Flesh Fair impresario Lord Johnson-Johnson
 Jack Angel as Teddy (voice)
 Ken Leung, Matt Winston, Eugene Osment and Clark Gregg as Cybertronics Corp employees
 April Grace as Female Colleague
 Enrico Colantoni as The Murderer
 Paula Malcomson as Patricia in Mirrored Room
 Ashley Scott as Gigolo Jane
 Kathryn Morris as Teenage Honey
 Adrian Grenier as Teen in Van
 Robin Williams as Dr. Know (voice)
 Ben Kingsley as Specialist (voice)
 Meryl Streep as the Blue Fairy (voice)
 Chris Rock as Comedian Robot (voice)
Erik Bauersfeld as Gardener (voice)
 Ministry as Flesh Fair band
2001 science fiction movies
2001 drama movies
American science fiction movies
American drama movies
Post-apocalyptic movies
Robot movies
Movies directed by Steven Spielberg
Movies composed by John Williams
Warner Bros. movies
Movies set in the 22nd century
Movies about artificial intelligence
Movies about families
Movies featuring puppetry
Movies based on short stories
Movies set in Manhattan
Movies set in New Jersey
A hachimaki (鉢巻, "helmet scarf") is a headband with styles that came from Japan. They are usually made from red and white cloth. People wear them to show hard work, or to keep sweat from the eyes.

History 
Nobody is sure how hachimaki started. Most people say that Samurai wore them under their helmets for comfort.

Kamikaze pilots wore them before flying to their deaths.

Styles 
Hachimaki are normally decorated with words, such as "Nippon Ichi" (日本一, "the best of Japan"), and with the rising sun between the kanji characters.

Headgear
Sembawang MRT station (NS11) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South Line in Sembawang, Singapore.

The station is in the middle of two roads, Sembawang Way and Sembawang Alley. The station is next to a shopping mall Sun Plaza. A bus station called Sembawang Bus Interchange is also close to the station.

History 

When the North South Line is planned, there is a station called Sembawang. It is between two other stations - Yio Chu Kang and Yishun. The station is now named Khatib.

In 1990, North South Line Woodlands Extension was planed. Sembawang was not part of this planned route. Later, the Singapore government agree to built this station . The station opened on 10 February 1996. The area around the station was not yet filled with anything. Only Canberra Road and a very small Sembawang New Town are located nearby.
There are a lot of passengers who fell down into the tracks of the Station. Some passengers also go into the tracks illegally. In 2011, the Land Transport Authority started to build low doors and barriers around the tracks. They were completed in 2012.

This station also have high-volume low-speed fans installed in 2012.

References

Other websites 
 

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
20th-century establishments in Singapore
1996 establishments in Asia
The words "hard copy" and "soft copy" are about pages of words and pictures either recorded onto printed paper or in soft-copy form as shown and spoken in telephone or computer machine forms. Sometimes, a recording on a compact disc (CD) can be considered a hard copy of music, pictures or people talking.

In the U.S. 
In information handling, the U.S. Federal Standard 1037C (Glossary of Telecommunication Terms) defines a "hard copy" as a permanent reproduction, or copy, in the form of a physical object, of any media suitable for direct use by a person (in particular paper), of displayed or transmitted data. Examples of hard copy include teleprinter pages, continuous printed tapes, computer printouts, and radio photo prints. On the other hand, physical objects such as magnetic tapes,  diskettes, or non-printed punched paper tapes are not defined as hard copy by 1037C.
A file which can be viewed on a screen without printing it out is known as a "soft copy". The U.S. Federal Standard 1037C defines "soft copy" as  "a nonpermanent display image, for example, a cathode ray tube display."

Older meanings 
The term "hard copy" predates the age of the digital computer.  When making printed books and newspapers, hard copy refers to a manuscript or typewritten pages that have been edited and proofread and is ready for typesetting or being read on-air on the radio or television broadcast.  This traditional meaning has been all but forgotten in the time of the information revolution.

References

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Héctor Marcos Timerman (16 December 1953 – 30 December 2018) was an Argentine journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Relations from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He was born in Buenos Aires.

Timerman died on 30 December 2018 in Buenos Aires from liver cancer at the age of 65.

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Yehoshua Glazer (29 December 1927 – 29 December 2018) was an Israeli footballer. He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and for the Israel national football team his entire career. He was born in Tel Aviv. 

Glazer died on his 91st birthday on 29 December 2018 in Tel Aviv.

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Syed Jahangir (2 January 1935 – 29 December 2018) was a Bangladeshi painter. He painted for over 55 years including 9000 oils, watercolors and mixed medias. Through his career, Jahangir has held 35 solo and 1 group exhibition.

Jahangir died on 29 December 2018 at the age of 83.

জাহাঙ্গীর

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Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (, Cantonese: Lam Ling-tung; 1955 – 29 December 2018) was a Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter. His best known work was Aces Go Places IV. Lam directed City on Fire in 1987, which led him to winning his first Hong Kong Film Award.

On December 29, 2018, Lam was found dead at his home in Hong Kong, aged 63.

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Rosenda Monteros  (31 August 1935 – 29 December 2018) was a Mexican actress. She was born in Veracruz. She was best known for her role as Petra in The Magnificent Seven. She also starred in A Woman's Devotion and Tiara Tahiti.

Monteros died in Mexico City on 29 December 2018 at the age of 83.

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 Monteros reads "Romanticismos," by Francisco González Léon

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Aldo Simoes Parisot (September 30, 1918 – December 29, 2018) was a Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher. He was first a member of the Juilliard School faculty. He was a music professor at the Yale School of Music for sixty years (1958 to July 2018), retiring at age 99. He was born in Natal, Brazil.

Personal life
Parisot was married twice. His first marriage, to the former Ellen Lewis, produced three sons, one of whom is film director Aldo L. "Dean" Parisot. His second marriage, to the pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, lasted 52 years, until his death. Parisot died at his home in Guilford, Connecticut, on December 29, 2018, aged 100.

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Further reading 
 Aldo Parisot, The Cellist: The Importance of the Circle, Susan Hawkshaw, Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, New York (2018), 

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Dick Helling (22 September 1950 – 30 December 2018) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was born in Zaandam, Netherlands. Helling began his career with Telstar, and also played for Ajax, before spending 8 seasons with Volendam, for whom he scored 48 goals in 218 games in all competitions.

Helling died on 30 December 2018 from a stroke in The Hague, aged 68.

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Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German writer. He was born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He was known for his works Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.

Hilsenrath died in Berlin from complications of pneumonia on December 30, 2018 at the age of 92.

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 Biography  of the Literary Agency Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin with book presentations and comments.
 Biography  at exil-archiv.de

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István Seregély  (13 March 1931 – 31 December 2018) was a Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Eger from 5 June 1987 to 15 March 2007. He was born in Szombathely, Hungary.

Seregély died on 31 December 2018 in a priest social home in Nyíregyháza, Hungary at the age of 87.

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Peter Thompson (27 November 1942 – December 2018) was an English footballer. He was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He made 560 appearances in the Football League playing for Preston North End, Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers.

Thompson played as an outside left for the Liverpool team which had major successes in the 1960s. He was capped 16 times for England.

On 31 December 2018, it was announced Thompson died at the age of 76.

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Antonov A-1 was a Soviet 1-seat glider designed by Antonov.

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John McCririck (17 April 1940 – 5 July 2019) was an English television horse racing pundit, journalist and presenter. He began his career in journalism at The Sporting Life, where he twice won at the British Press Awards. He joined the Daily Star, but was later fired by the newspaper.

During 1984 and 1985, horse racing moved from ITV to Channel 4 as Channel 4 Racing.

In early 2018, McCririck suffered from pneumonia, which caused a dramatic weight loss. He died on 5 July 2019 at a hospital in London at the age of 79. The cause of death was lung cancer.

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 Interview inThe Guardian, 4 July 2001
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 John McCririck profile at Biogs.com

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James Arthur Osmond (born April 16, 1963) is an American singer, actor, and businessman. He is the youngest member of the sibling musical group the Osmonds. Osmond has had six gold records, one platinum record, and two gold albums. He was born in Canoga Park, California. He made his career debut in the Andy Williams Show in 1967.

Personal life 
On 27 December 2018, following his performance as Captain Hook in a Birmingham, England production, he was hospitalized after having a stroke. He is now in good health after full recovery. He had suffered a stroke in 2004.

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Antonov A-15 is a Soviet mid wing, V-tailed glider designed by Antonov.

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Bamberg is a city in and the county seat of Bamberg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,607 at the 2010 census.

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Vibrio vulnificus is a form of bacteria that can make people ill, as when eating bad clams or oysters, and more in people with a liver disease. Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved rod-shaped (bacillus), pathogenic bacteria of the genus Vibrio. Present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas, V. vulnificus is related to V. cholerae, as a bacteria which can give people cholera.

Infection with V. vulnificus leads to rapidly expanding cellulitis or sepsis. It was first isolated as a source of disease in 1976. The capsule, made of  polysaccharides, is thought to protect against phagocytosis. The observed connection of the infection with liver disease (associated with increased serum iron) might be due to the capability of more virulent strains to capture iron bound to transferrin.

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Paul Christopher Neville (20 March 1940 – 1 January 2019) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the National Party. Neville was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to August 2013, representing the Division of Hinkler, Queensland.

Neville died at a hospital in Bundaberg, Queensland on 1 January 2019 at the age of 78.

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Raymond Ramazani Baya (16 June 1943 – 1 January 2019) was a Congolese politician. He was the Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the transitional government following his appointment to that post on July 23, 2004. He left the office on February 6, 2007. Before, he was the Ambassador of Zaire to France from 1990 to 1996.

Baya died on 1 January 2019 at a Paris hospital at the age of 75.

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Antonov A-11 is a single-seat, high performance, all-metal sailplane. They were built in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, with 150 planes produced.

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Denmark is a town in Bamberg County, South Carolina in the United States. The population was 2,999 at the 2010 census.

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Lauren Tom (born August 4, 1961) is an American actress. Her roles include Lena St. Clair in The Joy Luck Club, Julie in the NBC sitcom Friends, Dot in the final season of Grace Under Fire, and the voices on Futurama as Amy Wong and on King of the Hill as Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone, also The Powerpuff Girls series voicing as numerous characters.

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William Gianelli (February 19, 1919 – March 30, 2020) was an American lawyer, engineer and politician. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) from 1981 to 1984 during the Ronald Reagan. Before this, Gianelli as head of the California Department of Water Resources. He was born in Stockton, California.

Gianelli died on March 30, 2020 in Monterey, California at the age of 101.

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Stephen Wilkinson MBE (29 April 1919 – 10 August 2021) was an English choral conductor and composer. From 1947 to 1953, Wilkinson was director of the Hertfordshire Rural Music School at Hitchin. From 1953 to 1979 he was on the Music Staff of the BBC, first in Leeds, then from 1961 in Manchester. 

Wilkinson also performed with other professional choirs - the BBC Singers in London, the RTE Singers in Dublin and the Nederlands Kammerkoor. 

Wilkinson turned 100 in April 2019. He died on 10 August 2021, aged 102.

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Basil S. Yamey, CBE (4 May 1919 – 9 November 2020) was a South African economist. He was born in Cape Town in South Africa. For many years he was a Professor at the London School of Economics. He was a part-time member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission from 1966 to 1978.

Yamey died on 9 November 2020 in Cape Town at the age of 101.

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June Rosalind Brocksom CBE (née Spencer; born 14 June 1919) is an English retired actress. She is best known as the long-standing voice of Peggy Woolley on BBC Radio 4's The Archers.

Spencer celebrated her 100th birthday in 2019. She announced her retirement on 8 August 2022, at the age of 103, after 79 years in the industry.

Early life 
June Rosalind Spencer was born on 14 June 1919 at 30 Bingham Road in Sherwood, Nottingham, England. She is the only child of Rosalind Mary (née Thorne), a housewife, and William Spencer, a salesman for Crawford's. She was baptised on 3 August 1919 at St. John the Evangelist in nearby Carrington, Nottingham.
Spencer attended Mountford House Preparatory School from 1924 to 1929. She graduated from Nottingham High School for Girls in 1934, at the age of 15. She was told: "Of course you know you can't expect to get anywhere without your School Certificate", by Miss Philips, the headmistress. Spencer studied part-time at the Stockwin Music College from 1931. She was a member of the Brownies. She joined the St Mary's Amateur Dramatic Society in 1942, where she gained her London Guildhall School of Music and Drama certificate.

Spencer made her stage debut at the age of three, during a school performance of the King of the Land of Nod. She took piano lessons for 11 years, starting at the age of five. She later passed the Associated Board's Advanced Level. Spencer also wrote and produced plays in her back garden to raise money for charity from the age of 12. Her charity of choice was Dr Barnardo's.
Spencer was taught how to drive by her father at the age of 12, while she was underage and uninsured. He also taught her how to drive through water. Her lessons came to an abrupt stop when her father discovered that one of his friends had been reprimanded for teaching his schoolboy son. She passed her official driving test the second time.

Spencer paid £110 for her first car, a 1934 Standard 12, which she named 'Aggie'. Her car had no heating so she would drive with a hot-water bottle on her knees and a blanket over the top. She sold Aggie for £120 two years later.

Spencer worked as a model, modelling teenage clothes in fashion shows for two local stores, earning "a few guineas". She also worked as a junior governess at a small private school. Spencer and her father both lectured at the Mansfield Technical College. She lectured two terms.
Career 
Spencer applied for auditions at the BBC's Midland region during the late summer of 1939, passing both her auditions for drama and review. Her first paid work was performing monologues at Freemasons' dinners in 1942. She reapplied four years later, passing both her auditions again. Spencer made her broadcasting debut in November 1943, when she was cast as a 12-year-old child in a 15-minute programme, Railways in Wartime.

Spencer was contracted to complete a season in weekly rep theatre, with two shows a day for three guineas a week. The arrangement broke down when she demanded a pay rise for taking the title role in a Christmas production of Alice in Wonderland, with her boss suggesting that she should be grateful to have war work. She immediately quit, telling her boss: "I had rather fill shells than work for you, Mr Wright! You'll have my notice on Friday." Her first line on the professional stage was "What's your Will?" from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Spencer worked the telephone switchboards as a "hello girl" while volunteering with the Voluntary Entertainment company to perform in morale-raising shows for the forces in her spare time.
Spencer joined the cast of the BBC Home Service radio soap opera The Archers on 29 May 1950. She was the long-standing voice of Margaret "Peggy" Woolley (née Perkins, formally Archer) for 63 years, from the pilot episode until 1953, and then again from 1962 until her departure on 31 July 2022. She was the sole survivor from the original cast. Spencer did not audition for the role as she was already contracted to the BBC to star in a string of other radio plays. She was originally paid £12 for five episodes - as an experienced actress - while others were paid between £8 and £10. She publicly criticised the creator, Godfrey Baseley, who had once threatened to sack her after she decided to not attend his party. Spencer left the serial in 1953 to raise her two children and the role of Peggy was recast to Thelma Rogers. She also voiced other characters including a Scottish maid and an Irish baker's assistant called Rita Flynn. She once played two of her characters in a single scene
. Spencer was credited under her married name of June Brocksom on nine episodes between 28 November 1969 and 9 August 1973, voicing Mrs Spenlowe. She had gained widespread acclaim in the 2000s for her part in a storyline that portrayed the slow submission of Peggy's husband, Jack Woolley, to Alzheimer's disease. She had criticised the shows pay in 2011. Spencer had recorded episodes at the Chelsea Flower Show. She was driven to and from her home on each recording day in her later years. She also voiced Tony, as a child. Spencer and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall cut an Archers-themed cake during a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the show's 70th anniversary on 7 December 2021.