Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Merle Kilgore (1934–2005), singer/songwriter, manager
 Mel McDaniel (born 1942), country music singer/songwriter
 Reba McEntire (born 1955), country singer
 Roger Miller, singer/songwriter
 Leona Mitchell (born 1948), famed African American soprano, member Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
 The Nixons, 90's hard rock band
 Patti Page (born 1927), traditional pop music and country music singer
 Sandi Patty (born 1957), Contemporary Christian music singer
 Tom Paxton (1937-), singer, singer-songwriter
 Pillar (born 2001), christian rock band
 Restless Heart band members Paul Gregg and Greg Jennings
 Sam Rivers (born 1923) jazz tenor saxophonist with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie,Herbie Hancock, and Quincy Jones
 Joe Don Rooney (born 1975), country music singer, one-third of the group Rascal Flatts
 Leon Russell (born 1942), singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
 Neal Schon (born 1954), lead rock guitarist of Journey
 Blake Shelton (born 1976), country musician
 Starlight Mints, indie pop band
B. J. Thomas (born 1942) singer/songwriter
 Carrie Underwood (born 1983), American Idol winner 2005
 Maci Wainwright (born 1990), country music singer-songwriter
 Jimmy Webb (born 1946), popular music composer
 Claude Williams (musician) (1908–2004), jazz musician with the Count Basie band
 Mason Williams (born 1938), composer (Classical Gas), recording artist, comedy writer (Smothers Brothers)
 Bob Wills (1905–1975), country music singer/songwriter, leader of the band The Texas Playboys
 Sheb Wooley (1921–2003), actor and singer (Purple People Eater)
Television/Radio
 Kristin Chenoweth (born 1968), actress and singer
 Walter Cronkite (born 1916), television journalist
 Douglas Edwards (1917–1990), radio and television journalist
 Kayne Gillaspie, TV personality and fashion designer
 Paul Harvey (born 1918), radio broadcaster and commentator
 Mary Hart, (born 1950), TV personality, co-host "Entertainment Tonight"
 Glenn Hauser (born 1945), radio broadcaster
 Rex Linn (born 1956), actor (CSI: Miami)
 Phil McGraw (born 1950), television psychologist
 Bill Moyers, journalist/national anchor
 Bob Murphy (1924–2004), sports play-by-play announcer (best known as announcer for New York Mets)
 Justin Nimmo, (born September 5, 1974), actor (Power Rangers in Space)
 Dan Rowan, co-host, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
 Ted Shackelford (born 1946), actor (Knot's Landing)
Miss America
 Jennifer Berry (born 1983), Miss America 2006
 Jane Anne Jayroe (born 1946), Miss America 1967
 Lauren Nelson (born 1987), Miss America 2007
 Susan Powell (born 1959), Miss America 1981
 Norma Smallwood (1909–1966), Miss America 1926, first Miss America of Native American Heritage (Cherokee)
 Shawntel Smith (born 1971), Miss America 1996

Business
 Clay Bennett, Chairman of Dorchester Capital, Professional Basketball LLC
 Edward K. Gaylord (1873–1974), Founder of the Daily Oklahoman
 Edward L. Gaylord (1919–2003), late Editor of the Daily Oklahoman, founder of TNN & CMT, owner of Grand Ole Opry
 Sylvan Goldman (1898–1984), Businessman and inventor of the shopping cart
 Waite Phillips (1883–1964), oil industry businessman
 T. Boone Pickens, Jr. (1928-2019), oil industry businessman
 Sam Walton (1918–1992), founder of Wal-Mart
 Tom L. Ward, oil industry businessman
Art and Literature
 Roger Eric Davis, (1962-2013), Artist of Oil Paintings
 Charles Bell (painter), (1935-1995), photorealist painter
 William Bernhardt (born 1960), novelist
 John Berryman (1914–1972), poet
 Jim Thompson (born 1906), novelist
 Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), writer and scholar
 Chester Gould (1900–1985), creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip
 Tony Hillerman (born 1925), journalist, historian, professor, and novelist
 Josh Shipp (born 1981), author and motivational speaker
 S.E. Hinton (born 1948), author and novelist
 Bill Moyers (born 1934), journalist and public commentator
 Jeff Rowland, cartoonist, author of WIGU
 Bill Wallace, author
 Jason Nelson (born 1970), pioneering net artist and digital poet

Athletics
Troy Aikman, quarterback, OU, UCLA and Dallas Cowboys champion, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
 Johnny Bench (born 1947), MLB catcher Cincinnati Reds, member Baseball Hall of Fame
 Brian Bosworth (born 1965), Oklahoma Sooners football and NFL player
 Josh Brown (born 1979), kicker Seattle Seahawks
 Mikey Burnett UFC fighter
 Joe Carter, Major League Baseball player, right fielder
 Larry Coker (born 1948), former football coach at University of Miami
 Bart Conner, Olympic gold medal gymnast
 Edward C. Gallagher, champion OSU sprinter and football player, winningest wrestling coach in NCAA history, Olympic wrestling coach, National Wrestling Hall of Fame charter member
 Bill Goldberg, professional wrestler
 Kelly Gregg, Oklahoma Sooners football and National Football League player
 Charlie Haas, WWE professional wrestler
 Mat Hoffman, World Champion BMX biker
 Matt Holliday, Outfielder for the Colorado Rockies.
 Henry Iba, OSU basketball coach, NCAA and Olympic champion coach Basketball Hall of Famer
Bob Kalsu (1945–1970), Oklahoma Sooners football and Buffalo Bills player, only active professional football player killed in the Vietnam War
 Steve Largent, Seattle Seahawks Pro Football Hall of Famer and politician
 Abe Lemons, Oklahoma City University, Pan American University, and Texas Longhorns basketball coach
 Mickey Mantle (1931–1995), New York Yankees Baseball Hall of Famer
 Pepper Martin (1904–1965), St. Louis Cardinals baseball player
 "Jumping Jack" McCracken (1911–1958), Basketball Hall of Famer
 Shannon Miller, Olympic gold medal gymnast
 Ryan Minor, Oklahoma Sooners baseball & basketball player
 Dr. Gil Morgan (born 1959), professional golfer
 Tommy Morrison, Former World Heavyweight Champion boxer
 Bobby Murcer (1946–2008) Professional baseball player and sportscaster
 Lance Norick (born 1968), NASCAR driver.
 Steve Owens, Oklahoma Sooners football player and 1969 Heisman Trophy winner
 Brad Penny, Florida Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers MLB pitcher
 Beth Phoenix, professional wrestler
Darrell Porter (1952–2002), MLB baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
 Mark Price (born 1964) basketball player; Enid H.S., Georgia Tech, and Indiana Pacers
 Bryant Reeves attended Gans high school in eastern Oklahoma, attended OSU, and retired from the Vancouver Grizzlies in the NBA.
 Allie Reynolds (1917–1994), Baseball Hall of Famer
 Crystal Robinson, New York Liberty WNBA basketball player
 Bullet Rogan (1893–1967), Baseball Hall of Famer
 Matt Roney (born 1980), MLB baseball player, relief pitcher
 Jim Ross, WWE announcer
 Darrell Royal (born 1924), football coach at University of Texas
 Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State Cowboys Heisman Trophy winner, Football Hall of Famer
 Lee Roy Selmon, Oklahoma Sooners football player and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
 Jeremy Shockey (born 1980), professional football player
 Billy Sims (born 1955), running back Oklahoma Sooners football and Detroit Lions, Heisman Trophy winner
 John Smith (born 1965), Olympic gold medalist and wrestling coach
Warren Spahn (1921–2003), Baseball Hall of Famer
 Willie Stargell (1940-2001), Baseball Hall of Famer with the Pittsburgh Pirates, known for his ability to hit home runs completely out of stadiums.
 Eddie Sutton, Arkansas Razorbacks and Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball coach
 Barry Switzer (born 1937), football coach, Oklahoma Sooners and Dallas Cowboys
 Jim Thorpe (1887–1953), Olympic gold medalist, played professional football and Major League Baseball
 Spencer Tillman, All-American running back for the Oklahoma Sooners and CBS TV football analyst
 Wayman Tisdale (born 1964), professional basketball player and jazz bass guitarist
 Bob Tway (born 1959), professional golfer and PGA Championship winner in 1986
 Lloyd "Little Poison" Waner (1906–1982), Baseball Hall of Famer
 Paul "Big Poison" Waner (1903–1965), Baseball Hall of Famer
 J.C. Watts, Oklahoma Sooners football quarterback and later U.S. Congressman
 Jason White, Oklahoma Sooners football quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner
Bud Wilkinson (1916–1994), famed Oklahoma Sooners football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
 Matt Wiman (Born 1983), UFC fighter
Science/Medicine
 Richard E. Berendzen (born 1938), astronomer, author, and professor
 James Herndon (born 1952), media psychologist
 Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), physicist and radio engineer

Aviation/Aeronautics
 Thomas and Paul Braniff, airline entrepreneurs, founders of Braniff International Airways
 Gordon Cooper (1907-2006)
 Owen K. Garriott (born 1930), astronaut
 John Herrington (born 1958), astronaut
 James Jabara (1923-1966) world's first jet ace, and Korean War triple ace with 15 kills
 Shannon Lucid (born 1943), astronaut
 William R. Pogue (born 1930), astronaut
 Wiley Post (1898–1935), first pilot to fly solo around the world, (born in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma)
 Thomas Stafford (born 1930), astronaut
 Clarence L. Tinker (1887-1942), U.S. Army Air Corps general and supreme commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II
Religious Figures
 Oral Roberts (1918-2009), evangelist
 Bill Majors (born 1960), missionary
 Yahweh ben Yahweh born and legally named Hulon Mitchell Jr. (October 27, 1935 - May 7, 2007), was the leader of the religious group Nation of Yahweh

Infamous Oklahomans
 Belle Starr (1848–1889), Queen of the outlaws, a female Jesse James
 Pretty Boy Floyd (1904–1934), Depression era gangster
 Cameron Willingham (1968–2004), convicted arsonist, whose case spawned a controversy over use of forensic evidence in capital trials
Other
 Bill G. Chapman (1928–2007), advocate for the blind, author
 Tom Colbert (born 1949), first African-American Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice
 Stephen Jones (July 1, 1940 -), attorney best known as Timothy McVeigh's lead defense lawyer during his trial for the Oklahoma City bombing
 Joe Redington (1917–1999), "Father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"
 Bass Reeves (1838-1910), first African-American U.S. Marshal and one of the chief law enforcement agents during the first years of Oklahoma's statehood.
 Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice, presided over Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry Nichols's state murder trial
 Cornel West (born 1953), scholar

References
The Clovis culture was one of the first well documented Native cultures in the Americas. The Clovis people lived in the Americas about 13,000 years ago. They lived there for between 200 and 800 years. Different sources list different lengths of time in that range.

They had a special way of making tools like spear tips and knives from stones. The flint tips are called Clovis points. Artifacts that they made in this way can be found in many places in North America. The Clovis way of making tools only lasted between 500 and 1000 years. After that, other similar ways became more popular.  

They are called "Clovis culture" because archaeologists first found their artifacts at Clovis, New Mexico.

The end of the Clovis culture
A decline in the availability of megafauna, together with the population becoming less and less mobile, led to local differentiation of lithic and cultural traditions across the Americas. After this time, Clovis-style fluted points were replaced by other fluted-point traditions (such as the Folsom culture).

Clovis First (a theory)

The Clovis First theory says that the Clovis people crossed the Beringia land bridge over the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska during the period of lowered sea levels during the ice age, then made their way towards the south, through an ice-free corridor east of the Rocky Mountains in present-day Western Canada as the glaciers retreated.

Things that point to earlier settlement of the Americas
"Clovis First" is one of the theories about the Settlement of the Americas. There are other ideas and research that go against "Clovis First".
Evidence of human habitation before Clovis
Idea about a coastal migration route: Research on the mitochondrial DNA of First Nations/Native Americans, was published in 2007. It suggests that the people of the New World may have diverged (or went away from each other and stayed away), genetically from Siberians as early as 20,000 years ago. One theory says that the Pacific coast of North America may have been free of ice, and maybe the first peoples in North America came down this route before the formation of the ice-free corridor.
Solutrean hypothesis
Genetic history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas: Research on mitochondrial DNA in 2014 has found that members of some native North American tribes have a maternal ancestry (called haplogroup X) that has a link to the maternal ancestors of some present-day individuals in western Asia and Europe - but the link is not strong. A variant of mitochondrial DNA called X2a found in many Native Americans has been traced to (or research shows that the variant comes from) western Eurasia, while not being found in eastern Eurasia.

Research that shows human habitation before the Clovis culture

Archaeological sites that have been shown to be older than the Clovis culture:
Hartley mammoth butcher site, Colorado (38,900–36,250 cal BP by AMS 14C analysis of hydroxyproline from bone collagen)
 Bluefish Caves, Yukon, Canada (24,000 years BP)
 White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA; (21,000-23,000 BP)
 Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil (10,500–12,000 yr BP; possibly older than 50,000 yr BP)
 Topper, South Carolina, US (16,000–20,000 yr BP; possibly 50,000 yr BP)
 Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Pennsylvania, US (16,000 yr BP)
 Buttermilk Creek Complex, Salado, Texas, US (15,500 14C yr BP)
 Cactus Hill, Virginia, US (15,070 14C yr BP)
 Monte Verde, Chile (18,500 to 14,800 14C yr BP)
 Saltville (archaeological site), Virginia, US (14,510 14C yr BP)
 Taima-Taima, Venezuela (14,000 yr BP)
 Manis Mastodon Site, Sequim, Washington, US (13,800 yr BP)
 Connley Caves, Oregon, US (13,000 yr BP)
 Page-Ladson, Florida, US (14,550 cal yr BP])
 Lapa do Boquete, Brazil (12,070 ±170 14C yr BP)
 Paisley Caves, Oregon, US (14,300 cal yr BP)
 Tanana Valley, Alaska, US (13,000–14,000 cal yr BP)
El Abra, Colombia (12,460 ±140 14C yr BP)
 Nenana Valley, Alaska, US (12,000 yr BP)
 Tibitó, Colombia (11,740 ±110 14C yr BP)
 Tagua-Tagua, Chile (11,380 ±380 14C yr BP)
References

Pre-Columbian cultures
Native Americans
Mound Builder is a general term referring to certain cultures of pre-Columbian American Indians. These cultures built various styles of earthen mounds. There were burial, residential and ceremonial purposes. The cultures cover a long period of time. This is from about 3500 BCE to the 16th century CE. This includes the Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian periods. Notable cultures were the Adena, Hopewell, Plaquemine, Fort Ancient, Coles Creek and Mississippian cultures. These groups were around the Great Lakes, the Ohio River Valley, and the Mississippi River.

The mounds were flat structures with layers. They usually were pyramids. Some mounds were like domes. Some mounds were effigy mounds. They had shapes of animals. One famous one is the Serpent Mound in Ohio. The oldest mound is probably the Watson Brake in Louisiana. Usually, elite made workers build the mounds. Some mounds were burial sites for elite people of the tribes.
There were several records of these mounds. Hernando de Soto was one of the earliest to see and record these mounds. The French artist Jacques le Moyne made paintings of these mounds. All of the mounds today are from the Woodland and Mississippian periods.  

The mounds started to disappear with colonization. Disease decreased the population sizes of American Indians. Mound building ended after the 17th century.

Related pages 
Cahokia

References 
    

Native Americans
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (ca. 1510 – September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador, who visited New Mexico and other parts of what are now the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. He died in 1554. He married Beatriz De Estrada, the daughter of a colonial treasurer. 

1510 births
1554 deaths
Spanish explorers
The Seven Cities of Gold is a legend from the Spanish conquest of South America. It led to several expeditions by adventurers and conquistador during the 16th century. The legend originated in New Spain, about the lost cities of Quivira and Cíbola.

The location of the golden cities appear to have been in the mountains (Cibola) of the Inca. Quivira was the location of the fabulous source of mineral wealth but it was located in Kansas and it was the Flint fire stone (Quay-Vi-ra).  Well known  to the Indians of North America but not the gold the Spanish lusted for. 
Now famous as the Flint Hills of Kansas. 

Fictional locations
Exploration
History of North America
Fort Gibson is a town in Cherokee and Muskogee counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 4,054 at the 2000 census.   It is the oldest town in Oklahoma, it was established in 1824. It is the location of Fort Gibson National Cemetery.  It is near to the end of the Cherokees' Trail of Tears at Tahlequah.

References 

Towns in Oklahoma
This is a list of the seventy-seven counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma is ranked 20th size and 17th in the number of counties.

Alphabetical list

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References

Oklahoma
Oklahoma-related lists
This is a list of regions of the United States.

Census Bureau-designated areas 

Regional divisions used by the United States Census Bureau
 Region 1 (Northeast)
 Division 1 (New England)
 Maine
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Adair County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2010, 22,286 people lived there.  Its county seat is Stilwell.

History 
The county was created in 1907.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 577 square miles.

Places

Cities 
 Stilwell (county seat)

Towns 
 Watts
 Westville

Other 
 Ballard
 Baron
 Bell
 Bunch
 Cherry Tree
 Chewey
 Christie
 Elm Grove
 Elohim City
 Fairfield
 Greasy
 Lyons Switch
 Marietta
 Mulberry
 Old Green
 Peavine
 Piney
 Proctor
 Rocky Mountain
 Salem
 Titanic
 Watts Community
 Wauhillau
 West Peavine
 Zion

References

1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Oklahoma counties
Alfalfa County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2010, 5,642 people lived there.  Its county seat is Cherokee.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 881 square miles.

Bordering counties 
 Harper County, Kansas (northeast)
 Grant County (east)
 Garfield County (southeast)
 Major County (south)
 Woods County (west)
 Barber County, Kansas (northwest)

Places

City 
 Cherokee

Towns 
 Aline
 Amorita
 Burlington
 Byron
 Carmen
 Goltry
 Helena
 Jet
 Lambert

Other 
 Ashley
 Driftwood
 Ingersoll
 Nescatunga
 Yewed

References

1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Oklahoma counties
Atoka County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and was formed in 1907 from Choctaw Lands.  As of 2000, 13,879 people lived there.  Its county seat is Atoka.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 990 square miles.

Places

City 
Atoka

Towns 
Caney

Stringtown

Tushka

Other 
Bentley

Bethany

Blackjack

Boehler

Boggy Depot

Bruno

Burg

Centerpoint

Chockie

Cook

Crystal

Daisy

Dok

East Allison

East Talico

Farris

Flora

Forrest Hill

Fugate

Goss

Grassy Lake

Half Bank Crossing

Harmony

Hickory Hill

High Hill

Hopewell

Iron Stob

Lane

Lone Pine

Mayers Chapel

McGee Valley

Mt. Carmel

Mt. Olive

Negro Bend

New Hope

Nix

Old Farris

Patapoe

Payton Crossing

Pine Springs

Plainview

Pleasant Hill

Redden

Reynolds

Rock Springs

Standing Rock

Star

Taloah

Valley View

Voca

Wards Chapel

Wardville

Webster

Wesley

West Allison

West Telico

Wilson

Oklahoma counties
1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Beaver County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 5,857 people lived there.  Its county seat is Beaver.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 1,818 square miles. Beaver County is located in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

History 

The area now known as Beaver County was part of Mexico from 1821 until 1836. Before that, it was part of New Spain. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the new state of Texas gave up the Oklahoma Panhandle. Between 1850 and 1890, the area did not belong to any state or territory. In 1886, a group of settlers in the area formed their own government, and named the Oklahoma Panhandle the Cimarron Territory. Many of these settlers were from Beaver City. The territory was never recognized by the United States government. The area was assigned to the new Oklahoma Territory in May 1890. The State of Oklahoma was formed in 1907.

Places

Towns 

Beaver (county seat)
Forgan
Gate
Knowles

Other 

Balko
Elmwood
Floris
Mocane
Slapout
Turpin

References
References 

Oklahoma counties
1890 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Beckham County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 19,799 people lived there.  Its county seat is Sayre.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 904 square miles.

1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Oklahoma counties
Blaine County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 11,976 people lived there.  Its county seat is Watonga.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 939 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1890 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Bryan County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  In 2007, about 39,563 people lived there.  Its county seat is Durant.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 943 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Caddo County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 30,150 people lived there.  Its county seat is Anadarko.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 1,290 square miles.

References 

Oklahoma counties
1901 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Canadian County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In 2000, 87,697 people lived there. Its county seat is El Reno.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 905 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1890 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Carter County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 45,621 people lived there.  Its county seat is Ardmore.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 834 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Choctaw County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 15,342 people lived there.  Its county seat is Hugo.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 801 square miles.

References 

Oklahoma counties
1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Cleveland County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  At the 2000 census, 208,016 people lived there.  Its county seat is Norman.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 558 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1890 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
Coal County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 6,031 people lived there.  Its county seat is Coalgate.

History 
Coal County was made in 1907.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 521 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1907 establishments in Oklahoma
Comanche County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.  As of 2000, 114,996 people lived there. Its county seat is Lawton.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 1,064 square miles.

Oklahoma counties
1901 establishments in Oklahoma Territory
The English Football League (which was the Football League) is a football league in England and Wales. It was created in 1888 and was the top league in England until 1992 when the English Premier League was made. It is now a league for tiers 2-4 of English football.

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Port Vale
Salford City
Scunthorpe United
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Related pages
English Premier League

 
1888 establishments in the United Kingdom
Alexandra is a work by the Greek poet Lykophron, who is only known through this work. It was written between 196 and 190 BC.  The work has 1474 lines, which are done in jambic trimeters. This is what most Greek tragedies were written in.

Story 
Paris left for Sparta, to abduct Helena, the wife of Menelaos. This was going to cause the Trojan War. Kassandra is left in the temple, guarded by someone instructed by Priamos, her father. The text is the report this guard gives to Priamos, about what Kassandra had said.
Kassandra (named ALexandra) first recalls how Herakles destroyed Troy. She then tells about the Trojan War. A large central part is devoted to how the Greek heroes return home. She tells about Odysseus, his travels, and how he went home to his wife Penelope. Penelope later kills him. Kassandra also tells how Aeneas successfully settled in Rome, and how Rome became a big empire. The final part of the poem is devoted to the eternal war between Europe and Asia, about the Persian Wars and Alexander the Great. Kassandra says that six generations after him, a relative will win over the Macendonians, which will end the warring. Kassandra's speech ends with resignation, as she cannot stop the events. The guard ends his speech with a blessing for the Trojans.
Language 
The dark language of the poem comes from its vocabulary, its use of special, and old forms of words. Of about 3000 words of the poem, 518 words are only known from this poem, 117 occur in this poem for the first time. The main problems with this poem are that the persons are usually not named. Rather they are described with what they did. Geographical places are similarly unnamed, and only described using places in them. Many scholars have tried to identify places and people, in some cases this is no longer possible though.

Other websites 
 Alexandra - This is the Engilsh trandlation of  A. W. Mair, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 129, London: Heinemann 1921
 
 Publications about  Lykophron  at the  Hellenistic Bibliography  of the Unicersiy of Leiden

Classical Greek literature
2nd-century BC books
The Football League Second Division was the former 2nd division of English football. It was the 2nd division from 1892 until 1992, when the Premier League was created. It became the 3rd division after the founding of the Premier League replaced the Football League First Division as the 1st tier of football in England. It was replaced by the EFL League One in 2004.

Champions

Related pages
Football League First Division
EFL League One

Football in England
Lethwei (; IPA: ) or Burmese boxing is a full contact combat sport from Myanmar. Lethwei is considered to be one of the most brutal martial arts in the world, because headbutts are permitted and the fights are done bareknuckle (without gloves).

Definition
This famous method of fighting with the bareknuckle hands and with the uncovered feet came in the 3rd century when the monks had wanted to be trained and to defended themselves. It is a boxing "called martial" that borrows from the Burmese warriors all their array of particular plans for gaining success in the combat. It had come popular beginning of the 11th century under the king Anawratha, with combats among tribes with no rules and with a violence without common measure. The way of facing is special very much, much often taking a certain animal behaviour and is alike only of much distant to other Eastern methods.

Rules
Rules

In the way received from ancestors, the combat is judged by two referees and is done in a circle where every form of the blow and of the throw is permitted. The present time brought the rules as if the Eastern boxing, especially the gloves, the things that keep safe, the rounds and the ring. The technical part of the person who fights is much wide and the behaviours are produced by other methods of the combat de Burma. Many unusually interesting actions are happened, especially the flying techniques (jumping kick, knee strike and with elbow in flying), and techniques in walking of stairs (kicks and knee strike). In the past, a traditional Burmese Boxing was quite different from Thaing, for its brutal and rough side. Today, is not so, because is having good organization under the modern conditions, can be agradable see.
Technical Description : "The Entire Body is a Weapon"
Nine traditional techniques are the parts of the method of the Burmese boxing. The technical description of the lethwei include three main parts, the weapons which are used, the goals which are aims and the distances of the combat. We meet: 
 the usage of all the ready amount of the body, of the blow and of the throw (nine main weapons: skull, two fists, two elbows, two knees and two feet), 
 the search for the blow of the set of the body of the opponent, 
 the managing of three distances of combat: long distance (especially of the kick), middle distance (knee strikes, fist and elbow), body to body (holds and throws).
From a point of view of particular plan for gaining succes in the combat, and in order to learn and remember, a part of laws is established. For example, we meet the following laws: 
 striking the arms of the opponent before attacking the centre of the body (for example, giving in the blow with head to the biceps at the same time with a circular punch of the opponent or of the blow to the thigh of the opponent with roundhouse kick (fr. fouetté) during an attack with roundhouse kick in middle line), 
 the throws have to be performed in the near space in order to carry an immediate blow in reaching the ground, 
 using the strategies of the animals of the thaing (for example, the blow in the lower parts of the opponent of type wild boar, or kick of the type leopard to the arms of the opponent in order to open a way to goals, to the face).
The Cultural Part of Lethwei
According to a customary way, the combat is performed in a circle. In the Burmese villages, still in 21st century, this fight has kept in existence its character received from ancestors. Only the appearance of an Eastern ring and of the divisions seems to be mark of the present times.

The match is judged by two referees, in order to can better separate the men who take part in it, and six referees give a points to these men. All the techniques are permitted, a man can be hit in the ground. The boxers fight during the rounds much long. The rounds are changed by complete half-times during the other matches are performed.
The set of needed things is poor, the competitor uses certain pants of boxing, wrapped hands, coconut as a something that keeps the genitals safe, leather strap among the teeth. Till the present times, many Burmese boxers have the tattooed trunk and the leg. In a certain, you can see his victories, in other - the representations of animals (eagle, serpent, leopard, tiger, etc..) suggesting force and being brave.

Lethwei yay 

Warrior dance performed in the beginning of the combat, in order to show ability and being brave. In the end of the dance, the crossed arms are hit each one of its shoulders with the opposite hand in order to announce that the boxer is hostile. A dance of victory is performed also after the decision of the referees.
Lekkha moun 
Act of providing to see de the weapons used during the combat de lethwei, by the boxer himself. He hits the opposite arm with his open hand. The act of providing to see is performed from the top towards down, at the beginning with the fists and the elbows, then with the knee and in the end with the feet.

References

 Bando, philosophy, principles and practice, M.Gyi, IST edition, 2000 
 Burmese bando boxing, M.Gyi, Ed. C.Maxwell, Baltimore, 1978
 Comprehensive Asian Fighting arts, D.F.Draeger and C.W.Smith, Y. Kodansha, Tokyo, 1969
 Traditional Burmese boxing, Z.Rebac, Ed. Paladin Press, Boulder, 2003

Other websites
 French Federation of the Bando Burmese Boxing 
 American Bando Association

Martial arts
Kickboxing
Among the most known world systems, loaded with the management of the professional and amateur designations as champions in the boxes pieds-poings we have: the WKA (World Kickboxing Association) that had been founded in the USA in the 1976, the WAKO (World Association of KickBoxing Organizations) that had been founded in Germany in the 1978 (WAKO has its origins in the organization of amateur gatherings), the ISKA (that had been founded in 1986) that came from the PKA that did the development of the full contact at the beginning and the WKN (that had been founded in the 1997).

Related pages

References
 Japanese kickboxing

Other websites
  Mikes Miles, A History of Kickboxing
International federations:
  WKA-Head office, World Kickboxing Association  that had been founded in 1976 (Founder, Howard Hanson, USA)
  WKA-Europe, World Kickboxing Association Europe (Germany)
   ISKA-Head office, International Sport Kickboxing Association that had been founded in 1986
  ISKA-Europe, International Sport Kickboxing Association Europe Europe (Hungary)
   WAKO-Head office, World Association of Kickboxing Organizations  that had been founded in 1978 (Founder, George Bruckner, Germany)
  WKN-Head office World Kickboxing Network  that had been founded in 1999 (Founder, Stéphane Cabrera, France)
  The Kombat League Federation

Sources
Alain Delmas, 1. Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la boxe et des autres boxes, Amiens, 1981-2005 - 2. Lexique de combatique, Ligue Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, 1975

Kickboxing
Franchino Baresi  (; born 8 May 1960) is an Italian football youth team coach and a former player and manager.

Career statistics

Club

International

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

Honours
AC Milan
Serie A: 1978–79, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96
Serie B: 1980–81, 1982–83
Supercoppa Italiana: 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994
European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94
European Super Cup: 1989, 1990, 1994
Intercontinental Cup: 1989, 1990
Italy
FIFA World Cup: 1982; runner-up: 1994; third-place: 1990
Individual
Ballon d'Or: runner-up 1989
Coppa Italia top scorer: 1989–90
Guerin d'Oro: 1989–90
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1990
Premio Nazionale Carriera Esemplare "Gaetano Scirea": 1994
World Soccer The Greatest Players of the 20th century #19
AC Milan Player of the Century: 1999
AIC Serie A Player of the Century: 2000
FIFA 100: 2004
UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll: #17th
AC Milan Hall of Fame
FICTS Hall of Fame and Excellence Guirlande d'Honneur
Golden Foot: 2012 (under the category of "Football Legend")
Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2013
Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Silver): 2020
IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team: 2021
Orders
Orders
 4th Class / Officer: Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: 1991
Notes

References

Other websites

2009 Interview

Profile at FIGC.it   

Living people
1960 births
Footballers from Lombardy
A.C. Milan players
1982 FIFA World Cup players
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
Italian football managers
Archerfish (also known as archer fish, spinner fish or insect-eater) are small perciform fish. Some live in fresh water. Others live in salt water. They live in lots of places, like India, the Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia.

Archerfish eat insects and other small animals. The archerfish looks for an insect hanging over the water. The archerfish shoots drops of water out of its mouth at the insect. When the drops hit the insect, it falls into the water. Then the archerfish catches (gets) the insect and eats it.

Archerfish can eat insects up to two meters (six feet) away. Adult archerfish almost always hit the insect the first time, but young archerfish must do it many times in order to learn how.
The type species is the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix. It is also known as the common archerfish or just archerfish. There is the common archerfish, which has a similar common name but is not the type species. The body of the Toxotus chatareus sooty but sometimes silvery or gold. The dorsal side is greenish-brown. 

The pectoral fins are clear or "dusky" in color. Pelvic fins may be darker and heavily pigmented.

Other websites 
 Archerfish capturing prey 
 Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore: Archerfish 
 Information and Photos on Archerfish 
 Archerfish Can Adjust Their Deadly Shots Based on the Size of the Prey - LiveScience.com

Perciformes
John (Jack) Peisley (1835 – 1862)  Australian bushranger was born in Bathurst New South Wales in 1835. He is believed to be the first bushranger born in Australia. His name is often found spelled as "Piesley".
John Peisley lived in the Abercrombie District with his well-known settler parents Thomas and Elizabeth.  Their house was reputed a den of  thieves. John Peisley was arrested in his teens for stealing.  About 1840, the extended family of  ticket of leave convicts Thomas Weavers and wife Sarah, previously Smith née Lake crossed the Blue Mountains to Bathurst and took up farming in the Mount Macquarie area where unofficial settlement started in 1821.  The first land grant was to Thomas Icely for Coombing Park in 1829.  Nearby land was taken up on Coombing and Fell Tree Creeks, and at Number One Swamp that developed into the village of Mount Macquarie, the latter renamed Neville in 1888. Thomas Weavers and stepson William Smith took up land together.  On 12 May 1851, two horses missing from Thomas Weavers’ Mount Macquarie property were seen in the possession of seventeen-year-old John Peisley driving them and five more to the Abercrombie.  He was arrested on warrant and indicted for stealing
. The jury could not agree the identity of horses were sufficiently established and acquitted the accused, but he was remanded in custody, as he faced another charge of horse stealing.
Convict
Not all Australian convicts and ticket of leave holders arrived in Australia on convict transports.  Bathurst-born Colonial lad John Peisley was eventually convicted of stealing cattle and sentenced to serve time on Cockatoo Island near Sydney, now called Biloela.  A prisoner who served time there was labelled a Cockatoo Hand.  There he met Darkie Frank Clark, who as Frank Christie, escapee from Melbourne’s Pentridge gaol in 1850 after serving five weeks of a five year sentence.  In New South Wales, Clark turned to horse and cattle stealing in company with William Fogg.  Convicted, he got seven years for attempting to sell stolen horses and forging horse ownership papers at Yass.
Clark, having served less than six years of his sentence, was given his ticket of leave on
31 December 1859, conditional he stayed in the Carcoar District.  At Carcoar, he worked for a butcher.  Two months later, he absconded to new gold diggings at Kiandra and calling himself Frank Gardiner opened a butcher’s shop selling carcasses of stolen cattle.  His true identity was soon realized and warrants issued.  He was arrested in May 1861, but skipped bail at Lambing Flat (now Young).  He teamed up with Canadian immigrant John Gilbert and reverted to full-time crime.
In December 1860, convict Peisley gained his Ticket of Leave at Scone, conditional upon him remaining in the Hunter River Valley.  On 23 March 1861, fifty miles north-east of Bathurst, between Louisa Creek and Tambaroora, with fellow Cockatoo Hand named McKenzie, he robbed travelling bank officer Richard Cox Shaw carrying £565 in notes, also some gold and silver coins.  Earlier bushrangers were mostly transported convicts; colony-born Peisley became the first true Wild Colonial Boy.  The robbers split and Peisley absconded to the Abercrombie Ranges he knew well.  In May, at Fish River in Fogg’s ironbark slab humpy, six miles from Bigga, Peisley and Frank Clark reunited and teamed with John Gilbert as highway robbers, ‘sticking up’ travellers in the area between Bathurst, Lambing Flat, Gundagai and Yass
.  On 16 July morning, Sergeant John Middleton and Trooper William Hosie stationed at Tuena, descended upon Fogg’s humpy occupied by Fogg, his wife and children, Frank Clark armed with a six-shot revolver handgun, and Jim Barney, an old man.  Unknown to the troopers, Peisley and Gilbert were camped one mile away.  Called to surrender, Clark shot Middleton three times, in the hand, mouth and hip, and Trooper William Hosie received a glancing ball to his forehead.  Clark was also wounded.  They wrestled before Clark gave up and was manacled.  Barney took off to warn Peisley and Gilbert.  Middleton left for Bigga to get help and reinforcements.  Circumstances of Hosie leaving for Bigga were disputed.  Fogg claimed Hosie accepted fifty sovereigns to release Clark and to say he escaped.  Hosie averred at Fogg’s trial for obstructing police, while he and Fogg escorted the prisoner along the road to Bigga, Clark escaped when bushrangers Peisley and another (Gilbert) waylaid them
.  Trooper Hosie reached Bigga alone mid-afternoon.  Weak and delirious from loss of blood, Sergeant Middleton arrived at nightfall.  Both would later recover.  Reports of Crime issued July and August 1861 declared £120 rewards, £20 for Clark’s apprehension, and £50 for Peisley’s, and further sum of £50 by Government for such information as shall lead to the conviction of those concerned in the outrage of attacking and wounding the Patrol with Firearms in the Bathurst District.  The report disclosed:
"On the 16th July, Sergeant Middleton and Trooper Hosie, of the Western Patrol, were attacked and severely wounded at the Fish River, by Francis Clarke, alias Jones, alias Christie, a Ticket of Leave holder, illegally at large from his district; a native of Goulbourn, New South Wales, 31 years ... wounded in the affray on left temple by a pistol-ball or whip.  He was captured and afterwards released by two armed men: John Peisley, a Ticket of Leave holder, illegally at large from his district; a native of Bathurst, New South Wales, about 26, 5 feet 8 ½  inches high, ruddy complexion, flaxen hair, bluish-grey eyes, long featured, pock-marked nose, several scars, arms and legs hairy, left eye spasmodic winking action… The other man is about 26 years"
The report also included weapons carried and comprehensive physical descriptions, normal clothing and by Clark (Gardiner) and Gilbert (not named).  
Displeased with ill-fame attributed him, Peisley wrote the editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal by letter dated “Fish River, 4th  September, 1861.”  It stated, in part:
"You will no doubt be surprised to receive a note from the (now by all account) noted Piesley; but, Sir, through your valuable paper I must make it known that, if it be my lot to be taken, whether dead or alive, I will never be tried for the rescue of Gardiner, in the light in which it is presented; nor did I ever fire at Trooper Hosie. … I must be the Invisible Prince to commit one-tenth of what is laid to my charge.  I trust I may never have to allude to this again.  I love my native hills, I love freedom and detest cruelty to man or beast.  Trusting you will publish this, my bold letter no doubt, but you can be assured it comes from the real John Piesley, and not any of his many representatives.  I am, Mr. Editor, your much harassed writer, JOHN PIESLEY"
In the next months Clark, then more often called Gardiner, Peisley and Gilbert bushranged and retreated to the Weddin Mountains near Forbes and Cowra.  Peisley separated from the gang and single-handed held up the Lambing Flat coach after it left Cowra.  He then returned to Abercrombie District.
Murder
On 27 December 1861, Peisley went to Tom McGuinness’s inn at Bigga and left the next day with fellow drinker James Wilson, stocked with wine and brandy.  They rode to a nearby farm owned by William and Stephen Benyon and continued drinking and arguing with the two brothers.  He accused, 17 years earlier, when he was a kid, William had swapped a horse with him, which was no good.  A fight erupted and Wilson took Peisley’s revolvers, which William’s wife Martha hid in the garden.  At her husband’s insistence, she returned the revolvers.  Peisley pursued Stephen Benyon to the barn followed by William Benyon.  Both brothers were shot by Peisley; Stephen in the arm and William in the throat; witnessed by Martha Benyon, Wilson, farmhand George Harmer, servant girl Mary Samson and Thomas Weavers.
Doctor Henry Kowland attended William Benyon the following day, and found a bullet had passed through his windpipe and lodged in the spine, paralyzing him from the neck down.  He could not remove the bullet and considered the case hopeless from the start.  He attended him again on 31 December, three days before he died.
Capture and demise 
A warrant issued for Peisley’s arrest for the murder of Benyon and reward for information as would lead to his apprehension  and conviction.  An announcement in the Government Gazette of January 1862, after the murder of Benyon, based on Report of Crime dated 29 July 1861, described Peisley:

"About 28 years of age, about 5 ft 10 in. high, stout, well made, fresh complexion, very small light whiskers, quite bald on top of head and forehead, several recent marks on face, and a mark from a blow of a spade on top of head; puffed and dissipated-looking from hard drinking, invariable wears fashionable Napoleon boots, dark cloth breeches, dark vest buttoned up the front, large albert gold guard, cabbage-tree hat and duck coat.  Sometimes wears a dark wig and always carries a brace of revolvers."
On 15 January, Constables Morris, Murphy and Simpson were searching the Abercrombie area for bushrangers and spoke with Peisley near Bigga.  Police gave chase but Peisley’s superior horse enabled him to escape easily.  He was identified and challenged by Corporal Carroll at Tarcutta on 29 January, and again escaped on his well-bred mount.  One week later, after a struggle, Peisley was captured and secured near Bootes’s hotel, Mundarlo by Mr Mackenzie and Mr Beveridge of Wantabadgerie, who delivered him to Gundagai. At his committal before the Carcoar bench, Peisley called Thomas Weavers, but he corroborated the prosecution witnesses.  Committed for trail, Peisley handcuffed and chained, was taken from Carcoar to Bathurst by a large posse of armed police.
He was tried and convicted in the Bathurst Court on 14 March 1862, for the murder of William Benyon and sentenced to death.  He was hanged on 25 April 1862, in the Bathurst Gaol before about fifty people.  Aboriginal Jackey Bullfrog was hanged at the same time for murdering William Clarke.  At the gallows, Peisley pleaded he had a drunken fight, and death was Benyon’s fault as much as his.  He averred he had he had nothing to do with Gardiner’s rescue, was nowhere near Fogg’s when he got away, and nothing to do with any attempt bribe Hosie.  His last words were “Goodbye gentlemen, and God bless you.”  Clark using the name Christie was captured at Appis Creek, Queensland in March 1864.  He served ten years of a cumulative 32-year sentence for twice wounding Trooper Hosie, with intent to kill and intent to cause harm and two counts of armed robbery.