Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Life and habitat 
The alpine newt typically lives in forests with good access to water in hilly to mountainous regions. They are mostly absent in forest-poor areas. They often occur   in thick deciduous forests, as well as parland and natural gardens. Outside the spawning season, the Alpine Newt is a land animal. During the day it stays in all kinds of undergrowth, but during the mating season in cool water (forest pools, artificial pools). After the adults come out of winter dormancy, the alpine newts immediately take themselves to the spawning pools.

Location 

The spread of the alpine newt is constricted to Central Europe and parts of mountainous Southern Europe as well as an isolated area on the Iberian Peninsula.

There is also some introduced wild populations in the UK
Endangerment 
After a steep decrease in the alpine newt population in the 1960s-70s, they have recovered their numbers a bit. Surveillance in the surrounding area of Cologne (approximately 50m above sea level) showed an increase in alpine newt numbers, but the numbers of newts in breeding pools seemed to decline. In home gardens, newts are settling in pools in which there may be a high reproduction rate. If fish are in these ponds, the population will be completely wiped out. However, a small pool of 150 litres volume had more than 60 alpine newt tadpoles of different sizes at the beginning of July 2003. They were likely spawned from just one female.
Taxonomy 
The alpine newt has been usually placed into the Triturus genus. García-París | display-authors = etal split the genus Triturus into three, and placed the alpine newt into its own genus Mesotriton. Also the subspecies T. a. inexpectatus was elevated to species status. However this split has not been completely accepted yet. Originally 9 subspecies of the alpine newt were recognized.

References 

Newts
Animals of Europe
A differential equation is a mathematical equation that involves variables like  or , as well as the rate at which those variables change. Differential equations are special because the solution of a differential equation is itself a function instead of a number.

In applications of mathematics, problems often arise in which the dependence of one parameter on another is unknown, but it is possible to write an expression for the rate of change of one parameter relative to another (derivative). In this case, the problem is reduced to finding a function by its derivative related to some other expressions.
Types of differential equations
If a differential equation only involves  and its derivative, the rate at which  changes, then it is called a first order differential equation. A higher-order differential equation has derivatives of other derivatives. If there are more variables than just  and , then it is said to be a partial differential equation. Sometimes, something will obey several differential equations at the same time. These are said to be modeled by coupled differential equations.
Uses 
Differential equations are used in many fields of science since they describe real-world things:
 In physics for various forms of movement, or oscillations
 Radioactive decay is calculated using differential equations.
 Isaac Newton's Second law of motion 
 Newton's Law of Cooling
 The wave equation
 Laplace's equation
 The Navier–Stokes equations described the movement of fluids
 The Hamiltonian equations for general mechanics

People who studied about differential equations

 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
 Hiroshi Umemura
 Israel Gelfand
 Peter Lax
 Ryogo Hirota
 Sofya Kovalevskaya
 Vladimir Arnold

Related pages
 Finite element method
 Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
 Numerical methods for partial differential equations

Differential equations
Windhoek () is the capital city of Namibia. It has a population of 230,000 people. Windhoek is the trade center for sheep skins.  The area was controlled by Germany in 1885. It became the capital of the German colony, German South-West Africa, in 1892. During World War I, Windhoek was captured by South Africa. It was the capital of South West Africa (Namibia) under South African control until the independence of Namibia in 1990. 

Windhoek has a semi-desert climate.

Windhoek is known to be among the cleanest cities in Africa.

Gallery

References

Other websites 
 Official homepage of the City of Windhoek - Windhuk
 WebCams showing Windhoek

News
 Republikein, Namibian newspaper (Afrikaans)
 Allgemeine Zeitung Namibias, Namibian newspaper (German)
 The Namibian, newspaper (English)
A boiling tube is a large tube made of glass, which is used in laboratory to strongly heat substances. A boiling tube is a scaled-up test tube, but larger in size. This larger size allows substances to boil freely inside a boiling tube.

Boiling tubes can also be used as a replacement for test tubes specially when a larger volume is desired.

Boiling tubes are commonly made from Pyrex glass which can tolerate high temperatures.

Boiling tube is also known as Hard Glass Tube

laboratory equipment
The 1982 Atlantic hurricane season was a yearly event of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. The season officially started on June 1, 1982, and ended on November 30, 1982. Six named storms formed during the season, along with 2 hurricanes.

While most of the storms were usually weak, the most deadliest storm of the season was Tropical Storm Beryl which killed 115 people while moving across the Caribbean Sea.

Storms

Hurricane Alberto 

A tropical depression formed off western Cuba on June 1 from an group of organized thunderstorms. It moved slowly northeastward through the Gulf of Mexico, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Alberto on June 3. Alberto travelled usually northeast on an unpredictable course and for a hort time, strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane, one of the earliest hurricanes of June. Alberto then quickly weakened back into a tropical storm, moved back to the west, and died near the Florida Keys, Florida, on June 6.
Though the storm never made landfall, Alberto killed 23 people in Cuba from heavy flooding. Southern Florida saw fair rainfall, with a maximum of 16.47 inches occurring in Tavernier.

Subtropical Storm One 

The first subtropical storm of the season formed in the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico on June 18, and took an almost straight path to the northeast for its whole life. It crossed the Florida peninsula that night, causing an issue of several severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings. The storm continued, crossing the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and kept its strength until June 20 when it became extratropical near Newfoundland.

Subtropical Storm One caused three deaths in Florida, sank a fishing ship off the coast of North Carolina, and caused $10 million in damage (1982 USD, $20 million 2005 USD).

Tropical Storm Beryl
Beryl became a tropical storm on August 28 while southeast of the Cape Verde islands. The tropical storm travelled slowly west-northwest, while once coming close to hurricane strength. While midway across the Atlantic on September 2, it weakened to a tropical depression. The depression continued west until its circulation collapsed on September 6, just north of the Windward Islands. Beryl killed 115 people in the Cape Verde islands. Though the Cape Verde islands are usually not affected by hurricanes, another tropical storm, Fran, hit the islands in 1984, killing 31 people.

Tropical Storm Chris
A non-tropical low formed on September 8 in the Gulf of Mexico. It moved west, and the next day it became into a subtropical depression. Under the control of another low pressure system, the depression turned north, and after slowly becoming better organized it strengthened into Tropical Storm Chris on September 10. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph  (100 km/h) before moving onto land near Sabine Pass in Louisiana. Chris continued to move inland until it died over central Arkansas on September 13.

Just before Chris  made landfall, as many as 6,500 people moved out from southern Louisiana, while many oil workers moved inland. Chris caused a total of $2 million (1982 USD) in damages.

Hurricane Debby
Hurricane Debby 

Debby began as a tropical wave that collapsed shortly after leaving the coast of Africa. The wave travelled across the Atlantic, and became a tropical depression off the northern coast of Haiti on September 13. The depression turned north and strengthened into a tropical storm and then a hurricane. Hurricane Debby moved north-northeast, affecting Bermuda with tropical storm-force winds. It continued strengthening as it moved north, peaking at 135 mph (220 km/h). Tropical storm-force winds were also recorded at Cape Race in Newfoundland when Debby passed by on September 18. The storm began to speed up and weaken over the colder waters of the north Atlantic. Debby combined itself with a strong non-tropical system over the British Isles on September 20.

The tropical disturbance that eventually formed Debby dropped heavy rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 12.86 inches in the southwestern part of the island. Debby was known to cause only minor damages that was related to the storm.
Tropical Storm Ernesto 

A tropical wave formed off the coast of Africa on September 23. The westeren part of the wave grew bigger and was called Tropical Depression Six on September 30. The depression strengthened, and made a sharp turn on October 1. An Air Force plane found 40 mph winds with a pressure of 1003 mbar and the depression was given the name Ernesto. A second Air Force plane on October 2 found 70 mph winds with a pressure of 997 mbar. By October 3, Ernesto was no longer recognized after combining itself with an extratropical low. Ernesto never came near land and caused no damages.

Related pages
 List of Atlantic hurricane seasons

References

Atlantic hurricane seasons
Atlantic hurricane season
1980s in weather
Ouagadougou (, is the capital of Burkina Faso. It is also the country's biggest city. In Ouagadougou, people mainly make clothing and food. Ouagadougou's mayor is chosen every five years. Ouagadougou is near the equator. It is always warm. In Ouagadougou, people speak French. Ouagadougou is one of the poorest cities in Africa. Almost 70% of its people can not read or write but the city has ten universities.

Economy 
Informal trade is widespread in the streets.

Terrorism
Jihadist insurgents carried out major attacks in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities
Ouagadougou is twinned with following cities:

References

Other websites

 Official website of the government of Ouagadougou 
 The plan of Ouagdougou
 Falling Rain Genomics: World Index, and other pages
The Venetian language (in Venetian: ) is a Romance language.

It was the language once spoken in the Republic of Venice.

Today
In the present day, it is spoken in the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in Slovenia and in Croatia. It is also spoken in Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states) and Mexico (town of Chipilo) by the descendants of Italian immigrants.

References

Languages of Italy
Romance languages
Venice
Yamoussoukro is the capital city of Côte d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast). About 200,000 people live in this city. Yamoussoukro became the capital in 1983. Abidjan was the capital before that.

History of Yamoussoukro 
Before the Second World War, Yamoussoukro was a small city. It was mainly made up of farms. In 1964, the president of Côte d'Ivoire decided to make Yamoussoukro the capital because it was where he grew up. In 1983, Yamoussoukro became the capital of Ivory Coast. In 1990, the Pope opened the biggest church in the world. It is called Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro. In 2004, Yamoussoukro's airport was attacked by France because airplanes from that airport had killed 9 people from France.

Important things in Yamoussoukro 
Yamoussoukro is famous for the biggest church in the world, The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro. Also, it is very tall.

Other websites

National capitals in Africa
Cities in Ivory Coast
Bloemfontein is one of the three capital cites of South Africa. It is the judicial capital of South Africa, as the Supreme Court is there. In Afrikaans and Dutch, Bloemfontein means "Spring of Bloem (Bloom)". It is also known as the city of roses. There are a lot of flowers in Bloemfontein.

History 
Bloemfontein was founded by Major H. Douglas Warden in 1846. It was created as both a fort and a place to live. It became the center of government of the British-controlled Orange River Sovereignty (1848–54) and of the Orange Free State (later known as just Free State).

Bloemfontein became the judicial capital of South Africa in 1910. It is a place where the government works. It has a lot of hospitals and schools.

Geography 
Bloemfontein is in central South Africa. It is dry in this part of South Africa. There are a few hills around Bloemfontein. Grass mostly grows around Bloemfontein. The summers are hot, and the winters are cool, but it snowed in August 2006.
Economy 
Much of the economy of the city is based on canned fruit, glass products, furniture, plastics, and railway engineering. The city saw a large economic growth in the mid-20th century because of the Free State goldfields 160 km (100 mi) northeast of the city. The Orange River project also helped the city grow economically. It is a major source both of hydroelectricity and of water for irrigation and human uses.

Sports 
The most popular sports in Bloemfontein are football, rugby, and cricket. In 2010, Bloemfontein will host some FIFA World Cup matches, at Free State Stadium.

Famous people from Bloemfontein 
 Zola Budd, a famous athlete
 J. R. R. Tolkien, philologist and author of The Lord of the Rings

 
1846 establishments
19th-century establishments in South Africa
1840s establishments in Africa
Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is an important member of the Frat Pack, a name used by members of the media for a group of comedians active in today's Hollywood movies. Black is also in order for some of Hollywood's largest movies and smallest indie films. He and Kyle Gass make up the comedy-rock duo Tenacious D. Black starred in the movie Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, which is based on a true story. He also starred in the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder.

Early and personal life
Black was born on August 28, 1969, in Santa Monica, California to Thomas Black and Judith Cohen. His father is of English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. His mother is Jewish and of Russian descent. Since March 14, 2006, he is married to Tanya Haden. They have two sons.

Filmography

References
References

1969 births
Living people
Actors from Santa Monica, California
American guitarists
American Jews
American movie actors
American movie producers
American rock musicians
American rock singers
American television actors
American television producers
American television writers
American voice actors
Comedians from Santa Monica, California
Singers from California
Writers from California
Dough is a thick, malleable and sometimes elastic paste made out of flour by mixing it with a small amount of water. Dough can be used to make bread, pastries, cookies, muffins, and other foods.

In many parts of central India, people use the quick method of making an instant roasted dough ball or baati. Flat, unleavened breads known as roti, lavash, yufka, matzo, and tortilla are used in many parts of the world today.

Leavened dough, made from dry, ground grains mixed with water and yeast, is used all over the world. It includes all kinds of breads made from wheat, maize, rice and other grains or similar crops used today in the world.

Fried dough foods are common in many cultures. In the United States, "elephant ears" is a common name for fried dough.

In slang, dough is money.

Slang
A muffin is a small bread- or cake-like baked food. Muffins are similar to cupcakes: they have round bases, rounded tops, and are usually sweet, but there are also savory kinds (like cornbread muffins). A muffin can also mean a different baked food, the smaller, disk-shaped English muffin, although this is not common outside Britain. In Britain, the term can mean either type of muffin. Muffins can also have extra ingredients to its flavour, such as blueberries or chocolate chips. Muffins are usually eaten at breakfast but can be eaten at any other meal. It is usually served with tea.

Cakes
Sweet breads
An English muffin (known as a muffin or breakfast muffin in the United Kingdom) is a round, flat bread made from a dough with yeast and enriched with butter and milk. It is often served toasted at breakfast in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.

Cooking

Breads
Breakfast foods
British food
Cornbread or Johnny cake is a name for any number of "quick breads"- bread leavened chemically instead of by yeast- which has cornmeal. As maize (also known as corn) is native to North America, the various kinds of cornbreads are more prevalent there.  In Italy, the corn-based mush known as polenta is sometimes fashioned into a fried form resembling cornbread.

Breads
A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Australian English: patty cake or cup cake,) is a small cake designed to be eaten by one person. They are often baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. Like larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes. They are often sweet and include frosting. Some specialized bakeries sell only cupcakes.

History

The first cupcake could be traced back to 1796. A recipe for "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. The earliest use of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Recipes cookbook.
In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the name cup cake or cupcake. Before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds. They got their name from the cups they were baked in. The name "fairy cake" is a description of its size. It would be appropriate for a party of small fairies to share a fairy cake. English fairy cakes vary in size more than American cupcakes. They are normally smaller and are rarely topped with much icing.
The other kind of "cup cake" referred to a cake whose ingredients were measured by volume. They were measured using a standard-sized cup instead of being weighed. Recipes with ingredients that were measured using a standard-sized cup could also be baked in cups. They were more commonly baked in tins. In later years, when the use of volume measurements was more used in home kitchens, these recipes became known as 1234 cakes or quarter cakes. They were called this because they are made up of four ingredients: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs. They are plain yellow cakes that are less rich and less expensive than pound cake. This is because they use about half as much butter and eggs compared to pound cake. The names of these two major classes of cakes were to tell the baker whether to measure by volume or weight.

References

Cakes
Curry (from Tamil kari) is the English word for any of a general variety of spiced dishes, best known in Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Thai, and other South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines. Curry has also been adopted into many other cuisines. Curry first came from India. The idea of curry was later brought to the West by British colonialists in India from the 18th century. Dishes that are often called curries in Europe and America are rarely called curries in the native language.

Curry can also be found in the United Kingdom and Jamaica. It is usually eaten with Basmati rice or naan, a type of flat bread.

A curry dish called Balti is said to have been originated in Birmingham, United Kingdom and has been dubbed Britain’s de facto national dish.

Related pages
Masala

References 

Indian food
Pakistani food
A shore or shoreline is the land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean or river. Where the water is a sea, the shore is also called a "coast".

Shores are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape, as well as by erosion caused by water, such as waves.  The geological makeup of rock and soil controls the type of shore which is created.  Erosion of sedimentary soils can make a sandy or pebbly shore, usually called a beach. 

A shore includes the intertidal zone that is alternately exposed and covered by waves and tides.

A shore will often have a lighthouse on it to help ships in the sea.

Landforms
A stick is a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree without the leaves.

Stick may mean:
Chopsticks, an eating utensil
Rod, cane, or hickory stick, disciplinary implements
Pointing stick, an indicator
Swagger stick, a formal attribute
Club (weapon) or staff (stick), weapons
Tally sticks, a marking medium
Walking stick, a mobility aid
Fire stick, a stick for making fire

In objects of similar shape:
A stick of dynamite
Joystick, a computer game controller
Prayer stick
Polo stick, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc. in sports
Memory stick, a device for storing digital information
Stick shift, automobile transmission

Stick may also mean:
 Stick (unit), an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard
 Silver Stick and Gold Stick, certain functions named after a ceremonial attribute
 Stick (comics), a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
 Stick-Eastlake, a type of Victorian architecture
 Stick (film), a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
In nicknames:
 Sticks for the Led Zeppelin album Led Zeppelin IV
 Sticks for Stephen Kernahan, former Australian rules football champion with the Carlton Football Club
 Stick for Gene Michael, former baseball infielder and manager 
 Candlestick Park, the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers, now known as Monster Park

In music:
 Clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
 Chapman Stick, a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s

Related pages 
 Pogo Stick, pole with a spring up its botttom
 Poohsticks, a game
 Styx (band) and Styx (album), an American rock group and their debut album
 Stick insect or "walking stick", an insect
 Stick figure, also known as a stick man
is a manga series created by Tite Kubo. It ran seventy four volumes for fifteen years, and was adapted into an anime series, two original video animations, four films, seven rock musicals and video games. Compilation volumes of the manga have sold over fifty million copies. The series follows a high school student with the ability to see spirits. After befriending a female shinigami, they work together to defend Japan from spiritual monsters and cleanse spirits. As the series progresses, they explore the world of the afterlife.
Media information
The manga was released in August 2001 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. New Japanese-language chapters are featured weekly in the same magazine. The chapters are complied in seven-to-nine chapter books every few months. The anime series aired on Wednesday by TV Tokyo. The first 63 episodes were based on the manga, and the next 46 were original to the anime. Beginning with episode 110, the anime has returned to the manga storyline, yet has parts from the previous 46 filler episodes. There are no plans to stop making the series. Also, two OVAs have been produced and two animated films, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, which was released in Japan on December 16, 2006, and Bleach: The Diamond Dust Rebellion, which was released on December 22, 2007. Viz Media released twenty six English language volumes of the manga in North America, and many scanlation groups release unofficial English translations of new chapters.
Plot
Ichigo Kurosaki is a teenager from Karakura Town who can see ghosts, a talent which lets him cross paths with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reapers whose task is guiding dead spirits from the World of the Living to the Soul Society and defeat Hollows, monstrous lost souls who can harm both ghosts and humans. Wounded by a Hollow she was hunting, Rukia transfers her powers to Ichigo so that he may fight in her stead while she recovers her strength in an artificial human body. Ichigo balances the demands of his substitute Soul Reaper duties and high school while gaining allies in his classmate Orihime Inoue, Yasutora "Chad" Sado, and Uryu Ishida of the Quincies.
Ichigo and friends soon enter into escalating skirmishes with Aizen's army of humanoid Hollows, the Arrancars, while joined by the Vizards—Soul Reapers who were victims of Aizen's experiments in creating Soul Reaper/Hollow hybrids. When Orihime is kidnapped by Ulquiorra Cifer of the Espadas, Aizen's 10 most powerful Arrancars, Ichigo and his allies mount a rescue operation that turned out to be a distraction as Aizen's forces appear in Karakura Town with intent of sacrifice the residents to create a key as part of Aizen's plan to reach and assassinate the Soul King who reigns over the Soul Society. As the Vizards join the Soul Reapers defending the town, Aizen's conspirator Gin Ichimaru reals his true colors and attempts to kill Aizen. But Aizen uses Hogyoku to become a Hollow-like being, killing Gin while overpowering everyone. Ichigo ultimately subdues Aizen at the cost of his powers and reverts to a normal human
. Months later, Ichigo prepares for life after high school when he is approached by Xcution, a gang of Fullbringers like Chad, who exploit him and his love ones to siphon his own Fullbring abilities. When Soul Society allies restore his Soul Reaper powers, Ichigo resolves to fight with them despite learning their apparent distrust when Xcution's leader Ginjo Kujo is revealed to be his predecessor.
Main characters
 Voiced by Masakazu Morita (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)
The series protagonist, a high school student with becomes a "substitute Soul Reaper" after unintentionally absorbing most of Rukia Kuchiki's powers. Initially disinterested in being a Soul Reaper, he can to accept his position while later learning his true nature. As a Vizard, Ichigo uses the Zanpakutō Zangetsu whose spirit form is his Hollow nature which was subjugated by the embodiment of his Quincy power that posed as Zanpakutō itself. Ichigo later acquires his Bankai Tensa Zangetsu, using it in his Getsuga Tensho attack. Following Zangetsu being damaged in the final arc, the weapon was remade into two connecting blades representing Ichigo's powers as a Vizard and as a Quincey.
Voiced by Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)
A Soul Reaper lieutenant of Squad Thirteen who is assigned jurisdiction of Karakura Town, ending up making Ichigo a substitute Soul Reaper. Her adopted brother and guardian, Byakuya, is the captain of Squad Six. Her Zanpakutō "Sode no Shirayuki" allows her to utilize ice in her attacks, later acquiring her Bankai Hakka no Togame.

 Voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English)
An intelligence archer who is of the Quincies, a bloodline of hollow-hunting archers who were nearly driven to extinction by the Soul Reapers as their power to destroy Hollows threatens the balance of life and death. Initially Ichigo's enemy, Uryū became an ally rival.
Voiced by Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
 Ichigo's classmate and friend, having romantic feelings for him. She lost her brother, Sora, who later becomes a Hollow. Though initially devoid of spiritual powers, she develops spiritual awareness and acquires the god-like ability to warp reality through rejecting past phenomena.

 Voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Jamieson Price (English)
A Japanese-Mexican orphan whose super strength and imposing appearance conceal his pacifist nature, later revealed to be a Fullbringer in the form of enhancing his arms when he protected Ichigo's sister Karin and her friends from a Hollow.
Voiced by Kentaro Ito (Japanese), Wally Wingert (English)
A Soul Reaper lieutenant of Squad Six and Rukia's childhood friend, initially an enemy to Ichigo before joining forces with him to rescue Rukia from being executed and since became a consistent ally of Kurosaki. His Zanpakutō "Zabimaru", whose spirit form is a snake-tailed ape known as a Nue, is a whip sword. For most of the series, Renji's uses his Bankai's imperfect form "Hihiō Zabimaru", a giant skeletal snake blade, before revealing his true and more practical Bankai "Sōō Zabimaru".
Voiced by Shinichiro Miki (Japanese), Michael Lindsay (English)
The eccentric owner of the Urahara Shop convenience store that predominantly deals in snacks and small household goods, aiding Ichigo and his friends in their adventures. He is later revealed to be the former Captain of Squad Twelve and founder of the Soul Reaper Research and Development Institute, force to flee from the Soul Society as a fugitive after being set up by Aizen. His zanpakutō is "Benihime", whose bankai form "Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame" restructures anything it touches.

References

Manga
Afterlife
Whyalla is a city on the Eyre Peninsula, on the shore of Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Its main industries are associated with the iron ore mines. Whyalla acted as the port for the export of iron ore. 

To get the renewal of the mining lease, BHP had to build a blast furnace to smelt the ore into pig iron. This led to the establishment of steel making, and ship building industries, which were very active during the period 19601980.

The viability of these industries so far from markets declined. This led to the closure of many operations and a decline in the local population. At its peak, during the mid-1980s, about 35,000 people lived there.

References

Cities in South Australia
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American Libertarian. He was formerly a Congressman from the state of Texas. He is retired but still travels around giving speeches about his beliefs.

Career
He ran for President of the United States in 1988, 2008, and 2012 but he was defeated all three times. He has called himself a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party.

He is for reducing or removing most taxes and removing many government rules about how people may live and spend their money. He does not want the United States military going into or attacking other countries, but instead wants it to only stop others from attacking the United States. He also believes that the United States currency should not be controlled by the Federal Reserve, which is the central bank of the United States. He wants people to be allowed to use any currency they want when buying and selling.

Family
His son Rand Paul is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and 2016 presidential candidate.
Health
In September 2020, Paul was hospitalized after having a minor stroke while livestreaming online in Texas.

References

Other websites

 Presidential Campaign Website
 U.S. House of Representatives Office of Ron Paul 

1935 births
Living people
American Baptists
Politicians from Pittsburgh
2008 United States presidential candidates
2012 United States presidential candidates
United States representatives from Texas
Libertarian Party (United States) politicians
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Libertarians
The city of Djibouti is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Djibouti. It lies on a peninsula between the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Tadjoura. Djibouti is home to about  400,000 people.

Features of Djibouti include beaches, a large Central Market, the national stadium Stade du Ville, the Presidential Palace and Hamouli Mosque. The Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway runs from the city to Addis Ababa. Djubouti is also home to the Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport.

History 
Djibouti was founded as a seaport in 1888. The city became the capital of French Somaliland in 1891. It replaced Tadjourah as the capital.

The peninsula was chosen because it is a natural port. It was attacked during WW2 by the Italians and later by the British.

National capitals in Africa
Geography of Djibouti
Jamestown is a harbour and the capital of the British island of Saint Helena. It was founded in 1659 by the East India Company. It's also famous for being the place where the famous French emperor, Napoleon lived when he was exiled to St. Helena. The town has a population of about 1,000 people. 

The town's most known feature is Jacob's Ladder. It is a walkway up the mountains with 699 steps. The ladder was built in 1829 to connect Jamestown to the military base on Ladder Hill. The ladder is very popular with tourists. It is beautifully lit at night. Each year, people come from all over the world to take part in a timed run up the ladder.

Many buildings in the city are built out of volcanic rock from the local area. The town is has a church, and port for unloading items delivered to the island.

Other websites 
 St Helena - Jamestown
 Pictures of Jamestown

Capital cities in Africa
Saint Helena
1659 establishments
17th-century establishments in Africa
Markus Näslund (born July 30, 1973, in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden) is a retired Swedish ice hockey player in the NHL. He was born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. He plays for the New York Rangers and is currently an alternate captain. He was considered very skilled and valuable and he was given the Lester B. Pearson award for the Most Outstanding Player in 2004.

Playing career 
Naslund began his career in Sweden, playing for Team Modo Hockey. Naslund was still quite young at that time. He played very well and was drafted by the NHL. In 1994, after being drafted by the NHL, he was taken in by the Pittsburgh Penguins. He started his rookie NHL years here. He did not play many games as he was not seen to be a great player at that time. Finally, the manager of the Penguins traded him to the Vancouver Canucks.
After being traded to the Canucks, Naslund was not used in games. The Vancouver coach thought that he was not very good, so Naslund asked to be traded. But he was not.
Suddenly, he was put in the lineup and did quite well compared to the rest of the team, which were struggling. In 2000, he was put with Todd Bertuzzi and they scored many goals together. Naslund was now a superstar and in 2004 he reached career highs and the NHL gave him the Lester B. Pearson award.
But in the 2006-2007 season, he struggled because Bertuzzi was traded away and it was much harder for him to score. But in the playoffs that year, he scored many goals in a short period of time. Naslund promised he would be much better next year. In the 2008 offseason, the Rangers signed Naslund to a two-year, $8 million contract. Naslund has spent most of his time with the Rangers playing on the team's first line with Scott Gomez as his center. On May 4, 2009 he announced his retirement from professional hockey.

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New York Rangers players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
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Vancouver Canucks players
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
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Pier Gerlofs Donia, 1480 - 1520. He fought for the independence of Friesland (which is now part of the Netherlands). He was a very big man. Some sources say that his height was 213 cm (almost seven feet). Donia was also known as Grutte Pier, which means "Big Lad Pier", in Frisian language, or Grote Pier, which means the same in Dutch language. He also was a pirate. This great man fought against the people from Holland, Germany, and the Burgundians.

According to legend, Pier forced his prisoners to repeat a special word, which was hard to pronounce for non-Frisians. This way he could distinguish Frisians from Dutch and Low Germans:

Bûter, brea en griene tsiis: wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries.

Or, in English translation:

Butter, rye-bread, and young cheese: whoever cannot say that is not a true Frisian.
Those prisoners who could not answer this in proper Frisian had their heads cut off by Donia himself. Pier was also noted for his ability to behead several people with a single blow. This meant he could kill many enemies at the same time during battle, and gave him an excellent advantage over his opponents. His famous fighting skills proved their worth in many battles.

One legend documents the fact that pier was strong enough to bend a coin between his fore finger and thumb.
Despite his many successes, Pier could not defeat the Burgundian/Hapsburg armies. He retired disillusioned in 1519. He died peacefully in bed in the Frisian town of Sneek on October 28 in the year 1520. His last words were spoken to his life-time enemy, the count of Nychlenborch. He was asked by the count were he wanted to go after he died, to which Pier replied "Nea myn Heer ta" ("To my Lord"). He then died. After the Giant of Kimswerd (another nickname) died, Friesland never again earned its freedom. It has remained a province of the Netherlands.

He was the uncle of the warrior Wijerd Jelckama.

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1480 births
1520 deaths
People from Friesland
Pirates
Erasmus, full name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, (28 October, probably 1466 in Rotterdam – 12 July 1536 in Basel) was a Dutch humanist, theologian and philosopher.

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style. Although he was a Catholic, he was critical of the Roman Catholic Church and wrote satires of them. He stood at the beginning of the reformation.

The following information from * to * is sourced from 'Oxford AQA History A LEVEL, The Tudors: England 1485-1603:

*He visited England four times, his most important visit being from 1509 to 1514 when he was appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University. During this visit, he also became a well known figure around the court of King Henry VIII. 

In 1516, he published a Greek New Testament complete with a new Latin translation. 

Some of his works include Julius Excluded from Heaven, On Civility in Children, The Praise of Folly, Discourse on Free Will, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style and a Handbook of a Christian Knight.
Although he was an important humanist figure who inspired who had some influence on the younger generations of English Humanists, the scope of Erasmian humanism is quite limited and much of the change that took place in England at this time stemmed from the influence of new religious thinking rather than simply scholarly Renaissance humanism. 

The term Erasmianism is defined as the body of ideas that is associated with Erasmus and his followers. *

Related pages 
ERASMUS programme

References

Other websites 

 
 Works by Erasmus at Internet Archive
 Catholic Encyclopedia
 Metropolitan Museum of Art
 In Defense of Erasmus and the Textus Receptus 
 Luther and Erasmus: The Debate on the Freedom of the Will by Charles L. Cortright 
 La herencia Erasmus: Presente y futuro
 The Erasmus Text Project 
 Erasmus University Rotterdam
 A set of essays on Erasmus
1466 births
1536 deaths
16th-century philosophers
Bible translators
Dutch  theologians
Dutch philosophers
Dutch Roman Catholics
Protestant Reformation
Writers from Rotterdam
The Elfstedentocht, Dutch for "Eleven cities tour" is a race for people on ice skates. The race takes place on canals in Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. The route of the race goes through eleven towns and is nearly 200 kilometers long. It can only be held in winters when it has been cold enough to freeze the canals to enough depth to make it safe for skating on.

The race starts and finishes in Leeuwarden, the capital city of Friesland. The route goes through all eleven places in Friesland which are officially called "towns". The race has been held 15 times. The first year it took place was 1909. The most recent race was on 4 January 1997. The ice on the canals has to be at least 15 cm thick for the race to take place. It is a very tough race, although some years the race has been tougher than others, depending on the weather conditions. 1963 was an extremely cold winter. That year only one in 100 people who took part managed to finish the race.
Medals are given to the first 11 men and the first 5 women.

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Sport in the Netherlands
1909 establishments in Europe
1900s establishments in the Netherlands
De Fryske Marren
Leeuwarden
Noardeast-Fryslân
Súdwest-Fryslân
Waadhoeke
Sneek (Frisian: Snits) is a city in Friesland, in the Netherlands. In history, it is well known. The legendary warrior Pier Gerlofs Donia, fought a battle there. He is buried in the town in the Grote of Martinikerk. Since 2011, it has been part of the new municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân.

21st-century disestablishments in the Netherlands
Cities in Friesland
Former municipalities of Friesland
Súdwest-Fryslân
Huelva is a city in Andalusia, Spain and the capital of the province of Huelva. According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), 149,310 people live in Huelva. Huelva is the center of a metropolitan area that has 490,000 inhabitants. It is majority Muslim with a significant Catholic minority.

Province of Huelva
Capital cities in Spain
Municipalities in Andalusia
Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English  biologist, evolutionist, and writer. He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief". As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
Dawkins' ideas on evolution were heavily influenced by W.D. Hamilton. The influence can be seen throughout Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene. They became friends at Oxford and, after Hamilton's death, Dawkins wrote his obituary and organised a secular memorial service.

He also writes for The Huffington Post.

Works

Books

 "The Selfish Gene" (1976)
 "The Extended Phenotype" (1982)
 "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986)
 "River Out of Eden" (1995)
 "Climbing Mount Improbable" (1996)
 "Unweaving the Rainbow" (1998)
 "A Devil's Chaplain" (2003)
 "The Ancestor's Tale" (2004)
 "The God Delusion" (2006)
 "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" (2009)
 "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True" (2011)
 An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (2013)

Documentaries
Documentaries

 "Nice Guys Finish First" (1987)
 "The Blind Watchmaker" (1987)
 "Growing Up in the Universe" (1991)
 "Break the Science Barrier" (1996)
 "The Root of All Evil?" (2006)
 "The Enemies of Reason" (2007)
 "The Genius of Charles Darwin" (2008)
 Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)
 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
 Faith School Menace? (2010) 
 Beautiful Minds (April 2012)
 The Unbelievers (2013)

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1941 births
Living people
English atheists
English evolutionary biologists
English science writers
People from Nairobi
HuffPost writers and columnists
Academics of the University of Oxford
A stalactite is a form that can be found on the ceiling of a cave. When a drop of water flows down the stalactite, the water evaporates and leaves a mineral deposit of calcite. This slowly increases the length and thickness of the stalactite.

The corresponding formation on the floor underneath a stalactite is known as a stalagmite. Given enough time, these formations can meet. The results are known as columns.
Caves
Minerals
A slayer is someone who kills animals or people. The past tense of the verb "slay" is "slew" or "slain".

Slayer could also mean:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the name of a movie and a television show where the main character, Buffy, kills vampires. 
Slayers, an anime where Lina uses her magical powers to slay bad demons.
A skill in Runescape.
 Slayer the heavy metal band.
Ranma ½ is an anime based on a manga by Rumiko Takahashi. It is 36 volumes long.

Story 
Ranma Saotome is the main character, who is 16 and good at martial arts. He learned from his father, a martial artist. Ranma was training with his father, Genma Saotome, when he falls into a spring which turns him into a girl from then on whenever cold water is poured on him. Genma fell into the spring of the panda, so he turns into a panda. Hot water makes them turn back.

After this both visit Soun Tendo, Genma's friend from a long time ago and his fighting partner. Soun teaches at his martial arts school. Soun tells Genma that he needs a grandchild to carry on the school, so he needs his daughter, Akane Tendo, to marry to get a child, who would receive an inheritance from him. Genma then says that Akane could marry Ranma, and so they become engaged.

Ranma and Akane don't get along at first but they become more friendly.

Characters
Characters 

Ryoga Hibiki
One of Ranma's enemies. He and Ranma went to same school when they were children, but never got 
along.

References

Anime
Manga
1993 television series debuts
2002 television series endings
An engagement is an agreement or promise to marry, and also refers to the time between proposal and marriage. During this time, a couple is said to be affianced, engaged to be married, or simply engaged. An engagement can be seen by witnesses to confirm their marriage.

A fiance is the man who is engaged. A fiancee is the woman who is engaged.

Traditionally, a ring is presented during the engagement ceremony.

Marriage
Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau (Madrid, March 2, 1842 – Olorón, September 7, 1902) was a Spanish diplomat and writer. Gaspar y Rimbau wrote plays, zarzuelas (light operas), and novels.

1842 births
1902 deaths

Gaspar y Rimbau, Enrique
Laksa is a noodle dish from Persia. It usually has gravy and usually contains side dishes.

From Persia, this dish was brought by Persians throughout the world (mainly related to trading activities). Then developed into many variants (but have the same essential).

In Afghanistan this dish known as , in Armenia called as  (), in Belarus called  (), in Kazakhstan called  (), in Kyrgyzstan called  (), in Lithuania called , in Palestine (also known as Israel) called  (/), in Mongolia called  (), in Myanmar called  (/), in Russia called  (), in western China called  (), in Ukraine called  (), meanwhile in Uzbekistan called as .

History 

The history of the emergence and development of Laksa cannot be separated from the history of the glorious Persian Empire which once ruled most of West Asia and Central Asia.
Terminology 
The term Laksa etymologically derived from Old Persian, which means "slippery"; refers to the texture of laksa which is chewy and slippery when eaten because this dish is usually served with soup.

Following the pattern of terminology, the term Laksa is undoubtedly originated from Persia and its surroundings (which also includes Sanskrit-speaking areas), this is evidenced by the discovery of the term Laksa in various indigenous languages around the Persian region; in Afghanistan this dish known as , in Armenia called as  (), in Belarus called  (), in Kazakhstan called  (), in Kyrgyzstan called  (), in Lithuania called , in Palestine (also known as Israel) called  (/), in Mongolia called  (), in Russia called  (), in western China called  (), in Ukraine called  (), meanwhile in Uzbekistan called as . Even the term  in Italy also thought to have come from the same etymological root; i.e. from Ancient Persia (introduced to Italy from Persia via Greek, in Greece itself it is called  ()).
In the modern era, Laksa in Iran now tends to be better known as aush, āsh, ashe, āshe, aash, osh; the term "aush" specifically means "thick soup" in Iranian languages. However, the usage of the term "Laksa" is still common.

Introduced to Indonesia 
It is not exactly known when Laksa was introduced to Indonesia, but it is likely that Laksa was brought and introduced by the Persian (or Indians or Arabs; or Persians via India or Yemen) traders who came to Indonesia hundred years ago, and in the 1300s this dish was already widely known by the Javanese people.