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Michael K. Braun (born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician. Braun is the junior United States Senator of Indiana since January 3, 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.

He was born in Jasper, Indiana. Braun studied at Wabash College and at Harvard Business School. He served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017, representing the 63rd District.

In August 2017, Braun announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. In November 2018, Braun defeated incumbent Senator Joe Donnelly.

After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump did not accept his defeat, Braun defended Trump's efforts to overturn the election results and his claims of election fraud.

In September 2022, it was reported that Braun would not run for re-election to the Senate and instead run for Governor of Indiana in the 2024 election. In November 2022, he officially announced his candidacy for Indiana governor.

References

Other websites
 Braun for Senate
 Profile at Ballotpedia
1954 births
Living people
United States senators from Indiana
Harvard University alumni
Businesspeople from Indiana
Politicians from Indiana
State legislators of the United States
Republican Party (United States) politicians
The flying snake, or Chrysopelea, is a mildly venomous snake found throughout India to the Indonesian archipelago. It can glide, in an arboreal habitat, going from tree to tree, most likely, much like the draco lizard. They're better at "flying" than another species of animal similar to this - the flying squirrel.

Defense 
The flying snake has venom, but much like garter snakes, the snake is so small that the amount of toxins in their saliva is only enough to kill their prey, which will be covered later on in the section about the flying snake's diet. If challenged by an animal far bigger than their venom can bring down, they might bite anyway just to give the predator a great deal of pain, or may choose flight rather than fight and "fly" away.

Diet 
The flying snake's usual diet consists mainly of lizards, birds, frogs, bats, small mice and other rodents, which they catch during the day since they're a diurnal creature.
Species of flying snake 
There are five known species of flying snake, which are the following:

Moluccan flying snake
Sri Lankan flying snake
Paradise tree snake
Ornate flying snake
Twin-barred tree snake

References

Colubrids
Snakes of Asia
Adichanalloor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
 India census, Adichanalloor had a population of 27767 people, with 12980 males and 14787 females.

References

Other websites 
Sanathana Eye Hospital map

Villages in Kollam district
Alayamon is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
 India census, Alayamon had a population of 12869 with 6226 males and 6643 females.

References 

Villages in Kollam district
Dixon is a city in northern Solano County, California, United States. It is about  from the state capital, Sacramento. The population was 18,988 at the 2020 census. Other nearby cities include Vacaville, Winters and Davis.

Famous people

Jon Pardi (born 1985), country singer

References 

1878 establishments in California
Cities in California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Settlements in Solano County, California
Malaise is the general feeling of being sick. It can be described as a general discomfort or mild pain throughout the body. Malaise is caused by many kinds of illnesses, which can be very mild like the common cold. They can also be worse, like cancer.

References 

Diseases and disorders
Emotions
Discovery Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is about  from San Francisco. It is in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2020, its population was 15,358.

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Town of Discovery Bay
Reclamation District 800
Discovery Bay Chamber of Commerce 
Discovery Bay Lions Club 
Discovery Bay Yacht Harbor
Discovery Bay Golf & Country Club

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Settlements in Contra Costa County, California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. His parents were Giovanni and Annetta and his family grew up with art. His father was a Post-Impressionist painter. 

When he was ten, he began drawing with pencil and crayon and sending his drawings to his godfather, Amiet. Then he started to use oils and he painted his first photo of a face at the age of 12. He used his siblings as models. 

In 1915, he went to the Evangelical School in the town of Schiers. He left school in 1919. He continued to develop his art skills in Geneva where he enrolled at the École des Arts Industriels. He travelled to Venice, Padua, Florence and Rome. Here, he was influenced by the collections of Egyptian art he studied. African and Oceanic art also inspired him. He also focused on the surrealism of art. Example of this are Suspended Ball and The Palace at 4 a.m.
From 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris. He regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and to work on his art.

In 1940, Giacometti and his brother, Diego, went to the south of France to escape Nazi invasion. He returned to Paris in 1941. He died on 11 January 1966.

Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. 

       

           

1901 births
1966 deaths
Swiss sculptors
Swiss painters
Maloja District
Printmakers
People from Graubünden
The M46 Patton was an American tank. It was developed in 1948 and 1949. It was an improved version of the M26 Pershing. 168 tanks were made, manufactured between 1949 and 1952. They were one of the main tanks used in the Korean war.

Tanks
Salinas  is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. It is an urban area located just outside the southern part of the Greater Bay Area and  east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 163,542 as of 2020.
Salinas is known for its vibrant and large agriculture industry and being "The Salad Bowl of the World" as the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner John Steinbeck, who based several of his novels there.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the city of Salinas
 Salinas Chamber of Commerce

1874 establishments in California
Cities in California
County seats in California
Settlements in Monterey County, California
Spes was the personification of hope in Ancient Rome, especially the hope to have children, and the hope for a good harvest. Spes also has a counterpart in Greek Mythology, called Elpis. Usually, Spes was portrayed as a girl, on her toes. It was depicted as wearing clothes similar   Venus. Spes was venerated in Rome, at least from the 5th century BC.

Roman gods and goddesses
The Egyptian Premier League  is league competition of Egyptian football. It consists of eighteen teams. The teams compete in a home and away league system. The league is known as the Presentation Egyptian Premier League. The highest attendance in the history of the league is 120,000 (in a match betwwen Al Ahly and Zamalek). The Egyptian League was established for the first time in 1948. Al-Ahly Club leads the most winning teams in the championship with 41 titles, followed by Zamalek Club with 12 titles, while the Ismaili Club occupies third place with 3 championships.

The five most popular Egyptian clubs are Al-Ahly, Zamalek SC, Ismaili, Al-Ittihad Al-Sakndary and Al-Masry. Also there is a historically established club named Tersana.

Stadiums

Current stadiums

List of seasons 
This is a summary of seasons:

Performance

Performance by club

Performance by city

Doubles

Top goalscorers

All Seasons Top Goalscorers

All Time Top Goalscorers

References

Other websites
Other websites 

 (Arabic) Official website
 Premier League at soccerway.com; standings, results & fixtures
 egyptianfootball.net
 RSSSF competition history
 (Arabic) yallakora.com  Egyptian Premier League schedule, match results
 Filgoal.com  Egyptian Premier League
 goal.com Egyptian Premier League
 Egyptian Premier League – Hailoosport.com  (Arabic)
 Egyptian Premier League – Hailoosport.com 
 Egyptian Premier League 

Football leagues in Africa
Football in Egypt
Sports organizations based in Egypt
Faiyum (;  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ) is a city in the Middle of Egypt. It is  away from Cairo. The city is located in the Faiyum Oasis, and it is the capital of Faiyum Governorate. The city was called Shedet in Ancient Egypt. When the Greeks took Egypt, they called it Crocodilopolis or Krocodilopolis. the Romans called it Arsinoë. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities, and it has a strategic location.

Climate

Main sights 

 Hawara, archeological site  from the city
 Lahun Pyramids,  outside the city
 Qaitbay Mosque, in the city. the wife of the Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay built it.
 Qasr Qarun,  from the city
 Wadi Elrayan or Wadi Rayan, the largest waterfalls in Egypt, around  from the city
 Wadi Al-Hitan or Valley of whales, It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Images

Related pages 
 Faiyum Governorate
 Wadi Elrayan

References
References

Other websites 
 
 
 Fayum towns and their papyri, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt at the Internet Archive
 . 148 pages, public domain.
 Fayoum Photo Gallery 

Cities in Egypt
Donald Moffat (26 December 1930 - 20 December 2018) was an English-American actor. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Moffat trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His best known roles as Lyndon B. Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983), the corrupt U.S. President in Clear and Present Danger, as well as Garry, the station commander in The Thing.

Moffat died on 20 December 2018 in Sleepy Hollow, New York from complications of a stroke, six days before his 88th birthday.

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1930 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Naturalized citizens of the United States
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
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American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Devon
Kenji Sahara (佐原 健二 Sahara Kenji, born Tadashi Ishihara) (born 14 May 1932) is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa. His real name is Masayoshi Kato (加藤 正好 Katō Masayoshi). His first big movie role was in Rodan (1956). Sahara did a lot of work for the Toho Company, the studio that has so far has produced twenty-eight Godzilla movies starting with the first movie.

Other websites

 Biondi, Robert. Satoko Yoshimaru & Takahiko Mamiya (trans.) Winter 1997. "An Interview with Kenji Sahara: 40 Years of Keeping Godzilla at Bay", Kaiju Fan Online. Originally published in Kaiju Fan.

1932 births
Living people
Japanese movie actors
François de Candia was a Savoyard nobleman, Vidame, Viscount of Geneva (Latin: Vice Dominus Genevarum) and Captain of the castle on the island of the Rhône in 1377.

Related pages
House of Candia

References

Nobility
House of Candie
The House of Candia was a noble family from Savoy. It held a castle at Chambéry-Le-Vieux under the name "Château de Candie".

Members 

François de Candie was Viscount of Geneva (Latin:Vice Dominus Genevarum)  and Captain of the castle on the island of the Rhône in 1377.

References

Sources 
 Comte Amédée de Foras, Armorial et nobiliaire de l'ancien duché de Savoie, vol. 1, Grenoble, Allier Frères, 1863-1966 (archive), p. 299 à 301, « Candie (de) »
 Annuaire de la noblesse de France (1861), on line
 Chateau de Candie 

 
Chambéry
El-Mansoura () is a city in Egypt. 960,423 people live in it. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.

Name 
Mansoura in Arabic means "victorious". The city's name came from the Egyptian victory at the El Mansoura Battle over Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade.

Geography

Location 
Mansoura is on the east bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile. It is about 120 km northeast of Cairo. The town of Talkha is on the other bank of the Nile

Climate 
The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).

Clubs 

 Gezert Elward Sport Club: It has tennis courts, swimming, gymnastics, squash and social club.
 Mansoura Sports Club: It has an official football field.
 Mansoura Sports Stadium: It has an official football field, swimming pool, social club and many sports facilities.
 The Olympic Village (Mansoura University Stadium)

References

Other websites
Other websites 

 (Arabic) Official website
Cities in Egypt
1219 establishments
13th-century establishments in Africa
Establishments in Egypt
Alimukku' is a village in Kollam district. The head office of Piravanthoor Panchayat is here.

Geography

Nearby locations of interest include the Achenkovil Sastha temple (37 km away on the Alimukku-kottakkayam-mullumala-achenkovil route), Ayiravalli Shiva temple (one of the rarest shiva temples in Alimukkue, having nadaraja vigraha in kerala), State Farming Corporation of Kerala (SFCK) Ltd, and a government cooperative college founded in 2011. The Alimukku-Karavoor road is a bypass road for "sabarimala" travelers

Villages in Kollam district
Alumpeedika is a small village/hamlet of Oachira in the Kollam district of Kerala, India. It comes under Clappana Panchayath and belongs to South Kerala division. It is located 31 km North of the district headquarters, Kollam, 1 km from Oachira, and 101 km from the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. Nearby towns include Kayamkulam, Oachira, and Karunagappally. Alumpeedika is near the border of the Kollam and Alappuzha districts. It is near the Arabian Sea.

Transportation 
Ochira and Kayamkulam Junction train stations are nearby; however, Quilon Junction railway station is 32 km from Alumpeedika.

References

Villages in Kollam district
Anchalumoodu is a town and neighbourhood of the city of Kollam, India. 

Speciality of Anchalumoodu is that, 75% of it is surrounded by Ashtamudi lake, which is famous for its scenic beauty and attracts hundreds of tourists around the globe to Kollam.

Transport

Rail

The nearest railway station to Anchalummodu is Perinad railway station which is about 2.5 km from the town.  All passenger trains stop at this railway station. Kollam Junction Railway Station, one of the biggest junction and busiest railway stations in Kerala is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu. Kundara railway station is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu town.

Roads

Anchalumoodu is connected well with roads.  The town is 8 km away from Kollam city centre Chinnakada and 8 km from Kundara town. Regular city services and transport buses are there to Kollam city from Anchalumoodu.
Bus services are available to important places in Kerala which include Trivandrum, Ernakulam, etc.
Education
Anchalummodu has its fair share of privately owned and state owned educational institutions. Institutions of education are affiliated to either the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), or the Kerala State Education Board. Most private schools use English as the medium of instruction whereas government run schools offer both English and Malayalam as a medium of instruction. The Government  Higher Secondary School at Anchalumoodu is one of the biggest and reputed government schools in Kollam district. The main higher education centre near to Anchalumoodu is the College of Engineering, Perumon.
Places of worship
Anchalumoodu has a mix of different religious community. Main temples in and around Anchalumoodu town include Kadavoor Siva temple, Ashtamudi Virabhadra Swamy temple, Panayam Durga Temple, Sastholi Temple, Kuppana Velayudha Mangalam Temple, kolleril Siva Temple,Karuva Temple, Perumon devi temple
Mosques include Kureepuzha Mosque, Karuva Mosque and Chiraiyil Mosque.
Important churches are St.Thomas Orthodox Church, Inchavila and the Church at Kureepuzha.

References

Villages in Kollam district
Not to be confused with the tiger keelback snake

The tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) is a venomous species of snake inhabiting Australia and its coastal islands, Tasmania included.

Habitat 
Tiger snakes generally situate themselves near a source of water, such as a creek or wetland. They live from Western Australia to South Australia, and also in its coastal islands, such as Tasmania.

Diet 
It eats mainly frogs and tadpoles, but also small rodents, bats, insects, lizards, fish, birds, and they might also eat each other.

Venom and danger levels 
Tiger snake venom has myotixons, coagulants, haemolysins, and  neurotoxins, all of which are dangerous to people.
Elapidae
Snakes of Australia
Jasmine Ying Thompson (born 8 November 2000 in London) is an English pop singer.

Biography 
At the age of ten, Thompson started a YouTube-channel. After only one year, she met Robin Schultz, he saw that Jasmine Thompson can become a good singer and asked Thompson to sing with him. So in 2013, when she was 13 years old, her first song was published. She didn't become internationally popular until her song Ain't Nobody, with that song she got on place one in the German singlecharts. In England she got place 4. She became popular although she is still 17 years old. She lives near London.

Songs at a glance 
 2015- Ain't Nobody
 2013- Under the Willow tree
 2014- Take Over
 2013- Willow
 2016- Fast car

Family 
Thompson is the daughter of a Chinese mother and an English father.

References
References 

2000 births
Living people
Artists from London
Atlantic Records artists
British child singers
English pop singers
English composers
English guitarists
English pianists
English R&B singers
Singer-songwriters from London
British YouTubers
Eduard Nikolayevich Mudrik (; July 18, 1939 in Starobilsk – March 27, 2017 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian footballer.

He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team.

Other websites
 Profile (in Russian)

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Moscow
Russian footballers
The Northern water snake, or Nerodia sipedon, is a species of non-venomous snake found throughout North America.

Habitat 

The Northern water snake is true to its name and is often found swimming in bodies of water including bogs, marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams. They are also sometimes found basking, since like all snakes they're cold-blooded, and they're sometimes found under logs or rocks near a water source.

Diet 
The Northern water snake eats mostly small fishes, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals and insects.

Defense 
The Northern water snake, if threatened, will bite even though its bite isn't venomous, and musk on you. Their form of defense is very similar to that of Garter snakes.

Colubrids
Snakes of North America
The battle for Blair Mountain lasted four days. It was a bloody battle, and it was very deadly to fight or be in. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-armed uprisings since the American Civil War. 

Dates: Aug 25, 1921 – Sep 2, 1921

Location: Logan County, West Virginia, U.S.

Result: Victory for law enforcement and military

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia. Since the late 1800s, the coalfields of the state's Mingo, Logan and McDowell Counties had operated under a repressive company town system.

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Battles
Labor
20th century in West Virginia
1921 in the United States
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among some U.S. states and the District of Columbia. It changes how the Electoral College chooses the president of the United States. The states agree to give all their votes in the Electoral College to the person with the most votes from regular people in the whole country. The agreement makes sure that person will become president. When that result is guaranteed, the agreement will become active.

Now, fifteen states and the District of Columbia are in the agreement. Together, they have 195 votes in the Electoral College, which are called "electoral votes". When the agreement has 270 electoral votes, it will become active.
How the agreement works
The NPVIC is an interstate compact. It will become active when its members control most of the Electoral College. Before that happens, the members will give their electoral votes the way they do now. After that, they will give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes from Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (That person wins the "popular vote".) This way, that person will become president.
The U.S. Constitution lets state legislatures decide how to give their votes in the Electoral College. It says this in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2. The Constitution does not say how the states must do this. (However, the 14th Amendment says that states cannot discriminate against some groups of people.) In the past, states used different ways. Today, nearly all states give all their electoral votes to the person with the most votes in that state, even if they do not have a majority of the votes in that state. Maine and Nebraska separate their electoral votes between areas called "districts". The NPVIC changes how its members give out their electoral votes.
Reasons for the agreement
In the past, some people who did not get the most votes became president anyway. Most Americans want the person with the most votes to be president despite the fact that two States, California and New York would essentially cancel out the votes of 43 other States and limit the amount of personal exposure those States receive from potential presidential candidates.  In 2007, 72% of surveyed Americans said they wanted to change the Electoral College to a direct vote. This included 78% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans, and 73% of independent voters. Surveys since 1944 show most Americans want a direct vote, except in 2016. Reasons for the NPVIC include:
Today, a person can become president even if another person got more votes. This happened in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. In 2000, Al Gore got 543,895 more votes than George W. Bush. However, Bush got five more electoral votes and became president. In 2016, Hillary Clinton got 2,868,691 more votes nationally than Donald Trump simply because she won California by more than 3 million votes. However, Trump got 77 more electoral votes, by winning Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
 Today, the easiest way to win an election is to campaign mostly in a few "swing states". The vote in these states is usually very close. A small change in the votes there can make a big difference in the Electoral College. For this reason, problems in swing states get the most attention, and problems in other states get much less. In the 2004 election, the people running for president spent three quarters of their money in only five states. They did not visit or advertise at all in 18 states.
Today, fewer people vote in states where the election is not close. When people think they know who will win their state, they do not have a reason to vote. In 2004, in the ten closest states, 64.4% of people younger than 30 who could vote did vote. In the other states, only 47.6% of those people voted.
Debate
Several newspapers support the NPVIC. They include The New York Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. These newspapers say that the current system makes people not want to vote. They say the current system gives too much attention to a few states and their problems. Other newspapers are against the agreement, including the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and The Wall Street Journal. The former governor of Delaware, Pierre S. du Pont IV, said the agreement gives too much power to cities and states with many people. He said it would make politics be about only city problems, and it would let worse people run for office. The League of Women Voters made a list of documents that argue for and against the agreement.

Some of the biggest arguments are given below:

Attention
Attention

Today, people running for president give most of their money and attention to states where the vote will be close. The other states are mostly ignored. The maps here show the amount of advertising and visits by the top two people running in 2004. This is adjusted by the number of people in each state. People who support the NPVIC say that it will make the people running work to get votes in every state. People who are against the NPVIC say that states with few people and few cities will not get enough attention.

Cheating and close elections
Some people are against the NPVIC because they worry about cheating. Governor du Pont said that it is easier to add a few false votes in many places than to add many false votes in just a few places. However, National Popular Vote says that adding together all the votes in the country will make it more difficult to cheat. Today, the winner can be decided by a very small number of votes in just one state.
States with many people and states with few people
People don't agree about whether the Electoral College helps states with few people, or states with many people. The Electoral College is not designed to be proportional to population: states with few people have more electoral votes for each person than states with many people. If the Electoral College were proportional, California would have 19% more power than it does now. The states with the fewest people would have 30% less power. However, some people say that states with many people have more power than one may expect, because they control so many electoral votes at once. The NPVIC gives the same power to every person, no matter where they live.
Helping one party
Some people believe the NPVIC would help one political party or another, which would not be fair. Pierre S. du Pont IV, a Republican, says the agreement would help Democrats and people in cities. However, Saul Anuzis of the Republican National Committee thinks that the agreement will help Republicans, because he believes most people are closer to Republican political positions. Writer Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker says the agreement helps neither party: in the past, each party sometimes had the better position in the Electoral College. In the last five elections, the Democrats had the better position in three years (2004, 2008, and 2012) and the Republicans had it in two years (2000 and 2016). In four of those years, Democrats won the most votes in the country.
Difference between votes in a state and votes in the country
The NPVIC can force a state to give its electoral votes to someone who did not win the most votes in that state. For this reason, two governors (Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Linda Lingle of Hawaii) stopped their states from joining the agreement. (Both those states later joined the agreement.) People who support the agreement say that the number of votes in any one state is not as important as the choice of most people in the whole country.

Conflicts with existing law
Those who support the NPVIC say that it is legal and allowed by the U.S. Constitution. Article II of the Constitution lets states decide how to give out their electoral votes. The two men who created the agreement, Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar, hold this position. Jamie Raskin agrees. Raskin is a professor of law and a Congressman from Maryland. He put his name on the first NPVIC bill that became law.
One law student wrote that the agreement could break the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voters. However, the U.S. Department of Justice decided that the agreement does not hurt minority voters. It allowed California to join the agreement in 2012. Rob Richie of the organization FairVote says that the NPVIC "treats all voters equally". The same student wrote the NPVIC tries to go around the normal way of changing the Constitution. Raskin replied that going around in this way is legal.

Approval by Congress
Ian Drake, an assistant professor of political science, believes the agreement will only be proper if the Constitution is changed. Other writers believe that the agreement is already proper. Those who vote in the Electoral College promise to vote for a certain person, but they do not have to vote that way by law. Michael Brody believes that this makes the agreement proper.
It is possible that the agreement needs to be approved by Congress. The Constitution says that agreements between states need Congress to approve. However, the U.S. Supreme Court says that this is not always true. They talked about that question in the court case Virginia v. Tennessee and others. They decided the only agreements that need approval are those that threaten the authority of the U.S. government. Every Vote Equal says that the NPVIC cannot threaten the authority of the U.S. government, because the Constitution lets states decide how to give out their electoral votes. Derek Muller does not agree. He argues that the NPVIC affects the U.S. government system, and so it needs approval. Ian Drake says that Congress is not allowed to approve the agreement. Those who support the NPVIC do not agree. They do not think the agreement needs approval from Congress, but they plan to ask for this approval in any case.

History
History

Plans to end the Electoral College by changing the Constitution
In the past, people have made several plans to end the Electoral College by changing the Constitution. This is called an "amendment". However, this is very difficult to do. First, two thirds of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives need to approve the change. Then, three quarters of the states need to approve the change.
Bayh–Celler Amendment
The plan that came closest to success was the Bayh-Celler plan. It was introduced in the 91st Congress, which met from January 1969 to January 1971. It was introduced by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. The Bayh-Celler plan would have ended the Electoral College, and instead made a system using the popular vote. The pair of people with the most votes would become president and vice president, as long as they got more than 40% of the votes. If no one got more than 40%, a new vote would happen with the top two pairs. Celler's plan was approved in the House of Representatives in 1969, by a vote of 338–70. However, it was stopped in the Senate by a filibuster.
Every Vote Counts Amendment
In 2005, Representative Gene Green of Texas introduced another plan to chose the president and vice president using the popular vote. Green introduced his plan to Congress as a "joint resolution" called H.J.Res. 9. It was also called the Every Vote Counts Amendment. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois and Senator Bill Nelson of Florida also introduced joint resolutions in the 111th Congress, which met from 2009 to 2011. All of these plans died in committees, before the whole Congress could vote on them.

Plan using an agreement between states
In 2001, a law professor named Robert Bennett introduced a new plan. Bennett's plan did not require a change to the Constitution. His plan used the power of the states instead of fighting against it. In Bennett's plan, a group of states that control most of the Electoral College could work together. They would make the popular vote decide the result of elections.
Two other law professors, brothers named Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar, supported this plan. The Amar brothers proposed an agreement between states, made with laws in those states. The states would give all their electoral votes to the person who won the popular vote. The agreement would not become active until it guaranteed that person would win the Electoral College and become president. This agreement became the NPVIC.

The Amar brothers' plan uses two parts of the Constitution:
 Article 2, section 1, clause 2, or the "Presidential Electors Clause": This lets each state decide how to give out its electoral votes.
 Article I, section 10, clause 3, or the "Compact Clause": This lets states make agreements of this type.

The Amar brothers' plan could work with as few as eleven states. They believe it would not need approval from Congress. However, that is not certain: the section Approval by Congress explains why.
Organization and work
In 2006, the computer science professor John Koza wrote a book called Every Vote Equal. The book argues for a National Popular Vote agreement between states. (Koza knew about agreements between states from his work on lottery tickets.) Koza, Barry Fadem, and others made a non-profit organization called National Popular Vote. This organization promotes the NPVIC. It is led by people from both major political parties, including former Senators Jake Garn, Birch Bayh, and David Durenberger, and former Representatives John Anderson, John Buchanan, and Tom Campbell.

In 2006, legislatures in six states looked at NPVIC bills. Illinois even introduced a bill before National Popular Vote announced it at a press conference. That year, the Colorado Senate approved the bill. Both houses of the California legislature approved the bill, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped it with a veto.
Joining
In 2007, 42 states looked at bills to join the NPVIC. One house of the legislature approved bills in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland, and Hawaii. Maryland was the first state to join the agreement. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed the agreement into law on April 10, 2007.

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have joined the agreement.

All 50 states have looked at bills to join the NPVIC. In some states, only one house has approved the agreement: Arizona, Arkansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington had bills to leave the agreement, but these failed.

The U.S. Congress can stop laws in the District of Columbia within 30 working days, but they did not do this.
Initiatives and referendums
Some states allow laws to be made with a direct vote by the public, called an "initiative" or a "referendum". First, supporters must get a certain number of people to sign their names. Then, the question can be given to the voters. In 2018, groups in Arizona, Maine, and Missouri worked on initiatives to join the agreement, but these did not get enough people to sign.

Chances
Nate Silver, who studies elections, says that the NPVIC cannot succeed without support from "red" states (states that mostly vote for Republicans). So far, only "blue" states have joined (states that mostly vote for Democrats). However, legislatures controlled by Republicans have agreed to join the agreement in Arizona, Oklahoma, and New York.

References

United States presidential elections
Palamedes may refer to:
Palamedes (Greek mythology), the son of Nauplius in Greek mythology
Palamedes (Arthurian legend), a Saracen Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend
Palamedes (romance), a 13th-century French Arthurian romance named after the knight
2456 Palamedes, an asteroid
Palamedes (video game), a 1990 video game
is a puzzle video game released by the Taito Corporation in 1990.

Gameplay
Palamedes is a puzzle game requiring the player to match the dice they are holding to the dice at the top of the screen. Using the "B" button, the player can change the number on his/her dice, then throw the dice using the "A" button when it matches the dice at the top of the screen, which wipes the target dice off the screen. The player can play in "solitaire" mode against the computer or another player, or "tournament" mode against AI opponents. There are six sides and numbers on the dice, making an attempt to match all the numbers on the screen and eliminating them as a challenge.

Ports
Ports of the game were published for the NES, MSX, FM-Towns and Game Boy by HOT-B. The Japan-only sequel, Palamedes 2: Star Twinkles, was released in 1991 for the NES by HOT-B. It featured most of the same basic gameplay elements as the original but with the play field scrolling in the opposite direction.
Reception
On release, Famitsu magazine scored the Game Boy version of the game a 22 out of 40.

References

1990 video games
Arcade games
Game Boy games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in Japan
Wallis and Futuna national football team is the national football team of Wallis and Futuna.

Caribbean national football teams
Football teams in France
national football team
Monaco national soccer team is the national soccer  team of Monaco.

European national soccer teams
Monaco
Eurovision entries 
This is a list of all the artists and songs that have competed in the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and grand finals from 1956 to 2021.

Withdrawn entries 

This list presents all the cases when a country withdrew or was disqualified from the contest.

Native language versions 

This list presents versions of the entries recorded in the official languages that were not used in the contest performance of the represented country.

References 

entries
Music-related lists
Women had many roles in the American Revolution.
Some were "Camp followers" equivalent to Military service Units (food, nursing, repairing clothing, etc). Many helped organize boycotts of British goods.

Others took a more active role:
Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey
Margaret Corbin
Nancy Hart
Sybil Ludington
Molly Pitcher
Deborah Sampson

American Revolutionary War
Women
Hugo Romeo Guerra Cabrera (25 February 1966 – 11 May 2018) was a Uruguayan football player. He was born in Canelones, Uruguay.

Guerra played for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Huracán, Boca Juniors and Ferro Carril Oeste in the Primera División de Argentina.

Guerra died from cardiac arrest on 11 May 2018 at the age of 52.

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1966 births
2018 deaths
Uruguayan footballers
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Guaviare () is a department of Colombia. It is in the southern central region of the country. The capital is San José del Guaviare.

Departments of Colombia
A gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18, 2018. The attack left ten people dead (eight students and two teachers). At least 13 people from the shooting were treated at Texas hospitals, including eight students. Six of the eight students have already been discharged.

Police identified the alleged shooter as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who was taken into custody. A second person, an unidentified 18-year-old, was also taken into custody.

President Donald Trump expressed his thoughts in a press conference shortly following the shootings, and promised action from his administration.

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2018 crimes in the United States
2010s crimes in Texas
Mass shootings in Texas
Massacres in the United States
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2018 in Texas
Santa Fe () is a city in Galveston County, Texas, Confederate States. The population of Santa Fe at the 2006 census was 12,222.

References

Cities in Texas
Razia Sultan is an Indian historical television Soap Opera drama.
The show tells story of the first Indian women sultana of Delhi Razia Sultana.
The was produced by Swastik Pictures.
The show was shown on television from 2 March 2015 to 23 October 2015.

Plot
During the 13th century, Iltutmish, the sultan of Delhi, appoint his daughter Razia as the head of the state. 
Razia Sultana fought oppositions from conformists in establishing a flourishing kingdom.

Cast
 Pankhuri Awashthy as Razia Sultana.

References

Hindi-language television series
2015 Indian television series debuts
2015 television series endings
2010s disestablishments in India
His parents were Sovetian National players, so they trained Dima in his childhood. 2005 he got into the Bundesleague. His best moment came first at the Olympics 2008 in Beijing, in the singles he lost very early but with the German team he came to the final, were they lost to China. But in thiy year he won for the first time the  European Championships. At the World Championships (this was the first of him) Ovtcharov reached the Round of 16, where he met his teammate Timo Boll, so he lost to him. At the German National Championships he lost very just to Bastian Steger. Also he won the Brazilian Open, where Dima doesn't give up a set. 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games again, where he won with the team bronze. He lost his match against Ma Long. In the singles Ovtcharov beat Michael Maze in the Quarterfinals, in the 3rd place match he met Chuang Chih-Yuan an beat him. At the European Championships he lost in the singles in the Quarterfinals but won together with Wladimir Samsonow the bronzemedal
. In this year he was voted as the player of the year. 2013 he took part in the World Championships but lost again- this time in the Round of 16. In this year he became for the first time European Champion and won the third place at the World Cup- in the match he beat Timo Boll. At March 2014 he became German Champion, at the WTTTC they won after 2010 and 2012 for the third time the silvermedal. 2015 Ovtcharov took part in the WTTC, where he lost again- this time in the second round already. At the European Championships he won silver with the team and the goldmedal at the Europe Games in the singles. 2016 he took part in the Olympics, where he met the Quarterfinals, there he lost to Wladimir Samsonow despite a 2:0 leading. The World Cup and the European Championships ending very early, too. This was not a good year of Ovtcharov, because his grandmother ia death and had to spend lots of time of his child. 2017 he won the Europe-Top three times
. 2018 lost early at the German Open, but won the World Team Cup and the 2nd place at te WTTTC with th team.
Results

Singles 

 Olympic Games: Bronze 2012
 European Games: Gold 2015
 European Championships: Gold 2013, 2015, Bronze 2007
 World Cup: Gold 2017, 3rd place 2013, 2015
 German Natonal Championships: Gold 2014, 2nd place 2007, 2011, 2012                                                                                                               
 Bundesranking- Tournament: Gold 2007

Doubles 

 European Championships: Bronze 2012
 German National Championships: 2008, 2010

Team 

 Olympic Games: Bronze 2012, 2016
 World Championships: Silver 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018

Family 
His parents were Russian, so he speaks Ukrainian, Russian and German.

References 

1988 births
Living people
German table tennis players
Sportspeople from Kyiv
Competitors at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The Lena Goldfields incident was a notorious incident that occurred on 17 April 1912 in the Lena Goldfields in Siberia. Demands from the miners there for better pay and conditions were resisted by the employers, who appealed to the police to arrest the strike leaders as criminals. 
The issue thus became the much larger one of trade union rights in Russia. When the police moved into Lena, the strikers closed ranks and the situation rapidly worsened, resulting in troops firing on and killing or injuring a large numbers of miners. The Okhrana (Imperial Russian army) appeared to have acted as agents provocateurs in order to identify the organizers of the strike.

1912
Siberia
1910s in Russia
Lucian Pintilie (; 9 November 1933 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian movie director and screenwriter. He was known for directing The Reenactment, An Unforgettable Summer, and Next Stop Paradise.

In 1968, he produced The Reconstruction thought by movie historians to be the most important representation of Romanian cinema.

Pintilie died on 16 May 2018 in Bucharest, Romania at the age of 84.

References

Other websites 
 

1933 births
2018 deaths
Romanian movie directors
Romanian screenwriters
Romanian movie producers
Arackal  is a village in Kollam district, Kerala, India.

Demographics
As of the 2011 India census, Arackal had a population of 16,739 with 7,963 males and 8,776 females.

References

Villages in Kollam district
Aryankavu  is a village in Kollam district, Kerala, India. The coordinates are . As of the 2001 India census, Arienkavu had a population of 12,125 with 5,949 males and 6,176 females.

The Palaruvi Falls is in the forest  away from Aryankavu. Rose Mala is a tourism place in Aryankavu  away from Aryankavu Junction.

References

Other websites

Villages in Kollam district
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. They also produced of health, hygiene and home products.

Other websites 
 Official website

1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange

Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Avaneeswaram is a small village located on Kunnicode-Pathanapuram road in Kollam district, Kerala. It is about 7 kilometers south of Pathanapuram town and 36 kilometers from Kollam. It is a part of Vilakkudy panchayat. Avaneeswaram has a FCI (Food corporation of India) storage facility. Economy of this village primarily is agricultural.  Most common farm produce includes coconut, tapioca, areca, and cashews. Some rice cultivation is also seen.

Transport
The roads to Thalavoor and Pattazhy pass through Avaneesaram. Avaneeswaram is connected to Kollam city by Kollam-Punalur Broad gauge railway line. Avaneeshwaram railway station (Code: AVS) falls under the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone. It is a 'D-Class' Adersh Station.

Worship centers

There are so many worship centers in Avaneeswaram. Thanniyappankavu Sree Mahadevar Temple, St. Mary's Orthodox Church, Emmanuel Marthoma church, St.Mary's Malankara Catholic church, Avaneeswaram Juma Ath etc. are some of them

References
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Villages in Kollam district
Slough is a large town in Berkshire, England. It is on the western fringes of the Greater London Urban Area,  west of central London,  north of Windsor,  east of Maidenhead,  southeast of High Wycombe and  northeast of the county town of Reading. It is between the Thames Valley and London and at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

Unitary authorities
Towns in Berkshire
Ayiranalloor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
As of the 2001 India census, Ayiranalloor had a population of 13359 with 6494 males and 6865 females.

References 

Villages in Kollam district
Edakkidom is a village in Kollam district in the Indian state of Kerala, located about  north of Kollam city. The main attraction is Thettikkunnil Mahadevi Temple.

Distance from nearest known places
 Kottarakkara : 8.1 KM
 Paravur : 23.3 KM
 Ezhukone :3 KM
 Kundara : 8.4 KM
 Chathannoor : 14.8KM
 Odanavattom : 7.2 KM
 Nedumankavu:5.8 KM
 Ambalathumkala South Bus Stop, NH744, 3.3 km
 Ayoor:21.3 KM
 kollam Railway Station, Chamkkada, 22.3 KM

Demographics

This village has a majority population of the Hindus (Mainly Nairs and Ezhavas).

Economy
This village is mainly dependent on agricultural products which includes rubber, black pepper,  cashewnut, rice Plantain etc. Some of the famous nearby places are Kollam, Kottarakkara, Ezhukone, Odanavattom, Punalur etc.
Industries
Kareepra Cooperative Bank, Edakkidom & SupplyCo Maveli Store at KSN Building, Sodiac Tiles (BK Agencies), SLS wood industries, Mother rubber manufacturers. Rajan cashews, Ambalakara cashwes factory,11 KV Substation (KSEB) AM Junction Edakkidom North,S.R. Agencies

Educational institutions

There is one primary school at Edakkidom, Govt L.P.School Edakkidom, and one aided SANSKRIT secondary school SNGSHS Kadaikode, Edaikkidom , KNS memorial S N Central school (CBSE), St George vocational higher secondary school at Chowalloor, Edakkidom. Sree Sankara Sanskrit vidyapeetam (BA, MA in Sanskrits),  S.S.V.U.P.S Edakkidom.Akshya computer education centre,SRI SRI ACADEMY EZHUKONE-Edakkidom 691505

Temples
 Edakkidom Thettikkunil Sree Maha Devi Devaswam
 Munnur Indilayappan Temple
 Valayikkodu Karthikeyapuram Temple
 Gurunadan Mukal Temple
 Malanada Temple
 Mannoor Thevar vishnu temple
 Thevarpoyika Mahavishnu Temple Edakkidom.
 Nalannil Sree Nagaraja Kshethram,Valayikkodu,Edakkidom
Tourism
The Kerala backwaters of Kollam/Alappuzha is 14 km from Edakkidom. Some of the tourist spots near Edakkidom are Thenmala Ecotourism (39 km) and Palaruvi Water Falls (33 km).
Edakkidom is a part of assembly constituency Kottarakara and Lok Sabha constituency Mavelikkara. INC, CPI(M) is the major working political party in Edakkidom.

Villages in Kollam district