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Flushes 
With Nepali tea, the time of the year, when it is collected, is also recorded. There are four main times, called "flushes"
 First flush, begins in the fourth week of March and continues until the end of April. The leaves are tender and the liquor is light yellowish-green in color, having a delicate taste with subtle aroma and flavor. The first flush is more expensive, because of its light and delicate flavor, but also due to the fact that it is produced in low quantity and the demand outstrips the supply.
 Second flush, starts during the second week of May and lasts until the last week of July. In the second flush the leaves gain more strength and exhibits the main characteristics of tea in contrast to the first flush tea. Some experts state that the best tea is made during the second flush.
Monsoon flush, also referred as "Rainy tea" begins immediately after the second flush, that is around the last week of July and continues until the end of September. The monsoon tea, due to the continuous rain, exhibits a very intense and dark fusion as the tea develops its full color and strength, resulting in a full bodied tea. It is often recommended.
 Autumn flush, usually begins in October and lasts until the end of November. The autumn tea gives a fantastic combination of musky flavors, tangy aromas and an amber liquor.
CTC tea 

Crush, tear, curl (CTC) tea is a method of processing  the  Assam variety (Camellia sinensis var. assamica).    It grows at a lower altitude, where the climate is hot and humid. Most of it is grown on the plains of the Jhapa district. Most tea drunk in Nepal is of this variety, almost 95%. Because it is easier to produce, it is also cheaper than orthodox tea. 

The Nepal CTC tea also has four pronounced flushes, the First, Second, Monsoon and Autumn flushes, but unlike the orthodox tea, the CTC tea is more or less uniform throughout, often showing a strong color and subtle aroma after infusion. However, the flushes do not begin and end in accordance with that of the orthodox tea, mainly because of differences in local conditions.

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss (also spelled Silvius Leopold Weiss; 12 October 1687 - 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist (somebody who plays the lute).

Life
Weiss was born in Breslau, Silesia. His father, Johann Jacob Weiss, was a lute player. His brother, Johann Sigismund Weiss, was also a lute player. Weiss learned playing the lute from his father. 

In 1706, he worked for Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine. He wrote his first piece of music in Düsseldorf, which was a lute sonata in C major. In 1708, Prince Alexander Sobiesky invited Weiss to Italy. He stayed in Rome with the prince's family. He might have worked with Italian composers in Rome. He had to return to Germany when the prince died.
Weiss worked for Elector Charles Philipp again. In 1718, Weiss travelled to London. In London, he gave a concert every week. In August 1718, he became a member of the court chapel in Dresden. In 1718, Weiss visited Vienna. He played for the emperor. In 1722, he was attacked by a French violinist named Petit. Petit tried to bite Weiss' right thumb off. Weiss was not hurt badly. 

In 1723, Weiss went to Prague with Johann Joachim Quantz and Carl Heinrich Graun. They performed Johann Joseph Fux's opera, Constanza e fortezza. In 1728, he went to Berlin. He stayed in Berlin for three months. He taught Frederick the Great's sister, Princess Wilhelmine. Weiss also taught other lutenists. One of his students was Adam Falckenhagen.

Weiss died on 16 October 1750 in Dresden. He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery in Dresden. Weiss was the highest-paid musician in Dresden. Even so, his family was poor when he died.
Music
Weiss was one of the most important composers for the lute. He was one of the greatest players of the instrument. Even so, people forgot about Weiss' music after he died. This was because the lute was being replaced by keyboard instruments. Not everyone can read Weiss' music, because it was written in tablature notation.

A lot of Weiss' music is now lost. 

Johann Sebastian Bach knew Weiss' music. He arranged a lute sonata by Weiss for violin and harpsichord.

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Kitana is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat electronic game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios.

Appearance
Kitana appeared for the first time in the Mortal Kombat II (1993) game, where she is shown as a royal from Edenia, a fictional realm (kingdom). In the game, she uses a pair of fans made of steel, also named tessenjutsu. Kitana uses these fans to make special attacks.

Story
She was thought to be the daughter of Shao Kahn, the emperor of the Outworld. However, Kitana later learns her true father was murdered by Kahn when he conquered Edenia. Later on, she becomes an important hero as she joins warriors of the Earthrealm to make sure her realm is freed. Kitana is the love interest of hero Liu Kang.

Outside the games
The character has appeared in various media outside of the games and is one of its most iconic and popular fighters.

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Bloody Moon (;  The Saw of Death) is a 1981 Spanish German horror movie directed by Jesús Franco (who also stars) and also starring Olivia Pascal, Otto Retzer, Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Alexander Waechter, Jasmin Losensky, Peter Exacoustos.

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Llico was one of the communes that was part of the department of Vichuquén, in the province of Curicó.

The 1907 Chilean census established it had a population of 8.430 inhabitants.

History 
The commune was created by decree of 22 December 1891, with the territory of Llico and Iloca subdelegations.

It was suppressed by the Decree with Force of Law No. 8.583, on 30 December 1927, by dictator Carlos Ibáñez del Campo as part of a greater political and administrative reform, adding its territory to the commune of Vichuquén. The commune was effectively suppressed on 1 February 1928.

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Auquinco was one of the communes that was part of the department of Santa Cruz, in the province of Curicó.

The 1920 Chilean census established it had a population of 2.886 inhabitants.

History 
The commune of Auquinco was created by Decree number 3.458 on 19 August 1918.

It was suppressed by the Decree with Force of Law No. 8.583, on 30 December 1927, by dictator Carlos Ibáñez del Campo as part of a greater political and administrative reform, adding its territory to the commune of Chépica. The commune was effectively suppressed on 1 February 1928.

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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was a Venetian composer. He wrote operas and instrumental music. He is best remembered as the composer of a work called "Adagio in G Minor". Albinoni did not actually write the Adagio.

Life
Albinoni was born in Venice. He learned to play the violin and to sing. It is not known who his teachers are. His first opera, Zenobia, regina de Palmireni, was performed in Venice in 1694.

In 1705, he married Margherita Rimondi, a soprano singer. 

He became famous and he performed his operas in many Italian cities, including Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Mantua, Udine, Piacenza, and Naples. He also wrote and published instrumental music during this time. Albinoni did not try to find a job in a church or a court. He remained an independent composer and published music on his own.

He retired from writing music after 1741, and died in Venice in 1751.
Music
Most of Albinoni's operas are lost. This is because he did not publish his operas during his life. His instrumental music has survived. Nine collections of instrumental music were published. Because of this, he is better known for writing instrumental music today. He is the first Italian composer to publish an oboe concerto.

He was known by Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote at least two fugues based on themes by Albinoni.

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The voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨s⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 's' in sun and sorry.

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This is a list of numbers. This list will always be not finished. This happens because there are an infinite amount of numbers. Only notable numbers will be added. Numbers can be added as long as they are popular in math, history or culture.

This means that numbers can only be notable if they are a big part of history. A number isn't notable if it is only related to another number. For example, the number (3,4) is a notable number when it is a complex number (3+4i). When it is only (3,4), however, it's not notable.

Natural numbers 

Natural numbers are a type of integer. They can be used for counting. Natural numbers can also be used to find out about other number systems. A negative number is not a natural number.

0 is argued on whether or not it is a natural number. To fix this, people use the terms  "non-negative integers", which cover 0 and "positive integers", which does not.

Classes of natural numbers

Prime numbers
Prime numbers 

A prime number is a type of natural number. It only has two divisors: 1 and itself.

Highly composite numbers 
A highly composite number is a type of natural number. It has more divisors than any smaller natural number. They are used a lot in geometry, grouping, and time measurement.

The first 20 highly composite numbers are:

1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 120, 180, 240, 360, 720, 840, 1260, 1680, 2520, 5040, 7560

Perfect numbers 

A perfect number is a type of integer. It has the sum of its positive divisors (all divisors except itself).

The first 10 perfect numbers:

Integers 

Integers are a set of numbers. They usually are in arithmetic and number theory. There are many subsets of integers. These can cover natural numbers, prime numbers, perfect numbers, etc.

Popular integers are −1 and 0.
Orders of magnitude 
Integers can be written in orders of magnitude. This can be written as 10k, where k is an integer.  If k = 0, 1, 2, 3, then the powers of ten for them are 1, 10, 100 and 1000. This is used in scientific notation.

Each number has its own prefix. Each prefix has its own symbol. For example, kilo- may be added to the beginning of gram. This changes the meaning of gram to mean that the gram is 1000 times more than a gram: one kilogram is the same as 1000 grams.

Rational numbers 

A rational number is a number that can be written as a fraction with two integers. The numerator is written as . The denominator(which cannot be zero) is written as . Every integer is a rational number. This is because, in integers, 1 is always the denominator of a fraction.

Rational numbers can be written in infinitely many ways. For example, 0.12 can be written as three twenty-fifths (), nine seventy-fifths (), etc.
Irrational numbers 
Irrational numbers are numbers that cannot be written as a fraction. These are written as algebraic numbers or transcendental numbers.

Algebraic numbers

Transcendental numbers

Real numbers 
The real numbers are a superset(or category) of numbers. They cover algebraic and transcendental numbers.

Real but not known if irrational or transcendental

Hypercomplex numbers 
A hypercomplex number is a word for an element of a unital algebra over the field of real numbers.

Algebraic complex numbers 

 i, Imaginary unit:

Transfinite numbers 

Transfinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite". They are larger than any finite number. They are, however, not absolutely infinite.

Physical Constants 

Physical constants are constants that can be used in the universe to figure out information.

 Avogadro constant
 Gravitational constant
 Planck constant
 Rydberg constant 
 Speed of light in vacuum

Named numbers
Named numbers 

 Googol, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
 Googolplex, 10(10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)
 Graham's number, G
 Skewes's number, S

References

Bibliography 

 
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Further reading 

 Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide by Bryan Bunch, W.H. Freeman & Company, 2001.

Other Websites 

 The Database of Number Correlations: 1 to 2000+ 
 What's Special About This Number? A Zoology of Numbers: from 0 to 500
 Name of a Number
 See how to write big numbers
 
 Robert P. Munafo's Large Numbers page
 Different notations for big numbers – by Susan Stepney
 Names for Large Numbers, in How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement by Russ Rowlett
 What's Special About This Number?  (from 0 to 9999)

Numbers
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I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 American romantic comedy movie directed by Howard Hawks and was based on the 1947 novel Male War Bride Trial to Army by Henri Rochard. It starred Cary Grant, Russ Conway, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Ann Sheridan, Lily Kann, Kenneth Tobey and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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The 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship, known as the 1993 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 9th staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It took place across five cities in Australia. The tournament was to be held originally in Yugoslavia, but due to the Yugoslav Wars, was moved to Australia. Brazil won their third World Youth Championship title after beating Ghana 2–1.

1993 in association football
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120 is a natural number. It is before 121 and after 119. It reads as one hundred [and] twenty.

In mathematics

Subsets 

 It is also the fifteenth triangular number. It is also the sum of the first eight triangular numbers. This makes it a tetrahedral number. 120 is divisible by the first 5 triangular numbers and the first 4 tetrahedral numbers. It is the eighth hexagonal number.
 120 is the first highly composite number. It is also superior highly composite.
 120 is superabundant and a colossally abundant number. 
 120 is sparsely totient.
 120 is the smallest number to appear six times in Pascal's triangle.
 120 is a Harshad number in base 10.
 120 is the largest known integer in Pierre de Fermat's modified Diophantine equation(1, 3, 8 and 120).

Relations between numbers, equations and shapes
120 is the factorial of 5.
 120's adjacent numbers are 119 and 121. 120 is the first multiple of 6 (number) to not have an adjacent prime number.
 The sum of its factors (including one and itself) equal 360. 360 is three times 120.
 120 is the sum a twin prime pair (59 + 61). It is also the sum of four prime numbers in a row (23 + 29 + 31 + 37). It is the sum of four powers of two in a row (8 + 16 + 32 + 64). Finally, it is the sum of four powers of 3 (3 + 9 + 27 + 81).
 120 is divisible by the number of prime numbers below it(there are 30 prime numbers below 120). 
 The sum of Euler's totient function φ(x) of its first nineteen integers is 120.
 Each angles of a regular hexagon (one where all sides and all angles are equal) are all 120 degrees.

In science 

 120 is the atomic number of unbinilium.
 In electrical engineering, each line of the three-phase system is 120 degrees away from each other.

In religion
In religion 

 The Temple building(in II Chronicles 3:4) is 120 cubits tall.
 Moses dies at age 120(Deut. 34:7). To wish for someone to have a long life, it is popular to say, "Live until 120" in the Jewish religion.
 The Queen of Sheba gave Solomon 120 talents of gold. (I Kings 10:10)
 King Darius put 120 princes in his kingdom. (Daniel 6:2)
 120 shekels worth of gold spoons are offered to every tribal prince in Israel (Num. 7:86).
 In astrology, a trine is when when two planets in a person's chart are 120 degrees away from each other. This gives the person good luck.

References 

 Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers London: Penguin Group. (1987): 135

Integers
Deceived is a 1991 American psychological mystery thriller movie directed by Damian Harris and starring Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Robin Bartlett, Ashley Peldon, Beatrice Straight, Tom Irwin, Amy Wright, Kate Reid, Jan Harvey. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

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Sierra Entertainment was an American video game developer/publisher founded in the late 1970s by Ken and Roberta Williams.

Games
The company is known for making the graphic adventure game genre, including the first game, Mystery House. It is also known for its adventure game series King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Quest for Glory, as well as being the original publishers of Half-Life.
Affiliation
After 17 years as a lone company, Sierra was bought by CUC International in February 1996 to become part of CUC Software. However, CUC International was caught in an scandal in 1998. Therefore many of the original founders of Sierra including the Williamses left the company. Sierra remained as part of CUC Software as it was sold and renamed several times over the next few years; Sierra was dissolved as a company and reformed as a division of this group in 2004. The former CUC Software group was acquired by Vivendi and branded as Vivendi Games in 2006. The Sierra division continued to operate through Vivendi Games' merger with Activision to form Activision Blizzard in 2008. However, it was shut down later. The Sierra brand was revived by Activision in 2014 to re-release former Sierra games and some independently developed games.

History
Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in Simi Valley, California, by Ken and Roberta Williams. Ken, a programmer for IBM, had planned to use the company to create business software for the TRS-80 and Apple II. Ken had brought a teletype terminal home one day in 1979, and while looking through the host system's catalog of programs, discovered the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure. He encouraged Roberta to join him in playing it, and she was thrilled by the game; after Ken had brought an Apple II to their home, she played through other text adventures such as those by Scott Adams and Softape to study them.  Dissatisfied with the text-only format, she realized that the graphics display capability of the Apple II could improve the adventure gaming experience
. With Ken's help in some of the programming, Roberta designed Mystery House, inspired by the novel And Then There Were None and the board game Clue, using text commands and printout combined with graphics depicting the current setting.
Mystery House was released in 1980. It was a great success with 15,000 copies sold, earning 167,000 American dollars (equivalent to 525,539 American dollars in 2020). It is the first computer adventure game to have graphics, although made with crude, static, monochrome line drawings. The two decided to shift the company's focus to developing more graphical adventure games. Mystery House became the first of their Hi-Res Adventure series. The Hi-Res Adventure series continued with Mission Asteroid, which was released as Hi-Res Adventure #0 though being the second release. The next release, Wizard and the Princess, also known as Adventure in Serenia, is considered a prelude to the later King's Quest series in both story and concept. Through 1981 and 1982, more games were released in the series including Cranston Manor, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Time Zone, and The Dark Crystal
. A simplified version of The Dark Crystal, intended for a younger audience, was written by Al Lowe and released as Gelfling Adventure.
Rebranding (1982 - 1988) 
On-Line Systems was renamed Sierra On-Line in 1982, and they moved to Oakhurst, California. The "Sierra" name was taken from the Sierra Nevada mountain range that Oakhurst was near, and its new logo had the image of a mountain reflecting that. By early 1984 InfoWorld estimated that Sierra was the world's 12th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12.5 million in 1983 sales.

The company weathered the video game crash of 1983 by seeing only a 20% increase in sales, after analysts in 1982 had predicted a doubling in 1983 of the entire software market. The company had spent much of 1983 developing for a Commodore machine and the TI-99/4A which were both obsolete by the end of the year. Ken Williams was reportedly described as "bewildered by the pace at which computers come into and fall out of favor", and Williams said, "I've learned my lesson. I'm not moving until I understand the market better."
Many of Sierra's most well known series began in the 1980s. In 1983, Sierra On-Line was contacted by IBM to create a game for the new PCjr. IBM offered to fund the entire development and marketing of the game, paying royalties. Ken and Roberta Williams accepted and started on the project. Roberta Williams created a story featuring classic fairy-tale elements. Her game concept includes animated color graphics, a pseudo 3D-perspective where the main character is visible on the screen, a more competent text parser that understands advanced commands from the player, and music playing in the background through the PCjr sound hardware. For the game, a complete development system called Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) was developed. In mid-1984, King's Quest: Quest for the Crown was released to much acclaim, beginning the King's Quest series.

Sierra On-Line expanded into a larger headquarters in the early-1980s.
While working to finish The Black Cauldron, programmers Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy began to plan for an adventure game of their own. After a simple demonstration to Ken Williams, he allowed them to start working on the full game, which was named Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter. The game was released in October 1986 as an instant success, spawning many sequels in the Space Quest series in the following years.

Al Lowe, who had been working at Sierra On-Line for many years, was asked by Ken Williams to write a modern version of Chuck Benton's Softporn Adventure from 1981, the only pure text adventure that the company had ever released. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was a great hit and won the Software Publishers Association's Best Adventure Game award of 1987. It can be deduced that the game first became famous as an early example of software piracy, as Sierra sold many more hintbooks than actual copies of the game. A series of Leisure Suit Larry games followed.
Ken Williams befriended a retired highway patrol officer named Jim Walls and asked him to produce an adventure series based on a police theme. Walls proceeded to create Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, which was released in 1987. Several sequels followed, and the series was touted for adherence to police protocol (relevant parts of which were explained in the games' manuals), and presenting some real-life situations encountered by Walls during his career as an officer.
Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The first game in the series, Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, was released in 1989. The series combines humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a five-part series of the Sierra stable. Although the series was originally titled Hero's Quest, Sierra failed to trademark the name. Milton Bradley successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, HeroQuest, which forced Sierra to change the series' title to Quest for Glory. This decision caused all future games in the series (as well as newer releases of Hero's Quest I) to switch over to the new name.
In 1987, Sierra On-Line started to publish its own gaming magazine, about its upcoming games and interviews with the developers. The magazine was initially named The Sierra Newsletter, The Sierra News Magazine, and The Sierra/Dynamix Newsmagazine. However, since Sierra Club already published a magazine called Sierra Magazine, the name of the magazine published by Sierra On-Line was changed to InterAction in 1991. It was discontinued in 1999.

Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter engine, introduced with King's Quest, was replaced in 1988 with Sierra's Creative Interpreter in King's Quest IV. The game was released under both engines, so those who had newer computers could use the new engine and better rendering technology.

Subsidiaries

Development
Books That Work; acquired in April 1997, folded into Sierra in February 1999.
 Bright Star Technology in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.; founded in 1980 and acquired in 1992.
 Berkeley Systems, purchased by CUC International in April 1997 and integrated into Sierra as an internal studio.
 Coktel Vision in Paris, France; founded in 1984, acquired in October 1993.
 Arion Software, acquired in 1995, absorbed into Sierra On-Line.[citation needed]
 The Pixellite Group, founded in 1983; acquired in May 1995, absorbed into Sierra On-Line.[citation needed]
 SubLogic, based in Champaign, Illinois; acquired in 1995; absorbed into Impressions Games.[citation needed]
 Dynamix in Eugene, Oregon; founded in 1984, acquired in August 1990, and shut down in August 2001.
 Green Thumb Software in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.; acquired and absorbed in July 1995.
 Headgate Studios in Bountiful, Utah, U.S.; founded in 1992, acquired in April 1996, and sold to the original owner in 1999.
Impressions Games in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.; founded in 1989, acquired in 1995, and closed in May 2004.
 Synergistic Software; founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, and folded into Sierra in February 1999.
 Papyrus Design Group in Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S.; founded in 1987, acquired in 1995, and closed in May 2004.
 PyroTechnix; founded as Computer Presentation, acquired December 1997, and folded into Sierra in February 1999.
 Yosemite Entertainment in Oakhurst, California, U.S.; formed in 1998, and folded into Sierra in February 1999.
Publishing 

 Sierra Attractions; 1998–2001
 Sierra FX; 1998
 Sierra Home; 1996–2004
 Sierra Sports; February 1998–2000
 Sierra Studios; 1998–2001

American video game companies
Sunkist (also marketed as Sunkist Soda) is a brand of mostly orange flavoured soft drinks that was created in 1979. Sunkist is a competitor of The Coca-Cola Company's Fanta brand and Keurig Dr Pepper's Orange Crush brand.

History
Sunkist was first licensed by Sunkist Growers to the General Cinema Corporation, the main bottler of Pepsi-Cola products. The soft drink was the idea of Mark Stevens, who foresaw the potential based on market research which indicated that, worldwide, orange was the third-best-selling soft drink flavor (largely due to Fanta).

Further reading
 1984 Sunkist Ad featuring the "Good Vibrations" theme song, YouTube video ""  Retrieved on March 27, 2008.
 1984-85 Sunkist Ad featuring the "Good Vibrations" theme song, YouTube video ""  Retrieved on May 12, 2008.
 Cadbury Schweppes purchases Canada Dry and Sunkist soft drinks from RJR (July 1986), New York Times (online) "" Retrieved on March 27, 2008.
 Sunkist Soda - History
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Half-Life: Blue Shift is an expansion pack for the game Half-Life. It was made by Gearbox Software with Valve and published by Sierra Entertainment. Blue Shift was the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a port of Half-Life. Although the port was cancelled, the Windows version was published as a standalone product in 2001 for Windows. It was published on Steam on August 24, 2005.

As with Gearbox's previous expansion pack, Opposing Force, Blue Shift returns to the events of Half-Life, but portrays the story through the perspective of someone else. You play as security guard Barney Calhoun, hired by the Black Mesa Research Facility, who must fight his way to safety during an incident. Blue Shift also includes a pack that upgrades the Half-Life models and textures.

Blue Shift received both good and bad reviews. Many reviewers were critical of the short length and lack of new content, although the new graphics were praised.

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Thomas Letsch (born 26 August 1968) is a German football manager. He is the manager of Eredivisie club Vitesse Arnhem.

Managerial career

Early career
Letsch never played professional football. He started his coaching career at VfB Oberesslingen/Zell as playing coach. In July 2001  he became manager of Stuttgarter Kickers's second team until 2002, but was also a part of the first team staff until the end of the 2002–03 season. Then he moved to FC Union Heilbronn and was the manager for one season. From January 2005 until July 2007, he was the assistant manager of SSV Ulm 1846. From January 2008 to June 2009, he was the manager of SG Sonnenhof Großaspach.
FC Red Bull Salzburg, FC Liefering
In July 2012 he went to Salzburg and  managed the under-16 team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. September 2012 he was also appointed as football director of academy. In the following season, he was promoted to first team assistant manager. In July 2014 he became manager of the under-18 squad. In the time with the under-18s he was also the assistant coach for FC Red Bull Salzburg. In December 2015 after  Peter Zeidler was sacked, he was for two matches head coach of Salzburg. In the 2015–16 season he also managed the team of FC Red Bull Salzburg in the UEFA Youth League. In  June 2015 he became manager of FC Liefering in the Second League.

FC Erzgebirge Aue
On 18 June 2017 Erzgebirge Aue named  Letsch as their new manager on a three-year contract. After three games  Aue sacked Letsch due to  poor form and results.

FK Austria Wien
On 27 February 2018 he became manager  Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga. He was sacked on 11 March 2019.
Vitesse Arnhem
On 26 May 2020 he became the  new manager of Vitesse Arnhem. The club went on to secure  fourth place in the Eredivisie and reched the final of the Dutch Cup (which was lost 2–1 to AFC Ajax). They were qualified for the UEFA Europa Conference League.

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Half-Life: Opposing Force is an expansion pack for the game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software and Valve and published by Sierra Entertainment for Windows in 1999. Opposing Force was the first expansion for Half-Life and was announced in April 1999. Lead designer Randy Pitchford believed Gearbox was selected to develop Opposing Force because Valve, the creators of Half-Life, wanted to focus on their future games.

Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility when a incident causes it to be invaded by aliens, but quickly finds that the Marines are outnumbered by enemies.

Video games
Half-Life: Decay is a multiplayer expansion pack for Half-Life. Created by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra, Decay was released as part of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life in 2001. It is the third expansion pack for Half-Life, and like the other expansion packs, Decay returns to the setting and timeline of the original story and portrays the story from the perspective of a different set of protagonists: two female scientists working in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Decay is a cooperative multiplayer game, designed to be played by two people working together to pass through the game's levels.

Video games
The megaron (, , plural megara) is the rectangular great hall in Mycenaean and ancient Greek palace architecture. The hall was: 1) surrounded by four columns, 2) had an open portico with two columns in the front, and 3) had a central, open hearth venting through an oculus, or opening, in the roof. 

The megaron also had the throne-room of the wanax, or Mycenaean Greek ruler, whose throne was in the main room with the central hearth. Similar architecture is found in the Near East but the open portico supported by columns is particular to the Aegean region. Megara are sometimes called "long-rooms" because of their rectangular shape and the position of their entrances. There were often many rooms around the central megaron, such as archive rooms, offices, oil-press rooms, workshops, potteries, shrines, corridors, armories, and rooms storing wine, oil and wheat.

The megaron was used for sacrifices, royal events, and court meetings.
Structure
Halls in the shape of rectangles were a defining theme of Greek architecture. The Mycenaean megaron originated from the megaroid, or large hall-centered rectangular building, of Greece dating back to the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Also, it was the architectural forerunner to ancient Greek temples. The megaron's structural layout included a columned entrance, a pronaos, a central naos (or cella), and one of many roof types (i.e., pitched, flat, barrel). The roof was supported by wooden beams. The floor was made of patterned concrete and covered in carpet. The walls were built with bricks of mud, and were decorated with frescoes. There were metal doors often having two-leaved wood decorations. Footbaths were also used in the megaron as mentioned in Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus's feet were washed by Eurycleia. The dimensions involving a larger length than width are similar structurally to the early temples of the Dorian Greeks.
Examples
A famous megaron is in the king's large reception hall in the Bronze Age palace of Tiryns where the main room had a raised throne placed against the right wall and a central hearth bordered by four Minoan-style wooden columns supporting the roof. The Cretan elements in the megaron of Tiryns were adopted by the Mycenaean Greeks from Minoan palace architecture. Frescoes from Pylos show people eating and drinking, which were important activities in Greek culture. Artistic images of bulls, a common animal motif in Mycenaean vase painting, appear on Greek megaron frescoes such as the one in the Pylos megaron where a bull is shown at the center of a Mycenaean procession. Other famous megara include the ones at the Mycenaean palaces of Thebes and Mycenae. Different Greek cultures had their own megara where, for example, the Greeks of the mainland separated their central megaron from the other rooms whereas the Greeks of Crete did not do this.

Related pages
Mycenaean culture

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Further reading
Homer's Odyssey contains detailed references to the megaron of Odysseus.

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The paranapiacaba tree frog (Bokermannohyla astartea) is a frog that lives in Brazil. It lives in the Serra do Mar.

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Frogs of South America
Mar Addai II (; born Shlemun Giwargis () (6 January 1948 – 11 February 2022) was an Iraqi Catholicos-Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East. He lived in the Apostolic See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Baghdad, Iraq.

On 11 February 2022, Addai II Giwargis died in Baghdad, Iraq at the age of 74.

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Hugo Torres Jiménez (25 April 1948 – 12 February 2022) was a Nicaraguan Sandinista guerrilla and military leader. He was a retired Brigadier General in the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. During the Sandinista National Liberation Front effort to overthrow the Somoza family regime. In June 2021 he was part of a wave of arrests of opposition figures by the Daniel Ortega administration. 

Torres Jiménez died while in prison on 12 February 2022, aged 73.

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Nicaraguan politicians
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Ignacio Javier Gómara Granada (7 January 1927 – 12 February 2022) was a Spanish politician, lawyer and businessman. He was born in Etxarri-Aranatz, Spain. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1982 until 1986. He was also President of the Navarrese Parliament from 1987 until 1991. He was a member of the Navarrese People's Union.

Gómara Granada died on 12 February 2022 in Pamplona, Spain at the age of 95.

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Zinaida Mikhailovna Kiriyenko (; 9 July 1933 – 12 February 2022) was a Russian actress and singer. She was the Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1977). She was known for her roles in the movies And Quiet Flows the Don, Fate of a Man, Chronicle of Flaming Years. Kiriyenko was born in Makhachkala, then-Soviet Union.

Kiriyenko died on 12 February 2022 in Moscow, Russia from a stroke caused by COVID-19 at the age of 88. She also had pancreatic cancer.

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William George Batchelder III (December 19, 1942 – February 12, 2022) was an American politician. He was the 101st Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2011 to 2014. He also represented the 69th District of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2014, and was in the House from 1969 to 1998 before. He was a Republican. Batchelder was born in Medina, Ohio.

Batchelder died on February 12, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 79.

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State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Cincinnati
Republican Party (United States) politicians
People from Medina, Ohio
Grand Theft Auto 2 is a video game made by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games, for Windows and PlayStation in 1999, and the Dreamcast and Game Boy in 2000. It is the sequel to Grand Theft Auto (1997), and the second installment of the Grand Theft Auto series. Set within a city known as "Anywhere City", the game is based on players taking the role of a criminal as they explore an open world, doing jobs for various crime mobs and having free rein to do whatever they wish to achieve their goal. The game's intro is unique for a title in the series, as it involved live-action scenes filmed by Rockstar Games.

1999 video games
Windows games
PlayStation games
Grand Theft Auto is a video game made by DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. It is the first title of the Grand Theft Auto series and was released in 1997 for MS-DOS, Windows and PlayStation, and in October 1999 for the Game Boy Color.

1997 video games
Windows games
PlayStation games
Game Boy Color games
Rahul Bajaj (10 June 1938 – 12 February 2022) was an Indian billionaire businessman and politician. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. From 2006 until 2010, Bajaj was a member of the Rajya Sabha. Bajaj was born in Kolkata, India. Bajaj was awarded the third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2001. His net worth was US$25 billion in July 2021.

Bajaj died on 12 February 2022 at a hospital in Pune, India from pneumonia at the age of 83.

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2022 deaths
Politicians from West Bengal
Indian businesspeople
Deaths from pneumonia
Grand Theft Auto Advance is a video game made by Digital Eclipse and published by Rockstar Games. The eighth title in the Grand Theft Auto series, it was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 (the same day Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released for the PlayStation 2).

2004 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Liemers or De Liemers (historically also known as Lijmers) is a region in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.

It lies in the very east of the country, near Germany. It is bordered by three rivers, namely southwest the Rhine, northwest the IJssel, northeast the Oude IJssel, and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the southeast. The northern and especially the eastern boundaries are rather vague. There is a grey area with the Achterhoek region, which stretches itself from these borders of the Liemers region. The hills of Montferland or Bergherbos in the municipality of Montferland are also considered as the eastern border.

The local dialect is called Liemers, which belongs to the Low Franconian languages.

Municipalities 
These ten municipalities lie more or less in the Liemers region:
 Bronckhorst (a small part in the southwest)
 Doesburg (the southern part)
 Doetinchem (the western part)
 Duiven
 Montferland
 Oude IJsselstreek (the western part)
 Westervoort
 Zevenaar
References 
 Plaatsengids.nl

 
Regions of the Netherlands
Video game writers are people who write video games are part of the design team, during pre-production, and make the main plot of a video game but can also focus on the dialogue, the character making and development of the game.

During the game-making process, the design may change and a video game writer can also be asked to fix the eventual narrative issues.

Video games
Writing occupations
Entertainment occupations
Jennifer Gay Bishop (16 December 1933 – 17 January 2022), known by her stage name Jennifer Toye, was a British operatic soprano. She was best known as the principal soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1950s and 1960s. She played Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance and Yum-Yum in The Mikado. Toye was born in Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales.

Toye died on 17 January 2022 at the age of 88.

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Other websites
 

1933 births
2022 deaths
Welsh singers
British stage actors
Sopranos
The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495. It is Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.

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Peter Neilson (12 July 1954 – 9 February 2022) was an English-born New Zealand businessman and politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1981 until 1990. Neilson was a member of the Geoffrey Palmer-Mike Moore cabinet as Minister of Customs (1989–1990), Works and Revenue (1990). Neilson was born in Birmingham, England.

Neilson died on 9 February 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand at the age of 67.

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2022 deaths
British businesspeople
New Zealand businesspeople
New Zealand politicians
Politicians from Birmingham
Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flautist (somebody who plays the flute) and flute maker from the late Baroque period. He was Frederick the Great's flute teacher.

Life
Quantz was born in Oberscheden, Electorate of Hanover. From 1708 to 1713, Quantz studied music with his uncle, Justus Quantz, a town musician in Merseburg. After his uncle died, he studied with the organist Friedrich Kiesewetter. In 1714, Quantz travelled to Pirna, a town near Dresden. He studied Vivaldi's violin concertos. 

In 1716 he joined the town band in Dresden. He studied counterpoint with Jan Dismas Zelenka in Vienna in 1717. In March 1718, he became an oboist (somebody who plays the oboe) in the Polish chapel of August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Quantz could not become a better oboe player than other oboe players. So, he changed his instrument to the flute. He learned playing the flute with Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin for four months.
From 1724 to 1727, Quantz went on a trip around Europe. He met and studied with many musicians, including Francesco Gasparini in Rome, Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, Michel Blavet in Paris, and George Frideric Handel in London. He returned to Dresden in July 1727. The trip made him famous around Europe.

In 1728, Quantz visitied Berlin. He met Crown Prince Frederick. He returned to Berlin two times a year to teach Prince Frederick the flute. When King August II died, Quantz stayed in Dresden until Prince Frederick became King of Prussia. Quantz moved to Berlin. He became a composer and flute player for King Frederick. Quantz did not write operas. Other composers in Frederick's court wrote operas.

Music
Quantz did not publish a lot of his music during his life. He wrote concertos, trio sonatas, and other works for the flute.

Writing
Quantz wrote On Playing the Flute in 1752. It explains how people played music and the flute in the baroque period.

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1697 births
1773 deaths
18th-century German composers
Oboists
Flutists
Richard John Vitale (; born June 9, 1939), also known as "Dickie V", is an American basketball coach and  sportscaster. He is known for his career as a college basketball broadcaster for ESPN. Vitale was born in Passaic, New Jersey. In 2008, he was honored into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. From 1978 until 1979, he coached the Detroit Pistons.

Vitale was diagnosed with melanoma in August 2021. Two months later, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.

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1939 births
Living people
American sports commentators
College basketball coaches
National Basketball Association coaches
Sportspeople from New Jersey
Sportspeople from Detroit
People from Passaic, New Jersey