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In bombardier beetles these secretions are mixed with volatile compounds and ejected by a small combustion with a loud popping sound and a cloud of hot and acrid gas. This can injure small mammals, such as shrews, and may kill invertebrate predators outright. To humans, getting "bombed" by a bombardier beetle is a decidedly unpleasant experience. This ability has evolved twice – in the flanged bombardier beetles (Paussinae) which are among the most ancient ground beetles, as well as in the typical bombardier beetles (Brachininae) which are part of a later lineage.
The Anthiini can squirt their defensive secretions for considerable distances and are able to aim with a startling degree of accuracy; in Afrikaans they are known as "" ("eye-pissers"). Charles Darwin got on the receiving end of a bombardier beetle's defences on a collecting trip in 1828. He discussed this in a letter:
"A "Cychrus rostratus" once squirted into my eye & gave me extreme pain; & I must tell you what happened to me on the banks of the Cam in my early entomological days; under a piece of bark I found two carabi (I forget which) & caught one in each hand, when lo & behold I saw a sacred "Panagaeus cruxmajor"; I could not bear to give up either of my Carabi, & to lose "Panagæus" was out of the question, so that in despair I gently seized one of the carabi between my teeth, when to my unspeakable disgust & pain the little inconsiderate beast squirted his acid down my throat & I lost both Carabi & "Panagæus"!"
Ground beetles often live under the bark of trees, under logs, or among rocks or sand by the edge of ponds and rivers. Most species are carnivorous and actively hunt for any invertebrate prey they can overpower. Some run fast to catch their prey; tiger beetles (Cicindelinae) are certainly fast runners in comparison to their length. Unlike most Carabidae, which are nocturnal, the tiger beetles are active daytime hunters and often brightly coloured. They have large eyes and hunt by sight. Ground beetles of the species "Promecognathus laevissimus" are specialised predators of the cyanide millipede "Harpaphe haydeniana". They can counter the hydrogen cyanide which makes these millipedes poisonous to most carnivores.
Igor Radulov
Igor Valerievich Radulov (born August 23, 1982) is a Russian ice hockey left winger. He currently plays for HC Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Before playing in the NHL, Radulov played 1 season with the Mississauga IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Radulov was drafted with the 74th overall pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. He played 7 games with the Blackhawks before being sent down to play for their AHL-affiliate Norfolk Admirals. After a season with the Admirals, Radulov was called back up to the Blackhawks. He would play 36 games with them before he was again sent down. He played 54 games with the Admirals before leaving for Russia after the 2004–05 NHL lockout.
His older brother, Alexander Radulov, plays for HC CSKA Moscow also of the KHL.
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Parkersburg is a city in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. As of 2010, 31,492 people live in Parkersburg.
Houma, Louisiana
Houma is the parish seat and the only municipality of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of 2010, 33,727 people live in Houma.
John Christopher
Christopher Samuel "Sam" Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), better known by his pen name John Christopher, was a British science fiction writer. He was best known for his novel "The Death of Grass" and the young adult novel series "The Tripods". He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
Christopher was born in Huyton, Lancashire. He was married to Joyce Fairbairn from 1946 until they divorced in 1978. They had five children: Nick, Rose, Liz, Sheila and Margret. He later was married to Jessica Ball until her death in 2001.
Christopher died from bladder cancer on 3 February 2012 in Bath, Somerset. He was 89.
Sewol
Leinier Domínguez
Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster.
He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2012.
During the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he reached the quarter finals, losing to Teimour Radjabov in the tie-break.
His best tournament result was Barcelona 2006, where he scored 8/9 and finished first, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, with a performance rating of 2932.
In 2008, he won the CPA chess tournament and the 43rd Capablanca in Memoriam tournament. In the same year he tied for first with Evgeny Alekseev (but lost to him in tie-break) at Biel (6.5/10), ahead of Magnus Carlsen.
On November 8, 2008 he won the World Blitz Championship 2008, held at Almaty in Kazakhstan, with 11.5 points out of 15, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk and many other top grandmasters.
In June 2013 he won the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki as a clear first in a field of twelve elite players, among them Fabiano Caruana, Veselin Topalov and Alexander Grischuk.
Igor Korolev
Igor Borisovich Korolev (September 6, 1970 – September 7, 2011) was a Russian ice hockey centre. He played 700 games in the National Hockey League (NHL), He played for the St. Louis Blues, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Chicago Blackhawks. He also played 329 games in the Russian Superleague (RSL) with HC Dynamo Moscow, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, and Metallurg Magnitogorsk, as well as 104 games in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.
In 2000, Korolev became a naturalized Canadian citizen. On September 7, 2011, 4:05 P.M. Moscow Time, Korolev was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster. The plane that was carrying the entire roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ran off the runway before it took off, hit a tower mast, caught fire and crashed, killing 43 of 45 passengers on board. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto after a funeral on September 18, 2011.
Anish Giri
Anish Giri (born June 28, 1994) is a Dutch chess prodigy. He got the grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days at the 2009 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.
Giri is the son of a Nepali-Indian father (Sanjay Giri), and a Russian mother (Olga Giri). Giri was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 28 June 1994. In 2002, he moved to Japan with his parents. When he lived in Japan, he visited St. Petersburg regularly. Since February 2008, Giri and his family have been living in the Netherlands, in the Dutch city of Rijswijk where his father is working in a research and consulting foundation.
Wesley So
Wesley So (born 9 October 1993) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. So got the GM title at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days, making him the 8th youngest chess grandmaster.
So's transfer to the United States Chess Federation was confirmed in the November 2014 rating list. Soon after, he left Webster University to focus full-time on chess.
Adam Air Flight 574
Adam Air Flight 574 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya (SUB) and Manado (MDC) that crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007. All 102 people on board died, the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a Boeing 737-400.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737-4Q8, serial number 24070, registration PK-KKW, was manufactured in 1989. Prior to service with Adam Air, owned by ILFC the aircraft had been leased to seven airlines, including Dan-Air, British Airways, GB Airways, National Jets Italy, WFBN, Air One and Jat Airways. The plane has flown 45.371 hours and was last evaluated and declared airworthy by the Indonesian transport ministry on 25 December 2005.
Rod Roddy
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 – October 27, 2003) was an American television and radio announcer.
Roddy was born in Fort Worth, Texas on September 28, 1937. He went on to serve as the host of "The Price is Right" shortly after the death of Johnny Olson in 1986. He remained on the show until his death on October 27, 2003. Roddy died from colon cancer and male breast cancer, aged 66.
List of British dukedoms
Liberty Island
Liberty Island is a small island in the New York Harbor in the United States. It is best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. In 1937, by proclamation 2250, President Franklin D. Roosevelt expanded the Statue of Liberty National Monument to include all of Bedloe's Island. In 1956, an act of Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island, 'Liberty Island'.
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
Punch-Out!! is a boxing video game written by Next Level Games for the Nintendo Wii. It is the fifth game in the "Punch-Out!!" series.
It was first sold at the Nintendo World Store in New York City on May 16, 2009. It was then in other shops from May 18, 2009 in North America, and from May 22, 2009 in Europe.
In January 2015 Nintendo Direct, said that "Punch-Out!!" and other Wii games would be released for download through the Wii U's Nintendo eShop.
"Punch-Out!!" stars a boxer named Little Mac working his way up the professional boxing circuits, facing a series of colorful boxers. The game requires good speed to keep up with the boxers who are controlled by the Wii. Some of the new opponents in this game are Disco Kid, Giga Mac and Donkey Kong. There are also ten boxers from old versions of "Punch-Out!!".
The Wii Remote and Nunchuk can be used together, a Wii Balance Board can be used along with Wii Remote and Nunchuk to duck or dodge, or the Wii Remote can be used by itself.
The player must react quickly and spot the moves the opponent is about to make. They need to dodge or block their attacks, before returning with attacks to either the body or the head with the left and right fists. Hitting a weak point at the right time earns stars, with the player able to save up to three stars, losing them if they are hit. When the player has one or more stars, they can perform a Star Punch which deals extra damage. Each fighter has a gauge which must be run down in order to knock the opponent down. Also the player has a heart counter that goes down if they are hit, or if their attacks are blocked. If it reaches zero, the player cannot attack. The player wins a match by either knocking out their opponent (either by a ten count or because they are unable to recover), earning a "technical knock out" by knocking them down three times in a single round, or winning by decision after three rounds have passed. If the player is hit by a knockout punch, it is possible to recover.
The game was revealed in 2008 at the Nintendo Media Summit, where a fifteen second trailer was shown. It was later announced that it was being developed by Next Level Games which had worked with Nintendo on games such as "Super Mario Strikers". Nintendo wished to make a new game similar to the original "Punch-Out!!" for the NES, so they asked the studio to design the game to be exactly like it and the characters to look like the original games.
Ched Evans
Chedwyn Michael "Ched" Evans (born 28 December 1988) is a Welsh footballer. He was born in St Asaph, Denbighshire. Evans was signed by Manchester City from Chester City's youth set up in 2002. In 2009 he was sold to Sheffield United for £3,000,000. Evans was sent to HM Prison Wymott from 2012 to 2014 for raping a woman. Evans has not played professional football since he was released.
Evans met his girlfriend while he was with Manchester City. She has said that she planned on getting engaged to Evans now he is released from prison.
Evans was tried at the Crown Court at Caernarfon with another footballer called Clayton McDonald on a charge of rape. On 20 April 2012 Evans was convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman. After the conviction, Evans was released by United at the end of the season. Evans was given a prison sentence of 5 years. In October 2014 Evans was released from prison after serving half his sentence.
Patty Schemel
Patricia Theresa Schemel (born April 24, 1967) is an American drummer. She was the drummer of Hole from 1992 until 1998. In 2013 she joined the indie rock band Upset.
Schemel grew up in Marysville, Washington. When she was eleven she started playing drums. She started her first band, Sybil, with her brother when she was fifteen. Kurt Cobain liked the band. In 1987, she joined a punk band called Doll Squad. The band broke up in 1989. After drummer Chad Channing left Nirvana, Kurt Cobain considered choosing Schemel as a replacement. Then Dave Grohl auditioned and Cobain chose him as the drummer instead.
In 1992 Schemel was asked to join Hole. She played drums on the band's second album "Live Through This".
In 1995 Schemel came out publicly as a lesbian in a "Rolling Stone" interview.
Schemel started a new band called Green Eyes in early 2010. A documentary about Schemel's life, "Hit So Hard", was released in 2012.
In the early 1990s Schemel became addicted to heroin.
After Schemel left Hole in 1998, she became addicted to crack cocaine and was homeless for over a year.
She lives with her wife, Christina Soletti, in Los Angeles.
Division of Forrest
Division of Hasluck
The Division of Hasluck is an electoral division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia.
It was set up in 2000, for the 2001 federal election. It is named after Sir Paul Hasluck, the Governor-General of Australia from 1969 to 1974, and his wife, Alexandra Hasluck, an author.
The division covers the eastern suburbs of Perth, and includes the following suburbs:
Ken Wyatt is the first Indigenous Australian member of the House of Representatives.
Magic in the Moonlight is a 2014 American comedy-drama movie. This is set on the French Riviera in the 1920s. Marcia Gay Harden, Colin Firth and Emma Stone star in the movie. Woody Allen directed the movie.
This movie was released on July 25, 2014.
Parkland (movie)
Parkland is a 2013 American historical drama movie. It is about chaotic events following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Marcia Gay Harden plays Head Nurse Doris Nelson. Billy Bob Thornton plays Agent Forrest Sorrels.
The movie was released in autumn 2013.
Dylan Tombides
Dylan James Tombides (8 March 1994 – 18 April 2014) was an Australian association footballer. He played as a striker for West Ham United and the Australia U17 and Australia U23 teams. He was born in Perth, Western Australia.
Tombides made his professional debut for West Ham on 25 September 2012 in a 4–1 home defeat to Wigan Athletic in the League Cup. He came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Gary O'Neil.
Tombides died from testicular cancer on 18 April 2014 in London, England. He was 20.
Brian Priestman
Brian Priestman (10 February 1927 – 18 April 2014) was a British conductor, maestro and music educator. He was the Music Director of the Denver Symphony Orchestra from 1970 until 1978. He was born in Birmingham, England.
Priestman died on 18 April 2014 at his home in Broze, France, aged 87.
Gyula Gömbös
Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa (26 December 1886 – 6 October 1936) was a Hungarian military officer and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1 October 1932 until his death on 6 October 1936. He was born in Murga, Austria-Hungary.
Gömbös died in Munich, Germany from testicular cancer, aged 49.
Péter Boross
Péter Boross (born 27 August 1928) is a Hungarian retired politician. He was the second Prime Minister of Hungary. He served as Prime Minister from December 1993 to July 1994.
Boross was born in Nagybajom, Hungary.
Péter Medgyessy
Péter Medgyessy (born 19 October 1942) is a Hungarian politician. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Hungary. He served as Prime Minister from May 2002 to September 2004.
Medgyessy was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah (661-728 AH/ 1263-1328 CE) is regarded as one of the prominent Sunni Islamic scholars and mujaddids (renewers or revivers) of Islam. His full name is Ahmad ibn Abdul Haleem ibn Abdus Salam ibn Taymiyyah. His titles are Sheikh al-Islam, the Imām, the Scholar, the Mufassir (Exegete), the Faqīh (Jurist), the Mujtahid, the Hāfidh, the Muḥaddith (master of hadith). He was a member of the islamic jurisprudence school founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal. He was notable for wanting to return Islam to what he viewed as earlier interpretations of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. He lived during the troubled times of the Mongol invasions in Syam. He is the most influential teacher of Ibnul Qayyim.
Reagan Era
The Reagan Era or Age of Reagan is an era in American history that lasted from 1981 to 1989. It is used by historians and political theorists to show that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a long and lasting impact.
Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980. He defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter by winning 44 out of the 50 American states. When Ronald Reagan became president, he signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, which some people say helped the economy. Afterwards more and more jobs began to appear. More people were getting jobs. Inflation decreased. During Reagan's presidency, he also helped expand the American military. This also created more jobs, but also raised the deficit. During his first term, the economy went from a 4.5% to 7.2%.
Reagan was also president during the outbreak of the AIDS crisis in America. Many members of the American LGBT community found Reagan's response to the epidemic to be delayed, and that he is responsible for a wide spread of the disease.
They thought Reagan dominated this stretch of American history in the same way that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal legacy dominated the forty years that followed. The Reagan Era included ideas and personalities beyond Reagan himself. Since leaving office in 1989, Reagan has become one of the most popular Presidents of the United States.
Reagan is usually characterized as the leader of a conservative movement whose ideas, whether good or bad, overwhelmed the national policy making in areas such as taxes, welfare, defense, the federal judiciary and the Cold War. Although he faced liberal opposition by the American public, Reagan is revered by conservatives for serving as an embodiment of their beliefs.
Reagan County, Texas
Reagan County is a county in Texas. It has 3,367 residents. It has four communities; Big Lake, Best, Stiles, and Texon.
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site (formerly Kwajalein Missile Range), is a missile test range in the Pacific Ocean. Missiles have been tested there since 1959.
It covers about and includes rocket launch sites at the Kwajalein Atoll (on multiple islands), Wake Island, and Aur Atoll. It is named after 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan.
Woodland, California
Woodland is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. As of 2010, 55,468 people lived in Woodland.
Kenner, Louisiana
Kenner is the seventh-largest and second largest suburban city in the state of Louisiana and the largest city in Jefferson Parish. As of 2010, 66,702 people lived in Kenner.
Alexandria, Minnesota
Alexandria is a city in Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. As of 2010, 11,070 people lived in Alexandria.
Yerington, Nevada
Yerington is a city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. As of 2010, 3,048 people lived in Yerington.
Statesboro, Georgia
Statesboro is a city in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States. As of 2010, 28,422 people lived in Statesboro.
Oxford, Maine
Oxford is a town in Oxford County, Maine. It has 4,110 residents as of 2010.
Redondo Beach, California
Redondo Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2010, 66,748 people lived in Redondo Beach.
East Orange, New Jersey
East Orange is a city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of 2010, 64,270 people lived in East Orange.
Shoreline, Washington
Shoreline is a city in King County, Washington, United States. As of 2010, 53,007 people lived in Shoreline.
Miltonvale, Kansas
Miltonvale is a city in Cloud County, Kansas, United States. As of 2010, 539 people lived in Miltonvale.
Buitreraptor
Buitreraptor is a small dromaeosaur from the Cretaceous of Argentina. It was about four to five feet long (1.5 metres).
"Buitreraptor" has a slender, flat, extremely elongated snout. Its jaws have many small teeth which lack meat-tearing serrations or cutting edges. They are grooved, strongly recurved and flattened. This probably meant it ate quite small animals, like lizards and mammals.
Since its close relatives had feathers, it is likely that "Buitreraptor" also was feathered.
Pooja Sharma
Pooja Sharma is a model-turned actress. She is in the mythological serial "Mahabharat" on Star Plus.
Sharma was born in Delhi. She moved to Mumbai to pursue her career in acting. She plays the role of Draupadi in mythological venture Mahabharat. Actresses including Yuvika Chaudhary and Anupriya Kapoor were also approached for the role but it went to Sharma.
Sharma came from a Delhi-based educated family. She said "I am here because of my family. They have always supported me when it comes to acting and seeing me on screen. My brother is very critical about my work and on the other hand my mom and sister-in-law love my work. The journey in Mahabharat is very beautiful. I have actually fallen in love with Draupadi's and my work."
Sharma started her career with modeling. She has also done anchoring, hosting and daily ads. After that she got selected for the role of Draupadi.
Henri Jules, Prince of Condé
Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (Paris, 29 July 1643 – Paris, 1 April 1709) was a member of the House of Bourbon and was the Prince of Condé till his death. He was also the only surviving son of the famous "Grand Condé". He was known for his bizarre bouts of madness. He was also ranked as a Prince of the blood st the Royal court of Versailles. At the end of his life he suffered from clinical lycanthropy and was considered insane.
He was married to Princess Anne Henriette of Bavaria at the Louvre in December 1663. She was a cousin of Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. The couple had ten children including the next Prince of Condé. He also had an illegitimate daughter with a mistress. He was well educated but had a malicious character.
Ernst Florian Winter
Ernst Florian Winter (16 December 1923 – 16 April 2014) was an Austrian-American historian and political scientist. He was the first director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna after World War II. He was also the chairman of the International Council of the Austrian Service Abroad. He was born in Vienna.
Winter died on 16 April 2014 at the age of 90.
Sonia Silvestre
Sonia Margarita Silvestre Ortiz (16 August 1952 – 19 April 2014) was a Dominican singer and announcer. Her best known songs were "Esta Es Sonia Silvestre" (1974), "Yo Quiero Andar" (1990) and "Verde y Negro" (2007). She was born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic.
Silvestre died from complications due to a stroke and two heart attacks on 19 April 2014 in Santo Domingo. She was 61.
Nenê
Nenê (born Maybyner Rodney Hilário; September 13, 1982) is a Brazilian basketball player. He is a forward-center for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played for the Denver Nuggets from 2002 until 2012. He legally had his named changed to Nenê in 2003.
He was drafted with the 7th overall pick by the New York Knicks in the 2002 NBA Draft. Right after he was draft, the Knicks traded Nenê along with Marcus Camby and Mark Jackson to the Denver Nuggets for Antonio McDyess and a 25th draft pick (Frank Williams). On January 14, 2008, Nenê had a testicular tumor removed at a Denver hospital.
On March 15, 2012, the Nuggets traded him to the Washington Wizards in a three-way trade that also involved the Los Angeles Clippers. JaVale McGee and Ronny Turiaf were sent to the Nuggets from the Wizards, Nick Young went to the Clippers from the Wizards and the Wizards also received Brian Cook from the Clippers.
Not Alone (Aram Mp3 song)
"Not Alone" is a song by Armenian singer Aram Mp3. This song will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark. Bet makers such as Bwin and Sky Bet predict that this song will come first.
The video was set in the Armenian capital Yerevan. The video shows a boyfriend and girlfriend having a fight in the girlfriend's car. The boyfriend's frustration then leads him to leave the car, which leaves both of them crying.
This song was performed in the Eurovision concert in Amsterdam.
The song will be sung first in the first semi-final of Eurovison 2014 which will be held in Denmark.
Running (András Kállay-Saunders song)
"Running" is a song sung by American-Hungarian singer Andras Kalláy Saunders. It was chosen to represent Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark.
The music video was set in the outskirts of Budapest. The video shows a 7 year old girl who fears her abusive father. When her father comes back from work, he beats her in rage. She runs away from her home. At the same time Kalláy is singing the song, a mased woman is dancing around.
Esther Ralston
Esther Ralston (September 17, 1902 – January 14, 1994) was an American actress. She starred in movies, including "Tin Pan Alley" and on television series, including "Our Five Daughters".
Ralston was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. Ralston died of a heart attack at age ninety-one in Ventura, California.
David Bateson
David Bateson (born 9 February 1960) is a South African-British actor. He was born in South Africa. He is known best for providing the voice and appearance of Agent 47, the main character of IO Interactive's computer and video game series "Hitman".
Bateson was born in South Africa to English parents. He became an actor before returning to Britain in 1984. He later moved to Canada, and later to Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a full member of British Equity and Danish Actors Union.
His first achievement was in 1994 film "Prince of Jutland". He also played the part of a young sailor in the 1996 film "Breaking the Waves". He played the main role in the 2002 film "Debutanten".
In the "Hitman game series", Bateson provided the voice, physical guide and appearance of Agent 47. He stayed as the character model until the fifth game, "", when he said to a member of a "Hitman" fan forum that "No one from IO Interactive is answering my calls, e-mails or sms."
However on 28 August 2012, the "Hitman" Facebook page confirmed that Bateson will once again be voicing 47. Brand Director Jon Brooke said his absence made them realise they wanted him.
Adam Rose
Raymond Leppan (born 20 July 1979) is an South African professional wrestler. He currently works for the WWE where he competes in their developmental territory NXT Wrestling. He competes under the ring name Adam Rose and is also known by his former ring name Leo Kruger.
On the January 30 tapings of "NXT", Leppan debuted under the Adam Rose name and had the gimmick of an eccentric rock star.
Sri Lankan elephant
The Sri Lankan elephant ("Elephas maximus maximus") is one of the three subspecies of the Asian elephant ("Elephas maximus").
The other two subspecies are the Indian elephant ("Elephas maximus indicus") and the Sumatran elephant ("Elephas maximus sumatranus").
The Sri Lankan elephant is the largest of the three subspecies. They are about tall, and can weigh up to . They eat leaves, shrubs, grasses, and other plants.
This subspecies is the National animal of Sri Lanka and is native to the island country. It once lived over the entire island. They now live in the dry zones in the north, east, and southeast. These zones are mainly dry deciduous woodland, scrubland, grassland, and marshes. There is a small group in the rainforest.
Sri Lankan elephants are sometimes working animals. They carry timber, transport passengers, and participate in public events like the Procession of Buddha's Tooth. There were many of them in the past. They were aggressively hunted.
In modern times, these elephants can be seen in Sri Lanka's national parks and elephant orphanages. They have been declared an endangered species, and are protected by law. Killing one carries the death penalty.
Asian elephants are usually smaller than African elephants. Females are usually smaller than males. Life span is about 60-70 years in the wild, and over 80 years in captivity. Elderly elephants may starve to death when their teeth wear out or fall out.
The Asian elephant's highest body point is on its head. The tip of their trunk is used like a finger. Their back is curved upward or level.
Their ears are smaller than those of the African elephant. Their feet have more nails than those of African elephants. They have five nails on each front foot, and four on each back foot. Few Sri Lankan male elephants develop tusks, and females have no tusks. Their skin color is darker than that of the two other Asian subspecies. They may have large patches of skin color loss (depigmentation) on ears, face, trunk, and tummy.
Sri Lankan elephants are the largest subspecies of the Asian elephant. Their shoulder height is between 6 and 11 ft. They weigh between 4,000 and 12,000 lb.
Like humans, apes, and dolphins, they have a large and well developed brain. They are very smart. Elephants have the largest brain of all land animals. They have very good memories. They can remember places, people, and events from long in the past.
The Sri Lankan elephant was once widely distributed across Sri Lanka. Over the past two hundred years however, human land use and development has forced the elephant from the wet and fertile regions of the southwest to the drier regions of the north, east, and southeast. These drier areas are mainly deciduous woodland, scrub, grassland, and marshes.
Like the two other subspecies of Asian elephants, Sri Lankan elephants live in groups of individuals that are related by blood. The group is led by a matriarch. She is usually the oldest and most experienced female in the group.
Sometimes a group will join another group to become a clan. The clan may then join another group or clan to become a herd. Groups are female-centered, and consist of grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts.
Immature male elephants are members of the group, but once they reach sexual maturity, the females drive them out of the group. These males may then join bachelor groups or live on their own.
A mature male elephant is a bull, and a mature female elephant is a cow. Their offspring are called calves. Calves suckle for 2 to 5 years, and develop close ties with their mothers. All cows in the group, clan, or herd will help in different ways to raise and protect the calves.
Male calves are more likely to leave their mothers to play. Play involves head sparring, mounting, charging, shoving, and chasing. Female calves play chasing and running games, throw sticks, and may attack imaginary foes. Both sexes play rough and tumble games with each other.
When males reach sexual maturity in their early teens, the matriarch and other female members of the group will chase him away. These males will not be able to mate with their relatives. The babies of such close unions will likely be inferior elephants.
Young males often form bachelor groups. Only a very few of Sri Lankan male elephants develop tusks. Female do not have tusks. Males become more solitary as they grow older. Adult males join females only for mating. Males do not help in raising the young.
Sri Lankan elephants eat leaves, grasses, shrubs, and vines. They sometimes enter farm gardens and eat crop plants. Baby and young elephants feed mostly on different grasses.
Sri Lankan elephants are both browsers and grazers. They walk along and eat, but also stand still and eat what they can reach.
Adult elephants eat 300-400 lb. of food per day to support their bulk. These elephants will eat for up to 16 hours a day to meet their need for food. They drink from 25 to 50 gallons of water daily.
The elephants use less than 50% of the food they eat. They produce huge amounts of manure. They defecate about 16–18 times a day, and produce about 220 lbs. of dung.
In the wild, this manure carries and spreads the undigested seeds in the elephant's diet. Their manure is a source of food for insects and birds.
Asian male elephants reach sexual maturity during their early teens. At that time, they enter an annual phase called "musth". This is a period when they become sexually aggressive. They will fight other males to mate with a female.
Once a male and female have successfully mated, a baby elephant called a calf develops in the mother's womb. The calf is born after an 18 to 22 month period. At birth, the calf weighs about 220 lb. Twins are rare.
Babies are weaned at 18 months to 3 years or longer. Female calves stay close to their mothers to strengthen their bonds; male calves venture away from their mothers to explore and play.
Once a mother gives birth, she usually does not breed again until the first calf is weaned. This results in a birth interval of 4 to 5 years. Mothers remain with their herd, but mature males are driven away.
In the distant past, Sri Lankan elephants numbered in the hundreds of thousands. They lived in all zones of the island. They were aggressively hunted by Sri Lankans, other Asians, and Europeans.
In the 19th century, a British officer was said to have killed 1,500 elephants. Other British officers held similar records. Between 1829 and 1855 alone, more than 6,000 elephants were captured and killed.
In 2014, there was an estimated 4,000 elephants living on Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan elephant is protected under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance of Sri Lanka (FFPO), and killing it carries the death penalty.
Sri Lankan elephants are important to the economic and cultural life of Sri Lanka. Some are working elephants. They are used to carry timber. These elephants are losing their jobs because tractors are replacing them.
Elephants can be seen in protected areas and national parks. These elephants attract tourists. This trade improves the economy and the lives of Sri Lankans.
The elephant has always been held in great cultural esteem in Sri Lanka. Rajah, a Sri Lankan elephant with tusks that nearly touched the ground, was declared a national treasure in 1985.
Sri Lankan elephants participate in ceremonies, processions, and other public events. The Esala Perahera (the festival of Buddha's tooth) is held annually in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is thought to date to the 3rd century BC. Elephants lead the procession, bearing the sacred tooth.
Sri Lankan elephants face the same threats to survival as other Asian elephant subspecies do: the clearing of forests to make way for farms and other human developments has destroyed their living areas.
Conflicts between elephants and humans have been the result. These conflicts have led to the death of both elephants and humans, and the destruction of property. The situation is complicated by the elephant's taste for crops grown by humans such as sugar cane, bananas, and other fruits.
In 1997, about 126 wild elephants were lost as a result of these conflicts. Conflict between government troops and a terrorist group called the Tamil Tigers has also put elephants at risk.
Blanche Barton
Blanche Barton (born Sharon Densley; October 1, 1961 in San Diego, California) is an American religious leader. She is the Magistra Templi Rex of the Church of Satan. Satanists address her as "Magistra Barton".
Barton became the High Priestess after Anton LaVey died on October 29, 1997. She held the position of High Priestess until April 30, 2002. Barton has written two books: "The Church of Satan: A History of the World's Most Notorious Religion" and "The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey".
Tamari
Tamari is a Japanese soy sauce. It is milder and less salty than regular soy sauce. It has more fermented soy sauce.
Ma Baker
"Ma Baker" is a popular song performed by Boney M. The song came off their album "Love for Sale". It hit #2 in Britain. The song was remixed and sampled for several other songs. It was only minor in the United States.
The song was released May 2, 1977.
Nathan Dempsey
Nathan Dempsey (born July 14, 1974) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman. Dempsey played a total of 260 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins.
Before playing in the NHL, Dempsey played 3 seasons with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He was drafted with the 245th overall pick by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.
Dempsey spent most of his time with the Leafs's AHL affiliate St. John's Maple Leafs. During his time there, Dempsey was able to win the Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award for best exemplifying sportsmanship, determination and dedication in 2001–02. Aside from North American leagues, Dempsey has also played for Eisbären Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) during the 2004–05 NHL lockout and SC Bern of the National League A (NLA). After his time with SC Bern was done, he retired from playing professional ice hockey in 2008.
Live Through This is the second studio album by Hole. It was released by Geffen Records on April 12, 1994. It got very good reviews. Most of the album was written by Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson. It was the only Hole album with bassist Kristen Pfaff. Love's husband Kurt Cobain did backing vocals on two songs. Four singles were released from the album, including "Doll Parts". The album was dedicated to Joe Cole, a roadie for Black Flag, who was shot to death during a robbery in December 1991 after attending a Hole show in West Hollywood, California.
Hole's first studio album "Pretty on the Inside" was released in 1991. In March 1992, after the band toured to promote the album, drummer Caroline Rue and bassist Jill Emery left the band. In April 1992 Patty Schemel joined the band as drummer in replacement of Rue. The band moved to Carnation, Washington to a house owned by Love and her husband Kurt Cobain and began writing songs for a second album.
"Rolling Stone" gave the album four out of five stars. "Spin" gave it a score of 10/10.
Del Shannon
Charles Weedon Westover (or Del Shannon; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll singer and musician. He had several popular songs, including "Runaway" in 1961.
Del Shannon was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He shot himself dead with his rifle at age fifty-five in Santa Clarita, California. He was cremated.
Holiday in Cambodia
"Holiday in Cambodia" is the second single off American hardcore punk band Dead Kennedys' debut studio album "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables". The song was released in May 1980.
The cover art for the song was taken during the Thammasat University massacre on 6 October 1976 in Thailand. It shows a member of a right-wing crowd beating the corpse of a student protester with a chair. The song is against both Eastern totalitarianism and Western complacency. The original version of the song features the satirically quoted word "niggers", later performances of the song by the Dead Kennedys, as well as other artists have replaced the word with "brothers". Biafra, however, has often replaced the word with "blacks".
Lead singer Jello Biafra was sued by the other members of Dead Kennedy because he would not allow the song to be used in a Levi's Dockers commercial. Biafra opposed Levi's because he believes they use unfair business practices and sweatshop labor. The other members of the band said that they had had their royalties defrauded. "The record industry has been skimming royalties owed artists since the beginning," according to Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray. "This case is no different from blues musicians being taken advantage of in the twenties and thirties. Many people doubted the claims we made against our former record label back in 1998 but with this announcement there is no denying we were the victims here."
Julie Bindel
Julie Bindel (born 20 July 1962) is an English writer. She is a lesbian and radical feminist. She lives in Crouch End, London. She is a freelance journalist. Her work is often published by "The Guardian". Bindel edits "Gaze: A Modern Review".
She became involved in feminism in 1979 as a teenager in Leeds. In 1990 she started Justice for Women with other feminists.
George Deukmejian
Courken George "Duke" Deukmejian, Jr. (; June 6, 1928 – May 8, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.
He was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991. He was also California Attorney General from 1979 to 1983.
Deukmejian died at his home in Long Beach, California on May 8, 2018 at the age of 89.
Menands, New York
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Colonie, New York
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Silver City, New Mexico
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Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
Moscow State University of Land Management
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Indianola, Mississippi
Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. As of 2000, 12,066 people lived in Indianola.
Antimatter fuel
Lou Brissie
Leland Victor "Lou" Brissie (June 5, 1924 – November 25, 2013) was an American baseball starting pitcher. He played for two Major League Baseball teams—the Philadelphia Athletics from 1947 to 1951 and the Cleveland Indians from 1951 to 1953. He was a symbol for the disabled and veterans after getting leg injuries in World War II. He was born in Ware Shoals, South Carolina.
Brissie died from heart and lung failure on November 25, 2013 in Augusta, Georgia. He was 89.
Walter Frosch
Walter Frosch (19 December 1950 – 23 November 2013) was a German professional association footballer. He played as a defender. He was a player for SV Alsenborn, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC St. Pauli between 1970 and 1979. He was born in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate (then part of West Germany).
Frosch died from a cardiac arrest on 23 November 2013 in Hamburg, aged 62.
Presidential portrait (United States)
An Official Presidential Portrait is an oil portrait painted of a President of the United States of America. In recent years, the official portrait of the President is a photograph until after they leave office.
The tradition started with Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington. Presidents often display the official portraits of Presidents they admire (on loan from the National Portrait Gallery) in the Oval Office, or around the White House.
Everett Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American portrait artist. He painted official portraits of businesspeople and also Presidents of the United States. He painted portraits for Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
Kinstler was born in New York in 1926. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and later taught there (1969 – 1974). He died on May 26, 2019 of a short-illness at the age of 92.
List of mammals of Great Britain
This is a list of mammals of Great Britain.
The Great Britain mammal fauna is impoverished compared with that of continental Europe. This is because there was only a short time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Britain and the rest of Europe. The list only has land species which crossed before the creation of the English Channel, and those later brought in by humans.
Native (indigenous) species have three possible definitions:
This list includes mammals from the small islands around Great Britain and the Channel Islands. There are no endemic mammal species in Great Britain, although four distinct subspecies of rodents have arisen on small islands.
Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40 percent of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept short by gnawing. Most rodents are small though the coypu (once introduced to Great Britain, but subsequently eradicated) can weigh up to 9 kg (15.5 lb).
Family: Castoridae (beavers)
Family: Cricetidae (voles)
Family: Muridae (rats, mice and relatives)
Family: Gliridae (dormice)
Family: Sciuridae (squirrels)
The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Though they can resemble rodents, and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been considered a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two.
Family: Leporidae (hares and rabbits)
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Erinaceomorpha
The order Erinaceomorpha contains a single family, Erinaceidae, which comprise the hedgehogs and gymnures. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats.
Order: Soricomorpha
The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and soledons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers.
Order: Chiroptera
The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals in the world naturally capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals.
Order: Artiodactyla
The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.
Order: Perissodactyla
The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals. They are usually large to very large, and have relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe.
Order: Carnivora
There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which feed primarily on meat. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition.
The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.
Though most marsupials make up a great part of the fauna in the Australian region, the red-necked wallaby has been introduced and a feral population is currently breeding on the island of Inchconnachan, and at Loch Lomond in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A smaller group is present on the Isle of Man, and the species is locally extinct in the Peak District, in Cumbria, and at Ashdown Forest in East Sussex.
Family: Macropodidae (kangaroos, wallabies, and kin)
The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Though they resemble rodents, and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been put in a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two.
Derek Cooper
Derek MacDonald Cooper (25 May 1925 – 18 April 2014) was a British journalist. He wrote about food, wine and whisky. He worked with "The Listener", "The Observer", "Home & Garden" and "Saga Magazine".
He created the idea of BBC Radio 4’s weekly program "The Food Programme". He was born in London, England.
Cooper died from Parkinson's disease in London, aged 88.
Pontotoc, Mississippi
Pontotoc is a city in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. As of 2010, the population is 5,625.
Lamesa, Texas
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Luciano do Valle
Luciano do Valle Queirós, (4 July 1947 – 19 April 2014) better known as Luciano do Valle was a Brazilian sports commentator, television presenter, journalist and entrepreneur. He worked on several broadcasters on television—Rede Globo from 1971 to 1982, Rede Record from 1982 to 1983 and 2003 to 2006, and Rede Bandeirantes from 1983 to 2003 and 2006 to his death. He was born in Campinas, São Paulo.
Luciano do Valle died on the afternoon of 19 April 2014 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, aged 66.