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The tuning on that song was pretty nutty. It's recorded with a wah wah in the low position used as a filter. That was the first time we did anything like that. It was Chris's idea; he wanted to get that weird tone that you can't really dial in on an amp. But if you use the wah wah as a filter, it gets an incredibly weird sound. And if you listen to that riff, especially if you've heard the original demos of it, it almost sounds backward.
A popular cover version of the song was done by Johnny Cash, who included it on his 1996 album, "Unchained". The album won a Grammy Award for Best Country Album and Cash's version of Rusty Cage earned him a nomination for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1998.
Room a Thousand Years Wide
"Room a Thousand Years Wide" is the first single off American rock band Soundgarden's third studio album "Badmotorfinger". The song was released on September 1, 1990.
The song is one of the few songs written that did not have any input from frontman Chris Cornell. The lyrics for the song were written by guitarist Kim Thayil and the music was written by drummer Matt Cameron.
Lead guitarist Kim Thayil said of the song:
I really liked the music to the song and it needed words, and since no one else pursued it, I decided to. It's not really about things that have actually happened to me. It's more about experience in general. I've heard a lot of good ideas from people telling me what it's about. They said it's about God, Satan, Jesus, Satan, both, it's religious, it isn't religious...The truth is, it's just me.
Oleh Babayev
Oleh Meydanovych Babayev (; 21 October 1965 – 26 July 2014) was a Ukrainian politician and businessman. He was the Mayor of Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast from 2010 until his death. He was also the owner of two football teams in Poltava Oblast.
Babayev was born in Kursk, Kursk Oblast which was then part of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union. He was of Azerbaijani ancestry.
Babayev was shot dead on 26 July 2014 outside his home in Kremenchuk, aged 48. He had three shotgun wounds.
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Panna Rittikrai
Panna Rittikrai () (born Krittiya Lardphanna ; 17 February 1961 – 20 July 2014) was a Thai martial arts action choreographer, comedian, movie director, screenwriter and actor. He was the leader of the Muay Thai Stunt team (formerly P. P .N. Stunt Team). His best known movies were "The Bodyguard" (2004), "Born to Fight" (2004), "Ong Bak 2" (2008), "Ong Bak 3" (2010) and "Bangkok Knockout" (2010).
Rittikrai was born in Khon Kaen. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly before his death.
Rittikrai died from kidney and liver failure on 20 July 2014 in Bangkok. He was 53.
480i
480i is a shorthand name of a video mode, to be specific, either US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The number 480 means there are 480 lines that contain picture information, while the NTSC actually has a total of 525 lines, only 483 of them are used to display the image for DV-NTSC.
The digitally transmitted horizontal resolution is often 720 samples (including 16 samples for both horizontal sync and horizontal blanking) or 704 visible pixels that has an aspect ratio of 4:3 (with vertically rectangular pixels) which means a display resolution of 640 × 480 (VGA); that is standard-definition television (shortened as SDTV) with a 4:3 aspect ratio (with square pixels).
Evolution of colour vision
The evolution of colour vision causes light to be seen according to its wavelength. This has obvious advantages, especially it helps animals find food.
The colour vision of many herbivores allows them to see fruit or (immature) leaves which are good to eat. In hummingbirds, particular flowers are often recognized by colour. Predators also use colour vision to help them find their prey.
All this applies mainly to animals in the daytime. On the other hand, nocturnal mammals have much less-developed colour vision. For them, space on the retina is better used with more rods since rods collect light better. Colour differences are much less visible in the dark.
Apart from vertebrates, the only land animals to have colour vision are arthropods. Aquatic arthropods such as crustacea also have colour vision. As with vertebrates, the details differ, but the molecules which do the work the opsins – are very similar.
Four photopigment opsins exist in teleost fish, reptiles and birds. This suggests that the common ancestor of tetrapods and amniotes (~360 million years ago) had:
In contrast, mammals lost much of their colour vision capability during the long period in the Mesozoic when they lived as nocturnal animals.
Many primates do live as daytime animals, and one group – the Old World monkeys – has developed trichromatic vision. The anthropoid apes and humans are descended from this group of monkeys, and also have good colour vision. So it comes about that most monkeys and humans have good colour vision, but most other eutherian mammals do not: They have only two opsins, and are bichromatic.
Ultraviolet light plays a part in colour perception in many animals, especially insects.
Colour vision, with UV discrimination, is present in many arthropods—the only terrestrial animals besides the vertebrates to have this trait.
Birds, turtles, lizards, many fish and some rodents have UV receptors in their retinas. These animals can see the UV patterns found on flowers and other wildlife that are otherwise invisible to the human eye.
Staffan Hellstrand
Gustav Adolf Church
Gustav Adolf Church may refer to:
Gustav Adolf Church, Liverpool
The Gustav Adolf Church () or the Scandinavian Seamen's Church () is located in Park Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church, built between 1883-1884, and an attached minister's house, and provides a centre for the Liverpool International Nordic Community. The combined church and minister's house is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.
Idde Schultz
Idde Schultz, "Eva Ann-Ida Schultz", born 1 September 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden is a Swedish female singer and guitarist. She's a member in the band Docenterna and former member of Lars Winnerbäck's band Hovet. She's sister to Irma Schultz Keller. She has scored record successes at the Swedish charts during the mid-late 1990's and the 2000's.
Idde Schultz is music teacher at Fryshusets gymnasium.
Irma Schultz Keller
Titti Sjöblom
Titti Sjöblom, born 29 August 1949 in Stockholm, is a Swedish female singer. She is the daughter of Alice Babs.
She participated at Melodifestivalen 1974 with the song "Fröken Ur-sång", ending up at the fourth place. Her first dinner shows and folk park tours occurred Charlie Norman and Lennie Norman during the mid-1970s.
Sara Wedlund
Sara Christina Wedlund, born 27 December 1975 in Vällingby, Sweden - 11 June 2021, was a Swedish former long distance and cross-country runner. She scored successes in the mid 1990's as one of most successful Swedish participaters at the time. She participated at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden and also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was awarded the Victoria Scholarship in 1996.
Wedlund died on 11 June 2021, at the age of 45.
GES (Glenmark, Eriksson, Strömstedt) is a pop music trio from Sweden, consisting of singers and songwriters Anders Glenmark, Thomas "Orup" Eriksson and Niklas Strömstedt, whose last names begin with the letters that form the trio's name. The group has had several successes on the Swedish charts.
Allsvenskan (men's handball)
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Mats Bergmans
Mats Bergmans is a dansband from Nyköping, Sweden, established in 1973 as "Sjösa kustband", before a naming dispute made them change name to "Sjösagrabbarna". The band became a full-time band in 1981, and changed name to Mats Bergmans in 1987.
Date (band)
Date is a modern dansband from Sweden. The band was established in 1993.
The band has participated at Melodifestivalen.
Tommys
Tommys is a dansband from Vaasa. It was established in 1980. Hans Martin was the singer from establishment until the year 2000. During the 1980s the band mostly played throughout Ostrobothnia, and Swedish-speaking parts of southern Finland. The band's breakthrough in Sweden came with the 1991 hit song "Vår dotter".
Gunnar Wiklund
Gunnar Wiklund, born 17 August 1935 in Luleå, Sweden, dead 29 September 1989 in Lysekil, Sweden, was a Swedish singer. He scored several Svensktoppen hits. He participated at Melodifestivalen four times.
Lily Berglund
Lily Berglund (Kvarnsveden, 21 July 1928 - Stockholm, 15 August 2010) was a Swedish singer. She was married to Kapellmeister Göte Wilhelmson.
Ulla Billquist
Ulla Billquist, born Schönström (Eslöv, 14 August 1907 - Stockholm, 6 July 1946) as Ulla Ebba Ingegerd Hahn, was a Swedish female schlager singer. She was mostly successful during the early 1940s of her career.
Carli Tornehave
Carli Tornehave, born 26 August 1932 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer and actor.
He has participated at Melodifestivalen six times; in 1962, her performed "Anneli" and "När min vän", in 1963, he performed "Twist till menuett" and "En gång i Stockholm". The song "En gång i Stockholm" won the contest, but Monica Zetterlund was appointed to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in London. In 1966, he performed "Monte Carlo" and "Härliga söndag" ending on third and eighth place.
Nils Thore "Nick" Borgen, born 5 January 1952 in Andenes, Nordland, is a Norwegian–Swedish musician, singer and writer (debut novel: "Den okända soldaten", 2009). He's famous for songs like "We Are All the Winners" and "Den glider in". Between 1990 and 2005, he had an own dansband, Nick Borgens orkester.
Jigs
Jigs is a dansband, founded in 1966 in Trollhättan, Sweden. The band scored many hits in 1970s. Some of the popular songs include "Hallå du gamle indian", "Bli min gäst", "Dardanella", "Let's Twist Again" and "From a Jack to a King". Their album series was named "Goa bitar". When the band played at Cortina in Vinberg on 16 July 1976, AC/DC appeared as a pause act.
Candela (band)
Sannex
Ingmar Nordströms
Ingmar Nordströms was a dansband from Växjö, Sweden that was established in 1955 by Ingmar Nordström. Their first appearance occurred in the Eringsboda folkpark. Their last appearance occurred in Växjö on 19 December 1991. In 1987, the band won a Grammis award in the "Dansband of the Year" category.
Majid Nizami
Majid Nizami () (April 3, 1928 - July 26, 2014), was a Pakistani chief editor and publisher. He worked for Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications of Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt was founded by Majid's brother, Hameed Nizami. He was also the chairman of Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust.
Nizami died in Lahore, Pakistan from heart disease, aged 86.
Curt Haagers
Curt Haagers was a dansband from Sweden.
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Wahlströms
Wahlströms was a dansband from Vadstena, Sweden, established in 1985.
In 1999, the band participated in the "Dansbandslåten" contest with the song "Blå blå ögon".
On 27 September 2011, it was announced that the band was to be disestablished following the last appearance at Brunnsparken in Örebro on 14 January 2012.
Wahlströms participated at Dansbandskampen in 2008.
Grönwalls
Grönwalls was a dansband from Hässleholm in Sweden. The band won the Swedish dansband championships in Sunne in August 1992. Famous hit songs include "Du ringde från Flen" from 1993 and "Ett liv tillsammans", written by Calle Kindbom and Peo Pettersson, topping Svensktoppen in 1995, as well as "Regn i mitt hjärta" from 1996.
Several band members also participated in the side project "Grönrock", which in mid 2008 played with Dan Hylander. In October 2008, the band announced a break from New Year 2008-2009.
In November–December 2009, the band announced its comeback.
Jannez
Jannez is a dansband from Laxsjö, Sweden, established in 1976 as "Stars orkester".
In September 1996, the band scored a Svensktoppen hit for two weeks with the song "De blindas café".
Jannez participated at Dansbandskampen 2008, performing Paul Paljett's 1977 song "Guenerina".
Victoria Award
The Victoria Award (), earlier called the Victoria Scholarship () is awarded to a Swedish athlete or pair of athletes every year since 1979. It is awarded on Öland, on 14 July. That day is the birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.
Mona Gustafsson
Mona Gustafsson, born 9 August 1956 in Halmstad, Sweden, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, guitarist.
Earlier she used to sing with Leif Bloms. The band was disestablished on 31 December 1995 and she established another dansband in 1996. It was named and disestablished in January 2009. She then started a country music career instead. She was nominated as "Female Singer of the Year 2006" by SR P4, and in the Får jag lov magazines Guldklaven voting.
As a 15 years old girl, Mona Gustafsson started to sing with the Lill-Nickes dansband from Halmstad, which was established on 1 May 1972. Other members were her father, Kurt Gustafsson, 44 years old, Sven-Arne Olofsson, 21 years old, and Kapellmeister Dan Larsson, 17 years old. Their first appearance occurred in Värnamo on 14 June 1972.
Some years later, she was a founder of another dansband Curt Jürgens.
In the early 1980s, she moved to Växjö, and in 1981, she started touring with Leif Bloms, and when the three Leif, Gert and Åke Blom retired on 31 December 1995, she started her own dansband in 1996.
As a songwriter, she has composed music for both herself and others. One of her most famous songs are "Dej ska jag älska all min tid". It won Hänts meloditävling, in 1992 with Leif Bloms. This was the first and only in the history of the competition when the winning song was written and performed by the same person. The competition was later cancelled. She has also written songs for acts like Thorleifs, Curt Haagers, Kikki Danielsson and Sandins. The song "Så länge mina ögon ser", originally recorded by Thorleifs on the 1987 album "Till Folkets park", was recorded by Mona G:s orkester and released as a solo single in 2007. Several of her songs have been covered by others.
So called "Mona songs" are recognized by calm, ballad-like, songs with lyrics in Swedish about love, longing and missing someone. Writing own songs within your a larger scale is rare within the dansband genre.
CC &amp; Lee
CC & Lee is a band from Sweden, established in 2003. Their major breakthrough was Dansbandskampen 2008. In November 2011, it was announced that the band would no longer appear as a dansband.
Ronald Reagan Park, Gdańsk
The Ronald Reagan Park () is located in the neighborhood of Przymorze Wielkie, Gdańsk, Poland.
It was built between 2003 and 2006 out of formerly barren lands. It covers 40 hectares. It honors US President Ronald Reagan, who was considered for playing a major role in the fall of Communism in Poland. It also honors Pope John Paul II.
Titanix
Black Jack (band)
Black Jack is a dansband from Sundsvall in Sweden, established in 1991 and based on the dansband depicted in the 1990 film "Black Jack". Their most famous hit song is "Inget stoppar oss nu". Throughout the years, the band has scored several Svensktoppen hits, being most successful with "Om det känns rätt" in 1996.
The band was founded by Tony Ljungström, who also appeared in the film, and Torbjörn Eriksson (former Kapellmeister).
The band has played at TV shows like "Bingolotto", "Go'kväll", "Jeopardy" and "Mat-Tina". They have also appeared in a Europolitan commercial.
Ole Ivars
Ole Ivars is a dansband, established 1964 in Hamar, Norway. Their 1967 breakthrough came with the song "Regnets rytme". Tore Halvorsen and William Kristoffersen are singers in the band, and William Kristoffersen also acts as a songwriter. Ole Ivars has won the Spellemannprisen awards several times, and in 2004, NRK labeled them as "Norway's dansband of all times". The band has received several cultural awards, and played in church buildings and concert halls throughout Norway
In 2007 the band had their first gold record, in Sweden, there they are mostly famous for the Kikki Danielsson duets "Jag trodde änglarna fanns" and "I mitt hjärta brinner lågan".
With the song "Som i himmelen", the band participated at Melodi Grand Prix 2008, making it to the final, where the song was knocked out in the first round.
Björn Skifs
Archibald Wilson
Archibald Oliver Garfield "Archie" Wilson (May 1921 – 4 July 2013) was a Rhodesian fighter pilot and politician. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He later became a senior commander and then air marshal in the Rhodesian Air Force in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Wilson was born in Bulawayo (now Zimbabwe). He was of British ancestry. He was married to Lorna. In the early 1980s, he moved to Australia with his wife. They first lived on the Gold Coast in Queensland. He became a citizen in 1988.
Wilson died from natural causes on 4 July 2014 in Pinjarra Hills, Brisbane, aged 93.
Roland Verhavert
Roland Verhavert (1 May 1927 – 26 July 2014) was a Belgian movie director. He directed 44 movies between 1955 and 1993. His best known movies were "Seagulls Die in the Harbour" (1955), "The Conscript" (1974) and "Rubens" (1977). "Seagulls Die in the Harbour" was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. "The Conscript" was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.
Verhavert was born in Melsele. He retired in 1993.
Verhavert died from a heart attack on 26 July 2014, aged 87.
Anopheles
Anopheles is a genus of mosquito.
There about 460 species, and over 100 can transmit human malaria. Only 30–40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus "Plasmodium", which causes human malaria in endemic areas. "Anopheles gambiae" is one of the best known, because it transmits the most dangerous malarial parasite species (to humans) – "Plasmodium falciparum".
Some species of "Anopheles" are vectors for canine heartworm "Dirofilaria immitis", filariasis, and viruses such as one that causes O'nyong'nyong fever. Brain tumors sometimes occur in malaria sufferers, which suggests that "Anopheles" might transmit a virus or other agent which could cause a brain tumor.
Mosquitoes in other genera ("Aedes", "Culex", "Culiseta", "Haemagogus" and "Ochlerotatus") can also be vectors of disease agents, but not malaria.
November to Remember
November to Remember (usually abbreviated to N2R) was a professional wrestling event that was produced by Eastern Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). ECW began making it a pay-per-view starting in 1997. It ran from 1993 to 2000.
November to Remember 1993 took place on November 13, 1993 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the only November to Remember event that was produced by Eastern Championship Wrestling.
November to Remember 1994 took place on November 5, 1994 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first November to Remember event that was produced under the Extreme Championship Wrestling name.
November to Remember 1995 took place on November 18, 1995 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the second November to Remember event that ECW produced.
November to Remember 1996 took place on November 16, 1996 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the third November to Remember event that ECW produced.
November to Remember 1997 took place on November 30, 1997 at the Golden Dome in Monaca, Pennsylvania. It was the fourth November to Remember event that ECW produced. It was the first November to Remember event to be shown on pay-per-view.
November to Remember 1998 took place on November 1, 1998 at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the fifth November to Remember event that ECW produced.
November to Remember 1999 took place on November 7, 1999 at the Burt Flickinger Center in Buffalo, New York. It was the sixth November to Remember event that ECW produced.
November to Remember 2000 took place on November 5, 2000 at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois. It was the seventh and final November to Remember event that ECW produced.
Fork (software development)
Edmonton Rush
The Edmonton Rush was a professional box lacrosse team in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was part of the West Division of National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team started playing in the NLL in 2005. They played their home games in Rexall Place.
It had a rivalry with the Calgary Roughnecks, another NLL team in Alberta. The rivalry was part of the sports Battle of Alberta.
On July 20, 2015, it was announced that the team was relocating to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to become the Saskatchewan Rush for the 2016 season.
Vancouver Stealth
The Vancouver Stealth is a professional box lacrosse team. It plays in the West Division of the National Lacrosse League. It is based in Langley, British Columbia, which is part of the Metro Vancouver area. The team plays its home games in Langley Events Centre. The team was announced on June 27, 2013. They started playing in the 2014 season.
The team was previously known as the Albany Attack from the 2000 season until the 2003 season. Later they played as the San Jose Stealth from the 2004 season until the 2009 season. They were the Washington Stealth from the 2010 season until the 2013 season.
Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the city of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is south of the Fraser River and west of Abbotsford. It is part of Metro Vancouver.
It was started in 1827 as Fort Langley as a trading post. The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in 1858 brought more settlers into the area. The Township of Langley was incorporated on April 26, 1873.
The Vancouver Stealth of the National Lacrosse League play at the Langley Events Centre.
Metro Vancouver is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. It was created in 1966. For 40 years it was called "The Greater Vancouver Regional District", but now it is called "Metro Vancouver".
The regional district includes 22 municipalities, one electoral area and one treaty First Nation. The district covers 2,877.36 square kilometres (1,111 square miles). Metro Vancouver administers several services common to the local government units, such as utilities.
About half of households in Metro Vancouver live in strata-titled properties.
This regional district comprises 23 local authorities as members: 21 municipalities, one electoral area and one treaty First Nation.
Presbyterian Church in Canada
Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
Xherdan Shaqiri (born 10 October 1991), is a Swiss association football player of Yugoslavian and Albanian descent who plays for Liverpool FC and the Switzerland national football team. He has also played for FC Basel. Since he first started playing football, he has been known for his fast speed on and off the ball.
The FIFA website describes Shaqiri as "unpredictable on the ball, adept with both feet, clinical in front of goal and [possessing] excellent vision". He has been nicknamed the "Alpine Messi" and "magic dwarf".
In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he was one of the top scorers with 3 goals after scoring a hat-trick against Honduras.
ProtonMail is an email service founded in 2013. ProtonMail can encrypt users' emails, making them impossible to read to anyone without an encryption password. ProtonMail exists partly in response to news about surveillance done by the National Security Agency.
ProtonMail is run in Switzerland, where the United States does not have legal jurisdiction. They have run a successful campaign to raise money from donations.
Julian Draxler
Julian Draxler (born 20 September 1993) is a German association football attacking midfielder. He plays for the Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and the Germany national football team.
He made his first national appearance in a loss against Switzerland. He scored his first national goal against the United States on 2 June 2013. He also made his first FIFA World Cup appearance in 2014, when he came on as a substitute in Germany's 7–1 victory against Brazil. Since 2011, Draxler has made more than 100 appearances for Schalke 04.
In January 2014, he was named by "The Guardian" as one of the ten most promising young players in Europe.
Dravidian peoples
The Dravidian peoples are a people who speak Dravidian languages.
According to scientists and historians, the Dravidian people are descendants of "Neolithic West Asian farmers from Iran" which conquered and largely displaced the outnumbered native hunter gatherers of India. Dravidians are linked to the neolithic Zagros Mountain farmers, and this West Asian population forms the main ancestor of modern South Asians.
A genetic and biogeographical study (Das et al. 2016) concluded that Dravidian peoples belong to the Caucasoid race. According to the study, these proto-Dravidians migrated into India around 8,000 years ago from a region later known as Elam in modern day Iran. The authors suggest that this results support the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis.
The Indus Valley civilization is suggested to be of Dravidian origin. Genetic tests show that the ancient Indus Valley Civilization was predominantly of neolithic Zagros mountain farmers ancestry (98%) and this ancestry component is linked to early Dravidians.
Today there are around 220 million Dravidian speakers worldwide. Most live in South India. Others live in parts of Central India, Eastern India, Bangladesh, Southern Pakistan, Sri Lanka the Maldives and Nepal. The biggest groups of Dravidians are the Tamil people, Telugu people, Kannada people, and the Malayali people. Smaller Dravidian communities with 1–5 million speakers are the Tulu people, Gondi people and Brahui people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Mountain gazelle
The mountain gazelle ("Gazella gazella") is a species of gazelle. It lives in many parts of Egypt, israel, Turkey and across the Arabian Peninsula. It lives in mountains, foothills, and coastal plains. It is the National animal of Palestine.
Mountain gazelles are one of the few mammals, where the male and female have horns. Males have bigger horns with rings around them. Females also have horns, but they are thinner and shorter. Mountain gazelles are sexually dimorphic, which means that males are larger than females. Male can weigh from 17-29.5 kg. Females can weigh 16–25 kg. Mountain gazelles can run up to 80 km/h (50 mph).
Gazelles have adapted to live in dry, desert-like places. They spend most of their time at the top of mountains and hills. Mountain gazelles prefer to sleep on the tops of hills/mountains to avoid the heat in the day. Around dawn and dusk, they will be found leaving the hills to eat in light forests, fields, or desert plateaus.
It is a grazing species, though this varies with the amount of food available. They can survive for a long time without a source of water. During that time, they get freshwater from succulent plants and dew from plants.
Charles R. Larson
Charles Robert Larson (November 20, 1936 – July 26, 2014) was an American four-star Admiral of the United States Navy.
A 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Larson twice served as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He also served as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command (CINCPAC).
Larson died in his home in Annapolis, Maryland, after a two-year battle with leukemia at the age of 77.
Paul Schell
Paul Schell (Paul Schlachtenhaufen; October 8, 1937 – July 27, 2014) was an American politician. He served as the 50th Mayor of Seattle, Washington. He served as mayor from 1998 to 2002.
Schell died at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
Dark Horse (song)
"Dark Horse" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her fourth studio album, "Prism". The song features American rapper Juicy J. "Dark Horse" was originally released as a promotional single from "Prism". After its unexpected success, it was released as the album's third single on December 17, 2013. "Dark Horse" became Perry's ninth number-one single in the United States. It was also number one in Canada. The song reached number four in the United Kingdom.
On the year-end charts, "Dark Horse" was the second-best performing song of 2014 in the US. It was number 6 in Canada at the end of the year. In the UK, it was number 20 on the end-of-year chart.
"Dark Horse" was certified Diamond (10× Platinum) in the United States for sales and streams equal to 10 million copies sold. It was nominated for the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance award at the 57th Grammy Awards.
The song is a hip hop and trap song. It is three minutes and thirty-five seconds long.
The music video shows Perry and Juicy J in an Egyptian setting. Katy Perry is shown as an Egyptian queen. She appears to zap any man who doesn't please her. She changes costumes many times in the video.
On August 24, 2014, the video won Best Female Video at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
Unconditionally
"Unconditionally" is a song by American pop singer-songwriter Katy Perry. It was the second single from her fourth studio album, "Prism", and it appears as the fifth track from that album. The song is a pop rock and power pop song. It is about a woman not wanting anything more from her lover than he already gives. She will love him no matter what.
The video shows Katy Perry dressed as a geisha.
The Summit League
The Summit League is a NCAA conference that plays in the NCAA Division I. The member universities and colleges are in the Midwestern United States, plus one member in Colorado. Their headquarters are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, having moved from the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Illinois in 2018.
The league once sponsored football, but dropped the sport after the 1984 season. Five Summit League members have football teams; all play in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
The Summit League was founded in 1982 as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU or AMCU-8) with eight members. The only one of these schools that is still a member is Western Illinois. In 1989, the AMCU changed its name to the Mid-Continent Conference, or MCC (those initials, however, were also being used by the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, now the Horizon League).
The Mid-Continent saw many changes in the first part of the 1990s, with the biggest coming in 1992 and 1994. In 1992, the conference added women's sports after it absorbed the North Star Conference, a league that only sponsored women's sports. Then in 1994, six schools (including three charter members) left for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. They were replaced by six other schools, five of them coming from the collapsed East Coast Conference. None of the schools that joined in 1994 are now in the league.
Since the 1994 changes, the conference has had anywhere from 8 to 10 members. It changed its name to The Summit League in 2007.
The Summit League now has nine full members. The most recent changes in membership took place in 2020, when the University of Missouri–Kansas City, known for sports purposes as Kansas City, rejoined after a seven-year absence, while Purdue University Fort Wayne left for the Horizon League.
The Summit League has four "associate" members—schools that play in a few sports, usually but not always one. One plays three sports in the conference and three more house one sport in the conference. (Note that the NCAA counts men's and women's teams in the same sport as playing two different sports, and also considers swimming and diving to be a single sport.)
No fewer than 22 schools have been full members, but are no longer in the league.
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Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne d'Albret (7 January 1528 – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III d'Albret or Joan III, was the queen regnant of the Kingdom of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
Her second marriage to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, produced her son, Henry of Bourbon. Henry became King Henry III of Navarre and King Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France. She became the Duchess of Vendôme by that marriage.
Jeanne was the acknowledged spiritual and political leader of the French Huguenot movement, and a key figure in the French Wars of Religion.
As a girl, she had a remarkably strong character. Her parents wanted her to marry William "the Rich", Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. He was the brother of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England. She was 12 or 13 at the time, quite normal then for a girl's marriage.
She refused, and her mother had her whipped. The whipping was extremely severe, but the girl continued to resist the marriage. Finally, she was carried bodily to the altar by the Constable of France, and married against her will.
Evidently she still continued her resistance, because the marriage was eventually annulled on the grounds of non-consummation.
Her second marriage was also a political marriage. Its intent was to unify territory in the south and north of France. However, this time there was love involved. A contemporary wrote "she had no pleasure or occupation except in talking about or writing to [her husband]. She does it in company and in private . . . the waters cannot quench the flame of her love".
The couple had five children, two of whom survived to adult life.
On 25 May 1555, Henry II of Navarre died, at which time Jeanne and her husband became joint rulers of Navarre. Jeanne and Antoine were crowned in a joint ceremony according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church on 18 August 1555 at Pau.
Jeanne's husband died on 17 November 1562, so for the last ten years of her life she was the sole ruler of Navarre.
During Jeanne's life, religion in France was a battleground between the Catholic church and the Protestant Calvinism of the Huguenots.
In religion Jeanne was influenced by her mother, towards religious reform, humanist thinking, and individual liberty. Jeanne converted to Calvinism on Christmas Day 1560. This conversion made her the highest-ranking Protestant in France.
Following the imposition of Calvinism in her kingdom, priests and nuns were banished, Catholic churches destroyed, and Catholic ritual prohibited. She commissioned the translation of the New Testament into Basque and Béarnese for the benefit of her subjects.
She was described as "small of stature, frail but erect". She was highly intelligent, but austere and self-righteous. Agrippa d' Aubigné, the Huguenot chronicler, described Jeanne as having "a mind powerful enough to guide the highest affairs".
In addition to her religious reforms, Jeanne worked on reorganising her kingdom; making long-lasting reforms to the economic and judicial systems of her domains.
Jeanne died in Paris from a fever (probably an infectious disease) at the age of 44.
Tertiary source
A tertiary source (also called thirdhand) is an index or a summary of primary and secondary sources. In research, tertiary sources are used as a guide to help find primary and secondary sources of information. Tertiary sources are very useful to find search terms for online literary searches. While tertiary sources are easy to find they are usually not considered useful for college-level research projects.
Some examples of tertiary sources are encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers and Magazines. Encyclopedias are useful to gain a general overview of a subject. At best they are a starting point in doing research. They are useful to gain an immediate understanding of otherwise unfamiliar subjects. Encyclopedias, however, are not usually a reliable source for the details of a subject. As your research progresses they should be replaced with secondary or primary sources. Newspapers and magazines should be used with some caution. Some are reliable but many tend to misrepresent or oversimplify research reported in secondary sources.
The distinction between sources can be relative to a specific field of study. In some academic disciplines the distinction between a secondary and tertiary source can sometimes be confusing. Almanacs, fact books and handbooks can at times be considered tertiary while at other times secondary sources. Some manuals and textbooks would be considered tertiary sources while others would be secondary sources. Many of these sources have to be evaluated or vetted to determine which they are. Another view taken by the Purdue University guide ("Writing a research paper", 2010) refers to the "distance" a source is from the original research. A primary source "is" the research; the raw data. A secondary source reports on primary sources and includes interpretation (or explanations), analysis and commentary. A tertiary source is the furthest from the original research. In most cases their purpose is to provide a general introduction to a topic. In many scholarly fields, tertiary sources are not used for research.
Potato blight
Potato blight is the so-called "fungal" disease which destroyed the Irish potatoes in 1845. Because there are other blights of potatoes, this one is sometimes called late blight of potato.
The infestation caused widespread famine. It was caused by an oomycete "Phytophthora infestans". The oomycetes or water moulds have many features which are similar to fungi, but they are in a different Kingdom.
"Phytophthora infestans" in Ireland caused over one million to starve to death and another two million people emigrated from affected countries. During the 1840s the blight damaged crops in Scotland and Europe also. It was the only important cash crop in Ireland, which explains its greater effect there. Also, most of the Irish crop was one variety, the Irish Lumper.
The first recorded instances of the disease were in the United States, in Philadelphia and New York City in early 1843. It crossed the Atlantic Ocean with a shipment of seed potatoes for Belgian farmers in 1845. All of the potato-growing countries in Europe were affected, but the potato blight hit Ireland the hardest. The lack of genetic variability created a susceptible host population for the organism.
Genetic engineering for resistant cultivars is developing. A resistance gene effective against most known strains of blight has been found in a wild relative of the potato. It is introduced by genetic engineering into cultivated varieties of potato.
'Splosion Man
Splosion Man (originally Explosion Man) is a 2009 platform videogame developed by Beard, Inc and Twisted Pixel Games for the Xbox 360 arcade system.
In 2011 a sequel was released: Ms.Splosion Man, equally for Xbox 360 Arcade System.
The game tells the story of 'Splosion Man, being able to explode, who must defeat three difficult bosses.
A compendium (plural: compendia) is a collection of information on a particular topic. The amount of information is usually short but detailed. A compendium will often summarize a larger work, putting it into fewer words. It is usually not intended to be read from beginning to end. Instead a compendium is used to look up facts. It is very often called a
The word compendium comes from the Latin word "compenso". It means "to weigh together or balance". The Internet has large numbers of compendia in the form of databases. Searching a database make it very easy to find facts and information. This is causing concern that print compendia (in the form of books) may eventually go away.
One example would be the "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church". It is organized into 598 questions and answers which summarize the teachings of the Catholic Faith.
The Bible is another example of a compendium. It is a group of many books put together to form the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is a compendium of wise sayings by famous people.
Bonnie McKee
Bonnie Leigh McKee (born January 20, 1984) is an American actress and a singer-songwriter. Her first studio album, "Trouble", was released in 2004. She released the lead single "American Girl" from her yet untitled second album in 2013.
McKee has worked on albums and songs released by Katy Perry. She has also written for Avril Lavigne, Kesha and Miranda Cosgrove.
McKee was born in Vacaville, California
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home video distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation.
The company is responsible for the distribution of the Sony Pictures library for home entertainment. It mainly releases from the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group which consists of Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, and Screen Gems. It also releases productions from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Triumph Films, Destination Films, Stage 6 Films and Affirm Films).
SPHE also releases and distributes products from Revolution Studios and The Criterion Collection. Since June 20, 2007, SPHE has handled distribution of children's content formerly handled by Sony BMG's Sony Wonder label.
CBS/Fox Video
The CBS/Fox Company, or CBS/Fox Video was a home video company. It was formed in 1982 when CBS formed a 50-50 venture with 20th Century Fox. In 1985 CBS/Fox got the North American rights to most of the film library of the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1009 they had 6.5% of the market for home videos. Their revenues were about $249 million. CBS and 20th Century Fox also changed their roles in CBS/Fox. In 1998 CBS/Fox Video became a part of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Playhouse Video was a sub-label of CBS/Fox Video. A series of Mr. Rogers programs was released under the Playhouse label beginning in 1986.
CBS Video Enterprises
CBS Video Enterprises, referred to as CBS Video is a home video company was formed in 1975 by the Columbia Broadcasting System. Its CBS shows, Cinema Center Films and CBS Theatrical Films movies, CBS Music Video releases on videocassette and laserdisc. In 1979, it teamed up with MGM to form MGM/CBS Home Video to create MGM films and shorts on videocassette and laserdisc. In 1982, United Artists was acquired by MGM and renamed to MGM/UA Home Video and merged with 20th Century Fox Video to form CBS/Fox Video. In 1990, it was reverted to CBS Video and in 1991, it was renamed to Fox Video, alternating with CBS/Fox name until 1998. In 1999, CBS created CBS DVD for DVD releases of CBS shows and films. In 2009, CBS Video and CBS DVD changed its name to CBS Home Entertainment to create new releases of shows and films on DVD and Blu-ray.
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Studios Home Entertainment was established in 1976 as Magnetic Video Corporation. It was also known as 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video and FoxVideo, Inc.. The company is best known for distributing the two highest-grossing movies of all time, "Titanic" and "Avatar". CBS/Fox became Fox Video in 1991. It still used the CBS/Fox name until 1998. It was renamed as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1995. It also used the Fox Video name until 1999.
Magnetic Video Corporation a home video/audio duplication service established in 1968 by Andre Blay and based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was the first company to release theatrical motion pictures to home video for consumers in 1976. In 1979, Fox purchased Magnetic Video from Blay, reincorporating it as "20th Century Fox Video" in 1982. It is currently known as "20th Century Fox Home Entertainment".
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MGM Home Entertainment
MGM Home Entertainment is a home video company was formed in 1998 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and replaced MGM/UA Home Video. Its holding company is MGM Studios Home Entertainment. MGM Home Entertainment deals with MGM and UA movies, and TV shows on VHS, later laserdisc and DVD.
In 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment shut down MGM Home Entertainment and now DVDs and Blu-ray. MGM revived its home video division to discontinue their distribution agreement with Sony in 2006 when they signed a new distribution deal with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. As a result, MGM Home Entertainment became a separate entity from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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Margot Adler
Margot Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist. She was a New York correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).
Adler died from endometrial cancer in her New York City home, aged 68.
Barbara Seaman
Barbara Seaman (Barbara Ann Rosner; September 11, 1935 – February 27, 2008) was an American author, activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health feminism movement.
Seaman died from lung cancer in Manhattan, New York, aged 73.
Sarah Jacobson
Sarah Jacobson (August 25, 1971, Norwalk, Connecticut – February 13, 2004 New York City) was an American independent filmmaker who wrote, produced, and filmed her own movies. She was known for her work "Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore".
Jacobson died from endometrial cancer in New York City, aged 32.
Robert Frederick Froehlke
Robert Frederick Froehlke (October 15, 1922 – February 12, 2016) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. He served as Secretary of the Army from July 1971 until May 1973.
Martin Richard Hoffmann
Martin Richard Hoffmann (April 20, 1932 – July 14, 2014) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1975 and 1977.
Martin was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on April 20, 1932.
Hoffmann served as general counsel of the Department of Defense, 1974 - 75. He was appointed as Secretary of the Army from August 5, 1975 until February 13, 1977.
He died of cancer in Warren, Virginia, aged 82.
John Otho Marsh Jr.
John Otho Marsh Jr. (August 7, 1926 – February 4, 2019) was an American politician and a Professor at George Mason University School of Law. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army from 1981 to 1989, and as United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1963 to 1971.
Marsh, Jr. died on February 4, 2019 from congestive heart failure in Raphine, Virginia, aged 92.
Clifford Alexander, Jr.
Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr. (born September 21, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He was the first African-American Secretary of the Army. He served as Secretary of the Army from February 1977 to January 1981.
James Shigeta
James Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American actor, singer, musician, musical theatre/nightclub performer, and recording artist. He was best known for his roles in the movies "Flower Drum Song" (1961) with Nancy Kwan and "Die Hard" (1988) with Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. He started his career in the early 1960s and his last role was in 2009.
He shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer with actors George Hamilton, Troy Donahue and Barry Coe.
Shigeta was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was a Sansei or third-generation American of Japanese ancestry. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps for two-and-a-half years during the Korean War.
Shigeta died on July 28, 2014 in Los Angeles, California from respiratory failure, aged 85.
Warren, Virginia
Warren is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Ramsden
Walker House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Problem (song)
"Problem" is a song by American recording artist Ariana Grande, featuring guest vocals from Australian recording artist Iggy Azalea. The song was released by Republic Records on April 28, 2014. It is the first single from Ariana Grande's second studio album "My Everything" (2014). The song first appeared at number three on the "Billboard" Hot 100. It later peaked at number two on the chart. It sold 438,000 copies in its first week on sale. Lyrically, the song is about "the feeling of being absolutely terrified to re-approach a relationship that's gone sour -- but you want to more than anything."
The song reached number one in the UK (where it became the first song to enter on top based on streaming alone). It also topped the charts in New Zealand and reached the top ten in nine other countries.
The Recording Industry Assocation of America certified the song sextuple-platinum on June 15, 2015, for sales of over six million copies in the US alone.
The video stars Grande and Azalea performing choreography with backup dancers against spiral backgrounds. Grande's then-boyfriend, rapper Big Sean, appears in the video. Sean also whispered the hook, "I got one less problem without you," throughout the song but is not credited. As of March 2018, the music video has surpassed one billion views on YouTube.
Yevgeny Samoteykin
Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin (); 18 October 1928 – 20 July 2014) was a Soviet Russian diplomat. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia and to a lesser-degree, Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu. He served from 24 April 1983 until 22 August 1990. He was also the Ambassador to Papua New Guinea from 1986 until 1990.