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In the book Huxley gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the topic of human evolution. The book proposed to a wide readership that "evolution applied as fully to man as to all other life".
Huxley was an important public figure. When he was young there were virtually no degrees in British universities in biology, and few courses. Most biologists of his day were either self-taught, or took medical degrees. By the time he retired there were professors in biology in most universities, and a broad agreement on what should be taught. Huxley was the single most influential person in this transformation. Huxley was for about thirty years evolution's most effective champion. For some, Huxley was ""the" leading English spokesman for science in the nineteenth century".
Huxley supported the reading of the Bible in schools. Huxley was against organised religion, but he thought the Bible's moral teachings and use of language helped English life. "I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches".
However, what Huxley proposed was to create an "edited version" of the Bible, without "shortcomings and errors... These tender children [should] not be taught that which you do not yourselves believe". The London School Board voted against his idea, but it also voted against the idea that public money should be used to support students attending church schools. Vigorous debate took place on such points, and the debates were written down in detail. Huxley said "I will never be a party to enabling the state to sweep the children of this country into denominational schools". The Act of Parliament which founded board schools allowed the reading of the Bible, but did not permit any particular religious doctrine to be taught.
It may be right to see Huxley as helping the secularisation of British society which gradually occurred over the following century. Ernst Mayr said "It can hardly be doubted that [biology] has helped to undermine traditional beliefs and value systems". Huxley more than anyone else was responsible for this trend in Britain.
Huxley worked on ten Royal and other commissions. The subjects included medical law, contagious diseases, vivisection; fisheries; universities in Scotland, and science education in Ireland. He was Inspector of Fisheries 1881–85, and held many awards from many universities. He was President of the Royal Society from 1883–1885. The British state made him a Privy Councillor, as a reward for his public work.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, or Theodore Dobzhansky, (24 January 1900 – 18 December 1975) was a noted geneticist and an evolutionary biologist.
Dobzhansky was born in the Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia) and emigrated to the United States in 1927. He was a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work on the fruit-fly "Drosophila". He did research on these flies in California, mostly on populations of "Drosophila pseudoobscura".
Dobzhansky was important in the modern evolutionary synthesis, which was the synthesis of evolutionary biology with genetics.
At school Dobzhansky collected butterflies and beetles, and studied biology at Kiev University. After graduation he moved to St Petersburg (then called Leningrad), and studied under Yuri Filipchenko, who had a "Drosophila" lab. Dobzhansky collected Coccinellidae (ladybird beetles) in the wild, and explored their genetics.
Dobzhansky emigrated to the United States in 1927. He worked with Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University, who had pioneered the use of fruit flies ("Drosophila melanogaster") in genetics experiments. He followed Morgan to the California Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1940. Dobzhansky took fruit fly research out of the laboratory and into the field. He discovered that regional varieties of flies were more similar to each other genetically than to flies from other regions.
In 1937 Dobzhansky published one of the major works of the modern evolutionary synthesis, entitled "Genetics and the Origin of Species". He defined evolution as "a change in the allele frequency within a gene pool". It is through changes in the proportion of alleles in a population that evolution takes place. Also in 1937, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. During this time he had a falling out with one of his "Drosophila" collaborators, Alfred Sturtevant, based perhaps on professional competition.
Dobzhansky returned to Columbia University from 1940 to 1962. He was one of the signatories of the 1950 UNESCO statement "The Race Question". He then moved to the Rockefeller University) until his retirement in 1971.
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was born in London, and died there. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the modern evolutionary synthesis.
He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund.
Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and his half-brother, a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley; and his paternal grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of evolution.
Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He was awarded UNESCO's "Kalinga Prize" for the popularisation of science in 1953, the "Darwin Medal" of the Royal Society in 1956, and the "Darwin-Wallace medal" of the Linnean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population. Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society.
His particular interest was bird behaviour, especially the courtship of water birds. His observations on the ethology of the Great Crested Grebe, published in 1914, was a landmark in avian field research. His invention of vivid labels for the rituals (such as 'penguin dance', 'plesiosaurus race' etc.) made the ideas memorable and interesting to the general reader.
Huxley was the most important biologist after August Weismann to insist on natural selection as the primary agent in evolution. A fine communicator, he was a prominent populariser of biological science to the public. In the early 20th century he was one of the minority of biologists who believed that natural selection was the main driving force of evolution, and that evolution occurred by small steps and not by jumps. These opinions are now standard. Though his time as an academic was quite brief, he taught and encouraged a number of evolutionary biologists at the University of Oxford in the 1920s.
Huxley was a key figure in the modern evolutionary synthesis. This explained how the discoveries of Gregor Mendel on genetics fitted with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Huxley's
Huxley's first 'trial run' was the treatment of evolution in the "Science of Life" (1929–30), and in 1936 he published a long and significant paper for the British Association. In 1938 came three lengthy reviews on major evolutionary topics.
Now it was time for Huxley to tackle the subject of evolution at full length, in what became the defining work of his life. His book "" was written whilst he was Secretary to the Zoological Society, and made use of his remarkable collection of reprints covering the first part of the century. It was published in 1942. Reviews of the book in learned journals were little short of ecstatic; the American Naturalist called it "The outstanding evolutionary treatise of the decade, perhaps of the century. The approach is thoroughly scientific; the command of basic information amazing".
Huxley's main co-respondents in the modern evolutionary synthesis are usually listed as Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, Bernhard Rensch, Ledyard Stebbins and the population geneticists J.B.S. Haldane, Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright. However, at the time of Huxley's book, several of these had yet to make their distinctive contribution. E.B. Ford and his co-workers in ecological genetics were at least as important.
He always believed that on a broad view evolution led to advances in organisation. "Progress without a goal" was one of his favourite phrases.
In the final chapter of his "Evolution the modern synthesis" he defines evolutionary progress as "a raising of the upper level of biological efficiency, this being defined as increased control over and independence of the environment. "Natural selection plus time produces biological improvement... Improvements in biological machinery... the limbs and teeth of grazing horses... the increase in brain-power... The eyes of a dragon-fly, which can see all round [it] in every direction, are an improvement over the mere microscopic eye-spots of early forms of life". "[Over] the whole range of evolutionary time we see general advance — improvement in all the main properties of life, including its general organization. [But] improvement is not universal. Lower forms manage to survive alongside higher".
Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and was Vice-President (1937–1944) and President (1959–1962). Huxley was one of many intellectuals at the time who believed that the lowest class in society was genetically inferior. He advocated "the virtual elimination of the few lowest and most degenerate types". In his writing he used this argument several times: "no-one doubts the wisdom of managing the germ-plasm of agricultural stocks, so why not apply the same concept to human stocks?".
In the post-war years, after the realisation that eugenic ideas had become tainted by the Nazis, Huxley (1957) coined the term "transhumanism" to describe the view that man should better himself through science and technology, possibly including eugenics, but also, importantly, the improvement of the social environment.
In response to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s Huxley was asked to write "We Europeans" with three other scientists. Huxley suggested the word 'race' be replaced with ethnic group. After the Second World War he was instrumental in producing the UNESCO statement "The Race Question", which asserted that:
"A race, from the biological standpoint, may therefore be defined as one of the group of populations constituting the species "Homo sapiens""... "Now what has the scientist to say about the groups of mankind which may be recognized at the present time? Human races can be and have been differently classified by different anthropologists, but at the present time most anthropologists agree on classifying the greater part of present-day mankind into three major divisions, as follows: The Mongoloid Division; The Negroid Division; The Caucasoid Division."... "Catholics, Protestants, Moslems and Jews are not races..."
This is a selection of Huxley's most influential books:
Gertrude Baines
Gertrude Baines (April 6, 1894 – September 11, 2009) was an American supercentenarian. She was the oldest person in the world from January 2, 2009 until her death on September 11, 2009. She was the last person known to have been born in 1894 and the oldest ever person to have been born in that year.
Gertrude Baines married Sam Conley at a very young age and had one daughter who died of typhoid fever at the age of 18. Baines was known to have been living in Hartford, Connecticut before moving to Ohio, where she worked as a maid at the Ohio State University. She later moved to California, where she lived on her own until age 105. She spent her final years at the Western Convalescent Center in Jefferson Park, Los Angeles.
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is a ska punk band that started in 1992 in California. They have only ever played ska/rock music but moved more to a pop sound during the album "Cheer Up!" They have had many different members since the start of the band, including two different singers and over 10 different horn players. They mainly got successful from the album "Turn The Radio Off", which had the single "Sell Out," in 1997, their most famous song.
A common theme throughout some of their songs (such as "Don't Start A Band" and "Sell Out") is their disapproval of big record companies. Reel Big Fish was signed onto Jive Records, but after their short-lived success, the record company neglected them and did not advertise their albums. In their 2005 album, We're Not Happy Til' You're Not Happy, Reel Big Fish directly and indirectly expresses their anger towards their record company in several of their songs.
During 2006, Reel Big Fish was dropped from Jive Records. The band formed their own label and released a 3-disc live performance CD/DVD set, Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album. This package became available on July 18, 2006 on the Internet and in retail stores on August 22. Jive later released a Reel Big Fish greatest hits album, Greatest Hit...And More, because they owned the rights to all previous songs. The band did not approve of, or make any money from the album, and have spoken out against it.
Hate group
A hate group is a group of people that want to hurt and be mean to other people. Hate groups usually are against people who are different from members of the group. This includes differences in ethnic group, religion, sex, and/or sexual orientation. The Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis are examples of hate groups.
Sulfur trioxide
Sulfur trioxide (sometimes spelled sulphur trioxide) is a chemical substance made of 1 sulfur and 3 oxygen atoms (SO). It is very toxic and irritating. It can dissolve violently in water to make sulfuric acid. It is made by oxidation of sulfur dioxide. It contains sulfur in its +6 oxidation state.
Sulfur trioxide is mentioned in the "Emergency!" episode "The Old Engine Cram".
Cape Tribulation () is both a headland and small town in northern Queensland, Australia north of Cairns. It is in the Daintree National Park and the Wet Tropics World Heritage area. The first people to live in the area were the Kuku Yalanji. The first European to settle in the area was John Moffat in 1880 who set up a farm to grow food for the miners in the west.
There is a sealed road to the area from the south from the Daintree River Ferry. To the north there is a four wheel drive unsealed road, called the Bloomfield Track. This goes to the Bloomfield River, Wujal Wujal, Bloomfield Falls and Cooktown. It is often closed during the wet season (Feb-Apr).
Tribulation means trouble and great suffering. Cape Tribulation was named by British explorer Lt. James Cook on 10 June 1770 after his ship ran into a coral reef near the headland; "...because here began all our Troubles..."
Cape Tribulation is in a rainforest and it gets a lot of rain. In 2006, the rainfall recorded was over 5.7 metres.
Most people visit the area during the dry season between July and November. There are four main resorts to stay in as well as several smaller bed and breakfast places. The town has two small supermarkets, two ATMs, one takeaway food outlet and five restaurants. During the wet season marine stingers are common so people swim in the many waterholes. There are crocodiles in the creeks.
The Great Barrier Reef is very close to the coast, only due east. There are two boats that take visitors to the reef. Other activities available are guided night walks, 4 wheel drive tours, horseriding, kayaking, jungle surfing, tropical fruit tasting and crocodile cruises.
Up (2009 movie)
Up is a 2009 American animated movie produced by Pixar and distributed by Disney. It was first shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It was a successful movie and was one of the top movies for 2009. The main characters are boy named Russell, an old man named Carl Fredricksen, and Kevin the rare bird. They take an adventure in Venezuela on a flying house. The movie won two Academy Awards, including for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria trifasciata (also known as "Mother-in-law's tongue" or the "snake plant") is a plant that can grow in many places. It is a desert plant from dry Africa. It is a succulent that stores water in its very thick, tough leaves. That means that it does not need to be watered every day. It does not need sunlight to grow and can stay in the same pot for many years. This plant grows better with less water than more water.
Schefflera actinophylla (syn. "Brassaia actinophylla") is a tree in the Araliaceae family. It is native to tropical rainforests and gallery forests in Australia (eastern Queensland and the Northern Territory), New Guinea and Java. Common names include Umbrella Tree, Octopus Tree and Amate.
The elegant schefflera is popular with people who want a big, tree-size plant. In time it will easily reach seven or eight feet; in its home environment in Australia, it gets to be fifty feet tall.
Much of its appeal as a houseplant comes from the unusual leaves. A leaf is composed of a number of leaflets, all set in a circle around a central stem and stretching out horizontally, like the ribs of an umbrella. Eash leaflet is a pointy oval, size to eight inches long, and rich shiny green.
As it gets older, schefflera loses leaves from the lower part of the stem, increasing its tree shape.
The broad leaves tend to collect dust, and this in turn seems to be attractive to red spider mites. To help keep them under control, and to keep your plant looking its best, keep the leave dusted.
This will accommodate itself to our environment reasonable well. It will accept normal household temperatures, and adapts to different humidity levels. With enough sunlight and clean conditions the schefflera will last a long time.
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter of portraits. He helped to start the Royal Academy of Arts and was its first president. King George III made him "Sir" Joshua Reynolds in 1769.
Some critics disliked Reynolds and the Royal Academy. The Pre-Raphaelites called him "Sir Sloshua" and William Blake published a savage pamphlet "Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses" in 1808. On the other hand, Turner was a strong supporter, and asked to be buried at Reynolds' side.
Reynolds has over 1000 portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Despite Blake's criticisms, Reynold's "Discourses" had a lasting impact on the theory and practice of art.
Fumiya Iwamaru
Fumiya Iwamaru (born 4 December 1981) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama.
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Yuzo Tamura
Yuzo Tamura (born 7 December 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Shonan Bellmare.
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Takuya Kobayashi
Takuya Kobayashi (born 19 July 1981) is a former Japanese football player.
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Rimini Calcio F.C.
U.S.D. 1913 Seregno Calcio
U.S. Sanremese Calcio
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sanremese is a football team which plays of San Remo in Italy.
The club in season 2014-15 plays in Prima Categoria Liguria/A.
Benevento Calcio
Benevento Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
Cosenza Calcio 1914
Cosenza Calcio 1914 is a football club which plays in Italy.
U.S. Fermana
U.S. Fermana is a football club which plays in Italy.
Hajime Hosogai
Hosogai was born in Maebashi on June 10, 1986. After graduating from Maebashi Ikuei High School, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 2005. He played several matches as defensive midfielder from first season. Urawa won the champions in the 2006 J1 League and 2007 AFC Champions League. He became a regular player from 2008. In January 2011, he moved to German 2. Bundesliga club Augsburg. The club was promoted to Bundesliga end of the 2010/11 season. From summer 2012, he played Bayer Leverkusen, Hertha, Bursaspor and Stuttgart. In March 2018, he returned to Japan and joined Kashiwa Reysol. In 2019, he moved to Thailand and played Buriram United and Bangkok United.
In 2008, Hosogai was selected the Japan U-23 national team for 2008 Summer Olympics. He played 2 matches as defensive midfielder. On September 4, 2010, he debuted for the Japan national team against Paraguay. In 2011, he participated 2011 Asian Cup. He played 2 matches and scored a goal, and Japan won the champions. He also played at 2013 Confederations Cup. He played 30 games and scored 1 goals for Japan until 2014.
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Shunichi Nakajima
Shunichi Nakajima (born 16 June 1982) is a former Japanese football player.
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Hiroki Hattori
Hiroki Hattori (born 30 August 1971) is a former Japanese football player.
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Vigevano Calcio
Vigevano Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
Atletico Piombino
U.S. Grosseto F.C.
U.S. Grosseto F.C. is a football club which plays in Italy.
Nobuhito Toriizuka
Nobuhito Toriizuka (born 7 August 1972) is a former Japanese football player.
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Sotaro Sada
Sotaro Sada (born 18 March 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Thespa Kusatsu.
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Ryo Goto
Ryo Goto (born 25 August 1986) is a Japanese football player.
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Masami Sato
Masami Sato (born 26 August 1981) is a former Japanese football player.
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Kazuki Sato
Kazuki Sato (born 27 June 1974) is a former Japanese football player.
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Norihisa Shimizu
Norihisa Shimizu (born 4 October 1976) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama F. Marinos.
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A.C. Arezzo
A.C. Arezzo is a football club which plays in Italy.
S.S. Sambenedettese Calcio
Pirituba
A mycorrhiza (Greek for "fungus roots") is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant.
In a mycorrhiza, the fungus lives inside the plant roots, and in the earth. The fungal hyphae are more efficient than plant roots at absorbing nutrients.
Mycorrhizas are important for plant growth in many ecosystems. At least 80% of all land plant species (and over 90% of families) have mycorrhiza. They depend on it for survival. They are the most common symbionts in the plant kingdom: they involve about 6000 species of fungi and 240,000 species of plants.
Mycorrhizas are divided onto two main types: ectomycorrhiza and endomycorrhiza.
The hyphae of ectomycorrhizal fungi do not penetrate individual cells within the root, while the hyphae of endomycorrhizal fungi penetrate the cell wall and invaginate the cell membrane.
The mycorrhizal symbiosis is ancient, dating to at least 400 million years ago.
This mutualism gives the fungus sugars, such as glucose and sucrose produced by the plant in photosynthesis.
The carbohydrates move from their source (usually leaves) to the root and then to the fungal partner. In return, the plant gains the use of the mycelium's very large surface area to absorb water and mineral nutrients from the soil, especially phosphorus.
The mechanisms of increased absorption are both physical and chemical. Mycorrhizal mycelia are much smaller in diameter than the smallest root. They can explore a greater volume of soil, providing a larger surface area for absorption: "It is estimated that every kilogram of soil contains at least 200 km of fungi strands".
Mycorrhizal plants are often more resistant to diseases, such as those caused by microbial soil-borne pathogens, and are also more resistant to the effects of drought. These effects are perhaps due to the improved water and mineral uptake in mycorrhizal plants.
Mycorrhiza is especially advantageous to the plant in nutrient-poor soils. Plants grown in sterile soils and growth media often perform poorly without the addition of spores or hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi to colonise the plant roots and aid in the uptake of soil mineral nutrients. The absence of mycorrhizal fungi can also slow plant growth in harsh areas.
The fungal partners may also help plant-to-plant transfer of sugars and other nutrients. Such mycorrhizal communities are called "common mycorrhizal networks".
Some species inhabit the tissues inside roots, stems, and leaves, in which case they are called "endophytes".
Similar to mycorrhiza, endophytic colonization by fungi may benefit both partners. Endophytes of grasses give their host more resistance to grazers and get food and shelter from the plant in return.
Mycorrhizal roots offer excellent ecological niches for other microbes. Mycorrhizal fungi may host bacteria that complete their life cycles within fungal cells. One of the best known is "Geosiphon pyriforme", which can host cyanobacteria inside characteristic bladders.
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) fungi are unique in hosting bacteria in their cytoplasm. Intracellular structures very similar to bacteria were first described in the 1970s. Research later identified them as true bacteria.
Makoto Yonekura
Makoto Yonekura (born 28 December 1970) is a former Japanese football player.
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Mitsunori Fujiguchi
Fujiguchi was born in Maebashi on August 17, 1949. After graduating from Keio University, he joined Japan Soccer League club Mitsubishi Motors in 1974. From first season, the club won the 2nd place for 4 years in a row until 1977. In 1978, the club won all three major title in Japan; Japan Soccer League, JSL Cup and Emperor's Cup. The club also won 1980 Emperor's Cup, 1981 JSL Cup and 1982 Japan Soccer League. He retired in 1982. He played 127 games and scored 27 goals in the league. He was selected Best Eleven 3 times (1974, 1975 and 1978).
On July 12, 1972, when Fujiguchi was a Keio University student, he debuted for the Japan national team against Cambodia. He played at the 1974 World Cup qualification and the 1976 Asian Cup qualification. In 1978, he was also selected to play for Japan at the 1978 Asian Games and he played three games. That competition was his last game for Japan. He played 26 games and scored 2 goals for Japan until 1978.
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Jun Kokubo
Jun Kokubo (born 8 September 1980) is a former Japanese football player.
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A.C. Ponte San Pietro Isola S.S.D.
Keishi Otani
Keishi Otani (born 17 April 1983) is a former Japanese football player.
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Shusuke Tsubouchi
Shusuke Tsubouchi (born 5 May 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Omiya Ardija.
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Daiju Matsumoto
Daiju Matsumoto (born 9 December 1977) is a former Japanese football player.
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Yuki Matsushita
Yuki Matsushita (born 7 December 1981) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Thespa Kusatsu.
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Shintaro Harada
Shintaro Harada (born 8 November 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Crystal Palace Baltimore.
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Naoki Ishibashi
Naoki Ishibashi (born 14 May 1981) is a former Japanese football player.
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A.S. Fortis Trani
A.S. Fortis Trani is a football club which plays in Italy.
F.B. Brindisi 1912
Karl Michael Ziehrer
Karl Michael Ziehrer (also spelled as Carl Michael Ziehrer) (May 2, 1843 - November 14, 1922) was an Austrian composer of light music such as waltzes and polkas.
Ziehrer was born in Vienna. He was taught music by Simon Sechter, a famous Viennese hat-maker.
Ziehrer studied music at the Vienna Conservatory, and began his career as a conductor in 1863. He was also a bandmaster. He was one of the musical rivals of Johann Strauss II, another composer of light music in Vienna.
Some of Ziehrer's most well-known pieces of music are the "Weaner Mad'ln" and "Wiener Bürger" waltzes, and the "Schönfeld March".
Ziehrer died in 1922.
Metre per second squared
A metre per second squared (or m/s or metre per second per second) is a unit of measurement for acceleration.
If an object accelerates at 1 m/s, it means that its speed is increasing by 1 m/s every second.
Cartazini Biennial Art Award
The Prix Cartazini is a prize in contemporary art, sponsored by the Paris based Gallery Cartazini and made since 1999. It is made every two years, on the odd years.
In 2009 the award will be for 20 000 euros and as such is one of the largest art awards in the visual arts sector.
Pino Pascali
Philip Taaffe.
Tyeb Mehta.
Geoff Bunn.
Niamh O'Conchobhair
Emma Fournier
Stadelheim Prison
Stadelheim Prison is a prison in Munich's Giesing district. It is one of the largest prisons in Germany.
The prison was founded in 1894. It was the site of many executions, particularly by fallbeil (guillotine) during the Nazi period.
Deutsche Bank AG (literally "German Bank") is a German and international bank. The headquarters of this bank is in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and located in the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers.
More than 81,000 people in 76 countries work for the Deutsche Bank.
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer, journalist and scholar of English literature. Many people think she is one of the most important feminists of the late 20th century. She has written books like "The Female Eunuch", "Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility", "The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause" and "Shakespeare's Wife".
Greer was born in 1939 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She went to a convent school, and later went to the University of Melbourne. She got a degree in English and French language and literature. She moved to Sydney, and became a lecturer at the University of Sydney. She got a Master's degree there, and then moved to Cambridge, England. She gained a doctorate degree (PhD) at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Greer's approach is different to that of some other feminists; she has defined her goal as 'women's liberation' instead of 'equality with men'. This is because she does not think women should want to be like men who also have problems in society.
Grisy-Suisnes
Grisy-Suisnes is a small village, about 33 km from Paris. It is situated in the Seine-et-Marne department (77) in the Île-de-France region, at an interconnection of the TGV. Its geographical coordinates are 48°41′7″N 2°40′4″E. It covers an area of 1,848 ha.
In 1999, the village had a population of 1,989. People who live there are called Grisysoliens.
In the past, the village supplied the French royalty with roses. The church of Grisy-Suisnes is named Notre Dame des Roses. The church, if seen from above, was designed to look like a rose with its petals.
William Whewell
William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He influenced the great scientists of his day: John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell and Michael Faraday. He invented many terms we use today, such as "scientist" (in 1837).
The son of a carpenter, Whewell rose to the top. For 28 years he was a Professor, and for 25 years he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was one of the founding members and a president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and President of the Geological Society. It was the Prime Minister himself, Robert Peel, who recommended his appointment as Master of Trinity.
Whewell had wide interests. He researched ocean tides (for which he won the Royal Medal). He published work in mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics. He composed poetry, wrote books, translated the works of Goethe, and wrote sermons and theological tracts.
It can be said that Whewell was the first, or one of the first, to put together a philosophy of science. His only rival in this respect was John Herschel, whose "A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy" covered some of the same ground.
Whewell's five volumes of the "History and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences" are his major work. Science was then still a novel activity. The scientists themselves held differing views as to how best to go about their work. Whewell provided a theoretical framework, and the framework provoked a great deal of debate. There was also a long-running discussion with John Stuart Mill about social and economic philosophy.
Mandello del Lario
Mandello del Lario is an Italian town and "comune" in the province of Lecco, in Lombardy. It is on Lake Como.
Since 1921, Mandello del Lario has been home to the Italian motorcycle maker Moto Guzzi. Guzzi is owned by Piaggio & Co. SpA. Each year since 2001, the commune has hosted GMG (aka Giornata Mondiale Guzzi or Worldwide Guzzi Days).
The Grigna massif is in Mandello's territory.
A trampoline is a recreational or competitive device designed for users to bounce on. It normally consists of a metal frame (rectangular or circular in shape) supporting a flat jumping surface connected to the frame by springs. The jumping surface may be of a strong synthetic fabric material or, mostly, of a mesh design. Trampolines allow users to bounce higher by storing energy in the springs as they land on the surface which then accelerates the user back away from the jumping surface as the springs contract.
The first modern trampoline was invented by George Nissen in 1920-1922 as a kind of equipment for gymnastics.
During World War II, the United States Navy Flight School developed the use of the trampoline in its training of pilots and navigators, giving them concentrated practice in spatial orientation that had not been possible before. After the war, the development of the space flight program again brought the trampoline into use to help train both American and Soviet astronauts, giving them experience of variable body positions in flight.
Issei Takayanagi
Issei Takayanagi (born 14 September 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
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Akihiro Sato (born 30 August 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kashima Antlers.
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Shinichiro Kuwada
Shinichiro Kuwada (born 6 December 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
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Super League Greece
Super League Greece () is the top division football league in Greece. The current version was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced the "Alpha Ethniki". The first championship was won by Aris Thessaloniki. The club which has won the most championships is Olympiacos with 44 titles, next is Panathinaikos with 20 titles and third is AEK Athens with 11 titles. The league currently has 16 teams.
Ryota Moriwaki
Moriwaki was born in Fukuyama on April 6, 1986. He joined J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima from their youth team in 2005. However he could hardly play in the match. In 2006, he moved to J2 League club Ehime FC on loan. He played many matches as right side back in 2 seasons. In 2008, he returned to Hiroshima which was relegated to J2 from 2008. He played many matches as right back of three backs defense. Hiroshima also won the champions in 2008 and was promoted to J1 from 2009. In 2012, Hiroshima won the J1 champions. In 2013, he moved to Urawa Reds. Urawa won the 2nd place in the 2014 and 2016 J1 League. In 2017, Urawa won the champions in the 2017 AFC Champions League. Urawa also won the 2nd place in the 2019 AFC Champions League. In 2020, he moved to J2 club Kyoto Sanga FC.
In January 2011, Moriwaki was selected the Japan national team for 2011 Asian Cup. Although he did not play in the match, Japan won the champions. On June 1, he debuted for the Japan national team against Peru. He played 3 games for Japan until 2013.
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Naoto Kono
Naoto Kono (born 9 September 1985) is a former Japanese football player.
Osvaldo José Martins Júnior
Osvaldo José Martins Júnior (born 7 July 1982) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Khazar Lankaran.
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A.S.G. Nocerina
A.S.G. Nocerina is a football club which plays in Italy.
Avellino Calcio 12 S.S.D.
F.C. Crotone
F.C. Crotone is a football club which plays in Italy.
Kazuma Irifune
Kazuma Irifune (born 15 November 1986) is a former Japanese football player.
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Mana Nakao
Mana Nakao (born 2 September 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Laranja Kyoto.
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Yuya Hashiuchi
Yuya Hashiuchi (born 13 July 1987) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokushima Vortis.
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A.S.D.C. Magenta
A.S.D.C. Magenta is a football club which plays in Italy.
F.C. Bolzano 1996
F.C. Bolzano 1996 was a football club which played in Italy.
Bolzano football club was founded in 1931 and ceased in 2015, being replaced by "A.C. Virtus Bolzano".
U.S. Centese A.S.D. 1986
U.S. Massese 1919
U.S. Massese 1919 is a football club which plays in Italy.
Kosuke Yatsuda
Kosuke Yatsuda (born 17 March 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokushima Vortis.
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Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro
Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro (born 4 May 1985) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Consadole Sapporo.
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Yojiro Takahagi
Takahagi was born in Iwaki on August 2, 1986. He joined J2 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima from their youth team in 2003. Although Sanfrecce was promoted to J1 League from 2004, he could hardly play in the match. In 2006, he moved to J2 club Ehime FC on loan and played as regular player. In 2007, he returned to Sanfrecce. Sanfrecce was relegated to J2 end of the 2007 season. In 2008, he became a regular player and Sanfrecce won the champions. Sanfrecce was returned to J1 from 2009 and won the J1 League champions in 2012 and 2013. In January 2015, he moved to A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers. In June he moved to K League Classic club FC Seoul. In 2017, he returned to Japan and joined FC Tokyo.
In July 2013, Takahagi was selected the Japan national team for 2013 East Asian Cup. At this tournament, he debuted against China on July 21. He played 3 games for Japan until 2017.
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Yoshitaka Ohashi
Yoshitaka Ohashi (born 1 July 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Nagano Parceiro.
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Shimpei Sayama
Shimpei Sayama (born 4 May 1987) is a Japanese football player. He has played for Sagawa Express Chugoku.
U.S. Sestri Levante
U.S. Sestri Levante is a football club which plays in Italy.
A.S. Biellese 1902
A.S.D. Junior Biellese Libertas is a football club which plays to Biella in Italy.
The club in season 2010-11, in Promozione is promoted in Eccellenza Piemonte.
The colors of the team are black and white.
A.C. Parabiago
A.C. Parabiago is a football club for Parabiago, Italy.
They wear maroon and white colored jerseys.
A.C. Palazzolo 1913
Rovigo Calcio
Rovigo Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
A.S. Edera
A.S. Edera is a football club which plays in Italy.
A.S.D. Stuoie Baracca Lugo
S.S.D. Tivoli Calcio 1919
Shinji Kaneko
Shinji Kaneko (born 3 April 1987) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Ryukyu.
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Kei Mikuriya
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Ken Ishikawa
Ken Ishikawa (born 6 February 1970) is a former Japanese football player.
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Shinichiro Tani
Tani was born in Aichi Prefecture on November 13, 1968. After graduating from University of Tsukuba, he joined Japan Soccer League club Hitachi (later "Kashiwa Reysol") in 1991. In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and the club joined new league, Japan Football League. The club won the 2nd place in 1992 and 1994 Japan Football League. The club was promoted to J1 League from 1995. He retired end of 1995 season.
On July 27, 1990, Tani debuted for the Japan national team against South Korea.
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Mutsuhiko Nomura
Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is a British politician for the Labour Party. He helped to found the so-called 'New Labour' with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was the Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992-2004.
Lord Mandelson lost his job twice, once in 1998 for not declaring a loan he was given to buy a house, and once in 2001 for trying to arrange a passport for an Indian businessman who had given £1,000,000 to the Labour Party. He later made a speech claiming to have "inner steel".
After Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, he made Mandelson a Life Peer, and some newspapers have called him "the most powerful man in the Labour Party".
Mandelson is gay (he was outed in 1998 by openly gay journalist Matthew Parris), which led some to claim the UK was being run by a gay mafia.
Kazuya Iio
Kazuya Iio (born 10 April 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Sagan Tosu.
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Nobuhiro Kato
Nobuhiro Kato (born 11 December 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Urawa Red Diamonds.
A.S.D. Casertana Calcio
Tetsushi Kondo
Tetsushi Kondo (born 4 November 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Fagiano Okayama.
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Yuzo Minami
Yuzo Minami (born 17 November 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for V-Varen Nagasaki.
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Takafumi Akahoshi
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Huelgoat
Tarnish is a layer of corrosion similar to rust. It is caused by oxidisation - when semi - reactive metals such as copper, brass, silver, aluminum meet chemicals in the air. It will cause the metal to darken or go dull by making a thin film on the metal. It is caused by a chemical reaction, between a metal and a non metal (or compound), usually oxygen or sulphur dioxide.
St. Bernard (dog)
The St. Bernard is a very large breed of dog. It was originally bred as a working dog, to rescue people who were lost in the Swiss Alps. Famously, it was believed that they carried a small barrel of brandy around their neck to revive frozen mountaineers. There is no historical evidence that they did actually carry this brandy, although the monks at the St. Bernard Hospice keep some barrels around for photographs with tourists.
It is a very big dog with a big head. A full grown male can weigh between 260 and 345 lbs. The largest dog ever was a St. Bernard called Benedictine who weighed 357 pounds.
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (born February 22 1959) is an American actor. He is known for the role of Agent Dale Cooper in the television series "Twin Peaks". He has appeared in movies by David Lynch, including "Blue Velvet" and "Dune". MacLachlan won the 1991 Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama" for his work on "Twin Peaks". He was also nominated twice for the Emmy Award for his acting on that series.
MacLachlan was also in the 1995 movie "Showgirls" and the television series "Desperate Housewives".
Battery Park City is a 92-acre (0.4 km²) planned community at the southwestern tip of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. The land upon which it stands was created on the Hudson River using 1.2 million cubic yards (917,000 m3) of dirt and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island. The neighborhood, which is the site of the World Financial Center along with many housing, commercial, and retail buildings, is named for adjacent Battery Park.
Battery Park City is owned and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), a public-benefit corporation created by New York State under the authority of the Urban Development Corporation. It was founded and ran by Charles J. Urstadt. Excess revenue from the area was to be contributed to other housing efforts, typically low-income projects in the Bronx and Harlem.
Carol Thatcher
Carol Thatcher (born 15 August 1953) is a British journalist, author, and media personality.
She was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, London. She has a twin brother, Mark Thatcher. She is the daughter of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) and her husband Sir Denis Thatcher (1915-2003). She has taken part in several television programmes including "The One Show" on BBC1 and "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" (in Australia).
Halifax Town A.F.C.
Halifax Town Association Football Club were an English football team who most recently played in the Conference National. The club had money problems and went into administration during the 2007–08 season, and after finishing 20th in the Conference National, were demoted by three divisions to the Unibond Division One North when the club failed to get a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) passed. The club was reformed and renamed F.C. Halifax Town in July 2008.
Jefferson Fine Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman. He led the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865.
Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky, the last child of ten of Jane (née Cook) and Samuel Emory Davis. Both of Davis' paternal grandparents had immigrated to North America from the region of Snowdonia in the North of Wales; the rest of his ancestry can be traced to England. Davis' paternal grandfather, Evan, married Lydia Emory Williams. Samuel Emory Davis was born to them in 1756. Lydia had two sons from a previous marriage. Samuel served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, along with his two older half-brothers. In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook (also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson). Samuel died on July 4, 1824, when Jefferson was 16 years old. Jane died on October 3, 1845.
In 1811 he moved to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and later to Wilkinson County, Mississippi. In 1813 Davis began his education at the Wilkinson Academy, near the family cotton plantation in the small town of Woodville. Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory. At the time, he was the only Protestant student at the school. Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi, in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1821. In 1828 he graduated from the United States Military Academy. He was an officer in the United States Army until 1835.
On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November. During his presidency, Davis took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to stop the larger, more powerful and better organized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country, and he paid little attention to the collapsing Confederate economy, printing more and more paper money to cover the war's expenses.
Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party (since the Confederacy had no political parties). His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, and neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones all worked against him.