AcharyaChanakya/simple-wikipedia huggingface dataset:
, the Northeast region had a population of 56,915,936, for a population density of inhabitants/km.
Henri Cohen
Henri Cohen (born ? - died 1930) was a Belgian water polo player. He was of Jewish descent.
Cohen was swimming for the Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club.
He obtained a silver medal with his team at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir, Hebrew: יגאל עמיר‎‎ , (born May 23, 1970 in Herzliya) is an Israeli murderer.
Amir is serving a life sentence in prison for assassinating Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995.
His motivation was political. He was strongly against the Oslo Accords and targeted Rabin because of his peace efforts with the Palestinians, which he saw as against the interests of Israeli Jews.
Amir is an Orthodox Jew from a Yemenite Jewish background. At the time of the murder he was studying law and computer science at Bar-Ilan University and also Jewish law.
Because he murdered the country's head of government, this made Amir an assassin. He was found guilty and sent to prison, where he still is. Israel does not have the death penalty.
Mildred Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017), also known as the "queen of carbon science", was an American nanotechnologist. She was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also won many awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Vannevar Bush Award.
Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was married to Gene Dresselhaus and had four children. She was of Jewish descent.
Dresselhaus died on February 20, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 86.
Max Lüscher
Max Lüscher (September 9, 1923 – February 2, 2017) was a Swiss psychotherapist. He was known for inventing the Lüscher color test. This was a tool for measuring an individual's psycho-physical state based on his or her color preferences. Lüscher worked for international companies, among other things giving color advice. His book "The Lüscher Test" has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Lüscher died in Lucerne, Switzerland on February 2, 2017, aged 93.
Lüscher color test
The Lüscher color test is a psychological test invented by Dr. Max Lüscher in Basel, Switzerland. Lüscher believed that sensory perception of color is "all shared by all", but that color preferences are not. This difference allows subjective states to be objectively measured by using test colors.
Lüscher believed that because the color selections are guided in a specific manner, they reveal the person as they really are, not as they perceive themselves or would like to be perceived.
Little Sammy Davis
Little Sammy Davis (November 28, 1928 – February 16, 2018) was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter. He was based in Hudson Valley, New York. Although his musical career began in the 1940s, he was not widely known until the mid-1990s when he began working in radio, singing, playing live on tour, and recording studio albums. He recorded songs with Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, Albert King, and the Levon Helm Band.
Davis was born in Winona, Mississippi. He died in Middletown, New York of heart failure on February 16, 2018 at the age of 89.
Madame de Montesson
Charlotte Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou (4 October 1738– 6 February 1806) was a mistress of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and later his wife. However, Louis XV would not allow her to become the Duchess. She is known simply as Madame de Montesson. For her husband's fun and her own, she set up a small theatre and wrote many plays, in which she acted. She was a friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais. She married twice but had no children. In 1770, a small home was built in Paris for her use. The building was called the Hôtel de Montesson. It was destroyed by fire in 1810.
Born in Paris in 1738 she was the only daughter of Jean Béraud de La Haye de Riou, Seigneur of la Gauvrillère and Josefa Minard. Her father was from an old Breton family, she first married a seventy-year-old widower Jean Baptiste de Montesson, Marquis of Montesson on 11 October 1757 who died in 1769. Her beauty and intelligence attracted the attention of the widowed Louis Philippe d'Orléans who she secretly married in 1773 with the authorisation of King Louis XV. After her marriage to the Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, a member of the royal family and a Prince du Sang, her low rank did not allow her the title of Duchess of Orléans, nor having the rank of a Princess of the blood. During the French Revolution, she was arrested and imprisoned in the Temple Prison in Paris. She eventually died in Paris aged 67. She was buried at the Église Saint-Roch, Paris.
Lavelle White
Lavelle White (born July 3, 1929) is an American blues and soul singer-songwriter. After performing most during her adulthood, White released three albums, the first of which was issued in 1994 when she was aged 65.
She has been nominated several times for a Blues Music Award, and in 2006 was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. The same year her ensemble was voted the Best Blues Band in "The Austin Chronicle" Music Awards.
Downe
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Stanisław Paweł Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski (; October 3, 1923 – February 21, 2017) was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.
Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów (then in Poland, now in Ukraine). Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle.
Skrowaczewski died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 21, 2017, aged 93.
Joseph Blatchford
Joseph Blatchford (born June 7, 1934) was the third Director of the United States Peace Corps. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. He retired 1971.
Blatchford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Beverly Hills, California.
Steve Hewlett (journalist)
Steve Hewlett (8 August 1958 – 20 February 2017) was a British print and radio journalist. He served as visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford. He worked for the BBC and The Guardian and for programs such as "Nationwide" and "Watchdog".
Hewlett died in London from oesophageal cancer on 20 February 2017, aged 58.
Desmond Connell
Desmond Connell (24 March 1926 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was an Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland.
Cardinal Connell was one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin.
Anthony Downs
Anthony Downs (; born November 21, 1930) is an American economist. He specialized in public policy and public administration. He has been a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., since 1977.
Before 1977, Downs served for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation. He also served as a Senior Analyst at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the University of Chicago.
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist. He won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be thought as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Selten, who was partly Jewish, died on 23 August 2016 in Poznań, Poland, aged 85.
Sex industry
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress. She started her career in 2001.
Castle-Hughes was born in Donnybrook, Western Australia. Her mother is Māori and her father is an Australian. She moved to New Zealand at the age of one. She grew up in Auckland. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2001. She was four younger siblings, Rhys, Liam, Maddisyn and Quade.
Castle-Hughes is best known for her role as Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the movie "Whale Rider" (2002). For this she was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the youngest person to be nominated for the award at the time. She has also appeared in the movies "" (2005), "Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger" (2008) and "Red Dog" (2011). On television, she has appeared in "The Walking Dead", "Game of Thrones" and "".
Castle-Hughes and Bradley Hull, her partner from 2003 to 2010, have a daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull (born 25 April 2007). She was married to Jonathan Morrison from 2013 to 2016. She has bipolar disorder.
Taulupe Faletau
Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau (born 12 November 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. He plays as a back row forward. He has played over sixty times for Wales since 2011. For club, he played for Cross Keys RFC and Newport RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons. He has played for Bath Rugby since 2016.
Faletau was born in Tofoa, Tonga. His father is Tongan international Kuli Faletau. He grew up in Pontypool, Wales.
Dana International
Dana International, Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל , stage name of "Sharon Cohen", Hebrew: שרון כהן , (born as "Yaron Cohen" on February 2, 1972 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pop singer and transsexual.
Dana International won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 with the song "Diva".
Steve Gleason
Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is a former American football player. He played mainly as a safety. He played for the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) between 2000 and 2007. He was best known for blocking a punt in 2006, which became a symbol of recovery for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2019, Gleason was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Gleason was born in Spokane, Washington. He is married to Michel Rae Varisco. Their son, Rivers, was born in October 2011. He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Francis Pollet
Francis Pollet (born at Roubaix, 5 May 1964) is a French General officer. From March 2017, he is the director-general of the "Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées" (French private aerospace university).
Pollet graduated from the École de l'Air in 1985. He started his career as fighter pilot and corporate pilot for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac. He worked in human resources and operational activities. In 2003, he joined higher education as head of École de l'Air at Salon-de-Provence. In March 2017, he became head of the "Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées".
Chifley Tower
Florac Trois Rivières
Florac Trois Rivières is a French commune, a "subprefecture" of the Lozère department, in the Occitanie region. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Florac.
The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 when the former "communes" of Florac and La Salle-Prunet were combined to form the new "commune".
Florac Trois Rivières is in the valley of the Tarnon river, a small river that flows through the Lozère department before joining the Tarn river. The "commune" is found at the start of the Gorges du Tarn (a canyon formed by the Tarn river).
The "commune" of Florac Trois Rivières has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" is surrounded by the "communes" Quézac, Bédouès-Cocurès, Pont de Montvert - Sud Mont Lozère, Cans et Cévennes, Vebron and Montbrun.
The climate in Florac Trois Rivières in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
, Florac Trois Rivières had 2,107 inhabitants for a density of persons/km.
Florac Trois Rivières is twinned with:
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth F.C.
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Football Club, Hebrew: מכבי אחי נצרת - Mo'adon Kaduregel Maccabi Aḥi Natzrat, Arabic: نادي كرة القدم اخاء الناصرة - Nade Korat Alqadam Maccabi Ekhaa Al-Nasera) is an Israeli football club in Nazareth.
The club was established in 1968 and plays in the Liga Leumit.
Executive Order 13769
Executive Order 13769, also called Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, is an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump on January 27, 2017. It limits travel to the United States from some countries and by all refugees.
The order said that no more than 50,000 refugees could be be let into the United States. It stopped the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days (about four months). After that 120 days, the program would start again for individual countries. The order also stopped the entry of refugees from Syria. The order tells some Cabinet secretaries to stop entry of nationals from countries that do not meet adjudication standards under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The United States Department of Homeland Security lists these countries as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The Department of Homeland Security later allowed green card holders and dual nationals of other countries to enter the United States. However, they had to have a passport or nationality of a non-listed country.
There were many lawsuits that tried to stop the order. One was "State of Washington v. Trump", which resulted in a temporary restraining order (TRO). The TRO was issued on February 3, 2017. It stopped much of the executive order. The issue is about whether the order is legal and whether it is against the United States Constitution.
More than 100 travelers were held. They were held for hours without family or legal assistance. Up to 60,000 visas were taken away.
Protests against the order took place in airports and cities.
The order was criticized by Democratic and Republican members of U.S. Congress, Catholic bishops, business leaders and universities.
Executive order (United States)
An executive order is a rule or order made by a President of the United States. The order tells agencies and officers of the Federal government of the United States things that they must do.
Executive orders can be stopped by the courts in a process called judicial review. They may be stopped if they are against laws or against the Constitution of the United States.
Executive orders have a big effect on the internal affairs of government. They decide how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. They also deal with emergencies and wars.
Ricardo Domínguez
Ricardo Domínguez (20 July 1985 – 22 February 2017), nicknamed Pelón, was a Mexican professional boxer. He fought in the light welterweight division. He was best known for having won the 2009 Campeón Azteca tournament at lightweight. After 50 bouts, he won 37 of them. He was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Dominguez died from colon cancer on 22 February 2017, at the age of 31.
Bengt Gustavsson
Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson (13 January 1928 – 16 February 2017) was a Swedish footballer and manager. He played as a defender. He played for IFK Norrköping, Atalanta and Åtvidabergs FF. He also played for the Sweden national football team during the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Ringarum, Östergötland County.
Gustavsson died on 16 February 2017 in Norrköping, at the age of 89.
Sing-along
Crito (Plato)
Crito is a dialogue written by the ancient Greek writer and philosopher Plato in 360 BC. Its only characters are Socrates and Crito.
It centers around the moral consequences of helping Socrates escape from prison. Socrates argues against defying the law, even though Crito is willing to help him. Eventually Socrates convinces Crito that morally, Socrates must stay in prison and accept his execution.
Plato, who had been a student of Socrates, wrote this dialogue among many others. Socrates is often a character of Plato's works, and the dialogue between Crito and Socrates is based on the death of Socrates. Socrates did in fact get executed by drinking hemlock.
Teen sitcom
A teen situation comedy or teen sitcom is a type of situation comedy television show that is made for teenagers. The main characters on a teen sitcom are usually teenagers. The shows are usually about problems that are common for teenagers. Well known teen sitcoms include "Saved by the Bell", "Hannah Montana", "The Adventures of Pete & Pete", and "iCarly".
A Night to Remember (movie)
A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama movie. The movie was adapted from Walter Lord's book of the same name.
The RMS "Titanic" is christened for its maiden voyage. Passengers and crew get on board the ship. The ship departs from port on April 10, 1912 and heads out into sea.
The ship receives a number of ice warnings from other ships. However, only a few of the messages are sent to Captain Edward J. Smith. The captain does not slow down the ship, or consider an alternate route.
Late on Sunday, April 14, one of the lookouts sees an iceberg in front of the ship. "Titanic" turns hard to port and tries to avoid the iceberg. But the ship eventually hits the iceberg on its starboard side. The first five compartments, below the waterline, are ripped open. Thomas Andrews, the ship's maker, inspects the damage. He then learns the ship will sink within two hours. Making matters worse, the ship does not have enough lifeboats for all the people aboard.
A distress signal is sent out. The radio operator on the RMS "Carpathia" hears the distress call, understands the emergency and alerts Captain Arthur Rostron. Rostron, right away, orders the "Carpathia" to head to the "Titanic" at full speed. But unfortunately, it will take four hours to reach the "Titanic".
Captain Smith orders Officers William Murdoch and Charles Lightoller to begin lowering the lifeboats. Women and children are let on the boats first. However, the women and children are not that happy about getting into the lifeboats. They are then forced into the boats by officers.
The "Carpathia" is racing to the "Titanic" site. Before "Carpathia" can get there, though, "Titanic" sinks.
On the "Carpathia", Lightoller is told by Rostron that only 705 people have survived. They have only passed one body.
As with many "Titanic" movies made prior to 1985, this movie shows "Titanic" sinking in one piece. But in reality, the ship broke in two before sinking.
The movie won several awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Pontine Islands
The Pontine Islands are a small archipelago along the Gulf of Gaeta, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, at about from the European continent.
The islands were named after the largest island in the group, Ponza.
The archipelago has an area of about with a resident population of about 4,076 persons. During the summers, many people visit the islands. They islands, Ponza and Ventotene, can be reached by ferry or hydrofoil.
The highest point in the archipelago is Monte Guardia in the southern end of the Ponza island; it is high.
The archipelago has six islands and several islets divided in two groups, part of two "comuni" of the Latina province:
On the Beach (novel)
On the Beach is a novel by Nevil Shute, a British author who emigrated to Australia. It was published in 1957. It tells about the world after atomic war. Last people live in Australia and wait for coming of the radioactive cloud. When they start being sick of the radiation, they commit suicide.
A movie based on the book was made in 1959. Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner starred in it.
Frank Delaney
Frank Delaney (24 October 1942 – 22 February 2017) was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of the "New York Times" best-seller "Ireland", the non-fiction book "", and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections.
Delaney was born in Tipperary, Ireland.
Cosmo Haskard
Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard KCMG MBE (25 November 1916 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and retired British Army officer. He was born in Dublin. He served as Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1964 through 1970.
He turned 100 in November 2016. Haskard died on 21 February 2017 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, aged 100.
Douglas Coe
Douglas Evans Coe (October 20, 1928 – February 21, 2017) was an American evangelical leader. He served as associate director of the Christian organization, The Fellowship, (also known as a family of friends in Christ, the prayer breakfast groups). He has also been called as the "stealth Billy Graham." He was born in Medford, Oregon.
In 2005, Coe was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the United States by Time magazine. Coe was an ordained Presbyterian elder and serves as a lay minister.
Coe died in Annapolis, Maryland on February 21, 2017 from complications of a heart attack, aged 88.
Kendra Lust
Kendra Lust (born September 18, 1978 in Madison Heights, Michigan) is an American porn star. She has been noticed for her good looks and well curved body shape.
Kendra was born to a French Canadian and an Italian. Kendra was broke in college so she stripped part time so she could afford school to become a nurse. She worked as a nurse for seven years. Kendra quit nursing after seven years so she could make more money and work less hours in the porn business.
During the final years of her career as a nurse, Kendra worked as a webcam model to being the change of career to porn. Kendra had sex on camera first in March 2012 with Phoenix Marie and Rachel Starr for the porn company Brazzers. Kendra did not have a typical entry into the porn industry as she had not done a scene with casting couch prior to getting a job at a big company like Brazzers.
Kendra has been awarded "Hottest MILF" by AVN in 2016.
Kendra Lust is currently married to a cop and has one daughter. She lives in Michigan with her family.
Jeanne Martin Cissé
Jeanne Martin Cissé (6 April 1926 – 21 February 2017) was a Guinean teacher and nationalist politician. She served as ambassador to the United Nations and in 1972 was the first woman to serve as President of the United Nations Security Council. She served in the government of Guinea as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 until the 1984 military coup.
Cissé was born in Kankan, Guinea. She studied at the École Normale d'Institutrices de Rufisque in Dakar, Senegal, where she trained to become a teacher.
Cissé died on 21 February 2017 in Conakry, Guinea, aged 90.
Seijun Suzuki
, (Seitaro Suzuki; 鈴木 清太郎; Suzuki Seitarō; 24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017) was a Japanese movie director, actor, and screenwriter. He made 40 B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre.
He won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, "Zigeunerweisen" (1980), "Kagero-za" (1981) and "Yumeji" (1991). His movies remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical movies beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key movies such as "Branded to Kill" and "Tokyo Drifter" became popular outside of Japan.
Suzuki died on 13 February 2017 at a Tokyo hospital from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 93.
Ion Croitoru
Ion William Croitoru (December 7, 1965 – February 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was born and raised in Ontario, Canada.
Croitoru is better known by his ring names, Johnny K-9 and Bruiser Bedlam. He competed in several Canadian wrestling promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, and later wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
He wrestled as a jobber in the WWF, but he was booked to win titles in several other promotions.
Croitoru is also famous for his history of legal problems. He was a member of Satan's Choice, a biker gang, and has also been convicted of assault, trafficking cocaine and bombing a police station.
In 2005, Croitoru was arrested for the murder of lawyer Lynn Gilbank and her husband Fred. After a lengthy investigation, the charges were dropped in June 2006 because of insufficient evidence. He worked as a security guard in Vancouver, British Columbia until being arrested in May 2009 for conspiracy to commit murder.
On January 24, 2011, Croitoru was charged with first degree murder in connection with the 2008 execution of Jonathan Barber in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Croitoru died while under house arrest on February 21, 2017, at a federal halfway house in Toronto from a suspected heart attack, aged 51.
Harold Denton
Harold Ray Denton (February 24, 1936 – February 13, 2017) was an American civil servant. He served as the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) from 1988 until his retirement in 1998. He is best known for his role as President Jimmy Carter's personal adviser for the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident.
Denton was born in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. He died at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee from complications of Alzheimer's disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 80.
Ruth Westheimer
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Ruth Siegel; June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality and writer. She is best known for her radio show "Sexually Speaking" during the 1980s. She worked for Planned Parenthood in the 1950s. She has also written many books.
Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She is Jewish and moved to Switzerland as a child. She moved to New York City in 1956.
Pnina Rosenblum
Pnina Rosenblum, Hebrew: פנינה רוזנבלום , (born December 30, 1954 in Petah Tikva) is a successful Israeli business woman and former politician.
During her younger years she was a model and an actress (abroad known as "Pnina Golan"), playing in several movies.
In 1983 she tried in vain to get nominated as Israel's candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Six years later she went into business by starting a cosmetics company called Pnina Rosenblum Ltd.
In 1999 she tried vainly to be chosen in the Knesset by forming Tnufa (an independent list meaning "momentum") with Avi Balashnikov. In December 2005 she finally became a Member of Knesset (MK) for Likud when several Likud politicians had switched to the recently formed Kadima. Her parliamentary career already ended in March 2006 when she wasn't chosen in the elections.
Pnina Rosenblum married and divorced the same man twice. Later on she married another man.
She has German-Jewish and Iraqi-Jewish roots.
War Horse (movie)
Pig iron
Pig iron is iron with a high carbon content. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into ingot form, in a blast furnace. It’s called pig iron because when being cast, each ingot being cast looks like a Piglet suckling milk from a sow.
Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese knew about pig iron, and were producing it as early as 1100BC.
Pig iron is refined into Wrought iron by melting it and blowing hot air through it. Pig iron can also be turned into gray iron.
Originally, pig iron was poured out the bottom of the furnace and shipped to a steel mill for processing. Now, we turn the metal into pellets before shipping it.
Truro, Nova Scotia
Hôtel de Montesson
The Hôtel de Montesson was a small townhouse on the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in Paris, France. It was constructed after 1770 for Madame de Montesson, the secret and morganatic wife of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He had a house adjoined to Montesson's. The couple would eventually marry circa 1768 in the Chapel of the "Hôtel". The building would be destroyed by an accidental fire in 1810.
Charles Reis Felix
Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an America writer and teacher. He was known as a contributor to Luso-American literature.
His work were mainly autobiography, historical narrative and fiction about the human experience. His first book, "Crossing the Sauer", was an account of his three months as a combat infantryman from January through March 1945. "Crossing the Sauer" was called by Paul Fussell as "one of the most honest, unforgettable memoirs of the war I've read."
Naděžda Kavalírová
Naděžda Kavalírová (13 November 1923 – 20 January 2017) was a Czechoslovakian-born Czech physician, human rights activist and former political prisoner.
She became actively involved in the resistance to Czechoslovakia's Communist government. She later headed the Confederation of Political Prisoners ("Konfederace politických vězňů České republiky") from 2003 until her death in January 2017.
Kavalírová died in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on 20 January 2017, at the age of 93.
Đinh Xuân Lâm
Đinh Xuân Lâm (4 February 1925 – 25 January 2017) was a Vietnamese historian. He was known for having to helped build the Department of Recent History and of Modern Vietnam. He served as vice president of the Vietnam History Science and Chairman of the Scientific Council Center for Information and Documentation UNESCO.
He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1984, branches of history.
Arnold Spielberg
Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer of Jewish descent.
He was known for his help "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 in 1959. He said that his greatest contribution was to be the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.
He was the father of movie director Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg died on August 25, 2020 at his home in Los Angeles, aged 103.
Aleksei Petrenko
Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet movie and stage actor. He was known for playing Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama "Agony" and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary "".
Eni Faleomavaega
Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. (; August 15, 1943 – February 22, 2017) was an American Samoan politician. He served as the territory's lieutenant governor and congressional delegate. He served as a U.S. House Representative from American Samoa's At-large congressional district from 1989 through 2015.
Faleomavaega died at his home in Provo, Utah on February 22, 2017, aged 73.
Bradley Ayers
Bradley Earl Ayers (March 7, 1935 – February 10, 2017) was an American soldier, CIA operative, writer and political activist. He was known for saying that the CIA played a role in the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice opposition to the Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against it. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Ayers died in Somers Lake, Wisconsin on February 10, 2017, aged 81.
H. Boyd Woodruff
Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was known for the discovery of actinomycin, and the development of the industrial production by fermentation of many natural products. This included cyanocobalamin (a synthetic form of Vitamin B12), the avermectins, and other important antibiotics.
Woodruff died on January 19, 2017, at the age of 99 at his home in Watchung, New Jersey.
John McCormack (ice hockey)
John Ronald "Johnny" McCormack (August 2, 1925 – February 22, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. McCormack began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. He also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. He retired from the NHL in 1955 season.
McCormack won two Stanley Cups in his career, one in 1951 with Toronto and another in 1953 with Montreal. He also won the 1945 Memorial Cup with the St. Michael's Majors and the Allan Cup in 1950 with the Toronto Marlboroughs.
McCormack died on February 22, 2017 at his home in Oshawa, Ontario, aged 91.
Rhys Wakefield
Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor. He started his career in 2000. He is best known for his roles in the movies "The Black Balloon" (2008), "Sanctum" (2011) and "The Purge" (2013). He also appeared as Lucas Holden in the soap opera "Home and Away" from 2005 to 2008.
Wakefield was born in Cairns, Queensland. He grew up in Sydney, New South Wales.
Sabine Oberhauser
Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian medical doctor and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Minister for Health and Minister for Women from 2014 until her death. She had also been a member of the National Council since 2006.
Oberhauser was born in Vienna. She was married and had two daughters.
Oberhauser said she had abdominal cancer in 2016. She died on 23 February 2017, at the age of 53.
Mea Shearim
Me'a She'arim, Hebrew: מאה שערים - "hundred gates", is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
The Me'a She'arim neighbourhood was founded in 1874 and its population consists primarily of Haredi Jews.
It is one of the oldest neighbourhoods of the city and lies northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion, Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן - "first of Zion", is a city in Israel. About 244,000 people were living here in 2015.
Rishon LeZion is situated in the Gush Dan region in the Central District, and lies south of Tel Aviv.
It was founded by Russian Jews in 1882.
It ranks fourth in population and second in newly established settlements.
Districts of Israel
The State of Israel is divided into six districts.
In Hebrew a district is called "mahoz" - מחוז (plural: "mehozot" - מחוזות).
These districts are:
Not official:
Likud
Likud, Hebrew: הליכוד - HaLikud, meaning "The Consolidation", (official name: "HaLikud-National Liberal Movement"), commonly called "Likud", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, and Zionist.
Political leader is Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister 1996–1999; 2009–2021).
Likud was founded in 1973 as a a result of an alliance (and later on a merger in 1988) of six liberal and nationalist parties, like Gahal, Herut and the Liberal Party.
Founders were Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 36 (+4).
Participating in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.
Creos Luxembourg S.A.
Creos Luxembourg S.A. owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Creos was formed as a result of a deal to unite Cegedel S.A. – the Grand-Ducal electricity company of Luxembourg, which was founded in 1928 and at the time distributed 70% of the electricity in the country - , Soteg S.A. – Luxembourg's primary gas supplier - and Saar Ferngas AG – a distribution company created in 1929 in Saarland. On 23 January 2009, all the unites of ownership from Cegedel S.A. and Saar Ferngas AG were transferred to Soteg S.A., which made restructuring with retrospective effect on 1 January 2009, giving birth to a new energy group. Named Enovos, it included the parent company Enovos International S.A. and the two main subsidiaries: Creos (formerly Cegedel S.A.) in charge of network activities, and Enovos Luxembourg S.A. in charge of production, sales and marketing. Enovos and Creos each have a subsidiary for the German market: Enovos Deutschland and Creos Deutschland.
Over the next two years, Creos consolidated its position on the Luxembourg market. In 2010, it acquired the natural gas networks from Luxgaz Distribution S.A.. On 1 January 2011, the City of Luxembourg transferred its electricity and natural gas networks and its teams to Creos in exchange for owning units of property in Creos. The publicly owned units of property thus increased from 5.71% to 24.57%. Creos also owns units of property in the following companies: Luxmetering (the Interest Economic Group which pilots the smart metering network) since 2012, Balansys (joint-venture between Creos and Fluxys Belgium) and Ampacimon since 2015 and NEXXTLAB since 2018.
In order to make a difference between the parent company and its subsidiaries – energy provider Enovos and grid operator Creos –, Enovos International is now called Encevo. End July, private equity firm Ardian sold its stake up to 24.92 percent in Encevo to China Southern Power Grid International, the second grid operator in China and in the world.
Creos Luxembourg S.A. plans, constructs and maintains the electricity and natural gas transmission and distribution networks in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its subsidiary Creos Deutschland Holding GmbH, which is the owner of the companies Creos Deutschland GmbH, Creos Deutschland Stromnetz GmbH, Creos Deutschland Services GmbH und net4nergy, organises the transmission of medium- and high-voltage electricity and high-pressure natural gas in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate.
In Luxembourg, following the liberalisation of the energy markets, an independent organisation – the Luxembourg Institute of Regulation (ILR) – organises and supervises access to the networks. The tariffs are subject to its approval. The energy suppliers are thus guaranteed transparent access to Creos's networks.
The majority of the electric current in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes from Germany via two double high-voltage 220,000 volt (220 kV) lines that are connected to the German network. Interconnection with Belgium has become operational with the commissioning of a phase shifting transformer (PST) at the Schifflange Centre in October 2017, and around 15% of the energy is produced locally (biogas, cogeneration, wind turbines, hydroelectricity and photovoltaics). The electricity is transmitted to the six transformer stations (Flebour, Roost, Itzig/Blooren, Heisdorf, Bertange and Schifflange) where the voltage is reduced from 220 to 65 kV and is distributed to industries and large municipal distribution networks. The voltage is then reduced from 65 kV to 20 kV in more than 60 transformer stations in the whole country. The electric energy obtained is distributed to SMEs, towns and villages where the transformers reduce the current voltage to 0.4 kV before distributing it to the final consumer. A control centre, known as Electricity Dispatching, controls and manages these high and medium-voltage networks.
The total length of the Luxembourg electricity network managed by Creos is 10,023 kilometres, including 587 kilometres of high-voltage lines, 3,653 kilometres of medium-tension lines and 5,783 kilometres of low tension lines.
Thanks to its connections with Germany, Belgium and France, Luxembourg is linked to the interconnected gas networks throughout Europe. Monitored by Dispatching Gas, the high and medium-pressure pipelines distribute the gas to 60 communes that are connected to the national gas network. Pressure-reducing stations that supply the local networks then reduce the gas pressure. Creos distributes natural gas in 45 communes.
Since 1 October 2015, Creos and Fluxys Belgium, in collaboration with their respective regulators ILR and CREG, have united the national markets of Luxembourg and Belgium into one Belux market. This integration, the first between two European Union member states, reflects the will of the European Union to create an European gas market without borders. Balansys, the joint venture between Creos and its Belgian counterpart Fluxys, will become the balancing operator in the Belux zone from 1 June 2020. In other words, it will be responsible for ensuring that the gas market is well supplied, without one of the two suppliers having to pay an entry fee for its gas on the other's market.
Creos has four regional centres. They build, operate, maintain and repair the electricity and natural gas networks.
The Roost Centre covers the central and northern regions. It covers the high, medium and low-voltage electricity services and the medium and low-pressure natural gas services, the central store and the mechanical and electrical workshops.
The Schifflange Centre covers the southern part of the country.
The Luxembourg City Centre covers the capital and the communes of Strassen and Hesperange. Headquarters and Luxembourg City Centre will merge in a new single location in 2020.
The Contern Centre manages and adjusts the meters, in particular smart meters.
Dispatching for electricity and natural gas together with the monitoring rooms for remote network control and management are installed at the Creos facility in Heisdorf. It will relocate to Bettembourg in 2020.
Creos is involved in two national projects; smart grids, electromobility and energy management.
In accordance with the law of 7 August 2012 that transposes the European Energy Efficiency Directive into Luxembourg legislation, all the gas and electricity meters must be changed in the country, independently of the network operator. By the year 2020, Creos will thus install 300,000 smart meters that record detailed information on the consumption and production of energy in the entire territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, including 250,000 electricity meters and 50,000 gas meters. The installation of these new electricity and gas meters – called Smarty – in Luxembourg homes will allow the creation of networks with real intelligence: smart grids. These smart grids are capable of monitoring decentralised electricity production (like wind turbines and photovoltaic panels), regulating the variations of the feeds into the distribution networks with greater precision and managing the demand peaks linked with the charging of electric vehicles more effectively. The law from 7 August 2012 also demands that the metering system must be able to receive water and heating.
Creos will install 800 public charging stations for electric cars and hybrid plug-in cars across the country by 2020. Each charging station will incorporate two charging points, and the network – called Chargy – will include 1,600 parking spaces for electric vehicles. Creos will be responsible for the deployment, operation and maintenance of the public charging infrastructure on its distribution network, representing a total of 749 stations out of the 800 that are to be installed by 2020.
Creos is also preparing the Third Industrial Revolution of the country. This convergence of IT, renewable energy and means of transport will have an impact on how the power grids are managed. To anticipate this evolution, the grid operator joined forces with Powerdale S.A. to create NEXXTLAB, an entity that aims to develop innovative solutions in the field of energy management in coordination with the widespread introduction of electro-mobility.
Limpopo River
Cherry picking is when someone picks the case which supports his opinion.
For example, suppose twenty studies have been done on a new medicine and 19 say it works, but one says it does not work. To "cherry pick" is to use the one failed study to "prove" that the medicine is useless. It is a type of confirmation bias, where a person sees evidence for what they want or expect to see, and ignores evidence which goes against their belief.
The term cherry picking comes from when people harvest cherries from a tree - the cherry picker only takes the reddest, ripest fruits. If someone looked at all the fruit the person had picked, they might think that all the cherries were red, until they went to the tree and saw lots of pale, unripe cherries still on it.
Cherry picking as a term is quite negative, as it implies that the person doing the cherry picking is trying to deceive the audience, or simply does not care about the facts.
When applied to subjects like medicine and science, cherry picking is considered "bad science". or a sign of pseudoscience.
Cherry picking can take several forms. The most obvious case of cherry picking is where only evidence that supports a given argument is used, and other evidence which does not support it or goes against it is ignored or covered up. Other examples can include giving a lot of emphasis to evidence which supports the idea but barely any to other evidence, and taking a quote out of context so that it seems to have a different meaning than it originally did.
Pseudoscience is when untrue claims are made to appear as though they have a scientific basis, even though they do not. Many pseudoscientists cherry pick real scientific evidence to support their claims. It is quite common in science for some studies to contradict others, for example in cases where different methods are used to measure an outcome, or where human error or chance may lead to unusual results. This means that there is often a study someone can use to support their claim, and they can cherry pick that one study even if many more contradict it.
List of communes of the Province of Viterbo
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault () is a seed bank (a place where seeds are kept) in Norway. It is on the island of Spitsbergen, near Longyearbyen, in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. It is about from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler worked with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to start the vault.
The vault is there to save many different kinds of plant seeds. The seeds at the vault are copies of seeds from other places around the world. Copies of seeds are kept in case the seeds in other places are lost. Three organizations decided how to manage the vault. Those organizations were the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).
The Norwegian government paid for building the vault. It cost about 45 million Norwegian kroner () to build. Storing seeds in the vault is free. Norway and GCDT pay to operate the vault. GCDT gets money from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from different governments worldwide.
Delivery may refer to:
Delivery may also refer to:
John Hack
John Hack (November 26, 1842 – March 29, 1933) was a decorated hero of the Union Army in the American Civil War. He was born in Hessen, Germany and lived in Adrian, Michigan.
According to the Military Times Hall of Valor, "on 3 May 1863, while serving with Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Private Hack was one of a party which volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores." Hack and nine others in Company B did this while Confederate States Army batteries were shooting at them "under cover of darkness" Hack was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor "for extreme bravery under fire" on January 3, 1907.
Sidney Haight
Sidney Haight (August 21, 1847 – September 17, 1918) was a soldier in the United States Army during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor of the U.S. military.
Haight was born in Reading, Michigan in 1846. He entered the U.S. Army at Goodland, Michigan, and served in Company E of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters. He reached the rank of corporal. Haight received the citation for actions at Petersburg, Virginia on July 30, 1864, in the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia. He died Sep. 17, 1918 in Reading, Michigan.
Haight's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Haight was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 31, 1896.
Viterbo
Viterbo is a very old city and a "comune" in the Lazio region of Central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
The University of Tuscia, established in 1979, is in the city of Viterbo.
The "comune" of Viterbo has an area of , the largest "comune" of the province, and its altitude is above sea level.
The "comune" borders with the "comuni" Bagnoregio, Bomarzo, Canepina, Caprarola, Celleno, Civitella d'Agliano, Graffignano, Marta, Monte Romano, Montefiascone, Ronciglione, Soriano nel Cimino, Tuscania, Vetralla, Vitorchiano.
The following "frazioni" (hamlets) are part of the "comune" of Viterboː Bagnaia, Fastello, Grotte Santo Stefano, La Quercia, Montecalvello, Ponte di Cetti, Roccalvecce, San Martino al Cimino, Sant'Angelo di Roccalvecce, Tobia, Vallebona.
, there are 67,173 persons (32,186 males and 34,987 females) living in the "comune", for a population density of inhabitants/km².
Viterbo is twinned with:
Alaa Brinji
Alaa Brinji (Arabic: علاء برنجي ), born about 1984, is a Saudi journalist. He received a sentence of five years in a Saudi Arabian prison after he posted on Twitter in support of human rights and women driving cars. Brinji writes for the Saudi newspapers Al Sharq, Al Bilad, and Okaz.
Brinji was born around 1984. In 2012 he went to work for Al Sharq ("the Orient") newspaper. He was arrested in Dammam when he returned from a trip to Bahrain with his family. He was taken to Dammam prison.