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It is sometimes called a Chinese block because it has Chinese origins.
The sticks used to hit the woodblock can be snare drum sticks or xylophone beaters. It makes a hard, high sound. It can often be heard in large orchestras, e.g. in Bernstein's "West Side Story".
Berwickshire
Berwickshire is a British county in Scotland. It is also the name of a committee area of the Scottish Borders Council. Berwickshire is on the boundary of Scotland with England. It is named after Berwick-upon-Tweed, but Scotland lost Berwick to England in 1482.
Berwickshire's first county town was the Royal Burgh of Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1482 England seized Berwick. After that the shire's business was done at Duns or Lauder until Greenlaw became the county town in 1596.
A Sheriff Court sits in Duns.
Berwickshire County Council, like all the County Councils in Scotland, was made in 1890. The Council met in Duns. Berwickshire County Council was ended in 1975.
In 1975 a new Borders Region was made. A Berwickshire District Council was made within it too, with an area like the county’s but not the same. Berwickshire District Council was ended in 1996.
Berwickshire is now all in the Scottish Borders Council Area.
In 1890, when Berwickshire County Council was made, the Council asked the Lord Lyon King of Arms to give them a shield and arms. He gave a shield and arms to the County Council on 10 October 1890.
The shield shows a bear chained to a wych-elm tree. The bear and wych-elm are part of Berwick upon Tweed’s shield because they sound like the town’s name.
On 12 November 1975 the Lord Lyon gave the arms again to Berwickshire District Council. When the district council ended in 1996, the right to the arms went back to the Queen.
Berwickshire’s name is still used locally. "The Berwickshire News" is a newspaper in the county and many groups keep "Berwickshire" in their titles.
The Berwickshire Civic Society is (2009) asking the Council to put road signs up to tell drivers who are coming into the county that they are coming into Berwickshire. The Berwickshire Civic Society has a "Keep Berwickshire Tidy" competition each April.
Places in Berwickshire include:
Claves (Spanish word: second e is sounded) are percussion instruments. They are small wooden sticks made of tropical hardwood. They are used in pairs. They are traditionally heard in Cuban music, e.g. salsa.
In Cuban music they often repeat a special rhythm called "clave" (pronounce: "CLAH-ve").
The usual way of playing claves is to hold one clave lightly between the thumb and the fingertips with the palm of the hand facing upwards, or to cradle the clave in the hand. The other, held with the other hand, hits it.
Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge
The Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge or Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge is a historic railroad bridge in Torrance, California USA. It spans across Torrance Boulevard at Bow Street, a short distance west of Western Avenue. It was once part of the north/south Torrance to San Pedro spur line of the Pacific Electric Railway. The line was the railroad's first interurban line to San Pedro. After splitting off to the east from the Union Tool Company plant which was once a short distance south of the bridge, the line ended at a Columbia Steel steel mill (later United States Steel) by running up and over the east/west Torrance local line. It is the only part of the PE which crossed itself this way. This was due to the area's geography. If the railroad simply built a spur off of the main line, it would have meant that trains trying to get to the steel mill would have faced too steep a climb. The steel mill has since been torn down to make way for the national headquarters of American Honda Motor Company, but the remaining part of the Torrance line - which once had two separate tracks - was rebuilt in 2003 and is still in use for local train runs by the Union Pacific Railroad. Gone too are the Pacific Electric's Torrance shops at the western branch of the split, now the site of an industrial park and which still receives trains on the local line.
The bridge was designed by Irving Gill and was built in 1913 as part of the original layout of the city as drawn up by Jared Sidney Torrance and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.. It became the city's second entry in the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1989 after Torrance High School. It is also listed with the California Office of Historic Preservation.
Though tracks and track parts remain on the bridge, it is no longer in use nor has it been for quite some time. There is no chance of the bridge ever being used to carry trains again, since the right-of-way at either end has been changed and the tracks removed. Even so, the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge has become a symbol of the city as part of the Torrance Police Department's logo as of January 1, 2000, only the third such change in the department's history.
Eskdale
Eskdale, Victoria is a small Australian town in the Mitta Valley with Mitta Mitta and Dartmouth. The Mitta Valley is in the north east of Victoria about from Albury and Wodonga
It has one shop, one cafe, a hotel, two churches and one school.
An anglerfish is a marine fish that belongs to the order Lophiiformes. Anglerfish are noted for having a bait-like appendage in front of their heads, right above their mouths.
The appendage, which resembles a fishing pole, is attached to the end of the dorsal fin's front spine, which is separated from the rest of the fin. Anglerfish light their rod with bioluminescence (their own light) and then wiggle it to mimic a small marine animal. When other creatures come to eat the small marine animal, the anglerfish eats them. They are called anglerfish because they catch fish with bait, just like anglers, who use a rod and line (rather than nets).
One of the families, the Ceratiidae, has an extraordinary mating system where the male actually fuses into the female.
A mitochondrial genome phylogenetic study suggested that anglerfishes diversified in a short period of the Lower Cretaceous, between 130 and 100 million years ago.
Marko Rehmer
Marko Rehmer (born 29 April, 1972) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
298||22
299||22
!Total||35||4
Frank Baumann
Frank Baumann (born 29 October 1975) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
390||26
Christian Ziege
Christian Ziege (born 1 February 1972) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
185||41
39||4
92||14
316||59
Lars Ricken
Lars Ricken (born 10 July 1976) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
301||49
Marco Bode (born 23 July, 1969) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
379||101
!Total||40||9
Jörg Böhme
Jörg Böhme (born 22 January, 1974) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
296||37
!Total||10||1
Hans-Jörg Butt
Hans Jörg Butt (born 28 May 1974), commonly known as Jörg Butt, is a former German soccer player. He played for FC Bayern Munich and Germany national team.
456||28||30||0||69||3||555||31
1||0||||||||||1||0
457||28||30||0||69||3||556||31
Andreas Köpke
Andreas Köpke (born 12 March, 1962) is a German retired football player. He played for Germany national team.
509||2
68||0
566||2
Christian Wörns
Christian Wörns (born 10 May 1972) used to be a German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
503||30||53||1||556||31
28||2||1||0||29||2
531||32||54||1||585||33
!Total||66||0
Jörg Heinrich
Jörg Heinrich (born 6 December, 1969) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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57||5
261||31
Jürgen Kohler
Jürgen Kohler (born 6 October 1965) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
398||28
102||8
500||36
!Total||105||2
Thomas Helmer
Thomas Helmer (born 21 April, 1965) is a retired German football player. He has played for Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and the German national team.
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427||46
!Total||68||5
Olaf Thon (born 1 May 1966) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
481||96
!Total||52||3
Andreas Möller
Andreas Möller (born 2 September 1967) is a former German football player for Germany national team.
429||110
56||19
485||129
!Total||85||29
Ulf Kirsten
Ulf Kirsten (born 4 December, 1965) is a former German football player. He has played for East Germany national team and Germany national team.
154||57
350||181
504||238
!Total||49||14
!Total||51||20
Thomas Häßler
Thomas Häßler (born 30 May 1966) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
400||70
120||12
538||83
!Total||101||11
Olaf Marschall
Olaf Marschall (born 19 March, 1966) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team and East Germany national team.
135||36
98||40
192||70
425||146
!Total||13||3
Markus Babbel
Markus Babbel (born 8 September, 1972) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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67||6
355||18
!Total||51||1
Steffen Freund
Steffen Freund (born 19 January, 1970) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
178||9
116||0
351||9
!Total||21||0
Stefan Reuter
Stefan Reuter (born 16 October 1966) is a German football manager and former football player. He played for Germany national team.
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28||0
555||28
Michael Tarnat
Michael Tarnat (born 27 October 1969) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
439||35
32||4
471||39
Berti Vogts
Berti Vogts (born 30 December 1946) is a former German football player. He has played for the German national team.
419||32
!Total||96||1
Stoke Newington railway station
Stoke Newington railway station is on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines. Trains run to Liverpool Street in central London, and to Cheshunt and Enfield Town farther north. Trains generally run every fifteen minutes, and almost all of the trains that pass through the station stop there.
Stoke Newington is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Rectory Road railway station
Rectory Road railway station is a railway station in Stoke Newington in the London Borough of Hackney, North London, United Kingdom.
It is on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines, between Stoke Newington and Hackney Downs. It is in Zone 2 and has two platforms.
Trains run south to Liverpool Street and north to Enfield Town and Cheshunt.
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh is a public university in the city of Pittsburgh in the United States of America. It is also called "Pitt". Pitt was started in 1787. Pitt has 27,562 students. Pitt is famous for philosophy, studying other countries, and its hospital called the "University of Pittsburgh Medical Center" (UPMC). Pitt does a lot of research. Pitt is also famous for its tall building named the "Cathedral of Learning". Pitt is also famous for sports. Pitt's best sports are American football and basketball.
A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or used to symbolize a group. Many schools and sports teams have a mascot, and so do some corporations or products. For example, the mascot of the Sacramento Kings is a lion, and the mascot of Geico is a gecko.
Mascots:
Democratic Party (Serbia)
The Democratic Party (, "Demokratska stranka", ) is the main center-left political party in Serbia. It claims continuity of the historical Democratic Party.
It is the biggest political party in Serbia in terms of sitting Members of Parliament, and in what respects the international arena, the Democratic Party is a member of the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists. Both current President of Serbia Boris Tadić and current Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković are members of and also members of party government of the Democratic Party.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Hackney Downs railway station
Hackney Downs railway station is in the London Borough of Hackney in east London. The station is served by Abellio Greater Anglia and London Overground, on the West Anglia route, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The station is a short walk from Hackney Central, on the North London Line. Until Hackney Central's closure in 1944, a passenger connection linked the two stations. However, when Hackney Central reopened in 1985, the footway did not reopen, and passengers transferring between the two stations are obliged to leave the station and transfer at street level. The station was originally opened as Downs Junction Station.
The typical off-peak service from the station is:
2 operated by Abellio Greater Anglia
8 operated by London Overground
StumbleUpon is an Internet community that lets users find, and rate pictures, websites, and videos.
StumbleUpon is an easy to use website, which provides new and interesting material on the web. They get more 20 million users who join the site for information, entertainment, and content that they are looking for. Moreover this site harbors more than 60,000 brands, publishers, and other marketers which use StumbleUpon’s comfortable paid discovery platform to help support their materials and services.
Cotton mouse
The cotton mouse ("Peromyscus gossypinus") is a species of rodent in the Cricetidae family.
It is found only in the United States. This mouse is very close to extinction.
Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili (Persian: امید جلیلی) (born 30 September 1965) is a British-Iranian Comedian, Actor and Writer.
He was born in Chelsea, London, to Iranian Bahá'í parents. He is a member of the Bahá'í religion. He went to Holland Park School and then the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, to study English and Theatre Studies. As a Bahá'í, he signed a letter to the leaders of Iran saying that they way they treated Bahá'í people was very bad.
His first good comedy job was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1995, with his act "Short, Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son". His next success was in 1996 with "The Arab and the Jew". He said he was the only Iranian comedian, which was still "three more than Germany". His jokes are often about different religions and the funny differences. He has energy on stage and his good pretend voices, together with political jokes mixed with strange belly dancing.
Some countries he has performed in include Australia, Denmark, Canada, Ireland and the United States. "The Observer" said he was one of the top 50 funny people in British comedy. In 2005 he went on the British car television programme "Top Gear" as a special guest driver. The same year he also did stand up comedy for "Comic Relief", a British TV programme where people are funny to raise money for poor people. Also that year he had the biggest number of tickets sold for the Edinburgh Festival box office, which was 16,500 sales.
On 17 November 2007, his own TV programme started on BBC One, which is a mix of him talking and showing short funny films. A second series started on 20 April 2009.
Chiron (mythology)
Chiron is a centaur from Greek mythology who helped train demigods. Chiron is a respected centaur because of his kindness and intelligence. He is a son of Cronus and lives in Mount Olympus.
Chiron also helped train Heracles before he went to the Underworld to fetch the fruit.
Kotor (, ) is a city in Montenegro.
The city is near the Gulf of Kotor. 13,510 people live there.
The old Mediterranean port of Kotor is surrounded by a city wall built by the Republic of Venice.
During recent years Kotor has been visited by many tourists, who are attracted by both the beauty of the Gulf of Kotor and the old town.
The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was a movie produced by Disney in 1989.
Clupeidae
Clupeidae is a family of teleost fish. It includes the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa and menhadens. The family includes some of the most important food fishes in the world.
List of mountains in Turkey
Mahya Dağı
Mount Mahya (, "Mahiada") 1031 m, is a mountain in Turkey. It is the highest peak of the Strandzha massif (Yıldız Mountains) and also the European part of Turkey.
Süphan
Mount Süphan (; "Sipan", , and "Sipan" also "Ciyaye Sipan", which means "White/s, Aryan/s" in Kurdish), is a stratovolcano in eastern Turkey, immediately north of Lake Van. It is the second highest volcano in Turkey.
Wodonga, Victoria
Wodonga is next to Albury, New South Wales and is separated by the Murray River it has two shopping complexes, two KFC, one McDonalds with another store under construction.
Bodo Illgner
Bodo Illgner (born 7 April, 1967) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Thomas Strunz
Thomas Strunz (born 25 April, 1968) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Andreas Brehme
Andreas Brehme (born 9 November 1960) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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116||10
24||1
513||64
!Total||86||8
Karl-Heinz Riedle
Karl-Heinz Riedle (born 16 September, 1965) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Stefan Kuntz
Stefan Kuntz (born 30 October 1962) is a former German football player. He played for Germany national team.
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!Total||25||6
Thomas Berthold
Thomas Berthold (born 12 November, 1964) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Maurizio Gaudino
Maurizio Gaudino (born 12 December, 1966) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer (born 5 September 1967) is a German former football player and manager. He has played for the East German national team and the German national team.
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296||83
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Martin Wagner (born 24 February, 1968) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Stefan Effenberg
Stefan Effenberg (born 2 August 1968) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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426||83
Mario Basler
Mario Basler (born 18 December 1968) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Klaus Augenthaler
Klaus Augenthaler (born 26 September 1957) is a former German football player. He has played for Bayern Munich and Germany national team.
At the age of 18 he came from his local club FC Vilshofen to Bayern München. There he played one year in the second team but was soon transferred to the first team. There he played as defender. From 1976–1991 he played 404 matches for the club. From 1984 till 1991 he was also captain of the team. He also played 27 matches in the German national football team.
After the end of his player career he became coach of the A-youth team of Bayern München and then assistance coach of the first team. With the GAK where he was coach from 1996 till 2000 he won the Austrian Cup. The next teams he coached were 1.FC Nürnberg, Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg. His last team was SpVgg Unterhaching in Germanys 3. League. Although he could hold the team in the league his contract was not renewed.
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Frank Mill
Frank Mill (born 23 July 1958) is a German retired football player. He has played for West Germany national team. He was part of the German team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. The 1988 team won an Olympic bronze medal.
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Raimond Aumann
Raimond Aumann (born 12 October 1963) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Paul Steiner
Paul Steiner (born 23 January 1957) is a former German football player. He has played for the West Germany national team.
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Hans Pflügler
Hans Pflügler (born 27 March, 1960) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Günter Hermann
Günter Hermann (born 5 December, 1960) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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London Fields railway station
London Fields railway station is in the London Borough of Hackney in east London. It is 4 km (2½ miles) north east of London Liverpool Street on the West Anglia route, part of the Lea Valley Lines. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by London Overground and it is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The Orthomyxoviridae ("orthos", Greek for "straight"; "myxa", Greek for "mucus") are a family of RNA viruses. They include five genera: Influenzavirus A, Influenzavirus B, Influenzavirus C, Thogotovirus and Isavirus. The first three genera contain viruses that cause influenza in vertebrates, including birds (see also avian influenza), humans, and other mammals. Isaviruses infect salmon; thogotoviruses infect vertebrates and invertebrates, such as mosquitoes and sea lice.
The three genera of Influenzavirus can be told apart by the structure of their proteins. They infect vertebrates, as follows:
There are three genera of influenza virus: Influenzavirus A, Influenzavirus B and Influenzavirus C. Each genus includes only one species, or type: Influenza A virus, Influenza B virus, and Influenza C virus, respectively. Influenza A and C infect multiple species, while influenza B almost exclusively infects humans.
Influenza A viruses are further classified, based on the viral surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA or H) and neuraminidase (NA or N). Eighteen H subtypes (or serotypes) and eleven N subtypes of influenza A virus have been identified.
Further variation exists; thus, specific influenza strain isolates are identified by a standard nomenclature specifying virus type, geographical location where first isolated, sequential number of isolation, year of isolation, and HA and NA subtype.
Examples of the nomenclature are:
The type A viruses are the most virulent human pathogens among the three influenza types and causes the most severe disease. The serotypes that have been confirmed in humans, ordered by the number of known human pandemic deaths, are:
Influenza B virus is almost exclusively a human pathogen, and is less common than influenza A. The only other animal known to be susceptible to influenza B infection is the seal. This type of influenza mutates at a rate 2-3 times lower than type A and consequently is less genetically diverse, with only one influenza B serotype. As a result of this lack of antigenic diversity, a degree of immunity to influenza B is usually acquired at an early age. However, influenza B mutates enough that lasting immunity is not possible. This reduced rate of antigenic change, combined with its limited host range (inhibiting cross species antigenic shift), ensures that pandemics of influenza B do not occur.
The influenza C virus infects humans and pigs, and can cause severe illness and local epidemics. However, influenza C is less common than the other types and usually seems to cause mild disease in children.
Cambridge Heath railway station
Cambridge Heath railway station is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by London Overground, on the West Anglia route, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Oyster card (pay as you go) is accepted at the station from 2 January 2008.
Bethnal Green railway station
Bethnal Green railway station is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in east London. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by London Overground, on the West Anglia route, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station was formerly called "Bethnal Green Junction" and was also served by trains on the Great Eastern Main Line.
The typical off-peak service is:
Oyster card (pay as you go) on National Rail is accepted at the station from 2 January 2008.
In 1872 the Great Eastern Railway opened a new branch to Hackney Downs to serve this branch a new junction was built to the west of Cambridge Heath Road.
It also replaced a station called Mile End which was located on the eastern side of Cambridge Heath Road with a station immediately to the west of the new junction called Bethnal Green Junction.
It served both of the Great Eastern Railway routes and had four platforms. In 1946 this station stopped serving the Great Eastern main line to Shenfield and two platforms were closed, though the remains of the Shenfield down platform are still visible.
The Shenfield up (London-bound) platform was demolished and the tracks rearranged, coinciding with the swapping of services from the former fast tracks onto the former slow (resulting in the arrangement we see today). It is not known for certain when the station's name was changed, possibly when it ceased serving the Shenfield line.
Moeller High School
No man's land
No man's land is land that is not part of any country. It may be unclaimed territory, or an area that is under dispute and not occupied because of fear or uncertainty.
During war (especially World War I), it is a term used for the area of land between two enemy trenches. Usually nobody was alive there. It was full of shell holes, dead bodies, and barbed wire, and raked by machine gun fire. Attacks were made across no man's land but few attacking soldiers survived.
Vetmedin
Lohengrin (opera)
Lohengrin is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Wagner wrote both the words and the music. It is based on an old German legend.
"Lohengrin" is a story written by an unknown German author. It is related to other stories that belong to the Knight of the Swan tradition.
Wagner’s opera is like a fairy tale. It immediately became very popular. The young King Ludwig II of Bavaria built a fairy-tale castle in the south of Germany and called it "Neuschwanstein," meaning: “New Swan Stone”. The King was very fond of Wagner’s music and gave him a lot of money to help him with his next operas, especially for the cycle known as the "Ring of the Nibelung".
It was first performed in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 with Franz Liszt conducting. Liszt chose to conduct it on that particular day because 28 August was the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who had lived in Weimar.
Wagner did not hear the first performance. In May 1849 he had run away from Germany because he had been involved in a revolution. He fled to Switzerland. He did not hear his opera "Lohengrin" until 15 May 1861 when he saw a performance in Vienna.
The opera starts with a prelude played by the orchestra. It describes an angel coming down from the sky with the Holy Grail.
King Henry the Fowler has arrived in Brabant. He is sitting by the banks of the river Scheldt. Around him are Counts and nobles of the Saxon army. Opposite them are Counts and nobles of Brabant. King Henry explains that he had been fighting Hungarians who came to invade his country. They had agreed not to fight for nine years, but these nine years were now coming to an end and his men would have to fight again. The King wants the Brabantines to help them. He asks one of their bravest knights, Friedrich von Telramund, to explain why the Brabantines are arguing amongst themselves.
Count Telramund explains that the Duke of Brabant had recently died. As he lay dying, he had asked Telramund to look after his daughter Elsa and his son Gottfried. One day the two children had gone into the forest and Elsa had returned alone. The Duke tried to find out what had happened to Gottfried. The Duke’s wife Ortrud persuades the Duke to accuse Elsa of murdering her brother. The duke then makes himself the king of Brabant.
Elsa knows that she is innocent and asks God to be her judge. She needs a knight to fight for her. Telramund agrees to fight him.
The second time that the Herald calls the unknown knight, a miracle happens. A boat, pulled by a swan, appears. A knight in shining armour stands in the boat. He gets out of the boat, tells the swan that it can go, and then he greets the king. He asks Elsa if he can be her knight. Elsa kneels in front of him and asks for his help. He says that he will serve her, but he asks one thing: that she should never ask him what his name is or where he comes from. Elsa agrees. Everyone, except for Ortrud, prays and the fight starts. The unknown knight wins, but then he spares Telramund’s life. The unknown knight now takes Elsa’s hand and asks her to marry him.
The action takes place in the courtyard outside the cathedral. It is night. Telramund and Ortrud have been told to go away. Ortrud is a heathen witch, the daughter of Radbod, the Duke of Frisia. She tries to make Telramund brave again. She is going to persuade Elsa to ask the unknown knight what is name is.
When Elsa comes onto the balcony in the morning she sees Ortrud and feels sorry for her. An announcement is made that the king has decided to give the unnamed knight the title of Duke of Brabant. He says he does not want the title, and prefers to be known just as "Guardian of Brabant."
The King, the Knight, Elsa and her attendants are about to go into the church. Ortrud, beautifully dressed, appears and says that the knight is a magician. Telramund appears and says that the result of the fight he had did not count, because the knight has not told his name. The knight still refuses to tell his name.
The bedroom of the young couple. Elsa and her new husband enter to the well-known music called the Bridal Chorus. The couple say they love one another. However, Elsa still remembers how Ortrud was pressing her to ask the Knight his name. She asks him who he is. Telramund and four of his friends rush into the room to attack the knight, but Telramund is killed instead. The Knight is very sad and tells Elsa they will now go to the King and he will tell him who he is.
The scene changes to the banks of the river, as in Act I. The army is ready for war. Telramund’s dead body is carried in. The Knight explains why he killed Telramund. He tells the story of the Holy Grail and says that he is Lohengrin, Knight of the Holy Grail and son of King Parsifal. He says that he now has to return to his home. He had only stayed so long so that he could prove that Elsa was innocent.
Sadly he says goodbye to his young wife. The swan comes again. Lohengrin prays that Elsa may get her lost brother back. The swan dives into the river and appears again in the form of Gottfried, Elsa’s brother. He had been turned into a swan by the evil magic of Ortrud.
A dove comes down from heaven, and takes the place of the swan at the head of the boat. It takes Lohengrin to the castle of the Holy Grail. Elsa is so upset that she dies.
"Wagner Nights" by Ernest Newman (1949)
Erik the Red
Erik the Red (950–c. 1003) (Old Norse: Eiríkr rauði; ; ; ; ; ) founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. He was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson (Thorvald Asvaldsson). He therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson (or as Eiríkr Þorvaldsson). His nickname, "the Red", most likely refers to his hair color.
Erik the Red was born in Stavanger, Norway. His father, Thorvald Asvaldsson, murdered a man, so the family was exiled to Iceland. Erik also got into some trouble in Iceland, and was exiled in 982. Erik had heard of the travels of Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, who discovered some islands west of Iceland. Erik decided to explore these islands, and found land at a place he named Midjökull. But the weather there was very harsh, so Erik left and continued south, reaching land again at an island he named Erik’s Island. Erik spent his winter, as well as the following one, at Erik’s Island. Erik was no longer exiled from Iceland, so he returned the summer of 985. But when the fights with his neighbors began again, Erik decided to start advertising his new found land. He called his land Greenland, to make it sound nicer than it actually was.
He left Iceland in 986 with 25 ships, but only 14 survived the journey, with about 400-500 people and animals. The ships settled at Brattahlid. There were two established settlements; the Eastern Settlement on the coast on the southwest, and the Western Settlement 300 miles above that Settlement. He lived in the colony in Eriksfjord, and was the chief leader of both settlements. The people that lived in the settlements farmed land, raised animals like cows, pigs, and lamb, and hunted many animals. Erik’s wife Thjodhild became a believer in Christ, and she built the initial church in Greenland. However, Eric didn’t convert to Christianity.
Later, he wanted to go on an expedition west of Greenland, in search of land. He did not go because he fell off his horse, and saw this as a symbol of bad luck. In around 1000, Leif Erikson, his son conducted what was most likely the first trip made to the North American mainland.
Beuchat
Beuchat International, known as Beuchat, is a company that builds and sells underwater equipment. It was established in 1934 in Marseille, France.
The company was founded in 1934 by Mr. Georges Beuchat.
Georges Beuchat
Georges Beuchat (1910 – 1992) was a French inventor, diver, businessman. He was the emblematic pioneer of underwater activities and founder of Beuchat.
2004 Madrid train bombings
The 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known as 3/11 and in Spanish as 11-M) consisted of a series of coordinated bombings against the Cercanías (commuter train) system of Madrid. It happened on the morning of 11 March 2004, three days before Spain's general elections). The attack killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. The official investigation by the Spanish Judiciary determined the attacks were directed by a Muslim al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell, although no direct al-Qaeda participation (only "inspiration") has been established.
These bombings were Spain's worst terrorist attack.
Communes of the Aude department
There are 438 communes in the Aude "département" in France.
Aigues-Vives, Aude
Aigues-Vives, Aude is a commune of 504 people. It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Airoux
Airoux is a commune of 126 people (2007). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Ajac
Ajac is a commune of 196 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alairac
Alairac is a commune of 1,034 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alaigne
Alaigne is a commune of 300 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Albas, Aude
Albas, Aude is a commune of 59 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Albières
Albières is a commune of 73 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alet-les-Bains
Alet-les-Bains is a commune of 464 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alzonne
Alzonne is a commune of 1,221 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Antugnac
Antugnac is a commune of 266 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Aragon, Aude
Aragon, Aude is a commune of 453 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Harald Schumacher
Harald Schumacher (born 6 March 1954) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Hans-Peter Briegel
Hans-Peter Briegel (born 11 October 1955) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Karlheinz Förster
Karlheinz Förster (born 25 July, 1958) is a former German football player. He has played for the West Germany national team.
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Matthias Herget
Matthias Herget (born 14 November, 1955) is a former German football player. He has played for the West German national team.
Norbert Eder
Norbert Eder (7 November 1955 – 2 November 2019) was a German German football player. He played for the West Germany national team.
Eder died on 2 November 2019 of a long-illness in Stephanskirchen, Rosenheim, just five days before his 63rd birthday.
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Felix Magath
Felix Magath (born 26 July 1953) is a former German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
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Uli Stein
Uli Stein (born 23 October, 1954) is a former German football player. He was a goal keeper. Stein also played for West Germany national team.
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Karl Allgöwer
Karl Allgöwer (born 5 January, 1957) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Ditmar Jakobs
Ditmar Jakobs (born 28 August 1953) is a former German football player. He played for West Germany national team.
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Uwe Rahn
Uwe Rahn (born May 21, 1962) is a former German football player. He has played for the German national team.
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Klaus Allofs
Klaus Allofs (born 5 December, 1956) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Dieter Hoeneß
Dieter Hoeneß (born 7 January, 1953) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Wolfgang Rolff
Wolfgang Rolff (born 26 December, 1959) is a German football manager and former football player. He played for West Germany national team.
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Eike Immel
Eike Immel (born 27 November, 1960) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Bernd Förster
Bernd Förster (born 3 May, 1956) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Wolfgang Dremmler
Wolfgang Dremmler (born 12 July, 1954) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Klaus Fischer
Klaus Fischer (born 27 December, 1949) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Horst Hrubesch
Horst Hrubesch (born 17 April 1951) is a former German football player and football manager. He played for West Germany national team.
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Hansi Müller
Hansi Müller (born 27 July, 1957) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Wilfried Hannes
Wilfried Hannes (born 17 May, 1957) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Uwe Reinders
Uwe Reinders (born 19 January, 1955) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Uli Stielike
Uli Stielike (born 15 November 1954) is a German football manager and former football player. He played for West Germany national team.
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Thomas Allofs
Thomas Allofs (born 17 November, 1959) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Stephan Engels
Stephan Engels (born 6 September, 1960) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Holger Hieronymus
Holger Hieronymus (born 22 February, 1959) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Manfred Kaltz
Manfred Kaltz (born 6 January, 1953) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Bernd Franke
Bernd Franke (born 12 February, 1948) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
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Jupp Derwall
Jupp Derwall (10 March, 1927 - 26 June 2007) was a German football player. He played for West Germany national team.
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Tibooburra, New South Wales
Tibooburra is a small village in the north west corner of New South Wales, Australia. It is from the state capital, Sydney. In 2006 there were 161 people living at Tibooburra. Tibooburra is the hottest place in New South Wales. The name "Tibooburra" comes from the indigenous Australian word for "place of granites."
Tibooburra is a small and very remote town, but fuel, meals and several different places to stay are available. It is north of Broken Hill, New South Wales.
New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service have an Information Centre in the town. There is also a police station.
Explorer Charles Sturt was one of the first Europeans to visit the area in 1844. He spent six months trapped by drought at Depot Glen, south of Tibooburra. He then tried to travel north west but was stopped by the desert. Burke and Wills also went through the area in 1861 on their journey north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria. It was the search for Burke and Wills that led to the opening up of the country for the farming and grazing.
The town began during the gold rush to the nearby "Albert Goldfields". Gold was found in the area around Tibooburra in the 1880s. The town was first called called "The Granites". Many of the buildings are built from stone, such as the courthouse built in 1888.
Australian artist Clifton Pugh was often stayed at the Family Hotel (1882) in Tibooburra. He painted a number of murals, drawings and sketches on the inside wall of the hotel.
The main tourist attraction is Sturt National Park, and Cameron's Corner, where the border lines of the states of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales meet. Cameron's Corner has a hotel which also has fuel and some basic accommodation.
Tibooburra has a dry, hot, desert climate with temperatures above 40° Celsius (104 °F) in summer, often reaching as high as 47 °C (117 °F). Temperatures are milder in winter, about 20 °C (68 °F) in the daytime. Tibooburra is the hottest town in New South Wales. There is little rainfall during the year. In March 1949 and January 1974, the town received around or twice its average annual rainfall. In its driest year of 1940, only fell for the whole year.
Tibooburra Outback School of the Air is the town's only school, teaching both local children and the children of property owners in the area. It started as a Distance Education Centre in 1991. Before this, children on properties were educated through central schools in towns such as Broken Hill. The school was begun in 1886. No high school exists in the town. Children travel to the nearest high school, do home school, or attend boarding schools.
Three or four times each year, students from distant properties attend a 'mini-school' at the school. Mini-schools usually have themes (such as pirates or the circus) and have of a range of fun and educational activities. Out of town families also receive two home visits a year, in which a teacher (or teachers) and students visit and spend the day on the property.
In 2004 the school changed from radio based education to the Satellite Education Program.
Helmeted honeyeater
The helmeted honeyeater ("Lichenostomus melanops cassidix") is an endangered species of bird. There is only a tiny population in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, in Victoria, Australia. The helmeted honeyeater became the state of Victoria's official bird emblem in 1971.
Famous ornithologist, John Gould first described the bird as being a separate species, which he named "Ptilotis cassidix" in 1867. It now one of the three sub-species of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, "Lichenostomus melanops". The other sub-species are not endangered.
This bird is only found in a five km long patch of forest along two streams in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, 50 km east of Melbourne. A reserve was set up in the Bunyip State Park for releasing birds raised in captivity. In 2003 there were 103 individuals in the wild with 20 breeding pairs known as well as a further 34 birds in captivity at the Healesville Sanctuary. The 2009 Victorian bushfires burnt to within 200 metres of bird colony at Bunyip State Park. Captive birds had to be moved to the Melbourne Zoo when the fires also came close to the Healesville Sanctuary. However, on April 28, 2009, 13 birds bred in captivity were released back into the wild. The number of wild birds is now believed to be 113.
Before the captive breeding program was started there were only about 5060 birds left in the wild. The birds have been bred at Healesville and at Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo.
The Helmeted honeyeater is about 20 centimetres (8 inches) long. Their colour can be anywhere from black to olive green. They have a yellow patch on the heads.
Helmeted honeyeaters eat manna, which is like a sap from some eucalyptus trees. They also eat nectar from the eucalypt flowers as well as small insects and spiders.
Several things are being done to save this bird from becoming extinct. One is a captive breeding program, where the birds are bred at Healesville and Toronga Park. When they become old enough, between 6—8 months, the are put into the wild where they will hopefully begin breeding. Forest areas are being planted with the right sort of trees and plants to provide the birds with food and shelter. This is being done on private land as well as in the State parks. There is also planting to join the small patches of bush with corridors so the birds are not trapped in one small area.
Arch Resources
Arch Resources, Inc. , previously known as Arch Coal, is the second-largest coal producer in the United States, claiming to hold 12% of America’s coal supply (140 million tons in 2005). The company's mines are in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia. The corporate headquarters are in St. Louis, Missouri.
The company claims a large reserve of coal that has not been mined yet. It is a total of 3.1 billion tons of mostly low-sulfur coal.
Arch Coal shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ACI.
Arch Mineral Corporation began in 1969, as a partnership between Ashland Oil (now Ashland, Inc.) and the Hunt family of Dallas. Arch Coal was formed in July 1997 when the privately held Arch Mineral merged with the publicly traded Ashland Coal, Inc., which had been formed in 1975 as a subsidiary of Ashland Oil.
In June 1998, Arch Coal purchased the coal fields and mines of the Atlantic Richfield company, which were mostly in the central Rocky Mountains.
National Fuel Gas
National Fuel Gas was incorporated in 1902 and is based in Williamsville, New York.
The Utility division sells natural gas or moves natural gas from one part of the country to another. The Pipeline and Storage division provides interstate natural gas transportation and storage services for related and non-related companies. The Exploration and Production division prospects for and extracts natural gas and oil from the ground. The Energy Marketing division markets natural gas to industrial, commercial, government, and residential customers. The Timber division markets wood from its New York and Pennsylvania forests, and it owns two sawmills in northwestern Pennsylvania, to cut wood into useful sizes and treat it with chemicals to make it last longer.
National Fuel Gas was one of the first gas utility companies in the United States, and so they have been the first to create some new technologies. Engineers at the company discovered that empty underground gas fields could be used to store gas that has been taken from the ground somewhere else. Thus, the first such storage facility in the US was set up at Zoar Field, about forty miles south of Buffalo. This turned out to be a good financial decision for NFG in the 1940s and 50s, when increased demand for natural gas led to long pipelines in the eastern states being connected to new pipelines and fields in the southwestern states. NFG could then buy huge amounts of cheaper summer gas from the southwest, pipe it to the New York storage fields, pump it down into the ground, then take it back out when demand and prices went up in the winter months.
The company was also the first in the industry to make a gas-fired generator to electrify pipelines so they wouldn't corrode so much. (Natural gas can eat away at metal, over time.)
In 1975, with the introduction of "Balanced Billing", the company claimed that it was "the only gas utility in the country" with a flexible plan for customers to pay bills in eleven equal monthly payments, with settlement of any overpayment or underpayment in the twelfth month. This is a sort of system of installment credit.
National Fuel Gas Co. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NFG. Its fiscal year ends September 30.
Canton, Ohio
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge