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In 1963 he starred in her first television series "The Lieutenant", as Captain Ray Rambridge. In 1970s worked in the TV mini-series "Captains and the Kings" (1976), "Washington: Behind Closed Doors" (1977), and "Centennial" (1978-1979). Robert Vaughn also worked for the British television. He starred in series "The Protectors" (1972-1974). Vaughn played the role of Harry Rule for 52 episodes of the series. In 1986, he was hired to play the role of General Hunt Stockwell, in "The A-Team", with George Peppard.
He also worked in the television western "The Magnificent Seven" (1998) as Judge Oren Travis.
Vaughn has been guest star on many TV series. These include "Frontier" (1956), "Gunsmoke" (1956 - 1957), "The Rifleman" (1958), "Law of the Plainsman" (1959), "Thriller" (1961), "Police Woman" (1975-1976), "Columbo" (1976), "Hawaii 5-0" (1979), "The Love Boat" (1981), "Stingray" (1986), "Hunter" (1989), "Murder, She Wrote" (1985-1992), "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" (1993), "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1996), "" (2006) and "Little Britain USA".
He received an Emmy Award as supporting actor, for TV movie "Washington: Behind Closed Doors".
Between 2004 and 2011, Vaughn starred in the series "Hustle".
Mike Shaw
Mike Shaw (May 9, 1957 – September 11, 2010) was an American professional wrestler who was best known for wrestling with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring names, Norman The Lunatic and Bastion Booger. He was married to his wife and they had two children. He died on September 11, 2010 due to a heart attack.
Shaw held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Robert W. Holley
Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922; Urbana, Illinois – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he won for describing the structures for alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.
Buff Bagwell
Marcus Alexander Bagwell (born January 10, 1970 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler who is best known for wrestling with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring names, Buff Bagwell.
Bagwell held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Jay Lethal
Jamar Shipman (born April 21, 1985 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American professional wrestler who currently wrestles for Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name, Jay Lethal. He is probably best known for wrestling for TNA Wrestling from 2005 to 2011.
Lethal has held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car that was built by Lamborghini from 1966 to 1972. The Miura is named after the fighting bull. It was designed by Marcello Gandini. 764 were automobiles produced.
M&amp;T Bank Stadium
M&T Bank Stadium is the home football stadium of the Baltimore Ravens. It is in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The Ravens moved into M&T Bank Stadium in 1998 after spending a two years in Memorial Stadium. M&T Bank Stadium has also hosted the NCAA Lacrosse Final Four in 2003, 2004 and 2007.
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 - September 11, 1987), was a Canadian actor and singer.
Greene was born on February 12, 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His first movie was "Churchill's Island" (1941), as narrator. He was in films such as "The Silver Chalice" (1954), "Autumn Leaves" (1956), with Joan Crawford, "Peyton Place" (1957), with Lana Turner, "The Buccaneer" (1958), with Yul Brynner, and "Earthquake" (1974), with Charlton Heston.
Greene also had roles in some low-budget westerns, including "The Last of the Fast Guns" (1958), "The Hangman" (1959),
He also worked on the Japanese film "Nippon chinbotsu" (1974).
Greene gained fame in 1959 starring in the NBC western "Bonanza". He played role of Ben Cartwright, the owner of the Ponderosa Ranch in Virginia City.
Also in the series were Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright, Michael Landon as Joseph 'Little Joe' Cartwright, and Dan Blocker as Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright.
The series was a success and lasted for 14 seasons between 1959 and 1973.
In the early years of Greene's career, he made ​​guest appearances on television shows including "Ford Television Theatre" (1953), "Producers' Showcase" (1955), "General Motors Presents" (1955), "The United States Steel Hour" (1956), "Kraft Television Theatre" (1957), "Shirley Temple's Storybook" (1958).
In 1955, he starred in his first series "Sailor of Fortune", as Capt. Mitchell. The series was co-produced by Canada and Britain television, and lasted one season.
He was also a detective in "Griff" (1973-1974) created by Larry Cohen. Greene played Wade Griffin, a police officer with many years of service who leaves the force to become a private investigator
Another of his memorable roles was that of John Reynolds in the TV mini-series "Roots" (1977).
Greene continued to have success on television as the star of the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978-1979), and "Galactica" (1980) where he played the role of Commander Adama. The series featured special effects never before seen on American television.
David McCallum
David Keith McCallum (born September 19, 1933) is a Scottish actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. McCallum is best known for playing Illya Kuryakin in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard on "NCIS".
McCallum's first movie work was in "Ill Met by Moonlight" (1957), followed "The Secret Place" (1957). Later, he worked in "The Long and the Short and the Tall" (1961), "Billy Budd" (1962), and "Freud" (1962). McCallum played a role in the movie "The Great Escape" (1962), with Steve McQueen and directed by John Sturges. In 1965, he worked in the in biblical movie "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965). In this movie he played Judas. In 1966, he co-starred in "Around the World Under the Sea" (1966), with Lloyd Bridges.
He had a strong performance in first lead role in a movie in "Mosquito Squadron" (1969), directed by Boris Sagal. In 1970s, McCallum acted in movies as "Dogs" (1976), "The Kingfisher Caper" (1976),
Most of his career has been ​​in television. He has worked for over fifty years in television both in the United States and the United Kingdom. His first appearances were in British television in "Our Mutual Friend" (1958), "The Eustace Diamonds" (1959), "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1959) and "BBC Sunday-Night Play" (1960). In 1964, he played the role of Illya Kuryakin in the American TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.". McCallum played the character for 114 episodes. For this series McCallum was nominated for two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. David McCallum also had success in British series "Colditz" (1972-1974), and "Sapphire & Steel" (1979-1982).
He also played role the invisible man in NBC TV series, "The Invisible Man". In the 1990s, he was in the sci-fi series VR.5 as Doctor Joseph Bloom. He worked on the American series "The Replacements" (2006-2009) and CBS TV series "" (2003-2011), as Dr. Donald Mallard.
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
Memorial Stadium was a stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The stadium was home to the National Football League (NFL) team, the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 1997 and was also home to the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball from 1954 to 1991, as well as the Baltimore Colts from 1954 to 1983, and the Baltimore Stallions from 1986 to 1987. The stadium was demolished in 2001. In 2010 a new baseball field was built on the same site of the Memorial stadium and Cal Ripken was at the ribbon-cutting. It was nicknamed "The Old Grey Lady of 33rd Street" and "The World's Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum", for the infamous fan noise. The stadium eventually lost teams because it could not compete with other newer stadiums. There was a plack on the stadium honoring allied soldiers in World War II. A replica now sits outside Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the new home of the Orioles. The Ravens now play in M&T Bank Stadium.
Sumac, also spelled sumach, is a flowering plant.
Sumacs are small trees. The leaves are arranged like spirals. The flowers are in spikes. Each flower is very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form clusters of reddish drupes called "sumac bobs".
Cubeb
Cubeb ("Piper cubeba"), also known as tailed pepper or Java pepper, is a plant in genus "Piper" is used for its fruit and essential oil. It is usually found in Java, and so it is sometimes called Java pepper. The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and dried carefully. The seed of the plant is white and hard oily.
In Europe, cubeb was one of the valuable spices during the Middle Ages. It was used in sauces. An old recipe includes cubeb in making "sauce sarcenes", which consists of almond milk and a few spices. As a good-smelling snack, cubeb was often candied and eaten.
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis is the title of a book by Julian Huxley which was published in 1942. It was the book which gave the modern evolutionary synthesis its name, and was one of the most important books on biology in the mid-twentieth century.
Huxley was one of the main architects of the new evolutionary synthesis which took place around the time of World War II.
Two of these papers were on the subject of sexual selection, an idea of Darwin's whose standing has been revived in recent times. Huxley thought that sexual selection was "...merely an aspect of natural selection". This rather grudging acceptance of sexual selection was influenced by his studies on the courtship of the Great Crested Grebe (and other birds that pair for life): the courtship takes place mostly "after" mate selection, not before.
Now it was time for Huxley to tackle the subject of evolution at full length, in what became the defining work of his life.
His role was that of a synthesiser, and it helped that he had met many of the other participants. His book "Evolution: The Modern Synthesis" was written whilst he was Secretary to the Zoological Society, and made use of his remarkable collection of reprints covering the first part of the century. It was published in 1942.
Reviews of the book in learned journals were little short of ecstatic; the American Naturalist called it "The outstanding evolutionary treatise of the decade, perhaps of the century. The approach is thoroughly scientific; the command of basic information amazing".
Huxley's main co-respondents in the modern evolutionary synthesis are usually listed as Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, Bernhard Rensch, Ledyard Stebbins and the population geneticists J.B.S. Haldane, Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright.<br> However, at the time of Huxley's book several of these had yet to make their distinctive contribution. Certainly, for Huxley, E.B. Ford and his co-workers in ecological genetics were at least as important.
It was Huxley who coined the terms "the new synthesis" and "evolutionary synthesis"; he also invented the term "cline" in 1938 to describe species whose members fall into a series of sub-species with continuous change in characters over a geographical area. The classic example of a cline is the circle of subspecies of the gull "Larus" round the Arctic zone. This cline is an example of a "ring species".<br>Some of Huxley's last contributions to the evolutionary synthesis were on the subject of ecological genetics. He noted how surprisingly widespread polymorphism is in nature, with visible morphism much more prevalent in some groups than others. The immense diversity of colour and pattern in small bivalve molluscs, brittlestars, sea anemones, tubicular polychaetes and various grasshoppers is perhaps maintained by making recognition by predators more difficult.
Electronic commerce more well known as e-commerce consists of the buying or selling of products via electronic means such as the internet or other electronic services. This type of trade has been growing rapidly because of the expansion of the Internet.
The need for electronic commerce emerged from the need to use computers more efficiently in banks and corporations. With the increasing competition, there was a need amongst organizations to increase customer satisfaction and information exchange. Electronic commerce started with the introduction of electronic funds transfer (EFT) by banks. Over time many variants of EFTs within banks were introduced like debit cards, credit cards, and direct deposits.
There are 5 common types of E-commerce:
E-commerce involves buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium. Broadly, e-commerce is classified into four categories: business to business or B2B (Cisco), business to consumer or B2C (Amazon), consumer to consumer or C2C (eBay), and Business-to-Government (B2G).
Business-to-business e-commerce involves agreements between 2 businesses. Distribution management, inventory management, channel management, supplier management and payment management are some of the areas in which B2B applications are widely used. In Bangladesh, bgmea.com.bd, bizbangladesh.com are examples of B2B platforms.
B2C commerce involves e-commerce between businesses and consumers. This form of e-commerce involves the purchase of books or any form of consumer goods. It also includes the purchase of software, e-books, games, songs as well as e-banking. ajkerdeal.com, bdbazar.com, daraz.com, bajna.com are some examples of B2C. Advantages of B2C platforms to companies are reduced operating costs, bigger outreach, globalisation, customer convenience and knowledge management. Consumer-to-consumer e-commerce involves transactions between individual consumers. For instance, online auction, peer-to-peer system for money or file exchange can be classified as forms of C2C e-commerce. In Bangladesh bikroy.com, clickbd.com are examples of C2C platforms.
B2G is usually used for licensing process, public purchasing and other government operations. B2G e-commerce is rather insignificant when compared to the other three forms. However, B2G can be one of the driving forces for running the public sector known as e-governance.
A wide range of technologies is used in e-commerce that includes electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail (e-mail), electronic funds transfer (EFT). In the case of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), there needs to be an agreement between trading partners. EDI is a standard method for exchanging business data. E-mail and fax are also forms of EDI. In Bangladesh small, medium, and big enterprises have taken up e-business platforms. When compared to developed countries, developing countries have a higher potential for improving the business structure and raise productivity by using e-commerce as a medium. M-Commerce (Mobile Commerce) and F-Commerce (Facebook Commerce) are very popular in today's e-business world. Over the years, the number of online transactions has been on the rise. According to BTRC officials, the number of internet subscribers in Bangladesh had crossed 80 million in 2017. At present, there are approximately 2,000 e-commerce sites and 50,000 Facebook-based outlets delivering almost 30,000 products a day. Currently, 80 per cent of the online sales are taking place in Dhaka, Chattogram and Gazipur.
Online transactions in Bangladesh have been increasing over the years. Improvements in the standard of living coupled with advancement in livelihood, shopping behaviour has experienced a significant shift. In Bangladesh, the e-commerce industry set sail in the late 90s but was unable to expand immediately. Gradually, over the years, banking, logistics communications and payment methods have improved creating opportunities for the e-business sector to develop. Many sectors including the banking sector are now using the internet payment system. As consumers can avail of credit, debit card services and digital wallets, the cash-on-delivery system is now more accessible.
Over the last few years, internet connections have improved and the number of people who have access to the web has increased thus making way for the e-commerce business to flourish. In 2016, $50 million was invested in the e-commerce sector in Bangladesh. Out of which $10 million was from Foreign Direct Investment. In 2017, the B2C e-commerce business market measure equaled USD 110-115 million (around BDT 9.0 billion) compared to BDT 1335.71 billion made by the retail market. The outreach of the e-commerce business market exceeded Tk 17.0 billion in 2017 from Tk 4.0 billion in 2016, as revealed from the findings by the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB). The market measure for e-commerce is expected to equal Tk 70 billion by 2021.
In Bangladesh, retail e-commerce is growing at 72 per cent a month. At present, more than 35,000 individuals and above 25,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are part of this sector. Till 2018, the number of e-commerce business sites and e-commerce pages equaled 2,500 and 150,000 respectively. It was estimated that the number of deliveries per day added up to about 15,000 to 20,000 at the retail level.
Before 2013, the government had placed restrictions on the purchase and sale of goods and online services through international credit cards (export.gov, 2017). In the first three quarters of 2016, the e-commerce industry achieved 67 per cent growth whereas, the country's e-commerce transaction reached BDT 3.59 (Xinhua, 2016).
According to Bangladesh telecommunication regulatory commission (BTRC) in 2016, the internet penetration rate was recorded at 13.2 per cent, and the number of internet users was 66.6 million. In 2017, the number of internet users reached 80.6 million along with an increase in the penetration rate to 48.4 per cent. In 2018 the number of internet users further increased to 91.3 million and the penetration rate was 52.77 per cent. Currently, the number of internet subscribers has reached 96.199 Million (June, 2019). According to market analysts, Bangladesh's e-commerce business market will reach USD 20 billion by 2020. According to June 2019 statistics of BRTC, 90.4 million users subscribe to the mobile internet, 0.06 million subscribe to WiMAX and 5.73 million to ISP + PSTN connections.
Although the e-commerce sector has grown over the years, there remain many obstacles. Some of the key challenges are net neutrality, high-speed net, parcel delivery logistics and assurance of quality products. Foreign players also pose competition and risk to local start-ups. The sector suffers from a lack of logistics and a sound transportation system that restricts e-commerce trading to expand. The transportation system affects the delivery of products. Challenges also persist in the logistics sector. A large chunk of almost 65 per cent of the operations of the e-commerce companies takes place in the capital and Chattogram. The e-commerce companies fail to reach all parts of the country, including of course the rural areas, due to poor infrastructure and inability to access remote areas for lack of adequate transport facilities.
In Bangladesh, in the majority of the cases payment is made upon delivery. 80 per cent of the payments are done through the cash-on-delivery method, whereas only 15-20 per cent are done through mobile payment gateways. Cash-on-delivery leads to the risk of tax evasion and also results in a lack of transparency in transactions. This is largely due to a lack of trust and the absence of a reliable and safe payment system. In addition, the number of credit and debit card users in the country is low, as a result, many customers are unable to make online payments. The e-wallet system is expected to overcome this problem to some extent. bKash has partnered with the e-commerce ventures in the country and also, if banks also follow suit, it will be beneficial.
The e-commerce industry in Bangladesh is an emerging industry. This sector is steadily growing and attaining competitiveness. The local e-commerce companies which have been in the market since the inception of the e-commerce industry should be given protection. Simultaneously, foreign investments are required in this sector. The payment procedures offered by e-commerce sites need to be made more secure. Low-cost, high-speed internet needs to be ensured in rural areas. The e-commerce industry needs to put more emphasis on delivery logistics and customer service. Immediate action to ensuring consumers' rights needs to be taken since a regulatory authority is not present to prevent consumers from being cheated and given low quality or date-expired products.
Despite the obstacles, the sector has a lot of potentials and in the next few years, the contribution of e-commerce to the country's GDP is likely to be significant. The government should be more forthcoming in supporting this sector as part of its Digital Bangladesh initiative.
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (28 June 1928 – 1 October 1990) was an Irish physicist who made great contributions to quantum physics, and especially to the question of what Heisenberg's uncertainty principle really tells us about the world.
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Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (German: "Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie Herzogin zu Mecklenburg"; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen consort of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III.
After her husband's ascension, Louise developed many ties to senior ministers and became a powerful figure within the government as she began to command universal respect and affection. The queen always tried to stay informed of political developments at court, and from the very beginning of his reign the new king consulted Louise on matters of state.
Though Prussia had not fought in a war since 1795, its military leaders were confident that they could win against Napoleon's troops. After a small incident concerning an anti-French pamphlet occurred, King Frederick William was finally pressured by his wife and family to break off his uneasy peace and enter the war against the French emperor. Prussian troops began mobilizing, culminating in the October 1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, which was a disaster for Prussia, as the ability of its armed forces to continue the war were effectively wiped out. The king and queen had accompanied their troops into battle at Jena (with Louise apparently dressed "like an Amazon"), but had to flee from French troops.
Napoleon himself occupied Berlin, and the king, queen and the rest of the royal family had to flee, despite Louise's illness, in the dead of winter to Königsberg in the easternmost part of the kingdom. On the journey there, there was no food or clean water, and the king and queen were forced to share the same sleeping arrangements in "one of the wretched barns they call houses", according to one witness traveling with them.
Napoleon demanded, from a highly superior position, peace terms in what was to be called the Peace of Tilsit (1807). In the midst of these negotiations, the emperor agreed to keep half of Prussia intact. Louise reluctantly agreed to meet the emperor at Tilsit, but only to save "her Prussia." She tried to use her beauty and charm to flatter him into more favorable terms. Before she had called him "the Monster", but now she made a request for a private interview with the emperor. She threw herself at his feet; Napoleon was impressed by her grace and determination, but he refused to make any concessions. Queen Louise's efforts to protect her adopted country from French aggression became well admired by future generations.
On 19 July 1810, the Queen died in her husband's arms from an unidentified illness. The queen's subjects attributed the French occupation as the cause of her early death. Louise's death left her husband alone during a period of great difficulty, as the Napoleonic Wars and need for reform continued. Napoleon remarked the king "has lost his best minister."
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres") is great work of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).
The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, offered proof that the Earth went round the Sun, and not vice versa, as had been thought.
This was an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's Earth-centered system, which had been accepted since ancient times.
Copernicus had worked his ideas out many years before, but was afraid to publish, fearing the anger of the Roman Catholic Church. Finally, the book was published just before he died.
In its standard English edition, the book contains 330 folio pages, 100 pages of tables, and over 20,000 tabulated numbers.
The book is dedicated to Pope Paul III in a preface that argues that mathematics, not physics, should be the basis for understanding and accepting his new theory.
"De revolutionibus" is divided into six "books" (sections or parts):
This book is often referred to as the start of modern science.
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake was an earthquake that happened in the San Francisco Bay Area. It happened on October 17, 1989, just after 5pm local time. The earthquake caused over 67 deaths. It caused billions of dollars worth of property damage. The earthquake happened during one of the games of the 1989 World Series. Because of that, it is sometimes called the "World Series Quake".
International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA; ) is an autonomous intergovernmental organization created in 1974 after the 1973 oil crisis. It is based in Paris.
On 1 September 2015, Fatih Birol succeeded the 2011 Executive Director of the IEA, Maria van der Hoeven.
Lee Majors (born April 23, 1939) is an American actor.
Majors began his career in small roles for movie and television. One role was in "Strait-Jacket" (1964), with Joan Crawford.
In 1965, he got the role of Heath Barkley on the ABC series "The Big Valley", with Barbara Stanwyck as the owner of the ranch, and mother of three of the Barkleys. Majors played the character for 112 episodes between 1965 and 1969. It was the first hit of his career.
After the success of "Big Valley". Major starred in the TV movie "The Ballad of Andy Crocker" (1969). He played a man who, after returning from Vietnam, loses the most precious things in his life.
In 1970, he was invited to join the cast of "The Virginian", starring James Drury. In "The Virginian", the role played by Roy Tate, during the 1970-1971 season of the series.
In 1971, he played Jess Brandon, assistant attorney, in "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law".
In 1978, starred in the movie about Vikings "The Norseman". Then came "Killer Fish" (1979) and "Agency" (1980) with Robert Mitchum.
In 1980, he starred in the television remake of "High Noon". In "High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane" (1980), Majors played Will Kane. In this movie were two big western stars David Carradine and Pernell Roberts.
In 1981, he returned to television. He was successful in a number of television series. In "The Fall Guy", he played Colt Seavers, a stunt double who worked to solve criminal cases. The series was one of the biggest hits of Majors and remained in the air between 1981 and 1986.
In the 1990s, he co-starred in the series "Tour of Duty" and "Raven". He was a guest star on the series "Daytona Beach" (1996) and "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1998). In recent years he was a guest star on "Will & Grace" (2005), "Cold Case" (2007), "According to Jim" (2008), and "Human Target" (2010).
In 2011, the movie version of "The Big Valley" started being made. Majors plays Tom Barkley.
One of Majors' most famous roles is that of Col. Steve Austin in the ABC series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974-1977). In that series, he played an astronaut whose body was rebuilt with bionic parts after a plane crash. His co-star was the actor Richard Anderson.
There were three movies pilots: "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1973), "The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War" (1973) and "The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping" (1973).
Majors was in a reunion movie, "The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1987), "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman" (1989), and "Bionic Ever After?" (1994).
In 1977, Majors was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as best actor for "The Six Million Dollar Man".
Machel Montano
Machel Montano (born 24 November 1974) is a artist from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the lead of the soca band Xtatik. He had his first hit as a youth with "Too Young To Soca". He then won the 1987 Caribbean Song Festival.
Montano was born in Curepe (Northwestern Trinidad), and his family moved to Siparia, (Southwestern Trinidad), when he was very young.[6] He attended Siparia Boys' R.C., then Presentation College, a prestigious secondary school in San Fernando, where he was in the choir led by Mrs Cynthia Lee-Mac.[6] Machel first shot to fame as a nine-year-old boy with the song "Too Young To Soca" while he was still in primary school. In 1984, along with his older brother Marcus and neighbours, the group Pranasonic Express was started and, in 1989, the band became Xtatik. In April, 1986, at the age of 11, Montano appeared on the mainstream television show, Star Search.[7] In 1987, he took part in the Trinidad and Tobago National Song Writers Festival, and placed second with his song "Dream Girl". He also won the Caribbean Song Festival in Barbados. Such a win made Machel the first Trinidadian and youngest contestant to win this competition.
He is the front-man of the soca band The HD Family, and is noted for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances. In 1987 he was the youngest finalist to ever win the Caribbean Song Festival. His career spans more than 30 years.[2] He now stands as one of the most well-known soca acts in the world, using his leverage as an artist able to sell out shows.[3] Recently he has moved to the Los Angeles area[4] and furthered his pursuit, saying: "I may not be the one to bring it forth, but in the meantime, I have a lot of work to do in order for something to happen." He is very well known in New York City, where he has had sold out concerts in Madison Square Garden many times over.
ASAP is an acronym that means "As soon as possible". This means that something should be done as fast as it is able to be done.
ASAP may also mean:
Nelson Frazier, Jr.
Nelson Frazier, Jr. (February 14, 1971 – February 18, 2014) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring names, Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V. He wrestles for All Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name, Big Daddy V and Big Daddy Voodoo. He was forced to retire from WWE for good as WWE did not want to be responsible for his health problems.
Frazier was in the 2009 movie "The Legend of Awesomest Maximus" co-starring
Will Sasso and Rip Torn. He also was in the movie "Wrong Side of Town" with fellow wrestlers Dave Batista and Rob Van Dam.
On the night of February 18, 2014, it was reported that Frazier had died following a heart attack, four days after turning 43.
Frazier has held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Sylvain Grenier
Sylvain Grenier (born March 26, 1977 in Varennes, Québec) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his time working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is known for wrestling for the tag team, La Résistance along with Rob Conway and René Duprée.
Grenier held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
William Mueller
William Theodore Mueller (born September 10, 1980 in Coffeyville, Kansas) is an American professional wrestler who is best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name, Trevor Murdoch.
Mueller has held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Lovage
Lovage ("Levisticum officinale") is a tall perennial plant.
Lovage leaves can be used in salads or to make soup, and the roots can be eaten as vegetable or grated for use in salads. Lovage seeds can be used as a spice. In the UK, lovage cordial was traditionally mixed with brandy as a winter drink.
White mustard
White mustard is an annual plant.
The yellow flowers of the plant make seed pods, with each pod having a half dozen seeds. These seeds are harvested just before the pods become ripe.
White mustard seeds are hard and round, usually around 1 to 1.5 millimetres, with a color forming from beige or yellow to light brown.
In Greece, the plant's leaves can be eaten during the winter, before it blooms. Greeks call it "vrouves" or "lapsana".
The blooming season of this plant (February–March) is celebrated in the Mustard Festival.
Tiffany Thornton
Tiffany Dawn Thornton (born February 14, 1986 in College Station, Texas, U.S.) is an American actress, comedian and singer, best known for her co-starring role as Tawni Hart on the Disney Channel Original Series, "Sonny with a Chance."
Thornton made her television acting debut on the pilot episode of the Fox sitcom, "Quintuplets". She then went on to guest star on "8 Simple Rules", "American Dreams", "The O.C.", "Desperate Housewives", "That's So Raven", "Jericho", "Wizards of Waverly Place" and "Hannah Montana".
In 2009, she began her role as Tawni Hart on the Disney Channel Original Series, "Sonny with a Chance" and then went on to play a part in the Disney Channel Original Movie, "Hatching Pete".
Thornton became engaged to her boyfriend of one year, Christopher Carney, a court officer, in December 2009. She has openly stated, "I am a Christian. I would have nothing without my faith."
Lee Van Cleef (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor.
Born in Somerville, New Jersey, U.S.. His first roles were the villain Jack Colby in the western classic "High Noon" (1952) with Gary Cooper, and the sci fi movie "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) as Corp. Stone. Other classic western movies, he played a minor role in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), as Ed Bailey, and "The Tin Star" (1957), as Ed McGaffey.
Lee Van Cleef jumped to fame in the spaghetti westerns, directed by Sergio Leone, "Per qualche dollaro in più" ("For a Few Dollars More") (1965) and "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly") (1966), with Clint Eastwood in the title role.
He had great success in European cinema in Italy is the protagonist of Spaghetti Westerns: "The Big Gundown" (1966) - "Da uomo a uomo" (1966) - "I giorni dell'ira" (1967) - "Al di là della legge" (1968) - "Sabata" (1969) - "È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta" (1971) - "Bad Man's River" (1971) - "Il grande duello" (1972) - "Dio, sei proprio un padreterno!" (1973) - "The Stranger and the Gunfighter" (1974) - "Take a Hard Ride" (1975) - "Diamante Lobo" (1976).
In the United States, Van Cleef also starred in some western movies such as "Barquero" (1970), by Gordon Douglas, and "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" (1972) by George McCowan
In the early 1980s he worked in the film "The Octagon" (1980), with Chuck Norris, "Escape from New York" (1981), directed by John Carpenter, and "Armed Response" (1986), with David Carradine.
In 1984, Van Cleef was the main protagonist of the NBC television series "The Master", created by Michael Sloan, Lee plays an ex-military master martial arts expert ninja. Although it only lasted 13 episodes in the series keeps hundreds of thousands of fans around the world
He also guest starred in the TV series "The Range Rider" - "The Adventures of Champion" - "The Gene Autry Show" - "The Lone Ranger" - "Brave Eagle" - "Trackdown" - "Wagon Train" - "Laramie" - "Rawhide" - "Branded" - "Laredo" - "Gunsmoke", always playing villain roles
Loud (album)
Loud is the fifth studio album by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It was released November 12, 2010. This record produced several hit songs, including number one hits "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?" and "S&M". The album received mostly positive reviews from the music critics.
The album has sold over 3 milion copies and was fifth on the "Billboard" 200. The album was more upbeat and happy compared to 2009's "Rated R" and features a more dance-pop and R&B sound. Several rap artists made an appearance on the album including Eminem, Drake and Nicki Minaj.
Credits for "Loud" adapted from Allmusic.
David Soul born August 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American actor, director, and singer.
His career began with small roles in television series such as "Flipper" (1967), "I Dream of Jeannie" (1967), and "Star Trek" (1967) as Makora.
In 1968 he played the role of Joshua Bolt on the television comedy "Here Come the Brides".
In the early '70s he continued to work as a guest actor in shows and series for television such as
"The Young Rebels" (1970), "Dan August" (1971), "Ironside" (1971), "All in the Family" (1972), "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972), "The F.B.I." (1972), "Ghost Story" (1973), "Cannon" (1973).
He also got two small roles in the films "Johnny Got His Gun" (1971), and "Magnum Force" (1974, with Clint Eastwood), Soul plays of role Officer John Davis one of the members of the death squad.
In 1974 he co-starred with Glenn Ford in the television film "The Disappearance of Flight 412" directed by Jud Taylor. In 1979, Soul starred in "Salem's Lot", a horror movie about vampires
The decade of the 1980s brought a lot of work television to Soul. He got starring roles in "Swan Song" (1980), "Rage!" (1980), "Homeward Bound" (1981), "World War III" (1982), and "Through Naked Eyes" (1983).
One of his best films was "In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders" (1988), directed by Dick Lowry. He plays a criminal who, with an accomplice, committed a long string of crimes in the state of Florida. they meet in a bloody shootout with FBI members.
In the 1990s Soul worked on the big screen with Dolph Lundgren in "Pentathlon" (1994), directed by Bruce Malmuth.
Some years ago Soul worked on British television, has participated in such films as "The Dark Lantern" (2004), "Jerry Springer: The Opera" (2005).
Soul shot to stardom in 1975 as star of the detective series "Starsky and Hutch". He played Detective Sergeant Ken Hutchinson who, along with Dave Starsky Paul Michael Glaser, had to stop all kinds of criminals. The stories deal with simple cases of theft to serial killings. Soul played the character of Ken Hutchinson in 82 episodes between 1975 and 1979.
Soul also had a successful career as a singer. He had hits like "Don't Give Up On Us" and "Silver Lady", which peaked at number one on the charts in Britain in 1977. Soul recorded five albums: "David Soul" (1976), "Playing To An Audience Of One" (1977), "Band Of Friends" (1979), The "Best Days Of My Life" (1982), and "Leave A Light On" (1997).
List of science books
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Morning glory is a family of common flowering plants known as Convolvulaceae which includes bindweed.
Most morning glory flowers curl up and close during the warm parts of the day, and are wide open in the morning, like their name. On a cloudy day, the flower may last until night. The flowers usually start to fade a few hours before the petals start curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day. Some morning glories, such as "Ipomoea muricata", are night blooming flowers.
"Ipomoea aquatica", known as "water spinach", "water morning-glory", "water convolvulus", "Ong-Choy", "Kang-kung", or "swamp cabbage", is used as a green vegetable.
Edelweiss is a well-known Europe mountain flower.
Leaves and flowers are covered with white hairs and look woolly. Each Edelweiss bloom has five to six small yellow flower heads surrounded by leaflets in a star shape. The flowers are in bloom between July and September.
The Edelweiss prefers rocky limestone places. It has been used traditionally in folk medicine. The hair on the flower protect the Edelweiss from cold.
Borage
Borage, also known as starflower, is an annual herb.
The flowers are perfect with five narrow, triangular-pointed petals. Flowers are most often blue in color, although pink flowers are sometimes examined. White flowered types are also grown.
As a fresh vegetable, borage, with a cucumber like taste, is often used in salads or as a garnish. The flower, which has the non-toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid thesinine, has a sweet honey-like taste and as one of the few truly blue-colored eatable things, is often used to decorate dessert.
Garden cress
Garden cress ("Lepidium sativum") is a fast-growing eatable herb that is related to watercress and mustard, sharing their peppery taste and aroma. Garden cress is usually grown in England, France, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Garden Cress is added to soups, sandwiches and salads for its tangy taste. It is also eaten as sprouts, and the fresh or dried seed pods can be used as a peppery seasoning. In England, cut cress shoots are used in sandwiches with boiled eggs, mayonnaise and salt.
Tonka bean
The tonka bean is the seed of "Dipteryx odorata", a species of flowering tree in the pea family Fabaceae. They are black and wrinkled and have a smooth brown center.
Tonka Beans had been used as a vanilla substitute, as a perfume, and in tobacco before being banned in some countries. They are used in some French cuisine (particularly, in desserts and stews) and in perfumes. Today, main producers of the seeds are Venezuela and Nigeria.
The beans were also spelled as "Tonquin" and "Tonkin", although it has no link with Tonkin, now part of Vietnam.
Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town. It was completely destroyed when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, 79 AD. Herculaneum was covered by volcanic mud during the eruption, which quickly hardened to a semi-rock material. Herculaneum is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Unlike Pompeii, the deep pyroclastic material which covered it preserved most objects in its path. Archaeologists have recovered wooden and other objects such as rooves, beds, doors, and food. Some 300 skeletons were discovered along the sea shore. It was thought until then that the town had been evacuated by its inhabitants.
Herculaneum was a wealthier town than Pompeii. It had many fine houses with a lavish use of coloured marble cladding, mosaics and wall paintings.
Martin Hinteregger
Martin Hinteregger ( born September 7 th, 1992 in Feldkirchen, Carinthia) is an Austrian footballplayer and plays for FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Football Bundesliga as defender.
He started playing in the local soccer club SGA Sirnitz and played in different youth teams. 2006 he came to Red Bull Salzburg. His first match in professional football was on April, 23rd 2006 in the second squad of Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Football First League, which is the second highest league in Austria. Due to the injury of Andreas Ulmer he was transferred to the first squad. His first match in the Bundesliga was versus SV Kapfenberg on October 16, 2010. Five days later he debuted in an international match versus Juventus Turin. In the season 2010/11 he plaed 17 times for the first squad of FC Salzburg. This was honoured through the title "Rookie of the Year 2010" in the Leonidas-election where the best athlets in Salzburg are elected. In the 2013/14 season he became a regular member of the starting team.
Martin Hinteregger played in different Austrian youth teams so U17 (two times), U18 and U19(4 times). U stands for "under". On November 19th, 2013 he played his first match in the national team against the USA.
His grandfather was in the first team of the new founded SGA Sirnitz and his sister is playing in the womansquad of the club.
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology which studies rock formations called strata (layers). It is important in the study of sedimentary and layered vocanic rocks.
The subject was established by Nicolaus Steno whose book "De solido" contained these principles:
William Smith first used stratigraphy for a practical purpose in the 1790s and early 19th century. Smith, nicknamed "Strata Smith", made the first geological map of England. He understood that fossils could be used identify the same strata in different places.
He took samples and mapped the positions of the strata, noted the vertical extent of the strata, and drew cross-sections and tables of what he saw. Smith amassed a huge collection of fossils in strata he had examined. His most significant finding was:
There are many consequences of this idea. For geologists it means that when they find identical fossils in strata in different parts of the world, those strata were laid down at the same time. Also (this is a later realisation) the ecological conditions in which they were laid down would have been similar or identical in the different places.
Lithostratigraphy deals with the physical rock type and how it changes from place to place. Changes in the rock (facies change) reflect changing environments of deposition. One of stratigraphy's basic concepts is codified in the "law of superposition", which simply states that, in an undeformed stratigraphic sequence, the oldest strata occur at the base of the sequence.
Biostratigraphy is based on fossil evidence in the rock layers. If strata from different places have the same fossil fauna and flora, they were laid down at the same time.
Biostratigraphy was based on William Smith's "principle of faunal succession", which was one of the first and most powerful lines of evidence for evolution. It gives evidence of the formation (speciation) and extinction of species.
The geological timescale was developed during the 19th century based on the evidence of biostratigraphy and faunal succession. This timescale remained a relative scale until the development of radiometric dating, which gave it an absolute time framework.
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Robert Wagner
Robert John Wagner, Jr. (born February 10, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), is an American actor. His paternal grandparents were from Germany.
His career began in 1950 as an extra in the movie "The Happy Years". Then he got a role in the war films "Halls of Montezuma" (1951), and "The Frogmen" (1951), with Richard Widmark, "What Price Glory?" (1952) with James Cagney and directed by John Ford.
In 1953 he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Stars and Stripes Forever (1952).
Then would have outstanding performances in movies as Prince Valiant (1954) directed by Henry Hathaway and the Western, "Broken Lance" (1954) with Spencer Tracy and directed by Edward Dmytryk.
In 1955 he obtained his first starred in the Western "White Feather" (1955), followed by Film-Noir A Kiss Before Dying (1956) and war film Between Heaven and Hell (1956) directed by Richard Fleischer.
Wagner played the legendary gunslinger Jesse James in the movie The True Story of Jesse James (1957) directed by Nicholas Ray
His works in the 1960's include The Longest Day (1962), The War Lover (1962) with Steve McQueen, The Pink Panther (1963) with Peter Sellers, and "Banning" (1967)
In 1974 Wagner, plays of role of Bigelow, one of the people trapped in burning building in "The Towering Inferno", with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman and directed by John Guillermin.
Another of his works in the 70s was in the war movie directed by Jack Smight, Midway (1976) as Lieutenant Commander Ernest L. Blake
He also co-starred in "The Concorde... Airport '79" (1979) with Alain Delon.
In the 1980 he gets a few roles in movies like "Curse of the Pink Panther" (1983) directed by Blake Edwards, and I Am the Cheese (1983).
The 1990s were very good for him getting the role of Number Two in Austin Powers (1997) with Mike Myers.
Wagner returned to play the characters in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
In the last decade, Wagner has worked in movies El padrino (2004), Hoot (2006), Man in the Chair (2007) with Christopher Plummer, The Wild Stallion (2009).
Robert Wagner starred in three successful series for American television. One of them was It Takes a Thief, Alexander Mundy a spy performing dangerous missions for the government of the United States. I also work in the series Fred Astaire as Alistair Mundy.
Wagner starred in the series for 66 episodes between 1968 and 1970. and was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe Awards in 1970
In 1975 Wagner stars with Eddie Albert, the series of detectives created by Glen A. Larson, Switch (1975 - 1978). he plays detective Pete T. Ryan.