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Title: Ninette de Valois Content: Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE FRAD FISTD (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, reaching the rank of soloist. After Diaghilev's death she established what became The Royal Ballet. This became one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world today. She also established the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the 'godmother' of English ballet. == Career == Before de Valois there had been no permanent ballet company in London, though there were a few quality dance schools which offered shows from time to time. The company which became the Royal Ballet started as the Vic-Wells Ballet, founded by de Valois in 1931. It had Anton Dolin as its Guest dancer. In 1933 the company was joined by Alicia Markova, who was appointed prima ballerina. At this point de Valois retired as a stage performer, and continued as Director. Her reputation was now made as an organiser and teacher. She was also a choreographer, with a number of ballets to her credit. Her ballet Checkmate is still danced today. 'Madame', as she was called by everyone, attracted great talents to the company. She engaged Frederick Ashton as Principal Choreographer and Constant Lambert as Musical Director, in 1935. Tamara Karsavina was a dance advisor. Eventually the company included many of the most famous ballet dancers in the world, including Margot Fonteyn, Svetlana Beriosova, and, most sensationally, Rudolf Nureyev. As a manager, she had a fearsome reputation. She would stand for no misbehaviour, or for anything which stood in the way of the dance. One younger dancer said: :"She could be absolutely terrifying and I count it as one of the blessings of my life that I never saw that side of her... The dragon manner was business. Outside of that she was the most witty, delightful, intelligent and informed of companions". The Vic-Wells was given a Royal Charter in 1956, and became the Royal Ballet. Madame was its first Director. She retired from the Royal Ballet in 1963, but was a big influence for years. She was appointed a Companion of Honour, and awarded the Order of Merit. Madame died at the age of 102 in 2001.
Title: Nébias Content: Nébias is a commune of 246 people (2017). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
Title: Murray Gleeson Content: Anthony Murray Gleeson (born 30 August 1938) is an Australian former judge. He was the 11th Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1998 to 2008. On 7 November 2008, Gleeson was appointed a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Title: Leonid Stadnyk Content: Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian farmer. He stood at 8 feet 5 inches or 2.57 meters. He was born in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. Stadnyk was listed as the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records. Stadnyk died at the age of 44 on August 24, 2014 from a brain hemorrhage.
Title: Lindomar Ferreira de Oliveira Content: Lindomar Ferreira de Oliveira (born November 20, 1977) is a former Brazilian football player. ==Club statistics== |- |2001||Albirex Niigata||J. League 2||3||0|||||||||||| 3||0|||||||||||| 3||0|||||||||||| |}
Title: Banneville-sur-Ajon Content: Banneville-sur-Ajon is a former commune. It is in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Malherbe-sur-Ajon.Arrêté préfectoral 9 December 2015
Title: Stevo Pendarovski Content: Stevo Pendarovski (; born 3 April 1963) is a Macedonian politician. He is serving as the President of North Macedonia since 12 May 2019.Pendarovski sworn in as new North Macedonia presidentPendarovski sworn in as new North Macedonia presidentNorth Macedonia's new president Stevo Pendarovski takes officePendarovski sworn in as new North Macedonia president
Title: Moiry Content: Moiry may refer to: * Moiry, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud * Moiry, Ardennes, a commune in the region of Grand Est in France * Lac de Moiry, a lake in the municipality of Grimentz, in the canton of Valais, in Switzerland.
Title: Robin Content: Robin may mean *A small bird with a red chest **European robin **American robin **Australian robin *Robin (comics), a character in the Batman comic series and movies **Batman & Robin, a movie featuring the character
Title: Castellnou de Bages Content: Castellnou de Bages is a municipality in the comarca of Bages, Province of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. Category:Municipalities in Catalonia
Title: John Brooke-Little Content: right|thumb|175px|John Brooke-Little as a young man John Philip Brooke Brooke- Little (6 April 1927–13 February 2006) was an officer of arms from England. In 1950 he founded "The Coat of Arms" which is the journal of the Heraldry Society of England. 50 years later, for its Golden Jubilee the society published a collection of essays called Tribute to an ArmoristJohn Campbell- Kease, Ed. Tribute to an Armorist: Essays for John Brooke-Little to Mark the Golden Jubilee of 'The Coat of Arms' . (London: The Heraldry Society, 2000). in his honour. == Heraldic Posts == ===Private=== *Chairman, Heraldry Society 1947-97, *President 1997-2006 ===Official=== *Gold Staff Officer, Coronation 1953 *Bluemantle Pursuivant 1956-67, *Richmond Herald, 1967-80, *Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, 1980-95, *Clarenceux King of Arms, 1995-97 *Registrar, College of Arms 1974-82 *Treasurer, 1978-95
Title: Curve fitting Content: Curve fitting is constructing a mathematical function which best fits a set of data points.S.S. Halli, K.V. Rao. 1992. Advanced Techniques of Population Analysis. Page 165 (cf. ... functions are fulfilled if we have a good to moderate fit for the observed data.)The Signal and the Noise: why so many predictions fail - but some don't. Nate SilverData Preparation for Data Mining: Text. Dorian Pyle. Curve fitting may involve either interpolationNumerical Methods in Engineering with Python 3. Jaan Kiusalaas. p21, 24. or smoothing.Numerical methods of curve fitting. Philip George Guest. Page 349. Using interpolation requires an exact fit to the data. With smoothing, a "smooth" function is constructed, that fit the data approximately. A related topic is regression analysis,Fitting Models to Biological Data Using Linear and Nonlinear Regression. Harvey Motulsky, Arthur Christopoulos.Regression analysis. Rudolf J. Freund, William J. Wilson, Ping Sa. p 269. which focuses more on questions of statistical inference such as how much uncertainty is present in a curve that is fit to data observed with random errors. Fitted curves can be used to help data visualization,Visual Informatics. Halimah Badioze Zaman et al. Page 689.Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Engineering Models. By John R. Hauser. Page 227. to guess values of a function where no data is available,Methods of Experimental Physics: Spectroscopy, vol 13, Part 1. Claire Marton. p 150. and to summarize the relationships among two or more variables.Encyclopedia of research design, vol 1. Edited by Neil J. Salkind. p 266. Extrapolation refers to the use of a fitted curve beyond the range of the observed data.Community analysis and planning techniques. Richard E. Klosterman. p 1. This is subject to a degree of uncertainty,An introduction to risk and uncertainty in the evaluation of environmental investments. DIANE Publishing. pg 69 since it may reflect the method used to construct the curve as much as it reflects the observed data.
Title: Pierrafortscha Content: Pierrafortscha is a municipality of the district of Saane in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Title: María Elsa Viteri Content: right|200px María Elsa Viteri (25 February 1965 – 18 November 2021) was an Ecuadorian economist and politician. She was Minister of Finance from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2018. Viteri was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Viteri died on 18 November 2021 from pancreatic cancer in Guayaquil, aged 56. ==Related pages== *List of scientists from South America
Title: Petersburg Census Area, Alaska Content: Petersburg Census Area was a census area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore has no borough seat. Its largest community was Petersburg. The population was 3,815 at the 2010 census. It was previously known as the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area until June 1, 2008, when Wrangell, formerly a part of the census area, was incorporated as a city- and-borough.,
Title: Cops (TV series) Content: Cops is an American documentary-styled television reality show which follows police officers, constables and deputies during patrols and other activities which began in March 1989 and has been aired in many countries. The show is broadcasted through Fox and has been shown in over 100 cities in the United States. Every episode is about twenty two minutes long. The show was cancelled due to the George Floyd protests.
Title: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Content: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. Category:French mathematicians Category:Scientists from Paris Category:French engineers Category:1792 births Category:1843 deaths
Title: United States Fleet Forces Command Content: The United States Fleet Forces Command (USFF) is a service command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to a wide variety of U.S. forces. The naval resources may be given to Combatant Commanders such as United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) under the authority of the Secretary of Defense. In 2002, the Fleet was made-up over 118,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel serving on 186 ships and in 1,300 aircraft, with an area of responsibility ranging over most of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole, the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the waters of the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Central and South America (as far west as the Galapagos Islands). The command is based at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads in Norfolk, Virginia.
Title: Baldringen Content: thumb|250px|Baldringen thumb|90px|Coat of arms Baldringen is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As of 31 December 2019, 270 people lived there. Category:Municipalities in Rhineland- Palatinate Category:Trier-Saarburg
Title: Louis Meyers Content: Louis Jay Meyers (June 21, 1955 – March 11, 2016) was an American festival organizer and co-founder of South By Southwest. He was born in Austin, Texas. Meyers was the event’s primary music booker until he sold his share in the event after the 1994 conference. Meyers was also an multi-instrumentalist and producer. From 2005 to 2013, Meyers was executive director of Folk Alliance International. Meyers was admitted to a hospital in Austin on March 10, 2016 and initially was diagnosed with blood clots. He then died of a suspected heart attack the next day at his home. He was aged 60.
Title: Jan Meyers Content: Janice Lenore "Jan" Meyers (née Crilly; July 20, 1928 - June 21, 2019) was an American politician. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas serving from 1985 to 1997.Kansapedia-Kansas Historical Society == Career == From 1972 until 1984, she was a member of the Kansas Senate.Kansas Legislators Past and Present In 1978, she ran for the United States Senate, but was defeated in a multi-candidate Republican primary which was won by Nancy Kassebaum. == Personal life == Meyers died on June 21, 2019 in Merriam, Kansas from problems caused by heart disease at the age of 90.
Title: James Lawson Content: James Morris Lawson, Jr. (born September 22, 1928) is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading peaceful activist within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Title: Hanako (fish) Content: Hanako (c. 1751 – July 7, 1977) was a bright red koi fish owned by several individuals, the last owner of Hanako was Dr. Komei Koshihara. The name translates to "flower child" in Japanese. Far going beyond the average lifespan for her breed, she was 226 years old at the time of her death. Her age was determined in 1966 by removing two of her scales and examining them a lot. At this time, Hanako weighed and measured in length. Once the scales were fully and carefully studied, it was determined that she was 215 years old. In July 1974, a study of the growth rings of one of the koi's scales reported that Hanako was 226 years old. She may be, to date, the longest-lived koi fish ever recorded. There has been an argument as to the truthfulness of these longevity claims. The average koi raised outside of Japan can be expected to reach 15 years of age, while the average Japanese koi's lifespan is 40 years. Some sources give an accepted age for the species at little more than 50 years.
Title: Tournai Content: right|250px right|90px Tournai is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut, Wallonia. thumb|right|The Grand Place and its medieval belfry (XIIIth century) In 2007, 67844 people lived there. It is at 50° 36 North, 03° 23 East.
Title: Brebières Content: right|90px Brebières is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de- Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France. Category:Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Title: Gary (rapper) Content: Kang Hee-gun (; born February 24, 1978) is a South Korean rapper. He is better known by his stage name, Gary . He is also a former cast member of the variety show Running Man and musician of hip-hop duo Leessang. ==Discography== * Leessang Unplugged * AsuRa BalBalTa * HEXAGONAL * Baekahjeolhyun (伯牙絶絃, 백아절현) * Black Sun * Library Of Soul * Leessang Special * Jae, Gyebal (재,계발) * Leessang Of Honey Family ==Television== * SBS's Running Man (런닝맨),Cast member, 2010-2017 ==Movies== * 2012: Wonderful Radio - cameo appearance * 2008: Dachimawa Lee - cameo appearance Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:South Korean musicians Category:Rappers
Title: Catherine Paysan Content: right|200px Annie Hausen (4 August 1926 – 22 April 2020), known by her pen name Catherine Paysan, was a French writer. She won the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for her lifetime’s writing. Paysan wrote novels, poems, screenplays and plays. Paysan was born in Aulaines, France. She published several novels, five autobiographical works, two collections of poetry and two plays. She also adapted several of her works for movies. In 1977, she received the Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for the whole of her work. Paysan was named an Officier in the French Legion of Honour in 2011. Paysan died on 22 April 2020 in Le Mans, France at the age of 93.L'auteure sarthoise Catherine Paysan est décédée
Title: Bolívar Department Content: right|250px right|90px Bolívar Department is a department in north Colombia. The capital is Cartagena. The flag of the department looks like the flag of Lithuania. Category:Departments of Colombia
Title: Lulu Belle Madison White Content: Lulu (or Lula) Belle Madison White (August 31, 1900 – July 6, 1957) was a teacher and civil rights activist in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1939, White was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before becoming executive secretary of the branch in 1943. Under her leadership, the Houston chapter of the NAACP more than doubled in size from 1943 to 1948.
Title: Sven Lindqvist Content: thumb|Lindqvist in February 2018 Sven Oskar Lindqvist (28 March 1932 – 14 May 2019) was a Swedish author. He wrote mostly non-fiction works. Some of his noted works include Exterminate All the Brutes and A History of Bombing. His writings focused on developing nations in Africa, China, India, Latin America and Australia. During the 1960s, Lindqvist lived in China for two years. He wrote three books about China with his first wife, Sinologist Cecilia Lindqvist. From the 1980s onward, he wrote about many topics including European imperialism, colonialism, racism, genocide and war. Lindqvist was born in Stockholm. He was married to Cecilia Lindqvist from 1956 until their divorce in 1986. He was later married to economist Agneta Stark. Lindqvist died after a long illness on 14 May 2019, at the age of 87.
Title: Ray Guy Content: William Ray Guy (born December 22, 1949 died November 3, 2022) is a retired American football punter for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders. Coming from the University of Southern Mississippi, he was the only pure punter ever to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft when the Oakland Raiders selected him in 1973. He won three Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders also. On August 2, 2014, Guy was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and became the second pure kicker (after Jan Stenerud) and the first pure punter to be inducted.
Title: Chara (singer) Content: Chara (born as Miwa Watabiki, on January 13, 1968) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She began performing in 1991. "Swallowtail Butterfly - あいのうた" is one of her popular songs. ==Early life== Chara grew up in Kawaguchi, Saitama. She started learning the piano from age four, and starting composing songs in elementary school.
Title: Stagecoach London Content: Stagecoach London is a large bus company in Greater London. It is a child company of Stagecoach and manages routes under contract to Transport for London mostly in East and South East London as well as some bus journeys in Central London. It is the largest subsidiary of Stagecoach group with 314.5 million passengers journeys in 2015-16 and a fleet of almost 1300 buses. Category:1994 establishments in England Category:London bus operators
Title: Vedic period Content: thumb|300px|Early Vedic culture thumb|300px|Late Vedic culture The Vedic period (Vedic age) c. 1500 – c. 600 BC is a period in the history of the Indian subcontinent between the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, and about BC. It gets its name from the Vedas, which are religious texts. They do contain some details of life during this period.: "Although the Vedas are essentially liturgical documents and increasingly mystical reflections on Vedic ritual, they are sufficiently rich and extensive to give us some understanding of what life was like at the time. The earliest of the Vedas, the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā, contains 1,028 hymns, some of which may be as old as 1500 BC. Because the Vedic texts are the primary way in which we can understand the period between the fall of the IVC (ca 1700) and the second wave of urbanization (600 BC), we call the intervening era of South Asian history the 'Vedic Period.'" They are the main sources for understanding this period. The Vedas were composed and orally transmitted by speakers of an Old Indo-Aryan language. They had migrated into the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent early in this period. The associated Vedic culture was tribal and pastoral until c. 1200 or 1100 BC, and centred in the Punjab. The society then spread eastward to the Ganges Plain, becoming more agricultural and settled. The Vedic period saw the emergence of social classes, and developed into kingdoms known as the Janapada.Witzel, Michael 1995. Early Sanskritization: origins and development of the Kuru state. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, 1 (4): 1–26.Samuel, Geoffrey 2010. The origins of yoga and tantra: Indic religions to the thirteenth century. Cambridge University Press. Archaeological cultures show phases of Vedic culture such as the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, the Gandhara Grave culture, the Black and red ware culture and the Painted Grey Ware culture.Witzel, Michael 1989. Tracing the Vedic dialects. In Dialectes dans les litteratures Indo-Aryennes ed. Caillat C. Paris, p97–265.
Title: Avesnes-lès-Bapaume Content: Avesnes-lès-Bapaume is a commune. It is in Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de- Calais department in north France. Category:Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Title: Palau Content: thumb|200px|right|Map of Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation. It is in the Pacific Ocean. Palau is 300 miles (500 km) east of the Philippines. It got independence from United Nations trusteeship administration (administered by the United States of America) in 1994. It is one of the world's youngest and smallest nations. It is sometimes referred to in English under its native name Belau. The capital city of Palau used to be Melekeok. The government then changed the capital to Ngerulmud on October 7, 2006. == States == thumb|200px|The sixteen states of Palau Palau is divided into sixteen administrative states:  == Climate == Palau has a tropical climate all year round. Average yearly temperature is around 82 °F (27 °C). ==Related pages== * List of rivers of Palau * Palau at the Olympics * Palau national football team
Title: Vesseaux Content: Vesseaux is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France. Category:Communes in Ardèche
Title: Chatham County, North Carolina Content: Chatham County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2000, 49,329 people lived there. Now the population is more than 60,000. Its county seat is Pittsboro. == History == The county was made in 1771 from Orange County. In 1907 parts of Chatham County and Moore County were combined to form Lee County. == Government == Chatham County is part of the regional Triangle J Council of Governments. == Schools == Chatham County has its own public school system for grades kindergarten to 12. Central Carolina Community College also has two campuses in the county. == Coal Mines == Chatham County has the only coal mines in North Carolina. Coal mining used to be very important to the county, but in the 1920s a bad accident in one of the mines killed many workers. By the 1940s all the mines had closed. Some people have tried to open the mines back up, but the mines are too dangerous. Right now none of the mines are open. == New Houses == Many builders are building new houses in Chatham County right now. Some people in the county do not like this because they do not want Chatham County to have a lot of people. A lot of people want to live in Chatham County because they do not have to pay as much tax as people in other North Carolina counties do. But other people think it is good that a lot of people want to live in the county because then the county will make more money from taxes. == Connected Counties == *Orange County, North Carolina - north *Durham County, North Carolina - northeast *Wake County, North Carolina - east *Harnett County, North Carolina - southeast *Lee County, North Carolina - south *Moore County, North Carolina - southwest *Randolph County, North Carolina - west *Alamance County, North Carolina - northwest == Cities and Towns == These cities and towns are in Chatham County: *Fearrington *Goldston *Pittsboro *Siler City == Roads == These are the most important roads in Chatham County: *23px U.S. Highway 64 *23px U.S. Highway 421 *23px 29px U.S. Highway 15-501
Title: Leah Pipes Content: Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988) is an American actress. She played Sarah in the series Cousin Sarah. She also played Katie Clarke in Life is Wild. Pipes was born in Los Angeles.
Title: Hockey Content: thumb|220px|right|Field hockey thumb|220px|right|Ice hockey Hockey is a type of sport in which players try to get points by hitting an object into the other team's goal with a stick. Others believe hockey came from the French word “hoquet” which means shepherd's stick. James Creighton, an engineer who learned how to play the game of hockey while living in Nova Scotia, is credited for bringing the game to a new level. He taught his friends at McGill University in Montreal how to play the game. ==Types== There are three main ways that hockey is played. *Field hockey is played with a ball on grass or turf. there are eleven players in each team . Field hockey is usually played outdoors, but there is indoor field hockey. Field hockey is played in the Summer Olympic Games. *Ice hockey is played on ice. Players on each team wear ice skates. They try to hit a small rubber disc called a hockey puck into the other team's goal. There are up to 6 players on the ice at a time for each team. It can be played indoors or outdoors. Professionals play indoors in arenas. Ice hockey is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is played in the Winter Olympic GamesThe modern game was invented in the mid-1850´s by British soldiers based in Canada. Rules were set by students at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, in 1879, and many amateur clubs and leagues were organized in Canada by the late 1880s. The first game played in the USA is believed to have been in 1893. *Roller hockey is played on a roller hockey rink, usually inside. Players on each team wear roller skates. They try to hit a small plastic disk called a hockey puck into the other team's goal. There are 5 players on each team. There is no contact. ==History== Evidence exists that shows ancient Aztecs, Greeks and Romans played similar forms of the game. The modern game of field hockey came to fruition in the mid-19th century in Great Britain. The British army brought the game to its colonies, and the first international competition took place in 1895.
Title: Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi Content: Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi (born 22 February 1978) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Honda. ==Club career statistics== |- |2000||rowspan="11"|Honda||rowspan="11"|Football League||5||0||||||5||0 |- |2001||21||0||||||21||0 |- |2002||0||0||||||0||0 |- |2003||11||0||||||11||0 |- |2004||17||0||||||17||0 |- |2005||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2006||26||0||2||0||28||0 |- |2007||17||0||5||0||22||0 |- |2008||1||0||0||0||1||0 |- |2009||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |2010|||||||||||| 98||0||7||0||105||0 98||0||7||0||105||0 |}
Title: Kobe Institute of Computing Content: is a private university in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. ==Fields of study== KIC Graduate School of Information Technology has one Masters course called "Department of Information Systems" which has two courses: ICT Professional Course and ICT Innovator Course. === Course term / degree === * Normal course term: two years * Degree: Master of Information Systems ==Recognition== KIC ranked #1 among 530 Japanese private universities in terms of the sustainability index, composed of growth of number of students, growth of government research grant, and financial soundness. KIC has been awarded JICA President Award 2019 to commend the individuals and organizations with preeminent achievements of the socio-economic development in developing countries through Japan International Cooperation Agency 's (JICA) international cooperation activities.https://www.jica.go.jp/english/news/press/2019/c8h0vm0000f70ba3-att/Laureates.pdf|JICA President Award 2019 ==Related pages== * Tomio Fukuoka * Swift Xi
Title: Palenque Content: Palenque (Bàak' in Modern Maya) is a Maya archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is a medium-sized site, much smaller than large sites like Tikal or Copán. It does, however, contain good examples of architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings of the Maya time.
Title: Schaffhausen Content: Schaffhausen is a town in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name. It has a population of about 36,000 as 2016. The old portion of the town has many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos and sculpture, as well as the impressive old canton fortress, the Munot. A train runs out of town to the nearby Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Europe's largest waterfall, a tourist attraction. == History == Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins starting in 1045. For a time it was under Habsburg domination, but regained its independence in 1415. It allied itself with Zürich in 1457, and became a full member of the Swiss Confederation in 1501. The first railroad came to Schaffhausen in 1857. Schaffhausen is in a finger of Swiss land surrounded on three sides by Germany. On April 1, 1944, Schaffhausen suffered a bombing raid by United States Army Air Forces aircraft which strayed from German airspace into neutral Switzerland. While the United States immediately offered four million dollars in reparations, the raid occurred only a month after the Swiss Air Force had shot down an American bomber. In 1947 it merged with the former municipality of Buchthalen. In 1964 it merged with the former municipality of Herblingen. Since 2009, Hemmental has been part of the town. == Industry == Schaffhausen has some well-known industrial companies (Georg Fischer) in piping systems, machine tools and automotives, one internationally-reputed watches manufacturer (IWC), and drug industry (Cilag, founded by Bernhard Joos).
Title: Robert Fisk Content: thumb|Robert Fisk at Al Jazeera Forum 2010 Robert Fisk (12 July 1946 - 30 October 2020) an English-Irish writer and journalist. He was a Middle East correspondent from 1976 until his death for many medias. From 1989 until his death, he was a correspondent for The Independent. Fisk was born in Maidstone, Kent. Fisk studied at Lancaster University and at Trinity College Dublin. He was a known Arabic speaker, he was the few Western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden. He interviewed him three times between 1993 and 1997. Fisk died of a stroke on 30 October 2020 at a Dublin, Ireland hospital at the age of 74.
Title: Survival mode Content: Survival mode is a video game mode. In this mode a player must continue playing for as long as possible without dying. It must be done in one session with no interruptions. This is while the game becomes more difficult by adding waves of challenges.
Title: Government of Balochistan, Pakistan Content: Government of Balochistan is based in the largest province of Pakistan in Quetta. The head of the province is the Governor, who is nominated by the President of Pakistan. While the head of the Government of Balochistan is the Chief Minister who is elected by the Balochistan Assembly. Category:Balochistan (Pakistan) Category:Government of Pakistan
Title: Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit video game) Content: Sonic the Hedgehog is a 1991 video game released for the Master System and Game Gear, developed by Ancient and published by Sega.
Title: Viaduct Content: A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. It is built for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover. The word viaduct has two parts from Latin: via for road and ducere, to lead. The ancient Romans did not use this word; it was invented in the nineteenth- century by analogy with aqueduct.
Title: Féron Content: Féron is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 564 people lived there. It is about north of Fourmies. Since 2020, the current mayor is Jean-François Baudry.
Title: Mondello Content: thumb|right|View of Mondello from Mount Pellegrino Mondello is a small borough of the city of Palermo in the autonomous region of Sicily in Southern Italy. Its beach lies between two cliffs called Mount Gallo and Mount Pellegrino. The town was originally a small fishing village situated on marshland, but at the end of the 19th century, it grew into a tourist destination. A number of Liberty-style villas on the seafront promenade have made it one of the gems of Art Nouveau in Europe. ==History== Until the beginning of the 20th century, Mondello was an unhealthy marsh enclosed by two headlands: the Mount Pellegrino described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as "the most beautiful promontory in the world"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italienische Reise - Sizilien. and Mount Gallo. At some point, a Palermitan nobleman had the idea to drain the swamp. Prince Francesco Lanza di Scalea, with the help of a Belgian real estate company, built a plant for the drainage of swampy waters to the sea. The newly rehabilitated areas, previously occupied by the swamp, underwent a process of expansion and evolution from the 18th to the 20th centuries. From 1912 onwards, Mondello became the seat of the high bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. The nobility of the city fostered the construction of several exclusive and aristocratic circles, the construction of villas, and the exploitation of lush gardens. King Ferdinand of Bourbon called it "a corner of paradise". Eventually, the beach of Mondello was born. ==Attractions== thumb|right|alt="The Antico Stabilimento Balneare"|The Antico Stabilimento Balneare of Mondello Mondello is characterized by a sandy bay that binds the two promontories, called Monte Gallo and Mount Pellegrino, with a coastline of white sand that nowadays is approximately 1.5 kilometers long. The Natural Reserve of Capo Gallo and the reserve of Monte Pellegrino are nearby. Today the area is known for its beach and for its Art Nouveau villas, which characterize the architecture of the borough, making it a landmark in the history of international modernism. ==Bibliography== * P.Hardy, A. Bing, A. Blasi, C. Bonetto, K. Christiani, Italy, pp. 759–60, Lonely Planet. * W. Dello Russo, Spiagge in Sicilia, Sime Books. * Michelin, M. Magni, M. Marca, Sicilia, p. 90, La Guida Verde 2013 * Sicilia, p. 39, Lonely Planet, EDT 2013
Title: Edwards County, Kansas Content: Edwards County (county code ED) is a county in the U.S. states of Kansas. In 2010, 3,037 people lived there. Its county seat is Kinsley. Kinsley is also the biggest city in Edwards County. The county was created in 1874. It was named after W. C. Edwards, of Hutchinson, a pioneer settler, who played an active role in its creation. ==Geography== The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that, is land and (0.01%) is water. ===Geographic Features=== The Arkansas River goes through Edwards County from the southwest corner to the Pawnee County line near U.S. Route 56. ===Major highways=== Three U.S. Routes go through Edwards County. They all meet in Kinsley. An east-west route, U.S. Route 50 goes around Belpre and Lewis before connecting with westbound U.S. Route 56 in Kinsley. The single road then goes through Offerle and west into Ford County. U.S. Route 183 goes from Kiowa County in the south to Kinsley, where it connects east U.S. 56 as a single highway to Pawnee County. K-19 starts at U.S. Route 50 near Belpre, and goes north into Pawnee County. ==People== ==Government== ===Presidential elections===  ==Education== ===Unified school districts=== * Kinsley-Offerle USD 347 * Lewis USD 502 ==Communities== ===Cities=== * Belpre * Kinsley * Lewis * Offerle
Title: Bergamot essential oil Content: thumb|Bergamot essential oil Bergamot essential oil is an essential oil produced by cells inside the rind (peel) of a bergamot orange fruit. The oil is a common scent in perfumes. It is used in Earl Grey tea blends as flavoring. The scent of bergamot essential oil is similar to a sweet light orange peel oil with a floral note.
Title: Mezzanine Content: Mezzanine is the third studio album by English trip hop group Massive Attack. It was released on 20 April 1998. It was produced by Neil Davidge along with the group. The album was released on Virgin Records. The entire album was provided on their website for legal download many months before the CD release was announced. It was one of the first major uses of the MP3 format by a commercial organization.http://massiveattack.com/wiki/index.php/Mezzanine Retrieved 27/10/10. It does not use the jazzy sounds and the rapping of Tricky in Blue Lines and Protection, leaving in favour a dark sound, heavy bass lines and distorted guitars.
Title: Militarization Content: Militarization is when society gets ready for war and violence. It is connected to militarism, which is a belief that a country should have a strong military. The process of militarization affects many different parts of society and is complex. == Geopolitical == thumb|500x500px|Amount of militarization in countries. Information from 2014 The amount of danger that is thought to exist affects how much a country needs to be able to fight and protect itself. If a country does not feel like it is in danger, for example: Canada, it might not have as big of a military or as many weapons. But in Israel, because there is a risk of attack from other countries nearby, the military and defense are important and get a lot of money and people. This danger could come from: * Other countries being more powerful (like in Europe before World War I) * Terrorism, countries that don't follow international laws,Rogue States?, Arms Control and Dr. A. Q. Khan. weapons of mass destruction and state terrorism (governments that use violence to control their or other governments peopleSelden & So, 2003: p. 4.Martin, 2006: p. 111.) * Interests of a country being threatened, like control of an area with a lot of oil, or stopping an idea that is different from the country's own ideas (like how the USA used CIA to weaken governments that were communist) == Political == Militaristic ideas are used in non-military situations. For example, when President Lyndon B. Johnson talked about fighting poverty, and President Richard Nixon talked about fighting drugs, they were not talking about real wars with an enemy that can be defeated. They were talking about how much work, effort, and dedication is needed to solve these problems.Matthew Crawford. "Covid was liberalism's endgame", UnHerd, 30 December 2022. Sometimes, politicians use militaristic ideas when they create teams of government workers to solve important political or social problems. These teams are often called "task forces." Using militaristic ideas can also help politicians to have more power, because in war time, the leader of the country has more power than usual.Simon Jenkins. "Why I'm taking the coronavirus hype with a pinch of salt (archived)", The Guardian, 6 March 2020. == Police == Militarization of police means when police officers use military equipment and tactics. This includes things like armored vehicles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, grenades, and SWAT teams. It is also connected to when police gather information on the public and political activists in the same way as intelligence agencies and when police use more aggressive methods. A criminal justice professor named Peter Kraska defines the militarization of police as when the police start to act more like the military and follow their ways of doing things. == See also == * Militarism * Martial law
Title: Li Yin Content: Li Yin (Chinese::李因, Born 1610 - 1685) was a poet, painter, calligrapher during late Ming Dynasty and in the early of Qing Dynasty, she is known for her flowers and birds on paintings. == Works == Many of her paintings are collected in museums includes: * Flowers and Birds * Pine and Eagle * Flowers and Plants * Mynas bird and Pomegranate Fruit * Lotus Flowers and Mandarin Ducks
Title: Child poverty Content: Child poverty is when children are living in poverty and are children from poor families or orphans being raised with limited state resources. In developing countries, these standards are low and, when combined with the increased number of orphans, the effects are more extreme. (1989) Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights == In highly-developed states == UNICEF made a study: According to this study, child poverty increased in 17 of the 24 OECD countries, between 1995 and 2005.UNICEF-Report: Child Poverty in Rich Countries 2005. (PDF; 222 kB). Innocenti Report Card, No. 6 Download am 20. Januar 2008. In the other seven countries it decreased. Six of the seven countries where it decreased had a high level of child poverty. The only exception to this is Norway, where child poverty has been decresing for a long time. The biggest increase was in Poland (+4.3%), Luxembourg (+4.1%) and the Czech Republic (also +4.1%). The biggest decrease was in England (-3.1%), the United States (-2.8%) and Norway (-1.8%). In these states, a child is defined as poor if the family income is less than a cetain percentage of the median income of a family for that county. == Absolute and relative poverty == Absolute poverty is the most severe form of povery. People in that category don't have enough money to conver the basic human needs, such as safe drinking water, sanitation, health, and shelter. == Problems == Children affected by poverty face a number of problems: * They often can't get an education * Health is expensive, they also suffer from teenage pregnancies ==Statistics== An estimated 385 million children live in extreme poverty. According to the UNICEF: * 663 million children, that is one in three children, live in poverty * Children from the poorest households die at twice the rate of their better-off peers * Children are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than adults * 385 million children live in extreme poverty, forced to survive on less than $1.90 a day
Title: Jardinópolis, São Paulo Content: Jardinópolis is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in the outskirts of Ribeirão Preto. The population is 44,970 (2020 est.) in an area of 502 km2.Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
Title: Juan R. Cruz Content: right|thumb|Juan R. Cruz Dr. Juan R. Cruz, Ph.D. (born January 5, 1946) is a Puerto Rican scientist who played a very important role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) parachute. ==Life== Cruz was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He has a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, and a Bachelor of Science from MIT university. Both of his degrees are in aerospace engineering. When he was at MIT he was involved with the Monarch and Daedalus human powered airplane teams. ==Work== Cruz is a senior aerospace engineer in the Exploration Systems Engineering Branch at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Hw was responsible on the development of entry, descent and landing (EDL) systems for robotic and human missions in space. He was a member of the highly successful Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project that placed two rovers (machines) on the surface of Mars in 2004. The project was focused on the parachute that he designed. According to Cruz, "There are challenges to testing these parachutes because we can not test it at exactly the right conditions. Earth's atmosphere is the one we have to work with and the Martian atmosphere, air in Mars, is very different, so you have to make adjustments in how you test the parachute". Cruz is also a member of the Phoenix (Mars 2007), Mars Science Laboratory (Mars 2009), and Crew Exploration Vehicle EDL teams. He was a part of a lot of research on missions to Mars, including robotic airplanes Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Puerto Rican engineers
Title: Afsaneh Naseri Content: Afsaneh Naseri  is an Iranian actress born on 1960 in Tehran,Iran.
Title: Orphan Content: An orphan is a child who has lost either or both parents. Their parents are either dead or didn't want the child. Some orphans end up in a house called an orphanage. This is where children with no parents live. Many children that live in an orphanage get fostered or adopted by a person or a couple. == Causes == Sometimes parents get sick and die while their child or children are still young, and if no close relatives take care of them, if they cannot or will not do so, they are normally raised in an orphanage. When several children, brothers or sisters are left orphaned they are normally split up; one child going to one family or one child going to a foster family while another may stay in the orphanage. Sometimes parents may not have jobs or money and abandon their children because they cannot afford to bring them up. The parents may feel that if someone else brings them up they may have a better future in the long run. == Orphan care == In many poor countries orphans are often seen wandering about begging for money and food; many may not be going to school. Not much organised help exists for them in poor countries. But in richer countries many orphanage, organisations and institutions help the orphans and work to help parents when they are sick or very poor so they do not abandon their children. Organisations such as churches and community services assist them. == Orphans in history == Many characters of books and movies have been orphans, such as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Annie, Heidi, Batman, and Harry Potter.
Title: The Secret Life of Pets 2 Content: The Secret Life of Pets 2 is a 2019 American 3D computer animated comedy movie produced by Illumination, directed by Chris Renaud. It was written by Brian Lynch. It is the sequel to The Secret Life of Pets (2016). The movie stars Patton Oswalt (who replaces Louis C.K.), Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell, Nick Kroll, Dana Carvey, Ellie Kemper, Chris Renaud, Tara Strong, Michael Beattie, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, and Harrison Ford. The movie was theatrically released in the United States on June 7, 2019, by Universal Pictures. The movie received mixed reviews from critics.
Title: Luscious Jackson Content: Luscious Jackson was an American alternative rock band formed around 1991. The group consisted of Jill Cunniff, Vivian Trimble, Kate Schellenbach and Gabby Glaser. Between 1993 and 2000 they released one EP, three full-length LPs and ten songs. They disbanded around 2000. Category:American rock bands Category:Indie rock bands Category:Musical groups from New York City
Title: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Content: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also written Ahmadinezhad (; born October 28, 1956) is an Iranian politician who was the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was president from August 3, 2005 to August 3, 2013. Ahmadinejad became the mayor of Tehran, the capital of Iran, on May 3, 2003. He was chosen to be the president in elections on June 24, 2005. Many people think he is very religious. Because of that, the religious leadership in Iran supported him in many ways when he was elected. Ahmadinajad's political power comes from the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, also known as "Abadgaran". This is an alliance between Islamic parties and organizations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a Master of Science in Civil engineering from the Iran University of Science and Techology. He also has a PhD in transportation engineering from the same university. Hassan Rouhani was elected on June 15, 2013 as Ahmadinejad's successor and took office on August 3, 2013. His brother was failed presidential candidate and staff member Davoud Ahmadinejad (1950-2017).
Title: Olivia Hack Content: Olivia Hack (born June 16, 1983) is an American voice actress and comedienne, best known for providing to be replacing the recently departed Devyn Puett (1992-1993 and 1995 cameo voice actress) for providing the voice of Rhonda Wellington Lloyd in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, and played Cindy Brady in the 1995-1996 theatrical Brady Bunch films. She has also done voices for Fillmore!, Bratz as Cloe, Family Guy, Blood+, Avatar: The Last Airbender as Ty Lee, and Open Season 2 as Charlene. She appeared in Star Trek Generations, Party of Five, and Gilmore Girls. She was born in Beverly Hills, California. ==Filmography== * 1994 - Star Trek Generations * 1995-1996 - The Brady Bunch Movie-A Very Brady Sequel as Cindy Brady * 1995-2004 - Seasons 1, Episode 4-5 of Hey Arnold! as Rhonda Wellington Lloyd and Mary * 1997 - Touched by an Angel * 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005 and 2007 - Rugrats-All Grown Up! as Angelica Pickles (Singing) * 1998 - Party of Five * 1999 - Two of a Kind * 1999 - The Kids from Room 402 as Gabrielle * 1999-2000 - Freaks and Geeks as Mathlete * 1999-2000 - Rocket Power * 1999-2005 - Family Guy * 2000 - "Hey Arnold" - "Sid the Vampire Slayer" as The Screaming like a big girl Woman in the Black and White Vampire Movie * 2002 - Hey Arnold: The Movie as Rhonda * 2002 - Any Day Now (TV series) as Young M.E. * 2002 - Fillmore! * 2004 - Gilmore Girls as Tanna Schrick * 2005 - Bratz as Cloe (both movie and TV show versions) * 2005 - Avatar: The Last Airbender as Ty Lee * 2005 - Xenosaga Episode II as Shion Uzuki * 2007 - Blood+ as Mao Jahana / Irene * 2008 - Open Season 2 as Charlene * 2009-2010 - Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Pilot Episode) as Treena