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During a Genius lyrics breakdown, Ski calls out fake friends and raps about not caring what other people think about him. Ski said that his loud, shouting chorus of "Cutthroat! Cutthroat!" was inspired by his late friend and fellow rapper XXXTentacion.
A music video for the song was released. It was directed by Cole Bennett. In the video, a man holds a picture of Ski and tells his group that they need to kill him. Ski is flying on a plane when it is shot down. Ski survives and starts shooting the men. Juice Wrld drives into the scene on an ATV and joins Ski in the gun fight. The two kill their enemies continue rapping on the tarmac.
Raorchestes chromasynchysi
The confusing green bush frog or variable bush frog ("Raorchestes chromasynchysi") is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it in the Western Ghat mountains. People have seen it between 800 and 1500 meters above sea level.
This frog lives in a special kind of forest called a shola forest. These forests are high in the hills, and they have evergreen trees and shrubs. People have also seen it on coffee and cardamom farms. Like other frogs in "Raorchestes", this frog hatches out of its egg as a small frog.
Scientists say this frog is in some danger of dying out because it lives in a few small places, because it is hard for the frogs to move between those places, and because human beings still change those faces, especially to make coffee farms.
Raorchestes kollimalai
The Kollimalai bush frog ("Raorchestes kollimalai") is a frog. It lives in India. Scientists have seen it exactly one place in the Western Ghat mountains, about 1100 meters above sea level.
Scientists named this frog Kollimalai after the place where they found it.
Jarya
Usually, Jarya were bought on the slave market, or they were captured in a war as a form of booty. They are mainly known because they were able to entertain a man with their artistic skills or their knowledge, rather than sexuality and physical beauty.
Royal harems often employed many jawaris, who acted as the entertainers of the royal harem and who were not necessarily the concubines of the ruler. The Abbasid harem had thousands of jawaris as well as concubines. The harems of many other Islamic rulers, did the same, such as the harems of the Caliphate of Cordoba and the Fatimid Caliphate.
In the 9th-century, writer Al-Jahiz described the sexual harem slaves. He also said that with their artistic skills they had a destructive influence over their owners. According to him, these skills created a web of dependent feelings such as love (hub), passion (hawa) affinity (mushakala) and a wish for continued companionship (ilf).
"Nothing Else Matters" is the third single off of American metal band Metallica's fifth studio album "Metallica". The song was released on April 20, 1992.
The song was able to make it to #11 on the Mainstream Rock and #34 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 charts. It was also certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
When he wrote the song, James Hetfield didn't want to show it to the band at first. Hetfield said in an interview with "Metal Hammer": "I thought that Metallica could only be the four of us. These are songs about destroying things, head banging, bleeding for the crowd, whatever it is, as long as it wasn't about chicks and fast cars, even though that's what we liked. The song was about a girlfriend at the time. It turned out to be a pretty big song."
A music video for the song was released. In the video, the band is recording the song in a studio. Footage of the band doing different things like shooting a basketball, donating money to a disabled veteran and choosing album artwork are shown.
Qiyan
' (, ; singular ', , ) were a social class of women which existed in the pre-modern Islamic world. They were trained as entertainers. The term was used for both slaves, and free women who had this role. Some of these women came from the nobility. The flourished under the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and in Al-Andalus.
Very often the word is translated as 'singing girls' or 'singing slave girls'. There were also older Quiyan. They were skilled entertainers, and their skills were more than singing; it included for example dancing, composing music and verse, reciting historical or literary anecdotes (), calligraphy, or shadow-puppetry. Other translations include courtesan, musical concubines, or simply women musicians.
The word comes from the female form of blacksmith, craftsman. The term was used for manual labourers, anyone paid to do work. Later, it referred to people doing an artistic performance for a reward. From here, its feminine form came to have the meaning of a female performer of various arts, in a specific role.
Like other slaves in the Islamic world, were legally sexually available to their owners. They were often associated in literature with licentiousness, and sexuality was an important part of their appeal, but they do not seem to have been prostitutes.
There were also common who performed for the public in common -houses, and these houses were in some cases brothels.
Often, slave girls that were not that beautifuil were made Qiyan; often they also had a darker skin. It is not certain that these claims were accurate. One social phenomenon that can be seen as a successor to the is the Egyptian , courtesans or female entertainers in Medieval Egypt, educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily.
It has been suggested that "the geisha of Japan are perhaps the most comparable form of socially institutionalized female companionship and entertainment for [men]", but there are also many differences.
The institution of declined with the Abbasid Caliphate. When it first broke apart, this did not have a direct impact. The did not take sides in political disputes. However, political instability led to tax mismanagement. Also, the new class of Turkish soldiers wanted to be paid more. This meant there was less money in the treasury. It also meant that artistic activity could not be funded.
Albert Wesker is a main antagonist fictional character in the Resident Evil franchise.
A gunship (not to be confused with a gunboat) is a military aircraft armed with heavy aircraft guns, primarily intended for attacking ground targets either as airstrike or as close air support.
In modern usage the term "gunship" refers to fixed-wing aircraft having laterally-mounted heavy armaments (i.e. firing to the side) to attack ground or sea targets. The term "gunship" originated in the mid-19th century as a synonym for gunboat and also referred to the heavily armed ironclad steamships used during the American Civil War.
The term helicopter gunship is commonly used to describe armed helicopters.
During World War II, the urgent need for hard-hitting attack aircraft led to the development of the heavily armed gunship versions of the North American B-25 Mitchell.
In the more modern, post-World War II fixed-wing aircraft category, a gunship is an aircraft having laterally-mounted heavy armaments (i.e. firing to the side) to attack ground or sea targets.
The Douglas AC-47 Spooky was the first notable modern gunship.
A gunboat is a naval watercraft. It is designed for carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
Gunboats were used since prior to the stream era, they changed with it. They were used in the American Civil War and were also used in e.g. World War I and II, and the Vietnam War.
In the age of sail, a gunboat was usually a small undecked vessel carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow, or just two or three such cannons. A gunboat could carry one or two masts or be oar-powered only, but the single-masted version of about length was most typical. Some types of gunboats carried two cannons, or else mounted a number of swivel guns on the railings.
All navies of the sailing era kept a number of gunboats on hand.
With the introduction of steam power in the early 19th century, the Royal Navy and other navies built considerable numbers of small vessels propelled by side paddles and later by screws. Initially, these vessels retained full sailing rigs and used steam engines for auxiliary propulsion.
In the later 19th century and early 20th century, "gunboat" was the common name for smaller armed vessels. These could be classified, from the smallest to the largest, into river gunboats, river monitors, coastal-defense gunboats (such as ), and full-fledged monitors for coastal bombardments. In the 1870s and 1880s, Britain took to building so-called "flat-iron" (or Rendel) gunboats for coastal defence. When there would be few opportunities to re-coal, vessels carrying a full sailing rig continued in use as gunboats; , a sloop preserved at Chatham Historic Dockyard in the United Kingdom, exemplifies this type of gunboat.
In the United States Navy, these boats had the hull classification symbol "PG", which led to their being referred to as "patrol gunboats". They usually displaced under , were about long, draught and sometimes much less, and mounted several guns of calibers up to . An important characteristic of these was the ability to operate in rivers, enabling them to reach inland targets in a way not otherwise possible before the development of aircraft. In this period the naval powers used gunboats for police actions in colonies or in weaker countries, for example in China (see e.g. Yangtze Patrol). This category of gunboat inspired the term "". With the addition of torpedoes, they became "torpedo gunboats", designated by the hull classification symbol "PTG" (Patrol Torpedo Gunboat).
US riverine gunboats in the Vietnam War, included Patrol Boats River (PBR), constructed of fiberglass; Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), commonly known as Swift Boats, built of aluminum; and Assault Support Patrol Boats (ASPB) built of steel. U.S. Coast Guard 82-foot s supplemented these US Navy vessels. The ASPBs were commonly referred to as "Alpha" boats and primarily carried out mine-sweeping duties along the waterways, due to their all-steel construction. The ASPBs were the only US Navy riverine craft specifically designed and built for the Vietnam War. All of these boats were assigned to the US Navy's "Brownwater Navy".
Slavery in 21st-century jihadism
In the 21st century, many Islamist groups, such as Boko Haram, or ISIS, have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual slavery. In 2014 in particular, both groups organised mass kidnappings of large numbers of girls and younger women. They say that they lead a war against "infidels".
The fighters get the enslaved girls and women as a compensation for their fighting to rebuild the Caliphate.
The first report of slave-taking by Boko Haram was on 13 May 2013. At that time, a video was released. In it, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said his group had taken women and children - including teenage girls - hostage in response to the arrest of its members' wives and children.
According to Islamism expert Jonathan N.C. Hill, Boko Haram began kidnapping large numbers of girls and young women for sexual use in 2014.
The attacks were similar to Algerian Islamists in the 1990s and early 2000s. The group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has probably influenced Boko Haram with this.
The BBC quoted a community leader from Borno state. He said that some of captured young women and teenage girls held by Boko Haram have been forced to marry one Boko Haram fighter after another as the fighters are killed. "Any time they go for an operation and one of the fighters is killed they will force the young woman to marry another one. Eventually she becomes a sex slave."
"The Economist" reports that ISIS (also called "Islamic State") has taken "as many as 2,000 women and children" captive, selling and distributing them as sexual slaves. Some women were reportedly sold via auction and even via online auction to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. Matthew Barber, a scholar of Yazidi history at the University of Chicago, later stated to have compiled a list of 4,800 captured Yazidi women and children, and estimated that the overall number could be up to 7,000. Yazidi are a small minority who practice a religion based on "a mix of Christian, Islamic, and ancient Mesopotamian beliefs".
According to reports "The Daily Telegraph" said were credible, virgins among the captured women were selected and given to commanders as sexual slaves. According to an August 2015 story in "The New York Times", "The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to transport them."
In April 2015, Zainab Bangura, the United Nations special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, visited Iraq. She received a copy of an Islamic State pamphlet including a list of prices for captured women and children. According to a story on the list in Bloomberg, the list's authenticity "was established by UN researchers who'd gathered anecdotes on similar slave markets in Islamic State-controlled areas". The captives are non-Muslim minorities, "mostly Arab Christians and Yazidis" who have refused to convert to Islam and whose adult male relatives have been murdered. Bidders for the captive women and children include "the groups own fighters and wealthy Middle Easterners".
"Pinch Me" is a 2000 song by Barenaked Ladies and is the leading single from their fifth studio album "Maroon". It went to number 15 in the United States, number 41 in New Zealand and number 4 in Canada. It was their final top 40 single in the United States
Kafkania pebble
The Kafkania pebble is a pebble, small in size, and round in shape, found on 1 April 1994, near a river in Kafkania, north of Olympia. The pebble contains some Mycenaean Greek words, including a image of a labrys. The text and image on the pebble is suggested to have come from the 17th century BC. If the pebble is truly a ancient artifact, it would have been the earliest writing to come from Greece, and by far the earliest document written in Mycenaean Greek. However, it is most likely a modern-day hoax.
There is an short inscription consisting of three words written on the pebble, probably reading as:
On the other side of the pebble, there is a image of a labrys.
Some believe that the inscription is written in Mycenaean Greek, but it is disputed.
G. Owens suggested that the inscription is written in Minoan, rather than Mycenaean Greek. Then, a Minoan could have written the text for a Mycenaean. No evidence exists that the Mycenaeans wrote text before the 14th century BC.
DXP
DXP ( stylized as D|XP ) is a video-game style programming block that aired on Disney XD. It aired weekday nights from Monday to Friday for 6 hours at 9:00pm to 3:00am. The block contained content produced by Disney Digital Network (under the Polaris banner) and Digomind Productions, along with shows produced by other various companies like Vice, Attack Media and IGN.
not only does D|XP air shows, it airs live events, there are themes such as E-sports and events based on video games ( such as Street Fighter IV, Super Smash Bros, etc. )
When a Blind Man Cries
"When a Blind Man Cries" is a 1972 song by British rock band Deep Purple and was originally released as a B-side to the single "Never Before". It was recorded during the sessions to their sixth studio album "Machine Head" in 1971. It has been covered by Bon Jovi and Metallica for their album "".
Siege of Lisbon (1142)
The siege of Lisbon (Portuguese: "Cerco de Lisboa"), was a short-lived blockade undertaken by Anglo-Norman crusaders. The siege began in the summer of 1142. Shortly after the siege began, Anglo-Norman crusaders realized that it would not last long, because they were few in number. They then destroyed the outskirts of the city Lisbon, before abandoning it until 1147, when they returned with more people for battle.
Katri Suutari
Katri Suutari is an archer from Finland. She was born on 8 April 1976. Suutari competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Tommi Tuovila
Tommi Tuovila is an archer from Finland. He was born on 8 July 1971. Tuovila competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
"Enter Sandman" is the third single off of American metal band Metallica's fifth studio album "Metallica". The song was released on July 29, 1991.
The song was able to make it to #10 on the Mainstream Rock, #16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and "RPM'"s Canada Top Singles charts. Both the physical and mastertone releases were certified Gold and the digital release was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was nominated for "Best Rock Song" at the 34th Grammy Awards but lost to Sting's "The Soul Cages".
When they were writing the song, Hetfield at first had "Disrupt the perfect family" which he wrote about sudden infant death syndrome. He wanted this instead of "Off to never never land". He also wanted the sandman to kill the baby but said that it was too corny. In an interview with "Uncut", Hetfield said "I wanted more of the mental thing where this kid gets manipulated by what adults say. And you know when you wake up with that shit in your eye? That's supposedly been put in there by the sandman to make you dream. So the guy in the song tells this little kid that and he kinda freaks. He can't sleep after that and it works the opposite way. Instead of a soothing thing, the table's turned." In the song, Hetfield sings the bedtime prayer "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep".
A music video for the song was released. It was directed by Wayne Isham. In the video, a child is in bed having nightmares while sleeping. In his nightmares, he is drowning, jump off a building, gets covered in snakes and is chased by a semi truck. R. G. Armstrong plays the old man in the video.
Virginia Tech uses the song for many of their athletic events. American professional wrestler The Sandman used the song during his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).
All Out (2023)
All Out (2023) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was held on September 3, 2023 at United Center in Chicago, Illinois. It was the fifth All Out event to take place.
The main event saw Jon Moxley defeat Orange Cassidy to win the AEW International Championship. Moxley ended up hitting Cassidy with the Death Rider and getting the pinfall victory.
CHC theory says that there are relationships or levels of cognitive abilities. "g", or "general intelligence," is the most stable of any level. It predicts the best. Next, there are "broad abilities." These are things like how much knowledge you have, or your ability to reason. Both "g" and these broad abilities are measured by individual tests.
"Angel of the Morning" is a 1967 song written by Chip Taylor and was originally recorded by Evie Sands and first charted by Merrille Rush. It went to number 1 in Canada and number 7 in the United States. In 1981 it was covered by Juice Newton for her sixth studio album "Juice". It went to number 4 in the United States and Switzerland, number 1 in Canada and number 5 in New Zealand.
Jawan (movie)
Jawan () is an Indian Hindi , Tamil, Telugu language action thriller movie. Atlee Kumar made his Hindi movie debut by writing and directing this movie. It is produced by Gauri Khan and Gaurav Verma under Red Chillies Entertainment. It stars Shah Rukh Khan in a multiple roles, along with Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara and Sanya Malhotra in lead roles. The music of the movie is composed by Anirudh Ravichander.
"Jawan" was released worldwide on 7 September 2023 in various languages such as Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages. It became the first Indian movie to be release at the world's largest movie theater IMAX Leonberg. "Jawan" premiered on over 10,000 screens worldwide, highest for a Hindi film and one of the highest for an Indian film. The film will be streaming on netflix premier on 2 November 2023. Jawan received highly positive reviews upon it's release praised shah rukh Khan,Nayanthara for their performance.
Catch Me Outside
"Catch Me Outside" is the third single off of American rapper Ski Mask the Slump God's second mixtape "You Will Regret". The song was released on June 13, 2017. The title of the song is a reference to an internet meme of Danielle Bregoli on "Dr. Phil".
The song is a freestyle rap over the beat of Missy Elliott's 1999 song "She's a Bitch". Elliott said that she was a fan of the song, saying "Oh he rode the heck out of this Fiyahthis my She's a Bith beat! Me & @Timbaland did this beat in 1999 & it still Bang! big up".
A music video for the song was released. It was directed by Cole Bennett. In the video, Ski is in Times Square carrying around a doll of Chucky from the "Child's Play" movies. He smokes a joint, drinks lean out of a Sprite bottle, and hangs out with street performers dressed as the Statue of Liberty. He is also seen rapping to himself in a mirror and out of the window in the back of a car. "Rolling Stone" ranked the video #137 on their list of The 150 Greatest Hip-Hop Videos of All Time. "Pitchfork" also put the video on their list of their favorite music videos of the 2010s.
Falling Down (Lil Peep and XXXTentacion song)
"Falling Down" is the first single off of American rapper Lil Peep's second and final studio album "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2". The song was released on September 19, 2018. American rapper XXXTentacion also appears on the song.
The originally recorded song was called "Sunlight on Your Skin" and was by iLoveMakonnen and Lil Peep. The song was left unfinished because Peep ended up dying from a drug overdose on November 15, 2017. Rapper XXXTentacion heard the snippet and iLoveMakonnen let X record a verse to replace his. Some of Peep's friends like fellow GothBoiClique member Fish Narc and rapper Lil Tracy didn't like that X was included because of his legal history. Fish and Tracy later retracted their statements with Fish saying that it was "what [he] said in anger".
In the song, Peep raps about missing a girl and that things don't feel the same when she isn't around. Makonnen said that the name "Falling Down" was chosen because it was heavily pouring rain outside of the studio when they were recording the song in London.
Queen of My Heart (Hank Williams Jr. song)
"Queen of My Heart" is a 1983 song by American country singer Hank Williams Jr. and is the leading single from his 36th studio album "Man of Steel". It went to number 6 on the Canadian country charts and number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Noakhalian language
Noakhalian or Noakhailla Bengali is a dialect of Bengali language, spoken in the Greater Noakhali, South Tripura and some other parts of Chittagong Division. Irish linguist Grierson classified this dialect in the "Southeastern Bengali" group of dialects of Bengali language.
Many other linguists like Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen classified this dialect under Vanga group of dialects of Bengali language. Linguist Dr. Muhammad Shahidulla placed this dialect under Prachya or eastern dialects of Bengali language.
Raorchestes huanglianshan
The Huanglianshan bush frog or Huanglianshan shrub frog ("Raorchestes huanglianshan") is a frog. It lives in China and Thailand. The scientists found it on Mt. Huanglian, between 1600 and 1900 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is about 17.0-19.6 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 21.5 mm long. The skin of the frog's back is brown-gray in color with orange marks on the top of its head and a darker brown mark on its back in the shape of the letter X. It has three brown spots under each eye. It has disks on its toes for climbing. The disks are orange in color. Its belly is gray-white in color.
Scientists named this frog for Mt. Huanglian because they found it there.
Kayangel is the northernmost state of Palau. It consists of five settlements and is by area and population the country's second smallest state. The capital is Kayangel.
Coolie is the name for a person who does unskilled work at a low wage. Typically these people were of Indian or Chinese descent. Today, it is a pejorative term, and should no longer be used.
The term was first used by European traders, in the 16th century. By the 18th century, the term referred to migrant workers from India. There was a system that resembled indentured servitude.
Sato Kilman
Meltek Sato Kilman Livtuvanu (born 30 December 1957) is a Vanuatuan politician. He was the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, from 4 September 2023 to 6 October 2023. Kilman was previously Prime Minister from December 2010 to April 2011 and from May to June 2011, though his premiership was subsequently annulled by a court of law, and again from June 2015 to February 2016.
Sri Lankan Moors
Sri Lankan Moors are the third largest group in Sri Lanka. They are 9.23% of the population. Almost all of them follow Islam and speak Tamil as their mother tongue. They are thought to be from Arab traders who came to Sri Lanka between the 700 and 1400. Many Arabic words are mixed in their dialect, the way they talk.
Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka
Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka are Tamil people from India living in Sri Lanka. They are also known as Malayaga Tamilar, Hill Country Tamils, Up-Country Tamils or Indian Tamils. They come from the workers sent from Southern India to Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in coffee, tea and rubber plantations by British people. Some also came to Sri Lanka on their own as business people. These Tamil people mostly live in the middle part of Sri Lanka, also known as the Malayakam or Hill Country and in the Northern Province. Most Indian Tamil people who are living in Hill Country are children from the lower working castes of South India.
Sri Lankan English
Sri Lankan English (SLE) is the English language dialect, or different type of English that is used in Sri Lanka. Not many people like Sri Lankan English being called a dialect of English. English in Sri Lanka is used by one quarter of Sri Lanka's population. Sri Lankan English is the mother-tongue language for 5,000 people.
Some English words are taken from Sinhalese. A list of these words is in: "A Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies". The words are about flora, different types of plants, and fauna, different types of animals:
Anaconda (disambiguation)
An anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America.
Anaconda may also refer to:
Burgher people
The Burghers are a mixed small group of Eurasian people in Sri Lanka created by the mixed marriage of local women with Portuguese, Italian "," British and other European men who came to Sri Lanka. Most of the Burghers are found in Sri Lanka. Today, even though their mother tongue is English or other European languages, they also speak many local languages. Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole is one of the most common languages they speak.
Sri Lankan Malays
Sri Lankan Malays are the Malay or southeast Asian people living in Sri Lanka. They are Sri Lankan citizens from Indonesia, Malaysia, or Singapore. Also people from Brunei and the Philippines are called Malays in Sri Lanka. The 2011 Census said that the population of Sri Lankan Malays is 40,000 people. They came to Sri Lanka during 1796-1948 when both countries came to control of the British Empire.
Chinese people in Sri Lanka
Chinese people in Sri Lanka or Sri Lankan Chinese (; ), are Sri Lankan citizens who came from China and are born or living in Sri Lanka. Most Sri Lankan Chinese people are Hakka and Cantonese people from the southern sea areas of China. Others are Han people from Hubei and Shandong who came to Sri Lanka in 1600-1800.
It is common for Sri Lankan Chinese people to marry Sinhalese people so many have a little bit of Sinhalese ancestry.Approximately 80% of Sri Lankan Chinese live in Colombo, the capital city.
Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Theravada Buddhism is the main, or official religion in Sri Lanka. Based on the 2012 Census, 14,222,844, or 70.2% of people practice Buddhism. People who practice Sri Lankan Buddhism is mostly the Sinhalese population.
Sri Lanka Constitution Article 9 says that Buddhism is the main religion in Sri Lanka. This is because people who practice it wanted Buddhism to have a high position like before colonisation. Buddhism has been inside Sri Lanka for thousands of years.
Islam in Sri Lanka
Islam is practiced by 9.7% of people in Sri Lanka . Based on the 2012 census, 1,967,227 people practice Islam. The Muslim community consists of four groups which are Sri Lankan Moors, Indian Muslim and Malay people. Each group has its own culture, their way of living and praying. Most Sri Lankan Muslim people talk in Tamil language.
Christianity in Sri Lanka
Christianity is a small religion in Sri Lanka. People think that Christianity came to Sri Lanka, which is close to India, when Christianity came to India in 52 AD. Christian traders came to in Sri Lanka in 500AD and created a church. Roman Catholicism came to Sri Lanka by the Portuguese in 1505. People were converted by the Dutch people in the 17th century. Christians increased by 10% of the population. This number has fallen after Dutch people left. Christians in Sri Lanka are from Tamil, Sinhalese and Parangi groups.
Constitution of Sri Lanka
The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (, ) is the constitution of Sri Lanka after its first public use by National State Assembly of Sri Lanka since 7 September 1978. It has been properly changed 21 times.
It is Sri Lanka's second constitution since turning into a Republic and third constitution since independence from the United Kingdom.
G4 countries
The G4 countries are Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan. They want each other to get Permanent Seats in the United Nations Security Council. Their economic and political influence has increased in the past 10 years similar to the current Permanent members. But the G4 is not liked by the Uniting for Consensus group who are against the G4 countries getting a UN permanent seat.
The United Kingdom and France have supported the G4 wish for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. Japan has got support from the United States and the United Kingdom.
China is against Japan, and North Korea, Russia and South Korea think that Japan has to make very serious changes and apologise for war crimes they had done during World War II.
Uniting for Consensus
Uniting for Consensus (UfC), also known as the Coffee Club, is a group that was created in the 1990s against the possible expansion of Permanent Seats in the United Nations Security Council. Italy started this group with help from Canada and Pakistan and wanted to be against giving the permanent seats wanted by the G4 countries (Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan). The UfC wants a consensus, or agreement before any decision is formed on the United Nation Security Council.
Spain is not part of the Uniting for Consensus group but was permanently invited.
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2000 Sri Lanka cyclone
The 2000 Sri Lanka cyclone (IMD designation: BOB 06 JTWC designation: 04B) was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Sri Lanka since 1978. It is the fourth tropical storm and the second very dangerous storm in the 2000 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It formed from an area of disturbed weather in the Bay of Bengal on December 25, 2000. It moved west, and quickly became very strong under conditions that were liked by the cyclone. It got to a top wind speed of . The cyclone hit east Sri Lanka at the highest strength, then became weak slightly while crossing the island. It ended in on 28 December. The storm closed into a low stage later, before joining with a trough on the next day.
Ministry of Education (Sri Lanka)
The Ministry of Education (; ) is a ministry, or a high-level part of the Government of Sri Lanka that directs the creation and use of rules related to primary, secondary, and higher education in Sri Lanka.
An education ministry is a national or part of the government that directs education in a country. Many other names are commonly used to name these types of ministries, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Public Education, and the leader of this type of group can be a minister of education or secretary of education. These groups take care of problems in educating children in a country like the quality of schools.
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organization with seven member countries in South Asia and South East Asia. The member countries of this organization are Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan. All these are countries are around the Bay of Bengal.
Each country leads the organization for two in alphabetical order. It started with Bangladesh in 1997-1999.
Les' Copaque Production
Les' Copaque Production Sdn Bhd is a 3-dimentional animation creation organization with MSC status based in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
Les' Copaque not only works in the field of animation but even becomes a full-fledged production organization which also involves idea submission, sound recordings and post-publishing that are included with the animation work.
This studio involves a lot of workforce from young talents.
Les' Copaque was founded by Haji Burhanuddin Md Radzi and Hajah Ainon Ariff as publishers.
They named their studio for a Malay language network "last kopek" which means "last chance" and changed the spelling to look like French.
Les Copaque's logo is a little frog named Si Polan.
This symbol was born from the Malay proverb like a frog under a shell, which means someone with broad insight, ignorance, and a person whose vision is not broad, the breadth is like a shell.
The Polan, however he sits on top of the coconut shell, which means the desire to dream big and their ability to think outside the box Their first animated film project entitled Misi Mustahak which was made under the auspices of the two founders as a nomination by their institution, MMU, then won four awards in 2005: Best Work ("Best of the 10th MVA 2005") and Gold Medalist Film Short Animation (Open) at the 10th Anugerah Video Malaysia (MVA); Tertiary Student Projects (Creative Multimedia) at MSC-APICTA 2005; and Best of Multimedia University Collection 2005 at Creative Pixels, State Art Gallery.
Khidmat Les' Copaque was assigned to create a mobile public order as well as a GT Jepun commercial in 2006.The organization also stepped into making the short fictional animation Geng: the Beginning at the wish of Mohd Anas Abdul Aziz who had won the overall title, best animated film. and best animation maker at the 2006 Short Film Award; In 2007, Les' Copaque introduced Malaysia's famous animated character, Upin & Ipin, to welcome Ramadan and Eid, while working on the film Geng: Pengembaraan Bermula which also featured the twins. The film Gang finally came out on February 12, 2009.
and succeeded in earning an income from the cinema of around RM 6.3 million, making it among the Malaysian films that achieved the highest citation in history.
Nizam and Safwan who created the characters Upin and Ipin have left Les' Copaque and have opened a new animation company called Animonsta Studios where they are working on a new animation called BoBoiBoy. Even so, Les' Copaque still publishes the animated series "Upin & Ipin".
FC Libertas Wien
FC Libertas Wien (Latin for freedom) was an Austrian football club from Ottakring, a district of Vienna. From 1932 to 1937 he played for a total of five seasons in the first division.
"What'd I Say" is a 1959 song by Ray Charles and is the title track to his fifth studio album "What'd I Say". It was one of his first soul tracks and broke into mainstream pop music with this track. It has been covered by Jerry Lee Lewis, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley as a B-side to his hit single "Viva Las Vegas".
Ludwig Brousek
With Libertas, Ludwig Brousek found a club with which he could play in the first division for a long time and also got along well with his right wing partner Josef Lebeda. They played together with club colleague Rudolf Schlauf in the international match on 6 October 1935 against Poland in Warsaw. Ludwig Brousek stayed with the club in the highest Austrian league until 1937. In early 1938 he moved to SV Wienerberg, where he played until 1944.
Electoral districts of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico uses electoral districts () for elections to both houses of the Legislative Assembly: the House of Representatives (the lower house) and the Senate (the upper house).
Puerto Rico also has an at-large congressional district that elects a Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives, though the Resident Commissioner is a non-voting delegate.
Puerto Rico representative districts
The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico has 40 single-memref representative districts (). They elect 40 of the 51 members of the House of Representatives, with the other 11 being elected at-large.
The boundaries of each district are changed every 10 years.
Puerto Rico senatorial districts
The Senate of Puerto Rico has eight senatorial districts (). They elect 16 of the 27 Senators (with the others being elected at-large.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district I
Puerto Rico Senatorial district I is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district II
Puerto Rico Senatorial district II is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district III
Puerto Rico Senatorial district III is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district IV
Puerto Rico Senatorial district IV is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district V
Puerto Rico Senatorial district V is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Virginie Arnold is a Frenche archer. She was born on 24 December 1979. Arnold competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VI
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VI is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VII
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VII is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VIII
Puerto Rico Senatorial district VIII is a senatorial district of Puerto Rico.
Charles Aubras
Charles Aubras was an archer from France. Aubras competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Lisa Barbelin is an archer from France. She was born on 10 April 2000. Barbelin competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The mata mata ("Chelus fimbriata"), also known as the matamata, is a type of freshwater turtle that lives in South America. It is one of two species in the genus "Chelus", the other being "Chelus orinocensis".
The mata mata is a large turtle with a flat head that is shaped like a triangle. It has many tubercles. The shell looks like a piece of bark, and its head looks like a leaf.
Mata mata turtles can be kept as pets. Mata matas, however, are not active hunters and like the alligator snapping turtle, they need less space than a large, active species.
Arms Around You
"Arms Around You" is a song by American rappers XXXTentacion and Lil Pump. The song was released on October 25, 2018. Columbian singer Maluma and American rapper Swae Lee also appear on the song. The song was produced by American electronic dance music producer Skrillex.
The original version of the song was made in 2017 for X's second studio album "?". After X was murdered, his label took the song and added features onto it. X's mother was asked by Lil Pump if he could join the song so he could "honor his legacy". Skrillex first teased the song in a tweet but later deleted it.
The song is about wanting to hold close and protect the one that you love.
Apulia (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Apulia is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Apulia region. It was created in 1993.
Basilicata (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Basilicata is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Basilicata region. It was created in 1993.
Calabria (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Calabria is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Calabria region. It was created in 1993.
Emilia-Romagna (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Emilia-Romagna is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Emilia-Romagna region. It was created in 1993.
Liguria (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Liguria is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Liguria region. It was created in 1993.
Marche (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Marche is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Marche region. It was created in 1993.
Molise (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Molise is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Molise region. It was created in 1993.
Sardinia (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Sardinia (, ) is a constituency of Italy. It represents the region and island of Sardinia. It was created in 1993.
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Tuscany (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Tuscany () is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Tuscany region. It was created in 1993.
Umbria (Chamber of Deputies constituency)
Umbria is a constituency of Italy. It represents the Umbria region. It was created in 1993.
Man of Steel (Hank Williams Jr. song)
"Man of Steel" is a 1984 song by country singer Hank Williams Jr. and is the title track from his 36th studio album "Man of Steel". It went to number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country songs chart and number 4 on Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The shorter version appears on his greatest hits album "Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2".
Yo Maps
Elton Mulenga (born November 29, 1994), who goes by the stage name Yo Maps, is a singer, songwriter, and music producer from Zambia. He started getting interested in music back in 2008 when he was still in high school at Chibombo. Then, in 2016, he made his first song called 'Njikata Kuboko.' But what really made him famous was a song he released in 2018 called 'Finally,' where he collaborated with another artist named Macky 2.
In his personal life, on April 23, 2022, Mulenga got married to someone named Kidist Kifle, and they have a daughter named Tendai.
Macky 2
Mulaza Kaira (born 10 October 1984), also known as Macky II, is a Zambian musician who makes hip hop music. He's also called Macky 2, MK Macky 2, DJ Bugar, and Flava Boy. He became famous when he took part in a TV show called Big Brother Africa and came in third place. He's from Chingola, Zambia, and he started a charity called the Macky 2 Hope Foundation to help kids who don't have parents.
Macky II got interested in music when he was a kid, after going to church. In 2011, he released an album called "Ndimupondo" in Lusaka. Two songs from that album, "I am The President" and "Number 1 Fan," were played on the radio and people liked them. He won an award in 2013 for his album called "Legendary."
The summer transfer window opened on 14th June 2023 and closed at 23:00 BST on 1st September 2023. The winter transfer window will open on 1st January 2024 and close at 23:00 GMT on 1st February 2024. The league will have a winter break between 14th and 30th January 2024, during which no Premier League games will be played.
Run It Back!
"Run It Back!" is a song by American rappers Craig Xen and XXXTentacion. The song was released on June 11, 2019.
The song was released on almost the one-year anniversary of XXXTentacion's murder. Xen describes X's verses as the final parts of his "half-blonde" era. During that era, X's songs were more violent and hardcore.
In the song, Xen and XXXTentacion rap about the things they have and all the money they have. They also rap about hurting and killing the people who talk bad about them or their crew.
A music video for the song was released. It was directed by JMP. In the video, a man looks in the mirror and carries a gun out of his house. He enters a car filled with Xen and a crew. They all put on balaclavas and drive around the hood. They enter a auto parts shop and rob the people at gunpoint. The video goes ahead a few decades and an older Xen is telling a story to children outside of XXXTentacion's mausoleum.
An odalisque (, ) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.
In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine. They were often shown in paintings.
They started a genre. In these pictures, a woman is shown mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem.
Note that the contacts between the sultan, his sons, and the girls and women of the harem were strictly regulated. Most members of the harem had to lead a life of sexual abstinence. In that way, a harem was more like a monastery.
Umm al walad
Umm al-walad () was a title given to a slave-concubine who had given birth to her master's child.Since this concubine was the property of her master, she could be sold or given away, like any other slave. This was also the view of Muhammad. Umar had a different view: When he was caliph, he made a policy that prohibited owners from selling or gifting their umm al-walads. Also, when her owner died, the Umm-al-walad would be freed. Ali, who was Umar's cousin, and later a caliph, opposed this ruling. He said it was different from what Muhammad had said.
Shiism took Ali's view. It also introduced temporary marriages. Sunni Muslims take Umar's view.
As the child is a child of her owner, the child is considered freeborn, and legitimate. In 740, Zayd ibn Ali tried to overthrow the caliphate. This marked a turning point for caliphs with slave mothers. In 744, Yazid III was the first Umayyad caliph with a slave mother.The last three Umayyad caliphs, and most Abbasid caliphs had slave mothers.
If a slave had a child, and the slave owner did not say it legitimate, the slave was faced with zina charges. The usual penalty for zina is stoning.
Vedaranyam
Vedaranyam () (also known as Vedaraniam and Vedaranniyam) is a town in Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu, India. The town is named after the deity, or god of the Vedaranyeswarar Temple. The known history of Vedaranyam is from the old Chola period in the 800s. It has also been ruled by the Later Cholas, Later Pandyas, Vijayanagar Empire and the British Empire. While India was fighting for independence, the freedom for India to be ruled by itself, C. Rajagopalachari, who would later become independent India's first Governor-General, started a salt walk in Vedaranyam that was similar to the Dandi March started by Gandhi in 1930 to fight against the sales tax forced on getting salt from the sea.
Vedaranyam is in the Vedaranyam assembly constituency which selects a person to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years. It is a part of the Nagapattinam (Lok Sabha constituency) which selects its Member of Parliament (MP) once in five years. The town is ruled by the Vedaranyam municipality, which rules an area of . The town had a population of 34,266 people in 2011. Vedaranyam was a part of Thanjavur District up to 1991. The town is a part of the Cauvery delta region which is very good for farming. Most people work to raise prawn and finding salt inside the sea. Roads are the most used way of movement to Vedaranyam. The nearest airport is Tiruchirapalli Airport and it is from the town. On 17 November 2018 Vedaranyam was was badly hurt by cyclone Gaja.
Vetharanyam is named after Vedaranyeswarar, the main deity, or god of the Vedaranyeswarar Temple. It is a Hindu temple that was created for Shiva. The place was also known as "Tirumaraikadu", this means that the oldest Hindu writing, or Vedas came from. The Saiva music work "Tevaram" by Appar and Tirugnanasambandar names the place as "Tirumaraikadu". Hindu writing says the Vedas practiced Shiva in this place and gave the name "Vedaranyam" to the place.
Rush Rush (Paula Abdul song)
"Rush Rush" is a song by American singer and dancer Paula Abdul, taken from her second studio album, "Spellbound" (1991). It was released on April 24, 1991, by Virgin Records as the lead single from the album. It was a style departure for Adbul as her previous songs had been dance-pop, new jack swing and R&B heavy and "Rush Rush" is a ballad, her first one to be released as single.
"The Promise of a New Day" is a song recorded by American singer and dancer Paula Abdul. Released as a single from her second studio album, "Spellbound" (1991). The song was written by Paula Abdul, Peter Lord and V. Jeffrey Smith. It became Abdul's sixth and final number-one hit on the US "Billboard" Hot 100.
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