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She is the daughter of Jonathan and Meriem, and was injected with a serum made of the blood of several uncommon species of spiders after being effected by Uranium. After her age accelerated, she was taken under HYDRA until she refused to assassinate Nick Fury, and later left and became the superheroine Spider-Woman. Jessica went onto become an ally of Spider-Man, another superhero who was bitten by a radioactive spider and gave him powers similar to hers. She later became a member of the Avengers, Lady Liberators, Spider-Army, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.W.O.R.D.
Jessica Drew was created by Archie Goodwin and the late Marie Severin, and first appeared in "Marvel Spotlight #32" in February of 1977.
Jessica Drew has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful female heroes. She made her cinematic debut in "" (2023) as Jess Drew, voiced by Issa Rae, who will reprise her role in "".
Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin)
Martha "Mattie" Franklin, under the identity as Spider-Woman, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The niece of J. Jonah Jameson, she is the third character to be called Spider-Woman.
Mattie Franklin / Spider-Woman made her cinematic debut in the animated movie "" (2023), depicted as a member of Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society, and is portrayed in live-action by Celeste O'Connor in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe movie "Madame Web" (2024).
The Thunderbolts are an antihero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team consists mostly of reformed supervillains. Created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, the team first appeared in "The Incredible Hulk" (vol. 2) #449 (January 1997).
Voices (Matchbook Romance album)
Voices is the second and final studio album by Matchbook Romance. The album was released on February 14, 2006.
Jawbreaker (band)
Jawbreaker is an American punk rock band formed in New York City in 1986. It was founded by singer and guitarist Blake Schwarzenbach, drummer Adam Pahler, and bassist Chris Bauermeister. The band ended in 1996, but started again in 2017. Jawbreaker is said to be inspirational for many punk rock and emo bands of the 1990s and 2000s.
Jawbreaker was created in 1986 under the name "Rise" while Schwarzenbach, Pfahler, and Bauermeister were attending New York University (NYU). In 1987, the band moved as a group to Los Angeles, and added Schwarzenbach's childhood friend Jon Liu as the singer. The first demo that the group recorded was "Shield Your Eyes", which Schwarzenbach singing. After the demo was recorded, the group decided to continue on as a trio without Jon Liu. The trio changed their name to "Jawbreaker", and signed to independent label Shredder Records. Their first release on the label was "Shield Your Eyes" on the 7" vinyl compilation album called "The World's in Shreds Volume Two". The band went on to record the single release "Busy" and the "Whack and Blite 7" E.P." in 1989. In May of 1990, Jawbreaker released their first album "Unfun" through Shredder Records.
Following the "Fuck 90" tour of the summer of 1990, Jawbreaker ended for a short period of time. Schwarzenbach and Bauermeister went back to New York City to finish their college degrees, and Pfahler stayed in Los Angeles. The members quickly regretted their decisions, and decided to start the band again in San Francisco, California.
The band recorded "Bivouac" through Tupelo Recording Company in 1991, and released it in 1992. While recording "Bivouac", Schwarzenbach started to grow a painful bump on his throat. The band continued to go on a tour of Europe, even though it was risky. When the band was playing in Ireland, Schwarzenbach had to receive emergency surgery on his throat. The song "Out Patient" on the band's 1994 album "24 Hour Revenge Therapy" may be talking about his surgery.
After the band's tour of Europe, Schwarzenbach and Pfahler were homeless. Schwarzenbach moved to Bay Area city Oakland, which inspired the band's next album. The album was released in 1994, and is often said to be the band's best album. Since the record was doing well, the band received an offer from DGC Records, a popular record label, for one million dollars.
The punk rock scene did not like that Jawbreaker was signing to a popular label. The band was thought to be a truly independent punk rock group, and by signing to a large company's record label, they were going against that. Many people, including Ben Weasel from Chicago punk band Screeching Weasel, criticized the band's choice.
After Jawbreaker signed to DGC Records, they recorded their final studio album. "Dear You" was released in 1995, and received mixed reviews. The band did not work together closely on the album, and often recorded at separate times. The end result was a clean, highly produced album that did not sound like Jawbreaker's other albums. Jawbreaker also recorded their first and only music video for the album single "Fireman", which was in rotation on MTV.
The band toured after the record was released. Many fans did not like the new material, and would openly turn away from the band while they were playing shows. Off-stage, the band continued to fight. On July 4 of 1996, the band officially announced that they would stop playing music together.
Technological change is when the use of technology in a society or culture changes over time. This process is also knwon as technological development. Speaking from the point of view of economics, technological change makes it possible to get more output with the same input, or to get the same output, with less input. Often, technological change also affects the quality of the product, which improves over time. As an example, the development of the steam engine was linked to the industrial revolution:. Technological change also affect society: Often, society changes as a result of technological change. To stay with the example of the industrial revolution: In the industrial revolution, many factories were built, and people who worked in these factorires were needed. The work of the factory worker was very different from the work people did before. A whole social class of factory workers developed. As technolgoical change improves efficiencvy, very ofren, it is also linked to unemployment: Fewer people are needed to produce the same output, so some are laid off.
According to Joseph Schumpeter, there are five different types of technological development:
People have also criticized technological change: Jean-Jacques Rousseau published a work called "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men" in 1755. In it, he writes that before the Industrial Revolution, people were able to live happily, in a state of nature. In it, he also says that private property leads to inequality among humans. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Luddites were opposed to certain technological changes introduced by the Industrial Revolution. In 1968, philiopsphers of the Frankfurt School become critical of technolhical change. In his encyclical "Laudato si'" Pope Francis has an ambivalent position as to technology: He sees technology as a key contributor to the environmental crisis and human suffering.
Pope Francis points out, that technology is viewed as "principal key to the meaning of existence" and asks the world to "resist" the "assault" of the technocratic paradigm.
He is married and the father of 3 daughters.
Native Son (1986 movie)
Native Son is a 1986 American drama movie directed by Jerrold Freedman and is based on the 1940 novel "Native Son" by Richard Wright. It stars Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Carroll Baker and was distributed by Cinecom Pictures.
Ulric Browne
Ulric Franklyn Browne (born April 1957) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Winston in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders".
Ulric Franklyn Browne was born in England in April 1957.
Browne studied at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in Peckham, South London.
Browne made his debut as an actor on 26 November 1985, with the role of market trader Winston in the BBC One soap opera "EastEnders". His character rarely speaks. His first line was "bloody pedestrians" said to Den Watts. He is the longest-serving male extra and second longest-serving extra, behind Jane Slaughter's Tracey.
Browne has worked as a secretary at Aircraft Management Support Limited in Exeter, Devon since 2 October 1992.
Browne has appeared in four "Children in Need" television spin-offs from "EastEnders"; "Pudding Lane" on 26 November 1999, "What Not To Wear" with Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine on 19 November 2004, "Motown Tribute" on 20 November 2009, and "EastEnd Meets WestEnd" on 17 November 2017.
Browne appeared in two 1988 episodes of the BBC children's television drama series "Grange Hill"; he was credited as House DJ on 15 January and as Hip Hop DJ on 12 February. He appeared in three episodes of the ITV police procedural series "The Bill"; he was credited as Benny Hughes on 5 October 1987, Seed on 31 January 1989 and Chas Hendrie on 31 July 2003.
Browne made his film debut on 7 March 2004, as Tiko in the action thriller film "The Quiet Storm".
Browne has performed in panto.
Browne is married to Debs.
Pearl River is the name of a river in southern China. The river flows into the South China Sea near Macau. The whole river system has a length of . It is China's third-longest river system, after that of the Yangtze, and Yellow River. By volume, it is second-laregest, after the Yangtze. There are many large industrial cities along the river. It is important for transportation. Hong Kong is about from its estuary. Other large cities along the river are Guangzhou, Foshan, and Dongguan. Each of these citiers has more than a million people living in it. Another important city that is close is Shenzhen. Many parts along the river are highly-industralized cities.
Pearl river may refer to:
New Social Contract
New Social Contract, Dutch: "Nieuw Sociaal Contract" (shortened "NSC"), is a Dutch political party.
New Social Contract was established in 2023. It focuses on governmental renewal.
Their leader and founder is Pieter Omtzigt.
Number of seats in the 2023 elections: 20 (/).
Bottom-up and top-down design
The terms bottom-up design and top-down design are used when organizing or classifying information. The terms are also used in different fields of engineering when talking about building more complex systems.
Bottom-up works the other way around. People first design more specialized systems, and then look what these systems have in common. The subsystems then become special cases or extensions of the more general system, and their complexity is reduced, to only handle the cases where they are different from the more general system, or where they extend it. People speak about generalizing several components.
When talking in ma morge general way, there are the concepts of deductive and inductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning starts with the more general case to the more specialized case. Inductive reasoning takes several of the more specialized cases, and tries to find similarities or patterns, generalizing them. Still other words, which are more widely used in engineering are decomposition and aggregation. Decomposition is about looking at the parts, aggregation is about combining several of those parts.
New York City Fire Department
The New York City Fire Department, also known as the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is the complete fire department for New York City. It is responsible for providing Fire Suppression Services along with Specialized Technical Rescue Response Services,Specialized Hazardous Materials Response Services and Emergency Medical Response Services. It has a wide variety of General Purpose and Special Purpose Vehicles,Tools and Equipment to accomplish its missions. The New York City Fire Department currently has 11,000+Uniformed Firefighting Personnel,4,274 Uniformed Emergency Medical Services Personnel and 2,096 Civilian Employees.
The Headquarters of the New York City Fire Department are located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, while the FDNY Fire Academy is on Randalls Island. The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) locals are Local 94 (Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York),Local 854 (Uniformed Fire Officers Association),and Local 4959 (Uniformed Fire Alarm Dispatchers Benevolent Association). EMS is represented by DC 37 Locals 2507 for EMTs and paramedics, and Local 3621 for officers.
The New York City Fire Department traces its roots to 1648 when the first fire ordinance was adopted in the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (now part of the Dutch Empire). Upon arriving, Peter Stuyvesant appointed four fire wardens to oversee the chimneys of wooden houses. Owners faced penalties for improperly maintained chimneys. The initial fire wardens were Martin Krieger, Thomas Hall, Adrian Wyser, and George Woolsey.
Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl
Vogtsburg has 9 districts:
Dugout canoe
Dugouts are the oldest boat type archaeologists have found. The items found date back about 8,000 years to the Neolithic Stone Age. This is probably because they are made of massive pieces of wood, which tend to preserve better than others, such as bark canoes.
Payung dance
People perform the Payung dance during different events like shows, exhibitions, parties, and weddings. It is a important part of Minangkabau culture. Men use umbrellas while women use shawls in the dance. The umbrella represents protection, showing how men protect their families. Women's shawls symbolize love and loyalty in marriage. This is shown when the woman's shawl is placed on the man's shoulder.
In the Indonesian and Minangkabau languages, "payung" or "payuang" means "umbrella" or "parasol." This word comes from old Sundanese. The dance is called Payung dance because it uses umbrellas as the main props. The umbrellas represent safety and protection in marriage.
The umbrella dance is a big part of the Minangkabau tribe's culture. It is mostly done by young Minangkabau people. But it's more than just entertainment. It also shows how couples should act in a loving relationship, following Islamic religious and traditional Minangkabau rules.
Long ago, during the time when the Dutch were ruling Sumatra, there were plays that people watched for fun. These plays sometimes included the umbrella dance. At first, the umbrella dance was just something extra in the plays, mainly for fun. But in the 1920s, it became really popular, and people liked it a lot.
In the 1960s, the umbrella dance was one of the most liked dances among the Minangkabau people. Some of them had never seen a Minangkabau dance before watching the umbrella dance. It often showed up in dance shows, either by itself or with other dances.
In the 2000s, a dancer and teacher named "Syofiyani Yusaf" from Bukittinggi worked on it and improved it, keeping its Minangkabau style but making it easier for anyone to learn.
Today, umbrella dance is performed at a lot of events, both in and outside of West Sumatra. Many students, from elementary to high school, learn the umbrella dance. They join art clubs in different places in West Sumatra. Some schools, like "Vocational High School 7 Padang" and the "Padangpanjang Indonesian Arts Institute", even teach the umbrella dance as part of their classes.
In Payung dance, female dancers wear traditional Malay clothes like kebaya tops, songket bottoms, hair in a bun, and a low, golden crown-like headdress called "suntiang." Male dancers wear long-sleeved shirts called "bay belanga" with a "cekak musang" collar, matching trousers, a side cloth made from songket, and a typical Minang head covering or black kopiah (peci).
Bahlingen
Biederbach
Denzlingen
Elzach
Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
Forchheim am Kaiserstuhl
Freiamt
Gutach im Breisgau
Gutach has six villages:
CPR Restoration
CPR Restoration is an American company providing fire and water damage restoration services. It was founded in 1998 with its headquarter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CPR Restoration and Cleaning was founded in 1998 with its headquarter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It provides fire and water damage restoration services for residential and commercial properties. They have also been collaborating with the New York City Fire Department.
The company provides all types of services related to the fire and water damage properties like clean-up, pack-out, fire odor elimination, dehumidification, smoke removal, soot, minimizing recontamination, structure cleaning, remediation, debris pick-up, and removal services.
After a great success in Pennsylvania, the company expanded their services to New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, and Maryland.
In 2014, a former employee, Stanley Kieffer, of CPR Restoration & Cleaning filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against his employer companies, CPR LLC and CPR, Inc., claiming that alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Pennsylvania state law. Kieffer claimed that he was wrongfully terminated after requesting accommodations for his disabilities and filing a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The suit ended with the court granting summary judgment in favor of CPR. The court found that Kieffer did not meet the criteria for protection under the FMLA, and he was not considered a "qualified individual" under the ADA. The court also ruled that Kieffer's requested leave was not a reasonable accommodation, and his retaliation claims lacked sufficient evidence. The decision was made on unspecified dates in 2018, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court's judgment.
Alfred Grosser
Kenzingen
Malterdingen
Reute (Breisgau)
Reute is twinned with:
Rheinhausen (Breisgau)
Riegel am Kaiserstuhl
Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl
Sexau
Simonswald
Teningen
Teningen is twinned with:
La Tour-en-Jarez.
La Tour-en-Jarez is twinned with:
Weisweil
The Kiribati dollar is linked to the Australian dollar, with a fixed exchange rate of 1:1.
Here are the key points about this currency:
Waldkirch is twinned with:
Winden im Elztal
Wyhl
It is known in the 1970s for its opposition to the anti-nuclear movement. Wyhl was first mentioned in 1971 as a site for a nuclear power plant. The construction of a nuclear power plant in Breisach had been planned since 1969, was abandoned because of protests. In July 1973, Wyhl was named as the location for a power plant at the Kaiserstuhl.
Sociologists have put people into different categories, based on socioeconomic factors, such as wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). They called this classification social stratification. Stratification is the relative social position of people within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit.
In modern Western societies, social stratification is defined in terms of three social classes: an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class. Each class is divided in three again: an upper, a middle, and a lower layer, or statum. Moreover, a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four.
Socieieties that are based on states, that have more than one center, or that have a feudal hierachy use social stratification. In feudal society, there is nobility, and there are the common people, or peasants. Social scientists still argue about when social stratification first appeared: Either it started in the hunter-gatherer, tribal, and band societies or with agriculture and large-scale means of social exchange. Determining the structures of social stratification comes from inequalities of status among people.The degree of social inequality determines a person's social stratum. Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification exists, by way of social differentiation.
Stratification can yield various consequences. For instance, the stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit.
People and groups or categories of people also move between the layers of the system. This movement can occur within one generation, or from one generation to the next one.
Mobility is sometimes used to classify different systems of social stratification. Systems that allow such mobility, or that make it easier are called open. Uually, they make movement possible by placing value on the achieved status characteristics of people. The societies with the highest levels of intragenerational mobility are considered to be the most open and malleable systems of stratification. Those systems in which there is little to no mobility, even on an intergenerational basis, are considered closed stratification systems. For example, in caste systems, all aspects of social status are ascribed, such that one's social position at birth persists throughout one's lifetime.
Lauchringen
Dogern
Dogern is twinned with:
Le Grand-Lemps
Le Grand-Lemps is twinned with:
Pura, Tarlac
Pura is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, 25,781 people lived there.
Tarlac City
Tarlac City is a city in the Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Tarlac. According to the 2020 census, 385,398 people lived there.
Mount ad-Dahi
Mount ad-Dahi () is a historic mountain in Palestine, located south of Nazareth, three kilometers east of Afula .
It was named after the village of Ad-Dah, which contains the tomb of the companion Dahiya Al-Kulayni.
mountains of historic Palestine and is located south of Nazareth, three kilometers east of Afula . It was named after the village of Ad-Dah, which contains the tomb of the companion Dahiya Al-Kulayni .
The hill of Dahi is 550 metres high.
The mountain mass forms a watershed between the Galood River / Jalud River in the south and The Tabor Valley in the north.
The mountain mass forms a watershed between the Galood River in the south and the Taboor valley in the north.
The Jabal Ad-Dhi massif forms a water dividing line between the Jalud River in the south and The Tabor Valley in the north.
Chavanay
Chavanay is a commune in the Loire department in central France.
Chavanay is twinned with:
Saint-Pierre-de-Trivisy is a commune. It is in Occitanie in the Tarn department in south France.
Wavelet compression
Wavelet compression is a form of data compression which is mainly used to compress images and videos (which are sequences of images). Like with other forms of data compression, the idea is to find redundancies, and to remove them:
Digital filter
In the context of digital signal processing a digital filter is there to change a signal. An example of a filter might be to only let certain frequency bands pass, or to block these bands. The signal will be sampled, and discrete in time. Unlike analog filters, digfital filters use logical components, while analog filters use electrical circuits. Very often, the signal is transoformed from analog to digtal before filtering, and then transformed back after filtering.
Van Dyke brown
Van Dyke (Vandyke) brown is a warm brown colour for painting and printmaking. Early accounts of the pigment call it Cassel (or Kassel) earth or Cologne earth. Today it is usually called Van Dyke brown after the painter Anthony van Dyck.
The colour was originally made from a mixture of peat or soil and oil paints.
Despite being named after Anthony van Dyck, the pigment has not been found in his work. It is found in some American paintings of the nineteenth century.
Prime (drink)
Prime is a hydration drink made by Logan Paul is a American Influencer and professional wrestler.
"More to Life" is a 1991 song by Cliff Richard and is the theme song to the BBC tv series "Trainer". It went to number 23 in the United Kingdom.
UK 7" single (EM 205), CD single (CDEM 205), cassette (TCEM 205)
John Moore (Irish politician)
Lyla in the Loop
Lyla in the Loop is a children's animated television series. It was created by Dave Peth for PBS Kids. It premiered on February 5, 2024. It is produced by Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios. It follows Lyla, a black girl and her sidekick, a fuzzy blue creature named Stu. Together, the two embark on adventures with her family. The theme song was composed and performed by .
Tinwald, New Zealand
Tinwald is a southern suburb of Ashburton and is separated by the Ashburton River / Hakatere. It has a primary school that opened in 1879, shopping area and the Plains Railway. It was the home of New Zealand Prime Minister William Massey and has State Highway 1 running through the suburb.
2022 AFL Grand Final
The 2022 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match played between the Geelong Cats and the Sydney Swans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 24 September 2022. It was the 127th grand final in the Australian Football League (AFL), and was held to determine the winner of the 2022 AFL season. Geelong defeated Sydney by 81 points.
2021 AFL Grand Final
The 2021 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football match played between the Melbourne Demons and the Western Bulldogs on 25 September 2021 at Optus Stadium in Perth. It was the 126th grand final in the Australian Football League (AFL) and determined the winner of the 2021 AFL season.
Melbourne defeated the Western Bulldogs by 74 points. It was the first time since 1964 that the Demons had won a Grand Final.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Grand Final was not played at the traditional venue, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), for a second time in a row. It was the first Grand Final to be played in Western Australia and even though it was played between two Victorian teams during a pandemic, it set a new attendance record for Australian rules football in Western Australia.
Phytochrome
Phytochromes are a type of protein that is sensitive to light. They can be found in plants, bacteria, and fungi. There are two types of red-sensitive phytochromes. Type I is sensitive to far-red light. Type II is sensitive to red light.
The way they work is to control the plant's development. There are other receptors which respond to blue and ultraviolet light. Their pigments are also phytochromes.
Unincorporated territory
A United States insular area in which the United States Congress has determined that only selected parts of the United States Constitution apply.
An unincorporated United States insular area, of which there are currently thirteen, three in the Caribbean (Navassa Island, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands) and ten in the Pacific (American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, the Northern Mariana Islands and Wake Atoll).
Kepler-16
Kepler-16 is an eclipsing binary star system. It consists of two stars, Kepler-16A and Kepler-16B. The system also has one exoplanet, Kepler-16b. It is a gas giant the size of Saturn.
Adoration of the Magi (Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi)
The Adoration of the Magi is a round painting believed to be made by Fra Angelico in the middle of the 15th century. It is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Many experts think Filippo Lippi also helped with it, along with other artists and helpers. The painting is also called the Washington Tondo or Cook Tondo. It is made with tempera on wood and is about 137.3 cm across.
Art experts say the painting took a long time to make, with many changes done by different artists. Some people do not like these changes, but others, like John Walker, think it's one of the best Florentine paintings. He believes it shows the shift between old and new painting styles in Italy during the 15th century.
The painting is thought to be the same one listed in a list of things in the Medici Palace in 1492, after Lorenzo the Magnificent died. It was kept in a big room with Paolo Uccello's famous Battle of San Romano paintings. This painting was worth more than any other in the palace.
During World War II, it was sent to the United States from England to keep it safe from bombs. It was later given to the National Gallery of Art in 1952.
The painting shows three wise men giving presents to baby Jesus, who is held by his mother Mary. Saint Joseph is beside them, and there are animals behind them. This is a common picture in many paintings.
Besides the wise men, there are also shepherds. One is looking at Jesus and Mary, and the others are pointing at them. The stable is outside, and there are animals and people nearby.
In the background, more people are coming to see Jesus. Some are on horses and camels, while others are walking. The city walls of Bethlehem are seen, and some people are watching what's happening.
On the roof of the stable, there is a big bird and some smaller ones. There are also some young people on the ruins, but it's not clear who they are. Some parts of the painting look strange because the sizes of things do not match up correctly. This might be because the artist made changes while painting.
The painting was probably made in different steps or stages. Fra Angelico and his helpers started it around the 1440s. Angelico's style can be seen in Mary's face, but other parts seem to be done by his helpers. The small figures on the right and left sides of the painting also match Angelico's style.
Angelico was busy with many projects, so the painting might have been left unfinished when he died in 1455. Then, it might have been given to Filippo Lippi's workshop, another famous painter in Florence.
Some parts of the painting, like the stable and the birds on the roof, seem to be added later. They might have been inspired by symbols used by the Medici family. Benozzo Gozzoli, who worked with Angelico before, might have added these details. He also painted similar scenes in the Medici Palace around the same time.
Easy-Bake Oven
The Easy-Bake Oven was a popular children's toy stove for baking. It used an electrical source for heat and came with pans and other equipment. Different models were made in several colors.
The toy was first sold in 1963. Kids would be able to bake small cakes and cookies as long as they had electricity. The oven was supposed to be used with adult supervision.
Super Bowl LVIII
This was the first Super Bowl to be held in the state of Nevada. The game was televised nationally by CBS, streamed on Paramount+, alternatively broadcast on youth-oriented network Nickelodeon, and televised on the Spanish network Univision.
The game has been named by people as the "Taylor Swift Bowl" or "Swiftie Bowl", referencing singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and her fans, which are known as Swifties. The season broke records for the NFL, following Swift's relationship with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and her frequent appearances at Chiefs games. Fans who began supporting the Chiefs due to Swift's association with them have been dubbed as "Chiefties".
Super BowlLVIII was televised by CBS. . CBS used 165 cameras, including six cameras embedded within the goal posts ("doink cams"), 48 cameras capable of high frame rate video (24 of which were in 4K for zoom abilities), and 23 cameras for augmented reality effects. CBS televised the game in 1080p with high-dynamic-range (HDR) color, changed to 4K on selected television providers. It was the most-watched United States broadcast since the Apollo 11 moon landing.
On September24, 2023, it was announced that R&B and pop singer Usher would lead the halftime show.
Usher's show included the songs "Caught Up", "U Don't Have to Call", "Love in This Club", "Confessions Part II", "Nice & Slow", "Burn", "U Got It Bad", "OMG", and "Yeah!".
Felonius Gru (character)
Gru (also known as Felonious Gru) is a fictional character in the Despicable Me Franchise. He is voiced by Steve Carell. He was created by Sergio Pablos.
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In Despicable Me, Gru is a supervillain who steals the moon. His heart is then softened by the girls and ends up adopting them. In the movie, his main opponent is Vector Perkins, who was responsible for stealing the pyramids of Giza and replacing them with fake inflatables. Later, after defeating Vector, he is hired by the Anti-Villain League, being granted an official pardon.
Nihang
Nihang are mythical water dragons from the Chitrali Mythology in northwestern Pakistan. The name ""Nihang"" comes from the Persian word "nahang" for crocodiles but is also used for other sea creatures. Nihangs looked like winged snakes, also found in myths in many parts of mainland Pakistan and East Asia. They were huge, scaly creatures and were famous for their golden manes. The most famous one lived in a lake in Mastuj area of Chitral and frightened the local people. However, its reign of terror ended when an ancient warrior fought against it using a double-hilted sword and killed it.
The Chitrali dragon has similarities to both Eastern and Western dragons. It looks like East Asian dragons with its thick furlike mane, lives in water, and has a long, slender, serpent-like body. But unlike Eastern dragons, the Chitrali dragon is seen as a mean creature that spreads fear in its area. People living near lakes have long believed in creatures like this in the Hindu Kush mountains. Even a Chinese traveler from the 7th century, Xuanzang, mentioned a dragon living in a lake in the region. While the exact lake he talked about isn't known, some believe it could be Lake Dufferin on the border of Chitral.
Stories about dragons were common in Chitrali stories. Dragons could be seen as powerful and noble, but also scary. Some lived in water like the Nihang, while others lived on land. These dragons were called "Azhdaar". The Chitrali dragon was a mix of the Iranian and Chinese dragons. It was big, had wings, looked like a serpent (similar to chinese dragons), and had a golden mane like a lion. It could swallow people and breathe fire. Old warriors said you could fight back by holding your sword above your head and cutting the dragon's mouth. Dragons were often linked with treasure. Even in the 1980s, people talked about a dragon guarding treasure in a valley near Chitral Town.
The small town of Mastuj in Chitral was once an important place, serving as the capital of a small hilly kingdom. There used to be a big lake below the town where a huge dragon (Nihang) lived. This dragon would eat anything that moved, including fish and animals. Over time, it even started attacking people passing by. The locals, worried about their safety, asked their king for help.
The king, after talking with his advisers, announced a reward for anyone brave enough to kill the dragon. A courageous man stepped forward and said he would do it. He got a special sword made, poisoned its edge, and set out on his dangerous journey.
When he reached the lake, he got off his horse, took out his sword, and approached the edge of the lake. As the dragon saw him, it tried to swallow him. But the sharp sword quickly sliced the dragon's jaws, and the poison killed him.
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Scientists used to think this was the same frog as "Polypedates maculatus".
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A 30-year old middle-class Greek American woman, who still lives with her family in Chicago, falls in love with an upper middle-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant man, and struggles to get her family and especially her father, who wants her to marry a Greek, to accept him, while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was shot in Toronto, Canada, which stands in for Chicago in the movie.
The movie spawned a movie franchise, which inspired the 2003 sitcom "My Big Fat Greek Life" and the 2016 sequel "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2". A third movie, titled "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3", was released in cinemas on September 8, 2023.
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"Marvel's Spider-Man" was released for the PlayStation 4 on September 7, 2018. It had an expansion released called """" in late 2018. The game was remastered and released on the PlayStation 5 in November 2020 and later on PC.
The game had a spin-off called "" in November 2020 for the PlayStation 5
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During his time in Impact Wrestling, Page was known for being one-half of the tag team The North with Josh Alexander. During his time in Impact, Page was a two-time Impact World Tag Team Champion.
On March 7, 2021, Page would sign a three-year contract with All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He would make his debut the same night at Revolution. He would compete in the Face of the Revolution ladder match as a surprise entrant but the match would be won by Scorpio Sky. On the March 29 episode of "", Page would create a tag team with Scorpio Sky. They would later call themselves the Men of the Year.
On the August 18 episode of "Dynamite", Page and Sky would join Dan Lambert's American Top Team stable. On the October 27 episode of "Dynamite", Page would challenge Sammy Guevara for his TNT Championship but would lose the match. At New Year's Smash, Page would once again challenge for the TNT Championship. This time against Cody Rhodes. Page would be defeated by Rhodes. The team would quietly break up after Sky lost his TNT Championship to Wardlow on the July 7, 2022 episode of "Dynamite".
At "The House Always Wins", Page would compete in a 15 Man Battle Royal to determine who would become the number one contender for the AEW TNT Championship. The match would eventually be won by The Butcher.
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2002 he moved to SK Rapid Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga. During the winter break of the 2005/06 season, Steffen Hofmann moved to the second division team TSV 1860 Munich. In July 2006 he returned to Rapid. After a injury he became a dominant figure in the team. In the 2009/10 season he became Austria's top scorer with 20 goals.No other midfielder in Austria had achieved this till that time. Hofmann's contract ended on 30 June 2018. After his contract expired, he ended his career.
In September 2020 he became coach of SK Rapid Wien II as head coach. For the 2021/22 season, Patrick Jovanovic took over the head coaching position and Hofmann was assistance coach. In November 2021, he took over as interim head coach of the Rapids first team together with Thomas Hickersberger.
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It was represented by Tony Lloyd of the Labour Party until his death on 17 January 2024 and a by-election is to take place on 29 February 2024. He was first elected MP for this seat in 2017; previously, he had been the MP for Stretford and then Manchester Central from 1983 until his resignation from Parliament in 2012.