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2024 Finnish presidential election
Had the new president been elected in the first round on 28 January by winning more than half of valid votes cast, their term would have begun on 1 February. However, No candidate received a majority of votes.
Alexander Stubb and Pekka Haavisto ran in a runoff on 11 February with Stubb winning 51.6% to Haavisto's 48.4%. The result in the second round was the closest in the history of presidential elections in Finland. Stubb will be inaugurated as president on 1 March.
Bob Ferguson (politician)
Robert Watson Ferguson (born February 23, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician. Since 2013 he has been attorney general of Washington, the 18th person to serve in that office. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
In 2017, Ferguson was included on the annual "Time" 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
In September 2023, Ferguson announced that he is a candidate for Governor of Washington in the 2024 election.
Ferguson is an internationally rated chess master. He has twice won the Washington State Chess Championship.
Norm Dicks
Norman DeValois Dicks (born December 16, 1940) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the U.S. representative for , between 1977 and 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Killing of Melvin Fletcher Jr
Two St. Paul police officers were cleared by a grand jury Wednesday of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of a suspected grocery store robber in 2012.
A grand jury issued a "no bill" in the slaying of Melvin Fletcher Jr., 20, of Brooklyn Park, who was shot and killed Dec. 17 by at least one officer after he allegedly robbed Kowalski's Market at 1261 Grand Av., according to a release by the Ramsey County attorney's office.
The jurors determined that probable cause did not exist to charge officers Theodore Mackintosh and Jeffrey Thissen, who both have more than a decade of experience with the department, and that their use of deadly force was authorised.
Melvin Duane Fletcher Jr. (December 23, 1991 - December 17, 2012) is a son of Melvin Fletcher Sr. down back to his school before he died.
In 1994, he started visiting his school before he stop visiting school when he was educated, Melvin's mother says My son was shot during a gunshot, also his father said that.
2024 Haneda Airport runway collision
On 2 January 2024, Japan Airlines Flight 516 was involved in an accident when it collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Both planes caught fire after the impact. On the Japan Airlines plane, all of the 379 people on board got out safely. The Japan Coast Guard plane had 6 people, but 5 of them died, leaving 1 survivor. In total, 380 people survived. This is the first major accident and hull loss of an Airbus A350.
The Japan Airlines plane involved was an Airbus A350-941, registration JA13XJ, made in 2021, with two Rolls-Royce engines. The Japan Coast Guard plane was a De Havilland Canada Dash 8, registered as JA722A.
Japan Airlines Flight 516 left New Chitose Airport in Sapporo at 16:27 JST, and around 17:47, it collided with a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 while landing at Haneda Airport. The Coast Guard plane was getting ready to deliver supplies to Niigata after the 2024 Noto earthquake.
"Strange Fruit" is a song written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans in the South and reached its peak in the early 20th century. The song has been a declaration and the beginning of the civil rights movement. Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. It has been covered by a number of artists over the years including Nina Simone in 1965.
Circle of competence
A circle of competence is the subject area that is a person or group's skills or expertise.
The circle of competence can be determined by many factors, including their profession, spending habits, and the types of products they normally use.
The is the coast guard of Japan.
The Japan Coast Guard has about 13,700 personnel and is responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is in charge of the coast guard. The Japan Coast Guard was founded in 1948.
The motto of the Japan Coast Guard is .
Ankusha
The ankusha, bullhook, or elephant goad is a tool employed by mahout consists of a hook (usually bronze or steel) which is attached.
Cherelle Parker
Cherelle Lesley Parker (born September 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the 100th Mayor of Philadelphia since 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office.
Mike Johnston (Colorado politician)
Michael Christopher Johnston (born November 17, 1974) is an American educator and politician. He is the 46th and current mayor of Denver, Colorado since 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Johnston was a member of the Colorado Senate from 2009 to 2017. He was a candidate for Governor of Colorado in 2018, losing in the primary to Jared Polis. He was also a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2020, before withdrawing from the race in September 2019.
John Cooper (Tennessee politician)
John Cooper (born October 15, 1956) is an American businessman who was the mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 2019 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is the brother of former U.S. representative Jim Cooper, who represented Tennessee's 5th congressional district.
On January 31, 2023, Cooper announced that he would not run for reelection in the 2023 Nashville mayoral election.
Freddie O'Connell
Thomas Frederick O'Connell (born 1976/1977) is an American politician who is mayor of Metropolitan Nashville since 2023.
Buddy Dyer
John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (born August 7, 1958) is an American Democratic politician who became Mayor of Orlando, Florida since 2003. Before, he was a representative for Orlando in the Florida State Senate from 1992 to 2002.
Frank Ryan (American football)
Ryan was also a mathematician and was a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University from 1967 to 1974.
Ryan died at a nursing home in Waterford, Connecticut on January 1, 2024 from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 87.
Consort of Spain
The Consort of Spain or Spanish consort is the constitutional form of government of Spain. It consists as the husband or wife of the monarch, being the second next highest office of the country. The current consort is Letizia since 19 June 2014, after the abdication of her husbands father, King Juan Carlos I.
List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
This is a list of tornadoes rated F5 on the Fujita scale, EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, IF5 on the , or T10-T11 on the TORRO scale, which is equivalent to an F5 rating. These ratings (F5/EF5/IF5/T10/T11) are the highest possible ratings on the various global tornado intensity scales. These various scales attempt to estimate the strength of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to nature and man-made structures in the tornado's path.
Tornadoes are among the most violent known meteorological phenomena. Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the majority occurring in North America and Europe. In order to assess the intensity of these events, meteorologist Ted Fujita created a way to estimate highest wind speeds within tornadic storms based on the damage caused; this became known as the Fujita scale. The scale ranks tornadoes from F0 to F5, with F0 being the least intense and F5 being the most intense. F5 tornadoes were estimated to have had maximum winds between and .
Following two particularly devastating tornadoes in 1997 and 1999, engineers questioned the reliability of the Fujita scale. Ultimately, a new scale was created that considered 28 different damage indicators; this became known as the Enhanced Fujita scale. The Enhanced Fujita scale is used almost entirely in North America. Most of Europe, however, uses the TORRO tornado intensity scale (TORRO scale or T-Scale), which ranks tornado intensity between T0 and T11; F5/EF5 tornadoes are about the same to T10 to T11 on the T-Scale.
In the United States, between 1950 and January 31, 2007, a total of 50 tornadoes were officially rated F5, and since February 1, 2007, a total of nine tornadoes have been officially rated EF5. Since 1950, Canada has had one tornado officially rated an F5. Outside the United States and Canada, seven tornadoes have been officially rated F5/EF5/T10+ or equivalent: two each in France, Germany, and one in Italy, Argentina and Australia.
Several other tornadoes have also been documented as possibly attaining this status, though they are not officially rated as such. The work of tornado expert revealed the existence of several dozen likely F5 tornadoes between 1880 and 1995. Grazulis also called into question the ratings of several tornadoes currently rated F5 by official sources. Many tornadoes officially rated F4/EF4 have been questioned and described as actual F5/EF5/T10+ tornadoes, and vice versa; since structures are completely destroyed in both cases, distinguishing between an EF4 tornado and an EF5 tornado is often very difficult. Additionally, because tornado ratings are damage-based, many tornadoes capable of causing F5/EF5/T10+ damage, such as those that move through rural areas, may receive lower ratings because their strongest winds do not strike any suitable damage indicators.
The tornadoes on this list have been formally rated F5 by an official government source. Unless otherwise noted, the source of the F5 rating is the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), as shown in the archives of the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) and National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
Before 1950, assessments of F5 tornadoes are based primarily on the work of Thomas P. Grazulis. The NCDC has accepted 38 of his F5 classifications of tornadoes occurring between 1880 and 1950. In addition to the accepted ones, Grazulis rated a further 25 during the same period which were not accepted. Grazulis' work has identified 16 additional F5 tornadoes between 1950 and 1995, with four later being accepted by the NCDC. From 1950 to 1970, tornadoes were assessed retrospectively, primarily using information recorded in government databases, as well as newspaper photographs and eyewitness accounts. Beginning in 1971, tornadoes were rated by the NWS using on-site damage surveys.
As of February 1, 2007, tornadoes in the United States are rated using the Enhanced Fujita scale, which replaced the Fujita scale in order to more accurately correlate tornadic intensity with damage indicators and to augment and refine damage descriptors. No earlier tornadoes will be reclassified on the Enhanced Fujita scale, and no new tornadoes in the United States will be rated on the original Fujita scale. France and Canada also adopted the EF-Scale in the next few years. Since the creation of the International Fujita scale in 2018, no tornadoes have been rated IF5.
Worldwide, a total of 67 tornadoes have been officially rated F5/EF5: 59 in the United States, two each in France and Germany, and one each in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and Italy. Of the 59 tornadoes in the United States, 50 are officially rated F5 on the original Fujita scale (with dates of occurrence between May 11, 1953, and May 3, 1999), and nine are officially rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale (with dates of occurrence between May 4, 2007, and May 20, 2013). In total, 57 of these tornadoes have been rated F5 and ten have been rated EF5.
The process to rate tornadic damage is often difficult. Because of the difficulty, the official ratings of tornadoes are sometimes questioned by others. These may be questioned by other meteorologists, universities and colleges, as well as independent studies published in academic journals.
This is a list of tornadoes. Tornadoes on this list may have been previously rated F5 or EF5 by the official government damage surveyors. Tornadoes on this list may have also been rated F5 or EF5 by some other meteorologist or expert.
This is a list of tornadoes which had possible F5 or EF5 damage. The ratings of possible F5 or EF5 damage could come from the National Weather Service, other branches of the U.S. government, or other tornado experts.
This is a list of tornadoes which may have or did reached F5 or EF5 strength. These tornadoes did not caused F5 or EF5 damage. However, experts or scientists have determined these tornadoes reached F5 or EF5 intensity or think they did.
European Severe Storms Laboratory
The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) is a scientific organisation that conducts research on severe convective storms, tornadoes, intense precipitation events, and avalanches across Europe and the Mediterranean. It operates the widely cited European Severe Weather Database (ESWD). ESSL is also responsible for leading the creation of the International Fujita scale in 2018 to replace the Fujita scale.
The European Severe Storms Laboratory started as an informal network of European scientists with the goal to advance research on severe convective storms and extreme weather events on a European level. It was initiated in 2002 by Nikolai Dotzek and became a non-profit organization with charitable status in 2006.
The ESSL focuses on research questions concerning convective storms and other extreme weather phenomena which can be treated more efficiently on a pan-European scale. It can be seen as roughly the European counterpart to the US's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). Some members of ESSL participate in the European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX) which issues daily forecasts of severe convective storms. It can be seen as the operational counterpart to the US Storm Prediction Center (SPC) akin to ESSL being the research counterpart to NSSL, although both European organizations currently lack the institutional support enjoyed by the US organisations which are government entities.
The purposes of the ESSL are:
Lucie Jones
Lucie Bethan Jones (born 20 March 1991) is a Welsh singer, musical theatre actress and model. She competed on "The X Factor" in 2006 and later represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Never Give Up on You", finishing 15th.
Hastings Ndlovu
Ndlovu was 15 years old on the day of the uprising. He and other Black students protested against an official order making Afrikaans required in their schools and banning their local languages in these schools. On that morning, he led these students towards the bridge in Khumalo Street, where they met police from the Orlando Police Station led by Colonel Kleingeld. Kleingeld later claimed that he was "inciting the mob". There he was shot at, and he was actually the first to be shot according to police records. However, his death did not become as iconic as Hector Pieterson's because no photographer was present to record Ndlovu's death and it was not immediately known.
Ndlovu was taken, in the middle of the morning, to Chris Hani Baragnawath Hospital with gunshot wounds. More specifically, he had a bullet wound to one side of his head. Brains and blood spilled out of a large exit wound on the other. He also had a coma from the moment he was shot, and he was dead at some time around midday. This was all recorded by his doctor, Malcolm Klein, in his report from 2003, now in the Hector Pieterson Museum.
Ndlovu's legacy was passed on by his family. His father died in 2003 and his two sisters went into exile shortly after 16 June but have returned to Johannesburg. It is believed that his mother died shortly after her two daughters left South Africa.
Ndlovu was laid to rest in the same cemetery as Pieterson, Avalon Cemetery, and is honoured alongside Pieterson at the Hector Pieterson Museum His home was given a blue plaque on June 16, 2012 as a spot on the June 16 Soweto Heritage Trail to remember his sacrifice. Ndlovu's bridge, on the corner of Klipspruit Valley and Khumalo roads, marks the location where he was shot by the police. On the bridge there is a statue of young Ndlovu dressed in uniform and standing on a plinth (heavy supporting base). He is smiling and holding his arm up. Storyboards line each side of the bridge, on the sides of a new steel and concrete structure with seating.
Japan Trench
The Japan Trench is a long oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. It is a deep and wide trench, and it is famous because it's where one of the most powerful earthquakes happened in 2011. This earthquake caused a big tsunami that affected Japan's eastern coast. The Japan Trench is important because it's where two of Earth's tectonic plates meet: the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These plates move and sometimes cause earthquakes and tsunamis in the region.
Felix Dzerzhinsky was the first leader of the Cheka, or the first Soviet state security organization. He was a Polish aristocrat-turned-Communist.
Eyestalk ablation is a common practice in shrimp farming. "Ablation" is a more technical word for "removal". With eyestack ablation, one or both eyestalks are removed from female shrimps. Sometimes the eyestalks are not removed, but they are made unusable. This is done to encourage the crustaceans to develop mature ovaries and lay eggs. In captivity, female shrimps often face challenges in maturing their ovaries. Even when a species can reproduce in captivity, eyestalk ablation boosts egg production and the number of females involved in reproduction. After eyestalk ablation, complete ovarian development can happen in as little as three to ten days, making shrimp farming more reliable.
The main idea behind eyestalk ablation is to reduce the inhibitory effect of a hormone called gonad inhibitory hormone (GIH).This hormone is produced in the eyestalk. It is usually present in higher levels during non-breeding seasons, inhibiting ovary development. By removing the eyestalk, the level of GIH decreases, allowing mature ovaries to develop. Another theory suggests that eyestalk ablation affects light perception, influencing ovarian maturation. The exact way eyestack ablation works is not fully understood.
Critics argue that eyestalk ablation is harmful to shrimps as it is often done without anesthesia, causing stress due to impaired vision. In some shrimp species, like the tiger prawn, the eyestalks can fully regenerate in less than six months. There is also a debate about the ways in which crustaceans feel pain.
Eyestalk ablation is currently prohibited in Europe for organic production. In 2016, Seajoy, one of the major producers of premium farmed shrimp in Central America, started to farm only ablation-free shrimp.
Eye ablation in female shrimps has various effects, including:
There are different ways to do eyestalk ablation, including:
There are viable alternatives. They include:
Non-ablated females have lower mortality rates and produce more robust offspring; this reduces the need for chemicals and antibiotics.
Saleh al-Arouri
On 2 January 2024, al-Arouri was killed in Dahieh, suburban Beirut, in a missile attack by the Israeli regime.
Philautus mjobergi
The Murud bubble-nest frog ("Philautus mjobergi") is a frog. It lives in Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia. People have seen it between 1500 and 3000 meters above sea level.
Sartaj Aziz
Aziz was the Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1993 and 1997 to 1998. He was the National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015. He also was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2013 to 2017. He worked in the government of Nawaz Sharif. Aziz was also a member of the Senate from 1988 to 1999.
Aziz died on 2 January 2024 in Islamabad, Pakistan at the age of 94.
Professional Women's Hockey League
The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL; ) is a professional women's ice hockey league. It was made on August 29, 2023. There are 6 teams in the league; 3 in Canada and 3 in the United States. The league was first announced on August 29, 2023. The first game of the league was held on January 1, 2024 between PWHL New York and PWHL Toronto.
The league is owned by the Mark Walter Group and management of the league is headed by commissioner Jayna Hefford. Brian Burke also works as an executive director of the players' union.
Alison Christie
Ali Christie-Upton (born 1 December 1969 Jersey) is a Scottish rugby union player.
From 1994-2004, she competed for Scotland. She competed at the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup She competed at Womens Six Nations Championship.
She played for Richmond Rugby. She has also represented the Classic Lionesses team, in the 2003 Bermuda Classics and in 2007 Murrayfield Stadium.
Pain in crustaceans
Pain in crustaceans is the debate of whether or not crustaceans can feel pain, and in what way they feel pain. Pain is a complex state, and it may involve suffering. It is difficult to see if an animal feels pain. In general, pain is caused by harmful stimuli, and animals that feel pain will avoid these stimuli. To actually feel the pain, the animal also needs a more or less complex nervous system. Crustaceans fulfil several criteria. They do have a complex nervous system, they have opioid receptors, and they react less, when they are given anesthetics (painkillers).
Also, they show some degree of learning how to avoid the bad stimulus.
Eyestalk
An Eyestalk, eye stalk or ommatophore is a feature that moves an eye away from the body in anatomy. That way, the eye has a better field of view. Eyestalks are a specialized type of tentacle. Tentacles may also have olfactory organs at their ends. Examples of creatures with olfactory tentacles include snails, the trilobite superfamily Asaphida, and the fly family Diopsidae. In slugs and snails, these tentacles will regrow if severely damaged, and in some species, are retractable. Crustaceans also have eyestalks, consisting of two segments.
Maria Callas Museum
The Maria Callas Museum is a museum created for the famous Greek soprano Maria Callas. It opened on 26 October 2023, and is located in Athens, Greece.
In 2000, the City of Athens bought some of Callas' personal objects, and started a collection about the soprano, with the goal of creating an exhibition for the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2010, the City bought a three storey building of the interwar period located on 44 Mitropoleos Street, for 7 million euros. Three years later, it was decided that the Callas collection would be moved to that building.
The study for the museum made by Erato Koutsoudaki, Andromache Gazi and Alexandros Charkiolakis was first presented in 2014. The Maria Callas Museum opened a decade later, on Thursday, 26 October 2023. The museum's management was given to the managers of the Technopolis of Athens cultural centre, for the years 2023 to 2028.
The museum has many of Callas' personal objects, costumes for opera and personal haute couture clothes. According to the museum's co-designer, architect and museum specialist Erato Koutsoudaki, the museum's collection is not its greatest element; its exhibitions were based on Callas' personality and they include her singing voice and interviews of hers.
Gimli, Manitoba
Gimli is a town in Canada where people speak Icelandic. It is one of the five settlements who speak Icelandic. This town is owned by Canada. The province locator for this town is Manitoba. It is the largest Icelandic community outside Iceland.
1764 Woldegk tornado
The 1764 Woldegk tornado was one of the strongest tornadoes in history, receiving the T11 rating on the TORRO scale and an F5 rating on the Fujita scale. It had winds estimated to be more than . The tornado traveled and reached a maximum width of . Most of the information known about this tornado came from a 77-paragraph study by German scientist Gottlob Burchard Genzmer, which was published one year after the tornado happened. The tornado completely destroyed several structures, and several tree branches were believed to have been thrown into the atmosphere. Many areas were covered with up to of ice. The storm which produced the violent tornado was dry, with almost no rain reported. Large hail, reportedly reaching in diameter covered the ground, caused significant crop and property damage, killed dozens of animals, and injured multiple people in a large stretch around the tornado and to the northwest of the tornado's path.
Float glass
Float glass is a sheet of glass made by melting glass and spreading it on molten metal that has a low melting point, such as tin, or lead. In this way, we get a very flat and evenly thick surface. Making float glass like that, is also known as the Pilkington process. It was given this name, because the glass-making company Pilkington was the first to use this way of making glass in the 1950s, at their factory in St Helens, Merseyside, England.
Modern windows are usually made from float glass. Some types of glass used for screens are also made in the same way as float glass.
United Football League (2024)
The United Football League is an American Football league that was founded (created) in 2023 from the merger of the 2020 XFL and 2022 USFL. The first season was played in 2024.
Four teams came from the XFL and three came from the USFL, while each league's Houston, Texas-based team was merged with its counterpart to create one. The XFL's Roughnecks take the Gamblers' place in the USFL while keeping the Roughnecks brand and Gamblers' player rights and coaching staff.
You're All I Need to Get By
"You're All I Need to Get By" is a 1968 song by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell from their album "You're All I Need". It went to number 7 in the United States, number 19 in the United Kingdom and number 17 in Canada. It was covered by Johnny Mathis featuring Denice Williams in 1978 for their album "That's What Friends Are For" and went to number 47 in the United States, number 45 in the United Kingdom and number 52 in Canada. It was also covered by Aretha Franklin in 1971 and Tony Orlando & Dawn in 1975.
Arlington Stadium
Arlington Stadium (known as Turnpike Stadium from 1965-1971) was a stadium in Arlington, Texas. From 1972 until 1993, it was a baseball park that was home to the Major League Baseball team called the Texas Rangers. The ballpark was the first home of the Rangers after moving from Washington, D.C. It closed in 1993 after the Rangers moved across the street to Globe Life Park. Arlington Stadium was demolished the same year and is now an empty field.
TikTok Billboard Top 50
The TikTok "Billboard" Top 50 is a chart published by "Billboard magazine every week." It ranks the most popular songs on the social media platform TikTok in the United States based on video views and user engagement.
Geraldine Viswanathan
Geraldine Viswanathan (born 20 June 1995) is an Australian actress.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Viswanathan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
All Faiths Chapel
All Faiths Chapel, previously known as Chapel for the Children, is a house of worship available to anyone who practices any faith. All Faiths Chapel is also a historical landmark.
It is inside the Austin State Supported Living Center (AusSSLC), an assisted living facility for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities, in Austin, Texas. AusSSLC was known at the time of the chapel's construction as the Austin State School.
As of May 9, 2022, it is on the National Register of Historic Places for its importance in architectural, disability, and social history.
Organizations such as the Protestant Austin Council of Church Women, the Austin Jewish Community Council, and the Catholic Ladies of Charity, organized a fundraising campaign for the construction of the chapel across the state. More funding came from soldiers who were stationed in Germany. The funds raised eventually totaled over $100,000.
Construction by architect David Calvert Graeber finished around 1961, and Chapel for the Children was dedicated on January 21, 1962.
From 1961 to 1972, Chapel for the Children served as a chapel for students of all faiths who lived in the AusSSLC. It is now an area for spiritual and religious services for residents, family members, employees, and the public.
All Faiths Chapel consists of 3 distinct sections: the main chapel, a meditation garden, and a chaplaincy office.
The main chapel consists of a 52-foot tall A-frame with a ceiling lighted by the sky.
Both gable ends feature the stained glass design "Miracle in the Sky" by artist Blossom Burns.
The interior design includes copper light fixtures made by hand and door handles that depict simple abstract style flying birds. The Texas Historical Commission states that these birds "reflect the importance of music and graphic arts in teaching religious concepts to persons with physical and cognitive impairments."
To the north of the main chapel is a fully landscaped exterior courtyard called the "Meditation Garden". There are sidewalks that lead both back to the chapel and to the chaplaincy office.
The primary entrance to the garden has the verse Isaiah 56:7 from the Bible written on it: "MINE HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED AN ["sic"] HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE".
There is a chaplaincy office attached, with five office rooms and one restroom. The office rooms include a sacrament room, office space, a meeting room, and a communal room with a small attached kitchen.
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a song by Elvis Presley. It was released on January 27, 1956 and topped the single charts in the United States and made number 2 in the United Kingdom. In 1995 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was covered by numerous artists including Willie Nelson featuring Leon Russell in 1979 and Billy Joel in 1992.
Madison Beer
Madison Elle Beer (born March 5, 1999) is an American singer and songwriter.
In 2018, Beer released "Dead" and "Home with You". Both certified Gold by the RIAA. The next year, Beer signed with Epic Records and released her debut album, "Life Support" in 2021. The album got popular on TikTok and was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Madison Elle Beer was born in Jericho, New York, to a Jewish family on March 5, 1999.
GM Quader
The Burgundians (; ; ; ) was a tribe or group of tribes of East Germanic or Vandal. They settled in the region which is now Poland during the time of the Roman Empire.
Ivan Martynushkin
Ivan Stepanovich Martynushkin (; born 18 January 1924) is a Russian World War II veteran. He is the last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp, after the death of David Dushman in 2021. Martynushkin was born in Ryazan Governorate, then-Soviet Union.
John Curtis (Utah politician)
John Ream Curtis (born May 10, 1960) is an American politician. He is the U.S. representative for Utah's 3rd congressional district since 2017. Curtis, a Republican, was mayor of Provo, Utah, from 2010 to 2017. He is a candidate for the United States Senate in the 2024 Senate election to replace retiring Senator Mitt Romney.
Bukky Leo
Leoford Olubukola Afolabi, known professionally as Bukky Leo, is a British Afrobeat and jazz musician, saxophonist, and lead singer for the band Black Egypt. Born on November 22, 1957, in London, he has made significant contributions to the music scene, drawing inspiration from Afrobeat legends and Tony Allen.
Leo relocated to Nigeria in 1964 at the age of six. At 14, his talent on the saxophone caught the attention of Tony Allen. During the early 1970s, he became a regular attendee at the , residence in Lagos. Leo played with Tony Allen in the Mighty Irokos band.
In 1982, Bukky Leo moved to the United Kingdom, where he met A&R man . In 1988, he released the EP 'Rejoice in Righteousness' on , establishing himself as a pioneer in the scene. Leo has been featured in The Guardian's piece on 'Acid Jazz at 25,' highlighting his influential role in the genre.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated with various bands, including Highlife International, Farenji Warriors, and Bush Men Don't Surf led by . Bukky Leo's discography reflects his diverse musical journey, encompassing Afro Jazz, Acid Jazz, and collaborations with notable artists.
Lili Zografou
Zografou supported women's rights. In her books, she wrote about how women lived in the late 20th century Greek society. Her work's main themes are civil liberties, freedom of speech, sexual violence and sexual revolution.
When Greece lost to the Axis, Zografou joined the Greek Resistance against the Nazis. She was put to prison while pregnant and gave birth inside the jail. Zografou criticised the Greek military junta of 1967-1973. With her book "Epangelma: Porni" ("Occupation: Whore"), she described the dictatorship in her country, in order to show its cruelty.
A Greek writer and critic of literature, Demosthenis Kourtovik, called Zografou "the dark Goddess Hecate of Greek literature".
Nikos Kazantzakis ( ; 2 March (OS 18 February) 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. He is considered by many people to be one of the greatest writers of modern Greek literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. He remains the Greek author whose work has been translated in most languages worldwide.
Kazantzakis' works include "Zorba the Greek" (published in 1946 as "Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas"), "Christ Recrucified" (1948) and "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1955). He also wrote theatrical plays, travel books, memoirs, and essays about philosophy. He became famous in the English-speaking world thanks to the movies "Zorba the Greek" (1964) and "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988), that were based on his books of the same titles.
He also translated a number of famous works into Modern Greek, such as the "Divine Comedy", Thus Spoke Zarathustra and "On the Origin of Species." He wrote Modern Greek editions of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey".
Greek junta
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military dictatorship that controlled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels removed the caretaker government a month before elections that Georgios Papandreou and his political party, Centre Union, would probably win.
The dictatorship was anti-communist and it restricted civil liberties. It put many people to jail and tortured them. Many of the dictators' political enemies were sent into exile.
From 1967 to 1973, the junta's leader was Georgios Papadopoulos. From 1973 to 24 July 1974, Dimitrios Ioannidis was its leader. He lost control of the Greek state after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
When the junta lost, the Metapolitefsi (, meaning "regime change") started. Greece's political system changed to democracy and the Third Hellenic Republic began. It has been said that the junta was very much influenced by the CIA.
Greek resistance
The Greek resistance (, meaning "National Resistance"), was the fight of armed and unarmed groups of many political views, against the Axis powers that had captured Greece. It went from 1941 to 1944, during World War II. The largest group was the communist-influenced EAM-ELAS.
The Greek Resistance is considered to have been one of the strongest resistance movements in Nazi-occupied Europe. Its partisans, were men and women known as andartes and andartisses (, meaning "male and female rebels"). They controlled much of the countryside before the Germans left Greece in the end of 1944.
Atmospheric window
An atmospheric window is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that can pass through the atmosphere of Earth. The optical, infrared and radio windows are the three basic atmospheric windows. The Sun's electromagnetic energy reaches the Earth through the atmospheric windows. The Earth's thermal radiation leaves its atmosphere through the windows. Atmospheric windows are useful for astronomy, remote sensing, telecommunications and other science and technology applications.
In the study of the greenhouse effect, "atmospheric window" often means the "infrared window", because the infrared window is the main exit for the thermal radiation emitted near the surface of the Earth. In other fields of science and technology, such as radio astronomy and remote sensing, "atmospheric window" is used to describe windows of the whole electromagnetic spectrum.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve () is a wildlife reserve in the Ituri Forest in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is near the country's borders with South Sudan and Uganda. It covers roughly one-fifth of the area of the forest. In 1996, the Okapi Wildlife Reserve was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was listed because of its big population of endangered okapis and its high biodiversity.
Allamah Sayyid Muhibullah Shah Rashdi
Sayyid Muhibullah Shah Rashdi
Muhibullah Shah Rashdi, born on October 12, 1921, in Pir Jhando, Sindh, Pakistan, was the eldest son of Sayyid Ihsanullah Shah Rashdi. He started his religious education at "Darul Rashad" Madrisah, At the age of 19, he memorized the Quran in two and half months.
After completing the Quran, he started studying Arabic, Persian, and English,
He finished his F.A. and B.A. and later earned an M.A. in Religious Studies from either Karachi or Sindh University He also pursued studies in Arabic. The Shaikh was well-versed in syntax and Arabic grammar, gaining recognition in Tafseer and Hadith, his expertise extended across Islamic sciences, including Fiqh, history, biographies, asma al-rijal, philosophy,
The Shaikh had authored about 57 or even more books in four languages: Arabic, Urdu, and Sindhi and Farsi,
Some of his teachers:
His father Shaikh Ihsanullah Shah Rashdi,
Shaikh Sanullaah Amritsari
Shaikh Abdul Haqq Bhawalpuri
Shaikh Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti
Shaikh Abu Saeed Sharf ud deen Dehlawi
Shaikh Ataaullaah Haneef Bhojiyani
Shaikh Abdul Wahhaab
Shaykh Ubaidullah Sindhi
Shaykh AbdulHaqq Hashmi Makki
The Shaikh's sons, Sayyid Muhammad Yaseen Shah Rashdi, Sayyid Muhammad Rashid Shah Rashdi, and Sayyid Muhammad Qasim Shah Rashdi, continue to spread his teachings, followed in their father's footsteps,
Muhibullah Shah Rashdi died on 21 January 1995, at Dargah Sharif Pir Jhando
Incarceration in the United States is one of the basic ways of punishment for crimes committed in the United States of America. In 2023, more than five million people were being supervised by the criminal justice system. Almost two million people were in state or federal prisons and in local jails. The United States has the largest known population of prisoners in the world. The number of prisoners grew rapidly after the 1970s, but began decreased from 2009 on, having been reduced by 25% by the end of 2021.
Since reaching its peak number of imprisonments in 2009, the U.S. had an average imprisonment rate of 2.3% per year. This rate includes the sudden 14.1% drop in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The states of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York have reduced the numbers of prisoners by over 50% since reaching their peak levels. Twenty-five states have also reduced imprisonments by 25% since reaching their peaks. The federal prison population was reduced 27% in relation to its 2011 peak.
1 in 5 people in U.S. prisons had committed crimes related to illegal drugs. More than 3 in 5 people (62%) had committed violent crimes and were being kept in state prisons. 1 in 7 people (14%) kept in state prisons had committed crimes related to property (trespassing, stealing, robbing, etc).
Although debtor's prisons no longer exist in the United States, residents of some U.S. states can still be imprisoned for debt . The Vera Institute of Justice reported in 2015 that the majority of those imprisoned in local and county jails are there for unimportant violations and have been jailed for more time over the past 30 years, because they are unable to pay costs related to the court procedures.
The United States has more prisoners than most developed countries. According to the World Prison Brief, on May 7, 2023, the United States had the sixth highest imprisonment rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. Costs related to prison, parole, and probation procedures have a yearly cost of around $81 billion. Court costs, bail bond fees, and prison phone fees added another $38 billion in yearly costs.
Lee Cockburn
Lee Cockburn (born 17 May 1968) is a scottish rugby player, police officer, and writer. She has 77 caps.
She studied at Royal High School. From 2000 to 2016, she served with Police Scotland
From 1993 to 2006, she played for the Scottish women's national rugby team. She competed at the 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup, and won the 2001 FIRA European Championship.
Ana Paula Lobato
She had previously been the vice-mayor for the city of Pinheiro. She is affiliated with the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).
The Garfield Movie
The Garfield Movie is a upcoming 2024 British-American computer-animated comedy movie directed by Mark Dindal, produced by Columbia Pictures, Alcon Entertainment and animated by DNEG Animation also distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. is a reboot of the previous Garfield movies and the sixth installment. The film is set to be released in May 24, 2024.
Mario Boljat
Boljat died on 1 January 2024, at the age of 72.
Peter Magubane
In 1985, Magubane spent time in hospital recovering from buckshot wounds received when he was caught in police crossfire at a funeral near Johannesburg.
Magubane died on 1 January 2024, 17 days before his 92nd birthday.
Othelino Neto
Alberto Festa
Festa died on 2 January 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.
Carmen Valero
Valero was best known for representing Spain at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Valero was the only woman in the Spanish track and field squad for the Montreal Games, and became the first female athlete to ever represent the country at the Summer Olympic Games.
Valero won two women's races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1976 and 1977, while also winning the bronze medal at the same competition in 1975.
In 1980, Valero announced her retirement, after having multiple injuries and her decision to take care of her family. She also did not approve how female athletes were underpaid and mistreated by Spanish sports organizations. However, two years later, she returned.
Valero officially retired from running competitions in 1987. Apart of her two world cross country titles, she also won twenty-five Spanish national titles in cross country.
She also won multiple titles at the Catalan Championships, seven of which in cross country. She held the Spanish records for the 800, 1500 and 3000 metres, and represented Spain internationally twenty-five times.
Valero died from problems caused by a stroke on 2 January 2024 in Sabadell, Spain at the age of 68.
Kerman bombings
On 3 January 2024, a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani at his tomb in eastern Kerman, Iran was attacked by two bomb explosions. The attacks killed at least 84 people on the spot and injured 280 others while few others died in hospital. The Iranian government declared the bombings a terrorist attack, making it the deadliest such incident in the country since 1979.
The next day, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
Bharwad
The Bharwad an Hindu caste found in the state of Gujarat in India. Those of Saurashtra use "Ahir" as a surname, they claimed to be descent from Nandvanshi Ahirs.
The term Bharwad is said to be a modified form of the word badawad, from the Gujarati words bada meaning sheep and wada meaning enclosure. This name was said to be acquired by the Bharwad on the account of their traditional occupation of being shepherds.
The Guardian (Nigeria)
The Guardian is a newspaper, established in 1983, published in Lagos, Nigeria. It is often known as a pioneer in introducing investigative journalism and editorial content to Nigeria.
"The Guardian" was established in 1983 by Alex Ibru and Stanley Macebuh. It has influence from "The Guardian" in the UK. The paper was first published on 22 February 1983 as a weekly, appearing on Sundays. It started publishing every day on 4 July 1983.
Lekki
Lekki is a city in Lagos State, Nigeria. The city is still largely under construction.
One of its neighbourhoods, Lekki phase 1, is known to have some of the most expensive real estate in Lagos State.
Youth-led development
A youth-led development is a project mainly made by young people. Most organizations use the United Nation's definition of youth which is a person between the ages of 15 and 24.
A youth-led organization focuses on youth-led development and usually has a team made up of young people.
Sarah Kauss
Sarah Kauss is an American businesswoman. She is the founder of S'well.
Kauss was raised in Jupiter, Florida. She received a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kauss founded S'well in 2010. "Fortune" included Kauss on its 2014 40 under 40 list. In 2016, Kauss was named number 49 on the Business Insider 100 list, The Creators. She was recognized on "Inc.'s" "Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016" list.
Kauss has been featured in NPR, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, Fortune magazine, CNNMoney, and CNBC, among other outlets. She is a mentor for the U.S. Department of State Global Women's Mentoring Partnership.
Vlach
Vlach is a name used in history by foreign people to refer to speakers of Eastern Romance languages in southeastern Europe. These speakers are the Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians. The Megleno-Romanians have adopted this foreign name to refer to themselves.
Kangra district
Kangra is a district of Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Dharamshala is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is the most populous district of Himachal Pradesh.
Brazilian Socialist Party
The Brazilian Socialist Party (, PSB) is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1947, before being abolished by the military regime in 1965 and re-organised in 1989 after the re-democratisation of Brazil.
Bernard Ducuing
In total, Ducuing played 199 matches in Division 1 and 197 matches in Division 2.
He died on 3 January 2024, at the age of 73.
Ashley Monroe
Ashley Lauren Monroe (born September 10, 1986) is an American country music singer-songwriter.
Philautus garo
The Garo Hills bubble-nest frog, Garo Hills bush frog, or Garo Hills shrub frog ("Philautus garo") is a frog. It lives in India, in the Garo Hills. People have seen it between 90 and 500 meters above sea level.
The adult frog is about 13 mm long from nose to rear end. There is no webbed skin on the front feet. There is some webbed skin on the back feet. There are disks on the toes for climbing. The disks on the toes are almost as big as the eardrum on the side of the frog's head. The skin of the frog's back is gray with a dark brown mark between the eyes. The mark is in the shape of an hourglass.
Emilia Mernes
Emilia Mernes , is an Argentine singer-songwriter, model, and actress. She gained popularity as the lead vocalist of the Uruguayan cumbia pop band Rombai before starting her solo career.
Death to America
Foreign accent syndrome is a medical syndrome in which people develop speech patterns that are thought of as a foreign accent that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin.
Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke, but can also develop from head trauma, migraines or developmental problems. The syndrome might come due to lesions in the speech production part of the brain, or may also be considered a neuropsychiatric condition. The condition was first known in 1907, and between 1941 and 2009 there were 62 recorded people known to have this syndome..
Rossella Erra
Rossella Erra (born in Portici 19 June 1974) is an Italian tax advisor and TV personality.
She diplomed at "University of Naples Federico II" in Economy, and in the last years she became TV personality in several TV serials.
2024 elections in India
The 2024 elections in India includes the general election, Elections to the Rajya Sabha, to state legislative assemblies and to Panchayats.
2024 Indian general election
The next general election in India is scheduled to be held on or before May 2024 to elect 543 members for the 18th Lok Sabha. The current Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) will announce the schedule for the 18th Lok Sabha elections. The tenure of the current 17th Lok Sabha's time will finish on 16 June 2024.
List of programs broadcast by Sprout
Ghore Ghore Zee Bangla
Ghore Ghore Zee Bangla (English: "House to House Zee Bangla") is a Bengali television family game show started in 2023. The show telecast on Zee Bangla six days in a week and also available on ZEE5 digitally.
Sikh Empire