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Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia. He became Prime Minister after the retirement of Robert Menzies. He supported the United States in the Vietnam War. He disappeared while swimming at a beach in Victoria in December 1967. His body was never found. Many urban Australian myths surround his disppearance. 

On the day of his disappearance, the guards at the gate of Point Nepean told Percy Cenulty, who held a camp that day at Point Nepean, that Harold Holt wasn't in the car that went through the gate. Theories state that Harold never went to the beach that day. The second night, the Springvale Necropolis was surrounded by military For the whole night. This has not happened ever before and since.

Early life and education 
Harold Edward was born on 5 August 1908 in Stanmore, Sydney. Holt completed his schooling from Nubba State School. After one year of schooling at Nubba State School he went to Abbotsholme College, a private school in Killara where he studied for three years. In 1920, Holt went to Wesley College, Melbourne. He won a scholarship in his final year and graduated second in his class.

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List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

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The biosphere includes everything living on Earth it is also known as ecosphere. Currently the biosphere has a biomass (or amount of living things) at around 1900 gigatonnes of carbon. It is not certain exactly how thick the biosphere is, though scientists predict that it is around 12,500 meters. The biosphere extends to the upper areas of the atmosphere, including birds and insects.

In a general sense, biospheres are any closed, self-regulating systems containing ecosystems. This includes artificial biospheres such as Biosphere 2 and BIOS-3, and potentially ones on other planets or moons.

Origin of the term 
The word "biosphere" was coined by geologist Eduard Suess in 1875. Which he defined as a place on Earth's surface where life dwells.

Earth's biosphere 
The earliest known evidence of life in Earth includes biogenic graphite dated as far as 3.7 Billion years old. Life is scattered all throughout the surface of the Earth, from the polar ice caps to the equator, exhibits a life of some kind.

Extent of biological life 
Almost all parts of the planet contains a life of some kind. Recent advances in microbiology concluded that microbes can live deep beneath the Earth's surface.

References

Other Page 
Biosphere reserve - Project by UNESCO

Ecology
The alto flute is a flute that plays a fourth (half an octave) lower than the regular flute.  It is longer than the regular flute.  Sometimes alto flutes have a bent part at the top end.

The alto flute is a transposing instrument.  This makes it easy for someone who plays the flute to play on the alto flute.  The fingering for the note C on the flute will give a G on the alto flute.

The alto flute is not very often used, and only in very large orchestras.  Maurice Ravel wrote a beautiful tune for alto flute in Daphnis et Chloé.  Igor Stravinsky used one in The Rite of Spring.  In The Planets by Gustav Holst there is a passage with three flutes and alto flute playing 4 part harmony.

The alto flute must not be confused with a bass flute which is even bigger and lower and very unusual indeed.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! is a manga series, two anime series, and a trading card game (the books came first, then the cards and then the series) based on the two anime series. The series follows the adventures of Yugi Mutou, a high school student who plays a game called Duel Monsters. It has a spin-off called Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Japan has an exclusive anime based on the first seven volumes of the manga.

Merchandise
"Yu-Gi-Oh cards" are a trading card game that uses monsters that Yugi and other characters on the show use. This trading card game is very popular with young children, teenagers, and even adults in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Plot
The series is about having hope and faith in for the characters and Duel Monsters on each cards. Yugi's grandfather Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto) owns a game shop. One day, Yugi finds a strange puzzle at the back of the shop, and tries to solve it. He tries to solve the puzzle for 8 years. When he is 16, he solves it. When he finishes the puzzle, he gets an extra soul. The soul is Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi), an Egyptian Pharaoh. Yami Yugi successfully recovers his lost memory. Yugi defeats Dark Bakura (Yami Bakura), Dark Yugi's worst enemy. Yu-Gi-Oh; cards of Doom

Related works
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters is an animation based on Yu-Gi-Oh! comic. 
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX The spin-off of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. The story is set several years after the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters story.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5DS The story is set many years after the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters story. A prominent new feature of the Yu-Gi-Oh 5DS series is the use of Synchro Monster. 
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal An anime series. Relevance of previous work is not declared. Xyz Monsters are introduced.

References

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Yu-Gi-Oh!
A creditor is a person who loans money to another person. The person who gets the loan is called the borrower. Creditors are sometimes called moneylenders. Creditors expect the borrower to pay the money back at a later time. The creditor usually gets extra money from the borrower. This extra money is called interest.

Economics
Anno Domini (Medieval Latin : "in the year of the Lord"), shortened as AD or A.D., is used to refer to the years after the birth of Jesus. AD is also a shortening for Christian Era. Similarly, Before Christ, shortened as BC or B.C., is used in the English language to refer to all years before the start of the time period Anno Domini.  In past centuries, AD came before the year but comes after a century or millennium.  For example, a person would write AD 2014 but 21st century AD or 3rd millennium AD.  There is no zero year in this system.  This means that the year A.D. 1 follows the year 1 B.C.

Some people mistakenly interpret “A.D.” as standing for “after death.”  The abbreviation “A.D.” was originally placed before the year number (e.g. A.D. 145); then “B.C.” often placed after the year number (e.g. 145 B.C.).  Nowadays it is more usual to put both abbreviations after the numbers (e.g. 145 AD; e.g. 145 BC).

This dating system was meant to signal the year of Christ's birth, but modern scholars have decided Jesus was actually born a few years earlier.

Pre History  term
The system for working out the years was invented by Dionysius Exiguus in about AD 525. He fixed the point Anno Domini, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar. He used it to identify the several Easters in his Easter table. He did not use it to date any historical event. When he devised his table, Julian calendar years were identified by naming the consuls who held office that year — he himself stated that the "present year" was "the consulship of Probus Junior [Flavius Probus]", which he also stated was 525 years "since the incarnation [conception] of our Lord Jesus Christ". How he arrived at that number is unknown. He invented a new system of numbering years to replace the Diocletian years that had been used in an old Easter table because he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians.

The Anno Domini calendar era became dominant in Western Europe only after it was used by the Venerable Bede to date the events in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731. The French emperor Charlemagne made it popular in mainland Europe. Some parts of Europe did not use the Anno Domini system until the 15th century. For example, Portugal used a different system called the Spanish era until 1422.

References

Time
Chronology
Haze is reduction in visibility due to dust or other particles in the air. It is often a problem in air quality with smoke covering the sky. The particles may also make it hard to breathe. Some people fall sick as well due to the polluted air.

Haze

ca:Broma (temps)
Neighbours is an Australian soap opera. The show started in March 1985 on the Seven Network, but they cancelled it the same year. Rival network Network Ten decided to start making and broadcasting the show, and have done that since 1986. It was produced by Reg Watson. The show started with low ratings, and Network Ten did their best to get more people to watch. They got new characters, two of them were played by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. These two characters became a couple known as "Scott and Charlene", and by the time they married in 1987, ratings were much higher.

The show is about the lives of people that live in a fictional street called Ramsay Street. Ramsay Street is in a fictional suburb, Erinsborough, in the real-life city Melbourne.

List of actors/characters who appear on the show

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1980s soap operas
1990s soap operas
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2000s soap operas
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Sir William McMahon (23 February 1908 – 31 March 1988) was the 20th Prime Minister of Australia. He was elected to the Australian parliament in 1949, and stayed as Member for Lowe, in Sydney, for 33 years. He challenged John Gorton for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1971 and won. He was 63 years old. He lost the next election in December 1972 to Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party. This made him the first Prime Minister not to win an election since Labor's Ben Chifley (who lost in 1949). McMahon was married to (Lady) Sonia McMahon from 1965 until his death from cancer. Actor Julian McMahon is their son.

The Liberal party had won lots of elections since 1949, but had some popularity problems by 1971. Australian soldiers were still in the Vietnam War. McMahon replaced John Gorton, then made him defence minister, but soon after made him resign for talking about problems in the Liberal Party. McMahon's government was the first to have a Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Aboriginal land rights were an important topic of debate at this time. On foreign affairs, McMahon said the Opposition leader, Gough Whitlam, was wrong to visit communist China in 1972 - but soon after U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China and McMahon was embarrassed. The economy was not looking too good when the government went to the 1972 election.

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Shawn Lane (March 21, 1963 – September 26, 2003) was an American musician. He was a solo guitarist.

At the age of 4, he began taking vocal lessons, cello lessons and piano lessons. By age ten, he picked up a guitar and found out he was better with a guitar than his other instruments. He joined a band at the age of fifteen and played in bars and clubs.

A few years later he started playing shows again. He began to tour with his own band, playing guitar and keyboard. In February 2003, Lane accomplished one of his life long dreams and toured over India with his band. When they left India, they were called "true rock heroes" by the people. In September 2003, when getting ready to make an album with the Swedish bassist Jonas Hellborg and drummer Ginger Baker, Lane had bad breathing problems. He was told by doctors that he would have to remain on medical oxygen for the rest of his life. On Friday, September 23, 2003, he died.

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Official site
Official discography
Fan forum 

1963 births
2003 deaths
Lane, Shawn
Lane, Shawn
Deaths from lung disease
Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
Warner Bros. Records artists
Twin Dragons (1992) (also known as Brother vs. Brother and When Dragons Collide)

Identical brothers, separated at birth, end up as a criminal and a U.S. pianist, then cross paths years later in Hong Kong.

Cast 
Jackie Chan
Maggie Cheung
Nina Li Chi
Anthony Chan
Philip Chan
Sylvia Chang
James Wong
Lai Ying Chow
Kirk Wong
Ringo Lam Ling-tung
John Woo
Tsui Hark
Director(s): Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam Ling-tung, Ringo Lam
Producer(s): Ng Sze Yuen, Teddy Robin Kwan.
Language: Cantonese (Dubbed in English in North America)

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1992 action movies
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1992 movies
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Cantonese-language movies
An extratropical cyclone (also called a mid-latitude cyclone) is a type of cyclone. It is a large low-pressure weather area with clouds, rain and heavy wind. They occur in areas that are between latitudes 30° – 60° from the equator. They are not the same as tropical cyclones or low-pressure weather areas from polar zones. They are actually many masses of cold and warm fronts producing rain, heavy wind, and sometimes tornadoes and even hail.

An extratropical cyclone turns anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. The shape is circular or oval.  The usual diameter is about 1000 km. These cyclones are usually connected with fronts. A front is a system of changes in weather. It is caused by a very cold air mass meeting a very hot air mass. In the cyclone, there is a system of warm front and cold front. The center of a cyclone is cloudier. There is also a very high chance of precipitation. The wind is strong and changes its direction, as the warm front passes. The weather is stable and fog is usual. As the cold front passes, there is a change of wind, the temperature decreases and rain is also common.

Some extratropical cyclones are made from tropical cyclones that become weak but do not die when they move over cold water. Sometimes, these weather areas can become even stronger than before as they turn into extratropical cyclones. When made from tropical cyclones, they can still have an eye (a place in the middle of a tropical cyclone that is not as windy, cloudy, or rainy). European windstorms are sometimes made when wind from the northwestern part of the Atlantic carry them more east and north towards Europe. Nor'easters often hit northeastern North America, and are made when it is cold, most often in late fall. Wind from the west part of the Atlantic moves them north. They become stronger, and drop snow on the areas it moves into. When a nor'easter drops in pressure and become stronger, by more than one millibar every hour, it is called a weather bomb. Hurricane Hazel was extratropical but still hurricane-level when it hit Toronto, for example.

Cyclonal defects usually occur in series called "the families of the cyclones". Usually, there is a belt of 3 or 4 cyclones in different stages. The cyclone has several stages of evolution. First, there is a stage of the origin of a cyclone. Second stage means that the cyclone is strengthening. At that moment, both the warm and cold front are very large. The system is moving very fast.  The cold front is generally faster, which means that it runs down the warm one. This causes an occluded front. The weather is similar to both types of fronts. The third stage ends with filling of the area with air. The pressure rises. Stage four means that the signs of cyclonal weather disappear.

Notable storms
A violent storm during the Crimean War on November 14, 1854, wrecked 30 vessels, and sparked initial investigations into meteorology and forecasting in Europe. In the United States, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, one of many Pacific Northwest windstorms. Hurricane Sandy also became extratropical before it's landfall.

References

Tropical cyclones
A small solar system body (SSSB) is a term defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union to describe solar system objects which are not planets or dwarf planets:

All other objects orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies" ... These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.

Therefore, it refers to these objects that can be further grouped based on their orbit or what they are made of:
 all known minor planets that are not dwarf planets, i.e.:
 the classical asteroids (except the largest one, 1 Ceres);
 the Centaurs and Neptune Trojans;
 the smaller Trans-Neptunian Objects (except dwarf planets such as Pluto and Eris);
 all comets;
 It is not yet clear whether there will be a lower bound on the group of small solar system bodies, or if it will encompass all material down to the level of meteoroids.

Some of the larger "small solar system bodies" may be reclassified in future as dwarf planets, pending further examination to determine whether or not they are in hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly-round shape).

References

Minor planets
Solar System
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley. It is about a creature produced by a strange scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen. It was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.

Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Ideas about occultism were topics of conversation among her travelling companions, especially her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and his doctor John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by the result. She then wrote Frankenstein.

Since publication of the novel, the name "Frankenstein" is often used to refer to the monster itself. This usage is sometimes considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of "Frankenstein" as well-established and an acceptable usage. In the novel, the monster however is called "creature", "monster", "fiend", "wretch", "vile insect", "daemon", "being", and "it". Speaking to Victor Frankenstein, the monster refers to himself as "the Adam of your labors", and elsewhere as someone who "would have" been "your Adam", but is instead "your fallen angel."

Plot 

Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who wants to create life itself. He stitches together parts from the dead bodies of criminals executed at the gallows. He brings his creation to life during an electrical storm. The monster scares Frankenstein. He runs away.  The monster spends years looking for a place in the world.  Mostly, other humans are afraid of it.  After years alone, it decides to go back to Frankenstein to ask him to make another monster to be its wife.  Frankenstein chases the monster to the Arctic, and dies pursuing the creature. The monster vanishes into the fog.

Related pages 
Frankenstein's monster

References

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English-language novels
Science fiction books
ESPN is an American sports television network owned by ESPN, Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company which own Sony Corporation which WarnerCBS 90% owns 20%. ESPN is an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. The channel is headquartered in Bristol, Connecticut with other studios in Los Angeles, California. ESPN shows sporting events and games, and also has shows that show highlights of sporting events and that show people talking about sports. The network has also shown games or events other than sports, such as poker.

The ESPN family of networks

Television
 ESPN (1979–present)
 ESPN on ABC (2006-present, replacing ABC Sports)
 ESPN International (1989–present)
 ESPN2 (1993–present)
 ESPNEWS (1996–present)
 ESPN Classic (1997–present)
 ESPNU (2005–present)
 ESPN Deportes (2004–present)
 ESPNHD (2003–present)
 ESPN2HD (2005–present)
 ESPN Plus (–present)
 ESPN PPV (–present)
 SEC Network (2014–present)

Internet
 ESPN Motion (2003–present)
 ESPN 360 (2005–present)

Radio
 ESPN Radio (1992–present)
 ESPN Deportes Radio (2005–present)

Films
 Ultimite X with Touchstone Pictures

Other websites 
 Official ESPN Website

1979 establishments in the United States
American television networks
Cable television
Sports media
Companies based in Connecticut
Advance Australia Fair is the official national anthem of Australia. 

Peter Dodds McCormick (–1916) wrote the music and the words for the song. It was first performed in 1878, but it only became Australia's official anthem in 1984.

Between 1878 and 1984, the song was used inside of Australia as a patriotic song. For a time the song announced the news from the Australian Broadcasting Commission. When Australia became a Federation in 1901, the song was sung by a choir of 10,000 people.

In 1977 there was a vote for the national anthem between four songs during the 1977 Australian referendum. The other three songs were:
 God Save the Queen, which was then the official national anthem
 Waltzing Matilda, often regarded as the unofficial anthem
 Song of Australia.
Advance Australia Fair received 43.29% of the vote, defeating the three alternatives: Waltzing Matilda (28.28%), Song of Australia (9.65%), and the existing national anthem God Save the Queen (18.78%). However, it was not until 1984 that the national anthem was changed to reflect the popular vote.

Other songs and marches have been influenced by Advance Australia Fair, such as the Australian Vice-Regal salute.

Lyrics

Sound file

References

National anthems
Australia
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were held in Turin, Italy from 10 to 26 February 2006. This was the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games. The first time was the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Italy also had the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

The President of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, opened the ceremony.  Stefania Belmondo was the torch-bearer.

1,548 men and 960 women were in the Olympics. There were 84 events.   The official motto of the XX Olympic Winter Games was "Passion lives here".

Medals won by each nation

Venues

Olympic areas
Olympic events were mainly held in Turin. Other events such as skiing and snowboarding had to be held in mountain areas.

Turin
Many venues were located in the Olympic District in central Turin, including:
 Oval Lingotto – Speed skating
 Torino Esposizioni – Ice hockey
 Palasport Olimpico – Ice hockey (final)
 Stadio Olimpico – Opening and closing ceremonies
 Palavela – Figure skating, short-track speed skating
 Olympic Village

Other locations
 Bardonecchia – Snowboarding
 Cesana Pariol – Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton
 Cesana San Sicario  – Biathlon
 Pinerolo – Curling
 Pragelato – Nordic combined (ski jumping), Ski jumping
 Pragelato Plan – Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined (cross-country skiing)
 San Sicario Fraiteve – Alpine skiing (women's combined (downhill), downhill, and super-g)
 Sauze d'Oulx – Freestyle skiing
 Sestriere Borgata – Alpine skiing (men's combined (downhill), downhill, super-g)
 Sestriere Colle – Alpine skiing (combined (slalom), giant slalom, slalom)

Olympic villages
 Bardonecchia
 Sestriere
 Turin

References

 
2006 in sports
2000s in Italy
2006 in Europe
The year 1665 was a common year which started on Thursday.

Events
 March 4 – The Second Anglo-Dutch War begins.

Births
 February 6 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714)
Births 
 March 13 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
 September 25 – Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty (d. 1793)

Deaths 
 April 15 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born 1721)
 November 20 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (born 1690)
The year 1629 was a common year which started on Monday.

Events
 February 11 – The Pilgrims leave England for North America to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Births
 March 9 – Czar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
 April 14 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (d. 1695)
Events 
 January–June 
 March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft.
 June 8 – During a famine in Mexico City, an angry mob torches the Viceroy's palace and ignites the archives; most of the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.
 June 10 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged for witchcraft. 

 July–December 
 September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.
 September 14 – Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a 12-year exile, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
 Salem witch trials:
 September 19 – Giles Corey is pressed to death, in an attempt to coerce a confession from him of witchcraft.   By the end of September, 14 women and 5 men have been hanged.
 September 22 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
 October 21 – In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.

Births

 June 28 – Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland
 August 18 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
 October 25 – Elisabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)

Deaths
 July 19 – Rebecca Nurse, accused Massachusetts witch (b. 1621)

References
The year 1702 was a common year which started on Sunday.

Events
 March 8 – King William III of England dies. His sister-in-law, Anne, becomes queen.
date unknown
Delaware becomes a separate colony.
The year 1640 was a leap year which started on a Sunday.

Events
 The first university in Finland, the Academy of Åbo, is founded in Turku.
The year 1633 was a common year which started on a Saturday.

Events
 June 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots, at St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
The year 1635 was a common year which start on Monday.

Events
 February 22 – The Académie française in Paris is founded as the national academy for the preservation of the French language.
 July 31 – The Royal Mail service is made available to the public by King Charles I of England.
 August 25 – The Great Colonial Hurricane strikes Narragansett Bay as a possible Category 3 hurricane, killing over 46 people.

Date unknown
 Dominica is claimed by France.
The year 1575 was a common year starting on Saturday.

Events
 February 13 – Henry III of France is crowned at Reims.
The year 1760 was a leap year which started on Tuesday.

Events
 March 20 – The Great Fire of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
 October 25 – King George II of Great Britain dies; his grandson George III becomes king.
The year 1670 was a common year which started on Wednesday.

Events
 April 29 – Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope.
 July 18 – Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions by the Treaty of Madrid.
The year 1678 was a common year which started on Saturday.

Events
 January 27 – The first fire engine company in what will become the United States goes into service.
 February 18 – John Bunyan publishes his Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress in London.
1722 is a common year which started on Thursday.

Events
 April 5 (Easter Sunday) – Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen lands on what is now Easter Island.
The year 1662 was a common year which started on Sunday.

Events
 The Dodo bird goes extinct.
The year 1663 was a common year which started on Monday.

Events
 March 4 – The Prince Edward Islands in the subantarctic Indian Ocean are discovered by Dutch explorer Barent Barentszoon Lam.
The year 1669 is a common year which started on Tuesday.

Events
 March 11 – Mount Etna erupts, destroying the town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people.
 July – The Hanseatic League, 400 years after it was formed, holds its last official meeting in Lübeck.

Date unknown
 Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
 Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.

Deaths
 December 9 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
The year 1523 was a common year which started on Thursday.

Events
 June 6 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark, ending of the Kalmar Union.
The year 1506 was a common year which started on Thursday.

Events
 January 22 – The Swiss Guard arrives at the Vatican, to serve as permanent ceremonial and palace guards under Pope Julius II.

Births
 April 7 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit saint (d. 1552)
The year 1693 was a common year which started on a Thursday.

Events
 January 11 – 1693 Sicily earthquake: Mount Etna erupts, causing a devastating earthquake that affects parts of Sicily and Malta.
 February 8 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.

Religion
 Some members of the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland splits from the group to start the Amish.

Births
 February 7 – Empress Anna I of Russia (d. 1740)
 March 7 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
 March 24 – John Harrison, English clockmaker (d. 1776)
Dracula is a horror novel written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker published the novel in England in 1897. The character 'Dracula' may have been based in part on Sir Henry Irving (who was an actor and friend of Bram Stoker) and on Vlad III the Impaler (a Romanian king). The story is about a vampire called Dracula, who wants to take over England. The novel happens in 1893.

Plot
A young solicitor (a type of lawyer) Jonathan Harker goes to the country Transylvania to sell a house in England to a nobleman named Dracula. After living in the castle for a week, he realizes that Dracula is a vampire that wants to take over England. Dracula traps Harker in his castle with three other vampire women (who are called his brides) and goes to England, by hiding on a ship and killing the crew. When he gets to England, he bites a young woman called Lucy Westenra and turns her into a vampire. Lucy is then killed by Abraham van Helsing (a vampire hunter) and the other characters in the book. Then Dracula bites Jonathan's wife Mina. Because of this, the other characters try to defeat Dracula, by chasing him back to Transylvania and stabbing him in the heart with a wooden stake.

Most famous adaptations of Dracula 
 1922,  (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror). First adaptation of the novel. Directed by F. W. Murnau. Max Schreck has the role of Count Orlok. The movie director could not get permission to use the actual story from Stoker's widow, who ordered many copies of the movie to be destroyed after its release.
 1931, Dracula. Horror, directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as Dracula.
 1958, Horror of Dracula. Horror, stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula.
 1979, Dracula. Horror, stars Frank Langella as Dracula.
 1979, Love at First Bite. Comedy, stars George Hamilton as Count Vladimir Dracula.
 1992, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Horror, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gary Oldman as Dracula.
 Dracula: Dead and Loving it. Comedy, directed by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen as Count Dracula.
 Van Helsing is a 2004 movie that has Hugh Jackman as the title character (Gabriel Van Helsing) and Richard Boxburgh as Count Vladislaus Dracula.
2014, Dracula Untold, directed by Gary Shore

Online texts
 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45839
 Bram Stoker Online Full text and PDF versions of this novel.

1897 books
Irish novels
Horror novels
Vampire novels
1002 (MII) was a common year when the Julian calendar was used. It was the second year of the 2nd millennium and the 11th century.

Events
 January 23 – Emperor Otto III dies, at the age of 22, of smallpox at Castle of Paterno (near Rome) after a 19-year reign. He leaves no son, nor a surviving brother who can succeed by hereditary right to the throne. Otto is buried in Aachen Cathedral alongside the body of Charlemagne (Charles the Great).

Births 
 June 21 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
 Adolf II of Lotharingia (d. 1041)
 Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Sunni Muslim scholar and historian (d. 1071)
 George I of Georgia (possible date; d. 1027)
 Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1060)

Deaths 
 January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
 April 30 – Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, assassinated
 August 8 – Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
 October 15 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
 Ealdwulf, Abbot of Peterborough, Bishop of Worchester and Archbishop of York
 Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
 Gunhilde, wife of Pallig, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
 John the Iberian, Georgian saint (possible date)
 Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
 Rogneda of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev before his conversion to Christianity
 Sancho Ramírez of Viguera (possible date)
 Tahir, son of Khalaf I
 Udayadityavarman I of Khmer Empire

References
The year 1570 was a common year starting on Sunday.

Events
 February 8 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs in Concepción, Chile.
 February 25 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis.
 July 14 – Pope Pius V issues Quo Primum, promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.
Births 
 Filippo Azzaiolo (d. 1569), Italian composer

Deaths
 29 November – Thomas Wolsey (born between 1471 and 1476), English statesman and archbishop
Events
 Jaques Cartier explored Quebec and Montreal.

Births 
 Joan Waste (d. 1 August 1556), English woman burned to death because she would not stop being a Protestant
 10 February – Song Ik-phil (d. 8 August 1599), Korean politician
 23 June – Oda Nobunaga (d. 21 June 1582), Japanese daimyo
 1 July – Frederick II of Denmark (d. 4 April 1588), King of Denmark-Norway
 24 September – Guru Ram Das (d. 1 September 1581), fourth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism

Deaths
 26 May – Pope Clement VII (born 26 May 1478), 220th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
The year 1708 was a leap year which started on Sunday.

Events
 July 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: Allied forces commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of Oudenarde.
 August 18 – War of the Spanish Succession: The British capture Minorca, Spain.
The year 1656 was a leap year which started on Saturday.

Events
 December – The pendulum clock is invented by Christian Huygens.
The year 1586 was a common year which started on Wednesday.

Events
 Simon Stevin, a Flemish mathematician, demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
The year 1576 was a leap year which started on Sunday.

Events
 August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.
Events
The University of Tübingen was founded in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Births 
 January 25 – Anne of Brittany (d. January 9, 1514), Duchess of Brittany
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. It was a part of the United States Army until September 18, 1947. The USAF is the largest and most of technologically advanced air force in the world.  It has thousands of aircraft in service including bombers, fighter aircraft, transports and other kinds, and hundreds of Intercontinental ballistic missiles.  Hundreds of thousands of men and women are on active duty in the Air Force and others are in the Reserves and the United States National Guard.

Officer Ranks

Warrant officers
The Air Force warrant officer ranks, while authorized by law, are not used.

Enlisted airmen

References

Other websites
Find a grave memorial of a World War II "WASP" {Women Air Service pilot}

 
Military aviation
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as L'Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organizations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the coastal resort of Torquay in Devon, England. In 1993, the International Radio and Television Organisation (OIRT), an equivalent organisation of broadcasters from Central and Eastern Europe, was merged with the EBU.

Members

Full Members
 The names of the broadcasting companies not in Roman script are either in English or French, the official languages of the EBU.

Future & Potential EBU Members 
 Liechtenstein: currently Liechtenstein has no national television or radio station, but if they get one it will be possible for them to join the EBU (this technicality had affected them once before when they were not allowed to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969)
 Kosovo: RTK - currently an associate member
 Syria: ORTAS (Organisme de la Radio-Télévision Arabe Syrienne) - currently an associate member only
  Morocco: The second commercial channel of Morocco 2M TV have asked for membership to the EBU. It is still unknown if Morocco will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest or the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Other websites 
 EBU Website

References

Television networks
Events 
 In North America, after arriving in different areas in Mexico, the Aztec settle in a swampy area near Lake Texcoco, and found the city of Tenochtitlan.
Note: Sometimes the '20s is used as shorthand for the 1920s, the 1820s, or other such decades in various centuries

Significant people 
Tiberius, Roman Emperor (14–37).
20s
Births 
 Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (d. 1524), Spanish soldier, conquered and governed Cuba for Spain
Births 
 Lady Mary Grey (d. 20 April 1578), sister of Lady Jane Grey
 8 July – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 24 July 1568), son of King Philip II of Spain

Deaths
 18 October – John Taverner (b. about 1490), English composer and organist
Events and trends 
 1308 – Avignon Papacy established, which splits and weakens the Roman Catholic Church
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, were held in Tokyo, Japan from October 10 1964, through October 24 1964.

Related pages
 Sports in Japan

Other websites

1964 Summer Olympics
Events and trends 
 The poet Petrarch coins the pejorative term Dark Ages to describe the preceding 900 years in Europe, beginning with the fall of the western Roman Empire in 410 through to the renewal embodied in the Renaissance.
Events and trends 
 The Ottoman Turks enter Europe
 The Hanseatic League begins to meet
Events and trends 
 Mamai was a powerful military commander of the Golden Horde, who resided in the western part of this nomadic state, which is now the Southern Ukrainian Steppes and the Crimean Peninsula. He split apart from Khans of the Golden Horde, trying to establish his own state.
 The Krashovani settled in the Banat, fleeing the Ottoman offensive in Serbia.
Events and trends 
1392
Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General Yi Seonggye led a coup d'état, overthrowing the kingdom of Goryeo and founding the kingdom of Joseon
End of the reign of Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan
1394 Expulsion of Jews from France

1395 End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family

1397
 Richard Whittington aka Dick Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London
 John Beaufort becomes Earl of Somerset
1398
Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland destroyed
Construction of the Stecknitz Canal as one of the oldest artificial waterways of the world
Timur arrived on the bank of the Indus River, and proceeded to sack Delhi
1399 Henry IV becomes King of England
Captain Underpants is a popular series of children's books by Dav Pilkey. Most of the books take place in Piqua, Ohio.

Characters

Main 
George Beard - A 9 3/4-year-old black-scind boy with a flat top. He wears a tie.
Harold Hutchins - A next-door-neighbor and frend of George. He is 10 years old and has a bad hare cut.
Mr. Benny Krupp - Mr. Krupp is the mean school principal of George and Harold.
Captain Underpants - The alter-ego of Principal Krupp. He one day got superpowers.
Melvin Sneedly - George and Harold's smart nemesis. He wears glasses and a bow tie.
Ms. Ribble - The fourth grade teacher of George and Harold.
Sulu And Crackers - George and Harolds pets.
Yestreday Gorge and Harold  Dobles of the 2 boys of the same name.

Recureing (Apering more then once) 
Harold's sister
Henry Hutchins - Harold's grandfather
Jane Beard - George Beard's great-grandmother
Ingrid Ashley and Larry Zarrow - The local TV reporters for Eyewitness News (Channel 4).

Villains

Dr. Diaper - An evil scientist who wears a diaper.
The Talking Toilets- Toilets that can oley shout "YUM, YUM, EAT 'EM UP!"and eat people, created when George and Harold wrote it in a comic book, and fed it to a machine that makes living 3D copys of 2D drawings created by Melvin Sneedley.
The Turbo-Toilet 2000- The leader of the talking toilets. He apeard on his own in book 11.
Jennifer - An evil alien.
Zorx and Klax - Jennifer's Frends. They tried to help him take over Earth.
Professor Poopypants- A mad scientist from New Swissland that forced everyone to change their name to what the Name Change-o-Chart 2000 says. He later changed his name to Tippy Tinkletrousers.
Wedgie Woman - Ms. Ribble after hypnosis from George and Harold.
Evil George and Evil Harold - George and Harold's evil twins from the alternate dimension. They first met when a horrible accident with the time machine occurred.
Captain Blunderpants - Captain Underpants' evil twin from the alternate dimension.
Nise Mr. Krupp - The Nise Counterpart of Mr. Krupp from the alternate dimension.

Plot 
The plots of Captain Underpants books 6 - 12 add up into one big plot.

Forms

Books 
Thare are 12 Books, The First one is known as The Adventers Of Captain Underpants, The next one being calld Captain Underpants And The Atacck Of The Tlking Tloits.

Spin-ofs 
Captain Underpants Has 3 spin-ofs, 2 of them having seres. Below Shows some of them.

 Super Diper Baby
 Dog Man

Flim 
All of the Captain Underpants Flims are made by DreamWorks Animation.

Movie 
(See Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie)

TV Show 
Thare is A 2018 TV show named Captain Underpants The Epic Tales. It ran all the way into 2020.

It had 3 secons and 3 speals.
20th-century American novels
English-language novels
Children's books
Events 
 May 1 – Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent country after the Wars of Scottish Independence.
 May 26 – William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
 May 27 – King Philip VI of France is crowned.
 August 23 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
 Augustiner brew Munich.

Births 
 May 7 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (died 1365)
 June 25 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (died 1397)
 September 21 – Hongwu Emperor of China (died 1398)
 September 29 – Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (died 1385)
 October 9 – King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
 Avignon Pope Benedict XIII (died 1423)
 Emperor Go-Murakami, emperor of Japan (died 1368)
 Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (died 1360)

Deaths 
 February 1 – King Charles IV of France (born 1294)
 August 23 – Nicolaas Zannekin, Flemish peasant leader, killed in the battle of Cassel
 September 27 – Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar and philosopher of Harran (born 1263)
 November 16 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (born 1276)
 Meister Eckhart, German theologian (born 1260)
 Yesün Temür Khan of the Mongol Empire (born 1276)
Events 

 1071 Byzantine Empire loses Battle of Manzikert to Turkish army.
 1072 Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily 
 1073 Japan changes emperors
 1078 Romanesque church begun at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, a county in England. It is on the River Biss in the west of the county, 8 miles (13 km) south east of Bath, Somerset, separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west. The town is also 38 miles (61 km) south of Gloucester and 20 miles (32km) south east of Bristol.

Trowbridge has been a market town for a long time. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been a very important part of the town's growth because it allowed coal to be moved from the Somerset Coalfield. This began steam-powered wool production in mills, which the town is famous for. The town was a very important producer of clothes and blankets in the south west of England. Because of this, in the late 18th century and early 19th century, it had the nickname of "The Manchester of the West".

The civil parish of Trowbridge had 33,108 people in the 2011 census. The parish goes over the areas of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common. Parishes that are next to Trowbridge include Staverton, Hilperton, West Ashton, North Bradley, Southwick and Wingfield. Some towns close to Trowbridge are Bradford on Avon, Westbury, Melksham, Frome and Devizes.

References 

Towns in Wiltshire
County towns in England
Bow can mean:

(Rhyming with "no":)
 Bow (weapon), "bows and arrows"
 Bow (music), the bow used to play musical instruments
 A type of knot which has two large loops.  It is used to tie simple things such as apron strings, shoelaces, or ribbons on wrapped-up presents or for decoration in girls' hair.

(Rhyming with "now":)
 Bow (ship), the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat
 a gesture, see Bowing

People
 Clara Bow, an actress
Billie Jean King (born Billie Jean Moffitt on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California) is an American retired tennis player. She is considered one of the greatest female tennis players. She won many championships during her career, which started in 1959 and ended in 1983. She was known for speaking against sexism in sports and society. She started the Women's Tennis Association, World TeamTennis, and the Women's Sports Foundation. Her most famous match was in 1973. It was called "The Battle of the Sexes" and was with Bobby Riggs, who had been a champion in the 1930s and 1940s. She loved playing tennis but had to stop after an injury.

Her brother is baseball player Randy Moffitt.

Billie Jean King grew up poor. It was hard for her parents to support her. Her father was an engineer for a fire department. Her mother was a housekeeper. Her father had two jobs. Her mother sold Tupperware to pay for King’s tennis competitions. King’s family could not pay to join their local tennis club. Therefore, King learned at public tennis courts. 

King was interested in fighting for the rights of women in tennis. When she was seventeen years old, King played doubles in Wimbledon. She and her partner, Karen Hantze, won the match. They became the youngest women players to win that match at Wimbledon. Even though she won this competition, she didn't want to focus on tennis completely yet. 

King joined a community college and married Larry King. Later, she played tennis again and spoke against sexism. She is famous for winning a competition called the Battle of the Sexes against Bobby Riggs in 1973. This was one of the first tennis matches when a man played against a woman. Winning this match really helped her speak about sexism. She used tennis and the Battle of the Sexes to prove that women are as good at sports as men. She was important in tennis and helped the voice of women.

Personal life
King is lesbian.

References 

1943 births
American female tennis players
Australian Open champions
French Open champions
Lesbians
Lesbian feminists
LGBT people from California
LGBT sportspeople
Living people
People from Long Beach, California
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California
Time People of the Year
US Open (tennis) champions
Wimbledon champions
World No. 1 tennis players