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Basic Instinct is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Ciara. It was released on December 10, 2010, by LaFace Records and Jive Records. Executively produced by A&R agent Mark Pitts, Ciara, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, Basic Instinct returns Ciara to her urban roots with mid-tempo R&B, hip hop and dance songs.

Critical response

Basic Instinct received, on average, positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72.

Track listings

Notes
Track listing and credits taken from album booklet.
 denotes a vocal producer
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"Basic Instinct (U Got Me)" samples "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
"Heavy Rotation" contains a portion of "Baby Baby" written by Rogers Andrell, Brian Flemming and Gerald J. Coats.

Personnel
Credits for Basic Instinct adapted from Allmusic.

The Agency – Producer
Alex Al – Bass
Chris Bellman – Mastering
Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges – Composer
Ciara Harris – Executive Producer, Composer, Primary vocals
Martin Cooke – Assistant Engineer
Steven Dennis – Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
Lauren Evans – Background vocals
Iain Findlay – Assistant Engineer
Yolonda Frederick – Make-Up
Chris Galland – Assistant Engineer
Jesus Garnica – Mixing Assistant
Steven Gomillion – Photography
Josh Goodwin – Vocal Engineer
Mark Gray – Mixing Assistant
Josh Gudwin – Vocal Engineer
Kuk Harrell – Vocal Engineer, Vocal Producer
Travis Harrington – Mixing Assistant
Jaycen Joshua – Mixing
Dennis Leupold – Photography
Giancarlo Lino – Mixing Assistant
Chris Bellman – Audio mastering

Mike Molina – Composer
Monte Neuble – Keyboards
Terius "The-Dream" Nash – Executive Producer, Producer
Luis Navarro – Assistant Engineer
Chris "Tek" O'Ryan – Engineer
Mark Pitts – Executive Producer, A&R
Zachariah Redding – Assistant Engineer
Marni Senofonte – Stylist
Kelly Sheehan – Engineer
Jason Sherwood – Assistant Engineer
Kenneth "Soundz" Colby – Producer, Composer
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart – Executive Producer, Composer, Producer
Anthony Taglianetti – Assistant Engineer
Brian "B-Luv" Thomas – Engineer
Michael Thompson – Guitar
Pat Thrall – Engineer, Vocal Effect
Randy Urbanski – Assistant Engineer
Courtney Walter – Art Direction, Design
Tyler "T-Minus" Williams – Composer, Producer
Kiyah Wright – Hair Stylist
Andrew Wuepper – Engineer, Mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are created by the [United Nations] and promoted as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. They replaced the [Millennium Development Goals] that expired at the end of 2015. The SDGs run from 2015 to 2030. There are 17 goals and 169 specific targets for those goals.

Goals

In August of 2015 193 countries agreed to the following 17 goals:

 No poverty 
 Zero hunger 
 Good health and wellbeing
 Quality education 
 Gender equality
 Clean water and sanitation
 Affordable and clean energy 
 Decent work and economic growth 
 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
 Reduce inequality 
 Sustainable cities and communities 
 Responsible consumption and production
 Climate action 
 Life below water
 Life on land
 Peace and justice.  Strong institutions
 Partnerships for the goals

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Sustainability
Development
United Nations
Antonio Nirta (22 April 1919 – 1 September 2015) was an Italian criminal. He was the boss of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria. He was born in San Luca, and, together with his brothers Giuseppe, Francesco and Sebastiano, ruled the comune.

Nirta died on 1 September 2015 in Benestare, Province of Reggio Calabria. He was 96.

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Aleksandar Stipčević (10 October 1930 – 1 September 2015) was a Croatian archeologist, bibliographer, librarian and historian. He was best known for studying the Illyrians. He wrote several works on the Illyrians. He was a full professor at the University of Zagreb from 1987 until his retirement in 1997.

Stipčević was born in the village of Arbanasi near Zadar (then Zara, Kingdom of Italy). He was of Albanian ancestry.

Stipčević died on 1 September 2015 in Zagreb, aged 84.

Works
 Gli Iliri ("Illyrians"; 1966)
 Arte degli Illiri ("The Illyrian Art"; 1963)
 Iliri: povijest, život, kultura (1974)
 Bibliografija antičke arheologije u Jugoslaviji (I–II, 1977)
 Kultni simboli kod Ilira ("The Illyrian Cult Symbols"; 1981)
 Povijest knjige ("The History of Books"; 1985, extended edition in 2006)
 Cenzura u knjižnicama ("Censorship and Libraries"; 1992)
 O savršenom cenzoru (1994)
 Sudbina knjige (2000)
 Socijalna povijest knjige u Hrvata (I–III, 2004–08)
 Tradicijska kultura zadarskih Arbanasa (2011)
Some of them are translated to other languages.

He was the editor-in-chief of the second volume of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (1983–1989).

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Willy Juana Stähle (16 June 1954 – 27 August 2015) was a Dutch world water skiing champion. She won a gold for women's figure skiing and a silver medal for women's slalom at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. She was the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1971.

Stähle was born in Amsterdam. Her death was announced on 1 September 2015.

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Japandroids is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Career
The band was formed in 2006 by Brian King and David Prowse. King and Prowse met each other in 2000 while they were attending the University of Victoria in Victoria. They started going to live shows together regularly in Victoria and Vancouver after they found out that they had a mutual interest in music. In 2003, Prowse moved to Vancouver and transferred to Simon Fraser University. After King graduated in 2005, he moved to Vancouver to form the band with Prowse. The band was influenced by The Sonics and they started writing music in 2006. The band got their name from a combination of two other band name ideas: Japanese Scream and Pleasure Droids.

The band self-released two EPs: All Lies in 2007 and Lullaby Death Jams in 2008. The EPs were only limited to 500 copies each but were re-released as a compilation titled No Singles in 2010.

Their first studio album titled Post-Nothing was released on April 28, 2009 through Unfamiliar Records and re-released on August 4, 2009 on Polyvinyl Record Co. In March 2009, the website Pitchfork Media named the song "Young Hearts Spark Fire" as a 'Best New Track'. This helped the band gain more recognition outside of Canada.

The band's second studio album Celebration Rock was released on June 5, 2012. The album's first single "The House That Heaven Built" was released on May 15, 2012.

The album received positive reviews. Ian Cohen of Pitchfork said, "Japandroids have gone from having almost none at all [lyrics] to packing their songs with an astonishing command of legend and literalism that all but dares you to feel something." Spin named Japandroids 2012's Band of the Year and rated the album a 9 out of 10. Rolling Stone rated it a 4 out of 5 and listed the album as #10 on their The 10 Coolest Summer Albums of All Time list.

Discography

Studio albums
Post-Nothing (2009)
Celebration Rock (2012)

Compilation albums
No Singles (2010)

References

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Official website

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2006 establishments in Canada
Opus isodomum is an ancient technique of wall building. It uses perfectly cut, completely regular square stone blocks of equal height, and sometimes of the same length.

In classical antiquity this technique was perfected and widely used, especially for public buildings (temples, theaters, amphitheaters etc.). One of the most well-known examples is the Parthenon.

Vitruvius briefly described this technique in his De Architectura, 2nd book, 8th chapter as following: A wall is called “isodomum“ when all the courses are of equal height.

Vitruvius further states that the stone blocks of opus isodomum are bound together by mortar, but more often they are not connected with mortar but with metal ties such as iron cramps, fixed in stone blocks with molten lead.

Completely regular isodomum is relatively rare, especially in the provinces. More frequent is isodomum made of stone blocks of the same height but not of the same length. In order to strengthen this type of wall, builders always take good care that the ends of stone blocks in alternating courses of the wall do not match.

Opus pseudoisodomum is a version of opus isodomum mentioned by Vitruvius, describing that it is a kind of stonemasonery in which "the rows of courses do not match but run unequally", referring to the height and length of the blocks, which are nevertheless still perfectly cut.

Vitruvius considered both types of wall construction as Greek, emphasizing that "both kinds are strong".

Footnotes

Bibliography
 Vitruvius 1990 - Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: Deset knjiga o arhitekturi, translated by Matija Lopac, Sarajevo, 1990, p. 41-46
Müller / Vogel 1999 - Werner Müller; Gunther Vogel: Atlas arhitekture 1, translated by Milan Pelc, Zagreb, 1999., p. 3, 31, 60, 61
Suić 1976 - Mate Suić: Antički grad na istočnom Jadranu, Zagreb, 1976, p. 108, 110

Construction
Architectural elements
Vasto (; Latin: Histonium, Istonium, and Histonios; formerly also, Guastaymonis, Il Vasto, and Il Vasto d'Ammone) is a town and comune. It is on the Adriatic coast of the Province of Chieti in southern Abruzzo, Italy. The population is now just over 40,000.

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VH1 Storytellers is the second live album by American hip hop artist Kanye West. It was released on January 5, 2010 by Roc-A-Fella Records. The album was recorded live in February 2009.

Track listing

 "See You in My Nightmares" – 3:13
 "RoboCop" – 6:17
 "Flashing Lights" – 6:41
 "Amazing" – 8:24
 "Touch the Sky" – 9:53
 "Say You Will" – 7:42
 "Good Life" – 6:30
 "Heartless/Pinocchio Story" – 11:01
 "Stronger" – 4:53

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David Scott "Dave" Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, stand-up comedian, director, producer and writer. He is best known for his work in The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio and the voice of Flik in the 1998 film A Bug's Life.

Personal life 
Foley was born in Etobicoke, Ontario. His mother, Mary, was a homemaker. His father, Michael, was a pipefitter. His father is of Irish descent, and his mother is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent.

Filmography

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Cinderella Man is a 2005 American biographical drama movie. It was directed by Ron Howard and it was produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Penny Marshall. Cinderella Man was released on June 3, 2005.

The movie got positive reviews from critics. It has a 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Due to a low opening, AMC Theatres advertised on June 24, 2005 that it would offer a refund to any ticket-buyer dissatisfied with the film to try and help boost ticket sales.

Cast 
 Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock
 Renée Zellweger as Mae Braddock
 Paul Giamatti as Joe Gould
 Bruce McGill as James Johnston
 Craig Bierko as Max Baer
 Paddy Considine as Mike Wilson
 David Huband as Ford Bond
 Connor Price as Jay Braddock
 Ariel Waller as Rosemarie "Rosy" Braddock
 Patrick Louis as Howard Braddock
 Rosemarie DeWitt as Sara Wilson
 Linda Kash as Mrs. Gould
 Nicholas Campbell as Sporty Lewis
 Gene Pyrz as Jake
 Chuck Shamata as Father Roddick
 Ron Canada as Joe Jeanette
 Alicia Johnston as Alice
 Troy Amos-Ross as John Henry Lewis
 Mark Simmons as Art Lasky
 Art Binkowski as Corn Griffin
 David Litzinger as Abe Feldman
 Matthew G. Taylor as Primo Carnera
 Rance Howard as Announcer Al Fazin
 Robert Norman Smith as reporter

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Michael Harold Wenning (July 5, 1935 – June 28, 2011) was an South African-born American Presbyterian minister. From 1969 to 1977, he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Durban, South Africa. He was known for performing President Reagan's state funeral.

Early life
Wenning was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at Texas Christian University and at New York University.

Career
From 1969 to 1977, he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Durban, South Africa. In 1977 he returned to the United States where he worked for the next three decades as a pastor in various Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations, including one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Death
Wenning died at his home in Mission Viejo, California from kidney failure caused by leukemia, aged 75.

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Owens Boomer Castleman (July 18, 1945 – September 1, 2015), better known by his stage name Boomer Castleman, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He and Michael Martin Murphey teamed up to make the pop music group The Lewis & Clarke Expedition in the 1960s. His single Judy Mae peaked at #33 in the US charts. He also founded the independent country music record label BNA Records which he later sold to BMG Music. He invented the palm pedal.

Castleman was born in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in Farmers Branch and Dallas, Texas. He had two daughters.

Castleman died from cancer on September 1, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 70.

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Kenneth Thomas "Ken" Cuccinelli II ( ; born July 30, 1968) is an American politician. 

In June 2019, President Donald Trump appointed him to be acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services office. He is a former Attorney General of Virginia. In November 2019, he became United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.

He was the Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia in the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election.

He was elected as Virginia's 46th Attorney General in the November 2009 general election. From 2002 until January 16, 2010 he was a Republican member of the Senate of Virginia, representing the 37th district in Fairfax County. He holds degrees in engineering, law and commercial policy, and co-founded a law firm.

References

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 Attorney General Cuccinelli  official government site
 Ken Cuccinelli for Governor 
 Ken Cuccinelli at the Virginia Public Access Project
 Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-Fairfax) at Richmond Sunlight

1968 births
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George Ryoichi Ariyoshi  (有吉良一; born March 12, 1926) is an American politician. He served as the third Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He became governor when John A. Burns was stepped down.

Early life
Ariyoshi was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents were Japanese immigrants. He studied at the University of Michigan. He served in the United States Army during World War II.

Governor of Hawaii (1974-1986)
When he was elected, Ariyoshi became the first American of Asian descent to be elected governor of a state of the United States.

Ariyoshi's administration was marked by fiscal conservatism as the post-statehood economic boom came to an end. He guided the state through its first economic recession. He has gathered some criticism for having only people with Japanese surnames on his staff, many were relatives.

He also holds the record as the longest-serving state governor in Hawaii, a record likely to remain unbroken because of term limits enacted after his tenure. Ariyoshi is now considered an elder statesman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Personal life
Ariyoshi married Jean Miya Hayashi in 1955. They have a daughter, Lynn, born in 1957; and two sons, Ryozo, born in 1959, and Donn, 1961.

References

Other websites

 Honolulu Star Bulletin Article about Ariyoshi's Wife and her book, Washington Place: A First Lady's Story 
 Honolulu Star Bulletin Editorial Column 
 http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/010713/baby.html 
 Donn Ariyoshi 
 George Ariyoshi Tribute Site 
 Portrait of Ariyoshi  by Margaret Holland Sargent

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Charles Kumi Gyamfi (4 December 1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach. He became the first African to play in Germany when he joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1960, and later became the first coach to lead the Ghana national football team to an Africa Cup of Nations victory. As coach of the Ghana national football team, he won the African Cup of Nations three times (1963, 1965 and 1982), making him the most successful coach in the competition's history.

Gyamfi died in Accra, Ghana at the age of 85.

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Aleksander Mandziara (16 August 1940 – 2 September 2015), also known as Alfons Mandziara, was a Polish football player and coach. He played for ŁTS Łabędy, Flocie Gdynia, Szombierki Bytom, NAC Breda, and GKS Tychy. He managed GKS Tychy, Pogoń Szczecin, Rot-Weiss Essen, BSC Young Boys, FC Biel/Bienne, LASK Linz, FC Stahl Linz, SV Darmstadt 98, and FC Bern. He was born in Gliwice.

Mandziara died on 2 September 2015, aged 75.

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Mis-Teeq were an English R&B and UK garage girl group. The members were lead singer Sabrina Washington, rapper Alesha Dixon and backing vocalist Su-Elise Nash. A fourth member, Zena McNally, performed on only one song, "Why" (the group's first song). She left soon after to start a solo career.

The group only released two studio albums, Lickin' on Both Sides and Eye Candy. They released a self titled album in the United States in 2004. That album had songs from the group's first two albums. There was also a greatest hits album released in 2005. The group broke up in 2005 after their label went out of business. All of the group's singles reached the UK top 40.

Ever since the group broke up in 2005, there have been rumors about the group releasing more music. On 9 February 2011, it was reported that the group were in talks to do a comeback tour. This was denied by Dixon. Two years later, Dixon said that she would never rule out a reunion.

Discography
Lickin' on Both Sides (2001)
Eye Candy (2003)
Mis-Teeq (2004)
Greatest Hits (2005)

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Ashley Madison is a Canada-based online dating service and social networking service. It used for people who are married or in a committed relationship. It promotes affairs. Its slogan is "Life is short. Have an affair." The website was launched in 2001.

The company received attention on July 15, 2015, after hackers stole all of its customer data—including emails, names, home addresses, sexual fantasies, and credit card information—and threatened to post all the data online if Ashley Madison and fellow Avid Life Media site EstablishedMen.com were not permanently closed.

References

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 Official website
 Ashley Madison updates

Websites established in 2001
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Simo Veli Atte Salminen (8 November 1932 – 2 September 2015) was a Finnish comic-actor. He was best known for his many performances in movies and television shows by Spede Pasanen. He was known for his roles in Pähkähullu Suomi and in Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit.

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2015 deaths
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Ora is the debut studio album by British recording artist Rita Ora, released on 27 August 2012 through Roc Nation.

Track listing

Notes
Track listing and credits from album booklet.
 signifies an additional producer
 signifies a vocal producer
 signifies a co-producer
 "Facemelt" is originally "Brap" written and performed by Bart B More with original vocals performed by Rita Ora.
 "R.I.P." embodies portions of "Heartbeat" written by N. Egbuna and F. Samadzada and performed by Nneka.
 "Fall in Love" embodies portions of "Handguns (Dada Life Remix)" written by Alexis Latrobe.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certification

Release history

References

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Rita Ora
Leon A. Gorman (December 20, 1934 – September 3, 2015) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the President (1967–2001) and Chairman (2001–2013) of the bard for the clothing company L.L.Bean. He had a reported net worth of $860 million, and, until his death, was the richest person in Maine. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Gorman died from cancer on September 3, 2015 in Yarmouth, Maine, aged 80.

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Jean-Luc Préel (30 October 1940 – 3 September 2015) was a French politician. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1988 until 2012. He represented the Vendée department, and was a member of the New Centre. He was born in Caen.

Préel died on 3 September 2015 in La Roche-sur-Yon, aged 74.

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Graham Brazier (6 May 1952 – 4 September 2015) was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He was best known as a member of Hello Sailor. He was also a member of The Pink Flamingos and The Legionnaires. He was born in Auckland

Brazier died from a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Auckland, aged 63.

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Wilfred de Souza (23 April 1927 – 4 September 2015) was an Indian surgeon and politician. He served as the Chief Minister of Goa three times; 18 May 1993 until 2 April 1994, 8 April 1994 until 16 December 1994 and 30 July 1998 until 26 November 1998.

De Souza was born in Kampala, Uganda. He grew up in Goa. He was a Roman Catholic.

De Souza died after a short illness on 4 September 2015 in Panaji, aged 88.

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Giya Kancheli (; August 10, 1935 – October 2, 2019) was an Georgian composer. After the fall of the Soviet Union he became famous as one of the composers who resisted pressure to conform to official Soviet styles of music. Kancheli has composed many soundtracks for  movies such as Mimino, Kin-dza-dza!, Passport, Blue Mountains, The Eccentrics, and Extraordinary Exhibition.

Kancheli died at his home in Tbilisi on October 2, 2019 at the age of 84.

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Marion Hall (born 12 July 1972), better known as Lady Saw, is a Grammy Award-winning  Jamaican reggae singer. Hall was born in Galina, Saint Mary, Jamaica on 12 July 1972 and began performing with local sound systems at the age of fifteen. She went on to work with the "Stereo One system" in Kingston. Her performances brought her to the attention of record producers. She recorded her first single for producer Piper, and "Love Me or Lef Me", produced by Olive Shaw received significant airplay. She had her first hit with "If Him Lef" and she topped the Jamaican record charts with "Good Man".

Awards
Lady Saw received a gold certification from the R.I.A.A. for "Smile" with Vitamin C.
Lady Saw received a triple-platinum certification from the R.I.A.A. for "Underneath It All", her 2003 collaboration with No Doubt.
In 2004, Lady Saw earned a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Duo or Group for her featured performance on No Doubt's single "Underneath It All".

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Unbreakable is the eleventh studio album by Janet Jackson. It was released on October 2, 2015. As of September 2015, two R&B tinged singles had been released from the album. One was "No Sleeep" which features American rapper J-Cole. The other was the title track. This will be Jackson's first album with newly recorded material since 2008's "Discipline".

Track listing

Release history

References

2015 albums
Janet Jackson albums
R&B albums
Rico Rodriguez MBE (born Emmanuel Rodriguez; 17 October 1934 – 4 September 2015), also known as simply Rico, as well as Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban ska and reggae trombonist. He was born in Havana and grew up in Kingston, Jamaica. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd "Matador" Daley. He was known as one of the first and most distinguished Ska artists.

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2015 deaths
Cuban musicians
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People from Kingston, Jamaica
Zhang Zhen (; 5 October 1914 – 3 September 2015) was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China, and a former member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. Zhang was born in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province.

His original name was Zhang Jiansheng(), also named as Zhang Zushou(), Zhang Zhongtian(). He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in April 1930, and joined the Communist Party of China in July of the same year.

Other websites
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General Chi Haotian (; born 9 July 1929) is a Chinese general of the People's Liberation Army. In May-June, 1989, Chi played an important role in directing the military's enforcement of martial law in Beijing to suppress the Tiananmen Square Protests in the national capital.

Other websites
Chinatoday biography
Chi Haotian at China Vitae

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Li Yuan-tsu (; September 24, 1923 – March 8, 2017) was a Chinese politician. He served under Lee Teng-hui as the eighth Vice President of the Republic of China. Li is of Hakka ancestry. He was born in Pingjiang, Hunan.

Li died of kidney failure on March 8, 2017 in Toufen, Taiwan, aged 93.

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Robert John Davi (born June 26, 1953) is an American actor, singer, writer, and producer. Davi has performed in more than 130 movies. He has played the roles of main villain and drug lord Franz Sanchez in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. He was  FBI Special Agent Bailey Malone in the NBC television series Profiler. He played a Vietnam veteran and FBI Special Agent Big Johnson in Die Hard. Davi played the opera-singing heavy Jake Fratelli in The Goonies, Hans Zarba in Son of the Pink Panther and Al Torres in Showgirls.

Davi was trained as a singer. He launched his professional singing career in 2011.  His first album, Davi Sings Sinatra -- On The Road To Romance, hit #6 on the Billboard jazz charts.  Praised for his voice, Davi debuted as a headliner at The Venetian, in Las Vegas, Nevada, six months after the record was released.

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Actors from Queens
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Writers from Queens
The Château de Chaumont (or Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire) is a castle in Chaumont-sur-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, France. The castle was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois. It is located on top of a hill overlooking the Loire River. It was built to protect the borders between Blois and Anjou.

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Aadesh Shrivastava (4 September 1964 – 5 September 2015) was an Indian composer and singer. He worked on over 100 Hindi movies, including Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Baghban (2003) and Raajneeti (2010).

Shrivastava was born to a Hindu Kayastha family in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. He was married to actress Vijeta Pandit from 1990 until his death. They had two sons.

Shrivastava died from cancer on 5 September 2015 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was 51.

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Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov () (born July 5, 1802 – died July 12, 1855) was a Russian admiral. He was one of the most famous admirals in Russian naval history. 

In 1826, Nakhimov served on the crew of the 74-gun warship “Azov”, commanded by Mikhail Lazarev. One year after, on October 20 1827, he and the crew of Azov fought in the Battle of Navarino and with the help of the British and French naval forces, they defeated the Ottoman naval forces.

After that, Nakhimov was the commander of naval and land forces during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. On November 30 1853, Nakhimov defeated the Ottoman troops in the Battle of Sinope.

On July 10 1855, while he was inspecting the forward-defense positions at Fort Malakoff, he was fatally wounded by a sniper. The medal, the Order of Nakhimov, a Soviet Navy Cruiser and the Nakhimov Naval Academy (Sevastopol) are named for him.

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James Thomas Patrick "J. T." Walsh (September 28, 1943 – February 27, 1998) was an American actor. He appeared in over 50 movies during his career. Walsh's best known roles were in the movies Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Misery (1990), Backdraft (1991), Hoffa (1992), A Few Good Men (1992), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), The Client (1994), Blue Chips (1994), Silent Fall (1994), Outbreak (1995), Nixon (1995), The Babysitter (1995), Sling Blade (1996), Breakdown (1997), Pleasantville (1998), and The Negotiator (1998). He also appeared in an episode of The X-Files.

Walsh was born in San Francisco, California. He was married to Susan West from 1972 until their divorce in 1982. They had one son, John.

Walsh died from a heart attack on February 27, 1998 in Lemon Grove, California, aged 54. Jack Nicholson dedicated his Academy Award for As Good as It Gets to Walsh's memory.

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Sylvie Joly (18 October 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a French actress and comedian. She was best known for her roles in the movies Going Places (1974) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978).

Joly was born in Paris. She had two daughters, Mathilde Vitry and Stéphane Joly. In October 2010, she revealed she had Parkinson's disease.

Joly died of a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Paris. She was 80.

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A wiki farm is a site where you can create your own wiki. Getting web space is usually as easy as requesting an e-mail account. An account will generally allow a certain number of wiki sites and some are free. Most wiki farms let you create wikis that run Mediawiki software, the softare thousands of wikis run.

Comparing some wiki farms 

This table is not complete

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Wikis
Il Guarany is an Italian opera in four acts, music by Antônio Carlos Gomes and libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville, after José de Alencar's novel O Guarani. It was first performed in Milan, on March 19, 1870. By far Gomes's most successful work and his only opera still regularly performed.

Principal characters

 Peri - tenor
 Cecilia - soprano
 Gonzales - baritone
 Il Cacico - bass

Discography
 1959: Manrico Patassini (Peri), Niza de Castro Tank (Cecilia), Paulo Fortes (Gonzales), Juan Carlos Ortiz (Il Cacico); Orquestra e Coro do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Armando Belardi - (Andromeda)
 1994: Plácido Domingo (Peri), Verónica Villarroel (Cecilia), Carlos Álvarez (Gonzales), Boris Martinovich (Il Cacico); Chor und Extrachor der oper der Stadt Bonn, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, John Neschling - (Sony Classics)

Sources

 The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993. 

operas
Helvellyn is an English opera in four acts, music by George Alexander Macfarren and libretto by John Oxenford, after Salomon Mosenthal's play Der Sonnwendhof. It was first performed in London, on November 3, 1864.

Principal characters

 Mabel - soprano
 Hannah - soprano
 Luke - tenor
 Martin - tenor
 Old Steenie - bass

Structure of opera

 Illustrated Overture

Act I

 What's that? (Steenie, Chorus)
 While supper's getting ready - The sky with crimson (Steenie, Chorus)
 You all are here (Mabel, Martin, Chorus)
 A blessing on the harvest fall (Martin)
 A blessing (Mabel, Martin)
 Who comes yonder (Hannah, Mabel, Martin, Steenie, Chorus)
 O Providence - When my ample store (Mabel)
 Of all the trades (Hannah, Mabel, Martin, Steenie, Chorus)
 Every thought (Hannah, Mabel, Martin, Steenie, Chorus)

Act II

 For nearly a month (Luke)
 Take this (Hannah, Luke)
 Come here my pretty dear (Hannah, Luke, Chorus)
 Harvest home (Chorus)
 Well done brave hearths (Hannah, Martin)
 Wear this flower and think of me (Martin)
 Nay keep the flow'r - Here's a health to our worthy master (Hannah, Martin, Luke, Steenie, Chorus)
 She's gone (Mabel, Martin)
 Zooks this is a glorious place (Mabel, Martin, Luke)
 She loves me (Martin)
 She is my appointed fate (Mabel, Martin, Luke)

Act III

 Here you may lead a tranquil life (Chorus)
 Here... I shall find repose - On my heart a weight (Hannah)
 Yes there she sits (Martin)
 The generous Mabel (Martin, Hannah)
 Nay, Hannah - Oh Hannah, Hannah, Hannah speak (Martin)
 How calm and bright (Hannah, Mabel, Martin, Luke, Steenie, Chorus)
 The brightest hope, I ever cherish'd (Hannah, Mabel)

Act IV

 Entr'acte
 Wildly flies my spinning whell (Mabel)
 Mistress - To Helvellyn poor i came (Mabel, Martin)
 I have toil'd up the hill - I watch'd him (Steenie, Hannah, Luke, Mabel, Chorus)

Sources

 The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993. 

operas
Gliese 667 Cc is an extrasolar planet 22.18 light years away. It orbits around the red dwarf star Gliese 667 C, one of the Gliese 667 triple star system. The system is in the constellation of Scorpius. It is the most Earth-like planet in 50 light years. It's ESI (Earth Similarity Index) is 0.85. It is present in the hot inner edge of the habitable zone than the Earth. It absorbs 90% of light from it's star, as the Earth does but it is tidally locked.

Gliese 667 Cc was first found by the European Southern Observatory on 21 November 2011. They used the wobble method (also known as radial velocity). They watched how the star "wobbled" as Gliese 667 Cc circled around its star. On 2 February 2012 researchers at the University of Göttingen and the Carnegie Institution for Science confirmed the planet's existence.

Physical characteristics 
Gliese 667 Cc circles its star every 28 days, and is 0.125 AU away from its star. It fits within the habitable zone. Its mass is 3.8 times that of the Earth. Its size is probably about 50% larger than Earth.

Tidal locking 
Because of Gliese 667 Cc's distance from its star, it is predicted to be tidally locked to its star. Just as Earth's Moon always shows the same face to the Earth, the length of Gliese 667 Cc's day would then match the length of its year. This means it would be permanently light on one half and permanently dark on the other half of its surface. Tidal locking also means the planet would have no axial tilt and that means the planet would not experience any seasons.

References 

Exoplanets
The Philistines (, , , or ; , Plištim) were a people described in the Bible. During the Judges period they were one of the Israelite's most dangerous enemies.  Biblical scholars have connected the Philistines to other biblical groups such as Caphtorim and the Cherethites and Pelethites. Both have been identified with Crete, and leading to the tradition of an Aegean origin.

References

Related pages 
 The Museum of Philistine Culture

Other websites 

National Geographic article
List of Biblical References to Philistines or Philistia 
Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Website
Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Blog
Penn State University - The Sea Peoples and the Philistines (link broken)
Neal Bierling, Giving Goliath his Due: New Archaeological Light on the Philistines (1992)

The Center for Online Judaic Studies: Ramesses III and the Philistines, 1175 BC
Biblical Archaeology Review - Yavneh Yields Over a Hundred Philistine Cult Stands 
Neal Bierling. Giving Goliath His Due. New Archaeological Light on the Philistines

Ethnic groups in Israel
Ancient Israel and Judah
Pejoratives
William "Billy" Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was best known for providing the voice of Pete for the Disney franchise in the 1930s to the 1950s.

Career 
Bletcher was born on 24 September 1894 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At age 19 he was a vaudeville performer. He started his movie career in 1913 at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, New York. In 1917, he moved to California and became a comedian for Mack Sennett. He later starred in several Hal Roach two reelers. 

During his acting career he starred in a number of comedies. Bletcher also acted in Westerns and action movies. He directed two feature movies in the 1920s. Bletcher was the voice of the Lone Ranger in the 1937 movie serial. He was a veteran voice actor from the Disney animated movie The Three Little Pigs (1933). Later he did voice-overs for television. His last movie appearance was in 1969.

Personal life 
Bletcher was married once, to actress Arline Roberts. She was a vaudevillian and a Ziegfeld Girl. When they moved to California she worked as a "bathing beauty". She acted in silent comic two-reelers and feature movies but never gained the prominence her husband did. They had a daughter, Barbara Bletcher.

Filmography
 A Sticky Affair (1916)
 One Too Many (1916)
 The Serenade (1916)
 The Battle Royal (1916)
 The Brave Ones (1916)
 Aunt Bill (1916)
 Turn To The Right (1922)
 Cornered (1924)
 The Bar-C Mystery (1926)
 The Terrible People (1928)
 The Texas Ranger (1931)
 Branded Men (1931)
 Bridge Wives (1932)
 The Dentist (1932)
 The Midnight Patrol (1933)
 Bedtime Worries (1933)
 The First Round-Up (1934)
 Punch Drunks (1934)
 Babes in Toyland (1934)
 Service With a Smile (1934)
 The Dognapper (1934) - Pete
 The Lost City (1935)
 Balloon Land (1935)
 I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
 Divot Diggers (1936)
 Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
 Can This Be Dixie? (1937)
 Egghead Rides Again (1937)
 The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937) 
 Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
 The Lone Ranger (1938) - voice of The Lone Ranger
 Hide and Shriek (1938)
 The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939) - voice of The Lone Ranger
 The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Mayor/Lollipop Guild (voice) (uncredited)  
 The Autograph Hound - Security Guard
 Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip (1940) - Pete
 Dumbo (1941)
 Dog Trouble (1942) - Spike
 Little Gravel Voice (1942) - Wolf (uncredited)
 Who Killed Who? - Police Officer (1943)
 The Bodyguard (1944) - Spike
 Puttin' on the Dog (1944) - Spike (uncredited)
 Tee for Two (1945) - Tom (uncredited)
 Quiet Please! (1945) - Spike
 Bowery Bugs - Steve Brodie (1949)
 Houdini (1953) - Italian Basso (uncredited)
 Smarty Cat (1955) - Tom (uncredited)
 Surf-Bored Cat (1967) - Shark (uncredited)
 Get a Horse! (2013) - Peg-Leg Pete (archival audio)

References

Other websites 
 The Voices of Billy Bletcher

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Christopher Vere Awdry (born 2 July 1940) is an English author best known for his contributions to The Railway Series of books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine, which was started by his father, the Rev. W. Awdry. He has also produced children's books based on a number of other railways. He has also written non-fiction articles and books on heritage railways.

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Living people
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Ben Kuroki (May 16, 1917 – September 1, 2015) was an American Air Force gunner. He was the first Nisei (son of Japanese immigrants) to serve in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. He served in a total of 58 combat missions during World War II. For his services to his country from 1941 until 1946, he was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal, and five Air Medals with oak leaf clusters.

Kuroki was born in Gothenburg, Nebraska and grew up in Hershey, Nebraska. His parents were Japanese immigrants, and was one of 10 children. Kuroki was married to Shige and had three daughters.

Kuroki died on September 1, 2015 in Camarillo, California, aged 98.

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Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury  (15 April 1929 – 3 September 2015) was a British businessman and rower. He was the Chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years. He was best known for heading the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance from 1991 to 1995. He also rowed in the Great Britain coxless four in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Cadbury was born in Birmingham. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.

Cadbury died on 3 September 2015 in Birmingham, aged 86.

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Python molurus is a large nonvenomous python species. It is found in many tropic and subtropic areas of South Asia and Southeast Asia. 

It has various common names: Indian python, black-tailed python and Indian rock python. The species is limited to Southern Asia. It is generally lighter colored than the Burmese python. It can grow to .

The color pattern is whitish or yellowish with the blotched patterns varying from shades of tan to dark brown. This varies with the terrain and habitat. Specimens from the hill forests of Western Ghats and Assam are darker. Those from the Deccan Plateau and east coast of India are usually lighter.

The longest scientifically recorded specimen, which came from Pakistan, was  in length and weighed .

References

Other websites 

 
 Indian Python  at Ecology Asia. Accessed 13 September 2007.
 Indian python  at Animal Pictures Archive. Accessed 13 September 2007.
 Watch Indian rock python (Python molurus) video clips from the BBC archive on Wildlife Finder 

Snakes
Pythons
James "Jimmy" McMillan III (born December 1, 1946) is an American political activist, perennial candidate, and Vietnam War veteran, as well as a former postal worker, stripper and private investigator in Brooklyn, New York City.

McMillan is best known as the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, a New York-based political party.

Failed campaigns
McMillan has run for office at least six times since 1993, most notably in the 2010 gubernatorial election. He declared in December 2010 that he would run in the 2012 U.S. presidential election as a Republican. He did not appear on the ballot in any state and suspended his campaign to return to the Rent Is Too Damn High Party and run for Mayor of New York City in the 2013 election. He attempted to run for Governor again in the 2014 election but he did not make the ballot.

McMillan announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election, but withdrew from the campaign on December 9, 2015 and announced that he was retiring from politics.

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Desert climate or Arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification: BWh "hot desert climate" and BWk "cold desert climate") is a type of climate where precipitation is generally less than  a year. Low rainfall is a feature of deserts such as the Arabian, central Australia and the Sahara. It is a feature of continental interiors, the western sides of continents, and the leeward side of tall mountain ranges. Parts of the Arctic and Antarctic have arid climates even though they are cold.

Defining a desert 
A "true desert" is one where plant cover is very sparse and rainfall is rare or infrequent. Because desert air is dry there is little moisture to hold onto the heat of the day. Desert nights are usually very cold. This wide temperature variation can make a desert climate difficult to live in.

Some deserts get more than 250mm of rainfall yearly but are still arid areas. For example, the Kalahari Desert gets up to  a year. It has great sand dunes like the Sahara, but they do not shift in the winds. They have plants that anchor the sand and help to keep their shape. Other areas can also have more than 250mm of precipitation but lose more water via evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation. Tuscon and Alice Springs are good examples of this. Tucson gets an average of  of rainfall a year. Alice Springs receives about  yearly. Some scientists do not consider these as true deserts.

Types 
There are three types of desert climates in the Köppen climate classification: a hot desert climate (BWh), a cold desert climate (BWk) and a mild desert climate (BWh/BWn). Hot deserts have very hot summers that have temperatures that can even reach 45 °C (113 °F). Temperatures can even be very warm during winter. Cold deserts can have hot summers as well, but the winters are usually very cold. They are usually at high altitudes and can be drier than hot deserts.

Adaptations 
Desert plants and animals have adapted to living in desert climates. Some animals can get by on less water. Some plants are able to store water. Some animals, like snakes, lizards and scorpions use poisonous venoms to kill for food. This saves valuable energy: they do not need to chase, fight or catch their prey. Many animals are nocturnal. They sleep in cool caves or burrows during the day and hunt at night. Plants likewise have adapted to saving water. Some have waterproof coverings that prevent the plant or seeds from drying out. Some, like the giant Saguaro cactus, store water. They have adapted so well that they can live for more than 150 years and can average over 40 ft tall. Many types have thorns and protective spines that keep animals from getting at their stores of water.

Related pages 
 Desert
 List of deserts

References

Other websites 
 

Köppen climate classifications
Climate
Deserts