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Year 1424 was a leap year starting on Saturday.

Events of 1424 
 August 17 – Battle of Verneuil – An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas.  Alençon was captured and Douglas killed.
June – Battle of L'Aquila – Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.

Births 
October 31 – King Wladislaus III of Poland (died 1444)
date unknown
Demetrius Chalcondyles, Greek scholar (died 1511)
Abu Sa'id, ruler of Persia and Afghanistan (died 1469)

Deaths 
January 4 – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero
May 10 – Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan
June 5 – Braccio da Montone, Italian condottiero
June 10 – Duke Ernest of Austria (born 1377)
June 16 – Johannes Ambundii, Archbishop of Riga
August 12 – Yongle Emperor of China (born 1360)
December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
date unknown
Parameswara, Malay prince (born 1344)
Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leader
probable – Johannes Abezier, provost and bishop of the Teutonic Knights (born 1380)
Events of 1426 
 March 6 – Battle of St. James (near Avranches).  An English army under John, Duke of Bedford defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont, forcing the Duke of Brittany to recognize English suzerainty.
 June 16 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Usti nad Labem The Hussites decisively beat the crusading armies in the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
 "Castello Orsini-Odescalchi" built in Bracciano, Italy by the Orsini family.

Births 
February – Christian of Oldenburg, later King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
date unknown
William Brandon, English nobleman (died 1485)
John II, Duke of Bourbon (died 1488)
Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (died 1492)

Deaths 
December – Pipo of Ozora, Hungarian military leader
 December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter (born c. 1377)
date unknown
Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt
Tezozomoc, Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco
Events of 1427 
August 4 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Tachov The Hussites decisively beat the crusader armies, ending the Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade.
August 17 – First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded.
Balsics rule of Montenegro comes to an end.
Bhaktapur Royal Palace in Nepal is built by King Yaksa Malla.
Gabriel V elected Patriarch of the Coptic Church for the second time.
Minrekyansa becomes King of Ava (ancient Burma).
 Conflict of Druimnacour in Sutherland, Scotland.
 First witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.
 Celestine Order established in France.
 Celebration of Sant Jordi (Saint George) begins in Catalonia (he would later become its patron saint).
 Bremen is expelled from the Hanseatic League.
Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

Births 
September 9 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (died 1464)
October 14 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (died 1499)
October 26 – Archduke Sigismund of Austria (died 1496)
November 29 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (died 1464)
November 30 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)
date unknown
Shen Zhou, Chinese painter (d. 1509)

Deaths 
April 17 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
May 7 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
August 27 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr (born 1395)
date unknown
Chimalpopoca, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán (born 1397)
Qu You, Chinese novelist (born 1341)
probable
Jehuda Cresques, Catalan cartographer (born 1350)
Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter
Events of 1430 
May 14 – First French attempts to relieve the Siege of Compiègne.
May 23 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.
 The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians.
 The Order of the Golden Fleece is founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy to celebrate his marriage.
Bratislava Castle is converted to a fortress under Sigismund of Luxemburg.
Švitrigaila succeeds his cousin as ruler of Lithuania.
 First use of optical methods in the creation of art.
 Janissaries are created.

Births 
 October 16 – King James II of Scotland (died 1460)
 October 28 – Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr, English politician (died 1475)
date unknown – Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese warlord
probable – Heinrich Kramer, German churchman and inquisitor (died 1505)

Deaths 
January 29? – Andrei Rublev, Russian iconographer (born 1360)
August 14 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
August 18 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
October 27 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania (born 1352)
date unknown
Thomas FitzAlan, English nobleman
Christine de Pizan, proto-feminist writer

Related pages
 List of state leaders in 1430
Year 1432 was a leap year starting on Tuesday.

Events of 1432 
 April – At the end of the Hook and Cod wars, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland is forced by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to abdicate all her estates in his favour; end of Hainaut and Holland as independent counties.
 June 1 – Battle of San Romano – Florence defeats Siena.
 Foundation of Université de Caen.

Births 
 January 15 – King Afonso V of Portugal (died 1481)
 March 30 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1481)
 August 15 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (died 1484)
 date unknown
 Pope Innocent VIII (died 1492)
 Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (died 1455)
 probable – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (died 1488)

Deaths 
 January 22 – John of Schoonhoven, theologian (born 1356)
 May 5 – Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer (executed)
 June 29 – Janus of Cyprus (born 1375)
 October 19 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (born 1392)
 date unknown – Gyaltsab Je, throne holder of the Gelug tradition of Buddhism (born 1364)
Events of 1434 
 April 14, The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid.
 May 30, Battle of Lipany in the Hussite Wars
 Jan van Eyck paints the wedding of Giovanni Arnolfini
 Explorer Gil Eanes reaches Cape Bojador in Western Sahara.  In the same year, Portuguese traders deliver their first cargo of African slaves to Lisbon.
 Zara Yaqob becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

Births 
 March 19 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (died 1443)
 September 23 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (died 1478)
 probable
 Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (approximate date; died 1494)
 Kano Masanobu, Japanese painter (died 1530)

Deaths 
 30 May
 Prokop the Great, Hussite general (b. 1380)
 Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (b. 1374)
 June 11 – King Wladislaus II of Poland
 June 19 – Alexandra of Lithuania, Duchess of Masovia
 November 12 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
 date unknown
 John I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1381)
 Amda Iyasus, Emperor of Ethiopia
Events of 1437 
 Foundation of All Souls College, University of Oxford.
 Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultani star catalogue is published.
 Kazan Khanate is established.
 Edinbourgh is made the capital of Scotland.

Births 
 October 4 – John IV, Duke of Bavaria
 date unknown – Isaac Abrabanel, Jewish statesman (died 1508)
 probable – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of King Edward IV of England (died 1492)

Deaths 
 January 3 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (born 1401)
 February 21 – King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
 June 10 – Joanna of Navarre, daughter of Charles the Bad, King of Navarre (born 1370)
 November 20 – Thomas Langley, cardinal bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England (born 1363)
 December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1368)
 date unknown
 Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (born 1364)
 John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
Events of 1441 
 King's College, University of Cambridge, is founded by King Henry VI.
 Ouagadougou becomes the capital of the Mossi Empire.
 Two Ethiopians attend an ecclesiastical council at Florence, as part of the negotiations concerning a possible union of Coptic and Roman Catholic Christianity. This is the earliest recorded contact of the Ethiopian Church with Europe.
 Revolt in Yucatán capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states.
 Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
 Alfonso V of Aragon captures Naples after a five-month siege.
 With the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, governor Haci Giray declares his province independent of the Golden Horde and establishes the Crimean Khanate.
 The Republic of Venice annexes the  seigniory of Ravenna, ending the Da Polenta dynasty.

Births 
 February 9 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, politician and poet (died 1501)

Deaths 
 January 14 – Corrado IV Trinci, former lord of Foligno
 July 9 – Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter
 July 12 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (born 1394)
The United Kingdom's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is a company set up in 2001 to run air traffic control services.  This means that NATS  makes sure aircraft can fly safely across Britain, and that aircraft can take-off and land safely at British airports.

NATS is a private company, but the government owns 49%, just under half.

Before 2001 the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) handled air traffic control.

Air traffic control
Companies of the United Kingdom
2001 establishments in the United States
Fantasy is a genre of art, books, movies, television and music that uses magic and other supernatural things as a main part of either plot, theme, setting or all three. Fantasy may also refer to:
 Fantasy (psychology), a situation imagined by an individual or group, which does not correspond with reality but expresses certain desires or aims of its creator
 Fantasy movie, movies with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds.
 Fantasy (fragrance), a women's fragrance by Elizabeth Arden, endorsed by Britney Spears
 Fantasy, another name for Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug
 Fantasy sport, a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport
 Sexual fantasy
 Fantasy (music), a free-form musical composition

Discographies
 Fantasy (Aldo Nova song), a song by Aldo Nova
 Fantasy (Appleton song), 2003 single by the British-Canadian duo, Appleton
 Fantasy (Aiko Kayo song), a 2004 single by the Japanese singer
 Fantasy (The Blizzards song), a 2007 single by the Irish band
 Fantasy (Carole King album), a 1973 album by Carole King
 Fantasy (Mariah Carey song), 1995 single by Mariah Carey
 Fantasie (album) a 1988 album by Münchener Freiheit
 Fantasy (Münchener Freiheit album), the English version
 Fantasy (R&B group), a vocal group based in New York
 Fantasy Records, a United States-based record label founded in 1949
 Fantasy (Jay Chou album), Jay Chou's 2nd album which was released on 1st September 2001
 Fantasy (Lena Philipsson album), a 1993 album by Lena Philipsson
 Fantasy (Candy Lo album), an album by Candy Lo (盧巧音)
 Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire), 1977 song by Earth, Wind & Fire

Transportation

Fantasy a cruise ship built by Carnival Cruises, which currently sails out of New Orleans to the Caribbean.
Sometimes called the CSA; for other uses see CSA.
Czech Airlines was started as Czechoslovak State Airlines on 6 October 1923. This was when the Czech Republic and the Slovakia were one country.  

The company started flying domestically (only inside Czechoslovakia) in 1924. In 1930 they made their first international flight.

CSA stopped flying between 1938 and 1945 when the country was occupied by Germany.

When Czechoslovakia split into two countries, all of the Czechoslovak State Airlines stayed in the Czech Republic and became Czech Airlines. That is why Czech Airline's logo still says CSA : Czech Airlines

Gallery

Czech Republic
Airlines of Europe
1923 establishments in Europe
Arika Yumemiya is a fictional protagonist from the anime My-Otome.

Story
Arika lived with just her grandmother, who died when Arika became 15. The grandmother told Arika that her mother was an otome, and gives Arika a necklace from her mother. Wanting to find out more about her mother, and to become an otome like her, Arika walks to Garderobe (a school in Windbloom for training otomes). She meets a girl called Nina Wang, who is from Garderobe.

Arika is from the countryside, so she does not know much about the city of Windbloom. Nina soon becomes angry with Arika's clumsiness. When Arika tells Nina that she also wants to find Garderobe to become an otome, like Nina, Nina does not agree to tell her where Garderobe is, because she thought that Arika was not good enough to be an otome.

They save a girl who is called Mashiro from some men, and Mashiro leads Nina and Arika to Garderobe in return. But they are attacked by a robot called a Slave monster. Nina then makes a temporary contract with Mashiro to protect her, so that she can prove that she was a good otome. Arika finds this very interesting, when the Slave Monster defeats Nina.

They all run to a plane, and Arika's necklace shines, making the plane fly by itself. Nina sees the necklace and thinks that she might be Rena Searrs's daughter. A Five Pillar called Shizuru and an otome called Akane saves them, and leads them to Garderobe. Arika thinks that the otomes are good, and asks the headmaster of Garderobe, Natsuki, that she wants to become an otome as well. Natsuki agrees.

Personality
Arika is very cheerful, and seems to be a good potential for an otome, because she is strong. For example, when she saves Mashiro with Nina, she attacks the men with skill. When the nanomachine is put to her so that she can fight with Nina later on, she does not get tired easily. Her power might have come from her mother, Rena Searrs, who was a very strong otome.

But when she sometimes does not understand what is happening, she cries easily, but hides it from the others. She always tries to listen to what her grandmother said before she died. For example, the grandmother once said to her "never to give up hope in a dream," so she does not give up her dream to become an otome.

Meaning of name
Arika in Japanese means a place. Yume in her surname, Yumemiya, means dream. Together, it means that Arika's dream is to become an otome, and she tries to find a place (Garderobe) where she can have her dreams come true.

My-Otome
A protagonist is the main character of a story. It can be used for any kind of story: in literature, a movie, a television show or a play. The protagonist is also called the central character or main character and is often the hero of the story. However, the protagonist does not always win and survive in a story.

Protagonists are usually moral and benevolent, helping other characters to change their badness to become good again, or defeating the bad characters. This is not always the case. For example, the protagonist in Psycho is a serial killer.

The protagonist's name can sometimes be in the title of the fiction he or she is in, for example:
In Harry Potter, Harry Potter is the protagonist.
In the anime Naruto, Naruto is the protagonist.
In the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the prince Hamlet himself is the protagonist of the story. 
In DC Comics, Batman is the protagonist. 
In Marvel Comics, Spider-Man is the protagonist.                                
In the Mario Games, Mario is the protagonist.
In the Sonic Games, Sonic is the protagonist.

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Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an African-American singer. He won season 2 of American Idol. His runner up is Clay Aiken.

Performances and results

 Corey Clark was taken out of the contest so the Top 9 performances became Top 8 when no one was taken out.
 When Ryan Seacrest said the results of this Studdard was at the Bottom 2. He was safe, as Trenyce was taken out of the contest.

Awards and nominations
American Music Awards
2004, Favorite Male R&B Artist: (Nominated)

BET Awards
2004, Best Male R&B Artist: (Nominated)
2004, Best New Artist: (Nominated)

2005, Best Gospel Artist: (Nominated)

Billboard Music Awards
2003, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Sales Single - "Superstar/Flying Without Wings"
2005, Top Gospel Artist
2005, Top Gospel Album  -I Need an Angel

Grammy Awards
2004, Favorite Male R&B Vocal Performance - "Superstar": (Nominated)

Image Awards
2004, Outstanding Male Artist: (Nominated)
2004, Outstanding New Artist: Won

Soul Train Awards
2004, Best New R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist: "Superstar": (Nominated)

Teen Choice Awards
2003, Choice Male Reality/Variety Star for American Idol: Won

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums
Ruben has songs on an album that put together from songs on other albums

Singles

Single certifications

Other albums
 American Idol Season 2: All-Time Classic American Love Songs (2003)
 "What the World Needs Now"  (with Season 2 Finalists)
 "God Bless the U.S.A. (Proud to Be an American)" (with Season 2 Finalists)
 Superstar
 American Idol: The Great Holiday Classics (2003)
 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
 "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (American Idol Ensemble)
 "This Christmas"
 Genius & Friends (2005)
"Imagine" with Ray Charles and The Harlem Gospel Singers
 Ain't Misbehavin' (2009 Cast Recording)
"Honeysuckle Rose" duet with Frenchie Davis
"The Jitterbug Waltz" with Patrice Covington & Company
"Lounging At The Waldorf" with Frenchie Davis, Trenyce Cobbins & Patrice Covington
"Your Feet's Too Big"

Movies
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Natural Born Komics (2006) (direct-to-DVD)
 Lifted (2011)
 The Perfect Gift (2011)

References

Other websites
Official Foundation site

1978 births
Living people
American Idol winners
Singers from Alabama
Hornsby is a suburb and shire in the northern part of Sydney.

History
The name 'Hornsby' comes from a convict who became a constable. His name was Samuel Henry Horne, and he was given some land for helping catch two bushrangers, whose names were Dalton and MacNamara. He named the land he was given 'Hornsby Place' after himself.

Geography

The Shire
Hornsby shire is one of the biggest Local Government areas of Sydney, with a population of 155,971. It consists of the following suburbs:
 Arcadia
 Asquith
 Beecroft
 Berowra
 Berowra Heights
 Berowra Waters
 Berrilee
 Brooklyn
 Canoelands
 Carlingford
 Castle Hill
 Cheltenham
 Cherrybrook
 Cowan
 Dural
 Epping
 Fiddletown
 Forest Glen
 Galston
 Glenhaven
 Glenorie
 Hornsby
 Hornsby Heights
 Kangaroo Point

 Laughtondale
 Maroota
 Middle Dural
 Milsons Passage
 Mount Colah
 Mount Ku-ring-gai
 Normanhurst
 North Epping
 Pennant Hills
 Round Corner
 Thornleigh
 Wahroonga
 Waitara
 Westleigh
 West Pennant Hills
 Wisemans Ferry

The suburb
Hornsby station, Hornsby Westfield, Hornsby Library and many business buildings are in the centre of the suburb. The eastern side of the train line is often called the 'modern part' of Hornsby, and Westfield and the Hornsby Library are here, with many new towering apartment blocks. The western side of the railway line is home to Hornsby's main post office, court house, police station, council office, public swimming pool, TAFE college and many older shops and businesses. There is also an industrial area on the far western part of Hornsby, with many large warehouses and factories.

There are also many schools, including:
Hornsby Girls High School
Barker College
Hornsby South Public School
Hornsby North Public School

Hornsby Hospital and Mt Wilga Rehabilitation Hospital are two hospitals in Hornsby.

Population
Hornsby is a place of many cultures, and many people from around the world live there.

The current population of Hornsby is 18,702.

Sydney
Iuridictum is an encyclopedia about law in Czech language made with a wiki, which means that anyone can change the encyclopedia or create new articles.  The project was started in 2005 by Tomáš Pecina, former administrator of Czech Wikipedia.

References

Other websites
 Iuridictum

Encyclopedias
Wikis
Gurkhas (Gorkhas) are Nepali citizens of Khas origin recruited into the British Army, and now also recruited into the modern Nepali and Indian Armies. They come from the mountains of Nepal and are best known for their courage, honesty, and loyalty. 

The Brigade of Gurkhas are a part of the British Army. They have fought with the British for the past 200 years. The Gurkha unit in the British army has won 26 Victoria Cross medals and many other medals. The Gurkhas also work in the security forces of Brunei, Singapore, India and other countries.

Their symbol is the kukri or khukuri, the curved knife which they use as a weapon and a tool.

Their name in English mean "cowboys".

Nepalese people
Moses of Chorene () is known as the author of the most important mediaeval Armenian history. He is known as the first Armenian historian.

Armenian writers
Armenian historians
490s deaths
5th-century births
A numeral system (or system of numeration) is a way to write numbers. Roman numerals and tally marks are examples. "11" usually means eleven, but if the numeral system is binary, then "11" means three.

A numeral is a symbol or group of symbols, or a word in a natural language that represents a number. Numerals differ from numbers just as the word "rock" differs from a real rock. The symbols "11", "eleven" and "XI" are different numerals, all representing the same number. This article tries to explain the different systems of numerals. Greek numerals and Roman numerals are among the systems that were long used, before the Hindu–Arabic numeral system largely replaced them.

Bases
Various symbols are used as numerals to make numbers. A system with base 10 (the normal decimal system), normally uses the symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The numbers 0 to 9 can be written as one symbol, 0 ... 9. To count past 9, symbols have to be put together. 10 can be seen as 1 in the tens' place and 0 in the ones' place, or as 1 times 101 plus 0 times 100. With a base of 2, only the symbols 0 and 1 are used. 10 in base 2 notation is therefore 1 times 21 plus 0 times 20. This is the same as 2, in the base 10 notation.

For bases bigger than 10, capital letters are used as symbols.
For example, the hexadecimal numeral system (base 16) uses the numerical digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F.

Today, mainly base 10 is in use. Computers use binary and people who study computers often use octal and hexadecimal numeral systems. Ancient Sumer used sexagesimal (base 60). Mesoamerica used base 20. 

Most electronic calculations are done in binary (base 2), but most people do calculations in decimal (base ten).

Other websites

History of Counting and Numeral Systems-PlainMath.Net 
 Online Converter  for Different Numeral Systems (Base 2-36, JavaScript, GPL)
 Online Converter  for Decimal/Roman Numerals (JavaScript, GPL)
 Number Sense & Numeration Lessons
 Counting Systems of Papua New Guinea

 
Number theory
Numbering systems
Mashiro Kazahana is a main character in the anime My-HiME. Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom is her name in My-Otome.

Mashiro first meets Mai Tokiha when Mai is trying to find Mikoto Minagi, and Mashiro is seen in a rose garden with a maid. When she later meets Mai, Mai finds out that Mashiro is the chairwoman of the Fuuka Academy. She is calm and seems to know more than the people of her age, even though she is just 14. She knows about the Himes, feeling sorry for them as if it was her own fault that the Himes were created.

Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom

Mashiro Blanc de Winbloom is the queen of Windbloom, who is only 15. She is bossy and loud, parallel to Mashiro Kazahana. She gets angry easily, and when people say that she is a fake princess, she is surprized because she wants to be a queen so much. But a rumour says that the real princess was floated away in a casket, and that Mashiro was just a replacement for not finding the real princess. Mashiro does not look like the last rulers of Winbloom as well.

My-Otome
A chairperson is a person who presides over meetings, such as a board of directors for a corporation, or any other meeting.  The chairman of a corporation is not the chief executive officer, and only conducts the meetings in most companies.  

Although "chairman" has been used for both men and women, some prefer to use the terms "chairperson", "madame chairman" or "chairwoman."   The conduct of meetings is governed by the organization's by-laws or charter, or, more formally, Parliamentary procedure for government organizations or large meetings generally.  Rarely the chairperson is called the "chair," though in educational institutions a "chair" indicates a specific endowed position on a faculty.

Business
Darwin is a free, open source, Unix operating system made by Apple Inc. It is named after Charles Darwin. Darwin is used as the base of macOS, but it cannot run macOS programs by itself.

Operating systems
Apple software
Mashiro is a Japanese name meaning white. Mashiro may refer to:

Mashiro Matsumura 
Mashiro Kazahana or Mashiro Blanc de Windbloom, fictional characters in My-HiME and My-Otome 
Mashiro, a fictional character in Bleach (manga)

Given names
Graduation is the confirmation of the finishing of an academy. Graduation is celebrated in a ceremony done at the day of that confirmation; the name of that ceremony is usually the degree day. This is also called commencement, invocation, or convocation. 

Graduation also means the moving of a student from one grade to another higher grade.

Education
Ceremonies
iTunes is a media player made by Apple. It came out on January 10, 2001, at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. iTunes is used for playing and sorting music and video files. It also lets users see and change what is on their iPod or iPhone. 
iTunes is a free download for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows from Apple's website. The download is also included with QuickTime, a program used to play videos. It also comes with all Apple Macintosh computers, and some HP and Dell computers. However, on 3 Jun 2019, Apple announced that iTunes would not be available on macOS Catalina.

iTunes Store 

The iTunes Store is an online store built into iTunes. iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store if there is an internet connection to buy and download music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, and movies. The files from the iTunes Store used to use Digital Rights Management (DRM) to prevent piracy. However, iTunes now sells music and videos called iTunes Plus, which are higher quality and have no DRM.

Some singers and bands do not have most of their music on iTunes yet: The KLF, Garth Brooks, Bob Seger, Def Leppard, King Crimson and Tool.

For a long time, you could not get music by The Beatles on iTunes due to a legal conflict between Apple Inc. and Apple Records. Starting in November 2010, you can now get music by the Beatles. It is very popular nowadays. There is a lot of advertisement by Apple for Beatles music.

Beginning 
Bill Kincaid had developed SoundJamMP which was released later in the year of 1999. It was later renamed iTunes which was then purchased by Apple in 2000.

As SoundJam was being worked on throughout the years, the interface of the site was changed to make it easier for people to understand how to use it.  And added the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support.

On January 9, 2001, iTunes 1.0 was released at Macworld San Francisco. Macintosh users immediately began to dig through iTunes’s resource fork where they discovered that there were so many other strings and other resources that indicated iTunes was a re-engineered SoundJam MP. Casady & Greene ceased distribution of SoundJam MP on June 1, 2001 at the request of the developers.

References 

 

IPod
Apple software
AAC is a file format for storing music or other sounds. It stands for Advanced Audio Coding or Advanced Audio Codec. It is used by Apple Inc. in the iPod and iTunes. AAC is one of the standard formats that comes from the MPEG organization, the same people who invented MP3. Like MP3, AAC is a compressed format. It works by removing parts of the music that people can not hear. A good AAC encoder can compress CD quality music to about 10% of its original size without affecting the perceived sound quality.

Profiles 
There are several profiles (variants) of AAC. These are the most popular:
 AAC LC – Standard AAC profile with no extensions. All AAC players support this profile. This is the format used by Apple (iPod / iPhone), Sony (Walkman), and many others; it takes up more space, has high audio quality, and is used for music stored on an iPod, CD-ROM, or disk drive.
 HE-AAC v1 – AAC with Spectral Band Replication - a more efficient format; it saves space for music sent over a network, like over the Internet or to a cell phone, although at the cost of sound quality. Brand names for this format include aacPlus™, Nero Digital™, and AAC+. A variant of this format is used for HD Radio.
 HE-AAC v2 – AAC with Spectral Band Replication and Parametric Stereo - an even more efficient format for music sent over a network, although at the cost of reduced stereo separation. Brand names for this format include aacPlus™ v2, eAAC+™, and AAC+ Enhanced™.
 AAC-LD - Low delay profile used for VOIP applications.

Various other profiles exist, but are not commonly used.

File names 
Here are some common AAC file name endings:
 .aac–music only (raw file without mp4 container, uncommon)
 .m4a–music and information
 .m4p–music and information, with DRM
 .m4b-speech and information, "Audiobook" recognized by Apple that keeps the listener's position
 .m4r-music and information used by Apple as a ringtone
 .mp4–music, video, or both, plus information

An AAC file that has only music and information could have a name that ends with either .m4a or .mp4.

Encoders 
A number of encoders exist for AAC. These are some of the most popular:
 Fraunhofer FDK AAC
 Fraunhofer FhG AAC
 Nero AAC
 Apple AAC
 Microsoft AAC
 FAAC
 FFmpeg AAC
 Coding Technologies HE-AAC
 VisualOn AAC (obsolete)
 PsyTel AAC (obsolete)
 Compaact (obsolete)

Metadata 
A KDE/Qt application for Linux/Unix called easytag will edit metadata about AAC-encoded files as long as they end with the .m4a extension. Typically, renaming files to .m4a and back to the original extension after editing is sufficient. This method can be used to configure typical ID3v2 metadata including cover art. This cover art is used by Apple's iTunes and their media players. Note that easytag does not have the ability to add chapter points into Audiobooks (.m4b).

Computer file formats for audio
A regatta is a term used to describe either a boat race, or series of boat races. 

Although the term typically describes racing events of unpowered watercraft, some powerboat race series are also called regattas.  Most commonly, a regatta is either a series of rowing, sailing or yacht racing.

Although regattas are typically amateur competitions, they are usually very highly organized, formally structured events, with complex rules precisely describing the schedule and procedures of the event.

Rowing regattas
Henley Royal Regatta, held every year on the river Thames is the most prestigious British event
The Boat Race is a rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club. It is rowed annually each Spring on the Thames in London.
Dad Vail Regatta, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Head of the Charles Regatta, on the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sailing regattas
America's Cup, hosted by prior winner
Balmain Regatta held annually on Sydney Harbour, Australia
 Bass Week, Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria
Bay Week, Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Block Island Race Week, Storm Trysail Club Rhode Island
CORK Regatta, Kingston, Ontario, annually in August.
Cowes Week, Royal Yacht Squadron, England
Fowey Royal Regatta, Fowey Cornwall annually in August  
Kamer 2 Sailing Marathon, Kaag, Netherlands, annually in September
Key West Race Week, Key West, Florida
Larchmont Race Week, Larchmont Yacht Club, New York
Long Beach Race Week, Long Beach, California
National Offshore One Design (NOOD)
Round Texel, Texel, Netherlands, annually in June
Lysekil Women's Match, Lysekil, Sweden, annually in August
Tjörn Runt, Tjörn, Sweden, annually in August
Washington's Birthday Regatta, Coconut Grove, Florida, annually in February
Youngstown Levels, Youngstown, New York
Figawi Race, Hyannis, MA

College Sailing Regattas
Charleston Open, College of Charleston
Kennedy Cup, US Naval Academy
The Roth Regatta, Roth Pond, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Intercollegiate Sailing Association National Championships, various locations

High school sailing regattas
Mallory Cup, United States high school sailing national championships.
The National School Sailing Assosiation Regatta, UK. Annual Sailing reggatta held in various sailing clubs and competed in by many secondary school students.

Other regattas
The Madison Regatta, Madison, Indiana. (hydroplanes)
Kingston Multi-Hull Regatta, Kingston, Ontario (multihull sailboats and sailing hydrofoils)
Henley-on-Todd Regatta - an Australian dry-land event.
Royal Hobart Regatta - A Multiple event 3 day Reggatta in Tasmania, Australia.
Sy Barash Regatta - discontinued event at Penn State
Worrell 1000, between South Beach and Virginia Beach, Virginia
For the Cruise Ship Regatta see Oceania Cruises

Other websites
How to Start Racing a Boat
The photos and videos of Borneo regatta
Watski Skagerrak TwoStar, online yacht race in Norway, Denmark and Sweden 
Aegean Regatta Photos 
International Sailing Federation, the international governing body of sailboat racing
US Sailing's official homepage
Sailing Anarchy, a very popular international sailing site

Boat racing
Water sports
The Zodiac is the twelve constellations in the form of animals or humans.

Western Zodiac

The modern astrological signs are the simplified pictures of the signs used in the Hellenistic times. These are the twelve aspects the signs represent:

Aries  (The Ram)
Taurus  (The Bull)
Gemini  (The Twins)
Cancer  (The Crab)
Leo   (The Lion)
Virgo (The Virgin)
Libra (The Scales)
Scorpius  (The Scorpion)
Sagittarius (The Centaur-Archer)
Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)
 Aquarius  (The Water-Bearer)
Pisces  (The Fish)
A person's Zodiac sign is determined by at what time and on what day they are born.

Chinese Zodiac

In the Chinese Zodiac, years match twelve animals in turn.
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Goat
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig

Culture
Artemis Fowl is a series of books about a young criminal mastermind. The books were written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. The series currently has eight main books and two short stories. The first two books are have been made into graphic novels.

Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl And The Arctic Incident
Artemis Fowl And The Eternity Code
Artemis Fowl And The Opal Deception
Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony
Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox
Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex
Artemis Fowl And The Last Guardian

The two short stories are:
LEPrecon
The Seventh Dwarf
LEPrecon comes before Artemis Fowl, and is about one of the main characters, an elf called Holly Short. It tells how she moves to a unit in the fairy 'police' called LEPrecon (a word-play on leprechaun).
The Seventh Dwarf comes between Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident. The Seventh Dwarf is about when two of the characters are trying to steal a tiara. They do not originally know they are both trying. They meet, and end up helping each other.

As the books advance, more attention is given to the moral progressiveness of the main character, Artemis Fowl II. In the first book he is shown as the bad guy, but further on in the series he is shown as a goodie.

Series of books
Fantasy books
Lists of books
Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country singer, songwriter and record producer. He was most famous for writing the song These Boots Are Made For Walking for Nancy Sinatra. He was born in Mannford, Oklahoma.

Hazlewood died of kidney cancer on August 4, 2007 in Henderson, Nevada at the age of 78.

Other websites
Article about his death at the BBC Website

1929 births
2007 deaths
Deaths from kidney cancer
Record producers
American singer-songwriters
American country singers
Singers from Oklahoma
The decimal separator is a symbol used to mark the border between the integral and the fractional parts of a decimal numeral. This symbol can be a period ("."), as is common in United States and other English-speaking countries, or a comma (","), as in continental Europe. Decimal point and decimal comma are also common names for the decimal separator. For example, 9.5 means nine and one half in English speaking countries, while in many European countries, the same number might be written as 9,5.

Related pages 

 Arithmetic precision
 Decimal degrees
 Dewey Decimal System

References 

Mathematics
Princess Iman bint Al Hussein (born April 24, 1983) is the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Noor. She is the half-sister of the present Jordanian king, Abdullah II. Princess Iman was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England.

Jordanian princes and princesses
Princes and princesses
1983 births
Living people
Clannad are a musical group from  Gweedore, in County Donegal, which is in the north-west of Ireland. They are very famous for their haunting sound that has been used in many Hollywood movies. They have sold over 20 million albums all over the world and won a Grammy award in 1999. They are brothers and sisters Máire, Ciarán, and Pól Brennan and their uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan. Their younger sister Enya was once part of the group.
Altan
Their first language is Gaelic and many of their songs are sung in that language.

Discography
 1973 – Clannad (The Pretty Maid) debut
 1975 – Clannad 2
 1976 – Dúlamán
 1978 – Clannad In Concert [live]
 1980 – Crann Úll
 1982 – Fuaim
 1983 – Magical Ring
 1984 – Legend [soundtrack for Robin of Sherwood]
 1985 – Macalla
 1987 – Sirius
 1988 – Atlantic Realm [soundtrack]
 1989 – Past Present [compilation]
 1990 – The Collection [compilation]
 1989 – The Angel and the Soldier Boy [soundtrack]
 1990 – Anam (US: 1992)
 1993 – Banba (with The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack theme)
 1994 – Themes
 1996 – Lore
 1996 – Rogha: The Best Of Clannad
 1997 – Landmarks
 1998 – An Díolaim [collection of early recordings for Irish Gael-Linn label]
 2003 – The Best Of: In A Lifetime
 2005 – Clannad: Live In Concert, 1996 [live]

Websites 
Official Clannad site
Fan site with videos, galleries and news blog

Irish rock bands
Grammy Award winners
County Donegal
Nicole Vaidišová  (born 23 April 1989 in Nuremberg) is a Czech professional female tennis player. 

She became a tennis professional in 2003, and debuted in several ITF tournaments. She measures at  and weighs . She enjoys reading, watching movies, yoga, and bike riding. Her favorite city is New York City. She speaks German, English, Czech, and is learning French.

WTA Tour Titles

Singles
 2004 Vancouver defeated Laura Granville
 2004 Tashkent defeated Virginie Razzano
 2005 Seoul defeated Jelena Jankovic
 2005 Tokyo defeated Tatiana Golovin
 2005 Bangkok defeated Nadia Petrova
 2006 Strasbourg defeated Shuai Peng

Singles Finalist
 2005 Istanbul lost to Venus Williams

ITF Titles

Singles
 2003 Plzen defeated Andrea Hlavackova
 2004  Columbus defeated Shuai Peng

Other websites
 Nicole Vaidisova profile on WTA Tour

1989 births
Living people
Czech female tennis players
People from Nuremberg
Sportspeople from Bavaria
Tatiana Golovin (born 25 January 1988 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional female tennis player. She moved to Paris, France and earned French citizenship. She won the 2004 French Open mixed-doubles event with Richard Gasquet. She lives in Miami, Florida. She speaks English and French.

WTA Tour titles

Singles
2007 Amelia Island defeated Nadia Petrova

Singles finalist
2004 Birmingham lost to Maria Sharapova
2005 Tokyo lost to Nicole Vaidišová
2006 Stuttgart lost to Nadia Petrova

Grand Slam titles

Mixed doubles
2004 French Open with Richard Gasquet defeated Cara Black and Wayne Black

Other websites 
 
 

1988 births
Living people
Russian female tennis players
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain range in Eurasia. They are in the Caucasus region between the Black Sea in the west and the Caspian Sea in the east. The Greater Caucasus divide Europe from Asia. The Lesser Caucasus are south of there.

Related pages 

 Languages of the Caucasus

Mountain ranges
Hayk (Armenian:Հայկ, also known as Haik),  in Armenian legend, was the founder of the Armenian nation. His story is found mostly in the 5th century historian Moses Khorenatsi's book History of Armenia.

History 
According to Moses Khorenatsi, Hayk is the son of Torgom (Togarmah), the son of Gomer, the son of Japheth. Hayk is also called the founder of the Haykazuni dynasty. According to the historian Juansher, Hayk "was prince of the seven brothers and stood in service to the giant Nimrod (Nebrovt') who first ruled the entire world as king.<ref>[http://rbedrosian.com/gc2.htm The Georgian Chronicle]</ref>"

Hayk is also the name of the constellation Orion in the Armenian Bible (Job 38:31)

According to Moses Khorenatsi, after Hayk the son of Torgom became father to Armeneak while living in Babylon, because the arrogant Titan Bel (who is Nimrod, according to Moses) has made himself king of the world, Hayk moves with his family and 300 others to the land of Ararat, and starts a village called Haykashen. On the way, he leaves one area for his grandson, Cadmus. Bel sends one of his sons to give Hayk a message, saying that he must return to Babylon, but Hayk answers that he will not. Then Bel marches against him with a great army, but Cadmus warns Hayk that he is coming. Hayk gathers his own army on the shore of Lake Van and tells them they must either defeat Bel or die trying, so they will not become his slaves.

After that, he finds Bel's army on a mountain. Moses says this mountain is found at Dastakert. Bel himself is seen in front of his army. In the middle of the battle, Hayk kills Bel with a lucky arrow and Bel's army becomes confused and defeated.

According to other writers, this battle was fought at Dyutsaznamart around Julamerk, southeast of Lake Van, in the year 2501 BC. Hayk builds a castle called Haykaberd'' and the village of Haykashen. He names the country where the battle was fought "Hayk" after himself, and today the name of Armenia is called "Hayastan" and the Armenian people are called "Hay", in their language. Also, in the ancient writings of the Hittites, there was a country called Hayasa in the area.

Sources

Vahan Kurkjian, "History of Armenia," Michigan, 1968 

History of Armenia
Autodesk Maya (), commonly shortened to Maya, is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux, originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias|Wavefront) and currently owned and developed by Autodesk, Inc. It is used to create interactive 3D applications, including video games, animated film, TV series, or visual effects. The product is named after the Sanskrit word Maya ( ), the Hindu concept of illusion.

Sources

Graphics software
The Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly was set up after the Belfast Agreement to allow the people of Northern Ireland to run their own government and pass some laws. The United Kingdom parliament can still abolish the assembly, because Northern Ireland is not an independent country, but a part of the United Kingdom. The assembly comes together in the city of Belfast. Speaker is Alex Maskey.

The assembly is elected using a form of proportional representation voting. The seats of each party after the 2017 election is shown in this table:

Other websites 
 Official website

 
Belfast
Cyprian ( ; ;  210 – September 14, 258 AD) was bishop of Carthage. He was an important early Christian writer. He was probably born at the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage. At Carthage, he learned about classical (Paganism). After becoming a Christian, he became a bishop around the year 249. He died a martyr at Carthage.

References

Other websites 
 Joshua Burns, "Perception and persecution in the Roman Empire: The Edict of Decius" 
 Pontius the Deacon (Pontius Diaconis), "The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr"
 "The Plague of AD 251" 
 Cyprian on the nature of the Church and Papacy by Dom John Chapman 
 New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia article on Cyprian
 Works by Cyprian at the IntraText Digital Library, with concordance and frequency lists
 Acta proconsularia S. Cypriani

Christian saints
African people
Christian writers
3rd-century births
258 deaths
The flag of Cyprus is the flag of the European country Cyprus. It features a map of the whole island, with two olive branches below the map (a symbol of peace) on a white background. The map on the flag is a copper-yellow color to show Cyprus has large amounts of copper. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is a partially recognised state and  uses a different flag similar to the flag of Turkey.

Republic of Cyprus
Cyprus
Simon Barere  (September 1, 1896–April 2, 1951) was a Russian pianist. He was born in Odessa, Ukraine.

Barere died of a massive bleeding in brain during a performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall with Philadelphia Orchestra.

Other websites
 Simon Barere's Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Balakirev, Chopin on Remington Records.

Russian pianists
1896 births
1951 deaths
Tomsk (Russian: Томск) is a Russian city, the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast. One of the largest cities in Siberia. Population 575 352 (2019).

History 
Established under a decree from Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604.

In 1804, the government selected Tomsk to become the center for a new governorate which would include the modern cities of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Altai, Krasnoyarsk and eastern Kazakhstan.

Education 
Tomsk State University is the first university in Siberia (founded in 1878, opened in 1888). The Tomsk State University Library book reserve is considered to be among the richest in Russia.

Tomsk Polytechnic University is the first (founded in 1896 and opened in 1900) technical university in Siberia.

Siberian Medical University is one of the oldest (founded in 1930) and highest rated medical schools in Russia.

Climate 
Continental climate, transitional from subarctic to sharply continental climate.

The annual average temperature is 0.9 °C. Winters are severe and lengthy (from the end of October to the beginning of April), and the lowest recorded temperature was −55 °C in January 1931.

References 

Capital cities in Russia
Siberia
International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam (ASI) () is a Pakistan-based organisation. It was made in 1980 by Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi. Its headquarters are in Kotri, Hyderabad, Sindh and Pakistan.

Purpose 
The purpose of this movement is to invite all man without any discrimination of caste, creed, nation or religion towards the divine love of God.

Method 
To serve this purpose, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi visited places of worship of different types, including Mosques, Imam Bargahs, churches, Hindu temples, Sikh temples etc.

Organizational Structure 
International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam is divided into two branches one for men only and other is for women only. The ladies wing is led by Mrs. Gulzar. However, the president of men wing is Mr. Wasi Muhammad Qureshi, who was nominated by Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi as President of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam. Gohar Shahi himself is the Patrorn-in-Chief of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam.

Founding Members 
In 1980, when Shahi formed the movement it had only five members, who are called founding members. Following are the names of the founding members of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam:
 Muhammad Arif Memon (Late)
 Wasi Muhammad Qureshi
 Dr. Abdul Qayoom Shaikh(Late)
 Muhammad Anwar Qadri
 Maulana Saeed Ahmed Qadri

Other websites 
 International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
 Web Portal of Gohar Shahi 
 Gohar Shahi web site 
Sarfrosh.org 

1980 establishments in Asia
Islamic organizations