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Thomas Quasthoff (born Hildesheim, Germany, 9 November 1959) is a German bass-baritone.  He is thought of as one of the best singers of today.  It was not easy for him to get a good musical education because of his physical disability.  However, he has became one of the world’s finest singers of German song (Lieder) and he also sings a wide variety of styles including Baroque music, opera and jazz.

Life
Quasthoff was born in Hildesheim, Germany.  His mother had been taking the drug thalidomide during the pregnancy and this resulted in Thomas being born with physical handicaps.  He has flipper-like hands and no arms, and he has very short legs.

Quasthoff wanted to study music at the conservatory, but he was not allowed to do so because there was a rule that every music student had to play the piano.  It was impossible for Quasthoff to play an instrument because of his disability.

Quasthoff decided to study singing privately.  After he had graduated from school he went to university to study law.  He did not enjoy the subject, and after studying for three years he chose music as a career.   At first he worked as a radio announcer.  He got some experience in singing oratorio.   Then, in 1988, he won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.  Many people, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, were very impressed with his singing.  He became known as a Lieder singer.  He first sang in America in 1995.  He won many awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance in 2000. It was for his performance together with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn. They were accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado.  He won prizes for his singing of songs by  Schubert, Brahms and Liszt, and Bach Cantatas. 

Quasthoff teaches singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.  He is "artist in residence" at the Barbican Hall, London.  A series called "Die Stimme" (The Voice) was made to celebrate his 50th birthday.  It was also the title of his autobiography which was published in 2006.

In 2006 he married.  His wife is a  television journalist.   The couple have a daughter and they live in Berlin.

Other websites
Thomas Quasthoff's official homepage (in German)
Stephen Moss 

Bass-baritones
Grammy Award winners

1959 births
Living people
Autobiographers
German singers
Humanitarianism is a way of behaving out of kindness to other people.  Someone who is a humanitarian is a person who helps to improve the lives of other people without thinking about their race, belief or nationality.

Humanitarianism is not the same thing as Humanism which is about not believing in a god.  

A good example of Humanitarianism is the well-known story from the New Testament about the Good Samaritan who goes to help the poor man who has been robbed.

Humanitarianism also means basic morality indispensable for human being. There are international laws called "international humanitarian laws" considered to created out of humanitarianism of this mean. Among them, Geneva Conventions on the matter made at the time of wars are well known.

Related pages
Charity
Humanitarian aid
Geneva Conventions

Ethics
Society
Altruism
Anthony White (born April 23, 1954) is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and powerlifter. He wrestled for numerous wrestling companies in his career. He most notably competed for NWA, WCW and WWF/E. He most recently appeared as an on screen manager and co-host of The Abraham Washington Show for WWE, on their now-defunct ECW brand. Atlas is also known as Mr. USA, a title which he earned three times when he was a body builder. He was also known by the names the "Black Superman" ans his alter ego named Saba Simba. Atlas said in an interview that the Saba Simba character saved his life when he was homeless and living on a park bench before he got a phone call from Vince McMahon. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.

References

Other websites
WWE.com profile

1969 births
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
Living people
People from Roanoke, Virginia
Sportspeople from Virginia
WWE Hall of Fame
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson  (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968.  He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the first peacekeeping force.

As Prime Minister, Pearson's government created universal health care and the Canada Pension Plan. They also created the Canada Student Loan Program, the Order of Canada, and changed the flag of Canada to the one with maple leaves. Pearson kept Canada from fighting in the Vietnam War and de facto stopped capital punishment from being used in Canada. Many people think he is one of the most important Canadians of the 20th century.

Early life 
Pearson was born in Newtonbrook, Ontario, the son of Edwin Arthur Pearson, a Methodist minister and Anne Sarah Bowles. He went to the University of Toronto and Oxford University. Pearson was ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. He played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club while on a scholarship at Oxford University.

Political career 
Pearson entered politics in 1948, as Minister of External Affairs in the Liberal government of Louis St. Laurent.  He became leader of the Liberal Party in 1958.  He lost two elections as leader, until winning a third to become Prime Minister in 1963. His government brought in social programs and new standards for workers.  Pearson signed the Canada-United States Automotive Agreement, also called the Auto Pact.  He retired in 1968.  The next Prime Minister was Pierre Trudeau.

Death
Pearson died from liver cancer in Ottawa, Canada, aged 75.

References

Other websites

1897 births
1972 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Canadian ice hockey players
Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Canadian Nobel Prize winners
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Order of Canada
People from Toronto
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Leaders of the Opposition (Canada)
The red-bellied black snake is a dangerous snake species found in Australia. It is a red bellied snake, and black on top, hence the name. It lives mainly on the east coast of Australia, close to a source of water. They can grow up to 1.5 metres in length. This snake usually gives birth to about 20 live snakes at one time.
The bite of a red-bellied black snake is very dangerous and requires immediate medical attention.

The red-bellied black snake's diet is mostly frogs.  They also eat reptiles and small mammals. They also eat other snakes, even those of their own species.

Elapidae
Fun with Dick and Jane is the 2005 American criminal comedy remake of Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) starring Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins. Despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics, the movie did well at the box office making a worldwide total of $202 million, a weekend grossing only $30,383,515, but was able to eventually make eight times its opening weekend gross during the holiday season.

Release Dates

Cast
 Jim Carrey as Richard "Dick" Harper
 Téa Leoni as Jane Harper
 Alec Baldwin as Jack McCallister
 Richard Jenkins as Frank Bascombe
 Angie Harmon as Veronica Cleeman
 John Michael Higgins as Garth
 Richard Burgi as Joe Cleeman
 Carlos Jacott as Oz Peterson
 Stephanie Weir as Deborah "Debbie" Peterson
 Aaron Michael Drozin as Billy Harper
 Gloria Garayua as Blanca
 Jason Marsden as Clerk
 Jeff Garlin as Boss
 James Whitmore as Security Guard

Notes

Other websites
Official site

2005 comedy movies
2005 crime movies
2000s criminal comedy movies
American criminal comedy movies
American movie remakes
English-language movies
Movies directed by Dean Parisot
Luc Bourdon (February 16, 1987 – May 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL) and their American Hockey League (AHL) partner, the Manitoba Moose, from 2006 until 2008. After having childhood arthritis, he was selected third overall in the 2003 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) draft and played for the Val-d'Or Foreurs, Moncton Wildcats, and Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, playing four seasons in the QMJHL. The Canucks drafted Bourdon with their first selection, the tenth overall selection, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Known as a strong defenceman who could help score goals, Bourdon represented Canada in three international tournaments, winning two gold medals at the IIHF World U20 Championship and a silver medal at the IIHF World U18 Championship. Bourdon died at the age of 21 near his hometown of Shippagan, New Brunswick, when his motorcycle collided with a tractor trailer.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International 

 All statistics taken from NHL.com

References

Other websites 
 

1987 births
2008 deaths
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles players
Ice hockey people from New Brunswick
Moncton Wildcats players
Road accident deaths
Val-d'Or Foreurs players
Vancouver Canucks players
Liu Xing is a Chinese hurdling athlete. He was born on 13 July 1983 in Shanghai, China. He is 189 cm tall and weighs 74 kg. He is an Olympic gold medal winner. Liu broke the World Junior and Asian record for hurdles in 2002.

Chinese sportspeople
1983 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists
is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Sato was born in Osaka Prefecture on June 19, 1969. After graduating from Doshisha University, he joined J1 League club Gamba Osaka in 1992. However he did not play in the match. In 1994, he moved to Urawa Reds and debuted in J1 League. However he lost opportunity to play in 1995. In July 1995, he moved to Japan Football League club Kyoto Purple Sanga. The club won the 2nd place in 1995 and was promoted to J1 League from 1996. He retired end of 1996 season.

On May 22, 1994, Sato debuted for the Japan national team against Australia.

Statistics

|-
|1992||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1993||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1994||rowspan="2"|Urawa Reds||rowspan="2"|J1 League||27||9||2||0||0||0||29||9
|-
|1995||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|-
|1995||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||Football League||16||3||1||1||colspan="2"|-||17||4
|-
|1996||J1 League||4||1||0||0||5||1||9||2
47||13||3||1||5||1||55||15
47||13||3||1||5||1||55||15
|}

|-
|1994||1||0
|-
!Total||1||0
|}

References

Other websites

1969 births
Living people
Footballers from Osaka Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
Gamba Osaka players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Kyoto Sanga FC players
Giovani dos Santos (born 11 May 1989) is a Mexican football player. He plays for the American MLS club LA Galaxy and the Mexico national team.

Career 
Dos Santos began his career with FC Barcelona B until he was 18 when he moved to the first team, FC Barcelona. He then moved to Tottenham Hotspur in summer 2008. He was then sent on loan to Ipswich Town F.C. in 2009, then to Galatasaray S.K. in 2010, Racing Santander in 2011, R.C.D. Mallorca in 2012, Villarreal in 2014, and LA Galaxy in 2015.

Club career statistics 

|-
|2007/08||Barcelona||La Liga||28||3||4||0||0||0||5||1||37||4

|-
|2008/09||Tottenham Hotspur||Premier League||6||0||1||0||1||0||4||1||12||1
|-
|2008/09||Ipswich Town||League Championship||8||4||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||8||4
|-
|2009/10||Tottenham Hotspur||Premier League||1||0||0||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
|-

|2009/10||Galatasaray||Süper Lig||||||||||||||||||||
28||3||4||0||0||0||5||1||37||4
15||4||1||0||3||0||4||1||23||5
0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
43||7||5||0||3||0||9||1||60||9
|}

International career statistics 
As of 16 November 2016

|-
|2007||4||0
|-
|2008||6||0
|-
|2009||12||5
|-
|2010||12||1
|-
|2011||19||5
|-
|2012||6||3
|-
|2013||14||0
|-
|2014||10||1
|-
|2015||9||2
|-
|2016||3||1
|-
!Total||93||18
|}

References 

1989 births
Living people
Mexican footballers
People from Monterrey
Yugoslav First League is a former football league which was top division in Yugoslavia.

References 

Football leagues
Yugoslavia
Defunct sports leagues
1923 establishments in Europe
1992 disestablishments in Europe
John Aloisi (born 5 February 1976) is an Australian football player. He plays for Sydney.

Club career statistics

|-
|1991/92||Adelaide City||National Soccer League||1||0

|-
|1992/93||Standard Liège||First Division||0||0
|-
|1993/94||rowspan="3"|Royal Antwerp||rowspan="3"|First Division||7||2
|-
|1994/95||16||3
|-
|1995/96||12||2

|-
|1995/96||rowspan="2"|Cremonese||rowspan="2"|Serie A||22||2
|-
|1996/97||26||2

|-
|1997/98||rowspan="2"|Portsmouth||rowspan="2"|First Division||38||12
|-
|1998/99||22||13
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="3"|Coventry City||rowspan="3"|Premier League||16||5
|-
|1999/00||7||2
|-
|2000/01||18||3

|-
|2001/02||rowspan="4"|Osasuna||rowspan="4"|La Liga||29||9
|-
|2002/03||32||8
|-
|2003/04||33||6
|-
|2004/05||26||6
|-
|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Deportivo Alavés||La Liga||33||10
|-
|2006/07||Segunda División||25||6

|-
|2007/08||Central Coast Mariners||A-League||12||7
|-
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Sydney||rowspan="2"|A-League||16||2
|-
|2009/10||||
29||9
35||7
48||4
101||35
178||45
391||100
|}

International career statistics

|-
|1997||11||7
|-
|1998||1||0
|-
|1999||0||0
|-
|2000||2||1
|-
|2001||10||7
|-
|2002||0||0
|-
|2003||2||0
|-
|2004||5||2
|-
|2005||8||5
|-
|2006||10||4
|-
|2007||5||1
|-
|2008||1||0
|-
!Total||55||27
|}

References

1976 births
Living people
Australian footballers
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Masakazu Washida (born 15 November 1978) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Ryukyu.

Club career statistics

|-
|1997||rowspan="2"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1998||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1999||rowspan="5"|Montedio Yamagata||rowspan="5"|J. League 2||18||0||1||0||2||0||21||0
|-
|2000||20||1||2||0||2||0||24||1
|-
|2001||44||4||3||0||2||0||49||4
|-
|2002||43||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||44||1
|-
|2003||36||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||36||1
|-
|2004||JEF United Ichihara||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||2||0||2||0
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||J. League 2||13||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|-
|2006||J. League 1||5||0||0||0||2||0||7||0
|-
|2007||Montedio Yamagata||J. League 2||21||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||22||0
|-
|2008||Tochigi||Football League||31||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||33||0
|-
|2009||rowspan="2"|Ryukyu||rowspan="2"|Football League||24||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||1
|-
|2010||||||||||||||||
255||8||11||0||10||0||276||8
255||8||11||0||10||0||276||8
|}

1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Fukui Prefecture
Drosophila is a genus of small flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae The family is often called called "fruit flies". 

There are many species in this genus, and the genus is split down into sub-genera. Some do prefer places where there is rotting fruit. The adults may feed on nectar, and may lay their eggs on or near decaying fruit. The details differ greatly from species to species.

Species 
There are many species, and their distribution in world-wide. In Britain alone more than 5000 species have been recorded. The largest number of species is in the Hawaiian Islands. 

One species of Drosophila in particular, D. melanogaster, was used in research in genetics research. It is a common model organism in developmental biology. The genus has more than 1,500 species, and has varied appearance, behaviour, and breeding habitats. Other species which have been widely investigated include D. pseudoobscura (used by Dobzhansky in field research) and D. subobscura, used in the UK as a laboratory Drosophila. 

Sturtevant at one time had 42 species of Drosophila in his lab for examination.

Life cycle 

Drosophila vary widely in their reproductive capacity. Those such as D. melanogaster that breed in large, scarce resources have ovaries that mature 10–20 eggs at a time, and can be laid together in one place. Others, which breed in common but less nutritious places (such as leaves), may only lay one egg each day.

The eggs have one or more respiratory filaments near the front end; the tips of these extend above the surface and allow oxygen to reach the embryo. Larvae feed not on vegetable matter but on the yeasts and microorganisms present on the decaying surface of leaves or fruits. Development time varies widely between species (between seven and more than 60 days) and depends on factors such as temperature, breeding substrate, and crowding.

Related genera 
Drosophila has a number of close relatives, and some may actually be within its genus.
Lordiphosa is a genus which is very similar to Drosophila. Its origin seems to be in S.E. Asia, probably China or Sri Lanka.
Scaptomyza is a genus which has most probably evolved from Drosophila on the Hawaiian islands. "The Hawaiian Drosophilidae are monophyletic". There are a large number of species (at least 270 have been described). This suggests the species evolved on some of the earlier islands in the Hawaiian chain which are no longer above water.

Related pages
D. melanogaster
D. pseudoobscura
D. persimilis
D. subobscura
D. simulans

References
Masatoshi Matsuda (born 4 September 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Blaublitz Akita.

Club career statistics

|-
|1999||Tokyo||J. League 2||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1999||Yokohama||Football League||9||3||3||3||colspan="2"|-||12||6
|-
|2000||rowspan="2"|Tokyo||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|2001||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|2001||Ventforet Kofu||J. League 2||12||2||3||2||0||0||15||4
|-
|2002||Tokyo||J. League 1||2||0||1||0||1||0||4||0
|-
|2003||rowspan="2"|Montedio Yamagata||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||9||4||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||4
|-
|2004||5||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||6||1
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||J. League 2||19||8||1||0||colspan="2"|-||20||8
|-
|2006||J. League 1||14||2||0||0||4||1||18||3
|-
|2007||TDK||Football League||32||18||4||5||colspan="2"|-||36||23
|-
|2008||rowspan="2"|Tochigi||Football League||22||6||2||0||colspan="2"|-||24||6
|-
|2009||J. League 2||17||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||17||1
|-
|2009||TDK||Football League||8||7||0||0||colspan="2"|-||8||7
|-
|2010||Blaublitz Akita||Football League||||||||||||||||
151||52||14||10||5||1||170||63
151||52||14||10||5||1||170||63
|}

References

1980 births
Living people
Footballers from Chiba Prefecture
Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira (born 13 April 1988) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Manchester United.

Club career statistics 

|-
|2004||rowspan="2"|Grêmio||Série A||6||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0||6||1
|-
|2005||Série B||13||5||4||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0||17||5

|-
|2005/06||rowspan="2"|Porto||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga||3||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|-
|2006/07||15||2||1||1||0||0||3||0||19||3

|-
|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Manchester United||rowspan="3"|Premier League||24||0||4||0||1||0||9||0||38||0
|-
|2008/09||17||0||3||0||6||0||9||0||35||0
|-
|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
19||6||4||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0||23||6
18||2||1||1||0||0||3||0||22||3
41||0||7||0||7||0||18||0||73||0
78||8||12||1||7||0||21||0||118||9

International career statistics 

|-
|2007||2||0
|-
|2008||6||0
|-
!Total||8||0

References 

1988 births
Living people
Brazilian footballers
People from Porto Alegre
Association football forwards
Association football midfielders
Brazilian Olympians
Brazilian football managers
Coritiba Foot Ball Club players
Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Manchester United F.C. players
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists
Olympic medalists in football
Premier League players
Tetsuya Okayama (born 27 August 1973 in Nagoya, Aichi) is a former Japanese football player. He played midfielder. The last team he played for before retirement was Albirex Niigata. He then became the coach of Nagoya Grampus Eight.

Club career statistics

|-
|1992||rowspan="13"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="13"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|1993||7||1||0||0||3||2||10||3
|-
|1994||2||0||2||1||0||0||4||1
|-
|1995||40||10||5||2||colspan="2"|-||45||12
|-
|1996||26||9||1||0||14||2||41||11
|-
|1997||28||3||1||0||10||2||39||5
|-
|1998||30||14||4||3||4||1||38||18
|-
|1999||22||3||3||0||5||1||30||4
|-
|2000||28||6||2||0||6||3||36||9
|-
|2001||23||2||1||0||4||1||28||3
|-
|2002||28||0||3||1||4||0||35||1
|-
|2003||23||2||2||0||5||0||30||2
|-
|2004||21||4||0||0||4||1||25||5
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Albirex Niigata||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||12||0||1||0||5||0||18||0
|-
|2006||16||0||0||0||6||1||22||1

|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Albirex Niigata||rowspan="2"|S. League||||||||||||||||
|-
|2008||30||9||1||0||0||0||31||9
306||54||25||7||70||14||401||75
30||9||1||0||0||0||31||9
336||63||26||7||70||14||432||84
|}

References

1973 births
Living people
Footballers from Aichi Prefecture
is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Watanabe was born in Fujieda on September 10, 1972. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined Kashiwa Reysol in 1995. He played as regular player from first season. The club won the champions at 1999 J.League Cup. At the final, he scored a tie goal in the 89th minute and he was selected MVP award. The club also won the 3rd place in 1999 and 2000 J1 League. He retired end of 2004 season.

On August 13, 1997, Watanabe debuted for the Japan national team against Brazil.

Statistics

|-
|1995||rowspan="10"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="10"|J1 League||45||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||47||1
|-
|1996||29||3||1||0||14||2||44||5
|-
|1997||30||3||3||0||8||1||41||4
|-
|1998||33||2||2||0||4||0||39||2
|-
|1999||28||0||4||0||9||1||41||1
|-
|2000||30||2||1||0||2||0||33||2
|-
|2001||29||3||1||0||4||1||34||4
|-
|2002||28||1||1||0||7||0||36||1
|-
|2003||14||2||2||0||3||0||19||2
|-
|2004||15||0||1||0||5||0||21||0
281||17||18||0||56||5||355||22
281||17||18||0||56||5||355||22
|}

|-
|1997||1||0
|-
!Total||1||0
|}

References

Other websites

1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Shizuoka Prefecture
Japan international footballers
J1 League players
Kashiwa Reysol players
Takaaki Tokushige (born 18 February 1975) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Tokushima Vortis.

Club career statistics

|-
|1996||rowspan="6"|Denso||rowspan="6"|Football League||26||9||1||1||colspan="2"|-||27||10
|-
|1997||25||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||26||1
|-
|1998||28||10||2||0||colspan="2"|-||30||10
|-
|1999||23||7||3||6||colspan="2"|-||26||13
|-
|2000||22||11||3||3||colspan="2"|-||31||14
|-
|2001||28||25||2||0||colspan="2"|-||30||25
|-
|2002||rowspan="5"|Cerezo Osaka||J. League 2||20||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||22||1
|-
|2003||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||22||7||5||1||2||1||29||9
|-
|2004||24||3||1||0||5||0||30||3
|-
|2005||17||0||1||0||0||0||18||0
|-
|2006||19||1||0||0||6||1||25||2
|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Kyoto Sanga||J. League 2||45||8||0||0||colspan="2"|-||45||8
|-
|2008||J. League 1||15||0||0||0||4||1||19||1
|-
|2009||rowspan="2"|Tokushima Vortis||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||50||12||1||0||colspan="2"|-||51||12
|-
|2010||||||||||||||||
364||95||22||11||17||3||403||109
364||95||22||11||17||3||403||109
|}

References

1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Kagoshima Prefecture
The East Division of the National Hockey League existed from 1967, when the NHL was made up of a single division, until 1974 when the league changed its format into two conferences of two divisions each.

Teams
Montreal Canadiens (1967–74)
New York Rangers (1967–74)
Boston Bruins (1967–74)
Chicago Black Hawks (1967–70)
Toronto Maple Leafs (1967–74)
Detroit Red Wings (1967–74)
Buffalo Sabres (1970–74)
Vancouver Canucks (1970–74)
New York Islanders (1972–1974)

Final standings, 1968–74
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold

1967–68

1968–69

1969–70

1970–71

1971–72

1972–73

1973–74

Champions

Stanley Cup champions produced

As the East Division was composed of the Original Six franchises, these teams had a competitive advantage over the West Division teams for several years.
1967–68 - Montreal Canadiens
1968–69 - Montreal Canadiens
1969–70 - Boston Bruins
1970–71 - Montreal Canadiens
1971–72 - Boston Bruins
1972–73 - Montreal Canadiens

Related pages
West Division (NHL)

National Hockey League divisions
Acrelândia is a municipality in the northwest part of the Brazilian state Acre.

History
Acrelândia was Acre's first planned city. It became a municipality according to the Law 1025/92 as of April 28, 1992. The municipality was created from the separation of Plácido de Castro and Senador Guiomard municipalities. It was known through the slogan  (Acre's Little Princess). This made it reach a great agricultural development. Many people moved there from the Brazilian south-central region.

Geography
There are 11,520 people in Acrelândia. It covers 1,575 km² in area (7,3 people/km²). It is next to Amazonas to the north, Rondônia to the east, Senador Guiomard to the west and Bolivia to the south.

Municipalities in Acre (state)
1992 establishments
1990s establishments in Brazil
Pope Innocent VIII (; 1432 – July 25, 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cibo, was an Italian cleric of the Roman Catholic Church and the 214th Pope from 1484 until his death.

Early years
Giovanni Battista Cibo was born at Genoa

In Rome he became a priest in service of Cardinal    Calandrini who was half-brother to Pope Nicholas V.

Bishop
Pope Paul II made Cibo the Bishop of Savona in 1467.  He was made Bishop of Molfetta in 1472.

Cardinal
In 1473, Pope Sixtus IV raised Cibo to the rank of  cardinal.

Pope
Cardinal Cibo was elected pope on August 29, 1484; and he chose to be called Innocent VIII.

Pope Innocent was involved in Italian and European political disputes.

Papal actions 
 1486 – Henry VII of England confirmed as king
 1487 – Tomás de Torquemada made grand inquisitor of Spain.
 1492 – Ferdinand II of Aragon awarded the epithet "Catholic Majesty " after the Moors left Granada

Related pages 
 List of popes

References

Other websites

 
  Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Innocent VIII
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church,  Cardinal Cibo

Italian popes
1432 births
1492 deaths
Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949 in Glasgow) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.

Knopfler is best known as the founder of the British rock band Dire Straits which formed 1977. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist and has played in other groups including The Notting Hillbillies. Knopfler has worked with many other music artists such as: Bob Dylan,Eric Clapton and Chet Atkins.

Knopfler is a respected finger-style guitarist and was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums.

Knopfler was born to an English mother and Jewish Hungarian father. Knopfler moved to Blyth, Northumberland at age seven. He has a brother, David Knopfler (born 1952) who has also been a member of Dire Straits.

Other websites

Official website

1949 births
Living people
British record producers
English rock guitarists
English rock singers
English singer-songwriters
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Glasgow
People from Northumberland
Vision of Ezra is the name of an ancient apocryphal text, whose authorship is associated to Ezra, the . The remaining  are written in Latin and date as of the 11th century, but researches say that the original document must have been written in Greek. Just like the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, the text shows a clearly Christian origin.

Other websites
Vision of Ezra at earlyjewishwritings.com

Religious texts
Chamba is the northwestern district of Himachal Pradesh state, in north Republic of India, with its headquarters in Chamba town. The towns of Dalhousie and Khajjhiar are popular hill stations and vacation spots for the people from the plains of northern India.

Other websites 
Chamba district official website

Himachal Pradesh
Bear worship (also known as the Bear Cult or Arctolatry) is the religious practice of the worshiping of bears. Many North American and North Eurasian ethnic arctic religions include the worship of bears in their beliefs. These include the Sami, Nivkhs, Ainu, and pre-Christian Finns.

There are also a number of deities from Celtic Gaul and Britain similar to the bear. The bear is also featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them. Bear worship may have been practiced as far back as the Middle Palaeolithic time period amongst Neanderthal societies.(Wunn, 2000, p. 434-435)

References
Blesoe, Brandon (retrieved Nov. 2007) "The Significance of the Bear Ritual Among the Sami and Other Northern Cultures"
Chaussonnet, Valerie (1995) Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Artic Studies Center. Washington, D.C. 112p. 
Gall, Timothy L. (1998) Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life:Nivkhs. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc. 2100p. 
Shternberg, Lev Iakovlevich and Bruce Grant. (1999) The Social Organization of the Gilyak. New York: American Museum of Natural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press 280p. 
Wunn, Ina (2000). "Beginning of Religion", Numen, 47(4).

Notes

Religions
Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001) was an American guitarist and record producer. He helped create a smooth country music style known as the "Nashville Sound."

His guitar picking style was inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt and Les Paul and brought him admirers both in the United States and internationally as well as earning him the nickname "Mister Guitar."

Chet Atkins produced records for Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed and Waylon Jennings along with many others.

Chet Atkins received many honors including 14 Grammy Awards as well as the "Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award." He won nine Country Music Association "Instrumentalist of the Year" awards, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He died from cancer on June 30, 2001, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 2002, Atkins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The following year, Atkins was ranked #28 in CMT's "40 Greatest Men of Country Music."

Other websites

Atkins, Chet
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Musicians from Tennessee
American folk musicians
American jazz musicians
Country musicians
American classical musicians
Grammy Award winners
1924 births
2001 deaths
Clodovil Hernandes (17 June 1937 – 17 March 2009) was a Brazilian fashion designer, television host and politician.

A designer in the '60s and '70s, he was invited to work in television, where he hosted numerous programs on several stations.

He launched congress election in 2006 and became the third most voted congressman in the country, with 493,951 votes or 2.43% of valid votes. Once, when he was asked about running in the municipal elections for São Paulo Mayor position, he changed the subject and did not answer the question.

He was known mainly for his controversial statements, deemed inappropriate or rude, often directed at other famous personalities. Among other problems, he was accused of racism and anti-Semitism.

References 

1937 births
2009 deaths
Brazilian people
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jennings first became famous as a member of Buddy Holly's backing band. On February 3, 1959, while playing shows with Holly, he gave up his airplane seat J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. The airplane crashed after it took-off killing Richarson, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly. Jennings claimed that in the years afterward he felt severe guilt over the crash.

By the 1970s, Jennings had become associated with a country music scene known as outlaw country. Jennings recorded a series of albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s which increased the popularity of the outlaw country sound.

In 1979, he recorded the theme song for the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. Jennings also became the narrator of the show for all seven seasons.

In the 1980s he formed the group The Highwaymen along with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.

In 2001, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

On February 13, 2002, Waylon Jennings died in Chandler, Arizona from health complications due to diabetes.

Singles
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"  (1978)
"Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)" (1980)

Related pages
List of country musicians from Texas

References 

Country musicians from Arizona
American guitarists
American rock musicians
American rock singers
Singer-songwriters from Texas
Deaths from diabetes
Grammy Award winners
1937 births
2002 deaths
Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game exclusively for the Xbox 360. It is the prequel to the Halo series, and it was released on September 14, 2010.

Gameplay

Firefight 
Firefight returned from Halo 3: ODST with the ability to play as Noble Six for all the maps with an equip-able voice.

References

Other websites 
 Halo: Reach official site 

2010 video games
Halo
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360-only games
Video game prequels
FIFA 10 (also known as FIFA Soccer 10 in North America) is video game in Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games. It was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, PlayStation 2, and Wii.

References

Other websites  
 Official site 
 Official FIFA 10 community site

2009 video games
FIFA
Sports video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Portable games
Wii games
Xbox 360 games
Nintendo DS games
Windows games
Michael René Grabner (born October 5, 1987 in Villach, Austria) is an Austrian professional ice hockey player who is with the New York Islanders, a team in the National Hockey League (NHL). Grabner plays right wing for the Islanders, a team he first joined in 2010 after being with the Vancouver Canucks, who selected him in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Before that, Grabner played for EC VSV, a team from Austria who play in the Austrian Hockey League, and the Manitoba Moose, who play in the American Hockey League. As well as those teams, Grabner played for the Spokane Chiefs, a junior team with the Western Hockey League. He is a fast skater who has a quick shot. His first game with the Canucks was on October 14, 2009, and scored his first goal with them on October 21. He was traded to the Florida Panthers, along with Steve Bernier and a first round draft pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, on June 25, 2010 for Keith Ballard and Victor Oreskovich. When the Panthers tried to send Grabner to their AHL team, the Islanders claimed his rights.

Other websites 
 

1987 births
Living people
American Hockey League players
Arizona Coyotes players
Austrian ice hockey players
New Jersey Devils players
New York Islanders players
New York Rangers players
People from Villach
Spokane Chiefs players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Vancouver Canucks players
Dargai is a town in district Charsadda. It is the oldest village in the Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Five tribes, the Sipah, Dagwall, Khattak and Kashmiryans and Awan live in Dargai. The village is famous because of several battles which took place there during British rule between 1853 and 1897.

Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Long John Silver's is a fast food restaurant that sells mainly seafood. 

It was created in 1969 in Lexington, Kentucky. The name for the restaurant is named after Long John Silver from the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. They used to be a private owned company but they went bankrupt in 1998. 

Their parent company Yum! sold Long John Silver's to LJS Partners LLC and A&W Restaurants to A Great American Brand LLC in September 2011 to focus on expanding in China.

The restaurant chain also has many restaurants world-wide.

References

Other websites 
 

American fast food restaurants
Companies based in Kentucky
1969 establishments in the United States
Louisville, Kentucky
20th-century establishments in Kentucky
Superettan is a men's football league. It is the second division in Sweden.

Related pages

Allsvenskan
Swedish Division 1

2000 establishments in Sweden
Football leagues
Football in Sweden
Patrick Sharp (born December 27, 1981) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) for 15 seasons. Sharp also played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks. Sharp played college hockey with the University of Vermont's Catamounts.

On June 9, 2010, Sharp won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks contributing 11 goals and 11 assists in the playoffs. On June 24, 2013, He won his second Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.

On July 10, 2015, the Blackhawks faced salary cap issues and they traded Sharp along with Stephen Johns to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Trevor Daley and Ryan Garbutt.

Awards 
2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Goal Scoring Leader (10)
Stanley Cup (2013) - with the Chicago Blackhawks
NHL All-Star Game MVP Award (2011)
Stanley Cup (2010) - with the Chicago Blackhawks
NHL All-Star Game MVP Award (2010)

References

Other websites 

1981 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian Olympic gold medalists
Chicago Blackhawks players
Dallas Stars players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
People from Thunder Bay
Sportspeople from Vermont
Stanley Cup champions
United States Hockey League players
Desertification is the expansion of desert into the surrounding areas. The desert area in the world is getting bigger. Desertification usually happens on the edge of deserts. It is caused by a variety of factors.

Causes 

There are many causes of desert spreading:

Climatic change, including global warming (natural factor). The distribution of rainfall in the surrounding area of desert is uneven. From 1970 onwards, the world's weather has been changing. There has been less rain, and certain areas of the world are becoming drier. Drought affects the area surrounding a desert. As a result, many crops and animals have died. There is no vegetation to protect the soil. The topsoil is removed by sudden flash floods or strong wind. This makes the soil erode and the desert spread towards the surrounding area. Here are a few more ways of desertification:

Rapid population growth (human factor).
Overgrazing.
Deforestation.
Drought
Irrigation (if done wrongly, or it needs more water than the environment can provide).

References

Other websites 

Environmental issues
Shaquille Rashaun "Shaq" O'Neal (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey)  is an American retired professional basketball player, actor and rapper. He had a 19 year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics. He is often considered one of the most well-known players in the history of the NBA. He stands at 7 feet 1 inch and weighs 325 pounds, making him one of the heaviest players to ever play in the NBA.

Basketball career

Before playing in the NBA, O'Neal played college basketball at Louisiana State University.  Throughout his 18 year career, O'Neal has used his size and strength to help him play well. O'Neal won a scoring title, an MVP and three championships with the Los Angeles Lakers; he later won a championship with the Miami Heat.  He first played for the Orlando Magic and later for the Phoenix Suns. O'Neal won a gold medal with the 1996 Dream Team. O'Neal is currently the oldest player in the NBA and is the only one of the 50 Greatest NBA players, as chosen in 1996, to still be playing in the NBA.  He has scored the most points of anyone still in the NBA, and the fifth-most of any NBA player ever.   He also one of the best shooters in the history of the NBA, and has led the league in that category ten times.  He has been named All-NBA and an All-Star quite a few times. He retired from the NBA on June 1, 2011 and held a press conference on June 3, 2011 to officially announce his retirement. After Shaq's college career he had 1 child.

Music, TV and film career
O'Neal has appeared in several films and music videos, often as himself. He rapped on the song "2 Bad" on Michael Jackson's album HIStory. He has hosted two TV shows, one where he helps kids lose weight and another where he competes against athletes from other sports. He made a fine career in Los Angeles teaming with Kobe Bryant.

Personal life
O'Neal is Muslim.

References

Other websites 
Profile on Cavaliers official website

1972 births
Living people
Actors from Newark, New Jersey
African American actors
African-American basketball players
African American musicians
American movie actors
American movie producers
American Muslims
Rap musicians from New Jersey
Musicians from Newark, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey
American television personalities
American television producers
Boston Celtics players
Cleveland Cavaliers players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Miami Heat players
Orlando Magic players
Businesspeople from Newark, New Jersey
National Basketball Association players with retired numbers
American basketball players
Left 4 Dead is a first-person shooter video game made by Valve Corporation for Mac computers, Windows PCs, and the Xbox 360. It was released in North America and Australasia on October 18, 2008, and on October 21, 2008 in Japan and Europe. There are four game modes available: a single-player mode, where the player controls one character and the 3 other characters are controlled by the game; a four-player, co-op campaign mode; an eight-player online versus mode (4 humans and 4 mutated zombies/"Special Infected"); and a four-player survival mode. Left 4 Dead was named the Best Multiplayer Game of 2008 by IGN, GameSpy, BAFTA, Spike TV, and NoFrag. The sequel, Left 4 Dead 2 was released on November 17, 2009.

Characters
There are four characters to choose from (gameplay is not affected with character choice): 
Francis (voiced by Vince Valenzuela), a tattoo-covered biker.
Bill (voiced by Jim French), a Vietnam war veteran.
Zoey (voiced by Jen Taylor), a college student and horror movie enthusiast.
Louis (voiced by Earl Alexander), an IT manager.

Plot
The Green Flu, a virus that turns victims into rabid zombie-like beings called the Infected, breaks out in the USA. Some Infected mutate into stronger Special Infected. The 4 characters try to reach a rescue vehicle throughout each campaign, except in the final campaign The Sacrifice.

References

Other websites
Official website

Xbox 360 games
Windows games
2008 video games
Shooter video games
Horror video games
Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970) is an American musician. He is best known for being a member of the rock band Weezer. Cuomo plays electric and acoustic guitar. He also knows how to play drums, bass guitar, clarinet, harmonica, keyboards, trumpet and piano. In 2007 he released an album on his own called Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. It is a collection of eighteen demos he made between 1992 and 2007.

Personal life
Cuomo married Kyoko Ito June 18, 2006.

References 

American guitarists
American rock musicians
Musicians from New York City
Harvard University alumni
Living people
1970 births
Pau Gasol i Sàez (born July 6, 1980 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish basketball player. Gasol plays for the Portland Trailblazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2008 to 2014. He also played for the, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, And Milwaukee Bucks.

He has won an NBA championship with the Lakers. He played with the Spanish basketball team at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning silver medals in 2008 and 2012.  Before playing with the Lakers, he played in Spain and for the Memphis Grizzlies.  He wears #16 for the Lakers, and plays both forward and center. He is 7 feet tall and weighs 250 lbs, and has a younger brother named Marc Gasol who plays for the Toronto Raptors.

References

Other websites
 

1980 births
Living people
2004 Summer Olympics
Chicago Bulls players
Los Angeles Lakers players
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Memphis Grizzlies players
Olympic silver medalists
Spanish basketball players
Spanish Olympic medalists
Sportspeople from Barcelona
Sungai Besar is a town in district Sabak Bernam in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The town is about 120 km north of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia.

Settlements in Malaysia
Ichiro Suzuki (鈴木 一朗, Suzuki Ichirō) (born October 22, 1974 in Toyoyama, Nishikasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a retired Japanese baseball player.

He is the first MLB player to enter the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and has won a Gold Glove award in each of his first ten years in the major leagues. He spent most of his carrier with the Seattle Mariners but also played for the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins.

References 

1974 births
Living people
Japanese baseball players
New York Yankees players
Seattle Mariners players
People from Aichi Prefecture
Florida Marlins players
The SuccessTech Academy shooting was a attempted murder-suicide at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio on October 10, 2007.

Asa Coon, a student at the school, came to school armed with two handguns and three tactical folding knives. After being punched in the face for bumping into Michael Peek, Coon shot  Peek in the abdomen as he walked away. He walked through the school's halls shooting at another student, Darnell Rodgers, but the bullet just scratched Rodgers, hurting his elbow. Then Coon went to a social studies class where he shot the teacher Michael Grassie in the chest. Another teacher, David Kachadourian, was shot in the shoulder while helping his students get to a safe place. A 14-year old student, Trinnetta McGrady, had knee and back injuries from being stepped on in a hallway by students who were trying to get away. The only person who died because of this was Asa Coon. He killed himself by shooting himself in the right side of his head.

A controversial crime scene photo taken of Coon after his suicide was leaked to the public from a radio disc jockey from the Rover's Morning Glory show. A Cleveland police officer Walter Emerick, who took the picture using his camera phone was suspended from his job for eight days for sending the photo to other people, eventually leading to it being leaked on the Internet.

References

2007 in the United States
2000s in Cleveland, Ohio
2000s crimes in the United States
Deaths by firearm
Suicide
Hideaki Tominaga (born 27 August 1976) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Blaublitz Akita.

Club career statistics

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|1998||Kokushikan University||Football League||||||||||||||||
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|1999||rowspan="2"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||1||0||1||0
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|2000||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
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|2001||Sagan Tosu||J. League 2||16||2||4||1||0||0||20||3
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|2002||Shonan Bellmare||J. League 2||32||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||33||1
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|2003||Nagoya Grampus Eight||J. League 1||3||0||0||0||1||0||4||0
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|2004||Ventforet Kofu||J. League 2||38||3||1||0||colspan="2"|-||39||3
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|2005||rowspan="2"|Yokohama||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||30||3||1||0||colspan="2"|-||31||3
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|2006||15||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0
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|2007||rowspan="3"|TDK||rowspan="3"|Football League||15||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||1
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|2008||13||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
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|2009||30||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
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|2010||Blaublitz Akita||Football League||||||||||||||||
193||10||9||1||2||0||204||11
193||10||9||1||2||0||204||11
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1976 births
Living people
Footballers from Fukui Prefecture