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The National Library of Malaysia is in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. It is the country's national library. It was founded in 1956.

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  Library of Malaysia

National libraries in Asia
1956 establishments in Asia
Kuala Lumpur
20th-century establishments in Malaysia
Azealia Amanda Banks (born May 31, 1991) is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. She was born in Harlem, New York City. On November 9, 2008 she made a Myspace account and released her first song, "Gimme a Chance" on it as "Miss Bank$". Later that year she was signed by XL Recordings. In 2011 Banks was chosen by NME as No.1 of their Cool List of the year.
Her first album Broke with Expensive Taste is going to be released in January 2014. Her second album, Fantasea II: The Second Wave is going to be released July 2013.  
On December 6, 2011 Banks' first single "212" was released. On May 28, 2012 her first EP 1991 was released in the UK. It was released in the US the next day. A video for the song "Van Vogue" was released. On July 11, 2012 a 19-song mixtape called Fantasea was released for free download. Banks' second single "Esta Noche" was going to be released September 25, 2012, but a day before this was cancelled because the producer Munchi said she "stole" the track.

On December 4, 2012 the single "Liquorice" was released.

Banks made a dark purple lipstick with MAC called "Yung Rapunxel". It was marketed online from September 6 to 20, 2012.

On January 10, 2014 Banks released a remix of "Partition" by Beyoncé Knowles she made with Busta Rhymes.

Personal life

Banks is bisexual.

References

Other websites
 Official website 

1991 births
Living people
Rap musicians from New York
Listening is not quite the same thing as hearing. Hearing is a biological process that can be scientifically explained, but listening is a psychological process of what happens to sounds as we interpret and use them. It is a cognitive activity.

In psychology, speech is part of pragmatics, a field which deals with signs and their interpretation. The signs in question are called "speech acts".

To listen means to try and understand what has been said. Listening is often one side of a conversation. Asking questions helps one understand what has been said. A subject can be better understood by asking the correct questions.

Listening differs from obeying. Parents often say to a disobedient child that he "didn't listen to me", meaning, he heard but didn't do as was suggested.

Listening also applies to sounds, not just language. It is active hearing. We hear a sound, and know what it means. This applies to animals as well. Cats list in the long grass for the little sounds that mice make. So perhaps a better description of listening is "deliberate hearing to get the meaning of sounds".

References 

Cognition
Human communication
Life skills
Cookies 'N' Beans are a Swedish country music group consisting of Frida Öhrn, Linda Ström and Charlotte Centervall. The girls started the group in 2003 and in 2007 the group released their first coveralbum Tales from a Trailor Trash Soul. They participated in Melodifestivalen 2009, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Russia, with the song "What If", and again in Melodifestivalen 2013 for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, with their song "Burning Flags". The group's fourth album, The First Steps, was released on 13 March 2013.  The group has also appeared on several Swedish television shows such as Allsång på Skansen and Lotta på Liseberg singing their songs after appearing in Melodifestivalen the first time in 2009.

Discography

Albums
2007 – Tales from a Trailor Trash Soul
2010 – Beg, Borrow and Steal
2012 – Go Tell the World
2013 – The First Steps

Singles
2009 - "What If"
2010 - "First We Take Manhattan"
2013 - "Burning Flags"

References

Other websites

Official website

Swedish musical groups
Musical groups established in 2003
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is the eighth studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on November 5, 2013.

The album is a sequel to Eminem's most praised work, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000). Production for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 took place from 2012 to 2013. Dr. Dre and Rick Rubin were the executive producers.

Music critics mostly gave the album positive reviews. Praise went to Eminem's technical rapping skill and production choices. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was Eminem's best-reviewed album at Metacritic since The Eminem Show (2002).

Background 

On May 24, 2012, Eminem said that he had begun working on his next album in an interview on Hot 97's morning show with Peter Rosenberg.

On February 8, 2013, Shady Records president and Eminem manager Paul Rosenberg told Billboard: "We fully expect to be releasing a new Eminem album in 2013. He's been working on it for some time. It's safe to say that it will be post-Memorial Day [May 27] at some point, but we're not exactly sure when."

On August 25, 2013, two Beats by Dre commercials aired during the MTV Video Music Awards revealed that Eminem's eighth studio album would be titled The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and would be released on November 5, 2013.

On September 20, 2013, the cover artwork was revealed on Eminem's Twitter account.

On October 10, 2013, the track listing was revealed.

Songs

References 

2013 albums
Eminem albums
The Macintosh 128K, originally released as the Apple Macintosh, is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer.

References

Computers
Apple hardware
Bactrosaurus was a hadrosaur from the Upper Cretaceous about 70 milion years ago. This plant-eating dinosaur. was found in  the Gobi Desert of China. It was about 6 metres (20 feet) long and 2 metres (6.6 feet) high when standing on all fours. It weighed 1.1 to 1.5 tonnes (2,400 to 3,300 pounds).

Research showed that this genus and its near relatives were unusually prone to cancer. The reason for this is not known.

References 

Dinosaurs of Asia
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Hadrosauridae
Patrik Eliáš (born April 13, 1976) is a former Czech professional ice hockey winger that played for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL) where he was the alternate captain.

Other websites 

Official website 

1976 births
Czech ice hockey players
Living people
New Jersey Devils players
Olympic bronze medalists
Stanley Cup champions
American Hockey League players
The Division of Lindsay is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was set up in 1984 and is named after Sir Norman Lindsay, the Australian artist, writer and sculptor. 

The division is in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, and includes Cambridge Park, Cambridge Gardens, Castlereagh, Claremont Meadows, Cranebrook, Emu Plains, Glenmore Park, Jamisontown, Kingswood, Leonay, Llandilo, North St Marys, Oxley Park, Penrith, Regentville, St Marys, South Penrith, Werrington, Werrington County, Werrington Downs and parts of Agnes Banks, Luddenham and Wallacia.

History
Since it was set up in 1984, its winning member of parliament has been from the party winning government. 

Jackie Kelly won the seat during the 1996 election. Her win was challenged in the Court of Disputed Returns because she was still a citizen of New Zealand, and she worked as a legal officer for the Royal Australian Air Force. The Australian Constitution (Section 44) does not allow people who are citizens of another country, or people who are employed by the government to be members of Parliament. A by-election was held, and Kelly who had given up her New Zealand citizenship, and resigned from her airforce job was elected again.

In 2007 Kelly was again in trouble. Three days before the election her supporters, including her husband, were caught in Lindsay putting fake letters in peoples' letterboxes. These letters linked the Labor Party to Islamic terrorism.

Members

David Bradbury had served as the Mayor of Penrith. Every member of Lindsay to date, except Scott, has served as a minister.

Election results
 2004 election results
 2007 election results
 2010 election results
 2013 election results

References

Other websites
 Division of Lindsay - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of Australia
New South Wales
1984 establishments in Australia
No Way Out (2002) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on February 17, 2002 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the fourth No Way Out event held by the WWF.

Matches

Tag Team Turmoil

References

Other websites
Official No Way Out 2002 website

2002 in professional wrestling
Sports in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
WWE No Way Out
2002 in the United States
21st century in Wisconsin
The Bell River is a river in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Murray-Darling basin and flows into the Macquarie River.

Course
The Bell River begins in the hills to the north-west of Orange, New South Wales, it flows a generally northerly direction joining the Macquarie River at Wellington, New South Wales. The river is  long and drops .

Platypus have been seen in the lower river near Wellington.

History
Aboriginal Australians of the Wiradjuri nation were the original inhabitants of the area around the river.

The river was named in honour of Brevet Major Bell by European explorer John Oxley, later Surveyor General of New South Wales.

Pieces of gold were found in and along the river in 1851. This started a minor a minor gold rush, mainly near where Nubrigan Creek joins the Bell River.

The river occasionally floods generally near Wellington, however it has flooded further up river. Major floods occurred in 1920, 1926, and in 1990 at Newrea, where the river reached .

References

Rivers of New South Wales
The Burrendong Dam is a major dam on the Macquarie River in New South Wales, Australia. It is upriver of Wellington in the central west region. It is an embankment style gated dam.  The wall is filled with rock and has a clay core. The dam was built and is used for flood mitigation, irrigation, water supply and hydro-electric power generation. The dam creates Lake Burrendong and is filled by the Macquarie and Cudgegong rivers and Meroo Creek.

The lake formed by the dam, named Lake Burrendong, is popular for fishing and general tourism.

History and location
The dam was built by the New South Wales Water Conservation & Irrigation Commission. Construction began in 1958. It finished in 1967. It was built to reduce flooding, for irrigation, and to supply a relatively constant water supply. The dam is about  southeast of Wellington in the Wellington Shire local government area. The name Burrendong comes from the Wiradjuri word for koala (burrandhang).

Features
The dam wall is  high and is  long. Normal water depth is . When the dam is full the water level is  AHD. At full capacity the dam holds , with an additional flood mitigation capacity of , and has a surface area of . The dam collects water from an area of . The spillway on the dam is a gated concrete chute, able to release .

A major upgrade took place place between 2010 and is expected to be completed in 2015. The project costs AU$32 million. It will ensure the dam reaches modern safety standards. During the upgrade the main dam will be raised , the current spillway will be modified and another spillway added.

Power generation
The dam includes a hydro-electric power station. This was completed in August 1996. It was opened by the Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr, on 9 February 1999. The station can generate up to  of electricity and each year the power station generates about . The station was originally operated by Power Facilities Pty Limited. It is now managed by AGL Energy.

References

Dams
Buildings and structures in New South Wales
Hydropower
Lakes of Australia
Power plants
1967 establishments in Oceania
1960s establishments in Australia
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is an organization that is based in Sèvres near Paris in France. Its name in French is "Bureau international des poids et mesures". The abbreviation of its name in all languages is BIPM. These are the letters of the name in French.

It was established in 1875 and has laboratories and offices. Scientists use the laboratories to compare measurements that are made in different countries. The offices are used for meetings where scientists discuss the best way to make sure that all countries use the same measurements.

References

Measurement
Scientific organizations
Paris
1875 establishments in Europe
19th-century establishments in France
No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was held on February 15, 1998 at the Compaq Center in Houston, Texas. It was the twentieth In Your House event. No Way Out later became the title of annual PPV held by the WWF.

Matches

References

Other websites
Official No Way Out of Texas: In Your House website

1998 in professional wrestling
Sports in Houston, Texas
WWE No Way Out
1998 in American television
1990s in Texas
20th century in Houston, Texas
February events
A Brownian bridge is a stochastic process that results from the Brownian motion, given that at the end of the time modeled, the function value is 0.

Physics
Scotts is a modern dansband from Lidköping, Sweden. Established in 1992, Scotts competed at Dansbandskampen in 2008, finishing up second behind Larz-Kristerz, starting to aim at their ambition becoming a full-time band. The band also competed at Melodifestivalen in 2009, with the song "Jag tror på oss".

Members
Henrik Strömberg - Vocal, guitar
Roberto Mårdstam - bass
Claes Linder - keyboard
Per-Erik "Lillen" Tagesson - drums

Discography

Albums

Singles

DVD

Svensktoppen songs
"Cassandra" - 1999
"Marias kärlek" - 2001
"En blick, en dans, en kyss" (One Dance, One Rose, One Kiss) - 2001
"Om igen" - 2009
"Underbar" - 2009
"Jag ångrar ingenting" - 2010

Missade svensktoppslistan
"Leker med elden" - 2002
"Jag tror på oss"- 2009

References

Other websites

Official webesite

Dansbands
1992 establishments in Europe
Swedish musical groups
1990s establishments in Sweden
Amanda Righetti (April 4, 1983) is an American actress. She appeared in television programs, among them being The O.C.. She was also in several movies. Righetti was born in St. George, Utah.

References

American television actors
American movie actors
Actors from Utah
1983 births
Living people
Stephanie Daley is a 2006 drama movie. It was released in 2007 in the United States. drama movie. The movie is about teenage pregnancy. In this movie, the title character dodges questions by her psychologist and insists she is pregnant through an act of God. Amber Tamblyn plays Stephanie Daley in this movie. Also starring are Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton.

2006 drama movies
American drama movies
American independent movies
The Campan valley is a valley of the Pyrenees in the French department department of Hautes-Pyrénées in the Occitanie region.

The valley is in the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Bagnères-de-Bigorre (the subprefecture of the arrondissement) is at the northern end of the valley.

Geography
This is one of the valleys found in the upper watershed of the Adour river, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees. It is formed by three high valleys (valleys in the mountains) where are the sources of the three Adours that meet at Sainte-Marie-de-Campan and then in Baudéan to form the Adour river that then flows beyond Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

The valley goes from the northwest to the southeast, from Sainte-Marie de Campan to Montgaillard.

The three high valleys (and their rivers) are:
 the Payolle valley (Adour de Payolle);
 the Gripp valley (Adour de Gripp); and
 the Lesponne valley (Adour de Lesponne).

There are many small lakes; some of them are reservoirs (man-made lakes). The larger of these lakes is the Lac Bleu de Lesponne, or simply the Lac Bleu, with an area of .

The Pic du Midi de Bigorre and its astronomical observatory are located in the valley of Campan.

The ski resorts of La Mongie and Payolle are also found in this valley.

Gallery

Related pages
 Adour river

Notes

References

Other websites

  Commune de Campan - Official site
  Lacs des Pyrénées - Vallée de Campan

Geography of France
Occitanie
David Marvin Blake (born 18 January 1970) is an American rapper and recording artist. He has rapped with other singers and on his own albums. He was born in Compton, California.

References

Singers from California
Rap musicians from California
1970 births
Living people
Over the Limit (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment. It was held on May 23, 2010 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first Over the Limit event held by the WWE.

Matches

References

Other websites
Official Over the Limit 2010 website

2010 in professional wrestling
Sports in Detroit, Michigan
WWE Over the Limit
2010 in the United States
2010s in Michigan
21st century in Detroit, Michigan
Cutthroat Island is a 1995 American romantic comedy movie. It was released in December 1995. The movie is about pirates invading ships in 1668 Jamaica. Geena Davis plays Morgan Adams. This movie performed so poorly at the box office that, before Christmas 2010, it became a massive "box office bomb" and was considered the least successful movie in United States history. Its reviews from movie critics were very negative.

1990s romantic comedy movies
1995 movies
American romantic comedy movies
Movies directed by Renny Harlin
René Aufhauser (born 21 June 1976 in Voitsberg, Styria) is an Austrian football player who played for FC Liefering as defender. Liefering is playing in the Austrian Football First League, which is the second level in Austrian football. Since 2021 he is headcoach of the team.

Aufhauser started in his local clubs  ASK Köflach and ASK Voitsberg. In Voitsberg he was discovered by scouts of Austria Salzburg and in 1997 he signed for the club. Soon he became member of the Austrian U21- national team. 2001 he left Salzburg to join the Grazer AK. In 2004 he won the Championship with this side. After the Red Bull take over of SV Austria Salzburg he came back to join FC Red Bull Salzburg. In 5 years he played 115 matches and shot 20 goals. Under the new manager Huub Stevens he played not often so he left in January 2010 to join LASK Linz. After the denieing of a licence and the relegation to the 3rd league Aufhauser left the club and went back for the third time to Salzburg and joined FC Liefering, the farm team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. In the 2012/13 season they won the Regionalliga West and had to play two play-off matches versus LASK Linz, his former team. They won and were promoted to the First league.

In 2014 he ended his career an became assistance coach of FC Liefering. 2016 he became assistance coach of FC Red Bull Salzburg and in 2021 headcoach of FC Liefering. He also became headcoach of the FC Salzburg U19 squad for the UEFA Youth League 2021/22.

René Aufhauser played 58 times for the Austrian national football team. He was also part of the squad for the UEFA Euro 2008.

References

1976 births
Living people
Austrian footballers
People from Styria
Players of FC Liefering
FC Liefering managers
Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme (born October 28, 1980) is an American ring announcer, professional wrestling valet, singer, former model and retired professional wrestler. She currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as an interviewer and ring announcer.

She is also known for her time in World Wrestling Entertainment where she won the 2004 Diva Search. She stayed with them from 2004 to 2005 and was released from her WWE contract on December 5, 2005. She signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in April 2006.

Championships
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
She was ranked #42 of the best 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2008.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Knockout of the Year (2006)

World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Diva Search winner (2004)

References

Other websites
TNA profile 

1980 births
Living people
American professional wrestlers
American rock singers
Football players from California
Sportspeople from California
Former WWE wrestlers
Janelle Monáe (born December 1, 1985), is an American R&B singer. In 2010 she released her first album, The ArchAndroid. Critics liked it and it got nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2011 Grammy Awards. On February 11 2012 she released the first single from the album, "Tightrope". Big Boi rapped in it. It was nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the same Grammy Awards show. It won Best Track at the NME Awards.

In March 2012 Monáe had her first Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit and No.1, as a singer on Fun's single "We Are Young".

In August 2012 she became the model for CoverGirl.

In October 2012 she performed at the BET Black Girls Rock! Awards and won the Young, Gifted & Black Award.

Monáe voice-acted in the American Dad! episode "The Boring Identity", which was shown 21 Apr. 2013.

On September 6, 2013 her second studio album Metropolis: Suites IV and V - The Electric Lady was released. It got good reviews. It reached No.5 in the Billboard 200. Three singles have been released from it: "Q.U.E.E.N.", "Dance Apocalyptic", and "Primetime". The album includes songs that she did with Solange, Prince, Erykah Badu, and Esperanza Spalding.

On October 26 Monáe performed on Saturday Night Live.

In November 2013 she won Video of the Year honor for “Q.U.E.E.N.” at the Soul Train Awards.

On December 12 2013 she gave the Rising Star Award at the 2013 Billboard Women in Music event in New York.

In April 2018, she came out as pansexual.

Monáe was born in Kansas City, Kansas. She moved to New York to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy because she wanted to be a Broadway actress. She changed her mind, and in 2001 she moved to Atlanta. She met Big Boi from Outkast there. They made the Wondaland Arts Society. Monáe released her first EP The Audition in 2003. Big Boi told his friend Diddy about Monáe. In 2006 she was signed to his record label Bad Boy.

References

1985 births
African-American rappers
Rap musicians from Missouri
Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri
Actors from Kansas City, Missouri
Living people
Singers from Kansas City, Missouri
{{Infobox album
| name = Nostalgia, Ultra
| type = mixtape
| artist = Frank Ocean
| released = February 16, 2011
| recorded = 2010–11
| genre = PBR&B
| length = 
| label = Self-released
| producer = Tricky Stewart, Midi Mafia, Bei Maejor, Happy Perez, TROY NoKA, James Fauntleroy II
, Ultra(2011)
| next_title = Channel Orange(2012)
| misc = }}Nostalgia, Ultra''' is the debut mixtape album by recording artist Frank Ocean. It was released in February 2011 as a free digital download on Ocean's website. It featured the successful singles "Novacane" and "Swim Good". It was supposed to be reissued as an extended play, but this was cancelled. The mixtape caught the attention of rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z, who got Ocean as a featured artist on their Watch The Throne'' album. The mixtape caused controversy in March 2012 because of the track "American Wedding", which is a remake of "Hotel California" by The Eagles.

Tracklisting

References

2011 albums
R&B albums
Odd Future is a group of hip hop musicians from Los Angeles, United States. It was formed in 2007 by Tyler The Creator.

Other websites 
 Official website

2000s American music groups
2007 establishments in California
2010s American music groups
Hip hop bands
Musical groups established in 2007 
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Nothing Was the Same is the third studio album by Drake. It was released in September 2013. It was promoted by the hit songs "Started From the Bottom" and "Hold On, Were Going Home". It is very different from Drake's previous album Take Care.

2013 albums
Drake albums
Nicos Anastasiades (born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician who has been President of Cyprus since 2013. Previously, he was leader of the center-right political party Democratic Rally (DISY).

Anastasiades was born on 27 September 1946 in Pera Pedi, Cyprus. He studied at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the University College London. Anastasiades is married to Andri Moustakoudes.

Anastasiades was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1981 and has been leader of his party since 8 June 1997.

Anastasiades earned 673 votes (86.73%) and MEP Theocharous 103 (13.27%). On the first round of the presidential election on 17 February 2013, Anastasiades won 45% of votes, while Stavros Malas and George Lillikas earned 26.9% and 24.9%, respectively. He won in the second round with 57.48% of the vote.

References

Other websites

 Presidency of Nicos Anastasiades 

1946 births
Living people
Presidents of Cyprus
Current national leaders
Demetris Christofias, also spelled Dimitris Christofias ( ; 29 August 1946 – 21 June 2019), was a Cypriot politician. He was the sixth President of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. Christofias was the General Secretary of AKEL, the communist party of Cyprus, and was the European Union's and Cyprus' first, and so far only, communist head of state.

He won the 2008 Cypriot presidential elections in the second round of voting. Throughout the election campaign, he promised to restart talks with Turkish Cypriots in order to find an answer to the Cyprus dispute and reunify the island. He has also supported the closure of the British military bases on Cyprus.

On 20 May 2019, Christofias was hospitalized in Nicosia due to an acute respiratory infection and was under critical condition. He died a month later on 21 June 2019 from respiratory failure at the age of 72.

References

Other websites

Profile in House of Representatives web site 

1946 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Presidents of Cyprus
Presidents of the House of Representatives (Cyprus)
The President of Cyprus is the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Cyprus. The office was created in 1960, after Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom. The current President of Cyprus is Nicos Anastasiades.

Living Former Presidents

List of presidents

Other websites
Presidency of Cyprus
Tassos (Efstathios) Nikolaou Papadopoulos (; 7 January 1934 – 12 December 2008) was a Cypriot politician. He served as the fifth President of the Republic of Cyprus from February 28, 2003 to February 28, 2008.

Papadopoulos died on 12 December 2008 from a type of lung cancer in Nicosia, Cyprus, aged 74.

References

Other websites

 Cyprus Elections & Politics

1934 births
2008 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Presidents of Cyprus
Nicosia
Presidents of the House of Representatives (Cyprus)
Glafcos Ioannou Clerides (; 24 April 1919 – 15 November 2013) was a Greek-Cypriot politician. He was the fourth President of Cyprus. He was the oldest living former President of the Republic of Cyprus.

Early life
Clerides was born on 24 April 1919 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He studied at the King's College London in London, England.

During World War II, he served in the British Royal Air Force. In 1942 his airplane was shot down over Germany and he was captured. He remained a prisoner of war until the end of the war. His name was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished services. Clerides was also one of the last European leaders who saw active service in World War II.

Career
He was the acting President of Cyprus 7 December 1974, the day of the return of Archbishop Makarios, President of the Republic, who was forced to flee on 16 July 1974.

From 1961 to 1963 he held the position of President of the Cyprus Red Cross. In recognition of his outstanding services he was awarded a Certificate of Honour and Life Membership in recognition of distinguished services to the Red Cross.

In 1976 he founded the right wing Democratic Rally (Demokratikos Synagermos). He was a candidate for the presidency of Cyprus six times and elected to two five-year terms, in 1993 and in 1998. In 1998 his main opponent was Georgios Iakovou. He was defeated in the 2003 presidential election by Tassos Papadopoulos.

During his presidency, Clerides helped his country of Cyprus to become part of the European Union.

Personal life
Clerides was the eldest son of lawyer and statesman Ioannis Clerides. Clerides was married to Lila-Irene. They have a daughter, Katherine, who is a member of the House of the Representatives for the Democratic Rally Party.

Death
Clerides died on 15 November 2013 from unexplained causes in hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus. Before his death, Clerides suffered many health issues. He was 94 years old.

References

Other websites
Official web site of Democratic Rally
Biography (Greek)
 Cyprus Elections & Politics

1919 births
2013 deaths
Nicosia
Presidents of Cyprus
Presidents of the House of Representatives (Cyprus)
Ceolwulf I was the King of Mercia, East Anglia and Kent from 821 to 823. He succeeded his brother Coenwulf of Mercia. There was a great deal of disagreement among his noblemen during his short reign. He was deposed and exiled from Mercia by Beornwulf of Mercia who claimed the throne himself.

King of Mercia

He was the son Cuthbert, a Mercian nobleman. His brother Coenwulf ruled Mercia before him. At his brother's death the Mercians were attacking Wales. Ceolwulf continued where Coenwulf left off. The Annales Cambriae for the year 822 said the 'Saxons' attacked and destroyed the fortress at Deganwy and then controlled Powys. Welsh poems of the time confirm Mercia was attacking Powys. On 17 September 822 he was consecrated king by Archbishop Wulfred. In charters issued by Ceolwulf he styled himself  This shows he had authority in Kent. But his rule in Mercia was marked by discord among his noblemen. He was removed from the throne in 823. After being deposed Ceolwulf left Mercia for Rome. By this time he was older, probably in his fifties. He was the last of the Iclingas dynasty who had ruled Mercia for over three centuries. Beornwulf who replaced him was from a family little is known about.

Notes

References

Other websites 
 The Kings of Mercia 

Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Kings and Queens of Mercia
A machine pistol is a typically a handgun-style firearm that can fire fully automatic or burst fire. Fully automatic means that the gun will continue to fire very rapidly so long as the trigger is pressed and held. Burst fire means that when you pull the trigger, a number of shots determined by the shooter will be fired (for some guns, this is three shots, fired very quickly). Machine pistols fire pistol cartridges. Machine pistols usually have the cartridges fed into the gun with a magazine, which is a rectangular box which holds the cartridges.
Machine pistols are usually self-loading, which means that the gun automatically loads a new cartridge into the chamber after a shot is fired.

History

The first true machine pistol was the German MP-18 introduced in 1918. It fired the 9mm Parabellum cartridge. It used a side-loading magazine that held 20 cartridges. 

The Germans converted some pistols, like the Luger, into machine pistols. They invented a type of Luger called the Luger P08 in World War I to German artillery crews. It had a longer barrel and a 32 round magazine shaped like a round drum. It was given to artillery crews so they could defend themselves.

In 1951 the Russian army developed the Stechkin APS, which could fire in burst fire or in fully automatic fire. When the gun was used in burst or automatic fire, users were told to use the wooden stock so that they can control the weapon better. One of the problems with machine pistols is they tend to rise up when being fired, making the bullets miss their target.

1990s2000s 
In the 1990s and 2000s, as  more soldier began wearing bulletproof vests with hard ceramic armor, the machine pistol became less useful in a military setting. The low-powered pistol ammunition was not able to penetrate ceramic-plated Kevlar military vests. As a result, armies began to issue a new gun, the personal defense weapon or PDW. The PDW fires armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition which can go through bulletproof vests.

References

Related pages 
 Submachine gun

Other websites
 Article on Glock 18, a fully automatic pistol

Pistols
Law enforcement equipment
Spyros Achilleos Kyprianou (or Cyprianou) (; 28 October 1932 – 12 March 2002) was an Cypriot politician. He was one of the most important politicians of modern Cyprus. He served as the second President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1977 to 1988.

Spyros Kyprianou died on 12 March 2002 after a long fight with prostate cancer.

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1932 births
2002 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Presidents of Cyprus
Presidents of the House of Representatives (Cyprus)
Makarios III (), born Michail Christodolou Mouskos (; August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977), was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950–1977). He was the first President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1974 and 1974–1977). In his three terms as President of Cyprus (1959-1977), he survived four assassination attempts.

Makarios died from a heart attack on August 3, 1977 in Nicosia, Cyprus, aged 63.

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Other websites
 Text of Makarios III’s famous interview  with Oriana Fallaci, given in 1974
 A series of stories from the BBC relating to Makarios
Your Beatitude, Mr President - interviewing Makarios 1964.
 The Makarios Legacy in Kenya

1913 births
1977 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Presidents of Cyprus
Nicosia
Jorge González (January 31, 1966 – September 22, 2010) was an Argentine professional wrestler and basketball player. He is known for competing in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He also competed for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).

Before becoming a professional wrestler, González played basketball. He was the tallest Argentine basketball player in history, standing at 2.29 m (7 ft 6.25 in).

He was drafted in the 1988 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks in the third round. González along with Hernán Montenegro (who was drafted 3 spots after him) became the first Argentine players drafted in the NBA. He was not able to adapt to the physical demands of NBA basketball because of a serious knee injury.

He was known for wearing a full body suit that featured airbrushed muscles with bushy hair attached. He debuted in the WWF at the Royal Rumble in January 1993, where he eliminated The Undertaker from the Royal Rumble match even though he was not an official participant. González challenged The Undertaker at WrestleMania IX but lost by disqualification when he knocked Undertaker unconscious by using chloroform. This win for The Undertaker remains the only instance where he did not have a decisive victory in his WrestleMania streak.

Championships
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #112 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991.

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WWE profile

1966 births
2010 deaths
Argentine sportspeople
Basketball players
Deaths from diabetes
Former WWE wrestlers
Professional wrestlers
Yoga Syahputra (8 February 1983 – 27 March 2015) was an Indonesian actor, comedian, and singer.

Career 
Yoga was born to Nur and Nurhida Rachman. He was the oldest of their seven children. His first job as an actor was in Lenong Bocah. Because he did not have enough money, Olga sold a refrigerator to pay his school fees to take classes at Studio Ananda.

Filmography
 Tina Toon dan Lenong Bocah The Movie (2004)
 Susahnya Jadi Perawan (2008)
 Mau Lagi? (2008)
 Basahhh... (2008)
 Cintaku Selamanya (2008)
 Mas Suka, Masukin Aja-Besar Kecil I'ts Okay (2008)
 Pacar Hantu Perawan (2011)
 Kung Fu Pocong Perawan (2012)
 Taman Lawang (film) (2013)

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1983 births
2015 deaths
Actors from Jakarta
Comedians
Indonesian singers
Television actors
Roger Schmidt (born 13 March 1967 in Kierspe, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German football manager.  He is manages of PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie of the Netherlands. 

His original profession is engineer. As player he played for SC Verl and SC Paderborn as midfielder. He started his career as manager with Delbrücker SC, went on to Preußen Münster and then to Paderborn 07. Since his time with Münster he is a professional manager.

His last manager job is with FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Bundesliga, the top level league in Austrian football. Although the team gained goal and point record they finished only second. Being in danger to lose his job a lot of the fans declared their solidarity.

In 2014, he transferred to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. In June 2017 Schmidt joined Chinese Super League Beijing Sinobo Guoan.  On 31 July 2019, he was sacked by Beijing Sinobo Guoan.  On 11 March 2020 he became new manager of PSV Eindhoven.

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1967 births
Living people
German footballers
German football managers
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
Eredivisie managers
 FC Red Bull Salzburg managers
Ernest W. Burgess (May 16, 1886–December 27, 1966) was an urban sociologist. He was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. Burgess received his education at Kingfisher College in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He did his graduate studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1916, he returned to the University of Chicago, as a member of the faculty. Burgess was hired as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago. He was the 24th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He made the Burgess model to show how big Chicago will grow in 1923. The Burgess model is also called the Concentric zone model.

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Other websites
 American Sociological Association (ASA)

1886 births
1966 deaths
People from Ontario

American sociologists
Beornwulf († 826) was a Mercian nobleman who became the King of Mercia. Although not of the Mercian royal family himself he usurped the throne from Ceolwulf in 823. He ruled Mercia until his death three years later.

King of Mercia 

Little is known about Beornwulf's family. He played a large part in Ceolwulf I losing the throne in 823. He succeeded Ceolwulf as king in the summer of 823. Beornwulf continued the campaign against Powys started by Coenwulf and his brother Ceolwulf I. By the end of 823 Powys was being controlled by Mercia. By 825 Beornwulf had extended his authority over Kent, Essex and Middlesex. In 825 Beornwulf invaded Wessex. In what Frank Stenton called "one of the most decisive battles of Anglo-Saxon history" Egbert defeated Beornwulf at the Battle of Ellandun. This was the end of the Mercian kings dominating England. Egbert sent his son Athelwulf with an army to overthrow Baldred, the Mercian sub-king. As a result, all of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and East Anglia submitted to Egbert of Wessex. Egbert was cautious though. He kew Mercia had a powerful army and did not attack Mercia directly. Instead he instigated the East Anglians to revolt against Beornwulf. When Beornwulf tried to recover East Anglia in 826 he was killed in the attempt. He was succeeded by one of his ealdormen, Ludeca of Mercia.

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 The Kings of Mercia 

Year of birth unknown
820s deaths
Kings and Queens of Mercia
The French Resistance is the name used to refer to the different French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German military occupation in France during World War II (1939–1945).  Résistance cells were small groups of armed men and women who killed German soldiers, published secret underground newspapers, collected information about the German army, and helped Allied soldiers and pilots who were trapped in France to get back to Great Britain. The men and women of the Résistance came from all levels of society and many different religions.

The Allied armies helped the French Resistance by providing them with guns and explosives. It was very dangerous to be a member of the French resistance. Members who were caught by the Germans were often tortured and killed. When the Resistance killed a German officer, sometimes the Nazi army would kill large numbers of innocent civilians as a punishment.

The French Resistance helped the Allied armies to advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, and the invasion of Provence on 15 August by providing information about the German defenses. The resistance also sabotaged the electrical power grid, transportation methods, and telecommunications networks. During the Nazi occupation of France, the resistance was an inspiring example of patriotic behavior and bravery.

When the war was over, the Resistance executed about 9,000 people who were collaborating with the Nazi occupiers. This included many members of the Milices, a fascist organization that helped Nazi Germany.

Resistance movements of World War II
Rebellions in Europe
20th century rebellions
1930s in France
1940s in France
The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula () is a university in the city of Pula, Croatia. It was created in 2006. As of 2011, the university had about 2,465 students.

Faculties and Departments
The Juraj Dobrila University of Pula is an entirely integrated university, consisting of five departments:
 Faculty of Economics and Tourism "Dr. Mijo Mirković"
 Department of Humanities
 Department of Information Technology
 Department of Music
 Department for Studies in the Italian Language
 Teacher training department

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 University of Pula website

Colleges and universities in Europe
Croatia
Establishments in Croatia
2006 establishments in Europe
A rhythm section is the group of musicians in a rock music, jazz, or country music group who play their instruments to set out the pulse or beat of the music. This is played in accompaniment to the rest of the band. Some of the rhythm section instruments, such as the guitar and the piano, also play the chord progression (sequence of chords) that a song is based upon. Some rhythm section instruments, such as the drums and percussion, are just used to set out the beat. Most rhythm sections include a bass instrument, such as the bass guitar or the double bass, which plays the deep, low notes of the chord progression.

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A lap dance is a type of sex work performed in some strip clubs (clubs in which women or men take off their clothes as they dance to music). In this, a dancer performs an erotic dance either contacting their body (contact dancing) with a seated patron or within a very short distance of a seated patron.

The dancer may be naked, topless or wearing a bikini top and bottom, depending on the laws in the jurisdiction of the strip club and the club's policies. With full-contact lap dances, the stripper may engage in contact with the patron, such as pressing his or her body against the patron. Different types include a couch dance, which is a lap dance where the customer is seated on a couch, and bed dance where the customer lies down on a bed. 

In some clubs, a "block session" of lap dances (usually half an hour to an hour) can be booked in a "champagne room", which is a private room in the back of a club. In many clubs, the duration of a lap dance is measured by the length of the song being played by the club's DJ. Charges for lap dances vary.

Depending on the local jurisdiction and community standards, lap dances can involve touching of the dancer by the patron, touching the patron by the dancer, neither, or both. In some clubs, any touching by the patron is forbidden. On the other hand, if a club does not enforce its rules, levels of contact may be negotiable between the participants. Clubs vary widely with regard to whether they enforce their rules or ignore any violations.

Critics of lapdancing say that some club owners, by installing dark private booths and charging dancers high stage fees to work at the club, are encouraging the sale of sexual acts between customers and dancers.  According to the UK paper The Guardian, "Research shows that the majority of women become lap-dancers through poverty and lack" of other jobs.

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Dance types
Ludeca († 827) was a Mercian nobleman and ealdorman. At the death of Beornwulf in 826 he became the King of Mercia. He ruled what was left of Mercia after Beornwulf's defeat by Egbert of Wessex at the Battle of Ellandun. He ruled Mercia until his own death, barely a year later.

King of Mercia 
In 824 two charters of King Beornwulf are witnessed by Ludeca, then a member of his court. His title on those charters is . Nothing else is known of Ludeca. At Beornwulf's death he became king. But the kingdom Ludeca now ruled was just Mercia, Lindsey, Middle Anglia and the Mercian provinces of the Hwicce and Magonsæte. All of southern England was in disorder. Egbert of Wessex now had control of Essex and Kent. He had instigated the revolt by the East Anglians that resulted in Beornwulf's death. The East Anglians saw this as a chance for their independence from Mercia. A few months later Ludeca led his army against them but he was killed. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 825 (actual year 827) recorded: "In this year Ludecan, king of the Mercians, was slain, and his five aldormen [ealdormen] with him, and Wiglaf succeeded to the kingdom."

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 The Kings of Mercia 

Year of birth unknown
820s deaths
Kings and Queens of Mercia
In the Philippines, regions (Tagalog: rehiyon) are administrative divisions that serve primarily to organize the provinces (lalawigan) of the country for administrative convenience. Most government offices are established by region instead of individual provincial offices, usually (but not always) in the city that is the regional center.

The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor.

List of regions
The Philippines has 17 administrative regions. Fourteen of these regions are designated with numbers corresponding to their geographic location in order from north to south. The National Capital Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao do not have numerical designations.

These regions are geographically combined into the three island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Following is a list of the regions in their island groupings.

The regions CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, and SOCCSKSARGEN are written with upper case characters because they are acronyms that stand for their component provinces or cities. CALABARZON stands for CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal and QueZON; MIMAROPA stands for Occidental and Oriental MIndoro, MArinduque, ROmblon and  PAlawan; and SOCCSKSARGEN stands for SOuth Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, SARangani and GENeral Santos.

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 Provinces of the Philippines

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National Statistical Coordination Board 
National Statistics Office
Luciano Vincenzoni (7 March 1926 – 22 September 2013) was an Italian screenwriter, known as the "script doctor". He wrote for some 65 movies between 1954 and 2000. He is known for his works in For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, but he also wrote for a number of other Spaghetti westerns.

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Other websites

Official web site about the documentary based on the Vincenzoni's life 

1926 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
Italian screenwriters
People from Veneto
Merton College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1264 by Walter de Merton, who was the Chancellor to Henry III and Edward I.  It claims to be the oldest college in Oxford, although Balliol College and University College also claim to be the oldest.

Construction of the college at its present location began in the 1270s. Its buildings are among the oldest in Oxford.  Mob Quad at Merton College was built in the 14th Century. It is often said to be the oldest quadrangle at Oxford or Cambridge. Other quadrangles at Oxford and Cambridge, however, may be older.

J.R.R. Tolkien was a professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College.

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University of Oxford
1264 establishments
1260s establishments in Europe
13th-century establishments in England