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Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. He was an important American poet of the 19th century.

His most famous collection of poems is Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person. Whitman kept adding to this book right up until he died of pneumonia, in 1892. It was controversial because readers thought it was obscene. It included some sexuality.

Whitman was either bisexual or homosexual. However, there is disagreement about whether Whitman had actual sexual experiences with men.

Whitman was deeply influenced by deism. He denied any one faith was more important than another, and embraced all religions equally.

Leaves of Grass

Whitman first tried writing in many different popular genres. In 1850, he began writing Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which he would continue working on until his death. Whitman wanted to write an epic that was clearly American, using free verse. At the end of June 1855, Whitman surprised his brothers with the first copies of Leaves of Grass. His brother George "didn't think it worth reading".

Whitman paid for the publication of the first version of Leaves of Grass himself and had it printed at a local print shop. A total of 795 copies were printed. The first page was an image of Whitman, but he doesn't write his name until 500 lines into the body of the text. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a kind five-page letter to Whitman and praised the book to friends. The first edition of Leaves of Grass was very popular, but was some people didn't like the "obscene" or offensive parts of the poetry.

In the months after the first edition of Leaves of Grass, people became more upset about the sexual themes. Because of this, the publisher almost did not release the second edition. In 1856, 20 new poems were added. Different versions of Leaves of Grass continued to be published throughout the rest of Whitman's life. Many famous writers like Amos Bronson Alcott and Henry David Thoreau liked the work enough to visit Whitman.

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A pretender is someone who says that he or she has the right to be ruler.  The word is often used to describe someone who claims that they have the right to be king, queen, emperor etc.  They claim that the ruler who is on the throne should not be there. 

Sometimes people call such a person a "claimant". The person may be an imposter (someone who is pretending to be someone else).  Often they are pretending to be a prince or other royal person who is missing or whom people think is dead.  However, they may have a genuine right to the throne.  The word pretend comes from the French word prétendre (from the Latin praetendo lit. "to stretch out before").  It means: to profess, to make a loud statement.  In modern English the word pretend  means "to claim falsely".

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Native American mythology is the body of traditional stories associated with Native American religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythologies_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

Native American
Mythology
In the airline industry, a focus city is an airport that is important to one airline but is not a hub.  An airline has daily flights from the Focus city to many destinations that are also not its hubs.  Even though the word "city" is part of this term, it means a city's airport, not the city. 

An example of an airline's focus city is US Airways (now part of American Airlines) at Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.   Focus city airports can have some of the same facilities that hubs have.  For example, the airline may repair or clean their aircraft at a focus city because it is cheaper. They might also have places and equipment to handle cargo.

Many low-cost carriers that mostly fly point-to-point use focus cities more than hubs. Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Allegiant Air and WestJet in the Americas, and Ryanair, EasyJet, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Wizz Air in Europe are examples.

References

Other websites
Map of AirTran's routes and indicator of their focus cities
JetBlue route map with "key cities" 

Airlines
The United States–Mexico border is the international border between the United States and Mexico. 

It runs from Imperial Beach, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east. It covers a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. 

From the Gulf of Mexico it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Westward from there it crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert. Then it crosses the Colorado River Delta, west to San Diego and Tijuana before reaching the Pacific Ocean. The US-Mexican border is considered an open border.

The border's total length is , according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission. It is the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with approximately three hundred fifty million (350,000,000) crossings per year.

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Valeri Bure (born 1974) is a retired NHL hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens. He is Russian.

1974 births
American Hockey League players
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Living people
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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport , often called Dallas Airport and DFW Airport, is between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It is the busiest airport in Texas. It serves the larger  metropolitan area. Regional, national and international flights use this airport. Flights go to 144 domestic and 47 international destinations.

In 2010, it was the fourth busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft movements with 652,261. it was the eighth busiest airport in the world when measured by passenger traffic, with 56,906,610 passengers in 2010. It is the main hub and largest hub for American Airlines.

The airport is in the cities of Coppell, Euless, Grapevine, and Irving.  The land for DFW was purchased by both Dallas and Fort Worth  in 1966, and construction began in 1969.

Airlines
These airlines go to DFW Airport: 
Aeroméxico
Air Canada
Alaska Airlines
American Airlines
American Eagle Airlines
Avianca
Boutique Air
British Airways
Cayman Airways
Delta Air Lines
Delta Connection
Emirates Airlines
Etihad Airways
Frontier Airlines
Interjet
Japan Airlines
JetBlue Airways
Korean Air
Lufthansa
Qantas
Qatar Airways
Spirit Airlines
Sun Country Airlines
United Airlines
United Express
VivaAerobus
Volaris
WestJet

Gallery

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The German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association () —  an association of German insurers of the nuclear industry in Cologne. The German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association also is involved in the reinsurance industry.

History 
The first associations of insurers of the nuclear industry in Europe were founded in Sweden and England in 1955. The German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association was founded shortly thereafter in 1957. Throughout the association's history, it has only once had to pay a claim; the claim amounted to about €10,000 to €15,000.

Functions and tasks 
Despite the slight probability of losses resulting from an insured event in the nuclear industry, in the event of an insured event does occur the possibilities for damages are considerable. As such a single insurance company is unable to bear such risk alone. Under German law, the transfer of a nuclear risk of an insurer to a reinsurer is prohibited. In 1998 the Atomic Energy Act established the maximum insurance liability of nuclear insurer at about €2.5 billion; for damages above that cap the Federal Government is liable  according to § 34 of the Atomic Energy Act. If the total damage exceeds the stipulated maximum sum of €2.55 billion, the German Federal Government pays the German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association for the excess losses. The insurance payments include the cost of evacuating people.

DKVG and Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant 
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant was insured for some tens of millions of euros with German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association. Under the terms of the insurance policy, the policyholder was not insured for damage caused by earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Therefore the German Nuclear Reactor Insurance Association had no resulting liability to Tokyo Electric Power Company, the owner of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, because of Fukushima I nuclear accidents.

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Christianity has been historically intertwined with Western civilization. However, it is difficult to decide what its effects were.

Through its long history, the Church has been a major source of social services such as schooling. Several universities were founded by the Church. Some historians of science, have argued that the Church had a significant, positive influence on the development of science. Some of the Church's priests have contributed to science. In various ways the Church has sought to affect Western attitudes to vice and virtue in diverse fields. It has, over many centuries, promulgated the teachings of Jesus within the Western World and remains a source of continuity linking modern Western culture to classical Western culture.

Influence 
The Bible and Christian theology have also strongly influenced Western philosophers and political activists.  Long held Christian teachings on sexuality and marriage have also been influential in family life.

The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Festivals like Easter and Christmas are marked globally as public holidays; Pope Gregory XIII's Gregorian Calendar has been adopted internationally. Year numbering in the West is taken from the assumed date of the birth of the Church's founder, Jesus of Nazareth. In the list of the 100 most influential people in human history there are 65 Christian figures from various fields.

Science 
Copernicus, a Catholic priest, delayed publication of his work on heliocentrism until the year of his death. The theory attracted some attention among scientists. Decades later, Galileo Galilei took an interest in astronomy, and raised the question more prominently. This brought the attention of the Committee for Propaganda of the Catholic Church, otherwise known as the Inquisition. He was tried, convicted, and forced to retract his published belief in heliocentrism.   

Centuries later, the Catholic church had lost interest in subjecting natural philosophy to dogma. The relation of the now separate Church of England to evolution was complicated by the lack of the centralised authority of a Pope. Many conservative clerics opposed evolution fiercely, whilst few liberal clerics saw conflict with their beliefs. Before he published the On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin feared the reaction of the church, and spent years collecting evidence as defence to the expected criticism. Long after heliocentrism was all but universally accepted, some Protestant leaders continued to resist evolution.

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was an old province of Japan in the area of central and western Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . 

The province had borders with Izu, Musashi, Suruga provinces.  Its Pacific Ocean border included Sagami Bay. 

The ancient capital city of the province was near  Hiratsuka.

History

Sagami was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code. 

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between Kyoto and Edo. The road passed through Sagami.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Izu Province were reformed in the 1870s.

All of Sagami became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1876.

In 1906, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Sagami was named after the province.

Shrines and Temples
Samukawa jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Hōki.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

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  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
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Young Frankenstein is a 1974 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Danny Goldman, David L. Lander, Michael McKean,  Richard Haydn and Gene Hackman. The movie is a parody of the classical horror movie genre. In 2003, it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board, and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.

It tells the story of Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of Victor, the mad scientist whose experiments in re-animation led to the creation of a monster; to disassociate himself from his legacy, Frederick insists that his surname be pronounced "Fronk-en-steen". He has to travel to Transylvania because he has inherited his family's estate, where he meets Igor, a hunchbacked, bulging-eyed servant, and Inga.

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Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was a British writer.

Forster was born in Marylebone, London. He attended Tonbridge School, an independent school in Tonbridge, Kent. He studied at Kings College, Cambridge.

Forster was a homosexual and wrote about homosexuality, class division and gender. His novels include Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India and Maurice. He also wrote short stories, plays, essays, libretti and travel guides.

Forster died of a stroke in Coventry, Warwickshire.

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The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's special forces. Their acronym is derived from their ability to operate at sea, in the air, and on land. In the War on Terrorism, SEALs have been utilized almost exclusively for land-based missions. All SEALs are male members of the United States Navy. The CIA, more specifically its Special Activities Division, often recruits operators from the SEAL Teams. Joint Navy SEALs and CIA operations go back to the famed MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War.  Joint operations have continued, as seen in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

The Navy SEALs were formed in the second world war. The United States Navy found the need for covert, elite operations. As a result, the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida. The Scouts and Raiders were formed in September of that year, nine months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

World War II 

The first group included Phil H. Bucklew, the "Father of Naval Special Warfare," in whose honor the Naval Special Warfare Center building is named. Started in October 1942, this group saw action in November 1942 during Operation Torch, the first allied landings in Europe, on the North African coast. Scouts and Raiders also helped during landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy, and southern France.

A second group of Scouts and Raiders was started on 7 July 1943. Their first mission, in September 1943, was at Finschafen on New Guinea. Later operations were at Gasmata, Arawe, Cape Gloucester, and the East and South coast of New Britain. 

The third Scout and Raiders organization operated in China. Scouts and Raiders were to fight with the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, or SACO. They conducted a patrol of the upper Yangtze River in the spring of 1945 and, disguised as coolies, conducted a detailed three-month patrol of the Chinese coast from Shanghai to Kitchioh Wan, near Hong Kong.

Vietnam 

President John F. Kennedy, aware of the situations in Southeast Asia, recognized the need for special operations in the fight against guerrilla warfare. In a speech to Congress on 25 May 1961, Kennedy spoke of his respect for the United States Army Special Forces. In the speech he announced his intention to spend over $100 million to strengthen U.S. special operations forces and expand American capabilities in unconventional warfare. Some people have assumed this was the start of the SEALS, but they had already long been active.

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John Gould Veitch (April 1839 – 13 August 1870) was an expert on plants and growing plants, he was also a traveller and one of the first Victorian British plant experts to visit Japan to look for and collect new plants. He was a great-grandson of John Veitch, the founder of the Veitch family plant growing business. He also visited the Philippines, Australia, Fiji, and other Polynesian islands looking for new plants to bring back to Great Britain.

He brought back a number of the glasshouse plants that were in fashion at the time, such as Acalyphas, Cordylines, Codiaeums (Crotons) and Dracaenas, and from Fiji, a palm of a new genus later named after him, Veitchia joannis, in addition to this genus the Veitch family name is honoured by hundreds of other plant names.

In Japan, he met another famous plant collector called Robert Fortune, and their competing collections returned to England on the same ship. For example, each man claimed that they had discovered a species of Chamaecyparis pisifera (a kind of cypress).

He married Jane Hodge soon after his return to England in 1866 and they had two sons,  James Herbert Veitch, (1868 – 1907) and John Gould Veitch, Jr. (1869 – 1914)

John Gould Veitch died of tuberculosis at the age of 31.

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Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama movie starring Al Pacino and directed by Martin Brest. It is based on 1969 novel by Giovanni Arpino  (The Darkness and the Honey) and is a remake of 1974 Italian movie Profumo di donna.

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English-language movies
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Movies based on books
Movies set in New York City
Universal Pictures movies
Barbara Mori (born February  2, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Mexican actress. She is best known for lead role of the Bollywood film, Kites also Telenovela Rubí in which she played the main character.

Films
Viento en Contra (2011) Luisa Braniff
1 a Minute (2010/2011)  Star
Kites (2010) as Natasha/Linda
Violanchelo (2009) as Consuelo
Cosas insignificantes (2008) as Paola
Por siempre   (2007)Amor, dolor y viceversa (2007)Robots (2005) as Cappy (Spanish language version)La mujer de mi hermano (2005) as ZoePretendiendo (2005) as Helena/AmandaInspiración (2000)spanish beauty(2010)

TelenovelasRubí (2004) as Rubí Perez de Ferrer/Fernanda Rivera PerezMirada de mujer: El regreso (2003)Súbete A Mi Moto (2002) as NellyAmor es... querer con alevosía (2001) as CarolinaMe muero por ti (1999)Azul Tequila (1998) as AzulMirada de mujer (1998)  as Mónica San MillánAl norte del corazón'' (1997)

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Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
1978 births
Living people
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Uruguayan entertainers
Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer. He won many events in PGA and Champions Tours dating back to 1955. These included winning the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship.

Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He studied at Wake Forest College. 

Palmer died at a hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 25, 2016, aged 87. He died from complications of heart problems while awaiting for heart surgery.

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is a Japanese city in Fukushima on the island of Honshu.

History
Minamisōma was formed on 1 January 2006 when three neighboring towns were merged in a new city -- Haramachi, Odaka, and Kashima.

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The tsunami partly covered the city on 11 March 2011. It damaged the city severely. As of 9 April 2011, 400 residents were known to be dead and 1,100 missing.

Minamisōma is about 25 km north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Much of the city is in the area near the plant where people should not live. Most people in the city had to leave. About a week after the earthquake, Minamisōma was in the news again as the town's mayor Katsunobu Sakarai complained about orders telling people still near the plant to stay in their homes. He said they had been 'abandoned'.

In mid-summer 2011, tests found radioactive cesium above the legal limit in beef from Minamisōma.

In 2012, plans were made to build solar plants on radiation-contaminated farmlands.

In 2013, some critics complained that reports issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) were misleading.  According to some public health experts, the health impact of nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is under-estimated.

References

Other websites 

 Minamisōma City website 
 http://www.kokudo.or.jp/marge/c_prefecture.html 
 Nakano Monument 
Response to YouTube video for help:
 Japanese City’s Cry Resonates Around the World - New York Times, April 6, 2011
Rebuilding Minami Soma - October 22, 2011

Cities in Fukushima Prefecture
The Les Canadiennes (, formerly the Montreal Stars are a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL).  They have won the League championship four times and the Clarkson Cup (the highest honour in North American women's hockey) two times, more than any other women's team.

History 
The Montreal Stars were formed in 2007. The team was formed from players from the Montreal Axion a team that played in the National Women's Hockey League before its demise. Through the team's young history they have seen success in every season.

The Montreal Stars have a total of four regular season championships and two Clarkson cups in four seasons.

In 2015 the name was changed to Les Canadiennes after a close relationship was created between the team and the NHL Montreal Canadiens.

Current roster 2011-12

Coaching staff 2011-12

    General Manager: Meg Hewings 
    Head Coach:Patrick Rankine 
    Assistant Coach:  Philippe Trahan 
    Head Athletic Therapist: Robin Hunter 
    Outreach & Promotion relations: Fiona Robinson  
    Media Relations:  Hélène Lapointe  
    Social Media: Sandra Bagaria

References 

  Montreal Stars win women's national hockey championship, in CBC news, March 21, 2009.
 Montreal Stars down Whitecaps to capture Clarkson Cup ,TSN.ca, March 21, 2009
 Montreal 2011 Clarkson Cup Champions , March 27, 2011.
 Montreal wins Clarkson Cup . March 28, 2011. 
 St-Pierre backstops Montreal to Clarkson Cup title  in CBC news, March 27, 2011.
 Montreal Stars: Game on to beat Breast Cancer 2011

Other websites 

 Les Canadiennes on CWHL website 
 Montreal CWHL Facebook page

Ice hockey teams in Quebec
Sport in Montreal
Overclocking is the process of configuring a computer processor or other electronic circuit to run faster than it was designed to. Overclocking allows a computer to be faster and more responsive. Overclocked processors tend to use more electricity and make more heat than those running at their intended speed. It is often necessary to install a better heat sink to avoid overheating the processor. If a processor is overclocked too high, it can damage the processor or make the computer unstable. Increasing the voltage to the processor can allow it to be run at even higher speeds where it would otherwise be unstable, but this carries an especially high risk of damaging the processor.

Overclocking is usually done in the computer's BIOS setup utility. Most brand-name computers such as Dell, HP, and others do not allow overclocking in the BIOS setup utility, but custom-built computers usually do. It is also possible to do the opposite, called underclocking, where the processor is run at a lower speed than intended. This may be done to extend battery life and reduce heat output. Underclocking will not usually damage a processor and may in fact make it last longer. Some processors automatically underclock themselves when the computer is not doing a lot of work.

Overclocking of other components 
Many other digital circuits with a clock signal can be overclocked (or underclocked). This includes video cards, smartphones, and even graphing calculators. Even some sound cards can be overclocked to record or play at a higher sample rate than usual. Overclocking has become popular with Android users.

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Computer processors
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is situated on 3430  Bellechasse street  in Montreal, Canada. Built in 1976, the Center includes two ice rinks, a room for the gymnastics and a gymnasium. It was the site of the basketball competitions during the Olympics of Montreal of 1976.

The center is named in honour of Olympian Étienne Desmarteau, a Canadian athlete during the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The center is the official home of the Montreal Stars, a team of the Canadian Women's Hockey League and Montreal Mission a team of the National Ringette League. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year.

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Nanalan' is an American–Canadian television show broadcast by the Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. programming block in the US and CBC Television in Canada. Nanalan''' is "designed to foster children's curiosity and love of learning, with the hope they will carry it with them as they grow". Excerpts from the show also air on Fox Kids UK. The series premiered airs at 9:30AM ET/PT times on February 9, 2000 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States.Nanalan'  began airing on February 9, 2000 and on January 6, 2006, it was nominated for the following three Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Pre-School Program or Series; Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series; and Best Pre-School Program or Series. Nanalan won Best writing and Best performance, an award shared by Jamie Shannon (the voice of Mona), Jason Hopley (the voice of Nana and Russell), Marty Stelnick (the voice of Mrs. Bea), Todd Doldersum (the voice of Mr. Wooka), and Ali Eisner (the performer of Russell).

Several compilation DVDs of the show and a CD of musical highlights are also available.

The main character is a green puppet named Mona. She is known for her lollipop and orange Nana''', who is Mona's main caretaker.

2000s American animated television series
Canadian animated television series
Children's television series
2000 television series debuts
2006 television series endings
The Montreal Mission  is a ringette team at Montreal, Canada. The team plays in the National Ringette League and plays its home games in Centre Étienne Desmarteau.

Team history

The Montreal Mission have played in the National Ringette League since its formation in 2004. For several years, the best ringette team in Quebec is the Montreal Mission. On the other hand, the team ends in the second rank in the  East Conference of the National Ringette League behind a team of the Ontario, the Cambridge Turbos and it since two seasons: 2010-11 and 2009-10. In 2008-09, Montreal Mission ends its season at the top of the classification of the east Conference with two points more than the Cambridge Turbos.

World Championship connection
The world championships of ringuette occur once in three years. Several players of Montreal Mission were able to represent it their country of origin. The team includes notable players:

Leading scorers 
In 2010-11, two players of Montreal Mission dominated the classification of the league with 141 points for Julie Blanchette 1st and 132 points for Catherine Cartier 2nd. In 2009-2010 these two same players dominated the classification with 122 points for (1st) Cartier, 110 points for Blanchette 2nd and in addition 83 points for Stéphanie Séguin 4th.

Current roster 2011-12

Coaching staff 2011-12

    General Manager: France Levert  
    Head Coach: 	 Daniel Dussault

References

 Montreal Mission Roster, 2011-2012 Season
 National Ringette League announces annual award winners

Other websites 
The official website of Montreal Mission  
The official website of National Ringette League - Canada 
 Ringette Canada 

 
Sport in Montreal
Julie Blanchette  (born January 9, 1977 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian professional ringette player. She plays center position.  Blanchette plays for the Montreal Mission of the National Ringette League. She is also a member of the Canadian national women's ringette team.

Sporting career 

Blanchette started playing ringette when she was 4 years old. Her brother played ice hockey, and her parents looked for a team game for her. They signed her up with the local ringette club in Montreal. She played her sport at every amateur level in Montreal. She represented Quebec in the Canadian championships and the Canada Games.

Blanchette has been at the professional elite level since 2003. She plays for Montreal Mission in the National Ringette League in Canada. In 2005, she played a season for the club Turun Ringet Turku in the professional ringette league of Finland.

Since 2004, she has been a member of the ringette national team of Canada. She played in the Ringette World championships of 2004 in Stockholm, of 2007 in Ottawa and of 2010 in Tampere. She also played in the world championships of 2008 to Sault Ste-Marie.

She is captain of the Canadian national team and Montreal Mission. She is also a trainer and a coach. She is the trainer of the national Team Canada Under-19 years during the world Championships Under-19 years of 2009 in Prague. In September 2011, Blanchette was named an assistant-coach of the national team of Canada.

Statistics

in club

International level

Honors 
 Won Gold Medal in nine times in Provincial champion of Quebec : in 1995, in 1996, in 1997, in 1998, in 1999, in 2000, in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
 Won Gold Medal  in 8 Canadian Championships of ringette.
 Won Silver Medal  in the Canadian Championship of 2000 to Prince Georges 
 Won Silver Medal  in the 2004 world Championships 
 Won Silver Medal  in the  2007 World Championships o
 Won Bronze Medal  as coach of the team of Quebec in the 2007 Winter games of Canada.
 Won Silver Medal     as coach of the national team Canada is U-19 in the world Championships Under 19 years in August, 2009 in Prague, in Czech Republic.
 Won Silver Medal   in the 2010 World championships  
Top scorer of the club Montreal Mission and the 2nd top scorers in the existence of the National Ringette League in Canada.
Top Canadian scorers during the World Championship of clubs in 2008 with 
Champion of top scorers for the season 2010-11 in the National Ringette League in Canada (with individual stats of 61 goals and 80 assists (for a total of 141 points)
 Selected on the team of stars during Canadian championship of 2000 in Prince George.
 Selected on the team of stars during championships Canadian of 2005 in Winnipeg.
Elected a  MVP Player 2005-06 season and 2008-09 season in the National Ringette League.

Personal life
Blanchette also plays golf and runs in marathons.

References

Other websites 
   Profile of Julie Blanchette for Montreal Mission 
 Profile of Julie Blanchette for Canadian National Team
  A ringette star for the West End, The Monitor, April 26 2007.

1977 births
Living people
People from Montreal
Sportspeople from Quebec
Gene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American movie and book critic. He has been a critic on NBC's The Today Show since January 15, 1973. He is known for his use of puns, his very large handlebar moustache, and for wearing bowties.

Career
He has been reviewing the arts since 1967. He has written for magazines such as Look magazine, Ladies' Home Journal (for 12 years), Cosmopolitan, TV Guide, Seventeen, Glamour, McCall's, and The New York Times. From 1970–1982 he had a daily report on NBC Radio. In 1987, he published Laughing Matters—A Treasury of American Humor, a humor anthology. Since 2009, he lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with his cat Fellini. Shalit's children include the artist and entrepreneur Willa Shalit.

Shalit was born in New York City on March 25, 1926. He later moved to Newark, New Jerseywith his mother. In 1932, he and his family moved to Morristown, New Jersey. Born of Jewish parents, Shalit attended Morristown High School. While thee, he wrote a humor column for the school newspaper.

Gene Shalit wrote for The Daily Illini for six years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Shalit said that he would leave The Today Show after 40 years, starting November 11, 2010. He was quoted as saying: "It's enough already". Shalit was Dick Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit stopped representing Clark during a Congressional investigation.  Clark has not spoken to Shalit again and said he was a "jellyfish."

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Petra Kvitová (born 8 March 1990) is a Czech tennis player. She was born in Bílovec, Czechoslovakia. She is the world no. 6 women's tennis player. Kvitová won the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the WTA Tour Championships the same year. She won Wimbledon once again in 2014. She reached the semi-finals of the 2012 Australian Open, 2012 French Open, 2010 Wimbledon, the quarter-final of 2015 US Open.

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Wimbledon champions
1990 births
Living people
The University of Wisconsin System is the main public higher education system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It consists of 13 four-year campuses, a unit that operates 13 two-year colleges and an online campus. It also has an extension unit that offers courses in every county in the state.

Member campuses
Two of the campuses are "research universities" that award doctoral degrees:
 University of Wisconsin–Madison (Madison) – The main campus of the system; often called "Wisconsin", especially in a college sports context.
 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (Milwaukee) – Often called "Milwaukee" in a college sports context.

Eleven other campuses are "comprehensive universities" that award bachelor's and Master's degrees:
 University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (Eau Claire)
 University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (Green Bay) – Often called "Green Bay" in a college sports context.
 University of Wisconsin–La Crosse (La Crosse)
 University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh (Oshkosh)
 University of Wisconsin–Parkside (Kenosha and Somers)
 University of Wisconsin–Platteville (Plattevillle)
 University of Wisconsin–River Falls (River Falls)
 University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (Stevens Point)
 University of Wisconsin–Stout (Menomonie)
 University of Wisconsin–Superior (Superior)
 University of Wisconsin–Whitewater (Whitewater)

The two-year campus system is known as the University of Wisconsin Colleges. Students who earn associate's degrees from any campus in this system are guaranteed a place at a four-year campus if they meet certain requirements. This system includes:
University of Wisconsin–Baraboo/Sauk County
University of Wisconsin–Barron County
University of Wisconsin–Fond du Lac
University of Wisconsin–Fox Valley
University of Wisconsin–Manitowoc
University of Wisconsin–Marathon County
University of Wisconsin–Marinette
University of Wisconsin–Marshfield/Wood County
University of Wisconsin–Richland
University of Wisconsin–Rock County
University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan
University of Wisconsin–Washington County
University of Wisconsin–Waukesha
University of Wisconsin Colleges Online – an online campus

Note that this system is separate from the Wisconsin Technical College System. That is another public two-year college system in Wisconsin.

Finally, the University of Wisconsin–Extension provides college courses, plus farming and business help, in at least one place in every one of the state's 72 counties. It also runs the state's public radio and television networks.

Other websites
University of Wisconsin System official website
Hans Martin Sutermeister (29 September 1907  – 4 May 1977 pen name: Hans Moehrlen) was a Swiss doctor, writer and  politician. He studied medicine in Basel and was a professor at the Volkshochschule Bern. Moehren did a large amount of work to help people who were punished for crimes they did not do. In the 1960s, he wrote reports about criminal medicine. His most important work was Summa Iniuria.

Other websites 

 Hans Moehrlen at the Library of Congress

1907 births
1977 deaths
Swiss writers
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter.

Picket was a major figure in the development of American soul music.  Among his best known hits are "In the Midnight Hour", "Land of a Thousand Dances", "Mustang Sally", "Hey Jude" and "Funky Broadway". Pickett often crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100.

Discography

Albums 
 In the Midnight Hour (1965)
 The Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966)
 The Best of Wilson Pickett (1967)
 The Wicked Pickett (1967)
 The Sound of Wilson Pickett (1967)
 I'm In Love (1967)
 The Midnight Mover (1968)
 Hey Jude (1968)
 Wilson Pickett in Philadelphia (1970)
 Right On (1970)
 The Best of Wilson Pickett, Vol. II (1971)
 Don't Knock My Love (1972)
 Mr. Magic Man (1973)
 Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits (1973)
 Pickett in the Pocket (1974)
 I Want You (1980)
 American Soul Man (1987)
 A Man and a Half: The Best of Wilson Pickett (1992)

Singles 
 
 "If You Need Me" (1962)
 "It's Too Late" (1963)
 "I'm Done to My Last Heartbreak" (1963)
 "My Heart Belongs to You" (1963)
 "I'm Gonna Cry" (1964)
 "Come Home Baby" (1964)
 "In the Midnight Hour" (1965)
 "Don't Fight It" (1965)
 "634-5789" (1966)
 "Ninety Nine and a Half" (1966)
 "Land_Of_A_Thousand_Dances|Land of 1000 Dances" (1966)
 "Mustang Sally" (1966)
 "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (1967)
 "I Found a Love Pt. 1" (1967)
 "You Can't Stand Alone" (1967)
 "Funky Broadway" (1967)
 "I'm in Love" (1967)
 "Soul Dance Number Three" (1967)
 "I'm a Midnight Mover" (1968)
 "I've Come a Long Way" (1968)
 "She's Looking Good" (1968)
 "I Found a True Love" (1968)
 "Jealous Love" (1968)
 "A Man and a Half" (1968)
 "Hey Jude" (1968)
 "Mini-skirt Minnie" (1969)
 "Born to Be Wild" (1969)
 "Hey Joe" (1969)
 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (1969)
 "Engine Number 9" (1970)
 "Sugar, Sugar" (1970)
 "She Said Yes" (1970)
 "Cole, Cooke, and Redding" (1970)
 "Don't Knock My Love - Pt. 1" (1971)
 "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" (1971)
 "Call My Name, I'll Be There" (1971)
 "Fire and Water" (1972)
 "Funk Factory" (1972)
 "Mr. Magic Man" (1973)
 "Take a Closer Look at the Woman You're With" (1973)
 "International Playboy" (1973)
 "Soft Soul Boogie Woogie" (1974)
 "Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It" (1974)
 "I Want You" (1979)
 "Live With Me" (1980)
 "Don't Turn Away" (1987)

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American singer-songwriters
American R&B musicians
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
Singers from Alabama
1941 births
2006 deaths
was an old province of Japan in the area of Tokyo Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture and of Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called . 

The province had borders with Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was near Fuchu. By the Sengoku period, the main city was Edo.

History

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the main city of the Tokugawa Shogunate.  The road passed through Musashi.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Musashi Province were reformed in the 1870s.

The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Musashi was named after the province.

The height of Tokyo Sky Tree is . The figures 6 (mu), 3 (sa), 4 (shi) stand for "Musashi", which is an old name for the area where the Tokyo Sky Tree stands.

Timeline of important events in Musashi
 July 18, 707 (Keiun 4, 15th day of the 6th month): Empress Genmei is enthroned at the age of 48. 
 707 (Keiun 4): Copper was reported to have been found in Musashi province in the region which includes modern day Tokyo. 
 708 (Keiun 5):, The era name was about to be changed to mark the accession of Empress Gemmei; but the choice of Wadō as the new nengō for this new reign became a way to mark the welcome discovery of copper in the Chichibu District, Saitama|Chichibu District of what is now Saitama Prefecture. The Japanese word for copper is dō (銅); and since this was indigenous copper, the "wa" (the ancient Chinese term for Japan) could be combined with the "dō" (copper) to create a new composite term – "wadō" – meaning "Japanese copper."

 May 5, 708 (Wadō 1, 11th day of the 4th month): A sample of the newly discovered Musashi copper was presented in Gemmei's Court where it was formally acknowledged as Japanese copper. The Wadō era is famous for the first Japanese coin (和同開珎, wadokaiho or wadokaichin).

1590 (Tenshō 18): Siege of Odawara (1590)|Siege of Odawara. Iwatsuki Domain and Oshi Domain founded in Musashi Province.

Shrines and Temples
Hikawa jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the province;  
 and there are many branch shrines.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Saitama Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefecture
Ningbo is a city in Zhejiang Province. It lies in east China, close to Shanghai. Ningbo is known as an important port city in China. International trade in Ningbo began in Tang dynasty.

Political divisions 
Ningbo Municipality is divided into 6 districts, 2 counties and 2 county-level cities.
 Haishu district
 Jiangbei district
 Zhenhai district
 Beilun district
 Yinzhou district
 Fenghua district
 Cixi city
 Yuyao city
 Ninghai county
 Xiangshan county

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Zhejiang
Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández y Farrés (born 4 April 1985 in Mallorca) is a Spanish basketball player. He is a 6'6" (1.98 m) He is also a member of the Spanish national team.

He comes from a keen basketball family; his father also was a professional basketball player. He first started playing in the Joventut Badalona team, in the ACB (2003-2008). In 2008 he left the Joventut team and started playing for the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA league. His first match with this team was against his old friend Pau Gasol. 

His second year joining the NBA was not as good as he expected, he got backache several times. In December 2009, Fernández underwent microdiscectomy surgery for a herniated disc.  It was causing leg pain.

He has also joined other teams, such as the Real Madrid (2011) and the Denver Nuggets.  On July 4, 2012, Fernández signed a 3-year deal with Real Madrid.

He has won five medals: two silver in the European Championship and also in the Olympic Games, and three golden in the World Championship, and two in the European Championship.

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The following is a list of comic book series based on the animated TV show The Simpsons and published by Bongo Comics in the United States. The first comic strips based on The Simpsons appeared in 1991 in the magazine Simpsons Illustrated (not to be confused with the comic publications from 2012 bearing the same name), which was a companion magazine to the show.

Full list of publications

Comics
Comic books
Entertainment-related lists
Merrill C.  Meigs Field Airport , was a single strip airport that operated from December 1948 until March 2003.  It was built on Northerly Island.  

The airport opened on December 10, 1948, and became America's busiest single-strip airport in 1955. The air traffic tower was built in 1952 and the terminal was built in 1961.  The airfield was named for Merrill C. Meigs, an aviation enthuisist.

The airport was a common sight on the Chicago lakefront.  It was also known as the default airport in many versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.  It was featured in Microsoft's Midtown Madness and Reflections' Driver 2 video game.  The airport is also the main location of the film Powers of Ten.

The Main Terminal was used by the Chicago Department of Aviation.  The runway at Meigs Field was .  There were four helicopter pads at the south end of the runway.

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Celtic polytheism is the name for a set of beliefs or  religion. Another term frequently used for Celtic polytheism is Celtic paganism. It was originally held by the European people called Celts today. There was a movement to convert these people to Christianity; this process was finished by about 500 AD. 

The first findings relating to this set of beliefs can be dated to about 500 BC. The system of beliefs lasted roughly one millennium, in the La Tène period, and the Roman era. 

In the case of the Celts on the British Isles, this also included parts of the Iron Age. Celtic polytheism was one of the Iron Age polytheistic religions of the Indo-European family.

There are many different names for the gods of the Celtic pantheon. These names have either been recorded by Ancient Greek or Ancient Roman geographers, or they have been found in inscriptions on graves. Among the most prominent of these gods are Teutatis, Taranis and Lugus. People involved in comparative mythology have also added figures from medieval Irish mythology to this list. They say that these figures are deities or heroes from earlier times that have been interpreted in a different way. This process is known as Euhemerisation, after Euhemeros, a philosopher from Ancient Greece who described this process. 

According to Roman historians, the Celts practiced human sacrifice as part of their religion. There also seems to have been a caste of "magico-religious specialists", which were called druids in Gaul, Britain and Ireland. Little is known about them today.

The Roman Empire conquered Gaul between 58 and 51 BC, and southern Britannia in the year 43 AD. After this, the Celtic religious practices changed, and elements of Romanisation started to show. This resulted in a Gallo-Roman culture, which had its own Gallo-Roman religious traditions. The number of deities increased, and deities such as Cernunnos were added. 

In the 5th and 6th centuries, there was another change, as Christianity became the dominant faith in the Celtic area. It replaced the earlier religions, but influenced later mythology. In the 20th century, a new religious movement called Celtic Neopaganism appeared.

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