cahya/simple-wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Sandy Lam, (), is a Hong Kong singer, actress and record producer. She sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.

Discography

LP
 Lam Yik Lin (林憶蓮) - (1985)
 Let Alone (放縱) - (1986)
 Yik Lin (憶蓮) - (1987)
 Grey (灰色) - (1987)
 Ready - (1988)
 City Rhythm (都市觸覺 Part I City Rhythm) - (1988)
 Fuir La Cite (都市觸覺 Part II 逃離鋼筋森林) - (1989)
 Faces And Places (都市觸覺 Part III Faces And Places) - (1990)
 Home Again Without You (愛上一個不回家的人) - (1990)
 Drifting (夢了、瘋了、倦了) - (1991)
 City Heart (都市心) - (1991)
 Wildflower (野花) - (1991)
 Come Back To Love (回來愛的身邊) - (1992)
 Begin Again (不如重新開始) - (1993)
 It Doesn't Matter Who I Am (不必在乎我是誰) - (1993)
 Simple - (1994)
 Sandy '94 - (1994)
 Love, Sandy - (1995)
Open Up - (1995)
 Feeling Perfect (感覺完美) - (1996)
 I Swear (愛是唯一) - (1996)
 Night Too Dark (夜太黑) - (1996)
 Wonderful World (美妙世界) - (1997)
 Clang Rose (鏗鏘玫瑰) - (1999)
 Sandy's (林憶蓮's) - (2000)
 2001 Sandy (2001蓮) - (2000)
 Truly (原來…林憶蓮) - (2001)
 S/L - (2005)
 Breathe Me (呼吸) - (2006)
 Gaia (蓋亞) - (2012)

EP
 City Rhythm Take Two (都市觸覺 City Rhythm Take Two) - (1989)
 Dynamic Reaction (都市觸覺之推搪) - (1990)
 Dance Mega Mix (傾斜都市燒燒燒) - (1990)
 Love Returns - (1996)
 Encore - (2002)

Singer 2017 
Sandy joined Hunan Television's show Singer 2017 in January 2017 and she won 1st place in the final (episode 13).

Other websites
 Sandy Lam on YouTube
 
 
Sandy And Me
Filmography

 
|-
! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" | Top Chinese Music Chart Awards
|-

1966 births
Living people
C-pop singers
Chinese musicians
Singers from Hong Kong
Actors from Hong Kong
John Randolph Thune (born January 7, 1961) is an American politician. Thune is the junior United States Senator from South Dakota and a member of the Republican Party. He used to be a United States Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district.

Thune was born on January 7, 1961 in Murdo, South Dakota. He is of Norwegian descent. Thune studied at Biola University and at the University of South Dakota. He has been married to Kimberley Weems since 1984. They have two children.

Thune was selected by the Senate Republican Conference to become the Majority Whip for the 116th Congress, replacing Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who was term limited in the position. In 2021, he became Senate Minority Whip.

References

Other websites
United States Senator John Thune official U.S. Senate site
Friends of John Thune official campaign site
www.amazon.com
Profile  from SourceWatch
Representative-Elect John Thune (R-SD) profile from CNN, 1996

1961 births
Living people
American Protestants
Evangelicals
People from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
United States representatives from South Dakota
United States senators from South Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
People from Pierre, South Dakota
Nicholas Tse (also known as Tse Ting-fung, , born 29 August 1980) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter, musician, actor and entrepreneur. Tse is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group.

References

Other websites
 

1980 births
Living people
Actors from Hong Kong
Singers from Hong Kong
C-pop singers
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns and his role as Detective Milton Arbogast in Psycho. He also starred in All the President's Men.

Balsam was born on November 4, 1919 in The Bronx, New York City to Jewish parents. He studied at DeWitt Clinton High School and at The New School. 

Balsam was married to Pearl Somner from 1952 until they divorced in 1854. Then he was married to Joyce Van Patten from 1957 until they divorced in 1962. Then he was married to Irene Miller from 1963 until they divorced in 1987. His elder daughter Talia Balsam, is by Van Patten. His son and younger daughter are by Miller. 

Balsam died on February 13, 1996 from a heart attack in Rome, Italy, aged 73. He was later buried at Cedar Park Cemetery in Emerson, New Jersey.

References

Other websites

 
 
 

1919 births
1996 deaths
Academy Award winning actors
Actors from New York City
American movie actors
American radio actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American television personalities
American voice actors
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Jewish American actors
Tony Award winning actors
Two-Minute Warning is a disaster movie from 1976. It stars Charlton Heston, Jack Klugman, and Martin Balsam. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing.

1976 movies
1970s action movies
American action movies
English-language movies
Movies directed by Larry Peerce
All the President's Men is an Academy Award-winning political thriller movie directed by Alan J. Pakula. It was screen-written by William Goldman. released in 1976. It was based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.

It stars Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, Ned Beatty, F. Murray Abraham, and Hal Holbrook as "Deep Throat". It won four Academy Awards and was nominated for Best Picture. It is part of the United States National Film Registry.

Other websites 

1976 movies
1970s crime drama movies
American thriller movies
Academy Award winning movies
American crime drama movies
English-language movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in Washington, D.C.
Movies based on real life events
Watergate scandal
United States National Film Registry movies
Warner Bros. movies
Movies directed by Alan J. Pakula
Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is an American investigative journalist and author. While working with Bob Woodward at The Washington Post, the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. He was married to filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1976 until they divorced in 1980.

Other websites

 Carl Bernstein official site
 
 Profile at Random House
 Proffile at Simon and Schuster
 Profile at The Washington Post
 Watergate Papers Web Exhibition  at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, with inventory

1944 births
Living people
American journalists
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Anne Veski (born Anne Vaarmann; 27 February 1956) is an Estonian pop singer. She has sung in Estonian, Russian, and Polish.

Family 
Veski is married to her second husband, Benno Beltšikov, who also is her manager. Veski was previously married to Jaak Veski (1956–1994) from 1977 tae 1981. She has a daughter, Kerli. Kerli is a diplomat an has worked at the Estonian Consulate in Moscow. Veski also has two grandchildren via Kerli.

Discography 
 "Ingleid ei..." (2009)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. Я НЕ ТАКАЯ" (2007)
 "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. РАДОВАТЬСЯ ЖИЗНИ" "ИМЕНА НА ВСЕ ВРЕМЕНА" (2007)
 DVD "ANNE VESKI. ROOSIAIA KUNINGANNA" (2006)
 DVD "АННЕ ВЕСКИ. НИ О ЧЕМ НЕ ЖАЛЕЙТЕ" (2006)
 "ANNE VESKI. 60 parimat laulu - EESTI KULLAFOND" (3 platinum CD; 2006)
 "Ни о чем не жалейте" (2004)
 Анне Вески, Имена на все времена (2003)
 "Lootus" (2003)  
 Не грусти, человек (2002)
 Анне Вески, Звезды советской эстрады (2001)  
 Grand Collection (2001)
 Armukarneval (2000)  
 Star Collection (2000)  
 "Туннель под Ла-Маншем" (1996)
 Калейдоскоп (1994)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1985)  
 "Анне Вески" (1994)   
 "Анне Вески и Мюзик-Сейф" 
 "Я вас благодарю", "Анне Вески и ансамбль Немо" (1988)
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1986) 
 "Я обещаю вам сады" (1985) 
 "Я обещаю вам сады"
 "Позади крутой поворот" (1984) 
 "Поет Анне Вески" (1984) 
 "Поет Анне Вески"
 "Anne Veski" (1983)

Other websites 
Official websites in Estonian  and Russian

 

1956 births
Living people
Estonian singers
Francisco José Urrutia Holguín (28 May 1910 – 19 October 1981) was a Colombian-Ecuadorian lawyer and diplomat. He served as 7th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, 11th Colombia Ambassador to United States, as well as Ambassador to Venezuela and Argentina.

Holguín was born on 28 May 1910 in Quito, Ecuador. He studied at National University of Columbia. Holguín was married Genoveva Montoya Williamson on 18 July 1934 in Bogotá. Together had five children: Francisco, María Lourdes, Jorge, Miguel, and Jaime. Holguín died on 19 October 1981 in Bogotá, Colombia, aged 71.

References

1910 births
1981 deaths
Ambassadors of Colombia
Colombian lawyers
People from Quito
United Empire Loyalists were people living in the 13 colonies in what was British North America in the 1770s who did not agree with the American Revolution.

Many residents of the colonies (possibly a majority) either were not in complete agreement with the Revolution and its leaders, or were against it. Some of them actively worked against it, supporting King George III and the British Government. These people became known as "Tories". In many of the colonies, those who openly expressed being against the Revolution and those who joined militias loyal to King George were declared to be outlaws, and their properties taken away by the people favouring the Revolution. 

Some of these people wanted to remain in a place that was still part of the British Empire, so they moved to what is now Canada. In many places there they received a warm welcome and became a valued part of their new home area. Many of them have maintained social groups which are limited to people whose ancestors were some of these people, and they are still called "United Empire Loyalists".

American Revolutionary War
British North America was the British-owned part of the continent of North America. This term was mostly used before the American Revolution.  

In 1759, after winning the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Britain took control of the colony of New France. After this, British North America also included New France. 

After the American Revolution, some people still used the term to refer to what is now the country of Canada. In fact, the Canadian Constitution was first called the "British North America Act 1867" (which first became a law in 1867). 

British Empire
History of North America
Millard Mitchell (August 14, 1903 – October 13, 1953) was an American actor. He is known for his roles in My Six Convicts and in A Foreign Affair. He won a Golden Globe Award in 1952.

Mitchell was born on August 14, 1903 in Havana, Cuba to American parents. He was married to Peggy Gould until his death in 1953. Mitchell died on October 13, 1953 in Santa Monica, California from lung cancer, aged 50.

Other websites

1903 births
1953 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
People from Havana
Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress. She was known for her roles in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). She was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 for her role in The More the Merrier.

Arthur was born on October 17, 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York. She is of Norwegian-English descent. Arthur was raised in Westbrook, Maine. 

She was married to Julian Anker from 1928 until they annulled their marriage in 1928. Then she was married to Frank Ross, Jr. from 1932 until they divorced in 1949. Arthur died on June 19, 1991 in Carmel, California from heart failure, aged 90.

References

Other websites

 Literature on Jean Arthur
 Turner Classic Movies "Star of the Month" Profile
 Soares, Andre: Jean Arthur on TCM, Alternative Film Guide
 Gouveia, Michele: The Girl with the Croak: Jean Arthur
 Atkinson, Michael: Jean Therapy

1900 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American silent movie actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Actors from New York
Actors from Maine
Howell Thomas Heflin (June 19, 1921 – March 29, 2005) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States Senate from Tuscumbia, Alabama.

Heflin was born on June 19, 1921 in Poulan, Georgia. He was raised in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Heflin studied at Birmingham-Southern College and at University of Alabama School of Law.

Heflin was married to Elizabeth Ann Heflin until his death in 2005. They had one son. Heflin died on March 29, 2005 in Sheffield, Alabama from a heart attack, aged 83.

References

Other websites

Oral History Interview with Howell Heflin from Oral Histories of the American South

1921 births
2005 deaths
American Methodists
American military personnel of World War II
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Tuscumbia, Alabama
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
Purple Heart recipients
United States senators from Alabama
US Democratic Party politicians
A morganatic marriage is a marriage between a royal person and a non-royal person, where the husband's titles and privileges do not go to the wife or any children they have. There are not many morganatic marriages any more. A morganatic marriage is sometimes called a left-handed marriage because in the wedding ceremony the groom usually held his bride's right hand with his left hand instead of his right.

References

Marriage
Royalty and nobility
Cheranmahadevi is a panchayat town in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is in the Tirunelveli district, on the banks of the river Thamirabarani. The town has many temples. In the 2001 census of India, Cheranmadevi had a population of 16,320. About 49% of the population were men, and 51% were women. Cheranmahadevi has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. About 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Cheranmahadevi is part of the Tiruchendur Lok Sabha constituency.

References

Settlements in Tamil Nadu
Nanguneri is a panchayat town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nanguneri is located in Tirunelveli district, about  from the headquarters of the district. The place became important for its famous Vaishnavite temple, which is commonly known as Totadri Mutt.

Nanguneri has an average elevation of 141 metres (462 feet). As of the census of India, Nanguneri had a population of 6,764. About 49% of the population were men, and 51% were women. Nanguneri has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. About 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Towns in India
Settlements in Tamil Nadu
A Panchayat Town or Town Panchayat is a type of town in India. It refers to any small town which is formed under the Panchayati raj administrative system. It will have under 25,000 people living there. In census data, the abbreviation T.P. is used to indicate a "Town Panchayat". Tamil Nadu was the first state to introduce the panchayat town as an intermediate step between rural villages and Urban Local Bodies (ULB).

Management
Each state of India has an organisation that manages panchayat towns.
 Karnataka: Directorate of Municipal Administration
 Kerala: Local Self Government Department
 Tamil Nadu: Directorate of Town Panchayats

Notes

Local government
India
Translocation in vascular plants means the movement of organic molecules and some mineral ions.  Movement of water from the soil to the leaves occurs in xylem vessels as the result of Transpiration. Transpiration, the evaporation of water from leaves, causes a pull on the water column due to the forces of cohesion between water molecules formed due to hydrogen bonds which causes the water to move upwards. Organic materials,  mainly produced in the leaves, are moved around the plant in the living cells of the phloem by a process called translocation.

Unlike xylem (which is composed of dead cells), the phloem is composed of still-living cells that transport sap.  Sap is a water-based solution, rich in sugars made by the photosynthesis. These sugars are transported to non-photosynthetic parts of the plant, such as the roots, or into storage structures, such as tubers or bulbs.

The 'pressure flow' hypothesis was proposed by Ernst Münch in 1930 to explain the mechanism of phloem translocation. Leaves photosynthesize, making sugars. Water moves into the sugar-laden sieve-tube cells with sugar by osmosis. This creating pressure that pushes the sap down the sieve tube. When the sugar reaches cells that need it, the cells actively transport sugars out of the sieve-tube elements.

During the plant's growth period, usually during the spring, storage organs such as the roots are sugar sources, and the plant's many growing areas are sugar sinks. The movement in phloem is multi-directional, whereas, in xylem cells, it is one-directional (upwards). Other molecules like amino acids, hormones, and even messenger RNAs are also transported in the phloem through sieve tube elements.

References  

Plant physiology
Boulogne might mean any of these different places in France;

Boulogne, Vendée, a commune in the Vendée department
Boulogne-Billancourt, a town in the Hauts-de-Seine department
Boulogne-sur-Mer, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department
Zuffa, LLC () is an American sports promotion company of mixed martial arts. It was founded in January 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada by Station Casinos executives Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta to be the parent entity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) after they purchased it from the Semaphore Entertainment Group. Lorenzo Fertitta is the company's CEO and Chairman while Dana White runs the day-to-day operations.
Zuffa is co-owned by Fertitta brothers (40.5% each), Dana White (9%) and Sheik Tahnoon of Abu Dhabi (Flash Entertainment) (10%).

Zuffa is credited around the world for turning around the UFC and increasing the status of mixed martial arts in the United States from one with a limited audience and regional competitions to a multi-million dollar company with millions of viewers and internationally popular events.

The word "Zuffa" is an Italian word, meaning "scuffle"

References

2001 establishments in the United States
Mixed martial arts organizations
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Las Vegas, Nevada
2000s establishments in Nevada
A zither is a stringed musical instrument. The word 'Zither' is a German rendering of the Greek word cithara, from which the modern word "guitar" also derives. Historically, it has been applied to any instrument of the cittern family, or an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body – similar to a psaltery. This article describes the second variety.

Zithers are played by strumming or plucking the strings, either with the fingers (sometimes using an accessory called a plectrum or pick), sounding the strings with a bow, or, with varieties of the instrument like the santur or cimbalom, by beating the strings with specially shaped hammers. Like a guitaror lute, a zither's body serves as a resonating chamber (sound box), but, unlike guitars and lutes, a zither lacks a distinctly separate neck assembly. The number of strings varies, from one to more than fifty.

In modern common usage the term "zither" refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (German: Konzertzither), its variant the Alpine zither (both using a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a fretless zither or "guitar zither"). Concert and Alpine zithers are traditionally found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, France, north-western Croatia, the southern regions of Germany and alpine Europe. Emigration from these areas during the 19th century introduced the concert and Alpine zither to North and South America. Chord zithers similar to the instrument in the photograph also became popular in North America during the late 19th and early 20th century. These variants all use metal strings, similar to the cittern.

String instruments
In chemistry, an additive is a substance that is added to a mixture or compound to change the properties of that mixture or compound. Food additives are used to improve food.

Chemistry
Roberta Wright McCain (February 7, 1912 – October 12, 2020) was the widow of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. and mother of the late Republican Arizona Senator and two-time Presidential candidate John S. McCain III.

McCain was born on February 7, 1912 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She had a twin sister. McCain was married to John S. McCain, Jr. from 1933 until his death in 1981. They had three children. On October 22, 2009, she was hospitalized in Portugal after she fell and injured her head.

McCain died on October 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 108.

References

Other websites
McCain's Mother, CNN, February 28, 2000.
Shaping Character and Destinies: John McCain, National Public Radio, by Terry Gross, December 6, 2005.
McCain highlights mother's age on Mother's Day May 14, 2007.
Play of the Day: McCain's Mom on Mormons, November 9, 2007
Ancestry of Sen. John McCain
"The Firecracker", Style.com (condensed version of article for Vogue).  August 2008.

1912 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
People from Oklahoma
Twin people from the United States
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 British-American historical drama movie. It is based on the book of the same name by John Boyne. The movie is directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman. It stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie, Richard Johnson and Rupert Friend.

The movie is about a boy whose father is a soldier during the World War II. They decided to move to a new house so that the father can work near the concentration camps. The son likes to explore and he comes to meet a Jewish boy who lives in the concetration camp. One day, he decides to go into the camp and accidentally enters a gas chamber and dies along with all prisoners.

References

2008 drama movies
2000s war movies
American drama movies
American war movies
British drama movies
British war movies
English-language movies
2000s historical movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in Germany
Movies set in the 1940s
World War II movies
Para-alpine skiing classification is the order system for para-Alpine skiing designed to give equal competition between alpine skiers with different types of limited physical powers. The system of ordering are grouped into three general condition of being unable sorts: stand, unable to see and being seated. Group selection is done by International Paralympic Committee AlpineSkiing. Prior to that, several groups dealt with this including the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD), International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMWSF), International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CP-ISRA). Some order systems are persons given government by bodies other than International Paralympic Committee Alpine skiing, such as the Special Olympics. The sport is open to all competitors with a no seeing or physical condition of being unable stand. It is not open to people with intellectual disabilities.

 
The first order systems for para-Alpine sking were made in Scandinavia in the 1960s, with early systems designed for skiers with no legs or arms. At the time, necessary things had yet to be done to let skiers with spinal cord wounds ski. The purpose of the early order systems was to be made around use of arms and legs but ended up being a medical order system. At the first Winter Paralympics in 1976, there were two groups in the system of ordering for the sport. By the 1980s, groups had existence for skiers with cerebral palsy. At that time, with inspiration from wheelchair basketball classification, efforts were made to make order more of an able to use better system. Ten groups had existence by the 1980s, and since then, efforts have been made to make better the doing work well of order by making fewer the number of classes so fewer medals can be rewarded.

Competition rules for groups use rules made by or are an adjustment from rules by the International Ski Federation. For skiers with seeing problems, guides are used to help the skier down the mountain. For standing skiers, different part rules come to a decision about what sort of necessary things is let in competition, such as one long stick, two sticks or no sticks, or one or two skis.  Seated skiers use a specially designed ski for going over snow quickly called a mono-ski.  Skiers are put in a group based on medical, and their body position when they ski. Unable to see skiers are put in order only on a medical.

References

Paralympic Games
Skiing
Jeremy Shada (born January 21, 1997, in Boise, Idaho, US) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his work as Finn the Human from the American animated television series Adventure Time.

Biography
Jeremy Shada began acting at the age of seven soon after moving to Los Angeles with his family. He was inspired to act by his older brother Zack Shada, who had begun acting himself. Shada initially appeared in commercials. Later on, he began auditioning for voice acting and theatrical performances, taking the advice from a voice over agent. His first live action theatrical role was as Young Kurt Diamond in No Rules.   He has since appeared in additional live action and voice acting roles, such as playing Charlie Pace in childhood flashbacks on Lost. 

In 2009, Jeremy Shada's agent approached him with the idea of auditioning for the role of Finn. Both recognized that Zack Shada had been the original voice of Finn in the pilot episode of Adventure Time three years before. After viewing the pilot on YouTube, Shada matched his voice with the voice of Zack Shada in auditions with Adventure Time's creator Pendleton Ward and the show's producers, earning him the Finn role.  In 2012, Shada joined the cast of Nick Cannon's comedy sketch Incredible Crew. In June 2012, to promote Incredible Crew's 2013 premiere, Cartoon Network released a music rap video titled "Running Errands with My Mom" which features Shada performing and rapping the lyric. The video has since generated over one million views. 

Because of his acting schedule, Shada was homeschooled. Answering fan questions on his Facebook page, Shada indicated that he graduated from high school early in May 2013.

Filmography

References

Other websites

1997 births
American child actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Living people
Singers from Idaho
Actors from Idaho
People from Boise, Idaho
Isabella Acres (born February 21, 2001) is an American actress who played Rose on Better Off Ted.

Acres was born in Atlanta, where she discovered her love for acting in children's theater. She then relocated to Los Angeles. Acres' little sister, Ava, is also an actress.

Acres is best known for her series regular role as Rose Crisp on Better Off Ted, the seven-year-old daughter of Ted (Jay Harrington) who is often the most mature person at his home and workplace. The show's first season finished in August 2009, with a second picked up for January 2010.

Acres also appeared on an episode of Monk in 2007, and single episodes of The Mentalist where she plays Patrick Jane's (Simon Baker) daughter and on the hit television show Hannah Montana. Acres was nominated for Best Performance in a TV Series, Guest Starring Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards 2009 for her performance in The Mentalist.

She currently can be seen in the recurring role of Soleil Friedman in the second season of the Fox television series Touch.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

Other websites 
 

2001 births
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
American child actors
American television actors
Living people
American movie actors
Harry Chapman Pincher (29 March 1914 – 5 August 2014) was an Indian-born British journalist, historian, and novelist.

Early life 
Pincher was born on 29 March 1914 in Ambala, Punjab. His father was from Britain and his mother was American. Pincher studied at Darlington Grammar School and King's College London.

His work 
Pinker wrote a series of books on supposed KGB spies in the West, mostly members of the British ruling class whom he believed were traitors in the service of the KGB. Among these were Roger Hollis, former head of MI5, and Harold Wilson, twice Prime Minister in the 1960s and 70s.

Many of these ideas had come from James Jesus Angleton, former CIA counterespionage chief. Angleton's career ended when his many allegations were not supported with appropriate evidence. Among his more outrageous claims was that Canadian Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau were agents of the Soviet Union.

Another source was Peter Wright, a former assistant director of MI5. The British Government tried to prevent the publication of Wright's own Spycatcher (1987), which covered much the same ground as Pincher's Their trade is treachery. Wright had published in Australia, and the Australian court case ran on for years with no success. In the event, nothing was proved against Hollis, who was the main target of Their trade is treachery. Later British Prime Ministers stated that Hollis was a loyal servant of the Crown, and that a great injustice had been done to him by the Pincher and Wright books.

Death 
Pincher died on 5 August 2014 at the age of 100.

References 

1914 births
2014 deaths
British journalists
British historians
British centenarians
John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (August 9, 1884 – September 6, 1945) was a United States Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II. His son was John S. McCain, Jr. and his grandson is John McCain.

McCain, Sr. was born on August 9, 1884 in Carroll County, Mississippi. He studied at the University of Mississippi and at the United States Military Academy at West Point. McCain, Sr. was married to Catherine Davey Vaulx from 1909 until his death in 1945. They had one child. McCain died on September 6, 1945 in Coronado, California from a heart attack, aged 61.

Other websites
 John Sidney McCain at arlingtoncemetery.net site 

1884 births
1945 deaths
American military personnel of World War I
American military personnel of World War II
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Mississippi
Our Lady of La Vang was a reported Marian apparition (a supernatural appearance of the Virgin Mary) in Vietnam. The appearance was reported at a time when Catholics were being persucted and killed in Vietnam. In Vietnamese she is called  or .

Name 
Modern scholars believe the name came from a plant in the area (La means "leaf" and Vang means "herbal seeds"). Others believe the name came from a Vietnamese word that meant "crying out" as if the Vietnamese Catholics at that time were "crying out" to God for help. Some believe the name came from the rainforest's name La Vang.

History 
Fearing the spread of Catholicism, Emperor Canh Thinh banned the practice of Catholicism. Soon thereafter the emperor made an anti-Catholic edict which made the practice of Catholicism punishable by death. Many Catholics sought refuge in the rainforest  of La Vang in Quang Tri Province. While hiding in the rainforest, the small community would gather every night at the foot of a tree and pray. One night, an apparition surprised them. In the branches of the tree, a lady dressed in the traditional Vietnamese dress (ao dai), holding an infant in her arms with two angels beside her, appeared. The people who witnessed this apparition said that the lady and the infant was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. They said that the lady comforted them and told them to boil the leaves from the tree for medicine to cure the illness.

In 1802, many of the Catholics went back to their villages, spreading the story of the apparition. Soon, many people came back to the site to offer incense and to pray. In 1820, a chapel was built. From 1830- 1885 another wave of persecutions decimated the Catholic population. The chapel of Our Lady of La Vang was destroyed and in 1886 a new chapel was built.

Vatican recognition 
There is no official recognition from the Vatican for this as a "Marian apparition". Although there is no official recognition, Pope John Paul II publicly recognized the importance of Our Lady of La Vang and expressed a desire to rebuild the La Vang Basilica to honor the 200th anniversary of the first apparition.

Catholicism
Marian apparitions
Religion in Vietnam
Nicolas Berejny (born 27 June 1968)  is a skier from France.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the first skier to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race.  Because he cannot see, Gregory Nouhaud was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain.

References

French skiers
1968 births
Living people
Chris Williamson (born 5 May 1972)  is a skier from Canada.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the visually impaired men's downhill race. He was the second skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super-G race. He was the third skier to finish in the men's visually impaired Super Combined race. He was the third skier to finish in the slalom race. Because he cannot see, Robin Femy was his guide and told him where to when going down the mountain. He also skied in the 2010 Winter Paralympics and was the fourth skier to finish the  Giant Slalom, the sixth skier to finish the Slalom and the sixth to finish in the Super G, Visually Impaired. Nick Brush helped him down the mountain.like how Robin Femy did.

References

Canadian sportspeople
Canadian skiers
1972 births
Living people
Nicolas Berejny (born 6 April 1986) is a skier from France.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race. He was the second skier to finish in the men's standing Super-G race. He was the first skier to finish in the men's standing Super Combined race and the slalom race.

References

French skiers
1986 births
Living people
Our Lady of Good Health is the name given to an apparition of the Virgin Mary believed to have appeared in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu, India. She is also known as Our Lady of Vailankanni and Holy Mother of Good Health. Her name in the Tamil language is  (Arokia Matha).

The Feast day of Our Lady of Good Health is on the same day as the birthday of the Virgin Mary (September 8).

The three miraculous events 
Although there is no written record of these three events, the oral tradition is that there were three apparitions. Two were during the 16th century and one in the 17th century.

First appearance  
The first apparition was in the town of Vailankanni, Tamil Nadu. It is said that a Hindu boy was resting under a banyan tree near a pond. While he was resting, a woman with an infant on her hand came to him and asked him for milk. The boy agreed and ran off to get the milk. When he came back, he apologized for his lateness and the reduced amount of milk due to an accident when he was coming back with the milk. However, on inspection the boy found the pot of milk to be full and was convinced a miracle happened. Together a man, also a Hindu, and the boy went back to the pond where the apparition had occurred. Again, the Lady appeared with her child. On learning that it was the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus who appeared to the boy, the residents of the local Roman Catholic community became ecstatic and renamed the pond  (Our Lady's Pond).

Second appearance 
Later towards the end of the 16th century, it is believed the Virgin Mary appeared to a crippled boy (and also a son of a widow) in a place called Thittu, once again in the same town of Vailankanni. The boy is said to have offered buttermilk to the Virgin Mary and then he was cured of his illness. The boy was then commanded by Mary to tell a Catholic gentleman in the nearby town of Nagapattinam. The first shrine was built by this Catholic gentleman.

Third appearance 
The third appearance of the Virgin Mary was in the 17th century. A Portuguese merchant vessel was sailing from Macau in China to Colombo in Sri Lanka. When the vessel was sailing, it was caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal. The sailors vowed to build a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary if they could reach land safely. The legend claimed that the sea became quiet and they reached safety on the shore of Vailankanni on the Virgin Mary's birthday, September 8. Because of their vow to the Virgin Mary, the Portuguese sailors put up a chapel at Vailankanni by transforming the last small shrine built by the last Catholic gentleman.

Catholicism
History of Tamil Nadu
Marian apparitions
Vanessa Nathaly Aguilera Castro (born October 31, 1989 in Temuco) is a Chilean singer, songwriter and actress.

Television

Programs

Discography

Soloist

with BKN 
 BKN (2004)
 La amistad sigue creciendo (2004)
 Lo mejor de / The best of (2006)
 Cambia el mundo (2009)

Other websites 

1989 births
People from La Araucanía Region
Living people
Chilean singers
Chilean television actors
Songwriters
Thomas Pfyl (born January 1, 1987) is a skier from Switzerland.  He has a disability.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's downhill race,  Super-G race, and the Super Combined race.

References

Swiss sportspeople
Skiers
1987 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Quarantine is where animals, people or an area of land are isolated to prevent the spread of disease or pests. Countries often stop animals and plants from being brought in from elsewhere, unless they are known not to carry a disease.

Background
The word "quarantine" comes from quarantena, the Venetian language meaning "forty days". This is because of the 40-day isolation of ships and people practiced as a measure of disease prevention related to the plague.

It is different from medical isolation, which is for people who have been infected with the disease.

The quarantining of people often raises questions of civil rights.  Quarantine can have bad psychological effects on the quarantined.  These include post-traumatic stress disorder, confusion and anger.

COVID-19 

Self quarantine (or self-isolation) is a term that became popular during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, which spread to most countries in 2020.  Citizens were either encouraged or forced by law to stay home to lower the spread of the disease.  Some countries went into lockdowns as a form of quarantine.

, more than 280 million people, or about 86% of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India.

Related pages
 medical isolation
 Stay-at-home order

References

Other websites
  – Hardback ; paperback 
 Emerging Infectious Diseases – Contents, Volume 11, Number 2 , February 2005
 Quarantine for SARS, Taiwan , February 2005, wwwnc.cdc.gov
 History of quarantine (from PBS NOVA)
 

Infectious diseases
Security
History of medicine
Erode Venkata Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also called Periyar, Thanthai Periyar or E. V. R. by his followers, was an Indian philosopher , politician, independence and social activist. He started the Self-Respect Movement or the Dravidian Movement and proposed the creation of an independent state called Dravida Nadu, comprising the states of South India. He is also the founder of the socio-cultural organisation, Dravidar Kazhagam.

Periyar was born in Erode, Madras Presidency in a rich family. At a young age, he witnessed many incidents of racial, caste and gender discrimination. Periyar married when he was 19, and had a daughter who lived for only 5 months. His first wife, Nagammai, died in 1933. Periyar married for a second time in July 1948. His second wife, Maniammai, continued Periyar's social work after his death in 1973, but still his thoughts and ideas were being spread by Dravidar Kazhagam.

Periyar fought for the Tamil language, Tamil people and for their rights until his death. He was against Brahmin for their caste and religious following. Periyar organised anti-Hindi protests in 1938, against the introduction of Hindi as a compulsory language of study in schools. Now in the present days the Periyar's followers are increasing more all over the world among the Tamil people, due to their interest in Tamil language and history behind them.

Tamil activists
1879 births
1973 deaths
Tamil Nadu politicians
Yohann Taberlet  (born March 29, 1981) is a skier from France.  He has a disability and uses a wheelchair.  He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. He was the second skier to finish in the men's sitting slalom race and was the third skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race.

References

French skiers
1981 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Cyclonic Storm Viyaru, formerly known as Cyclonic Storm Mahasen, was an active tropical cyclone. It passed over the Bay of Bengal. It threatened Myanmar and Bangladesh. Its origin was a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal. The low pressure area was created in the first week of May. Viyaru slowly developed. It became a depression on May 10 by almost remaining still. Gradually it gained speed on May 11 and became a cyclonic storm. It was the first storm of the season. At first the system's ultimate direction was not clear, but moved closer to eastern India. On May 14, the circulation of Viyaru turned northeastward.

Myanmar recommended a large evacuation in order to be prepared for the storm; however, for this reason people wanted to escape by boat. As a result, they made boats overcrowded, and one or more boats capsized. This killed at least eight people. The storm had extensive cloud mass, which brought unsettled weather to Sri Lanka, Thailand, and southeastern India. Severe storms in India and Sri Lanka killed 15 people and caused major damage. One person was killed in Thailand. 

The name Mahasen caused some argument from nationalists and officials in Sri Lanka. They claimed that the name Mahasen comes from a Sinhala king. He brought prosperity to the island. So naming a destructive force of nature after him would be improper. Sri Lankan authorities instead have not given the storm a name.

Cyclone Viyaru struck Southern Bangladesh on 16 May 2013. The speed of the wind was about 100 kph.

Weather history

An area of convection first appeared on May 4. It slowly moved eastwards and organized into a low pressure area on May 8. A pulse in the Madden–Julian oscillation, together with a convective Kelvin wave allowed the system to develop. These oscillations also caused Tropical Storm Jamala to form. The JTWC later issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert (TCFA) on May 10, after the system became more organized. The IMD upgraded it to a well-marked low pressure area. Later the same day, JTWC issued the first warning for the storm. JTWC designed it 01B, followed by the IMD upgrading the storm into a depression, and later into a deep depression.

Recent storm information
As of 0830 IST (0300 UTC), 16 May 2013, Cyclonic Storm Mahasen was located near latitude 21°N and longitude 90°E, about  south-southeast of Kolkata and  southwest of Chittagong. The storm is forecast to maintain power. It is moving northeastwards. It is expected to cross the Bangladesh coast close to Chittagong by evening of 16 May. Sustained maximum surface wind speed is estimated at , gusting to . Estimated minimum central pressure is at 988 mbar. Dvorak intensity of the storm is at T2.5.

Reference

Other websites

 India Meteorological Department 
 Joint Typhoon Warning Center 
 Corporate Disaster Resource Network, India 

For the latest information
 The IMD's Cyclone warning for Indian coast .
 The IMD's Tropical Cyclone Advisory  and forecast track .
 The JTWC's Tropical Cyclone warning  and forecast track.

Cyclonic storms
May 2013 events
2013 in weather
21st century in Sri Lanka
2010s in Thailand
History of Myanmar
2010s in Bangladesh
2013 in India
Henrieta Farkašová (born 21 February 1988) is a skier from Australia.  She has a disability: she cannot see everything.  She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.  She was the second skier to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race, and the third skier to finish in the Super-G race and the Super Combined race. Because she cannot see, Andrew Bor was her guide and told her where to go when going down the mountain.

References

Australian skiers
1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from New South Wales
Sportspeople with disabilities, type B2
Competitors at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Alexandra Frantseva (born 24 April 1987) is a skier from Russia. She has a disability: she cannot see everything.  She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships.  She was the second skier to finish in the women's visually impaired Super-G race, Giant slalom race and Super Combined race, and the third skier to finish the women's visually impaired downhill race and slalom race. Because she cannot see, Evgenia Kolosovskaya was her guide and told her where to go when going down the mountain.

References

Russian sportspeople
Skiers
Living people
1987 births
Bioturbation is the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants. It disturbs and changes sediment. Any animal living in the soil or on the bottom under water may disturb the sediment by moving it around. Burrowing, eating and defecation of sediment grains, building galleries (etc.) all disturb the sediment.

Common bioturbators include annelids ("ringed worms") such as oligochaetes, bivalves like mussels, clams, gastropods, holothurians. 

Fossil sites with bioturbation do not leave traces of soft-bodied animals. In contrast, fossil sites with undisturbed sediment have given rise to important lagerstätten with many impressions of small soft-bodied invertebrates.

References 

Ecology
Sedimentology
Paradip (also Paradeep) is a major seaport town in India. It is a designated notified area in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha.

Geography
Paradip is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Reference

Other websites
 
 About Paradip
 Port of Paradip
 At Hannover, India’s big infrastructure idea: Special Economic Regions

Towns in India
Odisha
The European badger (Meles meles) is a species of badger. Its genus is Meles. It is native to almost all of Europe. It is classed as Least Concern for extinction by the IUCN because of its wide distribution and large population.

The European badger is a social, burrowing animal. It eats a wide variety of plants and animals. It is very fussy over the cleanliness of its burrow, and defecates in latrines. It is known of European badgers that they bury their dead family members. Although they are ferocious when provoked, the European badger is generally a peaceful animal. It has been known to share its burrows with other species such as rabbits, red foxes and raccoon dogs. Although it does not usually prey on domestic animals, the species is sometimes reported to damage livestock through spreading bovine tuberculosis.

Reference

Other websites
 ARKive  Photographs and video
 Badgerland - The Definitive On-Line Guide to Badgers (Meles meles) in the UK
 Badgerwatcher.com - A guide to watching badgers in the UK
 Wildlifeonline - Natural History of the European Badger
 Lancashire Badger Group.
 Science & Nature: Animals , BBC.
 Badgers in the Netherlands, Badgergroup Brabant Foundation.
 Badger Survey in the Netherlands 2000-2001 , The Census Foundation.
 Waarneming.nl  Originally a Dutch site, but you can change language at the top of the page. Sightings, pictures and distribution maps of European badgers in the Netherlands.
 Badgers in France, L’assiociation Meles.
 A video of an adult european badger. This is a close up video showing their behaviour

Mustelids
Mammals of Europe
Outrigger skis are skis that are used by para-skiers to help with balance, turn, control their rate of motion, stop and make greater the direction of turns.   They be different in size and level, and have different things. Being dependent on the total number of skis used by the skier (1 or 2), outrigger ski form  is sometimes named "Three Track Skiing" or "Four Track Skiing".  When falling, skiers are taught to move their arms to put a stop to falling on the outrigger ski and damaging themselves.

References

Bibliography

Other websites
 

Skiing equipment