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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and last book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The book was released worldwide on 21 July 2007. It became the fastest-selling book ever, with 8.3 million copies sold in the United States during the first 24 hours.

This book is about Harry Potter, the main character of the book series, going on a journey to destroy horcruxes made by the villain of the series, Voldemort.

The movie was to be released in 2010, but on 8 March 2008, it was announced that the movie will be split into two parts; part one was released on 19 November 2010 and part two was released on 15 July 2011.

In Harry potter and the Deathly hallows, Harry and Hermione visit Lily and James Potter's graves. Ron has left Harry and Hermione for a while. At the end Voldemort is finally dead once and for all. Nineteen years later Harry marries Ginny Weasley and Hermione marries Ron Weasley. They all live happily, knowing nothing can harm them now.

Other websites 
 J.K. Rowling's Official Website
 Deathly Hallows rumors refuted by J K Rowling (text version) 

2007 books
Harry Potter books
Boiling

Boiling is the phase change that occurs when a liquid becomes gas throughout the substance. When bubbles are formed you can tell a substance is boiling. This is not to be confused with evaporation.

The temperature at which boiling happens is called the boiling point and depends on the particular nature of the substance.

For example, water boils at around 100 °C (Celsius degrees). When water is boiling, it transforms into a vapor called water vapor.

Uses for boiling 
 Food can be cooked by boiling.
 Germs in a liquid (for example, water) can be killed by boiling the liquid.
 Germs on an object can be killed by putting the object in boiling liquid.

Related pages
 Evaporation

Cooking methods
Chemical processes
Heat transfer
Gases
He

He (, unstressed ) is a third-person singular pronoun used to talk about a male. "He" can be used in place of a male's name. When the name of a man has been the subject, then "he" can be used instead of that name. While "he" is the subject form, the word "him" is the object or possessive form (see table below). The word "he" is used for a man (or boy) where the word "she" would be used for a woman.

In the past, "he" and "him" were often used as gender-neutral pronouns. In other words, the word may have been used in a general way to refer to any person who is either male or female.

References
Swan River

The Swan River is an important river in Western Australia.  It runs past the city of Perth and into the Indian Ocean at Fremantle.

Rivers of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Scheinfeld

Scheinfeld is a town in Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 14 km northwest of Neustadt (Aisch), and 40 km east of Würzburg. Schloss Schwarzenberg is next to the town. The town is home to an Adidas testing factory.

References

Other websites

 Official town website
 Website with information on the Lithuanian refugees

Gallery

Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim
Dirk Nowitzki

Dirk Werner Nowitzki (born June 19, 1978 in Würzburg, Germany; pronounced durk VER-ner nah-VIT-skee) is a former German basketball player. He played for the Dallas Mavericks in the United States' National Basketball Association's (NBA).

Nowitzki started playing in the NBA in 1998. He is only the second player who was born in Germany to play in the  Finals. 

He is a 12-time NBA All Star. Nowitkzi won the 2006-07 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award. The Mavericks, led by Nowitzki, defeated the Miami Heat 4-2 in the 2011 NBA Finals. In addition to performing very well in general in the Finals, his 101-degree fever in Game 4 didn't stop him from scoring the winning basket to tie the series 2-2. This amazing feat is a lot like when Michael Jordan played well despite the flu in the 1997 Finals against the Utah Jazz.
Dirk's jersey number is 41.

Other websites

The Dirk Nowitzki Foundation
Dirk Nowitzki at fiba.com

1978 births
Dallas Mavericks players
German basketball players
Living people
People from Würzburg
Sportspeople from Bavaria
Volkach

Volkach is a town in Kitzingen in the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the river Main and has a population of around 8,700.

Gallery

Other websites 
 Volkach website

References 

Kitzingen (district)
Ochsenfurt

Ochsenfurt  () is a town in Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. Ochsenfurt is on the left edge of the River Main. This makes it the largest town in the Würzburg district.

Geography

Place
The town is on the left edge of the River Main,  south of Würzburg.

Subdivision
The districts of Ochsenfurt are: Darstadt, Erlach, Goßmannsdorf, Hohestadt, Hopferstadt, Kleinochsenfurt, Tückelhausen, and Zeubelried.

Town twinning
Ochsenfurt is twinned with:

Gallery

Bibliography
 Die Kunstdenkmäler von Unterfranken, Bd. 1: Bezirksamt Ochsenfurt. 2nd edition 1983.

References

Other websites

 Official town website (German)
 Website of the Diocese of Würzburg: the Carthusian Museum 

Würzburg (district)
Kitzingen (district)

Kitzingen is a district in Bavaria, Germany.

History 

The district was last changed in 1973. The old district of Gerolzhofen was split up, and half of its territory was joined with the old Kitzingen district. The city of Kitzingen lost its status as an independent city and was put into the district.

Geography 

The Main River runs through the district from south to north.

Coat of arms

Towns and municipalities

References

Other websites

Official website (German)

 
Districts of Bavaria
Haflinger

Haflinger is an all-round breed of horse. It is a mountain horse but today people use it for spare time. A Haflinger counts as a pony breed of horse. The first cloned horse, Prometea is of this breed. A Haflinger has a gallant dry head with big eyes, wide-dilating nostrils, and small, attentive ears. People who raise this breed want them to have a good muscled body and a smart neck.

References

Other websites

 Tyrolean Haflinger Breeding Association
 American Haflinger Registry
 Haflinger Society of Great Britain
 Canadian Haflinger Association
 Australian Haflinger Horse Breeders Association
 Haflinger Horse Association New Zealand
 Collaboration of Haflinger Breeders and Holders of Germany (AGH) 

Horse breeds
Kevin Kurányi

Kevin Kuranyi (born 2 March 1982 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a German football player. He used to play for the German national team, but was excluded in October 2008 due to improper behaviour. His team is Dynamo Moscow. Before playing for Moscow, he played for Stuttgart and Schalke.

Club career statistics 

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|2001/02||rowspan="4"|Stuttgart||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||5||1||1||1||0||0||6||2
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|2002/03||32||15||2||2||8||4||42||21
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|2003/04||33||11||3||1||8||3||44||15
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|2004/05||29||13||4||2||5||3||38||100
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|2005/06||rowspan="5"|Schalke||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||30||10||4||1||12||3||46||14
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|2006/07||34||15||2||2||2||0||38||17
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|2007/08||32||15||4||2||8||3||44||20
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|2008/09||33||13||2||1||4||1||39||15
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|2009/10||33||18||||||||||33||18

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|2010||Dynamo Moscow||Premier League||||||||||||||||
261||111||22||12||47||17||330||140
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261||111||22||12||47||17||330||140
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International career statistics 

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|2003||7||1
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|2004||13||10
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|2005||15||3
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|2006||0||0
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|2007||9||5
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|2008||8||0
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References 

1982 births
Living people
German footballers
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro
Würzburger Kickers

Kickers Wurzburg is one of the most traditional football clubs in Franconia. It was founded in 1907.

Famous Footballers of FC Wurzburger Kickers:
 Bernd Hollerbach, Trainer VfB Lübeck
 Claus Reitmaier, formerly goal keeper of the VfL Wolfsburg
 Peter Sippel, FIFA-Arbitrator

Honours

League
 Bayernliga (III)
 Champions: 1977
 3. Liga (III)
 Third: 2015–16 (Promoted after play-off)
 Bayernliga-North (III)
 Runners-up (2): 1955, 1960
 Regionalliga Bayern (IV)
 Champions: 2014–15
 Landesliga Bayern-Nord (IV-V)
 Champions (3): 1990, 1997, 2012
 Runners-up: 2008
 Bezirksoberliga Unterfranken (VI)
 Champions: 2005
 Bezirksliga Unterfranken (VII)
 Champions: 2004

German football clubs
Sport in Bavaria
Würzburg
Chico, California

Chico is a big city in the Central Valley of the American state of California. It is in the northern part of the state. Chico is in the Sacramento Valley close to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The city has a population of 79,091. People first started living in Chico in 1843. The city was founded in 1860 and started to govern itself in 1872.

Sister cities 
 – Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan 1985
 – Pascagoula, Mississippi (U.S.) 2005

References

Other websites 

Downtown Chico Business Association
Chico Chamber of Commerce
City-data.com info on Chico

Cities in California
Cities in the Central Valley of California
1860 establishments in the United States
Settlements in Butte County, California
1860s establishments in California
Repperndorf

Repperndorf is a village in Regierungsbezirk, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Since 1977 it is part of the town of Kitzingen.  Repperndorf has a population of 260 people. The village has a graveyard and two churches, one for Catholics and one for Protestants. It also has one restaurant and one soccer club. There was the famous "Schnitzel factory" but now it moved to Kitzingen.

Villages in Bavaria
Kitzingen Rural District
Großlangheim

Großlangheim is a municipality in Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany.

References

Kitzingen (district)
Falun Gong

Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a spiritual discipline from China with exercises similar to Tai chi chuan. It was founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992. People who follow Falun Gong do five exercises and read books written by Li Hongzhi, the movement's founder. They believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance", and they also believe that the Falun Gong exercises can make them healthy, and make them better people. In 1999, after a big Falun Gong gathering in front of a Chinese government building, the Communist Party of China said: people cannot practice Falun Gong, it is "illegal". 

The police started arresting Falun Gong followers, and according to human rights organizations, over 3000 people have been jailed and tortured to death. The Chinese government claimed that Falun Gong spread superstitions, while others have suggest that Falun Gong's popularity challenges the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Many people and organizations outside of China have called for the Chinese government to stop jailing and killing Falun Gong people.

It is not known how many people practice Falun Gong. The Chinese government suggests there were 70 million practitioners in China in 1998. A Falun Gong website claims there are 100 million practitioners in more than 80 countries.

Reporter Ethan Gutmann said about 65,000 Falun Gong people were killed for their body parts from 2000 to 2008.

References

Other websites
 Falun Dafa Website

Religion in China
New religious movements
Deflation

Deflation means that generally the prices of products are going down. It is the opposite of inflation. It is said, that deflation happens when there is less money than there are goods. It is also said that deflation is a sign of a weak state of that country's economy, because deflation usually happens during an economic collapse. Deflation is thought to be even worse than inflation.

Deflation starts when people are waiting for prices to go down even more. They will then spend less money. Because of that, companies can not afford to keep up the amount of goods that are made, and have to lower that amount, as well as fire workers to make even a small profit.

Even if an economy is growing, there can be some amount of deflation - if the amount of money going around grows slower than the making of goods. There has not been much deflation in the world since the 1930s, except in Japan.

Deflation can be helped by the country's own government by lowering the companies' tax levels, so they can lower their prices while getting the same profit. This way normal people are more encouraged to buy the cheap goods they were waiting for, and slowly the companies can make more profit. Governments do not like deflation, because it means that they can collect less tax.

Inflation
Chemical symbol

A chemical symbol is the shortform of the name of an element. Usually, it is made up of one or two letters, but sometimes it is made up of three letters. For example, the chemical symbol for oxygen is O. The chemical symbol for calcium is Ca. Until it is discovered and scientists decide what it will be called, the chemical symbol for ununennium will be Uue.

The chemical symbols are listed with the elements in the periodic table. Chemical symbols are also used when writing chemical formulas. For example, the chemical formula for water is H2O, meaning that it contains two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

Chemistry
Secretary of State

Secretary of State is a title for a government official.  The title has different meanings in different countries, and in some cases there are several Secretaries of State in the government.

In many countries, a secretary of state is a mid-level official. 

In the United Kingdom a secretary of state is a senior minister in the Cabinet.

In the Vatican City the Cardinal Secretary of State is the head of the Roman Curia which is the cabinet of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church.

United States

In the United States federal government, the Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, and is responsible for foreign policy.  In most other countries, this official is called the Foreign Secretary or foreign minister.  The Secretary of State is the highest-ranking member of the Cabinet. The current U.S. Secretary of State is Antony Blinken.

Government occupations
Official

An official is someone who holds an office (meaning an official position) in an organisation or government. This doesn't have to mean an office room—it can also just mean an important rank. An official in government is called a government official or public official . Officials may be appointed or elected to their position.

Related words 
The term officer is close to having the same meaning as "official" (but has more military connotations). A functionary is someone who carries out a particular role within an organisation—this is quite a close synonym for an official but with connotations closer to a bureaucrat. A civil servant can also have a similar meaning to an official.

References

Other websites 
 Origins of the word "official" in the Online Etymology Dictionary

Occupations
Heteroptera

The Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the Hemiptera. They are typical bugs. 

"Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have front wings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra.

The name "Heteroptera" is used in two different ways in modern classifications. In Linnean nomenclature it is a suborder of the order Hemiptera.  In cladistics it is an unranked clade in the Hemiptera clade.

Selected families of Heteroptera 
 Assassin bugs 
 Broad-headed bugs
 Bedbugs and flower bugs 
 Plant bugs 
 Leaf-footed bugs, squash bugs and sweetpotato bugs 
 Seed bugs 
 Stink bugs or shield bugs and related families)

Heteropteran anatomy 

A: head; B: thorax; C: abdomen.
1: claws; 2: tarsus; 3: tibia; 4: femur; 8: compound eye; 9: antenna; 10: clypeus; 23: laterotergites; 25: pronotum; 26: scutellum; 27: clavus; 28: corium; 29: embolium; 30: membrane.

Waterbugs 
"Waterbug" is a common name for various aquatic insects.

Selected families of water bugs 
 Backswimmers (Notonectidae)
 Giant water bugs (Belostomatidae)
 Water scorpions (Nepidae)
 Water boatmen (Corixidae)
 Pond skaters (Gerridae)
 Smaller water strider (Veliidae)

References 

Hemiptera
Snuff

Snuff is a kind of tobacco which is sniffed instead of smoked.  People take a bit of snuff between their fingers and put it in their nostrils to smell it.  Not many people use snuff now, but a century or more ago it was very common.  In the novels of 19th century authors like Charles Dickens we often read about people taking snuff.  They kept it in a "snuffbox".

Related pages
Tobacco

Tobacco
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, or just Morrowind, is a video game released in 2002. In it, players take on the role of a character which they create, and use it to wander around in a big and diverse world. There is a storyline, but players do not have to follow it, instead doing the side-quests that are included with the game. Morrowind was released on the PC and the Xbox.You can also get game of the year edition and get Morrowind, Bloodmoon, and Tribunal expansion packs. You can go to the official website for help and guides.

References

The Elder Scrolls
2002 video games
Video game developer

A video game developer is a person or company who makes games on computers and other game systems. Some developers make games for only one or two types of game systems, others might even make one kind of game. Some games are only for one system. Developers might try and make a copy of such a game to another, different system. Some translate games from one language to another.

Video game developers work in development companies. There are over 1,000 development companies today. A big part of that thousand is very small companies, that usually only have one or two workers - these kind of small companies make games for the Internet or mobile phones. Some development companies are big, too. They have buildings in many places and hundreds of workers.

Types of developers
There are three types of video game developers.

Third-party developer
Third-party developers are video game developers that make deals with big publishers to make one game at a time. The developers are not part of the company: when the game is complete, the developers do not have to make another game for the publisher if they do not want to. Publishers will tell them exactly what they want third-party developers to do, and the developers do not have very much power to do something else.

In-house developers
In-house developers work directly with the publisher. They have more freedom in the making of the game than third-party developers have. Sometimes publishers buy third-party developers, and so they become in-house developers: workers for the publisher. This is an easy way for the publisher because the developers are workers for the publisher and so the publisher has more control.

Independent developers
Independent developers are usually small groups of people that are not owned by any publisher or another company. Because of that, most independent developers publish their games themselves. If they do that, the games usually will not get much attention or money. Still, independent developers can make exactly the game they want, when there is no publisher to tell them what to do. These are also sometimes called indie developers.
Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publish games that they have made or that they have bought to be made by a video game developer. The publisher pays for the development of the game. Because of that, they can tell the developers exactly what kind of game they want. The publisher is responsible for the making and marketing of the game. Big publishers also distribute the games that they publish. Smaller ones pay for other companies to distribute the game for them. Publishers also usually design and make the copies of the games and write the manual.

Technology companies
Cork (city)

Cork is a city in County Cork in Ireland. It is the country's second largest city, only Dublin is larger. It is the third largest city on the island of Ireland, as Belfast is also larger. People from Cork are called Corkonians. It was founded by Saint Finbarr in the sixth century. 274,000 people live in Cork city and the surrounding urban areas. The River Lee runs through Cork city.

Famous things in Cork City include Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Shandon cathedral, Blackrock castle, Fota wildlife park, Fota house and gardens, and University College Cork. Many famous sports people come from Cork including Roy Keane, Dennis Irwin and Christy Ring. Olympic medal winner Sonia O'Sullivan comes from the town of Cobh just outside Cork city in County Cork.

Twin cities
, Shanghai
, Coventry
, Rennes
, Cologne
, San Francisco
, Swansea

Europe
 Capital of Culture in 2005.

References

Other websites 
 Cork City Council site
 The Peoples Republic Of Cork
 Architecture of Cork 

 
6th-century establishments in Europe
County towns in Ireland
County Cork

County Cork is the largest county in Ireland in terms of size. Almost half a million people live there. The leader of the Irish War of Independence, Michael Collins, was born in the town of Clonakilty in County Cork. He was killed in Béal na mBláth in west Cork.  West Cork is known for its beautiful scenery.

The main towns in County Cork are Cork City, Youghal, Mallow, Bandon, Clonakilty, Kinsale, Blarney and Cobh. It is nicknamed "The Rebel County".

Parts of the Gaeltacht are in the county.

Other websites 
 Cork County Council
 Guide to County Cork for Tourism & Business

Gaeltacht
Genie

Genies or jinns or djinns are supposed to be magical beings or creatures with free will. They are originally found in ancient myths and legends of the Middle East, especially Arabia. 

Nowadays, people in many Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Syria,United Arab Emirates, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Iran, parts of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan believe in these Jinns or Djinns. Jinns are also common in legends and stories from the Middle East, for example in the One Thousand and One Nights. 

The holy book of Muslims, the Quran also mentions Jinns, and says that they are made from fire or smoke. Together, the jinn, humans, devils and angels make up the four wise creations of God. Like human beings, the jinn can be good or bad.

In movies and on television 
 A genie who lives in an lamp can be seen in the famous story Aladdin. When the lamp is rubbed, the genie appears from the lamp with a cloud of dust. He has the power to grant wishes.

 I Dream of Jeannie was a popular television series in the 1960s about a female genie, named Jeannie.

 In the famous 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, there are many Jinnns/Djinns, who are shown with magical powers. This film was remade in 1940 and 1942, also.

References

Other websites 

 Etymology of "genie"
 Sura Al-Jinn from the Qur'an 
 Visions of the Jinn - a Muslim scholar's experience with Jinn 
 Satan is a jinn 

Islam
Middle East
Mythology
Folklore
Cork

Cork could mean:

Places 
 Cork (city), a city in the Republic of Ireland
 County Cork, the largest and southernmost county in Ireland
 Cork Harbour, a natural harbour and estuary
 Cork International Airport, just outside the Irish city
 Metropolitan Cork

Objects and materials 
 Cork (material), a material used for bottle stoppers and noteboards
 Cork is often used to refer to a stopper (plug)

In botany 
 Cork oak (Quercus suber), a species of tree
 Chinese Cork Oak (Quercus variabilis), a species of tree
 Cork-tree, Phellodendron, a genus of plants native to east and northeast Asia
 Cork cambium, a tissue found in woody plants

In sports 
 Cork City F.C., a football club
 Cork GAA Gaelic athletic association

People 
 Bruce Cork (died 1994), American physicist
 Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer

Other 
 Corky is a female orca living in captivity
 Cork taint, a condition when wine is spoilt by a chemical reaction
 Diocese of Cork and Ross (Roman Catholic) formed in the 1950s from two older diocese

Basic English 850 words
Suikoden

is a series of role playing video games made by Japanese company Konami. There have been five main Suikoden games made. Suikoden and Suikoden 2 were released on the first PlayStation. Suikoden 3, Suikoden 4, and Suikoden 5 were released on the PlayStation 2. In each game the player would play the role of a hero who must free his country from either from a foreign invader or an evil government within his own country. To do this he would recruit the 108 "stars of destiny" to help him and raise an army. Unlike Final Fantasy games, every Suikoden game is set in the same world but in different countries.

Role-playing video games
Kendo

is a Japanese martial art.

History
Kendo means the "way of the sword". The rules and gear of kendo were first created in the 18th century and its modern rules and styles date to 19th century.

Rules
An opponent may be struck at seven places: both sides and top of helmet (men), on either hand (gloves, kote) or either side of the body breastplate (do). There is also one legal thrust (tsuki) on throat.

The "men" can only be struck from face, not from back. However, only one of the two hands can be struck, it depends on which kind of posture("kamae") your opponent are using. A struck to the right side of body(one kind of "do") will often be ignored by referee because in the old days samurai will have a smaller sword in this position, which gives this position a good protection. Very important, because "tsuki" is somehow dangerous, junior practicer perform "tsuki" is forbidden both in match and daily training.

In a match, the attacker must name the location of each strike. Often, name these locations by Japanese list before("men","kote","do","tsuki"), but some people will name it by Korean or Chinese or other language, or even a meaningless shout. All these kinds of shout name "kiai". An effective attack must contains "kiai" besides other essential factors.

Equipment
The weapon used in kendo is a bamboo sword, called shinai. The kendo armour, which the players must wear, is called bogu and is made of a helmet (men), breastplate (do), waist protector (tare), and special gloves (kote).

Lesson contents
Lesson is called keiko in kendo. keiko means that We think about past. kendo's keiko is distinguished between shinai keiko and kata keiko. the building which we do kendo is called dojyo. In particular keiko done in summer is shochugeiko and one done in winter is kangeiko.

shinaikeiko
keiko which use shinai and bogu
 suburi (waiving sword many times to improve your muscle)
 kirikaeshi (Striking partner's men consecutively and confirming sword handling)
 uchikomi keiko (Training basic strike like men, kote, doetc.)
 oikomi keiko
 kakari geiko (Striking where partner show a plow as many as possible in time)
 ji geiko
 shiai geiko

Related pages 
 Sports in Japan

References

Martial arts
Sport in Japan
Paleontology

Palaeontology or Paleontology is the study of fossils of living things, and their phylogeny (evolutionary relationships). It depends on basic sciences such as zoology, botany and historical geology. The term palaeobiology implies that the study will investigate the palaeoecology of the groups in question.

In palaeozoology, the evolution of those phyla with fossil records are studied: see List of animal phyla. In palaeobotany, fossil plants are studied. In historical geology the formation, sequence and dating of rock strata give information about past environments.

A fossil is any kind of life that is more than ten thousand years old and preserved in any form that we can study today. The fossil record is always incomplete, and later discoveries may extend the known survival of a group. See Lazarus taxon.

Some palaeontologists study fossils of microorganisms, living things that are too small to see without a microscope, while other palaeontologists study fossils of giant dinosaurs.

Vertebrate palaeontology: the palaeontology of vertebrate animals
Invertebrate palaeontology: the palaeontology of invertebrate animals

Related pages 
 Lagerstätte
 Paleoanthropology

References 

 
Evolutionary biology
Earth sciences
Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is a range of hills in central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England", a hilly area reaching over 300 m. The area has been designated as Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point in the Cotswolds is Cleeve Hill at 330 m (1083 ft).

The Cotswolds lie within the current ceremonial counties of  Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. The county of Gloucestershire forms the largest area of the Cotswolds.

Description

The spine of the Cotswolds runs southwest to northeast through six counties, particularly Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and southern Warwickshire. The northern and western edges of the Cotswolds are marked by steep slopes down to the Severn valley and the River Avon, Avon. These are a result of the broken edge of the limestone layer. On the eastern boundary is the city of Oxford and on the west is Stroud. To the south towns as Cirencester, Lechlade, Tetbury, Beverston and Fairford mark the southern limit of this region. 

In the Middle Ages, the wool trade made the Cotswolds prosperous. Some of this money was put into the building of churches. The area has a number of large, handsome Cotswold stone "wool churches".  The area is still wealthy and has attracted people who own second homes in the area, or have chosen to retire to the Cotswolds.

Typical Cotswold towns are Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Burford, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-Wold and Winchcombe. The town of Chipping Campden is famous as the home of the Arts and Crafts movement, that was founded by William Morris at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

The Cotswold Way is a long-distance footpath about 103 miles long (166 km) running the length of the AONB, mainly on the edge of the Cotswold escarpement with good views over the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham.

Cotswld stone 
The area has attractive small towns and villages built of  Cotswold stone (a yellow limestone). This limestone is rich in fossils. The stone  is a yellow oolitic Jurassic limestone. At the time, this was laid down in a warm tropical sea, about 177 million years ago. The latitude of Britain was about where North Africa is today. The stone is full of fossils such as stalked crinoids. A project is under way to collect examples for the Natural History Museum.

Historical structures
Sudeley Castle

References

Other websites 
Cotswold District Council — The website of Cotswold District Council
Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Website  (Countryside Agency)
Cotswold Journal Local Cotswolds news and information
Yate and Chipping Sodbury Guide  — A Guide to Yate, Chipping Sodbury on the Southern Edge of the Cotswold Escarpment
 Photos of Lower Slaughter in 3d (Anaglyphs) 
Cotswold AONB Magic interactive map (slow on first load)

Warwickshire
Geography of England
Piauí

Piauí is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is in the northeastern part of the country. The capital of Piauí is Teresina.

Geography 
Piauí shares borders with the states of Maranhão (west), Ceará (east), Pernambuco (east) and Bahia (east and south). It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

Piauí has the shortest coastline of any of the Brazilian states that borders the Atlantic Ocean. Its coastline is only 66 km long. The capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the northeast that is not on the coast. The reason for this is because, unlike the rest of the area, Piauí state was first colonised away from the coast and slowly expanded towards the ocean. The other states in the area started on the coast and grew inland.

Flag 
The flag of Piaui was created on 24 July 1922. The blue canton and a star is for the state itself. The green and yellow stripes are for Brazil.

Cities 
Cities in Piaui include:
 Teresina
 Parnaíba
 Picos
 Oeiras

Other websites 
 Piauí Official Homepage (Portuguese)

 
States of Brazil
Brazilian Federal District

The Brazilian Federal District or Distrito Federal is a part of Brazil, which is used to shelter Brasília, the federal capital. It is in the centre of the country.

History
The government of Brazil was moved to Distrito Federal on April 21, 1960. Before this, the Brazilian Federal District used to be the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Afterwards, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro became the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara), from 1960 until 1975. In 1975, the State of Guanabara and the State of Rio de Janeiro merged, to be named the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Originally, most of the people were local workers (called "Candangos"), who built the capital, and federal government workers who were sent to the new capital, Brasília. The capital is a planned city. It had areas built for homes, business, schools and other uses. Originally built for up to one million people, the city now has many more than one million people. Because of how the city was built, it has been hard for the city to grow. This has caused many people to live in cities around Brasília. A large percentage of the people of the Distrito Federal live outside the city now.

Flag
The white color is for peace. The green and yellow colors in the middle refer to the national colors of Brazil. The four yellow arrows are for the native people of Brazil. The arrows pointing into the four cardinal directions of the compass stands for the power moving out from the center. The yellow arrows also form a cross. This is a symbol of the Southern Cross carried by the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral.

The flag was created by the poet Guilherme de Almeida, and was adopted by decree no. 1090 on August 25, 1969.

References

Other websites 
 Official homepage 
 Informative Federal District page, with aeroplane view  
Feature article on CityMayors.com
Distrito Federal at Google Maps
Map of the Brazilian Federal District 

 
1960 establishments
1960s establishments in Brazil
Hiromu Shinozuka

Hiromu Shinozuka (, born 27 March 1979 in Fukuoka) is a Japanese manga artist. She writes in Ciao. She came out with Takkyu shoujo in 1999.

Famous works
Chenge!
Mirrumo de pon!
Koisuru purin
Chibi☆debi!!

Other websites
 Profile at Ciao Magazine site  
 Hiromu Shinozuka  at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

Japanese manga artists
1979 births
Living people
People from Fukuoka Prefecture
Zvečan

Zvečan is a town in north Kosovo, Serbia, near Kosovska Mitrovica. , about 16,600 people lived there. The town was first mentioned at the time of border disputes between Serbia and the Byzantine Empire between 1091 and 1094.

References

Towns in Europe
Settlements in Serbia
Rosario

Rosario is a city in the center-east of Argentina, about  northwest from Buenos Aires. It is the main city of Santa Fe Province. As of 2008 Rosario metropolitan area has a population of around 1,300,000 inhabitants, making it Argentina's third-largest city. The city is on the Paraná River.

It is called Rosario because of the Virgin of the Rosary, whose image remains at the cathedral, in the same place as the original chapel.

Cities in Argentina
Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport which involves doing exercises which need strength, flexibility, balance and control. This may include running, jumping, tumbling, somersaulting, flipping and balancing.  

In women's gymnastics, there are four activities: floor, uneven bars, balance beam, and vault.  In men's gymnastics, there are six activities: floor exercise, parallel bars, high bar, pommel horse, vault, and rings.

Gymnastics is a Summer Olympic sport.
Gymnastics is not just for girls, it can also be for boys as well.

History 
Gymnastics began as a form of exercise in ancient Greece.  It was one of the first sports in the Olympics.

Forms of gymnastics 
There are several forms of gymnastics, including rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, acrobatics, trampolining, and wheel gymnastics and no handed gymnastics. In artistic gymnastics, gymnasts perform short routines using different pieces of equipment.  Acrobatics involves showing balance and performing flips on the floor or in the air.  In trampolining, gymnasts do routines using only the trampoline.  Wheel gymnasts exercise in a large wheel called a German wheel. 
  

In rhythmic gymnastics, gymnasts perform with ribbons, rope, ball, hoop and clubs.  Usually, only females do rhythmic gymnastics because they are more flexible than males.

Other websites   

 FM Gymnastics - a list of Techniques and free animated comic tutorials for Floor Gymnastics.

Websites of the federations 

Federation Internationale de Gymnastique
  Gimnasia Argentina
  Gymnastics Australia 
  Brazilian Gymnastics Federation
  Gymnastics Canada 
  Chinese Gymnastics Association 
  Fédération Française de Gymnastique
  Federazione Ginnastica d'Italia
  Japan Gymnastic Association 
  Mexican Gymnastics Federation 
  Romanian Gymnastics Federation 
  Russian Gymnastics Federation
  British Gymnastics
  USA Gymnastics
Takbir

Allahu Akbar is a Muslim saying.  The exact words in Arabic mean  "God is greater", but people know that saying "God is great" in the right time and place means the same as "God is Greater." "Allahu Akbar" is the first part of the Adhan, which people hear 5 times a day where Muslim people live together. Saying "God is Great" tells people in a few words what Islam believes and teaches. 

This Arabic phrase was added to the Iraqi flag, in Saddam Hussein's handwriting, in 2001. Muslims say it before changing positions during their prayers. Allahu Akbar was the anthem of Libya during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.

Islam
Shire

A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain (also county) and Australia. It is a kind of local government.

History
The first shires were created by the Anglo-Saxons in central and southern England.  Shires were controlled by a royal official known as a "shire reeve" or sheriff. In modern English usage shires are sub-divided into districts.

Individually, or as a suffix in Scotland, the word is pronounced  (to rhyme with "fire"). As a suffix in an English or Welsh place name it is pronounced  (rhymes with "fir").

Shires in Great Britain 
In England and Wales, the term "shire county" is used to refer to counties which are not metropolitan counties.

It can also be used in a narrower sense, referring only to traditional counties ending in "shire".  These counties are typically (though not always) named after their county town.

Shires in England
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire.

Of these, all but Huntingdonshire and Yorkshire are also administrative counties (but with different boundaries).  Huntingdonshire is now administered as a district of Cambridgeshire, and Yorkshire is split between East, North, South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham.

Shires in Wales
Brecknockshire, Caernarvonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire

In Wales, the counties of Merioneth and Glamorgan are occasionally referred to with the "shire" suffix. The only traditional Welsh county that never takes "shire" is Anglesey.

Shires in Scotland
Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, Fifeshire, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, Wigtownshire

Shires in Australia
Shire is the most common word in Australia for the smallest local government areas by population. The states of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia use shire for this unit. South Australia and Tasmania use district. A shire has the same powers as the next largest units, the town and city.  In NSW, the expression 'The Shire' commonly refers to the Sutherland shire.

Related pages
Counties of England

Counties of the United Kingdom
Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail is a shonen manga published in the Weekly Shônen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017. It was created by Hiro Mashima. It has 545 chapters and 63 tankōbon volumes. The series is also aired. Some video games are released by Konami. In August 2012 The Phoenix Priestess, a Fairy Tail movie, was released.

Story 
The story of Fairy Tail focuses around the adventures of main characters Natsu and Lucy, who are sometimes with the members of the Fairy Tail Guild.

In the beginning, Lucy is a young sorceress (a "mage"), who wants to join Fairy Tail Guild. On her trip, she meets Natsu, a young boy, who is looking for Igneel the Salamander. She offers Natsu and Happy (his partner) a lunch and Natsu explains that Igneel is a dragon. Lucy talks about her dream to join a famous guild, which she later told him was the Fairy Tail Guild. Later, she is tricked and taken by Bora of Prominence to be sold as a slave. She is rescued by Natsu, who is the real Salamander, and a true member of Fairy Tail Guild. He offers her to be a member of Fairy Tail. Lucy says yes and joins the guild. Since then, Natsu and Lucy formed a team. This is the beginning of the adventures that the two have while carrying out missions from the guild.

Reception

According to Oricon, Fairy Tail was the eighth best-selling manga series in Japan for 2009. It became the fourth best in 2010 and 2011 and the fifth best of 2012. It also won the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.

In 2012, the anime series won the "Meilleur Anime Japonais" (best Japanese anime) award and the best French dubbing award at the 19th Anime & Manga Grand Prix in Paris, France.

References

Other websites 
 Fairy Tail World (US)

2012 anime OVAs
Regnitz

The Regnitz is a river in Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Main and is 58 km in length.

The river is formed by the confluence of the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz, which meet in the city of Fürth. From there the Regnitz runs northwards through the cities of Erlangen and Forchheim. It finally meets the Main in the city of Bamberg.

Geography of Bavaria
Rivers of Germany
Geir Ivarsøy

Geir Ivarsøy (June 27, 1957 – March 9, 2006) was the main programmer at Opera Software. He and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner were part of a research group at the Norwegian state telephone company (now known as Telenor). They made browsing software called MultiTorg Opera. Telenor stopped them from working on the program, but in 1995 Ivarsøy and Stephenson von Tetzchner got the rights to the software. They created a company of their own, and continued working on it.

Now known as Opera, the Internet browser has become very popular. Opera Software has grown to more than 380 employees since it first moved to its present offices in Oslo.

In January of 2004, Geir Ivarsøy said he wanted to resign as a board member in Opera Software, though he kept working in the company after that. In June of 2005 he was elected as a member of the nomination committee of the company.

Geir died in March 2006 after a long battle with cancer.

Other websites 
Death in the Family — an obituary

Computer scientists
1957 births
2006 deaths
Opera ASA
Norwegian people
Rerun

A rerun is a repeat of the same broadcast media, when that program is played again. This is usually a television show, but can also be a radio show.

Television
Radio
Cutaway

A cutaway in movieing is a camera shot that interrupts the program. Its subjects are related. It is going on at the same time as the main action of the program.

Television
Movie production
Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair CBE QC (born 23 September 1954) is a British barrister, sometimes known as Cherie Booth. She is the wife of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair. She was born at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Lancashire, and grew up in Waterloo, Lancashire. She is a daughter of actor Antony Booth.

She gained a first class degree from the London School of Economics.

She qualified as a barrister in 1976, and took silk in 1995. In 1999 she became a Recorder in the County Court and Crown Court. 

Blair specialises in Human Rights law. She is a Catholic.

References

Other websites 
Brief biog on her Chamber's website 

1954 births
Living people
Spouses of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Alumni of the London School of Economics
British lawyers
English Roman Catholics
People from Bury
Women lawyers
BBC 100 Women
Regions of Slovakia

Since 1949 (except 1990-1996), Slovakia has been divided into a number of kraje (singular kraj, usually translated as Regions, but mean rather county). Slovakia is currently divided into 8 regions. Each kraj is then divided into many okresy (singular okres, usually translated as districts). Slovakia currently has 79 districts.

Each region is named after its capital.

The following list shows: name of the region, its capital, number of districts, population (as of 2001) and area.

 Bratislava Region, capital Bratislava - 8 districts, pop. 599,015, 2053km²
 Trnava Region, capital Trnava - 7 districts, pop. 550,103, 4108km²
 Trenčín Region, capital Trenčín - 9 districts, pop. 605,582, 4501km²
 Nitra Region, capital Nitra - 7 districts, pop. 713,442, 6343km²
 Žilina Region, capital Žilina - 11 districts, pop. 692,232, 6788²
 Banská Bystrica Region, capital Banská Bystrica - 13 districts, pop. 662,121, 9455km²
 Prešov Region, capital Prešov - 13 districts, pop. 789,968, 8993km²
 Košice Region, capital Košice - 11 districts, pop. 766,012, 6753km²

Geography of Slovakia

ro:Împărțirea administrativă a Slovaciei
Districts of Slovakia

An okres (in English district) is an administrative unit of Slovakia.

Several districts form one region. On the other hand, one district is made of several municipalities, which are further divided into cadastral areas. The current districts exist since 1996, which at first had their own offices, but in 2004, they were abolished and replaced by the Circuit Offices, which are usually responsible for several districts (except for the Nové Zámky District, which has two Circuit Offices), reducing districts to a little more than statistical units.

Slovakia currently has 79 districts, with the city of Bratislava divided into 5 districts and the city of Košice divided into 4 districts.

Alphabetical list of all Slovak districts

Banská Bystrica
Banská Štiavnica
Bardejov
Bánovce nad Bebravou
Brezno
Bratislava I
Bratislava II, Bratislava III
Bratislava IV, Bratislava V
Bytča
Čadca
Detva
Dolný Kubín
Dunajská Streda
Galanta
Gelnica
Hlohovec
Humenné
Ilava
Kežmarok
Komárno
Košice I

Košice II
Košice III
Košice IV
Košice - okolie
Krupina
Kysucké Nové Mesto
Levice
Levoča
Liptovský Mikuláš
Lučenec
Malacky
Martin
Medzilaborce
Michalovce
Myjava
Námestovo
Nitra
Nové Mesto nad Váhom
Nové Zámky
Partizánske

Pezinok
Piešťany
Poltár
Poprad
Považská Bystrica
Prešov
Prievidza
Púchov
Revúca
Rimavská Sobota
Rožňava
Ružomberok
Sabinov
Senec
Senica
Skalica
Snina
Sobrance
Spišská Nová Ves
Stará Ľubovňa
Stropkov

Svidník
Šaľa
Topoľčany
Trebišov
Trenčín
Trnava
Turčianske Teplice
Tvrdošín
Veľký Krtíš
Vranov nad Topľou
Zlaté Moravce
Zvolen
Žarnovica
Žiar nad Hronom
Žilina

Geography of Slovakia