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Shooting

Shooting is when a rifle, shotgun or other weapons which fire a projectile, such as bows or crossbows, are fired. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who is very good at shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports or in combat. Shooting is also an Olympic sport.

Uses 
Shooting is used for hunting birds such as grouse or pheasant, rabbits etc. Sometimes "shooting" just means "hunting".

Violence
Shooting is also used in warfare, self-defense, crime, and law enforcement. When someone shoots random innocent people it is sometimes caused by misanthropy (hate for humans).

Competitive shooting
In several countries, rifle clubs have been made since the 19th century. Soon, international shooting events were started, including shooting at the Summer Olympics (from 1896) and World Championships (from 1897). The International Shooting Sport Federation is in charge of Olympic and non-Olympic rifle, pistol and shotgun competitions. However, there are also many national and international shooting sports which other organisations are in charge of.

Shooting supplies
In most countries, people who want to shoot firearms need a license. Firearms can usually only be bought from registered shops.

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Tom McNeeley

Thomas William McNeeley, Jr. (February 27, 1937 – October 25, 2011) was a professional boxer. He was son of Tom McNeeley, Sr., who was also a professional boxer.  McNeeley attended Michigan State University where he played football.

His first professional fight was on July 17, 1958.  He fought 25 times without losing. On December 4, 1961, McNeeley fought Floyd Patterson for the World Heavyweight Championship. Patterson retained his title.  McNeeley retired after a June 14, 1966 fight. He later served on the Massachusetts Boxing Commission for eight years. He was also a U.S. Marshall. Later, he worked in the athletic department of the Massachusetts prison system and as a counselor for state employees.

McNeeley's son, Peter McNeeley was also a professional boxer. Peter fought Mike Tyson.

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Sportspeople from Massachusetts
The Waitresses

The Waitresses were an American experimental new wave music group. They were from Akron, Ohio. The group formed in the early 1980s. Their song I Know What Boys Like was released in 1980 but did not chart until 1982. They also represented the theme song for the television series Square Pegs in 1982-1983. The group broke up in 1984. Their lead singer died due to lung cancer in 1996.

American rock bands
New wave bands
Musical groups from Ohio
Musicians from Akron, Ohio
Deck the Halls

"Deck the Halls" is a Christmas and New Year's themed song. The "fa-la-la" refrains were played earlier on harps. The tunes of this song are that of old Welsh air. Various singers have covered the song, including James Taylor and Nat King Cole.

Christmas music
Silver Bells

"Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song. The lyrics represent Christmas in the city rather than rural. It was first performed via Bob Hope. The first recorded version was done by Bing Crosby and released in October 1950. Other musicians, including though not limited to The Supremes, Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams have done their versions of this Christmas carol.

Christmas music

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Andy Williams

Andy Williams (December 3, 1927 - September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He had many gold and several platinum albums and songs, including 8 Christmas albums.

Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa. Some sources say he was born in 1927, others say 1928. Williams was married to Claudine Longet from 1961 until they divorced in 1975. He was later married to Debbie Meyer from 1991 until his death in 2012. Williams had 3 children. In November 2011, Williams was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Williams died on September 25, 2012 in Branson, Missouri from the cancer, aged 84.

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2012 deaths
American pop singers
Cancer deaths in Missouri
Deaths from bladder cancer
Singers from Iowa
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (also known as "Let It Snow!") is a holiday oriented song that is played during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years holidays' season, although it does not mention any holiday within the lyrics. It was originally written by Sammy Cahn. It has been covered by many singers, including though not limited to Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin and Anne Murray throughout the decades.

Christmas music
Kung Fu (TV series)

Kung Fu was an American television series created by Ed Spielman, and starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine. The show was nominated for 2 Golden Globes.

Plot 
Kung Fu follows the adventures of a Shaolin monk named Kwai Chang Caine travelling through the Old West of the United States as the only weapon, using his skills in martial arts and inner strength of his philosophy of life. Its purpose was to find his half-brother, Danny Caine, and start a new family, as Kwai Chang had fled China after the authorities put a price on his head.

63 episodes of the series were filmed between 1972-1975, including the 90-minute TV pilot.

References 
 Action TV: tough-guys, smooth operators and foxy chicks, by Bill Osgerby,Anna Gough-Yates
 Cinephilia: movies, love and memory, by Marijke de Valck,Malte Hagener

Other websites 
 

1972 television series debuts
1975 television series endings
1975 disestablishments
1970s American television series
American drama television series
English-language television programs
Stoichiometry

Stoichiometry is a branch of science that studies and measures the amount of matter in chemical reactions. It can be used to predict the amount of things that will be made in a chemical reaction. It uses the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite composition and the law of multiple proportions in balancing chemical equations.

Chemistry

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Occupy London

Occupy London (also known as Occupy London Stock Exchange) is a peaceful protest and demonstration. The aims of the protest is to demand dialogue and to draw attention to several different issues such as the widening gap between rich and poor people in the UK as well as the great influence that companies and business groups have on decisions made by the UK government.

Location and History
The protest is mostly found in a group of tents that have been put up in the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. The Cathedral is just in front of the London Stock Exchange. The protest started on 15 October 2011 with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, United States. On 22 October 2011 another protest was set up in Finsbury Square which is about 1 km away.

Organisation and Events
The protesters are not part of a political party and they do not have a leader.

Gallery

References
The Occupy London website and blog
Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and radiation by heated objects. He coined the term black body radiation in 1862. 

He proposed two sets of independent concepts in both circuit theory and thermal emission. They are all called 'Kirchhoff's laws' after him, as well as a law of thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after him and his colleague, Robert Bunsen. He also discovered rubidium with Bunsen in 1861.

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1887 deaths
German inventors
German physicists
People from former German territories
People from Kaliningrad
Carol of the Bells

"Carol of the Bells" is a very popular song. It was composed by Mykola Leontovych, a Ukrainian composer. It is played during the Christmas season of every year. It has been featured in many movies, in parodies and in television programs. It has also been performed by many musicians, such as Johnny Mathis, The Carpenters, Destiny's Child and Jessica Simpson.

Christmas music
Valentín Paz-Andrade

Valentín Paz-Andrade (b. Pontevedra, 23 April 1898-d. Vigo, 19 May 1987) was a Galician lawyer, writer, politician, journalist, poet, businesspeople and economist.

Galician Literature Day is dedicated to him in 2012.

Works

 Pranto matricial (1955) .
 Los derechos sobre el espacio marítimo (1960) .
 La anunciación de Valle-Inclán (1967) .
 Sementeira do vento (1968) .
 La marginacíón de Galicia (1970) .
 X. R. Barreiro Fernández, F. Díaz-Fierros ..., Los Gallegos, (1976), La sociedad y la economía, (1975), pp. 45–93.
 A galecidade na obra de Guimarães Rosa (1978) .
 Cen chaves de sombra (1979) .
 Castelao na luz e na sombra (1982) .
 
 O legado xornalístico de Valentín Paz-Andrade (1997) .
 Epistolario, (1997) .

References

Further information
 Freixanes, Víctor F. (1982), Unha ducia de galegos. .
 Calvo, Tucho (1998), Valentín Paz-Andrade, a memoria do século. .
 
 Rodríguez Vidales, Francisco (1999), VPA, Valentín Paz-Andrade. .

Other websites 

 Enciclopedia Galega Universal 

Spanish poets
Spanish journalists
Spanish lawyers
Galician people
Spanish businesspeople
Spanish economists
1898 births
1997 deaths
People from Pontevedra
Reactivity (chemistry)

Reactivity is a measure of how much a substance tends to react with other things. Some substances are more reactive, and others are less reactive. Reactivity is set by several factors:
 the range of circumstances (conditions that include temperature, pressure, or presence of catalysts) in which the substance reacts,
 the range of substances that will react with it,
 the equilibrium point of the reaction (that is, the extent to which all of it reacts), or
 the speed of the reaction.

Reactivity involves both the thermodynamics and kinetics of the particular chemical reaction. A reaction will be more reactive if the total energy of the products is less than the total energy of the reactants. A reaction will be more reactive if the energy of its transition is low.

Lithium reacts with water and air. Gold does not react with water or air. Gold is unreactive, thus low on the reactivity series. Lithium is reactive. There are several ways to measure reactivity. Some are reducing agents, and others can be oxidizing agents. Some absorb water easily. Some break down easily.

References

Chemistry
All I Want for Christmas Is You

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a widely popular Christmas song first done by Mariah Carey for her fourth studio album, Merry Christmas. It was first released in November 1994. The lyrics of the song declare that the protagonist doesn't care about the Christmas presents or lights and that all she is wanting is to be united alongside her lover for the Christmas holidays. The song has been remixed and covered by other musicians, such as The Cheetah Girls, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus and John Mayer since it was introduced.  Carey wrote and produced the song with her longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff.

The song's length is four minutes and one second.  On December 18, 2017, Billboard announced that the song had reached the top ten on the Hot 100 for the first time in the 23 years that the song was released.  In 2018, it reached number three on the Hot 100 and topped the Canadian Hot 100 and Australian Singles Chart.

On December 16, 2019, Billboard announced that, after 25 years of release, the song had reached number one on the Hot 100, marking Carey's 19th chart-topper, extending her record as the soloist with the most US number-ones in history.

After peaking at number two, the song topped the UK Singles Chart on December 11, 2020.

On December 3, 2021, the RIAA certified the song Diamond in the US for sales and streams of 10 million copies there.

Popular culture 
In December 2016, British talk show host James Corden recorded a version of the song as part of his Carpool Karaoke segment on CBS's The Late Late Show.  The video features British musicians Adele, Elton John, and Chris Martin, along with American entertainers Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, Gwen Stefani, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Carey herself, singing lines from the song. As of January 2021, this version has over 49 million views on YouTube.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

All-time charts

Certifications

References 

Christmas music
Mariah Carey songs
1994 songs
AKUT Search and Rescue Association

AKUT Search and Rescue Association (Turkish: AKUT Arama Kurtarma Derneği) is a non-governmental and volunteer organization in Turkey, which was established in 1996 by a group of mountaineers. The association has established 27 teams in different regions of Turkey and has participated in more than 1000 search and rescue operations in and out of Turkey. It's also a member of the International Rescue Dogs Organization and United Nations' International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG). 

In 2011 the association participated in INSARAG's classification event and since then it's a "medium search and rescue group".

Other websites

 Official webpage 
 Official webpage of Ankara Team  rev. 6. Nov. 2011
 INSARAG USAR Directory rev. 6. Nov. 2011
 IRO - Mitgliedsorganisationen rev. 6. Nov. 2011 (in German)

Turkey
The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)

The Twelve Days of Christmas is an English Christmas carol which was published around 1780, and it is said that it was written by Catholics in hiding during the days of Queen Elizabeth I of England's persecution. It was invented to help teach children articles of the Catholic faith without drawing attention from government officials, using imagery as a tool to help the children remember. The song represents increasingly grand gifts given during each of The Twelve Days of Christmas. The partridge in a pear tree symbolizes Christ on the Cross. The two turtledoves represent his Human and divine nature, the two books of the Old and New Testament, and the two tablets the Ten Commandments were carved on. The three French hens symbolize the Trinity of the Catholic faith: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, as well as the three Cardinal virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. The four calling birds were the four Evangelists who wrote the gospels, etc.
This Christmas song has been subject to parody numerous times and has been covered by multiple musicians, including though not limited to Connie Francis, Natalie Cole, and the Muppets over many years.

Collage 

Christmas music
Orthacanthus

Orthacanthus was an ancient, fresh-water shark that had a long spine growing from the back of its skull. It had a very long dorsal fin, which ran all along the sharks back, giving it an eel-like appearance. 

Orthacanthus was the terror of freshwater swamps and bayous in Europe and North America. Its body reached nearly 10 feet (3 meters) in length and its powerful jaws were lined with double-fanged teeth.
Orthacanthus lived from roughly 280 million years ago, from the Pennsylvanian period through the Permian period. They were around before the dinosaurs evolved.

Extinct fish
Tim Cook

Timothy Donald "Tim" Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the chief executive officer of Apple Inc.. He joined the company in March 1998. On August 24, 2011, he was made the CEO of Apple after the resignation of Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 from pancreatic cancer.

Early and personal life 
Cook grew up in Robertsdale, Alabama, near Mobile. His father was a shipyard worker, and his mother was a homemaker. Cook finished high school at Robertsdale High School, earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Auburn University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1988.

Career 
Cook spent six months at Compaq as the Vice President for Corporate Materials before he was hired by Steve Jobs to join Apple. At first, he was the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operations.  Before that, Cook was the chief operating officer (COO) of the computer reseller division of Intelligent Electronics and spent 12 years in IBM's personal computer business as the director of North American Fulfillment.

Cook is praised for pulling Apple out of working by closing factories and warehouses around the world. This helped the company get lower inventory levels and make its supply chain easy, making margins a lot bigger. In January 2007, Cook was promoted to COO.

Cook served as Apple CEO for two months in 2004, when Jobs was healing from pancreatic cancer surgery. In 2009, Cook was made Apple CEO again for several months while Jobs had to leave for a liver transplant.

In January 2011, Apple's Board of Directors allowed Jobs to leave again for medical reasons. During that time, Cook was responsible for most of Apple’s day-to-day operations while Jobs made most big decisions. After Jobs retired, Cook was made permanent CEO of Apple on August 25, 2011.

Cook is also on the board of directors of Nike.

References

Other websites 

Executive Biography of Tim Cook at Apple

1960 births
Living people
American chief executives
Apple Inc.
Gay men
Businesspeople from Alabama
LGBT businesspeople
LGBT people from Alabama
People from Mobile, Alabama
Persian language In India

Before the British found India, Persian language was the country's second official language. It was also thought of as the cultural and scientific language. However, after the British found India in 1832, they replaced it with English.

Persian inscript 
There are many stone carved or plastered Persian inscript in India and thousands of hand written books.

Gallery

References
http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/articles/persian_parsi_language_history.php
http://www.soas.ac.uk/southasia/research/nilc/indopersian/

Related pages 
Persian language
Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments
Languages of India
Santa Baby

"Santa Baby" is a holiday themed song about a person who wants extravagant things for the Christmas season. It was first recorded in 1953 by Eartha Kitt, and many other musicians, including though not limited to Pussycat Dolls, Kylie Minogue, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Madonna have covered this melody throughout the decades.

Original recording
"Santa Baby" was originally recorded by Eartha Kitt with Henry René and his orchestra in New York City in July 1953. The song was a huge hit for Kitt, and she later said that it was one of her favorite songs to record.

Ariana Grande version
"Santa Baby" is a song recorded by American recording artist Ariana Grande, featuring a guest appearance from American actress Liz Gillies. The song was released by Republic Records on December 10, 2013, as the fourth single from Grande's EP Christmas Kisses.

Track listing
 Digital download
 "Santa Baby (feat. Liz Gillies)" – 2:51

Charts

References

Christmas music
Blue Christmas

"Blue Christmas" is a melancholy holiday themed song first recorded under Doye O'Dell around 1948 and made popular via Ernest Tubb in 1949. The song was featured in several Christmas specials and recorded by numerous other musicians, most notably Celine Dion, Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers and countless others.

Christmas music
Elvis Presley songs
Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". After they had broken up, John William Waterhouse painted in their style. Their influence shrank as the impressionists and post-impressionists became more important.

The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the 'mechanistic approach'. This was first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. The Brotherhood believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. So, they are called Pre-Raphaelites. 

In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, whom they called "Sir Sloshua". To the Pre-Raphaelites, according to William Michael Rossetti, "sloshy" meant "anything lax or scamped in the process of painting ... and hence ... any thing or person of a commonplace or conventional kind".  In contrast, they wanted to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art.

The Pre-Raphaelites continued to accept the idea of history painting, and the imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. Despite this, they were a reform movement: they created a distinct name for their form of art, and published a periodical, The Germ, to promote their ideas. Their debates were recorded in the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.

The Brotherhood were highly praised by the art critic John Ruskin, and in turn they were influenced by his ideas. Rossetti's wife Elizabeth Siddal was their favourite model, and she developed into  an excellent artist herself.

References 

Art movements
British artists
Pretty Vacant

"Pretty Vacant" is a song by the English punk rock band The Sex Pistols.  It was released in 1977, as the third single from their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.

The song is infamous for vocalist John Lydon's phrasing of the word "vacant", emphasizing the last syllable making it sound like the vulgar word "cunt".

The B-side is a cover of The Stooges' "No Fun" which they played on the spot without a proper rehearsal.

References

1977 songs
Sex Pistols
Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a major street in central London, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is completely within the City of Westminster. St. James's lies to the south of the eastern section of the street, while the western section overlooks Green Park. The area to the north is Mayfair.

It is the location of Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy, The Ritz Hotel, the RAF Club and Hatchards book shop. Simpsons, once amongst the United Kingdom's leading clothing stores, opened on Piccadilly in the 1930s. The store closed in 1999 and the site is now the flagship shop of the booksellers Waterstone's.

History

The name Piccadilly may come from a tailor named Robert Baker, in the late 16th century and early 17th century. He amassed a large fortune by making and selling piccadills – stiff collars with scalloped edges and a lace border, which were then in fashion. With his great fortune he bought a large tract of what was then open country to the west of London.

After the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Piccadilly and the area to the north (Mayfair) began to be systematically developed as a fashionable residential locality. Some of the grandest mansions in London were built on the northern side of Piccadilly: Clarendon House, Berkeley House (later Devonshire House), and Sir John Denham's house (later Burlington House) were built in the 17th century. Later mansions included Melbourne House (now The Albany), Apsley House, Bath House  and Cambridge House. Several members of the Rothschild family had mansions at the western end of the street, and that part was colloquially referred to as Rothschild Row. 

By the 1920s most of these buildings had been demolished or were in institutional use.  The enlargement of Park Lane and the formation of Hyde Park Corner as a major traffic gyratory system has cut off the western stretch of Piccadilly, with the result that Apsley House has become detached from it.

21st century Piccadilly is not one of London's principal shopping streets, despite the presence of several famous shops. The Ritz Hotel is in the street, along with some other luxury hotels. There are also some offices and some very expensive flats. Piccadilly is one of the widest and straightest streets in central London.

City of Westminster
Roads in London
List of European countries

This is a list of all European countries:

References 

Lists of countries

countries
Last Christmas

"Last Christmas" is a holiday song by the pop duo Wham!. The single focuses about betrayal of the protagonist by a person he thought was there to stay. The song was released in 1984. Other singers have covered it since then, including Ashley Tisdale.

Christmas music
1984 songs
List of Asian countries by population

This is a list of all Asian countries by population

References

Lists of countries
Romeo (Shakespeare)

Romeo is the son of Lord and Lady Montague in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. He is one of the two protagonists of the story.

Romeo falls in love with Juliet Capulet, and secretly marries her. Juliet fakes her death to rid herself of a parental marriage arrangement with Count Paris. Romeo is not aware of the fake death. He believes Juliet is truly dead and kills himself.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonard Whiting, Leslie Howard and Douglas Booth have played Romeo in movie adaptations of the play. Romeo is also a character in opera and ballet adaptions of the play.

Other websites
 Complete listing of all of Romeo's lines

Characters in Shakespeare's plays
Pope Benedict V

Pope Benedict V (;   -died July 4, 965), was an Italian deacon of the Roman Catholic Church and the 133rd Pope for five weeks in 964.

Benedict was known as Grammaticus because of his learning.

Pope
After the death of Pope John XII, Cardinal Benedetto was elected pope by the Romans in 964; but the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, did not approve.  Otto deposed Benedict who was then exiled.  

Otto forced Benedict to travel to Germany where he was placed under the care of Adaldag, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.

After his death
Benedict was buried in the cathedral in Hamburg.  Later, his remains were transferred to Rome.

Although his status was questioned during his lifetime, Benedict V is considered to part of the traditional list of popes.

Related pages
 List of popes
 List of popes by length of reign

References

Other websites

 

  Catholic Hierarchy,  Pope in sequence
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Benedetto 

Italian popes
Year of birth unknown
965 deaths
List of African countries by population

This is a list of all African countries by population:

Lists of countries

Africa-related lists
Heidi Fleiss

Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965 in Los Angeles) is an American television personality and columnist, regularly featured in American media. She is often called "Hollywood Madam" (formerly she was a madam and for a short time a prostitute) and is a periodic guest on Fox News programs. Her father was Paul M. Fleiss. She is of Jewish descent.

Fleiss had been convicted of tax evasion and spent some time in prison. She was in a domestic partnership with Dennis Hof until his death in October 2018.

References

1965 births
Living people
American columnists
American prisoners
American prostitutes
American sex industry businesspeople
Brothel owners and madams
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Jewish American criminals
Jewish American entertainers
Jewish American writers
Jewish businesspeople
Jewish sex industry people
Television personalities from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
1906 San Francisco earthquake

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the biggest earthquake that has ever hit San Francisco on April 18, 1906. It was felt from Los Angeles to Oregon and Nevada. The earthquake was about a 7.8 on the Richter scale. Around 3,000 people were killed and between 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless. There were also fires because gas pipes were destroyed, and the gas caught on fire. Over 80% of the city was destroyed by the earthquake and fires that came later. The city is on the San Andreas Fault, which slid, causing the earthquake. Many people looted so then the Army had to come in to keep the peace, but there were reports of the army looting as well.

References

Other websites
 
 The 1906 Earthquake and Fire from the National Archives
 Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897–1916 From American Memory at the Library of Congress.
 A geologic tour of the San Francisco earthquake, 100 years later from American Geological Institute
 The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire from the Museum of the City of San Francisco website

1906
1900s in the United States
Earthquakes in California
20th century in San Francisco
Natural disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area
April events
Wonderful Christmastime

"Wonderful Christmastime" is Christmas song which was first recorded by Paul McCartney and released in 1979. The single did not chart on Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It did, however, reach #6 on United Kingdom music charts. This single is played during the Christmas season worldwide with strong popularity. Other singers, including Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, Hilary Duff and Demi Lovato have covered this song throughout the years.

Christmas music
1979 songs
Doug Ashton

Douglas Joseph Ashton (19 November 1919 — 3 November 2011) was the owner of the world's longest family run circus, and the oldest surviving travelling circus. Ashton's Circus was started by Doug Ashton's great grandfather, Joseph Henry Ashton, in 1847. Doug Ashton was born into the circus and was on the road travelling when only six days old. Ashton, and his wife Phyllis, were both awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1996 for their work for charity and the arts. He died in Perth, Western Australia, while travelling with his grandson's circus, Circus Joseph Ashton. Joseph Ashton trained Nicole Kidman to use the flying trapeze for Baz Lurhmann's movie, Moulin Rouge!.

References

1919 births
2011 deaths

Australian entertainers
Order of Australia
Saline (medicine)

In medicine, saline refers to any solution of salt in water; that is, salt water. Such solutions are sterile when they are to be placed into the body by infusion or injection. If the solution has more salt in it than is found in the human body, it is called hypertonic saline. The normal salt level is 0.9% and any salt amount more than 0.9% is called hypertonic.

Medicine
Bobby Vinton

Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935 in Pennsylvania) is an American musician of Polish descent. At first Vinton was not successful. Around 1963, he began making serious hit songs and albums. That continued into the 1970s and beyond.

1935 births
Living people
Singers from Pennsylvania
Pope Leo

Pope Leo may mean:
Pope Leo I Leo the Great (440–461)
Pope Leo II (682–683)
Pope Leo III (795–816)
Pope Leo IV (847–855)
Pope Leo V (903)
Pope Leo VI (928)
Pope Leo VII (936–939)
Pope Leo VIII (964–965)
Pope Leo IX (1049–1054)
Pope Leo X (1513–1521)
Pope Leo XI (1605)
Pope Leo XII (1823–1829)
Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903)

Leo
Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rodrigo and Gabriela), also known as "El Rodri y La Gabi", are a Mexican musical duo. They play fast, rhythmic music on acoustic guitars. The duo is Rodrigo Sanchez, lead guitar, and Gabriela Quintero, rhythm guitar and percussion. 

They became well known playing in the hotels and bars of Dublin, Ireland. One reviewer said that "...Rodrigo y Gabriela's secret is maybe quite simple. They are resourceful musicians, and are open-hearted, happy entertainers. That, very often, is what people want." Both are vegans and support animal rights. They  play a mixture of many influences and styles.

They met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash metal band and later moved to Dublin. Their album, Rodrigo y Gabriela, entered the Irish Albums Chart at Number One.

Recordings

Studio albums
Foc (2001)
re-Foc (2002)
Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)
11:11 (2009)
Area 52 (2012)

Live albums
Live: Manchester and Dublin (2004)
Live in Japan (2008)
Live in France (2011)

Extended plays
''Live Session (2007)

Live gigs
The Porterhouse, Dublin (2002)

References

Other websites
 Official Rodrigo y Gabriela site
 Video Channel  on MUZU TV
 An early career interview with Rodrigo y Gabriela
 Interview on WNYC's Soundcheck.
 Interview with Gabriela for Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal, March 2007
 Interview on NPR's All Things Considered, October 10, 2009
 Rodrigo y Gabriela Rock the White House

Mexican musicians
2000s Mexican music groups
Musical groups established in 2000
20th-century establishments in Mexico
Andy Rooney

Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer. His "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" was a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011. He died one month later, on November 4, 2011, at age 92.

He started as a reporter covering World War II in Europe. Rooney joined CBS in 1949, as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, when Godfrey was very popular on radio and TV. He also wrote for The Garry Moore Show.

Rooney was an atheist.

References

Other websites
 
 
 CBS Biography
 Archive  of previous "A Few Minutes ..." segments
 Andy Rooney Podcast  among other CBS podcasts
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Angels We Have Heard on High

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a well-known Christmas carol that represents the birth of Jesus found under Gospel of Luke in which shepherds outside Bethlehem find many angels praising children. The song has been covered and performed by many singers over the years.

Christmas music
Pulmonology

Pulmonology is a type of medicine where doctors know about the lungs and the heart.  They work on keeping lungs healthy.  A doctor working in pulmonology is called a pulmonologist.  Pulmonologists also work with respiratory therapists to educate and help make lungs healthy.

Where do they work? 
 Hospitals
 Clinics (Regular doctors offices)
O Tannenbaum

"O Tannenbaum", also known as "O Christmas Tree" in alternate name, is a holiday melody of German origin. The best known form of this song was written in 1824. Notable singers who have performed this song are Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis and Chicago.

Christmas music
Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space in London's West End in the City of Westminster.

The Circus links Piccadilly with Regent Street, and the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square), and Glasshouse Street. 

The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting place and a tourist attraction in its own right. 

The Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros. Actually the statue is that of Anteros, who in legend was the brother of Eros. The fountain is a pedestrian area: it and the Circus there is surrounded by several noted buildings, the London Pavilion and the Criterion Theatre. Directly underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus tube station, part of the London Underground system.

Notes 

Roads in London
City of Westminster
Dale–Chall formula

The Dale–Chall formula is one of the ways to predict how difficult text is to read. It is a readability test. The Dale–Chall formula is a one-variable test: it measures the difficulty of the words used. It does not measure the difficulty of the sentence structure (the syntax).

One of the first readability tests, the Dale–Chall formula used a vocabulary list. It counted the number of listed words in a passage, and applied a formula which gave a grade level. It was used to rate textbooks for grade levels in US school districts. In 1995 the authors published an updated word list.

It is easy, in principle, to use a vocabulary list as part of a computer-based readability measure. The list is organised as a look-up table. The percentage of listed words in a passage gives the data for the formula, and the user is presented with a grade level.

Related pages 
List of readability tests
Textual difficulty

References 

Written communication
Linguistics
Photogram

A photogram is a photograph that is made without a camera. Something is placed on top of some photographic paper (or a similar material) and then shining light on it. At the end of this, you get a shadow picture. It usually has different tones. This depends on how transparent the object is.

Photography
Park Lane

Park Lane is a major road in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

Park Lane is about three quarters of a mile (1.2 km) in length, and runs north from Hyde Park Corner to Marble Arch, along the length of the eastern flank of Hyde Park.  

Despite the traffic noise, the road is upmarket. It features five-star hotels, such as The Dorchester, Grosvenor House Hotel and InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel, and showrooms for several makes of high-end sports car. The hotels are part of the area known as Mayfair.

History
Originally a country lane running north-south along what is now the eastern boundary of Hyde Park, it became a fashionable residential address from the eighteenth century onwards. It has views across Hyde Park and a position at the most fashionable western edge of London. It became lined with some of the largest privately owned mansions in London, including the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor House and the Holford family's Dorchester House (demolished in 1929 and replaced by 1931 with The Dorchester, which are now both hotels, and the Marquess of Londonderry's Londonderry House, which has been demolished. 

On a corner with Oxford Street, Somerset House (No. 40), built in 1769-70, was successively the town house of Warren Hastings, a former Governor-General of India, the third Earl of Rosebery, and the Dukes of Somerset.

In the 1960s the Lane was widened to three lanes each way either side of a central reservation. This required the demolition of a number of houses at Hyde Park Corner. It claimed land previously in Hyde Park to make room for the multi-lane carriageway. The result was to diminish the appeal of Park Lane as a residential address, as it became one of the busiest and noisiest roads in central London. It has little or none of the countryside atmosphere that once made it popular. The widening of the road distanced the houses on the east side of Park Lane from Hyde Park itself, access to which is now by underpass.

References 

Roads in London
City of Westminster
Alghero

Alghero (Italian pronunciation: [alˈɡɛro]; , IPA: [ɫəɫˈɣe], locally: [lalˈɣe]; ; ), is a city of about 44,000 citizens in Italy. It lies in the province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, next to the sea.

In the 1930s, the Swedish writer Amelie Posse Brazdova wrote a book entitled Sardinia Side Show, where she told the complete story of 2 years she spent "interned" in Alghero old town during World War I.

References

Other websites
City of Alghero Official website 
Official Alghero tourism web site  
Alghero Tourist Informations and Webcam Live  
Alghero Tourism and Town Information  
Alghero Tourism and Hotels Informations 

Communes of Sardinia
Triangulation station

A triangulation station is a fixed surveying station, used in surveying. 

It may also be known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig,

The names of triangulation stations vary regionally; they are generally known as trigonometrical stations in North America, trig points in the United Kingdom, New Zealand  and Australia, and trig beacons in South Africa; triangulation pillar is the more formal term for the concrete columns found in the UK.

Cartography
Trigonometry
Pope Leo XI

Pope Leo XI (; 2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 233rd Pope for only 26 days in April 1605.

Early life
He was born in Florence.  His grandmother was a sister of Leo X.

Priest
In 1567, Medici was ordained as a priest.

In 1569, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, sent Father Medici to be the ambassador of Florence in the court of Pope Pius V.  For 15 years in Rome, Father Medici was the representative of the city and the Medici family.

Bishop
Gregory XIII made him Bishop of Pistoia in 1573.  He was named Archbishop of Florence in 1574.

Cardinal
Gregory raised him to the rank of cardinal in 1583.

In 1596, Clement VIII sent Cardinal Medici as ambassador to the court of Henry IV of France.

Pope
On 1 April 1605, Cardinal Medici was elected pope.  He chose to be called Leo XI in honor of his uncle Pope Leo X.  

When he was elected, Leo XI was almost seventy years of age, and he died within the month.  His death came as a result of fatigue and cold in the ceremony of taking possession of the Basilica of St John Lateran.  He was called Papa Lampo ("Lightning Pope") because his papacy was so short.

Related pages 
 List of popes
 List of popes from the Medici family
 List of popes by length of reign

References

Other websites

 

  "Leo XI" in Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
  Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Leo XI
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Medici
 Leo XI at St Peter's Basilica

Italian popes
House of Medici
People from Florence
1535 births
1605 deaths
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a  football club based in Hoffenheim, a suburb of Sinsheim, Baden-Württemberg. They play in the German Bundesliga In the year 2000 they played in the 5th division but in  2008 they promoted to the Bundesliga. It was possible with the financial help of the software mogul Dietmar Hopp, who had played in the club's youth system. The financial help was widely criticized by other clubs, fans and by some in the German press. The most important points were the lack of tradition and the small fan base. Hoffenheim has only 3,300 inhabitants, and Sinsheim, where they play their home games, has only about 35,000 residents.
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Honors
The club's honours:

League
 2. Bundesliga
 Runners-up: 2008
 Fußball-Regionalliga
 Runners-up: 2007
 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV)
 Champions: 2001
 Runners-up: 2010‡
 Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V)
 Champions: 2000
 Runners-up: 2003‡

Cup
 North Baden Cup
 Winners: (4) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
 Runners-up: 2007

Youth
 'German Under 17 championship
 Champions: 2008
 U17 Bundesliga South/Southwest
 Champions: 2008
 Runners-up: 2011
 ‡ Won by reserve team.

Current squad

Players out on loan

Staff

First team

Coaching history
Recent coaches of the club:

*As caretaker coach.

References

Fußball-Bundesliga
German football clubs
Sport in Baden-Württemberg
1899 establishments in Germany
Mimosa pudica

Mimosa pudica  is a 
well-known species of Mimosa. It is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, re-opening minutes later. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a widespread weed.

Description
The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age. The leaves of the Mimosa pudica are compound leaves.

The leaves are bipinnately compound, with one or two pinnae pairs, and 10-26 leaflets per pinna.  The round-shaped flower heads, which are inflorescences, are 8–10 mm in diameter (excluding the stamens). The floret petals are red in their upper part and the filaments are pink to lavender. The fruit consists of clusters of 2-8 pods from 1–2 cm long each.  The pods break into 2-5 segments and contain pale brown seeds some 2.5 mm long. The flowers are pollinated by the wind and insects. The seeds have hard seed coats which restrict germination.

Plant movement 
Mimosa pudica is well known for its rapid plant movement.
Like a number of other plant species, it undergoes changes in leaf orientation termed "sleep".  The foliage closes during darkness and reopens in light.

The leaves also close when touched, warmed, blown, or shaken. When the plant is disturbed, specific regions on the stems release potassium ions which force water out of the cell vacuoles. The water diffuses out of the cells, producing a loss of cell pressure and cell collapse; this differential turgidity between different regions of cells results in the closing of the leaflets and the collapse of the leaf petiole. This is quite a common trait in the Mimosoideae subfamily of the legume family, Fabaceae. The stimulus can also be transmitted to neighbouring leaves.  The function of this trait is not known. The plant may use its ability as a defense from predators. Animals may be afraid of a fast moving plant and would rather eat a less active one.  Another possible explanation is that the sudden movement dislodges harmful insects.

References 

Barneby, R.C. 1992. "Sensitivae Censitae: a description of the genus Mimosa Linnaeus (Mimosaceae) in the New World." Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 65.
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Mimosoideae
Rapid plant movement
Pope Leo XII

Pope Leo XII (; 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 253rd Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Life
Della Genga was born in a family of Papal States nobility.

Priest
Della Genga was ordained as a priest in 1783.  

Pope Pius VII made him his private secretary.

Bishop
In 1793, he was made Archbishop of Tyre; and he was sent as papal nuncio to Lucerne.  

He was the papal nuncio in Cologne between 1794 and 1805.

After 1805, he retired to the abbey of Monticelli near Florence.

Cardinal
Tn 1816, Pius VII created him  cardinal. 
 
In 1820, Cardinal della Genga became Vicar-General of Rome.

Pope
Cardinal della Genga was elected pope 1n September 1823.

Related pages
 List of popes

References

Other websites

  "Leo XII", Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
  Catholic Hierarchy, Pope Leo XII
  Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal della Genga

Italian popes
1760 births
1829 deaths
Jim Varney

James Albert "Jim" Varney (June 15, 1949 - February 10, 2000) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, voice actor and comedian. He was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. Varney is best remembered for his role as Ernest P. Worrell in many movies and television programs. He died of lung cancer in White House, Tennessee.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Other websites
 

1949 births
2000 deaths
Actors from Kentucky
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Cancer deaths in Tennessee
Musicians from Kentucky
Deaths from lung cancer
People from Lexington, Kentucky
Pope Damasus II

Pope Damasus II (; died August 9, 1048), born Poppo, was a German priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 152nd Pope for only 24 days from July 17 to August 9, 1048. 

He was the third German to become pope.

Early life
He was born in Bavaria.

Bishop
Poppo was Bishop of Brixen in the Tyrol Mountains of Germany..

Pope
Bishop Popo became pope on July 17, 1048; and he took the name Damasas II.  He died within a month of his election.

Related pages
 List of popes
 List of popes by length of reign

References

Other websites

 
  Catholic Hierarchy, Popes in sequence

German popes
1048 deaths
Masazumi Soejima

is a Japanese athlete.  He is best known as a  Paralympian Track and field competitor.  He competes in category long distance events.

Marathon
In 2011, he won the wheelchair division of the New York City Marathon.  He completed the course in 1 hour 31 minutes 41 seconds (1:31:41).  He dedicated his race to the children in Japan, who were affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Soejima won the wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon in 2011.

Paralympics
Masazumi has competed in the marathon in both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics, 10000m in 2004, 5000m and 1500m in 2008. 

In the 4x400m relay in 2004, he won a bronze medal.

References

1970 births
Living people
Japanese sportspeople