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Kim Seok-ju

Kim Seok-ju(김석주, 金錫冑, 1634 – September 20 1684) was a Confucian scholar, writer and politician of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. He is the elder cousin of Queen Myungsung and paternal first cousin once removed of 19th king Sukjong. His penname was Shigam(식암, 息庵) and Chinese style name was Sabaik(사백, 斯百).

Book 
 'Shikamjip'(식암집, 息庵集)
 'Beolgo'(별고)
 'Haedongsabu'(해동사부, 海東辭賦)
 'Shikamyugo'(식암유고, 息菴遺稿)
 'Hanggunsooji'(행군수지, 行軍須知)
 'Gomunbaiksun'(고문백선, 古文白選)
 'Hangoojasu'(한구자수, 韓構字藪)
 Chunsojhajipseomun(춘소자집 서문, 春沼子集 序文)

Related pages 
 Kim Yuk
 Kim Ikhun
 Song Siyeol
 Song Jun-gil

References

Cite web 

 http://100.daum.net/encyclopedia/view.do?docid=b03g1658b 
 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=31181
 http://koreandb.nate.com/history/people/detail?sn=9901

1634 births
1684 deaths
Korean educators
South Korean politicians
Autobiographers
Po (Kung Fu Panda)

Master Po Ping (more commonly known simply as Po) is a fictional character and the main character of the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He is a 20-30 years old giant panda who was improbably chosen as the "Dragon Warrior", the kung fu champion of the Valley of Peace in the first movie.

Po is the adoptive son of Mr. Ping, the Warrior of Black-and-White (as revealed in Kung Fu Panda 2). Po is one of Master Shifu's students. In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po is revealed to have the ability to be able to learn kung fu at a glance.

References

Animated characters
Fictional bears
Fictional characters introduced in 2008
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda (franchise)

The Kung Fu Panda franchise from DreamWorks Animation, consists of three movies: Kung Fu Panda (2008), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016). Two Annie Award-winning shorts, Secrets of the Furious Five (2008) and Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2010), were also released. A TV show for Nickelodeon called Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness premiered in the fall of 2011 and is currently on the air.

Animation
Media franchises
Kung Fu Panda
Moravian Academy

Moravian Academy is a school in historical center of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was founded by the Moravian Church in 1741. It is the ninth oldest independent school in the United States. Moravian Academy has a religious heritage in the Moravian Church. Now it says that it is a "church-related school" and welcomes students from all religious and cultural backgrounds.

History 
The school was founded in 1741 and in one year later it was the first school for girls in American colonies. Moravians believed, that education is a duty and they kept educational tradition of Comenius. Today's Moravian Academy was founded combining the Moravian Seminary for Girls and Moravian Preparatory School in 1971.

References

Other websites 
 Official website 

Schools in Pennsylvania
1741 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
18th-century establishments in Pennsylvania
Gemini (astrology)

Gemini is the astrological Zodiac sign that represents the constellation Gemini. In the tropical zodiac, Gemini is from May 20 to June 20. Under the sidereal zodiac, it is now from June 15 to July 15. The opposite sign to Gemini is Sagittarius.

Symbol 

This sign for Gemini was made from two lines, representing the twins.

Mythology 
In mythology Gemini is related to Greek myth of the twins of Zeus and Leda, Castor and Pollux.

Astrology 
In astrology Gemini is ruled by the planet Mercury.

Traditional relationships with Gemini 
 Birthstone= Agate
 Colour= Yellow

References

Astrological signs
Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is a web logging application. It was made by Microsoft and is part of the Windows Live Essentials group of applications. Writer has WYSIWYG post editing features. Writer lets users add images and maps to their posts as well as other things. The application works with Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint blogs, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and other services.

Microsoft Windows software
Kim Ikhun

General Kim Ikhun (Korean: 김익훈, 金益勳, 1619 – March 11 1689) was one of the Neo-Confucian scholars, politicians and Solders of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. His nickname was Kwangnam(광남, 光南), a Chinese style name was Moosook(무숙, 懋叔). He was a grand uncle of Queen Inkyung, wife of Joseon Dynastys 19th king of Joseon Sukjong.

Related pages 
 Bosagongshin
 Kim Seok-ju
 Kim Man-joong

Other websites 
 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=32011
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=553186
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=553186
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=878337

1619 births
1689 deaths
Korean educators
South Korean politicians
Autobiographers
Murder victims
Nam Gon

Nam Gon (Korean: 남곤, 南袞, 1471 – March 10 1527) was a Neo-Confucian scholar, politician, and soldier of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. His nickname was Jijeong (止亭, 지정)·Jijokdang (知足堂, 지족당)·Jijok (知足, 지족), a Chinese style name was Sahwa (士華, 사화). He was a mental grandfather of Song in married to princess Jeongsun (정순옹주, 貞順翁主), illegitimate daughter of King Joseon Jungjong

A member of Sarim (사림, 士林), Vice Prime minister to 1521 and Prime minister of Joseon 1523 to 1527.

Books 

Jijeongjip (지정집, 止亭集)
Yujagwangjeon (유자광전, 柳子光傳)
Namakchangsurok (남악창수록, 南岳唱酬錄)

Related pages
 Jo Gwang-jo
 Kim Jeon
 Shim Jeong

References

Other websites 
 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=35237
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=532759
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=689086

1471 births
1527 deaths
Korean educators
South Korean politicians
Autobiographers
Song Si-yeol

Song Siyeol (, Hanja: 宋時烈; 30 December 1607 - 19 July 1689), was a Neo-Confucian scholar, politician, and soldier of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. His nickname was Uam (우암, 尤庵) Ujae (우재, 尤齋) Gyosannobu (교산노부, 橋山老夫) Namgannosu (남간노수, 南澗老叟) Hwayangdongju (화양동주, 華陽洞主) Hwayanbgbuja (화양부자, 華陽夫子), a Chinese style name was Youngbo (영보, 英甫). header of Westner Partys.

Writing 
 Uamjip (우암집, 尤庵集)
 UamSeonsanghoojip (우암선생후집, 尤菴先生後集)
 Uamyugo (우암유고, 尤菴遺稿)
 Joojadaejeon (주자대전잡억)
 Songseoseupyu (송서습유, 宋書拾遺)
 Songseosokseupyu (송서속습유, 宋書續拾遺)
 Joojadaejeonchaui (주자대전차의, 朱子大全箚疑)
 Jeongseobunryu (정서분류, 程書分類)
 Joojauhryusobun (주자어류소분, 朱子語類小分)
 Nonmaengmunuitonggo (논맹문의통고, 論孟問義通攷)
 Shimgyungseokui (심경석의, 心經釋義)
 Shambangchwalyo (삼방촬요, 三方撮要)
 Songjadaejeon (송자대전, 宋子大全)
 Jangreungjimun (장릉지문, 長陵誌文)
 Youngreungjimun (영릉지문, 寧陵誌文)
 Songjungilmyojimyung (송준길묘지명)
 Sagyeseonsaenghangjang (사계선생행장, 沙溪先生行狀)

Gallery

Related pages
 Song Jun-gil
 Kim Jip
 Heo Mok

Other websites

 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=95558
 http://navercast.naver.com/contents.nhn?contents_id=4225

1607 births
1689 deaths
Korean educators
South Korean politicians
Autobiographers
Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France

The Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France (3AF) is the French national aeronautical and astronautical non-profit association. Is has been created in 1971 and is located in Paris.

The main activity of 3AF is to bring together people interested in aerospace activities.

References

Other websites 
 Official website

Aerospace engineering
Aviation in France
Independent Administrative Institution

or IAI is a special type of legal entity in Japan.

The IAI are semi-governmental organizations.  They are regulated by the Basic Law on Reforming Government Ministries of 1998. There are about 100 IAIs.

IAIs employ management methods of private-sector corporations. Each IAI has autonomy in operations and in budgeting.

Related pages
 List of Independent Administrative Institutes in Japan
 List of National Laboratories (Japan)

References

Other websites

  Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art
Josh Towers

Josh Towers (born February 26, 1977 in Port Hueneme, California) is a retired baseball pitcher. He played for the Toronto Blue Jays and other MLB teams.

1977 births
Living people
Baseball players from California
Baltimore Orioles players
New York Yankees players
Toronto Blue Jays players
Académie de l'air et de l'espace

The Académie de l'air et de l'espace (AAE) is the French national air and space non-profit academy. It was been created in 1983. by André Turcat. It is in Toulouse.

The main activity of AAE is to promote knowledge and development in aerospace activities.

References

Other websites
 Official website

Toulouse
Aerospace engineering
Education in France
Aviation in France
University of Toulouse

The University of Toulouse is a network of French universities and grandes écoles in the city of Toulouse. It was founded in 2007.

Members 

 University of Toulouse I: Capitole - UT1 (Law, Economics, Management)
 University of Toulouse II: Le Mirail - UT2 (Arts, Literature, Humanities and Languages)
 University of Toulouse III: Paul Sabatier - UT3 (Science, Technologies and Health)
 Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse - INP (Engineering) including :
 École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse - INP-ENSAT (Agronomy)
 École nationale supérieure d'électrotechnique, d'électronique, d'informatique, d'hydraulique et des télécommunications - INP-ENSEEIHT (Engineering)
 École nationale supérieure des ingénieurs en arts chimiques et technologiques - INP-ENSIACET (Engineering)
 École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes - INP-ENIT (Engineering)
 École nationale de la météorologie - INP-ENM (Meteorology)
 École d'Ingénieurs de Purpan - INP-EI Purpan (Engineering)
 École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse - ENVT (Veterinary Studies)
 Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse - INSA Toulouse (Applied Sciences)
 Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace - ISAE (Aeronautics and Space)
 Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean-François Champollion - CUFR Champollion (Several fields of study on offer)
 École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux - EMAC (Engineering)
 École nationale de l'aviation civile - ENAC (Civil Aviation)
 École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole - ENSFEA (Agronomy)
 École Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Toulouse - ENSA Toulouse (Architecture)
 Toulouse Business School (ESC Toulouse) (Business and Commerce)
 Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse - IEP/Sciences Po Toulouse (Political Studies)
 Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers de Toulouse - ICAM Toulouse (Engineering)

References

Other websites 
 Official website 

Technical colleges and universities in Toulouse
2007 establishments in France
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album by American R&B musician Lauryn Hill. It was released on August 25, 1998.

Track listing

References 

1998 albums
The Five

The Five, often known as The Mighty Handful, are a group of five Russian composers who met regularly in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the mid-19th century.  The Russian name for the group: Moguchaya kuchka (The Mighty Handful) was given to them by Vladimir Stasov, the famous music critic.  The five composers were:  Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. The group all wanted to write music in a Russian style, rather than imitating European composers.  They were part of the movement known in music as Nationalism.  They were five of the most important composers of the time.  Note that Tchaikovsky was not one of the group.  His music is more European-based, but he, too, often wrote very Russian music based on folk tunes.

History
Before The Five were established as a group, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky were trying to create a Russian kind of music.  All the composers of The Five were amateur composers.  This does not mean that they were bad, it means that they earned their living in other ways and composed when they had time.  Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer, Borodin was a professor of chemistry, Cui was an expert in military armaments and Mussorgsky had been in the Guards and then in the civil service before he took up music full time.  Balakirev, the leader of the group, worked for a time for the Warsaw Railways.  He was the spiritual leader of the group: a kind of teacher and guide.

The composers of The Five tried to put the sounds of village songs, Cossack and Caucasian dances, and church chants in their music.  Russian peasants used to sing folk songs in which words or syllables were spun out with several notes into a long, lyrical line.  This influence can be heard in many of the Five’s works, especially in Mussorgsky’s operas.  They also frequently used music which sounded like that from Eastern Asia (“Orientalism”).

The group began to meet in 1856. This was before Anton Rubinstein founded the St Petersburg Conservatoire.  Music at the Conservatoire was taught in a European way.  This is what The Five, together with the music critic Vladimir Stasov, were against.  However, in later years Rimsky-Korsakov taught at the Conservatoire, and Rubinstein who had left in to concentrate on his career as a pianist, often used ideas from Russian folk music.  The difference between the two parties had become blurred. By the 1880s The Five were drifting apart because they each had developed their own personal styles.  Apart from Cui, whose music is not often heard today, the members of the group influenced or taught many of the next generation of Russian composers, such as Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Related pages
Les Six, French composers

References

Other websites
Encyclopædia Britannica article about "The Five" 

Russian composers
List of Independent Administrative Institutes in Japan

The   identifies a special type of legal entity in Japan.  There are about 100 of these semi-governmental entities, including

 Building Research Institute, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
 Electronic Navigation Research Institute
 Equine Research Institute, JRA
 Fisheries Research Agency
 Forest Tree Breeding Center
 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
 Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO).
 Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
 Japan Mint
 Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
 Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), 2004.
 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
 Japan Sewage Works Agency
 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
 Marine Technical College
 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
 National Archives of Japan (NAJ)
 National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
 National Institute for Environmental Studies
 National Institute for Materials Science
 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
 National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
 National Institute of Health and Nutrition
 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
 National Institute of Radiological Sciences
 National Maritime Research Institute
 Kyoto National Museum (KNM)
 Kyushu National Museum
 Nara National Museum (NNM)
 Tokyo National Museum (TNM)
 Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
 National Art Center, Tokyo (NACT)
 National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo
 National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
 National Research Institute of Brewing (NRIB)
 National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory
 NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories
 Port and Airport Research Institute
 Public Works Research Institute
 RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research)

Related pages
 Independent Administrative Institution
 List of National Laboratories (Japan)

References

Other websites
  Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art 

Japan-related lists
Tracy Pollan

Tracy Pollan (born June 22, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for her work on the sitcom Family Ties She is married to actor Michael J. Fox. They have 4 children. Pollan was born on June 22, 1960 in Long Island, New York.

Pollan is from Russian Jewish descent.

Other websites 
 

1960 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
American television actors
Jewish American actors
Michael J. Fox
Aéro-Club de France

The Aéro-Club de France (AéCF) is the oldest aeronautical institution in the world. It was created on 20 October 1898. It is in Paris.

The main activity of AéCF is to promote aviation and certification.

References

Other websites 
 

Aviation in France
Aerospace engineering
Paris
1898 establishments in Europe
1890s establishments in France
Drina Martyrs

Drina Martyrs were Catholic nuns of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity. They were killed in Bosnia and Herzegovina between December 15 and 23, 1941 because of their religion.

Life and death 

Their names were Marija Jula (Kata) Ivanišević, Marija Bernadeta (Terezija) Banja, Marija Krizina (Josefa) Bojanc, Marija Antonija (Josefa) Fabjan and Maria Berchmana (Carolina Anna) Leidenix. They died in Goražde and near Sjetlina in 1941. They are beatified in Sarajevo on 24th September, 2010.

References 
FDC Alumnae 
Site about Drina Martyrs - multilingual

Further reading 
 Franc Ksaver Meško: Izbrano delo I-VI Mohorjeva družba v Celju (1954–1960)
 Anto Baković: Drinske mučenice, Vlastita svjedočanstva, Svjedočanstva očividaca, Dokumenti, Anto Baković, Sarajevo 1990.

Roman Catholic martyrs
Christian saints
20th century in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1941 deaths
1941 in Europe
December events
Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German movie score composer and music producer. He has written music for over 100 movies. 

His works include The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), Gladiator (2000), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), Rango (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Man of Steel (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Dunkirk (2017), Widows (2018) and The Lion King (2019). 

His next projects are No Time to Die (2020), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Top Gun: Maverick (2020).

Career
Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is in charge of the movie music division at DreamWorks studios. He also works with other composers through the company he founded, Remote Control Productions. 

Zimmer's works are notable for combining electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. He has been given four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Classical BRIT Award, and an Academy Award. He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph.

In 2000, Zimmer's score for Gladiator became one of the best selling movie score albums of all time. He also composed video game scores such as Call of Duty and Fortnite.

Discography

As actor

Feature films

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Television

As composer

Feature films

1980s

1990s

2000s

Short films

Television

References

Other websites

 
 
 Interview with Hans Zimmer in Film Score Monthly 
 Interview with Hans Zimmer about Sherlock Holmes from C Music TV 
 Focus.De
 Interviews with Hans Zimmer

1957 births
Living people
20th-century German composers
21st-century German composers
Academy Award winning composers
Golden Globe Award winning composers
Grammy Award winners
Movie score composers
People from Frankfurt
Saturn Award winners
Arka Sokaklar

Arka Sokaklar (Turkish for Back Alleys or Back Streets), is a Turkish crime television series. It has been broadcast on Kanal D (Channel D) since 2006.

Turkish television series
2006 television series debuts
2000s establishments in Turkey
Shin Suk-ju

Shin Suk-ju (1417 - June 21, 1475) was a Neo-Confucian scholar, politician and diplomat, linguist, and painter during the Korean Joseon Dynasty. His cousin was Deposed Queen Lady Yun His pen name was Huihyundang (희현당, 希賢堂), Bohanjae (보한재, 保閑齋), Chinese style name was Beomong (범옹, 泛翁).

Writing 
 Bohanjaejip(보한재집, 保閑齋集)
 Saseongtonggo(사성통고, 四聲通攷)
 Nongsanchukmokseo(농산축목서)
 Bukjungrok(북정록 北征錄)
 Haedongjegukgi(해동제국기 海東諸國記)

Related pages
 Deposed Queen Lady Yun
 Yeonsangun of Joseon

References

Other websites 

 http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=101950
 http://navercast.naver.com/contents.nhn?contents_id=5967
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=560358
 http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=689523

Korean politicians
Asian diplomats
Korean painters
1417 births
1475 deaths
Fontenai-sur-Orne

Fontenai-sur-Orne is a former commune in the Orne department of Lower Normandy, France. There were 254 people in 2006. The size of the village is 651 hectare (ha). Its Saint-Martin church was built in classical times. The west gate was built in 16th century, but the Virgin statues are from the 18th century. An underground vaulted cave made in stone is in the presbytery. There is a local party organized on the 3rd Sunday of July. The city's main activities are mixed farming and bird-raising. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the commune Écouché-les-Vallées.

References

Former communes in Orne
Sled dog racing

Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing or husky racing) is a winter sport most popular in the Arctic regions of Canada, Russia, the United States and some European countries. It is a race of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners.

References

Winter sports
Sports involving animals
Working dogs
Is the glass half empty or half full?

Is the glass half empty or half full? is an idiom.  

The question is a common expression with both an obvious meaning and a meaning which is inferred or implied.

The phrase describes two different ways of understanding the meaning of a situation.

The idiom is used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full) or pessimism (half empty).

Metaphor
The phrase is a metaphor. For example, 
According to musician Jelly Roll Morton, "If a glass of water is full, you can't add any more water, but if you have half a glass, you can always put more water in it -- and jazz music is based on the same principles."

Related pages
Blind men and an elephant

References 

Idioms
Metaphors
Safe (container)

A safe is a container where people can put important things to protect them from fire, theft, or both. A safe is usually a box-shaped container with a lock. Safes that are designed to protect things from just fire may not have a lock or may have only a simple lock or padlock hasp. It is usually heavy and made of a strong substance such as steel. It is designed to be very hard to open with crowbars, hammers, drills, lock picks, and other tools. Safes are available in many different security levels. These range from those designed to protect from common burglars to those designed to protect from professional thieves and spies. Fire ratings are usually based on how long the safe can be in a common structure fire before the inside of the safe reaches 175 degrees Celsius. This is the temperature at which paper and wood are destroyed. The fire rating usually ranges from 15 minutes up to 3 hours. Some safes are also waterproof, which both protects the contents from flood and prevents the contents from getting wet when a fire is put out by firefighters. A large safe that is part of a building is called a vault. Vaults have usually one or more rooms.

Security
Containers
Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Firth's portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Identified in the late 1980s with the "Brit Pack" of rising, young British actors, it was not until his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that he received more widespread attention. This led to roles in films, such as The English Patient, Bridget Jones's Diary, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award, Shakespeare in Love, and Love Actually. In 2009, Firth received widespread critical acclaim for his leading role in A Single Man, for which he gained his first Academy Award nomination, and won a BAFTA Award. In 2014, Firth portrayed secret agent Harry Hart in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service; he later reprised the role in the 2017 sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle. In 2018, he co-starred as William "Weatherall" Wilkins in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns.

His films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide. In 2011, Firth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was also selected as one of the Time 100. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Winchester in 2007, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2012. He has campaigned for the rights of indigenous tribal people, and is a member of Survival International. Firth has campaigned on issues of asylum seekers, refugees' rights, and the environment. He commissioned and co-authored a scientific paper on a study into the differences in brain structure between people of differing political orientations.

References

Other websites 

Academy Award winning actors
Actors from Hampshire
BAFTA Award winning actors
British activists
English movie actors
English television actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Writers from Hampshire
1960 births
Living people
T-Pain

Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1984), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. In 2007, T-Pain released his second album, Epiphany, which reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. His third album, Three Ringz, was released in 2008. The albums included a string of hit singles, including "I'm Sprung", "I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper)", "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')", "Bartender", "Can't Believe It", and "5 O'Clock". T-Pain has earned two Grammy Awards, one with Kanye West for "Good Life" and the other with Jamie Foxx for "Blame It".

T-Pain is the founder of the record label imprint Nappy Boy Entertainment, established in 2005. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain popularized the creative use of the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect, used with extreme parameter settings to create distinctive vocal sounds. From 2006 to 2010, T-Pain was featured on more than 50 chart topping singles. His most successful feature to date was on Flo Rida's debut single "Low", which has since been certified 6x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Hot Chelle Rae

Hot Chelle Rae is an American pop rock band. They formed near Nashville, Tennessee around 2005. Their debut album Lovesick Electric was released in 2009. The band is best known for their 2011 song, "Tonight Tonight".

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Jones (Animal Farm)

Mr. Jones is a character in the book Animal Farm. He is the brutal (and often drunk) owner of Manor Farm. 

Jones is kicked out of his farm when the animals start their rebellion. Later he returns with several others, and tries to get his farm back. There is a battle, but the animals win.

He symbolizes Czar Nicholas II.

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Walter Johnson

Walter Perry Johnson  (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played 21 years in the Major Leagues, all for the Washington Senators. He was then the manager of the Senators from 1929 to 1932, and he managed the Cleveland Indians from 1933 to 1935. He was known for being able to throw baseballs with great speed, and he was nicknamed "The Big Train". He set many baseball records and has the second-most wins of all-time. Many people think he is the greatest pitcher of all-time.

Early life 
Walter Johnson was born on November 6, 1887 on a farm near Humboldt, Kansas. His parents were Frank and Minnie Johnson, and he had five siblings. When Johnson was 14, his family moved to Orange County, California. Later, he moved to Idaho, where he played baseball for a small team from Idaho and worked for a phone company. When someone from the Washington Senators saw him pitch, they signed him to a contract in 1907.

Baseball career 
Walter Johnson was known for being a "power pitcher," meaning he could throw the ball very hard and fast. His fastball was the main reason he was able to accomplish so much, like having the most  3,509 career strikeouts and the most shutouts of all-time. He also won the American League Most Valuable Player award twice, in 1913 and 1924.

After baseball 
After he retired from playing in 1927, Johnson was one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. He later ran for a spot in the United States House of Representatives, but lost the election. He died from a brain tumor in Washington, D.C. on December 10, 1946.

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Tris Speaker

Tristram E. Speaker (April 4, 1888 - December 8, 1958), was an American baseball player. He was one of the greatest center fielders in baseball history, both on offense and defense. He had a .345 career batting average (fourth all-time), and the record for most career doubles, with 792. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, with the Boston Americans/Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, and Philadelphia Athletics. He also was the manager of the Indians from 1916 to 1926. Speaker was born in Hubbard, Texas on April 4, 1888.

Hall of Fame
Speaker, who retired from baseball in 1928, was chosen for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. His induction ceremony was held in 1939.

Death
Speaker died of a heart attack in Lake Whitney, Texas on December 8, 1958. He was on a fishing trip with a friend when he died.

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Paulie (movie)

Paulie is a 1998 family movie about a talking parrot named "Paulie". It was directed by John Roberts and written by Laurie Craig, and it was produced by Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, and Allyson Lyon Segan for Mutual Film Company and DreamWorks Pictures. It stars Jay Mohr as Paulie's voice and Tony Shalhoub as a janitor who finds the parrot kept captive in a biological research laboratory. It also stars Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado, and Buddy Hackett in his final film role.

The film was released on VHS in 1998 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment.

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Mike Posner

Mike Posner (born February 12, 1988) is an American pop singer.  His first studio album was 31 Minutes to Takeoff. It was released on August 10, 2010. This album included the single "Please Don't Go" and the hit song "Cooler Than Me". He was born in Southfield, Michigan.

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Robin (comics)

Robin is a comic book superhero and Batman's sidekick. The character appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. There are many characters that became Robin, but the first one was Dick Grayson. The first version of Robin was presented in Detective Comics #38 (April 1940). He was created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson. The team of Batman and Robin is also called "the Dynamic Duo" or "the Caped Crusaders". He is member of the Teen Titans.

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Estelle

Estelle Fanta Swaray, better known under the name Estelle, formerly known as Est'elle (born January 18, 1980) is an English Grammy Award-winning R&B, hip hop and soul singer-songwriter and voice actress. She was born in Hammersmith, London, England.

In 2004, two of Estelle's singles made it into the charts. These were "1980" and "Free". She also won a MOBO Award for "Best Newcomer". The videos to both of her songs were directed by Andy Hylton. "Free" was written by Estelle. It was produced by Jimmy Hogarth. Her first album,The 18th Day was number 35 in the UK Albums Chart.

In 2008, Estelle worked with rapper Kanye West on her song "American Boy". This song reached the top 10 in many countries. It was number one on the UK Singles Chart and in Belgium and Israel. The song won many awards. These included a Grammy Award for best Rap / collaboration. The song was also nominated for the Grammy for "Song of the Year". "American Boy" was Number 7 on Rolling Stone'''s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. Her album Shine was released after the single. It was on the albums chart in most countries. It was number 6 in the UK.  Estelle also released a new single with American rapper Busta Rhymes. It is called "World Go Round". The single was on his album Back on My B.S. which was released on 19 May 2009.

Her third album All of Me was released on February 28, 2012 in the US. 

Estelle does the voice of Garnet, one of the main characters in the cartoon Steven Universe.

Discography
Studio albumsThe 18th Day... (2004)Shine (2008)All of Me (2012)True Romance (2015)

EPsiTunes Live: London Sessions (2008)Estelle Live @ LiveDEMO Berlin (2008)Love & Happiness (Volume I: Love Jones) (2013)Love & Happiness (Volume II: Waiting To Exhale) (2013)Love & Happiness (Volume III: How Stella Got Her Groove Back)'' (2013)

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Gladiator (movie)

Gladiator is a 2000 Anglo-American historical action movie. Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) takes power and strips rank from Maximus (Russell Crowe), one of the favored generals of his predecessor and father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the great stoical philosopher. Maximus is then relegated to fighting to the death in the gladiator arenas.

It won five Academy Awards. Gladiator was directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig.

It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou and Oliver Reed.

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Geodesy

Geodesy, which is sometimes called geodetics, is a scientific branch of geography which deals with describing the surface of the earth. Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843-1917), who started the discipline, talked about measuring and mapping the surface of the earth. This includes its geometric description (the geoid) and the measurement and description of its gravitational field. Some people involved in the discipilne look at geodynamics, the crusts, the tides, or the motion of the geographical poles.
Hammer and sickle

Hammer and sickle are symbols that have generally been associated with communism. The hammer is a symbol for work done in industry, the sickle stands for work done in agriculture. Several countries have made the use of these symbols illegal, when they outlawed the communist party. These countries include Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. However, some countries (especially communist ones) still commonly use the symbol, such as Angola in its flag, the flags of some cities in Russia (an former Soviet state), and China, Vietnam and Laos in the logos of their respective dominant political parties, for example.

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Reference ellipsoid

A reference ellipsoid is an ellipsoid which is used as a frame of reference for geodetic calculations. It is a figure like the shape of the Earth. It is easier to work with than the geoid, which is another shape like that of the Earth. 

It is relatively easy to describe the reference ellipsoid using mathematical formulae. Describing the geoid is much more complex, as it results from precise measurements. The first such models were spheres, used since Ancient Greece. In the 17th century, there were doubts that the earth was a sphere. In 1688, Isaac Newton solved a controversy with Giovanni Domenico Cassini by demonstrating mathematically that the rotation of the earth would lead to a flattening around the area of the poles, and not at the equator. 

In practice this was shown by Pierre Bouguer and Alexis-Claude Clairaut half a century later. The two had done an expedition to Peru and Lapland (1735-1741). Their measurement of the meridian arc lead to the definition of the metre. This was the ten-millionth part of the idealized distance between the pole and the equator, 1791. Because of different errors in measurement, it turned out to be 0.022% too short, and was redefined twice, in 1793, and 1799. The value of 1799 is still the official definition but it is about 0.197‰ too short. 

In 1983, the metre was redefined as the distance, light travels in a certain amount of time, in a vacuum.

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Heo Mok

Heo Mok (Korean: 허목, hanja:許穆, 1595 – April 27 1689) was a Korean Neo-Confucian and Taoist scholar, politician, writer, and painter during the Joseon Dynasty. His pen names were Misu (미수, 眉叟) and Teryung-Noin (태령노인, 台領老人), Sukhojangin (석호장인, 石戶丈人). His Chinese style names were Moonbo (문보, 文甫) and Hwabo(화보, 和甫).

He was a leader of South man party, 1675 - March 1680 in vicePrime minister of Joseon Dynastys.

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Tokyo National Museum

The  or TNM is the oldest and largest museum in Japan.

TNM collects houses, and preserves a collection  of art works and archaeological objects of Asia.  In the collection, there is an emphasis on Japan.

The museum is in Ueno Park in Tokyo.

History
TMN was founded in 1872.

In 1882, the museum was established in its Ueno Park location.

The museum went through several name changes.  It was called the Imperial Museum in 1886.  It was known as the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum from 1900 through 1947.

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Nara National Museum

The  or NNM is one of the major art museums in Japan.  It is in Nara, which was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784.

The museum has art works and archaeological objects of Japan.  In the collection, there is an emphasis on Buddhist art from the Nara area.

History
NMN was established in 1889 as the . The museum held its first exhibition in 1895.

The Museum was renamed the Imperial Household Museum of Nara.

It has been known by its present name since 1952.

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Mitsubishi A7M

The Mitsubishi A7M Reppū (Japanese for "Strong Gale") was a fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was made to be a successor to the A6M Zero. It was designed to get superior speed, agility, and weaponry over the Zero. The wing area and overall size were also greater, about the same as the American P-47 Thunderbolt. The A7M's allied codename was "Sam".

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Planet Sheen

Planet Sheen is an American CGI animated television series. It is the 2010 spin-off of the 2002 TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and the 2001 Oscar-nominated animated movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The series was created by John A. Davis, Keith Alcorn, and Steve Oedekerk. It was based on characters created by John A. Davis. Jeffrey Garcia repeats his role as Sheen in this series. There are also many new actors. It is unknown if it will show the original cast.

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Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox church in Romania.  More than 80 percent of Romanians belong to it. The head of the church is the Patriarch of All Romania.

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Hair dryer

A hair dryer (also called a blow dryer) is a device which blows cool or hot air. Hair dryers are usually used to speed up drying wet hair.

The main parts of a hair dryer are a motor-powered fan and an electrically heated element. The element heats up when an electric current flows through it. When air from the fan goes through the barrel of the hair dryer, it is heated by the element. The hot air passes out of the end of the hair dryer (the nozzle). The user can direct the nozzle towards their hair.

Alexandre Godefoy created the first model of the hair dryer in France in 1890.

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Kamloops Blazers

The Kamloops Blazers are a Canadian professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1966. They currently play in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Kamloops, British Columbia at the Interior Savings Centre.

The franchise was created in 1966 and first played in Estevan, Saskatchewan as the Estevan Bruins. The team then moved to New Westminster, British Columbia and became the New Westminster Bruins in 1971. Finally, it moved to Kamloops, British Columbia to become the Kamloops Junior Oilers in 1981. The team changed their name to the Blazers in 1984.

The franchise has won the most Memorial Cups of any team in the WHL with five; two wins as New Westminster (1977 and 1978) and three wins as Kamloops (1992, 1994 and 1995). The CHL record is seven cups, held by the Toronto Marlboros (now the Guelph Storm). Since moving to Kamloops, the Blazers have only missed the playoffs twice in their 30 seasons.

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Future Diary

is a Japanese manga and anime written by Sakae Esuno. It was first published in the manga magazine Shōnen Ace in 2006 by Kadokawa Shoten. An anime began airing on Japanese television in October 10th, 2011. The manga gained two extra stories called Future Diary: Mosaic, which focuses on the character Minene Uryu, and Future Diary: Paradox, which follows a different timeline from the main story, starring Aru Akise.

Media Information
The manga first appeared in Shōnen Ace from January 26th, 2006 to December 27th, 2010. The two side stories were published during the main story's release, each new chapter released every few months. The manga was released for sale in volumes by Tokyopop before it ended selling books.

The anime was created by the animation company Asread. The anime has had two opening and ending theme songs: "Kuso Mesorogiwi" and "Filament" by Yousei Teikoku, and "Blood Teller" and "Dead End" by Faylan. An eight-minute television pilot was released with eleventh manga volume, as a preview for the anime to be released in late 2011.

A video game was released in 2010 by Kadokawa, titled Future Diary Rewrite - The 13th Diary Owner.

Story
Future Diary is about a lonely 14-year old boy named Yukiteru "Yuki" Amano who has no friends and spends his time writing a diary on his mobile phone. One day, Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space, give Yuki's diary the power to predict the future, but warns Yuki that if his diary is broken, Yuki will die. Yuki is at first happy about knowing his own future, but a girl in his school named Yuno Gasai reveals she also has a Future Diary. Yuno is madly in love with Yuki, often stalking him, and her phone predicts everything he will do.

It turns out that Yuki, Yuno and ten other people who all have Future Diaries are part of a survival game, in which the group must kill each other using their diaries until one person is left alive. The winner shall become the next God of Time and Space after Deus dies. Yuno becomes Yuki's guard and would-be girlfriend as he makes friends and enemies of the other diary owners as the game moves on. Yuki does make friends with several children of his age including wannabe detective Aru Akise, Hinata Hino who is the daughter of the diary owner Karyuudo Tsukishima, Mao Nonosaka who loves Hinata, and former bully Ouji Kosaka.

Yuno shows an insane side, often using violence and threats to harm those who threaten Yuki or her relationship with him. Yuki learns that Yuno has a horrible, tragic life and hides three corpses in her house, two of which are revealed to be her parents. This leads Akise to investigate Yuno's past and learn her true goals in the survival game.

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Kyoto National Museum

The  or KNM is one of the major art museums in Japan.  It is in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto.

The museum has art works and archaeological objects of Japan.  In the collection, there is an emphasis on material from the Heian period through the Edo period when Kyoto was the capital of Japan.

The Museum is currently undergoing renovation and will reopen in 2013.

History
KMN was established in 1889 as the Imperial Museum of Kyoto.

Construction on the museum building finished in October 1895.

The museum's first exhibition was opened in 1897.

The museum went through a series of name changes.  In 1900, it was called the Imperial Household Museum of Kyoto.

In 1924, the museum was donated to the City of Kyoto in honor of the marriage of Crown Prince Hirohito.  At that time, the name was changed to the Imperial Gift Museum of Kyoto.

The current name was selected upon in 1952.

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 National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK)
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