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Eino Tamberg

Eino Tamberg (May 27 1930— December 24 2010) was a composer and musician from Estonia. He was famous for the variety of works he wrote including symphonies, concertos, operas and ballets. he was a student of the Tallinn Conservatory, where he later taught composition.

He was given many awards including:
 Winner of the World Youth and Student Festival Competition, Moscow, 1957
 Soviet Estonia Prize 1967
 Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia 1998 and 2002

Works
These are some of the works written by Tamberg:
 Concerto Grosso (1957)
 Cyrano de Bergerac, opera, 1974
 Journey for Strings, 1990
 Music for Five, 1993
 Symphony No.4, 1998
 Trumpet Concerto No. 2, 1999
 Flute Concerto, 2003

References

1930 births
2010 deaths
Estonian composers
Marilu Henner

Mary Lucy Denise Henner (born April 6, 1952), better known as Marilu Henner, is an American actress, author and producer. She is best known for her role in the television sitcom Taxi. Henner was born in Chicago.

Henner has been a contestant in two seasons of The Celebrity Apprentice. She was married to actor Frederic Forrest.

Other websites 

1952 births
Living people
Actors from Chicago
American stage actors
American television actors
American television producers
American television writers
The Apprentice contestants
Writers from Chicago
Danny Woodhead

Danny Woodhead (born January 25, 1985 in North Platte, Nebraska) is an American football  running back for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Woodhead made his NFL debut with the New York Jets in 2008 and was signed by the New England Patriots on September 18, 2010.

Other websites
 Danny Woodhead at nfl.com

1985 births
Living people
New England Patriots players
American football running backs
Sportspeople from Nebraska
People from North Platte, Nebraska
Andean condor

The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), is a vulture-like bird species found in the Andes mountains and adjacent Pacific coasts of western South America. It is the largest flying land bird in the Western Hemisphere and the heaviest member of the order Accipitriformes. The condor is primarily a scavenger, feeding on carrion, and belongs to the New World vulture.

Although about 5 cm shorter (beak to tail) on average than the California condor, the Andean condor is undoubtedly larger in wingspan: 108-122 in (274–310 cm). It is also heavier: up to 24-33 lb (11–15 kg) for males and 16-24 lb (7.5–11 kg) for females. Overall length can range from 46 to 53 inches (117 to 135 cm). Measurements are usually taken from specimens reared in captivity.

Birds of South America
Vultures
Accipitriformes
Black vulture

The black vulture (Coragyps atratus), also known as the American black vulture, is a bird in the New World vulture family.

Its range is from the southeastern United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in South America. It is a common and widespread species, but less so than the turkey vulture, which breeds well into Canada and south to Tierra del Fuego. Despite the similar name and appearance, this species is unrelated to the Eurasian black vulture.

Birds of North America
Vultures
Accipitriformes
Birds of South America
Mark Dayton

Mark Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is an American politician. He was the 40th Governor of Minnesota from 2011 to 2019. He was the United States Senator from Minnesota 2001 to 2007. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He ran for Governor in 1998, but lost the nomination to Skip Humphrey.

In January 2017, Dayton was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

References

1947 births
Living people
United States senators from Minnesota
Governors of Minnesota
People with cancer
US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Daryn Colledge

Daryn Colledge (born February 11, 1982 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American football guard.

Colledge won Super Bowl XLV in 2011 with the Packers.

Websites

Daryn Colledge at nfl.com 

1982 births
Living people
Green Bay Packers players
Miami Dolphins players
Arizona Cardinals players
American football offensive guards
Sportspeople from Alaska
People from Fairbanks, Alaska
Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise is a song by rock band Green Day. It first appeared on their second album Kerplunk in 1992. A new version appeared on the album Dookie in 1994.

Song meaning
The song is about young people moving out of their parents' home.

The song was written by Billie Joe Armstrong.

Music video
The music video shows Billie Joe (Green Day's singer) playing a West Oakland citizen who watches a dangerous notoriety caused by a group of thugs then he goes home to watch the citizens and what they do each day.

Differences between Kerplunk and Dookie version
The Kerplunk version has a slower sound and the Dookie version is more fast paced and also both versions have slightly different lyrics. The original version of the song from Kerplunk was not a single but the Dookie version was.

The album cover for Dookie in fact, shows a comedic depiction of chaos happening in West Oakland.

In the booklet for the Dookie album a cartoonish drawing in West Oakland is shown.

References

Green Day songs
1994 songs
CP violation

CP Violation is the way that nature breaks the laws that say that when you change a system by C symmetry or P symmetry then some descriptions of the system should stay the same before and after the change. The 'violation' is that they don't stay the same and the amounts are not conserved.  CP symmetry says that the laws of physics should act the same on a particle and on its antiparticle (Charge conjugation symmetry) and if it was also turned around like in a mirror (P symmetry.) 
The 1964 nobel prize was given to James Cronin and Val Fitch for finding CP violation in the way neutral kaons decay.

Symmetry
Parity

In physics, parity is a transformation in which the mirror image of a system (meaning experiment) is considered.  If the system behaves in the mirror image as it normally would, it is said to respect parity symmetry, usually shortened to "P symmetry."   Most types of physics respects P symmetry.  One type of interaction that often does not respect this symmetry is the weak interaction.

Quantum mechanics
Symmetry
Nuclear physics
Conservation
Charge conjugation

Charge conjugation describes a type of symmetry of nature.  To preform a charge conjugation, one would exchange all particles with their corresponding antiparticles.  This action would create a physical system where everything would be the same except the electromagnetic charge would be reversed.  For example, one could make an antihydrogen atom with an antiproton and an antielectron.  This would result in an atom with a negatively charged nucleus orbited by a positively charged positron.  The masses of the nucleus and the lepton orbiting the nucleus would remain unchanged.  If the behavior of the system (such as the atom mentioned above) remains unchanged after charge conjugation, the system is said to be symmetric with respect to charge conjugation.  This symmetry is also known as "C symmetry."

Mathematics
Symmetry
Another Love Song (Insane Clown Posse song)

"Another Love Song'" is a 1999 midwest hip hop song by the American Horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse and is the first single from their fifth studio album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, which was released in 1999. The song was produced by Insane Clown Posse and Mike Clark. The main music for "Another Love Song" comes from the 1996 single "Jack-Ass" from Beck.

Insane Clown Posse songs
1999 songs
Bizzar

Bizzar is the sixth studio album by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse and is the second half of Bizaar. It was released on October 31, 2000. The producer of the album were Mike E. Clark. While on the Howard Stern show, ICP talked with Sharon Osbourne who bet $50, 000 they could not sell more than 200,000 copies, and that it would be subsequently dropped from its distributor. Violent J predicted that the group's next album would sell at least 500,000 units and they sold 400,000 units but Sharon never paid them. They left Island Records after Bizaar and Bizzar because their contract expired.

2000 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
The Wraith: Shangri-La

The Wraith: Shangri-La is the eighth studio album by American horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on November 5, 2002. The producer of the album was Mike Puwal. The album was the sixth and final of the "Joker Cards" in the Dark Carnival mythology. The album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200 and peaked number 1 on the Top Independent Albums in both 2002 and 2003.

References

1999 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
Hell's Pit

Hell's Pit is the ninth studio album by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on August 31, 2004. The producer of the album was Mike Puwal. The album was the final of the "Joker Cards" chapter of the Dark Carnival mythology. The album peaked at number 12 on the Billboard 200, peaked number 1 on the Top Independent Albums and peaked at number 1 on the Top Internet Albums.

References

2004 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
The Tempest (album)

The Tempest is the tenth studio album by American horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on March 20, 2007. The producer of the album was Mike E. Clark.

Track listing

Reception
The album peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200, peaked number 1 on the Top Independent Albums and peaked at number 20 on the Top Internet Albums.

References

2007 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
Concept albums
Bang! Pow! Boom!

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Consequence of Sound 
The Detroit News (B)
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Metro Times (favorable)
Washington City Paper 
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! Pow! Boom!(2009)
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}}Bang! Boom! Pow!''''' is the eleventh studio album by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on September 1, 2009. The producer of the album was Mike E. Clark. The album is the first in a set of six new Joker's Cards since the conclusion of the original Joker's Cards. The music video for their song, "Miracles" became viral and was known for being parodied on Saturday Night Live which Insane Clown Posse called "A huge honor".

The album peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200, peaked number 1 on the Top Independent Albums and peaked at number 3 on the Top Rap Albums.

References

2009 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
The Mighty Death Pop!

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| Reviews     = * Allmusic 
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!(2012)
| next_title = Smothered, Covered & Chunked(2012)
}}The Mighty Death Pop!''' is the twelfth studio album by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on August 14, 2012. The Mike E. Clark produced the album. The album is the second in a set of six Joker's Cards since the conclusion of the original Joker's Cards. The album features guest singers such as Hopsin and Tech N9ne on the song "Skreem!". They released their first single "Chris Benoit''" from the album and it's about the professional wrestler Chris Benoit who died in a murder-suicide after he killed his wife and son.

References

2012 albums
Insane Clown Posse albums
Mike E. Clark

Michael Earl Clark (born December 25, 1962) is an American record producer and DJ. Mike E. Clark has worked with famous musicians and groups like Insane Clown Posse, Kid Rock and George Clinton. As of 2012 he had produced all twelve of the Insane Clown Posse's albums.

Other websites
Mike E. Clark's Official website 

1962 births
Living people
American record producers
DJs
Entertainers from Michigan
Miracles (Insane Clown Posse song)

"Miracles'" is a 2010 midwest hip hop song by the American Horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse and is the first single from their eleventh studio album Bang! Pow! Boom!, which was released in 2009. The song was produced by Insane Clown Posse and Mike Clark. The song is also known becoming an internet meme.

The music video for the song became viral, and was parodied by Saturday Night Live which Insane Clown Posse called "a huge honor".

References

Other websites
Know Your Meme article

Insane Clown Posse songs
2010 songs
Music memes
Insane Clown Posse discography

This article presents the discography of the hip hop/horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Extended Plays

Singles

References

Discography
Insane Clown Posse
Beverly Kills 50187

Beverly Kills 50187 is the first EP by American Horrorcore band, Insane Clown Posse. It was released on July 16, 1993. The producers of the EP were Mike E. Clark, Insane Clown Posse, Esham and Chris Conley. The EP featured the only appearance of member Greez-E, who appears on the songs "In the Haughhh!" and "17 Dead". The EP's name is a parody of Beverly Hills 90210.

Track listing

1993 albums
Insane Clown Posse EPs
Betaucourt

Betaucourt is a commune. It is found in the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Haute-Saône department in the east of France.

Communes in Haute-Saône
Betoncourt-lès-Brotte

Betoncourt-lès-Brotte is a commune. It is found in the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Haute-Saône department in the east of France.

Communes in Haute-Saône
Bassigney

Bassigney is a commune. It is found in the region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Haute-Saône department in the east of France.

Communes in Haute-Saône
Rosids

The rosids are a large clade of flowering plants. It includes about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms. 

The rosids are divided into 17  orders. These orders together make up about 140 families. The rosids and the asterids are by far the largest clades in the eudicots.

Fossil rosids are known from the Cretaceous period. Molecular clock estimates indicate that the rosids originated in the Aptian or Albian stages of the Cretaceous, between 125 and 99.6 million years ago (mya).

Three different definitions of the rosids are in use. Some authors include the order Saxifragales in the rosids. Others exclude it.

References
Commelinales

Commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It is considered that the Commelinales together with Zingiberales evolved in the Late Cretaceous around 80 millions of years ago. Two of the best-known genera in the order are Commelina and Tradescantia. Commelinales is made of the families Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Phylidraceae, and Pondteriaceae. Another name for this plant order is the Haemodorales.

Monocots
White Center, Washington

White Center is a place in King County, Washington, United States. It is near Seattle and Burien. It is connected to Burien and has been ever since April 1, 2010. There were 13,495 people living in White Center in 2010.

Geography

About 99.71% of White Center is land and .29% is water.

Statistics

There are 7,542 homes in White Center. Though, 35.6% have children that are under 18 living in the homes. Another 6.7% are seniors age 65 and older in a home by themselves.

Education

White Center is a part of the Highline School District. Schools cover most of the Southwestern King County.  Elementary schools include Beverly Park Elementary, Mount View Elementary, Southern Heights Elementary, and White Center Heights Elementary. Secondary schools include Cascade Middle School, New Start High School, and Evergreen High School. Evergreen has three "small schools" on its campus, namely the Arts & Academic Academy, the Health, Science, & Human Services School, and the Technology, Engineering, & Communications Schools.

Notable people

Jack Thompson, American Samoan football player
Richard Hugo, poet
Massive Monkees, winners of America's Best Dance Crew

References

Other websites
White Center Community Development Association

Cities in Washington (U.S. state)
Toni Collette

Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress and singer. She was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.

Collette's acting career began during the early 1990s. She starred in several Australian movies, including: Muriel's Wedding, In Her Shoes, Little Miss Sunshine and The Black Balloon. In 2013 she had a convincing starring role as an American mother in the Nat Faxon and Jim Rash Hollywood coming of age comedy "The Way, Way Back".  She is the lead singer of rock band Toni Collette & the Finish.

1972 births
Living people
Australian movie actors
Australian rock musicians
Australian television actors
Australian voice actors
Australian movie producers
Actors from Sydney
Musicians from Sydney
Singers from New South Wales
Television producers
King vulture

The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), is a large bird found in Central and South America. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It is the only surviving member of the genus Sarcoramphus, although fossil members are known.

Large and predominantly white, the king vulture has gray to black ruff, flight, and tail feathers. The head and neck are bald, with the skin color varying, including yellow, orange, blue, purple, and red. The king vulture has a very noticeable yellow fleshy caruncle on its beak.

Birds of Central America
Birds of South America
Cathartidae
Vultures
Turkey vulture

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), is a bird found throughout most of the Americas. It is also known as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as John crow or carrion crow. 

It is one of three species in the genus Cathartes, ranging from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It lives in open and semi-open areas, including subtropical forests, shrublands, pastures, and deserts. 

The turkey vulture got its common name from the resemblance of the adult's bald red head and its dark plumage to that of the male wild turkey. The name "vulture" comes from the Latin word vulturus, meaning "tearer", and is a reference to its feeding habits.

Vultures
Cathartidae
Ciconiiformes
Ford Escape

The Ford Escape is a compact crossover SUV that is manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was introduced during 2000 as a 2001 model year SUV. The Ford Escape is also available in a hybrid version. The current Escape is actually a European based model that is sold in Europe as the Ford Kuga (not to be confused with the similar sounding Cougar)

2000s automobiles
2010s automobiles
Escape
Battle of Wuhan

The Battle of Wuhan was a Japanese attack on the Chinese city of Wuhan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The battle started on February 1938 and ended on October 1938. The city of Wuhan had a military base with 1,100,000 Chinese soldiers. The Japanese, planned to encircle and invade Wuchang. In October, the Chinese army was able to retreat out of Wuhan.

1938
1930s in Asia
Wuhan
Second Sino-Japanese War
Tatsu (roller coaster)

Tatsu (Dragon) is a steel rollercoaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, United States. It was opened (people could go on it) on May 13, 2006. It is one of the coasters considered to be Six Flags Magic Mountain's signature roller coaster. The roller coaster is located in the Samurai Summit section of the park. It is a flying type coaster, which means it is suspended below the track, with riders secured so that their backs are parallel to the track. The maximum speed of the ride is 62 mph and it also broke records with a 124-foot (38 m) pretzel loop. It is also the only flying type to feature a Zero-gravity roll.

Media coverage
Tatsu has been featured on three different shows:
The show Who Wants To Be A Superhero which makes use of Tatsu for season two's third episode.
The MTV series Parental Control which featured footage of two contestants riding Tatsu.
Discovery Channel program Mega Builders which dedicated an episode to the construction of Tatsu.

Other websites
Tatsu at sixflags.com

Buildings and structures in California
Steel roller coasters
Roller coasters by name
Roller coasters in California
2006 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in California
Alaska Airlines

Alaska Airlines () is a large airline from the United States. They are headquartered in Seattle, Washington, where they have one of their four hubs. Alaska Airlines also has hubs in Anchorage, Alaska, Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. The company was named the top "Traditional Carrier" in customer satisfaction for the third year in a row by J. D. Power and Associates. As of 2016, it goes to 104 cities and has 164 airplanes.

History
Alaska Airlines began in 1932 with the name "McGee Airways". McGee Airways was combined with several other airlines in 1934 and this created "Star Air Lines".  The name was finally changed to "Alaska Airlines" on May 2, 1944.  Starting in 1947, Alaska Airlines bought many new planes. In the 1950s, Alaska Airlines started flying many worldwide charter (irregular) flights. The government later said that Alaska Airlines could only fly in the state of Alaska. In 1961, Alaska Airlines started flying to the Continental United States. In the 1970s, Alaska Airlines started flying charters to the Soviet Union.  In 1972, Alaska Airlines introduced its famous "Eskimo" logo which is still used today.  In 1985, Alaska started flying to many new cities in the West Coast of the United States. In 1988, Alaska Airlines started its first flights to Mexico. In the 1990s, Alaska Airlines became the first to sell tickets on the internet, to have self-service check-in and to have GPS on its planes.  On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airlines plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean. That crash led to many changes at the airline over the following years.  Alaska Airlines introduced a brand new logo on January 25, 2016.  Alaska Airlines and Virgin America announced plans to merge on April 4, 2016. The merged airline kept the Alaska Airlines name, with Virgin America flying for the last time on April 24, 2018.

Gallery

References

Other websites 
 Alaska Air's Official website

1932 establishments in North America
Airlines of the United States
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Low-cost airlines
Transport in Alaska
Companies based in Seattle, Washington
Okeechobee County, Florida

Okeechobee County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on May 8, 1917. As of 2008, 40,334 people lived there. Okeechobee County's seat is Okeechobee.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1917 establishments in the United States
1910s establishments in Florida
Iapetus Ocean

The Iapetus Ocean existed in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras (between 600 and 400 million years ago). The ocean was in the southern hemisphere, between three paleocontinents. The ocean disappeared when these three continents joined to form one big landmass. That large continent has been given various names, such as Laurussia or the Old Red Sandstone continent. Probably the best name is Euramerica, because basically it was American and Europe stuck together.

The Iapetus Ocean was between continental masses that would at a much later time roughly form the opposite shores of the Atlantic Ocean. It was a kind of precursor of the Atlantic.

At the start of the 19th century, American paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott noticed differences in early Paleozoic benthic trilobites either side of the line which later was called the Iapetus Suture.

The so called "Pacific fauna" of Laurentia, as found in Scotland and western Newfoundland, was quite different from those of Baltica, often called the "Atlantic fauna". The latter is found in the southern parts of the British Isles and eastern Newfoundland. Geologists of the early 20th century thought a large trough, a so-called geosyncline, had existed between Scotland and England in the early Paleozoic, keeping both sides separated.

With the development of plate tectonics in the 1960s geologists concluded the Atlantic Ocean must have had a precursor before the time of Pangaea. That ocean had closed as three continents joined, producing the Iapetus Suture.

Line of the suture 

The Iapetus suture runs where the Iapetus Ocean was before. 
In Great Britain the suture runs pretty much along the border between England and Scotland. On the east it runs through Lindisfarne, on the west through the Solway Firth.
On the Isle of Man it is the Niarbyl Fault, which is an exposed section of the suture.
On Ireland the suture runs from the east coast at Clogherhead in County Louth to the estuary of the River Shannon on the west. 
In Canada, it runs through Newfoundland and New Brunswick.
In the United States the suture runs through the north-eastern states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
There are other suture lines caused by the collision of continents in the run-up to Pangaea, but the Iapetus is the main one.

References 

Geology
History of the British Isles
History of North America
Osceola County, Florida

Osceola County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on May 8, 1917. As of 2000, 172,493 people lived there. Osceola County's seat is Kissimmee.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1887 establishments in Florida
St. Johns County, Florida

St. Johns County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on July 21, 1821. As of 2000, 123,135 people lived there. St. Johns County's seat is St. Augustine.

Other websites
 Official county website

Florida counties
1821 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Florida Territory
Washington County, Florida

Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on July 21, 1821. As of 2000, 20,973 people lived there. Washington County's seat is Chipley. The county is a dry county which means alcoholic drinks cannot be sold.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1825 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Florida Territory
Eduardo Nájera

Eduardo Alonso Nájera Pérez (born July 11, 1976) is a Mexican basketball player that currently plays for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. He also played for the Dallas Mavericks for five seasons, the Golden State Warriors for one season, the Denver Nuggets for 4 seasons and the New Jersey Nets for two seasons. He went to University of Oklahoma for college.

Other websites
Eduardo Nájera's NBA profile

1976 births
Living people
Basketball players
Mexican sportspeople
Charlotte Bobcats players
Dallas Mavericks players
Denver Nuggets players
Golden State Warriors players
New Jersey Nets players
Pole vault

Pole vault is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible stick (which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympics since the Summer Olympics at 1896 for men and 2000 for women. It started in the ancient Greece.

Related pages
High jump
Sport

Notes

Other websites

 Statistics
All-time Masters men's Pole Vault list
All-time Masters women's Pole Vault list
Pole Vault History 
Pole Vault World Records - by the International Association of Athletics Federations

Events in athletics
Samuel Dalembert

Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981) is a Haitian-Canadian former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). 

During his career, he played for the Philadelphia 76ers, the Sacramento Kings, the Houston Rockets, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Dallas Mavericks, the New York Knicks, and Shanxi Zhongyu. He played college basketball at Seton Hall University. Dalembert pledged $100,000 to UNICEF and traveled to Haiti to help with the relief efforts. He won the 2009-10 J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award for helping with the relief efforts in Haiti.

References

Other websites
Samuel Dalembert's NBA profile

1981 births
Living people
Canadian basketball players
Houston Rockets players
Milwaukee Bucks players
Philadelphia 76ers players
Sacramento Kings players
Haitian people
Sportspeople from Quebec
Bobby Ryan

Bobby Ryan (born Robert Shane Stevenson; March 17, 1987 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) is an American professional ice hockey right winger. He currently plays for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Anaheim Ducks for 7 seasons.

Before playing in the NHL, Ryan played 4 seasons with the Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was drafted with the 2nd overall pick by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

Awards 
Ryan won the silver medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics with Team USA.

Other websites 
Bobby Ryan's NHL Player Page

1987 births
American Hockey League players
American ice hockey players
Anaheim Ducks players
Living people
Ontario Hockey League players
Ottawa Senators players
Sportspeople from New Jersey
Swedish Hockey League players
Luke McShane

Luke McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess Grandmaster. 

A former World Youth Champion, he is one of England's leading players and a member of the English Chess Olympiad team. He has also been a trader in London's financial sector.

Early career 
McShane won the World Under-10 Championship in Duisburg at the age of eight. Shortly afterwards he found a sponsor in the form of computer company Psion. At sixteen he became the then youngest ever British grandmaster. 

In January 2004 McShane was ranked second in the world among junior (under-21) players behind Teimour Radjabov.

Grandmaster 
From around 2002, McShane has been facing stiffer opposition, including players from the world's top ten. He played for England in the 2002 Chess Olympiad in Bled, scoring 6½/11, and won the silver medal at the World Junior Championship in Goa. 

In 2009/10 he tied for first through fifth place at the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm.

In December 2010 McShane participated in the 8-player London Chess Classic Tournament, which included Viswanathan Anand (reigning World Chess Champion), Magnus Carlsen (rated #1 for most of 2010), Vladimir Kramnik (former World Champion) and Hikaru Nakamura (US Champion).  Under a scoring system of 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, McShane finished joint second with Anand, behind Carlsen, whom McShane had beaten in their individual game.  Undefeated, his event performance rating was 2838 – higher than Carlsen's or Anand's. In the January 2011 rating list, he overtook Nigel Short, to become the UK's second highest ranked player after Michael Adams. 

In January 2011 McShane came joint first with David Navara in the B group of the Tata Steel tournament, winning on tie break.

References 

1984 births
Living people
British chess players
Sportspeople from London
Chess grandmasters
Alfa Romeo 147

The Alfa Romeo 147 is a car produced by Alfa Romeo from 2000 until 2010. It replaced the Alfa Romeo 146.

Engines 
 1.6 Twin Spark 16V 77 kW (105 hp) and 88 kW (120 hp)
 2.0 Twin Spark 16V 110 kW (150 hp)
 3.2 GTA V6 24V 184 kW (250 hp)
 1.9 JTD 8V 74 kW (100 hp) and 85 kW (115 hp)
 1.9 Multijet 8V 88 kW (120 hp)
 1.9 JTD 16V 103 kW (140 hp)
 1.9 Multijet 16V 110 kW (150 hp) and 125 kW (170 hp)

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Front wheel drive vehicles
2000s automobiles
2010s automobiles
No Way Out (2003)

No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on February 23, 2003 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. It was the 4th No Way Out event. Eight matches were scheduled on the event's card.

Background

Matches

Other websites 
The Official No Way Out Website
No Way Out at In Demand.com

2003 in professional wrestling
Sport in Montreal
WWE No Way Out
2003 in Canada
2000s in Montreal

es:WWE No Way Out#2003
Ayako Hamada

Ayako Valentina Hamada Villareal (born February 14, 1981 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Japanese-Mexican professional wrestler currently wrestling on the independent circuit. She is probably best known for wrestling for TNA Wrestling where she won the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship twice once with Awesome Kong and once with Taylor Wilde.

Other websites 
 Ayako Hamada's Official website  

1981 births
Living people
Female professional wrestlers
Japanese professional wrestlers
Mexican professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Mexico City
Rosa Mendes

Milena Leticia Roucka (born October 25, 1979) is a Canadian professional wrestler, valet and former model. She currently wrestles for WWE on its SmackDown brand under the ring name, Rosa Mendes. She made her WWE debut as part of the 2006 Diva Search, even though she finished fourth WWE still hired her. She won a Slammy Award in 2010 for Best Use of Exercise Equipment. She is also a part of the main cast on the E! reality series Total Divas. In October 2014, Mendes came out as bisexual.

References

Other websites 

Official website 
WWE profile

1979 births
Bisexual people
Canadian LGBT people
Canadian models
Canadian professional wrestlers
Female professional wrestlers
LGBT sportspeople
Living people
Sportspeople from Vancouver
Highlands and Islands

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are broadly the Scottish Highlands plus Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides.

This area consisted of parts of seven counties of Scotland: 

 Argyll
 Inverness-shire
 Ross and Cromarty
 Sutherland
 Caithness
 Orkney
 Shetland

Geography of Scotland
Ellsworth Street Bridge

The Ellsworth Street Bridge  is a highway bridge that crosses the Willamette River in Albany, Oregon, United States. Built in 1925, the two-lane structure carries U.S. Route 20 eastbound traffic, with the adjacent Lyon Street Bridge carrying westbound traffic. The -long steel-truss bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened in 1926.

History
In 1887, a bridge was built across the Willamette River at Albany for the Corvallis and Eastern railway followed by the Steel Bridge built in 1893 just down river. The state of Oregon began building a new bridge across the river at the city in 1925 to carry vehicular traffic. Designed by state highway department bridge designer Conde McCullough, it was constructed by the Union Bridge Company based in Portland, Oregon. The steel truss structure was completed in 1926.

When the bridge opened, the Albany-Corvallis Highway was completed. At the time the structure was named the Albany Bridge. In 1973, the neighboring Lyon Street Bridge was completed to the east to expand capacity to a total of four lanes between the two bridges. Ellsworth Street Bridge was refurbished in 1971 and 2002. As of 2004, the bridge handled an average of 9,850 cars per day.

References

Buildings and structures in Oregon
Bridges in the United States
Concrete bridges
Steel bridges
East Caribbean dollar

The East Caribbean dollar (sign: $; code: XCD) is the currency of eight of the nine members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (the exception is the British Virgin Islands).

It has existed since 1965, when it replaced the British West Indies dollar, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $ or, alternatively, EC$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.  

The EC$ is subdivided into 100 cents. It has been pegged to the United States dollar since 1976 and the exchange rate is currently at US$1 = EC$2.70.

Members of the Currency Union
Six of the eight countries which use the EC$ are independent (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). The other two are British overseas territories: Anguilla and Montserrat.

All of the countries except Dominica are Commonwealth realms.

Currency of North America
1965 establishments in North America
Hurdle race

Hurdle race is a type of track and field race.

There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. Men and women run 400 meters in the standard long hurdle race. Each of these races is run over ten hurdles and they are all Olympic events.

Other distances are sometimes run, particularly indoors. The sprint hurdle race indoors is usually 60 meters for both men and women, although races 55 meters or 50 meters long are sometimes run.

Other websites
 Trackinfo explanation of hurdles

Notes

Running
Hammer throw

Hammer throw is an athletic throwing event. The goal of it is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from the older Scottish sport competitions.

Like in other throwing events, competitors gain maximum distance by swinging the hammer above their head to set up the circular motion.  Then, they apply force and pick up speed by completing one to four turns in the circle.  In competition, most throwers turn three or four times to gradually increase the velocity with each turn. The thrower releases the ball from the front of the circle. The most important factors for a long throw are the angle of release and the speed of the ball. The hammer throw was one of the first Olympic games played. Any gender can take part in the event.

Related pages
Track and field athletics

Other websites
Hammer Throw History 
Hammer Throw Records 

Events in athletics
Ocean thermal energy conversion

Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a way of getting useful energy from the world's oceans. The sun shines on the oceans of the world and in the hot parts near the water at the sea's surface can be quite warm, sometimes as high as 30°C.

Many oceans are very deep and the water at depths of 1,000 meters can be around 5 °C.

If a pipe is put down into the ocean we can bring the cold water to the surface where we also have warm water available.

The difference in temperature between the warm surface water and the cold deep water may only be around 15 °C. But we can build a machine called a heat engine, which can use this harry difference to generate power that can be used by people that live in that place. A machine which can do this is called an OTEC machine which stands for ocean thermal energy conversion.

Because the difference in temperature is small we will need to get large quantities of warm and cold water to go through the machine to get a useful amount of work, but large quantities are available in the ocean.

It has been estimated that OTEC could give amounts of energy that are 10 to 100 times greater than the other ocean energy source, wave power.

The first OTEC machine was built in Cuba in 1930 and made 22 kW of electricity. The largest machine built so far generated 250 kW in 1999 and was made by the US. Plans to build even bigger machines of around 10 MW have been made.

OTEC can also supply quantities of cold water as a by-product. This can be used for refrigeration and can help crops and fish grow. OTEC can also produce large amounts of salt-free water, which can be useful on mid-ocean islands as drinking water.

Hydropower
Middle distance race

Middle distance race event is longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and the mile run, while the 3000 metres may also be classified  as a middle distance event. The 880 yard run, or half mile, was the forebear to the 800 m distance and it has its roots in competitions in the United Kingdom in the 1830s. The 1500 m came about as a result of running three laps of a 500 m track, which was commonplace in continental Europe in the 20th century.

Notes

Other websites
 

Running
Powerslave

Powerslave is a studio album by Iron Maiden. It went on sale on 3 September 1984. It was the second most popular album in England when it started being sold.

The album got good reviews; one person said it was "classic and essential."

One of the songs, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," was adapted from a poem of the same name by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is Iron Maiden's longest song (almost 14 minutes).

Track listing

Musicians
 Bruce Dickinson – lead vocals
 Dave Murray – guitar
 Adrian Smith – guitar, backing vocals
 Steve Harris – bass, backing vocals
 Nicko McBrain – drums

References

Iron Maiden albums
1984 albums
Heavy metal albums
New World vulture

New World vultures are the group of vultures that are found in the Americas.  They form the  family Cathartidae.  There are seven species in five genera.  Four of the genera contain only one species each, so they are monotypic. 

These are large birds of prey that feed on the meat of dead or dying animals.  The name "Cathartidae" comes from the Greek word katharsis meaning to purge or make clean.  

Unlike other birds of prey, they have a good sense of smell.  The opening of their nostrils has a hole through from one side of the beak to the other.  Some other vultures hop to move on the ground, but the New World vultures walk.  

The two largest species are called condors.

Species
Genus Coragyps
Black vulture Coragyps atratus in South America and north to US
Genus Cathartes
Turkey vulture Cathartes aura throughout the Americas to southern Canada
Lesser yellow-headed vulture Cathartes burrovianus in South America and north to Mexico
Greater yellow-headed vulture Cathartes melambrotus in the Amazon Basin of tropical South America
Genus Gymnogyps
California condor Gymnogyps californianus in California. Formerly widespread in the mountains of western North America.
Genus Vultur
Andean condor Vultur gryphus in the Andes
Genus Sarcoramphus
King vulture Sarcoramphus papa from Southern Mexico to northern Argentina

References

Cathartidae
Vultures
Ciconiiformes
Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike is a first-person shooter video game. It was made by Valve Corporation and released on November 9, 2000. It was made for Microsoft Windows first, but it was also released for the Xbox in 2003 and for OS X and Linux in 2013. Before it became its own game, Counter-Strike was a mod for Valve's other game, Half-Life. It is a multiplayer game where two teams, counter-terrorists and terrorists, fight each other and try to finish their mission, or try to stop the other team from finishing their mission. These missions include exploding a bomb, rescuing hostages, or killing the VIP on the other team. The mission changes depending on the level the teams are playing on. A team wins if they finish their mission, or if they kill all the players on the other team. Players can buy weapons and equipment at the beginning of each round with the money they get from the previous rounds. People usually play the game online, where they connect to a server and fight other players. Counter-Strike is also sometimes called Counter-Strike 1.6, because there have been more games released in the series, and 1.6 was the last update for the game. There have been two sequels to the game, Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

2000 video games
Shooter video games
Windows games
Xbox games
MacOS games
Linux games
Racewalking

Racewalking, or Walking race, is a long-distance athletic event. It is different from running: in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Stride length is reduced, so to achieve competitive speeds, race walkers must walk at speeds close to those that Olympic 400-meter runners use. They must walk at those speeds for hours at a time since the Olympic events are the 20 km race walk and 50 km race walk.

Notes

Other websites

Racewalk.com
High School Race Walking
Race Walking Record - News, photos and reports all about racewalking  
World Masters Race Walking Rankings
Race Walk UK
Race Walk Australia
D. Guebey walking pages

Sports
Sriharikota

Sriharikota is a barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It houses India's only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (also known as SHAR) and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

Sriharikota separates the Pulicat Lake from the Bay of Bengal, and is home to the town of Pulicat. It is in Sri Amarajeevi Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. The nearest town is Sullurpeta, which has the nearest railway station. The nearest business city is Sri City. It is also connected by expressways to Chennai.

Geography of India
Space agencies
Andhra Pradesh

it:Centro spaziale Satish Dhawa
Monarchy of Saint Kitts and Nevis

As a Commonwealth realm, St Kitts and Nevis has the same monarch as several other Commonwealth countries, Queen Elizabeth II.

In St Kitts, or when representing St Kitts in another country, she is known as the Queen of St Kitts and Nevis, Her full official title being: Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Saint Christopher and Nevis and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.

When acting as Queen of St Kitts, Elizabeth II only takes advice from the Government of St Kitts and Nevis.  This is because the Statute of Westminster of 1931 said that all Commonwealth countries were independent of each other, and that the British government no longer had the right to interfere or give orders to the other countries.

Usually the Queen's constitutional roles are carried out by the Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Royal succession (who is next in line to the throne) is governed by the English Act of Settlement of 1701, which is part of constitutional law.

References

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Current monarchies
Wonder Pets

Wonder Pets is a children's television series that currently airs on Nick Jr. and is based on the short Nick Jr.'s film series which was called Linny the Guinea Pig. The series won an Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.

Cast 
Sofie Zamchick (US) and Meisha Kelly (UK) as Linny the Guinea Pig
Teala Dunn (US) and Catherine Holden (UK) as Tuck the Turtle
Danica Lee (US) and Kaya Alexander (UK) as Ming-Ming the Duckling
Cooper Corrao (US) and T.J. Stanton (UK) as Ollie the Bunny

Other websites
Wonder Pets on nickjr.com

2006 American television series debuts
American children's television series
Nickelodeon television series
Emmy Award winning programs
English-language television programs
COBOL

COBOL is a programming language that was developed in the year 1959. It was one of the first computer programming languages. The name COBOL stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language.

Background
COBOL was created because people wanted a language they could use to describe the problems in a way that is independent of the hardware used. Like SQL COBOL uses a syntax that is close to that of natural languages. As an example,  ADD YEARS TO AGE is a valid expression.

History
There are several different versions of COBOL. The newest is from 2002. In general, versions of the language before 1985 are not compatible with the newer versions, from 1985 and later. 

In his letter to an editor in 1975 titled "How do we tell truths that might hurt?", computer scientist and Turing Award recipient Edsger Dijkstra remarked that "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." In this letter, Dijkstra also criticised several other languages which were used at the time.

In recent years, COBOL has been extended to allow object-oriented programming, user-defined functions, and user-defined data types.

Reputation
The computer scientist Howard E. Tompkins disagreed, and defended structured COBOL: "COBOL programs with convoluted control flow indeed tend to 'cripple the mind'", but this was because "there are too many such business application programs written by programmers that have never had the benefit of structured COBOL taught well...".

References

Programming languages
Acronyms