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Puddingstone

Puddingstone is a kind of sedimentary rock. It is formed when pebbles, perhaps from a shingle beach, are cemented together by silica coming out of solution.

The rock which forms is extremely hard and resistant to wear. It is used for grindstones and building. The pebbles are usually made of flint, and both they and the matrix are made of silica.

Sedimentary rocks
Eponym

An eponym is a person's name that is used to name something else. This is common in science, such as asteroid, politics and medicine.

Names
Lorient

Lorient is a commune and seaport in the Morbihan department in Brittany.

Sister cities
Lorient is twinned with:
  Galway City, Ireland, since 1978
  Vigo, Spain
  Wirral, United Kingdom
  Ventspils, Latvia
  Ludwigshafen, Germany
  České Budějovice, Czech Republic
  Denizli, Turkey

Communes in Morbihan
Subprefectures in France
Bongo

Bongo may mean:

In nature:
Bongo (antelope), a species of forest antelope from Africa

In geography:
Bongo Country, the name of several places in Africa
Bongo (Grand-Bassam), Ivory Coast

In entertainment:
Bongo drum, a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other
The Bongos, an America pop music band
Music Man Bongo, a model of bass guitar
DK Bongos, a video game controller

In vehicles:
Kia Bongo, an automobile
Mazda Bongo, a van

In fiction:
Bongo Comics, a comic book publishing company
Bongo (Dragon Ball) or Krillin, a character in Dragon Ball media

In other uses:
Bongo people (Gabon), a forest people
Bongo people (Sudan), an ethnic group in Sudan
Bongo language, their language, of the Bongo-Baka branch of Central Sudanic languages

People with the family name
Omar Bongo (1935–2009), former president of Gabon
Ali Bongo (1929–2009), British comedy magician
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), Current president of Gabon and son of Omar Bongo
Range (mathematics)

In mathematics, the range is a concept which has various meanings in different topics:

 The range of a function , also written as  or , is the set of elements that the function outputs. 
 In statistics, the range is the difference between the lowest and highest values. For example. in {4, 6, 9, 3, 7}, the lowest value is 3, and the highest is 9, so the range is 9-3 = 6. 
 In some occasions, the term "range" can also refer to the mathematical concept of interval.

Related pages 
 Surjective function

References 

Functions and mappings
Mathematics
Organic reaction

Organic reactions are chemical reactions involving organic compounds. The basic organic chemistry reaction types are addition reactions, elimination reactions, substitution reactions, pericyclic reactions, rearrangement reactions, photochemical reactions and redox reactions. In organic synthesis, organic reactions build new organic molecules. Organic reactions produce many man-made chemicals such as drugs, plastics, food additives, and fabrics.

More websites
Organic reactions @ Synarchive.com 
Organic reaction flashcards from OSU 
list of named reactions from UConn 
organic reactions 
Organic chemistry help-Best of the Web 2008 
Organic chemistry help-Electronic Flashcards
Study-Organic-Chemistry.com
organic-reaction.com

References
Shikasta (novel)

Shikasta is a 1979 science fiction novel. The full title is Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta. British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing wrote it as the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. Alfred A. Knopf published it first in the United States in October 1979. Jonathan Cape published the book in the United Kingdom in November 1979. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.

The book has a subtitle, "Personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days". 'The novel is the history of the planet Shikasta under the influence of three galactic empires: Canopus, Sirius, and their shared enemy, Puttiora. The book is a series of reports by Canopean visitors to Shikasta. They record what happens on the planet which is very similar to Earth. The novel shows the Earth's prehistory, how things became worse, the "Century of Destruction" (the 20th-century), and the Apocalypse (World War III).

Shikasta uses stories and images from the Old Testament and is influenced by spiritual and mystical themes in Sufism. Lessing had become interested in this Islamic belief system in the mid-1960s. The book was a major shift of focus in Lessing's writing, from realism to science fiction. Many of her readers were unhappy with the change. Critics gave the book both good and bad reviews. Some were impressed by the way the book showed a wide view of humanity and the universe. One reviewer called it a brave "and disturbing work from one of the world's great living writers". Others reviewers disliked the novel because it was depressing and humanity had no free will. People's lives were controlled by galactic empires.

The story of Shikasta is retold in the third book of the Canopus series, The Sirian Experiments (1980). In that book, the story is told from the point of view of Sirius. Shikasta appears again in the fourth book in the series, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982). The Zones that are briefly mentioned in Shikasta are the subject of the second book in the series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980).

References

Science fiction books
1979 books
HOMO/LUMO

HOMO stands for highest occupied molecular orbital. LUMO stands for lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. The energy difference between the HOMO and LUMO is termed the HOMO-LUMO gap. HOMO and LUMO are sometimes referred to as frontier orbitals.

Each molecular orbital has a calculated energy level. Chemists sort the molecular orbitals (MOs) by energy levels. Chemists assume that the electrons will occupy the lowest energy level MOs first. For example, if a molecule has enough electrons to fill 15 MOs, the 15 MOs with the lowest energy levels will be occupied. The 15th MO on the list would be called the "highest occupied molecular orbital" (HOMO) and the 16th MO on the list would be the "lowest unoccupied molecular orbital" (LUMO). The difference in the HOMO's energy level and the LUMO's energy level is called the band gap. The band gap can sometimes serve as a measure of the excitability of the molecule: the smaller the energy, the more easily a molecule's electrons will be excited. For example, this can help predict whether a substance will have luminescence.

SOMO
A SOMO is a singly occupied molecular orbital such as half-filled HOMO of a radical.

Related pages
 Diels–Alder reaction
 Electron configuration
 Ligand
 Organic semiconductor

References

Physical chemistry
Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist of Jewish descent. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

He was born in Zloczov, Poland (now Ukraine)

Hoffmann survived The Holocaust and moved to the United States in 1949.

References 

1937 births
Living people
American chemists
American Nobel Prize winners
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Holocaust survivors
Jewish American academics
Jewish American scientists
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Polish Nobel Prize winners
Ukrainian Jews
Ukrainian Nobel Prize winners
Substituent

In organic chemistry and biochemistry, substituent is the name for a single atom or for a group of atoms that take the position of another atom in a molecule. They replace this atom. This reaction is called a substitution reaction. The atom or group of atoms that gets replaced is called the leaving group.
 
The terms substituent, side chain, group, branch, or pendant group are used in the same way to describe branches from a parent structure. These terms have different meanings in polymer chemistry.  In polymers, side chains extend from a backbone structure, while they are attached to the alpha carbon atoms of the amino acid backbone in proteins. 

Organic chemistry has rules for naming compounds with substituent groups. The substituent group is listed first with a suffix to describe how it is attached to the main carbon chain. The suffix -yl is used when naming organic compounds that contain a single bond replacing one hydrogen. -ylidene and -ylidyne are used for double bonds and triple bonds respectively. When naming hydrocarbons that contain a substituent, position numbers may be used. These number will indicate which carbon atom the substituent is attached to. One case where this information is needed is that of isomers.

The phrases most-substituted and least-substituted are often used to describe molecules and predict their products. For example:

  Markovnikov's rule predicts that the hydrogen adds to the carbon of the alkene functional group that has the greater number of hydrogen substituents.
  Zaitsev's rule predicts that the major reaction product is the alkene with the more highly substituted (more stable) double bond.

Structures 
In a structural diagram or formula, the letters R or X are used to represent a substituent group. An organic substituent such as methyl, ethyl, aryl can be written as R (or R1, R2, etc.)  This is a generic placeholder. The R derived from radical or rest. The R can represent as many atoms as the author wants. The first to use this symbol was Charles Frédéric Gerhardt in 1844.

The symbol X can represent electronegative substituents such as the halides.

Related pages 
Side chain
 Functional groups are a subset of substituents

References

Organic chemistry
Chemical nomenclature

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Greater rhea

The greater rhea, Rhea americana, is a flightless bird found in South America. The greater rhea is also known as grey, common rhea, or the American rhea. The species, first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

The greater rhea takes its scientific name from the Greek goddess Rhea and the Latin word for "America".

It has a length of  and a wingspan of . Weighing , the greater rhea is the largest bird in South America.

References

Birds of South America
Flightless birds
Struthioniformes

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Petr Kalandra

Petr Kalandra (March 10, 1950 – September 7, 1995) was a Czech musician, guitarist, harmonica player, vocalist and songwriter. He was member of A.S.P.M., Blues Session and Marsyas. He died in September 1995. In 2006 he was inducted into the Beatová síň slávy (Beat Hall of Fame).

References 

Blues musicians
1995 deaths
1950 births
Czech musicians
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (German: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche) is a very well-known piece of music for orchestra by Richard Strauss.  It is a tone poem (a piece of music which tells some kind of story).  In this work, Richard Strauss describes the adventures of Till Eulenspiegel who was the character in a series of stories written in Germany many years ago.  Till Eulenspiegel was a kind of folk hero.  He was a naughty boy who got up to all kinds of tricks.  The music is very humorous and describes his adventures.

The music is played by a large orchestra.  There is a small clarinet (normally an E flat clarinet, although in Strauss's day he used a D clarinet) that describes the character of Till.  Till is also represented by a French horn.

The music
The music starts with the main theme, which is like saying: 'Once upon a time'.  The horn plays one of Till's themes and this is taken up by the orchestra.  The small clarinet is then heard, sounding like Till laughing.  He rides his horse through the market and knocks lots of things off the stalls, then flirts with the girls (the first violin plays a theme which suggests love).

Till gets on his horse again.  Then suddenly there is a funeral march.  Till has been caught and he is sentenced to death.  Till pleads to be let free and tries to joke his way out of his troubles, but the executioner takes no notice.  Till is taken to the gallows (small clarinet), the flutes rattle as he reaches the top.  The small clarinet describes his death scream, and then he is executed (strings playing pizzicato.  There is a short silence, then the music returns to the opening 'Once upon a Time' theme, but the music finishes with a little joke, as if saying that someone like Till can never be destroyed.

Compositions by Richard Strauss
Orchestral works
Beatová síň slávy

Beatová síň slávy (Beat Hall of Fame or shortly BSS) is something like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Czech Radio Beat honors the greatest legends of Czech rock music.

Categories 
 Musician
 Dead Musician
 Band

Induction

Multiple inductees

References

Other websites 
 Beatová síň slávy 

Czech music
Extranet

The extranet is a part of intranet that selected people outside the company can use.

Related pages
 Internet
 Intranet

Internet
Thomson's gazelle

The Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsonii) is the most common gazelle in East Africa. It is a kind of small antelope. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson and, as a result, is sometimes referred to as a "tommie". They can be found on ranches and farmland throughout East Africa, and survive long after other species have been killed off or migrated away.

Description 
Thomson's gazelles are commonly referred to as "tommies". Tommies stand at about half a meter (22-26 inches) tall and weigh in between 15 and 25 kilograms (35-55 pounds). Although very similar in appearance to the Grant's gazelle, they have some distinguishing features.

Predators 
The tommy has adapted to drier life on the open grass plains of East Africa, mainly southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Although tommies have many predators, including cheetahs, lions, leopards, crocodiles and hyenas, they are frequently the last animals left on an abandoned ranch or farmland. 

Their major predators are cheetahs, which can run faster, but gazelles can outlast them in long chases and are able to make turns more speedily. This small antelope-gazelle can run extremely fast, from , to 96 km/h (60 mph) and zigzag, a peculiarity which often saves it from predators. 

Sometimes they are also chased by leopards, lions and hyenas, but the gazelles are faster and more agile; these predators attack especially the young or infirm individuals. They can also be devoured by crocodiles and pythons, and their fawns are sometimes the prey of eagles, jackals, and baboons. A noticeable behaviour of Thomson's gazelles is their bounding leap, known as stotting or pronking, used to startle predators and display strength.

References

Mammals of Africa
Bovids
Mack Robinson (athlete)

Matthew MacKenzie Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was an American track athlete. He was the older brother of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson.  Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.  He moved to Pasadena, California when he was young and lived there most of his life.  He ran track in high school and college.  While at Pasadena City College, he set junior college records in several events.   He won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.  He came in second to Jesse Owens in the 200m.  Robinson later ran for the University of Oregon.  While there, he won National Collegiate Athletic Association and Amateur Athletic Union titles.  He is a member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame.  Robinson spent his later years working for the city of Pasadena as a garbage collector and mailman.  He tried to stop crime in the black neighborhoods of Pasadena.  Robinson died in Pasadena in 2000.  Several landmarks in Pasadena honor both Jackie and Mack Robinson, including the stadium at PCC.

References

1914 births
2000 deaths
African-American track and field athletes
Sportspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
Sportspeople from California
People from Cairo, Georgia
Diene

In organic chemistry, a diene ( ) or diolefin ( ) is a hydrocarbon that contains two carbon pi bonds. 
Conjugated dienes are functional groups, with a general formula of CnH2n-2. Dienes and alkynes are functional isomers. Dienes occur occasionally in nature but are widely used in the polymer industry.

Classes

Dienes can be divided into three classes, depending on the relative location of the double bonds: 
Cumulated dienes have the double bonds sharing a common atom as in a group of compounds called allenes.
Conjugated dienes have conjugated double bonds separated by one single bond.
Unconjugated dienes have the double bonds separated by two or more single bonds. They are usually less stable than isomeric conjugated dienes. 

Compounds that contain more than two double bonds are called polyenes. Polyenes and dienes, share many of their properties.

Cycloadditions
An important reaction for conjugated dienes is the Diels–Alder reaction.  Many specialized dienes have been developed to exploit this reactivity for the synthesis of natural products, e.g. Danishefsky’s diene.

Other websites
IUPACs Gold Book definition of dienes dienes PDF 

Hydrocarbons
Conjugated system

In chemistry, a conjugated system is a system of continuous and parallel p-orbitals with delocalized electrons. Conjugated systems are created by several multiple bonds, each separated by single bonds. In general, conjugated systems may lower the overall energy of the molecule and increase how steady it is. They can contain lone pairs, radicals or carbonium ions. The compound may be cyclic, acyclic, linear or mixed. In most cases, the atoms in a molecule are held together by single bonds (where orbitals from adjacent atoms overlap).  Molecules which have a conjugated system have unique properties different from normal compounds created by the sharing of the delocalized electrons among many atoms.

Conjugation is the overlap of one p-orbital with another across a sigma bond (or single bond) that is in between. (The d-orbitals of larger atoms can also contribute to a conjugated system).

A conjugated system has a region of overlapping p-orbitals, bridging the single bonds that are between. They allow a delocalization of pi electrons across all the adjacent aligned p-orbitals.
The pi electrons do not belong to a single bond or atom, but rather to a group of atoms.

The largest conjugated systems (with the greatest number of shared electrons) are in graphite, conductive polymers, and carbon nanotubes.

Mechanism

Different types of molecular structures can result in conjugation. For conjugation, all the neighboring atoms in a chain must have an available p-orbital. In many cases, conjugated systems are a series of a single bonds each followed by a double bond. Other systems exist. For example, furan (see picture) is a five-membered ring with two alternating double bonds and an oxygen in position 1. The Oxygen in furan has two lone pairs, one of which fills a p-orbital on that position. The lone pair electron makes conjugation possible on a five-membered ring. The presence of a nitrogen in the ring can be a source of pi orbitals needed for conjugation. Also, pi orbitals needed for conjugation can come from substituent groups α to the ring like: a carbonyl group (C=O), an imine group (C=N), a vinyl group (C=C), or an anion.

Chromophores
Conjugated systems are the main things that make up chromophores. Chromophores are light-absorbing parts of a molecule that can cause a compound to have a visible color. Chromophores are often present in various organic compounds and sometimes present in polymers that are colored or glow in the dark. Chromophores often consist of a series of conjugated bonds and/or ring systems, which can include C-C, C=C, C=O, or N=N bonds. Many times, chromophores have aromatic rings.

Common examples
Diene
Vitamin D
Vitamin A
Benzene
Conjugated linoleic acid

Related pages
Resonance (chemistry)
Hyperconjugation
Cross-conjugation
Polyene

References

Organic chemistry
Prince Fielder

Prince Semien Fielder (born May 9, 1984 in Ontario, California) is an American Major League Baseball player. He currently plays for the Texas Rangers. He debuted in the MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers on June 13, 2005 when he was called up from the minor league Nashville Sounds. He was sent back down but was called up again on August 17, 2005 where he finished the season with the Brewers and was used as a pinch-hitter. Fielder is a 3-time All Star and is also one of 26 players in the 50 home run club.

Other websites 

 Prince Fielder's MLB player profile

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Los Angeles
National League All-Stars
Texas Rangers players
American League All-Stars
Kurt Alder

Kurt Alder (July 10, 1902 – June 20, 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Biography
Alder was born in the industrial area of Königshütte, Silesia (modern day Chorzów, Upper Silesia, Poland). He received his early schooling there. Alder left the area for political reasons when Königshütte became part of Poland in 1922. He studied chemistry at the University of Berlin from 1922, and later at the University of Kiel where his earned a PhD in 1926 for work supervised by Diels.

In 1930 Alder was appointed reader for chemistry at Kiel, and promoted to lecturer in 1934. In 1936 he left Kiel to join I G Farben Industrie at Leverkusen, where he worked on synthetic rubber. In 1940, he was appointed Professor of Experimental Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the  University of Cologne and Director of the Institute of Chemistry there. Throughout this time and despite the many obstacles to original research in Europe at the time, he continued a systematic program of investigations of his particular interests in the synthesis of organic compounds. In all he published more than 151 papers in this field.   

Alder received several honorary degrees and other awards, most famously the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry which he shared with his teacher Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction. The lunar crater Alder is named in his honour. The insecticide aldrin, created through a Diels–Alder reaction, is also named for him.

References

Other websites
Nobel Prize biography 

1902 births
1958 deaths
German academics
German chemists
German Nobel Prize winners
People from former German territories
Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui (October 4, 1918–January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Early life
Fukui was the oldest of three sons of Ryokichi Fukui, who was a merchant. He was born in Nara, Japan. 

He graduated from Kyoto Imperial University in 1941.

Career
Fukui worked at the Army Fuel Laboratory of Japan during World War II.{  

In 1943, he was appointed a lecturer in fuel chemistry at Kyoto Imperial University. 

He was professor of physical chemistry at Kyoto University from 1951 to 1982.

He was president of the Kyoto Institute of Technology between 1982 and 1988. 

Fukui shared the 1981 Nobel Prize with Roald Hoffmann.  Fukui and Hoffmann worked separately on the mechanisms of chemical reactions.  Fukui explained in his Nobel lecture that, 
"It is only after the remarkable appearance of the brilliant work by Woodward and Hoffmann that I have become fully aware that not only the density distribution but also the nodal property of the particular orbitals have significance in such a wide variety of chemical reactions."

Honors
 Japan Academy Medal, 1962 
 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981 
 Order of Culture, 1981 
 Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, 1988 
 Royal Society (UK), foreign member, 1989

Related pages 
 List of Nobel Prize winners by country

References

1918 births
1998 deaths
Japanese chemists
Foreign Members of the Royal Society
People from Nara Prefecture
Japanese Nobel Prize winners
Kyoto University alumni
Kyoto University faculty
Woodward's rules

Woodward's rules are a set of rules about how organic chemical compounds absorb ultraviolet light.

They give information about the wavelength of the absorption maximum (symbol λmax ) in an ultraviolet-visible (UV) spectrum of a compound.  The rules are named after Robert Burns Woodward. He was a Harvard University professor who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The rules are sometimes called the Woodward-Fieser rules, to also honor Louis Fieser. 

The rules build the prediction on the type of chromophores present, the substituents on the chromophores, and changes due to the solvent. Examples are conjugated carbonyl compounds, conjugated dienes, and polyenes.

Implementation
One set of Woodward-Fieser rules for dienes is shown in table one. A diene is either homoannular with both double bonds contained in one ring or heteroannular with two double bonds distributed between two rings.

These rules predict the UV absorption maximum of compounds. Here are two examples:

In the compound on the left the base value is 214 nm (a heteroannular diene). This diene group has 4 alkyl substituents (labeled 1,2,3,4) and the double bond in one ring is exocyclic to the other (adding 5 nm for an exocyclic double bond). In the compound on the right, the diene is homoannular with 4 alkyl substituents. Both double bonds in the central B ring are exocyclic with respect to rings A and C.

References

Organic chemistry
Spined pygmy shark

The spined pygmy shark (Squaliolus laticaudus) is one of the smallest sharks in the world. It is only seven to eight inches long on average. Spined pygmy sharks are dark gray or black on top. Their bellies glow in the dark. These sharks live very deep in the water (down to 6,500 feet) but they migrate up to about 650 feet at night, to hunt.

Spined pygmy sharks are harmless to humans.

References 

Sharks
Tiger beetle

The tiger beetles are a large group of beetles in the family Carabidae. About 2,600 species and subspecies are known, with the richest diversity in the Oriental (Indo-Malayan) region, followed by the Neotropics.

All tiger beetles are predators. 
They are known for their aggressive predatory habits and running speed. The fastest species of tiger beetle can run at a speed of 9 km/h (5.6 mph), which, relative to its body length, is about 22 times the speed of an Olympic sprinter, the equivalent of a human running at . 

Tiger beetles live everywhere in the world except the Antarctic and Tasmania. They have powerful jaws, called mandibles, which they use to hold and crush their prey. They have long legs, big eyes, and a wide head. All are colourful.  Their elytra are usually bright and have bold markings.

References 

Carabidae
The Plastic People of the Universe

The Plastic People of the Universe (or shortly PPU) is a rock band from Prague, Czechoslovakia (Today Czech Republic). In 60s and 70s was frontman bass player Milan "Mejla" Hlavsa (*1951-†2001) and current frontman is saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec (*1943). On his "debut" album Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned, the group set to music poems by Egon Bondy. The band became famous when it was put in prison by the communist government.

Selected discography
Muž bez uší (live recordings 1969-72)
Vožralej jak slíva (live recordings 1973-75)
Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned (1974)
Ach to státu hanobení (live recordings 1976-77)
Pašijové hry velikonoční (1978)
Jak bude po smrti (1979)
Co znamená vésti koně (1981)
Kolejnice duní (1977–82)
Hovězí porážka (1983–84)
Půlnoční myš (1985–86)
Líně s tebou spím - Lazy Love / In Memoriam Mejla Hlavsa (2001)
Pašijové hry / Passion Play (with Agon Orchestra) (2004)
Maska za maskou (The Mask Behind the Mask)(2009)

References

Other websites

Plastic People official site

Article from Prague Life
Interview with Paul Wilson
Interview/profile from the Washington Post's Express 

Czech musical groups
Vratislav Brabenec

Vratislav Brabenec (born April 28, 1943, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today Czech Republic) is a Czech musician, saxophonist, clarinetist a vocalist. He is member of Czech underground band The Plastic People of the Universe. Brabanec joined the Plastic People in 1972. He insisted that they no longer play songs by groups like the Velvet Underground. Brabenec wanted them to play their own songs and perform them in the Czech language. The band became famous in 1972 when some of the members were put in prison by the communist government. Brabenec was sent to prison for eight months because his music was "antisocial", he was disturbing the peace, and he his music was corrupting Czech youth.

References

Other websites
Plastic People of the Universe official site

1943 births
Living people
Clarinetists
Musicians from Prague
The Plastic People of the Universe
Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He was ranked 42 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He is founder member of rock band King Crimson.

Fripp has been married to Toyah Willcox since 1986. His uncle was Alfie Fripp.

References

1946 births
Living people
English rock guitarists
Musicians from Dorset
Nico

Nico (born Christa Päffgen; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988) was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and Warhol Superstar. She is featured on the first album by the New York rock band The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico.

She was born in Cologne. She grew up in Brandenburg and Berlin.

She made seven studio albums.

She died on holiday in the Spanish island of Ibiza, of a cerebral hemorrhage while riding her bicycle.

Nico was born Christa Päffgen. When she was 16 the photographer Herbert Tobias gave her the name Nico. Nico moved to Paris and began working for Vogue, Tempo, Vie Nuove, Mascotte Spettacolo, Camera, Elle, and other fashion magazines.

References

1938 births
1988 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Spain
Contraltos
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Entertainers from Berlin
Entertainers from North Rhine-Westphalia
German singers
People from Brandenburg
People from Cologne
Rock singers
Karel Kryl

Karel Kryl (April 12, 1944 Kroměříž, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today Czech Republic – March 3, 1994 Passau, Germany) was a Czech singer-songwriter and poet. Kryl is sometimes called a "Básník s kytarou" (poet with a guitar).

Other websites

Karel Kryl official website

1944 births
1994 deaths
Czech poets
Czech musicians
Singer-songwriters
U.S. Route 40

U.S. Route 40 is a federal highway from Park City, Utah to Atlantic City, New Jersey.  It is 2,286 miles long and passes through twelve states.  It used to go from Park City to Reno, Nevada and San Francisco, California, but that route is now part of Interstate 80.  Much of the eastern part of U.S. Route 40, from Vandalia, Illinois to Cumberland, Maryland (or from St. Louis, Missouri to Baltimore) was part of the National Road.  This part has been around since 1839.  Part of U.S. Route 40 was also called the "Lincoln Highway".

U.S. Route 40 passes or passed through many cities.  Some of these are:

The current capitals are Denver, Topeka, Indianapolis, and Columbus. Vandalia was a former capital of Illinois, Zanesville was a former capital of Ohio, and Wheeling was a former capital of West Virginia.

Cities

Current
Park City, Utah
Vernal, Utah
Craig, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
Oakley, Kansas
Hays, Kansas
Salina, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri
Warrensburg, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Vandalia, Illinois
Effingham, Illinois
Terre Haute, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Richmond, Indiana
Dayton, Ohio
Springfield, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Zanesville, Ohio
Wheeling, West Virginia
Washington, Pennsylvania
Cumberland, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Wilmington, Delaware
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Former
San Francisco, California
Oakland, California
Sacramento, California
Reno, Nevada
Winnemucca, Nevada
Elko, Nevada
Salt Lake City, Utah

References

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Ozone depletion

Ozone is a gas that is present in the ozone layer in the stratosphere of the Earth. There, it will absorb almost all ultraviolet light which is harmful to many organisms. The term Ozone depletion can refer to a number of distinct, but related phenomena:
 Since about the 1970s, there has been a decrease in total volume of the Ozone in the ozone layer, of about 4%, per decade.
 There are seasonal variations in the ozone layers; in springtime, there is less ozone in the ozone layer over the polar regions, esp. the south pole. This is generally known as ozone hole.
 In addition to these well-known stratospheric phenomena, there are also springtime polar tropospheric ozone depletion events.

The details of polar ozone hole formation differ from that of mid-latitude thinning, but the most important process in both is catalytic destruction of ozone by atomic halogens. The main source of these halogen atoms in the stratosphere is photodissociation of man-made halocarbon refrigerants (CFCs, freons, halons.) These compounds are transported into the stratosphere after being emitted at the surface.
Both types of ozone depletion were observed to increase as emissions of Halocarbons increased.

CFCs and other substances contributing to this effect are referred to as ozone-depleting substances (ODS). Since the ozone layer prevents most harmful UVB wavelengths (280–315 nm) of ultraviolet light (UV light) from passing through the Earth's atmosphere, observed and projected decreases in ozone have generated worldwide concern. As a result, the Montreal Protocol  has been adopted. The treaty bans the production of CFCs, halons as and other ozone-depleting chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane. The biological consequences  of this change in ozone levels may include an increases in skin cancer, cataracts, damage to plants, and the reduction of plankton populations in the ocean.

Estimates of how quickly the ozone layer will regenerate vary by about two decades. NASA estimated in 2006, that it wil take to 2068 for the ozone layer in Antarctica to recover to the level before human-induced thinning.  According to the World Meteorological Organization, the state of the ozone layer over Antarctica will not change noticeably in the next twenty years. The state before 1980 will be reached between 2060 and 2075, 25 years later than predicted in 2002. Over the Arctic, there will be bigger losses in ozone over the next fifteen years, esp. in cold winters. For the Arctic regions, the state before 1980 will be reached around 2050.

References

Atmosphere
Photodissociation

Photodissociation, photolysis, or photodecomposition is a chemical reaction in which a chemical compound is broken down by photons. One or more photons interact with the target molecule.

Photodissociation is not limited to visible light.  Any photon with sufficient energy can affect the chemical bonds of a chemical compound.  Since a photon's energy is inversely proportional to its wavelength, electromagnetic waves with the energy of visible light or higher, such as ultraviolet light, x-rays and gamma rays are usually involved in such reactions.

One example where this is used is the Light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis. Far more enegetic photons of ultraviolet light (240 nm and shorter) can break the bonds of oxygen molecules. The newly independent oxygen atoms create ozone in the ozone layer.

Chemistry
Audi Cup 2011

The Audi Cup 2011 (the second edition of the Audi Cup) was a two-day tournament that took place in Munich, Germany. The tournament featured four teams, AC Milan, S.C. Internacional, FC Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona. The winners of the tournament were FC Barcelona, defeating Bayern Munich 2-0. S.C. Internacional took third place, defeating AC Milan 2(2) - 2(0).

Matches

2011 in association football
2011 in Germany
Audi Cup
2010s in Munich
UEFA Euro 2008

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (or the Euro 2008) was the 13th UEFA European Championships. It was hosted by Austria and Switzerland during June 7 and June 29, 2008. The winners were Spain, defeating Germany 1-0. Spain was also the first team since Germany in 1996, to win undefeated.

Greece, the UEFA Euro 2004 champions, recorded the worst finish in the UEFA Euro 2008. They got the least amount of money, and no points for the Group Stage.

Qualifying groups

Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group E

Group G

Qualified Teams 

The teams that qualified were:

Austria
Switzerland
Poland
Portugal
Italy
France
Greece
Turkey
Czech Republic
Germany
Croatia
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Romania
Netherlands

Final

Final rankings 

Rankings are based on performance, not team skill. Also, these rankings are unofficial and are not based on head-to-head record.

2008 in association football
UEFA European Championship tournaments
Football in Austria
Football in Switzerland
2008 in Europe
21st century in Austria
2000s in Switzerland
Juanes

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born 9 August 1972), known as Juanes, is a one-time Grammy Award-winning and nineteen-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Colombian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer. He was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. Juanes has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.

Raised in Medellín, Colombia, Juanes began playing guitar at age seven.

Discography
Studio albums
 Fíjate Bien (2000)
 Un Día Normal (2002)
 Mi Sangre (2004)
 La Vida... Es un Ratico (2007)
 P.A.R.C.E. (2010)

Live albums
 Juanes MTV Unplugged (2012)

References

Other websites 

Official website 
English version
Juanes to Twitter in Cuba Despite Exiles By Alfredo Prieto, Havana Times, August 26, 2009
Official Universal Music Latino Website 
Mi Sangre Foundation website 

Juanes Interview
Juanes Interview on CorrienteLatina.com 
English version

Colombian singers
Grammy Award winners
Songwriters
1972 births
Living people
Latin singers
Latin Grammy Award winners
Vector calculus

Vector calculus is a branch of mathematics that investigates vector fields and how they change over time. Vector calculus usually studies two- or three-dimensional vector fields, but can be used in higher dimensions, too. It is a part of the study of multivariable calculus. Vector calculus is useful in physics and engineering because of how it can look at electromagnetic and gravitational fields.

Related pages 
Curl
Divergence
Gradient

Linear algebra
Vectors
Vector field

A vector field is a function that assigns to every point in space a vector. It can be imagined as a collection of arrows, each one attached to a different point in space. For example, the wind (the velocity of air) can be represented by a vector field. This is because in every point one can write an arrow showing the direction of the wind and its strength. 

Vector calculus is the study of vector fields.

Physical examples 
In everyday life, gravity is the force that makes objects fall down. More generally, it is the force that pulls objects towards each other. If we describe for each point in space the direction and strength of the earth's pull, we will get a gravity vector field for the Earth.  

The theory dealing with electricity and magnetism in physics is called electromagnetism. One of the basic assumptions is that there are two vector fields in all space which govern electric and magnetic forces. One is the electric field, which is often written as  and the second is the magnetic field, which is often written as .

Atmospheric circulation can be represented by a vector field. The more precisely the vector field describes the actual flow, the better the resulting weather forecast.

Linear algebra
Vectors
Multivariable calculus

In calculus, multivariable calculus is the extension of regular, one-dimensional calculus to more than one dimension. Most of the concepts from calculus, such as continuity and chain rule, still work in more than one dimension, though sometimes with greater complexity and counter-intuitive result. 

Special multivariable uses include partial derivatives, or differentiation with only one dimension at a time, and multiple integration, or integrating over more than one dimension. The gradient operator , defined in terms of partial derivatives, is used to defined higher concepts such as Laplace operator, divergence and curl. By integrating a multivariable function over several variables, one can define an integral over an area, surface or volume as well.

Related pages 

 Vector calculus

References 

Calculus
PFC CSKA Moscow

PFC CSKA Moscow (Russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб - ЦСКА, or English: Professional Football Club — Central Sports Club of Army [Moscow]) is a Russian football club from the capital city of Moscow. The team was more successful during the Soviet Union. Their biggest rival is Spartak Moscow. But PFC CSKA Moscow has the most fans. PFC CSKA Moscow was also the first Russian team to win the UEFA Cup (UEFA Europa League).

Past Names of the Club 
1911-1922 - Общество Любителей Лыжного Спорта (English: Amateur Society of Skiing Sports)

1923 - Russian: Опытно-Показательная Площадка Всеобуча) (English: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Education Association)

1924-1927 - Опытно-Показательная Площадка Военведа (English: Experimental & Demonstrational Playground of Military Administration)

1928-1950 - Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Красной Армии (English: Sports Club of Central House of the Red Army)

1951-1956 - Спортивный Клуб Центрального Дома Советской Армии (English: Sports Club of Central House of the Soviet Army)

1957-1959 - Центральный Спортивный Клуб Министерства Обороны (English: Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense)

1960–Present — Центральный Спортивный Клуб Армии (English: Central Sports Club of Army)

Titles

Related pages

2011–12 PFC CSKA Moscow season

Russian football clubs
PFC CSKA Moscow
1911 establishments
1910s establishments in the Soviet Union
Leopard seal

The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also known as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the Southern Elephant Seal). It is most common in the southern hemisphere along the coast of Antarctica and on most sub-Antarctic islands, but can also be found on the coasts of southern Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Tierra del Fuego, the Cook Islands, and the Atlantic coast of South America. It can live twenty-six years, possibly more. Killer whales, and large sharks are the only natural predators of leopard seals. They eat Crabeater seals, consuming 80% of their young. They are large and strong. They have a dark grey back and a light grey stomach. Its neck is a little bit white with black spots, which is the pattern of a leopard's coat. That is how it got its name. Leopard seals are carnivores. It eats penguins, seagulls, fish, squid, octopuses, krill, shrimps, crabs and even other seals. 

Mammals of Australia
Loudoun County, Virginia

Loudoun County ( ) is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The 2010 U.S. Census said 312,311 people live there. The number of people grew 84 percent over the 2000 census of 169,599. Its county seat is Leesburg.

As of 2007, Loudoun County has the highest median household income of any county in the United States ($107,207). This is higher than nearby Fairfax County, Virginia ($105,241).

References

Virginia counties
F.C. Saturn Ramenskoye

FC Saturn Ramenskoye (, or English: State-Owned Enterprise of the Moscow Region Football Club Saturn Moscow Region) is a Russian football team near the Moscow area of Ramenskoye. It was also known as FC Saturn Moscow Region. In 2006, the club broke the record for the most draws in a Russian Premier League season, 16 draws. The club closed down in 2011, as there were bad financial problems. However, it was revived on the base of their former farm club FC Saturn-2 Moscow Region.

The club's past names were Krylya Sovetov (1946-1957), Trud (1958-1959) and Saturn Ren-Tv (2002-2004).

Titles 

Russian football clubs
1946 establishments in the Soviet Union
FC Rubin Kazan

FC Rubin Kazan (Russian: Футбольный клуб Рубин Казань, or English: "A Ruby") is a Russian football team from Kazan. Rubin only won the Russian Premier League in 2008 and 2009.

Rubin was previously called Iskra (1958 - 1964) and Rubin-TAN (1992 - 1993).

Rubin never played in the Soviet Top League, but went to the Russian First Division in 1992, and then went to Russian Second Division in 1994. The mayor of that time, purchased the team, and the on the same year Rubin won the Second Division in 1997. Rubin then went back to Russian First Division and the games went on until Rubin was promoted to the Russian Premier League in 2003.

Titles

References

Russian football clubs
1958 establishments in the Soviet Union
PFC CSKA Sofia

PFC CSKA Sofia (), commonly known as CSKA or CSKA Sofia, is a Bulgarian football team from Sofia, Bulgaria. Since CSKA Sofia was created, the club has won 31 A PFG titles, more than any team in Bulgaria, ever. Also, CSKA Sofia has reached two European Cup semi-finals, four European Cup quarter-finals and one Cup Winners' Cup semi-final, making the team the best in Bulgaria.

Titles 

Bulgarian football clubs
Sofia
First Professional Football League

The First Professional Football League (), known in short as Parva Liga (), is the top-level league of men's association football in Bulgaria. The league was founded in 1924 as the Bulgarian State Football Championship, and was later known by several other names, most recently Bulgarian A Professional Football Group from 2003 to 2016. The current name was adopted for the 2016–17 season.

The current champions are Ludogorets Razgred, who have won the last seven titles (2012 to 2018).

Results

Bulgarian State Football Championship

Bulgarian Republic Football Championship

A Group

First Professional Football League

Result table

References

Other websites 

 Official website 
 League at UEFA
 Bulgaria – List of Champions, RSSSF.com

Football leagues
Football in Bulgaria
Luzhniki Stadium

The Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex (, also known as the Luzhniki Stadium) is the biggest sports stadium in Russia. The stadium is in Moscow.

Buildings and structures in Moscow
Football stadiums in Europe
Sport in Russia
1956 establishments in Europe
1950s establishments in the Soviet Union
2018 FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, which is a men's football tournament that takes place every four years and is organized by FIFA. The tournament took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010. This was the first World Cup taking place in Eastern Europe.

The defending champions were Germany. France won the tournament after defeating Croatia 4–2. This was France's second World Cup title.

Qualified teams 

Russia is the host country, so the Russian team automatically qualified.

Draw
The draw was held in Moscow at 18:00 MSK, on Friday 1 December 2017
The teams were divided into 4 pots, 8 teams each. The number in parenthesis show positions in the FIFA World Rankings prior to the tournament.

Stadiums

Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the round of 16. Matches are played on a round-robin basis.

Tiebreakers
The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Article 32.5):

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:
 Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
 Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The following suspensions were served during the tournament:

Awards

Prize money
Prize money amounts were announced in October 2017.

References

Other websites 

FIFA.com 2018 website 
Welcome2018.com

 
2018 in Russia
Football in Russia
June 2018 events
FIFA World Cup tournaments