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Pinar del Río

Pinar del Río is the capital city in Pinar del Río Province in northwestern Cuba. The city has over 159,000 people living within its boundaries according to the 2021 estimates.

The region where the city was later founded was originally named Nueva Filipina (New Philippines). Its name was changed to Pinar del Río in the 1770s.

References

Establishments in the Caribbean
18th-century establishments in North America
Cities in Cuba
Adapter

An adapter or adaptor can be used to convert for example US power plugs to EU or UK power plugs. It is very useful when travelling overseas.

Electronics
Electrical connectors
Softonic.com

Softonic.com is a website that can be used to download desktop applications for different systems. The website usually does not have viruses or other malware bundled while downloading applications and is safe to use.

Websites
Danial Hajibarat

Danial Hajibarat (Farsi: دانيال حاجی برات) is an Iranian Film Director and screenwriter born on June 4, 1983 in Tehran,Iran. 

He is also active in the field of acting and has acted in several movies and series such as Maybe There, Hasht Behesht and Zendeh Rood.

References

Other websites 

Danial Hajibarat on filcin
Danial Hajibarat on TMDb

Iranian movie directors
1983 births
Living people
People from Tehran
Iranian screenwriters
Pillager, Minnesota

Pillager is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 469 at the 2010 census. It is in the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography 
Minnesota State Highway 210 and County Road 1 are the main roads in the city.

References 

 
Cities in Minnesota
Nancy Hollister

Nancy Hollister (born May 22, 1949, Marietta, Ohio) is an American politician. She was the first (and as of 2021, the only) female governor of Ohio. Hollister was also the shortest operating governor of the state. Her term began on New Year's Eve 1998 and ended on January 11, 1999. Before that, Hollister operated as the 60th lieutenant governor of the state from January 9, 1995 until December 31, 1998. Hollister is a United States Republican Party member.

Hollister began her political career in 1980. She first entered the public office when she was elected to the Marietta City Council that year. Four years later, Hollister was elected Mayor of Marietta. She operated as such until 1991.

From January 5, 1999 until almost 2005, Hollister worked in the Ohio House of Representatives.

References

US Republican Party politicians
United States representatives from Ohio
Lieutenant Governors of Ohio
Governors of Ohio
American mayors
1949 births
Living people
Boana maculateralis

The stained tree frog (Boana maculateralis) is a frog that lives in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru.  Scientists have seen it between 186 and 354 meters above sea level.

The adult male frog is 3.2 to 4.00 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 3.2 to 5.5 cm long.  It has light skin with darker marks and blue on its sides.

This frog is sympatric with Boana calcarata, Boana alfaroi, Boana calcarata and maybe Boana tetete.  This means that all these frogs came from the same ancestor frog species, and they became different species even though they all lived in the same place the whole time. 

This frog hides during the day and looks for food at night.  It lives in forests.  Scientists have seen it sitting on plants 2 meters above the ground.

The Latin name of this frog means "stains on its sides."

References

Frogs
Animals of South America
Police, Adjective

Police, Adjective () is a 2009 Romanian drama movie directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and starring Dragoș Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Săulescu, Cerasela Trandafir, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi.

Other websites

2009 drama movies
Romanian drama movies
Movies directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Little spotted kiwi

The little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) is a species of kiwi. This bird does not fly.  It runs on the ground.  The little spotted kiwi is the smallest of all kiwis.

Appearance

This bird has light brown-gray feathers with white bands.  Its bill, or beak, is long and pale in color.  Its legs and toes are short and dark.

Habitat

In 2012, there were about 1650 little spotted kiwi alive.

Long ago, this bird lived all over New Zealand.  However, by the time European people came to live in New Zealand, there were almost no little spotted kiwi left on the North Island.  They still live on D'Urville Island.  There are none left on New Zealand's South Island.

In 1983, human beings started bringing little spotted kiwi from Kapiti Island and other places to other islands where they can live and raise chicks away from weasels, dogs, and the other animals from Europe that were killing and eating them.

Food

Little spotted kiwi look for food at night and hide during the day in burrows, hollow logs, or other hiding places.  They live in pairs.  Pairs of adult little spotted kiwi will fight each other over good places to look for food.  They will scratch at each other with their claws and pull out each other's feathers.  Little spotted kiwi look for food by touching the ground with their long beaks.  They eat earthworms, insects, and other animals with no bones.  The male kiwi and female kiwi will sing together as they look for food.

Breeding

The kiwis make a nest in a hollow log, crack in a rock or space dug out of the ground.  The eggs are white.  The female lays one or two eggs at a time.  Only the male kiwi sits on the egg.

References

Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds
Figanières

Figanières is a commune of 2,608 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

Communes in Var
Flassans-sur-Issole

Flassans-sur-Issole is a commune of 3,548 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

Communes in Var
Flayosc

Flayosc is a commune of 4,282 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

Communes in Var
Forcalqueiret

Forcalqueiret is a commune of 3,061 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

References 

Communes in Var
Fox-Amphoux

Fox-Amphoux is a commune of 460 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

References 

Communes in Var
Titisee-Neustadt

Titisee-Neustadt is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town is a Kneipp spa and a climatic health resort. It is also known a winter sport center.

Geography 
The town of Titisee is on the north shore of Titisee, a lake in the eastern Feldberg in the Black Forest, which ranges from 780 to 1192 meters above sea level. The town of Neustadt is 5 km to the east.

Districts 
The town is made up of the six districts:
 Neustadt
 Langenordnach
 Rudenberg
 Titisee
 Schwärzenbach
 Waldau

Twin towns 
Titisee-Neustadt is twinned with:
  Coulommiers, France, since 1971
  Leighton–Linslade, United Kingdom, since 1991

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Spa towns in Germany
Ski areas and resorts
La Garde-Freinet

La Garde-Freinet is a commune of 1,867 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

Communes in Var
Garéoult

Garéoult is a commune of 5,310 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

Communes in Var
Campomarino

Campomarino is a comune in the Province of Campobasso in the Molise region in Italy.

Settlements in Molise
Ginasservis

Ginasservis is a commune of 1,859 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.

References 

Communes in Var
Alegrete

Alegrete is an Brazilian city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. 73,028 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 7,803.967 km².

Cities in Rio Grande do Sul
Linhares

Linhares is an Brazilian city in the state of Espírito Santo. 176,688 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 9,501.6 km².

Cities in Brazil
Espírito Santo
Paul Gondjout

Paul Marie Indjendjet Gondjout (4 June 1912 – 1 July 1990) was a Gabonese politician and civil servant.

He died on 1 July, 1990.

References 

1912 births
1990 deaths
Gabonese people
African politicians
Jaboatão dos Guararapes

Jaboatão dos Guararapes is an Brazilian city in the state of Pernambuco. 706,867 people lived here in 2020 and its area is 256.08 km².

Cities in Brazil
Pernambuco
Sucy-en-Brie

Sucy-en-Brie is a French commune. It is in the southeastern suburbs of Paris,  from the center. 26,974 people lived here in 2018.

Communes in Val-de-Marne
Martha Ankomah

Martha Ankomah is a Ghanaian actress and entrepreneur.

References 

Living people
West Sumatra

West Sumatra () is a province of Indonesia.

References

Provinces of Indonesia
Sumatra
Nasrul Abit

Nasrul Abit (24 December 1954 – 28 August 2021) was an Indonesian politician. He was a member of the Great Indonesia Movement Party. He was the 8th Vice Governor of West Sumatra from 12 February 2016 until 12 February 2021. He was also the Deputy Regent of Pesisir Selatan Regency from 2000 to 2005. Abit was born in Pesisir Selatan Regency.

Abit died on 28 August 2021 in Padang, Indonesia of COVID-19 at the age of 66.

References

1954 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Indonesian politicians
Čechomor

Čechomor is a Czech band from Svitavy (Moravia) that performs traditional songs in rock arrangements. They have toured throughout Europe, North America, Russia, China, Mongolia, and Australia.

In 2001, they won three Anděl Awards.

References

Czech musical groups
2021 Madagascar food crisis

In mid-2021, a bad drought in southern Madagascar caused thousands of people to suffer from famines. Some organizations have said that this famine is an impact of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In August 2021, the food crisis was said to be the first famine caused by climate change and not conflict, according to the World Food Programme.

References

2021 disasters in Africa
August 2021 events
July 2021 events
June 2021 events
2021 food crisis
September 2021 events
October 2021 events
November 2021 events
December 2021 events
January 2022 events
2022 in Africa
Aldo Eminente

Aldo Eminente (19 August 1931 – 25 August 2021) was a French freestyle swimmer. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina. He competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won a bronze medal.

Eminente died on 25 August 2021, aged 90.

References

1931 births
2021 deaths
French Olympians
Swimmers
Olympic bronze medalists
Brazilian Democratic Movement

The Brazilian Democratic Movement (, MDB) is a Brazilian centrist political party. When they were founded, they were the opposition to the Brazilian military government.

Social liberals and social democrats broke with the party in 1988 to form the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.

References

Political parties in South America
Politics of Brazil
Sam Oji

Samuel Udoka Oji (9 October 1985 – 28 August 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre back. Oji was born in City of Westminster, England.

Oji played in the Football League for Doncaster Rovers, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient and Hereford United. He later played for Tamworth of the Conference Premier. 

He then played in the League of Ireland for Limerick and Galway United. Oji joined Highgate United in 2018, and was made assistant manager of that club in July 2021.

Oji died on 28 August 2021 of an illness at the age of 35.

References

1985 births
2021 deaths
English footballers
Sportspeople from London
Jin Renqing

Jin Renqing (; 29 July 1944 – 28 August 2021) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Suzhou, China. He was a member of the Communist Party. He was the Director of the State Taxation Administration from 1998 until 2003. He was later the Minister of Finance from 2003 until 2007.

Jin died in a house fire in Beijing on 28 August 2021, aged 77.

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1944 births
2021 deaths
Chinese politicians
Deaths from fire
Communists
Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla

Priscilla Joson Baltazar-Padilla (born Priscilla Joson Baltazar; July 2, 1958 – August 27, 2021) was a Filipino politician and lawyer. She was the 188th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was nominated by President Rodrigo Duterte. Baltazar-Padilla was in office from July 16, 2020 until November 3, 2020. She was born in Manila.

Baltazar-Padilla died on August 27, 2021 in Manila at the age of 63.

References

1958 births
2021 deaths
Filipino politicians
Filipino lawyers
People from Manila
Stjepan Babić

Stjepan Babić (29 November 1925 – 27 August 2021) was a Croatian linguist, politician, and academic. He was born in Oriovac, Croatia. He was a professor at the University of Zagreb. He was the vice-president of Matica hrvatska from 1989 to 1992, and representative in the Županijski Dom (Chamber of the Counties) from 1993 to 1997. He retired as professor in 1991. From 1993 until 1997, he was a member of the Croatian Parliament.

Babić died in Zagreb on 27 August 2021, at the age of 95.

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1925 births
2021 deaths
Croatian writers
Croatian politicians
Linguists
Academics
People from Zagreb
Rodolfo Aínsa

Rodolfo Aínsa Escartín (17 September 1944 – 26 August 2021) was a Spanish politician and businessman. He was a Senator from 2004 until 2008. He was born in Sabiñánigo, Spain. Aínsa was a member of the People's Party. He was the President of Huesca Province from 1995 until 1999.

Aínsa died on 26 August 2021 at his home in Sabiñánigo, aged 76.

References

1944 births
2021 deaths
Spanish politicians
Sabiñánigo

Sabiñánigo (Samianigo in Aragonese) is a municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragón, Spain.

References

Municipalities in Aragon
Calogero Lo Giudice

Calogero Lo Giudice (died 24 August 2021) was an Italian politician. He was President of Sicily from 1982 until 1983. Lo Giudice was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 until 1994. He was a member of the Christian Democracy. 

Lo Giudice died on 24 August 2021 at the age of 83.

References

1930s births
2021 deaths
MEPs for Italy
People from Sicily
Harry Kent (cyclist)

Harry Dale Kent (11 March 194724 August 2021) was a New Zealand racing cyclist.  He was the first New Zealander to win a gold medal in cycling at the Commonwealth Games in 1970. He was the first cyclist from the country to medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Kent was born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand.

Kent died on 24 August 2021 in Wellington from problems caused by multiple strokes, aged 74.

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1947 births
2021 deaths
New Zealand sportspeople
Cyclists
Deaths from stroke
Pakistan Science Club

Pakistan Science Club (PSC) ()  is a youth organization in Pakistan that engages students on various scientific activities aimed at promoting scientific and technological knowledge amongst the country's young generation. 

Based in Karachi, capital of the Sindh province, the organization runs various seminars  and organized activities and, more recently, arranged summer camps in such activities. The club has more recently been engaging in activities in collaboration with other science clubs such as the Karachi astronomy club. PSC has also participated in international science events such as the World Science Day for Peace and Development.
PSC is also member of International Federation of Inventors Associations: IFIA.

References

Other websites
Official site
Official YouTube channel
Facebook page
Official Vimeo channel

Organizations based in Asia
Pakistan
Catch It, Bin It, Kill It

"Catch It, Bin It, Kill It" is a campaign slogan used in the United Kingdom. It is used to support having good hygiene. It does this by suggesting people always have tissues to use if they cough or sneeze. In 2007, after evidence that hand hygiene can help against the spread of flu. It was used in many places.

In 2009, the slogan received a lot of attention because the government funded it being used around the nation. This was in response to the 2009 flu pandemic caused by swine flu. They also studied how well the slogan worked. They said it helped promote good hygiene. The Medical Research Council also did a trial to show the slogan helped.

The phrase and poster was used again by PHE in other campaigns. The British government used it during the COVID-19 pandemic.

References 

2009 in the United Kingdom
2020s in the United Kingdom
Healthy lifestyle
COVID-19 pandemic
Teresa Żylis-Gara

Teresa Żylis-Gara (23 January 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Polish operatic soprano. She had a major international career during the 1950s through the 1990s. She was a long-time member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She is known for her roles in operas by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi.

Notes

References

Other websites
 
 Teresa Żylis-Gara (Soprano) Bach Cantatas Website
 

1930 births
2021 deaths
Polish stage actors
Polish singers
European opera singers
Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother is a 2011 American comedy-drama movie directed by Jesse Peretz and starring Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It was released on August 26, 2011. The movie had positive reviews.

References

2011 comedy-drama movies
American comedy-drama movies
Science and Star Wars

Science and Star Wars is a series of videos created by Disney and posted online for educational purposes. The series was published in 2017 and is available to view on YouTube. It focuses on the science and technology of the Star Wars world and analyses them from a scientific perspective. The show is hosted by Anthony Carboni.

References

Other websites
Science and Star Wars on YouTube
Official site

Star Wars
Science
Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard

Saint-Aubin-le-Guichard was a commune in Normandy in the Eure department in north France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune, Mesnil-en-Ouche.

References 

Former communes in France
Communes in Eure
Upland moa

The upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly. It was the last moa species to become extinct.

Description
The upland moa was among the smallest type of moa. It had feathers all over its body except for its beak and the bottom of its feet.

Distribution and Habitat 
The upland moa only lived on New Zealand's South Island. It lived high up in mountains and sub-alpine regions.

Behavior and ecology 
The upland moa was a herbivore. It ate leaves and small twigs. It usually laid only 1 to 2 blue-green coloured eggs. The male moa took care of the baby moas. Its only predator before humans came to New Zealand was the Haast's eagle.

Extinction 
Humans first came to New Zealand from Polynesia around 1250 to 1300 AD. Moas, were an easy source of food for the Māori people and were eventually hunted to extinction in 1500.

References

Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds
Eastern moa

The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.

Description
The Eastern moa was 1.5 to 1.8 metres (4.9–5.9 ft) tall. It could not fly. It had hair-like feathers. It had a long neck and large, powerful legs. It had wide feet.

Distribution and Habitat
The Eastern moa only lived on the South Island. It lived in the forests, grasslands, dunelands, and shrublands). Humans hunted it into extinction. Like almost all moa, it was gone by the year 1500.

References

Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds
Eye of the Needle (movie)

Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy movie directed by Richard Marquand and starring Donald Sutherland,  Kate Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett.

Plot 
The movie is about a deadly German Nazi spy named Henry Faber in the United Kingdom during World War II, who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany and tell Hitler about it, so that Nazi Germany stops the invasion from happening. While waiting for a German U-boat to pick him up and return to Germany with the top secret information, he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland. There he spends time with a young woman named Lucy, her bitter crippled husband David who was an RAF fighter pilot before his car accident and their toddler son Joe. He develops an intimate relationship with Lucy, but her husband is already suspicious of this new stranger.

Cast
 Donald Sutherland as Henry Faber
 Kate Nelligan as Lucy Rose
 Christopher Cazenove as David Rose
 Ian Bannen as Inspector Godliman
 Stephen MacKenna as Lieutenant 
 Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin
 George Belbin as Lucy's Father 
 Faith Brook as Lucy's Mother 
 Barbara Graley as David's Mother 
 Arthur Lovegrove as Peterson 
 Barbara Ewing as Mrs. Garden 
 Patrick Connor as Inspector Harris
 David Hayman as Canter 
 Alex McCrindle as Tom
 John Bennett as Kleinmann
 Sam Kydd as Lock Keeper 
 John Paul as Home Guard Captain
 Bill Nighy as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
 Jonathan and Nicholas Haley (twins) as Joe (David and Lucy's son)
 Allan Surtees as Colonel Terry
 Rik Mayall as sailor on train

Production
The Storm Island scenes were shot over eight weeks on the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. The rest of the movie was shot in Yateley, Surrey, and in London.

Reviews 
The movie got very positive reviews from movie critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of critics gave the movie positive reviews.

References

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1981 movies
British movies
Spy movies
Thriller movies
English-language movies
Movies based on books
World War II movies
Movies set in the 1940s
Movies set in London
Movies set in England
Movies set in Scotland
Movies set in islands
Movies directed by Richard Marquand
Crested moa

The Crested moa (Pachyornis australis) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It was a bird that could not fly.

Description
The crested moa was small. It weighed around 75 kg (165 lb). It crested moa was smaller than the heavy-footed moa.

Distribution and Habitat
The crested moa only lived in the South Island of New Zealand. It lived in high up in sub-alpine forests.

Diet
The crested moa is a herbivore. It eats plants. The only predator it had was the Haast's eagle.

Extinction 
It is thought that the crested moa didn't go extinct because of humans. This is because the crested moa lived in places that were hard to get by humans. It Is thought that animals like cats that humans brought to New Zealand caused the crested moa to go extinct.

References

Birds of New Zealand
Flightless birds
Green Fire

Green Fire is a 1954 American adventure drama movie directed by Andrew Marton and was based on the 1942 memoir of the same name by Peter W. Rainer. It stars Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, John Ericson, Paul Douglas, Murvyn Vye, Rico Alaniz, Nacho Galindo and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Other websites
 
 
 

1954 drama movies
1950s adventure movies
American adventure movies
American drama movies
Movies based on books
MGM movies
Movies directed by Andrew Marton
Kundun

Kundun is a 1997 American Moroccan Monégasque biographical drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tencho Gyalpo, Tenzin Topjar, Tenzin Lodoe, Tsering Lhamo. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures and was nominated for 4 Academy Awards in 1998.

Other websites
 

1997 drama movies
1990s biographical movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
Moroccan movies
Monégasque movies
Movies set in Asia
Movies set in China
Movies directed by Martin Scorsese
Shuki Levy

Yehosua "Shuki" Levy is an Israel-American music composer and television producer. Levy's best known work is soundtrack compositions for childern's television programs of the 1980's, such as Inspector Gadget, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., Dinosaucers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Also in the 1990, he became know chiefly for his project such as Power Rangers franchise, Dragon Ball Z, Digimon series, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, and Big Bad Beetleborgs. He also written and directed nomberous of episodes, for some television shows, and directed a few movies, such as Eye of Doom (1987), Perfect Victims (1988) and Blind Vision (1991). Levy was also part of a musical duo named Shuky & Aviva with his partner Aviva Paz. Levy also partnered/relationship with an actress named Sarah Brown (from General Hospital), with whom he has second daughter, Jordan Levy (born in 1998).

Personal life
In 1977, Levy was married to Miss USA 1970 Deborah Shelton (from the best TV series Dallas), with a first daughter Tamara Shelton (born in 1981).

Other websites
 Shuki Levy Online
 Shuki Levy at IMDb

American composers
Saban Entertainment
1947 births
Living people
Saban Entertainment

Saban Entertainment, Inc. (along with Saban International, currently operating BVS Entertainment, Inc.) was a worldwide-served independent American-Israel television production company formed in 1980 by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy (music and television producers) as "Saban Productions".

The company imported, dubbed, nd adapted several Japanese anime series, such as Mapple Town, Noozies, Funky Fables, Samurai Pizza Cats, and the first three Digimon series to North America and worldwide markets syndication, including both animation and live-action shows. Saban has also adaptaed various tokusatsu shows from Toei Company (by Koichi Sakamoto), featuring Power Rangers series (based on Super Sentai series), Big Bad Beetle Borgs (based on Juukou B-Fighter), VR Troopers (featuring elements of Metal Hero series like Space Sheriff Shaider, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, and Metalder), and Masked Rider (an original interpretation of using scenes from Kamen Rider Black RX).

Saban was involved in the co-production of French/American animated shows, created by Jean Chalopin for DIC Entertainment. Some of these early of 1980s co-productions were Camp Candy, Ulysses 31, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and The Mysterious Cities of Gold (the third of wich is a Japanese co-production).

And Saban has also distributed and provided for TV programs, like The Super Mario Bros. Show!, The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Ball Z and Inspector Gadget.

In 2002, Saban Entertainment was defunct and discontinued.

 
1980 establishments
2002 disestablishments
Defunct companies
Saban Capital Group

Saban Capital Group LLC is an Amercan investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, focused on media, entertainment, and communications investments. Formed in 2010 by Haim Saban, Saban Capital Group owned Saban Films (SF) PART OF Univision Communications and as a part of Celestial Tiger Entrtainment.

Other websites
 Official Website
 Saban Brands Official Website 

Anime companies
Saban Entertainment
Convicted (disambiguation)

One who is convicted has been found guilty of a crime by a court of law.

Convicted can also be:

Psychology 
 Guilt (emotion), an experience induced when a person believes that they have violated moral standards
 Shame, an unpleasant self-conscious emotion associated with a negative evaluation of the self and withdrawal motivations

Film
 The Convicted, a 1927 German silent movie
 Convicted (1931 movie), an American movie directed by Christy Cabanne
 Convicted (1938 movie) a Canadian/US movie with Rita Hayworth
 Convicted (1950 movie), an American film noir directed by Henry Levin
 Convicted (1986 movie), an American television movie starring John Laroquette
 Convicted (2004 movie) or Return to Sender, a movie starring Aidan Quinn and Connie Nielsen

Music
 "Convicted", a song by Darkane from Rusted Angel

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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan  (commonly called  TTP) are a militant Islamist group in Pakistan.  Like the Taliban in Afghanistan they are mostly Pashtun. They have done a number of attacks all over Pakistan. The United States has classified them as a terrorist organisation. While they have a common name with the Taliban in Afghanistan, their ideas are different. They also have a different leadership and their goals are different from those of the Afghan Taliban. 

The TTP want the Pakistani army to withdraw from Waziristan, which it occupied in 2009.

Differences between Afgan Taliban and the TTP 
Many experts think that the common name "Taliban" for both groups is misleading. Fights between the Pakistani army and the TTP have erroneously been reported as the army fighting the Afghan Taliban.

The TTP acts on its own, fighting the Pakistani armed forces;  Pakistan supported the Afghan Taliban in the past.

The Afghan Taliban also do not take part in  the fight of the TTP against the  Pakistani military.

References 

Terrorism
Pakistan
Panjshir resistance

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), also known as the Panjshir resistance and the Second Resistance is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance members and other anti-Taliban fighters who remain loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The group has been known since August 2021 - during the 2021 Taliban offensive.

The group had de facto control over the Panjshir Valley, as of early September 2021; but on September 6, 2021, there was heavy fighting and many deaths on both sides; the Taliban took control of the house that has the governor's office in Bazarak; and the Taliban took control of most of the Panjshir province.

The leaders of the resistance group are the politicians Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh (the vice president in the government that lost power over most of Afghanistan in August 2021).

Massoud escaped to Tajikistan [sometime between September 6 and September 21]; Saleh escaped (by helicopter) a few days after Massoud; The two have not been seen in public, after their escape, said "The Intercept" on September 21; Its sources are "a senior U.S. intelligence official, a Pentagon consultant, and two former senior Afghan government officials".

The name second resistance follows the name of the "first resistance" - a fight between the Northern Alliance (and a few other groups) against the Taliban from 1993 to the early 2000s.

Timeline of the Panjshir conflict

Media said in August, that "There have been messages among" American and British former soldiers and former private security contractors (that had worked in Afghanistan); the messages are saying that Afghans outside the country are "starting to
gather" money for raising [or building] "private forces [...] to fight the Taliban".

As of September 9, researchers at Bellingcat said that intelligence from publicly available sources, shows that the Taliban control territory at least  into the valley. The Taliban has placed the valley under siege, and journalists or goods can not come into the valley; That is why media said that is difficult to know how much control the Taliban have.

One investigative report was published by BBC on 13 September; The report found that the Taliban had executed at least 20 civilians in Panjshir since they went into the valley. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, on the other hand, denied the group had done any human rights violation in the province. Journalists from Agence France-Presse were let into Panjshir on 15 September; They found many villages in the three districts they visited nearly empty; Residents told the journalists that the Taliban had executed 19 civilians between the village of Khenj and Bazarak; Residents also said that civilians were being (stopped or) prevented from escaping the province, so that civilians could be used as human shields during attacks by resistance fighters.

A doctor in Panjshir  told Al Jazeera that all hospitals in the province had been closed or were operating on limited supplies, except for an emergency hospital staffed by Italians.

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Related pages

 List of ongoing armed conflicts

References

War in Afghanistan (since 1978)
List of Chinese painters

This is a list of famous  Chinese painters.

Previous millennium

Mi Fu (d. 1107)
Qi Baishi (d. 1957)

New millenium

Wang Guozhen (d. 2015)
Jao Tsung-I (d. 2018) 

Ho Kan (1932-) 
Gao Xingjian (1940-), Chinese-French writer, painter
Liu Xia (1961-)

References

Lists of painters
2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election

The 2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election took place in the federal voting area of Battlefords—Lloydminster in Saskatchewan. It happened on December 11, 2017. The by-election was called after Conservative MP Gerry Ritz decided he didn't want to be MP anymore.

The seat stayed in control of the Conservatives. Rosemarie Falk won the seat with more votes than the time before.

The by election was held on the same day as 3 others in Canada. These were Bonavista—Burin—Trinity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Scarborough—Agincourt in Ontario and South Surrey—White Rock in British Columbia.

References 

2010s elections in Canada
2017 in North America
Saskatchewan
2017 elections
The Second Game

The Second Game (Romanian: Al doilea joc) is a 2014 Romanian documentary movie directed by and narrated by Corneliu Porumboiu.

Other websites
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2014 movies
Romanian movies
2010s documentary movies
Movies directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Star 80

Star 80 is a 1983 American biographical drama movie directed by Bob Fosse and was adapted from the article Death of a Playmate by Teresa Carpenter. It stars Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees, Stuart Damon, Josh Mostel, David Clennon and was distributed by Warner Bros..

Other websites
 
 

1983 drama movies
1980s biographical movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
Movies directed by Bob Fosse
Turanid race

Turanid race (also Turanoid or South Siberian race) is a word from physical anthropology that no one uses any more.  In the past, anthropologists used this word to talk about people from South Siberia, called the South Siberian race They did this because using old ideas about dividing humans into groups by race could make it look like Europeans colonialism was a good thing.

When anthropologists first used this word, they meant people living in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. In European books, writers called it part of the Caucasian race with some "Mongoloid" mixed in. The form with strongly bronze age Andronovo characteristics is the most ancient form of the Turanid type.

Ethnic connections and subdivision
The Turanid race was said to be connected to Turkic peoples, Mountain Tajiks of Xinjiang (Sarikoli) and the Pamir tribes. Historically, tt was characteristic of the Onogurs, Huns, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Ancient Uyghurs, Avars, Kabars, Khazars, the Volga Bulgars (8th–9th cc.) and was one of the composite elements of the ruling strata of the Hungarians at the time of the conquest. Turanoid skulls dating to the Mesolithic age were also discovered at the archaeological site of Alfalou in North Africa.

In 1952, German anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt subdivided the Turanid type as follows:

Species: Homo sapiens Modern human
Subspecies I: Homines sapientes albi Europids
Series C: Homines s. albi brachimorphi Mountain race belt
Variety 4: H. s. eurasicus Turanid
Subvarieties:
a) H. s. eur. turanicus Aralid
b) H. s. eur. pamiriensis Pamirid

Related pages
Eurasian Avars
Huns
Turkic peoples

References

Leon Cahun L’histoire de l’Asie (1896).
Ilse Schwidetzky, Turaniden-Studien, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur,  F. Steiner Verlag, Mainz, (1950).

Anthropology
Racism
Colonialism
Siberia
Expo 2020

Expo 2020 is an ongoing World Expo that is hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. However, Expo 2020 couldn't work in 2020 because of the Covid-19 Pandemic and so was delayed and postponed it to 1 October 2021 - 31 March 2022. Despite it being postponed, the organizers chose to keep the same name for convenience. There has been 191 countries participating in this event. It is also the first in Expo History to have all the building of the countries that were participating in the event. It also has futuristic pavillions

Expo 2020 Dubai is said to be the largest event taking place in the UAE. It is going to be celebration of human brilliance and accomplishment. Dubai Expo 2020 is a chance for people to connect from different corners of the globe, to experience the best art, culture, science, innovation, and invention, and to set into motion a huge number of new ideas and concepts . With shopping avenues, Dubai is coming up with amazing attractions to enhance tourism, particularly throughout Dubai Expo 2020. For example:

 Deira Islands
 Museum Of The Future
 Al Wasl Plaza
 Aladdin City
 Jewel Of the Creek
 Dubai Frame
 Dubai Water Canal Project

Dubai Opportunity to host Expo. 
Dubai won the bid to host an Expo. Originally there were 4 cities, each from different countries which were

 Sao Paulo in Brazil
 Izmir in Turkey
 Yekaterinburg in Russia
 Dubai in UAE

Sao Paulo lost in the first round, then Izmir in the second round. Finally Yekaterinburg lost to Dubai in holding an Expo.

Dubai 
UAE selected the theme: " Connecting Minds, Creating the Future". The subthemes were Opportunity, Mobility, Sustainability. It was expecting for more than 250,000 jobs and 25 million visitors to spectate the event. Green Chargers will be installed to serve electric vehicles.Talabat, a mobile food ordering app will also be used to serve food.

References 

2020 in Asia
October 2021 events
November 2021 events
Salta tree frog

The Salta tree frog (Boana marianitae) is a frog that lives in Bolivia and Argentina's Salta Province.  It lives in cloud forests.  Scientists have seen it between 700 and 2650 meters above sea level.

References

Frogs
Animals of South America
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)

There was a  civil war  in Afghanistan from from 1989 until 27 April 1992, the day after the proclamation (or announcement of the Peshawar Accords; those accords (or agreement) wrote about a plan, for an Afghan government to start on 28 April 1992.

History

The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ended on 15 February 1989.

In March 1989, the mujahideen groups Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and Ittehad-e Islami attacked Jalalabad. By June, the two groups had lost the battle; the two groups had cooperation from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

President President Najibullah lost power on 16 April 1992.

24–27 April, Militias were fighting each other, to take Kabul.

By 27 April 1992, Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin forces had been pushed south outside Kabul, but new mujahideen groups entered Kabul (Ittehad-e Islami, Hezb-i Wahdat, Harakat), rivalling Jamiat and Junbish. They had divided the city, and they each took a part; the city was still largely undamaged.

Aftermath: The interim Mujaddidi government had little power from the beginning which was 28 April 1992, because rivalling groups fought for total power over Kabul and Afghanistan.

Sources

Other websites
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1028472005/afghanistan-conflict-timeline. NPR

War in Afghanistan (since 1978)
Iajuddin Ahmed

Iajuddin Ahmed (1 February 193110 December 2012) was a President of Bangladesh. He served as president from 6 September 2002 to 12 February 2009.

References

1931 births
2012 deaths
Presidents of Bangladesh
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Bangladeshi Muslims
Coloring book

Coloring book is a book where you can add color using colored pencils, markers or paint. Coloring book contains contour drawings to add a color. Usually these books consist of animated characters. Except the coloring by contour, coloring books have mazes, connect the dots and sometimes include stickers.  
Children's books
Painting
2007-08 UEFA Champions League

The 2007-2008 UEFA Champions league was the 16th season in the UEFA's Premier European football Tournament 

In this tournament Cristiano Ronaldo was the highest goal scorer with 8 goals.

The final was played between both the top premier league clubs Manchester United and Chelsea, won by Manchester united in the penalties by 6-5.
It was also Manchester United's 3rd Champions league title Under Sir Alex Ferguson.

2007 in association football
Haosi Namoinu

Haosi Namoinu is a character of a Meitei folktale. She is the only daughter of Pokmabi Laoshigam Chanu and Senbi Loikenba. She was the apple of their eyes. Her father was a minister of the then Ancient Moirang kingdom, in charge of collecting tributes from the land of Kabo (present day Western Myanmar).

However, after her mother's untimely death, her father remarried with Nganurol Laoshigam Chanu (Loisingam Chanu), the sister of her mother. Spending a few days happily, Senbi Loikenba left for Kabo on the King's errand and during his absence, Haosi Namoinu was harshly treated by her stepmother. She was not allowed to go outside and play with her friends. She had to work as much hard as she could to satisfy her stepmother. Her bliss of household life was much worsened.

Her stepmother ordered her work after work and she completed it with no rest. She was forced to husk the rice, tired as she was, again she had to cook food for them and serve but she uttered no lamentation. Her stepmother's ruthlessness came to the highest degree and she ordered Haosi Namoinu, that if she wanted to join the feast (spring festival), she had to go to the maternal grandparents' house and bring a load of paddy rice (un-husked rice). She did so, but her stepmother was still not satisfied, and struck her head with a cookery utensil. Having being deprived of all youthful delights, the girl transformed herself into a Hari Nongnang (cicada) (or cricket in some version), with her clothes as wings and feathers, and flew away with ravishing tears.

This legendary account is engraved in as one of the two stories in the Khongjomnubi Nongarol.

Related pages
 List of Meitei folktales
 Khongjomnubi Nongarol
 Sandrembi Chaisra
 Uchek Langmeidong

Other websites
 Haosie Namoinu Meiteirol Ariba
 A Human turning Harinongnang

References

Meitei folklore
Meitei literature
Meitei mythology
Heavy-footed moa

The Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.

Description 
The heavy-footed moa was about 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall. It weighed 145 kg (320 lb).

Discovery 
The heavy-footed moa was discovered by W.B.D. Mantell at Awamoa, near Oamaru.

Distribution and Habitat 
The heavy-footed moa only lived in the South Island of New Zealand. They lived in dry and open habitats such as grasslands, shrublands and dry forests.

Diet 
The heavy-footed moa is a herbivore like other types of moa. It eats tough plants. Its only predator was the Haast's eagle.

References

Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand
North Island giant moa

The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.

References

Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand
Havana syndrome

Havana syndrome is a medical episode of signs and symptoms reported by United States and Canadian embassy staff in Cuba which began in November 2016. It has happened in other countries such as in the United States, Austria, and Germany. The phenomenon that began in Havana has been reported by officials and their families stationed in Russia, Poland, Austria, Georgia, Taiwan, Colombia, China, Kyrgyzstan, the United Kingdom, India and Uzbekistan. 

In 2017, President Donald Trump blamed Cuba of causing unknown attacks which led to these symptoms. The U.S. lowered the number of staff at their embassy. In 2018, U.S. diplomats in China said they felt sick the same way diplomats in Cuba felt. The US intel services have not yet reached a consensus on a cause of the Havana syndrome, though unnamed sources have expressed suspicions to the press that Russian military intelligence is responsible.

The people who had the Havana syndrome were hospitalized, with some having brain injuries. While the exact cause of this is unknown, many scientists believe it is caused by a microwave weapons.

References

Medical emergencies
Conspiracy theories
South Island giant moa

The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.

References

Flightless birds
Birds of New Zealand
Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing how a neighborhood looks like by building better buildings, condominiums or tearing down old buildings to make it look better so that wealthier people and businesses can come live in this neighborhood.

Background 
Gentrification means the transformation of a working-class or vacant area of the main part of a city to middle class residential or commercial area. Gentrification often increases the economic value of a neighborhood, but changes the demographic of that neighborhood often causing people who lived in this neighborhood for a long time to leave because of rising prices. Gentrification mainly happens in neighborhoods where there is a large minority population such as African-American or Latinos.

Related pages
 Gentrification of Chicago

References

Urban design
Controversies in the United States
Gentrification of Chicago

The Gentrification of Chicago is a process that has changed the demographic of some neighborhoods in Chicago usually by lowering the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage of white, higher-income residents.

Gentrification has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago. Many people in Chicago believe that gentrification is pushing poorer and mainly minority people out of their longtime neighborhoods.

Factors to measure gentrification in Chicago are changes in the number of residents with bachelor's degrees, median household income, racial makeup, visual looks, and the presence of coffee shops. There have been phases of gentrification in Chicago of various neighborhoods, some of which were in 1990s and in 2007–2009. Gentrification debates in Chicago have been mostly focused around the gentrification of Chicago's historically Latino or black neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are located near the central urban downtown areas and along the east side of the city.
 
Some neighborhoods in the city which has had a large minority population that has been gentrified include: Wicker Park, Humboldt Park, Pilsen, Logan Square, Uptown and the Cabrini–Green Homes in the city's Near North Side.

Related pages
 Gentrification

References

History of Chicago
Cabrini–Green Homes

Cabrini–Green Homes was a public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Francis Cabrini Rowhouses and Extensions were in the Cabrini–Green neighborhood.

Cabrini-Green was home to 15,000 people, mostly living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings. Crime in the area caused poor living conditions for many residents. "Cabrini-Green" became a well known example for problems caused by public housing in the United States. In 1995, CHA began tearing down mid- and high-rise buildings, with the last demolished in 2011. Today, only the original, two-story rowhouses remain.

The area has been rebuilt through the building of high-rises and townhouses, causing it to become a  mixed-income neighborhood.

References

Chicago, Illinois
Lajim Ukin

Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Lajim Ukin (15 June 1955 – 29 August 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Beaufort constituency in Sabah from 2008 to 2013. Ukin was a member of the United Malays National Organisation. Ukin was born in Beaufort, Malaysia.

Ukin died on 29 August 2021 at a hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia of COVID-19, aged 66.

References

1955 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
Malaysian politicians
Yuri Pudyshev

Yuri Alekseyevich Pudyshev (; 3 April 1954 – 29 August 2021) was a Soviet and Belarusian footballer and coach. He was born in Kaliningrad, Russia. He was known for playing with FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Dinamo Minsk. His playing career lasted from 1973 until 2010. His managing career lasted from 1992 until his death.

Pudyshev also played for the national team once at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Pudyshev died on 29 August 2021 at the age of 67.

References

1954 births
2021 deaths
Soviet sportspeople
Belarusian footballers
Football managers