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Portuguese man o' war

The Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) is a Cnidarian invertebrate. It lives in the sea. It is sometimes called the blue bubble, or man-of-war. Its common name comes from a Portuguese war ship of the 15th and 16th century. The ship had triangular sails, similar in shape to the bladder of the man o' war.

The Portuguese Man o' War has a reputation for swarming in groups of thousands. It is also known for its powerful sting.

Structure 
Physalia is not a single animal: it is a siphonophore. This is a colony of four kinds of zooids. Zooids are very small, highly modified individuals. These zooids are specialized polyps and medusoids. Though structurally similar to other cnidarians, the zooids do not live by themselves: they are attached to each other. Each type of zooid does not have some structure and functions. It depends for survival on the others doing what it cannot do by itself.

A similar group of animals are the chondrophores. They are specialized hydroids, which also float at the surface of the open ocean.

Predators 
The loggerhead turtle feeds on the Portuguese man o' war. It is a common part of the turtle's diet. The skin of the turtle is too thick for the man o' war's sting to enter and launch its venom. The sea slug Glaucus atlanticus and the violet snail Janthina janthina also feed on the Portuguese man o' war. The blanket octopus Tremoctopus is immune to the venom of the Portuguese man o' war. The blanket octopus has been known to rip off the man o' war's tentacles and use them for defensive purposes.

Commensalism and symbiosis 
The Portuguese man o' war is often found with many different kinds of marine fish. Some of them are shepherd fish, clown fish, and yellow jack. These species are rarely found anywhere else. The clown fish can swim among the tentacles without being stung. This is possibly due to its mucus that does not trigger the nematocysts. The shepherd fish seems to avoid the larger, stinging tentacles. It feeds on the smaller tentacles under the gas bladder. These fish benefit from the shelter of the stinging tentacles. It also helps the man o' war: the presence of these species may attract other fish to feed on.

References 

Cnidarians
Sleep apnea

Sleep apnea (or Sleep apnoea) is a problem certain people have: When they sleep, they may stop breathing for short periods. These periods can last for 10 seconds or more. 3-4 breaths are missed. As a result of this, those affected are often tired during the day. Mainly because such people also tend to have microsleep, they should not drive vehicles. Sleep apnea is a treatable disease. 

Sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat relax too much to allow normal breathing. These muscles support structures including the back of the roof of the mouth (soft palate), the triangular piece of tissue hanging from the soft palate (uvula), the tonsils, and the tongue.

When the muscles relax, the airway narrows or closes when breathe in, hampering the breathing for 10 seconds or longer. This can lower the level of oxygen in the blood and cause a buildup of carbon dioxide.

Signs and symptoms
Loud snoring
Lowering of concentration
Morning headache
Difficulty concentrating during the day
Mood changes, such as depression or irritability
High blood pressure
Decreased libido
Observed episodes of stopped breathing during sleep
Abrupt awakenings accompanied by gasping or choking
Awakening with a dry mouth or sore throat

Finding out if someone has sleep apnea
People can ask their partner or family member if they are breathing strangely when they are sleeping.

Treatment

In case the patient is obese, losing weight improves sleep apnea.
Fixing the environment where they sleep
Continuous positive airway pressure(CPAP)
Expiratory positive airway pressure(EPAP)
Circular breathing technique (It makes muscle of the upper airway stronger, so airway remains opening when sleeping. Playing didgeridoo is good for learning this technique.

Complication
Diseases which may complicate sleep apnea are: obesity, high blood pressure, hyperlipidaemia, arrhythmia, polyemia, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes etc.

Sleep apnea is a risk factor of arteriosclerotic disease.

Effects
Intolerable sleepiness of daytime 
Depression
Less concentration 
Loud snoring 
Night frequent urination 
Headache when waking up 
When there are no house mates, it may take time to discover this condition. When especially subjective symptoms are weak, the state will get worse gradually and it will start a serious problem.

Other websites
JOURNAL about sleep apnea

References

Sleep
Health problems
Microsleep

Microsleep is a very short sleep that occurs when people are awake. It can last from under a second to about 30 seconds. It may happen as a result of sleep deprivation, fatigue, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or hypersomnia.  Microsleeps can occur at any time. Most of the time, they do so without warning. When people have a microsleep during conversation, they may lose track of the subject that was talked about. 

Microsleep can be extremely dangerous in situations when people drive a car, work on a machine or otherwise need to stay alert.  People with  microsleeps usually are not aware of them. They instead believe that they were awake all the time.  One example is called "gap driving":  a person is driving a car and suddenly realizes that several seconds have passed by unnoticed.  The driver does not feel that she or he has been asleep during those missing seconds, although this is in fact what happened.  The sleeping driver is at very high risk for having an accident during microsleep.  

Many accidents and catastrophes have resulted from microsleep episodes in these circumstances.  For example, a microsleep episode is claimed to have been one factor contributing to the Waterfall train disaster in 2003; the driver had a heart attack and the guard who should have reacted to the train's increasing speed is said by his defender to have microslept.

References

Sleep

sv:Sömn#Mikrosömn
Ajaz Anwar

Ajaz Anwar is a Pakistani painter. He was born in 1946. He has a PhD. He is currently a professor at the National College of Fine Arts in Lahore. He paints in watercolour. Many of his paintings feature Lahore.

He received the president’s Pride of Performance award in 1997.

References

Pakistani painters
1946 births
Living people
Lilo Pelekai

Lilo Pelekai (first name  LEE-lo, last name Peh-leh-kai) is one of the two characters of the Disney animated movie Lilo & Stitch, its sequels, and the animated series. Lilo  (literally, "lost" in Hawaiian, and also in Mandarin). Lilo is a young Hawaiian girl who lives on the island of Kauai with her older sister Nani and her new family of alien visitors that live on Earth.

References 

Animated characters
Disney characters
Fictional characters introduced in 2002
Lilo & Stitch
Thyreophora

Thyreophora is a suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. They were the armoured dinosaurs: the name means 'shield-bearer'. They are divided into these groups:
Various early bipedal herbivores, lightly armoured: Scutellosaurus, Scelidosaurus.
 Ankylosauria
Ankylosaurids: armoured from their head to their club-ended tail.
Nodosaurids: no tail club but spikes and bony bumps on body.
 Stegosauria
Stegosaurids: small heads and vertical plates and spines on body and tail. Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous.
Huayangosaurids: early group from Middle Jurassic of China.

Acanthopholis was 15 feet long, walked on four legs, lived in the Lower Cretaceous). Its armour consists of many oval plates that go from its neck to its tail. That lived 100 million yeas ago. The name 'spiny scales' refers to its armour.
Knobbed whelk

The knobbed whelk (Busycon carica) is a gastropod mollusc which is protected by a thick, hard shell. It is large predatory sea snail, or whelk. 

This mollusc is found in shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of North America from Massachusetts to northern Florida.

This whelk has a spiral shell with knobs (or spines) along its shoulder. The shell is up to 9.5 inches (24 cm) long. The shell is light gray to tan, and often has brown and white streaks.

On the shallow-water mud flats whelks prey on oysters, clams, and other marine bivalves. They wedge the bivalve open using the edge of their shell. Then they squeeze in their  radula. This is a rough tongue-like organ that has thousands of tiny denticles (tooth-like protrusions).

Gastropods
Shasta County

Shasta County is a county in northern California, in the United States. It is in the Sacramento Valley part of the Central Valley of California. 163,256 people live there. The county seat, as well as the biggest city, is Redding. One major attraction in the county is Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake, one of the biggest dams in the state of California.

References
County of Shasta Website

1850 establishments in California
Tehama County, California

Tehama County is one of the counties of the U.S. state of California. It is just south of Shasta County, in the Sacramento Valley part of the Central Valley of California. The county is 2,962 square miles (7,672 square kilometers) in size.  Its county seat is Red Bluff.

Other websites
Tehama County official website 

 
1856 establishments in California
Glenn County, California

Glenn County is a county found in the Central Valley, in north California, which is a state in the United States.

As of 2000, the county had a population of 26,453.  The county seat is the city of Willows.

 
1891 establishments in California
Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston)

Wells Fargo Plaza is a skyscraper in Houston, United States.  It is 302 meters (992 feet) tall. It has 71 floors.  It was built in 1983. It is one of the tallest buildings in the United States.

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in the United States
 List of tallest buildings in the world

Sources

Other websites
 Official Website - Wells Fargo Plaza
 Emporis.com - Wells Fargo Plaza
 SkycraperPage.com – Wells Fargo Plaza

Buildings and structures in Houston, Texas
Skyscrapers in the United States
1983 establishments in the United States
1980s establishments in Texas
Comcast Center

Comcast Center is a skyscraper in Philadelphia, United States.  It is 297 meters (974 feet) tall and has 57 floors.  It was built in 2008 and is one of the tallest buildings in the United States.

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in the United States
 List of tallest buildings in the world

Other websites
 Emporis.com - Comcast Center
 SkycraperPage.com – Comcast Center

Skyscrapers in the United States
Buildings and structures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HCJB

HCJB (Heralding Christ Jesus' Blessings) is a Christian shortwave radio station in Quito, Ecuador. It has been broadcasting on shortwave for more than 75 years and now also has television, satellite and Internet programs.

References

Other websites
http://www.hcjb.org/

Radio stations
Quito
Media studies

Media studies is an academic area of study about mass media and its history and effects. It mostly focuses on newspapers, radio, television, and internet. Media studies take some ideas from other areas of study, such as humanities and the social sciences.

Most production and journalism courses use media studies content, but academic institutions such as universities often start separate departments. Media studies students may see themselves as observers of media, not creators or practitioners. These distinctions are different depending on the country where students live.

The development of media studies was sparked by the growth of new media in the post-Second World War period. A typical source was Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. This book set out to connect changes in media with changes in society. His most famour phrase was "The medium is the message".

References

Other websites 

 Media Studies. Discuss - BBC News, 18 August 2005. 

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Humanities
Social sciences
Interdisciplinary fields
Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is a national park in the state of California, U.S.A.. Created on 1 October 1890, it was the second national park, after Yellowstone. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Yosemite covers 1,189 square miles (3,081 square kilometers) on the Sierra Nevada.

Over 3.5 million people visit the park each year. Despite the park's great size, most people spend time in Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places in the park. Almost 95 percent of the park is wilderness. Yosemite has many waterfalls. The most famous of these is the world-famous Yosemite Falls, which at  tall, is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world.

In the northern area of the park lies the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a debated dam project. The reservoir floods.  Many people supporting environmentalism are trying to get the dam removed.

The eighth major operating system of OS X by Apple Inc. is named after the Yosemite National Park, called OS X Yosemite.

Gallery

Related pages 
List of World Heritage Sites in the United States

References

Other websites

1890s establishments in California
1890 establishments in the United States
National parks in the United States
World Heritage Sites in the United States
Wilderness Areas of the United States
Geography of California
Madera County, California
Mariposa County, California
Tuolumne County, California
Hurricane Bonnie (1998)

Hurricane Bonnie was a strong Atlantic tropical cyclone in late August 1998. The storm was a major hurricane with winds near .

Bonnie made landfall near Wilmington and Cape Fear, North Carolina as a strong Category 2 hurricane early on August 27. The storm also caused damage in southeastern Virginia.

The storm killed five people, two directly.

Damage from the storm was near $1 billion.

References

Hurricanes in the United States
1998 in the United States
August events
1990s in North Carolina
20th century in Virginia
Tropical Storm Frances (1998)

Tropical Storm Frances caused extensive flooding in Mexico and Texas in September 1998. The sixth tropical cyclone and sixth named storm of the annual hurricane season, Frances developed from a low pressure area in the Gulf of Mexico on September 8



Weather
Natural disasters in North America
Hurricane Georges

Hurricane Georges caused much damage and many deaths in on the norther Caribbean islands and the Gulf Coast of the United States. Even though it was very strong, caused a lot of damage and many deaths, it was not the strongest, costliest, or deadliest of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, that would be Hurricane Mitch later on. Hurricane Georges crossed some islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and  Cuba, before it made landfall in Mississippi. Georges killed 604 people and caused $5.9 billion in damage, much of it from high winds and severe flooding.  

Hurricanes in the United States
1998 in Florida
20th century in Puerto Rico
1990s in the Dominican Republic
20th centuy in Haiti
20th century in Cuba
20th century in Mississippi
1990s in Alabama
20th century in Louisiana
Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (December 1, 1896 – June 18, 1974) was a Soviet general during World War II. He first became famous for stopping a Japanese invasion in Mongolia. During Operation Barbarossa, he arrived in Moscow with his army in just enough time to defend the city.

Later in the war he led Soviet forces to victory at the  Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk, broke the Siege of Leningrad, destroyed the German center in the 1944 summer offensive called Operation Bagration, invaded Germany and led the Battle of Berlin.

He was 4 times Hero of the Soviet Union and had many more medals. After Stalin died he became Minister of Defense.

Other websites
Georgy Zhukov - Encyc 

1896 births
1974 deaths
Military personnel of World War I
Russian military people
Soviet generals
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Soviet politicians
Miacis

Miacis is a small extinct carnivore of the family Miacidae. They were small mammals which lived in forests and climbed trees. They had the ancestral mammalian of about 30-45 teeth. Miacis  had brains that were relatively larger than those of the creodonts, and the larger brain size compared to body size suggests their behaviour was more flexible and possibly more intelligent.

Miacids are either early members of the order Carnivora or in a larger group called the Carnivoramorpha. They may not be monophyletic. One professional opinion is that most Miacis species belong to the ancestors of the modern order, the crown-group Carnivora.

The miacids lived 50 to 60 million years ago and was a small omnivorous predator that preyed on smaller animals, such as small mammals, reptiles, and birds, and might have also have eaten eggs and fruits.

References 

Fossils
Carnivora
Butte County, California

Butte County is a county in the state of California. It is in the United States. The county borders Tehama County to the north and Glenn County to the west. It is in the north part of the Central Valley of California. Butte County was founded in 1850.

Its county seat is Oroville, and its biggest city is Chico. The county has a land area of 1,677 square miles (4,343 square kilometers), 38 square miles (98 square kilometers) of which is water. The Sacramento River flows along it in a north-south direction and the Feather River flows through it in an east-west direction. The Sierra Nevada mountains rise above the county on the east side.

California State Route 32, California State Route 70, and California State Route 99 run through the county. Airports in the county include Chico Municipal Airport, Oroville Municipal Airport, Paradise Airport, Ranchaero Airport and Richvale Airport.

Other websites 
 Butte County Official Website

 
1850 establishments in California
California State Route 99

State Route 99 (commonly known as Old Highway 99 or just 99, also named in the future as Interstate 7 or Interstate 9) is a state highway in California, in the United States. It is about  long, running from north to south in the Central Valley. It is parallel with Interstate 5. It begins at Interstate 5 near Wheeler Ridge, and continues north through the major cities of Bakersfield, Fresno, Chowchilla, Modesto, Stockon, Sacramento, Chico, and Red Bluff. Most of it is freeway, but some of it is still the historic rural two-lane road or a four-lane highway.

References

 California Highways: Route 99

Roads in California
Central Valley of California
1929 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in California
Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan  (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish-American actor. Brosnan holds both Irish and American citizenship. He was born in Drogheda, County Louth. He used to play the part of James Bond. He played the roles of Mr. Brunner and Chiron in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Stu Dunmeyer in Mrs. Doubtfire, and was in Mamma Mia!. He will play Doctor Fate in the 2022 DC Extended Universe movie Black Adam.

References

Other websites 

1953 births
Living people
Actors who played James Bond
American environmentalists
American movie actors
American movie producers
American stage actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Honorary Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Irish movie actors
Irish stage actors
Irish television actors
Irish voice actors
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from County Louth
Daniel Craig

Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English television and movie actor and movie producer. He was born in Chester, Cheshire, England. He is the latest actor to play James Bond.

Craig is married to actress Rachel Weisz.   He has a daughter Ella by his first wife, Fiona Loudon.  In 2006 he joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

On 12 June 2008, Craig sliced the top of one of his fingers off while filming Quantum of Solace. 

In September 2015, Craig donated $47,000 to the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.

Filmography

Movies and television

Video games

References

1968 births
Living people
Actors from Cheshire
Actors who played James Bond
English movie actors
English movie producers
English television actors
English voice actors
People from Chester
Bose–Einstein condensate

Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is what happens to a dilute gas when it is made very cold, near absolute zero (0 K which equals −273.15 °C or −459.67 °F). It forms when the particles that make it up have very low energy. Only bosons can make a Bose–Einstein condensate. The gas has extremely low density, about one-hundred-thousandth the density of normal air.

A Bose–Einstein condensate is a change of state. When matter is in the BEC state it has zero viscosity. Superfluidity and  superconductivity are both closely connected with the BEC state of matter.

Theory 
Particles have energy. They can have a lot of energy and bounce wildly like in gases; have less energy and flow like a liquid; or have even less energy like a solid. If you take enough of the particle's energy away you get to the tiniest or the smallest amount of energy possible. This is a Bose–Einstein condensate. This makes all of the particles exactly the same and instead of bouncing around randomly in all different directions, they all bounce up and down in exactly the same way, forming something called a 'giant matter wave'.

History 
The Bose-Einstein Condensate was first suggested by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924–25. Seventy years later, its existence was proved. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman made the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 at the University of Colorado. Cornell, Wieman,and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT were then given the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Experiments 
Usually, to get anything cold enough to make a Bose–Einstein condensate you must first trap the boson using magnets, then, by bouncing lasers off them, take all of their energy away (Laser cooling). But, this still doesn't get it cold enough. Some of the particles will still be bouncing around a lot, and only some will be lying down as needed, so the magnetic field is slowly lowered bit by bit, to let the faster bouncing particles out. This leaves the coldest and slowest atoms inside.

References 

Quantum mechanics
States of matter
Coatbridge

Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Today the town is a working class town near to Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. The town has also been described as "uniquely populated largely by people of Irish descent", meaning that there are many people from Irish families.

References 

Towns in North Lanarkshire
Formia

Formia is a city of the province of Latina, near Lazio (Italy).

Twin towns
 Ferrara, Italy
 Fleury-les-Aubrais, France, since 2004 
 Gracanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Haninge, Sweden
 Santeramo in Colle, Italy

References 

Cities in Lazio
Fleury-les-Aubrais

Fleury-les-Aubrais is a commune of the Loiret department in the northern part of France.

Other websites
 Official website 

Fleurylesaubrais
California Aqueduct

The California Aqueduct is a system of aqueducts in the Central Valley in California, in the United States. It carries water from the Cascade Range about  to southern California. Three major  reservoirs are on the aqueduct: Bethany, Castaic, and Silverwood.

Central Valley of California
Water infrastructure
Aqueduct

An aqueduct is a man-made channel that carries water from one place to another. Usually, they are used to supply water to cities and towns. They may also carry water for irrigation, or for hydroelectricity. Pipes, canals, tunnels, and bridges that serve this purpose are all called aqueducts. Some aqueducts carry a canal for boats and ships. The word “aqueduct” comes from the Latin words “aqua” (water) and “ducere” (to lead). Aqueducts have been used since ancient times.

List of major aqueducts

Ancient Greek aqueducts 
 The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek island of Samos.

Roman aqueducts 

 The Pont du Gard in southern France
 Barbegal aqueduct, France
 Eifel aqueduct, Germany
 Caesarea Maritima, Israel
 Kavala, Greece
 Patras, Greece
 Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain
 Acueducto de los Milagros, Mérida, Spain
 Tarragona, Spain
 Almuñécar, Spain (5 aqueducts - 4 still in use)
 Valens aqueduct, Istanbul, Turkey
 Aqua Augusta, Italy
 Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus, as part of the Porta Maggiore, Rome, Italy
 Skopje aqueduct, Skopje, North Macedonia

Other aqueducts 

 Wignacourt Aqueduct, Malta. Built in the 16th century to transport water from the old capital city of Malta, Mdina to the new capital city Valletta. Today, only part is visible in the localities of Balzan, Birkirkara and Santa Venera.
 Aqueduct St-Clément, Montpellier, France - 17th century
 Águas Livres Aqueduct, in Lisbon, Portugal (built 1731-1748)
 Carioca aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (built 1744-1750)
 Aqueduct of Teruel, Spain
 Roquefavour aqueduct, France - built between 1842 and 1847
 Winnipeg aqueduct, Manitoba, Canada - built between 1915 and 1919
 Canal de l'aqueduc, Quebec, Canada
 Päijänne water Tunnel, a 120 kilometer long underground aqueduct (continuous tunnel) connecting lake Päijänne to Greater Helsinki.
 Wan Mat Saman aqueduct, Kedah, Malaysia - built between 1900 and 1909

 Mathur aqueduct in Tamil Nadu state, India
 Surviving Spanish aqueducts in Mexico:
 Aqueduct of Querétaro, Mexico - built between 1726 and 1738, 1.3 km long and featuring 74 arches.
 Aqueduct of Morelia, Michoacan, built between 1735 and 1738.
 Aqueduct of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, built in 1528  .
 Levadas,  of 17th century aqueducts on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
 Espada aqueduct, built 1735, in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
 Quabbin aqueduct,  long tunnel, in Massachusetts, United States.
 Chicopee Valley aqueduct,  long, in Massachusetts, United States.

 Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
 California aqueduct, a 714 mile long combination of canals, pipelines and tunnels, in the Central Valley of the United States.
 Delaware aqueduct, in New York State, United States - at 85 miles (137 km) long, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel.
 High Bridge, part of the former Croton Aqueduct, built in 1848, is the oldest surviving bridge in New York City.

References 

Water infrastructure
Orange County, California

Orange County (established 1889) is one of the counties of California, in the United States. It is in southern California, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Its county seat and largest city is Santa Ana. 

The county has 3,121,251 people, spread across just 948 square miles (2,455 square kilometers). It is the third most populous county in California. The west-flowing Santa Ana River divides the county into north and south parts. On the north, the San Gabriel River forms its border with Los Angeles County. Some other big cities include Anaheim, Orange, Huntington Beach, Fullerton and Irvine. The county is mostly residential.

The highest average income in Orange County is $203,091, in the city of Villa Park. Some famous attractions, such as Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm, are in Orange County. The tallest building in Orange County is the 37-story One Broadway Plaza, an unfinished building in Santa Ana. It will be  tall when it is completed.

References 

Orange County’s Changing Politics – slideshow by The New York Times
Orange County, California  on National Association Of Counties
Filming Locations in Orange County 

1889 establishments in the United States
 
1880s establishments in California
České Budějovice

České Budějovice ( or ) is a town in the Czech Republic. About 96,000 people live there (2009). It is located in the South of the historical region Bohemia. The popular Czech beer, Budweiser Budvar, is made there.

The city is also one of the major settings in the novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek.

Twin towns - Sister cities

České Budějovice is twinned with:

 Linz
 Passau
 Suhl
 Lorient
 Nitra
 Gomel
 Almere

Other websites 

 České Budějovice webpage
 Virtual show

Cities in the Czech Republic
Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary (German: Karlsbad) is a city in the Czech Republic. As of 2015, about 50,000 people were living there. It is located in the west of the historical region of Bohemia. It is popular for its spa.

The city was in Austria-Hungary, and the people who lived there were mainly German-speaking. Bohemia was transferred to the new state of Czechoslovakia after World War I. The existence of such German-speaking peoples outside of Germany was used by Hitler as a reason to invade the Sudetenland (the German-speaking part of Bohemia and Moravia), which Germany did in 1938. This was a result of the Munich Agreement. This event was a prelude to World War II.

Other websites 

 Karlovy Vary webpage

Spa towns in the Czech Republic
Cities in the Czech Republic
Dracophyllum

Dracophyllum is a genus of shrubs or trees in the family Ericaceae. This genus is very close with genus Richea.

This plants grow in Australia and Oceania; many species grows in mountains. The number of species is more than 60.

The common English name of dracophyllum is the grass tree.

It is evergreen plants with the long leaves in the form of snakes. Flowers are small; its color is white, white-yellow or white-red.

It may be an interest plant for gardens. Fruits of some species are edible.

Other websites 

 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Dracophyllum 
 NCBI: Dracophyllum
 Flora of New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua — Landcare Research Databases
 Tropicos.org

Ericaceae
Dragonball Evolution

Dragonball Evolution is a low budget 2009 American live-action movie based on the Dragon Ball franchise being made by 20th Century Fox. The story follows the adventures of the lead character, Son Goku, around his 18th birthday. The movie began being made in 2002, and is directed，produced and written by James Wong. It was first released in Japan and several other Asian nations on March 13, 2009, and later released in the United States on April 10, 2009.

Justin Chatwin was cast as Goku, and James Marsters is Lord Piccolo, the antagonist of the movie. A video game of the movie, with the same name, will be released in March/April for the PSP.

Reception
Since its release, Dragonball Evolution was universally being rated and commented as the most poor manga adoption ever. On Rotten Tomatoes it scored 15% based on 55 reviews, while on Metacritic it received a rating of 45 out of 100 based on 10 reviews.

The original creator Akira Toriyama felt surprised of this live-action film and suggested to treated it as a different work form his manga.

References

Other websites 
 Official website 
 Official Fox Japan Dragonball Evolution site  
 
 

2009 movies
Chinese movies
American action movies
20th Century Fox movies
2000s apocalyptic movies
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a brave young mongoose.  

The story is a favourite of Kipling fans and is notable for its scary and serious tone.  It has often been added to literary collections and has also been published more than once as a short book in its own right.  The story was also adapted into an animated TV special by American animator Chuck Jones in 1975.

British short stories
5335 Damocles

5335 Damocles is the main asteroid of the Damocloids, asteroids that are inactive comets of the Halley Family and long period comets. It was found in 1991 and named after Damocles, a figure of Greek mythology. 

When Damocles was found, in 1991 by Robert H. McNaught, it was found to be on an orbit that was very different from all others known. Damocles' orbit reached from inside the aphelion (farthest approach from the Sun) of Mars to as far as Uranus. Its orbit seemed to be changing from an almost round outer solar system orbit to a stretched orbit taking it to the inner solar system. Duncan Steel, Gerhard Hahn, Mark Bailey, and David Asher found out what's it's future could be, and found a good chance that it will become an Earth-crosser asteroid, and may spend a quarter of its life in such an orbit. Damocles has a stable orbit for tens of thousands of years before and after the present, because its highly tilted orbit does not take it near Jupiter or Saturn.

The adjective for Damocles is Damoclean, .

It is the namesake for the damocloids

Notes

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Colusa County, California

Colusa County is a county in the U.S. state of California. It is by the Sacramento River, in the north part of the Central Valley. Its county seat is Colusa. It has 18,804 people. It covers about .

1850 establishments in California
San Gabriel River

The San Gabriel River is a river in Los Angeles and Orange counties in the state of California. It is about  long. It begins in the San Gabriel Mountains and flows southwest into the Los Angeles Basin, then flows into the Pacific Ocean near Long Beach and Seal Beach. Like the Los Angeles River, it is heavily polluted and is lined with concrete in many places.

Nearby rivers

North along coast
Los Angeles River

South along coast
Santa Ana River

Rivers of Los Angeles County, California
Orange County, California
Fantasia (movie)

Fantasia is the third animated movie produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was first released on February 29, 1940. It was originally released by itself instead of RKO Pictures, which was the distributor of Disney from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, until Peter Pan.

Fantasia contains eight classical music pieces. One of them is from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. It tells the story of life on Earth until the extinction of the dinosaurs. Another famous work that appears in the movie is Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ. 

A sequel to this movie, Fantasia 2000, was released in 1999.

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Santa Ana River

The Santa Ana River is a major river in southern California, in the United States. It begins in San Bernardino County and flows west about  to the Pacific Ocean, through Riverside and Orange counties. It has a watershed of 2,650 square miles (6,863 square kilometers). Its biggest tributaries include Lytle, Temescal, and Santiago Creeks. Like the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers to the north, it is lined with concrete in many places. A notable feature on the river is the Seven Oaks Dam, which, at  tall, is the 6th tallest dam in the United States.

Nearby rivers

North along coast
San Gabriel River

South along coast
San Diego Creek

References
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OC Watershed 

Rivers of Los Angeles County, California
San Bernardino County, California
Riverside County, California
Orange County, California
Aliso Creek

Aliso Creek is a small river in Orange County, California, in the United States. From its source in the Santa Ana Mountains to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean, it is about  long. Its watershed is about 30.4 square miles (79 square kilometers) in size. The name comes from the Spanish word "aliso", meaning alder. Six tributaries join it along its length, which are Wood Canyon Creek, Sulphur Creek, the Dairy Fork, Aliso Hills Channel, Munger Creek and English Canyon.

The creek is heavily polluted. Urban runoff from streets in cities around the creek flow into it, contributing to an increased year-round flow and excessive pollution. To this day, the creek is still a big problem in terms of pollution at its mouth, the popular Aliso Creek Beach.

Nearby rivers

North along coast
San Diego Creek

South along coast
San Juan Creek

References

Rivers of California
Orange County, California
San Juan Creek

San Juan Creek is a small river in Orange County, California. It is about  long. Its watershed occupies 133.9 square miles (357 square kilometers). It begins in the Santa Ana Mountains, and ends, after a journey winding west and south, in the Pacific Ocean in Dana Point.

Its biggest tributary, Trabuco Creek or Arroyo Trabuco, is about  long, flowing south from the Santa Ana Mountains into San Juan Creek. Oso Creek is a smaller tributary to Trabuco Creek, but has a lot of water in it the entire year. Many people say they found a dead bear on the Oso Creek.

Nearby rivers

North along coast
Aliso Creek

South along coast
Santa Margarita River

References

Rivers of California
Orange County, California
Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a large city in the state of California, in the United States. It the county seat of Kern County, in the southern part of the Central Valley. In the 2010 census, 347,483 people lived there. Bakersfield is the 11th largest city in California, the 3rd largest inland city in California, and the 57th largest in the United States. It is also the 2nd largest in the United States that is not directly connected to an interstate. Agriculture, petroleum processing, and manufacturing are the main economy of the city. 

State Route 99, State Route 58, and State Route 178 run through or pass by the city. One major rail station, Bakersfield Station, is in the city. Meadows Field Airport is the airport that serves Bakersfield, and the rest of Kern County.

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Windows Mail

Windows Mail is an email client included with Windows Vista. It will not be included with any future releases of Windows because of the new Windows Live Mail. It replaced the popular Microsoft Outlook Express email client that was included in Windows 98, ME, 2000 & XP. Unlike Outlook Express, Windows Mail is not included with Windows Internet Explorer.

Microsoft software
E-mail
Chord progression

A chord progression is a part of music, made up of several chords played one after another. Chord progressions are important for people who write songs or play musical instruments that can play chords, such as the guitar. Chord progressions are used in many types of music. How a piece of music sounds has to do with its chord progression.

Relation to the circle of fifths
The circle of fifths is an idea in music theory that has to do with keys. It also has to do with chord progressions. If you have a song with the chord progression G, C, D, you can see those chords are right next to each other in the circle. So if you want to play the same song in a different key, you can use any other three chords right next to each other. This works for any chord progression.

Common chord progressions

One of the most used chord progressions is based on the first, fourth and fifth notes of a major scale. In the key of C, these are the C, F, and G chords. This progression is used in many simple songs. Since these songs have only three chords, they are sometimes called three-chord songs. Many country, blues, rock, pop and punk songs are three-chord songs.

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Twelvers

Twelvers, or Twelver Shia's (Arabic: اثنا عشرية ‎شيعة) are Shia Muslims that believe that God appointed twelve guides after Prophet Muhammad. These are:

 Ali ibn abi Talib (Ameerul Mu'mineen)
 Hasan ibn Ali (al-Mujtabaa)
 Husayn ibn Ali (ash-Shaheed)
 Ali ibn Husayn (Zaynul Aabideen)
 Muhammad al-Baqir
 Jafar as-Sadiq
 Musa al-Kadhim
 Ali ar-Ridha
 Muhammad at-Taqi, al-Jawaad
 Ali al-Haadi, an-Naqi
 Hasan al-Askari
 Muhammad al-Mahdi

About 85% of Shia Muslims are Twelvers. Most of them can be found in Iran (90%), Iraq (65%), Azerbaijan (85%), Lebanon (35%), Kuwait (35%), Saudi Arabia (10-15%), and Bahrain (80%). There are large minorities in Pakistan (20%) and Afghanistan (18%).

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Islamic denominations

ur:اہل تشیع#اثنا عشری
Interstate 91

Interstate 91 is an interstate on the East Coast of the United States. It is  long. Its south end is at New Haven, Connecticut, and its north end is at Derby Line, Vermont; near the Canadian border. The interstate follows the Connecticut River for much of its length.

List of intersections and exits

Connecticut

Massachusetts

Vermont

References

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Connecticut River

The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, which is a region in the eastern United States. It is about  long, with a watershed covering about 11,250 square miles (29,137 square kilometers). Every second, it pours about 19,600 cubic feet (560 cubic meters) per second into its mouth at Long Island Sound, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The river flows through the U.S. states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Interstate 91 parallels the river for a notably long distance.

The largest city on the Connecticut River is Springfield, Massachusetts. The second largest city is Hartford, Connecticut, the state capital of Connecticut. The two great cities are only 23.9 miles apart (38.5 km.)

Tributaries 

CT denotes Connecticut, VT Vermont, NH New Hampshire, and MA Massachusetts.

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Postage stamp block

In philately, a postage stamp block is a group of postage stamps attached to each other. Collectors may prefer gathering a complete block rather than separate postage stamps.

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Great Basin

The Great Basin is a desert area in the western United States of America, part of the Basin and Range Province. It is very dry and very large, occupying most of the state of Nevada and extending into California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and a small part of Wyoming. In all, is about 200,000 square miles (520,000 square kilometers) in size. It is an 'endorheic' basin, which means that there is no outlet to the ocean. The Great Basin runs from the highest land in the Sierras and Rockies in the west, down to lowland deserts in the east.

The Great Basin's longest and largest river is the Bear River of , and the largest single watershed is the Humboldt River drainage of roughly . 

Most Great Basin precipitation is snow. The water that neither evaporates nor is taken for human use will sink into groundwater aquifers. Evaporation occurs from geographic sinks. 

Lake Tahoe, North America's largest alpine lake, is part of the Great Basin's central Lahontan subregion.

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Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea is a genus of flowering plants.it is often grown as gardening plant in warm climate. Bougainvilleas first came from South America. They are climbing plants grown for decoration in tropical countries, and in the southern United States.it is Grenada's national flower. Farther north, the plants are grown in greenhouses. The bougainvillea is named for the French navigator Louis-Autoine de Bougainville.

Description 
Bougainvillea, a tropical vine known for the beauty of the large, colorful bracts (modified leaves) which surround its flowers. The flowers are small and plain. The bracts may be magenta, purple, yellow, or crimson, and are one inch (2.5 cm) or more long. One common type of bougainvillea has a climbing stem that sometimes reaches a length of 100 feet (30 m).it's has a nickname the "paper flower " due to it's to thin and papery bracts. 

Caryophyllales
North Region of Brazil

The North Region of Brazil () is one of the five geographical subdivisions of Brazil. It is the largest region, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory but is the least inhabited region of the country and the lowest population density.

Geography 
The North Region has an area of . In this region are the two largest Brazilian states: Amazonas and Pará, and also the three largest Brazilian municipalities: Altamira, Barcelos and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, with more of  each one.

The region is between the Guiana Shield (to the north), the central plateau of Brazil (to the south), the Andes mountain range (to the west) and the Atlantic Ocean (to the northeast). The climate in the region is a tropical climate. Most of the region is part of the Amazon rainforest ecoregion but most of the Tocantins state is in a tropical savanna ecoregion known as the Cerrado.

The North Region borders to the south with the Mato Grosso and Goiás states; to the southwest with Bolivia; to the west with Peru and Colombia; to the north with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana; and to the east with the Maranhão, Piauí and Bahia states.

The main regions rivers in the region are the Amazon, the Tocantins and the Araguaia; they have many tributaries.

Mountains
The highest point in the North Region is Pico da Neblina () at . Pico da Neblina is the highest summit of the larger Serra do Imeri, a plateau on the Venezuela-Brazil border; it is also the highest mountain in Brazil.

The highest point of the different states of the North Region are:

States 
This region is formed of seven states: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins.

Population 
, the North region had a population of 17,707,783, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

The most important municipalities of the North Region are:

Economy
The economy of the North Region is essentially based on the plantations and the use of natural resources, such as latex, açaí, woods and nuts; and mineral extraction of gold, cassiterite and tin (metal); as well as mining exploitation, mainly iron in Pará and manganese in Amapá.

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Regions of Brazil
Northeast India

Northeast India (officially North Eastern Region, NER) refers to the easternmost region of the Republic of India. When India became independent, it was split into the states that are now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Northeast India lies to the east of Bangladesh.

Provincial symbols of Northeast India regions
Hallertau

The Hallertau or Holledau is an area in Bavaria, Germany. It is the biggest hop-planting area in the world. The hop is a plant which grows in the temperate (mild) climate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. The female flowers, called hops, are used for making beer.

Geography of Bavaria
Conficker

Conficker (also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido) is a computer worm that first showed up in October 2008. It targeted the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is not known where the name "conficker" came from.   "Internet experts" have guessed that the name comes from a mix between two different words: "configure" and "ficken", the German word for "fuck".

Conficker was believed to be the worst computer worm since the SQL slammer worm in 2003.  It was estimated 15 million computers were infected with Conficker. The virus was supposed to get worse on April 1, 2009, which caused many people to worry about it. However, there were no bad effects.

On 13 February 2009, Microsoft offered a $250,000 USD reward for help with finding and arresting the people who created the computer worm.

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Gilbertese language

The Gilbertese language is an Austronesian language spoken in Kiribati, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

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Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Ottauquechee River

The Ottauquechee River is a river in Vermont, in the eastern United States. It is a tributary to the Connecticut River, and is about  long. It begins in the Green Mountains, and flows through the counties of Rutland County and Windsor County, flowing into the Connecticut River in the town of Hartland. There is one hydroelectric dam on the river, which forms a lake called North Hartland Lake.

Rivers of Vermont
San Diego Creek

San Diego Creek is a small northwest-flowing river in Orange County, California. It is about  long and its watershed covers 112.2 square miles (291 square kilometers) in three cities. Its source is in the Coast Range, but several of its tributaries begin in the Santa Ana Mountains and flow west to the creek. San Diego Creek flows into Upper Newport Bay, a branch of Newport Bay and eventually the Pacific Ocean.

Nearby rivers

North along coast
Santa Ana River

South along coast
Aliso Creek

Rivers of California
Orange County, California