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Blank verse

The term Blank verse means poetry that does not use rhyme.

Blank verse relies on the meter of the lines in the poem to give structure, and to create the feeling of poetry as compared to prose. An example from William Wordsworth's poem Michael shows  the lack of rhyme and the strict meter in blank verse – each line sticks fairly closely to the pattern of iambic pentameter:

 Upon the forest-side of Grasmere Vale
 There dwelt a shepherd, Michael was his name;
 An old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb.
 His bodily frame had been from youth to age
 Of an unusual strength: his mind was keen,
 Intense, and frugal, apt for all affairs,
 And in his shepherd's calling he was prompt
 And watchful more than ordinary men.

Many critics judge blank verse to be better than rhyme for serious subjects, and many poets have used blank verse for their most important works. Shakespeare used rhyme in his early plays, but in his more mature works like Hamlet he preferred blank verse. John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in blank verse, including a note at the beginning of the poem saying that rhyming poetry was used to disguise badly written poems, Lord Tennyson used it for Idylles of the King, and Wordsworth used it for The Prelude and The Excursion. John Keats used rhyme in his Endymion, his first try at a major poem; for his second attempt, Hyperion, he switched to blank verse. The longest poems in English literature are written in blank verse, for example The Fall of Nineveh by Edwin Atherstone or King Alfred by John Fitchett. This last is about 130 000 lines long.

Many 20th century poets gave up both rhyme and the strict meter of blank verse to write free verse.

References

Bibliography  
Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts, Art of Versification. Revised edition. Springfield: 1920.

Poetry forms
Cave of Altamira

Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and coloured paintings of wild mammals and human hands. It is located near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, 30 km west of the city of Santander. The cave with its paintings has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The cave is approximately 300 meters long

References

Further reading 
 Curtis, Gregory. 2006. The Cave Painters: probing the mysteries of the world's first artists. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 
 Guthrie, R. Dale. 2006. The nature of prehistoric art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
 McNeill, William H. Secrets of the Cave Paintings, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 53, # 16, October 19, 2006.

Other websites 
 Altamira Cave National Museum In Spanish and English
 The story of Altamira
 The website of UNESCO - Cave of Altamira

Caves
Stone Age
World Heritage Sites in Spain
Cantabria
12 Treasures of Spain
F.C. Kuban Krasnodar

FC Kuban () is a Russian football club based in Krasnodar. In 2006 they won promotion to the Russian Premier League. Kuban have previously spent two seasons in Russian Premier League and three seasons in Soviet Top League.

History 
The club was founded as Dynamo in 1928, but was named Neftyanik in 1954, Kuban in 1958, and Spartak in 1960. In 1963 the club was renamed Kuban and has been known by this name ever since.

Kuban and their predecessors mainly played at the lower levels of Soviet football, winning the RSFSR championship four times. Kuban played in the Soviet Top League in 1980-1982, achieving their best result (13th position) in 1981.

In 1992, due to the dissolution of the USSR, Kuban were entitled to play at the top level instead of being relegated to the Second League. They finished 18th out of 20 teams and were relegated. After spending several seasons in First and Second divisions, they won promotion back to the Premier League for 2004, but were again relegated straight away. This happened again in 2006 when they won promotion for the 2006-2007 season and then finished second to bottom.

Honours 
 RSFSR Championship: 4
 Winners: 1948, 1962, 1973, 1987

Squad

Other websites 
 Official website 

Kuban
1928 establishments
1920s establishments in the Soviet Union
Liiga

Liiga also known as SM-liiga from 1975 to 2013, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is generally thought of as one of the top leagues in Europe. It started in 1975. SM is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruus, "Finnish championship".

Ice hockey leagues
Sport in Finland
1975 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Finland
2013 disestablishments in Europe
Aurochs

The aurochs, or urus, (Bos primigenius) was a large species of cattle. The aurochs used to be common in Europe. It is extinct now. It was a wild animal, not a domesticated animal. The extinct aurochs/urus is a not the same species as the wisent (the European bison).

According to the Paleontologisk Museum, University of Oslo, aurochs developed in India some two million years ago, came into the Middle East and farther into Asia, and reached Europe about 250,000 years ago. People once thought that they were a different species from modern European cattle (Bos taurus). Today, people think that aurochs and modern cattle are the same species. 

Modern cattle have become much smaller than their wild ancestors: the height of a large domesticated cow is about 1.5 meters (5 feet, 15 hands), while aurochs were about 1.75 meters (5.75 feet, 17 hands).

Aurochs also had several features not often seen in modern cattle, such as lyre-shaped horns set at a forward angle, a pale stripe down the spine, and different color according to the gender. Males were black with a pale stripe down the spine, while females and calves were reddish (these colours are still found in a few domesticated cattle breeds, such as Jersey cattle). Aurochs were also known to have very aggressive behaviour, and killing one was seen as an act of courage in ancient cultures.

Subspecies 
At one time there were three aurochs subspecies, namely Bos primigenius namadicus (Falconer, 1859) that occurred in India, the Bos primigenius mauretanicus (Thomas, 1881) from North Africa and the Bos primigenius primigenius (Bojanus, 1827) from Europe and the Middle East. Only the European subspecies survived until recent times.

Notes

References 
 American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition (AHD4). Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Headwords aurochs, urus, wisent.
 Bunzel-Drüke, M. 2001. Ecological substitutes for wild horse (Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785 = E. przewalslii Poljakov, 1881) and Aurochs (Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827). Natur- und Kulturlandschaft, Höxter/Jena, 4, 10 p. AFKP. Online pdf (298 kB) 
 Garfield, Richard van. 1995. Magic the gathering: gatherer search: Aurochs. http://gatherer.wizards.com/?first=1&last=100&term=aurochs&Field_Name=on&Field_Rules=on&Field_Type=on&setfilter=Allsets&colorfilter=All
 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2003. Opinion 2027 (Case 3010). Usage of 17 specific names based on wild species which are pre-dated by or contemporary with those based on domestic animals (Lepidoptera, Osteichthyes, Mammalia): conserved. Bull.Zool.Nomencl., 60:81-84.

Bovines
Privas

Privas is a commune of France, capital (Prefecture) of the Ardèche department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It is the smallest administrative centre of any department in France.

Today Privas is known for several confectionery made with chestnuts produced in the region, as the marron glacé.

History
When the department of Ardèche was created on 4 March 1790, the capital was Privas alternating with Annonay, Aubenas, Le Bourg(-Saint-Andéol) and Tournon. In September of that year, Privas became the only capital of the department.

Geography 
The commune of Privas is in the central eastern part of the Ardèche department, in the valley of the Ouvèze river, a tributary of the Rhône river. The commune of Privas is in the centre of a region known as the "Bassin Privadois".

The commune has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Privas to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Lyon, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Strasbourg - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

Privas is surrounded by the communes:

Climate 
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Largentière is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype "Cfb".

Population
The inhabitants of Privas are known, in French, as Privadois (women: Privadoises).

With a population of 8,313, Privas has a population density of  inhabitants/km2. It is the prefecture with fewest people living in it.

Evolution of the population in Privas

Administration 
Privas is the prefecture of the Ardèche department since 1800. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Privas and the administrative centre () of the canton Privas, formed by 15 communes, including Privas, with 20,402 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Privas Centre Ardèche, officially named as Communauté d'agglomération Privas Centre Ardèche.

Sister cities 
Privas is twinned with:
  Tortona, Italy
  Weilburg, Germany
  Wetherby, United Kingdom
  Zevenaar, Netherlands

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Privas
 Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Other websites

 City council website  
 Site de la Communauté d'agglomération Privas Centre Ardèche 

Communes in Ardèche
Departmental capitals in France
Guilherand-Granges

Guilherand-Granges is a town and commune of the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France.

Related pages

Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Tournon-sur-Rhône

Tournon-sur-Rhône is a commune in the Ardèche department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. The city is at about  to the north of Valence, the capital of the Drôme department.

History
Tournon-sur-Rhône, with the name of Tournon, was one of the seven districts of the Ardèche department when it was created on 4 March 1790. When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Tournon was one of the three arrondissements of the department.

On 18 March 1988, the name of the city was changed from Tournon to Tournon-sur-Rhône.

Geography 
The commune of Tournon-sur-Rhône is on the northeastern part of the Ardèche department, on the border with the Drôme department. The city is on the right side of the Rhône river.

The commune has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Tournon-sur-Rhône to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Lyon, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Strasbourg - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

Tournon-sur-Rhône is surrounded by the communes:
 Ardèche department: Lemps, Saint-Jean-de-Muzols, Mauves, Plats, Saint-Barthélemy-le-Plain.
 Drôme department: Crozes-Hermitage, Larnage, Tain-l'Hermitage, Pont-de-l'Isère.

Climate 
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Montluçon is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Maritime Temperate climate) and of the subtype "Cfb".

Population
The inhabitants of Tournon-sur-Rhône are known, in French, as Tournonais (women: Tournonaises).

With a population of 10,558, Tournon-sur-Rhône is the fourth largest city of the department and has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Tournon-sur-Rhône

Administration 
Tournon-sur-Rhône is a subprefecture of the Ardèche department since 1800. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Tournon-sur-Rhône and the administrative centre () of the canton Tournon-sur-Rhône formed by 13 communes, including Tournon-sur-Rhône, with 20,885 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Arche Agglo, officially named as Communauté d'agglomération Hermitage-Tournonais-Herbasse-Pays de Saint Félicien.

Sister cities 
Tournon-sur-Rhône is twinned with:
  Fellbach, Germany
  Erba, LombardyItaly

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Tournon-sur-Rhône
 Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Other websites

 City council website 

Communes in Ardèche
Subprefectures in France
F.C. Angusht Nazran

FC Angusht Nazran are a Russian football club from Nazran. In 2006 the club played in the Russian First Division, the second level of Russian professional football.

The club was founded in 1993 as Ingushetia Nazran and entered the Russian Third League in 1994. In 1995 the club was renamed Angusht and finished second in their zone, securing promotion to the Second League. Angusht finished second in 1998 and third in 2000, and in 1995 they managed to win their Second Division zone to get another promotion. The club spent the 2006 season in the First Division, finishing last between 22 teams. After the season Angusht went bankrupt, were renamed FC Nazran and joined the Amateur Football League.

Other websites
 Official website 

Angusht
1993 establishments
1990s establishments in Russia
Union Army

The Union Army was the name of the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army, or the National Army.

Structure 
It consisted of the small United States Army (the regular army), increased by many regiments supplied by the Northern states militias. Most soldiers were volunteers but some were drafted.

History 
The Union Army fought and defeated the Confederate States Army during the war, from 1861 to 1865. Of the 2.5 million men who served in the Union Army during the war, about 9.5% were African American, about 360,000 died from being hurt in battle, disease, and 280,000 were wounded.

References 

Military of the United States
 
1860s in the United States
Stand Watie

Stand Watie (December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871) was a leader of the Cherokee Nation and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Native American cavalry made up mostly of Cherokee, Creek and Seminole people. He was also known as Degataga, meaning to "stand firm" and Isaac S. Watie.

Stand Watie was born in Georgia. He helped his brother run a newspaper. Watie helped lead the Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1835.

When the American Civil War started in 1861, Watie started a cavalry regiment. He lead the regiment in several battles with the Union Army. In 1862, he was elected as a chief of the Cherokees. Watie surrendered to the Union army in 1865.

Watie died in 1871.

Other websites 
Stand Watie Biography

1806 births
1871 deaths
Native American people
People from Oklahoma
Cherokee Nation
George Stoneman

George Stoneman, Jr. (August 22, 1822 – September 5, 1894) was a career U.S. Army officer, a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, and the Governor of California between 1883 and 1887.

Governors of California
American Civil War generals

1822 births
1894 deaths
Cornas

Cornas is a French commune that can be found in the département of Ardèche in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The name is Celtic for "burnt land."  It has a population of 2,082 people.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Military history

Military history is the history of what happened in the history of humanity that are considered to be conflicts. This could mean anything as small as a fight between two tribes or a conflict as large as a world war. Military historians record military history.

Other websites 
Why Study War?, by Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal, Summer 2007
Military History Encyclopedia
Military History Wiki

History
Coux, Ardèche

Coux is a commune of the Ardèche département in the south-east of France.  The commune has a population of 1,466 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
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Communes in Ardèche
Cruas

Cruas is a village and commune that can be found by the Rhône River in the Ardèche département of France.  The commune has a population of 2,405 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Other websites
http://www.cruas.com

Communes in Ardèche
Davézieux

Davézieux is a village and commune in the Ardèche département in the center of southern France.  The commune has a population of 2,629 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Désaignes

Désaignes   is a village and commune in the Ardèche département in the southern part of France.  The commune has a population of 1,105 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Félines, Ardèche

Félines is a commune of the Ardèche département in the south-east of France.  The commune has a population of 1,106 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Jaujac

Jaujac is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France.  The commune had a population of 1,048 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Labégude

Labégude is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France. The commune had a population of 1,337 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Lachapelle-sous-Aubenas

Lachapelle-sous-Aubenas   is a village and commune in the Ardèche département of the center of southern France.  The commune has a population of 1,264 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Druid

A Druid was a member of the priestly and learned class in the pre-Christian, ancient Celtic societies. These societies existed through much of Western Europe, until the Roman government took over and, later, Christianity arrived. Druids were part of the cultures of the tribal peoples who were called "Keltoi" (Κέλτοι) or "Keltai" (Κέλται) and "Galatai" (Γαλάται) by the Greeks and "Celtae" and "Galli" by the Romans. In the communities they served, druids combined the duties of priest, arbitrator, healer, scholar, and magistrate. Both men and women served as druids, although there is no early proof for female druids, or druidesses.

History 
From what little we know of late druidic practices, it appears deeply traditional and conservative, in the sense that druids were conserving the old culture and lore for their communities.  It is impossible now to judge whether this continuity had deep historical roots and originated in the social transformations of the late La Tène culture, or whether there had been a discontinuity and then a religious innovation.

Greek and Roman writers on the Celts commonly made at least passing reference to druids, though before Julius Caesar's report merely as "barbarian philosophers"; They were not concerned with ethnology or comparative religion and consequently our historical knowledge of druids is very limited. Druidic lore consisted of a large number of verses learned by heart, and Caesar remarked that twenty years were required to complete the course of study.

Druidic culture are believed to be practicers of rituals and such magic, Druids were believed to be a neutral people they were known as Druid(ae) similar to priests and scholars believed to have studied rituals of Human sacrifice and Familiars (Known currently as a form of a pet from a practicer; Witch, Druidae, Warlock). The Druidic culture was believed to have some form of religious complication.
Druids are known to have practiced such as reincarnation as animals of worship (Bird, Lion, Tiger, Cat, Monkey), but such cannot be proved as what we know so far.
They were said to have lived in Roman times in Great Britain and Ireland it is said that they have some form of connection to stonehenge and other monuments.

References 

Religion
Celtic peoples
Lalevade-d'Ardèche

Lalevade-d'Ardèche   is a village and commune in the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune has a population of about 1,000 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Lamastre

Lamastre   is a village and commune in the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune has a population of about 2,400 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
Lavilledieu

Lavilledieu is a commune in the Ardèche département in the southern part of France.  The commune has a population of about 1,400 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Other websites
Lavilledieu website

Communes in Ardèche
Saint-Péray

Saint-Péray is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in the southern part France. The commune has a population of about 6,500 people as of the year 1999.

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Communes in Ardèche
La Voulte-sur-Rhône

La Voulte-sur-Rhône  is a village and commune in the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune has a population of about 5,100 people as of the year 1999.

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Viviers, Ardèche

Viviers is a commune in the French département of Ardèche.  The commune has a population of about 3,400 people as of the year 1999.

History 
Viviers became the capital of the Gaulish Helvii tribe following the falling of nearby Alba-la-Romaine.

Related pages
 Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Other websites 
Viviers on the site of the Institut Géographique National  
Viviers on the site of the INSEE  
Viviers on the site of the Quid   
Communes closest to Viviers  
Localisation de Viviers on a map of France  
 Map of Viviers on Mapquest  

Viviers
Druidism

Druidism or Druidry (referred to as Neodruidry or Neodruidism by some followers) is a Celtic form of modern spirituality that generally promotes harmony with nature, often through the form of nature worship. It is considered to be a Neopagan faith.

Originally inspired by 17th, 18th and 19th century romantic movements, early neo-druidism was based upon largely historically incorrect depictions of the Iron Age Celtic druids, and has no direct relation to the ancient Celts or their culture.

Beliefs and Practises
Neo-druidic beliefs vary wildly, and there is no set dogma or belief system by which all adherents follow. Main beliefs include the Earth and nature are sacred, and is worthy of worship itself. For this reason many druids are pantheistic, animistic, or polytheistic.

Related pages 
Celts
Druid
Stonehenge

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New religious movements
Shutter (2008 movie)

Shutter is a 2008 American mystery horror thriller movie released on March 21, 2008. It is about a newly married couple finding disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

References

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2008 horror movies
2000s mystery movies
2000s horror thriller movies
American mystery movies
American horror thriller movies
English-language movies
Ghost movies
Tit

Tits may mean:

Passerine songbirds of the family Paridae
Great tit
Blue tit
Black-capped chickadee
Female breasts

English profanity
Rajput

Rajputs constitute one of the major Hindu Kshatriya groups from India. They claim descent from ancient royal warrior dynasties of Kshatriyas. They are identified with the word "Rajanya" found in ancient Indian literature and trace their roots to Rajputana or Rajputstan (India). In ancient times the son of a king was referred as to Rajput- Raja-putra. (Lit - king's son - Prince)

The Rajputs consist of 36 different clans. These are divided into three different lines of descent (called vanshas). They are:
 Suryavanshi - descendants of the sun god, Surya.
 Chandravanshi - descendants of the moon god, Chandra.
 Agnivanshi - descendants of the fire god, Agni.

Asopa informs us this observation after understanding meaning of word Rajputra or Rajput from many ancient texts:

References

Other websites 
Rajputcommunity.in a site with hundreds of different post of Rajputs and their clans
Origin of Rajputs
 Rajput Vansh and Clans
 Rajputs  Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 2005 
 Rajput  Encyclopedia Britannica; 1911
 Rajputs in Rajoa, Dadyal 
 Ek Tha Raja
 Kota Chauhan Clan

History of India
Rajputs
Piety

Piety (from the Latin word pietas, meaning "devout" or "good") is generally used to refer either to Religious devotion or to spirituality. A common element in most ideas of piety is humility, or a lack of pride. It can also refer to a way to win the favor or forgiveness of God in Christianity.

Religious ethics
Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a book by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was published in 1908. It was written as fiction for readers of all ages. Since the middle 20th century it has been classified as a children's book. Montgomery wrote the book after seeing a newspaper article about a couple that were mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy, yet decided to keep her.

The book takes place on Prince Edward Island, Canada, where the author grew up.

Sequels
Montgomery continued the story of Anne Shirley in a series of sequels. They are listed in the order of Anne's age in each of the novels.

Other websites 

 .
 Anne of Green Gables free downloads in pdf, pdb and lit formats 
 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES Hypertext formatted version of the Project Gutenberg edition.
 Anne of Green Gables and L M Montomery in Spanish 
 Anne of Green Gables - The Musical(tm) Official Homepage
 Anne3.com Home of the Sullivan Anne of Green Gables trilogy with info on the movies and the Avonlea Message Boards 
 UPEI LMM Institute  University of Prince Edward Island L. M. Montgomery Institute

1908 books
British novels
English-language novels
Secondary sex characteristic

Secondary sex characteristics are features which make it possible to tell the sexes of a species apart. They are not directly linked to reproduction. 

Male birds usually have much more colourful feathers (plumage), the females are usually better able to hide, because their plumage is camouflaged.

Well-known secondary sex characteristics in humans are the deeper voice, facial hair (mustache and beard) and more muscular build in men. In women, those characteristics usually cited are more prominent breasts, lips, eyes, long/fast growing hair, no facial hair, wider hips, more fat, and generally a higher voice. Faces, generally, make a big impact. It is the part other people interact with.

However, the wider hips are needed to give birth. Babies are born through the space between the three bones of a woman's pelvis. So is doubtful to call this a secondary characteristic, except so far as the width helps attract mates. Breasts are also essential, but in humans they are much larger in proportion to other mammals, and they do serve to attract males.

Evolutionary ideas 
Charles Darwin thought that sexual selection, or competition within a species for mates explains many of the differences between sexes. Behaviour, such as male-to-male combat and female choice of males is a kind of secondary sex characteristic. Many 'ornaments' such brighter plumage, colouration, and other features have no immediate function except to improve the male's chances of being selected by females for breeding. Weapons such as antlers may serve both as defence against predators, and as status symbols advertising health and fitness.

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Sexual selection
Sexual reproduction

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Poltergeist

(from German poltern, meaning to rumble or make noise, and Geist, meaning "ghost", "spirit", or "embodiment") is a spirit or ghost that is able to move and influence objects. Poltergeists are said to be invisible.

Poltergeists are said to bother only one person at a time. This person is called their "focus". Poltergeists will bother only their focus. They are said to only last a few weeks, then will move on to another target. Often poltergeists are reported around children and adolescents. Some scientists think that poltergeists only exist in a person's head as a result of psychokinesis. They think that the "poltergeist effect" is a result of mental trauma.

Media 
There is a 1982 movie called Poltergeist.

In Harry Potter there is a poltergeist named Peeves. However, Peeves is not a classic poltergeist. He can be seen and does not focus on bothering just one person.

References

Other websites 
 Poltergeist: The Legacy Website 
 Dehaunting Techniques
 International Journal of Parapsychology
 Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research 
 Skeptic's Dictionary
 1926 silent short film of the Eleonora Zugun poltergeist case On YouTube, with German title cards.

Folklore
Pura Cup

The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is a first class cricket competition in Australia. The six state teams play in a round-robin series of 4-day matches against every other team. After each pair of teams have played each other twice, the two highest ranked teams play a 5-day final.

Sports trophies and awards
Cricket
Mercy

Mercy can refer both to a compassionate behavior on the part of those in power (for example, mercy shown by a judge toward a criminal by not punishing him (or her) her as much as he (or she) might be punished) or on the part of a compassionate third party (e.g. a trip out of mercy trying to treat sick children in Africa). The word is very common in several religions (for example, the mercy of God).

Other websites 
Dictionary

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fr:Miséricorde (bonté)
Tatnet

Tatnet (short for "Tatar Internet") is the name Tatar-speaking Internet users commonly use for the "segment of the Internet" about the Tatar people or Tatarstan. It includes webpages and websites in many languages.

The first e-mail message in Tatar was probably sent and received in 1991 when employees of the Tatar-Bashkir Service of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe Inc. started using the Internet and electronic communication on a regular basis. In 1994, a Tatar-language mailing list (TMG, standing for Tatar Mailing Group) was established and this year is commonly regarded as the birthyear of the Tatar Internet. Since approximately 2000, Tatnet has been developing explosively, with many web pages and web sites added to it annually. The existence of Tatnet continues to contribute tremendously to the cohesion and consolidation of the Tatar people, a significant achievement because Tatars are despersed all over the world and a substantial majority of Tatars live outside their ethnic homeland, Tatarstan. Tatar Internet users employ Latin and Cyrillic scripts with the former gradually becoming more dominant.

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Tatarstan

Tatarstan is an autonomous republic within Russia. The republic is about 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of Moscow. It is between the Volga River and the Kama River (a tributary of the Volga), and extends east to the Ural Mountains. Most of the people are Tatars,

Its capital is Kazan.

Religion

Islam is the faith that most people in Tatarstan follow.

Geography
The republic is in the center of the East European Plain.

Rivers
Major rivers include (Tatar names are given in parentheses):
Belaya River (Ağidel)
Ik River (Iq)
Kama River (Çulman)
Volga River (İdel)
Vyatka River (Noqrat)
Kazanka River

Lakes
Major reservoirs of the republic include (Tatar names are given in parentheses):
Kuybyshev Reservoir (Kuybışev)
Lower Kama Reservoir (Tübän Kama)

The biggest lake is Qaban. The biggest swamp is Kulyagash.

Hills
Bugulma-Belebey Upland
Volga Upland
Vyatskie Uvaly

Natural resources

Major natural resources of Tatarstan include oil, natural gas, gypsum, and more.  It is estimated that the Republic has over one billion tons of oil deposits.

References

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Autonomous areas
Federal subjects of Russia
Charles Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an African-American writer.  He wrote several books like The Marrow of Tradition and The House Behind the Cedars as well as for a short story about a haunted yard called The Goophered Grapevine.

Selected works 
 The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899)
 The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899)
 Frederick Douglass (1899)
 The Passing of Grandison (1899)
 The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
 The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
 The Colonel's Dream (1905)
 Mandy Oxendine (written in the 1890s; first published in 1997)
 Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (written in 1921; first published 1998, University Press of Mississippi)
 A Business Career (written in the 1890s; first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)
 Evelyn's Husband (first published 2005, University Press of Mississippi)

1858 births
1932 deaths
Writers from Ohio
Writers from Cleveland, Ohio
Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They began play in 1969. The Royals won a World Series title in 1985. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium. They are owned by David Glass, managed by Ned Yost, and their General Manager is Dayton Moore.

The old minor league baseball team in Kansas City had been called the Blues. There was also a famous Negro league baseball team called the Kansas City Monarchs. The Royals name and their team color blue are at least partly in honor of those older teams. The Kansas City Royals first played in the World Series where they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies.  In 1985, they won their first championship, beating the St. Louis Cardinals in seven.  The Royals returned to the World Series in 2014 but lost to the San Francisco Giants.  However, they defeated the New York Mets 4 games to 1 in 2015 to win their second championship.

Other websites 

 Kansas City Royals Official Website 
 Royals on Radio 
 Around the Horn in KC - Official MLBlog of the Kansas City Royals front office. 
 CBS SportsLine.com
 Sports E-Cyclopedia

 
1969 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Missouri
Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian born American writer. Her books include Krik? Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory, which was chosen for the Oprah Book Club in 1998.

1969 births
Living people
Haitian people
Writers from New York City
Caribbean people
Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are a team of the National Basketball Association. While billed as a Detroit team, its home arena has been The Palace of Auburn Hills, located in the northern suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan, from 1988 from 2018. The Pistons will move to the city of Detroit for the 2017–18 season, sharing the new Little Caesars Arena with the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL. In 1948, the team was in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but that was before moving to Detroit in 1957. The team has won three NBA championships in 1989, 1990, and 2004. Their head coach is Dwane Casey, they are owned by Tom Gores and their general manager is Troy Weaver.

References

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National Basketball Association teams
Sports in Detroit, Michigan
Lifeguard

A lifeguard is a person on the beach or at a public pool who shows people the correct way of using the water facility and stops accidents from happening. They are trained in rescue situations. Lifeguards are usually found at most public pools and lakes.

Emergency services
A Night at the Opera (Queen album)

A Night at the Opera is a Queen album from 1975.  It is generally regarded as Queen's strongest and most influential album. The album is in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of it's release.

Track listing 
 Death on Two Legs
 Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
 I'm In Love With My Car
 You're My Best Friend
 '39
 Sweet Lady
 Seaside Rendezvous
 The Prophet's Song
 Love of My Life
 Good Company
 Bohemian Rhapsody
 God Save The Queen

Queen albums
1975 albums
Rock albums
News of the World (album)

News of the World is the seventh studio album from the English rock band Queen, released in 1977.

Track listing
We Will Rock You 
We Are the Champions 
Sheer Heart Attack
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings 
Fight from the Inside
Get Down, Make Love
Sleeping on the Sidewalk
Who Needs You
It's Late 
My Melancholy Blues

Queen albums
1977 albums
Rock albums
The Scream

The Scream refers to different versions of a painting made by Edvard Munch. They were painted in the early 20th century, and drawn using many types of materials. These include lithography, tempera paint, oil paint and pastel.

The first version of The Scream was drawn in 1893. Two pastel drawings, two paintings and also some lithographs were printed.

20th-century paintings
Jazz (album)

Jazz is a 1978 album by English rock band Queen. It was the band's seventh studio album.

Track listing
Mustapha
Fat Bottomed Girls
Jealousy
Bicycle Race
If You Can't Beat Them
Let Me Entertain You
Dead On Time
In Only Seven Days
Dreamer's Ball
Fun It
Leaving Home Ain't Easy
Don't Stop Me Now
More Of That Jazz

References

Queen albums
1978 albums
Rock albums
The Game (album)

The Game is a rock album by English band Queen released June 30, 1980. It was the only Queen album to reach the #1 position in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Track listing
Play the Game
Dragon Attack
Another One Bites the Dust
Need Your Loving Tonight
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Rock It
Don't Try Suicide
Sail Away Sweet Sister
Coming Soon
Save Me

References

Queen albums
1980 albums
Rock albums
Flash Gordon (album)

Flash Gordon is a 1980 album by English rock band Queen. It is the soundtrack album to the science fiction movie Flash Gordon.

Track listing 
Flash's Theme
In the Space Capsule
Ming's Theme
The Ring
Football Fight
In the Death Cell
Execution of Flash
The Kiss
Arboria
Escape from the Swamp
Flash to the Rescue
Vultan's Theme
Battle Theme
The Wedding March
Marriage of Dale And Ming
Crash Dive on Mingo City
Flash's Theme Reprise
The Hero

Queen albums
1980 albums
Rock albums
Flash Gordon
Mark Speight

Mark Warwick Fordham Speight (6 August 1965 – 13 April 2008) was a British television presenter. He was best known for was showing the long-running BBC children's art program SMart.  He found his fiancee, Natasha Collins, also a BBC presenter dead at their flat in London on January 2008. He was then arrested as a suspect, but was released without any charges put against him. On 13 April 2008, police found his body hanging from the roof of the MacMillan House in London.

References

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English television presenters
People from Staffordshire
Suicides by hanging in the United Kingdom
1965 births
2008 deaths
Mettingen

Mettingen is a municipality in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography 
Mettingen is about 25 km east of Rheine and 20 km west of Osnabrück.

Places close to Mettingen 
Villages close to Mettingen are Recke in the west, Neuenkirchen, (Lower Saxony) in the north, Ibbenbüren in the south and Westerkappeln in the east.

Notable persons 
The founders of the textile company C&A, Clemens and August Brenninkmeyer, were born in Mettingen. Also Annika Suthe, participant of the 2004 Summer Olympics (javelin throw) was born there.

References

Other websites

  

Steinfurt Rural District
Mauves

Mauves   is a village and commune of the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. It has a population of about 1,100 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Mercuer

Mercuer is a village and commune of the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune has a population of about 1,000 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Le Pouzin

Le Pouzin   is a village and commune of the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune has a population of about 2,700 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Quintenas

Quintenas   is a village and commune of the Ardèche département in the center of southern France. The commune had a population of about 1,200 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Rochemaure

Rochemaure is a commune in the Ardèche département in the southern part of France. The commune has a population of about 1,800 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References 

Communes in Ardèche
Rosières, Ardèche

Rosières is a commune of the Ardèche département in the south-eastern part of France.  The commune has a population of about 1,000 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References 

Communes in Ardèche
Ruoms

Ruoms is a commune of the Ardèche département in the southern part of France.  The commune has a population of about 2,100 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Ucel

Ucel is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France.  The commune has a population of about 1,700 people as of the year 1999.

Related pages
Communes of the Ardèche department

References

Communes in Ardèche
Tokio Jokio

Tokio Jokio is a 1943 Looney Tunes short movie directed by U.S. Corporal Norman McCabe and released to movie theaters by RKO Radio Pictures. It stars Mel Blanc. The movie is a Tokyo newscast about all areas of everyday living in Japan.

Other websites 
 
 

1943 movies
Looney Tunes
English-language movies
List of Solar System objects

This is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, by distance from the sun.

Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.

The Sun, a spectral class G2V star

The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets
Mercury
Mercury-crosser asteroids
Venus
Venus-crosser asteroids
Venus' quasi-satellite
Earth
Moon (Luna)
Possible Kordylewski Cloud
Near-Earth asteroids
Earth-crosser asteroids
Earth's quasi-satellites
Mars
Deimos
Phobos
Mars trojans
Mars-crosser asteroids
Asteroid belt and surroundings
Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
Asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
Pallas
Juno
Vesta
There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids. For longer lists, see list of noteworthy asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of objects by mass.
A number of smaller groups distinct from the Main Belt.
Asteroid moons

The middle Solar System with the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
Jupiter
Complete list of Jupiter's moons
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Jupiter's trojan asteroids
Saturn
Rings of Saturn
Complete list of Saturn's moons
Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Saturn's Trojan moons
Rhea
Titan
Hyperion
Iapetus
Uranus
Complete list of Uranus' natural satellites
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
Neptune
Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
Proteus
Triton
Nereid
Neptune trojans
Non-trojan minor planets
Centaurs
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Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
Pluto, a dwarf planet and plutino
Charon
Nix
Hydra
Plutinos
90482 Orcus
28978 Ixion
38628 Huya
Twotino
Cubewanos (classical objects)
50000 Quaoar
20000 Varuna
19521 Chaos
Haumea
Makemake
Kuiper cliff, the quick end of the Kuiper Belt.
Scattered disc objects
Eris, a dwarf planet 
Dysnomia

90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
2000 OO67 comet?
Oort Cloud (hypothetical)
The Solar System also contains:

Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
Periodic comets
Non-periodic comets
Small objects, including:
Meteoroids
Dust, including interstellar dust.
Helium Focusing Cone, around the Sun.
Gegenschein
Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind.
Heliosheath
Heliopause
Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium.

Objects
Astronomy lists
Daimyo

The  () were powerful feudal rulers from the 10th century to the early 19th century in Japan. Each daimyo had control over a part of the country. The Shogun had power over the daimyo.

Shugo daimyo
The first daimyo were called the .

Sengoku daimyo

Edo daimyo
The Edo period began in 1600 after the Battle of Sekigahara. The Shogun changed the power and position of the daimyo.

Sankin Kotai
Sankin kotai was a system to control daimyo. The shogun made the daimyo come to Edo every other year.

History of Japan
Samurai
 
10th-century establishments in Japan
19th-century disestablishments in Japan
Evil on Your Mind

"Evil on Your Mind" is the name of a popular country music song, originally made famous by Grand Ole Opry star, Jan Howard in 1966.

In the mid-60s, Jan Howard was not acquiring any significant hits. Only one of her songs hit the Top 20, which was in 1960 with, "The One You Slip Around With", which hit No. 13. In 1966, Howard wrote and released her first single of the year, "Evil on Your Mind". The song was written by Howard, and talked of her troubled marriage to legendary singer-songwriter, Harlan Howard. The song hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Country music charts, peaking at No. 5 there. Soon an album of the same name was released that year, featuring Howard's big hit. A follow-up single was released that titled, "Bad Seed" which hit the Top 10 that year, proving a successful follow-up for Howard. The song set the stage for a number of Top 20 and Top 10 hits Howard would have as a solo and duet artist between 1966 and 1971.

The song talks about a husband trying to convince his wife to visit her sister out west, but the narrator (the wife) notices that something is going on, which her husband is trying to hide. She believes he's thiking of having an affair, which she calls, "evil on your mind". 

The song has been mentioned the in the book, Heartaches By the Number: The 500 Greatest Country Singles. 

A rock music group titled, The Stumbleweeds recorded Howard's "Evil on Your Mind".

1966 songs
Country songs
Jan Howard

Jan Howard (born Lula Grace Johnson; March 13, 1929 – March 28, 2020) was an American country music singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry star. She was one of country music's trailblazing female vocalists during the height of her career in the mid-1960s. 

Her last name (Howard) comes from her ex-husband, legendary singer-songwriter, Harlan Howard.

Jan Howard's bigggest hit and signature song is the 1966 classic Country hit, "Evil on Your Mind", which has been featured in the book, Heartaches By the Number: The 500 Greatest Country Music Singles. In the late 60s and early 70s, she dueted with Bill Anderson, on a number of hits that hit the Top 10, including the No. 1 hit "For Loving You".

Howard died on March 28, 2020 in Gallatin, Tennessee of pneumonia at the age of 91.

References

1929 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Country musicians from Missouri
American singer-songwriters
American country singers
Writers from Missouri
Musicians from Missouri
Singers from Missouri
Howell County, Missouri

Howell County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, 37,238 people lived there. Its county seat is West Plains. Howell County was organized on March 2, 1857, from Oregon County. It was named for James Howell, who made the first settlement in Howell Valley.

1857 establishments in Missouri
Missouri counties
Oregon County, Missouri

Oregon County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri.  It was organized in 1845 and named for the Oregon Territory.  As of 2000, 10,344 people lived there.  Its county seat is Alton.

Missouri counties
1845 establishments in Missouri