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Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman. It was published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal. Its owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run. 

The Krazy Kat characters were introduced in another Herriman strip The Dingbat Family. The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there. It was the mouse's way of describing the cat. The strip is set in Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona. Krazy Kat is mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness, and poetic, idiosyncratic language. 

The strip focuses on the curious love triangle between Krazy Kat, a carefree, simple-minded cat; Ignatz Mouse; and police dog, Offissa Bull Pupp. Krazy has an unrequited love for the mouse. Ignatz despises Krazy. He throws bricks at Krazy's head. Krazy thinks this is a sign of the Mouse's affection. Krazy utters grateful replies such as "Li'l dollink, allus f'etful". Offissa Pupp is Coconino County's administrator of law and order. He makes it his mission to interfere with Ignatz's brick-tossing plans. He locks the mouse in the county jail.

The detailed characterization and Herriman's visual and verbal creativity made Krazy Kat one of the first comics to be praised by intellectuals. The strip was treated as "serious" art. Critic Gilbert Seldes wrote at length about the strip in 1924, calling it "the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Poet E. E. Cummings admired Herriman and wrote the introduction to the first collection of the strip in book form. Krazy Kat was only a modest success during its initial run. In more recent years, many modern cartoonists have cited Krazy Kat as a major influence on their own work.

References

Other websites 

 
 Krazy Kat at Internet Archive (comic strips, video and audio)
 Coconino County  — History, bios, strip archive, bibliography and more.
 "'Some Say it With A Brick': George Herriman's Krazy Kat" — A critical essay.
 Full video of the "Krazy Goes A-Wooing" silent animated short produced by Hearst , with some similarities to the strip.
 The Columbia Crow's Nest  — Includes information on the Mintz-era cartoons bearing the Krazy Kat name.
 Ignatz Mouse — A site built around the second character of the strip. Forums, archives, etc...
 Krazy Kat Cartoons from the 1960s — A list of Krazy Kat cartoons in full-colors.
 Comic Strip Library — Archive of many strips in very high resolution.
 Bill Watterson's foreword of the book "The Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat" 

American comic strips
Comics characters
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), later Marquis de Laplace, was a French mathematician and astronomer.

His work helped to develop mathematical astronomy and statistics. His five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825) was a key work. In it, he changed the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, which meant it could tackle a wider range of problems. In statistics, the so-called Bayesian interpretation of probability was mainly developed by Laplace.

He invented Laplace's equation, and pioneered the Laplace transform which is used in many branches of mathematical physics. The Laplacian differential operator, widely used in mathematics, is also named after him.

Astronomy

Solar system 
Laplace's view on the origin of the Solar System is still ours today. He recognised, like Newton, that the key force in the Solar System was gravitation. Gravitation caused the coming together of gas and small particles into one central mass (which became the Sun) with other smaller groups (the planets), held to the central star by gravitation.

Laplace proved that the small irregularities in planetary motion were self-correcting, and that the solar system as a whole was stable. This meant the solar system was going to exist in the present state for a very long time. He worked out some problems in the moon's orbit, and how the moon caused tides.

Black holes
Laplace also came close to getting the concept of the black hole.  He pointed out that there could be massive stars whose gravity is so great that not even light could escape from their surface (see escape velocity).  Laplace also speculated that some of the nebulae revealed by telescopes may not be part of the Milky Way and might actually be galaxies themselves. Thus, he anticipated Edwin Hubble's major discovery 100 years in advance.

Quotes 

"What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense". (attributed)
"I had no need of that hypothesis". (Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là, as a reply to Napoleon, who had asked why he hadn't mentioned God in his book on astronomy).
"It is therefore obvious that ..." (Il est facile de voir que...) a phrase frequently used in the Celestial Mechanics when he had proved something and mislaid the proof, or found it clumsy. Notorious as a signal for something true, but hard to prove.
"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness".
"...[This simplicity of ratios will not appear astonishing if we consider that] all the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws".

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Foreign Members of the Royal Society
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French mathematicians
French theoretical physicists
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is a commune of 5,270 people (2008). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the south of France.

Education 
A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile is located in the commune.

Transports 
 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Airport

References 

Communes in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Inselberg

An inselberg or monadnock is a large rock formation that sits on its own, surrounded by flat lowlands. It can be a hill, ridge or small mountain. They are found in hot, dry areas of land. The name means "island mountain".

References

Landforms
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. He used comparative anatomy to classify human races, of which he listed five.

Blumenbach's classification of races 

Blumenbach divided the human species into five races in 1779. Later he based them on the anatomy of the human skull. Blumenbach's work included the description of sixty skulls published as Decas craniorum (Göttingen 1790–1828). This was a founding work for other scientists.

He called the five races (1793/1795):
 the Caucasian race or white race
 the Mongolian or yellow race
 the Malayan or brown race
 the Ethiopian, or black race
 the American or red race.

He did not think other races were inferior to the Caucasian race, and were potentially good members of society.

Anatomical study led him to the conclusion that 'individual Africans differ as much, or even more, from other individual Africans as Europeans differ from Europeans'. Furthermore he thought that Africans were not inferior to the rest of mankind 'concerning healthy faculties of understanding, excellent natural talents and mental capacities'.
"Finally, I am of opinion that after all these numerous instances I have brought together of negroes of capacity, it would not be difficult to mention entire well-known provinces of Europe, from out of which you would not easily expect to obtain off-hand such good authors, poets, philosophers, and correspondents of the Paris Academy; and on the other hand, there is no so-called savage nation known under the sun which has so much distinguished itself by such examples of perfectibility and original capacity for scientific culture, and thereby attached itself so closely to the most civilized nations of the earth, as the Negro."

These ideas were far less influential.  His ideas were adopted by other researchers and encouraged scientific racism. Blumenbach's work was used by many biologists and comparative anatomists in the nineteenth century who were interested in the origin of races: Wells, Lawrence, Prichard, Huxley and William Flower are good examples of his influence on human biology.

Regarding human origins, Blumenbach believed the first humans had originated in Asia.

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Human body features
Homare Sawa

is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.

Biography
As a professional athlete, she was played with the Women's United Soccer Association from 2001 to 2003. In 2004 she was named Women's Player of the Year for the Asian Football Confederation. In 2009 and 2010, Sawa was part of Women's Professional Soccer.

Sawa has played for the Japan national team, including the team which won the 2011 World Cup. She participated in the last five World Cups. Sawa was part of the women's team at the 1996, the 2004, the 2008.  She was a member of the team which won a silver medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics at London.

Statistics

Honors
In 2012, Sawa was named the "FIFA Women's World Player of the Year". In ceremonies in Switzerland, she was awarded the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or. Japanese government officials commented that Sawa and her team-mates inspired confidence after the devastation caused by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

References

Other websites

Japan Football Association

1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Tokyo Prefecture
Japan women's international footballers
Nadeshiko League players
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza players
INAC Kobe Leonessa players
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1993 AFC Women's Championship players
1995 AFC Women's Championship players
1997 AFC Women's Championship players
2001 AFC Women's Championship players
2003 AFC Women's Championship players
2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup players
2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup players
2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup players
2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup players
Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games
Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
Olympic medalists in football
Japanese Olympic silver medalists
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
AFC Women's Asian Cup-winning players
Asian Games medalists in football
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Yanick Dupre Memorial Award

The Yanick Dupre Memorial Award is presented annually to the American Hockey League's man of the year for service to his local community. The award winner is chosen by the league president. It was named after former Hershey Bears player Yanick Dupre, who died of leukemia at age 24.

Winners

Other websites
Official AHL website
AHL Hall of Fame

References

Ice hockey trophies and awards
List of Júbilo Iwata players

The List of Júbilo Iwata players is evolving.  The history of the team is created by its players.

Júbilo Iwata is a Japanese professional football club in Iwata.

List
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
 Robert Cullen
 Keisuke Funatani
 Naoki Hatta
 Yusuke Inuzuka
 Kenichi Kaga
 Jo Kanazawa
 Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
 Yūichi Komano
 Lee Gang-Jin
 Lee Keun-Ho
 Ryoichi Maeda
 Takuya Matsuura
 Sho Naruoka
 Daisuke Nasu
 Norihiro Nishi
 Kentaro Ohi
 Ryu Okada
 Kota Ueda
 Kosuke Yamamoto
 Ryohei Yamazaki

Related pages 
 Sports in Japan
 List of Japanese football teams

References

Other websites
 Júbilo Iwata website 
  J.League Club Guide 

Jubilo Iwata
Foot fetishism

Foot fetishism (or foot fetish) is a sexual interest in human feet. The fetishist has an interest in foot shapes (such as foot arches or foot sizes), toe sizes, smell or foot wear (such as shoes, bracelets, or socks). The foot fetish is the most common fetish that is not the genitals. The fetish is most common for males, although females may also have this fetish.

A footjob is using feet to rub the penis (or sometimes the vagina or breasts) in a sexual way. It is a type of masturbation done with two people.

References

Human sexuality
List of Kashima Antlers players

The List of Kashima Antlers players is evolving.  The history of the team is created by its players.

Kashima Antlers is a Japanese professional football club in Kashima.

List
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
 Takeshi Aoki
 Toru Araiba
 Yasushi Endo
 Yuji Funayama
 Marcos Gomes de Araujo
 Masahiko Inoha
 Daiki Iwamasa
 Shinzo Koroki
 Kenji Koyano
 Masashi Motoyama
 Kōji Nakata
 Takuya Nozawa
 Mitsuo Ogasawara
 Go Oiwa
 Hiroyuki Omichi
 Ryuta Sasaki
 Akihiro Sato
 Hitoshi Sogahata
 Tetsu Sugiyama
 Takefumi Toma
 Atsuto Uchida

Related pages 
 Sports in Japan
 List of Japanese football teams

References

Other websites

  Kashima Antlers website  
  J.League Club Guide 

Kashima Antlers
CTV Two

CTV Two is an English language television nerwork in Canada. It is owned by Bell Media.

References

Canadian television channels
1995 establishments in Canada
Billy Bean

William Daro "Billy" Bean (born May 11, 1964 in Santa Ana, California) is a former Major League Baseball player. He attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He was an outfielder, a pinch hitter, and a first baseman. He threw and batted left. Bean is gay, and wrote a book, Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of Major League Baseball. For 13 years, Bean was the partner of Efrain Viega, the founder of Yuca restaurant in Miami. They broke up in July 2008. Bean has appeared on television. He starred in a MTV episode of Made, and he was an actor in an episode of the sitcom Frasier.

References

Other websites 
 Billy Bean.com
 
 Baseball Library page 

1964 births
Living people
People from Santa Ana, California
LGBT people from California
Gay men
Detroit Tigers players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
San Diego Padres players
America's Funniest Home Videos

America's Funniest Home Videos is a reality-comedy show. The show originally aired on ABC.

References

American comedy television series
American reality television series
ABC network shows
1989 American television series debuts
1990s television series
2000s television series
English-language television programs
The X Factor (U.S.)

The X Factor USA is an American television music competition. The winner gets a recording contract and 5 million dollars. It first aired on September 21, 2011 on Fox. There have been three winners; Melanie Amaro, Tate Stevens and Alex & Sierra.

The original panel consisted of Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Cheryl Cole and L.A. Reid. Cheryl was later fired and was replaced by Nicole Scherzinger who was going to be the host along with Steve Jones. At the end of season 1, Paula, Nicole and Steve were all fired but Nicole would become a judge on the UK version.

Demi Lovato and Britney Spears replaced Paula and Nicole as judges while Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez became the co-hosts replacing Steve. In 2013, L.A. and Britney left the show and were replaced by Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio. Mario became the sole host after Khloe was sacked.

On February 7, 2014, Fox announced that The X Factor got cancelled due to Simon Cowell, who is going to judge back at the UK version of the show.

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2011 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
2010s American television series
American reality television series
The X Factor
English-language television programs
Television series created by Simon Cowell
The Yellow Kid

The Yellow Kid is the name of a comic strip character. He appeared from 1895 to 1898 in the New York World, and later in the New York Journal. The Yellow Kid was created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic strip Hogan's Alley. It was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Its graphical layout had already been established in political and other, purely-for-entertainment cartoons.  

The Yellow Kid was a bald, snaggle-toothed boy who wore an over-sized yellow nightshirt and hung around in a slum alley. This alley was typical of certain areas of squalor that existed in turn of the 19th to 20th century New York City. Hogan's Alley was filled with equally odd characters, mostly other children.  With a goofy grin, the Kid spoke in a ragged, peculiar slang. This slang was printed on his shirt, a device meant to mock advertising billboards.

References

Other websites 

Radio piece detailing the story behind the Yellow Kid, particularly his role in commercial advertising
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: (88 Yellow Kid pages) 
New York Times Book Review: "The Kid From Hogan's Alley" by John Canemaker
R. F. Outcault Society's Yellow Kid site
Yellow Kid origin 
Yellow Kid Pinbacks

American comic strips
Comics characters
Citytv

City (formerly called Citytv) is a Canadian English language television system owned by Rogers.

Citytv Stations
CKVU Vancouver, British Columbia

CITY Toronto, Ontario

Other websites

Citytv
CityNews

Television networks
1972 establishments in Canada
Toon Disney

Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by Disney. Toon Disney was replaced by Disney XD.

Programs at closure
 Phineas and Ferb
 Kim Possible
 Dave the Barbarian
 Brandy and Mr. Whiskers
 American Dragon
 The Powerpuff Girls

References

American television channels
Disney
1998 establishments in the United States
2009 disestablishments in the United States
MTV2

MTV2 is a cable network in the United States. It was launched on August 1, 1996 as M2.

References

American television channels
1996 establishments in the United States
Viacom
Iwata, Shizuoka

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.  It is on the Tenryū River.
Iwata is made of 5 communities merged together: kyu-Iwata (former Iwata), Toyoda-cho, Fukude-cho, Ryuyo-cho, Toyoka-mura.
Part of Yamaha Corporation is in Iwata.

History

There has been a settlement in the area of Iwata since ancient times.

During the Edo period, Mitsuke-juku was one of 53 government waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road, which was a coastal route that ran from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
 Júbilo Iwata

References

Other websites

 Iwata website 

Cities in Japan
Settlements in Shizuoka Prefecture
Kashima, Ibaraki

is a port city on the Pacific coast of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.

History
An urban area developed around Kashima Shrine (Kashima-jinga).

It prospered as a temple town in Kashima temple which is Kuniichi Hitachi Miya.

After World War II, the economy of the region around the port city grew larger.

The Kajima seaside industrial zone centering on the Kashima harbor is formed.
 
Kashima city is an industrial city centering on a steel company.

Timeline
 1970 Kashima Line started business.
 1985 Kashima-Rinkai Railway Oarai Kashima Line started business.
 1993 Kashima Soccer Stadium was built.
 1995 Kajima town became Kajima City.
 2002 The World Cup was held in the Kajima stadium.

Sports
The Kashima Antlers is an association football team in Kashima. It is utilizing soccer for town revitalization mainly by the Antlers.

References

Other websites

 Kashima website 
 J.League, http://www.j-league.or.jp/stadium/kashima/ 

Cities in Japan
Settlements in Ibaraki Prefecture
Marcus Salvius Otho

Marcus Salvius Otho (Marcus Salvius Otho Caesar Augustus, 28 April 32 AD–16 April 69 AD) was a Roman military commander who became Roman Emperor in 69 AD. He led a coup against the Emperor Galba, but was defeated in a battle by Vitellius only eight weeks later. He took his own life after the battle. The year 69 was known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

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32 births
69 deaths
Roman Emperors
Bornhardt

A bornhardt () is a big dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock formation. They are a kind of inselberg. They are usually made up of granites or gneisses, but can sometimes be found in other rock types like limestone, sandstone and conglomerate. They are named after Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), the German geologist who first described the feature.

References

More reading

Other websites
Granite Inselbergs of the Central Namib Deserts 
Boulders/Tors/Inselbergs 

Landforms
Tosu, Saga

is a Japanese city in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.

History
In 1874, disagreements with the central government of Japan became an armed conflict.  This was called the .  This involved region of the modern city.

 March 12, 2011 — opening of the  which is operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).   The design won an international award.

Related pages
Sagan Tosu

References

Other websites 

 Tosu website ; http://www.city.tosu.lg.jp/1559.htm

Cities in Kyushu
Settlements in Saga Prefecture
Lorenzo de' Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici (1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. He was called Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by Florentines. He was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets. He is probably best known for what he gave to the world of art. He gave large amounts of money to artists so that they could make very good artwork. When he died, the Golden Age of Florence ended. The peace he helped keep between the many Italian states collapsed when he died. Lorenzo de' Medici is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

Renaissance

Lorenzo was an artist. He wrote poetry in Tuscan.

Lorenzo's agents took a lot of classical works from the east. Lorenzo had a large workshop to copy his books and spread their content across Europe. He supported the development of humanism through his friends who studied Greek philosophers, and tried to merge the ideas of Plato with Christianity. In this group were the philosophers Marsilio Ficino, Poliziano and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

Related pages 
 Medici

More reading 

 Miles J. Unger, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de Medici (Simon and Schuster 2008), biography of Lorenzo.
 Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Morrow-Quill, 1980); general history of the family.
 F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de- Medici and the Art of Magnificence (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); summarises Lorenzo's relationship with the arts.
 Peter Barenboim, Michelangelo Drawings - Key to the Medici Chapel Interpretation ( Moscow, Letny Sad, 2006) .

References

Other websites 

 Works of Lorenzo de' Medici 

1449 births
1492 deaths
Lorenzo I
Renaissance
People from Florence
Italian artists
Kashiwa, Chiba

is a Japanese city in northern Chiba Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

It has been recognized as a core city since 1996.

History
In the Edo period, the area around Kashiwa was directly controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate.  These lands were known as tenryō.

Related pages
 Kashiwa Reysol

References

Other websites

 http://www.city.kashiwa.lg.jp/foreign/english/index.html   
 Kashiwa International Relations Association (KIRA), http://www.kira-kira.jp/english/english.html ;  

Cities in Chiba Prefecture
List of Kashiwa Reysol players

The List of Kashiwa Reysol players is evolving.  The history of the team is created by its players.

Kashiwa Reysol  is a Japanese professional football club in Kashiwa, which is northeast of Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture.

List
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
 Kazushige Kirihata
 Hideaki Kitajima
 Yuzo Kobayashi
 Masahiro Koga
 Naoya Kondo
 Yohei Kurakawa
 Ryoichi Kurisawa
 Hidekazu Otani
 Alceu Rodrigues Simoni Filho
 Masakatsu Sawa
 Françoaldo Sena de Souza
 Minoru Suganuma
 Takanori Sugeno
 Junya Tanaka
 Masato Yamazaki
 Shinya Yoshihara

Related pages 
 Sports in Japan
 List of Japanese football teams

References

Other websites

 Kashiwa Reysol website  ; http://www.reysol.co.jp/main.php 
  J.League Club Guide 

Kashiwa Reysol
Offal

"Offal" is the name for the internal organs or entrails of a dead animal.

It means "eatable parts apart from the muscles". It includes the heart, kidneys, lungs, livers, intestines and brains. The word can also be used to cover other parts of the animal including the tongue, tail and feet. The word offal means the parts that fall off when the animal is cut up for meat. Offal from birds are called "giblets". In some parts of the world people eat offal, and in others doing so is considered taboo or strange.

References
Kyūshū Shinkansen

The  is a Japanese high-speed railway line between  Fukuoka and Kagoshima in Kyushu. The line is operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). 

The southern 127 km opened on 13 March 2004. 

The northern 130 km section opened on 12 March 2011. Service began with a quiet start because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

References

Shinkansen
Jura Mountains

The Jura Hills are a long mountain arc. The Jura rock or stone consists of limestone. It reaches from Lake Geneva to the Rhine River. The Jura Hills are not only in Switzerland, but also in France. The Chasseral is one of the highest hills in the Jura Mountains. It has an altitude of 1607 metres above sea level. The highest part of the Jura Hills is the “Crêt de la Neige“ in France and it is 1718 metres high. Many fossils and dinosaur tracks have been found there. The rocks of the Jura were formed between 144 million and 208 million years ago. The agriculture and winter tourism are very important for the principal economics.

Other websites
 http://www.swissworld.org/en/geography/the_three_regions/the_jura/
 http://www.schweizerseiten.ch/info/chasseral.htm
 http://www.hikr.org/tour/post2378.html

Mountains of Europe
Arkose

Arkose is a kind of sandstone which is rich in the mineral feldspar. It is made mostly of quartz, but also has  at least 25% feldspar. It may also consist of fragments (bits) of rock. Arkose usually contains small amounts of calcite cement, which may also contain iron oxide. Arkose is normally grey to reddish in colour. The sand grains making up arkose are usually coarse.

Arkose is generally formed from the weathering of igneous or metamorphic rocks. These are usually granite rocks, which contain a lot of feldspar and quartz. Arkose is often found with conglomerate deposits where the sediment is made of granite. The  central Australian monolith Uluru is made of late Neoproterozoic/Cambrian arkose, deposited by the erosion of a granite-based mountain range.

References

Sandstones
Justified (TV series)

Justified is an American crime drama television series based on the books written by Elmore Leonard and aired on FX. It is set in Harlan County, Kentucky.

2010 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American television series
American crime drama television series
Harlan County, Kentucky
Spy television series
English-language television programs
Jason Donovan

Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer. Donovan became famous when he played Scott Robinson in Neighbours from 1986 to 1989. He was a contestant in the 2006 series of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing. He hosts a show on Heart Network Radio in the UK on Sunday afternoons.

Early life
Donovan was born in Malvern, Melbourne. He was taught at De La Salle College. He is the son of actor Terence Donovan and newsreader Sue McIntosh. The youngest of his three maternal half-sisters is actress-singer Stephanie McIntosh.

References

Other websites 
Official website

1968 births
Living people
Actors from Melbourne
Australian child actors
Australian movie actors
Australian pop musicians
Australian radio personalities
Australian singers
Australian television actors
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! contestants
Musicians from Melbourne
Strictly Come Dancing participants
Jarret Johnson

Jarret Webster Johnson (born August 14, 1981) is an American Football outside linebacker for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Alabama. Johnson appreciated as an "unsung hero" and defensive leader by Baltimore fans. Johnson has scored two career touchdowns and has been a steady presence on a great Ravens defense.

On March 14, 2012, Johnson signed a 4-year contract with the San Diego Chargers without giving the Ravens a chance to match the offer.

References

1.^ "Johnson signs 4-year deal with Chargers"

1981 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Florida
Baltimore Ravens players
Linebacker

A linebacker is a defensive position in the game of American football. There are two kinds of linebackers. One is the outside linebacker (OLB), whose job is to tackle players, rush the passer, and sometimes drop back in coverage to prevent catches. The middle linebacker (MLB) is often called the "quarterback of the defense," as they direct many formations and are often looked up to as leaders and very good players, mostly handling the job of tackling as well.

Linebackers can appear in different formations, or looks. In a 4-3 defense, there are three linebackers; usually two OLBs and a MLB in the middle.

A 4-4 defense relies more heavily on linebackers. That system includes four linebackers.

Linebackers are often called the original name.
On 4-3 defense 
Strong-side OLB: Sam (S)  MLB: Mike (M)  Weak-side OLB: Willy (W) 

On 4-4 defense
Strong-side OLB: Sam (S)  Strong-side MLB: Mike (M)  Weak-side MLB: Kenny (K)  Weak-side OLB: Willy (W)

American football positions
Lambeau Field

Lambeau Field is a stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. The stadium is home to the Green Bay Packers, an American football team that plays in the National Football League. The stadium is named after Curly Lambeau.

References

Other websites
 Lambeau Field at Packers.com

Football stadiums in the United States
Green Bay Packers
Buildings and structures in Wisconsin
1957 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Wisconsin
Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress. She was born in Newport Beach, California. She starred in Witness, Top Gun and The Accused.

McGillis is openly lesbian.

References

Other websites 

1957 births
Living people
People from Newport Beach, California
Actors from Orange County, California
LGBT people from California
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Lesbians
LGBT actors
Disney XD

Disney XD is an American digital cable and satellite television network. It is owned by Disney and ABC. It started on the Internet in 2007 and began broadcasting as a television network in 2009. Disney XD mostly airs action-oriented children's animated television series, with some live-action programming and movies aimed at ages 6 to 14.

Disney XD broadcasts programming that is created for the network. The original programming includes Zeke and Luther, Kickin' It, Pair of Kings and Lab Rats. The network broadcasts some of the more popular Disney Channel series. These series include The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Wizards of Waverly Place, Phineas and Ferb and So Random!

They also broadcast programs that were shown on other networks. Many of these are based on characters from the Mavel Universe. Disney bought Marvel Comics in 2009. Because of this, more programs based on Marvel comics will be shown on Disney XD starting in April 2012.

Begining in 2019, with the build up towards the launch of Disney+ and especially during its international expansion during 2020, several Disney XD channels worldwide have began to shut down, mostly in regions where Disney+ is already available. 

As of February 1, 2021, only 5 Disney XD channels remain active, with these being present in the following countries: United States, Canada, Latin America, Netherlands and Poland, with the last one being the only one to cover an area where Disney+ is still absent.

Programming

Disney XD's schedule consists largely of animated and live-action programs aimed at pre-teens and young teenagers. Disney XD content is a mixture of former original series as well as programs inherited from sister network Disney Channel. In addition to full-length live-action and animated original series, the channel also debuts short series similar to those seen on Disney Channel during commercial breaks (such as Two More Eggs), which serve as filler for programs scheduled to end during the half-hour and last usually around one to three minutes.

In addition, Disney XD airs original made-for-TV movies from Disney Channel and theatrically released feature films.

Unlike Disney Channel (and similarly, fellow sister network Disney Junior)—whose advertising comes in the form of program promotions, underwriter sponsorships, and interstitials for Disney films, home video, and game releases produced by the channel—Disney XD operates as an advertiser-supported service running traditional television commercials in addition to promotions for the channel's shows.

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Disney companies
American television networks
2007 establishments in the United States
Cable television
Samkranthi

Makar Sankranti, Sankranti or Sankranthi is one of the main festivals in India. It is the first festival of the year in the Gregorian calendar. This festival is celebrated by the people all over India. It marks the transition of the sun into Makara rashi (Capricorn) on its path across the sky. It is celebrated on the 14th or 15th of January. Makar Sankranti is celebrated with social festivities such as colourful decorations, melas (fairs), bonfires and feasts.

Makar Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names, though observed on the same date. It is known as Pedda Panduga in Andhra Pradesh, Makara Sankranti in Karnataka, and by other names.

Hinduism
Andhra Pradesh
Festivals in Asia
D. W. Griffith

David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American movie director. He is best known as the director of the Ku Klux Klan 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation and the 1916 follow-up movie Intolerance. The Birth of a Nation made early use of advanced camera and storytelling techniques. It was a very popular movie. It was also a very controversial movie.  The movie showed African Americans and White anti-racists in a bad way. It also showed slavery and the Ku Klux Klan as good things. The movie was praised by President Woodrow Wilson. He said it was "history written in lightning".  The NAACP boycotted the movie. Griffith responded to all the criticism with another movie, Intolerance. This movie showed the dangers of prejudice. The movie did not make as much money as The Birth of a Nation, but the critics liked it.  Many of Griffith's later movies were critical successes. They did not make a lot of money. Even so, he is one of the most important figures of early movies. Other famous movies by Griffith include Orphans of the Storm and Broken Blossoms.

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American movie directors
1875 births
1948 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Service d'exploitation de la formation aéronautique

The Service d'exploitation de la formation aéronautique (SEFA) was the French national flight school, in nine places in France and managed by the direction générale de l'aviation civile (DGAC). It merged with French Civil Aviation University the 1st of January 2011.

History

1936 - 1946 

SEFA is a direct descendant of a long tradition of state involvement in helping to light aviation. By 1936, the Popular Front creates the "sections d’aviation populaire" (SAP), in order to democratize the flight training for young people and then to train more crew for the French military aviation. In 1946, the "service de l’aviation légère et sportive" (SALS) is created, which purpose is essentially to provide available aircraft and instructors for flying clubs.

1946 - 1976 

In 1955, SALS becomes the "service de la formation aéronautique et des sports aériens" (SFASA), in 1959 the "service de la formation aéronautique, du travail aérien et des transports" (SFATAT), in 1964 it is renamed the "service de la formation aéronautique" (SFA) and finally the "service de la formation aéronautique et du contrôle technique" (SFACT) in 1976. These designations reflect the successive changes in the organization of the civil aviation administration, but also the direct involvement of the State, in flight training. Thus "national centers" will be created, in 1945, for the gliding activities (Challes-les-Eaux, Beynes, Pont-Saint-Vincent, etc.), and then for the flight in piston aircraft (Carcassonne in 1945, Saint-Yan in 1947), and even skydiving (Biscarosse in 1953).

1976 - 1996 

Over the years, the French civil aviation administration gradually withdraw from its activities in the field of gliding and skydiving.
In 1959, the center of Saint-Yan welcomes the first course of airline pilot students (EPL, Elève Pilote de ligne, in English airline pilot student), ushering in a new mission of the SEFA : the training of airline pilots. The national centers were attached to the service of the civil aviation administration in charge of training. The creation of a single management structure was needed.
Thus was created the SEFA in 1993, bringing together under one organization all the necessary needs to implement the tasks entrusted by the DGAC. The direction of the SEFA moved to Muret in 1996, bringing together all central services previously scattered between Saint-Cyr-l'École and Paris.

1996 - 2011 

Finally, on the 1st of January 2011, the SEFA is merged with the French Civil Aviation University in order to create the biggest European aviation school. All the SEFA activities are now providing under the only acronym ENAC.

References

Bibliography 
 Ariane Gilotte, Jean-Philippe Husson and Cyril Lazerge, 50 ans d'Énac au service de l'aviation, Édition S.E.E.P.P, 1999

Other websites 
 Official

Aviation in France
Schools in France
1993 establishments in France
Paris Opéra Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is the oldest national ballet company in the world. Many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It has always been an integral part of the Paris Opéra, which was founded in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra (Academy of Opera). 

Theatrical dance was not an important part of the Paris Opera until 1673. Then was renamed the Académie Royale de Musique (Royal Academy of Music) and placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The Paris Opera has had many different official names during its long history but since 1994 has been called the Opéra National de Paris (Paris Opera). Currently the company presents ballet primarily at the Palais Garnier.

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Ballet companies
Alexis Weissenberg

Alexis Weissenberg (26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a French pianist of Jewish-Bulgarian descent. Technically brilliant, his playing was often described as cold and precise. Weissenberg was born in Sofia and in 1941 was sent to a concentration camp with his family. A guard liked his playing and helped the family escape to Turkey, and then to Jerusalem. In 1946 he moved to New York and studied at the Julliard School of Music. He toured for about ten years, but then did not play in public until 1966 when he performed with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin. He finally settled in Spain, but rarely performed in public.

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1929 births
2012 deaths
Bulgarian Jews
French pianists
Holocaust survivors
Jewish French musicians
People from Sofia
Carlos Soria

Carlos Soria (1 March 1949–1 January 2012) was an Argentine lawyer who became Governor of Rio Negro. A member of the ruling Peronist party, he had been the mayor of General Roca, until his election as governor of the province in October 2011. He died after being shot in the head during an argument at home with his wife.

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1949 births
2012 deaths
Argentine politicians
Bolshoi Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet is a ballet company. It is based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1776. It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world. It achieved worldwide acclaim in the early 20th century when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia. The Bolshoi and the Kirov Ballet are recognised as the foremost ballet companies in Russia.

The origin of the Bolshoi is found in the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage in 1773. In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox to form part of their new theatre company. They performed in privately owned venues. Later they acquired the Petrovsky Theatre. The theatre would later be rebuilt as today's Bolshoi Theatre.

The early history of the Bolshoi Ballet is very sketchy. The company staged many famous ballets. It struggled to compete with the Imperial Russian Ballet of St Petersburg. It was not until Alexander Gorsky became Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity. The company was acclaimed for productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote (1900), Coppélia (1901), Swan Lake (1901), La fille mal gardée (1903), Giselle (1911), Le Corsaire (1912) and La Bayadère (1917).

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Ballet companies
American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre (ABT), is a classical ballet company based in New York City. It has an annual eight week season at the Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center. It tours around the world the rest of the year. American Ballet Theatre was founded in 1937 by Mikhail Mordkin. It is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. American Ballet Theatre is the parent company of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. It was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress.

References

Other websites 
 
 American Ballet Theatre entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica 
 American Ballet Theatre entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia 
 Archive footage of ABT (then Ballet Theatre) performing Interplay in 1949 at Jacob's Pillow
 Daily Telegraph obituary of Georgina Parkinson, December 20, 2009
 NY Times obituary of Georgina Parkinson, December 18, 2009
 NYPL theatrical lighting database, complete lighting paperwork for Fall River Legend

Ballet companies
1937 establishments in the United States
1930s establishments in New York (state)
List of bridges in Calgary

The City of Calgary has a number of bridges, spanning the two main rivers that cross the city, Bow River and Elbow River, as well as some other geographical and physical features.

Crossings

Bow River (west of downtown)

The Bow River enters the city from west, winds around downtown, then runs south. From west to south, the following structures cross the river.

Bow River (downtown)

Bow River (south of downtown)

Elbow River

The Elbow River enters the city in the southwest, then turns north and merges into the Bow River immediately east of downtown. From west to north, the following structures cross the river.

Fish Creek

Fish Creek flows from west to east in the south part of the city, through the Fish Creek Provincial Park. It merges into the Bow River in the southeast quadrant of the city.

Related pages
 List of bridges in Canada

References

Other websites

Bridges in Canada
Lists of bridges
Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977)  was an American actress. She won the 1945 Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce. She was voted the tenth greatest female star in the history of American movies by the American Film Institute.

Biography
Crawford was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her real name was Lucille Fay LeSueur.  She began her career as a dancer. She moved to Hollywood in 1925. She worked in silent movies. She played hard-working young women who wanted love, romance, and glamor. She made "talkies", too. She was given the name "Joan Crawford" from a magazine contest sponsored by MGM.

Crawford won the Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce in 1945.  She made many more movies, but retired in 1970. She died in New York City of a heart attack.

Crawford won success with Letty Lynton (1932). The film is mostly remembered because of the "Letty Lynton dress". This dress was designed by Adrian. It was a white cotton organdy gown with large ruffled sleeves, puffed at the shoulder. It was with this gown that Crawford's broad shoulders began to be accentuated by costume. Macy's copied the dress in 1932, and it sold over 500,000 replicas in the United States.

Crawford was married four times. First to actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and then to actor Franchot Tone. Her third husband was actor Phillip Terry, and her fourth and last husband was Pepsi executive Alfred Steele. Crawford became active in the Pepsi-Cola company after Steele's death.

Crawford adopted four children: Christina, Christopher, and "the twins" Cynthia and Cathy. Christina wrote a bestselling "tell-all" biography called Mommie Dearest. This book alleged that Crawford abused her children. It was made into a movie also called Mommie Dearest.

Notes

References 
Leese, Elizabeth. (1991). Costume Design in the Movies. Dover Books. .

Other websites 
 The Best of Everything: A Joan Crawford Encyclopedia
 
 
 
 Excerpt of 2008 biography from Vanity Fair
 
 

1904 births
1977 deaths
Christian Scientists
Actors from San Antonio, Texas
American movie actors
American radio actors
American silent movie actors
American television actors
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
Deaths from myocardial infarction
List of governors of Japan

This is a list of current governors of the prefectures of Japan.

References 

Governors of Japan

Lists of Japanese people
Fukui Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan on the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Fukui.

History 
In the early Meiji period, Fukui was created by the merger of Wakasa Province and Echizen Province.

Geography 
The prefecture faces the Sea of Japan.  It shares a northern border with Ishikawa Prefecture. East of Fukui are Gifu Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture.  Kifu's southern border meets Kyoto Prefecture.

Cities
Fukui Prefecture includes the following cities:
Awara
Echizen
Fukui (capital city)
Katsuyama
Obama
Ōno
Sabae
Sakai
Tsuruga

National Parks
National Parks are established in about 15% of the total land area of the prefecture.

Shrines and Temples
Wakashiko jinja and Kehi jinja are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan
 Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

References

Other websites 

 Fukui Prefecture webiste
Nagano Prefecture

is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan on the island of Honshu. The capital city is Nagano. The capital is the city of Nagano.

History 
Nagano Prefecture was created from the area of the former Shinano Province.

Nagano was host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Geography
Nagano Prefecture is south of Niigata Prefecture.  The eastern borders of Nagano meet Gunma Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka  Prefecture.  Nagano's souther border is shared with Aichi Prefecture.  The western borders of the prefecture are shared with Toyama Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture.

National Parks
National Parks are established in about 21% of the total land area of the prefecture.

Shrines and Temples
Suwa jinja is the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

 Nagano Prefecture Tourism website