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Cigarette

Cigarettes can be any dried leaf that people roll in thin paper to smoke, but the word is most often used to refer  ones with dried tobacco leaves. The nicotine in the tobacco can be addictive to people. The nicotine from cigarettes makes people want to smoke more, even if they do not like the taste or its other effects. The smoke also has other things that are bad for people's health. Many countries have laws saying who can smoke tobacco cigarettes and where they can smoke them. They can cause lung cancer, heart disease and many other diseases. Most packs of cigarettes have warning labels on them. Until the mid-1950s, cigarettes were advertised as being healthy or at least not harmful. Tobacco companies used images of doctors smoking in their advertisements to falsely convince the public that cigarettes were safe. Cigarettes were advertised as a remedy for throat irritation, the common cold, obesity, indigestion, and even asthma. Today, all of the major tobacco companies admit that cigarettes are harmful to health.

Dangers 
Smokers have symptoms such as frequent coughing, chest pain, and breathlessness. Doctors say that people should not smoke, as it can harm almost every organ in the body.

Cigarette smoke contains many harmful substances. Among them are nicotine, tar, carcinogens and carbon monoxide.
 Nicotine is a drug that is addictive. It damages brain tissue. 
 Tar is a sticky substance that kills cells and causes lung cancer.
 Carcinogens are substances that cause cancer.
 Carbon monoxide is a colourless and poisonous gas that stops hemoglobin from taking oxygen around the body.
 Filtered, light, ultra-light, menthol, natural, nicotine-free, and electronic cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
 Nicotine in cigarettes is as addictive as cocaine and heroin.
 Other tobacco products, such as cigars and chewing tobacco, are not a safe alternative to cigarettes.
 Improperly extinguished cigarettes are a common cause of house fires.
 Smoking near fuel or flammable chemicals can cause a fire or explosion.

Notable brands 
 Marlboro
 Camel
 Lucky Strike
 Kool
 Pall Mall

References

Smoking
Gdańsk

Gdańsk is a city in the north of Poland in Pomeranian Voivodeship, near the place where the Vistula river meets the Baltic Sea. It is Poland's 6th largest city (population of 500 000 people) and the largest and most important sea port.

It has existed since the 10th century and many times played a very important role in Poland's history. In the 19th century it was part of Prussia. This is where Solidarity, the movement which helped end Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, came to life.

Gdansk has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).

Wikimania 
The sixth Wikimania was hosted in this city in 2010.

Related pages 
 Golden Gate in Gdańsk

References 

 
Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea
Montserrat

Montserrat is a Caribbean island. It is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The governor of Montserrat is Deborah Barnes-Jones. The capital is officially Plymouth, but the government has moved to Brades after a volcano, Chances Peak, destroyed Plymouth in 1995.

Before the island was called Montserrat, Kalinago and Taíno people had lived in the region for a long time. They knew it as Alliouagana. 

Montserrat was colonized mostly by Irish Catholics. They brought many black slaves to the island and forced them to work on sugar plantations. The work the slaves made many plantations grow wealthy. When slavery was made illegal in the 1830s, the British Empire paid all the slave owners.

References 

 
Caribbean Community
Electromagnetic radiation

Electromagnetic waves are waves that contain an electric field and a magnetic field and carry energy. They travel at the speed of light.

Quantum mechanics developed from the study of electromagnetic waves. This field includes the study of both visible and invisible light. Visible light is the light one can see with normal eyesight in the colours of the rainbow. Invisible light is light one can't see with normal eyesight and includes more energetic and higher frequency waves, such as ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays. Waves with longer lengths, such as infrared, micro and radio waves, are also explored in the field of Quantum mechanics.

Some types of electromagnetic radiation, such as X-rays, are ionizing radiation and can be harmful to your body. 
Ultraviolet rays are near the violet end of the light spectrum and infrared are near the red end.  Infrared rays are heat rays and ultraviolet rays cause sunburn.

The various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum differ in wavelength, frequency and quantum energy.

Sound waves are not electromagnetic waves but waves of pressure in air, water or any other substance.

Mathematical formulation
In physics, it is well known that the wave equation for a typical wave is

The problem now is to prove that Maxwell's equations explicitly prove that the electric and magnetic fields create electromagnetic radiation. Recall that two of Maxwell's equations are given by

By  evaluating the curl of the above equations and vector calculus one can prove the following equations

Note: the proof involves making the substitution

The equations above are analogous to the wave equation, by replacing f with E and B. The above equations mean that propagations through the magnetic (B) and electric (E) fields will produce waves.

Related pages 
 Photon

References

Other websites
 Electromagnetic Waves from Maxwell's Equations   on Project PHYSNET.
Conversion of frequency to wavelength and back - electromagnetic, radio and sound waves
eBooks on Electromagnetic radiation and RF
The Science of Spectroscopy  - supported by NASA. Spectroscopy education wiki and films - introduction to light, its uses in NASA, space science, astronomy, medicine & health, environmental research, and consumer products.

 
Electromagnetism
Miami Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins is an American football club in the National Football League team based in Miami, Florida, USA. The Dolphins began playing in 1966 and in 1972 they had the only perfect season in NFL history and won a Super Bowl, with Bob Griese leading the team as quarterback. Another quarterback, Dan Marino, is a more recent famous player from this club.  The Miami Dolphins stadium is Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fl.

References

Sports in Miami, Florida
National Football League teams
1966 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Florida
Oksana Grishuk

Oksana Vladimirovna Grishuk (born March 17, 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian retired ice dancer. She and her partner, Evgeny Platov, won two Olympic gold medals and four world championships.

Grishuk began training in skating at the age of four. She moved to Moscow in 1986, and studied at the Sport University from 1988 to 1992.

After they won the gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Platov decided to skate as a professional with a different partner, Maya Usova, so Grishuk began skating professionally alone.

Amateur competitions
World Championships:  first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
Olympics:  gold medal in 1994 and 1998
European Championships:  first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998

References

Other websites

 The largest fansite about Oksana Grishuk, AKA Pasha  
 Oksana Grishuk's official website 
 Platov and Usova site

1972 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists
People from Odessa
Russian figure skaters
Evgeny Platov

Evgeny Platov (born August 7, 1967, Odessa, Ukraine).

He was a Russian dancer, and began skating when he was nine years old.  He studied at the Physical Institute of Culture in Moscow.  

Platov won two Olympic gold medals and four world championships with his partner, Oksana Grishuk 

After the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Platov started skating as a professional with a different partner, Maya Usova, until he retired from performing in 2002.  He is now a coach at Princeton Sports Center in Princeton, New Jersey.

Amateur competitions
World Championships:  first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
Olympics:  gold medal in 1994 and 1998
European Championships:  first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998

References

Other websites

 Platov and Usova site

1972 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists
Russian figure skaters
Tetris

A tetris is a tile-matching puzzle game, developed in the Soviet Union in 1984. The game has a simple goal of destroying lines of block before it reaches the top. The line is made up of a square block. etrominoes is the shape of the 4 connected blocks that falls vertically down. The player will have to use the tetrominos to create lines that fill the box horizontally, this will clear the lines of blocks. The game continues, the lines of blocks that is not completely filled will drop down as many lines that were cleared. The game has levels of difficulties which rises as the game is being played.

Tetris has appeared in many video game system. It has become very common from back when Alexey Pajitnov first made it in 1984. With over 170 million copies sold, it is the 2nd best-selling video game of all time.

Gameplay

The goal is to drop blocks, called tetrominoes, down into a playing field to make lines. Tetriminoes are made of four connected squares each  There are seven different types of tetrominoes. Levels have a set goal, or number of lines to clear. When the goal number reaches zero, the player moves to the next level. As the levels go up, the tetrominoes fall faster. A player receives bonus points if he can clear more than one line with a single tetromino. Clearing four lines is called a "tetris", three lines a "triple" and two lines a "double". Clearing two tetrises in a row is called a back-to-back tetris. The player can also turn a T-shaped tetromino into a hole, called a T-slot, to get more points. This move is called a "T-spin". A player loses when the tetrominoes make it to the top of the playing field. See "Issues" for information on the Level 29 Problem.

Music
On the Game Boy, there are several musical themes played. The theme for level 1 and used in the Game Boy version is often called the "Tetris Theme". It is actually a Russian dance called Korobeiniki, or "The Peddlers." Other themes include music by Johann Sebastian Bach and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Issues
When you reach Level 28 on the GBA(Game Boy Advance) or NES(Nintendo Entertainment System), the pieces will start falling so fast that the player can hardly move the tetrominoes at all. This means that those pieces will all pile up on the playfield and cause the player to lose.

References

1984 video games
Moldova

Moldova is a country in Eastern Europe. Its full name is the Republic of Moldova (, .) It used to be called Moldavia. It borders Ukraine to the north and Romania to the south.

The official language in Moldova is the Romanian language. The capital of Moldova is Chișinău.

The Russian Empire took almost half of the Principality of Moldova in 1812 and called it Bessarabia.  Between 1918 - 1940 and 1941-1944 it was part of the Kingdom of Romania. It became independent from the Soviet Union after its dissolution. 

The average monthly salary/wages are still low, standing at only $243 USD.  Moldova is an associated country for future membership in the European Union.

Related pages
 List of rivers of Moldova
 Moldova at the Olympics
 Moldova national football team

References
Georgia

Georgia could mean either of two things:
Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus
Georgia (U.S. state), one of the states in the United States of America

Related pages
Georgian, a disambiguation page
Kryptos

Kryptos is the name of a sculpture (art that is like a statue) on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia, USA.  Kryptos is very famous.  It has codes (secret hidden messages) on it.  There are four messages.  People know what three of the messages say.  No one knows what the fourth message says yet.

A man named Jim Sanborn made Kryptos in 1990.  Kryptos is in a garden in the middle of a building called CIA Headquarters.  

Not very many people have seen Kryptos, because only a few people are allowed to go into the CIA building.  They do very important work at the CIA, and have to be very careful.

The word Kryptos comes from the Greek language.  It means "hidden".

The sculpture is about 12 feet high and 20 feet long.  It is made of metal and different kinds of rocks. It has thousands of letters and other things written in the metal. 

The first person to find out what the first three messages say, was Jim Gillogly.  He learned the answers in 1999.  After he said what the answer was, the CIA said that a man who works at the CIA, David Stein, knew the answer too.  A few years later the NSA (another agency in Washington D.C.) said that they had people who had solved it too.

Before he made Kryptos, Jim Sanborn had not made any other sculptures with letters on them.  After Kryptos he made many other sculptures with letters on them.  Some of them have secret messages. One is called Antipodes.  There are two copies of Antipodes.  One belongs to a man in California.  The other is in a museum in Washington DC called the Hirshhorn Museum.  

Another sculpture that Sanborn made which has secret messages is called the Cyrillic Projector.  It has secret messages in Russian.  The Cyrillic Projector was independently cracked by Michael Bales and Frank Corr in 2003.

There are two famous books that talk about Kryptos, which were written by Dan Brown. He wrote a book in 2003 called The Da Vinci Code.  On the cover of the book is art.  In the art there are secret messages.  Two of the messages talk about Kryptos.  Dan Brown wrote another book in 2009 called The Lost Symbol, which also talks about Kryptos.

Other websites
The CIA website about Kryptos 
NY Times Library An article in the newspaper (The New York Times: CIA's Artistic Enigma Reveals All but Final Clues, – June 16, 1999)
Elonka Dunin's Kryptos page
Washington Post ("Cracking the Code of a CIA Sculpture" – July 19, 1999)
New York Times article and other articles  ("Gillogly Cracks CIA Art", & "The Kryptos Code Unmasked")
Wired News ("Solving the Enigma of Kryptos" – January 21, 2005)
CNN story, "Cracking the Code", June 19, 2005

Pictures of Kryptos from high up in the sky
Windows Live Local - Several images. (zoom in and click on aerial / bird's eye links at left)
Terraserver-USA
Google Maps

Sculptures
Virginia
Lech Wałęsa

Lech Walesa (Polish: Lech Wałęsa (pronounced [lɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa])) (born September 29, 1943) was a Polish shipyard worker, trade unionist and a politician who used to be the leader of Solidarity and the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.

References

1943 births
Living people
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Nonviolence advocates
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Polish Nobel Prize winners
Polish Roman Catholics
Presidents of Poland
Time People of the Year
Trade unionists
List of Dutch football teams

These are some Dutch football (soccer) teams.

Eredivisie (Honour Division)
Season 2018/19
 ADO Den Haag
 Ajax
 AZ Alkmaar
 Emmen
 SBV Excelsior
 Feyenoord Rotterdam
 Fortuna Sittard
 De Graafschap
 FC Groningen
 SC Heerenveen
 Heracles Almelo
 NAC Breda
 PEC Zwolle
 PSV Eindhoven
 FC Utrecht
 Vitesse
 VVV-Venlo
 Willem II

Eerste Divisie (First Division)
 Almere City FC
 Cambuur Leeuwarden
 FC Den Bosch
 FC Dordrecht
 FC Eindhoven
 Excelsior
 Fortuna Sittard
 Go Ahead Eagles
 De Graafschap
 Helmond Sport
 MVV
 FC Oss
 Sparta Rotterdam
 Telstar
 BV Veendam
 FC Volendam

Lists of football teams
Charles de Gaulle

General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a French military and political leader. He was president of France from 1959 to 1969. He was a founding member and leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War. He died of an aneurysm.

De Gaulle chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to re-establish democracy in France.

In 1958, he came out of retirement: the Algerian War was happening. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after it was by a referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was re-elected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.

The National Assembly brought him back to power in May 1958. He granted independence to Algeria. 900,000 French people in Algeria (called les pieds-noire) left for France. The Organisation armée secrète (OAS) tried to kill him. Frederick Forsyth used this incident as a basis for his novel The Day of the Jackal.

After the Algerian conflict, de Gaulle wanted to improve the French economy, and have an independent foreign policy. This was called by foreign observers the "politics of grandeur" (politique de grandeur). See Gaullism.

The French economy recorded high growth rates. In 1964, for the first time in nearly 100 years, France's GDP overtook that of the United Kingdom. This period is still remembered in France with some nostalgia as the peak of the Trente Glorieuses ("Thirty Glorious Years" of economic growth between 1945 and 1974).

De Gaulle had many admirers, but he was also one of the most hated men in modern French history.

His most famous saying was: "L'etat? c'est moi!", roughly "The State? it's me!"

References 

1890 births
1970 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in France
Deaths from aneurysm
French generals
French people of World War II
Prime Ministers of France
People from Lille
Presidents of France
Time People of the Year
Sumatran tiger

The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is the smallest tiger subspecies. It is listed as critically endangered. They are in danger due to hunting and the destruction of their habitat. It is estimated that there are only about 400-700 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.

The Sumatran tiger lives only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It can be found in low and highland areas, mountainous jungles, and peat swamp forests.

Description

Like other tiger subspecies, the Sumatran tiger has deep orange fur with black stripes. Every tiger has its own pattern of stripes, with none being the same. The Sumatran tiger has very long back legs, which allow it to jump great distances. Even though they are the smallest of the tiger subspecies, Sumatran tigers are still very large, reaching to the length of 9 feet (2.7 meters), and weighing up to 165-250 pounds (75–114 kg). Sumatran tigers have webbed feet. This allows them to swim easily.

Where they live 

The Sumatran tiger is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where the Sumatran tiger can be found from low and highland areas, to mountainous jungles and peat swamp forests.

Feeding
Sumatran tigers ambush their prey, using their long, powerful legs, jaws, and claws to catch and kill their prey. They have extremely good eyesight and hearing, which helps them to find their prey. Sumatran tigers feed mainly on wild boar and deer, and they can eat more than 40 pounds of meat at a time.

Reproduction
Female Sumatran tigers reach maturity at the age of around three to four years. Males turn mature at the age of around four to five years. Females are pregnant for about 95–110 days, and the females give birth in hidden and private areas and raise the cubs alone. They give birth to around 2-3 cubs at a time, but they can sometimes give birth to six cubs. The cubs’ eyes are closed at birth, and they don’t open fully until the cub is one or two weeks old. Cubs feed on milk for three to six months and start hunting with their mother at the age of about five or six months. They will stay with their mother until they are fully able to hunt on their own, which doesn’t happen until the cubs are at least 18 months to 2 years old. In the wild, Sumatran tigers live an average of 15 years.

References

Other websites

The Sumatran Tiger Trust 
Tiger Facts - Sumatran Tiger

Tigers
Indonesia
8 Mile

8 Mile is a 2002 American drama movie starring rapper Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy and Mekhi Phifer. It is set in 1995 in Detroit, Michigan.

The film tells about a young white rapper living in inner city Detroit. He tries to make a rap career but most rappers are African Americans.

The film was a critical and financial success. Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself".

Other websites

References

2002 drama movies
American drama movies
American musical movies
Eminem
English-language movies
Movies set in Detroit, Michigan
Movies set in the 1990s
Movies that won the Best Original Song Academy Award
Universal Pictures movies
Movies directed by Curtis Hanson
1800s



Events 
Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). 
Semaphore is adopted by navies. 
The United Kingdom was founded (1801)

World leaders 
 Emperor Napoleon I (First French Empire)
 Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
 Frederick William III of Prussia (Prussia)
 Pope Pius VII
 Tsar Paul I (Russia)
 Tsar Alexander I (Russia)
 King Charles IV (Spain)
 King George III, (United Kingdom)
 President John Adams (United States)
 President Thomas Jefferson (United States)
 Fath Ali Shah of Qajar dynasty (Persia)
 Jiaqing Emperor of China (Qing Dynasty)
Macy Gray

Macy Gray (born Natalie Renee McIntyre on September 9, 1967) is an American singer and actress. She started her career after moving to Los Angeles in 2000. Gray is best known for her 1999 single, "I Try", which came off of her first album, On How Life Is.

Discography

Albums
1999: On How Life Is
2001: The Id
2003: The Trouble with Being Myself
2004: The Very Best of Macy Gray
2005: Live in Las Vegas
2007: Big
2010: The Sellout
2012: Covered
2012: Talking Book

References

Other websites 

Actors from Ohio
African American actors
African American musicians
American movie actors
American R&B singers
American soul musicians
American television actors
American voice actors
Brit Award winners
Grammy Award winners
People from Canton, Ohio
Singers from Ohio
1967 births
Living people
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama movie starring Orson Welles in his first full-length movie. There are rumors that its story is based on the life of the famous businessmen William Randolph Hearst, Howard Hughes, and Samuel Insull. Welles said that his character, Kane, was based on more than one famous person. In F for Fake (1974), he said that Kane was going to be based on Hughes but that Welles became inspired by Hearst.

Welles worked closely with his cinematographer, Gregg Toland, who was in charge of the camera and the lights. Together, they worked on a new style, "deep focus." Usually, if something close to the camera is in focus, everything that is far away is out of focus. In deep focus, every object is in focus at the same time.

Its working title, before the movie was finished, was RKO 281.

Many have called Citizen Kane the best movie of all time. In 1998, it was number one on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years... 100 Movies.

It is in some ways is like The Power and the Glory (1933).

The last living crew member was director Robert Wise. Also known for making The Sound of Music (1965), he died on September 14, 2005.

Other websites 

 
 The American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Movies" list 
 Original Trailer 
 Greatest Films: Citizen Kane
 Essay  on the use of mise-en-scene and cinematography
 RaveCentral: Citizen Kane 

1941 movies
1940s drama movies
American drama movies
American mystery movies
Cult movies
Movies composed by Bernard Herrmann
United States National Film Registry movies
Movies directed by Orson Welles
Sedan (disambiguation)

Sedan can mean any of a few things:
A sedan is a car body style
The much older form of transport, the sedan chair, from which the name of the car body style is borrowed.
Sedan, Ardennes, a sous-préfecture of the Ardennes département in France, where the Battle of Sedan occurred in 1870
Sedan, Kansas, a community in the United States
Sedan, Minnesota, a community in the United States
 Sedan (nuclear test), an Operation Plowshare nuclear test conducted by the United States at its Nevada Test Site in 1962, which resulted in a massive crater.
Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive invented by Alfred Nobel. Its main explosive component is nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is very sensitive to movement. It explodes very easily, when moved. For this reason, it is absorbed into diatomaceous earth to make it less sensitive. Diatomaceous earth is a soft, sedimentary rock made of fossil diatoms. In dynamite, about one part of four is diatomaceous earth, the other three are nitroglycerin. A little sodium carbonate is added to stabilize the mixture. 

Even though the diatomaceous earth takes away some of the dangers of nitroglycerin, there are still problems because the mixture is not stable in damp environments. Water causes the nitroglycerin to leak away. The nitroglycerin can build up, and explode unexpectedly. 

For this reason, the formulation was changed. Instead of diatomaceous earth, gelignite was used to hold the nitroglycerin. Gelignite holds the nitroglycerin so that it cannot dissolve in water. 

Today, dynamite is not much used. It has been replaced by explosives based on ammonium nitrate which use gelignite. These explosives cost less to make and are easier to handle than dynamite. However, works of fiction still show people using dynamite.

Explosives
Tools
Construction
Demolition
Guano

Guano is the excrement of bats and birds. This excrement is exceptionally high in nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, three nutrients which are essential for plant growth. Therefore, it is often used as fertilizer, to make plants grow more quickly.

Related pages 
 Uric acid

Physiology
Biochemistry
1790s



Events 

 French Revolution
 Supreme Court of the United States meets for first time.
 Whiskey Rebellion in the United States.

World leaders 
 King Louis XVI (France)
 Maximilien Robespierre (France)
 King George III (Great Britain)
 Emperor Leopold II (Holy Roman Empire)
 Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
 Frederick William II of Prussia, King of Prussia
 Emperor Kangxi (China)
 Pope Pius VI
 Empress Catherine II (Russia)
 Emperor Paul (Russia)
 King Charles IV (Spain)
 President George Washington (United States)
 President John Adams (United States)
 Shahs of Persia (Zand dynasty and Qajar dynasty)
 Lotf Ali Khan, 1789–1794
 Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, 1796–1797
 Fath Ali Shah, 1797–1834

Births 

 Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (1790)
 Samuel Morse, American inventor (1791)
 Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and President of Mexico (1794)

Deaths 

 Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman (1790)
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1791)
 George Washington, first President of the United States (1799)
Triple point

The triple point of any substance is the combination of temperature and pressure at which it exists in its solid, liquid, and gaseous state all at once, in equilibrium.

The temperature of the triple point of water is a commonly used physical constant which is used to define temperature scales and calibrate temperature-measuring systems.

By definition, the temperature of the triple point of water is 273.16 Kelvin, or 0.01°C at a pressure of 611.5 Pa (less than 1% of atmospheric pressure). One degree Celsius is defined as 1/273.16th part of the triple point of water. This fixes the temperature scale as defined in the ITS 90, which is the international temperature scale of 1990. This scale is developed as a practical approximation of the thermodynamical temperature scale.

Chemistry
Thermodynamics
Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

Early life
The reason why he is called "Snoop Dogg" is because his mother nicknamed him after a character called "Snoopy", because Snoop Dogg was a fan of the Peanuts cartoon, which has the Snoopy character.

Musical career

2012–2013: Reincarnated
In 2012, Snoop Dogg went to Jamaica. He studied the Rastafari movement. He changed his name to Snoop Lion, after the Lion of Judah. This is a name from the tribe of Judah. It is sometimes used to describe Haile Selassie, who is worshipped by Rastafarians. His 2013 album, Reincarnated, is his first reggae music album.

Discography

Studio albums
 Doggystyle (1993)
 Tha Doggfather (1996)
 Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998)
 No Limit Top Dogg (1999)
 Tha Last Meal (2000)
 Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss (2002)
 R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004)
 Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006)
 Ego Trippin' (2008)
 Malice n Wonderland (2009)
 Doggumentary (2011)
 Reincarnated (2013)
 Bush (2015)
 Coolaid (2016)
 Neva Left (2017)
 Bible of Love (2018)
 I Wanna Thank Me (2019)
 From tha Streets 2 tha Suites (2021)
 The Algorithm (2021)

Collaboration albums
 Snoop Dogg presents Tha Eastsidaz with Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
 Duces 'n Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way with Tha Eastsidaz (2001)
 The Hard Way with 213 (2004)
 Mac & Devin Go to High School with Wiz Khalifa (2011)
 7 Days of Funk with 7 Days of Funk (2013)
 Royal Fam with Tha Broadus Boyz (2013)
 Cuzznz with Daz Dillinger (2016)

Filmography

References

Notes

Citations

Other websites

 
 Snoopdog TV on YouTube
 
 
 

1971 births
Living people
Actors from Long Beach, California
African-American movie actors
African American movie producers
African American musicians
African-American television actors
Rap musicians from California
American television producers
People from Long Beach, California
Singers from Los Angeles County, California
Gangsta rappers
Twitch (service) streamers
Malayan tiger

The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is a subspecies of the tiger that was discovered in 2004. People used to think they were Indo-Chinese tigers, But now they have their own subspecies. They have the same length and weight as the Indo-Chinese tiger. They live in southern Malaysia and they are an endangered species.

Related pages 
 Bali tiger
 Bengal tiger
 Caspian tiger
 Indochinese tiger
 Javan tiger
 Ngandong tiger
 Siberian tiger
 Sumatran tiger
 South China tiger
 Trinil tiger
 Wanhsien tiger

 

Tigers
Endangered species
Caspian tiger

The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) is an extinct sub species of the tiger. It was the most western sub species of the tiger, very close to Europe. They became extinct in the 1970s. They were found in Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Iran, Mongolia, and  Georgia.

Recent research by scientists looking at the tiger's DNA, have found that it is almost identical to the Siberian tiger. They now believe that the two species of tiger may not have become separate until the 1900s.

Description
The Caspian tiger was the second largest of the tiger species. It had a bigger, muscular body, with longer strong legs. It had large paws and more claws. It had small, short ears. The color was different from other tiger subspecies, with yellow to gold fur with light to dark brown stripes. The chest and stomach area are white with yellow stripes. In winter it grew longer fur. It was the furriest of all the tiger subspecies.

References

Tigers
Mammals of Pakistan
Extinct species
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical musical movie. It starred James Cagney as George M. Cohan.

Other websites 

1942 movies
American musical movies
American biographical movies
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American comedy-drama movie, starring Spencer Tracy (in his final film role), Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton. It centers around what happens between a young white woman and her parents, after she falls in love with a black man in San Francisco.

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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American comedy movie starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Howard Hawks. It is set in Connecticut.

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The Searchers

The Searchers is a 1956 epic western movie set in Texas in the 1860s. it is directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, about a man looking for his niece who was taken by Native Americans. It is also one of the movies that influenced Star Wars.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical crime movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is about life in the Mafia.

It gained six nominations for Oscars. It won one (for Joe Pesci's role).  Many people thought the movie was great.

It is set in New York City. The movie is based on the life of mafioso Henry Hill (1943-2012) from 1955 - 1980. Goodfellas uses information from New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy.  Scorsese and Pileggi worked together to write the movie.

Goodfellas was first shown at the 1990 Venice Film Festival.  Scorsese received the Silver Lion award for Best Director.

Director David Chase said the movie made him want to make the HBO television series The Sopranos.

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Soldier

A soldier is a person who is a part of an army. Soldiers have existed for many years, dating back to ancient times.

If people fight in irregular (not normal forces) armies not wearing a uniform, and not part of the official military (fighting group of a nation), they are called partisans if they fight against another nation's army, or terrorists, if they fight civilians. Partisans and terrorists are less protected by the laws of war than soldiers.

Soldiers can be volunteers or conscripts. A conscript is a person who has been forced to become a soldier and fight. In countries such as Switzerland, Israel, and Finland, men are conscripted for a few months once they become legal adults.

There are many different kinds of soldiers, and the term to describe them changes depending on their job and part of the military they serve in. For example, soldiers that serve in the navy can be called sailors or seamen.

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Yellowstone River

The Yellowstone River is a river in the northwestern part of the United States.  It is a tributary of the Missouri River and flows through the states of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota. It also flows through Yellowstone National Park and feeds Yellowstone Lake. 

The Yellowstone River was first explored in 1806 by William Clark during the return trip of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Unicorn

A unicorn is a legendary and mythical creature. It looks like a pony with one long, single and white  horn on its head. The word unicorn means literally "one-horn". It comes from the Latin word ūnus, which means one, and cornu which means horn, which term is in itself borrowed from the earlier Greek word monokerōs (also 'one horned').

Unicorns are found in many stories and myths from different parts of the world, especially China and India. Its blood and horn usually have mystical powers. In Western culture, its horn is said to have power (often called alicorn in medieval literature) to heal wounds and sickness, and to neutralize poison.

In mythology and heraldry unicorn symbolizes innocence, purity and feminine power. It is often seen as the counterpart of lion, which symbolizes the masculine virtues.

The unicorn is the official animal of Scotland.

In some pictures unicorns also have horses feet or a lion's tail. 

A Narwhal is an animal that is about 8 feet long. They live in the water around Canada and Greenland. Narwhal’s horns were said to be the horns of unicorns by some. People would sell the horn of a narwhal to others and say it was a horn of a unicorn.
Christian legends say the Unicorn is as small as a normal sized goat. They are so fearful that no hunter can catch them. Only a maiden that goes into the forest alone can catch a unicorn. The unicorn will come and fall asleep in the maiden’s lap. Around the time of the Middle Ages, some stories of unicorns became more popular. People bought what were said to be the horns of a unicorn at very high prices. They were mostly a tusk of a walrus or a horn from a narwhal. 

The term unicorn is also used in business to refer to a business startup valued at a billion dollars or more.

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Unicorns in history 
In On the Nature of Animals (Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India has also a one-horned horse (iii. 41; iv. 52), and says (xvi. 20) that the monoceros () was sometimes called cartazonos (), which may be a kind of the Arabic karkadann, meaning "rhinoceros".

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Sources
 Lindahl, Carl. "Unicorn." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2012. Web.  29 Nov. 2012.
 SuperScience: Mythical Creatures Revealed. Scholastic, May 2006. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. <http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11851 >.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the territorial capital of the Northern Territory in Australia. The city has about 147,000 people living there. The city is named after Charles Darwin. A member of the crew of the ship that started a port there in 1839 named it Port Darwin in honor of Darwin, who had sailed on that same ship earlier.
Most of Darwin has been built since 1974, when Cyclone Tracy ripped through and destroyed the city. Since then, the city has recovered. It is a very important port, because it is on the coast closest to Indonesia and the rest of Asia. Darwin also has a large military base.

Darwin also has many Indigenous Australians living in the city, about 9.7% of the people. This is more than any other state capital in Australia.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a territory of Australia. The capital city is Darwin. Other large towns in the Territory include Alice Springs, Katherine and Tenant Creek.

The Northern Territory has large areas of desert. It has many important places such as Uluru, or Ayers Rock. The rock is sacred to the native people.

Kakadu National Park is a World Heritage area. It has been lived in for more than 40,000 years. There are cave paintings, rock carvings and archaeological sites. These show the skills and way of life of the people who have lived there. The park has different ecosystems, including tidal flats, floodplains, lowlands and rocky gorges. It provides a place to live for a wide range of rare types of plants and animals.

Floral Emblem 

The floral emblem of the Northern Territory is Sturt's Desert Rose, Gossypium sturtianum. The flower is also featured on the Territory's flag. It was named after explorer Charles Sturt who found the plant in creeks near the site of Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1844.
The Fauna emblem is the Red Kangaroo.

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Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion against the federal government of the United States. Some farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled against the United States government in 1794 because they believed that a new tax on whiskey was not fair. Selling whiskey was how people traded in western Pennsylvania, but farmers elsewhere did not need to sell whiskey. 

The United States had borrowed a large amount of money for the American Revolutionary War, and Alexander Hamilton offered the idea to try to pay the war debt. The government under George Washington, with advice from Alexander Hamilton, quickly stopped the rebellion. Washington and Hamilton wanted to ensure that no one would question the power of the federal government and so Washington himself led almost 13,000 troops to stop the rebellion of a few hundred farmers. The rebels went home before the army arrived.

The new federal government became more solid and the president more powerful. Numerous examples of resistance are recorded in court documents and newspaper accounts.

That is the only time in American history that a president has led the army by himself.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (; born July 3, 1962), widely known as Tom Cruise, is an American movie actor and producer. He has starred in many movies, including War of the Worlds and Jerry Maguire. He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.

His first movie was Endless Love.  His first leading role was in the movie Risky Business.  He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.  These were for the same movies: Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999).

Early life
Tom Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III (died 1984), an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. Cruise's surname originates from his great-grandfather, born Thomas Cruise O'Mara, who was renamed "Thomas Cruise Mapother" (Mapother is a Welsh surname). Cruise is of Irish, German and English ancestry. One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in North County Dublin, in 1799; he married Teresa Johnson in Warrenstown House, County Meath, in 1825. They left Ireland for America that same year and settled in New York.

Personal life
Cruise is a Scientologist. He is one of the most famous members of the organization.

Cruise has an adopted daughter and adopted son with his second wife Nicole Kidman. He has a daughter Suri (born April 2006), by Katie Holmes. He and Holmes married in November 2006 and separated in 2012.

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Orgy

There is also the alternative metal band Orgy (band).

In common use, an orgy is when more than two people have sex together, sometimes also called group sex.
This dates back to prehistoric ages, recorded in many ancient civilizations. 

Orgy could also mean any activity done without limits.

Originally, the word comes from Latin. There it referred to a feast (or a banquet) of a rich citizen. When the Romans ate they were almost lying down, and the food was brought to them by slaves. These slaves would also provide the entertainment which usually consisted of music and dancing slaves.

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Jilin

Jilin is one of 3 provinces in the far northeastern part of China, also known as Manchuria.  It is bordered on the north by Heilongjiang province, to the west by the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", and to the southwest by Liaoning province. To the southeast lies North Korea.

The capital city of Jilin is Changchun (meaning "long spring").

The terrain and climate are much like that of neighboring Heilongjiang province.  Also like its neighboring provinces, one of the main agricultural products is corn, as the climate is too cold (and dry) for satisfactory rice cultivation.

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Blade

A blade is the flat, sharp part of a tool or weapon used to cut or stab, such as a knife or sword. Most blades have handles. Blades can be used to stab, cut, or separate things. It can also be the top part of grass or the leaf of a plant. Blades come in all different sizes and shapes, sharpness and materials.

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Anastacia

Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, best known as Anastacia , (born September 17, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter and stylist.

Anastacia's father was of German ancestry; her mother is of Irish ancestry.

Anastacia has had several health problems in her life. She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when she was 13. In early 2003 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery to remove it. She was again diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2013. On October 1, 2013 she told the media that she has had both of her breasts removed.

Albums  
 2000: Not That Kind
 2001: Freak of Nature
 2004: Anastacia
 2005: Pieces of a Dream
 2008: Heavy Rotation
 2012: It's a Man's World
 2014: Resurrection
 2015: Ultimate Collection
 2017: Evolution

Singles 

 2000: I'm Outta Love
 2000: Not That Kind
 2001: Cowboys & Kisses
 2001: Made For Lovin' You
 2001: Paid My Dues
 2002: One Day in Your Life
 2002: Boom
 2002: Why'd You Lie To Me
 2002: You'll Never Be Alone
 2003: Love Is a Crime
 2004: Left Outside Alone
 2004: Sick And Tired
 2004: Welcome To My Truth
 2005: Heavy On My Heart
 2005: Everything Burns (duet with Ben Moody)
 2005: Pieces Of A Dream
 2006: I Belong To You (duet with Eros Ramazzotti)
 2008: I Can Feel You
 2008: Absolutely Positively
 2009: Defeated
 2009: Stalemate (duet with Ben's Brothers)
 2010: Safety (duet with Dima Bilan)
 2010: Burning Star (duet with Natalia Druyts)
 2011: What Can We Do (A Deeper Love) (duet with Tiësto)
 2012: If I Was Your Boyfriend (duet with Tony Moran)
 2012: Dream On
 2012: Best Of You
 2014: Stupid Little Things
 2014: Staring at the Sun
 2014: Lifeline
 2015: Take This Chance
 2015: Army of Me
 2017: Caught In The Middle

Duets 

 1993: Forever Luv (duet with David Morales)
 1998: Mi Negra, Tu Bombón (duet with Omar Sosa)
 1999: Tienes Un Solo (duet with Omar Sosa)
 2000: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (duet with Elton John)
 2001: Let It Be (duet with Paul McCartney, Anastacia other artists)
 2001: I Ask of You (duet with Luciano Pavarotti)
 2001: What More Can I Give (duet with Michael Jackson and other artists)
 2001: Love Is Alive (duet with Vonda Shepard)
 2001: 911 (duet with Wyclef Jean)
 2001: I Thought I Told You That (duet with Faith Evans)
 2002: You Shook Me All Night Long (duet with Celine Dion)
 2002: Bad Girls (duet with Jamiroquai)
 2003: We Are the Champions, We Will Rock You, Amandla (duet with Queen, Beyoncé, Bono, Cast and David A. Stewart)
 2004: I Do (duet with Sonny Sandoval)
 2005: Everything Burns (duet with Ben Moody)    
 2006: I Belong to You (duet with Eros Ramazzotti)
 2007: Sing (duet with Annie Lennox and other artists)
 2009: Stalemate (duet with Ben's Brother) 
 2009: Holding Back the Years (duet with Simply Red)
 2010: Safety (duet with Dima Bilan) 
 2010: Burning Star (duet with Natalia)
 2011: What Can We Do (A Deeper Love) (duet with Tiësto)
 2012: If I Was Your Boyfriend (duet with Tony Moran)
 2014: "Lifeline / Luce per sempre" (Anastacia and Kekko Fornarelli)

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Branch

A branch is the part of a tree that grows out from the trunk of a tree. 

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