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Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy (born 13 June 1962) is an English author of teenage books mainly based on domestic fiction. At the age of eight she wrote her first picture book for her brother, Jake. During her childhood, Cathy loved to create comics. She would often rent out comics to her friends for 5 pence, claim them back and then rent them out again to someone else.

School life and early career
Cathy attended an art college in Liverpool as a young adult. After passing her degree, Cathy worked for the Jackie Magazine, as a fiction editor. Cathy has taught as an art teacher in a number of schools - 7 primary and some secondary. She illustrates many of her books and has done so for all her books in a series of Daisy Star.

Personal life
Cassidy lives in Galloway, Scotland, with her husband Liam and her two children, Caitlin (aged 17) and Calum (aged 19). Cathy has been a veggie for 35 years and a vegan for eight of them. She has a lurcher, named Kelpie, who inspired the dog Legg-It in Dizzy, her first book.

Writing career
Cathy Cassidy has currently written fourteen books.  Her first book was Dizzy published in 2004, followed on by Indigo Blue, published in 2005. At the age of 50, Cathy Cassidy's last books were Marshmallow Skye and The Chocolate Box Girls.

Works
Dizzy (2004),
Indigo Blue (2005),
Driftwood (2005),
Scarlett (2006),
Sundae Girl (2007),
Lucky Star (2007),
Gingersnaps (2008),
The Cathy Cassidy Dreams and Doodles Daybook (2008),
Shine on, Daizy Star (2009),
Angel Cake (2009),
Letters to Cathy (2009),
Daizy Star and the Pink Guitar (2010),
Cherry Crush - the Chocolate Box Girls (2010),
Strike a Pose, Daizy Star (2011) and
Marshmallow Skye, The Chocolate Box Girls (2011).

She has also written three mini-books:
Love Peace and Chocolate (2007),
Ice-cream and Dreams (2008) and
Cupcakes and Kisses (2009).

Cathy is also currently writing three new additions to the Chocolate Box Girls series, named:
'Summer's Dream', 'Coco Caramel' and 'Sweet Honey', based on the other Tanberry sisters. The plots for 'Coco Caramel' and 'Sweet Honey' have not been confirmed yet, however, 'Summer's Dream' plot has been confirmed.

References

Other websites
Official website

1962 births
Living people
British children's writers
English writers
French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars consisted of conflicts between 1792 and 1802; there was fighting between French Revolutionary government and several European states. French Revolutionary Armies, with revolutionary fervor and military innovations, defeated a number of opposing coalitions. They expanded French control into the Low Countries, Italy and the Rhineland. There was also fighting in Egypt and on the high seas. These wars involved huge numbers of soldiers because the French used modern mass conscription. 

France was at war with Great Britain constantly from 1793 until 1802, and other countries joined Britain in the wars of First Coalition (1792 to 1797) and Second (1798 to 1801). Hostilities ceased with the Treaty of Amiens 1802, though conflicts soon flared up again with the Napoleonic War.

Revolutions
Wars involving France
1790s in Europe
1800s in Europe

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Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945) was a Swedish businessman and diplomat. He helped save about 100,000 Hungarian Jews from being killed by the Nazis in 1944, during the Holocaust in World War II.  He often risked his life, and later won worldwide admiration for his heroic eforts.

Background
Wallenberg was born in Kapptsta, near Stockholm.  He was a member of a prominent family of bankers and industrialists.  He visited Hungary on business in the early 1940s, during World War II.  Wallenberg became increasingly disturbed by the plans of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to kill all the Jews of Europe.  In 1944, the World Jewish Congress and the American War Refugee Board asked Wallennberg to help and he agreed to go to Hungary to save the remaining Jews there.

Rescue of Jews 
The Swedish government sent Wallenberg to serve as a diplomat in Budapest, Hungary's capital.  He gave Swedish passports to about 20,000 Jews, allowing them to ask for the protection of the neutral Swedish government.  He also protected Jews in houses he bought or rented with his own money or money from the groups that had sent him.  Wallenberg, a Lutheran, was assisted by Roman Catholic and other non-Jewish leaders.

Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi official who directed the sending of Jews to concentration camps, ordered Wallenberg to stop interfering with German plans for the Jews.  Wallenberg said no.  Eichmann tried to have Wallenberg killed, but he was not killed.  In the final days before the liberation of Budapest by Soviet soldiers, Wallenberg persuaded the Nazis to stop a plan to kill 70,000 Jews who were forced to live in a ghetto (separated part) of the city.

Arrest and death
In January 1945, Soviet forces arrested Wallenberg.  They apparently believed he was an American spy.  In 1957, the Soviet government reported that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947.  But several people said that they saw him alive in Soviet prisons and hospitals after 1947.

In 1981, the United States Congress made Wallenberg an honorary U.S. citizen.

Related pages

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

Notes

Other websites
Raoul Wallenberg - Righteous Among the Nations - Yad Vashem
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States
Searching for Raoul Wallenberg 

Swedish diplomats
1947 deaths
1912 births
World War II people
Swedish businesspeople
Righteous Among the Nations
Type 98 320 mm mortar

, also known as a "32-cm" gun, was a mortar of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).  It is an example of a type of artillery called "spigot mortars".

History
This artillery piece was used by the Japanese military during World War II.

Combat record
During World War II, the IJA had 12 Type 98s at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

The Type 98 mortars were also used on Okinawa.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of field guns
 List of heavy mortars
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 Type 98 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page

Japanese weapons
Artillery
Type 92 battalion gun

The  was a howitzer of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).

Each infantry battalion was issued Type 92s.  For this reason, Type 92s were called .

History and development
The Type 92 was available to front line divisions by 1932.

Combat record
This artillery piece was used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of field guns
 List of heavy mortars
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 Type 92 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page
 Dishmodels.ru, Type 92, walk-around 360° images

Japanese weapons
Artillery
Livius Andronicus

Livius Andronicus (died between 207 and 200 BC) was a Greek author who is seen as the first Ancient Roman poet. He was probably an actor, and grew up in the Greek city Tarentum.  Scholars think he was captured as a prisoner of war and taken to Rome as a slave.  He was later freed, so they called him a freedman. His first language was Greek and scholars think he learned Latin after coming to Rome. His most famous work is the Odusia, a translation of the Odyssey into Latin.

References

Ancient Greek poets
210s deaths
Type 91 105 mm howitzer

The , also known as a "10-cm" gun, was a howitzer used by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).

History and development
Type 91s began to be made in 1931.

Combat record
Type 91 howitzers were used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of field guns
 List of heavy mortars
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 Type 91 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page
 US Technical Manual E 30-480

Japanese weapons
Howitzers
Regina Pats

The Regina Pats are a Canadian professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1917. They currently play in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Regina, Saskatchewan at the Brandt Centre. They are the oldest major junior hockey franchise in the world that has continuously operated from their original location and still uses the same name. Baseball player Nyjer Morgan played 7 games with the Pats in the 1999-2000 season and registered 2 goals and 20 penalty minutes.

References

Other websites
Official website

1917 establishments
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
Western Hockey League
Regina, Saskatchewan
1910s establishments in Canada
Saskatoon Blades

The Saskatoon Blades are a Canadian professional junior ice hockey team that began playing in 1964. They play in the Western Hockey League. The Blades are the longest team to stay in the WHL in the 48-year history of the League.

They play their home games in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at the 15,195 seat SaskTel Centre. They were originally founded in 1964 to be a part of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League but transferred leagues when the Western Hockey League was founded in 1966. They have never won the Ed Chynoweth Cup.

References

Other websites
Official website

1964 establishments in Canada
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
Western Hockey League
Saskatoon
Type 4 150 mm howitzer

The , also known as a "15-cm" gun, was a field gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). It

History
Type 4 was available to IJA forces after 1915.

Combat record
This artillery piece was used during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.  This gun was designed to be moved by horses; and it continued to be used until 1945.

Type 4s were used by the IJA on Saipan in World War II.

Related pages
 Artillery of Japan
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 Type 4 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page
 US Technical Manual E 30-480

Japanese weapons
Howitzers
Swift Current Broncos

The Swift Current Broncos are a Canadian professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1964. They currently play in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Swift Current, Saskatchewan at the Credit Union iPlex. The team moved to Lethbridge in 1974 and became the Lethbridge Broncos. The played 12 seasons in Lethbridge before moving back to Swift Current in 1986. On December 30, 1986, the team's bus crashed on the way to Regina and four players died. The four players had their jerseys retired and had a trophy named after them which is awarded to the league's Player of the Year. The team still wears a commemorative patch to remember them.

References

Other websites
Official website

1967 establishments in North America
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
Western Hockey League
1960s establishments in Canada
Bass (vocal range)

A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., E2–E4). Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef.

References 

Vocal ranges
Opera terminology
WrestleMania 29

WrestleMania XXIX was the twenty-ninth yearly WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event made by WWE. It took place on April 7, 2013 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The event was the fifth WrestleMania in the New York metropolitan area and the third WrestleMania held in the state of New Jersey.

There was an 8-man mixed tag team match scheduled between Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay & "Sweet T" Tensai) (with Cameron & Naomi) and Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow) (with The Bella Twins) but the match was pulled from the card on short notice because of time constraints.

Matches

References

WrestleMania
2013 in professional wrestling
2013 in American television
2010s in New Jersey
April 2013 events
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Prince Albert is the third largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

The population of Prince Albert was 35,129 in 2011 The mayor of Prince Albert is Greg Dionne. It is nicknamed the "Gateway to the North" because it is the last major centre along the route to the resources of northern Saskatchewan. It is named after Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria

References

Other websites
Official website

Cities in Saskatchewan
North Battleford

North Battleford is a city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The population of North Battleford was 13,190 in 2006. The mayor of North Battleford is Ian Hamilton. The Battlefords area was home to several aboriginal groups including Cree, Assiniboine and Blackfoot tribes who contested for control of local resources before the European settlement.

References

Other websites
Official website 

Cities in Saskatchewan
Periwinkle (color)

Periwinkle is a color in the blue family.  Its name comes from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which has flowers of the same color.  

The color Periwinkle is also called lavender blue.  The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of indigo – a pastel indigo. 

The first written use of periwinkle as a color name in English was in 1922.

Periwinkle is also the favorite color of Perry the Platypus from the children's television series, Phineas and Ferb.

Meaning of periwinkle
 The color periwinkle may represent serenity, calmness, winter and ice. A periwinkle ribbon represents stomach cancer and esophageal cancer awareness.
 The color periwinkle is the color of loss on Reddit.
The color is considered to be a blue due to the Hue and saturation being far into the blue spectrum

Tones of periwinkle color comparison chart

Related pages
 List of colors

References
Mallorquín

The Mallorquín or Caballo Mallorquín () is a rare breed of horse native to the island of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. The breed was identified in 1985.

Mallorca
Horse breeds
Sherlock (TV series)

Sherlock is a BBC television series based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle placed in 21st century London. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Sherlock Homes, alongside Martin Freeman who plays Dr. John Watson. The series aired 4 seasons between 2010 and 2017. 

In this contemporary TV version, Watson is a war vet just home from Afghanistan. He meets the eccentric Sherlock Holmes when he advertises for a flatmate. Together they solve mysteries related to Sherlocks nemesis Moriarty.

Other websites 

2010 British television series debuts
2010s British drama television series
2010s crime television series
2010s mystery television series
BAFTA Award winning programmes
BBC television dramas
British crime television series
Crime drama television series
Television series set in London
English-language television programs
Pedro Bigas

Pedro Bigas Rigo (born 15 September 1990 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish footballer. He plays for RCD Mallorca as a left midfielder or defender.

He start playing football at la Salle Palma, after that he played in Montuiri, and then in the Mallorca B. He left Mallorca B to join the Athletico de Baleares. While he was playing for Athletico de Baleares he was offered a position in RCD Mallorca.

Other websites
Mallorca official profile 
BDFutbol profile
Futbolme profile 
Transfermarkt profile

1990 births
Living people
Spanish footballers
People from Palma de Mallorca
Sasha Grey

Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis on March 14, 1988) is an American former pornographic actress, who now does ordinary acting, modelling, and music. She was born and raised in North Highlands, California. In 2005, she started taking acting, dancing and music lessons. After she turned 18, she started to participate in pornographic movies in Los Angeles. She is openly bisexual.

Grey has released two books. A photo book, Neü Sex, was released on March 29, 2011 by VICE books. On May 9, 2013 The Juliette Society, an erotic novel, was published by Sphere.

She has been in three music videos.

Filmography

Film

Series

Music videos

Video games

References

Other websites
 

1988 births
Living people
Actors from Sacramento County, California
American adult models
American LGBT sex industry people
American movie actors
American pornographic actors
American television actors
Bisexual people
LGBT models
LGBT musicians
LGBT people from California
LGBT pornographic actors
Models from California
Musicians from California
Danish People's Party

The Danish People's Party is a Danish national conservative political party placed on the right wing. The aim of the Danish People's Party is to assert Denmark's independence, to guarantee the freedom of the Danish people in their own country, and to preserve and promote representative government and the monarchy.
The leader of the party has since 2022 been Morten Messerschmidt. The former leader was Pia Kjærsgaard who also founded the party in 1995. By 2013, the party has over 12,000 members. 

Politics of Denmark
Political parties in Europe
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Eurosceptic parties
1985 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Denmark
The Boxcar Children

The Boxcar Children is a children's story. It was written by Gertrude Chandler Warner. It was published by Rand McNally in 1924. Warner wrote 19 other books about the boxcar children and their adventures. Other people wrote more stories. There are over 100 books about the boxcar children. Over the years they have made the story into different novels, comic books and they are making a movie which will be released in April of 2014.

Story 
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. They have never seen their grandfather Mr. Alden. They have heard he is cruel. They run away because they don't want to live with him. One night, they find shelter in a bakery. They say they will help with the work the next day if they can stay the night. Benny is too little to work. The baker wants to take him to the children's home. The childen run away. 

The children find an old boxcar in the woods. They make it their home. They find dishes, spoons, and other things to use in their new home. They help a dog with a hurt paw. Benny names the dog "Watch". The children dam a stream to make a swimming pool. Henry gets a job working for Dr. Moore. He mows the lawn and cleans the garage. He works in the garden for the doctor's mother. She gives him some vegetables. All the children pick cherries from the trees in the garden. The children are happy. 

Dr. Moore reads in a newspaper that Mr. Alden is looking for his grandchildren. The doctor calls Mr. Alden. Mr. Alden arrives at the doctor's house. The children grow to like him. He is not cruel but kind. The children move to their grandfather's house. Mr. Alden puts the boxcar in the back yard for their fun.

1924 works
English-language novels
Children's books
1920s books
The Country Bears

The Country Bears is a 2002 American live-action comedy movie. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the Disney attraction Country Bear Jamboree. It was released on July 26, 2002.

Release Dates 

American comedy movies
2002 movies
Disney animated movies
English-language movies
G. Hannelius

Genevieve Knight Hannelius (born December 22, 1998) is better known as G. Hannelius. She is an American actress and singer who is the new voice of Rosebud in the Air Buddies series.

Early life
Hannelius was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to southern Maine at age 1. She started acting at a young age. Her theater roles include Madeline in Madeline's Rescue and Jenny in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing with Children's Theatre of Maine and Maine State Music Theater. She moved to California for 3 months to try out auditions, and she was so successful that her family relocated permanently to Los Angeles in 2008.

References

Other websites
 
 

1998 births
actors from Boston, Massachusetts
American child actors
Singers from Boston, Massachusetts
American stage actors
American television actors
Disney actors
Living people
Alejandro Abrines Redondo

Alejandro Abrines Redondo (born in Palma de Mallorca in 1993) is a Spanish professional basketball player. He currently plays for FC Barcelona Bàsquet. 
Abrines started to play basketball at seven years old in La Salle Palma (C.B. La Salle). He was playing basketball in La Salle in the junior category at seventeen years old.

In 2010 Abrines went to a campus with Unicaja De Málaga, and signed a contract with Aíto García Reneses, the trainer of Unicaja De Málaga.

He started playing in LEB Oro with Clínicas Rincón, the branch of Unicaja. 
In the summer of 2011 Abrines was selected to the Spanish selection of Basketball U-18 for play the European Championship, where he was elected MVP.

And later was selected to play the all-star at European level.
In October 2011 Alejandro Abrines debuted VS Gran Canaria in the ACB. He later did the same in the Basketball Euroleague. In February 2012 he debuted in La Copa del Rey.

Other websites
 Spanish League Profile  

1993 births
Living people
Spanish basketball players
People from Palma de Mallorca
Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (Pietrasanta, 27 July 1835 – Bologna, 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet and teacher. He was very influential and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he became the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He was fascinated with the restrained style of Greek and Roman antiquity, and his mature work reflects a restrained classical style, often using the classical meters of Latin poets as Horace and Virgil.

Italian poets
1835 births
1907 deaths
Italian Nobel Prize winners
Audley Harrison

Audley Harrison (born 26 October 1971) is a British heavyweight boxer. He is 6 ft 5 1/2 tall (1.97 metres) and weighs 18 stone 3 pounds (116 kilograms).

Harrison was born and raised in London. As a Super Heavyweight, he won two gold medals: one at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and another at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He was the European Boxing Union Heavyweight Champion from 9 April - 8 June 2010. 

Harrison was a contestant in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing. He is a housemate in the August-September 2014 series of Celebrity Big Brother.

Other websites 
Official website
BoxRec 

Black British sportspeople
British boxers
British Olympic gold medalists
Celebrity Big Brother contestants
Sportspeople from London
Strictly Come Dancing participants
1971 births
Living people
Japanese calendar

Japanese calendar types have included several of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar and also the Japanese era name system.

History
Japan has more than one traditional system for counting years, including
The Chinese calendar (sexagenary cycle)
The  or "National calendar year" based on the legendary founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC.
The  based on the reign of the current emperor

Since the Meiji period, Japan has used the  system.

In Japan today, the old Chinese calendar is rarely used. The system of counting years from the reign of Emperor Jimmu has been abandoned.

Annual holidays in Japan's calendar

The Japanese calendar has yearly holidays and traditional events.  Some of these preserve ancient customs.

The names and dates of some of Japan's national holidays have changed over time.

Related pages
 Japanese Imperial year
 Japanese era names

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"
 NengoCalc  

Japanese culture
Calendars
Children's Day (Japan)

in Japan is celebrated on May 5.  It has been a national holiday in Japan since 1948. Children's Day is one of a group of national holidays called Golden Week.

History
Since the 8th century, it was traditional to have special days for children twice a year—March 3 for girls and May 5 for boys.

Related pages 
 Shichi-Go-San
 Hinamatsuri

References

Holidays
Japanese culture
May events
Plastic Man

Plastic Man (real name Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional comic-book superhero, with the ability to shift his body into any shape or form, created by artist Jack Cole. He was published by Quality Comics first and then later by DC Comics.

Plastic Man first appeared in August 1941. After being shot by an acid bullet, his fellow burglar partners left him for dead without hesitation. This angered him and caused him to become a crime fighter. The acid from the bullet caused a chemical reaction inside of him that allows his body to take on any shape or form, even ones with moving parts.

DC Comics superheroes
Japanese Imperial year

or "National calendar year" is a unique calendar system in Japan.  It is based on the legendary founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660 BC.

Kōki emphasizes the long history of Japan and the Imperial dynasty.

History
The Summer Olympics and Tokyo Expo were planned as anniversary events in 1940 (Kōki 2600); but the international games were not held because of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) used the Kōki system for identification.  For example, 
 The IJA's Type 92 battalion gun was called "ninety-two" because its design was completed in 1932; and the 2592nd year since the first Emperor of Japan was 1932 (Kōki 2592).
 The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was called the "Zero" because it entered service in 1940 (Kōki 2600).

In Japan today, the system of counting years from the reign of Emperor Jimmu has been abandoned.

Related pages
 Japanese calendar
 Japanese era names

References

Other websites
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"

Japanese culture
Sagrada Família

The Sagrada Familia (full name ) is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by architect Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926).

Although it is not finished, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In November 2010 it was consecrated (dedicated to a special purpose) and made a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.

Building of the Sagrada Familia began in 1882. Gaudi started working on it in 1883. He took over the project, and changed it with his ideas on architecture and engineering.

Gaudi worked on it until he died. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the building was finished. The Sagrada Familia's building was slow. It needed private donations (people giving money to it). It was stopped by the Spanish Civil War—only to start again in the 1950s. Building was more than halfway done after 2010. Some of the project's biggest problems still remain.

Gallery

References

Further reading

Other websites 

 Official website of the Construction Board of La Sagrada Família Foundation
 
 
 Gaudí and Sagrada Família Barcelona 
 Sagrada Familia at Great Buildings
 Journal of Sagrada Familia – Erke Blog
 La Sagrada Familia in" Gaudidesigner" web site.

Roman Catholic Cathedrals
Churches in Spain
World Heritage Sites in Spain
12 Treasures of Spain
Barcelona
Canet gun

The Canet guns were designed by Gustave Canet (1846-1913) for Schneider et Cie.

Naval artillery
Schneider was successful in sales to the Empire of Japan. 
 
The guns supplied to Japan equipped the cruisers , , and . 

The guns were used during the First Sino-Japanese War.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan

References

Other websites

Military of Japan
Artillery
Boxcar

A boxcar is a railroad car that is enclosed and used to carry freight. Boxcars have side doors of varying size and operation. Some boxcars have end doors and adjustable bulkheads to load very large items.

Rolling stock
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner (16 April 1890 - 29 August 1979) was an American writer. She wrote the popular Boxcar Children books. She was criticized for showing children with little parental supervision. Her critics thought that this would cause child rebellion. She was born in Putnam, Connecticut.

Other websites 
 About Gertrude Chandler Warner
Article about the Gertrude Warner Museum  
Biography of Warner and information about Boxcar Children 
 

19th-century writers from Connecticut
1890 births
1979 deaths
Norwich School

Norwich School (before called King Edward VI’s Grammar School) is a co-ed (girls and boys) private school in Norwich, England. It is one of the oldest schools in the world, going back to at least 1096. Norwich School has one of the best academic records in East Anglia. The Daily Telegraph ranked the school's A-Level results as 74th in 2006, 55th in 2007 and 80th in 2008 amongst independent schools in the UK. In each case, the rank was the highest in Norfolk and Suffolk. 

The school used to be for boys only. It began admitting girls below the Sixth Form in September 2008. All year groups had girls in them by September 2010. 

Norwich School is an Anglican school. It has a long relationship with Norwich Cathedral, which it uses for morning assemblies and some annual events. Many famous people were taught at Norwich School, like Horatio Nelson, who has a house named after him. 

There are eight houses: Brooke, Coke, Seagrim, Nelson, Parker, Repton, School and Valpy.

References

1096 establishments
Norwich
Schools in England
Christina Perri

Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986) is an American singer, musician and songwriter. She is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her song "Jar of Hearts" became a hit in the United States. It has been used on the FOX network programs So You Think You Can Dance and Glee and the ABC Family series Switched at Birth. Another of her songs, "A Thousand Years", was used in the movie Twilight: Breaking Dawn.

Personal life
Perri was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.  She attended Archbishop Ryan High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia.  She married Paul Costabile on December 12, 2017. Their daughter, Carmella Stanley Costabile, was born January 17, 2018.

In March 2019, Perri revealed she had maintained sobriety for seven years.

Albums 

 Headstrong. (2011)
 A Very Merry Perri Christmas (2012)
 Head or Heart (2014)
 songs for carmella: lullabies & sing-a-longs (2019)

References

Singers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American singer-songwriters
1986 births
Living people
Atlantic Records artists
Prince Albert Raiders

The Prince Albert Raiders are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 1964. The team currently plays in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan at the Art Hauser Centre. The team started in 1971 and played in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League where they were one of the most successful Tier II franchises in Canada. They won the Tier II national championship, the Manitoba Centennial Trophy, 4 times in a six-year span from 1977 to 1982. They moved up to the WHL in 1982. They won a Memorial Cup in 1985.

Other websites
Official website

1964 establishments in Canada
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan
Western Hockey League
Jorge Lorenzo

Jorje Lorenzo Guerrrero (born 4 May 1987) is a Spanish motorcyclist. He was the world champion in MotoGP in 2010. In 2008, Lorenzo signed a contract with the official Yamaha team. He was the partner of seven-time world champion, Valentino Rossi. In the Portugal championship, Lorenzo got his first victory in MotoGP.
On 10 October 2010, in Malaysia, Jorge was proclaimed world champion of MotoGP.

References

1987 births
Living people
Spanish sportspeople
Type 74 105 mm self-propelled howitzer

is an armored artillery vehicle used by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF).

History
Komatsu developed the chassis; and Japan Steel Works made the turret. 

The howitzer was accepted for service or "standardised" in 1974.

Type 74s are used by the 2nd Artillery Regiment at Asahikawa, Hokkaido.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 OnWar.com, Type 74 

Japanese weapons
Howitzers
Battle of Plataea

The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It was a decisive victory for the Greeks as it ended that war.  The battle was in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia. It was fought between the Greek allies (the city-states, of Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I.

The previous year, the Persian invasion force, led by the Xerxes in person, won the Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium, and conquered Thessaly, Boeotia and Attica. However, at the last-ditch naval Battle of Salamis, the Allied Greek navy had won a surprise victory, and that stopped the conquest of the whole Peloponnesus. Xerxes then returned home with some of his army, leaving his general Mardonius to finish off the Greeks the next year.

In the summer of 479 BC, the Greeks got together a huge army by the standards of the day, and marched out of the Peloponnesus. The Persians retreated to Boeotia, and built a fortified camp near Plataea. The Greeks refused to be drawn into the open cavalry ground near the Persian camp, and this led to a stalemate which lasted eleven days. When their supply lines were disrupted, the Greeks retreated a distance, and their battle-line fragmented. Mardonius thought the Greeks were in full retreat, and ordered his men to pursue them. The Greeks (particularly the Spartans, Tegeans and Athenians) turned and gave battle, routing the lightly armed Persian infantry and killing Mardonius.

Much of the Persian army were caught in their camp, and slaughtered. The destruction of this army, and the remnants of the Persian navy, allegedly on the same day at the Battle of Mycale, ended the invasion. After Plataea and Mycale, the Greek allies would take the offensive against the Persians, marking a new phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. Although Plataea was in every sense a decisive victory, it does not seem (even at the time) to have been as famous as the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon or even the Allied defeat at Thermopylae.

Legacy

Monuments to the battle 
A bronze column in the shape of intertwined snakes (the Serpent column) was created from melted-down Persian weapons, and was erected at Delphi. It commemorated all the Greek city-states that had participated in the battle, listing them on the column, and thus confirming some of Herodotus's claims. Most of it still survives in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), where it was carried by Constantine the Great during the founding of his city on the Greek colony of Byzantium.

References 

Plataea
Ancient Greece
Achaemenid Empire
History of Persia
Bellver Castle

Bellver Castle (bellver in Castilian means "good view") is a castle that was built by order of King Jaime II for use as a residence of the kings of Mallorca.
The castle is built at  above sea level.
Today it belongs to the City Council of Palma de Mallorca and it is the Museum of the History of the city of Palma. It is open to the public.
  
Its uses include:
Refuge to the Turkish landings.                                                          
Military Prison                                                                                        
Military fortress during the Rebellion of Germanias
Shelter from the epidemic of plague.

Bellver Castle was one of 100 finalists for the 12 Treasures of Spain in 2007.

References

Other websites 

Imágenes del Castillo de Bellver 
Castillo de Bellver en la página del Ayuntamiento de Palma de Mallorca 
Artículo en MallorcaWeb (en mallorquín)
Vista aérea del castillo en la página web del Ayuntamiento de Palma
Vista del Castillo de Bellver en Google Maps
Castillo de Bellver en castillosnet.org 

Mallorca
Castles in Spain
Philosophy of the World

Philosophy of the World is the first album by The Shaggs. It was released in 1969 by Third Word Records. At the time, it was considered to be one of the worst albums. It was rereleased in 1980 by Red Rooster Records/Rounder Records after the band NRBQ found it at a Massachusetts radio station in 1978, and has been a cult and influential album ever since.

Recording of the album was financed by Austin Wiggin, father of the Wiggin Sisters.

Track list
All songs written & composed by Dorothy Wiggin.

"Philosophy of the World" – 2:56
"That Little Sports Car" – 2:06
"Who Are Parents?" – 2:58
"My Pal Foot Foot" – 2:31
"My Companion" – 2:04
"I'm So Happy When You're Near" – 2:12
"Things I Wonder" – 2:12
"Sweet Thing" – 2:57
"It's Halloween" – 2:22
"Why Do I Feel?" – 3:57
"What Should I Do?" – 2:18
"We Have a Savior" – 3:06

1969 albums
Rock albums
Pop albums
Type 96 150 mm howitzer

The , also known as a "15-cm" gun, was a howitzer used by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). 

This artillery piece was designed to replace the Type 4 150 mm howitzer in front line combat. Type 96s fired the same ammunition as the Type 4s.

History
Type 96s began to be built in 1937. A total of 440 units were produced.  A medium artillery regiment had 24 Type 96s.

Combat record
The Type 96 15 cm howitzer was used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in World War II.  The 96s were among Japan's most used artillery weapons.

One of the Type 96s is preserved at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of howitzers

References

Other websites

 Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page
 US Technical Manual E 30-480

Japanese weapons
Howitzers
Type 89 150 mm cannon

, also known as a "15-cm" gun, was a cannon of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).

This was one of the main guns of the IJA heavy artillery units.

History
Type 89s were used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in World War II.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of field guns

References

Other websites

 Type 89 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page

Japanese weapons
Artillery
GRB 970228

GRB 970228 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB). It was the first GRB which had an afterglow. It was seen on 28 February 1997. Since 1993, scientists had predicted GRBs to be followed by afterglows. But, until this event, GRBs had only been seen in very bright bursts of high-energy gamma rays.

The burst had several peaks in its light curve. It lasted around 80 seconds. The light curve was not normal. This suggested that a supernova may have happened as well. GRB 970228 happened in the same place as a galaxy about 8.1 billion light-years away. This means that GRBs happen outside the Milky Way.

Cause 
Reichart showed that the light curve of GRB 970228 could only have been caused by a supernova. Definitive evidence linking gamma-ray bursts and supernovae was eventually found in the spectrum of GRB 020813, and the afterglow of GRB 030329. However, supernova-like features only become apparent in the weeks following a burst, leaving the possibility that very early luminosity variations could be explained by dust echoes.

References

Other websites
Gamma-ray Burst 970228
BeppoSAX follow-up observations of the region of the Gamma-ray burst GRB 970228 

Stars
Ferran Adria

Ferran Adrià Acosta (b. May 14, 1962) is a Spanish chef. He was born in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia. Adria started out washing dishes at a restaurant in the town of Castelldefels. There the chef taught him the basics. He then worked at different restaurants before becoming assistant chef at the Barcelona restaurant, Finisterre. Now Adriá is the chef at El Bulli, a restaurant on the coast of Catalonia. In 1997, El Bulli got its third Michelin star. It was one of only three restaurants in Spain with this ranking. 

Adria is considered one of the best chefs in the world.

References

Other websites
 Great Chefs Biography 
 About.com Biography 
 Interview with The Guardian

1962 births
Living people
Chefs
Spanish people
Murray Waxman

Murray Waxman (born July 10, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Canadian basketball team, which finished eighth in the Olympic tournament.

Other websites
Murray Waxman at basketball-reference.com

1925 births
1948 Summer Olympics
Canadian basketball players
Canadian Olympians
Living people
Sportspeople from Toronto
Imperial Japanese Navy

, also known as IJN,  was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947.

The IJN was created in 1868 by the Meiji Restoration. It won against larger navies in the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. It lost in World War II and was dissolved.

Legacy
Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan prohibits the use of aggressive force as a means for settling international disputes.

In order to defend Japan, if necessary, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) was formed.

The ocean-reach of JSDF is the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Related pages
 Imperial Japanese Army

References

Other websites

 AxisHistory.com,  Japanese Navy
 CombinedFleet.com, Imperial Japanese Navy Page
 KamikazeImages, Etajima Museum of Naval History 
 NavalHistory.net, Imperial Japanese Navy Awards of the Golden Kite in World War II
 NavalHistory.net, Imperial Japanese Navy in World War I 

Military of Japan
1869 establishments in Japan
1947 disestablishments
1940s disestablishments in Japan
Vilmantas Dilys

Vilmantas Dilys (born October 6, 1987, Utena, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who plays for Lietuvos Rytas.
He is 2.08 m tall and can play both power forward and small forward positions.

References 

1987 births
Lithuanian basketball players
Living people
Space Coast

The Space Coast is a region in the U.S. state of Florida around the Kennedy Space Center. The region includes the cities  Titusville, Cocoa, Rockledge, Cape Canaveral, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Palm Bay. The most of the area lies within Brevard County.

Geography of Florida
Homologous chromosome

Homologous chromosomes are the pairs of chromosomes in a diploid organism. They are the chromosomes which pair during meiosis.

With the exception of the sex chromosomes, each pair has the gene loci in the same positions on each chromosome, and the centromere in the same position. They are not genetically identical because they will usually have different alleles (versions of a gene) at some of the loci.

The most important fact is that homologous chromosomes physically pair for meiosis, the cell division which produces the gametes. During this pairing, crossing over takes place between chromatids of each pair. This exchange of alleles means the offspring are not identical to each other, or to either parent. In other words, the process increases the genetic variation in the population.

Sex chromosomes only pair along those parts where there is similar genetic material (loci) on both members of the pair.

References 

Chromosomes
Type 41 75 mm cavalry gun

was a field gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).

This artillery piece went into service in 1908.

History
Type 41s were  lighter versions of the Type 38 75 mm field gun. Type 41s were the primary weapon of artillery units which were part of cavalry regiments.

Combat record
Type 95s were used in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in World War II.

Related pages 
 Artillery of Japan
 List of field guns

Notes

Other websites 

 Type 41 on Taki's Imperial Japanese Army page

Japanese weapons
Artillery
Kelowna Rockets

The Kelowna Rockets are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 1991. The team currently plays in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Kelowna, British Columbia at the Prospera Place. The team originally played in Tacoma, Washington as the Tacoma Rockets from 1991 to 1995 until relocating to Kelowna. They have won 3 Ed Chynoweth Cups and 1 Memorial Cup.

Other websites
Official website

Canadian Hockey League teams
Western Hockey League
Ice hockey teams in British Columbia
Tacoma, Washington
1991 establishments in Canada
Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television programme. It features celebrities dancing with professional dancers. In each series, the couples compete to decide a winner.

It is shown on BBC One and is presented by Bruce Forsyth, Tess Daly & Claudia Winkleman. It is narrated by Alan Dedicoat. The judges since it began are Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli. Arlene Phillips was a judge from 2004-2008; Alesha Dixon was a judge from 2009-2011. Darcey Bussell is the current judge in Alesha Dixon's place. Motsi Mabuse is the current judge in Darcey Bussell's place. Anton Du Beke is the current judge in Bruno Tonioli's place. Bruno Tonioli was a judge from 2004-2021.

There were two series in its first year, 2004. From 2005 onwards, there has been one series per year. Many countries have their own version of the show (see Dancing with the Stars).

Other websites 

2004 British television series debuts
2000s British television series
2010s British television series
Dancing with the Stars
English-language television programs
Prince George Cougars

The Prince George Cougars are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 1994. The team currently plays in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Prince George, British Columbia at the CN Centre. They were originally known as the Victoria Cougars from 1971 to 1994 before relocating to Prince George in 1994. Their most successful playoff run was in the 2006–07 WHL season when they swept Kamloops Blazers and defeated the Everett Silvertips but were defeated in conference finals to the Vancouver Giants.

Other websites
Official website

Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in British Columbia
Western Hockey League
1994 establishments in Canada
Prince George, British Columbia

Prince George is a city in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The population of Prince George was 71,974 in 2011. The mayor of Prince George is Lyn Hall. It is nicknamed the "BC's Northern Capital" because it is the largest city in northern British Columbia. It is named after King George V and Prince George, Duke of Kent.

References

Other websites
Official website

Cities in British Columbia
Gazza Zubizareta

Gazza Zubizareta (born 12 June 1996) is an actor from Indonesia. He started his film debut in Negeri 5 Menara where he played a teenager called Alif.

Filmography 
 Negeri 5 Menara (2012)

References

Other websites 
 21Cineplex 

Indonesian actors
1996 births
Living people
Vancouver Giants

The Vancouver Giants are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 2001. The team currently plays in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Pacific Coliseum. 

The owners of the Giants are businessmen Ron Toigo and Sultan Thiara, Hockey Hall of Fame members Gordie Howe, Pat Quinn, and singer and actor Michael Bublé. The have won 1 Memorial Cup in 2007 and a Ed Chynoweth Cup in 2006.

References

Other websites

2001 establishments in Canada
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in British Columbia
Western Hockey League
Sport in Vancouver
Victoria Royals

The Victoria Royals are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 2011. The team currently plays in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Victoria, British Columbia at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. They originally played in Chilliwack, British Columbia as the Chilliwack Bruins from 2006 to 2011 before relocating to Victoria in 2011 and becoming the Royals.

References

Other websites
Official website

2011 establishments in Canada
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in British Columbia
Western Hockey League
Victoria, British Columbia