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Alkene

In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond.  The simplest alkenes, with only one double bond, no rings, and no other functional groups, are hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n.

Aromatic compounds are often drawn as cyclic alkenes, but their structure and properties are different and they are not considered to be alkenes.

The double bond in the middle makes them more reactive because the molecule is not saturated. An alkene's unsaturation means that it will take the color out of bromine. The names of alkenes always end with -ene.

List of Alkenes 
The following is a list of the first 9 alkenes:
 Ethene (C2H4)
 Propene (C3H6)
 Butene (C4H8)
 Pentene (C5H10)
 Hexene (C6H12)
 Heptene (C7H14)
 Octene (C8H16)
 Nonene (C9H18)
 Decene (C10H20)

Physical properties
The physical properties of alkenes are comparable with those of alkanes. The main differences between the two are that the acidity levels of alkenes are much higher than the ones in alkanes. The physical state depends on molecular mass (gases from ethene to butene - liquids from pentene onwards). The simplest alkenes, ethene, propene and butene are gases. Linear alkenes of approximately five to sixteen carbons are liquids, and higher alkenes are waxy solids.

Fuel 
Alkenes are not used as fuels because:
 They are scarce in nature. They are made from other hydrocarbons to make plastics, anti–freeze and many other useful compounds.
 They burn with a smoky flame due to less efficient, and more polluting incomplete combustion, so the heat energy release is lower than for alkanes.

References

Functional groups
Afrodisiac

Afrodisiac is the fourth studio album by American R&B/pop singer Brandy Norwood, released by Atlantic Records on June 28, 2004 outside North America and on June 29, 2004 (see 2004 in music) in Canada and the United States. It was mostly produced by Timbaland, with more production from Warryn Campbell, Organized Noise, Walter Millsap, Ron Feemster, Big Chuck, and Kanye West. A lot of critics liked the album, but it did not sell a lot of copies. It has sold less copies than any other album she has made so far.

2004 albums
Brandy albums
Boy (disambiguation)

A boy is a young male, usually human, or may refer to a man regardless of age.

Boy, Boys, The Boy, or The Boys may also mean:

Music

Songs
 "Boy (I Need You)", by Mariah Carey
 "Boy" (Erasure song)
 "Boys" (Britney Spears song)
 "Boys" (The Shirelles song), notably covered by The Beatles
 "Boys" (Robots in Disguise song)
 "Boys (Summertime Love)", by Sabrina
 "Boyz" (song), by M.I.A.
 "Boy", by Book of Love
 "B.O.Y.", by Jessica Simpson from A Public Affair
 "Boys", by Bauhaus, the B-side of the single "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
 "Boys", by Band Ohne Namen
 "Boys", by Ashlee Simpson from Bittersweet World
 "The Boys" (song), a song by The Shadows, a number-one single in Australia in 1963

Albums
 Boy (album), by U2
 Boy (compilation album), by Lena Philipsson

Performers
 Boy (1980s band), a 1980s American rock group
 BOY, a Canadian indie pop group
 Boy'z, a Hong Kong Cantopop duo now known as Sun Boy'z
 The Boys (band), an American band
 The Boys (UK band), a punk rock band
 The Boys (60s band), an English band, later became The Action

Literature
 Boy (book), an autobiography by Roald Dahl
 The Boys (comic book), a comic book for mature readers by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson
 Boyz (magazine), a British weekly LGBT magazine
 The Boy (US title: The Beautiful Boy), a 2003 book by Germaine Greer
 The Boys, a 1996 book by Martin Gilbert

People
 Werner Boy, German mathematician
 David Boys, Canadian Scrabble player
 Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Polish poet
 Roy Brindley, nicknamed "The Boy", English professional poker player

Places
 Boy River, Minnesota, US
 Boys Hill, a village in Dorset, England

Film
 Boy (movie) (Japanese: Shōnen), a 1969 Japanese film
 Boys (movie), a 2003 Tamil film
 Boys (1996 movie), a movie starring Winona Ryder
 The Boys (movie), a 1998 Australian film
 The Boys (1991 movie), an American television movie starring John Lithgow
 The Boys (1962 movie), a British movie starring Richard Todd
 "Boy", the adopted son of Tarzan in the movies based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's character

Television
 The Boy (TV series), a Canadian animated television series
 The Boys (TV series), a 1993 American sitcom featuring Christopher Meloni

Theatre
 The Boy (musical), a 1917 London hit musical comedy

Other uses
 Boy Seaman, a rating in the British Royal Navy
 Boys anti-tank rifle, a British anti-tank weapon
 The Boys (Wild West Gang), a gang who participated in the late-1870s Lincoln County War
 The Boys Markets, a chain of Los Angeles-area supermarkets, sold to Ralphs in 1995
 The Boy, Eustace Boyce, a character in the webcomic Scary Go Round

Distinguish from
 buoy, a floating device or marker
 Boise, Idaho
 Theydon Bois

Related pages
List of all pages beginning with Boy
List of all pages beginning with The Boy
Boi
Bois
Boise
Speaker for the Dead

Speaker for the Dead (1986) is a science fiction book by Orson Scott Card.  It is a sequel to the novel Ender's Game, and takes place around the year 5135, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. Because of space travel, the main character Ender is only about 35 years old.

Like Ender's Game, the book won the Hugo Award (1987) and Nebula Award (1986) for outstanding science fiction novel, making Card the first writer to win both of these awards two times in a row. Speaker for the Dead was updated in 1991. It was followed by Xenocide and Children of the Mind.

Other websites
 About the book Speaker for the Dead from Card's website 

1986 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Hugo Award winning books
American novels
Nebula Awards
Science fiction
Xenocide

Xenocide (1991) is a science fiction book that is third in the Ender's Game series.  It was written by Orson Scott Card and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1992.  It was followed by Children of the Mind.

Other websites
 About the novel Xenocide from Card's website 

1991 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Children of the Mind

Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth, and currently the last, book of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series, a series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. Although Card has written some additional novels that take place with in the Ender Saga, they take place in the middle of the storyline and therefore are not sequals to Children of The Mind.

Other websites
 About the book Children of the Mind from Card's website 

1996 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow (1999) is a science fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card.  It is a parallel novel, which means it has a story that has some of the events in Ender's Game from the point of view of another character named Bean. This book was first titled Urchin, but it was changed before release.  Ender's Shadow is the first of a series that includes Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant.

Other websites
 About the novel Ender's Shadow from Card's website 

1999 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
American novels
Shadow of the Hegemon

Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) is the second book in the Ender's Shadow series (also called the Bean Quartet) by Orson Scott Card.  It is also the sixth book in the Ender's Game series. It is told mostly from the point of view of Bean, a mostly minor character in the first novel Ender's Game.

Other webs
 About the novel Shadow of the Hegemon from Card's website 

Books by Orson Scott Card
2001 books
Bernard Haitink

Bernard Haitink  (4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He won two Grammy Awards in 2004 and 2009.

Early life
Haitink studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam, the town where he was born. He started his career playing the violin in orchestras. Then he learned to conduct.

Career
He became second conductor of the Netherlands Radio Union Orchestra in 1955. He then became chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in 1957. On 7 November 1956 the famous conductor Carlo Maria Giulini was not able to conduct a concert of the Concertgebouw Orchestra so the young Bernard Haitink conducted instead. This helped him to become famous. Three years later he became a conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and he stayed with them for a quarter of a century. In 1963 he became the main conductor of that orchestra, and in 1999 they gave him the title of honorary conductor.

Haitink has also had jobs outside the Netherlands. He was principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 to 1979, music director at Glyndebourne Opera from 1978 to 1988 and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1987 to 2002. He also held posts with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Boston Symphony Orchestra, and conducted many other great orchestras of the world.

In 1977, he was given an honorary knighthood in the Order of the British Empire.

Haitink had conducted music by many composers from different periods. He has recorded many great works for Phillips, Decca and EMI. In 2004 his recording of Janáček’s opera Jenufa was given the Grammy Award for the best opera recording.

Personal life
Haitink had five children from his first marriage. He lived in Switzerland with his fourth wife, who used to be a viola player in the orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

Haitink died on 21 October 2021 in London at the age of 92.

References

Other websites

 List of recordings from Dutch Divas website
 
 
 
 Askonas Holt agency page on Bernard Haitink

Interviews
 Bernard Haitink interview, 13 January 1997

1929 births
2021 deaths
Dutch conductors
Grammy Award winners
Honorary Companions of Honour
Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
People from Amsterdam
Dutch musicians
Violinists
Shadow Puppets

Shadow Puppets (2002), by Orson Scott Card, is the sequel to Shadow of the Hegemon and the third book in the Ender's Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet). It was first going to be called Shadow of Death.

References

2002 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Libération

Libération (also called Libé) is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Other websites 
 www.liberation.fr

Paris
French-language newspapers
Justice

Justice is a concept on ethics and law that means that people behave in a way that is fair, equal and balanced for everyone.

In law
Governments, and especially the police and courts, see that the laws are obeyed in most societies.  Because they can punish a person for not obeying the law, most people agree that laws should be fair and the same for everyone.  But governments sometimes  make laws that many people believe are not just.  If many people believe this, people may lose respect for the law and may even disobey it.  However, in democratic societies, the law itself has ways to change or get rid of these unjust laws.

Related pages
 Ethics
 International Court of Justice
 International Criminal Court
 Morality
 Napoleonic Code
 Rationality
 Social justice

References

Other websites

Law
Virtues
Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant (2005) is the fourth book in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series (sometimes called the Bean Quartet).

Other websites
 About the novel Shadow of the Giant from Card's website 

2005 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Metropolitan Tabernacle

The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London. It was Charles Spurgeon's church for many years.

Other websites 
Metropolitan Tabernacle official site

Baptist churches
Buildings and structures in London
The Icemark Chronicles

The Icemark Chronicles is a series of books consisting of The Cry of the Icemark, followed by Blade of Fire, and Last Battle of the Icemark.  The books were written by Stuart Hill from Leicester. Fox 2000 Pictures have bought the right to create a movie based on the books.  The first is planned for 2008.

Books
The Cry of the Icemark
Blade of Fire
Last Battle of the Icemark

References
Songmaster

Songmaster (1980) is a science fiction book by Orson Scott Card.  The story of the Songmaster occurs in a future human empire, and follows Ansset, a young boy whose singing voice has the power of making people's feelings stronger.  This makes him both a possible healer and destroyer. He is trained in the art of singing so perfectly that his songs can show ideas and feelings better than words.  This book was based on Card's short story "Mikal's Songbird".

Literary significance & criticism
One reviewer said that Songmaster was "Quite possibly Card's best published work, ever." The publisher described the story as "...a haunting story of power and love—the tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away".

Awards and nominations
As with some other Card novels (Ender's Game, for example), this book started out as a shorter story "Mikal's Songbird", which was a Nebula Award finalist in 1978. Songmaster got the Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award in 1981.

Translations
  ("Songmaster"), published by Meulenhoff.
  ("Master Singer"), published by Bastei Lübbe.
  ("Master Singer"), published by Nova Ciencia Ficcion.

References

Other websites
 About the novel Songmaster from Card's website

Books by Orson Scott Card
Science fiction books
1980 books
American novels
College football

College football is American football played by teams of students from different American universities, colleges, and military academies. Play between colleges first made American football popular in the United States. College football is still popular today among students, alumni, and other fans of the sport.
American Football is variation of Rugby introduced by Walter Camp.
The very first match between two college teams using new "American" variation of Rugby was played between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869. First season of college football had only two matches played. The game became popular quickly in coming years.

National championships 
College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS – The NCAA has never had an official championship for schools in the top-level Football Bowl Subdivision, or "FBS". Instead, several groups declare their own champions.
NCAA Division I Football Championship – The official championship for schools in the second-level Football Championship Subdivision, or "FCS".
NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major football national championship
NCAA FCS Year-by-year playoff results 
NCAA Division II national football championship
NCAA Division III national football championship
NAIA national football championship
NJCAA National football championship

Other websites 
 

NCAA football official site
Bowl Championship Series
College Football Hall of Fame
FCS College Football Weekly Preview 
Most Valuable College Football Programs, Forbes
An account of the first intercollegiate game 

Statistics
NCAA football stats
Stassen College Football, comprehensive college football database
College Football Data Warehouse 
Collegio Football, Electronic Almanac & Media Guide to NCAA College Football (1869 - Present)

Rules
List of college football rule changes for 2006
NCAA Football Rule Changes for 2007 (that are meant to shorten the game)
NCAA Football: Major Rule Changes  (with rationales)
NCAA Football: 2007 Rules and Interpretations
Eye for Eye

Eye for Eye (1987) is a science fiction novella (or short book) by Orson Scott Card.  It first began in the March 1987 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.  In 1990 it appeared in Card’s short story collection Maps in a Mirror and also as a Tor double novel, with The Tunesmith by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988.

Other websites
 Publication information for Eye for Eye available from Card’s website

1987 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Hugo Award winning books
Seventh Son (book)

Seventh Son (1987) is an alternate history fantasy book written by Orson Scott Card. It is the first book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son. Seventh Son was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. The idea that the seventh son of a seventh son may have special powers is common in folklore around the world.

Seventh sons have strong "knacks" (magical powers or skills), and seventh sons of seventh sons are both very rare and powerful. In fact, young Alvin appears to be the only one in the world.  His powers make him the target of The Unmaker.  After he recognizes Alvin's powers as those of a Maker, he attempts to kill Alvin.

References

Other websites
 About the novel Seventh Son from Card's website

1987 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Locus Award

The Locus Awards were started in 1971 and are given to winners of Locus Magazine's yearly readers' poll. Currently, the Locus Awards are given at a yearly banquet. Unusually, the publishers of winning works are given a certificate.

The first Locus Award was given in 1971 for works published in 1970.

Winners 

The following writers have won the most awards in the "fiction" sections as of July 2005:

10 or more awards 
 Ursula K. Le Guin (18), Harlan Ellison (15), Dan Simmons (12), George R. R. Martin (11), John Varley (10)

3 - 9 awards 
 Connie Willis (9)
 Orson Scott Card (8), Neil Gaiman (8), Lucius Shepard (8)
 Kim Stanley Robinson (6)
 Robert Silverberg (5), David Brin (5), Gene Wolfe (5)
 Isaac Asimov (4), Joe Haldeman (4), China Miéville (4), Larry Niven (4)
 Michael Bishop (3), Greg Egan (3), Stephen King (3), Kelly Link (3), Lois McMaster Bujold (3), Tim Powers (3), Neal Stephenson (3) Terry Pratchett (3)

Categories
Locus Award for Best Novel
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Locus Award for Best First Novel
Locus Award for Best Short Story

References

Other websites
 Excerpts for Locus winning and nominated books

Literary awards
Science fiction awards
Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction written in the United States.

Award categories 
The fiction Nebulas are awarded in the following categories:
 Novel
 Novella
 Novelette
 Short story
 Script

Important/notable winners 
 Joe Haldeman (5)
 Greg Bear (3)
 Lois McMaster Bujold (3)
 Harlan Ellison (3)
 Ursula K. Le Guin (3)
 Roger Zelazny (3)
 Orson Scott Card (2)
 Arthur C. Clarke (2)
 Samuel R. Delany (2)
 Neil Gaiman (2)
 Vonda McIntyre (2)
 Frederik Pohl (2)
 Kim Stanley Robinson (2)
 Isaac Asimov
 William Gibson
 Larry Niven
 Theodore Sturgeon
 Connie Willis (6)

References

Other websites 
 The Nebula Awards homepage
 List of past winners 
 List of the most-honored Nebula Award nominees
 Excerpts and synopses of Nebula winning and nominated novels
 2006 Nebula Awards Ballot
Allergen

An allergen is something that causes allergies in humans.

Dust, pollen and pet dander are all common allergens. It is possible to be allergic to anything from chlorine to perfume. Food allergies are not as common, but some foods, like peanuts, nuts, seafood and shellfish cause serious allergies in lots of people.

Common allergens 
Some common allergens could be:
Animal products
Fel d 1 (cat allergy)
fur and dander
cockroach calyx
dust mite excretion
Drugs
penicillin
sulfonamides
salicylates (also found naturally in numerous fruits)
local anaesthetics
Foods
celery and celeriac 
corn or maize
eggs (typically albumen, the white)
fruit
pumpkin
legumes
beans
peas
peanuts
soybeans
milk
seafood
sesame
soy
tree nuts
pecans
almonds
wheat
Insect stings
bee sting venom
wasp sting venom
mosquito stings
Mold spores
Other
latex
metal
Plant pollens (hay fever)
grass — ryegrass, timothy-grass
weeds — ragweed, plantago, nettle, artemisia vulgaris, chenopodium album, sorrel
trees — birch, alder, hazel, hornbeam, aesculus, willow, poplar, platanus, tilia, olea, Ashe juniper

References 

Health problems
Physiology
Kurt Masur

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor. He conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras. He especially likes conducting German Romantic music.

Early life
Masur was born in Brieg, which was then part of Germany but is now called Brzeg and lies in Poland. He studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig.

Career
His first important conducting job was with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he worked from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1967 to 1972. He also worked with the Komische Oper of East Berlin. From 1970 to 1996 he was the Kapellmeister (musical director) of the famous Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

Dresden and Leipzig both lie in what used to be the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). For years Masur worked faithfully for the communist leaders of that country. When the political situation started to change in 1989, he helped to keep the demonstrations peaceful by talking to the politicians and the people and stopping them from fighting.

In 1991, Masur became music director of the New York Philharmonic. He stayed there for over a decade, helping to make them one of the world’s finest orchestras.

From 2000 to 2007, Masur was principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra,. From 2002 to 2008, Masur was music director of the Orchestre National de France.

On his 80th birthday (18 July 2007), Masur conducted musicians from both these orchestras at a Proms concert in London, conducting music by Tchaikovsky and Bruckner.

Masur enjoyed working with young musicians, conducting youth orchestras and giving masterclasses. He has given lessons on the art of conducting Beethoven’s music.

Personal life
Masur has been married three times. His first wife, with whom he had a daughter, died in 1972 in a car accident. Masur himself was badly injured in that accident. Until his death, he lived with his third wife, Tomoko. They have a son, Ken-David, who has also become a conductor.

On 26 April 2012 Masur fell off the podium while he was conducting the National Orchestra of France at a concert in Paris. He was taken to hospital to recover from his injuries.

Masur died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut on December 19, 2015 at the age of 88.

References

Other websites 
 Kurt Masur official website 

1927 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Connecticut
German conductors
Province of Lecco

Lecco is a province in the region of Lombardy in italy.

Lecco
Alvin Journeyman

Alvin Journeyman (1995) is an alternate history/fantasy book that was written by Orson Scott Card. It is the fourth book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son.  Being a seventh son of a seventh son gives him magical powers.

Other websites
 About the novel Alvin Journeyman from Card's website

1995 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Science fiction books
Province of Milan

Milan (or ) is a province in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

Milan
Red Prophet

Red Prophet (1988) is an alternate history/fantasy book by Orson Scott Card. It is the second book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son. Red Prophet was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989.

Plot introduction 
The second book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series, Red Prophet is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son (which gives him magical powers), Lolla-Wossiky, Tenskwa-Tawa, and Ta-Kumsaw, Lolla-Wossiky's older brother.

While it is a separate story, the book continues and develops many of the themes shown in the first book.  When Alvin Miller and his older brother Measure go to the place of his birth (where Alvin is supposed to become apprenticed to the Hattrack River blacksmith) the two brothers are captured by 'Reds' (Native Americans) and brought into a plot with possibilities of affecting the entire future of America.

Other websites
 About the novel Red Prophet from Card's website

1988 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Province of Pavia

Pavia is a province in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

Pavia
Province of Varese

Varese is a province in the region of Lombardy in Italy.

Varese
Prentice Alvin

Prentice Alvin (1989) is an alternate history/fantasy book that was written by Orson Scott Card. It is the third book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son (this gives him magical powers). Prentice Alvin was considered for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1989 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1990.

Plot summary 
After being released from his time with Ta-Kumsaw, an Indian leader who taught Alvin the ways of Indian people, he sets out to start his apprenticeship as a Smith in the town where he was born.

While there he meets a young half-black boy by the name of Arthur Stuart, the son of a slave and a slave-owner who has been taken in by the owners of the town's guesthouse.

Another new friend comes in the form of Miss Peggy Larner, who he later finds out that she is the "torch" who helped him to be born so many years ago, and with whom he has been linked to since that day.

Eventually, Alvin is forced into helping Arthur to escape from some slave-hunters, which requires him to change Arthur's DNA to prevent the hunters' knacks (powers) from finging him. Alvin also creates a plow of living gold, which is bestowed with magic, as his journeyman work to release himself from his apprenticeship as a Smith (and also as a Maker).

The story ends with Alvin and Arthur leaving the town and going back to Alvin's home in the west.

Other websites
 About the novel Prentice Alvin from Card's website

1989 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
George Winston

George Winston is a pianist from Michigan in the United States of America. He was born there in 1949 but moved   to Montana as a child. Most of his music is about the four seasons and landscapes in the United States of America.

Discography
 1972 Ballads and Blues
 1980 Autumn
 1982 Winter into Spring
 1982 December
 1991 Summer
 1994 Forest
 1996 Linus and Lucy - The Music of Vince Guaraldi
 1999 Plains
 2001 Remembrance - A Memorial Benefit
 2002 Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors
 2005 Montana - A Love Story
 2006 Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions: A Hurricane Relief Benefit

Soundtracks 
 1983 The Velveteen Rabbit
 1995 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
 1989 A Baker's Dozen of Daily Breads and More

Other websites
George Winston official website
Dancing Cat Records - Winston's Record Label

American pianists
1949 births
Living people
Octane

Octane is an organic compound with the chemical formula . It is an alkane with eight carbon atoms. It is commonly used in fuel. It is the most important part of gasoline, because it is the part that lets out most of the energy that comes from gasoline when it is burned. A high octane fuel will be better than a low octane fuel.

References 

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Caiman

The Caiman is a subfamily of the Alligators. The alligators are divided into True alligators and caimans. Caimans and true alligators develop slower than the rest of the crocodiles. Their lifestyle is also slower. Because of this, they grow older than the other crocodiles. In total, there are 6 species of caimans. All of them live in South America, the Spectacled Caiman can also be found in Central America.

There are three groups:

 True Caiman (Caiman)
 Musky caiman Spectacled Caiman (C. Crocodilus)
 Yacare Caiman (C. Yakare)
 Broad-snouted caiman (C. latirostris)

 Paleosuchus (Dwarf caimans?)
 Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman
 Smooth-fronted Caiman (P. trigonatus)), also known as Schneider's Smooth-fronted Caiman Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger'') (h) (only member of Melanosuchus)

Crocodilia
Animals of South America
Cluj County

Cluj is a county (judeţ) of Romania, in Transylvania. The capital of Cluj County is Cluj-Napoca. About 755,000 people live in Cluj County.

Geography 
Cluj County has an area of 6,674 km².

Divisions 
Cluj County has 5 municipalities, 1 town and 74 communes.

Municipalities 
 Cluj-Napoca
 Turda
 Dej
 Câmpia Turzii
 Gherla

Towns 
 Huedin

Communes 

Cluj
Transylvania
Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

Tangipahoa Parish is a parish in the U.S. State of Louisiana. The parish was put together from parts of 4 other parishes in 1869. Before it was a parish, many slaves were forced to work on sugar plantations in the area. After the Civil War, the white people continued to be very violent towards the black people they had enslaved. All across the south, there were lynchings against black people. Tangipahoa Parish had more lynchings than any nearby parish.

References

Other websites
 Visitor's Bureau website, Tangipahoa history 

1869 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in Louisiana
Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcóatl (pronounced: ketsalˈkoːaːtɬ in Nahuatl) is an Aztec sky and creator god. The name is a combination of quetzalli, a brightly colored Mesoamerican bird, and , which means serpent; it is therefore usually translated as "feathered serpent" or "plumed serpent". Quetzalcoatl was often pictured as a snake with feathers, although he was sometimes shown in the form of a human. Quetzalcoatl was associated with the planet Venus, as well as being the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and of knowledge.

The name Quetzalcoatl was also taken on by several ancient Aztec leaders. Many events and characteristics attributed to Quetzalcoatl are therefore exceedingly difficult to separate from the political leaders who took his name. To name one leader Herman Cortes who sailed to the Aztecs to conquer and to steal their gold. Today Quetzalcoatl is arguably the best known Aztec deity but there were several other important Aztec gods too: Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli. 

Other Mesoamerican cultures have worshipped a feathered serpent god as well: At Teotihuacan the several monumental structures have images of a feathered serpent (See the so-called "Citadel and Temple of Quetzalcoatl"). One can see similar images at Chichén Itza and Tula. This has led scholars to conclude that the deity called Quetzalcoatl in the Nahuatl language was among the most important deities of Mesoamerica.

Legends
There are many legends associated with Quetzalcoatl. One legend said that the world had been created four times before, but each time it was destroyed again. Then Quetzalcoatl collected human bones from the underworld and added his own blood to bring them to life. He was therefore considered the creator of the humans living at the time of the Aztec Empire.

Another legend said that Quetzalcoatl had been banished, but that he would return from the east just before the end of the world. This legend has been used to support the idea that the Aztec leader Moctezuma thought that the Spanish conquistador Cortés was Quetzalcoatl returning from exile. This would also explain why Moctezuma treated the Spanish so well. However, most historians now think that this idea was invented by the Spanish, and that Moctezuma didn't really think that Cortés was a god.

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Livingstone, David (1905) [1857]. Journeys in South Africa, or travels and researches in South Africa. London: Amalgamated Press.
 Livingstone, David and Waller, Horace (ed) 1874. The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his death. Two volumes, London: John Murray.

Sources  
 Holmes, Timothy 1993. Journey to Livingstone: exploration of an imperial myth. Edinburgh: Canongate Press. ; scholarly biography
Jeal, Tim 1973. Livingstone. London: Heinemann.

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 A brief biography of David Livingstone

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Biggar, South Lanarkshire

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