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Province of Ferrara

The province of Ferrara () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in Northeast Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Ferrara.

Geography

The province of Ferrara is the most northerly province in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has an area of . The provincial capital, the city of Ferrara, is on a branch of the Po river and at about  northeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province is bordered to the north by the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region, to the northwest by the province of Mantua in Lombardy, to the west by the Modena and Bologna provinces, to the south by the province of Ravenna and to the east by the Adriatic Sea.

The province is completely flat, with an altitude that goes from 0 m to less than  high in the west of the province, on the border with the Modena province. Most comuni have less of  of average altitude; the comune with a higher average altitude is Sant'Agostino.

The main rivers in the province are the Po and the Reno. The Po forms the north border of the province with the province of Rovigo. In Ferrara, the river has three main branches: the Po di Volano, that flows through the city of Ferrara, the Po di Primaro and the Po di Goro.

The Reno river is the longest of the region without being a tributary of the Po.

The main lakes in the province are the Lago delle Nazioni ("Nation's Lake), an artificial lake, and the Lago del Quaternario.

Population
There are 348,362 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in the province

Municipalities
The following shows the 23 comuni (municipalities) with the population, and the area and altitude.

References

Ferrara
Province of Forlì-Cesena

The province of Forlì-Cesena () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Forlì.

History
The province was created as Province of Forlì with the car plates FO.

In 1992, the southern part of the province was separated to form the new Province of Rimini and the name of the province was changed to the present of Province of Forlì-Cesena and the car plates were changed in 1999 to FC.

The ISO 3166-2 of the province was also changed to FC in 2010.

Geography

The province of Forlì-Cesena has an area of . It is, together  with the Rimini province, the most southerly of the provinces in the Emilia-Romagna region; it has a short coast along the Adriatic Sea.

The provincial capital, the city of Forlì, is along the Montone river and at about  southeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province is bordered to the north by the province of Ravenna, to the northwest by the province of Mantua in Lombardy, to the west by the province of Florence province in Tuscany, to the south by the province of Arezzo, also in Tuscany, to the southeast by the Rimini and to the east by the Adriatic Sea.

In the province there are two main protected areas:
 Parco naturale del fiume Savio (Natural park of the Savio river), along the Savio river; and
 Parco nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna, a national park in the northern Apennines.

Population
There are 394,067 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Administration
The following shows the 30 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

References

Other websites
 
Provincia di Forlì-Cesena homepage  

Forli-Cesena
Province of Modena

The Province of Modena () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy in northeastern Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena.

Geography

Modena is a landlocked (it does not border the ocean) province in central Emilia-Romagna. It has an area of .

The provincial capital, the city of Modena, is surrounded by two rivers, both right tributaries of the Po river: the Secchia and the Panaro. The city is at about  of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province is bordered to the north by Lombardy (Mantua province), to the east by the Ferrara province and the Metropolitan City of Bologna, to the west by the Reggio Emilia province and to the south by Tuscany (Lucca and the Pistoia provinces).

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Cimone (); it is  ., the highest mountain in the Emilia-Romagna region and of the northern Apennines. There is a regional park, Parco regionale dell'Alto Appennino Modenese, around this mountain.

Population
There are 700,862 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Administration
The following shows the comuni of the province with more of 10,000 people living in them (1 January 2017).

References

Other websites
 
Provincia di Forlì-Cesena homepage  
 Portale del Turismo della Provincia di Modena 

Modena
Province of Parma

The Province of Parma () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Parma.

Geography

The province of Parma has an area of . The territory of Parma is divided into three zones from north to south:
 The pianura (plains), with the Po river on the northern border.
 The collina (hills).
 The montagna (mountains).

The main towns of the collina and montagna are along the course of the main rivers that flow from the Apennine Mountains in the province and then into the Po river.

The province is bordered to the north by Lombardy (Mantua and Cremona provinces), to the east by the Reggio Emilia province, to the south by Tuscany (Massa-Carrara province) and Liguria (La Spezia province and the Metropolitan City of Genoa), to the west by the Piacenza province.

The main rivers in the province are the Taro, Parma and Ceno.

The main lakes in the province are in the mountains; two of them are:

 Santo (Lago Santo parmense), at an altitude of . It is the largest natural lake in the northern Apennines with an area of .
 Ballano Lake (Lago Ballano), at an altitude of . It is the second largest lake in the region with an area of .

The highest mountains in the province are:
 Monte Sillara,  high.
 Monte Marmagna,  high.
 Monte Orsaro,  high.
 Monte Maggiorasca,  high.

Among the protected areas in the province are the Parco regionale delle Valli del Cedra e del Parma (called also as Parco dei Cento Laghi) and the Parco nazionale dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano.

Population
There are 448,899 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Parma (194,417 inhabitants) and Fidenza (26,826 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Valmozzola, with 533 inhabitants.

Administration
The following shows the 45 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

References

Parma
Province of Piacenza

The Province of Piacenza () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Piacenza.

Geography

The province of Piacenza has an area of . It is the most western of the nine provinces in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northwestern Italy. It is divided in two zones from north to south; the northern part is largely flat (the Pianura Padana or valley of the Po river) but the southern two thirds are hilly and gets up the Apennines mountains.

The province is bordered to the north by the region of Lombardy (Cremona, Lodi and Pavia provinces), to the east by the Parma province, to the south by the region of Liguria (Metropolitan City of Genoa) and to the west by the region of Piedmont (Alessandria province).

The main river in the province is the Po river.

The main lakes in the province are artificial lakes; two of them are:

 Mignano (Lago di Mignano), at an altitude of . It is the largest lake of the province with an area of .
 Trebecco (Lago di Trebecco), at an altitude of  with an area of .

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Bue (); it is  high.

Population
There are 286,758 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Piacenza (102,355 inhabitants) and Fiorenzuola d'Arda (15,306 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Zerba, with 78 inhabitants.

Administration
The following shows the 45 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

Gallery

References

Piacenza
Province of Ravenna

The province of Ravenna () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in Northeast Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Ravenna.

History
The province was created in 1859.

Geography

The province of Ravenna is in the eastern part of the Emilia-Romagna region along the Adriatic Sea.

It has an area of . The provincial capital, the city of Ravenna, is at about  from the Adriatic Sea and at about  southeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province borders the province of Ferrara to the north, the Metropolitan City of Bologna to the west, the province of Florence in Tuscany to the southwest and the province of Forlì-Cesena to the south.

The highest point in the province is Monte Macchia dei Cani (); it is  high.

The main rivers in the province are:
 Reno - 211 km
 Lamone - 90 km
 Senio - 92 km
 Uniti - 12 km
 Montone - 140 km
 Bidente-Ronco - 135 km
 Bevano - 33 km
 Savio - 126 km

Climate
The area in Punta Marina Terme (part of the Ravenna Commune on the coast), at an altitude of about , is characterized by a climate with relatively high temperatures and precipitation throughout the year. The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Punta Marina Terme is a "Humid Subtropical Climate" and of the subtype "Cfa".

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Punta Marina Terme is . The month with the most precipitation on average is November with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of . There is an average of 71.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation days in November with 7.4 days and the least precipitation days in July with 4.4 days.

The average temperature for the year in Punta Marina Terme is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

Population
There are 391,414 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in the province

Administration
The following table shows the 18 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

References

Other websites
 
 Provincia di Ravenna homepage 
 Ravenna Intorno (Tourism website)

Ravenna
Crackme

A crackme is a small program designed to test a programmers reverse engineering skills. It is also known by the terms reversemes and keygenmes.

They are created to have a legal way to "crack" software.

Other websites 
crackmes.de  - A great site for testing your reversing skills. Crackmes range from Very Easy to Very Hard [1-9] for many Operating systems
phmaster.info  - Polish site with a lots of task. You can find many crackme's.

Software
Province of Reggio Emilia

The Province of Reggio Emilia ( or ) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy in northeastern Italy. Its capital is the city of Reggio Emilia.

Geography

Reggio Emilia is a landlocked (it does not border the ocean) province in central Emilia-Romagna. It has an area of .

The province is bordered to the north by Lombardy (Mantua province), to the east by the Modena province, to the west by the Parma province and to the south by Tuscany (Lucca and the Massa-Carrara provinces).

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Cusna (); it is . This mountain is in the "Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park" (). Other high mountains are Monte Prado,  high, and Alpe di Succiso,  high.

The main rivers in the province are:
 Po river, that makes the border with the Mantua for about .
 Enza river, a tributary of the Po river and that makes the border with the Parma for about .
 Secchia river, also a tributary of the Po, and that makes in part the border with the Modena.

Population
There are 532,483 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Administration
The following shows the 42 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

References

Other websites

 Provincia di Reggio Emilia homepage 
 Provincia di Reggio Emilia Tourism office 
 Emilia-Romagna Tourism office

Reggio Emilia
Province of Rimini

The Province of Rimini () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Rimini.

The province of Rimini, with a long touristic tradition, is well known by the beach resorts of Rimini, Riccione, Bellaria-Igea Marina, Misano Adriatico and Cattolica, found over  along the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

History
The province of Rimini was created in 1992 with parts of the former province of Forlì that changed its name to the present province of Forlì-Cesena.

After a referendum in 2006, the municipalities of Casteldelci, Maiolo, Novafeltria, Pennabilli, San Leo, Sant'Agata Feltria and Talamello were transferred from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino (Marche) to the Province of Rimini on 15 August 2009.

Geography

The province of Rimini has an area of , the smallest province of the Emilia-Romagna. The territory of Rimini is divided into four zones:
 The northwestern part of the province that is the final part of the Padan Plain or Po Valley, ().
 A narrow strip along the Adriatic Sea; here is the capital of the province, Rimini.
 A region of small hills in most of the western and southern parts of the province.
 The Apennines mountain range is found in the soutwest of the province.

The province is bordered to the north by the Forlì-Cesena province, to the south by the Marche (Pesaro and Urbino province) and the Republic of San Marino, to the west by Tuscany (Arezzo province). To the east is the Adriatic Sea.

The main river in the province is the Marecchia, that starts in the Arezzo province and ends in the Adriatic Sea near the city of Rimini after a course of .

Population
There are 336,786 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Rimini (148,908 inhabitants) and Riccione (34,965 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Casteldelci, with 405 inhabitants.

Administration
The following shows the 45 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

Gallery

References

Other websites
 
Provincia di Rimini homepage 

Rimini
Soldering

Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together. They are heated with a soldering iron. A filler metal called solder, with a relatively low melting point melts and flows into the joint, mixing with and melting a little of the items being soldered. Soft soldering is characterized by the melting point of the filler metal, which is below 400°C. Some metals such as iron are rarely soldered, because their melting point is too high. 

Solder used in electronic equipment and for many other purposes has a flux to help clean the material that is soldered. The helping hand tool can make soft soldering easier by holding wires still and close together, and magnifying to see smaller wires or circuit boards.

The process can also be undone, which is called desoldering. This involves removing the solder so that the two items can be separated. This can just be done by touching them with the soldering iron until the solder is liquid, then pulling them apart, but there are a few tools that help when trying to desolder something. Solder wick is made of very thin copper wires woven together into a long strip. When the solder wick is placed between the soldering iron and the solder, the wick absorbs the solder, and the items can be taken apart. A desoldering pump is a long tube that has a small hole on one side and a plunger on the other side that can be pushed down. When the plunger is down, the small hole is placed over the solder, and then the solder is heated with the soldering iron. A button on the side of the desoldering pump can be pushed to make the plunger come back up fast enough that it creates suction that sucks the heated solder off the items and into the pump.

Skills
Electronics
Corythosaurus

Corythosaurus is a genus of ornithopod. It was a large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur. It was about 30–33 feet (9–10 m) long, 6.6 feet (2 m) tall at the hips, and weighed 3-5 tons.

Like other hadrosaurs, it had a hollow, bony crest on top of its long head in the shape of a helmet flattened on the sides (Corythosaurus means "helmet lizard"). Its likely functions were sound projection and recognition. Males had larger crests than females and juveniles.

Corythosaurus was like other hadrosaurids, and could move on both two legs and all fours, as shown by footprints of related animals. It had a long tail stiffened by bony tendons that stopped it from drooping. The hands had four fingers, lacking the innermost finger of the  hand. The second, third, and fourth fingers were bunched together and bore hooves, suggesting the animal could have used the hands for support. The fifth finger was free and could be used to manipulate objects. Each foot had only the three central toes.

References 

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Loitering

Loitering means to stand around without doing anything. It can also mean to stop many times, or to wait and procrastinate.

Types of crime
Millionaire

A millionaire (originally and sometimes still millionaire) is a person whose net worth (or wealth) is at least one million units of a currency (most of the times it will be U.S. dollar). Millionaires are on average 61 years old with $3.05 in value. This includes things like the stock market or real estate, not just money.
In June 2020, there were 13 million people in the world who are classified as U.S.-dollar millionaires.
Another commonly used term is multimillionaire. This is used to call a persona having two or more millions of assets. In financial world the word multimillionaire is used to categorize person with $30 million of assets or more. They are also called high net worth individuals (or HNWIs). 

America alone has 4,700,000 million HNWIs, with New York city having the most (an impressive total of 348,000 of them). Geneva has the highest density of super wealthy people per person in the world.

By country
Below is a list of millionaires per country according to Credit Suisse.

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Oceania

South America

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Returns (economics)

Returns in economics and political economy, are the distributions or payments awarded to the various suppliers of the factors of production. 

Economics
Mystery play

Mystery plays and Miracle plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

Time Warner
Medieval literature
Province of Avellino

The Province of Avellino () is a province in the Campania region of Italy.

Provinces of Campania
Province of Benevento

The Province of Benevento () is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento.

Provinces of Campania
Province of Caserta

The Province of Caserta () is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta. The former royal palace of Caserta is located near to the city.

Provinces of Campania
Province of Naples

The Province of Naples (, Napulitano: Pruvincia 'e Nàpule) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital city is Naples, within the province there are 92 Comuni of the Province of Naples.

Provinces of Campania
Province of Salerno

The Province of Salerno (Italian: Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy.

Provinces of Campania
Siegmund Nissel

Siegmund Nissel (January 3, 1922 – May 21, 2008) was an Austrian-born British violinist who played second violin in the famous Amadeus Quartet.

Siegmund (Sigi) Nissel was born in Munich to a Jewish family from Vienna. He began playing the violin at the age of 6. His mother died when he was 9. He was taken by his father to Vienna, where his teachers included Max Weissgärber. Soon the political situation became dangerous for Jews in Austria and so, in 1938, the young Nissel was sent from Vienna to Great Britain.

When World War II started Nissel was interned on the Isle of Man.  There he met the violinist Peter Schidlof and later  Norbert Brainin.  They played a lot of music together.  Then they were set free because they were talented musicians.  They studied with the famous violin teacher Max Rostal.  There they met the British cellist, Martin Lovett whose wife was a pupil of Rostal.  The four men played string quartets together, with Peter Schidlof now playing viola.  At first they called themselves the Brainin Quartet, but then Nissel had the idea of the name Amadeus Quartet (Amadeus being one of Mozart's names).

The Amadeus Quartet (which their friends often called the Wolf Gang), gave its first concert in the Wigmore Hall, London in 1948. The hall was full and hundreds of people were turned away.  After this concert they were invited to perform all over the world.  They became the most famous string quartet group of their time.  They made about 200 recordings.  They were especially known for playing quartets by the great classical composers Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, but they also played works by 20th-century composers such as Bartók and Benjamin Britten (who wrote his third quartet for them).

Nissel was the one who organized all the business side for the group.

When Schidlof died from a heart attack in 1987, the Amadeus Quartet no longer existed. Nissel became a well-known teacher of young quartets at the Royal Academy of Music.

Although he had an operation for a brain tumour in 1960 and also a heart bypass he lived to the age of 86.  He was a family man who had a wife, son, daughter and three grandchildren.  He had many honours including an OBE (1970), and honorary doctorates from York University and the Royal Academy of Music.

Further reading
Muriel Nissel, Married to the Amadeus: Life with a String Quartet, [], Giles de la Mare Publishers Limited, 1998 (a memoir of her "marriage" to the Amadeus by Nissel's wife)

References
Siegmund Nissel - Obituary: The Independent, 26 May 2008

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Dong Xian

Dong Xian (; 23 BC(?) – 1 BC) was a Han Dynasty politician. Within a few years, he rose from obscurity as a minor official to being the most powerful official in the imperial administration of Emperor Ai.

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1 BC deaths
Chinese politicians
Emperor Ai of Han

Emperor Ai of Han (27 BC-1 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty. He ascended the throne when he was 20, having been made heir by his uncle Emperor Cheng, who was childless, and he reigned from 7 BC to 1 BC.

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Empress Fu (Ai)

Empress Fu, formally Empress Xiaoai, was an empress during the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is not known. Her husband was Emperor Ai.

1st-century BC births
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Emperors and Empresses of China
Empress Zhao Feiyan

Empress Zhao Feiyan (c. 32 BC — 1 BC), formally Empress Xiaochen, was an empress during the Han Dynasty.  Zhao Feiyan  was an ordinary girl born to a poor family in Suzhou, who just happened to be spotted dancing by the Emperor who took her away to the palace.  It was her dancing and beautiful figure that became her legacy.

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Bypass (surgical)

In medicine, a bypass usually means making another route for the blood to flow.  Sometimes an artery, the channel through which the blood flows, becomes blocked up.  The patient has a bypass operation.  Very often the surgeon will take part of a vein from the patient's leg and move it to the place with the blockage so that the blood can flow round the blocked part.

Surgery
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Max Rostal

Max Rostal (born Cieszyn, 7 August  1905; died Bern, 6 August 1991) was a violinist who was a famous violin teacher.  He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.

He was born in Cieszyn and studied with Carl Flesch. From 1930-33 he taught at the Berlin Hochschule, from 1944 to 1958 at the Guildhall School of Music, London and then at the conservatory in Bern, Switzerland.  Many of his pupils became famous players.  They include three members of the Amadeus Quartet.

Rostal played a wide variety of music, including many newly composed works such as Violin Concerto no 2 by Béla Bartók.

He died in Bern.

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1991 deaths
Austrian violinists
British violinists
Peter Schidlof

Peter Schidlof (July 9, 1922 – August 16, 1987) was an Austrian-British violist.  He played the viola in the Amadeus Quartet. 

Schidlof was born in Göllersdorf near Vienna, but had to leave Austria when the Nazis came.  He went to Great Britain.  Because he was musically talented he won a scholarship to Blundell's School in Devon, but when World War II broke out he was interned.  It was in the internment camp that met Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel.  They often played music together.  When they were freed they became pupils of Max Rostal who persuaded Schidlof to play the viola instead of the violin.  Together with Martin Lovett the four men formed a string quartet which at first they called the Brainin Quartet, but they soon changed the name to Amadeus Quartet.  The Amadeus Quartet gave their first concert at the Wigmore Hall in 1948.  Soon they became world famous, playing in concerts and festivals in many countries.

Schidlof was a calm man who listened very carefully to everything that was going on.  The others called him "Eagle ears".  The four men played together for nearly 40 years until Schidlof's death.

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Province of Catanzaro

Catanzaro is a province in the region of Calabria in Italy.

Catanzaro
Province of Reggio Calabria

Reggio Calabria is a province in the region of Calabria in Italy.

Reggio
Province of Vibo Valentia

Vibo Valentia is a province in the region of Calabria in Italy.

Vibo
Province of Matera

Matera is a province in the region of Basilicata in Italy.

Provinces of Basilicata
Province of Potenza

Potenza is a province in the region of Basilicata in Italy.

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Font

In typography, the terms were set when all printing was done with metal type. Font or fount was all the letters or characters of a single size of a typeface. For example, all characters for 9-point Bulmer is a font, and the 10 point size would be another font.

With the increase in the use of personal computers, the definition of font has changed. The term font is now often used as another name for a typeface. The size of the characters has no effect on fonts when using this definition.

Typography
Lectern

A lectern (from the Latin lectus, past participle of legere, "to read") is a reading desk with a slanted top. It is usually placed on a stand  some other form of support. Documents or books are often put on top of a lectern to make it easier for someone to read them to other people. For example, for Scripture reading, lectures, speechs or sermons. The height and slant of a lectern can usually be changed to so the person reading can stand properly and make good eye-contact with an audience.

Furniture
Cantor

Cantor can mean:
 The Latin word for singer, e.g. the main singer of a cantus
 Hazzan, in Judaism, the English name for a professional singer who leads prayer services (Kantor is a frequently noted Jewish patronym)
 Cantor (church), an ecclesiastical officer leading liturgical music in several branches of the Christian Church
 Cantor (crater), a lunar crater

In mathematics Cantor may refer to:
 The Cantor set or Cantor dust
 The Cantor function
 The Cantor space

Cantor as a surname may refer to:
 Andrés Cantor, Spanish-language soccer announcer
 Brian Cantor, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York, UK
 David Cantor (born 1954), American actor and singer
 Eddie Cantor (1892-1964), American comedian, singer, actor, songwriter
 Eric Cantor (born 1963), American politician
 Georg Cantor (1845-1918), German mathematician, founder of set theory
 Moritz Cantor (1829-1929), German historian of mathematics
 Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President of Syracuse University
 Norman Cantor (1929-2004), Canadian medievalist
 Theodore Edward Cantor (1809-1860), Danish biologist 

Cantor is a shortened form of these names and terms:
 Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm

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Epistle

An epistle (from the , epistolē, meaning "letter") is a writing sent to a person or group of people. It is usually written as a formal letter. It was common in ancient Egypt, being taught to scribes. The letters in the New Testament from Apostles to Christians are usually referred to as epistles. Those letters said to have been written by Paul are known as the Pauline epistles and the others as the General epistles.

The epistles of Cicero, and of Pliny the Younger tell a lot about life at the time of the Romans. Ovid produced a number of letters while he was in exile at coast of the Black Sea, Seneca's letters influenced many epistle-writers of later times.

Letters
Genres
Christian genres
Anglo-Saxon architecture

Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon buildings in Britain were generally simple, made from wood with thatch for roofing.

There are few remains of Anglo-Saxon architecture. At least fifty churches are of Anglo-Saxon origin. All surviving churches, except one timber church, are built of stone or brick.

Other websites 
Anglo-Saxon architecture in Early British Kingdoms

Architecture
Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorize styles of Romanesque architecture made by the Normans in the land that was under their control or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Architectural styles
Fan vault

A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Perpendicular Gothic style. All its ribs are of the same curve and spaced the same.

This beautiful and elegant Gothic style of architecture, at its earliest appears in 1351.  

Architectural elements
Gert Fram

"Gert Fram" is a short story that was written by Orson Scott Card in 1977. It is in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror. This short story was the first story Card wrote. It first came out in the July 1977 fine arts issue of Ensign magazine under the pen name Byron Walley.

1977 books
20th-century American short stories
The Memory of Earth

The Memory of Earth (1992) is the first book of the Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card.  The Homecoming Saga is a fake story about the first 100 years in the Book of Mormon.

Other websites
 About the novel The Memory of Earth from Card's website

1992 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
The Call of Earth

The Call of Earth (1992) is the second book in the Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card.

Other websites
 About the book The Call of Earth from Card's website

1992 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
The Ships of Earth

The Ships of Earth (1994) is the third book in the Homecoming Saga.  It was written by Orson Scott Card in 1994.

Other websites
 About the book The Ships of Earth from Card's website

1994 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
Homecoming Saga

The Homecoming Saga is a science fiction series by Orson Scott Card. The series is patterned on the Book of Mormon. Some of the names also come from the Book of Mormon.

Books
 The Memory of Earth (1992)
 The Call of Earth (1992)
 The Ships of Earth (1994)
 Earthfall (1995)
 Earthborn (1995)

Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
Earthfall

Earthfall (1995) is the fourth book of the Homecoming Saga.  It was written by Orson Scott Card in 1995.

Other websites
 About the novel Earthfall from Card's website

1995 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
Earthborn

Earthborn (1995) is the fifth book of the Homecoming Saga.  It was written by Orson Scott Card, and is the last book in the Homecoming Saga.

Other websites
 About the book Earthborn from Card's website

1995 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming Saga
American novels
Tor Books

Tor Books is an American book publishing company. It is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy books. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and some military history books under its Forge imprint. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, was formed by Tom Doherty in 1980, and sold to St. Martin's Press in 1986. Along with St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, and Farrar Straus Giroux, it is now part of the Holtzbrinck group.

Book publishing companies
Companies based in New York City
Publishing companies of the United States
1980 establishments in the United States
King's College Chapel, Cambridge

King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge. It is one of the finest examples of Gothic Perpendicular architecture. It is the home of the famous King's College Choir.

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Churches in England
Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren (20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723) was a 17th century English architect, designer, astronomer and geometer. He designed 51 churches in London after the Great Fire of London, including St. Paul's Cathedral.

Wren was born on 20 October 1632 in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Westminster School and Oxford University. He showed an early talent for mathematics. He invented an instrument for writing in the dark and a pneumatic machine. In 1657, Wren was appointed professor of astronomy at Gresham College in London. Four years later, he was appointed professor of astronomy at Oxford. In 1662, he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society.

Wren developed an interest in architecture following his studies of physics and engineering. In 1664 and 1665, Wren designed the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford and a chapel for Pembroke College, Cambridge. Thereafter, architecture became his main focus. In 1665, Wren visited Paris. He studied French and Italian baroque styles.

In 1666, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the medieval city. Wren produced ambitious plans for rebuilding the whole area. His plans were rejected, partly because property owners insisted on keeping the sites of their destroyed buildings. Wren did design 51 new city churches, including a new St Paul's Cathedral. In 1669, he was appointed surveyor of the royal works. This gave him control of all government building in the country. He was knighted in 1673.

In 1675, Wren was commissioned to design the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. In 1682, he designed a hospital in Chelsea, London for retired soldiers, and in 1696 a hospital for sailors in Greenwich. Other buildings include Trinity College Library in Cambridge (1677 - 1692), and the facade of Hampton Court Palace (1689 - 1694). Wren often worked with the same team of craftsmen, including master plasterer John Groves and wood carver Grinling Gibbons.

Wren died on 25 February 1723. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His gravestone features a Latin inscription which translates as: 'If you seek his memorial, look about you.'

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Fellows of the Royal Society
People from Wiltshire
Presidents of the Royal Society
Coventry Cathedral

Coventry Cathedral, also known as St. Michael's Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral. It is in Coventry, West Midlands, England.

In fact, the city has three cathedrals. The first was St. Mary's, a monastic building, only a few ruins of which remain. The second was St Michael's, a 14th-century Gothic Cathedral, which was largely destroyed by a bombing raid in the Second World War. The cathedral was bombed on 14 November 1940 by the German Luftwaffe, which destroyed much of central Coventry. Nails found in the ruins were formed into a cross and consecrated in the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche in Berlin.

The third cathedral is the new St Michael's Cathedral, built to replace the bombed cathedral. It is an important example of 20th century architecture.

The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry. The Right Reverend Dr. Christopher Cocksworth is the current Bishop of Coventry. He is the 9th Bishop of Coventry.

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Cathedrals in England
Coventry
World Ocean

The world ocean, or global ocean is used to describe all the world's oceans as one large interconnected ocean. It is not a generally agreed term.

It is divided into the standard  oceans: the Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the proposed southern ocean around the Antarctic. 

The world ocean is mainly the southern oceans. The Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans can be seen as bays or lobes going northward from the Southern Ocean. Farther north, the Atlantic opens into the Arctic Ocean, which is connected to the Pacific by the Bering Strait:

 The southern ocean would be the ocean surrounding Antarctica, generally the ocean south of sixty degrees south latitude. Parts of the Southern Ocean are covered in sea ice, the extent of which varies according to the season. The southern ocean is the second smallest of the five named oceans. 
 The Atlantic Ocean, the second biggest, extends from the southern ocean between South America, Africa, North America and Europe, to the Arctic Ocean. The Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas.
 The Indian Ocean extends northward from the Southern Ocean to India, between Africa and Australia. The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the west, near Australia.
 The Pacific Ocean, the biggest of all, also reaches northward from the Southern Ocean to the Arctic Ocean. It is in the gap between Australia, Asia, North America and Oceania. The Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic south of South America at Cape Horn.
 The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the five. It joins the Atlantic near Greenland and Iceland, and joins the Pacific at the Bering Strait. It is on the North Pole, touching North America in the Western hemisphere and Scandinavia and Asia in the Eastern hemisphere. Parts of the Arctic Ocean are covered in sea ice, the extent of which varies according to the season. 

The oceans of the world are not constant. Climate change  happens, and so does continental drift over a much longer timescale.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169°43' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales on the edge of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, the westernmost point (168°05' W) of the North American continent, with latitude of about 65° 40' north, slightly south of the Arctic Circle. The strait was made around 40,000 years ago, when an old landmass between Asia and America known as Beringia was flooded at the end of the last ice age. The strait is passed through by the international date line, making from the view of the Russian side from the Alaskan side like looking at tomorrow.

Geography

The Bering Strait is 82 km at its narrowest point, and 90 meters deep at its deepest point (with an average depth of 50 meters), making the strait rather shallow. There are three small islands located in the strait. There are the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the strait, and a small rock (or islet) known as Fairway Rock southeast of the Diomede Islands.

Proposed crossing
There have been ideas of building a bridge or tunnel to link Alaska and Russia, where cars and trains could cross the strait. The crossing would have three parts, one connecting Big Diomede Island to Russia, one connecting Small Diomede with Alaska, and a final link between the islands. This would link the North American road system with the connected road systems of Asia, Europe, and Africa. There have not been any physical work done on such a crossing, mostly due to the remoteness of the strait, and the little demand for it. There are no major highways or railroads that connect the Bering Strait to the rest of Asia or America, so if either a tunnel or bridge was built across the strait, new connections to the rest of the highways and railways would have to be made for cars or trains to get there. The crossing might become more useful in the future however.

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Straits
Geography of North America
Monolophosaurus

Monolophosaurus  was a medium-sized theropod from China that lived during the Jurassic period. 

It had one feature not found on any other meat-eating dinosaur  a long, bony ridge that went from its nose back to the top of its head. The area where Monolophosaurus was discovered showed signs that it was sometimes covered with water, so it is possible that this dinosaur lived on the shore of a lake or sea.

The remains of the type of Monolophosaurus preserve a complete skull and partial postcranium.  In fact, these remains are amongst the most complete from the Middle Jurassic of China. The dinosaur was probably a basal tetanuran.

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Tetanurans
Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983) is a fantasy book that is written by Orson Scott Card.

Other websites
 About the book Hart's Hope from Card's website

1983 books
Fantasy books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador

Twillingate is a town that can be found on the Twillingate Islands off the coast of Newfoundland. About 2500 people live in the town. It is known for its scenic landscape and friendly hospitality. Twillingate is about an hour and a half north of Gander and an hour north of Lewisporte.

Twillingate's economy is based around the fishery.

Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador

Gander is a town of almost 10,000 people in the central region of Newfoundland, Canada. It is home to the Gander International Airport, which used to be an important point for aircraft to refuel on long flights. Most of the streets in Gander are named after famous aviators, including Amelia Earhart, Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Marc Garneau and Chuck Yeager.

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Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Trireme

A Trireme is an ancient oar-driven warship powered by about 170 oarsmen.  It was long and slender, had three tiers of oars and one sail.  On the bow was a battering ram that was used to destroy enemy ships.  The tip of the ram was made of bronze and could easily slice through the side of a wooden ship.

The Trireme was used by people of the Mediterranean Sea from the 7th to the 4th century BC and gets its name from its three rows of oars on each side, manned with one man per oar. The rowing men were not slaves, but were free men who were paid to row. In Ancient Greece, soldiers (called Hoplites)) had to buy their own armour and weapons so men too poor to afford them became trireme rowers in wartime. They had to have a lot of practice at rowing as, during a battle, the ship had to be able to stop, start and turn very quickly. 

As well as the rowing men, there were 30 others on a trireme. Some of these were sailors who worked the sail, others were soldiers who shot arrows and tried to get onto enemy ships, to attack their crews with swords and spears. The man who steered the trireme was called a kubernete by the Greeks. From this we get the English word Governor, for a person who leads a state. 

Because there were many men crowded onto a small ship, triremes could not stay at sea very long. Often, they came to land each evening. The crew would pull the trireme out of the water and then sleep next to it on the beach. 

Before a battle, the mast and sail were taken off and left on the shore. In battle, triremes would attempt to ram or board each other. Some triremes had catapults and ballistas on them, but they were hard to use in battle. Many ancient sea battles involved hundreds of triremes. In the Battle of Salamis, there were around 360 ships on the Greek side and 600 to 800 ships on the Persian side.  

Boats
warships
Ancient Greece
Fabrosauridae

Fabrosauridae is a proposed family of primitive ornithischian dinosaurs from late Triassic and Jurassic. The proposed "Fabrosaurs" descended from a Lesothosaurus-like animal. The group is not established; it appears to be polyphyletic, and its members may come from several other better-known groups.

Ornithischia
A Planet Called Treason

A Planet Called Treason (1979) is a science fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card.  After being changed, the book was renamed Treason (1988).

Other websites 
 About the book Treason from Card's website

1979 books
1988 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Saints (book)

Saints (1983) is a historical fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card.  Saints tells about the fictional character named Dinah Kirkham, from Manchester, England, who goes to the United States and becomes one of the multiple wives of Joseph Smith, who is founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Saints was originally named Woman Of Destiny, even though Orson Scott Card was against this.

Other websites
 About the book Saints from Card's website

1983 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Hot Sleep

Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle (1979) is a science fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card.  Although it is now out of print, Card's book The Worthing Chronicle (1983) has some of the same story.

Other websites
 Publication information for Hot Sleep available from Card’s website
 The book Hot Sleep from Card's website

1979 books
Science fiction books
Books by Orson Scott Card
The Worthing Chronicle

The Worthing Chronicle (1983) is a science fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card.  This book is out of print, but it was released again in a collection of short stories called The Worthing Saga in 1990.

Other websites
 About the book The Worthing Chronicle from Card's website

1983 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
Science fiction books
Wyrms (book)

Wyrms (1987) is a science fiction book that was written by Orson Scott Card. The story looks at desire, wisdom, and human will.

Other websites
 About the book Wyrms from Card's website

1987 books
Books by Orson Scott Card
American novels
2008 WWE draft

The 2008 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Draft was the fifth yearly (and sixth overall) Draft held by WWE. The Draft was held on June 23, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas from the AT&T Center. The Draft took place live for three hours on WWE's flagship program, Raw, which aired on the USA Network.

Report

Background
The Draft was announced by WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon on the May 26 2008 episode of Raw. During the announcement, he stated that every WWE Superstar, Diva, and Commentators were eligible to be drafted.

Superstar selections

Televised draft

Supplemental draft

Related pages
WWE Brand Extension
WWE Draft Lottery
WWE Raw

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WWE Raw
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2008 in professional wrestling
2008 in Texas
21st century in San Antonio, Texas

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