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Charlie Daniels

Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American country singer-songwriter and musician. He played a fiddle and country rock music. His best known song was "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

He was honored into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002, the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.

Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. Daniels was married to Hazel Daniels from 1963 until his death. They had a son, Charlie Daniels, Jr., and three grandchildren. 

Daniels died from a stroke on July 6, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 83.

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 Official Website
 

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Michael Jeter

Michael Robert Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American character actor of film, stage, and television. His television roles included Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994 and Mr. Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle on the Elmo's World segments of Sesame Street from 2000 until 2003. Jeter's film roles include Zelig, Tango & Cash, The Fisher King, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, 
Waterworld, Air Bud, Patch Adams, The Green Mile, Mousehunt, Jurassic Park III, Welcome to Collinwood, Open Range, and The Polar Express.

Early life
Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee on August 26, 1952. He was a bisexual and was partners with Sean Blue from 1995 until his death in 2003.

Death
Jeter was HIV+. He was found dead on March 30, 2003 in his Hollywood, Los Angeles, California home from complications from epilepsy, he was 50 years old. His remains were cremated.

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Cayo District

Cayo District is a district in the west of the nation of Belize.  The District capital is the town of San Ignacio.

Geography 
The Cayo District is the largest in Belize. It is on the western side of the country which borders Guatemala. The nation's capital, Belmopan, is in the district.

The Cayo District has the Pre-Columbian Maya ruins of Xunantunich, Cahal Pech, Chaa Creek, and Caracol. Major rivers in the district include the Macal River and the Mopan River.

Importance and Location 

The Cayo District is mostly an agricultural district. The chief crops are citrus, (oranges, grapefruit, and tangerine), as well as bananas.  Recently oil was found in Spanish Lookout and is now in production.  In addition to the ruins listed above there are several other important nature reserves including two National Parks, Blue Hole (park) and Guanacaste National Park. Ecotourism is also an important part of the region's economy.

According to the 2000 census, Cayo District had a population of 53,715 people.

References

Districts of Belize
Corozal District

Corozal District is the northernmost district of the nation of Belize. The population was 33,335 as of 2000. The district capital is Corozal Town.

The island of Ambergris Caye is close to Corozal District, but it is a part of Belize District.

Pre-Columbian Maya ruins are found in Corozal at Santa Rita near Corozal Town, and at Cerros.

Spanish is the most spoken language in Corozal, followed by English. 80% speak Spanish very well and 60% speak English very well.

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Districts of Belize
Orange Walk District

Orange Walk District is a district in the northwest of the nation of Belize.  The district capital is Orange Walk Town. The population was 45,419 persons in 2010.

The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, a large private nature reserve in the Yalbac Hills, is in this district. The land is highly cultivated with sugar cane, sorghum, rice, corn and vegetables. A lot of this agriculture is done by Mennonite farmers. 
 
The district is home to mostly Maya mestizo descendants of Mexican refugees who fled from the 1840 Caste War.

Tourism  is growing.  This is due to healthy populations of tropical wildlife and the rich archaeological sites. There are over 400 recorded bird species in the district. The district has two rivers, the Rio Hondo and the New River.

References

Districts of Belize
Stann Creek District

Stann Creek District is a district in the south east region of Belize. According to the 2010 census, the district had a population of 32,166 people. Its capital is the city of Dangriga.  Dangriga used to be called "Stann Creek Town." Stann comes from "stanns," or safe havens used by colonialists coming from the "old world" to the "new world."

The Stann Creek District is home to the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. In the sanctuary is Victoria Peak, the highest point in Belize, at 1120 meters (3,675 feet) above sea level.

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Districts of Belize
Toledo District

Toledo District is the southernmost district in Belize. Punta Gorda is the district capital. It is the least developed region in the country.  It has some of the most clean rainforests, many caves, coastal lowland plains, and offshore cays. Toledo is home to a wide range of cultures—from Mopan and Kekchi Maya, to Creole, the Garifuna, East Indians, Mennonites, Mestizos, and descendants of US Confederate settlers.

According to the 2010 census, Toledo District had a population of 30,538 people.

The economy of Toledo relies heavily on agriculture. Crops grown include beans and corn, as well as rice. Cacao is grown for the renowned Maya Gold chocolate. The District’s ancient and modern-day links with chocolate are celebrated each year in May.

References

Districts of Belize
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is a French commune in the Savoie department. Its population is about 8,507 (2008 census).

Communes in Savoie
Subprefectures in France
Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana (born 19 June 1978) is an American actress. She has been in many movies. She had her breakthrough roles in Center Stage (2000) and Crossroads (2002). She was born in Passaic, New Jersey.

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List of freight ship companies

This is a list of freighter shipping fleets.  The largest shipping companies are European and Asian.

History
The growth of container transport fleets began in the 1950s.

List
This list is in order of size, with the largest first.  In 2009, for example, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) was the tenth in size worldwide.

This list is in a table format:
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

Related pages
 Containerization

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Nippon Yusen

,  also known as NYK Line, is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It is a core Mitsubishi company. The company has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

History
The company history began with the Tsukumo Shokai shipping company which was founded by the Tosa clan in 1870.

Related pages
 List of container transport fleets

References

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Company website (in English) 
NYK Group official history

Transport companies of Japan
Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and Senior United States Senator of Massachusetts since January 3, 2013. She is a Democrat and a bankruptcy law expert. She was also an assistant to President Barack Obama. She supports student loan forgiveness, banking regulation, and consumer protection regulations. 

Warren was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Warren was seen as a possible running mate pick for Joe Biden's campaign.

Pre-senate career
Before she was a senator, Warren taught bankruptcy law at Harvard Law School. She interviewed hundreds of people who were going through bankruptcy or struggling to avoid bankruptcy. She gained a thorough understanding of the causes of bankruptcy and financial difficulties that families face in the United States. She wrote several books about these struggles, and about the institutions that make money by making it hard for people to escape from these difficulties.

She and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi are the co-authors of a book called The Two-Income Trap. Warren has also written several other books, including A Fighting Chance and This Fight is Our Fight.

In 2011, she was an advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government agency that protects consumers from unfair practices of banks, payday lenders, student loan providers, credit card companies, collection agencies, for-profit colleges and universities, and the collection departments of health maintenance organizations (HMOs).

2020 campaign

Warren announced her plans to run for President in the 2020 election in December 2018. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for president. Warren ended her campaign on March 5, 2020 after failing to win any primaries and falling to third place in Massachusetts' primary. After Joe Biden won the nomination, she became one of the final four finalists for his running mate pick.

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Kid Kash

David Cash (born July 31, 1969 in Waynesboro, Virginia) better known by his ring name, Kid Kash, is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Kash has also wrestled for ECW, WCW and WWE.

Championships
Kash has held many championships during his professional wrestling career:

Extreme Championship Wrestling
ECW World Television Championship (one time)

Juggalo Championship Wrestling
JCW Heavyweight Championship (one time)

Powerhouse Wrestling Alliance
PWA World Heavyweight Championship (four times)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #68 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2000.

Showtime All-Star Wrestling
SAW International Heavyweight Championship (four times)

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
NWA World Tag Team Championship (two times) – with Dallas
TNA X Division Championship (one time)

United States Wrestling Organization
USWO Championship (two times)

World Wrestling Council
WWC Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)

World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Cruiserweight Championship (one time)

X Wrestling Federation
XWF World Cruiserweight Championship (one time)

XtraWrestle Federation
XWF World Cruiserweight Championship (six times)

References

Other websites
Kid Kash's TNA profile 

1969 births
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Park Geun-hye

Park Geunhye (born February 2, 1952) is a South Korean politician. She served as the President of South Korea from 2013 until her impeachment in 2017. She is the second daughter of Park Chung-hee, former President of South Korea.  On December 19, 2012, she was elected president of 
the country. She was the first woman president of South Korea, having taken office on February 25, 2013.
In 2013 and 2014, Park was named the world's 11th most powerful woman and the most powerful woman in East Asia by Forbes magazine.

Park was impeached on 10 March 2017 and was replaced by Prime Minister of South Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn.

Impeachment and suspension
On 9 December 2016, Park was impeached by the National Assembly on charges related to influence peddling by a top aide. Her presidential powers and duties have been suspended since the ratification of the impeachment proposal, and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn has assumed those powers and duties as Acting President. She was officially removed from office on 10 March 2017.

On 6 April 2018, a three-judge panel of the Central District Court in Seoul sentenced Park to 24 years in prison and a fine of ₩18,000,000,000 (US$16,798,683).  The panel said she was guilty of 16 out of 18 charges brought against her.

References

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 Park Geunhye 
 Park Geunhye  
 Park Geunhye 
 Park Geunhye:facebook 

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Lee San-hae

Lee San-hae(이산해 李山海, July 20, 1539-July 20, 1609), also known as Yi Sanhae, was a Korean Joseon Dynasty politician, writer, and philosopher. A penname was Ahgye (아계 鵝溪), Jongnamsuong (종남수옹 終南睡翁).

Books 
 Ahgyejip (아계집, 鵝溪集) 
 Ahgyeyugo (아계유고, 鵝溪遺稿)

Related pages 
 Yi I
 Yi Hwang
 Cho Shik
 Chung In-hong

Other websites 
 Lee San-hae  
 Family cafe of Lee San-hae 

1539 births
1609 deaths
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Korean writers
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (b. 14 January 1952, Bucharest) is a Romanian politician. On 28 December 2004, he was prime minister of Romania.

He was president of PNL and vice-president of PLD.

He founded Radio Contact Romania. He is president of Automotive Trading Services (ATS), which represents Citroen in Romania.

1952 births
Living people
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Upsilon Andromedae d

Upsilon Andromedae d is an extrasolar planet. It orbits the Sun-like star Upsilon Andromedae A.

Upsilon Andromedae A was the third star known to host a multiple-planet planetary system, the others are the Sun and the pulsar PSR 1257+12.

In 1999, two groups of astronomers independently concluded that a three-planet model best fit the data. The two new planets were designated Upsilon Andromedae C and Upsilon Andromedae D.

References

Exoplanets
Kerman

Kerman is a city in and capital of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, 621,374 people lived there.

Cities in Iran
Mule (footwear)

Mule shoes are shoes that are backless and almost always closed-toed. They can be any heel height (flat to high). The shoes are almost always worn by females. High heeled mule shoes were a popular indoor shoe in the 18th century. By the early twentieth century, the shoes were very often associated with prostitutes. However, in the early 1950s, Marilyn Monroe popularized the shoes and helped to break their poor reputations. Similar shoes, called slides, were introduced in the early 1990s, except that slides are open-toed versions of mules.

Other websites

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Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African heart surgeon. He was born in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Union of South Africa. He did the first successful heart transplant from human to human. He died of asthma in Paphos, Cyprus. His brother was Marius Barnard.

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Afrikaner people
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South African scientists
Surgeons
Slip-on shoe

Slip-on shoes are laceless shoes. The style most commonly seen is called a loafer or slipper, with a moccasin construction. They began appearing in mid 1930s Norway as casual shoes, though they have increased in popularity to the point of being worn with lounge suits. They are worn mostly by females, though men wear the shoes, also.

Footwear
Ring of Honor

Ring of Honor (ROH) is a professional wrestling company founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. The president of the company is Cary Silkin. Their headquarters are in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Matches for the company airs on The Fight Network in Canada and on Samurai TV in Japan. The company also aired matches in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

History
The company was started by RF Video owner, Rob Feinstein after Extreme Championship Wrestling went out of business. Feinstein left the company in 2004 after he was caught in an internet sting operation allegedly trying to ask for sex on the internet from a person who he thought was an 13 year old boy but was actually an adult, pretending to be the boy. Gabe Sapolsky left the company on October 26, 2008. Doug Gentry bought Feinstein's stake in the company and sold it to Cary Silkin who then became the president of the company.

Code of Honor
Ring of Honor followed a set of rules called the "code of honor". The code of honor was considered a moral requirement to follow. They were put in place to make Ring of Honor feel more like Japanese professional wrestling. There were originally 5 rules set in place but they were retired in 2004. They reappeared again and were changed to only 3 rules.

Champions

Retired championships

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Thai basil

Thai basil, or Asian basil is a type of sweet basil.  It is found in Southeast Asia. Thai basil has small, narrow leaves and purple stems.  The flower is a mauve (pink-purple) color. One cultivar commonly grown in the United States is 'Queen of Siam'.

Thai basil is an important ingredient in the very popular Taiwanese dish, sanbeiji (three cup chicken). Used as a condiment, a plate of raw Thai basil leaves is often served with phở (Vietnamese-style noodle soup) so each customer can season it to taste with the anise-flavored leaves.

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Bolivian coriander

Bolivian coriander (Porophyllum ruderale) is an annual plant.  Its leaves can be used for seasoning food. The taste has been described as "somewhere between arugula, cilantro and rue." The plant is commonly grown in Mexico and South America.  There it is used in salsas. When fully grown, this plant grows to about 5 feet in height and 3 feet in diameter.

This herb is known by many names, including quillquiña (also spelled quirquiña or quilquiña), killi, papalo, tepegua and pápaloquelite. 

Also, even though the name is "Bolivian coriander", this plant is not botanically related to the coriander.

Herbs
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Exploitation movie

Exploitation movie is a label that is applied to certain movies: These usually have a low budget, and focus on showing either violence or sex. Very often, they try to be successful by following a trend. Sometimes they are produced for a niche of the market. In almost all cases, exploitation movies fall in the category B-movies. Sometimes, exploitation movies attract a cult following they get the attention of the movie critics. Some of these movies set trends, and become important. An example of such a movie is Night of the Living Dead, of 1968.  

The term exploitation is defined very loosely: it is more about the viewers' impression that this exploitation happens, than the people actually being exploited. The first exploitation movies appeared in the 1920s. Exploitation movies only became popular after the 1960s and 1970s, when there was less censorship. Very often, exploitation movies use  recent news events to base their story on. Major film studios ofen avoid such events, because producing the movie takes a long time and a lot of money.  

In 1938, Orson Welles produced War of the Worlds to be broadcast on radio, as a Halloween special. When it was aired, this shocked many Americans. As a result, Universal Pictures edited one of their Flash Gordon serials into a short movie  which it released ot movie theatres one week after Welles' boradcast. The movie was called Mars Attacks the World.

Related pages 
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Kim Hyo-won

Kim Hyo-won (, Hanja 金孝元, 1532 - 1590), also known as Gim Hyeo-Wyeong or Söng'am, was a Korean scholar, writer, politician, and Neo-Confucian philosopher of the  Joseon period.

References

Other websites 
 http://koreandb.nate.com/history/people/detail?sn=8487
 윤종일교수의 남양주역사기행(26)- 동인(東人) 김효원(金孝元)(남양주타임즈, 2007.01.26자 
  Political factions in Korea at Citizendia.org 

1532 births
1590 deaths
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Korean politicians
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Human genome

The human genome is stored on 23 chromosome pairs in the cell nucleus and in the small mitochondrial DNA. A great deal is now known about the sequences of DNA which are on our chromosomes. What the DNA actually does is now partly known. Applying this knowledge in practice has only just begun.

The Human Genome Project (HGP) produced a reference sequence which is used worldwide in biology and medicine. Nature published the publicly funded project's report, and Science  published Celera's paper. These papers described how the draft sequence was produced, and gave an analysis of the sequence. Improved drafts were announced in 2003 and 2005, filling in to ≈92% of the sequence.

The latest project ENCODE studies the way the genes are controlled.

DNA and proteins 
The human genome contains just over 20,000 protein-coding genes, far fewer than had been expected. In fact, only about 1.5% of the genome codes for proteins, while the rest consists of non-coding RNA genes, regulatory sequences, and introns.

However, a single gene can produce a variety of proteins by means of RNA splicing. One particular Drosophila gene (DSCAM) can be alternatively spliced into 38,000 different mRNAs. Each mRNA codes for a different peptide chain. Therefore the number of proteins produced is far above the number of coding genes.

With RNA splicing and post-RNA translation changes, the total number of unique human proteins may be in the low millions.

The idea that most DNA is useless 'junk' is wrong. At least 80% of the genome has definite functions.

Differences between humans and chimpanzees 
The animal that is alive now that is closest to humans is the chimpanzee. 98.4% of the DNA is the same between humans and chimpanzees. However, this applies only to single nucleotide polymorphisms, that is, changes in single base pairs only. The full picture is rather different.

The draft sequence of the common chimpanzee genome was published in 2005. It showed that the regions which are similar enough to be aligned with one another account for 2400 million of the human genome’s 3164.7 million bases, that is, 75.8% of the genome.

This 75.8% of the human genome is 1.23% different from the chimpanzee genome in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs - changes of single DNA “letters” in the genome). Another type of difference, called 'indels' (insertions/deletions) account for another ~3% difference between the alignable sequences. In addition, variation in copy number of large segments (> 20 kb) of similar DNA sequence provides a further 2.7% difference between the two species. Hence the total similarity of the genomes could be as low as about 70%.

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Sucralose

Sucralose is an artificial sweetener, most of which, if ingested, will not be broken down by the body and is thereby non-caloric (doesn't contribute to calorie intake). Sucralose is almost 600 times as sweet as sucrose, twice as sweet as saccharin and 3 times as sweet as aspartame. It is stable under heat and over a broad range of pH condition, meaning it can be used in baking or products which require longer shelf lives. It was first discovered and patented in 1976.

Sweeteners
Richard Farnsworth

Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American television, stage, radio, voice, and movie actor, and a stuntman. He was previously known as Dick Farnsworth. He was nominated for two Academy Awards. 

Farnsworth was known for his role as Sheriff Buster in the 1990 movie Misery. Farnsworth is the oldest person to receive an Academy Award nominated for Best Actor in a Leading role. He was 79 years old when he was nominated.

He was born in Los Angeles, California on September 1, 1920. He was married to Margaret Hill from 1947 until her death in 1985. They had one child. 

Farnsworth never liked using four-lettered words. He was once asked by Roger Ebert what he was most proud of in regards to his acting career, he replied that it was the fact that in over 60 movies he never says one cuss word.  

Farnsworth committed suicide on October 6, 2000 at his ranch in Lincoln, New Mexico by shooting himself. He was 80 years old.

He was added into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1997.

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 Richard Farnsworth at NNDB

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Ty Law

Ty Law (b. 10 February 1974) is a retired American football player. He played as a safety in the NFL. Law was drafted by the New England Patriots in 1995. He also played for the New York Jets (2005, 2008), Kansas City Chiefs (2006-2007) and Denver Broncos (2009). He retired after the 2009 season. Law was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.

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Lawyer Milloy

Lawyer Marzell Milloy (born November 14, 1973 ) is a retired American football player. He was drafted by the New England Patriots of the National Football League in 1996. He last played in 2010. Milloy also played for the Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks.

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Black January

Black January (), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a massacre by the Soviet Red Army and the KGB secret police agency of peaceful Azerbaijani protesters of the Azerbaijani independence movement. It happened in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic on 19–20 January 1990, during the last years of the Soviet Union. Between 133-137 people were killed, when the Red Army and the KGB shot the protesters. As a result, the Azerbaijanis became totally opposed to stay a part of the Soviet Union and started to plan the independence of Azerbaijan. This happened with the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

It was one of the rare events during the liberal reform era of glasnost (reform of the government) and perestroika (reform of the economy) in which the Soviet Union used force against peaceful protesters. Before this era, the Soviet Union did not allow any protests of its population and stopped them violently if they did protest. 

The reason for using violence, was that powerful conservative people in the Communist Party, the Red Army and the KGB did not like these reforms and feared that the ethnic groups and republics of the Soviet Union were getting out of their control with the rise of nationalism. 

However, the use of violence angered the people in Azerbaijan and the rest of the Soviet Union. It had the opposite effect, because the liberal Soviet leaders  and their reforms were too popular and powerful in the end. Neither the use of force against protesters nor the reforms prevented the republics becoming independent.

References

Other websites 

 "Black January". Azerbaijan International. Spring 1998.
 "A republic loses faith". BBC News. Wednesday, 15 August, 2001.
Azerbaijani websites
 January20

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Jenilee Harrison

Jenilee Harrison (born June 12 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in many television programs. She played Cindy Snow in the sitcom Three's Company and Jamie Ewing in the soap Dallas. She was born near Los Angeles, California.

Actors from Los Angeles
American television actors
1959 births
Living people
Sandra Fluke

Sandra Fluke (born April 17 1981) is an activist for women's rights. She demanded birth control and contraceptives be paid for by taxpayers. She was a supporter for Barack Obama's re-election. She was born near Saxton, Pennsylvania.

People from Pennsylvania
1981 births
Living people
Bachman–Turner Overdrive

Bachman–Turner Overdrive are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bachman–Turner Overdrive have five members in the band; the current band members are Fred Turner, Randy Bachman, Mick Dalla Vee, Marc LaFrance and Brent Howard. Two of the band's best known songs are "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" and "Takin' Care of Business". Their song "Takin' Care of Business" was ranked #10 in top 100 most covered songs by Guitar Magazine.

The band was formed in 1971. They released their self-titled first album on August 30, 1989. Fans of the bands are usually known as "gearheads". They have won many Juno Awards as well.

Discography

Studio albums
Bachman–Turner Overdrive (1973)
Bachman–Turner Overdrive II (1973)
Not Fragile (1974)
Four Wheel Drive (1975)
Head On (1975)
Freeways (1977)
Street Action (1978)
Rock n' Roll Nights (1979)
Bachman–Turner Overdrive (1984)
Trial by Fire: Greatest and Latest (1996)
Bachman & Turner (2010)

References

Other websites 
Official website 

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Camilla Belle

Camilla Belle (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. She has acted in many movies. She starred in the movies Practical Magic and Push. The actress was born in Los Angeles, California.

American movie actors
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1986 births
Living people
Mary Harris Jones

Mary Harris Jones (1837-November 30, 1930) was an American schoolteacher and tailor. In 1867 her husband and their four children died of yellow fever during an epidemic. There was a fire in Chicago, in 1871. Harris Jones' workshop was destroyed in that fire; she lost everything she had. She turned towards the Knights of Labor. The Knights of Labour was an association of workers who also accepted black people and women. From this point on, Harris Jones became active in the labour movement, fighting for better working conditions and better pay of the workers. In 1905, she was a founding member of Industrial Workers of the World, a trade union.  

She was an amazing speaker because she was able to use stories as examples in her speeches, and she could also make the audience participate. In 1897, she got the title "Mother Jones". She was 60 at the time. In 1903, she was upset about the bad working conditions of children. For this reason, she organised a march where children marched from Philadelphia to the home of President Roosevelt in New York. In 1992 she was inducted into the Hall of Honor by the United States Department of Labor.

References 

Industrial Workers of the World
1837 births
1930 deaths
People from Cork (city)
Yun Jeung

Yun Jeung ( Hanja 尹拯, 1629-1714), also known as Yun Chŭng, was a Korean scholar, writer, politician, and Neo-Confucian philosopher of the  Joseon period. The name he used for writing was Myeongjae.

Early life
Yun was the son of Yun Seon-geo.

Career
Yun is part of the Silhak school.

Yun was a disciple of Kim Jip, Song Siyeol.  He was a political rival of Kwon Sang-ha.

Work book 
 Myungjaeyugo (명재유고, 明齋遺顧) 
 Myungjaeuiryemundap (명재의례문답, 明齋疑禮問答) 
 Myungjaeyuseo (명재유서)

Related pages
 Soron
 Noron
 West man
 Kim Jip
 Yun Seon-geo
 Song Siyeol
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 Kwon Sang-ha

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Space Needle

The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington. It is at the Seattle Center. The Space Needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair. During this time, almost 20,000 people used the elevators every day. Over 2.3 million visitors came to the World Fair overall. The Space Needle is  high and  wide. It weighs 9,550 tons. When it was completed it was the tallest building to the west of the Mississippi River. It is built not to fall in wind up to  and earthquakes of up to 9.1 magnitude. This gives protection against an earthquake as powerful as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. The tower also has 25 lightning rods on its roof to protect it against lightning.

The Space Needle has a deck at , where people can look down and look at the view around them. It also has a gift shop with a rotating SkyCity restaurant at . From the top of the Needle, the Downtown Seattle skyline, the Olympic and Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Elliott Bay and islands around it can be seen. Photographs of the Seattle skyline often show the Space Needle.

Visitors can reach the top of the Space Needle by using elevators. These elevators travel at . The trip to the top takes 41 seconds. Some tourists wait in hour-long lines so that they can go to the top of the tower. On windy days, the elevators are slowed down to a . The Space Needle was made a historic landmark on April 19, 1999, by the city's Landmarks Preservation Board.

Gallery

Related pages 
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Buildings and structures in Seattle, Washington
1961 establishments in the United States
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Sapeornis

Sapeornis is a genus of primitive bird which lived during the Lower Cretaceous about 125120 million years ago (mya). Only one species is known: Sapeornis chaoyangensis. The fossils are from the Jiufotang Formation and Yixian Formation rocks in the People's Republic of China. Several nearly complete skeletons have been found.

Sapeornis is named after SAPE, the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, added to the Ancient Greek όρνις (ornis), meaning "bird". chaoyangensis is Latin for "from Chaoyang".

This animal was about 30–33 cm long. The skull has a handful of teeth in the upper jawtip only. A single tail feather has been found on one of the specimens.  It may have been a glider or soarer rather than an active flier.

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Cretaceous birds
Municipality of Acapulco

Acapulco de Juárez is one of the municipalities of Guerrero in Mexico, the capital is Acapulco. In 2010, the municipality had a total population of 789,971 being the capital Acapulco, the most populous city

Municipalities of Mexico
Guerrero (state)
True owl

True owls (typical owls) are owls of the family Strigidae.

They are one of the two families of owls, with 189 living species in 25 genera. The other family is the barn owls. True owls are found on every continent except Antarctica.

The division of owls into these two groups is quite ancient. The relationships of the owls in general are still unresolved.

Morphology
Typical owls vary greatly in size. The smallest is the elf owl.  Its weight is a hundred times less than the largest, the Eurasian eagle owl and Blakiston's fish owl.  Most owls have very similar bodies.  They have large heads, short tails, and round facial circles around the eyes. Most live in trees (with a few exceptions like the burrowing owl) and get their food on the wing. The wings are large, broad, rounded and long. Like other birds of prey many owls have females that are larger than males.

They are nocturnal.  Because of this the plumage is not much different between males and females. The feathers are soft and the base of each is downy.  This give them silent flight. Hearing in owls is highly sensitive. The ears are asymmetrical which lets the owl localise a sound. Owls have massive eyes relative to their body size.

References

 Feduccia, J. Alan 1970. Some birds of prey from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas. Auk 87(4): 795-797. PDF fulltext 
 Olson, Storrs L. 1985: The fossil record of birds. In Farner D.S.; King J.R. & Parkes, Kenneth C. (eds): Avian Biology 8: 79-238. Academic Press, New York.
 Sánchez Marco, Antonio (2004): Avian zoogeographical patterns during the Quaternary in the Mediterranean region and paleoclimatic interpretation. Ardeola 51(1): 91-132. PDF fulltext

Other websites

ITIS - Strigidae Taxonomy 
Typical owl videos  on the Internet Bird Collection
Strigidae sounds from the Neotropics on xeno-canto.org
The Owl Pages about owls - photos, calls, books, art, mythology and more.

Strigiformes
Jean Reno

Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez on July 30, 1948) is a French-Spanish actor, he has appeared in many successful movies such as Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin, The Pink Panther, and Léon: The Professional. 

He was born in Casablanca, Morocco on July 30, 1948. He was married to Genevieve Reno from 1977 until they divorced in 1995. Then he married Nathalie Dyszkiewicz from 1996 until they divorced in 2001. He is currently married to Zofia Borucka since 2006. His career began in 1979.

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Living people
French movie actors
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Spanish television actors
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Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif is the highest mountain of Antarctica. It is in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. The massif is about  from the South Pole.  It is about  long and  wide. At  the highest point is Mount Vinson.  It was named in 2006 after Carl Vinson, long-time member of the U.S. Congress from the state of Georgia. 

Vinson Massif was first seen in 1958 and first climbed in 1966. 

Though the yearly snowfall on Vinson is low, high winds can cause base camp accumulations up to  in a year. During the summer season, November through January, there are 24 hours of sunlight. The average temperature during these months is .

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Mountains of Antarctica
Tytonidae

Barn-owls (family Tytonidae) are one of the two families of owls.  The other is the true owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and heart-shaped faces. They have long, strong legs with powerful talons.

The barn owls are a wide ranging family.  They are not found in northern North America, Saharan Africa and large areas of Asia. They live in a wide range of habitats from deserts to forests, and from temperate latitudes to the tropics.

The barn-owls' main characteristic is the heart-shaped facial disc, formed by stiff feathers. The feathers help to amplify and locate the source of sounds when the bird hunts. Adaptations to the wing feathers eliminate sound caused by flying. This helps both the owl's hearing, and keeps the prey unaware of the owl. To summarise: the owl hunts mainly at dusk and night-time. Its uses sound to detect prey movement: its hearing is sensitive, and its wings are almost silent.

Species
Genus Tyto
 Greater sooty-owl, T. tenebricosa
 Lesser sooty-owl, T. multipunctata
 Australian masked owl, T. novaehollandiae
 Cave-nesting masked owl, T. novaehollandiae troughtoni - disputed; probably extinct (1960s)
 Golden masked owl, T. aurantia
 Lesser masked owl, T. sororcula
 Buru masked owl, T. (sororcula) cayelii - possibly extinct (mid-20th century?)
 Manus masked owl, T. manusi
 Taliabu masked owl, T. nigrobrunnea
 Minahassa masked owl, T. inexspectata
 Sulawesi owl, T. rosenbergii
 Peleng masked owl, T. rosenbergii pelengensis - probably extinct (mid-20th century)
 Common barn owl, T. alba
 Eastern barn Owl, T. (alba) delicatula
 Ashy-faced owl, T. glaucops
 Red owl T. soumagnei
 African grass owl T. capensis
 Australasian grass owl T. longimembris

Genus Phodilus
 Oriental bay owl P. badius
 Samar bay owl P. (badius) riverae
 Congo bay owl, P. prigoginei - sometimes placed in Tyto

Fossil genera. The fossil record of the barn-owls goes back to the Eocene.
 Nocturnavis (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene) - includes "Bubo" incertus
 Necrobyas (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene - Late Miocene) - includes "Bubo" arvernensis and Paratyto
 Selenornis (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of Quercy, France) - includes "Asio" henrici
 Prosybris (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of Quercy?  Early Miocene of France)

References
 Bruce M.D. 1999. Family Tytonidae (Barn-owls). In: del Hoyo J.; Elliott A. & Sargatal J. (eds): Handbook of birds of the world, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds: 34-75, plates 1-3. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 
Steadman, David William 2006. Extinction and biogeography of tropical Pacific island birds. University of Chicago Press. .

Strigiformes
Alexander Island

Alexander Island is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, lexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I. It is near the South Pole.

It is the largest island of Antarctica. It is in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land. It is separated from Antarctic Peninsula by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. George VI Sound is filled with ice and connects Alexander Island to Palmer Land. The island partly surrounds Wilkins Sound, which is to its west.

Alexander Island is about  long.  It is  wide in the north and  wide in the south. Alexander Island is the second largest uninhabited island in the world, Devon Island is the largest.

Alexander Island was discovered on January 28, 1821. It was named for the reigning Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It was believed to be part of the Antarctic mainland until 1940.

A notable feature of Alexander Island is Hodgson Lake. It is a former subglacial lake that has come out from under an ice sheet that covered it. It is 2 km (1.2 mi) long by 1.5 km (0.93 mi). It has a 93.4 m (306 ft) deep water column that is sealed beneath 3.6 to 4.0 m (12 to 13 ft) thick lake ice.

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Geography of Antarctica
Mount Logan

Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada.  It is the second-highest mountain in North America, after Denali (Mount McKinley). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan. He was a Canadian geologist and the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is in Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwestern Yukon. People think that Logan has the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth.  The massif has eleven peaks over .

Temperatures are extremely low on and near Mount Logan. On the 5,000 m (16,400 ft) high plateau, air temperature stays around  in the winter.  It reaches near freezing in summer.  Little snow melt leads to a large ice cap, reaching almost  in certain spots.

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Yukon
Mount Parnassus

Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos, is a mountain of limestone in central Greece.  It is north of the Gulf of Corinth. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the home of the Muses.

Mythology
Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus. Parnassos was leader of a city that was flooded by rains. The people ran from the flood up the mountain slope. There the survivors built another city  and called it Lykoreia. According to some traditions, Mount Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses. As the home of the Muses,  Mount Parnassus became known as the home of poetry, music, and learning.

Mount Parnassus was the site of several unrelated minor events in Greek mythology.
In some versions of the Greek flood myth, the ark of Deucalion comes to rest on the slopes of Parnassus. This is the version of the myth told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Orestes spent his time in hiding on Mount Parnassus.
Parnassus was sacred to the god Dionysus.
The Corycian Cave, located on the slopes of  Mount Parnassus, was sacred to Pan and to the Muses.
In Book 19 of The Odyssey, Odysseus tells a story of how he was gored in the thigh during a boar hunt on Mount Parnassus in his youth.
Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of Bellerophon.

Parnassus today
Today, the slopes of Mount Parnassus have two ski centres. The Parnassos Ski Centre has two sections, Kellaria and Fterolakka, which together make up the largest ski centre in Greece. A smaller ski centre (only two drag lifts) called Gerontovrahos is across a ridge from Kellaria. 

Parnassus is mined for its large supply of bauxite.  The bauxite is converted to aluminium oxide and then to aluminium.

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Mountains of Greece
Greek mythology
Shenyang

Shenyang or Mukden is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in northeast China. Shenyang was first used by the Manchu people as their capital in the 17th century. Today it is the biggest city in the Northeast.

Shenyang is the transport and commercial hub of China's northeast–particularly with Japan, Russia, and Korea.  Shenyang is the railway hub of northeast China. Eight railways connect Shenyang with Beijing, Dalian, Changchun, Harbin and Fushun.  

The city’s name means "the city to the north of Shen River".  It comes from the Hun River on the city’s south side, which used to be called the Shen River. People started living here 7,200 years ago.

Major companies
Many major industrial companies have their headquarters in Shenyang. Brilliance Auto is a major Chinese automobile manufacturer. Most of its production plants are also in Shenyang. Shenyang Aircraft Corporation makes airplanes for civilian use as well as for the PLAAF. Neusoft Group is the biggest software company in China. Shenyang Machine Tool Group is the largest machine tool manufacturer in China. Tyco International, General Motors, and Michelin Shenyang Tire Corporation, are expanding their operations in Shenyang due to a deep pool of skilled technical labor; good transportation; low land-use fees; and solid local support.

Sports
Shenyang is famous for its football tradition. The local football team is the Liaoning F.C., in the Chinese Super League. Another Chinese Super League team, Shenyang Jinde moved to Changsha in 2007. Shenyang Olympic Sports Centre Stadium was a venue for the football preliminary of 2008 Summer Olympics.

Shenyang Sport University is a famous professional sports university in China. The university is the training base for winter sports in China and has many Olympic champions.

Colleges and universities
 Northeastern University (东北大学/東北大學)
 China Medical University (中国医科大学/中國醫科大學)
 Shenyang Agricultural University (沈阳农业大学/沈阳农业大学)
 Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (沈阳药科大学/瀋陽藥科大學)
 Shenyang Aerospace University (沈阳航空航天大学/瀋陽航空航天大學)
 Shenyang Jianzhu (Architectural) University (沈阳建筑大学/瀋陽建築大學)
 Shenyang University of Chemical Technology
 Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology (沈阳化工大学/瀋陽化工學院)
 Shenyang Medical College (沈阳医学院)
 Shenyang Normal University (沈阳师范大学/瀋陽師範大學)
 Liaoning University (辽宁大学/遼寧大學)
 Shenyang Ligong University (沈阳理工大学/瀋陽理工大學)
 Shenyang University (沈阳大学/瀋陽大學)
 Shenyang University of Technology (沈阳工业大学/瀋陽工業大學)
 Shenyang Sport University (沈阳体育学院/瀋陽體育學院)
 Shenyang Institute of Engineering (沈阳工程学院/瀋陽工程學院)
 Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (辽宁中医药大学/遼寧中醫藥大學)

Twin towns and sister cities
Shenyang is twinned with:

Sapporo, Japan (1980)
Kawasaki, Japan (1981)
Turin, Italy (1985)
Chicago, United States (1985)
Irkutsk, Russia (1992)
Quezon City, Philippines (1993)
Ramat Gan, Israel (1993)
Monterrey, Mexico (1993)
Seongnam, South Korea (1998)
Yaoundé, Cameroon (1998)
Katowice, Poland (2007)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Gumi, South Korea
Leverkusen, Germany
Düsseldorf, Germany

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Anobiidae

Anobiidae is a family of beetles. The larvae of a number of species bore into wood.  This gave them the name "woodworm" or "wood borer". A few species are pests.  They cause damage to wooden furniture and houses, notably the death watch beetle and the common furniture beetle.

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