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Chavara

Chavara is a village in Karunagappally taluk, Kollam district, Kerala, India. It is a part of Kollam Lok Sabha constituency constituency. The MLA of the constituency is currently Vijayan Pillai.

Location and tourism

Chavara is situated on the shores of the Arabian sea and the major freshwater lake in Kerala, Ashtamudi, which flows through it. Chavara has many lakes and lagoons including Sasthamkota Lake. Popular tourist centres are St Andrew's Church, Kovilthottam, Kottankulangara Devi Temple, Kovilthottam beach, Kovilthottam lighthouse amd the area around Ashtamudi lake.

Industries

The village has a high supply of mineral sand, mainly titanium in its beaches. For the processing of titanium, India's first Titanium Sponge Plant in India (TSP) was developed by KMML ( Kerala Minerals and metals Ltd) here, inaugurated in 2011 by the then Defence Minister of India, A. K. Antony. IRE (Indian Rare Earths Ltd) is another public sector unit in Chavara. Kerala Premo Pipes a govt company(under KWA)in Chavara has been lying closed for the past 18 years.The Premo pipe factory which started production in 1961 and was closed in 1997 following adverse market conditions.Though an MOU was signed between KWA and HLL in the year 2011 for starting PVC pipes, same is yet to be materialized. Ratna mushroom is one of the famous mushroom farm in Chavara.

Notable people
Jackson Stephan (The village is named after him)

References

Other websites

Villages in India
Neendakara

Neendakara is a village in Karunagappally taluk, Kollam district, Kerala, India. It is Kollam district's medium fishing port.

History
When Portuguese traders settled in Kollam in the early 16th century, their ships passed through the Neenadakara bar, now the site of Neendakara Bridge, part of National Highway 66, which connects the village to Sakthikulangara across Ashtamudi Lake.

Etymology

In Malayalam, Neendakara means "a long bank".

Norwegian Project

The headquarters of the Indo-Norwegian Fisheries Community project, established in 1953, was based in Neendakara until 1961, when the site was handed over to the Government of Kerala.

References

Other websites

Villages in Kollam district
Clappana

Clappana  is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Clappana have a great arts and Sports club Named as CUBA Clappana located at Puthanpura Jn. Thottathil mukku is one of the major junctions in the village.

Demographics-Census Data 2011

References

Other websites

census in India

Villages in Kollam district
Kulasekharapuram

Kulasekharapuram is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics- Census Data 2011

References

Other websites

Villages in Kollam district
Ayanivelikulangara

Ayanivelikulangara is a village in Kollam district, Kerala, India.

Demographics- Census 2011

References

Other websites
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/628369-ayanivelikulangara-kerala.html

Villages in Kollam district
Panmana

Panmana is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
As of the 2001 Indian census, Panmana had a population of 29139, of whom 14360 were male and 14779 were female.

References 

Villages in Kollam district
Vadakkumthala

Vadakkumthala  is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India. Vadakkumthala is coming under the Kollam UA.

Demographics - Census Data 2011

References

Other websites
census in India 

Villages in Kollam district
Tri-State Tornado

The Tri-State Tornado was the deadliest tornado in the history of the United States. It took place on Wednesday, March 18, 1925. It was during an outbreak of 12 confirmed tornadoes. It covered a large portion of the Midwest and Southern United States.

The death toll from one tornado alone was 695. In Illinois, there were 613 deaths. There were 11 deaths in Missouri. There were at least 71 deaths in Indiana.
 
The tornado wasn't officially rated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But it is recognized by most experts as an F5 tornado on the U.S. Fujita scale.

There were also tornadoes in Kentucky, Kansas, Alabama and Tennessee.

In 2018 U.S. dollars, damage from the tornadoes was $2.18 billion.

References

Tornadoes in the United States
1920s in the United States
1925
20th century in Kentucky
20th century in Kansas
20th century in Alabama
20th century in Tennessee
Kevin Kamenetz

Kevin B. Kamenetz (November 26, 1957 – May 10, 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Lochearn, Maryland. He was the 12th County Executive of Baltimore County, Maryland, serving between 2010 to May 10, 2018. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a four-term County Councilman representing the Second District of Baltimore County.

On September 18, 2017, Kamenetz declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland in the 2018 election.

On May 10, 2018, Kamenetz died at a hospital of cardiopulmonary arrest in Towson, Maryland at the age of 60.

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Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Lawyers from Baltimore
Politicians from Baltimore
US Democratic Party politicians
Peter Mayer

Peter Michael Mayer (March 28, 1936 – May 11, 2018) was a British-born American publisher. He was born in London. Mayer was president of The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., a Woodstock, New York-based publishing company he founded with his father in 1971. At the time of Overlook’s founding, Mayer was head of Avon Books, a large New York-based paperback publisher.  From 1978 to 1996, Mayer was CEO of Penguin Books.

Recently, Mayer financially revived both Ardis, a publisher of Russian literature in English, and Duckworth, an independent publishing house in the UK.

Mayer died at the age of 82 in his home in Manhattan, New York, due to complications related to amyloidosis.

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1936 births
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Deaths from amyloidosis
Disease-related deaths in New York City
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Businesspeople from London
Businesspeople from New York City
Ken Hodgkisson

William Kenneth Hodgkisson (12 March 1933 – 10 May 2018) was an English professional footballer. He was born in West Bromwich, West Midlands.

Hodgkisson played as an inside forward. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion, making his professional debut in 1953. He was sold to Walsall in 1956.

Hodgkisson went on to make over 350 appearances for the club during an eleven year spell, winning promotion on two occasions. He later played non-league football with Worcester City and Dudley Town, where he also spent three years as manager.

Hodgkisson died on 10 May 2018 at the age of 85.

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1933 births
2018 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
Graham Lovett

Graham John Lovett (5 August 1947 – 10 May 2018) was an English footballer.

Lovett played most of his career as a midfielder for West Bromwich Albion, where he was on the winning sides for the 1966 Football League Cup Final and the 1968 FA Cup Final. He was forced to retire from the game at age 26, following two serious car crashes.

Lovett died in West Midlands, England on 10 May 2018 of a short-illness at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
Career statistics on "Neil Brown" website
Photograph of Lovett on the attack against West Ham United in January 1966 

1947 births
2018 deaths
English footballers
Sportspeople from Birmingham
William Vance

William Vance was the pen name of William van Cutsem (8 September 1935 – 14 May 2018), a Belgian comics artist. He was born in Anderlecht, Belgium. Vance was known for his distinctive realistic style and work in Franco-Belgian comics. His best known works were XIII, Bob Morane, Bruce J. Hawker and Bruno Brazil.

Vance died on 14 May 2018 in Santander, Spain of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82. 
In 2010, Vance retired because of the illness.

Awards
 2005: Bronzen Adhemar (Brass culture award) in Turnhout, Belgium
 2009: Honorary citizen of the City of Brussels

References

Other websites
 William Vance biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
 Belgian Comic Book Artist William Vance Dies

1935 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Spain
Belgian artists
Comics artists
Roberto Farias

Roberto Farias (March 27, 1932 – May 14, 2018) was a Brazilian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 15 movies from 1957 to 2018. His 1982 movie Pra Frente, Brasil was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed Cidade Ameaçada (1960), O Assalto ao Trem Pagador (1962) and Pra Quem Fica, Tchau (1971). He was born in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro.

Farias died of stomach cancer in Rio de Janeiro on May 14, 2018 at the age of 86.

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1932 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in Brazil
Brazilian movie directors
Brazilian movie producers
Brazilian screenwriters
People from Rio de Janeiro
Lochearn, Maryland

Lochearn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, immediately to the west of the City of Baltimore. The population was 25,333 at the 2010 census.

References

Census-designated places in Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland
Towson, Maryland

Towson () is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. The population was 55,197 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat, and the second-most populated unincorporated county seat in the United States.

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Census-designated places in Maryland
County seats in Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland
Caribou, Maine

Caribou is the second largest city in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Its population was 8,189 at the 2010 census.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which  is land and  is water.

Nylander Museum is a well known musuem in the area.

References

Other websites
 City of Caribou, Maine

Cities in Maine
Hilario Davide Jr.

Hilario Gelbolingo Davide Jr., GCSS, (born December 20, 1935) is a former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York City.

He was the 20th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and head of the Judicial Branch of government from November 1998 to December 2005. As the highest judicial officer, he presided over the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

On June 30, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III announced that Davide will head a truth commission that will investigate important issues in the country.

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1935 births
Living people
Filipino lawyers
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Minority leaders of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

The Chief Justice of the Philippines () presides over the Supreme Court of the Philippines and is the highest judicial officer of the government of the Philippines. The current chief justice is Alexander Gesmundo, who was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2021.

List of chief justices

 José Abad Santos was unable to preside over the Supreme Court due to the outbreak of World War II.
 Renato Corona was impeached on December 12, 2011, and convicted on May 29, 2012, removing him from office.
 Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio served as acting Chief Justice after the Impeachment of Renato Corona from May 30, 2012 to August 25, 2012 and after the removal of Maria Lourdes Sereno via quo warranto proceedings from May 14, 2018 to August 25, 2018.
 Maria Lourdes Sereno was removed on May 11, 2018 via quo warranto by a special en banc session; the petition alleged Sereno's appointment was void ab initio due to her failure in complying with the requirements of the Judicial and Bar Council. Hence her entire term as Chief Justice is considered a de facto tenure; legally void since the ouster of her predecessor. Sereno filed an ad cautelam motion for reconsideration pleading for the reversal of the decision on May 31, 2018, but on June 19, 2018 was denied with finality (meaning no further pleading shall be entertained, as well as for the immediate entry for judgment) for lack of merit.

References
Antonio Carpio

Antonio Tirol Carpio (born October 26, 1949) is a Filipino lawyer. He is the Senior Associate Justice and former acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.He replaced Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno who was ousted by quo warranto proceedings that voided her appointment as illegal and declared her term of office as de facto tenure. 

He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and assumed office on October 26, 2001.

Notes

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1949 births
Living people
Filipino lawyers
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
President of the Senate of the Philippines

The President of the Senate of the Philippines (), or more popularly known as the Senate President, is the presiding officer and the highest-ranking official of the Senate of the Philippines, and third highest and most powerful official in the Government of the Philippines. 

He/she is elected by the entire body to be their leader. The Senate President is second in line in succession for the presidency, behind the Vice President of the Philippines and in front of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

Living former Senate presidents
Currently there are five living former Senate presidents:

Legend: Boldface means still an incumbent Senator.

Other websites
List of Senators of the Philippines
Roll of Senate Presidents
Koko Pimentel

Aquilino Martin de la Llana Pimentel III, commonly known as Koko Pimentel, (born January 20, 1964) is a Filipino politician. He was the 28th Senate President of the Philippines from 2016 through 2018.

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1964 births
Living people
Filipino lawyers
Presidents of the Senate of the Philippines
House of Representatives of the Philippines

The House of Representatives of the Philippines (),  is the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines. It is often commonly referred to as Congress. Members of the House are officially styled as representative (Kinatawan) and sometimes informally called Congressmen/Congresswomen (mga kongresista) and are elected to a three-year term. They can be re-elected, but cannot serve more than three consecutive terms. 

Around eighty percent of congressmen are district representatives, representing a particular geographical area. There are 234 legislative districts in the country.

The House of Representatives is headed by the Speaker, currently Alan Peter Cayetano.

Other websites
Official Website of the House of Representatives 
Official Website of the Senate

Politics of the Philippines
Feliciano Belmonte Jr.

Fernando Feliciano "Sonny" Racimo Belmonte Jr. (born October 2, 1936) is a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing the Fourth District of Quezon City.  He is also the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. He served as the Mayor of Quezon City from 2001 to 2010.

Belmonte was a member of the Manila Jaycees, the Rotary Club of Manila and the Knights of Rizal. He was also Junior Chamber International World President in 1976.

References

People from Quezon City
1936 births
Living people
Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Minority leaders of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Jose de Venecia Jr.

Jose Claveria de Venecia Jr. (born December 26, 1936) is a former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines serving from 1992 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2008.  He ran for president in the 1998 election but lost to Vice President Joseph Estrada, finishing second among 11 candidates.

References

Other websites
The biography of Jose de Venecia Jr. 
The official website of Jose de Venecia Jr. 
The official website of the Philippine House of Representatives 

1936 births
Living people
Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Pantaleon Alvarez

Pantaleon "Bebot" Diaz Alvarez (born January 10, 1958) is a Filipino politician. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2016 to 2018 and represents the 1st District of Davao del Norte, the Philippines. 

From 2001 to 2002, he was acting Secretary of Transportation and Communications. He is a supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte.

References

1958 births
Living people
Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
Supreme Court of the Philippines

The Supreme Court of the Philippines (; colloquially referred to as Korte Suprema) is the highest court in the Philippines. 

It is presided over by a Chief Justice and is made of fifteen (15) Justices, including the Chief Justice. It follows the Constitution, the Supreme Court has "administrative supervision over all courts and the personnel thereof".

References

Politics of the Philippines
Philippines
Congress of the Philippines

The Congress of the Philippines () is the national legislature of the Philippines. It is made of the Senate (upper chamber), and the House of Representatives (lower chamber). although in the Philippines the term congress commonly refers to just the latter.

The Senate is made of 24 senators   half of which are elected every three years. The House of Representatives is currently made of 297 congressmen.

A regular session can last until thirty days before the opening of its next regular session in the succeeding year. The President may, however, call special sessions which are usually held between regular legislative sessions to handle emergencies or urgent matters.

References

Politics of the Philippines
Global Communicorp UK

Global Communicorp UK owns UK radio brands including Capital networks in Scotland and South Wales, Heart Networks in Yorkshire and North Wales, Smooth Radio networks in the North East, North West and East Midlands as well as XS Manchester.

Another seven regional Capital, Heart and Smooth stations are part of the brands’ UK wide network. Also owned is one local station - XS Manchester.

Companies of the United Kingdom
Content and language integrated learning

Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, is an approach to foreign or second language education. Students learn both the foreign language and school subjects together at the same time.

Many people describe CLIL as having "Four C's."  Usually they are: cognition, content, communication, and culture. Some people think "community" should replace culture.

CLIL comes from earlier approaches to language education such as bilingual education in Canada and Content-based Instruction in ESL and EFL around the world. CLIL has become very popular in primary and secondary education in Europe, especially Spain. But, it is becoming popular in many other countries, too.

Language education
Interior gateway protocol

An Interior gateway protocol  is a routing protocol that is used within the routers of one autonomous system. An autonomous system might be one organisation, with its clients. Interior gateway protocols are able to handle more complex network topologies, compared to exterior gateway protocols. Exterior gateway protocols are used to route packets between two autonomous systems.

Computer networking
SOLID (object-oriented design)

SOLID is an acronym (short name) for a group of five good principles (rules) in computer programming. SOLID allows programmers to write code that is easier to understand and change later on. Solid is often used with systems that use an object-oriented design. 

SOLID was promoted by Robert C. Martin but the name itself was created by Michael Feathers.

SOLID Principles

 Single responsibility principle - Class has one job to do. Each change in requirements can be done by changing just one class.
 Open/closed principle - Class is happy (open) to be used by others. Class is not happy (closed) to be changed by others.
 Liskov substitution principle - Class can be replaced by any of its children. Children classes inherit parent's behaviours.
 Interface segregation principle - When classes promise each other something, they should separate these promises (interfaces) into many small promises, so it's easier to understand.
 Dependency inversion principle - When classes talk to each other in a very specific way, they both depend on each other to never change. Instead classes should use promises (interfaces, parents), so classes can change as long as they keep the promise.

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Acronyms
Computer programming
Tiếng Gọi Công Dân

"Calling to the Citizens" (), also named "March of the Youth" (), was the national anthem of the Republic of Vietnam. It was composed by Lưu Hữu Phước. It was chosen as a national anthem in June 1948.

Nowadays, the song is still sung by Vietnamese people who oppose the communist regime.

Lyrics
The national anthem had went through a total 5 edits with its title and lyrics. "Tiếng Gọi Công Dân" was the last title of the anthem. Nowadays, most Vietnamese overseas change the first line of the anthem "Quốc gia đến ngày giải phóng" to "Đứng lên đáp lời sông núi", meaning "Oh Citizens! Stand up [and] answer the call [of the] rivers and mountains".

Tiếng Gọi Công Dân - Call of the Citizens (1956–1975)

Vietnamese lyrics

Này Công Dân ơi! Quốc gia đến ngày giải phóng.
Đồng lòng cùng đi hy sinh tiếc gì thân sống.
Vì tương lai Quốc Dân, cùng xông pha khói tên,
Làm sao cho núi sông từ nay luôn vững bền.
Dù cho thây phơi trên gươm giáo,
Thù nước, lấy máu đào đem báo.
Nòi giống lúc biến phải cần giải nguy,
Người Công Dân luôn vững bền tâm trí.
Hùng tráng quyết chiến đấu làm cho khắp nơi
Vang tiếng người nước Nam cho đến muôn đời!
Công Dân ơi! Mau hiến thân dưới cờ!
Công Dân ơi! Mau làm cho cõi bờ
Thoát cơn tàn phá, vẻ vang nòi giống
Xứng danh nghìn năm giòng giống Lạc Hồng!

English Translation

Oh citizens! Our country has reached the day of liberation.
Of one heart we go forth, sacrificing ourselves with no regrets.
For the future of the people, advance into battle,
Let us make this land eternally strong.
Should our bodies be left on the battlefields,
The nation will be avenged with our crimson blood
In troublesome times, the Race will be rescued,
We the People remain resolute in our hearts and minds.
Courageously we will fight such that everywhere,
The Glory of the Vietnamese forever resounds!
Oh citizens! Hasten to offer yourselves under the flag!
Oh citizens! Hasten to defend this land,
Escape from destruction, and bask our Race in glory 
Be forever worthy of the descendants of Lạc Hồng!

References

National anthems
Vietnamese music
Belling the Cat (movie)

Belling the Cat () is a 2014 Vietnamese animated movie. It was directed by Lê Bình.

Plot 
Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat.

Some said this, and some said that ; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case.

"You will all agree", said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her". "I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood".

This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said : "That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat ?". The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Then the old mouse said : "It is easy to propose impossible remedies".

Production 

 Style : 2D computer animation
 Artist : Lê Bình
 Animator : Đào Xuân Thành, Lê Hồng Yến, Dương Văn Hùng, Quách Lê Tuyến, Đào Minh Châu, Nguyễn Hữu Lãm, Nguyễn Vân Anh, Vũ Mạnh Hùng, Nguyễn Phương Nhi, Cao Minh Dũng, Ngô Ngọc Long, Phạm Minh Nguyệt, Lê Thanh Huyền, Lê Bình
 Editor : Nguyễn Thị Vân, Nguyễn Quỳnh Hoa, Lê Thu Thủy, Hoàng Thu Hương, Trần Bình Minh, Hoàng Công Đức, Vũ Thị Hoa, Bùi Ái Liên, Nguyễn Thu Hiền, Nguyễn Tuấn Phúc, Đào Bích Hồng
 Camera : Trần Thị Dịu, Trịnh Hải Yến
 Photography director : Phan Trung, Nguyễn Việt Phương, Nguyễn Thị Thùy, Bùi Hồng Thái
 Color : Đào Việt Hà, Nguyễn Khánh Linh, Nguyễn Thị Hoa, Lương Minh Ngọc, Phó Vương Anh, Vũ Thị Dung, Lê Thị Bích
 Sound : Đặng Duy Chiến, Lê Bình
 Montage : Phạm Thị Trang
 Computer : Nguyễn Duy Long, Nguyễn Lê Giang
 Theme : Where to return (Nơi về) by Đặng Duy Chiến with Hoài Nam's singing

Award 
 Silver Kite prize - Vietnam Film Festival XIX (2015)

Related pages 
 Belling the Cat (fable)

References 

2014 animated movies
Vietnamese animated movies
Từ Thức married a fairy

Từ Thức married a fairy () is a 1991 Vietnamese animated film, directed by Trang Nguyên.

Production

 Style : Cutout animation
 Artist : Phương Thảo, Bùi Hùng
 Animator : Trang Nguyên, Trọng Bình
 Art design : Đăng Giáp, Bùi Hùng
 Sound : Bùi Kim Thục
 Montage : Kim Oanh
 Theme : Entering the pagoda (Vào chùa), Who was downstream (Ai xuôi về)
 Color printing by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films

References

Vietnamese animated movies
1990s animated movies‎
Stendal

Hansestadt Stendal or Stendal () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. About 40,000 people live in the city.

It is the capital of the Stendal District and the main town in the Altmark region.

Towns in Saxony-Anhalt
Tale of Catfish and Toad

Tale of Catfish and Toad () is a 1993 Vietnamese animated film which was based on the fairy tale, directed by Ngô Mạnh Lân.

Plot

Catfish steals the tadpoles of Toad. Toad appeal to the official Tiger who orders the Catfish imprisoned. However Catfish's wife bribes the mandarin's assistant to have the case re-examined. After inspection of the pond the mandarin's inspectors declare that the tadpoles are the true offspring of Catfish.

Production

 Style : Cutout animation
 Artist : Nguyễn Bích, Hữu Đức, Bùi Nga
 Animator : Phan Trung, Bùi Nga
 Decorating : Đăng Giáp, Vinh Hoa, Mỹ Lưu, Bích Hạnh, Phạm Thị Hiền
 Sound : Kim Thục, Minh Tâm
 Montage : Kim Oanh
 Voice : Ngọc Phú, Duy Thân, Đoàn Thanh Bình, Mạnh Hùng, Thu Hằng, Chí Hạnh
 Color printing by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films

References

Vietnamese animated movies
1990s animated movies
Tale of Gióng the Saint

Tale of Gióng the Saint () is a 1970 Vietnamese animated film which was based on the mythology, directed by Ngô Mạnh Lân.

Plot
Tale of Gióng the Saint who was a hero of Phu Dong village.

Production
By this film, director Ngô Mạnh Lân was called Sir "Gióng" Lân. The film was produced at the time of Vietnamization when USAF attacked North Vietnam. Vietnam Animation Studio's staffs had evacuated in Vĩnh Phú province (now Phú Thọ province). They has performed the film at the night with oil lamp's light.
 Style : Puppet animation
 Artist : Mai Long
 Color printing by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films

Award
 Merit prize of Moskva International Film Festival, 1971.
 Golden Lotus prize at the Vietnam Film Festival II, 1973.

References

 Vietnamese animation - The unforgotten ways

Vietnamese animated movies
1970 movies
Tale of moon rabbits

Tale of moon rabbits () is a 1967 Vietnamese animated film, directed by Hồ Quảng.

Plot
At Mid-Autumn Festival, one bear stealed moon. Then a turtle with moon rabbits has determined to rescue the moon. But a tiger, a cobra and foxs prevented road to eat moon rabbits.

Production
 Artist : Hữu Đức
 Animator : Đình Dũng, Thế Thiện, Đặng Hiền, Sỹ Nhạc, Nghiêm Dung, Dân Quốc, Thanh Bồng, Huy Đắc
 Decorating : Phan Thị Hà
 Sound : Hoàng Việt
with Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra by conducting of Trần Quý.

References

Vietnamese animated movies
1960s movies
The babygirl and the flowerpot

The babygirl and the flowerpot () is a 1970 Vietnamese animated movie, directed by Nghiêm Dung.

Production

 Artist : Hữu Đức
 Animator : Dân Quốc, Đình Dũng, Bảo Quang, Vũ Tân Dân, Kiến Hiền, Sỹ Nhạc, Song An
 Decorating : Khắc Y
 Sound : Cao Huy
 Montager : Nguyễn Thị Tám
 Color printing by the Vietnamese Technology for Film Production Factory

Awards
 Merit prize of Moskva International Film Festival, 1973.

References

Vietnamese animated movies
1971 movies
The Welldeserved Fox

The Welldeserved Fox () is a 1959 Vietnamese animated movie, directed by Lê Minh Hiền and Trương Qua.

Plot
The movie was based on poem The fox and the hive (Con cáo và tổ ong) by Hồ Chí Minh.

In a forest lived Bear and Chicken. Once, Chicken was enticed by Fox for his eating. But Chicken ran away luckily.

Then Bear seeked Chicken and called Bees to chase Fox.

Production
The Welldeserved Fox was known as the first animated movie of the North Vietnam.

By first plan, the movie would has the 300m length on 10 minutes, 15 thousand drawings on the 18x24cm size of cellophane. But Vietnamese infrastructures could not response, then drawers used typewriter papers which were soaked oil. Besides, their "desks" were glass windows what were in Vietnam Animation Studio's house on Hoàng Hoa Thám Street (Hanoi).
 Animators : Lê Minh Hiền, Trương Qua, Hồ Quảng...

Award
 Golden Lotus prize at the Vietnam Film Festival II (1973) for the best artists (Hồ Quảng and Trương Qua).

References

 Chỗ đứng nào cho phim hoạt hình Việt ?
 Phim hoạt hình Việt Nam "tỉnh giấc" ?
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Vietnamese animated movies
1959 movies
Hare and Wolf

Hare and Wolf () is a Vietnamese animated series directed by M.A. Đặng Nhân Lập.

Plot
 Episode 01 (1991) : A tail of Wolf (Cái đuôi của Sói)
 Episode 02 (1992) : The ear and the eye (Cái tai cái mắt)
 Episode 03 (1993) : Travelling a day... (Đi một ngày đàng...)
 Episode 04 (2000) : Believing the sky is as small as the cooking pot's lid (Coi trời bằng vung)
 Episode 05 (2001) : Believing the sky will ruin (Trời sập)

Production

 Assistant : Bùi Quỳnh
 Artist : Lý Thu Hà, Lập Thu
 Animators : Lan Phương, Thanh Việt, Tường Long, Nguyễn Thị Măng, Phùng Văn Hà, Ngô Ngọc Long, Hoàng Linh, Doãn Thùy, Thanh Huyền, Minh Nguyệt
 Decorating : Thu Lý, Hồng Sơn, Bình Minh
 Sound : Tạ Quốc Khánh, Mạnh Kiên, Trần Toàn
 Montager : Kim Oanh, Viết Phú
 Actors : Phú Đôn (Wolf), Trung Hiếu (Fox & Pup the Police)
 Theme : Why you in a hurry to get married (Sao em nỡ vội lấy chồng) composed by Trần Hiếu with Wolf's singing
 Color printing by National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Films

Related pages
 Tom and Jerry

References

1990s animated television series
2000s animated television series
Vietnamese animated movies
Movies about rabbits and hares
Wolves
Television shows about rabbits and hares
Pentti Siimes

Pentti Kalevi Siimes (10 September 1929 – 27 October 2016) was a Finnish actor. He appeared in 86 movies and television shows between 1946 and 2008. He was born in Helsinki, Finland.

Siimes starred in the movie Miriam, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. He was known for his role as PFC. Määttä in the 1955 movie The Unknown Soldier.

Siimes died on 27 October 2016 in Helsinki, Finland at the age of 87.

References

Other websites 

 

1929 births
2016 deaths
Finnish movie actors
Actors from Helsinki
Thread snake

The thread snake or the slender blind snake (Leptotyphlops carlae) is the smallest known snake. They can be found in North America, South America, Asia and Africa.

They live in places like rainforests and dry areas like deserts, and are known to appear near ant and termite nests. This is the main source of their diet. Thread snakes lay eggs.

Snakes
Ophidiophobia

Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia is the abnormal fear of snakes. It is sometimes called herpetophobia, which is a fear of reptiles or amphibians. The word comes from the Greek words "ophis" () meaning snake, and "phobia" () meaning fear. 

This is a phobia, so it does not include people who do not like snakes or fear them for their venom. A person with ophidiophobia (called an ophidiophobe) not only fears them when in live contact, but is scared to think about them or even see them in video or still pictures.

About a third of adult humans are ophidiophobic, making this the most common reported phobia. Scientists think that mammals may have an innate fear of snakes. This was vital for their survival as it allowed such dangerous threats to be identified immediately.

References

Snakes
Phobias
Eric Swalwell

Eric Michael Swalwell Jr.  (born November 16, 1980) is an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative from California's 15th congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected in November 2012, beating incumbent Pete Stark, a fellow Democrat who had held the office since 1973. Swalwell took office on January 3, 2013.

Swalwell announced his candidacy on April 8, 2019 for the Democratic presidential nomination in the upcoming 2020 election on April 8, 2019. He dropped out from the race exactly three months later on July 8.

References

Other websites
Congressman Eric Swalwell official U.S. House site
Eric Swalwell for Congress

 
Links formerly displayed via the CongLinks template:
 Biography at Ballotpedia

1980 births
Living people
2020 United States presidential candidates
Lawyers from California
United States representatives from California
Politicians from Iowa
US Democratic Party politicians
Lawyers from Iowa
Bengt Nilsson

Bengt Nilsson (17 February 1934 —  11 May 2018) was a Swedish high jumper. In 1954 he won the Swedish and European titles and set a European record at 2.11 m. He was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. He was born in Härnösand, Sweden.

Nilsson got injured at the 1956 Summer Olympics and finished only 26th. He retired from athletics shortly thereafter.

Nilsson died on 11 May 2018 at the age of 84.

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1934 births
2018 deaths
Swedish sportspeople
High jumpers
Olympians
Michael Slive

Michael Lawrence Slive (July 26, 1940 – May 16, 2018) was an American attorney and college sports executive. He was born in Utica, New York.

Slive was the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) from 2002 until 2015. He served as the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series for the 2006 and 2007 regular seasons. He was a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee through September 2009 and served as the chairman of the committee for the 2008–09 academic year. He retired as commissioner effective July 31, 2015.

Slive died of prostate cancer in Birmingham, Alabama on May 16, 2018 at the age of 77.

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1940 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Educators from New York
Lawyers from New York
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People from Utica, New York
Utica, New York

Utica () is a city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. Its population was 62,235 in the 2010 U.S. census.

It is located on the Mohawk River at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains. Utica is about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Albany and 45 miles (72 km) east of Syracuse. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which makes up all of Oneida and Herkimer counties.

Notes

References

Other websites
 NYPL Digital Gallery, Items related to Utica, NY
 Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division, Items related to Utica, NY
 SkyscraperPage, Diagram of skyscrapers in Utica, NY

Cities in New York
County seats in New York
State College, Pennsylvania

State College is a borough in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the largest designated borough in Pennsylvania.  In the 2010 census, the borough population was 42,034 with about 105,000 living in the borough plus the surrounding townships often referred to locally as the "Centre Region." 

Many of these Centre Region communities also carry a "State College, PA" address although are not part of the borough of State College.

State College is a college town, dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State).

References

Other websites
 Borough of State College Government website

Boroughs in Pennsylvania
Bassetki

Bassetki is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. Several important archaeological finds were made there.

Archaeological finds 
In 1975 a fragment of a figure of Naram-Sin of Akkad was found near Bassetki. The statue is now called the Bassetki Statue. 

In August–October 2016,  the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies from the University of Tübingen and Hasan Qasim from the Directorate of Antiquities in Dohuk did archaeological work near Bassetki. They found the remains of a large Bronze Age city.  The city was started around 3000 B.C. It lasted for more than 1,200 years. From around 2700 B.C., the city had a wall protecting the upper part of the city from invaders. The city had a large road network, many residential districts and a palace. A contemporary cemetery was located outside the city. The city was connected to other regions of Mesopotamia and Anatolia by a roadway dating from around 1800 B.C. The archeologists also discovered settlement layers dating from the Akkadian Empire.  The finds were announced by the University of Tübingen on 3 November 2016.

In the summer of 2017, archaeologists from the University of Tübingen in Germany uncovered a collection of Assyrian cuneiform tablets hidden inside a collection of ceramic jugs. These tablets are 3,200 years old. They indicate that the ancient lost royal city of Mardaman was where Bassetki is today.

References 

Archaeological sites in Iraq
Brahmagupta

Brahmagupta () (born , died ) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (BSS, "correctly established doctrine of Brahma", dated 628).

Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero. The texts composed by Brahmagupta were composed in elliptical verse in Sanskrit, as was common practice in Indian mathematics.  As no proofs are given, it is not known how Brahmagupta's results were derived.

References

Other websites
 Brahmagupta's Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta edited by Ram Swarup Sharma, Indian Institute of Astronomical and Sanskrit Research, 1966. English introduction, Sanskrit text, Sanskrit and Hindi commentaries (PDF)

590s births
660s deaths
Indian mathematicians
Astronomers
Fuke Zen

Fuke Zen was a branch of Zen Buddhism which existed in Japan from the 13th century until the late 19th century. Fuke monks were noted for playing the shakuhachi flute as a form of meditation. It was characterized in the public imagination of Japan by the Fuke Zen monks playing the shakuhachi flute while wearing a large woven basket hat that covered their entire head as they went on pilgrimage.

Buddhism
Japan
Orrery

An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System. It shows the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. It is usually a heliocentric model.

The Greeks had working planetaria. The first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704.  One was presented to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery – hence the name. They are usually driven by a clockwork mechanism. The globe in the centre represents the Sun, and a planet is at the end of each arm.

The first known orrery was the  Antikythera mechanism, variously dated from 60 to 150 BC.

References 

Scientific modeling
Machines
1704
Clockwork

Clockwork means the inner workings of mechanical machines clocks (where it is also called a "movement". Also other similar mechanisms with a complex series of gears.

A clockwork mechanism usually has a clockwork motor. This has a mainspring, a spiral of metal ribbon.  Energy is stored in the mainspring by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter.  Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork gears, until the stored energy is used up.  The adjectives wind-up and spring-powered refer to mainspring-powered clockwork devices. These include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.

References 

Motors
Clocks
Analogue computer

Analogue computers are mechanical or electronic devices which solve problems. some are used to control machines. They were once the only way a machine could be controlled, and are still used in cases where digital computers are not the best choice. The abacus, a digital device also sometimes called a computer, was used by Babylonians in c. 2500 BC.

The earliest known analogue computer in metal was the Antikythera device. However, this was certainly not the first in other forms. Some people think that mental inventions count as analogue computers, such as the invention of the zero (Ancient Egypt 1700 BC). But in that case almost every invention by mankind would count as an analogue computer, and that is not really how the term is used.

Certainly the invention of the slide rule was important for calculations. They were developed in the 17th century by William Oughtred, after John Napier's work on logarithms. Slide rules are definitely mechanical calculating machines. They were the most commonly used tools in science and engineering before the 1960s/1970s.

For the industrial revolution the invention of James Watt's governor was critical, because it was a negative feedback control for large pumps and engines. In fact most analogue computers work with continuous data rather that discrete or digital data. They are like abstract models of the real world. An analogue engine models the critical aspects of the real engine.

Related pages 
Charles Babbage
Abacus

References 

Computing
Engineering
Tiger keelback

The Tiger keelback (Rhabdophis tigrinus) is a species of venomous colubrid snake that lives throughout East and Southeast Asia.

Forms of defense 
The tiger keelback is shy, so it would be rare to be attacked by one, but they sometimes do, and they do need to survive. And in order to survive, a snake must have a good form of defense. And the tiger keelback has a very interesting form of defense. In addition to having ordinary venomous snake fangs, they have another trick up their sleeve. Like the poison dart frog and sea slug, the tiger keelback doesn't bother to produce its own venom - rather, it gets its deadly venom from the toads it eats as part of its normal diet. When the tiger keelback feels even the tiniest bit threatened, it'll angle the two little glands on the back of its neck and use it against the predator, the one who seems a threat to the snake. The liquid, or rather, fluid, that exits the snake's nuchal glands contains something called bufadienolides, that irritate airways and affect heart muscle. 

The snake eats poisonous toads, which fuels the snake's venom. The tiger keelback also eats a few other small vertebrates.

References

Colubrids
Mike Braun

Michael K. Braun (born March 24, 1954) is an American businessman and politician. Braun is the junior United States Senator of Indiana since January 3, 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.

He was born in Jasper, Indiana. Braun studied at Wabash College and at Harvard Business School. He served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2014 to 2017, representing the 63rd District.

In August 2017, Braun announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. In November 2018, Braun defeated incumbent Senator Joe Donnelly.

References

Other websites
 Braun for Senate
 Profile at Ballotpedia

1954 births
Living people
United States senators from Indiana
Harvard University alumni
Businesspeople from Indiana
Politicians from Indiana
State legislators of the United States
US Republican Party politicians
Flying snake

The flying snake, or Chrysopelea, is a mildly venomous snake found throughout India to the Indonesian archipelago. It can glide, in an arboreal habitat, going from tree to tree, most likely, much like the draco lizard. They're better at "flying" than another species of animal similar to this - the flying squirrel.

Defense 
The flying snake has venom, but much like garter snakes, the snake is so small that the amount of toxins in their saliva is only enough to kill their prey, which will be covered later on in the section about the flying snake's diet. If challenged by an animal far bigger than their venom can bring down, they might bite anyway just to give the predator a great deal of pain, or may choose flight rather than fight and "fly" away.

Diet 
The flying snake's usual diet consists mainly of lizards, birds, frogs, bats, small mice and other rodents, which they catch during the day since they're a diurnal creature.

Species of flying snake 
There are five known species of flying snake, which are the following:

Moluccan flying snake
Sri Lankan flying snake
Paradise tree snake
Ornate flying snake
Twin-barred tree snake

References

Snakes
Adichanalloor

Adichanalloor is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
 India census, Adichanalloor had a population of 27767 people, with 12980 males and 14787 females.

References

Other websites 
Sanathana Eye Hospital map

Villages in Kollam district
Alayamon

Alayamon is a village in Kollam district in the state of Kerala, India.

Demographics 
 India census, Alayamon had a population of 12869 with 6226 males and 6643 females.

References 

Villages in Kollam district
Dixon, California

Dixon is a city in northern Solano County, California, United States. It is about  from the state capital, Sacramento. The population was 18,351 at the 2010 census. Other nearby cities include Vacaville, Winters and Davis.

Famous people

Jon Pardi (born 1985), country singer

References 

1878 establishments in California
Cities in California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Settlements in Solano County, California
Malaise

Malaise is the general feeling of being sick. It can be described as a general discomfort or mild pain throughout the body. Malaise is caused by many kinds of illnesses, which can be very mild like the common cold. They can also be worse, like cancer.

References 

Diseases and disorders
Emotions
Discovery Bay, California

Discovery Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is about  from San Francisco. It is in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2010, its population was 13,352, a 48.7 percent gain from 8,981 at the 2000 census.

References

Other websites 

Town of Discovery Bay
Reclamation District 800
Discovery Bay Chamber of Commerce 
Discovery Bay Lions Club 
Discovery Bay Yacht Harbor
Discovery Bay Golf & Country Club

Census-designated places in California
Settlements in Contra Costa County, California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. His parents were Giovanni and Annetta and his family grew up with art. His father was a Post-Impressionist painter. 

When he was ten, he began drawing with pencil and crayon and sending his drawings to his godfather, Amiet. Then he started to use oils and he painted his first photo of a face at the age of 12. He used his siblings as models. 

In 1915, he went to the Evangelical School in the town of Schiers. He left school in 1919. He continued to develop his art skills in Geneva where he enrolled at the École des Arts Industriels. He travelled to Venice, Padua, Florence and Rome. Here, he was influenced by the collections of Egyptian art he studied. African and Oceanic art also inspired him. He also focused on the surrealism of art. Example of this are Suspended Ball and The Palace at 4 a.m.

From 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris. He regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and to work on his art.

In 1940, Giacometti and his brother, Diego, went to the south of France to escape Nazi invasion. He returned to Paris in 1941. He died on 11 January 1966.

Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. 

       

           

1901 births
1966 deaths
Swiss sculptors
Swiss painters
Graubünden
Printmakers
M46 Patton

The M46 Patton was an American tank. It was developed in 1948 and 1949. It was an improved version of the M26 Pershing. 168 tanks were made, manufactured between 1949 and 1952. They were one of the main tanks used in the Korean war.

Tanks