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Cars 2

Cars 2 is a 2011 movie made by Pixar. It was directed by John Lasseter and produced by Denise Ream. It is a sequel to the 2006 comedy movie Cars and it was released on June 24, 2011. The teaser trailer for Cars 2 appeared on the DVD and Blu-ray versions of Toy Story 3 and the full length trailer was shown before the movie Tangled. In the Cars trilogy, this movie was followed by Cars 3, which was released in June 16, 2017.

Plot
Lightning McQueen competes in the first-ever World Grand Prix which determines the world's fastest car. Each race is held at a different part of the world: first in Tokyo, second in Italy, and third in London. Meanwhile, the Lemons are secretly trying to destroy the World Grand Prix racers, and Mater finds himself helping secret agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell in stopping them.

Cast 

 Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen
 Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
 Michael Caine  as Finn McMissile
 Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell
 Jason Isaacs as Siddeley
 Thomas Kretschmann as Professor Zündapp
 Joe Mantegna as Grem
 Peter Jacobson as Acer
 Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
 Guido Quaroni as Guido
 Lloyd Sherr  as Fillmore (replacing George Carlin after his death in 2008) and Tony Trihull
 Paul Dooley as Sarge
 John Ratzenberger as Mack
 Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger
 Darrell Waltrip as Darrel Cartrip
 David Hobbs as David Hobbscap
 John Turturro as Francesco Bernoulli
 Eddie Izzard as Miles Axelrod
 John Lasseter as John Lassetire
 Franco Nero as Uncle Topolino
 Vanessa Redgrave as Mama Topolino
 Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera
 Cheech Marin as Ramone
 Jenifer Lewis as Flo
 Michael Wallis as Sheriff
 Katherine Helmond as Lizzy

Characters
Finn McMissile, Holley Shiftwell, Francesco Bernoulli, Sir Miles Axlerod, and Professor Z. are five new characters which have important roles in Cars 2. Finn McMissile is a British secret agent, and is expert with spy gadgets, while Holley Shiftwell acts as Finn's sidekick. Francesco Bernoulli is a flashy Italian race car, and is McQueen's racing rival in the World Grand Prix. Sir Miles Axlerod is the creator of the World Grand Prix, which is a publicity stunt for a new alternative fuel source, while Professor Z. is the leader of the Lemons, an evil corporation in charge of all the oil and fossil fuels in the world that is planning to sabotage the World Grand Prix to make alternative fuel look bad.

References

Other websites 
 Cars 2 at disney.com
 

2011 comedy movies
2011 animated movies
American comedy movies
Cars (franchise)
Pixar movies
Movies composed by Michael Giacchino
Movies set in London
Movies set in Japan
Movies directed by John Lasseter
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi () was born 30 July 1947 in Paris, France. She studied biochemistry at the University of Paris. Later, she graduated from the Pasteur Institute with a Ph.D in virology. She is a French virologist. She won the Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in 2008 after she discovered the pathogen of AIDS. AIDS had been discovered before the discovery of the pathogen. AIDS is a more developed version of HIV. She discovered HIV with Luc Montagnier. AIDs was a dangerous disease and because she discovered it, the population of people with AIDS decreased.  She shared the Noble prize with  Luc Montagnier (a French virologist) and Harald zur Hausen (A German virologist) They both helped her discover the pathogen of AIDS. She also contributed to the development of a blood screening for AIDS which helped many people discover that they had AIDS. She is currently 70 years old.

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1947 births
Living people
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French biologists
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Parliamentary opposition

Parliamentary opposition is a political position. It is a type of opposition to the government. It is usually used in countries that use the Westminster system of parliament. Parties that have second-most seats usually make up the opposition. They are called the "Official Opposition" sometimes. Examples of countries with an Official Opposition are Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Related pages
 Leader of the Opposition

Politics
Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is set in New York City and stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. This movie was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. It received mostly positive reviews from movie critics.

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Mafia
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Aaron Sherritt

Aaron Sherritt (1855 - 26 June 1880) was a close friend of Joe Byrne and later Ned Kelly. His murder in 1880 was the first of the actions that led to the Kelly Gang's final shoot out with the police at Glenrowan.

Sherritt lived about three miles from Byrne, in the Woolshed Valley, near Beechworth, Victoria. He went to school with Byrne, and in 1876 were sent to prison for stealing meat. Soon after being let out of prison, Sherritt and Byrne were sent back again. They had fought with Chinese man who had tried to stop them from swimming in his dam. In 1878 Byrne was said to be engaged to Sherritt's sister. He had a reputation for being tough; at times he would sleep out in the open at night. 

After the Kelly Gang robbed the bank at Jerilderie, New South Wales, they disappeared for 18 months. In January 1879, Sherritt went to the police station at Benalla and gave them information about where the Kelly Gang was hiding, and what they were going to do next. He was paid £2 for the information. Sherritt helped the police find a cave from where they could watch Byrne's mother's house. He was interested in Byrne's sister, Kate. The police told Sherritt that they would not kill Byrne. When the police in the cave were found out, Sherritt then tried to get close to Ned Kelly's younger sister, Kate Kelly. He showed the police a place from where they could watch the Kelly house, but this was soon discovered. Sherritt sold Kate Kelly a horse he had stolen from Kate Byrne. When Ned Kelly's older sister, Maggie Skillion, found out she reported it to the police. It went to court, but the case against Sherritt was dropped because the police said that the Byrnes and the Kellys were criminals and not to be trusted. Byrne's mother said she thought the whole thing was a trick by the police to get the Kelly Gang to come out of hiding.

Late at night on 26 June 1880, Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly went to Sherritt's house at Sebastopol. Sherritt and his family were being guarded by four policemen who were living at the house. When Sherritt opened the door, he was shot dead by Joe Byrne. The police did not come out of the house and remained there until the next day. Byrne and Kelly left Sebastopol and rode across country to Glenrowan. They knew the police would send a large group by train to Beechworth to try and capture them. Ned Kelly and Steve Hart had gone to Glenrowan earlier and had pulled up the train tracks. They had planned on the police sending the train to Beechworth during the night. The plan failed when the police at Sherritt's house did not report the murder until midday.

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Parliament of Victoria

The Parliament of Victoria is a bicameral legislature that makes the laws for the state of Victoria, Australia. Its two houses are a lower house the Legislative Assembly, and an upper house, the Legislative Council. The Legislative Assembly has 88 members, and the Legislative Council has 40 members. The political party with the most members in the lower house forms the government, and is led by the Premier of Victoria. In 2014, the Labor Party won the November election, and its leader, Daniel Andrews, became the Premier. The third part of the Parliament is the Crown, Queen Elizabeth II. She is represented in Victoria by the Governor of Victoria. The current governor is Professor David de Kretser, A.C.

The parliament meets at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. This building was also the home of the Parliament of Australia from 1901 to 1927.

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Victoria, Australia
Parliaments
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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 - 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist.  She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). She shared the Nobel Prize with Stanley Cohen with whom she made the discovery.

She was the first Nobel Prize winner to have reached 103 years of age.

Levi-Montalcini was the third of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi and Adele Montalcini. She was born on April 22, 1909, in Turin, Italy. Her father wanted her to attend a high school which prepared girls for marriage, but Levi-Montalcini did not want to have children. Although she wanted to go to a university, her parents did not support that idea. Three years later, her governess (nanny) got cancer. This inspired her decision to become a doctor.

She applied for the Turin School of Medicine in 1930. She was accepted, and she studied the nervous system, which is the system of the human brain, spinal cord, and nerves. She graduated from school in 1936 and became a research assistant. In 1942, Levi-Montalcini experimented on chicken embryos to study how cells were made.

A neuron bryologist (a person who studies the nervous system in embryos) named Viktor Hamburger contacted her in 1946, inviting her to fill a visiting research position at Washington University.

Levi-Montalcini was famous for her research on cell growth. Her first experiments were done in a small laboratory in her house. This was because she was Jewish when Italy was ruled by a dictator called Mussolini (1883-1945). Mussolini would not allow Jews to have a serious job. Since Levi-Montalcini was in great danger from Germans, she fled to Florence and was in hiding until the Germans left. Levi-Montalcini was allowed to experiment in better laboratories after World War II. From 1944 to 1945 Levi-Montalcini cared for war refugees after becoming medicine doctor.

In the 1950s, she found a protein in the human nervous system, that she later named the  NGF. She worked with Biochemist Stanley Cohen at Washington University, who was able to find the chemical structure of NGF and produce NGF antibodies. Levi-Montalcini's and Cohen's work was noticed in 1986 when they were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Levi-Montalcini was the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize.

Related pages
List of biologists

References

Bibliography
Levi-Montalcini, Rita 1988. In praise of imperfection: my life and work. Basic Books, New York.

1909 births
2012 deaths
Italian biologists
Italian centenarians
Italian Jews
Italian Nobel Prize winners
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People from Turin
The Big Chill (movie)

The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama movie. It is about baby boomer friends reuniting after 15 years due to a friend's suicide. This movie stars Tom Berenger, Glenn Close and Mary Kay Place. It was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina and set in South Carolina.

Other websites 

1983 comedy-drama movies
American comedy-drama movies
English-language movies
South Carolina
Suicide in fiction
Movies directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Nate Marquardt

Nathan Joel Marquardt (born April 20, 1979 in Lander, Wyoming) is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights for the UFC in the middleweight division and fights out of Denver, Colorado. Marquardt holds a second black belt in both Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Jujutsu. His current record is 32 wins, 10 losses and 2 draws.

Other websites
Nate Marquardt's Official website

Sportspeople from Wyoming
Freemont County, Wyoming
American mixed martial artists
1979 births
Living people
The Painted Veil (2006 movie)

The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama movie that was directed by John Curran. It was based on the 1925 novel with the same name. This is the third movie version of the novel the first in 1934 and the second in 1957 called The Seventh Sin. This movie won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 2006.

Cast 
 Edward Norton as Walter Fane
 Naomi Watts as Kitty Garstin Fane
 Toby Jones as Waddington
 Diana Rigg as Mother Superior
 Anthony Wong Chau Sang as Colonel Yu
 Sally Hawkins as Mary
 Liev Schreiber as Charles Townsend

Other websites 
Official website 

2006 drama movies
2006 romance movies
2000s romantic drama movies
Adultery in movies
American romantic drama movies
Chinese movies
English-language movies
Golden Globe Award winning movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in Venice
Movies set in London
Movies set in the 1920s
Shanghai
Victoria Police

Victoria Police provides police services to the people of Victoria, Australia. It employs more than 13,800 people and has 339 police stations.

Victoria Police started in the 1850s. One of their early jobs was to collect licence fees from miners searching for gold. In 1854 the miners at Ballarat refused to pay the fee and built a defensive fort, known as the Eureka Stockade. A military force of the British Army and 94 policemen attacked the stockade. About 30 miners and four soldiers were killed.

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Victoria, Australia
Law enforcement agencies
Law enforcement in Australia
Government agencies of Australia
1850s establishments in Australia
T. J. Oshie

Timothy Leif "T. J." Oshie, Jr. (born December 23, 1986 in Mount Vernon, Washington) is an American professional ice hockey center and right winger that currently plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 24th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft.

He played ice hockey in college at University of North Dakota with the Fighting Sioux.

References

Other websites
T. J. Oshie's Official website 
 
 

1986 births
Living people
American ice hockey players
Sportspeople from Washington
St. Louis Blues players
Washington Capitals players
United States Hockey League players
Ice hockey centres
Royal Commission

In states that are Commonwealth Realms a Royal Commission is a major government public inquiry into an important issue.  They have been held in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.  In Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa, they are called a Commission of Enquiry or Commission of Inquiry.

A Royal Commissioner has a lot of power, more than those of a judge but these are limited to the "Terms of Reference" of the Commission. The Commission is created by the Head of State (the Sovereign, or his/her representative in the form of a Governor-General or Governor) on the advice of the Government. In practice–unlike other forms of inquiry–once a Commission has started the government cannot stop it. Because of this governments are usually very careful about framing the Terms of Reference and generally include in them a date by which the commission must finish.

Royal Commissions are called to look into very important matters and usually controversy. For example, these can be about government structure, the treatment of minorities, or the events that had received concern from the public or economic questions.

Many Royal Commissions last many years and, often, a different government is left to respond to the findings. In Australia–and particularly New South Wales–Royal Commissions have been investigations into police and government corruption and organised crime. They have used the powers of the Royal Commissioner to force  powerful, but corrupt, public officials to tell the truth.

Royal Commissions are usually run by one or more notable figures. Because of their legal powers the Commissioners are often retired senior judges.

Royal Commissions usually research issues, consult with experts both within and outside of government and the public as well. They can call witnesses under oath, offer indemnities, seize documents and other evidence (sometimes including those normally protected, such as classified information), holding hearings in camera, and can force all government officials to help the Commission. 

The results of Royal Commissions are published in, often, massive reports of findings containing policy recommendations. They often have long and complex names, for example, the "Royal commission into whether there has been corrupt or criminal conduct by any Western Australian Police Officer". Because of this they are commonly known by the name of the main Commissioner.  These reports are often quite important, with the government making some or all recommendations into law. The work of some Commissions have been almost completely ignored by the government. In other cases, where the Commissioner has not kept to the terms of reference, the commission has been stopped by a superior court.

Government
Frank Heller

Frank Heller was the pen name of a Swedish writer. His real name was Gunnar Serner. He lived from July 20, 1886 - October 14, 1947. He wrote a series of light novels. His books were about suspicious international business. Heller created the character Philip Collin in most popular books. Collin who was a detective and a thief. Collin also used the name Professor Pelotard.

Bibliography
 The Emperor's Old Clothes, 1923 New York
 The Marriage of Yussuf Khan, Crowell New York 1923, Hutchinson & Co London 1924
 The Chinese Coats, London 1924
 The Grand Duke's Finances
 The Perilous Transactions of Mr. Collin, 1924
 The London Adventures of Mr. Collin, 1923
 Mr. Collin is Ruined, 1925
 The Strange Adventures of Mr. Collin, Crowell New York 1926
 The Thousand and Second Night, An Arabesque. Williams & Norgate, London, 1926
 Lead Me into Temptation, Crowell New York 1927
 Twilight of the Gladiators, 1944

F. W. Murnau made a film called The Grand Duke's Finances (German: Die Finanzen des Großherzogs) that was  based on of Heller's novel with the same name.

Other websites 

Swedish novelists
1886 births
1947 deaths
Consommé

In cooking, a consommé is a type of clear soup made from richly flavoured stock or bouillon.  "Double" consommé is clarified  often through a fining process involving egg protein. It usually requires an advanced knowledge of cooking and past experience to create a high quality consommé. Consommé has maintained its place as one of the most highly regarded and appreciated soups in the world.
gelatin desserts.

References

Soups
Generation gap

The term generation gap refers to the fact that a younger generation and their parents are thinking differently. The term was made popular in the 1960s.

Sociology
Shawinigan

Shawinigan is a city on the Saint-Maurice River in Quebec, Canada. In 2011, 50060 people lived there.

Michel Angers was elected as mayor in the 2009 municipal election.

The name of the city has also been spelled different over periods of time: Chaouinigane, Oshaouinigane, Assaouinigane, Achawénégan, Chawinigame, Shawenigane, Chaouénigane and could either mean "portage", "portage of beeches", "angular portage" or "summit" or "crest".

Famous residents
Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Jacques Plante, Former ice hockey goaltender

Other websites 
City of Shawinigan - Official city website

Cities and towns in Quebec
Caroline Rhea

Caroline Gilchrist Rhea is a Canadian actress and stand-up comedian. She was the original host for the NBC reality show The Biggest Loser until Alison Sweeney took her place. Rhea also starred as Hilda Spellman for the situation comedy Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and replaced Rosie O'Donnell as the hostess for her syndicated talk show (which was renamed the Caroline Rhea Show). She was born April 13, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec.

1964 births
Living people
Actors from Montreal
Canadian stand-up comedians
Canadian television actors
Comedians from Quebec
Television talk show hosts
Nova

A nova (plural novae or novas) is a huge nuclear explosion on a white dwarf star. It causes a sudden brightening of the star.

Novae are not to be confused with other brightening phenomena such as supernovae. Novae occur on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system. If the two stars of the system are close enough, material is pulled from the companion star's surface onto the white dwarf. This collection of hydrogen onto the surface of the star starts a runaway fusion reaction.

In spite of their violence, the amount of material ejected in novae is usually only about 1⁄10,000 of a solar mass, quite small relative to the mass of the white dwarf. Only five percent of the accreted mass is fused during the power outburst.  This is enough energy to make nova ejecta to go outward as fast as several thousand kilometers per second—higher for some novae than others.  The star also brightens, from a few times solar to 50,000–100,000 times solar.  In 2010 scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were surprised to discover, for the first time, that a nova can also emit gamma-rays (>100 MeV).

A white dwarf can potentially generate multiple novae over time as additional hydrogen continues to accrete onto its surface from its companion star. An example is RS Ophiuchi, which is known to have flared six times (in 1898, 1933, 1958, 1967, 1985, and 2006). Eventually, the white dwarf could explode as a type Ia supernova if it approaches the Chandrasekhar limit.

Occasionally a nova is bright enough and close enough to be seen by the unaided eye. The brightest recent example was Nova Cygni 1975. This nova appeared on 29 August 1975, in the constellation Cygnus about five degrees north of Deneb and reached magnitude 2.0 (nearly as bright as Deneb). The most recent were V1280 Scorpii, which reached magnitude 3.7 on 17 February 2007, and Nova Delphini 2013. Nova Centauri 2013 was discovered 2 December 2013 and is so far the brightest nova of this millennium reaching magnitude 3.3.

Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way experiences roughly 30 to 60 novae per year, with a likely rate of about 40.  The number of novae discovered in the Milky Way each year is much lower, about 10. Roughly 25 novae brighter than about magnitude 20 are discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy each year and smaller numbers are seen in other nearby galaxies.

References 

Types of stars
It Was a Good Day

"It Was a Good Day" is a 1993 single by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released from the album The Predator. "It Was a Good Day" peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also peaked at number twenty-seven on the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing
UK single
 "It Was a Good Day" (radio edit)
 "It Was a Good Day" (instrumental)

References

1993 songs
Bobby Hull

Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull, OC (born January 3, 1939 in Pointe Anne, Ontario) is a Canadian retired ice hockey left winger.

Hull is highly regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game of hockey. Hull was known for his blonde hair, blinding skating speed, and having the fastest shot in the game which also earned him the nickname, "the Golden Jet".

Hull played 17 seasons in the NHL with 3 teams, the Chicago Black Hawks for 15 seasons, the Winnipeg Jets for 1 season and the Hartford Whalers for 1 season.
 
Hull was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

Career statistics

Other websites
Bobby Hull's NHL player profile
Bobby Hull at the Internet Hockey Database
Bobby Hull's Legend's of Hockey profile

1939 births
Art Ross Trophy winners
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Chicago Blackhawks players
Hart Memorial Trophy winners
Hartford Whalers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winners
Living people
Stanley Cup champions
Winnipeg Jets (1979–96) players
World Hockey Association players
Scarp (landform)

Scarp is a term in geology and geography with several similar meanings.

A scarp is a cliff or steep slope. The word is derived from the Italian scarpa, meaning 'shoe'. 
The surface of the steep slope is called a scarp face.
A fault scarp is a steep cliff made by movement along one side of a fault.
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from faulting and resulting erosion. It separates two relatively level areas of different height. 
A cuesta is an asymmetric ridge with an escarpment on one side and a gentle dip slope on the other side.

Formation 
Scarps are generally formed by one or both: 
differential erosion of sedimentary rocks, or by 
vertical movement of the Earth's crust along a geologic fault. 
Most commonly, an escarpment is a transition from one series of sedimentary rocks to another series of a different age and composition.

Escarpments are also frequently formed by faults. When a fault displaces the ground surface so that one side is higher than the other, a fault scarp is created. This brings a piece of high ground next to an area of lower ground.

More loosely, the term scarp describes the zone between coastal lowlands and continental plateaus. A marked, abrupt change in height is caused by coastal erosion at the base of the plateau.

References 

Landforms
Georg von Békésy

Georg von Békésy (3 June 1899 – 13 June 1972) was an Hungarian biophysicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1961 for his findings on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian inner ear. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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1899 births
1972 deaths
Autobiographers
People from Budapest
Hungarian Nobel Prize winners
Frostbite

Frostbite is the localized medical condition where very cold temperatures damage skin and other tissue. It is most likely to happen in body parts farthest from the heart and in body parts with large exposed areas with many blood circulations. It most often occurs in toes.

Also, if the affected parts are not amputated, the person is likely to suffer from a disease called gangrene.

References

Health problems
Gustave Eiffel

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; , ) was a French structural engineer and architect. He is known for designing the Eiffel Tower. He also designed the armature (supporting framework) for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, United States.

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1832 births
1923 deaths
French engineers
People from Dijon
Bullshit

Bullshit (also bullcrap, bullplop,  bullbutter, bovine stool) is a common English language expletive. It can be used also as an interjection or as many other parts of speech.  Usually, it is a noun, verb or interjection that describes a lie.  It shows that someone is trying to deceive, e.g. "Stop bullshitting me" ("Don't try to deceive me.   I know what you are saying is a lie.").

References

English profanity
Black-eyed pea

The black-eyed pea, also called black-eyed bean, a subspecies of the cowpea, is a medium-sized edible bean. Humans first grew the pea probably in West Africa, but it is now grown all over the world.

In Nigeria, and the Caribbean, a traditional dish called akara is made of mashed black-eyed peas and salt, onions and peppers are added.

References

Fabaceae
Circuit of the Americas

The Circuit of the Americas is a motor racing circuit in Austin, Texas. Hermann Tilke designed the circuit in the middle of 2010. Construction was started in early 2011. It is planned to open in 2012. The circuit will run counter-clockwise.

The circuit will host the  United States Grand Prix. Starting in 2013, it will host MotoGP races for 10 years. It will also host a round of V8 Supercars, an Australia-based touring car racing series, starting in 2013.

References 

Formula One circuits
Sports in Texas
Austin, Texas
Great horned owl

The Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) is the largest owl in North America. It is sometimes called the hoot owl. 

This widespread bird of prey lives in mountains, grasslands, conifer forests, deserts, chapparals, and many other habitats in North and South America. Its call is a far-carrying hoot.

Description 
This owl is 18 to 25 inches (46-64 cm) long and has a wing span of 52 to 55 inches (1.3-1.4 m); its weight averages about 3 pounds (1.5 kg). 

The feathers of the horned owl are gray to brown to buff to black. There is a patch of white feathers on the brown chest (called a "gular"). The eyes are yellow with round black pupils.

Diet 
The great horned owl hunts and eats mammals (like rabbits, woodchucks, mice, rats, and squirrels), birds (ducks, quail, and geese), and fish. 

The owl is at the top of the food web; it has no major predators. It sometimes eats its prey whole and later regurgitates the bones, fur, and feathers in pellets.

References

Birds of North America
Strigiformes
Capital Region International Airport

Capital Region International Airport , is a public airport in DeWitt Township, Clinton County, Michigan.  The airport is northwest of Lansing, Michigan.  The airport has three runways and is 2160 acres (874.12 ha) in size.  The airport is owned and operated by the Capital Region Airport Authority.

History
The airport opened in July 1928.  Cargo service from the airport began on July 17, 1928, on Transamerican Airlines.  Passenger service began on September 1, 1929, on Kohler Airlines.  The current terminal building opened in 1959.  The first international flights (to Cancún, Mexico) began in December 2009 on USA3000 Airlines.  Allegiant Air served the airport from 2003-2009 and 2012-2015 with flights to Florida.

Airlines and destinations
Delta Air Lines, Sun Country Airlines, and United Airlines are passenger airlines that serve Capital Region International Airport.  UPS Airlines is a cargo airline that serves the airport.

The airport has domestic passenger flights to Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.  The airport has seasonal international passenger flights to Cancún, Mexico and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  The airport has cargo flights to Columbus and Louisville.

A total of 376,790 passengers flew to and from Capital Region International Airport in 2014. Another 418,850 passengers flew in 2013.  Earlier, 656,703 passengers flew in 2000.  45,896,074 pounds (20,818,109 kg) of cargo flew to and from the airport in 2014.  64,844,276 pounds (29,412,869 kg) of cargo flew in 2000.

Photos

Related pages

 Lansing, Michigan

References

Other websites 
 Capital Region International Airport (official site)
 Port Lansing  (official site)
 Capital Region Airport Authority
 Mid-Michigan Business Travel Coalition 

Airports in the United States
Lansing, Michigan
Transport in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Michigan
1928 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Michigan
Daniel Bedingfield

Daniel Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand-born British singer-songwriter. He was raised in South London. His song Gotta Get Thru This became #1 in United Kingdom's Top 40 in December 2001. His album, also titled Gotta Get Thru This went to number 2 on the UK albums chart.  His sisters are singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle. Bedingfield was a judge on the first season of The X Factor NZ in 2013.

In 2004, Bedingfield won a BRIT Award for Best British Male Artist.

Bedingfield is a Christian.

Discography
2002: Gotta Get thru This
2004: Second First Impression
2012: Stop the Traffik – Secret Fear

References 

1979 births
Living people
Brit Award winners
British Christians
British pop musicians
British singer-songwriters
Musicians from London
New Zealand singers
Belén Esteban

Belén Esteban Menéndez is a Spanish television personality.  She presents the television show Sálvame with Jorge Javier Vazquez.

References

1973 births
Living people
Spanish entertainers
Holy Week

Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta or Hebdomas Maior, "Greater Week"; Greek: Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, Megale Hebdomas) is the commemoration of the last week of Jesus Christ's ministry on earth.  Holy Week is the last week of Lent.  It begins with Palm Sunday and leads up to Easter Sunday.

Other websites

 Calculate Easter Dates as well as other main variable Feasts during and after Passover
 The Days of Holy Week  at The Christian Resource Institute
 Holy Week and Easter  Fast Facts from AOL Research & Learn
 Holy Week from the Catholic Encyclopedia

Christian holidays
Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Michelle Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress, singer-songwriter and former child model. At 11, she became a child model, and at 15 she became a television actress. She starred in As the World Turns and All My Children. In 2004, Seyfried started her film career, acting in Mean Girls. She also appeared in a number of other movies: Nine Lives (2005), Alpha Dog (2006), Mamma Mia! (2008), Jennifer's Body, Chloe, Dear John, Veronica Mars and Letters to Juliet. In 2006, she had a lead role on HBO's television series Big Love.

Filmography 
 Mean Girls (2004)
 Ted 2 (2015)
 Scoob! (2020)

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Mario Casas

Mario Casas Sierra (born 12 July, 1986, A Coruña) is a Spanish actor. He has starred in Los hombres de Paco (2007–2010), Fuga de cerebros (2009), and Tres metros sobre el cielo (2010)

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Sinodelphys

Sinodelphys  is an extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous. It is a member of the infraclass Metatheria, the group which contains modern marsupials.

To date, it is the oldest metatherian fossil known, estimated to be 125 million years old. This makes it almost contemporary to the earliest placental fossils, which have been found in the same area.

It was discovered and described in 2003 in rocks of the Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, China, by a team of scientists.  

Sinodelphys szalayi grew only 15 cm (5.9 in) long and possibly weighed about 30 g (1.05 oz). 

Its fossilized skeleton is surrounded by impressions of fur and soft tissue. Rapid burial followed volcanic events, and the fine sediment preserved details. 

From its foot structure it is thought that Sinodelphys was a tree-dweller, like its non-marsupial contemporary Eomaia and modern opossums such as Didelphis. Sinodelphys probably hunted worms and insects. 

Most Mesozoic metatherians have been found in North America and Asia. Most lived during the Upper Cretaceous between 90-65 million years ago.

Related pages 
 Juramaia
 Eomaia

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The Art of Getting By

The Art of Getting By is a 2011 American romantic drama movie that was produced by Darren Goldberg, Gia Walsh, Kara Baker and P. Jennifer Dana and was directed by Gavin Wiesen. Homework (its original name) was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2011, and was released in theaters in North America on June 17, 2011. The movie premiered under the title Homework at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released as The Art of Getting By.

Cast 
Freddie Highmore as George
Emma Roberts as Sally
Alicia Silverstone as Ms. Herman
Rita Wilson as George's mother
Blair Underwood
Elizabeth Reaser
Sam Robards as George's stepfather
Michael Angarano as Dustin

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2011 drama movies
2011 romance movies
2010s romantic drama movies
American romantic drama movies
Peppermint

The Peppermint is a hybrid plant of the mint family. It is originally from Europe, but grown and sold all over the world. It is a hybrid of watermint and spearmint. Carolus Linnaeus first described the plant in 1753, from samples that had been collected in England. He treated it as a species,  but modern biology mostly treats it as a hybrid.

The peppermint is found in some medications, in particular Skumin’s mixture.

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Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to know, understand, and manage emotions. People with high EI know their own emotions and the emotions of other people, and they are able to use emotions to think and live better. This thought model claims that high EI helps people to be successful in life.There are several different models that disagree about the exact definition of the term. Even though there does not seem to be an exact definition, the model itself can be applied in various ways, across different domains.

Nowadays, there are 3 main models of EI:
 Ability Based EI Models
 Knowing emotions – the ability to know emotions in faces, pictures, voices, etc. including the ability to know one's own emotions. 
 Using emotions – the ability to use emotions to improve thinking and problem-solving.
 Understanding emotions – the ability to understand different emotions, the relationships among emotions, and how and why emotions change.
 Managing emotions – the ability to manage emotions in ourselves and in others. Therefore, a person with high EI can use emotions, even negative ones, to achieve goals.
 Mixed Models of EI
 Self-awareness – the ability to know what one is feeling and thinking. 
 Self-regulation – the ability to control and manage feelings in a healthy way.
 Social skills – skills that help us relate to others so that we can have good relationships with them. 
 Empathy – the ability to share or understand the feelings of another person, especially to help make good decisions.
 Motivation – knowing what makes us want and desire to do something, like reach our goals.
 Trait EI Models

EI is often measured as an Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ).

Psychology
Life skills
Bulletproof (La Roux song)

Bulletproof is a 2009 song by the English electropop duo La Roux off their self-titled album. It was released in the United Kingdom in June 2009 and was highly received by the critics. This song debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was a sleeper hit in the United States, peaking at number eight.

2009 songs
Synth-pop
Sweetbread

Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus or the pancreas glands especially of the calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau) (although beef and pork sweetbreads are also eaten).

Various other glands used as food have also been called 'sweetbreads', including the parotid gland, the sublingual glands, and testicles (cf. Rocky Mountain oyster). The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, and surrounded symmetrically by the "throat" sweetbreads, which are more cylindrical in shape.

One common preparation of sweetbreads involves soaking in salt water, then poaching in milk, after which the outer membrane is removed.  Once dried and chilled, they are often breaded and fried.  They are also used for stuffing or in pâtés. They are grilled in many Latin American cuisines, such as in the Argentine asado, and served in bread in Turkish cuisine.

The word "sweetbread" is first known in the 16th century, but the logic behind the name is unclear. "Sweet" is perhaps used since the thymus is sweet and rich tasting, as opposed to savoury tasting muscle flesh. "Bread" may come from brede 'roasted meat'.

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Offal
Culinary name

Culinary name is the name of an ingredient when used in the kitchen for preparing food.  Sometimes the kitchen name is used because it sounds more attractive than the real name, or because a cheaper ingredient can be linked with a more expensive one.  The culinary name may also refer to a way of cooking or to a region, or using a particular ingredient

Examples

Sweetbreads, used because it sounds nicer than thymus or pancreas.
Lumpfish caviar, used give lumpfish eggs the sound of the more expensive sturgeon caviar.
Cassia bark is a cheaper substitute, but is called cinnamon in North America.
Florentine, meaning from the region of Florence, means the dish will include spinach.

Cooking
Ken Salazar

Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician. He is the United States Ambassador to Mexico since September 14, 2021.

Salazar was a member of the United States Senate from Colorado from 2005 until being appointed as the United States Secretary of the Interior in 2008 by President Barack Obama. Salazar officially became secretary in 2009. He resigned as secretary in 2013. Salazar is a Democrat.

Before being elected to the U.S. Senate, Salazar was the Colorado Attorney General from 1999 until 2005.

In May 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Salazar as the Ambassador to Mexico. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 2021.

Salazar was born in Alamosa, Colorado. He studied at Colorado College and at the University of Michigan.

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Jean Casimir-Perier

Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (; 8 November 1847 – 11 March 1907) was a French politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic.

He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe. He entered public life as secretary to his father, who was minister of the interior under the presidency of Thiers.

On 17 August 1883 he became under-secretary of state for war, a post he retained until 7 January 1885. From 1890 to 1892 he was vice-president of the chamber, then in 1893 president. On 3 December he became prime-minister and foreign minister, but heresigned in May 1894, and was re-elected president of the chamber.

On 24 June 1894, after the assassination of President Carnot, he was elected president of the republic by 451 votes against 195 for Henri Brisson and 97 for Charles Dupuy.  He was president for only six months. The day after Dupuy resigned, on 14 January 1895, Casimir-Perier resigned, saying he was ignored by the ministers, who did not consult him before taking decisions, and did not keep him informed upon political events, especially in foreign affairs.

From that time he completely abandoned politics, and devoted himself to business - especially mining. At the trial of Alfred Dreyfus at Rennes, Casimir-Perier's evidence, as opposed to that of General Mercier, was of great value to the cause of Dreyfus.

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Hilda Solis

Hilda Solis (born October 20, 1957) is an American politician. She is currently a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1. Before being elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1, she was the United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013. Solis was a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 32nd congressional district before being elected as the Secretary of Labor. Prior to being a U.S. Representative, she was a California State Senator and a member of the California State Assembly. She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the California State Senate. Solis is a Democrat. She was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1 on June 3, 2014. She was sworn in on December 1, 2014.

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Louis de Béchamel

Louis de Béchamel, marquis de Nointel (1630–1703) was a French financier and patron of the arts.

Life
Son of Jean-Baptiste Béchamel, Louis was a rich tax farmer and superintendent to the house of the Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. In 1697, Béchamel bought the marquisat of Nointel and later became Louis XIV's head steward.

Béchamel and his wife, Marie Colbert (d. April 3, 1686) had two children, Marie Louise Béchamel de Nointel (1661 – April 2, 1740) and Louis Béchamel de Nointel (1649 – December 31, 1718).

Béchamel sauce
The white sauce called béchamel sauce (Fr. sauce béchamel) acquired its name from him for he perfected an older sauce made from cream originally made by François Pierre de la Varenne (1615–1678), the cook of the marquis d'Uxelles. The sauce was dedicated to Béchamel to flatter him, at which the Duke of Escars commented:

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Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius (born May 15, 1948) is an American politician. She was the  United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2014. Before becoming the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebelius was a governor from Kansas. Time Magazine listed Sebelius as one of America's five best governors in 2005. Sebelius is a Democrat. She resigned on April 10, 2014.

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Trevor Bayne

Trevor Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American race car driver. Until 2019, Bayne drove the No. 6 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing.  On February 20, 2011 Trevor Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500. Bayne is the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500.

Early career
Trevor Bayne started racing Go-Karts when he was 5 years old. Bayne won over 300 races and 22 championships in Go-Karts. In 2005, Bayne started racing in the Allison Legacy Series. He drove in 22 races, and won 12 of those races. In 2006, Bayne raced for Team Rensi in the USAR Pro Hooters Cup, and he won the Rookie of the Year award at age of 15. In 2007, Bayne left Team Rensi to race for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

NASCAR career
For the 2008 season, Bayne drove the #1 car for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated in the NASCAR Camping World East Series. Bayne had 6 Top 5's, two poles and one win at Thompson International Speedway in his 6th start. In the 2009 season Bayne made his first NASCAR Nationwide Series start for Means Racing in the #52 Taco Bell Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway. Bayne also agreed to drive the #99 Aarons Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing for 8 races. Bayne got his career best finish at O'Reilly Raceway Park when he finished 7th. In September 2010, Bayne left Diamond-Waltrip Racing and went to drive for Roush-Fenway Racing. He will drive for Roush-Fenway Racing in the 2011 season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He made his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start in the 2010 AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway with Wood Brothers Racing. Bayne is the first driver to compete in one of the top three NASCAR series to be born in 1991.

Bayne drove the #21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford in 17 Sprint Cup Series races in 2011. He did not competing for the Rookie of the Year award because he was racing the full Nationwide Series season. Bayne won his first Sprint Cup Series race in his second race ever, the 2011 Daytona 500. This win makes him the second youngest driver ever to win a Sprint Cup Series race, and the youngest ever driver to win the Daytona 500. In 2015 Bayne started racing full time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing.

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Stories and photos about Travor Bayne from the Knoxville News Sentinel 
Video interview with Travor Bayne
Yahoo Driver Page

NASCAR drivers
1991 births
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Ambrosia (band)

Ambrosia are a pop rock music group. It formed in the Los Angeles area around 1970. They had many radio hits in the 1970s, although much of the material is progressive in nature. The founding members of Ambrosia grew up in southern California.

Albums 
 Ambrosia (1975)
 Somewhere I've Never Travelled (1976)
 Life Beyond L.A. (1978)
 One Eighty (1980)
 Road Island (1982)

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