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Emirates Office Tower

Emirates Office Tower is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  It is 355 meters (1,163 feet) tall and has 54 floors.  It was built in 2000 and is one of the tallest buildings in the world.

Emirates Office Tower is next to the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, which is also one of the tallest buildings in the world at 309m (1,014ft).

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in the world

References

Other websites

 Emporis.com - Emirates Office Tower
SkycraperPage.com – Emirates Office Tower

Skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates
Buildings and structures in Dubai
2000 establishments in Asia
Establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel

Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  It is 309 meters (1,014 feet) tall and has 56 floors.  It was built in 2000 and is one of the tallest buildings in the world.

Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel is next to the Emirates Office Tower, which is also one of the tallest buildings in the world at 355m (1,163ft).

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in the world

Sources

Other websites

 Emporis.com - Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel
SkycraperPage.com – Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel

Skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates
Hotels in the United Arab Emirates
Buildings and structures in Dubai
2000 establishments in Asia
Establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Jeremy Adduono

Jeremy Adduono (born August 4, 1978, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He was drafted in the seventh round, 184th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.

References

1978 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
Ontario Hockey League players
People from Thunder Bay
United States Hockey League players
Old College, University of Edinburgh

Old College is a building in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. It is part of University of Edinburgh.

Other websites 
 University of Edinburgh
 Edinburgh Law School
 Talbot Rice Gallery

Buildings and structures in Edinburgh
Garage Inc.

Garage Inc. is a cover album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1998.

It includes recorded cover versions of other artists' songs, all of their b-side covers released up to that point, and the entire The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. The title is a combination of Garage Days Re-Revisited and their song Damage, Inc.  Over 5 million copies have been sold in the US as certified by the RIAA.

Reception 
Professional reviews:
Rolling Stone (12/10/99, p. 122) - 4 Stars (out of 5) -"Gloriously hard as the album is, you can't miss Metallica's good natured side coming through."
Entertainment Weekly (12/18/98, p. 84) - "We'll have to wait until Metallica's next `proper' album to find out if this trip to the garage recharges their batteries. Still, all things considered, Garage Inc. is an intermittently exhilarating joyride." - Rating: B-
CMJ (12/21/98, p. 29) - "Those who still relate to the adolescent angst of the 'Metallicats' earliest days will find plenty to like on Garage Inc."

Track listing

Disc one 
These tracks were recorded in September-October 1998 for the Garage Inc. album.

Disc two
These tracks are a collection of B-sides from artists Metallica were inspired by throughout the early years of the band.

Personnel 
James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar
Jason Newsted – bass, backing vocals
Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion
Cliff Burton – bass on "Blitzkrieg" and "Am I Evil?"

References

Other websites 
Information about the album on the official website 

1998 albums
Heavy metal albums
Metallica albums
Christmas 1994 nor'easter

The Christmas 1994 nor'easter was a strong cyclone along the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada. It developed from an area of low pressure in the southeast Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Keys, and moved across the state of Florida.

Meteorological history
A weather system moved towards the southeast from the central Great Plains into the Deep South of the United States. After entering the Gulf of Mexico, the weather system became a cyclone. An approaching trough pushed the system across Florida. A forecaster at the National Hurricane Center, Jack Beven, said that "as it [the storm] moved out into the Bahamas, it appeared to take on the characteristics of a tropical storm." He also noted that because of the uncertainty, the National Hurricane Center did not call the weather system a tropical cyclone.

The cyclone was said to be a "hybrid" storm. The cyclone quickly gained strength in warm waters from the Gulf Stream, and because of cold air over the United States. The system continued to become stronger while moving within the Gulf Stream. The storm developed central atmospheric convection, which is unusual for a storm of its type. Extratropical cyclone. Also, the system developed an eye, which is usually seen in tropical cyclones. Even though the cyclone showed signs of a tropical storm, forecaster Jack Beven stated: "There was no front associated with it [the storm] and it had a warm core, but the radius of maximum winds was more than 150 nautical miles [175 mi, 280 km], so under the standard NHC criteria it didn’t qualify as a tropical storm." On December 23 and 24, the nor'easter intensified to attain a barometric pressure of 970|mb. Another low pressure system that developed behind the storm became stronger, and grew to be larger in size than the original storm. Due to the Fujiwhara effect, the large circulation of the secondary low moved the original nor'easter towards the northwest. The nor'easter passed along the south shore of Long Island, and it made landfall near New York City on December 24. Later, it moved over southeastern New York State. On December 25, which is Christmas Day, the system began to lose strength as it moved towards Nova Scotia, before the pair of low pressure systems moved out to sea early on December 26.

Related pages
Storm
Weather
Christmas

References

1994 in New York (state)
1990s in Florida
Christmas
Disasters in the 1990s
Natural disasters in the United States
River Wear

The Wear is a river in northeast England. It starts in Wearhead, County Durham and opens up into the North Sea at Sunderland.

Industrial past 
Much of the River Wear shows the history of the Industrial Revolution. Its upper end runs through lead mining country, until this gives way to coal seams of the Durham coalfield for the rest of its length. As a result of limestone quarrying, lead mining and coal mining, the Wear valley was amongst the first places to see the development of railways. The Weardale Railway continues to run occasional services between Stanhope and Wolsingham.

Geology 
The upland area of Upper Weardale has a flora which survives from the end of the last Ice Age. After the Ice Age, the Wear valley became thickly forested. During the Neolithic period and increasingly in the Bronze Age, the forests were progressively cleared for agriculture.

References 
 Natural Environment Research Council, Institute of Geological Sciences, 1971, "British Regional Geology: Northern England" Fourth Edition, HMSO, London.
 Johnson, G.A.L. & Hickling, G. (eds.), 1972, "Geology of Durham County", Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol.41, No.1.
 'Wear River', "Encyclopaedia Britannica", 17th Edition, 1990.

Rivers of England
North East England
River Tees

The Tees is a river in England. It starts in Cross Fell (a mountain) in the Pennines, and opens up into the North Sea. It forms a border between North Yorkshire and County Durham and also between the towns of Hartlepool and Redcar. It is also 85 miles or 137 kilometres long. High force waterfalls is 7 feet high. The Pennines Way was opened in 1965.

Rivers of England
Rutland Boughton

Rutland Boughton  (born Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire 23 January 1878; died London, 25 January, 1960) was an English composer.  He was well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. 

Boughton studied with Charles Villiers Stanford and Walford Davies.  He wrote many different kinds of music including symphonies, concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera.  His best known work was the opera The Immortal Hour. His carol Bethlehem (1915) became very popular in England and in many other countries.

He was a great admirer of the composer Richard Wagner who had built his own theatre, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, in the German town of Bayreuth.  Boughton wanted to create an "English Bayreuth" at Glastonbury, so he started the series of Glastonbury Festivals that took place from 1914 until 1926. From 1927 until his death in 1960, he lived at Kilcot near Newent, Gloucestershire.

Other websites 
 The Rutland Boughton Music Trust

English composers
Romantic composers
1878 births
1960 deaths
Bayreuth Festspielhaus

The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) is an opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. The German opera composer Richard Wagner got the opera house built so that his own music could be performed properly. He had lots of ideas about how opera should be performed, and he thought that there was no opera house in Germany that was good enough for performances of his operas. Today it is still the place where every year there is a festival, the Bayreuth Festival, which is dedicated only to the operas of Richard Wagner.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was a great admirer of Richard Wagner and he gave a lot of money for the opera house to be built. Wagner watched the construction all the time and made sure that everything was built in the way he wanted. Work on the building started on 22 May 1872 (Wagner's birthday), and it was ready four years later when, for the first time, all four operas which make up the cycle called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), were performed.

The opera house is big enough for an audience of 1,925. One unusual thing is the orchestra pit, which is right under the stage, covered by a hood, so that the orchestra cannot be seen at all by the audience. Wagner wanted the audience to be able to concentrate properly on the action on the stage instead of being distracted by watching the orchestra. It makes it very difficult for the orchestra and the singers to be together, and conductors have to get used to the problem.

The Festspielhaus also has a double proscenium, which makes it look as if the stage is farther away than it actually is.

Bayreuth
Buildings and structures in Bavaria
Opera houses in Germany
Kilmacolm

Kilmalcolm is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, UK.  The village has a population of around 4,000 people.

Towns in Inverclyde
Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, UK.

Newark Castle stands very close to the shore of the Clyde. The castle dates to around 1484. It is now a visitor attraction maintained by Historic Scotland. Several acres of the Clyde foreshore at Parklea are owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Coronation Park is in the town centre. The park was opened on the site of the West Harbour in 1937 to celebrate the coronation of King George VI.

Towns in Inverclyde
Largs

Largs is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. It is about  from Glasgow. The original name means "the slopes" (An Leargaidh) in Scottish Gaelic. 

Towns in North Ayrshire
Dunoon

Dunoon is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.

Towns in Argyll and Bute
Falkland, Fife

Falkland is a town in Fife, Scotland, UK.

Falkland Palace is in the town. James IV started building it in 1500. It is the best example of French-influenced Renaissance architecture in the United Kingdom. Mary, Queen of Scots came to visit often.

A fire happened when Oliver Cromwell's troops stayed in the palace. The fire in 1654 destroyed the East Range. The Court never came back to Falkland Palace after 1665.  In the late 19th century rebuilding and restoration work began.  Today the palace and gardens are open to the public through the National Trust for Scotland.

References

Towns in Fife
Saving Abel

Saving Abel is an American rock band. It formed in 2004 in Mississippi. Saving Abel makes records for Virgin Records. The band made a studio album in 2006 called Saving Abel and released a later self-titled album (Saving Abel). The rock band is famous for two songs, Addicted and 18 Days.

Members
 Jared Weeks - lead vocals
 Jason Null - lead guitar, backing vocals
 Scott Bartlett - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
 Eric Taylor - bass guitar, backing vocals
 Mike McManus - drums

Discography

Albums
 Saving Abel (2008)
 Miss America (2010)
 Bringing Down the Giant (2012)

Singles
 2008 - Addicted (from the album Saving Abel)
 2008 - 18 Days (from the album Saving Abel)

Other websites

Official website
Official myspace

American hard rock bands
American rock bands
Post-grunge bands
southern rock bands
Musical groups from Mississippi
Carl Reinecke

Carl Reinecke (born Altona, Hamburg 23 June 1824; died Leipzig, 10 March 1910) was a Danish-born composer, conductor, and pianist.

Reinecke was born near Hamburg, which was part of Denmark at the time. Carl learned music from his father. He was soon playing the piano in public and was composing by the age of twelve.

When he was 19 he travelled about giving concerts. He went as far east as Riga. In 1846 he became Court Pianist for King Christian VIII in Copenhagen. He stayed there until 1848, composing four piano concertos as well as concertos for violin, cello, harp and flute. He continued to travel, including to Leipzig where he met Schumann, Mendelssohn and Liszt. 

In 1851 he became a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Later he had conducting jobs in Barmen and Breslau.

In 1860, Reinecke was made director of the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra concerts in Leipzig, and professor of composition and piano at the Conservatorium. He became director of the Conservatorium and made it one of the best in Europe. He conducted the Gewandhaus Orchestra for 35 years and raised the standard of their playing. He conducted many first performances, including the first complete performance of Brahms's German Requiem (1869).

Perhaps his best-known piece is the flute sonata "Undine". He taught many famous musicians, including Edvard Grieg, Christian Sinding, Leoš Janáček, Isaac Albéniz, Johan Svendsen, Felix Weingartner and Max Bruch. 

At the age of 80, Reinecke recorded his playing on piano roll, making him the earliest-born pianist to have his playing recorded in any way.

He retired in 1902, but continued to compose until the end of his life. 

1824 births
1910 deaths
20th-century German composers
German conductors
Romantic composers
Saving Abel (2008 album)

On March 11, 2008, the rock band Saving Abel released their hit studio album called Saving Abel (the second self-titled album). A song in this particular album is featured on Saving Abel's previous studio album called 18 Days. There are two major singles on this album called "Addicted" and "18 Days". The album has 11 studio tracks on it, and 2 original B-Sides. The album was produced by producer Skidd Mills. The album's songs have some of the songs featured on it from the previous self-titled studio album like "18 Days", "Drowning (Face Down)", "Running Away from You", and "Beautiful You".

Track listing
 "New Tattoo"
 "Addicted"
 "She Got Over Me"
 "18 Days"
 "Drowning [Face Down]"
 "In God's Eyes!"
 "Sailed Away"
 "Beautiful Day"
 "Out Of My Face"
 "Running From You"
 "Beautiful You"

Bonus tracks
 "Goodbye, So Long"
 "After All"

2008 albums
18 Days

"18 Days" is the second single off the 2008 album by Saving Abel called Saving Abel. The song is also on the previous self-titled album by Saving Abel. The song was released in late 2008 when it took major airplay.

Charts
"18 Days" by Saving Abel reached 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks. The single also peaked at #8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks.

2008 songs
Dagenham

Dagenham is an area of London, United Kingdom.  It has been a part of Greater London since 1965.  There are mostly places for people to live and few businesses.

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Grays

Grays is a town in Essex, England, UK.  It is sometimes called Grays Thurrock. 

The town is about 20 miles (32 km) to the east of London.  It is on the north bank of the River Thames, and near the M25 motorway.

References

Towns in Essex
Oban

Oban is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK.

Towns in Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is a council area of Scotland, UK, is one of 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area. The administrative centre for the council area is in Lochgilphead.

Argyll and Bute covers the second-largest administrative area of any Scottish council. The council area adjoins those of Highland, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire. Its border runs through Loch Lomond.

The present council area was created in 1996, when it was carved out of the Strathclyde region, which was a two-tier local government region of 19 districts, created in 1975. Argyll and Bute merged the existing Argyll and Bute district and one ward of the Dumbarton district. The Dumbarton ward, called 'Helensburgh and Lomond', included the burgh of Helensburgh and consisted of an area to the west of Loch Lomond, north of the Firth of Clyde and mostly east of Loch Long.
Halesowen

Halesowen is a town in West Midlands of England. Historically, it is part of Worcestershire. The population of the town in the 2001 census was 55,273.

The centre of Halesowen has a Norman church, St John's Church. It was built in 1083 on the site of an Anglo-Saxon church. It was founded by Earl Rodger de Montgomery. The building of the spire at St John's Church started at the end of the 1st century and is shows evidence of Norman origin even though there have been many alterations to it.

References

Towns in the West Midlands (county)
The King Of Fighters

The King of Fighters is a fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade and home consoles. It is the first game of The King of Fighters series, done by the same company.

The game is a fictional crossover with many characters from SNK's previous fighting games, Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. There are even modernized versions of their pre-Neo Geo games: Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier. There are also original characters in this series.

The game was  converted for Neo Geo AES and Neo Geo CD after the releases for Arcade. In 2004, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the series, SNK released a remake titled The King of Fighters '94 Rebout, featuring the original game and a newer version with high definition graphics.

References 

1994 video games
Arcade games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Vita games
Video game series
Virtual Console games
Fighting games
102 Dalmatians

102 Dalmatians (known as 102 in Japan) is a 2000 live-action movie produced by The Walt Disney Company with Glenn Close acting as the protagonist, Cruella de Vil. It is a sequel to the 1996 movie 101 Dalmatians, which was a live-action remake of the 1961 Disney animated movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians. In the movie, Cruella de Vil attempts to steal puppies for her making a fur coat. Glenn Close and Tim McInnerny were the only actors from 101 Dalmatians to return for this sequel. The film was released on VHS and DVD on April 3, 2001, and re-released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 16, 2008.

The story 
After a spot of therapy Cruella De Vil is released from prison a changed woman. Devoted to dogs and good causes, she is delighted that Chloe, her parole officer, has a dalmatian family and connections with a dog charity. But the sound of Big Ben can reverse the treatment so it is only a matter of time before Ms De Vil is back to her incredibly ghastly ways, using her new-found connections with Chloe and friends.

Cast

Box office 
The movie did well at the box office, earning $66,957,026 in the US and $116,654,745 in other countries, bringing its total to $183,611,771 worldwide. This is less than the first movie which earned $320,689,294 worldwide.

Sets 
 The Oxford prison was used for the scene as Cruella walked out of prison. This motion picture was filmed partially in Paris.

Video game 
A video game based on the movie was released, with Frankie Muniz as the voice of Domino.

References

Other websites 
 Official website
 
 
 

2000 comedy movies
Disney movies
English-language movies
Sequel movies
101 Dalmatians
Movies about animals
American comedy movies
102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue

102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue is a video game based on the live-action Disney movie 102 Dalmatians. It was made for the Sony PlayStation.

Voice cast 
 Susan Blakeslee as Cruella de Vil
 Molly Marlette as Oddball
 Frankie Muniz as Domino
 Barbara Dirikson as Dottie
 Jeff Bennett as Dipstick and Jasper
 Eric Idle as Waddlesworth
 Nancy Cartwright as Fidget
 Eddie Izzard as Sgt. Tibs
 Tress MacNeille as Ivana
 Rob Paulsen as Fluffy
 Maurice LaMarche as Horace

Gameplay 
The game itself follows the movie's storyline closely. The player can choose the role of two of the dalmatians, Oddball or Domino, who are out on the town looking for treasure. It's not long before the player realizes that a toy found buried in a park was made at one of Cruella de Vil's toy factories; the fact that her toys are being buried rather than being played with is making mean Cruella very upset. Facing financial ruin from lack of sales, Cruella sets an evil plan in motion - to reprogram her toys to capture any Dalmatian puppies in sight. Soon enough, Domino and Oddball are out on their biggest adventure yet - to save their brothers and sisters. The player needs to save their brothers and sisters, collect 100 bones and stop Cruella's henchmen. Player's health can be increased by picking up food. The player fights Cruella a few times, then off to the Toy Factory where Cruella is waiting for them. The game includes several challenging levels, from the sewers to the circus. The player befriends many other characters that help them along the way. At times the player has to take a challenge to fight Cruella in certain levels as well as other enemies such as Jasper or Horace.

Levels 
 Regent's Park
-You find Jasper in this level.
 Toy Store
 Picadilly
-Horace is found in this level.
 Big Ben
1. Cruella I
-Defeat Cruella to unlock the mini game "Tilt Maze".
 Royal Museum
-Le Pelt will be found inside the Pyramid in the Egyptian exhibit.
 The Underground
 Carnival
-Jasper will be found here. When you find the dunk tank after talking to the turtle Shelby, he will appear.
 Lumber Mill
2. Cruella II
-Defeat Cruella to unlock the mini game "Checkers".
 Countryside
-Horace will show up near Stonehenge.
 Barnyard
 Ice Festival
-Jasper shows up for the 3rd time in this level.
 Medieval Castle
3. Cruella III
-Defeat Cruella and you will unlock the mini game "Ice Race".
 Spooky Forest
-Le Pelt shows up again in this level.
 Hedge Maze
 De Vil Mansion
-Horace appears in this level.
 Toy Factory
4. Cruella IV
-Defeat Cruella and you will win the game as well as unlocking the mini game "Jam Dance."

Cruella's Toys 
 Jack-in-the-Box: This toy is the very first toy you'll come across in the game (found in the first level). When they pop up, they say "Hello." Get too close to them and they'll say "I've got an idea" before lashing out at you.

References 

Game Boy Color games
PlayStation games
Dreamcast games
Video games based on movies
Cruella de Vil

Cruella De Vil (obviously a play on cruel and devil) is the villain in the Dodie Smith book The Hundred and One Dalmatians who kidnaps (dognaps) the puppies for their fur.  She is described as having one half of her hair white and the other half black, an extreme fondness for pepper and a preference for elevated temperatures.

In the 1961 Disney animated movie her voice was played by Betty Lou Gerson. The movie featured a song about her sung by Roger whose lyrics begin:

Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil, If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will.

Later, in the 1996 live-action remake, and its 2000 sequel, 102 Dalmatians, she was played by Glenn Close. Shortly afterward, Cruella was a regular viallian in 101 Dalmatians: The Series, where she was voiced by April Winchell. This time, though, she wanted to steal the Dearly Farm, seeing how killing animals for fashion was deemed politically incorrect. However, she returned to hunting dogs in House of Mouse (which features an ongoing joke in which she inspects dogs from other Disney movies with a measuring ruler) and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, both of which had Susanne Blakeslee as her voice.

Characters in written fiction
101 Dalmatians (1996 movie)

101 Dalmatians is a movie made by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. It is a remake of the 1961 animated movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians (which was based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians). The movie's main actor is Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. Unlike in the earlier versions of the story, the dalmatians are played by real dalmatian actors, and none of the dalmatians talk. A sequel, 102 Dalmatians, was made in 2000 and was released in November. This movie is called simply 101 in Japan, like its sequel, which is called 102.

Cast 
 Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil
 Jeff Daniels as Roger Dearly
 Joely Richardson as Anita Campbell-Green-Dearly
 Joan Plowright as Nanny
 Hugh Laurie as Jasper
 Mark Williams as Horace
 John Shrapnel as Skinner

Release 
101 Dalmatians was released on VHS on April 15, 1997 and as a DVD on December 12, 2000. Because many people bought the DVD, Disney re-released the film on September 16, 2008 in the United States.

Box office 
The movie made lots of money when it was in movie theatres, earning $136,189,294 in the United States and $184,500,000 in other places, bringing its worldwide total to $320,689,294.

References

Other websites 
 
 
 

1996 comedy movies
1990s adventure movies
1990s American adventure movies
1990s American comedy movies
Disney movie remakes
English-language movies
101 Dalmatians
Movies about animals
Movies based on books
Movies composed by Michael Kamen
African wildcat

The African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) are small, fierce cats that live in forests, grasslands, and brush lands in Africa and the Middle East. They are the closest living relatives of the domestic cat.

It is a wildcat subspecies which occurs across northern Africa and extends around the edges of the Arabian Peninsula to the Caspian Sea. It is the most common and widely distributed wild cat, and is listed as Least Concern by IUCN since 2002.

The African wildcat appears to have diverged from the other subspecies about 131,000 years ago. Some individual African wildcats were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, and are the ancestors of the domestic cat. Remains of domesticated cats were found in human burials in Cyprus, done by Neolithic farmers about 9,500 years ago. Hybrids between domestic cats and African wildcats are still common today.

Description 
African wildcats are generally crepuscular, hunting at dawn and dusk. They are diurnal (most active during the day) during very cold weather. They are very good climbers. African Wildcats live for 12 to 15 years. They are about 50 percent larger than domesticated (tame) cats.

Diet 
African wildcats are carnivores, like all cats. These fast, solitary hunters eat small to medium-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, invertebrates, and eggs.

References 

Felines
Gale

A gale is a very strong wind. The Beaufort scale is a way to measure weather conditions. It is based on observations. The first level of the scale that uses the word gale is 7 beaufort (of a total of 13 steps). There are other definitions as well. The U.S. Government's National Weather Service defines a gale as 34 to 47 knots (63 km/h to 87 km/h or 39 miles per hour to 54 miles per hour) of sustained surface winds. Forecasters usually issue gale warnings when they think there will be winds of this strength.

Other sources use speeds as low as  and as high as . The  definition is rare. A common alternative definition of the maximum is .

Related pages
Beaufort scale

References 

Winds
Marin Marais

Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He is regarded as one of the great French musicians of the Baroque.

Marais, the son of a poor shoe maker, was educated in a choir school were he was taught to play the viol. He then learnt from Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, a famous bass viol player. In six months he was said to be better than his teacher. In 1675, aged 19, he joined the orchestra of the Paris Opera. This was where he met Jean-Baptiste Lully, who was the director of the Opera. Lully taught him to compose music. Marais often conducted the operas Lully had written.

Marais was hired as a musician in 1676 to play at the royal court of Versailles. He did quite well as court musician. In 1679 he was appointed "ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole", a title he kept until 1725.

He was a master of the basse de viol. He wrote a lot of music for that instrument, he was the most important French composer for it. He wrote five books of Pièces de viole (1686-1725). Most of the pieces in the book are suites with basso continuo. These were quite popular in the court, and for these he was remembered in later years as he who "founded and firmly established the empire of the viol" (Hubert Le Blanc, 1740). His other works include a book of Pièces en trio (1692) and four operas (1693-1709). Alcyone (1706) is well known for its storm scene. Marais became the conductor of the Paris Opera in 1706, but after the failure of his 1709 opera, Sémélé he gradually withdrew from public life. He married Catherine d'Amicourt, on 21 September 1676. They had 19 children together. Two of the children, Vincent Marais and Roland Marais also became famous musicians, as well as his grandson, Nicolas Marais.

Titon du Tillet wrote about Marais in his book Le Parnasse françois. He describes a piece from Marais' fourth book called The Labyrinth, which goes through lots of keys. The notes which are often dissonant, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, describe a man caught in a labyrinth. Eventually the man comes out of it happily and the music finishes with a gracious and natural chaconne. Another piece called La Gamme [The Scale], very gradually goes up the steps of the octave and then down again.

Facsimiles of all five books of Marais' Pièces de viole are published by Éditions J.M. Fuzeau. A complete critical edition of his instrumental works in seven volumes, edited by John Hsu, is published by Broude Brothers.

References in Film
Marais and his music were featured in the movie Tous les matins du monde (1991). The movie shows a detailed, imagined life of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. Marais' music is heard a lot, including his longer work Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris (1723). A recording of the Sonnerie performed on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the cult classic film Liquid Sky.

References

1656 births
1728 deaths
French composers
Baroque composers
French musicians
Camberley

Camberley is a town in Surrey, England, UK. It is close to the border with Hampshire.

Towns in Surrey
Petersfield, Hampshire

Petersfield is a town in Hampshire, England, UK. It is close to the border with West Sussex. Petersfield is a historic market town in the South Downs National Park. There is a market held in the town square every Wednesday and Saturday, with a monthly farmers market on a Sunday. The town was started at the end of the 11th century by the Normans. The Church of St.Peter was built in 1120.

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Towns in Hampshire
Waterlooville

Waterlooville is a town in Hampshire, England, UK. It is not far from Portsmouth.

Towns in Hampshire
Havant

Havant is a town in Hampshire, England, UK. It is between the cities of Portsmouth and Chichester. Havant is a very old town but it is still in perfect shape.

Towns in Hampshire
Steyning

Steyning is a town in West Sussex, England, UK. It is west of the smaller villages of Bramber and Upper Beeding. It is not far north from Lancing and Shoreham-by-Sea on the South Coast. Steyning has a high street with many shops, ranging from the Co-op to Sussex Produce. There is a primary school, secondary school and a sixth form. There is a bed and breakfast hotel called, Springwells.

Towns in West Sussex
Lancing, West Sussex

Lancing has a really big library   Lancing has a short station

West Sussex, England, UK. It is to the south-east of Sompting and to the south-west of Shoreham-by-Sea. There is a private

school called Lancing College here.

Towns in West Sussex
Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis is a  town in Arun, West Sussex, England, UK. In 2001 there were 22,555 people living in Bognor Regis.

It had a beach, where Butlins is situated.

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Towns in West Sussex
Westhampnett

Westhampnett (sometimes known as Goodwood) is a village in West Sussex, England, UK. It is not far from Chichester. It is where Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is based. They also have a plant there.

Towns in West Sussex
Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath is a town in West Sussex, England, UK. It is not far from the border with East Sussex.

Towns in West Sussex
Lewes

Lewes (pronounced "Lewis") is a town in East Sussex, England, UK. A battle was fought there in 1264.

Lewes has lots of restaurants, cafés, pubs, hotels, jobs, and lots more. This attracts lots of people to visit the Town in East Sussex.

Lewes has the most historical features of all of Sussex. In 2001 it had the population of 15,988 and it is still growing.

It had its own battle called Battle Of Lewes in 1264, during the reign of Henry III.

Towns in East Sussex
Uckfield

Uckfield is a town in Wealden, East Sussex, England, UK. It is on the River Uck. In 2001 there were 13,697 people living in Uckfield.

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Towns in East Sussex
Wealden
Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town in East Sussex, England, UK. It is between Eastbourne and Hastings. It is home to St. Richard's Catholic College. 

Towns in East Sussex
Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, UK. It is not far from the border with East Sussex. It should not be confused with Tonbridge, a smaller town to the north.

Towns in Kent
Folkestone

Folkestone is a seaside town in Kent, England, United Kingdom. It has a Eurostar train terminal near it, in Ashford. But the channel tunnel is in Folkestone. It is has a pebble beach and sandy beach and there are cliffs.

Towns in Kent
Ports and harbours of the United Kingdom
Lundy

Lundy is an island off the coast of Devon, England, UK. It has a very small population.  In the 1930s the owner sold stamps and coins as if Lundy was an independent country. You can hire cottages on this island to stay in for a week or so. You can get to Lundy by helicopter or a ferry in the summer.

Islands of England
Westward Ho!

Westward Ho! is a village on the north coast of Devon, England, UK. It is the only place in the British Isles to have an exclamation mark (!) in its name. The name comes from the novel of the same name by Charles Kingsley.

Another example of a place name with a exclamation mark in its name is Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec (Canada). But these are colloquial, unlike Westward Ho!'s.

Towns in Devon
Bude

Bude is a coastal town in Cornwall, England, UK. It is at the mouth of the River Neet. Bude is surrounded by beautiful beaches such as Summerleaze Beach, Widemouth Bay, Crooklets Beach and Blackrock Beach. The River Neet runs through the town. Bude is a very popular location for tourists especially in the summer. The Bude Canal is a disused canal.

Towns in Cornwall
Padstow

Padstow is a small town in Cornwall, England, UK. It is at the mouth of the River Camel. It is a fishing port and is well known for the 'Obby 'Oss (hobby horse) ceremony which is celebrated on May Day every year. A ferry connects Padstow with the village of Rock on the opposite side of the Camel estuary.

Towns in Cornwall
Civil parishes in Cornwall
Pima County, Arizona

Pima County is one of the 15 counties in the US state of Arizona.

The county seat is Tucson which has the second most people in the state.

Arizona counties
Aviemore

Aviemore (;   "The big [mountain] face") is a town in Highlands of Scotland, UK. It is also a tourist area.

Geography

Climate

Aviemore has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb). It has cool temperatures and rainfall throughout the year. The highest temperature ever was  on 28 June 2018.

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Towns in Scotland
Highland
Swansea

Swansea (Welsh: Abertawe), officially the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe), is a city and county in Wales. It is Wales' second largest city and the largest in Cardiff. It is in the country's south coast. It has a temperate oceanic climate, with the most rain of any city in the United Kingdom. The city has a population of around 240,000.

History 
Swansea was built in the early 12th century by the Normans. A castle was built here and a town started to form around it.

Gallery

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John Ireland

John Ireland (born near Manchester, 13 August 1879; died Washington, Sussex, 12 June 1962) was an English composer. He is particularly remembered for his Piano Concerto and for his church music, especially the anthem Greater love hath no man, the song The Holy Boy and the hymn tune to My song is love unknown.  He had an unhappy childhood, and he always felt unsure of himself and rather lonely.

Life 

John Ireland was born in Bowdon, Greater Manchester.  His father, who was 70 years old, was  a publisher who owned a newspaper.  He had married for a second time after his wife had died, and John was the youngest of five children from the second marriage.  His mother was 30 years younger than her husband.   When John was 14 his mother died, and his father died the next year.

John Ireland studied piano and organ at the Royal College of Music. Later he also had composition lessons from Charles Villiers Stanford. He later became a teacher at the College himself.  His pupils included the composers Alan Bush and
Geoffrey Bush (who were not related), Ernest Moeran and Benjamin Britten.  Geoffrey Bush later helped to prepare a lot of Ireland’s works for publication.   Ireland mostly made his living as an organist and choirmaster.

Ireland enjoyed going to the Channel Islands.  He liked the landscapes there. He was evacuated from them just before the German invasion during World War II.

John Ireland married once, but his marriage only lasted a few months.

On 10 September 1949, his 70th birthday was celebrated in a special Prom concert.  The soloist in the Piano Concerto  was the pianist Eileen Joyce, who later made the first gramophone recording of the concerto.

Ireland retired in 1953.  He moved to a tiny village in  Sussex, where he lived in an old windmill which had been changed into a home.

He died  aged 82 in Washington, Sussex of heart failure.

Music 

John Ireland was never much influenced by folksong like many other English composers of his time.  His music is more related to Impressionism.  He liked the music of French composers such as Debussy and Ravel as well as Igor Stravinsky and  Bartók.  His Piano Concerto is one of his best works. It shows that he developed his own personal style of harmony.  Most of his other good works are short pieces, including many for piano solo. His best-known piece is the song The Holy Boy.  It is heard in many different arrangements. His songs to poems by A. E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke and others, are among some of the best English art songs.. He also wrote hymns, carols, and other sacred choral music; among choirs he is probably best known for the anthem Greater love hath no man, often sung in services that remember the victims of war.  Another choral work, These things shall be expresses his deepest hopes for mankind, although in his last years he said that he hated the work.

References 
 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, 1980;

Other websites 
The John Ireland Trust 

1879 births
1962 deaths
20th-century English composers
English organists
Bathgate

Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, 5 miles (8 km) west of Livingston and adjacent to the M8 motorway. Nearby towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder and Whitburn. Situated 2 miles (3 km) south of the ancient Neolithic burial site at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the surrounding area show signs of habitation since about 3500 BC.

References

Towns in West Lothian
Joint Typhoon Warning Center

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force task force. It is at the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1959 establishments in the United States
United States Navy
United States Air Force
Hawaii
Tropical cyclones
20th-century establishments in Hawaii
Dwarf elephant

Dwarf elephants are prehistoric elephants which lived in the Pleistocene period. They are an example of island dwarfism.

Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus, Malta, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, the Cyclades Islands and Dodecanese islands. Other islands where dwarf elephants have been found are Sulawesi, Flores, Timor and other islands of the Lesser Sundas and the Channel Islands of California.

They are considered to be one of the only elephant of the Mediterranean islands belonging to the mammoth line.

Fossils
Elephants
Kwajalein

Kwajaein (; Marshallese:  ) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). It is one of the world's largest coral atolls as measured by area of enclosed water.

References

Marshall Islands
Atolls
Bo'ness

Bo'ness (short for Borrowstouness) is a town in the Falkirk council area of Scotland, UK. Bo'ness is well known for its iron. Even if Bo'ness is the form of name it's known for and being used on road signs, its original name Borrowstounness.

Name history 
The usage of the name dates back to the early 1400s when the Burgh of Linlithgow built a harbour on a broad promontory (or "ness"). The "burgh's town on the ness" then became Borrowstounness. It eventually became known as Bo'ness.

References 

Towns in Falkirk council area

Other websites 

 Bo'ness official railway
David Hart Smith

Harry Smith (born August 2, 1985) is a Canadian professional wrestler of English descent who currently works for New Japan Pro Wrestling under the name Davey Boy Smith, Jr..

He also worked for World Wrestling Entertainment. He wrestled on the ECW brand using the name David Hart Smith, as a member of The Hart Dynasty, alongside Tyson Kidd and Natalya.

He has wrestled on its Raw brand and in Florida Championship Wrestling under the name DH Smith ("D" for Davey Boy Smith, and "H" for the Hart family). On August 5, 2011, WWE released him from his wrestling contract. He currently holds the PWA World Heavyweight title.

His grandfather is Stu Hart who was a wrestling promoter. His father was Davey Boy Smith. His first public wrestling match was at age 10.  He started wrestling professionally on February 22, 2002 at age 16 and has been continuing since then.

In wrestling
Finishing moves

Camel clutch — 2007–2008
Running powerslam — 2007-present
Saito suplex — 2008-present
Sharpshooter — 2010-present

Signature moves
Arm drag
Big boot
Bulldog Bite (Standing or seated dragon sleeper)
Brainbuster
Elevated Boston crab
Guillotine leg drop
Jackhammer
Multiple suplex variations
Back
Delayed vertical, sometimes from the second rope
German
Northern Lights
Triple belly-to-belly
Powerbomb
Scoop powerslam

With TJ Wilson/Tyson Kidd
Hart Attack

Managers
Diana Hart
Nattie Neidhart / Natalya
Bret Hart

Nicknames
"The Canadian Bulldog"
"Bulldog"

Entrance music
"Rule, Britannia!" (2007)
"New Foundation" by Jim Johnston (2009–2010)
"Attitude" by Chris Goulstone (2010–2011)

References

Hart family members
1985 births
Living people
Canadian professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Calgary
Former WWE wrestlers
Kilwinning

Kilwinning is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. It is known as The Crossroads of Ayrshire.

Towns in North Ayrshire
Lasswade

Lasswade is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, UK. It is between Loanhead and Dalkeith. It merged (joined) with Bonnyrigg in 1929.

Towns in Scotland
Midlothian
East Lothian

East Lothian is a council area in Scotland, UK.

The administrative centre is Haddington.  The largest town is Musselburgh.

Places of interest
Aberlady Bay
Dirleton Castle
Gifford
Hopetoun Monument
Muirfield (Scotland)
North Berwick Harbour
Pencaitland
Torness Nuclear Power Station

Scottish Council Areas
Counties of Scotland
Falkirk Council

The Falkirk council area is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996.

 
1996 establishments in the United Kingdom
1990s establishments in Scotland
Frank Bridge

Frank Bridge (born Brighton, 26 February 1879; died Eastbourne,  10 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.  His music often sounded quite modern to the people of his day.  He wrote many excellent works including chamber music as well as orchestral music.  One of his composition pupils was Benjamin Britten.  Later Britten remembered his teacher by using one of Bridge’s tunes and making them into a piece of music called Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Life
Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903.  One of his teachers was  Charles Villiers Stanford. He played the viola in several string quartets and conducted many orchestras.  He learned difficult music very quickly, and sometimes Henry Wood asked him to take his place when he was not well enough to conduct himself.  After a while he spent most of his time composing. He privately taught several pupils, including Benjamin Britten, who later helped to make his teacher's music better known and honoured him in his Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra (1937), based on a theme from the second of Bridge's Three Idylls for String Quartet (1906). 

Bridge died in Eastbourne.

Music
Bridge’s early works show the influence of Johannes Brahms and Charles Villiers Stanford.  He wrote some excellent chamber music and songs.  The Phantasie Quartet and the String Quartet no 1 show his talent.  His later pieces such as the third (1926) and fourth (1937) string quartets have quite complicated harmonies and show his interest in the music of Schoenberg as well as the harmonies of Maurice Ravel and Alexander Scriabin. His most important orchestral works include The Sea and Summer.  He wrote some lovely chamber music for the cello as well as many songs.  In his later years his harmonies become quite advanced, for example a favourite chord of his can be found by playing a C minor chord and a D major chord together.  In his longer pieces the speed of the music often changes and he avoids repeating himself exactly.  

For a long time after his death his music was hardly ever played, but more recently musicians have discovered the greatness of his compositions.  Pianists like to play the popular piano piece called Rosemary.

20th-century English composers
1879 births
1941 deaths
Violists
Auchtertool

Auchtertool is a village in Fife, Scotland, UK. It is on the B925 Road between Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy.

Villages in Fife
Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath is a town in Fife, Scotland, UK. It is well known for Mossmorran, an oil refinery. It is on the A92 Road. It is home to the local football team Cowdenbeath F.C.

Towns in Fife
Moray

Moray is a council area in Scotland, UK.

Scottish Council Areas
Counties of Scotland
South Ayrshire

South Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland, UK. The largest town is Ayr.

Scottish Council Areas
Angus

Angus is a county on the North Sea and on the northern shore of the Firth of Tay in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Angus is also the name of a council area.

The county town of Angus is Forfar, but its largest town is Dundee. Dundee is not part of the council area but is a council area on its own.

Industry
Angus is also well known for its breed of cattle much used in beef production. The Angus cattle were developed from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeenshire and Angus, and are now found in most parts of the world.