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Per Mertesacker

Per Mertesacker (born 29 September 1984 in Hanover, West Germany) is a German football player. Before that, he played for Hannover. He played for the German national team.

Club career statistics 

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|2003/04||rowspan="3"|Hannover||rowspan="3"|Bundesliga||13||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|-
|2004/05||31||2||4||1||colspan="2"|-||35||3
|-
|2005/06||30||5||3||0||colspan="2"|-||33||5
|-
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||25||2||0||0||10||2||35||4
|-
|2007/08||32||1||3||0||9||0||44||1
|-
|2008/09||23||2||3||1||13||1||39||4
|-
|2009/10||||||||||||||||
154||12||14||2||32||3||200||17
154||12||14||2||32||3||200||17
|}

International career statistics 

|-
|2004||4||0
|-
|2005||14||1
|-
|2006||11||0
|-
|2007||10||0
|-
|2008||13||0
|-
|2009||7||0
|-
|2010||14||0
|-
|2011||6||0
|-
|2012||6||1
|-
|2013||10||2
|-
|2014||9||0
|-
!Total||104||4
|}

References 

1984 births
Living people
German footballers
People from Hanover
Sportspeople from Lower Saxony
Bernd Schneider

Bernd Schneider (born 17 November 1973 in Jena, Germany) is a former German footballer. He played for Germany national team.

Club career

Schneider started his professional career at local Carl Zeiss Jena, going on to help the East German outfit to remain five consecutive seasons in the second division; his debut came on 13 August 1991, playing ten minutes in a 1–3 loss at Darmstadt 98.

Schneider then played one season at Eintracht Frankfurt, subsequently moving to Bayer Leverkusen, and establishing himself as an important player for both club and country. In 1999–2000 and 2001–02, he was helpful in Bayer's 2nd-place finish in the Fußball-Bundesliga. He also appeared 19 times in the side reached the 2002 Champions League Final.

More a creator than a finisher, Schneider scored a career-best ten league goals in the 2003–04 season, making him the highest-scoring midfielder in that year's competition, alongside Johan Micoud; Leverkusen finished third and, during the following season, Schneider extended his contract a few more years.

After two more seasons in which he scored ten goals and achieved 18 assists in 60 matches, Schneider began suffering back-to-back injuries: first the calf, then the back, not appearing for almost the entire 2008–09 season due to the injuries. He only managed to return to action on 16 May 2009, playing the last 20 minutes of a 5–0 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. The following month, he announced his retirement because he could not fully recover from the injuries.

International career statistics

|-
|1999||5||0
|-
|2000||0||0
|-
|2001||2||0
|-
|2002||14||1
|-
|2003||10||0
|-
|2004||14||0
|-
|2005||14||0
|-
|2006||16||2
|-
|2007||5||1
|-
|2008||1||0
|-
!Total||81||4
|}

References

1973 births
Living people
German footballers
People from Jena
Sportspeople from Thuringia
David Odonkor

David Odonkor (born February 21, 1984 in Bünde, Germany) is a German football player. At the moment, he plays for Real Betis Balompié. Until 2006, he was playing for Borussia Dortmund. For the Germany national team he has played 16 matches and made 1 goal.

Club career statistics

|-
|2001/02||rowspan="6"|Borussia Dortmund||rowspan="6"|Bundesliga||2||0
|-
|2002/03||6||0
|-
|2003/04||25||1
|-
|2004/05||7||0
|-
|2005/06||33||1
|-
|2006/07||2||0

|-
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Real Betis Balompié||rowspan="3"|La Liga||13||0
|-
|2007/08||20||1
|-
|2008/09||7||0
|-
|2009/10||Segunda División||||
75||2
40||1
115||3
|}

International career statistics

|-
|2006||10||0
|-
|2007||3||1
|-
|2008||3||0
|-
!Total||16||1
|}

References

1984 births
Living people
German footballers
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
Black Entertainment Television

Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American cable television television network. It is based in Washington, D.C.. The network is targeted toward African-American audiences in the United States. Most of it used to show hip-hop and R&B music videos. Now it shows religious shows, movies, award shows and original television series for African-Americans.

History
BET was founded by Robert L. Johnson on January 25, 1980. The network started out as a two-hour Friday night show on the USA Network each week. It was on from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. (EST). They mostly showed older movies and music videos. In May of that year, BET started showing Black collegiate sporting events. In November 1980, BET added two half-hour shows, Black Showcase and The Bobby Jones Gospel Show. On June 26, 1983, BET started showing Video Soul, a music video series.  On October 1, 1983, BET started broadcasting 24 hours daily with help from Home Box Office.  In the latter years, BET has moved from having a variety of Black entertainment to mostly showing music videos around the clock.

Popular original BET shows 
  Video Soul
 Bobby Jones Gospel
 Lift Every Voice
 106 & Park
 Rap City
 Video Vibrations
 Caribbean Rhythms
 Video LP
 Lead Story
Teen Summit
 College Hill
 Lil Kim: Countdown to Lockdown
 Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is
 DMX: Soul Of A Man
 The Basement
 BET's Top 25
 BET's BlackBuster Movies
 BET's Comic View
 Coming To The Stage
 BET Live
 BET: Uncut
 BET.com Countdown
 BET Style
 Hits From The Street
 Cita's World
 BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley
 BET Tonight with Ed Gordon
 Midnight Love
 Season of the Tiger
 The Black Carpet
 How I'm Livin
 Planet Groove
 American Gangster
 Beef: The Series
 Top 25 Countdown
 Freestyle Friday
 Spring Bling
 Wild Out Wednesday

Other websites 
Official Site
BETJ
BET's Corporate Home (includes historical timeline) 

African-American history
American television networks
Viacom
1980 establishments in the United States
African-American people
CMT (American TV channel)

CMT (Country Music Television) is an American country music cable television channel. Some of the programs on the channel include country music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs.

References

Other websites 

American television channels
Country music
MTV
1983 establishments in the United States
Johnny Carson

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).

Early life and career
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth (Hook) Carson, who was of Irish ancestry. He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at age 14 and he was paid US$3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.

Carson joined the U.S. Navy on June 8, 1943, received V-12 officer training at Columbia University and Millsaps College, and continued to perform magic.

Death
Carson died in West Hollywood, California from respiratory failure caused by emphysema, aged 79.

References

Other websites

Official website for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
 at Salon
 at The New Republic
Tynan, Kenneth. 1978 profile, The New Yorker
The Johnny Carson Show, USA Today
Martin, Steve. Posthumous Letter to Carson, The New York Times
Watch on line either clips from or entire program Johnny Carson King of Late Night - Watch The Full Documentary  pbs.org Includes a page on the making of the documentary.
Episodes and highlights of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson are available on DVD at http://JohnnyCarson.com, on iTunes at http://itunes.com/JohnnyCarson, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/JohnnyCarson
Follow Johnny Carson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JohnnyCarson and Facebook at http://facebook.com/JohnnyCarson.

Obituaries
Obituary at CNN
Obituary  at MSNBC
Wolcott, James. Obituary , Vanity Fair

1925 births
2005 deaths
Actors from Iowa
American television actors
American television talk show hosts
Comedians from Iowa
Deaths from emphysema
Deaths from respiratory failure
Disease-related deaths in the United States
Kennedy Center honorees
Emmy Award winners
Peabody Award winners
TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/heavy metal band. The band was formed in Trondheim in 1982.

Studio albums 
TNT (1982)
Knights of the New Thunder (1984)
Tell No Tales (1987)
Intuition (1989)
Realized Fantasies (1992)
Firefly (1997)
Transistor (1999)
My Religion (2004)
All the Way to the Sun (2005)
The New Territory (2007)
Atlantis (2008)
A Farewell to Arms (2010)

Other websites 
TNT - The Official Site

Norwegian heavy metal bands
Hard rock bands
Glam metal bands
Walther von der Vogelweide

Walther von der Vogelweide (born about 1170; died possibly in Würzburg around 1230) was a famous German poet and composer. He was the greatest of the German Minnesinger. These were people who wrote and sang songs about courtly love. Walther himself may have added “von der Vogelweide” to his name (it means “of the bird meadow”).

The German courtly love songs that had been written at the time were all very similar, but Walther gave these songs new life and made them very beautiful. Unfortunately we do not know any of his music, because he did not write it down. But he wrote his poems down. They are very original, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, often just gently suggesting ideas carefully.

We do not know where Walther was born, but he wrote in a document that he had learned to sing and write poetry in Austria. The dialect he spoke shows that he must have come from Bavaria or Austria. He spent some time at the court of Duke Leopold V of Babenberg in Vienna. This was about 1190. He took part in public singing contests and had long discussions with other people about love and the way it should be written about in poetry.

In about 1198, he left Vienna and spent many years travelling around, visiting courts in Europe, entertaining dukes and princes, and singing his songs. He always wrote the words himself, he never used other poets’ words. That would have made him a simple “Spielmann”, but Walther was of noble birth (he had the title “Herr”). He often spent several weeks or months in a castle where he entertained people, and where he probably also fell in love with one of the ladies. He wrote about these love-affairs in his poetry.

Walther also wrote verses called “Sprüche" ("sayings"). These were about the history of the time. They were a kind of political propaganda and were used in political debates. Walther supported Emperor Otto IV in his arguments against the pope, persuading the emperor to go on the crusade which the pope had forbidden. We do not know whether Walther went with him on the crusade.

By this time Walther had became very famous, not just as a poet and musician but as a kind of political adviser. Walther was the first poet to write national and patriotic poetry. He also wrote a type of love poem which was new in German literature. Unter der Linde is the most famous of these. Here are the first two verses:

Related pages
 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

1170s births
1230s deaths
Medieval composers
German composers
German poets
Medieval poets
Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, poet, screenwriter, short-story writer and wartime fighter pilot.

Roald Dahl was born on 13 September 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales to Norwegian parents. He was educated in England, Llandaff Cathedral School, and then worked in Africa for Shell Oil Company. In the Second World War, he was an RAF fighter pilot. It was after an air-crash and "a monumental bash on the head" that he began to write. The crash was the subject of his first published story, "Shot Down Over Libya".

He wanted to become an adult book writer but ended up as a children's book writer. He had a tragic life since his father and oldest sister both died when he was young. Roald Dahl said that the key to his success rested in sympathizing with children and realizing that to children, parents and school teachers are the enemy.

His stories are full of huge, wild ideas and he hoped they would help children to learn to love books. He is one of the world's most popular children's writers.

Dahl wrote many famous children's stories and adult horror stories. Many of his books and stories have been made into films and TV shows all over the world. Among his most popular books are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, and Kiss Kiss. Many of his children's books have pictures drawn by Quentin Blake.

Dahl was married to Patricia Neal from 1953 until they divorced in 1983. They had four daughters (one of whom died before them) and a son. Dahl was married to Felicity Crosland from 1983 until his death. He lived in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. He died on 23 November 1990 in Oxford, from myelodysplastic syndrome, aged 74.

Model Sophie Dahl is his granddaughter.

There is a Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Great Missenden.

Novels 
 The Gremlins
 Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen
 James and the Giant Peach
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
 Danny the Champion of the World
 The Twits
 George's Marvellous Medicine
 The BFG
 The Witches
 The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
 Matilda
 Esio Trot
 The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
 The Minpins
 Tales Of the Unexpected

Poems 
 Revolting Rhymes
 Dirty Beasts
 Rhyme Stew

Non-Fiction 
 Boy: Tales of Childhood
 Going Solo

References

Other websites 

 

1916 births
1990 deaths
British autobiographers
British children's writers
Deaths from myelodysplastic syndrome
Disease-related deaths in England
Welsh novelists
Writers from Cardiff
Let There Be Rock

Let There Be Rock is a studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released on June 23, 1977.

Track listing 
 Go Down
 Dog Eat Dog
 Let There Be Rock
 Bad Boy Boogie
 Problem Child
 Overdose
 Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
 Whole Lotta Rosie

References

AC/DC albums
1977 albums
Hard rock albums
Blues rock albums
Rock and roll albums
Heavy metal albums
Electrical energy

Electrical energy can refer to several closely related things. It can mean:

 The energy stored in an electric field
 The potential energy of a charged particle in an electric field.
 The energy provided by electricity

In any of these cases, the SI unit of electrical energy is the joule; which is the amount of energy used by a one-watt load, such as a tiny light bulb, drawing power for one second. The unit used by many electrical utility companies is the watt-hour (Wh); which is the amount of energy used by the same one-watt load drawing power for one hour. The kilowatt-hour (kWh), which is 1,000 times larger than a watt-hour, is a useful size for measuring the energy use of households and small businesses. A typical household uses several hundred kilowatt-hours per month. The megawatt-hour (MWh), which is 1,000 times larger than the kilowatt-hour, is used for measuring the energy output of large power plants.

The terms "electrical energy" and "electric power" are frequently used interchangeably. However, in physics, and electrical engineering, "energy" and "power" have different meanings. Power is energy per unit time. The SI unit of power and electricity is the watt. One watt is a joule per second. In other words, the phrases "flow of power," and "consume a quantity of electric power" are both incorrect and should be changed to "flow of energy" and "consume a quantity of electrical energy."

Related pages
 Energy
 Electricity

Electricity
Power (physics)

In physics, power (symbol: P) is how fast work is done or energy is given from one thing to another. In the SI system of measurement, power is measured in watts (symbol: W). 

It may take a certain amount of work to make a change in the world, such as lifting a heavy weight to a higher level. It makes no difference if the weight is lifted slowly or quickly. The same amount of work will have been performed. The difference between a slow lift and a quick lift is that a quick lift requires more power. This means the work can be done in a shorter time if there is more power available.

As a rate of change of work done or the energy of a subsystem, power is:

where
P is power,
W is work, and
t is time.

Power is also equal to force times velocity (or speed).

Power in optics 

In optics, or radiometry, the term power sometimes refers to radiant flux. This is the average rate of energy transport by electromagnetic radiation, measured in watts. But the term "power" is also used to express the ability of a lens or other optical device to focus light. It is measured in dioptres (inverse metres), and is equal to one over the focal length of the optical device.

Physical quantity
Basic physics ideas
Jens Lehmann

Jens Lehmann (born 10 November 1969 in Essen, Germany) is a German football player. He has played for Arsenal since 2003. Lehmann is the goalkeeper of the Germany national team. He has played 61 matches for the national team.

His teams
Jens Lehmann has played for Arsenal joining the team in November 2002. He was an important part of their success during their "Invincibles" season where Arsenal won the title without losing a single game. He has had lots of memories playing for Arsenal but during the 2007-2008 season he got injured and then was replaced by Manuel Almunia after a poor start to the season. He came back on December the 1st from his knee injury. Now Jens has played 1 or 2 games for Germany and now is probably going to quit Arsenal and he is thinking to go to a German team. And now Arsenal have to say another goodbye to their 3rd recent mover.

Jens has just began to play again after his bad injury (knee injury). He played at least a game for Germany on December the 6th 2007. Unfortunantly he let in 3 goals and saved 22 from going in to the goals. Jens now might live in Germany forever because he is leaving Arsenal and moves in July 2008 to Stuttgart.

Club career statistics

|-
|1988/89||rowspan="10"|Schalke||rowspan="3"|2. Bundesliga||13||0||||||||||||||13||0
|-
|1989/90||27||0||||||||||||||27||0
|-
|1990/91||34||0||||||||||||||34||0
|-
|1991/92||rowspan="7"|Bundesliga||37||0||||||||||||||37||0
|-
|1992/93||8||0||||||||||||||8||0
|-
|1993/94||21||0||||||||||||||21||0
|-
|1994/95||34||1||||||||||||||34||1
|-
|1995/96||32||0||||||||||||||32||0
|-
|1996/97||34||0||||||||||||||34||0
|-
|1997/98||34||1||||||||||||||34||1

|-
|1998/99||Milan||Serie A||5||0||||||||||||||5||0

|-
|1998/99||rowspan="5"|Borussia Dortmund||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||13||0||||||||||||||13||0
|-
|1999/00||31||0||||||||||||||31||0
|-
|2000/01||31||0||||||||||||||31||0
|-
|2001/02||30||0||0||0||2||0||11||0||43||0
|-
|2002/03||24||0||0||0||0||0||12||0||36||0

|-
|2003/04||rowspan="5"|Arsenal||rowspan="5"|Premier League||36||0||5||0||0||0||10||0||51||0
|-
|2004/05||28||0||5||0||0||0||7||0||40||0
|-
|2005/06||38||0||0||0||0||0||8||0||46||0
|-
|2006/07||36||0||0||0||0||0||8||0||44||0
|-
|2007/08||7||0||3||0||0||0||3||0||13||0

|-
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Stuttgart||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||34||0||||||||||||||34||0
|-
|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
437||2||0||0||2||0||23||0||462||2
5||0||||||||||||||5||0
145||0||13||0||0||0||36||0||194||0
587||2||13||0||2||0||59||0||661||2
|}

International career statistics

|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||8||0
|-
|2000||2||0
|-
|2001||1||0
|-
|2002||3||0
|-
|2003||0||0
|-
|2004||5||0
|-
|2005||7||0
|-
|2006||14||0
|-
|2007||9||0
|-
|2008||10||0
|-
!Total||61||0
|}

References

1969 births
Living people
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
German association football goalkeepers
Sportspeople from Essen
Karlsruher SC

Karlsruher SC is a German football club in the second division (2. Bundesliga).

 Their team season 2009/10:

Goalkeepers:
 01 Jean-François Kornetzky
 29 Kristian Nicht
 31 Markus Miller

Defences:
 05 Christian Demirtas
 11 Andreas Schäfer
 19 Stefan Buck
 23 Matthias Langkamp
 24 Sebastian Langkamp
 33 Dino Drpic

Middlefields:
 04 Godfried Aduobe
 08 Michael Mutzel
 10 Massimilian Porcello
 21 Gaetan Krebs
 22 Marco Engelhardt
 28 Lars Stindl

Strikers:
 07 Christian Timm
 09 Alexander Iashvili
 14 Anton Fink
 18 Macauley Chrisantus
 30 Niklas Tarvajärvi

Winned Cups:

Championchips:
 German Champion: 1909 (as "Karlsruher FC Phönix") 
 German Second-Champion: 1956 
 Champion in the south of Germany: 1909, 1958, 1960, 1975.

Pokalchampion:
 UI-Cup-Winner: 1996 
 DFB (German football pact) Pokal-Winner: 1955, 1956. 
 DFB (German football pact) Pokal-Winner in the gym: 1995.

Fußball-Bundesliga
German football clubs
Karlsruhe
Sport in Baden-Württemberg
A.C. Milan

A.C. Milan is an Italian football club in Milan.

They were started in 1899 by two Englishmen, Herbet Kilpin and Alfred Edwards after a heavy drinking session in the Fiaschetteria Toscana tavern in Milan.

Herbet Kilpin became the first team coach and captain whilst Alfred Edwards became the first club president.

Their first name was Milan Cricket and Football Club. They have won the Serie A football league 18 times and the Coppa Italia football cup 5 times. They have won more trophies than any Italian club except for Juventus. In the 2005/06 season, they were punished for setting up the results. They started the 2006/07 season with an 8-point deficit, but they managed to end up fourth and win the UEFA Champions League qualification games. A.C.Milan won the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League in the final at Athens versus Liverpool. 2 to 1 was the score for the Italian team.

They play at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, also known as San Siro because Giuseppe Meazza was a star playing for arch rival, Internazionale Milano in Milan.

Name 
 1899-1919 Milan Cricket and Football Club
 1919-1938 Milan Football Club
 1938-1945 Associazione Calcio Milano
 1945-present Associazione Calcio Milan

Honours 

 Serie A : 18
 1901, 1906, 1907, 1950/51, 1954/55, 1956/57, 1958/59, 1961/62, 1967/68, 1978/79, 1987/88, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1995/96, 1998/99, 2003/04, 2010/2011
 Serie B : 2
 1980–81, 1982–83
 Coppa Italia : 5
 1967, 1972, 1973, 1977, 2003
 Supercoppa Italiana : 7  – shared record
 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2005, 2011, 2016
 European Cup / UEFA Champions League : 7
 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup : 2
 1968, 1973
 UEFA Super Cup : 5  – shared record
 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007
 Intercontinental Cup : 3
 1969, 1989, 1990
 Latin Cup : 2
 1951, 1956
 Mitropacup : 1
 1982

League position

Former position

Players

First team squad

Out on loan

Retired numbers 

* Might be restored for one of his two sons, should either of them play professionally for the club.

Coaching staff

Presidents and managers

Presidential history 
Milan has had numerous presidents over the course of its history, some of whom have been owners of the club while others have been honorary presidents. Here is a complete list of them.

Managerial history 
Nereo Rocco, the most successful manager in the history of A.C. Milan with 10 trophies.

Below is a list of Milan coaches from 1900 until the present day.

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Other websites 

 A.C. Milan official website

References 

 
A.C. Milan
Larissa

Larissa () is the capital city of the Thessaly periphery of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. Larissa is found in the north of the Thessaly plain near at the foot of the mountain Olympus. Its population is 131,496 inhabitants. Larissa is crossed by Pineios river. The most interest sight in Larissa is the ancient theater which is located in the center of the city.  

Cities in Greece
Steven Gerrard

Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English retired footballer and football manager who is the current head coach of Premier League club Aston Villa. He was a Liverpool great who spent the majority of his career at Anfield. He wore the number 8, playing from 1997 until 2015. He was also the England captain, for which he wore the number 4. He usually plays as a central midfielder. He played for Los Angeles Galaxy for (2015-2016) in that year 2 full years before retiring at the end of the 2017 season.

Personal life
Gerrard was born in Whiston Hospital but he grew up in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton.
Gerrard was engaged to Alex Curran and they married on 16 June 2007. They have three daughters: Lilly-Ella Gerrard (born on 23 February 2004), Lexie Gerrard (born on 9 May 2006) and Lourdes Gerrard (born on 2 November 2011).

On 1 September 2006, he published his first autobiography, entitled Gerrard: My Autobiography.

Gerrard also started training with his boyhood club on 30 November 2015.

Gerrard also recently started a punditry job on BT Sport Europe.

Gerrard is a talented jazz pianist and achieved grade 8 and an opportunity to study for an ARCM although football took priority. (see Whiston community record.

Club career statistics

|-
|1998/99||rowspan="12"|Liverpool||rowspan="12"|Premier League||12||0||0||0||0||0||1||0||13||0
|-
|1999/00||29||1||2||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||31||1
|-
|2000/01||33||7||4||1||4||0||9||2||50||10
|-
|2001/02||28||3||2||0||0||0||15||1||45||4
|-
|2002/03||34||5||2||0||6||2||11||0||53||7
|-
|2003/04||34||4||3||0||2||0||8||2||47||6
|-
|2004/05||30||7||0||0||3||2||10||4||43||13
|-
|2005/06||32||10||6||4||1||1||12||7||51||22
|-
|2006/07||36||7||1||0||1||1||12||3||50||11
|-
|2007/08||34||11||3||3||2||1||13||6||52||21
|-
|2008/09||31||16||3||1||0||0||10||7||44||24
|-
|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
333||71||26||9||19||7||101||32||484||119
333||71||26||9||19||7||101||32||484||119
|}

International career statistics

|-
|2000||2||0
|-
|2001||6||1
|-
|2002||5||1
|-
|2003||8||1
|-
|2004||10||2
|-
|2005||8||1
|-
|2006||13||4
|-
|2007||11||2
|-
|2008||7||2
|-
|2009||7||2
|-
|2010||12||3
|-
|2012||11||0
|-
|2013||8||2
|-
|2014||6||0
|-
!Total||114||21
|}

References

1980 births
Living people
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
English autobiographers
English footballers
Liverpool F.C. players
Sportspeople from Merseyside
Premier League players
Ikebana

Ikebana (Japanese: 生け花 or いけばな) is the Japanese art of making flower arrangements.  The word "Ikebana" means " to make alive flowers".  People who want to do Ikebana have to learn many things.  It is not just about putting flowers in a vase.  Japanese flower arrangements often have special meanings.

There are many ways in which Ikebana can be taught.  These schools (ways of teaching) include Ikenobo, Sogetsu, Ohara.

Ikenobo is very well known.  Until the Mid-Edo Period it was only for upper class people.  Ikenobo was started by a Buddhist priest called Ikenobo Senkei in the 15th century.  It uses standing flowers (called "rikka").  It is a Buddhist way of showing the beauty of nature.  There are 7 branches.  Each branch represents something in nature, e.g. a hill, valley, waterfall etc.  Later, in the 17th century, it became simpler and was called "shoka".  Shoka uses just 3 branches called "ten" (heaven), "chi" (earth) and "jin" (man).  

Another form of Ikebana is called cha-bana.  It is used in tea ceremony. ikebana is used in homes too. 

Today Ikebana is very popular among all classes of people in Japan.  15 million people in Japan practice Ikebana.

Flowers
Japanese culture
Venom (band)

Venom are a black metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The band was formed in 1979. Venom is considered to be (one of) the first Black Metal bands.

Current members 
 Conrad "Cronos" Lant - bass & vocals
 Rage - guitar
 Antony "Antton" Lant - drums

Former members 
 Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn - Guitar
 Anthony "Abaddon" Bray - Drums
 James Clare - Guitar
 Steve "War Maniac" White - Guitar
 Alisdair Barnes - Guitar
 Clive "Jesus Christ" Archer - Vocals
 Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan - Bass & Vocals
 Alan Winston - Bass
 Mike "Mykvs" Hickey - Guitar

Studio albums 
 Welcome to Hell (1981)
 Black Metal (1982)
 At War with Satan (1984)
 Possessed (1985)
 Calm Before the Storm (1987)
 Prime Evil (1989)
 Temples of Ice (1991)
 The Waste Lands (1992)
 Cast in Stone (1997)
 Resurrection (2000)
 Metal Black (2006)
 Hell (2008)
 Fallen Angels (2011)
 From the Very Depths (2015)
 Storm the Gates (2018)

DVD 
 Live from London

Other websites 
 Official Venom Website
 Venom - From Hell to Cyberspace 

 
Music groups from Newcastle upon Tyne
English heavy metal bands
Thrash metal bands
Black metal bands
English punk bands
Scottsdale, Tasmania

Scottsdale is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It is 63 km northeast of Launceston and 22 km southeast of  town of Bridport. It is part of the Dorset Council.

The area was first surveyed in 1855 and was described as, "the best soil on the island ... well watered, with a mild climate" by surveyor James Scott. The town was named after him. Scottsdale is now a major agricultural centre.

References 

Towns in Tasmania
Torsten Frings

Torsten Frings (born 22 November 1976 in Würselen, Germany) is a German football player. At the moment he playes for the Canadian soccer club Toronto FC. Before his change, he played for the German club Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich (2004 until 2005), Borussia Dortmund (2002 until 2004) and Werder Bremen (1997 until 2002).

He has played for the Germany national team since 2001.

Club career statistics 

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|1994/95||rowspan="3"|Alemannia Aachen||rowspan="3"|Regionalliga||6||0||||||||||||||6||0
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|1995/96||32||12||||||||||||||32||12
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|1996/97||19||1||||||||||||||19||1
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|1996/97||rowspan="6"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="6"|Bundesliga||15||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|1997/98||28||2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||28||2
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|1998/99||23||3||1||0||0||0||8||3||32||6
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|1999/00||33||3||3||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||38||3
|-
|2000/01||30||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||30||1
|-
|2001/02||33||6||1||0||0||0||2||0||36||6
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|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Borussia Dortmund||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||31||6||2||0||1||0||12||2||46||8
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|2003/04||16||4||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||17||4
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|2004/05]||Bayern Munich||Bundesliga||29||3||6||0||2||1||8||1||45||5
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|2005/06||rowspan="5"|Werder Bremen||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||28||3||4||1||2||0||10||1||44||5
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|2006/07||33||1||0||0||2||1||14||2||49||4
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|2007/08||11||1||0||0||1||0||2||0||14||1
|-
|2008/09||30||4||4||1||0||0||5||0||35||3
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|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
397||50||21||2||11||2||61||9||490||63
397||50||21||2||11||2||61||9||490||63
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International career statistics 

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|2001||2||0
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|2002||17||2
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|2003||4||0
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|2004||12||2
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|2005||13||2
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|2006||16||2
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|2007||6||2
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|2008||8||0
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|2009||1||0
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!Total||79||10
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References 

1976 births
Living people
German footballers
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
David Letterman

David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He currently hosts My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman on Netflix.
He hosted the late night television talk show Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. Letterman also hosted Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. In 2013, Letterman surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late-night talk show host in TV history, at 31 years.

Letterman's ironic comedy is similar to comedians such as Andy Kaufman, Ernie Kovacs, and Tonight Show hosts Johnny Carson and Steve Allen.

Early life and career
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman, was a florist of English ancestry; his mother Dorothy Letterman, a church secretary of German ancestry, has been an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.

He lived on the north side of Indianapolis, not far from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He enjoyed collecting model cars, including racers. In 2000, he told an interviewer for Esquire that, while growing up, he admired his father's ability to tell jokes and be the life of the party. Harry Joseph Letterman survived a heart attack at age 36, when David was a young boy. The fear of losing his father was constantly with Letterman as he grew up. The elder Letterman died of a second heart attack at age 57.

References

Other websites

David Letterman's Feb. 24, 1978 appearance on 90 Minutes Live
Official Late Show biography
1999 article on Letterman  from Salon.com

Kennedy Center honorees
Comedians from Indiana
American television talk show hosts
1947 births
Living people
Emmy Award winners
Tidal force

Tidal force is caused by gravity and makes tides happen. This is because the gravitational field changes across the middle of a body (the diameter).

Other websites 
http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/Academics/Astr221/Gravity/tides.html

Force
Astronomical phenomena
Tidal energy

Tidal energy, sometimes called tidal power, is using the energy contained in the nature of islam in tides and open ocean currents for hydroelectricity. 

Tidal energy systems can extract either kinetic energy (energy caused by movement) from the moving water of rivers, tides and open ocean currents; or potential energy from the difference in height (or head) between high and low tides.  The first method - generating energy from tidal currents - is becoming more popular because people believe that it does not harm the environment as much as barrages or dams. Many coastal sites worldwide are being examined to see if they can be used to produce tidal (current) energy. 

Like other hydroelectricity (electricity made using water), tidal power produces lots ofpollution and is not a renewable energy source, because tides are caused by events that happen in the solar system and so will not run out. Tidal power has great potential for future power and electricity generation because of the very large amount of energy contained in these rotational systems. Tidal power is reliably predictable (unlike wind power and solar power). In Europe, tide mills have been used for nearly 1,000 years, mainly for grinding grains.  Modern tide mills provide tidal stream power.

Many things affect tides.  The pull of the Moon is the largest effect, and most of the energy comes from the slowing of the Earth's spin.

Sources 
 Baker, A. C. 1991, Tidal power, Peter Peregrinus Ltd., London.
 Baker, G. C., Wilson E. M., Miller, H., Gibson, R. A. & Ball, M., 1980. 'The Annapolis tidal power pilot project', in Waterpower `79 Proceedings, ed. Anon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, pp 550-559.
 Hammons, T. J. 1993, 'Tidal power', Proceedings of the IEEE, [Online], v81, n3, pp 419-433. Available from: IEEE/IEEE Xplore. [26 July 2004].
 Lecomber, R. 1979, 'The evaluation of tidal power projects', in Tidal Power and Estuary Management, eds. Severn, R. T., Dineley, D. L. & Hawker, L. E., Henry Ling Ltd., Dorchester, pp 31-39.

Water
Hydropower
Evangeline Lilly

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress. She is well known for her role as Katherine "Kate" Austen on the television show Lost.

Personal life 
Evangeline was once married to Canadian hockey player Murray Hone. She also dated Dominic Monaghan, who was also on Lost. The two broke up in 2007.

Her nicknames include "Evi" and "Monkey". The other actors on Lost gave her the name "Monkey" because she can climb trees easily, a skill that her character Kate also has. Lost-actor Josh Holloway also calls her "Freckles", sharing the nickname his character Sawyer gave her.

Awards 
Nominated for a 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. (Lost)
Nominated for a 2007 Saturn Award for Best Actress on a Television Series. (Lost)

References

Other websites 

1979 births
Actors from Alberta
Canadian television actors
Living people
View

A view is what can be seen in somebody's vision. A view can also be a very scenic image. It can also be someone's opinion on something or how they look at something.

There are many types of views.

 Panoramas
 Eye vision
 Photograph
 Camera
 God's eye view
 Point of view

Related pages
Sight
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view

Basic English 850 words
Greystones

Greystones () is a coastal town in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is on Ireland’s east coast,  south of Bray and  south of Dublin (it is within the Greater Dublin Area), with 15,000 people living in the region.

Other websites 
 Greystones Community Notice Board 
 Greystones Online Magazine

Towns in Ireland
County Wicklow
Courtly love

Courtly love is a special idea of love that people had in Europe in the Middle Ages.  The word "court" means the courts where princes or dukes lived.  Courtly love is usually when a young man, who may be a peasant or even a simple King, falls in love with a rich lady and tries to make himself worthy of her by doing brave things or by singing beautiful love songs.

The idea of courtly love can be found in a lot of literature e.g. in works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante, Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide,  Wolfram von Eschenbach, Malory and William Shakespeare.

Related pages
Troubadour
Minstrel

Middle Ages
Poetry
Royal court

A royal court or noble court is the household of a royal family—including its advisors and attendents. The building is often called a palace, but the "royal court" means not just the buildings but all the royal household (all the people who live and work there). Someone who has a rank in a royal court is called a court official or courtier. A royal court can also include the wives and concubines of the ruler.

It is called a court because in early times the palace would have a court (an enclosed space) at the front.

In history there were great rulers who held important courts, e.g. Charlemagne.

A famous example is Hampton Court on the river Thames in London where Henry VIII had his court.  Today the Queen holds court at Buckingham Palace.

Related pages
court – the court of law where legal decisions are made
Chris Gueffroy

Chris Gueffroy (21 June 1968 in Pasewalk – 6 February 1989 in Berlin) was the last person to be killed by border troops while trying to escape across the Berlin Wall.

Gueffroy and his friend Christian Gaudian tried to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin on the night of 5 to 6 February 1989. They tried to cross near the Britz district canal.

Gueffroy and Gaudian thought that the Schießbefehl, the order to shoot anyone who attempted to cross the wall, had been stopped. Climbing the last metal fence, the two were seen and shot at by the National People's Army (NVA) border troops. Gueffroy was hit in the chest by ten shots and died in the border strip.

Gaudian was badly injured, and was arrested and was sentenced on 24 May 1989 to imprisonment for three years by the Pankow district court for trying illegally to cross the border ("versuchten ungesetzlichen Grenzübertritts im schweren Fall").

In September 1989 Gaudian was freed on bail by the East German government and on 17 October 1989 he was transferred to West Berlin.

The four border guards at first got an award (Leistungsabzeichen der Grenztruppen) from the chief of the local border guards, Erich Wöllner, and a prize of 150 East German Marks each. After the reunification of East and West Germany, they were prosecuted by Berlin regional court. Two of them were released in January 1992. Ingo Heinrich, who fired the shot that killed Gueffroey was sentenced to three and a half years in jail. The Bundesgerichtshof reduced the penalty to a suspended sentence of two years in 1994.

In 2000, two SED officials, Siegfried Lorenz and Hans-Joachim Böhme, were tried for the death of Gueffroy and two other young men, but acquitted as the judge could find no evidence that they might have been able to lift the shoot-to-kill order. The case was retried on 7 August 2004, and the two men were found guilty and given suspended sentences of 15 months each. The judge explained that the short sentences were due to the length of time since the events. This was the last case concerning deaths on the inner German border.

On 21 June 2003, which would have been his 35th birthday, a monument to Gueffroy was built on the banks of the Britz district canal. The monument was designed by Berlin artist Karl Biedermann.

Other websites 

1968 births
1989 deaths
Berlin Wall
Deaths by firearm in Germany
East German people
People from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Casey Kasem

Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem; April 27, 1932– June 15, 2014) was an American radio personality, music historian, actor, and voice artist. He is known for his many voice roles in cartoons and for being a public radio personality.

Early life
Kasem was born Kemal Amin Kasem in Detroit, Michigan, on April 27, 1932, to Lebanese immigrant parents. They settled in Michigan, where they worked as grocers. Kasem graduated from Northwestern High School in Detroit and Wayne State University.

Career
Kasem's career began in the radio business in the 1950s in Flint, Michigan. He then made his first movie appearance in Easy Rider in 1967.

He was the host of the weekly American Top 40 radio show from 1970 to 1988, and again from March 1998 until January 10, 2004. Ryan Seacrest is now the host. Kasem is the host of two weekly radio shows, American Top 20 with Casey Kasem and American Top 10 with Casey Kasem.

Kasem did the voice of many advertisements, has done many voices for Sesame Street, and is the voice of 'Shaggy' for the animated television show Scooby-Doo.

Kasem retired in 2009 because of old age and health concerns.

Personal life
Kasem married Linda Myers in 1972. The couple had three children. Kasem then married Jean Thompson in 1980. The couple had one child. Kasem lived in Washington state.

Kasem was a Democrat. He narrated television ads for 1972 president candidate George McGovern's campaign.

Disappearance
On May 12, 2014, Kasem was declared missing by a Los Angeles court judge ordered an investigation for his whereabouts. Soon after, Kasem was found alive in Washington state.

Health
Kasem suffered from Parkinson's disease and an early form of dementia.

On June 6, 2014, Kasem was in critical but stable condition at a hospital in Washington state hospital, receiving antibiotic treatment from blood pressure and bedsores. He also suffered from Lewy body disease, the most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's and was bed-ridden.

Death
Kasem died in Gig Harbor, Washington from complications of dementia and sepsis, aged 82. On August 14 it was reported in the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang that Kasem was going to be buried in Oslo. The funeral administration of Oslo, Norway confirmed that Kasem was buried at Vestre Gravlund in Oslo on December 16, 2014.

References

Further reading
 Durkee, Rob. American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century, Schriner Books, New York, 1999. 
 Battistini, Pete. "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970s)", Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005.

Other websites
 Kasem entry at the National Broadcaster's Hall of Fame 
 

1932 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from dementia with Lewy bodies
Deaths from sepsis
Actors from Detroit, Michigan
American movie actors
American radio actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Democrats (United States)
National Radio Hall of Fame inductees
People with Parkinson's disease
VfR Mannheim

VfR Mannheim a German football team. It is in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club was formed in 1911.

Other websites 
Official team site

1911 establishments in Europe
German football clubs
Mannheim
Sport in Baden-Württemberg
1910s establishments in Germany
SV Waldhof Mannheim

SV Waldhof Mannheim is a German football club. It is in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club was founded 1907. The club today has over 2,400 people. The team plays in the Regionalliga Süd the 4th German Football division.

Other websites 
Official website

German football clubs
Mannheim
Sport in Baden-Württemberg
Popular science

If a book or a TV show is about science, and is made easy so everyone can understand, then it is popular science.  It is popular because it is made for the whole population, not just for scientists.  Nature documentaries  are examples of popular science.

Popular science is non-fiction, so it is not the same as science fiction. Popular science is also not the same as Science journalism. Science journalism is what journalists write to report the newest theories and discoveries made in science, but popular science is not always about what is newest.

Some famous people who make popular science are David Attenborough, Isaac Asimov, Jacob Bronowski, Arthur C. Clarke, Martin Gardner, J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, and Carl Sagan.

Popular science and scientific literature
When scientists write about their work, first they publish in scientific journals such as Nature and Science. Then they may write books. The purpose of popular science is to show scientific literature in a way that different types of scientists, and people who are not scientists, will easily understand. When people take an idea from scientific literature and change it into popular science, important things about that idea may be left out or added in.

Popular science is a bridge between the literature written for scientists, and the realms of popular writing which ordinary people use. The goal of the genre is to capture the methods and accuracy of science, while making the language more accessible.

Popular science has its problems. Some popular science is made by people who do not understand the subject well. Some is made by people who have a strong bias. Some is part science and part pseudoscience. It can be hard for someone who is not an expert to tell which works of popular science are reliable. Museums, television programs and websites are also in the business of communicating science to the wider public. Not all of these are reliable. The oldest institution devoted to link science to the public may be the Gresham College, which was founded in 1597 in London. It was not entirely devoted to science. The Royal Institution in London has similar aims, and is devoted to science. It was founded in 1799. Both of these institutions have always given lectures by experts to the general public.

References 

Science
Literature
Communication
Lullaby

A lullaby is a song which is sung to help a baby or small child go to sleep. Composers of classical music often wrote pieces for instruments to play (very often for piano solo) which they called "lullaby". They also used the French word Berceuse. Brahms wrote his famous Wiegenlied originally for a young singer, Bertha Faber, when she gave birth to her second son.

Lullabies always have a gentle, rocking rhythm with a simple accompaniment. Frédéric Chopin's Berceuse is a lullaby for piano. Gabriel Fauré wrote one at the beginning of his Dolly Suite for piano duet. There are many other examples. 

Mothers sing lullabies to their children at bedtime. Rock-a-bye Baby and Hush Little Baby are two very well-known lullabies.

There is an example of lullaby:

Rock-a-bye baby

On the tree tops,When the wind blows

The cradle will rock.

When the bough breaks

The cradle will fall,

And down will come baby

Cradle and all.

Song forms
Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal is the biggest island in the Solomon Islands. During World War II, there was a battle there between the Americans and the Japanese.

Related pages
Guadalcanal Campaign

Other websites 
 WW2DB: Guadalcanal Campaign

Solomon Islands
1. FC Eintracht Bamberg

1. FC Eintracht Bamberg is a football team in Bamberg, Upper Franconia Germany. In 1946 they were called 1. FC Bamberg and were in the "first Division". Now they play in the "Fourth Division", Regionalliga Bayern, with the new name, F.C. Eintracht Bamberg.

Bamberg
German football clubs
Sport in Bavaria
FSV Frankfurt

FSV Frankfurt is the second best football team in Frankfurt, Germany  after Eintracht Frankfurt. In the season 2007/08 it became champion of the Regionalliga Süd. Since 2008 FSV Frankfurt plays in the 2. Bundesliga.

Other websites
 FSV-Blog of Frankfurter Rundschau

Frankfurt
German football clubs
Sport in Hesse
1899 establishments in Germany