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Petermann Ranges

The Petermann Ranges is a mountain range in central Australia. It spreads about  across the border between Western Australia and the southwest corner of the Northern Territory. The highest point is  above sea level. The ranges were formed about 550 million years ago, in an event called the Petermann Orogeny. They are made mostly of granite, sandstone and quartzite. The greater Petermann Ranges consist of several sections of ridges and hills. In the Northern Territory, these sections include the Dean, Mannanana, Ilyaralona, Curdie and Piultarana Ranges, the Pottoyu Hills, and several isolated mountains. In Western Australia, it includes the Hope and Dean Ranges.

The Petermann Ranges were given their name by the explorer Ernest Giles, who travelled through the area during March 1874.

The area is considered biologically important for Australia. An indigenous protected area, the Katiti-Petermann Indigenous Protected Area, has been proposed to conserve the ranges' ecosystem.

References

Mountain ranges of Australia
Mountains of the Northern Territory
Geography of Western Australia
Battle of Qingshanli

Battle of Qingshanli(, ) was a battle for the independence of Korea. The battle took place in Manchuria. In October 21 to October 28 1920 a confrontation between Kim Jwa-jin and Hong Pom-do, Lee Pom-seoks 4,000 Korean independence militia and some Japanese suppression regiment about 30,000 peoples.

References

Bibliography 
JACAR Ref.C03022770200, Chōsengun Shireibu (朝鮮軍司令部): Kantō shuppeishi (間島出兵史)
Sasaki Harutaka (佐々木春隆): Kankoku dokuritsu undōshi jō no "Seizanri taisen" kō (韓国独立運動史上の「青山里大戦」考), Gunji shigaku (軍事史学), Vol.15 No. 3, pp. 22–34, 1979.
Sasaki Harutaka (佐々木春隆): Chōsen sensō zenshi to shite no Kankoku dokuritsu undō no kenkyū (朝鮮戦争前史としての韓国独立運動の研究), 1985.

1920
History of Korea
1920s in Japan
Battles
October events
Peyote

The peyote is either of two species of the cactus genus Lophophora of plants in the family Cactaceae.

The most common plant, L. williamsii, grow in North America, mostly in Mexico, can be found in the Chihuahuan desert of southern Texas and northern Mexico. The size is about eight centimeters (three inches) wide and five centimeters (two inches) tall. It is mostly blue green in color, with pink to white flowers, growing in groups among scrub, in areas with limestone soil. L. diffusa grows only in a small area in central Mexico, the color is yellow green, with white to yellow flowers.

Peyote has hallucinogenic effects, made by at least 28 different alkaloids, mostly mescaline. In many countries it is illegal to sell, use or posses both dried plant-material and living plants, but some places also give an exception from the law when used in religious rituals, such as by The Native American Church where it is used in a similar way as some Native American tribes, that likely have used peyote for at least 5,500 years. in their rituals.

References 

Cactaceae
Illegal drugs
Everard Ranges

The Everard Ranges is a mountain range in northern South Australia. It consists of low rounded granite hills, topped with bare rock. The rock is from the Palaeocene period, between 20 and 60 million years ago. The range is segmented, with several monoliths and bornhardts separated from the hills by valleys. The valleys are filled with scrub, and the range is surrounded by Tertiary plains. The plains around it are about 550 metres above sea level.

The Everard Ranges are part of the traditional homeland of the Yankunytjatjara people. However, today most of the people living in and around the area are Pitjantjatjara. There are several caves and overhangs with Aboriginal rock paintings. The community of Mimili is located in the east of the range, about 22 km east of the centre.

The Everard Ranges were named by Ernest Giles after Everard Park, a large cattle station that covered the eastern part of the range (it is now the community of Mimili).

Other websites
Caring for country in South Australia's Everard Ranges 

Mountain ranges of Australia
Mountains of South Australia
Basedow Range

The Basedow Range is a mountain range in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is located on the northern side of the Lasseter Highway, in the section between the Luritja and Stuart Highways. The range consists of two ridges of deformed sedimentary rock. The western ridge makes up most of the range's mass, and is about 12 km long. A small gap separates it from the eastern ridge, which is about 5 km long and much lower in height. The highest peak is Mount Ebenezer (702 m), which is located near the east end of the western ridge.

The Basedow Range is about 204 km south of Alice Springs. It is entirely within the property of the Mount Ebenezer cattle station. The community of Imaṉpa is at the base of Mount Ebenezer on its southern side. To the west of the range is the Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area.

The Basedow Range was named by the explorer W. H. Tietkens when he reached the area on 19 July 1889. He named it after Martin P. F. Basedow, a German politician from Adelaide.

References

Mountain ranges of Australia
Mountains of the Northern Territory
Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnula Flanagan (December 10, 1941) is an Irish actress who works mostly in movies and television. She has also acted on stage, and is also a political activist. Flanagan was born in Dublin, Ireland.

Other websites

Irish movie actors
1941 births
Living people
Irish actors
Susan Anton

Susan Anton (born 12 October 1950) is an American actress and beauty contestant. She began her acting career with commercials on television. She later started acting for television. Before that, she was Miss California in 1969 Miss America Pageants. Anton was born in California.

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American television actors
Actors from San Bernardino, California
1950 births
Living people
Pocket God

Pocket God is a video game application for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. It is a game containing small people that live on an island. The gamer can put the islanders through tasks and games.

2009 video games
Mobile games
First Mexican Empire

The Mexican Empire () was the official name of independent Mexico. It was a monarchy from 1821 to 1823, when the Emperor came into conflict with Congress. The territory of the Mexican Empire included New Spain and the former Captaincy General of Guatemala. Mexico then declared itself a republic. However, it reverted to a monarchy during the Second Mexican Empire of Maximilian I of Mexico.

19th century in Mexico
1821 establishments in North America
1820s disestablishments in North America
1823 disestablishments
1820s in North America
Daniela Mercury

Daniela Mercuri de Almeida (born July 28, 1965), known by her stage name Daniela Mercury, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer. She is one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide.

Early life
Mercury was born on July 28, 1965, in Salvador, Bahia. Her mother is Liliana Mercuri, a social worker of Italian descent. Her father is António Fernando de Abreu Ferreira de Almeida, a Portuguese-born industrial mechanic. Her four siblings include Tom, Cristiana, Vânia, and Marcos. She attended both the Ana Néri School and the Colégio Baiano.

When Mercury was eight years old, she began taking dance lessons,. At age 13, influenced by Elis Regina, she decided to become a singer. She started singing in local bars in 1980. Mercury went to the Universidade Federal da Bahia, where she enrolled in the Dance School in 1984. A year later she married electronic engineer Zalther Póvoas. She has two children in this marriage, Gabriel Almeida Póvoas. and Giovana Almeida Póvoas born in 1985 and 1986 respectively.

Discography

Studio albums
 Daniela Mercury
 O Canto da Cidade
 Música de Rua
 Feijão com Arroz
 Sol da Liberdade
 Sou de Qualquer Lugar
 Carnaval Eletrônico
 Balé Mulato
 Canibália

Live albums
 Elétrica
 MTV ao Vivo – Eletrodoméstico
 Clássica
 Balé Mulato – Ao Vivo
 Canibália: Ritmos do Brasil

Compilations albums
 Swing Tropical - Grandes Êxitos
 20 Grandes Êxitos
 XXI - Vinte um Grandes Êxitos
 The Very Best Gold
 O Canto da Cidade - 15 Anos

Concert tours
 Canibália

Videography

References

1965 births
Brazilian singers
Living people
People from Salvador, Bahia
Bisexual people
Yarkon Park

Yarkon Park (, ) is a national park in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is also a very big public urban park in the north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. The park is also called the Joshua Gardens () after the 7th mayor of Tel Aviv, Yehoshua Rabinovitz. The park extends along the Yarkon River until the river's mouth next to the Yarkon River Peninsula, where it flows into the Mediterranean Sea near to the Reading Power Station. It finishes in Petah Tikva. The largest part of the park runs along the cities of Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. The river finishes near to Rosh HaAyin in the Yarkon National Garden. The park has many facilities, such as sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and artificial lakes. The Ayalon River flows into the Yarkon River in the park after coming from a channel inside Road 20.

Sites in the park 
 Tel Aviv Port
 National Sport Center – Tel Aviv

Other websites 

 Yarkon National Park at the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority 
 Yarkon Park 

Tel Aviv
Parks in Israel
Salvador

Salvador (meaning "saviour" in Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese) may refer to:

People

Given name
 Salvador Allende (1908−1973), deposed president of Chile
 Salvador Bacarisse (1898−1963), Spanish composer
 Salva Ballesta (born 1975), Spanish footballer
 Salvador Dalí (1904−1989), Spanish surrealist painter
 Salvador Espriu (1913−1985), Spanish poet
 Salvador Gómez (water polo) (born 1968), Spanish water polo player
 Salvador Gonzáles Escalona (born 1948), Cuban artist
 Salvador González Marco (born 1963), Spanish footballer
 Salvador Laurel (1928−2004), Philippine politician
 Salvador Luria (1912−1991), Italian-American scientist
 Salvador de Madariaga (1886−1978), Spanish writer
 Salvador Novo (1904−1974), Mexican writer
 Salvador Pineda (born 1952), Mexican actor
 Salvador Puig Antich (1948−1974), Spanish anarchist executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco
 Salvador Sánchez (1959−1982), Mexican boxer

Family name
 António Salvador (athlete) (born 1966), Portuguese long-distance runner
 Bryce Salvador (born 1976), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
 Francis Salvador (1747−1776), Jewish-American patriot
 Gregorio Salvador Caja (born 1927), Spanish linguist
 Henri Salvador (1917−2008), French singer and jazz guitarist
 Joseph Salvador (1716−1786), head of the British East India Company, leader of the Sephardic community in Great Britain, and great-grandfather of Francis Salvador
 Dr. Salvador, fictional character in Resident Evil 4

Places

Argentina
 Salvador Mazza, Salta, a city in the province of Salta
 Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a Jesuit university in Buenos Aires

Brazil
 Salvador, Bahia, a municipality in the State of Bahia

El Salvador
 El Salvador, a Central American country
 San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador

Paraguay
 Tevego, known as Villa del Divino Salvador in 1843, a settlement in the Concepción Department

Philippines
 El Salvador, Misamis Oriental, a city in the province of Misamis Oriental
 Salvador, Lanao del Norte, a municipality in the province of Lanao del Norte
 Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, a municipality in the province of Negros Occidental

United States
 Lake Salvador, a lake in the State of Louisiana
 Salvador, California, an unincorporated community in Napa County, California

United Kingdom
 Salvador Settlement, a community in the Falkland Islands
Elis Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (; Porto Alegre, March 17, 1945 – São Paulo, January 19, 1982) was a Brazilian singer. She is hailed as the best Brazilian singer of all times by many critics, musicians, and commentators.

Discography
1961: Viva a Brotolândia  
1962: Poema de Amor
1963: O Bem do Amor
1963: Ellis Regina  
1965: Dois na Bossa
1965: O Fino do Fino   – Elis & Zimbo Trio1965: Samba, Eu Canto Assim!1966: Dois na Bossa nº21966: Elis1967: Dois na Bossa nº31968: Elis Especial1969: Elis, Como & Porque1969: Elis Regina in London1969: Aquarela do Brasil  – Elis Regina & Toots Thielemans1970: Em Pleno Verão1970: Elis no Teatro da Praia com Miele & Bôscoli1971: Ela1972: Elis1973: Elis - no 21973: Elis1974: Elis1974: Elis & Tom1976: Falso Brilhante1977: Elis1978: Transversal do Tempo  (live)
1979: Essa Mulher1979: Elis Especial1980: Saudades do Brasil1980: Elis1982: Montreux Jazz Festival1982: Trem Azul 
1983: Vento de Maio (compilation)
1984: Luz das Estrelas1987: Personalidade1994: Elis Regina no Fino da Bossa  (live)
1994: Dose Dupla-Elis Regina  
1995: Elis ao Vivo  (live)
2001: Sucessos Inesquecíveis de Elis Regina  (compilation)
2002: 20 Anos de Saudade  (compilation)
2004: Little Pepper: The Definitive Collection (compilation)
2005: Elis Regina: MPB Especial 1973   
2006: Elis Regina Carvalho Costa  
2006: Elis full color 3 DVD box set 
2006: Por toda a minha vida   
2006: Pérolas Raras2012: Um Dia''

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1945 births
1982 deaths
Brazilian singers
People from Porto Alegre
Gloria Trevi

Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz on February 15, 1968) is a Mexican pop-rock singer-songwriter.  Called the "Supreme Diva of Mexican Pop" by the music channel VH1, Trevi has sold more than 20 million records.

Discography

Studio albums

 Tu Ángel de la Guarda literally means "Your guardian angel" but contains the idiomatic expression for "condom".
 Más Turbada Que Nunca literally means "More crazy than ever" but is a sexual reference to the word "Masturbated"

Live albums

Singles (U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs)

Recompiled albums 
 1993: Cántalo tú mismo (BMG Ariola)
 1997: ¡De pelos! Lo mejor de la Trevi (BMG Ariola)
 1999: No soy monedita de oro (BMG Ariola) (I am not a gold digger)
 2008: Una Rosa Blu (Deluxe Edition) (Universal)
 2009: Lo escencial de Gloria Trevi (Sony Music)
 2009: 6 Super Hits (Universal)

Filmography
 Pelo Suelto
 Zapatos Viejos
 La Papa Sin Catsup

References

Other websites 

 Official website

1968 births
Living people
Mexican singers
Mexican television presenters
People from Monterrey
Eutrophication

Eutrophication is what a water-based ecosystem does when too many nutrients are added to it. Eutrophication is mainly caused by two nutrients, phosphorus and nitrogen. These are normally brought to aquatic ecosystems as runoff from fertilized agricultural areas, erosion from river banks, river beds, clearing of land (deforestation), or sewage that ends up in aquatic environments. The major consequence of eutrophication are algal blooms. 

Water pollution
Environmental chemistry
Ecology
Ariel Sharon Park

Ariel Sharon Park (also called: Ayalon Park) is a big public urban park that is planned to be built in the south of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, around some of the floodplains of the Ayalon River. The Azor River and the Kofer River are connected to the river in the park area. Road 1 and Road 44 run through the planned area of the park. The park is planned to be opened in the year 2020 in southern Tel Aviv and also between the cities of Holon, Azor and Ramat Gan. The park is planned to be connected to the Menachem Begin Park (South Park) in southern Tel Aviv and the Mikveh Israel agricultural school in Holon. the park is going to be one of the largest park in Israel and one of the largest in the Middle East.

There are already trails for bicycles in the park.

The park is named after the former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.

Old Bnei Brak 
In the area of the park is the Old City of Bnei Brak, which is mentioned in the Haggadah book in the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Recycling park 
Between the years 1952 and 1998, the area was used a garbage dump called Hiriya. In 2002, the Israeli governmant decided to rehabilitate the site and build a big park around the dump with a recycling center. In 2004, a German landscape architect won the job for the new design of the site. In 2007, the Ecological Study Center opened in the recycling park. In 2010, the recycling park won a prize from the European Center of Architecture in the category of "Landscape Architecture" for the best green design for that year.

Other websites  

  Ariel Sharon Park  
 Hiriya website 
 Removing Hiriya Garbage Dump, a Test Case

Tel Aviv
Parks in Israel
Siri (given name)

Siri is a Scandinavian girl's name. It is a short form of Sigrid and has been widely used since the mediaeval age. It is derived from Old Norse sigr, which means victory, and frídr, which means beautiful.

References

Names
United Fruit Company

The United Fruit Company was an American corporation. It dealt with tropical fruits, especially bananas. These fruits were grown on Central and South American plantations. They were sold in the United States and Europe. The company was created in 1899 from Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It grew in the early and mid-20th century. It controlled vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. It competed with the Standard Fruit Company in the international banana trade. 

It maintained a monopoly in certain regions that came to be called banana republics.

It had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economy and politics of many Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of neocolonialism. They described it as the example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of countries. After a period of financial decline, United Fruit merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970 to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International.

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Growth hormone

Growth hormone (GH or HGH), also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a hormone responsible for growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. It is specific only to certain kinds of cells.

Human growth hormone 
Growth hormone is used as a prescription drug in medicine to treat children's and adults growth disorders. In the United States, it is only available legally by prescription from a doctor. HGH is a very complex hormone, and many of its functions are still unknown.

Synthetic human growth hormone  was developed in 1985 and approved by the FDA for specific uses in children and adults. In children, HGH injections are approved for treating short stature of unknown cause as well as poor growth due to a number of medical causes, including:
 Turner's syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects a girl's development
 Prader-Willi syndrome, an uncommon genetic disorder causing poor muscle tone, low levels of sex hormones, and a constant feeling of hunger
 Chronic kidney disease
 HGH deficiency or insufficiency
 Children born small for gestational age

Related pages
List of chemicals in doping cases in sport

References

Hormones
Area code 649

Area code 649 is the local telephone area code of Turks and Caicos Islands. The 649 area code was created during a split from the original Area code 809 area code, which was done in or around May 1997.

Like many Caribbean countries Turks and Caicos Islands uses +1 followed by the area code as the international direct dial phone code.

When in Turks and Caicos Islands, use the seven digits alone. To call from anywhere within North America (the United States, Canada, etc.), simply dial 1(869) followed by the phone number.

Other website
North American Numbering Plan Administrator

Turks and Caicos Islands
Area codes
Azkaban

Azkaban is the jail of wizards in the fiction fantasy series by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.  It holds most of the Death Eaters in prison. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling described Azkaban as "Cold, dark, and all your greatest memories you can't remember, and all you can think about are your worst." Dementors are the guards of Azkaban.

Fictional buildings and structures
Harry Potter
Wix.com

Wix.com is a freemium online platform that allows users to create websites and Facebook pages.
It competes with Webs, Weebly, Yola and other web hosting and creation sites.

History   
Wix was created in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. The company is located in Tel Aviv, with offices in San Francisco, New York City and Dnepropetrovsk. It is funded by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital.
It entered open-beta in 2008.

References

Websites established in 2006
Kandyan jewellery

Kandyan jewellery comes from Ceylon or Sri Lanka. The Kandyan Kingdom disappeared in 1815 but some jewellery and designs are still being used by Kandyan families today.

Kandyan jewellery is handmade and was originally designed for the royal families. It is a symbol of wealth, solidarity and strength. It is worn by women of royal or noble births and not women of lower castes.
Bridal pieces are the most important pieces of Kandyan jewellery. They are handmade and consist of 26 pieces of jewellery that will be worn by the bride.

References

Jewelry
Sri Lanka
Pinterest

Pinterest is an internet photo sharing and publishing service that allows users to "Pin" pictures they like and upload their own recommendations to their "pinboards". Users can visit other pinboards, 're-pin' images to their own pinboards, or 'like' photos. The site was created by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. The site is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and inventors. Pinterest has a large female userbase.  Pinterest has many different categories, it can range from fashion, recipes, home improvement to quotes, health, and beauty.

References

2010 establishments in the United States
2010s establishments in California
Companies based in San Francisco
Websites
Milo O'Shea

Milo O'Shea (2 June 1926 – 2 April 2013) was an Irish-American actor and personality. He was known for his role as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.

Early life
O'Shea was born on 2 June 1926 in Dublin, Irish Free State. He studied at Synge Street. O'Shea was married to Maureen Toal from 1952 until they divorced in 1974. Then he was married to Kitty Sullivan until his death in 2013.

Career
O'Shea starred as Leopold Bloom in Joseph Strick's 1967 movie version of Ulysses. Among his other well-known movie roles in the 1960s were as the well-intentioned Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand (who tries to kill Jane Fonda's character by making her literally die of pleasure) in Roger Vadim's classic Barbarella (both movies were released in 1968). In 1984, O'Shea reprised his role as Dr. Durand Durand (credited as Dr. Duran Duran) for the Duran Duran concert movie Arena, since his character inspired the band's name. He played Inspector Boot in the 1973 Vincent Price horror movie Theatre of Blood.

Later career
He was active in American movies and TV shows, such as his memorable supporting role as the trial judge in the Sidney Lumet's The Verdict with Paul Newman, an episode of The Golden Girls in 1987, and portraying Chief Justice of the United States Roy Ashland in the TV series The West Wing. In 1992, O'Shea guest starred in the Season 10 finale of the sitcom Cheers, and, in 1995, in an episode of the show's spin-off Frasier. He appeared in the pilot episode of Early Edition as Sherman.

Personal life and death
He had two sons with Toal, Colm and Steven. He lived in New York City, New York and became a United States citizen. O'Shea died on 2 April 2013 from an short-illness in Manhattan, New York, aged 86.

References

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2013 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Irish movie actors
Irish television actors
Irish stage actors
Irish radio actors
Irish voice actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
American voice actors
American television personalities
Actors from Dublin
Jesús Franco

Jesús "Jess" Franco (Jesús Franco Manera; 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish movie director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actor. His directing career began with the 1961 movie The Awful Dr. Orloff. He was known for his more than 160 movies including Necronomicon (1967), A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971) and two Christopher Lee movies, The Bloody Judge and Count Dracula. Many of his films were pornographic in nature, and most of them were never dubbed in English.

Franco was born on 12 May 1930 in Madrid, Spain. He was married to Nicole Guettard from 1962 to 1980, and to Lina Romay from 2008 until his death 2013. He had no children.  Franco died on 2 April 2013 in a hospital in Málaga, Spain from a stroke, aged 82.

References

Other websites

 
 http://www.santoandfriends.com (Hispanic horror film index)

1930 births
2013 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Spain
Cinematographers
Deaths from stroke
Entertainers from Madrid
Movie editors
Spanish movie actors
Spanish movie directors
Spanish movie producers
Spanish screenwriters
Notting Hill (movie)

Notting Hill is a 1999 British-American romantic comedy-drama movie. It is set in Notting Hill, west London. It was written by Richard Curtis. It stars Julia Roberts as Hollywood actress Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as book shop owner Will Thacker.

Other websites 

1999 comedy-drama movies
1999 romance movies
1990s romantic comedy movies
1990s romantic drama movies
American comedy-drama movies
American romantic comedy movies
American romantic drama movies
British comedy-drama movies
British romantic comedy movies
British romantic drama movies
English-language movies
Movies set in London
Notting Hill
Movies directed by Roger Michell
Virtual private server

A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine (something like a computer divided into many smaller machines using special software). They are often used by Internet hosting providers. Multiple VPS's run on the same machine, but they are separated as they will only share hardware resources without interfering on software level. A VPS is dedicated to the customer's needs, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can run server software. There are many platforms that can run a VPS. Some of them are VMWare and Xen.

References

Servers
Computer networking
Donkey Kong Country Returns

Donkey Kong Country Returns is a platform video game for the Nintendo Wii game console. It was made by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on November 21, 2010, in Australia on December 2, 2010, in Europe on December 3, 2010, and in Japan on December 9, 2010. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong Country series since Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! in 1996.

The plot involves the Tiki Tak Tribe hypnotizing the animals of Donkey Kong Island. The hypnotized animals steal Donkey Kong's bananas. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong go on an adventure to take back their bananas from the Tikis.

Many elements of the Donkey Kong Country games return. These include the mine cart levels, the ability to collect bananas, and the golden KONG letters. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are once again the main playable characters.

On February 14, 2013, Nintendo announced a Nintendo 3DS port of the game called Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. It was released in North America and Europe on May 24, 2013, in Australia on May 25, 2013, and in Japan on June 13, 2013.

References

Wii games
Wii U games
Donkey Kong
Platform games
2010 video games
2015 video games
Michal Handzuš

Michal Handzuš (born March 11, 1977, in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a Slovak NHL ice hockey centre that played for the Chicago Blackhawks.

He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 101st overall pick in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He has also played for the St. Louis Blues for 3 seasons, Phoenix Coyotes for 2 seasons, Philadelphia Flyers for 2 seasons, Chicago Blackhawks for 8 games, Los Angeles Kings for 4 seasons and the San Jose Sharks for 1 season. He was traded from the Sharks back to the Chicago Blackhawks for a 4th round draft pick on April 1, 2013. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.

References

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1977 births
Chicago Blackhawks players
Living people
Los Angeles Kings players
Philadelphia Flyers players
Phoenix Coyotes players
San Jose Sharks players
Slovak ice hockey players
Stanley Cup champions
St. Louis Blues players
American Hockey League players
Ice hockey centres
Pump Up the Volume (movie)

Pump Up the Volume is a 1990 comedy movie. Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis star. The movie received positive reviews from the critics. This movie was released August 22, 1990.

1990 comedy movies
American comedy movies
English-language movies
Aaron Downey

Aaron Downey (born August 27, 1974 in Shelburne, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey right winger that played 10 seasons in National Hockey League.

He was one of few people that was not drafted by an NHL team or a major junior team. Downey played in the NHL for six teams, the Boston Bruins for 1 game, Chicago Blackhawks for 39 games, Dallas Stars for 2 seasons, St. Louis Blues for 17 games, Montreal Canadiens for 2 seasons, and the Detroit Red Wings for 2 seasons. Since his retirement, he returned to Detroit to become a part-time strength and conditioning coach for the Red Wings and Grand Rapids Griffins.

References

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1974 births
American Hockey League players
Boston Bruins players
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Chicago Blackhawks players
Dallas Stars players
Detroit Red Wings players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
Montreal Canadiens players
Phoenix Coyotes players
St. Louis Blues players
Stanley Cup champions
Ontario Hockey League players
Kernot Range

The Kernot Range is a small mountain range in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is located in the Angas Downs Indigenous Protected Area, near the junction of the Lasseter Highway and Luritja Road. The range consists of a singe ridge of deformed sedimentary rock, running in a northwest-southeasterly direction for about 18 km.

The Kernot Range was named by the explorer W. H. Tietkens when he reached the area on 18 July 1889. He named it after William Charles Kernot, a professor at the University of Melbourne. He named Mount Thompson, the highest peak in the north-western end of the range, after a politician from Victoria, H. M. Thompson.

The hills are culturally important to southern Luritja people, many of whom live in the surrounding area. The most important ceremonial site in the Kernot Range is Wilbia (also spelled Wilpia or Wilpiya). This is a clearing at the south-eastern end of the range that contains a soakage. The soak is a reliable source of water and an important place to many families living across the Luritja homeland. The site is connected with similar Dreaming sites at Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa. Wilbia is often used for rituals and ceremonies, including initiations.

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Lasseter Highway

The Lasseter Highway is a highway in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a sealed road that runs for . It connects Yulara, Kata Tjuṯa and Uluṟu to the Stuart Highway. It is the major access route for tourists heading to Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. The highway is named after the prospector Harold Bell Lasseter, who claimed to have discovered a rich gold deposit (Lasseter's Reef) west of Kata Tjuṯa.

The highway begins in Erldunda, a roadhouse and hotel, on the Stuart Highway (N87). The Stuart Highway connects Darwin in the north and Adelaide in the south and is therefore one of Australia's major highways. From Erldunda, the Lasseter Highway leads west along the southern side of the Basedow and Kernot Ranges. After about 110 km, next to the Kernot Range, there is the junction with the Luritja Highway (S3), which leads north to Kings Canyon. Another 25 km towards the southwest is a rest area that has a view of Mount Conner. A further 22 km away is the Curtin Springs, a cattle station with a roadhouse. A further 100 km west along the highway is the tourist town Yulara. After Yulara, the road meets the Great Central Road, a dirt road that leads into Western Australia through the Petermann Ranges and across the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts.

There are petrol stations at Erldunda (at the start of the highway), Mount Ebenezer (km 57) and Curtin Springs (km 245).

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2013 San Diego Padres season

The 2013 San Diego Padres season began with two losses to the New York Mets.

San Diego Padres
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Tripitaka

The Tripitaka is the collection of main religious text in Buddhism. They are often used alongside various sutras such as the Lotus. It is divided into three categories - the Sutras, the Abhidharma and the Vinaya.

Buddhist terminology
Khanqah

A khanqah or khaniqah () is a place where members of the Sufi faith meet and do their spiritual rituals. Today, there are a lot of khanaqahs around the world, especially in muslim countries.

Sufism
Religious buildings
100 Tears

100 Tears is a 2007 slasher comedy movie. The story is about revenge. This movie was released with an NC-17 rating. The reviews were mainly negative, with a 28% audience score on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

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Comedy horror movies
2007 comedy movies
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American independent movies
Peggy Shannon

Winona Sammon, more well known as Peggy Shannon (January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress. She acted on stage and in movie roles during the 1920s and 1930s. She had many movies during her short career. She was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. In May 1941, Shannon died in Los Angeles after a heart attack

People from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan

were men and women who were employed by the government of Japan in the early Meiji period.   These western experts were invited to come to Japan to share their specialized knowledge..

History
The oyatoi came from many nations.  By the 1870s, they were employed in many projects of the government.

The strategy of employing oyatoi was ended in 1899.

References

Other websites
 "Meiji era (1868-1912)" at Dentsu Advertising Museum
Reckendorf

Reckendorf is a community in the district of Bamberg, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. With roughly 2,000 inhabitants, Reckendorf is a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Baunach.

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 Community’s website

Bamberg (district)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection

Mega Man Anniversary Collection is a compilation video game for the Nintendo GameCube, Playstation 2, and Xbox. It was released on June 23, 2004 for the GameCube and Playstation 2, and on March 15, 2005 for the Xbox. It contains the first eight Mega Man games, as well as two spin-off fighting games in the series. It also contains extras such as original artwork and remixed music.

For the first six games, a "Navi Mode" is available. This allows players to get hints from helpers if they are in need of help. It also changes the look of the health and weapon meters, as well as the weapon screen, for the first three games.

List of games
Mega Man
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Mega Man 5
Mega Man 6
Mega Man 7
Mega Man 8
Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters

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Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen is a linguist and educational researcher. He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California (USC). Krashen moved from the USC linguistics department to the School of Education in 1994. He is also an activist who works hard to support bilingual education.

Work
Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books about second-language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He introduced several important ideas in the study of learning another language, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, input hypothesis, monitor hypothesis, affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. He started the Natural Approach to language learning and teaching with Tracy D. Terrell . More recently, Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second-language acquisition, which he says "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second."

Educational Activism
Krashen lives and works in California. Government plans for education there turned against bilingual education. Krashen said that this was a bad idea  and responded with research that showed problems with he new policies. He also spoke publicly and wrote many letters to newspaper editors. In 1998,   Krashen campaigned very hard against Proposition 227. Though he tried hard, the proposition passed and got rid of most bilingual education in California.  Even though he lost, Krashen continues to work hard in support of bilingual education as other states try to get rid of it. His letters often appear in many newspapers. Krashen believes researchers should be more active to educate the public, especially about bilingual education.

Personal
Krashen holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do,  and was the winner of the 1978 Venice Beach Open Incline Press. He spent two years in Ethiopia teaching English and science with the Peace Corps.

Writing

References

Other websites
 Books and articles by Stephen D Krashen
 Response to criticism  by Ron Unz
 NPR Talk of the Nation episode featuring Stephen Krashen
 Krashen's Comprehension Hypothesis Model of L2 learning  Applied linguist Vivian Cook's page on Krashen's hypotheses.

1941 births
Living people
Bilingualism and second language acquisition researchers
Atmosphere (unit)

The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of atmospheric pressure that refers to the air pressure at sea level. It is defined as equal to 101325 Pa. Since 1982, it has been replaced by the bar, which is equal to exactly 105 Pa. The usage of either unit is discouraged.

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Units of measurement
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 American romantic comedy movie. It was written, directed and co-produced by Judd Apatow.

Steve Carell plays the eponymous virgin who lives alone and is involuntarily celibate. He works in the stockroom of an electronics store and is socially inept. Carell also wrote the script. The movie got mostly good reviews from critics.

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Movies directed by Judd Apatow
Wilga Rivers

Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 - 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born  in Melbourne, Australia and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Writing
 "The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher". University of Chicago Press, 1964.
 "Teaching Foreign-Language Skills". University of Chicago Press, 1968 & 1981.
 "A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language". Oxford University Press, 1978.
 "Communicating Naturally In A Second Language". Cambridge University Press, 1983.
 "Interactive Language Teaching". Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Related pages 
 List of women linguists

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Other websites
 "Principles Of Interactive Language Teaching" 

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Mount Curdie

Mount Curdie is a mountain in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is 958 metres high. It is the highest peak in the Curdie Range, which is a section of the Petermann Ranges. The mountain is located on the southern bank of the Hull River, about  southeast of Kaḻṯukatjara. The Great Central Road passes nearby to the north. At the base of the mountain is the valley through which the Hull River flows. The valley contains a place known to local Aboriginal people as Tjunti, where Lasseter's Cave is located.

Ernest Giles named Mount Curdie on 13 March 1874, during his first journey through the Petermann Ranges. He named it after Dr Daniel Curdie, a subscriber to Giles' fund for his expedition. After climbing to the top of Mount Curdie, Giles also gave names to other peaks in the Petermann Ranges, including Mounts Fagan and Miller further to the east.

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Mountains of the Northern Territory
Sarah Caldwell

Sarah Caldwell (born March 6, 1924 - died March 23, 2006) was an American opera conductor and a stage director. She sang, performed and was director of opera music. Sarah was born in Missouri, though was raised in Arkansas. She later died due to heart failure in Portland, Maine at 82.

People from Missouri
Opera
1924 births
2006 deaths
Guangzhou FC

Guangzhou FC, known as Guangzhou Evergrande until 2020, is a football club which plays in China. This club has been very successful ever since Evergrande RE took over the club after a match-fixing scandal in 2009, with money flowing in.

Club honours 
 Chinese Super League
Winners (8): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

 China League One
Winners (2): 2007, 2010

 Chinese FA Cup
Winners (2): 2012, 2016

 Chinese FA Super Cup
Winners (4): 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018

 AFC Champions League
 Winners (2): 2013, 2015

Chinese football clubs
Guangzhou
1954 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in China
Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan (September 11, 1950) is an American television and movie actress. She has acted in many notable movies and TV series. These include  the 1989 movie Field of Dreams and Uncle Buck and the series Grey's Anatomy, Carnivàle and Fringe. She was born in Chicago.

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Prolog

Prolog is a programming language that uses first order logic. It is the most used logic programming language. It is a declarative programming language. Alain Cormerauer, a French computer scientist created Prolog in the early 1970s.

Prolog is rather different from other programming languages. It uses facts and rules. Given the facts, the rules can be used to figure out new facts. 

Prolog uses a paradigm called negation as failure, which means that  is assumed if  cannot be derived. This is different from true logical negation. While negation is failure has its benefits, it often confuses people starting to learn Prolog, as they expect true logical negation.

Prolog also uses Horn clauses. It is a turing-complete programming language. 

Programming languages
Graupel

Graupel is a form of precipitation, which is very similar to snow and hail. However, hail falls almost always during severe thunderstorms. Snow falls during blizzards or snowstorms. Graupel often falls in wintry mixes, and usually falls apart during contact.

Severe weather
Precipitation
Venn diagram

A Venn diagram is a diagram that shows the logical relation between sets. They were popularised by John Venn in the 1880s, and are now widely used. They are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science. A Venn diagram uses closed curves drawn on a plane to represent sets. Very often, these curves are circles or ellipses. 

Similar ideas had been proposed before Venn. Christian Weise in 1712 (Nucleus Logicoe Wiesianoe) and Leonhard Euler (Letters to a German Princess) in 1768, for instance, came up with similar ideas. The idea was popularised by Venn in Symbolic Logic, Chapter V "Diagrammatic Representation", 1881.

Example 

The following example uses two sets, A and B, represented here as coloured circles. The orange circle, set A, represents all living creatures that are two-legged. The blue circle, set B, represents the living creatures that can fly. Each separate type of creature can be imagined as a point somewhere in the diagram. Living creatures that can both fly and have two legs—for example, parrots—are then in both sets, and hence correspond to points in the area where the blue and orange circles overlap. That area contains all such (and only) such living creatures.

Humans and penguins are bipedal, and hence are in the orange circle, but since they cannot fly, they appear in the left part of the orange circle, where it does not overlap with the blue circle. Mosquitoes have six legs, and fly, so the point for mosquitoes is in the part of the blue circle that does not overlap with the orange one. Creatures that are not two-legged and cannot fly (for example, whales and spiders) would all be represented by points outside both circles.

The combined area of sets A and B is called the union of A and B, denoted by . The union in this case contains all living creatures that are either two-legged, or that can fly (or both).
The area in both A and B, where the two sets overlap, is called the intersection of A and B, denoted by . For example, the intersection of the two sets is not empty, because there are points that represent creatures that are in both the orange and blue circles.

Venn diagrams of common operations on sets 

In the illustrations below the left circle shows set  and the right circle shows set . Results of operations are shown as colored areas.

Related pages 

 Exclusive disjunction
 Inclusive disjunction

References 

Set theory
Starbuck Island

Starbuck Island (or Volunteer Island) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific. It is part of the Central Line Islands of Kiribati. No one lives on the island.

Geography, flora and fauna
Starbuck Island is located at . It is  east-to-west and  north-to-south. The island has a land area of .  It is a low, dry, coral limestone island. It has a steep beach. 

There is no freshwater on the island. Each year, the island gets about  of rain.

Starbuck Island has a large colony of Sooty Terns. It is estimated that 1.5 million pairs of the birds live on the island. The island is also a home to Polynesian Rats, feral cats, Green turtles and about fifteen other species of seabirds.

References

Kiribati
Atolls
Pacific islands
Earls Croome

Earls Croome is a village and civil parish  in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.

Other websites
A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913)

Villages in Worcestershire
Johannis de Rijke

Johannis de Rijke (5 December 1842-10 January 1913) was a Dutch civil engineer.  He was a foreign advisor to the Japanese government in the Meiji period.

Early life
Rijke was born in Noord-Beveland in the Netherlands.

Career
In 1865, Rijke worked the chief construction foreman for water projects near Amsterdam.

Japan
Rijke was a government advisor in Japan from 1873 to 1903.  He worked on flood control and water management projects. He led projects which improved the ports of Japan, including  Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hiroshima (Ujina) and Fukuoka (Hakata).

After 1891, Rijke was an official of the Home Ministry. He became Vice Minister. It was uncommon for a foreigner to be promoted to such high rank in a Japanese government bureaucracy.

China
In 1876, Rijke worked on Yangtze River projects. 
 
In 1901, worked on the Yellow River flood control project.

Honors
 Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1903
 Order of Orange-Nassau, 1911.
 Order of the Dutch Lion, 1913. 
 Order of Leopold.

Related pages
 Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan

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