cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Internaitional Tawk like a Pirate Day
Linguistic backgrund
The archetypal pirate wird "Arrr!" (alternatively "Rrrr!" or "Yarrr!"), whit means "ay" in West Kintra parlance, first appeared in fiction as early as 1934 in the film Treasure Island starnin Lionel Barrymore, an wis uised bi a chairacter in the 1940 novelle Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer bi Jeffery Farnol. Hounaiver, hit was Robert Newton's uise o hit in the classic 1950 Disney film Treasure Island that made the wird famous an made hit widely mynded. Hit haes been speculatit that the rollin "rrr", a distinctive element o the leid o the Wast Kintra o Ingland, haes been associatit wi pirates acause o the Wast Kintra's strang heritage wi bein near the sea, whaur for mony centuries fishin wis the main industrie (an smugglin a major unoffeicial yin), an whaur thare war a few major ports. As a result o this, Wast Kintra speech in general, an Cornish speech in parteicular, micht hiv been a big influence on a generalized British nautical speech.
Báguanos
Báguanos is a municipality an ceety in the Holguín Province o Cuba.
Demografics
In 2004, the municipality o Báguanos haed a population o 54,854. Wi a total aurie o 806 km2, it haes a population densitie o 65.6 /km2.
Ahneby
Ahneby (Åneby) is a municipality in Schleswig-Flensburg destrict, in northren Germany.
Jim Mather
Jim Mather (born 6 March 1947) is a Scots politeecian, umwhile the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism an wis a Scots National Party Member o the Scots Pairliament frae 2003 tae 2011. He wis the SNP's Naitional Treasurer fur fower year an haes held sindry non-executive posts an academic roles efter lea'in parliament.
Early life
Mather wis born in Locheineuch an wis taucht at Paisley Grammar Schuil an Greenock Heich Schuil afore gaein tae the Glesga Varsity. Afore his election tae Holyrood he wirked as a chartered accountant an haes his ain business.
Poleetical career
He jynt the SNP in 1996 an wis the SNP's Naitional Treasurer frae 2000.
He is creditit wi pittin thegither an gien oot the economic case fur Scos Unthrildom, an taen the airgument tae the media, boardrooms an committee rooms throu Scotland atween 2001 an 2007.
He wis the SNP candidate fur the 2000 Ayr by-election an wis thair candidate fur Argyll an Bute at the 2003 election. That election got hissel electit tae the Scots Pairliament as a regional list memmer fur the Heichlands an Islands. In opposition he wis the SNP's Shadae Enterprise an Economy Meenister.
Mather contestit Argyll an Bute again at the 2007 Scots Pairliament Election an was got in, winnin the seat frae George Lyon o the Scots Leeberal Democrats.
Efter the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scots Pairliament Election, Mather wis gien the role as Meenister fur Enterprise, Energy an Tourism an haudit that post fur 4 year until the end o the 2011 pairliament.
Efter Pairliament
Jim Mather stuid doun as an MSP at the 2011 election.
In 2014, he wis the heid o the Scots Govrenment's Working Together Review, thit wis taskit wi producing a report wi recommends thit wad gie a haun in daein mony mair progressive an collegiate wirkplaces in Scotland. Thon report wis well-received an contreebuted tae the creautin o a Cabinet role thit kivvers Fair Work an a Fair Work Convention.
In Dizember 2014 he wis annooncit tae be heid o the trade body Homes for Scotland (Scots: Hames fur Scotland), umwhile takkin up the three-year pairt-time poseetion in May 2015. He stuid doun bi mutual greement on 12 May 2017.
Mather is a visitin professor wit the Varsitie o Straithclyde an Heriot-Watt Varsity the nou, an daes ither consultancie an speakin roles.
Kaptol, Kostel
Kaptol is a smaw dounset in the Municipality o Kostel in soothren Slovenie. The aurie is pairt o the tradeetional region o Lawer Carniola an is nou includit in the Sootheast Slovenie Statistical Region.
Dashkasan Rayon
Dashkasan (Daşkəsən) is a rayon o Azerbaijan. The destrict wis cried Dastafur (Dəstəfur) till 1956.
The destrict is locatit in northwastren Azerbaijan, 33–41 km awa frae Ganja ceety an on northeastren edge o Lesser Caucasus risin 1,600-1,800 meter abuin sea level. The regional caipital o the raion is Dashkasan ceety locatit bi Qoshqar River on a muntain. The caipital wis established as an urban facility on 16 Mairch 1948, efter the end o Warld War I, mainly tae splore an mine iron ore an ither naitural resources.
Ethnic Groups
Population 30,510
Natur
The rayon covers the Dashkasan plateau o the Lesser Caucasian Muntain range encompassin pairts an tips o Shahdagh an Murovdag ranges. The heuchest altitudes are at Hinaldag Peak (3,367 meters) an Qoshqar Peak (3,361 meter). Pairt o Bashkend-Dastafur lawlands an aw faws in Dashkasan rayon. This pairt o the region is rich wi cretaceous chalk. Average annual rainfaw is 600–900 mm. It maistly rains in spring time. The muntains are enriched wi aik forests. Thare is a feck o vegetation uised for curin various deceases. Amang the treatin plants, ane can fynd thyme, achillea, asteraceae, stellaria, muntain viola, etc.
Thare are anaw so-cried treatment springs containin pure muntain watter which cleanse the internal organs.
In Dashkasan rayon, the animal habitat is rich wi roe deer, gazelle, deer, Caucasian gait, rabbit, marten, hurcheon, brock, wild bear, lynx, wouf, beir, tod, jackal.
Sterup
Sterup is a municipality in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Oryun-dong
Oryun-dong is a neebourheid, dong o Songpa-gu, Seoul, Sooth Korea.
Andrés Ibáñez Province
The province wis creatit on 6 Dizember 1944, durin the presidency o Gualberto Villarroel.
Location
Andrés Ibáñez Province is locatit atween 17° 30' an 18° 15' Sooth an atween 62° 48' an 63° 40' Wast. It extends ower 110 km frae wast tae east, an 90 km frae north tae sooth.
The province is situatit in the Bolivie lawlands an borders Ignacio Warnes Province an Sara Province in the north, Ichilo Province in the northwast, Florida Province in the soothwast, Cordillera Province in the sootheast, an Chiquitos Province in the east.
Climate
Andrés Ibáñez Province is situatit in an aurie o a semihumid tropical climate. It is characterisit bi a vera short dry saison in the months o Julie an August an sufficient precipitation durin the rest o the year, reachin a maximum in Januar.
The monthly average temperaturs are a tropical 20 tae 26 °C, wi the lawest temperaturs in the dry saison whan nichts are slichtly caulder acause the cloud civer is broken. The yearly average temperatur is 23.9 °C.
Diveesion
Andrés Ibáñez Province comprises five municipalities which are further subdividit intae cantons.
Population
The population o Andrés Ibáñez Province haes increased bi circa 130% ower the recent twa decades:
Fotö
Fotö is an island an a locality situatit in Öckerö Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 620 inhabitants in 2010. It is connectit tae the island o Hönö wi a brig.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (Greek leid: Μέγας Αλέξανδρος) (Julie 20 or 26, 356 BC - Juin 10 323 BC) wis a Auncient Greek king. He wis learnt maist o his skeels in Athens durin his bairnheid. He is kent for his meelitary skeels. He invadit a muckle empire cried Persie, an gaed on tae invade pairts o Central Asie an Indie. He is aft said tae be ane o the greatest military commanders in heestory, alang wi Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Subutai, Napoleon I o Fraunce, an ithers. Bi the time o his daith he had owerhailt maist o the Middle Eastern yird kent tae Europeans, alang wi a muckle pairt o Central Asie that includit Persia, Egypt, an Asie Minor. He dee'd in Babylon in 323 BC.
Smolensk Oblast
Smolensk Oblast (Смол́енская о́бласть, Smolenskaya oblast) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). Its aurie is 49800 km2. Population:
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat, meanin "Laund o the Greenlanders"; Grønland) is an autonomous kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark locatit atween the Airctic an Atlantic Oceans, east o the Canadian Airctic Archipelago. Tho physiographical an ethnically an Airctic island kintra an geographically a pairt o the continent o North Americae, politically an historically Greenland is associatit wi Europe, in parteecular Iceland, Norawa, an Denmark. In 1979, Denmark grantit hame rule tae Greenland, wi a relationship describit bi the Rigsfællesskabet, an in 2008 Greenland votit tae acome a separate kintra athin the Kinrick o Denmark, effective Juin 2009. Greenland is, bi scowth, the warld's lairgest island that is no a continent in its ain richt.
Smolensk Oblast
Geography
The admeenistrative center o Smolensk Oblast is the ceety o Smolensk. Ither auncient touns include Vyazma an Dorogobuzh.
The oblast wis foondit on 27 September 1937. It borders Pskov Oblast in the north, Tver Oblast in the northeast, Moscow Oblast in the east, Kaluga an Bryansk Oblasts in the sooth, an Mogilev an Vitebsk Regions o Belaroushie, in the wast an northwast.
Greenland
Notes
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Smolensk Oblast
Admeenistrative diveesions
Smolensk Oblast is dividit intae 25 destricts (raions an 2 ceeties, which are further dividit intae 15 touns, 12 urban-type settlements, an 302 rural okrugs.
Demographics
Accordin tae the (2002 Census), the naitional composition o the oblast wis as follaes: an mony ither groups, nane mair nor 0.2% o the population. (1.1% o the population did no state thair naitionality in the census.)
Economy
Smolensk Oblast is pairt o Roushie's Central economic destrict. Industry in this destrict includes sectors sic as ingineerin an metalwirkin (production o measurin an hydrometeorological devices, computer equipment, electrical appliances, refrigerators, automobiles, pouer-generatin an store equipment, an aircraft manufactur), the chemical industry (production o ammonia, saltpeter, fertilizers, an plastics), licht industry (production o clothin, an cotton an linen fabrics), the fuid industry, an broun coal an peat production.
Nearly 40% o the industrial production potential is concentratit in the ceety o Smolensk. Diamond cuttin companies hae the lairgest share o GDP. The lairgest o thir companies is the Kristall State Unitary enterprise (GUP Kristall) in Smolensk. Smolensk is an aw a major centre o the ingineerin an metalwirkin industries, wi the instrument-makkin, electronics, electrical, an auto industries haein the lairgest share o GDP amang ingineerin companies.
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centert on a film series creatit bi George Lucas. It depicts the adventurs o various chairacters "a lang time ago in a galaxy far, far awa".
The series haes spawned an extensive media franchise includin beuks, televeesion series, computer an video gemmes, an comic beuks, aw o whilk tak place within the same continuity as the films, resultin in signeeficant development o the series's feectional universe, wi the non-canonical wirks fawin unner the defunct Star Wars Legends label. Star Wars an aa houds a Guinness World Records title for the "Most successfu film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the tot vailyie o the Star Wars franchise wis estimatit at USD $42 billion, makin Star Wars the seicont heichest-grossin media franchise o aw time.
In 2012, The Walt Disney Company bocht Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earnt the distribution richts tae aw subsequent Star Wars films, beginnin wi the release o The Force Awakens in 2015. The umwhile distributor, 20th Century Fox, retains the physical distribution rights for the first twa Star Wars trilogies, ains permanent rights for the oreeginal 1977 film and continues tae haud the rights for the prequel trilogy an the first twa sequels tae A New Hope until Mey 2020. Walt Disney Studios ains deegital distribution richts tae aw the Star Wars films, excludin A New Hope.
Beinn Sgritheall
Beinn Sgritheall (or Beinn Sgriol) is the heichest moontain in the Glenelg airie o the Hielands o Scotland. The main approach is via Arnisdale on the shores o Loch Hourn or via Gleann Beag tae the north, wi its well-kent brochs. The view frae the summit wis descrivit bi Sir Hugh Munro, a foonder member o the Scottish Mountaineering Club, as "perhaps the maist bonny I haev seen in Scotland".
Real de Catorce
Real de Catorce, aften shortened tae Real, is locatit 160 mi north o San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, an currently haes a full-time population o unner 1,000 residents. This 'ghost-toun' in the heich an dry expanses o northren San Luis Potosí state wis ance a thrivin siller minin dounset, haes lang been a pilgrimage steid for baith local Catholics an Huichol shamanists, an is nou bein discovered bi internaitional tourists drawn bi the desert ambience an reputit spiritual energy.
Emblem o Sudan
The secretary bird wis chosen as a distinctively Sudanese an indigenous variant o the "Eagle o Saladin" an "Hawk o Qureish" seen in the emblems o some Arab states, an associatit wi Arab naitionalism (see Coat o airms o Egyp etc.).
The earlier Sudanese state emblem consistit o a Hippopotamus enclosed bi twa palm-trees, wi Jumhuriyat as-Sudan as the ae caption.
Hälsö
Hälsö is an island an a locality situatit in Öckerö Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 611 inhabitants in 2010.
Ramallah
Ramallah(literally "Height o God") is a Palestinian ceety in the central Wast Bank locatit 10 kilometers (6 mile) north o Jerusalem, adjacent tae al-Bireh. It currently serves as the admeenistrative caipital o Palestine. Wi a population o nearly 25,500, Ramallah wis historically a Christian toun, but today Muslims form the majority o the population, wi a strang Christian minority.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Ramallah is twinned wi:
Potok
Potok mey refer tae:
James Fenton
James "Jim" Fenton (5 Juin 1931 – 3 Februar 2021) wis a Ulster Scots linguist an poet. He wrat his poesie in baith Inglis an Ulster Scots, his mither tongue an the leid he spak thorow his bairnheid. He haes been cried the "greatest exponent" o the leid.
At the Gates
At the Gates wis ane o the three baunds to pioneer melodic daith metal, the others ar In Flames an Dark Tranquillity. The baund wis active atween 1990 an 1995 an briefly 2008. They released fower studio albums, ane EP an a live album. The baund wis superceedit bi The Haunted.
Ulysses S. Grant
Hiram Ulysses Grant (Ulysses S. Grant; 27 Aprile 1822 – 23 Julie 1885) wis Preses o the Unitit States frae 1869 tae 1877. He died o caner.
Esgrus
Esgrus (Eskeris) is a municipality in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Pungnap-dong
Pungnap-dong is a neebourheid, dong o Songpa-gu, Seoul, Sooth Korea.
Steinberg, Schleswig-Holstein
Steinberg (Stenbjerg) is a municipality in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Liam McArthur
Liam Scott McArthur (born 8 August 1967) is a Scots Leeberal Democrat poleetician an Member of the Scottish Parliament fur Orkney syne 2007.
8 Januar
The 8t o Januar is the 8t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 357 days ti come (358 in lowp years).
Liam McArthur
Backgrund
He was broucht up on the Sanday, an island in Orkney. He is marriet tae Tamsin an thay hiv twa sons, Calum an Tom. He is the goalkeeper fur Burray football team an aw.
Political career
Afore, McArthur haed worked tae help Jim Wallace in the Hoose o Commons an as Special Adviser tae the Deputy First Meenister in 2002. He wis electit in the 2007 Pairlament election tae tak ower fae the retirin Jim Wallace, anither Leeberal Democrat. McArthur was re-elected in the 2011 Pairlament election an aw, an again in the 2016 Pairlament election wi afaur mair muckle feck, an is staundin as Leeberal Democrat candidate in 2021.
Absheron Rayon
Absheron Rayon (Abşeron, Апшерон), spelt as Apsheron anaw, is a rayon o Azerbaijan demarkated in 1963. Awtho it shares the same name as the Absheron Peninsulae, the aurie covered bi the rayon is no conterminous, bein further wast an maistly inland.
History o the rayon
Absheron wis foondit in 1963 bi the Soviet govrenment tae assur enough labour force, heichlie educatit professional staff an necessary provisions is gien tae enterprises an firms, kolkhozs an collective ferms, poultry an agrarian industries, construction centres, scienteefic-research institutes an laboratories present on the territories o Baku an Sumgait. Thare are lots o historical monuments on the territory o Absheron. For example, in the veelage Aşağı Güzdək thare are agricultural tuils frae the 19t century. In Goradile veelage, thare is Abdurrahman mosque pertainin tae 19t century which wis biggit bi the veelager Haji Gurban, mosques frae 18t century in Məmmədli biggit bi Garadaglilar faimily, mosque-madrasa biggit in 19t century bi Haji Safarali in Novxani, Albattin mosque in Fatmai which goes back tae 18t century. Aside frae releegious monuments, thare are mony monuments pertainin tae social life o fowk in last centuries. For example, hamams biggit in Middle Ages bi Haji Kazim in Qobu veelage an anither ane biggit bi Meshadi Imam Baxish in Xirdalan. Auncient wells which providit watter supply tae fowk livin in this territory are still uised in Aşağı Güzdək an Xirdalan. Tombs frae 8t - 18t centuries are an aw preservit: in Fatmai, Digah, Masazir, Hökməli an Saray.
Geography an economy
Absheron is situatit pairtially on Absheron Peninsulae an pairtially inland. The basic pairt o its economy is agricultural production which develops in twa directions: plant growin an cattlebreedin. Mair attention in plant growin is gien tae gardenin an olive growin. In the sheep breedin, raisin local stock o "Gala" wi semi-haurd or haurd skin prevails.
Nicotera
History
Nicòtera oreegins lee wi the auncient Greek ceety o Medma which wis foondit bi the Locresis o Locri Epizephyris.
Durin the period o Roman domination it pairtially survivit anerly throu the emporium (port), near the day’s Nicotera Marina. A Christian bishopric see is attestit in Nicotera durin the Middle Ages.
In 1065 Robert Guiscard conquered it frae the Byzantine Empire, an the toun grew aroond the castle an the cathedral biggit unner the Normans.
Unner Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II Nicotera attained economic walth. Tae encourage commerce an industry, Frederick promotit Jewish dounset in the aurie cried "Giudecca", in which Jews o this ghetto inhabitit the aurie near the castle, enjoy protection frae Christian persecution bi the Bishop o Nicotera.
In the 15t century, unner the rule o Alfonso o Aragon, it passed unner the yoke o feudalism an it decayed. In 1806 the French Revolution swept awa the feudal seestem in Nicotera. Efter the restoration o Ferdinand I o the Twa Sicilies, Nicotera continued tae be chief toun o the destrict, wi wha are nou the modren communes o Joppolo an Limbadi as its dependencies.
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published bi the Oxford University Press, is a descriptive (as opposed tae prescriptive) dictionar o the Inglis leid.
Caecilian
The caecilians are an order (Gymnophiona) o amphibians that superficially resemble yirdworms or snakes. Thay maistly live hidden in the grund, makin them the least familiar order o amphibians. Aw extant caecilians an thair closest fossil relatives are grooped as the clade Apoda. Thay are maistly distributit in the tropics o Sooth an Central Americae, Africae, an Sooth Asie. The diets o caecilians are nae weel kent.
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C. is an Inglis fitbaw club. They play thair haime gemmes at Annfield.
Pirče
Pirče (Pirtsche ) is a dounset on the left bank o the Kolpa River in the Municipality o Kostel in soothren Slovenie. The aurie is pairt o the tradeetional region o Lawer Carniola an is nou includit in the Sootheast Slovenie Statistical Region.
Steinberg (disambiguation)
Steinberg is a German muisical software an equipment company.
Pirče
Thare is a smaw chapel in the dounset dedicatit tae the Virgin Mary. It dates tae the late 19t hunderyear.
Liverpool F.C.
Domestic
Lancashire League Division Two (Level 2)
FA Cups:7 League Cups: 8 Community Shields:15 Screen Sport Super Cup
Europe
European Cups and UEFA Champions League titles:6 UEFA Cups: 3 UEFA Super Cups:3
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
His Majesty's Theatre in Aiberdeen is the lairgest theatre in north-east Scotland, seatin mair nor 1,400. The theatre is steidit on Rosemount Viaduct, anent the ceety's Union Terrace Gardens. It wis designt bi Frank Matcham an appent in 1906. On its centenary in 2006, the theatre wis "twinned" wi His Majesty's Theatre in Perth, Wastern Australia.
Ither wabsteids
Places o Scotland
Steinberg (disambiguation)
Steinberg mey refer tae an aw:
Calixto García, Cuba
Calixto García is a municipality in the Holguín Province o Cuba. The municipal seat is locatit in the toun o Buenaventura.
Demografics
In 2004, the municipality o Calixto García haed a population o 57,867. Wi a tot aurie o 617 km2, it haes a population densitie o 93.8 /km2.
Chinee alligator
The Chinee alligator (, (yángzǐ è) Alligator sinensis) is ane o twa kent livin species o Alligator, a genus in the faimily Alligatoridae. It anly bides in eastren Cheena.
Joppolo
Joppolo (Iambolos) is a comune (municipality) in the Province o Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabrie, locatit aboot 70 km soothwast o Catanzaro an aboot 20 km soothwast o Vibo Valentia.
Steinbergkirche
Steinbergkirche (Stenbjergkirke) is a municipality in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situatit near the Easter Seas coast, approx. 30 km northeast o Schleswig, an 22 km east o Flensburg.
Steinbergkirche is the seat o the Amt ("collective municipality") Geltinger Bucht.
Neftchala Rayon
Neftchala (Neftçala) is a rayon on the shores o the Caspian Sea. Its name is Persie نفت چاله Naft-Chala an means ile trench.
History
The Neftchala region wis formit as destrict in the composition o Azerbaijan on 11 Februar 1940. Till this time it wis locatit in the urie o modren Salyan, an durin the year it become pairt o the Khilly region, organized on 24 Januar 1939. Due Neftchala wis exceptionally industrial region, it wis liquidatit in December 1959 an unifeed wi the Salyan region. Housomeivver, efter 4 year it wis isolatit frae Salyan region an became independent industrial zone. But seemilar mixed seestem for control did no justify itsel, an ance again Neftchala region wis again liquidatit in 1965 an became pairt o the Salyan. The region become independent efter 7 year on 27 Aprile 1973.
Ter Sami leid
Ter Sami is a smaa leid wi ainly twa spikkers. Ter Sami is the maist eastmaist Sami leid. Ter Sami wis spoken by mair nor 450 fowk in the 19t century, ten in 2004 an ainly twa in 2010. Thare wis a latin alphabet makkit fur Ter Sami, but it wis chynged til a cyrillic alphabet in 1930.
== Ensaumple o wirds in Ter Sami == выэййвэ = heid
ныкчым = tongue
кидт = haund
лоннҍт = bird
чадце = watter
ке̄ддҍкэ = stane
аббьрэ = rain
толл = fire
Lunatica
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Crocodilia
The Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) are an order o muckle reptiles. Thay are the closest livin relatives o birds, as the twa groups are the anly kent survivors o the Archosauria. Members o the crocodilian tot group, the clade Pseudosuchia, appeared aboot 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period, an exhibitit a wide diversity o furms durin the Mesozoic era.
Salamander
Salamanders are ony o approximately 550 extant species o amphibians within the order Caudata. Thay are typically characterized bi a superficially lizard-lik appearance, wi slender bodies, short noses, an lang tails. Aw kent fossil salamanders an aw extinct species faw unner the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant species are grouped thegither as the Urodela. Salamanders hae never mair nor fower taes on thair front legs an five on thair rear legs, but some species hae fewer. Thair moist skin uisually maks them reliant on habitats in or near watter, or unner some pertection (e.g., moist grund), eften in a wetland. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughoot life, some tak tae the watter intermittently, an some are entirely terrestrial as adults. Unique amang vertebrates, thay are capable o regeneratin lost limbs, as well as ither body pairts. Mony o the members o the faimily Salamandridae are kent as esks.
The earliest kent salamander fossils hae been foond in geological deposits o Cheenae an Kazakhstan, which hae been datit tae the middle Jurassic period, up tae 164 million (plus or minus 4 million) years ago.
Porto-Vecchio
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Steinberg am See
Steinberg am See is a municipality in the destrict o Schwandorf in Bavarie, Germany.
Samjeon-dong
Samjeon-dong is a neebourheid, dong o Songpa-gu, Seoul, Sooth Korea. The name oreeginatit frae the fact that it ance haed anerly three fields.
Samukh Rayon
Samukh (Samux) is a rayon o Azerbaijan. The term Samukh comes frae a Caucasian Albanie wird for 'Forest Huntin Place'. Thare are Bronze Age burial munds aroond Nəbiağalı, the rayon's admeenistrative centre.
Sa'dah
Sa`dah (صعدة ‏‎‎Ṣa'da) is the caipital ceety o Sa'dah Govrenorate in north-wastren Yemen. It is locatit at 16.93583°N, 43.76444°W, at an elevation o aboot 1,800 meters. Kent in antiquity as Karna, its population in 2004 wis estimatit at 51,870.
7 Januar
The 7t o Januar is the 7t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 358 days ti come (359 in lowp years).
Pizzo, Calabrie
Fishin is ane o the main activities, includin that o tuna an coral.
Ivanovo Oblast
Ivanovo Oblast (Ива́новская о́бласть, Ivanovskaya oblast) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast).
Pizzo, Calabrie
History
As wi mony ither places in Calabrie, Pizzo claims auncient oreegins. The toun mey hae been foondit bi colonists frae an unkent steid in auncient Magna Grecia, but thare is currently nae documentar or archeological evidence tae support this. Consequently, the history o Pizzo begins in 1300 when the existence o a commonty o Basilian monks, a fort, an a fishin veelage is documentit. The name Pizzo (translatit either as bird's beak or projectin point) fits perfectly wi the tuffa promontory that juts oot intae the sea near the mooth o the river Angitola.
Ivanovo Oblast
Its three lairgest ceeties are Ivanovo (the admeenistrative center), Kineshma, an Shuya.
Pizzo, Calabrie
History
For centuries tuna wis trappit in the beaches aroond Pizzo, especially in the months o Mey an Juin. Despite fadin in importance ower time this activity continued till the 1970s in the Centofontane aurie, whaur nets wur spread tae corral tuna frae affshore. Ruins o the activity remain. The activity is now banned. The Piedigrotta an Prangi auries include some sea caves, an "the cave o the Saracen", awtho lairgely erodit the day, wis supposedly uised bi Saracen pirates tae store buity an fowk captured durin their raids alang the coast o Calabrie.
Ivanovo Oblast
The principal centre o tourism is Plyos. The Volga River flows throu the northren pairt o the oblast.
Pizzo, Calabrie
History
The umwhile King o Naples Joachim Murat, who wis the brither-in-law o Napoleon, wis impreesoned for several days in the toun's Aragonese castle an then sentencit tae daith. He wis executit bi firin squad on 13 October 1815 in the main haw o the castle an wis possibly buriet in the kirk o San Giorgio. Paradoxically, the castle is nou cried Castello Murat. Inside the castle is the Provincial Museum Murat.
Ivanovo Oblast
History
Ivanovo Industrial Oblast (Ива́новская Промы́шленная о́бласть) wis established on 14 Januar 1929. On 11 Mairch 1936, the oblast wis dividit intae modren Ivanovo Oblast an Yaroslavl Oblast.
Pizzo, Calabrie
History
In 1783 the toun wis amaist destroyed by an yirdquauk, an it suffered some damage frae the same cause in 1905.
Ivanovo Oblast
Geografie
Ivanovo Oblast borders Kostroma Oblast (N), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (E), Vladimir Oblast (S), an Yaroslavl Oblast (W).
Economy
Industry in Ivanovo Region is subdividit intae several main sectors, includin the licht, chemical an petrochemical, fuid, forest, peat, ingineerin an metalwirkin, pouer, an biggin material industries. The primary an maist developit sector is licht industry, made up o the cleidin, knittin, textile, an shae industries. Companies in this sector employ hauf o the region's industrial wirkers. The textile industry, which began developin in the last quarter o the 17t century, is o fundamental importance. Textile companies in the region produce hauf o Roushie's textiles. Ingineerin occupees an important place in the region's industry. Ingineerin companies manufactur mobile cranes, looms an machine tuils, excavators, combin machinery, instrumentation, an caur components. The widwirkin an pulp an paper industries an aw mak a significant contreibution tae the regional economy. Forests o the region serve as a soorce o raw materials for thir industries. The fuid industry produces a variety o guids that are in demand in mony Roushie regions, as weel as abraid, e.g., sausage, mayonnaise, floor, cereals, canned meats an milk, confectionery, pasta, an alcohol.
Pizzo, Calabrie
Main sichts
It haes a auld castle, built bi the Aragonese in the 15t century, in which Joachim Murat, ex-king o Naples, wis shot on 13 October 1815.
Fuid
Pizzo is famous in the aurie for its Tartufo, a lairge baw o ice cream filled wi molten chocolate.
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Abergeldie Castle
It is hained as a Category A leetit biggin. The fower flet castle is the hame o Baron Aibergeldie.
Ignacio Warnes Province
Ignacio Warnes  is ane o the fifteen provinces o the Bolivie Santa Cruz Depairtment an is situatit in the depairtment's central pairts. The province name honors Colonel Ignacio Warnes (1772-1816), a militar leader in the Sooth American war o unthirldom.
Location
Ignacio Warnes Province is locatit atween 17° 00' an 17° 42' Sooth an atween 62° 42' an 63° 14' West. It extends ower 85 km frae North tae Sooth, an 70 km frae Wast tae East. Río Piray is formin the province border in the Wast an Río Grande in the East.
The province is situatit in the Bolivie lawlands an borders Obispo Santistevan Province in the Northwast, Sara Province in the Wast, Andrés Ibáñez Province in the Sooth, an Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the East.
Population
The population o Ignacio Warnes Province haes increased bi circa 75% ower the recent twa decades:
The leeteracy rate o the province is 72.6%.
95.2% o the population speak Spainyie, 14.2% speak Quechua, 4.1% Guaraní, an 1.3 speak Aymara. (1992)
41.9% o the population hae nae access tae electricity, 47.9% hae nae sanitar facilities. (1992)
88.4% o the population are Catholics, 8.8% are Protestants. (1992)
Subdiveesion
The province is dividit intae twa municipalities which are further subdividit intae cantons. The municipalities wi their seats are:
Ankara
Ankara is the caipital o Turkey an the kintras's seicont mucklest city efter Istanbul. The city haes a mean elevation o 938 meters abuin sea level, wi varyin elevations frae 900 meters tae 1,300 meters abuin sea level. As o 2008 the city haed 4,500,000 fowk. Ankara forby is the caipital o Ankara Province.
As wi mony auncient cities, Ankara haes gane bi several names ower the ages. It haes been identified wi the Hittite cult center Ankuwaš, awtho this is a matter o debate. In classical antiquity an durin the medieval period, the city wis kent as Ánkyra (, "anchor") in Greek an Ancyra in Latin; the Galatian Celtic name wis mebbe a seemilar variant. Follaein its annexation bi the Seljuk Turks in 1073, the city became kent in mony European leids as Angora, a uisage which continued till its offeecial renamin tae Ankara unner the Turkish Postal Service Law o 1930.
Centrally locatit in Anatolie, Ankara is an important commercial an industrial city. It is the centre o the Turkish Govrenment, an hooses aw foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads o tred, strategically locatit at the centre o Turkey's heichway an railwey netwirks, an serves as the mercatin centre for the surroondin agricultural area. The city wis famous for its lang-haired Angora goat an its prized wool (mohair), a unique breed o cat (Angora cat), white rabbits an thair prized wool (Angora wool), peirs, honey, an the region's muscat grapes.
Twin touns — sister cities
Ankara is twinned wi: o Ankara are leetit belaw:
Potok, Kostel
Potok is a smaw dounset on the left bank o the Kolpa River wast o Fara in the Municipality o Kostel in soothren Slovenie. The aurie is pairt o the tradeetional region o Lawer Carniola an is now includit in the Sootheast Slovenie Statistical Region.
Cueto, Cuba
Cueto is a municipality an ceety in the Holguín Province o Cuba.
Demografics
In 2004, the municipality o Cueto haed a population o 34,503. Wi a total aurie o 326 km2, it haes a population densitie o 105.8 /km2.
Kaptol, Zagreb
Kaptol is a pairt o Zagreb, Croatie in the upper toun an it is the seat o the Roman Catholic airchbishop o Zagreb.
Lankaran Rayon
Lankaran (Lenkoran, Lənkəran) is a rayon o Azerbaijan. It surroonds but daes no include the ceety o Lankaran, which is technically a separate admeenistrative region.
History
Airchaeological excavations indicate that fowk hae livit in the region syne at least the Bronze Age (3rd or 2nt millennia BC). The aurie aroond Lankaran haets fertile soil, rich watter reserves an a humid subtropical climate wi a maximum annual precipitation o 1,600 tae 1,800 mm, the heichest precipitation in Azerbaijan, lendin tae abundant agricultur, cattle-breedin, gairdenin, fishin, bee-keepin an silk production. Blacksmith, capper-smith, pottery an ither treds hae lang been well established too. The aurie's development wis an aw aidit bi its location as a pynt o communication atween auncient empires, leadin tae caravan trade funnelled alang the Caspian Sea coast.
Atween 1747 an 1813 Lankaran wis the main ceety o the Talysh Khanate. Follaein the 1813 Gulistan Treaty, the northren aurie o the khanate wis occupeed bi Roushie, then the remainder wis seized in the final Russo-Persie war o 1826-1828. The 1828 Treaty o Turkmenchay left the aurie athin the Roushie empire an the khanate wis abolished. Durin the 19t century Lankaran's exports (rice, silk, vegetables, firth an fish) wur aimit mainly at the Roushie mercat. Durin the 20t century the tea-cultivation an processin industry became important in the rayon.
The aurie wis briefly the centre o a Bolshevik-inspired Mughan Soviet Republic durin 1919. History repeatit itsel somewha in 1993. Durin the period o instability that follaeed Azerbaijan's 1991 unthirldom frae the USSR, Lankaran an surroondin rayons wur briefly declared the Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic, but this anerlie survivit atween Juin an August 1993. The day the region is an integral pairt o the Azerbaijan Republic.
Geography
The region haes a vast aurie o naitional pairks, whaur a variety o fauna an flora are preservit. Gizil-Agach State Reserve hosts ower 250 kinds o plants, 30 species o fish an mair nor 220 kynds o birds. Lankaran is an aw kent for Parrotia persica, or ironwood. It is naturally grown in the region an coud be seen in Hirkan National Pairk. Local meeth haes it that it is the anerlie firth that sinks in watter, hence the name (ironwood). Historically it haes been uised for heatin, syne it burns for a lang time an is no easily extinguished. The Persie leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) subspecies o the leopard, lives in the naitional pairk as well.
Steinberg, Saxony
Steinberg is a municipality in the Vogtlandkreis destrict, in Saxony, Germany. It wis established in 1994 bi the merger o the three veelages Rothenkirchen, Wernesgrün an Wildenau an namit efter the nearbi Steinberg (661m/2168 ft), pairt o the Ore Muntains.
Wernesgrün is hame o the Wernesgrüner brewery.
Khartoum
Dividit bi the Niles, Khartoum is a tripartite metropolis wi an estimatit oweraw population o ower a million fowk consistin o Khartoum proper, an linkt bi briges tae Khartoum North cawed (al-Khartūm Bahrī) an Omdurman (Umm Durmān) tae the wast.
Etymology
The wird 'Khartoum' is derived frae Arabic Al-Jartūm الجرطوم meanin "end o an elephant’s trunk", probably referrin tae the narrae strip o land extendin atween the Blue an White Niles. Captain J. A. Grant, who reached Khartoum in 1863 wi Captain Speke’s expedition, thocht that the derivation wis maist probably frae the safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius L.) which is cawed 'Gartoon,' an which wis cultivatit extensively in Egyp for its ile, uised in burnin.
Dhamar Govrenorate
Dhamar (ذمار Ḏamār), an aw spelt Thamar, is a govrenorate o Yemen. It is locatit tae the sooth an sootheast o Sana'a Govrenorate, tae the north o Ibb Govrenorate, tae the east o Al Hudaydah Govrenorate an tae the northwast o Al Bayda' Govrenorate in the central heichlands o Yemen. It haes a tot auries o 7586 km2 an an estimatit population o aroond ane an a hauf million.
The visitor enters Dhamar govrenorate aboot 70 km sooth o the Sana’a airport. The centre o the govrenorate is aboot 100 km frae Sana’a, the caipital o the Republic. The govrenorate sits amang a nummer o ither govrenorates: Sana’a tae the north an northeast, al-Bayda’ tae the east, Ibb tae the sooth, an Raymah an al-Hudaydah tae the wast.
Geography
The govrenorate covers 7935 km2, which is dividit amang 12 admeenistrative destricts (mudiriyyah) an further dividit intae 314 sub-destricts (‘uzlah). Accordin tae the 2004 census, the govrenorate contains 1,329,229 fowk, maist o whom live in the govrenorate’s 3,262 veelages.
The govrenorate’s climate is temperate, awtho the central an eastren sections o the govrenorate tend tae be cauld durin the winter, while the valleys an wastren slopes are warmer. The average temperaturs range frae 10 to 19 C in simmer, an frae 8 to -1 C in winter.
The govrenorate in general lees 1600 – abuin the sea level, wi a topographic relief that varies frae heich muntains tae deep valleys, upland plains an plateaus. The maist muntain peaks include Isbil, al-Lisi, Duran, the twa Wusab moontain ranges, an the ‘Utamah muntains. Jahran, in the north central pairt o the govrenorate, is its maist extensive plain.
Destricts
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Rehovot
Rehovot is a ceety in the Center Destrict o Israel, aboot 20 km sooth o Tel Aviv. In it haed a population o.
Rehovot wis biggit on the steid o Doron, a Jewish community that existit in the time o the Mishna. The steid wis an aa the location o Khirbet Duran, populatit durin the Roman, Byzantine an early Arab periods. The ceety is named efter a biblical toun o the same name (Rehoboth in the KJV Bible), whilk stuid at a different location, in the Negev Desert.
History
Rehovot wis foondit in 1890, in the coastal plain relatively spairsely settled bi Arabs, bi Pols Jews wha wantit a tounship independent o the Baron Edmond de Rothschild's aid (an management). Israel Belkind, ane o the oreeginal foonders o the dounset, proponed the name Rehovot (lit. 'wide expanses') based on Genesis 26:22 : "An he cried the name o it Rehoboth; an he said: 'For nou the Laird hath made ruim for us, an we sall be fruitfu in the land.'" The name wis acceptit. In 1908 thay wur jynt bi immigrants frae Yemen, who settled in the ceety's Sha'arayim destrict. Thir early settlers plantit vinyairds, awmond orcharts an citrus groves. Thay gainstuid agricultural failures, plant diseases, an mercatin problems.
An agricultural research station that opened in Rehovot in 1932 became the Depairtment o Agricultur o the Ebreu University o Jerusalem. In 1934 Chaim Weizmann stablished the Sieff Institute, whilk became the Weizmann Institute o Science. In 1937 Weizmann biggit his hame on the land purchased adjacent tae the Sieff Institute. The hoose later served as the presidential residence efter Weizamnn became preses in 1948. Weizmann an his wife are buried on the grunds o the institute.
On 29 Februar 1948 the Lehi blew up the Cairo tae Haifa train shortly efter it left Rehovoth killin 29 Breetish sodgers an injurin 35 as weel as 100 ceevilians. The Lehi annooncement said the bombin wis in retaliation for the Ben Yehuda Street Bombin a week earlier.
Income
As o 2004, in the ceety thare wis 41,323 salaried wirkers an 2,683 are sel-employed. The mean monthly wage for a salaried wirker in the ceety is ILS 6,732, a real chynge o -5.2% ower the course o the previous year. Salaried males hae a mean monthly wage o ILS 8,786 (a real chynge o -4.8%) versus ILS 4,791 for females (a real chynge o -5.3%). The mean income for the sel-employed is 6,806. Thare 1,082 fowk wha receive unemployment benefits an 6,627 fowk wha receive an income guarantee.
Minorities: In Rehovot thare three signeeficant Jewish ethnic minorities: Roushie Jews, Yemenite Jews an Ethiopian Jews, concentratit lairgely in the Kiryat Moshe an Oshiot auries.
Education
As o 2004, thare are 19,794 students an 53 schuils in the ceety, includin 30 schuils wi 9,875 elementary schuil students an 29 schuils wi 9,919 heich schuil students. 61.3% o 12t grade students wur entitled tae a matriculation certificate. The ceety is hame tae the Weizmann Institute o Science an the Faculty o Agricultur o the Ebreu University o Jerusalem. Thare are an' a' a nummer o smawer junior colleges in Rehovot that provide specialised an technical trainin. In addition, Kaplan Hospital acts as an ancillary teachin hospital for the Medical Schuil o the Ebreu University o Jerusalem.
Economy
The Tamar Science Pairk, established in 2000, is a heich-tech pairk o 1,000 dunams (250 acres) at the northren entrance o the ceety. Tho lairgely conceived as an aurie o Rehovot, it actually is unner the municipal bundaries o neighbourin Ness Ziona.
Sports
Rehovot haes haed three clubs representin it the tap diveesion o Israeli fitbaa, Maccabi Rehovot atween 1949 an 1956, Maccabi Sha'arayim atween 1963 an 1969 an again in 1985, an Hapoel Marmorek in the 1972-73 saison.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Rehovot is twinned wi:
Juan Mata
Juan Manuel Mata García, commonly kent as Juan Mata (born 28 April 1988), is a Spaingie fitbawer who plays for Inglis club Manchester United an the Spain naitional team. He plays primarily as an attackin midfielder but can play as a winger an aw.
Temple Balsall
Temple Balsall is a hamlet athin the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the Inglis West Midlands, situatit atween the lairge veelages o Knowle an Balsall Common. It wis umwhile in Warwickshire.
It is ane o the auldest an maist interestin steids in the borough. It is named efter, an dates frae the time o the Knights Templar. They fermed aboot 650 acres (2.6 km2) o the estate in the 12t century, an established a preceptory whaur a number o brithers lived an ran the estate. efter the Order wis suppressed, the estate wis gien tae the Knights Hospitaller o St John. They lost it when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries an Queen Elizabeth I gave the estate tae Robert Dudley.
The 13t century kirk an Old Hall, an 17t century almshooses survive.
Jonadi
Jonadi (Ionades) is a comune (municipality) in the Province o Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabrie, locatit aboot 60 km soothwast o Catanzaro an aboot 5 km soothwast o Vibo Valentia. As o 31 Dizember 2004, it haed a population o 3,027 an a aurie o 8.7 km².
The municipality o Jonadi contains the frazioni (subdiveesions, mainly veelages an hamlets) Nao, Vena, Baracconi, an Case Sparse.
Jonadi borders the follaein municipalities: Filandari, Mileto, San Costantino Calabro, San Gregorio d'Ippona, Vibo Valentia.
Niesgrau
Niesgrau (Nisvrå) is a municipality in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, northren Germany near the Dens border.
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область, translit. Luhans’ka oblast’, Луганская область, translit. Luganskaya oblast; an aa referred tae as Luhanshchyna – Луганщина or locally as Luhan '  (Лугань)) is the eastmaist oblast (province) o Ukraine. Its admeenistrative centre is Luhansk. The oblast wis established on 3 Juin 1938 an bore the name Voroshilovgrad Oblast (till 1958 an again frae 1970 tae 1990) in honour o Kliment Voroshilov.
Important ceeties athin the oblast include: Alchevsk, Antratsyt, Bryanka, Kirovsk, Krasnyi Luch, Krasnodon, Lysychansk, Luhansk, Pervomaisk, Rovenky, Rubizhne, Sverdlovsk, Syeverodonetsk, Stakhanov.
Geography
The Luhansk Oblast is locatit in eastren Ukraine. The aurie o the oblast' (26,700 km²), comprises aboot 4.42% o the tot aurie o the kintra.
Its langitude frae north tae sooth is 250 km, frae east tae wast – 190 km. The oblast' borders the Belgorod an Voronezh Oblast's o Roushie on the north, the Rostov Oblast o Roushie on the east, the Rostov Oblast on the sooth, an the Kharkiv an Donetsk Oblast's on the wast.
Admeenistrative subdiveesions
The follaein data incorporates the nummer o each type o admeenistrative diveesions o the Luhansk Oblast:
The local admeenistration o the oblast' is controlled bi the Luhansk Oblast Rada. The govrenor o the oblast' is the Luhansk Oblast Rada speaker, appointit bi the Preses o Ukraine.
Demographics
Its population (as o 2004) o 2,461,506 million constitutes 5.13% o the oweraw Ukrainian population. The Luhansk Oblast rates fift in Ukraine bi the nummer o its indwallers, haein an average population density o 90.28 /km². Aboot 87% o the population lives in urban auries, an the rest – 13%, reside in agricultural auries. Accordin tae the naitional census, 54.0% o the population are Ukrainians an 42% are Roushies.
Politics
On 25 Aprile 2006, the Oblast's cooncil votit tae recognise Roushie as a co-offeecial leid in the territory o Luhansk Oblast. Housomeivver, such a decision mey hae nae legal effect accordin tae Ukraine's legislation.
History
The oblast belongs tae the historical region o Donbas as well as tae Sloboda Ukraine (Slobozhanshchina). Atween 1753 an 1764, a territory o Imperial Roushie named Slavo-Serbia existit in this aurie wi administrative seat in Slovianoserbsk.
Points o interest
The follaein historic-cultural steids wur nominatit for the Seiven Wonders o Ukraine.
Banner o Caithness
The Caithness banner is the banner fur the Caithness coonty. It wis pitten on the Banner Institute as the offeecial banner fur the coonty in 2016. The banner wis first shawn bi the Laird Lyon, Dr Joseph Morrow, at a ceremony in Caithness Hoose, Wick on the 26 Januar 2016. The Nordic ruid design is fur the auncient ties wi the county tae the Vikings. The black is a thrawback tae the county's geology wi the famous Caithness flagstone, whaurbyes the gowd an blue is fur the beaches an sea respective-like, shawin the maritime naitur o the coonty and its heritage. The tradeetional emblem fur Caithness, a galley, is pitten ontae the first quarter, wi a corbie pitten on its sail as it is shawn in the coonty's cievic airms.
Walsall Wood
Walsall Wood is a smaa toun locatit in the Metropolitan Borough o Walsall, Wast Midlands, UK, atween Aldridge an Brownhills.