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Collin Coonty
Demographics
In the coonty, the population wis spread oot wi 28.70% unner the age o 18, 7.40% frae 18 tae 24, 37.90% frae 25 tae 44, 20.70% frae 45 tae 64, an 5.30% who wur 65 years o age or aulder. The median age wis 33 years. For ivery 100 females thare wur 99.80 males. For ivery 100 females age 18 an ower, thare wur 97.80 males.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
History
Werdenfels Castle, whaur the accusit wur held, tried an executit, became an object o superstitious horror an wis abandoned in the 17t century. It wis lairgely torn doun in the 1750s an its stones uised tae big the baroque Neue Kirche (New Kirk) on Marienplatz, which wis completit in 1752. It replacit the nearbi Gothic Alte Kirche (Auld Kirk), pairts o which predatit Christianity an mey oreeginally hae been a pagan temple. Uised as a storehoose, airmory an haybarn for mony years, it haes syne been re-consecratit. Some o its medieval frescoes are still visible.
Candelaria
Candelaria (or Candelária) mey refer tae:
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
History
Garmisch an Partenkirchen remained separate till thair respective mayors wis forced bi Adolf Hitler tae combine the twa mercat touns in 1935 in anticipation o the 1936 Winter Olympic gemmes. The day, the unitit toun is casually (but incorrectly) referred tae as Garmisch, muckle tae the dismay o Partenkirchen's residents. Maist visitors will notice the slichtly mair modren feel o Garmisch while the fresco-fillet cobblestaned streets o Partenkirchen affer a glimpse intae times past. Early forenuins an late efternuins in pleasant wather aften fin local traffeck stoppit while the dairy cous is herdit tae an frae the naurhaun muntain meadaes.
Transportation
The toun is served bi Federal Heichway 2 as a continuation o the A95 Autobahn (motorway), whilk ends at Eschenlohe 16 km north o the ceety.
Candelaria
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In the airchipelago o the Azores:
Louis I, Duke o Orléans
Louis I of Orléans (13 Mairch 1372 – 23 November 1407) wis Duke o Orléans frae 1392 tae his daith.
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (24 Februar 1955 − 5 October 2011) wis an American business magnate an inventor. He is weel kent for being the co-foonder an chief executive officer o Apple. Jobs an aa previously served as chief executive o Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member o the board o The Walt Disney Company in 2006, follaein the acquisition o Pixar bi Disney.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, wi Apple co-foonder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, an ithers, designed, developed, an marketit ane o the first commercially successful lines o personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs wis amang the first tae see the commercial potential o the moose-driven graphical uiser interface which led tae the creation o the Macintosh. Efter losin a pouer struggle wi the board o directors in 1985, Jobs resigned frae Apple an foondit NeXT, a computer platform development company specializin in the heicher education an business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyoot o NeXT brocht Jobs back tae the company he co-foondit, an he served as its CEO frae 1997 tae 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics diveesion o Lucasfilm Ltd which wis spun aff as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO an majority sharehaulder at 50.1 percent till its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's lairgest individual shareholder at 7 percent an a member o Disney's Board o Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs annoonced his resignation frae his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs dee'd in Palo Alto, Californie at age 56 o pancreatic cancer.
Collin Coonty
Demographics
The median income for a hoosehauld in the coonty wis $70,835, an the median income for a faimily wis $81,856 (thir figures haed risen tae $77,671 an $91,881 respectively as o a 2007 estimate). Males haed a median income o $57,392 versus $36,604 for females. The per caipita income for the coonty wis $33,345. Aboot 3.30% o faimilies an 4.90% o the population wur belaw the poverty line, includin 5.10% o those unner age 18 an 7.10% o those age 65 or ower. Based on median hoosehauld income, as o 2006, Collin Coonty is the seicont richest coonty in Texas efter Fort Bend, an is considered ane o the walthiest coonties in the Unitit States.
Politics
Collin Coonty is a Republican stranghauld in presidential an congressional elections. The last Democrat tae win the coonty wis Lyndon Johnson in 1964. As the northren Dallas suburbs spilled intae Collin Coonty in the late 1960s an early 1970s its politics immediately swung tae the Republican Pairty.
Ceeties an touns
†† Ceety extends intae twa or mair adjacent coonties.
Education
The follaein schuil destricts lee entirely athin Collin Coonty:
while anerlie pairts o the follaein destricts lee athin the coonty:
Colleges an Universities
The Central Campus o Collin College which opened in Januar 1986 is locatit in McKinney. Dallas Baptist University haes an extension steid in Frisco, DBU Frisco an aw.
Pairks
Collin County Parks and Open Spaces
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Transportation
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen line an the Mittenwald Railway (Garmisch–Mittenwald–Innsbruck). It is the terminus o the Außerfern Railway tae Reutte in Tirol / Kempten im Allgäu an the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (wi sections o rack railway) tae the Zugspitze, the heichest muntain in Germany. Regional services rin ivery oor tae München Hauptbahnhof an Mittenwald an ivery twa oors tae Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof an Reutte. In addition thare are special saisonal lang-distance services, includin ICEs, tae Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Bremen an Innsbruck.
Marshall Islands
The Republic o the Marshall Islands (RMI), is a Micronesian naition o atolls an islands in the middle o the Paceefic Ocean, juist wast o the Internaitional Date Line an juist north o the Equator. The population is aboot 62,000. In 1986 unthirldom wis attained unner a Compact of Free Association wi the Unitit States.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Transportation
Several accessible hikin trails frae the toun is inspecially spectacular an civer baith the laicher an heicher elevations.
Sports
In 1936 it wis the site o the Winter Olympic Gemmes, the first tae featur alpine skiin. A variety o Nordic an alpine Warld Cup ski races are held here, uisually on the Kandahar Track ootwi the toun. Tradeetionally, a ski jumpin contest is held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on New Year's Day, as a pairt o the Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzen-Tournee). The Warld Alpine Ski Championships wur held in Garmisch in 1978 an 2011.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a favored haliday spot for skiin, snawbuirdin, an hikin an' a', haein some o the best skiin auries (Garmisch Classic an Zugspitze) in Germany.
It wis annoonced on December 7, 2007, that Garmisch-Partenkirchen is pairt o a Bavarian bid tae host the 2018 Winter Olympics, wi pairtner candidates Munich an Schönau am Königsee (near Berchtesgaden). The Winter Olympics wis last held in the German-speakin Alps in 1976 in naurhaun Innsbruck, Austrick.
Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate is a climate that is alike tae the climate o the launds aboot the Mediterranean Sea. Ootby the Mediterranean, ane can find this climate anerlie in raither smaa auries. For ordinar, ane can find it on the waster coasts o continental laundmasses, aboot atween latitudes 30° tae 45° north an sooth o the Equator.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Public institutions
The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies is an aa locatit in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Marshall Center is an internaitionally fundit an maistly U.S.-staffed learnin an conference centre for govrenments frae aroond the warld, but primarily frae the umwhile Soviet Union an Eastren European kintras. It wis established in Juin 1993, replacin the U.S. Airmy Roushie Institute. Near the Marshall Center is the American Airmed Forces Recreation Centers (Edelweiss Lodge and Resort) in Garmisch that sers U.S. an NATO military an thair faimilies. A feck o U.S. troops an ceevilians is stationed in the toun tae provide logistical support tae the Marshall Center an Edelweiss Recreation Center.
Kintyre
Kintyre (Cinn Tìre, meaning heid o the laund) is a hauf-iland in wastren Scotland, in the soothwast o Argyll an Bute. The hauf-iland stents aboot 30 mile (48 km) frae Aest Loch Tarbert in the north til the Mull o Kintyre in the sooth. The region til the north north o Kintyre is kent as Knapdale.
Kintyre is lang an nairrae, at no pynt mair nor 11 mile (18 km) frae wast coast til aest coast. Af til the aest o Kintyre is the Firth o Clyde an Isle o Arran. Kintyre is sindert frae Arran bi the Kilbrannan Soond. Af til the wast ligs the ilands o Gigha, Islay an Raucherie. The coast o Ireland (Coonty Antrim) is anerlie aboot 12 mile (20 km) frae the Mull o Kintyre an can be seen on cleir days. This is the cuttiest range atwein Ireland an Gret Breetain.
The middil 'backbane' o Kintyre is maistlins hill-run muirlaund. The coastal auries, houaniver, ar rich an growthie. Kintyre haes lang been a prized aurie for sattilers, includin Scots wha flittit frae Ulster til wastren Scotland an the Vikings or Norsemen wha owerhailt an sattil'd the hauf-iland juist afore the stairt o the seicont millennium. Frae the 6t centurie til the 9t centurie the hauf-iland wis pairt o the Gaelic owerkingrik o Dál Riata an eftir that it becam pairt o the Norse Kingrik o Mann an the Isles.
The main town on Kintyre is Campbeltoun (aboot 5½ mile bi road frae the Mull), whilk haes been a ryal burgh sin the mid-18t centurie. Kintyre's economie haes lang lippent on fishin an fermin, awtho Campbeltoun haes a reputation as a makker o sum o the warld's fynest singil maut whiskie.
Touns an veilages
The follaein touns an veilages lig on Kintyre: Bellochantuy, Campbeltoun, Carradale, Clachan, Claonaig, Drumlemble, Glenbarr, Grogport, Kilchenzie, Machrihanish, Muasdale, Peninver, Saddell, Skipness, Southend, Stewarton, Tayinloan, Tarbert, an Whitehouss.
Historic an prehistoric steids
Kintyre haes a nummer o auld, historicalie wechtie kirks an abbeys. Thir include Clachan Kirk, Kilchenzie Kirk, Kilchousland Kirk, Saunt Columba's Chaipil, St John's Kirk in Killean (whilk haes been deskrived as the "maist important medieval parish kirk in Kintyre" ) an Saddell Abbey. Thar ar thrie castils on Kintyre anaw: Saddell Castil, Skipness Castil an Tarbert Castil.
Prehistoric steids o interest include staunin stanes (at Avinagillan, Ballochroy, an Beacharr), an intact chaumer cairn at Corriechrevie, an Airn Eild forts at Dun Skeig an Kildonan. A craig atwein Dunaverty Bay an Carskey haes twa fitdunts cairved at a steid whaur Saunt Columba is sayd ti hae first set fit in Scotland. The fitdunts micht hae been linkit til keengship rituals.
Kintyre in popular cultur
Thar haes been a nummer o sangs wrat anent Kintyre. The maist weil-kent is Paul McCartney's' 1977 track "Mull o Kintyre" perform'd bi Wings. The sang wis wrat in tribute til the hauf-iland, whaur McCartney haes awnt High Park Farm sin 1966. The sang wis Wings' mukkilest hit in the Unitit Kinrick, whaur it becam Kristenmas nummer ane, an wis the first singil ti sell ower twa million copies in the UK.
The "Mull o Kintyre test" or "Mull o Kintyre rule" wis an unofeicial gyd sayd ti hae been uis'd bi the British Board o Film Classification in ti wale gin a pictur o a man's tadger cud be shawn on TV or in films. It is sayd that the BBFC wadna allou the tadger ti be shawn gin it war erect sae that the angil it made frae the vertical wis mair nor thon o Kintyre on cairts o Scotland.
Achilles
In Greek meethology, Achilles  wis a Greek hero o the Trojan War an the central chairacter an greatest warrior o Homer's Iliad. His mither wis the immortal nymph Thetis, an his faither, the mortal Peleus, wis the king o the Myrmidons.
Leonhard Euler
Born an bred in Basel, he wis a mathematical child prodigy. He worked as a professor o mathematics in St. Petersburg, an aifter in Berlin, an then cam back ti St. Petersburg. He is the maist proleific mathematician bar nane, his collected wark fullin 75 volumes. He dominated the mathematics o the 1700s an worked oot mony consequences o the neow inventit calculus. He wis blind for the hindmaist seventeen year o his life, a time whan he produced near on hauf o aa his wark.
An asteroid haes been cried 2002 Euler in his honour.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline (tur-mah-Leen) is a crystal boron silicate meeneral compoondit wi elements sic as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. Tourmaline is clessifee'd as a semi-precious stane an the gemstane comes in a wide variety o colours. The name comes frae the Sinhalese wird "Thuramali" (තුරමලි) or "Thoramalli" (තෝරමල්ලි), which applee'd tae different gemstanes foond in Sri Lanka.
Bordils
Bordils is a veelage in the province o Girona an autonomous commonty o Catalonie, Spain. The municipality covers a aurie o 7.29 km2 an as o 2011 haed a population o 1736 fowk.
Ford of Britain
Ford of Britain (offeecially Ford Motor Company Limited) is a Breetish wholly awned subsidiar o Ford of Europe, itsel a subsidiar o Ford Motor Company. Its business stairtit in 1909 an haes its registered office in Brentwood, Essex. It adoptit the tred name o Ford of Britain in 1960.
Ford of Europe
Ford of Europe AG is a subsidiar company o Ford Motor Company foondit in 1967 wi heidquairters in Cologne, Germany.
Lernakert, Shirak
Lernakert (Լեռնակերտ, Romanisit as Lerrnakert an aw; umwhile, Shirvandzhug an Shirvan) is a toun in the Shirak Province o Armenie.
Sinaloa de Leyva
Sinaloa de Leyva wis establishit as San Felipe y Santiago in 1585 bi Antonio Ruiz, Bartolomé de Mondragón, Tomás de Soberanes, Juan Martínez del Castillo an Juan Caballero. Bi 1590, Ruiz wis its alcalde mayor, an it held nine fowk who ekit oot a livin, but the situation impruivit throu their discovery o the mines o Chínipas, an the arrival o the Jesuits in 1591. At the end o the saxteent century, Ruiz wrote his history whaur he detailed the early history o San Felipe y Santiago, an Sinaloa.
This wis the base for Diego de Hurdaide's subjugation o the Sinaloas, Tehuecos, Ahomes an Zuaques an the extension o Spainyie control ower the Fuerte River glen, an thus tae the northren edge o modren Sinaloa.
Sinaloa, Sin. serves as the municipal seat for the surroondin municipality (municipio) o Sinaloa. The municipality reportit 85,100 inhabitants in the 2000 census. It is the umwhile caipital o the Paceefic Mexican state o Sinaloa.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016 film)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 British/American fantasie film that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and directed by David Yates. It was released worldwide on November 18, 2016 in 3D, IMAX 4K Laser and other muckle format cinemas.
Spainish flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (Januar 1918 – December 1920; kent as Spanish flu in Inglis) wis an unuisually deidly influenza (haingles) pandemic, the first o the twa pandemics involvin the H1N1 influenza virus. It infectit 500 million fowk aroond the warld, includin fowk on remote Pacific Islands an in the Arctic, an resulted in the deiths o 50 till 100 million (three tae five percent o the warld's population), makkin it ane o the deidliest naitural disasters in human history.
Leopardus
Leopardus is a genus o eig species o smaw, felines foond in Americae. They are tropically forest-dwellin. Some species are cats o Americae feed mainly on leopard an ither pantherine.
Cushamen Depairtment
Cushamen is a depairtment locatit in the northwast o Chubut Province in Argentinae.
The provincial subdiveesion haes a population o aboot 17,000 inhabitants in a aurie o 16,250km², an its caipital ceety is Cushamen. The name means laneliness in the Tehuelche leid.
International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics
Prizes
At ivery SCAN, the R. E. Moore Prize will be gien. This is a prize for researchers i the field o validatit numerics. The name o the prize came from Ramon E. Moore Prize (expert o interval arithmetic).
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy is a Canadian daith metal baund frae Montreal, Quebec, formit in 1988. The baund haes sauld ower 300,000 records.
Şanlıurfa Province
Şanlıurfa Province (Şanlıurfa ili) or simply Urfa Province is a province in Sootheast Anatolie, Turkey. The ceety o Şanlıurfa is the caipital o the province which bears its name. The day Kurds forms the majority in this ceety, an anerlie a significant Assirie/Syriac community is livin thare. The population is 1,663,371 (2010 est).
Population in 1990 wis 1,001,455; 551,124 in the destrict centers, 450,331 in rural veelages. Bi 2000, the population o Şanlıurfa province haed grown tae 1,436,956 an that o Şanlıurfa ceety, 829,000.
Destricts
Şanlıurfa province is dividit intae 11 destricts (caipital destrict in bauld):
Geography
Aurie 18,584 km² (7,173 sq. mile), the lairgest province o Sootheast Anatolie wi:
Şanlıurfa includes several major components o the Southeastern Anatolia Project (in Turkis Güneydogu Anadolu Projesi (GAP)) designed tae: This vera lairge-scale, state-sponsored development project involved the dammin, redirectin, hydroelectric tappin an ither utilization o rivers in this broad, semi-arid region. (The rivers then flow intae Sirie an Iraq). The GAP project includes 22 dams, hunders o mile o irrigation wirks.
Even afore GAP, Şanlıurfa Province haed the lairgest share o cultivatit an cultivable land in the GAP region, due tae its flatness an heichlie fertile, agricultural land. The Şanlıurfa an Harran Plains extend ower an aurie o aboot 1,500 km² (579 sq. mile). Irrigatin these plains is ane o the maist important components o GAP.
Accordin tae the 1990 census, Şanlıurfa Province contained 148,521 hoosehaulds, an the average hoosehauld size wis 6.74 fowk. 71 % o hoosehauld heids describit thair occupation as fermin. In 1992, Şanlıurfa haed the heichest concentration o land awnership in Turkey, wi a landless rate o 48%. While 5% o the families in the province awned 65% o the land, the vast majority (70%) awned anerlie 10%.
Şanlıurfa’s average annual growth rate atween 1985 an 1990 wis 4.6%, considerably heicher than baith the naitional an regional averages.
History
See Şanlıurfa an Edessa, Mesopotamie.
Politics
The politics o Şanlıurfa Province are still widely shaped bi the electoral adherence o a nummer o Zaza clans (aşiret). In pairticular, the destricts alang the Euphrates river hae lang been a pouer base for the traditional center-richt DYP, umwhile unner Süleyman Demirel an Mrs. Tansu Çiller, an nou unner ex-chief o polis Mr. Mehmet Ağar.
Turkey's rulin AKP did come first in 2004 local elections wi a comfortable 43.04 %, but the DYP, currently oot o parliament, seems tae be recoverin unner the new leadership o Mr. Ağar, who is kent for his intimacy wi the local feudal structures.
Hintle effort is deployed bi DEHAP, campaignin on Kurdish-identity consciousness arguments, tae attract clan votes, but this is complicatit bi polemics o the definitions o a Kurdish an a destinct Zaza identity. Several clans wur at the forefront o the struggle against PKK terrorism in the 1980s an the 1990s. Still, DEHAP registered some success in 2004 local elections, comin seicont in the province wi 16.95 %, risin frae 12,06 % in 1999, wi a faithful electorate in the twa destricts borderin Diyarbakır Province. DEHAP tradeetionally avoids the districts borderin Sirie an populatit bi ethnic Arabs, whaur thay did no even name candidates for the 2004 elections.
MHP, campaignin on Turkis-identity consciousness arguments, efter haein scored an exceptional 7,18 % in 1999, haes in 2004 ebbed back tae a mair uisual 2,97 %.
Arab League
The Arab League (الجامعة العربية al-Jāmiʻa al-ʻArabiyya), offeecially cried the League o Arab States (جامعة الدول العربية Jāmiʻat ad-Duwal al-ʻArabiyya), is a regional organisation o Arab states in North an Northeast Africae, an Soothwast Asie (Middle East). It wis formit in Cairo on 22 Mairch 1945 wi sax members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamit Jordan in 1949), Lebanon, Saudi Arabie, an Sirie. Yemen joined as a member on 5 Mey 1945. The Arab League currently haes 21 members an fower observers. The main goal o the league is tae "draw closer the relations atween member States an co-ordinate collaboration atween them, tae safeguard their unthirldom an sovereignty, an tae consider in a general way the affairs an interests o the Arab kintras."
Şanlıurfa Province
Politics
The center-left CHP uisually obtains a modest share, slichtly ablo 10%.
The current mayor o Sanliurfa is Dr. Ahmet Eşref FAKIBABA, a umwhile general surgeon who haes helped renovate the ceety an bring it up tae a cleaner an structured level. He is kent for strang poseetion against clan govrenance. He haes helped bring transparency, dedication, an honesty back tae the entire ceety.
Lusakert, Shirak
Lusakert (Լուսակերտ; umwhile, Talibogly an Talib) is a toun in Shirak Province, Armenie.
Lin Biao
Lin Biao (IPA: ; December 5, 1907 – September 13, 1971) wis a Marshal o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae who wis pivotal in the communist victory in the Cheenese Ceevil War, especially in Northeastren Cheenae.
Santiago Llano Grande
Santiago Llano Grande is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o km². It is locatit in the Jamiltepec Destrict in the wast o the Costa Region.
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o.
Eritrea
Eritrea ( or ; Ge'ez:, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), offeecially the State o Eritrea, is a kintra in the North East o Africae. The caipital is Asmara. It is bordered bi Sudan in the wast, Ethiopie in the sooth, an Djibouti in the sootheast. The east an northeast o the kintra hae an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly athort frae Saudi Arabie an Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago an several o the Hanish Islands are pairt o Eritrea. Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km2 wi an estimatit population o 5 million.
Tome, Miyagi
Tome (登米市) is a ceety locatit in Miyagi Prefectur, Japan.
Previously a destrict consistin o aicht touns, on 1 Aprile 2005, they, alang wi the toun o Tsuyama umwhile o Motoyoshi Destrict, merged tae form a new ceety. As o 2010, Tome ceety haed an estimatit population o 84,070 an a population density o 157 bodies per km². The total aurie wis 536.38 km².
Umwhile touns an veelages
Frae Motoyoshi Destrict
Celrà
Celrà is a veelage in the province o Girona an autonomous commonty o Catalonie, Spain. The municipality covers a aurie o 19.53 km2 an as o 2011 haed a population o 4772 fowk.
Astara Rayon
Astara is the soothmaist rayon in sootheastren Azerbaijan.
General information
Astara Rayon wis established in 1930. In 1963, it wis abolished as rayon an its territory incorporatit intae Lankaran Rayon an in 1965, its admeenistrative rayon status wis restored. Oweraw aurie o the rayon is 616.4 km2 (238.0 sq mi). Its population is 95,300 fowk. The rayon caipital, Astara is a sma picturesque Caspian port toun, on the Azerbaijan-Iran border, caipital o Azerbaijan's soothmaist rayon. Comin soothbund frae Lankaran, thare is a giant samovar bi the road walcomin visitors tae the rayon. Astara rayon is vera woodit wi 37,000 ha (370 km2) o forests. Famous Juglans sigillata is a commonplace in Astara woods. Astarachay an Tangarud rivers that flow through the rayon start at Talysh Muntains which are in the wastren pairt o the rayon. Heichest peaks are 200 m (660 ft) abuin sea level. The northeastren pairt o the rayon is lawlands. A pairt o the Hirkan National Park is locatit in Astara rayon. Istisu, Ağ körppü, Sım, Bi, Toradi, Şeyx Nəsrullah resorts o Astara hae treatin mineral watter. Average temperature is -1.5◦ C - 4◦C in Januar,15-25◦C in Julie. Annual rainfall is 1200–1750 mm.
Etymology
Thare are twa main theories for the etymology o the ceety's name. Ane is that it derived frae the Persie or Talysh wird آهسته رو (Aste-ro or Aheste-ro), meaning "the place whaur the travel gets slower" (gien the mairshlands that surroondit the region afore). The auldest theory comes frae Vedic sangs an writins which explains Astara as a place whaur the rays o lichts shine frae ahint tae licht the pathways aheid.
Airchitectural monuments
Thare are ower 400 historical an airchitectural monuments in the rayon, amang them a touer in Şindan veelage aften cried Babek touer amang the fowk, auncient touer in Nudis veelage, Məşədi Abutalıb bath hoose, Hajı Teymur an Haji Jahanbakhish mosques in Pensər veelage, tomb in Şahağac veelage, Karbalayi Hamid Abdulla bath hoose in Ərçivan veelage. Ərçivan veelage is rich wi famous sulphur-rich springs an aw, which if ignitit lichts up. In addition, auncient fortress gates, 7t century tomb, caravanserai, stane monuments pertainin tae Stane an Bronze Ages in Qapıçıməhəllə veelage, ruins o 8t century brigs in Sipiyəpart, Lomin və Pəlikəş veelages are a major tourist attraction.
Economy
Astara is a major soorce for Azerbaijan's fishin industry. Haein a lang coastline an inner access tae rivers, the rayon haes access tae mony types o mercatable fish. It is an important transit point for aw kynds o guids, as the numerous lorries at the border well illustrate. The pipeline comin frae Abadan enters Azerbaijan in Astara an aw.
Travellin
The toun haes a border crossin intae Iran, wi the Iranian hauf o the toun, cried Astara an aw, on the ither side o the river Astara. The Baku tae Tehran bus stops in Astara.
Norse meethologie
Norse Meethology is the name gien tae the hatter o meeths, legends an reelegious lair that's connectit tae the Auld Norse cultur. Aspects o it won intae mair modren Nordic fowklair, an haes mair recently been reconstructit (an in some places re-inventit) bi modren pagans. Maist o whit we nou ken anent thir meeths comes frae the leeteratur o 13t century Iceland.
Releegion
Maist o thir meeths haes their ruits in the pre-Christian releegion o the Norse fowk, tho the auldest written soorces for the maist o thaim wis wrate doun bi the Christan scholars Snorri Sturluson o Iceland an Saxo Grammaticus o Denmark. As sic, maist modren scholars jalouses that the meeths haes been influenced tae at least a smaw degree bi Christianity (e.g. ae meeth haes Odin hingin deid on a tree for nine day afore comin back tae life, an obvious parallel o Christian beliefs anent Jesus Christ), but still for the maist pairt represents the pagan tradeetions o the Norse fowk.
Pantheon
The Auld Norse fowk believed in monie gods an goddesses, some o whit is weel kent e'en the day.
Odin
Odin wis the heidmaist o the gods, an due tae his status wis aften cried the Alföðr (or, Awfaither). He wis wyce an strang, an wis believed tae be the faither o musardry an the runic alphabet, forby bein a war god an the bringer o victory.
Thor
The Thunnergod, the wain-rider, Thor wis the maist popular o the Norse pantheon, an wis wirshippit bi maist ordinar fowk. Gey strang, but no gey cliver, he wis believed tae bring rains an storms. He wis weel kent bi his wappen: the haimer Mjolnir.
Loki
A trickster, Loki wis cliver an a dab-haund wi speak; but turned ill an murthert Odin's son Baldr. Gaun by the meeths, he is tae lead the airmy agin the gods at Ragnarok.
Kings an Heroes
The tales o the Norse kings an heroes is telt in the sagas, seemilar tae the naitional epics in ither culturs. Scholars haes aye ettelt tae pou wee bits o genuine history frae thir sagas that aften tells o the foondin o kintras an clans, or o the lifes o heroes an kings in the Norse warld; mony o thaim aiblins did exeest, or micht at least be based on real chiels.
Warld an Cosmology
In Norse meethology, the warld wis creatit frae the body o the ice-gyan Ymir bi Odin an his brithers. The warld is spleet intae three planes: the rick o the gods (Asgard); the rick o men (Midgard) an the rick o the deid (Niflheim) - ane atap the ither, an jyned thegither by a muckle esh tree cryed Yggdrasil. Midgaard is surroondit bi Jötunheim, the rick o the gyans - the twa is sindert bi the ocean. The meeths alludes tae a tot o nine hamelands, but thir canna be aw named acause thir is niver aw listit. It micht be nearer tae the sooth tae think o deeferent dimensions that can be owerlowpit bi gods an ither weirdly beins (syne the gods aften gaes tae Midgard, feor exemplar) raither nor kintras as sic.
Endtimes
Like maist culturs, the Auld Norse fowk haed an idea o whit the end o time wad be like. They believed it wad end in a muckle stour atween the gods an their faes; a happenin that they cried Ragnarok. In it, the gods wis weirdit tae be beaten, an the auld (that is tae say, current) order o things wad be dingit doun. The warld an pantheon as they believed it tae be wis tae be nae mair, an the auld gods wad dee. Houmsome'er, a new order o things wad be born efterhaund.
Mirandola
Mirandola (local dialect: La Miràndla) is a ceety an comune o Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the Province o Modena, 31 km northeast o the provincial caipital bi railwey.
History
Mirandola oreeginatit as a Renaissance ceety-fortress. For fower centuries it wis the seat o a independent principality (first a coonty, then a duchy), a possession o the Pico faimily, whose maist ootstaundin member wis the polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494). It wis besiegit twa times: in 1510 an 1551.
On 29 Mey 2012 a pouerful yirdquauk hit the Mirandola area. It killed at least 17 fowk an collapsed kirks an factories. An aw 200 wur injured. The 5.8 magnitude quauk left 14,000 fowk hameless.
Baja Verapaz
Baja Verapaz is a depairtment in Guatemala. The caipital is Salamá.
Baja Verapaz hooses the Mario Dary Biotope Preserve, preservin the native flora an fauna o the region, especially the endangered naitional bird o Guatemala, the Resplendent Quetzal.
Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born Augist 20, 1951; dee'd November 19, 2022) wis a Science Fiction owthor. His wark haes kivered leids o galactic fecht (Forge of God beuks), mim universes (Eon series) an gied evolution (Blood Music, Darwin's Radio an Darwin's Children). Bear wis born in San Diego, California. Frae 1968 tae 1973 he wis at San Diego State Varsity whaur he wis awairdit an A.B. degree. In 1975, he mairiet on Christina M. Nielson, but thay divorced in 1981. He remairiet on Astrid Anderson, the dochter o Science Fiction owthor Poul Anderson, in 1983.
Spinel
Spinel is the magnesium aluminium member o the braider spinel group o minerall. It haes the formula MgAl2O4. It wis kent i the bygane ruby ballas, miskent as bein sae like wae rubies an wis muckle socht efter for tae mak jowlry an ither sic plaister.
Istanbul Province
Istanbul Province (İstanbul ili) is a province locatit in north-wast Turkey. It haes an area o 5,196 km² an a population o 13,255,685. The population wis 10,018,735 in 2000. It is surroondit bi the provinces o Tekirdağ tae the wast, Kocaeli tae the east, the Black Sea tae the northren pairt an the Sea o Marmara tae the sooth. The Bosphorus (Boğaziçi) Strait divides the province in twa pairts: the European side an the Asie side.
The province includes the Princes' Islands as a destrict an aw.
El Papiol
El Papiol is a municipality in the comarca o the Baix Llobregat in Catalonie, Spain. It is situatit on the left bank o the Llobregat river, on the A-7 autopista frae Valencia tae La Jonquera an the C-1413 road frae Sabadell to Molins de Rei. At wast it borders on Castellbisbal an Pallejà, at north on Valldoreix (Sant Cugat del Vallès) an at East on Molins de Rei. It is servit bi the RENFE railwey line R4 frae Barcelona tae Martorell, Vilafranca del Penedès an Sant Vicenç de Calders, which is connectit tae the veelage centre bi a minibus service (6.30 am tae 10.31 pm). It is servit bi a bus service (L67) an a nicht bus service (N51) frae Barcelona tae Esparreguera an aw.
Husiatyn Raion
Husiatyn Raion (Гусятинський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in wastren Ukraine. Its admeenistrative centre is Husiatyn. It haes a population o 66 803.
Christian IV o Denmark
Christian IV (Christian den Fjerde; 12 Apryle 1577 – 28 Februar 1648), whiles colloquially referred tae as Christian Firtal in Denmark an Christian Kvart or Quart in Norawa, wis king o Denmark–Norawa an Duke o Holstein an Schleswig frae 1588 tae 1648.
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat or Yassir Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) an kent bi the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار) an aw, wis the first Preses o Palestine. He wis Preses o the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) frae 1969 tae 2004. In 1993 he becam preses o the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) an aw.
In 1994, Arafat wis ane o the three recipients o the Nobel Peace Prize. The ithers wis Israelis Yitzhak Rabin an Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. Baith got the prize for their peace ettles in the Middle Aest.
The views o him is dividit. Some fowk sees him as a hero, that focht for the cause o the Palestinian fowk. Ithers sees him as a terrorist, that promotit the uise o veeolence for tae win til his ettles. Still ithers thinks he wis a chairismatic leader, but he made ower mony concessions tae the Israeli govrenment.
Sirte
Sirt, an' a' Surt an Sirte (Arabic: سرت,, French: Syrte) is a ceety in Libie an the caipital o the Sirte Destrict. It is the seat o some important govrenmental institutions (on the naitional level) an birthplace o the Libie leader, Muammar Gaddafi in 1942. It is on the sooth coast o the Gulf o Sidra (auncient Syrtis Maior, frae which Sirt's name derives). Sirt lies haufway atween Tripoli ad Benghazi.
Unitit Nations Democracy Fund
The Unitit Naitions Democracy Fund (UNDEF) wis established bi Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Julie 2005 at the African Union Summit in Sirt as a Unitit Naitions General Trust Fund unner his authority.
Site o Darfur talks
In October 2007, Sirt wis the site o talks aween the Sudanese govrenment an certain Darfur rebel groups.
Transfer o Libie's caipital
There wur attempts tae move the caipital o Libie tae Sirt durin the tenure o the Libie leader Muammar Gaddafi as it is the birthplace an residence o the Libian leader. Mony o the meenisterial heidquarters are nou locatit in Sirt, rather than Tripoli, as well as the Palais des Congrès, the lairgest conference hall in North Africae, an the Hospitality Village. There are an aa strategic reasons. First, Sirt is mair or less in atween Tripolitanie an Cyrenaica, an Cyrenaica is a region that haes shown plenty o examples o unthirldom towards the govrenment o Tripoli. Next, this wad involve a muive o fowk frae the croudit Tripoli region.
Cultur
Al-Tahadi University is locatit in Sirt wi 13 local faculties, includin Law an Medicine.
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (pronoonced, born 1 Julie 1955) is a Cheenese economist an the current Premier o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae an pairty secretary o the State Cooncil. In his capacity as Premier, Li is Cheenae's heid o govrenment as well as the leadin figur behind its economic policy. He is an aa the seicont ranked member o the CPC Politburo Staundin Committee, the de facto heichest decision-makin body o the kintra. Frae 2008 tae 2013, Li served as the First Vice-Premier unner then-Premier Wen Jiabao. Durin this tenure, Li's offeecial portfolio includit economic development, price controls, finance, climate chynge, an macroeconomic management.
Li rose through the pairty ranks through the Communist Youth League. Frae 1998 tae 2004, Li served as the Govrenor o Henan an the province's Pairty secretary, an then the Liaoning pairty secretary, an office that made him first-in-charge in that province. Li is a leadin figur in the "fift generation" (Xi-Li Admeenistration) o Communist Pairty leadership.
San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya
San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya is a toun an municipality in the Mexican state o Oaxaca, 21 km frae the ceety o Oaxaca on Federal Heich-gate 190 atween Santa Maria del Tule an Mitla. It is pairt o the Tlacolula Destrict in the east o the Valles Centrales Region. The name Tlacochahuaya comes frae Nahuatl an means “in wet land” or “in the swamp.”
The toun
Tradeetion states that the toun wis foondit bi a Zapotec warrior bi the name o Cochicahuala, which means “he who fechts bi nicht”. Efter the Conquest the laund wis grantit tae Señor Don Gaspar Calderón an the aurie wis evangelizit bi the Dominicans.
Karelie (disambiguation)
Karelia can refer tae:
San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya
The toun
Its main kirk is the Templo de San Jerónimo, which wis biggit alang wi a monastery at the end o the 16t century. It haes notable altarpieces (retablos) an a organ that dates frae colonial times. Normally they let visitors climb the massive structur tae leuk closer. The organ wis biggit atween 1725 an 1730 an restored in 1990-1991. It is registered wi the Instituto de Órganos Históricos de Oaxaca (Institute o Historic Organs o Oaxaca).
Karelie (disambiguation)
Kareliee refers tae something frae or relatit tae the region o Karelie an aw, in present-day Roushie an Finland
San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya
The municipality
The main economic activities are agricultur (corn, beans an various fruits), dairy fermin an the production o mescal. As municipal seat, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya haes govrenin jurisdiction ower the follaein commonties: La Loma, Luis Alonso León, Macuilxóchitl de Artigas Carranza an Ojo de Agua
Meghrashen
Meghrashen (Մեղրաշեն, Romanisit as Megrashen an aw; umwhile, Kazanchi) is a toun in the Shirak Province o Armenie.
Member o the European Pairlament
A Memmer o the European Pairlament (MEP) is a memmer o the European Pairlament.
Whan the European Pairlament wis first establisht, MEPs war appyntit bi memmer states frae memmers o thair ain national pairlament. Syne 1979, houever, MEPs hae been walit bi direct universal suffrage. Ilk memmer state establishes thair ain wey o walin thair MEPs an in some states the electoral seistem haes chyngit ower time an across regions. Aw nou uise ane or anither form o proportional repraisentation.
Pape John XIV
John XIV (dee'd Augist 20, 984), Pape frae 983 tae 984, successor tae Benedict VII, wis born at Pavia, an afore his hystin tae the papal chair wis imperial chancellor o Otto II, an wis the latter's seicont chyce.
His oreeginal name wis Peter, but he chynged it tae evite bein likent wi St.Peter hissel.
Black bun
Black bun, sometimes kent as Scotch bun, is a kin o fruit cake haillie kivered wi fouky-meat. It is o Scots springheid, originally etten on the Uphaly Nicht but thir days tastit at Hogmanay. The cake mixtur teepically contains raisins, currants, aumonds, citrus peel, allspice, ginger, cinnamon an black pepper. It haed originally been introduced efter the back-come o Mary, Queen of Scots frae France, but its original uiss at the Uphaly Nicht endit wi the Scottish Reformation. It wis hinderly uised for first-footing ower Hogmanay.
Description
Black bun is a fruit cake wrappit in fouky-meat. The cake itsel is seimlar tae a traditional Christmas cake or Christmas puddin mixtur, includin ingredients lik raisins an currants alang wi spices lik cinnamon, black pepper an allspice. It haes been cawed a feck bit muckler version o a Garibaldi biscuit, an it haes been suggestit that the origin o that biscuit may hae been influenced by the black bun acause the inventor of the biscuit, John Carr, wis Scottish.
Ootwi Scotland, the black bun is forby etten in the Appalachia region o the Unitit States. In 2013, a receipt wis demonstrate by Paul Hollywood on a Christmas special o The Great British Bake Off.
Origins
The cake cam aboot as a Scottish King cake fur uiss on Uphaly Nicht on 5 January – the een o Uphaly day, an the end o the Daft days. It wis introduced follaein the back-come o Mary, Queen of Scots frae France, an the tradition haes it that a bean wis hidden in the cake – whaiver foond it became the King for the een. It haes been recordit that Mary hersel participate in siclike games, an in 1563 she cleidit her bairnheid fere Mary Fleming in ryal robes an jewellery efter Fleming became Queen for the evening. This shockit the English Ambassador, wha writ "The Queen of the Bean was that day in a gown of cloth of silver, her head, her neck, her shoulders, the rest of her whole body, so beset with stones, that more in our whole jewel house was not to be found." Following the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the celebration of Christmas was outlawed in Scotland and the use of a King cake at that time ended.
The black bun kin o cake in its modern uissage dates frae the early nineteenth century, umwhile cried Scotch bun an Scotch Christmas bun. The term "black bun" wis first recordit in 1898, an may hae been a eftercast o Robert Louis Stevenson referrin tae the cake as "a black substance inimical to life".
The cake is nou commonly uised as a Hogmanay custom, whaur fowk veesit their neebours efter midnicht fur tae celebrate the New Year. This is cried first-fit, an the gift o a black bun wis meant tae symbolise that the receivin faimly wadnae be hungry in the forthcomin year. It wis forby uised as a traditional cake tae ser tae thaim that's veesitin hames as pairt o Hogmanay, tae be consumed wi whisky.
Pape John XIV
Otto dee'd short syne aifter his election; his heir, Otto III bein juist 3 year auld. Antipape Boniface VII, on the strenth o the strang feelin agin the new pape, cam back fae frae Constantinople an sent John tae the jyle, in Castel Sant'Angelo, whaur he dee'd aither fae hunger or pushion.
Dee'd on Augist 20t, 984; Papes Benedict XIV an Pius X baith dee'd on Augist 20t.
La Vansa i Fórnols
La Vansa i Fórnols is a municipality in the comarca o the Alt Urgell in Catalonie, Spain.
Veelages:
Candlelight Records
Candlelight Records is an independent record label based in Europe founded bi umwhile Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it haes haed a diveesion in the Unitit States syne Januar 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal an daith metal, haein baunds such as Emperor, Obituary, 1349, Theatre of Tragedy, Xerath, an Zyklon on its roster. The label is notable for puttin oot early releases frae influential baunds such as Opeth an Emperor. Candlelight Records is in co-operation wi Appease Me Records an AFM Records.
Candlelight UK
1349, Abigail Williams, The Atlas Moth, Age of Silence, Anaal Nathrakh, * Ashes,* Averse Sefira,* Blut Aus Nord, Carnal Forge,* Crionics, Crowbar, Dam, Daylight Dies, Defiance, Divinity, Eastern Front * Emperor, Epoch of Unlight, Falloch,* Forest Stream, Furze,* Gnaw Their Tongues, Grimfist, Horned Almighty, Ihsahn, Illdisposed,* Imperial Vengeance, Insomnium, Kaamos, Kontinuum, Lost Eden,* Manes,* Mithras, Myrkskog, Nebelhexe,* Novembers Doom,* Octavia Sperati, October File,* Omnium Gatherum,* Onslaught,* Paganize,* Pantheon I,* Rose Funeral, Sear Bliss, Savage Messiah,* The Seventh Cross, Sigh,* Starkweather, Stonegard, Subterranean Masquerade,* Thine Eyes Bleed,* Throne of Katarsis,* To-Mera, Whitechapel, Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone, Wolverine, Xerath, Zatokrev, Zyklon * denotes no eetit as being wi Candlelight USA
Candlelight USA
See for Candlelight UK, but an aw Absu, Aeternus, Amoral, Audrey Horne, Bal-Sagoth, Battered, Bronx Casket Co., Capricorns, Candlemass, Centinex, Dark Funeral, Dead Man in Reno, Demonic Resurrection, Destruction, The Deviant, Dismember, Electric Wizard, Elvenking, Enslaved, Entombed, Fear Factory, Firebird, Gorgoroth, Grand Magus, HAVOK, Hevein, Insense, Jorn, Jotunspor, Keep of Kalessin, Khold, Kotipelto, Lord Belial, Manngard, Marduk, Martriden, Masterplan, The Mighty Nimbus, Mindgrinder, Monolithe, Morbid Angel, Necrophobic, Nightmare, Of Graves and Gods, Obituary, Odious Mortem, Opeth, Overmars, P.H.O.B.O.S., Pro-Pain, The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Ram-Zet, Rob Rock, Sahg, Sarah Jezebel Deva, Satariel, SCUM, Setherial, Seven Witches, Shakra, She Said Destroy, sHEAVY, Sinister, Slumber, Sourvein, Space Odyssey, Spektr, Susperia, Taint, Tenebre, Theatre of Tragedy, Thyrane, Thyrfing, Time Requiem, Torchbearer, Trendkill, U.D.O., Vader, Vreid, The Wake, Windir, Witchcraft.
Princess Christine Juliane o Baden-Durlach
Princess Christine Juliane o Baden-Durlach (12 September 1678 – 10 Julie 1707), wis a German noblewoman member o the Hoose o Zähringen an Duchess o Saxe-Eisenach bi her 1697 mairiage.
Mairiage
In Wolfenbüttel on 27 Februar 1697 she mairit Prince Johann Wilhelm o Saxe-Eisenach (younger brither o Duke Johann Georg II) as his seicont wife. Ane year later (10 November 1698), her husband inheritit the Duchy o Saxe-Eisenach efter his brither's daith wi nae issue.
Chortkiv Raion
Chortkiv Raion (Чортківський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in wastren Ukraine. Its admeenistrative center is Chortkiv. It haes a population o 80 861.
Tenabo Municipality
Tenabo (Yucatec Maya: "place whaur they measur bi haund-spans") is ane o the 11 municipalities in the Mexican state o Campeche. It is situatit on the coast in the north o the state. The municipal seat, an lairgest dounset, is the ceety o Tenabo, 36 km frae state caipital Campeche, Camp.
History and geography
The municipality o Tenabo borders tae the north wi the municipality o Hecelchakán, tae the east wi the municipality o Hopelchén, tae the sooth wi the municipality o Campeche, an tae the wast wi the Guwf o Mexico.
It covers 882 km², accoontin for 1.5% o the state's total surface aurie.
Demografics
The 2005 INEGI census reportit a population o 9,050, up frae 7,630 in 1990. O these, 1,686 spoke ane o several indigenous leids, predominatly Yucatec Maya an Tzeltal.
Population centres in the municipality include:
Muawiyah I
Muawiyah I (معاوية ابن أبي سفيان Muʿāwiyah ibn ʾAbī Sufyān; 602 – Aprile 29 or Mey 1, 680) established the Umayyad Dynasty o the caliphate, an wis the seicont caliph frae the Umayyad clan, the first bein Uthman ibn Affan.
Brampton
Brampton ( or ) is the third-lairgest ceety in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) o Ontario, Canadae an the seat o Peel Region. As o the 2011 census, Brampton's population wis 523,911, making it the nint lairgest ceety in Canadae. Wi the median age at 33.7, it is the youngest commonty in the GTA. Brampton haes the lairgest concentration o Sooth Asies in Canadae, makkin up 31.7% o Brampton's population.
Santiago Tapextla
Santiago Tapextla is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers a aurie o km². It is locatit in the Jamiltepec Destrict in the wast o the Costa Region.
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o.
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg; Kolozsvár, Hungarian pronunciation: ; Medieval Laitin: Castrum Clus, Claudiopolis; קלויזנבורג, Kloiznburg), commonly kent as Cluj, is the seicont maist muckle ceety in Romanie an the seat o Cluj Coonty in the northwastren pairt o the kintra. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant frae Bucharest (324 km / 201 mi), Budapest (351 km / 218 mi) an Belgrade (322 km / 200 mi). Locatit in the Someşul Mic River valley, the ceety is considered the unoffeecial caipital tae the historical province o Transylvanie. In 1790–1848 an 1861–1867, it wis the offeecial caipital o the Grand Principality o Transylvanie.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Cluj-Napoca is twinned wi:
Saunt
Saunts are bodies o exceptional haliness that are important in mony releegions, parteecular Christianity. In some uissages, the wird "saunt" is uised mair generally for tae refer tae onybody that is a Christian.