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John Major
Born in St Helier, Surrey, Major grew up in Brixton. He ineetially wirked as an insurance clark, an then at the London Electricity Board, afore acomin an executive at Standard Chartered. He wis first electit tae the Hoose o Commons at the 1979 general election as the Member o Pairlament for Huntingdon. He served as a Pairlamentar Preevat Secretary, Assistant Whip an as a Meenister for Social Security. In 1987, he wis appyntit Chief Secretar tae the Thesaury, an then as Furrin Secretar twa years later. Juist three month later in October 1989, he wis promotit tae Chancellor o the Exchequer, whaur he presentit the 1990 budget.
Major becam Prime Meenister efter Thatcher's reluctant resignation in November 1990. He presidit ower Breetish pairteecipation in the Gulf War in Mairch 1991, an negotiatit the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991. He went on tae lead the Conservatives tae a record fowert consecutive electoral veectory, winnin the maist votes in Breetish electoral history wi ower 14,000,000 votes at the 1992 general election, awbeit wi a reduced majority in the Hoose o Commons. Shortly efter this, even tho a staunch supporter o the Excheenge Rate Mechanism (ERM), his govrenment becam responsible for Breetish exit frae the ERM efter Black Wadensday on 16 September 1992. This event led tae a loss o confidence in Conservative economic policies an Major wis niver able tae achieve a lead in opeenion polls again.
Landward
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John Major
Major wis succeedit bi William Hague as Leader o the Conservative Pairty in Juin 1997. He went on tae retire frae active politics, leavin the Hoose o Commons at the 2001 general election. In 1999, a BBC poll o 20t-century UK Prime Meenisters ranked him 17t.
Pedro Sánchez (politeecian)
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (, born 29 Februar 1972) is a Spaingie economist an politeecian servin as Prime Meenister o Spain syne 2 Juin 2018.
St Aundraes Castle
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Marinka Raion (Мар'їнський район; Марьинский район) is a raion (destrict) o Donetsk Oblast (province) locatit in eastren Ukraine. Its admeenistrative centre is the ceety o Marinka.
Ceramic
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Marinka Raion
The destrict wis creatit on 19 Februar 1923 as pairt o the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Its population is 90,045 as o the 2001 Ukrainian Census. The destrict itsel consists o a tot o 58 populatit dounsets, o which three are ceeties, three are urban-teep dounsets, 50 are selos, an a addeetional 2 are selysche.
Radio Studio 54 Network
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Presenters
Rossella Laface, Alex Albano, Enzo DiChiera, Paolo Sia, Demetrio Malgeri, Marika Torcivia, Franco Siciliano,  Mara Rechichi, Luigi Di Dieco
Metalloid
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Dokka Umarov
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On 18 Mairch 2014, the Roushie govrenment said that Umarov wis deid.
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna o Roushie
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna o Roushie (Великая Княжна Анастасия Николаевна Романова, Velikaya Knyazhna Anastasiya Nikolayevna Romanova) (Juin 18 1901 – Julie 17, 1918) wis the youngest dauchter o Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign o Imperial Roushie, an his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna.
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Mina (sangster)
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, OMRI (25 Mairch 1940-), kent as Mina, is ane o the maist successfu Italian sangsters o aw time. She wis a staple o Italian televeesion variety shows an a dominant figur in Italian pop muisic frae the mid-1960s tae mid-1970s, kent for her three-octave vocal range, the agility o her soprano vyce, an her image as an emancipatit wumman.
In performance, Mina combined several modren styles wi tradeetional Italian melodies an swing muisic, which made her the maist versatile pop sangster in Italian muisic. Mina dominatit the Italian charts for fifteen years and reached an unsurpassed level o popularity in Italy. She haes scored 77 albums an 71 singles on the Italian chairts.
Mina's TV appearances in 1959 wur the first for a female rock an roll sangster in Italy. Her loud syncopatit singin earned her the elk-name Queen o Screamers. The public labeled her the Teeger o Cremona for her wild gestures an bouk shaks an aw. When she turned tae licht pop tunes, Mina's chairt-toppers in Wast Germany in 1962 an Japan in 1964 earned her the title o the best internaitional airtist in thir kintras. Mina's mair refined sensual manner wis introducit in 1960 wi Gino Paoli's ballad "This World We Love In", which chairtit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.
Mina wis banned frae Italian TV an radio in 1963 acause her pregnancy an relationship wi a marriet actor did no accord wi the dominant Catholic an bourgeois morals. Efter the ban, the Italian broadcastin service RAI tree'd tae continue tae prohibit her sangs, which wur fortricht in dealin wi subjects sic as releegion, smokin an sex. Mina's ceul act combined sex appeal wi public smokin, dyed blond hair, an shavit eyebrous tae creaut a "bad girl" image.
Mina's vyce haes distinctive timbre an great pouer. Her main themes are anguisht luve stories performit in heich dramatic tones. The sangster combined classic Italian pop wi elements o blues, R&B an soul muisic durin the late 1960s, especially when she wirkit in collaboration wi componer Lucio Battisti. Top Italian sangwriters creatit material wi lairge vocal ranges an unuisual chord progressions tae showcase her singin skills, pairticularly "Brava" bi Bruno Canfora (1965) an the pseudo-serial "Se telefonando" bi Ennio Morricone (1966). The latter sang wis covered bi several performers abroad. Shirley Bassey carriet Mina's ballad "Grande grande grande" tae chairts in the U.S., U.K., an ither Inglis-speakin kintras in 1973. Mina's easy listenin duet "Parole parole" wis turned intae a warldwide hit bi Dalida an Alain Delon in 1974. Mina gae up public appearances in 1978 an haes continued tae release popular albums on a yearly basis tae the present day.
Early life
Anna Maria Mazzini wis born intae a wirkin-cless faimily in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy. The faimily muivit tae wirk in Cremona in her bairnheid. She listened tae American rock an roll an jazz records an wis a frequent visitor at the Santa Tecla an the Taverna Messicana clubs o Milan, baith kent for promotin rock an roll. Efter feenishing heich schuil in 1958, she attendit college whaur she majored in accoontin.
Queen o Screamers (1958–1961)
In September, she stairtit her solo career wi the backin o the baund Happy Boys. Her concert in September 1958, afore an audience o 2,500 fowk at the Theatre o Rivarolo del Re, wan enthusiastic approval frae local creetics. She suin signed wi Davide Matalon, awner o the smaw record company Italdisc. Her first single, "Non partir"/"Malatia", wis producit unner the stage name Mina for the Italian audience. Simultaneously, "Be Bop A Lula"/"When" wis issued unner the name Baby Gate for the internaitional audience. Baby wis chosen as a contrast tae her 178 cm hicht (5 ft 10 in) — exceptionally taw for an Italian wumman — an Gate as a tribute tae The Golden Gate Quartet. In Dizember, her performance at the Sei giorni della canzone festival o Milan wis describit bi the La Notte newspaper as the "birth o a starn". It wis Mina's last performance wi the Happy Boys, as her faimily refused tae let her skip college for a scheduled tour o Turkey.
Less nor a month efter the breakup wi her previous baund, Mina co-foondit a new group cried Solitari, which consistit o a sangster, a saxophonist, a pianist, a contrabassist, an a guitarist. Her first hit wi the baund featurt Mina performit an extra-loud, syncopatit version o the popular swing sang "Nessuno" ("Nobody"), which she performit at the first rock festival in the Milan Ice Palace in Februar 1959. Performances o the sang on the TV gemme shows Lascia o raddoppia? an Il musichiere on 1 Mairch an 4 Apryle wur hailed bi Italian creetics. The starlet signed wi Elio Gigante, an experiencit airtist manager. In the follaein years, he organisit her performances in the grand ballrooms o Italy. Her first Italian #1 hit wis the up-tempo "Tintarella di luna" ("Moon Tan") in September 1959, which wis performit in her first musicarello (muisical comedy film), Juke box - Urli d'amore. In late 1959, Matalon haed her drop the name Baby Gate in favour o Mina.
Growin up (1960–1965)
The next year, when Mina teuk pairt in the Festival della canzone italiana in Sanremo wi twa sangs, she turned tae slow emotional luve sangs for the first time. The sang "È vero" ("It's True") reached #8 on the Italian chairts. Gino Paoli's sang "Il cielo in una stanza" ("The Sky in a Room") markit the beginnin o the young sangster's transformation frae a rock an roll shrieker tae a feminine inspiration for cantautori. The idea for the sang "Luve can grow at ony moment at ony place" haed come tae Paoli while lyin on a bed an leukin at the purpie ceilin. The single toppit the leet o annual sales in Italy an reached the Billboard Hot 100 as "This World We Love In". Video performances o the sang wur includit in the muisicarellos Io bacio... tu baci an Appuntamento a Ischia, an in 1990, in the soondtrack o the film Goodfellas.
At the 1961 Sanremo sang festival, Mina performit twa sangs. "Io amo, tu ami" ("A Luve, You Luve") feenisht fowert an "Le mille bolle blu" ("A Thoosan Blue Bubbles") placit fift. Disappointit wi thir results, Mina declared her intention o niver performin at the Sanremo sang festival again.
As her sangs an movies wur awready popular abroad, Mina stairtit tae tour Spain an Japan, and performed on Venezuelan TV in 1961. Mina performit on Spainyie TV an at the Paris Olympia haw at the beginnin o 1962. The presentation o her German single "Heißer Sand" on 12 Mairch 1962 on Peter Kraus's TV show caused a boom o 40,000 record sales in ten days in Germany. The record went tae #1 an spent ower hauf the year on the German chairts in 1962. Mina haed sax mair singles on the German chairt in the next twa years. In a listeners' poll conductit in Julie 1962 in Germany, Austrick, an the German-speakin portion o Swisserland, Mina wis votit the maist popular sangster in the warld. In Mey 1962, she performit in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, her version o the mambo rhythm "Moliendo Cafe" an the surf pop "Renato" peakit at #1 an #4 respectively on the Italian chairts. "L'eclisse twist" appeared on the flipside o "Renato", an wis uised on the soondtrack o Michelangelo Antonioni's featur film Eclipse.
In 1963 Mina's TV an radio career wis interruptit bi RAI, the Italian public broadcastin service, as she refused tae kiver up her relationship (an resultin pregnancy) wi the marriet actor Corrado Pani. Mina's record sales wur unaffectit an due tae public demand, RAI endit the ban. On 10 Januar 1964 she returned tae the TV screen on the program La fiera dei sogni, an performit the sang "Città vuota", a kiver o Gene McDaniels' "It's a Lonely Town (Lonely Without You)", which wis her first release on the RiFi label. Her next single, "È l'uomo per me", a kiver o Jody Miller's "He Walks Like a Man", became the biggest sellin record o the year in Italy. Her new melodic manner wis demonstratit again on 11 Dizember 1964 TV program Il macchiettario, whaur she performit "Io sono quel che sono" ("I Am What I Am"). A reminder o her previous adolescent image, her single "Suna ni kieta namida" ("Tears Disappear in the Sand"), sung in Japanese, peakit at #1 on the Japanese singles chairt an earned Mina the title o Best Internaitional Airtist in Japan.
The first episode o the Studio Uno live Seturday nicht series showcased Mina's new blond leuk wi shavit eyebrous. The shows includit the bruidin sangs "Un bacio è troppo poco" ("One Kiss is Not Enough") an "Un anno d'amore" ("A Year of Love"), a kiver o Nino Ferrer's "C'est irreparable". In the same series she performit "Brava" ("Good"), a rhythmic jazz nummer specially written bi Bruno Canfora tae demonstrate the Mina's vocal range an performin skills. Her Studio Uno album toppit the Italian chairt that year. Her recordins o 1965 includit the scattin performance o "Spirale Waltz", the theme sang for the film The 10th Victim.
Unthirldom (1966–1968)
Maurizio Costanzo an Ghigo De Chiara wrote the leerics o "Se telefonando" ("If Over the Phone") as the theme for the TV program Aria condizionata in spring 1966. The leerics war componit in a daurk, Hal David mode. The serialist componer Ennio Morricone wis askit tae compone the muisic. Mina an the three sangwriters met in a RAI rehearsal room at Via Teulada, Roum. Morricone stairtit tae repeat a short muisical theme o juist three notes (bi his term a micro-cell) on an upricht piano. He haed copiet the snippet o melody frae the siren o a polis caur in Marseilles. Efter a few bars Mina grabbit the leerics sheet an stairtit tae sing as if she haed kent the tune afore. Componit in this wey, "Se telefonando" is a pop sang wi aicht transitions o tonality that builds tension throuoot the chorus. Morricone's arrangement featurt a sophisticatit combination o melodic trumpet lines, Hal Blaine-style drummin, a string set, a 1960s Europop female choir, an intense subsonic-soondin trombones.
"Se telefonando" wis presentit in Mey 1966 in a Studio Uno episode an in August the same year at Aria condizionata. The single peakit at #7 on the Italian chairt an wis 53rd in the annual leet o sales. The album Studio Uno 66 featurt the sang as ane o the staundoot tracks alang wi "Ta-ra-ta-ta" an "Una casa in cima al mondo". It wis the fift biggest sellin album o the year in Italy.
In 1966, Mina stairtit wirkin wi the Swiss Broadcasting Service an the Orchestra Radiosa in Lugano. She foondit the independent record label PDU in collaboration wi her faither. The first record issued unner the label wis Dedicato a mio padre (Dedicated to My Father). Mina's growin interest in Brazilian muisic resultit in "La banda" ("The Band"), a Chico Buarque sang, which reached #3 in Italy. Mina continued tae perform on Italian TV, an presentit "Zum zum zum" on the ware 1967 variety series Sabato sera, accompaniet bi the NATO naval baund. The series includit "La coppia più bella del mondo" ("The Most Beautiful Couple in the World") an aw, a duet wi Adriano Celentano. The title o the sang "Sono, come tu mi vuoi" ("I Am, as You Want Me to Be") wis taken frae Luigi Pirandello's play Come tu mi vuoi. The leerics talk aboot the manic attention o the press on an airtist's private life. Anither hit frae Sabato sera wis "L'immensità" ("Immensity"), which wis re-scored bi Augusto Martelli an released as "La inmensidad" in Spain an Laitin American kintras.
RAI broadcast the third episode o Senza rete ("Unplugged") live on 18 Julie 1968 frae the Auditorio A o the corporation's regional heidquairters in Naples. The program presentit Mina's homage tae Luigi Tenco, who haed recently dee'd. She turned his sang "Se stasera sono qui" ("Should I Stay Here Tonight") intae a rigorous piece o soul muisic in the score o Pino Calvi. She celebratit the 10t anniversary o her career wi a concert at La Bussola, backit bi the Orchestra Augusto Martelli. The concert wis recordit an issued as Mina alla Bussola dal vivo.
Canzonissima 1968 wis a Seturday nicht prime time variety show that aired on Rai Uno frae September 1968 tae Januar 1969. It wis hostit bi Mina, Walter Chiari an Paolo Panelli. The orchestrations wur scored bi the conductors Bruno Canfora an Augusto Martelli. "Sacumdì Sacumdà", Mina's talkin an laughin version o Carlos Imperial's bossa nova "Nem Vem Que Não Tem", narraely escapit a ban bi RAI acause o its irreverent leerics. The sang wis performit as pairt o a muisical fantasy, back tae back wi "Quelli che hanno un cuore", her intense version o "Anyone Who Had a Heart". Anither interpretation o a Dionne Warwick sang wis "La voce del silenzio" ("Silent Voices") bi Paolo Limiti an Elio Isola, presentit in a live session durin the show. "Niente di niente" ("Nothing at All") wis her version o the Delfonics' "Break Your Promise". The series includit the sangs "Fantasia", "La musica è finita" ("The Music is Over") an the elegant "Un colpo al cuore" ("Heart Attack") an aw. "Un colpo al cuore" endit up as #68 on the best-sellin singles chairt for that year in Italy. Each show wis closed bi Mina singin "Vorrei che fosse amore" ("Wish It Was Love"), a piece o atmospheric muisic bi Bruno Canfora that wis #50 on the best-sellin singles chairt for 1968 in Italy. A selection o sangs frae the series wur issued as the album Canzonissima '68.
Mogol-Battisti (1969–1973)
Mina's comeback teuk place at RAI's variety series Teatro 10 in ware 1972. Ane o the heichlichts o the series wis a selection o Battisti's sangs performit in duet wi the composer. The shows includit "Balada para mi muerte" ("Ode to My Death") an aw, a nuevo tango duet wi Ástor Piazzolla at the bandoneón, backit bi the Argentine group Conjunto 9. "Grande grande grande", arrangit bi Pino Presti, wis the seicont biggest-sellin single o the year in Italy. The successes encouragit Enrico Riccardi tae copy Battisti's style in Riccardi's composition "Fiume azzurro", which earned anither place in the tap 100 o annual record sales in Italy.
The feenal nummer o the aicht Teatro 10 episodes wis "Parole parole" ("Words Words"), a duet wi Alberto Lupo. The sang is an easy listenin dialogue atween Mina's singin an Lupo's declamation. The leerics' theme are hollae wirds. Thir intertwine the lady's lamentation o the end o luve an the lees she haes tae hear wi the male protagonist's recitation. In the dialog she scoffs at the compliments he gies her, cawin thaim parole – juist wirds. The single wis released in Apryle 1972 an toppit the Italian chairts. It wis covered bi numerous Italian an French duets.
Mina said she wad be reteerin frae public appearances efter an exclusive concert at the La Bussola Club on 16 September. Thoosans o fowk turned up at the nichtclub's doorstep. Gianni Ferrio's Orchestra featurt Gianni Basso on tenor saxophone an Oscar Valdambrini on trumpet.
Mina lost her husband Virgilio Crocco in a caur accident in 1973. She continued her career wi the tap Italian chairt hits "E poi..." ("And Then...") an "L'importante è finire" ("It's Important to Finish"). She recordit the theme sang "Fa presto, fa piano" ("Works Quickly, Works Quietly") for the film La sculacciata, issued in 1974.
Syne 1974
Mina's last live TV appearance wis the feenal episode o the Milleluci series on 16 Mairch 1974. Mina wis the hostess o the series alangside Raffaella Carrà. Durin the series, she splored different muisical styles in the sangs "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "Mack the Knife", "Night and Day", and "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)". Efter "Non gioco più" ("The Game Is Over"), a blues duet wi the harmonica player Toots Thielemans, Mina annooncit her athdrawal frae public performances. Her last appearance on TV wis her performance o "Ancora ancora ancora". The video wis the feenal nummer o the "Mille e una luce" show on 1 Julie 1978. Her last concert appearances, a series o thirteen fully beukit concerts at La Bussola in 1978, wur cut short due tae her illness. Mina gae her last public performance on 23 August 1978 at the Bussoladomani theatre backit bi the Orchestra Pino Presti. It wis recordit an issued as Mina Live '78.
Mina continued tae release albums on a yearly basis wi her son Massimiliano Pani as the producer. Atween 1972 an 1995, she publisht a dooble album each year. Frae 1973, her LPs an CDs hae been characterisit bi airtistic motifs o the designers Luciano Tallarini, Gianni Ronco an the photographer Mauro Balletti. Frae the mid-1980s, the design o the album covers wis trustit tae Balletti alane. Aw o Mina's records unner the PDU label hae reached the Italian Tap 100. A lairge pairt o her wirk haes consistit o coverin well-kent sangs; she haes dedicatit tribute albums tae The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Renato Zero, Domenico Modugno, the Neapolitan sang, an releegious muisic. Efter leavin the stage, her greatest chairt successes hae been duets. In 1985, "Questione di feeling", a duet wi Riccardo Cocciante, wis the 13t biggest-sellin single o the year in Italy an became an ivergreen (as a hit song is cried in Europe). The duet album Mina Celentano, recordit wi Adriano Celentano, wis the biggest-sellin album o 1998 in Italy. Stairtin in 1989, aw o her records includit the jazzy piano playin o Danilo Rea.
The break in Mina's TV appearances lastit till 2001, when she released fuitage o her recordin sessions. The videos wur broadcastit ower the Wind internet steid on 30 Mairch. This resultit in millions o visits tae the steid on that nicht, an addeetional millions on follaein days. The fuitage wis released as the DVD Mina in Studio. Efter the event, Mina's singles stairtit tae chairt in Italy again. The track "Succhiando l'uva" (2002), written for her bi Zucchero, peakit at #3 on the chairt. Mina's kiver o "Don't call me baby (Can't take my eyes off you)" (2003) reached #4 in Italy. The single "Alibi" (2007) reached #6 in Italy. The triple CD The Platinum Collection reached #1 on the Italian chairts. Sae did Olio (1999), Veleno (2002), Bula Bula (2005) and Todavía. Mina's later releases hae includit duets wi Mick Hucknall, Fabrizio De André, Piero Pelù, Adriano Celentano, Lucio Dalla, Joan Manuel Serrat, Chico Buarque, Tiziano Ferro, Giorgia an Seal. In recent years, Mina haes been writin a weekly column on the front page o La Stampa an a page in the Italian edeetion o the magazine Vanity Fair, whaur she answers fan letters.
DVD
Mina signed a contract wi the Barilla fuid label in 1965 an starred in ten pasta commercials bi 1971, directit bi Piero Gherardi an Valerio Zurlini amang ithers. In 2005, Mina's performances in ads for Barilla wur publisht on VHS an DVD as Nei caroselli Barilla. The exclusive concert at the La Bussola Club on 16 September 1972 wis released bi the PDU record company as Mina alla Bussola Live '72. Recordit bi Polivideo TV company, the event wis aired on Sky Italia as a series frae 1 tae 21 Januar 1973.
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Koala
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<!--Koalas typically inhabit open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet has limited nutritional and caloric content, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding exists only between mothers and dependent offspring. Adult males communicate with loud bellows that intimidate rivals and attract mates. Males mark their presence with secretions from scent glands located on their chests. Being marsupials, koalas give birth to underdeveloped young that crawl into their mothers' pouches, where they stay for the first six to seven months of their lives. These young koalas, known as joeys, are fully weaned around a year old. Koalas have few natural predators and parasites, but are threatened by sindry pathogens, sic as Chlamydiaceae bacteria and the koala retrovirus.
Saunt Regulus
Saunt Regulus or Saunt Rule (Auld Erse: Riagal) wis a leegendar 4t century monk or bishop o Patras, Greece wha in AD 345 is said tae hae fled tae Scotland wi the banes o Saunt Andra, an depositit them at St Andras. His feast day in the Aiberdeen Breviary is October 17.
Jon Haraldsson
Jon Haraldsson  wis Jarl o Orkney atween 1206 an 1231.
Harald Eiriksson
Harald Eiríksson  (fl. 1190s), kent as Harald the Young an aw, wis jynt Yerl o Orkney wi Harald Maddadsson.
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
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Franjo Tuđman
Franjo Tuđman (14 Mey 1922 – 10 December 1999) wis a Croatie politeecian an historian. Follaein the kintra's unthirldom frae Yugoslavie he acame the first Preses o Croatie.
Henri de La Grange d'Arquien, Marquis o Arquien
Mairiage
Henri was mairit Françoise de La Châtre (1613-1648). They haed issue.
Montgomery, Georgie
Montgomery is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chatham Coonty, Georgie, Unitit States. The population wis 4,523 at the 2010 census. It is pairt o the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born Juin 6, 1967) is an American actor.
Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 Mairch 2009)  wis a French componer an conductor, "ane o the giants o 20t century film muisic" wha wis "amang the maist soucht-efter componers in the film industry" an "a creator o baith subtle unnerscorin an grand, sweepin themes, nae anly writin for conventional orchestras... but an aa experimentin wi electronic soonds later in his career."
BBC Two
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Ferdinand Albrecht I, Duke o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Ferdinand Albrecht I, Duke o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (22 Mey 1636 – 23 Aprile 1687), a member o the Hoose o Welf, wis a Duke o Brunswick-Lüneburg. Efter a 1667 inheritance agreement in the Principality o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, he received the secundogeniture o Brunswick-Bevern, which he ruled until his daith.
Prince Anton Ulrich o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Prince Anton Ulrich o Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Anton Ulrich; 28 August 1714 – 4 Mey 1774 (O.S.), Duke o Brunswick-Lüneburg, wis generalissimus o the Airmy o Roushie, an the husband o Anna Leopoldovna, wha wis regent o Roushie for ane year.
Leigh Sales
Leigh Peta Sales (born 1973 in Brisbane) is an Australie author an jurnalist. She is the host o the Australie telly channel ABC's flagship news an current affairs program 7.30.
Career
Leigh wis a jurnalist wi the Nine Network in Brisbane afore joinin the ABC an is a graduate o Deakin University (Maister o Internaitional Relations) an Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor o Jurnalism).
Sales haes held poseetions in naitional radio current affairs an wis NSW poleetical reporter (coverin the 1999 an 2007 state elections an the 2000 Simmer Olympics).
Leigh presentit Lateline on Monday, Fuirsday an Friday nichts (wi Tony Jones in the role on Tuesdays an Wadensdays). She haes been the ABC's Naitional Security Correspondent frae 2006 till 2008 an wis based in Sydney. Sales wis the netwirk's Washington correspondent frae 2001 tae 2005, coverin stories includin the Iraq War, the 2004 presidential election, Guantanamo Bay an Hurricane Katrina.
In 2011, Sales wis appointit presenter o the ABC's flagship news an current affairs program, 7.30.
Publishin career
Her first beuk, Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks, wis publisht in 2007 bi Melbourne University Publishing (MUP). The beuk covers Hicks' case as well as a detailed explanation o the Bush admeenistration's detainee policy in the War on Terror an the Australie govrenment's cooperation. Her essay, "On Doubt", wis publisht in 2009 as pairt o MUP's series Little Books on Big Themes which haes featurt Germaine Greer, David Malouf, Blanche d'Alpuget an Barrie Kosky. She haes written for The Monthly an her wirk haes occasionally appeared in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, an afore thair demise, The Diplomat an The Bulletin.
Sales writes a fortnichtly blog cried Well-readhead, maistly aboot beuks an readin. It includes a leet o ten interestin things tae read, watch or listen tae. It appears on baith the ABC's The Drum wabsteid an News Limited's The Punch.
Cheka
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Aleksandar Vučić
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Randolph Stewart, 13t Yerl o Gallowa
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Macropodidae
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Afore European settlement o Austrailie, aboot 65 species o macropods existit. Sax species hae syne acome extinct. Anither 11 species hae been greatly reduced in nummers. Ither species (e.g. Simosthenurus, Propleopus, Macropus titan) acame extinct efter the Austrailien Aborigines arrived an afore the Europeans arrived.
Erik Satie
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 Mey 1866 – 1 Julie 1925) – he signed his name Erik Satie efter 1884 – wis a French componer an pianist. Satie wis a colourfu figur in the early 20t century Parisian avant-garde. His wirk wis a precursor tae later airteestic movements such as minimalism, repetitive muisic, an the Theatre o the Absurd.
2010 Haiti yirdquauk
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Charles Gordon, 1st Yerl o Abyne
Charles Gordon, 1st Yerl o Aboyne (c1638 - Mairch 1681). The fowerth son o George Gordon, 2nt Marquess o Huntly an Leddy Anne Campbell, he wis creatit 1st Yerl o Abyne an 1st Laird Gordon o Strathaven an Glenlivet bi Letters Patent on 10 September 1660. On his daith in 1681 he wis succeedit in the yerldom an lairdship bi his son.
Erlend Haraldsson
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V ingine
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Poul Schlüter
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Noemi
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Scale
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2020 Tour Championship
The draw for the Tour Championship comprised the tap aicht players based on the single year ranking leet, takkin pairt in a single elimination tournament. Each match wis played ower a minimum o twa sessions, wi the final takkin place ower the best-o-19. The winner o the tournament won £150,000 oot o a tot prize fund o £380,000. The event wis sponsored bi betting company Coral.
Ronnie O'Sullivan wis the defendin champion efter defeatin Neil Robertson 13–11 in the 2019 final, but he failed tae qualify for the 2020 event, placin 18t on the ane-year ranking leet at the cut-off date. Stephen Maguire defeatit Robertson and Judd Trump; whilst Mark Allen defeatit Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby tae reach the final. Maguire won the final, 10–6 tae win his saxt ranking event, his first for seiven years. Maguire wis a replacement for Cheenae's Ding Junhui, who wis unable tae traivel tae the event. In winnin the tournament, Maguire an aw won the Coral Cup.
Overview
The tournament will be primarily broadcast bi ITV4 in the United Kinrick. It an aw aired on Sky Sport in New Zealand, NowTV in Hong Kong, an Superstars Online in Cheenae. Eurosport will nae broadcast the event, despite covering aw but ane o the ither snooker tournaments this season. The event wis sponsored bi sports betting company Coral. The draw for the event wis made on 15 Mairch 2020. The Tour Championship wis due tae be played frae 17 tae 22 Mairch 2020 in Llandudno, Wales. Houiver, due tae the COVID-19 pandemic, follaein advice bi the UK govrenment no spectators war tae be permitted at the event, an postponed. On 5 Juin 2020 the event wis organised tae be played atween 20 and 26 Juin 2020 and moved tae the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes, England. It will be the seicont professional tournament tae be played efter the season wis halted due tae the pandemic efter the 2020 Championship League. Aw players, an staff bein admitted intae the arena are checked for COVID-19 and put intae isolation for the duration o the event.
Prize fund
The event haed a prize fund o £380,000, wi the winner receiving £150,000. The anly difference frae the money awairdit in 2019 wis a slichtly increased prize for the heichest break. The breakdown o prize money for the event is shawn ablo:
Quarter-finals
The first roond o the tournament wis the quarter-finals, held frae 20 tae 23 Juin, wi matches played as the best o 17. Each match wis played ower twa in the same day. The first match wis held atween Neil Robertson and Stephen Maguire. Maguire wis a replacement for Ding Junhui who coud nae traivel tae the event frae Cheenae. The pair haed met previously in the season at the Masters, whaur Maguire trailed 1–5, but won the match 6–5. Maguire teuk three o the fower openin frames tae lead 3–1, afore Robertson made o 100 and 103 winnin the next three. Maguire levelled the score at the end o the openin session at 4–4, wi baith players haein made twa century breaks. In the evening session, Robertson won frame 9, but scored anly fower pynts in the next fower frames, as Maguire made breaks o 103, 135, 111 and 115 tae lead 8–5. Maguire made a break o 59 in frame 14 tae win the match 9–5.
Maguire made a tot o sax century breaks during the match, wi a tot o aicht atween baith players. Baith amounts war new records for centuries in a best-o-17 frames match. Desmond Kane writing for Eurosport wrote that the performance wis the "greatest performance of [Maguire's] 22-year career", tae which Maguire agreed. Post-match, Robertson commented that the match table wis playin easy, an likened the tae that o nine-ball, whaur thay are significantly lairger.
The seicont match wis played atween reigning world champion Judd Trump and John Higgins. The pair haed met in the final o the 2019 Warld Snooker Championship. Due tae qualifying for the event, Trump wis guarenteed tae surpas £1 million in prize money for the season. Trump – the world nummer ane – won baith o the openin twa frames, but Higgins won frame three on the final. Trump won the next twa frames, an led 5–3 efter the first session. Trump won the first three frames on the resumption o play, wi breaks o 67, 53 and 135 tae lead 8–3. Higgins won frame 12, but Trump won the next frame tae win the match 9–4. This wis Trump's fift win in-a-row against Higgins, but Trump an aw suggestit that the conditions on the playin table war nae the same as the day prior. Yan Bingtao and Mark Selby contested the third quarter-final. Selby won the first frame o the match, but scored anly 26 pynts ower the next three frames. Trailing 1–3, Selby won the next three frames wi breaks o 99, 119 and 61 tae lead 4–3, but Yan won frame aicht tae tie the match efter the first session. In the seicont session, Selby won the next twa o the next three frames, includin three breaks o ower 50 tae lead 7–5. Leadin bi 64 pynts, Yan the table tae force a. Selby played the black and  the ball intae the corner pocket. Yan won the next frame, but Selby won frame 16 tae win the match 9–6.
The final quarter-final wis played atween Mark Allen and Shaun Murphy. In the first session, Murphy scored three century breaks tae lead 3–2 but lost the next twa frames tae trail 3–4. Murphy fluked the in frame 8 tae level the match. Murphy made a break o 100 tae win frame 9, an teuk frame 10 tae lead 6–4. Allen won the next frame, but Murphy made a break o 131 tae lead 7–5. Allen won the next twa frames tae tie the match, afore Murphy made his saxt century break in the next tae lead 8–7. Allen won frame 16 tae force a. In the final frame, Allen fluked a and made a break o 62 tae win the match 9–8. Murphy's sax century breaks equalled the record made bi Maguire earlier in the tournament for the maist 100+ breaks in a best-o-17-frames match.
Final
The final wis played as the best-o-19-frames on 26 Juin 2020 ower twa sessions. Mark Allen and Stephen Maguire haed anly met on sax occasions previously, wi Allen haein won fower o thir. The maist recent match wis a 6–0 win for Maguire in the 2019 UK Championship semi-final. Allen won the first twa frames wi breaks o 50 and 76 afore Maguire made breaks o 89 and 69 tae level the match at 2–2. Maguire won the next frame tae lead 3–2 afore Allen made a century break tae tie the match at 3–3, an the final twa frames o the first session war shared atween the twa tae be level at 4–4. In the seicont session, Maguire made the heichest break o the tournament – a 139 – in frame nine. Maguire won the next frame tae lead 6–4, an later at 7–5 afore the final. Maguire then made breaks o 78 and 53 tae lead 9–5 and be ane frame frae veectory. Allen won frame 15 wi a break o 107. Frame 16 wis full o play, an eventually ended up bein decidit on the final twa colours. Allen haed a shot on the, but missed, afore Maguire potted baith balls tae win the frame and match.
Seeding list
The seedings are conducted on the basis o the ane-year ranking leet up tae and includin the 2020 Gibraltar Open. Fift seed Ding Junhui withdrew prior tae the tournament due tae traivel complications during the COVID-19 pandemic. He wis replaced bi Stephen Maguire, who wis ninth on the ane-year ranking leet.
Century breaks
A tot o 22 century breaks war made during the tournament, the heichest bein a 139 made bi Stephen Maguire in frame nine o the final.
1556 Shaanxi yirdquauk
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