cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Rafael Pereira da Silva (fitbawer, born 1980)
Career
He signed a twa year contract wi Fluminense in Januar 2007. On 26 Mey 2009 Goiás hae signed the unattached richt-back till the end o saison.
Delight
Delight is a Pols gothic metal baund. They are currently signed tae Roadrunner Records.
Vievis
Vievis is a smaw ceety in Elektrėnai Municipality, Lithuanie. It is locatit 14 km east o Elektrėnai. The ceety is surroondit bi Loch Vievis.
Aboot 1600, Ogiński faimily biggit a Uniate kirk an foondit the Abbey o the Holy Spirit (Lithuanie: Šventosios dvasios). At the beginnin o the 17t century a printin press wis establisht near the abbey, notable for printin beuks bi various Protestant Calvinist scholars.
In 1794 an 1812, the kirk burned doun an wis rebiggit in 1816. In 1837 an Orthodox kirk wis biggit.
In the period atween Warld War I an Warld War II, Vievis was near the dividing line atween Lithuanie an Poland. The toun uised tae be amang those wi the lairgest Pols population, wi roughly 77% inhabitants identifeein thairsels as Poles. In 2011 census, anerly 10.9% o inhabitants identifee'd thairsels as Poles as well as 3.74% Roushies an 82.56% Lithuanies.
The 17t century printin press became the raison why a 1970s samizdat jurnal "Lustra dzion" editit bi Vincuk Viačorka citit "Jewie" as the place o its publishin (even tho it wis in fact publisht in Minsk). The printin press is featured on the modren coat o airms o the ceety an aw, adoptit in 1999.
The Lithuanie Road Museum is in the ceety.
San Javier
San Javier mey refer tae:
Brazilians
Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese, ) are aw fowk born in Brazil. A Brazilian can be a person born abroad tae a Brazilian parent or a foreigner livin in Brazil who applee'd for Brazilian citizenship an aw.
Addeetional Member Seestem
The Addeitional Member Seestem (AMS) is a votin seestem whaur some representatives is waled frae geographic constituencies an ithers is waled bi proportional representation frae pairty leets. The constituency representatives is for normal waled unner the first-past-the-post votin seestem. The pairty leet representatives is waled bi a saicont vote, whaur the electors vote for a political pairty, no directly for onie ae chiel. This pairty vote determines the nummer o representatives that the pairty haes in the assembly. The parteicular individuals waled comes frae leets drawn up bi the political pairties afore the walin, at a naitional or regional level.
Variations o the AMS haes unalike weys o determinin hou monie pairty leet representatives ilka pairty is enteitelt tae. The chief differ atween seestems is whither the constituency representatives is coontit whan leet representatives is allocate tae ilka pairty.
Oxalidaceae
The Oxalidaceae, or wid sorrel faimily, is a smaa faimily o aicht genera o yerbaceous plants, shrubs an smaa trees, wi the great majority o the 900 species in the genus Oxalis (wid sorrels). Members o this faimily teepically hae dividit leafs, the leaflets shawin "sleep movements", speldin open in licht an closin in the mirkness.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Parallel votin is the mair common variation amang votin seestems o the warld, but MMP is the seestem descreived here. Smaa pairties will for ordinar wun mair saets unner MMP nor SUP.
Oxalidaceae
The genus Averrhoa o whilk starnfruit is a member, is aften includit in this faimily, but some botanists pit it in a separate faimily Averrhoaceae.
Isfiya
Isfiya (عسفيا), kent as Ussefiya an aw, is a Druze veelage an local cooncil in northren Israel. Locatit on Munt Carmel, it is pairt o Haifa Destrict. In 2009 it haed a population o 25,400. In 2003, the local council wis mergit wi nearbi Daliyat al-Karmel tae form Carmel Ceety. Housomeivver, the new ceety wis dissolvit in 2008 an the twa veelages resumit thair unthirlt status.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Uiss
The AMS is uised tae wale members tae sindry representative bodies aroond the warld.
Isfiya
History
Isfiya wis biggit on the ruins o a Byzantine dounset. Crusader remnants hae been foond in the veelage. In 1930, remains o a 5t century Jewish toun, Husifah, wur unyirdit in Isfiya. Amang the fynds are a synagogue wi a mosaic floor bearin Jewish seembols an the inscription "Peace upon Israel." A cache o 4,500 gowd coins wur foond datin frae the Roman period.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Uiss
It wad hae been uised for the proponed Regional Assemblies in England an aa.
Isfiya
History
The modren veelage wis foondit in the early aichteent century. The indwallers made thair livin frae olive ile, honey an grapes.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Uiss
AMS is uised forbye in Bolivia, Italy (laicher hoose, syne 1994), Lesotho, Mexico and Venezuela.
Isfiya
History
At the time o the 1931 census o Palestine, Isfiya haed 251 occupeed hooses an a population o 742 Druzes, 187 Christians, an 176 Muslims. Thir coonts includit the smawer localities Damun Farm, Shallala Farm an El Jalama.
Durin the Breetish Mandate for Palestine, the veelagers initially supportit the Arab Abu Durra gang. Housomeivver, efter local leaders wur abductit an murthert, the notables turned tae the Breetish, who destroyed the gang. A Druze sel-defence force wis established that receivit airms frae the Breetish an whiles coordinatit its activities wi local Jewish forces.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Uiss
Hungary haes a complicate votin seestem that ends up wi a less proportional representation nor AMS but mair proportional nor parallel votin.
Recommends for Breitish walins
In 1976, the Hansard Society recommendit that the Addeitional Member Seestem shuid be uised for UK pairlamentary walins, but insteid o uisin closed pairty leets, it propones that saets shuid be filled bi defeatit candidates, on a 'best losser' basis. A seimilar seestem wis proponed bi the Unthirlt Commission in 1999, kent as Alternative Vote Plus (AV+). This wad involve the uise o the Alternative Vote for walin members frae ae-member constituencies, an regional pairty leets. Houaniver, contrair tae the Labour Pairty's aerlier manifesto promises, the wisna a referendum afore the 2001 walin and the statement wisna repeatit.
Isfiya
History
Tho predominantly Druze, a nummer o Jews live in Isfiya an ither Druze veelages due tae thair law rent rates.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Procedures
The voter casts twa votes: ane for a constituency representative an ane for a pairty. In a lesser-uised variant, uised bi some of the sindry Länder in Germany, baith votes is combined intae wan, sae that votin for a representative autaematically means votin for thair pairty an aa.
In ilka constituency, the representative is chuist uisin first-past-the-post (that is, the candidate wi the maist votes, bi plurality, wuns).
Isfiya
Landmarks
The tomb o Abu Abdallah is locatit in Isfiya. Abu Abdullah wis ane o three releegious leaders chosen bi Caliph Al-Hakem in 996 CE tae proclaim the Druze faith. He is said tae hae been the first Druze releegious judge (qadi). The Druze mak an annual veesit tae this shrine on November 15.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Procedures
On the district or naitional level (i.e. abuin the constituency level), the hail nummer o saets in the assembly is allocate tae pairties proportional tae the nummer o votes the pairty got in the pairty portion o the ballot. The nummer of constituency saets a pairty wan is subtractit frae its allocation. The nummer o saets bydin allocate tae that pairty is filled uisin the pairty's leet. If a candidate is on the pairty leet, but wuns a constituency saet, thay dinna get twa saets; insteid, thay are delete frae the pairty leet an replaced wi the neist candidate doun.
Semeliškės
Semeliškės (Siemieliszki) is a toun in Elektrėnai Municipality, Vilnius Coonty, east Lithuanie. Accordin tae the 2001 census, the toun haes a population o 660 fowk. The toun haes a kirk o Catholics an Orthodox Kirk o St. Nicolas.
Addeetional Member Seestem
Thrashel
For tae be eligible for leet saets in the New Zealand an German, a pairty maun either earn at laest 5% o the hail pairty vote or wun at laest ane constituency saet (three constituency saets in Germany). If nane o the twa condeitions is met, the pairty isna representit. Haein a member wi a 'sauf' constituency saet is syne a grand asset tae a minor pairty in sic a seestem.
Potential for tactical votin
In terms o tactical votin, the first vote for the district representative is aften muckle less important (nor the saicont pairty leet vote) in determinin the oweraa ootcome o a walin; in ither cases a pairty micht be sae siccar that it'll wun saets in the district walin that it expects nae mair saets in the proportional tap-up. Some voters micht syne ettle tae get dooble representation bi votin tactically an splittin thair votes, tho this rins the risk o unintendit eftercomes.
In seestems wi a thrashel, tactical votin for a minor pairty that's predictit tae be juist ablo the thrashel is relatively common, specially bi voters that's feart that the minor pairty missin the thrashel wad weaken the lairger political camp that the minor party belangs. For exemplar, the German moderate-richt Free Democratic Pairty (FDP) haes aften received votes frae voters that wad liefer the lairger Christian Democratic Union (CDU) pairty, acause thay fear that gin the FDP received less nor five percent o the votes, the conservative camp wad be sic weakened that the CDU cuidna form a guvrenment.
Wyle-leets
Political pairties can abuise the seestem: in the 2001 Italian walins, the twa chief coalitions (the Hoose o Freedoms an the Olive Tree) linkit monie o thair constituency candidates tae wyle-leets (liste civetta) in the proportional pairts, uner the names Abolizione Scorporo an Paese Nuovo respectively, sae that gin thay wun constituencies than thay wadna reduce the nummer o proportional saets received bi the coalitions. Atween thaim, the twa wyle-leets wan 360 o the 475 constituency saets, mair nor hauf o the 630 tot o saets, mauger wunnin a tot aathegither o less nor 0.2% o the naitional proportional pairt o the vote. In the case o Forza Italia (pairt o the Hoose o Freedoms), the tactic wis that successfu that it didna hae eneuch candidates in the proportional pairt tae receive as monie saets as it in fact wan, missin oot on 12 saets.
Wyle-leets isna uised in maist kintras uisin AMS, whaur maist voters vote for candidates frae pairties wi lang-staundin names.
Aphantopus hyperantus
The Aphantopus hyperantus is a butterflee in the faimily Nymphalidae.
FAW Group
Tha China FAW Group Corp., Earr. (First Automobile Works) na neach-dèanamh chàraichean Sìneach leis a’ phrìomh oifis ann an Changchun, Jilin.[5] Air a stèidheachadh ann an 1953, [6] is e an dàrna fear as motha de luchd-saothrachaidh chàraichean stàite “Big Four” ann an Sìona an-dràsta, còmhla ri SAIC Motor, Dongfeng Motor Corporation agus Changan Automobile.
Bidh a’ chompanaidh a’ dèanamh agus a’ reic charbadan fon bhranndadh aca fhèin, leithid Hongqi, Bestune (Benteng) a bharrachd air fo cho-iomairtean le suaicheantas cèin leithid FAW-Toyota agus FAW-Volkswagen (Volkswagen, Audi).
Is e na prìomh thoraidhean aige càraichean, busaichean, làraidhean aotrom, meadhanach agus trom, [8] agus pàirtean càr.[9] Thàinig FAW gu bhith mar a’ chiad neach-saothrachaidh chàraichean ann an Sìona nuair a dh’fhoillsich e a’ chiad chàr luchd-siubhail dachaigheil, an Hongqi, ann an 1958.[10]
Tha trì fo-chompanaidhean malairt poblach aig a’ chompanaidh: FAW Car Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000800), Tianjin FAW Xiali Automobile Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000927), agus Changchun FAWAY Automobile Components Co., Ltd (SSE: 600742). ).
Nueve de Julio
Nueve de Julio (or 9 de Julio) means 9 Julie in Spainyie. It mey refer tae:
Akçakale
Akçakale is a toun an destrict o Şanlıurfa Province in sooutheastren Turkey. It is a border checkpoint on the road frae Şanlıurfa tae Tell Abyad in Sirie.
Mony faimilies in the region hae relatives athort the mairch in Sirie.
Tarija Depairtment
Tarija is a depairtment in Bolivie. It is locatit in sooth-eastren Bolivie borderin Argentinae tae the sooth an Paraguay tae the east. Accordin tae the 2001 census, it haes a population o 391,226 indwallers. It haes an aurie o 37.623 km². The ceety o Tarija is the caipital o the depairtment.
The depairtment is dividit intae five provinces an ane autonomous region:
The Depairtment o Tarija is renouned for its mild, pleasant climate, an comprises ane o the kintra's foremaist agricultural regions. Its ceetizens hae tradeetionally felt close tae, an conductit a lively internaitional tred wi, neebourin touns o northren Argentinae. Atween 1816-1898, the region wis pairt o Argentinae, an wis cedit tae Bolivie in exchynge for Puna de Atacama.
Tarija boasts Sooth Americae's seicont-lairgest natural gas reserves. Increased gas revenues an foreign direct investment in gas exploration an distribution are fuelin growt an turnin Tarija intae Bolivia's next industrial hub. Poleetical instability at the naitional level haes hindered development o the reserves, as the region haes chosen tae align wi pro-autonomy forces whose goal is the devolution o considerable powers awa frae the central govrenment in favor o the depairtments.
Mair nor 20 different Indigenous tribes, rangin in population frae 20 fowks up tae 1500, live in the region. The Guarani is the lairgest tribe.
Important battles an events relatit tae the 1932-35 Chaco War wi Paraguay teuk place in the depairtment's eastren dry lands. Tarija wis the hame o Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader o the 1952 Bolivie Revolution an fower-time Constitutional Preses.
Economy
The petroleum industry is important no anerlie for the region but for the kintra as a whole an aw, especially the gas industry which is exportit tae Argentinae an Brazil. The autonomous region o Gran Chaco is frae whaur maist o the gas is exploitit.
Leids
The leids spoken in the depairtment are mainly Spaingie, Quechua, Aymara an Guaraní. The follaein table shows the nummers belangin tae the recognizit groups o speakers.
San Andrés Solaga
San Andrés Solaga is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 38.27 km². It is pairt o the Villa Alta Destrict in the centre o the Sierra Norte Region.
As o 2005, the municipality haed a tot population o 1699.
Bruno Cazarine
Bruno Cazarine Constantin, kent as Bruno Cazarine an aw (born 6 Mey 1983, in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo), is a Brazilian fitbawer who plays as a striker.
Career
Cazarine is a modren day jurneyman haein played short stints for clubs in Brazil, Qatar, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Cheenae, Sooth Korea an Australie.
Garfield
Garfield is an American comic creatit bi Jim Davis. Publeeshed syne 1978, it chronicles the life o the teetle chairacter, Garfield, the cat; Jon Arbuckle, the human; an Odie, the dug. As o 2013, it wis syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers an journals, an held the Guinness World Record for bein the warld's maist widely syndicated comic strip.
San Miguel del Río
San Miguel del Río is a toun an municipality in Oaxaca in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 40.83 km². It is pairt o the Ixtlán Destrict in the Sierra Norte region.
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 275.
Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen, cried the Staufer or Staufen an aw, war a dynasty o German keengs (1138–1254) during the Middle Ages.
Siberie Federal Destrict
Siberie Federal Destrict (Сиби́рский федера́льный о́круг, Sibirsky federalny okrug) is ane o the aicht federal destricts o Roushie. Its population wis 19,254,300 (72% urban) accordin tae the 2010 Census, livin on an aurie o 5114800 km2. The entire federal destrict lees athin the continent o Asie.
Pabaiskas
Pabaiskas is a smaw toun in Ukmergė destrict o Vilnius Coonty, Lithuanie, 10 km sooth-wast o Ukmergė, wi 249 inhabitants. The Battle o Pabaiskas teuk place here in 1435, when Sigismund Kestutaitis defeatit Švitrigaila an his Livonie Order allees. Pabaiskas wis biggit efterwairds tae commemorate the battle.
Thare is a Holy Trinity Kirk in the toun, biggit in 1436 bi Sigismund Kestutaitis. A mair modren stanewirk kirk wis biggit in 1821–1836 m. The airchitect wis J. Levoisier.
Oxalidales
The Oxalidales is an order o flouering plants, includit athin the rosid subgroup o eudicots. Compoond leafs is common in Oxalidales an the majority o the species in this order hae five or sax sepals an petals. The follaein faimilies is teepically placed here:
The Cephalotaceae faimily contains a single species, a pitcher plant foond in Soothwast Australie.
Unner the Cronquist seestem, maist o the faimilies gien abuin wis placed in the Rosales. The Oxalidaceae wis placed in the Geraniales, an the Elaeocarpaceae split atween the Malvales an Polygalales, in the latter case bein treatit as the Tremandraceae.
Rhine
The Rhine is an important an unco lang river in Europe. The river itsel is aboot 1,232 km (766 mi) lang, wi a common watter dischairge o mair nor 2,000 m³/s (71,000 cu ft/s). It flowes frae Swisserland til the ceety o Rotterdam in the Netherlands, tuimin in the German Ocean.
It is been ane o the heidmaist rivers for the Germanic fowk, e'en makin the mairch atween the Roman Empire an Germania. Mony castles lie alang its banks.
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is a fitbaw club frae São Paulo. The club wis foondit on August 26, 1914, as Palestra Italia, but chynged tae the current name on September 14, 1942. It is ane o the maist popular an successfu Brazilian clubs, wi aroond 17 million supporters, includin a muckle nummer o Brazilians o Italian ancestry. Despite bein primarily an association fitbaw team, Palmeiras competes in a nummer o different sports, maist notably basketbaw. The fitbaw team plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the state o São Paulo's premier state league, as well as in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the tap tier o the Brazilian fitbaw league seestem.
Louis the German
Louis (Ludwig or Lewis an aa) "the German" (c. 804 – 28 August 876), forby kent as Louis II, wis a grandson o Charlemagne an the third son o the succeedin Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious an his first wife, Ermengarde o Hesbaye.
Tetipac (municipality)
Tetipac is ane o the 81 municipalities o Guerrero, in sooth-wastren Mexico. The municipal seat lees at Tetipac. The municipality covers a aurie o 269.3 km².
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 12,702.
Just Go with It
Just Go with It is a 2011 Merican filum distreebutit by Columbia Pictures an Happy Madison Productions.
Hans Adam II, Prince o Liechtenstein
Hans Adam II, Prince o Liechtenstein (Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d'Aviano Pius; born 14 Februar 1945) is the ringing Prince o Liechtenstein. He is the son of Franz Joseph II, Prince o Liechtenstein (1906–1989) an his wife, Coontess Georgina von Wilczek (1921–1989). He an aw bears the teetles Duke of Troppau an Jägerndorf, an Coont o Rietberg. Hans Adam is the richest monarch in Europe. Hans Adam owns LGT banking group and has a family fortune of $US7.6 billion and a personal fortune o about $US4 billion, making him one of the world's richest heads of state, an Europe's wealthiest monarch. He owns an extensive airt collection, much o which is displayed for the public at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.
Nardaran
Nardaran is a dounset an municipality on the Abşeron Peninsulae in Baku, Azerbaijan. It haes a population o 8,300.
Locatit 25 kilometers northeast o central Baku, it is poleetically pairt o the Baku ceety-subdiveesion an treatit as a suburb. Unlik the rest o the kintra which is staunchly secular an which is considered releegiously progressive, Nardaran is a lone centre o conservative Shia Islam in Azerbaijan.
Nardaran's name come frae Persie: Nar (Pomegranate)نار +Daran (trees) داران"Place wi Pomegranate trees".
The toun is the steid o an early-14t century castle, featurin a roond touer approximately 12.5 meters heich. Durin Soviet rule, the ceety wis kent as a centre growin flouers. Syne Azerbaijan's unthirldom, the economy haes dwindled an the toun is reputit for its caviar poachers.
Nardaran is the anerlie place in the whole o Azerbaijan whaur its indwallers are devoutly releegious an conservative, whaur its streets display releegious banners an whaur maist weemen wear chadors in public. The toun is hame tae a madrassah as well as the Rehime Khanim Mosque, a lairge Shia mosque biggit in the late 1990s ower the tomb o Rahima Khanim, the sister o Imam Reza. The nou banned Islamic Pairty o Azerbaijan wis foondit in this toun an its base wis centred thare. Nardaran haes been the steid o strang protests an unrest, notable riots in Juin 2002 ower wha protesters deemed inadequate livin staundarts an anither in Januar 2006 which resultit in the daiths o three fowk. Ironically Nardaran is possibly ane the poorest places in Azerbaijan, while it is sae close tae the richest place in Azerbaijan, Baku.
Cucumis
Cucumis is a genus o twinin, tendril-bearin plants in the Cucurbitaceae faimily which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, an Cucumis anguria, the Wast Indian gherkin. Thirty species occur in Africae, an 25 occur in Indie, Indocheena, Sootheast Aisie, an Austrailie
Episyrphus balteatus
Episyrphus balteatus is a relatively smaw hoverflee (9–12 mm) o the Syrphidae faimily, widespreid ootthrou the Palaearctic region, that kivers Europe, North Asie, an North Africae.
Angelique Rockas
Angelique Rockas (born in Boksburg, Sooth Africa) is an actress, producer an activist. In 1980, Rockas foonded Internationalist Theatre in the Unitit Kinrick wi patron Athol Fugard. The theatre featured multi-racial casts in classical plays, breakin racial barriers 'at waur ance accepted norms fur theatrical performances.
Actin career
Rockas gained praise fur her strang interpretations ay: Medea (Euripides),   Video Miss Julie (August Strindberg),   Emma in The Camp (Griselda Gambaro)  an as Annabella in Ford's  'Tis Pity She's a Whore She forby played Lady Macbeth at the Tramshed Theatre, Woolwich, London, and th' nurse in th' f an' h play at th' traverse theatre.
Hiietse
Hiietse is a veelage in Märjamaa Pairish, Rapla Coonty in wastren Estonie.
Whitworths
Whitworths is a dree'd fruit, hame bakin an snack products company, established in 1886 based in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, UK. As o Mairch 2009 it employed 310 fowk. The company wis begun bi the three Whitworth brithers John, Herbert an Newton tradin unner the name o Whitworth Bros. In 1971 thay wur awairdit the Ryal Warrant bi Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mither an in 1974 bi Queen Elizabeth II.
Santa María Yavesía
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o.
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Yo Gabba Gabba! is an American live action/puppet eddicational childer's televeesion shaw starnin five costumed toys comin tae life an thair friend DJ Lance Rock.
Alex Higgins
Alexander Gordon Higgins (18 Mairch 1949 – 24 Julie 2010) wis a Northern Irish professional snooker player. Nicknamed Hurricane Higgins acause of his fast play, he wis Warld Champion in 1972 an 1982, an rinner-up in 1976 an 1980. He wan the UK Championship in 1983 an the Masters in 1978 an 1981, makkin him ane o eleiven players tae hae completit snooker's Triple Crown. Forby he wis Warld Doubles champion wi Jimmy White in 1984, an wan the Warld Cup three times wi the Aw-Ireland team.
Higgins cam tae be kent as the "People's Champion" acause o his popularity, an is aften credited wi haein brocht the gemm o snooker tae a wider audience, contributin tae its peak in popularity in the 1980s. He haed a reputation as a unpredictable an difficult character. He smokit a lot, struggled wi the drink an gamblin, an admitted tae uisin cocaine an marijuana. First diagnosed wi cancer o the thrapple in 1998, Higgins dee'd frae a wheen things in his Belfast hame on the 24 Julie 2010. Higgins aye hauds the hiechest break tae win a Warld Championship, bein 135 in the 1982 final agin Ray Reardon.
Early life
Higgins wis raised in the Kirk o Ireland. He stairtit playin snooker whan he wis 11, aften in the Jampot club in his native Sandy Row area o sooth Belfast an later in the YMCA in the heid o the toun. He flittit til England for a career as a jockey whan he wis 14. Houaniver, he niver made the grade cause he wis ower hivy tae ride in a competitive settin. He gaed back tae Belfast an bi 1965, aged 16, he haed compiled his first maximum break. In 1968 he won the Aw-Ireland an Northern Ireland Amateur Snooker Championships.
Warld titles
Higgins turned professional whan he wis 22, winnin the Warld Championship at his first attempt in 1972, agin John Spencer winnin 37–32. Higgins wis the yungest iver winner o the title in the time, a record that wis keepit until Stephen Hendry's 1990 win at the age o 21. In Apryle 1976, Higgins reached the final again an faced Ray Reardon. Higgins led 11–9, but Reardon made fower centuries an seiven breaks ower 60 tae pull awa an win the title for the fift time wi the score o 27–16. Higgins wis the rinner-up tae Cliff Thorburn in 1980, lossin 18–16, efter bein 9–5 up. Higgins wan the warld title for a seicont time in 1982 efter baetin Reardon 18–15 (wi a 135 tot clearance in the final frame); it wis a emotional an professional win for him. Higgins wad hae been ranked No. 1 in the warld rankins for the 1982/83 season haed he nae forfeited rankin pynts follaein disciplinary action.
Ither wins
Ootthrou his career, Higgins wan 20 ither titles, ane o the maist notable anes bein the 1983 UK Championship. In the final he trailed Steve Davis 0–7 afore producin a famous comeback tae win 16–15. He wan the Masters twice, in 1978 an in 1981, baetin Cliff Thorburn (a man that, at ae pynt, caaed doun Higgins wi ae swift punch ) an Terry Griffiths in the finals respectively. Anither kenspeckle win wis his last professional win in the 1989 Irish Masters at the age o 40 whan he baet a yung Stephen Hendry. This wis the last professional tournament he wan, an is aften cryed "The Hurricane's Last Hurrah".
Efter retirement
Efter his retirement frae the professional gemm, Higgins spent time playin for smaw sums o siller in an aboot Northern Ireland. He made appearances in the 2005 an 2006 Irish Professional Championship, thir comebacks endin in first-roond defeats bi Garry Hardiman an Joe Delaney respectively.
On the 12 Juin 2007, it wis reportit that Higgins haed battert a referee at a charity match in the north-east o England. Higgins returned tae competitive action in September 2007 at the Irish Professional Championship in Dublin but wis whitewashed 0–5 bi umwhile British Open champion Fergal O'Brien in the first roond at the Spawell Club, Templeogue.
On 8 Apryle 2010, Higgins wis pairt o the first Snooker Legends Tour event in Sheffield, at the Crucible. Appearin alang wi ither professionals that retired or wad retire suin, the likes o John Parrott, Jimmy White, John Virgo an Cliff Thorburn, he faced Thorburn in his match, but lost 2–0.
It is estimatit that Higgins earnt an spent £3–4 million in his career as a snooker player.
Wey o playin
Higgins's speed aroond the table, his ability tae pot baas at howdy heest an flamboyant style got him the tae-name "Hurricane Higgins" an made him a hiech-profile player. His rael byordinar cuein technique whiles haed a body swerve, as weel as a stance that wis fairly hie-er nor that o maist professional players.
The byordinar play o Higgins wis encapsulated in his break of 69, made unner byordinar pressure, agin Jimmy White in the penultimate frame o thair Warld Professional Snooker Championship semi-final in 1982. Higgins wis 0–59 doun in that frame, but managed tae compile a rael challengin clearance whaur he wis haurdly in poseetion until the colours. In partiecular, umwhile warld champion Dennis Taylor considers a three-quarter-baa pot on a blue intae the green pocket partiecular memorable, nae anly for it bein awfu haurd, but for lattin Higgins continue the break an keep White aff o the table an unable tae clinch veectory at that moment. In pottin the blue, Higgins screwed the cue-baa ontae the side cushion tae bring it back tae the black/pink bit wi extreme left-haund sidespin, a shot Taylor trews coud be played 100 times wioot comin near the poseetion Higgins reached wi cue-baa. He gaed a tait ower faur for ideal poseetion on his niest reid but the match-savin break wis alive yet.
Professionalism an behaviour
Anither incident cam at the 1990 Warld Championship; efter lossin his first-roond match tae Steve James, he punched tournament offiecial Colin Randle in the wame afore the stairt o a press conference whaur he annunced his retirement, an abused the media as he left. This follaed anither incident at the Warld Cup, whaur he repeatedly argued wi fellae player an compatriot Dennis Taylor, an threatened tae hae him shot. For his conduct, Higgins wis banned for the rest o the season an aw o the niest ane.
Durin the Warld Trickshot Championship in 1991, Higgins demonstrated whit leukit like his iegnorance o hou a professional snooker player shoud behave, whan he descrived the black baa as "Muhammad Ali" in his performance afore a live audience an TV cameras, which caused a visibly pained expression frae Barry Hearn an an exclamation frae judge Steve Davis that his score wis aaready laich afore the shot wis even played.
Ootwi snooker
At the time of his 1972 triumph at the Warld Championship, Higgins haed nae permanent hame an bi his ain accoont haed bidden in a raw o abandoned hooses in Blackburn no lang syne, that wis waitin tae be caaed doun. In ae ouk he haed flittit intae five different hooses on the same street, flittin doun ane ilka time his current hoose wis caaed doun.
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Alex Higgins
Ootwi snooker
In 1975, Higgins's son wis born. Higgins wis first mairit on Cara Hasler in Apryle 1975 in Sydney. Thay haed a dochter Christel an divorced. His seicont mairiage wis tae Lynn Avison in 1980. Thay haed a dochter Lauren (born late 1980) an son Jordan (born Mairch 1983). Thay split in 1985 an divorced. In the same year, Higgins began a relationship wi Siobhan Kidd, endin in 1989 efter he allegedly hat her wi a hairdryer.
He wis freends wi Oliver Reed for a lang time.
Philippe Égalité
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, Prince o the French bluid ryal (13 Apryle 1747 – 6 November 1793) commonly kent as Philippe d'Orléans, wis a member o the Hoose o Orléans. He actively supported the French Revolution and adoptit the name Philippe Égalité, but wis still guillotined during the Reign o Terror in the French Revolution. His son Louis Philippe I became King o the French efter the July Revolution o 1830. He held the rank o prince o the bluid. He haed a short affair wi Madame de Genlis, a lady-in-waiting o his wife. He also owned an redesigned the Parc Monceau in Paris.
Alex Higgins
Ootwi snooker
In 1983 Higgins helped a yung boy frae Manchester, a fan o his that haed been in a coma for twa month. His paurents wis growin desperate an wrat tae Higgins. He recordit messages on tape an sent thaim tae the boy wi his best wishes. He later visited the boy in hospital an played a snooker match he promised tae hae wi him whan he got better.
Philippe Égalité
Small biography
Born ootside Paris at the Château de Saint Cloud, he wis gien the teetle o Duke o Montpensier at birth. He haed the rank o a Prince du sang (prince o the blood) at the French ryal coort which allowed the uise o Serene Highness in documents. Eventually he wis engaged tae a distant cousin Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Penthièvre, then the greatest heiress in Fraunce an the twa war mairit in the Ryal Chaipel o the Palace o Versailles on 5 Aprile 1769.
Alex Higgins
Ootwi snooker
In 1996, Higgins wis convicted o settin aboot a 14-year-auld boy, while in 1997 than-girlfriend Holly Haise stabbit him three times in a domestic airgument. He published his autobiography, From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story, in 2007. Higgins appeared in the Sporting Stars edition o the British telly quiz The Weakest Link on the 25 Julie 2009.
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San Fernando de Henares
San Fernando de Henares is a municipality in Spain, in the province an autonomous commonty o Madrid.
It haes a aurie o 39.9 km² an 41,380 inhabitants.
Its agrigultural products include olives, cereals, vegetables, cattle an oo. Its industries include metalwirkin, mechanical ingineerin, fuid processin an graphic airts.
History
In 1746 King Philip V bocht the aurie whaur San Fernando nou staunds tae instaw a ryal fabric factory. Efter the king's daith shortly thareefter, the project wis developit bi Ferdinand VI, who appointit Ventura de Argumosa as the govrenor o the Ryal Place.
Aroond the factory wirkers' dwellins wur built, which resultit in the oreegin o the toun. In front o the factory a great square wis opened (at present namit Plaza de España) which wis linkit wi anither nou namit Plaza de Fernando VI. The whole aurie haes been recently declared a historic an airtistic monument so it canna be modifee'd, tae protect the oreeginal hooses that still remain.
Throuoot its 200 year history, the municipality haes suffered ups an douns. Its emblematic biggin, the factory, haes been intendit for several uisses, notably as a hospice. Currently anerly the main facade staunds; haes been restored an incorporatit intae the new ceety haw.
Twin touns – Sister ceeties
San Fernando de Henares is twinned wi:
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Alex Higgins
Illness an daith
For a lot o years, Higgins smokit a lot. He reportedly smokit 80 cigarettes a day. He haed cancerous growths remuved frae his mooth in 1994 an 1996. In Juin 1998, he wis fund tae hae cancer o the thrapple; on the 13 October that year, he haed major surgery. He coud anly speak in a whisper in his last years.
In early 2010 he suffered frae pneumonia an breithin problems, an on the 31 Mairch he wis taen tae the hospital. In Apryle 2010 Higgins' friends annunced that thay haed setten up a campaign tae help raise the £20,000 he needit for teeth implants, tae lat him eat richt again an pit on wecht. Higgins haed lost his teeth efter intensive radiotherapy uised tae treat his thrapple cancer. It wis reportit that syne losin thaim he haed been livin on liquid maet, an haed become aye mair depressed, even thinkin aboot makkin wey o hissel. He wis ower seek an frail tae hae the implants fittit. Maugre o his illness, Higgins wad keep smokin cigarettes an drinkin a lot until the end o his life. He wis taen til the hospital again in Mey.
Bi the simmer o 2010, Higgins' wecht haed faaen doun tae 6 st. Aatho he haed ance been wirth £4 million, he wis bankrupt an leeved on a £200-a-week disability allouance. He wis fund deid in bed in his flat on the 24 Julie 2010. The cause o daith wis malnutrition, pneumonia, teeth decay, an a bronchial condeetion, awtho his dochter Lauren sayed that he wis clear frae cancer o the thrapple whan he dee'd.
Higgins' funeral service wis hauden at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast on the 2 August 2010. He wis buirit in Carnmoney Cemetery in Newtownabbey, Coonty Antrim. Amang the snooker professionals that wis thare wis Jimmy White, Stephen Hendry, Ken Doherty, Joe Swail, Shaun Murphy an John Virgo. Doherty an White wis pall bearers.
Legacy
Alex Higgins wis a inspiration tae a lot o professional snooker players, the likes o Ken Doherty, Jimmy White an Ronnie O'Sullivan. In Clive Everton's TV documentary The Story of Snooker (2002), Steve Davis descrived Higgins as the "ae true genius that snooker haes gien us", awtho the autobiography o a contemporary leadin professional Willie Thorne characterised Higgins as "no a great player". Higgins arguably fulfilled his potential anly intermittently in his career peak in the 1970s an 80s; Everton pits this doun tae Davis an Ray Reardon maistly bein ower consistent for him.
Regairdless, Higgins' excitin style an explosive persona helpit mak snooker a growin telly sport in the 1970s an 1980s. Higgins made the first 16-reid clearance (in a challenge match in 1976); it wis a break of 146 (wi the broun as the first "reid", an 16 colours: 1 green, 5 pinks an 10 blacks).
In 2011, Event 8 o the Players Tour Championship wis renamed as the Alex Higgins International Trophy. In 2016, WPBSA preses Barry Hearn annunced that the trophy for the new Northern Ireland Open tournament wad be caaed efter Higgins.
Higgins' professional rivalry wi Steve Davis wis portrayed in a 2016 BBC featur film caaed The Rack Pack, whaur he wis played bi Luke Treadaway.
Rankin finals: 6 (1 title, 5 rinner-ups)
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Non-rankin finals: 50 (23 titles, 27 rinner-ups)
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Ural Federal Destrict
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Whisky
Spellin
The spellin whisky (plural whiskies) is for ordinar uised for thaim that's distillt in Scotland, Canadae, an Japan, while whiskey (wi an e; plural whiskeys) is uised for the speirits distillt in Ireland an the Unitit States; houaniver, the'r exceptions. Internaitional law resers the term "Scotch whisky" for thae whiskies that's produced in Scotland; whiskies produced in ither kintras in the Scotch wey maun uise anither name. Seimilar conventions exists for "Irish whiskey," "Canadian whisky," an "Bourbon whiskey".
The Welsh version is wysgi. The name is derived frae Gaelic uisge beatha (watter o life). (Ither kintras haes thair ain "watter o life" forbye: for exemplar Scandinavie Akvavit, that's name comes frae the Laitin aqua vitae.)
Irish whiskey is for ordinar distillt three times frae melderin. Scots whisky, richt cryed Scotch, is for normal distilt twice, aither frae baurley maut its lane (see single maut whisky), or frae baurley mauts an ither grain mauts that's than mixt thegither. Kentucky whiskey, cryed Bourbon, is for ordinar juist distillt the aince, lik maist ither American an Canadian whiskies.
Chairacteristics
Whisky is selt in monie styles. Maut whisky conseists o whisky made frae 100 percent mautit grain, an maut whisky frae ae distillery, raither nor blendit, is cryed single maut. The grains uised tae mak maut whisky includes baurley in Ireland, Scotland, Canadae, an the Unitit States, an rye in Canadae an the Unitit States. Pure pot still whiskey is made in Ireland frae a mixtur o mautit an wanmautit baurley. Sindry types o straucht whiskey, sic as rye whiskey, Tennessee whiskey, an Bourbon whiskey is produced in the US that's aged in new, charred, aik baurels. Blendit whisky is made frae a mixtur o monie o the abuin whiskies wi the seimilar grain whisky or neutral grain speirits, that's faur less expensive tae produce nor the ither kinds o whisky. Blends will aamaist aye identifee the kin o base whisky uised, i.e. blendit Scotch, blendit Canadian, or blendit Bourbon. Licht whiskey is a kin o American whiskey made up aamaist hailie o neutral grain speirits, wi smaa amoonts (for ordinar nae mair nor 5–10 percent o the hail volume) o straucht whiskey an sherry eikit for flavor an colourin.
Human back
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San Javier Depairtment, Córdoba
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The provincial subdiveesion haes a population o aboot 48,951 inhabitants in a aurie o 1,652 km², an its caipital ceety is Villa Dolores.
Thymelicus sylvestris
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Belize
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Jesolo
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Dresden
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Removal o UNESCO Warld Heritage status
Dresden Elbe Valley that obtained UNESCO Warld Heritage status in 2004 wis placed on the leet o endangered Warld Heritage sites in 2007. In 2009, Dresden haed its status as UNESCO Warld Heritage formally removed for the destruction o warld heritage through the biggin a controversial hieway brig athort the site.
Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Alang wi its twin ceety Coventry, Dresden wis ane o the first twa ceeties tae twin wi a foreign ceety. Similar seembolism occurred in 1988, when Dresden twinned wi the Dutch ceety o Rotterdam. The cities became twins efter Warld War II in an act o reconciliation, as they haed suffered incisive destructions frae bombins. The Coventry Blitz an Rotterdam Blitz bombardments o the German Luftwaffe are an aa considered tae be disproportional. Dresden haes haed a triangular pairtnership wi Saunt Petersburg an Hamburg syne 1987. Dresden haes twal twin ceeties.
Seychelles
Ither nearbi island kintras an territories include Zanzibar tae the wast, Mauritius an Réunion tae the sooth, Comoros an Mayotte tae the soothwast. Seychelles, wi an estimatit population o 84,000, haes the smawest population o ony African state.
History
Austronesian seafarers or Arab traders wur the first tae visit the uninhabitit Seychelles. The earliest recordit sichtin bi Europeans teuk place in 1502 bi the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes an named them efter hissel (islands o the Admiral).
A transit point for trade atween Africae an Asie, the islands wur occasionally uised bi pirates till the French began tae take control stairtin in 1756 when a Stone o Possession wis laid bi Caiptain Nicholas Morphey. The islands wur named efter Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV’s Meenister o Finance.
The Breetish contestit control ower the islands atween 1794 an 1810. Jean Baptiste Quéau de Quincy, French administrator o Seychelles durin the years o war wi the Unitit Kinrick, declined tae resist when airmed enemy warships arrived. Instead, he successfully negotiatit the status o capitulation tae Breetain which gave the settlers a privileged position o neutrality.
Breetain eventually assumed full control upon the surrender o Mauritius in 1810, formalised in 1814 at the Treaty o Paris. Seychelles became a croun colony separate frae Mauritius in 1903. Elections wur held in 1966 an 1970. Unthrildom wis grantit in 1976 as a republic athin the Commonweel. In 1977, a coup d'état oostit the first preses o the republic, James Mancham, who wis replaced bi France Albert René. The 1979 constitution declared a socialist ane-pairty state, which lastit till 1991. The first draft o a new constitution failed tae receive the requisite 60 percent o voters in 1992, but an amendit version wis approved in 1993.
Dirceu Lopes
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He wis a attackin midfielder an forrit who played mainly wi Cruzeiro.
He haed seiven caps wi the Brazilian naitional team, scorin ane goal.
North Hwanghae Province
North Hwanghae (Hwanghaebuk-do) is a province o North Korea. The province wis formed in 1954 when the umwhile Hwanghae Province wis split intae North an Sooth Hwanghae. The provincial caipital is Sariwon. The province is bordered bi Pyongyang an Sooth Pyongan tae the north, Kangwon tae the east, Kaesong Industrial Region tae the sooth, an Hwanghaenam-do soothwast. In 2003, Kaesong Directly Govrened Ceety (Kaesong Chikhalsi) became pairt o North Hwanghae.
Admeenistrative diveesions
Hwanghaebuk-do is dividit intae 3 ceeties ("si") an 19 coonties ("kun"). Three o these coonties (Chunghwa, Kangnam, an Sangwon) were addit tae the province in 2010 efter being split frae Pyongyang.
Ceeties
사리원시/ 개성시/ 송림시/
Special Admeenistrative Regions
개성공업지구/
Historic landmarks
Hwanghaebuk-do is full o mony historical relics as the steid o the Koryo-dynasty caipital at Kaesong, a depository for mony famous historic relics. The province is an aw hame tae the tombs o mony o the Koryo monarchus, the maist famous being the tombs o kings Taejo an Kongmin, though others are spread throughoot Kaesong an Kaepung county. Kaesong an aw hooses the Koguryo-era Taehungsan Fortress, built tae protect the kinrick's caipital at Pyongyang an enclosin the famous Kwanum Temple. Nearbi tae Sariwin is the famous Jongbangsan Fortress, anither Koguryo satellite for the defense o Pyongyang. This fortress encompasses the 9t-century Songbulsa Buddhist temple, ane o the auldest an maist picturesque in the kintra.
Prince Franz Albrecht o Saxe-Lauenburg
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Liverpuil
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Wanju
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