cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Katra
Katra an Beast Within (2007-2009)
Katra pairticipatit in the Euroviisut contest in 2007 wi the sangs, "Wise" an "Vaaratar", which she reached the first roond. This copy wis an uproar, as it wis accuised o plagarism pairtial Within Temptation sang "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" frae the album The Silent Force. The YLE expert set aside the allegations. Katra said that she an her baund are primarily responsible for the sangs an aw.
In November o that year it wis annooncit that Napalm Records signed Katra an asked for an internaitional version o thair 2007 album Katra. The baund recordit the 2007 album Katra in Inglis, alang wi twa new sangs an namit the Inglis leid release Beast Within. The album wis producit bi Risto Asikainen (Stratovarius) at Jean Records Studio. Beast Within wis published in late August/early September 2008. The baund played a couple o gigs in Germany, includin Summer Breeze Open Air 2009 an receivit a guid response. Katra released a video for the title track "Beast Within" an aw. On 19 Juin 2010 Katra opened for Theatre of Tragedy at Circo Volador in Mexico, a career heichlicht for aw o the members.
Out of the Ashes (2009-)
On 15 September 2010, Katra released thair first single, One Wish Away, frae thair third full-lenth album, Out of the Ashes. This album wis released on 27 October. Awtho it is thair third album, Katra considers it thair first ane as a baund. It is considered bi creetics as a daurker, mair melancholic an mair determined than the previous album.
Press an honors
Katra hae been featurt in Germany's Orkus magazine, whaur thay wan "Best International Newcomer" in the 2009 fan poll, an Cheenae's X Muisic magazine. Katra hae an aa been nominatit in the "Best Atmospheric/Symphonic Metal" category for the album Beast Within on the Estonie wabzine Metal Storm.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Дніпропетровська область, Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’ or Дніпропетровщина, Dnipropetrovshchyna) is an oblast (province) o central Ukraine, the maist important industrial region o the kintra. Its admeenistrative centre is Dnipro.
Important ceeties athin the oblast include: Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Nikopol
Geography
Its langitude frae north tae sooth is 130 km, frae east tae wast – 300 km. The oblast' borders the Poltava an Kharkiv Oblast's on the north, the Donetsk Oblast on the east, the Zaporizhia an Kherson Oblast's on the sooth, an the Mykolaiv an Kirovohrad Oblast's on the wast.
Historical steids
The follaein historical-cultural steids wur nominatit tae the Seiven Wonders o Ukraine.
Admeenistrative Sudiveesions
The follaein data incorporates the nummer o each type o admeenistrative diveesions o the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast:
The local admeenistration o the oblast' is controlled bi the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Rada. The govrenor o the oblast' is the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Rada speaker, appointit bi the Preses o Ukraine.
Demographics
Its population (as o 2004) is 3,493,062 constitutes 5.3% o the oweraw Ukrainian population.
As o the 2001 census, the ethnic groups athin the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast are:
the groups bi native leid:
Environment
The oblast' is situatit in the steppe region. Forests in the oblast' occupy aboot 3,9% o the oblast's tot territory). The average temperatur in the winter balances frae −-5 to -7 °C an in the simmer 22 to 23 °C. The average annual rainfaw is 400–490 mm
The tender climate, mineral soorces, an the curative mud allou opportunities for rest an cure athin the region. Here thare are 21 heal-centers an medicatit pensions, 10 rest hames, recreation depairtments an rest camps for childer.
217 rivers flow athin the aurie, includin 55 rivers which are langer than 25 km, the major ane bein the Dnieper, which crosses throu the centre o the oblast'. An aw flowin throu the region are three major reservoirs, the Kamianske, Dnieper an Kakhovka, an the Dnieper-Kryvyi Rih Canal.
Economy
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast haes a heich industry potential. Thare are 712 basic industrial organisations, includin 20 different types o economic activity wi aboot 473,4 thoosan wirkers. The aurie an aw produces aboot 16,9% o the tot industry production o Ukraine. This places the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast seicont in Ukraine (efter the neighbourin Donetsk Oblast).
Kahak, Qom
Kahak (also, Kahak-e Qom) is a ceety in an caipital o Kahak Destrict o Qom Coonty, Qom Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population wis 2,766, in 797 faimilies. The ceety wis the birthplace o Aga Khan I.
Bilfawst
Belfast (frae the Airisch Gaelick Béal Feirste, meanin 'saundy fuird at tha fit o tha river'; kent as Bilfawst or Bilfaust in Ulstèr-Scotch) is the caipital citie o Norlin Airlan (Lallans Northren Ireland). It's tha mucklest urban aurie in Norlin Airlann an tha Stewartrie o Ulstèr an the seicont-mucklest citie on the islann o Airlan.
Muyezersky Destrict
Muyezersky Destrict (Муезе́рский райо́н; Mujehd’ärven piiri) is an admeenistrative destrict (raion), ane o the fifteen in the Republic o Karelie, Roushie. Municipally, it is incorporatit as Muyezersky Municipal Destrict. It is locatit in the wast o the republic. The aurie o the destrict is 17600 km2. Its admeenistrative centre is the urban locality (an urban-teep dounset) o Muyezersky. Destrict's population: 16,556 (2002 Census);  The population o the admeenistrative centre accoonts for 27.2% o the destrict's total population.
Bilbeis
Bilbeis (Coptic Phelbs; Arabic بلبيس) is an auncient fortress ceety on the eastren edge o the soothren Nile delta in Egyp.
History
In 1798, its fortifications wur rebuilt at the order o Napoleon.
The ceety is sma in size but densely populatit, wi ower 300,000 residents. It an aa hooses the Egyptian Air Force Academy complex, which contains the ceety's lairgest public schuil in Al-Zafer. It an aa haes the first Mosque built in North Africae.
Charles Fleischer
Charles Fleischer (27 August, 1950) is an American actor.
Bellcaire
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A.J. Aitken
Adam Jack Aitken (1921–1998) wis a Scots lexicographer an a leadin scholar o the Scots leid.
Jack Aitken wis born in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlowden, an wis eddicate at Lasswade High School. He wis the auldest o three bairns o Adam Aitken, a miner, and his first wife Alexandrina Sutherland, wha dee’d whan Jack wis aboot nine. He tholed neglect as a step-bairn, bit his meenister, Rev. Oliver Dryer, halpit him to lea hame at the age o saxteen, an he ay stuck in at the schuil thanks tae a bursary. Bein the son o a miner, he got ither bursaries that alloued him to gang tae the Varsity o Edinburgh in 1939. He ser'd in the Ryal Artillery durin Warld War II as a lance bombadier, an tane pairt in the Normandy landins an in the war in North Africa, risin tae the rank of sairgeant major. He wis commendit for bravery be Field-Marshall Montgomery in 1944. He graduatit MA with First Class Honours in English Language an Literature fae the Varsity o Edinburgh in 1947. In 1948 he wis appyntit Assistant tae Sir William Craigie, the Editor o the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) that is nou online as the Dictionar o the Scots Leid. He became Editor hissel whan Craigie retiret in 1956. Whan he tane ower editorial responsibeelity for DOST, Aitken pit in place a new readin programme that aboot dooblet the list of warks excerptit for the dictionar, correctin the bias taewart verse an leeterary prose. Aitken’s editor­ship begoud wi the letter J, an the impack o the new readin programme is tae the fore fae the thrid volume on.
Aitken wis ane o the first tae catch on tae the uisefuness o the computer for research in the Airts. Although computer methods kythed ower late tae be the wirkhorse o the collection process for DOST, he set up, wi ithers, the Older Scots Textual Archive, a computer-readable archive wi mair nor a million wirds o Aulder Scots leeterature.
For the maist o his career, up tae 1979, he combint his wark on DOST wi teaching, as a Lecturer an than a Reader in the Depairtment o English Language. He can be sayed tae hae creatit ‘Scots language’ as a univairsity subjeck. The haundoots that he screivit in the 1950s for his courses on the Scots leid wis for mony a year the only clear summaries o Scots vocabular, phonology, orthogra­phy, grammar an stylistics that existit, an they circulatit widely amang scholars. Ower time he made the maist o this material available in prent, and his writins is at the founs o the subjeck.
He wis Chairman o the Language Committee of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies 1971–1976; Chairman o the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland 1978–1981 an Honorary President fae 1994; Vice-President o the Scottish Text Society fae 1985; Honorary Preses o the Scots Leid Associe fae 1994; Honorary Vice-President o the Scottish National Dictionary Association fae 1995; an Honorary Vice-President o the Robert Henryson Society fae 1996. In 1981 the British Academy awardit him the Biennial Sir Israel Gollancz Prize. In 1983 he was awardit a DLitt be the Varsity o Edinburgh, an wis appyntit Honorary Professor in 1984. In 1987, he wis presentit wi a Festschrift: The Nuttis Schell, Essays on the Scots Language presented to A J Aitken.
Aitken is weel-kent for his formulation o the Scots Vouel Lenth Rule, kent as Aitken's Law forby. He developed a nummerin seestem for the Scots vouels that alloued a better unnerstaundin an descreeption o thair historical development.
He retirt in 1986 an dee’d at hame in Edinburgh on 11 February 1998 o ischaemia.
Glücksburg
Glücksburg (Lyksborg) is a smaw toun in the destrict Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
It is situatit on the sooth side o the Flensburg Fjord, a inlet o the Easter Seas, approx. 10 km northeast of Flensburg. The toun wis oreeginally the hame o the faimily Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (or simply Glücksburg), syne 1863 the ryal faimily o Denmark an syne 1905 o Norawa. A branch o the faimily wis the umwhile ryal faimily o Greece, which includes Prince Philip, Duke o Edinburgh. His stryndants, includin Charles, Prince o Wales, an Prince William, Duke o Cambridge, are members o the Hoose o Windsor unner Breetish law, but genealogically are members o a cadet branch o the Hoose o Glücksburg.
Glücksburg is hame tae a German Navy base. Amang the facilities at the base is the transmitter, cawsign DHJ58. DHJ58, situatit at 54° 50'N an 9° 32' E, ceased its transmissions on langwave frequency 68.9 kHz in 2002 an in 2004 its langwave antenna wis disassembled.
Khachik
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Süderbrarup (Amt)
Süderbrarup is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The seat o the Amt is in Süderbrarup.
The Amt Süderbrarup consists o the follaein municipalities:
Manzanares, Caldas
Manzanares is a toun an municipality in the Colombie Depairtment o Caldas.
Coração
Coração is the Portuguese wird for "hert". It mey refer tae:
Jilotzingo
Jilotzingo is a toun an municipality in the State o Mexico in Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 143.66 km².
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 13,825.
Santo André, Paraíba
Santo André is a toun an municipality in the state o Paraíba in the Northeast Region o Brazil.
Allende
Allende is a Spainyie wird o Laitin oreegin meanin "ayont" or "besides". It is a Basque surname an aw.
Allende mey refer tae:
Allende Municipality, Chihuahua
The Municipality o Allende (Municipio de Allende) is ane o 67 municipalities in the Mexican state o Chihuahua, locatit in the sootheastren portion o the state. Valle de Allende is its municipal seat an lairgest ceety.
Iwate Prefectur
Iwate Prefecture (岩手県) is the seicont lairgest prefectur o Japan efter Hokkaido. It is locatit in the Tōhoku region o Honshū island an contains the island's eastmaist point. The caipital is Morioka. Iwate haes the lawest population density o ony prefectur ootside Hokkaido. Famous attractions include the Buddhist temples o Hiraizumi, includin Chūson-ji an Mōtsū-ji wi their treasurs, Fujiwara no Sato, a movie lot an theme pairk in Esashi Ward, Oshu Ceety, Tenshochi, a park in Kitakami Ceety kent for its big, auld cherry trees an Morioka Castle in Morioka Ceety.
Abzu
The Abzu (Cuneiform:, ZU.AB; Sumerian: abzu; Akkadian: apsû) cried engur an aw, (Cuneiform:, LAGAB×HAL; Sumerie: engur; Akkadian: engurru) leeterally, ab='ocean' zu='tae ken'  or 'deep' wis the name for fresh watter frae unnergrund aquifers that wis gien a releegious quality in Sumerian an Akkadian meethologie. Lakes, springs, rivers, wells, an ither sources o fresh watter wur thocht tae draw their watter frae the abzu.
Schafflund (Amt)
Schafflund is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the destrict o Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The seat o the Amt is in Schafflund.
Abzu
In Sumerie cultur
In the ceety Eridu, Enki's temple wis kent as E2-abzu (hoose o the cosmic watters) an wis locatit at the edge o a swamp, an abzu. Certain tanks o holy watter in Babylonian an Assirie temple courtyards wur cried abzu (apsû). Teepical in releegious washin, these tanks wur similar tae the washin puils o Islamic mosques, or the baptismal font in Christian kirks.
Schafflund (Amt)
The Amt Schafflund consists o the follaein municipalities:
Abzu
In Sumerian cosmologie
The Sumerian god Enki (Ea in the Akkadian leid) wis believit tae hae livit in the abzu syne afore human beins wur creatit. His wife Damgalnuna, his mither Nammu, his advisor Isimud an a variety o subservient creaturs, such as the gatekeeper Lahmu, livit in the abzu an aw.
As a deity
Abzu (apsû) is depictit as a deity anerlie in the Babylonie creation epic, the Enûma Elish, taken frae the librar o Assurbanipal (c 630 BCE) but which is aboot 500 years aulder. In this story, he wis a primal bein made o fresh watter an a lover tae anither primal deity, Tiamat, who wis a creatur o salt watter. The Enuma Elish begins:"When abuin the heivens did no yet exist nor the yird belaw, Apsu the freshwatter ocean wis thare, the first, the begetter, an Tiamat, the saltwatter sea, she who bore them aw; they wur still mixin their watters, an nae pastur laund haed yet been formit, nor even a reed marsh..."
8 Mey
The 8t o Mey is the 128t day o the year (129t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 237 days ti come.
Mazatlán (disambiguation)
Mazatlán mey refer tae an aw:
Khachik, Armenie
Khachik (Խաչիկ, an aw Romanizit as Khach’ik) is a toun in the Vayots Dzor Province o Armenie.
Wey tae Khachik:
Ulla (disambiguation)
Ulla is a feminine gien name.
Ulla mey refer tae an aw:
Mansoura
Mansoura (المنصورة Al Manṣūra) is a ceety in Egyp, wi a population o 420,000. It is the caipital o the Dakahlia Govrenorate.
Location
Mansoura lies on the east bank o the Damietta branch o the Nile, in the Delta region. Mansoura is aboot 120 km northeast o Cairo. Athort frae the ceety, on the opposite bank o the Nile, is the toun o Talkha.
History
Mansoura wis established in 1219 bi Saladin's brither, Abu-Bakr Malik Ibn; kent as Saphadin an aw. Efter the Egyptians defeatit the Crusaders durin the Seivent Crusade, it wis named Mansoura, which translates tae "The Victorious".
In the Seivent Crusade, the Capetians wur defeatit an put tae flicht; atween fifteen an thirty thoosan o thair men fell on the battlefield. Louis IX o Fraunce wis captured in the main Battle o Mansoura, an confined in the hoose o Ibrahim ben Lokman, secretary o the sultan, an unner the guard o the eunuch Sobih. The keeng's brither wis impreesoned in the same hoose. The sultan providit for thair sustenance. The hoose o Ibrahim ben Lokman is nou the anerlie museum in Mansoura. It is open tae the public an hooses airticles that uised tae belang tae the French monarch, includin his personal thirteent century toilet.
The Mansura Air Battle on October 14, 1973 occurred durin the Yom Kippur War. Israeli Air Force fechters attackin Egyptian air bases wur interceptit bi the Egyptian Air Force. On that day, 160 jet fechters, maist belangin tae Israel, battled for 53 minutes ower the Nile Delta toun o Al-Mansoura. Despite the numerical an qualitative superiority o the Israeli warplanes, 18 Israeli planes wur douned. The rest retreatit. Egyp lost o sax planes, anerlie three o which fell tae Israeli fire. The Egyptian govrenment subsequently changed the kintra’s "Air Force Day" frae November 2 tae October 14, tae commemorate the Mansoura Air Battle.
Cultur
The Egyptian Arabic dialect spaken bi Mansoura's population is a northren Egyptian Arabic dialect, wi noticeable influences frae the ceety's surroondin rural veelages, each o which haes contributit tae the ceety's population ower the years. Thare are some similarities tae Alexandrian Egyptian Arabic in some aspects o pronunciation.
Mansoura Naitional Museum uised tae be Dar Ibn Lockman, the hoose whaur Louis IX wis impreesoned in 1250 durin the Seivent Crusade. Displayed in the museum are the suits o mail an swords o the crusaders, as well as a collection o maps. Huge paintins depict the Battle o Mansoura.
The Mansoura branch o the Naitional Library wis recently inauguratit as the Mansoura Mubarak Library.
Mansoura is famous for its airchitectural style, especially the Shinnawi Palace (efter Mohamed Bek El-Shinnawi, a member o the Wafd Pairty). It wis biggit bi an Italian airchitect in 1928. The mosque o El-Saleh Ayoub El-Kebir is ane o the maist important in Mansoura. It wis biggit bi a leal servant o the Sultan an is locatit in Al-Sagha Street that separates "Auld Mansoura" frae the modren ceety.
Lik Cairo an Alexandria, Mansoura wis hame tae a flourishin Greek community till the Nasserite era, when mony wur forced tae leave. Mony o the aulder an best established shops an businesses aroond the ceety still bear thair oreeginal Greek names. The first Inglis schuil in the ceety wis established on the site o the auld Greek schuil in the Toriel aurie, ane o the tradeetionally relatively affluent residential destricts o the ceety.
Education
The University of Mansoura wis foondit in 1962, initially as a branch o Cairo University. The Mohamed Ghonim Urology an Nephrology center o Mansoura University is considered tae be the best neer centre in the Middle East an Africae.
Mansoura haes a sports stadium (Mansoura Stadium) which is hame tae its fitbaa team.
Economy
The ceety's economy depends on tred, agricultur an the recently discovered naitural gas.
References
www.taher.net.ms/
Soummin at the 2012 Simmer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke
The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 2012 Simmer Olympics teuk place on 29–30 Julie at the Lunnon Aquatics Centre.
Records
Prior tae this competeetion, the existin warld an Olympic records wur as follows.
The follaein records wur established durin the competeetion:
Vaupés
Admeenistrative diveesions
Acause o its sma population an vast extension o land, Vaupés anerlie haes 3 municipalities. Ither sections o the depairtment wur classifeed as an especial type o corregimiento, which haes certain hybrid functions frae a municipality an corregimiento.
Coontie Doun
Coontie Doun (Contae an Dúin in Erse - meanin Coonty o the Fort) is ane o the nine coonties that maks up Ulster an ane o the sax coonties that maks up Northren Ireland. The coontie forms an area o 2,448 km² (945 square mile). It lees in the Stewartry o Ulster. The coontie toun is Dounpatrick an the lairgest toun is Bangor. Coonties isna admeenistrative units o govrenment in Northren Ireland - see Local government in Northren Ireland for details o the 26 local govrenment destricts.
Lladurs
Lladurs is a municipality in the comarca o the Solsonès in Catalonie, Spain.
Amatepec
Amatepec is a toun an municipality, in the State o Mexico in Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 624.9 km².
Lladurs
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Amatepec
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 27,026.
Odèn
Odèn is a veelage in the province o Lleida an autonomous commonty o Catalonie, Spain.
Quiroga
Quiroga mey refer tae:
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Soma mine disaster
On 13 Mey 2014, an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an unnerground mine fire, which burned till 15 Mey.
Coontie Londonderry
Coontie Londonderry (Ulstèr-Scotch) or Coonty Derry (Erse: Contae Dhoire) is ane o the sax coonties o Northren Ireland in the Stewartry o Ulster in Ireland. It wis named efter its main toun – an later ceety an admeenistrative centre – Lunnonderry (Derry), that lees in the nor-wastren neuk o the coonty.
Yoker Athletic F.C.
Local rivals Clydebank entered 'e Junior grade in 2003–04 an grund skart wi Yoker at Holm Park fae 2008 'till 2018 efter lea'in its grund in Duntocher. Yoker wis promotit tae Central Diveesion Wan on 23 Apryle 2011 efter an 8–0 victory ower Newmains United.
The team haes bin co-managed syne Januar 2019 bi Peter McKenna an Tommy Montgomery
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6 Mey
The 6t o Mey is the 126t day o the year (127t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 239 days ti come.
Valle de Allende
Valle de Allende is the municipal seat an lairgest toun o the municipality o Allende in the Mexican state o Chihuahua. Oreeginally namit Valle de San Bartolomé, it wis foondit in 1569 bi Franciscan monks. The toun is ane o the auldest in Chihuahua.
The toun receivit its current name in 1825 in honor o Ignacio Allende, a military leader durin the Mexican War o Unthirldom.
Telephone nummerin plan
A telephone nummerin plan is a type o nummerin scheme uised in telecommunications tae assign telephone nummers tae subscriber telephones or ither telephony endpynts.
Pedro V o Portugal
Pedro V o Portugal ( 16 September 1837 – 11 November 1861), cried "the Hopeful" (o Esperançoso), wis King of Portugal from 1853 tae 1861.
Guixers
Guixers is a municipality in the province o Lleida, Catalonie, Spain
Trier
Trier lies in a valley atween law vine-covered hills o ruddy saundstane in the wast o the state o Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border wi Luxembourg an athin the important Mosel wine region.
Wi an approximate population o 100,000 Trier is the fowert mucklest ceety in the state o Rhineland-Paltinate efter Mainz, Ludwigshafen, an Koblenz. The nearest muckle ceeties in Germany are Saarbrücken, some 80 km sootheast, an Koblenz, aboot 100 km northeast. The closest ceety tae Trier is the ceety o Luxembourg, some 50 km tae the soothwast.
International relations
Trier is a fellae member o the QuattroPole union o ceeties, alang wi Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, an Metz (neighbourin kintras: Luxembourg an France).
Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Trier is twinned wi:
Islamabad
(Punjabi, Pashto, ) Islām ābād (Meanin "Abode o Islam") is the caipital o Pakistan an the tent lairgest ceety in the kintra. Locatit in the Islamabad Caipital Territory, the population o the ceety haes increased frae 100,000 in 1951 tae 1.21 million in 2009. The Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metropolitan Aurie is the third lairgest in Pakistan wi a population o ower 4.5 million indwallers.
Sister ceeties
Follaein ceeties hae twin ceety relationships wi Islamabad.
Airchduke Otto o Austrick (1865–1906)
Archduke Otto o Austrick (Otto Franz Joseph Karl Ludwig Maria; 21 Aprile 1865 – 1 November 1906) wis the seicont son o Airchduke Karl Ludwig o Austrick (younger brither o Emperor Franz Joseph I o Austrick) an his seicont wife, Princess Maria Annunciata o the Twa Sicilies. He wis the faither o Karl I o Austrick, the final Emperor o Austrick.
Göppingen
Göppingen is a toun in soothren Germany, pairt o the Stuttgart Region o Baden-Württemberg. It is the caipital o the destrict Göppingen. It is situatit at the bottom o the Hohenstaufen muntain, in the valley o the river Fils.
History
Tradition haes it that the ceety wis foondit bi an Alemannic leader cried Geppo sometime in the 3rd or 4t century. A disastrous fire on August 25, 1782 destroyed maist o the toun, but it wis immediately rebuilt. Industrialisation durin the 19t century made the aurie intae a centre o industry. The importance o such industry is still seen in the toun in the present day in companies such as Märklin an Schuler.
Cooke Barracks
In 1930, a civilian air field wis built north o Göppingen. This wis acquired bi the Luftwaffe in 1935 an expandit intae Fliegerhorst Kaserne. Frae 1945 through 1949, displaced persons an refugees wur hoosed in the kaserne. In 1949, it wis renamed Cooke Barracks in honor o Charles H. Cooke, Jr. who haed been posthumously awardit the Silver Star and Soldier's Medal for gallantry in action. In late 1950, the 7t Army haed been reactivatit in Stuttgart an U.S. Airmy units began tae be stationed at Cooke Barracks. The barracks began tae be expandit an wis uised as the 28t Infantry Diveesion heidquarters. The 28t Infantry wis redesignatit as the 9t Infantry Diveesion (Unitit States) in 1954 an wis replaced bi the 8t Infantry Diveesion in 1956. They wur then replaced bi the 4t Armored Diveesion in 1957, which wis redesignatit as the 1st Armored Diveesion in 1971 an muivit tae Hindenburg Kaserne in Ansbach in 1972. The 1st Infantry Diveesion muivit frae Augsburg in 1972 till they wur deactivatit in 1991. Cooke Barracks wis returned tae the German govrenment in 1992. The barracks wur again uised tae hoose refugees for some time, then returned tae ceevilian uise. A wabsteid, CookeBarracks.com, is dedicatit tae those who served at Cooke Barracks.
Sport
Frisch Auf! Göppingen currently plays in the German first handbaw-diveesion (Handball-Bundesliga).
4 Mey
The 4t o Mey is the 124t day o the year (125t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 241 days ti come.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, alsae spellt Kazakstan or Khazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan. Roushie: Казахстан, Kazakhstán), kent offeecially as the Republic o Kazakhstan is a kintra that raxes ower a muckle amoont o laund in Northren an Central Eurasie. An wee bit o the kintra, Wast o the Ural River is pairt o Eastren Europe. It haes laund mairches wi Roushie, Cheenae, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan an Turkmenistan. It wis ance ane o the republics o the umwhile Soviet Union but is nou pairt o the Commonwalth o Independent States.
Armería Municipality
Armería is a municipality in the sooth-central pairt o the Mexican state o Colima. The municipality reportit 24,939 inhabitants in the 2005 census an haes an aurie o 341.6 km² (131.89 sq mi). Its municipal seat is Ciudad de Armería; wi a 2005 census population o 14,091, this is the fift-lairgest commonty in the state in population.
Quiroga (comarca)
Quiroga is a comarca in the Galicie Province o Lugo. The oweraw population o this local region is 6,800 (2005).
Municipalities
Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga an Ribas de Sil.
Aragon
Aragon ( or, Spaingie an Aragón , Aragó or ) is a modren autonomous commonty in Spain, coextensive wi the medieval Kinrick o Aragon. Locatit in northeastren Spain, the Aragonese autonomous commonty comprises three provinces (frae north tae sooth): Huesca, Zaragoza, an Teruel. Its caipital is Zaragoza (cried Saragossa an aw). The current Statute o Autonomy declares Aragon a nationality o Spain.
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, Happy Harbour) is the tent maist populous municipality in Brazil, wi 1,409,939 indwallers, an the centre o Brazil's fowert lairgest metropolitan aurie (3,979,561 indwallers). It is an aa the caipital ceety o the soothrenmaist Brazilian state o Rio Grande do Sul. The ceety is the soothrenmaist caipital ceety o a Brazilian state. Porto Alegre is ane o the maist important cultural, poleetical an economic centers o Brazil. Twa Mercosul kintras, Argentinae an Uruguay, border on the State o Rio Grande do Sul.
Porto Alegre wis foondit in 1742 bi immigrants frae the Azores, Portugal. In the late 19t century the ceety received mony immigrants frae ither pairts o the warld, parteecularly Germany, Italy, an Poland. The vast majority o the population is o European strynd.
The ceety lies on the eastren bank o the Rio Guaiba (Guaiba Lake), whaur five rivers converge tae form the Lagoa dos Patos (Lagoon o the Ducks), a giant freshwater lagoon navigable bi even the lairgest o ships. This five-river junction haes acome an important alluvial port as well as a chief industrial an commercial centre o Brazil.
The port o Porto Alegre is important for transportin local produce. The "Gaucho caipital" haes a broad-based economy that lays parteecular emphasis on agricultur an industry. Agricultural production includes produce sic as ploums, peaches, rice an cassava grown on rural smahauldins. The shae an laither industries are an aa important, especially in Novo Hamburgo, in the Metropolitan Region o Porto Alegre.
Porto Alegre haes a lang coastline on the Guaíba Loch, an its topography is punctuatit bi 40 hills. In the loch, a vast body o watter, a maze o islands facin the ceety creates an archipelago whaur a unique ecoseestem gies shelter tae abundant wildlife. The ceety aurie concentrates 28% o the native flora o Rio Grande do Sul, wi 9,288 species. Amang thir, thare are mony trees which are the vestiges o the Atlantic Forest. Fauna are an aa diversifee\d, specially in the islands an hills. The Portoalegrense environs include mony pairks, squares an woodit streets.
Sister ceeties
Porto Alegre's sister ceeties are:
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (30 November, 1952) is an actor.
Amman
Amman (عمّان, ʿAmmān) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Hashemite Kinrick o Jordan. A ceety o ower 2 million indwallers (2010 estimate), it is the kintra's poleetical, cultural an commercial centre an ane o the auldest continuously inhabitit ceeties in the warld. Amman is the admeenistrative seat o the homonymous govrenorate.
Amman wis named ane o the Middle East an North Africae's best ceeties accordin tae economic, labour, enviornmental, an socio-cultural factors.
Destricts
The ceety is admeenistered as the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) an covers 27 destricts which include:
Cuisine
The New York Times praised the cuisine o Amman. "You’ll fynd the bricht vegetables frae Lebanon, crunchy falafels frae Sirie, juicy kebabs frae Egyp an, maist recently, spicy meat dishes frae Jordan’s neebour, Iraq. It’s kent as the fuid o the Levant — a auncient wird for the aurie boondit bi the Mediterranean Sea an the Arabie Peninsula. But the fuid here isna juist the sum ofits calories. In this poleetically, releegiously an ethnically fraucht corner o the warld, it is a seembol o bloodlines an identity."
Sport
Amman-based fitball clubs Al-Wihdat an Al-Faisaly hae wan the naitional league several times.
The 2007 Asian Championships in Athletics an 2009 IAAF Warld Cross Kintra Championships wur hauden in the ceety.
Amman hosts the Jordan Rally, whilk form pairt o the FIA Warld Rally Championship, becomin the lairgest sportin event hauden in Jordan iver. Amman an aa hosts the Sama Tournament whilk is a pairt o the Trillium Championship.
Twin touns — sister ceeties
Amman is twinned wi:
Cumbria
Cumbria, is a shire coonty in the North Wast o Ingland. Cumbria cam intae existence as a coonty in 1974 efter the passage o the Local Government Act 1972. The coonty conseests o sax destricts, an haes a tot population o 498,800.
Shiraz
Shiraz is the saxt maist populous ceety in Iran an is the caipital o Fars Province. Shiraz is locatit in the soothwast o Iran on the Rudkhaneye Khoshk saisonal river. Shiraz haes a moderate climate an haes been a regional tred centre for mair nor ane thoosan years. The earliest reference tae the ceety, as Tiraziš, is on Elamite clay tablets datit tae 2000 BC. In the 13t century, Shiraz became a leadin centre o the airts an letters, thanks tae the encouragement o its ruler an the presence o mony Persian scholars an airtists. Shiraz wis the caipital o Persie durin the Zand dynasty frae 1750 till 1781, as well as briefly durin the Saffarid period.
Shiraz is kent as the ceety o poets, wine an flouers. The wird "shir" in Persian means "lion", but it coud an an mean "milk". It is an aa considered bi mony Iranians tae be the ceety o gardens, due tae the mony gardens an fruit trees that can be seen in the ceety. Shiraz haes haed major Jewish an Christian communities. The crafts o Shiraz conseest o inlaid mosaic wirk o triangular design; siller-ware; pile cairpet-weavin an weavin o kilim, cried gilim an jajim in the veelages an amang the tribes. In Shiraz industries sic as cement production, succar, fertilizers, textile products, wid products, metalwirk an rugs dominate. Shirāz an aa haes a major ile refinery an is an aa a major centre for Iran's electronic industries: 53% o Iran's electronic investment haes been centred in Shiraz. Shiraz is hame tae Iran's first solar pouer plant.
Navarre
Navarre (Navarra; Nafarroa), offeecially the Chairtered Commonty o Navarre (Spaingie: Comunidad Foral de Navarra ; Basque: Nafarroako Foru Erkidegoa ; whiles cried Neveronie in aulder Scots scrievins), is an autonomous commonty in northren Spain, borderin the Basque Kintra, La Rioja, an Aragon in Spain an Aquitaine in France. The caipital is the ceetie o Pamplona (or Iruña i the Basque).
Calnali
Calnali is a toun an ane o the 84 municipalities o Hidalgo, in central-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 190.2 km². Calnali is a Nahuatl name meanin hoose on the ither side o the river. As o 2005, the municipality haed a tot population o 15,815.
Tianguistengo
Tianguistengo is a toun an ane o the 84 municipalities o Hidalgo, in central-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 134 km².
As o 2005, the municipality haed a total population o 13,478.
Pennsylvanish
Hit wis tradeetionally a byleid o the Pennsylvanie Dutch fowk, descendants o late 17t an early 18t yeirhunner incomers tae Pennsylvanie, Maryland, Virginie, Wast Virginie, an North Carolina fae soothren Germany, eastren Fraunce, an Swisserland.
Spikkers o the byleid the dey maistly live in Pennsylvanie, Ohio, Indiana, an ither Midwastren states o the Unitit States, an in Ontario in Canadae forby. Historically, the byleid wis spakken in mony ither auries whaur uissage o the byleid haes lawered.
3 Mey
The 3rd o Mey is the 123rd day o the year (124t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 242 days ti come.
Sankt Pölten
Sankt Pölten (St. Pölten) is the caipital ceety of the Austrian State o Lawer Austrick. Wi 51,073 inhabitants (coontit 2005) it is Lawer Austrick's lairgest ceety. Sankt Pölten is a ceety wi its awn statute (or Statutarstadt) an therefore it is baith a municipality an a destrict in the Mostviertel.
Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Sankt Pölten is twinned wi the follaein ceeties:
Autonomous commonties o Spain
Spainie is dividit in 17 pairts cried autonomous commonties. Autonomous means that ilka o these autonomous commonties haes its awn Executive Pouer, its awn Legislative Pouer an its awn Judicial Power. These are similar, but no the same, tae states in the Unitit States o Americae, for example.
Leet o the autonomous commonties, wi their Caipital ceety (the place whare the govrenment haes its offices):
Spain haes twa ceeties on the north coast o Africae an aw: Ceuta an Melilla. They are cried "autonomous ceeties" an hae simultaneously the majority o the pouer o an autonomous commonty an pouer o provinces an pouer o municipalities an aw.
Tulancingo
Tulancingo (offeecially Tulancingo de Bravo) is the seicont-lairgest ceety in the Mexican state o Hidalgo. It is locatit in the sootheastren pairt o the state an forms ane o the 84 municipalities o Hidalgo an aw, as weel as the Airchdiocese o Tulancingo. Locatit 93 km frae Mexico Ceety, this aurie is the maist important oo textile producer in the kintra an wis hame tae El Santo, Mexico’s maist famous lucha libre warstler. It is hame tae the Huapalcalco aircheological steid an aw, whilk wis the forerunner tae the Teotihuacan ceevilization. The name derives frae the Nahuatl wirds “tule” an “tzintle” whilk mean “in or ahint the reeds.” This is confirmit bi its Aztec glyph.
Sister ceeties
Pleasanton, Californie
Liechtenstein
The Principality o Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a wee laundlockit kintra in central Europe. It haes laund mairches wi Swisserland tae the Wast an wi Austrick tae the east. It haes monie muntains an is a guid place for winter sports. It isna heevily biggit up an haes mony a field an wee ferm giein its laundscape chairacter baith in the North o Unterland an in the Sooth o Oberland. It is the smawest German-speakin kintra in the hale warld.
Coontie Dunnygal
The coonty wis named eftir the toun o Dunnygal, whilk cums frae the Erse, meinin "the stranghaud o the ootlanders (Vikings)". The toun wis the auld stranghauld o the O'Donnell clan anaw. Whan first shapit, it wis whyls cried Coonty Tyrconnel or Tirconnel (Erse: Tír Chonaill) eftir baith the auld Tír Chonaill kingrik an the Tyrconnel yerldom that follaed it. Houaniver, cryin the hail coonty Tír Conaill is teknicalie wrang as the Inishowen hauf-iland (Erse: Inis Eoghain) is historicalie sindrie frae Tír Chonaill.
ISO 639
ISO 639 is the set o internaitional staundarts that leets cutty codes for leid names.
Sant Llorenç de Morunys
Sant Llorenç de Morunys is a municipality in the comarca o the Solsonès in Catalonie, Spain. It is situatit in the Lord valley in the north o the comarca belaw the pyrenean massif o Port del Comte. The shrine o Lord is locatit in a exclave o the municipality atween Guixers an Navès. The toun is servit bi the L-401 road atween Coll de Nargó an Berga.
The medieval waws o the toun an fower o the gateweys hae been preservit. The eleivent-hunderyear kirk o Sant Llorenç is a protectit historico-airtistic monument.
A Benedictine Monestir de Sant Llorenç de Morunys wis biggit in the 11t hunderyear, continuin the Romanesque airchitectur.
Hyundai Universe
The Hyundai Universe (hangul:현대 유니버스) is a hivy-duty luxury bus built bi Hyundai Motor Company. It is primarily or mainly available as luxury hi-clessic tourist buses.
It is distinguishable bi a front 'Universe' badge bi Hyundai's global staundart luxury bus, but the common Hyundai badge is luxurious bus design uisually uised on the rear.
In Japan, Asie-Paceefic, Mid-East, Africae, Sooth Americae, its principal competitors are Kia Granbird, Daewoo FX.
Models
The Universe wis designed bi Hyundai Motor Company Jeonju Design Center. It wis a rebadgit Hyundai Bus Chassis. The twa variants are:
Baghdad
Baghdad (Persie ; بغداد, Baġdād, ) is the caipital o Iraq an o Baghdad Province, wi whilk it is coterminous. Haein a population estimatit atween 7 an 7.5 million, it is the lairgest ceety in Iraq an the seicont lairgest ceety in the Arab Warld (efter Cairo, Egyp).
Locatit on the River Tigris, the ceety dates back tae the 8t century. Baghdad haes a past as a centre o the Arab an Muslim warld especially durin the Abbasid Caliphate.
Belomorsky Destrict
Belomorsky Destrict (Беломо́рский райо́н; Belomorskin piiri) is an admeenistrative destrict (raion), ane o the fifteen in the Republic o Karelie, Roushie. Municipally, it is incorporatit as Belomorsky Municipal Destrict. It is locatit in the east o the republic. The aurie o the destrict is 13000 km2. Its admeenistrative centre is the toun o Belomorsk. Destrict's population: 24,003 (2002 Census);  The population o Belomorsk accoonts for 58.7% o the destrict's tot population.
Greece
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα or Ελλάς), kent offeecially as the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία) is a kintra in sooth-eastren Europe, wi a population o approximately million as o. Athens is the naition's caipital an largest ceety, follaed bi Thessaloniki.
Vlorë Coonty
The Coonty o Vlorë (Qarku i Vlorës) is ane o the 12 coonties o Albanie. It consists o the destricts Delvinë, Sarandë an Vlorë an its caipital is Vlorë. As o 1 Januar 2010 the population o the Vlore Destrict wis estimatit tae be 211,773. Vlorë's wastren an soothren edges are the shorelines o the Strait o Otranto, which separates it frae the island o Corfu. The coonty forms the integral pairt o the Albanie Riviera. In the far sootheast it haes a sma border wi Greece. Its population includes a Greek minority. Domestically, it borders the follaein coonties Fier Coonty tae the north an Gjirokastër Coonty tae the east.
Slavs
The Slavic fowk are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group livin in Central Europe, Eastren Europe, Sootheast Europe, North Asie an Central Asie, who speak the Indo-European Slavic leids, an share, tae varyin degrees, certain cultural traits an historical backgrunds. Frae the early 6t century thay spread tae inhabit maist o Central an Eastren Europe an the Balkans. In addeetion tae thair main population centre in Europe, some East Slavs (Roushies) settled later in Siberie an Central Asie an aw. Pairt o aw Slavic ethnicities emigratit tae ither pairts o the warld. Ower hauf o Europe's territory is inhabitit bi Slavic-speakin commonties. The warldwide population o fowk o Slavic strynd is close tae 400 million for which thay rank fowert amang panethnicities in the warld.
Modren naitions an ethnic groups cried bi the ethnonym Slavs are considerably diverse baith genetically an culturally, an relations atween them – even athin the individual ethnic groups thairsels – are variet, rangin frae a sense o connection tae feelins o mutual hostility.
Geislingen an der Steige
History
Industrialization stairtit wi the arrival o the railwey an the construction o the railwey “Steige” (1847-1850), a steep incline o rail an road tae the plateau o the Schwäbische Alb (Swabian Jura). The leadin industrial enterprise is the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) foondit in 1852, a warld renouned manufacturer o guids for kitchen an table.
Pairtnership
Geislingen is twin touns o:
Anglic leids
Anglic (frae Laitin Anglicus meanin Inglis, cf. Germanic) is a term for whit is kent as Inglishes, in for ensaumple Warld Inglishes or New Inglishes, an is conseedered a less Anglo-centric kiver term than Inglis for ony variety descendit frae Auld Inglis.
Virpi Niemelä
Virpi Sinikka Niemelä (Helsinki, 26 Dizember 1936 - Argentinae, 18 Dizember 2006) wis a leadin Finnish Argentine astronomer. She wis the seicont Argentine tae be electit for Associate o the Royal Astronomical Society.
Greece
Greece is conseedert the cradle o Wastren ceevilisation, bein the birthplace o democracy, Wastren filosofie, Wastren leeteratur, historiografie, poleetical science, major scienteefic an mathematical principles, an Wastren drama, as weel as the Olympic Gemmes. Frae the aicht century BC, the Greeks war organised intae various independent ceety-states, kent as poleis (seengular polis), that spanned the entire Mediterranean region an the Black Sea. Philip o Macedon unitit maist o the Greek mainland in the fowert century BC, wi his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquerin muckle o the auncient warld, spreidin Greek cultur an science frae the eastren Mediterranean tae Indie. Greece wis annexed bi Roum in the seicont century BC, acomin an integral pairt o the Roman Empire an its successor, the Byzantine Empire, whaurin the Greek leid an cultur war dominant. The Greek Orthodox Kirk an aw shapit modren Greek identity an transmittit Greek tradeetions tae the wider Orthodox Warld. Fawin unner Ottoman domeenion in the mid-15t century, the modren naition state o Greece emerged in 1830 follaein a war o unthirldom. Greece's rich historical legacy is reflectit bi its 18 UNESCO Warld Heritage Steids, amang the maist in Europe an the warld.
Greece is a democratic an developit kintra wi an advanced heich-income economy, a heich quality o life, an a verra heich staundart o leevin. A foondin member o the Unitit Naitions, Greece wis the tent member tae jyne the European Commonties (precursor tae the European Union) an haes been pairt o the Eurozone syne 2001. It is an aw a member o numerous ither international institutions, includin the Cooncil o Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation an Development (OECD), the Warld Tred Organisation (WTO), the Organisation for Siccarity an Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Greece's unique cultural heritage, muckle tourism industry, prominent shippin sector an geostrategic importance clessifee it as a middle pouer. It is the lairgest economy in the Balkans, whaur it is an important regional investor.
Virpi Niemelä
Born in Helsinki, Finland, she emigratit wi her faimily tae Argentinae in 1954. She became a citizen, marriet an haed twa sons.
Anglic leids
It is aften uised whaur the implication is that varieties like Scots is ither langages, raither nor dialects o Inglis.
Virpi Niemelä
She became a student o Jorge Sahade, got a PhD in 1974, an for her whole career collaboratit wi him. Her wirk haes haed a strang influence in the auries o massive starns an close binaries, especially Wolf-Rayet starns. She pioneered wirk on Wolf-Rayet starns in the Magellanic Clouds, massive starns in stellar associations an interstellar bubbles aroond massive starns. She helpit tae develop astronomie in Argentinae an aw, inspirin mony students.
Tae mark her seiventiet birthday, an internaitional wirkshop on massive starns wis held in Carilo on 11-14 December 2006. Durin the wirkshop, it wis annooncit that asteroid 5289 would be named Niemela in her honour. Housomeivver, she dee'd juist afore her birthday, o breast cancer.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, ; Strossburi, ; Straßburg,, ) is the caipital an principal ceety o the former region o Alsace an the admeenistrative region o Grand Est, northeastren Fraunce, an is the offeecial seat o the European Parliament. Locatit close tae the border wi Germany, it is the caipital ceety o the Bas-Rhin depairtment. In 2006, the ceety proper haed 272,975 inhabitants an its urban community 467,375 inhabitants. Wi 638,670 inhabitants in 2006, Strasbourg's metropolitan aurie ("aire urbaine") (ae the pairt o the metropolitan aurie on French territory) is the nint lairgest in Fraunce. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau haes a population o 884,988 inhabitants.
Twin Touns - Sister Ceeties
Strasbourg is twinned wi:
Lugo (comarca)
Lugo is a comarca in the Galicie Province o Lugo. The oweraw population o this local region is ? (2005).
Municipalities
Castroverde, O Corgo, Friol, Guntín, Lugo, Outeiro de Rei, Portomarín an Rábade.
Actopan
Actopan is the name o several geografical objects in Mexico:
Leid faimly
A faimily o leids is a group o leids that's sib bi strynd frae a common forebeir. The aulder leid is cryed the proto-leid o the faimily.
Capiatá
Capiatá is a ceety in Central Depairtment, Paraguay.
Actopan, Hidalgo
Actopan is a ceety an ane o the 84 municipalities o Hidalgo, in central-eastren Mexico. The municipality covers an aurie o 280.1 km². It is crossed bi the federal road that runs frae Mexico Ceety tae Nuevo Laredo an it is locatit 30 km northwast o Pachuca, the caipital ceety o the state o Hidalgo.
Actopan is kent as the ceety o the convent an the land o the barbecue. Its name derives frae the wird “Atoctli” meanin “firm, fertile, an humid land” an the wird “pan” meanin “on” or “ower” in Otomi. Thus, the name Actopan comes taemean “on the firm, humid, an fertile land”.
Capiatá
It is the anerlie ceety in Central that borders seiven ceeties: Aregua, Itaugua, Juan Augusto Saldívar, Luque, Ñemby, San Lorenzo an Ypane.
Fier Coonty
The Coonty o Fier (Qarku i Fierit) is ane o the 12 coonties o Albanie. It consists o the destricts o Fier, Lushnjë an Mallakastër an its caipital is Fier.