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Han dynasty
The Han dynasty ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. The new emperor maintained a legalist ideology just like the Qin dynasty but also had ideas of Confucianism to have a centralized system showing benevolence. After eighty years, Emperor Wu of Han launched a period of military expansion. The Han armies controlled many territories, including Silk Road in Mongolia and Xinjiang. The Silk Road  helped make a political, economic, military, and culture center, but it was very expensive to manage and further expansion was cut off. Several factors contributed to the fall of the Han dynasty, including uprisings of desperate and hungry people, the spread of attacks by nomadic groups, and official corruption.
Literature
Fairbank, John King and Merle Goldman 1992. China: a new history. 2nd enlarged edition 2006. Cambridge: MA; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01828-1
Kevin Nash
Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American actor, podcaster, and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE under a legends contract. Nash also wrestled for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Kevin Nash returned to the WWE during the 2011 Royal Rumble as a surprise entrant.
On March 28, 2015, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by friend and Kliq member Shawn Michaels.
On January 5, 2020, Nash confirmed that he was retired.
Nash has been married to his wife Tamara since 1988, the couple separated in 2000, but later reconciled. Together they had a son, named Tristan. On October 20, 2022, Tristen died from a cardiac arrest. It was caused by a seizure from alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
Bark at the Moon
Bark at the Moon is a 1983 album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and released on 15 November, 1983 through Epic Records. It was a commercial success and peaked at number 19 in the United States and number 9 in Sweden.
Track listing
All lyrics and music credited to Ozzy Osbourne (except as noted)
European Edition
† All writing was officially credited to Osbourne. However, Jake E. Lee has claimed that he and Bob Daisley wrote material for the album but were cheated out of writing credits by Ozzy's manager/wife, Sharon Osbourne. Ozzy later admitted that they were involved in the songwriting "to some extent" but stated they were co-written with him.
Frank Marshall (movie producer)
Frank Wilton Marshall (born 13 September 1946) is an American movie producer and director.
Jamaica Beach, Texas
Jamaica Beach is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States on Galveston Island. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 983. The city is bordered by Galveston to the east and west, the east bay on the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.
Pran
Pran Krishan Sikand (12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known as Pran, was an Indian actor who was known for being a villain in many Bollywood movies. He was known for his roles in Madhumati, Johny Mera Naam, Zanjeer, and in Duniya. Pran was named "Villain of the Millennium" by Stardust Magazine in 2000.
Early life
Pran was born on 12 February 1920 in Ballimaran, Kotgarh Old Delhi. He studied at Raza High School.
Personal life
Pran was married to Shukla Sikand from 1945 until his death in 2013. They had three children. During the production of Tere Mere Sapne, Pran's legs began to tremble. So to keep up with his role, most of his scenes involved him sitting down. Pran had a hard time reading in Hindi, so he would ask his scriptwriters to write all his scripts in Urdu. Pran's first time to be admitted to a hospital was in 1998 after he suffered a heart attack.
Death
Pran died on 12 July 2013 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India from pneumonia, aged 93.
NBC Studios (New York City)
NBC Studios are in the historic 30 Rockefeller Plaza (on Sixth Avenue between 49th and 50th streets) in the borough of Manhattan, New York City. The building has the NBC television network headquarters, its parent NBCUniversal, and NBC's flagship station WNBC (Channel 4). It also has the cable news channel MSNBC.
Shows produced at NBC Studios New York
The shows that are produced at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (shows taping as of the 2018–19 season in bold):
Ben Cayetano
Benjamin Jerome Cayetano (born November 14, 1939) is an American politician and author. He was the 5th Governor of the State of Hawaii from 1994 to 2002. He is the first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States.
Ned Beatty
Edward Thomas Beatty (July 6, 1937 – June 13, 2021) was an American actor. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was known for his film work including Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976), The Big Easy (1987) and Prelude to a Kiss (1992).
Beatty died of natural causes on June 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, California, aged 83.
Basenji
The Basenji is a breed of dog. They are known for being one of the smartest dogs. Basenji are excellent at hunting, They are also hunting dogs which can help people find animals.
Electoral district of Finniss
Finniss is an electoral district of South Australia. It was created in 1993.
Total Recall (2012 movie)
Total Recall is a 2012 American dystopian science fiction action movie directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 movie of the same name, which was inspired by the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. It stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, Bill Nighy and was distributed by Sony Pictures. It was nominated for one Razzie in 2013.
Peter Härtling
Peter Härtling (13 November 1933 – 10 July 2017) was a German writer, poet, publisher and journalist. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his major contribution to German literature. His first children's book, Und das ist die ganze Familie, was published the following year. His children's literature has often focused on social problems involving children.
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty replaced the Shang dynasty in 1046 BCE. The kings of this dynasty made the empire a lot bigger. For the first time in the history of China, many people began moving to far away places inside the empire. The Zhou rulers moved the capital from Henan to a place near present-day Xi'an, near the Yellow River. The Zhou Dynasty also brought the theory of the Mandate of Heaven. This theory said that the fact that rulers were in charge proved that the gods wanted them to be in charge. Almost all dynasties of Chinese rulers after the Zhou continued to believe this theory.
Mature Chinese philosophy developed during the Zhou Dynasty. The greatest Chinese philosophers were Confucius, founder of Confucianism, and Laozi, founder of Daoism. Other philosophers, theorists, and schools of thought from the Zhou Dynasty were Mozi (Latin: Micius), founder of Mohism, Mencius, a famous Confucian who expanded upon Confucius legacy, Shang Yang and Han Feizi, responsible for the development of ancient Chinese Legalism (the core philosophy of the Qin Dynasty), and Xunzi.
Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor (born Michael Trent Reznor) (May 17, 1965) is an American singer and musician. He is the creator of the band Nine Inch Nails. For a long time, he was the only member of Nine Inch Nails. That changed in 2016, when Atticus Ross became an official member of the band. He sings and plays most of the music himself. He also writes all of the lyrics.
He joined his first band when he was in college, called Option 30. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1985 and joined a band called The Innocent where he played keyboard. In 1986 he joined another band, The Exotic Birds.
He got a job as a cleaner at a music recording studio called Right Track Studio which is now called Midtown Recording. He sometimes used the studio to record songs which later went on his first album Pretty Hate Machine. When the studio heard how good he was, he quit his job as a cleaner and made the band Nine Inch Nails. Their albums since then have been Broken (1992), The Downward Spiral (1994), The Fragile (1999), With Teeth (2005), Year Zero (2007), Ghosts I-IV (2008), The Slip (2008),  Hesitation Marks (2013), and Bad Witch (2018).
Just What I Needed
"Just What I Needed" is a 1978 debut song by American rock new wave band The Cars and was taken from their debut studio album The Cars. It went to number 17 in the United Kingdom, number 27 in Ireland and the United States and number 38 in Canada and New Zealand.
Vanguard 1
Vanguard 1 is an American satellite that was the fourth artificial Earth-orbiting satellite to be successfully launched, following Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1. it was launched 17 March 1958. Vanguard 1 was the first satellite to have solar electric power.
G. William Whitehurst
George William Whitehurst (born March 12, 1925) is an American professor and politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Virginia. He began his career as a professor at the College of William and Mary.
Whitehurst was elected to Congress in 1968 as a Republican from a district based in the Hampton Roads area. He was the first Republican to represent that part of Virginia since the Great Depression, and only the second Republican elected to a full term from that district in the 20th century.
On October 6, 2016, Whitehurst, along with other Republican former members of Congress, was co-signator of a letter opposing Donald J. Trump's candidacy for the office of president.
John Lynch
John Harry Lynch (born November 25, 1952) is an American businessman and politician. He was the 80th Governor of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013. Lynch was first elected governor in 2004, beating incumbent Craig Benson. Lynch won re-election in landslide victories in 2006, 2008, and in 2010.
2022 Italian general election
A general election is due to be held in Italy on 25 September 2022. The 2022 Italian government crisis, which lead to the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, resulted in President Sergio Mattarella dissolving the Italian Parliament on 21 July, eight months before its natural expiration, and call for new elections. Draghi continues to head the government as caretaker prime Minister. The election saw the centre-right coalition, led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy, a political party with neo-fascist roots, winning an absolute majority of Parliament seats. Meloni was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on 22 October, becoming the first woman to hold that position.
John Lynch
Lynch is the most popular governor in New Hampshire history and, while in office, and was ranked among the nation's most popular governors.
Toronto
The City of Toronto itself has a population of almost 3 million people. Even more people live in the regions around it. All together, the Greater Toronto Area is home to over 6 million people. This makes it the biggest metropolitan area in Canada.
History
Toronto was created in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe as the capital of what was then called "Upper Canada". At the time it was called the "Town of York" after the Duke of York. The name was changed to Toronto in 1834. With the Canadian Confederation in 1867, it became the capital of the newly created province of Ontario. Toronto was one of two cities (along with Montreal in Quebec) that wanted to be the capital of Canada. Queen Victoria decided that Ottawa should be the national capital because it was located between the two.
As the 19th century moved on, the city began to grow. This was mainly because of immigration, where people from all over the world left their home and moved to Canada. Many of the immigrants were Irish people. They brought their Catholic faith with them when they left Ireland because of the Irish Potato Famine.
On April 23, 2018 a white van collided with numerous pedestrians killing nine and injuring sixteen others at Yonge Street.
Climate
Toronto has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfa).
Things to see and do
Toronto has a humid continental climate (Dfa in the Köppen climate classification). This is because although the city is next to Lake Ontario, the lake is not big enough to keep its temperature mild.
As the biggest city in Canada and one of the biggest in all of North America, Toronto is a popular destination for tourists. It is where you can find the CN Tower, which is the tallest free-standing (not supported) structure in the Americas and one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. There are some other buildings, including the City Hall and the Rogers Centre, that are well known for their design style. There are many skyscrapers, because many large banks of Canada and other companies have their main offices in Toronto, and the Toronto Stock Exchange which is the biggest stock market in Canada.
Because Toronto is the capital of Ontario, it is where the provincial government meets. Visitors can see how the province is run by visiting the legislature in Queen's Park. There are museums, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ontario Science Centre, the Hockey Hall of Fame, and the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the suburbs of the city is the Toronto Zoo and Canada's Wonderland. Many visitors also like to go to Niagara Falls, just an hour's drive away from Toronto.
Toronto is full of places to visit, eat, shop, and enjoy. In the downtown area are shopping centres, including the Eaton Centre, St. Lawrence Market, and the Distillery District. There are several theatres, many which are run by the Mirvish family. The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, opened in June 2006, is home to the Canadian Opera Company and the National Ballet of Canada. Across the harbor are the Toronto Islands, the best known of which is Centre Island.
Toronto has many sports teams. Some of them belong to the most commonly-followed leagues in North America. They include the Toronto Maple Leafs in ice hockey (NHL) and the Toronto Raptors in basketball (NBA), both of which play in the Air Canada Centre. The nearby Rogers Centre is where the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team plays. BMO Field in Exhibition Place is home to the Toronto Argonauts in Canadian football and Toronto F.C., a soccer club.
Toronto is a very multicultural city. Different people from around the world have moved to Toronto to live since the 20th century. There is a Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Greektown, Little Portugal, and other places where different cultures are kept alive. These people hold festivals where they share their culture with others. Among the most popular is the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), which happens every year in August.
Transport
Like many cities around the world, Toronto has an airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport. There are flights to many places in Canada and the rest of the world. The airport is just northwest of the city centre. Since 2015, there has been a train service, the Union Pearson Express. It goes from the airport to Downtown in less than half an hour.
Toronto's main public transportation system is operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The main part of its public transport network is the Toronto subway system. That system includes three heavy-rail rapid transit lines spanning the city, including the U-shaped Line 1 and east–west Line 2. A light metro line also exists, exclusively serving the eastern district of Scarborough. A discussion is underway to replace it with a heavy-rail line. The TTC also operates an extensive network of buses and streetcars. The streetcars serve the downtown core. The buses provide service to many parts of the city not served by the sparse subway network.
The Government of Ontario also operates a commuter rail and bus transit system called GO Transit in the Greater Toronto Area. GO Transit carries over 250,000 passengers every weekday (2013) and 57 million annually. Most of them travel to or from Union Station. GO Transit is implementing RER (Regional Express Rail) into its system.
Housing
Housing in Toronto was ranked as 10th-least affordable in the world. The study compared Toronto with ninety other metropolitan areas in different countries. Hong Kong came in as the least affordable place to live in.
Kaziranga National Park
Kaziranga National Park is a national park in India. The park is home to two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses. It is a World Heritage Site. It was named a Tiger Reserve by the government of India and an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International.
Kaziranga is home to large breeding populations of tigers, elephants, wild water buffalo, and swamp deer. One type of swamp deer now only exists in the park.
History
The Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created in 1905. Mary Curzon, the wife of the Viceroy of India, wanted the area protected mostly to save the rhinoceros. In 1908, Kaziranga was designated a "Reserve Forest". In 1916 it was renamed "Kaziranga Game Sanctuary" then changed to “Wild Life Sanctuary” in 1950.
Corozal Town
Corozal Town is a town in the nation of Belize. It is the capital of Corozal District. Corozal Town is about 84 miles north of Belize City, and 9 mi from the border with Mexico. The population of Corozal Town, according to the 2010 census, is 9,871. Corozal was a private estate before becoming a town in the 1840s. It was mostly settled by Mestizo refugees from the Caste War of Yucatán. Much of the town was built over an ancient Maya city. This may have been the original Pre-Columbian town called Chetumal. Corozal Town was badly damaged by Hurricane Janet in 1955. It was mostly rebuilt afterwards.
Kaziranga National Park
Geography
The park is located in both the Nagaon district and Golaghat district, in the state of Assam in India. It is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) long and 13 kilometres (8 mi) wide.
The park is crossed by four main rivers — Brahmaputra, Diphlu, Mora Diphlu and Mora Dhansiri. There are also many small water bodies.
The park is within the Brahmaputra floodplain. This means when the water in the river rises, the park is partially covered in water. Flooding happens every year which results in over half the park being underwater. In 2017, 85% of the park was underwater. At least 107 animals died because of the flooding in 2017. There are elevated areas of the park which provide retreats and shelter for animals during floods. These are called chapories. Many artificial chapories have been built with the help of the Indian Army to ensure the safety of the animals.
Climate
The park has three seasons: winter, summer, and monsoon. The winter season is between November and February. It is mild and dry. The small water bodies dry up and short grass covers the bed. The summer season between March and May is hot. The animals can be found near water during these months. The rainy monsoon season lasts from June to September.
Fauna
Kaziranga National Park is home to 35 major mammals. This includes 15 mammals under the highest protection in India. The One-Horned rhinoceros, Royal Bengal Tiger, Asian elephant, wild water buffalo and swamp deer are collectively known as the 'Big Five' of Kaziranga. In addition there are gaur, sloth bears, clouded leopards, wild boar, and several deer species. Small mammals include the rare hispid hare, mongoose, civet, pangolin, and badgers. The park also is home to several primates. These include macaques, lutungs, the Bengal slow loris, and the only ape in India - the hoolock gibbon. Kaziranga's rivers are home to the endangered Ganges dolphin.
Two of the largest snakes in the world, the reticulated python and the rock python, are common inside the park. It is also home to the king cobra, Indian cobra, Russell's viper, and common krait. Fifteen species of turtle live in Kaziranga. 42 species of fishes are found in the Kaziranga area, including the unusual ocellated pufferfish.
Flora
There are four main types of plant life in Kaziranga National Park. These are alluvial inundated grasslands, alluvial savanna woodlands, tropical moist mixed deciduous forests, and tropical semi-evergreen forests. Percent coverage by vegetation is: tall grasses 41%, short grasses 11%, open jungle 29%, swamps 4%, rivers and water bodies 8%, and sand 6%.
Alison Hammond
Alison Hammond (born 5 February 1975) is a British TV presenter, reality star and actress. She is best known for co-presenting ITV's daytime show This Morning as well as being a contestant on Big Brother in 2002.
Hammond was born to Jamaican parents and was raised in Birmingham. After appearing on Big Brother, Hammond appeared in multiple other TV shows including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Touch My Body
"Touch My Body" is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Crystal "Cri$tyle" Johnson and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Carey's 11th studio album, E=MC². It is the first single off E=MC². The single was produced by Carey and Stewart.
Background
Mariah talking about why she chose "Touch My Body" as the first single of the album:
It was really difficult choosing a first single. This time, it's just like okay, I have 20-something songs, and I'm like there's a lot of potential singles, so we all kind of struggled with it. We ended up with "Touch My Body" because up-tempo is one specific way, and a ballad is really specific, so we decided to just go with the mid-tempo and everybody kinda liked the song 'cause it's just fun and cute and sexy and sweet.-Mariah Carey
Release and reception
The song was chosen as the lead single of the album during a vote with producer L.A. Reid and staff in Island Records. Carey stated that the group "decided to just go with the mid-tempo and everybody kinda liked the song 'cause it's just fun and cute and sexy and sweet".
The song was transmitted digitally to radio stations on February 12 at 6:30pm ET for immediate airplay via All Access. The single went for adds on radio station playlists on February 19. "Touch My Body" premiered on Chicago's hit rhythmic radio station, B96, ahead of schedule at 4:00pm.
Music video
Brett Ratner is the director of the video. Ratner also directed Carey's videos for "I Still Believe", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You", "It's like That", and "We Belong Together". In an interview with AllHipHop.com, Ratner said, "Mariah is musically at the top of her game and has never looked better... This will be our 6th music video we have collaborated on and definitely the best one yet visually, as well as musically. The video for "Touch My Body" is the perfect combination of fantasy and comedy with Mariah looking more beautiful than she has ever looked, ever.". The video also stars Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock, a show that Carey is a fan of.
On March 5 the "Touch My Body" music video debuted at #1 on MTV's TRL countdown.
Tony Iommi
Frank Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born 19 February 1948, in Birmingham, England) is a British guitarist and songwriter. He is most famous for starting the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He is the only person who has stayed a member of the band since it began in 1968. He lost two finger tips in a work accident, and made two fake finger tips from a plastic bottle. This helped give Black Sabbath their heavy sound.
In 2003, Iommi was listed at number 86 in Rolling Stone Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" issue.
Touch My Body
Chart performance
Following the song's February 12 digital transmission, after only a day's worth of airplay, "Touch My Body" entered the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart at #78 the chart week of February 23, 2008. It is currently at #15 in its fourth chart week. It also debuted on airplay alone at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the "Hot Shot" debut of the week, and is currently #24. It also debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at #97 and has since risen to #59.
Tony Iommi
Along with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Iommi is oft considered one of the greatest riff writers of all time. Iommi used several riffs in Black Sabbath's songs.
He was born to an Italian immigrant family and has dual Italian British citizenship.
In 2006 Tony Iommi was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Mount Oread Civil War posts
Lawrence, Kansas was not well defended in the early part of the American Civil War. They started defending it after William Quantrill's guerrilla raid on August 21, 1863. By early 1864 Union soldiers permanently stayed on the top and hills of Mount Oread, which was at Lawrence's southwest. It seems the camp was first named Camp Ewing, after Brig. Gen. Thomas Ewing.
The military area on Mount Oread was used until the end of the Civil War. When the war ended, there was no reason to keep them, so they were destroyed.
Francesco Toldo
Francesco Toldo (born 2 December 1971) is an Italian football player. He plays for Internazionale Milano.
International career statistics
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Hilary
Hilary [ hil-uh-ree ] (or Hillary) is a female given name and a surname. It is from the Latin hilarius, which in turn means "cheerful, merry".
Famous people having the name include Hilary Duff and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hilary was also used on many hurricanes for the Eastern Pacific.
This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Purple Day
Purple day is an event that occurs on March 26. It is celebrated by several organizations around the world. The idea is to raise awareness for a condition called epilepsy. Many people do not know what epilepsy is, or they have wrong ideas about the condition. Epilepsy is a common condition, yet many people who suffer from it are stigmatized. The organizers also want ot reduce the stigma associated with the disease.
Kathleen Kennedy (producer)
Kathleen K. Kennedy (born 5 June 1953) is an American movie producer. She is currently the president of Lucasfilm.
Essertines-sur-Yverdon
Essertines-sur-Yverdon is a municipality of the district Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Owen Sound Attack
The Owen Sound Attack are a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League based in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. Based in Owen Sound since 1989, and operating under the current name since 2000, the Attack play their home games at the J.D. McArthur Arena inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
Russian Souvenir
Russian Souvenir (Русский сувенир) is a 1960 Soviet comedy movie directed by Grigori Aleksandrov. It stars Lyubov Orlova, Andrei Popov, and Pavel Kadochnikov.
Yellow River
The Yellow River (Huáng Hé 黄河) is the second longest river in China (after Yangtze River) and the sixth longest in the world. The river is 5464 km long and it drains at the Bohai Sea, a gulf of the Yellow Sea. The river is often called the "Mother River of China" and "the Cradle of the Chinese civilization" in China. In Chinese mythology, the river is home to the deity Hebo.
Karl Miller
Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL (2 August 1931 – 24 September 2014) was a British literary editor, critic and writer. He was a founding editor of the London Review of Books from 1979 until 1992. Before this, he was an editor of The Listener magazine from 1963 until 1973. He later reviewed works by writers such as J. G. Ballard, Robert Burns, Graham Greene, Ted Hughes and Ian McEwan for The Times Literary Supplement.
Miller was born in the small town of Straiton, Loanhead in Midlothian to the south of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. He studied in both Edinburgh and at Downing College of the University of Cambridge. He was married to Jane Collet. They had three children: two sons, Daniel and Sam, and a daughter, Georgia.
Miller died on 24 September 2014 at his home in North London, aged 83.
1952 Winter Olympics
Participating nations
A total of 30 nations sent athletes to compete at these Games, which was the highest number to that date. This was the first time New Zealand and Portugal participated in the Winter Olympic Games. Australia, Germany, and Japan returned, after having missed the 1948 Winter Olympics. Korea, Liechtenstein, and Turkey did not participate in 1952, after having competed in 1948.
Seabrook, Texas
Seabrook is a city in Harris County in the U.S. state of Texas, with some parts in Chambers County. The population was 11,952 at the 2010 U.S. census.
Judas (song)
"Judas" is a song by American pop singer Lady Gaga from her second studio album, Born This Way. It was released as the second single from the album on April 15, 2011.
"Judas" is a house-tinged electropop and techno song about a woman falling in love with a man who betrayed her.
The song managed to reach the top ten in the US and Canada. On February 29, 2016, the song was certified double-Platinum by the RIAA for sales and shipments of over 2 million copies in the United States alone.
Music video
The music video for the song was controversial, like Gaga's video for "Alejandro", because it contained religious imagery. Gaga is shown dressed as Mary Magdalene in the video and depicted riding on the back of a motorcycle that an actor portraying Jesus is driving. The Catholic League condemned the video.
Asian Shooting Confederation
The Asian Shooting Confederation (ASC) is an association of the International Shooting Sport Federation's member federations from Asia.
Events History
The Asian Shooting Championships are governed by the Asian Shooting Confederation. Asian Shooting Championships began in 1967. These championships, including almost all ISSF shooting events, are held every four years.
Mae Muller
Holly Mae Muller (born 26 August 1997) is an English singer-songwriter best known for representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 with her song "I Wrote a Song".
Life and career
Holly Mae Muller was born in London on August 26, 1997. Her grandfather, Robert Müller, was a refugee who escaped to Britain from Nazi Germany at the age of 12, and settled in Wales.
Muller began writing her own music at age eight. In 2018, Muller signed to Capitol Records. Mae Muller first received mainstream recognition after releasing the single "Better Days" in 2021. She made the single with Swedish music collective Neiked and American rapper Polo G.
In March 2023, the BBC announced that Muller had been chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "I Wrote A Song". Muller finished in 25th place out of the 37 competing countries, with 24 points in the Grand Final.
Her debut studio album Sorry I'm Late will be released in September 2023.
No Way Out (2003)
No Way Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on February 23, 2003 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. It was the 4th No Way Out event. Eight matches were scheduled on the event's card.
Other websites
WWE No Way Out
Fortierville
Fortierville is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec. It was the birthplace of martyr Aurore Gagnon.
Fred B. Rooney
Frederick Bernard Rooney, Jr. (November 6, 1925 – December 23, 2019) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1963 until 1979.
Rooney died at his home in Washington D.C. on December 23, 2019 at the age of 94.
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Canadian university. It has campuses in Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, Vancouver and Surrey, all in British Columbia. SFU is rated as one of Canada’s top universities. It was started in 1965. SFU currently has 24,000 students. The university is named after Simon Fraser. He was an explorer of the Vancouver area.
Double Cluster
The Double Cluster, is NGC 884 and NGC 869, a group of two open star clusters in the Perseus constellation. It has many blue and red stars.
Simon Fraser University
Overview
Maclean's magazine rated SFU as Canada's best comprehensive university in 1993, 1997, 1998 and 2000. It is usually always at or near the top of the magazine's list. Research Infosource named SFU the top comprehensive university in Canada for “publication effectiveness” in 2006.
Double Cluster
Both are visible with the naked eye. NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of 7,500 light years. That is relatively close-by (the Milky Way galaxy has a diameter of roughly 100,000 light years.)
Simon Fraser University
Type of university
Like most Canadian universities, SFU is a public university. Fifty-six percent of the money used to run the school comes from taxpayers. Thirty-nine percent comes from tuition fees.
Double Cluster
RS Persei and T Persei
These are two red supergiant stars in the star cluster. They are 770 and 510 times larger than the Sun respectively.
Simon Fraser University
Studies
The university teaches students in six main groups of topics. Applied Sciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Health Sciences, and Science.
In May 2004, the SFU Senate approved the policy on degree requirements that all its undergraduate students must have. SFU was the first Canadian university to do this. The policy was created to make certain students got a more complete education.
Double Cluster
SU Persei and AV Persei
These are also red supergiant stars. They both are 780 and 770 times larger than the Sun respectively.
S Persei
A red hypergiant 1,212 times larger than the Sun.
Hillary Brooke
Hillary Brooke (September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American actress. She worked in movies. She played the love interest for Lou Costello in The Abbott and Costello Show. She was also a regular in the series My Little Margie.
Brooke was born in Astoria, New York. She died at age eighty-four.
Punta Gorda
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St Albans Cathedral
St Albans Cathedral (formerly St Albans Abbey) is an Anglican church in St Albans, Hertfordshire. At 84 m, its nave is the longest of any cathedral in England. Much of its architecture dates from Norman times. It became a cathedral in 1877. Local residents often call it "the Abbey", though the cathedral is only the church of the old Benedictine abbey.
The church is legally a cathedral. However, it differs in certain ways from most of the other cathedrals in England. It is also used as a parish church, of which the Dean is rector. He has the same powers, responsibilities, and duties as the rector of any other parish.
Britain's first Christian martyr
Alban was a pagan living in the Roman city of Verulamium. Verulamium is where St Albans is now, in Hertfordshire, England, about 22 mi north of London along Watling Street.
The date of Alban's execution is a matter of some debate, and is generally given as circa 250–scholars suggest dates of 209, 254 or 304. The Tomb of St Amphibalus is also in the Cathedral.
Norman abbey
Much of the current layout and proportions of the structure date from the first Norman abbot, Paul of Caen (1077–1093). The 14th Abbot, he was appointed by the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Lanfranc.
The cruciform (cross shaped) abbey was the largest built in England at that time. The Norman Robert the Mason gave attention to laying a solid foundation. There is a wall of layered bricks, flints and mortar below. This puts the foundations down to twelve feet to hit bedrock. Below the crossing tower special large stones were used.
The tower was a particular triumph–it is the only 11th century great crossing tower still standing in England. Robert began with special thick supporting walls and four massive brick piers. The four-level tower tapers at each stage with clasping buttresses on the three lower levels and circular buttresses on the fourth stage. The entire structure weighs 5,000 tons and is 144 feet high. The tower was probably topped with a Norman pyramidal roof; the current roof is flat. The original ringing chamber had five bells, but none of them has survived.
The monastic abbey was completed in 1089 but not consecrated until Holy Innocent's Day, 28 December 1115, by the Archbishop of Rouen. King Henry I attended as did many bishops and nobles.
A nunnery (Sopwell Priory) was founded nearby in 1140.
The abbey was extended in the 1190s by Abbot John de Cella (also known as John of Wallingford) (1195–1214). The Norman west front was rebuilt by Hugh de Goldclif. It was very costly but its rapid weathering and later alterations have removed all but fragments.
The St Albans Psalter (circa 1130–45) is the best known of a number of important Romanesque illuminated manuscripts produced in the Abbey scriptorium. Later, Matthew Paris, a monk at St Albans from 1217 until his death in 1259, was important as a chronicler and an artist. Eighteen of his manuscripts survive and are a rich source of contemporary information for historians.
Nicholas Breakspear was born near St Albans and went to school there. He applied to be admitted to the abbey as a novice, but was turned down. He eventually managed to be accepted into an abbey in France. In 1154 he was elected Pope Adrian IV, the only English Pope there has ever been. The head of the abbey was confirmed as the premier abbot in England, also in 1154.
Théo Hernandez
Théo Bernard François Hernandez (born 6 October 1997) is a French footballer. He plays as a left-back for Serie A club AC Milan and the France national team. Known for his speed, runs, and goalscoring ability, he is regarded as one of the best left-backs in the world. He is the brother of footballer Lucas Hernandez, and son of another footballer, Jean-François Hernandez.
Atlético Madrid
Born in Marseille, Hernandez joined Atlético Madrid's academy in 2007, at nine years old. After progressing through the youth levels, he was promoted to the reservesin the Tercera División in the summer of 2015.
On 3 February 2016, Hernandez renewed his contract. Two days later, he was called up to the first team for a La Liga match against Eibar because of some injured teammates. He stayed as an unused substitute in the 3–1 home win.
The Gods Must Be Crazy II
The Gods Must Be Crazy II is a 1989 South African Botswanan movie directed by Jamie Uys and is the sequel to the 1980 The Gods Must Be Crazy. It stars N!xau reprising his role, Hans Strydom, Lena Farugia and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Froideville, Switzerland
Froideville is a municipality of the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
1940 Summer Olympics
The 1940 Summer Olympics, officially known as Games of the XII Olympiad, were not held.
The games were planned for Tokyo in Japan, but the Japanese organizers withdrew in 1938 because of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In 1938, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games at Helsinki in Finland.
The games were cancelled because of World War II.
Muhammad Jaber Taha
Muhammad Jaber Taha, an Egyptian writer and screenwriter, born in 1993, was born in Damietta Governorate, and graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science.
“Mohamed Jaber Taha” specialized in the science of marketing and has written books in the science of modern marketing in which he deals with modern marketing strategies, marketing developments through the ages, and the strategic repercussions of the Arab market.
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List of Detroit Lions seasons
The Lions have won four NFL championships. The Lions were the first franchise to finish a full (non-strike shortened) regular season with no wins or ties since the move to sixteen season games in 1978, going 0–16 during the 2008 NFL season. They are also one of four current teams, and the only one in the NFC, to have never played in the Super Bowl.
Academy Award for Best Original Song
The award category was first given at the 7th Academy Awards. That ceremony was for 1934 movies. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. All Academy members vote for the winner.
Egyptian fraction
A unit fraction is a fraction with 1 in the numerator. A fraction that is the sum of a limited number of unit fractions is an Egyptian fraction.
A Simple Story (1960 movie)
A Simple Story (Простая история) is a 1960 Soviet drama movie directed by Yuri Yegorov. It stars Nonna Mordyukova, Mikhail Ulyanov, and Vasily Shukshin.
Electoral district of Flinders
Flinders is an electoral district of South Australia. It was created in 1857.
Shape of the universe
The shape of the Universe cannot be discussed with everyday terms, because all the terms need to be those of Einsteinian relativity. The geometry of the universe is therefore not the ordinary Euclidean geometry of our everyday lives.
According to the special theory of relativity, it is impossible to say whether two distinct events occur at the same time if those events are separated in space. To speak of "the shape of the universe (at a point in time)" is naive from the point of view of special relativity. Due to the relativity of simultaneity we cannot speak of different points in space as being "at the same point in time" nor, therefore, of "the shape of the universe at a point in time".
What astrophysicists do is ask whether a particular model of the universe is consistent with what is known through observations and measurements of the universe. If the observable universe is smaller than the entire universe (in some models it is many orders of magnitude smaller or even infinitesimal), observation is limited to a part of the whole.
Consideration of the shape of the universe can be split into two:
The observable universe is the basis for testing any model of the universe. It is a spherical volume (a ball) centered on the observer, regardless of the shape of the universe as a whole. Every location in the universe has its own observable universe, which may or may not overlap with the one centered on Earth.
Recent measurements have led NASA to state, "We now know that the universe is flat with only a 0.4% margin of error". Within one model, the FLRW model, the present most popular shape of the Universe found to fit observational data is the infinite flat model. There are other models that also fit the data.
L. K. Advani
Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) known as L. K. Advani is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He co-founded the party in April 1980.
Advani served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004. He served as 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004 under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the 10th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha. Advani began his political career as a volunteer of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist organisation.
In 2015 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.
Alfred Jewel
The Alfred Jewel is a small piece of Anglo-Saxon goldsmith's work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in gold. It was discovered in 1693, in North Petherton, Somerset, England, and is now one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It is named after King Alfred, a famous king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
African Americans in the American Civil War
The history of African Americans in The American Civil War includes the over four million slaves and approximately 500,000 free African Americans who were living in the United States at the beginning of the war. Altogether they made up 14% of the population of the country. Many served as soldiers in the Union Army.
Background
This led to the American Civil War. Millions of slaves were brought to America between the 17th and 19th centuries. Slavery was one of the main issues that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Union Navy
Many of the African Americans who joined the Navy were from the East Coast of the United States. Many were experienced sailors. Others had worked on the docks and in other related jobs in the shipping industry. The largest number came from Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay area. Also, a large number were transferred from the Army to the Navy in 1864.
African Americans fought in every major campaign and naval battle of the Civil War. They served in the blockading squadrons on the South and Gulf Coasts and in the brown-water navy in the tributaries in the South. African American women served also, most as nurses aboard the USS Red Rover (1859), a hospital ship on the Mississippi River. African Americans served in the Navy with great distinction and eight were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest honor.
Union Army
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship—Frederick Douglass. Unfortunately, this was exactly what President Abraham Lincoln did not want at the time. He was afraid that if he armed African Americans, especially escaped or former slaves, the border states would secede. This would only make the situation worse for the Union than it already was. But after two years of war, Lincoln began to reconsider the idea. The war was not going well for the North and they badly needed soldiers.
The Militia Act of 1862 allowed the army to use African Americans as laborers and soldiers for the first time since 1792. It did not invite blacks to join the Army but it did cause some blacks to form private militia units. In New Orleans three all-black Louisiana Native Guard units were formed (they later became the 73rd, 74th and 75th U.S. Colored Infantry). In Kansas the First Kansas Colored Infantry was formed (later officially becoming the 79th U.S. Colored Infantry). They fought in a skirmish at Island Mound, Missouri in November 1862. The First South Carolina Infantry, African Descent, fought for the first time in November 1862 (later becoming the 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry). In January 1863, these unofficial units were allowed to become part of the Union Army.
Probably the most famous unit was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. In February 1863, Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew, issued the first call for black soldiers in the North. Over 1,000 men joined, many from as far away as Canada and even the Caribbean. To lead them the governor chose Robert Gould Shaw, a young white officer. On July 18, 1863, they attacked Fort Wagner guarding the southern approach to Charleston Harbor. The 54th lost 600 men in the attack including Colonel Shaw—nearly half of the regiment. The fort was defended by 1,700 Confederates.