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Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Sun and moon
Solar and lunar eclipses were widely explained as the male Moon and female Sun mating with or marrying each other. Several astronomers note that these explanations show Aborigines understood that eclipses are caused by the paths of the Sun and Moon crossing each other. Norris (2009) argues that early Aborigines must have had a very good understanding of this in order to identify a lunar eclipse as being caused by the alignment of the Sun and Moon (since the Sun does not actually appear in the sky).
Constellations
In his study of the central desert peoples, anthropologist Charles P. Mountford wrote that most, if not all, of the stars seen in the southern hemisphere had Aboriginal myths associated with them. Most groups distinguish red, white, blue and yellow stars. Stars are often grouped together in unique ways – some groups classify stars using social kinship systems. So many of the constellations known to Aboriginal groups are different to those known to Western astronomers.
The broad band of the Milky Way that runs across the sky at night is commonly interpreted by Aboriginal groups as a legendary river. Several groups in the central desert believe the river divides two tribes of ancestor spirits who live on either side. To some groups, the stars along the river represent fish; other groups, such as the Yolngu, believe the stars are the campfires of their ancestors. Other groups identfy the Milky Way as the Rainbow Serpent, a major creator being.
Emu
The Emu is a constellation known to many Aboriginal groups in Australia. It is not a constellation in the usual sense, because it is defined by areas of dark shadow between the bands of the Milky Way (caused by dust and gas clouds in space), rather than by stars. The emu's head is the very dark Coalsack nebula, next to the Southern Cross. The body and legs are other dark clouds trailing out along the Milky Way and across the Scorpius constellation.
This shape in the sky is said to have influenced the style of the emus drawn on rock art. Where it appeared in the sky during the course of the year indicated when ceremonies should be held. Just north of Sydney is a well-known set of rock engravings, one of which is an emu in the same pose and orientation as the emu in the sky. In autumn, the emu in the sky will stand directly over her portrait on the rock, indicating to the Kuring-gai people that it is time to gather emu eggs.
At the head of the emu, the Southern Cross is easily spotted in the sky, and there are many different interpretations of this constellation across Australia. Several groups identify it as an eagle, a sky god, or both. For the Arrernte, it represents the foot of Waluwara, an eagle spirit – the four bright stars mark his talons, and the Coalsack is his nest. To the Ngarrindjeri of South Australia, the Southern Cross is a stingray being chased by two sharks. The sharks, which is a sacred totem to the Ngarrindjeri, are represented by Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri. In Victoria, the Boorong people identified the Southern Cross as the possum Bunya hiding from an emu spirit whose outline could be seen in the Coalsack nebula. To the Wardaman, the Coalsack is the head of a "law man". In 1972, the poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal wrote of the Southern Cross as the hands and feet of a wise leader named Mirabooka, who was given eternal life as a spirit in the sky.
Orion and the Pleiades
Aboriginal interpretations of the constellations Orion and Pleiades are very similar to the stories about them in Greek mythology. The stars of Orion are widely associated with young men – usually fishermen or hunters – while the seven stars of Pleiades are usually seen as young women. The two constellations often appear in legend together, and are part of the Dreamings of several language groups.
In the central desert region, the Pleiades are said to be seven sisters running away from the unwelcome attentions of a man represented by some of the stars in Orion. In Pitjantjatjara legend, the Pleiades represent the Kungkarungkara, a group of seven ancestral sisters. They are guarded by a pack of dingos from Njiru, the hunter, who is the stars in Orion's Belt. Njiru is said to have raped one of the sisters, who then died and became the darkest of the Pleiades stars. The sisters transformed into birds and fled to safety in the sky, but Njiru still chases after them. Other legends are less harsh: the Adnyamathanha, for example, believe the Pleiades are the wives of the stars in Orion. Tiwi people see them as a group of kangaroos being chased by a pack of dingos.
The similarity between these legends and the Orion and Pleiades of Greek mythology is believed to be a coincidence (by chance) – there is no proof of any cultural connection.
Yolngu people see the constellation of Orion as a canoe. They tell the story of three brothers who went fishing, and one of them ate a fish that was forbidden under their law. Seeing this, the Sun blew the three brothers and their canoe up into the sky. The three stars in the constellation's centre, which form Orion's Belt in Western mythology, are the three brothers. The Orion Nebula above them is the forbidden fish, and the bright stars Betelgeuse and Rigel are the front and back of the canoe. In this example, the astronomical legend has a clear message about a moral that people would follow on Earth. Aboriginal myths such as these are often focused around moral lessons, such as reminders of whether it is alright to eat certain types of food.
Legal drama
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Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Tagai
Tagai is a large constellation made up of Scorpius, Lupus, Centaurus, Crux, Corvus, with part of Hydra and one of the stars of Ara. In the culture of the Torres Strait Islanders, Tagai is a legendary sea hero. He is depicted as a fisherman standing in a canoe. His crew is represented by the six stars of the Pleiades and six stars of Orion. In the legend, Tagai's crew eats all the food and water that had been prepared for their journey. Tagai punishes them by tying them together and throwing them into the ocean. The stars in the sky are said to be their reflection.
Xu Xin
Xu Xin (born 8 January 1990 ) is a Chinese table tennis player. He won the mixed gold medal at the World Championships in 2015. In 2013 and in 2017 he won bronze in the singles at the World Championships too.
Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Tagai
The islanders used this constellation to tell the seasons. This calendar organised their cycle of fishing and farming, as well as their rituals and social activities. The appearance of the Pleiades told them that it was turtle-mating season, time for travelling and to prepare for planting before the rainy season.
Xu Xin
Career
In 2007, Xu played in his first World Championships, where he came to the round of 16 in the doubles. The next years he played international activ and came under the Top 10 in the world. In 2010 he took part in the world-team Championships for the first time, where he won with the team gold. In 2011, he won gold in doubles and came to round of 16 in the Singles category. In 2012 he won gold with the team again. In the same year, he took part in the World Cup, where he finished in 4th place. In January 2013 he finished for the first time world number one.
At the World Championships in the same year Xu won bronze in the singles. In the semifinals he lost to Zhang Jike. Also he won the world cup over Vladimir Samsonov in the final. With the team he won the World Championships and the Asian Games. From March 2014 to March 2015 he was for the second time number one in the world. At the World Championships in 2015, he took part in three competitions. In the Singles he lost in the Round of 16 to Fang Bo. In the Mixed and Doubles category he won gold.
Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Comets and meteors
Unexpected new arrivals in the sky, such as comets and meteors, were widely associated as omens of death or bad spirits. Ngarrindjeri people of the central desert say that a meteor is an omen of deathly disease. Tiwi-speaking people in New South Wales and the Kuninjku in Arnhem Land both interpreted meteors as the eyes of evil spirit creatures running across the sky hunting for the souls of the sick and dying. The idea of comets and meteors bringing misfortune and death was also shared by many other cultures around the world.
Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born 20 June 1956) is an English football manager and former player. He manages for Plymouth Argyle.
Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Comets and meteors
Impact events are also described in Aboriginal legends, including in creation stories about particular landforms. An example is the Arrernte story about the creation of Gosse's Bluff, an impact crater said to be nearly 150 million years old. According to the Arrernte legend, this was created by a baby's cradle that fell from the sky world. The baby's mother and father are the evening and morning stars (Venus), still searching for their baby. Several other legends from across Australia tell about falling stars that bring fire to the earth.
Peter Reid
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Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Practical uses
Aborigines traditionally used the stars to navigate to where they wanted to go. This is still the case in the remote outback, where there might not be any other signs or landmarks. They also use the Sun, the Moon and the stars to tell the time. Aboriginal calendars are usually more complex than those from Western culture. Many groups in northern Australia use a calendar with six seasons, and know what season it is by what stars can be seen during that period. In 1857, an Englishman named William Edward Stanbridge published the first written account of Aboriginal astronomy. He wrote about the Boorong people of northern Victoria, and how they used astronomy to better understand seasons. They thought of the constellation Lyra as a malleefowl (which they called Neilloan). It disappears from the southern sky in October, and this event told the Boorong that the bird's egg-laying season had begun.
Portuguese Football Federation
The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) (Federação Portuguesa de Futebol; FPF; ) is the governing body of football in Portugal. It organises the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores, the Taça de Portugal, the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, youth levels, women's football, beach soccer, futsal, and also the men's and the women's national football teams. It was formed in 1914. It is based in Lisbon.
Jean Bobet
Jean Bobet (22 February 1930 – 29 July 2022) was a French road bicycle racer. He was the younger brother of Louison Bobet. He won the world students' championship as an amateur. He later won as a professional, Paris–Nice in 1955, Genoa–Nice in 1956 and the Circuit du Morbihan in 1953. He came third in Milan–San Remo in 1953. Bobet was born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand, France.
Bobet died on 29 July 2022, aged 92.
Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, GColIH (born December 27, 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 54th President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000.
He was the last Mexican president from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a 71 year streak. He became the PRI candidate after the original nominee Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated.
Table Rock Lake
Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake, or reservoir, in The Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. The lake was made by the construction of Table Rock dam. This 252 foot high impoundment was constructed in 1954-1958 on the White River by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It is one of the popular attractions for the nearby town of Branson, Missouri. There are several commercial marinas along the lake, and Table Rock State Park is located on the east side. Downstream from the dam, the Missouri Department of Conservation operates the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery, which is used to stock trout in Lake Taneycomo. The cold water from the dam creates an ideal environment for Rainbow trout and Brown trout.
Lake air temperature
The lake area temperature varies according to season:
Lake data
Dam and Outlet Measurements
Melon
The word melon comes from the Latin melopepo, which itself comes from the Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopepon).
Table Rock Lake
Lake data
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Melon
History
Melons come from Africa and southwest Asia. They gradually began to appear in Europe toward the end of the Roman Empire. Melons were introduced to America by early settlers, who grew honeydew and casaba melons as early as the 1600s. A number of Native American groups in New Mexico have a tradition of growing their own kinds of melon cultivars, derived from melons originally introduced by the Spanish.
Table Rock Lake
Flood control
The original purpose of the reservoir was for flood control on the White River. It also produces Hydroelectric power and provides recreation for southern Missoui and northern Arkansas. The dam had been authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1941. But World War II and the Korean War delayed construction until 1954. The reservoir has a fluctuation of 16 ft. When the reservoir is above the maximum flood pool, excess water goes over the auxiliary overflow spillway at the north end of the dam. Table Rock is the second of four major reservoirs on the White River before it enters the Mississippi River. The other three are Beaver Lake, Lake Taneycomo and Bull Shoals Lake.
Fishing
Table Rock is one of the premier Largemouth bass fishing lakes in the United States. All three species of Black bass are here in abundance (Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted). The lake has produced Largemouth bass of over 10 pounds and Smallmouth bass over 7 pounds. Table Rock is the site of several major Bass fishing tournaments each year. The lake has several other species of game fish including Crappie, Walleye, White Bass, Paddlefish Catfish and Sunfish. Lake Tannycomo, below Table Rock dam, is one of the top 5 Rainbow and Brown trout fisheries in the world.
Melon
Nutrition
Melons are a nutritious food. The seeds of cantaloupe were used in China to moderate fevers and the digestive system. Elsewhere, seeds were ground into a powder and used to treat tuberculosis. Cantaloupes are particularly beneficial to people with heart disease, as they have large of amounts of an anticoagulant known as adenosine. They also have high levels of potassium, which benefits those with high blood pressure. Due to their high water content, all melons are considered diuretics.
There is also evidence that suggests that eating melons can lower the risk of cancer. USDA researchers discovered that melons have lycopene, an antioxidant found in a select group of fruits and vegetables. Lycopene treats and prevents cancer by trapping free-radicals in cells.
Partant pour la Syrie
Partant pour la Syrie, (Departing for Syria) also known as Le beau Dunois was a national anthem of the Second French Empire, dated to 1807. The music was composed by Queen Hortense de Beauharnais and the lyrics were written by Comte Alexandre de Laborde.
French
Partant pour la Syrie,
Le jeune et beau Dunois,
Venait prier Marie
Faites, Reine immortelle,
Lui dit-il en partant,
Que j'aime la plus belle
Et sois le plus vaillant.
On lui doit la Victoire.
Vraiment, dit le seigneur ;
Puisque tu fais ma gloire
Je ferai ton bonheur.
De ma fille Isabelle,
Car elle est la plus belle,
Et toi le plus vaillant.
Il trace sur la pierre
Le serment de l'honneur,
Oryol Oblast
Oryol Oblast (Орло́вская о́бласть, Orlovskaya oblast), also known as Orlovshchina (Орловщина) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Oryol. Population: 714,094 (Estimate 2022) (2010 Census — 786,935).
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Et va suivre à la guerre
Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata (called River Plate in British English) is a river in Argentina. It is an estuary made from the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. These rivers are on the border between Argentina and Uruguay. It is about 290 km long.
Oryol Oblast
Geography
By area, at 24652 km2 it is one of the smallest federal subjects. From north to south, it goes for more than 150 km, and from west to east—for over 200 km.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Le Comte son seigneur ;
Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata is home for the loggerhead sea turtle, green sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, the rare La Plata dolphin, and many species of fish.
Oryol Oblast
Geography
It borders Kaluga Oblast in the north, Lipetsk Oblast in the east, Kursk Oblast in the south, and Bryansk Oblast in the west.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Au noble voeu fidèle,
Río de la Plata
Battle of the River Plate (1939)
The first naval battle of the Second World War was fought near the River Plata. The Kriegsmarine "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee was engaged by the Royal Navy cruisers, HMS Exeter (68), HMS Ajax (22) and HMNZS Achilles off the estuary of the River Plate in December 1939.
Oryol Oblast
Geography
There are more than two thousand rivers and streams in Oryol Oblast with a total length of 9100 km.
Sceaux-sur-Huisne
Sceaux-sur-Huisne is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Il dit en combattant :
Amour à la plus belle,
Oryol Oblast
Economy
The main industries in Oryol Oblast are the food and light industries, engineering and metalworking, and ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy. The engineering and metalworking industries make equipment for many industries. These include forklift trucks, construction and agricultural equipment, and machinery for municipal services.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Honneur au plus vaillant.
Oryol Oblast
Demographics
Population: 714,094 (est. 2022);
Retro
Retro is a term used to describe fashions, trends and other cultural items that were popular or relevant many years ago. Generally, something that is retro is at least of fifteen or twenty years of age. For example, a video game from 1997 could be considered as something retro. The term is especially used for things of the mid twentieth century (1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s).
Partant pour la Syrie
French
A l'Autel de Marie,
Oryol Oblast
References
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Río de la Plata
Battle of the River Plate (1939)
The German ship retired up the estuary with a crippled fuel system and put into port at Montevideo. A few days later, rather than fight outgunned against the British, she was scuttled in the estuary. This engagement was part of the early Battle of the Atlantic skirmishes.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Ils contractent tous deux
Cette union Chérie
War of God (1976 movie)
War of God or Hong Kong Calamity is an 1976 Taiwanese-Hong Kong movie. It is science fiction, fantasy, and action movie. Chun Hongmyin directed it. It was produced by Hsing Hua Film Production Company. War of God was released in Taiwanese by July 24, 1976. Koichi Takano built the special effects.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Qui seule rend heureux.
War of God (1976 movie)
Plot
A sculptor named, Mr. Chao makes a statue of the god Guan Yu to fight large space aliens that are attacking Hong Kong.
O. Panneerselvam
O.Panneerselvam is an Indian politician. He is the 6th Chief Minister And 2th Deputy Chief Minister Of Tamil Nadu. Panneerselvam is a senior leader of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Partant pour la Syrie
French
Chacun dans la chapelle
Disait en les voyant :
English
Leaving for Syria,
The young and handsome Dunois
Went to ask the Virgin Mary,
His heroic deeds to bless,
Sorry (Justin Bieber song)
"Sorry" is a 2015 song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber and is the second single from his fourth studio album Purpose. It topped the single charts in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It went to the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. The music video has over 3.5 billion views on YouTube.
Life Ante Itta Vundaala
"Life Ante Itta Vundaala" is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language song by singers Geetha Madhuri and Rahul Sipligunj. The song features Pooja Hegde as lead, alongside Venkatesh and Varun Tej.
Partant pour la Syrie
English
Make it so, immortal Queen
Life Ante Itta Vundaala
Production
It was composed by Devi Sri Prasad from the 2018 soundtrack album F3 of the film of the same name. The song is written by Kasarla Shyam. The song features Pooja Hegde as lead, alongside Venkatesh and Varun Tej.
Partant pour la Syrie
English
He said on his leaving,
Life Ante Itta Vundaala
Release
The song was released on 17 May 2022. The song received positive response.
Partant pour la Syrie
English
That I love the most beautiful (woman)
We owe you the victory
Verily! says the lord,
Since you have established my glory,
I will make you happy!
My daughter Isabella
Ron Arad (industrial designer)
Ron Arad (רון ארד; born 24 April 1951 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect. Arad became famous for his design of the Design Museum Holon that opened in 2010. He also designed the Tel Aviv Bauhaus Museum in 2008.
Partant pour la Syrie
English
Will be your wife
For she is the most beautiful (woman)
And you the bravest.
He writes on stone
And follows into war
The earl, his lord.
Faithful to his noble vow,
He said while fighting:
Love to the most beautiful (woman)
Honor to the bravest.
At the altar of Mary,
They pledged both
This dear union
Everyone in the chapel
Said seeing them:
Love to most beautiful (woman)
Fitzroy River (Western Australia)
The Fitzroy River is in the West Kimberley part of Western Australia. The Fitzroy flows into the Indian Ocean. The first European to visit the Fitzroy River was George Grey in 1837 aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. The river was given its European name by Lieutenant J.L. Stokes in February 1838 after Captain Robert FitzRoy.
Archie Shepp
With 1972's Attica Blues and The Cry of My People, he spoke out for civil rights; the former album was a response to the Attica Prison riots.
Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York.
Aust-Agder
Aust-Agder (, "East Agder") was a county (fylke) in Norway until 1 January 2020. It was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 people living here.
Mechanical room
A mechanical room, boiler room or plant room is a room or space in a building holding the mechanical equipment and its electrical equipment, unlike rooms made for human occupancy or storage. The size of the mechanical room is usually similar to the size of the building. A small building or home may have a utility room or laundry room. In larger buildings, mechanical rooms can be of very large size, often requiring multiple rooms throughout the building, or even occupying one or more complete floors (see: mechanical floor).
Equipment
Mechanical rooms will have the following equipment:
Equipment in mechanical rooms are operated and maintained by a engineer or a maintenance technician. Modern buildings use control systems to manage HVAC systems, lighting, communications, and life safety equipment. Often, the control system hardware is located in the mechanical room and monitored or accessed remotely on a computer or tablet.
Rooms with only electrical or electronic equipment such as circuit breakers and switchgear are not called mechanical rooms but are instead called electrical rooms.
Nicolae Mitea
Nicolae Mitea (born 24 March 1985) is a Romanian football player. He has played for Romania national team.
Club career statistics
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No More Movement
The No More Movement is a global movement of Ethiopians advocating the stop of foreign interference inside of Ethiopia. The motto of the group is "Hands of Ethiopia." The movement has no central authority but has organization supporting and organizing rallies for the movement throughout countries as the United States, and Europe.
Protests
The No More movement had protests as notable places as the White House, the Canadian Parliament, and other high foreign government officials' offices.
America
Protests in America and specifically in Washington D.C were organized by the Peace and Unity for Ethiopian Association Washington Task Force. The protests occurred in The Washington D.C. metropolitan area, which boasts the largest population of Ethiopians in the United States. Some local experts estimate there are as many as 250,000 Ethiopian Americans here, including both immigrants and US-born descendants. Now, as fighting in Ethiopia intensifies, protesters both for and against the country's government are taking to the streets of Washington. The protests in Washington D.C and the rest of America emphasized that the U.S should have "Hands Off Ethiopia." The protest in Washington by Ethiopians had a message that the designated terrorist TPLF group should be denounced by foreign governments and not be helped in any shape or way.
Canada
Ethiopian people living in Canda had also demonstrated in the northmost region of North America. They participated in protesting on the grounds of Manitoba's legislative grounds on Sunday carrying Ethiopian flags and signs that said "No More." The protests also carried out to protest outside the U.S consulate in Calgary, Canada. Protests also carried out through Toronto and other parts of the country.
Support by Ethiopian Government
The movement was supported by the Ethiopian government and allowed huge contributors to the movement to be greeted and welcomed by officials at Bole International Airport.
Aaron Ekblad
Aaron Ekblad (born February 7, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He has also played for the Team Canada junior team. He won a gold medal with them during the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He suffered a concussion in an exhibition game against the Czech Republic in December 2014.
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Ekblad played 3 seasons with the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was drafted with the 1st overall pick by the Florida Panthers in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.
On December 6, Ekblad scored a career-high three points in a 3–2 win against the Buffalo Sabres. He was given the first star of the game. On January 23, 2015, he was chosen to play in the 2015 NHL All-Star Game to replace an injured Erik Johnson.
On June 24, 2015, Ekblad was announced as the Calder Memorial Trophy winner.
Villeneuve-sur-Auvers
Villeneuve-sur-Auvers is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
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In 1985, she played her first major screen role (and earned a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress), playing the mother in Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Cradle).
Saint-Méen-le-Grand
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Dominique Lavanant
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Ségrie
Ségrie is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Andrew Paulson
Andrew Paulson (November 13, 1958 – July 18, 2017) was an American entrepreneur. He was the son of noted American professor Ronald Paulson. His business career was mainly established in Russia.
Shortly after the Russian financial crisis of August 1998, Paulson, together with Anton Kudryashov and Ilya Tsentsiper, founded Afisha, an entertainment and listings magazine that became the cultural touchstone of Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2006, Paulson with Alexander Mamut founded SUP Media, which became Russia’s largest online media company, consisting of LiveJournal.
Paulson died on July 18, 2017 from lung cancer at the age of 59.
Paranomus
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Paraguay River
The Paraguay River is a major river in south central South America. It goes through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. It is about 2621 km long. It starts in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It ends when it joins the Paraná River north of Corrientes. The biggest city on the river is Asunción, the capital city of Paraguay, which is located at its meeting with the Putumayo River.
Bermejo River
The Bermejo River is a river in South America. It flows from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in Argentina. The river is 1060 km long. The Bermejo is not able to be travelled on.
Shosuke Katayama
Shosuke Katayama (born 8 September 1983) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Yokohama.
Club career statistics
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Semur-en-Vallon
Semur-en-Vallon is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Colorado River (Argentina)
The Colorado River is a river in the south of Argentina. The man-made Embalse Casa de Piedra dam is on the river. It starts on the eastern slopes of the Andes. It ends in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Bahía Blanca.
Philippe Leroy (actor)
Philippe Leroy, full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu (born 15 October 1930) is a French actor. He has appeared in over 150 movies since 1960. He is known for his roles in The Life of Leonardo da Vinci and Sandokan.
His daughter is actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu.
Alpha Persei Cluster
The Alpha Persei Cluster (also known as Melotte 20 or Collinder 39) is an open cluster in the constellation of Perseus.
Sadyr Japarov
Sadyr Nurgozhoevich Japarov (Садыр Нургожоевич Жапаров; born 6 December 1968, surname sometimes romanized as Zhaparov) is a Kyrgyz politician. He was the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from October 2020 to November 2020. On 15 October 2020, he became Acting President of Kyrgyzstan. He became the country's 6th president in January 2021.
Alpha Persei Cluster
To the naked eye, the cluster has several blue spectral type B type stars. The most luminous member is the ~2nd magnitude white-yellow supergiant Mirfak, also known as Alpha Persei. Bright members also include Delta, Sigma, Psi, 29, 30, 34 and 48 Persei. The Hipparcos satellite and infrared color-magnitude diagram fitting show the cluster as about ~172 parsecs away from us.
Since the distance by the independent analyses agree, the cluster is an important rung on the cosmic distance ladder. The age of this cluster is about 50–70 million years.
Deck the Halls
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2010 AFC U-19 Championship
2010 AFC U-19 Championship was held in China from 3 to 17 October.
Yasumichi Uchima
Yasumichi Uchima (born 10 September 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Gainare Tottori.
Club career statistics
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David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort (23 February 1928 – 16 August 2017), known as Mr David Somerset until 1984, was a British peer. He served as a member of the House of Lords from 5 February 1984 to 11 November 1999. He was President of the British Horse Society between 1988 and 1990, and was chairman of Marlborough Fine Art.
Somerset died on 16 August 2017 at his home in Badminton, Gloucestershire, South West England at the age of 89.
Queen of Fist
Queen of fist is a 1972 Hong Kong action drama movie directed by Lung Chien and starring Hsien Chin-Chu as Kung Fu Mama, Zhang Qingqing as Ma Ai-Chen, Jimmy Wang Yu as Ma Yung-Chen, Kang Kai, Tzu Lan, Wong Fei-lung as the gang leader.
Plot
An elderly mother travels to Shanghai to look for her missing children. She discovers that the boss Lin Hie killed his son and is holding his daughter captive.
So, she wants to kill the gang leader.
Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby is an American singer and songwriter. In 1986 Bruce Hornsby and the Range had a number one song on music charts in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands.
Early life
Hornsby was born on November 23, 1954 in Williamsburg, Virginia.
María Amuchástegui
María Amuchástegui (16 January 1953 – 19 July 2017) was an Argentine television fitness instructor, ballerina, and singer. She was born in Buenos Aires. She became well known in Argentina in the 1980s. Her best known morning fitness shows were Buen día Salud and Buen Día, María, both were made in the 1980s. She was also a singer. Her best known work was the 2006 song "Camino de espejos".
Amuchástegui died in Buenos Aires on 19 July 2017 of a stroke and lung cancer at the age of 64.
Sillé-le-Guillaume
Sillé-le-Guillaume is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born April 3, 1948) is a Mexican Narco President and Murderer Of Luis Donaldo Colosio. He worked with the Partido Trabajador Institucional (PTI). He served as 53rd President of Mexico from December 1, 1988 to November 30, 1994.
Longyearbyen
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard, Norway. As of 2013, the town had a population of 2,043.
Ronald Paulson
Ronald Paulson (born May 27, 1930) is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and English artist William Hogarth.
Paulson was born in Bottineau, North Dakota. He studied at Yale University. His son, Andrew, was a businessman made in Russia.
He has been a member of the editorial board of the academic journal ELH: English Literary History and was senior editor from 1985 to 2004; he served on the editorial boards of the journals Studies in English Literature; PMLA; Eighteenth-Century Studies; and the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tatsuro Hagihara
Tatsuro Hagihara (born 6 August 1982) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Vegalta Sendai.
Club career statistics
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Oregon, Ohio
Oregon is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. It is an industrial suburb of Toledo, located on Lake Erie, just east of the city. 20,291 people lived there at the 2010 census.
André Dussollier
André Dussollier (born 17 February 1946) is a French actor. He is known for his role as Jacques in the comedy Three Men and a Cradle.
Attempted assassination of the Mayor of Shiraoi
On 8 March 1974, a 22-year-old ethnically Japanese man called Yagi Tatsumi tried to kill the mayor of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Asari Giichi (浅利義市) in the mayor's office, managing to stab him in the neck. According to Tatsumi, the murder attempt was done to protest what he considered to be the mistreatment of the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido. The incident occured amidst a larger of anti-Japanese terrorist attacks performed by pro-Ainu organizations like the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front.
Giichi survived the attempt, and Tsatsumi was stopped. However, far-left violence in Japan failed to cease. A similarly-intentioned arson attack in the September of that same year in Shiraoi.
Guckkasten
Guckkasten (Hangul: 국카스텐) is a South Korean Indie rock group that is known for psychedelic music. The members are Ha Hyun-woo (Hangul: 하현우, vocal), Jeon Kyu-ho (Hangul: 전규호), Lee Jung-gil (Hangul: 이정길) and Kim Ki-bum (Hangul: 김기범). The group formed in 2003 and their band was called "The C.O.M" at the time. In 2007, they renamed their band "Guckkasten," a German word that means "Chinese-style kaleidoscope". The renaming of the band as "Guckkasten" was to reflect how their psychedelic music is like looking through a Chinese-style kaleidoscope with its beautiful and constantly changing pictures. This band tries to express their experimental mindset by playing music like psychedelic videos hidden under an analogous style.
History of Guckkasten
Lee Jung-gil and Ha Hyun-woo started a school band together. After quitting school, they moved to Seoul. Then they scouted Jeon Kyu-ho through the Internet and started a band "New Unbalance". In 2003, they realigned their members and created a band named "The C.O.M". However, "The C.O.M" broke up that year after the "Ssamji sound festival". Then in 2007, they formed the band again, but changed the name to "Guckkasten," a German word for Chinese-style kaleidoscope. A year later, in 2008, Kim Ki-bum joined the band. Since then, they have performed as the band "Guckkasten" and never looked back.
Musical style and artistry
The music of Guckkasten can be classified as psychedelic. They try to express their music as psychedelic videos which is hidden under analogue.It is because their music is inspired by Hague's piece called Art and Fire. Although their music can be classified as psychedelic music in some points, their genre can't be defined clearly. Their music is expressed in various ways and the songs are very changeable.They are skilled guitar players, and their sound is guitar focused. But they have said that this will change on their 2nd album.
Xamontarupt
Xamontarupt is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Vosges department in northeast France.
Andy Williams
Andy Williams (December 3, 1927 - September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He had many gold and several platinum albums and songs, including 8 Christmas albums.
Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa. Some sources say he was born in 1927, others say 1928. Williams was married to Claudine Longet from 1961 until they divorced in 1975. He was later married to Debbie Meyer from 1991 until his death in 2012. Williams had 3 children. In November 2011, Williams was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Williams died on September 25, 2012 in Branson, Missouri from the cancer, aged 84.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. He was awarded the 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tranströmer was born in Stockholm. He was married to Monica Bladh and had two daughters, Emma and Paula. He had a stroke in 1990, leaving him with aphasia and without the use of his right hand.
English-speaking world
Over two billion people speak English. It is the largest language by number of speakers. It is the fourth largest language by number of native speakers. What this mean is, English is the most widely spoken second language.
Tomas Tranströmer
Tranströmer died after a short illness on 26 March 2015 at his home in Stockholm, aged 83.
English-speaking world
Overview
The United States of America is the largest English-speaking country, with 300 million native speakers. There are 60 million native speakers in the United Kingdom, 29 million in Canada, 25.1 million in Australia, 4.7 million in the Republic of Ireland, and 4.9 million in New Zealand.
In the European Union, English is one of 24 official languages and is widely used by institutions, and by almost all of the population as the native language in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is a second language in other member states.
Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly, from 470 million to more than 2 billion. David Crystal calculates that, as of 2003, non-native speakers outnumbered native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. p69 When combining native and non-native speakers, English is the most widely spoken language worldwide.
India now claims to be the world's second-largest English-speaking country. The most reliable estimate is about 10% of its population or 125 million people, second only to the US. It may be four times larger in the next decade from 2012.
Countries by English-speaking percentage
Below is a list of some countries by the rank proficiency in English (listed alphabetically), according to the English Proficiency Index.
Hirschland
Hirschland is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France.
List of country musicians from Florida
This is a list of famous country musicians from Florida, USA.
Solesmes, Sarthe
Solesmes is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Sarthe department in the west of France.
List of country musicians from Florida
The following other musicians have had at least one number one song or album on country music charts: Jake Owen, Michael Ray, Chase Rice.
Xonrupt-Longemer
Xonrupt-Longemer is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Vosges department in northeast France.
LGBT rights in the State of Palestine
In the Palestinian-occupied Israeli territories, there are no laws that specifically protect LGBT people. No laws protect LGBT people from discrimination (not being treated equally because they are LGBT) or harassment. However, the Basic Law of the Palestinian Constitution claims to give all Palestinians certain freedoms. For example, it covers freedom of belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of bodily integrity. It also gives Palestinians freedom from discrimination "because of race, sex, color, religion, political views, or disability". The Basic Law also protects people's human rights. In other countries, people have used these types of laws and freedoms to argue that LGBT rights should exist. However, hundreds of gay Palestinians have left and moved to Israel because they did not feel welcome or safe in Palestinian-ruled areas.
Homosexuality is still illegal in parts of the Palestine-occupied Israeli territories. In 1951, same-sex acts were decriminalized in Judea and Samaria, which was occupied by Jordan. Same-sex acts are still decriminalized there today. On the other hand, in the Gaza Strip, same-sex acts between men were made illegal in 1936, by the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance, No. 74. This law is still in place, so same-sex acts between men are still illegal there. Lesbian women are not covered by this law.
In both Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority has not made laws either for or against homosexuality. Instead, the President of the Palestinian Authority decided to keep the laws that were already in place in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria. On May 20, 1994, he ruled that laws that took effect before June 5, 1967 in these areas would not be changed. The laws are also more complicated because the Palestinian territories have been ruled by many different foreign powers, like the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, Jordan, and Egypt. Each of these foreign powers, along with Israel, created their own laws for the Palestinian-occupied Israeli territories. Because of the many different laws that have been in place there, the legal situation in the territories is confusing. Sometimes, the criminal law about homosexuality is applied (or used) in the territories. At other times, the laws are not applied. It can be different in the different territories.
Richard Kind
Richard John Kind (born November 22, 1956) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Mad About You (as Dr. Mark Devanow) and in Spin City (as Paul Thomas Lassiter). Kind voiced Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong in Pixar's Inside Out.
Personal life
Kind was born on November 22, 1956 in Trenton, New Jersey to a Jewish family. He grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Kind studied at Pennsbury High School and at Northwestern University.
Gardening
Gardening is the growing of plants such as flowers, shrubs and trees as a hobby or recreation. Some people also grow vegetables or fruit in their gardens. People do gardening outdoors in the soil in their backyard, or in pots or containers on their balcony or on their patio. Some people do gardening on a roof.
People do indoor gardening inside their house or inside a building. Sometimes indoor gardening is done in greenhouses, which are special buildings where plants are grown. A greenhouse has a transparent glass or plastic roof and walls that let sunlight in. Grow tent is also used for indoor plants. Grow tent helps plant to grow in a more spectacular and develop a friendly environment. Water gardening is growing plants in ornamental water pools and ponds. People doing water gardening plant water lilies and other aquatic plants.
Gardening can be done outside of the home, in city parks, botanical gardens, zoos, amusement parks, theme parks, and around tourist attractions. These types of gardens are cared for by people called gardeners or groundskeepers.
Gardening compared with farming
Gardening is related to farming. But farming is done on a much larger scale. A farm may have hundreds of square kilometres of plants and crops. A garden in a person's backyard usually only measures a few square meters. As well, farming is done as a business, to sell the crops, fruit, and vegetables that are produced. Gardening is often done just to produce fruit or vegetables for the gardener's own family. Gardening may be a hobby or a recreation. Gardening for sale is called "market gardening".
Gardens as art
In many countries and cultures, designing beautiful gardens is treated as a fine art. In Japan, for instance, Zen monks created Japanese gardens. In Europe in the 1700s, kings and queens had formal gardens built. One example is the gardens at the Versailles palace in Paris, France. Landscaping, the making of an artificial landscape, may include gardening and the designer may be a professional landscape architect.