cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,327. Its county seat is Stroudsburg. The county was formed from sections of Northampton and Pike counties. It is named in honor of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States.
Daan Preuninger
Daan Preuninger (born 15 March 1996) is a Dutch korfball player. He is a member of Fortuna and the Netherlands national korfball team.
Preuninger became a player on the national team in 2018. He won in his first year the European title at the European Championships. With the national team he won the gold medal at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
Fedora (disambiguation)
A fedora is a type of hat.
Diphthong
A diphthong (pronounced "DIF-thong" or "DIP-thong") is a vowel where the speaker has to move their mouth into two different positions to make. It is a vowel where two different vowel qualities can be heard. Examples are: waist, die, noise, road, house, fierce, bear, sure. Each of these is a different vowel sound.
A monophthong is a simple vowel sound that a person does not have to move his or her mouth to make, like the "oo" sound in "book." In a diphthong, the person combines two different monophthongs, as with the "oi" sound in the word "oil". The speaker starts with the mouth in the position to make an "o" sound, then quickly moves the mouth to make a hard "e" sound. Another example is the "ou" sound in the word "house". The mouth starts out making a sound like the soft "a" sound in "flat", then moves to make the a hard "oo" sound like the one in "caboose".
Just like with every other part of language, the exact way to pronounce a diphthong is a little different for different accents.
The word diphthong is derived from the old Greek language. Here, di means two or double, while the part -phthong means sound or tone, from the basic word phthalein, which means speak, creating sound by the voice.
A diphthong can be a lexeme of a language and as such it may be one syllable, but rarely.
Fedora (disambiguation)
Fedora may also refer to:
Stuart Beck
Stuart Jay Beck (December 23, 1946 – March 1, 2016) was an American law practitioner and a diplomat for Palau.
Beck was born in Manhattan. He was raised in Brooklyn.
As a lawyer, Beck helped negotiate the Compact of Free Association, which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the United States in 1994. He was granted honorary citizenship.
Beck died of kidney cancer on March 1, 2016 in Manhattan, at the age of 69.
Clare, Suffolk
Clare is a small town on the north bank of the River Stour in Suffolk, England. Clare is an amazing town with it containing ruins of an old railway station.It has an amazing market in the town center every week.
Don Novello
Donald Andrew Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American writer, movie director, producer, actor, singer and comedian. He is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1979 to 1980, and again from 1985 to 1986, often as the character Father Guido Sarducci.
He appeared as Sarducci in many other television shows, including Married... with Children, Blossom, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Unhappily Ever After, Square Pegs, and The Colbert Report.
John Billington
John Billington ( 1580 – September 30, 1630) and his family were passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. Billington was hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1630.
The Billington family was from England. He had a wife, Elinor and two sons, John and Francis.
Mayflower Voyage
Billington and his family left Plymouth England on 16 September 1620. There were 102 passengers and 30–40 crew. On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower saw land. They were supposed to land in the Colony of Virginia, but the ship was damaged so they landed at Cape Cod now called Provincetown Harbor. They wrote the Mayflower Compact, which made rules on how they would live and treat each other. Billington was a signer to the document.
Life in Plymouth colony
Shortly after they landed, Francis went exploring and discovered a large body of water that is now called Billington Sea. The family were Plymouth Colony's troublemakers. Billington's son, Francis, fired a musket on the Mayflower. In March 1621 Billington was punished because he did not to obey Myles Standish the military leader. He would do this many times. In May 1621 John Billington (the younger) became lost in the woods for many days and was returned home by some Native Americans. In 1625 Governor Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman and said "Billington still says many things against you. He is a bad man, and always will be". In 1636, wife was punished and made to sit in the stocks for saying bad things about John Doane.
Death of John Billington
Billington was hanged for the murder of John Newcomen in 1630. He was about 50 years old. This was the first execution in Plymouth Colony. His burial place is unknown.
Hunting Flies (1969 movie)
Hunting Flies (Polowanie na muchy) is a 1969 Polish comedy movie directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Zygmunt Malanowicz, Małgorzata Braunket, Ewa Skarzanka, Hanna Skarzanka, Józef Pieracki, Daniel Olbrychski, Julia Bratna.
Marc Lamothe
Marc Lamothe (born February 27, 1974) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender. Lamothe played 4 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played with the Chicago Black Hawks and the Detroit Red Wings.
Before playing in the NHL, Lamothe played 3 seasons in the OHL with the Kingston Frontenacs. He was drafted with the 92nd overall pick by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. He has played for the Fredericton Canadiens, Syracuse Crunch, Hamilton Bulldogs and Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL, as well as the Wheeling Thunderbirds of the ECHL and the Indianapolis Ice of the IHL. When he left North America, he joined Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the RSL. He also played for Severstal Cherepovets and SKA St. Petersburg. He played 15 games in the KHL with Barys Astana, 14 games in the SM-liiga with the Pelicans, and 15 games in the DEL with the Hamburg Freezers. His season with the Pelicans was cut short after he suffered a medial ligament tear in his knee. He returned to North America on November 23, 2010 after being released from the Freezers. He retired from playing professional ice hockey in 2011.
Branko Elsner
Branko Elsner (23 November 1929 – 17 November 2012) was a Slovenian football manager and player. He is best known for being the manager of the Austria national team twice.
As manager he had his first success a with NK Olimpija Ljubljana. Then he went to Austria and became coach of Wacker Innsbruck. As manager he won twice the Austrian Bundesliga (1972, 1975) and the Cup (1970 and 1975). 1975 and from 1985 to 1988 he was manager of the Austrian national football team.
1982 he did a doctorate and was during the 1990s teacher at the University Ljubljana.
Personal life
His son Marko Elsner and grandsons Luka Elsner and Rok Elsner were professional footballers.
Preserved counties of Wales
Wales is split into eight preserved counties. They are areas used for the ceremonial purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty.
Between 1974 and 1996, they were used for local government purposes.
Avenue of Mathematics (Seville)
The Avenida de las Matemáticas is a public avenue located in Seville, Spain.
Background
In December 2019, a group of young people from the Montaigne College in Seville promoted, together with their mathematics teacher, José Carlos Gámez, a campaign on Change.org to collect signatures and create a mathematics avenue in Seville. They created a website (callematematicassevilla.wordpress.com). In 2020, they had the support of the Seville Institute of Mathematics and the University of Seville.
Inauguration
On January 10, 2023, the Avenue was presented with the mayor of Seville, the education minister of the Junta de Andalucía, and various members of the Seville mathematical community.
Criticism
Just after the Mathematics Avenue was inaugurated, Carlos Navarro Antolín, opinion journalist from the Diario de Sevilla, suggested that now a Latin and Greek street will be released, criticizing that the mayor is more concerned with mathematics.
Some people also complained that the opening ceremony of the Avenue was too exclusive, or that the street chosen was not the most suitable.
Hungarians in Slovakia
Hungarians are the biggest minority group in Slovakia. According to the 2021 Slovak census, 422,065 people said they’re Hungarian, while 462,175 said that Hungarian was their native language.
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is a non-profit organization that manages and develops open source Rocky Linux operating system.
History
RESF founded in December 2020 to promote and protect Rocky Linux and its development work.
Governance
In order to ensure that all perspectives are heard, the organization is structured into teams, where each of the team lead(s) sits on the leadership team and serves as the RESF Board of Advisors.
Crawford Wilson
Crawford Wilson (born September 9 1989 ) is an American actor and voice actor, from Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for playing the lead role in the Nintendo GameCube RPG Baten Kaitos Origins, Sagi. He also voiced Jet in the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Governance
The general structure of the organization consists of a flat hierarchy of teams with a leadership team. Each team will have one or more of the following roles:
Sponsors
RESF is sponsored by many companies, such as CIQ, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MontaVista and VMware.
Crawford Wilson
He provided a voice in the Family Guy episode "Prick up your ears." He has been in commercials and print ads around the United States. He also did the voice of Daisukenojō Bitō in the Nintendo DS game The World Ends with You, by Square Enix. Wilson also voiced Robin in "The Color of Revenge!" on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
He played Dwayne Dill in the 2009 Disney Channel original movie, Hatching Pete. He played Jake James in the movie The Secrets Of The Mountain.
11 Parthenope
Parthenope (minor planet designation: 11 Parthenope) is a large, bright main-belt asteroid.
Parthenope was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on 11 May 1850. It is the second of his nine asteroid discoveries. It was named after Parthenopē, who was one of the Sirens in Greek mythology. Parthenopē founded the city of Naples. Two symbols were proposed for Parthenope: a fish and a star and later a lyre. Both are not used anymore.
On 6 August 2008, during a perihelic opposition, Parthenope had an apparent magnitude of 8.8.
In 1988, a UH88 telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories looked for it, but they never found it.
It has a rotation period of 13.722 ± 0.001 hours, Its brightness is anywhere from 0.10 ± 0.0s in magnitude.
Mass
In 2007, Baer and Chesley discovered that it is of 6.3 kg. It had a density of 3.3 g/cm3. In 2008, it was found that it could have a mass of 6.15 instead. In 1997 and 2001, it was thought that that it was 5 kg and had a density 2.7 g/cm3.
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist and essayist. Most of his writings are on the topic same-sex relationships. His books include The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein), A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).
White was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is HIV-positive. He married writer Michael Carroll in 2013.
Bull (2016 TV series)
Bull is an American legal drama starring Michael Weatherly as the title character. The show is set in New York. It began airing on CBS on September 20, 2016. It ended in May 2022.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a brave young mongoose.
Nataša Pirc Musar
Nataša Pirc Musar (born May 9, 1968) is a Slovenian attorney and author. She is the 5th President of Slovenia since December 23, 2022. She is the former Information Commissioner and former president of the Slovenian Red Cross (2015–2016). She is the first female president of Slovenia.
Judeo-Arabic dialects
Judeo-Arabic languages are a collection of Arabic language dialects spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Arabic-speaking countries. Just as with the rest of the Arab world, Arabic-speaking Jews had different dialects for the different regions where they lived. Most Judæo-Arabic dialects were written in modified forms of the Hebrew alphabet, often including consonant dots from the Arabic alphabet to accommodate phonemes that did not exist in the Hebrew alphabet.
In retaliation for 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jews in Arab countries became subject to increasingly insufferable discrimination and violence, causing virtually all of them to flee en masse to Israel. Their dialects of Arabic did not thrive in Israel, and most became extinct, replaced by the Modern Hebrew language.
In the Middle Ages, Jews in the Islamic diaspora spoke a dialect of Arabic, which they wrote in a mildly adapted Hebrew script (rather than using Arabic script).
This phenomenon is called Judaeo-Arabic and may be compared to both Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) and Yiddish (Judaeo-German).
Elliott Bay
Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound. It is in the U.S. state of Washington. Seattle was founded on this body of water in the 1850s. The waterway goes to the Pacific Ocean. It is important to Seattle's economy.
Washington Square Park (Chicago)
Overview
It is located in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the most celebrated open air free-speech center in the country as well as a popular Chicago tourist attraction.
It is Chicago's oldest existing small park. It is one of four Chicago Park District parks named after persons surnamed Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1991.
Oi!
Oi! is a type of punk rock that was started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The people that started it wanted to connect punk with a working class street-level following. Oi! is a mixing of the styles of early punk bands, such as The Clash, Sex Pistols and the Ramones. It is also influenced by early British rock bands (such as The Rolling Stones and The Who), football chants, pub rock and glam rock bands. The music is often very simple, and the lyrics are blunt (brutally honest, without tact).
Punk rock began to become popular in the 1970s. Some perceived that it was becoming more and more commercialised. This was the kind of thing that punks were against. Oi! began partly as a response to this perception. It was also partly a response to stereotyping that others made about punks. One stereotype was that many people in the early punk rock scene were young people using big words and trying to be artistic, but failing.
Early Oi! bands such as Sham 69 were around for years before the word Oi! was used to describe their style of music. The word was first used as a name for the new genre in 1980, by journalist Garry Bushell. He took the name from the way the Cockney Rejects used "Oi!" during live shows to introduce their songs. "Oi! Oi! Oi!" was the title of the third track on their second album. The word is an old Cockney expression, meaning "hey" or "hello". Other bands that were labelled as Oi! bands in the early days of the genre included Angelic Upstarts, The 4-Skins, The Business, Blitz, The Blood, and Combat 84. More recent punk bands such as Rancid and Dropkick Murphys have credited Oi! as a source of inspiration.
Trowbridge
Trowbridge has been a market town for a long time. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been a very important part of the town's growth because it allowed coal to be moved from the Somerset Coalfield. This began steam-powered wool production in mills, which the town is famous for. The town was a very important producer of clothes and blankets in the south west of England. Because of this, in the late 18th century and early 19th century, it had the nickname of "The Manchester of the West".
Azali (movie)
Azali is a 2018 Ghanaian drama movie directed by Kwabena Gyansah and starring Ama K. Abebrese, Asana Alhassan, Adjetey Anang, Akofa Edjeani Asiedu.
Trowbridge
The civil parish of Trowbridge had 33,108 people in the 2011 census. The parish goes over the areas of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common. Parishes that are next to Trowbridge include Staverton, Hilperton, West Ashton, North Bradley, Southwick and Wingfield. Some towns close to Trowbridge are Bradford on Avon, Westbury, Melksham, Frome and Devizes.
Dracophyllum
Dracophyllum is a genus of shrubs or trees in the family Ericaceae. This genus is very close with genus Richea.
This plants grow in Australia and Oceania; many species grows in mountains. The number of species is more than 60.
The common English name of dracophyllum is the grass tree.
It is evergreen plants with the long leaves in the form of snakes. Flowers are small; its color is white, white-yellow or white-red.
It may be an interest plant for gardens. Fruits of some species are edible.
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is an ability to know about things or events that will occur in the future.
According to psychologists from Yale, human beings first see something happen, then think about seeing it, but sometimes they believe they had the thought first. This, they say, is why some people think they have clairvoyance.
Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Northampton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,951. Its county seat is Easton.
Port of Seattle
The Port of Seattle is a government agency in charge of the seaport and airport of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is one of the largest ports of the United States and very important to Seattle's economy.
Waterloo International railway station
Waterloo International was the first London station for Eurostar trains to France and Belgium. It was treated as a separate station to the main station at London Waterloo, but its 5 platforms were numbered 20 to 24. In 2007 it closed and all Eurostar trains now run from St Pancras International railway station. The platforms are no longer used, but South West Trains now plans to use at least one of the platforms when it starts running trains with 10 carriages in late 2013.
Lantages
Lantages is a commune of the Aube département in north-central France.
Árpád Feszty
Árpád Feszty (21 December 1856 – 1 June 1914) was a Hungarian painter. He is known for painting the Arrival of the Hungarians in 1894.
The Talk of the Town (1942 movie)
The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy drama movie directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and was nominated for 7 Academy Awards in 1943.
Atmore, Alabama
Atmore is a city in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 8,391. The city was named for Mr. C.P. Atmore.
Chicago Pride Parade
The Chicago Pride Parade, also (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is the annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Lake View, Chicago, Illinois in the United States. It is funded and organized by the Chicago City Council and Mayor of Chicago. Chicago's Pride Parade is one of the largest, by attendance, in the world.
The first parade was organized on Saturday, June 27, 1970, as a march from Washington Square Park ("Bughouse Square") to the Water Tower, but then many of the participants marched on to the Civic Center (now Richard J. Daley) Plaza.
For many years, the parade was held only in Lake View East, a neighborhood in Chicago. Recent parades have expanded their routes by extending it to the Uptown neighborhood, beginning at the corner of Broadway and Montrose. The parade then goes south on Broadway to Halsted, continues south on Halsted to Belmont, then east on Belmont to Broadway and finally south again on Broadway to Cannon Drive and Lincoln Park.
In June 2017, the Grand Marshall of the parade was Lea DeLaria and over 1,000,000 attended the parade.
There was no parade in 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It returns in 2021.
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is a James Bond movie starring Sean Connery and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is the only remake of another James Bond movie, Thunderball. It is also the one of the few James Bond movies not made by Eon Productions.
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nepal)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs (परराष्ट्र मन्त्री, or simply, the Foreign Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Nepal. One of the senior-most offices in the federal cabinet, the chief responsibility of the foreign minister is to represent Nepal and its government in the international community. The Foreign Minister also plays an important role in determining and implementing Nepalese foreign policy.
List of ministers
This is a list of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nepal.
Josef Molzer
Josef Molzer (28 February 1906 – September 1987) was an Austrian international footballer and coach.
Career
He started with his local club SK Admira Wien. 1926 he went to SK Rapid Wien and after half a year to FK Austria Wien. After a short time with Floridsdorfer AC he came back to Austria Wien. In the next seven seasons he won twice th Austrian Cup and the Mitropacup 1933. In November 1934 he played one of his best matches when he scored both goals versus FC Liverpool in a 2:0 win during a tour through England. 1936 he went to First Vienna FC and 1938 he retired. In 1932 he played two matches for the Austria National football team versus Sweden and Hungary.
1946 he became coach of SK Sturm Graz. He won three times the Styrian title. Then he went to Germany where he became coach of Westfalia Herne and then TSV 1860 Munich. After that he was coach of the Austrian national football team. He could qualifie for the 1958 FIFA World Cup. 1960 he became coach of First Vienna FC.
Sanriku
Sanriku (三陸) is a region of Japan. It is on the northeastern side of the island of Honshu. Sanriku combines the area of Aomori, Iwate and parts of Miyagi Prefecture. It was sometimes called Rikushū (陸州).
Sanriku has an irregular coastline with 36 small bays. Each bay focuses impact power of ocean waves. This was shown by the damage caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Dragonball Evolution
Dragonball Evolution is a low budget 2009 American live-action movie based on the Dragon Ball franchise being made by 20th Century Fox. The story follows the adventures of the lead character, Son Goku, around his 18th birthday. The movie began being made in 2002, and is directed，produced and written by James Wong. It was first released in Japan and several other Asian nations on March 13, 2009, and later released in the United States on April 10, 2009.
Sanriku
History
In 1869, the provinces of Mutsu and Dewa were divided.
Dragonball Evolution
Justin Chatwin was cast as Goku, and James Marsters is Lord Piccolo, the antagonist of the movie. A video game of the movie, with the same name, will be released in March/April for the PSP.
Sanriku
History
Mutsu was split into new five provinces: Rikuōku, Rikuchū, Rikuzen, Iwashiro and Iwaki. The first three of these collectively known as the "Three Riku", or Sanriku.
Dragonball Evolution
Reception
Since its release, Dragonball Evolution was universally being rated and commented as the most poor manga adoption ever. On Rotten Tomatoes it scored 15% based on 55 reviews, while on Metacritic it received a rating of 45 out of 100 based on 10 reviews.
Sanriku
History
The new provinces were abolished in July 1871; however, the regional name is still in use as the Sanriku Coast from Aomori to the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi.
Dragonball Evolution
Reception
The original creator Akira Toriyama felt surprised of this live-action film and suggested to treated it as a different work form his manga.
Toni Bertorelli
Toni Bertorelli (18 March 1948 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian movie and television actor. He performed in over sixty movies from 1971 through 2016. He was born in Barge, Piedmont. His roles in Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician and Marco Tullio Giordana's Who Killed Pasolini? made his popular in Italy. He was known for his role as Annas ben Seth in Mel Gibson's 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ.
From 2016 until his death, Bertorelli played the role as Cardinal Caltanissetta in the 2016 television series The Young Pope alongside Jude Law and James Cromwell.
Bertorelli died at a hospital in Rome, Italy from complications of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.
Stade du 7 Mars
Stade 7 Mars (Stade 7 Mars) is a stadium in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia. It is currently used mostly for football. The stadium holds 10,000 of which 4,000 are covered, and was built in 2000. It is used by the US Ben Guerdane.
The date of 7 March corresponds to the day of the Battle of Ben Guerdane which takes place on 7 March 2016 in Tunisia. The clashes between the Tunisian security forces and the jihadists of the Islamic state (IS).
London Marathon
The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, United Kingdom. It was founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981. It is usually held in April but has now moved to October. The largely flat course is set around the River Thames. It stars in Blackheath and finishes at The Mall.
Helden
Helden was a municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. Since 2010, it is part of the new municipality of Peel en Maas.
Everett L. Fullam
Everett Leslie "Terry" Fullam (July 1, 1930 – March 15, 2014) was an American priest, biblical scholar, and academic. He was best known to the Episcopal Church, and the Worldwide Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Protestant communities for his renewal ministries from 1972 to 1998. He was born in Montpelier, Vermont.
Lassicourt
Lassicourt is a commune in Aube in north-central France.
Everett L. Fullam
Fullam died after falling health on March 15, 2014 in Ormond Beach, Florida. He was 82 years old.
Kessel, Limburg
Kessel was a municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. Since 2010, it is part of the new municipality of Peel en Maas.
Jon Lester
Jonathan "Jon" Tyler Lester (born January 7, 1984) is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. He previously played for the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics.
He was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006. He came back and made his first 2007 start. He started and also won the clinching game of the 2007 World Series against the Colorado Rockies. He threw a no-hitter on May 19, 2008.
Lisbet Arredondo Reyes
She played for Villa Clara, Volejbol Kluby Šygys, Yeşilyurt, Gresik Petrokimia Volleyball Club, Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho Naiset, CV Logroño, and IBSA Palmas.
Dave Filoni
David Filoni (born June 7, 1974) is an American movie director, writer, and animator.
Maasbree
Maasbree was a municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. Since 2010, it is part of the new municipality of Peel en Maas.
Dave Filoni
Star Wars
He is the director of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature movie, and the supervising director of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series.
Filoni made an appearance at Celebration IV on Sunday, May 28, 2007 with producer Catherine Winder in the Celebration Theater (Room 408AB), to discuss the beginnings of the new television series and reveal how The Clone Wars is being created. He will also be writing for the Clone Wars monthly comic.
An avid Plo Koon fan, Filoni dressed up as the Jedi Master for the opening of Revenge of the Sith. In February 2009, Filoni was inducted as an Honorary Member of the 501st Legion international costuming organization in recognition of his contributions to the continuing Star Wars saga.
Dave Filoni's office, as seen in the extra features on the Star Wars: The Clone Wars DVD, is filled with Plo Koon paraphernalia. He has a bust of Plo Koon's head, a model of Plo Koon's ship, an autographed portrait by the actor who played Plo Koon, a replica of Plo Koon's lightsaber on his desk, and his personal Plo Koon costume on display. Filoni also has a note book sized planner on his desk with Plo Koon's picture taped to the outside. Filoni also has a small model of the character Appa on his desk, from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Isoprene
Isoprene is a common organic compound produced by living things. Its full chemical name is 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, and its formula is CH2=C(CH3)−CH=CH2. Isoprene is an unsaturated hydrocarbon. It is produced by many plants and animals (including humans). Its polymers are the main component of natural rubber.
Natural occurrences
Isoprene is produced and emitted by many species of trees (major producers are oaks, poplars, eucalyptus, and some legumes). Yearly production of isoprene emissions by vegetation is around 600 million metric tons, half from tropical broadleaf trees (that is, flowering plants) and the rest mainly from shrubs.
This is about the same as methane emissions. It accounts for about one-third of all hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere. In deciduous forests, isoprene makes up about 80% of hydrocarbon emissions. Microscopic and macroscopic algae also produce isoprene, but much less than trees.
Isoprene emission may help trees use to combat stress. In particular, isoprene does protect against moderate heat stress (around 40 °C). It may also protect plants against large fluctuations in leaf temperature. Isoprene is built into cell membranes and helps membranes keep stable.
Isoprene produces the blue haze which gives the Blue Ridge Mountains their name.
Komondor
The Komondor is a breed of dog. The Komondors are cord-coated dogs. They come from Hungary. They are livestock guard dogs and should not be confused with herd dogs. They stay with the animals they guard as a member of their flock. Komondors need a job to do or a property to guard.
They should not be kept in apartments. They need space, a large garden or a home in the countryside. They are not lap dogs but working dogs. They may think of their family as their herd to take care of. The Komondors are 50 to 60 kg and must be at least 70 cmhigh. But they can be much bigger; this is the minimum height. They live 12–14 years; which is a long life for a big dog.
Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (January 8, 1942 – January 17, 2022) was an American actress. She is known for her role in The Time Machine (1960). She was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards during her acting career. Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California.
Komondor
Behavior
Komondors are calm, intelligent and independent. They do not always need a human to tell them what to do. This trait can make them more difficult to train. They are loyal and will often follow family members around the house. A Komondor is a large territorial dog. To protect a herd or family is instinctive to this breed. Komondors can be aggressive with people they meet, if they do not learn how to be friendly and social with people and other pets. This ability to be friendly must be taught while they are puppies. Komondors are generally quiet dogs. They do not bark without a good reason. Giving a glaring stare can be a warning to intruders to leave, or the Komondor will attack.
Komondor dogs should be trained to listen to owners and caregivers. Otherwise they will just go on doing things their own way. This is because that is what they learned to do for hundreds of years. The Komondors were often left alone to take care of the herd. The Komondors learned to make decisions and not wait for directions to tell them what to do if a wolf or bear was coming.
Komondors as pets
The Komondor is usually silent and sleeping during the day. But when the night comes the Komondor starts moving around. The Komondor will walk up and down all over the area he is supposed to guard. The dog will take care of any thief, burglar or bad people who want to make trouble. The Komondor often knows how to tell a friendly person from a burglar. The Komondor just knows and feels if somebody will come with a bad intention.
Yvette Mimieux
Mimieux died on January 17, 2022 at her home in Los Angeles, nine days after her 80th birthday.
Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest is an ancient woodland near Nottingham, England. It is famous as the home of the mythical outlaw, Robin Hood and his men (and Maid Marian). Legend claims that they lived near the Major Oak. Its branches are now supported by props.
Barthold Fles
Barthold Fles (February 7, 1902 – December 19, 1989) was a Dutch-American who worked as a literary agent, helping writers find publishers to print their books. He also wrote books and articles, edited texts, translated books from German to English, and published poetry books.
Life
Barthold Fles was born in Amsterdam on February 7, 1902. His family was Jewish but did not keep Jewish laws. His father, Louis Fles, thought that it was wrong for Jews and other people to be religious. Louis Fles imported typewriters and sold them, in addition to other office products, in several stores that he owned and to other stores. Barthold was his oldest son so his father wanted him to help him at work. Barthold did not want to work for his father. He only wanted to read. Barthold read in Dutch, German, English, and French. He read a lot and very fast. Barthold found a job at De Lange publishers. In 1923 he left for the United States.
In New York Fles first worked as a violinist, painting apartments, selling vacuum cleaners and for publishers. In 1933 he started his own business, a literary agency, in Manhattan, New York. As a literary agent he mostly helped writers find publishers. He also sold stories for films or magazines and would find a writer to make a book that a publisher wanted. When Barthold started working as a literary agent, many of his clients were people who left Germany for the United States because of the Nazism in Germany. He held meetings for these writers in New York so that they could learn about publishing books and stories in the United States. Later, however, most of the writers he worked with were born in the United States.
In 1936 Barthold married Ruth Grünwald, a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera who had been just one year in the United States. Ruth helped Barthold with his work. Later she left him. Although he had no children of his own, Barthold Fles wrote two books for kids: Slavonic rhapsody: the life of Antonín Dvořák (in 1948) and East Germany (in 1973). He also wrote many articles and introductions to story collections. He translated three books from German to English. One of these books, Bambi's Children by Felix Salten, was also a book for children.
In 1986, when he was 84 years old, Fles stopped working. He went back to the Netherlands, and lived three years in a home for retired artists. He died on December 19, 1989 at the age of 87.
Published
These German poetry books were published by Barthold Fles Verlag, New York
Denys Monastyrsky
Denys Anatoliiovych Monastyrsky (Денис Анатолійович Монастирський; 12 June 1980 – 18 January 2023) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He was Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs from 16 July 2021, until his death in a helicopter crash in January 2023.
Lauren MacMullan
Lauren MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director.
She works at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Biography
As a child, Lauren MacMullan lived near Philadelphia.
She graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. Then she studied in Harvard University.
Her first primetime TV job was on The Critic, followed by directing for King of the Hill. She went on to become the supervising director and designer for Mission Hill. After the show was cancelled quickly, she got a job directing on The Simpsons, and stayed for three seasons. She also has directed some episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and won an Annie award for storyboarding on that show.
MacMullan was a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie.
Comicsgate
Analog Devolved of Kiwi Farms is part of the Comicsgate movement.
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer who wrote modern music.
Aaron Copland wrote many kinds of music. He wrote music for the orchestra, piano, and voice. He wrote music for plays, movies, and dance. Copland also was a conductor, pianist, speaker, teacher, and writer.
Early days of Copland
Aaron Copland was born November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. He died at the age of 90 on December 2, 1990. He was the youngest of five children. His parents had come to the United States from eastern Europe. They owned a store in Brooklyn. Aaron began playing the piano when he was a young child. He wrote his first song for his mother when he was eight years old. His dreams of becoming a composer began when he was young. When he was sixteen, he asked his parents to let him study composing with Rubin Goldmark. Goldmark had taught the composer George Gershwin.
When he was in his early twenties, Copland went to Paris, France, where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger. She was one of the most important music teachers of the time. He returned to New York in 1924.
Known classical works
The famous conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, learned about Copland's music. Koussevitzky led the orchestra for the first performance of Copland's early work, "Music for the Theater", in 1925. Koussevitzky also conducted Copland's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" in 1927. This work was unusual because Copland used ideas from jazz music in his concerto.
Copland later wrote the music for two ballets about the American West. One was about the life of a famous gunfighter called Billy the Kid. Copland used music from American cowboy songs in this work. This piece from "Billy the Kid: Ballet Suite" is called "Street in a Frontier Town".
In 1942, the conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked Copland to write music about a great American, Abraham Lincoln. Copland wrote "Lincoln Portrait" to honor America's 16th president. Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War. He added words from President Lincoln's speeches and letters.
Martin Pasko
Martin Joseph "Marty" Pasko (born Jean-Claude Rochefort; August 4, 1954 – May 10, 2020) was a Canadian-born American comics writer, screenwriter and editor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked for DC Comics and wrote Superman stories. He also co-created the 1975 remake of Doctor Fate. He also wrote the screenplay for the animated Batman movie Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993).
Aaron Copland
Known classical works
"Lincoln Portrait" has been performed many times in America. Many famous people have done the speaking part.Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was one of them. Here, actor James Earl Jones performs in Copland's "Lincoln Portrait."
Martin Pasko
Pasko died on May 10, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 65.
Aaron Copland
Known classical works
In 1942 the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked 18 composers to write music expressing love for America. For the competition, Copland composed "Fanfare for the Common Man. " This music is played in America during many national events, including some presidential inaugurations (when they become presidents).
Experts say "Fanfare for the Common Man" was an example of the way Copland changed the kind of music he wrote during the 1940s. He began writing music that was more easily understood and more popular. Copland wrote about this in 1941 in his book, Our New Music.
He wrote that the radio and record player was helping people who had never listened to music before to enjoy music. He said that there was no reason to continue writing music as if these things had not been invented. So he decided to write music in a simpler way.
His interest and activities beyond music
Copland spread his ideas about music in other ways. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of the many awards he received was the Pulitzer Prize. He won it in 1945 for his famous music for a ballet called "Appalachian Spring." It is one of his most popular works. The last part of the ballet is based on a traditional song, "A Gift to be Simple".
Copland also wrote music for several major movies. He won an Academy Award in 1950 for composing the music for the movie The Heiress. Then he began experimenting with what is called the twelve-tone system. His music was no longer as easy to understand, nor as popular.
Copland was a strong supporter of liberal ideas. In the early 1950s, he and other famous writers, actors and intellectuals were accused of supporting communism. Public opinion changed, though. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is America's highest award to civilians. Aaron Copland died in 1990 at the age of 90. But his music lives on.
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Yummy (Justin Bieber song)
"Yummy" is a song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber. It was released on January 3, 2020, along with a lyric video through Def Jam Recordings as the lead single from his upcoming fifth studio album. The song is Bieber's first solo single to be released in three years. Upon its release, the song has received mostly mixed reception from critics: many praised its R&B production but most dismissed its lyrics. Its official music video was directed by Bardia Zeinali, which premiered on January 4, 2020.
Background and promotion
On December 23, 2019, Bieber teased the release by posting a picture of himself in front of a piano accompanied by two posts with the caption "tomorrow". On the following day, he announced the single through a trailer he uploaded to YouTube that shows him walking through an abandoned gas station. The trailer also serves as an announcement for his upcoming North American tour starting May 14, 2020, as well as a documentary covering "all different stories". About the upcoming music, Bieber stated that he feels like "this is different than the previous albums just because of where I'm at in my life".
Composition
"Yummy" is a "straightforward R&B number" that moves along on pop-trap beats. The song contains a "crisp bass line and plinking keyboards". Bieber sings the pre-chorus, while he hits his "signature falsetto" in the bridge. Bryan Rolli of Forbes magazine called the chorus "seductive", albeit "meaningless". The song is considered an ode to Bieber's wife Hailey Bieber.
Critical reception
"Yummy" received polarizing reviews from music critics, who complimented the "catchy" R&B production. They also criticized the "asinine" lyrical content.
Rania Aniftos of Billboard said "Yummy" brings back "the flirtatious Bieber we've missed and been waiting for", describing the chorus as "catchy". Bryan Rolli, a writer for Forbes, said that Bieber "sings his heart out" on the song and noted although "the lyrics may not invite scholarly analysis ... Bieber sure does sound good singing them". Rolli concluded calling the song a "win, an inevitable chart smash" and opined that it is "sure to sound even better when 50,000 fans scream it every night on his upcoming tour". Mikael Wood from the Los Angeles Times described the song as "a lithe little R&B number that faintly recalls Ginuwine's mid-'90s classic "Pony" and basically three-and-a-half minutes of PG-13 sex talk seemingly directed at Hailey Baldwin". He stated that "though it's very cute, 'Yummy' feels awfully lightweight for a single that has as much hanging on it as this one does" and added that the song "loses much of its flavor after only a few spins".
NME's Sam Moore complimented the song's R&B production, who dismissed the lyrics. He termed as "failed expectations". He opined that the song's producers opted for "minimalism with their choice of instrumentation, melding airy keys with pop-trap beats with an evident view of creating something as universal as the likes of 'Hotline Bling' and Childish Gambino's 'Feels Like Summer'". Moore further wrote that Bieber's layered vocals and harmonies are "able to glide along rather effortlessly—it's just a shame he doesn't have more to say with them" and that Bieber's embrace of R&B "isn't a complete turn-off". Pitchfork's Eric Torres criticized the song for being "shamelessly engineered for the truncated attention span of TikTok" and "a bloodless shell of an R&B song crippled by asinine lyrics and a tired, syncopated backdrop". He further wrote that the song "plateaus as soon as it starts, never inching past the toddler-like repetition of 'yummy-yum' in its chorus". Brad Callas from Complex listed "Yummy" among the best new music of the week and said Bieber's "pivot back to R&B is refreshing for those who were fans of his slept-on 2013 project, Journals". Callas further remarked that the "silky vocals" is at times reminiscent of Bieber's 2016 collaboration with Post Malone, "Deja Vu".
Music video
The music video for "Yummy" was directed by Bardia Zeinali, which premiered on January 4, 2020. In the video, it portrays Bieber with pink hair at a dinner party in a fancy restaurant, eating various colorful food items with the guests.
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Attalla, Alabama
Attalla is a city in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 5,827.
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah (سلێمانی Silêmanî; السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), also called Slemani,, is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.
The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha.
From its foundation Sulaymaniyah has been a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nalî, Mahwi, and Piramerd.
Laubressel
Laubressel is a commune of the Aube département in the north-central part of France.