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International Committee of the Red Cross
World War Two
After November 1943, the ICRC could send parcels to concentration camp detainees with known names and locations. Because the notices of receipt for these parcels were often signed by other inmates, the ICRC managed to register the identities of about 105,000 detainees in the concentration camps and delivered about 1.1 million parcels, mostly to the camps Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen.
On 12 March 1945, ICRC president Jacob Burckhardt was told by SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner that the ICRC's delegates could visit the concentration camps, but the delegates would have to stay in the camps until the end of the war. Ten delegates, among them Louis Haefliger (Camp Mauthausen), Paul Dunant (Camp Theresienstadt) and Victor Maurer (Camp Dachau), visited the camps.
Louis Haefliger told American troops about the forceful eviction or blasting of Mauthausen-Gusen and saved the lives of about 60,000 inmates. His actions were condemned by the ICRC because they were deemed as acting unduly on his own authority and risking the ICRC's neutrality. Only in 1990, his reputation was finally rehabilitated by ICRC president Cornelio Sommaruga.
Another example of great humanitarian spirit was Friedrich Born (1903-1963), an ICRC delegate in Budapest who saved the lives of about 11,000 to 15,000 Jewish people in Hungary. Marcel Junod (1904-1961), a doctor from Geneva, was another famous delegate during the Second World War. He was one of the first foreigners to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, and wrote his thoughts in his book Warrior without Weapons.
In 1944, the ICRC got its third Nobel Peace Prize.
After the Second World War
On 12 August 1949, the existing two Geneva Conventions were changed, and the Hague Convention about casualties at sea was brought into the Geneva Convention "family". It was renamed the Second Geneva Covention, and so the second convention of 1929 is now called the third convention. The Fourth Geneva Convention, about the "Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War," was established. On 8 June 1977 extra article "protocols" were added to make the conventions apply to internal conflicts such as civil wars.
In 1963, the ICRC shared its third Nobel Peace Prize with the League of Red Cross Societies.
Since 1993, non-Swiss citizens have been allowed to serve as Committee delegates abroad, a task which was previously restricted to Swiss citizens. Now about one third of staff are not Swiss citizens.
On 16 October 1990, the UN General Assembly gave the ICRC observer status for its assembly sessions and sub-committee meetings, the first observer status given to a private organization. The resolution was jointly proposed by 138 member states and introduced by the Italian ambassador, Vieri Traxler, in memory of the organization's origins in the Battle of Solferino.
An agreement with the Swiss government signed on 19 March 1993, affirmed the already long-standing policy of full independence of the Committee from any interference by Switzerland. The agreement protects the full sanctity of all ICRC property in Switzerland including its headquarters and archive, grants members and staff legal immunity, exempts the ICRC from all taxes and fees, guarantees the protected and duty-free transfer of goods, services, and money, provides the ICRC with secure communication privileges at the same level as foreign embassies, and simplifies Committee travel in and out of Switzerland.
The ICRC continued its activities throughout the 1990s. It broke its usual silence when it denounced the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and again in 1995 about the crimes that happened in and around Srebrenica when it said, "We must acknowledge that despite our efforts to help thousands of civilians forcibly expelled from the town and despite the dedication of our colleagues on the spot, the ICRC's impact on the unfolding of the tragedy was extremely limited." It went public once again in 2007 to decry "major human rights abuses" by Burma's military government including forced labor, starvation, and murder of men, women, and children.
Fatalities
At the end of the Cold War, the ICRC's work actually became more dangerous. In the 1990s, more delegates lost their lives than at any point in its history, especially when working in local and internal armed conflicts. These incidents often demonstrated a lack of respect for the rules of the Geneva Conventions and their protection symbols. Among the slain delegates were:
Symbols
The original motto of the International Committee of the Red Cross was Inter Arma Caritas ("Amidst War, Charity"). It has preserved this motto while other Red Cross organizations have adopted others. Because Geneva is in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the ICRC is also known under its French name Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR). However, the ICRC has six official languages, including Arabic. The official symbol of the ICRC is the Red Cross on white background (the inverse of the Swiss flag)with the words "COMITE INTERNATIONAL GENEVE" circling the cross.
The ICRC drew up seven fundamental principles in 1965 that were adopted by the entire Red Cross Movement. They are
Funding and financial matters
The 2005 budget of the ICRC was about 970 million Swiss francs. All payments to the ICRC are voluntary and are received as donations based on two types of appeals issued by the Committee: an annual Headquarters Appeal to cover its internal costs and Emergency Appeals for its individual missions.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
St. Tammany Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Tammany) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, in the New Orleans metropolitan area. The parish seat is Covington, and as of 2000, the population was 191,268. In 2004, the population was estimated to have grown to 212,000, and after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina the following year, the population was estimated by St. Tammany Planners to be about 264,000. Most new residents are thought to have come from St. Bernard Parish. If correct, these figures make St. Tammany Parish the fastest-growing parish in the state, overtaking Livingston and Ascension parishes.
International Committee of the Red Cross
Responsibilities within the Movement
The ICRC is responsible for legally recognizing a relief society as an official national Red Cross or Red Crescent society and thus accepting it into the Movement. The exact rules are in the statutes of the Movement. After recognition by the ICRC, a national society is admitted as a member to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The ICRC and the Federation cooperate with the individual national societies in their international missions, especially with human, material, and financial resources and organizing on-site logistics. According to the 1997 Seville Agreement, the ICRC is the lead Red Cross agency in conflicts while other organizations within the Movement take the lead in non-war situations. National societies will be given the lead especially when a conflict is happening within their own country.
Organization
The ICRC headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It has other offices, called Delegations, in about 80 countries. Each delegation is under the responsibility of a Head of delegation who is the official representative of the ICRC in the country. Of its 2,000 professional employees, roughly 800 work in its Geneva headquarters and 1,200 expatriates work in the field. About half of the field workers serve as delegates managing ICRC operations in the different countries while the other half are specialists like doctors, agronomists, engineers or interpreters. The international staff are assisted by some 13,000 national employees, so about 15,000 people work for the ICRC.
Directorate
The Directorate is the executive body of the Committee.It carries out the policies set by the assembly.
Assembly
The Assembly (also called the Committee) convenes on a regular basis and is responsible for defining aims, guidelines, and strategies and for supervising the financial matters of the Committee. The Assembly has a membership of a maximum of 25 Swiss citizens. Members must speak the house language of French, but many also speak English and German as well. These Assembly members are co-opted for a period of four years, and there is no limit to the number of terms an individual member can serve. A three-quarters majority vote from all members is required for re-election after the third term, which acts as a motivation for members to remain active and productive.
In the early years, every Committee member was Genevan, Protestant, white, and male. The first woman, Renée-Marguerite Cramer, was co-opted in 1918. Since then, several women have attained the Vice Presidency, and the female proportion after the Cold War has been about 15%. The first non-Genevans were admitted in 1923, and one Jew has served in the Assembly.
While the rest of the Red Cross Movement many be multi-national, the Committee believes that its mono-national nature is an asset because the nationality in question is Swiss. Thanks to permanent Swiss neutrality, conflicting parties can be sure that no one from "the enemy" will be setting policy in Geneva. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 showed that even National Red Cross Societies can be biased and not maintain neutral humanitarianism.
Assembly Council
Furthermore, the Assembly elects a five-member Assembly Council that constitutes an especially active core of the Assembly. The Council meets at least ten times per year and has the authority to decide on behalf of the full Assembly in some matters. The Council is also responsible for organizing the Assembly meetings and for helping communication between the Assembly and the Directorate. The Assembly Council normally includes the president, two vice presidents and two elected members. While one of the vice presidents is elected for a four-year term, the other is appointed permanently with his tenure ending by retirement from the vice presidency or from the Committee. Currently Jacques Forster and Olivier Vodoz are vice presidents. In April 2007, Christine Beerli was appointed to succeed Jacques Forster from the beginning of 2008.
The President
The Assembly also selects, for a term of four years, one individual to act as President of the ICRC. The president is both a member of the Assembly and leader of the ICRC, and he has always been included on the Council since its formation. The President automatically becomes a member of the assembly and the ICRC once he is appointed, but he does not necessarily come from within the ICRC organization. There is a strong faction within the Assembly that wants to reach outside the organization to select a president from the Swiss government or professional circles like the banking or medical fields. In fact, the last three presidents were previously officials in the Swiss government. The president's influence and role is not well-defined, and changes depending upon the times and each president's personal style. Since 2000, the president of the ICRC has been Jakob Kellenberger. Kellenberger does not make many public appearances or statements but is good at personal negotiation promoting the ICRC privately. In February 2007, he was appointed by the Assembly to another four-year term which will run until the end of 2011.
The presidents of the ICRC have been:
Antares Telescope
The ANTARES Experiment is a telescope that is built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. But it is not a normal telescope that uses light to see distant objects. Instead, it uses neutrinos, very small and light particles that can fly through the earth. The name comes from Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch project. There is also a star called Antares.
Functions
It uses 900 light sensors attached to 12 strings that float in the sea to detect neutrinos. The strings are held onto the sea floor by an anchor and straight up by a buoy floating in the sea. Although the neutrinos are invisible, they can create a different particle, a muon, in water. The muon then gives off light by the Cherenkov effect because it travels faster than light in water. The sensors are so sensitive that they need only very little light and can even detect single photons. This is necessary because the muons produce only very little light.
Location
The detector is located in the Mediterranean, about 40 kilometres off Toulon in southern France. There the sea is 2500 metres deep. It is built by a group of physicists from 12 European countries. Currently, 10 strings are running. The last two strings will be installed in May 2008.
Trivia
It is the largest neutrino detector in the Northern hemisphere. Two similar detectors are located in the ice of the South Pole (AMANDA and IceCube).
Back at the Barnyard
Plot
Following the events of the film, the series' plot generally revolves around Otis and his friends going on various misadventures and trying to keep their anthropomorphism a secret from humans.
Season 2: 2008-2010
In March 2008, Nick renewed Back at the Barnyard for a second season of 20 episodes and two holiday themed specials. The new season premiered on October 24, 2008, part of "Some Like It Snotty Week", which became the first 30-minute episode called, "Some Like it Snotty". A brand new Barnyard movie aired on November 29, 2008, which is the third day of the second "Super Stuffed Nicktoons Weekend". Four new episodes aired from January 20-23, 2009 part of "Battle of the Barnyard Week". Five more new episodes aired from February 23-27, 2009 part of "Animal Invasion" week, followed by five new episodes aired from May 18-22, 2009 part of an "Barnyard Bizarro Week". Another quintet new episodes aired June 29 - July 3, 2009 part of "Battle of the Barnyard 2 week".
Luol Deng
Luol Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a former South Sudanese-born British professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls (2004–2014), the Cleveland Cavaliers (2014), the Miami Heat (2014–2016), the Los Angeles Lakers (2016–2018) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (2018–2019). He became a British citizen in 2006, and played for the Great Britain national team. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
Deng was born in Wau, Sudan (now South Sudan). His father is politician Aldo Deng. His older brother, Ajou Deng, was also a basketball player.
Hook
Hook can mean:
Wilcox County, Alabama
Wilcox County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,600. The county seat is Camden.
History
Wilcox County was founded on December 13, 1819. The county was named after Joseph M. Wilcox, a U.S. Army lieutenant who was killed in Alabama during the Creek War.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 907 sqmi, of which 888 sqmi is land and 19 sqmi (2.1%) is water.
Francesco Bellissimo
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Ririe, Idaho
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Hayal Pass
Hayal Pass (el. 4600 m.) is a high mountain pass to the north of Shani Peak in Naltar Valley, Pakistan. The pass lies in the west of Naltar Pass.
Camden, Alabama
Camden is a city in Alabama in the United States. The city is the county seat of Wilcox County.
Questioning (sexuality and gender)
The questioning of one's status as a male, female or other (gender or gender identity), attraction to other people (sexual orientation) or both is often referred to in the LGBT community as just "questioning".
Wales West and North Television
Wales (West and North) Television seen by viewers as Teledu Cymru and often called WWN was ITV franchise for North and West Wales. It was the first ITV station to lose its franchise. The name Teledu Cymru that was seen on screens was Welsh for Television Wales. The station was awarded the franchise on the 6 June 1961. WWN started broadcasting on 14 September 1962 and ended on 26 January 1964. The station ended broadcasting due to financial failure.After the failure of WWN, the franchise region was merged with South Wales and the West, served by TWW (Television Wales and the West) but the name Teledu Cymru would be used in the former region. On 20 May 1968, the Teledu Cymru name was dropped, due to Harlech taking over the franchise.
Questioning (sexuality and gender)
Questioning these aspects is a process of exploring things about oneself, which may make people unsure and worried about applying a label to themselves for different reasons.
Gumal Pass
Gumal Pass or Gomal Pass (گومل) is a mountain pass on the border of Afghanistan and the southeastern portion of South Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It takes its name from the Gomal River. It is midway between Khyber Pass and Bolan Pass.
Nintendo Entertainment System (Model NES-101)
The NES-101 model is a model of the NES. It loads cartridges from the top, like the SNES.
Wales West and North Television
History
The geography of Wales was a problem for the Independent Television Authority (ITA). The more inhabited South was already served by Television Wales and the West, which started in 1958, while the north east and a lot of the north coast was served by Granada and ABC, started in 1956. The central regions of north wales couldn't obtain ITV programmes.
Questioning (sexuality and gender)
According to the American Psychological Association: "Adolescence can be a period of experimentation, and many youths may question their sexual feelings. Becoming aware of sexual feelings is a normal developmental task of adolescence. Sometimes adolescents have same-sex feelings or experiences that cause confusion about their sexual orientation. This confusion appears to decline over time, with different outcomes for different individuals."
Wales West and North Television
History
The ITA was pressured by a group of Welsh-speaking businessmen to setup a North and West Wales region. The ITA asked the Postmaster General to allow it, which he did with conditions.
Questioning (sexuality and gender)
Some young people avoid "coming out of the closet" (telling others their sexual orientation) because of homophobic negative beliefs by other people. For some young people, admitting their sexual or gender identity can bring an end to this confusion. Those who receive support can often live happy and healthy lives. However, those who do not are more likely to have to deal with bullying, experiencing suicidal thoughts, and are more likely to engage in risky activities such as having unprotected sex (not using a condom), misuse drugs and become alcoholic. Questioning young people are at higher risk of these than their open LGBT peers.
An issue of anxiety or depression related to a doubt about one's gender identity or sexual orientation has been classified as sexual maturation disorder by the WHO in the ICD-10, under "Mental and behavioural sicknesses/problems connected with sexual development and orientation". Sexual orientation, by itself, is not an illness and is not classified under this heading.
Wales West and North Television
History
The conditions were: These conditions were accepted by the ITA. On 6 June 1961, the contract was given to Wales Television Limited. The name was changed to Wales (West and North) Television Limited following opposition from TWW.
The station was to use three VHF transmitters, Preseli (for the south west), Arfon (for the north west) and Moel-y-Parc (for the north east). The Preseli station was finished in 14 September 1962. WWN launched the same day as the Preseli transmitter, becoming the last original ITV station to start broadcasting. The Arfon and Moel-y-parc transmitters were delayed until later 1963, causing damage to workers morale and WWN's profits. The free programming from the ITV network, plus support from their neighbours, ABC, ATV and TWW were able to barely keep the station up and running. The fatal problem was when Granada Television stopped production of all Welsh programming, stopping an important stream of money to WWN. In May 1963, WWN stopped production of local programming and turned their studio into a master control station until they could find a successor to WWN.
Glitch art
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Early glitches used in media art (for example, Digital TV Dinner released in 1978). This video was adopted by contemporary "glitch artists".
Nintendo GameCube Broadband Adapter and Modem Adapter
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Beaumetz-lès-Loges
Beaumetz-lès-Loges is a commune. It is in Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in south France.
Hispar Pass
Hispar Pass (or Hispar La) (el. 5,128 m./16,824 ft.) is a high-altitude, non-technical mountain pass in the Karakoram Range in Pakistan.
At the pass, the Biafo Glacier (63 km. long) and Hispar Glacier (49 km long) meet to form the world's longest glacial traverse outside of the polar regions, 100 kilometers in length.
Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan (born 5 December 1985) is an Indian international cricketer who is known for his explosive batting style. He is a left-handed opening batsman and occasional right-arm off-break bowler. Dhawan is considered one of the most accomplished batsmen in the Indian cricket team and has achieved numerous records and accolades throughout his career. He plays for Punjab Kings team in Indian premier league.
Panthoibi (disambiguation)
Panthoibi may refer to:
Ajit Pai
Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American attorney. He served as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He is the first Indian American to hold the office.
Early life
Pai was born in Buffalo, New York. He was raised in Parsons, Kansas. Pai studied at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago.
Early political career
He has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.
Chairman of the FCC
In January 2017, President Donald Trump named Pai as Chairman of the agency.
In March 2017, Trump announced that he would renominate Pai to serve another five-year term at the FCC, which will require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Before his appointment to the FCC, Pai held positions with the Department of Justice, the United States Senate, the FCC's Office of General Counsel, and Verizon Communications.
Pai was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for an extra five-year term as FCC Chairman on October 2, 2017.
He became well known in 2017 in his criticism and attempt to end the Obama-era policy net neutrality. It received wide criticism.
On November 30, 2020, Pai announced his plans to leave the FCC. He resigned from his post as FCC Chairman on January 20, the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States.
Personal life
Pai lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Janine Van Lancker, daughter Annabelle Malathi Pai, and son Alexander Madhav Pai.
Roberts, Idaho
Roberts is a city in Idaho in the United States.
Nanjing University
Nanjing University is one of the oldest universities in China. It is in Nanjing. It started in 258 CE. In 1902, it became a new-type school when the Qing Dynasty ended. Nanjing University has two campuses. They are the Gulou campus, which is in the center of Nanjing City; and Xianlin, in the northeast of Nanjing.
Ivan Hudec
Ivan Hudec (10 July 1947 – 7 February 2022) was a Slovak writer and politician. He was a member of the People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. He was Minister of Culture from 1994 to 1998. Hudec was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia.
Hudec died in Bratislava, Slovakia on 7 February 2022, at the age of 74.
The Kremlin Letter
The Kremlin Letter is a 1970 American spy thriller movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Noel Behn. It stars Patrick O'Neal, Richard Boone, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Barbara Perkins, George Sanders, Nigel Green, Orson Welles, Dean Jagger and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
NES Four Score
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The World's End (movie)
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It is the third in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, following Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). It was released on 19 July 2013 in the United Kingdom and on 23 August 2013 in the United States. It received positive reviews.
Kashubian Americans
Kashubian Americans are Americans of Kashubian descent. The two earliest Kashubian American settlements in the United States were located around Winona, Minnesota, and Portage County, Wisconsin, which are across the Mississippi River from each other.
Henri Cohen
Henri Cohen (born ? - died 1930) was a Belgian water polo player. He was of Jewish descent.
Cohen was swimming for the Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club.
He obtained a silver medal with his team at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Karakar Pass
Karakar Pass (el. 1336 m./4384 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan.
From the top of the pass, one can view Buner Valley. It was at this pass that the Emperor Akbar lost most of his 8000-man army in an abortive attempt to invade Swat in 1586.
The 45 km-long road from Pir Baba (RA) to Barikot passes through Mount Ilam rising through mature pine forests to Karakar pass.
Northeast Region, Brazil
The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five geographical regions of Brazil defined by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 1969. It is the third largest region, corresponding to 18% of the national territory, and the second in population.
Geography
The Northeast Region has an area of 1554291.31 km2. It is the region of the country with the longest coastline.
Pakhangba (disambiguation)
Pakhangba may refer to:
Northeast Region, Brazil
Geography
The climate in the region is very hot all the year long; tropical near the coast and semi-arid in the interior; semi-equatorial in the far west of the region. The vegetation mainly desert-like, with tropical forests along the coast and in the west and savanna-like vegetation, known as the Cerrado. in the southwest.
Winston County, Alabama
Winston County was founded under the name Hancock County on February 12, 1850.
Northeast Region, Brazil
Geography
The Northeast Region is between 01° 02' 30" of latitude north and 18° 20' 07" of latitude south and between 34° 47' 30" and 48° 45' 24" of longitude west. It borders to the north and east with the Atlantic Ocean; to the south with the Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo states; and to west with the Pará, Tocantins and Goiás states.
The main rivers in the region are the São Francisco and the Parnaíba rivers; they have many tributaries.
Mountains
The highest point in the Northeast Region is Pico do Barbado (-13.29639°N, -41.90778°W) at 2033 m. Pico do Barbado is the highest summit of the larger Serra do Barbado, in the Chapada Diamantina, in Bahia.
The highest point of the different states of the North Region are:
States
This region is formed of nine states: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.
Population
, the Northeast region had a population of 56,915,936, for a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The most important municipalities of the North Region are:
Kilinochchi District
Kilinochchi District (கிளிநொச்சி மாவட்டம் Kiḷinocci Māvaṭṭam; කිලිනොච්චි දිස්ත්‍රික්කය) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka. These districts are the second level of administrative divisions in the country; the first level are the provinces. Kilinochchi District is part of the Northern Province. The capital of the district is the town of Kilinochchi.
Geography
Kilinochchi District is in the north of Sri Lanka in the Northern Province. It has an area of 1279 km2.
Administrative units
Kilinochchi District is divided into 4 Divisional Secretary's Division (DS Divisions), each headed by a Divisional Secretary (previously known as an Assistant Government Agent). The DS Divisions are further sub-divided into 95 Grama Niladhari Divisions (GN Divisions).
Sir Mix-A-Lot
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Frances McDormand
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Sir Mix-A-Lot
His style of music is called "hip-hop." He was born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for his hit song "Baby Got Back". That song has catchy phrases and cheap humor, and it talks about liking women with big buttocks. This made it popular in the United States during the 1990s.
Icarus (2010 movie)
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Mauritius
The Republic of Mauritius is an island nation in the Mascarene Islands. It includes Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon as well as Mauritius. It was formerly ruled by the European countries: France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, but is now independent from these all European Colonies.
Location
The island is in the southwest Indian Ocean. It is about east of Madagascar. The country includes the island of Mauritius as well as the islands of St. Brandon, Rodrigues and the Agalega Islands. Mauritius is part of the Mascarene Islands along with the French island of Réunion to the southwest.
2021 Taliban offensive
A current military offensive by the Taliban and allied military groups, including al-Qaeda, against Afghanistan and its allies began on 1 May 2021. It happened around the same time as the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Mauritius
Flag
The Mauritian flag is made up of four colours of equal width. The colours represent the following:
2021 Taliban offensive
The offensive is known for the quick territorial gains of the Taliban, as well as its domestic and international problems.
Mauritius
History
Mauritius, an island of volcanic origin sheltered by barriers of coral reefs forming natural, safe, crystal clear lagoons, has long been a dream destination. Known to the Arabs as early as the 10th century, but officially explored by the Portuguese in the 16th century and subsequently settled by the Dutch in the 17th century. The Dutch were the ones who named the island in honor of Prince Maurits van NASSAU. Mauritius was occupied successively by the Dutch (1598-1712) and later by the French (1715-1810). The French assumed control in 1715, developing the island into an important naval base overseeing the Indian Ocean trade, and establishing a plantation economy of sugar cane. The British captured the island in 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars through the Treaty of Paris. Mauritius remained a strategically important British naval base, and later on, an air station playing an important role during World War II for anti-submarine and convoy operations, as well as the collection of signals intelligence. On 12 March 1968, Mauritius became Independent.
2010–11 Austrian Cup
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2021 Taliban offensive
By 15 July, over a third of Afghanistan's 421 districts were controlled by the Taliban, and by 21 July, half of Afghanistan was under Taliban control.
Logan County, Kansas
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2021 Taliban offensive
On 22 July, the British Foreign Office's reports said that the Afghan military could fall apart and the Taliban could soon return to power in Kabul as a result of of NATO soldiers' withdrawal. The Foreign Office's report said that the British embassy in Kabul might need to close. The British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, believed that Kabul would be safe for the whole of 2021.
Logan County, Kansas
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Dick York
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Beaurains
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"Sensitive to a Smile" is a 1987 song by New Zealand reggae band Herbs and is the title track to their 1987 album Sensitive to a Smile. It went to number 9 in New Zealand and was filmed in Ruatoria.
2021 Taliban offensive
On 10 August, U.S. officials said that the Afghan capital, Kabul, could fall to the Taliban within 30 to 90 days. On 15 August, the Associated Press reported that the Taliban had reached and captured Kabul. This caused the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's government to fall. The Taliban said that they were awaiting a "transfer" of power. On 15 August, following the near seizure of the capital, the Taliban occupied the Presidential Palace after the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
Logan County, Kansas
19th century
In 1887, Logan County was created.
Logan County was first created in 1871 as St. John County. St. John was created from the area to the east of range 38 in what was then part of Wallace County. The Kansas State Legislature changed the name from St. John to Logan in 1885.
Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 1073 sqmi. Of that, 1073 sqmi is land and 0.1 sqmi (0.01%) is water.
Presidential elections
Logan County is very Republican. Only two Democrats have ever won the county in a Presidential election: Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
Rockland, Idaho
Rockland is a city in Idaho in the United States.
Kassel
Kassel is a city in Germany, in the state of Hessen.
2010–11 Austrian Cup
Final
coach:Paul Gludovatz;Thomas Gebauer – Martin Stocklasa, Oliver Glasner, Jan-Marc Riegler (63. Mark Prettenthaler) – Ewald Brenner, Florian Mader, Thomas Schrammel – Stefan Lexa, Iván Carril Regueiro (81. Anel Hadžić), Daniel Royer – Markus Hammerer (89. Ignacio Rodríguez Ortiz) coach:Edmund Stöhr;Alexander Kofler – Benedikt Zech, Christoph Stückler, Jürgen Kampel, Danilo Teodoro Soares – Harald Dürr, Mario Leitgeb (71. Dominik Rotter) – Danijel Micic, Felix Roth – Sascha Boller (88. Manuel Honeck) – Dursun Karatay (70. Gerald Krajic)
Sanamahi (disambiguation)
Sanamahi may refer to:
Kassel
It has about 195,000 inhabitants and a university.
Darsham
Darsham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk Coastal, Suffolk, England. In 2001 there were 291 people living in Darsham. Darsham is half way between Ipswich and Lowestoft. Darsham has a church called All Saints.
Kassel
Every 5 years there is an international arts exhibition documenta in Kassel. The best football team KSV Hessen Kassel plays in the Regionalliga, the fourth Division in Germany.
Unmukt Chand
Unmukt Chand (born 26 March 1993) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-hand batsman who usually opens the batting. Chand took his India Under-19 cricket team team to the U-19 Cricket World Cup victory in 2012. He scored an 111 not out in the final against Australia in Townsville, and got the praise of Australian great batsman Ian Chappell.
Australian burrowing scorpion
The Australian burrowing scorpions are in the genus Urodacus, which are also known as the Australian burrowers. Species from this genus often include the Black rock scorpion, Desert scorpion, Rainforest scorpion, and many other species.
The desert scorpion is the world's burrower species in Australia.
Benoîte Groult
Benoîte Groult (January 31, 1920, in Paris – June 20, 2016 in Hyères) was a French journalist, writer and feminist activist.
Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb is an American physician. Gottlieb was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019.
Benoîte Groult
Her novel Les vaisseaux du cœur, published in 1988, was called pornographic by some because of its explicit sexual depictions. It was filmed by Andrew Birkin in 1992 as Salt on Our Skin.
In April 2010, she became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.
Scott Gottlieb
Gottlieb was a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine, a resident fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, and an internist at Tisch Hospital.
Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest is a science fiction-adventure media franchise.
Khojak Pass
Khojak Pass (el. 7,513 ft) connects Qila Abdullah with Chaman in the province of Baluchistan, Pakistan.
khojak pass is between Quetta and Chaman. 22 kilometer before Chaman. Khojak tunnel 5.2 kilometer long (3.2 miles). Small forts to defend pass on each hill top. Picture of khojak tunnel is on old five rupees note.
Sorbian Americans
Sorbian Americans or Wendish Americans are Americans of Sorb/Wend descent. The largest community of Sorbs in the United States is in Texas, with a population of around 588 Sorbs/Wends.
Zdzisław Jan Ryn
Zdzisław Jan Ryn (21 October 1938 – 6 February 2022) was a Polish politician. He was the Ambassador to Chile from 1991 to 1997. He was also the Ambassador to Argentina from 2007 to 2008. Ryn was born in Szczyrk, Poland.
Ryn died in Kraków, Poland on 6 February 2022, at the age of 83.
Boris Deich
Borys Davidovich Deich (Бори́с Дави́дович Дейч; 28 August 1938 – 7 February 2022) was a Romanian-born Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the Party of Regions. He was in the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 until 2014. Deich was born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania. He supported Russia's actions towards Crimea in Ukraine.
Deich died on 7 February 2022 in Moscow, Russia from COVID-19, aged 83.
List of prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
This article is a list of prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Kohat Pass
Kohat Pass is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, connecting Kohat with Peshawar, crossing the Khigana Mountains.
As the road to the pass is steep and too narrow for large vehicles, the Kohat Tunnel was constructed and opened in June, 2003.
African bush elephant
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant. The bull males can weigh 13000 pounds and stand 13 feet tall at the shoulder.
The population of bush elephants has drastically declined in the last thirty years. It is hunted for its ivory and meat. Protection by game wardens has been only partly successful.
This large elephant is well adapted to the grassland plains of East Africa, and it is sometimes called the African savannah elephant.
The African bush elephant occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Angola.
It moves between a variety of habitats. These include subtropical and temperate forests, dry and seasonally flooded grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land from sea level to mountain slopes. In Mali and Namibia, it also lives at times in desert areas.
Artie Kane
Artie Kane (born Aaron Cohen; April 14, 1929 – June 21, 2022) was an American pianist, movie score composer, and conductor. In 1976, he was nominated for a Grammy Award. During his career, he conducted on over 60 movie scores for MGM, Disney, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers, Sony, and Paramount. His career lasted from 1944 until 2004.
Kane died on June 21, 2022 at his home in Whidbey Island, Washington at the age of 93.
Ooid
An ooid is a small rounded sedimentary rock. Like sand grains, ooids have a diameter of 2 mm or less. Larger grains formed the same way as ooids are called pisoids. Rock made of ooids is oolite.
Bonnot Gang
The Bonnot Gang was a group of French anarchists known for robbing banks. They were credited with being the first to use the getaway car. They also used repeating rifles, which not even the police had. Their crimes were violent—murder, bank robbery and auto theft. They were known for their belief in illegalism, a school of anarchism that promotes crime. The reasoning was the state had no legitimate authority so they could break any laws they wished. The gang was named after its leader, Jules Bonnot. They were very famous at the time (1911-1912) and have been made into legends through books, television, movies, etc. throughout France and other countries.
1986–87 Austrian Cup
The 1986-87 Austrian Cup was the national cup competition  in Austrian football. FK Austria Wien were the defending champions.
Second round
First round with teams from the first and second league.
Final first leg
Michael Konsel – Leo Lainer, Kurt Garger, Heribert Weber, Robert Pecl, Reinhard Kienast (62. Rudolf Weinhofer), Petar Brucic, Peter Hrstic (60. Karl Brauneder), Gerald Willfurth, Zlatko Kranjčar, Sulejman Halilović coach: Otto Barić
Tomislav Ivković – Gerald Messlender, Michael Streiter, Rudolf Steinbauer, Heinz Peischl, Manfred Linzmaier, Arnold Koreimann, Robert Idl (80. Alfred Hörtnagl), Alfred Roscher, Peter Pacult coach:Felix Latzke
Final second leg
Tomislav Ivković – Gerald Messlender, Ivica Kalinić, Robert Auer (55. Alfred Hörtnagl), Michael Streiter, Heinz Peischl, Manfred Linzmaier, Arnold Koreimann, Rudolf Steinbauer, Alfred Roscher, Peter Pacult coach:Felix Latzke Michael Konsel – Leo Lainer, Kurt Garger, Heribert Weber, Karl Brauneder, Robert Pecl, Reinhard Kienast, Petar Brucic (88. Peter Hrstic), Gerald Willfurth, Zlatko Kranjčar (81. Rudolf Weinhofer), Sulejman Halilović coach: Otto Barić
Rupert, Idaho
Rupert is a city in Idaho in the United States.
Geography
Rupert has a total area of 2 square miles.
Beaurainville
Beaurainville is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Pedro Troglio
Pedro Troglio (born 28 July 1965) is a former Argentine football player. He has played for Argentina national team.
Club career statistics
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Alexander Jefferson
Alexander Jefferson (November 15, 1921 – June 22, 2022) was an American Air Force officer. He was known as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the 332nd Fighter Group. He was in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Jefferson died on June 22, 2022 in Detroit at the age of 100.
Barbro Lindgren
Barbro Lindgren (born 18 March 1937) is a Swedish children's books writer. In 2004, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2004, she was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Oscar Filho
Oscar Francisco de Moraes Junior, better known by his stage name Oscar Filho (born august 22, 1978 in Atibaia, Brazil) is a Brazilian comedian, TV presenter, reporter, actor, writer and businessperson.
Rich Olive
Richard Warren Olive (December 2, 1949 – June 20, 2016) was an American realtor and politician from Iowa. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served the Fifth District in the Iowa Senate from 2007 until 2011.
On June 20, 2016, Olive died of cancer in Story City, Iowa at the age of 66.
Shoucheng Zhang
Shoucheng Zhang (February 15, 1963 – December 1, 2018) was a Chinese-born American physicist. He was born in Shanghai. He was the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics at Stanford University. He was a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high temperature superconductivity.
From 2015 until his death in 2018, Zhang was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Zhang, who suffered from depression, was found dead at his Stanford, California home on December 1, 2018, aged 55.
Valeria Kudryavtseva
Valeria Lvovna Kudryavtseva (born on 19 May 1961) is a Russian television presenter, actress, singer and dancer.
Personal life
Valeria was married to musician Sergei Linyuk since 1990 until 1992. They has one child, son Zhan Linyuk (b.1990).
She was married to Matvei Morozov since 2004 until 2007.
She in relationship with musician Sergei Lazarev since 2008. She was pregnant from Sergei, but she had a miscarriage in July 2011.
First Horizon Park
First Horizon Park is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It is the home stadium of the Nashville Sounds, who are a Minor League Baseball team. It opened on April 17, 2015, and has room for up to 10,000 people. It was named First Tennessee Park from 2015 to 2019. Before playing there, the Sounds played at a stadium called Herschel Greer Stadium from 1978 to 2014.
The ballpark was built for the the Nashville Sounds, but other sports teams have also played at the stadium. Nashville SC, a soccer team of the USL Championship, played its games there from 2018 to 2019.