cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Export–Import Bank of the United States
Operating as a wholly owned federal government corporation, the Bank "assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services". Under its charter, the Bank does not compete with private sector lenders, but rather provides financing for transactions that would otherwise not occur because commercial lenders are either unable or unwilling to accept the political or commercial risks inherent in the deal.
Its acting chairman and president is Charles J. Hall, awaiting the nomination and confirmation of a replacement for former chairman and president Fred Hochberg.
Natural England
Natural England is a quango, a public body funded by government. It is responsible for protecting and preserving England's natural environment. This includes the land, flora and fauna, freshwater and marine environments, geology and soils. It also has a responsibility to help people enjoy, understand and access the natural environment.
Tommy Peoples
Tommy Peoples (1948 – 4 August 2018) was an Irish fiddler. He played in the Donegal fiddle tradition. Peoples was born near St. Johnston, County Donegal, in Ireland. In July 2015, he launched a self-published book Ó Am go hAm - From Time to Time. He was member of well-known traditional Irish music groups, including 1691 and The Bothy Band.
Peoples died on 4 August 2018, aged 70.
Stockfish
Stockfish is the product of drying fish. In many northern countries, fish is dried to make it last longer without going bad. The dried fish, is put on woooden racks, It is exposed to air and wind. No salt is used. The wooden racks are called "hjell" in Norway. They are located on the foreshore.
The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method. Dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; the work can be done by the fisherman and family. The resulting product is easily taken to a market to be sold.
Kisamor
She was born in Örebro. Her father was a doctor in natural medicine, and she wanted to become one too. But her father wouldn't let her. Instead, her forced her to marry a farmer. The marriage became unhappy, and she divorced her husband.
She became famous, and people came to her from all over the country to ask her for help. In 1825, she was given special permission to work as a doctor, even though it was forbidden for a woman to work as a doctor.
Chevrolet Equinox
Chevrolet Equinox is a mid-sized crossover CUV sold by Chevrolet. It was introduced for the 2005 model year. It is General Motors' third unibody crossover SUV. The first two were the Pontiac Aztek and Buick Rendezvous. The Equinox is built on an extended version of GM's Theta platform, it is the second vehicle to use this platform the Vue was the first. The Equinox replaces the S10 Blazer and Tracker. From 2005-2009 a rebadged model was sold under Pontiac as the Pontiac Torrent. The Torrent replaced the Aztek. The Equinox was redesigned in 2010 giving it a more contemporary look. Chevrolet announced that in 2016 the Equinox would be redesigned as a compact crossover, this will allow the automaker to introduce a new midsize crossover with third row seating. This decision was made because of competition from other automakers who offer midsize CUVs with a third row.
Ajri language
Ajri is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken in Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It belongs to the Lahnda group and is near the Seraiki and Hindko languages.
Adventureland (movie)
Adventureland is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama movie. It is set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in summer 1987. It was produced by Sidney Kimmel, Anne Carey and Ted Hope. It was written and directed by Greg Mottola. Adventureland was released on April 3, 2009 in North America. The movie received positive reviews with a 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 76 out of 100 from Metacritic.
Ayette
Ayette is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Tilburg
Tilburg is a city in the south of the Netherlands. About 222,000 people live there (2021).
Tilburg University is in Tilburg.
Gertrude Kerbis
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis (1926 – June 14, 2016) was an American architect. She worked for and studied under some of the most significant modernists of her day, including Carl Koch, Walter Gropius and Mies Van Der Rohe. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Prince Narula
Prince Narula (born November 24, 1990) is an Indian television personality, actor, and model. He is best known for his appearances on various reality shows, including winning three consecutive seasons of reality TV shows. Narula has gained immense popularity for his charismatic personality and competitive spirit.
Gertrude Kerbis
She played a leading role in designing several major milestones in the development of American modernism. Her projects including the Lustron house, the US Air Force Academy, and the O'Hare International Airport rotunda. She was one of the most famous female architects in the country. She founded the Chicago Women in Architecture in 1973.
Kerbis died on June 14, 2016 in Chicago from liver cancer, aged 89.
John Stocker (voice actor)
John Stocker (born August 13, 1947) is a Canadian voice actor. His career began in the 1970s.
Muslim conquests
The first Muslim conquests (632–732), (فتح, Fatah, literally opening,) also referred to as the Islamic conquests or Arab conquests, began after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He established a new unified political polity in the Arabian peninsula which under the following Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion of Arab power well beyond the Arabian peninsula in the form of a vast Muslim Arab Empire with an area of influence that stretched from northwest India, across Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, southern Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula, to the Pyrenees. The Arab conquests culminated in Islamic rule being established across three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe). According to Scottish historian James Buchan: "In speed and extent, the first Arab conquests were matched only by those of Alexander the Great, and they were more lasting." The Arab conquests brought about the collapse of the Sassanid Empire and a great territorial loss for the Byzantine Empire. Though spectacular, the Arab successes are not hard to understand in hindsight. The Sassanid Persian and Byzantine empires were militarily exhausted from decades of fighting one another. This prevented them from dealing effectively with the mobile Arab raiders operating from the desert. Moreover, many of the peoples living under the rule of these empires, for example Jews and Christians in Persia and Monophysites in Syria, were disloyal and sometimes even welcomed the Arab invaders, largely because of religious conflict in both empires.
History
Some of the individual conquests are mentioned here:
Yoka Berretty
Berretty died in Amsterdam after having fallen down the stairs of her home a week earlier.
Muslim conquests
Byzantine-Arab Wars: 634-750
The Byzantine-Arab Wars were between the Byzantine Empire and at first the Rashidun and then the Umayyad caliphates.
Under the Rashidun there were the conquests of Syria (637), Armenia (639), Egypt (639) and North Africa (652). Under the Umayyads the continuing conquest of North Africa (665), the second Arab siege of Constantinople (717-718) and the conquest of Tbilisi (736). In 827 there followed the conquest of southern Italy (827).
Conquests in Asia: 633 - 712
The last ruler of the Sassanid Empire in Persia was defeated by the Rashidun in 633 and 636, but the final military victory didn't come until 642 when the Persian army was destroyed.
During the seventh century the Umayyad fought successfully against the early Rajput in north India and in Central Asia.
In 711, a Muslim expedition defeated Raja Dahir at what is now Hyderabad in Sindh and established Umayyad rule by 712. The Umayyad brought under control the whole of what is modern Pakistan, from Karachi to Kashmir and reached the borders of Kashmir within three years. But rather soon afterwards semi-independent Arab ruled states developed.
Conquest of Hispania: 711-718
The conquest of the Iberian Peninsula began when the Moors (mostly Berbers with some Arabs) invaded Visigothic Christian Iberia (modern Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Andorra) in the year 711. They landed at Gibraltar on April 30 and worked their way northward. This territory, under the Arab name Al-Andalus, became first an Emirate and then an independent Umayyad Caliphate after the overthrowing of the dynasty in Damascus by the Abbasids. In 1031 the Christian kingdoms started the Reconquest up to 1492, when Granada, the last kingdom of Al-Ándalus fell under the Spanish Kings.
Further conquests: 1200-1800
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahelian kingdom expanded Muslim territories far from the coast. Muslim traders spread Islam.
The modern era saw the rise of three powerful Muslim empires: the Ottoman Empire of the Middle East and Europe, the Safavid Empire of Persia and Central Asia, and the Mughal Empire of India; along with their contest and fall to the rise of the colonial powers of Europe.
Decline and collapse: 1800-1924
The Mughal Empire declined in 1707 after the death of Aurangzeb and was officially abolished by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Penny Marshall
Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, producer and director. She starred as Laverne in the sitcom Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1983. Marshall directed many movies, including Awakenings, A League of Their Own, and Big.
From 1971 to 1981, she was married to actor and director Rob Reiner. Her brother was director Garry Marshall. She was born in The Bronx, New York City.
Marshall died on December 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California from heart failure complicated from diabetes and heart disease, aged 75.
Vogorno
Vogorno was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village can be found above Lago di Vogorno. There is an old church with frescos from about 1400 in the village.
On 17 October 2020, the former municipalities of Brione (Verzasca), Corippo, Frasco, Sonogno and Vogorno merged to form the new municipality of Verzasca.
Othello syndrome
The Othello syndrome is a pscholgogical condition, where a person thinks that their partner is unfaithful, but without having any proof for this behaviour. It is also known as pathological jealousy, morbid jelousy or delusional jealousy. The person will also behave in ways that are socially unacceptable or abnormal, but which are related to these thoughts. The most common form is characterized by delusions and obsessions. It is considered a subtype of delusional disorder.
As people are obsessed by the idea that their partner is unfaithful, they want to investigate and maintain their parner's fidelity, even if this causes big problems for themselves, and their partner.
Definition
This disorder occurs when a person accuses their partner of being unfaithfuil, even if there is little or no evidence for this. Very often people will use seemingly normal or everyday events or material to show this.
The name "Othello Syndrome" comes from the character in Shakespeare's play Othello, who murders his wife as a result of a false belief that she has been unfaithful. Recently, some psychologists and psychiatrists have asserted that Othello was deceived rather than deluded about Desdemona's alleged infidelity and thus did not have ‘the Othello Syndrome’.
Triggers
For men the strongest trigger is sexual infidelity and with women the strongest trigger is emotional infidelity. If partner-related violence does not stop infidelity from happening, the male mate will sometimes commit suicide instead. The last thing to do to stop infidelity inside of morbid jealousy is to kill their partner. Women are much less likely to do this, unless they act in self-defense. Morbid jealousy can occur together with other conditions such as chronic alcoholism, addiction to other drugs (i.e. cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana.), organic brain disorders (i.e. Parkinson's, Huntington's), schizophrenia, neurosis, affective disturbances or personality disorders.
Harm to self
People with this condition often think about killing themselves. This is also because Othello syndrome is often associated with depression and drug addiction.
Koyashskoye Salt Lake
Koyashskoye or Koyashs'ke is a salt lake on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea Ukraine. It is separated from the Black Sea by a strip of land. It is 4 by and 1 m deep. The water color varies from pink to the scarlet, depending on the light, because there are microscopic algae living in the water. When the water evaporates, it leaves a deposit of salt on the stones and the shores. The salt becomes crystal, producing crystal stones and the scent of viola.
This lake is considered healing and is appreciated by some local people. It is not widely known to tourists.
Lovisa Aarberg
Lovisa Aarberg (from 1803 -1866) was a Swedish surgeon and doctor.
Humacao, Puerto Rico
Humacao is a municipality in Puerto Rico.
Lovisa Aarberg
She and Kisamor were the first female doctors in Sweden. She was a doctor and a surgeon long before it was permitted for women. In Sweden, her name is spelled as Lovisa Årberg, and she was often called Jungfru Årberg, which means "Maiden Årberg" in English.
Personal life
Lovisa Årberg was born in Uppsala. Her mother often nursed sick people, and when Lovisa was a child, she followed her mother to the hospitals. She learned a lot about sickness and medicine and how to cure and nurse sick people, and often helped people she knew when they were sick.
Career
She opened her clinic and started to work as a doctor in the 1820s. In the 1820s, it was forbidden for a woman to work as a doctor. The male doctors did not like that a woman worked as a doctor, and the government was worried that she might hurt her patients as she had never learned medicine at a university. But when they examined her, they found out that she was a very good doctor, and that she had all the knowledge that the male doctors had.
So instead, they gave her a medal and special permission to work as a surgeon and a doctor. She continued to work as a doctor for forty years, until the 1860s. She gave treatment to poor people, even when they did not have the money to pay her. She was a popular doctor, and many people asked her for help. She worked very hard until she became unhealthy, so she often had to take time to rest.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist. He became famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career as a school teacher. In 1877, he became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam. Van der Waals won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
Azincourt
Azincourt is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Things named after Van der Waals
His name is primarily associated with the Van der Waals equation of state that describes the behavior of gases and their condensation to the liquid phase. His name is also associated with Van der Waals forces (forces between stable molecules), with Van der Waals molecules (small molecular clusters bound by Van der Waals forces), and with Van der Waals radii (sizes of molecules). As James Clerk Maxwell said, "there can be no doubt that the name of Van der Waals will soon be among the foremost in molecular science."
Lago di Vogorno
Lago di Vogorno is a lake near Tenero, in Ticino, Switzerland. The reservoir on the Verzasca river is made by the Verzasca Dam, built 1961-1965. The water surface area is 1.68 km2
Jane Bown
Jane Hope Bown CBE (13 March 1925 – 21 December 2014) was an English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949. Her portraits have been very popular to many critics. Bown was born in Eastnor, Herefordshire.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1873 thesis
In his 1873 thesis, Van der Waals noted that real gases were not ideal: He thought this was because there are intermolecular interactions. He introduced the first equation of state derived by the assumption of a finite volume occupied by the constituent molecules. Spearheaded by Ernst Mach and Wilhelm Ostwald, a strong philosophical current that denied the existence of molecules arose towards the end of the 19th century. The molecular existence was considered unproven and the molecular hypothesis unnecessary. At the time Van der Waals's thesis was written (1873), the molecular structure of fluids had not been accepted by most physicists, and liquid and vapor were often considered as chemically distinct. But Van der Waals's work affirmed the reality of molecules and allowed an assessment of their size and attractive strength. His new formula revolutionized the study of equations of state. By comparing his equation of state with experimental data, Van der Waals was able to obtain estimates for the actual size of molecules and the strength of their mutual attraction.
Jane Bown
Bown died in London, aged 89.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Effects to molecular physics
The effect of Van der Waals's work on molecular physics in the 20th century was direct and fundamental. By introducing parameters characterizing molecular size and attraction in constructing his equation of state, Van der Waals set the tone for modern molecular science. That molecular aspects such as size, shape, attraction, and multipolar interactions should form the basis for mathematical formulations of the thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids is presently considered an axiom. With the help of the Van der Waals's equation of state, the critical-point parameters of gases could be accurately predicted from thermodynamic measurements made at much higher temperatures. Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and helium subsequently succumbed to liquefaction. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was significantly influenced by the pioneering work of Van der Waals. In 1908, Onnes became the first to make liquid helium; this led directly to his 1911 discovery of superconductivity.
Jaffna District
Jaffna District (யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாவட்டம் Yāḻppāṇam Māvaṭṭam; යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka. Districts are the second level of administrative division of the country. The capital of the district is the city of Jaffna.
Administrative units
Jaffna District is divided into 15 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 435 Grama Niladhari Divisions (GN Divisions).
Henry McCullough
Henry Campbell Liken McCullough (21 July 1943 – 14 June 2016) was a Northern Irish guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He was best known for his work as a member of Spooky Tooth, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Grease Band and Sweeney's Men. He also performed and recorded as a solo artist and session musician.
Amalia Lindegren
Amalia Euphrosyne Lindegren (22 May 1814 – 27 December 1891) was a famous Swedish painter.
Life
She became an orphan when her mother died in 1817. Then, she was adopted by the widow of Benjamin Sandel. Benjamin Sandel is thought to have been her real father.
Amalia liked to draw and wanted to become an artist. When the artist Qvarnström saw her drawings, he got her a permission to study art at the Swedish Academy of Arts in 1849. They thought she was very promising and had great talent. In 1850, she became the first woman who got a scholarship by the Academy to study art in Paris.
In 1856, she was elected to become a member in to the Swedish Academy of Arts. She showed people her paintings in the exhibitions in Paris in 1867, Philadelphia in 1876, and in Chicago in 1893.
Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947, in Toledo, Ohio) is the current (21st) U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor) for President George W. Bush. He had been Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor from January 22, 2001. On January 26, 2005, he replaced Condoleezza Rice as National Security Advisor, upon Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State.
Hadley served as a senior foreign and defense policy advisor to then-Governor Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign and worked in the Bush-Cheney Transition on the National Security Council.
Lim Xiaoqing
Lim Xiaoqing, born 15 August 1967, is a retired female badminton player. Originally from China, she later moved to Sweden.
She won three European Badminton Championships, one in the women's singles in 1994, and two in the women's doubles in 1992 and 1994. In 1995 she won the women's singles title at the All-England Championships. She then defeated Camilla Martin from Denmark in the final.
Zwolle, Netherlands
Zwolle is a municipality and city in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 130,000 people were living there in 2021. It lies where the Vecht river flows into the IJssel river, on the eastern side of last one.
It lies also in the regions of Salland and IJsselvallei, and is the capital of Overijssel province.
Zwolle got city rights in 1230 and joined the Hanseatic League in 1294.
Hans Neuenfels
Hans Neuenfels (31 May 1941 – 6 February 2022) was a German writer, poet, movie producer, librettist, theatre director, and opera director. He was born in Krefeld, Germany. He directed plays for Oper Frankfurt and Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Neuenfels has been criticised for creating extremely sexually opera scenes.
Neuenfels died on 6 February 2022 in Berlin, aged 80.
Deputy National Security Advisor
Among other responsibilities, the Deputy National Security Advisor serves as Executive Secretary to the National Security Council Principals Committee, and as Chairman of the National Security Council Deputies Committee.
Bailleul-aux-Cornailles
Bailleul-aux-Cornailles is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski (10 March 1917 – 3 August 2018) was a Polish brigadier general and aviator. He was a participant of the Warsaw Uprising during the World War II. He was a Polish Air Force officer.
Ścibor-Rylski retired with the rank of brigadier general in the Polish Land Forces. He was rewarded several Polish awards and decorations, including Virtuti Militari. He was Chairman of the Association of Warsaw Insurgents.
Kalash language
Kalash or Kalasha (also known as Kalasha-mun) is an Indo-European language in the Indo-Aryan branch, further classified as a Dardic language in the Chitral Group. However, this Dardic classification is questionable because only 53% of the commonly used words in Kalash have cognates in Khowar language.
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk is the main German radio and television broadcasting company for Bavaria. It is a member of the ARD public broadcasting group.
Sclerophyll
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation which has hard leaves and short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem). The word comes from the Greek sclero (hard) and phyllon (leaf).
Bayerischer Rundfunk
It includes the following broadcasting services:
Sclerophyll
Sclerophyllous plants occur in many parts of the world. They are shaped by a Mediterranean climate, with mild, wet winters and long hot dry summers. Wildfires often occur. These conditions feature summer drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves,
This kind of climate occurs in:
Just the Two of Us (Grover Washington Jr. song)
"Just the Two of Us" is a 1981 song by Grover Washington Jr. featuring Bill Withers. It was taken from his album Winelight. It went to number 2 in the United States, number 10 in Canada, number 24 in New Zealand and number 34 in the United Kingdom. It won a Grammy Award in 1982. It was covered by Will Smith in 1998.
Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)
Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 is a symphony that was written in 1772. It is also called the Farewell symphony.
History
Haydn was working for Prince Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy when he wrote the symphony. He stayed in Eszterháza, a palace in Hungary. Often, he had to stay there for a long time. The musicians who worked the prince wanted to go home. They wanted to see their families. They asked Haydn to help them. So, Haydn wrote the Farewell symphony. In the fourth movement, the musicians blew out a candle and left one by one. In the end, only Haydn and Luigi Tomasini stayed. They played the violin. This was meant to be a message to the prince. The musicians wanted to leave. The prince understood the message. So, they left Eszterháza the next day.
Thalassa (moon)
Thalassa or Neptune IV, is the second closest moon to Neptune. It was named after a daughter of Aether and Hemera from Greek mythology. "Thalassa" is also the Greek word for "sea".
Thalassa was discovered sometime before mid-September, 1989 from the images taken by the Voyager 2 probe. It was given the designation S/1989 N 5. The discovery was said (IAUC 4867) on September 29, 1989, but the text only talks of "25 frames taken over 11 days", giving a discovery date of sometime before September 18. The name was given on 16 September 1991.
Thalassa is not a sphere and shows no sign of any geological changes. Unusually for a non-spherical moon, it appears to be oddly shaped not able to be explained.
Noel Allanson
Allanson died on 7 February 2022, at the age of 96.
Military orders, awards and decorations
A military decoration is an award, usually a medal that consists of a ribbon and medallion given to an person for either gallantry, or outstanding service or achievement.
Civil decorations awarded to military personnel are not considered military decorations, although some of them have civil and military divisions. Decorations received by police and fire brigade personnel may sometimes be considered alongside military decorations, on which they may be modelled, although they are strictly not military awards.
The Mothman Prophecies (movie)
The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 American supernatural horror movie directed by Mark Pellington. It is based on the 1975 book of the same name by American UFOlogist John Keel. It is about the search of local legend Mothman. It was released on January 25, 2002.
Nomvuzo Shabalala
Nomvuzo Francisca Shabalala (1960 – 26 December 2020) was a South African politician. She was a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. From 2011 to 2016 she was the deputy mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. In 2018, Shabalala was elected a member of the National Assembly.
Shabalala died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 60. The cause of death was problems caused by COVID-19.
Alt St. Johann
Alt St. Johann was a municipality in Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010, the former municipalities of Alt St. Johann and Wildhaus merged into the new municipality of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann.
Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult
Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Eric Jacobson
Eric Jacobson (born July 25, 1970) is an American puppeteer who has been working with Sesame Street since 1994. He is the current performer of Grover since 1998 and Bert since 1997, he's also the current performer of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppets Franchise, replacing Frank Oz. He is married to Mary Jacobson.
Lane County, Kansas
Lane County (standard abbreviation: LE) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 2,150 people lived there. This makes it the county with the third lowest number of people living in it in Kansas. The county seat is Dighton, the only city in the county. The county was named after James H. Lane. He was a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement, and he was one of the first U.S. Senators from Kansas.
19th century
In 1873, Lane County was created.
Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 718 sqmi. Of that, 717 sqmi is land and 0.2 sqmi (0.03%) is water.
Presidential elections
Lane County has been very Republican throughout its history. It voted for Democratic candidates only five times in presidential elections from 1888 to the present. The last time a Democrat won the county was in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
Laws
Although the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986 to allow the sale of alcohol, Lane County is still a "dry" county.
Kadambur R. Janarthanan
Kadambur R. Janarthanan (22 October 1929 – 26 December 2020) was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984. He left the parliament in 1996 only to serve again from 1998 to 1999.
Janarthanan died on 26 December 2020 at the age of 91.
Google Allo
Google Allo was an instant messaging mobile app by Google. It was made for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.
Herbert Benson
Herbert Benson (April 24, 1935 – February 3, 2022), was an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He was a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at MGH.
Austin Clarke (novelist)
Clarke was a reporter in the Ontario communities of Timmins and Kirkland Lake before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a freelance journalist. He taught subsequently at several American universities, including Yale University (Hoyt fellow, 1968–70), Duke University (1971–72), and the University of Texas (visiting professor, 1973).
Forza Motorsport 3
Forza Motorsport 3 is a realistic simulation driving video game. It was released for Xbox 360 in 2009.
Wigtownshire
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown is a registration county in the southwest of Scotland. It was a county until 1975.
Cyclone Batsirai
Intense Tropical Cyclone Batsirai was a powerful tropical cyclone that hit Madagascar. Batsirai formed on 24 January 2022. It became a moderate tropical storm on 27 January, after which it became an intense tropical cyclone.
20 deaths have been reported in the country.
Ponderay, Idaho
Ponderay is a city in Idaho in the United States. It is in Bonner County.
Oldenburg (city)
Oldenburg (Low Saxon: Ollnborg, Low Saxon spelling: Ollenborg) is a city in the north of Germany, in the state of Lower Saxony. It was formerly the capital of the old Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
It has about 160,000 inhabitants. It has a university.
Scotty Bowers
George Albert "Scotty" Bowers (July 1, 1923 – October 13, 2019) was an American prostitute pimp and Marine. From the 1940s to the 1980s, a Hollywood pimp. His life was the purpose of the Hollywood Babylon. Bowers finally decided to talk publicly about his life when most of the people involved were dead and, in his words, "The truth can’t hurt them anymore."
Bowers died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 96, on October 13, 2019. The cause of death was kidney failure.
Parkari Koli language
The Parkari Koli language (sometimes called just Parkari) is a language mainly spoken in the province of Sindh, Pakistan.
H. R. McMaster
Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster (born July 24, 1962) is an American Lieutenant General in the United States Army and author. He was the 26th United States National Security Advisor from February 20, 2017 to April 9, 2018. He was commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
McMaster served as Director of Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat (CJIATF-Shafafiyat) (Transparency) at ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13, 1950), is an Italian mathematician (person who studies mathematics), logician (person who studies reason), essayist (person who writes essays) and fond of the history of science.
He is particularly well-known in Italy for his longstanding criticisms and ridicule of the Catholic Church and religions in general and the writings and popular interventions of Antonino Zichichi.
Åke Johansson
Johansson became Swedish champion with his club 6 times (1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962 and 1963), won Guldbollen 1957 and was a member of the silver winning team in 1958 FIFA World Cup but didn't appeared in the final. He also capped one time for the national team in ice hockey. He died after a brief illness, on 21 December 2014.
English Braille
English Braille is the English variation of Braille. It uses dots to show letters, and is most often used by blind people.
Braille was made by Louis Braille in 1824.
False Identity (1947 movie)
False Identity (French: Fausse identité) is a 1947 French crime movie directed by André Chotin. It stars Louise Carletti, Georges Rollin, Raymond Bussières, Frank Villard, Simone Deguyse, Marie Bizet and Renée Devillers.
Lorrie Collins
Lawrencine May "Lorrie" Collins (May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018) was an American country, rockabilly and rock and roll singer and guitarist. In the mid-1950s, she and her brother, Larry Collins, performed as the Collins Kids. She was born in Creek County, Oklahoma, near Sapulpa.
Collins died on August 4, 2018 in Reno, Nevada from complications of a fall at the age of 76.
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero (26 April 1905 – 5 July 1972) was the President of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He was a member of the Generation of 1928 and a charter member of the Acción Democrática party, and the first Labor minister of Venezuela (during El Trienio Adeco, 1945–48).
Haiphong
Haiphong is Vietnam's third most populated city, with only Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City having more people. It is one of five municipalities of Vietnam, meaning it is a city with the same status as a province.
Raúl Leoni
Personal life and death
Raúl Leoni was married to Carmen América Fernández, who served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1964–1969 and has one son named Álvaro. Leoni died on 5 July 1972 when he was 67 years old, at the Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where he was recovering from medical treatment after suffering a hemorrhage.
Margarita Lozano
Margarita de las Flores Lozano Jiménez (14 February 1931 – 7 February 2022) was a Spanish actress. Her best known roles were in Viridiana, A Fistful of Dollars, Pigsty, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Kaos, Good Morning Babylon, La messa è finita, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.
Haiphong
Haiphong Port is the busiest seaport in northern Vietnam. The city has an international airport, Cat Bi Airport, which was used as an airbase for the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.
Margarita Lozano
Lozano died on 7 February 2022 in Lorca, Spain, one week before her 91st birthday.
Lubanki dialect
Lubanki, also known as Labanki, is a extinct Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Lubanas tribal grouping in the Republic of India and Pakistan. It is classified as a form or dialect of Punjabi. Lubanki has been spoken in the Rajasthan and Gujarat areas and some areas of Pakistan. The Punjabi word tanda is allegedly of Lubanki origin and means a town. The dialect is almost extinct. With the loss of the language's prestige and status, most Lubanas now speak other forms of Punjabi as their primary language.
When Guru Tegh Bahadur Was discovered by Baba Makhan Shah Labana, Makhan Shah climbed on top a village roof and started shouting the famous line Guru ladho rae "The Guru has been found", which is alleged to be in Lubanki dialect.
Princess Josephine of Denmark
Princess Josephine of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda; born 8 January 2011) is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the fourth and youngest child of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, and the seventh grandchild of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the late Prince Henrik. She is the twin sister of Prince Vincent. Josephine is fifth in line to the Danish throne, after her father and older siblings, Prince Christian, Princess Isabella, and her elder twin brother.
Birth and christening
Josephine was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, 26 minutes after her twin brother.
Josephine and Vincent were christened on 14 April 2011, at the chapel of the Church of Holmen. The Princess's name was announced as Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda. Her godparents are her paternal aunt, Princess Marie of Denmark; her maternal aunt, Patricia Bailey; as well as her parents' friends Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, Count Bendt Wedell, Birgitte Handwerk and Josephine Rechner.
Titles and styles
8 January 2011 Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat.
Elsa & Fred (2014 movie)
Elsa & Fred is a 2014 American comedy-drama movie directed by Michael Radford. It stars Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. The movie, set and filmed in New Orleans. It is an English-language remake of the 2005 Argentinian movie of the same name. It was released on November 7, 2014.
Jhangochi
barvi,jatki or Jhangochi (جھنگوچی) is the oldest and most conservative dialect of the Punjabi (Lahndi or western Punjabi) language. Native people use Jatki or barvi word for their dialect. It is spoken throughout a widespread area, starting from Khanewal and Jhang at both ends of Ravi River and Chenab River to Gujranwala District. It than runs down to Bahawalnagar and Chishtian araes, on the banks of river Sutlej River. It is spoken by Indigenous people of Jhang, Faisalabad, Khanewal, Vehari, Chiniot, Toba Tek Singh, Nankana Sahib, Bahawalnagar, Pakpattan,Okara, khushab, Sahiwal,Sargodha,chakwal,jhelum ,Hafizabad and Mandi Bahauddin districts of Punjab. It is also spoken in few areas of Sheikhpura,attock, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur and Lodhran districts of Pakistani Punjab and Fazilka district of Indian Punjab and sri ganga nagar of rajhistan. This entire area has almost the same traditions, customs and culture. The Jhangochi dialect of Punjabi has several aspects that set it apart from other Punjabi variants. This area has a great culture and heritage, especially literary heritage, as it is credited with the creation of the famous epic romance stories of Heer Ranjha and Mirza Sahiba. It is spoken in the Bar areas of Punjab, i.e. areas whose names are often suffixed with 'Bar', for example Sandal Bar, Kirana Bar, Neeli Bar and Ganji Bar.
Davy Medal
History
On 1882, it was given to Dmitri Mendeleev and Julius Lothar Meyer "for their discovery of the periodic relations of the atomic weights".
The 2020 award was to Ben G. Davis for "inventing powerful chemical methods that... manipulate complex biological molecules" (etc).
List of recipients
Source: Royal Society
Bailleul-lès-Pernes
Bailleul-lès-Pernes is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
LGBT rights in Mali
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Mali may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. According to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project, 98% of Malian adults do not believe that homosexuality is acceptable by society. This was one of the highest rate of non-acceptance in the 45 countries surveyed. Same-sex sexual activity is not a crime in Mali. But according to a 2013 report on Human Rights in Mali "the law prohibits association 'for an immoral purpose'". About 90% of Mali's population is Muslim.
Mothman
The Mothman is a legendary creature in American folklore. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States saw Mothman from November 15, 1966 to December 15, 1967.
Gregory Rabassa
He worked primarily out of Spanish and Portuguese. He made English-language versions of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One Hundred Years of Solitude. He later declared Rabassa's translation to be better to the Spanish original.
Mothman
Mothman may have been a barred owl. Barred owls's eyes shine bright red in the dark. At night, the eyes look much bigger than they really are. The people may have seen a barn owl flying very close to them and thought it was a larger animal further away.
Leader of the Opposition (Scotland)
The Leader of the Opposition is an informal term given to the leader of the largest party not in government in the Scottish Parliament. Since 6 May 2021, this has been Douglas Ross  of the Scottish Conservative Party.
Bailleulmont
Bailleulmont is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
Disorder
Disorder may mean
Sarikoli language
The Sarikoli language (also Selekur, Sarikul, Sariqul, Sariköli) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Southeastern Iranian languages spoken by Tajiks in China and border regions of Pakistani Kashmir.
Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
There are 3 arrondissements in the Corrèze department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
Drs. P
Heinz Hermann Polzer (24 August 1919 – 13 June 2015), better known under his pseudonym Drs. P, was a Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, and prose writer in the Dutch language. Other pseudonyms were Geo Staad, Coos Neetebeem (a variant of the name of Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom) and drandus P.
Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.
Drs. P
Drs. P. died at the age of 95 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
Arrondissements are further divided into communes.
Princess Isabella of Denmark
Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat (Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe; born 21 April 2007) is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the second child and elder daughter of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.
Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
The 3 arrondissements of Corrèze are:
History
Since its creation, the Corrèze department has had some changes:
Princess Isabella of Denmark
She is the fourth grandchild and oldest granddaughter of Queen Margrethe II and the late Prince Henrik. She was the first girl born into the Danish royal family since the birth of her great aunt, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, in 1946. Isabella is third in the line of succession to the Danish throne, after her father and her older brother, Prince Christian.
Biography
Princess Isabella was born at Rigshospitalet, the Copenhagen University Hospital, in Copenhagen, to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary.
Braunschweig
Braunschweig (Brunswick) is a city in the north of Germany, in the state of Lower Saxony. It was probably founded in the 9th century. About 245,000 people live there. It has a technical university.
Princess Isabella of Denmark
Biography
She was christened on 1 July 2007, at the Royal Chapel of Fredensborg Palace as Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe, after the Danish queen consort and ancestress Isabella of Austria, the princess's maternal grandmother, paternal great-grandmother, and paternal grandmother respectively. Her godparents were her father's first cousin, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark; Queen Mathilde of Belgium (then Duchess of Brabant), Nadine Johnston, Christian Buchwald, Peter Heering and Marie Louise Skeel. Isabella was confirmed in the Lutheran church in the same chapel on 30 April 2022.
Titles and styles
21 April 2007-29 April 2008 Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark
29 April 2008 Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat
Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne is a city on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Gisborne is known as "the first city in the world to see the sun". This is because it is the first major city on the side of the International Date Line that sees the new day first.
Roman Zhuravskyi
Roman Zhuravskyi (Роман Петрович Журавський; 3 June 1948 – 19 February 2017) was a Ukrainian professional football player who played as defender. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine. Zhuravskyi made his professional career in the different football teams of the Ukrainian SSR.
Zhuravskyi died on 19 February 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine from pancreatic cancer at the age of 68.
Catnip
Nepeta cataria, catnip or catmint, is a species of the genus Nepeta. It is in the Lamiaceae family. The name "catmint" is sometimes used for the genus as a whole. Some plants can cause diarrhea to cats.
Cat behaviour
Catnip, and some other species in the genus Nepeta, is known for its effects on cat behaviour. Cats rub on the plant, roll on the ground, paw at it, lick it, and chew it. Some leap about and purr, some cry out. Cats do it for about five to fifteen minutes, after which olfactory fatigue usually sets in.
The nepetalactone in catnip acts as a feline attractant after it enters the cat's nose. At the olfactory epithelium, the nepetalactone binds to one or more olfactory receptors.
The catnip effect works on the whole cat family, not just on domestic cats. Several tests showed that leopards, cougars, servals, and lynxes often reacted strongly to catnip in a manner similar to domestic cats. Lions and tigers may react strongly as well, but they don't react all the time.
With domestic cats, N. cataria is a recreational substance for pets to enjoy. Catnip and catnip-laced products are available to consumers. Not all cats are affected by catnip; roughly one third are not affected by the plant. The behavior is hereditary.
Some other plants also have a similar effect on cats, include valerian (Valeriana officinalis).
Scott Garrett
Garrett chaired the powerful United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He lost his 2016 reelection campaign and was succeeded by Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat.
On June 19, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Garrett to become chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, a post that requires confirmation by the United States Senate. In a 10-13 vote on December 19, 2017, the Senate Banking Committee declined to advance his nomination.
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