cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Matt Bellamy
Interests
Matthew shows agnostic views, stating in a 2006 interview with the Rock Music channel that "I believe in the God of the universe, definitely" but does not believe in heaven or hell. It is also possible that Bellamy explores otherworldly theories, such as the origin of mankind from another universe, as reflected in the band's rock symphony, "Exogenesis".
Luis Delgado Aparicio
Luis Humberto Delgado Aparicio Porta (28 September 1940 – 2 April 2015) was a Peruvian politician. He served in the Congress of the Peruvian Government from 1995 to 2001. Before serving as a congressman, Aparicio was a delegate from 1990 through 1992. He was born in Callao, Peru.
Aparicio died in Lima, Peru from pancreatic cancer, aged 74.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU) is an American university. It is named after the second Latter-day Saints prophet, Brigham Young. The school is in Provo, Utah. Their team colors are royal blue and white. Their mascot is the cougar. Their rivals are University of Utah. Brigham Young University (BYU) is often called “The Y” and is a private research university. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) owns and runs the school. It is the biggest church school and third biggest private university in the United States with 33,511 students. About 99 percent of the students are part of the LDS Church, and 32% of them are from Utah. BYU students have to live an honor code, a set of rules on behavior. They must be honest in their work, follow dress rules, have no sex outside of marriage, and not take illegal drugs or drink alcohol. 66% of students (88 percent of men, 39 percent of women) start school late or take a break from school to be Mormon missionaries. It is cheaper to study at BYU than at other private universities because most of the cost of attending BYU is paid for by the LDS church.
BYU has many topics to study. This includes liberal arts, engineering, agriculture, management, physical science and mathematical sciences, nursing, and law. The university is grouped into 11 smaller parts that create their own rules on how to be allowed to study a topic. The university also has two satellite campuses(a small part of the campus that is far away from the rest of the campus), one in Jerusalem and one in Salt Lake City. The main university is run by the Church Educational System (CES), and also runs two other schools in Hawaii and Idaho. The main focus of the school is on undergraduate education, with 187 undergraduate majors and 110 undergraduate minors, but it also has 88 masters and 32 doctoral degree programs.
BYU’s sports teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the BYU Cougars. BYU joined the Big 12 Conference in July 2023 after 12 years as a member of the West Coast Conference (WCC). During the university's time in the WCC, which does not run a football league, the Cougars played in the top level of college football, Division I FBS, as an independent (not in a conference). The only BYU sport not sponsored by the Big 12 is men's volleyball; that team plays in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. BYU’s sports teams have won 14 national championships.
Venona project
The Venona project was a long time secret plan which started in February 1943 by the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service. The project was transferred to the National Security Agency and had many names. However, VENONA was the last name that was used. The word VENONA is usually in capital letters (VENONA) but some writings use lowercase letters (Venona). VENONA was made to decrypt secret communications of Soviet intelligence agencies including NKVD, KGB and GRU. Decryption was possible because the encrypting one-time pads were reused.
The Venona project was most famous for the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case known as LIBERAL and it ended in both of them being executed. VENONA exposed other spies including Klaus Fuchs and Alger Hiss.
In July 1995, the first six documents were shown which included had 49 messages about the Soviets trying to get information on the United States atomic bomb and the Manhattan Project. In the next five more years, about 3,000 VENONA messages were made public.
Microraptor
Microraptor was a small feathered dinosaur. It was a basal theropod related to Velociraptor and Deinonychus. It had flight feathers, and could glide and probably fly. About two dozen well-preserved fossil specimens were found in Liaoning, China. They come from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, 125 million years ago.
Adult specimens are 42–83 centimeters (1.4–2.7 ft) long, so Microraptor was one of the smallest dinosaurs.
Context
Microraptor is one of a number of 'dinobirds' found in the same area of China. They were buried in volcanic ash during huge eruptions.
Details
Microraptor was among the first non-avian dinosaurs discovered with the impressions of feathers and wings. Three specimens of M. zhaoianus have been described in detail, in addition to two specimens of M. gui and three specimens of M. sp. described by Xu and colleagues in 2003, from which most feather impressions are known. Unusual even among early birds and feathered dinosaurs, Microraptor is one of the few known bird precursors to sport long flight feathers on its feet as well as its forearms and hands. This led Xu Xing to describe it as a "four winged dinosaur", and to speculate that it may have glided using all four limbs for lift. Their bodies had a thick covering of feathers. A diamond-shaped fan on the end of the tail gave stability during flight.
Sankar Chatterjee found that, in order for Microraptor to glide or fly, the fore and hind wings must have been on different levels (as on a biplane) and not overlaid (as on a dragonfly). Using this biplane model, he calculated possible methods of gliding, and determined that Microraptor most likely launched itself from a perch, swooped downward in a deep 'U' shaped curve and then lifted again to land on another tree. The feathers not directly employed in the biplane wing, like those on the tibia and the tail, could have been used to control and alter the flight path. The hind wings would also have helped control the gliding flight.
Chatterjee also used computer algorithms to test whether or not Microraptor was capable of true, powered flight, in addition to gliding. The data showed that Microraptor could sustain some level powered flight, so it is possible that the animal flew as well as glided.
Hostiaz
Hostiaz was commune in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the Ain department in east France. On 1 January 2019, it became part of a new commune called Plateau d'Hauteville.
Hoxie, Arkansas
Hoxie is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Orange
Orange can mean:
Places in the United States:
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Other places in the world:
Hoher Dachstein
Hoher Dachstein is an Austrian mountain,. It is the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria. It is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of it are also in the state of Salzburg. Because of this it is sometimes called the Drei-Länder-Berg ("three-state mountain").
Wild Bactrian camel
The Wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) is a critically endangered species of camel living in East Turkestan and southwestern Mongolia. It is closely related to the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus). Both are large, double-humped even-toed ungulates native to the steppes of central Asia. Until recently, wild Bactrian camels were thought to have descended from domesticated Bactrian camels that became feral after being released into the wild. However, genetic studies have established it as a separate species which diverged from the Bactrian camel about 1.1 million years ago.
Distribution
Currently, only about 1,000 wild Bactrian camels are living in the wild. Most live on the Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve near the border with China proper to the East.
Protest the Hero
Protest the Hero are a Canadian progressive metal band from Whitby, Ontario.
Protest the Hero was formed in 2001 under the original name, Happy Go Lucky. They changed their name to Protest the Hero the next year and recorded their first EP, Search for the Truth.
Kenneth Waltz
Kenneth Waltz (1924-2013) is an American political scientist. He created Neorealism in international relations (IR). He received his MA and PhD in political science from Columbia University in 1950 and 1954, respectively. He taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley. His book International Political Theory (1979) is one of the most influential and highly cited works in IR.
Four-wheel drive
Types
There are basically four types of four-wheel drive.
Part-time 4-wheel drive
Part-time systems are the most basic type. They are also still the most popular type for using off-road. The can be shifted (mechanically or electrically) from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive. This gives them the versatility to operate both on and off-road. When the four-wheel drive system is engaged, the two axles turn at the same speed. There usually is no center differential. For that reason part-time four-wheel drive should not be used on dry pavement. If operated for any distance on dry pavement tire damage and drivetrain damage is very possible. Because it operates off-road, the vehicle typically has a higher Ride height. This is to go over obstacles on uneven ground without damage. Even when operated in two-wheel drive on-road, this system will not get the fuel economy of a comparable two-wheel drive vehicle. Locking hubs are available on some models. They help to get better fuel mileage by disengaging the front axle differential.
Full-time 4-wheel drive
This is the original four-wheel drive. It was and still is designed for serious off-roading. Common on full-time four-wheel drives are locking differentials. These prevent one wheel slipping on the same axle if the other has traction. These systems do not get good gas mileage due to their typical weight.
All-Wheel Drive
All-wheel drive (AWD) uses a center differential to direct a percentage of the power to both axles, depending on conditions. All wheel drive is not designed specifically to go off-road but is for traction in rain, snow or ice on the road. Body-on frame SUVs are typically designed for off-road use. Unibody crossovers are usually only equipped with the lighter-duty all-wheel drive. However the unibody built Grand Cherokee and newly designed Durango are available with four-wheel drive.
Part-Time All-Wheel Drive
Part-time All-wheel drive (AWD) operate as a front-wheel drive under normal conditions. When traction is lost for any reason, the system automatically sends a portion of the engine's power to the rear wheels. As soon as the system detects good traction, it disengages the rear wheels and shifts back to front drive. This is a less expensive system that adds less weight to the vehicle (usually a car). This makes it popular on compact vehicles. It typically gets better fuel economy than all-wheel drive vehicles. They do not have a low range or a transfer case.
Reaction intermediate
A reaction intermediate or simply intermediate is a molecule that is formed during a chemical reaction. It is not the final product, but it is something that is more like the product than the reactants. After every step in a reaction mechanism, an intermediate is formed.
Intermediates usually stay around for a little time because they are very reactive. However, it is important not to confuse an intermediate with a transition state. The latter is at a point of maximum energy. An intermediate instead is at a point of minimum energy, i.e. it is a stable molecule. Intermediates can be isolated from a reaction if needed.
For example, in the reaction:
A + B → X → C + D
Paul F. Markham
Paul F. Markham (May 22, 1930 – July 13, 2019) was an American attorney. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969. Markham was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Markham was a key figure in the Chappaquiddick incident as he was with Senator Ted Kennedy during the incident. He played a key defense in Kennedy's favor.
Markham died on July 13, 2019 in Peabody, Massachusetts at the age of 89.
Born to Be Wild (movie)
Born to Be Wild is a 1995 American family adventure comedy movie directed by John Gray and starring Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley, Peter Boyle, Gregory Itzin, Alan Ruck, Obba Babatundé, Janet Carroll. It was distributed by Warner Bros..
Opera (web browser)
Opera is a web browser that formerly included e-mail, webfeed reader, and IRC Chat. There are versions available for several operating systems. These include Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux. There are also version for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, game consoles, and interactive televisions.
Opera is developed by Opera Software which is based in Oslo, Norway.
History
Opera was created in 1994 at Telenor, which is Norway's largest telecommunications company. In 1995, Opera became its own company called Opera Software ASA.
Opera was first released publicly with version 2.0 in 1996, which only ran on Microsoft Windows. With the release of Opera 4.0 in the year 2000, other operating systems were supported.
Ami Radunskaya
Ami Elizabeth Radunskaya is an American mathematician and musician. After high school and before college she played cello for the Oakland Symphony in California for several years. Radunskaya is currently a professor of mathematics at Pomona College. She has been on faculty at Pomona College for over twenty years. She is the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Eduation
Dr. Radunskaya received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkley. She also has a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Math
Dr. Radunskaya discovered her love of math at the age of four. At the start of her career journey, she tried many different things like chemistry and computer science, but she found her way back to her initial love, math. Now, she is a professor of mathematics at Pomona College. She is also the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Music
Dr. Radunskaya started playing the cello at the age of nine where she started a trio with her two other siblings. After finishing high school at the age of sixteen, she spent ten years studying cello and composition. She then joined the Oakland Symphony. At the age of 23, she decided to quit, and instead explore composition and experimental music.
Pasquale J. D'Amuro
Pasquale J. "Pat" D'Amuro is an American television analyst and former intelligence agent. He is an expert on terrorism. D'Amuro is a former Director of FBI in New York. He worked for the FBI for 26 years. After the FBI, he went to work for Giuliani Security & Safety, a New York security consulting company.
Life
D'Amuro grew up in upstate New York. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Business at the Niagara University.
He bagan working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in May 1979. While working for the FBI, D'Amuro learn much about bank robberies, fraud, organized crime, drug trafficing and similar crimes.
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, he focused his research on terrorist attacks. After this, he was involved with the research of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Aden, Yemen, and the attacks on September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Over time, he became a leading expert on al-Qaeda.
After the attacks of September 11, D'Amuro became the assistant director of the counterterrorism division of the FBI. He made changes that led to better exchange of information between the FBI, CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. He is also responsible for the creation of the Terrorism Watch List. It is a combination of the information of many different agencies.
In August 2003, he became director of the FBI office in New York. It is the largest FBI office. At this time, he held the third highest position in the FBI. At this time, he began giving public lectures often on the changes that had been made at the FBI since September 11. In March 2005, he left the FBI after a service of 26 years.
After leaving the FBI, he became director of Nine Thirty Capital Management and chairman of the board of Giuliani Security & Safety. In March 2006 he became a commissary of Mercy College. In April 2008, he became the director of American Defense Systems.
D'Amuro is often on the television network CNN as a senior analyst.
Honors
D'Amuro has been given several awards. These include the Presidential Rank Award of the FBI. In 2004, he was given an honorary doctorate in law from Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 2009, D'Amuro got a Four Freedoms Award in the category Freedom from fear.
Collina d'Oro
Collina d'Oro (called Gold Hill in English) is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was made on 4 April 2004 from the merging of the villages of Agra, Gentilino, and Montagnola. On 1 April 2012, it incorporated the formerly independent municipality of Carabietta.
Virmajärvi
Virmajärvi is a small lake in eastern Finland's Ilomantsi region and Russia. An island on lake is the most eastern tectonic part of Finland and the European Union. The nearest village is Hattuvaara.
Joo Se-hyuk
Joo Sae-hyuk (Korean 주세혁; born 20 January 1980 in Seoul ) is a South- Korean table tennis player. He is right-handed player and uses the Shakehand-grip. He stands at Butterfly under contract and plays on the forhand with Tenergy 64, while he uses on the backhand long pips as the Tibhar Grass D.Tecs or TSP Curl P1R on a Butterfly defensive wood.
Collado Villalba
Collado Villalba is a city and municipality in the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. In 2021, 63,825 people lived there.
Joo Se-hyuk
Career
Since 1997 he was international activ, at the US Open he won the silver medal in the doubles. 2001 he took part in the World Championships for the first time, where Joo won bronze with the South Korean Team. In the singles he lost early. In October he could push forward to place 50 in the world rankings. Till May he fell back to place 61, in this month he won the silver medal in the singles. In the final he lost to Werner Schlager and moved to place 22, whereby he became best chopper in the world. In October 2003 Joo took part in the World Cup for the first time, but retired in the group qualification. 2004 he reached the semifinals with the team at the World Championships, so they won bronze. At his first Olympics he reached in singles and doubles the round of 16, and at the World Cup he got place 4 after losing Wang Hao in the third place match. In 2005 he doesn't was really activ, so he lost his best defender title to Chen Weixing.
2016 Joo took part in a lot of tournaments: He won silver at the World Championships with the team and at the Asian Games, in the singles he took gold in the Korea Open and qualified self for the Grand Finals. 2007 he reached in the singles and mixed category the quarterfinals at the WTTC and become best defender in the world, again. This position he get to 2017. 2008 he took silver with the team again, at the WTTC. In May this year he came under the top 10 in the world ranings, but doesn't took part in the Olympics. Either at the WTTC and the Grand Finals he reached 2009 the Quarterfinal, 2010 follow bronze (Singles) and silver (Team) at the Asian Games either a bronze medal at the WTTTC. At the Grand Finals either the World Championships he reached the Round of 16, where he lost. At the World Cup he could won bronze in the singles. At the beginning of 2012 he reaclame place number 5 in the world rankings- his best position at all.
At the Olympic Games in 2012 he lost already in the third round, but won silver with the team. At his sixth participation with the team in WTTTC he won bronze. 2014 it doesn't get, because South Korea lost in the Quarterfinals, could win silver in the Asian Games with the team, where Joo won bronze in the singles.
2015 he reached the round of 16 in the WTTC, where Joo lost to Ma Long, 2016 he won bronze with the team. In the Olympics 2016, he doesn't took part in the singles, in the team Joo reached the 4th place. Also Joo won gold at the Croatia Open, 2017 he only played the Hungarian Open and approached then no more.
Chris Killip
Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 – 13 October 2020) was a Manx photographer. He worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Killip was well known for his black and white images of people and places. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man.
Joo Se-hyuk
Personal life
Since April 2008 Joo is married with Kim Seon-hwa.
Chris Killip
Killip died in October 2020 at the age of 74.
Don't Grieve
Don't Grieve (Не горюй!; არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Georgian comedy-drama movie directed by Georgiy Daneliya and was based on the novel My Uncle Benjamen by Claude Tillier. It stars Sergo Zakariadze, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gogi Kavtaradze, Zurab Kapianidze.
Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182 was a passenger plane which, on June 23, 1985, exploded from a bomb that was placed on the plane. The aircraft was going between Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, Montreal, Quebec, and New Delhi, India. It was an Air India Boeing 747-237B, registration VT-EFO. The bombing was called the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history, and the deadliest act of air terrorism before 9/11.
Accident
The flight was going between Montreal and New Delhi. The plane exploded when it was flying 31,000 feet over Atlantic Ocean South of Ireland. The bomb was hidden in a Sanyo tuner in a suitcase which was in the forward cargo hold. Around fifty-five minutes later after the loss of the aircraft, a suitcase which was checked in by one of the accused perpetrators in the bombing exploded at Japan’s Narita Airport and killed two baggage handlers and injured four other people nearby. The suitcase was on its way to another airliner at Narita. At least 329 people were killed in the explosion aboard flight 182.
Suspects
The suspects in the bombing were from the Sikh separatist group called the Babbar Khalsa:
Lorenzo Baldisseri
Lorenzo Baldisseri (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops from 21 September 2013 until 15 September 2020. He was made a cardinal in 2014. He was Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops after more than twenty years. Baldisseri was born in Barga, Italy.
Near East
The Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, and Egypt are all regions that are part of the Near East. In the past, the Balkan Peninsula, south-west Asia, and northern Africa were part of the Near East as well.
The Near East is also a name for Middle East which archaeologists, geographers and historians use.
Background
The term Near East came into use in the 1890s, when European powers had to deal with two critical situations in the "east". The Sino-Japanese War in 1894–1895 in the Far East, and the Armenian Genocide in the Near East.
British archaeologist D.G. Hogarth published The Nearer East in 1902, which helped to define the term and its extent, including Albania, Montenegro, southern Serbia and Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, all the Ottoman lands, the entire Arabian peninsula, and western parts of Iran.
Bosnian War
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Bosnian War  is the generally accepted name for an international military conflict in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which lasted from  April 6th 1992 to December 14th 1995, between Serbia and Montenegro, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatia. This war is often appointed and as The aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina and Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina formally indicted Serbia and Montenegro for genocide before the International Court of Justice. The Court 21st February 2007 published a judgment in which he concluded that the war had an international character.
It was estimated that in the nearly 4 year war killed 100,000 - 200,000 people, while over 2,000,000 people had to leave their homes. According to more recent reports, the war killed around 94,000 inhabitants, and displaced about 1,800,000 people. The war was caused by a complex combination of the general political, social and security crisis in the country, which followed the end of the Cold War and the fall of the socialist system in Yugoslavia. The war ended with the signing Peace Agreement in Dayton, Ohio on 21 November 1995.
Parowan, Utah
Parowan is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Utah, United States. As of the 2020 census, 2,996 people live in Parowan.
Illiat
Illiat is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Pernell Whitaker
Pernell Whitaker (January 2, 1964 – July 14, 2019) was an American professional boxer. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Whitaker was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight; the undisputed lightweight title; and the lineal lightweight and welterweight titles. He holds the longest unified lightweight championship reign in boxing history at 6 title defenses. Whitaker was seen as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all-time.
Whitaker won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 1982 World Championships, followed by gold at the 1983 Pan American Games and 1984 Olympics. He retired in 2001.
Whitaker was killed after being hit by a car in Virginia Beach, Virginia on July 14, 2019 at the age of 55.
Vitória F.C.
Vitória Futebol Clube is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Setúbal. Popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal, the club was born under the original name Sport Victoria from the ashes of the small Bonfim Foot-Ball Club.
Jersey, Arkansas
Jersey is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Surf's Up (movie)
Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated movie made by Sony Pictures Animation. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, Mario Cantone, James Woods, Rebecca Honig, Diedrich Bader, Rob Machado, Kelly Slater and Sal Masekela. The movie is a cartoon of surfing documentaries, like The Endless Summer and Riding Giants. Composed by Randy Newman.
Rotuma
Rotuma is a volcanic island about 465 km south of Fiji. It covers an area of about 43 km2. It has been a part of Fiji since 1881. While the Fijian Islands are Melanesian, Rotuma is isolated far to the north. Its people and culture are more closely related to Polynesia.
Míkmaq language
The Mi'kmaq language (also spelled Míkmaq, Mi'gmaq, Mi'qmac, or priorly Micmac) is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 9,000 Míkmaq in Canada, and another 1,200 in United States, out of a total ethnic Míkmaq population of roughly 40,000. The word Míkmaq is a plural word meaning 'my friends' (singular Míkm ); the adjectival form is Míkmaw. The language's native name is Míkmawísimk or Míkmwei (in some dialects).
Writing system
Míkmaq is written with letters of the Roman alphabet. This writing system was created by missionaries in the 19th century. Before, the language was written in Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing, a script of partially-native origin.
Salzkammergut
With its many lakes and mountains, the Salzkammergut has many opportunities for water sports, bathing, hiking, cycling and golf.
Parts of the area around Hallstatt were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1997. The World Heritage Site includes the towns Hallstatt, Obertraun, Gosau and Bad Goisern.
Scipio Aemilianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185–129 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. He is commonly called Scipio Aemilianus, or '''Scipio the Younger. '''He became known because he was a successful general in the Third Punic War against Carthage. He was present, when Carthage was defeated and destroyed. He was also successful in the Numantine War in Spain. He also supported writers and philiosophers, called a patron. The most famous of these people he supported was probably the Greek historian Polybius. In politics, he opposed the populist reform program of his murdered brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus.
Montsoult
Montsoult is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Val-d'Oise department in north France.
Gulf of Aqaba
The Gulf of Aqaba (خليج العقبة, transliterated: Khalyj al-'Aqabah) or Gulf of Eilat (מפרץ אילת, transliterated: Mifratz Eilat) is a wide gulf between the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and west of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia. The gulf is an extension of the Red Sea. It is 170 km long and 26 km wide. At this northern end of the Gulf are three cities: Taba in Egypt, Eilat in Israel, and Aqaba in Jordan.
ADC Cirrus
The ADC Cirrus is a British airplane engine named the Aircraft Disposal Company (ADC) in the 1920s.
Tar (Linux tool)
tar, short for tarball, is a Linux utility to compress directories into a single file and then decompress them.
tar is often used with GZip to compress the created tarballs, because the tarballs are often quite large. Since the tarball contains every file in a directory, it is as big or slightly bigger than all of the files by themself.
Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most important cultural monuments in the country. Since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna. The palace and gardens show the tastes and interests of Habsburg monarchs.
Early history
In the year 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased a large floodplain of the Wien river. It was between Meidling and Hietzing. The emperor had the area to be fenced and put game there such as pheasants, ducks, deer and boar. This was the court's recreational hunting ground. In a small separate part of the area, "exotic" birds such as turkeys and peafowl were kept. Fishponds were built, too.
The name Schönbrunn (meaning "beautiful spring") is from an artesian well from which water was consumed by the court.
During the next century, the area was used as a hunting and recreation ground. Eleonora Gonzaga, who loved hunting, spent much time there. She was given the area as her widow's residence after the death of her husband, Ferdinand II. From 1638 to 1643, she added a palace to the Katterburg mansion. In 1642 it was called "Schönbrunn" for the first time. The start of the Schönbrunn orangery seem to go back to Eleonora Gonzaga as well.
Gardens
The sculpted garden space between the palace and the Sun Fountain is called the Great Parterre. The French garden, a big part of the area, was planned by Jean Trehet in 1695. It has a maze.
Western parts were turned into English garden style in 1828–1852. At the outmost western edge, a botanical garden was made in 1828.
Sculptures
Lining the Great Parterre are 32 sculptures, which represent deities and virtues.
Recent history
After the end of the monarchy in 1918, the new Austrian Republic became the owner of Schönbrunn Palace. They made it a museum.
Later it was used for important events such as the meeting between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.
UNESCO catalogued Schönbrunn Palace on the World Heritage List in 1996, together with its gardens, as a remarkable Baroque ensemble and example of synthesis of the arts.
Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi (February 1, 1922 - December 19, 2004) was an Italian operatic soprano and one of the leading lyric-dramatic sopranos of the postwar period. She possessed a voice of great beauty and considerable power which she used with unfailing musicianship and style.
Life and career
She was chosen by conductor Arturo Toscanini to sing at the reopening of La Scala in Milan in 1946, where she sang until 1954. She also appeared at all the major opera houses of Italy.
She then began singing abroad and made her debut at the Royal Opera House in 1950, at the Paris Opéra in 1951, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, where she was to sing regularly until 1973. She also appeared in San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, etc.
Renata Tebaldi retired from the stage in 1977. She died at her home in San Marino, at the age of 82.
The so-called rivalry between Tebaldi and soprano Maria Callas was mostly fueled by admirers of these two singers and by the press.
Schuyler Bailar
Schuyler Bailar is Korean American and the first openly transgender swimmer in NCAA Division I History. Bailar and Katie Ledecky set the U.S. record for the high school women's 400 yard relay. Harvard women’s swimming and diving coach asked Bailar to study and swim at Harvard University. Bailar decided to swim on the men’s team. He graduated from Harvard in May, 2019.
Early life
Bailar was born in Virginia, USA. He started swimming by himself when he was one year old. He joined a summer swim team when he was four.
Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. (August 11, 1920 – August 11, 2006) was an American entertainer.
Orrorin tugenensis
Orrorin is considered to be the second-oldest known hominin ancestor that is possibly related to modern humans. Only one species is known: Orrorin tugenensis. The name was given by the discoverers who found Orrorin fossils in the Tugen Hills of Kenya. The fossils were found were estimated to date between 6.1 and 5.8 million years ago, during the late Miocene.
Schuyler Bailar
High school
Bailar attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He had a lot of pressure in high school to look feminine and a girl. Bailar did not feel comfortable presenting himself as a girl. He was bullied throughout the entirety of high school for his difference between him and the other girls. He graduated in 2014.
Mike Douglas
Early life and career
Douglas was born in Chicago, Illinois, and began singing as a choirboy. He was singing on a Lake Michigan dinner cruise ship when he was a teenager. After being in the United States Navy for a short time, he moved to Los Angeles. He was on the Ginny Simms radio show. Then, he became a singer in the big band of Kay Kyser.
Schuyler Bailar
High school
He made the physical gender transition from female to male in a gap year between high school and college. Bailar gave up his high rank as a female swimmer. He chose to be true to himself. Bailar’s Korean identity is important to him. Telling some family members that he is transgender was scary. But his family supported him.
Mike Douglas
Early life and career
In 1950, he was the singing voice of Prince Charming in Walt Disney's Cinderella.
Schuyler Bailar
College
Bailar was recruited by Harvard University. He was recruited for the women's team. Both the women's coach and the men's coach supported Bailar's transition. They let him pick which Harvard swim team to join. Bailar swam on the men's team.
Mike Douglas
Early life and career
In the 1950s Douglas, who was living in Burbank, California, tried to keep his singing job going. He did not change to rock and roll, which shortened his chances of being a singer as big band music was becoming less popular. In the hardest years, he and his wife got by "flipping" their Los Angeles homes.
Schuyler Bailar
College
Bailar studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Harvard. He graduated on May 30, 2019. At graduation he won the Harvard Director’s Award, given only when a student who is an athlete does something very important. He was the seventh person to ever receive this award.
Mike Douglas
Talk show
He next showed up in 1961 in Cleveland, where a Chicago friend hired him for $400 a week as an afternoon television host at WKYC-TV. The Mike Douglas Show quickly got popular and had national broadcasting in August 1963.
Schuyler Bailar
College
After graduating, Bailar went on a speaking tour to fifteen states. Bailar now works at a financial services company in Seattle, WA. He teaches the employees interpersonal skills.
Mike Douglas
Talk show
Many famous people were on the show. For example, Truman Capote, The Rolling Stones,Herman's Hermits and Kiss were on the show. The show helped show entertainers for the first time, like Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin. After the move to Philadelphia, Douglas tried to sing again, but it did not work work well.
Réallon
Réallon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Mike Douglas
Talk show
By 1967, The Mike Douglas Show had 6,000,000 viewers each day, mostly women. It earned $10.5 million from advertisers. Douglas was paid more than $500,000. In 1967, the program got the first Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Daytime Television from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Most weeks, Douglas would be joined by a co-host, like John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and Anne Baxter. The show went off the air in 1980.
Schuyler Bailar
Swimming
Bailar started swimming in competitive meets at age seven. First, he swam with the Sea Devil Swimming team. A few years later he competed in the Junior Olympics. Bailar qualified for his first national meet when he was 13.
Mike Douglas
Death
He came down with prostate cancer in 1990, but after surgery he was cancer-free. Douglas died in August 11, 2006, on his 86th birthday from complications of dehydration.
Schuyler Bailar
Swimming
During freshman year of high school Bailar joined the Nation’s Capital Swim Club. He ranked in the top 20 breastrokers in the U.S. in the age group of 15. He had the first back to back All American finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke in 2012.
Mike Douglas
Death
His wife Genevieve, daughters Kelly and twins Michele and Christine lived after him.
Schuyler Bailar
Swimming
Bailar qualified for his first national meet when he was 13. He qualified for the U.S. Open Swimming Championships in 2013. He qualified for the U.S. Open swimming championships (the top U.S. meet when it is not an Olympics year) that year. He was part of a relay team that set the National Age Group Record in the women’s 400 yard medley relay. Bailar’s relay team, consisting of Janet Hu (NCAA Champion), Kylie Jordan (NCAA Qualifier), Katie Ledecky (Gold Medalist Olympian) and himself. They set a U.S. national record for the 400 yard medley relay. They were all aged 15-18.
Injoux-Génissiat
Injoux-Génissiat is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Daigaku-ryō
Daigaku-ryō (大学寮) was the Imperial university of Japan from the 7th century until the end of the 19th century.
For five centuries, the Daigaku-ryō was near the Suzaku Mon at southern boundary of the Imperial enclosure.
History
In 701, the Daigaku-ryō became part of the Ministry of the Civil Services (式部省,).
Prince Yamabe was head of the Daigaku-ryō in 766 (Tenpyō-jingo 2).
On May 27, 1177 (Angen 3, 28th day, 4th month), a fire destroyed the building of the Daigaku-ryō.
Organization
The director (大学頭) was responsible for the examination of students and for festivals which honor Confucius.
Other members of the staff of ''Daigaku-ryō' included:
Carnac stones
The Carnac stones are the largest collection of megalithic standing stones in the world. The more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were cut from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany.
The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may be as old as 4500 BC. The stones occur in a number of Neolithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany. They include rows of stones (alignments), dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs.
In recent centuries, many of the sites have been neglected, with reports of dolmens being used as sheep shelters, chicken sheds or even ovens. Stones have been removed to make way for roads, or used as building materials. The management of the sites is a controversial topic.
Alignments
There are three major groups of stone rows — Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan — which may have once formed a single group, but have been split up as stones were removed for other purposes.
Ménec alignments
Eleven converging rows of menhirs stretching for 1165 by. There is what may be the remains of stone circles at either end. According to the tourist office there is a "cromlech containing 71 stone blocks" at the western end and a very ruined cromlech at the eastern end. The largest stones, around 4 m high, are at the wider, western end; the stones then become as small as 0.6m high along the length of the alignment before growing in height again toward the extreme eastern end.
==== Kermario (House of the Dead) alignment ==== This fan-like layout recurs a little further along to the east in the Kermario alignment. It consists of 1029 stones in ten columns, about 1300 m in length. A stone circle to the east end, where the stones are shorter, was revealed by aerial photography.
Kerlescan alignments
A smaller group of 555 stones, further to the east of the other two sites. It is composed of 13 lines with a total length of about 800 m, ranging in height from 80 cm to 4 m. At the extreme west, where the stones are tallest, there is a stone circle which has 39 stones. There may also be another stone circle to the north.
Petit-Ménec alignments
A much smaller group, further east again of Kerlescan, falling within the commune of La Trinité-sur-Mer. These are now set in woods, and most are covered with moss and ivy.
Tumuli
There are several tumuli, mounds of earth built up over a grave. In this area, they generally feature a passage leading to a central chamber which once held neolithic artefacts.
Saint-Michel
The tumulus of Saint-Michel was constructed between 5000 BC and 3400 BC. At its base it is 125 by, and is 12 m high. It required 35000 m3 of stone and earth. Its function was the same as that of the pyramids of Egypt: a tomb for the members of the ruling class. It contained various funerary objects, such as 15 stone chests, pottery, jewellery, most of which are currently held by the Museum of Prehistory of Carnac. It was excavated in 1862 by René Galles with a series of vertical pits, digging down 8 m. Le Rouzic also excavated it between 1900 and 1907 discovering the tomb and the stone chests.
A chapel was built on top in 1663 but was rebuilt in 1813, before being destroyed in 1923. The current building is an identical reconstruction of the 1663 chapel, built in 1926.
Moustoir
Also known as Er Mané, it is a chamber tomb 85 m long, 35 m wide, and 5 m high. It has a dolmen at the west end, and two tombs at the east end. A small menhir, approximately 3 m high, is nearby. 47.6119°N, -3.0608°W
Dolmens
There are several dolmens scattered around the area. These dolmens are generally considered to have been tombs, however the acidic soil of Brittany has eroded away the bones. They were constructed with several large stones supporting a "capstone", then buried under a mound of earth. In many cases, the mound is no longer present, sometimes due to archeological excavation, and only the large stones remain, in various states of ruin.
Other formations
There are some individual menhirs and at least one other formation which do not fit into the above categories.
Manio quadrilateral
An arrangement of stones to form the perimeter of a large rectangle. Originally a "tertre tumulus" with a central mound, it is 37 m long, and aligned to east of northeast. The quadrilateral is 10 m wide to the east, but only 7 m wide at the west.
Manio giant
Near the quadrilateral is a single massive menhir, now known as the "Giant". Over 6.5 m tall, it was re-erected around 1900 by Zacharie Le Rouzic, and overlooks the nearby Kerlescan alignment. 47.6034°N, -3.056°W
Toninho (footballer, born 1977)
Antonio Bezerra Brandão or simply Toninho (born December 21, 1977), is a Brazilian football player.
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Lincoln Heights Jail
Lincoln Heights Jail was a jail building in Lincoln Heights. It closed in 1954. It is said to be haunted. The jail is sometimes used as a movie set. It was used to make parts of the music video for "Telephone" by Lady Gaga.
Lil' Kim
Kimberly Denise Jones, better known as Lil' Kim (born July 11, 1974), is an American rapper and actress. She released her first album, Hard Core, in 1996. It was very successful. In 2001 she released a single with Christina Aguilera, Mýa, and Pink called "Lady Marmalade" for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack which reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making her the first female rapper to have a number 1 on the chart. It also reached number 1 in 13 other countries and won two MTV Video Music Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Kim also rapped on Aguilera's 2003 single "Can't Hold Us Down". It was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Setúbal
Setúbal (, also, ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 123,496.
Lil' Kim
Career
In 1994 Kim was a member of rap group Junior M.A.F.I.A.. The group released one album Conspiracy in 1995. In 1999, Kim started her own record label, Queen Bee Entertainment. Kim left Junior M.A.F.I.A. in late 2001.
Setúbal
In Setubal is Portugal’s largest covered market, and the Igreja do Convento de Jesus church. On the hill to the south of the city is the Forte de São Filipe, a fort constructed during the 16th century by the Spanish king, Philip II.
Lil' Kim
Career
Kim released her first solo single in four years, "Looks Like Money" in 2013. On November, 29 (Black Friday), 2013 Kim is going to release a mixtape, Hard Core 2K13. She released the first song from it, "Dead Gal Walking" Halloween 2013.
Fights
Kim has been in a fight with Nicki Minaj since Pink Friday.
William Walton
Early years
Walton’s family were musical but they had very little money. Both his parents sang, and Walton sang in the local church choir. His father would hit him if he made a mistake. This may be why in later life he was so careful about every note he wrote.
At the age of ten he joined the choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. He learned the piano and violin. He was only 16 years when he went to Oxford University where he was at Christ Church, Oxford. Most of what he knew about composing he taught himself. He studied the scores of works by Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius and others. He had some lessons from Hugh Allen, the cathedral organist. At Oxford Walton became friends with two poets: Sacheverell Sitwell and Siegfried Sassoon. Most of the music he wrote when he was very young has been lost, but the choral anthem A Litany, written when he was just fifteen, shows his musical talent with its modern harmonies.