cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Radiocarbon dating
In 1958 Hessel de Vries showed that the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere varies with time and locality. The relatively short-lived 14C is constantly renewed by cosmic ray bombardment on atmospheric nitrogen. Since the bombardment is slightly variable, and for other reasons, the 14C taken into organic matter is also slightly variable. That leads to errors in the chronology. However, under about 20,000 years the results can be compared with dendrochronology, based on tree rings. For the most accurate work, variations are compensated by means of calibration curves.
The method was developed by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago in 1949. In 1960, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. He first demonstrated the accuracy of radiocarbon dating by accurately estimating the age of wood from an ancient Egyptian royal barge of which the age was known from historical documents.
Chościsko
Chościsko – according to Gallus Anonymus it is the name of father of Piast Kołodziej, the founder of the Piast Dynasty. His name (originating possibly from Old Polish word for a tail chost/chwost) appears in the Chronicle of Gall of Anonym three times. It is likely that the name in in fact a title of prince Popiel due to his long hair.
Alexis Shifflett
Alexis Shifflett is an American sitting volleyball player. She played at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal, 2014 ParaVolley World Championships, 2018 ParaVolley World Championships, and 2019 Parapan American Games.
She was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. She studied at Waseca Junior and Senior High School in Waseca, Minnesota.
Carisbrooke Castle
Carisbrooke Castle is the Isle of Wight's only remaining medieval castle. It was built on a Roman site. The castle earthworks were begun in 1070. The shell keep was built on the site some 70 years later. None of the Norman domestic buildings now remain. The gatehouse with its drum towers dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.
In 1377 the French landed on the island but the castle was not attacked.
During Elizabethan times the threat of a Spanish invasion was avoided when the Spanish Armada was turned away at a nearby battle. However, the castle was considerably altered to resist the new artillery. Outer lines of defence were built enclosing the old castle. The curtain walls, bastions, and bulwarks remain in good condition to this day.
Charles I was held as prisoner at the castle in 1647. An attempt to escape failed when he got stuck in the bars.
Later the castle was the occasional residence of the governor of the Isle of Wight and it became home to Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, when she was governor.
Alan James Scott
Alan James Scott (born 14 January 1934) is a British politician. He was Governor of the Cayman Islands from 10 June 1987 to 14 September 1992. He was Secretary for Transport in Hong Kong from 1980 until 1985.
Les Hauts de Forterre
Les Hauts de Forterre is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Yonne department in central France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2017 and consists of the former communes of Taingy (the seat), Fontenailles and Molesmes.
Linda Sánchez
Linda Teresa Sánchez (born January 28, 1969) is an American politician and lawyer. She is a member of the U.S. Representative for CA's 38th congressional district since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
G. L. Pridgen
Gaston Layton Pridgen, known as G. L. Pridgen (born ca. 1944), is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly and the North Carolina House of Representatives. In the House of Representatives, he represents the 46th District, including constituents in Hoke, Robeson  and Scotland   counties. A retired telecommunications technician from Laurinburg, North Carolina, Pridgen also has experience in the United States Military.
Education and career
Pridgen was born in Robeson County, where he graduated from Littlefield High School and studied at Robeson Community College. His career with Southern Bell Telephone Company, which later became BellSouth Telecommunications and then AT&T, was interrupted by two years of service in the United States Army. Drafted into the army, he served as a communication lineman in Vietnam with the rank of Specialist-5, and was awarded the Bronze Star.
In 1994, he started his own telecommunications company, The Communications Company, Inc., providing telecommunications to local businesses. In 2009 he began working in the IT Department at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.
House of Representatives
Pridgen is currently serving his first term as Representative for District 46 of North Carolina. In the House of Representatives he is active on seven committees. These are the Agriculture committee, the Appropriations committee (both Appropriations and Appropriations of Education, for which he is Vice-Chair) and the committees on Education, Judiciary (and Judiciary subcommittee B), and Public Utilities.
Views
Pridgen has been the primary sponsor of eleven bills and has co-sponsored twenty-eight other bills, including H475 which authorizes a referendum on whether to make English the official language of North Carolina. He was also a primary sponsor of bill H219 which aimed to keep stricter records of registered sex offenders in the state. Pridgen nominated Dick Taylor to serve on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Pridgen also served as Vice-Chairman of the Appropriations Committee for Education. In this role, he supported a motion that would allow extra tax revenue to help fund the University of North Carolina system schools. This came less than a week after the committee proposed a budget for the UNC-system of schools that would have reduced funding by $483 million, or 17.4 percent. The cuts were described as potentially causing the school system to lose 3,200 jobs and cut 9,000 classes.
Hearing test
A hearing test is a check for a person's sense of hearing to measure what kind of sounds they can hear and if they have any hearing loss. There are many types of hearing tests used to understand different things about a person's hearing. Hearing tests are also different for adults and children as well. It is mainly audiologists that do hearing tests and they will know what kind of hearing test a patient needs.
Nicky Nieves
Nicky Nieves is an American sitting volleyball player. She played at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal, 2014 ParaVolley World Championships, 2018 ParaVolley World Championships, and 2019 Parapan American Games.
Hearing test
Types of hearing tests
Since hearing loss does not always only make sound quieter and may make sound less clear too, there are many different hearing tests to use to understand what kind of hearing loss a person has.
Nicky Nieves
She was born in the Bronx in New York City. She studied speech pathology in Queens College, City University of New York.
Großbeeren
Großbeeren is a municipality in the Teltow-Fläming district in the German state of Brandenburg.
Mike Weinberg
Michael Andrew Weinberg (born February 16 1993) is an American former child actor. He starred in Home Alone 4 as Kevin McCallister. He is the younger brother of Matt Weinberg.
Razgrad Province
Razgrad Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria. The capital city is also named Razgrad.
Municipalities
The Razgrad province has seven municipalities. The following table shows the names of each municipality, the main town or village (towns are shown in bold), and the population of each as of 2009.
Tsing Hua University
Tsing Hua University or THU (simplified Chinese: 清华大学; traditional Chinese: 清華大學; pinyin: Qīng Huá Dà Xué), is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. It is regarded as one of the best and most selective universities in China. It was established in 1911 as a school for Chinese graduates wanting to go further with their studies at universities in other countries, especially the United States and the UK.
History
Tsing Hua University was opened in Beijing, China in 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince. It was first a preparatory school, a school for preparation, for students to be later sent by the government to study in America. The people who graduated were transferred directly to American schools as juniors upon graduation.
In 1925, the school established its College Department and started its research institute on Chinese Study. In 1928, the name officially changed to National Tsing Hua University (NTHU).
During the Second World War in 1937, Tsing Hua University, along with Peking University and Nankai University, merged to form Chang Sha Temporary University in Chang Sha, which later became National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming of Yunnan province. After the war, Tsing Hua moved back to Beijing and resumed its operation.
Mailly-Maillet
Mailly-Maillet is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Tsing Hua University
History
The communist victory at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 led to the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), so the university's President Mei Yi Qi and some professors went to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University. In 1952, the communist government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet style system, with individual institutions tending to specialise in a certain field of study. TsingHua University was disassembled, losing its law school, school of agriculture, school of sciences and humanities, and became a polytechnic engineering university. Even so, the University remained in the top tier schools in China (Many Chinese scholars regards that its only rival is Peking University). In many years following this regroup, the school was often referred to as the "MIT of China". But since the 1980s, the university began to incorporate a multidisciplinary system. As a result, a lot of schools were built and rebuilt. These included the School of Science, School of Economics and Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Law, School of Public Administration, and the School of Art. Only two colleges charge tuition to its graduate students; the law school and the Academy of Arts and Design.
During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the university became a battlefield between different sects of Mao's Red Guards (China) and a stronghold of the radicals. It did not resume its normal operation until 1977 when the Cultural Revolution was officially put to an end.
Since 1977, the university has enjoyed rich government funding and policy support which greatly improved its facilities. Since 1978, it has flourished with the re-establishment of the departments in sciences, economics and management, and the humanities. Its graduate school has been recognized nationally, ranking first in the National Evaluation of Graduate Schools. The School of Continuing Education uses modern information technologies, as well as the advanced educational resources at Tsing Hua.
Present
Admission to Tsinghua is highly competitive. The majority of selected students are national scholars and among the brightest high school graduates in the country. Many of China's top scientists, engineers, politicians and business leaders are among Tsinghua alumni. The former Chinese leader (2002-2012), Hu Jintao, is a former Tsinghua student who graduated with a degree in hydraulic engineering in 1964. The current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (since 2012), Xi Jinping, is a former Tsinghua student who graduated with a degree in chemical engineering in 1979.
As of 2003, Tsinghua University had 12 colleges and 48 departments, 41 research institutes, 35 research centers, and 167 laboratories, including 15 national key laboratories. In September 2006, Peking Union Medical College was renamed to Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University. The university offers 51 bachelor's degree programs, 139 master's degree programs and 107 Ph.D. programs. Recently, Tsinghua has become the first Chinese university to offer a Master of Laws program in American law, through a cooperative venture with the Temple University Beasley School of Law. The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia. Each year, the University celebrates the Intellectual Property Summer Institute in cooperation with Franklin Pierce Law Center of Concord, New Hampshire.
Comparative
Adjectives and Adverbs can be comparative in English and some other languages. When people are talking about two or more nouns, they can compare them (say the differences between them). The word which explains how they compare is called the comparative. They can also compare actions using adverbs.
Tsing Hua University
Present
On April 12, 2007, Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management became the first business school in the Chinese mainland to earn AACSB accreditation. Former Premier Zhu Rongji was the founding dean of the school.
Comparative
Examples: (The comparative is in bold).
Tsing Hua University
Present
The University's Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology is on a separate campus in a northern suburb of Beijing.
Comparative
Many words can be made into a comparative by adding er to the end of the word.
Tsing Hua University
Present
Tsinghua is where former United States Vice President Al Gore lectured at in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Viewers can see the university lecture hall, with its well-known purple seats.
Comparative
Words that end with the letter 'Y' can still be made into a comparative, but people change the 'Y' to an 'I' and then add 'ER'.
Tsing Hua University
Campus
The campus of Tsinghua University is in northwest Beijing, in the Haidian district which was designated for universities.
Comparative
Some words cannot be made into a comparative by adding 'ER' Instead we use the word more in front. Most of these words have three or more syllables, such as beautiful, reliable.
Tsing Hua University
Campus
The university's architect T. Chuang, a 1914 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, modeled his designs for the quadrangle and auditorium of Tsinghua on the Illinois campus, specifically imitating Foellinger Auditorium, located on the quad at the University of Illinois.
Comparative
If people are not sure about a word, it is always acceptable to say "more" (something), such as "more beautiful", "more expensive".
Tsing Hua University
Tsinghua Alma Mater
Tsinghua's early alma mater (school anthem) was composed by an American instructor Miss Katherine E. Seelye:
Comparative
Warning: The 'ER' ending and the word "more" together cannot be used.
Tsing Hua University
Tsinghua Alma Mater
In 1923, another version of the school alma mater with lyrics in Chinese (by Prof. Wang Luan Xiang, a Chinese language professor of Tsinghua) was composed by Mrs. Zhang Hui Zhen and was well received by the students and faculty. The song was then adopted as the school's official Alma Mater.
Neutrino
Neutrinos are a type of elementary particle that exist all across the universe. The word neutrino means a small neutral particle. Physicists study these particles, but they are hard to find because they have a very small chance of interacting with regular matter. (For example, they usually pass through the whole earth without touching any other particles). Neutrinos travel near the speed of light.
Tsing Hua University
School Flowers
Redbud and Lilac
Neutrino
Neutrinos are very difficult to detect. They are very unlikely to collide (interact) with other particles as they travel through space or through matter. Electrons have an electric charge, but neutrinos do not. This means that neutrinos are unaffected by the electromagnetic force. The first detectors built to find neutrinos observed only 10 or 15 each year. Recent detectors use tanks that contain about a thousand tons of water or other liquid, which lets them detect about 10 to 100 neutrinos per day.
Neutrinos are generated in particle accelerators, in the sun, in other stars, and in nuclear reactions such as in nuclear reactors. They are generated whenever there is a nuclear reaction in the form of beta decay. This process starts off with one neutron, and ends with one electron, one proton, and one neutrino.
Tsing Hua University
School Colors
Purple and White
Neutrino
We used to think that neutrinos have no mass, but a few years ago physicists found that they have a very small mass, much lighter than electrons. By finding neutrinos, we can learn about the structure and the history of the universe. Since most of them pass easily through sun, physicists have learned about the reactions in the center of the sun that make the sun's heat, by detecting the neutrinos that come out from the sun's center.
Tsing Hua University
Tsinghua Fight Song
Cheer for old Tsinghua Tsinghua must win. Fight to the finish, never give in. You do your best, boys, we'll do the rest, boys. Fight for the victory, Rha, Rha, Rha! The school cheer goes: Ri-ri-ri, Rah-rah-rah! Tsinghua, Tsinghua, Tsinghua ! Rah-rah-rah!
Neutrino
The three types of neutrinos are named after the three leptons that have electric charge. There is the electron neutrino (ve), the muon neutrino (vµ), and the tau neutrino (vτ). Each neutrino has an antiparticle, called an antineutrino. Therefore, there is an electron antineutrino, a muon antineutrino, and tau antineutrino.
The three types of neutrinos change into each other over time, so an electron neutrino could turn into a muon or tau neutrino and then back again. This is called neutrino oscillation. This oscillation was suggested when then number of electron neutrinos from the Sun was measured in the 1960s, and the amount was only about a third of what theories at the time said there should be. The result of neutrino oscillation is that most of the electron neutrinos made in the Sun change to another type of neutrino. Most neutrinos passing through the planet Earth come from the Sun. About 65 billion (6.5) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter of area, including our own bodies. This is true even on the night side of Earth, because nearly all the neutrinos from the sun pass easily through the Earth.
Louise Élisabeth of France
Louise Élisabeth de France (Marie Louise Élisabeth; 14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczyńska. She married Infante Philip, younger son of Philip V of Spain, and later became Duchess of Parma.
Princess of France
Baptised with the names Marie Louise Élisabeth she was the twin of Henriette of France. She was known at court as Madame Royale, Madame Première or Madame Élisabeth. Within the family she was known Babette. She was he fathers favourite daughter.
Marriage
She was forced to marry Infante Philip of Spain by proxy on 26 August 1739. not having met her future husband beforehand. Afterwards, she was known as Madame Infante at the court of Louis XV. The marriage ceremony took place on 25 October 1739. She was known as Madame Infante at Versailles after her marriage.
Louise Élisabeth travelled to Madrid to the court of Philip V of Spain who was in fact her great uncle. The strict court etiquette was made worse by her mother-in-law, Elisabeth Farnese, who disliked Louise Élisabeth.
Duchess of Parma
Louise Élisabeth was able to leave Spain in 1748 when her husband was created Duke of Parma thanks to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) which ended the War of the Austrian Succession. At Louis XV's instigation, Philip was given Parma as Louise Élisabeth had frequently asked him to bestow territory on her husband. En route to Parma, Louise Élisabeth went to Versailles arriving there in December 1748. During her stay she became acquainted with Madame de Pompadour. She arrived in Parma in October 1749 where she imported French court manners and cuisine. She also redecorated the Ducal Palace of Colorno in the French style.
At the death of her twin sister in 1752, Louise Élisabeth returned to France in September to visit her tomb at Saint-Denis. She was expected to stay for only a few weeks, but remained in Versailles for almost a year.
Louise Élisabeth was bored when she returned to Parma, and sought a wider realm to rule. She allied herself with Empress Maria Theresa, who promised Louise Élisabeth the throne of the Southern Netherlands, which had been returned to Austrian rule under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. This alliance was to be cemented by the marriage of her daughter Princess Isabella to Archduke Joseph of Austria. The marriage took place in 1760.
While back at Versailles, Louise Élisabeth died of smallpox. She was buried on 27 March 1760 at Saint-Denis Basilica beside her sister, Henriette. Their tombs were destroyed during the French Revolution.
Mailly-Raineval
Mailly-Raineval is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Camden, North Carolina
Camden is an town in Camden County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Camden County, a consolidated city-county. As of the 2010 census, the Camden had a population of 599
Camden is located on the eastern banks of the Pasquotank River, across from which lies Elizabeth City. It currently has two traffic lights, and is centered at the intersection of U.S. Highway 158 and North Carolina Highway 343. It boasts five schools: Grandy Primary School, Camden Intermediate School, Camden Middle School, Camden County High, and CamTech High School.
Camden is part of the Elizabeth City, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Camden County Courthouse, Camden County Jail, Lamb-Ferebee House, and Milford are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Camden is the original home city of Nikita Pavlunenko.
Stuart Jack
Stuart Duncan Macdonald Jack (8 June 1949 – 16 February 2022) was a British diplomat. He was the Governor of the Cayman Islands from 2005 until 2009.
Jack was appointed as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) in 1994.
Ruse Province
Ruse Province is a province in Bulgaria. The capital city is also named Ruse.
The Danube Bridge, one of only two bridges opened over the Danube, is in the province.
Municipalities
The Ruse province has eight municipalities. The following table shows the names of each municipality, the main town (in bold) or village, and the population of each as of December 2009.
Neuenhagen bei Berlin
Neuenhagen bei Berlin is a municipality in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the German state of Brandenburg. It is about 19 km east of Berlin (centre). It was founded around 1230.
Umbrella
An umbrella is a hand tool that is used to stop rain from falling on a person. It is also used to make shade and protect people from sunlight. An umbrella made for protection from the sunlight is called a parasol. And a plastic umbrella is cheap but it is fragile.
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and actress.
Chenoweth has been on Broadway in Scapin (Hyacinth), Steel Pier (Precious McGuire), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally Brown), Epic Proportions (Louise Goldman), Wicked (Glinda Upland), The Apple Tree (Eve/Princess Barbara/Ella/Passionella), Promises, Promises (Fran Kubelik), and On the 20th Century (Lily Garland). She won a Tony Award for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and was nominated for Wicked and On the 20th Century.
Off-Broadway Chenoweth was in The Box Office of the Damned (Kristy), Dames at Sea (Ruby), The Fantasticks (Luisa), A New Brain (Nancy D/Waitress), and Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Woman). She also played Christine Daae on the German tour of Phantom. At Encores! she appeared in Strike Up the Band, Stairway to Paradise, Music in the Air, The Apple Tree, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
On TV Chenoweth played Lily St. Regis in the movie Annie, Kristin Yancey on the show Kristin, Marian Paroo in the movie The Music Man, Annabeth Schott on The West Wing, Cunegonde in the filmed musical Candide which was put on Great Performances, Ms. Noodle on Sesame Street, Olive Snook on Pushing Daisies, E.J. Baxter in the movie Twelve Men of Christmas, Miracle Grohe on Sit Down, Shut Up, Skippy Pylon in the movie Legally Mad, April Rhodes on Glee, Carlene Cockburn on GCB, and Maleficent in the movie Descendants. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for season 1 of Pushing Daisies, and won one for the second season. She was also nominated for the first two seasons of Glee.
Chenoweth has appeared in movies, too, including Bewitched (Maria Kelly), The Pink Panther (Cherie), RV (Mary Jo Gornicke), Deck the Halls (Tia Hall), Stranger than Fiction (Book Channel Host), Tinkerbell (Rosetta), Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure (Rosetta), Into Temptation (Linda Salerno), Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Rosetta), Hit and Run (Debby Kreeger), Family Weekend (Samantha Smith-Dungy), Rio 2 (Gabi), The Boy Next Door (Vicky Lansing), Strange Magic (Sugar Plum Fairy), The Peanuts Movie (Fifi), and My Little Pony: The Movie (Princess Skystar). She was nominated for a Razzie for Deck the Halls, The Pink Panther, and RV.
Chenoweth has done two tours: Kristin Chenoweth in Concert and Coming Home Tour, and has done solo shows at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall. She has a concert DVD called Coming Home, and five albums; Let Yourself Go, As I Am, A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas, Some Lessons Learned, and Coming Home, which peaked at #48 on the US charts.
Duncan Taylor (diplomat)
Duncan John Rushworth Taylor (born 17 October 1958) is a British retired diplomat. He became the governor of the Cayman Islands on 15 January 2010. He was later made ambassador to Mexico in 2013. In April 2018, he announced his retirement.
Western Highland treefrog
The Western Highland treefrog (Litoria iris) is a small frog from New Guinea.
Male adult frogs are 36 mm long from nose to rear end and females are 43 mm long. Their backs can be any of a few colors but usually green with a thick black pattern. They have orange coloring on their legs and some purple and blue on their middles and bellies.
They lay eggs on plants hanging over bodies of water. Tadpoles take two weeks to hatch and then fall off the leaf into the water.
Atlantis
Atlantis is a name for a non-fictional large island or small continent that was in the Atlantic Ocean many years before it sank into the depth of the sea.
The name Atlantis first appears in the writings of Herodotus - he describes the western ocean as "Sea of Atlantis." Then, one generation later, Atlantis is described in detail in the stories Timaeus and Critias by the Greek philosopher Plato. He used this story to help explain his ideas about government and philosophy. Plato was the only ancient writer who wrote specific things about Atlantis.
According to Plato, the Atlanteans lived 9000 years before his own time and were half human and half god. They created a very good human society. When they stopped being good people and did bad things, the gods sent earthquakes and fire to destroy Atlantis.
Many scholars think that Plato could mean a real place when he was writing about Atlantis. For example, there was a Minoan kingdom on the island of Santorini. The Minoan kingdom was very powerful thousands of years before Plato, and their society was damaged when a volcano erupted on their island. According to Plato, Atlantis was very large, as big as North Africa, so it should not have been hard to find.
After the discovery of the Americas, some people in Europe thought they might be Atlantis. However, after Plato, the idea of Atlantis was mostly forgotten until 1882, when a writer named Ignatius Donnelly wrote a book saying that Atlantis was real and that the culture of Atlantis had started many other ancient cultures, such as the Egyptian and Mayan. Then other people became interested in Atlantis.
Atlantis has appeared in many works of fiction. In Marvel Comics, Atlantis is at the bottom of the ocean and exists in modern times, with people who breathe water. Other works of fiction use Atlantis as background. For example, Robert E. Howard set his Conan the Barbarian stories in a fictional time called the Hyborian Age, which began with the destruction of Atlantis and ended when real written history started.
Ashley Jensen
Ashley Jensen (born 11 August 1969) is a Scottish actress and narrator. She was nominated for an Emmy for her role on the television series Extras, in which she appeared from 2005 to 2007.
Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large (November 15, 1942 – October 28, 2017) was a Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel, Les terres entourées de larmes (Shore surrounded with tears) won the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean literary Prize) in 2003. He was born in Jérémie, Haiti. Large was a member of La Société des Gens de Lettres de France (Society of French intellectuals) and of the PEN Club America.
Tiberias Ancient Jewish Cemetery
The Tiberias Ancient Jewish Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Israel. It has been used for thousands of years as a burial place for many people, including prominent figures of importance to Jewish heritage. It was closed in the 1990's.
Josaphat-Robert Large
Large died of cancer in New York City on October 28, 2017 at the age of 74.
Ashley Jensen
She was a cast member of the ABC series Ugly Betty. She also plays the main character in the comedy-drama detective television series Agatha Raisin.
Tiberias Ancient Jewish Cemetery
The cemetery is located along the eastern slope of Mount Berenice and near the Sea of Galilee.
The Tomb of Rachel, Rabbi Akiva's wife, is an ancient tomb building located in the western part of the cemetery.
UK Dance Singles and Albums Charts
The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are music charts made in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from the number of sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synthpop) in record stores and digital downloads. The chart can be viewed on BBC Radio 1's and Official Charts Company's website. The list on the Official Charts Company website goes all the way back to 3 July 1994.
Downloads and streams became allowed on the Dance Album and Singles Chart in June 2009. Before that, only vinyl and CD sales were put together into the chart.
The Dance Singles and Album Charts contains a list of 40 songs or albums.
Safed Old Jewish Cemetery
The New Cemetery
The New Safed Cemetery is located under the Safed Old Jewish Cemetery.
Rabbi Isaac Luria Mikveh
In the entrance to the cemetery is the ancient Mikveh that was used for the Rabbi Isaac Luria. His grave is located nearby.
The Military Cemetery
The Military Cemetery of Safed that was used from 1948 is located to the north of the Safed Old Jewish Cemetery.
The Central Monument to the Olei Hagardom
The Central Monument to the Olei Hagardom is located on the slope of Mount Canaan under the Military Cemetery.
Cristina (singer)
Cristina Monet-Palaci (January 17, 1956 – March 31, 2020), better known as Cristina, was an American singer. She is best known for her new wave recordings made for Ze Records around the early 1980s in New York City. Her two studio albums were reissued in 2004. Notable singles by Cristina include "Disco Clone", "Is That All There Is?", "Drive My Car" and "Things Fall Apart".
On March 31, 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Cristina died of COVID-19. She was 64.
Patrick Juvet
He represented Switzerland at the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Je vais me marier, Marie" which ranked at 12th place.
On 1 April 2021, it was announced that Juvet was found dead at his apartment in Barcelona, aged 70. An autopsy report that was released on 8 April, concluded that Juvet died of cardiac arrest.
Asbestos
Asbestos is a set of six silicate minerals which occur naturally. White asbestos makes up 95% of the asbestos found in buildings. It occurs in all parts of the world. It is fibrous, heat resistant and non flammable. These properties made it very attractive as a component in building materials and other products such as insulation and automobile brake pads. People have used asbestos throughout history. Ancient Egyptian people used asbestos. Asbestos is extremely dangerous for human health, as it can cause lung diseases such as asbestosis, emphysema and mesothelioma if the fibres get loose in the air. It can also harm animals such as livestock or pets.
Asbestos was linked to lung cancer in the early 1970s, and was replaced by other materials in most applications by 1980.
Types of asbestos
There are six types of asbestos:
Lawsuits
Many companies that use or used to use asbestos have been sued by current or former employees who got sick with mesothelioma or asbestosis. Many lawyers specialize in asbestos-related lawsuits.
Helen Kilpatrick
Helen Marjorie Kilpatrick (born 9 October 1958) is a British civil servant. She was Governor of the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2018.
Tang Xue Mei
Tang Xue Mei (born 4 February 1994) is a Chinese female sitting volleyball player. She is part of the China women's national sitting volleyball team. She competed at the 2010 Asian Para Games, 2012 Summer Paralympics winning the gold medal, 2018 Asian Para Games, and 2018 World ParaVolley World Championships.
Cadmium chloride
Cadmium chloride is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CdCl2. It has cadmium and chloride ions in it. The cadmium is in its +2 oxidation state.
Properties
Cadmium chloride is a colorless solid. It dissolves easily in water. It is toxic and carcinogenic (causes cancer). It is mostly ionic but a little covalent. It reacts with bases to make cadmium oxide.
Preparation
Cadmium chloride is made by reacting cadmium oxide, cadmium, or cadmium carbonate with hydrochloric acid. It can also be made by mixing cadmium and chlorine.
Uses
It is used to make yellow cadmium sulfide, which is used as a pigment. It is also used to make organocadmium compounds. It is also used for electroplating.
Kentwood, Louisiana
Kentwood is a small town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana near the Mississippi border. The population was 2,205 at the 2000 census. It is best known as the hometown of singer Britney Spears
Cove, Utah
Cove is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 494 at the 2020 census.
Audiologist
An audiologist is a health professional in hearing and other auditory problems such as tinnitus and balance.
Role of an audiologist
The role of an audiologist is to diagnose and treat hearing problems, minimising the impact these problems have on the lives of their patients. Audiologists will provide help that is customised to each patient to help them be able to communicate with the world around them.
In order to treat hearing problems, they must first be identified. Audiologists do tests and hearing checks on patients to measure and understand the type of help they will need. With the information they gain from these tests, audiologists can advise patients about their hearing health and recommend any treatment that they might need. If treatment such as hearing aids are needed for a patient, the audiologist will be able to help make the solution the best suited to the patient by customising the treatment depending on what the patient needs. This includes helping to find a suitable hearing aid, fitting it and programming it and maintaining it. This applies to other recommended treatment as well.
Although treatment and help to lessen the effects of hearing problems are a main focus of an audiologist, they also have the role of educating and teaching patients as well as the public. How to prevent hearing loss as well as how to protect hearing are usually the main focus of what an audiologist teaches and may be done through presentations in schools, in workplaces and to the community. It is important for audiologists to educate the public about hearing loss and how important hearing health is as well as how audiologists are able to help. Audiologists treat all ages and types of hearing loss.
Workplace
The hearing services of an audiologist are used in many different settings but most work in health care. In health care, they are focused on the main role of an audiologist which is providing hearing health care services including testing for hearing loss and recommending treatment. Many audiologists can be found working with patients in hospitals, medical centers, private practices and in nursing homes.
Another workplace for audiologists is in education, which is another important role that they perform. They may be working in schools, in universities or even day care centers in order to educate students about hearing loss and prevention. These professionals understand the effect that hearing loss can have on a student's learning and can work with schools to recommend strategies to help build a more supportive environment for students. While they may be more focused on education, these audiologists are still also able to do hearing tests and checks on students and help them find the best solutions for their hearing problems.
Other workplaces for an audiologist include work with the government and work in research.
Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture is named after Hallstatt, a city in Austria in which the first artifacts were found. It lasted from about 1200 BC to about 275 BC.
There were different periods that are now told apart mainly by the kinds of brooches used. The brooches changed rather rapidly and permit a good estimate. Hallstatt culture sites have been found in the east of France, in Switzerland, in the south of Germany, in Austria, in Slovenia and Croatia, northwestern Hungary, southwestern Slovakia and southern Moravia.
In this time, the social structure developed into a hierarchy. That can be documented by various things that were added to graves, such as at Magdalenenberg. In the Bronze Age, people lived in big settlements. As iron became available, trade routes changed. A new upper class could establish itself. Unlike before, the upper class liked to live in big houses in the countryside to show their power.
Funerary cults also changed, from cremation burials, to burials with sarcophagi. The new upper class used its wealth for import goods, mostly from the Mediterranean. People started settling there around the 2nd millennium BC.
Other websites
Hallstatt culture: the real thing.
Gaston Neal
Gaston Neal (1934 - October 21, 1999) was an American poet and activist. He was from Pittsburgh. He won a Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Literary Arts. He co-founded the New School for Afro-American Thought.
Covington County
Covington County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks (April 12, 1937 – October 29, 2017) was a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, actor and author. He was an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks was also known as Nowa Cumig. His name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Universe". He was a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in 1968 with Native Americans in Minneapolis.
Banks had roles in the movies War Party (1988), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Thunderheart (1992), and Older Than America (2008).
In August 2016, Banks received the vice presidential 2016 election nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party, a socialist political party with ballot access in California. He appeared on the California ballot with presidential nominee Gloria La Riva.
Banks died of complications from pneumonia on October 29, 2017 in Rochester, Minnesota at the age of 80.
Microkini
A micro bikini (or microkini) is a bikini, a bathing suit for women. Like a bikini, it is made of two parts, a top, and a slip. The slip usually only covers the labiae, the top only covers the nipples. Microkinis were developed in the 1970s, because nudism was outlawed in many parts of the United States. Many microkini models are transparent. They usually do not cover the buttocks. There are versions which are just made of straps of fabric which cover almost nothing. Before wearing a micro bikini, women usually shave at least part of their pubic hair.
Pasties can be seen as a variant of a microkini: Unlike a top, which is made of fabric, pasties are made of plastic; they are not kept in place with cords.
Microkini designs for men were introduced at the end of the 1960s consisting of briefs that barely covered the penis and the pubic hair. These micro bikinis for men have continued to be popular in Brazil, particularly in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. During the 1980s the popularity of highly revealing thongs such as those found in the microkini meant that Brazilian waxing to remove most of the hair from the pubic area also became more poular.
In 1995 fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a micro bikini for Chanel’s spring 1996 collection. It resembled a string bikini except that the top's triangles were replaced with two small circles resembling nipple pasties.
Microkinis keep the wearer just within legal limits of decency. They fill a niche between nudism and conservative swimwear. In Europe the wearing of microkinis at beaches or hotels or public pools is often allowed. It may be considered inappropriate in more conservative societies. Wearing them in public is prohibited in some places by local laws which can carry a fine.
Logan, North Dakota
Logan is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Ward County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 194 at the 2010 census.
Diagonal
Diagonal is a kind of straight line. A diagonal line does not go straight up, down, or across. It is a line that connects two corners of a shape.
Independence, Utah
Independence is a town of Wasatch County in the state of Utah, in the United States.
Diagonal
In mathematics, "diagonal" has different meanings. For example, in geometry a diagonal is any line that goes between the corners of a polygon. So a square has two diagonals, and a five-sided shape has five diagonals. In general the count of diagonal can be identified by a formula [n(n-3)]/2 where n is the total number of sides of shapes.
Forest Park, Oklahoma
Forest Park is a town of Oklahoma in the United States.
Iris (goddess)
Iris was known as the goddess of the rainbow and another messenger for the gods in Greek mythology.
She is depicted as a beautiful golden goddess, with wings (for flight), sandals, a staff, and a tunic. There is often much art, such as vases and murals, shown of her because she is worshiped and very beautiful. She was also seen briefly in Homer's Legacies.
SC Wiener Neustadt
SC Wiener Neustadt(official name SC Wiener Neustadt 08) is a footballclub from Austria. The club is playing in the Austrian Bundesliga.
Iris (goddess)
Iris is generally seen as Hera's personal servant and messenger. Iris is very swift and fast and she generally travels by rainbow. It is even said that the reason the rainbow comes and goes so fast is because Iris only uses it for travel and since she is so fast, it is only in the sky for a small amount of time.
SC Wiener Neustadt
The club was founded in 2008 as the Upper Austrian club SC Schwanenstadt decided to transfer to Oberwaltersdorf because of financial problems. Because SC Schwanenstadt was 7th in the second league the new club could also play in this league.
Iris (goddess)
She is seen today in both Roman, and Greek mythology, as an important figure to Greece, and the gods. In Greek mythology it is believed that if you throw a drachma (Greek currency) into a rainbow you can communicate with anyone anywhere (like the Skype of ancient times).
SC Wiener Neustadt
The first match was against FC Wacker Innsbruck (0-3). The rest of the season was more successful. They became champion of the second league and promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga.
Iris (goddess)
Her parents are Thaumas (marine titan) and Elektra (cloud nymph). Her husband is Zephryus (west wind). In some versions of Greek mythology, Iris is the mother of Pothos.
SC Wiener Neustadt
The club´s president was Frank Stronach, the founder of Magna Inetrnational. He was also the main sponsor. But he decided to leave the club, so the future of the club is not clear. For the 2011/12 season Wiener Neustadt has got a new coach, Peter Stöger, who came from GAK, because Peter Schöttl became new coach of SK Rapid Wien. After Peter Stöger went to Austria Wien, because the earlier Austria coach Ivica Vastic was not very successful, the team had to look for a new coach. Just before the season 2011/2012 began, the SC Wiener Neustadt presented Heimo Pfeifenberger as the new coach.
Miriam Peretz
Miriam Peretz (born 10 April 1954) is an Moroccan-born Israeli educator and politician. She is known for her lectures around the world on Zionism. Peretz was the recipient of the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2018.
In May 2021, Peretz announced that she would run for president of Israel in the 2021 election. She lost the election on 2 June 2021 to former Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog.
Peretz was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco.
John Roberts (actor)
Jonathan "John" Roberts (born 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice arist, and comedian. He is the voice of Linda Belcher in Bob's Burgers.
State school
State schools may be called public schools outside of England and Wales.
United States
In the United States, "state school" is colloquial for state university, a college, or a university in a state university system. "Public school" is used for elementary, middle, or high schools that get their money from the government or are run by the government. "Private school" is used for schools that do not get their money from the government, nor are they run by the government.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (6 July 1923 - 25 May 2014) was a Polish military officer and politician. He was leader from 1981-1989 and the first President of Poland from July 1989 to December 1990.
Personal life
Jaruzelski came from a family of Polish gentry. He was a son of Władysław Jaruzelski.
Military and political career
Selected by the Soviets for officer training in 1943, he served in the military working for Stalin,from 1943-1953 and Beria,Malenkov,and,Molotov,in 1953 and,Khrushchev,from 1955-1964,and Brezhnev,from 1964-1982,Andropov,from 1982-1984 and,Chernenko,from 1984-1985 and Gorbachev,from 1985 until 1989. In total he worked for 46 year’s from 1943-1989. He was the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie) and chairman of the Polish United Workers Party 1981-1989. Jaruzelski was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from 1981-1985 and remained as head of state until 1990 as Poland's last communist leader. He resigned to allow for democratic elections.