cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Italian wine
History
Depending on the vintage, Italy is the world's largest or second largest producer of wine, along with France (each country is generally the source of around 1/5 of the world's overall production).
Winemaking
Most winemaking in Italy is done in modern wineries. But villagers, you need to stick a banana on your head for being proper while making wine for their own use, sometimes tread the grapes with their bare feet until the juice is squeezed out. They believe this ancient method still makes the best wine.
Petr Shelokhonov
Petr (Peter) Shelokhonov (August 15, 1929 in Poland - September 15 1999, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian film and stage actor and director. He played over 90 roles in movies and on television. He also played over 100 roles on stage. Petr Shelokhonov received the title of Honorable Actor of Russia in 1979.
Biography
Petr Shelokhonov was of Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish ancestry. He survived Nazi occupation during World War II. In the war, Petr Shelokhonov was wounded by gunshot in his face, but the scar in the face did not stop him from becoming an actor. Petr Shelokhonov joined the partisans resistance. He made his own puppet theater in 1943 and performed parodies of Adolf Hitler. In 1945, he became a piano student at the Kiev Conservatory of Music. In the 1950s, he moved to the Siberian city of Irkutsk. There, he graduated from Irkutsk Drama School. Then he worked in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, and also in Odesa and Kyiv, Ukraine.
White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover are cliffs in Dover, England. The cliffs are a part of the North Downs cliff formation. The cliffs are white because they are mostly chalk with bits of flint mixed in. These cliffs are a major tourist destination for thousands of people every year. The cliffs are also the biggest cliffs in Great Britain.
Petr Shelokhonov
Biography
Petr Shelokhonov was a member of five theatre companies in Russia. He also played roles in international productions on stage, in movies, and on television. His acting career lasted over 50 years and he played over 180 various characters ranging from Shakespearean prince Hamlet to Soviet dictator Lenin.
In 1989 - 1992, he played the leading role (Sam) in Photo Finish, written and directed by Peter Ustinov. In 1993-4, he starred as Victor Velasco in Neil Simon's play Barefoot in the Park.
In 1997, Petr Shelokhonov played a supporting role in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring Sophie Marceau. Sean Bean. Alfred Molina, and James Fox.
Petr Shelokhonov died on 15 September 1999 from cardiac arrest in St. Petersburg, aged 70.
COVID-19 pandemic in Belize
The COVID-19 pandemic in Belize is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case in Belize was confirmed on 23 March 2020.
Cases
The country's first case was confirmed on 23 March, a Belizean woman who returned to San Pedro Town from Los Angeles, California. The second case was confirmed on 25 March. They had come into contact with the first case.
The third case in Belize was confirmed on 29 March from a traveler returning from New York City to Belize City.
COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Lucia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Lucia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case in Saint Lucia was confirmed on 13 March 2020. As of 26 July 2021, there were 5,529 total confirmed cases, 93 active cases, with 88 deaths and 5,343 recoveries.
Rogers County, Oklahoma
Rogers County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 70,641 people lived there. Its county seat is Claremore.
Geography
The county has a total area of 711 square miles.
NRHP sites
The followings sites in Rogers County are listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Biography
Luc-Adolphe Tiao studied journalism at the University of Dakar, graduating in 1980.
Fountain Lake, Arkansas
Fountain Lake is a town of Garland County in the state of Arkansas in the United States.
Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Biography
In 1988, he participated in the founding of the Journalists Association of Burkina Faso, which he chaired until 1990. In 1992, Tiao was appointed press officer of the Burkina Faso embassy in France. From 1997, he was in charge of communication with the Prime Minister, before being president of the High Council of Communication from 2001 to 2008, when he returned to Paris, this time as ambassador. He remains in office until his appointment as Prime Minister in April 2011.
President of Austria
The President of Austria is the federal head of state of Austria. Even though the constitution says the President has a lot of power, in practice the President is mostly a figurehead. The President of Austria is elected once in every six years. His or her offices are in the Leopoldine Wing of the Hofburg Imperial Palace, in Vienna.
Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Biography
On October 30, 2014, following a popular uprising in Ouagadougou, the government is dissolved.
President of Austria
Many former Presidents have had a lot of popularity while in office. No incumbent has ever lost a bid for re-election. Since 2017 the President has been Alexander Van der Bellen.
Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Biography
In 2015, he supported a doctoral thesis in "Communication, Arts and Entertainment" at the University Bordeaux-Montaigne.
On September 16, 2016, after returning from Ivory Coast where he had been in exile for two years, Tiao is charged with "murder".
The Pigeon Detectives
The Pigeon Detectives are an English band who originated from Rothwell in Leeds, they formed in 2002. They have received praise by such well known DJs as Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were "the band most likely to leap to the main stage in 2007” in an issue of the NME.
They supported Dirty Pretty Things whilst they toured in spring 2006. In early November 2006 they supported The Kaiser Chiefs, who are known to be admirers of the band. On 8 July 2007, they played on the Radio 1 NME Stage in front of thousands of people at T in the Park. The performance was televised and shown later that day on BBC3 television channel.
3. Liga
The '''3. Liga''' is the 3rd division of football in Germany. It replaced the Regionalliga as the 3rd division of Germany in 2008.
Centovalli
Centovalli is the name of a valley, in Ticino. It starts at Intragna, near Locarno and runs to the Swiss-Italian border. In Italy, the Italian part of the valley is known as Valle Vigezzo. There's the Domodossola–Locarno railway line, which is also known as Centovalley railway.
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza (18 December 1964 – 8 June 2020) was the President of Burundi. He began his term as President in 2005. He replaced Domitien Ndayizeye.
Before he was President, Nkurunziza was an activist for freedom fighting. His father was also a politician in Burundi.
Nkurunziza was hospitalized on 6 June 2020 after feeling unwell in Karuzi, Burundi. He later had a heart attack on two days later and died at the age of 55.
Geometric distribution
In probability, the geometric distribution with probability of success p, written, is a discrete probability distribution defined on non-negative integers. It is used to model the number of trials needed to obtain a first success, where the probability of success of each trial is p.
An example involving geometric distribution is the number of times a coin needs to be tossed in order to get the first head.
The geometric distribution is the discrete analogue of the exponential distribution.
Yuki onna
Yuki Onna means 'Snow woman' in Japanese. It is a kind of frost spirit, or yōkai, in Japanese mythology that usually appears as a beautiful woman in a white robe with long black hair. In some stories, the Yuki Onna is good and helps people in the mountains. In other stories, she is evil and freezes people.
Yuki onna may also be known as yuki-musume ("snow daughter"), yuki-onago ("snow girl"), yukijorō (雪女郎, "snow woman"), yuki anesa ("snow sis'"), yuki-onba ("snow granny" or "snow nanny"), yukinba ("snow hag") in Ehime, yukifuri-baba ("snowfall hag") in Nagano. Yuki-onna also has many names that come from the Japanese word for icicle, like tsurara-onna, kanekori-musume and shigama-nyōbō.
South India
South India is often used to refer to the states and territories in the southern part of the Republic of India. In general, one of the following is meant:
Its a diverse region with many cultures and people
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil australopithecine which was discovered in 1993 by the paleontologist Michel Brunet. Brunet found the fossil in the Bahr el Ghazal valley near Koro Toro, in Chad, in Africa and named it Abel. Abel was dated using beryllium-based radiometric dating as living about 3.6 million years ago.
VfL Osnabrück
The VfL Osnabrück is a football club which plays in Germany.
Aneuploidy
Aneuploidy is a condition where the nucleus of a cell has one or a few chromosomes more or less than the usual number in the species. It is a common cause of genetic disorders. Aneuploidy occurs during cell division when the chromosomes do not separate properly between the two cells.
Aneuploidy often causes birth defects and miscarriages. Birth defects make up about 3% of births in the United States. Among those who survive birth, Down syndrome is the most common form of aneuploidy. Many with Down syndrome do survive to adulthood. Some cancer cells also have abnormal numbers of chromosomes. The aneuploid theory of cancer suggests that aneuploidy is a cause of cancer rather than a result of it.
Dagneux
Dagneux is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France. In 2014, 4,441 people lived in the commune. The inhabitants are the Dagnards.
Romford–Upminster line
The Romford–Upminster line is a railway branch line in Greater London. It connects Romford, on the Great Eastern Main Line, to Upminster, on the London, Tilbury and Southend Line and London Underground. The route is 3 mi long and there is one intermediate station at Emerson Park. The line is single-track throughout and is electrified at 25 kV AC. The speed limit is 30 mph.
As of May 2015 services are operated by London Overground. There are two trains per hour in each direction. The timetabled journey time from one terminus to the other is nine minutes. It is completely separated from the rest of the London Overground.
Hirschaid
Hirschaid is the biggest municipality in the district of Bamberg. About 11,650 people live there. The mayor is Andreas Schlund.
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (also referred to as UCSB and UC Santa Barbara) is a research university in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The third-oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara offeres 87 undergraduate and 55 graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The main campus is located on a 1,022-acre (4.1 km2) site in Santa Barbara, California, 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. The University was founded in 1909 and joined the University of California-system in 1944.
Little Jeannie
"Little Jeannie" is a 1980 song by Elton John and is taken from his 14th studio album 21 at 33. It went to number 1 in Canada, number 3 in the United States, number 4 in Switzerland, number 5 in New Zealand, number 8 in South Africa, number 9 in Australia and number 33 in the United States.
University of California, Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara is a "very high activity" research university. UCSB houses twelve national research centers. UCSB faculty includes five Nobel Prize laureates, one Fields Medalist, 29 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 27 members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 23 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Cartel (band)
Influences
Cartel stated artists like The All-American Rejects, The Offspring, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, The Clash, Smash Mouth, Pierce the Veil, Goo Goo Dolls, 3 Doors Down, Foo Fighters, MxPx, Nirvana, Simple Plan, Sum 41, Living Colour, Deftones, Blink-182, AC/DC, Bush, Soundgarden, Anarbor, Jimmy Eat World, Everclear, The Ataris and Guns N' Roses as influences.
Brandon Bollig
Brandon Bollig (born January 31, 1987, in Saint Charles, Missouri) is an American retired professional ice hockey center. He currently plays for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks.
He was not drafted by a team but the Blackhawks signed Bollig to a two-year entry-level contract and put him on their AHL farm team, the Rockford IceHogs. He played 2 seasons with the IceHogs and was called up to the Blackhawks on February 28, 2012. He scored his first NHL goal on April 14, 2012, against Mike Smith of the Phoenix Coyotes in a playoff game. Bollig also portrayed Will Cross, age 12 in the 2002 film Defiance. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.
On June 28, 2014 at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, the Blackhawks traded Bollig to the Calgary Flames in exchange for the 83rd overall pick in the draft.
Le Poët
Le Poët is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Jimmy Crespo
Jimmy Crespo (born July 5, 1954) is an American guitarist. He is known as the lead guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith from 1979 until 1984. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
James Bilbray
James Hubert Bilbray (May 19, 1938 – September 19, 2021) was an American politician, lawyer and businessman. He was the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1995. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 2014 and 2016, he was the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the USPS.
Bilbray was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He studied at the American University. He was a member of the Nevada Senate between 1981 until 1987. Bilbray died on September 19, 2021 in Las Vegas at the age of 83.
Long Buckby
Long Buckby is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, midway between Northampton and Rugby. In the 2001 census the parish of Long Buckby (which includes the hamlet of Long Buckby Wharf) had a population of exactly 4,000. It is a part of the Daventry district. In the local elections of 2007 the Conservatives retained the seat but with a smaller majority than previous elections.
Armen Sarkissian
Armen Vardani Sarkissian (Արմեն Վարդանի Սարգսյան; born 23 June 1952) is an Armenian politician. He was the President of Armenia from 2018 until 2022. He served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 4 November 1996 to 20 March 1997 and was the country's (longest-serving) ambassador in London from 1998 until 2018.
Koweta Mission Site
Koweta Mission Site is a National Register of Historic Places site added in 1973.
Friendship, Arkansas
Friendship is a town of Hot Spring County in the state of Arkansas, in the United States.
1325
1325 was a common year.
Mao, Dominican Republic
The Dominican city of Santa Cruz de Mao, or simply Mao. It is the head municipality of the Valverde province, on the northwest of the country. It is the largest city of the Dominican northwest and the centre of the region.
Name
Its name is a Taíno word. It comes from the Mao River, near the city. Its nickname is Ciudad de los Bellos Atardeceres ("City of the Beautiful Sunsets") because there are not many mountains to the west of the city. Instead, it is common to see a "red" sky during sunsets. It is a very dry region and there are much dust in the air which gives the red color to the sky.
Brown pelican
The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a large bird that lives along the coasts of the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico in North and South America.
Brown pelicans are carnivores (meat-eaters) and hunt during the day (they are diurnal). They eat mostly fish and some amphibians and crustaceans.
Mao, Dominican Republic
Population
There were a total of 51,647 people living in the area in in. Out of this, 25,663 are men while there were 25,984 women. The urban population was 9% of the total population.
History
For most of its history, the region was called "El Despoblado". It means a region without any population. Since it is a very dry region, agriculture was not possible.
When the governor of the Spanish colony gave the order in 1606 that everybody living on the northern coast had to move inland, some people came to live around the present Mao. They had cows that were raised in hatos; "hato", which means a large farm for raising cattle (a ranch). So "hato" is the name of many places around Mao: Hatico, Hato del Yaque, Hato Nuevo, Hato Viejo, Hato del Medio.
The town of Mao was built close to where the Mao river flows into the Yaque del Norte river. The first Catholic church was build in 1869.
Mao was made a Puesto Cantonal (an old category similar to the present Municipal District under a military government). In 1882, Mao was elevated to the category of municipality and in 1904 its official name was changed to "Valverde" after José Desiderio Valverde, past President of the Dominican Republic. Because the name Mao was known by everybody and Valverde was a new name, people called the city as "Valverde (Mao)", and it is still common to say so.
When the province was created in 1959, Mao was made its head municipality and provincial capital.
Geography
Mao has a total area of 116.3 km2. It is about 14% of the total area of the province of Valverde. The city has an elevation of 78 m, and at 210 km to the northwest of Santo Domingo.
The municipality of Mao has the Santiago Rodríguez province to the west, the Santiago province to the south and east, the municipality of Laguna Salada to the northwest and the municipality of Esperanza to the northeast.
Climate
Mao has a tropical wet and dry/savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Aw) with a noticeable dry season in winter.
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is 699.6 mm. The month with the most precipitation on average is May with 119.1 mm of rainfall, followed by October with 81.9 mm.
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of 21.6 mm and the second is July with 27.3 mm.
Mao is in a hot region. The average temperature for the year is 27 C.
Administrative division
The municipality of Mao has three municipal districts:
John Romita, Sr.
John Victor Romita Sr. (January 24, 1930 – June 12, 2023) was an American comic-book artist. He was best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating Wolverine. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002. He was born in New York City.
Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer. His works were contemporary classical music. He was born in Florence, Italy. He was the artistic director of La Fenice, Venice. He was openly gay.
John Romita, Sr.
Romita died in his sleep on June 12, 2023, at the age of 93.
Chancellor of Austria
The Federal Chancellor is the head of government and chief executive of Austria. His or her deputy is the Vice-Chancellor. Before 1918, the office was the same as Minister-President of Austria. The Federal Chancellor is the de facto highest office in the state government.
Lincoln Continental
The Lincoln Continental was an American luxury car first produced around in 1939. The production ended around 1948, but resumed during 1956. This car was a fully sized vehicle during most of its years. Its production ended around 2002. The replacement vehicle was Lincoln LS V8.
Conakry
Conakry or Konakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea. The city is a port on the Atlantic Ocean. The population of Conakry is about 2 million people.
History
Conakry was first settled on Tombo Island. It later spread to the Kaloum Peninsula. The city was founded after Britain gave the island to France in 1887. It became the capital of French Guinea in about 1904.
Economy
Conakry is Guinea's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. The main part of the city's economy deals with the port. The port has up to date facilities for handling and storing cargo. It is used for transporting alumina and bananas. Items created in Conakry include food products and materials used for building houses.
Things to see
Things to see in the city include the Guinea National Museum, several markets, the Guinea Palais du Peuple (the People's Palace), Conakry Grand Mosque and the nearby Iles de Los.
The city is noted for its botanical garden. The Polytechnical Institute of Conakry is also located in Conakry.
1076
1076 was a leap year.
Civic Tower (Lagos)
The Civic Tower, also called Civic Center Towers, Civic Towers, is a 16-floor office building in Lagos. It is near the Civic Centre on Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos. It was opened in 2015.
On 20, July 2018, the Civic Towers and Civic Centre buildings were lit up in red to mark the 50th anniversary of Special Olympics alongside 225 landmarks across the world.
Fuckin' Problems
"Fuckin' Problems" is the third single off American rapper ASAP Rocky's debut studio album Long. Live. ASAP. The song was released on October 24, 2012. The song also features Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar.
On December 3, 2012, a music video for the song was released. It debuted on 106 & Park. The song was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 56th Grammy Awards but lost to Macklemore's Thrift Shop.
Anthony Duclair
Anthony Duclair (born August 26, 1995) is a Canadian ice hockey left winger. He currently plays for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the New York Rangers, Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Ottawa Senators. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and he grew up in Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Quebec.
Malay Wikipedia
Malay Wikipedia (Malay: Wikipedia Bahasa Melayu, Jawi script: ويکيڤيديا بهاس ملايو, abbreviation: mswiki) is the Malay version of Wikipedia. Started in October 2002, currently has over 126,168 articles as in November 2011.
Anthony Duclair
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Duclair played 3 seasons with the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). During his time with the Remparts, Duclair was able to score 50 goals in 59 games during the 2013–14 QMJHL season. Due to his impressive feat, he was named to the QMJHL First All-Star Team.
Malay Wikipedia
It is the 29th largest edition.
Anthony Duclair
Career
On March 1, 2015, the Rangers traded Duclair to the Arizona Coyotes along with John Moore and two draft picks, in exchange for Keith Yandle and Chris Summers. On October 14, 2015, Duclair scored his first NHL career hat-trick in a 4–0 shutout win against the Anaheim Ducks.
Routledge
Routledge is a British publisher. It has changed names and owners many times since it was first formed by George Routledge (1812–1888) in 1836. The firm continued to grow until 1902 when it almost became bankrupt. However, it managed to recover after refinancing and began to buy up and merge with other publishing companies. From 1912 onwards, it increasingly focuses on academic publishing. It soon became well known for its books in humanities and social sciences. Taylor & Francis bought Routledge in 1998.
Western civilization
Western civilization, western culture or the West is made up of European culturally derived societies (most notably in the Classical Roman heritage, Western Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), Democracy and Liberalism). This at least includes Western and Central Europe, English speaking North America, Australia and New Zealand. The identities of places such as Latin America, South Africa, Israel, the Philippines and Singapore are disputed due to those countries being a blend of both western and non western cultures. Despite also being geographically located in Europe, Eastern Europe is generally not seen as part of the Western world for geopolitical and cultural reasons.
Until the 17th century, Western civilization was also called Christendom meaning the area where the Christian religion is in the majority (a view held by historian Arnold Toynbee). By this definition, most parts of Africa would now also be part of Western civilization since many Africans have been converted to Christianity since the 1950s.
Westernization is the transformation of a non western culture to Western standards, with historical examples being the Romanization of "barbarian" Europe in the classical period, the Hispanization of South America, Central America and the Philippines in the 1500s, the Anglicization of North America and Australia in the 1700s, the Francization of North and West Africa in the 1800s and the current Americanization of many first world nations such as Singapore and Israel through Hollywood, pop music, and American popular culture.
There are many supporters of westernization, and many who oppose it it expanding at the expense of local cultures.
TuS Koblenz
The TuS Koblenz is a football club which plays in Germany.
NES Zapper
The NES Zapper is a light gun accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console. It was released with the console's launch in North America in 1985. It allows players to aim at the screen and hit targets such as ducks, clay pigeons, and criminals. To hit targets, players have to point the device at the television and pull the trigger. It is used on supported NES games such as Duck Hunt and Wild Gunman. It looks like a futuristic science fiction ray gun with the colors matching the NES console. The Zapper can only be used on CRT displays and will not work on LCDs, plasma displays or other flat panel displays due to display lag.
List of presidents of the National Council of Austria
List of presidents of the National Council of Austria.
Below is a list of office-holders in the Second Republic:
Magadan
Magadan (Магадан) is a port town in Russia. It is the administrative center of Magadan Oblast. In 2010, 95,982 people lived there.
Julián Marías
Julián Marías Aguilera (June 17, 1914 – December 15, 2005) was a Spanish philosopher. He is the author of History of Philosophy (1941) written in Spanish on the subject of the history of philosophy. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.
Chiaki Minamiyama
Chiaki Minamiyama (南山 千明) is a Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Minamiyama was born in Ichikawa on October 16, 1985. In 2003, she joined Nippon TV Beleza from the youth team and played until 2010. In 2011, she moved to INAC Kobe Leonessa. She left the club end of 2016 season. In June 2017, she joined Korean WK League club Hwacheon KSPO. In 2019, she returned Japan and joined Orca Kamogawa FC.
On May 8, 2010, Minamiyama debuted for the Japan national team against Mexico. She played 4 games and scored 2 goals for Japan in 2010.
Australopithecus anamensis
Six years later the London-born Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and archaeologist Alan Walker excavated the Allia Bay site and uncovered several additional fragments of the hominid, including one complete lower jaw bone which closely resembles that of a common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) but whose teeth are much more similar to those of a human. In 1995, Meave Leakey and her associates, taking note of differences between Australopithecus afarensis and the new finds, assigned them to a new species, A. anamensis, deriving its name from the Turkana word anam, meaning "lake".
Divonne-les-Bains
Divonne-les-Bains is a commune. It is in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department. This in the east of France.
Dave Thomas
Thomas is also famous as a commercial spokesman for his company. He first appeared in a Wendy's TV commercial in 1989, and by the time he died, he had appeared in over 800, including every Wendy's commercial that aired in the 1990s.
1. FC Union Berlin
The '''1. FC Union Berlin''' is a football club which plays in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1966.
Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
The Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (奈良文化財研究所), also known as the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties or as Nabunken, is a semi-governmental entity which focuses on the preservation of Japan's cultural heritage of objects, artworks and writings.
Nabunken is an Independent Administrative Institution (IAI).
History
Nabunken was established in 1972. It's work is divided into departments with different interests, including
In 2001, the Nara Institute and the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo merged.
In 2007, the Research Institutes were merged with the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, the Nara National Museum and the Kyushu National Museum.
Augusto Santos Silva
Silva was also the Minister of Education from 2000 until 2001, Minister of Culture from 2001 until 2002, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs from 2005 until 2009 and Minister of National Defence from 2009 until 2011.
When a Man Loves a Woman
"When a Man Loves a Woman" is a 1966 R&B song by Percy Sledge. The song hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also was #1 on the R&B singles chart. The song was later performed by Michael Bolton in 1991. His version won a Grammy Award. Barbara Mandrell recorded a country music version of this song, also in 1991.
Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet is mostly made of rock (silicate). Earth is the "original" terrestrial planet. When astronomers started understanding the kinds of planet they extended the term to include our nearest rocky neighbours: Mercury, Venus and Mars.
It is often said that they are similar to Earth. This is true of most of the structure and composition, but not the surface or the atmosphere. A terrestrial planet may be much hotter or colder than Earth, and may have much more or much less atmosphere.
With the discovery of planets orbiting other stars (exoplanets), the term terrestrial planet has been extended again to any rocky (silicate) planet orbiting any star.
Structure
All terrestrial planets have a core, a mantle, and a crust. They are a bit like a boiled egg: the central yolk is the core; the white albumin is the mantle; and the shell is the crust. The crust of a terrestrial planet is thin, with the core and the mantle taking up the vast bulk, sometimes with a very large core, sometimes much smaller. Terrestrial planets have metallic cores of mostly iron, with rocky mantles and crusts.
All terrestrial planets have the same type of structure: a central metallic core, mostly iron, with a surrounding silicate mantle.
The Moon is similar, but has a much smaller iron core. Io and Europa are also satellites that have internal structures similar to that of terrestrial planets. Terrestrial planets can have canyons, craters, mountains, volcanoes, and other surface structures, depending on the presence of water and tectonic activity. Terrestrial planets have secondary atmospheres, got from volcanism, meteorites, and photosynthesis. In the giant planets, their atmospheres are primary, captured directly from the original solar nebula.
Aarre Merikanto
Aarre Merikanto (29 June 1893 — 28 September 1958) was a Finnish composer. His parents were Liisa Häyrynen and composer Oskar Merikanto.
APK (file format)
Android Package Kit (APK) is the file format that software for Android is distributed in. It is an extension of the ZIP file format. An APK file contains bitcode for Android's Dalvik Virtual machine, resources used by the program (such as images and sounds), and sometimes native executable code, usually for the ARM processor.
Mazaruni tree frog
The Mazaruni tree frog (Dendropsophus grandisonae) is a frog that lives in Guyana. Scientists have only seen it in one place. It does not live high in the hills.
Too Many Husbands
Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American romantic comedy movie directed by Wesley Ruggles and was based on the 1919 play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham. It stars Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Meville Cooper and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941.
One-inch boy
The one-inch boy, or Issun-bōshi, is a character in a Japanese fairy tale.
Associated Television
Associated Television was the original name of the British broadcaster ATV. ATV was a part of the ITV network. They served London on weekends from 1955 until 1968 and the Midlands on weekdays from 1956 to 1968. After 1968 they would serve only the Midlands every day of the week until 1982.
One-inch boy
The story begins with an old, childless couple who live alone. The elderly woman wishes for a child, even though she's old. Eventually, a son was born to them, but their son was only an inch (2.5 centimetres) tall. They named the miniature child Issun-bōshi. The old couple takes good care of him even though he is small. One day, Issun finds out he will never grow, so he goes on a trip to seek his place in the world. He thinks he might become a good warrior, so Issun-bōshi is given a sewing needle for a sword, a soup bowl for a boat, and chopsticks for oars.
He sails down river to the city, where he asks for a job with the government and goes to the home of a rich daimyo (lord), whose daughter is an attractive princess. They say no because he is so tiny, but give him a job entertaining the princess. While they travel together, they are attacked by a big monster that swallows Issun-boshi. The boy defeats the monster by pricking him from within with his needle/sword. The monster spits out Issun-boshi and drops a magical Uchide's Mallet as he runs away. As a reward for his bravery, the princess uses the power of the mallet to make him grow. Issun-bōshi and the princess stay friends and get married later.
Associated Television
Creation
The company was formed by the merging of the Associated Broadcasting Development Company (ABDC) and the Incorporated Television Programme Company (ITC).
The new company was originally called the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC), but the Associated British Picture Corporation wished to call their station "ABC" and they ran a large chain of cinemas under the name ABC. They successfully sued for ownership of the ABC name, causing the Associated Broadcasting Company to rebrand three weeks after starting the London weekend service changed their name to Associated TeleVision Ltd (ATV). The logo made for ABC was tweaked for ATV. The shadowed eye was inspired by the CBS logo in the US and was designed by Lew Grades on a transatlantic flight.
Broadcasting
ABC started to air programs in the London region on Saturday 24 September 1955, after a joint production for the network's opening night on Thursday 22 September. ABC would be seen until Saturday 8 October where it would be changed to ATV. ATV won two contracts from the ITA, one for London weekends and one for Midlands weekdays. The Midlands service launched on 17 February 1956, with ABC Weekend providing the weekend service.
ATV quickly ran into financial difficulty due to the losses of the first two years of ITV as well as start-up costs. Associated-Rediffusion (The London weekday provider) took on some of the losses of ATV and the Daily Mirror bought shares in ATV to help the company. The company changed structure many times until 1966, when ATV and ITC became subsidiaries of the Associated Communications Corporation. This marked the point where Lew Grade took control of the company rather than the greatest influence.
ATV had a large impact in variety and light entertainment.
ATV lost the contract for the London weekend to the London Weekend Consortium. They renamed themselves to London Weekend Television before launching in 1968. The Midlands contract was renewed and ATV would now broadcast to the Midlands every day of the week. By this point the company was renamed ATV Network Limited.
End of the franchise
ATV Midlands Limited, was a shell company created by the ACC only for the franchise, applied for the contract and won. However, the ACC were required to sell 49% of the company, sell the Elstree studios and rename the company to show that it was a new company.
ATV ended broadcasting on 1 January 1982 at 12:34am, following the Scottish Television production Hogmanay Show. The final shutdown was made as a brief tribute to ATV from one of the original announcers Shaw Taylor before Mike Prince signed off with the national anthem (an organ version recorded at St. Chad's Cathedral).
Identity
The shadowed eye was in use from the stations founding in 1955 as ABC to the stations last moments on air as ATV in 1982. After 1969, ATV used two main idents, one in colour, appearing before a programme in colour and a black and white one, used before programmes made or shown in black and white.
Names used
ATV used many names during its life, the company names were:
ATV also used many names that were seen on TV screens:
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History
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Aims
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Western and Soviet involvement
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