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Woodie Flowers
Biography
Flowers was born in Jena, Louisiana on November 18, 1943. He was named after his grandfathers Woodie and Claude. His father, Abe Flowers, was a welder and inventor. His mother, Bertie Graham, was an elementary-school and special education teacher. As a boy, he showed mechanical aptitude like his father, Abe, and he earned the rank of Eagle Scout. When he was seventeen, he and four friends were driving on Louisiana Highway 127 when they were hit head-on by another vehicle that was traveling at about 100 mph. The accident killed two people in Flowers' vehicle and one in the other. It made him believe what he called "genetic opposition to violence" and created his "fierce, vocal loathing of any spectacle that involves crashing pieces of machinery into each other with deliberate force."
Flowers went to Louisiana Polytechnic Institute and graduated with his B.S. in 1966. He then went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning his M.S. (1968), M.E. (1971), and Ph.D. (1973) under the direction of Bob Mann. His thesis, called "A man-interactive simulator system for above-knee prosthetics studies," was on a robot-like prosthetic knee inspired by Mann's Boston Arm.
After receiving his doctorate (Ph.D.), Flowers began as an assistant professor at MIT. He worked with Herb Richardson on the "Introduction to Design and Manufacturing" class. Known by its course number as 2.70 (now 2.007), the class had a design competition to build robotic devices to accomplish a challenge. Flowers took over the class in 1974, changing it into one of the most popular classes at MIT. He changed the challenge every year, always trying to make it more complex and exciting. The competition was shown on TV several years on the PBS show Discover the World of Science. The competition became like a sporting event, and was even jokingly referred to as MIT's true homecoming game. In 1987, Flowers handed the class over to Harry West.
Discover the World of Science changed its name to Scientific American Frontiers in 1990, and Flowers served as its host until 1993 when he was replaced by Alan Alda. In 1990, Flowers began working with Dean Kamen on FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a project to promote science and technology. Taking parts from 2.70, they created the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in 1992. Flowers brought the phrase "gracious professionalism" to FIRST, an idea which has since become very important in FIRST rules and culture. Flowers served every year as National Advisor to FIRST. He was active at FIRST events, working as an MC and treated along with Kamen "like heroes."
Chicago Fire FC
Chicago Fire FC (officially Chicago Fire Football Club, and before 2020 Chicago Fire Soccer Club) is a soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer in Chicago. They started in 1998 and won an MLS Cup in that year. The club is named after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Woodie Flowers
Biography
Flowers was a "Distinguished Partner" at Olin College, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2007, he received a degree honoris causa from Chilean university Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello. He died on October 11, 2019, in Massachusetts following complications from aorta surgery.
FRC Woodie Flowers Award
In 1996, the FIRST Robotics Competition created the Woodie Flowers award, which was given to Flowers that year. In years since, the award has served as a way for FRC teams to honor adult mentors. At each FRC regional competition a Woodie Flowers Finalist Award is presented to one adult who was nominated. This qualifies them for the Championship Woodie Flowers Award (WFA) presented at the FIRST Championship.
Mettau, Switzerland
Mettau was a municipality, in the new municipality of Mettauertal and district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
National Football League Training Camp
In the National Football League, NFL Training Camp is the time before the season starts. During this time, teams will work hard at an special place, often a university. This is almost the same as baseball's spring training.
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz, November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor.
Towne was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990).
Towne is also known for his screenplays for The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible movies.
Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988), and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust (2006).
Judicial review
Judicial review is the power of a court to decide whether a law or decision by the government is constitutional. This power was established in the United States in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison.
Countries that have judicial review are: India, Ireland, Malaysia, the Philippines, England, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Lyrics
Lyrics are the words to a song. A person who writes lyrics is called a lyricist.
The lyrics of a song will usually have a meaning. Some times the meaning is easy to find but other times it can be very difficult to know what the lyrics mean. Some lyrics are so strange that it is nearly impossible to understand them. In such cases, people tend to look more at the form, articulation, meter, and symmetries of the lyrics instead of looking at their meaning.
There are many websites that have the lyrics to songs. This may be a bad thing since many web sites include copyrighted lyrics without permission from the copyright holder. The United States Music Publishers' Association (MPA), which represents sheet music companies, created a campaign against such sites in December 2005. MPA president Lauren Keiser said that the sites are "completely illegal" and that he wanted to see some site operators put in prison.
Etymology and usage
"Lyric" is from the Greek; a lyric was originally a song sung with a lyre.
A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view.
The word lyric was used for the "words of a popular song" about 1876 for the first time. The plural lyrics was used only in referring to the words of several songs. That it is used for the words of a single song as its lyrics became increasingly common (probably because of the association between lyrics and the plural form words), and is common in modern usage of today's society. Use of the singular form lyric is still grammatically acceptable.
References
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Chester City F.C.
Chester City Football Club was an English football (soccer) club, from the city of Chester. The team played its home games at Deva Stadium. It played in various leagues between 1885 and 2010
Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi
Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi is the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Hiraizumi in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
The site covers 5 locations. Four of these places are Buddhist temples. The sacred Mount Kinkeisan is also included in the group The properties and their buffer zones are covered by a range of Japanese government protections as historic sites and places of scenic beauty.
History
Hiraizumi was an important political, military, commercial, and cultural centre from the late-11th century until the late 12th-century. This time was marked by the building and endowment of Buddhist temples, art and gardens.
Pure Land Buddhism developed a concept of planning and garden design that was unique to Japan.
The four Pure Land gardens of Hiraizumi show the ideals of Pure Land Buddhism. The gardens also show Japanese concepts about the relationship between gardens, water and the surrounding landscape.
The four gardens were developed by the Ōshū Fujiwara clan. The poet Matsuo Bashō was inspired by this Fujiwara legacy. In 1689, Bashō wrote: "Three generations of glory vanished in the space of a dream ...."
In 2011, UNESCO listed parts of Hiraizumi as a World Heritage Site.
Moxico Province
Moxico is the largest province of Angola. There are about 230,000 people. Luena is the capital of the province. The Cameia National Park is located in Moxico.
Peg Phillips
Peg Phillips (September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress. She is best known for playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the television series Northern Exposure. Phillips was born in Everett, Washington.
Phillips died from lung disease in Seattle, Washington, aged 84.
Downfall (2004 movie)
Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German war movie about the final days of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, in the Führerbunker. It is set in Berlin in 1945. The movie was first released in German on 16 September 2004.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
A scene in the film, where Hitler become angry and goes into a furious tirade when he finally realizes that the war is truly lost is known for being parodied and has an internet meme. British Labour MP Tom Harris stepped down from his internet adviser role because of the media reaction to a Downfall parody which made fun of Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.
Ajnabia
Ajnabia lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous.
Arenysaur
Arenysaur lived between 68 and 66 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. Arenysaur includes Arenysaurus and Ajnabia.
Kathryn Prescott
Kathryn Prescott (born 4 June 1991) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Emily Fitch on the teen drama television series Skins and Carter Stevens in the 2014 MTV drama Finding Carter. Prescott was born in London. Her career began in 2008.
On 9 September 2021, Prescott was hit by a cement truck while crossing the road in New York City. She was hospitalized in critical condition with broken bones.
Jah
Jah or Yah (יָהּ‎) is a short form of YHWH (יהוה), one of the personal names of God according to the Hebrew Bible.
Robert Blum
Robert Max Blum (November 24, 1928 – November 27, 2022) was a fencer from USA. Blum competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born on 24 November 1928 and died on 27 November 2022.
Oviedo Cathedral
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour or Cathedral of San Salvador (Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Salvador, Sancta Ovetensis) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in the centre of Oviedo, in the Asturias region of northern Spain.
Many styles of architectural styles were used in building the cathedral. They include Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance. It began as a large Pre-Romanesque basilica in the present location of the Gothic cathedral. That first building was built by order of King Alfonso II of Asturias.
History
The Cathedral was founded by King Fruela I of Asturias in 781 AD. In 802, his son Alfonso II of Asturias made it bigger. He made Oviedo the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias.
Asian Dust
Asian Dust (also yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind, or China dust storms) is a weather occurrence that happens each year. It affects much of East Asia during the spring. The dust comes from deserts in Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan. The dust comes from surface winds and dust storms in the desert. The wind carries the clouds eastward to China, Japan, Eastern Siberia, and the Koreas. Smaller particles in the clouds can travel much farther to places like the United States. In the last ten years, these dust storms have become a serious problem because they have picked up industrial pollutants.
Key derivation function
In cryptography, a key derivation function (KDF) makes a long secret key (which is called a "hash") from a secret phrase, like a password. The output of a key derivation function will look common to another result made from a random phrase. They are also used to re-use secret keys in a specific format, like using a shared secret key from the Diffie–Hellman key exchange for sending secrets in AES.
Use
Key derivation functions are important in security. They allow a smaller "secret phrase" to be expanded into a larger key (of a fixed length decided by the KDF's digest size ). This makes trying to find the original "secret phrase" more difficult. The length of the key makes it more difficult to discover the phrase or the hidden secret by trial and error (i.e. through brute-forcing), by making it difficult for a computer to guess. Sometimes, a small piece of random data (called a "salt") is added to the secret phrase before it is used with a KDF to make it more difficult guess the original "secret phrase" with a list of known "hashes".
It makes checking passwords safer without using the real password. Instead of keeping the real password, a "hash" of the key is kept and when checking the password, the "hash" of the real password is checked with the input. Some software put a limit on the length of a password and is sometimes used to make larger secret phrases smaller. KDFs are also made in a way so that, it takes a computer some effort to make the "hash". This makes making a list of potential combinations difficult.
== Commonly used KDFs ==
William Demarest
Demarest died from prostate cancer and pneumonia in Palm Springs, California, aged 91.
Unit of length
A unit of length is a way of measuring length or distance.
Common units of length in the International System of Units (SI) are:
But there are a lot of units that do not fit in the SI-System:
Common Imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include:
In addition, the following are used by mariners:
Surveyors in the United States continue to use:
Horse racing keeps alive:
Astronomical measure uses:
Physics also uses:
Old units of distance are:
In everyday conversation, and in informal literature, it is common to see lengths measured in units of objects of which everyone knows the approximate width. Common examples are:
John Manning (footballer)
John Joseph Manning (11 December 1940 – 17 February 2021) was an English footballer. He played as forward for many clubs between 1962 and 1976.
Manning played for Tranmere Rovers, Shrewsbury Town, Norwich City, Bolton Wanderers, Walsall, Crewe Alexandra F.C., and Barnsley.
Manning was born on 11 December 1940 in Liverpool, England.
Möhlin
Möhlin is a municipality of the district of Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Giorgio Oppi
Giorgio Oppi (8 February 1940 – 26 July 2022) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy until 12 May 2009. He was born in Iglesias, Italy.
Oppi died at a hospital in Cagliari, Italy on 26 July 2022 from problems caused by pancreatitis at the age of 82.
Tscheppach
Tscheppach was a municipality of the district of Bucheggberg, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, the former municipalities of Tscheppach, Brügglen, Aetingen, Aetigkofen, Bibern, Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, Mühledorf, Küttigkofen, Kyburg-Buchegg merged to form the new municipality of Buchegg.
Swedish Chef
The Swedish Chef is a Muppet character that appeared on The Muppet Show. He was voiced by Jim Henson and performed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Since Jim Henson's death, he has been played by Bill Barretta. He is known for not speaking English, but instead a fake version of the Swedish language, mostly just saying "Børk".
Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the RIAA, including one double platinum (Under Construction). Elliot has released six studio albums. Her seventh album is called Block Party. She has Graves' disease.
Janassa
Janassa is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish. It lived in marine environments in what is now central United States of America and Europe during the Carboniferous and upper Permian. It is known from teeth and a few poorly preserved body fossils from Germany.
It was possibly related to the modern-day ratfish.
Description
According to the fossils, Janassa had a body plan very similar to that of the modern skate. However, Janassa was a petalodont, a kind of ancient cartilaginous fish related to chimaeras. Its teeth suggest it crushed and ate shellfish, such as brachiopods.
Type species
The type species is Janassa bituminosa.
External links
Janassa on English Wikipedia
Bubble wrap
Bubble wrap is a kind of packaging or cover. it is used for protecting things that can be broken when moved or mailed. It is made of two very thin pieces of plastic glued together, with many small round air bubbles left inside. When these bubbles are squeezed and burst, they make a popping sound. many people find the sound soothing. it is sometimes used as a stress reliever. It was invented by accident in 1957 by Alfred Fielding.
Composition
Most kinds of bubble wrap is made out of a plastic called Polyethylene. But when shipping delicate electronics and their components, a special plastic type of bubble wrap is used to remove static electricity, this way protecting delicate electronic chips.
The air bubbles, that protect easily broken items, can be found in many different sizes — from as small as 6 millimeters (1/4 inch) in diameter, to as large as 26 millimeters (1 inch) or more. It depends on the size of the thing being wrapped. Some larger objects may also need many covers of bubble wrap to be protected enough. Some mail envelopes contain bubble wrap inside.
Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre
The Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre or Wan Chai Mosque is a mosque and Islamic center in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. It is the third mosque in Hong Kong. The original building of the mosque was built in 1967.
History
The original building of the mosque was a small mosque besides a cemetery at 7 Seymore Street. In 1978, the mosque was relocated to a new place at Oi Kwan Road because the land was needed by the government to construct Aberdeen tunnel. The new mosque building was reopened on September 1981.
Architecture
The mosque was designed by architect Ramju Sadick. The mosque has eight floors which consists of prayer hall, Chinese restaurant, bakery, clinic, classrooms, library and seminar room.
Activities
The mosque is the headquarter place for Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong (the main Islamic organization in Hong Kong) and the Hong Kong Islamic Youth Association.
Wapakoneta, Ohio
Wapakoneta is a city in Ohio. It is the county seat of Auglaize County.
Gordon Spice
Gordon Spice (18 April 1940 – 10 September 2021) was a British racing driver. He competed in both sports cars and Touring Car racing in the 1960s and 1970s. An engineer, he also created the company Spice Engineering, where he designed and built cars. He was born in London.
Eltham, New Zealand
Eltham is a town in the South Taranaki District, New Zealand. It is located 50 kilometers south of New Plymouth, 11 kilometers south of Stratford, 13 kilometers east of Kaponga and 19 kilometers north of Hāwera. It is situated on State Highway 3 and is the largest of the Taranaki dairy industry. It has a primary school located in the town. From 1901 to 1989 it was a borough until it was adsorbed into South Taranaki District in 1989. It is the home of All Black and Taranaki rugby player Brian Muller.
Edcouch, Texas
Edcouch is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Wilfred de Souza
Wilfred de Souza (23 April 1927 – 4 September 2015) was an Indian surgeon and politician. He served as the Chief Minister of Goa three times; 18 May 1993 until 2 April 1994, 8 April 1994 until 16 December 1994 and 30 July 1998 until 26 November 1998.
De Souza was born in Kampala, Uganda. He grew up in Goa. He was a Roman Catholic.
De Souza died after a short illness on 4 September 2015 in Panaji, aged 88.
Atoms for Peace (band)
Atoms for Peace is a band from California. They started in 2009. They did not have a name until February 2010. The members are Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco. In February 2013, they released their first album, Amok on XL Recordings. The album charted at number 1 in nine countries. Pitchfork scored it 6.9/10.
José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins
José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins (2 June 1930 – 27 March 2018) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic bishop.
Garaycoa Hawkins was born in Callao, Peru and was ordained to the priesthood in 1961. He served as titular bishop oh Horæa and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima, Peru, from 1982 to 1991. He then served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua, Peru, from 1991 to 2006.
Garaycoa Hawkins died on 27 March 2018 in Lima, Peru at the age of 87.
Aldo Pastore
Aldo Pastore (15 December 1930 – 26 July 2022) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy from 1979 to 1987. Pastore was born in Savona, Italy.
Pastore died on 26 July 2022 in Savona at the age of 91.
Charleston, Mississippi
Charleston is a city in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
Red Willow County, Nebraska
Red Willow County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, 11,055 people lived there. The county seat is McCook. It was founded in 1873.
Geography
The county has a total area of 718 sqmi.
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM CH (born Lowestoft, 22 November 1913; died Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976) was one of the greatest English composers of his time. He came from East Anglia (a region in the East of England) and he often thought about the East Anglian landscape and the sea when writing his music. He wrote a lot of music for his long-term partner, the tenor Peter Pears. His operas include Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Death in Venice. His War Requiem was performed in Coventry Cathedral in 1962 after it had been rebuilt because the old cathedral had been destroyed in the war. He wrote music for children which sounds like proper, adult music. Britten started the Aldeburgh Festival. He was an excellent pianist and conductor.
Early years
Benjamin Britten started composing music at the age of five although he had no one to help him. When he was ten years old he took part in an amateur music festival in Norwich. A composer called Frank Bridge heard him and was so impressed that he offered to teach him composition. He helped Britten to compose using proper musical techniques. Britten started to get to know music by a lot of important modern composers including Schoenberg and Bartók. In 1930 he went to the Royal College of Music. He had excellent piano teachers but he did not learn much from his composition teacher John Ireland and most of the music he wrote was never performed. Britten was more interested in music from abroad than in English music. In 1934 he heard the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg. He wanted to go to Austria to study with Berg but he was not allowed to. Meanwhile, some of his first proper compositions started to be performed. He wrote some music for movies that were being made by the General Post Office, including one about a train delivering mail. The music describes the rhythm of the train rushing along.
USA
While working on the movie music he met the writer W. H. Auden. He started to be interested in political ideas. These can be heard in some works he wrote at this time such as Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Ballad of Heroes (1939). When Auden emigrated to the United States Britten followed him. With him was the tenor Peter Pears who was to become a lifelong friend and partner, and who was to be the inspiration for many songs and operas.
Britten wrote several compositions in the USA including Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) and his First String Quartet (1941). The following year he was reading about the poet George Crabbe who came from Suffolk, the same part of England where Britten had grown up. Britten suddenly became homesick. He realized that he could not work and be himself in a foreign country. So he returned with Pears to England.
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
In February 1944, he joined the Somali Youth Club (later called the Somali Youth League). The group was a nationalist party that wanted independence for Somalia. Daar became a member of the party's steering board. In 1946, he was appointed as the secretary of one section of the party. He was chairman of the Somali Youth League from 1954 to 1956, and again from 1958 to 1959. In 1956, he was elected chairman of the Legislative Assembly.
Benjamin Britten
Aldeburgh Festival
As soon as he was on the boat sailing back to England he started work on Ceremony of Carols. Back in England, Britten and Pears gave concerts to audiences of all kinds and took part in opera productions of Sadler's Wells Opera Company, which was having a new theatre built. On the 7 June 1945 the new theatre was opened with a performance of Britten’s opera Peter Grimes. This opera was to make Britten into the most famous English composer of his time. It was soon being performed abroad as well as in England.
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
When Somalia gained its independence on July 1, 1960, Daar was elected as the first president of Somalia. He was beaten in the 1967 presidential election against Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. He finished his term as president on June 10, 1967.
Benjamin Britten
The 1950s
One of Britten’s most popular pieces of music for amateurs including children was Noye’s Fludde (1957). He wrote three “church parables”. His large operas include Billy Budd (1951) which was soon produced in Covent Garden. In June 1953 he wrote Gloriana, an opera about Queen Elizabeth I, written for the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth II. When he travelled with Peter Pears to the Far East he was influenced by the music of Bali and he composed a ballet called The Prince of the Pagodas, performed in Covent Garden in 1957. Another great work inspired by the East was the parable Curlew River (1964). The opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1960. In 1962 he wrote the War Requiem to celebrate the new Coventry Cathedral. This is one of the greatest musical works of the 20th century.
His last years
In 1961 he became friends with the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. He composed a Cello Sonata and a Cello Symphony (1963) (a kind of cello concerto), as well as three suites for solo cello. He travelled with Pears to the Soviet Union.
In 1967 the Aldeburgh Festival had a new concert hall, the Maltings at Snape. His next opera was Owen Wingrave (1970), written for television but soon produced in Covent Garden. In June 1973 Britten produced another great opera Death in Venice. The main character, called Aschenbach, was perhaps the best music he ever wrote for Peter Pears. It was performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, but Britten was ill by this time and unable to be at the performance. His heart condition made it impossible to work on any more large works, but he still wrote some harp music for the harpist Ossian Ellis, a song called Phaedra for Janet Baker, and a Third String Quartet. He died in Aldeburgh on 4 December 1976.
Britten received many honours both in Britain and in other countries. He became a Companion of Honour in 1952 a member of the Order of Merit in 1965 and, in the year he died, he was the first musician ever to receive a life peer (the title Lord Britten).
His music
Britten’s early works were often written for instruments. His Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937) for string orchestra is a very popular work today. He often borrowed and reinvented themes by other composers (this is called “parody” technique). During his last years he again gave much attention to instrumental music, mainly chamber music.
After he met Peter Pears much of his music was vocal. This includes more than 100 songs, a number of operas, chamber operas as well as three works for tenor solo and orchestra: Les Illuminations, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and the Nocturne. His songs are often grouped in cycles. He also wrote many folksong settings. These were very popular as encore pieces when he accompanied Peter Pears in song recitals.
Peace & Prosperity
Peace & Prosperity (Chinese: 富贵平安) is a Singaporean drama television series. It is produced and shown on Mediacorp Channel 8. It began its run from 4 April 2016. There are 170 episodes. It stars Xiang Yun, Desmond Tan, Julie Tan, Zhang Wei, Belinda Lee, Tong Bing Yu, Dawn Yeoh, Tracy Lee, Michelle Wong, Terence Cao, Ben Yeo, Jeffrey Xu, Romeo Tan, Shane Pow, Marcus Chin, Lin Meijiao, Yao Wenlong, Ling Xiao, Jayley Woo, Zhu Houren, Priscelia Chan and Seraph Sun as the main characters. The story revolves around the lives of the Huang family who have been running a TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) clinic for three generations. The family-run business is searching for its next successor, as the young generation of Huangs are not interested in TCM and have yet to prove themselves capable of running the business.
Benjamin Britten
His music
Britten wrote music for choirs, including Hymn to St Cecilia (Britten was proud of having been born on St Cecilia’s day: 22 November). The War Requiem is his greatest work which combines writing for choir and orchestra. It describes the horrors of war (Britten had refused to fight in World War II).
He wrote a lot of work for children. There are even parts for children in some of his operas, e.g. Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave. He even wrote an opera in which all the main parts are sung by children: The Little Sweep (1949).
Many of his great operatic roles, from Peter Grimes to Aschenbach in Death in Venice, deal with the theme of the outsider, the person who does not quite fit into society, or who is misunderstood. Britten’s homosexuality (which was something that was never discussed in his lifetime) may have something to do with this. He also knew what it was like to be an outsider when he tried to live in the United States, and his refusal to fight in the war may have distanced him from some people.
The Aldeburgh Festival at the Maltings in Snape (a village near Aldeburgh) continue to be a focus for Britten’s music. Every year the Brittens-Pears School of Music organizes lessons and performance opportunities for young musicians. A series of “Prom” concerts is held there every year in August.
S/PDIF
S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format) is a type of connection used to play audio from a computer or home theater to a speaker. S/PDIF was primarily designed by Sony and Philips, which is where it gets its name.
Paddy
Paddy (Polochon) are Belgian-French animated series from 1988. It has 26 episodes.
The main character is a boy named Paddy, who lives with his sister Melodie on his grandparents' farm. Paddy experiences a variety of weird adventures with the animals around him, such as the talking raven Loewie, who constantly makes funny jokes. He also often has trouble with a neighboring boy, Fred. Only Paddy can evoke a mysterious blue man, Onyx, who has magical abilities and solves problems for Paddy.
Emiliano Mondonico
Emiliano Mondonico (9 March 1947 – 29 March 2018) was an Italian professional footballer and coach. He played as a winger. In 1966 he was signed by Cremonese, with whom he played one season in Serie D and one season.
Bomberman 2
Bomberman 2, not to be confused with the Nintendo Entertainment System title by the same name, is also known as Custom Battler Bomberman in Japan and was released in 2008 for the Nintendo DS, however never was released in North America. In this game, you play as an Antivirus software named and designed after Bomberman and defeat the defending forces of Grid City, A fictional location that is unique to this game. Bomberman exists within the cities central computer system, however appears to manifest into a physical form and interface with the city and it's inhabitants in realty, then "logs off" and is seemingly disintegrated back into the computer at the end of each stage. Bomberman can collect parts to upgrade certain points and unlock extra skills.
Emiliano Mondonico
Mondonico began his managerial career with the Cremonese youth team in 1979. In 1981, he became manager of the senior team.
Özcan Arkoç
Özcan Arkoç (2 December 1939 – 17 February 2021) was a Turkish footballer. He played as a goalkeeper, He was known for playing for Hamburger SV.
Emiliano Mondonico
In 1990, he joined Torino, where he won the Mitropa Cup over Pisa and finished in fifth-place in the league during the 1990–91 season.
Özcan Arkoç
He also played for Austria Wien between 1964 and 1967. He played Hamburger SV for nine seasons and retired in 1975. He played in the European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1968 losing 2–0 to AC Milan.
Emiliano Mondonico
In 2012, Mondonico was fired as head coach by Novara and later retired.
Özcan Arkoç
Özcan died at aged 81 in Hamburg on 17 February 2021.
Emiliano Mondonico
Mondonico died on 29 March 2018 from stomach cancer in Milan at the age of 71.
Namibe Province
Late Cretaceous fossils of sharks, turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and sauropods were found near the Bentiaba desert.
Leif Frode Onarheim
Leif Frode Onarheim (23 August 1934 – 9 September 2021) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician. He was a member of the Conservative Party. He was President of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, and later of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. He was an elected member of the Storting from 2001 to 2005. Onarheim was born in Vestre Toten, Norway.
Onarheim died on 9 September 2021 in Oslo at the age of 87.
Training camp
A training camp is a place where soldiers or sports players go to learn skills. Often, they go there to learn physical action, rather than book subjects they would learn at a school. In major sports like the National Football League, training camp refers to the time before the season starts.
In the military, Recruit training (also called "basic training" or "boot camp") helps new military personnel get the mental and physical fitnesss they need for their military career. Each military branch in a country usually has its own training program. There are also civilian boot camps for those who want to experience military training without joining the military.
Akainacephalus
Akainacephalus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Akainacephalus was first discovered by Scott Richardson, a Bureau of Land Management employee who also discovered Lythronax and Kosmoceratops, all in the same region of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The dinosaur was medium-sized, standing at 3 feet 6 inches tall and stretching about 15 feet long. It lived in present-day southern Utah, which during the Late Cretaceous Period was part of the southern portion of Laramidia, an island continent that stretched from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico. Though ankylosaurids originated in Asia between 125 - 100 million years ago, they do not appear in the western North American fossil record until about 77 million years ago. The new species Akainacephalus offers the most complete skeleton of an ankylosaurid dinosaur found in the southwestern United States. It includes a skull, much of the vertebral column, including a complete tail club, several fore and hind limbs elements, and bony body armour that includes two neck rings and spiked armour plates.
Guard mounting
Guard mounting, changing the guard, or the changing of the guard, is an official ceremony in which guards that take place in duties at important places are swapped with different guards. The ceremonies are usually planned very well. They started during peaceful times and war fighting drills, with it becoming more popular from the 17th and 18th centuries as it helped make the army less tired and more useful.
La Seo Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Savior (Catedral del Salvador) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Zaragoza, Spain. It is part of the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon.
Ancient Egyptian royal titles
The Ancient Egyptian royal titles were a standard way of naming the pharaohs, the kings of Ancient Egypt. These names and titles showed the king's worldly and religious powers. The names could provide a sort of mission statement for the king. Names and titles sometimes changed during the reign.
By the Middle Kingdom the pharaohs used a set of five titles. The full set of titles, the titulary, using the five names, became the standard and were still in use as late as the Roman Empire.
Horus name
The Horus name is the oldest form of the pharaoh's name. It began in the Predynastic Period. Many of the oldest-known Egyptian pharaohs were known only by this title.
The Horus name was usually written inside a serekh. This was a symbol of a palace façade. The name of the pharaoh was written in hieroglyphs inside the serekh. Usually there would be an image of the falcon God Horus on top or beside it.
One Egyptian ruler, the 2nd dynasty Seth-Peribsen, used an image of the god Seth instead of Horus. Perhaps this was showing there had been some kind of religious division within the country. He was succeeded by Khasekhemwy, who placed the symbols of both Set and Horus above his name. Later kings always had the image of Horus beside their name.
Nebty ("two ladies") name
The Nebty name, meaning "two ladies", was linked with the goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt:
The name is first definitively used by the First Dynasty pharaoh Semerkhet. It became an independent title by the Twelfth Dynasty.
The Nebty name was not usually framed by a cartouche or serekh. It always begins with the hieroglyphs of a vulture and cobra resting upon two baskets, the dual noun "nebty".
Horus of Gold
The meaning of this title has been disputed. It could show the triumph of Horus over his uncle Seth, the symbol for gold meaning that Horus was "superior to his foes". Gold also was linked with ideas of eternity, so name may show the pharaoh's eternal Horus name.
Like the Nebty name, this name was not framed by a cartouche or serekh.
Throne name (prenomen)
The pharaoh's throne name, the first of the two names written inside a cartouche, with the title nsw-bity (nesu-bity, nesw-bit, nswt-bjtj). It means "S/He of the Sedge and Bee". This is often translated as "King of Upper and of Lower Egypt", as the sedge and bee were symbols for Upper and Lower Egypt.
The term nsw-bity may be from the Berber word for "strong man; ruler".(Schneider 1993)
The epithet neb tawy, "Lord of the Two Lands", meaning the valley and delta regions of Egypt was also often used.
Personal name (nomen)
This was the name given to the pharaoh at birth. The name itself was preceded by the title "Son of Ra". This was written with the hieroglyph of a duck (za), a homonym for the word meaning "son" (za), next to an image of the sun, a hieroglyph god Ra. It was first introduced to the set of royal titles in the Fourth Dynasty and emphasizes the king's role as a representative of the solar god Ra. When the pharaoh was woman, the preceding title was interpreted as "daughter".
Katoor dynasty
The Katur/Katoor dynasty ruled the ancient kingdom of Chitral and parts of the Hindukush region Afghanistan. The name mehtar or mitar is used for the ruler in ancient Erina language.
Ancient Egyptian royal titles
Personal name (nomen)
Modern historians usually use this name for the ancient kings of Egypt, adding ordinals (e.g. "II", "III") for different individuals with the same name.
Senusret I
In the Middle Kingdom, the full titulary was sometimes written in a single cartouche. This example is from Senusret I, from Beni Hasan.
Hatshepsut
The full titulary of Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Hatshepsut. This has a guide to pronunciation and the meanings, and shows the differences when the pharaoh is a woman:
Thutmose III
The full titulary of Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III, with a guide to pronunciation and meaning:
Scott Steketee
Scott Steketee is an retired rower from USA. Steketee competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born on 13 March 1947.
Esch-sur-Sûre
Esch-sur-Sûre (Esch-Sauer, Esch-Sauer) is a commune in Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Wiltz. As of 2019, 2,715 people live there.
On 1 January 2012, the former communes of Heiderscheid and Neunhausen merged to form the commune of Esch-sur-Sûre.
Sandro Dori
Sandro Dori (born Alberto Schiappadori; 21 December 1938 – 15 February 2021) was an Italian actor. He was known for his role as Dr. Zucconi in Be Sick... It's Free (1968) and in Il Prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste, convenzionata con le mutue (1969). Dori was born in Ostiglia, Italy.
Dori died on 15 February 2021 in Civitavecchia, Italy, aged 82.
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (7 March 1915 – 10 November 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972.
Ordnance Survey National Grid
The Ordnance Survey National Grid is a system used to map Great Britain. It is different from using latitude and longitude. The Ordnance Survey (OS) created the system. It is used a lot in their survey data. It is also used in maps based on those surveys.
The system divides the map into squares. Each square is labelled with two letters. The first letter refers to squares that are 500 km by 500 km. Those squares are outlined in dark grey on the map to the right. Only four of these have a lot of land area in Great Britain: S, T, N and H. The O square contains a tiny area of North Yorkshire. Normally most of this area is submerged at high tide.
The system can also be used to give the location of a smaller area inside a lettered square. This is done by giving the distance east and north from the southwest corner of the square. For example, NH0325 (or NH 03 25) means a one-kilometre square whose southwest corner is 3 km east and 25 km north from the southwest corner of square NH. The system can also specify areas smaller than one kilometre. For example, the grid reference of the 100-metre square containing the summit of Ben Nevis is .
Richardson County, Nebraska
Richardson County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 7,871 people lived there. The county seat is Falls City. It was founded in 1855.
Mönthal
Mönthal is a municipality of the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beach town in California. It is next to Los Angeles, California, US.
It was made a city in 1886. In 2000, there were 88,050 people living there.
It is famous for the Santa Monica Pier that has many fun rides.
Bulgogi
Bulgogi is a Korean dish. It is usually made of grilled beef which has been soaked in sauce for a long time.
History
Bulgogi is believed to have come from Goguryeo, one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea. It was called "Maekjeok" at first. In the Joseon dynasty, it was called "Neobiani" which means 'thinly spread'.
Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American movie actor, director, producer and musician. He is most known for his role in Dances with Wolves (1990), which won seven Academy Awards, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and ''The Bodyguard (1992).
Bulgogi
Nutrition
There are a lot of essential nutrients in bulgogi. In bulgogi, there are lots of lysine, which is an Essential amino acid. It help children's growth and development.
Kevin Costner
Biography
Kevin was born in Lynwood, California, on January 18, 1955. He was the third child of Bill Costner and Sharon Costner. He has two older brothers (Dan born 1950 and a middle brother who died at birth in 1953). He is of Cherokee Native American, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss and Welsh descent. When he finished high school, he was a basketball, football and baseball star. In 1978, he married his college friend Cindy Costner. (Cindy Costner later played a role in "Dances with Wolves"). Some time later, he met Richard Burton, and this made him go after acting. He has made or participated in the making of 47 movies.
Kevin has three children from his first wife, Cindy: Annie (1984), Lily (1986) and Joe (1988). Kevin and Cindy divorced on 1994. He had relations with Bridget Rooney, and his fourth child, Liam (1996) is from her. Kevin remained divorced for 10 years; he married Christine Baumgartner on September 25, 2004. His fifth child, Cayden, was born in 2006. A sixth child, another son, was born February 12, 2009. He was named Hayes Logan.
Costner is a Democrat.
Massospondylus
Massospondylus was a dinosaur from the Upper Triassic to the Lower Jurassic periods. It was described by Richard Owen in 1854. It is one of the first dinosaurs to have been named. The remains were found in South Africa.
The dinosaur was bipedal. It was probably a plant eater (herbivore).
Chomatodus
Chomatodus (from Greek: χωμα choma, 'mound' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Petalodontidae.
Species
There is no type species.
Description
We don't know what it looks like. Some people draw it as a slender shark. Others mistake it for a perciform fish. So far, people have found teeth and tooth fossils instead of complete fossils.
Moosleerau
Moosleerau is a municipality of the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Yelizaveta Dementyeva
Yelizaveta Dementyeva (5 March 1928 – 27 July 2022) was a Soviet sprint canoer. She competed in the late 1950s. She won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Dementyeva also won two medals at the 1958 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Prague, both gold and silver.
Dementyeva died on 27 July 2022 at the age of 94.
Sperm whale
The sperm whale (Physeter catodon), also known as the cachalot, is the largest toothed whale. It has the biggest head of any animal. The head can be about 20 ft long, and is about one-third of the whale's body. Its lower jaw is small and contains its huge, conical teeth (which fit into sockets in the upper jaw).