cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Chamaeleo zeylanicus
The Indian Chameleon, Chamaeleo zeylanicus is a species of chameleon found in Sri Lanka, India and other parts of South Asia. Like other chameleons, this species has a long tongue, feet that are shaped into bifid claspers and a prehensile tail. Its two eyes can move in different directions at the same time. It also can change the colour of its skin. They move slowly with a bobbing or swaying movement and are usually arboreal. Strangely, although they can change color, they may not be able to see differences in colour. They are usually in shades of green or brown or with bands. They can change colour quickly. The main reason for colour change is for communication with other chameleons and for controlling body temperature. By changing to dark colours, their bodies absorb heat.
Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American retired NBA basketball player. He won the NBA Championship in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988 all with the Los Angeles Lakers. He played college basketball at Michigan State University where he developed a rivalry and friendship with Boston Celtics star Larry Bird when he faced him in the 1979 NCAA finals and three NBA championship games. Although Johnson was a versatile player who played all five positions occasionally, he is considered by many to be the greatest point guard, passer and playmaker in the history of the game.
In 1991, Johnson made public that he had been diagnosed with HIV. He is a supporter of AIDS prevention.
In 1992, Johnson was a member of the United States men's national basketball team. That team won an Olympic gold medal.
He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and was also named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996.
On February 21, 2017, Johnson replaced Jim Buss as the president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. On April 9, 2019, Johnson resigned from his role as president of basketball operations of the Lakers wishing to return to his role of NBA ambassador.
Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh, Sr. (January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924), was a United States Congressman for 6th District of Minnesota  from 1907 to 1917. He was the father of Charles Lindbergh.
V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb (also called the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug) was a World War II weapon.
It was a flying bomb, an early cruise missile. Its jet engine made it travel at 350 mph (600 kmph). The Luftwaffe aimed it at London, and also Antwerp in Belgium. V-1s destroyed nearly as many houses as the Blitz did but killed fewer: 22,892 people were killed by the weapon.
The Allies tried to stop these attacks by bombing their launching places, by shooting at them in the air, and by flying fast planes close to them and nudging them off course using their wings.
They had a fairly crude guidance system. Overall, only about 25 per cent of V-1s hit their targets. Most were lost lost by defensive measures, mechanical unreliability or guidance errors.
University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational university in Columbia, South Carolina. The university has about 44,557 students. It was founded in 1801. The current president of the university is Dr. Harris Pastides.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Gamecocks. They have 19 varsity teams, almost all of which compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In men's soccer, a sport that the SEC does not sponsor, the Gamecocks play in Conference USA.
Mona, Utah
Mona is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States.
Retheuil
Retheuil is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Lieke Martens
Lieke Martens (born on 16 December 1992 in Nieuw-Bergen, Netherlands) is a Dutch association football player who currently plays for Barcelona and the Netherlands women's national football team. She has also played for the clubs SC Heerenveen, VVV-Venlo, Standard Liège and FCR 2001 Duisburg. She is part of the Netherland's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.
Stevie Chalmers
Thomas Stephen Chalmers (26 December 1935 – 29 April 2019) was a Scottish footballer. He was born in Glasgow. He played as a centre-forward. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the 1967 European Cup Final. From 1964 to 1966, he played for the national team.
The Texican
The Texican is a 1966 American Spanish western movie directed by Lesley Selander and starring Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford, Diana Lorys, Luz Márquez, Anthony Casas, Antonio Molino Rojo, Aldo Sambrell. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Nozières, Ardèche
Nozières is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Reikama
Reikama is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Rolv Wesenlund
Rolv Helge Wesenlund (17 September 1936 – 18 August 2013) was a Norwegian comedian, singer, clarinetist, writer, and actor. Wesenlund was most famous for having portrayed the title character in Bør Børson, Bør Børson II, and in the TV series Fleksnes Fataliteter.
Wesenlund was born on 17 September 1936 in Horten. His career began in 1964. Wesenlund died on 18 August 2013 in Oslo from heart failure, aged 76.
FCR 2001 Duisburg
FCR 2001 Duisburg (officially known as Fußballclub Rumeln 2001 Duisburg) was a German women's association football club that was dissolved in 2013 because of a financial crisis. After the club disbanded, it merged with MSV Duisburg.
Notable players
Some notable players who played for the club include Alexandra Popp, Ashlyn Harris, Sara Däbritz, Simone Laudehr, Lieke Martens and Annike Krahn.
Sara Däbritz
Sara Däbritz (born 15 February 1995 in Amberg, Germany) is a German association football player who currently plays for FC Bayern Munich and the Germany women's national football team.
Club career
She played for SpVgg SV Weiden and SC Freiburg in her youth, and played for SC Freiburg in her senior career until she transfered to FC Bayern Munich in 2015.
International career
Däbritz has played for Germany's Under 15, Under 17, Under 19 and Under 20 youth squads. She most recently was played in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
International statistics
As of 15 June 2015
International goals
As of 15 June 2015
Michael Charlton
In 1961 he was the inaugural presenter of Four Corners, an Australian current affairs programme. In 1963 he was the recipient of the Australian Gold Logie award.
Looking Back (Stevie Wonder album)
Looking Back, and also called Anthology, is a triple LP anthology by American musician Stevie Wonder. It was released on November 30, 1977 on Motown Records.
Album packaging
Since its release as a 12-inch triple LP, it has not been made available on a CD or download. It is considered to be a limited edition. The album has 40 songs from Wonder's early period (1962 - 1971).
Ozon, Ardèche
Ozon is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947 in New York City) is an American feminist philosopher. She is a professor at the University of Chicago and has written books on ethics, feminism and religion and has a particular interest in India.
She studied at New York University and Harvard University.
In 2008 she officially converted to Judaism.
Coral bleaching
Stony corals are simple animals that form large reefs. The animals live in a endosymbiotic relationship with single-celled algae. To get sunlight the corals live just below sea level. The algae make food products for the coral polyp by photosynthesis.
Coral polyps are sensitive to changes in their environment. This includes the temperature of the water they live in. Under stress, coral polyps may expel the algae which live inside their tissues. The algae provide up to 90% of the coral's energy. Bleached corals continue to live but begin to starve after bleaching. Some corals recover.
Recent research showed that the coral-algae relationship is much older than was thought. This suggests it has survived many climate changes.
Some corals change color instead of turning white when they are bleached. The colors can be very bright. In May 2020, scientists from the University of Southampton said that the colors act like sunscreen and protect the coral cells from light. The scientists said this means some corals can lose their algae for a while and might have developed bright colors as a way to make it easier for the algae to come back and to stay alive until then.
Levan, Utah
Levan is a town in Juab County, Utah, United States.
Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer.
He was a fundamentalist Christian. During graduate school he stopped believing in God. He started The Skeptics Society and Skeptic (U.S. magazine) in 1992. The society has over 55,000 members.
Radio 101.2
Radio 101.2 was a radio station in Belarus. It worked from Minsk. In 1995 and 1996, the radio station used the frequency 101.2 FM. It was sent news and had no connection to the government of Belarus. The people who worked at the Radio 101.2 mostly came from the radio station Belarusian Youth (Беларуская маладзёжная) that had been forced to go out of business.
Soros Foundation helped to buy the things for the new radio in 1995. The station was closed on formally technical reasons. Its frequency was handed over to the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, which still uses it today. The Belarussian government said that the radio station and its frequency were interfering with the radio communications of the Minsk police. Independent groups said that this was another form to stop the freedom of the press in Belarus by the government of Alexander Lukashenko.
Music judge Dzmitry Padbiarezski said in 2000 that the Belarusian radio 101.2 had high public interest because it played good music and its DJs were experts too.
Nightrider (song)
"Nightrider" is a 1976 song by Electric Light Orchestra and taken from their 5th studio album Face the Music. Despite the rise of popularity it failed to chart.
Reuilly-Sauvigny
Reuilly-Sauvigny is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Olumide Akpata
Olumide Akpata (born October 7, 1972) is a Nigerian legal practitioner and the president of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Education
Akpata has a bachelor's degree in law from University of Benin, Edo state. He was then called to the bar and served in the National Youth Service Corps in Kano State.
Career
Akpata began his legal practice in Delta state under the instruction of Dr.(SAN) Mudiaga Odje. He later moved to Lagos State to team up a chamber where he worked with his relatives.
On July 30, 2020, he became president of the Nigerian Bar Association, defeating his closest rival Babatunde Ajibade (SAN) who polled and Dele Adesina (SAN).
Goms, Valais
Goms is a municipality of the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2017, the former municipalities of Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen, Niederwald and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the new municipality of Goms.
Pailharès
Pailharès  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
José Ramón Machado Ventura
José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. Raúl Castro was elected as the President of Cuba on 24 February 2008. Machado was elected to succeed him as First Vice President. He has been Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2011.
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational university in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The university has about 21,406 students. It was founded in 1871. The current president of the university is Dr. B. Alan Sugg.
Sports
The athletics teams of the university are called the Razorbacks and the women's teams are called the Lady Razorbacks. They have 19 varsity teams and they compete in the Southeastern Conference.
The New Art Gallery Walsall
The New Art Gallery Walsall is an art gallery. It is in Walsall, England. It displays modern art.
The gallery cost £21 million. That includes £15.75 million which was donated by the UK National Lottery. It also includes money from the European Regional Development Fund.
The Gallery is funded by Walsall Council and Arts Council England,. It also gets money from grants and from its shop. Admission is free. Its first Director was Peter Jenkinson. In May 2005, Stephen Snoddy was appointed as Director.
Architecture
The building was designed by the architects Caruso St John. It opened in January 2000. Before that, the artworks were in the town's old gallery The New Art Gallery's building won several architectural awards. Over 237,000 people visited it in its first year. In 2000 the gallery was shortlisted for the Sterling Architecture Prize.
Collections
The Gallery is home to the Garman Ryan Collection of sculptures and paintings by modern masters. These include a large selection of work by Jacob Epstein. It also includes many significant works by European artists including Van Gogh, Monet, Turner, Corot, Renoir and Constable. There are prints, sketches, drawings, paintings and sculptures. The collection was donated to the people of Walsall in 1973 by Epstein's wife Kathleen Garman (Lady Epstein) and her friend Sally Ryan.
In 2006 the gallery bought the Epstein Archive. The archive is a collection of photographs, documents and sketches by Jacob Epstein. It also includes letters between Jacob and his family and friends. There are letters between Epstein and the people who bought and sold his work.
The gallery also has works by more recent artists. These include Gavin Turk, Hew Locke, Mike Nelson, Yoshihiro Suda, Dorothy Cross, Laura Ford, Darren Lago, Estelle Thompson, Richard Woods, Yinka Shonibare and Rose Finn-Kelcey.
It also holds exhibitions of work borrowed from other galleries. Those exhibitions are temporary.
Other facilities
The New Art Gallery has Wi-Fi in every room. Visitors can use this Wi-Fi for free.
The Gallery has an Art Library. Anyone can visit the library. In the library, people can read books about art history.
There is a Costa Coffee on the ground floor.
Reg Gorman
Reg Gorman (2 August 1932 – 5 August 2021) was an Australian television actor and comedian. He was known for his role as Jack Fletcher in The Sullivans and as Harry Patterson in Fergus McPhail. Gorman was born in Sydney.
Gorman died on 5 August 2021 at a hospital in Melbourne from cancer, three days after his 89th birthday.
The Police
The Police were a rock band from England who played a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk and reggae music. As of 2008, The Police are one of the most successful bands in the world having sold over 40,000,000 records worldwide. The Police, along with The Clash, are notable for using reggae as a major part of their musical form.
Rolling Stone ranked The Police number 70 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2003.
History
The Police formed with Stewart Copeland in late 1976 as drummer, Sting as the singer-bassist and Henry Padovani as the guitarist. In early 1977 they recorded their first single, "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving,".
Division of Bradfield
The Division of Bradfield is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. It was created in 1949 and is named for Dr John Bradfield, the designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Bradfield is the richest electorate in Australia.
Members
Billy Hughes was a former Prime Minister of Australia and the last serving member of the first federal Parliament. Brendan Nelson was a minister in the third and fourth Howard Governments and the Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2008.
Tom's Diner
"Tom's Diner" is a single originally by Suzanne Vega. It was first released in the 1980s. It did not become very popular until very early 1990. It was taken off a New York City restaurant, which was later fictionalized for Seinfeld. The remix version of the song went on to become very popular.
Smederevska Palanka
Smederevska Palanka (Смедеревска Паланка, ) is a city in the Podunavlje District and the geographical region of Šumadija in Serbia. In 2011, the city had 50,284 people living here.
Lakmé
Lakmé is a French opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on April 14, 1883, libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti Rarahu's Le mariage de Loti. An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.
Ribeauville
Ribeauville is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France. In 2015, 69 people lived there.
Elland Road
Elland Road is a football stadium in Leeds, Beeston, West Yorkshire, England. It has been home to Premier League club Leeds United since the club's inception in 1919. The stadium is the 14th largest football stadium in England.
Sports history
The venue has served as a neutral venue for the FA Cup semi-finals and England international fixtures. It has been selected as one of eight venues for the UEFA Euro 96 European Cups. It was used by Rugby Union club Hunslet in the mid-1980s. It hosted two matches of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Capacity
It has four stands - Don Revie (North), Jack Charlton (East), Norman Hunter (South) and John Charles (West) - with a capacity of 37,792.
There are plans to increase its capacity to 50,000 by demolishing the West Stand and rebuilding the area.
Concerts
The stadium has hosted concerts by Queen, U2, Happy Mondays and the Kaiser Chiefs.
Rocky Ridge, Utah
Rocky Ridge is a town in Juab County, Utah, United States. In 2020 there were 838 people in 138 households. Almost all of them are Mormons, they belong to a Mormon group that has not given up polygamy, the Apostolic United Brethren.
Sääre, Hiiu County
Sääre is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Sankt Pölten-Land District
Sankt Pölten-Land District or St. Pölten-Land District is a district in the state of Lower Austria in Austria.
Municipalities
Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.
Bear River City, Utah
Bear River City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
Peaugres
Peaugres  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Ribemont
Ribemont is a commune in the Picardie region in the Aisne department in north France.
The Browning Version
The Browning Version is a British drama movie from 1994. The movie is about a teacher, Andrew, having a failed life. People hate him and do not respect him. His wife, Laura, is not faithful. Andrew is forced to retire, and may not even receive a pension. Greta Scacchi plays Laura. Albert Finney plays Andrew. The runtime is almost 97 minutes.
This was released 8 June 1994.
Coats, Kansas
Coats is a city in Pratt County, Kansas, United States. In 2010, 83 people lived there.
History
Coats was created in about 1887. William A. Coats created it. It was named after himself. Coats was incorporated as a city in 1909.
The first post office in Coats was created in June 1887.
Geography
Coats is at 37.51111°N, -98.82528°W (37.511148, -98.825388). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of 0.21 sqmi. All of it is land.
Weather
Coats has hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. The Köppen Climate Classification system says that Coats has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 83 people, 31 households, and 21 families residing in the city.
Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi
Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi is a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The party's vote base is mainly concentrated in the Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu. It was a splinter party of Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam.On 21 March 2013, E. R. Eswaran launched new Party Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi, he also became the General Secretary of new party. He contested the May 2009 Loksabha elections as a Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the Coimbatore constituency and came third, securing more than one lakh votes. He also came third in the 2009 by election for Thondamuthur Assembly Constituency.
Corinne, Utah
Corinne is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
Honeyville, Utah
Honeyville is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
People's Welfare Front
The People's Welfare Front is a Tamil Nadu political alliance formed in October 2015. It consists of four political parties: Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. The alliance is expected to contest Tamil Nadu and 2016 Puducherry Legislative Assembly elections as one unit. Later it made an electoral alliance with Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam and Tamil Maanila Congress.
Used to Love You
"Used to Love You" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani for her third studio album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like (2016). It was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, Jonathan "J.R." Rotem and Teal Douville, and produced by Rotem.
Credits and personnel
Recorded at Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, California
Credits adapted from the liner notes of This Is What the Truth Feels Like.
Yuri Trutnev (scientist)
Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Тру́тнев; 2 November 1927 – 6 August 2021) was a Russian theoretical physicist and nuclear engineer. Trutnev was born in Moscow. He was the Emeritus Professor of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute). He was known for working on some thermonuclear weapons for the Soviet Union such as the RDS-37 and Tsar Bomba.
Trutnev died on 6 August 2021 in Sarov, Russia at the age of 93.
Tsutako Nakasone
Tsutako Nakasone (30 October 1921 7 November 2012) is the wife of Yasuhiro Nakasone and mother of Hirofumi Nakasone.
Hillary Scholten
Hillary Scholten (born February 22, 1982) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician. She is the member of the United States House of Representatives for MI's 3rd congressional district since 2023.
Nõmme, Pühalepa Parish
Nõmme is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Lemon Popsicle
Lemon Popsicle (Israeli: Eskimo Limon, אסקימו לימון) is a 1978 Israeli West German comedy movie directed by Boaz Davidson and starring Anat Atzmon, Zachi Noy, Jonathan Sagall, Yftach Katzur. Its success led to a series of sequels and a 1982 remake The Last American Virgin.
The Birds II: Land's End
The Birds II: Land's End is a television movie from 1994. It is a horror movie, and the sequel to The Birds (1963). It is about birds attacking people in a house. The movie was rated R due to horror and violence.
The reviews on the movie were negative.
Leah Chase
Leah Chase (January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef, author and television personality. She was born in New Orleans but was raised in Madisonville, Louisiana, before moving back to New Orleans to attend catholic school. Chase was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine. She supported African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights Movement.
Chase died on June 1, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 96.
Sarov
Sarov (Саро́в) is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Gorkiy-130 (Горький-130) and Arzamas-16 (Арзама́с-16). Until 1995, it was known as Kremlyov/Kremlev/Kremljov (Кремлёв). In 2002, the population was 87,652.
Eilat Airport
Eilat Airport (, also known as J. Hozman Airport; مطار إيلات), or Hozman Airport, is an airport in Israel. It is in the coastal city of Eilat, in the south of the country.
Eilat Airport is a public airport, mainly for internal flights. It was established in 1949.
Young Dracula
Young Dracula is a British children's fantasy television series. It is shown on CBBC. The series is based on Young Dracula AND Young Monsters, a children's book by Michael Lawrence. The series is directed by Joss Agnew. It was first broadcast in 2006.
89 (number)
Eighty-nine is a number. It comes after eighty-eight, and before ninety. It is also the 24th prime number. It comes after eighty-three and before ninety-seven.
Madisonville, Louisiana
Madisonville is a town in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 748 at the 2010 census.
Arrondissement of Altkirch
The arrondissement of Altkirch is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Altkirch.
History
When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the arrondissement of Altkirch was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Altkirch is in the southwest of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement, to the north and west by the Mulhouse arrondissement, to the south by Switzerland and to the west by the Territoire de Belfort department.
The arrondissement of Altkirch is the smallest of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 663.1 km2, and it is also with fewest people living in it with a population of 69,645 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are only 2 cantons in the arrondissement of Altkirch:
Communes
The arrondissement of Altkirch has 108 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Leuk
Leuk (French Loèche) is a municipality of Switzerland and is the capital city of the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Peyraud
Peyraud  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Leuk
Since it controls access to the Gemmipass, it had some importance from the time of Roman Raetia. The Leukerbad hot baths are just North of Leuk, towards the pass.
Loèche houses the installations of Onyx, the Swiss interception system for electronic intelligence gathering.
On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Erschmatt merged into the municipality of Leuk.
Vicente Rocafuerte
Vicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano (May 1, 1783 – May 16, 1847) was an influential figure in Ecuadorian politics. He served as President of Ecuador from September 10, 1834 to January 31, 1839.
Saint-Agrève
Saint-Agrève  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Vicente Rocafuerte
Rocafuerte was born into an aristocratic family in Guayaquil, Ecuador on May 1, 1783. During his youth, was sent to Madrid to finish his education. He returned to Ecuador in 1807. Rocafuerte died on May 16, 1847 in Lima, Peru from complications of a fever. He was 64 years old.
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies is a 1973 American adventure comedy movie directed by John Erman and starring Cliff Robertson, Pamela Franklin, Bernadette Peters, Rosemary Murphy, Eric Shea. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Freedom Plains, New York
Freedom Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Dutchess County, New York, United States.
Northern flicker
The northern flicker is a large sized woodpecker bird with a slim and rounded head.
Color
Flickers appear to be brownish. The color of their underside of the wing and tail feathers varies, for example bright yellow for eastern birds, or red in western birds.
Salihu Mustafa
Salihu Mustafa, FNSE, FAENG, FNAHS, FAS, (born 1948) is a Nigerian academic, engineer and former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Yola (FUTY), Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Education
Mustafa went to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna where he graduated with B.Eng (Civil Engineering) degree. He also obtained an M.Sc. degree in civil engineering with specialization in Water Resources Technology from University of Birmingham in the UK and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Career
Mustafa began his career at Ahmadu Bello University’s Department of Civil Engineering Zaria, Kaduna as Assistant Lecturer. He spent Fourteen years where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and was appointed full Professor of Civil Engineering at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU). He was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Yola (FUTY). He was the Chairman Planning Committee for the establishment of Adamawa State University, Mubi and Chairman, Planning and Implementation Committee for the establishment of American University of Nigeria.
Down (band)
Down is a heavy metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana. They started playing in 1991 and the band consisted of members of several bands.
Cosmic distance ladder
A real direct distance measurement of an astronomical object is possible only for those objects that are close enough to Earth (within about a thousand parsecs). It is the larger distances which are the problem. Several methods rely on a standard candle, which is an astronomical object that has a known standard luminosity.
The ladder analogy arises because no one technique can measure distances at all ranges encountered in astronomy. Instead, one method can be used to measure nearby distances, a second can be used to measure nearby to intermediate distances, and so on. Each rung of the ladder provides information that can be used to determine the distances at the next higher rung.
Astronomical Unit
The astronomical unit is the mean (average) distance of the Earth from the Sun. This we know quite accurately. Kepler's Laws tell the ratios of the distances of planets, and radar tells the absolute distance to inner planets and artificial satellite s in orbit around them.
Parallax
Parallax is the use of trigonometry to discover the distances of objects near to the solar system.
This method works for distances up to a few hundred parsecs.
Standard candles
Objects of known brightness are called standard candles. Most physical distance indicators are standard candles. These are objects which belong to a class that has a known brightness. By comparing the known luminosity of the latter to its observed brightness, the distance to the object can be computed using the inverse-square law.
In astronomy, the brightness of an object is given in terms of its absolute magnitude. This quantity is derived from the logarithm of its luminosity as seen from a distance of 10 parsecs. The apparent magnitude is the magnitude as seen by the observer. It can be used to determine the distance D to the object in kiloparsecs (kiloparsec = 1,000 parsecs) as follows:
where m the apparent magnitude and M the absolute magnitude. For this to be accurate, both magnitudes must be in the same frequency band and there can be no relative motion in the radial direction.
Problems
Two problems exist for any class of standard candle. The principal one is calibration, finding out exactly what the absolute magnitude of the candle is.
The second lies in recognizing members of the class. The standard candle calibration does not work unless the object belongs to the class. At extreme distances, which is where one most wishes to use a distance indicator, this recognition problem can be quite serious.
A significant issue with standard candles is the question of how standard they are. For example, all observations seem to indicate that Type Ia supernovae that are of known distance have the same brightness, but it's possible that distant Type Ia supernovae have different properties than nearby Type Ia supernovae.
Galactic distance indicators
With few exceptions, distances based on direct measurements are available only up to about a thousand parsecs, which is a modest portion of our own galaxy. For distances beyond that, measures depend upon physical assumptions, that is, the assertion that one recognizes the object in question, and the class of objects is homogeneous enough that its members can be used for meaningful estimation of distance.
Physical distance indicators, used on progressively larger distance scales, include:
3rd millennium
The 3rd millennium began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 3000.
Cosmic distance ladder
Main sequence fitting
In a gravitationally-bound star cluster such as the Hyades, the stars formed at approximately the same age and lie at the same distance. This allows relatively accurate main sequence fitting, providing both age and distance determination.
This is not a complete list of methods, but it does show the ways astronomers go about estimating the distance of astronomical objects.
Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit are a British electronic group. They were formed in Cambridge, England in 2008.
Sakla, Hiiu County
Sakla is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Lie
A lie is something that someone says that is not true to make others believe that the lie is the truth. People can have many reasons for lying, such as to hide something or get something, or white lies. Studies show that people usually start lying at the age of two. Some people are pathological liars.
Lying can only be done deliberately (on purpose). If a person says something which is not true, and does not know that it is not true, that person is making a mistake and not lying.
Machinist
Machinists follow a print that tells them what kind of metal to use, where to cut, how deep to cut, what angles to cut at, and many other specified instructions to meet a person's standards.
Machines
These tools include, but are not limited to, the:
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Perjury
A serious type of lie is perjury. It means telling a lie in a court of law. It can lead to a great injustice. For that reason it is legally and morally wrong. The Ten Commandments says we should not "bear false witness against our neighbor". Most religious thinkers say this can mean other lying also, but very strongly forbids perjury.
Deception
Tricking someone into believing something with many lies over a long period. "The invasion plan was hidden by deception". Deception need not involve speaking. Hiding one's actions from another is a form of deception. Animals are capable of deception. Some birds pretend to be injured to lead predators from their nest. White-collar criminals often use deception. They get people to give them money by telling them it is an investment.
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Layout paint may come in red or blue. It is used to coat the side of a part for scribing a path or shape of a cut.
Bar stock
Bar stock is metal that has not yet been machined. It may be referred to as slugs, blanks, or billets. It may be made of different kinds of steel or aluminum.
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Distortion
Getting rid of or adding details to a fact. If a scientist says that "The medicine is safe in small amounts", a drug company can distort it and say "The scientist says the medicine is safe". Distortion is often seen in commercials or political advertising. Extreme examples are called propaganda where news can be distorted simply by choosing to cover one story but not another.
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Metals higher in Carbon are harder to cut, while metals lower in carbon are easier to cut.
Raron
Raron is the capital city of the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Lie
White lie
Telling a small lie to make people feel better or for other reasons which do not harm anybody or anything. Saying that a person likes what another person is wearing, even though they do not, is a white lie. Often the purpose of a white lie is to protect someone from being upset. This might happen when a child or elderly persons hears that someone has died. The opposite choice is sometimes called being "brutally honest". It means that a person tells true things that hurt people instead of hiding the truth. White lies should not be confused with sarcasm.
Fighting with lies
People hurt each other in war, and one way is to lie. They make the enemy belive they are in one place when they are in another. They pretend they will do one thing when they intend to do another. Spies pretend they are not enemies, in order to get secrets.
Like other ways of fighting, lying can be morally good if done for a good reason. In the Old Testament Bible, Rahab lied about the Israelite spies she had hidden. The Bible says this was a good thing to do. Usually the term "white lie" refers to small unimportant things. Justifiable lies could be very big and important, but may still be good. However people should be careful about thinking their lies are good. Other people may see them as bad.
Rogécourt
Rogécourt is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Chevrolet Cruze
The Chevrolet Cruze is a four-door sedan and hatchback that is built by General Motors' Chevrolet brand. A subcompact Cruze based on the Suzuki Ignis was built between 2001 and 2008. Since 2008, the current compact has been produced as a replacement for the Chevrolet Cobalt. The Cruze is actually a rebadged Daewoo Lacetti Premiere, prior to its introduction, the original model was sold under Suzuki in America. The Cruze is the first compact Chevrolet model to not have a Pontiac twin, instead it shares similarities with the Buick Verano. In 2016 (2014 in China), the Cruze received a new generation. The Cruze was discontinued in the Americas in 2020.
In the US, the Cruze is available with either a 1.8-liter or 1.4-liter 4-cylinder engine producing 138 hp. Both are available with six-speed manual and automatic transmissions. GM has announced that in late 2016 a hatchback version of the Cruze will be offered in North America.
NewsBank
NewsBank, Inc. is a worldwide information provider worldwide. It is a database of published documents. These documents include such items as newspapers, magazines, business journals, obituaries, and government documents. The documents are available online by the Internet. The service is available through many public libraries, colleges and universities, and government and military libraries.
NewsBank has content from more than 2,000 newspaper titles. NewsBank's Readex division offers digital editions of American historical collections to colleges and universities. Collections of historical and modern documents, publications and records to are available to Genealogists to research family histories.
Sullivan City, Texas
Sullivan City is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Birgit Nilsson
Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano. She was best known for her singing in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her voice is said to have been very powerful with very good clarity in the upper register.
Early life
Birgit Nilsson was born on a farm at Västra Karup in Skåne. It was 100 km north of Malmö. Her parents were Nils Svensson and Justina Svensson (née Paulsson). When she was three years old, she began singing melodies on a toy piano her mother bought for her. She once said that she could sing before she could walk. she also said, "I even sang in my dreams". Her talent at singing was first noticed in her church choir. A choirmaster near her home heard her sing and toldher to take voice lessons.
She studied with Ragnar Blennow in Åstorp for six months to be ready for an audition at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm. At the audition, she came in first out of a group of 47 singers. She was given the Christina Nilsson scholarship. She considered herself self-taught. In 1981, she told an interviewer that "The best teacher is the stage. You walk out onto it, and you have to learn to project." She did not like her early instruction. She said that she was successful because of the native talent. "My first voice teacher almost killed me ... [T]he second was almost as bad."
Death
Nilsson died on 25 December 2005 at her home near Kristianstad in Skåne. She was aged 87. No cause of death was released. She was survived by her husband Bertil Niklasson (died March 2007), a veterinary surgeon whom she had met on a train and married in 1948. They had no children.
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Rogny
Rogny is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Vision of Ezra
Vision of Ezra is the name of an ancient apocryphal text, whose authorship is associated to Ezra, the. The remaining manuscripts are written in Latin and date as of the 11th century, but researches say that the original document must have been written in Greek. Just like the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, the text shows a clearly Christian origin.
Lamborghini Murciélago
The Lamborghini Murciélago is a supercar. Lamborghini built it from 2001 to 2010. The Murciélago was succeeded by the Lamborghini Aventador. It replaced the Diablo. The Murciélago was designed by Luc Donckerwolke. Lamborghini built 4,099 Murciélagos.
Goms District
Goms is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Damageplan
Damageplan was a heavy metal band from Dallas, Texas. They started playing in 2003 after Pantera's guitarist and drummer decided to start a new band. They only released one album, called New Found Power. On December 8, 2004, the guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed by an obsessed fan named Nathan Gale during a concert. After the incident, the band broke up.
Goms District
It includes the following municipalities:
Frank Pallone
Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. (born October 30, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician. He is the U.S. representative for NJ's 6th congressional district since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Pallone is the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Dhu al-Qarnayn
The story of Dhu Al-Qarnayn (in Arabic ذو القرنين, literally "The Two-Horned One"; is mentioned in Surah Al-Kahf, Ayahs 83–101 of the Qur'an. Dhu Al-Qarnayn appears in the Qur'an as one established with power on earth by Allah, who reaches the setting and rising of the sun and sets up a barrier between a certain people and Gog and Magog. Elsewhere the Qur'an tells how the end of the world will be signaled by the release of Gog and Magog from behind the barrier. Dhu Al-Qarnayn is identified by most Western and traditional Muslim scholars as a reference to the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon Alexander the Great.
Lactate dehydrogenase
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH or LD) is an enzyme found in nearly all living cells (animals, plants, and prokaryotes). It catalyzes the conversion of lactate to pyruvic acid and back This is an important function because lactic acid builds up in muscle tissue. LDH works to prevent muscle fatigue and failure in various ways.
Stevie Wonder's Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
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Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"' received mixed reviews from critics.
Lactate dehydrogenase
Each LDH molecule is made of four subunits. There are somewhat different types of LDH in different tissues. The main type in the lungs has two M subunits and two H subunits (2H2M). The M and H subunits are coded by two different genes. The M subunit is coded by LDHA on human chromosome 11, and the H subunit is coded by LDHB on chromosome 12.
Personal watercraft
A personal watercraft (PWC), also called water scooter or jet ski is a recreational watercraft that a rider sits or stands on as in a boat. They have an inboard engine driving a pump-jet that has a screw-shaped impeller. Most are designed for two or three people. They can travel beyond 100 miles (161 km).
Jason Epstein
Jason Wolkow Epstein (August 25, 1928 – February 4, 2022) was an American editor and publisher. In 1950, he began working for Doubleday. In 1958 Epstein left Doubleday to join Random House where he was editorial director until his retirement in 1999. In 2004, he co-founded On Demand Books.
Epstein died on February 4, 2022, at his home in Sag Harbor, New York from congestive heart failure at the age of 93.
The Client
The Client is a 1994 American melodramatic legal crime drama movie. It was directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on the novel of the same name. This is about murder, suicide and Mafia activities in New Orleans. Brad Renfro plays Mark Sway. Tommy Lee Jones plays Reverend Foltrigg. Susan Sarandon plays Regina Love. Mary-Louise Parker plays Dianne.
The movie was released on July 20, 1994. It got positive reviews from most critics. It made a lot of money.
Gabriel García Moreno
Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (December 24, 1821 – August 6, 1875) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador (1859–65 and 1869–75) and was assassinated during his second term, after being elected to a third.
He is known for his conservatism, Catholic religious belief and being enemies with liberal strongman Eloy Alfaro. Under his administration, Ecuador became a leader in science and higher education within Latin America.
In addition to the advances in education and science, he was noted for economically and agriculturally advancing the country, as well as for his staunch opposition to corruption, even giving his own salary to charity.
Moreno was born on December 24, 1821 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He was married two times. The Liberals hated García Moreno; when he was elected a third time in 1875, it was considered to be his death warrant. He wrote immediately to Pope Pius IX asking for his blessing before inauguration day on August 30.
Moreno was assassinated exiting the Cathedral in Quito on August 6, 1875. He was struck down with knives and revolvers, his last words being: "¡Dios no muere!" ("God does not die!"). Faustino Rayo assaulted him with six or seven blows of a machete, while three others fired their revolvers.
Gabriel Garcia Moreno received Last Rites just before he died. Pope Pius IX declared that Gabriel Garcia Moreno "died a victim for the Faith and Christian Charity for his beloved country."
Rochepaule
Rochepaule  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is an English Labour Party politician. He was born in London. Clarke was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010. He was Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.