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Stanley Milgram
The idea of six degrees of separation comes from Milgram's 1967 small-world experiment. It has been criticized a lot, but in 2008 Microsoft found that the average chain of contacts between users of its '.NET Messenger Service' was 6.6 people. A study published in the January 2014 volume of Computers in Human Behavior found that the average number of acquaintances separating people in unusual jobs is 3.9, and 3.2 for average Facebook users.
L. L. Zamenhof
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, לײזער לֵוִי זאַמענהאָף; 15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917), credited as L. L. Zamenhof and sometimes as the pseudonymous Dr. Esperanto, was an eye doctor, linguist (who creates a language), and scholar who created the international language Esperanto.
Biography
Zamenhof was born in 1859 in the town of Białystok, Poland. At the time, Poland was a part of the Russian Empire. Bialystok contained three major groups: Poles, Belorussians, and Yiddish-speaking Jews. Zamenhof thought that one common language would join these groups and stop fights between them.
His first language was said to be Polish. His parents spoke Russian and Yiddish at home. His father was a German teacher, so Zamenhof learned that language from an early age and spoke the language fluently. Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English. He also had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.
Zamenhof decided that the international language must have a simple grammar and be easier to learn than Volapük, an earlier international language. He attempted to create the international language with a grammar that was rich, and complex. The basics of Esperanto were published in 1887. He translated the Hebrew Bible into Esperanto.
His grandson, Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof, was an engineer.
He was 14 times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize between 1907 and 1917.
Paolo Cabras
Paolo Cabras (16 January 1931 – 2 July 2020) was an Italian politician and surgeon. He was born in Rome. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1972. Cabras remained a deputy until 1987, when he was elected to the Senate. He retired in 1994. He was a member of the Christian Democracy Party.
Cabras died on 2 July 2020 in Rome, aged 89.
Saint Stephen
Saint Stephen (Στέφανος/Stephanos) is known as the first martyr of Christianity.
Therefore, he is also called the Protomartyr (Πρωτομάρτυρας/Protomartyras). He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day was historically kept on August 3. His name means 'laurel wreath' or 'crown' in Greek. His death is described in the Book of Acts. He was stoned to death for blasphemy and is remembered on the Feast of St. Stephen, December 26.
Daegu International Airport
Daegu International Airport (Hangul: 대구국제공항; Hanja: 大邱國際空港; Revised Romanization: Daegu Gukje Gonghang; McCune-Reischauer: Taegu Kukche Konghang) is an airport in Daegu, South Korea. It is at 35.89417°N, 128.65889°W.
Croc: legend of the Gobbos
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos is a platforming video game created by Argonaut Games in 1997. It was made for the PlayStation, and versions of it were later created for the Sega Saturn and for Microsoft Windows computers. The game stars Croc, a green crocodile, who must save his friends, the Gobbos, from the evil Baron Dante.
The game was originally created as a game with Yoshi, a character from Nintendo 's Super Mario series of video games. However, Nintendo did not allow the creators to use the character, so a brand new character was created instead. Croc: Legend of the Gobbos sold well, and was a success for Argonaut. A second game was made in 1999, called Croc 2.
Samstagern
Samstagern is a village in the municipality of Richterswil in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Hüttnersee is located in the village.
Echidna (mythology)
Echidna (Greek: from “Snake”) is a monster of Greek mythology, half woman, half serpent. Her parents were either the sea deities Phorcys and Ceto (according to Hesiod’s Theogony) or Tartarus and Gaia (in the account of the mythographer Apollodorus); in Hesiod, Tartarus and Gaia are the parents of Echidna’s husband, Typhon. Among Echidna’s progeny by the 100-headed Typhon, were Ladon (the dragon who protected the Golden Apples of the Hesperides), another dragon who protected the Golden Fleece, the Hydra, the goatlike Chimera, and the infernal hounds Orthus and Cerberus. The Sphinx and the Nemean lion, both sired by Orthus, were also among her offspring.
Kiss the Bride (song)
"Kiss the Bride" is a 1983 song by Elton John and is the third single from his 17th studio album Too Low for Zero. It was a top 40 smash hit in many countries except in Germany where it peaked at number 58. In 2021, it was used in the Elton John and Dua Lipa single Cold Heart.
Carlos Squeo
Carlos Vicente Squeo (4 June 1948 – 8 September 2019) was an Argentine football defender. He played for several clubs in Argentina and Mexico and represented the Argentina national football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Dock Sud, Argentina.
Squeo died on 8 September 2019 at the age of 71.
Hyloscirtus bogotensis
The Bogota tree frog (Hyloscirtus bogotensis) is a frog. It lives in Colombia. It lives high in the Andes mountains, between 1750 and 3600 meters above sea level.
Beblenheim
Beblenheim is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Chaco tree frog
The Chaco tree frog or Roeschmann's tree frog (Boana raniceps) is a frog that lives in Brazil, Paraguay, French Guiana, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina.
La Graverie
La Graverie is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Souleuvre-en-Bocage.
Josh Tenorio
Joshua "Josh" Franquez Tenorio is an American Democratic politician and businessman. He is the tenth and current Lieutenant Governor of Guam, since January 2019. He is the first openly gay lieutenant governor elected in the United States.
Scânteia train accident
The 2009 Romanian bus-train collision (Tragedia de la Scânteia), happened on 14 August 2009 at 14:10pm in Romania. A bus and train hit each other on a level crossing. Forteen people were killed. It happened in Scânteia of Iaşi County in Romania on County Road 248C    It was originally thought that only 10 people died in the accident. This was the worst accident in Romania in the past fifteen years.
Accident
The accident happened when a minibus carrying 16 passengers was moving across a level crossing. The minibus was hit by a train as it was crossing the level crossing near Scânteia. Everyone that was killed in the accident was on the bus, which included a child. Two other people were badly injured. The bus was hit in the center of it and was pushed a total of 350 meters by the train  The reason why the crash happened in the first place was because the bus driver did not follow the light signals or signs at the level crossing.
Lake Placid (movie)
Lake Placid is a 1999 American monster horror comedy movie. It was directed by Steve Miner and was produced by David E. Kelley, Michael Pressman, and Peter Bogart. Lake Placid was released on July 16, 1999. The movie is about a giant, 30 ft long man-eating crocodile which terrorizes the fictional Black Lake, Maine, United States. Most of the movie was shot in British Columbia, Canada. The movie was financially successful at the box office and it spawned three made-for-television sequels.
COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
The first two cases related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana were confirmed on 12 March 2020, when two people returned from Norway and Turkey.
Lake Placid (movie)
The movie gained mixed reviews from critics and holds a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Movie critic Roger Ebert described the movie as "completely wrong-headed from beginning to end".
COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
On 11 March, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced a budget increase of an equal amount to $US100 million available to increase Ghana's coronavirus and response plan.
Traveling to Ghana had been strongly discouraged until further notice from countries where at least 200 cases of COVID-19 were recorded was declared.
On 15 March, President Nana Akufo-Addo banned all public gatherings including conferences, education facilities, workshops, funerals, festivals, political rallies, church activities and other related events to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Dwight Smith (baseball)
John Dwight Smith Sr. (November 8, 1963 – July 22, 2022) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played for the Chicago Cubs, California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, and Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball between 1989 and 1996. He won the 1995 World Series with the Braves.
Smith died on July 22, 2022 from congestive heart failure and respiratory failure at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 58.
Masao Kiba
Masao Kiba (born 6 September 1974 ) is a retired Japanese football player.
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Hornblende
Hornblende is a complex series of silicate minerals.
Hornblende is not a recognized mineral in its own right, but the name is used as a general or field term, to refer to a dark amphibole.
It is an isomorphous mixture of three molecules; a calcium-iron-magnesium silicate, an aluminium-iron-magnesium silicate, and an iron-magnesium silicate.
Hornblende has a hardness of 5–6, a specific gravity of 2.9–3.4 and is typically an opaque green, greenish-brown, brown or black color. It is most often confused with the minerals augite and biotite mica, both of which are black and can be found in granite.
Occurrence
Hornblende is a common constituent of many igneous and metamorphic rocks such as granite, diorite, gabbro, basalt, andesite, gneiss, and schist. It is the principal mineral of amphibolites.
Very dark brown to black hornblendes that contain titanium may be called basaltic hornblende, from the fact that they are usually a constituent of basalt and related rocks.
Etymology
The word hornblende is derived from the German horn and blenden, to 'blind' or 'dazzle'. The term blende is often used to refer to a brilliant non-metallic luster, for example, zincblende and pitchblende, the ore of uranium.
Eggenfelden
Geography
Eggenfelden is in the valley of the Rott at the intersection of B 20 with the B 388 and the beginning of the B 588. The city has two railway stations on the railway Passau - Neumarkt - Sankt Veit as well as an airfield (airfield Eggenfelden). Eggenfelden is about 56 km southeast of Landshut, 60 km south of Straubing, 70 km south-west of Passau, 84 kilometers north of Salzburg and 110 kilometers east of Munich.
Districts
The municipality Eggenfelden has 119 officially named districts:
La Houblonnière
La Houblonnière is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Sarod
Sarod is a string instrument from the Indian subcontinent. The sarod does not have frets, so it can bend pitches and do glissandi (slides). The sarod is played using a plectrum.
Penis
A penis (plural penises or penes ) is the main sexual organ of most male animals. It is used to inseminate females (or hermaphrodites) during sex (copulation). In some animals, the penis is also be used to urinate.
John Wesley (actor)
John Wesley (August 3, 1947 – September 7, 2019) was an American actor. He was known for his role in Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, where he played the role of Principal Pratchert. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Wesley was also known for his roles in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot and in Hang 'Em High.
Wesley died on September 7, 2019 of multiple myeloma at the age of 71.
Armistice
An armistice is the effective end of a war, when the parties agree to stop fighting. The word comes from the Latin arma, meaning weapons and statium, meaning a stopping.
A truce or ceasefire usually refers to a temporary stop of hostilities for an agreed limited time or within a limited area. A truce may be needed in order to negotiate an armistice. An armistice is not the same as a peace treaty, which may take months or even years to agree on. The 1953 Korean War armistice is a major example of an armistice which has not yet been followed by a peace treaty.
The United Nations Security Council often demands cease-fire of parties in modern conflicts. Armistices are always negotiated between the parties themselves and are thus generally seen as more binding than UN cease-fire resolutions in modern international law.
The most famous armistice is the Armistice with Germany at the end of World War I, on 11 November, 1918, signed near Compiègne, France, and effective at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
Grill (cooking)
A grill is an object used for cooking food. With a grill, food is usually roasted. Some grills use charcoal or wood, and other grills use propane gas to cook the food.
Using wood or charcoal makes smoke and changes the flavor of the food. Using gas does not. Some people only like one type, and some people like both kinds of grilling.
The heat may be added underneath the food, or above, or both. A barbecue is a typical machine for outdoor cooking using coke or other fuel for providing heat from underneath. Overhead grilling is more usual indoors, especially in professional kitchens.
In the United States, there are cook-off grills, which are competitions. The most common meats used are steak, burgers and hot dogs. Grilling food is very common for holidays or celebrations like the 4th of July (United States Independence Day). Most people use a grill more outdoors in the summer time.
Grills can have fire touching the food. This might cause a burnt taste and could possibly be a carcinogen.
Arvin, California
Arvin is a city in Kern County, California. It lies at an elevation of 449 ft.
La Hoguette
La Hoguette is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. The place name La Hoguette is derived from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill or mound.
Nicky Jam
Nick Rivera Caminero (born March 17, 1981), known professionally as Nicky Jam, is an American singer and rapper. His songs are usually Latin trap and reggaeton. He is best known for hits such as "X", "Travesuras", "En la Cama", "Te Busco", "El Perdón", "Hasta el Amanecer", and "El Amante".
La Lande-sur-Drôme
La Lande-sur-Drôme is a former commune. It is found in the Basse-Normandie region in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Val de Drôme.
Luke Harper
Jon Huber (December 16, 1979 – December 26, 2020), better known by his ring name Luke Harper, was an American professional wrestler. In WWE he was a one-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and a three-time Tag Team Champion.
Huber also wrestled under the ring name Brodie Lee, working for promotions such as All Elite Wrestling, Alpha-1 Wrestling, Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling, Dragon Gate USA, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor. He was born in Rochester, New York.
Career
On March 12, 2012, it was reported that Huber had signed a developmental contract with WWE. He made his debut for WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) at a house show on May 18, working under the new ring name Luke Harper. When FCW changed its name io NXT Wrestling, he debuted on the December 12, 2012 episode of NXT as a follower of Bray Wyatt, who introduced Rowan as his "first son".
Erick Rowan was later introduced as Wyatt's "second son" and Harper started to team with Rowan. They defeated Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu on the January 9, 2013 episode of NXT and defeated them again on the January 23 episode of NXT in the first round of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament. Harper and Rowan defeated Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty in the semi-finals but were defeated in the finals by Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey. Harper and Rowan won a triple threat elimination tag match on the May 2 episode of NXT and defeated Neville and Bo Dallas who replaced the injured Grey, on the May 8 NXT (taped on May 2) to win the tag titles. On June 20, they lost the NXT Tag Team Championship to Adrian Neville and Corey Graves.
In 2013, scary videos played on Raw to promote the upcoming debut of the Wyatt Family and they debuted on the July 8 episode of Raw when they attacked Kane. He made his WWE in-ring debut in a tag team match on the July 26 episode of SmackDown, where he and Rowan defeated Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and Tensai). Harper and Rowan defeated many teams for a couple months but suffered their first lost on the October 11 episode of SmackDown from Cody Rhodes and Goldust.
On the September 29, 2014 episode of Raw, a video played where Wyatt set Harper free, saying that he fixed him and gave him a reason to exist. On the November 10 episode of Raw, Harper made his TV return, throwing an unconscious Dolph Ziggler at Triple H and Stephanie McMahon's feet, and expressed his desire to join their team at Survivor Series against John Cena's team.
On the November 17 episode of Raw, he joined Team Authority and was immediately given a match for the Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler. Harper would win the match and his first singles championship in the WWE. Harper lost the title back to Ziggler in a ladder match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, ending his reign at 27 days.
Death
Huber died on December 26, 2020 from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, ten days after his 41st birthday. He was hospitalized for non-COVID-related lung problems in Jacksonville, Florida.
Nipissing University
Nipissing University is a university in Ontario, Canada. It is located in located in North Bay, Ontario.
Santiago J. Erevia
Santiago Jesus Erevia (December 15, 1946 – March 22, 2016) was an American U.S. Army-veteran. He was born in Nordheim, Texas. Erevia served in the Vietnam War starting at the age of 22.
In 1970, Erevia left active service with a two-year reserve obligation. In 1972 he joined the Texas National Guard and went on to serve 17 years. Erevia worked as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service, retiring in 2002 after thirty-two years of service.
Erevia was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a March 18, 2014 ceremony at the White House.
Erevia died on March 22, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 70.
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American politician. He was the 54th Governor of the state of New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2001 until 2006, when he stepped down to take his seat as governor. On November 3, 2009, Jon Corzine lost re-election for another four years as governor. The person who won was Chris Christie, who became the governor on January 20, 2010.
Tilo Prückner
Tilo Prückner (26 October 1940 – 2 July 2020) was a German actor. His career lasted for over fifty years and more than 100 movies. He was born in Augsburg, Germany. He was known for his roles in The NeverEnding Story, Iron Sky and Tatort.
Pam Bondi
Pamela Jo Bondi (born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney, lobbyist and politician. She is a Republican. She served as the 37th Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019.
Bondi was born in Tampa, Florida. She grew up in nearby Temple Terrace. She has been married twice. Each marriage ended in divorce.
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno ( born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, composer, and music theorist.
He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California. This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality", the "F" standing for "Fascist". He wrote about this in the 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality. He was a Marxist.
1104
1104 was a leap year.
James McGreevey
James Edward "'Jim"' McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) was the 52nd Governor of New Jersey. In 2004, he said that he was gay. He resigned as governor after he said he had an affair with a male employee. He was the first openly gay governor of any state in the history of the United States.
EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the first electronic computers. Unlike the computer before it, the ENIAC, EDVAC operated in binary and was able to store programs.
Functionally, EDVAC was a binary serial computer with automatic addition, subtraction, multiplication, programmed division and automatic checking with a capacity of 1,000 44-bit words. EDVAC's average addition time was 864 microseconds and its average multiplication time was 2,900 microseconds.
By 1960, EDVAC was running over 20 hours a day with error-free run time averaging eight hours. EDVAC ran until 1961 when it was replaced by BRLESC. During its operational life it proved to be reliable and productive for its time.
SCR Hochstädt Wien
Sportclub Rasenspieler Hochstädt was an association football club from the Brigittenau district of Vienna.
History
The club was founded in 1903 as SC Hochstädt. In 1942, they were promoted to the 2. Liga. During the Second World War, they played in a syndicate with ''1. Floridsdorfer Rasenspieler-Sportclub and merged 1945 to form Sportclub Rasenspieler Hochstädt''. They played in the top division of Austrian football in 1947 and 1949. In 1947 they reached the semifinals of the Austrian Cup. Due to the creation of the Staatsliga in 1950, they were relegated to the third division. They were unable to return to the second division, and in 1972, they merged with the rival Brigittenauer AC to create Brigittenauer AC-Hochstädt.
Giorgio Nicodemi
Giorgio Nicodemi ( Trieste, - Milan, ) was an Italian art historian, critic.
He graduated from the Scientific-Literary Academy of Milan.
Giorgio Nicodemi is Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Milan. Since 1919 he has been President of the Tosio Martinengo Gallery Museum and since 1923 of the Civic Museums of Brescia.
He is the author of the magazines Emporio, Dedalo and Rivista dell'Arte.
Willi Holdorf
Willi Holdorf (17 February 1940 — 5 July 2020) was a West German athlete. In 1964, he won the first Olympic gold medal for Germany in decathlon and was named German Sportspersonality of the Year. He was born in Blomesche Wildnis, Germany.
Holdorf died on 5 July 2020 at his home in Achterwehr, Germany from an illness, aged 80.
Egglham
Egglham is a municipality in Rottal-Inn in Bavaria in Germany.
Cynthia Coffman
Cynthia Coffman is an American serial killer. In 1986, she killed two women in California. She was convicted along with her boyfriend, James Marlow. Coffman says she was present when the women were killed. She also says that she suffered from battered woman syndrome. She was sentenced to death and is sitting on death row in a prison in California.
Life
She was bourn in St .Louis, Missouri. She had a difficult childhood. Her father soon left the family, and her mother raised her alone. At one point, her mother tried to give her and her brother away. When she was 18 years old, she was married. She became a mother. The marriage did not last long, however. She moved to Arizona with a friend. She met Marlow shortly after he was released from jail. They started to take methamphetamine together, got married, and began to commit violent crimes.
Crimes and trial
Both Coffman and Marlow were accused of killing four women, in October and November 1986. Coffman confessed to the murders, Her attorneys said that she loved Marlow, bur that he brainwashed and abused her.
They were put on trial in July 1989 and 1990 and sentenced to death. Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the death penalty was reintroducerd in 1977. A trial in 1992 convicted her of another murder, for which she received a sentence of life imprisonment. After this, Coffman confessed to the murders.
Bellemagny
Bellemagny is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Bloc Party
Bloc Party are a British indie rock band. The band has four members: Kele Okereke sings and plays rhythm guitar, Russell Lissack plays the lead guitar, Justin Harris plays bass guitar and Louise Bartle plays the drums. The band's music has been compared to bands such as the Cure, Gang of Four and the Strokes.
The band formed during the 1999 Reading Festival. They tried many different names before they chose Bloc Party. Moakes joined after reading an advertisement in NME magazine. Tong was picked through an audition. The band was first noticed when they gave BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and Franz Ferdinand's lead singer Alex Kapranos a copy of its music demo, "She's Hearing Voices". Later it was released as a single.
In February 2005, the band released its debut album, Silent Alarm. It received excellent reviews from many critics, and made NME's Album of the Year list. The album was successful enough to reach platinum status in the UK a year later. The band released its second album, A Weekend in the City, in 2007. This album reached number two on the UK album chart and number twelve on the Billboard 200. In August 2008, the band released their third album, Intimacy. 4 years later, in 2012, the band released their fourth album, Four, and in 2016, the band released their fifth album, Hymns.
Early days and first releases
Russell Lissack and Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in Essex. They saw each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and then decided to form a band. Bass guitar player Gordon Moakes joined after answering an advertisement in NME, and drummer Matt Tong joined after an audition. They were called Union at the start, the band chose to call themselves Bloc Party in September 2003 as another way of saying "block party". The band have said in interviews that the name was not supposed to be related to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois. However, Gordon Moakes said on the group's official Internet forum that the name was made by joining the eastern "Blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. Moakes also said that the name was not chosen only for this reason, but because it "looked, sounded, and seemed fine, so we went with it."
In November 2003, Bloc Party had their song "The Marshals Are Dead" featured on a compilation album called The New Cross released by Angular Recording Corporation. They then released their debut single "She's Hearing Voices" on the record label Trash Aesthetics, which was new at the time.
The band were first noticed after lead singer Okereke went to a Franz Ferdinand concert in 2003. He gave a CD of "She's Hearing Voices" to both lead singer Alex Kapranos and Radio One DJ Steve Lamacq. Afterwards, Lamacq played the song on his radio show. He called the track "genius", and he invited them to record a live session for the show. The success of the track led to the release of another single, "Banquet", which was released by Moshi Moshi Records. They went on to sign with independent label Wichita Recordings in April 2004.
Silent Alarm
Bloc Party's first album, Silent Alarm, was released in the UK in February 2005 on Wichita Recordings. In the United States, it was released in March 2005 by Vice Records. It was given a lot of praise. It was voted as the NME album of the year for 2005, and reached number three on UK album charts before being certified platinum. The first single from the album, "So Here We Are", made the top 5 on UK charts. Further, the singles "Banquet", "Helicopter" and "Pioneers", managed to reach the UK top 20 but did not do as well as "So Here We Are". The animated music video for "Pioneers" was made by Shoreditch-based designers Minivegas. It was number one in the NME video charts for four weeks.
The band got good reviews from critics in the United States, and they toured there a lot over 2006. At the start of 2006, they finished their tour with sold out shows in Los Angeles, Miami and Berkeley. It sold 350,000 copies in North America and over a million worldwide. After the success of the album, the established electronic group The Chemical Brothers soon collaborated with Okereke for "Believe", a track on the Brothers' Push the Button album. An album of remixes of tracks from Silent Alarm was released at the end of August in the UK. The album was called Silent Alarm Remixed, and it kept the first album's song list.
During July, Bloc Party recorded two new tracks with Silent Alarm producer Paul Epworth. The songs were released as an extended play called Two More Years. The release of this EP came with another release of Silent Alarm, which had on it both "Two More Years" and old single "Little Thoughts". "Two More Years" was released later at the same time as their October 2005 UK tour. The single also had a remix of "Banquet" done by The Streets, for which a music video was also made.
The band also made the track "The Present" for the Help!: A Day in the Life compilation album. The money raised from this album went to the War Child charity. In 2005, their album track "Like Eating Glass" was used on the soundtrack of a horror movie called Cry Wolf. It was also remixed for use on Activision's skateboarding game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
A Weekend in the City
Bloc Party's second album, A Weekend in the City, was produced by Jacknife Lee. It was published by Wichita in the UK and Vice Records in the US and was released in February 2007. However, it was leaked in November 2006. It was released on the UK iTunes store before in shops, and reached second place in the Official UK Chart. The album did just as well in Australia and Belgium. It entered at number 12 in the Billboard 200, with 48,000 copies sold. The first single, "The Prayer", was released on 29 January. It became the single which did the best in the UK Top 40 for the band, reaching fourth place. Before the release of the album, BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe played a live recording of the band at the Maida Vale studio, featuring both old and new songs, on his radio show on 30 January 2007. On 1 February 2007, A Weekend in the City was made able free to listen to on the band's official MySpace page.
The next single, "I Still Remember", was Bloc Party's highest charting single in America. It got to number 24 on the Modern Rock Chart. The band released their third single, "Hunting for Witches", in August 2007. The single was their only ARIA Chart entry, getting to number 20.
In October 2007 Bloc Party said they would release a new single, "Flux", on 13 November—ahead of their end-of-year concerts. The electronic song, also produced by Jacknife Lee, was very different from previous singles released by the band.
Intimacy
"Mercury", the first single from Bloc Party's third album Intimacy, was played on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 7 July 2008. It then appeared on the Radio 1 website fifteen minutes later. The exclusive followed a countdown timer which was put in place of the band's website for three days, which ended with a link to the Radio 1 website at the time of Lowe's radio show. Many fans were expecting new songs over the internet, with some being annoyed by the act. The song had an electronic sound like the last single, "Flux". During the first play of "Mercury" on Radio 1, Kele was with Zane Lowe, and said that Jacknife Lee and Paul Epworth would be producing the new album. It was also said that the single was to be released on 11 August 2008. The video was put out with the single.
Bloc Party's third studio album has a new, electronic sound, even though Kele said this would not be the case. He had said before this that the sound would be as raw as Silent Alarm, but as "experienced" as A Weekend in the City.
The band talked about the release of their third album with fans on a forum on 18 August 2008. The album then was made available for pre-order in many formats - an MP3 download with the CD release on 27 October 2008. "Trojan Horse", a song from the album, was made available to stream through NME's website. On 20 August 2008, the band added more album tracks, "Signs" and "One Month Off", as well as "Trojan Horse", to their MySpace profile. On 23-24 August, 2008, the band played concerts at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. The band played set-opener "Mercury", as well as album track "One Month Off". A concert like that one followed a week later on 30 August 2008, when the band played as the main act at the Hydro Connect Music Festival, in Argyll, Scotland.
After the digital release of Intimacy, Bloc Party said to the public that they would go on another UK tour, starting on 25 January 2009 in Glasgow. They will then play in Manchester and Wolverhampton in the same month, with another gig in Wolverhampton on 1 February 2009. Their first UK tour since December 2007 will finish on 12 April 2009 in London. Also in early 2009, the band toured North America in many small places. In June 2009 they announced that their new single is called One More Chance. This song was not on Intimacy and was played on Radio One on the 18th of June 2009. It was released during August 2009.
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Tropical Storm Claudette (2009)
Tropical Storm Claudette was the third named storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the first tropical cyclone to affect the United States during 2009. The storm formed on August 16, and it quickly gained strength. The storm struck Santa Rosa Island, Florida, moved northwest, and dissipated over Alabama.
On August 16, Claudette dropped rainfall in parts of the Florida Panhandle. The storm spawned a tornado near Cape Coral. The tornado slammed a car into the side of a home. One person drowned in high waves along the coast of Panama City.
Rick Zieff
Richard Evan Zieff (born November 1, 1961 in Weston, Massachusetts) is an American actor and voice-over coach best known for being the voice of Spike in The Tom and Jerry Show and for being the voice of Mr. Nosy and Mr. Nervous on The Mr. Men Show (while being credited as "Danny Katiana").
Suwannee River
The Suwannee River is a major river in north Florida and south Georgia in the United States. It is 266 miles long.
History of the France national football team
France won their first world cup in 1998 at France and the latest one is in 2018 at Russia. France has 2 world cups.
Overproduction
In economics, overproduction is when there is too much supply over the demand. This makes the product priced lower and leaves unsold goods.
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur is a commune. It is in the Basse-Normandie region in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Francis Forbes
Early life
Forbes was born in Bermuda in 1784. His grandfather, Dr. George Forbes had moved to the Bermudas after the Battle of Culloden. He went to London at the age of 19 to study law. He passed the exams and became a lawyer in 1812. He returned to Bermuda but went to back to England 3 years later. In 1816 he was made the first Chief Justice of Newfoundland. He lived in Canada until 1822. The government asked for his advice about setting up a proper legal system in Australia. He was asked to be the first Chief Justice of New South Wales in June 1823. Forbes was officially given the job in October 1823.
Chief Justice
Forbes was Chief Justice from 13th October 1823 to 1st July 1837. He arrived in Sydney in March 1824. He lived with the Governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, while his house was being got ready for him. Forbes and Brisbane became great friends. He officially opened the new Supreme Court on May 17, 1824. He was also a member of the Legislative Council and was made President in August 1824. In December he was made a member of the Executive Council as well. These two extra positions were political jobs and put him into conflict with his job as a judge. As Chief Justice he had to be sure that new laws were in agreement with the laws of England. This gave him the power to veto (stop) any new law in Australia. This was not a problem while Brisbane was the Governor, but Forbes soon had problems with the new Governor, Sir Ralph Darling.
The Francis Forbes Society  is a group set up to study Australian legal history.
Para-snowboarding
Para-snowboarding is a type of snowboarding. People with physical disabilities compete in para-snowboarding.
Classification
Because people with different types of disability snowboard, people are separated into three groups. In Paralympic sport, these are called classes. The classes are SB-LL1, SB-LL2 and SB-UL.
Bendorf, Haut-Rhin
Bendorf is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Zeebo Sports
Zeebo Sports is a series of video games for the Zeebo system that only came out in Brazil.
The series used to be named Boomerang Sports because the games were designed to only be used with Zeebo's "Boomerang" motion-sensitive controller. However, in August 2010, Zeebo released new versions of the games that can use the Boomerang or the standard Zeebo gamepad. Because of this, the series was renamed to Zeebo Sports.
Hala (clan)
Hala is a gotra or clan of the Jatt people found in the states of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh in India and in the province of Sindh in Pakistan.
Religion
The members of this gotra are Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. The Muslim Jatts of the Hala gotra are found in Sindh, while Hindu and Sikh Jatts belonging to this gotra are found in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab (India).
La Pommeraye, Calvados
La Pommeraye, Calvados is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Order of operations
The order of operations is a mathematical and algebraic set of rules. It is used to evaluate (solve) and simplify expressions and equations. The order of operations is the order that different mathematical operations are done. The standard mathematical operations are addition (+), subtraction (−), multiplication (* or ×), division (/), brackets (grouping symbols used to indicate order of operations like , [] and {} ) and exponentiation (^n or n, also called orders or indices).
Mathematicians have agreed on a correct order to use operations, and it is very important that they know these rules. When people are solving a problem with more than one operation, they will need to know the correct order to solve the problem correctly. Otherwise, the answer will be wrong.
Rules
Follow all the rules in this order from left to right in the equation.
Brackets and indices
Use operations inside brackets and solve any indices. You should always solve brackets first when solving an equation.
Example:
Exponents
When seeing an exponent, solve it first after solving the brackets. (53 = 5 * 5 * 5 = 125)
Multiplication and division
Solve any multiplication and division in the problem. Note that multiplication does not precede division; this is a common mistake. Both are solved from left to right as they occur.
Example:
Addition and subtraction
Lastly, solve any addition or subtraction.
Acronyms
When solving 8 - 7 + 5, some people say that 7 + 5 must take precedence, but this is incorrect. Instead, one should look from left to right to find the correct answer. This rule also applies to multiplication and division.
COVID-19 pandemic in Togo
On 6 March, Togolese authorities announced the first COVID-19 case, a 42-year-old Togolese woman who travelled between Germany, France, Turkey, and Benin before returning to Togo. On this date, it was reported that she was being treated in isolation and her condition was stable.
On 20 March, nine more cases were confirmed in Togo.
On 21 March, seven more cases were confirmed. All borders to the country were closed. The cities of Lomé, Tsévié, Kpalimé, and Sokodé have been quarantined starting on 20 March for two weeks.
Max Reger
Max Reger (born in Brand, Bavaria, 19 March 1873; died 11 May 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
Life
Reger’s father was a schoolteacher who was an amateur musician. When he was a boy Max helped his father to rebuild an organ that was going to be thrown away. This was the instrument on which he learned to play. It was some time before he started proper lessons, but by the time he was a teenager he was playing the organ for church services. When he was 15 he went to Bayreuth to hear Wagner’s operas. This was the moment when Reger decided he wanted to become a musician.
Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with a famous teacher Hugo Riemann. He composed a lot of music, especially for the organ. His musical style was similar to that of Brahms, but he also learned a lot from the music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann. He liked the symphonic poems of Liszt and these gave him the ideas for writing chorale fantasies for the organ, although he never wrote music that tells a story (programme music).
In 1902 Reger married. He and his wife adopted two children. In 1907 he became professor of composition at the University of Leipzig. He was a very good teacher. He became well-known abroad. He travelled to London where he spent hours in the art galleries. Then he bored his friends by talking all the time about the paintings. He conducted the orchestra at Meiningen, performing works by many composers, especially Brahms, Bruckner and his own.
Reger enjoyed eating and drinking. He regularly went to his local café where he would eat ten large sausages and drink ten glasses of beer. His health got bad, and he died of a heart attack in Leipzig, where he was visiting friends on his way home from the Netherlands.
Works
Reger wrote an enormous amount of music, but very little of it is played nowadays. He wrote in a late-Romantic style. He is best remembered for his organ music. He liked to write fugues and sets of Variations. His Fantasy and Fugue on BACH is one of the hardest pieces ever written for organ. He wrote a lovely song called Marias Wiegenlied (''Mary’s lullaby).
Lieutenant Governor of Guam
The Lieutenant Governor of Guam is the second highest-ranking political figure in Guam.
Ultrarelativistic limit
Particles which go near the speed of light are called ultrarelativistic.
Hisashi Jogo
Hisashi Jogo (born 16 April 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Avispa Fukuoka.
Ultrarelativistic limit
The ultrarelativistic limit is the maximum velocity that a particle can move at. Albert Einstein found the equation for energy: E=mc². This means that energy is equal to a certain amount of mass. However, this is a simplified version of his equation. The longer version of his equation is E2=m2c4+p2c2. (Mathematically, if you ignore the p2c2 and take the square root of the equation, you get E=mc2). p2c2 refers to the velocity of a particle multiplied by a very large number.
Einstein then went on to show that a particle can never achieve the speed of light, because you get a divide by zero error from the equation for kinetic energy,. Look at the denominator (bottom) of the equation,. "v" refers to the velocity of the particle. If its velocity reaches the speed of light (which is "c" in this equation), will equal one, and since that would leave one minus one in the denominator, there would be a divide by zero error.
Hisashi Jogo
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Ultrarelativistic limit
Particles which go below the speed of light (all particles which have mass) are called tardyons. Theoretical particles which go above the speed of light are called tachyons.
Berentzwiller
Berentzwiller is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Darius Vassell
Darius Vassell (born 13 June 1980) is an English footballer. He plays for Ankaragücü.
Club career statistics
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Materialise NV
Materialize NV, based in Leuven, Belgium, is a company active in the field of 3D printing, offering both software and parts manufacturing.
Overview
Materialize was founded in June 1990 in Louvain2 by Wilfried Vancraen3.
In 1991, the company released the first elements of the Mimics software suite, and in 1992 the Magics software suite. The first of these suites, Mimics, transforms stacks of 2D images (eg DICOM files) into a 3D model and calculates the area of these 3D models. Initial data can be obtained by computed tomography, confocal microscopy, microtomography or microscopic tomography (micro-CT or µCT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) via image segmentation.
The second, Magics, makes it possible to optimize the printing result, to simulate the process, to manage the mesh structures, to generate supports, to import data, for example in CAD formats and to export them, in particular in 3D STL files. These software suites then evolve regularly2,4.
At the same time, the company sets up web services allowing its customers to express manufacturing needs or to pilot 3D prints.
Ering
Ering is a municipality in Rottal-Inn in Bavaria in Germany.
Wheelchair curling
Wheelchair curling is a type of curling. It is for people with physical disabilities.
History
Curling started to be at the Olympic Games in 1998. Wheelchair curling was introduced to the Winter Paralympics program in 2002. People from 16 countries played wheelchair curling in 2017.
Rules
Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation. Wheelchair curlers play on teams of four people. One person on the team throws a 19.96 kilogram granite stone across an ice track. The track is 45 meter long. At the end of the track is a big circle. It has 4 rings. The diameter is 183 centimeters. There is a dot in the center. A team tries to get their stones the closest to the center. After each team throws ten stones, the team with the most stones closest to the center wins.
The person who throws the stone sits in their chair on a rubber mat. They use a special stick to assist in throwing the stone.
Eligibility
People who can play wheelchair curling have to have a disability. There are several eligible types of disabilities. They include paraplegics, people with cerebral palsy, people with amputations of the lower limbs, and people with multiple sclerosis.
Bennwihr
Bennwihr is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran, CH, FCSD (4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020) was an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He was born in Kingston upon Thames, England. He was known for creating the Habitat stores. Conran was knighted in 1983 and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to design.
Conran died on 12 September 2020 in Berkshire, England, aged 88.
UTC+03:30
UTC+03:30 is the time zone used for:
This time is used only in Iran, so it is also called Iran Standard Time.