cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Amber-colored salamander
The amber-coloured salamander (Hynobius stejnegeri) is a kind of salamander in the Hynobiidae family of animals. It can only be found in Japan. It likes to live in forests in rivers that are warm. Because of habitat loss, it is losing its place to live.
Healthcare in Afghanistan
Healthcare in Afghanistan has improved since the end of the wars in 2006, but is still very limited. In 2018 there were 3,135 clinics and hospitals. About 87% of the people lived within two hours travel. However many people, especially children, die from illnesses which would be cured in other countries. Some hospitals don't have any ventilators. Things have got worse because money from other countries mostly stopped in 2021.
Jan Fedder
Jan Fedder (14 January 1955 – 30 December 2019) was a German actor. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was best known for his role as police officer Dirk Matthies in the German television show Großstadtrevier. He was also known for his role as the crude Petty Officer Pilgrim in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot.
Ouffières
Ouffières is a commune. It is in the region of Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department. This is in the northwest of France. In 2017, 189 people lived there.
Mork & Mindy
Mork and Mindy is an American television sitcom which ran from 1978 to 1982. It stars Robin Williams and Pam Dawber as the title characters. The series was made by Garry Marshall. Comedian Jonathan Winters has a recurring role in the series. Mork and Mindy is a spin-off from Marshall's other popular TV series, Happy Days. The plot of the series is that alien named Mork from a planet called Ork who travels to Earth and becomes friends with a woman named Mindy in Boulder, Colorado.
Pharaoh
As ancient Egyptian rulers, pharaohs were both the heads of state and the religious leaders of their people. The word “pharaoh” means “Great House,” a reference to the palace where the pharaoh resides. While early Egyptian rulers were called “kings,” over time, the name “pharaoh” stuck.
Osmanville
Osmanville is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Pharaoh
As the religious leader of the Egyptians, the pharaoh was considered the divine intermediary between the gods and Egyptians. Maintaining religious harmony and participating in ceremonies were part of the pharaoh’s role as head of the religion. As a statesman, the pharaoh made laws, waged war, collected taxes, and oversaw all the land in Egypt (which was owned by the pharaoh).
Many scholars believe the first pharaoh was Narmer, also called Menes. Though there is some debate among experts, many believe he was the first ruler to unite upper and lower Egypt (this is why pharaohs hold the title of “lord of two lands”). Pharaohs were typically male, although there were some noteworthy female leaders, like Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. Hatshepsut, in particular, was a successful ruler, but many inscriptions and monuments about her were destroyed after her death—perhaps to stop future women from becoming pharaohs.
After their deaths, many pharaohs were entombed and surrounded by riches they were meant to use in the afterlife. Explorers and archaeologists have discovered these tombs and learned a great deal about ancient Egyptian society from them. One very famous example was in 1922 when archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamen, a pharaoh who died when he was only nineteen.
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Hatshepsut was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh. She came to the throne in 1478 BC. This masks presents the idealized forms of Hatshepsut's face, perfect features with equal symmetry!
King Tutankhamun
King Tutankhamun was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled between 1334 - 1325 BC. Tutankhamun was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty.
Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra VII was the queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt was an ancient Hellenistic state. Cleopatra’s leadership saw her forestall the fall of Egypt to the Roman Empire.
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC. He reigned during the peak of Egypt's artistic and international power.
King Narmer
King Narmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period. Scholars have considered Narmer the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty.
Ramesses III
Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Ramesses III reigned from 1186 to 1155 BC and is believed to have been the last great monarch of the New Kingdom to wield power over Egypt.
Thutmose I
Thutmose I was the third pharaoh of the eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Thutmose I campaigned deep into the Levant and Nubia, pushing the borders of Egypt farther than before.
Pepi I Meryre
Pepi I Meryre was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh and the third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled for over forty years during the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, towards the end of the Old Kingdom Period.
King Userkaf
Userkaf was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Fifth Dynasty. Userkaf reigned during the Old Kingdom Period for seven to eight years in early 25th century BC. It is believed that Userkaf may have been a high priest of Ra before ascending to the throne.
Djedefre
Djedefre was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh king of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. Djedefre was the son and immediate throne successor of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Queen Nefertiti
Nefertiti was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known to lead a religious revolution as the couple only believed in one god, Aten, the disc of the sun.
Orbec
Orbec is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Jon Ossoff
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff (born February 16, 1987) is an American documentary filmmaker and politician. Ossoff is the Senior United States Senator from Georgia since 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2017 special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district.
Ossoff ran against Republican Georgia Senator David Perdue in the 2020 election for United States Senate. He won the election in a run-off race on January 5, 2021. Ossoff is the first Millennial senator to be elected.
Happy Tree Friends (TV series)
Happy Tree Friends is an adult animated sitcom that was broadcast from September 25 to December 25, 2006 on G4 in the United States, among with Nirvana. and other Seattle grunge artists like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters etc.
Singer Kurt Cobain as Flippy
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society is a science research group in Dahlem, Berlin, Germany.
The original was called Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, and it was founded in 1911. That became part of the Max Planck Society and took the name of the first director, Fritz Haber, in 1953.
The Institute has researched many kinds of physics including chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics, colloid chemistry, atomic physics, spectroscopy, surface chemistry and surface physics, chemical physics and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry, and materials science.
During World War I and World War II, the Institute did much war work for Germany's military.
Some of the most important members in the Institutes past are: Herbert Freundlich, Paul Friedlander, Rudolf Ladenburg, Michael Polanyi, Ladislaus Farkas, Hartmut Kallmann, Robert Havemann, Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Brill, Kurt Moliere, Jochen Block, Heinz Gerischer, Rolf Hosemann, Kurt Überreiter, and Alex Bradshaw.
Nobel Prize winners involved with the Institute include Max von Laue (1914), Fritz Haber (1918), James Franck (1925), Otto Hahn (1944), Eugene Wigner (1963), Ernst Ruska (1986), Gerhard Ertl (2007).
Huckleberry Finn (1920 movie)
Huckleberry Finn is a 1920 American silent adventure movie directed by William Desmond Taylor and was based on the 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It stars Lewis Sargent, Katherine Griffith, Martha Mattox, Frank Lanning, Orral Humphrey, Edythe Chapman and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Staten Island Zoo
The Staten Island Zoo is a zoo in Staten Island, New York. It has over 443 animals of over 206 species. It opened on June 10, 1936. At the time of its opening, it was considered the first "educational zoo" in the United States.
The zoo is known for its large collection of rattlesnakes. The zoo's collection is one of the largest rattlesnake collections in North America. It is the home of Staten Island Chuck, a groundhog who is New York City's official Groundhog Day forecaster.
Ouilly-du-Houley
Ouilly-du-Houley is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
Chironex fleckeri
Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as sea wasp, is a well-known, lethal, venomous species of Box jellyfish. It lives in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea north to the Philippines and Vietnam. Humans can easily be killed by its sting. It is considered the most lethal jellyfish in the world because of the numerous incidents resulting in injury or death to humans.
South East Coast Ambulance Service
The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is the NHS trust for running ambulance services  in south-eastern England. It covers Kent (including Medway), Surrey, West Sussex and East Sussex (including Brighton and Hove). It also covers a part of north-eastern Hampshire around Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet and Yateley.
It started in July 2006, with the merger of the ambulance services for Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
It was put into special measures in September 2016 after the Care Quality Commission rated it inadequate because of bullying, delays and putting people at risk.
May
May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, coming between April and June. It has 31 days. The month of May might have been named for the Roman goddess Maia, or more likely the Roman goddess of fertility Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.
May never begins or ends on the same day of the week as any other month.
May's flower is the Lily of the Valley. Its birthstone is the emerald. The meaning of the emerald is success in love.
The Month
May comes between April and June and is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is one of seven months to have 31 days. In the older Roman calendar, May was the third month of the year. It is a spring month in the Northern Hemisphere and an autumn month in the Southern Hemisphere. In each hemisphere, it is the seasonal equivalent of November in the other. May is likely to have been named after the Roman goddess Maia, though there is a theory that May might have its name from the Latin "Maiores", meaning "Seniors". The same theory suggests that June would then be named from "Iuniores", meaning "Juniors".
No other month of any year, common or leap year, either begins or ends on the same day of the week as May: this month is the only one that has both of these properties.
In common years, May starts on the same day of the week as August of the previous year, and in leap years, March and November of the previous year. In common years, May finishes on the same day of the week as August and November of the previous year, and in leap years, March and June of the previous year. In leap years and years immediately after that, May starts on the same day of the week as February of the previous year.
Dubrovnik-Neretva County
Dubrovnik-Neretva County is the southernmost Croatian county. The county seat is Dubrovnik.
The northern part of the Mljet island is a national park. The Lastovo archipelago has a nature park.
May
The Month
In the Northern Hemisphere, May is in late Spring, and May Day on May 1 and Walpurgis Night, during the night of April 30 to May 1, are symbolic of the transition from winter to summer. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is in autumn, and comes just before the Antarctic winter, when emperor penguins breed there.
Events in May
Special devotions to the Virgin Mary take place in May.
Dubrovnik-Neretva County
Administrative division
On the local level, the Dubrovnik–Neretva county is further subdivided into 5 cities (grad, pl. gradovi) and 17 municipalities (općina, pl. općine):
Syd Mead
Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and neofuturistic concept artist. He was known for his designs for science-fiction movies such as Blade Runner, Alien and Tron. Mead was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Mead died of lymphoma in Pasadena, California on December 30, 2019 at the age of 86.
Tropical Storm Ana (2003)
Meteorological history
A low pressure area formed to the south, and southwest, of Bermuda on April 18. A trough, which is a type of weather system, brought an area of clouds into the low pressure system. The low pressure system moved towards the north. After turning towards the northwest, the weather system looped southeastward. Thunderstorm activity became stronger near the center of the cyclone. The storm was named Subtropical Storm Ana on April 20, while located about 250 miles (400 km) west of Bermuda.
The subtropical storm moved to the east-southeastward and it continued to get stronger. It is estimated that Ana became a tropical storm by 0000 UTC on April 21. When it became a tropical cyclone, Ana reached its highest winds of 60 mph (95 km/h). Shortly after, Ana came close to Bermuda. Strong wind shear began to remove a lot of the thunderstorm activity from Ana. Ana continued to move eastward, and early on April 22, the wind shear again removed the thunderstorms from the center of the storm. After turning towards the northeast, the core of Ana merged with a cold front on April 24. Because of t his, Tropical Storm Ana turned into an extratropical cyclone. The remnants of the cyclone sped towards the east-northeastward, before it died out on April 27.
Impact, records, and naming
Before Ana was formed, the government of Bermuda declared a gale warning for the island. When Ana formed, a tropical storm warning was also issued for Bermuda. The storm moved close to Bermuda and dropped 2.63 inches (67 mm) of rainfall the Bermuda International Airport. The winds on the island were light.
Stormy seas from the storm reached the coast of Florida in the United States. A couple of factors, which included the stormy seas, caused a boat to capsize in Jupiter Inlet. Two people on the ship drowned, and the others were rescued. The remnants of Ana dropped 0.87 inches (22 mm) of rainfall in the city of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Clouds from the remnants of Ana also caused rain in the United Kingdom. Two ships experienced tropical storm force winds because of Ana.
Ana was the second subtropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in the month of April. When the storm became a tropical cyclone, it was also the first Atlantic tropical storm in the month of April. Because the damage from Ana was not bad, the name "Ana" was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization. The name Ana was used again in 2009.
Hynobius nebulosus
The Clouded Salamander (Hynobius nebulosus) is a type of salamander in the Hynobiidae family of animals. It can only be found in Japan. The places they like to live are warm forests, rivers, swamps, freshwater springs, and land that is being watered.
Narrabeen
Narrabeen is a suburb in Sydney, NSW, Australia. It has playgrounds, lakes and a basketball court.
Bosnian genocide
The Bosnian genocide was the killing of thousands of ethnic Bosniaks in the year 1995 during the Bosnian War. The largest killing happened in the village of Srebrenica, in what is called the Srebrenica massacre. Over 8,000 were killed in Srebrenica.
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War (1992-1995) saw the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina fighting Croatia and Serbia (which was then named Yugoslavia). The United Nations wanted to protect Bosnia, so they created safe zones.
Srebrenica massacre
The Srebrenica massacre happened when the Serbian Army entered the Bosnian village and began raping women and forcing men into the forests. The men were then hunted down by Serbian soldiers.
Serbian denial
In Serbia, many have said that the genocide was not a genocide. But, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) says that the Bosnian Genocide occurred and was a genocide.
Nils Petter Sundgren
Nils Henrik Christian Sundgren, known as Nils Petter Sundgren, (24 February 1929 – 30 December 2019) was a Swedish movie critic and television presenter. He worked for Filmkrönikan broadcast on SVT. Sundgren was born in Bromma, Sweden.
Sundgren died on 30 December 2019 in Stockholm at the age of 90.
Ouilly-le-Tesson
Ouilly-le-Tesson is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" is a 1981 song by American duo Hall & Oates. It was taken from their 10th studio album Private Eyes. It went to number 1 in the United States, number 2 in Canada, number 5 in New Zealand, number 8 in the United Kingdom, number 9 in Ireland and number 13 in Australia.
Birganj
Birganj or Birgunj is a metropolitan city and border town in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.As an entry point to Nepal from Patna and Kolkata, Birgunj is known as the "Gateway to Nepal". It is also called "Commercial capital of Nepal". The town has significant economic importance for Nepal as most of the trade with India is via Birgunj and the Indian town of Raxaul.
Hōfu
Hōfu (防府市) is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
History
Hōfu (防府) means "the capital (国府) of Suō Province (周防国)". The eastern part of Yamaguchi Prefecture used to be called called Suō Province.
The city was founded on August 25, 1936. The city's change over the past fifty years is shown in the animated movie Mai Mai Miracle, and the story takes place in the year 1955 (with flashbacks that go 1,000 years further back).
An Hour with Chekhov
An Hour with Chekhov (Чины и люди) is a 1929 Soviet silent comedy movie directed by Yakov Protazanov. It stars Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova, and Andrey Petrovsky.
Cherry (wrestler)
Kara Elizabeth Drew (born July 15, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and valet. She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she was known by the ring name Cherry. During her time there, she was known for being the manager of the tag team Deuce 'n Domino and was also a wrestler on WWE's SmackDown brand. Drew was released from her WWE contract on August 15, 2008.
After being released, Drew started working at SeaWorld.
Haag in Oberbayern
Haag in Oberbayern is a municipality in Mühldorf in Bavaria in Germany.
Geography
Haag is about 50 km east of Munich, 15 km south of Dorfen, 21 km west of Waldkraiburg, 14 km north of Wasserburg am Inn, and 32 km from the county seat in Mühldorf. Via the Bundesstraße 15 the distance to Landshut is 48 km. Rosenheim is 38 km away.
COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Luxembourg on 29 February 2020. As of, there are confirmed cases, with  deaths, and  recoveries in Luxembourg.
1970–71 Austrian Cup
The 1970-71 Austrian Cup was Austria's nationwide football cup competition. FC Wacker Innsbruck were the defending champions. In the event of a draw, overtime + replay, in the event of a draw in the replay, overtime + drawing of lots.
COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg
On 29 February the Ministry of Health of Luxembourg confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country. The patient was a man in his forties who had returned from Italy via Charleroi, Belgium.
On 13 March, Minister for Health Paulette Lenert, Minister for Mobility François Bausch, and Minister for Family Affairs Corinne Cahen held a press conference to confirm another 8 cases and Luxembourg's first death, which was a 94-year-old who had been in critical condition.
1970–71 Austrian Cup
Round of 32
First round with teams from the first and second league.
Replay match:
Ouilly-le-Vicomte
Ouilly-le-Vicomte is a commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France.
East Midlands Ambulance Service
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust runs emergency medical services, urgent care and patient transport services for about 4.8 million people in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire (except Glossop, Hadfield and Tintwistle), Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire  and Northamptonshire. It was started in 1999.
About 3,290 people work for it in  more than 70 places.
In 2011 it had the worst performance in England after some bad weather.
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy
The Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, sometimes known as the Maurice Richard Trophy is a trophy in the National Hockey League awarded to the leading goal scorer each year. It was first awarded in 1998. The trophy is named after hockey legend, Maurice "Rocket" Richard. The current holder of the trophy is Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals.
Winners
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1970–71 Austrian Cup
Final
Sepp Schneider – Robert Sara, Eduard Krieger, Alfons Dirnberger (109. Willi Huberts), Franz Zeger, Helmut Weigl, Karl Weber (75. Kurt Foka), Josef Hickersberger, Johann Geyer, Ernst Fiala, Alfred Riedl coach: Heinrich Müller
Bent Martin – Erich Fak, Egon Pajenk, Theodor Hoffmann,  Walter Gebhardt, Werner Walzer (80. Ewald Ullmann), Alois Jagodic, Rudolf Flögel, Johann Buzek, Jörn Bjerregaard, Geza Gallos coach: Gerd Springer
London Ambulance Service
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an NHS trust. It runs ambulances within the London region of England where there are about 8.6 million people living or working. About 5,300 people work for it.
During World War II, the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service was run by over 10,000 auxiliaries, mainly women. There were 139 Auxiliary Stations around the city.
In 2008 it had 450 emergency ambulances with 100 fast response units - cars, motorcycles, or bicycles.
Der Barbier von Bagdad
Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Baghdad), is an German comic opera with music and libretto by Peter Cornelius. It is based on "The Tale of the Tailor" and "The Barber's Stories of his Six Brothers" in One Thousand and One Nights. It was first performed in Weimar, on December 15, 1858. By far Cornelius' most successful work and his only opera still regularly performed.
Parabolic trough
A parabolic trough is similar to a solar panel tower, because it has parabolic mirrors that collect large amounts of heat which is reflected on water-filled pipes. The water is heated until it turns into steam, rotating a turbine using a large steam piston.
The rotating turbine produces electricity, which is then transferred by transformer, before being converted DC to AC and transferred by current lines.
Bobby Bland
Bland was an African-American who was born on January 27, 1930 in Rosemark, Tennessee. He was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Bland died on June 23, 2013 in Germantown, Tennessee from an illness. He was 83 years old. After his death, his son told news media that Bland had recently discovered that musician James Cotton was his half-brother.
Terry Branstad
Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician. He was the United States Ambassador to China from May 24, 2017 to October 4, 2020. He was the 42nd Governor of Iowa from in January 14, 2011 until his resignation on May 24, 2017. Branstad was the 39th governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and President of Des Moines University from 2003 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party and is the longest-serving governor in Iowa or American history.
In 2010, he won a three-way primary election to run as the Republican candidate for governor. He ran against incumbent Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat, and four third party candidates in the November 2, 2010 general election. He won the general election in November, defeating Culver by 52.9% to 43.1%.
Branstad started the 2010 race with a lead in both the primary and general elections. He won the Republican primary with 50.4% of the vote, 9.5% ahead of the next candidate.
On December 14, 2015, Branstad became the longest serving governor in American history.
In December 2016, Branstad was nominated by President-elect of the United States Donald Trump to become the United States Ambassador to China. Branstad was confirmed by the Senate on May 22, 2017, and was succeeded as Governor of Iowa by Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds after he resigns to take up the ambassadorship. He resigned in October 2020.
Early life
Branstad's family were Norwegian-American Lutheran farmers who lived in Leland, Iowa. Branstad graduated from the University of Iowa and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Drake University Law School. He served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971 and earned the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service. In 1989, he was named an honorary member of Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Iowa State University.
Branstad served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 and served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1979 to 1983, when he was elected Governor of Iowa.
Governor of Iowa (1983–1999)
When he became governor at age 36, Branstad was the youngest governor in Iowa's history and when he left office, he was Iowa's longest-serving governor. He served as chair of the National Governors Association during 1989–1990, and was chair of the Midwestern Governors Association. In 1997, he chaired the Education Commission of the States, the Republican Governors Association, and the Governors' Ethanol Coalition. Honor doctor of University of Northern Iowa.
Post-gubernatorial career
After Branstad's term as governor ended in 1999, he founded Branstad and Associates, LLC and was also a partner in the firm of Kaufman, Pattee, Branstad & Miller, and a financial advisor for Robert W. Baird and Co.
Sash! discography
Sash! have made six studio albums, three compilation albums and twenty-three singles.
Terry Branstad
Post-gubernatorial career
In 2001, Branstad was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the President's Commission for Excellence in Special Education. This group's goal was to make a plan to improve the educational performance of students with disabilities. After finishing that work with the commission in 2003, he was asked to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council for Positive Action for Teen Health, or PATH. The Council's goal is to detect adolescent mental illness.
Branstad is or was on the boards of the Conmed Health Management Inc, American Future Fund, Iowa Health System, Liberty Bank, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Living History Farms.
2010 Gubernatorial campaign and election
On August 2, 2009, the Des Moines Register reported that Branstad might run for the Republican nomination for governor. On October 7, 2009, Branstad filed papers to run for governor in the 2010 election. According to a poll taken in September 2009 by The Des Moines Register, he had a 70% positive rating from Iowans compared to Governor Chet Culver's rating of 50%.
On June 8, 2010, Branstad won the Republican primary election in Iowa; on January 2, 2010, he won the general election.
United States Ambassador to China
On December 8, 2016, Branstad accepted President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of him for the post of United States Ambassador to China (PRC).
Branstad was confirmed by the United States Senate on a 83-12 vote on May 22, 2017, and was succeeded as Governor of Iowa by Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds once he resigned to take up the ambassadorship.
Branstad announced his resignation on September 15, 2020. He left the ambassadorship on October 4, 2020.
Edwin Chadwick
Sir Edwin Chadwick (24 January 1800 – 6 July 1890) was an English social reformer who led the reform of the Poor Law s in England. He was also a leader in public health. He was a follower of the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham and a friend of John Stuart Mill.
He was born on 24 January 1800 in Longsight, Manchester and moved to London when he was 10. He was a member of the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832.
After a serious outbreak of typhus in 1838, he convinced the Poor Law Board that an enquiry was required. The work was done by his friends who were doctors and he published it as Report on The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain in 1842. A lot of people bought it. It said that better water supplies and a drainage system to remove waste, would stop so many people dying. Evidence given by Dr Dyce Guthrie convinced Chadwick that every house should have a permanent water supply, rather than the intermittent supplies from standpipes that many poor people had to use. The report led to the Public Health Act 1848, which was the first time the British government took responsibility for the health of its citizens.
Nicola Pfund
Nicola Pfund (born November 7, 1960 in Sorengo) is a Swiss Italian writer, blogger and journalist.
Remixing
In remixing, a person (often a recording engineer or record producer or lyrics producer) takes a familiar song, splits it into different parts called tracks, and changes the song's music, instruments, layout, and or vocals to create a new version of the same song. It is called remixing due to mixing being the putting together of all the parts of a song, and remixing being the putting together of the parts of the song differently than the original.
Remixers, that is, people who remix, are musicians who use a variety of tools, primarily electronic, to create the new song versions. Remixing can be simply moving song parts around; it can also be creating new music for an old song lyric. There are two common kinds of remixing: production and mashups. Production remixing uses new instruments with the old song vocal, and mashups use two old songs mixed together to create a new song.
It is pertinent to mention that the remix of R. Kelly and Beyonce's song "If I were a boy" shows that remixing also involves the editing of the words of a music to publicize more enlightenment gained from over time listening and attuning of the soul to the music by the general public. This tells musicians to be cautious about the wordings of their music. The wordings are as beautiful as the sound the soul hears, because the soul listens to the music and not the ears necessarily. A fine captivating lyrics with poor musical sound can last for many uncountable centuries as most captivating music than a music with a captivating sound but poor lyrics. Events of our daily life can be used to produce remix for most music we have lived out innocently. This is a very green field opportunity for upcoming remixers. E.g. One can do a remix about Dolly Parton's song - Jolene capturing the insecurity of a woman in keeping her man because of her inferior outlook to that of a woman who in her seemed inferior outlook discovers the confidence that Jolene in her air of superiority can never and will never ever be able to take her man even if she looks like the moon on a very dark night or the twinkle stars decorating the dark clouds at night.
Then after some years of listening to it, another remixer releases another insight on why Jolene has to stop exerting that air of superiority on the women around her, seeing she has done so much harm to the concept 'love'. And it can go on and on, bringing out the best styles, tactics and ideology to love better in diversified ways making us more sane with love rather than being insane.
An African can choose to do a remix where Jolene is welcomed by Dolly Parton to share her man with her seeing that it is part of our African religion and we have it as a responsibility to polish it to gold. Music without its lyrics properly guided is dead, this is majorly the essence of remixing. Sounds would be exhausted but knowledge cannot be exhausted and knowledge is an embodiment of the lyrics and not the sound. Tu-face Idibia, P-Square and the rest can explore this.
Production
Many electronic music artists (music made with computers or other electronic instruments) use computer software to make new music parts, called "tracks". The music parts contain notes which are arranged with a computer program called a sequencer. The actual notes are played by instruments, usually synthesizers, a type of electronic musical instrument that makes sounds by changing the shape of a sound wave. It is also possible for a remixer to use a drum sample kit, a set of sounds of fake or real drums recorded for use on a computer.
Rendering
When the remixer has a proper sequence in the sequencer, he or she can then render the audio part, or track. Rendering requires the sequencer to talk to the musical instrument, usually by computer software or a computer-to-computer talking language called MIDI to an actual electronic keyboard. The sequencer tells the instrument which note to play, and then the instrument plays the note. The sequencer writes this note to a music file on the computer.
Mashups
A mashup is a remixing style in which a remixer takes two songs and mixes them with each other in a clever way to create a new song. Usually, it is the vocal of the song they want to remix with the other musical parts of an older song.
Instead of using a sequencer and a musical instrument, a remixer can use either record-playing turntables or a computer with an audio sequence editor, for example the program named ACID music. He or she also needs an audio editor, a computer program that allows someone to record sounds into a computer as well as cut them down to smaller bits.
Usually, a small bit of the old song is "cut" in an audio editor into a loop, a piece of music that when played on repeat does not have any skips or musical pauses. This loop is usually called a sample in the world of remixing. This sample is then looped (played over and over) in a sequence to create a new sound. The remixer then mixes the vocal of another song over that loop.
It is also possible that a mashup style remixer will take the entire musical part of one song without its vocal - called an instrumental - and take a vocal from another song without the non-voice part - called an acapella, and put them together to create one song.
Houston County, Texas
Houston County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 22,066 people lived there. The county seat is Crockett.
Treehouse of Horror XXVIII
Story
Before the first story, the Simpson family and other characters are shown as foods in a bowl for trick-or-treaters.
In "The Exor-Sis", Homer gets a statue of Pazuzu from The Exorcist. He puts the statue in Maggie's room, which gets Maggie possessed by a demon. The Simpson family are the hosts of a cocktail party. Maggie goes to the cocktail party and kills many people there. A priest comes to their house and does an exorcism on Maggie. The demon comes out of Maggie and tries to possess Bart, but does not want to because Bart has "the darkest soul".
In "Coralisa", Snowball shows Lisa a tunnel that takes them to a parallel universe. The parallel universe has the Simpson family with buttons on their eyes. Lisa becomes scared and goes back to her real family when they want to put buttons on her eyes. However, she goes back to the parallel universe when Homer tries to kill a snake with her saxophone. After a few days, the real family can not find Lisa. Bart finds the tunnel and goes to the parallel universe. Marge and Homer go to the universe to try to get Bart. Homer kills the fake Bart and the fake Homer dies trying to save Bart. Fake Marge turns into a creature similar to a spider and tries to hurt the real Homer. Homer makes the family from the parallel universe go to the real universe to do housecleaning.
In "MMM... Homer", Homer accidentally cuts his finger off while he is grilling. Homer cooks and eats the finger, thinking it tastes great. He cuts and cooks other parts of his body. Marge learns that Homer is eating himself and takes him to a counselor. However, Mario Batali wants to cook the rest of Homer for ingredients for a restaurant. Homer dies and tells Jesus in Heaven that they are both being eaten by people (this is a reference to the eucharist, where people eat bread (Jesus' body) and drink wine (His blood)).
Reception
About 3.66 milion people watched the episode when it was first broadcast.
Dennis Perkins from The A.V. Club thought that many parts of the episode had good design, but some parts would not be remembered well. Jesse Schedeen from IGN said that Treehouse of Horror episodes are usually not "more memorable" than a normal episode. However, Schdeen thinks that this episode is better than most Treehouse of Horror episodes, saying all of the stories were strong. Tony Sokol from Den of Geek said that it was "a very funny episode" and used words about Halloween to say how it is good, but not one of the best.
Kosovo
Kosovo (/ˈkɒsəvoʊ, ˈkoʊ-/; Albanian: Kosova or Kosovë, pronounced [kɔˈsɔva] or [kɔˈsɔvə]; Serbian Cyrillic: Косово, pronounced [kôsoʋo]), officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a partially-recognised country and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe. Until 2008, Kosovo was a part of Serbia. On 17 February 2008, Kosovo officially declared that it was an independent country. It has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 95 UN member states.
History
From the 4th century BC, the area that is now Kosovo was part of the Kingdom of Dardania. In the 1st century BC, it was annexed by the Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Kosovo's territory was ruled by several different countries over time, such as the Byzantine Empire and later the First Bulgarian Empire.
In the 13th century, Kosovo became part of Serbia. After the First and Second Battles of Kosovo in 1389 and 1448, Kosovo was taken over by the Ottoman Empire. After the Balkan Wars, which ended in 1913, Kosovo became a province of Yugoslavia.
Modern history
When Yugoslavia broke apart, Kosovo remained within Serbia. However, tensions between the Albanian and Serbian communities led to the Kosovo War. In February 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia.
Geography
Geographically defined in an area of 10,887 km2 (4,203 sq mi), Kosovo is landlocked in the center of the Balkans and bordered by the uncontested territory of Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest and Montenegro to the west.
It possesses remarkable varied and diverse landscapes for its size by climate along with geology and hydrology. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Metohija and Kosovo. The rugged Prokletije and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively.
Most of Kosovo experiences predominantly a continental climate with Mediterranean and Alpine influences, strongly influenced by Kosovo's proximity to the Adriatic Sea in the west, the Aegean Sea in the south as well as the European continental landmass in the north.
The coldest areas are situated in the mountainous region to the west and southeast, where an Alpine climate is prevalent. The warmest areas are mostly in the extreme southern areas close to the border with Albania, where a Mediterranean climate is the norm.
Government
The head of state is the President of Kosovo. The president is elected every five years by the Assembly. The president fulfils ceremonial duties and does not have executive powers.
Subdivisions
Kosovo is divided into seven districts. Each district is centered around a major city.
The districts are:
Each district is also divided up into municipalities (local government areas). There are 38 municipalities in total.
Protection
The Kosovo Security Force is the national army of Kosovo. The president serves as the commander-in-chief.
In addition, the Kosovo Police is the national law enforcement institution.
Economy
Kosovo is a developing country. As of 2018, one sixth of the population were below the poverty line and one third of working age citizens were unemployed.
Kosovo's largest trading partners are Albania, Italy, Switzerland, China, Germany and Turkey.
The official currency of Kosovo is the Euro.
Education
Education for primary, secondary, and tertiary levels is predominantly public and supported by the state, run by the Ministry of Education. Education takes place in two main stages: primary and secondary education, and higher education.
The primary and secondary education is subdivided into four stages: preschool education, primary and low secondary education, high secondary education and special education.
Demographics
The official results of the censuses in Kosovo about ethnic groups and nationality from after World War II to 1991 are below. The numbers of Albanians in the 1991 census were only guesses based on censuses in the past. Most Albanians did not do the 1991 census. Today, Kosovo is mainly Albanian.
Recognition
Serbia claims to hold sovereignty (power) over Kosovo and does not recognise Kosovo's independence.
In addition, three other states have recognised Kosovo. They are: Taiwan (which also has limited recognition) and the non-sovereign constituent countries Niue and the Cook Islands.
34 of the 46 Council of Europe members recognise Kosovo, as do 13 out of 22 members of the Arab League, 9 out of 15 of the Caribbean Community, 22 out of 27 European Union members and 27 out of 31 NATO members.
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (November 16, 1894 – July 27, 1972) was an Austrian politician and philosopher, who was the founder of the first movement for the United States of Europe.
He was a well known for works the founder of the Paneuropean Union and his wrote book Pan-Europa.
List of rivers of Zambia
C
Chambeshi River - Congo River - Cuando River
K
Kabompo River - Kafue River - Kalambo River - Kalungwishi River
L
Luanginga River - Luangwa River - Luapula River - Luena River, Western Zambia - Lukasashi River - Lunga River (Zambia) - Lungwebungu River - Lunsemfwa River
M
Mbereshi River - Mulungushi River
Z
Zambezi
Vanesa Capo Perez
Vanesa Capo Perez (born October 3, 1982 in Balearic Islands) is a swimmer from Spain. She has a disability: she has cerebral palsy and is an S6 type swimmer. She raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. She finished second in the 4 x 50 meter Relay 20pts race.
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Nacogdoches County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 64,653 people lived there. The county seat is Nacogdoches.
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails (also known as NIN) is an industrial metal band. Trent Reznor writes all the band's music, and plays most of the music himself. He started the band in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards.
Pretty Hate Machine (1989-1991)
Pretty Hate Machine was Nine Inch Nails' first album. It came out in 1989. The songs "Down In It", "Head Like A Hole", and "Sin" became famous from the radio and MTV.
Broken and Fixed (1992-1993)
In 1992, Nine Inch Nails made an extended play (EP) called Broken. It had eight songs. The song "Wish" won a Grammy Award. Another album, called Fixed, has some of the same songs as Broken, but other musicians have changed the music and added new sounds. It was going to be one album (with eleven tracks, the eight tracks on Broken as tracks 1-8 and tracks 4-6 on Fixed as tracks 9-11), making it the second studio album and The Downward Spiral the third studio album, but decided to split it in half due to personal reasons and it was not the second studio album.
Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza tour with Jane's Addiction and other bands.
The Downward Spiral (1994-1996)
A new album called The Downward Spiral came out in 1994. It is the most popular and famous Nine Inch Nails album. Music stores have sold more than 4 million copies of The Downward Spiral all together. The songs "Closer", "March Of The Pigs", and "Hurt" were very popular on MTV and radio stations. Trent Reznor asked many other musicians to make remixes of the songs. The remixes were released on a new album called Further Down The Spiral.
In 1994, Nine Inch Nails played at the Woodstock '94 concert in New York. After that, they became one of the most famous bands in the world. For five years, there were no Nine Inch Nails albums or concerts. Many fans worried that the band they liked would stop making music forever.
Other works and The Fragile (1997-2001)
Finally, a new album came out in 1999. It was called The Fragile. It was the longest album Nine Inch Nails had ever made, and the music was very different from their other albums. It was going to release in late 1997 (and was also going to include "The Perfect Drug"), but got pushed back due to personal problems. "The Perfect Drug" was never put on the album. Many of the songs were only music with no words. Songs like that are called instrumentals. Writers who write about music wrote good things about The Fragile in many magazines and newspapers. People knew the music of Nine Inch Nails had changed, but many people thought it was better than before.
Even though many people liked the album, it took Trent Reznor another five years to make another one. This was due to Reznor drinking and becoming addicted to other drugs. He is now healthy. Trent also argued with his manager John Malm over how much money he should make. The court agreed with Trent and John is no longer Trent's manager.