cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Tyson Fury
Having been told be could not fight for Ireland at the Olympic Games, he was allowed to fight for both Great Britain and Ireland after tracing his family back to relatives in Belfast and Galway. Fury has fought for both England and Ireland as an amateur, winning the ABA super-heavyweight title in 2008 before turning professional later that year. He has since held the British and English heavyweight titles twice each, as well as the European, Commonwealth, and Irish heavyweight titles.
Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa (28 October 1928 – 14 February 2021) was a Romanian two-star general in the Securitate. He worked for the secret police of Communist Romania. He defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his political asylum.
He was an advisor to President Nicolae Ceauşescu. He worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Pacepa died on 14 February 2021 of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, aged 92.
Heian period
The Heian period (平安時代) is a time in the Japanese history from 794 to 1185. This grouping of years is named after city of Heian-kyō, which is the early name of present day Kyoto.
History
The Heian period began in 794 when the capital of Japan was moved to Heian-kyō. It lasted until 1185, which is the beginning of the Kamakura period.
In this period Kyoto was the center of Japanese culture. It was also in this period that the first known novel was published. The author was a woman. Poetry was very popular in Heian-kyo at the time.
Andy Ireland
Andrew Poysell "Andy" Ireland (born August 23, 1930) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Florida serving from 1977 to 1993.
North Wildwood, New Jersey
North Wildwood is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
U.S. economic performance under Democratic and Republican presidents
Historically, the United States economy did better on average when Democrats were US President than when Republicans were US President. This was certainly true over the last several decades. The reasons for this are uncertain and debated. Ten of the 11 US recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican US Presidents.
Job creation
Job creation refers to the number of net jobs added, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on a monthly basis. Journalist Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post summarized the total job creation by US President. For the 13 US Presidents starting from Harry Truman, total job creation was about 70.5 million for the 7 Democratic US Presidents and 29.1 million for the 6 Republican US Presidents. The Democratic US Presidents were in office for a total of 429 months, with 164,000 jobs per month added on average, while the Republican US Presidents were in office for 475 months, with a 61,000 jobs added per month average. This monthly average rate was 2.4 times faster under Democratic US Presidents.
Former President Bill Clinton said in 2012 that since 1961, Democratic US Presidents produced 42 million jobs in 24 years while Republicans produced 24 million jobs in 28 years.
Economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson said that, for the 1949-2012 time period, annual job growth was 2.6% for Democratic US Presidents and 1.2% for Republican US Presidents.
GDP growth
GDP is a measure of both economic production and income. The Economist reported in August 2014 that real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth was about 1.8% greater under Democratic US Presidents, from Truman up to Obama's first term, which ended in January 2013. Blinder and Watson calculated the average Democratic real GDP growth rate as 4.3%, vs. 2.5% for Republicans, from President Truman's elected term up to President Obama's first term, which ended January 2013. CNN said in September 2020 that annual average GDP growth was 4.1% under Democratic US Presidents and 2.5% under Republican US Presidents.
Unemployment rates
Blinder and Watson found that the US unemployment rate fell under Democratic Presidents by an average of 0.8%, while it increased under Republican Presidents by an average of 1.1%. Journalist Andrew Soergel wrote in U.S. News & World Report in October 2015 that ever since John F. Kennedy's Presidency, the unemployment rate was lower at the end of every Democrat's Presidency than at the start of it whereas this is only true for Ronald Reagan among Republican US Presidents during the same time period. (Soergel's statement here is slightly wrong since the US unemployment rate was exactly the same–at 7.5%–at both the start and the end of Democrat Jimmy Carter's Presidency.)
Budget deficit
Blinder and Watson reported that budget deficits were smaller under Democratic US Presidents, at 2.1% potential GDP versus 2.8% potential GDP for Republican US Presidents, a difference of about 0.7%. They wrote that higher budget deficits should in theory have boosted the economy more for Republicans, and therefore cannot explain the greater GDP growth under Democrats.
Stock market returns
Stock market returns are also higher under Democratic US Presidents ever since 1945, according to both CNN and Blinder and Watson.
Recessions
CNN reported in October 2020 that 10 of the last 11 recessions began under Republican US Presidents, and that “Every Republican president since Benjamin Harrison, who was in office from 1889 to 1893, had a recession start in their first term in office.” NBER reports the start date of recessions; the following list includes the President in office at that time and their party:
Blinder and Watson calculated that the US economy was in recession for 49 quarters from 1949-2013; 8 of these quarters were under Democratic US Presidents and 41 of these quarters were under Republican US Presidents.
Commentary
During a March 2004 interview, future Republican US President Donald Trump stated: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans."
Journalist David Leonhardt wrote in the New York Times that economists he interviewed were unsure about the causes of the better economic performance under Democratic US Presidents. However, one proposed cause was that Democratic US Presidents were, on average, more pragmatic than Republican US Presidents were. Random good luck and the condition of the US economy at the start of US Presidents' terms have also been suggested as possible causes of this due to the fact that it's easier for an economy to grow rapidly and create a lot of jobs right after a recession as opposed to after a very long period of economic growth and strong job creation.
Statistics
The table below compares various economic data for Democratic and Republican US Presidents, using the Blinder & Watson data (typically Truman's elected term through Obama's first term).
Conquest (1937 movie)
Conquest is 1937 American romantic drama movie directed by Clarence Brown and Gustav Machatý. It was based on the 1933 novel Pani Walewska by Wacław Gąsiorowski and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Henry Stephenson, Alan Marshal, C. Henry Gordon, Leif Erickson. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1938.
The Counselor
The Counselor is a 2013 British-American crime drama thriller movie. It is about human nature, greed and death. Penélope Cruz plays Laura, Cameron Diaz plays Malkina and Rosie Perez plays Ruth. The movie got mixed reviews by the critics. It got back close to $47 million, $22 million past its budget. This movie, however, was considered a flop. It was released in October and November 2013.
Loren Legarda
Lorna Regina "Loren" Bautista Legarda is a Filipino politician and former journalist. She is currently serving as the representative of Antique and as a House Deputy Speaker.
Arrondissement of Vouziers
The arrondissement of Vouziers is an arrondissement of France in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Vouziers.
It is in the southeast of the department with an area of 1412.2 km2, the second largest arrondissement of the department, but the one with fewest people living in it with 22,050 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
History
When the Ardennes department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Vouziers was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Vouziers is bordered to the northwest by the arrondissement of Charleville-Mézières, to the north by the arrondissement of Sedan, to the east by the Meuse department, to the south by the Marne department and to west by the arrondissement of Rethel.
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
Communes
The arrondissement of Vouziers has 118 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):ː
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Chris Beutler
Chris Beutler (born November 14, 1944) is an American politician. He is the 51st and current Mayor of Lincoln, serving since 2007. He previously served in the Nebraska Legislature from 1979 to 1986 from 1991 to 2006.
He was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sea Isle City, New Jersey
Sea Isle City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
Leniniana
Leniniana is a topic for collecting postage stamps that tell about the life and story of Lenin (1870–1924) or people, places, etc. connected with him. The topic was common in the Soviet Union.
Owner of a Lonely Heart
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a 1983 song by English progressive rock band Yes, taken from their 11th studio album 90125. It went to number 1 in the United States, number 2 in Canada and the Netherlands, number 4 in France and Sweden, number 6 in Austria and Norway and number 8 in Spain. It was remixed in 2005 by Max Graham and went to number 9 in the United Kingdom.
Canton of Zug
The Canton of Zug is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It is in central Switzerland and its capital is Zug. With 239 km² in area, the canton is one of the smallest of the cantons. It does not contain any districts as there are not enough municipalities to warrant any districts.
Municipalities
The eleven municipalities of the canton are:
Madame X (1937 movie)
Madame X is a 1937 American drama movie directed by Sam Wood and Gustav Machatý. It is the fourth version of the 1908 play of the same name by Alexandre Bisson and starring Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen, Lynne Carver, Phillip Reed, Henry Daniell, Ruth Hussey, George Zucco. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
László Bárczay
László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster.
In 1966 he was awarded the FIDE International Master title. At the 1966 Olympiad in Havana, he scored 11/12 (ten wins and two draws) as second reserve for the bronze medal-winning Hungarian team, winning the individual gold medal for sixth board. In 1967 he was awarded the Grandmaster title.
Nut butter
A nut butter is a type of spread. It is made by grinding dry roasted nuts until the fat separates. Different nut butters have different textures and flavours.
Types
Any nut can be used to make a nut butter. Here are some examples.
Some seeds with enough fat (e.g. from sunflowers, sesame, and pumpkins) are also used to make something similar.
Mose Allison
Mose John Allison, Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter. It was not until 1963 that his record label allowed him to release an album entirely of vocals. He was known for his songs "Parchman Songs" and "Young Man Blues".
Allison died on November 15, 2016 at his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina from natural causes, ages 89.
Iranian rial
The rial ('IRR) is the name of Iran's currency. It was first introduced in 1798. One toman equals 10 rials.
The toman (تومان tumân) is no longer an official unit of Iranian currency, but Iranians usually quote money and prices of goods in tomans. For this purpose, one toman equals 10 rials.
Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus was a huge pterosaur, the largest animal ever to fly. It had a 10 to 12 meters wing-span (33/40 feet), but was light in construction (~200 pounds).
Quetzalcoatlus had an unusually long neck, and when it stood on the ground it was as tall as a giraffe.
Its fossil record is from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, 70–65.5 million years ago. Quetzalcoatlus became extinct at the K/T extinction event.
Its discovery
A college student found the first Quetzalcoatlus fossil in Big Bend National Park in Texas. His name was Douglas Lawson, from the University of Texas in Austin. When he was in the park, he saw a bone sticking out of a rock. Since the bone looked hollow, like the bone of a bird, he thought it was part of a flying creature – and he was right. With his professor's help, he kept digging until lots of bones from an arm and wing were found. The rest of the animal's body was missing. Many others have looked for the rest of that huge pterosaur, but it has never been found. Other fossils of Quetzalcoatlus have been found, but none are as big as the one Lawson found.
Flight
Since Quetzalcoatlus was so large, two researchers suggested it was too heavy to fly. This would have been astonishing, because in the whole fossil record there is no flightless pterosaur. It has been thought their mobility on the ground was too poor for them to survive without flight. However, a recent discussion of this idea concluded they probably could fly after all. Another analysis suggested their flight was quite strong. Since we have only a few bones, the question of weight cannot be settled at present.
Lifestyle
The feeding habits of Quetzalcoatlus (which had a long beak with no teeth) are unknown. This question, and its flight, are still being discussed. The lack of a more detailed skeleton is the main problem in reaching conclusions. Two theories have been proposed.
One idea is that it ate fish, by flying with its jaw in the water, and snapping up fish when it hit them. Texas was largely covered by the Western Interior Seaway at the time. "Of these proposed lifestyles, in-flight piscivory [fish-eating] appears to have gained the most acceptance, with skim-feeding being a frequently suggested foraging method.
In flight, it was certainly a soarer, flying on up-currents of air in a warm environment, and its remains come from a site which was far inland in the Cretaceous.
Media
Quetzalcoatlus was shown in the movie When Dinosaurs Roamed America eating a dead Triceratops carcass.
Se vuol ballare
The cavatina "Se vuol ballare" is an aria from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The lyrics are by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It portrays Figaro's intent to foil Count Almaviva's womanizing, but can also be read as a political attack on the power-wielding nobility of the time. The song is sung in act 1. Figaro discovers Count Almaviva intends to exercise his feudal right to sleep with Figaro's wife Susanna before they consummate their marriage. Figaro sings of how he will unravel the Count's schemes and thwart him.
Variations
Beethoven wrote a series of 12 variations on the theme of Se vuol ballare. It bears the Number WoO 40 (=Werk ohne Opuszahl, work without opus number)
Ardon, Switzerland
Ardon is a municipality of the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Chauchilla Cemetery
Chauchilla Cemetery is a cemetery that has prehistoric remains of prehispanics. Their bodies, which are mummified, contain artifacts. The cemetery is 30 km south of the city of Nazca in Peru.
History
The cemetery was discovered in the 1920s. However, it was last used in the 9th century. The cemetery has a lot of very important burials that happened over a period of 600 to 700 years. The cemetery was first used around the year 200. This cemetery is a very important source of archaeology to Nazca culture. Because the cemetery was damaged a long time ago, it was protected by Peruvian law in 1997. Tourists pay around seven U.S. dollars for a two-hour tour of the cemetery.
Preservation of the bodies
The bodies inside the cemetery have been preserved which is probably because of the dry climate in the Peruvian Desert. However, the funeral rites were also an important factor. The bodies had clothes on them which were made of cotton and were painted with a resin. They were bought in the cemetery, which was built from mud bricks. The resin was thought to have kept out insects and slowed bacteria from feeding on the bodies.
Lake Zug
The Lake Zug (German: Zugersee) is one of the lesser known Swiss lakes, on the outskirts of the Alps and north of Lake Lucerne. It is fed by the Aa, which descends from the Rigi and enters the south end of the lake. The Lorze feeds the lake at the northern shore.
National Football League Most Valuable Player Award
The National Football League Most Valuable Player Award is an award by different entities, most notably the Associated Press, to the player who is thought to be the most valuable player in the league.
The Joe F. Carr Trophy
The NFL awarded the Joe F. Carr Trophy (named for the league president, 1921-39) to the league's ABC from 1938 to 1946.
As awarded by United Press International
United Press International gave an NFL MVP Award from 1948 through 1969, excepting 1949-50, and 1952. Beginning in 1970 UPI awarded separate awards for the NFC and AFC. In 1975 UPI added a Defensive Player of the Year Award for both the NFC and AFC.
As awarded by Newspaper Enterprise Association
This award ran from 1955 through 1996 and was a poll of NFL players. The award winner is given with the Jim Thorpe Trophy (different from the collegiate football's Jim Thorpe Award). Beginning in 1997 the Jim Thorpe Trophy was given by the Jim Thorpe Association, with the winner determined by a "vote of NFLPA representatives".
Fikret Hakan
Fikret Hakan (23 April 1934 – 11 July 2017), also known as Bumin Gaffar Çitanak, was a Turkish movie actor. He was the recipient of the honorary State Artist, a prestigious title awarded by the Turkish government. He was born in Balıkesir, Turkey. He was known for his role as Kara in Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) (1962).
Lake Zug
At its northern end the shores are nearly level, while on the west shore the wooded promontory of Buonas (with its castles, old and new) projects picturesquely into the waters. The principal place on the lake is the town of Zug. Three railways follow the shore of the lake, one from Zürich via Zug and Arth-Goldau to the St Gotthard, one from Lucerne via Arth-Goldau to the St Gotthard and one from Zürich via Zug to Lucerne.
Fikret Hakan
Hakan died on 11 July 2017 in a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey of lung cancer at the age of 83.
Lake Zug
Many fish (including pike and carp of considerable weights) are taken from the lake, which is especially famous for an endemic kind of trout (Salmo salvelinus, locally called Rolheli). Because of farming runoff, it is not one of Switzerland's cleanest lakes.
Historical notes
In 1911, a railway was built around the lake.
The first steamer was placed on the lake in 1852.
Margaret Maughan
Margaret Maughan (19 June 1928May 2020) was a British competitive archer, dartcher and bowls competitor. She was Britain's first gold medalist at the Paralympic Games, and won four gold and two silver medals at the Games. She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in London at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She was born in Lancashire, England. She competed in the 1960, 1972, 1976 and 1980 games.
At first, Maughan worked as a science teacher. Maughan was paralyzed from the waist down and left unable to walk by a road accident in Malawi in 1959.
Maughan died in May 2020 of problems caused by her spinal cord injury, aged 91.
Hawksbill sea turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle or hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is an endangered species of turtle.
Der Hölle Rache
"Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (Hell's vengeance boils in my heart) is an aria for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder wrote the words. The aria is written in D minor. The voice ranges over two octaves. It is known for being difficult to perform well. Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer was the first to sing the aria on stage.
Hawksbill sea turtle
It is mostly seen in shallow lagoons and coral reefs where its food is. It is smaller than the Australian flatback turtle: it is usually a little more than two feet long. It usually weighs about 150 pounds. It has the most pointed beak among sea turtles, which is how it gets its name. The hawksbill gets food from inside coral reefs, eating sponges, shrimp, squid, and other invertebrates. The hawksbill pointy beak helps the turtle get food out of the tiny cracks and holes in which it searches.
Der Hölle Rache
Music
The Queen of the Night is a role for a coloratura soprano. She has two arias in the opera. The other is "Oh, tremble not, my beloved son" (O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn). Both arias are famous. "Hell's vengeance" is highly memorable, fast paced and menacingly grandiose.
The aria is written in D minor. It is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and the string section. It is a larger orchestra than that for "O zittre nicht". It comprises all the players from the opera as a whole, except the clarinets and trombones.
Hawksbill sea turtle
Though they are sometimes seen in American waters, hawksbill turtles almost always nest in the warmer climates that run along the equator. Because people use the shell to make jewelry and other things, the hawksbill turtle is endangered.
Der Hölle Rache
Music
The aria is sung in act 2. It is famous for being difficult to perform well. The Queen of the Night is in a fit of rage. She gives a knife to her daughter Pamina. She tells her to kill the priest Sarastro. If she refuses, the Queen will curse her. The aria's range is two octaves, from F4 to F6 and requires a very high tessitura.
First performance
The first singer to perform the aria onstage was Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer. She was 33. Mozart wrote the two Magic Flute arias to showcase her voice. He was very impressed with Hofer's performance. In the fifth week of the opera's run, Mozart lay dying. He whispered to his wife Constanze on December 4, 1791: "Quiet, quiet! Hofer is just taking her top F; – now my sister-in-law is singing her second aria, "Der Hölle Rache"; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat: 'Hört! hört! hört! der Mutter Schwur!'"
Lyrics
The words were written (in German) by Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder, who also played Papageno in the first performances.
Dallas, Georgia
Dallas is the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,544. It was named for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under James K. Polk.
Aces High (song)
"Aces High" is a 1984 song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden and taken from their fifth studio album Powerslave. It went to number 20 in the United Kingdom and number 29 in Ireland. The lyrics are based on the viewpoint of the Battle of Britain.
Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto (born 16 July 1486) was an Italian painter. He was considered an important artist during his lifetime.
Perhaps the best known painting by Andrea del Sarto is the Madonna of the Harpies. The painting shows the Virgin Mary and child on a pedestal, with angels and two saints by her side.
Pa Sulay Njie
Pa Sulay Njie (born 2 August 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a Striker for the Gambian national team and for Hereford
At Your Threshold
At Your Threshold (У твоего порога) is a 1962 Soviet war drama movie directed by Vasili Ordynsky. It stars Nadezhda Fedosova, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, and Liliya Dzyuba.
Éva Schubert
Éva Schubert (19 January 1931 – 11 July 2017) was a Hungarian actress. She was known for her roles in Egy pikoló világos, Felmegyek a miniszterhez, and for Frakk, a macskák réme. She won a Kossuth Prize in 2013 for her lifetime achievement. She was born in Budapest.
Schubert died on 11 July 2017 in Budapest at the age of 86.
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble (born 11 August 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, and poet. He was Public Image Ltd's first bass player. He left after making two albums with the band in 1980. He has worked with many musicians since. In September 2010 a book Wobble wrote about his life, Memoirs of a Geezer, was published.
Personal life
Wobble has two daughters, Hayley Angel Wardle and Natalie Wardle, and two sons.
The Gates of the Forest
The Gates of the Forest is a book written by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel. It was published in Yiddish, French, and in English in 1966. It is about Judaism.
Nimda
It was released on September 18, 2001, one week after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It affected both user workstations (clients) running Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP and servers running Windows NT and 2000.
The worm's name comes from the reversed spelling of "admin". F-Secure found the text "Concept Virus(CV) V.5, Copyright(C)2001 R.P.China" in the Nimda code, suggesting its country of origin. A computer in Canada was responsible for an October 11, 2001 release of infected emails alleging to be from Mikko Hyppönen and Data Fellows.
Maximum and minimum
In mathematics, the maximum and minimum of a set A is the largest and smallest element of A. They are written as \max(A) and \min(A), respectively. Similarly, the maximum and minimum of a function are the largest and smallest value that the function takes at a given point. Together, they are known as the extrema (the plural of extremum).
Minimum means the least you can do of something. For example, if the minimum amount of dollars you must pay for something is seven, then you cannot pay six dollars or less (you must pay at least seven). You can do more than the minimum, but no less. Maximum means the most you can have of something. For example, if the maximum amount of oranges you can juggle is five, you cannot juggle more than five oranges. You can do the maximum or less.
For a differentiable function f, if f(x_0) is an extreme value for the set of all values f(x), and if x_0 is in the interior of the domain of f, then x_0 is a critical point, by Fermat's theorem.
Robert A. McDonald
Robert Alan McDonald (born June 20, 1953) was the eighth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He is the retired chairman, president, and CEO of Procter & Gamble. On July 29, 2014, the U.S. Senate voted 97-0 to confirm McDonald as President Barack Obama's choice to succeed General Eric Shinseki as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. On July 30, 2014 he was sworn into office.
Gunilla Pontén
Ellen Gunilla Margareta Pontén (14 June 1929 – 29 June 2019) was a Swedish fashion designer. She was born in Stockholm. Pontén designed clothes with the base colours of grey, white or black.
In 1983, she was awarded the Damernas Värld design award Guldknappen, in 2003 she was awarded a Litteris et Artibus In 2008, she was awarded the KTH Great Prize.
Pontén died on 29 June 2019, in Stockholm at the age of 90.
Yuri Sagaydak
Yuri Petrovich Sagaydak [JuriSagaidak] is a Russian lawyer. He is also a journalist at Komsomolskaya Pravda and TASS. Sagaydak produced the Russian movie Countdown (Russian title: "Lichniynomer") in 2004. By the decision of the Shanghai International Film Festival jury in November 2005, this film was declared best foreign feature film, for which the producer and screenwriter Yuri Sagaidak was awarded a special festival cup.
Maihingen
Maihingen is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany. The mayor is currently Franz Stimpfle.
Yuri Sagaydak
He also served as the Deputy Director of Renaissance Capital until 2006 and founded SP-Consulting.
Biography
Yuri Sagaidak was born in 1950 in Alma-Ata (today Almaty), completed his secondary-school education in 1968, and graduated in 1972 from the FSB Academy (known until 1982 as The Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB). He was acting as a journalist for the TASS News Agency and the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Indonesia and then in the United Kingdom. According to the decision of the editorial board of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on 29 December 1987, Yuri Sagaidak was recognised as the best reporter of 1987. In 1989, he was deported from the United Kingdom. According to a local publication, Sagaydak was issued a temporary residence permit to live in Lithuania.
Yuri Sagaidak founded a limited company Consulit in Lithuania in 2011, which had a staff of five people. J. Sagaydak remained the Director and sole shareholder of “Consulit” until February 2015. He later worked in Austria. In 2004, Sagaidak produced a move LichniyNomer (Личныйномер)with an English title “Countdown”. The story takes the viewer deep into the bowels of Russian internal affairs and politics, and was well-received in cinemas. The story revolved around a group of individuals who had to work together to foil the attempts of a terrorist organization that was preparing to carry out an attack on Rome.
Yuri Sagaydak was deputy general director of Renaissance Capital Investment Management Ltd. until 2006.
In February 2018, Valentine Low, a British journalist at The Times, described the circumstances around Sagaydak's expulsion from London in 1989 in the article "My friend Yuri... the Communist spy[15]". This publication by Valentine Low contrasts markedly with his previous publication in the midst of those events. In May 1989 he commented on the espionage charges as follows: "If that's true, then he deserves an Oscar". V. Low expressed himself in an article "My freind Yuri, spy or scapegoat?" (The Evening Standard). Sagaydak is married with five children. His wife, Vera Aleksandrovna Sagaydak is CEO of the Vienna based Astreya Consulting, she lives permanently in Austria.
Magnetic pendulum
A magnetic pendulum is an experiment where a metal ball on a thread (a pendulum) can be influenced by a number of magnets on the ground. The length of the rope is such that the ball cannot touch the magnets, but is still influenced by them. If the ball is moved, its movement will be influenced by both gravitation and the fields the magnets generate. If the movement is so large that the ball can get outside the influence of the magnets, the resulting movement will look irregular.
Erlinsbach
Erlinsbach is the name of two municipalities in Switzerland:
Beatles for Sale
Beatles for Sale is The Beatles' fourth album. It was released in late 1964. Many of its songs went into an American release, Beatles '65, from Capitol Records, while the rest went into Beatles VI, a compilation album.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who wrote most of the band's songs, had filled their earlier album, A Hard Day's Night, with original songs. The band began recording their next album only a week after finishing A Hard Day's Night, and they had little time to compose new music. The band filled the album with cover versions, of songs they had performed live in Hamburg, Germany and the Cavern in Liverpool, their hometown, before the Beatles were famous. Press agent Derek Taylor explained in the album's liner notes that all the recordings on Beatles for Sale were how the band played the music onstage.
The original songs on the album were praised, for showing Lennon and McCartney had grown and improved as writers. "I'm A Loser" was compared to Bob Dylan's work. "I'll Follow The Sun" was an early song, that was given a rewrite. "What You're Doing" imitated the musical style of The Byrds, who were just becoming popular.
Several live versions of the album's songs have since appeared, that the Beatles played in Germany, and for BBC Radio.
Lutz, Florida
Lutz is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is fifteen miles north of Tampa. The northern part of Lutz also makes up a portion of south Pasco County. The population was 19,344 at the 2010 census.
Beatles for Sale
Album songs
All songs by Lennon/McCartney, unless credited differently
+ Also appeared on Beatles '65 in the United States ++ Also appeared on Beatles VI
Thomm
Thomm is famous for an old Celtic stone, called Hinkelstein near the village and a big Celtic grave.
In further times there was a slate minor industry near Thomm.
Thomm is also famous for its cider, an apple-wine.
The FIA European Hill Climb Championship came to Thomm until 2011 and the FIA World Rally Championship until 2015.
Frank E. Denholm
Franklin Edvard Denholm (November 29, 1923 – April 7, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He served in congress from 1971 through 1975. He was born in Scotland Township of Day County, South Dakota.
Denholm died on April 7, 2016, at the age of 92 in Brookings, South Dakota.
Nendaz
Nendaz is a municipality of the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Anthony Joshua
As of June 2019, Joshua is ranked as the world's third best active heavyweight. His knockout-to-win ratio stands at 91%. Joshua is the second British boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so. He is also the second boxer, after Joe Frazier, to win a world heavyweight title whilst still reigning as Olympic champion at the top weight.
Joshua lost his world titles after an upset defeat to the American Andy Ruiz Jr.
Alec G. Olson
Alec Gehard Olson (born September 11, 1930) is an American politician. He is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a former state senator. He was the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota.
Olson was born in Mamre Township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
Olson served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1967, during the 88th and 89th congresses. He lost when he ran for re-election in 1966.
1924 Summer Olympics
The 1924 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were held at Paris in France.
The games were thought to be successful, but costly. The events were well attended.
Participating nations
A total of 44 nations sent athletes to compete at the Paris games.
Vétroz
Vétroz is a municipality of the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
The Black Watch
The Black Watch is a 1929 American adventure movie directed by John Ford and was based on the novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy. It stars Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, Francis Ford, Cyril Chadwick, Walter Long, Joyzelle Joyner, Mitchell Lewis, Lumsden Hare, John Wayne and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Pál Simon (politician)
Pál Simon (17 February 1929 – 6 February 2021) was a Hungarian chemical engineer and politician. He was the last Minister of Heavy Industry in the cabinet of Prime Minister György Lázár from 1975 to 1980. He was also Hungarian Ambassador to Yugoslavia between 1981 and 1985.
1924 Summer Olympics
Participating nations
Germany was not invited to participate.
Pál Simon (politician)
Simon died on 6 February 2021 after a brief illness, eleven days before his 92nd birthday.
A Trip Without a Load
A Trip Without a Load (Порожний рейс) is a 1962 Soviet drama movie directed by Vladimir Vengerov. It stars Georgi Yumatov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, and Tamara Syomina.
Alexandria, Louisiana
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Amphibian Man (movie)
Amphibian Man (Человек-амфибия) is a 1962 Soviet science fiction movie directed by Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadi Kazansky. It stars Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, and Mikhail Kozakov.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state in the southern part of the Central United States. It had a population of about 3,751,351 people in 2010. The state has a land area of about 68667 sqmi. Oklahoma is the 28th largest state by population and the 20th largest state by area. The name of the state comes from the Choctaw words okla and humma. It means "Red People". It is also known by its nickname, The Sooner State. The state was formed from Indian Territory on November 16, 1907. It was the 46th state to become part of the United States. The people who live in the state are known as Oklahomans or Okies. The state's capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
The cultural heritage of Oklahoma is made from by a population descending from many cultures. These include German, Irish, British and Native American people. More than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, more than in any other state. Many people in Oklahoma believe in evangelical Christianity. The state is part of the Bible Belt. Oklahoma is one of the most politically conservative states, and most people vote for the Republican Party.
History
Oklahoma has only been a state for a little over a century, but its history is much longer. Arrow heads from the Clovis culture, Native Americans who traveled through Oklahoma, have been found near the city Anadarko. These arrow heads are about 11,000 years old. The Spiro Mound Building Indians were the state's first permanent settlers. In 1541 the Spanish explorer Coranado traveled through Oklahoma while in search of the Lost City of Gold. During the 1830s, the Five Civilized Tribes were forced to move from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) on the Trail of Tears.
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), several Indian tribes sided with the Confederacy. The tribes owned slaves. They agreed with the ideas of the states that seceded from the United States. Also, the tribes were not happy that the federal government did not do what it told them it would do. Not all the tribes sided with the Confederacy. Some tribes had taken control of several forts. This caused much of the Indian Territory to be under Confederate control, but Oklahoma did not become a Confederate state. The Battle of Honey Springs near Fort Gibson on July 17, 1863 was won by the Union forces. This ended the Confederate control of Indian Territory.
On April 22, 1890, the western part of the state was opened to almost 50,000 settlers for the Oklahoma Land Run. During this land run Oklahoma got its nickname, "The Sooner State". The nickname came from the settlers who crossed the territory's borders before the land was opened by the government. A year later, the western part of the territory was turned into Oklahoma territory. The northeastern part, which was home to the Five Civilized Tribes, stayed under the control of the tribes. On November 16, 1907, the western and eastern territories joined together. They became the 46th state of the United States.
The newly formed state became an important place for the oil industry. The oil pools in the area caused the population of towns to grow very quickly. Tulsa became known as the "Oil Capital of the World" for most of the 20th century. The oil was a large part of the state's early economy.
In 1927, Tulsa businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the "Father of Route 66", began a movement to make U.S. Route 66. Avery used section of highway that was already built between Tulsa and Amarillo, Texas to make the original portion of Highway 66. He was the main person responsible for making the U.S. Highway 66 Association to watch over the building of Route 66. During the 1930s, northwestern Oklahoma went through a period of time called the Dust Bowl. The area had little rainfall and high temperatures. This caused thousands of farmers to go into poverty and forced them to move to other parts of the United States. From 1930 to 1950, the state saw its only loss in population. It lost 6.9 percent of the people who lived there. Because of the Dust Bowl, the state made hundreds of reservoirs and man-made lakes. By the 1960s, more than 200 man-made lakes had been made. This is the most in the United States.
The song Oklahoma! was made the official song of the state in 1953. The song comes from the 1943 Broadway musical play Oklahoma!. The story is set in Oklahoma Territory in 1906 just before Oklahoma became a state.
Naming history
The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw phrase okla humma. This means red (humma) people (okla). Choctaw Chief Allen Wright gave it that name in 1866 during treaty talks with the federal government about the use of Indian Territory. He dreamed of an all-Indian state with power held by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Okla humma was a phrase in the Choctaw language that meant the same as the English word Indian. It was used to describe the Native American people all together. Oklahoma later became the de facto name for Oklahoma Territory. It was officially accepted in 1890, two years after the area was opened to white settlers.
Running Free
"Running Free" is a 1980 debut single by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden and was taken from their debut self-titled album. It was released on 8 February, 1980 and has been re-released as a live single in 1985. It went to number 34 in the United Kingdom and number 35 in New Zealand. The live version when to number 12 in Ireland and number 19 in the United Kingdom.
Oklahoma
Geography
Oklahoma is the 20th-largest state in the United States. It covers an area of 89678 sqmi (68603 sqmi are land and 1296 sqmi are water). The state is shaped like a pan with a long, thin section on the west side. This section, known as the Panhandle, is 165 mi from west to east, and 34 mi from north to south.
It is one of six states on the Frontier Strip. The state is partly in the Great Plains near the center of the 48 continental states. It shares borders with Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.
The highest point in the state is the Black Mesa, in the Panhandle at 4973 ft. The lowest point is Little River east of Idabel in the southeast part of the state at 289 ft above sea level. There are four mountain ranges in Oklahoma. They are the Ouachita, Arbuckle, Wichita and Kiamichi ranges. All of the ranges are in the southern part of the state. Forests make up about 24 percent of the state. The state is also known for having more man-made lakes than any other state in the country. These lakes cover more than 1000000 acre with water.
Politics
By the start of the 21st century, conservative Republicans are the growing force in Oklahoma, but Democrats are still a major factor in statewide politics. In 2006, the incumbent Democrat governor won re-election by 66% over a former Republican Congressman. Despite the landslide victory for the Democrats, the Republicans gained two seats in the State Senate, making a 24 Democrat, 24 Republican tie in the senate, and increased their lead in the house of 57-44.
Weather
Oklahoma is in a temperate area of the country. The state sometimes sees extreme temperatures and rain that is commonly found in a continental climate. All of the state frequently has temperatures above 100 F or below 0 F.
It snows in Oklahoma. In the northwest near the Colorado border, the area can get nearly 30 in in snowfall during the winter. The southeastern part of the state usually gets less than 2 in in snowfall.
Most of the state is in an area known as Tornado Alley. This is because there is a lot of contact between cold and warm air masses which makes severe weather. Oklahoma has an average of 54 tornadoes each year. This is one of the highest rates in the world. The state is home to the National Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service, in Norman.
Cities and towns
Oklahoma had 549 populated places in 2006. It had three cities over 100,000 in population and 40 over 10,000. Two of the fifty largest cities in the United States are in Oklahoma. They are Oklahoma City and Tulsa. More than half of Oklahomans (58%) live in the metropolitan areas of the two cities.
Oklahoma City is the state's capital and largest city. It had 1,269,907 people living inside its metropolitan area in 2008. Tulsa, the second largest city, had a metropolitan area population of 905,755.
Oklahoma's largest cities in 2007 were: Oklahoma City (547,274), Tulsa (384,037), Norman (106,707), Lawton (91,568), Broken Arrow (90,714), Edmond (78,226), Midwest City (55,935), and Moore (51,106). Seven of the state's ten largest cities are in the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Only Lawton has a metropolitan area of its own.
SuRie
Life and career
Susanna Marie Cork was born on February 18, 1989 to Andrew Cork and Julia (née Kornberg). Her maternal grandfather is Sir Hans Kornberg. Her younger brother is singer-songwriter Benedict Cork. She began songwriting at age 12.
Oklahoma
Cities and towns
Oklahoma law says that populated areas are divided into two groups. Cities are areas with more than 1,000 people. Towns have fewer than 1,000 people. Both have legislative, judicial, and public power inside their populated areas. Cities can choose between a mayor-council, council-manager, or strong mayor form of government. Towns are run through an elected officer system.
Falkland, North Carolina
Falkland is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 96 at the 2010 Census, making it the least populous town in Pitt County. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.
Erlinsbach, Aargau
Erlinsbach is a municipality of the district Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Oklahoma
Sports
Oklahoma has minor league sports teams in basketball, football, arena football, baseball, soccer, and ice hockey. These teams are in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Enid and Lawton. Tulsa is home to the Tulsa 66ers. They are part of the NBA Development League. The Tulsa Revolution, playing in the American Indoor Soccer League, is also in Tulsa. The NBA's New Orleans Hornets became the first major league sports team to play in Oklahoma. This happened after the team was forced to move to the Ford Center in Oklahoma City for two seasons after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In July 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City. They play their home games at the Ford Center under the new team name, Oklahoma City Thunder. They are the state's first permanent major league team.