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Arrondissement of Prades
History
When the Pyrénées-Orientales department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Prades was part of that original department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Prades is in the southwest of the department and is the largest of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 1845.1 km2, but it is the third in population, with 43,176 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the Aude department, to the east by the arrondissements of Perpignan and Céret, to the south by Spain, to the southwest by Andorra and to the northwest by the Ariège department.
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.
In the arrondissement of Prades, only the Les Pyrénées catalanes canton has its 62 communes in the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The arrondissement of Prades has 100 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Lyudmila Storozhkova
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Storozhkova (neé Bartenyeva; Людмила Васильевна Сторожкова; 19 November 1955 — 23 November 2022) was a Russian track and field athlete, who competed for the Soviet Union. At the 1978 European Athletics Championships she won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay event. She also won medals at the 1977, 1978 and 1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 metre. With the relay team she won the bronze medal at the 1977 IAAF World Cup and the silver medal at the 1977 European Cup.
Roma people in Russia
According to the 2010 national census, there were 204,958 Romani people living in the Russian Federation. Roma gypsies migrated to Russia in three main waves beginning at the late fifteenth century. In the mid-1920s Roma gypsies were classified as a national minority of Indian origin and policies in Russia were developed to assimilate them. In the 1930s many Roma were deported to Siberia. Russian Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decreed that Roma must be settled in 1959.
Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III (Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair), King of Scots, was born at Roxburgh on 4 September 1241 and died on 19 March, 1286.
Freedom (1982 movie)
Freedom is a 1982 Australian adventure drama movie directed by Scott Hicks and starring Jon Blake, Jad Capelja, Candy Raymond, Bud Tingwell, Max Cullen, Chris Haywood.
Topography of Terror
The Topography of Terror (German: Topographie des Terrors) is a history museum in Berlin, Germany. It is both indoors and outdoors. More than one million people visit the museum each year. It is the most visited museum in Berlin.
Alexander III of Scotland
He was the only son of Alexander II with his second wife, Marie de Coucy. Alexander's father died on 6 July 1249 and he officially became king at the age of eight. This happened at Scone on 13 July, 1249.
Topography of Terror
1945-1990
The buildings that were the headquarters of the SS and Gestapo were destroyed in 1945. For several decades, these buildings were somewhat forgotten. The location was a dump site. East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961 that went along the Niederkirchnerstrasse. The site was in East Germany and next to the wall.
After Reunification
In 1992, further plans were to improve the site and create a building. There was an architectural competition, and Peter Zumthor won it. There was not enough money, so construction stopped. The city destroyed the structure and started a new building in 2004. The building design was by Ursula Wilms and the landscape by Heinz W. Hallmann. The building cost €20 million and took 2 years to build. The new museum opened in May of 2010.
Exhibitions
The museum shows the history of the Gestapo, SS, and Third Reich and their crimes. It includes the grounds of the former Main Office and headquarters of the Gestapo, SS and Reich Security. It is the central location where the Nazis planned most of their crimes including the Holocaust. The Berlin Wall is also part of the museum.
Indoor
The permanent indoor exhibition is "Topography of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm- and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße". It contains photos, documents, videos, and audio about the institutions and their crimes. There are five parts to the exhibition. They include The National Socialist Takeover of Power (I); Institutions of Terror (SS and Police) (II); Terror, Persecution and Extermination on Reich Territory (III); SS and Reich Security Main Office in the Occupied Countries (IV); and The End of the War and the Postwar Era (V). There are maps of the layout of SS stations (Leitstellen) and the structure of the Concentration Camps.
Outdoor
The permanent exhibition outdoors is "Berlin 1933–1945: Between Propaganda and Terror". It tells how the National Socialists rose to power in Berlin and they changed the city. The main sections are Weimar Republic (I), Establishing the Führer's Dictatorship (II), Berlin and the "People's Community" (III), Wartime in Berlin 1939–1945 (IV); and Berlin and the Consequences of the Nazi Regime (V). There are documents, photos, and newspaper articles. Behind the glass, one can see ruins of buildings.
Visitors can take live tours or audio tours of the museum's historic site. It includes 15 stations with photos, documents, and 3-D graphics and provides an overview of the grounds.
Special exhibitions
Special temporary exhibits have been on different topics. They are including German occupation and resistance, Kristallnacht, Nazi ghettos and concentration camps, trials of the Nazis, the press and propaganda, labor policy and laws, the people's court, different stages of the war, and the Nazi's rise to power.
People
There have been exhibitions on people including Albert Speer, Adolf Eichmann, Fritz Bauer, Martin Luther, and Hans Bayer.
People groups
There are several past exhibits for various people groups who suffered and died under the Nazis. Exhibitions included historians' research projects, historical documents, and archival photos.
Kay A. Orr
Kay A. Orr (born January 2, 1939) was an American politician. She was born in Burlington, Iowa. Orr was the 36th Governor of Nebraska from 1987 to 1991. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Higden, Arkansas
Higden is a town in the US state of Arkansas.
Paavo Lonkila
Paavo Olavi Lonkila (Paavo Lång; 11 January 1923 – 23 September 2017) was a Finnish cross-country skier. He was born in Kiuruvesi, Finland.
Lonkila won a gold medal in the 4×10 km relay at the 1952 Olympics and finished third in the individual 18 km race, 11 seconds behind his teammate Tapio Mäkelä. Earlier his 4×10 km relay team placed second at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, where he finished fifth over 18 km. He won the 18 km event at the 1951 Holmenkollen ski festival. Lonkila was a farmer by occupation.
Lonkila died on 23 September 2017 in Kiuruvesi, Finland at the age of 94.
Sewer
Sewers are underground pipes that take away dirty water and human waste from homes, offices and many other places. Sanitary sewer s lead to sewage treatment plants that remove the harmful and unwanted parts, returning clean water to the environment. Many rules and regulations exist for how clean the final discharge (effluent) must be. Storm sewers are usually simpler. Houses that do not have a connection to city sewer will have a septic tank.
Cleaning crews use special trucks and tools to help keep the sewers clear of grease, tree roots, and other blockages. More rural areas may have septic systems where sewers do not yet exist. In many urban areas, street gutters to carry rainwater are combined with sewers.
Go Your Own Way
"Go Your Own Way" is a 1976 song by British American band Fleetwood Mac and is the leading single from their 11th studio album Rumours. It went to number 1 in Belgium and the Netherlands, number 4 in South Africa, number 10 in the United States, number 11 in Canada and Germany, number 20 in Australia and number 23 in New Zealand. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1978.
Pajamas
Pajamas (pyjamas in the United Kingdom) are loose clothes that people wear while they are sleeping. Pyjamas usually include trousers and a shirt. Pyjamas are often made of cotton. They are usually worn without underwear. The word comes from पजामा, Pajāmā;. Pajamas are often worn without underwear.
Brave and Bold
Brave and Bold is a boys' book written by Horatio Alger, Jr. It was serialized (published in parts) beginning on August 5, 1872 in the New York Weekly. Also published in the same issue was Alger's poem "Friar Anselmo". Brave and Bold was then published in book form by A. K. Loring of Boston in 1873. The story was serialized in Reader, an English magazine, in 1872, and was one of Alger's few stories to be so published.
Alger had lost some of his steam as the 1870s approached. He had made his literary name in exposing the horrors of life for street children in books such as Ragged Dick (1866). As the years passed, the government had taken on these horrors, studies were being conducted, and the plight of street children was being relieved. As a result, Alger was left without a literary subject. Boys' tastes were changing. They knew everything they needed to know about street boys from Alger's many novels about the poor. They wanted cowboys and Indians. Alger's publisher and his editor urged him ramp up the excitement in his books. Alger agreed, but let it be known that his moralizing would remain at its usual high level.
Brave and Bold was the first in a new series of Alger novels published by Loring, and the first in which sex rears its head. Before Brave and Bold, the girls of the hero's age were sisters or simply prop figures. In this new book, Hester Paine, the lovely daughter of Millville's most prominent citizen and the reigning village belle, becomes a source of fascination and contention for "factory boy" hero Robert Rushton and his nemesis, the rich, snobbish, kid glove-wearing youth Halbert Davis.
Brave and Bold hit a new high in Alger's work, according Edwin Hoyt, but Hoyt describes the story as a "fiasco". Gary Scharnhorst describes it as "horrifying", and lists a shooting, a stabbing, and a suicide among the book's elements. The book was reviewed by a reader of the children's magazine St. Nicholas; he described it as "of the sensational order" and was glad he did not meet its characters in real life. This was the last review of an Alger work published by the prestigious magazine. The book initiated the controversy over making Alger's works available to the young.
Manhole
A manhole (also called a utility hole, cable chamber, maintenance hole, inspection chamber,  access chamber or confined space) is a hole for a person to go into to fix underground services. Some examples of these are sewers, telephone, electricity, storm drains and gas.
The opening is protected by a manhole cover. A manhole cover can also be called a "biscuit". It is designed to stop people falling down the hole and to stop people going underground if they are not allowed to. Manholes usually have metal or polypropylene steps on the wall to make it easier to get into the manhole.
Manholes are usually found in urban areas, in streets and sometimes under sidewalks. They are usually circular to stop the manhole cover from falling into the hole.
Hazards
In urban areas, electricity being in places it is not supposed to be (stray voltage) has become a big concern. In 2004, Jodie S. Lane was electrocuted after stepping on a metal manhole cover. She was walking her dog in New York City when it happened.
Forel, Vaud
Forel is a municipality in Lavaux-Oron in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Subdominant
In music, the subdominant is the name of a special chord. It consists of three tones played together. These three tones are on the fourth step of the respective scale. Jean-Philippe Rameau was the first to use this term.
List of planets
This is a list of two types of planets: standard planets and dwarf planets, in the Solar System.
Definition of a planet
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) convened a Planet Definition Committee, deliberated, and ultimately reached a consensus on a new definition of a planet which leaves us with the eight planets we today consider to comprise the Solar System (thus the exit of Pluto). That new definition: " A “planet” is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit [meaning: 'there are no other bodies in its path that it must sweep up as it goes around the Sun'.]"
Goldenrod
Goldenrods are any of the about 150 species of weedy herbs that make up the genus Solidago. Handling the goldenrod many times can make some people have allergies. Because of this, some florists change their jobs. Parts of goldenrods are eaten by humans. They are also eaten by many species of Lepidoptera.
List of nearest stars
This list of the nearest stars to Earth is by distance in light years (ly). These distances are taken from parallax data determined by the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (or Recons). The sources for this information were the Yale Parallax Catalog [Y], Hipparcos [H], Soderhjelm 1999 [S], Tinney 1996 [T]. Stars move, and so distances are as at present only.
Some 52 star systems beyond our own, the Solar System, lie within 5.0 pc of the Sun. These systems contain 63 stars. 50 of these are red dwarfs, by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way. Much more massive stars, such as our own, make up the remaining 13. In addition to these "true" stars, scientists have identified 11 brown dwarfs (objects not quite massive enough to fuse hydrogen), and four white dwarfs. White dwarfs are extremely dense collapsed cores that remain after stars such as our Sun have exhausted all fusible hydrogen in their core and have slowly shed their outer layers. Despite the relative proximity of these 78 objects to Earth, only nine are bright enough in visible light to be visible to the naked eye from Earth, 6.5 apparent magnitude. All of these objects are currently moving in the Local Bubble, a region within the Orion–Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way.
Yohann Taberlet
Yohann Taberlet (born March 29, 1981) is a skier from France. He has a disability and uses a wheelchair. He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships. He was the second skier to finish in the men's sitting slalom race and was the third skier to finish in the sitting men's Super Combined race.
Hadrawi
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame (1943 – 18 August 2022), known by the pseudonym Hadrawi, was a Somali poet, philosopher and songwriter. He was thought by many to be the greatest living Somali poet. His works have been compared to that of Shakespeare. His poetry has been translated into many languages. Hadrawi was born in Burco, British Somalia. He was honored with the Prince Claus Award in 2012.
Hadrawi died on 18 August 2022 in Hargeisa, Somaliland at the age of 79.
Swinton O. Scott III
Swinton O. Scott III is an animation director and creator. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons.
Works
Scott worked with producers Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland of Filmation, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Andy Heyward of DiC Entertainment, Gabor Csupo and Arlene Klasky, and Phil Roman following Dane Boedigheimer. On September 2, 2021, it was announced that Scott would be directing Diary of A Wimpy Kid, a Universal Peacock-exclusive film released on December 23, 2022.
Directing episodes
He directed four episodes of Futurama, 7 episodes of The Simpsons, three episodes of The Looney Tunes Show, an animation episode of The Angry Beavers, three supervising episodes of God, the Devil and Bob, and one episode of Family Guy. Scott also worked on Camp Lazlo, the creator of The Juice.
Giacomo Capuzzi
Giacomo Capuzzi (August 14, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi from 1989 until 2005. Capuzzi was born in Manerbio, Italy. He became a priest in 1952.
Capuzzi died on December 26, 2021 in Leno, Italy at the age of 92.
Gras
Gras is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Vocational school
A vocational school is a school where students go to learn how to do a particular job. In the 1990s, trade schools have also added some focus on academics.
Emmaus
Emmaus is a place in named in the Bible, where Jesus had supper with two followers. These two people met Jesus after his Resurrection. The two disciples walked together on the road. Jesus started walking together with them. But they never recognized Jesus. They started to tell him what happened in Jerusalem, when Jesus was crucified. Jesus continued walking with them until they got to a village called Emmaus. They started eating supper. The two disciples still did not recognize Jesus. But when Jesus blessed the food amnd broke the bread they recognized him. When they did recognize him, he vanished.
Citation
The event is described according to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 24:13-16...28-31):
That very day two of them were going to a village (one hundred and) sixty stadia away from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were speaking about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were speaking and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him … As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, ‘Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is declining.’ So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him.
Tradition
According to a very ancient Christian tradition, Emmaus is today's Arab village of Amwas, which lies 160 stadia (30 km, 19 miles) to the West of Jerusalem. It can take 6 to 7 hours to come from Jerusalem to Emmaus on foot, if one walks across the mountains of Judea. The place was called Nicopolis during the 3d-7th centuries AD. During Byzantine times, two big Basilicas (churches) where built here with beautiful mosaics and a baptistry (a place for baptism). Many manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke have a shorter distance between Jerusalem and Emmaus: 60 stadia (12 km, 7 miles). It is this distance which is found in modern printed Bibles. During the Crusader and Renaissance times many Christians, traveling to the Holy Land, were looking for Emmaus at the distance of 7 miles from Jerusalem. That's why several villages which lie 12 km away from Jerusalem were thought to be Emmaus. Even today one can find three Emmaus in the Holy Land: Emmaus Nicopolis, Qubeibe and Abu-Gosh!
Highfill, Arkansas
Highfill is a town in the US state of Arkansas.
Tatar language
The Tatar language is a Turkic language that is spoken by the Tatar people, and is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.
Alphabets
Like many other Turkic languages, different alphabets are used to write the Tatar language.
Cyrillic
In Russia, the Tatar alphabet is Cyrillic by a federal government law passed in 2002. It has 39 letters, of which 33 are the same as in Russian. The other 6 (and their positions in the alphabet) are:
Latin
In 2001, the government of the Republic of Tatarstan created a Latin alphabet for the Tatar language called Zamanälif. But the next year, the federal government did not allow it to be made official. The Zamanälif alphabet has these 35 letters:
A, Ä, B, C, Ç, D, E, F, G, Ğ, H, I, İ, Í, J, K, L, M, N, Ñ, O, Ö, P, Q, R, S, Ş, T, U, Ü, V, W, X, Y, Z
Mount Pleasant, Arkansas
Mount Pleasant is a town in the US state of Arkansas.
Tatar language
Latin
There was another Latin alphabet for Tatar called Yañalif. It was used from 1928 to 1940, when it was replaced with Cyrillic by a Soviet law.
Arabic
There have been two Arabic alphabets used to write Tatar: İske imlâ and Yaña imlâ. İske imlâ is the older of the two and was used until 1920, when it was changed to become Yaña imlâ and remained in use until it was replaced by the Latin Yañalif alphabet. However, Tatars in China still use İske imlâ.
Charles University
Charles University is a university in Prague. It is one of the oldest universities in the world. King Charles IV signed an official letter to start the university on April 7, 1348.
1993–94 Belizean municipal elections
Belizean municipal elections, 1993-1994 was a series of municipal elections held in Belize within a period of twelve months and sandwiching a General election.
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen. It was taken from his second studio album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. It was never released as a single in the United States and was released as a single in the Netherlands in 1979.
Toby Kane
Toby Kane (born 30 December 1986) is a skier from Australia. He has a disability. He skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the third skier to finish in the standing men's slalom race.
Sylvester Igboun
Sylvester Emeka Igbonu (usually known as Sylvester Igboun; born 8 September 1990) is a Nigerian professional association football player. He currently plays for FC Ufa in Russia. His last name is Igbonu, but was misspelled when registering for a passport. He has also played for the Danish club, FC Midtjylland.
A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 British-American heist comedy film. Charles Crichton directed the movie. John Cleese wrote the screenplay.
It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin as a gang of diamond thieves. They double-cross one another to find stolen diamonds hidden by the gang leader. A barrister (Cleese) becomes a main character as femme fatale Wanda (Curtis) uses him to locate the loot.
It was Crichton's last movie.
Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Cleese and Crichton received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Crichton was nominated for Best Director.
Cleese won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Palin won for Best Supporting Actor. Curtis received a nomination for Best Leading Actress. Maria Aitken received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Cleese received a nomination for best actor and Curtis received a nomination for best Actress at the Golden Globes
Another movie called Fierce Creatures came out in 1997. The same actors star in it but play different characters. It does not continue the story of A Fish Called Wanda.
Plot
George Thomason and Ken Pile are gangsters in London. Ken loves animals and he has a stutter. They plan to steal a jewels. They ask two Americans for help: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West. Otto is a stupid and mean. Also, he does not like British people. Wanda and Otto are lovers. They hide this from George and Ken by pretending to be siblings. This frees Wanda to work her charms on them.
The robbery is successful and the gang escapes with a lot of diamonds. They hide them in a safe in an old workshop. Wanda and Otto betray George to the police and he is arrested. They return to collect the diamonds. Wanda plans to double-cross Otto as well. She finds that George has moved the diamonds. Wanda discovers the key to the safe deposit box containing the diamonds in Ken's fish tank. She hides it in her pendant.
Wanda seduces George's barrister, Archie Leach. Archie is in a loveless marriage. He quickly falls for Wanda. She gets him to persuade George to plead guilty and to tell the location of the diamonds. Otto is jealous. His interference causes Wanda and Archie's liaisons to go disastrously wrong. Wanda accidentally leaves her pendant at Archie's house. Archie's wife, Wendy, mistakes it as a gift for her. At Wanda's insistence, Archie recovers the pendant by staging a burglary. Archie feels guilty and ends the affair.
George asks Ken to kill Mrs Coady. She is the Crown's only eyewitness to the robbery. Ken tries three times. Each time he accidentally kills one of her dogs instead. This causes him great distress. The last dog's death gives her a fatal heart attack. So Otto is successful. With no witness, George seems poised to get off soon. He reveals the location of the diamonds to Ken. Otto learns Ken now knows where they are. Otto tries to force Ken to reveal where the diamonds are by eating his pet fish. He leaves Ken's favourite, named Wanda, until last. Ken reveals that the diamonds are at a hotel near Heathrow Airport.
With Otto's knowledge and Wanda's key, the pair want George to remain in jail. At his trial, defence witness Wanda unexpectedly gives evidence against him. Archie is stunned. He is flustered and messess up his questioning. He inadvertently calls Wanda "darling". Wendy realises that Archie has had an affair. She declares their marriage over.
With no career and no marriage, Archie resolves to cut his losses, steal the diamonds for himself and flee to South America. George tells Archie that Ken knows where the diamonds are. Archie sees Wanda fleeing the courthouse. He pulls her into his car and races to Ken's flat. As Archie runs into the building, Otto steals Archie's car, taking Wanda with him. Ken and Archie give chase. Otto and Wanda recover the diamonds. Wanda double-crosses Otto and leaves him unconscious in a broom cupboard. After recovering, Otto shoots his way out and is confronted by Archie. Otto is about to kill Archie. Archie stalls him by taunting Otto about American failures such as the Vietnam War. Ken arrives, driving a steamroller, seeking vengeance for his fish. Otto, who has stepped in wet concrete and cannot move, is run over but survives. Archie and Wanda board the plane. Otto clings to the outside of the plane. He curses them until he is blown off as the plane takes off.
Production
In 1969, Cleese and Crichton tried to make a film together but it never got started. They promised each other that they would work on a film in the future.
In June 1983, they began writing the script for Wanda. For the next two and half years they met three times a month to work on the script. According to Crichton, "We had a week of rehearsals and then a gap of two weeks in which to incorporate any new ideas which had been thrown up and to polish the script." According to Michael Palin, the original title was "A Goldfish Called Wanda."
Cleese told an interviewer why he called his character Archie Leach. Cary Grant's real name was Archie Leach. Cleese said "I feel this film is as near as I'll ever get to being Cary Grant."
Cleese served as co-director as the studio executives at MGM were worried about Crichton's age. He was 78 years old at the time. On the set, Crichton wore a T-shirt presented to him by Cleese and inscribed "Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill".
The film was shot in London during the summer of 1987.
Reception
On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 80 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
During the initial run of the film, a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen died during a screening when his heart rate rose to an estimated 250–500 beats per minute from laughing at a scene too hard, leading to a fatal heart attack.
In 2016, Empire magazine ranked A Fish Called Wanda 35th on their list of the 100 best British films. They called it "a must-own for any British comedy fan". They said, "it made possible Richard Curtis's later Brit-com oeuvre by establishing that British eccentricism can sell, revived the world's interest in Ealing comedies, and allowed a character with Cary Grant's real name – Cleese's bumbling lawyer Archie Leach – to live again on the big screen".
Accolades
The film is number 27 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". It is also included in the Reader's Digest "100 Funniest Films" list.
In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it 39th of the BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century
Sequels and adaptations
The main actors worked together again in 1997 to make Fierce Creatures. It is not a sequel or prequel, but is similar in style to A Fish Called Wanda. It is called a spiritual sequel. The actors played different characters. Fierce Creatures was not as well received by critics or audiences as A Fish Called Wanda.
The novelization of Fierce Creatures, written by Iain Johnstone, who co-wrote the film, begins with a letter from Archie (John Cleese's character in the first film) to his brother Rollo. According to the letter:
A loose Indian adaptation, Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav, was released in 2005.
Pavel Cherenkov
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.
A Fish Called Wanda
Sequels and adaptations
In 2008, it was reported that John Cleese and his daughter, Cynthia (who played his screen daughter, Portia), had started to work on a stage musical version of the film.
Pavel Cherenkov
Cherenkov died on January 6, 1990 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 85.
Litchfield, New Hampshire
Litchfield is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
ANZ
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ, is the third largest bank by market capitalisation in Australia, after the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation. Australian operations make up the largest part of ANZ's business, with commercial and retail banking dominating. ANZ is also the largest bank in New Zealand, where the legal entity became known as ANZ National Bank Limited in 2003 and changed to ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited in 2012. From 2003 to 2012, it operated two brands in New Zealand, ANZ and the National Bank of New Zealand. The National Bank brand was retired in 2012, with a number of branches closing and others converting to ANZ branches.
In addition to operations throughout Australia and New Zealand, ANZ also operates in 34 other nations.
ANZ was named the most sustainable bank globally in the 2008 Dow Jones Sustainability Index making it the 2nd year in a row ANZ has been granted the title. In 2007 the title was shared with another Australian bank, Westpac, which had held the title for the previous five years.
ANZ was established on 1 October 1951, when the Bank of Australia merged with the Union Bank of Australia Limited.
Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone
Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone are an American television writing, animation and production team at Warner Bros. Animation and formerly at Cartoon Network Studios. Brandt was born on December 24, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cervone on November 15, 1966, in Melrose Park, Illinois.
Works
The duo are best known for doing various projects about Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, and Looney Tunes. They had also worked on Animaniacs, Duck Dodgers, The Looney Tunes Show, The Juice, and various other projects. Brandt had also voiced Spike Bulldog in various Tom and Jerry direct-to-DVD movies.
Infinity (Journey album)
Infinity is the fourth studio album by Journey. The album was released in 1978 and was the first to feature Steve Perry. It peaked at number 21 in the United States.
Manerbio
Manerbio (Brescian: Manèrbe) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy.
Pankaj Jaiswal
Pankaj Jaiswal (born 15 June 1992) is an Indian film producer, and owner of Next Entertainment. He has produced films including Ammaa Ki Boli, Saare Jahan Se Acha and Naa Hausla Harenge Hum.
Career
Jaiswal graduated from Somaiya college. In 2013, he started his career with the television serial Naa Hausla Harenge Hum on Doordarshan. He also produced the web series Saare Jahan Se Acha with Prakash Jha as a host. In 2019 He made his debut as a film producer with Ammaa Ki Boli.
Too Much Time on My Hands
"Too Much Time on My Hands" is a 1981 song by American rock band Styx and was taken from their tenth studio album Paradise Theatre. It went to number 4 in Canada and number 9 in the United States.
Electorates of the Australian Capital Territory
From 2016, the 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly has had five multi-member electorates, which each elect five members.
Milt Ramírez
Milton Ramírez Barboza (April 2, 1950 – August 18, 2022) was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1970 to 1971 and the Oakland Athletics in 1979. Ramírez was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Ramírez died on August 18, 2022 in Mayagüez at the age of 72.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Erode Venkata Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also called Periyar, Thanthai Periyar or E. V. R. by his followers, was an Indian philosopher, politician, independence and social activist. He started the Self-Respect Movement or the Dravidian Movement and proposed the creation of an independent state called Dravida Nadu, uniting the states of South India. He was also the founder of the socio-cultural organization, Dravidar Kazhagam. Periyar started his weekly magazine, "Kudi Arasu" to express his views against the Congress party and Mahatma Gandhi.
Life
Periyar was born in Erode, Madras Presidency in a rich family. At a young age, he witnessed many incidents of racial, caste and gender discrimination. Periyar married when he was 19 and had a daughter who lived for only 5 months. His first wife, Nagammai, died in 1933. He always protested against young women getting married to much older people. Periyar, when he was 72, married for a second time, Maniammai who was 32 at the time in July 1948. His second wife, Maniammai, continued Periyar's social work after his death in 1973, but Dravidar Kazhagam was still spreading his thoughts and ideas. Periyar fought for the Tamil language, Tamil people, and for their rights until his death. He was against Brahmin for their caste and religious following. Periyar organized anti-Hindi protests in 1938, against introducing Hindi as a compulsory language of study in schools. Now in the present days, Periyar's followers are increasing all over the world among the Tamil people, due to their interest in Tamil language and history behind them.
Sabbia
Sabbia is a frazione of Varallo in the Province of Vercelli in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Barter
Barter is trading one thing for another without using money. Usually the things that are traded are worth the same amount of money, but no money is used in the trade.
Technical school
A technical school is a two-year school where people are trained for specific jobs. In the United States Military, this is where recruits go after training.
Barter
Barter is useful when two people each have something the other wants, so they agree on an amount of stuff and then swap it. This can also happen with services, for example a plumber can fix a tap in a winery and be given a crate of wine.
The problem with barter is one person may not want what the other person has. For instance, Bob needs a new pair of shoes and John has those shoes. But Bob has eggs and John needs milk. This is where money becomes useful because anything can be traded for a set amount of money. Bob could pay John for the shoes and John could go to the store and buy some milk.
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire
Lyndeborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
César Villanueva
César Villanueva Arévalo (born August 5, 1946) is a Peruvian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Peru from April 2018 through March 2019, and previously served as Prime Minister from 2013 to 2014. On 26 November 2019, he was arrested preventatively, while being investigated for alleged influence peddling in a bribery case linked to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
Huxley Pig
Huxley Pig is a British stop motion-animated children's television series based on a picture book series by Rodney Peppé. It was narrated by Martin Jarvis. The first series aired from 4 June to 4 September 1989, and the second series aired from 18 September to 11 December 1990.
Rockport, Massachusetts
Rockport is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,952 at the 2010 census. Rockport is located near 40 mi northeast of Boston.
Leno, Lombardy
Leno (Brescian: Lén) is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
Lorella De Luca
Lorella De Luca (September 17, 1940 – January 9, 2014) was an Italian movie and television actress. She began acting in movies at age 14. De Luca played Marcella Corella in the 1957 comedy Fathers and Sons (or A Tailor's Maid). Most of her movies were made in 1984 or before.
De Luca was born in Florence, Italy. She died of a brain tumour in Civitavecchia, Lazio, aged 73.
Manuel Marulanda
Pedro Antonio Marín, (1930-2008) known by his pseudonym, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, and nicknamed by his comrades "Tirofijo" (Sureshot), apparently because of a reputed ability to accurately aim firearms. He was the main leader of the FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo"). He was born on May 13, 1930 (a date that has been disputed), in a coffee-growing region of west-central Colombia in the Quindío Department, to a peasant family politically aligned with the Liberal Party during La Violencia.
Marulanda himself changed his political and ideological inclinations to the Communist Party (PCC) sometime during the period of "La Violencia" (roughly 1948 to 1958) that followed the assassination of the Liberal Party's leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
He has been considered to be seriously ill, and his death has been reported several times throughout his long career as a guerrilla, but the status of his health remains uncertain.
Mason, New Hampshire
Mason is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
Manuel Marulanda
In March 2006, Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General of the United States, announced in conjunction with DEA and Department of Justice officials that the State Department had placed a $5 million dollar reward on Tirofijo's head, or for information leading to his capture.
His death has been reported several times; He seems to have died of a heart attack in May 2008 This has now been confirmed.
A Colombian newspaper published an interview with the defense minister of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos on the 24th of May, 2008. In it, Santos said, that Colombian intelligence agents thought, that Manuel Marulanda had died on the 26th of March 2008, either of natural causes, or through a heart attack. FARC commander ‘Timochenko’ confirmed on May 25 Telesur that ‘Manuel Marulanda’ died of a heart attack, as announced earlier by the Colombian government and the Colombian armed forces
This information was confirmed on the 25th of May: Marulanda had died of a heart attack.
Merrimack, New Hampshire
Merrimack is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
Varallo Sesia
Varallo Sesia, commonly known as Varallo, is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Piedmont region in Italy. It is in Valsesia.
On 1 January 2018, Sabbia became a part of the comune.
Fulk I of Anjou
Fulk I of Anjou (870 – 942), called the Red (Le Roux, Rufus), was first the viscount of Anjou, then Count of Anjou until his death. He was the Count of Tours, Count of Nantes, and a lay abbot. Fulk increased the size of the county of Anjou as well as the prestige of his family.
Career
Born c. 870, Fulk was the son of Count Ingelger and Adelais de Amboise.
He ruled the county of Anjou from c. 908 to 942, first as Viscount then in 929 as Count. It is not known why there was a period of time between Ingelger's rule and his son Fulk's. In 899 he became Viscount of Tours and in 905, Count of Tours. About 900-918 he was Count of Nantes. He increased the territory of the county of Anjou. During his reign, he was permanently at war with the Normans and the Bretons. He lost Nantes to the Normans in 919. Normans and their Viking allies often invaded Brittany and Anjou. c. 927, Ingelger, Fulk's oldest son was killed defending Anjou against Norman attacks.
Fulk built important connections for his family. His wife's family helped secure his countship of Nantes. His son Guy became the Bishop of Soissons. Fulk also succeeded his father-in-law, Warnerius, as lay abbot of Saint-Aubin. Fulk was lay abbot of St. Lézin as well. Through these many positions Fulk elevated his family's status and fortune. Fulk I died c. 942.
Family
Fulk married Roscille de Loches. She was the daughter of Warnerius (Widone),Seigneur de Loches, de Villentrois, & de la Haye, and his wife Tecandra. He and Roscille had:
Morano sul Po
Morano sul Po is a comune in the  Province of Alessandria in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Ice age
An ice age is a period when for a long time the temperature of Earth's climate is very low. This leads to an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers.
'Ice age' is a term used in palaeoclimatology for the period of extensive ice sheets in the recent Pleistocene period. We now know that ice ages have happened a number of times in the past, the greatest and longest of which took place in the Proterozoic era, before multi-cellular eukaryotes evolved.
During ice ages the sea level drops as water is held in the great ice sheets at the poles. How much it drops depends on several factors, such as the length of time that a cold period lasts.
Stages
Within an ice age, there are stages. The longer cold stages are called glacials or glacial periods. The shorter warm periods are called interglacials. The last glacial ended about 11,000 years ago when the present interglacial started. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. The last two million years have been the Pleistocene ice age. During glacials, large and thick ice sheets cover much of the North American and Eurasian continents.
Many glacial periods that have occurred during the last few million years are initially at 40,000-year frequency, but more recently ice ages have occurred at 100,000-year frequency.
This data comes from a time when human beings had no effect on the climate, or virtually none. Therefore, it is technically correct to say that humans had no effect on global climate in the Earth's history. However, in recent centuries they have burned much fossil fuel, and this has partly been responsible for the present temperature rise.
Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler (23 June 1810 – 27 November 1884) was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic period.
Dajabón River
The River Dajabón is a river in the northern side of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. It is 55 km long and flows to the north into the Manzanillo Bay, Atlantic Ocean.
Evolution (Journey album)
Evolution is the fifth studio album by Journey. The album was released on April 5, 1979 and features their first top 20 hit Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'.
Dajabón River
Name
The Taíno name of the river was Guatapaná but the Spanish people that came to live in the Hispaniola island called it Dajabón after the Taíno name of the region (Dahaboon). Because this river was the border between the two colonies of the island, there were many fights during the 16th and 17th centuries and many people died here; then the French people began to name the river Massacre, written sometimes Masacre in Spanish; massacre means the killing of many people.
Course
The source of the Dajabón is at the Pico de Gallo mountain, on the northern side of the Cordillera Central mountain range. It flows through the Dajabón province and then form part of the limits between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its mouth is in the Manzanillo Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean.
Its discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 2.84 cubic metres per second at Don Miguel, a place a few kilometres south of the city of Dajabón.
The city of Dajabón is the most important Dominican city close to the river. It flows also through the city of Loma de Cabrera. The Haitian city of Ouanaminthe is also close to the river.
The most important tributary is the river Capotillo (in Haiti, river Bernard). There is not any important tributary in the lower part.
The river Capotillo is part of the northern border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic until it joins the river Dajabón between the cities of Loma de Cabrera and Dajabón. Then the border follows the course of the river Dajabón.
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is a city in Iowa. It is the capital city of Iowa. The city had a population of 203,433 in the 2010 United States Census. It is the home of the Des Moines Art Center, a regional art museum, and the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, an outdoor sculpture garden.
Milford, New Hampshire
Milford is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
White House Press Secretary
The White House Press Secretary is a job at the White House. Press secretaries act as the primary spokesperson for the United States Government and the President, senior executives, and policies. Karine Jean-Pierre is the current White House Press Secretary.
Hyde, Greater Manchester
Hyde is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester. 34,003 people lived there in 2011. It used to be in Cheshire.
It grew because of the cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution. There were 40 working mills, but only one is left in 2023. There was a coal mine, known as Hyde Colliery, in the town and in January 1889 an explosion there killed 23 miners.
The Peak Forest Canal goes through Hyde from Ashton-under-Lyne to Woodley, Romiley and Marple. There are six railway stations in the town.
The Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley lived on the Hattersley estate in Hyde. Harold Shipman was a doctor in the town and most of the people he killed lived there.
The Call of the Simpsons
"The Call of the Simpsons" is the seventh episode of the first season of The Simpsons. It was first shown on February 18, 1990. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wesley Archer. Albert Brooks made his first guest appearance on The Simpsons in this episode as the voice of Cowboy Bob. In this episode, Homer buys an RV and the Simpsons family set off for a vacation in the wild. By mistake driving it off the edge of a cliff, the family is trapped in the woods. As Homer and Bart try to find a way back to home, Homer gets himself covered in mud and is mistakenly taken for Bigfoot by a naturalist. The news about "Bigfoot" spread quickly and Bigfoot hunters start to close in on the woods to capture Homer.