cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Shelby Charter Township, Michigan
Shelby Charter Township, officially the Charter Township of Shelby, is a charter township and census-designated place located in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 65,159. Shelby Charter Township is one of the fastest growing communities in Metro Detroit.
Anal fissure
To prevent the fissure to return
As long as the wound is not healed, taking a daily bath with soda (sodium carbonate) can give relief. Further more that will keep the wound clean. Sit in a tub filled with a few inches of warm water for 20 minutes, 2 or 3 times a day. This is called a sitz bath. It relaxes the tissue and helps relax the anal muscle.
It's very important that the skin around the anus is completely dry before the patients gets dressed. The slightest moisture in the folding of the skin can be the reason that the skin will get damaged easily.
Some patients benefit by putting simple oil around the anus. For example, olive oil or sunflower oil. The skin softens and will not tear or crack as easily. Always remind hygiene.
If the tips that are mentioned above do not help enough and the fissure continues to crack open, the cause could be the use of toilet paper after defecation. The paper rubs too strong over the skin and causes the wound to open again. One can try to use another brand of softer toilet paper, baby wipes, or instead use warm water to clean himself after bowel movement.
While following all mentioned tips and advice, do not forget the good principles of hygiene.
These recommendations only make sense if the patient is sure that the problem is an anal fissure. If there is any doubt, especially when there is blood in the stool, please consult a doctor
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Godwin's law
Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a saying made by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states: "As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a person/s being compared to Hitler or another Nazi, increases." That means that as more people talk on the Internet for a longer time, it becomes more and more likely that someone will talk about Hitler or the Nazis.
Jalal Abdi
Jalal Abdi (born 26 December 1993) is an Iranian football defender who played for Iranian football club Sepahan in the Persian Gulf Pro League.
Godwin's law
In 2019, Bret Stephens demonstrated both the Streisand Effect and Godwin’s Law, by publishing a column in the New York Times, where he compared his experience on Twitter to the plight of Jews under Hitler’s regime.
Léonor Serraille
Léonor Serraille (born in Lyon) is a French director and screenwriter.
She won a César Award for Best First Feature Film, Caméra d'Or, and Lumières Award for Best First Film.
Oaxaca de Juárez
Oaxaca de Juárez is the capital city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is called La'a in the Zapotec language. Ñuu Nunduva is its name in the Mixtec language. Since 1872, when Benito Juárez died there, the city is called de Juárez, in his honour. Currently, 258,000 people live in the city.
Stay The Night (Zedd song)
"Stay the Night" is an electro house song by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd featuring vocals from Hayley Williams of Paramore. It was released on September 10, 2013. It is from the deluxe version of Zedd's debut studio album, Clarity.
Viktor Mazin
Viktor Ivanovich Mazin (Виктор Иванович Мазин; 18 June 1954 – 8 January 2022) was a Soviet featherweight weightlifter. He won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He retired in 1982 after winning a Soviet Cup.
Mazin died in Minusinsk, Russia on 8 January 2022, at the age of 67.
Clarity (song)
Clarity is a progressive house/electronic house song by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd. It was released on November 12, 2012. It is from Zedd's debut studio album of the same name. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards, making it their first win.
The Violent Sleep of Reason
Loudwire and Rolling Stone said it was one of the best heavy metal albums made in 2016. It is one of their highest charting albums.
Romain Lopez
Romain Lopez, (born on 1989 in Moissac) is a French politician.
Mehdi Abdi
Mehdi Abdi Ghara ((born 30 November 1998) is an Iranian professional footballer. He currently plays for Persepolis in the Persian Gulf Pro League
Romain Lopez
Early life and category
Romain Lopez was born in Moissac in 1989 and holds a master's degree in political science and another in history.
He joined the Front National at the end of 2013.
Romain Lopez, member of the Rassemblement National was elected mayor of Moissac on June 28, 2020.
God the Son
In Christian theology, God the Son is the second person of the Trinity, which teaches that Jesus Christ is the Incarnation of God. God the Son who along with the Father and the Holy Spirit is of the same essence, share the same qualities, and each are fully God.
Source
These three words: "God the Son" are nowhere to be found in the Bible, but are found in later Christian sources. At one time, a scribe made an error in one medieval manuscript, MS No. 1985, where Galatians 2:20 has "Son of God" changed to "God the Son".
The New American Standard Bible chooses to translate John 1:18 as:
Adrian Dix
Adrian Dix (born April 20, 1964) is a Canadian politician. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and the Minister of Health of British Columbia, Canada. He was also the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2011 to 2014.
God the Son
Source
"No one has seen God at any time; God the only Son, who is in the arms of the Father, He has explained Him."
Adrian Dix
Dix was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 provincial election. He led the BC NDP into the 2013 provincial election. Even though opinion polling showed that he would win the election, he lost the election to the BC Liberal Party. Because of this, he resigned as the leader of the BC NDP.
Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is a nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Adansonia gregorii
There are other species of baobabs, which are native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (one species). Boab ranges from 5 to 15 metres, usually between 9 and 12 metres, with a broad bottle-shaped trunk. Its trunk base may be extremely large; trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded. A. gregorii is deciduous, losing its leaves during the dry winter and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May.
Pema Chödrön
Chödrön has written many books and audiobooks, and is a teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. She was born in New York City.
99 Bottles of Beer
"99 Bottles of Beer" is a sea shanty written around the mid-1900s. No one knows who wrote it. It is a backwards counting song in both the United States and Canada.
Adrian Dix
Political career
Dix was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 provincial election. He was elected to the electoral district of Vancouver-Kingsway. He beat the incumbent Liberal MLA Rob Nijjar.
99 Bottles of Beer
Lyrics
The words to the song are:
Alternative lines: If one of those bottles should happen to fall, (there'd be )98 bottles of beer on the wall... Or: If one of those bottles should accidentally fall, (there'd be )98 bottles of beer on the wall... We repeat the line many times, with one less bottle each time. When there are no bottles left, a different line is used. Some lines that can be used for when there are no bottles are: No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.
We've taken them down and passed them around; now we're drunk and passed out!
Hsing Yin Shean
Leonard Hsing Yin Shean (, 1952 – 1 June 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was a member of the Dewan Rakyat for Tanjong Aru from 1986 until 1990. He was also a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Hsing was born in Kota Kinabalu, North Borneo.
Frank McGarvey
Francis Peter McGarvey (17 March 1956 – 1 January 2023) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a forward, mostly for Celtic and St Mirren. He also made seven international appearances for Scotland.
Rainwater tank
A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a container to capture water runoff from the roof. Water can be stored during the rainy season and used later in the summer when water is more scarce.
99 Bottles of Beer
Lyrics
Other alternate lines read:
Rainwater tank
The use of water barrels is forbidden in some jurisdictions.
Frank McGarvey
Career
In March 1980, Liverpool accepted Celtic's £270,000 bid for McGarvey. For a short time, McGarvey became Scotland's most expensive footballer. He played 245 times for Celtic over five years, scoring 113 goals. In that time, he won two league titles, two Scottish Cups and a Scottish League Cup. In 1985, he joined St Mirren for a second time. Two years later, he won a Scottish Cup with St Mirren. He later had stints at Queen of the South (as player-manager), Clyde, Shotts Bon Accord and Troon.
99 Bottles of Beer
Lyrics
"If that one bottle should happen to fall, what a waste of alcohol!" Or: No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer( on the wall).
Frank McGarvey
Death
In 2022, McGarvey was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died on 1 January 2023, at the age of 66.
99 Bottles of Beer
Lyrics
There's nothing else to fall, because there's no more bottles of beer on the wall.
Andy Kaufman routine
American comedian Andy Kaufman had a comedy bit where he would sing all 100 verses. This was considered funny because the song is not usually completed due to its length.
Atticus
Atticus, a band from Knoxville, Tennessee, recorded a version of the song in front of people. It took 13 and a half minutes. It was recorded at a Glasgow, Scotland bar called The Cathouse. It was included in the 2001 album Figment. Rich Stewart, also known as Barroom Rambler, called it the number one drinking song out of 86 in an article for Modern Drunkard Magazine.
Math versions
Donald Byrd has dozens of versions of the song. These versions are inspired by math topics. The songs written by himself and others, and some of them have been published. Byrd says that the collection is fun and a good way to teach about infinity. Among his versions are: Infinite bottles of beer on the wall,
infinite bottles of beer;
If one of those bottles should happen to fall,
infinite bottles of beer on the wall. Infinite bottles of beer on the wall,
If finite bottles should happen to fall,
infinite bottles of beer on the wall. These two verses can be repeated forever.
Rochester, Michigan
Rochester is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. About 12,711 lived here since 2010. It is a northern suburb of Metro Detroit. It is located about 16 mi north of the city of Detroit.
Mark Warawa
Warawa lived in Langley, British Columbia. He was married to Diane and had five children. In April 2019, it was announced that Warawa had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that had spread to his lungs, colon and lymph nodes. He died on June 20, 2019, in Langley, at the age of 69.
Attila Kelemen
Kelemen was born in Târgu Mureş, Romania. He died on 8 January 2022 in Paris, France, at the age of 73.
Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International and has 3,209 hotel rooms.
Penthouse suites
The gold coloring of the hotel is a result of gold leaf used on the windows. Levels 40-42 (numbered as floors 60–62) are designed as penthouse suites, with a penthouse lounge on level 62 for guests staying in the penthouses. Level 43 (numbered as 64) is the Foundation Room, a restaurant and bar.
Four Seasons Hotel
Five floors (floors 35–39) of the main hotel building are the five-star and AAA Five-Diamond Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas.
Four Ways to Forgiveness
Four Ways to Forgiveness is a collection of four short stories and novellas by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. All four stories happen in the future. They are stories from the planets Yeowe and Werel. Both planets are members of the Ekumen. The group of Ekumen planets is the background for many novels and short stories in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. In 2017 it was reissued as an e-book, augmented with a fifth related story by Le Guin, as Five Ways to Forgiveness.
Setting
The stories in the book are set on two planets in a distant solar system, Werel and Yeowe, inhabited by humans placed there by the ancient Hainish. (This 'Werel' is not the same as the world called Werel in Le Guin's Planet of Exile and City of Illusions.) Werel has a long history of institutional enslavement of its lighter-skinned ethnic groups by its darker-skinned ethnic groups (the latter's derogatory term for the former is "dusties"). When the Ekumen recontacted the Werelians, the shock spurred one of the Werelian nations, Voe Deo, to develop a space program and settle the other inhabitable planet in the system, Yeowe, transporting a primarily slave population to do so. Eventually the slaves on Yeowe conducted a successful revolt and gained their independence, an event that occurred in the fairly recent past of the four stories. The nations of Werel are nervous that the "assets" on that planet might attempt the same thing for themselves.
Themes
The common themes of the stories are the freedom and slavery. For thousands of years, the dark-skinned owners of Werel kept the light-skinned assets as slaves. Then things began to change after the colonized the second planet, Yeowe. The Yeowans gained freedom and fought to have their own government and identity. They wanted to enter the Ekumen of worlds.
Gender relations are another important theme in the stories. At first, only male slaves were transported to Yeowe. The culture there became extremely masculine. Homosexual relationships were important and had strong effect on later gender relations on Yeowe.
Publication history
Harper Paperbacks published the book first in 1995. Betrayals first appeared in 1994 in Blue Motel. The others appeared in the science fiction magazine Asimov's in 1994 and 1995.
Four Ways to Forgiveness was published in 1995 in a leather-bound, signed edition by Easton Press.
Five Ways to Forgiveness was published in 2017 by Penguin Random House. It was an e-book only from Rakuten Kobo and Library of America eBook Classics.
Frank F. Ledford Jr.
Ledford died after a short illness on May 15, 2019 in San Antonio, Texas. He was 85.
Nickey Iyambo
Nickey Iyambo (20 May 1936 – 19 May 2019) was a Namibian politician and physician. He was a member of SWAPO. He served as the Namibia's first Vice-President, serving from 2015 to 2018.
Iyambo was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia since independence in March 1990. He was the Minister of Health and Social Services from 1990 to 1996, Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing from 1996 to 2002, Minister of Mines and Energy from 2002 to 2005, Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry from 2005 to 2008, Minister of Safety and Security from 2008 to 2010, and Minister of Veterans' Affairs from 2010 to 2015.
Iyambo was born in Onayena, Oshikoto Region. He died in Windhoek on 19 May 2019, a day before his 83rd birthday.
Anomalopidae
Anomalopidae (lanterneye fishes or flashlight fishes) are a family of fish. They have bioluminescent organs under their eyes. These light organs contain glowing bacteria. They can be "shut off" by the fish. It does this by either using a dark lid or by being drawn into a pouch. The organs are used to communicate, attract prey and evade predators.
Flashlight fish are found in tropical ocean waters across the world. They are normally about 14 cm in size. Some species can be twice this length. They are nocturnal. The fish feed at night on small crustaceans. Some species move to shallow waters near coral reefs at night. Most species are deep water fish. This tends to make research of the family difficult. They are a poorly understood group of fish.
Fulton County
Fulton County can be any one of the following eight counties in the United States:
Professional school
Professional School or Professional Education, in the United States and Canada, is a school that rewards professional degrees required to enter a profession, usually to become a lawyer or a medical doctor. Professional studies are sometimes confused with graduate studies. Although all professional degrees are graduate degrees, not all graduate degrees are professional degrees.
Examples of Professional Degrees include:
Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs (born March 1, 1939) is an American politician. He is the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City.
He was for thirty years a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1971 until 2002. He was president of the city council from 1981 until 1983. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Wachs ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1999. He is openly gay.
De Wahl's rule
De Wahl's rule is a rule of word formation, developed by the linguist Edgar de Wahl and applied in a constructed language Occidental (known also as "Interlingue") created by him. It is useful to create certain grammatical forms from others (for example substantives from verbs).
Rule
Infinitives of verbs in the language Occidental have usually the ending -ar or -er. The root is obtained in the following manner:
These six exceptions are: and the verbs formed from them with prefixes.
Because the rule composes from three parts, it is often known as "three de Wahl's rules".
One creates the substantives and adjectives by removing the endings and thus obtaining the root. After adding -r or -er, one obtains an infinitive in a majority of cases: decora/t/ion, decora/t-, decora/r.
Application
This rule was applied in the language Occidental. After a possible modification one can apply this rule to create new forms of a word especially in Romance languages or in languages which borrowed vocabulary from Romance languages.
Quinn H. Becker
Quinn Henderson Becker (June 11, 1930 – March 13, 2022) was an American orthopedic surgeon and lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. He was the 36th Surgeon General of the United States Army from 1985 to 1988. He attended Louisiana State University's School of Medicine. He was born in Kirksville, Missouri.
Becker died on March 13, 2022 at his home in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 91.
Mark Forest
Lou Degni (January 6, 1933 – January 7, 2022), better known as Mark Forest, was an American actor and bodybuilder. He played Hercules in the Italian movie Goliath and the Dragon (1960).
Forest died on January 7, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles, California, one day after his 89th birthday.
List of provinces of Japan
The List of Provinces of Japan changed over time. The number and borders of provinces evolved from the 7th century through the Meiji Period. In the 1870s, the provinces were replaced by prefectures.
The traditional way of parsing the land of Japan was "five provinces and seven circuits" (go-shichidō).
Five Provinces
The traditional five core provinces of Japan were called goki.
Shichido
The traditional seven core circuits of Japan were called shichidō.
Hokkaidō
The island was changed from Ezo to Hokkaidō, and 11 provinces were established in 1869-1882.
Nilda Fernández
Nilda Fernández (25 October 1957 – 19 May 2019) was a Spanish-born French singer. His first album was recorded in 1981. He became known for his 1987 album Madrid, Madrid. He might be best known for his 1991 single "Nos fiancailles". He became popular in Russia and also worked in Cuba. Fernández was born in Barcelona, Catalonia and grew up in the French city of Lyon.
On 19 May 2019, Fernández died of heart failure in the south of France. He was 61.
Lourdes Castro
Maria de Lourdes Bettencourt de Castro (9 December 1930 – 8 January 2022) was a Portuguese artist. She was known for creating shadow puppets for her Shadow Theatre. She helped create the São Paulo Art Biennial.
Castro died at a hospital in Funchal, Portugal from pneumonia on 8 January 2022, at the age of 91. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called her "one of the most [important] Portuguese artists".
Bernhard T. Mittemeyer
Bernhard Theodore Mittemeyer (born October 30, 1930) is an American urologist and retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. He served as the 35th Surgeon General of the United States Army from 1981 to 1985. He has served as the chief of urological surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He was born in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Mehrdad Abdi
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Gilberto Kassab
Gilberto Kassab ( or ; born 12 August 1960 in São Paulo) was the mayor of São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil. He is a member of the right-wing Democrat party. Kassab became famous when he brought in laws to stop billboard advertising, which he said were "visual pollution".
Aalst
Aalst can be any of the following:
Octagon
An octagon or 8-gon is a shape with 8 sides and 8 corners.
Regular octagon
All sides of a regular octagon are the same length. Each corner is 135°. All corners added together equal 1080°.
Area
The amount of space a regular octagon takes up is
a is the length of one of its sides.
Another way to write it is
Tanya Plibersek
Tanya Joan Plibersek (born 2 December 1969) is an Australian politician. She was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 2013 to 2019. She has been a member of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998. She is currently the Minister for the Environment and Water in the Albanese ministry since 2022.
Michael Lang (producer)
Michael Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager. He was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969.
Lang died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at a hospital in New York City, on January 8, 2022, at the age of 77.
Wendy Greuel
In 2013, Greuel ran for Mayor of Los Angeles but lost in the run-off to Eric Garcetti. In 2014, she ran for the United States House of Representatives, but lost the Democratic nomination to Ted Lieu.
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was a part of the Soviet Union comprised in Central Asia. Its borders encompassed much of the modern day territories of Uzbekistan.
Beaumont
Beaumont can refer to:
Reza Abdi (footballer, born 1996)
Reza Abdi (born May 5, 1996) is an Iranian striker who currently plays in Machine Sazi the Iran Pro League.
Prefectures of Japan
Prefectures of Japan (都道府県) are one of the basic local entities of Japan. They are the 47 subdivisions of the country. Prefectures are the governmental bodies of Japan which are larger than cities, towns, and villages.
History
The former provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures between 1876 and 1879.
The word todōfuken combines the suffixes of the names of the 47 prefectures. The four suffixes are:
Before World War II, different laws applied to fu and ken, but now two types of prefecture are the same, outside of their names.
List in Japanese ISO order
The prefectures are often grouped into these nine regions (Chihō). The regions are not formally specified, they do not have elected officials, and they are not corporate bodies. However, the practice of ordering prefectures based on their geographic region is traditional. This ordering is mirrored in Japan's International Organization for Standardization (ISO) coding. From north to south, the prefectures of Japan and their commonly associated regions are listed in traditional and in ISO 3166-2:JP order:
Okinawa Prefecture is traditionally thought of as part of the Kyūshū region of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is made up of islands which are southwest of the island of Kyushu. The Japanese government recognizes the prefecture as its own region in new 9-region, 11-region and 13-region systems.
Bever
Bever may refer to:
Holy Spirit in Christianity
In most Christian churches, the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is the third person of the Trinity. The Trinity is a God made up of three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, who share the same qualities and essence and are therefore One God. Christians who don't believe in the Trinity have a big difference in their beliefs about the Holy Spirit.
In Christian theology, pneumatology is the study of the Holy Spirit.
Since Christianity does indeed have a historical relationship with Judaism, theology experts often identify the Holy Spirit with the concept of the Ruach Hakodesh found in Jewish scripture, suggesting that Jesus may have just been expanding upon these Jewish concepts.
Hebrew Bible
Source:
New Testament
Depending on context:
Steeplechase
The steeplechase is a kind of horse racing that is done in the United Kingdom, United States, France, Ireland and Australia. The horses have to jump a number of hurdles (like a fence) that are put up across the track.
Neumarkt (district)
Geography
The district is in the mountains of the Franconian Jura. The southern parts are occupied by the Altmühl Valley Nature Park.
Alken
Alken, as a person, may refer to:
Alken, as a place, may refer to:
Beringen
Beringen may mean:
Ticino
Canton Ticino or Ticino ([]; French and German: Tessin [] and []) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. The written language is Italian in almost the entire canton (except the Walser municipality of Bosco Gurin, where it is German). It surrounds the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia. Together with areas of the canton of Graubünden it makes up the so-called Svizzera Italiana (Italian Switzerland). Lombard dialects (Ticinese) are still spoken, especially in the valleys, but they have no official status. It is named after the Ticino river.
Geography
The canton of Ticino is located in the south of Switzerland. It is almost entirely surrounded by Italy which lies to its east, west and south. To the north lie the cantons of Valais and Uri, to the northeast the canton of Graubünden.
Its area is 2,812 km², of which about three quarters are considered productive. Forests cover about a third of the area, but also the lakes Maggiore and Lugano make up a considerable part of the total area. These lakes are known with the above listed names, but are officially named Lake Verbano and Lake Ceresio.
The canton is split geographically in two parts by the Monte Ceneri pass. The northern, more mountainous part, called Sopraceneri, is formed by the two major Swiss valleys around the lake Maggiore: Ticino Valley and Maggia Valley. The southern part, called Sottoceneri, is the region around the Lake Lugano.
The River Ticino is the largest river in the canton. It drains most of the canton, flowing from the northwest through the Bedretto Valley and the Leventina valley to enter Lake Maggiore near Locarno. Its main tributaries are the Brenno in the Blenio Valley and the Moesa in the Mesolcina Valley in Graubünden. The lands of the canton are shaped by the river, which in its mid portion forms a wide valley, commonly known as the Riviera.
The western lands of the canton, however, are drained by the Maggia River. The Verzasca Valley is located between the Ticino river and the Maggia river. There is also a smaller area that drains directly into the Lake Lugano. Most of the land is considered within the Alps, but a small area is part of the plain of the River Po which drains the north of Italy.
History
In ancient times the area of what is today Ticino was settled by the Lepontii, a Celtic tribe. Later, probably around the rule of Augustus, it became part of the Roman Empire. After the fall of the Western Empire, was ruled by the Ostrogoths, the Lombards and the Franks. Around 1100 CE it was the centre of struggle between the free communes of Milan and Como: in the 14th century it was definitively acquired by the Visconti, Dukes of Milan. In the 15th century the Swiss Confederates conquered the valleys south of the Alps in three separate conquests.
The Canton of Uri conquered the Leventina Valley in 1440. Between 1403 and 1422 some of these lands were already annexed by forces from Uri, but subsequently lost. In a second conquest Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden gained the town of Bellinzona and the Riviera in 1500. Some of the land and the town Bellinzona itself were previously annexed by Uri in 1419 but lost again in 1422. The third conquest was fought by troops from the entire Confederation (at that time constituted by 12 cantons). In 1512 Locarno, the Maggia Valley, Lugano and Mendrisio were annexed. Subsequently, the upper valley of the Ticino River, from the St. Gotthard to the town of Biasca (Leventina Valley) was part of Canton Uri. The remaining territory (Baliaggi Ultramontani, Ennetbergische Vogteien, the Bailiwicks Beyond the Mountains) was administered by the Twelve Cantons.
The lands of the canton of Ticino are the last lands to be conquered by the Swiss Confederation. (After the battle of Marignano in 1515 the king of France Francis I defeated the Confederates, and they gave up any further conquests.) In February 1798 an attempt of annexation by the Cisalpine Republic was repelled by a volunteer militia in Lugano. Between 1798 and 1803, during the Helvetic Republic, the districts of Bellinzona and Lugano were separate cantons, but in 1803 the two were unified to form the canton of Ticino that joined the Swiss Confederation as a full member in the same year. During the Napoleonic Wars, many Ticinese (as was the case for other Swiss) served in Swiss military units allied with the French.
Colette Maze
Colette Maze (born 16 June 1914 in Paris) is a French pianist. She plays classical music.
Life
Maze studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.
She was a piano teacher.
Ticino
History
Until 1878 the three largest cities, Bellinzona, Lugano and Locarno, alternated as capital of the canton. In 1878, however, Bellinzona became the only and permanent capital.
Harpdog Brown
Harpdog Brown (January 28, 1962 – January 7, 2022) was a Canadian blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player. He was honored by the Maple Blues Awards in 2014.
Ticino
History
The current constitution  dates from 1997. The previous constitution, heavily modified, dates from 1830, nearly 20 years before the constitution of actual Swiss Confederation.
Harpdog Brown
Brown died on January 7, 2022 in Alberta, Canada at the age of 59.
Ticino
Government
The cantonal parliament is the Grand Council (Italian: Gran Consiglio), with 90 members and the government (Consiglio di Stato) has 5 members (Consiglieri di Stato). In the both councils the members are elected with the proportional electoral system. The canton sends two deputies to the Swiss Council of States (upper house), and eight deputies to the National Council (lower house). It's regional capitol is Bellinzona.
Agriculture
The main agricultural production is wine, mostly merlot, a type of red wine. It is followed by horticulture, milk and cheese production.
Economy
The hilly slopes of the canton are used extensively for the production of hydroelectricity. The electricity produced is used at home and sold for export. There is cattle breeding in the northern areas. The production of wine is important in the canton and exported to mainly other areas in Switzerland. The vineyards are mostly concentrated in the southern half of the canton where the climate is warmer. Other agricultural produce includes corn (maize), potatoes, tobacco and vegetables.
The weather in the canton is often inverse to that north of the Alps. This, and a warmer climate in general, attracts many tourists from other Swiss cantons. The lakes together with the sunshine are considered attractive. Tourism is the single most important economic factor in the canton.
The canton is well connected to the rest of Switzerland. There are tunnels underneath the Gotthard massive, both for rail and road. The canton of Grisons (Graubünden) is connected with a direct coach link, whereas the canton of Valais is connected by rail through a tunnel at the Simplon Pass. There are good rail links to Milan and Rome in Italy as well as Germany via Basel and Zürich.
Because of the tourist trade there are a number of small railways in scenic areas in the mountains. Winter sports is important, despite being less developed.
There are two major centres of education and research located in the canton of Ticino. The University of Italian speaking Switzerland (USI, Università della Svizzera Italiana) is the only Swiss university teaching in Italian. The University of Applied Sciences of Italian speaking Switzerland (SUPSI, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana) on the other hand is a professional training college focused on a practical method of teaching in the areas of applied art, economy, social work, technology and production science.
Bree
Bree may refer to:
Ticino
Economy
Three daily newspapers are published in Ticino: Corriere del Ticino, La Regione, and Giornale del Popolo. These represent the only Italian daily publications in Switzerland.
Language
The official language, and the one used for most written communication, is Italian. In oral communication Western Lombard (Ticinese) varieties, although receding in favour of Italian (especially in the cities of Lugano, Ascona and Locarno and among the younger generations), are still well preserved. These are further subdivided into local variations, with the northern valleys speaking a dialect more closely aligned with Romansch, Switzerland's fourth official language. There is a certain amount of popular literature (poems, comedies, etc.) in Ticinese, and the national radio and televisions trasmit regularly program in Ticinese (mainly comedies).
Danielle Brisebois (volleyball)
Danielle Brisebois (born August 12, 1994) is a Canadian volleyball player. She is part of the Canadian women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix, 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.
Ticino
Religion
The population is mostly Roman Catholic (75%) or Protestant (7%). About 2% each are Orthodox or Muslim.
Districts
The Canton of Ticino is divided into 8 districts (distretti) and 38 circles (circoli):
Municipalities
There are 195 municipalities in the canton (as of February 2006). These municipalities (comuni) are grouped in 38 circoli (circles or sub-districts) which are in turn grouped into districts (distretti). Since late 1990 there is an ongoing project of group some municipalities together (as they are small).
Beloeil
The name Beloeil or Belœil is the name of two municipalities. It has also been applied to various events and locations linked with these two municipalities.
Municipalities
The name has been applied to two municipalities. Despite the similarity, it appears the two names have independent linguistic origins.
ZoneAlarm
ZoneAlarm is a software firewall originally developed by Zone Labs, which was acquired in March 2004 by Check Point. It includes an inbound intrusion detection system, as well as the ability to control which programs can create outbound connections—the latter not available in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 firewall. , the newest release is ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009. ZoneAlarm was formerly known as Zone Labs, the usage of which is declining.
Features
In ZoneAlarm, program access is controlled by way of "zones", into which all Computer networking connections are divided. The "trusted zone" generally includes the user's local area network and can share resources such as files and printers, while the "Internet zone" includes everything not in the trusted zone. The user can specify which "permissions" (trusted zone client, trusted zone server, Internet zone client, Internet zone server) to give to a program before it attempts to access the Internet (e.g. before running it for the first time) or, alternatively, ZoneAlarm will ask the user to give the program permission on its first access attempt.
True Vector Internet Monitor
"True Vector Internet Monitor", also known as "TrueVector Security Engine", is the core of ZoneAlarm. It is a Windows service which runs as "vsmon.exe" in the processes list. This Monitors internet traffic and generates alerts for disallowed access.
Operating System Firewall
Operating System Firewall, OSFirewall for short, is a feature in ZoneAlarm paid versions only. This monitors programs and generates alerts when they perform suspicious behaviors.
SmartDefense Advisor
SmartDefense Advisor is a service only available in premium versions of ZoneAlarm that helps the user with certain types of alerts. This utilizes a large database of trusted program signatures in order to provide the user with further advice upon requests from the program in regards to allowing or denying access to the Internet.
Versions
64-bit versions of the ZoneAlarm product line will be made available for Windows Vista in the first half of 2009.
Murray Peden
Flight Lieutenant David Murray Peden, (October 19, 1923 – January 6, 2022) was a Canadian Air Force pilot, lawyer, and writer. From 1941 to 1945 Peden was in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a bomber pilot. He was best known for his 1979 memoir A Thousand Shall Fall.
Peden died on January 6, 2022, at the age of 98.
Debbie Dingell
Deborah Ann Dingell (Insley; November 23, 1953) is an American Democratic politician. She has been the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district since 2015. She replaced her husband John Dingell.
Pithos
A pithos (several pithoi) is a large jar used for storage. It was common in the whole Mediterranean. It was used for storing things like wine, vegetable oil or grain. Pithoi were common in the Aegean and on Crete. These jars were very big, they could reach the height of a man. As a consequence, creating them required special skill. Pithoi were similar to amphoras, but they were usually bigger, and had a flat bottom.
Pithoi were sometimes used for burials, examples of these are the Argaric culture, or the child-skeleton of Kritsa.
Orange Free State
The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat) was a country in southern Africa. It was ruled by the Afrikaners. It was defeated by the British Empire and its colonies, the British Cape Colony and the Natal Colony, in the Second Boer War. It became the Orange River Colony and later joined with other colonies to make the Union of South Africa.
Ted Lieu
Ted W. Lieu (born March 29, 1969) is a Taiwanese-born American politician. He represents California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015.
He is a member of the Democratic Party. Lieu is one of 18 members of Congress who are naturalized U.S. citizens. He represented the 28th district in the California State Senate from 2011 to 2014. From 2005 to 2010 he was a California State Assemblyman.
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German music band that was started in 1967. The band was very important for the development of what is known as electronic music today. Together with Ash Ra Tempel and Agitation Free they made Berlin School possible. Their early works are usually seen as a type of Krautrock. Many people classify their music as New Age. The band does not see itself in this category though. Their music is sometimes seen as symphonic, or as a kind of ambient music, with a focus on electronically making the sounds used. They often let themselves be influenced by rock music.
Free State (province)
The Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat, Sotho: Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital, because the Supreme Court is there. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans were dissolved and were merged into the provinces of South Africa. It is also the only one of the older provinces of South Africa not to undergo border changes, not counting the incorporation of the Bantustans.
Maley & Taunton
Maley & Taunton were a tram and tramway engineering company. They were at Wednesfield in Staffordshire, England.
Maley & Taunton sent its products all over the world. Its trucks used in the Lisbon trams and in the UK on the Blackpool tramway. The company principals were Alfred Walter Maley and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton. They held patents for Tram and tramway machinery and equipment.
Their equipment was used on the Manx Electric Railway.
Volodymyr Pak
Volodymyr Petrovich Pak (Володи́мир Петро́вич Па́к; 17 June 1934 – 6 January 2022) was a Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the People's Union "Our Ukraine. He was in the Verkhovna Rada from 2005 to 2006. Pak was born in Stanisławów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic.
Pak died in Kyiv, Ukraine on 6 January 2022, at the age of 87.
Stephanie McCrummen
Stephanie McCrummen is an American journalist. She won a George Polk Award and Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
She graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University.
Dee Booher
Deanna Booher (August 6, 1948 – January 7, 2022) was an American actress, professional wrestler, and roller derby skater. She is known for her appearances with Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling as Matilda the Hun. An actress, she appeared in Brainsmasher... A Love Story and Spaceballs. Booher was born in Torrance, California.
Booher died on January 7, 2022 from problems caused by peripheral neuropathy, aged 73.
Jo Manning
Joanne Elizabeth Manning (December 10, 1923 – January 6, 2022) was a Canadian sketch artist, painter and author.
She taught or ran workshops at Centennial College (1967–71) and Sheridan College (1971-74). She also taught at the Hockley Valley School of Art (1970–74), Elliot Lake (1970–72), University of Toronto (1975) and other places.
Manning died by euthanasia in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on January 6, 2022, at the age of 98.
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn Dynasty was the last imperial dynasty, or family of rulers, in Annamese history.
History
The Nguyễn emperors ruled from 1802 to 1945. The capital of the Nguyễn dynasty was Huế.
Nearly 40 percent of all Vietnamese people have the family name Nguyễn, named after the dynasty.
Nury Martinez
Nury Martinez (born July 9, 1973) is an American Democratic politician. She has been a member of the Los Angeles City Council since 2013. In 2020, she became the council's president. She is the first Latina to become President of the council.
In October 2022, she resigned as city council president after making racist comments about African-Americans in Los Angeles.
Martinez was born in San Fernando Valley, California. She studied at California State University, Northridge.
Young's double-slit experiment
The double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics is an experiment, which was first performed by physicist Thomas Young in 1801. It shows that light has both a wave nature or characteristic and a particle nature or characteristic, and that these natures are inseparable. So, light is said to have wave–particle duality rather than be only a wave or only a particle. The same is true for electrons and other quantum particles.
The experiment
The base version of this experiment is very simple. It requires only a double slit device like the one in the picture, something to hold the double slit device still, and a good laser such as the kind that is used by workmen to "draw" straight lines when they are building. The laser is supported so it can only be moved on purpose. It is aimed at the central point between the two slits from a point about one half meter away. Something like a movie screen or a smooth white wall is put up on the other side of the double slit device several meters away. When everything is fixed, a pattern of light and dark bands will show up.
Lasers can produce one or more photons when given a certain amount of electricity. The photon or photons come out of a very small hole within a well known period of time. The speed of light is known, so the time the photons appear on the screen can be predicted. When photons are produced one at a time, what shows up on the screen are individual spots of light. If photons were waves then we would expect them to spread out as they travel and wash across a wide area of the screen, but that never happens. If photons were particles then we would expect them to appear at two points on the screen connected to the laser through the two slits in the middle. But that is not what happens either.
But there were big problems. Light did not show up at the screen as waves that washed across it. Light came to be understood as swarms of photons that individually hit the detection screen. And, very surprisingly, a single photon could interfere with itself as though it were a single wave that fit the old wave description. It split into two waves at the double-slit device, and they then combined at the screen.
Importance to physics
The double-slit experiment became a classic thought experiment for its clear explanation of the central puzzles of quantum mechanics.
Importance to philosophy
The double-slit experiment has been of great interest to philosophers, because the quantum mechanical behavior it shows has forced them to rethink their ideas about classical concepts such as:
Experience in the micro world of sub-atomic particles forces us to re-conceptualise some of our most ordinary ideas.
Terra nullius
Terra nullius means unclaimed territory. It is the correct term in international law. It means land which does not (at present) belong to any state. The term comes from the Latin, meaning Nobody's thing. There is also an expression no man's land, but that does not have a formal legal meaning.
Rule over terra nullius can be got by occupying the territory. There are various legal problems about this concept, but in practice it is often the business of neighbouring states to decide by negotiation. Diplomacy may sometimes be replaced by warfare.
Two territories that are currently terra nullius are Bir Tawil between Egypt and Sudan, and Marie Byrd Land, in Antarctica.
2019
2019 (twenty nineteen) (MMXIX) was.