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Windows 7
Development
At first, a major version of Windows code-named Blackcomb was planned as the successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Features planned for Black-comb included the Sidebar, an emphasis on looking for data, and an advanced storage system named WinFS. However, a minor release code-named Longhorn was announced for 2003, delaying the making of Blackcomb. By the middle of 2003, Longhorn had gotten some of the features meant for Blackcomb. After three major viruses exploited flaws in Windows operating systems within a short time in 2003, Microsoft changed its development priorities, putting some of Longhorn's major development work on hold while they made new service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Development of Longhorn was reset in September 2004, and it was renamed to Windows Vista. A number of features were cut from Windows Vista as it was being remade.
After Windows Vista was released, Microsoft announced a new plan for the next version of Windows, code-named Windows 7, in 2007. In 2008, it was announced that Windows 7 would also be the official name of the operating system.
Milestone 1
The first known build was called Milestone 1. It was just a customized version of Windows Vista and it had a send feedback feature since it was a pre-release version.
Milestone 2
The next build was called Milestone 2. It had a new taskbar and got Windows Live v 3.1.1.0.
Milestone 3
The third Milestone was released in September 2008. It looked like Vista, but it had a new Action Center instead of the Security Center. The action center shows messages for many more things, not just security for Windows.
Pre-beta
Build 6933 was shown at PDC but was not given to the people attending. In December 2008, a leaked version of build 6956 was available for download on Peer To Peer Networks.
Beta
On January 9, 2009, build 7000 was released as a public beta. According to the Engineering Windows 7 team, users gave a lot of feedback.
Release Candidate (RTM)
The Release Candidate was made available on May 5, 2009, and the build number is 7200.
Final version
Windows 7 was launched on October 22, 2009.
Men and Beasts
Men and Beasts (Люди и звери) is a 1962 Soviet-German drama movie directed by Sergei Gerasimov. It stars Nikolai Yeremenko Sr., Tamara Makarova, and Zhanna Bolotova.
Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Lurie died on December 3, 2020 in Ithaca, New York at the age of 94.
Yuta Suzuki
Yuta Suzuki (born 28 May 1987) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Montedio Yamagata.
Club career statistics
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Bogusław Schaeffer
Bogusław Julien Schaeffer (6 June 1929 – 1 July 2019) was a Polish composer, musicologist and graphic artist. He a member of the avant-garde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others. He was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków from 1963. He was also an academic teacher at Hochschule für Music in Salzburg, Austria. Schaeffer's "Klavier Konzert" was on the soundtrack of David Lynch's 2006 movie Inland Empire.
Schaeffer was born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine. He died on 1 July 2019 in Salzburg, at the age of 90.
Etruscan
Etruscan can mean:
Magnificent Obsession (1954 movie)
Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama movie. It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Douglas Sirk directed. The movie is based on the book Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas. The movie was produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal Pictures. Critic Howard Thompson wrote, "[The movie] is unquestionably a handsome one. Better still, generally restrained performances at least dignify a moist text, which may seem inspiration to some, pure corn to others."
Story
Spoiled playboy Robert Merrick loses control of his speed boat. Rescuers send for a resuscitator in Dr. Phillips's house on the other side of the lake. While the resuscitator is being used to save Merrick's life, Dr. Phillips has a heart attack and dies. Merrick ends up at Dr. Phillips's clinic. The doctors and nurses blame him for Dr. Phillips's death. He tries to run away but collapses in front of Helen Phillip's car. Helen is Dr. Phillips's widow. She does not know Merrick. Merrick ends up back at the clinic. After his discharge, he resumes his playboy life. He makes advances to Helen. She runs away, and steps into the path of an oncoming car. She is blinded by the accident. Merrick commits to becoming a doctor. He has fallen in love with Helen. He helps her adjust to her blindness by posing as a poor medical student, "Robby".
Merrick secretly arranges for Helen to travel to Europe to consult the best eye surgeons in the world. They tell Helen there is no hope for recovery. Right after this, "Robby" shows up at her hotel to provide emotional support. He confesses to being Merrick. Helen has already guessed this. Merrick asks Helen to marry him. Helen realizes she will be a burden to him. She runs away. Many years pass. Merrick is now a dedicated brain surgeon. He searches for Helen. He learns she is possibly dying in a small hospital. He goes to the hospital and discovers Helen needs complex brain surgery to save her life. Merrick operates. Helen awakens in the morning and discovers she can see.
Andrew Desjardins
Andrew Desjardins (born July 27, 1986) is a Canadian ice hockey centre. He currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the San Jose Sharks.
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Desjardins played 4 seasons Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He turned professional and played 1 seasons with the Laredo Bucks of the Central Hockey League (CHL). He then played 5 games with the Phoenix RoadRunners of the ECHL.
On June 26, 2010, the San Jose Sharks signed Desjardins as a free agent. He played parts of 5 years with the San Jose Sharks.
On March 2, 2015, the Sharks traded Desjardins to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for Ben Smith.
William Nordhaus
William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist of Jewish descent and professor at Yale University. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Nordhaus is best known for his work in economic modelling and climate change. He is, together with Paul Romer, the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner. He won the award "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".
Zena Latto
Zena Latto (October 25, 1925 – April 5, 2016) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist. During the 1940s and 1950s, she played with the big band the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She bought a baritone saxophone to stay with that group and continued to perform with the Sweethearts until 1955. Latto performed with her own band the Modern Moods from 1955 to 1957.
Latto died in Jacksonville, Florida on April 5, 2016, aged 90.
Hans Schnitger
Henri Carel Willem "Hans" Schnitger (August 5, 1915 – March 2, 2013) was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Schnitger was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all five matches as forward.
Schnitger was born in Enschede, where he lived until his death on March 2, 2013 from natural causes, aged 97.
Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora is a town in the Czech Republic. About 21,604 people live there (2009). It is located in the Central Bohemian Region. It was founded in the 13th century.
In 1995, the city centre became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
List of people from Texas
The following are notable people who were either born, raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the U.S. state of Texas.
Notable women of Texas
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Scholars, educators, academicians
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R. Scott Bakker
Richard Scott Bakker (born February 2, 1967, Simcoe, Ontario) is a Canadian fantasy author. He also lectures in the South Western Ontario university community. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario and studied literature. He later completed an MA in theory and criticism. After further study in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he returned to London, Ontario where he now lives with his wife and daughter. He spends his time writing fiction and study.
The Second Apocalypse
R. Scott Bakker's major work is a series known as The Second Apocalypse, which he began developing in the 1980s. The series was first planned as series of three books. The first two books were to be the The Prince of Nothing and The Aspect-Emperor. The third book has been called The Book That Shall Not Be Named by Bakker. He thought the title of this book was a spoiler for the first two books.
Bakker began writing the books in the early 2000s. He found he needed to split each of the three books into its own sub-series to include all of the characters, themes and ideas he wished to explore. The first two books have now become trilogies, and the third book, which is currently two volumes, may expand to a third.
Neuropath
A science fiction novel about a serial killer whose knowledge allows them to control the human brain. Published in 2008.
The Disciple of the Dog
The story of a private investigator, Disciple Manning, who suffers from a condition like Hyperthymesia. Published in 2010.
Chandolas
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R. Scott Bakker
Philosophy
Bakker developed ideas which are the basis of his Blind Brain Theory and Heuristic Neglect Theory.
Blind Brain Hypothesis
A short essay about his Blind Brain Hypothesis, published 2008. It was based on ideas that were part of his novel, ''Neuropath. ''These ideas were about the limits of human consciousness, for example how the eye does not see all the colors because they are beyond our field of vision. We are only aware of a tiny part of all the information our brains process, and this means that what we experience is largely an illusion.
Bakker wrote that the scientific method and its progress would one day give us insights into human behavior that we could not imagine now. He argued in the future there would be some kind of brain–computer interface.
The Semantic Apocalypse
In 2008, Bakker presented The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse at Western University's Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. This was based on ideas from Neuropath, a fictional world where the technologies of neuroscience have reached technical and social maturity and prevalence.
E. M. Nathanson
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R. Scott Bakker
The Semantic Apocalypse
Bakker says that science is now used to explain the natural world, rather than folk stories. He says that one day science will also explain how our brains work, and how that affects our behaviour. Human behaviour is not always rational, and society has ignored this cognitive bias. Bakker's Blind Brain Hypothesis is that we are only conscious of a tiny part of the information processed by our brains. Because of this we do not fully understand our thoughts and behaviours.
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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Teachers (Darwin's Yearbook)
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E. M. Nathanson
Nathanson died at his home in Laguna Niguel, California from heart failure on April 5, 2016, aged 88.
R. Scott Bakker
The Semantic Apocalypse
Bakker noted the amount of money now being spent to use neuroscience to improve marketing techniques.
Three Pound Brain
In May 2010, Bakker began a blog called Three Pound Brain. Bakker has used the blog to explore and write about his philosophical ideas. He also uses it for copies of his past academic work, speculative pieces, and samples and drafts of his fiction writing.
Back to Square One
An essay published on Scientia Salon, November 2014.
Crash Space
Science fiction short story released in Midwest Studies in Philosophy.
From Scripture to Fantasy
A paper published in Cosmos and History, January 2017.
On Alien Philosophy
On Alien Philosophy was first published on Three Pound Brain, August 2015, it was later rewritten for the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Feb 2017.
Iran at the World Games
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is participating in World Games since 1993.
Albert Salvadó
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Salvadó died on 3 December 2020 in Andorra la Vella from leukaemia at the age of 69.
Chris Krebs
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In November 2020, President Donald Trump fired Krebs for not agreeing with Trump on the disproven claim of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Grästorp
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Shimizudaihachi Pleiades
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Jeezy
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Jeezy began performing and recording in 2001. He joined Boyz N Da Hood in 2005. His first solo album on a major label, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, was released in 2005. A single, "Soul Survivor", with Akon, became a top-ten hit in America.
Champis, Ardèche
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Gnesta
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Bengy-sur-Craon
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Ibaraki, Osaka
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It has been recognized as a special city since 2001.
History
The city was founded on January 1, 1948.
Anna-Lisa
Anna-Lisa (30 March 1933 – 21 March 2018) was a Norwegian-born American actress. He appeared in American movies and television. She was known for her role as Nora Travers in the ABC western series Black Saddle, with Peter Breck and Russell Johnson.
In 1954, she was cast in guest-starring roles in such western television series as Sugarfoot, Maverick, and Bronco.
Anna-Lisa died in Oslo on 21 March 2018, nine days before her 85th birthday.
Knanaya
The Knānāya, (from Syriac: Knā'nāya (Canaanite)) also known as the Southists or Tekkumbhagar, are an endogamous ethnic group found among the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India. They are differentiated from another part of the community, known in this context as the Northists (Vaddakkumbhagar). There are about 300,000 Knanaya in India and elsewhere.
The origins of the division of the Saint Thomas Christians into Northist and Southist groups is traced back to the arrival of the Syrian merchant Thomas of Cana (Knāi Thoma) who led a migration of Syriac Christians (Jewish-Christians) from Mesopotamia to India in the 4th or 8th century. The Knanaya claim descent from Thomas of Cana and those who came with him. The communities arrival was recorded on the "Thomas of Cana copper plates " which existed in Kerala until the 17th century after which point they were taken to Portugal by the Franciscan Order. The ethnic division between the Knanaya and other St. Thomas Christians was observed during the Portuguese colonization of India in the 16th century and was noted throughout the European colonial era.
Origins and traditions
The earliest extensive written evidence for the division of the Christian community of India dates to the 16th century. The St. Thomas Christian tradition defines the division as being both geographical and ethnic, expressing that the Native St. Thomas Christians initially resided on the north side of the Chera Empire's capitol city of Cranganore while the Middle Eastern migrant Knanaya arrived and settled on the south side, which subsequently led to the designations Northist and Southist. Celebrated St. Thomas Christian scholar Dr. Placid J. Podipara wrote the following about the division:
"'The Thomas Christians hail the Apostle St. Thomas as the founder of their Church...The first converts of St. Thomas were reinforced by local conversions and by Christian colonizations (migrations) from abroad. Connected with the IV century colonization is the origin of those called the Southists'"
Directional divisions within communities are common in Kerala, including among Hindu groups. A similar north–south division is found among the Nairs, and it historically appears to have been in place in the early Brahmin settlements in the area. The Saint Thomas Christians may have taken this trait from the Brahmins.
Thomas of Cana's Arrival
The historical rationale for the division between the majority St. Thomas Christians and minority Knanaya traces the divide to the figure of Thomas of Cana, a Syrian merchant who led a group of 72 Jewish-Christian immigrant families, a bishop named Uraha Mar Yausef, and clergymen from Mesopotamia to settle in Cranganore, India in the 4th century (some sources place these events as late as the 9th century). This may reflect a historical migration of East Syrian Christians to India around this time, which established the region's relationship with the Church of the East.In the commonly accepted accounts of this history, the Knanaya are the descendants of Thomas of Cana and his followers, while the Northists descend from the local Christian body which had been converted by Thomas the Apostle centuries earlier. The Oxford History of the Christian Church states the following about the division: "'In time, Jewish Christians of the most exclusive communities descended from settlers who accompanied Knayil Thomma (Kanayi) became known as ‘Southists’ (Tekkumbha ̄gar)...They distinguished between themselves and ‘Northists’ (Vatakkumbha ̄gar). The ‘Northists’, on the other hand, claimed direct descent from the very oldest Christians of the country, those who had been won to Christ by the Apostle Thomas himself. They had already long inhabited northern parts of Kodungallur. They had been there even before various waves of newcomers had arrived from the Babylonian or Mesopotamian provinces of Sassanian Persia.'"
Fritz Weaver
Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 – November 26, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his guest-star roles in The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The X-Files, Matlock, and Demon Seed. He was also known for his role as Dexter in Creepshow. He won a Tony Award in 1970.
Knanaya
Thomas of Cana's Arrival
Elements of Thomas of Cana's arrival feature in ancient songs as well as the Thomas of Cana copper plates awarded to his followers by a local Hindu ruler. These plates granted Thomas' followers 72 social, economic, and religious rights from Cheraman Perumal, the Chera king. The plates were present in Kerala during the time of the Portuguese colonization in the early 17th century, but were lost during Portuguese rule. Archbishop Francis Ros notes in his 1604 account M.S. ADD 9853 that the plates were taken to Portugal by the Franciscan Order. The Knanaya invoke the plates as evidence of their descent from Thomas of Cana's mission.
Translations of the existing Kollam Syrian Plates of the 9th century made by the Syrian Christian priest Ittimani in 1601 as well as the French Indologist Abraham Anquetil Duperron in 1758 both note that the forth plate mentioned a brief of the arrival of Knai Thoma.It is believed that this was a notation of the previous rights bestowed upon the Christians by Cheraman Perumal. The contemporary forth plate however does not mention this paragraph and is believed to be a later copy. Scholar of Early Christian history Istavan Percvel theorizes that at one time the Kollam Syrian plates and the Thomas of Cana plates were kept together.
Fritz Weaver
From 1995 until his death, Weaver has worked primarily as a voice actor, providing narration for programs on the History Channel.
Knanaya
Jewish-Christian Ancestry
Knanaya tradition claims that the Syriac Christian migrants who arrived with Thomas of Cana were Jewish-Christians. Community scholars express the historicity of this tradition by noting that Jewish-Christian tribes in Mesopotamia were a major component of the early Church of the East. Additionally, scholars express that both Jewish and Christian merchants of the region took part in the Arabian Sea trade with Kerala.
The community also cites their culture as evidence of their Jewish-Christian heritage, particularly their folk songs first written on palm-leave manuscripts in the 17th century. Many of the historical songs allude to the migrants being of Jewish descent such as the song Nallor Orosilam (The Good Jerusalem) which states the migrants prayed at the tomb of the Jewish Prophet Ezra before departing to India. A number of Jewish scholars such as Dr. P.M. Jussay, Dr. Nathan Katz, Dr. Shalva Weil, and Dr. Ophira Gamliel have noted that the Knanaya maintain cultural similarities to the Cochin Jews of India,suggesting historic cultural relations between the two communities.
Martín Vizcarra
Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo (born 22 March 1963) is a Peruvian engineer and politician. He was the 67th President of Peru following the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. He previously served as the Vice President of Peru alongside Mercedes Aráoz.
Knanaya
Jewish-Christian Ancestry
In 1939, the Knanaya politician and author Joseph Chazhikaden published a book on the community, Tekkumbhagasamudayam Charitram, in which he included some aspects of the communities Jewish claim. Chazhikaden built upon the Thomas of Cana tradition but asserted that Thomas' followers originated in Judea. According to Chazhikaden, the group converted to Christianity while maintaining their distinct culture and identity. Eventually, they were forced out of their homeland and moved to Cranganore, where they were welcomed by the ruler Cheraman Perumal and lived near, but maintained their separateness from, the indigenous "Northist" Saint Thomas Christians. Many modern Knanaya accept the account as factual, while others reject it. As with other Knanaya origin traditions, some Northists dispute and condemn it.
Two Wives Legend
In many other variants recorded during the colonial era, Thomas of Cana had two wives or partners, one of them being the ancestor of the endogamous Southists, and the other one being the ancestor of the Northist. A number of traditions and stories have emerged to explain the status of either wife, and both Southists and Northists historically used variants of these traditions to claim superiority for their group. These variants are considered apocryphal and are not the accepted tradition among contemporary Northist and Southist scholars who generally believe them to be the consequence of rivalry between the St. Thomas Christians and Knanaya. In most of these variants, the Southists' ancestor was Thomas' Syrian wife, while the Northists' was an indigenous St. Thomas Christian or Nair woman who became his second wife or concubine, implying that the Southists are Thomas' true heirs. In other variants, both wives were Kerala natives, while the Southists' forebearer was from a higher caste.
Some Northist historically maintained versions which countered this assertion, claiming that the Knanaya descend from a dobi (washerwoman); in some versions of this story, she became Thoma's concubine, while in others she married a lower-caste Maaran boy. This assertion is based on the 1676 Portuguese document "M.S Sloane 2748-A", a likely forgery attributed to the Carmelite priest Father Mathew.
Historian of medieval India and Northist priest Pius Malekandathil argues that the two-wives legend was simply a creation of rivalry between the Middle Eastern migrant Knanaya and the Native St. Thomas Christians. Malekandathil expresses that the story originated in the medieval era due to the two ethnic groups of Christians asserting socioeconomic dominance over the other. Furthermore, Malekandathil notes that the two-wives legend is not the accepted tradition among the people of Kerala but instead that the indigenous Saint Thomas Christians got the appellation "Northists" because they were initially located on the northern part of the city of Cranganore, while the migrant Knanaya under the leadership of Thomas of Cana were given the southern side of the city which led to the generic title of "Southists".
Martín Vizcarra
Early life
Vizcarra was born in Lima, the son of César Vizcarra Vargas, who was an American Popular Revolutionary Alliance(APRA) member, and Doris Cornejo, an elementary school teacher. His father was mayor of Moquegua and a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1978. His family was based in Moquegua, but moved to Lima due to a pulmonary complication that put him on the verge of death at his birth. Vizcarra has stated that his father had a lasting impact on his life.
Don Keefer
Donald H. "Don" Keefer (August 18, 1916 – September 7, 2014) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in Death of a Salesman, Creepshow, The Twilight Zone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gunsmoke, and in Liar Liar.
Martín Vizcarra
Education
Vizcarra studied at the IEP Juan XXIII and the GUE Simón Bolívar, in Moquegua. For university education, Vizcarra graduated from the National University of Engineering in Lima in 1984 while also earning a degree in Management Administration from the School of Business Administration (ESAN).
Don Keefer
Keefer was born on August 18, 1916 in Highspire, Pennsylvania. He studied at The Actors Studio. Keefer was married to Catherine McLeod from 1950 until her death in 1997. They had three children: Donald, John and Thomas.
Martín Vizcarra
Vice presidency
In the 2016 general election, Vizcarra ran with the Peruvians for Change presidential ticket as candidate for first vice president and as Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's running mate. The ticket narrowly defeated Keiko Fujimori's Popular Force nomination.
Don Keefer
Keefer died from natural causes on September 7, 2014 in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 98.
Fritz Weaver
Weaver died at his home in Manhattan on November 26, 2016, aged 90. No cause of death was immediately available.
Martín Vizcarra
Presidency
Vizcarra was sworn into office as president on 23 March 2018 following the resignation of President Kuczynski. Throughout his tenure, Vizcarra remained independent from political parties, promoted reforms against corruption in the legislative and judicial branches and vowed to not run for president when his term ends in 2021. Following what he described as a "factual denial of confidence" against his government, Vizcarra dissolved the Peruvian Congress on 30 September 2019 and, on the same day, issued a decree for legislative elections. The snap election for a new congress was held on 26 January 2020, with the legislature elected becoming opposition-led once again.
Removal
On 9 November 2020, Vizcarra was impeached and removed as President by the Congress and replaced with Manuel Merino. Vizcarra's impeachment incited the 2020 Peruvian protests, as many Peruvians. Vizcarra was banned from holding public office for 10 years after allegedly jumping the line to get a COVID-19 vaccine, with an 86-0 vote in congress.
Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
The women's football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held held in Beijing and 4 other cities in the China. The tournament had 12 teams. The group stage began two days before the opening ceremony, August 6. The United States won the tournament against Brazil, winning their 3rd olympic gold medal.
Qualification
The following teams qualified:
Knockout stage
The games had a single-elimination format. When a team lost a match, the tournament was ended for them. In other words, when a team won, the women continued to play until only one team remained as the Olympic champion.
The US and Brazilian women won the opportunity to compete for the gold medal and the Olympic championship.
Chanéac
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Monolith
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Eunos MRT station
Eunos MRT Station (EW7) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is along the East West MRT Line. The station is located in Geylang East which is sometimes called Eunos.
Eunos MRT Station opened on 4 November 1989. The station features a Malay style roof. This style roof can also be found at Chinese Garden (EW25) and Lakeside (EW26).
Following stations
Previous: Kembangan (EW6) Next: Paya Lebar (EW8)
Former codes
Formerly the code was: E6 (1989 - 2001)
Back to Black (song)
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New York Post
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It was created in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post.
In 1976, Rupert Murdoch, creator of Fox News, bought the Post for US$30.5 million.
Since 1993, the Post has been owned by News Corporation and its replacement, News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2018.
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Gullspång
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Adriano Maleiane
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Salvatore Riina
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Riina advocated the killing of women and children, and killed blameless members of the public solely to distract law enforcing agencies. Assassin Giovanni Brusca estimated he murdered 100-200 people on behalf of Riina.
After 23 years living as a fugitive he was captured.
Fernando Torres
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Salvatore Riina
Riina died on 17 November 2017 at the hospital in Parma of sepsis caused by surgery at the age of 87.
Fernando Torres
In January 2011, Fernando Torres moved to Chelsea for a fee of £50m. He is currently the most expensive Spanish football player in history.
Early Life
Torres began playing as a goalkeeper, the position his brother played in. At age seven, he converted to playing as a striker for his neighbourhood club. Three years later, when he was 10, he progressed to an 11v11 team called Rayo 13. He was one of three Rayo 13 players to earn a trial with Atlético Madrid. He impressed the scouts and joined their youth system when he was 11 in 1995.
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are created by the United Nations and promoted as the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. They replaced the Millennium Development Goals that expired at the end of 2015. The SDGs run from 2015 to 2030. There are 17 goals and 169 specific targets for those goals.
Goals
In August of 2015 193 countries agreed to the following 17 goals:
Richard Bachman
Richard Bachman is a pen name used by horror fiction author Stephen King.
Origin
At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year. They thought publishing more would not be seen as good to the public. King wanted to write under another name so he could write more than one book per year. His publisher, Signet Books, agreed to print more books under a pseudonym.
In the start of The Bachman Books, King said using the nom de plume Bachman was to see if his success was due to talent or luck. King said he put out the Bachman books with very little marketing. He did his best to "load the dice against" Bachman. King never found the answer to the "talent versus luck" question. He said he let everyone know that he was Bachman too soon. The Bachman book Thinner (1984) sold 28,000 copies during its first printing. When it was told that King wrote the book, the sales went up by ten times.
Martin Bernheimer
Martin Bernheimer (September 28, 1936 – September 29, 2019) was a German-born American music critic. Bernheimer was born in Munich. He studied at Brown University. He worked for the New York Post and The Los Angeles Times. During his thirty years with that paper, he was twice the recipient of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award (1974 and 1978) and in 1982 won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Bernheimer died one day after his 83rd birthday on September 29, 2019 of sarcoma at his Manhattan home.
Richard Bachman
Identification
King dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage (1977), The Long Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), and The Running Man (1982) — to people close to him. The link between King and his shadow writer was found out after a Washington, D.C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, noted things that seemed the same between the writing styles of King and Bachman. Brown located publisher's records at the Library of Congress which included a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels. Brown wrote to King's publishers with a copy of the papers he found. He asked them what to do. Two weeks later, King telephoned Brown himself. King told Brown that he should write an article about how he found the truth. King let Brown interview him. At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on Misery, which he was going to put out as a Bachman book.
Post-outing
King used the "relationship" between himself and Bachman as a theme in his 1989 book The Dark Half. In the book a writer's darker pseudonym takes on a life of its own. King dedicated The Dark Half to "the late Richard Bachman." There were plans to make the book a collaboration between the two, but this was later thrown out.
In 1996, Bachman's The Regulators came out, with the publishers saying the book's manuscript was found among Bachman's leftover papers by his widow. It was released as a companion novel with King's Desperation; the two novels took place in different universes but featured many of the same characters. The two book covers were designed to be placed together to form a single picture. In the foreword by King included with Desperation he said that there may be another Bachman novel left to be "found."
King has taken full ownership of the Bachman name on numerous occasions, as with the republication of the first four Bachman titles as The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King in 1985. The introduction, titled "Why I Was Bachman," details the whole Bachman/King story. (In 1996, the collection was reissued with a new King essay, "The Importance of Being Bachman.")
Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books. In the fifth book, Wolves of the Calla, the scary children's book Charlie the Choo Choo is said to be written by "Claudia y Inez Bachman." The spelling discrepancy of the added 'y' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of "The White" (a force of good throughout King's Tower series) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series. In the next novel of the series, Song of Susannah, Stephen King briefly discusses his Richard Bachman pseudonym.
In 2010, King appeared on the FX television show Sons of Anarchy in a cameo appearance. His character, named Bachman, did contract work quietly getting rid of dead bodies.
In issue 29 of the comic adaptation of The Stand, Richard Bachman appears as one of the top lieutenants of Randall Flagg. He replaced the character of Whitney Horgan from the original book. He is drawn to look like King.
In the 2013 Grimm episode "Nameless", Richard Bachman, being a pseudonym of Stephen King, was a plot point. King's novel, Rage, had its title page used as a prop for the killer to write a note to the police.
Other pseudonyms
King wrote a short story, "The Fifth Quarter", under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the book Carrie), that was published in Cavalier magazine April 1972. The story was later reprinted in King's collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel Blaze, King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" was the person using the Swithen pseudonym.
References
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Kidzania Jakarta
Kidzania Jakarta is an amusement park in Jakarta. It is Southeast Asia's first ever Kidzania theme park, coming from the Mexican amusement park company Kidzania de Mexico S.A. Kidzania Jakarta is the fourth of its kind to open globally. The theme park houses less than 10,000 visitors, although it has a big size. The park is open from 9.00am until 2.00pm for the first session. The second session begins at 3.00pm until 8.00pm.
Big changes
It has 70 pavilions, some are currently under development. The latest change came on June 8, 2009, when it opened its first Research & Development Center. This is related to electronic matters, as children must create new ideas to create a home electronic. It is followed by the opening of the Coffee Factory pavilion, where children can make instant coffee through a number of processes.
Location
Kidzania Jakarta is on a mall in Jakarta, known as the Pacific Place Jakarta, on the city center.
References
Kidzania キッザニア
Alcides Cuminetti
Alcides Cuminetti is a volleyball player from Argentina. Alcides competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was born on 19 January 1960.
Charmes-sur-Rhône
Charmes-sur-Rhône is a town and commune of the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France.
One-north MRT station
one-north MRT Station (CC23) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is a Station on the Circle MRT Line.
The station was opened on 8 October 2011 and is the only one on the entire MRT whose name does not start with a capital letter. It is located opposite Dover and serves the Industrial estate and schools nearby.
Naming
The name one-north was selected to reflect the geographical location of Singapore, at one degree north.
Paramilitary
Paramilitary describes forces which are organised as military forces, but are not part of the Armed Forces. Examples of such forces are police forces guarding the borders of a country. There are paramilitary groups that are official (run by a country), and others that are not.
The name comes from Greek para (which means beside) and Latin miles (which means soldier).
Military compared to paramilitary
Though a paramilitary is not a military force, it is usually equivalent to a military's light infantry force in terms of intensity, firepower, and organizational structure. Paramilitary forces and organisations use "military" equipment, skills, tactics etc that are compatable with the civilian sector (IE: Urban environments etc). During peacetime, Paramilitary professions are usually found in areas such as high profile non-military sites such as laboratories, nuclear power plants, industrial explosive factories, seaports, airports, borders and government sites such as embassies, palaces, political summits etc tasked with roles of VIP protection, anti-terrorism etc. A paramilitary may also commonly fall under the command of a military, even despite not being part of the military or play an assisting role for the military in times of war.
Paramilitary forces can also include private military company missions.
Quasi-military compared to Paramilitary
Although similar, a quasi-military organisation has more near-identical to military aspects (i.e., militia, mercenary, insurgency, guerrilla, terrorist, rebel, drug cartel, private army, etc.) whereas a paramilitary is its own (i.e., internal security, SWAT, coast guard, border guard, etc.).
Etruscan origins
There are three main hypotheses as to the origins of the Etruscan civilization. Autochthonous development in situ out of the Villanovan culture, as claimed by the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus who described the Etruscans as indigenous people who had always lived in Etruria. A migration from the Aegean sea, as claimed by a couple of Greek historians: Herodotus, who described them as a group of immigrants from Lydia in Anatolia, and Hellanicus of Lesbos who claimed that the Tyrrhenians were the Pelasgians originally from Thessaly, Greece The third hypotheses is reported by Livy and Pliny the Elder, the Etruscans as related to Rhaetian people to the north and other populations living in the Alps.
German linguist Helmut Rix proposed the Tyrsenian language family, with Etruscan related to the Rhaetic language spoken in the Alps north of Etruria, and to the Lemnian language spoken in Lemons. In particular the Lemnian language could have arrived in the Aegean Sea during the Late Bronze Age, when Mycenaean rulers recruited groups of mercenaries from Sicily, Sardinia and various parts of the Italian peninsula.
The latest mtDNA study (2013) suggests that the Etruscans appear to fall very close to a Neolithic population from Central Europe and to other Tuscan populations.
Charnas
Charnas is a town and commune of the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France. About 715 or 722 people lived there in 2008.
Ysis Sonkeng
Ysis Sonkeng (born September 20, 1989) is a Cameroonian women's football player who plays for the Cameroon women's national football team and Louves Minproff de Yaoundé. She plays as a defender and played in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was known for scoring an own goal against New Zealand women's national football team.
Magnificent Obsession (novel)
Magnificent Obsession (1929) is a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. The story follows a man named Robert Merrick. He is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident. The crew is unable to save the life of Dr. Hudson, a heart attack victim on the other side of the lake. Merrick then decides to devote his life to making up for the doctor's. He becomes a physician himself. Dr. Hudson's widow suffers serious injury in an accident. Merrick is instrumental in her recovery.
Two movies were based on the book: Magnificent Obsession (1935), and Magnificent Obsession (1954). The 1954 movie was directed by Douglas Sirk. A television series called Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal was based on the novel. It aired 78 episodes in syndication from 1955 to 1957.
Etruscan language
The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscans in the ancient area of Etruria (what is now Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (where the Gauls took the place of the Etruscans), in Italy.
Clinton Lake (Kansas)
Clinton Lake is a reservoir on the southwestern part of Lawrence, Kansas. The lake was created by Clinton Dam being built. The 35 square miles (91 km²) of land and water is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Etruscan language
Inscriptions have been found in northwestern and west-central Italy in the region that still has a name that came from the Etruscans, Tuscany (from Latin tusc "Etruscans") and in Latium, north of Rome, in Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po Valley to the north of Etruria. That is probably the area in Italy in which the language was once spoken.
Clinton Lake (Kansas)
Hydrology
Clinton Lake is formed mostly by the Wakarusa River coming east from Shawnee County. The Wakarusa River goes through the Clinton Dam. It stays south of Lawrence, and it continues east to the Kansas River near Eudora. Main tributaries include Deer Creek, Rock Creek, Washington Creek, Dry Creek, Coon Creek and Camp Creek.
Cities along or near Clinton Lake include Clinton, Stull and Lawrence.
Natural history
The woods around the lake have many white tail deer, quail, wild turkey, doves, rabbits, and squirrels. Bald eagles, great blue heron, gulls, cormorants, and various types of birds that travel. This includes American white pelicans and Canada geese. They can be seen above and around the lake at different times of the year. Clinton Lake also has many fish.
Italy at the Military World Games
Italy at the Military World Games has participated in all editions held, since the first edition of 1995 Military World Games.