cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Víctor Fayad
Fayad served as Mayor of Mendoza from December 10, 1987 through December 10, 1991 and again from December 10, 2007 until his death in 7 August 2014. Before being mayor of Mendoza, Fayad served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from December 10, 1993 through December 10, 2005.
Fayad was born in Mendoza. He was married to Marcela Pérez Caroli until his death in 2014. They had three children.
Fayad died in Mendoza, Argentina from mediastinum cancer, aged 59.
Centre-Nord Region
Centre-Nord is a region of Burkina Faso. The capital city is Kaya. Three provinces make up the region — Bam, Namentenga, and Sanmatenga.
Aschaffenburg (district)
Aschaffenburg (, East Franconian: Landgrais Aschebersch) is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany.
The district is located in the extreme northwest of Bavaria and bounded by Hesse on two sides. The Main river forms the western border.
Towns and municipalities
Towns:
Dampierre-sur-Avre
Dampierre-sur-Avre is a commune. It is in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Aschaffenburg (district)
Towns and municipalities
Municipalities:
Burmese tofu
Burmese tofu is a food made from water and chickpea flour. Unlike regular tofu, it does not have soy in it.
To make it, water, chickpea flour, turmeric, and salt are mixed. This mixture is then heated up until it looks and feels like cream. After that it is allowed to cool down and get hard.
It came from the Shan people of Burma.
Cell biology
Cell biology is the study of how living cells work. This includes the structure and function of the cell organelles, and the carbon-based molecules which cells produce. Cell biology is an interdisciplinary subject, and uses ideas from genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, and other subjects and techniques.
The most important molecules in cell biology are DNA, RNA and proteins.
The most important structures in the cell are the nucleus and the chromosomes, but there are others. The structure of eukaryotic cells is much more complex than prokaryotic cells. This is because endosymbiosis has occurred: some or all of the eukaryote organelles are former prokaryotes. Examples are mitochondria and plastids.
The most important function of cells is to divide by mitosis or meiosis. Cells in a multicellular organism also specialise in different functions, and the different types may look quite to each other.
Grown Ups 2
Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 American comedy movie directed by Dennis Dugan and co-produced by Adam Sandler. It is the sequel to the 2010 movie Grown Ups. The movie stars Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph, and Nick Swardson.
The movie was released on July 12, 2013, to strong negative reviews from critics. It was nominated for nine Razzies.
EFL Championship
The EFL Championship, commonly known as The Championship, is the name of the English second division of football.
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Aliquippa is a city in Beaver County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 9,438 at the 2010 census. Before becoming a city, Aliquippa was a borough. It became a city in 1987 by the Aliquippa Borough Council.
Pentaport Rock Festival
The Pentaport Rock Festival is a rock festival in South Korea. It is held each year in Incheon for three days in the last week of July. Bands from many genres of music perform.
The name of this festival comes from five philosophical themes of the festival: music, passion, the environment, DIY (Do it yourself), and friendship. The festival started in 2006 and has many well-known musicians perform. The 2006 festival had Jason Mraz and The Black Eyed Peas. In 2007, L'Arc-en-Ciel and Muse performed at the festival. Ellegarden and Travis played in 2008. In 2012 the headliners were Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol and Baekdoosan.
Ice lolly
An ice lolly, ice lollipop, lolly ice or ice pop, is a frozen snack of flavoured ice. It is made by freezing flavoured liquid (such as fruit juice) or cream around a wooden stick. Once the liquid freezes solid, the stick can be used as a handle to hold the ice pop. In the United States, the snack is also referred to as a popsicle after the brand.
In the city of Liverpool, UK, the term ‘Lolly Ice’ is used, for reasons unclear. This is specific to Liverpool; the remainder of the UK use the term ‘Ice Lolly’.
Term usage in UK, USA and Canada
The term ice lolly is used primarily in the United Kingdom, with variations used in other English-speaking countries. In the United States and Canada, the same frozen snack is often termed a 'popsicle' or 'ice pop'. The term has also been used as branding for the tourism website Ice Lolly.
John Maynard Woodworth
John Maynard Woodworth (August 15, 1837 – March 14, 1879) was an American physician. He served as the first Supervising-Surgeon General of the United States under U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant from 1871 to 1879.
Centre-Ouest Region
Centre-Ouest is a region in Burkina Faso. The capital city is Koudougou. Four provinces make up the region - Boulkiemdé, Sanguié, Sissili, and Ziro.
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. AD 170) was a Greek who probably lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt. He is famous for his work on astronomy and geography. Very little is known about his personal life.
Paula Hawkins (politician)
Paula Hawkins (née Fickes; January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician. She is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American South. She was the first woman in the country to be elected to a full Senate term without having a close family member who was in major public office. She was in the Senate from 1981 until 1987 as a Republican.
Hawkins died on December 4, 2009 at her home in Winter Park, Florida from problems caused by a fall, aged 82.
Ptolemy
He was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He described in his writing the Greek geocentric view of the universe. Earlier Greek philosophers changed the old assumption of a flat Earth below a "vault of the heavens". They substituted a spherical Earth surrounded by a Celestial sphere. Ptolemy built these two spheres into a system of nested spheres. He also thought out and described the apparent motions of the planets as they were known in his time.
Ptolemy explained and extended Hipparchus's system of epicycles and eccentric circles to explain the Earth-centered theory of the world. Ptolemy's system involved at least 80 epicycles to explain the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known in his time. He believed the planets and sun moved around the Earth in this order: Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
List of Pokémon
This is a complete list of Pokémon, fictional creatures from the Pokémon series. This list covers over 1010 Pokémon species.
Ptolemy
This system became known as the Ptolemaic system. It predicts the positions of the planets well enough for naked-eye observations, so it seemed accurate at the time. This is described in his book Mathematical Syntaxis (widely called the Almagest), a thirteen-book mathematical treatment of the phenomena of astronomy. It contains a wide variety of information ranging from earth conceptions to sun, moon, and star movement as well as eclipses and an explanation of the length of months. The Almagest also included a star catalog containing 48 constellations, using the names we still use today.
In addition to his well-known works in astronomy, Claudius Ptolemy was important in the history of geography and cartography (making maps). He was influential up to the 16th century. Then his ideas were disproved by Nicolaus Copernicus. Ptolemy knew that the Earth is a sphere. Ptolemy's is the first known projection of the sphere onto a plane. His Geography remained the main work on the subject until the time of Christopher Columbus. But he had Asia extending much too far east, which may have been a factor in Columbus's decision to try to reach India by sailing west from Europe.
The Ptolemaic explanation of the motions of the planets was the accepted wisdom until the Polish scholar Copernicus proposed a Sun-centered (heliocentric) view in 1543. Though the heliocentric idea is correct, its predictions were not better than Ptolemy's until Kepler's Laws were added.
Ptolemy may not actually have believed in the reality of his system. He may have thought of it only as a method of calculating positions.
Mazhar Krasniqi
Mazhar Shukri Krasniqi (17 October 1931 – 8 August 2019) was a Yugoslav-born New Zealand Muslim community leader. He was born in Pristina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the first president of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) from 1979 to 1981. In December 2002, he was awarded the Queen's Service Medal (QSM).
Krasniqi died on 8 August 2019 at the age of 87.
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist.
Harlot's Progress
In 1731, he completed a series of moral works which made him recognised as a great and original genius. This was A Harlot's Progress. It was first done as paintings, which are now lost. Then the series was published as engravings. In the six scenes, the fate of a country girl who became a prostitute in town is traced out. At the start, the girl meets a bawd, a woman who persuades her to take up prostitution. At her shameful end, the girl dies of venereal disease and there follows a merciless funeral ceremony. The engraving show vivid scenes of drunken and loose behaviour. The series was an immediate success.
Rake's Progress
A Rake's Progress showed in eight pictures the reckless life of Tom Rakewell, the son of a rich merchant. Tom wastes all his money on luxurious living, whoring, and gambling, and dies in Bedlam. The original paintings of A Rake's Progress is displayed in the gallery room at Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Marriage à-la-mode
In 1743–1745 Hogarth painted the six pictures of Marriage à-la-mode (National Gallery, London), a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the miserable tragedy of an ill-considered marriage for money. This is regarded by many as his finest project and may be among his best planned story serials. Marital ethics were the topic of much debate in 18th century Britain. Marriages of convenience, and their unhappiness, came in for particular criticism.
The series shows the story of the fashionable marriage of the son of bankrupt Earl Squanderfield to the daughter of a rich but miserly city merchant. It starts with the signing of a marriage contract at the Earl's mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife's lover, and the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn.
Industry and Idleness
In the twelve prints of Industry and Idleness (1747) Hogarth showed the lives of two apprentices, one of whom is dedicated and hard working, the other idle. The industrious apprentice becomes Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. The idle turns one to crime. In the end, he is executed at Tyburn. The idle apprentice is sent to the gallows by the industrious apprentice himself.
This shows the work ethic of Protestant England, where those who work hard get rewarded, and those who do not end badly,
Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751) was his warning on alcoholism. They were two engravings designed to be seen side by side. Hogarth engraved Beer Street to show a happy city drinking the 'good' beverage of English beer. On the other side was Gin Lane. This showed the effects of drinking gin which, as a harder liquor, caused more problems for society. People are shown as healthy, happy and prosperous in Beer Street, while in Gin Lane they are scrawny, lazy and careless.
The woman at the front of Gin Lane who lets her baby fall to its death, echoes the tale of Judith Dufour who strangled her baby so she could sell its clothes for gin money. The prints were published in support of what would become the Gin Act of 1751.
Hogarth's friend, the magistrate Henry Fielding, may have got Hogarth to help with propaganda for the Gin Act: Beer Street and Gin Lane were issued shortly after Fielding's work An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings.
The Four Stages of Cruelty
Other prints were his outcry against inhumanity in The Four Stages of Cruelty (published 21 February 1751). Hogarth depicts the cruel treatment of animals, and suggests what will happen to people who carry on in this manner. In the first picture there are scenes of torture of dogs, cats and other animals. The second shows one of the characters from the first painting, Tom Nero, has now become a coach driver, and his cruelty to his horse has caused it to break its leg. In the third painting Tom is shown as a murderer, with the woman he killed lying on the ground, while in the fourth, titled Reward of Cruelty, the murderer is shown being dissected by surgeons after his execution. The method of execution, and the dissection, reflect the 1752 Act of Parliament. This allowed the public dissection of criminals who had been executed for murder.
Hogarth wished to stop "that barbarous (mean) treatment of animals, the very sight of which renders [makes] the streets of our metropolis so distressing to every feeling mind".
Humours of an Election
The Humours of an Election is a series of four oil paintings and later engravings by Hogarth. They show what went on in the 1754 election of a Member of Parliament. The oil paintings were created in 1755.
At this time each constituency elected two MPs, and there was a property qualification for voters, so only a minority of the male population was enfranchised. There was no secret ballot, so bribery and threats were used to raise votes.
The originals are held by Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
Hogarth was also a popular portrait painter. In 1746 he painted actor David Garrick as Richard III. He was paid £200, “which was more,” he wrote, “than any English artist ever received for a single portrait”. In the same year a sketch of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, afterwards beheaded on Tower Hill, had an exceptional success.
Hogarth's portrait of his friend, the philanthropic Captain Coram (1740; Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now Foundling Museum), and his unfinished oil sketch of The Shrimp Girl (National Gallery, London) are highly regarded. There are also portraits of his wife and his two sisters and of many others.
Rectifier
A rectifier is a device that can convert Alternating current (AC) to Direct current (DC). This is a process called rectification. Many rectifiers in the 20th century were made of metals like copper, iron, and silver. Nowadays most are semiconductor s.
Diode bridge is electrical circuit that consists of four diodes. It acts as a full wave rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current.
Lorscheid
Lorscheid is on an old Roman road. Many archaeological settlements are nearby. The village is first mentioned in the inventory of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier for the year 1211.
Narberth, Pennsylvania
Narberth is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,282 at the 2010 census.
Junior Agogo
Manuel "Junior" Agogo (1 August 1979 – 22 August 2019) was a Ghanaian former professional footballer. He played as a striker. His longest spell was at Bristol Rovers (2003–06), where he made 140 appearances before moving to Nottingham Forest.
Career
Agogo played on the Ghana between 2006 and 2009.
His three goals in the final stages of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations helped Ghana to a third-place finish. After retiring, he opened his own small group and personal fitness training business.
On 29 January 2015, Agogo was hospitalised after suffering a stroke.
Personal life
On 22 August 2019, Agogo died in London at the age of 40.
William O'Malley
The Rev. William J. O'Malley, S.J. (born August 18, 1931) is an American author and actor. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1953.
O'Malley is best known for playing Father Joseph Dyer in the 1973 horror classic movie The Exorcist.
He taught theology, AP English and later an elective called The Problem of God/Morality/Marriage/Fatherhood at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx until June 2012. He was an associate professor of theology at Fordham University and later a professor of theology and the humanities at Seattle University.
In August 2019, O'Malley was accused of sexually assaulting a student multiple times while teaching in Rochester, New York in the late 1980s.
Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island is a lake island in Lake Huron. It is on the northern side of the lake, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is the largest island in a freshwater lake in the world. It has an area of 2,766 square kilometers (1,068 square miles).
WJAC-TV
WJAC-TV is the local NBC channel in the Johnstown-Altoona-State College, Pennsylvania area. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, which also owns WPXI-TV in nearby Pittsburgh.
Manitoulin Island
Lake Huron is on the southern and western sides of the island. Georgian Bay is on the island's east side and the North Channel on the northern side. There are 108 freshwater lakes on the island. The largest is Lake Manitou (about 104 kilometers, 40.5 square miles), which is the largest freshwater lake on a freshwater island.
WJAC-TV
History
WJAC-TV first appeared on television on September 15, 1949. It was originally owned by Johnstown Automotive Company. It was originallly on channel 13 before moving to channel 6 in 1952. In the 1960s, Johnstown Automotive sold the television station to The Tribune-Democrat. In 1997 it was sold to Sunrise Television, which later became part of Cox in 2000.
Manitoulin Island
The island has a population of 12,600. Many tourists visit the island during the summer. The island has two incorporated towns: Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands and Gore Bay and Gore Bay.
Gomel
Gomel (also Homiel, Homel) is the administrative center of Gomel Voblast. It is the second-largest city in Belarus. It has a population of 482,652 (2009 census). Gomel is in the southeastern part of the country, on the right bank of Sozh river. It is 302 km to the South-East from Minsk, 534 km to the East from Brest, 171 km to the South from Mogilev, 237 km to the West from Bryansk and 111 km to the North from Chernihiv. The city's area is 121 km2.
Nokia 6260 slide
Nokia 6260 is part of a smartphone series including the Nokia 6300. It was announced on the Mobile World Congress in April 5, 2009. The Nokia 6260 is also used with the Nokia TV Series, like the Nokia N90 and the Nokia N93 since 2008.
History
Nokia 6260 was included in the Mobile TV Series on February 4, 2009, along with the Nokia N93, and the Nokia 6260 was announced on March 5, 2009. The Nokia 6260 was scheduled for release on April 5, 2009, during the Nokia Tablet Congress in September 25, 2006. The Nokia 6260 was also officially released worldwide in April 5, 2009, and the first version was released in the United States earlier. Nokia 6260 slide was conutinue to worldwide on 28 September 2013, and discontinued.
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document that made it official that taxes forced on British colonists without their formal consent were not lawful. This was especially for the Stamp Act, which required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards were to be printed on special stamped and taxed paper.
Bea Wain
Bea Wain (April 30, 1917 – August 19, 2017) was an American Big Band-era singer. She was born in New York City, New York. She led the vocal group Bea and the Bachelors (with Al Rinker, Ken Lane, and John Smedberg) and the V8 (seven boys and a girl) on the Fred Waring show. Wain had four No. 1 hits: "Cry, Baby, Cry", "Deep Purple", "Heart and Soul" and her signature song, "My Reverie".
Wain died of congestive heart failure at a retirement home on August 19, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 100.
Bruce Peninsula
The Bruce Peninsula is a peninsula in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is between Georgian Bay to the northeast and Lake Huron to the southwest. It is part of Bruce County.
There are two national parks on the peninsula: Bruce Peninsula National Park and Fathom Five National Marine Park. The peninsula has four main towns: Tobermory, Lion's Head, Wiarton, and Sauble Beach.
Daydreaming (song)
Daydreaming is a song by trip-hop band Massive Attack with Shara Nelson. It was released in 1990. It was released as a single in October 1990, six months before before it was released in the album Blue Lines.
George W. Snyder
George W. Snyder (1780-1841) was an American watchmaker and inventor. Snyder invented the fishing reel in the 1820s.
Otopeni Airport
Otopeni Airport (full name: Henri Coandă International Airport; Aeroportul Internațional Henri Coandă București) is the airport with the most traffic in Romania, and it is based in Otopeni, a city which is 16.5 km (10.3 mi) from the center of Bucharest. In 2018, the airport had 13,824,830 total passengers.
Little Nicky
Little Nicky is a 2000 American fantasy comedy movie that was produced by Jack Giarraputo and Robert Simonds and was directed by Steven Brill. It stars Adam Sandler and is set in New York City.
Cameos
Other than the cast there was also a lot of cameos in the movie:
Ratings
Little Nicky gained mainly negative reviews:
George Smathers
George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the United States Senate from 1951 until 1969 from Florida. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1951. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
In 1960, Smathers ran as a “Favorite Son” for President of the United States. He won the Florida Democratic primary, becoming the first Floridian popularly elected to represent Florida as a presidential candidate at a national convention. In 1968, Floridians again nominated Smathers as their Favorite Son candidate for president.
Smathers died on January 20, 2007 in Indian Creek, Florida from a stroke, aged 93.
When You're Gone
"When You're Gone" is a song performed by the Canadian singer Avril Lavigne for her 2007 album The Best Damn Thing.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
These are people who are currently missing from 1990s to 2020s.
WPXI
WPXI (also known as WPXI-TV) is the NBC television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is owned by Cox Enterprises.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Jamal Abdul'Faruq
American Jamal Abdul'Faruq was last seen in Richmond, Virginia on April 16, 1990 playing with his older brother. Later, his brother’s body was found, but Jamal was never seen since. Jamal was 7 years old at the time he went missing.
WPXI
History
On September 1, 1957, WPXI first signed onto television as WIIC-TV.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Tham Thi Nguyen
Tham Thi Nguyen was last seen on January 1, 1990. She was 27 years old at the time she went missing.
WPXI
History
In 1964, the station was sold to current owner Cox Enterprises.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Nicholas Barclay
American 13 year-old Nicholas Barclay disappeared near his home in San Antonio in 1994.
WPXI
History
In 1981, the name was changed to WPXI-TV (Pittsburgh 11, with XI being the Roman numeral sign for 11). The WIIC is still used in Pittsburgh, but on a smaller and less known channel showing music videos.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Morgan Nick
American Morgan Nick was last seen on June 9, 1995. She was kidnapped almost at 10:45 PM and was not seen since.
Jodi Huisentruit
American Jodi Huisentruit disappeared from her Iowa apartment on June 27, 1995. She was a television news anchor. Her personal items including a bent car key been strewn about the parking lot where her car was parked.
Richey Edwards
Welsh musician Richey Edwards disappeared in 1995. His car was found near the Severn Bridge. In 2008 he was declared dead.
Patrick Warren and David Spencer
Two English schoolboys Patrick Warren and David Spencer disappeared near their homes in Solihull in 1996.
Elisabeth Ann Huster
Elisabeth Ann Huster was last seen on August 31, 1996. Her mother confessed to shooting her with a gun, cut her limbs off, and threw her in an ocean. Her body was never found. She was 9 years old at the time she died.
Marion Barter
Australian teacher Marion Barter disappeared on holiday in England in 1997 leaving behind her children. They received correspondence and a phone call from her but her passport entered Australia and her bank account was emptied before never hearing from her again.
Joseph Mack Maples
American Joseph Mack Maples was last seen on August 11, 1999 at around 6:45 AM planning to travel on a plane to Dallas. He wanted to bring all his stuff, especially his two dogs. He was never heard from or seen since. He was 46 years old at the time.
Zebb Quinn
18 year-old American Zebb Quinn disappeared from North Carolina in January 2000. His car was found a couple of weeks later. A man has been convicted of his murder in 2017.
Asha Degree
9 year-old American Asha Degree disappeared from her North Carolina home in a storm in the middle of the night in February 2000. She packed her bookbag and motorists saw her walking on the highway. Around a mile from her home, a motorist stopped to talk to her and Asha ran into the woods. A year later her bookbag still packed was found from a construction site 26 miles away wrapped in plastic. It is the last evidence found and the case is unsolved.
Trevor Deeley
In December 2000, 22 year-old Trevor Deeley walked through the streets of Dublin, Ireland at around 4 a.m. At a bank he was sighted on security footage with an unidentified man dressed in dark clothing. Deeley has never been seen again and the case remains unsolved.
Peter Falconio
English tourist Peter Falconio disappeared from the Northern Territory, Australia in July 2001. His surviving companion, Joanne Lees, described how she escaped their carjacking. A man, Bradley Murdoch, was later convicted in 2005 for his murder.
Maura Murray
American 21 year-old student Maura Murray disappeared from New Hampshire after 7pm in February 2004 leaving behind her car following crashing it. This was in a heavily wooded wilderness area.
Brianna Maitland
In March 2004, American Brianna Maitland went missing in Montgomery, Vermont. Her abandoned car was found next to an abandoned property. Her case has been linked to the disappearance of Maura Murray.
Max Vidar Castor
Swedish tourist Max Vidar Castor disappeared from Australia while backpacking in 2005. He wrote to his father 'Something strange has happened to me and I don't know how to cope with it'.
Jennifer Kesse
In 2006, American Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her apartment in Orlando, Florida. Her phone, keys and purse were missing and someone moved her car to another parking lot a mile away. CCTV exists of a suspect but their face is hidden behind a fence.
Madeleine McCann
3 year-old English tourist Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 in Portugal whilst on holiday. Her parents had left her in the apartment whilst they had dinner with friends by the hotel pool.
Brandon Swanson
Brandon Swanson, 19, disappeared at night near a river in Minnesota, USA in May 2008 whilst on the phone at around 2:30 a. m.. He had crashed his car into a ditch and was lost.
Claudia Lawrence
English chef Claudia Lawrence, 35, disappeared on her walk to work in York in 2009. Although she had her mobile phone with her, she left behind her purse, passport and bank cards at home. Her mobile phone was turned off at 12:10 p.m. just a few hours after the last sighting of her.
Kyron Horman
7 year-old American schoolboy Kyron Horman disappeared from his school in Portland, Oregon in 2010. He attended a science fair with his stepmom who last saw him walking to class at 8:45 a. m. His case is unsolved.
Dr David Lidgey
On June 29, 2011, Dr David Lidgey disappeared after a row and an unplanned day off work from Norfolk, England. He took his house keys and left behind his money, car and passport. In 2018, his wife received text messages claiming to be him.
Xavier DuPont
Xavier DuPont disappeared in 2011 immediately following the unsolved murder of his family in Nantes, France.
Phoenix Coldon
Phoenix Coldon disappeared in 2011 from Missouri leaving behind her abandoned Chevy truck.
Vaan
Vaan is a fake character in the Final Fantasy series. He is also the main character of Final Fantasy XII.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Bryce Laspisa
Bryce Laspisa disappeared from California in 2013. He was driving home around midnight. His car was found abandoned. His friends and ex-girlfriend stated Bryce was using an ADHD drug Vyvanse and had become a heavy drinker.
Vaan
Development
In the beginning of the making of Final Fantasy, Basch was set to be the main character; but it was switched to Vaan. The team who made the game decided that a big, strong man would not be popular to the public.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Deorr Kunz Jr.
Deorr Kunz Jr., 2, disappeared in Idaho in July, 2015.
Vaan
Development
The person who plays as Vaan in Final Fantasy XII is Bobby Edner in the English game and Kouhei Takeda in the Japanese game.
Appearance
Vaan is the main character in Final Fantasy XII. He is an orphan. His parents died in from being sick when he was 12. He lost his brother, Reks, two years before the game starts. He makes money by doing things for his friend Migelo. He wants to be a sky pirate when he grows up.
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
Tammy Kingery
In 2014, American Tammy Kingery disappeared from her home in South Carolina. A note left said she was going for a walk. She left her purse, phone and keys but the house was locked. She suffered depression and is thought to have walked through the woods nearby.
Mekayla Bali
Mekayla Bali, 16, disappeared from Sasketchewan, Canada in April 2016. She left school in the morning around 8:30 a. m. and was last sighted at a bus stop between 1 p.m. and 1:45 p. m..
Rebecca Reusch
Rebecca Reusch, 15, disappeared from visiting her sister in Berlin, Germany in 2019.
Phillips Family Disappearances
New Zealander Thomas Phillips and his three children Jayda (8), Maverick (7) and Ember (5) have been missing since 9 December 2021. They had gone missing before in October then reappeared. A sighting of Thomas Phillips was reported in 2023.
Est Region (Burkina Faso)
Est is a region in Burkina Faso. The capital city is Fada N'gourma. It was created on 2 July 2001.
Five provinces make up the region—Gnagna, Gourma, Komondjari, Kompienga, and Tapoa.
Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II
The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II was an event to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II for 60 years since 1952.
River pageant
A royal pageant on the Thames was one of several events which marked the special anniversary. The Queen and members of her family were on board the Spirit of Chartwell royal barge. The barge was joined by a 1,000-boat parade down the river Thames.
West Side Story
West Side Story is a musical. It is based on Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. The book was written by Arthur Laurents. The music was composed by Leonard Bernstein, and the lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim. It starred Carol Lawrence as Maria.
Woody Woodpecker
Wooddrow "Woody "Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short movies produced by Walter Lantz, and distributed by Universal Pictures.
West Side Story
West Side Story opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on 26 September 1957, and on the West End at Her Majesty's Theatre on 12 December 1958. On the West End, was performed 1,039 times. It won two Tony Awards.
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker cartoon was created in 1940 by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. He also created the cartoon characters of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck when he worked at the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio in the late 1930s.
His niece and nephew are Knothead and Splinter. His girlfriend is Winnie Woodpecker. In The New Woody Woodpecker Show, Winnie is voiced by B. J. Ward.
West Side Story
Plot
The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s. It is a working-class neighborhood with a mixture of ethnic groups. (In the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood would be cleared to make room for Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood. )
There are four main characters in the play: After meeting her at a dance, Tony falls in love with Maria. This causes more fighting between the Jets and the Sharks.
Music
Bernstein's score for the musical includes: • "Something's Coming"
• "Maria"
• "America"
• "Somewhere"
• "Tonight"
• "Jet Song"
• "I Feel Pretty"
• "A Boy Like That"
• "One Hand, One Heart"
• "Gee, Officer Krupke"
• "Cool"
Importance
The play's dark theme, sophisticated music, long dance scenes, and focus on social problems made West Side Story a turning point in American musical theatre.
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is an extreme metal type of heavy metal music that is characterised by its high speed and aggression.
Origins
The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of hardcore punk and more specifically Thrashcore, creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock. This genre is much more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal.
Wolfgang Wagner
Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August 1919 - 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. He was the grandson of the opera composer Richard Wagner and great-grandson of the composer Franz Liszt. For 42 years he was director of the Bayreuth Festival, which was created by Richard Wagner for the performances of his operas. At first he was director together with his brother Wieland. After Wieland died he continued to be director until he retired in 2008. He tried to get rid of the festival’s Nazi past, and put on productions which were very symbolic: using lighting effects instead of complicated scenery and heavy costumes.
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Wolfgang Wagner
Life
When Siegfried died in 1930 Winifred took over the running of the festival. She was friends with Adolf Hitler who often came to the performances. Hitler became a family friend. The children called him “Uncle Adolf” or “Uncle Wolf” (his nickname). When World War II started, Wieland did not have to fight in the army because Hitler said he was too important for German culture. However, Wolfgang had to fight, and he was wounded in Poland, but got better. He started to produce operas in Berlin. Hitler liked him, but he never joined the Nazi party.
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Wolfgang Wagner
Life
During the war a lot of Bayreuth buildings were damaged, but not the theatre. The Americans used it for religious services. After the war Winifred was not allowed to run the opera house because of her Nazi past, but Wieland became director and Wolfgang looked after the money. The two brothers started the festival again in 1951. They formed the orchestra again, and invited Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan to conduct. They deliberately avoided using lots of scenery and made use of symbolic ideas, especially lighting.
When Wieland died in 1966 Wolfgang was the only director. He continued the modern ideas of his brother, using very simple staging techniques. The production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle in 1976 by the opera director Patrice Chéreau was particularly important. Many people loved it, others disagreed with it. The production of the Ring Cycle in 1983 by Peter Hall, conducted by Georg Solti celebrated the 100th birthday of Richard Wagner. People argued about this production, too. Since then, many famous people have visited the festival, including the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German President Horst Köhler. In 1982 Grace Bumbry was the first black person to sing at the festival (she sang the part of Venus in Tannhäuser. Some of the audience thought this was shocking, but she sang so beautifully that everyone applauded for 30 minutes.  She had to take 42 curtain calls.
Wolfgang married twice. His first wife was Ellen Drexel. He had two children by this marriage. He argued with them. His son did not like the family’s past Nazi connections, and the daughter Eva argued about the control of the festival. Wolfgang later married Gudrun Mack, with whom he had a daughter Katharina. Eva and Katharina now run the festival.
Wolfgang died aged 90 in Bayreuth in 2010.
Supply-side economics
Supply-side economics or trickle-down economics is a theory that if taxes were cut on the richest people in society, rich people would use their extra money to invest in the economy, but if taxes were increased, the wealthy would leave the country and invest somewhere else where the tax rates are lower. People who support supply-side economics believe that taxes punished productivity and if they were lowered, people would produce more goods and services. Many supporters of supply-side economics also support things such as limited government spending, low inflation, and regulating the economy less.
Economist Arthur Laffer supported supply-side economics with a theory called a Laffer Curve. The theory stated that government will get no money if taxes were too high—nobody would pay them—and that the government would not get enough money if taxes were too low. The theory also stated that if taxes were too high, the economy would be less productive and it would give the government less money and that if taxes were low, the economy would be productive and the government would get more money.
Supply-side economics was used while Ronald Reagan was president during the 1980's. Income taxes on the wealthiest Americans were cut from 70% to 50% to 28% during his two terms. Also, capital gains taxes were cut. Supporters of supply-side economics mention that those tax cuts have resulted in economic recovery during the 1980's and the strong economic boom in the 1990's and first decade of the 21st century.
Critics of supply-side economics say that the wealthy gain a lot of money in the hope that a very small amount of it will trickle down to the poor, and they call it voodoo economics. Many critics say that supply-side economic policies are bad because they result in a bigger gap between the rich and the poor. They also criticize that the reduction in taxes results in the cutting of programs for the poor people who need it. Other critics point out that large supply-cuts tax cuts, in combination with increases in military spending, has resulted in the government being in a large amount of debt.
The Book of Mormon (musical)
The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. It was first shown in 2011. The play is a satire based on the beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The musical ends up supporting the positive power of love and service.
The Book of Mormon has made over $500 million, making it one of the most successful musicals of all time.
Gomel Region
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Important cities in the voblast include: Gomel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svetlahorsk, Rechytsia, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow, Dobrush
Homiel Province and Mahilyow Voblast were hurt severely after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe. The Gomel Province borders the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in places. Part of it is a mandatory or voluntary resettlement areas as a result of the radioactive contamination.
The Homiel Voblast has 21 districts (raions), 278 selsovets, 17 cities, and 8 city municipalities.
The Long Good Friday
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Actor
An actor is a person who acts, or has a role (a part) in a movie, television show, play, or radio show. Actors may be professional or not. Sometimes actors only sing or dance, or sometimes they only work on radio. A woman actor is actress, but the word "actor" is used for both men and women when referring to a group. Actors are also known as ‘thespians’ because of the first known Greek actor ‘Thespis’.
History
The first time we know an actor worked was in 534 B.C. The changes in calendar between then and now make the year uncertain. This actor was called Thespis and he was Greek. The place where the play happened was called the Theatre Dionysus in Athens, and he won a competition. He was the first person to speak words as a character. This was a big change in storytelling. Before then, people sang and danced stories, but no one had been a person in the story. Today we call actors "thespians" because of Thespis.
Women
In the past, the name "actor" was only for men. Women only began performing often in the 17th century. People called them "actresses". In the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, people thought it was bad (shameful) for a woman to act.
Today, the word "actor" is for both men and women, because some people think the name "actress" is sexist. But people also use the word actress very often.
Actresses in Men's Roles
Women actors sometimes act the roles of young boys, because in some ways a woman is more similar to a boy than a man is. For example, a woman usually plays the role of Peter Pan. In pantomime, a sort of play for children (not the same as mime), the most important young man is also a woman. Opera has some "pants roles" which women traditionally sing. These women are usually mezzo-sopranos, which means they sing with a voice that is high but not very high. Examples are Hansel in Hänsel and Gretel, and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro.
In comic theatre and film, people often use a man for a woman's part, or a woman for a man's part – this has a long history. Most of Shakespeare's comedies have examples of this. Both Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams were in popular comedy films where they played most scenes as men in women's clothes, pretending to be women.
Actors in Women's Roles
In the time of Shakespeare, and earlier, all roles in an English play were played by men, meaning even characters such as Juliet, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra were first played by men or boys. After the English Restoration women were allowed to perform on-stage.
More recently, men have played female roles as a type of humor. Movies with this role reversal include Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, Big Momma's House, Hairspray, and The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy.
New York Harbor
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Actor
Voice acting
Voice acting is a special type of acting. It is most commonly used in animation for both television and movies. Voice actors are the people who make the voices for the characters. They may be the narrator in non-animated works.
Types
Actors working in theatre, film, and television have to learn different skills. Skills that work well in one type of acting may not work well in another type of acting.
In theatre
To act on stage, actors need to learn the stage directions that appear in the script, such as "Stage Left" and "Stage Right". These directions are based on the actor's point of view as he or she stands on the stage facing the audience. Actors also have to learn the meaning of the stage directions "Upstage" (away from the audience) and "Downstage" (towards the audience)
Theatre actors need to learn blocking, which is "...where and how an actor moves on the stage during a play." Most scripts specify some blocking. The Director will also give instructions on blocking, such as crossing the stage or picking up and using a prop.
Theatre actors need to learn stage combat, which is simulated fighting on stage. Actors may have to simulate "hand-to-hand [fighting] or with sword[-fighting]." Actors are coached by fight directors, who help them to learn the choreographed sequence of fight actions.
In film
"Unlike the theater actor, who gets to develop a character during...a two- or three-hour performance, the film actor lacks continuity, forcing him or her to come to all the scenes (often shot in reverse order in which they'll ultimately appear) with a character already fully developed."