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Decision problem
In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a question in some formal system with a yes-or-no answer. The answer is dependent on the values of the input parameters. Decision problems typically appear in mathematical questions of decidability, that is, the question of the existence of an effective method to determine the existence of some object or its membership in a set. Some of the most important problems in mathematics are undecidable.
Angelos Charisteas
Angelos Charisteas (born 9 February 1980) is a Greek football player. He plays for Nürnberg and Greece national team.
Club career statistics
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Umayyad conquest of Hispania
The Umayyad conquest of Hispania was the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate over Hispania, from 711 to 788.
The conquest destroyed the Visigothic Kingdom and set up the Emirate of Cordova under Abd ar-Rahman I. This completed al-Andalus, the unification of Muslim-ruled Iberia (756–788). The conquest was the westernmost expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate and Muslim rule into Europe. Charles Martel defeated them in the Battle of Tours, so they did not conquer France.
The conquering army was made up mainly of Berbers (north-western Africa). They had only recently come under Muslim influence. They arrived in early 711 at Gibraltar.
The Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus was overthrown around 750 AD, but continued in al-Andalus until 1031.
The period from 710 to the fall of the last Islamic state in the Battle of Granada in 1492 is called the Reconquista.
Magical Mystery Tour
Magical Mystery Tour is a 1967 television movie made by The Beatles. It is also the movie's title song, and the name of its soundtrack recording.
Show
Paul McCartney had the original idea for Magical Mystery Tour, coming back from the Monterey Pop Festival in California, during the summer of 1967. He drew a clock face on a paper plate, and filled it with parts of the show he imagined. McCartney based the idea on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who travelled the United States in a bus, and also "", which were low-budget weekend vacation trips taken in England.
The other Beatles liked the idea for the show, and made plans to produce and direct it themselves. After they stopped giving concerts in 1966, they had started making their own promotional films (called "promos"), much like today's music videos. They had success with promos, and wanted to try making a whole programme, to appear on television during the Christmas holidays.
Beatles manager Brian Epstein helped set up the production, and the Beatles asked friends, members of their staff, and some professional actors to ride with them in a rented bus over a holiday weekend, and film whatever happened, with magical elements to be added later. Making the movie was one of the first jobs of the Beatles's new company, Apple Corps.
What turned into a bigger event than filming Magical Mystery Tour was the that began to surround the bus, wondering what the "tour" was all about. People followed the bus for miles, and caused. People who saw the bus go by expected a "happening" of some kind, but none had been planned. In trying to be, nobody had worked out a for the bus, or the trip. Most of the commotion ended after Lennon personally removed the MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR lettering from the sides of the bus. Later a Beatles assistant said the traffic jams should have also been filmed.
Spots for songs and performances were included in Magical Mystery Tour, and so was a explaining what the trip was about. The songs featured in the show included "The Fool on the Hill", "I Am The Walrus", "Blue Jay Way", an instrumental song, "Flying", and "Your Mother Should Know", with a choreographed dance sequence. Another band, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, played live during a striptease performance.
Ringo Starr made a personal appeal to the BBC to show Magical Mystery Tour again, in full colour. The BBC gave it a second broadcast, but it did not change opinions. ABC in the United States cancelled plans to show Magical Mystery Tour in America. (It later appeared as a "midnight movie", shown in small cinemas and on college campuses.)
Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich (born 15 July 1961) is a Canadian actress. She has had many notable movie roles. She played Blaze Starr in the 1989 movie Blaze. She was in the 1991 movie JFK. She also acted in the television series The L Word. Davidovich was born near London, Ontario.
Magical Mystery Tour
Soundtrack
Even though Magical Mystery Tour was not a television success, its soundtrack still sold well. The show's songs were released as a double EP in England, with a storybook and pictures from the show. In America, Capitol Records added songs from recent Beatles singles to the show songs, and released a whole album. The American version outsold the EP in England, and in 1977 Parlophone Records released a British version of the album.
Songs
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Doughnut
A doughnut (spelled donut in various marketing sectors) is a type of deep fried dessert food made out of dough or batter.
Magical Mystery Tour
Songs
All songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except "Flying" (by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr) and "Blue Jay Way" (by George Harrison).
Doughnut
How they are made
Round ringed doughnuts are made by joining the ends of a long, thin piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter, which perfectly cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center. This smaller piece of dough can be cooked or re-added to the batch to make more doughnuts. A disk-shaped doughnut can also be stretched and molded into a torus until the center breaks to form a hole. Or, a doughnut depositor can be used to place a circle of liquid dough (batter) into the deep fryer. Doughnuts can be made from a yeast-based dough for more puffy doughnuts or a special type of cake batter. Yeast-raised doughnuts contain about 25% oil by weight, whereas cake doughnuts' oil content is around 20%, but they have extra fat in the batter before frying. Cake doughnuts are fried for about 90 seconds at about 190 °C to 198 °C, turning once. Yeast-raised doughnuts absorb more oil because they take longer to fry, about 150 seconds, at 182 °C to 190 °C. Cake doughnuts normally weigh between 24 g and 28 g, whereas yeast-raised doughnuts normally are 38 g and are mostly larger when finished. Some types of cake doughnuts are also baked, as opposed to fried, which greatly reduces the fat content.
Types
The two most common types of doughnut are ring doughnuts, which are shaped like rings, and filled doughnuts, which are round and have jam, jelly, custard, whipped cream, or chocolate inside them. There are also "doughnut holes" or "munchkins" which come in the shape of small balls. Most doughnuts have an icing (also called a "frosting") made with icing sugar, water, and flavourings (such as chocolate). Some doughnuts are rolled in sweet foods such as sugar or shredded coconut.
Jan Alma
Jan Alma (23 August 1934 – 9 October 2022) was a Dutch handball coach.
As a handball coach, Alma was the coach of the Netherlands women's national handball team. He was the coach of many club teams: HV Hellas Den Haag, SV Hermes, HV Aalsmeer and RKHV Quintus and of the women's team of HV Hellas Den Haag and HV Foreholte. He retired as coach in 2003.
Sporthal Hellas, the venue of HV Hellas Den Haag has a grandstand named after him. Alma became in 2003 a Member of Merit of the Netherlands Handball Association. He became a Wall of Fame member of the municipality of The Hague.
He died in The Hague in October 2022, aged 88.
Down to the Waterline
"Down to the Waterline" is a 1978 song by British rock band Dire Straits and is the opening track from their 1978 self-titled debut studio album. It is the B-side to the single Water of Love.
British Rail Class 115
These 41 high density sets operated the outer-suburban services from Marylebone usually to destinations such as High Wycombe, Aylesbury and Banbury which are on the Chiltern Main Line and Great Central Main Line (now the London to Aylesbury Line). Sometimes, these sets used to operate 8-12 car long expresses to Nottingham Victoria in the final years of the GCML. Coincidentally, the 115 were under Table 115 in the British Rail timetable.
Based on the basic Derby high density design, the sets are similar to Class 127 but were internally superior as the class had larger windows, better furnishings, lighting and wall surfaces.
Some sets were also built for the CLC line between Liverpool and Manchester. These were later transferred to Marylebone. They also worked from Tyseley in the later years.
The Marylebone sets, which were later transferred to Bletchley but remained on Chiltern Line duties, were declared surplus after the introduction of Class 165s, from 1991 onwards. While at Bletchley depot the class was also used on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, units being formed as power twins. They were in turn replaced on this line by class 117 power twins.
The final Class 115 working out of Marylebone was in July 1992. The Tyseley sets survived a bit longer, until February 1994.
Grand High Witch
The Grand High Witch of All the World is a fictional character who serves as the main antagonist of the 1983 novel The Witches by Roald Dahl. She was portrayed by Anjelica Huston in the 1990 film and by Anne Hathaway in the 2020 film.
Story
She is the leader of all the witches in the world. In the story, the witches are demons who want to get rid of all the children in the world. The Grand High Witch uses gloves, wigs and masks to hide her monstrous appearance.
Huxley family
The Huxley family is an English family. Members of the family had top careers in science, medicine, art, and literature. Some family members were also high level public servants in the United Kingdom.
Thomas Henry Huxley (THH) was the oldest male in the family. He was a zoologist and comparative anatomist. He was one of Charles Darwin's main supporters.
Thomas had several grandsons including Aldous, Julian, and Andrew. Aldous Huxley wrote the books Brave New World and Doors of Perception. Julian Huxley studied evolution, wrote Evolution: the New Synthesis, and was the first director of UNESCO. Andrew Huxley was a Nobel prize winning physiologist and was appointed to the Order of Merit. Thomas and Andrew both served as President of the Royal Society, a century apart.
Many of their relatives succeeded in other walks of life.
Bijay Subedi
Bijay Subedi (Nepali: विजय सुवेदी)is a member of the Bagmati Provincial Assembly and he was elected from Chitwan 2 (B) for the CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He had previously serving as Minister for Social Development of Bagmati Province in Astalaxmi Shakya cabinet.
Montserrat Abelló i Soler
Montserrat Abelló i Soler (1 February 1918 – 9 September 2014) was a Spanish Catalan poet and translator. She translated works of literature from English to her native Catalan, and from Catalan into English.
Early life and education
Abelló i Soler was born in Tarragona, in the Province of Tarragona. During the Spanish Civil War, she lived in exile in France, England and Chile.
From English to Catalan
She translated works by American novelist Sylvia Plath, Welsh novelist Dylan Thomas, English writer E. M. Forster, Irish-born British author Iris Murdoch and Iranian translator Mohsen Emadi
From Catalan to English
She translated works by writers Salvador Espriu, Mercè Rodoreda, Maria Àngels Anglada, Maria Mercè Marçal and Olga Xirinacs Díaz.
Writing
She published works of poetry in Catalan.
In 2002, her poetry was compiled in Al cor de les paraules: obra poètica 1963-2002 ("In the Heart of Words: Poetic Works 1963-2002"), which in 2003 won several Catalan literary prizes.
Death
Abelló i Soler died on 9 September 2014 in Barcelona, aged 96.
John E. Cunningham
John Edward "Jack" Cunningham III (born March 27, 1931) is an American politician. He is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Washington's seventh district.
Cunningham served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975, and in the Washington Senate from 1975 to 1977.
Morellino di Scansano
Morellino di Scansano DOCG is an Italian red wine made in the hills of the village of Scansano (province of Grosseto), in the Maremma, which includes a part of the coast of southern Tuscany. Morellino is the local name for the Sangiovese grape varietal.
The wine, which gained the DOC status in 1978, and upgraded to DOCG status from the 2007 vintage, is made from of 85% Sangiovese (which is also the base of the tuscan wines: Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano). The remaining 0–15% of any non aromatic black grape varieties included in a list made and periodically updated by the local authorities.
Lorna Thomas
Lorna Thomas MBE (1 December 1917 – 17 September 2014) was an Australian female cricket player and team coach. She played from 1936 until 1949. She also coached from 1963 until 1978. She played for Australia against England, New Zealand and many other countries. She later coached Australia with success.
Thomas was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970s.
Thomas died from natural causes on 17 September 2014 in Sydney, aged 97.
Guy Hamilton
Guy Hamilton (16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016) was an English movie director. He directed 22 movies from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond movies first being Goldfinger (1964).
He also directed 'An Inspector Calls' (1954), with Alastair Sim, the musical comedy Charley Moon (1956) Manuela (1957), and Battle of Britain (1969). In the late 1980s, Hamilton was also asked to direct Batman (1989), but declined.
Hamilton died at the age of 93 on 20 April 2016 at his home in Majorca, Spain.
Gränichen
Gränichen is a municipality of the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Shin Don
Sin Don (신돈, 辛旽; 21 January 1322 – 21 August 1371 ) was a Korean Goryeo Dynasty scholar, politician, and Buddhist monk. His first name was Pyeonjo (편조, 遍照). a penname was Chunghangeosa (청한거사, 淸閑居士). His Chinese style name was Yogong (요공, 耀空). He was a teacher and advisor of king Gongmin of Goryeo.
Alberto Canapino
Alberto Canapino (23 May 1963 – 15 February 2021) was an Argentine racing car engineer. He was born in Arrecifes, Argentina. He was also known for managing his son's, Agustín Canapino races. Canapino was known for being part of Turismo Carretera races.
Punjab Kings
Kings XI Punjab is one of the cricket team of Indian Premier League. The home ground of this team is PCA Stadium of Mohali, Punjab, India. It was established in 2008. Since the IPL season of 2010, Punjab plays some home matches in Dharamsala and in Indore too. In ten IPL seasons, this team has moved to playoff matches two times. In this they moved to final and were the runner ups in the 2014 season.
Lady Writer
"Lady Writer" is a 1979 song by British rock band Dire Straits and taken from their second studio album Communiqué. It went to number 18 in the Netherlands, number 26 in Spain, number 45 in the United States and number 51 in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Heidelberg University
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Heidelberg University is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It was founded in 1386 on the instructions of Pope Urban VI. Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university, and is one of the world's oldest surviving universities. It was the third university established in the Holy Roman Empire. Prague (1348) and Vienna (1365) were at that time also German-speaking universities. The University of Vienna still is. Irrespective of the shared language of instruction, Heidelberg is the oldest university in modern Germany.
Saint Isaac's Cathedral
Saint Issac's Cathedral is a cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Heidelberg University
The University of Heidelberg is also known as Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, after the German prince Rupert I.
Patrick Chan
Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan (born December 31, 1990) is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. He is a 2018 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, 2014 Olympic silver medalist in the men's and team events, a three-time World champion (2011, 2012, 2013), a two-time Grand Prix Final champion (2010 and 2011), a three-time Four Continents champion (2009, 2012, 2016), and a ten-time Canadian national champion (2008–2014, 2016–2018).
On April 27, 2011, Chan set a new world record of 93.02 points for the short program. On April 28, 2011, Chan then set a new world record for his free skating, receiving an overall score of 280.98. In recognition, Chan was named the recipient of the Lou Marsh Award as Canada's top athlete.
Personal life
Patrick Lewis Wai-Kuan Chan was born December 31, 1990, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is the only child of Lewis Chan, a lawyer, and Karen, both immigrants from Hong Kong.
His Chinese name is Chan Wai-Kuan. At the age of five, Chan showed talent in downhill skiing, but focused on other sports after his family moved to Toronto. He has an enduring interest in many sports, including taekwondo, tennis, golf and mountain climbing.
Early career
Patrick Chan started skating in 1996. He originally wanted to learn to skate in order to play hockey, but soon became interested in figure skating. His coach, Osborne Colson, made him spend 30 minutes a day on basic stroking, edge work, cross-cutting and balance drills. Chan said, "I tell people I owe the flow in my knees and the flow I generate from my edges to Mr. Colson. He knew he had to pull everything apart and start from the ground up on the basics of skating."
2007–2008 season
Chan divided his training time between World Arena Ice Hall in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Granite Club in Toronto.
Chan competed at the 2008 World Championships in March. He placed seventh in the short program and 11th in the free skating, placing ninth overall.
2008–2009 season
At the 2009 World Championships, Chan placed third in the short program, behind Brian Joubert and Evan Lysacek, and second in the free skate to win the silver medal behind Lysacek. He was eighteen. He also competed for Canada at the 2009 World Team Trophy. He placed fourth in the men's competition and Canada won the silver overall, behind the United States and ahead of Japan.
2009–2010 season
The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Chan's home country, Canada. Chan placed seventh in the short program and then earned a new personal best score to place fourth in the free skate, finishing fifth overall.
Chan competed once again at the 2010 World Championships. He placed second in the short program, just 1.50 behind the leader, Daisuke Takahashi. He placed second in the free skate, 8.98 points behind Takahashi, to win his second world silver medal. Chan earned US$27,000 in prize money.
2010–2011 season
Chan began his season at the 2010 Liberty Summer Competition where he debuted his new short program to the music of Take Five, a jazz piece. He placed first in the short program, landing his first 4T in competition and was awarded a high grade of execution for the jump. In the free skate, he missed the 4T, but landed a 3A-3T combination for his first time in competition, and took the gold medal.
Hiroki Ito
Hiroki Ito may refer to:
Patrick Chan
2011–2012 season
In February 2012, Chan competed in the 2012 Four Continents Championships. He placed first in the short program, 4.51 ahead of Takahito Mura, and in the free skate, 24.25 ahead of Daisuke Takahashi, and obtained a 10.00 for his program component scores. He won gold with a total score of 273.94 points.
2012–2013 season
During the season, Chan was coached by Kathy Johnson and Eddie Shipstead. He left his longtime choreographer Lori Nichol and asked Jeff Buttle and David Wilson to produce his competitive programs.
2013–2014 season
In the 2013–14 ISU Grand Prix season, Chan won both the 2013 Skate Canada International and the 2013 Trophée Éric Bompard with a world record score at the time in both the short program and the free skate. He finished second in the Grand Prix Final, behind Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Patrick Chan competed in the team event. He skated the men's short program and placed third, contributing to Canada's silver medal finish.
During the individual event, Chan ranked second in the short program, scoring 3.93 points less than Hanyu's world record score and more than ten points ahead of the rest of the field. Hanyu's program featured the same jumps as Chan, but he had achieved better quality and amplitude on the jumps, particularly the triple axel. Hanyu fell twice during his free skate and had another triple discounted for putting his foot down in the middle of a jump sequence, while Chan struggled on several of his jumps including a miss on a relatively simple double Axel. As a result, Hanyu outscored Chan in the free skate by 0.54 points to take the gold medal, while Chan received the silver medal.
2015–2016 season
During the spring of 2015, Chan confirmed in several interviews that he would start training for the 2015–2016 season.
Chan easily nabbed his eighth national tile at the 2016 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Chan won gold at the 2016 Four Continents Championships, defeating Jin Boyang and scoring a new personal best in the free skate. He finished fifth at the 2016 World Championships after placing third in the short and fifth in the free.
2016–2017 season
Chan and Johnson decided they would move to Vancouver in July 2016. She resigned in August 2016, and the move to Vancouver was put on hold. On September 23, 2016, Chan announced that his new coaching team would be led by Marina Zueva, and his training base would be Canton, Michigan. He would stay in Canton for the entire season. Chan easily won a record-tying ninth Canadian national title. At the 2017 World Championships, he set his new personal best in the short program of 102.13, putting himself in medal contention in third place, but dropped to sixth after the long program. During the season, he attempted to incorporate a quadruple Salchow into his repertoire in response to the increasing jump difficulty of his top competitors.
2017–2018 season
In February, Chan represented Canada at his third Olympics, in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He won his first Olympic gold and third Olympic medal overall during the team event, defeating the Olympic Athletes from Russia. He skated both segments, ranking third in the short and first in the free skate. This earned 18 team points for Canada, six more than the Russian skater Mikhail Kolyada. In the individual men's event, Chan finished ninth after placing sixth in the short program and eighth in the free skate. He had tripled a quad attempt, doubled a triple, touched down with his hand on a triple axel, and stumbled on some of his footwork. He stated that this Olympic event was his last competition. He officially retired from competition on April 16, 2018.
Stanbridge Earls School
Stanbridge Earls School in Hampshire has a vast history.
The main house in Audley Stanbridge Earls is a Grade II* listed building. Its history dates back to Saxon royalty, with links to King Alfred the Great and the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.
From 1066, numerous families went on to own the estate. However, under ownership by John Fifield in the late 18th century, it fell into decay.
At the end of the 18th century, Florence Nightingale's father, William Nightingale, bought Stanbridge Earls. While being passed down through relatives, new wings were added to the property and it began to transform into the Tudor manor house it is today.
The name "Stanbridge" is of Saxon origin and derived from a bridge crossing on the River Test. There are claims for Stanbridge as the location of the burial in c.857 of King Æthelwulf based on antiquarian accounts from 16th to 18th centuries.
At the time of the Norman conquest an identifiable land holding was already in existence, recorded in the Domesday survey as an unnamed manor that was part of the estates held by Sir Ralph de Mortimer.
From 1942, along with Roke Manor to the south, Stanbridge Earls was used as a rest and recuperation home for USAF personnel. It was photographed in 1943, with images of the gardens, including the Burmese temple.
Zuchwil
Zuchwil is a municipality of the district Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Elbach
Elbach is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in the eastern France.
East Midlands Airport
East Midlands Airport is an international airport in the East Midlands of England.
It is close to Castle Donington, Leicestershire, between Loughborough (10 mi), Derby (12.5 mi) and Nottingham (14 mi); Leicester is (20 mi) to the south.
East Midlands Airport is a hub for low-fare airlines such as Jet2.com and Ryanair. It is also used by tour operators like TUI Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations. It is a base for BMI Regional, Flybe, and Thomas Cook Airlines.
Villeret
Villeret can mean:
Hurdle race
Hurdle race is a type of track and field race.
There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. Men and women run 400 meters in the standard long hurdle race. Each of these races is run over ten hurdles and they are all Olympic events.
Other distances are sometimes run, particularly indoors. The sprint hurdle race indoors is usually 60 meters for both men and women, although races 55 meters or 50 meters long are sometimes run.
Subtitle (captioning)
Subtitles are text-like versions of the dialog in movies. Subtitles are also used in television programmes and video games. The text is usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Subtitles can also be a form of written translation of a dialog in an unfamiliar language, or a written text version of the spoken words in the same language, with or without added information to help watchers who are not able to hear or people who cannot understand the spoken dialogue.
Josie Natori
Josie Natori, (born Josefina Almeda Cruz) is a Filipino-American fashion designer and former Wallstreet executive. Natori served as a commissioner on the White House Conference on Small Business. In March 2007, she was awarded the Order of Lakandula, one of the highest civilian awards in the Philippines.
Anne Grommerch
Anne Grommerch (11 December 1970 – 15 April 2016) was a French politician. She was a member of the National Assembly of France. She was born in Thionville. She represented the Moselle department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. She replaced Jean-Marie Demange. Grommerch was also elected Mayor of Thionville in 2014.
Habsburg, Switzerland
Habsburg is a municipality of the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Anne Grommerch
Grommerch developed breast cancer in 2007. She died as a result of the disease on 15 April 2016 at the age of 45.
Habsburg, Switzerland
It is the ancestral place of the House of Habsburg.
Lucía Guilmáin
Lucía Guilmáin (3 August 1942 – 15 February 2021) was a Mexican actress. She was born in Mexico City. Her career began in 1965. She retired in 2016. Guilmáin was known for her roles in Las fuerzas vivas (1975), Length of War (1976) and Darker Than Night (2014).
John Brown's Body (epic poem)
John Brown's Body is an epic poem by American poet Stephen Vincent Benét.
History
In 1925 Stephen Vincent Benét decided to write a long poem. With this proposal he approached the Guggenheim Foundation. He asked for 2 500 dollars and got it. Then he went to France. He settled in Paris and began to write. The poem was published in 1928. At once it became very popular. No American poem gained such popularity earlier. Ever Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's works were not so widely read. 130 000 copies of the book were sold during two years. For this poem the poet received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Many years later he got the second Pulitzer Prize for the poem Western Star.
Form
The poem in written in many measures. The poet employs both regular blank verse, free verse and different stanzas. This fragment is an example of classical blank verse.
From time to time the poet uses alliteration.
The story told
John Brown's Body is a poem about Civil War in America. The story begins with John Brown and his deeds. It ends with general Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. In this work historical and fictional persons are presented together. In 1953 Charles Laughton turned the poem into a play. It was performed in many theatres in America.
Diffuse axonal injury
Diffuse axonal injury (often shortened to DAI) is one of the most common forms of traumatic brain injury. In traumatic brain injury, the damage is focused to one area of the brain, in diffuse axonal injury, the damage occurs over a larger area of the brain. DAI mainly damages white matter, which makes it one of the major causes of unconsciousness and persistent vegetative state after head trauma. It occurs in about half of all cases of severe head trauma.
Museum of the Bible
The Museum of the Bible is a museum in Washington D.C. which shows the history, and impact of the Bible. It opened on November 17, 2017, and has 1,150 items in its permanent collection and 2,000 items on loan from other institutions and collections.
Diffuse axonal injury
Other authors state that DAI can occur in every degree of severity from (very) mild or moderate to (very) severe. Concussion may be a milder type of diffuse axonal injury.
East Caribbean dollar
The East Caribbean dollar (sign: $; code: XCD) is the currency of eight of the nine members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (the exception is the British Virgin Islands).
It has existed since 1965, when it replaced the British West Indies dollar, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $ or, alternatively, EC$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.
The EC$ is subdivided into 100 cents. It has been pegged to the United States dollar since 1976 and the exchange rate is currently at US$1 = EC$2.70.
Members of the Currency Union
Six of the eight countries which use the EC$ are independent (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). The other two are British overseas territories: Anguilla and Montserrat.
All of the countries except Dominica are Commonwealth realms.
David Green (entrepreneur)
David Green (born November 13, 1941) is an American businessman. He is the founder of Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores. He is a major financial supporter of Evangelical organizations in the United States and funded the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
Dicynodont
The Dicynodontia are a sub-group of the extinct animals called therapsids. They were small to large herbivorous (plant-eating) animals with two tusks; 'dicynodont' means 'two dog tooth'. They are also the most successful and diverse of the non-mammalian therapsids, with over 70 genera (types) known.
All of them had the same basic body plan. They were built like small tanks, with sturdy legs at each corner. They were not fast movers, but were obviously strong and lived in groups rather as many plant-eaters do today. Their body shape was similar to certain types of modern mammals such as pigs and rhinoceros.
Fossils discovered in Poland indicate that dicynodonts survived at least until about 200 million years ago (the Upper Triassic period. Six fragments of fossil skull bone discovered in Australia (Queensland) may indicate that dicynodonts survived much longer, until about 150 million years ago (the Cretaceous period) in the region called the southern Gondwana.
Timecop
Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action movie. It is about a federal agent who travels in time. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Max Walker. Mia Sara plays Melissa.
Timecop got mixed reviews from critics. It made a lot of money at the box office.
Pitch Lake
The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world. It is estimated to contain 10 million tons of asphalt. It can be found in La Brea in southwest Trinidad, inside the Siparia Regional Corporation. The lake covers about 100 acres (0,405 square kilometres). The lake is 250 feet (76,2 metres) deep.
History
The Pitch Lake has been very interesting to explorers and scientists. It was re-discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh in his expedition there in 1595. Raleigh himself used the asphalt to caulk his ship. The native Amerindians told Raleigh where he can find the lake. The native Amerindians had their own story about where the lake came from. The story goes that the people living there were celebrating a victory over a rival tribe when they got carried away in their celebration. They then cooked and ate the sacred hummingbird which they believed possessed the souls of their ancestors. According to legend, their winged God punished them by opening the earth and calling the pitch lake to swallow the entire village. So, the lake became a reminder of their sins. The local villages believe this legend because found many Amerindian artifacts and a skull that have been discovered and preserved, in the pitch.
In 1887, Amzi Barber, an American businessman known as "The Asphalt King", got a 42-year monopoly concession from the British Government for the Pitch Lake for his company, Barber Asphalt Paving Co. It was from the Pitch Lake that many of the first asphalt roads of New York City, Washington D.C., and other Eastern U.S. cities were paved.
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
Admiral Lord Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe was a British fighter and nobleman.
Early life and family
Richard Howe was born in 1726. His parents were Emmanuel and Charlotte Howe. He had three brothers, George, William, and Thomas. Howe's mother Charlotte was related to the royal family. Her mother, Sophia von Kielmannsegg, was a king's daughter by a mistress. So Charlotte was King George I's niece through his half-sister. Sir Nathanial Wrahall said that Richard Howe looked like King George I.
Emmaneul Howe died when Richard Howe was about eight years old. He died while he was governor of Barbados. Charlotte was Lady of the Bedchamber to King George III's mother, Princess Augusta.
George and William Howe both went into the army and became generals. Richard Howe went into the navy and became Fleet Admiral. Thomas Howe worked for the East India Company.
Military career
Richard Howe joined the British Navy in 1757. He became a Rear Admiral and Vice Admiral during the Seven Years' War. During this time, he became the 4th Viscount Howe.
American Revolutionary War
Richard Howe was a peace commissioner for the British. He met with George Washington to talk about avoiding a war, but the talks did not work out. After that, Howe took command of the British Navy to stop the rebellion. Howe took 400 ships, to Staten Island Harbor and forced the Continental Army to run away from New York. At the time, this was the largest fleet in the history of the British Navy.
After the French joined the war in 1778, Howe won battles even after he was outnumbered. When British Admiral John Byron showed up, Howe went back to England. He resigned his position because he did not like Lord North.
Later career
Richard Howe did rejoin the navy to fight against France and Spain. In 1782, he was named the first Earl Howe. He fought in Gibraltar in 1782. He was made the first Lord of the Admiralty in 1783 and held the post until 1788. He was Vice Admiral of England from 1792 to 1796. In 1794, he defeated the French near Ushant. This victory was called the Glorious First of June.
Appearance
In 1803, Sir John Barrow said:
"[H]is countenance was of a serious cast, strongly marked and dark; at the same time there was a shyness and awkwardness in his manner, … [but] the expression of his features [soon] assumed a very different and an animated character, assuming that benign aspect which corresponded with his disposition."
He died in 1799.
The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie is a 2015 computer-animated comedy movie made by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. It was released on November 6, 2015 in the United States. It follows Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the movie.
Before You Accuse Me
"Before You Accuse Me" (also known as "Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself)") is a 1958 blues song by Bo Diddley. It has been covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival for their fifth studio album Cosmo's Factory and Eric Clapton for his 11th studio album Joureyman and was the B-side to his song Pretending.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a book by Gertrude Stein, written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933.
Written by Stein, the book pretends to be an autobiography written by Alice B. Toklas, Stein's life partner. It tells the story of Toklas and Stein from Toklas' birth, through their meeting and life together in Paris, to their life and Stein's work after World War I. Toklas is very present in the book, but it is mainly about Gertrude Stein and her life in Paris at the time. Modern Library ranked it in 1998 as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская; 26 February 186927 February 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik and the wife of Vladimir Lenin. Like her father, Krupskaya trained to be a teacher.
Krupskaya was born into a impoverished noble family. Because she was poor herself, she had strong views about making life easier for the poor. At one Marxist discussion group, she met Lenin. Soon after their meeting, Lenin was exiled to Siberia. Krupskaya was allowed to join him, on condition that they married. This could suggest a marriage of convenience, though they remained loyal. Following the 1917 Revolution, Krupskaya was at the forefront of the political scene. From 1922 to 1925, she was aligned with Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev against Trotsky's Left Opposition. Later, she disagreed  with Stalin. She was deputy education commissar from 1929 to 1939. She had a strong influence over the Soviet educational system and the development of Soviet librarianship.
Constantine, Switzerland
Constantine was a municipality in Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.
2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
On October 10, 2022, Russia launched a large number of missile attacks across the territory of Ukraine, as part of the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and revenge for the damaged Crimean bridge.
Silent Fall
Silent Fall is a 1994 drama and mystery movie. The movie is about a boy with autism who sees a murder. Linda Hamilton plays Karen. Liv Tyler plays Sylvie Warden. John Lithgow plays Dr. Harlinger.
Silent Fall got negative reviews from critics. It became a box office bomb.
John Deacon
He lives in Putney in Southwest London with his wife Veronica Tetzlaff. They were married on 18 January 1975. He is the father of six children.
Muhammed Seif Khatib
Muhammed Seif Khatib (10 January 1951 – 15 February 2021) was a Tanzanian politician. He was a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi. Khatib was a member of the National Assembly for Uzini constituency from 1995 until 2015.
Khatib died on 15 February 2021, aged 70.
Virtual International Authority File
History
In 1998, the project was started by the German National Library and the U.S. Library of Congress.
In 2003, VIAF was established.
The file numbers are being added to some Wikipedia articles about people.
Tangelo
A Tangelo is a citrus fruit hybrid. Usually, one parent is a Mandarin orange, the other is a grapefruit. The fruit tastes mainly sweet and slightly sour. Tangelo fruits have a soft skin. They can grow to about 9 cm in diameter.
Minneola is a variety of tangelo that was first grown commercially in Florida., in 1931.
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, were held in London, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012, followed by the 2012 Paralympic Games from 29 August to 9 September.
London became the first city to host the modern Olympic Games three times; London also hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics.
The bidding process
By the bid submission deadline of 15 July 2003, nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012 Olympics. These cities were Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro.
On 18 May 2004 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reduced the number of cities to five: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, and Paris.
The IOC inspection team visited the five candidate cities during February and March 2005.
On 6 June 2005, the International Olympic Committee released its evaluation reports for the five candidate cities. Although these reports did not contain any scores or rankings, the evaluation report for Paris was seen as the most positive, followed closely by London.
Brunello di Montalcino
Brunello di Montalcino is a red Italian wine. It is made in the vineyards surrounding the town of Montalcino about 70 mi southwest of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Brunello, roughly translated as "nice dark one" in the local dialect, is the unofficial name of the clone of Sangiovese (also known as Sangiovese Grosso ) grown in the Montalcino region. In 1980, the Brunello di Montalcino was awarded the first Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) designation and today is one of the Italy's best-known and most expensive wines.
2012 Summer Olympics
The bidding process
During the process, many thought Paris was most likely to win the nomination, largely because this was its third bid in recent years. In late August 2004, reports came out predicting a London and Paris tie in the 2012 bid.
On 6 July 2005, London was announced as the winner of the bid at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore.
Participating nations
Listed below are NOCs who have qualified at least one athlete. As of 7 June 2011, 101 nations have qualified at least one athlete.
Sports
The 2012 Summer Olympics event has 26 sports. The International Olympic Committee executive board met on 13 August 2009 and approved the addition of women's boxing. The International Boxing Federation proposed that 40 athletes compete in five different weight classes.
Motto
The official motto for the 2012 Summer Olympics is "Inspire a generation". It was chosen to highlight the organiser's commitment to inspire the world to get involved in sporting events through the olympic games' legacy.
Mascots
The official mascots for the Olympics and Paralympic Games were revealed in May 2010. They were called Wenlock and Mandeville.
Sponsors
The 2012 Olympics had many sponsors. Some of the most popular ones are McDonald's, Acer, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Panasonic.
Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island (historical spellings Whidby, Whitbey, or Whitby) is the largest of the islands making up Island County, Washington, in the United States. Whidbey is about 30 mi north of Seattle, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the I-5. It is home to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
Whidbey Island is home to 67,000 residents (according to the 2000 census).
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time. The book said to mothers "you know more than you think you do".
Spock was regarded as a radical during the troubled times of the Vietnam War.
Spock won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale University.
W (magazine)
W is a monthly American fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. It was started in 1972 by the publisher of sister magazine Woman's Wear Daily, James Brady. The magazine is an oversize set – ten inches wide and thirteen inches tall. W magazine has nearly half a million, 469,000 subscribers. 80 percent of the magazine's readers are girls and women.
Hägglingen
Hägglingen is a municipality in Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Wayne Fitzgerald
Wayne Fitzgerald (March 19, 1930 – September 30, 2019) was an American main title designer. He designed close to a thousand motion picture and television main and end title sequences for top directors.
TJ Maxx
TJ Maxx is an American department store chain, selling at prices generally lower than other major similar stores. It has more than 1,000 stores in the United States, making it one of the largest clothing retailers in the country.
It sells men's, women's and children's apparel and shoes, toys, bath and beauty, accessories, and home products ranging from furniture to kitchen utensils.
Wayne Fitzgerald
He worked with many directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, John Huston, Mike Nichols, Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Arthur Penn, Michael Cimino, Warren Beatty, Herbert Ross, John Hughes, and Quentin Tarantino.
Fitzgerald designed the titles for Cool Hand Luke, Bonnie and Clyde, Annie, The Bold and the Beautiful, Footloose, Tootsie, The Big Chill, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Groundhog Day, Ghost and Basic Instinct.
Fitzgerald died on September 30, 2019 in Whidbey Island, Washington at the age of 89. The cause was problems caused by the flu.
Cat People
Cat People is a 1942 American horror movie directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jack Holt, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and was followed by the 1944 sequel The Curse of the Cat People and was remade in 1982.
Lassana Diarra
Lassana Diarra (born 10 March 1985) is a French football player. He plays for Real Madrid and France national team.
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