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Pumpkin Studios
Pumpkin Studios was a company that made computer and video games. It was founded in 1996. It was in Bath, England. They made one game: Warzone 2100. It was a real-time strategy game for PC and PlayStation. It used a few new ideas such as machines that use radio waves to find other objects (radar technology) and machines that shoot objects (artillery). The game also used movies to tell the story to the player. These movies are called full motion videos.
European colonization of the Americas
History
On his later voyages Columbus took more men, including missionaries. The ships also carried farm animals and supplies to establish colonies. He established a new settlement on an island that is now the Dominican Republic.
Pumpkin Studios
The company was closed on 13 March 2000.
European colonization of the Americas
History
After they realized that they found a “New World” but not a new route to Asia, the main task of the Spanish was to gain the new lands. The conquistadors had permission from the Queen to explore and conquer the New World.
Spanish conquistadors with only a few hundred soldiers defeated large Indian empires. In 1519 Hernando Cortes and few hundred soldiers marched into Aztec capital and eventually destroyed the city, later rebuilt as Mexico City. Francisco Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca Empire. The Spanish won for several reasons. Indians thought that they were Gods and they were afraid of horses and guns. The Indians also fought each other.
Colonizing Nations
The Spanish and Portuguese people were the first to colonize many parts of South America and Central America in the 16th century. They also won many parts of North America. In the next century, people from many countries of Europe reached the Americas. They settled mostly in North America since the Spanish and Portuguese already had the warm countries. France and England were the most successful in these later colonies. England took the middle of eastern North America, and the French took what they could further north. Eventually, the English colonists took over most of the French territory.
The people in the southern English colonies sought gold at first. However, they had good soil, and because of this they could grow cash crops, starting with tobacco. The English people in colonies further north could not grow these crops so easily. The ones who started New England were Puritans and wanted to be free from the Anglicans back home. The Middle Colonies were more commercial. They traded furs, and grew food for themselves and the other English colonies and later exported some back to England.
The Spanish settled in Central America and South America, mining for gold and silver, and farming tobacco, the Spanish had a surplus of labor, because they used the Natives to do the work for them, this was called Encomienda. In some places this system killed too many of the natives, so they imported slaves from Africa. The Portuguese grew much sugar and other tropical cash crops in Brazil and imported many Africans for this purpose. They were the biggest buyers in the Atlantic slave trade.
France had colonies in the Caribbean, and also in the north of the North American mainland which they called Canada. In the north they were looking for what we call the Northwest Passage, finding a route to Asia. They had a low population, forcing them to cooperate with the natives to survive. The French had major profits in the fur trade until they lost Canada in the French and Indian War. The French Caribbean colonies were warm and good for farming, so they bought many slaves. French Canada had poor farmland, so no slaves.
Guano
Guano is the excrement of bats and birds. This excrement is exceptionally high in nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, three nutrients which are essential for plant growth. Therefore, it is often used as fertilizer, to make plants grow more quickly.
Lublin
Lublin - city in eastern Poland. It's in the Lublin Voivodeship. It has an area of 147.5 km2. About 354,000 people live in Lublin.
Characteristic for Lublin are: high schools (incl. Catholic University of Lublin, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin University of Technology, Medical University of Lublin), Majdanek State Museum] and trolleybuses.
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (5 January 1921 – 23 April 2019) ruled Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000. He was the father of the current ruler, Grand Duke Henri. He was the son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.
Life
Jean was born at Berg Castle, in central Luxembourg. His name at birth was Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano.
He became Grand Duke when his mother, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, abdicated on 12 November 1964.
Grand Duke Jean abdicated on 7 October 2000. He was succeeded on the throne by his son Henri. Grand Duke Jean lived at Fischbach Castle.
Jean died at a hospital in Luxembourg City on 23 April 2019 from a lung infection at the age of 98.
Tom McGrath
Thomas McGrath (born August 7, 1964) is an American voice actor, animator, screenwriter, and movie director.
Second homes
Second homes are generally bought for holiday use by wealthy people whose main home is in a city. The holiday homes are generally in rural and seaside areas. In some places this is seen as a good thing - bringing money into the area. In other places its seen as a problem - pushing up prices so local people cannot buy a home and leaving the area half empty outside the holiday season.
In Sweden and Finland about 20% of houses in the late 1990s were second homes. In Spain it was 16%, Italy and Greece both 14%. in 2018-19 there were 772,000 households in England with second homes. In 2023 foreigners bought nearly 40% of houses for sale  in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza. A referendum on banning building new second homes in Switzerland was passed, with the support of 50.6%. In 2016, 83% of voters in St Ives agreed in a referendum that it should be a requirement for new homes to be occupied as the owner’s main residence.
There has long been resentment of second home owners in Wales, and this is partly because of the effect on prices and partly about protecting the Welsh language. About two hundred holiday homes were burned down in the 1980s and 90s. The Welsh government has altered the planning, property and taxation rules to discourage second homes.
T4 on the Beach
T4 on the Beach is a one-day yearly music event that occurs in Weston-super-Mare in June or July. It began in 2003 as Pop Beach in Great Yarmouth, changing in 2005 to its current name and location. The event is broadcast live on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
Fatah
Fatah is a Palestinian nationalist political party. Fatah is an acronym for Harakat At-Tahriri Al-Filistiniya. That means Palestinian National Liberation Movement in English. It was created by Yasser Arafat in the late 1950s.
In 1968 Fatah joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and in 1969 it got a leadership role. When it was founded, it did not accept the existence of Israel, but now the group officially does.
The political part of the party is not considered a terrorist group by any country, but its military part, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is considered a terrorist group. Fatah says that the Brigades are not a part of the party but Israel says that Fatah supports the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Fatah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
Leaders of the brigades, and other members have said they are a military group that is a part of Fatah. On their website, and on posters they post the Fatah Emblem. Leaders of Fatah have said they did not create the brigades, or make them the military of Fatah. Since 2002 leaders in Fatah have tried to get the brigades to stop attacking Israeli citizens.
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York, USA–September 3, 1970) was an American football coach that never had a losing season. Lombardi was named NFL Man of the Decade in the 1960s, and won five NFL championships, including winning the first two Super Bowls.
Administrator of the Small Business Administration
Background
President Obama announced in January 2012 that he would elevate the SBA into the Cabinet. This is a position that last held during the Clinton administration. The position was established in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
List of administrators
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Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma (born 13 January 1949) is a retired Squadron Leader in the Indian Air Force. He was the first Indian and 138th person to travel in space.
Sharma retired from the Air force as Wing Commander. He spent eight days in Salyut 7 Space station in April 1984. He was given the Hero of Soviet Union by the Soviet Government and the Ashok Chakra by the Indian Government.
Career
Sharma joined as a test pilot in the Indian Air Force in 196
In 1984, he became the first Indian to fly to space, when he flew aboard the Soyuz T-11. It took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2 April 1984. The Soyuz T-11 reached the Salyut 7 space station, with the ship's commander, Yury Malyshev, and flight engineer, Gennadi Strekalov. Sharma spent 7days, 21hours and 40minutes in the Salyut 7. The crew held a television news conference with officials in Moscow and then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. When Gandhi asked Sharma how India looked from outer space, he replied, "Sare Jahan Se Accha" (the best in the world). This is the title of a patriotic poem by Muhammad Iqbal against the British Raj. India became the 14thnation to send a man to outer space.
Bluefield, West Virginia
Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 10,447 at the 2010 census. Bluefield is located at 37.26222°N, -81.21861°W (37.262219, -81.218674) in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia across the state border from Bluefield, Virginia.
Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher. He is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. He writes both fiction and non-fiction books and articles. He is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy (series of four books). The first two books (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Now he edits the science fiction webzine called Flurb.
Early life
Rucker is the great-great-great-grandson of the philosopher Georg Hegel.
Rucker attended St. Xavier High School. Then he completed a B.A. in mathematics from Swarthmore College. Next, he earned Master's and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Rutgers University.
Career
He taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1972 to 1978. He got a grant (money to support scholarship) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, so he went to teach math at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980. He then taught at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1980 to 1982. Next, he tried being as a full-time author for four years. Inspired by an interview with Stephen Wolfram, Rucker became a computer science professor at San José State University in 1986. He retired from SJSU in 2004. He is a mathematician who is also interested in philosophy. He has written books connecting these two areas, for example: The Fourth Dimension; Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension; and Infinity and the Mind. Princeton University Press published new editions of Infinity and the Mind in 1995 and in 2005, both with new prefaces; the first edition is cited with fair frequency in academic literature.
As his "own alternative to cyberpunk," Rucker developed a writing style he calls Transrealism. He gave a brief explanation of Transrealism in his 1983 essay, The Transrealist Manifesto. It is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change. Many of Rucker's novels and short stories apply these ideas. One example of Rucker's Transrealist works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens. Rucker and his publisher marketed the book as non-fiction as a kind of joke.
First Ladies and Gentlemen of Texas
The first lady of Texas or first gentleman of Texas, is the informal title and role held by the hostess of the Texas Governor's Mansion and usually the wife or husband of the Governor of Texas, during the governor's term in office.
Rudy Rucker
Career
Rucker wrote his first Transrealist novel, White Light, while he was at Heidelberg. This Transrealist novel is based on his experiences at SUNY Geneseo.
First Ladies and Gentlemen of Texas
Cecilia Abbott is the current First Lady of Texas, in role since January 2015 as the wife of Governor Greg Abbott.
Rudy Rucker
Career
Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas. For example, White Light examines the concept of infinity. Parts of the Ware Tetralogy (written from 1982 through 2000) are an explanation of using natural selection to develop computer software (a subject also developed in his The Hacker and the Ants, written in 1994). His novels also show a mystical philosophy. Rucker explained this philosophy in an essay called The Central Teachings of Mysticism. There may be some irony in this tiitle (The essay is included in Seek!, 1999).
Raw material
Raw materials are materials that have not been processed. They are in the form in which they are found in nature without any thing done to them. Raw materials are made into other things.
Rudy Rucker
Career
He recently published a book called The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy. This book summarizes the various philosophies he's believed over the years. It ends with the tentative conclusion that people might get some benefit by thinking about the world as made of computations. His final remark in the book is, "perhaps this universe is perfect."
Raw material
Raw materials usually come from:
Rudy Rucker
Non-fiction
List on Rucker's SJSU web page. With links to each book's web page.
Raw material
Examples of raw materials:
Things that are not raw materials because they have been processed
+ coal
Vincent Viola
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956 in New York City) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Viola was the nominee for United States Secretary of the Army after being nominated by Donald Trump in December 2016. He withdrew his name from consideration on February 3, 2017.
He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team.
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist. He established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. This school was extremely influential in the middle of the 20th century, when B.F. Skinner developed it further.
Watson was forced to resign his chair at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, because his affair with a graduate student became a public scandal. After this, Watson worked for many years for J. Walter Thompson, a leading American advertising agency. He is credited with popularizing the "coffee break" during an ad campaign for Maxwell House coffee.
Behaviorism
Watson founded behaviorism in the spring of 1913 with his paper Psychology as the behaviorist views it. In this article, Watson outlined the major features of his new philosophy of psychology, called "behaviorism". The first paragraph of the article concisely described his position:
Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behavior of man, with all of its refinement and complexity, forms only a part of the behaviorist's total scheme of investigation.
In 1913, Watson viewed Ivan Pavlov's conditioned reflex as primarily a physiological mechanism controlling glandular secretions. He had already rejected Edward Thorndike's "Law of Effect" (a precursor to B.F. Skinner's principle of reinforcement) because of what Watson believed were 'unnecessary subjective elements'. The article is also notable for its strong defense of the objective scientific status of applied psychology, which at the time was considered to be much inferior to the established experimental psychology.
With his behaviorism, Watson put the emphasis on external behavior of people and their reactions on given situations, rather than the internal, mental state of those people. In his opinion, the analysis of behaviors and reactions was the only objective method to get insight in the human actions. This outlook was thought to be extreme or radical behaviorism.
Views on child-rearing
Watson wrote the book Psychological care of infant and child in 1928, with help from his mistress, turned wife, Rosalie Rayner. Rosalie later entitled a self-penned article I am a mother of behaviorist sons. In the book, Watson explained that behaviorists were starting to believe psychological care and analysis was required for infants and children.
His slogan was not more babies but better brought up babies. Watson argued for the nurture side of the nature-nurture debate, claiming that the world would benefit from extinguishing pregnancies for twenty years while enough data was gathered to ensure an efficient child-rearing process. Watsons’ description of a happy child was rather detached. It included ideas such as that the child can occupy himself through his problem-solving abilities, should only cry when in physical pain, and that the child stray from asking questions. Behavior analysis of child development as a field may have begun with the writings of Watson.
Watson carried out controversial science experiments known as the "Little Albert experiments"; in these experiments, Watson studied fear in infants.
Biographies of Watson and analysis of his work
Watson's views and life have been the subject of a number of works.
Christopher Knights
Christopher Knights is an English voice actor, film editor, and cinematographer. He is best known for providing the voice of Private the Penguin in Madagascar. He also worked on several DreamWorks movies such as Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and Shrek 4-D.
Pangaea
Pangaea was the global supercontinent which formed in the Palaeozoic era. The process started about 450 million years ago (mya) and was complete by 210 mya. So, apart from some volcanic islands (not proven, but very likely), all the land areas were collected together in one big supercontinent.
Pangaea was the latest of a series of global supercontinents. They formed at various times since plate tectonics began on Earth. Panthalassa was the name of the huge global ocean which surrounded Pangaea.
Formation
The collisions between continental plates formed the greatest mountain ranges in the history of the Phanerozoic eon. The mountain building included the Caledonian orogeny, the Alleghenian orogeny and the Variscan orogeny. The low mountains of Scotland, Scandinavia and eastern North America are the ground-down remains of these vast events.
Break-up
There were three major phases in the break-up of Pangaea. The first signs of rifting came in the Triassic before Pangaea was completely formed.
Pangaea broke up about 180/200 million years ago, in the early middle Jurassic. It broke into supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana before each of these broke into the present continents. One rift resulted in a new ocean, the North Atlantic Ocean.
The third major and final phase of the break-up of Pangaea occurred in the early Cenozoic (Paleocene to Oligocene). Laurasia split when North America (Laurentia) broke free from Eurasia, opening the Norwegian Sea about 60–55 mya. The Atlantic and Indian Oceans continued to expand, closing the Tethys Ocean.
The Unit (TV series)
The Unit is an American television series that aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009.
Pangaea
Break-up
The break-up of Pangaea continues today in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and Arabia.
Halting problem
The Halting problem is a problem in computer science. The problem is looking at a computer program and finding out if the program is going to run forever or not. We say that a program "solves the halting problem" if it can look at any other program and tell if that other program will run forever or not.
For example, a program like this:
while True: continue;
will loop forever, but the program
while False: continue;
stops very quickly.
Is there a program that solves the halting problem? It turns out there is not. We prove this fact by showing that if there is a program that solves the halting problem then something impossible happens. So for the moment we will act like there really is a program that solves the halting problem. Here, P is a function which will evaluate function F (called with argument I) and return true if it runs forever and false otherwise.
P can look at any program and find out if it will run forever or not. We use P to make a new program that we will call Q. What Q does is look at another program and then answer the following question: "If we run this program and make it look at a copy of itself, will it run forever?". We can make Q because we have P. All we need to do is to tell Q to create a new program that is the old program looking at itself, and then use P to find out if the new program runs forever or not.
def Q(F): return P(F, F);
Now we make another program R. R looks at another program and asks Q for its answer on that program. If Q answers "yes, if we run this program and make it look at a copy of itself it will run forever", then R stops. If Q answers "no, if we run this program and make it look at a copy of itself, it will not run forever", then R enters an infinite loop and runs forever.
def R(F): if Q(F): return;               //terminate else: while True: continue; //loop forever
Ditmar Jakobs
Ditmar Jakobs (born 28 August 1953) is a former German football player. He played for West Germany national team.
Halting problem
Now we look at what happens if we make R look at a copy of itself. Two things can happen: it will either stop or run forever. If running R and making it look at a copy of itself does not run forever, then Q answered "yes, if we run this program and make it look at a copy of itself it will run forever". But Q said this when looking at R itself. So what Q actually said is: "yes, if we run R and make it look at a copy of itself it will run forever". So: If R running on a copy of itself does not run forever, then it does run forever. This is impossible.
Ditmar Jakobs
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Halting problem
If running R and making it look at a copy of itself runs forever, then Q answered "no, if we run this program and make it look at a copy of itself it will not run forever". But Q said this when looking at R itself. So what Q actually said is: "no, if we run R and make it look at a copy of itself it will not run forever". So: If R running on a copy of itself runs forever, then it does not run forever. This is also impossible.
No matter what happens, we get an impossible situation. We did something wrong, and we need to find out what it was. Most of the things we did were not wrong. We can not say "making a program look at a copy of itself is wrong", or "looking at what another program said and then going into a loop if it said one thing, and stopping if it said another thing" is wrong. It does not make sense to say that we are not allowed to do those things. The only thing that we did that looks like it could be wrong is that we pretended that a program like P exists in the first place. And since this is the only thing that could be wrong, and something must be wrong, this is it. This is the proof that a program like P does not exist. There is no program that solves the halting problem.
This proof was found by Alan Turing in 1936.
References
This is the paper where Turing defines Turing machines, formulates the halting problem, and shows that it (as well as the Entscheidungsproblem) is unsolvable.
Dangerous Game (movie)
Dangerous Game is a 1993 erotic movie. Harvey Keitel plays Eddie Israel. Madonna plays Sarah Jennings. The movie is about a movie director based in New York City. The director has Sarah Jennings acting in a Hollywood marital-crisis drama movie.
This movie was released on November 19, 1993 in the United States. It got mixed reviews by movie critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a score of 29% based on 14 critic's reviews. It was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It contains violence, profanity, sexual situations and nudity.
Tauriers
Tauriers  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Tucumcari is a city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It was founded in 1901 and is the county seat of Quay County.
Marbach, Lucerne
Marbach was a municipality of the district of Entlebuch in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is a British philosopher. He went to Clifton College. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
Gibson
Gibson may refer to:
List of settlements in Estonia
The following is a list of cities and towns in Estonia. Many of these locations have been known, mostly before 1918, by their German or Russian names. Sometimes these are quite different from the Estonian ones.
* the town is not its own municipality, but has instead united with a parish.
Ayarzaguena's tree frog
The white-lipped tree frog or Ayarzaguena's tree frog (Tepuihyla edelcae) is a frog. It lives in Venezuela. Scientists have seen it between 1700 and 2100 meters above sea level. It lives in the Auyántepui and the Los Testigos Range of mountains.
The Twilight Zone (2002 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is the revivals of Rod Serling's original 1959–64 television series. It aired the final episode on May 21, 2003.
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a genre of computer and video games. In real-time strategy games, every player has an army to attack the other player(s). Every player has a military base and people or vehicles (these are called units). The player also has money to create new units or to build new buildings. These buildings can allow the player to do things, such as creating units or to use new technology.
Aubonne
On 5 December 2017, Michael I of Romania died in his home in Aubonne.
Real-time strategy
The player that destroys the base and the units of the other player(s) wins.
In real-time strategy games, everything the player does, happens right away: there's no time between doing something (like telling a unit to move) and seeing it happen. This is different in turn-based strategy where the players take turns to do things.
God game vs. Simulation
Most RTSs are God game, that is, the player does not control a single member or unit while playing, but controls all aspects of the game: direct the units, their tactics, improvements and attacks, and direct the planning and Construction of the base, its improvements and the quantity of resources and production. A great example is Starcraft.
While in simulation, the player controls a member of the faction, being a collector, soldier, spy, producer, diplomat or leader of the faction itself. Example is the Ark: Survival Evolved in its "Hunger Games" mode.
Thueyts
Thueyts  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Uwe Rahn
Uwe Rahn (born May 21, 1962) is a former German football player. He has played for the German national team.
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The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars
The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars was a nationwide concert tour of gymnasts from the United States.
Bloodshy & Avant
Bloodshy & Avant are a music producing and songwriting duo. They are from Sweden. It is made up of Christian Karlsson (Bloodshy) and Pontus Winnberg (Avant).
The duo worked with a number of high-profile artists. That includes Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Ms. Dynamite, Christina Milian, Kelis and Jennifer Lopez.
Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove is a suburb of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. 15,265 people live there.
...Baby One More Time (album)
...Baby One More Time is a studio album. It is the first one by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999. It is on Jive Records.
Reviews
Critics gave the album mixed reviews. They described the singer as a Madonna next door, considering it silly. The album was successful on the charts. It reached the top five in several countries, while reaching number one in Canada and the United States. It also received several certifications around the world. That included a fourteen-times platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of over 14 million units in the country. ...Baby One More Time is Spears' most successful album. It sells over 30 million copies worldwide. This made it one of the best-selling albums of all time and the best-selling album by a teenage solo artist.
Five singles came from the album. "...Baby One More Time" became a worldwide success. It also became one of the best-selling singles of all time, at over ten million copies. The album was promoted with appearances on live television, and also by the ...Baby One More Time Tour in 1999, including a second leg titled Crazy 2K Tour in 2000. Spears claimed she was unable to explore her vocal ability on the album. This album set Spears' international pop culture icon image. It also launched her career.
Nominations
The album earned Spears Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "...Baby One More Time."
Fahri Korutürk
Fahri Sabit Korutürk (3 August 1903 – 12 October 1987) was a Turkish navy officer and politician. He was the sixth President of Turkey, from 1973 to 1980.
In 1968, President Cevdet Sunay appointed him member of the senate. On 6 April 1973, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected him the 6th President of the Republic of Turkey.
FC Astra Giurgiu
Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (Usually called Astra Giurgiu or just Astra) is a professional association football club from Giurgiu, Romania. They currently play in the Liga I.
The club was formed in 1921 in Ploiești (a city about 116 km north of Giurgiu), as Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română. The club spent most of its history in the lower divisions. In 1990, the club was taken over by businessman Ioan Niculae and has since improved. In September 2012, the team was moved from Ploiești to Giurgiu.
The team won their first Liga I title in 2015–16. They also won 1 Cupa României and 1 Supercupa României.
The colours of the club are white and black, which is why their nickname Dracii Negri (The Black Devils).
The club has also had many names. These include: Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română (1921–1934), Astra Română Câmpina (1934–1937), Astra Română Ploiești (1937–1938), Colombia Ploiești (1938–1945), Astra Română Ploiești (1945–1959), Rafinorul Ploiești (1959–1990), CS Astra Ploiești (1990–1996), AS Danubiana Ploiești (1996–1998), SC FC Astra Ploiești (1998–2005), CSM Ploiești (2005–2007), FC Ploiești (2007–2009) and FC Astra Ploiești (2009–2012).
Hessischer Rundfunk
The Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) is a German television and radio broadcasting company based in Frankfurt am Main in the State of Hesse.
HR is a member of the group of German public-broadcasting institutions that makes up ARD.
The HR produces the regional television service HR Fernsehen  (which used to be called HR Fernsehen ) and six regional radio channels.
Eurovision Song Contest 1959
The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The contest was held on Wednesday 11 March 1959 and was hosted in Cannes, France by Jacqueline Joubert. All countries from the previous contest returned, except for Luxembourg. The United Kingdom returned to the contest and Monaco entered for the first time.
Innu
The Innu (or Montagnais) are an Indigenous people group who live in Quebec and Newfoundland.
They lived as hunter-gatherers. Then the Canadian government moved them away from their homeland and forced them to practice Western lifestyles.
Lands
The Innu call the territory they live in Nitassinan ("Our Land").
History
The Canadian government forced the Innu to live in permanent communities instead of letting them practice their nomadic lifestyle. They also forced them to go to schools run by churches. In those schools, the Innu were not allowed to practice their religion or speak their language. Because of all the wrong things done to the Innu, they have a lot of social problems. On one hand, they lost a lot of knowledge about their traditional ways. On the other hand, the schools did not prepare them well enough to live in Western society and they still faced racism because they were Indigenous.
Balkh
Balkh is a city in Balkh Province of Afghanistan. It was a big city hundreds of years ago, but it was ruined by Mongols. It was not ruined forever, though. In 1850 it was captured by Dost Mohammad Khan.
Sire Records
It is also distributed by Warner Bros. Records.
History
The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer. Each invested ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a record label were issued in 1968. This was distributed by London Records. From the beginning, Sire introduced underground, progressive British bands to the American market.
Gram-Schmidt process
The Gram-Schmidt process is a way of converting one set of vectors that forms a basis into another, more friendly one.
Suppose we have a set of vectors that form a basis for R^{n}, and that we wish to convert these into a friendly basis. We begin by finding out which component of a vector is being unfriendly to a second vector, which we may do with inner products. If we have two vectors u,v, then we may find the component of u being unfriendly to v with. By subtracting this from v, we get the component friendly to u. By returning to our abstract set, we may make use of this observation to construct a general algorithm to convert an arbitrary basis into a friendly basis. Like from our original set, each time we use the process on a new vector, it is guaranteed to be mutually friendly with all the previous vectors.
w_{1} = v_{1}
et cetera, with the general term:
Should we wish to make this a friendly and cute basis, we can simply make each new element of the basis cute, by replacing both v_{n} with.
Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul is an electric guitar that has been made by Gibson since 1952. It is one of the most popular electric guitars of all time.
Triple point
The triple point of any substance is the combination of temperature and pressure at which it exists in its solid, liquid, and gaseous state all at once, in equilibrium.
The temperature of the triple point of water is a commonly used physical constant which is used to define temperature scales and calibrate temperature-measuring systems.
By definition, the temperature of the triple point of water is 273.16 Kelvin, 0.01°C, or 32.018°F at a pressure of 611.5 Pa (less than 1% of atmospheric pressure). One degree Celsius is defined as 1/273.16th part of the triple point of water. This fixes the temperature scale as defined in the ITS 90, which is the international temperature scale of 1990. This scale is developed as a practical approximation of the thermodynamical temperature scale.
List of Latin phrases
This page lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as Greek rhetoric and literature were highly regarded in ancient Rome when Latin rhetoric and literature were still maturing.
Be aware that the Latin letter i can be used as either a vowel or a consonant. When used as a consonant, it is often replaced by the letter j, which was originally simply an orthographic "long i" that was used in initial positions and when it occurred between two other vowels. This medieval convention is most commonly preserved in Latin legal terminology–hence phrases like de iure are often spelled de jure. On this list, the more common form will be the one a phrase is listed under: thus, de jure is used instead of de iure, and alea iacta est instead of alea jacta est.
The list is also divided alphabetically into 20 other pages:
Zbyněk Michálek
Zbyněk Michálek (born 23 December 1982, in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech NHL ice hockey defenceman that currently plays for the Arizona Coyotes.
He was undrafted but started his career in the NHL with the Minnesota Wild. He played for the Wild for a season and mainly stayed with their farm team, Houston Aeros whom he won the Calder Cup with in 2003. He was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes for Erik Westrum and Dustin Wood in 2005. He played 5 seasons with the Coyotes and lead the league in blocked shots during the 2008–09 NHL season. He signed a 5-year, $20 million contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1, 2010. He played 2 seasons with them and was traded back to the Coyotes during Draft Day 2012 for Harrison Ruopp, Marc Cheverie and a 2012 third-round draft pick (81st overall).
His younger brother Milan plays in the NHL for the Ottawa Senators.
Musette
Musette is the French word for small bellows played bagpipes. Some composers liked to use a drone (especially one in fifths) to make it sound like bagpipes or other folk instruments. Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin and other Baroque composers often called such pieces "Musette". Sometimes they did this in orchestral music: Joseph Haydn used a drone in the last part of his Symphony No. 104 to accompany a folk tune.
List of settlements in Ethiopia
This is a list of cities and towns in Ethiopia:
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Lake Buena Vista is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Education
Lake Buena Vista is within Orange County Public Schools.
Sulaymaniyah Governorate
As Sulaymaniyah (السليمانية, Parêzgay Silêmanî) is a province in the east of Iraq. The capital is Sulaymaniyah. The area is 17023 km2. Almost 1,800,000 people live there.
Usclades-et-Rieutord
Usclades-et-Rieutord is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Eileen Anderson
Eileen Anderson (October 18, 1928 – November 3, 2021) was an American politician. She was Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii from 1981 to 1985. She was the first woman to hold the office.
Marcia Griffiths
Marcia Griffiths (born November 23, 1949) is a Jamaican singer. She had "Electric Boogie" (also called the "Electric Slide") in the late 1980s as a hit single. Griffiths began her singing career in 1964. She usually performs reggae music. She was in a duet named Bob and Marcia.
2014 North American polar vortex
The 2014 North American polar vortex was a weather system that caused extremely cold weather through Canada and the United States. Freezing temperatures went all the way down to Nashville, Tennessee. Several cities broke records: Chicago O'Hare International Airport set a record on 6 January with a temperature of -15 F, beating the -14 F record in 1884 and 1988. There were also power failures throughout Canada and United States. One in Newfoundland on 5 January took out the power of 190,000 customers. Almost 24,000 people lost electricity across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Marcia Griffiths
Griffiths was born in Kingston.
2014 North American polar vortex
In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton ordered all schools closed down due to weather. Across Indiana, over fifty of the state's ninety-two counties ordered roads closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, mostly north of Indianapolis.
Several people were killed because of the extreme weather all across North America.
Hockey stick
A hockey stick is a long, wooden pole used to push, pass, or shoot in the sports of ice hockey and field hockey. The art of developing ice hockey sticks is a complex science and has become big business. Ice hockey sticks are mostly made of composite materials and they have different "flexes", meaning some sticks are more flexible than others. In ice hockey, the end or blade of the stick is normally curved, to help the player get better control of the puck and better shots at the goaltender. The goaltender has a bigger blade, to make it easier to stop shots. Players sometimes use hockey sticks to hold back the bodies of other players, or to trip or hit them; sometimes players who do this get penalties. In field hockey, sticks are shorter, but the blade is thicker, than in ice hockey. It is used to move a ball instead of a puck. More research has gone into studying how hockey sticks perform. The main difference between the two sticks is how they are used in the games.
All the players in both ice and field hockey use hockey sticks.
Kangar
Kangar is the capital of the Malaysian state of Perlis.
Uzer, Ardèche
Uzer is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Boudry (disambiguation)
Boudry can mean:
Klaus Allofs
Klaus Allofs (born 5 December, 1956) is a former German football player. He has played for West Germany national team.
List of Bangladesh Twenty20 International cricketers
This list includes all players from Bangladesh who have played at Twenty20 International matches for Bangladesh.
Klaus Allofs
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Ruthka Lieblich
Ruthka Lieblich (English: Ruth Lieblich; 1926 – c. 1943), was a teenager from Andrychow who perished in the Auschwitz camp around 1943. She is known for her diary, in which she documented her life in a ghetto. Ruthka kept her diary from August 13, 1940, until December 28, 1942.
Erbil Governorate
Arbil (أربيل, هه‌ولێر Hewlêr; also written Erbil or Irbil) is a province in the north of Iraq. The area is 14428 km2. According to Arbil governorate in 2009 Arbil population was 1,720,000.
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6 is the sixth season of America's Next Top Model. This cycle includes 13 contestants. The winner was 18-year-old Danielle Evans.
Ruthka Lieblich
Ruthka Lieblich's diary was published in Hebrew and English as "Ruthka: A Diary of War" in 1993. It was translated from Polish. The diary was translated and edited by Jehoshua and Anna Eibeshitz.
Come Home to Mama
Come Home to Mama is the third album by Martha Wainwright. It was released on October 15, 2012.
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
Contestants
(In order or elimination)
Cheiron Studios
Cheiron Studios was a recording studio. It was located at Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1992 by Denniz PoP and Tom Talomaa. During 8 years in the business they reinvented the sound of late-'90s pop and teen-pop. They also introduced the modern Swedish role as producer.
History
Cheiron was the new name of SweMix Records & Publishing. That was after the centaur Chiron ("Hand") of the Greek Mythology. The company was divided, apart from being a recording studio, into the label Cheiron Records, in affiliation with BMG, and the music publishing service Cheiron Songs. The Cheiron Productions worked as the now legendary music production company signed by various labels to write and produce materials for other artists.
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
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Cheiron Studios
Artists
Famous artists like 5ive, Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, Boyzone, Britney Spears, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Dede, Dr. Alban, E-Type, Gary Barlow, Jessica Folcker, Leila K, LFO, M2M, Meja, Michael Learns to Rock, 'N Sync, Rednex, Robyn, Solid Harmonie, Tina Turner and Westlife has recorded hits at the studio or had their songs written, composed and produced by the stab at Cheiron.
Boudry
Boudry is a city in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district of Boudry.
Cheiron Studios
Success
Cheiron became a term within music. It was also regarded as one of the most successful music recording studios in the world. "Cheiron" became significant with immediate success. Thanks to the many chart hits they made people called it "the hit factory". Following the untimely death of its founder and head Denniz PoP in 1998, they decided to carry on with their own.
Today
Currently Cheiron is legendary for what they did to modern pop music as what the Abbey Road Studios did to music in general.
"Cheiron is now defunct and closed down its doors in 2000. That was only to be renamed as "The Location".
Strange Days (movie)
Strange Days is a cyberpunk thriller movie. It was released on October 13, 1995. The story is about celebrations for the new millennium in Los Angeles, in December 1999. The area is a dangerous war zone. The movie is also about coverups, murders and deception. Ralph Fiennes plays Lenny, Angela Bassett plays Mace and Juliette Lewis plays Faith. Its run time was 145 minutes.
The reviews of the movie were positive. The movie, however, did not make much money at the box office.
Sungei Kadut MRT station
Sungei Kadut MRT station (NS6/DT) is a future Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the North South MRT line and Downtown MRT line, in Sungei Kadut, Singapore.
History
This station was first proposed in 1990 as part of the North South Line Woodlands Extension. However, it was not built as there was not enough demand.
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
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I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too is the second album by Martha Wainwright. It was first released in Australia on May 10, 2008.
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
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