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A Thousand Suns
Writing and recording
Recording for the album began in 2008, shortly after the release of Minutes to Midnight. In November 2008 Chester Bennington stated this "sound[ed] a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea. It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to." In May 2009, a story was published in a Billboard magazine where Shinoda revealed information about the album. "I feel like we've been writing a lot. I'd say we've got about half the music done, though I shouldn't say halfway because who knows how long the next batch of songs will take. But all the material's just kind of coming together, and every week we meet up and assess the situation and for the rest of the week we just go and work on whatever we find exciting." He also explained the experimentation the band would be working with. "It's not going to be Hybrid Theory. It's not going to be Minutes to Midnight. And if we do it right, it'll have a cutting edge sound that defines itself as an individual record separate from anything else that's out there."
Drummer Rob Bourdon referred to himself and the band as "perfectionists" when asked about the new project. "We tend to be perfectionists and its sort of how we work, We like being in the studio and when we get in there we write a ton of material." Bourdon admitted that the album was challenging to complete. "We've been making music for a long time so one of the challenges was to evolve and make something to keep us interested and also have a lot of fun in the process. We've been used to making a certain type of music and using sounds to accomplish that. So to break out of that and push ourselves to grow is definitely challenging."
Defiance (1980 movie)
Defiance is a 1980 action crime drama movie directed by John Flynn and stars Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Art Carney, and Danny Aiello. The movie was unsuccessful upon release. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
A Thousand Suns
Style and composition
In an interview with Rolling Stone in May 2009, Shinoda revealed that the band was in the process of writing and recording material for the album. The album was originally slated for an early 2010 release, but Shinoda was very concerned about "the quality of the tunes" stating that "if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top, top quality by our standards, we will." Shinoda also stated that, comparing to Minutes to Midnight, the new album would have a larger "thread of consistency" and would be more experimental and "hopefully more cutting-edge".
The album's style has been compared to the music of Pink Floyd and contains the high-pitched sonar "ping" from Pink Floyd's "Echoes" at the end of "Robot Boy" and continuing into "Jornada del Muerto".
It has also been stated that the album honours the hip-hop group Public Enemy. On the song "Wretches and Kings", Shinoda stated "There is a homage to Chuck D on there. It's probably the most hip-hop song on the record and one of the most aggressive... Public Enemy were very three-dimensional with their records because although they seemed political, there was a whole lot of other stuff going on in there too. It made me think how three-dimensional I wanted our record to be without imitating them of course, and show where we were at creatively." The first line of the first and second verse ("To save face, how low can you go?" and "So keep face, how slow can you go?") are references to one of Public Enemy's most famous songs "Bring The Noise", which open its first verse with "Bass! How low can you go?" in a melodically similar way. The album also features speech samples by American political figures, including Martin Luther King, Jr., J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mario Savio.
"When it came to doing things that felt very much like older Linkin Park, like mixing hip-hop with a rock chorus, [we] felt like, if we were going to do it, we need to really do it in a way that felt natural and felt original and felt like it was something we hadn't done in the past," said Chester Bennington in an interview with MTV News who referred to Linkin Park's new style as less technical and more organic: "[While] there are hip-hop songs on the album - 'Wretches and Kings', 'When They Come for Me' — they're like nothing the band have tried before: snarling, raw, dark and [...] strangely organic."
Kimbolton Castle
Kimbolton Castle is a country house in Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire.
Haunting
Kimbolton Castle is reported to be haunted by Catherine of Aragon who died there in 1536 after several years of imprisonment.
Bayram Şit
Bayram Şit (1930 – 29 May 2019) was a Turkish featherweight freestyle wrestler and coach. He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1952 and placed fourth in 1956. He also won a silver medal at the 1954 World Championships. He was born in Akşar, Acıpayam.
Şit died on 29 May 2019, at the age of 89.
Papeete
Papeete is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic. The commune is located on the north-west of the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean. As of 2017, there were 26,926 people living there.
Robin Seymour (DJ)
Robin Henry Seymour (March 8, 1926 – April 17, 2020) was an American radio personality and disc jockey. He worked at CKLW and WKMH. He was also the host of the television series Teen Town and Swingin' Time. He was one of the country's longest-serving top ten disc jockeys. Seymour was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Ucayali Region
Ucayali is a region in Peru. The capital is the city of Pucallpa. It is in the Amazon rainforest and is bordered by the Brazilian state of Acre on the east; the department of Madre de Dios on the southeast; Cusco on the south; Junín, Pasco and Huánuco on the west; and Loreto on the north.
The name Ucayali comes from the Ucayali River.
Abba Kyari (politician)
Abba Kyari OON (23 September 1952 – 17 April 2020) was a Nigerian politician. He was Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. He was Chief of Staff from 2015 to 2020. Kyari was born in Borno State, Nigeria.
Sergio Fantoni
Sergio Fantoni (7 August 1930 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He was born in Rome. He was known for his role as Haman in Esther and the King. Fantoni was also known for his television role in The Manageress.
Fantoni died on 17 April 2020 in Rome, aged 89.
South–South cooperation
South-South cooperation is when countries in the Global South (which are often not very rich or developed) work together to share ideas, resources, and technology. This cooperation them grow and become more developed. In the past, the goal of this cooperation was mostly to work together and learn from each other. Now, they also help each other financially.
History
In 1955, the SSC was formed in a conference for Asian and African countries that took place in Bandung, Indonesia. This conference is known as the Bandung Conference and is the foundation of the SSC.
The conference was sponsored by India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, and Indonesia and was attended by these 29 independent countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gold Coast, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, State of Vietnam, and the Kingdom of Yemen. The countries supported the ending of colonialism happening in both Africa and Asia at the time. It was the first major event where countries that had just gained independence united to oppose the domination of Western countries.
Dennis Etchison
Dennis William Etchison (March 30, 1943 – May 28, 2019) was an American writer and editor. He was known for his fantasy and horror novels. He wrote novels based on the Halloween franchise. His best known work was The Museum of Horrors which won him the World Fantasy Award in 2002. He wrote the screenplay for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
Etchison died on May 28, 2019 at the age of 78.
Brubaker
Brubaker is a 1980 prison drama movie directed by Stuart Rosenberg and stars Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, Morgan Freeman, and features Nicolas Cage is an uncredited role. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox with the screenplay by W.D. Richter and based on the 1969 novel Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams.
Susanna Ramel
Susanna Ragnarsdotter Ramel (née Östberg; previously Gillgren) (1 April 1920 – 4 April 2020) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in many movies like Skanör-Falsterbo (1939) and Livet på en pinne (1942). Her daughter is actress Lotta Ramel. She was born in Stockholm. She starred in the 1986 television series Affären Ramel.
Lucien Szpiro
Lucien Szpiro (23 December 1941 – 18 April 2020) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and commutative algebra. He was a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. He helped create Szpiro's conjecture.
Susanna Ramel
Ramel turned 100 on 1 April 2020. She died three days later in Stockholm.
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala is a curry in Indian cuisine that is made up of roasted marinated chicken (chicken tikka) in a curry sauce full of spices. Chicken tikka is made up of boneless pieces of chicken marinated in spices and yogurt, then roasted in an oven. The sauce is usually creamy and orange-coloured. Even though a sauce made of tomato and coriander is commonly used, there is no specific recipe for the sauce that everyone uses.
Lucien Szpiro
In 2014, he was made a member of the Academia Europaea.
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken tikka masala is very popular in the United Kingdom, and it has been called a "true British national dish", as declared by British Minister Robin Cook. It is growing in popularity in the USA and Canada as well. Even though some consider it to have been originated by a Pakistani, the dish is unknown in most Pakistan. It can be found in restaurants in various parts of the world, due to its demand, not authenticity.
Lucien Szpiro
Szpiro died on 18 April 2020 from heart failure in Paris, aged 78.
Chicken tikka masala
The oldest reference to chicken tikka masala is found in 1960s, where a Bangladeshi Chef, Ali Ahmad Aslam, created the dish in his restaurant in Glasgow, on request of a customer who was unhappy with the chicken tikka. Aslam is said to have invented chicken tikka masala by adding spices to a tin of tomato soup. Aslam died in 2022 at the age of 77.
Chef Anita Jaisinghani, a correspondent in the Houston Chronicle, wrote that "the most likely story is that the modern version was created during the early ’70s by an enterprising Indian chef near London" who used Campbell's tomato soup. This is disputed by author Jo Monroe, who claims that this story was invented by the founder of a London restaurant "to entertain journalists".
Rahul Verma, a food critic who writes for The Hindu newspaper, claims: "It's basically a Punjabi dish not more than 40–50 years old and must be an accidental discovery which has had periodical improvisations."
Eagle, Colorado
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Michael Spicer
William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer PC (22 January 1943 – 29 May 2019) was a British Conservative Party peer and member of the House of Lords from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the House of Commons from 1974 to 2010. He was chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010. Spicer was born in was born in Bath, Somerset.
Spicer died on 29 May 2019 of problems caused by Parkinson's disease and leukaemia at the age of 76.
Priti Patel
Priti Sushil Patel (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witham in Essex since 2010. She was International Development Secretary from 2016 to 2017.
In July 2019, Patel became Home Secretary for the Boris Johnson administration.
Patel is a member of the Conservative Party. Her ideas and policies are inspired by Margaret Thatcher.
Gustav Schwarzenegger
Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 – 13 December 1972) was an Austrian police chief, postal inspector and a military police officer. He was the father of Hollywood star and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Gustav Schwarzenegger was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Cecelia (née Hinterleitner, 1878 – 1968) and Karl Schwarzenegger (1872 – 1927). He was a sportsman and loved music.
Schwarzenegger died of a stroke in Weiz, Steiermark, Austria on 13 December 1972 at the age of 65.
Port Hawkesbury
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Kit Malthouse
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He was formerly Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority and the first Statutory Deputy Mayor for Policing, and a former city councillor and Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council, London.
Wim Woudsma
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Woudsma was born in Nijverdal, Overijssel. He played in the Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie. He played for Go Ahead Eagles between 1976 and 1989. He spent his professional career for the club except for his final season in 1989–90 when he played for N.E.C. in the Eredivisie. He played in 430 competitive matches for Go Ahead Eagles, the second most of any player. He later coached amateur football sides and was a youth coach at Go Ahead Eagles.
Woudsma died on 23 May 2019 in Nijverdal after a long illness. He was 61.
Jackie Winters
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Curb Records
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Jackie Winters
Winters died of lung cancer on May 29, 2019. She was 82.
Lady Ice
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Curb Records
Curb's roster includes several country music artists, including Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, and Hank Williams, Jr. In late 2002, Curb Records also acquired a stake in Word Records from then-owners Time Warner. Curb still has a stake in Word even though Time Warner's stake was sold to the newly formed spin-off Warner Music Group in 2004.
2006 GMA Music Award Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant signed with Curb Records. Former American Idol Kimberley Locke is also a member of the Curb roster.
In 2006, Curb launched a sister imprint, Bruc Records, whose name is an acronym for "Blues, Rock, Urban, Country" (the name is also "Curb" spelled backwards). Hank III's third studio release, Straight to Hell, was the first album to be released on the new label.
Curb Records supports charitable programs through the Mike Curb Family Foundation. Some of the supported programs include; the Mike Curb Family Welcome Centre at Second Harvest, Curb Youth Symphony, Curb Young Musicians Competition, Curb Concerto Competition, Curb Family Music Education Centre at the Nashville Symphony, and the Nashville Alliance For Public Education.
Curb Records in the UK
In the UK, Curb artists (apart from those sub-licenced to the majors) are eligible for UK "independent" charts, as the label is called Proper Distribution. In January 2006, Curb scored a top ten hit with Brian Kennedy and Peter Corry's Tribute to George Best, an EP featuring recordings of "You Raise Me Up" amongst others.
Big Trouble in Little China
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Deadly Blessing
Deadly Blessing is a 1981 slasher movie directed by Wes Craven and stars Ernest Borgnine, Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, and Sharon Stone. It was distributed by United Artists.
Cardamom
Cardamom is the name used for two herbs related to ginger. Their seeds are used as a spice. The two species are named Elettaria and Amomum. The seeds grow in a small seedpod. This seedpod is triangular in cross-section and has the shape of a spindle. There is a thin papery outer shell and small black seeds. Elettaria pods are light green in color, Amomum pods are larger and dark brown.
Elettaria is commonly known as cardamom, green cardamom or true cardamom. It grows from India to Malaysia.
Amomum is usually called black cardamom, or white cardamom. It grows in Asia and Australia.
Uses
Both forms of cardamom are used to add flavor to both food and drink, as cooking spices and as a medicine. Elettaria cardamomum (the usual type of cardamom) is used as a spice and in medicine; it is also smoked sometimes; it is used as a food plant by the larva of the moth Endoclita hosei.
Food and drink
Cardamom has a strong taste and an intense smell. Black cardamom has coolness similar to that of mint. It is commonly used in Pakistani cooking. In Scandinavia it is often used for baking.
In the Middle East, green cardamom powder is used as a spice for sweet dishes. Traditionally, it is also added as a flavoring to coffee and tea there. In Arabic, cardamom is called al-Hayl. In Persian, it is called hel. In Hebrew, it is also called hel (הל). In Gujarati (a derivative of Sanskrit), it is "Ē-lī-chē". In some Middle Eastern countries, coffee and cardamom are often ground in a wooden mortar and cooked together in a mihbaz, an oven using wood or gas, to produce mixtures that are as much as forty percent cardamom.
In South Asia, green cardamom is often used in traditional Pakistani sweets and in Masala chai (spiced tea).
Black cardamom is sometimes used in garam masala for curries. It is occasionally used as a garnish in basmati rice and other dishes. It is often referred to as fat cardamom due its size ('Moti Elaichi'). Individual seeds are sometimes chewed, in much the same way as chewing-gum. It has also been known to be used to make gin. Cardamom was used to make the spiced wine, claret, in the Middle Ages.
In traditional medicine
In South Asia, Green cardamom is often used to treat infections of the teeth and gums. It is also used against troubles of the throat, congestion of the lungs and pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of eyelids and also digestive disorders. It has been used to break up kidney and gall stones, and as an antidote against the poison of certain snake bites.
Amomum is used as a spice and as an ingredient in traditional medicine in systems of the traditional Chinese medicine in China, in Ayurveda in India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Among other species, varieties and cultivars, Amomum villosum cultivated in China, Laos and Vietnam is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat stomach-aches, constipation, dysentery, and other digestion problems. "Tsaoko" cardamom Amomum tsao-ko is cultivated in Yunnan, China and northwest Vietnam, both for medicinal purposes and as a spice.
The demand for these herbs has increased since the 1980s. Growing cardamom has become an important source of income for many poor farmers. These people usually live in higher altitudes, sometimes in remote areas, in China, Laos and Vietnam.
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime movie. The director and producer of the movie is Francis Ford Coppola. The movie stars Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. The story is partly based on The Godfather, a 1969 book by Mario Puzo.
Cardamom
In traditional medicine
Until recently, Nepal has been the world's largest producer of large cardamom. Guatemala has become the world's largest producer and exporter of cardamom, with an export total of US$137.2 million for 2007.
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is the second movie in the Godfather trilogy. It is a sequel and also a prequel to The Godfather (1972). It has two plots, one focusing on Vito Corleone, and the other on his son Michael. The next movie, The Godfather Part III, was released in 1990.
The movie has very positive reviews from critics. Like the first movie in the series, The Godfather Part II won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Margit Feldman
Margit Buchhalter Feldman (June 12, 1929 – April 14, 2020) was a Hungarian-American public speaker, educator, activist, and Holocaust survivor. Feldman and her family put in a concentration camp in 1944, where her parents were killed. She survived after lying about her age, in which the Nazis put her in a work camp. She was freed from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945. She was born in Budapest.
Feldman died on April 14, 2020 in Somerset, New Jersey of COVID-19, aged 90.
Dennis G. Peters
Dennis Gail Peters (April 17, 1937 – April 13, 2020) was an American analytical chemist. He worked in electrochemistry and was named the Herman T. Briscoe Professor at Indiana University in 1975. Peters' research focused on the electrochemical behavior of halogenated organic compounds. He authored over 210 publications and 5 analytical chemistry textbooks. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Peters died of COVID-19 on April 13, 2020 in Bloomington, Indiana at the age of 82.
Kabardian language
Kabardian is a Northwest Caucasian language. About 590,000 people speak Kabardian. Kabardian is closely related to Adyghe.
Dominic Raab
Dominic Rennie Raab (born 25 February 1974) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2022 until 2023 in the government of Rishi Sunak. He had the same job in the government of Boris Johnson from 15 September 2021 to 6 September 2022. In July 2019, Raab became the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs during the Boris Johnson administration. He was Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union from July 2018 to November 2018.
Raab has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since being elected in 2010. He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice on 12 May 2015.
Following the 2017 general election, he was appointed Minister of State for Courts and Justice. He was later moved to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
In July 2018, May appointed him Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union following the resignation of David Davis. Raab resigned as Brexit Secretary on 15 November 2018.
On 25 May 2019, Raab announced he was standing in the Conservative Party leadership election after Theresa May announced her resignation. On 18 June, he was eliminated on the second round of the contest.
On 15 September 2021, Raab's cabinet position was reshuffled and he became Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He resigned from the Government in April 2023.
His father was Jewish and fled from Czechoslovakia in 1938.
Northeast Caucasian languages
Northeast Caucasian is a language family. The Northeast Caucasian language family contains many languages, the ones with the most speakers being Chechen, Lezgian and Avar.
Henry Grimes
Grimes performed with most of the music's important names, including pianist Cecil Taylor, trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonists Steve Lacy, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler. He released one album, The Call, as a trio leader for the ESP-Disk record label in 1965.
Grimes died on April 15, 2020 of COVID-19 in New York City, aged 84.
Ulrich Kienzle
Ulrich Kienzle (9 May 1936 – 16 April 2020) was a German journalist and author. He worked mainly in the area of politics and culture of the Middle East. He worked for many broadcasters, including German public television networks ARD and ZDF. He was one of few Western journalists to interview Muammar Gaddafi in the 1970s. He also interviewed Saddam Hussein in 1990. Kienzle also appeared in Frontal, a ZDF series of political discussions with broadcast journalist Bodo Hugo Hauser.
Kienzle was born in Neckargröningen, Remseck, Württemberg. He died on 16 April 2020 in Wiesbaden, Hesse. He was 82.
Year of the Gun (movie)
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Youngblood (1986 movie)
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Giuseppi Logan
Logan played alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, piano and Pakistani oboe. He collaborated with Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and Bill Dixon. Logan was a member of Byard Lancaster's band and toured with and appeared on records by Patty Waters.
Logan died on April 17, 2020 in New York City from COVID-19, aged 84.
Bang the Drum Slowly (movie)
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Zelig
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Virtual Kasparov
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The game can be played alone or against another person. There are games that Garry Kasparov played during his career and interviews that can be viewed in the game.
Deportivo Alavés
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Mahesh Bhatt
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Bad Boys (1983 movie)
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Dollhouse
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The Burning (movie)
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The Rocketeer (movie)
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Dollhouse
Mass-produced dollhouses include those related to the Barbie doll.
One famous dollhouse is Queen Mary's dollhouse. It took four years to build. Another is Colleen Moore's dollhouse. It took seven years to build.
Ubykh language
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Hércules CF
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Dig Dug
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Dig Dug was rated the sixth most popular coin-operated video game of all time by the Killer List of Video Games website.
It has been said that the music for the game show Starcade was taken from the music for Dig Dug.
In the video for the song "We Are All Made of Stars" from electronic musician Moby, a scene is shown where a person of Moby himself, dressed as an astronaut, is in the middle of a Dig Dug game.
In the game you control Dig Dug to defeat all enemies in the maze, either by bursting them or by crushing them with rocks placed in the arena.
Eiffage
Eiffage S.A. is a French civil engineering construction company. In 2010, it was the third largest company of its type in France, It was also the fifth largest in Europe.
History
The company was formed in 1992, after several companies merged. These companies were Fougerolle (founded 1844), Quillery (founded 1863), Beugnet (founded 1871), and La Société Auxiliaire d'Entreprises Électriques et de Travaux Public, better known as SAE (founded in 1924).
Bezhta, Russia
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (movie)
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The Goat Horn
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All the Way Up
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The Zero Boys
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List of towns in Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia had 26 towns at the time of the 2016 Census. In 2016, the towns had a cumulative population of 97,495. Nova Scotia's largest and smallest towns are Truro and Annapolis Royal with populations of 12,261 and 491 respectively.
Flag of Yugoslavia
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CE Sabadell F.C.
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RC Celta de Vigo
R.C. Celta de Vigo is a football club which plays in Spain. It was founded on August 23, 1923 as a result of the merger of Real Fortuna and Vigo Sporting.
Real Murcia
Real Murcia C.F. is a football club which plays in Spain, based in Murcia, in the Región de Murcia.
Granada C.F.
Granada C.F. is a football club which plays in Spain.
Bob Lazier
Lazier was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died on April 18, 2020 from COVID-19 during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, aged 81.
1961–62 Austrian Cup
The 1961-62 Austrian Cup was Austria's nationwide football cup competition. SK Rapid Wien were the defending champions. Eligible to participate were 14 teams from the state league, the first 3 of the three regional leagues and 9 teams (champions or cup winners) of the federal state associations.
Final
Gernot Fraydl - Peter Vargo - Karl Stotz - Johann Löser - Alfred Gager - Horst Paproth - Horst Hirnschrodt - Ernst Ocwirk - Horst Nemec - Ernst Fiala - Walter Schleger coach: Karl Schlechta Erich Welk - Günter Stangl - Erich Frisch - Alfred Kölly - Gerald Erkinger - Anton Maier - Walter Koleznik - Alois Schursch - Johannes Jank - Günter Iberer - Lothar Müller coaches: Oskar Hackl/Ferdinand Fritsch
CD Alcoyano
C.D. Alcoyano is a football club which plays in Spain. Founded in 1928 it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games in Estadio El Collao, with a 4,850-seat capacity.
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibragimbekov (Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov; Рустам Ибрагимбеков; 5 February 1939 – 11 March 2022) was a Soviet-born Azerbaijani movie director, producer and screenwriter. His best known movie was White Sun of the Desert (1969).
Ibragimbekov died after a long illness at his home in Moscow, on 11 March 2022, at the age of 83.
D.C. Cab
D.C. Cab is a 1983 American comedy movie. It was also known as Street Fleet. The movie was directed by Joel Schumacher. It stars Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey, and Marsha Warfield. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Action Jackson (1988 movie)
Action Jackson is a 1988 American action movie directed by Craig R. Baxley and stars Carl Weathers, Vanity, Sharon Stone, Robert Davi, and Craig T. Nelson. It was distributed by Warner Bros..
Flag of Serbia and Montenegro
The flag of Serbia and Montenegro was originally adopted on 27 April 1992 as the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and was used as such from 1992 to 2003. After the country was renamed to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003, it was still used as the national flag until the country's dissolution in June 2006. Aside from a different aspect ratio, it is almost the same flag that used by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943–1992) but without the red star in the center. It was like an inverted Dutch flag.
Matthew P. Kennedy
Matthew P. "Pat" Kennedy (28 January 1908 - 16 June 1957) was an American basketball referee. He was known for his emphatic, theatrical style. Kennedy is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Arthur (season 3)
The third season of Arthur first aired on November 16, 1998 and ended on January 1, 1999.
This is the final season for Michael Caloz to voice D.W. Read because his voiced deepened after this season ended.
Porter County, Indiana
Porter County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 164,343 people lived there. The county seat is Valparaiso.
Cora Faith Walker
Cora Faith Walker (1984/1985 – March 11, 2022) was an American Democratic politician. She was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 74th district from January 2017 to July 2019. On July 29, 2019, Walker resigned from the Missouri House of Representatives and became the policy director for St. Louis County executive Sam Page.
Walker died on March 11, 2022 in Ferguson, Missouri at the age of 37.
Heartburn (movie)
Heartburn is a 1986 romantic comedy drama movie directed by Mike Nichols and stars Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Stockard Channing, Miloš Forman, Jeff Daniels and Kevin Spacey in his cinematic debut. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction comedy from first time director Joel Schumacher. The film is a take off the 1957 film The Incredible Shrinking Man, and is credited to Richard Matheson's 1956 novel The Shrinking Man and stars Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, and Sally Kirkland. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink is a 1986 romantic comedy movie. It was directed by Howard Deutch and written by John Hughes. Actors include: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, and Andrew McCarthy. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Mestiço
Mestiço, in Colonial Brazil, was used to refer to people of mixed Indigenous American or African and European ancestry.
John F. Dunlap
John Francis Dunlap  (September 11, 1922 – March 7, 2022) was an American politician. He was born in San Jose, California. Dunlap was a member of the Democratic Party. Dunlap was a member of the California State Assembly from 1967 until 1974. He was a member of the California State Senate from 1974 until 1978.
Dunlap died on March 7, 2022 in Napa, California at the age of 99.
2018 FIFA World Cup Group A
Group A of the 2018 FIFA World Cup will take place from 14 to 25 June 2018. The group consists of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Uruguay. The top two teams will advance to the round of 16.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American professor of experimental physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his method of accurately measuring the electric charge through the Millikan oil drop experiment and for his work of the photoelectric effect. He was also the researcher on cosmic radiation.
2018 FIFA World Cup Group A
Standings
In the round of 16:
List of villages in Nova Scotia
A village is a type of unincorporated community in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia that has a commission established under the Municipal Government Act for the purpose of providing certain municipal services to a defined area within its larger county or district municipality.
2018 FIFA World Cup Group A
Matches
All times listed are local time.
Egypt vs Uruguay
The two teams have only played each other once, in a friendly game back in 2006 won by Uruguay 2–0.
List of villages in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia has 22 villages. According to available population data, Nova Scotia's largest and smallest villages are Bible Hill and River Hebert with populations of 8,913 and 1,296 respectively.
Armond White
Armond White (born 1954 (age 60)) is an American music and movie critic. He writes for National Review and Out magazine. He was the editor of CityArts from 2011 until 2014 the lead movie critic for the New York Pressfrom 1997 until 2011. He had been the arts editor and critic for The City Sun from 1984 until 1996. Other publications he has written for include Film Comment, Variety, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, Columbia Journalism Review and First Things.
White is known for his provocative and idiosyncratic reviews. He is a controversial person in movie criticism. As an African-American, gay, and conservative movie critic, he has been referred to as a "minority three times over in his profession."
Movie Criticism
White writes a “Better Than List” each year. On the list, he says which unpopular movies from that year are better than the popular movies. White was extremely critical of Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 and said the Transformers movies were better. He also said that The Dark Knight Trilogy was bad but that most of the movies in the DC Extended Universe were good. White has also criticized the Marvel Cinematic Universe. White is often critical of Pixar movies, but he said that Inside Out was a good movie. White has also defended many of Adam Sandler’s movies. White has also been extremely critical of movies he accused of afrocentrism. He used to praise many of Steven Spielberg movies but has become more critical of Spielberg’s work.
Praça dos Três Poderes
Praça dos Três Poderes (literally Three Powers Plaza) is a plaza in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The name comes from the fact that the buildings having the Executive, represented by the Palácio do Planalto (presidential office); the Legislative represented by the Congresso Nacional (National Congress); and the Judiciary, represented by the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Supreme Federal Court) are in this plaza.
Armond White
Works
White wrote a book called Make Spielberg Great Again
Personal life
White is gay and a Christian. According to the New York Times, White "lives by himself in Chelsea with no pets or plants, amid piles of DVDs. Standing 6-foot-3, he cuts an imposing figure. Yet in conversation, he comes across as exacting, quiet and polite, far different from what his writing—and seeming bad behavior—might suggest."
Praça dos Três Poderes
On 8 January 2023, the plaza was invaded by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
White County, Indiana
White County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 24,643 people lived there. The county seat is Monticello.
Léo Morgan
Léo Morgan is a French captain and bandmaster in the Cherifian guard during the French protectorate in Morocco. Morgan composed the Cherifian Anthem, which was adopted as the national anthem of Morocco in 1970.
My Little Pony
My Little Pony is a toy and children's entertainment franchise. The first toys were released in 1981 under Hasbro's Romper Room line of toys.
Toys
The toys were first called "My Pretty Pony," but Hasbro changed the name. The My Pretty Ponies were the colors of real horses and could move their ears. They had manes and tails that the player could comb.
Starting with the G1 series, each toy pony, unicorn or pegasus (winged horse) came in bright colors for example pink and blue, and a "cutie mark," or symbol on its rear end. The symbol usually had something to do with its name and personality. For example, the pegasus pony named Firefly had blue lightning bolts for her cutie mark. Fireflies are also called lightning bugs.
First cartoons
In 1986, Hasbro made a cartoon for television called My Little Pony n' Friends to sell My Little Ponies and other toys. In it, the My Little Ponies live in a place called Dream Valley and go on adventures with a human farmgirl named Megan. They have many different kinds of creatures for friends and enemies. The first half of each episode was a My Little Pony story with a song. The second half of each episode was about other Hasbro characters such as the Potato Head Kids, Moondreamers, or Glow Friends, also with a song.
The first My Little Pony movie was a TV special called Return to Midnight Castle, later renamed Escape from Midnight Castle. The My Little Pony movies and TV specials were later shortened, cut into smaller pieces and put on television as episodes of the show.
Second cartoons
In 1992, Hasbro made a cartoon television show called My Little Pony Tales to sell the G2 My Little Pony toys. In it, the characters live in a place called Ponyland. Neither the G2 toy line nor My Little Pony Tales was as successful as G1 in the United States.
2010 cartoon
In 2010, Lauren Faust released a new My Little Pony cartoon series called My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. In this series, the ponies live in a place called Equestria.
Schenefeld
Schenefeld is the name of two municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany:
Bob Miller (baseball, born 1926)
Robert John Miller (June 16, 1926 – November 27, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1949 to 1958 for the Philadelphia Phillies. He was a member of the 1950 "Whiz Kids", only the second Phillies team to win a National League (NL) pennant. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Miller died on November 27, 2020, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. He was 94.
Magne Landrø
Magne Landrø (24 August 1937 – 10 March 2022) was a Norwegian sport shooter. He was born in Trondheim, Norway. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Landrø died in Lillestrøm, Norway on 10 March 2022 at the age of 84.
Moby
He was a member of a punk band called Vatican Commandos before becoming a DJ.
In 2002, Moby started a cafe called Teany with his ex-girlfriend Kelly Tisdale.
Málaga C.F.
Málaga C.F. are a football club which plays in Spain.
Bullenkuhlen
Bullenkuhlen is a municipality of the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
C.A. Osasuna
C.A. Osasuna is a football club which plays in Spain.
Heroldstatt
Heroldstatt is a municipality of the district of Alb-Donau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 31 December 2018, 2,857 people lived there.
Maghreb Athletic Tétouan
Maghreb Atlético De Tétouan is a football club which plays in Morocco.
Leer
Leer is a town of the district of Leer in the state of Lower Saxony in Germany.
Cherifian Anthem
The "Cherifian Anthem" (النشيد الشريف; ⵉⵣⵍⵉ ⴰⵏⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ) is the national anthem of Morocco. It is made by French military officer Léo Morgan, it has been in use since the French protectorate period. Lyrics were written by Ali Squalli Houssaini and adopted in 1970.
Shelby County, Indiana
Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 44,436 people lived there. The county seat is Shelbyville.
Nyctimantis arapapa
Nyctimantis arapapa is the broad-snout casque-headed tree frog. The frog lives in the rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil.
Elche CF
Elche C.F. is a football club which plays in Spain.
Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI
On 31 December 2022, at 09:34 Central European Time (UTC+1), Pope Benedict XVI died at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City at the age of 95. He had been pope emeritus since his resignation as the leader of the Catholic Church in 2013. Days before his death, Pope Francis asked for prayers when he announced that Benedict was in bad health. His death ended a nine-year period during which a current pope and a retired pope both lived within Vatican City.
Benedict's body lay in state in St. Peter's Basilica from 2 to 4 January 2023. His funeral was held on 5 January.
Pike County, Indiana
Pike County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, 12,845 people lived there. The county seat is Petersburg.
E. Kidd Bogart
E. Kidd Bogart (born January 23, 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is a multi-faceted American music executive and songwriter who has contributed to a long list of internationally successful artists. He is the son of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart and music manager Joyce Bogart-Trabulus, who managed KISS and Donna Summer.