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Armageddon (movie)
Armageddon is a 1998 disaster movie directed by Michael Bay and starring Bruce Willis. Released on July 1, 1998, the film received mixed reviews but was a box office success.
Memorial for the Jewish Soldiers in the Soviet army in World War II
The memorial for the Jewish Soldiers in the Soviet Army in World War II is a memorial dedicated to the Jews in the Red Army who died in World War II. The memorial is in the National Military and Police Cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. It is next to the memorial to those who served in the Polish army. The memorial was started by the Organization of Veterans of the Red Army in World War II. It was built in 1989 with a design of the architect Yizhak Rachelin and the Engineer "Ze'ev Kariv". The memorial is a wall with pink stones and red stones. It has the number "20,000" for the fallen Jews of the Russian army. There is a Hebrew Bible verse inscribed from Judges 3:2: The Lord "did this to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites." In front of the memorial there are stairs going to ceremonial plaza between two boards with the sign of the years "1941" and "1945".
Canadian food
Canadian food is the cuisine of Canada.
Guo Shoujing
Guo Shoujing (, 1231–1316), or Ruosi (若思), was a Chinese astronomer, engineer, and mathematician. He lived during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). He is considered one of the greatest scientists in Chinese history. Guo was a major influence in the development of science.
He improved the Grand Canal, built a human-made lake (Kunming lake), created one of the most accurate calendars in history, invented some of the most accurate clocks during his time, and made many other contributions to math, astronomy, and hydraulics (water engineering).
As a kid
He was born in 1231 in Xingtai, Hebei province. His family was poor. He grandfather, Guo Yong, was famous for his study of the Five Classics to astronomy, mathematics, and hydraulics. Guo Shoujing was a child prodigy. As a teenager, he learned how to build a water clock. He then improved it. His new invention was called the lotus clepsydra (a bowl shaped like a lotus flower that water dripped into). At 16 he began to study math and from there hydraulics and astronomy.
Hydraulics
At 20, Guo became a hydraulic engineer and government official. He helped fix a bridge over the Dahuoquan River.
Improving the Grand Canal
In the late 1250s, Kublai Khan (of the Mongol Empire, Yuan dynasty) thought hydraulic engineering, irrigation, and water transport would help the country and people. He sent Liu Bingzhong and his student Guo to improve irrigation systems between Dadu (now Beijing) and the Yellow River.
Guo helped build a 30 km canal from Baifu spring in the Shenshan Mountain to Dadu,
The Grand Canal linked the Yangzi river, the Huai, and Yellow river since the early 7th century. Guo helped extend it to Dadu 1292–93.
It worked. Kublai Khan was happy, and Guo did similar things for the rest of the empire. He was promoted to chief advisor of hydraulics, mathematics, and astronomy.
Human-made Kunming lake
He created a human-made Kunming Lake in Beijing. This was one of his most memorable engineering feats.
The lake provided water for all areas surrounding Beijing and led to the best grain transport system in the world.
He built other reservoirs, thereby allowing people in inner China to access to fresh water for planting, drinking, and trading.
For irrigation, he provided hydraulics systems which distributed water equally and quickly, which allowed communities to trade more effectively, and therefore prosper.
In 1292, he became the head of the Water Works Bureau.
Inventions: clocks
Guo invented many astronomy devices: the gnomon, the square table, the armilla, and a water powered armillary sphere called the Ling Long Yi.
Astronomy: calendar
Even when young Guo was revolutionizing old inventions. His clocks, watches, irrigation, reservoirs, and equilibrium stations were the most accurate of his time, allowing for an extremely accurate recording of time.
Kublai Khan noticed Guo was a genius in astronomy. So he asked Guo, Zhang, and Wang Xun to build a very accurate calendar. It would be the most accurate of its time. They built 27 observatories in the empire to collect data for calculations.
In 1280, Guo finished the calendar, calculating a year to be 365.2425 days, just 26 seconds off modern measurements. He invented many tools in the process.
Guo was also able to more accurately establish the location of celestial bodies and the angles of the Sun relative to Earth. He invented a new type of compass, helping people find north using the stars instead of magnets.
In 1283, Guo was promoted to director of the Observatory in Beijing.
Math
Guo’s work in mathematics was regarded as the most knowledgeable for 400 years. Throughout his life he worked a lot on spherical trigonometry, using a system of approximation to find arc lengths and angles. He approximated pi was equal to 3. But this allowed him to solve some equations much faster and more accurately than if he said pi was 3.14....
Bank of America Corporate Center
The Bank Of America Corporate Center is an 871 ft (265 m) high skyscraper found in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the 31st tallest building in the United States, and was completed in 1992. It was also the tallest building in Charlotte and in North Carolina; the building is 60 stories high. It is the 174th-tallest building in the world. It was designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and HKS Architects. It is best known as the world headquarters for Bank of America.
Guo Shoujing
Math
He also used mathematical functions for spherical trigonometry, building upon the knowledge of Shen Kuo's (1031–1095).
Urawa Station
Urawa Station (浦和駅,うらわえき) is a railway station of JR East in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Bank of America Corporate Center
It is among the tallest buildings on the East Coast behind buildings in New York City, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
Guo Shoujing
Influence
Tang Shunzhi 唐順之 (1507-1560) said Guo's work was an example of "practical scholarship" (applying advanced knowledge to solve practical problems).
Bank of America Corporate Center
Sometimes locally referred to as the Taj McColl after former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl, who was responsible for the tower's construction, on a clear day the tower is visible to the naked eye from 35 miles (56 km) away.
Post-rock
Post-rock is a type of experimental rock music. It focuses more on making different tones and musical textures than other rock music does. Many post-rock musicians are instrumental. The genre came from indie music communities in the 1980s and 1990s. A lot of post-rock music is inspired by ambient, jazz, and electronic music.
Guo Shoujing
Influence
Guo influenced the Changzhou School of Thought and spread of "evidential learning" (learning through experience).
Post-rock
The bands Talk Talk and Slint made some of the first post-rock songs. The word "post-rock" came from a review of an album by Bark Psychosis in 1994. The word has been used to describe many bands with different styles. Many musicians do not like this, because it makes it harder to define what post-rock is.
Guo Shoujing
Influence
A number of things are named after Guo, including the Asteroid 2012 Guo Shou-Jing and the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope near Beijing.
Post-rock
Sound
Post-rock is inspired by many genres of music, such as krautrock, jazz, math rock, and avant-garde music. Many post-rock songs are long, and slowly build up the dynamics and timbre of the music. Many post-rock songs do not have any vocals in them, but some do.
Vocals in post-rock are often used to create sounds instead of sing lyrics. Sigur Rós, a post-rock band known for their vocals, made up their own language for their music. They use the language to make sounds that are "gibberish" but fit "the music".
Hector A. Cafferata Jr.
Hector Albert Cafferata, Jr. (November 4, 1929 – April 12, 2016) was a retired United States Marine. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroic service at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War.
Life and career
He had been a private during the War. In November 1950, he fought off a regiment of enemy forces by himself. He did this by throwing a live grenade. He badly injured himself by doing this. However, he saved the injured Marines in his unit. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House by President Harry S. Truman on November 24, 1952.
Cafferata was born in New York City. He died on April 12, 2016 in Venice, Florida, aged 86.
Morant Bay rebellion
Slavery ended in Jamaica on August 1, 1834, with the passing of the British Emancipation Act, which led to emancipation on 1 August 1838 – the date on which former slaves became free to choose their employment and employer.
Simon Doull
Simon Blair Doull (born 6 August 1969 in Pukekohe, Auckland) is a New Zealand radio personality, commentator and former international cricketer.
He was a right arm medium pace swing bowler. He played in 32 Test matches and 42 one-day internationals for the New Zealand national cricket team. Doull took his career best bowling figures of seven for 65 in the Boxing Day Test in 1998 against India at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. Due to that performance, he reached a career-high ranking of 6 in the ICC Player Rankings on December 26, 1998.
Christopher Robin Milne
Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was the son of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the inspiration of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.
Milne gave the original stuffed animals that inspired the Pooh characters to the books' editor, who in turn donated them to the New York Public Library. He hated the idea of Winnie-the-Pooh being commercialized.
Brian Sedgemore
Brian Charles John Sedgemore (17 March 1937 – 5 May 2015) was a Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1974 until 1979, and from 1983 until 2005. He defected to the Liberal Democrats shortly before he stood down at the 2005 general election.
Grus (constellation)
Grus is a constellation in the southern sky.
Colatina
Colatina is an Brazilian city in the state of Espírito Santo. In 2020, 123,400 people lived there and its area is 1,398 km². It is on the Doce River and is 127 km north of Vitória, the state's capital.
Anatoliy Pokrovskiy
Anatoliy Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (Анатолий Владимирович Покровский; born January 12, 1987) is a Russian mixed martial artist and coach. Master of Sports of Russia in combat sambo. Participated in tournaments of such fighting promotions as League S-70, ProFC, ACB, Fight Nights Global. (record: 12-8-1).
Biography
Was born on January 12, 1987 in Krasnodar.
Started martial arts at the age of 16. In 2004 he graduated from secondary school No. 76, the city of Krasnodar and entered the VA Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great in Moscow (Russian: ВА РВСН им. Петра Великого).
In 2009, Anatoly was awarded the title of "Master of Sports" in combat sambo. Throughout his sports career, he managed to perform in such promotions as League S-70, ProFC, ACB, Fight Nights Global. Married.
Markaryd Municipality
Markaryd Municipality (Markaryds kommun) is a municipality in Kronoberg County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Markaryd.
Tri-Cities, Tennessee
The Tri-Cities is the area with the cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol. It also includes the smaller towns and communities around it in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. All three cities are located in Northeast Tennessee, while Bristol has a twin city of the same name in Virginia. It is the 6th biggest Combined Statistical Area (CSA) in Tennessee by the number of people living in it.
Lordship of Ireland
The Lordship of Ireland was mainly made as a colony of the Kingdom of England mainly put on maps as England with them lording a lot of land to the English like how they lost Dublin (their capital) to England which was bad for the Irish throne that later changed in the long run when England (under Henry) made it that Ireland would become its own kingdom but like the lord ship the monarch would remain the one in charge of England (and later Scotland).
Viveiro
Viveiro (sometimes called Vivero) is a town and municipality. It is in the province of Lugo. Lugo is in the northwestern part of Galicia, Spain. As of 2010, over 16,000 people live in Viveiro.
Saint James' day
Viveiro celebrates the St. James' Day Battle on July 25 at the Port of Celeiro. It has marines moving through the estuary of Viveiro in a well organised and orderly way, similar to a march.
Amorots-Succos
Amorots-Succos is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Plaster
Plaster is a material similar to mortar and cement. Plaster of Paris is one kind, made from gypsum by heating it. It is used to make copies of footprints, fossils, skeletons, and to set fractured bones. Other kinds of plaster are used for buildings and other purposes. Decorative plaster is more usually called stucco.
Working Women's Forum
The Working Women's Forum (WWF) is a women's organisation in southern India. Jaya Arunachalam founted it in Madras (Chennai) in 1987. It helps poor women in southern India. It makes small loans, a trade union, health care, education and training. It works with the poor women whose jobs are informal, for example street vendors, silkworm growers and silk weavers, handicraft producers, washerwomen and fisherwomen.
WWF has helped more than 7,000,000 women by giving them loans and other things.
Women join the WWF because they can get loans and because the interest rates are not too high.
There are two important organisations related to the WWF :–
These are the four ideas that WWF uses:
Pro Women: To work only for women of the informal work sector who feed their families.
Minaret
A minaret is a tower. Many mosques have minarets. Muezzins to call Muslims to prayers from minarets five times a day.
Working Women's Forum
Anti-Dowry: The WWF wants to stop the customs around wedding dowries. It wants to do this through collective efforts against dowries.
Anti-Caste and Pro-Secularism: The WWF says it will help women no matter which social rank they have in India's caste system or which religion they have. The WWF says people from different castes should be allowed to marry each other.
History
WWF was started with 30 women who formed themselves into a group with the help of Jaya Arunchalam. She was then a social/political worker in Madras. The group of women approached a bank for a loan and received a sum of ₹300 for each member. Each day they collected amount from themselves for repayment. The repayment reached 95% of the sum.
By April 1978, about 800 women were involved into this activity. They formed into 40 groups and began receiving loans. This led to the emergence of Working Women's Forum.
Since then the WWF has received massive recognition. Former US state secretary Hillary Clinton made a visit to the WWF in July 2011.
Objectives
WWF has few socioeconomic and political objectives such as:
Publications
'Dynamic Agents of population control and change process: An Indian Experiment' - 1992
'Indian Co-operative Network for Women - An Innovative Approach to Micro - Credit' - 1995
'National Union of Working Women - Breaking the Legacy of Invisibility' - 1995
'Social platform through social innovations - A coalition with women in the informal sector - WWF(I)' - 2000.
"Structuring a movement and spreading it on" History and growth of the Working Women's Forum (India) 1978-2003 Jaya Arunachalam / Brunhild Landwehr (eds.) IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation Frankfurt am Main. London, 2003 ISBN 3-88939-658-5
Women's Equality - A Struggle for Survival by Jaya Arunachalam Articles, Paper, Speeches of Jaya Arunachalam presented at various conferences GYAN BOOKS P. LTD 5 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110 002 Phone 23282060,
Mr. Bill Clinton on the Forum in his Latest Book “GIVING” published in 2007 - Former President of USA Mr. Bill Clinton reference in his book “GIVING” published in September 2007 aptly testifies the services of the Founder, President WWF ‘Jaya Arunachalam’ who has empowered 800,000 women over the last 29 years through microcredit, political involvement, access to education and healthcare for their children.
Jimaní
The Dominican city of Jimaní is the head municipality of the Independencia province, on the southwestern part of the country. The city is near the border with Haiti, on the main road that goes from the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti.
History
For most of its history, Jimaní was part of Neiba but in 1938 it was made part of La Descubierta and in 1943 was elevated to the category of municipal districts (a municipal district is an administrative part of a municipality) of La Descubierta, in the Baoruco province.
With the creation of the Independencia province in 1948, Jimaní was made the head municipality of that new province.
Flag of Iowa
The flag of the state of Iowa is a vertical tricolor flag designed by Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt in 1917. Iowa legislators officially adopted the flag in 1921.
Jimaní
Population
The municipality had, in, a total population of 10,034: 4,967 men and 5,067 women. The urban population was 99% of the total population.
Geography
Jimaní is in the Hoya de Enriquillo valley, in the southwest of the country, close to Haiti. The municipality has a total area of 200.6 km2. It has two municipal districts (subdivisions of a municipality): Boca de Cachón and El Limón.
The city of Jimaní is at 160 km to the west of Azua and at 280 km to Santo Domingo. It is at an elevation of 31 m above sea level.
It is between the two main lakes of the Hispaniola: Lake Enriquillo (Dominican Republic) and Étang Saumâtre (Haiti).
Jimaní has the municipality of La Descubierta, the Lake Enriquillo and the Baoruco province to the north, the Barahona province to the east, the Pedernales to the south and Haiti to the west.
Climate
The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is 728.9 mm. Most rains fall during the end of summer and in fall. The month with the most precipitation on average is May with 141.7 mm of rainfall, followed by October with 122.8 mm.
The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of 18.3 mm and the second is December with 18.6 mm.
Jimaní is in a very hot region; the average temperature for the year is 27.9 C. The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 29.6 C. The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 26 C.
Economy
The main economic activity is commerce with Haiti. Farming is not well developed because the region is very dry and hot. Most people that lives here work for the government or in the commerce between the two countries.
Lokiarchaeota
The Lokiarchaeota are a proposed phylum of the Archaea. It was proposed in 2015 after the composite genome of Lokiarchaeum was sequenced.
The genome
The Lokiarchaeum genome has 5,381 protein coding genes. Of these, about 32% do not correspond to any known protein. 26% closely resemble archeal proteins, and 29% correspond to bacterial proteins. This is consistent with previous research which suggests significant gene transfer between bacteria and Archaea.
A small, but significant portion of the proteins (175, 3.3%) were most similar to eukaryotic proteins. Analysis suggested the genes in question had their origin at the base of the eukaryotic clades. In eukaryotes, the function of these proteins include cell membrane and cell shape formation, and a dynamic protein cytoskeleton.
Another shared protein, actin, is used in phagocytosis by eukaryotes. Phagocytosis is the ability to engulf and consume another particle. This ability is required for the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria. Cells with mitochondria is one of the key differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In a widely accepted theory, mitochondria began as bacteria and were gradually incorporated into eukaryotic cells. Chloroplasts had a similar origin.
Kei Uemura
Kei Uemura (born 24 September 1981) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Shonan Bellmare.
Club career statistics
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Omi
Omi was a very old Japanese title of both someone's rank and their political rank it was only allowed for use by the most powerful clans during the Yamato time of Japanese history. The title Omi, was given to a man's son when the father died.
Gilberto Agustoni
Gilberto Agustoni (26 July 1922 – 13 January 2017) was a Swiss Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1994 to 1998. He was later a Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Schaffhausen.
Agustoni died on 13 January 2017 at the age of 94.
WHDH
WHDH is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It is owned by Sunbeam Television and is an independent television station that used to carry NBC. It is received on Channel 7 in eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire.
In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, there was another television station in Boston with the name WHDH-TV. That station aired on Channel 5 and is now called WCVB-TV. There is no relationship between the two stations.
History
Channel 7 in Boston went on the air June 21, 1948 as WNAC-TV. It is the second oldest television station in Boston, and the third oldest in the New England states. The first owner was General Tire, which later became RKO General. The station showed CBS network programs when it first went on the air. The station also showed some programs from the ABC network. However, when a new TV station in Boston, Channel 5, then known as WHDH-TV but now known as WCVB-TV, started in 1957, Channel 7 dropped all ABC programs, which were then aired on Channel 5. In 1961, Channel 7 and Channel 5 switched networks, and Channel 7 became an ABC station, and Channel 5 became the CBS station for Boston. In 1972, the two channels switched again, and Channel 7 returned to being a CBS station, and Channel 5 an ABC station.
On May 21, 1982, RKO General lost the license to broadcast and Channel 7 was taken over by New England Television on May 22. The channel was renamed WNEV-TV. New England Television bought a radio station known as WHDH in 1989, and in January, 1990, channel 7 was renamed WHDH-TV. On January 2, 1995, Channel 7 stopped showing CBS programs and began showing NBC programs. Before then, NBC programs were shown on WBZ-TV, Channel 4, which now shows CBS programs. The reason for this switch is because WBZ-TV's owners merged with the CBS network.
In 1993, the station was sold to Sunbeam Television. In July, 2010, Channel 7 officially dropped the -TV from its name, becoming just WHDH.
In 2017, the station stopped carrying NBC programming, losing the affiliation to WBTS-CD, and became an independent television station.
Hydrus
Hydrus is a constellation in the southern sky.
Lilyan Chauvin
Lilyan Chauvin (born Lilyan Zemoz August 6, 1925 – died June 26, 2008) was a French-American actress, television host, director and writer.
She appeared in some famous movies such as Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and Catch Me If You Can (2002). In the 1990s and 2000s she guest-starred in such television shows as The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Friends, Alias, Malcolm in the Middle and Ugly Betty.
Chauvin died at her home in Studio City, California. She was aged 82. She had suffered from breast cancer for many years and from congestive heart disease.
Oberlungwitz
Oberlungwitz is a town in the rural district Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. It is about 18 km northeast of the city of Zwickau and about 15 km in the west of Chemnitz.
Laurentophryne parkeri
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Manipur Polo International 2018
Manipur Polo International 2018 or 12th Manipur International Polo Tournament is a Polo Tournament that was held in Imphal, Manipur. It was organised in Mapal Kangjeibung (Imphal Polo Ground), the oldest polo ground in the world. India-B team (Manipur team) won the trophy after defeating England by 7-4 goals. Uruguay defeated USA by 3-1 goals. USA defeated India-A team by 13-2 goals.
Tami Roman
Tamisha Akbar (born April 17, 1970) better known as Tami Roman, is an American television personality, model, businesswoman and actress. Roman first gained fame on The Real World: Los Angeles in 1993. After making cameo appearances and starring in supporting roles in some television programs and movies in the 1990s and 2000s, Roman became one of the stars of Vh1's Basketball Wives.
Giuliano Poletti
Giuliano Poletti (pronunciation: [dʒuˈljaːno poˈletti]; born 19 November 1951) is an Italian politician. He was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Policies on 22 February 2014 by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Poletti also served in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.
Blind men and an elephant
The Blind men and an elephant is an idiom.
The story of the blind men and an elephant comes from India. It is about a range of truths and mistakes. It is also about the need for communication and the need for respect for different perspectives.
The idiom shows the effects of observation and bias. Idioms are a common stumbling block for learners of a language.
Story
A group of blind men (or men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part. For example, one touches only the side and another touches only the tusk.
The blind men discover that they disagree when each describes what he has learned from touching the elephant.
Poem
A famous poem — "The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887). The poem begins: It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
Food bank
A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that gives away food to those who have hard time buying enough to avoid hunger. While a it is a popular organization, many critics believe it would cause a welfare crisis.
Blind men and an elephant
Poem
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
They conclude that the elephant is like a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan or rope, depending upon where they touch. None of blind men's description is correct for the whole elephant.
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the harsh conditions of life in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime, the history of the Germans in the Banat (and more broadly, Transylvania), and the persecution of Romanian ethnic Germans by Stalinist Soviet occupying forces in Romania. Müller has been an internationally well-known author since the early 1990s, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. She has received over 20 awards, including the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. On 8 October 2009, it was announced she would be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Indy Racing League
The Indy Racing League (IRL) is an American-based open-wheel auto racing sanctioning body. The League sanctions three racing series. The premier IZOD IndyCar Series (ICS), the two developmental series; Firestone Indy Lights and the U.S. F2000 National Championship. ICS is sometimes considered the same as the Indy Racing League. The Indy Racing League's centerpiece race is the Indianapolis 500.
The IRL is owned by Hulman and Co., which also owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway complex and the Clabber Girl brand.
On September 10, 2010, the IRL announced that effective January 1, 2011, the Indy Racing League will simply be known as IndyCar.
IZOD IndyCar Series
The IndyCar Series is the series name for the premier series sanctioned by the IRL. The name started being used in 2003. Izod was announced as the IndyCar Series title sponsor in 2010. The deal is expected to run for at least five years.
At first IndyCar only raced on oval tracks. In 2005, the series started adding road and street course events.
Support series
Firestone Indy Lights is the development series for the Izod Indycar series. It started in 2002, as the IRL Infiniti Pro Series. USF2000 is a series the IRL started sanctioning in 2010. It started in 1991 and ended in 2006. It then restarted in 2010.
Indy car name
Indy car is sometimes used as a name for any open-wheel auto racing in the United States. The Indy car name derived as a result of the link to the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race (often called to as the Indy 500).
Beginning in 1980, the term Indy car was used for the race cars in CART races. CART had become the main governing body for open-wheel racing in the United States. The Indianapolis 500 was not controlled by CART. It remained sanctioned by USAC. CART recognized the Indy 500 on its schedule, and awarded points for finishers in the race from 1980 to 1995 despite not sanctioning it. The two entities operated separately, but used the same equipment.
Split with CART
The IRL was founded in 1994 by Tony George and began racing in 1996. George designed the IRL as a lower-cost open-wheel alternative to CART. CART was dominated by a few rich multi-car teams, much like Formula One. The split between IRL and CART was very unfriendly. Both series greatly suffered because of it.
Driver safety
Driver safety has also been a major concern. A number of drivers injured, mostly in the early years of the series. Several of those injuries were serious or fatal. Unlike road racing, the higher speed and lack of runoff areas on oval tracks, allowed for less margin for error. Car design was a leading cause of early injuries.The series made improvements to chassis design to address those safety concerns.
The IRL was also the first race series to adopt the new SAFER barrier soft wall safety system. First at the Indianapolis 500 and now installed at almost all major oval racing circuits.
Minnale
Remake
The movie was remade in Hindi as Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein in the same year. Madhavan did the same role, which did average at the box office.
Mining feasibility study
A mining feasibility study is normally done before to a mining company buying land and is done to lower the risk of failure and reduce losing money for a mining company.
Callimedusa ecuatoriana
The Agua Rica leaf frog (Calllimedusa ecuatoriana) is a frog that lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it between 1630 and 1900 mmeters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 5.5 cm long. This frog has purple color on parts of its skin and large orange patches. It has a white stripe down the side of its jaw and body. Its belly is pale orange.
Harland Williams
Personal life
Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine Mary (née O'Donnell), a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, a lawyer who served as a member of the Ontario legislature from 1975 to 1985. He is the middle child of five with two older, his brother Steve, and two younger sisters.
Harland holds dual citizenship with Canada and the United States.
He is the author and illustrator of his own series of children's books involving a little brontosaurus named Lickety Split. Williams' love of art drove him to create the series, in which the curious, young dinosaur embarks on a series of amazing adventures and learns important life lessons in the process. The artistically inclined Williams had refined his passion for drawing and painting at Canada's Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Finding a creative outlet in poetry and painting while working as a forest ranger for five years after dropping out of Sheridan College, Williams set his goals to leave the forest as a stand-up comic and actor, soon moving to Los Angeles to pursue his newfound calling.
Williams is cousin to Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn, and together they have a hobby band called The Cousins. Williams also played the security guard in the music video for the band’s 2001 single "Falling for the First Time".
Career
Williams is known for his movie roles, which include Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, There's Something About Mary, Half Baked, RocketMan, Sorority Boys, Down Periscope, Superstar and Employee of The Month. Williams starred as the security guard in the music video for the 2001 Barenaked Ladies song "Falling for the First Time". He has performed his stand-up comedy routines on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, HBO, Comedy Central and at comedy clubs throughout the country.
Culture of Canada
The culture of Canada includes the artistic, culinary, literary, humor, musical, political and social elements that represent Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced by European culture and traditions, mostly by the British and French. It was also affected by its own indigenous cultures.
Charadrahyla chaneque
The fairy tree frog (Charadrahyla chaneque) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it between 800 and 2200 meters above sea level.
Ance
Ance is a former commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Ance Féas.
Open wheel car
Open-wheel car describes cars with the wheels outside the car's main body and, in most cases, one seat. Other names include formula car, single-seater car in British English, or Indy car in the United States. Open-wheel cars are different from street cars, sports cars, stock cars, and touring cars. These car have their wheels below or inside the body or fenders. Open-wheel cars are usually built just for racing. Often, they have a higher amount of technological sophistication than in other forms of motor racing.
Strömstad Municipality
Strömstad Municipality (Strömstads kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Strömstad.
Open wheel car
Design
Some races, such as the Monaco Grand Prix are held on temporary street circuits. Most open-wheel races are on dedicated road courses, such as the Nürburgring in Germany. In the United States some top-level open wheel events are held on ovals, both short track and superspeedways. The most famous the annual Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500)
Driving
Driving an open-wheel car is very different from driving a car with fenders. Open-wheel vehicles, are light weight, have good aerodynamics, and powerful engines. Wheel-to-wheel contact is dangerous. If the forward edge of one tire contacts the rear of another tire, the vehicle my be flipped into the air and upside down.
There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back
"There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" is a 2017 song by Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and is taken from his second studio album Illuminate (2016). It topped the single charts in Guatemala and Serbia. It went to the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Venezuela.
Active fault
An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future. Faults are active if there has been movement seen or evidence of seismic activity during the last 10,000 years. Active faulting is considered to be a geologic hazard. It is related to earthquakes as a cause.
Horologium (constellation)
Horologium is a constellation in the southern sky.
Speech and language therapist
A speech and language therapist is a health care professional who specialises in communication and swallowing difficulties. The main part of their work involves assessing people and planning therapy. They work with people of all ages across different settings such as nurseries, schools, day centres, care homes, clinics and hospitals.
Communication difficulties
These can include difficulties with fluency (stuttering), making sounds and words, making sentences, understanding what others say, and using language socially. These difficulties fall into two main areas:
Language
There are two types of language difficulties: People with receptive language difficulties have problems understanding spoken and written language. Because of this they usually also have expressive language difficulties although this is not always the case. People with expressive language difficulties are able to understand but cannot say the words and sentences they want to. This may be because of word finding difficulties or problems making sentences.
In children language difficulties are divided up into
Where language difficulties occur with no other difficulties the child may be diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment.
In adults acquired receptive and expressive language impairments are known as aphasia. There are many different types of aphasia depending on which areas of the brain are damaged and what symptoms they show.
Sauna
A sauna is a small room or building that is made hot. The heat of a sauna is calming and makes the person using it sweat. This is believed to help people be more healthy though it causes stress on the body by overheating. Today many countries and groups of people have different ways of heating and using a sauna. The temperature is often 80°C in Finnish saunas. The heat can be more than 100°C. Finnish and Swedish saunas have lower humidity (the air is less wet) to make this high heat comfortable.
The Turkish hammam has a high humidity (the air is more wet) and a lower temperature.
In almost every house in Finland they have a sauna.
Common rules for public saunas
In some cultures, swimsuits must be worn in a sauna. In other cultures swimsuits are not be worn. Swimsuits are more often worn when men and women use a sauna together. Some saunas are only for men, or only for women. Some places have fixed times when each gender can use a sauna. Private saunas may have their own rules.
Crimes of the Heart (movie)
Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American black comedy-drama movie directed by Bruce Beresford and was based on the 1979 play of the same name by Beth Henley. It stars Sissy Spacek, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Tess Harper, Sam Shepard, Hurd Hatfield and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was nominated for 3 Academy Awards in 1987.
Man on the Moon (movie)
Man on the Moon is a 1999 movie directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jim Carrey. It is a biographical comedy-drama film about the late American entertainer Andy Kaufman. Other actors were Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, and Paul Giamatti.
Released on December 22, 1999, it was a box office failure but it received mixed reviews.
Carrey won a Golden Globe for his performance, and the movie was also nominated for Best Musical or Comedy.
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing (どうぶつの森) is a social simulation video game series made by Nintendo.
Throughout the Animal Crossing series, the player character is a human who lives in a village where many anthropomorphic animals live, carrying out various activities such as fishing, bug catching, and fossil hunting. The series is known for its open-ended gameplay and use of the video game console's internal clock and calendar to show real passage of time. The first game in the series was originally only released in Japan for the Nintendo 64. In 2001, the first Animal Crossing in other areas was released on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2001. The most recent entry in the series is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was released in late March of 2020.It's the top selling games for Nintendo.
Zibido San Giacomo
Zidibo San Giacomo is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy.
Luxurious
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
Andoins
Andoins is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Waldenburg, Saxony
Waldenburg is a town in the rural district Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. It is near Glauchau, northeast to Zwickau.
50 Central
50 Central is an American sketch comedy television series hosted by 50 Cent. The series premiered on BET on September 27, 2017.
Vibraphone
The vibraphone is an percussion instrument. It looks like a xylophone but the bars are made of aluminium instead of wood. Like the xylophone, the bars are arranged in a similar way to a piano keyboard so that tunes can be played. An alternate form is the 6-plus-6-system, where each row has the bars in a whole-tone distance and both rows are in a half-tone distance. The player uses mallets (beaters), either one or two in each hand. There are tubes underneath each bar. These are called "resonators". They make the sound louder. There is also an electric motor which can be switched on by a pedal. This makes fans go round and round in the ventilators and makes a very strong, vibrating sound. This is why the instrument has its name. Sometimes people call a vibraphone vibes.
Vibraphones were first made in the United States in 1921.
The mallets are beaters with a rubber ball at the end. Yarn or a hard cord is wound tightly round these balls. Vibraphone mallets are usually slightly harder than the ones ones used for the marimba. They usually consist of a rubber ball core wrapped in yarn or cord and attached to a narrow dowel, most commonly made of rattan or birch (other materials, such as nylon, are sometimes used). Mallets suitable for the vibraphone are also generally suitable for the marimba. There are different ways of holding them. A common way is to hold them between the thumb and index finger, using the other fingers to help control the sticks. Playing with four mallets is harder, but allows the player to play harmony (chord with four notes).
Sometimes special techniques are used such as "pitch bending". This is done by sliding one of the mallets along a bar in a special way. Occasionally players are asked to use a bow such as cello or double bass bow, and bow across the edge of a bar.
The vibraphone is used in the orchestra in Alban Berg's opera Lulu. It is also used in works by Olivier Messiaen, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams (opening of Symphony no 8). Vibraphones are commonly heard in jazz, especially in combos.
References
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, Könemann; ISBN 3-8331-2195-5
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro "Sam" Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician. He served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1940 through 1947, again from 1949 through 1953, and again from 1955 through 1961.
He died of cancer at the age of 79 and is buried at Willow Wild Cemetery.
Sperm bank
A sperm bank (also semen bank) is an enterprise that collects or stores human sperm from sperm donors for use by women who need sperm to get pregnant.
Sperm banks enable greater control, especially in the relation to access and timing of pregnancies, since they check and screen potential donors. The sperm banks usually 'wash' the sperm sample to extract sperm from the semen.
A55
A55 may refer to:
Takumi Shimohira
Takumi Shimohira (born 6 October 1988) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Gamba Osaka.
Magic Alex
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Andrein
Andrein is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
RM4SCC
Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code (commoly abbreviated to RM4SCC) is a two-dimensional barcode that was develooped by Royal Mail in England. It is used for marking the postcodes of letters and parcels in the UK. The system, or one of its variants is also used in other countries. The printed code is optimized for being read at a high speed.
The barcode consists of a number of vertical bars. Each bar has one of four possible states. Four bars are necessary to code one of 36 possible characters. Two of the four bars point upwards, the other two point downwards. RM4SCC uses start and stop symbols. The RM4SCC barcode includes a checksum, which is also encoded as a character.
There are other barcode systems, which are similar. PostNL, (formerly known as TNT Post), uses a system called KIX which stands for Klant index (Customer index). This system does not use the start and stop characters, and does not include a checksum.
Universal Postal Union has defined a standard how the system should be used.
Heater
A heater is a device that is made to heat an area. It can do this through different forms of heat.
Tacuarembó Department
The Tacuarembó department (Departamento de Tacuarembó) is a department of Uruguay. The capital is the city of Tacuarembó.
Its ISO 3166-2 code is UY-TA.
Name
The department and its capital city are named after Tacuarembó river, the main tributary of the Río Negro river.
History
The first division in departments of Uruguay was in 1816. At that time, the Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, including the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 16 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts; one of these parts was the Tacuarembó Department that included also the actual department of Rivera, until it was split from it in 1884.
Geography
The Tacuarembó department is in the north central part of the country. It has an area of 15438 km2, the largest in the country. It is has a population of 90,053 inhabitants (2011 census) for a population density of.
To the west of the department there is a chains of low and rounded hills in the department, the Cuchilla de Haedo.
Climate
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Paso de los Toros is 1244.6 mm. The month with the most precipitation on average is January with 132.1 mm of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is December with an average of 86.4 mm.