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Roman roads in Britain
We know them by names. but originally the Romans gave them numbers.
The pre-Roman Britons used unpaved trackways, including ancient ones running along the ridges of hills, such as the South Downs Way, now a public long-distance footpath. In contrast, most of the Roman network was surveyed and built from scratch, with the aim of connecting key points by the most direct possible route. The roads were all paved, to permit heavy freight-wagons to be used in all seasons and weather. Most of the known network was complete by 180 AD. Its main purpose was to allow the rapid movement of troops and military supplies. It was also vital for trade and the transport of goods.
Roman roads remained in use as trunk roads for centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 410 AD. Systematic construction of paved highways did not resume in England until the 18th century.
Construction of Roman roads
The Romans became expert at constructing roads, which they called viae. It was permitted to walk or drive cattle, vehicles, or traffic of any description along the road. The viae differed from the many other smaller or rougher roads, bridle-paths, drifts, and tracks. By law, the minimum width of a via was fixed at 2.4 m where it was straight, and 4.9 m where it turned. The best sources of information as regards the construction of a regulation via munita are:
After the civil engineer looked over the site of the proposed road and determined roughly where it should go, the agrimensores went to work surveying the road bed. They used two main devices, the rod and a device called a groma, which helped them obtain right angles. The rod men put down a line of rods called the rigor. A surveyor looked along the rods and told the gromatici to move them as required. Using the gromae they then laid out a grid on the plan of the road.
The libratores then began their work using ploughs and, sometimes with the help of legionaries, with spades dug down to bed rock or at least to the firmest ground they could find. The excavation was called the fossa, "ditch". The depth varied according to terrain.
In top-quality roads, there were five layers, plus footpaths and kerbstones:
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Composition
Deputy Prime Ministers:
Roman roads in Britain
Construction of Roman roads
The final steps used concrete, which the Romans had rediscovered (it had been used in Ancient Egypt). They seem to have mixed the mortar and the stones in the fossa. First a small layer of coarse concrete, the rudus, then a little layer of fine concrete, the nucleus, went onto the pavement or statumen. Into or onto the nucleus went a course of polygonal or square paving stones, called the summa crusta. The crusta was crowned for drainage.
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Composition
Ministers with portfolio:
Roman roads in Britain
Construction of Roman roads
An example is found in an early basalt road by the Temple of Saturn on the Clivus Capitolinus. It had travertine paving, polygonal basalt blocks, concrete bedding (substituted for the gravel), and a rain-water gutter.
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Composition
Ministers without portfolio:
Former Ministers:
Deputy Ministers:
Former Deputy Ministers:
Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born 10 December 1975) is an Australian football player. He plays for Hajduk Split.
Club career statistics
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Geometry
Geometry is the part of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. We can only see shapes that are flat (2D) or solid (3D), but mathematicians (people who study math) are able to study shapes that are 4D, 5D, 6D, and so on.
Uses
Plane geometry can be used to measure the area and perimeter of a flat shape. Solid geometry can measure a solid shape's volume and surface area.
Geometry can be used to calculate the size and shape of many things. For example, geometry can help people find:
Origins
Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics. Geometry began as the art of surveying of land so that it could be shared fairly between people. The word "geometry" is from a Greek word that means "to measure the land". It has grown from this to become one of the most important parts of mathematics. The Greek mathematician Euclid wrote the first book about geometry, a book called The Elements.
Non-Euclidean geometry
Plane and solid geometry, as described by Euclid in his textbook Elements, is called "Euclidean Geometry". This was simply called "geometry" for centuries. In the 19th century, mathematicians created several new kinds of geometry that changed the rules of Euclidean geometry. These and earlier kinds were called "non-Euclidean" (not created by Euclid). For example, hyperbolic geometry and elliptic geometry come from changing Euclid's parallel postulate.
Non-Euclidean geometry is more complicated than Euclidean geometry but has many uses. Spherical geometry for example is used in astronomy and cartography.
Examples
Geometry starts with a few simple ideas that are thought to be true, called axioms. Such as:
Ron Miles
Ron Miles (May 9, 1963 – March 8, 2022) was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer. His career was based in Denver, Colorado. He was Denver's most well known jazz musicians. He was the co-ordinator of Jazz Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Angrboða
In Norse mythology, Angrboða (Old Norse "the one who brings grief" or "she-who-offers-sorrow") is a giantess. She is the wife of Loki and mother of the serpent Jörmungandr, the wolf Fenrir and the goddess Hel.
Ron Miles
Miles died on March 8, 2022 at a hospital in Denver, Colorado from problems caused by polycythemia vera, a rare form of bone marrow cancer at the age of 58.
Indore
Indore is a city in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. It is the largest city in Madhya Pradesh. It is 190 km away from Bhopal, which is the capital city of Madhya Pradesh.
The lifestyle of people of Indore is similar to Mumbai and also Indore is a rich city like Mumbai. So, Indore is also called "Mini Mumbai" (small Mumbai).
Saint Joseph Warriors
Saint Joseph Warriors is a football club which plays in Liberia.
Takuji Miyoshi
Takuji Miyoshi (born 20 August 1978) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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David Wheeler (politician)
David Wheeler (c. 1949 – March 9, 2022) was an American businessman and Republican politician. He was in the Alabama House of Representatives representing the 47th district, from 2018 until his death. He was an executive at Alabama Power. Wheeler was born in Jemison, Alabama.
Wheeler died on March 9, 2022 in Vestavia Hills, Alabama at the age of 72.
HD 179821
HD 179821 or V1427 Aquilae is a post-red supergiant yellow hypergiant star in the constellation of Aquila. It is surrounded by a detached dust shell. It is a semi-regular variable nearing the end of its life.
Dirty Dancer
"Dirty Dancer" is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. It features American singer Usher. It was released for Iglesias' album Euphoria (2010). It was also included on Usher's Versus EP (2010).
Subaru Brat
The Subaru BRAT, short for "Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter", known outside Canada and the United States as the 284 in the United Kingdom, Brumby in Australia, and Shifter, MV, or Targa in other markets, was a pickup truck that was made by Subaru from 1978 until 1994. The Subaru BRAT was an all-wheel drive automobile.
The Amanda Show
Penelope Taynt
Penelope Taynt is a fictional character played by Amanda Bynes "Number One Fan, Please" on The Amanda Show. She never once met Amanda, but often came very close. She is known for saying "please" and "actual" often. She does not know the names of any cast member that is not Amanda. On the show, she had a website called "www.amandaplease.com." Eventually, it was made into the show's official site.
Chair of the Federal Reserve
The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. The job is known as "Chair of the Fed" or "Fed Chair". The chair is in charge of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The chair is chosen by the President of the United States from among members of the Board of Governors; and serves for four-year-terms after appointment. A chair may be appointed for many terms. William Martin was the longest serving chair, holding the position from 1951 to 1970.
The current chair is Jerome Powell upon taking office on February 5, 2018.
Carmen Argenziano
Carmen Antimo Argenziano (October 27, 1943 – February 10, 2019) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Jacob Carter on Stargate SG-1.
Argenziano also starred on Booker, L.A. Law, Melrose Place, and The Young and the Restless. He had a small role in The Godfather Part II and The Accused.
Argenziano died on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles at the age of 75.
John Lyons (poet)
John Lyons (born October 1933) is a Trinidad-born poet, painter, illustrator, educator and curator. He has worked as a theatre designer, exhibition adviser and as a teacher both of visual art and creative writing.
As an art critic, he has written essays for catalogues, notably for Denzil Forrester's major touring exhibition Dub Transition, for Jouvert Print Exhibition and Tony Phillips' Jazz and The Twentieth Century. His works are held at Rochdale Art Gallery, Huddersfield Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Word & Image Print Collection and the Arts Council National Collection.
2019 Darwin shooting
On 4 June 2019, a mass shooting happened in the CBD of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Police said that that four people were killed in the incident and another person was injured. A 45-year-old gunman was arrested.
Witnesses say the gunman entered the Palms Hotel on McMinn Street, Darwin and used a pump-action (or sawn-off) shotgun to shoot a hotel room door. Around 20 shots were fired by the suspect.
At the time of his arrest, the man, a suspected member of a motorcycle gang who had been released from prison in January, was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
In the Lonely Hour
The album includes the hit singles "Money on My Mind" and "Stay with Me", both of which were number one in the UK; the latter becoming a hit worldwide.
Taco truck
A taco truck is a truck that sells tacos and other types of Mexican food. Some taco trucks also deal in fusion cuisine. It is one of the most common types of food trucks. In most taco trucks, the food is made in the truck. Taco trucks and other food trucks are common around colleges, as college students often eat at them. Though there are taco trucks all over the world, they are most often seen in Los Angeles and other Mexican-American cities. In many cities, such as Los Angeles, regular restaurants have tried to shut down taco trucks. This is because taco trucks sell food at a lower price than many restaurants. Taco trucks have been criticized in the past for being dirty and unhealthy, but this is not the case anymore. Chicago is the only city in the United States which does not allow cooking on food trucks but Taquero Fusion, Chicago's Original Taco Truck, managed to figure out a way to provide gourmet tacos to their customers.
Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet.
He was born in the northeastern part of England on March 1, 1900. His family were Quakers. As a young man during World War I, he refused to be in the military or help the war effort. He spent 122 days in prison.
In 1923 he met poet Ezra Pound in Paris. In the time before World War II, he travelled to London, Germany, Italy, the United States, and the Canary Islands. Sometimes he worked as a sailor. Pound supported his poetry. Through Pound he met poet Louis Zukofsky and writer James Joyce. In 1930 his first book, Redimiculum Matellarum, came out. In 1931 Zukosfsky included one of Bunting's poems in his "Objectivist" group in Poetry magazine. In 1933 many of his poems were printed in Pound’s Activist Anthology.
When war began, he joined the British Royal Air Force. He knew the Persian language and worked in Persia for the British government during and after the war. Around 1950 he quit his government post to work for the Times newspaper. He had to leave Persia in 1952 when someone said he was a British spy. He returned to England for the rest of his life.
In 1966 he published Briggflats, his most important book. It is a long poem of 700 lines. It has been explained as "a romantic celebration of seasons, homecoming, and love, intensely musical."
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger (クロノ・トリガー) is a role-playing video game made by Square Soft for the Super NES game console.
Plot
Chrono Trigger follows a young boy named Crono, who goes to see the Millennial Fair. He meets a girl named Marle at the fair and she follows him. Crono's friend, named Lucca, tests a teleporter at the fair. The machine goes wrong, and sends them back in time. They soon meet new friends and discover more time periods to go to. However, they find out an evil monster named Lavos is destroying the world. It is up to Crono and his friends to stop it.
Gameplay
Chrono Trigger is a role-playing game. It was one of the first games to let the player see the enemies on the world before they fight them, and when he or she goes into a battle, the enemies and characters fight without going into a separate battle screen like other RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest did at the time.
Reception
Chrono Trigger is thought to be one of the best Super NES games, and one of the best role-playing games too. It got great reviews, praising it for its story, gameplay, and innovation.
Re-releases
Chrono Trigger was first re-released on the PlayStation with Final Fantasy IV on Final Fantasy Chronicles. It was given good reviews, but reviewers were unhappy with the long load times whenever going into a menu or battle. Chrono Trigger was re-released for the Nintendo DS as Chrono Trigger DS. It has the same graphics and extras from the PlayStation version along with other extras such as new dungeons.
Denis Diderot
Diderot died from pulmonary thrombosis in Paris, aged 70.
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism (道教) is a type of belief, or a way of thinking about life. It is at least 2,500 years old and it comes from China. Taoism is now said to be a philosophy. Tao (or Dao, 道) is the name of the force or the "Way" that Taoists believe makes everything in the world. Taoists think that words cannot be used to correctly describe Tao. The very first line of the Dào Dé Jīng (道德经), the most important text in Taoism, says "the Way that can be explained in words is not the true Way." There are many other sacred writings by the teachers of Taoism.
Instead of spending a lot of time trying to explain what the Tao is, Taoists focus on living a simple and balanced life in harmony with nature. This is one of the most important principles in Taoism. Taoists also believe that conflict is not good and that if you have a problem with something, it is better to find a way around it.
Gong Li
Gong Li is a Chinese actress. She helped bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.
Taoism
History
Taoism first showed up in writing in China in 142 C.E. People do not always write about their religions at first, so this religion may be much older. Some important people of the history of Taoism are:
Beliefs and practices
Taoists believe that the main principle behind the universe is an esoteric force known as the Tao. The Tao can best be described as the chaotic power of reality that causes change to happen and things to come in and out of the world without direction or intention. The essence of the Tao is seen in nature, in which all action occurs without any sort of meaning or greater purpose, but is rather the flow of change and energy. Some Taoists describe the Tao as God. Many scholars have labeled Taoism as pantheistic.
Gong Li
She has several awards. She received both the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards two times. She also has the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.
Taoism
Beliefs and practices
Taoists use the word qi to describe energy moving through and altering things in the universe as a result of the Tao.
Taoists believe the best way to live life is through the principle of "wu-wei", which translates to "inaction" or "inexertion". The doctrine of wu-wei advocates to not push back or resist what ever comes your way in life, and to let it be and accept its presence. It also advocates for being happy with what you have and not pursuing unrealistic dreams.
Reform UK
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom (UK) made up of politicians who support Brexit. Created in November 2018 as the Brexit Party it changed its name to Reform UK in January 2021. It was led by Nigel Farage until March 2021 when Richard Tice became its new and current leader.
Valle del Cauca
Valle del Cauca is one of the 32 departments of Colombia. It is in the southwest of the country, being parts of the Andean Region and Pacific Region. It is named after the valley of the Cauca River. Its capital is Cali.
Taoism
Beliefs and practices
Traditionalist polytheistic Taoists believe in traditional concepts of Heaven and the Underworld, but many modern Taoists today disregard old conceptions of the afterlife and instead believe that people can live on in the Tao after their physical death through  metaphysical union.
Manfred Burgsmüller
Manfred "Manni" Burgsmüller (22 December 1949 – 18 May 2019) was a German footballer. He played as a striker and sometimes as a midfielder.
Burgsmüller was born in Essen. He appeared in 447 Bundesliga games over the course of 17 seasons, scoring 213 goals. He played mainly for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen. He also played Rot-Weiss Essen, Bayer Uerdingen, 1. FC Nürnberg and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. He also played three games for West Germany. After retirement, he played as a kicker in American football.
Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American photographer. Tunick is mostly known because he does events at which many people pose nude. Most of the events are in an urban setting. The people posing for Tunick, are volunteers, not models. Usually they receive a signed copy of the image as a reward for posing.
Fred West
Frederick Walter Stephen "Fred" West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer. West was born in Much Marcle, Herefordshire. His convictions included sexual assault and theft.
Manfred Burgsmüller
Burgsmüller died in Essen on 18 May 2019, at the age of 69.
Taoism
Beliefs and practices
There are several different types of Taoism, some that combine the principles of Laozi with traditional Chinese deity worship, and some that adhere more strictly to the original tenets and believe only in the concepts of the Tao, qi, and wu-wei.
Reform UK
Many of its members were formerly of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), with Farage having led UKIP in 2006–09 and 2010–16, as well as from the Conservative Party.
On 6 January 2021, the party was re-registered as Reform UK. Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021, being replaced by party chairman Richard Tice.
Reform Party
Before the general election on 8 December 2019, the party's leader Nigel Farage said that, after Brexit, the party would change its name to the "Reform Party", and campaign for changes in the electoral system and structure of the House of Commons.
In October 2020, Farage and Tice said they had went to the Electoral Commission, which handles elections, to re-name the Brexit Party to 'Reform UK', and said that the party would campaign against more lockdowns (because of the COVID-19 pandemic) and that would seek to reform parts of UK Governance, including the BBC and House of Lords. In a report, Nigel Farage said he and the party supported the Great Barrington Declaration, which tries to remove restrictions and let the lower risk people be infected and become immune and unable to infect the elderly and vulnerable or cause them to die.
A poll by YouGov said that the amount of voters with a good opinion of Nigel Farage and those with a negative opinion of COVID-19 lockdowns was at about 7% of voters. The charity Reform, which has the domain name reform.uk, had complained to the Electoral Commission about the name change, saying that it could be hurting its reputation through name confusion.
On 6 January 2021, the party's name change to Reform UK was approved by the electoral commission.
Fred West
Between 1967 and 1987, West – alone and later with his second wife, serial killer Rosemary West – tortured and raped young women and girls, murdering at least 12, including their own family members. Fred killed at least two people before collaborating with Rose, while Rose murdered Fred's stepdaughter (his first wife's biological daughter) when he was in prison for theft. Most of the murders occurred between May 1973 and August 1979, in their homes at 25 Midland Road and 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester. Many bodies were buried at or near these homes and sometimes even in the walls of their home.
Reform UK
Reform Party
In January 2021, Reform UK gained representation in the Scottish Parliament when former Conservative and then independent MSP Michelle Ballantyne joined the party and was named Reform UK's leader in Holyrood by Nigel Farage. She lost her seat in May 2021.
Fred West
The couple were apprehended and charged in 1994. Fred West hanged himself in his prison cell before going to trial. Rose West was imprisoned for life, in November 1995, found guilty on 10+ counts of murder. Their house at Cromwell Street was demolished in 1996 and the space converted into a landscaped footpath.
Valle del Cauca
Valle del Cauca is known for being the powerhouse department of the Pacific and contains the important coastal city known for its seaports: Buenaventura. Valle del Cauca also has important inland cities known for Salsa Dancing and culture: Buga, Toro, and Cali. Cali is also known for its Sancocho soup made with chicken, potatoes, yuca, corn, cilantro/coriander and plantain, and for being the capital of football in Colombia.
Zhangixalus hungfuensis
The Hongoshan whipping frog, Hungfu whipping frog or Hangfu tree frog (Zhangixalus hungfuensis) is a frog. It lives in China. People have seen it between 900 and 3000 meters above sea level.
Drake & Josh
Drake & Josh was a Nickelodeon television series. It started in January 2004 and ended in September 2007. The stars of the series are Drake Bell and Josh Peck. The two appeared as best friends on The Amanda Show. In Drake & Josh, they play step-brothers of separate parents. The overall story of the show was to show how Drake & Josh, two people with completely different ways of life, come together through their parents' marriage, and trying to avoid getting pranked by their little sister Megan Parker (Miranda Cosgrove).
Other stars of the show include Nancy Sullivan, who also starred on The Amanda Show.
Humraaz
Humraaz is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic thriller film directed by the duo Abbas-Mustan. It stars Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Ameesha Patel. The film is loosely based on the 1998 film A Perfect Murder. It was released on 5 July 2002. This film received positive reviews and was extremely successful at the box office. It was also the fifth highest-grossing film of the year at the box office.
Structural functionalism
Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is a way of making a theory that sees society as a complex system. The parts of this system work together to keep society stable and its people happy.
2 Baruch
2 Baruch is a text that was written in the late first century, or the early second century CE. It was probably written after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, in 70 CE, and before the second Roman-Jewish War, 132-135 CE. It is attributed to Baruch ben Neriah and is included in some editions of the Old Testament and the Peshitta, but neither Jews nor Christians regard it as scripture. The Syrian Orthodox Church includes it in the Bible. The text has 87 sections and is also known as Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch and Letter of Baruch to the Nine and a Half Tribes.
Sheykh Jabrail
Sheykh Jabrail (, also Romanized as Sheykh Jabra’īl and Sheykh Jabr’īl; also known as Chekān-e Mansūrī, Shaikh Jarwāil, and Sheykh Jarvā’īl) is a village in Gowavar Rural District, Govar District, Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 106, in 24 families.
Haruhiko Sato
Haruhiko Sato (born 27 June 1978) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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Coolio
Coolio is best known for his song "Gangsta's Paradise". It was released on the album of the same name. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, two MTV Video Music Award's for Best Rap Video and for Best Video from a Film and a Billboard Music Award for the song and album. Coolio also sang the theme song "Aw, Here It Goes" for the Nickelodeon television show Kenan & Kel.
Coolio died on September 28, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles, aged 59. The cause of death was from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine.
Studio albums
Coolio has released 8 studio albums:
Alexander Volkanovski
Alexander Volkanovski (Александар Волкановски; born 29 September 1988) is an Australian professional mixed martial artist. He is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is the current UFC Featherweight Champion. His MMA record stands at 23 wins and one loss. He was a semi-professional rugby league player until 2012.
Volkanovski was born in Shellharbour, New South Wales. His father is Macedonian and his mother is Greek. He is married to Emma and has two children.
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart Wii (マリオカートWii) is a kart racing video game made by Nintendo for the Wii game console which was first shown at E3 2007. It is the sixth installment in the Mario Kart series and the second Mario Kart title to use the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The game was released in every country throughout April 2008, but one year later in South Korea.
Mario Kart Wii features 16 new tracks, plus 16 from the previous games in the series, and is bundled with the Wii Wheel. The game was commercially successful in every region, and sold over a million copies in both Japan and the United States in less than a month. It also received very positive reviews from critics.
Gameplay
In Mario Kart Wii, players choose a character from a roster having of up to 24 characters and from 36 cars. The cars are classified into three different weight classes. A character's weight decides the available types of karts and motorbikes, and their performance on the tracks. Each car has seven different parameters for characteristics: speed, weight, acceleration, handling, drift, off-road, and mini-turbo. Mario Kart Wii has 32 different tracks, having 16 new tracks, four tracks each from Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and Mario Kart DS, and two each from Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart: Super Circuit. Plus, up to twelve characters can play in a race. Players get items by driving through item boxes, which can be used for either defense, offense, or for powering up the engine. New items from Mario platform games are introduced, like the "Mega Mushroom" from New Super Mario Bros. It allows the character to grow very big in size and flatten other players. The "POW BLOCK" from Mario Bros. allows the character to send a shockwave to all the players in front of them, spinning them out of control and making them drop any items they may be carrying (there is no effect, however, on those who are airborne). One new item to the series is the "Lightning Cloud", which raises the user's top speed briefly, but shrinks the user if it is not passed on to an opponent by colliding with them.
Promise (song)
"Promise" is a song by Dominican-Puerto Rican singer Romeo Santos. It features American singer Usher. It was released from Santo's album Formula, Vol. 1 (2011). It was written by Rico Love. It was released as the second single. "Promise" is a Latin pop song.
Mario Kart Wii
Gameplay
Mario Kart Wii has 24 Nintendo characters that can be chosen, more than any of the other Mario games. There are also 12 different kinds (3 weight classes, 2 genders, 2 outfits) of the Mii, the digital avatar made by Nintendo. Twelve characters are available from the beginning; the other twelve and the two Mii variants become available after finishing certain elements of the game. The cast of characters has 19 returning characters from the series and six new characters; Baby Peach, Funky Kong, user-created Miis, Rosalina, Dry Bowser, and Baby Daisy. There are eight characters of each weight class. The Mii's weight class depends on its height and weight (this can be customized in the Mii Channel), and its favorite color changes the color scheme of its clothing, while the gender changes the color scheme of their cars.
Development
Mario Kart Wii was officially announced at the 2007 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); the online features and the first footage of the game was shown. Producer Hideki Konno wanted to include online features for Mario Kart DS, but they were left out due to time constraints.
The Perfect Fool
The Perfect Fool is an opera in one act with music written by the English composer Gustav Holst. Holst wrote the work over the time period from 1918 to 1922. The opera was first played at the Covent Garden Theatre, London on May 14, 1923. At the beginning, Holst had asked Clifford Bax to write the libretto, but Bax did not want to do so.
Mario Kart Wii
Development
The game was called "Mario Kart X" internally for a while, before deciding on "Mario Kart Wii". General producer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's inputs were limited to new aspects of play such as the Wii Wheel and battles over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The designers tested roughly 30 different prototypes with different shapes, colors and weights (based on real-life go-karts), before deciding on the final Wii Wheel design.
The Perfect Fool
In the musical score, Holst made fun of the musical works of Verdi, Wagner's work Parsifal and Debussy. In the opera, the Fool's part is only one word long. One popular way of thinking of the opera's meaning is that the Princess symbolises the world of opera and the Fool is the British people.
Mario Kart Wii
Reception
The game received many positive reviews, and was commercially successful in every region, and sold over a million copies in both Japan and the United States in less than a month. Joe Sinicki of Blast Magazine comments: "While it still does suffer from some of the problems of the older games, Mario Kart Wii takes the simple and accessible formula set by its predecessors and tweaks it enough to make it feel fresh and fun, creating one of the most entertaining and rewarding gaming experiences in quite some time."
In the week ending May 4, 2008, Mario Kart Wii had sold over a million copies in Japan alone, less than a month since its release in the region. In the UK, Mario Kart Wii was the best-selling video game in the week ending April 12, 2008, having "the eighth biggest opening sales week in UK software history," according to Chart-Track/ELSPA. As of 30 Sep 2019, Mario Kart Wii sold 37.24 million copies, which make it the third best-selling game overall.
The Perfect Fool
The opera did not do well, and audiences thought that the opera did not make any sense. Although the opera was given a live BBC broadcast a year after it was first played, it is not often played today.
AIESEC
AIESEC (said like "Eye Seck"), is a big student organisation that was started in 1948. It was made to fix problems between countries and create peace after World War II. It has spread all over the world since it started. There are many members in about 125 countries.
AIESEC is an organisation that helps its members to develop themselves as leaders. It also has an exchange program for students and university graduates to intern or volunteer in other countries. Most members are students at university but some are paid to work for AIESEC. The organisation is presented in 125 countries and territories in the world. The headquarters of AIESEC are in Rotterdam.
Members say that AIESEC does a lot of good in the world through the exchange by helping people from different countries to share information about their culture.
For over 60 years of working AIESEC's main impact had been its alumni all over the world. These alumni become successful business leaders, politicians, and NGO directors. The approximate number of alumni 1 million.
The Bones of What You Believe
The Bones of What You Believe is Chvrches's first studio album. The album contains singles like "The Mother We Share", "Recover", "Gun", "Lies" and "Tether". The album has been certified Gold by the BPI in the UK with sales of one hundred and eighty-four thousand copies.
Swatis
The Swatis (سواتي) are a Dardic tribe tribe inhabiting the Hazara region in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) of Pakistan. They are mostly found in the districts of Mansehra and Batagram, and to some extent in Kohistan as well. A number of Swatis are also settled in the Kashmir region.
Most of the Swatis in Hazara speak Hindko but some also speak Pashto.
Cornufer browni
Cornufer browni is a frog. People have seen it in the mountains near Weitin Valley and on New Ireland Island in Papua New Guinea. People have seen it between 100 and 200 meters above sea level and between 1100 and 1300 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 23.4 mm long and the adult female frog is 26.7 mm long. It has large disks on its toes for climbing. The skin of the frog's back is the color of bronze or gray-brown with light marks. Sometimes the frog has a line down the middle of his back or black marks on its back. The sides of the frog has some red color. The frog's face is dark brown or black in color with some brown-white marks. There is black color on the legs and rear end. The belly is yellow-gray or gray-black in color with silver marks. The iris of the eye is bronze to gold in color.
These frogs live in primary forest and secondary forest where the branches of the trees look like a roof. The frog hides in dead leaves on the ground during the day and moves at night.
The frogs move the most after it rains.
Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua
Morelos is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in north-western Mexico. The municipal seat is Morelos. The municipality covers an area of 1336.8 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 7,172.
It is named after Independence War hero José María Morelos.
Jaume Collet-Serra
Jaume Collet-Serra (born 23 March 1974) is a Spanish-American movie director and producer. He is known for directing the horror movies House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), and The Shallows (2016).
Morelos Municipality, Chihuahua
Towns and villages
The municipality has 295 localities. They include:
Jaume Collet-Serra
He also directed Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015), and The Commuter (2018). He will direct the 2022 DC Extended Universe movie Black Adam.
Northbourne
Northbourne is a village and civil parish near Deal in Kent, England. In 2001 there were 793 people living in Northbourne.
Poverty
Poverty means not having enough money for basic needs such as food, drinking water, shelter, or toiletries. Many people in different countries live in poverty, especially in developing areas of West and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and some parts of Asia.
There are different ways to measure poverty. The World Bank says that extreme poverty is when someone has less than US$1 a day to live on (that dollar is an ideal one). It has been changed to rule out certain effects such as inflation, meaning that prices of things rise higher than what a person is paid, and other price level differences. Moderate poverty is when people have to live on less than $2 a day. In the year 2001, 1.1 billion people were seen as extremely poor, and 2.7 billion were seen as moderately poor.
In the developed world this does not apply. There, many people are seen as the working poor. They have a job, but do not earn enough money for basic things such as food and a home. In most developed countries, people without jobs receive money from the government, but this is often less than what they need for a comfortable life.
There are different ways to tell if a country is rich or poor. The Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, and Human Development Index, or HDI, are two of those measures. Gross Domestic Product is the money made from trade from inside the country.
HDI, meaning the Human Development Index is a different matter. It is determined by life expectancy and adult literacy rates. Places in Africa like Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Mali are the poorest, with Sierra Leone having the lowest HDI ranking in the world.
Poverty is a hurdle in the way of a country's progress. One way of helping lower poverty is by educating poor people so that they can start contributing to a nation's economic development. Education teaches the poor about their rights and may show them the path to become an important part of the growth and expansion of the country. Vienna Declaration also tells this fact.
One of the most important things that is needed to make a country richer is for the Government to want to help poor people do better. Without this, it is hard for people to become better off.
Puppet on a Chain (movie)
Puppet on a Chain is a 1970 British Dutch crime thriller movie directed by Geoffrey Reeve and Don Sharp. It was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Alastair MacLean. It stars Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Perkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen, Vladek Sheybal, Ania Marson, Stewart F. Lane, Drewe Henley, Henny Orri, Gerry Crampton and Arnold Diamond.
List of rulers of Wales
After
Technically Wales didn't become a country and remained part of England until 1998 until the act of Devolution in 1998 making it it's own country although remaining part of the United Kingdom.
SS Joseph L. Hurd
SS Joseph L. Hurd was a wooden steam ship built in Detroit, Michigan, in 1869.
Career
The Joseph L. Hurd was first used in Detroit on September 15, 1869, starting on the Detroit and Saginaw route. She later crashed with the Cayuga in 1895, sinking the newer steel ship and killing one crew member. The Joseph L. Hurd started carrying stone in October 1904, and she became a barge in 1907.
Encyclopédie
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772. The full title was Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres, mis en ordre par M. Diderot de l'Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Prusse, et quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d'Alembert de l'Académie royale des Sciences de Paris, de celle de Prusse et de la Société royale de Londres.
Greding
Greding is a town in Roth, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 28 km southeast of Roth bei Nürnberg and 32 km north of Ingolstadt.
Encyclopédie
The Encyclopédie was conceived as a translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). In 1743, the translation was given by the Parisian book publisher André Le Breton to John Mills, an Englishman living in France. In May 1745, Le Breton announced the work as available for sale, but Mills had not done the work. Le Breton beat Mills with a cane. Mills sued for assault, but Le Breton was set free because he was justified. For his new editor, Le Breton chose mathematician Jean Paul de Gua de Malves. In August 1747, Gua de Malves was fired for being a poor leader. Le Breton then hired Diderot and Jean d'Alembert as the new editors. Diderot would remain editor for the next twenty-five years, seeing the Encyclopédie through to completion.
Greding
Geography
Greding is in the south-eastern corner of Middle Franconia. The municipal area borders on two neighbouring Bavarian districts, Eichstätt and Neumarkt, and also on the two regions of Upper Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. Greding is about 32 km north of the city of Ingolstadt on the A9 Autobahn (junction 57).
Encyclopédie
Contributors
Many of the most noted figures of the French Enlightenment contributed to the Encyclopédie, including Voltaire, Rousseau, and Baron d'Holbach. The most prolific contributor wrote 17,266 articles, or about eight per day, between 1759 and 1765.
Greding
Geography
Greding stands on the river Schwarzach in the Altmühl Valley Nature Park. Two hills around the town are the Kalvarienberg and the Galgenberg.
Encyclopédie
Statistics
Approximate size of the Encyclopédie:
Greding
Geography
The township of Greding includes the villages of Attenhofen, Birkhof, Esselberg, Euerwang, Grafenberg, Großhöbing, Günzenhofen, Hausen, Heimbach, Herrnsberg, Hofberg, Kaising, Kleinnottersdorf, Kraftsbuch, Landerzhofen, Linden, Mettendorf, Obermässing, Österberg, Röckenhofen, Schutzendorf, Untermässing and Viehhausen.
Encyclopédie
Statistics
Print run: 4,250 copies (note: even single-volume works in the 18th Century seldom had a print run of more than 1,500 copies)
Greding
Geography
Neighbouring municipalities are Beilngries, Berching, Dietfurt an der Altmühl, Freystadt, Hilpoltstein, Kinding and Thalmässing.
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Minnesota State University, Mankato (Minnesota State) is the largest and second oldest university in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. It is one of the largest universities in Minnesota. The nickname for the sports teams is the Mavericks. Minnesota State is located in Mankato, Minnesota a city southwest of the Twin Cities. It has a big business impact on southern Minnesota. Its stadium was where the Vikings came to practice in the summer. It was also linked to the Coach (TV series). Its sports teams have won several national championships at the National Collegiate Athletics Association's Division II level. Minnesota State University, Mankato
Rikiya Kawamae
Rikiya Kawamae (born 20 August 1971) is a former Japanese football player.
Nihon Shoki
Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), also known as the Nihongi (日本紀), is an early book about the history of Japan up to 720 A.D. It is one of the national history books which are together called the Rikkokushi.
History
Nihon Shoki is the second oldest book of classical Japanese mythology and history. It includes details that are not in the Kojiki, which is the oldest historical record of ancient Japan.
Dates in the Nihon Shoki before the late 7th century were likely recorded using the Genka calendar system.
Hausen, Greding
Hausen is a village in the town Greding in Roth in Middle Franconia in Bavaria.
Geography
The small village on the Schwarzach and in the Altmühl Valley Nature Park.
Ameesha Patel
Ameesha Patel (born Amisha Amit Patel on June 9, 1976) is an Indian actress, producer, and model who mainly appears in Bollywood films. She has also appeared in a few Telugu films and one Tamil film. She is notable for lots of films, including and especially her debut film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai. She has won a Filmfare Award for films like her debut film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Humraaz, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
East Bergholt
East Bergholt is a village and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England. In 2001, there were 2,689 people living in East Bergholt.
Jason Marcano
Jason Marcano (30 December 1983 – 30 May 2019) was a Trinidadian footballer. He played as a forward.
On 30 May 2019, Marcano was killed in a car crash near Arouca.
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. It is near the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is made up of nearly 2900 coral reefs and over 600 islands. It is 327,800 km2 big and 2600 km long. It has been listed an important World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest structure made by living things. It can be seen from outer space. The Reefs are threatened. The biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef today is coral bleaching caused by high sea water temperatures as a result of global warming. During 2016, the worst die-off ever recorded occurred, due to seas warming around the Great Barrier Reef. Two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in nine months were killed.
Geology
The Reef Research Centre has found the remains of coral that are half a million years old. Corals have been growing in the region for as long as 25 million years. The corals have not always formed coral reefs.
It is difficult to work out the age of the Great Barrier Reef. This is because of the way a reef can grow and shrink as the sea level changes. A coral reef can grow in diameter, that is how wide they are, from 1 to 2 cm per year. They can also grow upwards from 1 to 15 cm per year. Coral can not grow if the water is too deep (150 metres or more) because it needs light from the sun. They cannot grow out of the water (above sea level).
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Australian Institute of Marine Science say the current, living reef started growing about 20,000 years ago. It started to grow on an older reef. This makes the beginning of the reef duringay. The land that forms the bottom of the Great Barrier Reef was a coastal plain. The plain had some large hills. Some of these hills were parts of older reefs.
From 20,000 years ago until 6,000 years the sea level began to rise. As it rose, the corals could grow higher on the hills of the coastal plain. 13,000 years ago the sea level was 60 metres lower than the present day. Corals began to grow around the hills of the coastal plain. These became continental islands. As the sea level rose higher, most of these continental islands were covered by water. The corals could then grow over the hills. This formed the present cays and reefs. Sea level on the Great Barrier Reef has not risen much in the last 6,000 years. The CRC Reef Research Centre has worked out that the present, living reef is 6,000 to 8,000 years old.
The remains of a very old barrier reef has been found in the Kimberley area. This is in the northern part of Western Australia.
Ecology
The Great Barrier Reef has 1,500 species of fish, and many other animals, algae, and corals. This includes many vulnerable or endangered species. Some of these exist only on this reef system.
Mammals
Thirty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises have been seen in the Great Barrier Reef. This includes the dwarf minke whale, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, and the humpback whale. Most of the population of the dugongs live there.