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Elizabeth Cotten
Life
She went on touring and recording well into her 80s. In 1984 she won the Grammy Award for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording" for her album on Arhoolie Records, "Elizabeth Cotten Live". Her songs were covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Laura Gibson, Laura Veirs, His Name Is Alive and Taj Mahal.
Will o' the wisp
A will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus (Medieval Latin: "foolish fire") is a ghostly light. It is seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
Usually will o' the wisp looks like a ball of light or a small flame. UFOs and some ghost lights are different, they are usually in the sky while will o' the wisps are near ground.
It looks like a flickering lamp and is said to go farther back if approached. This draws travellers from the safe paths. This is a folk belief in a lot of English folklore and in much of European folklore. They are often said to be the work of fairies or elemental spirits. Some people think will o' the wisps are souls, spirits or spaceships.
Bruce Lanoil
Bruce Lanoil (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor, voice actor and puppeteer. He plays various puppets for both The Jim Henson Company and The Walt Disney Company. He often works with the British puppeteer David Alan Barclay.
Will o' the wisp
Scientists try to use a natural explanation. Some say they are a gas, like methane, that goes up from the ground and burns. Other people say they are electric things, like ball lightning. One flying ball of light was explained: it was an owl that had a bright stomach. Sometimes animals or fungus make some light - this is called bioluminescence by scientists or foxfire. Sometimes diphosphine (P2H4) is also produced over marshes, which are highly flammable. Therefore, it burns in air and causes a flickering glow.
There are many old and new stories about will o' the wisps around the world. These lights have different names in different cultures and languages. Some of the names are jack-o'-lantern, hinkypunk, hobby lantern in English.
Sheave (mechanical)
A sheave (pronounced "sheev") is a wheel or roller with a groove along its edge for holding a belt, rope or cable. When hung between two supports with a belt, rope or cable, one or more sheaves make up a pulley. The words sheave and pulley are sometimes used interchangeably.
Cebuano language
Cebuano (also referred to as Bisaya) is one of the main languages spoken in the Philippines. About 20,000,000 people speak this language. Cebuano is a member of the Visayan language family.
While Tagalog has more speakers than any other language in the Philippines today, Cebuano was the most widely spoken language in the Philippines from the 1950s until the 1980s. Cebuano is by far the most widely spoken of the Visayan languages.
It is the most spoken language by many people in the Central Visayas, western parts of the Eastern Visayas, some western parts of Palawan and most parts of Mindanao. Cebuano is one of the three main Visayan languages, along with Waray and Hiligaynon, which are more closely related to it.
Name
The name of the language comes from the Philippine island of Cebu, suffixed with the Spanish -ano (meaning nature, or a location). In other words, the language is more commonly called Bisaya. However, this can cause confusion among non-native speakers, as there are many other languages called Bisaya even though they cannot be understood by people who speak what linguists call Cebuano. In this sense, Cebuano applies to all speakers of the language who come from Cebu island, regardless of where they live now, as well as to the language they speak.
Some people do not like the term Cebuano. For example, many Cebuano speakers in Leyte, Bohol, and Northern Mindanao (Dipolog, Dapitan, Misamis Occidental, and Misamis Oriental, as well as in coastal areas of Butuan) say that their ancestors were Cebuano speakers who were native to their area, not immigrants or settlers from the Visayas. Also, they want to call themselves as Bisaya and their language Binisaya rather than Cebuano.
Cebuano numbers
Cebuano has two numeral systems. The native system is mostly used for counting things, like animals or houses. The Spanish system is only used for money and time. It is also used for counting from 11 and up.
Hornoy-le-Bourg
Hornoy-le-Bourg is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Walperswil
Walperswil is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Alyssa Jeong Perry
Alyssa Jeong Perry is an American journalist. She won a 2018 Sidney Award.
Dravidian peoples
The Dravidian peoples are a people who speak Dravidian languages.
Ancient Dravidians and origin
According to scientists and historians, the Dravidian people are descendants of Neolithic West Asian farmers from Iran which conquered and largely displaced the outnumbered native hunter gatherers of India. Dravidians are linked to the neolithic Zagros Mountain farmers, and this West Asian population forms the main ancestor of modern South Asians.
Today
Today there are around 220 million Dravidian speakers worldwide. Most live in South India. Others live in parts of Central India, Eastern India, Bangladesh, Southern Pakistan, Sri Lanka the Maldives and Nepal. The biggest groups of Dravidians are the Tamil people, Telugu people, Kannada people, and the Malayali people. Smaller Dravidian communities with 1–5 million speakers are the Tulu people, Gondi people and Brahui people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
List of Major League Baseball teams by payroll
This is a list of Major League Baseball teams, ranked by their total salary as of 2008.
John Britton
John Henry Britton (1923 London – 5 June 2004) was a English and Kenyan Paralympic swimmer. He later moved to the United States and worked as a teacher.
Life
Britton became paralyzed in 1966. It was caused by a fall at his home. He represented Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Paralympics where he had won a gold medal in freestyle swimming.
Arakkal Museum
The Arrakkal Museum is a museum dedicated to the Arakkal family, the only Muslim royal family in Kerala, South India. The museum is actually a section of the Arakkalkettu(Arakkal Royal Palace). The durbar hall section of the palace has been converted into a museum by the Government of Kerala. It was opened in July 2005 after a Rs. 9,000,000 renovation.
Although renovated by the government, the Arakkalkettu is still owned by the Arakkal Royal Trust and does not fall under the control of the country's archaeology department, the Archaeological Survey of India. The government had taken a keen interest in preserving the heritage of the Arakkal Family, which had played a prominent role in the history of Malabar. A nominal entry fee is charged by the Arakkal Royal Trust from visitors to the museum.
Location
The Arakkal Museum is in Ayikkara, next to the Kannur City. It is 2-3 kilometres from Kannur town.
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder is a 1974 American drama movie directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, George Marshall, Lawrence Pressman. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
BIJ1
BIJ1 is a political party in The Netherlands. It supports racial equality and combats discrimination.
BIJ1 was established in 2016 with the Dutch name Artikel 1 and renamed as BIJ1 in 2017. The word bijeen (bij1) in the Dutch language means together.
The number of seats in the 2021 elections: 1.
Jasminum officinale
Jasminum officinale is the common Jasmine. It is in the family Oleaceae. It is famous for its scent. It is also known as Poet's Jasmine or jessamine.
Garden history
For thousands of years, the Jasmine has been cultivated not only for the beauty of its small, white, star-like flowers, but also for its intoxicating scent.
It is native to the foothills of the Western Himalayas and the Indus Valley plains of the Pakistani Punjab. The plant was cultivated and brought to the rest of the Indian subcontinent, China, the Middle East and other regions of Asia. From there, it spread into France, Italy and the Mediterranean, and eventually it was introduced to the rest of Western Europe and Britain. Today, Jasmine is grown and cultivated all over the world in its many varieties.
Since Jasmine has been cultivated all over the world for its flowers and scent, there are different varieties, and each type of Jasmine is associated with different meanings. In Pakistan, Jasmine is a very common plant and one can find it in any garden. Because of its attractive scent, the white Jasmine symbolizes attachment and represents amiability and modesty; therefore, Jasmine is named as the National flower of Pakistan respectively.
Noxubee County, Mississippi
Noxubee County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, 11,545 people lived there. Its county seat is Macon.
Padmavati
Padmini, also known as Padmavati, was a legendary 13th–14th century Indian queen (Rani). Several 16th-century texts mention her, of which the earliest source is Padmavat. Padmavat is an epic fictionalized poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi in 1540 CE. The Jayasi text describes her story as follows: Padmavati was an exceptionally beautiful princess of the Singhal kingdom (Sri Lanka). Ratan Sen, the Rajput ruler of Chittor Fort, heard about her beauty from a talking parrot named Hiraman. After an adventurous quest, he won her hand in marriage and brought her to Chittor. Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi, also heard about her beauty, and laid siege to Chittor to obtain her. Many events occurred during the period of the siege, till the fort was finally taken. Meanwhile, Ratan Sen was killed in a duel with Devpal, the king of Kumbhalner, who was also enamoured with Padmavati's beauty. Before Alauddin Khalji could capture Chittor, Padmavati and her companions committed Jauhar (self-immolation) to protect their honour. After her sacrifice, the Rajput men died fighting on the battlefield. There is also a Bollywood movie called " Padmavati " which explains the story very well.
Many other written and oral tradition versions of her life exist in Hindu and Jain traditions. These versions differ from the Sufi poet Jayasi's version. For example, Rani Padmani's husband Ratan Sen dies fighting the siege of Alauddin Khalji, and thereafter she leads a jauhar. In these versions, she is characterised as a Hindu Rajput queen, who defended her honour against a Muslim invader. Over the years, she came to be seen as a historical figure, and appeared in several novels, plays, television serials and movies. However, while Khalji's siege of Chittor in 1303 CE is a historical event, many modern historians question the authenticity of the Padmini legends.
Rufoclanis numosae
Rufoclanis numosae, the wavy polyptychus, is a type of moth. They are part of the family of Sphingidae. The species was first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1860. They are found in savanna in of eastern and southern Africa.
Its forewings are 22–30mm for males. The forewings are 34–36 mm for females. Their the wingspan is from 54–58mm. The wings are greyish pinkish brown to light brown.
Chuck E. Cheese
Charles Entertainment Cheese is a franchise of arcades and restaurants. Their restaurants have small rides, pizza (a central focus), and arcade / skill games. It was previously called Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (1977–1991).
In most of their stores, they operate animatronic robot characters which sing songs and play instruments.
Created in 1977 in San Jose, California by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, it started out as Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre. In 1984, CEC got bought out by Then-competitor ShowBiz Pizza Place from Topeka, Kansas and changed their corporate name to "ShowBiz Pizza Time". In 1989, Brock Hotel Management(then owners of SPT) sold it's "Monterrey's Tex-Mex Cafe" brand to them and spun off SPT into a separate company. In 1991, all ShowBiz and Pizza Time stores re-branded as "Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza" and in 1998 SPT changed their corporate name to "CEC Entertainment". In 1999, CECE bought out their primary competitor, Discovery Zone and in 2014 they bought the "Peter Piper's Pizza" chain. In 2013, CECE got bought by Apollo Global Management as was / is put up for sale.
CECE's headquarters are in Irving, Texas and have 590 CEC store locations worldwide.
In September 2020, it was announced that Charles Entertainment Cheese is developing a live-action movie and an animated television series.
Charles R. Larson
Charles Robert Larson (November 20, 1936 – July 26, 2014) was an American four-star Admiral of the United States Navy.
A 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Larson twice served as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He also served as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command (CINCPAC).
Larson died in his home in Annapolis, Maryland, after a two-year battle with leukemia at the age of 77.
Sattar Oraki
Sattar Oraki (, born 5 May 1969) is an Iranian Composer.
He has scored Academy Award-winning movies such as A Separation and The Salesman. Oraki is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Oconto County, Wisconsin
Oconto County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. There were 35,634 people living in Oconto county as of the year 2000. The county seat is Oconto.
Geography
The county has an area of 1,149 square miles, says the United States Census Bureau.
Solar Hijri Calendar
The Solar Hijri calendar is the official calendar of Iran. It is only used in Iran and Afghanistan. The name of the calendar is abbreviated as SH. It is also called the Solar Hejri calendar and (لمريز لېږدیز کلیز).
Its year begins on the March equinox (Nowruz) at the Iranian standard meridian (52.5°E, UTC+03:30). Each year is 365 or 366 days long.
Each of the twelve months corresponds with a zodiac sign. The first six months have 31 days, the next five have 30 days, and the last month has 29 days in usual years but 30 days in leap years. Its New Year's Day (1 Nowruz) always falls on the March equinox.
Paul Schell
Paul Schell (Paul Schlachtenhaufen; October 8, 1937 – July 27, 2014) was an American politician. He served as the 50th Mayor of Seattle, Washington. He served as mayor from 1998 to 2002.
Schell died at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
Daniel Selvaraj
D. Selvaraj (டி. செல்வராஜ்; 14 January 1938 – 20 December 2019) was a Tamil writer. He was the author of a number of novels, short stories, and plays in Tamil. He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best Novel for 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled "Thol". He also won the Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil in 2012.
Selvaraj died on 20 December 2019 from an illness at a private hospital in Chennai at the age of 81.
The Committee on Credentials
The Committee on Credentials is a 1916 American silent western movie directed by George Marshall and starring Harry Carey, George Berrell, Neal Hart, Joe Rickson, Olive Carey. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Quinton Lucas
Quinton Donald Lucas (born August 19, 1984) is an American politician. He is the 55th and current mayor of Kansas City, Missouri since 2019. He is the city's third African-American mayor. He was a law school professor.
104.6 RTL
104.6 RTL is a German radio station. It first aired on 9 September, 1991. It broadcasts in Berlin and is aimed at the 14-49 age group. The studios are at the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 2005 the radio channel was awarded the German Radio Award for the best morning show.
Rob Halford
Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English singer-songwriter. He was born in Sutton Coldfield and raised in Walsall. He is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed "Metal God". He is also credited as being the first openly gay mainstream heavy metal star when he came out as gay in 1998.
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980 in Košice, Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia) is a Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She is known as the "Swiss Miss". She has won five Grand Slam singles titles, three at the Australian Open (1997 to 1999), one at Wimbledon (1997) and one at the U.S. Open (1997). She is a dominant player in doubles, winning 10 Grand Slam doubles titles and 3 mixed doubles titles.
Rob Halford
Rob almost exclusively now works with producer Mike Exeter when creating new music having met him whilst working on the Redeemer of Souls album with Judas Priest.
Martina Hingis
Hingis has retired twice from the game. The first time was in 2002, when she was struggling with injuries and was only 22. She returned to tennis in 2005, but retired two years later after sustaining more injuries. A blood test had also proved that she was using cocaine, an illegal drug. In 2013, she returned to playing doubles and became a tennis coach. She won the 2015 Wimbledon doubles title together with Sania Mirza, 19 years after winning her first Wimbledon doubles title in 1996.
She was a contestant in the 2009 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Mountain gazelle
The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is a species of gazelle. It lives in many parts of Egypt, israel, Turkey and across the Arabian Peninsula. It lives in mountains, foothills, and coastal plains. It is the National animal of Palestine.
Description
Mountain gazelles are one of the few mammals, where the male and female have horns. Males have bigger horns with rings around them. Females also have horns, but they are thinner and shorter. Mountain gazelles are sexually dimorphic, which means that males are larger than females. Male can weigh from 17-29.5 kg. Females can weigh 16–25 kg. Mountain gazelles can run up to 80 km/h (50 mph).
Habitat
Gazelles have adapted to live in dry, desert-like places. They spend most of their time at the top of mountains and hills. Mountain gazelles prefer to sleep on the tops of hills/mountains to avoid the heat in the day. Around dawn and dusk, they will be found leaving the hills to eat in light forests, fields, or desert plateaus.
Feeding
It is a grazing species, though this varies with the amount of food available. They can survive for a long time without a source of water. During that time, they get freshwater from succulent plants and dew from plants.
Hyencourt-le-Grand
Hyencourt-le-Grand is a former commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Hypercourt.
BoOzy’ OS and the Cristal Gem
BoOzy’ OS and the Cristal Gem (also simply known as The Cristal Gem) is a French animated short film set in Annecy. The film was directed by J.K. Arsyn. It was produced by RED ƎYE Productions and distributed by CreaSyn Studio. It was released on the Internet on April 14, 2013. It was shown for the first time in theatres at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on April 15, 2013.
The film arrived first at the "+ de courts! Online animation film contest by Annecy" event that was organized by Dailymotion, Cartoon Network Studios and Annecy.
The title is a reference to the Annecy award which is called "the Annecy Cristal" (le Cristal d'Annecy).
Summary
A muscular prehistoric man named BoOzy’ OS is searching for the Annecy Cristal. He is helped by OSmic the Hedge’ OS and some friends. Together, they will have to face Mari’ OS and Rob’ OSmic.
Video games
The film parodies video game characters such as Earthworm Jim, Sonic the Hedgehog, Doctor Robotnik, Mario and the “lost souls” from Doom.
Cinema
The film also parodies movies. A lot of parodic movie posters are include in the film.
There is also a wink to the animated part of Jan Kounen's 99 Francs in the film. Most of J.K. Arsyn's works are cited in the film: The Cockbite, The Cockbitanga, The Cockbitosaurus, Cow Hard, Melting Cop, Stop-and-Cop, SynCop and K. Arsyn's Synaude.
Irene Fuhrmann
Irene Fuhrmann is a former football player. She played as midfielder for USC Landhaus Wien and was a member of the Austrian national team. In the League she played 129 matches and scored 45 goals.
Smoothie
Smoothies are similar to milk shakes. Milk shakes are also a cold drink made with an electric blender. Milk shakes are usually made with milk, ice cream, and sweet syrups, such as chocolate syrup.
BoOzy’ OS and the Cristal Gem
Literature
A character named Tarz’ OS parodies Tarzan. This passage takes place in the jungle.
Irene Fuhrmann
After ending her career she started a managing career. She currently serves as the coach of the Austrian national team. She started with a 5:0 win versus Kasachstan in the qualification for the EURO 2022.
BoOzy’ OS and the Cristal Gem
Production
The idea to create the film was born on March 4, 2013, following an announcement from the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Development of the film began at RED ƎYE Studios in Roanne, near Lyon on March 5, 2013. The film was made in 38 days. It was finished on April 14, 2013.
There are more than 1,300 graphics in the film. They were made with Adobe Illustrator. The film was edited and animated with Adobe After Effects using a Dual-Core with 2 GiB of RAM. The computer was not able to display the result in real time.
Soundtrack
BoOzy’ OS and the Cristal Gem’ OSt is the soundtrack album for the movie. It was made by Synth of Rage. It was composed by J.K. Arsyn and performed by Axel “XLR” Rock. It is inspired by video game music (Streets of Rage, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Donkey Kong Country).
Release dates
The film was released on the Internet on April 14, 2013, before being shown in theatres.
Niedergösgen
Niedergösgen is a municipality in the district Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
Dragonfly
Dragonflies are flying insects of the order Odonata. There are about 5,300 species of dragonfly. The adults eat other flying insects.
Dragonflies have large compound eyes, which is their main sense organ. They have four strong transparent wings, and a long body.
Dragonflies are usually found around lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands. They are predators which eat mosquitoes, and other small insects such as flies, bees, ants, and butterflies. Their larvae, known as 'nymphs', are aquatic. They are also carnivorous.
Because their legs are adapted to grab prey in the air, they are not adapted for moving on land. Once they perch, they rarely use their legs for walking.
Dragonflies have been around for 300 million years. In the rain forests of the Carboniferous and Permian periods, some species had wingspans of over 2 ft. Oxygen levels were quite high at that time.
Dragonflies and damselflies
Dragonflies are in one suborder of the Odonata, and their relatives, the damselflies, are in another suborder. Some people mistake the damselfly for the dragonfly, because they look similar.
Adult damselflies have thinner, more delicate bodies than those of dragonflies. This you can see even when they are flying. When at rest, most damselflies hold their wings together above the body. Most dragonflies hold their wings horizontally. The eyes of dragonflies are larger, and touch each other. The eyes of damselflies are separated. Many damselflies live in groups close to a river. Taken together, these points are usually enough to distinguish the two groups.
Reproduction
Female dragonflies lay eggs in or near water, often on plants. When laying eggs, some species go under the water to lay their eggs on a good surface. The eggs then hatch into nymphs. While in the nymph stage they eat mosquito larvae and other things.
Most of a dragonfly's life is spent in the nymph form, beneath the water's surface. It is quite active. It can extend its jaws in front of its mouth to catch prey. Tiny vertebrates such as tadpoles and fish are part of its diet. Some nymphs even hunt on land. They draw water in and out of their rectum. They can move fast by squirting water out of the anus. They also have gills in their rectum.
Larvae
The larval stage of large dragonflies may last as long as five years. In smaller species, this stage may last between two months and three years. When the larva is ready to metamorphose into an adult, it climbs up a reed or other emergent plant. Exposure to air causes the larva to begin breathing. The skin splits at a weak spot behind the head and the adult dragonfly crawls out of its old larval skin, pumps up its wings, and flies off to feed on midges and flies. The adult stage of larger species of dragonfly can last as long as five or six months.
Dragonflies experience incomplete metamorphosis: the nymphs (called naiads) swim and live underwater, like fish. The female dragonfly lays her fertilized eggs near or right in the water. The naiads – which do not look much like dragonflies at all – hatch and immediately take to the water. While living in the water, the naiads eat as many aquatic insects as possible, as well as other small creatures like tadpoles and minnows. Hidden among the plants, a naiad will lie in wait for prey to swim by. It can then squeeze water out of the rear of its abdomen like a jet stream. This moves the naiad forward very quickly, allowing it to snatch its prey with its powerful jaws. Some naiads even have a long lower jaw that can shoot out and grab prey.
Naiads live in the water for weeks (or even years in some species) and undergo a series of moults to grow. When a naiad is ready for its final moult, it finds a stick or other object sticking out of the water. It use this to crawl out of the water, and wait for its exoskeleton to dry. As the exoskeleton cracks open at the seam, the adult dragonfly crawls out.
Eyesight
Dragonflies have tremendous eyesight. Their compound eyes are very large and have up to 50,000 individual lenses. Their eyes wrap around the top of the head. As a result, they have a wide field of vision: they can see almost everywhere at once. Sight is by far their most important sense, used to catch flies and avoid birds.
Flight
In flight the adult dragonfly can move in six directions; upward, downward, forward, back, and side to side. They can also hover quite well in midair, and then they can take off at speeds of up to 35 mph. Scientists discovered dragonflies can move each of their four wings independently which gives them their flying abilities. Dragonflies bend and twist their wings to cause little whirlwinds that move the air even faster over the upper part of the airfoil, reducing air pressure even more than most flying animals can. This gives them a lot of lift, even in the face of powerful winds.
The flight style of different families of dragonfly is one of their distinguishing features. It gives rise to some terms which are widely used by dragonfly observers:
Hawkers (family Aeshnidae). They are among the largest and fastest flying dragonflies. The adults live mostly in the air, and even mate in flight. They have large and powerful wings, and can fly forwards or backwards or hover like a helicopter. The wings are always extended horizontally.
Skimmers or perchers are the very large family Libellulidae. There are several flight styles amongst its genera. The genus Sympetrum lives in the northern hemisphere and has 50 species. It breeds in ponds and searches over meadows. There are at least 100 other genera.
Cruisers (family Macromiidae). They usually fly over bodies of water (and roads) straight down the middle. They have green eyes which just barely meet at the top of the head. Females of this family lack an ovipositor at the end of the abdomen and lay their eggs by dipping the abdomen in the water as they fly over.
Thermoregulation
Some dragonflies adjust their resting position to prevent overheating. They may use a handstand-like position to prevent overheating on sunny days. The abdomen is raised until its tip points at the sun, minimizing their surface area exposed to the heat. The position is called the obelisk posture. The species that do this are called 'perchers'; they are "sit and wait" predators which spend much of their time keeping still.
Predation
There are predators which eat dragonflies. The birds known a bee-eaters do regularly take dragonflies. Also, despite their good eyesight, dragonflies apparently cannot see spiders' webs, so they get caught there.
Pertain
Pertain is a former commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Hypercourt.
Rachel Clarke
Rachel Clarke is a published author and medical doctor. She specialises in palliative care for the National_Health_Service (NHS) in England. From 2015 Dr Clarke has had an active voice in the debate regarding junior doctors' pay rights in the United Kingdom, appearing in multiple television debates on this issue.
Biography
Before re-training as a doctor at age 29, Rachel Clarke worked as a journalist. She produced and directed current-affairs documentaries. Some of these documentaries focused on subjects such as Al-Qaeda, the Gulf War and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, otherwise known as the Second Congo War.
Clarke's activism began when the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, wanted to impose a new contract upon junior doctors. Dr Clarke campaigned against the government, arguing in print and on screen that imposition would irrevocably damage the NHS. Her debut book Your Life In My Hands was published by John Blake in July 2017.
Jonathan Tunick
Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is one of sixteen people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards.
He is best known for his work with Stephen Sondheim, starting in 1970 with Company. He was born in New York City.
Vasile Blaga
Vasile Blaga (b. 26 July 1956, Petrileni ) is a Romanian politician. He was a Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, a former Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice former Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs.
On 28 November 2011, Blaga was appointed President of the Senate of Romania. He was removed as President of the Senate on July 3, 2012
Thomas Chandy
Thomas Chandy (29 October 1947 – 20 December 2019) was an Indian businessman and politician. He was born in Chennamkary, Kerala, India. Chandy was a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 until his death. In 2017, he was the Minister of Transport of Kerala. Chandy was a member of the Nationalist Congress Party.
Chandy died of stomach cancer at a hospital in Ernakulam, Kerala on 20 December 2019 at the age of 72.
Árpád Pusztai
Árpád János Pusztai (8 September 1930 – 17 December 2021) was a Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist. He worked for 36 years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was an expert on plant lectins. He wrote over 270 papers and three books on the subject. Pusztai was born in Budapest, Hungary.
Battle of Uclés (1108)
The Battle of Uclés was on 29 May 1108. It was during the Reconquista period near the city of Uclés, south of the river of Tagus. It was fought between the Christians of Castile and León. They were commanded under Alfonso VI. The other side was the Muslim Almoravids. They were under the command of Tamim ibn-Yusuf. The battle ended very badly for the Christians.
Árpád Pusztai
In 1998, Pusztai said that the results of his research showed feeding genetically modified potatoes to rats had negative effects on their stomach lining and immune system. He was criticized and many universities stopped supporting his research. This became known as the Pusztai affair.
Pusztai died on 17 December 2021 at the age of 91.
Hijra Farsi
Hijra Farsi is a secret language spoken by South-Asian hijra and koti communities. Hijras are a marginalized transgender community living in sequestered groups in many cities of India and Pakistan. The language, also known as Koti Farsi, is spoken by the hijra community throughout Pakistan and North India (except West Bengal). It is based on Hindustani and not Farsi, as suggested by the name. The sentence structure is similar to Urdu with noticeable distinctions. Hijra Farsi is mainly spoken by Muslim Hijras.
Wind
Wind is the flow of gases. On Earth, wind is mostly the movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or particles from the sun through space. The strongest winds seen on a planet in our solar system are on Neptune and Saturn.
Short bursts of fast winds are called gusts. Strong winds that go on for about one minute are called squalls. Winds that go on for a long time are called many different things, such as breeze, gale, hurricane, and typhoon.
Wind can move land, especially in deserts. Cold wind can sometimes have a bad effect on livestock. Wind also affects animals' food stores, their hunting and the way they protect themselves.
Sunlight drives the Earth's atmospheric circulation. The resulting winds blow over land and sea, producing weather.
A High pressure area (that makes an anticyclone) near a low pressure system (that makes a cyclone), makes air move from the high pressure to the low pressure to try to even out the pressures. The Coriolis effect causes the winds to spiral around. A big difference in pressure can make high winds. In some storms, such as hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, or tornadoes, it can cause winds faster than 200 mph (320 kilometres per hour ). This can damage houses and other buildings, and can kill people.
Wind can also be caused by the rising of hot air, or the falling of cool air. When hot air rises, it creates a low pressure underneath it, and air moves in to equalize the pressure. When cold air drops (because it is denser or heavier than warm air), it creates a high pressure, and flows out to even out the pressure with the low pressure around it.
Anne Dorthe Ysland
Anne Dorthe Ysland (born 9 April 2002) is a Norwegian cyclist.
Wind
The increase in wind causes an increase in the rate of evaporation.
Anne Dorthe Ysland
She competed at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, in the women's road race event.
Wind
Damage
High winds can cause damage depending on how strong they are. Sometimes gusts of wind can make poorly made bridges move or be destroyed, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. Electric power distribution can fail because of wind, even if its speed is as low as 23 kn. This happens when tree branches damage power lines. No kind of tree can resist hurricane-force winds, but trees with roots that are not very deep can be blown over more easily. Trees such as eucalyptus, sea hibiscus, and avocado are brittle (easy to break) and are damaged more easily.
Preity Zinta
Preity G Zinta (pronounced ; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian actress and businesswoman. Her first movie roles were in Dil Se.. in 1998, followed by a role in Soldier in the same year.
Wind
Trade winds
The trade winds are  the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere. They occur in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator. The trade winds blow predominantly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere. They blow from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere. They are stronger during the winter and when the Arctic oscillation is in its warm phase. Trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries. They enabled European empire expansion into the America s. They also allowed trade routes to become established across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Preity Zinta
She is known for her role as a teenage single mother in Kya Kehna (2000). She also got a lot of credit for her roles in films such as Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (2001), Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Dil Hai Tumhaara (2002), and Armaan (2003), and she especially won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003). She also played leading roles in the science fiction film Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and the romantic drama Veer-Zaara (2004), which were the two consecutive top-grossing films in India for her. She also played other roles like a modern Indian woman in both Salaam Namaste (2005) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), which were the highest grossing productions in the overseas markets.
Wind
Trade winds
The doldrums are in the equatorial region. It is a wind belt where air is warm, with little pressure variation s. Winds are light there. Another name for doldrums is Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
In outer space
Wind in outer space, called solar wind, is very different from a wind on earth. This wind is caused by the sun, or other stars, and it is made up of particles that came out of the star's atmosphere. Like solar wind, the planetary wind is made up of light gases that have come out of planets' atmospheres.
Fish stock (food)
Fish stock is a kind of stock used for fish dishes. It is used in French and international cuisine.
This stock is the basis of fish soups and sauces. It is usually made with fish bones and fish heads, together with finely chopped mirepoix. The fish stock is cooked for 20–25 minutes—cooking any longer spoils the flavour. Concentrated fish stock is called "fish fumet".
In Japan, a fish and kelp stock called dashi is made by briefly (3–5 minutes) cooking skipjack tuna (bonito) flakes called katsuobushi in nearly boiling water. Other Japanese fish stock is made from fish that have been fried and boiled for several hours, creating a white milky broth. This has a rich feel and sweet umami taste.
For fish stocks in other Asian cooking, see fish sauce.
Puzzle Bobble 2
Bust-A-Move 2 is the first sequel to Bust-A-Move, and is also known as Puzzle Bobble 2 outside Europe and North America. Released into the arcades in 1995, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 and PC conversions followed. The game was included in Taito Legends 2, but the US arcade version was included on US PS2 version instead. The game is a spin-off from Bubble Bobble.
Completion of the single player game gives the player a code which can be entered to unlock 'Another World' for the single player game, which features subtle changes to the existing levels to increase their difficulty and changes to all backdrops to resemble levels from Bubble Bobble. The various enemies from Bubble Bobble also make an appearance in the background of the credits sequence.
Bust-A-Move 2X
Taito later repacked Bust-A-Move 2 with an optional alternative set of levels and some new attract mode animations (including holiday-themed ones) as Bust-A-Move 2X (Also known as Puzzle Bobble 2X).
Ports of Bust-A-Move 2 to the PC and Sega Saturn are of Bust-A-Move 2X and additionally include a level editor/designer. A port of 2X was made to the PlayStation but was not released until some time after a port of Bust-A-Move 2 was released; therefore, it is not so well known.
Cover art
This game has become notorious for one version of its cover art. The original US version of the Saturn edition featured a picture of several large balls with screaming, blue, human faces with white sticks forcing their eyes open. This cover earned it a place on Gamespy.com's Top Ten Worst Covers list.
Nongpok
"Nongpok" (a Meitei language word for "Eastern direction") may refer to:
Invasive
Invasive may refer to:
Gummo
Gummo is a 1997 teenage drama movie. Harmony Korine wrote and directed the movie. Gummo is set in Xenia, Ohio, a Midwestern town that was devastated by a tornado.
Emily Michot
Emily Michot is an American journalist. She won a Sidney Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Esserman-Knight Journalism Prize, and the 2019 Anthony Shadid Award.
Gummo
The movie was shot in Nashville, Tennessee under a budget of $1 million. It was not given a large theatrical release. Because of that,Gummo failed to bring in much money. Reviews on the movie from the critics were mixed.
Emily Michot
She is a videographer for the Miami Herald. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Gummo
Plot
A young boy named Solomon narrates events from the tornado that went through the small town of Xenia, Ohio. A mute adolescent boy, nicknamed Bunny Boy, wears only tennis shoes, shorts and pink bunny ears on an overpass in the rain.
A boy named Tummler, who is also a friend for Solomon, carries a cat by its neck. He drowns the cat in a barrel of water. Gummo then cuts into a different scene with Tummler in a wrecked car with a girl. They fondle one another. Tummler realizes there is a lump on one of the girl's breast's. Tummler and Solomon then ride down on a hill on bicycles.
Yuri Bondarev
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Ю́рий Васи́льевич Бо́ндарев, 15 March 1924 – 29 March 2020) was a Soviet-born Russian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. He was born in Orsk, Soviet Union. His best known novels were novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959). He was best known for writing the scripts of the Liberation movie series (1968–71). He was twice honored with the Order of Lenin.
Gummo
Plot
Later, Tummler points an air rifle at another cat. Solomon stops him from killing the cat and says it was a housecat. The boys leave. The camera then follows the cat to its owners' house. The cat is owned by three sisters, two are teenagers, the third has not gone through puberty yet.
The movie later cuts to a scene in which two foul-mouthed boys dressed as cowboys destroy things in a junkyard. Bunny Boy comes. The other boys shoot him "dead" using cap guns. Bunny Boy plays dead. The boys curse at him, go through his pockets and remove one of his shows. The boys later get bored of it. Bunny Boy is left on the ground
Minecraft Dungeons
Minecraft Dungeons is a game released in 2020 by Mojang Studios. Unlike the normal Minecraft, you can not jump, build, and mine in Minecraft Dungeons. In this game, you can only attack mobs and use artifacts.
Gummo
Filming
Gummo was shot in some of the poorest neighborhoods across Nashville.
The movie was shot in just four weeks in the summer of 1996.
Themes
Gummo goes over multiple issues, like vandalism, homicide, violence, drug abuse, profanity, sexual abuse, homophobia, prostitution and sexism.
Minecraft Dungeons
Downloadable contents
This game has 6 downloadable contents, and also contains mobs, puzzles, blocks, and secrets. The downloadable contents are:
Gummo
Release
The movie was first shown at the 24th Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 1997. The original rating for the movie was NC-17. It was edited so it could receive an R.
Minecraft Dungeons
Downloadable contents
Jungle Awakens, Creeping Winter, Howling Peaks, Hidden Depths, and Echoing Void has final bosses. The Flames of the Nether is the only DLC in the game without a final boss, because of a lack of the Orb of Dominance. The final boss in the Echoing Void DLC is the true final boss of Minecraft Dungeons, because it is the true final victim of the Orb of Dominance.
Gummo
Critical reception
As of 2021, Gummo holds a 38% "rotten" rating under Rotten Tomatoes with 56 reviews. Under Metacritic, the movie is rated at 19/100, which means "an overwhelming dislike".
Yuri Bondarev
Bondarev died on 29 March 2020 in Moscow at the age of 96.
Irai Ningthou
Name
The name "Irai Ningthou" literally means "King of water" or "Chief of water".
Worship
When a person gets ill after bathing in a water body, people believed that the water spirits (Irai Ningthou and his wife Irai Leima) had caught the person. To get well again, people worship the two deities. For this, the maibas perform the rites and rituals. The offerings include 2 eggs and 7 bamboo vessels filled up with rice paste.
The Thadou people also highly honour the water deities. They offer wild sacrifices like white fowl, pig, dog or he-goat to the God.
Art Buchwald
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist. He was best known for his column in The Washington Post. His columns were published nationwide in more than 500 newspapers. His columns focused on political satire and commentary.
He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Outstanding Commentary, and in 1991 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Buchwald was born in New York City. He studied at the University of Southern California. He had a cameo appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 movie To Catch a Thief.
In 1988 Buchwald sued Paramount Pictures in over the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America. Buchwald said Paramount had stolen his script. He won, was awarded damages, and accepted a settlement from Paramount.
In 2000, Buchwald had a stroke. In 2006, he had one leg amputated because of bad blood circulation caused by diabetes. Buchwald died on January 17, 2007 in Washington, D.C. of kidney failure, aged 81.
Chodov (Sokolov District)
History
Chodov was originally a Slavic settlement. Its name comes from an old Slavic term "choda", which means a road. The Slavic colonisation was not successful and in the Middle Ages this part of Bohemia was colonised by Germans. In the 12th–13th century Chodov belongs to the monastery in Waldsassen and in the 14th–17th century is ruled locally from Loket. In 1894 Chodov is declared a town and gets the right to use its own coat of arms.
From 1938 to 1945 it was one of the municipalities in Sudetenland. Until the end of World War II the town was inhabited practically only by Germans, who were exiled from Czechoslovakia after the war. In the '60s a big chemical factory was built 4 km from Chodov in Vřesová and then new districts were built for the Czech and Slovak workers who moved here.
Sights
The most significant is Church of St. Lawrence, built by the constructor Brauenbock according to the plans of the architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. On the main shrine there is a painting by the famous Czech-German artist Peter Johann Brandl. In front of the church we find a 17th-century statue of St. Sebastian and on the main square a statue of the Virgin Mary (1675). The other church in the town belongs to the Protestants, Czech Brethren. Close to the gate of the Protestant church there is a monument to war victims. It was re-erected in 1998 exactly 100 years after its first erection.
Twin towns – sister cities
Chodov is twinned with:
Mount Kyllini
Mount Kyllini or Mount Cyllene Κυλλήνη, sometimes Ζήρια, is a mountain on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. It is famous for its association with the god Hermes. Mount Kyllini rises to 2374 m above sea level. This makes it the second highest point on the peninsula. It is located near the border between the historic regions of Arcadia and Achaea—in the northeast of Arcadia. It is located west of Corinth, northwest of Stymfalia, north of Tripoli, and south of Derveni.