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2021 Samoan constitutional crisis
Court rulings had supported the election results, giving a parliamentary majority to the Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party, led by Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa. On 24 May 2021, a ceremony was held outside of Parliament to swear in Mata'afa as prime minister. On 23 July the Court of Appeal declared that the ceremony legit.
Donald Pinkel
Donald Paul Pinkel (September 7, 1926 – March 9, 2022) was an American medical doctor. He focused in pediatric hematology and oncology. Pinkel was the first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 1962 to 1973. Pinkel was born in Buffalo, New York.
Pinkel died on March 9, 2022 in San Luis Obispo, California at the age of 95.
Brussels, Illinois
Brussels is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Shabir Shah
Shabir Ahmad Shah (born 14 June 1953), popularly known as Shabir Shah, is an Indian activist and prisoner. He is the founder and president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP). He supports the idea of Jammu and Kashmir being separated. He spent 32 years of his life in jail. In 1992, Amnesty International called him "The Prisoner of Conscience."
In December 2021, it was reported that Shah was "gravely ill" in prison.
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish actor and singer. He was best known for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. He was also well known for his role of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning movie Gandhi. He was born in Edinburgh.
Charleson died on 6 January 1990 in London from AIDS, aged 40.
Lionel Wilson
Lionel Wilson (Lionel Lazarus Salzer, March 22, 1924 – April 30, 2003) was an American voice, radio, stage, television, and movie actor who is known for his voice role as Eustace Bagge in Courage the Cowardly Dog and for voicing all the characters for popular 1950s animated TV series Tom Terrific.
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger is a Japanese television series. It is the 43th in Toei's Super Sentai series. This succeeded Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger and following the four week special TV miniseries Super Sentai Strongest Battle. Although the series primarily aired in the Reiwa era, it is considered the final Heisei era series as it began airing during it. It is the fourth Super Sentai series to use the motif of dinosaurs, having been preceded by Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (and Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave). It is also the first to use the motif of knights.
Schedule
The show aired from March 17, 2019 to March 1, 2020, joining Kamen Rider Zi-O, and later Kamen Rider Zero-One, in the Super Hero Time line-up on TV Asahi affiliate stations. Additionally Ryusoulger began airing in South Korea in August 2019 as Power Rangers Dino Soul. Its footage was adapted for Power Rangers's 28th season - Power Rangers Dino Fury, in 2021.
John O'Hurley
John George O'Hurley (born October 9, 1954) is an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor. He is known for his role as J. Peterman in Seinfeld.
He was the host of Family Feud from 2006 to 2010. He left the show in 2010 and was replaced by Steve Harvey.
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. It is slightly based on the real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictional story about his life.
The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.
Bobbie Nelson
Bobbie Lee Nelson (January 1, 1931 – March 10, 2022) was an American country pianist and singer. She was the older sister of Willie Nelson and a member of his band, Willie Nelson and Family. She joined Willie Nelson on the piano during his sessions with Atlantic Records, that produced The Troublemaker, Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages.
Nelson died on March 10, 2022, at the age of 91.
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama movie. It is based on the true story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams.
The movie was directed by Hugh Hudson. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson starred as Abrahams and Liddell. Nigel Havers, Ian Holm, Lindsay Anderson, John Gielgud, Cheryl Campbell, and Alice Krige star in supporting roles.
The movie's title was inspired by the line, "Bring me my Chariot of fire!", from the William Blake poem adapted into the British hymn "Jerusalem". The original phrase "chariot(s) of fire" is from 2 Kings 2:11 and 6:17 in the Bible.
Hamburg, Illinois
Hamburg is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Kampsville, Illinois
Kampsville is a village in Illinois in the United States. It is on the Illinois River.
Alice Krige
Alice Maud Krige (born 28 June 1954) is a South African actress and producer. She is best known for her role in Chariots of Fire (1981) as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon. She played the dual role of Eva Galli/Alma Mobley in Ghost Story, and the Borg Queen in the Star Trek franchise.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, also called Sonic 2, is the second video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog. It was made by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive in 1992. Unlike the first game, it has a half-pipe special stage and has seven chaos emeralds (see "chaos emerald") instead of six. It also introduces Miles "Tails" Prower.
Development
After the release of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, creator Yuji Naka quit Sega due to disagreements over corporate policy. Mark Cerny, who had recently created Sega Technical Institute (STI) inCalifornia, met with Naka in Japan. He offered Naka a higher salary and more creative freedom if he joined STI. Naka agreed. Hirokazu Yasuhara, the lead level designer of Sonic the Hedgehog, also decided to join STI.
Reception
Because of the popularity of its predecessor, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 already had a fanbase waiting for its release. The game received a lot of praise, and it was a bestseller in the UK charts for 2 months. As of 2006, the game had sold over 6 million copies. This makes it the second best-selling game on the Sega Genesis.
Electronic Gaming Monthly said it was the best Genesis game of 1992.
The most common criticisms were about the two-player mode, a first for the series.
Arthur Anderson
Arthur Anderson (August 29, 1922 – April 9, 2016 ) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, and voice actor. His career began on radio during the early 1930s. Anderson was known for his voice role as Eustace Bagge in Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Divergent series
In mathematics, a divergent series is an infinite series that is not convergent, meaning that the infinite sequence of the partial sums of the series does not have a finite limit.
If a series converges, the individual terms of the series must approach zero. Thus any series in which the individual terms do not approach zero diverges. However, convergence is a stronger condition: not all series whose terms approach zero converge. A counterexample is the harmonic series
Monoid
In abstract algebra, a monoid is a set of elements along with an operation that has two key properties:
The operation need not have the commutative property.
In computing science common monoids include addition, multiplication, or, and. These properties are useful for various problems e.g. they allow a large set of data to be divided, processed in parallel and combined. As each part produces a monoid, the final combined result will be the same. This also works with more complex monoids, such as a map from words to the number of times they appear in a document.
Character strings also form a monoid over concatenation with the empty string "" as the identity element. Examples of the two properties are "abc" + ("def" + "ghi") = ("abc" + "def") + "ghi" and "abc" + "" = ""+ "abc" = "abc". This is true even though "abc" + "def" ≠ "def" + "abc".
Buckley, Illinois
Buckley is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Weifang
Weifang is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 9,086,241 at the 2010 census.
Cornish Assembly
A Cornish Assembly is a law making parliament that some Cornish people and politicians argue should exist as part of a devolution agreement with the United Kingdom. So far the Parliament of the United Kingdom has not allowed it to be made.
Alvard Petrossyan
Alvard Petrossyan (Ալվարդ Պետրոսյան, October 4, 1946 – March 10, 2022) was an Armenian writer, philologist, publicist and politician. She was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She was a deputy in the National Assembly for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation from 1999 until 2012.
Petrossyan died on March 10, 2022 in Yerevan at the age of 75.
Compton, Illinois
Compton is a village in the state of Illinois in the United States.
Ningali Lawford
Ningali Josie Lawford (1967 – 11 August 2019) was an Australian actress. She was known for her roles in the movies Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Bran Nue Dae (2009), and Last Cab to Darwin (2015). In 2016, she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Lawford was born in Wangkatjungka, Western Australia.
Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy movie produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 30th movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third movie of the Disney Renaissance period. The movie is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont It is about a prince who is turned into a beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever.
The movie was first released into movie theaters on November 22, 1991. It become very popular. This is the first animated feature that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. A direct-to-video sequel called Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas was released in 1997. It was followed in 1998 by another sequel, Belle's Magical World. An IMAX special edition version of the original movie was released in 2002, with a new five-minute musical sequence included. After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King, the movie returned to theaters in 3D on January 13, 2012. A live-action remake was also released on March 17, 2017. The movie is considered as one of the greatest movies of all time.
Odalis Pérez
Odalis Amadol Pérez (June 11, 1977 – March 10, 2022) was a Dominican professional baseball starting pitcher. He played with the Atlanta Braves from 1998 until 2001, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2002 until 2006, the Kansas City Royals from 2006 until 2007, and the Washington Nationals in 2008. Pérez was born in Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic.
Pérez died on March 10, 2022 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic after falling of a ladder at his home, aged 44.
Maaz ibn Jabal
Muaz ibn Jabal (مُعاذ ابن جبل‎) (603 – 639) was one of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad. He belonged to the tribe of Banu Khazraj. He accepted Islam before the Second pledge at al-Aqabah. He was known as the one with a lot of knowledge. He was called by Prophet Muhammad, "the one who will lead the scholars into Paradise". Prophet Muhammad sent Muaz to Yemen to teach its people about Islam. He also helped in collecting the Quran in written form.
Mon language
The Mon language is one of oldest language in Mainland Southeast Asia, and is part of an Austroasiatic language families. The language is non tonal unlike most of Southeast Asia language
Writing
The Mon script was originally adapted from the Pallava script. Oldest Mon script was found in Central Thailand, the inscriptions dated back around the 6th century, which mon people used to live here, the era called Dvaravati. The Mon script also has been adopted by the Burmese. The Mon alphabet contains 35 consonants
Grammar
Mon sentence is Subject–Verb–Object.
Sauk Village, Illinois
Sauk Village is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Malian Armed Forces
The Malian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Maliennes) is made up of the Army (Armée de Terre), Republic of Mali Air Force (Force Aérienne de la Republique du Mali), and National Guard (Garde Nationale du Mali).
It has about 7,000 members and are under the control of the Minister of Armed Forces and Veterans.
Burnham, Illinois
Burnham is a village in Illinois in the United States.
University of Jordan
The University of Jordan (الجامعة الأردنية), often abbreviated UJ, is a government university located in the Jordanian capital, Amman. It is the first established university in Jordan. It started in 1962 after a British military delegation and Jordanian armed forces discussed creating the university.
The university was nicknamed the Mother University. Almost a quarter of a million male and female students graduated from it.
Jawline (movie)
Jawline is a 2019 movie about social media and internet celebrities. The movie received several reviews. In February 2019, Hulu purchased the United States rights. The film is directed by Liza Mandelup.
United Airlines Flight 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was the second hijacked airplane of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The flight was traveling from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.
It crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The plane was hijacked by five members of al-Qaeda. The plane was a Boeing 767. 56 people (including 5 hijackers) and 9 crew members died in the crash. The time of the crash was 9:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Unlike American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the North tower 17.5 minutes earlier, Flight 175 was the only plane seen live on television because of the media attention drawn to the scene from the crash of Flight 11.
Aircraft
The aircraft used in the attack was a Boeing 767-222. The aircraft had a registration of N612UA, and it was built in 1983 by Boeing. The airplane could seat 168 passengers in total (10 seats in first class, 33 seats in business class, and 125 seats in economy class). On this particular flight, 56 passengers (5 of which were hijackers), and nine staff members. All together, United Airlines Flight 175 carried 65 people on the morning of September 11.
Commerce
Commerce is another word for trade or business, and can mean simply the buying and selling of goods and services. Some commerce involves high finance and big companies and organisations. Commercial real estate is a place for commerce, a place to do business. Interstate commerce is the movement of goods, money or transportation between two or more states. International trade is the exchange of goods and services between countries.
Stresa–Mottarone cable car crash
On 23 May 2021, an aerial tram on the Stresa–Alpino–Mottarone Cable Car crashed to the ground after a cable snapped about 100 m from the summit of Mottarone, a mountain near Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, northwestern Italy. The crash killed fourteen passengers in the cable car, and seriously injured one child.
The cable car was traveling on a line connecting the town of Stresa with the summit of Mottarone when it crashed into a wooded area. The incident was Italy's deadliest cable car disaster since the 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster.
Herbert Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith KG PC KC (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Until 5 January 1988, he had been the longest continuously serving Prime Minister in the 20th century. He was not, however, in favour of the right of women to vote.
As Prime Minister, he led the Liberal Party to a series of domestic reforms, including social insurance and the reduction of the power of the House of Lords. He led the nation into the First World War, but a series of military and political crises led to his replacement in late 1916 by David Lloyd George. His falling out with Lloyd George played a major part in the downfall of the Liberal Party.
His ministry was significant for the Old Age Pension (1908), National Insurance Act (1911) and the Parliamentary Act (1911), which restricted the power of the House of Lords.
Malden, Illinois
Malden is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Wernicke's area
Wernicke's area is an area of the brain. It is one of the two parts of the cerebral cortex linked to speech (the other is Broca's area). It is involved in the production of written and spoken language.
It is in Brodmann area 22, in the dominant cerebral hemisphere. The dominant hemisphere is the left in about 95% of right handed individuals, and 60% of left handed individuals.
Despite the fact that Broca's and Wernicke's areas are in different lobes, they are quite near each other. They are connected by a tract of nerves called the arcuate fascilicus, and by another recently discovered tract.
Hollowayville, Illinois
Hollowayville is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Navaid Aziz
Shaykh Navaid Aziz is an Islamic scholar and marriage counsellor based in Calgary, Canada, who is better known for saving Muslim men from radicalization.
Career
In 2012, Aziz started working as an Imam at the Islamic Information Society of Calgary.
Aziz strongly opposes radicalization and terrorism. According to Calgary Herald, "Navaid Aziz says the experience with local radicals was a traumatic experience for his Mosque community. Extremism wasn’t a reality until this happened". Also, CBC News reported that Aziz briefly knew Farah Mohamed Shirdon, a jihadi who left Calgary to join The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Philanthropy
Navaid Aziz organized several TV programs which raised money for charity work. In 2017, Aziz launched a campaign called Feed Our World to deliver food packages for the people in need.
Montel Williams
Montel Brian Anthony Williams (born July 3, 1956) is an American movie, television, voice, radio actor, activist, and talk show host who is known for being the host of his own show The Montel Williams Show. He has won an Emmy Award.
Williams was born on July 3, 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been married to Rochele See from 1982 until they divorced in 1989. Then he was married to Grace Morley from 1992 until they divorced in 2000. He is now married to Tara Fowler since 2007. With See, he has two children. Then with Morley he has two children.
Gennadi Yakovlev
Gennadi Pavlovich Yakovlev (Генна́дий Па́влович Я́ковлев, born June 7, 1938 in Sestroretsk.) is a Russian botanist, former rector of the St. Petersburg Academy of Chemical Pharmaceuticals, former head of the department of pharmacognosy, now a professor of the department of pharmacognosy, part-time leading scientist of the Botanical Institute. V.L. Komarov, taxonomist of higher plants. G.P. Yakovlev is one of the leading experts in the systematics of legumes, as well as a specialist in the field of pharmacognosy.
He took part in projects to study the flora of Cuba, Vietnam, Mongolia, Central Asia, the European part of the USSR, etc.
Works
1967 Заметки по систематике и географии рода Sophora L. и близких родов. // Труды Ленинградского химико-фармацевтического института. Т. 21. — С. 42-62
Source
wikipedia Russian language
Harold Abrahams
Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint. His victory at the 1924 Olympics is shown in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire where he is played by Ben Cross. Abrahams was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire.
Buda, Illinois
Buda is a village in Illinois in the United States.
List of language regulators
This is a list of language regulators - organisations which guard the evolution of a language.
Corrie van Gorp
Corrie van Gorp (30 June 1942 – 22 November 2020) was a Dutch actress and singer. She was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She starred in the Dutch television series De Wereld Draait Door.
Van Gorp died on 22 November 2020 in Rotterdam at the age of 78.
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (,, ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is known for his works which are known as neo-romanticism. His best known play was the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Benjamín Jiménez Hernández
Benjamin Jiménez Hernández (31 March 1938 – 26 November 2020) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1963. He was the titular bishop of Sellectum and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Culiacán, Mexico from 1989 to 1993 and then as bishop of the diocese from 1993 to 2011.
Jiménez Hernández died on 26 November 2020 at the age of 82.
María de los Ángeles Moreno
María de los Ángeles Moreno Uriegas (15 January 1945 – 27 April 2019) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She also served as Mexico's first female party president. She served as Secretary of Fisheries in the cabinet of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari from December 1988 to May 1991. She also served in the Chamber of Deputies and later in the Senate. She was born in Mexico City.
Cathy Dennis
Catherine Roseanne "Cathy" Dennis (born 25 March 1969) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. She was born in Norfolk, Norwich, England. She had a moderately successful international singing career. Dennis later had great success as a writer of pop songs. She had eight number ones in the United Kingdom. She won five Ivor Novello Awards.
María de los Ángeles Moreno
In 2000, she became President of the Senate.
Cathy Dennis
Career
Dennis first became successful as a vocalist in 1989 when "C'mon and Get My Love", a single with music producer D Mob, hit #15 on the UK Singles Chart and #10 on the United States' Billboard Hot 100 that year.
María de los Ángeles Moreno
Moreno died in Mexico City on 27 April 2019, at the age of 74.
Cathy Dennis
Career
From Dennis first studio album Move to This, she had three solo hits. They were "Just Another Dream" (UK #13, US #2), "Touch Me (All Night Long) (Dennis' cover of the Wish and Fonda Rae 1984 song) (UK #5, US #2) and "Too Many Walls" (UK #17, US #8).
In September 1992, Dennis released her second pop album, Into the Skyline. Three songs on the album were released: "You Lied to Me", "Falling" and "Irresistible". The first was released in August 1992. It got positive reviews from the music critics. It peaked at #32 on the United States Billboard Hot 100. "Irresistible" was released in September 1992. It didn't do as well as Dennis' earlier songs, though it was a Top 10 hit on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Alec Douglas-Home
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He was better known as Alec Douglas-Home.
Home was a Member of Parliament and a junior official (a Parliamentary Private Secretary) when Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler in 1938. He was present at the main meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain. Later in life, he was appointed by Harold Macmillan as Foreign Secretary in 1960–1963, and again in Edward Heath's government from 1970 to 1974.
Home's name and title changed a few times during his life. Born as Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, he became Lord Dunglass when his father became the Earl of Home. Dunglass is a junior title, that is, a lower title which is held by the eldest son. When his father died Alec became the 14th Earl of Home. He also became Baron Douglas in the peerage of the United Kingdom (that was also a junior title).
Leader of Party and Prime Minister
When he was chosen as Leader of the Conservative Party after Harold Macmillan retired, he knew it would be difficult to lead a government from the House of Lords. So he renounced his title, four days after becoming Prime Minister. Once he renounced the title, he became simply Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He had been made a Knight of the Thistle in 1962. Finally, after he lost the election of 1964, he was given a life peerage, titled 'Baron Home of the Hirsel'. That title is not hereditary but, after his death, his son became the 15th Earl of Home.
Rapidly, after the title was renounced, arrangements were made. The safe Conservative seat of Kinross and Western Perthshire was vacant, and Douglas-Home was adopted as his party's candidate. Parliament was due to meet on 24 October after the summer recess, but its return was postponed until 12 November pending the by-election. For twenty days Douglas-Home was Prime Minister while a member of neither house of Parliament, a situation without modern precedent. He won the by-election with a majority of 9,328.
Prime Minister 1963–1964
A former peer as Prime Minister was open to attack, and Douglas-Home was attacked by the Labour Party leader Harold Wilson. Wilson attacked the new prime minister as "an elegant anachronism". He said that nobody from Douglas-Home's background knew the problems of ordinary families. In particular, Wilson asked how "a scion of an effete establishment" could lead the technological revolution which was needed. His premiership was ended by the general election of 1964, which put in the Labour Party with Harold Wilson as Prime Minister.
Foreign Affairs 1970–1974
When the Conservatives returned to power in 1970, Home was made Foreign Secretary. He was a considerable success in this role. His speeches explained the world situation, which was then at the height of the Cold War.
In east–west relations, Douglas-Home spoke against the Soviet Union and its spying activities in Britain. In September 1971 he expelled 105 Soviet diplomats, who were spying. Although this was an extraordinary incident, Gromyko was realistic enough to keep a working relationship with the British government. Within days of the expulsions from London he and Douglas-Home met and discussed the Middle East and disarmament.
Assessment
The Times considered that his reputation rested not on his brief premiership, but on his two spells as Foreign Secretary: "He brought to the office ... his capacity for straight talking, for toughness towards the Soviet Union and for firmness (sometimes interpreted as a lack of sympathy) towards the continents of Africa and Asia. But he brought something else as well: an unusual degree of international respect".
Hussein Salem
Hussein Salem (حسين سالم); (11 November 1933 – 13 August 2019) was an Egyptian-Spanish businessman. He was the co-owner of the East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG). He was an ally and advisor to former president Hosni Mubarak. He was also the chairman and CEO of HKS Group, a hospitality company that operates Maritim Jolie Ville Resort in Sharm El Sheikh.
He was described as "one of the most secretive businessmen in Egypt". He was known as the "Father of Sharm El Sheikh" due to his resort development activities.
Ain
Ain is a department in the east of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is named after the river Ain. Its prefecture is Bourg-en-Bresse.
History
It was divided in nine districts: Pont-de-Vaux, Bourg, Nantua, Gex, Belley, Saint-Rambert, Montluel, Trévoux and Châtillon-les-Dombes.
The department was called départment of Bresse but in 1791 was changed to its present name: départment de l'Ain.
In 1798, Gex was separated from Ain for the creation of the old department of Léman.
In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the nine districts were changed into four arrondissements: Bourg, Belley, Nantua and Trévoux.
The department of Léman was eliminated in 1814 and Gex was again part of the department of Ain. In 1815, some communes of Gex are passed to Switzerland and the arrondissement of Gex is created.
On 10 September 1926, the arrondissements of Gex and Trévoux were eliminated but in 1933 Gex was made again an arrondissement.
Geography
Ain is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has an area of 5762.4 km2.
The department borders with Switzerland and 6 other departments in 2 regions:
The territory of the Ain department is formed by five regions:
The lowest point of the department is on the Rhône river, 170 m high.
Several rivers flow through the department; the main rivers are the Rhône, the Ain and the Saône. The largest natural lake is the Nantua lake, with an area of 1.41 km2.
Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Château-Gaillard (Ain) is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Marine West Coast Climate) and of the subtype Cfb.
Hadejia River
The Hadejia River (known as kogin Haɗeja in Hausa language) is a river in northern Nigeria and is a part of the Yobe River (Komadugu Yobe). The river flows through Hadejia and Nguru. Water from the river has been held back in a process called damming for the purposes of irrigation. This has reduced the amount of water in the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, which the river forms along with Nguru Lake. The Hadejia river is now 80% controlled by the Tiga and Challawa Gorge dams in Kano State.
Ain
Climate
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Château-Gaillard is 645.2 mm. The month with the most precipitation on average is October with 63.5 mm of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 43.2 mm.
The average temperature for the year in Château-Gaillard is 11.5 °C. The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 20.8 °C. The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 2.6 °C.
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is a rock singer and musician, and was known for being the lead vocalist for rock band Led Zeppelin. In 2007, he recorded an album with bluegrass fiddler Alison Krauss, and toured with her in 2008.
Ain
Administration
Ain is managed by the Departmental Council of Ain in Bourg-en-Bresse. The department is part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Administrative divisions
The following is a list of the 23 cantons of the Ain department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
Demographics
There is not an official demonym for the inhabitants of the Ain department; people are named after the regions:
The communes in the department with more than 8,000 inhabitants are:
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944 in Heston, Middlesex, England) is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London. From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of The Yardbirds. After that band ended Page went on to form the band Led Zeppelin.
Allmusic describes Page as "one of the most influential and important guitarists in rock history". In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Page #9 in its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, Page owned the Boleskine House. Earlier, the house had belonged to occultist Aleister Crowley. Page was interested in the magic that Crowley used.
Along with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Page is often considered one of the greatest riff writers of all time.
Jimmy Page has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. The first time was in 1992 as a member of The Yardbirds. He was inducted again in 1995 as a member of Led Zeppelin.
Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens (born Steven Fisher; November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director, producer and writer. He is best known for his roles of Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit, Chuck Fishman on the 1990s television series Early Edition, and villainous computer genius Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers. He also starred as Roger, Phoebe Buffay's love interest.
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (June 8, 1942 – April 26, 2019) was an American screen actor. He was best known for roles in movies such as All Night Long (1981), Prince of Darkness (1987), Darkman (1990) and Boyz n the Hood (1993). He was born in the Bronx, New York.
Ferguson died on April 26, 2019 in Palmdale, California. He was 76.
Philip II of France
Philip II of France (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
Julia Sweeney
Julia Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an author, movie actress and comedian who also stars on television. She starred in the movies Pulp Fiction and Stuart Little. She also performed on Saturday Night Live.
Monroe County, Indiana
Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 census, 137,974 people lived there. The county seat is Bloomington.
Julia Sweeney
Sweeney was born near Spokane, Washington.
Larry "Flash" Jenkins
Larry "Flash" Jenkins (May 10, 1955 – April 25, 2019) was an American actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter. He appeared in movies such as Fletch (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). He also starred in television series such as The White Shadow, Bay City Blues and Finder of Lost Loves. He was born in Long Island, New York.
Eric Liddell
Eric Henry Liddell (16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a British Olympic gold medalist runner, Scottish rugby union international player, and Christian missionary. He was born in China to Scottish missionary parents.
Larry "Flash" Jenkins
Jenkins died on April 25, 2019 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California. He was 63.
Eric Liddell
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Liddell refused to run because they were held on a Sunday. Instead he competed in the 400 metres held on a weekday, a race that he won. He returned to China in 1925 to be a missionary teacher.
Liddell's Olympic training and racing, and the religious convictions that influenced him, are shown in the Oscar-winning 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, in which he is played by Ian Charleson.
Liddell died from brain cancer on 21 February 1945 at the Japanese run Weixian Internment Camp in Weifang at the age of 43.
Louis Nzala Kianza
Louis Nzala Kianza (6 February 1946 – 26 November 2020) was a Democratic Republic of the Congo Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1927. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Popokabaka from 1996 until his retirement in 2020. He also was the apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Idiofa from 2006 to 2009.
Kianza died on 26 November 2020 at the age of 74.
Ogun River
The Ogun River is a waterway in Nigeria that discharges into the Lagos Lagoon.
The river starts in Oyo State near Shaki and flows through Ogun State into Lagos State. The river is crossed by the Ikere Gorge Dam in the Iseyin local government area of Oyo State. The river passes through the Old Oyo National Park, providing recreational facilities for tourists. In rural and local areas where the river flows through, the river is used for bathing, washing and drinking. It is also used as a drain for mostly organic wastes from abattoirs located along the river's course.
Anupriya Kapoor
Anupriya Kapoor is an Indian television Actress from Delhi. She known for her role as Taani Bannerjee in Tere Liye.
Moctar Ouane
Moctar Ouane (born October 11, 1955) is a Malian diplomat and politician. He was the Acting Prime Minister of Mali from September 27, 2020 until being removed in a coup on May 25, 2021. He became prime minister following the deposition of the government of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 2004 to April 2011.
On August 27, 2021, Moctar Ouane was released from house arrest.
Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid 'Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Quṭb ( or ;, ; سيد قطب إبراهيم حسين Sayyid Quṭb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966), known popularly as Sayyid Qutb (سيد قطب), was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic scholar, theorist, revolutionary, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1966, he was found guilty of planning the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging in Cairo at the age of 59.
He is called "the Father of Salafi jihadism. Many have also called him the father of al-Qaeda and ISIL since these groups were founded and inspired by his ideas.
Catalonia national football team
The Catalonia national football team (Selección de fútbol de Cataluña, Selecció de futbol de Catalunya ) is the national football team for the autonomous community of Catalonia. As of 15 November 2013, the head coach is Gerard López. The team is often called La Selecció ("The Selection") or just La Segadora ("The Reaper"). The team is not a member of UEFA or FIFA, so they can't be in the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Football Championship.
Jordan University of Science and Technology
The Jordan University of Science and Technology (جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية Jami'at Al-Ulum wa Al-Tiknolojia Al-Urdunia), often abbreviated JUST, is a Jordanian public university. The university is located in the south of Ramtha District, within the boundaries of the city of Ramtha, located in the Irbid Governorate in northern Jordan.
Catalonia national football team
Catalonia had their first match on 21 February 1912 against France. Their most recent game was on December 30, 2013 against Cape Verde, in which they won 4–1.
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Started in 1986, its first president was the Kamel al-Ajlouni. The number of schools in it has increased, since then, from six to twelve.
Catalonia national football team
Players of the team are full Spanish citizens who are able to play for Spain if they want to. People who have played on the team include Cesc Fàbregas, Pep Guardiola, Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué, Xavi, Víctor Valdés, Sergio Busquets and Sergio González.
Jack Betts
Jack Richard Nelson Betts (born April 11, 1929) or Hunt Powers is an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor, comedian, and activist. He is known for his roles in One Damned Day at Dawn Django Meets Sartana, A Barrel Full of Dollars, Sugar Colt, Mockingbird Don't Sing, The Bloody Brood, and in Spider-Man
Betts was born on April 11, 1929 in Miami, Florida. He studied at the Actors Studio.
American green tree frog
The bilineated frog, American green tree frog, North American tree frog, green tree frog, marsh tree frog, northern green tree frog, cinereous frog, Carolina hyla, banded hyla, Carolina tree frog, Hallowell's tree frog, or Miller's tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus) is a frog that lives in the North America. It lives in the southeastern United States, from Illinois south to Florida and west to Texas. Human beings have also brought it to Puerto Rico.
Appearance
This frog has a pointed snout. It has two rows of vomerine teeth. Some fo these frogs have no stripes, but most have one yellow and white stripe down each side of the body. These frogs have yellow spots.
Home
This frog lives in swamps, marshes, sloughs, and the edges of lakes where grass grows in the water.
Threats
This frog is not endangered but there are fewer of them than there were because human beings change the places where they live. Human beings cut down trees for logging and build artificial lakes and ponds. Also, human beings brought the Cuban tree frog to the places where the American green tree frog lives.
Salt
Most amphibians die if they try to swim in seawater, but the American Green tree frog can live in water that has some salt. Scientists have found that the frog uses the chemical glycerol to do this. They also only stay tadpoles for a short time.
Roger Fite
Fite died on 28 November 2020 at the age of 82.
Rip Taylor
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor, Jr. (January 13, 1931 – October 6, 2019) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor, activist, entertainer, and comedian who was known for his roles in Indecent Proposal, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Thing Are Tough All Over Again, Jackass, and in Alex & Emma. He also hosted a beauty pageant show The $1.98 Beauty Show from 1978 to 1980.
Taylor was born on January 13, 1931 in Washington, D.C.. He was inspired by Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Redd Foxx, and Mickey Rooney. He inspired Dana Snyder. He was openly gay.
Taylor died of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California on October 6, 2019 at the age of 88. A week before his death, he had a seizure.
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation is a 1962 American comedy movie directed by Henry Koster and is based on the 1954 novel Mr. Hobbs' Vacation by Edward Streeter. It stars James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, Lauri Peters, Lili Gentle, John Saxon, John McGiver, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was nominated for 1 Golden Globe in 1963.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system. The disorder is sometimes called chronic relapsing polyneuropathy (CRP) or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (because it involves the nerve roots).
CIDP is closely related to Guillain–Barré syndrome and it is thought to be the chronic counterpart of that acute disease. Its symptoms are also similar to progressive inflammatory neuropathy.
Several variants have been reported. Specially important are:
Graham Farmer
Graham Vivian "Polly" Farmer (10 March 1935 – 14 August 2019 ) was an Australian rules football player and coach. He was a handballer.
Farmer joined the East Perth Football Club as a ruckman in 1953. He later played for the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1962 for the Geelong Football Club, where he played 101 games. Farmer returned to Western Australia and became the captain/coach of the West Perth Football Club in 1968.
In 1999, Farmer was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died in Fiona Stanley Hospital in Murdoch, Western Australia on 14 August 2019 from the disease, aged 84.
Rafał Majka
Rafał Majka (born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional cyclist. He rides for the Tinkhoff-Saxo team. He won the Polka dot jersey in the 2014 Tour de France.
Majka won his first professional victory on Stage 14 of the 2014 Tour de France. He won again on Stage 17. He did well in the other mountain stages too, and won the polka dot jersey for the best climber. He is the first Pole to win a jersey in the Tour de France.
In 2013, he competed in the Giro D'Italia for the first time. He finished 7th, eight minutes behind the winner Vincenzo Nibali. In 2014, he finished 6th.
Camden, South Carolina
Camden is a city in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. It is the largest city and county seat of Kershaw County. The population was 6,838 in the 2010 census
Papa Bouba Diop
Papa Bouba Diop (28 January 1978 – 29 November 2020) was a Senegalese professional footballer. He played defensive midfield but he could also play as a centre back. He played at Lens. He played for the national team from 2001 to 2008.
Vertou
Vertou is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Hoof
A hoof is the foot of certain animals known as ungulates (such as deer, cows, pigs, sheep, and giraffes). These animals walk on their toes. The toes have a hard cover made out of the same material as fingernails. This is called keratin.
Yellowstone National Park
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Yellowstone National Park is a national park in the United States. It was the world's first national park. United States President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law to create it in 1872.
The name comes from the Yellowstone River, which flows through the park. Yellowstone became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
Yellowstone National Park is famous for its geysers and hot springs. About half the world's geysers are in the park. The world's most famous geyser is the Old Faithful Geyser. It is in Yellowstone National Park. Large animals such as grizzly bears, wolves, bison and elk live in Yellowstone. Many tourists visit the park each year to see the geysers and animals.
The park is the main part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This is the largest, almost complete ecosystem in the Earth's northern temperate zone. It has many regions; the subalpine forest covers the largest area.
History
People have lived in the Yellowstone area for at least 11,000 years. Some Native Americans still lived there when the first people came from Europe in 1807/1808. John Colter, a trapper, came with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They visited a big area which was unknown to the world at that time. Colter came back to St. Louis and told the people there that he had found a beautiful place of hot springs and geysers. This area was Yellowstone, but nobody believed him. Yellowstone was not famous at that time.
For the next sixty years, only a few other trappers traveled through the area, and the same thing happened to them. When they reported that Colter had been right, nobody listened to their stories. Then three trips between 1868 and 1871 visited Yellowstone, and they told the news of its beauty to the people in the East. One year later, on March 1, 1872, United States President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law to make the first National Park in the world.
For the first sixteen years, the Interior Department managed the park. But Congress did not give them any money. So from 1886 to 1917, the US Army managed it. Then the new National Park Service took over, and they have managed Yellowstone since then.
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Yellowstone was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. The UNESCO committee chose Yellowstone because of its special geology, natural beauty, and natural environment with rare and endangered species.
Geography
About 96 percent of the park is in Wyoming. Three percent is in Montana and only one percent is in Idaho. The area of the park is about 3500 sqmi. It is bigger than Rhode Island or Delaware.
The park is on the Yellowstone Plateau, at an average elevation of 8000 ft above sea level. There are mountain ranges on most sides of the plateau. These are mountain ranges of the Middle Rocky Mountains, which range from 9000 ft to 11000 ft in elevation.
Three deep canyons are in the park. They were cut through the volcanic tuff of the Yellowstone Plateau by rivers over the last 640,000 years (since the last eruption). The most famous is called the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Geology
Yellowstone is the place of a huge ancient volcano. Its remains are called the Yellowstone Caldera. The caldera is the biggest volcanic system in North America.
The cause of the volcano was a "hotspot" in the Earth's mantle, over which the American continental plate moved. 640,000 years ago a huge volcanic explosion blew 240 cumi of rock and lava into the air. It was 1000 times bigger than the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980.