cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
DVD player
A DVD player is a home media device that plays DVDs (also called digital versatile discs). The first DVD player was created by Sony and Pacific Digital Company and released in Japan on November 1, 1996. The DVD player would later be released in the United States on March 19, 1997.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block are an American pop group who were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984. They had many hit songs in the 1980s and 1990s. They disbanded in 1994 and regrouped in 2008.
William Lyon (general)
William Lyon (March 9, 1923 – May 22, 2020) was a major general of the United States Air Force. He was Commander of the United States Air Force Reserve Command. As chief of Air Force Reserve, Lyon was the principal adviser on Reserve matters to the Air Force Chief of Staff. He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Lyon died on May 22, 2020 in Coto de Caza, California at the age of 97.
Montrelais
Montrelais is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Pappenheim
Pappenheim is a town in Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the river Altmühl, 11 km south of Weißenburg in Bayern.
Ghera language
Ghera is a Indo-Aryan language of Hyderabad, Pakistan. It is very closely related to Urdu and Gurgula.
Georgette Reed
Georgette Reed is a retired athlete from Canada. Reed competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She was born on 26 January 1967.
Voiceless labiodental affricate
The voiceless labiodental affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. A similar sound, [pf], is in German, written pf, as in pferd.
Serres-Morlaàs
Serres-Morlaàs is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Voiced linguolabial nasal
The voiced linguolabial nasal is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.
Endothermic reaction
An endothermic reaction is a chemical reaction that takes in energy from the surroundings. The opposite of an endothermic reaction is an exothermic reaction. Reversible reactions are where the products can react to remake the original reactants. The energy is usually transferred as heat energy: the reaction absorbs heat. The temperature decrease can sometimes be detected using a thermometer. Some examples of endothermic reactions are:
Arthur (1981 movie)
Arthur  is a 1981 comedy movie written and directed by Steve Gordon. The movie stars Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach, a drunken New York City millionaire. Arthur is about to be married to a wealthy heiress. Instead he falls for a working class girl from Queens. It was the only movie directed by Gordon, who died in November 1982 of a heart attack. Arthur earned nearly $96 million in the US, making it the fourth highest grossing movie of 1981. The film was nominated for a total of four Academy Awards. Sir John Gielgud won an Best Supporting Actor. The theme song won Best Original Song.
It was followed by a sequel, Arthur 2: On the Rocks and a remake, Arthur.
Gurgula language
Gurgula is a variety of Rajasthani spoken in Sindh, Pakistan.
Labour (economics)
Labour or labor is work done by people. Labor is one of three factors of production. The other two factors are land and capital.
People who can work are also known as human capital, referring not necessarily to what they actually do, but to their abilities.
Serres-Sainte-Marie
Serres-Sainte-Marie is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Joey Barton
Barton was born and raised in Hutyon, Merseyside. In 2011, his son was born.
Barton plays as a midfielder for Queens Park Rangers. He played for Manchester City from 2002 to 2007, where he received 39 bookings and three red cards. He scored an international goal at Goodison Park, Liverpool on 9 September 2003 whilst playing for the England Under-21 team against Portugal. He played for Newcastle United from 2007 to 2011. He played for Olympique de Marseille for the 2012-2013 season.
Barton has convictions for common assault, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray. He has served a prison sentence and a suspended sentence. He has also been charged with violent conduct three times by The Football Association for attacking other players. The court and FA proceedings and sentences, along with being sent off and banned from matches, has interrupted his professional career many times. Yes.
Club career statistics
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Canadian Women's Hockey League
The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) is an ice hockey league in Canada that was formed in 2007. Female players from around the world played in this league and in the Western Women's Hockey League. The CWHL replaced the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) in 2007. Many teams (Toronto, Brampton and Montreal) from the NWHL moved to the CWHL.
Clarkson Cup
The Clarkson Cup is an ice hockey trophy, which since 2009 has been awarded to the winner of the Canadian Women's Hockey Championship.
Alexandre Luiz Fernandes
Alexandre Luiz Fernandes (born 21 January 1986) is a Brazilian football player.
GURPS
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a role-playing game system created by Steve Jackson Games. It emphasizes a set of rules that can be used in any time or world. Characters are created using a point-based system. There have been four releases of the GURPS core rules and dozens of game supplements that extend the core rules with genre or setting-specific information.
Alexandre Luiz Fernandes
Club career statistics
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GURPS
In 1990, GURPS became the focus of a Secret Service investigation when an as yet unreleased GURPS Cyberpunk game supplement was misconstrued by the Secret service as being a handbook for computer crime.
Vanessa Gibson
Vanessa L. Gibson (born March 19, 1979) is an American politician. Gibson is the Borough President of The Bronx since 2022. She was a council member for the 16th district of the New York City Council from 2014 until 2022. She is a Democrat.
Wilbert McClure
Wilbert McClure (October 29, 1938 – August 6, 2020) was an American boxer. He was an amateur. He won gold medals in the light middleweight division at the 1959 Pan American Games and the 1960 Olympics. As a professional he competed from 1961 to 1970.
McClure was born in Toledo, Ohio. He died on August 6, 2020 at the age of 81.
Don Grady
Don Louis Agrati (June 8, 1944 – June 27, 2012), better known as Don Grady, was an American television, and movie actor, composer, and musician. He was best known both as one of Mickey Mouse's original Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons. His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their father was Lou A. Agrati. Their mother was a talent agent, known as Mary Grady.
Grady was born in San Diego, California on June 8, 1944. Grady was married two times; first to Julie Boonisar from 1976 until they divorced in 1979. Lastly he was married to Virginia Lewsader from 1985 until his death in 2012. Grady died on June 27, 2012 in his home in Thousand Oaks, California from cancer. He was 68 years old.
Ivan Urgant
Ivan Andreevich Urgant (Ива́н Андре́евич У́ргант, born 16 April 1978) is a Russian television personality, showman, and an actor.
TV programs
He is known for hosting various TV shows, including:
Yousuf Shaaban (actor)
Yousuf Shaaban Shemis (يوسف شعبان شميس; 16 July 1931 – 28 February 2021) was an Egyptian actor. He was born in Shubra, Egypt. His career lasted from 1958 until 2017. He was known There is a Man in our House, Mother of the Bride and My Wife, the Director General.
Shaaban died of COVID-19 on 28 February 2021 in Giza, Egypt at the age of 89.
Nuremberg Military Tribunals
The Nuremberg Military Tribunals are the follow up trials of war criminals held by the United States of America in Nuremberg.
The trial of the 24 Major War Criminals held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg is at Nuremberg Trials
Trials
The twelve US trials in front of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal took place from December 9, 1946 to April 13, 1949. The trials were:
Electoral district of Tweed
Tweed is an electoral district of New South Wales. It was created in 1894, abolished in 1904 and recreated in 1999.
The current MP is Geoff Provest of the National Party.
Alisson Becker
Alisson Ramses Becker (born 2 October 1992), sometimes shortened to Alisson, is a Brazilian professional footballer. He plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He plays as a goalkeeper. He was born in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul.
Counted among one of the best goalkeepers in Europe, Alisson is Brazil's first-choice goalkeeper ahead of Manchester City's Ederson Moraes.
Club
Becker began his career at Internacional. He made over 100 appearances and won the Campeonato Gaúcho in each of his four seasons at the club. In 2016, he signed a €7.5 million transfer to Roma. In July 2018, he signed for Liverpool for a fee of €72.5 million (£66.8m), a world record transfer fee for a goalkeeper at the time. In his first season with Liverpool, he won the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, with Liverpool defeating Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 in the final, and finished second in the Premier League. He also won the Premier League Golden Glove, keeping 21 clean sheets. In the 2019-2020 season with Liverpool he won the Premier League title and FIFA Club World Cup.
International
Becker has played for Brazil since 2015. He played for them during the Copa América Centenario in 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Honours
Internacional
Liverpool
R211 (New York City Subway car)
The R211A/T/S is a new technology (NTT) New York City Subway car being built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. They will replace two aging subway car models. The base order consists of 535 cars, with options for up to 1,077 additional cars.
Delivery of the R211 cars began at the end of June 2021. They contain new features such as wider doors, Wi-Fi, LED-lit doorways and open gangways.
Component orders
The majority of the fleet will replace the 748-car R46 fleet. The contract is split into three parts: R211A, R211S, and R211T.
If all options are exercised, the order would total 1,612 cars, or 640 standard cars and 437 gangway cars. Any extra cars that do not replace existing rolling stock will be used to expand the fleet.
Features
The doors on the R211s are 58 inches (150 cm) wide, wider than the current MTA standard of 50 inches (130 cm). This design change partially incorporates a design feature of the R110A prototype subway cars. The new doors are projected to reduce station dwell time by 25 to 30 percent.
The new cars have Wi-Fi installed, USB chargers, digital advertisements, digital customer information displays, illuminated door opening alerts, and security cameras, unlike the current New York Technology Trains, which lack these features. Each car contains an on-board computer system that could detect breakdowns in critical systems such as braking and door-opening.
Exterior features include large windows, LED headlights, and a blue strip with gold accents on the sides. Features similar to trains with rollsigns (R40 to R68A).
Changes to the R211 include updated FIND displays and flip seats for wheelchairs. Looped stanchions are installed on all R179 cars, as well as some R46, R62A, and R160 cars. The R211 was part of an action plan to fix the subway's state of emergency in 2017.
In addition to various screens throughout the train, touch screen displays are present throughout the subway cars, allowing people to zoom in and out of the map.
All R211A and R211T cars are equipped for CBTC in conjunction with the ongoing automation of the B Division lines. All R211S cars are equipped with cab signaling.
Initial request for proposals
The R211 Design Master Plan was approved by the MTA in December 2011. The order was planned to be 75 feet (23 m) in length, the same length as the R46 cars. Open-gangways, which would allow passengers to seamlessly walk throughout the train or units were also considered.
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam (মুস্তাফা নূরউল ইসলাম; 1 May 1927 – 9 May 2018) was a Bangladeshi academic. In 2011 he was honored as a National Professor of Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1981 and Independence Day Award in 2010 by the Government of Bangladesh.
R211 (New York City Subway car)
Initial request for proposals
The contract was originally supposed to be awarded in early 2017, but was pushed back to mid-2017. The base order consisted of 285 cars, with 10 R211T cars, 75 R211S cars, and 200 R211A cars. There were two option orders; the first option order contained 740 cars.
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam
Islam was the founder director of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the Director General of Bangla Academy and the Chairman of Bangladesh National Museum. In 2011, he was appointed as a National Professor. He edited a literary magazine named 'Sundaram'.
R211 (New York City Subway car)
Initial request for proposals
On April 24, 2017, the breakdown of the order was changed again. The base order now includes 535 cars, with 10 R211T cars, 75 R211S cars, and 450 R211A cars. This change was made to allow for faster deliveries of the R211 cars.
Bentley, Suffolk
Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England, about 6 mi southwest of Ipswich. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 776.
R211 (New York City Subway car)
Creation of mockup and contract awards
In August 2017, Bombardier Transportation was banned from bidding on the R211 contract due to various delays and problems associated with the R179 contract. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Alstom Transport were seen as two of the likely bidders for the contract.
Bentley, Suffolk
Bentley has a parish council and a local news site called Bentley News which is managed by a local resident.
R211 (New York City Subway car)
Creation of mockup and contract awards
The MTA Board has awarded Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc, a subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Kobe, Japan, the $1.4 billion base order for the first 535 new R211 cars. The cars are anticipated to be delivered from 2020 to 2023.
Bentley, Suffolk
Bentley has a Church of England parish church, a Reformed Baptist church, a Church of England primary school, a pub, a Village Hall and a riding school. A community owned village shop opened in the summer of 2016.
The Eastern Union Railway was built through the parish and opened on 15 July 1846. Bentley railway station was about 1/2 mi east of the village, and served the area until British Railways closed it in 1966. The station was a junction between 1847 and 1965 for the Hadleigh branch line. The branch line also had a short-lived station called Bentley Church (1847-1853).
R211 (New York City Subway car)
Creation of mockup and contract awards
Kawasaki has announced that the first test trains will be delivered in 2020. The cars are being assembled at factories in Lincoln, Nebraska and Yonkers, New York. Kawasaki also announced that there would be two option orders, with the first consisting of 640 cars in 89 sets.
The entire order will consist of 1,612 cars with both options exercised. The delivery of the base order is scheduled to be completed by August 2023, with option 1 and option 2 completed by December 2024 and October 25, respectively. In October 2018, it was confirmed that the second option order would consist of 89 sets from 437 cars.
Delays in delivery
The first R211A train was scheduled to be delivered in July 2020, but was delayed to January 2021. The first two test trains of ten R211T open-gangway cars would have been delivered in May 2021. Thereafter, new R211 cars would've been produced and delivered at a rate of 40 cars per month.
A decision on whether to continue deliveries of Kawasaki's R211 open-gangway or standard trainsets has been put on hold until the end of the year. If the two option orders of 1,077 cars were exercised, deliveries would have continued through late 2025.
Delivery of the first cars for the R211T and R211S test trains was delayed. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had impacted global supply chains. Kawasaki planned to deliver 22 cars per month, an independent engineering consultant for the MTA described as "aggressive".
Delivery of the first cars for the R211A and R211T test trains has been delayed again. Delivery of the base order of R211As had to be underway by November 2023 so there would be enough cars to test a communications-based train control (CBTC) system.
Delivery
The first set of R211As was delivered to the New York City Transit Authority in June 2021. The test train was delivered despite a lack of staff in Nebraska and a shortage of important parts. It was prepared at Coney Island Yard for several weeks before being tested.
Jeannot Welter
Jeannot Welter was a boxer from Luxembourg. Welter competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born on 15 March 1928 and died on 22 December 1998.
Guido Bellido
Guido Bellido Ugarte (born 7 August 1979) is a Peruvian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Peru from 29 July 2021 until 6 October 2021 during the Pedro Castillo presidency. He is also a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru since 26 July 2021. Bellido is a member of Free Peru. He was born in Livitaca District, Peru.
On 6 October, Bellido resigned as the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, after President Castillo asked for his resignation.
Blato, Korčula
Blato is a municipality on the island of Korčula in Croatia. It can be reached by the main island road from town of Korčula.
Coto de Caza, California
Coto de Caza (meaning hunting preserve in Spanish) is a census-designated place (CDP) and guard-gated private community in Orange County, California. The population was 14,799 at the 2017 census.
George Murdock
George Murdock (June 25, 1930 – April 30, 2012) was an American television and movie actor.
Alan Tacher
Alan Tacher (born March 28, 1968 in Mexico City) is a Mexican television presenter. He is part of the main cast of Univision's morning program Despierta América.
George Murdock
Among his most famous characters for movies and TV were Lt. Scanlon, the oily Internal Affairs officer in Barney Miller, Dr. Salik in Battlestar Galactica TV series and his appearance in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by William Shatner, who called him "a wonderful actor". Murdock career would begin in 1961 until his death in 2012.
Murdock was born on June 25, 1930 in Salina, Kansas. Murdock was never married and had no children. Murdock died on April 30, 2012 in a hospital in Burbank, California from complications from cancer, he was 81 years old.
Simacourbe
Simacourbe is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Banana split
A banana split is a type of dessert. It is made with ice cream, sliced bananas, and usually toppings. The toppings often include flavored sauces, whipped cream, nuts, and most notably a cherry on top of the dessert.
Gustave Boulanger
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 – 22 September 1888) was a French painter. He is mostly known for his paintings of oriental style.
Banana split
One banana split has 893 calories.
History
There are a few different stories about the first banana split. People in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Wilmington, Ohio say that the first banana split was made in their city. However, most people say that David "Doc" Strickler made the first banana split in the city of Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1904. He sold the first banana splits for ten cents. Many students at St. Vincent College, a school in Latrobe, liked the banana splits and told their friends in other cities about them. After a few years, the banana split was popular in many cities in the United States.
Cool C
Christopher Douglass Roney (born December 15, 1969), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American rapper. He is known today for killing a Philadelphia police officer in a bank robbery in January 1996.
He is currently at the Pennsylvania state prison awaiting execution. He was to have been put to death by lethal injection on March 9, 2006, but his execution was postponed. It was scheduled for January 8, 2015 before being postponed in December 2014 by a court order.
Jules Steichen
Jules Steichen was a boxer from Luxembourg. Steichen competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born on 7 June 1902 and died on 4 August 1977.
Nomen dubium
A name may also be considered a nomen dubium if its name-bearing type is fragmentary or lacking important diagnostic features. This is often the case for species known only as fossils. To preserve stability of names, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows a new type specimen, or neotype, to be chosen for a nomen dubium in this case.
It is one of a number of terms which are used in biological taxonomy.
Apisai Tora
Mohammad Apisai Vuniyayawa Tora (January 5, 1934 – August 6, 2020) was a Fijian politician, soldier, and trade unionist. He was a Senator from 2001 to 2006. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1972 as a member of the National Federation Party. In 1977 when he lost his seat.
On 27 September 2005, he was sentenced to eight months in jail for offenses related to the coup of 2000.
Tora died on August 6, 2020 at the age of 86.
Herman Pieter de Boer
Herman Pieter de Boer (9 February 1928 – 1 January 2014), also known as Johnny Austerlitz, was a Dutch writer, journalist and lyricist. He began his career during the late 1950s, and continued for more than 55 years. During this time, he wrote over 65 novels.
De Boer was born in Rotterdam, South Holland. He was married twice during his life. He also had a long relationship with Dutch singer-songwriter Lenny Kuhr from 1981 to 1993.
He died at the age of 85 after a long illness, in Eindhoven, North Brabant.
Orlando Magic
The Orlando Magic are an American professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in Orlando, Florida. They began playing in 1989. They play their home games at the Amway Center. They are the only team in the "big four" sports leagues to be based in Orlando. Steve Clifford is the current owner of the team.
Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
Australia has no nuclear power stations and the Rudd Labor government was opposed to nuclear power for Australia. However, Australia does have a small research reactor (OPAL) in Sydney, and it does export uranium.
Uranium mining and export and nuclear issues have often been the subject of public debate, and the anti-nuclear movement in Australia has a long history. It began with the 1972–73 debate over French nuclear testing in the Pacific, which involved several groups, and the 1976–77 debate about uranium mining in Australia.
Issues
The case against nuclear power and uranium mining in Australia has been concerned with the impacts of nuclear energy; with the shortcomings of nuclear power as an energy source; and with presenting a sustainable energy strategy. The most prominent adverse impact of nuclear power is seen to be its potential contribution towards proliferation of nuclear weapons. For example, the 1976 Ranger Inquiry report stated that "The nuclear power industry is unintentionally contributing to an increased risk of nuclear war. This is the most serious hazard associated with the industry".
The health risks associated with nuclear materials have also been of concern. This has been the case worldwide because of incidents like the Chernobyl disaster, but Australian concerns have also involved specific local factors such as controversy over the health effects of nuclear testing in Australia and the South Pacific, and the emergence of prominent anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott, who is a medical practitioner.
The economics of nuclear power has been a factor in anti-nuclear campaigns, with critics arguing that such power is uneconomical in Australia, particularly given the country's abundance of coal resources.
From the perspective of the anti-nuclear movement, most of the problems with nuclear power today are much the same as in the 1970s. Nuclear reactor accidents remain a possibility and no convincing solution to the problem of long-lived radioactive waste has been proposed. Nuclear weapons proliferation continues to occur. The alternatives to nuclear power, energy efficiency and renewable energy (especially wind power), have been further developed and commercialised.
Mike Piazza
Michael Joseph Piazza (born September 4, 1968) is a former American baseball catcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1992 to 2007. His best years were played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets. Piazza is regarded by many as the best offensive (hitting, batting) catcher of all time. He holds many batting records among catchers, such as most career home runs (427) and seven seasons hitting 30 or more home runs. Despite allegations of using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, Piazza was eventually elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.
Wiggensbach
Wiggensbach is a municipality in Bavaria. It is about 7 km west of Kempten, the next big town. Next door municipalities are Altusried in the north and Buchenberg in the south of the village. Wiggensbach is the main village. Ermengerst and Westenried are the two districts of Wiggensbach. There are 72 hamlets around the municipality. The village is between 870 and 1,077 m above sea level.
Wiggensbach is twinned with Hattstatt in France. The 20th anniversary of the partnership was in 2003.
Bread (band)
Bread was an American rock/pop band. They formed in Los Angeles, California in the late 1960s. "Make It With You" was a No. 1 hit in the Billboard chart. "If" was a 1971 worldwide hit. Bread disbanded in 1978. The band leader was David Gates. He composed all of Bread's hits. The 1996 reunion was a year-long world tour.
Laxative
A laxative is a food or drug taken to make bowel movements easier, or to treat constipation. Sometimes taking powerful or lots of laxatives can cause diarrhea or a flatulence.
Louis Meznarie
Louis Meznarie (14 January 1930 – 6 August 2020) was a French engine expert. He was a team owner entrant to 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Saintry-sur-Seine (Essonne), France.
From 1971 to 1983, he was the official engine preparation expert for Porsche, with many victories in 24 Hours of Le Mans, French Rally Championship and European Rally Championship. Notably in 1972, Assisted by Jürgen Barth, future winner in a Porsche 936 in 1977, by Sylvain Garant, then Mike Keizer. The 911 with a 2.5-liter engine, flanked by the No. 41 finished in 13th place in the general classification while winning its category.
At the Salon Moto Légende 2017, in Paris, Louis Meznarie, had sold these last motorcycles in number of 4 NSU by the Osenat auction house. In recent years, he traveled less and less but we always enjoyed finding him and exchanging many memories.
Meznarie died on 6 August 2020 at the age of 90.
Nestorianism
Nestorianism is a movement within Christianity. The idea behind the doctrine was that there were two different persons of Jesus. One of them was the man Jesus, the other was the aspect of son of God, or Logos. Perhaps the most prominent supporter of the idea was Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople. Nestorius lived from about 380 to about 450 AD. The Council of Ephesus condemned this view in 431. This led to a split of the church, into the Assyrian Church of the East and the Byzantine Church.
For this reason, the Assyrian Church of the East is sometimes called Nestorian. The church holds the view that Christ has two essences (qnome) that are united in one person (parsopa).
The only two churches that teach Nestorianism today are the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Church of the East & Abroad.
Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period of Egypt began when Lower and Upper Egypt were joined together as one country in about 3100 BC. This was called the Two Lands. The First and Second Dynasties ruled during this time. It ended in about 2686 BC, at the beginning of the Old Kingdom.
The capital city of the Two Lands was moved from Thinis to Memphis. The united Egypt was ruled by an Egyptian god-king. The main features of ancient Egyptian civilization, such as art, architecture and religion, took shape during this time.
Before the Early Dynastic Period, Egypt was settled with small, separate villages. The rulers were able to set up a government system across the whole country, run by local royal governors. Government buildings were usually open-air temples made of wood or sandstone. Writing, in hieroglyphs began to be used just before this period. Little is known about the spoken language.
Cultural development
By about 3600 BC, neolithic Egyptian societies on the River Nile were growing crops and farming with animals. Shortly after 3600 BC Egyptian society began to grow and advance rapidly. They made pottery in a new style and began using copper. The Egyptians began using sun-dried bricks for building. They also started using the arch, and recessed walls for decorative effect.
The societies and towns on the upper Nile River, or Upper Egypt began to join together. This was also happening in the Nile Delta, or Lower Egypt. There were often wars between Upper and Lower Egypt. During his rule in Upper Egypt, King Narmer defeated his enemies on the Delta. He joined the Kingdom of Upper and Lower Egypt together under his rule. Narmer is shown in pictures wearing the double crown, called the Pschent, with the lotus flower of Upper Egypt and the papyrus reed of Lower Egypt. These symbols of a united Egypt were used by all future rulers. In mythology, the falcon-god, Horus of Lower Egypt, won a battle over the god Seth, of Upper Egypt. This helped start the idea that Egyptian kings were gods and divine, which lasted for 3,000 years. It was the basis of Egypt's government. The unification of societies of the Nile has also been linked to the drying of the Sahara.
Rich people began to have more complex funeral practices. The Egyptians began building mastabas which became models for later buildings, such as the Old Kingdom's Step pyramid. The growing of cereal crops and the use of central control to organize farm workers helped the success of the state for the next 800 years.
It seems certain that Egypt was unified culturally and economically long before its first king ruled from the city of Memphis. Political unification was a slow process, taking place over a century or so. Local areas started trading networks and governments were able to organize farm workers on a large scale. Divine kingship gained importance as the cults of gods like Horus, Seth and Neith spread across the country.
The Egyptian writing system was further developed. At first Egyptian writing was a few symbols showing amounts of various items. By the end of the third dynasty it had been grown to more than 200 symbols, both phonograms and ideograms.
First Pharaoh
Manetho, an Egyptian historian, said almost three thousand years later that Menes was the first king of the Two Lands. Menes is probably Narmer, the earliest recorded king of the First Dynasty Narmer's name is on the king lists of Den and Qa'a. The first dynasty kings saw Narmer as an important founding figure. Narmer is also the earliest king linked to the symbols of power over the two lands. The Narmer palette, a special cosmetic palette designed for ritual use, shows him wearing the Pschent, the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Another theory is that Narmer was the last king of the Protodynastic Period and that Menes was Hor-Aha.
Adam Comrie
Adam Comrie (July 31, 1990 – August 7, 2020) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Comrie was selected by the Florida Panthers in the 3rd round (80th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He was born in Kanata, Ontario. His career lasted from 2010 to 2020.
Oboe
The oboe came from the shawm which was a medieval and Renaissance instrument. It became popular in the Baroque period. Bach and Handel both used it in most of their orchestral music. Many Italian composers such as Antonio Vivaldi wrote concertos for the instrument, and it is used in a lot of chamber music. At this time it hardly had any keys, but over time more keys were added which made it easier to play the sharps and flats.
Later composers to write for the oboe as a solo instrument include Mozart, Weber, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Francis Poulenc.
The name oboe comes from French language hautbois, meaning "high wood", a high-pitched woodwind instrument.
Siros, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Siros, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945 in Yangon, Burma) is a human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and State Counsellor of Myanmar.
Suu Kyi was not able to be president. Instead, she became the State Counsellor of Myanmar. She brought some democracy to her country with nonviolence. She is the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma and a famous prisoner. She has been under house arrest several times. Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992, she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize.
She is sometimes called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Daw is not part of her name, but a title for older women. This name shows respect for her. She is called Amay Suu by the people, meaning Mother Suu.
On 1 February 2021, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and removed from power by the military during a coup d'état. The military thought the government changed the results of the November 2020 Myanmar general election. On February 3, Suu Kyi was accused as violating Myanmar's import laws. On February 16, Myanmar police filed a second criminal charge against her, this time for violating the country's Natural Disaster Law and Military accused with many other cases like having a walkie-talkie. However, nearly all of the case military accuse are not trusted by the people of Myanmar.
Personal life
Aung San Suu Kyi was the third child in her family. Her name "Aung San" comes from her father, who is also named Aung San; "Kyi" comes from her mother; and "Suu" comes from her grandmother.
Her father helped to make Burma independent from the United Kingdom in 1947. He was killed in the same year. She grew up with her mother, Khin Kyi, and two brothers, Aung San Lin and Aung San Oo in Yangon. One of her brothers, Aung San Lin, drowned when Suu Kyi was eight. Her other brother, Aung San Oo currently lives in San Diego, California and is an American citizen.
Khin Kyi, Suu Kyi's mother, became famous as a politician. She became the Burmese ambassador to India in 1960. Aung San Suu Kyi went to college in India at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi. Suu Kyi continued her education at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and learned about philosophy, politics, and economics. She also went to the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London in the 1980s.
She moved to New York and worked at the United Nations. In 1972, Aung San Suu Kyi married Michael Aris (1946-1999), a professor of Tibetan culture who lived in Bhutan. She had met Aris when they were both students at Oxford. In 1973, she gave birth to her first son, Alexander, in London; and in 1977 she had her second son, Kim.
Political career
Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Burma in 1988 to take care of her sick mother. That year, the long-time leader of the socialist ruling party, General Nay Win, stopped being a politician.
She was arrested in 1989 and placed in prison in 1990. This was after an election which her party, the National League for Democracy, won, but they were not allowed to be in charge of the country. Between 1990 and 2010, she was almost always in her home, which is called house arrest. Burma released her in November 2010. Suu Kyi was going to be released in 2009, but when a man entered her home she was kept on house arrest for another year because she had broken the rules of the house arrest.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Political career
After she was released from house arrest, she was elected to be State Counsellor. When she was State Counsellor, Burma had serious problems with the genocide of the Rohingya.
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In 1974, the Japanese government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) tried to force the Japanese video industry to agree on just one home video recording format, in order to avoid consumer confusion. Later, Sony built a prototype of a Betamax VTR. Sony presented the prototype to MITI, and convinced them to use Betamax as the technical standard. Sony was then allowed to charge other companies licensing fees to use the Betamax technical standard, so that they could also build and sell Betamax machines.
JVC believed that an open standard (a technical standard that is open and free for anyone to use) like VHS was better for the consumer, so they fought against the MITI and Sony. JVC attempted to convince other companies, including Matsushita, to use VHS instead of Betamax. Matsushita agreed with JVC because Matsushita worried that Sony might become the most powerful company in the video recording industry if the Betamax format was the only one that the MITI allowed them to sell. Matsushita also disliked the fact that Betamax systems could only record one hour of video.
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In countries that use the NTSC technical standard for television broadcasting, the Beta I version of Betamax was able to record one hour of video at a tape speed of 1.5 inches per second (ips), which was similar to a VHS standard-play mode (SP). Originally, VHS recorded two hours of video at 1.31 ips. Betamax's smaller-sized cassettes were not able to contain as much magnetic tape as VHS cassettes. They could not compete fit longer lengths of tape into the cassettes to match VHS's two-hour recording time. Instead, Sony had to slow the tape speed down to 0.787 ips (Beta II) in order to reach two hours of video recording in the same cassette size. This meant that the television picture produced by a Betamax tape was worse than VHS when comparing two-hour recordings. Sony eventually released a longer Betamax cassette called Beta III which allowed NTSC Betamax to record more than two hours, but by then VHS had already won the format war.
VHS also used a less complicated set of mechanisms to read the magnetic tape than Betamax, and VHS machines were faster at rewinding (winding the magnetic tape back to its starting place so that the video starts from the beginning the next time) and fast-forwarding than Betamax machines.
In countries that use the PAL and SECAM technical standards for their television broadcasting, Betamax's recording time was similar to VHS and the picture on the television was at least as good as VHS.
DVDs replaced VCRs
In the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, the DVD player replaced the VCR as the most common way to watch movies on a home television. The VCR sales dropped later, causing the VCR to be used less by people. VCRs are still available, but fewer stores offer them, because fewer people want them.
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