cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Scott Sanders
In 1993 Sanders began playing for the San Diego Padres. This was his first Major League team. He also played for the San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Detroit Tigers, and Chicago Cubs.
Sanders also started one game for the Cleveland Indians in 2000. He pitched poorly. After a few innings, rain caused the game to be cancelled. All stats from the game were removed. Sanders did not play for the Indians after that game.
In 2001, Sanders pitched in Japan for the Nippon Ham Fighters.
In his career, Sanders was in 34 winning games and 45 losing games. He pitched 632 strikeouts and had a 4.86 ERA.
San Marcos Civic Center (NCTD station)
The San Marcos Civic Center is a Sprinter light rail station. It is served by North County Transit District. It is on San Marcos Boulevard.
Follicle-stimulating hormone
Follicle-stimulating hormone (abbreviated FSH, sometimes called Follitropine) is a glycoprotein and hormone. It is synthesised in the adeno hypophysis of pituitary gland. In females, it controls the synthesising process of progesteron and will cause the growth of follicles in the ovaries. In males, it will lead to the production of sperm. Other hormones control the release of FSH. Luteinizing hormone will cause ovulation in females, or the production of testosterone in males.
This hormone is made by the pituitary glands in the brain.
Infant baptism
Infant baptism is the baptism (or "christening") of young children or infants. In theology, the practice is sometimes called paedobaptism or pedobaptism.
Charles Belgrave
Charles Dalrymple Belgrave (1894–1969) was a British citizen. He was an advisor to the rulers of Bahrain from 1926 until 1957. He first was under Shaikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa. The he was under Shaikh Salman ibn Hamad Al-Khalifa.
During the war he was with the Imperial Camel Corps. He spent two years in Siwa Oasis. He got better at his Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He came to Bahrain in March 1926. He stayed there until 1957.
The biggest long-term benefit to the country has said to be the making of schools for girls by his wife Marjorie Belgrave.
Charmin
Charmin is a brand of toilet paper. It is made by Procter & Gamble.
History
The Charmin name was first created in 1928 by the Hoberg Paper Company in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1950, Hoberg changed its name to Charmin Paper Company and kept making toilet paper, paper napkins, and other paper products. Procter & Gamble (P&G) bought Charmin Paper Company in 1957, but sold the right to make and sell it in Europe (where it is now called Cushelle) to SCA in 2008.
Advertising
Older American adverts had actor Dick Wilson in them. He played the fake grocer Mr. George Whipple. He told customers "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" in more than 500 commercials between 1964 and 1985.
The Charmin Bear began being used in 2000. This happened at the same time that Charmin became available in Canada. The Charmin Bear is now the mascot for Charmin Ultra Strong and Charmin Ultra Soft.
European name change to "Cushelle"
From February 2010, Charmin's European name was changed to Cushelle by SCA. There is also a new mascot, Koala which is a koala. Cushelle adverts are voiced-over by Robert Webb.
Environment
In February 2009, Greenpeace asked people not to use Charmin toilet paper. They said that it does not use recycled paper and uses ECF bleaching.
German rename to Zewa
In 2008, Charmin was renamed to Zewa in Germany. There was no mascot in the adverts. However, in the first Zewa advert, the Charmin Bear was seen.
Islamic Consultative Assembly
The National Consultative Assembly of Iran, also called The Iranian Parliament or People's House, is the national legislative body of Iran. The Parliament has 290 representatives. There were 272 seats since the 18 February 2000 election. The election took place on 2 March 2012. The new parliament will be opened on 27 May 2012.
The first national assembly
The first national assembly, the "Majlis", was formed in 1906, after the 1905-1906 revolution. The Majlis wrote a constitution for the Persian empire. The first Majlis had 156 delegates. Tehran had 60 of the 156 seats. Major provinces like Azerbaijan had 12 delegates. Smaller provinces like Gilan and Tavala had 6 delegates each.
War
In 1941, Britain and Russia invaded Persia to put the Germans out. This happened during the 13th Majlis. Mohamed Reza Shah was the constitutional monarch from 1941-1953. From 1953 until the revolution of 1979, Shah was the absolute ruler. Elections for the 14th Majlis were in 1943. In 1950, a special assembly met to create a new upper house, or senate, with half of the members appointed by Shah. The assembly also gave Shah the power to dissolve the national assembly. The 21st Majlis was elected in September 1963.
The 1979 revolution
After the revolution, Iran changed the name of the parliament from the National Assembly to the Islamic Assembly.
Elections after the revolution
Dates of elections:
Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan
Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan (died 2005) simply known as Rana Hanif, was the Finance Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977.
Provenance
Provenance is the history of ownership, or the position of a historical object. It comes from the French provenir, meaning "to come from".
In archaeology the term provenience is used in related but a subtly different sense to provenance. Archaeological researchers use provenience to refer to the three-dimensional location or find spot of an artifact or feature within an archaeological site, whereas provenance covers an object's complete documented history. Ideally, in modern excavations, the provenience or find spot is recorded (even videoed) with great precision, but in older cases only the general site or approximate area may be known, especially when an artifact was found outside a professional excavation and its specific position not recorded. An object may have both a provenience (where it was found) and a provenance (where it has been since it was found). In some cases, especially where there is an inscription, the provenance may include a history that predates its burial in the ground, as well as its history after rediscovery.
Socialist Campaign Group
The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing, democratic socialist group of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It was formed in December 1982 as an alternative Parliamentary left-wing group to the Tribune Group. The Campaign Group, as it's commonly known, is often considered on the hard left of the Labour Party and has been very critical of New Labour.
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Christiane Eda-Pierre (March 24, 1932 – September 5, 2020) was a French coloratura soprano. She sang in many roles, from baroque to contemporary works. Eda-Pierre was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
She made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1958, as Lakmé. She played Papagena in The Magic Flute, and at the Palais Garnier in 1960, as Lucia di Lammermoor.
Eda-Pierre died on September 5, 2020 at the age of 88.
Skedvi kyrkby
Skedvi kyrkby is a locality in Säter Municipality in Dalarna County in Sweden. In 2010, 208 people lived there.
Floodplain restoration
Flood plain restoration is the process of returning a flood plain to its condition before people modified the landscape for development or agriculture.
Wendell, North Carolina
Wendell is a town in Wake County, North Carolina United States. The population was 5,845 at the 2010 census.
Powerslam
This page describes the different types of powerslams in professional wrestling.
Fireman's carry powerslam
This maneuver has a wrestler lift their opponent on their back in a fireman's carry position. Grab their opponent's leg lift that side up and over turning to face their opponent in the process and then slam them to the mat.
January 0
January 0 does not exist in any calendars. It sometimes refers to December 31.
In an ephimeris
January 0 also refers to the day before January 1 in an annual ephemeris. It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published. It avoids any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year.
Software
In Microsoft Excel, the epoch of the 1900 date format is January 0, 1900.
Marcus Tulio Tanaka
Marcus Tulio Tanaka (田中 マルクス 闘莉王) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Tulio was born in Palmeira d'Oeste, Brazil on April 24, 1981. He moved to Japan at age 15 to complete his high school studies. After graduating from Shibuya Makuhari High School, he joined J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 2001. In opening game against Kashima Antlers in 2001 season on March 11, he debuted as substitute defender in the 10th minutes instead Tony Popovic who was injured, and Tulio scored a goal in the 16th minutes. After the debut, he played many matches as center back in 2 seasons. However Hiroshima was relegated to J2 League end of 2002 season. In 2003, he moved to J2 League club Mito HollyHock. In October 2003, Tulio obtained his Japanese citizenship. Although he played as center back, he scored 10 goals in 2003 season. In 2004, he moved to J1 club Urawa Reds. Urawa won the champions in 2006 and he was selected MVP award. In 2007, Urawa won their first Asian champions in 2007 AFC Champions League. He played 168 matches and score 37 goals for the club in 6 seasons and was selected Best Eleven every season. In 2010, he moved to Nagoya Grampus. In his first season in Nagoya, Nagoya won the champions in 2010 J1 League first time in the club history. Nagoya also won the 2nd place in the 2011 season. He played 188 matches and scored 36 goals for the club. He was also selected Best Eleven for 3 years in a row (2010-2012). In 2017, he moved to J2 club Kyoto Sanga FC and played in 3 seasons. He retired end of 2019 season.
Tulio obtained his Japanese citizenship in October 2003. He played for Japan U-23 national team at the 2004 Olympic Games. He played as center back in full time in all 3 matches. On August 9, 2006, he debuted for the Japan national team under new manager Ivica Osim against Trinidad and Tobago which is Japan's first match after the 2006 World Cup. He played many matches for center back with Yuji Nakazawa. He was selected the Japan for 2010 World Cup. He played in full time in all 4 matches. He played 43 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2010.
Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture
The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is an annual award. It is for a director of a movie. It is part of the Golden Globe Awards. The directors with the most nominations are Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Marcus Tulio Tanaka
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DWAO-TV
DWAO-TV (channel 37) is a television station in Metro Manila, Philippines, serving as the flagship of UNTV News and Rescue/Public Service (formerly UNTV-37 and UNTV Life). Owned and operated by the Progressive Broadcasting Corporation, owned by Alfredo "Atom" Henares. It is maintained by the Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International, headed by veteran broadcaster Daniel Razon. the station maintains studios at the La Verdad Christian College - Caloocan Building, 351 EDSA, Brgy. Bagong Barrio West, Caloocan, and its hybrid analog and digital transmitter facility is located at Emerald Hills, Sumulong Highway, Antipolo.
Marcus Tulio Tanaka
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DWAO-TV
Digital channels
UHF Channel 38 (617.143 MHz)
Satellite broadcast
UNTV can be received via satellite in the Philippines and other countries in Asia, Australia, Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Internet streaming
UNTV can be received via online streaming through its website or by encoding the network's streaming link URL in the VLC Media Player installed on personal computers and mobile devices.
Mobile application
In 2013, BMPI launched the UNTV Mobile App for Apple iOS, Google Android and Windows mobile and tablet devices. By downloading the mobile application, users with stable internet connection will be able to watch the broadcast feed of UNTV News and Rescue and listen to UNTV Radio La Verdad 1350 kHz for free.
Embedded Linux
Embedded Linux is a Linux distribution that is highly integrated into systems. Some applications could be auto-path finding in RC hobby airplanes, to monitoring mass production of products. For further info on this, see Linux.
Bastian Obermayer
Bastian Obermayer (born 1977 in Rosenheim) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning German investigative journalist with the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), and the reporter who received the Panama Papers from an anonymous source.
Obermayer is also author of several books, among them the best selling account of the Panama Papers: The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money - co-authored by his colleague Frederik Obermaier.
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament talks about the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-weapon-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated.
Nuclear disarmament groups include the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Action, Greenpeace, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Mayors for Peace, Global Zero, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017), and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Axur, Re d'Ormus
Axur, re d'Ormus ("Axur, king of Ormus") is an Italian opera in five acts. The music was written by Antonio Salieri. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte. The opera was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 8 January 1788. It was a great success.
Nuclear disarmament
There have been many large anti-nuclear demonstrations and protests. On June 12, 1982, one million people demonstrated in New York City's Central Park against nuclear weapons and for an end to the cold war arms race. It was the largest anti-nuclear protest and the largest political demonstration in American history.
In recent years, some U.S. elder statesmen have also advocated nuclear disarmament. Sam Nunn, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and George Shultz have called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and in various op-ed columns have proposed an ambitious program of urgent steps to that end. The four have created the Nuclear Security Project to advance this agenda. Organisations such as Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving nuclear disarmament, have also been established.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is an activist organisation in England and Wales. It supports the Palestinian people. It was founded in 1982 during the build-up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. It was incorporated in the UK in 2004 as Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd.
Waikato (New Zealand electorate)
Waikato is an electorate in the New Zealand Parliament. A Waikato electorate was first created in 1871 and an electorate by this name has existed from 1871 to 1963, 1969 to 1996, and 2008 to the present, though exact borders have often changed.
Vinberg
Vinberg is a locality in Falkenberg Municipality in Halland County in Sweden. In 2010, 592 people lived there.
OMF International
OMF International (or Overseas Missionary Fellowship and China Inland Mission before 1964) is an inter-denominational Protestant Christian missionary society. It was started by English missionary Hudson Taylor on 25 June, 1865.
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Ryutaro Hashimoto (橋本 龍太郎) was a Japanese politician. He was the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from 11 January 1996 to 30 July 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP.
Hashimoto died on 1 July 2006 in Tokyo, Japan from complication after abdominal surgery, aged 68.
Belarusian Americans
Belarusian Americans (Беларускія амэрыканцы, Biełaruskija amerykancy), also known by the somewhat dated terms Byelorussian Americans and White-Russian Americans, are Americans who are of total or partial Belarusian ancestry.
TVNZ
Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly known as TVNZ, is a free-to-air public broadcasting television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.
TVNZ was created in February 1980. About 90% of TVNZ's revenue is from commercial activity (such as advertising and merchandising).
İlhan Mansız
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Felching
Felching is a human sexual practice in which one person sucks semen or other fluids out of the vagina or anus of a another person. The acts of sucking the semen and then passing it from the mouth of one person to a third person is called snowballing. However, snowballing usually relates to semen ejaculated in the mouth following fellatio.
Felching can also mean the licking or sucking of another person's anus, similar to the act of anilingus.
Valladolid
Valladolid is a city in Spain, with a population of 316,564. It is the capital of Castile and León, and one of the historical capitals of the Spanish Kingdom.
On 19 October, 1469, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile married secretely in the Palacio de los Vivero. Also, Christopher Columbus died in the city on 20 May, 1506.
The river that runs through the city is known as the Pisuerga. Valladolid has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Köppen climate classification).
Northerly Island
Northerly Island is a 91 acre man-made peninsula along Chicago's lakefront.
The site of the Adler Planetarium, Northerly Island connects to the mainland through a narrow isthmus along Solidarity Drive made-up by Neoclassical sculptures of Kościuszko, Havliček and Copernicus. With the demolition of Meigs Field Airport, it is now a part of the Museum Campus and has been made into parkland.
A semi-temporary concert venue, the Huntington Bank Pavilion occupies part of the site of the former airport.
Good Hope, Alabama
Good Hope is a city in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 2,264. It was incorporated in April 1962.
Vaxxed
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American movie pretending that there was a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a possible link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism.
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population of Henderson was 317,610 in 2020. Henderson is the second largest city in the state of Nevada behind Las Vegas. The city of Henderson is named after Senator Charles B. Henderson.
Vaxxed
People were scared that vaccines might cause autism after an English doctor called Andrew Wakefield wrote a scientific article that said that they did. It was a fraud. When the General Medical Council found out, they took away his licence to be a doctor. The Vaxxed film was made by Andrew Wakefield.
Scientists have looked carefully at the MMR vaccine and found that it does not cause autism.
According to Variety magazine, the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine". This did not happen.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that supports nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom. It also supports disarmament by other countries and stricter weapons rules through international agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. It also opposes the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.
Silenos
In Greek mythology, Silenus (Σειληνός, ) was a friend and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.
WWE NXT
WWE NXT is a professional wrestling promotion based in Winter Park, Florida. It is the official developmental territory for WWE.
Goshen, Alabama
Goshen is a town in the U.S. state of Alabama.
WWE NXT
History
NXT was started as Florida Championship Wrestling, typically shortened to FCW Steve Keirn in 2007 to be WWE's second developmental territory when they ended their relationship with Deep South Wrestling in 2007. It became their only developmental territory in early 2008 when they ended their relationship with Ohio Valley Wrestling.
FCW's first show was on June 26, 2007 in Tampa, Florida. A 21 man Battle Royal was held during the show, with Harry Smith winning to become the first ever FCW Southern Heavyweight Champion. The next year, the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship was introduced, with Jake Hager becoming the first champion at a battle royal on February 15, 2008 and defeating Ted DiBiase, Jr.. The FCW Florida Tag Team Championship was also introduced in February, with the Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Perez) beating Steven Lewington and Heath Miller to win it in the finals of a tournament. The two heavyweight titles were later unified, keeping the "Florida Heavyweight" name.
FCW regularly ran shows every Tuesday at Bourbon Street Nightclub, as well as shows on other nights at other venues in and around the Central Florida area. As NXT Wrestling, it now runs live shows ar several locations around Florida.
In August 2012, WWE retired all FCW championship belts and changed the promotion's name to "NXT". WWE had previously used NXT for a reality television program that featured FCW wrestlers trying to earn a WWE contract. WWE NXT, which had been the name of the reality show, is now used as the title of their TV show.
AMC
AMC might mean:
Ko Wen-je
Ko Wen-je (born 6 August 1959) is a Taiwanese surgeon and independent politician. Ko has been the Mayor of Taipei since 2014.
Before becoming the mayor, he was a doctor at the National Taiwan University Hospital. He was also a professor at National Taiwan University College of Medicine.
Wordless Book
A Wordless Book is a Christian evangelistic device. Most believe that it was created by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. It is called a "book", as it is usually has pages, but it can also be shown on a single page or banner.
Color themes
Spurgeon’s concept only contained three colors: “first was black, the second was red, and the third was pure white”
Sheikh
Sheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh or Shekh — is an honorific in the Arabic language. It means "elder" and often means "leader and/or governor". It is commonly used for the front man of a tribe. He can be an Islamic scholar who got this title after graduating from a basic Islamic school. Sheikha is the female term. These are uncommon in the Arabic world. A sheikh who is wise is called ḥakīm and can rule.
Surname
In Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, "Sheikh" is a common surname among Muslims. It generally means there is Arab ancestry.
Dina Ali Lasloom
Dina Ali Lasloom (دينا علي السلوم; born 29 March 1993) is a Saudi Arabian teacher who was kidnapped in the Philippines.
On April 11, 2017, she was traveling from Kuwait to Australia to ask for political asylum. She was stopped in Manila airport. She made a video with a cellphone. IN the video, she said they took her passport and papers. She said that her family would kill her. She wanted to escape a forced marriage. Dina borrowed a phone from a Canadian woman to make the video. In the video, Dina said she was locked up for 13 hours. Then two men came to the airport. Dina said they were her uncles.
European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry. This term includes people who are descended from the first European settlers in America as well as people who are descended from more recent European arrivals. European Americans are the largest panethnic group (or, variously considered an ethnic group in its own right) seconded historically to the indigenous tribes that were colonized by European Americans in the United States, at present.
Dina Ali Lasloom
An airport security officer saw three men take Dina. They put duct tape on her hands, feet, and mouth. Then they put her in a wheelchair. THey took her on a Saudia Airlines flight to Riyadh. Other passengers said they heard her scream for help in the airplane.
European Americans
German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French and Scottish are the most common European ancestries in the United States. Eastern European immigrants such as Romanians are more recent.
Dina Ali Lasloom
The video went viral in Saudi Arabia. People used the hashtag #SaveDinaAli. Protesters were waiting for Dina at the Riyadh airport. One Saudi woman, Alaa Anazi, was arrested at the airport. Some women’s rights advocates in Saudi Arabia say Dina was taken to a women’s shelter. Others said Alla Anazi was taken to the shelter. Dina did not get off the airplane with the other passengers.
European Americans
Many Roma and Jews have arrived to the United States via Europe.
Some European Americans have African and Native American ancestry. 3.5% of European Americans carry African ancestry. In South Carolina and Louisiana, around 12% of European Americans have at least 1% African ancestry.
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Cyrille Regis
Cyrille Regis, MBE (9 February 1958 – 14 January 2018) was an English international footballer. He played as a forward.
His professional playing career lasted 19 years, where he made 614 league appearances and scored 158 league goals, most notably at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City. He also won five caps for the England national team.
Regis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
Regis died of cardiac arrest on 14 January 2018 at the age of 59.
Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful), also called just Merthyr, is a town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, a principal area of Wales. According to a 2018 estimate, 60,183 people live there.
It is located 20.25 miles (32.59 km) north north-east of Cardiff, the capital city.
It is the largest town and the county town of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough and is in the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. It is one of Wales' biggest towns.
Language
In 1891, 68.4% of people who lived in the town said they could speak Welsh. In 2011, the number had falled to just 8.9%. English is the most spoken language there.
Transport
Merthyr Tydfil has a train station. It is on the Merthyr line from Cardiff Central. There is also a large bus station there.
Sports
Merthyr Tydfil has a football team called Merthyr Town FC. They were founded in 2010 after an older team, Merthyr Tydfil FC, had dissolved. Even though they are a Welsh team, they play in England's leagues. Their home stadium is Penydarren Park.
Twinning
Merthyr Tydfil is twinned with:
Atef Sedky
Atef Mohamed Naguib Sedky (29 August 1930 – 25 February 2005) (عاطف محمد نجيب صدقى), was an Egyptian prime minister, born in Qalyubia Governorate. He served as prime minister from 1986 to 1996.
2020 Taiwan presidential election
The 15th President and Vice President election of the Republic of China took place in Taiwan on 11 January 2020. Voters re-elected President and Vice President.
Atef Sedky
A group of Islamic Jiha tried to assassinate attempt, but he survived. Among that group was Amin Al-Maslihi, who was tried and executed with the rest of the group.
Sedky died on 25 February 2005.
2020 Taiwan presidential election
Current President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was elected in 2016, won re-election. She is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 May 2020.
Abdul Amir al-Jamri
Sheikh Abdul Amir al-Jamri (1937-December 18, 2006) was the 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's Twelver Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada. He is the father of Mansoor Al-Jamri, editor-in-chief of the Al Wasat daily newspaper.
Biography
Al-Jamri was born in the village of Bani Jamra, Bahrain, in 1937. In 1962 he went to school at the Najaf Religious Institute in Iraq. In 1973 al-Jamri became a member of Bahrain's parliament, the National Assembly of Bahrain.
Beginning in 1977, al-Jamri was a judge at the High Religious Court of Bahrain. In 1992, al-Jamri joined with Islamists, liberals and leftists to ask the ruler of Bahrain to make a new parliament. In 1994, he asked again.
On April 1, 1995, al-Jamri was placed under house arrest for two weeks. He then went to jail. He was let go on September 25, 1995. On January 21, 1996 he went to jail again. On July 7, 1999 al-Jamri was given 10 years imprisonment and fined $15 million. He was let go a day later and placed under house arrest until January 23, 2001. Less than one month later he called on the people to support the reforms of the King of Bahrain, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair (born 1 July 1954) is an Emirati billionaire who is chief executive of the publicly traded Mashreq Bank. His family's most valuable holding is worth an estimated US$8 billion.
Piet Huyg
Huyg died on 6 December 2019 at the age of 68 of Alzheimer's disease.
Stratford, New Zealand
Stratford (Whakaahurangi) is the only town in Stratford District, and the seat of the Taranaki Region, in New Zealand's North Island. The town has a population of 5,740, making it the 62nd largest urban area in New Zealand.
Primm, Nevada
Primm is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, United States. Primm was featured in the video game, Fallout: New Vegas where it had Vikki and Vance Casino which was based on Primm's Whiskey Pete's and the Bison Steve Hotel which was based on Buffalo Bill's Casino and had the roller coaster.
Baloch Lions
Baloch Lions is a member internal hockey team for the Balochistan Province in Pakistan part of Pakistan Hockey Federation.
Keizō Obuchi
Keizō Obuchi (小渕 恵三) was a Japanese politician. He served in the House of Representatives for twelve terms. He became the 84th Prime Minister of Japan from 30 July 1998 to 5 April 2000. His political career ended when he suffered a serious stroke and slipped into a coma.
Obuchi died on 14 May 2000 at the age of 62 in Tokyo from complications of a stroke.
Floating island
A floating island is a large mass of organic particles that float on the surface of a water body. Floating islands occur naturally, but some are artificial. Naturally occurring floating islands include icebergs and pumice rafts. Their thickness varies from a few centimetres to a few metres. Floating islands are generally found on marshlands, lakes, and similar wetland locations, and can be many hectares in size.
David Walter (politician)
David Ernest Walter (25 November 1939 – 5 September 2020) was a New Zealand politician and journalist. He was the first mayor of Stratford District Council between 1989 to 1998. He also was chairman of both of the Taranaki Regional Council between 2001 to 2007 and the Stratford County Council from 1983 to 1989.
Walter died of leukaemia, aged 80, on 5 September 2020 in Stratford.
Swarm intelligence
Swarm Intelligence is a field of Computer science. It is a form of Artificial intelligence. Some animals, mostly insects like ants, or bees form large colonies. These colonies are made of many animals that communicate with each other. Each animal is relatively simple, but by working together with other animals it is able to solve complex tasks.
Abdul Ali Mazari
Abdul Ali Mazari was an ethnic Hazara politician and leader of the Hezbe Wahdat political party in Afghanistan.
Swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligence wants to obtain similar behaviour than that observed with these animals. Instead of the animals, so called agents are used.
Abdul Ali Mazari
Biography
Abdul Ali Mazari was born in 1946, in Charkent District, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, He died in March 1995, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
The Provincial Assembly of Balochistan is one of the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan. The Balochistan assembly is the unicameral (single chamber) legislature of the province of Balochistan. It was set up by Article 106 of the Constitution of the Pakistan. The Assembly has 51 directly elected Members of the Provincial Assembly, representing constituencies from each district, as well as 11 seats reserved for women and 3 for non-Muslims.
Möklinta
Möklinta is a locality in Sala Municipality in Västmanland County in Sweden. In 2010, 358 people lived there.
Runyon Canyon Park
Runyon Canyon Park is a 160 acre park in Los Angeles, California, at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, managed by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
Ray Wilson
Ramon "Ray" Wilson MBE (17 December 1934 – 15 May 2018) was an English former footballer. He played at left back. He was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. In 1971, he managed the Bradford City football team. He was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
Wilson lived in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield with his wife Pat. They had two children. In 2004, Wilson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died of the disease on 15 May 2018 in Slaithwaite at the age of 83.
Irena Laskowska
Laskowska was born in Kraków. He died on 6 December 2019 in Warsaw at the age of 94.
Abjad
An abjad is an alphabet in which all of the letters are consonants. Even though vowels can be added in some abjads, they are not needed to write a word correctly. Abjad are commonly written from right to left, rather than left to right, like in other writing systems. Well-known examples of abjads are the Arabic alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.
Abjads are the first writing systems that were made to show only a word's pronunciation, instead of its meaning, unlike ideographs or ideograms, and were created before full alphabets like the Greek alphabet, which have letters for both consonants and vowels.
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja
Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail Alkhawaja is a Bahraini-Danish human rights activists. He is now in prison in Bahrain after the Bahraini uprising. He is former president and co-founder of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR). This is a nonprofit non-governmental group which works to promote human rights in Bahrain.
On 9 April 2011, Alkhawaja was arrested. Alkhawaja was given life imprisonment on 22 June 2011. On 8 February 2012, he started a hunger strike until "freedom or death".
Alcoholic proof
Alcoholic proof is a measure of how much ethanol there is in an alcoholic drink. It is commonly used the world over, on the basis that 100 degrees proof is the equivalent of   50 % alcohol by volume (ABV or Alc/Vol). In the United States, it is double the percentage of ABV. A hydrometer can be used to measure the precise proof of a spirit. This test has gone through many formal changes.
A "proven" solution was defined as 100 degrees proof (100°). People have found out that this takes 57.15% ethanol. This value is still used as the British definition. A simpler ratio to remember is seven to four: 70° proof is 40% alcohol by volume.
The "proof" system was introduced in the 18th century. The British claim that this term has a nautical background. Every evening, sailors would line up for their daily quota of grog/rum. This had to first be proved to be as strong as promised and not watered down. The spirit was tested with gunpowder: a mixture of water and alcohol proved itself when it could be poured on a small amount of gunpowder and still light up the wet powder. If the powder did not ignite, the mixture had too much water in it and the grog was considered below proof.
It might have happened earlier, as the Americans claim that this definition came about in the 17th century when European traders began making a large quantity of distilled spirits and wine available to American Indians. The very same process led to the nickname firewater, this time given by Native Americans. There is no record of the finite strength of the distilled spirits in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans.
EU
The European Union member nations have broadly adopted the recommendation of the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) which measures percentage of alcohol by volume at 20 °C.
British proof spirits
In Britain, this replaced the Sikes hydrometer system (based on proof spirit) which was used since 1816, although officially the Customs and Excise Act of 1952 defined "spirits of proof strength" (or proof spirits):
Previously, Clarke's hydrometer had been used since the 1740s when Customs and Excise and London brewers and distillers began to use Clarke's hydrometer.
United States
In the definition of the United States, the proof number is twice the percentage of the alcohol content measured by volume at a temperature of 60°F (15.5°C). Therefore, "80 proof" is 40% alcohol by volume (most of the other 60% is water). If a 150 proof beverage is mixed half-and-half with water, the drink is approximately 75 proof (actual proof in this example would be 76.28 due to the nature of ethanol/water solutions).
US Federal regulation (CFR 27 5.37 Alcohol Content) requires that liquor labels state the percentage alcohol by volume (sometimes abbreviated ABV). The regulations permit (but do not require) a statement of the degrees proof as long as it is right next to the percentage alcohol by volume.
Alcohol during production
Alcohol is produced by yeast during the process of fermentation. The other product of fermentation is carbon dioxide, which is the gas that can make beer bottles explode or blow their tops off. The amount of alcohol in the finished liquid depends on how much sugar there was at the beginning for the yeast to convert into alcohol. In beer, the alcohol is generally 3% to 12% (6 to 24 proof) and usually about 4% to 6% (8 to 12 proof). Depending on the strain of yeast, wines top out at about 14% to 16% (28 to 32 proof), because that is the point in the fermentation process where the alcohol concentration denatures the yeast. Since the 1990s, a few alcohol-tolerant 'superyeast' strains have become commercially available, which can ferment up to 20%.
Very few microorganisms can live in alcoholic solutions. The main three are yeast, Brettanomyces, and Acetobacter. In what is essentially disinfection, yeast keeps multiplying as long as there is sugar to "eat", gradually increasing the alcoholic content of the solution and killing off all other microorganisms, and eventually themselves. There are "fortified" wines with a higher alcohol concentration than that because stronger alcohol has been mixed with them.
Stronger liquors are distilled after fermentation is complete to separate the alcoholic liquid from the remains of the grain, fruit, or whatever it was made from. The idea of distillation is that a mixture of liquids is heated, the one with the lowest boiling point will evaporate (or "boil off") first, and then the one with the next lowest boiling point, and so on. The catch is that water and alcohol form a mixture (called an azeotrope) that has a lower boiling point than either one of them, so what distills off first is that mixture of 95% alcohol and 5% water. Thus a distilled liquor cannot be stronger than 95% (190 proof); there are other techniques for separating liquids that can produce 100% ethanol (or "absolute alcohol"), but they are used only for scientific or industrial purposes. 100% ethanol does not stay 100% for very long, because it is hygroscopic and absorbs water out of the atmosphere.
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Currently, DARPA's mission statement is “to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.”
Will Arnett
William Emerson Arnett (born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian and producer. He starred in the Arrested Development and 30 Rock. He also voiced Lego Batman in animated movies, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Arnett plays Detective Terry Seattle in the Netflix comedy mystery series Murderville.
Arnett was born in Toronto. He married Penelope Ann Miller from 1994 to 1995. Arnett married Amy Poehler from 2003 to 2016. They have two children.
Breakfast (New Zealand TV programme)
Breakfast (also referred to as 1 News Breakfast) is a New Zealand morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on TVNZ 1, produced by 1 News. The first episode came out on 11 August 1997. It was the first of its genre in New Zealand. It has a mixture of breaking news, news, sport, weather and feature items. Originally a two-hour programme, it was expanded to three hours in 2012.
Alexine Tinne
With her mother and several scientists, Tinne first travelled down the Nile in 1863. Because of the trip, she gathered lots of scientific information, but Tinne's mother and two of the scientists died. Later, she prepared another trip across the Sahara. She took two big iron tanks of water. The Muslim people, thinking that the tanks had gold inside, attacked Tinne. They cut her with their swords, cutting off her hand so she could not use her gun. The attackers then ran away, leaving her to bleed to death. She died alone in the desert.
The church built in her memory in her hometown, The Hague, was destroyed by bombs in World War II.
John Dunsworth
John Francis Dunsworth (April 12, 1946 – October 16, 2017 ) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for playing the always drunk trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey on the comedy series Trailer Park Boys and the mysterious reporter Dave Teagues on the supernatural drama series Haven. He also appeared in Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, a CBC movie.
Dunsworth died on October 16, 2017 in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 71. In a statement to CBC News, Dunsworth's daughter Sarah described the illness as "short and unexpected" and stated that her father was an "amazing husband, father and grandfather".
Omar Kabbaj
Omar Kabbaj is an advisor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, since 22 June 2006. He has been the chairman of the African Development Bank from 26 August 1995 to 1 September 2005. He was a member of the International Monetary Fund (1980–1993) board and member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank (1979–1980), and Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister of Morocco, and was in charge of Economic affairs, from 1993 to 1995. Omar Kabbaj is also a Knight of the Order of the Throne of Morocco. He holds a Master in management from Toulouse Business School.
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
These are the TV and radio stations wholly owned and operated by the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines.
Baptist Union of Great Britain
The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) is the both oldest and largest national group of Baptist churches in Great Britain. It was started when the General Baptists and Particular Baptists came together in 1891.
Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor 戴德生 (May 21, 1832 – June 3,1905) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China. He started the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China.
James Lipton
James Louis Lipton (September 19, 1926 – March 2, 2020) was an American writer, composer, movie, television actor and host of the television show Inside the Actors Studio. He created the show in 1994 and hosted it until 2018.
Jupiter Farms, Florida
Jupiter Farms or better know "The Farm" is a census-designated place (CDP) of Florida in the United States. According to the 2020 census, Jupiter Farms has 12,572 people. It is located west of the Town of Jupiter.
James Lipton
Lipton was born on September 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan and studied at Central High School and Wayne State University for a year. Lipton was married to Nina Foch from 1954 until they divorced in 1959. He married Kedakai Turner in 1970.
Lipton died of bladder cancer at his home in New York City on March 2, 2020 at the age of 93.
Hirokazu Kanazawa
Hirokazu Kanazawa (金澤 弘和) was a Japanese teacher. He taught Shotokan karate. He was the Chief instructor and President of the Shotokan Karate-Do International Federation, an organisation he founded after he left the Japan Karate Association (JKA). Kanazawa was ranked 10th dan in karate.
Ethanol
Ethanol, also known as ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol or just alcohol, is a flammable, colorless chemical compound. Its chemical formula is C2H5OH, also written as C2H6O. It is the active part of alcoholic drinks, which are drunk in most cultures worldwide. It is also used as a solvent because it can dissolve many other chemicals and is not very toxic. Yeast makes most of the ethanol that people use.
Ethanol fuel
Ethanol fuel can be used instead of gasoline in cars and other engines. Engines can use pure ethanol or ethanol mixed with gasoline.
Most cars in the U.S. can run on fuels that have of up to 10% ethanol in them. Car makers like Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and GM also make vehicles specifically designed to run on higher ethanol blends. Some of their engines can run on up to 85% ethanol (E85). By mid-2006, there were about six million E85-compatible vehicles on U.S. roads.
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital and biggest city of Wales. It is also the 11th biggest city in the United Kingdom. Its name in the Welsh language is Caerdydd. A 2011 census says that around 346,100 people live in Cardiff. It is the most important city in Wales for tourism, culture, government, sport, transport, nightlife and business.
Cardiff was declared a city in 1905, and it became the capital of Wales in 1955.
History
The Romans built a fort here in about 55 AD. Later, a castle was built within the walls of the fort when the city was first founded.
In 1404, Owain Glyndŵr set Cardiff on fire. Most of the buildings in Cardiff were made out of wood, so fire destroyed the city.
Demographics
At the 2011 census, the biggest ethnic group in Cardiff is White (84.7%), other groups are Asian (8%), Black (2.4%), Arab (1.4%), Mixed (2.9%)
Places
Cardiff has a big port that used to be known as Tiger Bay. It is now just called Cardiff Bay, and the Welsh Government works there. There are now lots of shops, pubs and restaurants in Cardiff Bay. Cardiff has an international airport, and is twinned with Nantes in France and Stuttgart in Germany. Cardiff has one of the largest stadiums in the United Kingdom, the Millennium Stadium, where important world sports matches and concerts happen. Other big stadiums in the city are the Cardiff City Stadium, where the main football team play, Cardiff Arms Park where the main rugby team play, and the SWALEC Stadium where cricket is played.
Three big rivers flow through Cardiff - the Taff, the Ely and the Rhymney.
Transportation
To get around, there are lots of bus routes and train lines in the city. There are two big train stations in Cardiff city centre, called Central station and Queen Street station, but there are also 18 other smaller stations in the city for local areas. There are lots of cycle paths in Cardiff on and off the road.