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SoulDecision
soulDecision was a Canadian pop band from Vancouver, British Columbia.
soulDecision was formed in 1993 under the original name, Indecision. They changed their name to soulDecision because of naming conflicts. Even though the band started during the boy band era, they were not a boy band, as they played their own instruments and wrote their own music. The band released their debut full-length album No One Does It Better on August 22, 2000 in Canada. The album featured their hit single "Faded" which reached #1 on Canada's singles chart as well as #22 in the United States. The album also featured the single "Ooh It's Kinda Crazy" which reached #1 in Canada and was the number one request on MTV's Total Request Live at the time. The band toured with Destiny's Child, Christina Aguilera and 'N Sync.
Lead singer Trevor Guthrie left the band in 2005 to write and record his first solo record. The group split up after.
Reese Schonfeld
Maurice Wolfe "Reese" Schonfeld (November 5, 1931 – July 28, 2020) was an American television journalist and executive. He was a co-founder of CNN in the early 1980s. He was president to the news network from 1980 to 1982. He went on to create the Food Network in the 1990s. Schonfeld was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Schonfeld died on July 28, 2020, at his home in Manhattan from Alzheimer's disease-related problems, aged 88.
Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net
The Anti-submarine boom net was used to stop enemy submarines entering Sydney Harbour during World War II. The net went all the way across the harbour from Green Point, Watson's Bay to Georges Head on the other side. The boom was part of the Sydney Harbour defences which also included artillery batteries and patrol boats.
History
In January 1942, the Australian defence forces began to build the anti-submarine boom net; it was finished in August 1942. For more than three years, entry by boats, ships and ferries into Sydney Harbour was through one of three different gates that were a part of the anti-submarine boom net.
On 31 May 1942, during WWII, three Japanese submarines tried to get into the harbour. The first submarine to try and come in was the M27. Lieutenant Jahai Chuma was the man in charge of this submarine. The M27 followed a Sydney ferry through the gate on its way to Manly, but it got caught in the western end of the net's middle section. Lieutenant Chuma, tried to free his submarine by using a special tool that cuts metal, but this only made things worse. By 8:30pm the watchman for the Maritime Service Board, James Cargill, went to see what was happening. He used a boat to row across to where the submarine was stuck. Very surprised at finding a Japanese submarine, Cargill called naval headquarters with his two way radio. At first the navy did not believe that there was a Japanese Midget submarine caught in the boom net. It took him two hours to get them to believe him.
Synapomorphy
A synapomorphy is a common character. It is a term in cladistics, meaning a trait which is present in two or more species by common descent. It is a type of homologous character or homology.
Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net
History
By 10:27pm, Chuma knew that he had been discovered, so he blew up the submarine using bombs, killing himself and his crew. The two other submarines got through the boom net, which at the time was not quite finished. They attacked shipping for many hours before they were destroyed as well.
In August 1945, the boom net was taken away. By early 1946, only the dolphin structure was left. The base of the winch house is the only remaining part of the anti-submarine boom net. It can still be seen at Green Point.
Hotline
Commonly, a hotline is a telephone service, which offers specialized information. This information can be about how to deal with certain situations, but it can also be about the products of a company. The term originally came from a telephone which would automatically dial a pre-set number, once the receiver is lifted. Such telephones can still be found alongside highways, where they serve to call for help. Today, very often, hotlines are operated by call-centers.
Synapomorphy
References
Apomorphie
Hans-Reinhard Koch
Hans-Reinhard Koch (27 November 1929 – 25 April 2018) was a German Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Leinefelde-Worbis, Germany.
Life After People
Life After People was a television show about how would the World look like when all humans disappeared. They show what will happen to the environment, to cities, houses, landmarks, and skyscrapers. The show aired from January 21, 2008 through March 16, 2010. The show was aired in the History Channel.
The show showed what would happen to the Statue of Liberty, the Egyptian pyramids, the Empire State Building, the Willis Tower, the Astrodome, the Space Needle, the Eiffel Tower, the Burj Khalifa, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Gateway Arch, Taipei 101, the USS Constitution, the White House, the Hoover Dam, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Grant's Tomb, the John Hancock Center, Wrigley Field, Big Ben, 30 St Mary Axe, the Lincoln Memorial, the Chrysler Building, the Washington Monument, Monticello, the United States Capitol, the Library of Congress, St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel.
Hans-Reinhard Koch
Koch was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He served as titular bishop of Mediana and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erfurt, Germany, from 1985 to 2004.
Koch died on 25 April 2018 in Erfurt, Germany of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 88.
Marshosaurus
Marshosaurus is a genus of medium-sized carnivorous theropod dinosaur. It was from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah and perhaps Colorado. This carnivore operated in the same territory as the larger and more famous Allosaurus. It was about 4.5 metres long and weighed 200 kg.
The Morrison Formation is a sequence of shallow sea and river delta sediments between 156.3 million years ago at its base, to 146.8 mya at the top. That puts it in the later Jurassic period. The area would have been rather dry, with distinct wet and dry seasons. The Morrison Basin where dinosaurs lived, stretched from New Mexico to Alberta and Saskatchewan. It was formed when the early Rocky Mountains started pushing up in the west. The deposits from their east-facing drainage basins were carried by streams and rivers and deposited in swampy lowlands, lakes, river channels and floodplains. This formation is similar in age to the Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Germany and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. In 1877 this formation became the center of the Bone Wars, a fossil-collecting rivalry between early paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope.
Central Español
Central Español F.C. is a football club which plays in Uruguay.
Debt bondage
Bonded labour or debt bondage (or debt slavery) is a term used to refer to a situation where someone (a debtor) has to work for the person who lent him money. Generally, the conditions of this form of forced labour are close to slavery. Bonded labour is one of the most common forms of modern-day slavery-like conditions. Usually, the person working gets paid very little money in return for very hard work. Very often, the exact amount to be re-paid is not defined clearly. The person doing the bonded labour will never be able to pay off the debt through work.
Joseph Moingt
Joseph Moingt (19 November 1915 – 28 July 2020) was a French jesuit. He was born in Salbris, France. He was known for working at the Institut Catholique de Paris. From 1970 to 1997, he was Director of the Recherches de science religieuse. In 2015, he turned 100.
Debt bondage
A regular work contract usually gives rights to the person being employed, and the amount of work. In a normal working contract, difficult, dangerous or exhausting work will usually get paid better. This is not the case with debt bondage.
Joseph Moingt
Moingt died on 28 July 2020 in Paris, aged 104.
Debt bondage
Debt bondage is banned by the Convention of United Nation on slavery in 1956.
Chrissie Maher
Chrissie Maher, OBE (born 1938) is a British advocate for the use of plain English. She is a co-founder of the Plain English Campaign. This organisation promotes the clear use of English, especially by businesses and official bodies. Her campaign began in 1971 when she founded the United Kingdom's first community newspaper, the Tuebrook Bugle. That gave her the chance to write articles saying that organisations should start using plain English. In 1974, Maher went on to start The Liverpool News. It was the UK's first newspaper for adults with reading difficulties. She was also a member of the UK's National Consumer Council. Later, she founded the Plain English Campaign at a demonstration in London in 1979.
As an example of the language issues Maher found objectionable: in 1994, she pointed out that Britain's National Health Service published a definition of the term "bed" that used 229 words.
Tom McArthur, editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language said, "In all the history of the language, there has never been such a powerful grassroots movement to influence it as the Plain English Campaign."
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a slang for "making someone question their own reality".
The word also describes a person ("gaslighter") who uses words and sometimes tricks to make others unsure of what is real and what is not real. This can be very upsetting. Gaslighting is only possible when the other person is a vulnerable person, for example when the gaslighter is a powerful person or if the person being gaslighted is fearful that not believing the gaslighter will bring them grief. Sometimes, people don't know they are gaslighting others.
The term "gaslighting" comes from a play that was first performed in 1938, and which was then made into a movie in 1944. The movie was called Gaslight, and it was a story about a husband who tries to make his wife believe that she is going crazy by constantly dimming the gas lights in their home, while telling her that they were just as bright as usual.
Nowadays gaslighting is used to describe a type of psychological abuse where the abuser makes their victim doubt their own sanity. This manipulative abuse ranges from subtle tactics such as contradicting everything the victim says, to more aggressive tactics such as outright lies. The result is a total destruction of the victim's trust in their own ability to recognise reality.
Nature parks in Switzerland
Nature parks in Switzerland are 18 protected areas in Switzerland. There are national parks, regional nature parks, and nature experience parks. These parks are marked as "parks of national importance" by the Federal Act on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.
National parks and nature experience parks have strict rules, unlike regional nature parks. Regional parks aim to balance saving nature and supporting the local economy.
One National park in Switzerland is Swiss National Park. Regional nature parks are Aargau Jura Park, Beverin Nature Park, Binntal Nature Park, Chasseral Nature Park, Diemtigtal Nature Park, Doubs Nature Park, Parc Ela, UNESCO Entlebuch Biosphere, Gantrisch Nature Park, Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut Nature Park, Jura vaudois Nature Park, Pfyn-Finges Nature Park, Thal Nature Park and Val Müstair Biosphere.
One experience park is called Zürich Wilderness Park.
Gus MacPherson
Angus 'Gus' Ian MacPherson (born 11 October 1968 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish footballer. St Mirren parted with MacPherson on 11 May 2010. He is currently the manager of Queen of the South. He was educated at Lenzie Academy.
Playing career
McPherson started his career as a youth player with Rangers, but was unable to break in to the first team, spending a period on loan to Exeter City. In 1991 he moved to Kilmarnock, where he went on to play over 350 games.
He played with Dunfermline Athletic for two season before moving to St Mirren as player–assistant manager in 2003.
MacPherson was then appointed as player–manager on 18 December 2003 after the resignation of John Coughlin.
He retired from playing at the end of the 2003-04 season.
Cobalt(II) sulfate
Cobalt(II) sulfate, also known as cobaltous sulfate, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is CoSO4. It contains cobalt in its +2 oxidation state. It contains cobalt and sulfate ions.
Properties
It is a reddish crystalline solid. It dissolves easily in water. It is reddish without water (anhydrous) and pink with water (hydrated).
Strepsiptera
Description
Mature females are usually wingless and saclike, whereas the males have large, fanlike hindwings, short, clublike forewings, bulging eyes, and comblike antennae.
Cobalt(II) sulfate
Preparation
It can be made by reacting cobalt, cobalt(II) oxide, or cobalt(II) hydroxide with sulfuric acid. It is very rarely found in the earth.
Uses
It is used as a pigment. It is also used to make other cobalt salts. It can be used in electroplating cobalt. It was added to beer in the past but that poisoned people.
Lose You to Love Me
"Lose You to Love Me" is a song performed by American singer-actress Selena Gomez. It was released on October 23, 2019, as the dual lead single (along with “Look at Her Now”) from her third solo album, Rare. Gomez wrote the song with Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and its producer, Mattman & Robin. FINNEAS, known for producing his sister Billie Eilish's songs, produced this song as well.
In an interview with Radio.com, Gomez explained that the song was about rediscovering self-worth.
In its first week on the Billboard Hot 100, the song entered at number 15 but jumped to #1 the next week, giving Gomez her first US number-one hit.
Ton Frinking
Ton Frinking (1 February 1931 – 3 August 2022) was a Dutch politician. He was in the Royal Netherlands Army as a lieutenant colonel. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Netherlands from 1977 to 1993 for the Christian Democratic Appeal and Catholic People's Party. He was born in Groningen, Netherlands.
Frinking died in August 2022 in Delft, Netherlands at the age of 91.
Werakata National Park
Werakata National Park is a national park in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales, 115 km north of Sydney, in the Hunter River region The park is divided into three parts, which are to the northeast, east and southeast of the city of Cessnock.
South of the park is the separate Werakata State Conservation Area.
History
Werakata National Park was opened on 26. February 1999 from a 1130 acres of Cessnock State Forest (State Forest No. 874) formed. On the 1st January 2003 came another 478 acres from the state forest, as well as the Aberdare State Forest (State Forest No. 981) with 531 hectares.
The Werakata State Conservation Area with 2257 hectare area was created in 2007.
The Hunter River area was inhabited by the Aboriginal countries of Awabakal, Worimi, Wonnarua, Geawegal, Birripai and Darkinjung, but little is known about their use of the land near what is now the national park after European settlement in the 19th century. In the 19th century, forestry was practiced and sawmills were built in and near today's park. Most of the wood was used to expand the mines in the area. In 1942, the Cessnock State Forest was established as a sanctuary, followed by the Aberdare State Forest in 1963. The logging continued until it was rededicated in the national park.
Flora and fauna
Various endangered animal species can also be found in the park.
343 Industries
343 Industries is a video game developing studio owned by the American technology company Microsoft, and is located in Redmond, Washington. They are responsible for the Halo video game franchise after taking over from Bungie Studios.
St. Johnstone F.C.
St. Johnstone Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Perth. Although it is officially recorded as being formed in 1884, research has shown that they did not play their first game until February 1885. The club plays its home games at McDiarmid Park.
St. Johnstone will now compete in the Scottish Premiership after finishing first and being promoted in the 2008-09 season.
Gavotte
The gavotte was a folk dance, performed by the peasants in the Brittany region of France. Later it was popular in French and English courts in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was especially popular in the French courts of King Louis XIV.
The music for a gavotte has a four beat feel, with upbeats on beats three and four. To dance a gavotte the dancers must cross their feet twice in each step pattern, with each step followed by a hop. Singers often provided the accompaniment, though dancers might also be accompanied by an ensemble of such instruments as a violin, a drum, bagpipes or shawm, a forerunner of the modern oboe.
The gavotte later became a musical, rather than a dance piece. In the Baroque period gavottes were mainly found in binary form. When composers began writing suites, six short dance based pieces, the gavotte usually was played between the sarabande and the gigue. The best known examples of the gavotte are found in the suites and partitas written by J.S.Bach.
Raavi Kondala Rao
Raavi Kondala Rao (11 February 1932 – 28 July 2020) was an Indian actor, playwright, theatre artist, journalist, editor, producer, director and writer. He appeared in Telugu movies and performed in over 600. He was born in Srikakulam, Andra Pradesh. Rao was known for his works in Ramudu Bheemudu, Preminchi Choodu and in Jeevitha Chakram.
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Sadashiv Amarapurkar (born Ganesh Kumar Nalawade; 2 January 1950 – 3 November 2014) was an Indian actor. He was well known for his roles in Marathi and Hindi movies in the 1980s and 90s.
Amarapurkar died in Mumbai, India from a lung infection, aged 64.
Piatnitzkysaurus
Piatnitzkysaurus (meaning "Piatnitzky's lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur. It lived about 166 to 164 million years ago in the middle Jurassic Period. Its remains were found in Argentina. The animal was a fairly large, lightly built, bipedal, land-based carnivore. It grew up to 6.6 m long.
Memento mori
Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die' ) is an artistic figure of speech. It is a reminder that nobody can avoid death. It has been written on many gravestones.
Jean-Paul Pier
Jean-Paul Pier (July 5, 1933 – December 14, 2016) was a math scholar from Luxembourg. He worked on harmonic analysis and history of mathematics.
In 1971, he made the "Séminaire de mathématiques" (Mathematics Seminar) at the Centre universitaire de Luxembourg (now the University of Luxembourg).
Wicked Science
Wicked Sciences is an Australian television series. It takes place in Sandy Bay. It tells the story of two teenagers who suddenly become science geniuses.
Jean-Paul Pier
In 1989, he made the Luxembourg Mathematical Society. He was president of this Society from 1989 to 1993 and from 1995 to 1998.
Wicked Science
Story
Toby Johnson is a normal student of Sandy Bay High School, juggling between school and the normal life of a teenager. Elizabeth Hawke is the teacher's pet. Nobody like her in the high school and she likes nobody, excepted Tony. She has liked Tony from her childhood. One day, Toby and her were in the laboratory of the school. They were hit by a strange blue ray and they become sciences geniuses. But they do not know why. The normal life of Sandy Bay is changed by the two geniuses.
Jean-Paul Pier
He died in Bettembourg, Luxembourg on December 14, 2016 at the age of 83.
Kherson Raion
Kherson Raion (Херсонський район; Херсонский район) is a raion (district) of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.
As of 2023's third quarter, Russian soldiers are occupying large parts of the district.
Centipede (song)
"Centipede" is the first single by Rebbie Jackson. It is from her first record, Centipede. It was her highest charting single to date. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard R&B charts. The song was released in 1984. It is available in three different mixes, one of them extended.
Bambecque
Bambecque is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 806 people lived there.
Heathcote National Park
Description
The park is 22.5 km² eucalyptus forest. Private vehicles may not enter. Walkers go in through the entrance on Freeman Road in Heathcote. A trail begins behind the Boy Scout Hall on Freeman Road. It goes south past water holes and small waterfalls. The path ends at the Woronora Dam, although there are several other entrances to the park around Heathcote and Waterfall.
History
Before the forest area became a park, a group of hikers had leased most of the area. Presumably they created some of the early hiking trails and campsites. The area later became a state park and again later a national park.
Cuisine of the Southern United States
The cuisine of the Southern United States is food prepared across the Southern United States. Foods prepared or from the Southern United States include corn, tomatoes, squash along with other fruits or vegetables.
Heathcote National Park
History
Aboriginals lived in the area and left traces in various places. In addition, a number of European settlers lived during the Great Depression in the 1930s in simple huts, leaving only scant ruins in places like Myuna Creek back
Cuisine of the Southern United States
Much of Creole or Cajun cuisine is based on France, West Africa and the Caribbean.
Heathcote National Park
Geography
The park consists of the deeply furrowed Hawkesbury sandstone plateau, part of the  Woronora Plateau . Heathcote Creek, a tributary of the Woronora River, is found in a gorge. The sandstone is about 200 million Years old and has been around for around 94 million Years ago. After each period of land uplift, the watercourses dug into the sandstone. Heathcote Creek tumbles down some waterfalls to the Woronora River on the north edge of the park.
Cuisine of the Southern United States
Traditional Southern meals usually involve catfish, fried chicken, butter beans, biscuits and cornbread.
The restaurants serving Southern food include Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Church's Chicken and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Heathcote National Park
Flora
The hills and arid slopes are covered with forests dominated by angophora and eucalyptus. Grass trees are common. The undergrowth consists of bushes such as banksia, hakea and wax flowers. Doryanthes excelsa and Allocasuarina torulosa grow on more humid slopes. Eucalyptus patens and Grevillings grow in the valley of Heathcote Creek.
Fauna
Short-headed glide pouches, common ring pouches and probably also eastern pygmy possums live on Mirang Creek and in Minda Gully. There are also swamp wallabies. Often you can also see honey-eaters and gray-backed lyre tails.
Uche Chukwumerije
Uche Chukwumerije (November 1939 – 19 April 2015) was a Nigerian politician for the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He represented the Abia North Senatorial District from 29 May 2003 until his death.
Chukwumerije was born in Abia State to a Christian family. One of his sons is Chika Chukwumerije (born 1983), a taekwondo artist and Olympic medalist.
Calico sheep
Calico sheep is a kind of sheep with more than one color in its coat. It is a mutation, but not a recognized breed.
History
Calico sheep are not related to the black and white sheep that are native to ancient Sudan and to South Africa.
Monoclonius
Monoclonius was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1876, soon after the first fossil specimen had been found in Montana. The specimen was a near complete skeleton with only the feet missing. It included skull material and the base of the nasal horn. Its name means "single stem" and refers to its teeth, which have a single root.
Monoclonius is now regarded as a nominem dubium. It seems to be a juvenile stage of Centrosaurus.
Calico sheep
History
The modern mutation was developed by breeding the Shetland sheep with Barbadian Black Belly Sheep.
Humat ad-Diyar
"Ḥumāt ad-Diyār" (حُمَاةَ الدِّيَارِ,, ; "Guardians of the Homeland") is the national anthem of Syria. It was adopted in 1936.
Corn Belt
The Corn Belt is the part of the Midwestern United States. It is where corn has been predominant crop, since the 1850s. Corn replaced native tall grasses there. The area includes southern Minnesota, eastern Nebraska and part of Missouri and Kentucky. The whole of Iowa, Indiana and Illinois are also included. This region consists of relatively level land and deep fertile soils.
Raymond Damadian
Raymond Vahan Damadian (March 16, 1936 – August 3, 2022) was an American physician and medical practitioner. He was known as the inventor of the first MR (magnetic resonance) scanning machine. He was born in New York City. He received a National Medal of Technology in 1988 and was honored into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989.
Damadian died on August 3, 2022 in Woodbury, New York at the age of 86.
Edinho (footballer, born 1955)
Edino Nazareth Filho (born 5 June, 1955) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
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Cotentin Peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula (\kō-ˌtäⁿ-ˈtaⁿ\), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that is part of the coast of France. It extends in a northwest direction into the English Channel. To its west are the Channel Islands and to the southwest is the Brittany Peninsula. It is in the Departement of Manche, in the region of Normandy. The largest town is Cherbourg on the north coast. Cherbourg is a major port on the English Channel. The west coast of the Cotentin known as Côte des Îles ("Islands Coast") faces the Channel Islands. Ferry links serve Carteret, and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney from the port of Dielette.
History
The peninsula formed part of what the Romans called Armorica. Coutances was the capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe. It got its name Constantia in 298 during the reign of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus. Under the Carolingians it became known as the Cotentin and was controlled by viscounts. For some time these were members of the Saint-Sauveur family. They lived at Saint-Sauveur on the Douve river.
In the ninth century, Vikings settled the Cotentin, which became part of Normandy in the early tenth century. Many place names there come from the Norse language. Examples include La Hague, and La-Hougue both derived from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill or mound. Until the construction of modern roads, the peninsula was almost inaccessible in winter because of marshland cutting off the higher ground. This explains occasional historical references to the Cotentin as an island.
King Alan the Great of Brittany waged war successfully on the Norsemen. As the result of his conquests, the Cotentin Peninsula was included in the territory of the Duchy of Brittany. After his death, the Norsemen invaded and occupied Brittany from 907 to 939. While they were eventually expelled by Alan's grandson, Alan II, Duke of Brittany, the subsequent rulers of Brittany were weaker than Alan the Great. The succeeding Dukes of Brittany suffered continuing Norse invasions and Norman raids. Eventually the Cotentin Peninsula was lost to the Brittany, and became part of Normandy.
Audrey Totter
Totter died of a stroke in Los Angeles, California on December 12, 2013, aged 95.
Cotentin Peninsula
History
In 1088 Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, gave the Cotentin to his brother Henry, later King Henry I of England. Henry, as count of the Cotentin, established his first power base there and in the adjoining Avranchin to the south During the Hundred Years' War, King Edward III of England landed in the bay of La Hogue, and then came to the Church of Quettehou in Val de Saire. It was there that Edward III knighted his son Edward, the Black Prince. A remembrance plaque can be seen next to the altar. The naval Battle of La Hogue in 1692 was fought off Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue near Barfleur.
During World War II, part of the 1944 Battle of Normandy was fought in the Cotentin. The westernmost part of the D-Day landings was at Utah Beach, on the southeastern coast of the peninsula. What followed was a campaign to occupy the peninsula and take Cherbourg.
Economy
The main economical resource is agriculture. Dairy farming is a prominent activity. Along the west coast, renowned vegetables are grown, such as the carrots of Créances. The renowned trademark "Florette" was created in Lessay. The region is also famous for its shellfish culture. These include oysters from Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue and Pirou. Other products are alcoholic beverages like cider and calvados, made from locally grown apples and pears.
The region hosts two important Nuclear power plants. At Flamanville there is the Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant. The other is the COGEMA La Hague site. It is a large nuclear waste reprocessing and storage complex operated by Areva NC. The nuclear power industry provides many jobs in the region. The roads used for transport of nuclear waste have been blocked many times in the past by environmental action group Greenpeace. Local environmental groups have voiced concerns about the radioactivity levels of the cooling water of both these nuclear sites. These are being flushed into the bay of Vauville. However, the radioactivity is much lower than the natural background levels and does not pose any hazard.
There are two important naval shipyards in Cherbourg. The state-owned shipyard DCNS has built French nuclear submarines since the 1960s. Privately owned CMN builds frigates and patrol vessels for various states, mostly from the Middle East. Tourism is also an important economic activity in this region. Many tourists visit the D-Day invasion beaches, including Utah Beach in the Cotentin. At Sainte-Mère-Église a few miles away from the beach, there is a museum dedicated to the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division. The Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg is a museum of oceanic and underseas subjects. The main attraction is Redoutable, the first French nuclear submarine, launched in 1967.
Culture
Due to its relative isolation the Cotentin is one of the last remaining places the Norman language is spoken. The Norman language writer Alfred Rossel, native of Cherbourg, composed many songs which form part of the heritage of the region. Rossel's song Sus la mé ("on the sea") is often sung as a regional patriotic song.
AK-74
The AK-74 is a Russian made assault rifle. The letters AK stand for Avtomat Kalashnikova, which is Russian for Mikhail Kalashnikov's Automatic Rifle. The AK-74 is a later version of the AK-47 that has a few new features. The most important of these is that it fires a smaller cartridge, the 5.45x39.5mm Soviet.
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Militarization
Militarization is when society gets ready for war and violence. It is connected to militarism, which is a belief that a country should have a strong military. The process of militarization affects many different parts of society and is complex.
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Geopolitical
The amount of danger that is thought to exist affects how much a country needs to be able to fight and protect itself. If a country does not feel like it is in danger, for example: Canada, it might not have as big of a military or as many weapons. But in Israel, because there is a risk of attack from other countries nearby, the military and defense are important and get a lot of money and people. This danger could come from:
Tour de France
The Tour de France (Tour of France) is a well known bicycle race. It began in 1903. It is held in France, every summer. In recent years it has ended with a race through the centre of Paris, past the Eiffel Tower. It is among the most famous, and has some of the highest prizes, of bike races in Europe. Recently, it was in the media, because some athletes were doping. The race goes around France, but can have some parts in other countries, including England, Belgium, or Spain as they race in the Pyrenees mountains.
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Tour de France
The tour lasts about three weeks. At the end of each day's race the leader is given a yellow shirt, the best sprinter is given a green shirt, and the best rider in the mountain races is given a polka dot jersey. He is sometimes called the King of the Mountains. The best young rider, who must be under 26, gets a white jersey. The winner is the one who finishes the race to Paris in the fastest time. There is a lot of prize money for the teams of the winners of the Tour, but the winner of each day's race also gets prize money.
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Militarization
Political
Militaristic ideas are used in non-military situations. For example, when President Lyndon B. Johnson talked about fighting poverty, and President Richard Nixon talked about fighting drugs, they were not talking about real wars with an enemy that can be defeated. They were talking about how much work, effort, and dedication is needed to solve these problems. Sometimes, politicians use militaristic ideas when they create teams of government workers to solve important political or social problems. These teams are often called "task forces." Using militaristic ideas can also help politicians to have more power, because in war time, the leader of the country has more power than usual.
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President of the German Bundesrat
The President of the German Bundesrat (Präsident des Deutschen Bundesrates or Bundesratspräsident) is the speaker or chair of the German Bundesrat, which is the upper house of the German parliament.
Each of the ministers president of the federal Länder (states) acts as the president of the Bundesrat for one year.
The President of the Bundesrat can also act as deputy to the Federal President if the Federal President is out of Germany or not able to act because of illness etc. If the Federal President dies or is removed from office the President of the Bundestag will act as President until a new president is elected, which must be within thirty days.
Election
The President of the Bundesrat is usually elected on the 1 November in one year, and serves until the 31 October of the next year. The Basic Law says, in Article 52.1, that "the Bundesrat elects its President for one year". However, in practice the presidency rotates among all Länder equally, in accordance with a predetermined order. The order changes sometimes, because it depends on each state's population.
If the head of government of a Land changes during the term of the President of the Bundesrat then the presidency passes to the new minister-president for the remainder of its one year duration. This happened in April 1999 when Roland Koch replaced Hans Eichel as minister-president of Hesse. The current order of rotation of the presidency of the Bundesrat is as follows:
Shuhrat Abbosov
Shuhrat Abbosov (sometimes spelled Shukhrat Abbasov in English) (Shuhrat Abbosov / Шуҳрат Аббосов; Шухрат Абба́сов) (January 16, 1931 – April 25, 2018) was an Uzbek actor, movie director, screenwriter, and movie producer. He was best known for his movie Mahallada duv-duv gap (1960) which is considered to be one of the best Uzbek movies of all time. He was also known for writing the screenplay for the highly-popular 1977 adventure movie Shum bola.
Abbosov died on April 25, 2018, at the age of 87.
Elio Toaff
Elio Toaff (30 April 1915 – 19 April 2015) was an Italian rabbi. He was the Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2002. From 1947, he served as a rabbi in Venice. He had a friendship with Pope John Paul II, and attended his funeral in April 2005.
Toaff was born in Livorno. One of his children is Israeli-Italian professor Ariel Toaff (born 1942 in Ancona).
Toaff died on 19 April 2015 in Rome, aged 99.
Spreadsheet
A Spreadsheet is a computer program that imitates a paper worksheet. It shows a large sheet (like a sheet of paper) that has many cells in a grid of rows and columns. Users can put words or numbers into the cells, to make headings and store information (usually numbers). You can also move the grid lines around so that some cells are bigger than others, and change the color or size of text/font, the same way font/text is changed in a word processor. You can even put pictures in the worksheets, make multiple pages, and print out their results on real paper.
The primary reason most people use spreadsheets is for automatic calculations. Spreadsheets can be designed to add up the items/amounts on a bill, calculate sales tax, and even calculate income tax. A user can add and subtract the numbers here, even if the numbers are not next to each other. This means the computer does all the math, and people only need to give the correct information.
Another strength of spreadsheets, is that they can produce diagrams, like graphs and pie-charts, based on the data the user enters. Sometimes the numbers make more sense when the computer turns them into a picture.
Natalie Bennett
Natalie Bennett (born 10 February 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a former leader of the British political party, the Green Party of England and Wales. She was elected as the party's leader on 3 September 2012 and lead the party for four years, ending on 2 September 2016.
Bel Aire, Kansas
History
Bel Aire was created in January 1955 when a group of local residents asked the county government to create it. They wanted this place to be an improvement district for water.
On November 26, 1980, Bel Aire officially incorporated as a city. This was after a two-year legal dispute with the Wichita city government. The dispute was about whether or not Pratt had the right to become its own city. The case went to the Kansas Supreme Court, and the Court ruled in Bel Aire's favor.
Geography
Bel Aire is at 37.76389°N, -97.26611°W (37.763758, −97.266177). It has an elevation of 1,394 feet (425 m). It is on the north side of the East Fork of Chisholm Creek. It is about 6 mi northeast of the Arkansas River in the Wellington-McPherson Lowlands region of the Great Plains. It is on the south side of K-254 in south-central Kansas. Bel Aire is within the Wichita metropolitan area, bordered by Wichita to the south and west and bordered by Kechi to the north.
The United States Census Bureau says the city has a total area of 6.86 sqmi. Of that, 6.83 sqmi is land and 0.03 sqmi is water.
People
Bel Aire is part of the Wichita, KS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 6,769 people, 2,465 households, and 1,854 families living in Bel Aire.
Grant's Tomb
General Grant National Memorial or Grant's Tomb is a memorial and resting place of 18th President of the United States and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Grant.
The tomb is in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The tomb was constructed by the United States Congress. The tomb was constructed in 1890 (five years after Grant's death) and was finished on April 22 1897 (Grant's 75th birthday).
In 1902, Julia Grant died and was later buried in the tomb. The tomb was decaying or falling apart and was vandalised during the 1980s until the tomb was fixed and restored in 1994. The tomb was rededicated in April 27, 1997. It was later named an United States National Landmark.
Lusk, Wyoming
Lusk is an American city in the state of Wyoming. It is in Niobrara County where it is the county seat. The city has a population of about 1,447 people. The Wyoming Women's Center of the Wyoming Department of Corrections is in Lusk.
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Mariam Mohamed Fakhr Eddine (مريم فخر الدين; January 8, 1933 – November 3, 2014) was an Egyptian actress. Eddine was known for her roles in Back Again (1958), Light in the Night (1959) and Souq al-harim (1970). Eddine was born in Faiyum, Egypt.
Eddine died in Cairo, Egypt of brain surgery-related problems, aged 81.
German TV
German TV was a German-speaking television program for viewers in the USA and in Canada.
It was founded as a joint program from ARD and ZDF, which formed 40% each of the broadcast output. The remaining 20% was from Deutsche Welle.
The channel broadcast 24 hours-a-day. The editorial staff and the management of German TV were in the offices of Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin.
German TV sent news and information as well as sport, children's programs, shows and other entertainment programs as well as various films from different areas.
German TV went on the air in April, 2002. It was able to be received in the USA, and in wide parts of Canada and Latin America, by Satellite or Cable TV.
Rajendra Arlekar
Rajendra Arlekar (born 23 April 1954) is an Indian politician. He is 21st Governor of Himachal Pradesh since 2021. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa. He was a speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
John Berger
John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.
Berger was born in Hackney, London, England. He was the son of Miriam (nee Branson) and Stanley Berger. Berger served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London. He lived in France for over 50 years.
Berger's novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. He wrote an essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing. The essay was written as an accompaniment to a BBC series. It is often used as a university text.
Berger died on 2 January 2017 in Paris at the age of 90.
Asiana Airlines
Asiana Airlines is a major South Korean airline. It is based at Incheon International Airport near Seoul.
Pedernales Province
Pedernales is a Dominican province; it is in the southwestern part of the country, on the border with Haiti. Its capital city has the same name, Pedernales.
It was created on 16 December 1957. It was a municipality of the Barahona province before being elevated to the category of province.
Name
The province was named after the Pedernales river; this river forms the southern border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And the river is named Pedernales because the mineral flint (pedernal) is common in the region.
History
Some native groups lived close to the coast and the River Pedernales before the conquest of the island by European people. But very few people has lived in the region, for most of its history, because it is a very dry region.
In his second travel to America, Christopher Columbus sighted and named part of the present island, including the Beata and Alto Velo islands, that are part of the province.
Until the 20th century, the only people living here were Haitians and many places have French names. Sometimes, during the Dominican-Haitian War (1844-1856), Haitian soldiers came across this region because there were not Dominican soldiers. The only fight between soldiers of the two countries in the territory of the present province was close to the El Can bay, near the town of Juancho, on 6 January 1856.
Since colonial times, the territory was part of the Azua province until it was changed to the Barahona when Barahona became a province in 1881. The province of Pedernales was created in 1957 with the municipalities of Pedernales, its capital, and Oviedo.
Juancho became a municipal district in 1998 and José Francisco Peña Gómez Oviedo in 2005.
Population
In (last national census), there were 0 people living in the Pedernales province, and 20,345 (NaN%) living in towns and cities. The population density was persons/km².
Its population represents NaN% of the total population of the country and the province is ranked as the 32nd (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated province, the province with fewest people living in it and with the lowest population density.
, the total estimated propulation of the province is 33,755 inhabitants.
The largest city of the province is Pedernales, its head municipality or capital, with an urban population (in ) of 13,077 inhabitants.
Geography
The province is in the Barahona Peninsula. The Sierra de Bahoruco ("Bahoruco mountain range") is in the northern half of the province; its highest mountain, and the highest mountain of the province, is Loma del Toro, 2367 m above sea level, in the limits with the Independencia province.
The rest of the province is formed by savannas and plains of limestone rocks. The savannas are close to the coast, as the Sansón Savanna in Oviedo and the Pedernales Savanna around the city of Pedernales.
Several small islands belong to the province. The main islands are Beata and Alto Velo.
The altitude of Pedernales, provincial capital, is 22 m above sea level.
The only important river is the Pedernales river, with its tributary Mulito. The Pedernales river marks the Dominican-Haitian border.
There are several lagoons (a lagoon is a small lake close to the sea) with brackish water. The most important is the Laguna de Oviedo, on the eastern coast and near the town of Oviedo, with an area of 28 km2. On the western coast, the most important lagoon is Laguna Salada, with an area of 1.8 km2.
Municipalities
There are two municipalities and two municipal districts (M.D.) in the province.
Economy
As in all border provinces in the Dominican Republic, there is little economic development. The trade with Haiti is important, above all in the capital city. On the mountains, coffee and beans are important products. Potato, cabbage and other vegetables are produced in the Sierra de Bahoruco.
Fishing is also an important activity in the province, mainly close to the Beata Island, where lobster, conch and several kind of fishes are caught.
Because of the beautiful beaches of the western coast of the province, like Bahía de las Águilas ("Eagles Bay"), tourism is becoming an important economic activity. There are two of the largest national parks of the country: the Jaragua National Park and the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park.
The development of the province was produced by the mining of bauxite (an aluminium ore) but, since 1984, it has changed to the mining of limestone to send to other countries and for a cement factory.
Léo Júnior
Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior (born 29 June 1954) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
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Roeland Park, Kansas
Roeland Park is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2010, 6,731 people lived there.