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Loma Linda, California
Loma Linda is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 24,791 at the 2020 census.
Sebastiano Nela
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WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw
'WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw' is a wrestling video game that was published by THQ except in Japan where it was published by Yuke's. The video game was only released for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The video game was released on November 2, 2004 in North America, November 12, 2004 in Europe and on February 3, 2005 in Japan. It was called '''Exciting Pro Wrestling 6: SmackDown! vs. RAW''' in Japan. It is part of the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw video game series.
Abdelouahed Belkeziz
Abdelouahed Belkeziz, (عبد الواحد بلقزيز; 5 July 1939 – 19 October 2021) was a Moroccan lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was the eighth Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) from 2001 to 2004.
Belkeziz died in Rabat, Morocco on 19 October 2021 at the age of 82.
Kenneth W. Dam
Kenneth W. Dam (born August 10, 1932) served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (the second highest official in the United States Department of the Treasury) from 2001 to 2003. He worked in international economic development.
Buochs
Buochs is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
The main sights of Buochs are the church St. Martin, the Loreto chapel in Ennerberg, a monument of Johann Melchior Wyrsch, and the quay.
La Ville-du-Bois
La Ville-du-Bois is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France.
Miguel Palmer
Miguel Palmer (born Miguel Ángel Palomera Gonzali; 1 November 1942 – 18 October 2021) was a Mexican actor. He was born in Villahermosa, Mexico. He was known for his roles in Bodas de odio and Dos hogares.
Palmer died on 18 October 2021 at the age of 78.
DXGB-TV
DXGB-TV Channel 11 (analog) and Channel 51 (digital), is a TV5 Network, Inc.-affiliated station in Zamboanga City. It is the flagship station of Golden Broadcasting Professionals, Incorporated, a local broadcast entity. Its main broadcast facilities and transmitter are located at the GBPI Building, Campaner Street, Zamboanga City.
Digital television
DXGB-TV currently operates on UHF Channel 51 (695.143 MHz). It is multiplexed into the following subchannels:
Tatosoma
Tatosoma is a genus of moths. It is part of the family Geometridae.
Some of the species in this genus are:
Googoosh
Faegheh Atashin (, Faiqə Atəşin, born on 5 May 1950 in Tehran), known by her stage name Googoosh (, Ququş), is an Iranian singer and actress. She is considered one of most iconic female pop-singers in Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries.
Googoosh has been married three times. She has a son, Kambiz. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Discography
Studio albums
Albums (Since she returned to music)
Walter Gretzky
Walter was an installer and repairman for Bell Canada for 34 years, retiring in 1991. A work-related injury in 1961 put him in a coma and deafened his right ear.
He helped charities and fundraisers and coached at his summer youth hockey camp in California.
Gretzky died on March 4, 2021 in Brantford, Ontario from problems caused by a fractured hip at the age of 82. He had Parkinson's disease at the time of his death.
Kenneth Kunen
Herbert Kenneth Kunen (August 2, 1943 – August 14, 2020 ) was an American professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He worked in set theory. He also worked on non-associative algebraic systems, such as loops, and used computer software, such as the Otter theorem prover, to derive theorems in these areas.
Willy Kemp
Willy Kemp (28 December 1925 – 18 October 2021) was a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Kopstal, Luxembourg. In 1949, he became national champion. Between 1948 and 1957 he rode every year the Tour de France (10 times in total) and won a stage in the 1955 Tour de France.
Kemp died on 18 October 2021, at the age of 95.
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Jean Blanchard (born December 27, 1948) is a French economist. He worked for the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, from September 1, 2008 to October 2015. He is also Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT.
Jack in the Box (album)
Jack in the Box is the debut studio album of South Korean rapper J-Hope, released on July 15, 2022, through Big Hit Music. It contains 10 tracks, including the lead single, "More", which preceded it on July 1, and the follow-up single, "Arson", which was released the same day as the album, together with an accompanying music video. A concept album revolving around the story of Pandora's box, Jack-in-the-Box discusses themes of passion, ambition, humanity, insecurity, success, and anxiety about the future. Primarily an old-school hip hop record, the album features a blend of genres, including pop, grunge, and R&B.
It has 10 tracks, including the lead single, "More", which preceded it on July 1, and the follow-up single, "Arson", which was released the same day as the album, with a music video. A concept album revolving around the story of Pandora's box, Jack in the Box discusses themes of passion, ambition, humanity, insecurity, success, and anxiety about the future. Primarily an old-school hip hop record, the album features a blend of genres, including pop, grunge, and R&B.
Carter Braxton
Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736 – October 10, 1797), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and a representative of Virginia.
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" is a 1973 song by English rock band The Rolling Stones and taken from their album Goats Head Soup. It went to number 15 in the United States and number 16 in Sweden.
Carter Braxton
Life
He was born on Newington Plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia and educated at the William and Mary. He married a wealthy heiress named Judith Robinson at the age nineteen, but she died two years later, leaving him two daughters.
He journeyed to England for two years and returned to the colonies in 1760, marrying again, this time to Elizabeth Corbin, and represented King William County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He joined the patriot's Committee of Safety in Virginia in 1774 and represented his county in the Virginia Convention.
When Peyton Randolph died in 1775, Braxton was appointed to take his place in the Continental Congress. He served in the Congress from February 1776 until August, when Virginia reduced its delegation to five members. Afterwards he returned to the House of Burgesses, and later served on the State's Executive Council.
Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler
Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler (3 October 1949 – 4 March 2021) was a French politician. She was a member of the National Assembly representing Doubs's 2nd constituency from 1997 until 2001 and again from 2002 until 2007. She was a member of the Socialist Party. Guinchard-Kunstler was born in Reugney, France.
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).
Nicola Macleod
Nicola Macleod (born 14 May 1997) is a South African water polo player. She competed for the South Africa women's national water polo team in the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
Zubin Mehta
Career
Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967, and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1978, being the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 Mehta became its permanent Music Director for Life.
Nicola Macleod
She played for University of Cape Town.
Zubin Mehta
Career
In 2016, Mehta has been appointed as Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.
In December 2016, the Israel Philharmonic announced that Mehta is to retire from his permanent position as music director in October 2019.
Awards
The Government of India honoured Mehta in 1966 with the Padma Bhushan and in 2001 with India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.
In September 2006 the Kennedy Center announced Mehta as one of the recipients of that year's Kennedy Center Honors, presented on 2 December 2006 by President George W. Bush.
The Iceman (movie)
The Iceman is a 2013 American crime drama thriller movie directed by Ariel Vernon. It is about the killing spree of contract killer Richard Kuklinski and mob boss Roy DeMeo.
It stars Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, James Franco, and David Schwimmer. It is set during the 1960s and 1970s in New York City and New Jersey.
It was released to mostly positive reviews on a limited release on May 3, 2013.
S/2006 S 3
S/2006 S 3 is an unnamed moon of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.
S/2006 S 3 is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 21,076,300 km in 1142.366 days, at an inclination of 150.8° to the ecliptic (128.8° to Saturn's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.4710.
Bengt Gustafsson (general)
Sten Bengt Gustaf Gustafsson (2 December 1933 – 15 March 2019) was a Swedish Army general. He was the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1986 to 1994. He was born in Hästveda, Sweden.
Gustafsson died in his home in Stockholm on 15 March 2019, aged 85.
Graphania
Graphania is a genus of moths. It is part of the Noctuidae family.
Ramp
Ramp could mean:
Dominique Venner
Dominique Venner (April 16, 1935 – May 21, 2013) was a French historian, journalist and essayist. He later became a European nationalist before withdrawing from politics to focus on a career as a historian. He specialized in military and political history.
Early life
Venner was born on April 16, 1935 in Paris, France. He was raised in Paris, France. Venner was influenced by the writings of Ernst Jünger. He never married and had no children.
Death
On May 21, 2013, about 4 p.m., Venner committed suicide by firearm in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, which led to the evacuation of about 1,500 people from the cathedral.
He had been an opponent of Muslim immigration to France and Europe, as well as what he believed to be the Americanization of European values and — most recently — the legalization of same-sex marriage in France.
Bill Bowman (American politician)
Bill Bowman (May 26, 1946 – August 15, 2020) was an American politician and businessman. He was a member of the North Dakota State Senate from 1990 until 2018. Bowman was born in Baker, Montana. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Bowman died on August 15, 2020 in Bowman, North Dakota at the age of 74.
Roman Italy
Italia, under the Roman Republic and later Empire, was the name of the Italian peninsula.
Italia was the home of the capital of the Roman Empire - Rome itself.
400 years later the Empire was much larger, but on the point of collapse. In the last period the Empire was governed from Byzantium (Constantinople), not Rome.
History of video game consoles (eighth generation)
The eighth generation of video game consoles began in 2012. The eighth generation began with the release of Wii U. The PlayStation 4 was announced on February 20, 2013. It was released worldwide on November 15, 2013. Microsoft announced the Xbox One on May 21, 2013. It had its first regional release on November 22, 2013. For handheld game consoles, the generation began in February 2011. The first handheld was the Nintendo 3DS. The PlayStation Vita was released in December 2011 in Japan. It was available for the Western countries in February 2012.
It is believed by the video game media that the eighth generation home consoles compete with the smartphone, tablet, and Smart TV gaming markets. Because of this, some analysts incorrectly believed the eight generation would be the last generation of home consoles. Other microconsoles such as the NVIDIA Shield, Steam Box, Ouya and GameStick are attempting to compete in this market. Nintendo officially discontinued the Wii U on January 31, 2017 in anticipation of the March 3, 2017 worldwide release of the Nintendo Switch. The Switch is a "hybrid" console that acts as both a home console and handheld device, and it is unclear if it is a late entry to the eighth generation or the beginning of a ninth generation of home consoles.
Mandalika
Mandalika III was the Abhira (Ahir) ruler of Junagarh (1432-1470) and was the son of Khangara III Ra Mandalika I ascended the throne in 1260A.D when the muslims were begenning to establish their rule in Gujarat. Ra Mundalika died in 1400 A.D; Ra Melaka (1400-1415 A.D) succeeded him who drove the muslims garrison out but afterwords he himself was driven out. Ra Mundalika also fought with Mahmud Ghaznavi. Somnath temple was attacked by Muslim General Alaf Khan but was fought by Mundalika. Later on Sultan Mahmud Begada forced Ra Mandalika III embrace Islam or face death and thus ended the relative independence of Saurastra. Ra Mandalika accepted Islam and received the title of Khan Jahan and his descendants long occupied the respectable posts at the Gujarat Court.
Allier (river)
The Allier (Alèir) is a river in central France, left tributary of the Loire River. It flows through several regions.
Ismail Haniyeh
Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh (إسماعيل عبد السلام أحمد هنية; sometimes transliterated as Haniya, Haniyah, or Hanieh; born 29 January 1962) is a senior political leader of Hamas. He was the disputed Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. In September 2017, he became Chief of Hamas's Political Bureau.
Allier (river)
The Allier department is named after this river. In Ancient Rome, the river was named Elaver.
Geography
The Allier river has a length of 420.7 km and a drainage basin with an area of 14310 km2.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 143.0 m3/s at Cuffy in the Cher department.
Course
The source of the Allier is in the mountainous region of Margeride, part of the Massif Central, on the mountain Moure de la Gardille in the Chasseradès municipality, Lozère department. The source is at an altitude of about 1430 m.
The Allier flows, in general, to the north and passes through the following regions, departments and communes:
Finally, it flows, as a left tributary into the Loire river at the bec d'Allier ("beak of the Allier"), near the city of Nevers, in the limits between the Cher and Nièvre departments in the towns of Marzy, Cuffy and Gimouille, at 167 m of altitude.
Main tributaries
The main tributaries, with a length greater than 40 km, of the Allier are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Notes
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Electoral system
There are many different electoral systems. Sometimes different systems are used in different sorts of elections in the same country.
Voters may vote directly for candidates or their votes may elect an electoral college where their representatives may run a further election. Areas may be divided into constituencies with one or more representatives in each. Voters may vote directly for individual candidates or for a list of candidates.
The most common systems are first-past-the-post voting, multiple non-transferable vote, the two-round (runoff) system, party-list proportional representation and ranked or preferential voting as used in single-winner Instant-runoff voting or multi-winner Single transferable voting.
Different voting systems may effect the results, and they may be changed to benefit those in power.
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German writer. In addition to his political essays, novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience during World War I.
Jünger was born in Heidelberg, German Empire on 29 March 1895. He was raised in Hannover, German Empire. Jünger was married to Gretha Von Jeinsen from 1925 until her death in 1960. They had two children. Jünger died on 17 February 1998 in Riedlingen, Germany from natural causes, aged 102.
The Woman Inside
The Woman Inside is a 1981 Canadian American drama movie directed by Joseph Van Winkle and starring Gloria Manon, Leo Köppen, Dane Clark, Joan Blondell, Michael Champion. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Ananda Prasad Pokharel
Ananda Prasad Pokharel is a Nepali politician. He is currently the Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation in Nepal. He is also a member of Napal's Investment Board.
Chaumes-en-Brie
Chaumes-en-Brie is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France.
Crassus
Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115 BC – 53 BC) was a Roman general and politician.
He commanded the left wing of Sulla's army at the Battle of the Colline Gate. It was he who finally suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus. The Third Servile War began with three defeats of Roman armies against Spartacus and his followers. The revolt was finally destroyed by the concentrated military effort of a single commander, Marcus Licinius Crassus.
The last stage of his career was as a triumvir, one of the First Triumvirate, with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar. One of the richest men of the era, he was killed after a defeat at the Battle of Carrhae. His death led to the civil wars between Julius Caesar and Pompey, the other two triumvirs.
Brutal discipline
Crassus formed an army to meet the Parthians. In addition to six new legions, he was given other legions which had been beaten by Spartacus. He decimated them. This was the brutal method of executing one man in ten to encourage the others to fight harder. Each group of ten men drew lots to decide who would die. This punishment had not been used since the early days of Rome.
Crassus's punishment of Spartacus's surviving men was just as brutal. They were crucified. But his army was beaten by the Parthians, with many Roman deaths, including that of Crassus.
Battle of Carrhae
Crassus arranged to govern the Roman province of Syria, with the transparent intention of going to war with Parthia. In fact, he set out on a war against Parthia, using his own money, and without the Senate's official approval.
After being informed of the presence of the Parthian army, Crassus panicked. His general Cassius recommended that the army be deployed in the traditional Roman fashion, with infantry forming the center and cavalry on the wings. At first Crassus agreed, but he soon changed his mind and redeployed his men into a hollow square, each side formed by twelve cohorts. This formation would protect his forces from being outflanked, but at the cost of mobility.
Gaetano Scirea
Gaetano Scirea (25 May 1953 – 3 September 1989) is a former Italian football player. He has played for Italy's national team.
Club career statistics
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Shift
Shift may mean:
Fenrir (moon)
Fenrir is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22,611,000 km in 1269.362 days, at an inclination of 163° to the ecliptic (143° to Saturn's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.131.
It was named in April 2007 after Fenrisulfr, a giant wolf from Norse mythology, father of Hati and Skoll, son of Loki, destined to break its bonds for Ragnarök.
Herbert (Family Guy)
Herbert is a fictional character in the animated television series Family Guy. He is voiced by Mike Henry, who created and designed the character. Herbert is an elderly neighbor of the Griffin family who first appeared in the season 3 episode "To Love and Die in Dixie". He has a sexual love interest for Chris Griffin, though the Griffins and the citizens of Quahog ignore the fact.
Feistel cipher
In cryptography, a Feistel cipher is a symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers, named after the German IBM cryptographer Horst Feistel; it is also commonly known as a Feistel network. A large set of block ciphers use the scheme, including the Data Encryption Standard
The Feistel structure has the advantage that encryption and decryption operations are very similar, even identical in some cases, requiring only a reversal of the key schedule. Therefore the size of the code or circuitry required to implement such a cipher is nearly halved.
Feistel construction is iterative in nature which makes implementing the cryptosystem in hardware easier.
Feistel networks and similar constructions are product ciphers, and so combine multiple rounds of repeated operations, such as:
Bit shuffling creates the diffusion effect, while substitution is used for confusion.
Theoretical work
Many modern symmetric block ciphers use Feistel networks, and the structure and properties of Feistel ciphers have been extensively explored by cryptographers. Specifically, Michael Luby and Charles Rackoff analyzed the Feistel block cipher construction, and proved that if the round function is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom function, with Ki used as the seed, then 3 rounds is sufficient to make the block cipher a pseudorandom permutation, while 4 rounds is sufficient to make it a "strong" pseudorandom permutation (which means that it remains pseudorandom even to an adversary who gets oracle access to its inverse permutation). Because of this very important result of Luby and Rackoff, Feistel ciphers are sometimes called Luby-Rackoff block ciphers. Further theoretical studies generalized the construction, and defined more precise limits for security.
Construction
Let {\rm F} be the round function and let be the sub-keys for the rounds respectively.
Then the basic operation is as follows:
For each round, compute (calculate)
Then the ciphertext is. (Commonly the two pieces R_n and L_n are not switched after the last round.)
Decryption of a ciphertext (R_n, L_n) is accomplished by computing for
Then (L_1,R_1) is the plaintext again.
One advantage of this model is that the round function {\rm F} does not have to be invertible, and can be very complex.
The diagram illustrates the encryption process. Decryption requires only reversing the order of the subkey using the same process; this is the only difference between encryption and decryption:
Unbalanced Feistel ciphers use a modified structure where L_1 and R_1 are not of equal lengths. The MacGuffin cipher is an experimental example of such a cipher. The Feistel construction is also used in cryptographic algorithms other than block ciphers. For example, the Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) scheme uses a simple Feistel network to randomize ciphertexts in certain asymmetric-key encryption schemes.
List of Feistel ciphers
Feistel or modified Feistel: Blowfish, Camellia, CAST-128, DES, FEAL, ICE, KASUMI, LOKI97, Lucifer, MARS, MAGENTA, MISTY1, RC5, TEA, Triple DES, Twofish, XTEA, GOST 28147-89
Generalised Feistel: CAST-256, MacGuffin, RC2, RC6, Skipjack
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution, was a successful war by the Greeks who won independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. Muhammad Ali Pasha sent his son Ismail with an army and a fleet to help fight the Greeks and the Greek Christian revolutionaries asked for help from European Christians. A fleet of the United Kingdom, France and Russia destroyed the Ottoman-Egypt fleet in the Battle of Navarino. After a long and bloody struggle, independence was finally achieved, and confirmed by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832. The Greeks were thus the first of the Ottoman Empire's subject peoples to be accepted as an independent sovereign power.
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2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
The 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is the 70th season of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the season began with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel and the Daytona 500, and will end with the Ford EcoBoost 400 on November 18.
Mac OS X Leopard
Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is an operating system made by Apple Inc. for its Macintosh line of computers. It is a version of Mac OS X, and carries the release number 10.5. It was released on October 27, 2007, and came in one release for both Intel Mac's, and PowerPC processors. According to Apple, Leopard contains over 300 changes and improvements since Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". Leopard was the last release for the PowerPC processor.
2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
The Bank of America Roval 400 will run on the infield road course instead of its quad-oval.
Çorlu
The climate is Mediterranean. The average temperature is 14 °C. The warmest month is July, at 27 °C, and the coldest is December, at 4 °C. The average rainfall is 892 millimeters per year. The wettest month is December, with 128 millimeters of rain, and the driest is July, with 17 millimeters.
Weather forecast
A weather forecast is a prediction of what the weather will be in the future. Weather station s measure things such as temperature, air pressure and cloud cover. Meteorologists use these measurements and fluid dynamics and other methods to predict the weather. A forecast for many days in the future is less trustworthy than one for tomorrow or the next day.
Peter Gunn (actor)
Peter Gunn (born 13 February 1963) is an English actor. He has appeared in many television series and films since his career began in 1988. Gunn is known for his role as Brian Packham in the long running ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2010–2013, 2015–present).
Surtur (moon)
Surtur or Saturn XLVIII (also known as S/2006 S 7) is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006.
It was named in April 2007, after Surtr, leader of the fire giants of Norse mythology.
Amalia Granata
Amalia Iris Sabina Granata (Born, February 26, 1981) is an Argentine model, television panelist, politician and pro-life activist. She has been a provincial deputy for the province of Santa Fe since 2019.
Biography
In mid-2007 she left for Romania together with his partner, the soccer player Cristian Fabbiani.
A few months later she returned to Argentina, distancing herself from the player with whom she had a daughter, born in 2008 in Rosario (Argentina).
Since February 2016, she has been in a relationship with businessman Leonardo Squarzon, father of her second child.
Sorrel
Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), also called common sorrel or garden sorrel, is a perennial herb that is cultivated as a garden herb or leaf vegetable (pot herb). Sorrel is also known by the names spinach dock and narrow-leaved dock.
Growth
Sorrel is a slender plant. It is about 60 centimetres (cm) high, and it has roots that go far into the ground. Sorrel also has juicy stems and oblong leaves that can be eaten.
Rami Hamdallah
Rami Hamdallah (رامي الحمد الله; born 10 August 1958) is a Palestinian politician and academic. He was the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. He also was president of An-Najah National University in Nablus.
Sorrel
Characteristics
It has whorled spikes of reddish-green flowers, which bloom in summer, becoming purplish. The stamens and pistils are on different plants (dioecious); the ripe seeds are brown and shining.
Per-Ingvar Brånemark
Per-Ingvar Brånemark (May 3, 1929 – December 20, 2014) was a Swedish orthopedic surgeon and research professor. He was called the "father of modern dental implantology". The Brånemark Osseointegration Center (BOC), named after its founder, was founded in 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sorrel
Uses
Common sorrel has been cultivated for centuries. The leaves may be puréed in soups and sauces or added to salads and shav; they have a flavour that is similar to kiwifruit or sour wild strawberries. The plant's sharp taste is due to oxalic acid, which is a poison. In small quantities sorrel is harmless; in large quantities it can be fatal.
Per-Ingvar Brånemark
Brånemark died at the age of 85 in Gothenburg.
Zakho
Zakho is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has about 350,000 inhabitants. It is in the Dahuk Province. There is a university in Zaxo. The biggest soccer club is Zakho FC.
Blockade runner
A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for slipping past a naval blockade of a port or strait. This is not the same as ships used to challenge the blocking ships to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to bring food or arms to a blockaded city. In other cases the blockade runners would carry mail in an attempt to communicate with the outside world. Carrying trade goods from blockaded ports is another function.
Operations
Blockade runners are often the fastest ships available. They are usually lightly armed and armored. Their operations are quite risky since blockading fleets would not hesitate to fire on them. However, the potential profits (economically or militarily) from a successful blockade run are tremendous. Blockade-runners typically had excellent crews. Although similar to smugglers, blockade-runners are often operated by state's navies as part of the regular naval fleet. Notable users of blockade runners include the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and Germany during both World War One and World War Two.
Zygmunt Hanusik
Zygmunt Hanusik (28 February 1945 – 4 March 2021) was a Polish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Śląskie, Poland.
Hanusik died on 4 March 2021 in Katowice, Poland at aged 76.
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Rock Springs is an American city in the state of Wyoming. It is in Sweetwater County. The city has about 18,708 people. The current mayor of Rock Springs is Carl Demshar. On September 2, 1885, a riot between the Chinese immigrant miners and white immigrant miners killed at least 26 people and it was caused because of racial tensions and labor dispute.
Ronald Sinclair
Ronald Sinclair (January 21, 1924 - November 22, 1992), born Richard Arthur Hould and sometimes called Ra Hould or Ron Sinclair, was a child actor from New Zealand, who became a movie editor.
Career
Sinclair was a child actor turned movie editor who was still considered a star in his home country of New Zealand, long after his Hollywood career ended. He appeared in movies like The Light That Failed, Tower of London, That Hamilton Woman and Desperate Journey. He also appeared in a series of children's adventure movies featuring the Five Little Peppers.
2024 Democratic National Convention
The 2024 Democratic National Convention is an event in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party will pick the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election.
It is planned to be held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Facilities in Chicago that had been mentioned as potential primary venues include the United Center, Wintrust Arena, and Navy Pier.
Atlanta, Houston, and New York City were also candidates to host the convention.
Jestina Mukoko
Work
Jestina Mukoko is the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project. She studied to be a journalist, and she was a newsreader with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.
Durant, Oklahoma
Durant is a city in Bryan County, Oklahoma in the United States. It is the county seat of Bryan County. The population was 15,877 at the 2010 census.
Jestina Mukoko
Kidnapping
On December 3, 2008, Jestina Mukoko was kidnapped from her house near the city of Harare. Dumisani Muleya of Business Day newspaper said that she was "abducted by suspected state agents for allegedly being involved in plans for anti government demonstrations."
Christopher Ayres
Christopher Owen Ayres (May 16, 1965 – October 18, 2021) was an American actor, director and scriptwriter. He was known for his voice roles on anime shows. He voiced Frieza from Dragon Ball Z Kai, Kei Kurono from Gantz, Prince Soma from Black Butler, and Shingen Takeda from the Sengoku Basara series.
Jestina Mukoko
Kidnapping
Mukoko told The Independent newspaper that they asked her about her NGO, the Peace Project. The said she wanted to train young people to fight the government. They beat her on the bottom of her feet with rubber hoses. They said this is a favourite torture instrument in Zimbabwe because it does not leave a mark on the feet for later.
International attention
Many world leaders asked for her freedom, including Gordon Brown and Condoleezza Rice. A "Group of Elders", including Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Graca Machel, wanted to come to Zimbabwe, but the government refused to let them come in. Instead, they talked to the newspapers in South Africa.
Durant, Oklahoma
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Jestina Mukoko
International attention
The Zimbabwe High Court told the Zimbabwe Republic Police to look for Mukoko. The police did nothing. They said they did not know where she was.
Freedom
On 24 December, Mukoko appeared in court in Harare on charges of trying to get young people to fight the government. She did not have a lawyer. She was with seven other people who were kidnapped. The group included a 72-year-old man and a two-year-old boy whose father and mother, Violet Mupfuranhehwe and Collen Mutemagawo, were also prisoners. In March 2009, three months after her kidnapping, Jestina Mukoko was free on bail. She had to go to the police station every week. They took her passport. On 21 September 2009 the Zimbabwe Supreme Court said she was free. Amnesty International said this was a good decision.
Barbara Hammer
Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist movie director. She was known for directing movies about lesbian culture career for over 40 years. Her best known works were Nitrate Kisses and Tender Fictions. Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California.
Hammer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2006. She was an activist for self-euthanasia. Hammer died from the disease on March 16, 2019 in New York City, aged 79.
Elgin, Oklahoma
Elgin is a city in Oklahoma in the United States.
Crocin
Crocin is a chemical compound that produces a type of natural pigment. It is found in the flowers of crocus and gardenia plants. It has a deep red colour. Crocin is what is mainly responsible for the colour of saffron. It is also called saffronin or polychroite.
Crocin was used as a dye for textiles. Because it is unstable it is no longer used for that purpose..
James R. Clapper
He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006.
On June 5, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as United States Director of National Intelligence. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for the position on August 5, 2010.
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, artist and photographer.
Early life
Close was born in Monroe, Washington. He was raised in Everett, Washington. Close studied at the University of Washington and at Yale University. He suffered from dyslexia.
Personal life
Close worked in Bridgehampton, New York and Long Beach, New York. He had two daughters with Leslie Rose. They divorced in 2011.
Close married artist Sienna Shields in 2013. They divorced before his death.
Close was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2015. He died on August 19, 2021 in Oceanside, New York from congestive heart failure at the age of 81.
Anders Bodelsen
Anders Bodelsen (11 February 1937 – 17 October 2021) was a Danish writer. His best known novel was Think of a Number (Tænk på et tal, 1968). It was made into a movie known as The Silent Partner in 1978. He also worked on creating children television shows for Danmarks Radio such as Guldregn.
Bodelsen died on 17 October 2021 at the age of 84.
Kari (moon)
Kari or Saturn XLV (provisional designation S/2006 S 2) is a moon of Saturn. Its discovery was announced by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Jan Kleyna, and Brian G. Marsden on June 26, 2006, from observations taken between January and April 2006.
Kari is about 7 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 22,305,100 km in 1243.71 days, at an inclination of 148.4° to the ecliptic (151.5° to Saturn's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.3405.
It was named in April 2007 after Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology.
El Reno, Oklahoma
El Reno is a city in Oklahoma in the United States. It is the county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma.
Kate Hinrichs
Kate Hinrichs (born 30 December 2002) is a South African water polo player. She competed for the South Africa women's national water polo team in the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
She played for Long Island University's women's volleyball team.
Computer mouse
A computer mouse is an input device that is used with a computer. Moving a mouse along a flat surface can move the cursor to different items on the screen.
Buttons
Items can be moved or selected by pushing the mouse buttons (called clicking).
UNOVIS
UNOVIS was an important group of Russian artists. It was taken over by Kazimir Malevich at the Vitebsk Art School in 1919. It started of with a group of students and was called MOLPOSNOVIS. The group developed new idea about art. Once Malevich became the leader they changed their name to UNOVIS. The group only lasted until 1926. UNOVIS stood for "Utverditeli Novovo Iskusstva" which is Russian. In English it meant "affirmers of the new art".
Computer mouse
Buttons
Today's mouse has two buttons, the left button and right button, with a scroll wheel in between the two. Many computer mice use wireless technology and have no wire.
UNOVIS
Foundation and growth
The group had many changes. First known as MOLPOSNOVIS, after the school's teachers joined and it became POSNOVIS. In 1920, Malevich was invited them to teach at the school in 1919 by Marc Chagall. In February of the same year Malevich became leader.
Computer mouse
Types
There are many types of mouse: Optical mouse, wireless mouse, mechanical mouse, trackball mouse. A computer mouse is a handheld hardware input device that controls a cursor in a GUI and can move and select text, icons, files, and folders. For desktop computers, the mouse is placed on a flat surface such as a mouse pad or a desk and is placed in front of your computer. The picture to the right is an example of a desktop computer mouse with two buttons and a wheel. The mouse was originally known as the X-Y position Indicator for a display system and was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 while working at Xerox PARC. However, due to Alto's lack of success, the first widely used application of the mouse was with the Apple Lisa computer.
History
In 1964 Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), a researcher at Stanford Research Institute, wanted to find a way to make using computers easier. In those days, computers were large and expensive. Using them was very hard because everything had to be typed in on a keyboard. This command line interface is still used by some people, such as programmers, to get things done faster.
After studying and designing for a long time, Engelbart succeeded in inventing an input device which he named 'XY index'. At first, it needed two hands to use, but it was changed so that only one hand was needed to use it. This model was more like the mouse that we use today, but was made up of a big ball that the user had to roll in different directions to move the cursor.
Uses
On most computers, the user can move the mouse to move the cursor in the same direction. To choose something that is on the screen, the user can move the cursor to it and "click" the left mouse button. The right button is used to open menus that are different depending on where the cursor is. The other mouse buttons can do different things, depending on the software. Most mice have two buttons to click.
Most mice also have the "scroll wheel"—a small wheel found between the two main mouse buttons. The user can move the wheel back and forth to "scroll" through things like a website or folder. "Scrolling" means moving the words or pictures up or down on the screen, so another part of the page comes into view. The wheel can also be pressed, to click it like another button.
A mouse can also be connected to and used the same way with a laptop computer, but unlike a desktop computer, one does not have to be connected to use the laptop. This is because along with the keyboard, laptops have a built-in input device called a trackpad which does the same thing as a mouse. Similarly, tablet computers have a touchscreen as an input device, but some, like the Microsoft Surface and those that use Android, also work with mice.
Azerbaijani food
The main courses of Azerbaijani cuisine are over 30 kinds of soups, including those prepared from plain yogurt. One of the most famous dishes is plov. Plov is a saffron-covered rice, served with different herbs. The Azerbaijani cuisine has more than 40 different plov recipes. Other second courses include many kinds of kebabs and shashliks, including lamb, beef, chicken, and fish (baliq) kebabs. Sturgeon, a common fish, is normally skewered (skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together) and grilled as a shashlik, being served with a tart pomegranate sauce called narsharab. Dried fruits and walnuts are used in many dishes. The traditional condiments are salt, the spices black pepper, sumac, and especially saffron. Much of the saffron comes from the Absheron Peninsula.
Black tea is the national drink, and is drunk after food is eaten. It is also popular on its own or with dried fruits.
Another popular drink is sherbet, a sweet cold drink made of fruit juice mixed or boiled with sugar, often perfumed with rose water. Azerbaijani sherbet is not sorbet, the cold dessert.
Elk City, Oklahoma
Elk City is a city in Oklahoma in the United States.
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS (Isle of Wight, 18 July 1635 – London, 3 March 1703) was an English naturalist, architect and polymath. Hooke played an important role in the birth of science in the 17th century with both experimental and theoretical work. He was a colleague of Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, and a rival to Isaac Newton. Hooke was a leader in the plans to rebuild after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
There is no surviving portrait of Hooke.
Physics
He discovered Hooke's Law of elasticity. He designed and ordered the making of telescopes and microscopes, and used both instruments. He reported on this work in a book called Micrographia in 1665. He was the first person to see biological cells. He made drawings of bodies in the Solar System, and made the first attempts to measure the distance of certain stars.
Robert Hooke was appointed the Royal Society's first Curator of Experiments in 1662, and he rose to be Secretary of the Royal Society. He took responsibility for experiments performed at its weekly meetings. This was a position he held for over 40 years.
In 1664 Hooke also was appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College in London and Cutlerian Lecturer in Mechanics.
On 8 July 1680, Hooke observed the nodal patterns associated with the mode of vibration of glass plates. He ran a bow along the edge of a glass plate covered with flour, and saw the nodal patterns emerge. p101
Hooke did some fundamental work on gravitation and the motion of the planets. Forever after, he was convinced that Newton and the world had cheated him of the credit p389
Natural history
He was also known for his work in natural history (biology and geology). He reported on his microsope use in a book called Micrographica in 1665. He was the first person to see biological cells, and was the first to use the word 'cell' to describe them.
In 1668, in a talk to the Royal Society, he recognised that fossil shells of unknown marine animals suggested that some species had become extinct.
Architecture
He also worked on the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital (which became known as 'Bedlam'). Many other buildings were designed by Hooke, including the Royal College of Physicians (1679).
In the reconstruction after the Great Fire, Hooke proposed redesigning London's streets on a grid pattern with wide boulevards. This pattern was used in the later renovation of Paris, Liverpool, and many American cities. The proposal was rejected. The opponents argued that in practice property owners were secretly shifting their boundaries. Hooke was in demand to settle many of these disputes, due to his skill as a surveyor and his tact as an arbitrator.
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian novelist and anarchist, famous for writing the books War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many other works. He was a Christian and believed in non-violence and practiced simple living. His work The Kingdom of God is within you has influenced people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Early life
Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the region of Tula, Russia and he married Sofia Andreevna Bers.
Death
Tolstoy died in 1910, at the age of 82. He died of pneumonia.
Life and career
When he was young his parents died, so he and his siblings were brought up by relatives. At the age of 16, he began studying law and oriental languages. Unfortunately, he left University in the middle of his studies and spent much of his time in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Later on in his life, he joined the Army with his brother after running up some heavy gambling debts. It was at that time that he started writing.
After shaping both his political and literary development in Europe, he returned to Russia and founded 13 schools for Russia's peasant children.
Kde domov můj?
"Kde domov můj" (say:, meaning "Where My Home is") is the national anthem of the Czech Republic. It was the national anthem of the former country of Czechoslovakia, combined with parts of the Slovak national anthem "Nad Tatrou sa blýska". It was created by Josef Kajetán Tyl and František Škroup in 1834, and was first published in the play Fidlovačka aneb žádný hněv a žádná rvačka.