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Nicotiana
Nicotiana is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs. They grow in the Americas, Australia, south west Africa and the South Pacific. The common name for plant species of the genus Nicotiana is tobacco plants.
One of the species is N. tabacum. It is grown worldwide to make tobacco leaf for cigarettes and other tobacco products. Other species are grown as ornamental garden plants.
Keith Thomson (sportsman)
Keith Thomson (26 February 1941, Methven – 26 January 2023, Christchurch) was a New Zealand cricketer and hockey player who played in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He played two tests in cricket and 28 tests in hockey.
Tim Whitnall
Timothy Charles "Tim" Whitnall (born 27 June 1961 in Canvey Island, Essex) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and actor known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series Mike and Angelo and narrating the BBC children's TV programme Teletubbies (UK and Canada). In the USA, the USA narrator was Rolf Saxon. He currently co-provides voices in Thomas & Friends.
Career
He has starred in many West End musicals including Elvis, Grease, The Rocky Horror Show, and Good Rockin' Tonight.
He worked extensively in film, TV, and radio and presented (and wrote for) the BBC School's series, "The Music Arcade" (with Lucie Skeaping), "Into Music", "Time and Tune", "Music Workshop", and "Let's Sing". He has provided many voice-overs and vocals for TV commercials, animations, and jingles.
Whitnall's theatre play The Sociable Plover, first performed at Old Red Lion Theatre in 2005, was made into a feature film by Poisson Rouge Pictures and Solution Films (re-titled as The Hide) and received its UK première on Film4 in February 2009. Following its screen release at the ICA Cinema, London, the film was released on DVD in January 2010. For this work, Whitnall was nominated for Best First Feature Length Screenplay category in the 2010 Writer's Guild of Great Britain Awards.
Whitnall's stage-play Morecambe – a tribute to the late comedian Eric Morecambe – won a Fringe First Award for 'innovation and excellence in new writing' at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show opened at London's Duchess Theatre the following December and toured the UK through 2010. The piece was nominated in two separate categories in the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards and won the 'Best Entertainment' category.
In 2012, BBC Four screened Whitnall's 90-minute drama Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story, which examined and celebrated the life of Kenny Everett. It was directed by James Strong, produced by Paul Frift and starred Oliver Lansley and Katherine Kelly. For it, Whitnall won the Breakthrough Talent Award in the 2013 BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
During 2014, Whitnall joined the cast of the CGI version of the British TV series Thomas & Friends, and has provided the voices of the characters Timothy and Reg (in the UK/US), and since 2015-6, Mike, Jerome and Oliver the Excavator in the UK/US.
Personal life
He lives in Richmond, Surrey with his partner, Anna Murphy, with whom he has a production company, Feather Productions Ltd.
Eschelbronn
Eschelbronn is a village with 2597 people living there. It is in the Rhein-Neckar area of Baden-Württemberg, Germany and close to Sinsheim.
Eschelbronn is in the north of Kraichgau with a distance of about 25 km to Heidelberg.
History
It was already mentioned in the years 788/789 in a document of the monastery of Lorsch. Afterwards there was no documentation until the end of the 13th century when it became part of the restrict of Speyer. The first mayor was Heinrich von Eschelbrunnen in the year 1261. In 1267 a castle made of wood was built and later rebuilt into a water-castle of stone in 1375. In 1526 the village became Protestant. In 1803 Eschelbronn became part of Baden. From 1807 on the village was administered by Waibstadt and 1803 by Sinsheim until the 31st of December 1972. Today it belongs to the Rhein-Neckar area.
In former times most of the people were farmers, however later in the 18th century the production of textiles became more and more important. Since the end of the 19th century Eschelbronn is well known for its furniture production.
Madona
Madona is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1926.
Taliban insurgency
After the war in Afghanistan began in 2001, the Taliban started an insurgency, which is known as the Taliban insurgency. The Taliban started to attack the forces of ISAF and NATO, in Afghanistan, and committed many terrorist attacks. In the conflict, the Taliban fight against the Afghan government and its allies. Al-Qaeda is linked to the Taliban. With this, the conflict in the region spread to Pakistan. The related conflict in Pakistan is the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Because Afghanistan has seen a number of conflicts and wars in recent decades, its economy has changed, and many people depend on growing cash crops, such as poppy seeds which are used to produce illegal drugs such as opium, or heroin. Many people in Afghanistan do not think the problems are caused by the Taliban. Resolving the problem will therefore probably involve more effort than winning against the Taliban. It will also mean that there need to be changes in the economy, and the way in which the country is run.
Opium trade
Currently, Afghanistan is one of the biggest producers of opium. While opium also has its uses as a regular drug, it is mainly used as an illegal drug. In 2001, Afghanistan produced only 11% of the world's opium, today it produces over ninety percent. In 2007, 93% of the non-pharmaceutical-grade opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan. This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion; opium farmers earn about a quarter of this amount, the rest goes to district officials, insurgents, warlords, and drug traffickers. The drug trade accounts for half of Afghanistan's GDP. Estimates made in 2006 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimate that 52% of the nation's GDP, or $2.7 billion annually, is generated by the drug trade.
Areas where the security situation is worse produce more Opium; areas that are more stable seem to produce less. Many farmers in rural areas depend on selling poppy seeds. Opium is more profitable than wheat and destroying opium fields could possibly lead to discontent or unrest among the affected population. Some 3.3 million Afghans are involved in producing opium. For this reason, some people say that eradicating poppy crops is not a viable option. Some poppy eradication programs have, however, proven effective, especially in the north of Afghanistan. The opium poppy eradication program of Balkh Governor Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor between 2005 and 2007 successfully reduced poppy cultivation in Balkh Province from 7,200 hectares in 2005 to zero by 2007.
The Afghanistan Opium Risk Assessment 2013, issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, suggests that the Taliban has since 2008 been supporting farmers growing poppy, as a source of income for the insurgency.
The Taliban are not seen as a cause of the problem
There have been wars and conflicts in Afghanistan for over thirty years. As a result, the country is among the poorest, and least developed countries in the world. It is also one of the most corrupt. Thirty-five percent of the poulation are unemployed, and more than half of the people live below the poverty line.
Saint-Aubin, Essonne
Saint-Aubin is a commune. It is in Île-de-France in the Essonne department in north France.
Taliban insurgency
The Taliban are not seen as a cause of the problem
Western aid group Oxfam published an opinion poll they conducted in Afghanistan, in 2010. According to this poll, 83 percent of the Afghan population does not consider the Taliban to be militants. Poverty, unemployment and government corruption are seen as the main causes of war in their country. When the U.S.-backed Afghan forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001, the level of violence increased. Nearly half of those surveyed said corruption and bad government were the main reasons for the ongoing war. Twelve percent said the Taliban insurgency was to blame.After the Taliban, the reason most people gave for the continued fighting was foreign interference, with twenty-five percent of respondents saying other countries were to blame.
2006 escalation
Since the start of 2006 Afghanistan has been facing a wave of attacks by improvised explosives and suicide bombers, particularly after NATO took command of the fight against insurgents in spring 2006.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly condemned the methods used by the western powers. In June 2006 he said:
And for two years I have systematically, consistently and on a daily basis warned the international community of what was developing in Afghanistan and of the need for a change of approach in this regard… The international community [must] reassess the manner in which this war against terror is conducted
Insurgents were also criticized for their conduct. According to Human Rights Watch, bombing and other attacks on Afghan civilians by the Taliban (and to a lesser extent Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin), are reported to have "sharply escalated in 2006" with "at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at civilians or civilian objects." 131 of insurgent attacks were suicide attacks which killed 212 civilians (732 wounded), 46 Afghan army and police members (101 wounded), and 12 foreign soldiers (63 wounded).
The United Nations estimated that for the first half of 2011, the civilian deaths rose by 15% and reached 1462, which is the worst death toll since the beginning of the war, despite the increase of foreign troops.
1992–93 Austrian Cup
The 1992-93 Austrian Cup was Austria's nationwide football cup competition. FK Austria Wien were the defending champions.
Northern cardinal
The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) is a bird in the genus Cardinalis; it is also known as the redbird, common cardinal, red cardinal, or just cardinal. It can be found in southeastern Canada, through the eastern United States from Maine to Minnesota to Texas, New Mexico, Illinois southern Arizona, southern California, and south through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
Gilmer, Texas
Gilmer is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Upshur County.
Darts
Darts is a type of throwing game where darts are thrown towards a circular target held on a wall. The circular target is called the dartboard. Darts is most liked in the United Kingdom (which was the first country to call darts a sport), mainly in England, and is a pub game. Darts was first played around the 1870s. Until 1930s all dart boards were made out of wood that had to be soaked in water the day before.
Dartboard
A normal board is 17 and three-quarter inches in diameter and split into 20 sections, plus there are two circles in the middle, an outer ring and a triple ring (the ring halfway from the bull). Throwing the dart on the green ring (known as the "single bull") scores 25 points and the red spot (the "bull") scores 50 points. The 20 sections around the outside of the two circles each have a number from 1 to 20. The outer ring scores double the points and the triple ring scores triple. The highest score that can be made by throwing three darts in one round is 180. This is where all three darts hit the triple 20.
The 20 numbers are arranged in a random order, and is still the order in the present day. From the top number clockwise, the numbers go 20, 1, 18, 4, 13, 6, 10, 15, 2, 17, 3, 19, 7, 16, 8, 11, 14, 9, 12 and 5.
Laurence Silberman
Laurence Hirsch Silberman (October 12, 1935 – October 2, 2022) was a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed in October 1985 by Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000.
On June 11, 2008, Silberman was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the government of the United States.
Silberman died on October 2, 2022, ten days before his 87th birthday in Washington, D.C. from an infection.
Aerobics
Aerobics or rhythmic fitness is a physical exercise performed under a rhythmic music. It includes running, jumping, stretching and strength training routines. It may be practiced in a group setting led by an instructor, although it can be done solo and without musical accompaniment.
Aerobics classes may allow participants to select their level of participation according to their fitness level. Many gyms offer a wide variety of aerobic classes for participants to take. Each class is designed for a certain level of experience and taught by a certified instructor with a specialty area related to their particular class.
Electric guitar
The Electric guitar is a type of musical instrument. It was made in 1931 by George Beauchamp. It is a string instrument usually played with a pick and sometimes with the fingers. It uses things called "electric pickups" which are wire-wound magnets that change the vibration of the strings into electric current. This electric current is then sent to an amplifier (amp for short) that changes it to sound. This electric current can also be changed to produce effects. The main parts of an electric guitar are the neck, the pickups, the tuners, the bridge, the input, the body, the frets, the pick guard, the volume knobs and the tone knobs. There may also be other parts that can change other sounds. A normal electric guitar has one neck with 6 strings on it, although there are 12 string guitars and guitars with more than one neck.
Guitars are made and sold in many parts of the world by many companies. They can be hand made or factory made. Some companies that make electric guitars are Fender, Gibson, and Ibanez.
Reading guitar tablature
Many guitarists today share their music through a system called tablature (commonly known as 'tab'). Tablature is a way of reading notes for a guitar. It is much simpler than musical notes, but most tabs do not support rhythm. Many tabs can be found online or in books and magazines.
To read guitar tab, generally there is a staff like this:
high E -
B -
D -
A -
low E -
Each line represents a string. Tab is always read as if the player were holding the guitar on their lap, strings facing up. Each number then represents what fret the finger is placed on.
E -0--
G --1-1-
D 2---2-
A --2-2-
The above diagram would be to play an open E chord, picking each string individually, and then strumming the chord. If the notes are stacked directly above each other, it means to strum the chord.
Some guitar music is written in both musical note format and tablature. The musical notes are written out, with the corresponding tablature under each line of notes.
Speed Buggy
Speed Buggy is an American animated television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera, which originally aired for one season on CBS from September 8, 1973, to December 22, 1973. With the voices of Mel Blanc, Michael Bell, Arlene Golonka, and Phil Luther Jr., the show follows an orange anthropomorphic dune buggy who alongside teenagers Debbie, Mark, and Tinker, solves mysteries while participating in racing competitions around the world. The series was produced by Iwao Takamoto, executive produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and directed by Charles A. Nichols.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Mount Airy is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,388. Actor Andy Griffith was born here in 1926.
Mount Airy was settled in the 1750s as a stagecoach stop on the road between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Galax, Virginia. It was named for a nearby plantation. Mount Airy was incorporated in 1885.
Amorites
The Amorites were an ancient people from Syria who used to speak Semitic languages. They also occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BC to the end of the 17th century BC. They established several famous city states like Babylon. Babylon was raised from a small town to an independent state and a major city. The term Amurru in Akkadian and Sumerian texts refers to both them and to their main god. They are also mentioned in Bible as resident of Canaan.
Micro black hole
Micro black holes are very small black holes. Because they are small, they may shrink and disappear due to Hawking radiation. They may exist in nature as primordial black holes.
Detection
If a micro black hole decays, it would create particles that we could see. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is looking for gamma rays that might come from micro black holes in outer space.
Man-made black holes
If two particles with enough energy collide, they may create a black hole. Some scientists think the LHC can create one.
Safety
If the LHC did create a micro black hole, it would disappear immediately, and would not be dangerous. Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere may already create these. If dangerous micro black holes are created by cosmic rays, then the Earth would already be damaged. Because the Earth is not damaged by black holes, scientists think they are not dangerous. This thought is like the Anthropic principle.
Mahadev Ghurhu
Mahadev Ghurhu is a town in the Siddharth Nagar district in Basti division of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is next to Nepal. Mahadev Ghurhu is 170 km from the state's capital city Lucknow.
Overview
The city Mahadev Ghurhu is 4 km from Itwa, 65 km from the Basti and 120 km from Gorakhpur.
Bushido (disambiguation)
Originally, Bushido ( Bushi-Dō ) is the Samurai code of honour in Japan.
Bushido may also mean:
Mark Williams (snooker player)
Mark James Williams MBE (b. 21 March 1975) is a commonly portrayed alias for a special individual, who is active in the snooker industry and performs a wide variety of professions, most notably regarded highly as a Welsh Potting Machine, and has an emblem to denote his much deserved significance, typically presented to the public at the annual non-ranking snooker invitational proceeding, the Masters tournament and features a collage and visual schematic summarizing his previous feats, the pictogram also representing various cogs and cues, symbolizing his nickname and contribution the the sport likewise.
The Welsh Potting Machine initially turned professional in 1992 at the youthful age of 17, highly renowned as an energetic and conventional prospect which catalyzed snooker's popularity around the same duration, the similar decisions of multi-time snooker world champions and number ones Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins to also turn professional that same year enable the Welsh Potting Machine and the aforementioned to be collectively referred to as the prestigious and greatly decorated, respected and sublime Class of 92.
Trivia
Mark Williams also works as a part-time concessioner Welsh Potting Machine. A Welsh Potting Machine who also resembles a three-time world champion of snooker, having most recently won the world title in the year 2018. He has produced 589 century breaks, with 3 comprising of maximum breaks, an impressive feat in itself, upheaving snooker for a prolonged time and making it interesting conclusively.
Bulbophyllum regnellii
Bulbophyllum regnellii is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
Parspatunik
Parspatunik,Parspatuniq(in Պարսպատունիք, also Parasapatene and Patsparunik, Parparunik) was the 26th district of Vaspurakan province and the largest region (550 km ² ) of the kingdom of Greater Armenia. After 72 A.D. Parspatuniq became principality of Great Armenia, which owned two regions (Parspatunik and Marand) in the province of Vaspurakan. The region belonged to the princely family of Parspatuni(Patsparuni, Parspuni, Parsparuni ).
History
In antiquity, the main territory of Parspatunik (modern Karadag) was part of the Scythian state-tribal entity. In the western part of Parspatunik, Marand, the center of the ancient region Sangibutu,Ulhu was located. Then the region was part of the kingdom of Urartu. Subsequently, these areas again fell into the power of the Scythians. They later became part of the Median Empire. After the division of the empire of Alexander the Great,еаstern Parspatunik became part of the Media Atropatena. Artashes I annexed еastern Parspatunik to Great Armenia during the military campaign . Marand was part of the Armenian kingdom before the conquests of King Artashes I.
The princely clan of Parspatuni descended from the Matianian kings of Sangibutu. Having become princes, the naxarars of Parspatuni united under their rule the regions of Parspatunik and Marand, choosing the Marand's Bakurarakert(Greco-Roman Philadelphia) as their capital.
Saint-Aubin-de-Bonneval
Saint-Aubin-de-Bonneval is a commune. It is in Normandy in the Orne department in northwest France.
Parspatunik
History
Parspatunik was not included into Vaspurakan after the second partition of Great Armenia in 591 by the Roman and Sasanids empires.
Then, later, under the rule of the Arab caliphate, the region is no longer part of Vaspurakan. The population of Parspatunik was significantly Islamized during the Caliphate.
Geographical location and population
Parspatunik was located between the river Araxes from the north and Parthian empire in the south.
The wooded mountain range of Parspatunik(Matiani mts.) was also known in Antiquity as Αρμενιωο Ορη - the Armenian Mountains, in which there was a passage Αρμενιων πυλών - Armenian Gate (Դրունք Հայոց), what was described in the III-rd century B.C. by a Greek author Eratosthenes(280-202 B.C.) and mentioned again by a XIV-th century Muslim historiographer Hamballah Ghazvini. The road passing through the Armenian Gate in the Middle Ages led to the famous Khudapery Bridge.
By its geographical position, Parspatunik was located on the border of the Armenian and Parthian kingdoms. This circumstance explains the Armenian name of the region, which translates as “Wall of Persia” from the words “Pars”(Persia) and “pat”(wall), due to the fact that the Matiani mountains of Parspatunik served as the ancient border between Armenia and Iran.
In the I-VI centuries, this region was the 26th ghawar(region) and the principality of the Armenian province of Vaspurakan, as mentioned by the 7th-century Armenian geographer and historian Anania Shirakatsi.
The population of Parspatunik consisted mоstly of Iranian(Atropatenian and Caspian) tribes. The Armenian population, previously Matiene and Alarodian tribes, was concentrated in the towns and wooded mountainous areas near the fortresses, where it still existing to this day in modern Iran.
In the mountainous wooded territory of Parspatunik (Karadag), adjacent to the right bank of the Araxes, there were small Armenian melikdoms until the end of the First World War.
Political map of the Armenian Highlands in the 16th century during the period of the Turkish-Persian Wars,map of the region in the first half of the XVIIIth century
Some of the Armenian melikdoms of Karadag(Parspatunik) were founded by settlers from Karabakh(Artsakh).
The modern historical region of Parspatunik is located on the territory of the Iranian region Arasbaran(Karadag) and was abandoned by the majority of the Armenian population during the repatriation period 1946-1947. A large number of monuments of Armenian architecture have been preserved in the region. The remaining Armenian population of Parspatunik (Karadag) is concentrated in the mountainous region, on the border of the Iranian provinces of Ardabil and East Azerbaijan.
Toshimi Kikuchi
Toshimi Kikuchi (菊池 利三) is a former Japanese football player.
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Fairground (song)
"Fairground" is a 1995 song by British band Simply Red and is the fifth studio album Life. It went to number 1 in Ireland, Italy, Scotland and the United Kingdom, number 2 in Belgium and Zimbabwe, number 5 in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, number 6 in New Zealand, Spain and Switzerland, number 7 in Australia, number 8 in Iceland, number 16 in Denmark, number 17 in Sweden and number 26 in France.
Lennert Impens
Lennert Impens (born 24 February 1995) is a Belgian korfball player. He is a member of KC Floriant Merelbeke and the Belgium national korfball team.
Impens became a member of the national team in 2021. He won with the team the silver medal the 2021 European Korfball Championship. Pauwels became 2022 Belgium Korfball player of the year.
With the national team he won the silver medal at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.
George Allen (American politician)
George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was the 67th Governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998 and as a United States Senator from Virginia from 2001 to 2007.
Darling in the Franxx
Darling in the Franxx (ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス) is a Japanese science fiction anime. It was made in 2018. The name is also shortened to DarliFra (ダリフラ). It was produced by CloverWorks and it was animated by Studio Trigger. The first episode of the anime came out on 13 January 2018. It was announced at Anime Expo 2017 by Trigger. There was also a manga that was drawn by Kentaro Yabuki.
When the anime came out, it began being distributed across the world. Crunchyroll distributed the anime across the world and Aniplus Asia distributed it in Southeast Asia. Funimation released a version of the series that was dubbed (using a language that is not Japanese, like English).
Plot
This story focuses on a team of ten parasites part of "Squad 13". Squad 13 is part of an experimental group in Plantation 13. One of them can't be with his partner and he failed the training program. His name is Hiro. He meets Zero Two when his class is doing their graduation ceremony. She is a Franxx pilot that has klaxosaur blood and red horns. She is well known as the "Partner Killer" because many of her partners die. After Zero Two's partner is killed by a klaxosaur, Hiro volunteers to become her new partner.
The rest of the story focuses on Squad 13 fighting the klaxosaurs and the relationship between the Parasites in Squad 13. It also focuses on the relationship between Zero Two and Hiro. During the rest of the story, many romantic relationships are started between the characters. Near the end of the story, APE abandons the Parasites. This makes the Parasites begin dying. Zero Two and Hiro eventually go up into space to fight aliens called VIRM. They die in space. The story ends with the Parasites starting families and helping make the Earth back to what it was before. Zero Two and Hiro reincarnate as two children who meet each other.
Mazsalaca
Mazsalaca is a town in Latvia with town rights since 1928.
Darling in the Franxx
Anime
The anime television series is 24 episodes long. The director is Atsushi Nishigori. Nishigori and Naotaka Hayashi helped create the series. Masayoshi Tanaka thought of how the characters should look. Asami Tachibana made the music. The theme song for the anime is called "Kiss of Death". Mika Nakashima sung it and Hyde made the music. The songs that played at the end of each episode were sung by XX:me (Kiss Me). XX:me is a group of the voice actors for the main female characters. The ending songs are "Torikago" (episode 1-6), "Manatsu no Setsuna" (episode 7), "Beautiful World" (episode 8-12, 14), "Hitori" (episode 13), "Escape" (episode 16-20), and "Darling" (episode 21-23). Crunchyroll were showing the anime on their website. Funimation was showing the English dub version.
Manga
Kentaro Yabuki drew a manga for Darling in the Franxx. The first manga book came out on 2 February 2018. The last manga book came out on 4 October 2018. A four panel comic strip manga was created by Mato. It was posted to Shōnen Jump+. All of the comic strips were put into one book. The book came out on 4 October 2018.
The manga by Yabuki has sold 400 000 copies in Japan. This was in May 2018.
Music
The music for the anime was made by Asami Tachibana. Aniplex released the music. The first part of the soundtrack had 21 songs. It came with the first home video of the anime on 25 April 2018. The second part of the soundtrack also had 21 songs. It came with the fourth home video of the anime on 25 July 2018. The third part of the soundtrack had 22 songs. It came with the fifth home video of the anime on 29 August 2018.
Reactions
Many people said that Darling in the Franxx was a good anime. Many of them focused on the coming-of-age parts of the story. Cactus Matt, a reviewer for Anime Q and A thought the anime was very enjoyable. He said that it was a "beautiful way to end this series." He also said that the theme of hope for the future was a good part of the ending. Nate Zen, a reviewer for OtakuKart said that the animation was very good. He also said that the characters were good. He said that the series was not very creative.
Awards and prizes
The anime won many awards. It was also nominated for many other awards. Darling in the Franxx won "Best Sci-Fi or Mecha" and "Best Action or Adventure" from Anime Trending's Winter 2018 Anime Awards. Zero Two also won an award for the "Favourite Female Character". At the Newtype Anime Awards 2018, Shigeto Koyama won the "Best Mechanical Design" award.
Shane Brennan
Shane Brennan is an Australian–American television writer and producer known as the executive producer of the American CBS drama NCIS: Los Angeles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born October 22, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mitchell Pritchett in the ABC mockumentary sitcom Modern Family from 2009-2020. He has also had roles in the CBS sitcom The Class, the ABC comedy Ugly Betty and the 2016 animated movie Ice Age: Collision Course.
Ferguson was born in Missoula, Montana. He is openly gay, and married his husband Justin Mikita in 2013.
Magalia, California
Magalia (formerly Butte Mills and Dogtown) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, California.
S/2004 S 3
S/2004 S 3 is the designation of an object seen orbiting Saturn just beyond the farther part of the F ring on 21 June, 2004. It was first seen by Carl Murray of the Cassini Imaging Science Team in pictures taken by the Cassini-Huygens probe on June 21, 2004, and announced on September 9, 2004.
Even though later astronomers tried to find it again, it has not been reliably seen since. Notably, an imaging sequence covering an entire orbital period at 4 km resolution taken on 15 November, 2004 failed to find the object. This suggests that it was a clump of material that had disappeared by that time.
Another object, S/2004 S 4, was seen nearby 5 hours later, but this time just inside the F Ring. Because of the different location of the second object, it was given a fresh designation, although their interpretation as a single object on a F-ring crossing orbit is also possible. Such an object might also be orbiting at a bit different inclination to the F ring, thereby not actually passing through the ring material even though it was being seen both radially inward and outward of it.
Shah Ahmad Shafi
Shah Ahmad Shafi (শাহ আহমদ শফী) (1916 – 18 September 2020) was a Bangladeshi educator. He was the chief of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh. He was rector of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Hathazari from 1986 until his death and also the chairman of Bangladesh Qawmi Madrasah Education Board. He was born in Rangunia, Chittagong.
Shafi died on 18 September 2020 from a heart attack caused by diabetes in Dhaka, aged 104.
Woodson, Arkansas
Woodson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 403 at the 2010 census.
Woodson is found at 34.53096°N, -92.21451°W.
Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was one of the preeminent futurists of the second half of the twentieth century. His theories helped to develop the nuclear strategy of the United States.
Career
Kahn, a man of "captivating personality and large intellectual gifts", worked for the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, as a military strategist (1948–1958). He was a founder of the Hudson Institute think tank. This gives ideas and consultations for the U.S. government and military chiefs, and for business clients.
He was known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability. His key idea was that the threat of nuclear war could be controlled by the use of carefully graded deterrence. In order to get his ideas across he ran two-day seminars which included role-playing in various scenarios. His ideas, when published in On Thermonuclear War, caused a sensation.
However, responses must be proportionate, because if one threatened all-out war as a response for some rather modest misbehaviour, then the threat was simply not believable, and would not work. The need to think things through in detail was the topic of his second book, Thinking about the Unthinkable.
Kahn was less successful later in his career when he turned his attention to general economics and politics. His ideas on Japan seemed good at the time, but now seem to be not quite right. He predicted that Japan would become the world's third superstate and a military superpower. This he based on Japan's record after 1946, which was spectacular, with quality production and undercutting markets in the older economies. As it turned out, Japan's economy stalled in the 1980s, and has never recovered its previous growth rate. The role he predicted for Japan is now filled by China, a country with a huge reserve of poorly-paid workers and significant military forces. However, Japan has the second largest economy in the region, and now has good relations with the U.S.A.
Publications
Works written by Kahn include:
LNWR electric units
During 1909-1922, the London and North Western Railway embarked on a large-scale project to electrify their whole London inner-suburban network, encompassing the lines from London Euston to Watford and the North London Railway from London Broad Street to Richmond. This also included branch lines such as Watford to Croxley Green (where a depot was built to house the electric units), and links to what was to become the London Underground network. For this reason, the lines were electrified using the fourth rail 630V DC system, the electricity being generated at the LNWR's own power station in Stonebridge Park. The first electric passenger trains ran in 1914, limited to the West London line route (Willesden to Earls Court), and full services over the whole network did not begin until 1922, work having been delayed by the First World War. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway extended the network in 1927 by electrifying the branch to Rickmansworth.
Dobruja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (Добруджа or Dobrudža; Dobrogea, or ; Dobruca) is a region between Bulgaria and Romania. It is be found between the Danube and the Black Sea. It is divided between Northern Dobruja in Romania and Southern Dobruja in Bulgaria.
The Romanian part of Dobruja, Dobrogea, is made up of the counties of Constanţa and Tulcea. The Bulgarian part of Dobruja, Dobrudzha, is made up of the provinces of Dobrich and Silistra.
Major cities in Dobruja include Constanța, Tulcea, Medgidia and Mangalia in the Romanian part and Dobrich and Silistra in the Bulgarian part.
Geography
Dobruja is a mainly hilly area except for the marshy Danube Delta. It has an average altitude of about 200–300 metres. Its highest point is the Țuțuiatu (Greci) Peak in the Măcin Mountains, with a height of 467 m. The Romanian part of Dobruja is covered mostly by the Dobruja Plateau. The Bulgarian part has the Ludogorie Plateau. Lake Razelm is one of the most important lakes in Northern Dobruja. Dobruja has a continental climate.
Dobruja is a windy region known for its windmills. There is wind during about 85–90% of all days. It usually comes from the north or northeast. The average wind speed is about twice higher than the average in Bulgaria.
Californication
Californication can be:
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Numbers
More than 90% of those dying had underlying illnesses or were over 60 years old. The infection rate was higher in care homes than in the community. There were large regional difference in the outbreak's severity. The outbreak in London had the highest total number and the most infections. England and Wales were the UK countries with the highest recorded death rate per head, and Northern Ireland had the lowest.
Government response before the pandemic
The Department of Health and Social Care created a public health campaign to help slow the virus's spread, and began posting daily updates in early February.
In February, the Heath Secretary, Matt Hancock, proposed the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020. Hospitals set up drive-through screening (testing for the disease). The Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, created a four-stage strategy to tackle the outbreak: contain, delay, research and mitigate (help, lessen).
Cases
First cases in the United Kingdom were on on 28 February, and by 1March there were cases in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Government response during the pandemic
The government created the Coronavirus Action Plan, and said the outbreak a "level 4 incident".
On 11 March, the outbreak was declared a pandemic. Four days later—following the outbreak in Italy,  the government said everyone should avoid all "non-essential" travel and contact with others, avoid crowds, and work from home if possible. Those with symptoms, and their household, were asked to self-isolate.
Pregnant women, the over 70s, and those with certain illnesses were asked to self-isolate for longer. Panic buying was reported.
Lockdowns
On 20 March 2020, the four governments shut all schools, restaurants, pubs, indoor entertainment venues and leisure centres, with some exceptions. On 23 March, the UK government made a lockdown on the whole population, banning all "non-essential" travel and contact with people outside one's home and shutting almost all businesses, venues, facilities, amenities and places of worship.
People were told to keep apart in public. Police were given the power to enforce the lockdown, and the Coronavirus Act 2020 gave the government emergency powers not used since the Second World War.
More lockdowns took place in October, November and December 2020. Different places had different rules. A national lockdown in England began on 5 January 2021.
Effects
It is said that the lockdown will severely damage the UK economy, lead to millions of job losses, worsen mental health and suicide rates, and cause "collateral" deaths due to isolation, delays and falling living standards.
Researchers suggest the lockdown could be lifted by shielding only the most vulnerable and using contact tracing.
Some schools stayed open to teach the children of essential workers, at-risk children, and children with special education needs. However, adults who work for disabled students' rights told Parliament that British educators had unfairly sent special education students home without good reasons.
Covid vaccine administration
Starting with the most at risk, the UK vaccinations is going in this order:
Merrick Garland
Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American federal judge and politician. Garland is the 86th and current United States Attorney General during the Joe Biden administration since 2021. He was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2013 to 2020. He was on that court from 1997 until 2021 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
In 2016, Garland was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia following his death. However, in a Republican-controlled senate, a confirmation hearing was never held and his nomination expired on January 3, 2017.
In January 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Garland to be the United States Attorney General in his cabinet. He was confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in in March 2021.
Early life
Garland was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School.
Judicial career
Garland practiced corporate litigation at Arnold & Porter and worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he played a leading role in the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers.
In 1995, Garland was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and (following a delay in Senate confirmation) took the bench in 1997. In 2009 and 2010, Garland was considered by President Barack Obama for two openings on the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court nomination
On March 16, 2016, Obama nominated Garland to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia.
Garland has more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in history. He is the oldest Supreme Court nominee since Lewis F. Powell, Jr. in 1971.
After Republicans refused to give Garland a confirmation hearing, Garland's nomination expired in January 2017 shortly before the inauguration of Donald Trump. Trump said he will announce his Justice nominee for the Supreme Court on January 31, 2017.
United States Attorney General
On January 6, 2021, then President-elect Joe Biden said that we would nominate Garland to be the United States Attorney General during his administration.
On March 1, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 15-7 to advance Garland's nomination to a full Senate vote. On March 10, the Senate confirmed Garland by a vote of 70-30 to become the next Attorney General.
Personal life
Garland married Lynn in 1977. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Californication (TV series)
Californication is an American television series. The series is shown on the Showtime television network. Californication was created by Tom Kapinos and stars David Duchovny as Hank Moody. It is about a troubled novelist who moves to Los Angeles, California. The series deals with problems with his job that cause problems with his relationships with his partner Karen (Natascha McElhone) and daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin). The series was first shown on television on August 13, 2007. Channel Five in the UK and Network Ten in Australia have bought the rights to this television series.
It was announced that after the seventh season, that Californication would end. The seventh season started airing on April 13, 2014.
The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire
The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire is a greatest hits album by R&B act Earth, Wind & Fire and was released on 30 July, 2002 through Columbia/Legacy.
Red Bull X2010
Red Bull X2010 is a fictional car in the PlayStation 3 video game Gran Turismo 5 that can go over 400 km/h, and over 6G's. It laps the Nürburgring in less than 4 minutes. Adrian Newey designed it.
First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War (中日甲午戰爭, 日清戦争; 1 August 1894–17 April 1895) was a war between the Qing Dynasty and the Empire of Japan. Finally, the Empire of Japan won the war. They signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895.
Status of Chinese Fleets
In the Beiyang Fleet, there were 25 warships. Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were the most powerful warships in the fleet. They were made in Germany. Dingyuan had 6,000 horsepower and displaced 7,670 tons loaded. Nevertheless, as Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to build a grand garden she embezzled the money originally allocated for expanding the Beiyang Fleet, the commanders did not have enough money to buy the latest weapons for the fleet. Most of the warships in the fleet were not well equipped before joining the war.
Status of Japanese Fleets
There were totally 240,616 soldiers could be mobilized in Japan before the outbreak of the war. Also, there were 32 battleships and 24 torpedo boats in the Imperial Japanese Navy. All of them had the latest, and newest weapons.
Main Battles During the War
1. Battle of the Yalu River
Jedek language
Jedek is an Aslian language from Malaysia. It is spoken by about 280 people.
Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi (12 December 1924 – 25 March 2014) was an Iranian historian and writer. He wrote over fifty non-fiction books. Most popular reads on topics such as the history of Iran. He was born in Kerman.
First Sino-Japanese War
Main Battles During the War
On 17 September 1894, the Beiyang Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy fought at the Yalu River, the border between China and Korea. In this battle, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet was Ding Ruchang, originally a cavalryman, and Sukeyuki Ito was the commander of Japanese fleet. The battle lasted 5 hours. Finally, 4 battleships of the Beiyang Fleet was destroyed and 1,000 soldiers were killed. Only 1 battleship was lost in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The commander of the Beiyang Fleet retreated to the port of Lushun.
Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi
Parizi died on 25 March 2014 in Tehran. He was 89 years old. He was outlived by his wife and children.
First Sino-Japanese War
Main Battles During the War
2. Battle of Lushunkou
On 17 September 1894, the Japanese armies occupied the fortresses with powerful cannons and cities in Lushun and Dalian. The Japanese troops entered the cities and killed 20,000 Chinese civilians within 4 days. This incident was historically called Port Arthur massacre.
3. Battle of Weihaiwei