cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
King Fahd Mosque, Culver City
Sheikh Al - Islam Ibn Taymiyah Foundation
The foundation supervises "Zamzam Schools" for girls' education and the memorization of the Qur'an.
Newhalen, Alaska
Newhalen is a city in Alaska. According to the 2000 census, there are 160 people living in Newhalen.
Cedarville, Arkansas
Cedarville is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
Arrondissement of Cahors
The arrondissement of Cahors is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Lot département in the Occitanie region. Its capital, and of the department, is the city of Cahors.
History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Cahors was one of them in the Lot department.
Geography
It is the westernmost and southernmost of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 2179.3 km2, the largest in area of the department. It is the most populated arrondissement with 76,216 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement is bordered to the northwest by the Dordogne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) department, to the north by the arrondissement of Gourdon, to the northeast by the arrondissement of Figeac, to the east by the Aveyron (Occitanie) department, to the south by the Tarn-et-Garonne (Occitanie) department, to the west by the Lot-et-Garonne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) department.
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Cahors, there is only three cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement; the other six cantons are completely within the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The arrondissement of Cahors has 129 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The communes with more of 1,000 inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Montaione
Montaione is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
Gameplay
Gameplay is the way players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. It is the connection between the game rules, challenges and overcoming them and the plot. Video game gameplay is how attracting the graphics and audio are to the player.
Närke
Närke is a historical province in central Sweden. The older spellning, Nerike, is still around in the name of local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda.
Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz (יהושע קנז) ( 2 March 1937 – 12 October 2020) was an Israeli novelist. He was born in Petah Tikva, in the British Mandate of Palestine.
He translated many French classics into Hebrew, and worked on the editorial staff of the Ha'aretz newspaper.
In 2007, Infiltration was named one of the ten most important books in Israeli history.
Kenaz died on 12 October 2020 in Jerusalem from COVID-19 at the age of 83.
Demeter Bitenc
Bitenc best known roles are in Island of the Amazons (1960), Apache Gold (1963), Target for Killing (1966), The Seventh Continent (1966), Poppea's Hot Nights (1969), The Ravine (1969), Private Vices, Public Pleasures (1976), Cross of Iron (1977), The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980), War and Remembrance (1988), Outsider (1997) and in Long Dark Night (2004).
Bitenc died on 22 April 2018 in Ljubljana at the age of 95.
Villars, Vaucluse
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Montelupo Fiorentino
Montelupo Fiorentino is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
Misþyrming
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Nightmute, Alaska
Nightmute is a city in Alaska.
Video Relay Service
VRS or Video Relay Service is a service by which deaf people can use sign language on phone calls. In some countries it has largely replaced the use of TTY for this purpose.
VRS uses a video camera and a high-speed Internet connection, to let people call friends, family, and business associates. A deaf or hard of hearing person can use a remote control and call an interpreter. When interpreter comes on their screen, the caller can call any hearing person and have a phone conversation through the interpreter.
VRS was invented in the 1990s in Sweden. In the early 21st century it became available in the United States. A person in the United States, can make calls to, or receive calls from, anybody in the world via VRS.
Mulberry, Arkansas
Mulberry is a city in the US state of Arkansas.
List of Cuban scientists
The list of Cuban scientists include:
Eric Arturo Delvalle
Eric Arturo Delvalle Cohen-Henríquez (2 February 1937 – 2 October 2015) was a Panamanian politician and a member of the Republican Party. He served as the Vice President of Panama from 1984 until 28 September 1985. He then served as the President until 26 February 1988 under Manuel Noriega. He tried to overthrow Noriega but went into hiding and left the country.
Delvalle was born in Panama City. He was of Jewish ancestry. His uncle, Max Delvalle, was the first Jewish president in Latin America. He was married to Mariela Delvalle.
Delvalle died on 2 October 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He was 78.
Crittenden County, Arkansas
Crittenden County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,163. The county seat is Marion. It was founded on October 22, 1825.
List of Filipino scientists
The List of Filipino scientists include:
Lens (optics)
A lens is a clear (transparent) object (like glass, plastic or even a drop of water) that changes the way things look by bending the light that goes through it. They may make things appear larger, smaller, or upside-down. Some places lenses are used include spectacles (eyeglasses), contact lenses, cameras, projectors, microscopes, telescopes, magnifying glasses, etc. Each eye also has a lens.
Kevin Thorn
Kevin Matthew Fertig (born January 17, 1977) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under the ring names, Mordecai and Kevin Thorn.
Lens (optics)
They work by refraction, or the bending of light.
Kevin Thorn
Under the Mordecai name, he played a religious zealot and under his Kevin Thorn name, he played a vampire character along with his manager Ariel.
Lens (optics)
Lenses have three main shapes. Each different shape changes the image (making it bigger or smaller). The three types are:
Kevin Thorn
In January 2009, he was offered a new contract with WWE, but turned it down. WWE announced that he was released from contract by request on January 9, even though his contract did not end until April 5 which prevented him from wrestling for other promotions.
Lens (optics)
The power of a lens is the reciprocal of its focal length: P = 1/focal length.
History
The word "lens" comes from the Latin word for "lentil," because the earliest convex lenses in common use were shaped like the bean.
The oldest written record of lenses is in the ancient Greek play by Aristophanes called "Clouds", where lenses were used with sunlight to make fire.
Galileo Galilei is commonly believed to have used lenses to make the first known refracting telescope. However, he merely adapted and improved a design he learned from Dutch lensmakers such as Hans Lippershey. He was probably the first to use telescopes to make accurate astronomical observations, though.
Ilya Moiseev
Ilya Iosifovich Moiseev (Илья Иосифович Моисеев; 15 March 1929 – 11 October 2020) was a Russian chemist. He was an expert in both kinetics and the coordination chemistry of transition metals. He was known for his works in metal-complex catalysis. In 1992, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Moiseev was born in Moscow.
Jorge Zabaleta
Jorge Antonio Zabaleta Briceño  (born April 18, 1970 in Santiago) is a famous Chilean actor. He is the son of the musician Antonio Zabaleta and the nephew of Miguel Zabaleta, both members of the duo Red Juniors.
Jorge worked in Canal 13 until 2008, when he joined TVN working in Hijos del Monte.
Compurgation
Compurgation was an ancient type of defence in a legal trial. An accused person could call a number of people, usually twelve. They swore to their belief in his or her innocence.
In England, it was abolished in common law by the Constitutions of Clarendon of Henry II in 1164. The defence was still permitted in civil actions for debt. Eventually, it was entirely abolished in England in 1833.
Villedieu, Vaucluse
Villedieu is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Ilya Moiseev
Moiseev died on 11 October 2020 in Moscow, aged 91.
Ben Roberts-Smith
Benjamin Roberts-Smith is a retired Australian soldier who won a medal called the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2011, which is the highest award that any Australian military soldier can receive. He has been described as Australia's most decorated soldier.
Gorgias
Gorgias (Γοργίας, ca. 487-376 BC), Greek sophist, presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger.
His theory was subjected of critique by Plato in his work Gorgias.
Ben Roberts-Smith
Defamation
Several Australian newspapers, including The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times, claimed that Roberts-Smith had committed different war crimes. In August 2018 Roberts-Smith sued these newspapers for defamation, saying that he didn't commit the war crimes. In June 2023, Roberts-Smith lost his law suit, as he was unable to prove that defamation had occurred.
Take You Dancing
"Take You Dancing" is a 2020 song by American singer Jason Derulo. It topped the single charts in Hungary and Romania. It went to the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom and missed the top 50 in the United States.
Lauren Alaina
Lauren Alaina Kristine Suddeth (born November 8, 1994 ) is an American country singer. She placed second on the 10th season of American Idol. Her album Wildflower was released in 2011. She is from Rossville, Georgia.
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy movie directed by George Cukor and was based on the 1939 play of the same name by Philip Barry. It stars Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 2 Academy Awards in 1941. It was remade as High Society in 1956.
Palácio Quitandinha
The Palácio Quitandinha (Portuguese for "Quitandinha Palace") is a historic former luxury resort hotel, casino and convention center in Petrópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1947, the Palácio Quitandinha was the site of the Rio Treaty, attended by United States President Harry Truman.
The hotel was, for many years, probably the second most famous hotel of the country, after the Copacabana Palace hotel in Rio de Janeiro, which is only about 65 km from Petrópolis. The scenic artificial lake in front of the hotel, loosely resembling the shape of Brazil, was built as a source of water in the event of a fire.
Gallipoli (1981 movie)
Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian movie. It is directed by Peter Weir and stars Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. It is about several young men from rural Western Australia who join the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire. They take part in the Gallipoli Campaign. Over time the young men lose their innocence about the purpose of war. The climax of the movie occurs on the Anzac battlefield at Gallipoli. It shows the futile attack at the Battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915.
Palácio Quitandinha
Famous guests who stayed at the hotel included Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Lana Turner, Henry Fonda, Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo, Carmen Miranda, Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, politicians like Eva Perón and president Getúlio Vargas of Brazil and king Carol II of Romania.
The hotel eventually closed in 1962 and its rooms were sold as private residences in 1963.
Gallipoli (1981 movie)
Gallipoli is a faithful portrayal of life in Australia in the 1910s. It captures the ideals and character of the Australians who joined up to fight, as well as the conditions they endured on the battlefield. It does, however, change events for dramatic purposes. It has a number of significant historical inaccuracies.
The many running scenes in the movie are set to Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygène.
Gallipoli was successful at the box office earning $11,740,000. Gallipoli was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.
Rock ptarmigan
The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized gamebird in the grouse family. It is known simply as the ptarmigan in the UK and in Canada, where it is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, Canada, and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is known as the snow chicken in the United States. In Japan, it is known as the raichō (雷鳥), which means "thunder bird". It is the official bird of Gifu, Nagano, and Toyama Prefectures and is a protected species nationwide.
Chestnut
Chestnut is the name for a kind of tree or the nut from the tree.
Chestnut may also be: In botany:
In geography:
In zoology:
In other fields:
People with the family name Chestnut:
Swedish Lapland
Swedish Lapland (Svenska Lappland) is a historical province in northern Sweden. Once covering all of Lapland, the eastern half was lost in 1809, becoming Finnish Lapland.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. Alec Leamas is a British agent. He is sent to East Germany as a part of trick to spread lies and confusion about a powerful East German spy. In 1965 Martin Ritt directed the movie of the novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton as Leamas.
Nondalton, Alaska
Nondalton is a city in Alaska.
Casimir Oyé-Mba
Casimir Marie Ange Oyé-Mba (20 April 1942 – 16 September 2021) was a Gabonese politician. He was Governor of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) from 1978 to 1990.
Oyé-Mba was Prime Minister of Gabon from 3 May 1990 to 2 November 1994. He also was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1999, Minister of State for Planning from 1999 to 2007, and Minister of State for Mines and Oil from 2007 to 2009.
Oyé-Mba died on 16 September 2021 in Paris from COVID-19 at the age of 79.
Apokpa
An Apokpa or an Apokpi is an ancestral deity belonging to one particular clan or family, often prevailed in the Meitei religion (Sanamahism). Almost all the clans and the families of the Meitei ethnicity worship their ancestors having separate pantheons dedicated to them.
Javid Iqbal
Justice Javed Iqbal (Urdu: ‎ 5 October 1924 – 3 October 2015) was a Pakistani philosopher and senior justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was internationally known for his publications on philosophy of law and modern Islamic philosophy.
Javed began his career as an advocate in Lahore High Court, and later became a judge in 1971 and then Chief Justice of the court. He was also a judge in the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Vetus Latina
Vetus Latina is the name given to a collection of Biblical texts that were translated into Latin before the Vulgate became the standard version used in the Latin-speaking world. The texts themselves are written in Late Latin, not in Old Latin. They often use different words than the Vulgate. No complete manuscript survives, only fragments are known. Many text passages are known because Church fathers such as Augustine of Hippo cited from them.
Since the Council of Trent, held in the 16th century, the Vulgate is the official Bible translation for the Roman Catholic Church.
The Old Latin text means, "Glory [belongs] to God among the high, and peace [belongs] to men of good will on earth". The Vulgate text means "Glory [belongs] to God among the most high and peace among men of good will on earth".
Probably the best known difference between the Old Latin and the Vulgate is in the Pater Noster, where the phrase from the Vetus Latina, quotidianum panem, "daily bread", becomes supersubstantialem panem, "supersubstantial bread" in the Vulgate.
Luis Montes Mieza
Luis Montes Mieza (1949 – 19 April 2018) was a Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist. He was the Federal President of the association "Derecho a Morir Dignamente" from 2009 till his death in 2018.
Montes died on 19 April 2018, of a heart attack, while driving to Molina de Segura, Region of Murcia at the age of 68 or 69.
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American fantasy adventure horror movie. It is a sequel to 1999's The Mummy.
Serra Preta
Serra Preta is a city in the eastern state of Bahia, Brazil. 14,699 people lived here in 2020. Serra Preta is about 150 miles northwest from Bahia's capital, Salvador, and 600 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Mexican adventure drama movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1927 novel of the same name by B. Traven. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was nominated for 4 Oscars and won 3 Academy Awards in 1949.
Villes-sur-Auzon
Villes-sur-Auzon is a commune. It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Vaucluse department in the south of France.
Dastilbe
Dastilbe is a prehistoric bony fish. It could reach a length of 25-60 mm, with a maximum length of about 150 mm.
It was probably an anadromous fish, meaning it lived most of its life in the sea but swam to fresh water to spawn (reproduce). Larger individuals of this predatory fish fed on smaller fishes and probably they were cannibalistic.
2011 Estonian Census
The 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC 2011) (Rahva ja eluruumide loendus (REL 2011)). was a census that was carried out during 31 December 2011 – 31 March 2012 in Estonia by Statistics Estonia.
Slim Mahfoudh
Slim Mahfoudh (c. 1942 – 30 July 2017) was a Tunisian actor. He acted on the stage, movies, and on television series like Al Khottab Al Bab and Choufli Hal which are his best known works. He was born in Tunis, Tunisia.
Mahfoudh died of lung cancer on 30 July 2017 in Tunis at the age of 75.
Montespertoli
Montespertoli is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
2011 Estonian Census
The total actual population recorded was 1,294,455 persons.
Blekinge
Blekinge is a historical province in southern Sweden. It's famous for the Blekinge archipelago, and referred to as "Sveriges trädgård" (the "Garden of Sweden"). Once part of Denmark, it became a part of Sweden in the 17th century.
Dastilbe
It is closely related to the milkfish, Chanos chanos.
Description
Dastilbe resembled a slender palaeonisciform fish, but the "cannibal fish" wasn't part of the order Palaeonisciformes.
Cross County, Arkansas
Cross County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,833. The county seat is Wynne. It was founded on November 15, 1862.
Tyrus Wong
Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born American artist.
He was a painter, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, designer and kite maker. Wong has worked for Disney and Warner Brothers. Wong's most famous work was for the Disney animated classic, Bambi.
Light therapy
Light therapy is a treatment where the patient is exposed to light. Depression, sleeping problems, bipolar disorder and many skin conditions are treated with this therapy. The therapy consists of exposing the patient to a light source (a table lamp, for example). The light source usually emits the full spectrum of light. Sometimes, this has to be done at a specific time of day.
When it is used for skin conditions, it is usually called phototherapy. Example conditions where phototherapy is used are psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
Serbian language
Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken by Serbs, primarily in Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and some parts of neighboring countries. It is also spoken by many Serbs in diaspora, mainly in Central European countries, North America and Australia. The language is European and south Slavic. This language got a complete makeover in the mid-1800s by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić; when it was modernized from the times of Middle Ages, when "Old Serbian" was still spoken. Total number of speakers worldwide today is estimated to be more than 12 million.
Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland Oregon. Reed was begun in 1908 and had its first classes in 1911. Reed is an undergraduate school. An unusually high number of Reed's students go on to get Ph.D.s after they graduate. Reed is the only private undergraduate school to have a nuclear reactor.
Tuition at Reed is about $44,200 a year. Reed is secular, meaning the school is not part of a religion. The school does not do very many NCAA sports, and it does not have any fraternities or sororities.
Reed students are called "Reedies". Students are often called nonconformists. As a joke, some students say the motto of the school is "Communism, Atheism, Free Love".
Beyoncé discography
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Namaste
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Namaste is kind of like a praise to the person receiving the namaste.
The word's meaning is “I bow to the divine in you.” Namaste is a traditional Indian greeting of respect and thank you, with spiritual and symbolic meaning, This is more traditional to do it to your elders.
Carroll County, Indiana
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The Man from Snowy River (1982 movie)
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Both Burlinson and Thornton were in the 1988 sequel, The Man from Snowy River II.
Halland
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Graciete Santana
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Banjo-Tooie
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Thank You (Meghan Trainor album)
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Banjo-Tooie
The game was released on the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service on April 29, 2009.
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Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman
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Naval ship
A naval ship is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) used by a navy.
The Bribe
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Naval ship
Size
In weight (largest to smallest), modern naval ships are often put into different groups (called classes). The bigger ships in the list can also be classed as capital ships:
Bombay riots
Riots have occurred in Mumbai, India (then called Bombay) in December 1992 and January 1993, in which 900 people died.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Saint Michael's Mount) is an island and commune in Normandy, France. It is in the Manche department. It is located about one kilometre (1 km) from the country's northwestern coast. It is at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. It is 247 acres in size and it has a population of 44 (2009). People that live there are called the Montois.
The island has had strategic fortifications since ancient times. The name Mont-Saint-Michel comes from the monastery built there in the eighth century AD. The way in which the town is built is an example of how feudal society worked. At the top there is God, the abbey and monastery. Below this, there are the great halls, then stores and houses. At the bottom, outside the walls, there are the houses of fishermen and farmers.
Mont-Saint-Michel is one of France's most famous landmarks. The island and its bay are part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Every year, more than 3 million people visit it.
Formation
In prehistoric times, the Mont was on dry land. It is now a rocky tidal island. Sea levels became higher and erosion changed the landscape of the coast. Several layers of granite or granulite came to the surface in the bay. These layers of rock resisted the damage by the ocean better than the other rocks around them. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine (a small island just to the north), and Mont Tombe, which later became Mont-Saint-Michel. The mount has a circumference of about 960 metres (3,150 ft). It is 92 metres (301 ft) above sea level at its highest point.
Tides
The difference between the high and low water marks is about 14 m. Medieval pilgrims who crossed the flat land sometimes called the mount "St. Michael in peril of the sea". Today, it can still be dangerous for visitors who do not use the causeway. It can be a risk to walk across the sands from the opposite coast. This is because of quicksand.
Polderisation and occasional flooding have created salt marsh meadows. They are ideal for sheep. The meat has a good flavour because of the sheep's diet. The pré salé (salt meadow, in French) is home to agneaux de pré-salé (salt meadow lamb). This is made into a local specialty (a famous type of food). The local lamb is sometimes on the menus of restaurants in the area.
Tidal island
Before 2013, Mont-Saint-Michel was linked to the mainland with a tidal causeway. It was a path covered at high tide and shown at low tide. This connection changed over the centuries. The coastal flats (the sand) have been polderised to make pastureland. This means Mont-Saint-Michel became closer to the coast. The Couesnon River was canalised. This helped make the flow of water similar every time the tide rises or falls. However, it developed a silting-up of the bay. In 1879, the tidal causeway was changed into a raised, dry causeway. This stopped the tide from cleaning the silt around the mount.
On 16 June 2006, the French prime minister and regional authorities announced a €164 million project (Projet Mont-Saint-Michel). The wanted to build a hydraulic dam using the waters of the river Couesnon and of tides. This would help remove all of the silt deposited by the rising tides. It would make Mont-Saint-Michel an island again.
Pseudacris nigrita
This frog is 19 to 32 mm long from nose to rear end. It has a narrow head and body. The skin on its back is light brown or dark brown in color. It has three rows of dots or spots side to side across its back. Some frogs have a strope that goes all the way to the nose, but some do not. There are spots or stripes on all four legs. The belly is light yellow and sometimes has spots. The adult male frog has green or orange color on its throat.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Tidal island
The construction of the dam began in 2009. It was completed in 2013. The project was also to remove the causeway and its visitor car-park. The new car-park is on the mainland. It is about two kilometres (2 km) from the island. Visitors can use small shuttle buses to cross the causeway. The bridge is also open to pedestrians and vehicles without a motor.
Pseudacris nigrita
The tadpoles are 4.5 mm long when they first hatch from their eggs. They have a dark stripe on each side of the body. They can grow to 35 mm long before becoming frogs. The new frogs are between 8.5 and 10.5 mm long.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Tidal island
Architect Dietmar Feichtinger designed the bridge. It opened to the public on 22 July 2014. The bridge lets the waters go freely around the island. It makes the dam more efficient. The project cost €209 million, €45 million more than planned. President François Hollande officially opened the bridge.
Sometimes, weather conditions make the tide very high. This is called a "supertide". For example, the sea completely covered the new bridge on 21 March 2015. It was the highest sea level for at least 18 years. Many people travelled to Mont-Saint-Michel to take photos.
Pseudacris nigrita
This frog lives in or near shallow water: ponds, puddles and other bodies of water.
Mont-Saint-Michel
History
Mont-Saint-Michel was an Armorican stronghold of Gallo-Roman culture in the sixth and seventh centuries. In the seventh century, the Franks took the mount. From about the fifth to the eighth century, Mont-Saint-Michel was part of a region called Neustria. At the start of the ninth century, it was an important place in the marches of Neustria.
Before the eighth century, the island was called Mont Tombe (tumba). The Catholic Church built the first religious building in the eighth century, and the mount became Mont-Saint-Michel. According to legend, the Archangel Michael appeared in 708 to St. Aubert, the bishop of Avranches. The angel told him to build a church on the mount. Aubert didn't listen to the angel until Michael burned a hole in the bishop's skull with his finger.
The king of the Franks could not defend his kingdom against the attacks of the Vikings. The king agreed to give the Cotentin peninsula and the Avranchin, including Mont-Saint-Michel, to the Bretons in the 867 Treaty of Compiègne. For a short time, the mount belonged to the Bretons. In effect, these lands and Mont-Saint-Michel never belonged to the duchy of Brittany. They remained separate bishoprics from the newly created Breton archbishopric of Dol. When Rollo named Franco as archbishop of Rouen, the diocese of Rouen took the lands and the mount. They became part of Normandy once again, but not officially.
The mount became strategically important again in 933 when William "Long Sword" (the Duke of Normandy) annexed the Cotentin Peninsula from the weakened Dukes of Brittany. This made the mount part of Normandy officially. This is shown in the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates (helps remember) the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry shows Harold, Earl of Wessex helping two Norman knights from the quicksand around Mont-Saint-Michel during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany. Norman dukes paid for the development of the abbey in the following centuries. It became a good example of Norman architecture.
In 1067, the monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel gave its support to Duke William of Normandy in his claim to the throne of England. William gave houses and grounds on the English side of the Channel as a reward. These included a small island off the southwestern coast of Cornwall. It became a Norman priory named St Michael's Mount of Penzance. It looks similar to Mont-Saint-Michel.
During the Hundred Years' War, the English made many attacks on the island. They were not able to take it due to the abbey's very good fortifications. The English first attacked the mount in 1423, and then again in 1433. Thomas Scalles was the leader of the English army. Scalles left two wrought iron bombards when he stopped his attack. They are still there today. They are known as les Michelettes. The resistance at Mont-Saint-Michel gave hope to the French, especially Joan of Arc.
When Louis XI of France founded the Order of Saint Michael in 1469, he wanted the church of Mont-Saint-Michel to become the chapel for the Order. However, it was far from Paris so this was not possible.
The wealth and influence of the abbey helped other foundations, for example St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. However, it started to become less popular as a centre of pilgrimage due to the Reformation. At the time of the French Revolution, there were almost no monks living there. The republicans closed the abbey. It became a prison. At first, this was to hold clerical enemies of the French republic. Later, there were also important political prisoners at the mount. In 1836, famous figures, such as Victor Hugo, started a campaign to restore the mount. The prison closed in 1863, and the mount became a historic monument in 1874. Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay became UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1979. The factors for listing included cultural, historical, and architectural importance, as well as man-made and natural beauty.
Abbey design
In the 11th century, Richard II of Normandy chose an Italian architect called William de Volpiano to build the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Volpiano had already built the Abbey of Fécamp, in Normandy. He designed the Romanesque church of the abbey. He chose to place the transept crossing at the top of the mount. He also built a lot of crypts and chapels below the ground. These are to support building above, because it is very heavy. Today, Mont-Saint-Michel has a church of Romanesque style.
Charles VI added big fortifications to the abbey-mount. He also added building towers and courtyards, and he made the ramparts stronger.
Administration
The islet is part of the French commune of Mont-Saint-Michel. It is in the department of Manche, in Normandy. As of 2009, 44 people live there. The nearest large town, with a train station, is Pontorson. Mont-Saint-Michel is part of the Organization of World Heritage Cities.
Mont-Saint-Michel is also the subject of a traditional rivalry between Normans and Bretons. Bretons say that the Couesnon River marks the limit between Normandy and Brittany. It is only because the river has changed its course over the centuries that the mount is on the Norman side. This legend amuses the area's inhabitants. They state that the border is not located on the Couesnon river. They say it is on the mainland, 4 km to the west, at the foot of the solid mass of Saint-Brelade.
Population
Up to 20,000 people a day visit the city in July and August. Among the 43 inhabitants (2006), 5 were monks and 7 nuns.
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Mont-Saint-Michel
Twin towns – Sister cities
Mont-Saint-Michel has historical links with St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, UK. Edward the Confessor gave it to the Benedictines of Mont-Saint-Michel in the 11th century.
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Mont-Saint-Michel
Historical monument
61 buildings of Mont-Saint-Michel are on the list of historical monuments. They were added from 1928 to today.
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Verbal
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History
When the arrondissements were created on 17 February 1800, Figeac was one of them in the Lot department.
Geography
It is the easternmost of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 1550.3 km2, the second largest in area of the department. It has a population of 54,060 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
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Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Figeac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement; the other five cantons are completely within the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The arrondissement of Figeac has 116 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The communes with more of 1,000 inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
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Arrondissements of the Cher department
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