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Shatin Pui Ying College
External competitions
Students in the school take parts in many external competitions in many fields such as music, sports, debates, writings, mathematics and other academic competitions. One of the most notable competitions is the Hang Lung Mathematics Award. The school’s HLMA team got an Honourable Mention in 2004 and a Special Commendation in 2006.
Anizy-le-Grand
Anizy-le-Grand is a new commune in the department of Aisne in the region Hauts-de-France in north France. It was created on 1 January 2019 and is made of the former communes of Anizy-le-Château, Faucoucourt and Lizy.
Shatin Pui Ying College
Student union
The Student Union was established in November 1994. Its election activity is held in November every year. It helps the school setting new school rules and improves students’ lives. It organises activities such as blood donation days and ball game competitions.
Burtenbach
Burtenbach is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Jun-ichi Nishizawa (西澤 潤一) was a Japanese engineer and inventor. He was known for his electronic inventions beginning in the 1950s, including the PIN diode, static induction transistor, and static induction thyristor. He was a professor at Sophia University. Many called him the "Father of Japanese Microelectronics".
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball
The Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team is an American college basketball team. The team plays for the University of Arkansas. The team plays in Division I of the NCAA. The team plays in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). As of 2023, the Razorbacks have been in the NCAA Final Four six times. They were in the Final Four in 1941, 1945, 1978, 1990, 1994, and 1995.
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Nishizawa died on October 21, 2018 in Sendai, Japan at the age of 92.
Knights of St. Patrick
The Knights of St. Patrick is a British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. Founded by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland in 1783. Irish-born British General Herbert Kitchener was a Knight of St. Patrick
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball
NCAA tournament results
The Razorbacks have been in the NCAA tournament 35 times. Their combined record is 50 wins and 35 losses. They were National Champions in 1994.
Shatin Pui Ying College
Student Guidance Committee
It is formed by some teachers, social worker and psychologist to teach students how to have a true value.
Careers Guidance Committee
It helps students plan for their future by giving them information about different study opportunities and the world of work.
Disciplinary Committee
Some students may be naughty, so there are some prefects catching the naughty students.
School library
The school library has over 20000 books available to students. Every year there are about 100 school librarians. The book borrowing system was changed from man power only into computer system in 2001. The location of it was moved to the new wing building of the school in 2005. It organises Reading Day every year.
Information Technology Committee
It is made up of an IT technician and some teachers. They work together to provide the up-to-date information for the use of IT in teaching and learning. It trains the teachers and maintaining computer hardware and software. It also provide some advanced computers and facilities including digital video cameras and viewers.
Extra-curricular Activities Committee
There are 5 groups of extracurricular activities, including studying, services, entertainment, sports and Christian programme. They are divided into 40 clubs and activity groups.
Civic Education Committee
It teaches the students about civic education. There are many activities for the students to join..
Religious Education Committee
It is formed by a group of Christian teachers and Christ's Harvest Church to organize some special activities, Morning Assembly and Fellowship.
Pui Ying family
The school has good relationship with Guangzhou Pui Ying, Xiguan Pui Ying, Jiangmen Pui Ying, Taishan Pui Ying and Pui Ying Secondary School. In Canada, there is a Pui Ying Christian Services Society Pui Ying Alumni Associations can be found all over the world, such as in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, South Africa, Japan, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Guangzhou, Taishan, Jiangmen and Taiwan.
Saint-Maurice-des-Noues
Saint-Maurice-des-Noues is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Bourbon Restoration in France
The Bourbon Restoration was the return of the House of Bourbon to France after the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte. It began in 1814 after Napoleon was defeated and exiled to Elba island off the coast of Italy. Louis XVIII of France, the younger brother of Louis XVI of France, was named king in 1814 by the Congress of Vienna.
After being removed by Napoleon during the Hundred Days, Louis XVIII was returned to power in 1815 and died in 1824. Louis XVIII was succeeded by his younger brother Charles X of France who ruled until he was removed in 1830 by the July Revolution.
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The F-4 Phantom II is an American fighter-bomber. It was mainly used during the Vietnam War. It was first flown in 1958 and was shown in 1960. The plane could carry four AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and four long range AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, but it did not have a gun. Later, the E model had a cannon mounted on it. After the F-15 Eagle replaced it, it was used as a bomber and the G model was used as a Wild Weasel. It is currently used by countries such as Turkey and Iran.
La Roche-en-Ardenne
La Roche-en-Ardenne is a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
In 2007, 4348 people lived there.
It is at 50° 11 North, 05° 34 East.
Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952 near Philadelphia) is a movie actress and director who was featured in many television programs in the 1980s and 1990s. She also directed them, and directed many movies.
Religious Confucianism
Religious Confucianism worships Confucius, the seventy-two disciples, Mencius, Zhu Xi, and Shangdi.
Religious Confucianism has been promoted by the government from the Han dynasty until the 1911 Revolution. The Five Classics became the foundation of the Chinese legal system, and the Spring and Autumn Courts. Religious Confucian organizations known as Confucian Churches formed in the Qing dynasty have significant popularity among Overseas Chinese people today.
La Louvière
It is at 50° 28 North, 04° 11 East.
Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län) is a county in northern Sweden, with the seat located in Luleå. It was established in 1810.
Municipalities
Norrbotten:
Swedish Lapland:
Saint-Maurice-le-Girard
Saint-Maurice-le-Girard is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth is an extreme metal band from England. Some people say the band’s musical style is black metal, others say that it is gothic metal, extreme metal, or many other different styles. Cradle of Filth had many different members. It was founded by Dani Filth in 1991. He is still the leader of the band. Cradle of Filth is very well known and has enjoyed success on TV and the radio.
Pope Benedict VIII
Pope Benedict VIII (Benedictus Octavus;  –died April 9, 1024), born Teofillato or Theophylactus, was an Italian cleric of the Roman Catholic Church and the 144th Pope from 1012 to 1024.
Early life
Teofillato was the son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum. He was the brother of Pope John XIX. He was related to Pope Sergius IV and the Conti family.
Pope
Teofillato was a layman before he was elected pope in 1012.
Benedict was supported by King Henry II of Saxony. Benedict crowned Henry Holy Roman Emperor in 1014.
George Adamski
George Adamski (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American who became known in ufology circles after he said he photographed ships from other planets, met with aliens, and took flights with them. He considered himself to be a "philosopher, teacher, student and saucer researcher."
Makoto Sakurai
Makoto Sakurai (桜井 誠) is the leader and founder of the very right-wing hate group Zaitokukai (在日特権を許さない市民の会). It is one of the largest hate groups in Japan, with over 14,000 members as of March 2014. The name means "Citizens’ League to Deny Foreigners in Japan Special Rights." As the leader, Sakurai participates in demonstrations, appears in videos, and blogs.
Sakurai was arrested for spitting on another person at a protest. The United States Department of State criticized his actions with Zaitokukai.
Takumi Oguri
Takumi Oguri (born 5 June 1987) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Honda.
An Najaf
Najaf (النجف; Transliterated: An Najaf; ) is a city in Iraq. It is about 160 km south of Baghdad. In 2008, about 900.583 people lived there. The city is the capital of Najaf province. It is one of the seven holy cities of Shi'a Islam. It is the center of Shia political power in Iraq.
James David Santini
James David Santini (August 13, 1937 – September 22, 2015) was an American politician. He served as a United States Representative from Nevada from 1975 through 1983.
An Najaf
The city is home to the Imam Ali Mosque, where Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth caliph is buried. Shia Muslims consider the mosque to be the third holiest Islamic site.
Takumi Oguri
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An Najaf
Hārūn ar-Rashīd founded the city on the site of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib's grave in the 8th century.
Najaf was badly damaged during the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War. In 1991, there was a Shiite uprising in Najaf, which was suppressed by Saddam Hussein. This conflict caused many deaths, there are mass graves around the city. In 2003, a suicide bombing caused widespread damage. 120 people died, including the moderate imam Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim.
James David Santini
Santini died on September 22, 2015, in Rockville, Maryland from esophageal cancer, aged 78.
An Najaf
In April 2004, forces of Muqtada as-Sadr captured the city, as well as the city of Kut. Before the 2004 elections, a part of the occupying forces left the city.
Mosque and seminary
This mosque is the most important Shi'a mosque in Iraq. The city is now a great center of pilgrimage from throughout the Shi'a Islamic world. It is estimated that only Mecca and Medina receive more Muslim pilgrims. Shia Islam's second most important figure is buried in Najaf. the Imam Ali Mosque is considered by Shias as the third holiest Islamic site.
The Imam Ali Mosque is housed in a grand structure with a gold gilded dome and many precious objects in the walls. Nearby is the Wadi-us-Salaam cemetery, reputed to be the largest in the world. It contains the tombs of several prophets and many of the devout from around the world aspire to be buried there, to be raised from the dead with Imām Alī on Judgement Day. Over the centuries, numerous hospices, schools, libraries and Sufi convents were built around the shrine to make the city the centre of Shīʻa learning and theology.
The Najaf seminary is one of the most important teaching centres in the Islamic world. Ayatollah Khomeini lectured there from 1964 to1978. Many of the leading figures of the new Islamic movement that emerged in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon in the 1970s studied at Najaf.
Eugene Sawyer
Eugene Sawyer (September 3, 1934 – January 19, 2008) was an American businessman and politician. He was the Mayor of Chicago from 1987 to 1989. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the second African American to be mayor of Chicago.
Sawyer was born on September 3, 1934 in Greensboro, Alabama. He studied at Alabama State University. Sawyer never married and has no children. Sawyer died on January 19, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois from a stroke, aged 73.
José Falcó Sanmartín
José Falcó Sanmartín (Barcelona, September 27, 1916 – Toulouse, May 10, 2014) was a Spanish pilot. He served as part of the Spanish Republican Air Force, who fought the Spanish Civil War, with eight official victories. He went into exile from Spain. He moved to France, a country that welcomed him and where he died.
Sanmartín died from natural causes, aged 97.
House of Savoy
The House of Savoy was the ruling dynasty of the Duchy of Savoy, then the Kingdom of Sardinia and later Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946.
The House of Savoy began in Switzerland in the Middle Ages. The Savoy rose to power in Sicily War of Spanish Succession then gave up Sicily for Sardinia in 1720 later adding Piedmont to their kingdom.
In 1792 they joined the alliance against Napoleon Bonaparte. They were defeated at first but had their kingdom restored after Napoleon was defeated.
In 1859, King Victor Emmanuel II led the unification of Italy and ruled until 1878. His grandson Victor Emmanuel III came to power in 1900 after King Umberto I was assassinated. Victor Emmanuel III was king during both World War I and World War II. He also appointed Benito Mussolini Prime Minister in 1922.
After World War II, public support for the monarchy fell and Victor Emmanuel III abdicated in 1946. His son Umberto II was king for a month before a referendum abolished the monarchy. Today the leadership of the House of Savoy is contested between Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, who is the son on Umberto II, and his cousin Prince Amedeo, Duke of Asota.
There was also a branch of the family that settled in France they were known as the Dukes of Nemours and often had close ties with the Court of Louis XIV.
Hurricane Dennis
Retirement
Because the damage was heavy the name Dennis was retired. In 2011 the name Don is on the list instead.
Metal detector
A metal detector is a tool a person can use to help find metal nearby. It is useful for finding metal within other objects, or for finding metal underground. Most metal detectors will make a sound or have a needle move on a sensor in order to show where objects are. This tells how close you are to an object - for example, by making a higher-pitched sound when you are closer to an object.
History of the metal detector
Alexander Graham Bell invented a kind of metal detector in 1881 when he was trying to find the bullet in President James Garfield's body after he had been shot. The metal detector worked but it was confused between the bullet and a coiled bed-spring on which the President lay.
Gerhard Fischer made a better version in the 1920s but the detector got confused when someone was approaching ore-bearing rocks. He was given a patent in 1925. A businessman named Shirl Herr had earlier tried to get a patent for a metal detector but was not given one until 1928.
Erin Heatherton
As of December 2013 Heatherton is ranked No. 15 on Models.com top 25 sexiest models list. In 2013 it was announced that Heatherton had signed with IMG.
Vought F-8 Crusader
The F-8 Crusader was an American fighter plane made by Vought. It first flew in 1955, and went into the Navy and Marine corps in 1957. It was the only fighter plane in the Vietnam War to have both guns and missiles on it. It was slowly replaced by the F-4 Phantom II and was retired in 1999. There was also a different type of it called the RF-8 Crusader, meant for spying. It also took the pictures of Soviet missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Audrina Patridge
Audrina Patridge (born 9 May 1985) is an American television personality and actress. She acted in several motion pictures. She is especially notable for being among the four original members of the MTV reality show The Hills.
Cadro
Cadro was a municipality of the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 14 April 2013, the former municipalities of Bogno, Cadro, Carona, Certara, Cimadera, Valcolla and Sonvico merged into the city of Lugano.
Jorge Zavala
Jorge Zavala Baquerizo (13 May 1921 – 9 May 2014) was an Ecuadorian politician. He served as the Vice President of Ecuador from 1968 to 1970 under the José María Velasco Ibarra administration. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party.
Zavala died in Guayaquil, Ecuador from natural causes, aged 92.
Campi Bisenzio
Campi Bisenzio is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
LGBT reproduction
LGBT reproduction is when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have biological kids. They do this with help from medical technology. This is different from LGBT parenting. LGBT parenting includes things like LGBT adoption. In recent years, scientists have been studying and making ways to help same-sex couples have kids..
The main ways being looked at are creating sperm from women and eggs from men. In 2004, Japanese scientists changed the job of some genes. They used two mouse eggs to make baby mice. In 2018, Chinese scientists made 29 female mice from two mother mice. But they couldn't make baby mice from two father mice. One possible way is to get sperm and eggs from skin stem cells.
Mary Berry
She has published more than 75 cookery books, including her best-selling Baking Bible in 2009. Her first book was The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970.
Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor and politician who was the Mayor of Chicago from 1871 through 1873. He left as mayor of Chicago because he was going on a tour to Europe. He left Lester L. Bond as the mayor for 3½ months.
Mary Berry
She hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry has appeared on Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She was a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme The Great British Bake Off from 2010 until 2016.
Laakdal
Laakdal is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
LGBT reproduction
Not being able to use medical technology to have kids is seen as unfair health care for LGBT people.
Laakdal
In 2007, 14998 people lived there.
Mary Berry
In 2020, Berry was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Laakdal
It is at 51° 04 North, 05° 01 East.
Joseph Medill
Medill was born on April 6, 1823 in Saint John, New Brunswick. He was never married. He had 2 children. Medill died on March 16, 1899 in San Antonia, Texas, aged 75.
Saint-Mesmin, Vendée
Saint-Mesmin is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Let It Bleed
Let It Bleed is an album by the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones are an English rock band. It is the band's eighth album in the UK and tenth album in the US. Decca Records and London Records released it in November 1969.
Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm
Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Let It Bleed
The band made the album while many things were happening. Brian Jones was using drugs. He was not helping the band make music. The band fired Jones. They replaced him with Mick Taylor. Jones is only on two songs in the album. He died around a month after he was fired. For most of the songs on the album, Keith Richards is the only guitar player.
Let It Bleed was number one on the UK Albums Chart. It was number three on the Billboard 200. The album did not have any singles that charted high. Many songs on the album were popular. Some popular songs from the album are "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want". The album was put in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.
Kappa (folklore)
The Kappa (also called Kawatarou, Kawako, Kawaranbe, Gatarō) is a character in Japanese folklore. It is water spirit (yōkai) that is responsible for mischief. The Kappa is said to be the size of a 6 to 10-year-old boy. It has the body of a tortoise and an ape-like head. The most notable thing about its body is a hole in its head that holds the kappa's strength giving water. They are said to live off of blood and to drain the life out of people. They are known for innocent pranks such as theft, but it is also said that they will rape women and eat children. The only things kappas enjoy more than children are cucumbers. To write a name on a cucumber and to throw it into a river is said to save that person from being eaten by the kappa.
Bowser (known as "Kuppa" in Japan), the main antagonist of the popular Nintendo's Mario videogame series, was based on the creature.
Deisenhausen
Deisenhausen is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian recording artist and actor. He was best known as being one of the founding members and lead singer of the rock band INXS.
Hutchence was also the lead singer for the band Max Q and acted in the movies Frankenstein Unbound and Dogs in Space.
In 1992, Hutchence was punched by a taxi driver in Copenhagen, knocking him to the ground. This caused Hutchence brain damage and depression.
In July 1996, Paula Yates gave birth to their daughter.
Kimitoshi Nōgawa
Kimitoshi Nōgawa (born 6 February 1984) is a Japanese football player.
Michael Hutchence
Hutchence was found dead by a hotel maid in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney on 22 November 1997. He committed suicide by hanging himself with his snake skin belt. Hutchence had been a drug user and was using drugs just before his death.
Cerreto Guidi
Cerreto Guidi is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.
LIV Swiss Watches
LIV Swiss Watches is a watch company in Miami, United States. LIV Swiss Watches' headquarters are in Miami, but most of its watches are made by hand and put together in Switzerland. It is the Swiss watch brand with the most crowdfunding support.
The watches are available worldwide. Magazines and newspapers in Switzerland, Germany, France, Japan, and other countries have written about them.
History
Esti Chazanow started LIV Swiss Watches in Miami, Florida in 2012. She wanted to build good Swiss watches that were not expensive but could also last, and so went on Kickstarter to get crowdfunding for her idea. Chazanow wanted to make LIV Swiss Watches more personalized too, instead of mass producing it. Some other crowdfunded watch brands are Sequent SuperCharger and Laventure Marine.
LIV Swiss Watches has also supported and worked with Taylor Eisenhart since 2019. In 2018, LIV Watches gave the winners of the F1600 Championship Series with custom GX1-A Swiss watches.
Watches
Another model launched in 2016 is the GX Base. Later in 2017, the next LIV model, called Rebel, was also funded within 12 hours, receiving more than $1.7 million from over 2,900 people. The GX1-A was also launched in 2017. It has a luminescent (light-making) feature called Super-LumiNova. In 2018, the Titanium Ceramic Chrono watch was launched and funded.
Other models include the GX1 Panda (for sportswear), GMT Cobalt, GX-AC, GX1, and many others.
There are also many limited edition watches and collections. Some of them are specialized watches for divers, pilots,  and other watches for specific uses and groups of people.
Winter storm
Winter storms or snowstorms happen when warm, wet air meets with cold air. The warm, wet air mass and the cold air mass can each be 1000 km or more in diameter. Snowstorms affecting Northeastern United States often get their moisture from air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air from air masses coming down from the Arctic. In the Northwest United States warm, wet air from the Pacific Ocean cools when it is pushed upward by the mountains. Many different things can affect the direction of movement, moisture content and temperature of air masses. All of these differences affect the type and severity of the snowstorm.
Communes of the Gers department
The following is a list of communes in the Gers department of France, in order by letter:
Winter storm
History
Lots of popular winter storms are part of North America's history. In 1846 the Donner Party traveled away by covered wagons from Illinois headed for Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, California. As an answer of bad decisions and slow going, they tried to go across the big Sierra Nevada Mountains in the late October. Usually, California is still warm at that time of the year. As the party crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they did not see any snow and was not worried. However, after they left, a huge snowstorm hit. The party was forced to camp near Truckee, California. The snow was so deep that the wagon wheels became stuck, so they could not move anyplace. They tried to wait the storm out, but when one blizzard ended, another began immediately before they had time to escape. Their food became short, so some of the people decided to hike out and find help rather than to starve to death. Most of them died in the freezing weather, and many of those who stayed behind in the camp survived. Of the 87 people who started in Illinois, only 47 lived.
Saint-Michel-Mont-Mercure
Saint-Michel-Mont-Mercure is a former commune. It is in Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in west France. On 1 January 2016, it became a part of the new commune of Sèvremont.
Deep Cover
Deep Cover is a 1992 crime-thriller movie produced by New Line Cinema and released to movie theaters by Warner Bros. This is about a Cincinnati police officer who goes undercover in Los Angeles to try to catch a criminal. Laurence Fishburne plays Russell.
The movie got positive reviews from the critics. It was released in April 1992.
Saint-Michel-le-Cloucq
Saint-Michel-le-Cloucq is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa
Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa Sánchez (1940 – 23 September 2015) was a Spanish theatre director, writer, actor and lecturer. He won the 2000 Goya Award for Best New Actor for his performance as Vecino.
Jämtland County
Jämtland County (Jämtlands län) is a county in northern Sweden, with the seat located in Östersund. It was established in 1810.
Saint-Paul-en-Pareds
Saint-Paul-en-Pareds is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Dürrlauingen
Dürrlauingen is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is a Jewish festival. It is also known as the Day of Atonement. It lasts 25 hours. During this period, Jews ask God to forgive them for all their sins. People fast on this day, and they go to synagogue. Other things people are not allowed to do during Yom Kippur include washing, using perfumes and lotions. Many wear white as a symbol of purity. Even though people fast, Yom Kippur is considered a happy holiday. This is because Jews are sure that God will forgive them on this day.
Yom Kippur is the tenth day of the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar. In Jewish tradition, God writes the fate of each person for the coming year into a "book" on Rosh Hashanah. God waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the book. During the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews try to improve their behavior. They ask God to forgive them for sins against God. They also ask each other to forgive them for anything they did to hurt each other. The evening and day of Yom Kippur are used for public and private confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of Yom Kippur, Jews consider themselves absolved by God.
The Yom Kippur prayer service includes several special parts. One of them is the number of prayer services. A regular day has three prayer services (Ma'ariv, the evening prayer; Shacharit, the morning prayer; and Mincha, the afternoon prayer). A Shabbat or major Jewish holiday has four prayer services (these three plus Musaf, the additional prayer). Yom Kippur has a fifth prayer service: Ne'ilah, the closing prayer. All five prayer services include a public confession of sins (Vidui). The additional (Musaf) prayer includes a prayer dedicated to the special Yom Kippur avodah (service) of the High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem.
Yom Kippur is one of the holiest of Jewish holidays. It is observed by many Jews who do not observe other holidays. More people come to synagogue on Yom Kippur than on any other day of the year.
Australia men's national para ice hockey team
The Australian men's para ice hockey team (also known as Aussie Ice Roos) is the ice sledge hockey team representing Australia. The team will make it's debut at the 2018 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in Pool C in Finland.
Lanaken
Lanaken is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. In 2007 there were 24,724 people living in Lanaken. It is at 50° 53 North, 05° 39 East.
Scarperia e San Piero
Scarperia e San Piero is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. It was created on 1 January 2014 from the former municipalities of Scarperia and San Piero a Sieve.
Black dwarf
A black dwarf is a kind of star. A black dwarf is made when a white dwarf star becomes too cold. When it is cold enough, it can no longer make large amounts of heat and light. The star will get darker and become black. Scientists are not certain if black dwarfs can exist because it takes longer than the age of the universe (13.8 billion years) for a white dwarf to become one.
Big Blue Bubble
Big Blue Bubble, Inc. is a video game company, which is based in Canada, which has also developed more than 100 games. It's headquarters are in London, Ontario, and it was started in 2004. It's most popular game, and what it is most known for is My Singing Monsters. On just the Google Play store alone, My Singing Monsters has gained more than 10 Million downloads.
Beginning (2004-2009)
Big Blue Bubble was began in 2004 by Damir Slogar, as well as with Renata Slogar. They got their start by making casual, and mobile games.
2010 - 2011
After moving away from making mobile games, they returned to doing so. They based mobile games off of a freemium strategy. This return to mobile caused Big Blue Bubble to focus more on older mobile games they made in the past.
2012 - Present
My Singing Monsters is released in September of 2012. My Singing Monsters was perceived well, and became one of Big Blue Bubble's most popular games.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (नथुराम गोडसे, May 19, 1910 – November 15, 1949) was the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
Big Blue Bubble
2012 - Present
In August - September of 2020, the Swedish company EG7 (Enad Global 7), bought Big Blue Bubble for $16 Million Canadian Dollars.
Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse was born at Baramati, Pune District, British India. His father was Vinayak Vaman Rao Godse, his mother was Lakshmi (Godavari before marriage). His father was a fifteen-rupee-a-month employee of the post office.
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Nathuram Godse
Motive
The immediate motive for the assassination is usually ascribed to Gandhi's January 13, 1948 decision to fast to the death unless the Indian central government reversed a decision to withhold the transfer of 55 crore (550 million) rupees to the government of Pakistan. The transfer had been specified in the partition agreement, but the Indian government had refused to complete it, complaining of continued Pakistani rebel occupation of disputed parts of Kashmir.
The Indian government immediately reversed its decision to withhold the funds, which infuriated Godse and his fellow Hindu nationals.
Attack
Godse assassinated Gandhi on January 30, 1948, approaching him during the evening prayer, bowing, and shot him three times at close range. Godse was convicted of murdering Gandhi, for which he was executed by hanging.
Laarne
Laarne is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders. In 2007, 11,768 people lived there. It is at 51° 01 North, 03° 51 East.
Paul Smith (fashion designer)
Sir Paul Smith (born 5 July 1946) is a British fashion designer. He is known for his designs for men's clothing.
Smith was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine
Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit
Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Scarperia
Scarperia was a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. On 1 January 2014, the former municipalities of Scarperia and San Piero a Sieve merged to form the new municipality of Scarperia e San Piero.
Ebershausen
Ebershausen is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Zdeno Chára
Zdeno Chára (born March 18, 1977 in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played a total of 24 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins, and Washington Capitals. He served as the captain of the Bruins from 2006 until 2020. Chára played hockey in the WHL for 1 season with the Prince George Cougars. He is the tallest player ever to play in the NHL, measuring in at 6 ft 9 (2.06 m).
On March 8, 2011, He was involved in an on-ice incident when he hit Montreal Canadiens player Max Pacioretty into the stanchion at the end of the bench in the boards. Pacioretty had to be taken off the ice on a stretcher and he suffered a severe concussion and a non-displaced fracture to the 4th vertebra. Chara received a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct. The NHL VP of hockey operations Mike Murphy decided that no further punishment was going to be warranted. Despite this a criminal investigation was announced by the Montreal police
On September 20, 2022, Chára announced that he was retiring from professional hockey. He retired as a member of the Bruins after signing a one-day contract with them.
Chára is married to his wife Tatiana Biskupicová and they have one daughter named Elliz Victoria Chára.
San Piero a Sieve
San Piero a Sieve was a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. On 1 January 2014, the former municipalities of Scarperia and San Piero a Sieve merged to form the new municipality of Scarperia e San Piero.
Les Terres-de-Chaux
Geography
The commune is 12 km northeast of Saint-Hippolyte.
Alson Sherman
Alson Sherman (April 21, 1811 – September 27, 1903) was an American politician from Chicago who was the Mayor of Chicago from 1844 through 1845.
Sherman was married to April 21, 1811 in Barre, Vermont. He was married to Aurora Abbott from 1833 until her death in 1883. They had 14 children. Sherman died on September 27, 1903 in Waukegan, Illinois, aged 92.
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County (Gävleborgs län) is a county in northern Sweden, with the seat located in Gävle. It was established in 1762.
Stubbs (cat)
Stubbs (April 12, 1997 – July 21, 2017) was an American cat who was the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska from July 1997 until his death in July 2017. Until early 2017, Stubbs was still mayor, and has been described as a tourist attraction.
At least one opinion writer for the Alaska Dispatch News insisted that the whole story was false, and that Talkeetna, Alaska, did not, in fact, have a cat mayor. According to NPR, the cat could not have been elected as a write-in candidate because "the tiny town has no real mayor, so there was no election."
Stubbs died on July 21, 2017 in Talkeetna at the age of 20 years.
Calpiogna
Calpiogna is a municipality of the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 1 April 2012, the former municipalities of Anzonico, Calpiogna, Campello, Cavagnago, Chironico, Mairengo and Osco merged to form the municipality of Faido.
Emil Hamilton
Professor Emil Hamilton or Ruina is a fictional Superman character. He is mostly a mad scientist who is a threat to the world. He is smart and has a suit that learned all of Superman's weaknesses and abilities so that he could copy them.
He will be played by actor Richard Schiff in the 2013 movie Man of Steel. He was voiced by Victor Brandt in Superman: The Animated Series.
Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances was the sixth tropical storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Frances was one of the four hurricanes to have a major impact of the U.S. state of Florida in 2004. Frances made landfall near the same location Hurricane Jeanne would make landfall in about two weeks later. Frances caused about 101 tornadoes from Florida to Virginia. Frances left 49 deaths and $12 billion in damage.
Barberino Val d'Elsa
Barberino Val d'Elsa was a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. On 1 January 2019, the former municipalities of Barberino Val d'Elsa and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa merged to form the new municipality of Barberino Tavarnelle.
Hurricane Frances
Retirement
Because of the damage it caused in the United States, the name Frances was retired in the spring of 2005 by the World Meteorological Organization, and will never again be used for an Atlantic hurricane. In 2010 the name Fiona is on the list instead.
Landen
Landen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
In 2007, 14876 people lived there.
Tommy Steele
Sir Thomas Hicks, (born 17 December 1936), known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English rock singer, guitarist and actor. He was born in London. He reached number one with "Singing the Blues" in 1957.
Landen
It is at 50° 45 North, 05° 04 East.
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (グランツーリスモ3: A-spec) is a 2001 racing game. It was the first Gran Turismo game that was released for the PlayStation 2. It was revealed as Gran Turismo 2000 in E3 2000. This version of the game is extremely rare, and few copies of it exist.
Reviews
The game got very good reviews, with a 95/100 on Metacritic. IGN also gave it a 9.8/10.
2013 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
2013 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was held in China from 26 September to 6 October.
Deaths in April 2015
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".
Semi-dome
A semi-dome(also called a "half-dome") is the term in architecture for half a dome. It is used to cover a semi-circular area, usually an apse. A semi-dome was often used at each end of a barrel vaulted ceiling.
History
An early use was to cover Roman cult images. They are a feature found in Ancient Roman and traditional church architecture. The semi-dome is featured in Byzantine architecture and Early Christian architecture. They are prominent in mosques and iwans in Islamic architecture. Some mosques featured semi-domes decorated with glass mosaics. In the second half of the 6th century Ottoman architecture began using half-domes combined with domes. Semi-domes were common in Roman baths, palaces and large buildings. During the Dark Ages in Britain whenever an apse was built, a semi-dome covered it. In 11th century Normandy every apse of every church had a semi-dome over it. The semi-dome went out of use when the east end of churches were squared.
Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin
Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
U.S. Route 41
U.S. Route 41, or U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), is a north–south United States highway that goes from Miami, Florida to just east of Copper Harbor, Michigan. The highway is 2008 mi long.
Ellzee
Ellzee is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany.
Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux, Vendée
Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock that developed from limestone. Most of the material is calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3) and dolomite. It is often used for sculpture, as a building material, and for many other purposes.
The word 'marble' is also used for other stones that can be polished well and for ball shaped objects used for child games.
'Faux marble' is a wall painting technique that imitates the color patterns of real marble (not to be confused with paper marbling). Marble dust can be combined with cement or synthetic resins to make reconstituted or cultured marble.
Marble has been used in construction for thousands of years. It was widely used by Greek and Roman sculptors and architects. Places named after the stone include Marble Arch, London; the Sea of Marmara; India's Marble Rocks; and the towns of Marble, Minnesota; Marble, Colorado; and Marble Hill, Manhattan, New York. The Elgin Marbles are marble sculptures from the Parthenon that are on display in the British Museum. They were brought to Britain by the Earl of Elgin.
Construction marble
In the construction trade, the term "marble" is used for any massive, crystalline calcitic rock (and some non-calcitic rocks) useful as building stone.
Examples
Purbeck marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It has been quarried since at least Roman times as a decorative building stone. The industry is no longer active.
Tennessee marble is really a massive, highly fossiliferous gray to pink to maroon Ordovician dolostone, known as the Holston Formation by geologists. "Tennessee marble" is not true marble. Its crystalline nature gives it a resemblance to marble, especially when polished.
Carrara marble is a genuine marble. It is white or blue-grey and of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried at the city of Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy. The illustration shows the Pietà, which is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo. It is in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, and is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
Industrial use of marble
Colorless marbles are a very pure source of calcium carbonate, which is used in a wide variety of industries. Finely ground marble powder is a component in paint, toothpaste, and plastics; calcium carbonate can also be reduced under high heat to calcium oxide (also known as "quicklime"), which has many uses including being a primary component of most cements.
Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
Tavarnelle Val di Pesa was a comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. On 1 January 2019, the former municipalities of Barberino Val d'Elsa and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa merged to form the new municipality of Barberino Tavarnelle.
2016 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The 2016 United States presidential election in New Jersey was held on 8 November 2016. It was part of the 2016 United States presidential election, in which all other states plus the District of Columbia voted.
On 7 June 2016, the state also voted for who they wanted to be the nominee of their respective parties.
Polling
Below is a table with the polling results in New Jersey. New Jersey has voted Democrat in every general election since 1992.
Democratic
The Democratic caucus occurred on 7 June 2016.
Republican
The Republican caucus occurred on 7 June 2016.
John Playfair
John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10 March 1748 – 20 July 1819) was a Scottish scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
He is perhaps best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism first reached a wide audience. The idea was later taken up by Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Playfair is also remembered for his proposal of an alternative to Euclid's parallel postulate.
Weather map
A weather map is a tool. It shows facts about the weather quickly. Weather maps have been used from the mid-19th century, for study and for weather forecasting. Some maps show differences of temperature, and weather fronts.
František Ševčík
František Ševčík (January 11, 1942 – July 22, 2017) was a Czech ice hockey player. He played for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. He was born in Vilémovice, Bohemia and Moravia, Nazi Germany.
Weather map
A station model is a symbolic picture showing the weather at a reporting station. Meteorologists made the station model to put down many weather elements in a small space on weather maps. Maps thickly filled with station-model plots can be hard to read. However, they help meteorologists, pilots, and mariners to see important weather patterns. A computer draws a station model for every place of observation. The station model is mostly used for surface-weather maps. It can also be used to show the weather in the sky, though. A complete station-model map lets people study patterns in air pressure, temperature, wind, cloud cover, and precipitation.
František Ševčík
Ševčík died in Prague, Czech Republic on July 22, 2017 from complications of spinal cancer at the age of 75.
Lasne
Lasne is a municipality in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.
In 2007, 13994 people lived there.
It is at 50° 41 North, 04° 29 East.
Weather map
History
People first began using weather charts in a modern way in the mid-19th century. They began using them to make a theory about storm systems. When a telegraph network developed by 1845, it was possible for people to collect information about the weather. They could get the information from many different places far away quickly enough for the information to be useful. In the 1840s, Joseph Henry took charge. He helped the Smithsonian Institution focus most of its observers on the center and the eastern part of the United States during the 1840s and 1860s. The U.S. Army Signal Corps kept up this network between 1870 and 1874 by an act of Congress. It later expanded to the Western United States.
At first, all the data on the map was not taken from these analyses. This was because there was not enough time standardization. People first tried to standardize time in Great Britain in 1855. The entire United States was not influenced by time zones (areas with different times) until 1906. This was when Detroit had made the standard time at last. Over all the earth, other countries began taking weather observations at the same time. This started in 1873.
Patent troll
A patent troll is an unkind phrase used to describe a company or person that owns a patent and tries to get other people to pay a lot of money for the right to use the patent. The patent troll usually asks for an amount of money that is less than defending a lawsuit.
Artyom Tarasov
Artem or Artyom Mikhaylovich Tarasov (Артём Миха́йлович Тара́сов; July 4, 1950 — July 22, 2017) was a Russian businessman and political activist of Armenian descent. He was born in Moscow. In 1989 Tarasov became the first officially declared millionaire in the USSR. Tarasov is the co-founder of Kommersant daily newspaper, the first independent airline, Transaero, and was elected to the Russian parliament.
Patent troll
A patent troll is different from other patent owners for two reasons. First, the patent troll usually does not make or sell any products itself. Second, a patent troll is also not usually the inventor. The patent troll instead buys the patent from other companies, and, usually, very cheap because the other company was going out of business.