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RollerCoaster Tycoon
RollerCoaster Tycoon (or RCT) is a series of computer games where the user can make their own theme park. Each game in the series allows players to construct their own theme parks in an objective-based level. Players can also build their own roller coasters.
The first game was made by three people: designer and programmer Chris Sawyer, artist Simon Foster and composer Alistar Brimble. It was published by Hasbro Interactive.
The game was very popular. It was released for the PC.
Games in the series
These are the games which have been released:
RollerCoaster Tycoon
This is the original game, for the PC. It was released in 1999 There is a long list of scenarios (levels) which the user can complete. Users can also download famous theme parks from the internet. A large number of rides and shops are included with the game.
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Many of the cities in the Ruhrgebiet used to have a lot of heavy industry.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Added Attractions Pack
Also named 'Corkscrew Follies'. It was released in 1999 This game includes many more levels and some more rides and shops are added. The original game MUST be installed to be able to play this one.
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr Area is bordered by the rivers Ruhr River to the south, Rhine River to the west, and Lippe to the north. Southwest it borders the Bergisches Land.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Loopy Landscapes
This addon also includes the Added Attractions Pack. It was released in 2000 for the PC. It includes three famous theme parks: Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Alton Towers and Heide Park. It adds many more levels and rides to the game.
Ruhr Area
The area has about 5.3 million inhabitants, and is part of the larger Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area of more than 12 million people.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
The 2002 sequel to RCT was made because of the success of the first game. It had the same interface but it added a few new features: The game also added support for buildings to be made using walls to make ride entrances. It included famous Six Flags theme parks and their rides.
Ruhr Area
The Ruhr Area consists of the cities of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Bottrop, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Herne, Hamm, Hagen and Dortmund and the rural districts of Wesel, Recklinghausen, Unna and Ennepe-Ruhr
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Expansion Packs
There are two expansion packs released for RCT2. These are:
Ruhr Area
Culture
The city of Essen in the Ruhr area was selected as European Capital of Culture for 2010 by the Council of the European Union.
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Soaked!
This is the first expansion pack to be released for RCT3. It was released in 2005. The User can build water parks with different types of waterslides. He or she can also build swimming pools. A few water-themes attractions have been added as well as new shops. The number of scenarios available is doubled with this expansion pack. It also adds some new music to the game. This Expansion Pack came with the Hershey's Stormrunner and the Rollersoaker. Both based on coasters based on real coaster designs at Hershey Park somewhere in the U.S.A.
The Fireworks mode has been upgraded to a Laser and Water display feature as well. The user can now make longer shows to their music.
Wild!
This expansion pack was released in 2005. The users can now add animals to their park. A new set of animal-themed rides have been added, like the 'Insect House' and 'Elephant Ride'. The game has new music and new scenery. Also some new shops have been added. There are a lot of scenarios added as well as some jungle themed music. This expansion pack came with the Extended Coaster which is basically a dream coaster. It has the most inversion parts and also the ability to make beyond vertical drops like on SAW the ride at Thorpe Park.
Airoux
Airoux is a commune of 126 people (2007). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Luna 2
Luna 2 was the second spacecraft in Soviet Union's Luna programme to probe the Moon. Luna 2 was launched on 12 September 1959 and it crash landed on the Moon the next day. During its journey to Moon, Luna 2 confirmed the existence of solar wind. Luna 2 was the first human made object to land on a celestial body in space.
Area code 214
Area code 214 is an area code for Texas. It was one of the first area codes created in 1947. It initially covered the eastern portion of Texas but after it was split by 903 in 1990. It now covers only the Dallas portion. It was overlaid by 972 in 1996, 469 in 1999, and 945 in 2021.
Rhacophoridae
Rhacophoridae is a family of frog species. They live in tropical regions of Asia and Africa. They are commonly known as shrub frogs. Sometimes they are called '"moss frogs" or "bush frogs". Some Rhacophoridae are called "tree frogs". Among the most spectacular members of this family are numerous "flying frogs".
Most of the species are arboreal. This may include reproducing in trees. Mating frogs, while in amplexus, hold onto a branch, and beat their legs to form a foam. The eggs are laid in the foam. They are then covered with seminal fluid. Then the foam hardens into a protective casing. In some species, this is done in a large group. The foam is laid above a water source, so the tadpoles fall into the water once they hatch.
The species in this family vary in size, from 1.5 cm to 12 cm. Like other arboreal frogs, they have toe discs. This family has the Old World flying frogs, including Wallace's flying frogs (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus). These frogs have extensive webbing between their hands and feet. This lets them glide through the air.
Phylogeny
This group of frogs is related to other frogs:
Rusholme
Rusholme is an area of Manchester and a ward of the city council, two miles south of the city centre. 13,643 people lived there at the 2011 census. Rusholme is next to Chorlton-on-Medlock to the north, Longsight to the east, Fallowfield to the south and Moss Side to the west. There are several student halls and many students renting terraced houses.
Platt Fields Park is a large public park in the south-west with a lake. It opened in 1910. Wilmslow Road runs through the area. It is said to be the busiest bus route in Europe, going to the universities and the city centre. Part of the road is called the Curry Mile. There are at least 70 restaurants, takeaways and kebab houses mostly from South Asia and the Middle East.
Richard Cobden lived there.
Big Yellow Taxi
"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970. It was originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 14) as well as Australia (No. 6) and the United Kingdom (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the United States in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24.
Alma Muriel
Alma Muriel (20 October 1951 – 5 January 2014) was a Mexican actress. She was known for playing villain roles on telenovelas.
Muriel died from a heart attack on 5 January 2014 at her apartment in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo. She was aged 62.
Connie Britton
Constance Elaine "Connie" Britton (born March 6, 1967) is an American movie, stage and television actress. She was nominated three times for Emmy Awards On television, she is well known for her roles as Nikki Faber on Spin City (1988–1991), (1996-2000), Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights (2006-2011), as Vivien Harmon on American Horror Story (2011) and as Rayna James on Nashville.
Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer known for discovering Pluto in 1930.
Biography
Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh planned to attend college. After a hailstorm ruined his family's farm crops, he no longer had money for the expense of college.
After he discovered Pluto, he went to college at the University of Kansas and graduated with two degrees in astronomy.
All I Ever Wanted
All I Ever Wanted can mean different things.
William Orpen
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE RA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish portrait painter, who worked mainly in London. He was an official war artist during World War I.
Credit card
A credit card is a card which allows people to buy items without cash. Each card has a unique number. Using this number, plus other details on the card (such as the validity date, or a code), the client can buy goods or services. The issuer of the card automatically transfers the money to the seller. The person using the card gets a credit. The customer has a certain amount of time to pay the credit card bill. If the bill is left unpaid for some time, the customer will have to pay interest for the amount that is left unpaid. Payment using a credit card is one of the most common methods of electronic payment. A debit card similarly allows paying without cash, but it pays with money in the user's bank account.
William Orpen
Most of these works, 138 in all, he gave to the British Government. They have simple white frames and are kept together in the Imperial War Museum in London. For his war work, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1918 King's birthday honours list.
Credit card
Credit cards are usually small plastic cards with a unique number attached to an account. Most are magnetic stripe cards and many have an EMV chip for use by card readers.
William Orpen
Otherwise, Orpen was seen at his best in personal family portraits.
Credit card
Paying with a credit card means you borrow the money and must pay it back in a specified time. Users who fail to pay in time may have to pay much more.
Ann Katharine Mitchell
Ann Katharine Mitchell (' Williamson'''; 19 November 1922 – 11 May 2020) was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist. She was born in Oxford.
Mitchell worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. After the war, she became a marriage guidance counsellor, then studied for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Mitchell died on 11 May 2020, aged 97, in Edinburgh of COVID-19.
An Shigao
An Shigao lived from 148-180 CE. He was a Buddhist. And he helped translate Indian Buddhist texts into Chinese. According to legend, he was a prince of Parthia (modern Iran). He gave up being a prince to become a Buddhist missionary monk in China.
Kalman filter
The Kalman filter is an algorithm (a step-by-step process) that helps people remove errors from numbers. It is named for Rudolf E. Kálmán, a mathematician who helped to make it.
Science can use the Kalman filter in many ways. One important use is steering airplanes and space ships. People also use the Kalman filter to make a model of how humans use nerves and muscles to move their bodies.
The Kalman filter has two steps. The first step is predicting (trying to say what you think will happen). The Kalman filter makes a first guess about what we think is true (an estimate) and how certain we are that it is true (uncertainty). Next, the Kalman filter makes a new guess by using a weighted average. More certain numbers are more important in this weighted average. After doing these two steps, we use the new guess to start these steps again.
The Morning (Boccioni)
The Morning (also known as Il Mattino) is a 20th-century portrait painted in oil by Umberto Boccioni, made around 1909-1910, during the Futurism in Milano, Italy, exhibited at the Museum Gallerie di Piazza Scala of Milano.
Description
The work was created by Boccioni in his apartment in Via Adige at number 23 in Milan, observing the door area Porta Romana - Vigentina-Via Ripamonti, near the Museum Fondazione Prada. Today the neighborhood is identified with innovative luxury fashion and art.
The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 American romantic historical drama movie directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, C. Aubrey Smith, Louise Dresser, Olive Tell, Erville Alderson. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu
Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu (31 December 1954 – 2 October 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician. He is a member of Jatiya Party. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member. He was the Cabinet Minister for Energy in the 1980s. He became an advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November 2013.
On 7 September 2021, Bablu was hospitalized with COVID-19. He died from the infection in Dhaka on 2 October 2021, aged 66.
Abutment
In engineering, abutment refers to the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam. This is where the structure's superstructure rests or contacts. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end. These provide vertical and lateral (side to side) support for the bridge. They also act as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach. Multi-span bridges require piers to support ends of spans that are not supported by abutments. Dam abutments are generally the natural valley walls. They may also be artificial in order to support arch dams such as Kurobe Dam in Japan.
The term may also refer to the structure supporting one side of an arch, or masonry used to resist the lateral forces of a vault. The word derives from the verb "abut", meaning to "touch by means of a mutual border".
Slobodan Praljak
Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat engineer, movie and theatre director and army general. He was a general in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. In 2013, he was one of six Bosnian Croat politicians sentenced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes during the Croat–Bosniak War. He was jailed for twenty years. He directed many television shows and one movie, Povratak Katarine Kozul (1989).
Praljak was born in Čapljina. He was married to Kaćuša Babić and had two stepchildren.
On 29 November 2017, Praljak drank cyanide at the ICTY in The Hague, Netherlands. He later died at a hospital of heart failure at the age of 72.
Andrew Telegdi
Andrew Telegdi, PC (András Telegdi; May 28, 1946 – January 23, 2017) was a Hungarian-born Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.
In 2014, Telgedi ran and lost in the 2014 Waterloo Regional Elections. He came in third place to become one of two councillors for Waterloo on the Waterloo Regional Council.
Telegdi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the University of Waterloo in the 1970s. Telegdi died on January 23, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario, aged 70.
Trevor Winkfield
Trevor Winkfield (born 1944) is a British-born artist and writer.
Winkfield was born in Leeds, England in 1944.
He studied at the Leeds College of Art. He received an M. A. from the Royal College of Art in London.
He moved from London to New York City in 1969. He is connected to the New York School of poets and painters.
Critic John Yau has said, "He never bought into the idea that art should be universal, on the surface, or understood immediately."
Rebekha Sharkie
Rebekha Carina Che Sharkie (born 24 August 1972) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Mayo in South Australia.
At the 2016 federal election she defeated Liberal Jamie Briggs, and was the first Nick Xenophon Team member to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives.
On 11 May 2018, Sharkie resigned from the House of Representatives as a part of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis. She contested the 2018 Mayo by-election on 28 July, and was returned to parliament.
Wynne Bradburn
Wynne Pennell Bradburn was born 24 November, 1938 in Thames and died 25 September, 2008 in Hamilton. He is a former cricketer who played 2 tests for New Zealand in 1963/64. He twice carried the bat in first class matches. He is the father of New Zealand cricketer Grant Bradburn.
Ajac
Ajac is a commune of 196 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alairac
Alairac is a commune of 1,034 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Monte Carlo Casino
Casino Monte-Carlo, officially called Casino de Monte-Carlo, is a gambling and entertainment place located in Monaco. The Casino de Monte-Carlo is owned and operated by the "Société des bains de mer de Monaco". The idea of opening a gambling casino in Monaco came from Princess Carolina, the wife of Prince Florestan. The company's money was supposed to save the House of Grimaldi from bankruptcy.
In 1921, the first Women’s Olympiad was held at the casino gardens.
FAW Group
FAW Group Corporation is a Chinese Government-owned corporation automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Changchun, Jilin, China. Its principal products are automobiles; buses; light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; and auto parts. FAW became China's first automobile manufacturer when it unveiled the nation's first domestically produced passenger car, the Hong Qi, in 1958.
Usage share of web browsers
The usage share of web browsers is the percentage (%) of viewers at a group of websites who use a particular web browser. For example, when it is said that Google Chrome has 64% usage share (May 2022), it means that all versions of Chrome (including the related Chromium) are used by 64 of every 100 visitors who visit a given set of websites. Some web browsers, such as Internet Explorer have very low usage share (even though very popular before), since it's being replaced, in part because of poor security track record.
Overestimation
Not all requests are generated by a user, as a user agent can make requests at regular time intervals without user input. In this case the user's activity might be overestimated. Some examples:
Underestimation
It is also possible to underestimate the usage share by using the number of requests, for example:
Summary table
The following table summarizes the usage share of browsers for all platforms.
Net Applications (2004 Q4 to present)
Netapplications bases its usage share mainly on the usage statistics of 40,000 websites having around 160 million unique visitors.
On 2009-08-01, Net Applications began weighting its raw data based on the number of internet users in the countries concerned, using data from the CIA ; the changes were applied retroactively to older data. The table below uses weighted data from 2007 Q4 onwards.
W3Counter (May 2007 to present)
This site counts the last 15,000 page views from each of approximately 30,000 websites. This limits the influence of sites with more than 15,000 visitors on the usage statistics.
StatCounter (July 2008 to present)
Statcounter statistics are directly derived from hits (not unique visitors) from 3 million sites using Statcounter totalling more than 15 billion hits per month. No artificial weightings are used.
Wikimedia (April 2009 to June 2010)
Wikimedia squid reports are based on server logs of about 4 billion page requests per month, based on the user agent information that accompanied the requests. These server logs cover requests to the following Wikimedia Foundation projects: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity and others.
TheCounter.com (2000 to 2009)
TheCounter.com identifies sixteen versions of six browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror). Other browsers are categorised as either ‘Netscape compatible’ (including Google Chrome, which may also be categorized as 'Safari' due to its 'Webkit' subtag) or ‘unknown’. Internet Explorer 8 is identified as Internet Explorer 7. Monthly data includes all hits from 2008-02-01 until the end of the month concerned. More than the exact browser type, this data identifies the underlying web rendering engine used by various browsers, and the table below aggregates them in the same column.
AT Internet Institute (Europe, July 2007 to June 2010)
AT Internet Institute was formerly known as XiTi.
Methodology: Only counts visits to local sites in 23 European countries and then averages the percentages for those 23 European countries independent of population size.
Area code 216
Area code 216 is an area code for Ohio. It was one of the first area codes created in 1947. It initially covered the northeastern portion of Ohio but after it was split by 330 in 1996 and 440 in 1997, it now covers only the Cleveland portion of Ohio.
Henry Gramajo
Henry Gramajo is an equestrian from Uruguay. Gramajo competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born on 19 September 1970.
Giovanna Amati
Giovanna Amati (born 20 July 1959) is a former professional racing driver from Italy. She is the most recent female driver to have entered the Formula One World Championship.
Amati was born in Rome on 20 July 1959, to actress Anna Maria Pancani and theatre-owner Giovanni Amati. As of 2022, Amati is the last female driver who has attempted to qualify a Formula One car. Following her retirement from motor sport, Amati worked briefly as a sport commentator.
Dana Bumgardner
Dana Bumgardner (May 16, 1954 – October 2, 2021) was an American businessman and politician. He was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 2013 until his death.
Bumgardner died from liver cancer at his home in Gastonia, North Carolina on October 2, 2021, at age 67.
Adrenaline (album)
Adrenaline is the first studio album by American metal band, Deftones. Adrenaline was released on October 3, 1995. The album was originally known as Communion but was later changed to Adrenaline. The album was ranked as #33 on music critic Piero Scaruffi's list of best metal albums of all times.
Block
Block or blocked may refer to:
Alaigne
Alaigne is a commune of 300 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Hialeah, Florida
Hialeah is a city of Florida in the United States.
Public schools
Miami-Dade County Public Schools serves Hialeah. Two high schools serving the Hialeah community, Mater Academy Charter High School and Miami Lakes Educational Center, were named as "Silver" award winners in U.S. News & World Report's "Best High Schools 2008 Search".
Achill Island
Achill is a large island in Ireland off the coast of County Mayo, it is the biggest island owned by Ireland. Popular tourist destinations include, the cliffs of Croaghaun, The Minaun Cliffs, The deserted village and the Compass Bar.
Prince Charles stream tree frog
The Prince Charles stream tree frog (Hyloscirtus princecharlesi) is a frog. It lives in Ecuador. Scientists have seen it 2794 meters above sea level. They saw it in exactly one place, in a cloud forest.
This frog is about 68.1-70.5 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog is black with orange spots. The iris of the eye is gray in color.
The tadpoles are brown on color with small whitish marks. The iris of the eye is blue with some green-lavender color and white marks. The belly is red-brown on color. It is darker brown toward the tail. There are whitish spots. The tail is brown near the body and lighter near the end. Later, the tadpole changes color to gray.
This frog is in danger because human beings change the places where it lives. Human beings cut down trees to get wood to build with and make a place for animals to eat grass. Chemicals that kill pests may also hurt this frog.
The scientists named this frog after then-Prince of Wales, Charles Windsor. They named it after him because he worked to protect habitats in tropical places.
Pescetarianism
Pescetarianism means having a diet that is vegetarianism but with fish and other seafoods.
Linda Gerritsen
Linda Gerritsen (born 12 March 1983) is a German water polo player. She was part of the Germany women's national water polo team at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships and 2007 World Aquatics Championships.
Vinka Lucas
Vinka Dragica Lucas (née Ravlich / Ravlić; 1 January 1932 – 10 August 2020) was a Croatian-born New Zealand fashion and bridalwear designer and business owner. She was co-founder of New Zealand Bride magazine. In 1959 Lucas and her husband David Lucas bought a fashion and dressmaking business in Hamilton. In 1963, the couple published a booklet of bridal designs, which later grew into the magazine New Zealand Bride.
The Shadows No. 2
The Shadows No. 2 is an extended play 45 rpm record released in 1961 by The Shadows. It was released on Columbia Records/EMI Records as SEG 8148 in mono and reached #12 in the UK EP charts in January, 1962.
All the songs on the record had previously been released on the album The Shadows, and more songs from the album were to be released on the EP The Shadows No. 3. There appears never to have been a The Shadows No. 1.
Vinka Lucas
In the 2019 New Year Honours, Lucas was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
She died in Auckland on 10 August 2020, aged 88.
The Shadows No. 2
The liner notes were written by Cliff Richard.
Mater (Boccioni)
Mater (also known as Materia) is a 20th-century portrait painted in oil by Umberto Boccioni, made around 1912-1913, during the Futurism in Milano, Italy, exhibited at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Description
Materia is clearly a full-length portrait of the artist's mother, the main subject of numerous canvases he made, as in the case of the mother with crochet from 1907. The mother in the painting is portrayed sitting in her house frontally, so as to turn her back to a balcony overlooking the urban landscape behind Porta Romana in Milan. This compositional choice serves to merge in a single "simultaneous vision" the optical perception of two distinct subjects, the metropolitan environment seen from Via Adige (Via Ripamonti) in Milan and the artist's mother. The hands of the mother figure are represented crossed and gigantic and constitute the focus of the portrait. The urban scenario of the Fondazione Prada district in Via Ripamonti appears as a space perfectly integrated with the human figure, the profiles of the houses are represented as generating nuclei of wide beams of transparent blue light, which illuminate the "mother" from above. Typical of this painting is the energy that is formed thanks to the colors used, an energy that goes in every direction as is typical of the current it belongs to, the Futurism.
Corbel
In architecture a corbel or console is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal sticking out from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. It is a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall. A console, by comparison, is a piece applied to the structure. A piece of structural wood projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger" in the UK. The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels support a projecting wall or parapet, has been used since Neolithic, or New Stone Age, times.
Matt Bevin
Matthew Griswold "Matt" Bevin (born January 9, 1967) is an American businessman and politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. He became the Governor of Kentucky on December 8, 2015. He left office on December 10, 2019.
Career
Bevin became the President of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company in 2011.
In Kentucky's 2014 Senate election, Bevin was a Republican candidate and primary challenger to Mitch McConnell. At that time, McConnell was the Senate Minority Leader.
On November 3, 2015, Bevin was elected Governor of Kentucky.
Thônex
Thônex is a municipality of the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It is in the east of the canton and shares a border with the French town of Ambilly.
Matt Bevin
Career
On November 5, 2019, Bevin lost his re-election bid to State Attorney General Andy Beshear by less than 5,000.
Bombing of Berlin in World War II
Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was attacked with 363 air raids during the Second World War.
It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, by the USAAF Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany.
It was also attacked by aircraft of the Red Air Force, in particular in 1945 as Soviet forces closed on the city. British bombers dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while American aircraft dropped 23,000 tons.
As the bombings continued more and more people left the city. By May 1945, 1.7 million people (40% of the population) had fled.
Thônex
History
In 1869, the municipality was created when Chêne-Thônex split into two independent municipalities Chêne-Bourg and Thônex.
Cadet Forces Medal
The Cadet Forces Medal is given for long and good service by commissioned officers and non commissioned adult instructors of the UK Cadet Forces: The Army Cadet Force, the Air Training Corps, the Sea Cadet Corps and Combined Cadet Force, and commissioned officers of the New Zealand Cadet Forces. It is awarded for 12 years service. Clasps are given for every 8 years further service in New Zealand & for 6 more years in the UK.
Post Nominals
People who receive the Cadet Forces Service Medal do not earn the right to use post-nominal letters.
Wait (Beatles song)
"Wait" is a song by English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney, but listed as Lennon-McCartney. It was first released on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul.
Personnel
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Irrawaddy River
The Irrawaddy River or Ayeyarwady River is a river that flows from north to south through Myanmar. It is the country's largest river and most important commercial waterway. It begins where the N'mai and Mali rivers join together. The river ends at the Andaman Sea. The drainage basin is about 404200 km2 and covers a large part of Myanmar.no
The Irrawaddy Delta
The delta of the Irrawaddy begins about 93 km north of the city of Hinthada. The westernmost distributary of the delta is the Pathein (Bassein) River and the easternmost is the Yangon River. The land in the delta is low but it is not flat. The soil is made of fine silt.
A large number of people live in the delta region. Because the soil can be as low as 3 metres above sea level, it is an important area for growing rice.
On 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis was a major disaster for the delta. The cyclone reportedly killed at least 77,000 people with over 55,900 missing, and left about 2.5 million homeless.
Annual rainfall in the delta region is about 2,500 mm (100 in). Most of the rain falls during the monsoons which happen between May and November.
Ecology
There is not a complete list of all the types of fish found along the Irrawaddy River. In 2008, it was estimated that the region is home to 119–195 species of fish found nowhere else in the world.
One of the best-known species in the river is the Irrawaddy dolphin. The dolphin is listed as a vulnerable species, meaning it is at risk to become endangered. In 2016 officials report only 62 dolphins are left in Myanmar.
There are several different ecoregions along the river.
Northern Mountains
The Irrawaddy River begins where the streams of the Nmai and Mali join. Both of these rivers begin in high and remote mountains near the border with Tibet. In this area rain falls at all seasons of the year, but mostly in the summer. The valleys and lower hill ranges are covered with an evergreen rainforest. At elevations above 900 m there are forests of oak and pine. Above 1800 m, are forests of rhododendrons. Above 2400 m there are evergreen conifer forests.
The Central Basin and Lowlands
The central basin receives little rain. The humidity is always high, which is important for plant life. The area is mostly covered in plains. The forests are mostly filled with teak. The natural habitats in this area have been changed for farming. The wildlife includes many birds, small mammals and reptiles such as the huge Burmese python.
Irrawaddy Delta Area
The delta area has mangroves and freshwater swamp forests. It is an extremely fertile area. The lands of the upper and central parts of the delta are almost all used for farming, especially rice. The southern part becomes the Myanmar Coast mangroves. This area has marshes with oxbow lakes, islands, and streams.
Many types of bird are found in the delta. These include the great cormorant, Anatidae, and red junglefowl.
Large mammals include the Malayan sambar deer, Indian hog deer, and wild boar. Other large mammals have only a small number of animals in the delta region. Some species reported to be present include the leopard, Bengal tiger, crab-eating macaque, wild dog, and otters.
The saltwater crocodile can be found in the southern part of the delta. There are five species of sea turtle that are known to nest in Myanmar.
Tributaries
The Irrawaddy River has five major tributaries. Tributaries are rivers that flow into a larger river. The rivers joining the Irrawaddy are, from north to south:
Major cities and towns
The river flows through or past the following cities:
Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) was a conflict that was significantly worsened by Lebanon's changing demographics. There was a conflict between Sunnis and Shias, between Christians and Muslims, and the involvement of Syria, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) exacerbated existing issues. After a short break in the fighting in 1976 due to Arab League mediation and Syrian intervention, civil strife continued, with fighting primarily focused in south Lebanon, occupied first by the PLO, then occupied by Israel. On May 17, 1983, a US-backed agreement was reached for making peace between Lebanon and Israel. The agreement failed when Syria refused to withdraw its forces.
Albas, Aude
Albas, Aude is a commune of 59 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Abid Hamid Mahmud
Abid Al-Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti ( 21 September 1957 - June 7, 2012) was an Iraqi lieutenant general under Saddam Hussein's deposed regime, and he was Saddam's bodyguard. He was executed on June 7, 2012.
Saul Goodman
James "Jimmy" McGill (business name Saul Goodman) is a fictional character in the TV series Breaking Bad and the protagonist of the spin-off TV series Better Call Saul played by actor Bob Odenkirk. He is a major character in the Breaking Bad franchise by Vince Gilligan. Saul Goodman is a lawyer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is the brother of Charles "Chuck" McGill.
Testimony
In law and in religion, testimony is a formal statement that something is true. The words "testimony" and "testify" both come from the Latin word testis, which refers to a third-party witness.
Law
In the law, testimony is a kind of evidence. It comes from a witness who says that something is true. Testimony may be spoken or written. It is usually made by oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury (which is a crime that somebody can be charged with if they give testimony that is not true).
Religion
Some Christians use the term "to testify" or "to give one's testimony" to mean "to tell the story of how one became a Christian".
Tambaram taluk
Tambaram is a taluk in Kanchipuram.
Richard Fagan
Richard Fagan (April 24, 1947 – August 5, 2016) was an American songwriter and musician. He had six top ten singles and 18 charted singles on the Billboard Country charts. Fagan's songs have been recorded by Neil Diamond, George Strait, John Michael Montgomery, Clay Walker, Ricochet, Hank Williams, Jr., George Jones, Shania Twain, Patty Loveless, Collin Raye, Shenandoah, The Crickets, Jason & the Scorchers, The Blues Brothers Band and many others.
In 1979 his song "The Good Lord Loves You" was recorded by Neil Diamond and released on the September Morn album. The song charted in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 67 in April 1980.
Fagan died on August 5, 2016 in Nashville of liver cancer at the age of 69.
2022 Langya virus outbreak in China
The Langyavirus outbreak was confirmed on August 10, 2022 in the northeastern province of China. The virus is trasmitted from shrews to humans, At least 35 cases were reported in the province and some parts in Jinan there have been cases.
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Jefferson Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Most of the suburbs of New Orleans are in this parish. Because of this Jefferson parish has the most population in the state.
2022 Langya virus outbreak in China
Transmission
The Langya henipavirus (LayV) or simply as Langya virus is a disease transmitted from animals. It was found in the provinces of Shandong and Jinan.
In September 2018 the virus has also recorded cases in 2018, 9 cases total of 35 in China infected from LayV had the following symptoms: fever, fatigue and cough. No fatalities have been recorded in the month of August 2022.
The disease affects animals. It can be passed from goats and dogs to humans, the 35 infected have not come into contact with each other, and it has not been determined in August 2022 if people who transmit the disease to others. The Langya virus is dangerous and deadly.
Meade Lux Lewis
Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American blues, jazz and boogie woogie pianist. Together with Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons he made boogie woogie popular.
Life
His first recording was "Honky Tonk Train Blues" for Paramount in 1927. The title was influenced by his youth where a railway run beside his home. The record was not very successful, so he washed cars to make a living. He rerecorded it for other labels in 1935 and 1937. Nearly each boogie pianist has recorded this title(f.e.Jean-Paul Amouroux, Keith Emerson, Jay McShann, Lloyd Glenn, Jörg Hegemann, Gene Phillips, Michael Pewny, Gene Taylor, Tim Wheals und Axel Zwingenberger). 1935 he was found by John Hammond and started a new career. In 1938 he played together with Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons in John Hammonds famous From Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall. After this the pianists often played together at Café Society and toured together. In 1941 he went to Los Angeles.
Lewis was the first pianist who played on the celeste and the harpsichord in jazz and boogie records. In his later years he was uncomfortable with his fame as jazz and boogie pianist, so he played ragtime and pop songs. He did recordings till 1962 but at this time he was already forgotten. He died on June 7th, 1964 in a car accident in Minneapolis.
Albums
This three compilation albums from Classics give a good overview over Lewis´work.
Cutthroat Kitchen
Cutthroat Kitchen is a reality cooking television show that airs on Food Network. It began on August 11, 2013. It is hosted by Alton Brown.
Format
Four chefs are given three cooking challenges. Each challenge has a type of dish that the chefs have to make in 30 minutes. Before then, the chefs have one minute to get ingredients out of a pantry. After 30 minutes, a judge tastes each dish, and the chef with the worst dish is eliminated.
Bill Saluga
Bill Saluga (born William Saluga; September 16, 1937) is an American comedian. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He was a founding member, along with Fred Willard, Michael Mislove, George Memmoli, and Patti Deutsch of the improvisational comedy troupe Ace Trucking Company.
Saluga is best known for his cigar-smoking, zoot-suit-wearing television character “Raymond J. Johnson, Jr.”. He is famous for his catchphrase "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Raymond J. Johnson, but you doesn't hasta call me Johnson!"
Uncle John from Jamaica
Track listings
Dutch, Canadian, and Australian maxi-CD single
UK CD1
UK CD2
UK cassette single
Black cockatoo
Black cockatoo is general term for cockatoos that are mainly black. It may include:
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations (also known only as "Commonwealth") is a confederation of countries. Originally, it was called the British Commonwealth  which was founded in 1926 when the British Empire began to break up. Now, there are 56 member countries of the Commonwealth.
Only countries which were part of the British Empire are allowed to become members of the Commonwealth (although an exception was made for Rwanda, Mozambique and Gabon which were never colonised by Britain, when they were allowed to become members). Members are free to leave and rejoin the Commonwealth. However, joining or rejoining the Commonwealth can become difficult, when the candidate country has serious human rights violations.
Origin
The term the Commonwealth of Nations originated in 1884. Lord Rosebery was on a visit to Australia in 1884. At Adelaide he said that over a period of time a number of colonies of the British Empire will become free and many may become more independent. He further said that all of these countries would then become the Commonwealth of Nations.
Purpose
The Commonwealth of Nations is not a political organization. King Charles III is also head of state of 16 Commonwealth countries, referred to as Commonwealth realms. Canada and Australia are two of the largest realms. A Secretary General manages the day-to-day matters of the Commonwealth of Nations. Patricia Scotland is the Secretary General since 2015. However, the United Kingdom or the Secretary General does not have any direct or indirect control over these countries. In fact, almost all the 53 members are independent countries with their own governments and hold Commonwealth Games. These countries have come together to form an association with some common aims. Such common aims include:
Pothos
Pothos is a son of Aphrodite in Greek mythology. He is the god of sexual yearning, longing, and desire. He is was one of the winged love gods, known as Erotes.
Coalition (Australia)
The Liberal–National Coalition is an alliance of centre-right political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics. Its main opponent is the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The Coalition was in government from the 2013 federal election until their defeat in the 2022 federal election. During that time, the group was led by Prime Ministers Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison.
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK is a 200-acre (81 ha) development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford. ITV Granada and the BBC work there and there is a large shopping centre. It has its own Manchester Metrolink stop.
Salford Quays
Salford Quays is an area of Salford, at the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. It was the site of Manchester Docks, which were opened in 1894 by Queen Victoria. In 1983, Salford City Council bought a lot of the land. They started by cleaning the water and stocking it with fish.
The Salford Quays Centre for the Performing Arts opened in 2000 and is known as The Lowry. MediaCityUK followed. It has both broadcasters and shops.
Damflos
Damflos is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Hialeah Gardens, Florida
Hialeah Gardens is a city of Florida in the United States. It is in Miami-Dade County.
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH or simply Bosch is a German multinational engineering and electronics company. Its headquarters is in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany.
Bosch's core products are automotive components including brakes, controls, electrical drives, electronics, fuel systems, generators, starter motors and steering systems; industrial products, such as including drives and controls, packaging technology and consumer goods; and building products, including household appliances, power tools, security systems and thermotechnology.
Bosch has more than 350 subsidiaries across over 60 countries and its products are sold in around 150 countries.
The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886.
High Springs, Florida
High Springs is a city of Florida in the United States.
Albières
Albières is a commune of 73 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Alet-les-Bains
Alet-les-Bains is a commune of 464 people (1999). It is in the region Languedoc-Roussillon in the Aude department in the south of France.
Trini Lopez
Trinidad "Trini" López III (May 13, 1937August 11, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and actor.
His first album included a version of "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him. His other hits included "Lemon Tree", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl".
He starred as Pedro Jimenez in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen.
Lopez never married and had no children.
Lopez died on August 11, 2020 at a hospital in Palm Springs, California from COVID-19, aged 83.
Orvault
Orvault is a commune of 26,355 people (2017). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Juan Pastor Marco
Juan Pastor Marco (24 November 1951 – 11 August 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). In 1977, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province.
He then was Secretary General of the PSOE in the Valencian Community from 1978 to 1979. He retired in 1982. He was born in Orba, Alicante.
Pastor Marco died on 11 August 2020, aged 68.
Ronno
Ronno is a village in the Rhône department of central-eastern France.
Norris (surname)
Norris is an English surname.
Richard DeVos
Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American businessman. He was known for being the co-founder of Amway along with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.
In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th richest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. At one point, he was one of the 10 richest Americans.
DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at Calvin College. He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. He was married to Helen June Van Wesep from 1953 until her death in 2017. Together, they had four children. His son, Dick DeVos, is married to Betsy DeVos the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.
He was a Reformed Christian.