cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Prime Minister of Montenegro
The Prime Minister of Montenegro (Montenegrin: Premijer Crne Gore) (Premier of Montenegro), is the head of the Government of Montenegro. The role of the Prime Minister is to follow and lead the work of the Government, and to submit to the Parliament the Government's Program.
The current Prime Minister, Dritan Abazović is the member of United Reform Action party and became prime minister in April 2022.
Asparagales
Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications. No one is sure, but it is supposed that this group of plants evolved between the late and early Cretaceous. But because of the difficult classification of the families, it is not entirely certain when they evolved. Asparagales have a many families, including Ashphodelaceae (Xanthorrhoeaceae), which includes daylilies and New Zealand flax.
John R. Bass
John R. Bass (born 1964) is an American diplomat. He is the current United States Ambassador to Afghanistan since December 2017. He served as the United States Ambassador to Turkey from 2014 to 2016. He was United States Ambassador to Georgia from 2009 to 2012.
President Donald Trump named him as his choice to become the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan on July 20, 2017. On September 28, 2017, his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.
Laà-Mondrans
Laà-Mondrans is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Bank holiday
A bank holiday is the name used for a public holiday in both the United Kingdom, Ireland, and some other Commonwealth countries. The UK started using bank holidays in 1871.
List of bank holidays
The below is a list of such holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An "X" underneath a country's name means that country uses that date as a bank holiday
In other countries
India has 15 bank holidays
Hong Kong calls public holidays "bank holidays", even though they are not officially called that.
Alan Frumin
Alan Scott Frumin (born December 26, 1946) is an American lawyer. He was the parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1987 until 1995 and from 2001 until 2012.
In November 2011, Frumin was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people.
Dwight F. Davis
Dwight Filley Davis (July 5, 1879 - November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician. He was the founder of the international tennis competition "Davis Cup".
He served as United States Secretary of War from 1925 to 1929.
Davis died at his home in Washington, D.C. on November 28, 1945, after a six-month illness.
Betty Bumpers
Betty Lou Flanagan Bumpers (January 11, 1925 – November 23, 2018) was an American health activist and civil servant. She was the First Lady of Arkansas, from 1971 to 1975.
She was an activist for childhood immunizations and world peace. She and Rosalynn Carter ran a successful campaign to ensure that all American school children were immunized. She was also the widow of Dale Bumpers, former State governor and U.S. Senator.
Bumpers died on November 23, 2018 from complications of dementia and a broken hip in Little Rock, Arkansas at the age of 93.
Province of Pistoia
The Province of Pistoia (Provincia di Pistoia) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Geography
The capital of the province is the city of Pistoia. The province has an area of 965 km² and a total population of 268,503 (2001). There are 22 communes in the province.
Post
Post or POST can refer to the following: Computing: Language:
Paul Warfield
Paul Dryden Warfield (born November 28, 1942) is an American former professional football player. He was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 to 1977 for the Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins.
National Anthem of Zimbabwe
Blessed be the land of Zimbabwe (Shona: "Simudzai Mureza wedu WeZimbabwe", Ndebele: "Kalibusiswe Ilizwe leZimbabwe") is the national anthem of Zimbabwe, written by Professor Solomon Mutswairo and composed by Fred Changundega.
The anthem was introduced in March 1994 after a competition to replace "Ishe Komborera Africa" with a distinctly Zimbabwean song.
English
And may the Almighty protect and bless our land.
Shona
Simudzai mureza wedu weZimbabwe Yakazvarwa nemoto wechimurenga, Neropa zhinji ramagamba Tiidzivirire kumhandu dzose; Ngaikomborerwe nyika yeZimbabwe. Tarisai Zimbabwe nyika yakashongedzwa Namakomo, nehova, zvinoyeveedza Mvura ngainaye, minda ipe mbesa Vashandi vatuswe, ruzhinji rugutswe; Ngaikomborerwe nyika yeZimbabwe. Mwari ropafadzai nyika yeZimbabwe Nyika yamadzitateguru edu tose; Kubva Zambezi kusvika Limpopo, Navatungamiri vave nenduramo; Ngaikomborerwe nyika yeZimbabwe.
Ngaikomborerwe nyika yeZimbabwe!
Ndebele
Phakamisan' if'legi yethu yeZimbabwe Eyazalwa yimpi yenkululeko; Legaz' elinengi lamaqhawe ethu Silivikele ezithen' izonke; Kalibusisiwe ilizwe leZimbabwe. Khangelan' iZimbabwe yon' ihlotshisiwe Ngezintaba lange' miful' ebukekayo, Izulu kaline, izilimo zande; Iz' sebenzi zenam', abantu basuthe; Kalibusisiwe ilizwe leZimbabwe. Nkosi busis' ilizwe lethu leZimbabwe Ilizwe labokhokho bethu thina sonke; Kusuk' eZambezi kusiy' eLimpopo Abakhokheli babe lobuqotho; Kalibusisiwe ilizwe leZimbabwe;
Trilingual Version
Shona Ndebele English CODA
Laàs
Laàs is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
O Land of Beauty!
"O Land of Beauty!" is a song. It is the national anthem of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne, (born 8 September 1588, in modern-day Sarthe, died 1 September 1648, in Paris) was a French theologian and mathematician. He developed the first laws of acoustics, which was known by his name for a long time. Today, he is mainly remembered for the Mersenne primes. Together with Galileo Galilei he built the laws which describe how a mass falls in an empty space. He was in favour of modern science, and did not agree with "occultist" movements.
He often travelled to meet great scientists, which made him an important mediator. This is especially true for mathematicians such as Pierre Gassendi, Gilles Personne de Roberval, Blaise Pascal und Pierre de Fermat. To tell Mersenne of a discovery was like publishing it. He told Gassendi to reply to the Meditations of Descartes. Mersenne gave Huygens the idea of using a pendulum to measure time. This led to the development of pendulum clocks.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966) is an American actor. He is known for playing John Winchester on Supernatural, Denny Duquette on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, The Comedian in the 2009 superhero movie Watchmen, Jason Crouse on The Good Wife, and Negan on The Walking Dead.
Morgan portrays Thomas Wayne in the DC Extended Universe beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).
Comendador, Dominican Republic
The Dominican city of Comendador is the head municipality of the Elías Piña province, on the border with Haiti.
Population
The municipality had, in 2010, a total population of 19,344: 9,675 men and 9,669 women. The urban population was 64% of the total population.
History
The city was founded in 1868, and named after Nicolás de Ovando, the "Comendador of Lares" (Comendador was the chief of a military or religious order). It was founded where there was a military post close to the border with Haiti. The Taíno name of the region was Duan.
There was several fights between Haitian and Dominican soldiers during the Dominican-Haitian War after 1844. The most important fight was the La Estrelleta Battle in a savanna near Comendador.
The old military post was made a Cantón (now called Municipal District) of the Azua province in 1907. The next year, in 1908, it was elevated to the category of municipality of the same province.
Its name was changed to Villa Elías Piña on 29 November 1930. In 1972, its name was changed back to Comendador..
Geography
The average daily temperature in the city is 26.7 C and the average rainfall for the year is 1828 mm.
Voiceless alveolar affricate
The voiceless alveolar affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is very similar to the ts in cats. It is in some Slavic languages where it is written with the letter c.
Garcelle Beauvais
Garcelle Beauvais (born Beauvais-Nilon, November 25, 1966, Saint-Marc, Haiti) is a Haitian-American actress, TV personality, author and former model, known for her roles on The Jamie Foxx Show and NYPD Blue, and in movies like Coming to America (1988) and its 2021 sequel, White House Down (2013) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
Dawson County, Georgia
Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, 26,798 people lived there. The county seat is Dawsonville.
West Coast Conference
The West Coast Conference (WCC) is a college sports conference (group of sports teams that play against each other) in the western United States. There are many sports in the conference. The conference does not have football. Only two of its current members have football teams.
Lisa Halliday
Reviews
Of Halliday's book Asymmetry, Alice Gregory of the New York Times Book Review wrote, "Halliday’s novel is so strange and startlingly smart that its mere existence seems like commentary on the state of fiction". There were also positive reviews from Karen Heller of the Washington Post and Parul Sehgal of the New York Times.
West Coast Conference
The WCC began in 1952 when five schools in and around the San Francisco Bay Area formed the California Basketball Association. The league was then called the West Coast Athletic Conference from 1956 to 1989.
Rye, New York
Rye is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Rye was a town before it became a city in 1942. The population was 15,720 at the 2010 census.
West Coast Conference
All 10 of its current members were founded by churches. Seven of the colleges are Catholic schools. Only University of the Pacific, which was started by Methodists, no longer gets money from a church.
Members
The WCC has 10 members. All are located in West Coast states except BYU.
Associate members
The WCC has one "associate member". This member only plays one sport in the conference. They play other sports in the Big East Conference.
Sebastian and the Sparrow
Sebastian and the Sparrow is a 1988 Australian adventure drama movie directed by Scott Hicks and starring Alexander Bainbridge, Heather Kelly-Lewis, Jeremy Angerson, Robert Coleby, Elizabeth Alexander.
Le Landreau
Le Landreau is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by quite a few taxonomists, but hardly universally: often the plants involved are treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae.
Gals
Gals (Chules) is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Robert Dove
Robert B. Dove (October 18, 1938 – July 28, 2021) was an American political scientist and lawyer. He was the parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 2001. He was a professor of political science at George Washington University.
Dove died on July 28, 2021 at the age of 82.
Maisnières
Maisnières is a commune. It is in the region Picardie in the Somme department in the north of France.
Gift economy
A gift economy or gift culture is an economic model, where goods are not sold, but they are given away, without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards. There are social norms and customs about the exact way the gift is given. In a gift culture, gifts are not given in an explicit exchange of goods or services for money, or some other commodity or service. In contrast, in a barter economy or a market economy goods and services are exhanged for a received value, usually money. Anthropologists discussed the nature of gift economies. Research began with Bronisław Malinowski's description of the Kula ring in the Trobriand Islands during World War I. The Kula trade appeared to be gift-like because Trobrianders would travel great distances over dangerous seas to give what were considered valuable objects without any guarantee of a return. Malinkowski had a discussion with French anthropologist Marcel Mauss: This showed that gift economy was more complex that they first thought. They also introduced a number of technical terms to describe the different forms of exchange. Some of these terms are reciprocity, inalienable possessions, and presentation.
Anthropologists Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry think that the unsettled relationship between market and non-market exchange will attract most attention. Some authors argue that gift economies build community, while markets harm community relationships.
Some things that make gift exhange different from other forms of exhange. Usually, the idea of property, and property rights are different. Sometimes gifting forms a distinct "sphere of exchange" that is an "economic system". Giving a gift always establishes a social relationship. The nature of giving a gift in a market economy,is very different from "prestations" typical of non-market societies. Gift economies also differ from related phenomena, such as common property regimes and the exchange of non-commodified labour.
Potlatch
Potlatch is a celebration of native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. During the celebration, there is a ritual exchange of gifts. The value of the gifts demonstrates the wealth, power and influience of the person giving the gifts. Marcel Mauss saw this an example of a ruinous competition: The gifts often caused the ruin of the person giving them, or his tribe. That way, Potlatch was outlwawed in Canada, in late 19th century. There was a push to re-introduce the tradition in the 1950s.
Further reading
The concept of a gift economy has played a large role in works of fiction about alternative societies, especially in works of science fiction. Examples include:
Dawsonville, Georgia
Dawsonville is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Dawson County. The population was 2,536 at the 2010 census, up from 619 in 2000.
Woodsfield, Ohio
Woodsfield is a village in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Monroe County.
New Medical Gazette
New Medical Gazette (NMG) ("Новая медицинская газета") is a Russian newspaper published in Moscow.
Blackpool Gazette
The Blackpool Gazette is an English evening newspaper based in Blackpool, Lancashire. It is published every day except Sunday. It covers the towns and communities of the Fylde coast. It was once named the Evening Gazette after initially being named The West Lancashire Evening Gazette.
New Medical Gazette
New Medical Gazette (NMG) was established in 1992 in Moscow by a group of journalists (Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev and others; some of them had medical education and practical experience in health care). The Russian newspaper NMG registered with the Ministry of press and information of the Russian Federation in December 18, 1992.
The first number of NMG was released on May 18, 1993. Since 1993 Andrei Gusev (Андрей Евгеньевич Гусев, born 27 October 1952 in Moscow) serves as NMG’s editor-in-chief.
NMG came out in format A3 and A4. Since 1999 NMG has web-based publications. The paper specialises in topical medical materials and medical news. Famous journalists and writers work in NMG’ editorial staff: Sergei Aman, Anatoly Baranov, Andrei Gusev, Sergei Sokurov, etc. However, the newspaper authors write not only on medical topics. NMG has literary pages created in conjunction with public fund "Union of Writers of Moscow”.
Land Transport Authority
The Land Transport Authority (Abbreviation: LTA; Chinese: 陆路交通管理局 (shortform: 陆交局); Malay: Penguasa Pengangkutan Darat; நிலப் போக்குவரத்து வாரியம்) of Singapore is a statutory board of the Ministry of Transport. It was founded in 1 September 1995, by merging four agencies, which are Registry of Vehicles, Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Roads & Transportation Division of the Public Works Department of Singapore and Land Transport Division of the then-Ministry of Communications. LTA leads the development of land transport in Singapore.
De Havilland Mosquito
The De Havilland Mosquito is a British aircraft from the World War II. The Mosquito was a successful design. Originally intended to be a bomber, the type was very fast, could fly a long way and carry heavy loads. Therefore, it was and it was adapted to a number of other roles such as fighter, night fighter, night intruder, attack, reconnaissance and pathfinder.
Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key (sometimes labeled as: ← ) that originally pushed the typewriter carriage one position backwards, and for modern computer screens, moves the cursor one position backwards, deletes the preceding character, and shifts back the text after it by one position.
In typewriters, a typist would, for example, type a lowercase letter "a" with acute accent (á) by typing a lowercase letter "a" then backspace, and then the acute accent key (also known as overstrike). This is the basis for such spacing modifiers in computer character sets such as the ASCII caret (^, for the circumflex accent). Backspace composition no longer works with digital displays or typesetting systems. It has to some degree been replaced with the combining diacritical marks mechanism of Unicode, though such characters do not work well with many fonts, and precomposed characters continue to be used. Some software like TeX or Microsoft Windows use the opposite method for diacritical marks, namely positioning the accent first, and then placing the base letter at that position.
Pressing the backspace key on a computer terminal would generate the ASCII code 08, BS or Backspace, a control code which would delete the preceding character. That control code could also be accessed by pressing Control-H, as H is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet. Terminals which did not have the backspace code mapped to the function of moving the cursor backwards and deleting the preceding character would display the symbols ^H (caret, H – see Caret notation) when the backspace key was pressed. This sequence is still used humorously for epanorthosis by computer literates, denoting the deletion of a pretended blunder, much like a strikethrough.
Example:
My slave-dri^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hboss decided to stall the project.
A more concise alternative sometimes seen is ^W, which is the shortcut to delete the previous word in the Berkeley Unix terminal line discipline. One ^W can replace a whole string of ^H's. This shortcut has also made it into the Vi text editor. For really embarrassing blunders, ^U (kill line) can outdo a series of ^W.
The backspace is distinct from the delete key, which in paper media for computers would punch out all the holes to strike out a character, and in modern computers deletes text following it. Also, the delete key often works as a generic command to remove an object (such as an image inside a document, or a file in a file manager), while backspace usually has no effect.
In modern systems, the backspace key is often mapped to the delete character (0x7f in ASCII or Unicode), although the backspace key's function of deleting the character before the cursor remains.
In a mainframe environment, to backspace means to move a magnetic tape backwards, typically to the previous block.
The backspace key is commonly used to go back a page when exploring folders in graphical environments, or when browsing the Web in web browsers.
Blackpool Illuminations
Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for sixty six days. It starts from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end. Dubbed as The greatest free light show on earth, they are 6 miles (10 km) long and use over one million bulbs.
Lecumberry
Lecumberry is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Marco van Basten
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born 31 October 1964) is a former Dutch footballer. He was most recently the manager of the Netherlands national football team. He had to quit playing football early because of an injury that kept him from playing for more than a year.
Losin' It
Losin' It is a 1983 Canadian American sex comedy movie directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, Henry Darrow, Mario Marcelino, Rick Rossovich.
Marco van Basten
Van Basten was known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys. He is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time.
Honours
Ajax
A.C. Milan
Netherlands
Individual
Think for Yourself
"Think for Yourself" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was first released on the band's 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written by the band's lead guitarist George Harrison. Some people think that the song tells the listener to think independantly in a political way, but it can also be seen as a love song. The song had influences from Bob Dylan. The song also has a fuzz bass played by Paul McCartney.
Personnel
According to Ian MacDonald:
Fleetwood Weekly News
The Fleetwood Weekly News is a weekly newspaper based in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England. It is published every week, on a Wednesday, which covers Fleetwood and North Fylde.
Gesta Danorum
Gesta Danorum (Deeds of the Danes) is a chronicle of Danish history. It was written by the 12-th century historian Saxo Grammaticus. This work is the most significant for the Danish nation's early history.
Gesta Danorum consists of sixteen books written in Latin.
Fluoroantimonic acid
Fluoroantimonic acid is a mixture of hydrogen fluoride and Antimony pentafluoride. This substance is a superacid that can be more than 1015 times stronger than pure sulfuric acid, depending on the proportion of its ingredients. Extreme care must be taken when handling and storing fluoroantimonic acid, as it is exceptionally corrosive. For example, it cannot be contained directly in glass containers as it will dissolve glass, but can be stored in containers lined with PTFE (Teflon).
James McDivitt
James Alton McDivitt (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs.
McDivitt died on October 13, 2022 in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 93.
Loeuilly
Loeuilly is a former commune. It is in the region Picardie in the Somme department in the north of France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Ô-de-Selle.
Tauves
Tauves is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Puy-de-Dôme department in central France.
Twin towns
Tauves is twinned with:
Pia, Pyrénées-Orientales
Pia is a commune. It is in Occitanie in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in south France.
Legé
Legé is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.
Ofisa Tonu'u
Ofisa Francis Junior Tonu'u was born 3 February, 1970 in Wellington. He was a Samoan-New Zealand rugby player who played from 1992 to 1998 and also played cricket for Samoa in 2019.
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Atchison, Kansas
Atchison is a city and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, and is along the Missouri River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 11,021. The city is named for David Rice Atchison, United States senator from Missouri. It was the original eastern starting point of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Aviator Amelia Earhart was born there. The Amelia Earhart Festival is held every year in July. Atchison is also home of Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal-arts college.
Founding
Atchison was founded in 1854. It was named for Senator David Rice Atchison, who, when Kansas was opened for settlement, interested some of his friends in the scheme of forming a city in the new territory. Senator Atchison was interested in making sure that the population of the new Kansas Territory would be mainly pro-slavery. He had been a prominent promoter of both slavery and the idea of popular sovereignty over the issue in the new lands. However, it seems that all were not agreed upon the location he had selected. On July 20, 1854, Dr. John H. Stringfellow, Ira Norris, Leonidas Oldham, James B. Martin and Neal Owens left Platte City, Missouri, to decide definitely upon a site. They found a site that was the natural outlet of a remarkably rich agricultural region just open to settlement. Eighteen persons were present when the town company was formally organized by electing Peter T. Abell, president. James Burns was elected treasurer. Dr. Stringfellow was elected the town secretary.
Civil War
At the outbreak of the American Civil War there were three militia companies organized in Atchison. They joined other Kansas regiments. They were known as Companies A, C and “At All Hazards”. Early in September 1861, a home guard was organized in the town to protect it in case of invasion from Missouri. On the 15th of the month another company was raised, which later became a state regiment. In 1863 the city of Atchison raised $4,000 to assist the soldiers from the county. After the Lawrence Massacre a like sum was raised to assist the stricken people of that city. Citizens of the town also joined the vigilance committees that aided the civil authorities in protection against raiding and the lawless bands of thieves that infested the border counties.
During the war, Atchison was also the headquarters of numerous bands of jayhawkers. This included the notorious Charles Metz, who was known as "Cleveland". Metz, a former prisoner at the Missouri State Penitentiary, selected Atchison as his headquarters for raids into Missouri. He was accepted with open arms by the people of the town. During his period of operations, he stole hundreds of horses from Missouri farmers and sold them in Kansas. He robbed any suspected southern sympathizer and threatened several leading citizens with murder and robbery if they remained in town. He even ran off the first president of Atchison, P.T. Abell, who was forced into exile until after the Civil War ended. He defied all authorities but was finally shot and killed at some point in 1862. He is buried in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Susa
Susa (τά Σοῦσα) was an ancient Iranian city. It was part of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains. It is about 250 km east of the Tigris River and is between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers. There is a modern Iranian town in the same place as Susa. It is called Shush.
Ledeuix
Ledeuix is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
John Barnes Wells
John Barnes Wells (October 17, 1880 - August 8, 1935) was "one of the best-known concert singers in New York." He was a popular singer. He was on many 78-rpm recordings released in the early 1900s. He starred in the 1903 musical theater production of The Wizard of Oz. One of his last performances was in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1933).
Biography
He was born on October 17, 1880 in Ashley, Pennsylvania. He died on August 8, 1935 in Roxbury, New York.
Voiceless labial–velar fricative
The voiceless labial-velar fricative is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is in some dialects of English, written as wh and appearing in the word what.
21st century
The 21st century is the current century. It began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 2100.
Years
Note: movie years before or after the twenty-first century are in italics.
Liercourt
Liercourt is a commune. It is in the region Picardie in the Somme department in the north of France.
1989 Brazilian presidential election
President José Sarney of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the MBD's successor, was ineligible to run. Popular Governor of Alagoas Fernando Collor de Mello resigned as governor to run for president. His television campaign ads made him from a dark horse candidate to a front-runner presidential candidate. Collor chose Senator Itamar Franco as his running mate.
Popular labor leader and member of the Chamber of Deputies Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, ran as a progressive left-wing political candidate. Lula was widely known in Brazil for his role leading the highly publicized metalworkers' strike during the late 1970s. Lula ran as a member of the Workers' Party (PT).
In the first round of voting, Collor won 30.48% of the vote against Lula's 17.19%. In the second round, Collor defeated Lula, winning 53.03% against 46.97%. Collor became the first democratically-elected President of Brazil in almost thirty years. Collor would later resign from office because of an impeachment trial.
Geely
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd (ZGH), commonly known as Geely, is a Chinese car company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Geely was established in 1986 and entered the automotive industry in 1997 with its Geely Auto subsidiary. Geely Auto is currently the seventh largest automobile manufacturer in China, with 1.328 million sales in China in 2021. Globally, the group sold over 2.2 million cars in 2021, and over 17,926 plug-in electric vehicles in January 2022. and makes cars under the brands Geely, Geometry, Jidu, LEVC, Lotus, Lynk & Co, Maple, Polestar, Proton, Radar, Volvo, Zeekr and Zhidou ,
19th century
The 19th century was the century from 1801 to 1900. Most of this century is normally called the Victorian period because Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom. The Industrial Revolution started in this century in most western countries. George Burns was also born in the 19th century until he died at the age of 100 in 1996.
Music
Sonata form matured during the Classical era to become the primary form of instrumental compositions throughout the 19th century. Much of the music from the 19th century was referred to as being in the Romantic style. Many great composers lived through this era such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. The list includes:
Hesperocallis
Hesperocallis is a genus of flowering plants that includes a single species, Hesperocallis undulata, the desert lily, found in the desert areas of the southwest of North America.
Hesperocallis has traditionally been classified in Liliaceae but until recently its relationships have been unclear. Other classifications have included it in Hemerocallidaceae or Funkiaceae. In 1972, Hamilton Traub created the family Hesperocallidaceae with Hesperocallis as the sole included genus. The APG II system includes it in the family Asparagaceae in the order Asparagales in the monocots clade but allows for the optional segregation of Hesperocallidaceae as a monophyletic family when several other families are likewise segregated. Recent molecular systematic studies have confirmed a close relationship with Agave and its inclusion in family Agavaceae has been recommended (Pires et al. 2004).
Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation
The Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation are the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The ranks has changed very little since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. The term "masonry" can also refer to the units themselves.
The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile. Masonry is generally a highly durable form of construction.
Applications
Masonry is commonly used for the walls of buildings, retaining walls and monuments. Brick is the most common type of masonry. Concrete block masonry is rapidly gaining in popularity as a comparable material.
Ligescourt
Ligescourt is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Somme department in the north of France. In 2012, 231 people lived there.
Akuoma Omeoga
Akuoma Ugo Tracy Omeoga is a Nigerian bobsledder from USA. Omeoga competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics. She was born on 22 June 1992.
Kohala
Kohala is an extinct shield volcano in Hawaii. It is the oldest of five volcanoes on the Big Island, forming its northwestern part.
History
Around a million years ago, Kohala started erupting. Its last eruption was 120,000 years ago, meaning it's likely extinct. The other volcanoes on the Big Island are either active or dormant. 250,000 to 300,000 years ago, a massive landslide destroyed much of the mountain.
Kamehameha I, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was born near Kohala in 1758.
Vair-sur-Loire
Vair-sur-Loire is a commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Saint-Herblon (the seat) and Anetz.
Evans County, Georgia
Evans County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, 10,774 people lived there. The county seat is Claxton.
Bahama Passage
Bahama Passage is a 1941 American romantic drama movie directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Sterling Hayden, Madeleine Carroll, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll, Cecil Kellaway, Leigh Whipper, Dorothy Dandridge. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Filip Vujanović
Filip Vujanović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Филип Вујановић, ) (born 1 September 1954 ; in Belgrade,SFR Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin politician. He was the 3rd President of Montenegro from 2003 to 2018. He was the country's first president since its independence in June 2006.
Early life
In 1978 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade.
From March 1978 to November 1980, he was an employee of the municipal and district prosecutor's office in Belgrade.
From November 1980 to January 1981, he worked as a court clerk at the District Court of Titograd.
In 1982-1993 he was engaged in advocacy.
From March 1993 to May 1995, Minister of Justice of Montenegro.
From February 5, 1998 to November 5, 2002, Chairman of the Government of Montenegro as part of Yugoslavia.
Since November 5, 2002, Chairman of the Assembly of the Union Republic of Montenegro.
Since November 25, 2002, after the resignation of Milo Djukanovic he became acting president.
May 11, 2003 elected President of Montenegro; the inauguration took place on 22 May.
He was a supporter of NATO integration of Montenegro.
Sj-sound
The sj-sound is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in Swedish. The sound has been described as a palato-velar fricative, often labialised.
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (born 21 November 1942) is a German politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1979 until 1987, she was a member of the European Parliament. Between 1998 until 2009, she was Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Schirmeck
Schirmeck is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France.
Province of Prato
The Province of Prato (Provincia di Prato) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Prato. It was formed from part of the province of Florence in 1992.
The province has an area of 365 km² and a total population of 227,886 (2001). There are 7 comune (municipalities) in the province.
PFC Levski Sofia
Levski (Левски) is a professional association football team from Sofia, Bulgaria. The team plays in the First Professional Football League. With 26 league titles, it is one of the most successful teams in Bulgaria. The club is named after Vasil Levski, and was founded on 24 May 1914. The team's home stadium is Vivacom Arena - Georgi Asparuhov Stadium.
The club's nicknames are Sinite (The blues), Otbora na naroda (The Team of the People) and Sinyata lavina (The Blue Avalanche).
Domestic
Bulgarian A Group
Bulgarian Cup
Bulgarian Supercup
Tsar's Cup / Cup of the Soviet Army / Cup of Bulgaria
Ulpia Serdika Cup
International
Balkans Cup
Regional
Sofia Championship
Chiara Zanni
Chiara Zanni (born July 19, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress and voice actress. She is known for her role as "Amy" in The N's television series About a Girl.
Biography
Raised in Vancouver, Chiara started her career at the age of 8, when won a talent contest called Search for a Star. She was cast as the "Pokey Little Puppy" in a cartoon called Little Golden Book Land and has not stopped working since. Chiara has acted in the feature movies X-Men: X2, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Almost America, In the Land of Women, and Good Luck Chuck.
Her TV appearances include Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, Edgemont, Trophy Wife, Bye Bye Birdie, First to Die, and Post Mortem. She has also done voice acting, including roles in Hamtaro, Trollz, My Little Pony, Polly Pockets, Barbie Fairytopia, X-Men Evolution, Sabrina, Bionicle, Inuyasha, and Storm Hawks.
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book is a book written by Sei Shōnagon c. 994. Sei Shōnagon was a member of the Kiyohara family. She wrote the notes that made up her diary (or "pillow book") while she was a member of the court of Empress Sadako. The book is a classic of Japanese literature. It is one of two of the greatest examples of prose literature of this time period. It is a collection of pieces of writing that vary from one or two sentences to several pages. It is the author's observations of people, life at court, and nature.
Lembeye
Lembeye is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific (or Saltpeter War) took place from 1879-1883. It grew out of a dispute between Bolivia and Peru against Chile over control of a part of the Pacific coast. The disputed area was part of the Atacama Desert that lies between the 23rd and 26th parallels. The territory contained valuable mineral resources, mainly potassium nitrate, which were exploited by Chilean companies and British interests. The Bolivian government decided to increase taxes to take advantage of the increasing income of the region, which led to a commercial dispute.
The early part of the war was mostly at sea, and the late part mostly on land. Chile won, and Bolivia lost its access to the ocean and became landlocked.
Schirrhein
Schirrhein is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France.
Fade (audio engineering)
In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase (fade-in) or decrease (fade-out) in the level of an audio signal. The term can also be used for film cinematography or theatre lighting, in much the same way (see: fade (filmmaking)).
A recorded song may be gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or may gradually increase from silence at the beginning (fade-in). For example, the songs "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve and "Turn to Stone" by Electric Light Orchestra fade in from the beginning, while the songs "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey, and "Hey Jude" by The Beatles fade out. However, "Born to be Wild" and "Boogie Oogie Oogie" fade out in a matter of seconds, whereas "Hey Jude" takes over 2 minutes to completely fade out. "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp takes about a minute to fade out. Fading-out can serve as a recording solution for pieces of music that contain no obvious ending.
Though relatively rare, songs can fade out, then fade back in. Some examples of this are "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles, "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley, "Thank You" by Led Zeppelin or "Undercover of the Night" by The Rolling Stones.
The term fade is also used in multi-speaker audio systems to describe the balancing of power between front and rear channels.
Origins and early examples
"Neptune", part of the orchestral suite, The Planets, by Gustav Holst, was an early piece of music to have a fade-out ending. Holst stipulates that the women's choruses are "to be placed in an adjoining room, the door of which is to be left open until the last bar of the piece, when it is to be slowly and silently closed", and that the final bar (scored for choruses alone) is "to be repeated until the sound is lost in the distance". Although commonplace today, the effect bewitched audiences in the era before widespread recorded sound—after the initial 1918 run-through, Holst's daughter, Imogen (in addition to watching the charwomen dancing in the aisles during "Jupiter") remarked that the ending was "unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence".
The technique of ending a spoken or musical recording by fading out the sound goes back to the earliest days of recording. In the era of mechanical (pre-electrical) recording, this could only be achieved by either moving the sound source away from the recording horn, or by gradually reducing the volume at which the performers were singing, playing or speaking. With the advent of electrical recording, smooth and controllable fadeout effects could be easily achieved by simply reducing the input volume from the microphones using the fader on the mixing desk.
No single recording can be reliably identified as "the first" to use the technique. In 2003, on the (now-defunct) website Stupid Question, John Ruch listed the following recordings as possible contenders:
The earliest such recording anybody could name for me is an 1894 78 rpm record called "The Spirit of ’76", a narrated musical vignette with martial fife-and-drum that gets louder as it 'nears' the listener and quieter as it 'moves away'. ....
As a film buff, I have a gut feeling that movies were an influence here. Fade-ins and fade-outs are cinematic devices that begin and end scenes—film language that developed at the same time as these early recordings. The term 'fade-out' itself is of cinematic origin, appearing in print around 1918. And jazz, a favorite of early records, was a popular subject of early movies, too."
Fader
A fader is any device used for fading, especially when it is a knob or button that slides along a track or slot. A knob which rotates is usually not considered a fader, although it is electrically and functionally equivalent. A fader can be either analogue, directly controlling the resistance or impedance to the source (e.g. a Potentiometer); or digital, numerically controlling a digital signal processor (DSP). Digital faders are also referred to as virtual faders, since they can be viewed on the screen of a digital audio workstation. Modern high-end digital mixers often have piezo-electric actuators attached to the faders such that they can be multi-use and will jump to the correct position for the selected function and/or saved setting.
Crossfading
A crossfader on a dj mixer essentially functions like two faders connected side-by-side, but in opposite directions. It allows a DJ to fade one source out while fading another source in at the same time. This is extremely useful when beatmatching two phonograph records or compact discs.
The technique of crossfading is also used in audio engineering as a mixing technique, particularly with instrumental solos. A mix engineer will often record two or more takes of a vocal or instrumental part and create a final version which is a composite of the best passages of these takes by crossfading between each track.
In the perfect case the crossfader would keep constant output level. However, there's no standard how this should be achieved. Many DJ equipment manufacturers offer different mixers for different purposes (e.g. scratching, beatmixing, cut mixing, etc.). High-end mixers often have crossfade curve switches allowing the DJ to select the type of crossfade necessary. Experienced DJs are also able to crossfade between tracks using the channel faders.
There are many software applications that feature virtual crossfaders. For instance, burning-software for the recording of audio-CDs.
Pre-fader, post-fader
If a send mix is configured pre-fader, then changes to the main channel strip fader does not affect the send mix. This is useful for stage monitor mixes where changes in the Front of House channel levels would distract the musicians.
If a send mix is configured post-fader, then the level sent to the send mix follows changes to the main channel strip fader. This is useful for reverberation and other signal processor effects.
Ignaucourt
Ignaucourt is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Somme department in the north of France.
Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American movie director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular movie were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939). He won an Academy Award for Best Directing in 1939.
Saint-Herblon
Saint-Herblon is a former commune. It is in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Vair-sur-Loire.
Dutch Golden Age painting
There was a period in the 17th century, where Dutch trade, science and art were among the most advanced in Europe. The period is known as the Dutch Golden Age. In general, this period started in the second half of the Eighty Years' War. After the war, there was the Dutch Republic which was the most propsperous nation in Europe. The historical period of the time was called Baroque. Many of the paintings of this period show the scenes more pretty than they really were. This is called 'idealisation'. The Dutch paintings of the time often lack this feature. Artists of the movement include Peter Paul Rubens, Johannes Vermeer, Bartholomeus van der Helst, and Jacob van Loo.
Victor Fleming
Fleming died of a heart attack while on his way to the hospital in Cottonwood, Arizona, aged 59.