cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Kohei Saito
His book, "Marx in the Anthropocene : Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism" (人新世のマルクス：脱成長のコミュニズムへの道) became a surprise best-seller. It is especially popular with younger Japanese people. It is part of a new popularity for Marx in Japan.
Oona Chaplin
She is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, the granddaughter of the English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and the great-granddaughter of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Manassas, Virginia
Manassas is a city in Virginia in the United States. There were 37,821 people living in the area, according to 2010 census.
Julieta Serrano
Julieta Serrano Romero (born 2 January 1933) is a Spanish actress. In September 2018 she was awarded by the Premio Nacional de Teatro. Her best known roles were in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Dark Habits (1983) and Teatro de siempre (1966). Serrano appeared in many movies directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
Hidekazu Otani
Hidekazu Otani (born 6 November 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kashiwa Reysol.
Club career statistics
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Karak Governorate
The Karak Governorate (محافظة الكرك) is one of the 12 governorates in Jordan. The capital of the governorate is the city of Al Karak.
Transclusion
Transclusion is a way to use content from one electronic document, in another document without having to copy the content from one to the other. If the original content is changed, the change will automatically show in the article that is using the trancluded content. The two documents are connected by hypertext. The word is a combination of trans, meaning across and inclusion, so it means including something that is brought across from another place.
On Wikipedia, this is usually used for putting content from a special article called a template into other articles, but the method also works for other kinds of article.
When you put the double braces  around a page name, the program reading the wiki source code and converting it to HTML so it will display on a browser. Software will see that you wish to add the content of the named page at that point, and will go read it, convert it to html and add it at that point before continuing with converting the rest of the source code of the original page to html. That is transclusion. You refer to the page to be transcluded by naming it in braces, which is called referencing.
There are ways to exclude parts of the transcluded page, and ways to transclude part of a page, like just a section, but that does not change the basic concept.
A transcluded page may also include transclusions of other pages. This is called nesting. It can be done a moderate number of times, with one page transcluding others, which may each tranclude others, again and again. There is a limit to how many levels of transclusion are allowed to prevent accidental or intentional infinite loops, which will cause the translating program to get stuck.
George Butler (filmmaker)
George Tyssen Butler (12 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a British-American filmmaker and photographer. Some of his most popular movies were Pumping Iron, The Endurance movie trilogy and Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. and Roving Mars.
Rollamienta
Rollamienta is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Triprion
Triprion or shovel-headed tree frogs is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in Mexico and Guatemala. They live on the Pacific side of the mountains (west side), the Yucatán Peninsula, and Guatemala. These frogs hide in tree-holes and put their bony heads against the opening of the hole to close it.
Species
Scientists say there are three species in this genus:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy played the role of President of Ukraine in the hugely popular 2015 television series Servant of the People. The political party Servant of the People was created in March 2018 by people from the TV production company Kvartal 95 who also created the TV series of the same name.
Zelenskyy ran for president as a populist and anti-corruption candidate in the 2019 election. He defeated incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in a landslide victory, winning 73.2% of the vote.
Early life
Zelenskyy was born 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR in a secular Ukrainian Jewish family. His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics. His mother, Rymma Zelenska, worked as an engineer. Before going to school Volodymyr lived for four years in Mongolia where his father worked at that time.
Zelenskyy earned a law degree from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics. He fluently speaks Ukrainian and Russian.
Acting career
In 2008, he starred in the feature film Love in the Big City, and its sequel, Love in the Big City 2. Zelenskyy also played the main role in the movie Office Romance, Our Time, Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon, Love in the Big City 3, 8 First Dates, etc.
In 2015, Zelenskyy became the main actor of the popular Ukrainian television series Servant of the People, where he played the role of the President of Ukraine.
Presidency
Zelenskyy was the front-runner in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. Six months before he announced his candidacy on 31 December 2018, he was already one of the frontrunners in opinion polls for the election.
In September 2019 it was reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had pressured Zelenskyy during a July phone call between the two Presidents to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. This led to the Trump–Ukraine scandal and the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump which would result in Trump's impeachment.
During 2021–2022, Zelenskyy's administration faced intense tensions with Russia and President Vladimir Putin. This led to the launch of an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. Zelenskyy's strategy during the Russian military buildup was to calm the Ukrainian population and work with the international community that Ukraine was not going to fight back. At first, he distanced himself from warnings of a future war, while also wanting security guarantees and military support from NATO. After the start of the invasion, Zelenskyy declared martial law across Ukraine.
Zelenskyy became well known around the world during the invasion as the wartime leader of Ukraine. He has been compared to Winston Churchill. He is seen as a national hero or a "global hero" by many political commentators and newspapers.
In December 2022, Zelenskyy along with the Spirit of Ukraine were named Time Person of the Year.
Personal life
In September 2003, Zelenskyy married Olena Kiyashko. They have one daughter and one son. Zelenskyy's first language is Russian, and he is also fluent in Ukrainian and English. His net worth is about 37 million hryvnias (about US$1.5 million) in 2018.
Lil Pump
Gazzy Garcia (born August 17, 2000), known professionally as Lil Pump, is an American rapper. Garcia is known for his hyperactive public persona, where he is often portrayed taking drugs, particularly marijuana, lean and Xanax;  he is also known for shouting his catchphrase "Esskeetit" (a shortened version of "Let's get it"). He can often be seen on social media engaging in unwise behavior. Garcia was named as one of the 30 Under 30 by Forbes in 2019.
Lil Pump rose to popularity in 2017, after he released his song "Gucci Gang", which peaked at number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He has since released other songs, including "I Love It" (with Kanye West), "Esskeetit", "Drug Addicts", "Butterfly Doors", "Racks on Racks", and "Be Like Me" (featuring Lil Wayne). He released his first studio album Lil Pump in October 2017. His song "Welcome to the Party" was featured in the soundtrack for Deadpool 2. He released his second studio album Harverd Dropout on February 22, 2019.
Early Life
Gazzy was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Gazzy was resicuted from school when he was in the tenth grade as a result of fighting and participation in riot.
Personal Life
Garcia has dyslexia, which as a result he can't read as he stated in social media.
Martinsville, Virginia
Martinsville is a city in Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 census, there were 13,821 people living there.
Nabeel Qureshi
Nabeel Qureshi (April 13, 1983 – September 16, 2017) was an American Christian apologist writer and speaker, converted from Islam to Christianity. He was born in California.
Qureshi was a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and the author of three books, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Zondervan, February 2014), Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward (Zondervan, March 2016), and No God But One—Allah or Jesus (Zondervan, August 2016).
Norton, Virginia
Norton is a city in Virginia in the United States.
Salduero
Salduero is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Lumpenproletariat
In Marxism, the Lumpenproletariat ("rag-proletariat" in German) is class of people who are at lowest level of society and do not have class consciousness (awareness about their place in the class struggle). Generally they are unemployable or are criminals.
655
655 was a common year.
Pazyryk rug
The Pazyryk rug is one of the oldest carpets in the world, dating around the 4th–3rd centuries BC. It is now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Pazyryk rug was found in 1949 in the grave of a Scythian nobleman in the Bolshoy Ulagan dry valley of the Altai Mountains in Kazakhstan. The Pazyryk rug had been frozen in the ice and it was very well preserved. The rug has a ribbon pattern in the middle, and a border which has deer, and warriors riding on horses. All parts of the rug are made of wool, including the pile and the base.
Being produced either in Ancient Armenia, Persia, or Central Asia, this carpet has 3600 symmetrical double knots per dm² (232 per inch²), in modern terminology also called "Ghiordes knot (or "Turkish knot").  The design and the systematic motifs of the Pazyryk rug would later be found in similar Turkmen carpets,  carpets of the early Seljuq period, and subsequently modern Turkish carpets and kilims.
Origins
The origin of the rug is unknown. There are different theories regarding the origin of the carpet. While a number of scholars presume a Oghuz-Turkic origin, Volkmar Gantzhorn assumes a Urartian and Armenian origin of the rug. A Persian theory also exists, but has not been further elaborated; The rug may have originated between the Iranian-Altaian corridor through ancient contacts. Some authors assume that the wool, the artistic conception, as well as the workmanship, may have been provided by Armenians of the Near East; The rug itself is considered as a Sakic funeral accessory. Although a previous study in 1983/1985 did not support an involvement of Armenian cochineal, a Soviet-based conference held in Riga (1987) still maintained the claim that the red threads of the rug resemble those of the Armenian cochineal type. Later it was found by an American research center (Bard Graduate Center, 1991) that the bluish-red color used for the rug and other felts was actually made from Polish cochineal (Porphyrophora polonica), a scale insect native to Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Western Siberia, or from one of the Porphyrophora species recently discovered in Kazakhstan: P. Altaiensis, P. Turaigiriensis (Jashenko, 1988), P. Akirtobiensis (Jashenko, 1988), P. eremospartonae (Jashenko, 1989), and P. matesovae (Jashenko, 1989). Armenian authors, however, still insist in the Soviet-based perception of 1987. Further confirmation on the nature of Ararat Kermes of the Armenian cochineal gained by the analysis of Porphyrophora hameli insects in 1990 by Harald Böhmer, has shown that the Pazyryk rug cannot have been dyed with this insect.
Armenian interpretation
Gantzhorn supports the view that the Pazyryk rug is of Armenian origin. He put forward the hypothesis that the rug is actually not depicting Scythians, but Armenians. He found similarities at the ruins of Persepolis in Iran where various nations are depicted as bearing tribute, the horse design from the Pazyryk carpet is the same as the relief depicting part of the Armenian delegation. Gantzhorn and Schurmann further stated, that the rug is weaved with the armenian double knot technique, and the red filaments color was made from Armenian cochineal.
Minoo Mumtaz
Minoo Mumtaz (born Malikunnisa Ali; 26 April 1942 – 23 October 2021) was an Indian actress and dancer. Mumtaz appeared in many Hindi movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Mumtaz was born in Mumbai, India. Her career began in 1954. Her best known roles were in Kaagaz Ke Phool, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam and Gazal.
Mumtaz died of cancer at a hospital in Toronto, Canada on 23 October 2021 at the age of 79.
The Clash (Album)
The Clash is the first album-length recording made by the English punk band The Clash. It was released twice. Both releases are still in print: the original version in 1977 and the changed U.S. version in 1979 (with several post-1977 single sides added to the album).
Track listing
All tracks were written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, except where noted.
Side one
Tracks 1, 3–4, 6–8 are sung by Joe Strummer. Tracks 2 and 5 are sung by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones.
Microsoft Office Online
Microsoft Office Online is the website of Microsoft Office. It has images, articles, templates, downloads and other attractions.
Trivia
By November 2004, Microsoft Office Online received over 52 million visitors, with over 746 million page views, ranking it in the top 100 sites worldwide.
Marisa Paredes
María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé (born 3 April 1946), known professionally as Marisa Paredes, is a Spanish actress. She has appeared in famous Spanish and English language movies, including In a Glass Cage (1986), Life Is Beautiful (1998), Deep Crimson (1996) and The Devil's Backbone (2001).
Tulkarm
Tulkarm (طولكرم) is a Palestinian city on the West Bank. It is a large, old and famous city.
George Clayton Johnson
George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer. He was most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan, the basis for the 1976 movie.
He was also known for his television screenplays for The Twilight Zone (such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool", and "A Penny for Your Thoughts"), and the first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 movie Ocean's Eleven were based.
Nord-Est (department)
Nord-Est (English: North-East) is one of the ten departments (French: départments, singular départment) of Haiti. It is in the northeastern corner of the country, along the border with the Dominican Republic. Its capital is Fort-Liberté.
Platanaceae
Platanaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family has only one genus platanus. This genus has six to ten species of tall trees. The trees grow naturally in temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In all species, the flowers grow in dense groups of small flowers. The fruits are small achenes with hairs near the base.
Nord-Est (department)
After the Haitian Revolution, the country was divided into only three departments: Nord, Ouest and Sud. The Nord-Est department was part of the Nord department.
Geography
The Départment du Nord-Est, with an area of 1,805 km², is the second smallest department of Haiti; only the Nippes department is smaller.
George Clayton Johnson
Johnson died of bladder and prostate cancer on December 25, 2015 at a hospital in North Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 86. His death was falsely reported on December 22.
Nord-Est (department)
Geography
The only important river in the province is the Dajabón River, known also as Massacre. This river marks the Dominican-Haitian border from the Dominican city of Dajabón to its mouth.
The Massif du Nord mountain range, known in the Dominican Republic as Cordillera Central, runs from the northwest to the southeast along the southern half of the department.
San Felices
San Felices is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Nord-Est (department)
Geography
The Pleine du Nord (in English, "Northern Plain"), with several savannas, is in the northern half of the department.
Population
The department had, in the 2003 census, a population of 308,385 persons: 150,525 men and 157,860 women, with 117,872 (38.22%) living in cities and towns. The population density was, in that year, of 171 persons/km².
The main cities are Fort-Liberté (the capital) and Ouanaminthe.
Administrative division
The department is divided into four arrondissements (like districts) and 13 communes (like municipalities). The "arrondissements" and their "communes" are:
Economy
The main economic activity in the department is agriculture, with many very small farms where beans, peanut, maize and other things are grown. In the mountains, coffee is grown.
Fishing is an important activity along the coast, and commerce is the main activity in Ouanaminthe.
Babur
Babur Mirza, full name Mirza Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in South Asia. He was the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza, governor of Farghana.
Plans of the conquest of India
In 1525 Babur set out to attack and conquer India. He had only about twelve thousand men with him but he had been promised help by Daulat Khan Lodi, the governor of Punjab. They planned to march together against the ruling Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, who was the King of Delhi at that time. When Babur reached India, the government was afraid to help him, and eventually backed out, and so Babur started off to Delhi by himself with his small army of men.
Ibrahim Lodi was reported to have one hundred thousand men and one hundred elephants. But Babur had something which Ibrahim did not have – heavy guns and cannons, the first proper Turkic style artillery seen in medieval India. There were hardly any guns at that time in India and Babur had managed to get hold of some in Kabul. He had cannons and some firearms as well. He met Ibrahim Lodi and his army at Panipat in modern Haryana.
The two armies met at the famous First battle of Panipat, at a small village near Delhi. Both armies remained in position opposite each other for a week before the battle began. Babur was an excellent general and he planned the battle very carefully as conquering Delhi was indeed very important to him. After the battle about fifteen thousand men of the enemy were killed including their commander Ibrahim Lodi.
Consolidating victory
Babur had to fight more major battles, the battles of Khanua and Gogra. In 1527 A.D. he had to face a fierce enemy of his at Khanua, the Rajput hero, Rana Sangram (or Sanga)of Mewar. A ferocious battle was fought between the two in the field of Khanua and Babur won the battle.
In 1529 A.D., Babur got into a battle with the Afghans. Babur won, but the Afghans were not totally weakened. They joined hands with Mahmud Lodi, the brother of Ibrahim Lodi, to fight Babur again. But Babur approached forward and was a successful winner of this Battle in Gogra.
DNA
Test of living male descendant show's Y-DNA R-M198 (R1A1).
Visual Studio Tools for Office
Visual Studio Tools for Office (Sometime written as VSTO) is an add-on product for Microsoft's Visual Studio product that enables developers to create applications using Microsoft Office.
Groove Armada
Groove Armada is an English rap/techno/rock duo. The duo consists of two male members. Their recording label is Columbia Records. Their album Black Light was nominated for best electronic/dance album at the Grammy Awards.
Ucero
Ucero is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Apache
Apache is the name for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the southwestern United States. They hunted deer and they also ate berries and lots of fruit.They were nomadic which meant that they followed food and never stayed in one place for a long period of time. They are from the second migration of Native Americans which were the Na Dene which also includes the Chipewyan and the Cheyenne of Canada. Evidence proves that the Na Dene came from the Ket people of Siberia.
RCA Studio II
Build-in games
The RCA Studio II has 5 games that are build in the ROM of the console itself. These were:
Cartridge games
The following is a list of all RCA II games that were released on cartridges:
Successors
The successor of the RCA Studio II is the RCA Studio III. This console can display color and uses the RCA CDP-1802 as microprocessor.
Martha Gunn
Martha Gunn (1726-1815) was a famous dipper in Brighton, England. She was a favourite of the then Prince of Wales, the future George IV.
Career
Martha's work as a dipper or bather involved running a bathing machine. She would have pushed this type of machine in and out of the sea. She would have also been responsible for helping the bather who is using the machine to get into and out of the water. It involved a lot physical activity. Her job was something that suited her large build. Martha was a dipper for around 70 years. She was forced to retire through ill-health in 1814.
Fame
In another engraving, Martha is seen with the future George IV and his companion Maria Fitzherbet. She was a favourite of the future King, so much so that she had free access to the royal kitchens at the Pavilion. A portrait by John Russell of Martha is displayed in the Brighton Royal Pavilion's tea-room.
Personal life
Martha lived at 36 East Street in Brighton. The house still stands. Martha died in 1815 and is buried in the cemetery of Brighton's oldest church, St. Nicholas' Church. Her burial plot has a guarded headstone.
Ted Wheeler
Edward Tevis Wheeler (born August 31, 1962) is an American politician. He is the current mayor of Portland, Oregon. He was Oregon State Treasurer. He was appointed on March 9, 2010, to replace Ben Westlund, who died in office. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Benyoucef Benkhedda
Benyoucef Benkhedda (بن يوسف بن خدة; February 23, 1920 – February 4, 2003) was an Algerian politician. He headed the third GPRA exile government of the National Liberation Front (FLN).
Le Conquet
Le Conquet (Konk-Leon) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Mantra
In Hinduism and Hindu mythology, Mantra means a group of words. There are many such groups of words. Some mantras have meanings. However, there are many mantras which are just syllables, with or without any words. Such mantras do not carry meanings. From the ancient times, Hindus, as well as in many cases, texts of Buddhism and Jainism contain many mantras.
Traditionally, people associate the mantras with various powers. However, it is more a matter of individual faith and experience than a fact of science.
References
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (ISBN 0-500-51088-1) by Anna Dallapiccola https://vedic7.blogspot.com/2022/12/mantras.html
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (also known as Mario & Luigi RPG 3: Bowser's Inside Story) is a game for the Nintendo DS released in 2009. It is the third game in the Mario & Luigi series, after Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for the Game Boy Advance and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time also released for the Nintendo DS. Unlike the previous installments, this game was not rereleased for the Wii U's Virtual Console. The game was remade for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in December 2018 and worldwide in January 2019 titled Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. This is the second Mario & Luigi series after Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga to have a remake.
Brigham Young (movie)
Brigham Young is a 1940 American romantic adventure drama movie directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Mary Astor, Vincent Prince, Ann E. Todd, Moroni Olsen. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Captain New Japan
Mitsuhide Hirasawa (平澤 光秀) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He worked under a mask and is better known by his ring name Captain New Japan (キャプテン・ニュージャパン). He was known for his time with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). He is also known by his former ring name Hideo Saito (ヒデオ・サイトー).
Give 'Em Enough Rope
Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second album by The Clash. It was released in 1978. In the United States, this was their first official album because it was released before the U.S. version of The Clash. The album was well liked and got to number 2 in the UK chart, and number 128 in the U.S.
Track listing
All songs were written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, except where noted. All songs were arranged by The Clash. All lead vocals were by Strummer, except "Stay Free" by Jones.
Lesbos
Lesbos, also called Lesvos, is an island in Greece. It is in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It is one of 51 prefectures of Greece. The capital of Lesbos is the Mytilene. According to Classical Greek mythology, Lesbos was the patron god of the island.
The word 'lesbian' comes from Lesbos. An ancient poet, Sappho, lived on Lesbos. Many of her love poems are written to women.
Tennis for Two
Tennis for two (also known as Computer Tennis) is a video game from 1958. It simulates a tennis game and is one of the oldest known games in the history of computer and video games.
History
American physicist William Higinbotham designed the game in 1958 to present it at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's annual public exhibition. The game was first shown on October 18, 1958.
Peter Lassally
Peter Lassally (born 1933) is a German-born American executive television producer and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is a former Carson Productions executive. He was the executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, the Late Show with David Letterman and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Lens, Switzerland
Villages
Crans-sur-Sierre, Flanthey, Chelin, Vaas, Les Condémines, Saint-Clément and Valençon.
San Leonardo de Yagüe
San Leonardo de Yagüe is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
William McGonagall
William McGonagall (born Edinburgh, March 1825 – died Edinburgh, 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet. He thought he was good at writing poetry, but his poetry was often considered to be the worst poetry in the English language. He became famous because he was such a bad poet.
Life and poetry
William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family were originally Irish. McGonagall worked as a weaver in Dundee.
In 1877, when he was probably 52 years old, he suddenly found that he liked writing poetry. He wrote a poem about a local vicar and sent it to the Dundee Weekly News. The editor thought it was a joke, and he published it as a jokey poem.
McGonagall continued to write poetry. He read his poems in public and lots of people came to hear him. However, his audience had really come to laugh at him and throw rotten vegetables at him.
Mc Gonagall's poems have stupid rhymes, the words he uses are often silly and he mixes his imagery in clumsy ways. One of his most famous poems is about the Tay Bridge Disaster. It tells of a real event in 1879 when the bridge over the river Tay in Scotland collapsed and a train that was going over the bridge crashed, killing many people. Part of McGonagall's poem goes:
McGonagall did not seem to realise that people thought his poems were bad. He became disappointed that the town of Dundee did not recognize him as a great poet, so he went to Perth and then to Edinburgh. He continued to write poetry. He travelled to London because he had been given an invitation to meet the famous actor Sir Henry Irvine. However, someone had been playing a trick on him: the invitation was not a real one, and he was not let into the theatre.
McGonagall wrote some poetry about London while he was there. He wrote:
McGonagall was teetotal and often spoke against drinking alcohol. He thought that his audiences did not like his poetry because they had been drinking too much.
When he died in 1902 he was a very poor man.
McGonagall in popular culture
People still remember McGonagall's poems today and continue to make fun of them. The comedian Spike Milligan had a character called McGoonagall in The Goon Show. One episode of The Muppet Show had a character called Angus McGonagle. In the Harry Potter books, author J.K. Rowling chose the surname of the Professor of Transfiguration, Minerva McGonagall, because she had heard of McGonagall and loved the name.
There is a McGonagall Appreciation Society in McGonagall's home town of Dundee.
Coray
Coray (Kore) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Evermore (Taylor Swift album)
References
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Brandon Pirri
Brandon Pirri (born April 10, 1991, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He currently plays the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Mana (video game series)
Mana series known in Japan as Seiken Densetsu (lit. The Legend of the Sacred Sword) is an action role-playing video game released by SquareSoft (now Square Enix).
The series began with collaborations with Final Fantasy series called Final Fantasy Adventure (Seiken Densetsu in Japan and in Europe called Mystic Quest) on June 28, 1991. Later after the first game was released, the Mana series had a standalone unit with the second installment Secret of Mana that was released in 1993 for Game Boy. In 1995, their third installment, Trials of Mana was released on Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom, and at last Legend of Mana released on PlayStation. A remake of the original game, Sword of Mana (2003), was released for Game Boy Advance. All of the main original series were role-playing games, though they included a wide variety of gameplay mechanics, and the stories of the games were connected only thematically.
Brandon Pirri
On March 2, 2014, the Blackhawks traded Pirri to the Florida Panthers for a 2014 3rd round pick and a 2016 5th round pick.
Mana (video game series)
In 2006 and 2007, four more games was released as a part of World of Mana subseries, an attempt by Square Enix to release games in a series of variety genres and consoles. These series where the player can play Childern of Mana (2006), a dungeon crawler video game released on Nintendo DS. And Dawn of Mana, an 3D action-adventre game in 2007 for PlayStation 2, and also Heroes of Mana (2007) a real-time strategy for the DS. Three more games have been released, after the World of Mana subseries ended. Cirlcle of Mana (2013), a card-battle game only sale in Japan for the GREE mobile platform, one year later Rise of Mana a free-to-play action role-playing game only in Japan for iOS, Android, and PlayStation Vita. The last game Adventures of Mana a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure released in 2016, for the PlayStation Vita.
The Mana series has also released other games, such as Collection of Mana, Friends of Mana, Trials of Mana (2020), and Echoes of Mana (2022) the new entry in the Mana series to celebrate 30th anniversary.
Trévago
Trévago is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Vyacheslav Vedenin
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Metre Convention
The Metre Convention is the treaty that set up the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). The BIPM is an inter-governmental organization that is responsible for harmonizing systems of measurement across the world. The treaty was first made in 1875 between 17 countries.
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Metre Convention
In 1921 the treaty was extended to cover electrical and all other physical measurements. This enabled the BIPM to published the standards for the International System of Units (SI). Under SI, units of measurements that are used in science and engineering were defined in a logical manner. The rules for SI also standardized the way in which physical quantities are written.
In 2014 the BIPM had 55 member countries.
Before the treaty
The Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and the Paris International Exhibition in 1867 had shown the need for different nations to use the same units of measurement. In the 1860s there were many discussions by astronomers and surveyors from outside France whether they should use the metre des archives or whether they should use a "new metre" that took account of the 0.03% error. Prussia took the lead in organizing conferences in Berlin to discuss the matter. France did not take part in the conferences. Before any actions could be taken the Franco-Prussian War broke out. Prussia defeated France and the German Empire was formed.
In 1875 France invited representatives to Paris to discuss the matter. This helped France to score a diplomatic victory over Prussia and the German Empire.
Treaty details
The treaty was signed by seventeen of the countries at the conference in Paris on 20 May 1875. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands went to the conference but did not sign the treaty at that time. After further consideration, the United Kingdom did sign the treaty in 1884.
The meeting agreed:
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)
The organization set up by the treaty was the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Its French name is Bureau international des poids et mesures. Its abbreviation is BIPM. The BIPM has its headquarters at the Pavillon de Breteuil, Sèvres, France (close to Paris). About 70 people work at the BIPM. The budget for 2013 was over €10 million ($12 million).
The three organisations were set up under the treaty. They are:
The Bureau has responsibility for safeguarding the international prototype kilogram.
The official language for the organisations is French. Until 1988 all reports of meetings were only published in French. Since then both English and French have been used. Abbreviations are based on the French words, not English words. Official communications between the BIPM and France are conducted via the French Foreign Ministry. Official communications with other countries are conducted via that country's embassy in Paris.
General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)
The General Conference on Weights and Measures was set up under the Metre Convention as an organ of the BIPM. It gives the BIPM its mandate and budget on behalf of the member states. Its French name is Conférence générale des poids et mesures. Its abbreviation is "CGPM". The CGPM meets every four to six years. The first meeting was in 1889 and the 24th meeting was in 2011. Each member state has one vote. France is represented by its foreign minister and by the president of the French Academy. The French Foreign minister is the chairman of the opening and closing sessions of any CGPM session. The president of the French Academy is the chairman of other meetings of the CGPM.
The CGPM:
International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM)
The International Committee for Weights and Measures was set up under the Metre Convention as an organ of the BIPM. It advises the CGPM and supervise the BIPM. Its French name is Comité international des poids et mesures. Its abbreviation is CIPM.
The CGPM has 18 members. These members are well-known measurement experts who are elected by the CGPM. They must all come from different countries. One of the CIPM members must be French. They meet once or twice a year in Paris. The CIPM is assisted by a number of Consultative Committees. In February 2014 there were ten such committees. Nine of the committees are dedicated to special types of measurement such as Electricity and Magnetism, Length, Photometry and Radiometry, Thermometry and Time and Frequency. The CIPM appoints people to these committees.
The tenth committee is called the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU). Its chairman is appointed by the CIPM. Other members of the committee are appointed by other organizations. These organizations include International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The CCU's task is to ensure that all the definitions of SI are consistent. It also drafts the SI standard which is called the SI Brochure.
Pavillon de Breteuil
The BIPM's offices and laboratories art at the Pavillon de Breteuil, Sèvres, France (close to Paris).
The BIPM looks after the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) for the CGPM. It provides laboratory services for the CGPM and CIPM. Member states use the BIPM laboratories when they check their own copy of the kilogram against the IPK. The BIPM offices are also the headquarters for the CGPM and CIPM.
Activities
In 1875 the convention only dealt with standardization of the kilogram and the metre. The convention was revised in 1921 to accommodate all physical measurements. In 1933 the CGPM approved efforts that were being made to merge electrical and photometry units into the metric system.
Development of SI
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many new units of measure were defined using the metric system. Units of measure used in electrostatic applications, electromagnetic applications and electrical distribution systems were incompatible with each other. The use of standard gravity in force and pressure definitions resulted in more units of measure being defined than were necessary.
After the Second World War the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the French Government asked the BIPM to look into the matter. In 1948, the 9th CGPM asked the CIPM to conduct a study into units of measurement used by member states. The CIPM reported back and in 1954 the 10th CGPM decided to set up a new system of units. There would be six base units. These were the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, degree Kelvin (later renamed kelvin), and candela. The new system was published in 1960. The 11th CGPM named it the International System of Units. The short name was "SI". This came from the French name, Le Système international d'unités. The BIPM described SI as "the modern metric system".
Since 1960 the BIPM has made several refinements to SI. Some of the refinements include developing new ways of making high precision measurement. Other refinements include small changes to details of definitions.
Coordinating time
The atomic clock has made very precise time-keeping possible. The earth is slowing down. A the "time of the dinosaurs" the earth rotated once every 23 hours. It is now possible to measure variations in the Earth's rotation caused by volcanoes and tsunamis. This is done by the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). The IERS proposes leap seconds as and when these are needed. Under the Metre Convention, the BIPM has the task of coordinating over 200 atomic clocks around the world. These clocks are located in 50 different national laboratories.
Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA)
Many measuring devices need to be recalibrated at regular intervals. These devices might be petrol pumps. They might be weighing scales. They might be complex medical equipment like MRI scanners. A certificate is issued when the device is recalibrated. The device that is used to do the calibration must itself be calibrated. These devices are often recalibrated in a national metrology laboratory. Legal problems can arise if a calibration done in one country is not recognised in another country.
Membership
Some countries are full members of the CGPM and have a vote at CGPM meetings. These countries have their own copy of the prototype kilogram. They also take part in the CIPM MRA program.
Other countries are associate members. They take part on the CIPM MRA program. They may speak at CGPM meetings but not to vote at these meetings. They do not have their own copies of the prototype kilogram.
Members
🇦🇷 argentina (1877) 🇦🇺 australia (1947) 🇦🇹 austria (1875) 🇧🇪 belgium (1875) 🇧🇷 brazil (1921) 🇧🇬 bulgaria (1911) 🇨🇦 canada (1907) 🇨🇱 chile (1908) 🇨🇳 china (1977) 🇨🇴 colombia (2013) 🇭🇷 croatia (2008) 🇨🇿 czech republic (1922) 🇩🇰 denmark (1875) 🇪🇬 egypt (1962) 🇫🇮 finland (1923) 🇫🇷 france (1875 ) 🇩🇪 germany (1875) 🇬🇷 greece (2001)
🇭🇺 hungary (1925) 🇮🇳 india (1957) 🇮🇩 indonesia (1960) 🇮🇷 iran (1975) 🇮🇶 iraq (2013) 🇮🇪 ireland (1925) 🇮🇱 israel (1985) 🇮🇹 italy (1875) 🇯🇵 japan (1885) 🇰🇿 kazakhstan (2008) 🇰🇪 kenya (2010) 🇲🇾 malaysia (2001) 🇲🇽 mexico (1890) 🇳🇱 netherlands (1929) 🇳🇿 new zealand (1991) 🇳🇴 norway (1875) 🇵🇰 pakistan (1973) 🇵🇱 poland (1925) 🇵🇹 portugal (1876)
🇷🇴 romania (1884) undefined (1875) 🇸🇦 saudi arabia (2011) 🇷🇸 serbia (2001) 🇸🇬 singapore (1994) 🇸🇰 slovakia (1922) 🇿🇦 south africa (1964) 🇰🇷 south korea (1959) 🇪🇸 spain (1875) 🇸🇪 sweden (1875) 🇨🇭 switzerland (1875 ) 🇹🇭 thailand (1912) 🇹🇳 tunisia (2012) 🇹🇷 turkey (1875) 🇬🇧 united kingdom (1884) 🇺🇸 united states (1878) 🇺🇾 uruguay (1908) 🇻🇪 venezuela (1879)
Associate member states
At its 21st meeting (October 1999), the CGPM created the category of "associate" for those states not yet members of the BIPM and for economic unions.
🇦🇱 albania (2007) 🇧🇩 bangladesh (2010) 🇧🇾 belarus (2003) 🇧🇴 bolivia (2008) 🇧🇦 bosnia and herzegovina (2011) 🇧🇼 botswana (2012) undefined (2005) undefined (2002) 🇨🇷 costa rica (2004) 🇨🇺 cuba (2000) 🇪🇨 ecuador (2000) 🇪🇪 estonia (2005) undefined (2008)
🇬🇭 ghana (2009) 🇭🇰 hong kong (2000) 🇯🇲 jamaica (2003) 🇱🇻 latvia (2001) 🇱🇹 lithuania (2001) 🇱🇺 luxembourg (2014) 🇲🇰 macedonia (2006) 🇲🇹 malta (2001) 🇲🇺 mauritius (2010) 🇲🇳 mongolia (2013) 🇲🇪 montenegro (2011) 🇳🇦 namibia (2012) 🇴🇲 oman (2012)
🇵🇦 panama (2003) 🇵🇾 paraguay (2009) 🇵🇪 peru (2009) 🇵🇭 philippines (2002) 🇲🇩 moldova (2007) 🇸🇨 seychelles (2010) 🇸🇮 slovenia (2003) 🇱🇰 sri lanka (2007) undefined (2012) 🇺🇦 ukraine (2002) undefined (2003) 🇿🇲 zambia (2010) 🇿🇼 zimbabwe (2010)
International Organisations
The following international organisations have signed the CIPM MRA:
Former member states
🇨🇲 cameroon (1970–2012) 🇰🇵 north korea (1982–2012) 🇩🇴 dominican republic (1954-2014) 🇾🇪 yemen (2014-2018)
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