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Shinboku
A shinboku (神木), which means "god tree" in English, is a tree or forest that is worshipped as a physical object of worship at or near a Shinto shrine. It is believed to be a repository in which spirits or kami reside. Shinboku are often wrapped in shimenawa, which makes them distinctly visible.
Ravil Maganov
Ravil Ulfatovich Maganov (Равиль Ульфатович Маганов, Равил Өлфәт улы Мәганов; 25 September 1954 – 1 September 2022) was a Russian businessman. He was the chairman of the national oil company Lukoil.
On 1 September 2022, Maganov died after falling from a sixth-floor window at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 67.
Shinboku
Overview
Nature worship, also called Himikura Shinto, is a component of the traditional Shinto religion that emerged in Japan. This form of worship is founded on appreciation, awe, and reverence for kami (spirits or deities), life, and the natural world. In ancient Shinto rituals, symbolic items such as trees were utilized as vessels for Shinto deities in areas where the environment underwent changes.
For many years, Shinto shrines and rituals have been shaped by foreign religions and evolved independently, resulting in a variety of Shinto forms. Japan now has tens of thousands of Shinto shrines, with many built on the grounds of ancient Shinto shrines. These shrines may include sacred trees, iwakura, rock formations, steles, or mounds, representing Japan's history of nature worship.
Some shrines in Shinto worship a sacred tree instead of having a physical structure. In Shinto rituals, evergreen trees with pointed branches, known as tamagushi, are used as a substitute for the gods to descend from. The most popular type of tamagushi is the sakaki tree, but other species such as hisakaki and ogatama no ki are used in regions where sakaki does not grow naturally (areas north of the Kanto region).
Yorishiro
Kami-yorigi, also called kanjinboku, are objects that serve as a dwelling place for the gods and are given special treatment by being decorated with shimenawa. The Nageia nagi tree is one example of a yorishiro that is also adorned with shimenawa. Common types of yorishiro include the Nageia nagi tree, mochinoki tree, and cedar tree.
Some trees are also treated as sacred trees for their own sake, such as the cedar trees at Ise Grand Shrine. These trees are considered special and separate from the gods, and are preserved to maintain the shrine's natural scenery and solemn atmosphere. In addition, those who work in the mountains may temporarily enshrine a tree that stands out as a substitute for the god of the mountain.
The gohei is a special item used in Shinto ceremonies. It's made from sakaki and nagi, and is sometimes referred to as a sacred tree. However, it was originally created as a replacement for a real sacred tree in ancient Shinto practices.
Divine realms and boundaries
In old Shinto times, people believed that Shinto shrines were where the gods lived or where the present world and the everlasting world met. They were respected and feared. To make it difficult for bad things, gods, and people to enter and leave easily, shimenawa were hung as barriers, making it a forbidden area. Even now, there are many places such as Okinoshima Island where not only the shrine, sacred tree, or forest of the local guardian are prohibited, but the entire island is. Sometimes, for a specific time period, rituals and festivals are held to invite the gods and bring good fortune.
Whooper swan
The whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), is a large white bird which lives in Europe and Asia. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American trumpeter swan. Francis Willughby and John Ray's Ornithology of 1676 called this swan "the Elk, Hooper, or wild Swan".
Behaviour
Whooper swans eat mainly plants growing in water: leaves, stems and roots. During the winter they also eat grain and vegetables from the fields. Young birds often eat insects.
The nest is a large pile of plant matter built on dry ground or on small islands near lakeshore. The same nest mound may be used over many years although it is often repaired and new material is added.
Distribution
Whooper swans spends their summer in Northern Europe and Asia. For winter they migrate to coasts where sea does not freeze.
In year 2006 it was estimated, that there are more than 180,000 whooper swans in the world. Out of these, 10,000-100,000 pairs breed in Russia. Between one thousand and ten thousand birds also spend their winter there.
Yesh Atid
Yesh Atid, (יש עתיד, meaning There is a Future), is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is centrist social liberal, secular, and Zionist.
Political leader is Yair Lapid, who was Prime Minister of Israel from July 2022 to December 2022.
Yesh Atid was founded in 2012.
Number of seats in the 25th Knesset: 24 (+7).
Participating in the Bennett-Lapid Government.
Vantaa
Vantaa (Vanda) is the fourth largest city in Finland (after Helsinki, Espoo and Tampere). It is part of the Greater Helsinki area. The most important parts of Vantaa are Tikkurila, Hakunila, Koivukylä, Korso, Martinlaakso and Myyrmäki. Tuusula, Kerava, Sipoo, Helsinki, Espoo and Nurmijärvi are neighbour communities and cities of Vantaa.
The Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American western adventure movie directed by John Ford and was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Harold Sinclair. It stars John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Altea Gibson, Ken Curtis, Willis Bouchey, Bing Russell, Hank Worden, Anna Lee, Denver Pyle, Carleton Young and was distributed by United Artists.
Vantaa
The biggest airport in Finland, Helsinki-Vantaa, is in Central Vantaa.
Finnish and Swedish are the official languages of Vantaa. In 2006 Swedish was the mother language of 3.1 percent of population of Vantaa.
David P.I. James
David P.I. James is an American visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on a number of movies, including The Rocketeer, Flubber, Mighty Joe Young, Inspector Gadget, Mission to Mars, 102 Dalmatians, The Princess Diaries, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Old Dogs, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
La Croix-Valmer
La Croix-Valmer is a commune of 3,778 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
University of New Haven
The University of New Haven is a private and nonsectarian university within West Haven, Connecticut, which borders the much larger city of New Haven. The university was established in 1920 and given the name University of New Haven in 1970.
Empire (disambiguation)
An empire is a group of states or peoples under centralized rule.
Tsar
Tsar is a title for the supreme ruler in several countries.
Empire (disambiguation)
Empire may also refer to:
Tsar
In Bulgaria, the title was used in 913–1422 and again in 1908–1946. The last tsar to rule Bulgaria was Boris III, who replaced Ferdinand I of Bulgaria 1918.
In the Russian Empire, the title was used from 1546 until 1721. Starting in 1721, the title of Russian emperors was imperator, but the word tsar remained in common use until the Russian Revolution in 1917. The last tsar to rule Russia was Nicholas II, who replaced Alexander III in 1894. The system of government used during the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire was called Tsarist autocracy, also known as Tsarism.
Tsar is also spelled tzar, czar, and csar. It is the Eastern European word for caesar. It can be translated to emperor.
Heron Tower
The Salesforce tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. Its official name is 110 Bishopsgate and was formerly The Heron Tower, which it is still often called. When completed in 2011 it became the third tallest building in the United Kingdom and the tallest in the City of London after Tower 42. The Heron Tower is on Bishopsgate.
Construction
In March 2007, it was confirmed that Heron had signed a funding deal with the State General Reserve Fund of Oman to provide the equity for the development. The works were carried out by Skanska and completed in January 2011.
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who invented the mass spectrometer. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with isotopes.
Aston built the first mass spectrometer in 1919. This tool measures the mass-to-charge ratio of particles. By this time, Frederick Soddy had discovered different forms of some radioactive elements. These were called isotopes. However, Soddy could not prove that isotopes had different mass.
Using his mass spectrometer, Aston proved this. He first found that neon had isotopes with different masses. He discovered many isotopes for non-radioactive elements. In total, he discovered 212 isotopes.
Aston developed the whole number rule, which says that the mass of atoms have whole-number ratios to each other.
Aston was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Whale mounds
Overview
After organized whaling was established during the Edo period, mounds were also built in areas where whaling was a livelihood to serve as memorials and expressions of gratitude. Examples include the Ryujima area near Ukishima Shrine in Chiba Prefecture and Taiji.
People believed that whales had spiritual power as their arrival in an area often coincided with the arrival of fish. Therefore, they were used as fishing guides and regarded as auspicious. This led to the enshrinement of whales, often in the form of Ebisu, as a fishing deity to bring good fortune to fishermen and as a sea god to pray for safety at sea.
Similarly, there are whale graves and monuments in areas where whaling has been a source of livelihood since ancient times, as well as for passive and accidental whaling. When combined with whale mounds, there are about 100 of them in Japan.
Whalebone Torii
A whalebone torii is a type of torii where the gate of the shrine is constructed using whale bones, primarily the ribs of the whale.
The oldest one in Japan is the torii of the Ebisu Shrine in Taiji Town, Wakayama Prefecture. This is mentioned in Ihara Saikaku's "Nihon Eitaigura" published in 1688 (Jōkyō5): "In the village of Taiji, Ominato, Kiiro, the wife and children sing. This place is prosperous and Wakamatsu village is standing. According to records, the current torii is the third generation, and it is unknown what it was made of before that. According to records, the current torii is the third generation, and it is not known what it was made of before that. These are all the whale torii gates that exist in Japan today, but there is also a Cape Eluanbi Shrine in Eluanbi, the southernmost point of Taiwan under Japanese rule at the time. There were also whale torii gates at three other shrines: Fudato Ebisu Shrine in Sakhalin, and Shikotan Shrine on Shikotan Island in the Northern Territories. Each of these five locations is either directly or indirectly related to whaling (such as whaling bases).
Moder (river)
The Moder is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Rhine river.
Geography
The Moder river has a length of 82.1 km, and a drainage basin with an area of 1720 km2.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 16.6 m3/s at Auenheim.
Course
The Moder starts in the Vosges mountains in the place called Moderfeld in the commune of Zittersheim, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about 330 m. From here, the Moder flows to the north and then turns to the southeast; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.
The Moder river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and the following communes ː Zittersheim, Wingen-sur-Moder, Wimmenau, Ingwiller, Menchhoffen, Schillersdorf, Obermodern-Zutzendorf, Schalkendorf, La Walck, Pfaffenhoffen, Uberach, Niedermodern, Dauendorf, Ohlungen, Schweighouse-sur-Moder, Haguenau, Kaltenhouse, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Bischwiller, Rohrwiller, Drusenheim, Sessenheim, Dalhunden, Stattmatten, Auenheim, Fort-Louis, Rœschwoog, Neuhaeusel.
Finally, the Moder river flows into the Rhine river in Neuhaeusel.
National Art Museum of Azerbaijan
National Art Museum of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Milli İncəsənət Muzeyi) is the biggest art museum of Azerbaijan. It was founded in 1936 in Baku and in 1943 was named after Rustam Mustafayev, a famous Azerbaijani theater stage designer and theater artist. The museum's total collection includes over 15,000 artworks. There are over 3,000 items in 60 rooms on permanent display. About 12,000 items are kept in storage. The museum often changes the temporary displays so that more of these stored artworks can be displayed for a short time. The museum is made up of two buildings standing next to each other.
Moder (river)
Main tributaries
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National Art Museum of Azerbaijan
The displays
Seven of the rooms in the first building show European art, and ten rooms show Russian art. European art includes artworks of Italian (Guercino, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo Bartolini), French (Jules Dupré, Gaspard Dughet, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant), Dutch/Flemish (Frans Hals, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade, Justus Sustermans, Pieter Claesz), German (Johann Heinrich Roos, Fritz August Kaulbach) and Polish (Jan Styka) painters.
The second building built in 1885 houses Eastern art, represented particularly by Persian, Turkish, Chinese and Japanese art. Russian art is represented notably by paintings of Karl Briullov, Alexey Venetsianov, Vasily Vereshchagin, Isaac Levitan, Vladimir Makovsky, Valentin Serov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Vasily Tropinin, Konstantin Korovin and Ivan Shishkin. There are also restored artworks of Russian avant-garde.
Among Azerbaijani artists represented are painters Mir Mohsun Navvab, Bahruz Kangarli, Tair Salakhov, Azim Azimzade, Salam Salamzade, Vidadi Narimanbekov, Mikail Abdullayev, Togrul Narimanbekov and sculptor Omar Eldarov. The works of Sattar Bahlulzade fill one entire room.
The museum also holds easel and book miniatures of 17th-19th centuries, lacquered (varnished) miniatures of 18th-19th centuries and collection of sherbet spoons, made from mulberry tree.
The first works were acquired from Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and private collections. The museum expositions were later shown in Canada (1966), Cuba (1967), Syria (1968), France (1969), former Czechoslovakia, Algeria (both 1970), Iraq (1971) etc. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 until 18:00.
Cia-Cia language
The Cia-Cia language (Hangul: 바하사 찌아찌아, Roman: Bahasa Ciacia), also known as South Buton(ese), is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the town of Bau-Bau on the southern tip of Buton Island off the southeast coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.
Tulisa
Tula Paulinea Contostavlos (born 13 July 1988), is an English singer, songwriter and actress who performs under the name of Tulisa. Her father is Greek; her mother is Irish. She is best known for being a member of the Camden-based hip hop group N-Dubz.
Early life
Tula Paulinea Contostavlos was born on 13 July 1988 in Camden Town, London. Her Irish mother, Anne Byrne, was born in Churchtown, Dublin. Anne and her three sisters were in a 1980's big band and swing group, called Jeep. Contostavlos' father, Plato Contostavlos, is Greek Cypriot and at one time was keyboardist with Mungo Jerry. Plato's brother, Byron Contostavlos, was bassist with Mungo Jerry and later became the manager of N-Dubz.
When Contostavlos was five, her mother, who has bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The 2010 BBC programme, Tulisa: My Mum and Me, described Contostavlos' life looking after her mother before joining N-Dubz.
Career
Tulisa was in the band N-Dubz with her cousin Dappy and their friend Fazer. Contostavlos was a judge on the eighth series of The X Factor. She mentored the "Groups" category. They included Little Mix, the first group to win the competition.
As a singer, Contostavlos has recorded three studio albums with N-Dubz, Uncle B (2008), Against All Odds (2009) and Love.Live.Life (2010). In 2011, she started work on a solo album. In 2012 it was released. The Female Boss got a lot of bad reviews and didn't chart well. Three singles were released from the album. The first single, "Young", entered the UK Singles Chart at number one.
In 2022, N-Dubz went on a reunion tour. They have also appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox together since 2023.
Personal life
In June 2013, Costostavlos, along with rapper Mike GLC were arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs. In July 2014, Contostavlos' trial for supplying cocaine collapsed. Later the same month, she was convicted of common assault. In July 2014, her documentary Tulisa: The Price of Fame premiered on BBC Three to a moderate success, attracting 615,000 viewers (3.8% of the audience within its time slot). In April 2015, Justice Nicholas Kearns, President of the Irish High Court, described her as having been "cruelly deceived in a shabby sting operation", but dismissed her attempt to sue the Irish Sun for defamation.
After the collapse of her drug trial, The Guardian Suzanne Moore wrote an article on Contostavlos image and reputation and wrote that "Tulisa is famously a working class girl made good, though of course made good is never what she is allowed to be". In Moore's opinion, "Tulisa has been branded by the media as a chav and therefore almost anything can be said about her".
On 9 March 2020, Contostavlos revealed she suffered from Bell's palsy.
Jim Meskimen
James Ross Meskimen (born September 10, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is also known for his voice-over work in video games.
Meskimen played the father of Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen's characters in Our Lips Are Sealed and as Officer Wholihan in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
He was the voice of the Genie in the Aladdin franchise, sometimes replacing Robin Williams.
Carlo Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti (born 10 June 1959) is an Italian football manager and former player. He has played for Italy national team. He was a successful manager at Milan, helping them win the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup twice. Milan also won the Coppa Italia, Serie A, Italian Supercup and FIFA Club World Cup under his management. He is the manager of the La Liga club Real Madrid.
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Tarvos (moon)
Tarvos orbits Saturn at an average distance of 18 million km in 926 days and is about 15 km in diameter (assuming an albedo of 0.04).
It is a member of the Gallic group of non-spherical moons.
Sharing similar orbit and displaying similar light-red colour, Tarvos is thought to have been formed in a break-up of a bigger body or to be a piece of Albiorix.
The Sea Chase
The Sea Chase is a 1955 American World War II drama movie directed by John Farrow and was based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Geer. It stars John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, John Qualen, James Arness and was distributed by Warner Bros..
Dexter Gordon
Gordon died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from renal failure and laryngeal cancer at the age of 67.
Hurricane Fay
Hurricane Fay was a 2014 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first hurricane to make landfall on Bermuda since Emily in 1987. The sixth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, Fay formed several hundred miles northeast of the Lesser Antilles on October 10. Initially a large subtropical cyclone, the storm gradually turned into a tropical cyclone on October 11 as it turned north. Despite being disrupted by wind shear for most of its duration, Fay steadily intensified. Turning east, Fay briefly achieved Category 1 hurricane status on October. Fay made landfall on Bermuda early on October 12 as a hurricane. Wind shear finally caused Fay to weaken to a tropical storm later that day. Fay weakened into an open trough early on October 13.
A few tropical cyclone warnings and watches were issued due to Fay on Bermuda. Despite its low strength, Fay caused much damage on Bermuda. Wind gusts over 100 mph (155 km/h) blocked roads with downed trees and poles. The winds also left a majority of the island's electric customers without power. The terminal building at L.F. Wade International Airport was flooded due to damage to its roof. Along the coast, the storm destroyed numerous boats and unmoored many others. Immediately after the hurricane, 200 Bermuda Regiment soldiers were called for cleanup and to help in damage repairs. These occurred at the same time as preparations for the stronger Hurricane Gonzalo, which struck the island less than six days later and increased the damage. Fay and Gonzalo were the first pair of hurricanes to make landfall in Bermuda in the same season.
Kuru
Kuru or Kurus may be:
Bad Reichenhall
Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and capital of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg, and encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps. Mount Staufen (1771 m) and Mount Zwiesel (1781 m) are both near Bad Reichenhall. Bad Reichenhall is a traditional center of salt production, obtained by evaporating water saturated with salt from brine ponds. The town was the site of a disaster on 2 January 2006, when the roof of the town's ice rink collapsed under snow, killing 15 and injuring 34 others.
Ice rink disaster
Fifteen people, twelve of them children, died in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink on 2 January 2006. Thirty-four people were injured in the accident.
Albert Lutuli
Albert John Luthuli (1898 – 21 July 1967) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who was the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
He was born to a Zulu family at a Seventh-day Adventist mission in Bulawayo. He went to his family's ancestral home of Groutville, in the Colony of Natal in 1908 to go to school under the care of his uncle. After graduating from high school with a teaching degree, He went a small school in Natal where he was the only teacher. Then he went to Adams College. He got a Higher Teacher's Diploma and became a teacher there - one of their first African teachers. He was the secretary of the Natal Native Teachers' Association, and then its president.
Dodge Center, Minnesota
Dodge Center is a city in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
Thompson Island (South Atlantic)
Thompson Island is a phantom island, in the South Atlantic. It was thought to be about 150 km north-northeast of Bouvet Island.
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier discovered Bouvet Island in 1739. In 1808, James Lindsay of the Snow Swan discovered Bouvet Island again, and named it Lindsay Island. The next time, George Norris of the Sprightly sighted Bouvet on 10 December 1825. He landed on 16 December, and took possession of the island, which he named Liverpool Island, for King George IV of the United Kingdom.
Between December 13 and December 16, Norris sailed the waters northeast of Bouvet Island, where he discovered another island. It was much smaller, and the sea around it was much rougher. Three miles southeast of the newly discovered island, he found three rocks. In his log, he named the newly found island Thompson Island, and the rocks chimneys, because of their form. He also marked the position of his discoveries on a map. Unfortunately, the positions of the islands on the map did not match those written down in the log. In 1853 the discoveries of Thompson Island, Bouvet Island, and the Chimneys showed up on an official map of the British admiralty.
In 1893, Captain Joseph J. Fuller reported another sighting of Thompson Island, on his ship, Francis Allyn.
The Valdivia expedition wanted to find the exact position of Bouvet and Thompson Island, in November 1898, but was unable to find Thompson Island.
In 1915, a German ship, the Meteor, gave a depth of the sea of 1579 m at the position where Thompson had been reported. If Thompson ever existed, it is probable that it disappeared in a volcanic eruption sometime in the 1890s.
The Norwegian Arctic Expedition (1928/29) failed to find Thompson Island, and declared it did not exist.
Thompson Island continued to appear on maps published as late as 1943.
The only person to have seen Thompson Island was probably Norris. Fuller's description of Thompson Island matches more or less that given of Bouvet Island in Norris' diary, and is therefore questionable.
Sami Kohen
On 12 October 2020, he was given the High Service Award.
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir is a black metal band created in 1993 in Norway. Its name is Icelandic for a "dark castle".
The band's first recordings were in Norwegian, but today, most of the recordings are in English. The newest studio album is "Abrahadabra" (2010). The studio album In Sorte Diaboli (2007) entered the Norwegian album chart at No. 1 — the first time a black metal band has ever got to the No. 1 position on a national album chart anywhere in the world. Dimmu Borgir's previous release, "Death Cult Armageddon", as well as Satyricon's "Now, Diabolical" previously reached No. 2 position on the Norwegian album chart.
A week after "In Sorte Diaboli" reached No. 1 on the Norweigan album charts, the album attained No. 43 on The Billboard 200, making them the first Norwegian band since the 80's pop group 'A-HA' to enter the U.S. Top 50.
"In Sorte Diaboli" features the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Strangely, the album has been banned by the UK album charts for questionable reasons.
Alva, Oklahoma
Alva is a city in Oklahoma in the United States. It is the county seat of Woods County.
Claremont, Minnesota
Claremont is a city in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 5,235.
Hayfield, Minnesota
Hayfield is a city in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
Attica Prison riot
It was a form of protest for demands of better living conditions and political rights. The uprising was one of the best-known and most significant flashpoints of the Prisoners' Rights Movement.
On September 9, 1971, two weeks after the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin State Prison, 1,281 of the Attica prison's about 2,200 inmates rioted and took control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage.
During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to most of the prisoners' 28 demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover.
By the order of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was over, at least 43 people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian employees, and 33 inmates.
Kasson, Minnesota
Kasson is a city in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) in the North Caucasus region. It is a part of the Southern Federal District. Its center is the city of Krasnodar. There were 5,838,273 people living there at the 2021 Census.
Teya (singer)
Teodora Špirić (born 12 April 2000), known professionally as Teya, is an Austrian singer and songwriter. She is best known for the song "Who the Hell is Edgar?", which she wrote alongside Salena. She was born in Vienna to Serbian parents.
Career
Teya began her singing career in 2018. In 2020, she applied to represent Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, but failed to do so. She also applied to represent Serbia, but also did not manage.
In 2021, Teya entered as a contestant on the Austrian reality show Starmania. She was eliminated before the final, finishing in 8th place.
In 2023, it was announced that she would represent Austria in Eurovision 2023, alongside Salena, who she met on Starmania, with the song "Who the Hell is Edgar?". They were runners-up in the second semi-final and finished in 15th place in the Grand Final.
Montsoreau
Montsoreau is a town in France. Only 500 people live in there. It is in the east end of the region of Pays de la Loire, which is in the nortwestern France. The Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art is in the town. Montsoreau is both listed part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site, and among the most beautiful villages of France.
List of rock types
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Sorted by name; initial letter means Igneous, Sedimentary or Metamorphic rocks.
Chris Brown (disambiguation)
Chris Brown (born 1989) is an American R&B singer.
Krasnodar Krai
Novorossiysk is Russia's main port on the Black Sea. It is one of the bases of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.
Wagner Group rebellion
On 23 June 2023, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said that soldiers of the Russian Ministry of Defense were attacking his soldiers. Prigozhin promised to take revenge on the Ministry of Defense. Prigozhin said the "evil" military leaders must be stopped and said he would "march for justice".
Prigozhin also said that Russia's reasons for invading Ukraine were lies and that Ukraine and NATO were not planning an attack on the Donbas and Crimea in 2022. He said Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defence, was making Russia lose in the war. He also said the military attacked the Wagner Group. The Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal case against him after these statements. Prigozhin took his 25,000 soldiers out of Ukraine and into Rostov-on-Don in Rostov Oblast, Russia. He said, "If anyone gets in our way, we will destroy everything!" Putin responded to PMC Wagner's attack by saying its actions were "treason" and a "stab in the back".
Wagner Group and Yevgeny Prigozhin
In 2014, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin founded the Wagner Group. It is a Russian private military company. Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner Group got more influence in the military. The estimated number of Wagnerites grew from "several thousand" fighters in 2017–2018 to around 50,000 fighters by January 2023.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
According to news website Meduza, right before a Russian invasion of Ukraine, Prigozhin had tense relations with the Russian leadership. Prigozhin criticized Sergei Shoigu for the actions of the Russian army in Syria. He said that the Russian military was using "outdated methods."
The growth of the influence of Wagner Group was because the first Russian plans failed to quickly beat Ukraine. In the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army lost many soldiers. The Russian leaders began to recruit mercenaries to fight for Russia. Prigozhin was given many resources. He able to recruit prisoners into Wagner. PMC Wagner became a private army for Prigozhin. The Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian General Staff did not like this began trying to limit Prigozhin's growing influence. Prigozhin began to criticize the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. On 5 June, Prigozhin showed a video on his social media channels claiming to show a captured Russian colonel, Lt. Colonel Roman Venevitin of Russia’s 72nd Brigade, admitting to have told his troops to attack Wagner troops.
23 June
On 23 June 2023, a video was shown in Telegram channels for PMC Wagner. According to Prigozhin, it had been recorded at a Wagner Group mercenary camp that had been attacked by a missile. Bellingcat journalist Arik Toler said that the place of the alleged attack is the same as earlier videos of war correspondent Alexander Simonov, who went to the camp. That evening, Prigozhin announced the beginning of an armed conflict with the Ministry of Defense. The message showed up in the Telegram channel of his press service. Prigozhin told anyone who wanted to join the conflict against the Ministry of Defense to do so. He also said that Shoigu had used artillery and helicopters to attack PMC Wagner.
The Russian Defense Ministry said they didn't attack PMC Wagner. After that, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation said that a criminal case had been started against Prigozhin under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (armed rebellion). Generals Sergey Surovikin and Vladimir Alekseev tried to tell the Wagner PMC fighters to stop.
Russia's state-run First Channel announced an "emergency newscast". In it, the host Ekaterina Andreeva claimed that Prigozhin's statements about attacks by the Ministry of Defence on PMC Wagner were fake and that Putin had been told about the situation.
In response to Prigozhin, Russia's military and its national guard deployed armored vehicles in both Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. Rostov-on-Don is a large city near the frontlines in Ukraine where PMC Wagner troops had been attacking from. It is also where Prigozhin had said that PMC Wagner troops were going to.
During the night from 23 to 24 June, Prigozhin claimed that PMC Wagner was going into Rostov-on-Don and told forces of Ministry of Defence not to oppose his army.
Prigozhin also claimed on 23 June that the head of the General Staff of Russian military had told the country's air force to attack PMC Wagner soldiers, who were moving next to civilian vehicles. He said the General Staff didn't care about the lives of innocent people, "just as they have been killing their own population for a year and half instead of fighting the enemy". He also claimed that some pilots refused to follow the General Staff's orders, and thanked them.
Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said the situation was an "attempted mutiny" and said that Russia's military agencies were telling Putin about the events.
Russia blocked Google News because of the situation.
24 June
On 24 June, Prigozhin claimed that Wagner PMC fighters shot down a military helicopter that opened fire on Wagner.
Unconfirmed footage showed a battle in Rostov-on-Don between Wagner and Russian military forces.
On 24 June 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin was charged by the Russian government with organizing an armed uprising after he threatened to attack Russian forces in answer to an air strike on his soldiers. Russian security forces said he was launching a coup. Russian generals told Wagner's fighters to go back. Meanwhile Russia's national security service, FSB, said it had filed criminal charges against Prigozhin and moved to arrest him.
According to Russian state media reports, and some Western media, Wagner Group forces have taken control of the Southern Military District building in Rostov.
Calgary
Calgary is the biggest city in Alberta, Canada. More than 1,000,000 people live in Calgary. The city is in the southern half of Alberta near the Rocky Mountains.
Montsoreau
History
Montsoreau was identified under the name Restis (rope or fish net) at the end of classical antiquity as a port on the Loire at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne. It kept this name until the end of the eleventh century.
Calgary
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Around Calgary there are many farms where cows are raised.
Climate
Calgary has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Koeppen climate classification). It has long, cold, dry winters. The summers are warm with moderate rainfall. Sometimes a wind called a Chinook blows through Calgary. This wind can make some days in winter less cold.
Activities
Calgary has a famous event called The Calgary Stampede every year. They rent many rides and have a huge festival for the city to join. The Calgary Stampede is the largest rodeo in the world. At the Stampede, cowboys can win a lot of money. Cowboys also race with chuckwagons at the Stampede. Chuckwagons are carts with four wheels pulled by horses. In 1988, the Winter Olympics were held in Calgary.
Calgary has many museums, such as the Glenbow Museum and the Aero Space Museum. The Calgary Flames (an NHL ice hockey team) play in Calgary at Scotiabank Saddledome.
Montsoreau
History
The name Montsoreau (Mount Soreau) come from a rocky promontory in the riverbed of the Loire and surrounded by water. There has been three major buildings on this promontory, a Gallo-Roman temple or administrative building, a fortified castle, and a Renaissance palace.
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Antonino Rocca
Antonino Rocca (born Antonino Biasetton, April 13, 1927 – March 15, 1977) was an Italian professional wrestler.
Montsoreau
History
The first fortified castle was built by the count of Blois at the end of the tenth century, immediatly taken by The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, took the fortress in 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of Medieval castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, during more than 150 years.
Antonino Rocca
Career
He was trained by professional wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko in Argentina. During his professional wrestling career, he was known for his unique, acrobatic, off-the-ground, flying wrestling style.
Montsoreau
History
In 1152, Guillaume IV de Montsoreau sided with Geoffroy Plantagenet against his brother Henry II Plantagenet, future king of England and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henri II besieged the castle and took it at the end of August 1152 despite the care taken at its fortification. This was the one and only storming of the medieval fortress of Montsoreau between Fulk and Jean II de Chambes in 1450.
Antonino Rocca
Career
Rocca was responsible for the revival of the New York City Metropolitan-Area territory in the late 1940s which would eventually become part of the modern World Wrestling Entertainment. Rocca would become one of the most well-known wrestlers in America during the golden age of television and had an uninterrupted seven-year run of headlining or co-headlining every main-event at the Garden. Aside from singles competition, Rocca had a successful tag team career with Miguel Pérez. Both Rocca and Pérez were known for drawing huge crowds to Madison Square Garden on a regular basis.
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Montsoreau
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At the end of the Hundred Years Wa r, Charles VII and Louis XI installed royal power in Chinon. They encouraged or ordered their lords to build new buildings or redevelop old fortresses. Thus began the construction of buildings in a new style in France, giving birth to Renaissance architecture, with the renowned "Châteaux of the Loire Valley".
Puhoi, New Zealand
Puhoi is a settlement located 50 kilometers north of Auckland and is on the banks of Puhoi River. The name translates to slow water in Maori. It has a local library and a Roman Catholic church in the settlement.
Antonino Rocca
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During the early 1950s, he held two regionally-recognized versions of professional-wrestling's world heavyweight singles-championship while he still headlined nationwide which was frequently in territories where other wrestlers were the recognized champs. In 1949, he competed for the New York City-area territory owned by Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt and the Johnston family of promoters and was considered to be the box-office draw that helped bring wrestling back to Madison Square Garden, on a regular basis, for the first time since 1938. In 1957, during a match against Dick the Bruiser, a riot erupted at Madison Square Garden when Rocca was busted open by Dick the Bruiser.
Montsoreau
History
In 1450, Jean II de Chambes, First councelor of Charles VII and ambassador in Venice, bought the fortress of Fulk III to his brother in law and destroyed it in order to build a residential palace on the top of the rock of Montsoreau (the mount Soreau). In an unprecedented move, he built the Château de Montsoreau in a residential style following Italian architecture of the time which makes it the first Renaissance building in France. The Château de Montsoreau was directly on the river bank and still today, it remains the only château of the Loire Valley to have been built in the river bed of the Loire.
In 1572, four days after Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (24 August) in Paris, Jean de Chambes started the "St. Bartolomew Angevine". He almost eliminated the Reformed Church both in Saumur and Angers. After the French Revolution, the exploitation of a building stone, the Tuffeau stone, brutally passed its population of 600 inhabitants to more than 1000, maintained during the first half of the nineteenth century.
The battle of Saumur, is considered as the first act of resistance of World War II in France. In Montsoreau, Saumur and Gennes, in June 1940, teenage students of the school of cavalry, still under training and with derisory weapons (including an artillery gun from the school museum), heroically engaged an entire German panzer division for nearly three days. And in doing so became a legend in France. – For Honour Alone, Roy Macnab, January 1989.
Antonino Rocca
Career
He formed a successful tag team with Jose Miguel Perez in 1957. They won the NWA Capitol World Tag Team Championship and were never defeated after winning the title but it was abandoned after around five years. During 1959 and 1960, he briefly worked with Kola Kwariani and Jack Pfefer, who took effective control of the Garden's wrestling office. Rocca set the post-World War II record for wrestling-attendance at Madison Square Garden's 49th–50th Street location, drawing 21,950 fans in a singles-match against "the Amazing Zuma," a/k/a "Argentina Zuma," on January 2, 1960, as was reported by the New York Times.
Montsoreau
Location
Montsoreau is at the center of the Loire Valley, in north-western France, 160 km from the Atlantic Ocean, and approximately 12 km from Saumur, Chinon and Bourgueil. It is in southeastern Maine-et-Loire department, about halfway between Paris and Bordeaux. The village is at the crossroad of the three main administrative regions of, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, and Nouvelle Aquitaine, and of the three departments of, Maine-et-Loire Indre-et-Loire, and Vienne.
Montsoreau is part of the Metropolitan Area of Saumur Val de Loire and share borders with municipalities both in the Maine-et-Loire and Indre-et-Loire departments. These municipalities are: Candes-Saint-Martin, Chouzé-sur-Loire, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Turquant.
Antonino Rocca
Career
After he was demoted, and because of the arrival of Buddy Rogers as the featured star at MSG in 1961, he left the WWWF and briefly set up a competing promotion (which was supported by Jim Crockett, Sr. and others) based at the Sunnyside arena in Queens, NY but it was believed to have failed and it shut down. During the mid-1970s, he teamed up with Vince McMahon to handle the color commentary on the WWWF's weekly television show. On February 25, 1977, he made an appearance with World Wide Wrestling Federation and officiated a boxing match between Gorilla Monsoon and André the Giant at the famed Madison Square Garden.
Rocca died on March 15, 1977, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City after suffering complications following an infection. In 1995, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Kevin Nash.
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Wagner Group rebellion
24 June
Yevgeny Prigozhin released a video showing him in the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. He said that all military buildings in the city were under control of PMC Wagner. Prigozhin also said they had taken the city's military airport.
Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, announced that anti-terrorist actions were being used in the federal city of Moscow.
Rostov-on-Don is connected to Moscow by the M-4 Highway. There have been reports of Wagner troops using the highway to get closer to Moscow. The governments of Lipetsk Oblast and Voronezh Oblast have told all civilians to stay inside after reports of fighting along the highway. The company Avtodor, which manages Russian highways, told civilians to stay off the M-4 highway on Telegram. The Russian news agency TASS said that traffic was blocked on the M-4 and that cars were being turned around.
Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. He represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1949) and U.S. Senate (1951–1969).
Wagner Group rebellion
24 June
Social media posts showed videos of fighting between Wagner PMC troops and Russian military in Voronezh, with Reuters showing Russian military reports. Voronezh is halfway between Rostov and Moscow.
According to reports, the PMC Wagner has taken control of all military buildings in Voronezh. After this, a state of counter-terrorism started in Voronezh, similar to the one in Moscow.
Everett Dirksen
As Senate Minority Leader for ten years, he was very important in the politics during the 1960s. Some things he did was to help passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Open Housing Act of 1968, both landmarks of civil rights legislation.
Wagner Group rebellion
24 June
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the country for the first time since the beginning of the rebellion in a televised address. He said the actions of the PMC Wagner were "treason" and he promised to take "harsh steps" to get rid of the rebellion. Putin said that the fighting was a threat to Russia itself. He said the rebellion was a "stab in the back". He compared the rebellion to the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen died on September 7, 1969 in Washington, D.C. from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by lung cancer-related bronchopneumonia, aged 73.
Wagner Group rebellion
24 June
On the 24th June, at approximately 17:30 UTC, the first reports of a peace deal arose. In them, Prigozhin allegedly stated that he has "made his point" and that the Wagner column en route to Moscow was turning around and heading back to field camps. It was rumoured that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was a mediator and a third party to the negotiations between the Russian Government and the Wagner Group.
Peace Deal
In the afternoon, the citizens of Moscow have all been panicking because of the rebellion. The mayor of Moscow had earlier announced to all citizens of Moscow to “Stay at homes at all times without leaving and travelling around the city.”