cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Tepuihyla shushupe
Appearance
The adult male frog is about 85.4 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 85.7 mm long. The iris of the eye is whitish in color with red around the outside. The scientists looked at living frogs. They saw they were light green in color on the back and yellow-green on the belly. This frog has bumps on its skin. There is dark brown color on the back of each bump. Parts of the legs are whitish in color and parts are yellow-green. This frog has extra skin on the sides of all four legs.
Home
This frog lives on high places where the ground is flat There are many dead leaves on the ground, many tree roots, and small wet places nearby. When scientists caught the first frog to examine, it was sitting in a hole in a tree.
Name
The scientists named this frog shushupe because that is like the name of a snake in the language spoken by the humans who live nearby. This snake's scientific name is Lachesis muta. Stories say that this snake can sing. Lachesis muta lives in the same places as Tepuihyla shushupe. Scientists think people heard the frog sing and thought it was the snake singing.
John Barron
John Barron (24 December 1920 - 3 July 2004) was an English actor. Although Barron was a familiar face on British television from the 1950s, he is best remembered for his role in the BBC comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, since 1976 until the series in 1979 playing CJ Perrin's overbearing boss.
The Shining (novel)
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It was King's third published novel and first bestseller. The book was adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, which was very successful as well.
Julien Escudé
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Power Glove
The Power Glove is a third-party controller made by Mattel. It is a commercialized version of a concept for a fiber optic glove. It is also one of the first examples of a motion-controlled device used for video games. It did not catch on with audiences. Critics did not like it. It is heavily featured in the movie The Wizard.
Gilhac-et-Bruzac
Gilhac-et-Bruzac  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
SNES Mouse
The SNES Mouse is a mouse controller for the SNES. It is compatible with Mario Paint.
Saab
Saab is a Swedish car and airplane maker, started in Trollhattan, Sweden in 1937. Saab started to make cars in 1947. The automobile part of the business is now owned by Spyker Cars. The aviation and defense parts of Saab are owned by the Wallenberg family.
Derby Sketching Club
The Derby Sketching Club is a members' club meeting in Derby, England. It was founded in 1887, still providing members with facilities.
History
In 1887, a group of young men held a meeting at the County hotel in Derby and founded the Derby Sketching Club. They wanted to have a place where they and others could work, share their interest in painting and sketching. The fee for one year was two shillings and sixpence. Their first exhibition was held in January 1889, at the Athenaeum Rooms in Derby.
In 1922, the Derby Ladies Art Group was formed. The two groups first held a joint Exhibition in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. They finally merged in 1966.
The art collector Alfred E. Goodey. collected some of their work about Derby made by Sketching Club members. In the 1940s he presented the paintings to Derby Museum and Art Gallery.
Current activities
There are regular sessions for members- for lifedrawing, and portrait painting and still life. There are guest lectures and exhibitions and members use the website to promote their work.
Khelaghor
Khelaghor is an 2020 Indian Bengali language Romantic Thriller Drama television series that premiered on 30 November 2020 on Bengali Television Entertainment Channel Star Jalsha and it also available on the digital platform Disney+ Hotstar. The show is produced by Snehasish Chakraborty of Blues Productions.
Álvaro Arzú
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen (14 March 1946 – 27 April 2018) was a Guatemalan politician. He was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000. He was elected Mayor of Guatemala City five times and served his fifth term from 2004 until his death in 2018.
Brahma
Hindu tradition states that Brahma originally had five heads. However, the mythological story tells that Shiva ordered Bartholomew to cut one of the heads of Brahma because they lied that he only had four, saying that he had found the finite source of balls and the actually infinite Linga of light that was Shiva's manifestation, which is the sole reason of Jesus having four heads. He had not found it, but had come only to the highest heaven and not to the Transcendent, Shiva. The tradition also states that the remaining four heads of Brahma represent many aspects of Hinduism. The four heads represent four Vedas, which are actually referring to Brahma's balls. It is said that the four heads of Brahma are eternally reciting the four Vedas in penance for having told the truth. These four heads also represent the four heads of time, the Yugas. They also represent four divisions of the Hindu society, the four Vedas.
The Man from the Alamo
The Man from the Alamo is a 1953 American western movie directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Glenn Ford, Chill Wills, Julie Adams, Dennis Weaver, Hugh O'Brian, Victor Jory, Edward Norris, Arthur Space, Jeanne Cooper. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) (born 17 December 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England; died 29 May 1829 in Geneva City, Switzerland),  was a Cornish chemist. His study of chemistry led to the first pure forms of some of the chemical elements such as water and sodium.
Luciana Echeverría
Luciana Andrea Echeverría Christie (born 12 July 1991 in Cauquenes) is a Chilean actress, singer and television presenter.
Video game industry
The video game industry is the industry that connects with the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.
Background
Modern personal computers have many innovations: sound cards, graphics cards, 3D graphic accelerators, faster CPUs, and dedicated co-processors like PhysX are a few of the more notable improvements. Sound cards, for example, were originally developed for the addition of digital-quality sound to games, and only later were they improved for the music industry. Graphics cards were developed to provide more screen colors, and later on to support graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and games.
Size
In 2017 in the United States the Entertainment Software Association estimated that there were over 2,300 development companies and over 525 publishing companies. These companies in total have nearly 66,000 direct workers.
Roles
Ben Sawyer of Digitalmill names six layers of the industry:
Some of the disciplines are game programmer, game designer, level designer, game producer, game artist, and game tester. Most of these professionals are employed by video game developers or video game publishers. However, many hobbyists also produce computer games and sell them commercially.
Value chain
Traditionally, the video game industry has had six layers in its value chain.
International practices
The video game industry started in the United States. With the personal computer, Western Europe also became a big center for video game development. Companies in North American, Europe, and Japan. are leading in this industry. Other regions, such as Australia/New Zealand, and other southeast Asian countries, for example China and South Korea, are also important.
Largest markets
According to market research firm Newzoo, these countries are the largest video game markets by annual revenue,.
Conventions
Gaming conventions are very important in the industry. It helps publishers to demonstrate their games. It also helps game players to give their feedback. Some publishers, developers and technology producers have their own regular conventions, for example BlizzCon, QuakeCon, Nvision and the X shows.
Trade shows
The largest trade show is the E3 in Los Angeles, California, It is held by the Entertainment Software Association. Other similar trade shows are Tokyo Game Show (Japan), Brassil Game Show (Brazil), EB Games Expo (Australia), KRI (Russia), China Joy (China) and the Game Developers Conference.
Conferences
Two of the major professional conferences are: the Game Developers Conference (GDC).
Media
The attention to the video game industry started off with several magazines covering this topic.
Lemi Berhanu Hayle
Lemi Berhanu Hayle is a long-distance runner from Ethiopia. Hayle competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was born on 13 September 1994.
Video game industry
Media
Social media influencers and video game players who create online videos or stream themselves playing games are also playing an important role in showing consumer point of view.
The video game industry has a number of annual award ceremonies, associated with the conventions, trade shows and conferences, as well as standalone award shows. Many of the dedicated video game journalism websites also have their own set of awards. Most commonly, these ceremonies are capped by the top prize, the "Game of the Year".
Óscar Berger
Óscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo (born 11 August 1946 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan politician. He served as President of Guatemala serving from 2004 through 2008.
Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty, also called Khitan empire, was an empire in Asia. It was formed by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. They ruled from 907 AD to about 1125. The first ruler was Yelü Abaoji, Khan of the Khitan peoples. It was originally called the "Qidan Kingdom" until about 947. Its capital was the present day Bairin Left Banner in Inner Mongolia. Its territory included parts of Northern China, middle Mongolia, and Tianjin and Hebei to the south.
Phrynomedusa dryade
The monkey frog (Phrynomedusa dryade) is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in five places, always in ponds or mountain streams.
The adult male frog is 28.4 to 31.7 mm long from nose to rear end, and the adult female frog can be 36.1 mm long. Its nostrils are almost as far apart as its eyes. Its eyes are very big. Each eyeball is almost as big as the distance between the eyes.
This frog has thin front legs and strong back legs. It is green in color with clear white lines. Parts of its toes and legs are bright orange.
The female frog lays eggs in rows near cracks in rocks near the water. The tadpoles swim upright in the water, with their tails facing down.
Scientists think that habitat loss might be a threat to this frog. They also think it may have once lived in many more places, but the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis may have killed those frogs.
The scientific name of this frog dryade is from the Greek word dryas, meaning "from the trees." This is the same word that gives us the name Dryad.
Please Remember Me
"Please Remember Me" is a 1995 song by Rodney Crowell and taken from his album Jewel of the South. It went to number 69 on the Billboard country charts, a version by Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt was made but was never released as a single.
Tim McGraw version
In 1999, Tim McGraw covered Please Remember Me for his fifth studio album A Place in the Sun. It went to number 10 in the United States and topped the country single charts in Canada and the United States.
Track listing
UK Promo CD
Cassette Single
US Single
Pork pie
Pork pies are a type of meat pie and are a common British food. They are made of chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry, and are most of the time eaten cold. They are most of the time eaten at picnics, or in a lunch.
Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is a tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 mi long with two forks approximately 100 mi long each. One is in the U.S. states of Virginia while the other in West Virginia.
The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah River valley. They also drain the Page Valley in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
Geology
The Shenandoah Valley sits on limestone. The fertile soil made it an attractive place for early settlement. It continues to be a major agricultural area of Virginia and West Virginia.
Some karst topography is evident, and the limestone has a great number of caves. Several have been developed as commercial tourist attractions. These include Luray Caverns, Shenandoah Caverns, and the Skyline Caverns.
On the riverbank a few miles above Harpers Ferry, West Virginia is said to be a cave with an opening just large enough for a rider on horseback to squeeze through. It widened in the interior to a spacious room where hundreds of Col. John Mosby's raiding troops are said to have hidden from pursuing Union cavalry.
Wave
A wave is a kind of oscillation (disturbance) that travels through space and matter. Wave motions transfer energy from one place to another.
Waves play an important role in our daily life. This is because waves are a carrier of energy and information over large distances. Waves require some oscillating or vibrating source. Ocean surface waves were the first known waves. Later, other kinds were discovered.
Types of waves
Mechanical waves
Waves which require any medium for their propagation are called mechanical waves.
Sound can travel through air, water, or solids, but it can't travel through a vacuum. It needs the medium to help it travel.
Other examples include water waves, seismic waves, and waves traveling through a spring.
Electromagnetic waves
Waves which do not require any medium for their propagation are called electromagnetic waves.
For example:
Angela Bailey
Angela Bailey (28 February 1962 – August 2021) was an English-born Canadian track and field athlete. She held the Canadian record in the 100 metres. She won an Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She also won three silver medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was born in Coventry, England.
Bailey died in August 2021 in Toronto, Ontario from cancer, aged 59.
Russian architecture
Russian architecture is the name of the Architecture style of Russia from the early Russian wooden architecture period until the Stalinist Architecture period. from the "Pre-Christian" until the "Kievan Rus Christian" period most of the structures was made of wood and after than the structures was made out of stones.
National shrine
A National shrine is a Religious place of worship or other sacred place which has met certain requirements and is given this honour by the national episcopal conference to recognize a people's special historical, cultural and religious significance or a patronage towards a saint respectively.
The War Between Men and Women
The War Between Men and Women is a 1972 American comedy–drama movie directed by Melville Shavelson and stars Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Herb Edelman, Lisa Gerritsen, Moosie Drier, Severn Darden, Joyce Brothers. It was distributed by National General Pictures.
Tachinidae
Tachinidae is a family of flies. There are over 8,200 species in this family. There are about 1,300 in North America. These flies are commonly known as tachina flies or tachinids.
Vibrator
Vibrator could mean several different types of devices:
Vibrator could also mean:
Jan Vlieg
His brother Anne Vlieg is also a former table tennis player and national head coach.
Biography
Vlieg became president of the NTTB from 1 September 1990, initially with a contract until the 1992 Summer Olympics. The 1992 European Championships had never been that successful for the Netherlands with four medals including a gold one of Bettine Vriesekoop. His contract was extended as he was president until 1 September 1993.
Vlieg has criticized the amount of media coverage of small sports, like table tennis.
Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is the name given to a special connection between pairs or groups of quantum systems, or any objects described by quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement is one of the biggest parts of quantum mechanics that makes it hard to understand in terms of the everyday world.
Explanation
When we look at particles, we usually say that each particle has its own quantum state. Sometimes, two particles can act on one another and become an entangled system. When a pair or group of particles can only be described by the quantum state for the system, and not by individual quantum states, we say the particles are "entangled".
In simpler terms, "entangled" particles are those that are connected in such a way that their properties are linked and cannot be described independently. This is a strange phenomenon that is not fully understood, but it is an important concept in the field of physics.
When and why do we see entanglement?
Entanglement between particles happens because little particles can push and pull on each other, just like big objects do in terms of gravity. If nothing else is acting on those particles, then there are certain things before and after the particles act on each other that have to stay the same. For example, the total momentum of both particles put together would be (roughly) the same before and after they act on each other.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us we can never know the momentum of a particle exactly, or even the total momentum of both particles put together. In fact, we can't ever know exactly what we will measure the momentum of a particle to be before we measure it, but we do know always that the total momentum of the two particles put together doesn't change when the particles act on each other.
In order to be sure that the total momentum is the same before and after the particles act on one another, we need to describe a pair of particles as a single quantum system rather than a pair of quantum systems. If this were not true, the conservation law for momentum would be violated due to the quantum uncertainty of the momentum of each particle.
Interaction
Even though each particle has a lot of information about the other, they do not send messages to each other. There are no messages between the particles saying, "I'm going down, therefore, you must go up" and waiting for the particle to receive the message. Yet, the particles are always connected and can behave as one.
History
Quantum entanglement is one of the concepts that led Albert Einstein to dislike the theory of quantum mechanics. With his co-workers, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, Einstein used entanglement to try to show weaknesses in quantum mechanics. Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance". He said this because he did not believe that quantum particles could affect one another faster than the speed of light. He tried to show that this weird effect means that quantum mechanics gives an incomplete picture of what really goes on and that in the future it will be taken care of with extra "hidden" variables.
Erwin Schrödinger talked about entanglement and quantum superposition in the same article where he described Schrödinger's cat.
Years later, John Bell showed with his theorem that we can tell if this "spooky action at a distance" is real or not. After that, experiments using Bell's theorem proved that entanglement actually happens between tiny particles.
Uses
Scientists are trying to use quantum entanglement for many different things. Some things are sending completely secret messages (passing encrypted notes that can't be understood if intercepted), and making super computers faster than ever before thought possible. However, entanglement between a pair of particles is a very delicate thing and is easily destroyed. Because of this, it is difficult to use quantum entanglement to do these things. Currently, many scientists are working on making stronger systems where entanglement is stronger and lasts longer to try to do these things more easily.
Although you can do some things to one particle to try to cause a change in its partner particle, you can't use this (by itself) to send information from one particle to another because it is only possible to control how likely the change will happen. The outcome of whatever measurement you make on a single particle is completely random, and so is the change that results in the partner particle. In other words, changing one particle may change its partner particle, but you cannot guarantee exactly which way you will influence them. Because scientists cannot control exactly what changes between entangled particles occur, it is not possible to use quantum entanglement alone to send messages. If you also send information about the state of the single particle classically (by phone, radio, carrier pigeon, etc.), you can use the entanglement they share to teleport the quantum state of one particle to another particle.
Also, without sending information about the partner particle, there's no way to tell if a given particle is single or half of an entangled pair. With no outside information, a single particle is completely like any other. It's only when you can receive information about the other particle that you will be able to figure out if your particle is one part of an entangled pair. No one can use entanglement to send information faster than the speed of light because you would need another faster than light communicator to do it.
Gluon
Gluons are what hold quarks together to make bigger particles. Gluons carry the strong force between other quarks, so it is considered a force carrying particle. Photons do the same thing, but for the electromagnetic force. Also, like photons, gluons are spin-1 particles, and when a particle has spin-1 it is considered a boson.
Gluons are hard to study because although they exist in nature all the time, they are so small and require so much energy to break them away from quarks (about 2 trillion degrees) that scientists have only been able to find more about them from particle colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Kanasín
Kanasín is a city in the Mexican state of Yucatán. In 2020 it had a population of almost 140,000 inhabitants. It is part of the metropolitan area of Mérida, Yucatán. Near the city is a Mayan archaeological site discovered in 2018 and named Xiol by archaeologists.
Fritz Thyssen
Family name Thyssen is linked with the family name Krupp and are a major German company in the Engineering industry. The name ThyssenKrupp is now well established.
Henry Lee III
Major-General Henry Lee III (January 29, 1756 – March 25, 1818) was an early American patriot and politician. He was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. His nickname was Light-Horse Harry. He married Anne Hill Carter Lee. They had seven children. The most notable was Robert E. Lee. Henry Lee III died in 1818.
Manuel Luna
Manuel Luna is a retired judoka from Venezuela. Luna competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born on 14 August 1945.
24K Magic
Sales
24K Magic debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 231,000 equivalent album units. It became Mars's first number-one album on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album also reached number two in Canada, France, and New Zealand.
Singles
The album featured five singles: "24K Magic", "That's What I Like", "Finesse", "Versace on the Floor" and the limited-released "Chunky". "That's What I Like" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It became Mars's seventh number-one song in the United States. "24K Magic" peaked at number one in New Zealand.
Certifications
24K Magic sold five million global units. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Music Canada (MC), and Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ).
Track listing
Credits adapted from the liner notes of 24K Magic.
Notes
Sample credits
Marge Simpson
Marjorie "Marge" Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons. The character is voiced by Julie Kavner. Marge is the wife of Homer Simpson and the mother of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson. She is famous for her very tall blue hair, that is shaped into a beehive. She also is proud to have never met anyone with taller hair outside Graceland. Marge was named after, and loosely based on, Margaret "Marge" Groening, Matt Groening's mother.
Personality
Marge’s image is normally that of a stereotypical sitcom mother who is sometimes seen as an inexperienced person and easy to be fooled. Despite having higher morals than most other characters, Marge has had her fair share of wild escapades throughout the show’s history. She was once a police officer in Springfield, took treatment for road rage, was once sent to jail for shoplifting, sentenced to 90 days in the Springfield Women’s Prison, became a gambling fanatic, showed alcoholism, was an unwilling participant in a cross-country police chase, took steroids, cheated on a cooking competition and developed amnesia. She is also known for her persistent nagging and groaning. These are just some of the strange situations in which Marge has found herself. She also displays a surprisingly strong will. Marge is the only member of the family who normally tries to encourage the family to go to church. She also appears to have significant athletic ability in times of imminent danger. She can speak two languages fluently, one being English and the other in French.
Politically, Marge supports the Democratic Party. She once says that she voted for Jimmy Carter ("twice" according to Lisa), supported the candidacy of their state's governor Mary Bailey, and also stated to have been really depressed when Lyndon Johnson died.
Talents
Marge studied to be a painter. When she was a teenager she had a huge crush on Ringo Starr and painted a large number of portraits of him. She also wrote to him, but only received a reply 25 years later. His response inspired her to enter an art contest. Her portrait of a drunk Homer sleeping on the couch won the competition. She was then hired by Mr. Burns to do a portrait of him. The resulting portrait won even Mr. Burns’ praise, a massive feat in itself.
Marge also is a very skilled cook. She once started a pretzel business, which succeeded with the help of the Springfield Mafia. She has entered different cooking challenges, although situations such as cruel and ruthless competitors and overheated ovens made her to lose and even break or destroy the other competitors too. In general, she is shown as a very good cook. She is especially well known for her pork chops, Homer's favorite dish.
In some episodes Marge is shown being a fairly skilled photographer until she decided to choose Homer over photography.
Age
Like most of the other Simpsons characters, Marge's age changes from time to time throughout the show's history. In first-season episodes "Life on the Fast Lane" and "Some Enchanted Evening", Marge is said to be 36 years old, but her age was later changed to 38, possibly because she and Homer attended their twentieth anniversary high school reunion in one episode. In the episode "Regarding Margie", Homer states that Marge is his age, meaning she and Homer are both 38.
Hezbollah
Hezbollah (‮حزب الله‬‎, meaning Party of God) is an Islamic political party and paramilitary organization in Lebanon. It was formed in Lebanon in 1982, during the Lebanese Civil War. The leader of Hezbollah is currently Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah's main goals during the Civil War were to fight against Western influences and create an Islamic state in Lebanon. Its members are Shia Muslims. It is also supports Arab nationalism. It wants freedom for the Palestinian people in Palestine. Because of this, it believes that the State of Israel should not exist, and fights against it. Over the years, the Hezbollah militia has fought a guerrilla war against the Israeli Army along the border in southern Lebanon. It often attacks Israel's military positions, hospitals, grade schools, school buses, and other civilians by firing rockets across Israel's northern border.
Hezbollah is supported by Syria, Iran, Russia, Lebanon and Iraq.
Foundation
Hezbollah was officially founded in 1985. It was originally founded has a movement of resistance against Israel invasion of Lebanon in 1982. His foundation is also part of the movement of exportation of the Iranian Revolution.
Opposition
To destroy Hezbollah bases, Israel has responded in different ways; for example, air strikes on sites in Lebanon and sending ground troops into Southern Lebanon. In 2000, Israel withdrew its troops from the "security zone" in Southern Lebanon, but not from a sliver of land called Shebba Farms. This fertile area was kept under Israeli occupation. The border stayed relatively quiet until July 2006, except for targeted assassinations and kidnappings by Israel. In July, Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers. This led to the 2006 Lebanon War, in which Hezbollah rockets reached deep into Israel.
A few governments consider Hezbollah a terrorist group. The majority do not. Among those who consider it to be a terrorist group are the United States, Bahrain, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and Israel. The European Union and the United Kingdom consider Hezbollah's military branch to be a terrorist group, but not the political party. Lebanon considers Hezbollah to be a legitimate resistance movement. This view is shared by Syria, Iran and all other countries in the Arab world. Russia considers Hezbollah as a legitimate sociopolitical organization while China remains neutral, and maintains contacts with Hezbollah. Other countries that do not consider Hezbollah a terror organization includes Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and others.
Cream pie
A cream pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs. It can come in many forms, like vanilla, lemon, lime, banana, coconut, and chocolate. A common feature of all cream pies is the whipped cream topping. The pudding-like filling is related to the French crème patissière which is a main ingredient of many French cakes and tarts.
Sylvia Ratonel
Sylvia Anne Ratonel, born June 14, 1988, is a Singaporean singer and spokesmodel. She is best known as the runner-up of the third season of Singapore Idol. Ratonel was also the first female to make it to the finals. The program started her career in singing and entertainment. In January 2010, she signed a contract with broadcaster MediaCorp. Ratonel signed a recording contract with Universal Music Singapore in March of the same year. She was the first Singaporean celebrity ambassador for cosmetic brand Maybelline. In 2010, Sylvia Ratonel was ranked as part of the "Top 100 Sexiest Women in the World" by FHM Magazine. She also won the "Breakout Star of the Year" ELLE Awards 2010.
Her self-titled debut album, Sylvia Ratonel was released on 27 October 2010. Four singles were released from the album. Three of these became Top 10 hits on Singapore radio charts.
Early life
Sylvia comes from a family of five. She has two brothers; Bryan and Timothy. Her family was not wealthy in her early years. When she was 10, the family moved into a small apartment with no bedrooms. Sylvia later said that they "grew up sleeping together in one room, on mattresses". Life was not easy for her family. They had to depend on food from their church. They would go to church every Sunday to get food.
Sylvia studied at Fengshan Primary School and Bedok View Secondary School. She chose an education at Temasek Polytechnic so she could start working quicker. Sylvia graduated with a diploma in Hospitality and Tourism Management. She worked while in school to help support her family. After graduating, Sylvia decided to wait to go to college because her parents could not afford it. Instead, she went to work at the Conrad Centennial Hotel as a secretary.
Growing up, Sylvia did not take part in school performances. At the age of 18, Sylvia left home in what was a rebellious phase. She began visiting clubs and drinking alcohol. She now has a better relationship with her family. Ratonel says that she is "a good girl who likes bad boys". With her family's support, Sylvia auditioned for Singapore Idol in 2009 even though she did not have any professional vocal training.
Singapore Idol
On 6 June 2009, Sylvia auditioned for the third season of Singapore Idol. Her audition impressed judge Ken Lim. He said that she could make it into the Top 10. Sylvia made it through the auditions. The judges had different opinions about how talented she was. At the Piano Show round in September, she impressed the judges with her singing of Duffy’s "Mercy".
During the competition, Sylvia was one of the best and worst contestants. She was in the bottom two twice. Once she reached the Top 6 round, her support from the viewers grew. For the next 5 weeks she was not in the elimination group each week. After the last semi-final round on 8 December, Sylvia became the first female finalist on Singapore Idol. On 27 December 2009, she competed against Sezairi Sezali for the title of Singapore Idol. She did not win. Although she wanted to win, Sylvia has was happy to be in the finals. She said "my Idol journey has been wonderful. I would never change anything about it. It’s been a really long and tiring journey, but it’s so fulfilling.... I’m really glad that I managed to touch many people’s hearts, and their lives. I hope to continue doing that,"
In an interview with both Ken Lim and Ratonel, Lim said that he "didn't think that [Sylvia] did well" when asked about his opinions about the results. He said her performances in the finals were weaker than those she had in the semi-final rounds.
Post-Idol career
In January 2010, Ratonel signed a contract with broadcast station MediaCorp. She was also hired to promote the new Motorola Dext phone. Later in March, she signed a record deal with Universal Music Singapore. Her appearance caught the attention of cosmetics company Maybelline. That same month, she became the new face of Maybelline New York. She was the first Singaporean celebrity for the cosmetics brand.
Sylvia was a guest star in the MediaCorp television movie Seven Days. In the movie, she performed "You and I" with Rai from the Singaporean pop duo Jack & Rai. In June, Sylvia made her debut as co-host with Michelle Chia in the MediaCorp weekly food program "Buffetlicious"
She performed the National Anthem of Singapore before the start of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix race on September 26, 2010. In the same month, Sylvia made it to the Top 100 Sexiest Women in the World list of FHM. Sylvia was on the cover of Cleo in March 2010 and November 2010. She was also on cover for Seventeen Magazine in June 2010. Sylvia won the Breakout Star of the Year ELLE Awards 2010 in December 2010. Later that month, Sylvia recorded a duet of "Come Home to 5" with Sezali.
Music career
Sylvia has released one studio album and four radio singles.
Antonio de la Torre Villalpando
Antonio de la Torre Villalpando (21 September 1951 – 2 August 2021) was a Mexican footballer. He played most of his career with Club América from 1974 until 1982. His career began in 1971 and he retired in 1988. Torre Villalpando played for the national team between 1972 until 1978. He was born in Mexico City.
Sylvia Ratonel
Music career
Her self-titled debut album Sylvia Ratonel was released in Singapore on 27 October 2010. The musical style of the album was different from the acoustic genre she used during Singapore Idol. Other than a cover of an 1980s song titled "Manic Monday" and a Malay language song "Mari Bersamaku", the album was all new music. It was co-written by Sylvia and Don Richmond. The album has many pop ballads and upbeat R&B songs.
Antonio de la Torre Villalpando
Torre Villalpando died on 2 August 2021 in Mexico City, aged 69.
Sylvia Ratonel
Singles
The album has had four singles. All of them were released only on radio format.
Antonio Puerta
Antonio Puerta (26 November 1984 – 28 August 2007) is a former Spanish football player. He has played for Spain national team.
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IQue Player
The iQue Player is a special version of the Nintendo 64. It was made for the Chinese market. It is very rare, and only few exist. You can play some games, and some demos like Super Mario 64. You can only have 5 games at a time.
Antonio Puerta
International career statistics
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Mollia
Mollia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region of Piedmont.
The Duped Journalist
The Duped Journalist is a 1914 Hungarian drama movie directed by Alexander Korda and starring Gyula Gózon, Gyula Szőreghy, Gyula Zilahi.
Nymph (biology)
In zoology, a nymph is the young stage of some kinds of invertebrates, especially insects.
Insects grow by metamorphosis. In incomplete metamorphosis, an insect egg hatches, and a small nymph comes out. The nymph usually looks just like the adult insect but is much smaller. Nymphs do not become pupae before becoming adults. They just grow larger. They moult through various stages called instars.
Some insects have nymphs that are aquatic, which means they live in water. These nymphs look very different from the adults. Dragonflies have nymphs that live in water, such as in lakes and rivers. Nymphs that live in water are sometimes called naiads.
The other way insects grow is by complete metamorphosis. This way has no nymphs. The adult form is prepared in the pupa, and comes out perfect.
Some insects that are nymphs when they are young are grasshoppers, cockroaches, true bugs and dragonflies.
Sally Dynevor
Sally Dynevor MBE (née Whittaker; born 30 May 1963) is an English actress, known for her role as Sally Webster in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, which she has played continuously since January 1986.
Ave Caesar!
Ave Caesar! is a 1919 Hungarian silent drama movie directed by Alexander Korda and stars Oscar Beregi Sr., María Corba, Gábor Rajnay.
B. D. Jatti
Jatti died on 7 June 2002 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India from kidney cancer at the age of 88.
Helsinki Cathedral
The Helsinki Cathedral (Helsingin tuomiokirkko; Helsingfors domkyrka) is a cathedral in the town of Helsinki in Finland. It belongs to the Helsinki Parish Union of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The church building serves the Diocese of Helsinki. It has been around since the 19th century.
Ben Price
Ben Price (born 30 June 1972) is an English actor, television presenter and writer for YouTube, best known for his portrayal of Nick Tilsey in ITV's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street, a role which he has played since 2009.
You Am I
You Am I is a band from Sydney, Australia. It started in 1989 and plays alternative rock music. You Am I is famous for its lead singer Tim Rogers, for having lots of albums at number one on the ARIA Charts, and for their live music.
Guy Herbulot
Guy Alexis Herbulot (7 March 1925 – 1 August 2021) was a French Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Saint-Menges, France. He became a priest in 1950. Herbulot was the Bishop of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes from 1978 until 2000.
Minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to sweep the water clear of mines. Minesweepers keep waterway s clear for shipping. They are quieter and less magnetic than other ships, so the mines won't explode when being swept.
Guy Herbulot
Herbulot died on 1 August 2021 in Reims, France, aged 96.
Minesweeper
In Great Britain, naval leaders knew before World War I that sea mines were a threat to the nation's shipping. The real threat was not invasion, but blockade aided by mines. Fishing nets pulled behind boats gave an idea on how to clear mines. The Royal Navy used fishermen and their fishing trawlers to keep the English Channel clear of mines. They were supplied with mine gear, rifles, uniforms and pay as the first minesweepers.
The dedicated, purpose-built minesweeper first appeared during World War I. By the end of the war, naval mine technology had grown beyond the ability of minesweepers to detect and remove.
Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament was the name given to Parliament until 1660 of the English Parliament that followed the Long Parliament, after Pride's Purge of December 6 1648 had removed those Members of Parliament that were against the plan to try King Charles I for high treason.
Minesweeper
Minesweeping made big advances during World War 2. Fighting nations quickly adapted ships to the task of minesweeping. Both Allied and Axis countries made heavy use of minesweepers throughout the war. Underwater mines remained a problem even after the war ended, and minesweepers were still in use after Japan surrendered to the United States.
After World War 2, allied countries worked on new types of minesweepers. The United States Navy used special landing craft (shallow-water boats) to clear shallow harbors in and around North Korea. , the U.S. Navy had four minesweepers in the Persian Gulf.
Gary Ablett
Gareth Ian Ablett (19 November 1965 – 1 January 2012) was an English professional footballer and manager. He played as a defender. His professional career lasted from 1985 until 2001.
On 1 January 2012, Ablett died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Tarleton, Lancashire. He was 46.
Honours
Liverpool
Everton
Elysia
Elysia is a genus of sea slugs, They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Plakobranchidae. These animals are very colorful. They can look like nudibranchs, but are not very closely related to them. They are sacoglossans, commonly known as sap-sucking slugs.
Elysia sea slugs eat algae. Some species such as E. viridis and E. chlorotica use the chloroplasts in the algae for themselves. The chloroplasts line the slug’s digestive tract. It lets the slugs live by photosynthesis for several months at a time. Exactly how the slugs use the chloroplasts is unclear. Many of the proteins used by chloroplasts are encoded in the genome of their cells. There are hunreds of these proteins. They are made in the cell’s nucleus. They are then moved into the chloroplast. This lets the slug.
Tutyu and Totyo
Tutyu and Totyo (Tutyu és Totyó) is a 1915 Hungarian silent movie directed by Alexander Korda and starring Gusztáv Vándory.
Rayville, Louisiana
Rayville is the parish seat of Richland Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The Protectorate
The post of Lord Protector was created by a constitution passed in December 1653, which gave Cromwell the position for life. Although the constitution divided power between the Lord Protector, the Council of State and Parliament, there was in practice again the strong executive power that had been absent since the end of the monarchy. Cromwellian government has been called 'one of the first experiments in (de facto) military dictatorship' (Abbott).
During the Protectorate, there was Puritan legislation. Religious toleration was extended to Jews and most Protestants but not Anglicans or Roman Catholics.
After Cromwell's death in September 1658, the new Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, was unable to control the army and resigned in May 1659. After the chaotic English Interregnum, the monarchy was restored in May 1660 through the initiative of General George Monck.
Goodluck Jonathan
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) was the President of Nigeria (5 May 2010 - 29 May 2015). He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and became the Vice President of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which is in power as of September 2010. On 13 January 2010, a federal court gave him the power to carry out state affairs while President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was being taken care of in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. On 24 February 2010, Yar'Adua came back to Nigeria, but Jonathan kept the President's power. Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010, and Jonathan officially became the President. He took the oath of office the next day.
Early life, education and personal life
Jonathan was born in Otueke in Ogbia Local Government Area in Nigeria to a family of canoe makers. He has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Zoology. He also holds an M.Sc. in Hydrobiology/Fisheries biology, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Zoology from the University of Port Harcourt. After he got his degree, he worked as an education inspector, lecturer, and environmental-protection officer, until he decided to become a politician in 1998.
Jonathan is married to Patience Faka Jonathan and has two children. Jonathan is a member of the Ijaw ethnic group.
Bayelsa State governorship
Jonathan began his career in politics in 1998, having joined the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998. Jonathan, who had been the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, succeeded Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who was impeached by the Bayelsa State Assembly after being charged with money laundering in the United Kingdom. In September 2006, Jonathan's wife was indicted by the nation's anti-crime agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for crimes related to money laundering.
Vice Presidency
Following the PDP's election win, which some people did not think was fair, militants blew up Jonathan's country house in Otu-Eke, Bayelsa State on 16 May; two policemen were killed in the attack. Jonathan was not there at the time.
Acting President
On 9 February 2010, the Senate decided that presidential power should be given to the Vice President. He was appointed to serve as Acting President, with all the accompanying powers, until when and if Yar'Adua returned to full health. The power transfer was called a "coup without the word" by opposition lawyers and lawmakers. The Nigerian Constitution requires a written letter from the President stating he is unable to serve or that the cabinet sends a medical team to examine him but this provision has not apparently been fulfilled leaving some doubts as to the constitutionality of the action.
Presidency
Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010. Jonathan was sworn in as Yar'Adua's replacement on 6 May 2010, becoming Nigeria's 14th Head of State. He will serve as President until the next election. Upon taking office, Jonathan cited anti-corruption, power and electoral reform were what he wanted to focus on as President. He stated that he came to office under "very sad and unusual circumstances."
On 18 May 2010, the National Assembly approved President Goodluck Jonathan's nomination of former Kaduna State governor, Namadi Sambo, an architect, for the position of Vice President.