cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Hucknall
Hucknall, which used to be called Hucknall Torkard, is an English town near Nottingham. It is mostly a dormitory town for Nottingham. It is 11 km (7 mi) north of Nottingham. It is the final resting place of Lord Byron, an English poet and Greek War of Independence leader, and Ada Lovelace, a famous mathematician and programmer.
Romeny-sur-Marne
Romeny-sur-Marne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Chinese Rail DF4
Chinese Rail DF4 is a kind of diesel locomotive used in China. It was built by Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works. It has been in production since 1969 and is still produced as of 1984.
DF4
But the first ever is a permanent exhibition at the Beijing Railway Museum, and the second "Mao Zedong" is a permanent exhibition at the Fengtai Yard, Beijing Railway Bureau.
DF4A
The DF4A used an improved engine, the 16V240ZJA. Production started in 1976 and lasted until 1984.
Manufacturers
DF4s have been manufactured by several companies:
Chamba district
Chamba is the northwestern district of Himachal Pradesh state, in north Republic of India, with its headquarters in Chamba town. The towns of Dalhousie and Khajjhiar are popular hill stations and vacation spots for the people from the plains of northern India.
Salinõmme
Salinõmme is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Friderico-Francisceum
The Friderico-Francisceum is a secondary school (“gymnasium”). It is in Bad Doberan, a town in Germany. The short name of the school is FFG.
Students from grade 7 to grade 12 go to the school.
History
The school was founded in 1879. Its name is Friderico-Francisceum, because the founder was named Frederick Francis II. He was the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Only boys went to the school until 1927.
From 1947 to 1991 (during GDR times) the school was named “Goethe School”.
Birgit Hacker is the head teacher of the school since 2011.
Building
The main building of the school was built in 1889. The architect of the building was Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel.
A new school building behind the old one opened in 2001. It was needed, because the number of students got bigger.
Enrique Verástegui
Enrique Fidel Verástegui Peláez  (24 April 1950 – 27 July 2018), was a Peruvian poet, physicist, philosopher and mathematician. He was born in Lima. In 1975 he recorded his poems for the Library of Congress of the United States and worked for El Colegio de México. On 1976 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1978, representing the Peruvian community, he reads his poems before the tomb of César Vallejo, which earned him the congratulations of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, consul of Peru to UNESCO.
Verástegui died in Lima on 27 July 2018 from a heart attack, aged 68.
Shannon Tweed
Shannon Tweed (born March 10, 1957) is a Canadian actress and model. She acts mostly in erotic thriller movies. In Detroit Rock City, she played Amanda Finch.
Lones Wigger
Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937 – December 14, 2017) was an American sports shooter. In his shooting career, he won 111 medals, including three Olympic medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 1964 Olympics and a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. He was born in Great Falls, Montana.
Shannon Tweed
Tweed was born in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Ronchères, Aisne
Ronchères, Aisne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States airplane pilot. He became famous for making the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Early life
Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Swedish immigrants. He grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. His father, Charles August Lindbergh, was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman, who was against the United States entering into World War I. His mother was a teacher. While he was young, he was interested in machines. In 1922 he joined a pilot training program with Nebraska Aircraft, bought his own airplane, and became a stunt pilot. In 1924, he started training as a pilot with the United States Army Air Corps.
After finishing first in his class, Lindbergh took his first job as pilot of an airmail route in St. Louis. He flew the mail in an airplane.
In April 1923, while visiting friends in Lake Village, Arkansas, Lindbergh made his first ever flight over Lake Village and Lake Chicot.
First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Lindbergh gained fame around the world as the first pilot to fly solo (alone) and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew from Roosevelt Airfield (Nassau County, Long Island), New York, USA to Paris, France on May 20-21, 1927 in his single-engine airplane The Spirit of St. Louis. He needed 33.5 hours for the trip. When he arrived back in the United States, many warships and aircraft escorted him to Washington, D.C. where President Calvin Coolidge gave him the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Lindbergh's act won him the Orteig Prize, which was 25,000 US dollars. A parade was held for him on 5th Avenue in New York City on June 13, 1927. At the end of the year, he was named Time's first Man of the Year.
He served on a variety of national and international boards and committees, including the central committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the United States.
Medal of Honor citation
Lindbergh's Medal of Honor recognized that he had done something unique. This is one of only two medals given for conduct during peacetime.
The words of Lindbergh's citation explain:. "For displaying heroic courage and skill as a navigator, at the risk of his life, by his nonstop flight in his airplane, the 'Spirit of St. Louis,' from New York City to Paris, France, 20-21 May 1927, by which Capt. Lindbergh not only achieved the greatest individual triumph of any American citizen but demonstrated that travel across the ocean by aircraft was possible."
Legacy
Lindbergh is honored in aviation for mapping out polar air-routes, flying at high altitudes, and decreasing fuel use.
INTLAB
Features
INTLAB can help users to solve the following mathematical/numerical problems with interval arithmetic. • Numerical linear algebra   (Not only solving matrix systems or eigenvalue problems, INTLAB can handle the least squares, Hessian matrix,  and verify the positive definiteness of a given matrix )
Charles Lindbergh
Legacy
Lindbergh's legacy is, in part, his unique solo flight which changed public opinion about the value and significance of aircraft and air travel. In greater part, his legacy developed from what he did with his status and fame. He used his celebrity to advance aviation across the world.
Romery, Aisne
Romery, Aisne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
INTLAB
Features
• root-finding algorithm
Charles Lindbergh
Legacy
A developing Lindbergh legacy is in life sciences.
INTLAB
Features
• Affine arithmetic
• Solving ODEs rigorously (This feature includes external tools such as the AWA toolbox and the Taylor model toolbox)
• Automatic differentiation
Lucy McBath
Lucia Kay McBath (née Holman; born June 1, 1960) is an American politician. She is the U.S. representative from Georgia's 6th congressional district since 2019. McBath is a member of the Democratic Party.
INTLAB
Features
• Numerical integration
Lucy McBath
McBath's son, Jordan Davis, was murdered in November 2012. She an activist for gun control.
INTLAB
Features
• Fast Fourier transform
Lucy McBath
On May 24, 2022, McBath won a redistricting race against fellow incumbent Democratic U.S. Representative Carolyn Bourdeaux in Georgia's 7th congressional district.
INTLAB
Features
• Rigorously compute the gamma function
Human sexual activity
Human sexual behavior refers to all the ways in which humans experience and live their sexuality. It includes acts done alone, for example masturbation, and acts done with a partner. Not all acts done with a partner are about sexual intercourse. All these acts usually result in sexual arousal. Human sexual activity can also include things done to find new partners, or to attract their attention (for example courtship).
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
INTLAB is based on the previous studies of the main author, including his works with co-authors. • S. M. Rump: Fast and Parallel Interval Arithmetic, BIT Numerical Mathematics 39(3), 539–560, 1999.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
Sexual activity has many different forms. Commonly, sexual activity involves foreplay, which is the act of making the partner feel good. Sexual activity can involve one or more people. Sexual activity may be different depending on the gender and sexual orientation of the people involved.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• S. Oishi, S. M. Rump: Fast verification of solutions of matrix equations, Numerische Mathematik 90, 755–773, 2002.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
Some forms of sexual activity only involve one person, which is called autoeroticism. A person who does autoeroticism typically engages in sexual fantasy or masturbation.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• T. Ogita, S. M. Rump, and S. Oishi. Accurate Sum and Dot Product, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 26(6):1955–1988, 2005.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
If two or more people are involved, they will do sexual activity with each other. Two partners can do vaginal sex, anal sex, or oral sex. Alternatively, they may do mutual masturbation, which is the act of masturbating each other. Penetrative sex between two people may be described as sexual intercourse.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• S.M. Rump, T. Ogita, and S. Oishi. Fast High Precision Summation. Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA), IEICE, 1(1), 2010.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
If there are more than two people in a sex act, it may be referred to as group sex.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• S.M. Rump: Ultimately Fast Accurate Summation, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 31(5):3466–3502, 2009.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
People can use sex toys to make their sexual activity more enjoyable. Examples include dildos, vibrators, and butt plugs. Sex toys are usually used alone, but they can be used with partners too.
Some people have fetishes. This is a type of human sexual activity that involves body parts or objects that are not normally regarded as sexual. Fetishes of body parts (partialism) include the breasts, navel, and feet. Some people have fetishes for objects, such as shoes, clothing, lingerie, leather, and rubber. Some people with fetishes have a sexual interest in certain actions, such as choking. However, some fetishes can be dangerous, some of which may cause injury.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• S. M. Rump, T. Ogita, and S. Oishi: Accurate Floating-point Summation II: Sign, K-fold Faithful and Rounding to Nearest. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), 31(2):1269–1302, 2008.
Human sexual activity
Types of human sexual activity
In order to have good human sexual activity, both partners must agree to do sexual activity, and they must be at least a certain age. This is called consent. If sexual activity is forced or threatened, it is considered rape or another form of sexual assault. In different cultures and countries, various sexual activities may be lawful or illegal depending on the person's age, gender, status of marriage, or other reasons related to the participants of sexual activity. Some countries don't have laws against certain types of sexual activity, even if the sexual activity does not agree with social norms or generally accepted sexual morals.
INTLAB
Works cited by INTLAB
• S. M. Rump. Accurate solution of dense linear systems, Part II: Algorithms using directed rounding. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM), 242:185–212, 2013.
• S. M. Rump. Verified Bounds for Least Squares Problems and Underdetermined Linear Systems. SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), 33(1):130–148, 2012.
• S. M. Rump: Improved componentwise verified error bounds for least squares problems and underdetermined linear systems, Numerical Algorithms, 66:309–322, 2013.
• R. Krawzcyk, A. Neumaier: Interval slopes for rational functions and associated centered forms, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 22, 604–616 (1985)
• S. M. Rump: Expansion and Estimation of the Range of Nonlinear Functions, Mathematics of Computation 65(216), pp. 1503–1512, 1996.
Other websites
• INTLAB
• List of INTLAB contributors
• VERSOFT
• INTSOLVER
• Short demonstration of the AWA toolbox
• Short demonstration of the Taylor model toolbox
The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is a 1958 American drama movie directed by John Ford and was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Edwin O'Connor. It stars Spencer Tracy, Dianne Foster, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O'Brien, Donald Crisp, Edward Brophy, James Gleason, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Edmund Lowe, Wallace Ford, Basil Ruysdael, Frank Albertson and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Communist Party of Cuba
The Communist Party of Cuba is the ruling political party in Cuba. It is a Marxist–Leninist communist party. The Cuban constitution describes the role of the party to be the "leading force of society and of the state". Since April 2021, the First Secretary of the Central Committee has been Miguel Díaz-Canel. The Second Secretary has been José Ramón Machado Ventura.
June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
An earthquake, about moment magnitude 6.2, hit the Durand Line, between Afghanistan and Pakistan on 22 June 2022 at 02:24 Afghanistan Time (UTC+4:30).
Communist Party of Cuba
History
Cuba had a number of communist and anarchist organizations from the early period of the Republic. The original "internationalised" Communist Party of Cuba formed in the 1920s. In 1944, it was renamed as the Popular Socialist Party for electoral reasons. In July 1961, two years after the successful overthrow of Fulgencio Batista and the creation of a revolutionary government, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) was formed. It was a merger of:
Prime Minister of Peru
The President of the Council of Ministers of Peru, informally called "Premier" (form of address) or "Prime Minister", is in charge of the Council of Ministers, and is appointed by the President, but must be approved by the Congress as with all members of the Council.
Communist Party of Cuba
History
On 26 March 1962, the ORI became the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC), which became the Communist Party of Cuba on 3 October 1965. In Article 5 of the Cuban constitution of 1976, the Communist Party is recognized as "the superior guiding force of society and of the State, that organizes and orients common efforts toward the high goals of the construction of socialism and the advancement toward communist society". All parties, including the Communist Party, are prohibited from advertizing their organizations.
June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
The earthquake destroyed many houses in Afghanistan. It was felt in the southern parts of India and Pakistan's capital Islamabad and eastern Punjab province. At least 1000 people were killed and 1500 were injured.
Prime Minister of Peru
The Prime Minister of Peru is, however, not the head of government, since in Peru the President is the one who serves as the head of government. Peru is one of the few countries in Latin America that has a Prime Minister.
The current prime minister is Alberto Otárola since 2022.
Communist Party of Cuba
History
For the first fifteen years of its existence, the Communist Party was almost completely inactive outside of the Politburo. The 100 person Central Committee rarely met and the first regular party Congress was held ten years after its founding. In 1969, membership of the party was only 55,000 (0.7% of the population), making the PCC the smallest ruling communist party in the world. By the time of the first party Congress in 1975, the party had grown to just over two hundred thousand members. By 1980, the party had grown to over 430,000 members and it grew further to 520,000 by 1985.
Central Committee
The leading bodies of the party were the Politburo and the Secretariat until 1991. In 1991 the two bodies were merged into an expanded Politburo with over twenty members. However, the Secretariat was re-introduced in 2002. There is also a Central Committee which meets between party congresses. At the Fifth Congress, the size of the Central Committee was reduced to 150 members from the previous membership of 225. Fidel Castro was the party's First Secretary (or leader) since its creation while Raúl Castro was the Second Secretary. Upon Fidel Castro's 2008 resignation from the party and Cuban government, Raúl Castro became First Secretary.
Politburo
The 8th Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba was elected by the Central Committee following the 8mth Congress.
Crawford County, Missouri
Crawford County is a county in Missouri, United States. The county seat is Steelville. In 2020, 23,056 people lived there.
Roy Clarke
Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer. He was born in Austerfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Clarke is best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.
Communist Party of Cuba
Youth
The Communist Party of Cuba has a youth wing, the Young Communist League (Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, UJC) which is a member organization of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. It also has a children's group, the José Martí Pioneer Organization.
Ideology
Compared with other ruling Communist Parties, the Communist Party of Cuba retains a stricter adherence to the tradition of Marxism–Leninism and the traditional Soviet model.
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949 in Glasgow) is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.
Knopfler is best known as the founder of the British rock band Dire Straits which formed 1977. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist and has played in other groups including The Notting Hillbillies. Knopfler has worked with many other music artists such as: Bob Dylan,Eric Clapton and Chet Atkins.
Knopfler is a respected finger-style guitarist and was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million albums.
Knopfler was born to an English mother and Jewish Hungarian father. Knopfler moved to Blyth, Northumberland at age seven. He has a brother, David Knopfler (born 1952) who has also been a member of Dire Straits.
Lalibela
Lalibela (ላሊበላ) is a town in Lasta district of North Wollo Zone in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. It is famous for rock-cut monolithic churches.
The Rock-Hewn Churches were declared a World Heritage site in 1978.
Georges Loinger
Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French resistance fighter during World War II. He began fighting against Nazi Germany in 1939 but was captured in 1940. He escaped soon after, and rescued hundreds of Jewish children over then next few years. Until September 1943, that part of frontier was guarded by Italian army: Loinger remembers one day Italian high officer secretly told him he approved what Loinger did, that's his rescue activity. After September, there was German invasion and the activity became harder.
Garbagna Novarese
Garbagna Novarese is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Georges Loinger
Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He was Jewish. He turned 100 in August 2010. Loinger died in Paris on 28 December 2018 at the age of 108.
Natasha Yarovenko
Natalia "Natasha" Yarovenko (Наталія (Наташа) Яровенко; born 23 July 1979 ) is a Ukrainian actress and model. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine.
José Joaquín de Olmedo
Olmedo was born on March 20, 1780 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Natasha Yarovenko
In 2011 Yarovenko won two awards for the Best New Actress for her role in the movie Room in Rome, one at the Turia Awards and the other at the 25th Goya Awards.
José Joaquín de Olmedo
On October 9, 1820, Olmedo and others declared the city of Guayaquil independent from Spain. He was President of the Free Province of Guayaquil until it was united to Gran Colombia by Simón Bolívar against Olmedo's will. He was also twice mayor of Guayaquil.
He was Vice President of Ecuador from 1830 to 1831.
He was President of Ecuador from June 6, 1845, to December 8, 1845, surviving an attempted coup on June 18 of that year.
Olmedo died on February 19, 1847 in Guayaquil, Ecuador from complications of yellow fever. He was 66 years old.
Préaux, Ardèche
Préaux is a commune in the Ardèche department in south France.
Mike Chattey
Michael Stanley Kemp Chattey OBE, better known as Mike Chattey (born 9 January 1952) has been the Head of Fundraising at the Conservative Party since 2001 and is the interim chief executive officer since 2019.
In June 2016, Chattey was awarded an OBE in David Cameron's resignation honours list and gained an OBE for “political service” in his role of Head of Fundraising.
Mike Chattey has been married to Baroness Charlotte Vere since 2016.
Erotic thriller
An erotic thriller is a form of the thriller genre that involves sexuality. Many people liked this from around 1984-85 until the early 1990s. After that, not as many people liked it. It is, however, still popular.
Mike Chattey
Responsibilities
Mike as Head of Fundraising has responsibility for the donation and fundraising efforts of the Conservative Party including managing the parties extensive donor clubs as well as presiding over the annual Tory Party Fundraising Ball
Chattey conducts his role of Head of Fundraising from the partty’s central office, known as CCHQ in the Treasurer's Department.
Erotic thriller
An erotic thriller can be a book, a movie, or a television program. Examples of erotic thriller movies are Basic Instinct, Color of Night, Single White Female (1992), Body of Evidence, Crash (1996) and Basic Instinct 2 (2006).
Senate
In a modern democracy, a senate is a group of people who are part of a legislature. A legislature passes or changes laws for their country, state, or other area. Members of a senate are called senators. Some legislatures are bicameral, meaning they have two groups of people (working in separate places) called houses. A senate can be called a House of Senators.
Mike Chattey
Career
Mike Chattey spent 2 years as regional salesman in the south west for Calor Gas. He then moved to London to start a 15-year career in Advertising predominately for Evans Hunt Scott and Leo Burnett Advertising working on South African Airways, COI, Kelloggs, Procter & Gamble, McDonalds, Kodak, Sun Alliance and Commodore Computers. He was hired by Lord Ashcroft in 2002 to join The Conservative Party's Treasurers' Department. He was promoted to Head of Fundraising in 2012.
Senate
The senate of some such legislatures is weaker than the other house. The other house is called a House of Representatives, House of Commons, or Assembly. In bicameral legislatures, both houses must pass the same bill to make it a law. Modern democratic systems having legislatures with senates include the United States of America (U. S.), Canada, Australia and many states in the United States.
The first ever senate was the Roman Senate. The name comes from their word for "elder".
Senate is also the name of the ruling body of some universities.
Senate chambers
Sometimes, the senators are split into different groups, who then have different responsibilities. These groups meet in different rooms; each group is called a chamber.
Vicente Ramón Roca
Vicente Ramón Roca Rodríguez (2 September 1792 – 23 February 1858) was President of Ecuador from 8 December 1845 to 15 October 1849. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He led the revolution that overthrew Juan José Flores, along with José Joaquín de Olmedo and Diego Noboa. He ruled under the Constitution of 1845.
Century leap year
In the Gregorian calendar, a century leap year is a year that is exactly divisible by 400. Like all other leap years, these years have February 29. If a year is divisible by 100 but not 400, it is a common year (not a leap year). For example, the years 1600 and 2000 were century leap years; the century years 1700, 1800, 1900 were common years, so will 2100, 2200, and 2300, despite being divisible by 4. The next century leap year will occur in the year 2400. Century leap years always begin on a Saturday, and February 29 always falls on a Tuesday.
Vicente Ramón Roca
Roca was born on 2 September 1792 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He was married to Juana Andrade. Roca died on 23 February 1858 from complications of pneumonia, aged 65.
Century leap year
The start days of exceptional common years (century years not evenly divisible by 400) also varies; the century year begins on a Friday if the remainder obtained by dividing it by 400 is 100, Wednesday if the remainder is 200, and Monday if the remainder is 300.
Roucy
Roucy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Century leap year
References
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Kano
Kano is a city in Nigeria. It is the center of the Kano State. Kano is the third largest city in Nigeria, after Ibadan and Lagos. About 3,626,204 people live in Kano.
Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
The Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, or SWEEPS, was an astronomical survey. It was carried out in 2006. SWEEPS used the Hubble Space Telescope to look at 180,000 stars for seven days to find extrasolar planets.
Kano
It has long been the economic centre of northern Nigeria, and a centre for the sale of groundnuts. Kano is known for the Bayero University and a railway station with trains to Lagos, moving through Kaduna, while Kano International Airport can be found nearby. Kano has long been a centre for Nigeria's Islamic culture; one of the country's finest mosques lies in the city.
Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
Area looked at
The stars that SWEEPS monitored were all in the Sagittarius-I Window. This is a rare transparent look at the huge group of closely packed stars at the Milky Way's centre (central bulge), in the Sagittarius constellation. Our view to most of the stars in the centre of the galaxy is blocked by lanes of dust. These stars are about 27,000 light years from Earth.
Kano
It is also the site where the Kano river project was developed. This is a large irrigation scheme.
Sarve
Sarve is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Kano
History
The city of Kano was founded around A.D. 1000 as an Hausa city of its own. Kano remained a big emirate, or Muslim kingdom, until the making of the country, Nigeria, in 1903. Kano became known for its trade in gold, leather, ivory, salt and slaves within the area. This perhaps is the reason for the city's wealth and power in the 14th century, when Islam gained a growing following. By the 15th century, the first Central Mosque had been built in the city.
Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
Planets discovered
Sixteen planets were discovered by SWEEPS. They took from 0.6 to 4.2 days to go around the Sun. Planets which took less than 1.2 days to go around the sun have not been detected yet; these have been called "ultra-short period planets" (USPPs) by the search team. USPPs were discovered only around stars with a low mass. This means that larger stars might have destroyed any planets orbiting so closely, or that planets could not move as far inward around larger stars.
SWEEPS-4 and SWEEPS-11 orbited stars that were very different to other stars close by. This made it possible for these to be looked at again using the radial velocity method. Their masses could then be found.
Bruce Cabot
Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American movie actor. He played Jack Driscoll in the original King Kong (1933). He was married three times. He was friends with Errol Flynn and John Wayne. He appeared in many of Wayne's movies. He died in 1972 in California from cancer.
2022 Afghanistan earthquake
2022 Afghanistan earthquake may refer to:
Dmitri Kogan
Kogan has been a participant of world festivals of high prestige such as the Corinthian Summer Festival (Austria), Menton Music Festival (France), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Perth Festival (Scotland), and music festivals in Athens, Vilnius, Shanghai, Ogden and Helsinki. He has also participated in the Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival, Russian Winter (Russkaya Zima) Festival, Music Kremlin Festival, Andrey Sakharov International Art Festival and many others.
Kogan died in Moscow on August 29, 2017 of lymphoma at the age of 38.
Plats
Plats  is a commune in the Ardèche département in the southern part of France.
Orchard Road
Orchard Road is a street in Singapore that has many shopping centres. It is in the south of Singapore.
Manuel de Ascásubi
Manuel de Ascázubi y Matheu (1802– December 25, 1876) served as Vice President of Ecuador from 1847 to 1851 and in that capacity he was also acting President from 10 October 1849 to 10 June 1850.
Orchard Road
History
Orchard Road got its name from the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards that used to grow on both sides of the street. It only started to develop in the twentieth century.
Manuel de Ascásubi
Ascásubi was born in 1802 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He died on December 25, 1876 in Quito, Ecuador from a heart attack. He was 74 years old.
Orchard Road
Landmarks
Orchard Road has the Istana at the southern end of the road, which is the official house for the President of Singapore.
Shopping centres
The first shop was Tangs which was founded in 1932 and got its shop at Orchard Road in the 1950s. Orchard Road also has many well-known restaurants, coffee chains, cafés, nightclubs and hotels.
Mass Rapid Transit
There are three major MRT stations around Orchard Road. They are Orchard, Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut stations. These three stations are important placces for commuters, locals, students and tourists who travel to the Orchard Road shopping and business district. However, due to the construction of ION Orchard, the entrance of the Orchard entrance has been moved underground below the upcoming mall.
Buses
There are many bus services provided by SBS Transit and SMRT   that go to Orchard Road. The major bus stops along Orchard Road are at:
Taxi
Visitors can also travel to Orchard Road via taxi. There are taxi stands at Forum The Shopping Mall, all hotels, Lucky Plaza, Wisma Atria, Ngee Ann City, The Paragon, The Heeren Shops, Centrepoint Shopping Centre, next to Specialists' Shopping Centre and Plaza Singapura.
Cars
Visitors accessing Orchard Road by road usually enter from the west via Napier Road, before exiting Orchard Road at Bras Basah Road. Coming from the north, vehicles can enter via Bukit Timah Road and Scotts Road which leads into Orchard Road. From the south, vehicles can enter through Orchard Boulevard and Paterson Road.
Sandra Deal
Emilie Sandra Deal (née Dunagan; 1941 or 1942 – August 23, 2022) was an American education activist and public school language arts teacher. She was the wife Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal. She was the First Lady of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. Deal was born in Gainesville, Georgia.
Deal died on August 23, 2022 from breast cancer at her home in Demorest, Georgia at the age of 80.
Tenna
Tenna (天和) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Enpō and before Jōkyō. This period started in September 1681 and ended in February 1684. During this time, the emperor was Reigen-tennō (霊元天皇).
The nengō Tenna means "Peace of Heaven".
Events of the Tenna era
In Tenna, the first book was written about the coins of Japan. The work was entitled Classified Collection of Coins (Kwacho Kuien).
Apple pie
An apple pie is a pie or tart filled with apples. Sometimes it has whipped cream or ice cream on top. It is a common type of pie. It is commonly associated with American culture, e.g. the expression 'As American as apple pie'.
Roupy
Roupy is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Lubomír Metnar
Lubomír Metnar (born 6 October 1967 in Olomouc) is a Czech politician and former policeman. He is the Ministry of Defence in the second government of Andrej Babiš, since June 2018. From December 2017 to June 2018, he was Ministry of the Interior in the first cabinet of Andrej Babiš.
Million Reasons
"Million Reasons" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It is the seventh track on her fifth studio album, Joanne. The song became the second single from the album on October 28, 2016, after "Perfect Illusion".
Rougeries
Rougeries is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Million Reasons
The song first reached number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100. Gaga performed the song as the second-to-last song from her Super Bowl 51 halftime show, before "Bad Romance". After her show, "Million Reasons" reentered at number four on the Hot 100. It became her 10th top-five and 14th top-ten song in the US. She performed it as the encore song on the piano on the Joanne World Tour.
The Recording Industry Association of America certified the song Platinum for sales and streams of over one million copies in the US alone.
Gargallo, Piedmont
Gargallo is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Peerage of France
The Peerage of France (Pairie de France) the exclusive prestigious title and position of Peer of France was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the French nobility, was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 in the Middle Ages, and only a small number of noble individuals were peers. The title of 'Peer of France' was an extraordinary honour granted only to a small number of princes, dukes, counts of the Roman Catholic Church.
French peerage thus differed from British peerage (to whom the term "baronage", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense), for the vast majority of French nobles, from baron to duke, were not peers. It was analogous to the rank of Grandee of Spain in this respect. It was abolished in 1789 during the French Revolution.
Rouvroy, Aisne
Rouvroy, Aisne is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Barbara Carroll
Barbara Carroll (born Barbara Carole Coppersmith; January 25, 1925 – February 11, 2017) was an American jazz pianist and singer. Her career began in 1947. She was best known for her jazz trio, which had Benny Goodman in the line up. She also performed piano on Broadway plays. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts
Carroll died on February 11, 2017, at the age of 92.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Kristina Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (née Pérez; born June 6, 1988) is an American politician and small business owner. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the U.S. representative for Washington's 3rd congressional district since 2023.
Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American spy movie. The movie is about agents in the CIA, FBI and murder around Washington, D.C. and Colombia involving the Cali drug cartel and corrupt powerful American politicians and bureaucrats. Harrison Ford plays Jack Ryan, who has become the Director of the CIA. Anne Archer plays his wife Cathy Ryan. Thora Birch plays his daughter Sally Ryan. Other actors who play in the movie include James Earl Jones, Willem Dafoe, Harris Yulin and James Cromwell.
This movie was released August 3, 1994. The run time is 141 minutes. Its reviews were excellent. It made a lot of money at the box office.
It is the sequel of the 1992 movie Patriot Games.
Rouvroy-sur-Serre
Rouvroy-sur-Serre is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Diego Noboa
Noboa was born on April 15, 1789 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He died on November 3, 1870 in Guayaquil, Ecuador from pneumonia, aged 81.
Bonnie Wright
Bonnie Francesca Wright (born 17 February 1991) is an English actress. She is most known for playing Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter movies.
In 2012, Wright will start shooting her first leading role. It is a British nineteenth century period movie In Want of a Wife. She will star opposite Emily Watson.
Wright graduated from London's University of the Arts: London College of Communication. She is the owner of her own production company called Bon Bon Lumiere.
Plywood
The veneer is usually about 3 millimetres thick for each layer. Interior layers of these boards are usually made from an inexpensive wood while the outer veneer layers are made from more expensive timber to give the board a nice wood grain appearance. The glued layers are heated together to make the seal become better bonded.
A common reason for using plywood instead of plain wood is its resistance to cracking, shrinking and changing shape. It is cheaper and stronger than most plain woods.
It is used to make a range of things from sheds, to cladding to cabinets. It is graded on the quality, from class A to class D, A being the best quality and D being the worst quality.
Different kinds of plywood are made for different purposes. Marine plywood, for example, is especially resistant to water. There is a world-wide industry making plywood for structural purposes. IKEA is well-known for using mostly plywood and chipboard in their indoor and outdoor furniture products.
Saint-Barthélemy-le-Plain
Saint-Barthélemy-le-Plain  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Google Books
Google Books is a website run by Google. It lets you search and browse books and magazines that have been scanned in. The text of the books has been made searchable using optical character recognition (OCR). The site has been known under different names including Google Print and Google Book Search. It was announced and launched in 2004.
Peter Barter
Sir Peter Leslie Charles Barter, (26 March 1940 – 21 June 2022) was an Australian-born Papua New Guinean businessman and politician. He owned and operated the Madang Resort. He was Governor of the Madang Province between 1997 until 2002. He was also an important person in Bougainville. He created the Melanesian Foundation in 1980. Barter was born in Sydney, Australia. He was knighted in 2001.
Google Books
In 2005, book publishers sued Google for "massive copyright infringement" for scanning books without permission. Google claimed that this was fair use. Google has been sued in a number of countries over copyright issues related to Google Books.
John Cocks
John Cocks (23 August 1966 – 6 February 2019), also known as John 'Cocksy' Cocks, was a New Zealand celebrity builder and television presenter. He was most notable for working on the My House My Castle series in the 1990s for New Zealand's TV2.
In 2016, he was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer. He died from the disease on 6 February 2019 at his home in Tairua, New Zealand, aged 52.
Saint-Barthélemy-le-Meil
Saint-Barthélemy-le-Meil  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Robert Armstrong (actor)
Robert Armstrong (November 20, 1890 – April 20, 1973) was an American movie and television actor. He played Carl Denham in the original King Kong (1933).
Petanque
Petanque is a game played by many people, especially in France. It is played on a level surface which can be covered with gravel of varying sizes.Boules [metal balls] are thrown along this terrain. The game is played between two teams. Each team has three players [triples] with 2 boules each. At the start of the game, a small ball [coche or jack] is thrown. Each player stands in a circle and tries to throw a larger ball [boule] so that it lands close to the coche.The team having their boule or boules closest to the coche at the first end takes the points. Play continues until one team reaches 13. In a doubles game each player has 3 boules.
Languidic
Languidic (Langedig) is a commune. It is in Brittany in the Morbihan department in northwest France.
Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon
Saint-Barthélemy-Grozon  is a commune in the Ardèche département in southern France.
Dering Harbor, New York
Dering Harbor is a village in the Town of Shelter Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 11. It is the least populous village in the State of New York.
Royaucourt-et-Chailvet
Royaucourt-et-Chailvet is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
List of Chief Military Rabbis
This is the list of Chief Military Rabbis.
The Chief Military Rabbi presides over the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces, and holds the rank of brigadier general.
Green woodpecker
There are four species of bird named green woodpecker:
Fred Upton
Frederick Stephen Upton (born April 23, 1953) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for MI's 6th congressional district since 1987. He is a member of the Republican Party. Upton is the first and only U.S. Representative in U.S. history to vote to impeach two U.S. presidents. He voted for the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 and the second impeachment of Donald Trump in 2021. His niece is supermodel Kate Upton.
On April 5, 2022, Upton announced he would not run for reelection that year.
Rozet-Saint-Albin
Rozet-Saint-Albin is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France.
Minneapolis Police Department
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is the police department in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was formed in 1867, making it the second-oldest police department in Minnesota. The Saint Paul Police Department is the oldest, formed in 1854. The department has four precincts with over 800 officers and 300 other employees. The department did get national attention from the murder of George Floyd.
Triple DES
In cryptography, Triple DES is a block cipher created from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher by using it three times. Triple DES is also known as TDES or, more standard, TDEA (Triple Data Encryption Algorithm ).
Brown asbestos
Brown asbestos, also called grunerite or amosite, is one of the six types of asbestos. It has the chemical formula Fe7Si8O22(OH)2. It is less common than white asbestos but can be found in some construction materials. Like other types of asbestos, being exposed to it can cause mesothelioma and asbestosis.
2017 eruption of Mount Agung
Mount Agung, a volcano on the island of Bali in Indonesia, erupted in 2017. Thousands of people had to leave the area. Air travel was affected. As of 27 November 2017, the alert level was at its highest and evacuation orders were in place.
Triple DES
When it was discovered that a 56-bit key of DES is not enough to protect from brute force attacks, TDES was chosen as a simple way to enlarge the key space without a need to switch to a new algorithm. The use of three steps is essential to prevent meet-in-the-middle attacks that are effective against double DES encryption.
2017 eruption of Mount Agung
Tectonic earthquakes from the volcano had been detected since early August. Volcanic activity increased for several weeks. It decreased significantly in late October. A second, more violent period of major activity began in late November.
Triple DES
In general TDES with three different keys (3-key {k1, k2, k3} TDES) has a key length of 168 bits: three 56-bit DES keys (with parity bits 3-key TDES has the total storage length of 192 bits), but due to the meet-in-the-middle attack the effective security it provides is only 112 bits. Another version, called two-key TDES (2-key TDES), uses k1 = k3, thus reducing the key size to 112 bits and the storage length to 128 bits. However, this mode can be taken advantage of through certain chosen-plaintext or known-plaintext attacks and so TDES is treated by NIST to have only 80 bits of security.
2017 eruption of Mount Agung
Forty thousand people had to leave 22 villages around Mount Agung. Airports had to be closed. More than 400 flights were canceled. About 59,000 passengers could not get on their flights.
Triple DES
By design, DES and therefore TDES, suffer from slow performance in software. TDES is better suited to hardware implementations, which are many of the places it is still used.
TDES is slowly disappearing from use, largely replaced by the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). One large-scale exception is within the electronic payments industry, which still uses 2TDES extensively and continues to develop and spread standards based upon it (e.g. EMV, the standard for inter-operation of IC cards; also called "Chip cards", and IC capable POS terminals and ATM's). This guarantees that TDES will remain an active cryptographic standard well into the future.
Bear worship
Bear worship (also known as the Bear Cult or Arctolatry) is the religious practice of the worshiping of bears. Many North American and North Eurasian ethnic arctic religions include the worship of bears in their beliefs. These include the Sámi, Nivkhs, Ainu, and pre-Christian Finns.
There are also a number of deities from Celtic Gaul and Britain similar to the bear. The bear is also featured on many totems throughout northern cultures that carve them. Bear worship may have been practiced as far back as the Middle Palaeolithic time period amongst Neanderthal societies.(Wunn, 2000, p. 434-435)
Yann Sommer
Yann Sommer (born 17 December 1988) is a Swiss professional footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the Swiss national team.
Honours
FC Vaduz
FC Basel
Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Rosewood, Kentucky. Travis wrote many well-known songs including: "Sixteen Tons." Travis is best known for his masterful guitar playing style. The style of finger-picking known as "Travis picking" is named after him. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury
Chowdhury died on 15 December 2017 in Chittagong, at the age of 73.
Yann Sommer
Honours
Switzerland U21
Individual
Gattico-Veruno
Gattico-Veruno is a comune in the Province of Novara in the Piedmont region in Italy. It was created on 1 January 2019 from the former municipalities of Gattico and Veruno.
José María Urvina
José María Mariano Segundo de Urvina y Viteri (19 March 1808 – 4 September 1891) was President of Ecuador from 13 July 1851 to 16 October 1856. He was born in Quillon (Pillaro- Tungurahua) on 19 March 1808.