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2017 World Snooker Championship
The total prize fund for the event was £1,750,000. The winner got the top prize of £375,000. There were 74 century breaks in the main stage of the championship, with a further 84 in qualifying. Englishman Ronnie O'Sullivan made a break of 146 in the quarter-finals, the highest of the tournament. Gary Wilson scored a maximum break of 147 in qualifying during his first round win over Josh Boileau. The tournament was broadcast in Europe by the BBC and Eurosport, and internationally by World Snooker on Facebook.
Prize fund
The total prize money for the event was raised to £1,750,000 from the previous year's prize fund of £1,500,100. The winner of the event won £375,000. The prize money for the 2017 World Snooker Championship is shown below.
Main draw
The numbers in parentheses beside some of the players are their seeding ranks. Match winners are shown in bold.
Century breaks
There were 74 century breaks made by 23 players in the main stage of the 2017 World Snooker Championship. The highest break of the tournament, a 146, was compiled by Ronnie O'Sullivan in his quarter-final loss to Ding Junhui.
Shah Abdul Hamid
Shah Abdul Hamid (born 1890 - died 1 May 1972) was a Bangladeshi politician and the first speaker of the Constituent Assembly.
Early life
Shah Hamid was born in 1890 in the village of Khalsi in Gobindganj, then Rangpur district (now Gaibandha district) of British India. His father's name was Haji Abdul Gaffar Shah and his mother was Rahima Khatun.
Patrick John
Patrick Roland John (7 January 1938 – 6 July 2021) was the first Prime Minister of Dominica as well as its last Premier. He led Dominica to independence from the United Kingdom.
John died at a hospital in Roseau, Dominica on 6 July 2021 at the age of 83.
Monosyllabic
A monosyllabic word is a word that only contains one syllable.
Examples:
Gene Kiniski
Eugene Nicholas "Gene" Kiniski (November 23, 1928 – April 14, 2010) was a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He became one of the first World Champions in professional wrestling to have a former background in football, after Bronko Nagurski. Kiniski is best known for his time in many different NWA-owned territories where he won multiple championships.
Before starting his wrestling career, Kiniski played football with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). On his team, Kiniski was joined by future professional wrestlers Wilbur Snyder and Joe Blanchard. Al Oeming and Stu Hart were at the Eskimos training camp when Kiniski was trying out for the team. Kiniski had a lengthy stint in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) in 1964. During his time in the WWWF, Kiniski had matches against Bruno Sammartino and they had a match at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 1964. After he Kiniski thought he had pinned Sammartino on the second fall, he took the championship and left. He was counted out be kept the championship until they had a rematch on December 14.
Arlington
Arlington might mean:
National Party of Australia – Victoria
The National Party of Australia - Victoria, also called the Victorian Nationals, is the Victorian branch of the National Party, a centre-right agrarian party in Australia. It is the junior partner in the Coalition with the Liberal Party, which is currently in Opposition. The current leader of the party is Peter Walsh and its deputy leader is Emma Kealy.
Fußach
Fußach is a municipality in the district Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
NPC (meme)
NPC is a meme. NPC is sometimes called NPC Wojak. The NPC meme is normally used to express that people who like the political left do not think for themselves. The NPC meme looks similar to the Wojak meme. The NPC meme was made in July 2016 by an unknown person. The first NPC meme was uploaded to the website 4chan, and the idea behind the meme was explained there. The NPC meme is famous, and has been shown on many news websites, for example on The New York Times, The Verge, BBC and Breitbart News Network.
Symbol
A symbol is a drawing, shape, or object that represents an idea, object, or amount of something.
The most common symbols are letters, which are symbols of words and sounds. A symbol can be an actual object (such as the cross, a symbol of Christianity or a scepter, a symbol of royalty and power), or a certain color or pattern. Symbols are used often in poetry and other types of literature, sometimes as metaphors or similes.
Substance
Substance is the material, or matter, of which something is made. Substances are physical things that can be seen, touched, or measured. They are made up of one or more elemental parts. Iron, aluminium, water and air are examples of substances.
Sibilant
Sibilants are sounds that sound like a hiss. In linguistics, a sibilant is a fricative that is louder than other fricatives. For example, [s] is a sibilant and [f] is not.
Substance
Problems of definition
The main problem of a clear definition of what the substance is that if, for example, to consider not just the universe (cosmos), being and non-being, and in general all, the question arises, what is the constant basic principle (attribute) is the basis of the substance, which generally consists of all (that is, matter, mind, senses, space, soul, and so on).
History of the concept
The Latin word substantia - a translation of the Greek word for the essence (ousia), and in Latin to describe the essence of using the word essentia. In ancient philosophy substance is treated as a substrate, the first principle of all things (for example, "water" of Thales, the "fire" of Heraclitus).
In modern times, the concept of substance is treated and spread widely. The first view is connected with an ontological understanding of substance as ultimate bases being (Francis Bacon, Benedict Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz). Central category of metaphysics in philosophy substance is identified as with God and with nature and determined as the cause of itself (Latin, causa sui). The main characteristics (attributes) of a substance from Benedict Spinoza are thinking and stretch. By analogy with the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza substance considered in the light of the concept of René Descartes and Leibniz. The first substance is a unity of subject and object, and the second - the same atoms are simple beings who lose their stretch, but receive attribute aspirations (French, appetition) and multiplicity. Thanks Leibniz substance begins to associate with matter.
Symbol
A national emblem is a symbol for a certain country.
Substance
History of the concept
The second point of view on the substance - an epistemological understanding of the concept, its capabilities and the need for scientific knowledge (John Locke, David Hume). Immanuel Kant believed that the law under which any change in the substance of events and the number of stored it in nature remains the same, can be attributed to the "analogies of experience." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel defined substance as the integrity of changing, transient side of things, as a "major step in the development of the will." For Arthur Schopenhauer substance - matter for David Hume - a fiction, the coexistence properties.
Symbol
List of common symbols
There are thousands of symbols that are recognized by most people all over the world, and many more that are limited to certain regions, religions, sciences, etc.. Some of the best known ones are listed below.
Fine Wind, Clear Morning
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (also known as South Wind, Clear Sky and Red Fuji) is a woodblock print made by Hokusai.
The art work was printed somewhere between 1830 and 1832 which was during the Edo period. It is the second print in the series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It shows that in early autumn when the wind is southerly and when the sky is clear, the rising sun can turn Mount Fuji red.
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a cue sport and a type of pool. The game comes from 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white ball to pocket 9 colored billiard balls in order. An individual game is won by the player pocketing the 9-ball. Matches are usually played as a race to a set number of games, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match.
Popular culture
The sport has featured in popular culture, most notably in the 1956 novel The Hustler and its 1961 film adaptation, and the 1984 novel sequel The Color of Money and 1986 film The Color of Money.
Celtic rock
Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock. It is also a type of Celtic fusion which uses Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into rock music. It has been popular since the early 1970s. It was an important foundation for developing of very successful mainstream Celtic bands and popular musical performers. It was also important for creating other types of music genres. It is important keeping and defining regional and national identities and in fostering a pan-Celtic culture. It has also helped to introduce those cultures to other people.
Definition
The style of music is the combination of traditional Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton musical forms with rock music.
CD-i The Legend of Zelda games
There are 3 Legend of Zelda games for the Philips CD-i, a badly received video games console. All of them are critically panned across many magazines.
History
After a failed CD-ROM add-on with Philips, Philips got an agreement to use Nintendo characters. This led to the creation of 4 games, 3 of which are Zelda games. The other is Hotel Mario.
River
A river is a stream of water that flows through a channel on the surface of the ground. The passage where the river flows is called the river bed and the earth on each side is called a river bank. A river begins on high ground or in hills or mountains and flows down from the high ground to the lower ground, because of gravity. A river begins as a small stream, and gets bigger the farther it flows.
The beginning of a river
The start of a river is called the source or head water. The part of the river that is near the source is called a 'young' river. A young river is often in a V-shaped river bed, and flows quickly downhill over stones, and around big rocks. Young rivers often have lots of small waterfalls and rapids. As the rivers travel downhill they begin to erode the ground taking small bits of soft rock and soil.
Peter Bacon Hales
Peter Bacon Hales (November 13, 1950 – August 26, 2014) was an American historian, photographer, writer, and musician. His works were in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography, and contemporary art. His wrote six books including Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915, and Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. He was a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) faculty member for 32 years, including four years as chair of his department (art history). He retired in 2012.
River
The middle part of a river
The middle part of a river is called a mature river. A mature river makes a riverbed that is U-shaped. It might be very deep and run fast. It sweeps over small rocks and boulders, and makes big turns around hills and mountains. It is much wider than a young river, but not as wide as an old river. To cross over a mature river, people use bridges. Many cities and towns are built on the banks of mature rivers. Many farms that keep animals such as dairy cows, horses and sheep are along mature rivers because the animals can drink from the river every day.
The last part of a river
A river usually ends by flowing into an ocean, a lake or a bigger river. The place where the river flows out into a bigger body of water is called the 'mouth' of the river.
Peter Bacon Hales
Hales was born in Pasadena, California. He graduated from Haverford College in 1972. He was married to Maureen Pskowski.
Hales died in a road accident on August 26, 2014 near his home in Stone Ridge, New York. He was 63. He was killed when a car driver hit his bicycle.
River
The last part of a river
Where a river flows out to the sea, it sometimes flows very slowly through sandy or muddy land, making lots of little islands as it flows. The main stream of the river gets broken into many parts that spread out into a triangle shape like the Greek letter delta. When this happens, it is called the delta of the river. Deltas are often places that are not good for towns or farms but are very good for birds and other wildlife and fishing. Deltas are often made into wildlife reserves. Not all rivers have deltas. There are deltas on the Nile River, the Amazon River, the Mekong River, the Mississippi River and the Danube River.
Underground rivers
Some rivers flow underground through caves. Underground rivers form in places where there are lots of cracks in the rocks above, so that in rainy weather, the water runs downs and collects in small underground streams. Sometimes the underground water trickles or gushes out of the ground to form a small spring of water. In other places, where there are caves, the small underground streams run together to form a river. The river can sometimes run through deep wide underground caverns. While many underground rivers flow gently, some underground rivers flow fast and have rapids, particularly after heavy rain. Many underground rivers flow out through a cave mouth to become an ordinary river.
Using rivers
The water in rivers is "fresh water" that has come from rain, snow and from underground streams. It can usually be drunk safely by people unless it is too dirty because of mud or human pollution. People and animals need fresh water to drink, so they often live by the side of a river.
Oliver Spasovski
Oliver Spasovski (Оливер Спасовски; born 21 October 1976) is a Macedonian politician. He was the Prime Minister of North Macedonia.
Until 3 January 2020, Spasovski was Minister of Internal Affairs.
He is general secretary of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM).
Anne of Brittany
Anne of Brittany (January 25, 1477 - January 9, 1514) was a Duchess of Brittany.
Birth
Anne was the daughter of Francis II of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. She was born in Nantes (then in Brittany, now officially outside that Région) on January 25, 1477.
Marriage and children
Anne was married to Charles VIII of France on December 6, 1491. They had four children, but all of them died young.
Death
Anne died in the Chateau of Blois on January 9, 1514.
National Party of Australia – Tasmania
The National Party of Australia - Tasmania, also called the Tasmanian Nationals, is the Tasmanian branch of the National Party, a centre-right agrarian party in Australia. Unlike most other states, the Tasmanian Nationals do not currently form the Coalition with the Liberal Party due to the fact that the Nationals hold no seats in the Tasmanian Parliament.
National Party of Australia (WA)
The National Party of Australia (WA), also called the WA Nationals, is the Western Australian branch of the National Party, a centre-right agrarian party in Australia. It is the senior partner in the Coalition with the Liberal Party, which is currently in Opposition. The current leader of the party is Shane Love and its deputy leader is Peter Rundle.
National Party of Australia (SA)
The National Party of Australia (SA), also called the SA Nationals, is the South Australian branch of the National Party, a centre-right agrarian party in Australia. Unlike most other states, the SA Nationals do not currently form the Coalition with the Liberal Party due to the fact that the Nationals hold no seats in the South Australian Parliament.
2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup was held in Australia from 16 to 30 July.
Giorgi Maisashvili
George (Gia) Maisashvili (გიორგი [გია] მაისაშვილი) (November 24, 1962 – February 26, 2018) was a Georgian economist, human rights activist and politician. He was a presidential candidate in the Georgian presidential election of 2008. He was born in Tbilisi.
After the Georgian Civil War and the overthrowing of the democratically elected government by Eduard Shevardnadze in 1992, Maisashvili was forced to flee the country and was granted a political asylum by the United States.
Maisashvili died in Tbilisi on February 26, 2018 of colorectal cancer at the age of 55.
Kosuke Yamamoto
Kosuke Yamamoto (born 29 October 1989) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Júbilo Iwata.
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Höchst, Austria
Höchst is a municipality in the district Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938) is an American politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Babbitt served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 through 2001. He unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988.
Babbitt was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, the son of Frances B. (Perry) and Paul James Babbitt, Sr. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame.
He married Harriet Coons (known as Hattie) in 1968. She has worked as an attorney in Arizona and Washington, D.C., and served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 1993 to 1997, and as Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton Administration.
In 1993, after Byron White retired from the Supreme Court, Babbitt was seen as a top pick for his replacement. President Clinton picked Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead.
Amtrak Cascades
The Amtrak Cascades is a passenger train in the United States and Canada. It goes up and down the Pacific Northwest, from Vancouver to Seattle to Portland to Eugene, Oregon. It takes its name from the Cascade Mountains.
The train is run by Amtrak and gets money from Washington and Oregon. It stops in 18 cities. The Cascades name started being used in 1998; trains were already running under different names.
Alcindo Sartori
Alcindo Sartori (born 21 October 1967) is a former Brazilian football player.
If War Comes Tomorrow
If War Comes Tomorrow (Если завтра война...) is a 1938 Soviet drama movie directed by Lazar Antsi-Polovsky, Georgy Beryozko and Yefim Dzigan. It stars Inna Fyodorova, Vsevolod Sanayev, and Serafim Kozminsky.
Alcindo Sartori
Club career statistics
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Richard O. Covey
Richard Oswalt Covey (born August 1, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut. He was part of the Space Shuttle Discovery crew.
Elfriede Brüning
Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014), also known as Elke Klent, was a German communist journalist and novelist. She worked for newspapers such as the Berliner Tageblatt, the Berliner Börsen-Courier and the Vossische Zeitung.
Brüning was born in Berlin. In 1930, she joined the Communist Party of Germany. Before World War II, she was arrested in 1935 for communism-related activities, before being released in 1937. In 1937, she married Joachim Barckhausen, a writer and editor. Their daughter, Christiane, born in 1942, also became a writer. After the German reunification, she became a member of Die Linke (The Left). Brüning turned 100 in November 2010.
Brüning died from natural causes on 5 August 2014 in Berlin, aged 103.
Kensaku Omori
Kensaku Omori (born 21 November 1975) is a former Japanese football player.
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Lars Mortimer
Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish cartoonist and comics artist. He was the creator and writer of the comic strip Hälge. He made the comic strip from September 1991 until his death in August 2014. From 2001, Hälge got a section in a newspaper and was released monthly. He also created the comic strip Bobo, published between 1973 and 1990.
Hal Smith (actor)
Harold John Smith, known as Hal Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American actor and voice actor who was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. He served in the US Army Air Corps in World War II. Before the Air Corps he was a band singer, a disc jockey, and a writer. After the war he moved to Hollywood. He was a voice actor for several cartoon shows. He also acted in various television roles. Smith appeared in several movies in the 1960s. During the 70s and 80s he worked for Disney and others, providing voices for cartoons. In 1994 he died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
Lars Mortimer
Mortimer was born in Sundsvall, Västernorrland County. He was of British ancestry. He had two children.
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories is the sixth hit studio album by rock-pop band Coldplay. The singles "Magic", "Midnight", "A Sky Full of Stars", "True Love" and "Ink"are featured in the album. The album was released in Summer 2014.
Hustler (magazine)
Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine published by Larry Flynt in the United States. It was introduced in 1974. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter. The magazine grew to a peak circulation of around 3 million. It has since dropped to about 500,000. It shows explicit views of the female genitalia, becoming one of the first major US-based magazines to do so. It is seen as a rival to the modest publications like Playboy.
Alton Towers
Alton Towers is a theme park in Staffordshire, England. It is near the town Alton.
It has seven large roller coasters and three smaller roller coasters.
Theme: Escapism or escaping normal life
Henry the Young King
Henry the Young King (28 February 1155 – near Limoges, France, 11 June 1183) was the junior king to his father Henry II of England. He was crowned king in 1170, but never actually used the power. The meaning of this is that Henry II's territory covered much of northern France as well as England and Ireland. The idea may have been to have an official deputy for legal actions when Henry was in France, and to indicate the succession to the throne. In practice, Young Henry was not interested in government. According to his tutor, William Marshal, he spent his time in France going from one knights' tournament to another.
The boy was married as a child to Marguerite of France (1158–1197), daughter of the French King Louis VII. The intention was political, but it did not work. War came between Henry II and Louis. Henry joined in rebellions directed at his father. A civil war (1173/74) occurred in which Young Henry and his mother, with Scots and French support, fought against Henry II. The king won, just. Young Henry died ten years later, of dysentery. As he died before his father he never achieved power.
Heliantheae
Heliantheae is the most well known tribe of the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name comes from the Greek word for sun flower. The Heliantheae is the third largest tribe in the sunflower family, which has 190 genera and about 2500 species. Only the tribes Senecioneae and Astereae are larger. Most Heliantheae come from North America and South America, and Mexico. A few genera come from tropical areas.
Bill Gwatney
Bill Gwatney (August 26, 1959 – August 13, 2008) was an American politician. He served as the State Chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. Prior to being State Chair, he was a State Senator for ten years. He had also been the financial chair for Mike Beebe's run for Governor of Arkansas in 2006. He owned three car dealerships in Pulaski County. Gwatney was selected as a superdelegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, but was assassinated before the convention. He was replaced by his widow Rebecca Rankin.
Heliantheae
Most Heliantheae are herbs or shrubs, but there are some that grow to the size of small trees. Leaves are usually hairy and arranged in opposite pairs. The anthers are usually black.
Bill Gwatney
Murder
On August 13, 2008, Gwatney was assassinated by Timothy Dale Johnson, who entered Democratic Party headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnson shot Gwatney three times. Gwatney was taken to a hospital, but was dead on arrival later that day.
Heliantheae
Uses
Heliantheae can be grown on farms. These include sunflowers and jerusalem artichokes. Many garden flowers are also in this group, such as Coreopsis, Cosmos, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Zinnia.
Harold Evans
Sir Harold Matthew Evans (28 June 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a British-American journalist and writer. He was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981.
Heliantheae
Uses
There are also some weeds in the family. Species of Ambrosia (ragweed) produce lots of pollen. Each plant can produce about a billion grains of pollen over a season, and the plant is wind-pollinated. It is one of the main causes of hay fever.
Subtribes
In 1981 Harold Ernest Robinson came up with a new way to describe the tribe. He divided Heliantheae into 35 subtribes:
Harold Evans
He also worked for U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Daily News. In 1986, he founded Condé Nast Traveler.
Evans was honored as a Knight Bachelor in 2004.
On 13 June 2011, Evans was appointed editor-at-large of the Reuters news agency. From 2013 until 2019, he was chairman of the European Press Prize jury panel.
Evans died in New York City on 23 September 2020 from heart failure, aged 92.
Microbloggging
Microblogging is a blog which is typically smaller in file size. It "allows users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links",
Scott Walker (singer)
Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) was an American-born British singer and record producer. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He became famous as the lead singer of the pop group The Walker Brothers in the 1960s. After The Walkers Brothers, broke up Walker released albums on his own. Walker was signed to 4AD Records. From 1965, he lived in the United Kingdom. He was an only child. On February 25, 2009, there was a tribute concert to Walker's music in Los Angeles.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the largest empire of the ancient world. Its capital was Rome, and its empire was based in the Mediterranean area. The empire started in 27 BC, when Octavian became Emperor Augustus. After the fall of Western Roman Empire to the Germanic kings in 476 AD, marked the end of the classical antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Scott Walker (singer)
Walker died at the age of 76 in London on March 22, 2019 from cancer.
James Colby
James Leo Colby (September 20, 1961 – February 23, 2018) was an American actor. Colby appeared in many Broadway plays and few stage productions in Connecticut.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 30, 2015) was an American self-help author and motivational speaker. His first book Your Erroneous Zones (1976) is one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold.
Roman Empire
The empire was the third stage of Ancient Rome. Rome was first ruled by Roman kings, later by the Roman Republic and then by an emperor.
Many modern lands were once part of the Roman Empire such as Britain (not Scotland), Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Levant, Crimea, Switzerland and the northern coast of Africa. The main language of the Roman Empire was Latin, with Greek as an important secondary language, especially in the eastern provinces.
The western half of the Roman Empire lasted for about 500 years until the barbarian general Odoacer defeated its final emperor, Romulus Augustus. On the other hand, the eastern half, consisting of the Balkans, Anatolia, The Levant and Egypt, continued for about 1000 morw years though the Levant and Egypt were lost to the Arabs in the 8th century. The eastern part was the Eastern Roman Empire. Its capital was Constantinople, which is now called Istanbul.
Government
In order to control their large empire, the Romans developed ideas about law and government. They developed the best army in the world at the time and ruled by force. They had fine engineering and built roads, cities, and outstanding buildings. The empire was divided into provinces, each with a governor plus civil and military support. Letters, both official and private, went constantly to and from Rome.
Trade was most important for Rome, a city of more than a million people that was by far the largest city in the world. It needed and got wheat from Egypt, tin from Britannia, grapes from Gaul and so on. In return, the Romans built provincial capitals into fine cities, protected them from raids by barbarians and provided education and career opportunities for young people in the provinces such as jobs in the Roman army.
In principle, emperors had absolute control and could do as they pleased. In practice, they faced some difficult problems. They had a staff of what would be called "civil servants" and the advice of the Roman Senate. The emperor had to decide the most important issues facing the empire,and what should be done about them. Most of them tried to do two things. One was doing things to improve the life of Romans in peacetime. The other was fighting and defeating Rome's enemies, which the wealthy empire always had.
With kings and emperors, a big problem is the order of succession. Kings were sometimes followed by their eldest son if he was capable of ruling. For Roman emperors, that would be more often an adopted son. The emperor would notice an outstanding young man from one of the best families and would adopt him as his son. Before he died, he would make clear who he thought should succeed him by making him a Roman consul, or by stating in his will that the younger man should succeed him. Sometimes, that worked but not always. Every now and then, a civil war would be fought between claimants to the throne.
An adopted son or two gave the emperor more choices. Some emperors had no son, and others had sons who did not survive. Later on, emperors grew so weak that the Roman army would just pick one of their generals to be the next emperor, which often led to civil war. The life stories of the emperors can be found in list of Roman emperors.
The Romans fought many wars against other countries and against barbarians several times. They enjoyed watching violent sports. They watched chariots races and fights between gladiators (men using weapons). Unlike in modern sports, the fighters were often killed in fights. Romans enjoyed those shows in the Colosseum.
The Romans had great civil engineering. They built many large public buildings and villas, aqueducts to carry water, stone bridges and roads. Some of those things can still be seen today. Many famous writers were Romans, including Cicero and Virgil.
The New Testament of the Bible tells about the Romans in the life of Jesus Christ. During Jesus' life, the Romans, who were pagans, ruled his country. Later, several emperors tried to destroy Christianity but did not succeed. By 312, Emperor Galerius allowed people freedom to follow Christianity, and the next year, a general, Constantine, became emperor and converted to Christianity.
The city of Rome was taken over several times by barbarians, notably in 410 when the Goths sacked the city (looting). The last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, abdicated in 476. The Roman Empire would last another 1000 years as the Byzantine Empire in the east.
The main coin of the Roman Empire was the silver denarius. Later denarii were smaller.
Various reasons have been given for the fall of Rome. Edward Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in which he investigated various ideas. Chief among them was, in his opinion, the effect of Christianity on the ability of the empire to defend itself militarily.
Other historians blame the unstable system of leadership. In a later 50-year period, only two of 22 emperors died a natural death. Most of the other emperors were assassinated.
Satoshi Hashida
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James Colby
Colby was known for his roles The Pacemaker (1997), Tower Heist (2011), Safe (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and in Patriots Day (2016). In television, he was known for his role as Sergeant Ray Dwyer in Chicago P.D. and Burleson in Empire.
Colby died on February 23, 2018 at the age of 56.
Fred Ho
Fred Ho (侯维翰 Hóu Wéihàn; born Fred Wei-han Houn; August 10, 1957 – April 12, 2014) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist. He was known for his place in the African-American and Asian-American music movement. He was born in Palo Alto, California.
Jessica Jaymes
Jessica Jaymes (March 8, 1979 – September 17, 2019) was an American pornographic actress. She was known for being Hustler's first contract model and the "Hustler Honey of the Year" in 2004 and the August 2008 Penthouse Pet of the Month. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska.
Fred Ho
Ho died of colorectal cancer at his home in Brooklyn, New York City. He was 56.
Jessica Jaymes
Her career began in 2002. Jaymes played a small role in two episodes of the television series Weeds in 2006 and 2007, and made appearances on various reality shows such as VH1's Celebrity Rehab Sober House and HBO's Vivid Valley as well as The Howard Stern Show.
Jaymes was found dead at her home in San Fernando Valley, California on September 17, 2019 at the age of 40. The cause of death is currently unknown.
Ankit Dane
Ankit Dane (born 1 April 1990) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Madhya Pradesh. He made his first-class cricket debut on 30 October in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy. He made his List A debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 28 February 2017. He made his Twenty20 debut for Madhya Pradesh in the 2017–18 Zonal T20 League on 8 January 2018.
Dana Nessel
Dana Michelle Nessel (born April 19, 1969) is an American lawyer and politician. She is the 54th Attorney General of Michigan since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Nessel is the second openly lesbian person elected attorney general of a state in the United States (after Maura Healey of Massachusetts) and the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to statewide office in Michigan. She is also the first Jew to be elected Attorney General of Michigan.
The History Boys
The History Boys is a play by Alan Bennett. It was first shown on 18 May 2004 in London at the Royal National Theatre. It was first shown on Broadway on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Plot
The play starts in Cutlers' Grammar School in Sheffield. It is set in the early 1980s.
Komsomolsk (movie)
Komsomolsk (Комсомольск) is a 1938 Soviet drama movie directed by Sergei Gerasimov. It stars Pyotr Aleynikov, Sergei Gerasimov, and Yevgeniya Golynchik.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut. He was the first person of African heritage in space.
As a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit.
Albania veneta
Albania Veneta (English: Venetian Albania) was the name for the possessions of the Republic of Venice in southern Dalmatia from 1420 to 1797.
Historical area
It originally covered the coastal area of what is now northern Albania and the coast of Montenegro, but the Albanian and southern Montenegrin parts were lost to the Ottomans in 1571.
Name
The word "Veneta" in Albania Veneta was used to differentiate the area from the Ottoman Albania (called Albania Ottomana in those centuries), an area stretching from Kosovo to southern Albania.
Geography
These Venetian possessions stretched from the southern borders of the "Republic of Ragusa" (modern-day Dubrovnik) to Durazzo (Durrës) in coastal Albania. The Venetian territories never reached more than 20 km from the Adriatic Sea. After 1573 the southern limit was moved to the village of Confin (Kufin) near Budua (Budva), because of the Ottoman conquests of Antivari (Bar), and Dulcigno (Ulcinj) in the Balkans.
The Dominions of Venice were centered around the "Bocche di Cattaro" (Bay of Kotor) and included the small cities of Cattaro (Kotor), Risano (Risan), Perasto (Perast), Teodo (Tivat), Castelnuovo (Herceg Novi), Budua (Budva) and Spizza (Sutomore).
History
Venice started to take control of the small southern Dalmatian villages around the 10th century, assimilating quickly the neolatin "Dalmatian language" of the coastal areas into the Venetian language. But only in the 14th century was the Republic of Venice able to create a territorial continuity around the Bay of Kotor. These Venetian dominions around Cattaro (Kotor) lasted from 1420 to 1797 and were called Albania Veneta, a historical province of the Republic of Venice. When the Turks started to conquer the Balkans in 15th century, many Christian Slavs took refuge inside Venetian Dalmatia and so even the Albania Veneta started to have a huge Serb and Albanian population. By the end of 17th century the Romance speaking population of the historical Albania Veneta was already a minority, according to Oscar Randi in his book Dalmazia etnica, incontri e fusioni''.
The borders of the former Venetian province of Albania Veneta changed again in 1918, when was created the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but were reinstated from 1941 to 1943 during World War II, when Mussolini annexed the territories around Cattaro to the Kingdom of Italy. The area was part of the Italian "Governatorato di Dalmazia" and was called Provincia di Cattaro.
After World War II any political entity related to the historical presence of Venice in southern Dalmatia ceased to exist and the area was definitely incorporated into Yugoslavia. The old Albania Veneta is currently a coastal region of the newly independent Montenegro.
History of the Venetian speaking population of Albania Veneta
But in the inland areas more than half of the population was Serbo-Croatian speaking, after the first years of the eighteenth century. Paulucci wrote even that near the border with Albania there were big communities of Albanian speaking people: Dulcigno (Ulcinj) was half Albanian, one quarter Venetian and one quarter Slavic-speaking.
During the French rule of the area of Cattaro the schools were in Italian, when the former Albania Veneta was part of the Napoleonic "Kingdom of Italy". The Slovenian Marko Trogrli in his essay "The French school system in French Dalmatia" wrote that "Vincenzo Dandolo, the French governor of Dalmatia as well as Bartolomeo Benincasa, an official from the local (Dalmatian) Education Department, published in May 1807 a plan for the province's public education (Il piano generale della pubblica istruzione in Dalmazia), which had to be consistent with the education system throughout the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy....Instruction was to be in Italian".
During the nineteenth century, according to the historian Scaglioni Marzio, the wars of independence of Italy from the Austro-Hungarian empire created a situation of harassment against the Italian (or Venetian speaking) communities in the Austrian southern Dalmatia.
The result was that in 1880 there were in Cattaro, according to the Austrian census, only 930 ethnic Italians (or only 32% of a total population of 2910 people).
Furthermore, in the Austrian census of 1910, the Italians were reduced to only 13.6% in that city, according to Diego De Castro in his book ''Dalmazia, popolazione e composizione etnica. Cenno storico sul rapporto etnico tra Italiani e Slavi nella Dalmazia''.
There are currently 500 Italian speakers in Montenegro, mainly in the area of Cattaro (Kotor) and Perasto (Perast), who constitute the "Comunitá Nazionale Italiana del Montenegro".
The "disappearance" of the Italian speaking populations in Dalmatia was nearly complete after World War II. The linguist Matteo Bartoli calculated that the Italians were 33% of the Dalmatian population during the Napoleonic wars, while currently there are only 300 Italians in Croatian Dalmatia and 500 Italians in coastal Montenegro. .
Dayman big-eyed tree frog
Dayman big-eyed tree frog (Nyctimystes daymani) is a frog from southeastern Papua New Guinea. It lives in wetlands far from the ocean. Scientists have only ever seen it on Dayman Mountain in Milne Bay Province, and in Mafulu. It was found about 700 meters above sea level.
The male frog is about 42 mm long from nose to rear end. When dead and preserved, it is brown with darker brown patterns on its back and legs. It has vein patterns on its lower eyelids. When alive, this frog is light brown with a little orange and white spots. It has orange toes. Its belly is very white in color.
Nelson Shanks
Nelson Shanks (December 23, 1937 – August 28, 2015) was an American artist and painter. His most famous work is likely his portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, completed in 1996. The painting was first shown at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York City, April 24 to June 28, 1996.
Ankit Kalsi
Ankit Kalsi (born 26 September 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Himachal Pradesh. He made his first-class debut for Himachal Pradesh against Services in 2014-15 Ranji Trophy season on 7 December 2014. In August 2019, he was named in the India Red team's squad for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy. He scored a century and a half century in his Duleep Trophy debut.
Nelson Shanks
Shanks died of prostate cancer at his home in Andalusia, Pennsylvania on August 28, 2015 at the age of 77.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a loud, aggressive style of rock music. The bands who play heavy metal music usually have one or two guitars, a bass guitar and drums. In some bands, electronic keyboards, organs, or other instruments are used. Heavy metal songs are loud and powerful-sounding, and have strong rhythms that are repeated. There are many different types of heavy metal, some of which are described below.
Common features of heavy metal include slackened (downtuned) instruments and unusual key changes and time signatures (metre).
Heavy metal bands sometimes dress in jeans, leather jackets, and leather boots, and have long hair. Heavy metal bands sometimes behave in a dramatic way when they play their instruments or sing. However, many heavy metal bands do not like to do this.
1960s and 1970s
In the very late 1960s and 1970s, rock and roll turned into a harder, louder form of music called rock. In the 1970s, rock music bands played huge, loud concerts in outdoor stadiums. In the early 1970s, many rock bands played psychedelic rock, a type of rock music with lyrics and sounds that were intended to give the listener some idea of what it felt like to be on so-called "mind-expanding" (and usually illegal) drugs, and which some believe even enhanced the experience of being on the drugs themselves. Many bands from Britain played blues music mixed with rock music, such as The Animals, The Kinks, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and Jeff Beck.
Many debate which played heavy metal first, Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, however it is generally accepted in the metal community that both created heavy metal.
1980s
In the 1980s more sub-genre's of Heavy Metal bands were created, one of which was "Hair-Metal" with Bands such as Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P. and Ratt became popular. Heavy Metal rock bands had long hair and the men wore make up (lipstick and eyeshadow) and tight leather pants and boots. Many metal songs were about love, sex, partying, having a good time, illegal drug use, and drinking alcohol. Rarely, but sometimes, metal songs were also politically and socially critical. In the late 1980s, groups such as Poison and Warrant were very successful, smashing the field with songs like “Talk Dirty to Me,” and “Cherry Pie.”
Another type of heavy metal in the 1980s was thrash metal, also known as thrash. Thrash metal bands played a faster, more aggressive type of metal. Thrash metal bands Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer are considered "The Big Four of Thrash."
1990s
In the 1990s, a new form of heavy metal developed, called alternative metal. Alternative metal combined thrash metal and grunge rock with hip-hop music and industrial music. Also in the 1990s was nu metal, a shortening of "new metal". Nu metal mixed rap and hip hop style singing with metal music. Nu metal bands also often include DJ decks, synthesizers and other electronic instruments. Nu metal was very successful and made a lot of money, especially bands such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Disturbed.
Two more aggressive styles of heavy metal music, death metal and black metal, are louder and faster than other types of metal.The singers usually do not sing, but instead they growl or roar to make the songs more intense. These lyrics often tell of suffering, dying, and war. The guitars are usually distorted and drum sets containing double bass drums.
Other important styles of metal are: power metal, a style whose music often is about fiction and epics like The Lord of the Rings, and gothic metal, which has melancholy songs about abstract subjects like pain, life, death, faith and religion.
Shohei Abe
Shohei Abe (born 1 December 1982) is a Japanese football player. He played for Nagoya Grampus Eight.
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The Remix (Ariana Grande album)
The Remix is the debut remix album by American singer Ariana Grande. It features fifteen remixes of her singles from her first two studio albums: Yours Truly (2013) and My Everything (2014). It was released exclusively in Japan on May 25, 2015 and peaked at number 32 on the Oricon Albums Chart.
Trans man
A trans man (sometimes written as trans-man) is a female-to-male (FTM) transsexual or transgender person. Many people in this group like the name trans man over the many medical terms that are out there. Other non-medical names are t-boy, tg-boy and ts-boy.
Trans men were called girls when they were born, but they feel that they really are male. To show their true gender as men, trans men may transition from living as women to living as men. A trans man's transition can include telling family and friends, wearing different clothes, flattening the chest, using a new name, changing legal papers, using medical treatments of testosterone, and changing the body with surgery. Getting medical care can be more difficult for trans men because some doctors will not help them or they cannot afford it. Trans men can also face discrimination because they are transgender.
Not all trans men are straight (attracted to women). Some trans men are gay (attracted to men), bisexual, or asexual. Estimates of how many trans men there are range from 1 in every 30,000 people called girls at birth, to 1 in every 170 people called girls at birth.