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Minkowski spacetime
Simple
Spacetime can be thought of as the "arena" in which all of the events in the universe take place. All that one needs to specify a point in spacetime is a certain time and a typical spatial orientation. It is hard (virtually impossible) to visualize four dimensions, but some analogy can be made, using the method below.
Spacetime diagrams
Hermann Minkowski introduced a certain method for graphing coordinate systems in Minkowski spacetime. As seen to the right, different coordinate systems will disagree on an object's spatial orientation and/or position in time. As you can see from the diagram, there is only one spatial axis (the x-axis) and one time axis (the ct-axis). If need be, one can introduce an extra spatial dimension, (the y-axis); unfortunately, this is the limit to the number of dimensions: graphing in four dimensions is impossible. The rule for graphing in Minkowski spacetime goes as follows:
Wellington, New South Wales
Wellington is a town in New South Wales. It is where the Macquarie and Bell Rivers join. The town is the centre of the Wellington Shire Local Government Area. The town is 362kms from Sydney on the Great Western Highway and Mitchell Highway. The average summer temperatures are between 17.5º Celsius and 31.7º Celsius. In winter the temperatures are between 1.5º Celsius and 15º Celsius. In 2001 there were 4,672 people living in Wellington. There were 9,200 people living in the Wellington Shire.
Minkowski spacetime
Spacetime diagrams
1) The angle between the x-axis and the x'-axis is given by where v is the velocity of the object
2) The speed of light through spacetime always makes an angle of 45 degrees with either axis.
Wellington, New South Wales
History
The area was originally lived in by the Wiradjuri people. Explorer John Oxley was the first Europen to visit the area in 1817. He named it "Wellington Valley" after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
Minkowski spacetime
Spacetime in general relativity
In the general theory of relativity, Einstein used the equation
Wellington, New South Wales
History
Wellington is the second oldest New South Wales settlement west of the Blue Mountains. A hotel that opened in 1842 is the oldest hotel west of the Blue Mountains. It was also the site of the last recorded duel fought in Australia in 1854. The railway from Sydney reached Wellington in 1880.
Economy
Wellington is the centre of rich farm land. Lucerne and vegetables are grown on land beside the river. Wheat, wool, fat lambs and beef cattle are grown nearby. The town acts as a business centre for the district. However, now Orange and Dubbo have become bigger business centres.
In September 2008, a gaol, the Wellington Correctional Centre was opened. A Probation and Parole Office was also opened in the centre of town. Wellington Council hopes this will increase the number of jobs and bring visitors to the town.
The local newspaper The Wellington Times, owned by Rural Press, is printed three times a week.Home - ACM Ad Centre.
Transport
There is a daily train, the CountryLink XPT, which runs between Sydney and Dubbo.
The closest commercial airport is at Dubbo. There are regular daily flights from Sydney. There is a small airport ( Bondangora Airport) for private planes 12 km east of Wellington.
Nearby attractions
Lake Burrendong, a man-made lake. is 30 km south of the town. Its holds three and a half times more water than Sydney Harbour. Its water is used for farming. It is also visited by people wanting to fish, sail and water ski. Burrendong Arboretum is a sanctuary for endangered Australian plants and covers 1.60 km².
The Wellington Caves are millions of years old. The main cave is Cathedral Cave with the massive Altar Rock.
The Wellington Boot, a country racing festival is held in every year in March and April. There is also a winery, the Bell River Wine Estate. The Nangara Gallery has a collection of Aboriginal objects.
The Last Hill
The Last Hill (Малахов курган) is a 1944 Soviet drama movie directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi. It stars Nikolay Kryuchkov, Boris Andreyev, and Akaki Khorava.
Rachel Portman
Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is a English composer, best known for composing music for movies. She was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score
Tagged Image File Format
Tagged Image File Format (also known as TIFF) is a container format for storing images, including photographs and line art. It is now under the control of Adobe. Originally created by the company Aldus for use with what was then called "desktop publishing," TIFF is a popular format for color and black and white images. The TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing, optical character recognition and other applications. Adobe Systems, which acquired Aldus, now holds the copyright to the TIFF specification. TIFF has not had a major update since 1992, though several Aldus/Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format, and several specifications, including TIFF/EP, have been based on the TIFF 6.0 specification.
North Riverside, Illinois
North Riverside is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Kottabos
Kottabos (κότταβος) was a party game played at symposia in Ancient Greece. It was popular in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. It was also popular with the Etruscans. The game is played by flinging a bit of wine from one's cup at targets. The player would utter the name of his lover. The game was probably of Sicilian origin but spread throughout the Greek world. Many Greek poets mention the game in their works. By the time of the Roman Empire and the Age of Alexander the Great, the game had died out. It is not mentioned in Latin literature.
Mark Otway
Mark Anthony Otway (9 October 1931 – 3 September 2014) was a New Zealand tennis player. He played at Wimbledon eight times between 1954 and 1965. He once played at the Australian Championships in 1951. He also represented New Zealand in seven Davis Cup ties between 1954 and 1961. He won the Northern Lawn Tennis Singles Championship in 1960.
Otway was born in Takapuna. He moved to Australia after his retirement from tennis.
Otway died on 3 September 2014 in Noosa, Queensland, aged 82. His death was announced in The New Zealand Herald.
Cucujiformia
The Cucujiformia is an infraorder of polyphagan beetles. It includes most plant-eating beetles.
It has six superfamilies:
Alaska plaice
Most commercial fisheries do not want to catch Alaska plaice; but many are caught by trawlers trying to catch other bottom fish. So many Alaska plaice get caught anyway that, for example, the 2005 total allowable catch in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI) was reached before the end of May of that year.
Alaska plaice can live for up to 30 years, and grow to 60 centimetres (24 inches) long, but most that get caught are only seven or eight years old, and about 30 cm (12 in).
Naja
Naja is a genus of venomous snakes, which is commonly known as true Cobras. It contains about 30 species, which can be found in Africa and Asia. The most recognizable feature of these snakes is that they can spread the upper part of their neck. Very often, it also has some coloring. These species usually feed on small mammals and birds. Note that there are some snake species which have cobra in their name, but which are not true cobras: Examples are the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) or the Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus, also called ring-necked spitting cobra)
Nebo Moskvy
Nebo Moskvy (Небо Москвы) is a 1944 Soviet drama movie directed by Yuli Raizman. It stars Pyotr Aleynikov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Ivan Kuznetsov.
Buch am Wald
Buch am Wald (also Buch a.Wald) is a municipality in Ansbach, a district (Landkreis) in Middle Franconia.
Matt Mead
Mead was born in Teton County, Wyoming. Mead is married to Carol L. Mintzer and they have 2 children together.
List of WWE Divas Champions
The Divas Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the WWE. The wrestlers with the most reigns as Divas champion are Eve Torres and AJ Lee with 3 each. The longest reigning champion is Nikki Bella with the aid of her sister brie Bella, holding the championship for 301 days. There is no longer a current Divas champion as the WWE doesn't want the women to be classed as a diva and now calls them WWE Superstars like the men
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (also called Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania) is a 2022 American computer-animated adventure comedy movie. It was produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation. It is the sequel to Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, starring Brian Hull as the voice of Dracula and Selena Gomez as Mavis, Dracula's daughter, and features Asher Blinkoff as Dennis. It released on January 14, 2022. It released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on TBA by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Eric Yuan
Eric S. Yuan (Chinese: 袁征; pinyin: Yuán Zhēng) is a Chinese-American businessman, engineer, and the CEO and Founder of Zoom Video Communications.
Education
Yuan obtained a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics with a minor in computer application from Shandong University of Science and Technology. He has master's degree in geology engineering from China University of Mining and Technology in Beijing.
Emerald ash borer
The beetle is an invasive species, and a serious pest which destroys ash trees. It has killed at least 25 million ash trees so far and threatens to kill most of the ash trees throughout North America.
Adults lay eggs in crevasses in the bark. Larvae burrow into the bark after hatching and consume the living tissue of cambium and phloem. This causes death within two years. The average emerging season for the emerald ash borer is early spring to late summer. Females lay around 75 eggs, but up to 300 from early May to mid-July. The borer's life cycle is estimated to be one year in southern Michigan but may be up to two years in colder regions.
Huge efforts have been made to slow down its spread, but nothing has worked so far. Parasitoid wasps from Asia are being released, and a fungus which kills insects is being tried.
Sneh Rana
Sneh Rana is a cricketer from India. She plays for Railways and India women's national cricket team. She was born on February 18, 1994.
River Pinn
River Pinn is a river in West London. It starts near Pinner.
Aruna Dindane
Aruna Dindane (born 26 November 1980) is a Côte d'Ivoire football player. He plays for Portsmouth and Côte d'Ivoire national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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ARM
An arm is an upper limb of the body.
Arm (or arms) can also mean:
Vine (service)
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users shared six-second-long, looping video clip's. It was founded in June 2012. Twitter bought it in October 2012, before its launch on January 24, 2013.
Videos were published through Vine's social network, and could be shared on other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The Vine app could be used to browse videos, along with groups of videos by theme, and "trending" videos. Vine competed with other social-media services such as Instagram and Mobli.
By December 2015, Vine had 200 million active users. On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work.
On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an Internet archive of all Vine videos, allowing people to watch previously uploaded videos. The archive was discontinued in 2019.
Coral Sea
The Coral Sea is a small sea off the north east coast of Australia. It has Queensland on its west side and the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia on its east. On the north edge is the Solomon Islands, and in the south it joins the Tasman Sea. The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea. It has a warm climate, it often rains and there are often tropical cyclones. It covers an area of about four times the size of Great Britain. The WWF describe the Coral Sea as being one of the last complete tropical wilderness areas on earth. It has beautiful coral reefs with many different sea creatures including grey and white tip reef sharks, hammerheads, manta rays, tuna, barracuda, turtles, whales and the rare nautilus.
Australia claims many of the islands as part of its 780,000 square kilometre Coral Sea Islands Territory. Most of them are small coral or sand islands, and only one has people living on it. It has a population of only four.
World War II
In World War II the Battle of the Coral Sea was the first aircraft carrier battle fought between the United States and Australia against Japan. The battle lasted from 4 May to 8 May 1942. During that time none of the ships saw each other or fired their guns at each other. All the fighting was done by aircraft from the carriers. It is the largest naval battle fought near Australia. It was important because it stopped the Japanese from invading Port Moresby, the capital city of New Guinea. Many people regarded it as the battle that saved Australia.
Beratón
Beratón is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Camino (web browser)
Camino was a free, open source web browser, that was designed for the Mac OS X operating system. It was developed by the Camino Project, a community organization. It was based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
Pixels per inch
Pixels per inch (PPI) or pixel density is a measurement of the resolution of a computer display, related to the size of the display in inches and the total number of pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions. This measurement is often referred to as dots per inch, though that measurement more accurately refers to the resolution of a computer printer. PPI may also be used to describe the resolution of an image scanner or digital camera; in this context, it is synonymous with samples per inch.
David Villa
David Villa Sánchez (born 3 December 1981) is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker. He last played for Vissel Kobe of the J1 League. Best known for his ability to understand, and control the game, he was considered to be one of the best strikers of his generation.
Port of Belfast
Port of Belfast is the main port in Northern Ireland. The port handles about twenty percent of the seaborne trade in all of Ireland.
John Taverner
John Taverner (born about 1490 – died 18 October, 1545) was the most important English composer of his time. He was also an organist.
David Villa
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Colp, Illinois
Colp is a village in Illinois in the United States.
John Taverner
We cannot be sure exactly when Taverner was born. Some people think that he was a boy chorister at the church of Tattershall in Lincolnshire but his name does not appear on the list of choristers there. People now think that he worked there later as a lay clerk.
In 1530 he seems to have gone back to Lincolnshire and stayed there for the rest of his life. He probably wrote no more music, but he was quite rich.
Taverner composed eight masses. The most famous one is called the Western Wynde. It was a “parody mass”, which meant that it used a popular tune with that title. Another mass was called Gloria tibi trinitas. This work set a fashion for pieces which were called In Nomines, because the tune was from the Benedictus in the mass which sets the words “in nomine domine” (“in the name of the Father”). “In nomine”s were compositions for instruments which used this tune.
Taverner also wrote magnificats and motets.
Binalong
Binalong is a small town in New South Wales, Australia. It is 37 km north-west of Yass.
History
The town was officially listed in 1850. It was an important stop on the way for people going to look for gold at Lambing Flat. The school was started in 1861. Gold also meant that there were bushrangers in the area. The grave of John Gilbert is near the town in the field where the police kept their horses. He was a member of Frank Gardiner's gang and later Ben Hall's gang. He was shot dead by police in 1865.
Railway
The first railway station opened in 1875. The railway arrived in 1876. The current building was put up when the railway line was moved in 1916. The station and the signal box are now closed.
Banjo Paterson
The family of the poet Banjo Paterson moved to the Binalong area in 1869 when he was five years old. He went to the primary school in Binalong but later went to boarding school in Sydney. He only came home in the holidays. Binalong features in a number of his poems, for example, Pardon, the son of Reprieve. Paterson's father is buried in the local cemetery.
Großmehring
Großmehring is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (5 December 1890 – 2 August 1976) was an Austrian director, screenwriter, and movie producer. His movies include Metropolis and M. He is one of the most famous German expressionist filmmakers.
Lang was born in Vienna. He died in Beverly Hills, California.
Hepberg
Hepberg is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.
Once There Was a Girl
Once There Was a Girl (Жила-была девочка) is a 1944 Soviet drama movie directed by Viktor Eisymont. It stars Nina Ivanova, Natalya Zashchipina, and Ada Vojtsik.
New Britain
New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It was named for Otto von Bismarck. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier Strait, and from New Ireland by St. George's Channel. The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul/Kokopo and Kimbe.
Garrison Keillor
In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with Keillor after an allegation of inappropriate behavior with a staff member.
Steam car
A steam car is an automobile (car) powered by a steam engine. The first automobile, a three-wheeled vehicle, was powered by a steam engine.
History
The steam carriage was invented in 1769 by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer. It was a large three wheeled vehicle that used coal to make steam in a boiler. The boiler was mounted in front which made the vehicle unstable.
In the United States, about the time of the American Civil War, a number of inventors were working on steam-powered cars. In England about 1868 J. H. Knight had created a very successful design of steam car. In 1883 in France, Jules-Albert de Dion and Georges Bouton began building steam cars. In 1886 Ransom E. Olds was producing a steam car in the US. In 1899 the Stanley brothers, Francis and Freelan began making the famous Stanley Steamers.
Advantages and disadvantages
Steam engines in cars have a great amount of torque. With all this torque they can accelerate very quickly. Because the torque is available over a broad range of speeds, a transmission wasn't needed. They could also carry heavy loads with ease. The speed of a steam car is controlled by the throttle alone and the engine never stalls. Steam cars had fewer moving parts than gasoline powered cars. Also steam cars are very quiet.
A major disadvantage is that a steam car has to "fire up" its boiler (has to get up to operating temperature). This can take as much as 20 minutes before the car can move. In the winter there was the added problem of water freezing. The open-cycle steam engine in cars and steam locomotive s could not go far without adding water. The water turned to steam, which was lost when it exited the engine. Steam condensers were added to these cars later. This converted the steam back to water. It was too late; by then steam cars had lost out to cars with internal combustion engine s.
20th Century Studios
20th Century Studios, Inc. (formerly known from 1914 to 1931 as Fox Film, 1933 to 1935 as 20th Century Pictures 1935 to 1985 and 1985 to 2020 (and informally) as 20th Century Fox or Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation or Twentieth Century Fox or 20th Century Fox Film Corporation) is a large American company that makes movies ("motion picture studio"). It is in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills.
Before 2013, 20th Century Fox was a subsidiary of News Corporation before it was split into two companies. After that, one of those companies, 21st Century Fox, became the studio's owner. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company said that it has acquired many of 21st Century Fox's subsidiaries, including 20th Century Fox. Thus, the studio is now owned by Disney and became 20th Century Studios.
20th Century Studios was formed in 1935 when Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures joined together to form the company. 20th Television is a part of the company that makes television series.
History of 20th Century Studios
In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. and Fox Film Corporation merged together to form "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation" (the hyphen between "Century" and "Fox" was dropped in 1985), or simply "20th Century Fox". During the Golden Age of Hollywood it was one of the "Big Five" studios (the other were MGM, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures). From 2013 to 2019, it was a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which was a company formed when News Corporation split up into two companies. As of July 2018, their two most financially successful movies are Avatar, released in 2009, and Titanic (under international rights), released in 1997. Both movies were directed by James Cameron. Fox's most highly acclaimed movie, according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (jointly owned by Universal and Warner Bros.), is All About Eve, released in 1950 and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In December 2017, Disney announced its plans to buy most of 21st Century Fox's assets, which included a bidding war with Comcast; the acquisition process was completed on March 20, 2019, with the last pre-Disney release from the studio being Alita: Battle Angel, released on February 14, 2019. The remaining assets Disney didn't acquire, notably the Fox network and Fox News, were spun-off into a new company called Fox Corporation. On January 17, 2020, Disney announced that it would be dropping the word "Fox" from the company name, presumably to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation, renaming it to "Twentieth Century Studios," along with Searchlight Pictures. However, the studio was still legally incorporated and traded as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation until December 4, 2020. As of December 4, 2020, the company has been using 20th Century Studios, Inc. as copyright for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, while the company has been using 20th Television, Inc and 20th Century Fox in Australia under Gerard Bevan Group CEO and VP. for the copyright of 20th Television productions as a Disney subsidiary.
Idriss Carlos Kameni
Idriss Carlos Kameni (born 18 February 1984) is a Cameroonian football player. He plays for Espanyol Barcelona and Cameroon national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Gosford
Gosford is a city on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 km north of Sydney. Gosford is the 18th largest local government area in Australia with a total resident population of 158,157.
Clyde Holding
Allan Clyde Holding (27 April 1931 – 31 July 2011) was an Australian politician. He was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years, and was later a federal minister. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.
Tarinkot
Tarinkot or Tarin Kowt (ترين کوټ) is the capital of Orūzgān Province in southern Afghanistan. It is a town of about 10,000 people. Its population is mostly of Pashtun ethnic origin, including a sizable number of Tarins, whose ancestors were the original founders and settlers here some 500 years ago.
Clyde Holding
Holding was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Richmond in 1962. He was a strong supporter of indigenous Australian rights (including land rights) and national aid for schools. In 1977, he was elected to the House of Representatives as member for Melbourne Ports. When Bob Hawke became Prime Minister in 1983, he put Holding in charge of Aboriginal Affairs. During his term, Holding tried to make federal laws for Aboriginal land rights. But Brian Burke, the Labor Premier of Western Australia, did not want this, because it would have upset the mining and agricultural industries, which were very important to his state. Holding was forced by Hawke to drop the proposal. In 1987, he was moved to the Ministry of Employment Services and Youth Affairs. The next year, he was made Minister for Transport, and then later Minister for Immigration.
Charlie McMahon
Charlie McMahon (born in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales in 1951) is an Australian didgeridoo player. He was one of the first non-Aboriginal musicians to become a famous player of the instrument. He is probably one of the most famous players of the instrument around the world.
The band in which he became famous was called Gondwanaland. He has toured across Australia, often visiting remote communities in the outback, and also in Europe and the United States. He often played gigs with Midnight Oil. McMahon's style became an influence for many well-known didgeridoo players. He is also the inventor of the "didjeribone", a sliding didgeridoo made of plastic, played in a similar way to the trombone.
Concord, Illinois
Concord is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Spider web
A spider web is a sticky net that spiders make from silk to trap their prey. When insects fly or crawl into the web, they get stuck and the spider eats them. Most spider webs are very thin, but are also very strong. Different kinds of spiders make different types of webs. Spiders make different webs in different places to trap many kinds of prey.
Roger Vivier
Roger Henri Vivier (November 13 1907 – 2 October 1998) was a French fashion designer who specialized in shoes.
Early life
Orphan at the age of nine, Vivier studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and his compositions show a concern for form and texture characteristic of a sculptor. His best-known creation is the stiletto heel, which he shares in the creation authorship with Charles Jourdan.
Works
In 1970, hippie fashion inspired her waders that Brigitte Bardot and young women in miniskirts adopted. In 1985, he opened a boutique on Madison Avenue, in New York, and another in Japan in 1991.
In 1997, he even became artistic director of Myrys. Over the years, he has created custom models for such famous personalities as Josephine Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and the Beatles.
Hitzhofen
Hitzhofen is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.
Yohkoh
Yohkoh (ようこう), is the name of a Japanese artificial satellite which was put into orbit.
The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the University of Tokyo.
The satellite was sent into orbit on August 30, 1991. Its mission was to study the sun.
On September 12, 2005 the spacecraft burned up during reentry.
Rainbow (1944 movie)
Rainbow (Радуга) is a 1944 Soviet war movie directed by Mark Donskoi. It stars Elena Tyapkina, Hans Klering, and Nina Alisova.
Deep Impact (space mission)
Deep Impact was launched on January 12, 2005 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket used was Delta II. It reached the comet in July 2005, 83000000 mi from Earth. After taking photos, the 370 kg impactor spacecraft was sent to crash into the surface on July 4, 2005. This created a huge crater and blasted parts of the comet into space. Deep Impact was able to study this debris which included ice and dust from deep inside the comet. This has helped scientists understand what comets are made of.
From the explosion scientists discovered that the comet had water ice both on the surface and deep inside. One scientist described it as being like a "...skating rink of snowy dirt." They were able to work out the comet was formed in the area between Uranus and Neptune.
After the mission, NASA decided to send Deep Impact to study the Comet 85P/Boethin. However the comet did not return on its expected 11 year path around the sun, and has not been seen since.
Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
"Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" is the 24th episode of The Simpsons' 3rd season. It is the last episode of the season (the season finale). It was first broadcast on the Fox network on August 27, 1992.
In the episode, Mr. Burns gives Homer Simpson $2,000. Homer loans the money to his homeless half-brother Herb Powell. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder. Rich Moore is the director of the episode. Danny DeVito guest stars as Herb and Joe Frazier guest stars as himself. Herb was in the episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" where Homer makes him bankrupt. Many fans thought that episode had a sad ending. Producers of The Simpsons made the episode "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" because of that.
Story
Mr. Burns learns that Homer Simpson is sterile because of his power plant's radiation. He gives Homer a fake award, $2,000, and makes him sign a wavier that does not let him sue Mr. Burns. Homer wants to buy a vibrating chair with the $2,000. His half-brother Herb Powell asks Homer to loan him the money. Herb was a car manufacturer before Homer made him bankrupt and homeless in the episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". Homer goes him the money. Herb sees a baby cry and makes a machine that lets people know what babies say. Herb's machine makes him rich and successful again. Herb gives Homer the money back and gives the Simpson family gifts. Herb forgives Homer for making him bankrupt and buys him the vibrating chair Homer wanted.
Production
"Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" was written by John Swartzwelder. Rich Moore is the director of the episode. The episode was broadcast later in the 3rd season because the Fox network wanted producers to make another episode to be broadcast in the summer. Writers, animators, and producers had to work longer to make the episode. The idea of the vibrating chair came from one of the writers. They bought a vibrating chair to relax after working long hours of making the episode.
Agostino Mario Comanducci
Agostino Mario Comanducci, also known A.M. Comanducci, (September 13 1891 – December 31 1939) was an art critic, curator and art historian from Italy. He was born in Sansepolcro and died in Milan.
Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao (born 17 July 1975) is a Chinese-Australian mathematician who currently resides in the United States. In 2006, Tao won the Fields Medal for his work in number theory. Tao shared the award with three other mathematicians. He also won the FRS in 2007. He is known for his studies in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. Tao teaches math at UCLA.
Agostino Mario Comanducci
He wrote several books and articles on Italian art history and artists. His most well-known books were on Italian painters, sculptors, and engravers of the 19th and 20th centuries:
Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Production
The writers of the episode had many ideas of what Herb would make to get rich again. The script of the episode had too many pages, so some parts of the episode were taken out. One of the parts that were taken out was Herb trying to get on a train to the Simpsons' town Springfield. Writers later put this idea in the season 8 episode "Burns, Baby Burns". There was going to be a joke about the Soviet Union breaking up. This was not put in the episode because the Soviet Union broke up after the episode was done being written (and it was not broadcast yet).
Terence Tao
Life
Tao was born in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. His parents are Han. Tao is the youngest person to be in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Reception
The episode got a Nielsen rating of 10.7. This means that the episode was seen in about 9.76 houses. It got the second best ratings of the week on the Fox network (the first being the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards).
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood (authors of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide) liked the episode. Parts of the episode they liked the most were Homer in the vibrating chair and Maggie using Herb's machine for babies. David Eklid from The Guardian said that this episode, "Lisa's Pony", and "Stark Raving Dad" make the 3rd season "pretty much the best season of any television show, ever." Nathan Ditum from Total Film thought that the episode referencing the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was one of the best movie references of The Simpsons.
Nate Meyers from Digitally Obsessed talked good about Herb being in another episode. Meyers said that Herb is "a perfect sibling" for Homer and said the episode has "plenty of laughs". Bill Gibron from DVD Verdict liked the jokes about the vibrating chair and thought that producers did a good job of putting Herb in another episode.
Life After Death
Life After Death is the second and last studio album by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. It was released on March 25, 1997. It is a sequel to his first album, Ready to Die. Life After Death was going to be released sometime in 1996. It was pushed back for some reason.
The album was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998, including Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo Performance for the single "Hypnotize", and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for its second single "Mo Money Mo Problems" at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards.
Track listing
Credits adapted from Life After Death liner notes.
Disc two
White Bird (movie)
White Bird is a 2023 American war drama movie starring Ariella Glaser, Gillian Anderson and Helen Mirren. It is directed by Marc Forster. It is based on the 2019 novel White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio. It is a prequel to the 2017 movie Wonder.
Midnight Sun (song)
"Midnight Sun" is a recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in March 24, 2008 as the third and final single from Brooks' third compilation album The Ultimate Hits.
Music video
It debuted at number 20 on Great American Country's Top 20 Countdown for the week of April 11, 2008.
Foster Brooks
Foster Brooks (May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001) was an American movie, television, radio, stage actor, singer, entertainer, television personality and comedian. He was known for playing a lovable drunken man in nightclubs and television shows. Brooks is also known for appearing in The Dean Martin celebrity roasts.
Brooks was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Brooks was married twice. First to Loretta Brooks from 1933 until they divorced in 1950. And to Teri Brooks from 1950 until his death in 2001. Brooks died on December 20, 2001 from heart failure in his Encino, Los Angeles, California home, aged 89.
American plaice
American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) are salt water fish that live in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Like most flatfish, they live on the bottom of the continental shelf, up to 700 metres deep, but spend most of the time at 90 to 200 meters. Their geographical range is from the coast of Labrador, south to the coast of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The most are found off the eastern tip of Newfoundland. American plaice feed on sand dollars, brittle stars, crustaceans, polychaetes, and fish such as capelin and launce.
Like many flatfish, American plaice are sometimes said to be a flounder or dab, even though both are names for other fish species.
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (born 25 December 1959) is a Vietnamese politician. She was the acting President of Vietnam after the death of Trần Đại Quang from 21 September 2018 to 23 October 2018. She was also the Vice President of Vietnam from 2016 until 2021.
American plaice
The U.K.-based Marine Conservation Society rates American plaice as 5, the most threatened category of over-harvested animals.
Enchanted forest
An enchanted forest is a magical forest described in books. It is usually described in old tales and folklore. Usually the magic forest has bad effects rather than good ones.
Scattered disc
The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant part of the solar system. The area has small icy minor planets known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). The part of the scattered disc closest to the sun is in an area of space called the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud lies beyond the scattered disc. The first SDO was found in 1995 by Spacewatch.
The scattered disk is still not understood well. Astronomers believe that it was created when objects in the Kuiper belt were "scattered" by the gravity of the outer planets, mainly Neptune. Unlike most objects in the Solar System which move in a round and flat path, scattered disc objects go every which way. Different SDOs have different orbital eccentricity and orbital inclination.
An Adventuress
An Adventuress is a 1920 American drama movie directed by Fred J. Balshofer and starring Rudolph Valentino, Julian Eltinge, Virginia Rappe, Leo White. It was distributed by Republic Distributing Corporation.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by American singer Bruce Springsteen. It was released on 2 June 1978 through Columbia Pictures. It went to number 5 in the United States, number 7 in Canada and number 9 in Australia and Sweden. In 2020 it was ranked #91 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time.
Yuri Zisser
Yuri Zisser (Юрый Зісер, June 28, 1960 – May 17, 2020) was a Ukrainian-born Belarusian web businessman and blogger. He was the founder and owner of TUT.BY. the most visited Belarusian web portal. Zisser was born in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1987 he moved to Minsk, Belarus. In 1992, created the company Nadezhnye programmy (УП "Надёжные программы"). He was born in Lviv, Ukraine.
Zisser died of stomach cancer on May 17, 2020 in Minsk at the age of 59.
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator (or just Netscape) was a closed source web browser between 1994 to 1998. In 1999, they made it open source. It was first released in 1994. It was very popular during the 1990s until Internet Explorer gained more market share due to Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 98. Netscape Communications Navigator Version 0.9B (Mosaic Netscape Navigator 0.9b) was released June 13, 1994 (at dejavu.org/1994win.htm).
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.
After his loss in the 2002 presidential election, he immediately announced his retirement from politics.
Sleep paralysis
Possible causes
Hallucinations of ghosts, demons and Out of Body Experiences during sleep paralysis may be caused by a part of the brain called the parietal lobe (top-middle part of the brain), and by neurons known as mirror neurons.
Safari (web browser)
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. which can be downloaded free of charge. It also comes with a Mac computer. It is based on the WebKit engine, which is a fork of KDE's KHTML engine.
History
Apple Inc. replaced the previous default web browser, Internet Explorer, with their Safari many years ago. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, said that it would be released in Jan 2003. Since then, 15 types of Safari have been made. The newest one was made in Sep 2021 for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Features
Safari has several features. Some are specific to certain operating systems or platforms. Here is a list of some of Safari's features:
Silva (movie)
Silva (Сильва) is a 1944 Soviet musical movie directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky. It stars Zoya Smirnova-Nemirovich, Niyaz Dautov, and Margarita Sakalis.
Sonny's Blues
"Sonny's Blues" is a story that James Baldwin wrote in 1957 and then re-released again in 1965. The story is about a black algebra teacher living in Harlem in the 1950s. He tells the story about his brother Sonny's drug problems, getting arrested, and then getting better. The story was first printed in Partisan Review.
Sleep paralysis
Possible causes
Some report that various factors make paralysis and hallucinations happen more. These include:
Sonny's Blues
Plot
"Sonny's Blues" is about two brothers, Sonny and the narrator. The story is told from the narrator's point of view. The story goes back and forth between the present and the past. The narrator is a math teacher, and he reads about Sonny's arrest for using drugs. He worries about Sonny and the boys in his class. Later, after the narrator's daughter dies, he decides to reach out to Sonny.
The story then goes back to when Sonny was a teenager and became obsessed with playing the piano. Sonny drops out of school to pursue his passion. Later, Sonny joins the Navy, and when he returns, he and the narrator have a poor relationship. In the present, the narrator realises that his unavailability in Sonny's life may have slowed Sonny's growth and decides to reconnect with him.
Sleep paralysis
Treatment
There are few treatments available for sleep paralysis. One treatment is called Meditation-Relaxation Therapy. The treatment includes four steps: (1) one should close their eyes and remind themself that the experience is not dangerous in any way, and it is common around the world; (2) and that since it is not dangerous, they should not be afraid as that will only make the experience worse. (3) They should then focus very strongly on a positive thought or mental image (meditate); (4) and also relax their muscles and avoid movement.
Sonny's Blues
Plot
In the story, the narrator thinks about searching Sonny's room while his wife Isabel takes their kids to see their grandparents. However, he changes his mind when he sees Sonny performing in a revival meeting on the street below.
Later on, Sonny invites the narrator to watch him play in Greenwich Village. The narrator agrees and asks Sonny about his heroin addiction. Sonny explains that using drugs made him feel in control, but he wanted to escape from that life. At the jazz club, Sonny's playing is initially shaky, but he eventually wins over the crowd, including the narrator. They bond over a drink, and the narrator realises that music is how Sonny deals with his pain. However, the story ends with a symbol that suggests the brothers will face challenges in the future.
Historical Setting
The story mentions a war a few times. It is not stated which war, it could either be the Second World War or the Korean War.
Lucky Peterson
Lucky Peterson (born Judge Kenneth Peterson; December 13, 1964 – May 17, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He played contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. He played guitar and keyboards. Peterson was born in Buffalo, New York. His best known albums were You Can Always Turn Around, Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin and Deep Down.
Nobuki Hara
Nobuki Hara (born 6 September 1979) is a former Japanese football player.
Lucky Peterson
Peterson died on May 17, 2020 at a hospital in Dallas, Texas at the age of 55.
Nobuki Hara
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Fluke
Fluke can refer to different things:
Kinding
Kinding is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.
Instinct (song)
"Instinct" is a 1996 song by Crowded House. It was taken from their 1996 greatest hits album Recurring Dream. It went to number 7 in Scotland, number 12 in the United Kingdom, number 17 in New Zealand, number 68 in the United States and number 90 in Australia. It did not chart in the United States.
Track listings
"Instinct" was released as a two CD set available separately. Disc one in a double case; disc two in a sleeve ready to insert the disc into the case with disc one. "Recurring Dream" originally from the film Tequila Sunrise and later released on Crowded House rarities album Afterglow. "In the Lowlands" originally from Temple of Low Men. "Chocolate Cake" features The Beatles song "Rocky Raccoon" as its intro. All songs written by Neil Finn unless otherwise indicated.
UK CD1
UK CD2
Gardēz
Gardēz (ګردېز, Persian: گردیز) is the capital of the Paktiā province of Afghanistan. There are about 70,000 people who live in the Province. Most of the people are Pashtun.
Have a Laugh!
Have a Laugh! is an American animated comedy series produced by the Walt Disney Company for the Disney Channel. The series is a set of interstitials, presenting edited versions of classic Mickey Mouse cartoons that lasted from 2009 to 2012.
Plot
The series features short and long versions of Disney shorts. The short versions are re-voiced with current Disney voice actors such as Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck), Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer (Goofy), and Bret Iwan (Mickey Mouse). The show features Disney cartoons with the original opening and closing credits restored (if content has been removed, a stamp bearing the words "Short Version" appears on the title card).
The series also features short subjects such as "Disney's Re-Micks" where they match classic Mickey Mouse cartoons and popular songs such as "He Could Be the One" by Miley Cyrus, similar to the 1980s D-TV series.
List of cartoons
Eighteen cartoons and five redubbed short versions haven't been added online.
Broadcast history
United States
United Kingdom
Ireland
Esther Béjarano
Esther Béjarano ( Löwy; 15 December 1924 – 10 July 2021) was a German singer. She was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. With Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, she played in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Béjarano was born in Saarlouis, Germany.
Have a Laugh!
Broadcast history
Canada
Esther Béjarano
She was a co-founder and chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee and honorary chairperson of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime.
Have a Laugh!
Broadcast history
Germany
Esther Béjarano
Béjarano died on 10 July 2021 in Hamburg, aged 96.
Brigade of Gurkhas
The Brigade of Gurkhas are a specialised unit in the British Army. Members of the Brigade are recruited from Nepal to fight for the British Army. The brigade includes 2 infantry battalions, 1 engineer regiment, 1 communications regiment, 1 logistics regiment and 1 support regiment. As of 1st January 2023, the regiment was made up of 4,060 people. Gurkhas carry a Kukri for both tradition and combat and as a result it features on the cap badges of the brigade.
Have a Laugh!
Broadcast history
Italy
Madame de Lafayette
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, countess of La Fayette (or Lafayette) was a French writer. She is commonly known as Madame de Lafayette. She was born on 18 March 1634 in Paris, and died there, on 26 May 1693. In 1678, she published the novel La Princesse de Clèves (the Princess of Clèves). This book is regarded as one of the first psychological novels.
Have a Laugh!
Broadcast history
India
Indonesia
Home media
There have been two DVD releases, which include 5 shorts in restored quality, in two versions: one full-length original version, and one edited version. It also includes 3 BLAM! shorts and 1 Re-Micks.