cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Alexandra Dahlström
Personal life
She lived alone in Stockholm after graduating high school. She continued to act in theatre. After a several-year break, Dahlström again starred in the movie Fröken Sverige (Miss Sweden) gaining nice comments. During the autumn of 2004 she was the DJ for the biggest late night talk show in Sweden, called 'Late Night with Luuk', which she had been originally interviewed on in May 1998 with Rebecka Liljeberg for her acting in Fucking Åmål. After completing her studies, she now lives in Rome, Italy and is again pursuing a serious acting career.
Margarida Conte
Margarida Conte is a handball player from Brazil. Margarida competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was born on 2 September 1966.
East Point, Louisiana
East Point is an Unincorporated community in Red River Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Peter Munk
Peter Munk (November 8, 1927 – March 28, 2018 ) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He founded and chaired Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold-mining corporation.
Munk was founder, chairman and CEO of Trizec Properties (formerly TrizecHahn Corporation), one of the largest American real estate investment trusts. In 2006, Trizec Properties was sold to Brookfield Properties.
Munk died in Toronto on March 28, 2018 of heart failure at the age of 90.
Carla's Song
Carla's Song is a 1996 British German Spanish drama movie directed by Ken Loach and starring Scott Glenn, Robert Carlyle, Gary Lewis. It was narrated by Stephen Fry and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1997.
Hilaire Schoonjans
Hilaire Schoonjans (16 May 1933 – 11 October 2022) was a Belgian politician of the CVP that later became CD&V. Schoonjans was mayor of Lochristi. He realized, among other things, the "General Plan of Construction" (in Dutch: Algemeen Plan van Aanleg, APA) to lay the foundation for the rapid development of the Lochristi municipality.
Biography
In the 1950 he played football for six year in the first class with "ARA La Gantoise".
Schoonjans married Jenny Floré. She died in 1991. Schoonjans died at the residential care center Sint-Pieter in Lochristi on 11 October 2022, aged 89.
Bengo Province
Bengo is a province of Angola. Its capital is Caxito. There are about 450,000 people.
The province is bordered by the provinces of Zaire to the North, Uige to the Northeast, Cuanza Norte to the East, and Cuanza Sul to the South. The Kissama National Park and the Kibinda Forest Reserve are here.
2021 Baltimore Ravens season
The 2021 season was the Baltimore Ravens' 26th season in the National Football League and their fourteenth under head coach John Harbaugh.
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado
The 2011 Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornado involved several strong tornadoes in Alabama. It took place on April 27, 2011. The tornado was a violent EF4 multiple vortex event which caused over $2 billion in damage.
Early reports indicated 65 people were killed, with over 1,000 injured. However, this was revised to 64 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries.
Ronda Rousey
Ronda Jean Rousey (born February 1, 1987) is an American professional wrestler, actress, former judoka, and mixed martial artist. She is currently signed to WWE. She was also known for her time fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and as an Olympic judoka.
In WWE, she is a two-time SmackDown Women's Champion, one-time Raw Women's Champion, one-time Women's Tag Team Champion, and the winner of the 2022 Royal Rumble. In the UFC, she was a one-time UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018. As a judoka, Rousey competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won the bronze medal.
Personal life
She is expected to also act in movies beginning in summer 2014. She acted in the 2014 movie Expendables 3 and Fast & Furious 7.
She was born in the city of Riverside, California.
She has endorsed Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign for the 2016 United States presidential election.
Android (operating system)
Android is an operating system for mobile devices. It is mostly used for smartphones, like Google's own Google Pixel, as well as by other phone manufacturers like HTC and Samsung. It has also been used for tablets such as the Motorola, Xoom and Amazon Kindle. A modified Linux kernel is used as Android's kernel.
Google says that over 1.3 million Android smartphones are sold every day. Most mobile phones run Android, making it the most popular mobile operating system. It is also the most popular operating system in general.
It supports multitasking and two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics.
Security updates are not provided on versions older than Android 10. Newer versions receive security updates if the phone manufacturer supports them. Phones which have Android 10 and above receive security updates (like app updates) directly from Google Play.
Android programs
Android, Inc. began working on the Android operating system in 2003. In the future, Google bought it in 2005. The software development kit (SDK) for Android OS was launched on November 12, 2007, while the beta version was made available on November 5, 2007.
In October 2008, the T-Mobile G1 (also known as the HTC Dream) became the first Android smartphone to be made available to the general market.
Google revealed in August 2019 that the candy scheme was coming to an end and that future Android releases would instead use numerical ordering.
Android 10 was the first Android version to be made available in numerical order.
Android version numbers and names
Versions of Android have a number and have had a name based on confectioneries, up to and including Android 9 Pie, but since then it has mostly been a number, with the code name usually only being used internally and by Developers and manufacturers. The version numbers and names are:
Port Vale F.C.
Port Vale Football Club are an English football club currently playing in Football League Two. They are based in Burslem, Staffordshire — one of six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The club's rivals in the city are Stoke City, games between the two clubs are known as the "Potteries derby". Games against Crewe Alexandra are also called a derby, although Alex are in south Cheshire.
Port Vale are not named after a place, which is unusual for an English league clubs. The two symbols on the clubs badge are a bottle kiln and the Stafford knot.
The Old Recreation Ground
The Rec was Port Vale's home from 1913 to 1950. The Old Recreation Ground was in Hanley and stood on what is now the car park for the Potteries Shopping Centre.
Vale Park
Vale Park has been Port Vale's home ground since 1950. Vale Park has a capacity of around 22,000.
Vale Park is not the oldest ground in the world, it has had several upgrades in its history. The original ground consisted of two stands (The Railway side and the Lorne Street main stand) with banks of terracing at the Bycars and Hamil ends of the ground. Stands were added behind each set of goals during the 1980s and 1990s as the ground began to be made more modern. The paddock at the front of the Railway Stand was also made into an all-seated area, with just the Lorne Street side now being left as a standing area. Vale fans stood for the last time on Lorne Street at the end of the 1997-98 season, with the stand being demolished before work began on a new £3,000,000 structure. Work has yet to been finished on this, due to low funds and a change in ownership of the club. However, once new owners V2001 had taken care of the financing, work was finally begun on finishing the second half of the stand. It is due to be completed sometime in 2008.
Robbie Williams
For the computer game FIFA 2000, he provided an original theme song with It's Only Us, on the condition that Port Vale were included in the game, which they were, and are in the Rest of World section. This song was also featured on the only FIFA Soundtrack CD release by EMI.
In 2005 Williams founded Los Angeles Vale F.C., a Super Metro League team in the United States, named for Port Vale and based at his L.A. home.
League
Football League Division Three North: 2
Football League Division Four: 1
Cups
Staffordshire Senior Cup: 1
Anglo-Italian Cup
Debenhams Cup
Trophies
Football League Trophy: 2
Highest Football League finishes
Before the War:
After the War:
Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Chadds Ford Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It is about 25 mi southwest of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 census, Chadds Ford Township had a population of 3,640.
Port Vale F.C.
Best Cup runs
League Cup
Consumption
Consumption may refer to:
Susquehanna River
The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane ) is a major river located in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. At 464 mi long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States that drains into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Andromeda Nebula
The Andromeda Nebula (Туманность Андромеды) is a 1967 Soviet science fiction movie directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov. It stars Sergei Stolyarov, Vija Artmane, and Nikolai Kryukov.
Uranus (disambiguation)
Uranus is one of the planets in the Solar System. It might also refer to:
Susquehanna River
With its watershed, it is the 16th-largest river in the United States, and the longest river in the early 21st-century continental United States without commercial boat traffic.
The river spans in three states: Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland.
Ousmane Dembélé
Masour Ousmane Dembélé (born 15 May 1997) is a French football player. He plays as a forward for Barcelona and the France national team.
Burtigny
Burtigny is a municipality in Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
MTV
MTV (originally an acronym for Music Television until 2010) is an American cable television network. They are based in New York City. The channel launched on August 1, 1981. They used to only show music videos. The first music video shown on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. Today, the channel shows many different television programs aimed at adolescents and young adults.
Liiga
Liiga also known as SM-liiga from 1975 to 2013, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is generally thought of as one of the top leagues in Europe. It started in 1975. SM is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruus, "Finnish championship".
Gloydius himalayanus
It occurs along the southern slopes of the Himalayas from Kashmir to Nepal as far as Sikkim between 1500–3000 m altitude.
The Himalayan Pit Viper is a habitually sluggish snake that basks in sunlight and hibernates in winter.
Pluto (disambiguation)
Pluto is a dwarf planet in Earth's solar system.
Pluto can also mean:
Cilia
A cilium (plural cilia) is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells. Cilia are slender protuberances that project from the much larger cell body.
There are two types of cilia:
In eukaryotes, cilia and flagella together make up a group of organelles known as undulipodia. Eukaryotic cilia are structurally identical to eukaryotic flagella, although distinctions are sometimes made according to function and/or length.
Motile cilia are found on protist ciliates like Paramecium. They are how Paramecium moves around. They are also found on the epithelial cells of many internal organs of metazoans, such as the digestive system and the trachea of the lungs.
Cilia in metazoa
Non-motile (or primary) cilia usually occur one per cell; nearly all mammalian cells have a single non-motile primary cilium. In addition, examples of specialized primary cilia can be found in human sensory organs such as the eye and the nose:
Status of cilia
Cilia are structurally almost identical with the much larger flagella. So much so that it has been proposed protists bearing either should be unified in the Phylum Undulipodia. Previously, Margulis had proposed that the Ciliates alone should be placed in a Phylum Ciliophora. Admittedly, the Protista is a collection of disparate single-celled forms, but while a more sophisticated taxonomy is in flux (changing), Protista is still a useful term.
Cilia and flagella are cell organelles, specialised units which carry out well-defined functions, like mitochondria and plastids. It is fairly certain now that all or most of these organelles have their origin in once-independent prokaryotes (bacteria or archaea), and that the eukaryote cell is a 'community of micro-organisms' working together in 'a marriage of convenience'.
Neptune (disambiguation)
Neptune is a planet in the Solar System. It might also mean:
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series Time Team.
Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers.
Ambrus died on 10 February 2021, at the age of 85.
Benguela Province
Benguela is a province of Angola. Its capital is Benguela. There are about 600,000 people.
Savona FBC
Savona 1907 F.B.C. is a football club which plays in Italy in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.
Mareike Miller
She played at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship and 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.
John Holmes
John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd was an American pornographic actor known mainly for his large penis. Holmes made about 2,500 pornographic films, most with him having sexual intercourse with women but at least one with him having sex with a man.
Holmes' penis was said to be between 12.5 and 16 inches (32–41 cm) when at its largest. Fellow pornographic actor Ron Jeremy has said Holmes' penis was 11½ inches, but Holmes claimed it was 14 inches.
John Holmes died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988.
Chester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Chester Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census.
Sudarshan Agarwal
Sudarshan Agarwal (19 June 1931 – 3 July 2019) was an Indian politician. He served as the Governor of Uttarakhand from 2003 to 2007, and the Governor of Sikkim from 2007 to 2008. He was also Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabha from 1981 to 1993. He was born in Ludhiana, Punjab.
On 3 July 2019, Agarwal died after a long illness in New Delhi. He was 88.
Driven to Tears
"Driven to Tears" is a 1980 song by The Police and is the second track from their third studio album Zenyatta Mondatta. It was not released as a single and is played on classic rock radio stations is immediately followed by When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around.
Skin effect
Skin effect is the tendency of an alternating electric current to flow towards the perimeter of a conductor and leave the center part of the conductor without (or barely) any electricity flow. This effect increases as frequency increases.
Duryea, Pennsylvania
Duryea is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 mi south of Scranton. It is situated along the eastern bank of the Susquehanna. The population was 4,917 at the 2010 census.
Vernon, Eure
Vernon is a commune. It is in Normandy in the Eure department in north France.
Twin towns
Vernon is twinned with:
Logic gate
A logic gate is an electronic component that can be used to conduct electricity based on a rule. The output of the gate is the result of applying this rule to one or more "inputs". These inputs may be two wires or the output of other logic gates.
Logic gates are digital components. They normally work at only two levels of voltage, a positive level and zero level. Commonly they work based on two states: On and Off. In the On state, voltage is positive. In the Off state, the voltage is at zero. The On state usually uses a voltage in the range of 3.5 to 5 volts. This range can be lower for some uses.
Logic gates compare the state at their inputs to decide what the state at their output should be. A logic gate is on or active when its rules are correctly met. At this time, electricity is flowing through the gate and the voltage at its output is at the level of its On state.
Logic gates are electronic versions of Boolean logic. Truth tables will tell you what the output will be, depending on the inputs.
AND logic gate
AND gates have two inputs. The output of an AND gate is on only if both inputs are on. If at least one of the inputs is off, the output will be off.
Using the image at the right, if A and B are both in an On state, the output (out) will be an On state. If either A or B is in an Off state, the output will also be in an Off state. A and B must be On for the output to be On.
OR logic gate
OR gates have two inputs. The output of an OR gate will be on if at least one of the inputs are on. If both inputs are off, the output will be off.
F.C. Kuban Krasnodar
FC Kuban (Футбольный клуб "Кубань" Краснодар) is a Russian football club based in Krasnodar. In 2006 they won promotion to the Russian Premier League. Kuban have previously spent two seasons in Russian Premier League and three seasons in Soviet Top League.
Logic gate
NOT logic gate
The NOT logic gate has only one input. If the input is On then the output will be Off. In other words, the NOT logic gate changes the signal from On to Off or from Off to On. It is sometimes called an inverter.
F.C. Kuban Krasnodar
History
The club was founded as Dynamo in 1928, but was named Neftyanik in 1954, Kuban in 1958, and Spartak in 1960. In 1963 the club was renamed Kuban and has been known by this name ever since.
Logic gate
XOR logic gate
XOR ("exclusive or") gates have two inputs. The output of a XOR gate will be true only if the two inputs are different from each other. If both inputs are the same, the output will be off.
F.C. Kuban Krasnodar
History
Kuban and their predecessors mainly played at the lower levels of Soviet football, winning the RSFSR championship four times. Kuban played in the Soviet Top League in 1980-1982, achieving their best result (13th position) in 1981.
In 1992, due to the dissolution of the USSR, Kuban were entitled to play at the top level instead of being relegated to the Second League. They finished 18th out of 20 teams and were relegated. After spending several seasons in First and Second divisions, they won promotion back to the Premier League for 2004, but were again relegated straight away. This happened again in 2006 when they won promotion for the 2006-2007 season and then finished second to bottom.
Logic gate
XNOR logic gate
XNOR means "not exclusive or." This means that it will only output true if both inputs are the same. It is the opposite of a XOR logic gate.
Feng Shan
Feng Shan, was a special ceremony performed by the emperors of China to honor heaven and earth. They would go to Mount Tai and Mount Liangfu to perform the sacrifices. The Feng sacrifice was done at the top of the mountain to honor heaven, while the Shan sacrifice was done at the foot of the mountain to honor earth.
Completing the Feng Shan ceremony allowed the emperor to be seen as having the support of heaven. The word "feng" means "to seal", and "shan" means "to clear away".
This ceremony is very important in religious Confucianism. According to Records of the Grand Historian, the emperor would build an altar at the top of the mountain and proclaim their legitimacy to the god of heaven during the Feng sacrifice. During the Shan sacrifice, they would clear land at the foot of the mountain to show respect to the god of earth.
AC Prato
A.C. Prato is a football club which plays in Italy.
Feng Shan
This ceremony was used as a way for emperors to think about the relationship between heaven and earth. It was usually only performed during times of prosperity, with a good emperor and good omens. Some emperors refused to perform the ceremony, feeling they were unworthy of it.
Although only the emperor was historically allowed to perform the ceremony, there were times when common people did it without permission. The general Huo Qubing even did it alone.
The Feng Shan ceremony played an important role in politics, much like the Secular Games of the Roman Empire. Both were rare and had religious significance, and were important for changing ideas about power.
History
Mount Tai has been a place of worship for many years, and it began in prehistoric times.
According to legends, the Yellow Emperor performed the ceremony before ascending to heaven as an immortal.
Sacrifices at Mount Tai continued through the Zhou dynasty. During the Warring States Period, both Qi and Lu leaders would carry out sacrifices at the mountain. In 219 BC, Qin Shihuang carried out what would be considered the first Feng and Shan sacrifices in celebration of uniting China.
The last recorded traditional Feng Shan was performed in 1790 by the Qianlong Emperor. There are only six verified accounts of performances throughout Chinese history.
Emperors like Wu of Han, Gaozong of Tang, and Zetian all carried out sacrifices. In modern times, a festival is held every year to celebrate the occasion with a modern light show.
Chavannes-de-Bogis
Chavannes-de-Bogis is a municipality in Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Rolleston, New Zealand
Rolleston is a city in the Selwyn District. It is named after Canterbury statesman William Rolleston. It has a population of 28,000 and is the third largest place in the Canterbury Region. It is 22 kilometers southwest of Christchurch. It has five primary schools and one high school that opened in January 2017. Prior to Rolleston College's opening the nearest high school was Lincoln High School. State Highway 1 runs through the city. Burnham Military Camp is located 3 kilometers west of the city centre.
List of people from Union City, New Jersey
The following is a list of notable people from Union City, New Jersey. (B) denotes that the person was born there, though births prior to 1925 would have been in West Hoboken or Union Hill which merged in 1925 to form Union City, as noted in some of these entries.
G20 developing nations
The G20 (Group of 20, also variously G21, G22 and G20+) is a bloc of developing nations established on 20 August 2003. Distinct and separate from the G-20 major economies, the group emerged at the 5th Ministerial WTO conference, held in Cancún, Mexico, from 10 September to 14 September 2003. The G-20 accounts for 60% of the world's population, 70% of its farmers and 26% of world’s agricultural exports. In 2008 the group had 23 members.
Alonsotegi
Alonsotegi is a municipality of 2,890 people (2020). It is in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in Spain.
Handbra
A handbra is the practice of covering a woman's breasts, including her nipples and areolas, with one's hands, which would otherwise have been exposed. When arms are used instead, it is called an armbra.
A handbra may be used by women to maintain their modesty, or in compliance with censorship guidelines. It is also used in poses for photography.
Hau Pei-tsun
He was born on 8 August 1919 in Yancheng, Jiangsu. He studied at the Chinese Military Academy.
In the 1996 elections, he ran for vice-president as an independent. He ran with Lin Yang-kang, who was running for president. His party later collapsed and was expelled from the elections. His party's membership was restored in 2005.
He married Kuo Wan-hua and had two sons and three daughters. One of his sons is politician Hau Lung-pin, the former chairman of the New Party, and current Mayor of Taipei.
Hau died of multiple organ failure on 30 March 2020 in Taipei at the age of 100.
2022 Eastern Kentucky floods
On July 27, 2022, very heavy rainfall hit parts of eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia, including surrounding Appalachia communities. This cause large floodings in Kentucky. The flooding caused 25 deaths with many reportedly missing.
On July 29, President Joe Biden said the flooding was a major disaster in Kentucky and ordered federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected.
National Rifle Association (United Kingdom)
History
The National Rifle Association started in 1859, based on Wimbledon Common.
Its aim was to raise money for a shooting competition each year (now called the Imperial Meeting) "for the promotion of marksmanship in the interests of Defence of the Realm and permanence of the Volunteer Forces, Navy, Military and Air". Today the association runs competitions and teaches firearm safety.
The National Shooting Centre
The National Shooting Centre is owned by the National Rifle Association. The first centre was at Wimbledon, but it was too small and in the late 1880s the Association began looking for a new site. In 1888 it seemed that Cannock Chase would be the new place. However, that plan failed. Eventually Bisley in Surrey was selected. The shooting ranges at Bisley were used for the shooting competitions at the 1908 and 1948 Olympic Games and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Bad Münstereifel
Bad Münstereifel is a spa town in Euskirchen, a district (Kreis) in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He first became known as the host and the creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He directed Scary Movie (2000). From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. He also directed the 2004 comedy movie White Chicks.
Mishary bin Rashid Alafasy
Mishary Rashid Alafasy was born on September 5th, 1976. Mishary Rashid Ghareeb Mohammed Rashid Al-Afasy (nicknamed Abu Nora ), is an eminent and prolific Imam and an excellent Qur’an reciter hailing from Kuwait.
The Holy Quran was the subject of this Imam’s keen interest and learning and hence, it came as no surprise when he memorized the Book of Allah in a few years itself. Besides his melodious and emotional voice, he has managed to grab the attention of the bigwigs in the field of Islamic knowledge such as Sheikh Ibrahim Ali Shehata Al-Samanodi, the Sheikh Abdur Area Radwan, and also the great sheikh Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Zaiat.The next step was his decision to pursue his higher education at the Islamic and Quranic university of Madinah, Saudi Arabia.
The two famous links of the recitation of the Quran: TV Alafasy and Alafasy Q are managed by this great Imam and rightfully so. In a similar manner, numerous TV channels and radio stations have taken pride in broadcasting all his highly commendable productions.
Currently, Mishary Rashid Alafasy is leading the prayers as an Imam at Masjid Al-Kabir in Kuwait.
Alexander ALX200
The Alexander ALX200 was a single-decker bus body built by Alexander in 1996 to 2001. It was created for low-floor bus chassis produced from the late 1990s.
The body was primarily built on Dennis Dart SLF and Volvo B6LE chassis.
Aurora Pro Patria 1919
Aurora Pro Patria 1919 is a football club which plays of Busto Arsizio in Italy.
The club in season 2010–11 plays in Lega Pro Seconda Divisione group A.
Chavannes-des-Bois
Chavannes-des-Bois is a municipality in Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Project Runway (season 1)
Project Runway Season 1 was the first season of Project Runway series. The season aired first on December 1, 2004. The winner was Jay McCaroll. He won several prizes including an Elle spread, a $100,000 cash prize to start his own line and more. Austin Scarlett later appeared in Project Runway: All Stars in 2012, where he finished runner-up. Wendy Pepper, in the same year, competed in the second season of the All Stars edition placing 12th out of 13.
Contestants
(In order of elimination)
(ages listed are the designers' ages at the time the show was taped in the summer of 2004.)
The 12 models competing for an ELLE spread in the first season were:
2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and also known as Birmingham 2022, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that is taking place in Birmingham, England from 28 July to 8 August 2022.
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 - 3 April 1897) was a famous German composer. He started his career as a pianist. He was always very self-critical and destroyed any composition he thought was not really good. He thought that people were expecting him to be the “next Beethoven”, and spent many years on his first symphony before he allowed it to be performed. In the end, he wrote four symphonies altogether, as well as four concertos and a number of choral works, including a requiem. He also wrote chamber music, piano music, and German art songs, or Lieder. One of his best known songs is Wiegenlied ("cradle song"), often called "Brahms' Lullaby," which is often heard in music boxes.
Early years
Brahms was born in Germany. His father was a double bass player in the Hamburg city orchestra. He probably gave the young boy his first music lessons. He soon was learning the piano with a teacher named Otto Cossel. When Brahms played in a public concert in 1843 an American agent asked him to tour America, but his teacher realized he was too young. He said that Johannes should study with Eduard Marxsen, a well-known teacher in Hamburg. By 1848 he was playing piano recitals. He also started to compose, and he sent some of his compositions to Robert Schumann to ask for his advice. Schumann sent the parcel back unopened.
At this time there were many Hungarian musicians in Hamburg. Brahms liked their folk music with its unusual rhythms, little triplet figures and sense of rubato. It was to influence his own style of composition. One of the Hungarians was called Remenyi. He played the violin and Brahms often accompanied him at concerts. They went on tour together and met famous people such as the composer Franz Liszt and the violinist Joseph Joachim who became a close friend of Brahms for many years. Joachim told Brahms to go and see Schumann and his wife Clara in Düsseldorf. Schumann liked Brahms and could see that he was going to be a great composer, so he wrote an article in his music journal about him. The article had the title: Neue Bahnen (New Paths). Schumann turned out to be correct: Brahms did become a famous composer and found “new paths” (new ways of composing). Brahms remained a very close friend of Schumann. When Schumann had a nervous breakdown, Brahms went all the way to Düsseldorf to see him. Brahms soon fell in love with Clara who was 14 years older than himself. He continued to be in love with her after Robert Schumann’s death, and they had a close relationship, though Brahms became interested in other women and was briefly engaged. However, he never married.
Early career in Hamburg
In 1859, Brahms settled in Hamburg. He founded a women’s choir and wrote and arranged a lot of music for them. His First Piano Concerto was a great success in Hanover and Hamburg, but not in Leipzig, where a lot of people preferred the wildly Romantic music of Liszt which was quite different from Brahms’s style based on the Classical music style. Brahms decided to go to Vienna. He was to stay there for the rest of his life.
Hardella thurjii
The Brahminy River Turtle or Crowned River Turtle (Hardella thurjii) is a species of turtle found in northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (in the watersheds of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Indus rivers).
Johannes Brahms
First years in Vienna
In Vienna he soon made many friends who liked his music. For a short time he was director of a choir called the Vienna Singakademie, who sang some of his compositions. He met Wagner. Wagner was afraid that Brahms would start to write operas which would be more famous than his own. So Wagner wrote an article saying that Brahms was a very bad conductor. Wagner had made himself an enemy of Brahms, who never did write any operas anyway.
In 1870, Brahms became director of a concert series called Vienna Gesellschaftskonzerte. He became more and more famous as a composer, but he was never very good at conducting, and in 1875 a conductor called Hans Richter took over conducting the concerts. During these years he finished one of his greatest works: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), as well as one of his most popular works: the Variations on the St Anthony chorale (sometimes wrongly known as Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
Years of fame
At last, in 1876, he allowed his First Symphony to be performed. It was not very successful at first, but in Vienna the audience liked it. He started to compose a lot of his greatest works and received many honours from universities. In the winter he gave concerts and in the summer he spent his time composing. He wrote his last symphony (Fourth Symphony) in 1885 and conducted it, going on tour with the orchestra through Germany and the Netherlands.
From 1889, Brahms spent each summer in Ischl where he had many friends. By 1890 he had decided to stop composing, although he did still write four beautiful works for clarinet after meeting the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. In 1896 he wrote Four Serious Songs which were probably inspired by the sad death of Clara Schumann. The next year Brahms died from cancer in Vienna. His father had died of the same illness.
His music
Brahms was also very interested in old music and helped to edit music by François Couperin as well as the music of his friend Robert Schumann. For writing his music Brahms was mostly using German and Viennese pianos. He owned a Conrad Graf piano that he received from Clara Schumann in 1856. Later in life he was mostly playing on a Streicher piano. Brahms kept this piano in his house until his death.
IParty with Victorious
"iParty with Victorious" was an episode of the television shows iCarly and Victorious. It aired on June 11, 2011.
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Moscow
Moscow (, US chiefly ;  Москва) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city is on the Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population of around 13 million people in the city limits, over 17 million people in the urban area, and over 20 million people in the metropolitan area. The city has an area of 2511 km2. Moscow's urban area has an area of 5891 km2. Moscow's metropolitan area has an area of over 26000 km2. Moscow is one of the world's largest cities. It is the most populous city that is only in Europe. It is also the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe and the largest city by land area on the European continent.
It was first wrote about in 1147. Moscow grew to become a powerful city that was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Moscow stayed the political and economic center of the country when the Tsardom of Russia was made. When the Tsardom turned into the Russian Empire, the capital was moved from Moscow to Saint Petersburg which lowered the influence of the city. The capital was moved back to Moscow after the October Revolution. This brought the city back as the political center of the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Moscow stayed the capital city of the new Russian Federation.
Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity in the world. It has a history that goes through eight centuries. Moscow is a federal city of Russia since 1993 that is the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe. Moscow has one of the world's largest urban economies as an alpha world city. The city is one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in the world, and it is one of Europe's most visited cities. Moscow is home to the seventh-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world. The Moscow International Business Center is one of the largest financial centers in Europe and the world. Moscow has most of Europe's tallest skyscrapers. Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Moscow is the home of many Russian artists, scientists, and sportspeople. The city also has several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moscow is well known for its Russian architecture. This includes its historic Red Square, and buildings such as the Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin. The Moscow Kremlin is the seat of power of the Government of Russia. Moscow is home to many Russian companies in different industries. It has a large transit network, which includes four international airports, ten railway terminals, a tram system, a monorail system, and the Moscow Metro. The Moscow Metro is the busiest metro system in Europe. It is one of the largest rapid transit systems in the world. The city has over 40 percent of its land covered by greenery. This makes it one of the greenest cities in Europe and the world.
Geography
It is by the Moskva River in the Moscow Oblast, in the European part of Russia. Moscow sits on the center of three parts of Earth's crust. It was once the capital of the Soviet Union (1918-1991), Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1480-1703). It is the place of the Moscow Kremlin, one of the World Heritage Sites in the city, which is the home of the President of Russia. The Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council of Russia (Federation Council) and the Government of Russia also are in Moscow.
The city has a humid continental climate. The winter (usually cold) is lasting from mid-November to the end of March. The average temperature in winter is about −10 °C (−14 °F). The summer is usually warm or even hot with temperature ranging from 15 to 35 °C (50 to 95 °F).
Economy
Moscow has a large economic infrastructure. It is home to the most billionaires in the world. In 2008 Moscow was named the world's most expensive city for non-Russian workers for the third year in a row. In 2009, however, Moscow went down to third after Tokyo and Osaka came in first and second.
History
The city is named after the river (old гра́д Моско́в, which means "the city next to the Moskva River"). The beginning of the name is not known, but some people have a few ideas. One is that the name might be from a very old Finnic language, in which it means "dark" and "cloudy". In 12th century tribes of Vyatichi and Krivichs lived on that land. The first Russian reference to Moscow is from 1147 when Yuri Dolgoruki called upon the prince of Novgorod-Severski to "come to me, brother, to Moscow."
Nine years later, in 1156, Prince Yuri Dolgoruki ordered the building of a wooden wall, which had to be redone many times, to go around the growing city. After the attack of 1237–1238, when the Mongols burned the city to the ground and killed its people living there, Moscow grew back and became the capital of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality (an amount of land ruled by a prince) in 1327. Its good place on the start of the Volga River helped the city to grow slowly bigger and bigger. Moscow turned into a peaceful and rich principality, known as the Grand Duchy of Moscow, for many years and a large number of people from across Russia moved to live there.
Under Ivan I the city replaced Tver as a political center of Vladimir-Suzdal and became the only collector of taxes for the Mongol-Tatar rulers. By paying high taxes, Ivan worked out an important deal with the Khan. Unlike other principalities, Moscow was not divided among his sons but was passed whole to his oldest. However, Moscow did not like the Mongol rule. In 1380, prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow led a Russian army to an important victory over the Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo. Only two years later Moscow was raided by the Khan Tokhtamysh. In 1480, Ivan III finally broke the Russians free from Tatar control, allowing Moscow to become the center of power in Russia. Under Ivan III the city became the capital of an empire that would eventually include all of Russia and other countries.
In 1571, the Crimean Tatars raided Moscow, burning everything but the Kremlin.
In 1609 the Swedish army, led by Count Jacob De la Gardie and Evert Horn, marched from Veliky Novgorod toward Moscow to help Tsar Vasili Shuiski. They entered Moscow in 1610 and stopped the revolution against the Tsar, but left early in 1611. After that the Polish invaded. During the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) hetman (army commander) Stanisław Żółkiewski entered Moscow after he defeated the Russians in the Battle of Klushino. The 17th century had lots of revolutions, such as the Salt Riot (1648), the Copper Riot (1662), and the Moscow Uprising of 1682.
In January 1905, Alexander Adrianov became Moscow’s first mayor. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, on 12 March 1918 Moscow became the capital of the Soviet Union. During World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War), after the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet State Defense Group and commanders of the Red Army were placed in Moscow.
In 1941, 16 groups of national volunteers (more than 160,000 people), twenty-five battalions (18,500 people) and four engineering regiments were created among the Muscovites. That November, the German Army was stopped at the edge of the city and then driven off in the Battle of Moscow. Many factories were moved away, and much of the government was too, and from 20 October the city was declared to be under siege. Its people who stayed built and used anti-tank defences, and the city was bombed from the air. Joseph Stalin (the leader of Russia) did not leave the city, so the general staff remained in the city as well. Even with a siege going on, the construction of the Moscow Metro system continued through the war, and by the end of the war a few new metro lines were open.
On 1 May 1944, a medal For the defence of Moscow and in 1947 another medal In memory of the 800th year of Moscow were given to Moscow. In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, on 8 May 1965, Moscow became one of twelve Soviet cities awarded the title of Hero City.
In 1980, Moscow hosted the Summer Olympic Games, which the United States and several other countries did not go to because of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan in the end of 1979. In 1991, Moscow was the scene of a failed overthrow attempt by government members opposed to Mikhail Gorbachev. When the USSR ended in the same year, Moscow continued to be the capital of Russia.
Since then, the beginning of a market economy in Moscow has caused an explosion of Western-style stores, services, architecture, and lifestyles. In 1998, it hosted the first World Youth Games.
Metro
Moscow metro is one of the largest and the beautiful ones in the World. It was opened for passengers in 1935.
Trams
The first electric tram began operating in 1899.
Trolleys
The Moscow trolley system was the largest in the World before ending of 2010s. In 2020 it was closed.
Sister cities
Moscow has many sister cities:
Utility frequency
Utility frequency, line frequency or mains frequency is the frequency level of the AC electricity used in transmission and distribution from electricity generation sources to customers. The world's two major utility frequencies are 50 Hz (most, but not all, of the Eastern hemisphere) and 60 Hz (most, but not all, of the Western hemisphere).
Many electric railways in Europe use a frequency of 16.7 Hz (one third of 50 Hz). Early electric railways sometimes used 25 Hz (half of 50 Hz). New electric railways usually use the standard mains frequency of 50 Hz. Some lines in the northeast United States still use 25 Hz.
Vice President of Kazakhstan
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List
The following is a list of vice presidents of Kazakhstan.
Rheumatism
Types
The major rheumatic disorders that are known, some are:
Treatment
Many traditional herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism". Modern medicine, both conventional and complementary, shows that the different rheumatic disorders have different causes (and several of them have more than one) and need different kinds of treatment.
Bundesautobahn 45
The Bundesautobahn 45 (in German: A 45), is a Motorway from the Ruhr area till Hanau.
Anonymous (hacker group)
EXECDOTEXCALICOEXEDRIVE.EXESERVICE[Z] Anonymous is a group of anonymous online Activism activists. They are associated with many online and offline protests. These protests commonly relate to freedom of speech. They often protest against political corruption and censorship. Anonymous also makes DDoS attacks (where an attacker disconnects his or her target from the internet, sometimes forever) on popular websites such as PayPal and the United States' Department of Justice homepage. Other common targets include organizations who seem to limit people's freedom of speech.
Bundesautobahn 45
Exits on the A 45
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Anonymous (hacker group)
Anonymous is also often associated with image boards such as 4chan and protests such as the Occupy Movement.
Some people have been arrested for involvement in Anonymous cyberattacks in countries including the U.S., UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey. Views of the group's actions and usefulness vary widely. Supporters have called the group "freedom fighters" and digital Robin Hoods while some have judged them as "a cyber lynch-mob" or "cyber terrorists". In 2012, Time called Anonymous one of the "100 most influential people" of 2012 in the world. Members of anonymous are called Anons. When anons appear in public, they often wear Guy Fawkes masks. Guy Fawkes masks come from a graphic novel and film called V for Vendetta. Some Anons also disguise their voice with voice changers (products that distort a user's voice) or text-to-speech programs.
Costa Cordalis
Costa Cordalis (Κώστας Κορδαλής, born Konstantinos Cordalis; 1 May 1944 – 2 July 2019) was a Greek-German schlager singer. He was born in Elateia, Phthiotis, Greece and moved to Germany in his teenage years. His 1976 song "Anita" was a chart success, reaching the top ten in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2004, he won the reality television game show Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!. He also competed for Greece at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985.
Cordalis was married and had three children. His son, Lucas, is also a singer. Cordalis lived in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain. He died in Mallorca on 2 July 2019, at the age of 75.