cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Exhumation
Exhumation is the act of digging up, especially a corpse. This is most often done to relocate a body to a different burial spot.
Families may make this decision to locate the deceased in a more pertinent or convenient place. In shared family burial sites (e.g. a married couple), if the previously deceased person has been buried for an insufficient period of time the second body may be buried elsewhere until it is safe to move it to the requested grave.
In most jurisdictions a legal exhumation usually requires a court order or permission by the next of kin of the deceased. Also in many countries permits are required by some governing agency like the board of health in order to legally conduct a disinterment.
Münster Government Region
Münster is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the north of the state.
The Regierungsbezirk was made in 1815. This means it is one of the original 25 Regierungsbezirke made to help govern Prussia.
Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta
The Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta was a right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada. The party was created in 1999 as the Alberta First Party. In 2004, the party changed their name to the Separation Party of Alberta. In 2018, the party was renamed the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta.
In the 2019 general election, the Freedom Conservative Party received 0.5% of the popular vote.
Derek Fildebrandt resigned as leader of the Freedom Conservative Party on April 30, 2019.
In April 2020, the party agreed to merge with the Wexit Alberta to create the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta. It became official in July 2020.
Gosha Suwa Shrine
Gosha-Suwa-jinja (五社神社・諏訪神社), is a Shinto shrine located in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Situation
Gosha-Suwa Shrine is situated in Naka Ward, which is in the central part of Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is located about 6.5 kilometers away from the right bank of the Tenryū River, in a straight line. The shrine is also in close proximity to the railway station, approximately 1 kilometer away, and the city's castle, which is about 500 meters to the north.
Description
Gosha-Suwa Shrine is affiliated with Kasuga-taisha in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, and Suwa Grand Shrine near Lake Suwa, Nagano Prefecture. It venerates Shinto deities such as Takemikazuchi, the "thunder god", Ama-no-Koyane-no-mikoto, Futsunushi, Suwa Myojin, and Kotoshironushi, who are considered as the sons of Ōkuninushi. Devotees visit the shrine to convey their wishes for various blessings, such as prosperity, happiness, finding a soul mate, successful fishing, abundant harvests, or safe childbirth.
Gosha Shrine
In the early 16th century, the leader of the Imagawa clan built a castle called Hikuma Castle in the province of Tōtōmi, which also had a shrine within its enclosure. Later in the same century, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who would become the ruler of unified Japan, seized the castle, expanded it, and renamed it Hamamatsu Castle. In 1579, after the birth of his son Tokugawa Hidetada, he converted the shrine into a place of worship for the Shintō deity Futsunushi. The following year, he had the holy place rebuilt outside the castle's enclosure.
In 1914, the Gosha sanctuary was classified as a national treasure. However, on June 18, 1945, an air raid by the American army destroyed all the buildings of the religious complex.
Suwa Shrine
In 761, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, a general in the service of Emperor Kammu, had a Shintō shrine built in Tōtōmi province. This shrine was later moved in 1556 to the foot of Hikuma Castle, and then in the 1580s it came under the control of the Tokugawa dynasty. In 1641, the sanctuary was rebuilt stone by stone near the Gosha-jinja.
In 1938, the Suwa sanctuary was classified as a national treasure. However, on June 18, 1945, during an aerial bombardment, several buildings of the religious complex were reduced to ashes.
Gosha-Suwa Shrine
In 1962, in the city of Hamamatsu, two Shintō shrines, Gosha-jinja and Suwa-jinja, merged to form the religious complex Gosha-Suwa. The construction of Gosha-Suwa was completed in 1982, including the opening of its honden (main hall) to the faithful. During World War II, the shrines of Gosha-jinja and Suwa-jinja were heavily damaged by bombings, resulting in the loss of their national treasure status. Unfortunately, the damage could not be repaired.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands national football team
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands national football team is the national football team of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Diagonal, Iowa
Diagonal is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Gosha Suwa Shrine
Events
On November 15th, during the traditional annual festival called shichi-go-san, parents come to Gosha-Suwa Shrine as a family to pray for the good health of their children. The shrine's enclosure is crowded with families who participate in this festival.
Secretary, Maryland
Secretary is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
Ninjago:Masters of Spinjitzu is an American animated television series that focuses on the adventures of six ninja : Kai, Zane, Jay, Lloyd (as of season 2), Cole, & Nya (as of season 5). It is a spin-off based on the popular brick building toy, Lego.
Premise
The setting of the series is in the land of Ninjago. Ninjago was created by The First Spinjitzu Master (Sensei Wu and Garmadon's father and ancestor Misako's father-in-law Lloyd Garmadon's grandfather and ancestor Firstbourne and Omega's son and descendant) using The Four Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu. When the First Spinjitzu Master died he gave the weapons to his son and descendant and Wu (because Garmadon was implanted with evil by the Great Devourer). Garmadon wanted to take the weapons for himself, but Wu gave it to four Ninja to protect the weapons, which are
-Note : Spinjitzu is a fighting technique and has the form of a spinning tornado
_Note : Airjitzu is an advanced version of Spinjitzu developed later in the series which gives ninja flight.
-Note : The Four Golden Weapons are The Dragon Sword of Fire, The Dragon Nunchunks of Lightning, the Dragon Shurikens of Ice & the Dragon Scythe of Quakes
Plot
Season 1 focuses on the Ninja (Kai, Jay, Cole and Zane) fighting to determine whose the green Ninja (a ninja who is destined to fight the evil Lord Garmadon). Sensei Wu is struggling to maintain and teach his Ninja students. On the other hand, Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon (the son of Lord Garmadon and Misako nephew of Master Wu descendant and grandson of the First Spinjitzu Master and descendant and great-grandson of Firstbourne and Omega) accidentally releases the serpentine army to attack the ninja. Pythor is the main villain of season 1 & his main goal is to get all the fangblades to free his master and mistress 'The Great Devourer', so he can get destroy Ninjago city. Pythor is consumed by the Devourer, and the Devourer is destroyed by evil Garmadon (who uses the golden weapons), & later on steals the Golden Weapons. Also it was revealed that Lloyd (whose life was saved by Kai, due to his true potential) is the green ninja. And everything goes out of hand when a son has to fight his father.
Season 2 focuses on the Ninja trying to train Lloyd for the ultimate battle. On the other hand, Lord Garmadon uses the Mega Weapon ( a combination of the four golden weapons) for evil purposes. The Ninja are turned into children but are turned back to normal at the price of Lloyd losing his youth and becomes older. Lord Garmadon releases the Stone Army, due to the command of the OverLord. The ultimate battle begins, but Lloyd loses. On the second round the OverLord possesses Garmadon, claiming that Ninjago was never Garmadon's but he's. Lloyd becomes the Ultimate Spinjitzu master and defeats the OverLord, restoring Ninjago back to its good, original form, and destroying all Garmadon's evil, : turning him back to normal.
On season 4 the Ninja are split due to Zane's sacrifice, But are reunited by Lloyd. The ninja participate in "The Tournament of Elements" hosted by Master Chen when they get the news that Zane is alive. They participate in the tournament with 12 other masters Skylor Chen (the Orange Ninja Wizard Sorceress Mage Magician and Master/Mistress of Amber and Absorption), Griffin Turner (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Speed), Paleman also known as Mr. Pale (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Light), Chamille (Wizard Sorceress Mage Magician and Master/Mistress of Form), Ash (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Smoke), Bolobo (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Nature and Plants), Gravis (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Gravity), Neuro (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Mind), Tox (Wizard Sorceress Mage Magician and Master/Mistress of Poison Toxic Acid and Venom), Shade also known as Shadow (Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Shadow), Karlof (Wizard Sorcerer Mage and Magician Master of Metal) & Jacob Pevsner (Wizard Sorcerer Mage and Magician Master of Sound and Music). In the Tournament Kai falls in love with Skylor Chen, & becomes Karlof's enemy (as they fight constantly in Episode 36 & 37). After many battles all the masters start to realize that when someone loses Chen uses his staff of elements to suck their powers for a transformation spell, which is performed by Clouse (Chen's number 2, Master of Dark Magic Dark Arts and a Wizard Sorcerer Mage and Magician). The spell makes everybody with the Andacondrai mark become Fake Andacondrai. The Andacondrai mark spot people include Chen himself, Clouse, Garmadon (who was revealed to be Chen's student), Skylor Chen (who was revealed to be Chen's daughter and spy), & every other Andacondrai wannabes. The transformation was not complete, and to complete it they'll need the saliva of a true Andacondrai (which was tiny Pythor in jail). When they took Pythor and complete the transformation, on the other hand, every elemental master has discovered all their elemental dragons. They fight all the Andacondrai wannabes. And the Andacondrai wannabes are sucked into the cursed realm, which leads to Garmadon sacrificing himself to be sucked into the cursed realm so he can unleash the Andacondrai spirits to curse Chen's army. At the end of season 4 Morro (Wizard Sorcerer Mage and Magician Master of Wind and Air and Sensei Wu's First Student and Pupil) is accidentally freed from the Cursed Realm.
Season 5 focuses on the Ninja fighting the ghost Morro (the Wizard Sorcerer Mage Magician and Master of Wind and Air and Sensei Wu's First Student and Pupil), Morro possesses Lloyd for most of the season. When Morro possesses Lloyd, the ninja lose their powers (for more than 3.5 quarters of the season) and use Aeroblades for most of the season. Morro unleashes a variety of ghost warriors (ghosts) & his mission is to find the realm crystal (a realm that can let its user travel through the 16 realms), & free his mistress, " The Preeminent" (the physical body of the cursed realm) so she can curse all 16 realms exept Djinjago. On the other hand, Nya is revealed to be the Water Waves Ocean Tides Fluids Ninja, as she is being trained by Sensei Wu. The Ninja and Morro struggle as they go through journeys to master Airjitzu (a Spinjitzu that can fly) to get the Sword of Sanctuary (a sword that can show the user the opponent's next move), and find the Realm Crystal. At the end of Season 5, Lloyd is free and fights with Morro, at the end Nya unlocks her true potential and destroys the Preeminent, with the cost of Morro dying. (note: the weakness of a ghost is water or deep stone [the aeroblades] ).
Season 6 focuses on the Ninja being famous, but is disrupted when Clouse (as a ghost) frees Nadakhan the Djinn (a djinn that grants you three wishes but on the third one, he captures you in the Djinn Blade/Sword of Souls). The whole season focuses on the ninja (mainly Jay) fighting Nadakhan's Sky Pirates Crew. Nadakhan's mission is to be married to Nya (because Nya looks like Delara:Nadakhan's love) so he can get infinite wishes. All the Ninja are captured but except for Jay/Nya. Nadakhan gets Infinite wishes but is stopped when Jay wishes that "nobody ever found the teapot and that Nya took his hand". This destroys the timeline of Nadakhan being free & reunites Jay and Nya's relationship.
Season 7 focuses on The Ninja against The Time Twins. The Time Twins are the Elemental Wizards Sorcerers Mages Magicians and Masters of Time from long time ago, during the Anacondrai wars. Long time ago Wu and Garmadon fought with the Time Twins and banish them using the Time Blade. The Time Blade is the main weapon that the twins control (there are 2 Time Blades). The Time Twins than return to the present to get revenge. Acronix and Acrux (the Hands of Time/the Time Twins) than team up and create the Vermilion Army (snake-like living bodies who can regenerate). The Ninja have a tough time against the Vermilion Army. It is than revealed that Kai and Nya's parents (Ray and Maya) were traitors and worked for the Time Twins. One evidence is revealed later on that Ray and Maya are the ones who created The Time Blades and revealed to be their captivities.
Note : Season 7 of Ninjago (Hands of Time) has finished airing yet and has not premiered at America yet? So the information of the season is not fully complete. Season 7 started at episode 65 and airing is currently at episode 74. Premiere at USA begins at May 15, premiere at Africa began at April 8, and premiere at UK began at April 1st.
Season 8 focuses on Lloyd
Episodes
Note: There are 128 episodes in total. 115 have aired but 15 are unreleased.
Season 0 (2011)
-000 production codes Focus Ninja: Kai
Season 1 (2011-12)
000 production codes. Focus Ninja: None
Season 2 (2012)
100 production codes Focus Ninja: Lloyd
Season 3: Rebooted (2014)
Over a year after The Overlord was destroyed, new villans have come to conquer ninjago again, returning The Overlord back to life digitally. Focus Ninja: Zane
200 production codes
Season 5: Possession (2015)
400 production codes Focus Ninja: None
Wu's Teas
On July 13, 2017, Ninjago had a special called Wu's Teas with 20 shorts
Season 6: Skybound (2016)
500 production codes Focus Ninja: Jay
Plot
Clouse somehow escaped the cursed realm.
Season 7: The Hands of Time (2017)
600 production codes Focus Ninja: Kai and Nya
Season 8: Sons of Garmadon (2018)
700 production codes Focus Ninja: Lloyd
Season 9 (2018)
Focus Ninja: None
Season 10 (2019)
On March 16, 2018, the series has been renewed to a 10th season which will contain 4 episodes. This is the last season with 22 minute episodes. Focus Ninja: Lloyd
Development
The series had a huge success and has the rating of 4.6 out of 5 and 92% out of 100%. The series plays in Cartoon Network. The series is watched by 4.7 million per day. The series is naturally named 'Lego Ninjago:Masters of Spinjitzu' but is called 'Ninjago' by fans or viewers. Ninjago:Masters of Spinjitzu is distributed by Lego and is produced by WiFilm.
J. Michael Bishop
John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize. He currently serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco.
Bishop is best known for his Nobel-winning work on retroviral oncogenes. Working with Varmus in the 1980s, he discovered the first human oncogene, c-Src.
Their findings showed how malignant tumors are formed from changes to the normal genes of a cell. These changes can be produced by viruses, by radiation, or by exposure to some chemicals.
Craig Bolerjack
Craig Bolerjack (born May 16, 1958) is a sportscaster.
Personal
Bolerjack was born in Willows Springs, Missouri. He lives in Salt Lake City.
Middletown, Delaware County, New York
Middletown is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 3,759 at the 2010 census. The town is in the southeast part of the county.
XML
The Extensible Markup Language (short XML) is a markup language like HTML but is extensible. It's created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML defines rules for the construction of a document. XML adds context to the information in a document. It does not say how this should be displayed.
Some programs get information out of an XML-document. To do that, they need an API. There are many APIs for XML.
You can write a description of an XML document in a way that is useful for programmers. There are several languages for this; the best known is called DTD.
Syntax
XML uses less than (<) and greater than (>) to show tags. For example, a paragraph in HTML would be.
A closing tag is a tag used to enclose the value of the tag. The tag has a slash (/) before its name. For example,
A tag which is empty can be represented as an opening tag but with a slash before the. For example,
The XML specification defines a valid XML document as a well-formed XML document which also conforms to the rules of a Document Type Definition (DTD).
Languages
The following languages are based on XML.
Middletown, New York
Middletown is the name of several places located in the U.S. state of New York:
XML
Other
There are a lot more languages that use XML. A couple of them are:
Navajo
The Navajo people (Navajo: Diné or Naabeehó) are a tribe of Native Americans from the southwestern part of the United States. The Navajo tribe has about 300,000 members. The capital is in Window Rock, Arizona. It is the second largest tribe in the United States. The Navajo Nation is an independent government that runs a large Native American reservation in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Many Navajo live there, but not all of them. Most Navajo speak English. Some speak the Navajo language. The Navajo have many things in common with the Apache tribe and the two groups may share a common ancestry.
Government
The Navajo Nation works to maintain an economy for a population of 250,000 plus members. The discovery of oil on Navajo lands in the 1920s started the tribe towards building a systematic form of government. A tribal government was established in 1923 to deal with oil exploration. The Navajo Nation is currently the largest and most sophisticated form of Native American government. The Navajo Nation has become a wealthy nation in its own right.
Language
The Navajo language is called Diné. It is a tonal language, meaning that a word may mean something different if said with a different pitch. About 150,000 people speak Diné. Diné is very difficult to learn because the speaker has to understand the relationships between different things.
Culture
Much of the Navajo culture, religion and other beliefs say everything in the world is connected and everything has a spirit.
The Navajo culture involves many different ceremonies. Some are short. The longest can take nine days. There are ceremonies to make sick people well and solve other problems. When a Navajo person becomes sick, he or she might go to a modern doctor or hospital, might pay a medicine man to sing a healing ceremony, or might do both. Many Navajo people are more comfortable with not talking than most Americans and would rather just touch hands than do a full handshake. In a Navajo conversation, it is all right to take a long time to answer a question and it is important not to interrupt the other person. Some Navajo do not like to make eye contact.
Navajo culture has clans. Sons and daughters are in the same clan their mother is in. When meeting a new person, a Navajo will usually say their own clan and their father's clan. Navajo culture does not allow people to marry other people from the same clan. Navajo people usually think of anyone from the same clan as a brother, sister or cousin. Originally, there were four Navajo clans, but there are more now.
The number four is in many parts of Navajo culture: Four seasons, four clans at first, four directions, and four holy mountains.
Most Navajo wear modern American clothing most of the time but put on traditional clothes for special occasions. For women, traditional clothes are a tl'aakal skirt with a long-sleeve deiji'éé' shirt and shawl with moccasins. For men, traditional clothes are a white pants and silver or turquoise dootl’izhii jewelry with a headband and shirt, and moccasins. Both men and women tie their hair into a bun on the back of the head.
The Navajo Nation Fair is in Window Rock, Arizona every year in September. It is the largest Native American fair in the United States. It has a rodeo, a parade, Navajo music and dance contests and the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant.
Newspaper
In 1959, the Navajo Tribal Council started a newsletter. It grew into the Navajo Times newspaper. In the 21st century alone, the Navajo Times has won awards from the Arizona Press Club, Arizona Newspaper Association, and Native American Journalists Association. This included awards for writing, its website and photography.
Livestock
The Navajo got sheep and goats after the Spanish brought them to North America. This might be why their culture changed from Apache culture. They became very good at raising sheep and goats and making cloth from sheep's wool. In Navajo culture, the official owner of the sheep was usually a woman and not a man. The Navajo also had horses and cows.
During the Great Depression, the United States government saw that Navajo and Hopi land was overgrazed and decided to "reduce" the number of sheep and goats. They did not ask the Navajo what they thought. They took sheep and goats away from the Navajo. Some of the animals were sold, but for less than half what they were worth. Some of the animals were killed and their meat processed and returned to the owners. Some of the animals were set on fire in front of their owners.
History
According to Navajo traditional beliefs, the Navajo came into the world, which they call "the glittering world," after passing through three other worlds. According to historians and anthropologists, the Navajo were not the first humans to live in the Four Corners area, but they were already there in 1492. The Spanish made contact with the Navajo in 1581.
Like many other Native American tribes, the Navajo suffered after white colonists came to the area. After the Spanish-American War in the 1840s, the United States took over the land where the Navajo lived. Many Navajo died during the Long Walk, or Hwé​eldi Baa Hane', in 1864. The Long Walk was when the United States government made many Navajo leave their homes and go to Bosque Redondo Reservation. It was not a real reservation; it was a camp with soldiers to keep people from leaving. Although they were allowed to go back years later, many died during the journey and during their time away.
The Navajo Nation government, called the Navajo Tribal Council, was established in 1923. One of the reasons for this was that oil had been discovered on Navajo land. The first election was in 1938. In 1989, the government was changed to have three branches, judicial, legislative, and executive. It is now the largest Native American government in the world.
During the 20th century, many Navajo families lost much of their wealth in the Great Livestock Massacre.
Code talkers
Navajo code talkers were bilingual Navajo speakers who were recruited during World War II by the U.S. Marines. They served in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. The Navajo code was created by the first 29 Navajo recruits in May of 1942. About 400 Navajos were trained as code talkers. Their training was intense and all 17 pages of the code had to be memorized. From 1942 to 1945 Navajo Code Talkers took part in every Marine assault in the Pacific Theatre. Navajos served in all six Marine divisions plus parachute units and the Marine Raider battalions. The Navajo Code worked much faster than Morse Code, minutes instead of hours. They transmitted messages on the battlefield including orders, troop movements and logistics. While the Japanese were able to break codes used by the United States Army and the United States Army Air Corps, they were never able to break the Marine codes. Even a Navajo soldier captured during the Battle of Bataan could not figure out the code for the Japanese. Major Howard Connor, a 5th Marine Division signal officer at Iwo Jima stated: "Were it not for the Navajos, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima."
Ford Pinto
The Ford Pinto was a subcompact car built in the 1970s. The vehicle was marketed under Ford Motor Company in the States and Canada. It was made from the 1971 to 1980 model years. Pinto was the smallest American Ford car since 1907. It was Ford's first subcompact vehicle in North America.
Navajo
Code talkers
On September 17, 1992, the Navajo code talkers of World War II were honored for their contributions at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. The long delay was due to the Navajo code being Classified information.
Janet Baker
Dame Janet Baker, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano. From the 1950s to the 1980s she was one of the best known classical music singers in opera, concert, and lieder. She sang a lot of Baroque music including early Italian opera as well as works by modern composers, especially those of Benjamin Britten.
Ford Pinto
The Pinto was manufactured in three body styles: two-door sedan, three-door hatchback and two-door station wagon. Mercury had rebadged versions of the Pinto, the Mercury Bobcat, from 1974 to 1980 (1975 to 1980 in the United States). Over three million Pintos were made over its ten-year production run.
Janet Baker
Her life
Janet Baker was born in Hatfield, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Her father was an engineer who sang in a male voice choir. She went to York College for Girls and then Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Grimsby. In her early years she worked in a bank. She went to London in 1953 where she had singing lessons from Meriel St Clair and Helene Isepp, whose son Martin became her regular accompanist. She was knocked down by a bus in 1956 and had concussion and a back injury which often gave her pain. That same year, she came second in the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Competition at the Wigmore Hall, which started to make her famous.
Rose Chibambo
Rose Lomathinda Chibambo (8 September 1928 – 12 January 2016) was a known British-born Malawi politician and activist. She was the Protectorate of Nyasaland in the years leading up to independence as the state of Malawi in 1964, and immediately after.
Janet Baker
Debut
In 1956, Baker sang in opera for the first time with the Oxford University Opera Club as Miss Róza in Smetana's The Secret. That year, she also sing at Glyndebourne. In 1959, she sang Eduige in the Handel Opera Society's Rodelinda; other Handel roles included Ariodante (1964), of which she later made an excellent recording with Raymond Leppard, and Orlando (1966), which she sang at the Barber Institute, Birmingham.
Ford Pinto
Since the 1970s, the safety reputation of the Pinto has made controversy. Several deadly fires related to tanks rupturing happened during rear-end crashes. In 1974, to meet federal regulations, five-mile-per-hour bumpers were included on the front and rear.
Neil Funk
Funk was born in New York. He studied at Syracuse University. Funk was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. He got his first job in Danville, Illinois. He is currently married to Renee Funk and they have one child, William Funk. He now lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Rose Chibambo
On 1 January 2012, she was honored by being place on Malawi’s 200 Kwacha banknote.
Chibambo died from a heart attack at a hospital in Blantyre, Malawi at the age of 87.
Vienna, Maryland
Vienna is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
Janet Baker
Opera
With the English Opera Group at Aldeburgh, Baker sang Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 1962, Polly (Benjamin Britten's version of The Beggar's Opera) and Lucretia (in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia). At Glyndebourne she appeared again as Dido (1966) and as Diana/Jupiter in Francesco Cavalli's La Calisto, and Penelope in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. For Scottish Opera she sang Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Dido, Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos and the role of Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. She sang that role everywhere and she is often associated with it.
David Oppegaard
David Oppegaard (born in Lake Crystal, Minnesota) is an American novelist.
In 2008, Oppegaard wrote The Suicide Collectors. It was his first novel. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel by the Horror Writers Association. One year later, he published his second work, Woormwood, Nevada.
Biography
Oppegaard attended Saint Olaf College, Northfield and Hamline University, Saint Paul. Both are in Minnesota. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Olaf. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hamline.
Janet Baker
Opera
In 1966, Baker made her first appearance as Hermia at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and went on to sing Berlioz's Dido, Kate in Britten's Owen Wingrave, Mozart's Vitellia and Idamantes, Cressida in William Walton's Troilus and Cressida and the title role in Gluck's Alceste (1981) there. For the English National Opera, she sang the title role in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (1971), Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, and the title roles in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Handel's Giulio Cesare.
Oratorio and song
As well as opera, Janet Baker often sang oratorio roles and gave solo recitals. Among her best recordings are her singing of the Angel in Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, made with Sir John Barbirolli in December 1964 and Sir Simon Rattle over twenty years later; her 1965 performances of Elgar's Sea Pictures and Mahler's Rückert-Lieder, also recorded with Barbirolli; and, also from 1965, the first commercial recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Christmas oratorio Hodie under Sir David Willcocks. In 1976, she gave the first performance of Britten’s the solo cantata Phaedra which had been written for her.
Retirement
Dame Janet Baker's last operatic appearance was as Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, on 17 July 1982, at Glyndebourne. She published a memoir, Full Circle, in 1982. In 1991, Baker was elected Chancellor of the University of York, a position she kept until 2004.
Honours and awards
Baker received many awards, including a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1976 and a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 1993.
She married in 1957.
Ford Pinto
In the 1977 model year, Pinto wagons were given a new option package. Some wagons were called the Pinto Cruising Wagon. This was the sedan delivery version of Pinto. It was styled to look like a small conversion van. It had round side panel bubble windows and a choice of optional vinyl graphics.
In 1977, the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration did an investigation on Ford. In 1978 (the following year), the NHTSA warned Ford of their determination their Pinto fuel system was bad.
In June 1978, Ford recalled over 1.5 million Ford Pintos and Mercury Bobcats, the largest automotive industry recall at that time. Ford, however, disagreed with the NHTSA finding of a defect.
Maya Belenkaya
Maya Petrovna Belenkaya (Майя Петровна Беленькая; born 1 May 1931) is a former Soviet figure skater. With her partner Igor Moskvin, she became a three-time Soviet national champion from 1952 to 1954. In 1956, Belenkaya/Moskvin were sent to their first and only European Championships and finished 11th at the event in Paris. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Avi Gabbay
Avraham "Avi" Gabbay (, born 22 February 1967 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli politician.
He was leader of the Israeli Labor Party between 2017 and 2019 and former leader of The Zionist Union. He was CEO of the telecommunications company Bezeq from 2007 to 2013. He was Minister of Environmental Protection between 2015 and 2016.
Dickens, Iowa
Dickens is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Islam in Europe
Islam is the second-largest and fastest-growing religion in Europe. Most Muslim communities in Europe formed recently, but certain areas on the Balkans have a long Muslim history.
Islam entered southern Europe through the invading "Moors" of North Africa in the 8th–10th centuries. Many kingdoms and duchies in Spain, Portugal, Southern Italy and Malta have existed for centuries. After a series of conflicts and wars known as the Reconquista, these areas became Christian. Islam expanded into the Caucasus through the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The Ottoman Empire expanded into southeastern Europe; it conquered large parts of the Byzantine Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Later, the power of the Ottoman empire faded, and it lost most of its territories in Europe. It collapsed in 1922. The countries of the Balkans still have large populations of native Muslims. Many of these Muslims have become secular.
The term "Muslim Europe" is used for the Muslim-majority countries of Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Transcontinental countries, such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have large Muslim populations, as does Russia in the North Caucasus.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, large numbers of Muslims immigrated to Western Europe. By 2010, an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), including an estimated 19 million in the EU (3.8%). They are projected to be 8% by 2030. They are often the subject of intense discussion and political controversy created by events such as terrorist attacks, the cartoons affair in Denmark, debates over Islamic dress, and ongoing support for populist right-wing parties that view Muslims as a threat to European culture. Such events have also fueled growing debate regarding the topic of Islamophobia, attitudes toward Muslims and the populist right.
The country where most Muslims live in western Europe today is France, where they account for 12.5% of the population. In the European Union, Bulgaria probably has the largest Muslim population, about 15 % of Bulgarians said they were Muslims.
Suburban Station
Suburban Station is one of the core SEPTA Regional Rail stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Center City Commuter Connection. It is at 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to replace the old Broad Street Station. It officially opened on September 28, 1930. Suburban Station originally had eight tracks and four platforms, until the Center City Commuter Connection extended the tracks to the newer Jefferson Station. It also added another platform.
Jim Simons
James Harris Simons (born April 25, 1938) is an American mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is known as a quantitative analyst. In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies. He is seen as the greatest investor on Wall Street.
Seoul Metropolitan Subway
Seoul Metropolitan Subway, often called the Seoul Subway, is a rail transit system of underground trains and commuter trains that connects Seoul to nearby suburbs.
Jim Simons
As reported by Forbes, his net worth as of October 2019 is estimated to be $21.6 billion, making Simons the 21st-richest man in the United States.
Seoul Metropolitan Subway
The system has 22 lines that are named after numbers (Line 1, Line 2, all the way to Line 9). It also has Gyeongui Line, Bundang Line, Shinbundang Line, A'REX, Jungang Line, Gyeongchun Line, Suin Line, Incheon Line 1, Everline, and U Line.
Since 2010, all stations have smartphone-like 46-inch touchscreen kiosks so passengers can look at maps, make free phone calls, and find tourist information. All lines use special RFID cards, such as T-money, or NFC technology where passengers can pay fees.
Jim Simons
Simons was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He studied at University of California, Berkeley and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
James Harris Simons was born on April 25, 1938 to an American Jewish family, the only child of Marcia (née Kantor) and Matthew Simons, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley under supervision of Bertram Kostant in 1961 at the age of 23. After graduating from MIT, Simons traveled from Boston to Bogotá, Colombia on a motor scooter.
Honors and awards
In 2008, he was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with Alfred Jones, Bruce Kovner, David Swensen, George Soros, Jack Nash, Julian Robertson, Kenneth Griffin, Leon Levy, Louis Bacon, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Tudor Jones, Seth Klarman and Steven A. Cohen.
He was named by the Financial Times in 2006 as "the world's smartest billionaire". He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. In 2011, he was included in the 50 Most Influential ranking of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
A book about Simons and his investing methods, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman was released November 5, 2019. In 2018, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate.
Pownal, Vermont
Pownal is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
Peru, Vermont
Peru is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
Ding Dong, Texas
In the early 1930s, a man named Zulis Bell and his nephew Bert Bell operated a country store along the Lampasas River in central Texas in an area that was known as McBryde Crossing. Ding Dong is situated on Farm to Market Road 195 along the Lampasas River, 8 mi (13 km) south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County.
Ding Dong is served by the Killeen Independent School District.
Sons of the Pioneers fiddler Hugh Farr was born in Ding Dong.
Spirit tablet
A spirit tablet, is a sign used to honor an ancestor or a deity. The name of the deity or past ancestor is usually inscribed onto the tablet. They originated in China and are common across the East Asian cultural sphere. Spirit tablets are commonly seen in temples, shrines, and household altars throughout China and Taiwan.
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Fort Atkinson is a city in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. It is on the Rock River, a few miles upstream from Lake Koshkonong. The population was 12,368 at the 2010 census.
Igor Moskvin
Igor Borisovich Moskvin (Игорь Борисович Москвин; 30 August 1929 – 10 November 2020) was a Russian figure skating coach and competitor. He represented the Soviet Union in pair skating with his partner Maya Belenkaya. He became a three-time Soviet national champion from 1952 to 1954.
He was an Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR and Honored Coach of the USSR. He was born in Bezhitsa, Bryansk Oblast.
Moskvin died in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 10 November 2020 after a serious illness at the age of 91.
David Woodard
David Woodard (born April 6, 1964 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American postmodern writer and conductor, and a descendant of prominent colonial families. He invented the concept and portmanteau word prequiem, which designates a musical composition to be rendered as its beneficiary lay dying.
Woodard invented a fictional psychoactive machine called the Feraliminal Lycanthropizer. At the end of the 20th century he fabricated replicas of an actual psychoactive device called the Dreamachine.
Woodard is also known for his work with Nueva Germania, a settlement in Paraguay. His German book of correspondence Five Years, coauthored by Swiss novelist Christian Kracht, describes some of the humanitarian work performed there.
Oval butterflyfish
The oval butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunulatus), is a species of marine ray-finned fish. It is found in the Pacific Ocean from Eastern Indonesia to the Hawaiian islands.
Relation with other species
This is one species of a closely related group which includes the Blacktail butterflyfish, which is found in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. It is also related to the Melon butterflyfish, which is found in the Indian Ocean.
Other names
This fish is also known as the red-finned butterflyfish or redfin butterflyfish.
Readsboro, Vermont
Readsboro is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
Harold Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American scientist. He won a Nobel Prize. He is the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute. He was appointed to that post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama.
Varmus was a co-recipient, with J. Michael Bishop, of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the origin of retroviral oncogenes. Varmus described the work in his Nobel lecture.
He also serves as one of three co-Chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Florida, Montgomery County, New York
Florida is a town south of the Mohawk River in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 2,696 in the 2010 United States Census. The town was named after the state of Florida.
Keithville, Louisiana
Keithville is an unincorporated community in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine is a department found in the west of France in the Brittany region. Its prefecture is Rennes and its population is about 908,000 (2006 estimation). It is one of the 83 first French departments made during the French revolution.
Rupert, Vermont
Rupert is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
Stacey King
Ronald Stacey King (January 29, 1967) is an American who is the current announcer with Neil Funk for the NBA's Chicago Bulls. He is known to provide nicknames for many of the Bulls players. King's own nicknames are Sky and Pearl, named after Earl "The Pearl" Monroe.
King was born on January 29, 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Raccoon butterflyfish
The raccoon butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula), is a species of marine ray-finned fish. It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Other names
This fish is also known as the crescent-masked butterflyfish, lunule butterflyfish, halfmoon butterflyfish, moon butterflyfish, raccoon butterfly, raccoon, raccoon coralfish, and redstriped butterflyfish.
Copperopolis, California
Copperopolis is a census-designated place in Calaveras County, California. The town is located along California State Route 4 At the 2010 census, 3,671 people lived there.
Emperor Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton, or Emperor Norton (1819? - 1880) was a man who declared himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He was born in London to John and Sarah Norton. but no one knows his actual birthday or what year he was born in.
Accretion (astrophysics)
Accretion is the process of growth or increase of astronomical bodies due to gravity. Typically it occurs by the gradual accumulation of additional layers of matter. See Formation and evolution of the Solar System for a discussion.
Emperor Norton
Before he became emperor he was a citizen of San Francisco. Norton spent a lot of his early life in South Africa. Before he was emperor he made a living by being a businessman. He lost a lot of money by trying to control the rice market in San Francisco by buying all the rice he could find. This did not work because ships came with more rice.
Emperor Norton I died on January 8, 1880. The reason of his death is unknown. He collapsed on the corner of California and Grant on his way to a lecture. The next day, he had his funeral. During Emperor Norton’s funeral, a solar eclipse took place. The whole city came to his funeral, and all of them mourned. Emperor Norton is now buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. This is what his gravestone says:
NORTON I EMPEROR OF THE UNITED STATES AND PROTECTOR OF MEXICO JOSHUA A. NORTON 1816 - 1880
Influence
Writer Mark Twain based the character of The King in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on Norton.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden was a United States Supreme Court case from 1824. Mostly because of a disagreement between who should be regulating the trading of goods and services between states. It gave the Congress the power to control interstate commerce.
Bradford Bishop
William Bradford Bishop Jr. (born August 1, 1936) is a former United States Foreign Service officer. He has been a fugitive from justice since allegedly killing five members of his family in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the FBI placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Bishop was born in Pasadena, California. He studied at UCLA and at Yale University.
In 1976, after getting upset for not getting a work promotion, Bishop bought a sledgehammer and a shovel and murdered his wife and three children as they slept at their home in Bethesda, Maryland. With the bodies loaded into the station wagon, Bishop allegedly drove 275 mi, about a six-hour drive, to a densely wooded swamp off North Carolina Highway 94, about 5 mi south of Columbia, North Carolina. He would later burn the bodies and bury them in near the swamp.
Bishop has been spotted several placed in Europe by former State Department employees in Italy, Stockholm and in Switzerland.
In 2011, it was believed that Bishop died in Hong Kong and later in France, these proved to be false. In 2014, the FBI exhumed the body of an Alabama man who was killed in a road accident in 1981, believing he was Bishop. After DNA of the man was tested it was revealed the dead man was not Bishop and that he remains alive.
Anthracycline
Anthracyclines are a class of antibiotic drugs. They are obtained from Streptomyces bacteria. They are used as a form of chemotherapy, to treat a number of cancers, inclusing blood cancer. The most important clinically are doxorubicin and daunorubicin. They act to inhibit cellular processes around DNA metabolism which results in the death of rapidly dividing cells. Most anthracyclines are administered directly into the blood. Common side effects include decreased immune cell production, nausea, vomiting and hair loss. The greatest potential side effect is dose related damage to heart tissue and modern treatment regimens are designed to minimise this risk. Research continues around new anthracycline variants and formulation with several clinical trials currently underway around the world.