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Kwikset
Kwikset is an American lock and door hardware manufacturer. Kwikset makes low to medium security residential and light commercial door locks. The Kwikset KW1 keyway is used by many other lock manufacturers. Kwikset recently introduced the SmartKey lock, which allows instant rekeying without removing the lock from the door, and without removing or replacing the core. The SmartKey lock uses the same KW1 key used in other Kwikset locks. The SmartKey lock is more difficult to pick than the standard Kwikset lock, although it is easier to force open.
FC Valdagno
A.C. Nuova Valdagno is a football club which plays in Italy.
Vanessa Bayer
Vanessa Bayer (born November 14, 1981) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017. She earned a Primetime Emmy nomination.
When Bayer was a teenager, she suffered from leukemia.
Scinax tigrinus
Scinax tigrinus is a frog. It lives in Brazil.
The adult male frog is 28.4 to 30.8 mm long from nose to rear end. This frog has orange-yellow color on its back legs.
Dilane Roese
Dilane Roese is a retired handball player from Brazil. Roese competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was born on 15 September 1977.
Mino Reitano
Mino Reitano (December 7, 1944 – January 27, 2009) was an Italian singer and actor.
Mino Reitano was born into a poor family at a very small city called Fiumara, in the province of Reggio Calabria. He studied for eight years at Reggio's conservatory, where he learned to play violin, piano and trumpet.
Reitano died of colorectal cancer.
Wormeldange
Wormeldange (Wuermeldeng, Wormeldingen) is a commune in Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Grevenmacher.
As of 2019, 2,921 people live here.
AS Pro Gorizia
A.S. Pro Gorizia is a football club which plays in Italy.
Mertert
Mertert (Mäertert) is a commune in Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Grevenmacher.
Do You Believe In Magic?
Do You Believe In Magic? is a popular 1965 song by the American folk-rock band The Lovin' Spoonful. The song was their first hit and also the name of their first album.
Mertert
As of 2019, 4,563 people live here.
Zero-coupon bond
A zero-coupon bond is a special bond, where there are no periodic interest payments. At the end of the runtime, it will be repaid at the agreed value. There may be compensation for inflation. Usually, zero coupon bonds have long runtimes.
Irena Sendler
The Nazis were planning on killing her, but she avoided death.
Nikki Haley 2024 presidential campaign
The 2024 presidential campaign of Nikki Haley was officially announced on February 14, 2023 by Nikki Haley, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018.
On February 14, 2023, She officially announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in a campaign video.
Chiayi County
Chiayi County is a county in Taiwan. It is in the south-west of the island. It surrounds Chiayi City, but does not include it. The seat of the county's government is in Taibao. Chiayi is the sixth largest county in Taiwan. The National Chung Cheng University is in this county.
Minnesota City, Minnesota
Minnesota City is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is in the southeast part of the state. It is near Winona.
People
The population was 204 at the 2010 U.S. Census.
Melissa Villaseñor
Melissa Villaseñor (born October 9, 1987) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and impressionist. She is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live since 2016, making her the first Latina on SNL.
Unterems
On 1 January 2013, the former municipalities of Unterems and Turtmann merged into the new municipality of Turtmann-Unterems.
Valéria de Oliveira
Valéria de Oliveira is a retired handball player from Brazil. Oliveira competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was born on 2 July 1974.
Leader of the Opposition (Portugal)
The Leader of the Opposition (Líder da Oposição) is an unofficial honorary title given to the leader of the largest party in the Assembly of the Republic.
Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman (born November 1, 1958) is an American screenwriter. Some of the movies he wrote screenplays for are Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Human Nature, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Charlie Kaufman is known for writing very surreal movies - that is, movies where the plot has things in it that could never happen in real life, or that make the audience notice that they are watching a movie.
He is one of the most celebrated screenwriters for now.
Ridgway, Colorado
Ridgeway is a city in Ouray County, Colorado.
Kalinga (historical region)
Kalinga was a kingdom in what is now the country of India. It included a large part of Odisha, northern Andhra Pradesh and a small part of Chhattisgarh. It was an independent kingdom.
Kalinga fought against the Maurya Empire in 261 BC. The Maurya Empire was led by Ashoka. The effects of the war were described by Ashoka in Major Rock Edict 13. About 150,000 people were killed during this war.
Kalinga was an important port for trade because it was easy to reach Southeast Asia from there. Kalinga again became an independent state after the death of Ashoka. In Sangam literature, it is mentioned that Kharvela of Kalinga tried to invade north India against Pushyamitra, the founder of the Sunga Dynasty, but there is no clear evidence of that. The Sunga Dynasty was founded just after the Mauryan.
Blasted Hell
Blasted Hell (Взорванный ад) is a 1967 Soviet action movie directed by Ivan Lukinsky. It stars Gennadiy Bortnikov, Nikolai Skorobogatov, and Imedo Kakhiani.
Little Talks
"Little Talks" is a 2011 debut single by Of Monsters and Men. The song came from the album My Head is an Animal.
In August 2012, the song hit #1 in Ireland on the Irish Singles Chart. It also hit #20 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Little Talks" was later certified platinum in the United States.
Ravenna Calcio
Ravenna Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
Bruno Pezzey
Bruno Edmund Pezzey (3 February 1955 – 31 December 1994) was an Austrian professional footballer. He played as a defender and is regarded one of Austria's best defenders of all times.
Club career
Pezzey began in the youth of FC Lauterach in Vorarlberg. His professional career started at FC Vorarlberg. Then he moved to FC Wacker Innsbruck With Innsbruck he won two league titles and a cup. In 1978 he went to the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt In this time he won the UEFA Cup and a DFB-Pokal. Then he spent four seasons with Werder Bremen. He returned to Innsbruck in 1987 and won two league titles and a domestic cup.
International career
Pezzey made his debut for Austria in June 1975 against Czechoslovakia and played at the 1978 FIFA World Cup and 1982 FIFA World Cup. In the 1982 World Cup he scored Austria's first goal in the 2–2 draw with Northern Ireland in Madrid. He played 84 matches and shot nine goals. His last match was an August 1990 friendly match against Switzerland.
Managing career
He was assistance coach for the Austrian U21 national team from 1991 till 1993. The next season he was headcoach of the team.
Death and legacy
Pezzey died of heart failure in a hospital on New Year's Eve 1994 after playing in a game of ice hockey short before his 40th birthday. He left behind his wife and two daughters. His youth club, FC Lauterach, named its ground in his honour. Also the Award of the VdF (Vereinigung der Fußballspieler- Union of Football Players) is named after him.
Honours
Wacker Innsbruck
Eintracht Frankfurt
Swarovski Tirol
2021 Washington Football Team season
The 2021 season was the 90th season for the Washington Football Team and their second under head coach Ron Rivera.
Regular season
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
John Sebastian
John Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American singer and songwriter.
The Lovin' Spoonful
His career first started in 1965 as the leader of the folk-rock band The Lovin' Spoonful. The group had popular songs such as "Summer in the City" and "Do You Believe In Magic?". Sebastian left the band in 1968.
Solo
John played at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, where he performed the Lovin' Spoonful song "Darling Be Home Soon".
Crans-près-Céligny
Crans-près-Céligny (French for Crans near Céligny) is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis
Since October 2021, there has been a political crisis in Iraq, with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government, or elect a new President.
Violent clashes in Baghdad after the 2021 parliamentary election and the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi began the crisis. On 18 November Muqtada al-Sadr said he would like to form a majority government.
On 27 July, supporters of al-Sadr stormed the Green Zone and the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad.
Oxbow lake
An oxbow lake is a lake, or area of water, in a U-shape. It is made by special bends in a river, called meanders, getting farther away from the river until they become separate. The river becomes straight and the bend becomes a lake. This happens due to floods or when a meander's neck gets too thin.
Boulaide
Boulaide (Bauschelt, Bauschleiden) is a commune in Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Wiltz.
Oxbow lake
Why does this happen?
Water flows at different speeds at different parts of the river. In the middle, farthest away from the sides (or banks), the water flows fastest. At the banks, the water flows slowest. When the river bends, water flows faster on the outside of the bend than the inside. The fast water on the outside 'erodes' the outside of the bend. This means it breaks bits of the bank off. At the same time, the slow water on the inside of the bend leaves behind mud, sand and parts of plants (deposition). Together, these make the bend move in the direction of the outside of the bend.
Boulaide
As of 2019, 1,307 people live here.
Oxbow lake
Why does this happen?
The bend moves farther and farther along until it leaves the river. The river becomes straight and the bend is left as an oxbow lake.
Royal Palace of Madrid
The Palacio Real de Madrid (Royal Palace of Madrid) is the official home of the King of Spain. It is located in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest palaces in western Europe.
King Felipe V had the palace built to replace the Alcazar that was burned down. It is made of limestone and granite. It was supposed to look a little like the Palace of Versailles in France. Juan Bautista Sachetti was in charge of building the palace. They started to build it in 1738. Carlos III moved into the palace in 1764. It took a hundred years to decorate all the rooms.
Spanish kings lived there until 1931 when King Alfonso XIII was forced to leave Spain. The Royal Palace is still used for special ceremonies. Letizia was supposed to walk on a red carpet from the Royal Palace to the cathedral for the wedding with Prince Felipe but it rained so she was taken in car.
Fifty of the rooms in the palace are open for public visits. Visitors enter the palace from the Plaza de la Armería. Some of the rooms that can be seen are: the 'porcelain' room, 'throne' room and 'clock' room. There is a royal army museum in the palace.
Location
The Almudena Cathedral is nearby the palace.
The Royal Alcazar of Madrid was originally on the site.
Royal Palace, Oslo
The Royal Palace (Slottet, Det kongelige slott or Det kongelige slottet) in Oslo, Norway is the official home of the present Norwegian monarch. It was built in the early 19th century as the Norwegian home of King Charles III. He was King of Sweden as well as Norway. The palace has 173 rooms.
History
Before the Royal Palace was built, Norwegian royalty lived in Paleet. It was a very nice town house in Christiania. Paleet was given to the government of Norway by a rich merchant named Bernt Anker in 1805. During the last years of the union with Denmark, it was used by the viceroys of Norway. In 1814, the first king of independent Norway, Christian Frederick used it as his home.
King Charles III John picked the site for the Royal Palace on the western side of Christiania in 1821. He had the inexperienced Dutch-born architect Linstow design the building. The Parliament approved the cost of 150 000 Speciedaler. Work on the site started in 1824. On 1 October 1825, the king laid down the foundation stone beneath the altar of the future Royal chapel.
The cost of the foundation works caused the building to cost more than expected. They had to stop construction in 1827. It was started again in 1833. During this time, the Storting would not approve more money for the construction. They did this because they did not like that the king was trying to create closer ties between Norway and Sweden. In 1833, Linstow changed his plans to reduce the cost. Improved relations with the king made the Storting approve the money to finish the construction. The roof was put on in 1836. The inside of the building was finished during the late 1840s. King Charles John, who died in 1844, never lived in his palace. The first people to live in the palace were his son Oscar I and his queen Josephine.
Alexander ALX300
The Alexander ALX300 (later known as the TransBus ALX300 and the Alexander Dennis ALX300) was a single-decker bus body. It was built by Alexander and then Transbus International and then Alexander Dennis from 1997 to 2007 respectively. It was made for low-floor bus chassis produced from the late 1990s.
The body could be built on the MAN 18.220 chassis, MAN 18.240 chassis, DAF SB220 chassis or Volvo B10BLE chassis.
Plaza
Plaza is a Spanish word related to "field" which describes an open public space in a city, such as a city square. In Spanish America, the plaza mayor of each city had three things: the cathedral, the cabildo or administrative center, and the audiencia or law court. The plaza might be large enough to serve as a military parade ground. At times of crisis or fiesta, it was a space where many people could be together at once. Similar to Italian piazzas, plazas are still a center of community life, like the market-place.
Most colonial cities in Spanish America were planned around a square plaza de armas, where troops could gather.
A plaza de toros is a bullring.
Shopping center
The first shopping center in the United States, opened in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922, was called "Country Club Plaza" and had Spanish-style architectural details. More recently, plaza has been used to describe a shopping center, similar to a shopping mall. Calling a shopping center a plaza is to give the idea of a center of cultural life.
Fungicide
A fungicide is a poison. It is used to kill fungi that are considered unwanted.
Barßel
Barßel is a municipality in Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Division of the municipality
Barßel has 13 districts:
Lynwood, Illinois
Lynwood is a village in Cook County, Illinois.
Reggina 1914
Reggina Calcio is a football club which plays in Italy.
Paulo Vilhena
Paulo Eduardo Oliveira de Vilhena Moraes (born January 3, 1979) is a Brazilian actor and presenter. He started his career in 1998 on the television series Sandy & Junior, he was married to actress Thaila Ayala.
Vilhena was born in Santos, São Paulo.
Sequel
A sequel is a type of new creation, like a movie, book, video game, or song, that follows or expands on a story from an earlier work. It is made because people liked the original and want more of it. Sequels let people see their favorite characters and settings again while adding new things to the story to make it interesting.
Types of sequels
Sequels can be different depending on the medium and the original work. In movies, sequels can continue the same story, go back in time, or focus on different parts of the original. In books, sequels can start where the last book ended or tell what happened before. Some sequels are spin-offs, which means they focus on other characters or explore different parts of the original world.
Audience reception
People have different opinions about sequels. Some sequels become very popular, while others don't live up to the original. People are excited to see sequels, but they also want them to be as good as the original. The success of a sequel depends on things like how well the story is told and how the characters develop.
Impact on pop culture
Sequels have had a big impact on popular culture. They have changed the way stories are continued and expanded in movies, books, and other forms of entertainment. Sequels create excitement and make fans want to talk about the story and buy related things. They also help create bigger worlds and universes.
Macbeth (opera)
Macbeth is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. It is based on Shakespeare’s play with the same name. The opera is normally in Italian, though there is also a French version that's almost never used anymore. The libretto (the words) was written by Francesco Maria Piave with some extra additions by Andrea Maffei.
Verdi wrote several works based on Shakespeare plays. Macbeth was the first of these. It was composed in 1847, at a time when he was composing a lot of operas. In those days Italian operas were always about a love story, but Macbeth was unusual because there was no love story. Instead, it is a story about wanting power, even if means murder. The opera helped to make him very famous, and it has remained one of his most popular operas.
Composition history
Andrea Maffei, a poet and friend of Verdi, suggested to him that Macbeth would be a good story to make into an opera. Verdi did not read Shakespeare’s original work until after he had composed the opera. The words were written for him by Piave who based the libretto on an Italian translation. Verdi loved the story, he thought it was “one of the greatest creations of man”. The opera is very similar to the story told by Shakespeare, but Verdi uses a large chorus of witches instead of just three. The last act ends with the refugees coming together on the English border, and, in the revised version, ends with a chorus of bards celebrating their victory over the cruel tyrant.
The 1847 version was performed a great deal all over Italy. Then, in 1865, Verdi made several changes to the opera in a revised version. It was to be performed in Paris, and in France people expected to have ballet music in operas. Verdi wrote some music for the dancers, and took the opportunity to make other changes as well. Verdi worked in Italian, and had it translated into French for the performance there, but people don't use the French translation. They instead use all his changes for the French version, but keep the Italian text.
After 1865 it was not performed very often. Verdi was very disappointed about this because he was particularly proud of this opera. He had worked closely with Piave. It was Verdi who gave Piave the outline of the story he wanted him to write. Verdi concentrated on three main characters: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the Witches. It was not until around the time of World War II that it became very popular again.
Act 1
Scene 1: A heath
In the prelude (the music of the opening) we hear music that comes later in the sleep-walking scene. The chorus of Witches prophesy the future. A messenger arrives to say that Macbeth has been given the title and estates of Cawdor. Macbeth and Banquo, his general, think about the witches’ prophecy. Half of the prophecy has just come true (the other half being that Macbeth will become king, and that the kings that come after him will be Banquo’s heirs). The witches dance and sing at the end of this scene.
Scene 2: Macbeth's castle
Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband in which he tells her about the prophecy the witches had made. She decides to make sure that Macbeth really does become king. She decides that she must persuade her husband to murder Duncano (Duncan, King of Scotland). Macbeth sees a dagger in front of him. He takes it and murders Duncano (who never sings in the opera). Then he is horrified at what he has done. His wife is disgusted that her husband feels terrible about the murder. She takes the dagger and completes the crime, then smears Duncano’s blood on the guards who are asleep. Banquo and Macduff, a Scottish nobleman, arrive, Macduff discovers the crime, and all the characters sing a chorus asking God to punish the murderer(s).
Act 2
Scene 1: A room in the castle
A gang of murderers are waiting for Banco. He is caught, but his son Fleanzio manages to escape.
Scene 3: A dining hall in the castle
Macbeth receives the guests and Lady Macbeth sings a brindisi (drinking song) which is quite similar to the famous one in La Traviata. Macbeth is told that Banco has been murdered, but when he goes back to the table he finds Banco’s ghost sitting in his place. He shouts and raves at the ghost. The other people cannot see the ghost and think that Macbeth has gone mad. The feast ends quickly.
Act 3
The witches' cave
The witches are sitting round a cauldron in a dark cave. They sing, and then dance a ballet which was written for the 1865 version. The music sounds like magic. Macbeth enters and wants the witches to tell him his future. They conjure up three apparitions for him. The first one tells him to beware of Macduff. The second tells him that he cannot be harmed by a man 'born of woman'. The third one says that he cannot be conquered till Birnam Wood marches against him.
Macbeth is then shown the ghost of Banco and his descendants, eight future Kings of Scotland. This shows that the witches prophecy from the beginning of the opera must indeed come true. Macbeth collapses. When he recovers and tells his wife what he saw, she is even more determined to kill Banco’s son and all his family.
Act 4
Scene 1: Near the border between England and Scotland
Scottish refugees stand near the English border and sing a song about how Macbeth, the tyrant, is oppressing his people. Malcolm, Banco’s son, tells his soldiers to cut branches from  trees in Birnam Wood and carry them as they attack Macbeth's army. They want to free Scotland from tyranny.
Scene 2: Macbeth's castle
A doctor and a servant watch the Queen as she walks in her sleep, wringing her hands trying to clean them of blood.
Scene 3: The battlefield
Riversleigh World Heritage Area
Riversleigh in north west Queensland, Australia, is one of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The other is the Naracoorte Caves National Park in South Australia. The Riversleigh site is part of the Boodjamulla National Park. The fossil site covers an area of about 100 km².
The fossils that have been found are the remains of ancient mammals, birds and reptiles of Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The site was listed as a World Heritage site in 1994. The fossils at Riversleigh are rare because they are found in soft freshwater limestone which has not been compressed. This means the animal remains retain their three dimensional shape.
Fossils
Fossils at Riversleigh are found in limestone by lime-rich freshwater pools, and in caves. They are from when the ecosystem was evolving from rich rainforest to semi-arid grassland. Thirty-five fossil bat species have been found at the site, which is the richest in the world. A skull, complete with all its teeth, of a 15 million-year-old monotreme, Obdurodon dicksoni, shows how this Australia group of animals evolved. Fossil ancestors of the extinct thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus, have also been found at Riversleigh. In 1993, Nimbadon skulls were found in newly discovered cave. Scientists think this prehistoric marsupial first appeared about 15 million years ago and died out about 12 million years ago, perhaps from the effects of climate change. Other fossils have shown how the koala has changed in response to Australia's change from rainforest to drier eucalypt forests.
Gene Okerlund
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund (December 19, 1942 – January 2, 2019) was an American pro wrestling commentator and announcer. He was most known for his time with both then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF), now World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was the host of WWE Vintage Collection.
Okerlund died on January 2, 2019 at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida of complications from a fall at the age of 76.
Chagatai language
Chagatai language is one of the extinct Turkic languages spoken in Central Asia. Chagatai was a member of the eastern Turkic branch of the Altaic languages family and was a literary language from the Timur period and the Timurids until the early twentieth century.
Travelling Without Moving
Travelling Without Moving is the third studio album by English funk band Jamiroquai. It was released on 28 August, 1996 through Sony Soho Square. It went to number 2 in the United Kingdom and France, number 3 in Switzerland, number 4 in Sweden, number 5 in Belgium, number 6 in Australia, Finland and Japan, number 7 in New Zealand, number 9 in Austria and Germany, number 16 in the Netherlands and Norway, number 24 in the United States, number 37 in Canada and number 41 in Poland. The album was Jamiroquai's American breakthrough and marked its debut on the Billboard 200 chart.
Resource
A Resource is something that can be used for a purpose. For example, tool s and material s are resources. There are many kinds of resource:
Cubit
The cubit is based on measuring by comparing – especially rope and textiles, but also for timber and stone – to one's forearm length. The Egyptian hieroglyph for the unit shows this symbol. It was used through antiquity, the Middle Ages up to early modern times.
The distance between thumb and another finger to the elbow on an average person is about 24 digits or 6 palms or 1½ feet (45.72 cm or 18 inches). This so-called "natural cubit" of 1½ feet is used in the Roman system of measures and in different Greek systems.
Over time, units similar in type to the cubit have measured:
From late antiquity, the Roman ulna, a four-feet-cubit (about 120 cm) is also known. This is the measure from a man's hip to the fingers of the outstretched opposite arm.
The English yard has a long legal history, but its origin is not known. The English ell is essentially a kind of great cubit of 15 palms, 114 cm, or 45 inches (3.75 ft).
Superb lyrebird
The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is a pheasant-sized songbird.
Bryan Mollen
Bryan Mollen is a rugby sevens player from Ireland. Mollen competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was born on 25 September 1995.
Superb lyrebird
It is an Australian endemic species, about 100cm long. It has brown upper body plumage, grayish-brown below, rounded wings and strong legs. It is the longest and third heaviest of all songbirds.
They are capable of mimicking a wide variety of sounds, including other bird's songs and man-made sounds like car alarms and chainsaws.
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thirty Seconds to Mars is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles. This band was started in 1998 by the actor Jared Leto and his brother Shannon Leto. The current members of the band are Jared Leto (lead vocals) and Shannon Leto (drummer).
Formation
Created in 1998 by the actor Jared Leto and his brother Shannon, Thirty Seconds to Mars began as a small family project. Matt Wachter later joined the band as bassist and keyboard player. After working with two guitarists, Kevin Drake and Solon Bixler, the band auditioned Tomo Miličević to join the band.
According to an interview from Virgin Records, the band's name; "Actually comes from a thesis that the band found online that was written by a former Harvard professor. And one of the subsections of the thesis was titled "Thirty Seconds to Mars" and he goes on to talk about the exponential growth of technology that relates to humans and saying that we are quite literally thirty seconds to mars. What it means to us is, we thought it best described our music, in short."
30 Seconds to Mars (2002–2005)
The self-titled album was released on August 27, 2002 by Immortal Records and Virgin Records, produced by Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue. The first single, "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)", peaks at number 31 an the Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. In the music video, the band members are in a desert where people are digging in mud pits. The band is playing in a ditch where others are watching them.
The second single is "Edge of the Earth". The music video is created by a series of live clips of Thirty Seconds to Mars. It represents when Tomo Miličević joined in the band.
A Beautiful Lie (2005–2008)
In January 2006 this album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for distribution of over one million albums. In March 2006 the band began their first tour from headliner, called Forever Night, Never Day. In October 2006 the band began their Welcome to the Universe Tour, sponsored by MTV2.
The second single from the album is "The Kill", and it follows the success of the precedent single. It spent 52 weeks on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. The music video is based on the American film Shining. This single won the MTV2 Award at the MTV Video Music Awards, Best Single at the Kerrang! Awards, Best Live Action at the MTVu Woodie Awards, Video of the Year and Best Rock Video at the MTV Australian Music Awards and Best Video Inspired By Film at the Fuse Chainsaw Awards. This single was also at number 18 on MTV Italy's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
On March 1, 2007, while on tour in El Paso, Texas, Jared Leto announced to the arena that was the last concert of Thirty Seconds to Mars with Matt Wachter. He dedicated the final song of the show, "R-Evolve", to Matt. They are also played in various festivals as Roskilde, Rock am Ring, Pinkpop, Give It A Name and Download.
The third single from the album is "From Yesterday" and it is a success too. The music video is based on the Italian film The Last Emperor. It is the first American rock video ever shot in its entirety in the People's Republic of China. This single peaks at number 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, and also in Europe, Bolivia and Latvia Singles Chart. At this time, Thirty Seconds to Mars won also Best Artist at the TRL Awards Italy, Best Rock Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Best of 2007 at the Fuse Awards and Best International Artist at the Bandit Rock Awards.
The fourth single from the album is "A Beautiful Lie" and it is very success. The video is a montage of images of the Greenland, with scenes of the band playing on an iceberg. The single won the Video Star at the MTV Asia Awards and at the MTV Europe Music Awards, and in 2009 it was certified gold by MTV International. In April 2008, Thirty Seconds to Mars released only in Argentina the fifth single from the album, "The Story".
Thirty Seconds to Mars in 2008 won Best Single for "From Yesterday" and Best International Band at the Kerrang! Awards, Best Rock Artist International at the MTV Latin America Awards and Best Rock Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards where were one of the hosts.
EMI lawsuit and This Is War (2008–present)
In August 2008, Virgin Records filed a $30 million lawsuit, claiming the band refused to deliver three albums as required by its contract. According to the lawsuit, the band "repudiated" a 1999 contract in July.
On February 11, 2009 issue of Kerrang!, the working title for the new album is said to be This Is War. On Twitter, Jared released a bit of information about his trip to Haiti, and recorded a song called "Hurricane" with Kanye West and Brandon Flowers of The Killers.
On April 28, they returned from EMI and the lawsuit was annulled.
Soon after the announcement of the lawsuit settlement, Thirty Seconds to Mars told MTV News have promised to release This Is War by October 2009. According to their Twitter, they have at least four songs done for their new album on May 27. Although these dates have been changed many times, Thirty Seconds to Mars have announced that This Is War will be released December 8, 2009.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム), is in central Hiroshima, Japan. It is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. UNESCO named the dome a World Heritage Site in 1996. The dome is the ruined Hiroshima Prefectural Products Exhibition Hall. It was kept as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The bombing killed 70,000 people instantly, and another 70,000 died later from the radiation.
History
Czech architect Jan Letzel designed the building. It was completed in April 1915 and was named the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition. It was opened to the public in August that year. In 1921 the name was changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Products Exhibition Hall. Finally in 1933, the name changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.
Carolyn Hayes
Carolyn Hayes is a triathlete from Ireland. Hayes competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was born on 1 March 1988.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Atomic bombing
At 8:15 on August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb to be used in war exploded almost directly above the dome. Everyone inside the building was killed instantly, but the building was not totally destroyed. There was more downward force on the building, but less side-to-side force right under the center of the explosion.
Dušan Dragosavac
Dušan Dragosavac (Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 – 21 December 2014) was a former Yugoslav politician. He was a Serb from Croatia. He was the Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 20 June 1982.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
After the war
At first, the city planned to tear down the building, but did not because it was not as badly damaged. Some people wanted to remove the building, but others wanted to keep it. The city of Hiroshima was rebuilt around the ruined dome. In 1966 the city said that it planned to keep the building. As of July 2011, two construction projects kept the Dome from falling.
Dušan Dragosavac
He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
After the war
In December 1996, UNESCO added the A-Bomb Dome to the World Heritage List. Not everyone supported this decision. The United States did not join the decision. China said that the monument could take attention away from the countries that were victims of Japan during the war. Many more people died because of Japanese attacks in those countries. The United States said that having a memorial to a war site would not tell the whole history of the bombing.
Modern Folk Quartet
The Modern Folk Quartet was an American folk band. Notable former members include Jerry Yester (member of The New Christy Minstrels and The Lovin' Spoonful) and Chip Douglas (member of The Turtles and producer for The Monkees).
Force 136
The Force 136 was a Far East branch of the British World War II intelligence organisation, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Originally set up in 1941 as the India Mission with the cover name of GSI(k), it absorbed what was left of SOE's Oriental Mission in April 1942. The man in overall charge for the duration of the war was Colin Mackenzie.
Karluk languages
Karluk languages or Qarluq languages are one of the subcategories of the Turkic language family, spoken and developed by the Karluk people in Central Asia.
Force 136
The organisation was established to encourage and supply resistance movements in enemy-occupied territory, and sometimes try sabotage operations. Force 136 operated in the regions of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II which were taken over by Japan from 1941 to 1945: Burma, Malaya, China (Hong Kong), Sumatra, Siam, Indochina and Singapore.
Cedarville, Illinois
Cedarville is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois.
People
Cedarville has a population of 741.
List of California hurricanes
A California hurricane is a tropical cyclone that affects the state of California. Usually Pacific hurricanes weaken a lot before getting to land. O Normally, rainfall is the only effect that Pacific hurricanes have on California. Sometimes, this rainfall is strong enough to cause flooding and some damage. For example, floods from Hurricane Kathleen in 1976 created damages scattered across the southeastern California area and killed three people.
Why hurricanes do not normally hit California
Also the California Current moves down from the northwestern US coast to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, which is the opposite in which Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones move. While a few tropical cyclones may hit the southern and central areas of the Baja California peninsula, they do not make landfall any farther north than that.
Preparations
Because of a possible threat of California hurricanes in the future and from the damaging effects of a 1858 tropical storm, the National Weather Service created tropical cyclone warning stations across the southern California coast. But because of the fact that Pacific hurricanes rarely affected California, the idea of a warning station was later brought down.
Brief Encounters (movie)
Brief Encounters (Короткие встречи) is a 1967 Soviet drama movie directed by Kira Muratova. It stars Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Kira Muratova.
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (also known as NWS) is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States government. Its job is to provide "weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy." This is done through a collection of national and regional centers, and more than 122 local weather forecast offices (WFOs). Since the NWS is a government agency, most of its products are in the public domain.
Turtmann-Unterems
Turtmann-Unterems is a municipality of the district Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2013, the former municipalities of Turtmann and Unterems merged into the new municipality of Turtmann-Unterems.
Political corruption
Political corruption is using powers of government officials or their network contacts for inappropriate private gain.
The forms of corruption are very different between one another. Examples of political corruption are lobbying, bribery, extortion (which refers when to someone commits blackmail or bribery against or threatens other people through putting a feeling of fear by telling certain people something will happen if the victim does not comply), nepotism (the unfair use of power for receiving job employments or benefits by family or friends), patronage (improperly using state money/goods to reward families, certain groups or races in exchange for voting for certain political party members) and embezzlement. Corruption is often linked to human trafficking, money laundering and drug trafficking. But political corruptions are not limited to these illegal acts. Misuse of government power for certain other purposes, an example of which is police brutality is also classified as political corruption.
Political corruption hurts democracy by going against the formal process. Corruption in elections and in legislature reduces responsibility and falsely represents the related creations of policies.
Economies having a high level of political corruption tend to not be as financially successful as one that has low level corruption. Political corruption not only threatens justice and ethical values. Recalls of loans by international banks, along with massive selling of emerging market stocks from international mutual funds, is associated with (and can actually cause) crises in economics and currency problems in certain countries. Examples of these problems are in Asia, Africa and Central America.
The New Christy Minstrels
The New Christy Minstrels were an American folk group. Notable former members include Glen Campbell (solo career; Rhinestone Cowboy), Barry McGuire (solo career; Eve of Destruction), Larry Ramos (member of The Association), and Jerry Yester (member of The Modern Folk Quartet and The Lovin' Spoonful).
Guilherand-Granges
Guilherand-Granges is a town and commune of the Ardèche département, in the southern part of France.
Valladolid Cathedral
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Holy Assumption (Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), better known as Valladolid Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Valladolid, Spain. It was designed by Juan de Herrera.
Spatial Synoptic Classification system
The spatial synoptic classification is a holistic categorical assessment of the daily weather conditions at specific places; it is a useful tool for assessing weather effects on health.
Verónica Echegui
Verónica Fernández Echegaray (born 16 June 1983), known professionally as Verónica Echegui, is a Spanish actress. Echegui has been nominated for three Goya Awards. She is known for her roles in My Name Is Juani, My Prison Yard and Kathmandu Lullaby.
In 2018, she made her American debut appearing in the FX series Trust playing one of J. Paul Getty's girlfriends, Luciana, alongside Donald Sutherland.
Zorro Rides Again
Zorro Rides Again is a Western movie from 1937. It is about a villain trying to steal a new railroad. It was directed by William Witney and John English. It stars John Carroll, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery Sr., Edmund Cobb, Nigel De Brulier.
Green Zone
The Green Zone (المنطقة الخضراء) is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It was a 10 km2 area in the Karkh district of central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the governmental center of the Coalition Provisional Authority during the occupation of Iraq.
Elisha Cuthbert
Cuthbert played Kim Bauer in 24. She starred as the title character in The Girl Next Door. She played one of the main characters in the sitcom Happy Endings. She was on the 2013 TV series 24/7. Cuthbert played Lizzy on the 2015 tv sitcom One Big Happy.
Ora (Rita Ora album)
Ora is the debut studio album by British recording artist Rita Ora, released on 27 August 2012 through Roc Nation.
Chagatai Khanate
Chagatai Khanate was a Turco-Mongol government that included the lands under the rule of Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan.
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution is an independent educational institution in Singapore. The school provides secondary education for boys only from Year 1 to Year 4, and pre-university education for both boys and girls in Year 5 and Year 6. The school offers the Gifted-Education Programme and the Integrated Programme. The schools is known to have 96 President's Scholars. The school alumni include first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew and the first president of Singapore, Yusof Ishak.
Jerry Yester
Jerry Yester (born on January 9, 1943) is an American former musician.
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was known as "the world's greatest drummer" and for his virtuoso technique, power, groove, and speed. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Jerry Yester
Overview
He was a member of three well known groups; The New Christy Minstrels, The Modern Folk Quartet and The Lovin' Spoonful. His older brother is musician Jim Yester, who is a member of The Association.
Raffles Institution
It was founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. It is the school with the longest history in Singapore. Its name was changed to "Raffles Institution" in 1868.
Jerry Yester
Overview
Jerry's ex-wife was Judy Henske. Henske died in 2022.
Buddy Rich
Rich died in Los Angeles, California from heart failure, aged 69.
Raffles Institution
The current principal of Raffles Institution is Mr Frederick Yeo, who replaced Mr Chan Poh Meng when he left the school at the end of 2017.
History
Sir Stamford Raffles founded Raffles Institution on 5 June 1823, making it the school with the longest history in Singapore. Raffles Institution was along Bras Basah Road at first, where Raffles City is now. The school moved to Grange Road in 1973, and then moved to its current location at Bishan in 1990. The Grange Road campus is now the MOE Teacher's Network.
Pope Eleuterus
Pope Eleuterus (??? − 189) was thirteenth Pope, the official title is the Bishop of Rome of the Catholic Church from c. 174 to his death in 189. He was born in Nicopolis, Epirus, Greece.
Eric McClintock
Sir Eric Paul McClintock (13 September 1918 – 27 March 2018) was an Australian former public servant and businessman. He was born in Gulgong, New South Wales.
McClintock was known for serving as Chairman of Woolworths Limited from 1980 to 1987. He was a speech writer for future Prime Minister John McEwen, then Minister for Trade, and served as First Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade 1958-61.
He was NSW campaign chair for the Australian Prospectors & Miners' Hall of Fame (now defunct).
McClintock died in Sydney on 27 March 2018 at the age of 99.
Coulterville, Illinois
Coulterville is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 945 at the 2010 census.
Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant (ארון הברית in Hebrew: aron hab'rit) is described in the Bible as a holy container where the Ten Commandments and other holy Israelite objects are held. According to the Bible, Yahweh commanded the ark be built when Moses had a prophetic vision at Sinai (Exodus 25:9-10). Some people believe the Ark contained Aaron's Rod, a jar of Manna, and the first Torah Scroll written by Moses, based on their reading of Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews. The first of the Books of Kings says that during the time of King Solomon, the Ark held only the Ten Commandments.
Terminology
The Hebrew word aron is used in the Bible to designate any type of ark or chest, for any purpose (Genesis 50:26; 2 Kings 12:9, 10). The Ark of the Covenant is distinguished from all others by such titles as "Ark of God" (1 Samuel 3:3), "Ark of the Covenant" (Josh. 3:6; Hebrews 9:4), "Ark of the Testimony" (Ex. 25:22). The Ark (aron kodesh in Hebrew meaning holy cupboard) is a raised cupboard found in Jewish Synagogues which contains the holy Torah scrolls. These are all written by hand and can take years to make. It is always on the wall of the Synagogue which faces towards Jerusalem. When the Ark is opened and the Torah removed for reading everyone stands in respect of God. During some prayers and services the Ark doors an inner curtain (parochet) are kept open.