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List of mythologies
Mythology is the collection of myths for a culture. A myth is a story or series of stories used to explain the world around you and describe what is happening, such as why weather happens. Myths usually have heroes, gods, and creatures that are bigger or more fantastic than real life, or sometimes just normal people doing amazing things. Some myths try to explain the natural world. One example is the Greek myth of Arachne. She believed that she could weave far better than anyone else, including the goddess Athena. So, Athena challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. Arachne lost, then was turned into a spider. This myth explains why spiders weave webs.
Vasylivka Raion
Vasylivka Raion is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the town of Vasylivka. Population:
Federico Franco
Luis Federico Franco Gómez (born 24 July 1962) is a Paraguayan politician. He was President of Paraguay from June 2012 until August 2013. He is a member of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA). He was elected as Vice President of Paraguay in the 2008 presidential election as the running mate of Fernando Lugo. He took office in August 2008.
Following Lugo's impeachment by the Senate on 22 June 2012, he replaced Lugo as President to complete the presidential mandate until 15 August 2013.
Sigournais
Sigournais is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Steven Zuber
Steven Zuber (born 17 August 1991) is a Swiss football player. He plays as a midfielder for Eintracht Frankfurt and the Switzerland national team.
Ryu Okada
Ryu Okada (born 10 April 1984) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Júbilo Iwata.
Club career statistics
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Miner County, South Dakota
Miner County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 2,298 people lived there. Its county seat is Howard. It was created in 1873.
Landensberg
Landensberg is a municipality in Günzburg in Bavaria, Germany.
Union County, South Dakota
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,811. Its county seat is Elk Point. Originally named Cole County, the named was changed to Union because of Civil War sentiment. It was founded on April 10, 1862.
Union County is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Seth Gaaikema
Seth Regner Gaaikema (11 July 1939 – 21 October 2014) was a Dutch cabaret artist, writer, and lyricist. He translated many plays into Dutch. They include My Fair Lady (his first, 1959), Kiss Me Kate, Oliver!, Les Misérables, and The Phantom of The Opera. Gaaikema was born in Uithuizen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Gaaikema died in Schijndel, North Brabant from heart failure, aged 75.
2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship
2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship was held in Thailand from 10 to 23 September.
Keith Farnham
Keith Farnham (September 22, 1947 – June 18, 2017) was an American Democratic politician. He used to be in the Illinois House of Representatives from January 6, 2009 until he resigned in March 18, 2014. He resigned after being found guilty for selling child pornography.
In November 2008, He defeated two-term Republican Ruth Munson in the heavily-Republican 43rd representative district of the Illinois House of Representatives, winning by 322 votes. Farnham was in the Illinois House from January 2009 to March 2014. The district included portions of Elgin, Carpentersville, East Dundee and South Elgin.
Farnham pleaded guilty on December 5, 2014 for selling child pornography. On March 19, 2015, Farnham was sentenced to eight years in prison. U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang also ordered Farnham to pay a $30,000 fine. He surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on May 19, 2015, to begin serving his sentence.
Farnham died on June 18, 2017 from bladder cancer and hepatitis C in Granville County, North Carolina, aged 69.
Sharin Yamano
Sharin Yamano (山野 車輪) is a Japanese manga artist. He is well known for his books, Manga Kenkanryu (Hate Korea Wave) and Manga Kenchogokuryu (Hate China Wave). He is thought to be anti-Korean and anti-Chinese, but the detail of his profile is not known well.
Soullans
Soullans is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Messier 100
Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is an example of a so-called 'grand design' spiral galaxy. It is visible in the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 100 is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo cluster, about 55 million light-years away, with a diameter of 160,000 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. Later it was entered in Messier’s catalogue of nebulae and star clusters after Charles Messier made observations of his own a month later. The galaxy was one of the first spirals discovered, and was listed as one of 14 spiral nebulae by the Earl of Rosse in 1850.
Saligny, Vendée
Saligny is a former commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France. On 1 January 2016, it became a part of the new commune of Bellevigny.
Messier 100
Star formation
Messier 100 is considered a starburst galaxy with a radius of 1 kilo-parsec, where star formation has been taking place for least 500 million years in separate bursts. Star formation is concentrated in a ring – actually two tightly wound spiral arms attached to a small nuclear bar.
As usual on spiral galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, in the rest of the disk both star formation and neutral hydrogen are reduced in the galaxy's disk, something caused by interactions in the Virgo cluster.
I'm Breathless
I'm Breathless - Music from and Inspired by the movie Dick Tracy is the second soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on May 22, 1990, by Sire Records.
Dare County, North Carolina
Dare County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2010, there were 33,920 people living there. Its county seat is Manteo, North Carolina. It is named after Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the Americas. She was born in the Roanoke Colony, in what is now Dare County. Buffalo City, in Dare County, was once the biggest community in the country. (Today, Buffalo City is abandoned.) Dare County is the largest county in North Carolina.
Sveg
Sveg is a town in the county of Jämtland in Sweden. It is the seat of Härjedalen Municipality.
Serzh Sargsyan
Serzh Azati Sargsyan (born June 30, 1954 ) is the third President of Armenia. He won the February 2008 presidential election. He took office in April 2008.
Political career
Sargsyan was in the Soviet Armed Forces from 1971 to 1972. He is the chairman of the Chess Federation of Armenia. Besides speaking Armenian, he also can speak in Russian.
Even though the former Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan, has the same last name, they are not related.
He became the Armenian defense minister in 1993. In 1995 he was head of Armenian state security department and minister of national security in 1996. In 1999, he became Robert Kocharyan's chief of staff, then secretary of the national security council, and defense minister. He became prime minister in 2007.
On 17 April 2018, Sargsyan became Prime Minister of Armenia. Following mass-scale protests, he resigned from the office six days later on 23 April. Former Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan succeeded Sargsyan as acting Prime Minister.
Personal life
In 1983, he married socialite Rita Sargsyan. She died in 2020 from COVID-19. They have two daughters, Anush and Satenik, and one granddaughter, Mariam.
Snooty
Snooty (July 22, 1948 – July 23, 2017) was an American male Florida manatee that lived at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida.
Snooty was one of the first recorded captive manatee births, and at age 75, he was the oldest manatee in captivity, and was likely the oldest manatee in the world. Due to his hand rearing from birth, Snooty was never released to the wild and was the only manatee at the museum's aquarium that had regular human interaction.
José María Minella
José María Minella (1909–1981) was an Argentine football player and manager. He played for and managed Argentina's national team. He played as a midfielder; he was predominantly centre-half, although he initially held more offensive roles, such as in the 1930 world tour, in which he scored 11 times playing for Gimnasia La Plata. The first position he was employed in was that of left midfielder, at Independiente; later, due to his playing characteristics, which led him to manage the game, he was moved to the center, where he was assigned the number 5 of the centromediano. He was gifted with a marked technical ability. Considered as one of the best Argentine midfielders of all time.
Early life
Son of Italian immigrants, he was born in the La Perla district of Mar del Plata from a father originally from Villanova Monferrato.
Club career
He first met football in his native neighborhood, and later moved to Club Independiente in Mar del Plata. Moving to Gimnasia y Esgrima in La Plata, on June 4, 1931 he played there for the first time at a professional level, taking the field against Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires. He composed a solid midfield trio with Montañez and Míguez, and was part of the so-called Expreso, the Gimnasia line-up that came close to winning the 1933 championship, also becoming its captain. He was sold to River Plate for 37,500 pesos, a considerable figure for the time. With the new jersey he was immediately the owner, competing in the tournaments of 1936, 1937 and 1941, won by the club by the red band; in the last of these, however, he was scarcely employed, given his advanced age. In 1942 he left Argentina for Uruguay, and played two editions of the local championship, obtaining two consecutive second places. In 1944 he passed to the Chileans of the Green Cross, where he ended his career.
International career
Minella made his debut in the Argentine national selection in 1933, after the successes with the shirt of Gimnasia; that team, however, was not properly considered official by the Federation. On January 6, 1935 he officially made his debut during the South American Championship in 1935, facing Chile in Lima. In 2-3-5 chosen by Manuel Seoane Minella was deployed as center-half and played the whole tournament in this position. On January 20 he took the field against Peru and on January 27 against Uruguay, both times as a starter, Argentina reached second place in the competition. In 1937 he participated in the second South American Championship, which was held entirely in Buenos Aires. Once again as a central midfielder, Minella was one of the cornerstones of that national team, since he played all the matches of the tournament. He made his debut on December 30, 1936 against Chile, and attended against Peru (January 16, 1937), Uruguay (January 23) and Brazil (January 30). At the end of the tournament, given the parity between Brazil and Argentina in the group, a play-off had to be played, in which Minella did not take part, replaced by Ernesto Lazzatti. In 1940 he participated in the Copa Juan R. Mignaburu and the Copa Héctor Rivadavia Gómez, while the following year he was part of the squad that played the Copa Presidente Roque Saenz Peña. In 1941 he was also called up for the South American, organized in Santiago, integrating the midfield together with Esperón and Sbarra in the first match against Peru on 12 February. On February 16 he was the starter against Ecuador, and on February 23 he played the first 40 minutes of the match with Uruguay. This was his last game in South American Championship premier international tournament. Minella turned down a chance to play for the South American Championship in 1942 where Argentina finished as runners-up.
Managerial career
Minella joined the River Plate bench the year after his retirement as a player; he replaced Renato Cesarini, creator of La Máquina, capable of winning several championships. In 1945, at his debut, Minella's first title as coach arrived, obtained one day from the end thanks to a 2-0 win over Chacarita Juniors. Minella deployed the team following the 2-3-5, the so-called "WM", module particularly popular in South America in those years. The 1946 season saw River hit third place, five points behind the winner, San Lorenzo de Almagro. In 1947 the team led by Minella was still champion, again one day from the end of the championship, defeating Rosario Central. In the 1950s the coach made an important contribution to the club's victories, which followed one another shortly after between 1952 and 1957. Key elements of that team were Ángel Labruna, Néstor Rossi and Amadeo Carrizo. The first trophy was obtained not without difficulty, while in 1953 the River got the better of Racing from Avellaneda; in 1955 the title also came thanks to a positive streak of 16 matches. In 1956 and 1957 the championships were dominated by River, but following the transfer of Omar Sívori to Juventus, the period of success came to an end, and Minella left the bench. In 1964 the coach was called by the Argentine Football Federation to hold the position of coach of the Albiceleste national team ; he made his debut on May 31 in Rio de Janeiro against Portugal. Minella was called up to direct the selection during the Taça das Nações, a tournament that included four national teams. In this event the Argentines obtained the victory, thanks to the three successes with Portugal, Brazil and England, all arrived without conceding goals. The CT made some particular choices, placing lesser known elements at the international level alongside already established players. After this title, he was confirmed on the bench, and took part in various tournaments, mainly of a friendly nature, including the Dittborn Cup and the Chevallier Boutell Cup. He was also the coach who led the national team to qualify for England 1966; however, he was replaced by Osvaldo Zubeldía first and then Juan Carlos Lorenzo, with the latter sitting on the Argentine bench during the Rimet Cup. In 1968 he was recalled as a replacement for Cesarini, and he was the coach for eight other matches, all friendly, collecting three defeats, three draws and two victories.
Club
Gimnasia La Plata
River Plate
International
Argentina
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a Nintendo video game character. He was first seen in a video game in 1981. He is a large gorilla who lives deep in the jungles of his very own island. Since 1994 he has worn a red necktie with his initials "DK" in yellow, his only piece of clothing. He appears as both the hero and villain of the Donkey Kong games.
José María Minella
Club
Argentina
Ryohei Yamazaki
Ryohei Yamazaki (born 14 March 1989) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Júbilo Iwata.
Club career statistics
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Nancy Bernstein
Nancy Bernstein (1960 – September 18, 2015) was an American visual effects producer. She worked at Digital Domain and was later Head of Production at DreamWorks Animation. She produced the DreamWorks movie Rise of the Guardians (2012).
Bernstein died on September 18, 2015 in California, aged 55. She had colorectal cancer and was diagnosed in December 2011.
Burnout Legends
Burnout Legends is the fifth game in the popular Burnout franchise, specifically released for the PlayStation Portable on September 13, 2005, and the Nintendo DS on November 29, 2005.
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Jesse Metcalfe
Jesse Eden Metcalfe (born December 9, 1978) is an American actor. He was born in Carmel Valley Village, California. Metcalfe is mostly known for his role as John Rowland in the series Desperate Housewives.
Tallud-Sainte-Gemme
Tallud-Sainte-Gemme is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Jesse Metcalfe
Metcalfe has also had roles on the soap opera Passions and in the movie John Tucker Must Die. He played Christopher Ewing in the continuation of Dallas based on the 1978 series of the same name.
Jet Li
Li Lianjie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, retired Wushu champion, actor, film producer, and movie star. He currently lives in Singapore and became a citizen there. He is widely regarded as one of the most iconic Chinese film stars and one of the most renowned martial arts stars of his generation.
Li began practising Wushu at the age of eight. Between 1974 and 1979, he won the title of Men's All-Around National Wushu Champion five times. Li is a master of several styles of Wushu, especially Chángquán (Northern Longfist Style) and Fānziquán (Tumbling Fist). He has mastered Wushu's main weapons, such as the Sanjiegun (Three Section Staff), Gùn, Dao (Broadsword), and Jian (Straight Sword). He has also studied other arts including Baguazhang (Eight Trigram Palm), Taijiquan (Supreme Ultimate Fist), Xing Yi Quan (Shape Intent Fist), Zui Quan (Drunken Fist), Ying Zhao Quan (Eagle Claw Fist) and Tanglangquan (Praying Mantis Fist).
After retiring from competitive Wushu at age 18, Li went on to win great acclaim as an actor. His most notable Chinese films include Shaolin Temple (1982), the first three films in the Once Upon a Time in China series (1991–1993), the Fong Sai-yuk series (1993), Fist of Legend (1994), Hero (2002), Fearless (2006), and The Warlords (2007). His most notable non-Chinese films include Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Romeo Must Die (2000), Kiss of the Dragon (2001), The One (2001), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), and Unleashed (2005). He also starred alongside Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008).
The 411
The 411 are an English female R&B group formed in late 2003. The band sang backup vocals on Lemar's cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". The band took its name after the 1992 Mary J. Blige album What's the 411?. During their time together as a group, they released one studio album Between the Sheets and three top-forty singles before breaking up in 2005.
2003–2005: Formation and Between the Sheets
The group was first formed in 2003 as a 4-piece girl band with Tisha Martin who was an actress at the time and starred in children's television shows Kerching and The Basil Brush Show.
The group's first single, "On My Knees", was a hit in the UK, reaching the top 5. A second single, "Dumb," reached number 3 in the UK and also reached the top 30 in Australia. These singles appeared on their album Between the Sheets, which the girl group co-wrote all the songs on the album.
U.S. Route 11
U.S. Route 11 or U.S. Highway 11 (US 11) is a north–south United States highway that is 1,645 miles (2,647 km) long. The southern end of the highway is at US 90 in the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans, Louisiana. The northern end is at the Rouses Point–Lacolle 223 Border Crossing in Rouses Point, New York.
Pisonian conspiracy
The Pisonian conspiracy was a plot to assassinate the Roman Emperor Nero in AD 65, led by Gaius Calpurnius Piso. Piso was a prominent senator and nobleman who was dissatisfied with Nero's leadership and wanted to overthrow him. The conspiracy involved a number of other high-ranking individuals, including members of the Roman Senate, and was intended to take place during a public performance of the emperor's musical compositions.
U.S. Route 11
In Knoxville, Tennessee, US 11 splits into U.S. Route 11W and U.S. Route 11E. US 11W and US 11E come together as US 11 in Bristol, Virginia less than a mile north of the Tennessee-Virginia state line.
Pisonian conspiracy
However, the plot was uncovered by one of the conspirators, and Piso and his associates were arrested and executed. The Pisonian conspiracy is significant in Roman history because it represents one of the most serious threats to the stability of the Roman Empire during the reign of Nero, and highlights the tensions and conflicts that existed within the Roman elite at the time.
Kyle Lafferty
Kyle Lafferty (born September 16, 1987, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish footballer, striker for the national team of Northern Ireland and the English club "Norwich City".
He is a three-time champion of Scotland, Scottish Cup winner and twice winner of the Scottish League Cup.
Biography
Kyle Lafferty was born on September 16, 1987, in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
He started his football career in 2005 with the Burnley F.C.
In January 2006, he was loaned by Darlington for a year without the right to purchase.
On June 19, 2008 Lafferty signed a 5-year contract with the Rangers Football Club in Glasgow.
On May 15, 2011, Kyle Lafferty scored a hat-trick again, but this time in the match against Kilmarnock, which ended with a score of 5-1.
On June 30, he signed a 3-year contract with the Swiss club Sion.
In 2013, Lafferty signed a three-year contract with Palermo.
On August 22, 2018, he returned to the Rangers where he played to 2019.
In 2019, Kyle Lafferty signed a contract with the Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08.
On January 10, 2020, the footballer signed a six-month contract with Sunderland.
Personal life
Lafferty is married to former Miss Scotland title holder Nicola Mimna and the couple has a son.
Moody County, South Dakota
Moody County is a county located in the state of South Dakota in the United States. 6,486 people lived there at the 2010 census. Its county seat is Flandreau.
Nevada City, California
Nevada City (originally, Ustumah, a Nisenan Maidu village; later, Nevada, Deer Creek Dry Diggins, and Caldwell's Upper Store) is the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States. It is located 60 mi northeast of Sacramento and 28 miles north of Auburn.
Auburn, California
Auburn is a city in and the county seat of Placer County, California. Its population was 13,776 during the 2020 census.
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Gilberto Aceves Navarro (September 24, 1931 – October 21, 2019) was a Mexican painter and sculptor. He was a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and Academy of San Carlos.
Nevada City, California
At the 2010 United States Census, the population was 3,068.
Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Aceves Navarro died in Mexico City from lung disease at the age of 88.
Eastern Cape
This region is the birthplace of many famous South African politicians, such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, Steve Biko and Charles Coghlan.
Auburn, California
Auburn is known for its California Gold Rush history, and is registered as a California Historical Landmark.
Division of Sturt
The Division of Sturt is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was set up in 1949, and named for Captain Charles Sturt, an explorer and the first European to visit the Murray River.
It includes the Adelaide suburbs of Athelstone, Burnside, Campbelltown, Dernancourt, Frewville, Gilles Plains, Glynde, Glenside, Hectorville, Highbury, Hillcrest, Holden Hill, Kensington, Klemzig, Magill, Marden, Paradise, Tranmere and parts of Payneham and Rostrevor.
Pope Benedict XII
Pope Benedict XII (Benedictus Duodecimus; died April 25, 1342), born Jacques Fournier, was a French priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 198th Pope from 1334 to 1342.
He was the third of the seven popes who lived in Avignon in France.
Early life
Jacques Fournier is believed to have been born in Saverdun in the Comté de Foix near Toulouse.
He became a Cistercian monk; and he studied at the University of Paris.
In 1311, he was made Abbot of Fontfroide Abbey.
Bishop
In 1317, Fourier was made bishop of Pamiers.
In 1327, he became Bishop of Mirepoix in the Ariège.
Cardinal
Pope John XXIII made Fourier a cardinal in 1327.
Pope
Cardinal Fourier was elected pope in 1335; and he chose to be called Benedict XII.
Pope Benedict was involved in Italian and European political disputes.
Benedict XII ordered the construction of the Palais des Papes in Avignon.
President of Uruguay
The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Presidente de la República Oriental del Uruguay) is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The President of the Republic is the Commander in Chief of the Armed forces. The President is elected direct popular election for a term of five years. He may be reelected any number of times, but is ineligible for immediate reelection.
Since 1990, the President's term has begun and ended on March 1. The current President is Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou.
Living former presidents
There are three living former presidents. The most recent former president to die was Tabaré Vázquez (2005–2010, 2015–2020), on 6 December 2020.
Örebro County
Örebro County (Örebro län) is a county in central Sweden, with the seat located in Örebro. It was established in 1779.
Jurrit Visser
Jurrit Menno Visser (3 May 1952 — 14 October 2022) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party.
Biography
Born in Sintjohannesga, Visser studied law at the University of Leiden. He worked as a jurist at the municipality of Sneek. From 1994 to 1998, he was a PvdA member of the city council of Heerenveen. In May 1998 he became alderman of the municipality of Heerenveen. When he just had started his second term in 2002, he was appointed mayor of the municipality of the island Terschelling in December 2002.
In 2011 Visser attempted to get Terschelling back in passports. With his proposal he reached national attention. His proposal to declare one delivery room in Leeuwarden as island territory failed.
In April 2013, Visser fell during a holiday in Turkey and broke five ribs. His recovery took longer than expected. His vestibular system turned out to be the cause. He stopped temporarily as a mayor. Rob Bats became acting mayor. In September 2013, the municipality announced that Visser was not able to fulfill the position of mayor due to his health. He officially retired on 1 December 2013.
Visser died at the Medical Center Leeuwarden on 14 October 2022, at the age of 70 years.
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani (, 8 April 1931 — 21 October 2014) was an Iranian cleric, writer and conservative politician. He was the acting Prime Minister of Iran from 2 September until 29 October 1981.
Kani died at the age of 83 in Tehran, Iran from heart failure, aged 83.
Thongalen
Thongalen (also Thongalel, Thongaren or Thongarel) is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld (Khamnung) in Meitei mythology and religion. He is worshipped by the people in Ancient Kangleipak (Antique Manipur). He is the Guardian God of the nadir. He is the ancestor-God of the Khuman clan of Meitei people. Laikhurembi and Lainaotabi are his wives.
The Pakhangba Nonggarol (Pakhangpa Nongkalol) says the God of death is called "Leinung Thongarel" (Leinung Thongalel).
In the Poireiton Khunthok
King Thongaren (Thongalen) asked his highest ranked Queen Laikhurembi (Laikhulempi) to go with his brother Poireiton on a long trip. Poireiton was a widower; his wife had died, and he had six children to raise and also had to go to the Tai Pang Pan. King Thongalel thought his brother needed a wife to go with him on their trip. However, Queen Laikhurembi did not want to go. She said she was already the king's wife. Trees had already been planted in her honor because she and the king had lived together for a very long time. So, instead of Queen Laikhurembi, King Thongalel sent his second wife, Leinaotabi, to go with Poireiton and be his wife.
In the Pombi Luwaoba
Nongban Pombi Luwaoba was a prince in the Luwang dynasty. A dynasty is a line of kings or queens who are all related to each other in the same family. Prince Nongban Pombi Luwaoba and his wife Namoinu were happy. Then she died suddenly. She died because of the God Thongalel. Prince Pombi Luwaoba refused to perform the funeral of her dead body. He hoped the God Thongalel would send her soul back into her body so she would be alive again. God Thongalel received a message from the prince through a pheasant bird. The message said that Prince Nongban Pombi Luwaoba was ready to fight God Thongalel if he did not send Namoinu's soul back. This made the God Thongalel angry. He sent two of his brothers, but Prince Nongban Pombi Luwaoba beat them both. He took them prisoner. Prince Nongban Pombi Luwaoba sent the pheasant bird with another message to God Thongalel. The message said that if the God wanted to get back his brothers alive, then he had to sent back the soul of Namoinu to her body.
Finally, God Thongalel came to meet Prince Pombi Luwaoba himself. But instead of fighting, the prince prayed to the God Himself. God Thongalel was happy that Prince Nongban Pombi Luwaoba showed him respect. Thongalel brought Namoinu back to life. He also gave her a gift: She would live for 100 years and have 100 sons.
Association with other deities
God Thongalel is sometimes identified as God Wangpurel (Wangpulel). Thongalel is the King of underworld. Wangpurel reigns over the direction south. Some Meiteis believe that the direction south is the land of death. So, when the Meiteis got converted into Hinduism, both Thongalel and Wangpulel became counterparts of Hindu God Yama.
Tigran Sargsyan
Tigran Sargsyan (born January 29, 1960) was the Prime Minister of Armenia from 9 April 2008 to 13 April 2014.
From 1980 to 1983, Sargsyan attended Leningrad's Voznesenski Financial and Economic Institute.
On April 9, 2008 he became Prime Minister of Armenia. He was selected by President Serzh Sargsyan.
Sargsyan is married and has three children (daughter Nelly Sargsyan and two sons Armen and Abgar Sargsyans) and a grandchild. He is of no relation to the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
Screen printing
Screen printing is a printing technique. It uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil has open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials. The ink or paint can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp image onto a material.
Talmont-Saint-Hilaire
Talmont-Saint-Hilaire is a commune. It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Vendée department in the west of France.
Screen printing
A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing ink through the mesh openings.
Pistoia
Pistoia is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the capital of the province of Pistoia. The city is about 30 km west and north of Florence.
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (Lionel Herbert Blythe, April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American movie, television, stage, and radio actor who won an Academy Award in 1931. He is known for his roles in A Free Soul, The Little Colonel, It's a Wonderful Life, Young Dr. Kildare, and in David Copperfield. His brother was actor John Barrymore and his grandniece is actress Drew Barrymore.
Barrymore was born on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Episcopal Academy. Barrymore was married to Doris Rankin from 1904 until they divorced in 1923. Then he was married to Irene Fenwick from 1923 until they divorced in 1936. He had two daughters with Rankin, both died early. He had a fatherly love with Jean Harlow and treated her as if she was his own daughter. Barrymore died on November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California from a heart attack, aged 76.
Pistoia
History
In 1254 Pistoia was captured by troops from Florentine. Pistoia stayed a Florentine city except for few years in the 14th century, when Castruccio Castracani captured it for Lucca. It was annexed to (made a part of) Florence in 1530. During the 14th century Ormanno Tedici was one of the Lords of the city.
Dante mentioned the town in his Divina Commedia. Michelangelo called the people of Pistoia the "enemies of heaven".
Duomo Square and Bishops' Palace
The large Piazza del Duomo is connected near to other famous buildings, for example the  Palazzo del Comune and the Palazzo del Podestà. In July, the Giostra dell'Orso ("Bear Joust") takes place in the square. At the joust, horsemen try to strike a target held by a dummy shaped like a bear. The 14th century Baptistry, in Gothic style is also in the square.
The Palazzo dei Vescovi ("Bishops' Palace") includes a loggia in gothic style. .
Sisters towns
Pistoia is twinned with:
Roberto M. Levingston
Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (January 10, 1920 – June 17, 2015) was an Argentine politician. He was a general in the Argentine Army and president of Argentina from June 18, 1970 to March 22, 1971, during the Revolución Argentina period in Argentine history.
Luis Alberto Lacalle
In August 1978 Lacalle was sent three bottles of wine tainted with poison The case remains unsolved.
His son is Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, the 42nd President.
Wisconsin River
The Wisconsin River is a river in the United States. It is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is located in the state of Wisconsin. It is approximately 692 km long.
The source of the Wisconsin is in the forests of northern Wisconsin. The source is a small lake on the border between Wisconsin and Michigan. The river flows south across Wisconsin. It flows through a plain made by a glacier during the last ice age. It passes the cities of Wausau and Stevens Point.
In southern Wisconsin, the river meets a moraine. The moraine was made during the last ice age. The river enters a beautiful gorge, called the Wisconsin Dells. North of the city of Madison, the river turns to the west. It flows west through the hills of southwest Wisconsin. It joins the Mississippi 15 km south of the city of Prairie du Chien.
The river is an important source of hydroelectric power.
Bassecourt
Bassecourt is a former municipality of the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of Haute-Sorne.
Boécourt
Boécourt is a municipality of the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Oldambt
Oldambt is a municipality in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2019, 38,129 people lived there.
It was created on 1 January 2010 from the former municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda and Winschoten.
Sri Lanka
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (ශ්‍රී ලංකා in Sinhala, இலங்கை in Tamil) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent. The capital of the country is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte while the largest city is Colombo.
It was known as Ceylon before 1972, and Serendib and Sinhale, among other names, before that. It was South Asia's oldest democracy.
Ethnic make-up
Sri Lanka has three main ethnic groups. They differ in their religions and origins, and there has often been difficulties between the groups. The total population of the island is over 20 million people, and rapidly expanding.
North–South divide in Taiwan
North-South divide in Taiwan is made out of Taiwanese government's long-term over-investment in northern Taiwan that led to imbalance in economic development, political authority, medical access, educational supply, savings, and other kind of inequalities between northern and southern Taiwan. Because of this imbalances, southern Taiwanese often feel they're not fairly treated by the government.
Sri Lanka
Ethnic make-up
The largest of the three groups is the population of Sinhalese people. Most of them are Buddhist. Their language is Sinhala. They make up about 75% of the population.
The second largest group is the Tamil people. They are mostly Hindu and most live in the north. There are about 2,271,000 Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Civil War against Tamil separatists lasted 28 years.
North–South divide in Taiwan
In Taiwan, best schools and educational institutions supported by Taiwanese government are based in northern Taiwan. If you're southern Taiwanese wanting to study deeper, you will need to go to northern Taiwan. If you're an engineer or manager in a company, you will often need to go to northern Taiwan to update your knowledge.
Sri Lanka
Ethnic make-up
The third largest group is the Sri Lankan Moors. They are Muslim. There are over one and a half million people in this group. They use Tamil as their language today.
Other than these three main groups, there are burghers (descendants of colonial ancestors), Malays and Chinese.
North–South divide in Taiwan
At the same time, many companies, who were able to earn more and thus pay more to their employees, started to grow in Taiwan. These companies made higher-value-added products and offered jobs needing college education not the kind of work that needs physical skills or strength in the past. Because Taiwan's higher educational institutions were near Taipei City, Taiwan, these new companies liked to go to northern Taiwan to run businesses.
Before 1980, Taiwan's main industries were farming, fishing, light industries and heavy industries. Taiwan was under Japanese rule from 1895 till 1945. Thanks to Japanese's policy that equally distributed resources for economic development, southern Taiwanese could find a job near their home in that time and even in the early time of the governance by KMT who succeeded Japanese to rule Taiwan since 1945.
Sri Lanka
Ethnic make-up
In areas such as Dabana, Mahiyangaya ; lives the indigenous group called 'veddas' who are said to descend from Kuweni and Vijaya's son 'Jeewahaththa'.
Leuven
Leuven or Louvain (Louvain, ; Löwen) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
Pilalo tree frog
The adult male frog is about 65.9 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is about 77.3 mm long. This frog can be orange-brown or red-brown in color. It can have large or small black spots. Its sides and parts of the legs have yellow and black stripes. The belly is black. There can be white spots on the throat. The iris of the eye is light blue.
This frog lives in cloud forests. It moves at night, but people have heard it singing during the day. This frog lays eggs in streams.
This frog's scientific name comes from the Greek language words ptychos, which is "fold," and dactylus, which is "finger."
North–South divide in Taiwan
Birth, price, and population
Since Taiwanese government invests everything in northern Taiwan, southern Taiwanese have had to go away from their home in southern Taiwan to northern Taiwan to find jobs.
More and more Taiwanese move to northern Taiwan. However, northern Taiwan just has a little plain in the need of buildings. As a result, the price tags for people from southern Taiwan to buy a house in northern Taiwan to live become very expensive.
Sri Lanka
History
Buddhist missionaries arrived from India in 250 BC during the time period of King Devanampiyatissa. The kings of the island, and eventually most of the Sinhalese people, became Buddhists. Legend has it that Buddha visited the island three times.
The island was subject to waves of European settlement and eventually colonisation. The Portuguese in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries, and lastly the British from 1796 to 1948. The British traded as the others had done, but also developed plantations of coffee and tea. Tea was planted after a fungus destroyed the coffee plantations in 1869. The tea plantations were the basis of Sri Lankan prosperity for a hundred years. Lastly, rubber plantations were started in the early 20th century. In 1965, Ceylon became the world's leading exporter of tea, with 200,000 tonnes of tea being shipped internationally annually.
North–South divide in Taiwan
Birth, price, and population
These lead to very low birth rate in Taiwan. Taiwan is one of the countries with the lowest brith rates in the world.
In southern Taiwan, the Skipped Generation Families/Grand-parenting Families are very often seen. In that, because many young children's parents have left to northern Taiwan to work. In the end, grand-parents become these young children's real parents.
Sri Lanka
History
Independence from the British was got in 1948, together with Dominion status in the British Commonwealth of Nations. In 1972, Ceylon changed its name officially to the Republic of Sri Lanka, and is still a member of the Commonwealth.
Walkie-talkie
A walkie-talkie is a hand held device, two way radio receiver/transmitter. It was developed in the second world war.
Leuven
In 2007, 91,942 people lived there.
Sri Lanka
History
In 2009 came the end of a long Sri Lankan Civil War between Sinhalese and Tamils. In the 2010s, tourism rapidly grew as a source of foreign investment and currency. An economic crisis in the early 2020s led to political violence.
Maria Ligorio
Maria Ligorio (born 25 June 1970 San Michele Salentino) is an Italian Paralympic athlete. She won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games, in the 200 meters, and bronze medals at the 1996 Summer Paralympic Games, in the 400 meters and 200 meters.
Walkie-talkie
Radio engineer Alfred J. Gross worked on the early technology behind the walkie-talkie between 1934 and 1941. During the war it was developed by Donald L. Hings and engineering teams at Motorola led by Henryk Magnuski.
Typical walkie-talkies today are phone sized and have a push to talk button. Walkie-talkie are used for various reasons, in the military, for amateur radio, and for personal use.
History
The first walkie-talkie was so large it had to be carried in a backpack, and was called Motorola SCR-300. Motorola also made other Walkie-talkies during World War Two. During World War Two The first hand-held Walkie-talkies were also developed by Mortorola during WWII.
Development
The idea of walkie-talkies did not get much interest until the war started in 1939. After a few years the Motorola team had improved them, so that the army could use them. There were also vehicle and tank versions. The British, Germans and Americans all had their own versions.
Motorola also produced the hand-held AM SCR-536 radio during World War II, and it was called the "handie-talkie" (HT). The terms are often confused today, but the original walkie talkie referred to the back mounted model, while the handie-talkie was the device which could be held entirely in the hand (but had vastly reduced range).
Sri Lanka
Flag
The Sri Lanka flag is also known as the Lion flag because of the Lion on it. The Lion is holding a sword in its right paw. There is a crimson background with four leaves in each corner. There is a yellow border. On the left of the flag, there are the colors green and saffron.
Walkie-talkie
Uses
Walkie-talkies are widely used in many settings, business, police force, military and recreation.
Sri Lanka
Flag
The lion represents bravery. The four leaves represent Karuna, Meththa, Muditha and Upeksha. The orange stripe represents the Sri Lankan Tamils and the green stripe represents the Sri Lankan Moors.
Leipheim
Leipheim is a town in Günzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the Danube, 5 km west of Günzburg, and 17 km northeast of Ulm. The village Riedheim and Weissingen are districts of Leipheim. Since 1993, Leipheim has been twinned with the Hungarian town Fonyód.
Maria Ligorio
Life
After taking part in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, for personal reasons, she left international competition and devoted herself to sport climbing. However, she participated in the 2012 Italian Championships, on the occasion of admission to the London Games, and obtained the best result for the T11 category (absolute blindness) in the 100 and 200 meters run.
Sri Lanka
Provinces
Sri Lanka has 9 provinces.
Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
Oglala Lakota County, known as Shannon County until May 2015, is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. 13,586 people lived there at the 2010 census. Oglala Lakota County does not have its own county seat. Instead, Hot Springs in neighboring Fall River County serves as its administrative center. The county was created as a part of the Dakota Territory in 1875. Its largest community is Pine Ridge.
Leuze-en-Hainaut
Leuze-en-Hainaut is a municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
In 2007, 13300 people lived there.
It is at 50° 36 North, 03° 37 East.
Anantnag District
Anantnag (ضلع اسلام آباد) is a district in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in northwestern India. It is one of six districts which make up the Kashmir Valley. The district headquarters is Anantnag.
Leuven
It is at 50° 52 North, 04° 42 East.
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team is an American college basketball team. The team plays for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The team plays in Division I of the NCAA. The team plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). As of 2023, the Tar Heels have won six NCAA championships. They won in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017. They have been to the Final Four more than any other college basketball team. They have been to the Final Four twenty one times.
Abercrombie River National Park
Abercrombie River National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia. It is 138 km west of Sydney. The Abercrombie and Retreat Rivers flow through the park. The park protects a large area of open forest, the largest area in this part of New South Wales. There are large trees, Casuarina cunninghamia, growing along the river. The river is normally a series of deep waterholes. In the park there are platypuses, rakalis, wallaroos, red-necked wallabies, swamp wallabies and Eastern Grey Kangaroos.
Leuven
Leuven also has a long history. The town hall in the city centre dates from the Middle Ages.
Reptile
Reptile is the common name for one of the main groups of land vertebrates. It is not used so much by biologists, who use more accurate terms.
The name "reptile" comes from Latin and means "one who creeps". All living reptile species are cold blooded, have scaly skin, and lay cleidoic eggs. They excrete uric acid (instead of urea), and have a cloaca. A cloaca is a shared opening for the anus, urinary tract and reproductive ducts. Reptiles also share an arrangement of the heart and major blood vessels which is different from that of mammals. Birds have all of these features.
Many important groups of reptiles are now extinct, for example the mosasaurs. We used to say the dinosaurs were extinct, but they survive in the form of their feathered descendants (birds). Ancient reptiles that do survive include the turtles, the crocodiles and the Tuatara, the lone survivor of its group. The great majority of present-day reptiles are snakes and lizards.
The study of living reptiles is called herpetology.
Birds in relation to reptiles
Cladistic writers prefer to put the birds (over 10,000 species) with what people usually call reptiles. (see Sauropsida)