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Open Season 3
Reception
Open Season 3 got mixed reviews by reviewers and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has no score, but it does have 4 reviews. One reviewer said, "This tiresomely predictable tale exemplifies everything that's wrong about straight-to-DVD animated sequels to big-budget mainstream films: the plot is utterly predictable and rehashes a lot of beats from the original effort, the major voice actors have been replaced by poor substitutes and the quality of the animation has dropped dramatically (most of the visuals are on the level of a video game or one of those cheap CGI Saturday morning TV shows)".
Home media
It was released on Blu-ray, UMD Video and DVD in the United States on January 25, 2011.
Barjols
Barjols is a commune of 2,975 people (2018). It is in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in the Var department in southeast France.
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes is an American indie folk band that started in Seattle, Washington. It is signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band became well-known in 2008 for their second EP, Sun Giant, and their first album Fleet Foxes. Fleet Foxes' second studio album, Helplessness Blues, was released on 3 May 2011.
Formation and early years
Robin Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset both went to Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Washington, and became friends. They listened to Bob Dylan and Neil Young and began making music together.
They became popular by doing local concerts. They started making their first album in early 2007. They recorded in the studio with producer Ek. They recorded most of their tracks at home because they did not have a lot of money.
Rise to prominence
The band recorded their second EP, Sun Giant, at Bear Creek Studio and performed overdubs and mixed at Seattle's Avast! Recording Co. Fleet Foxes began a tour with the band Blitzen Trapper on 28 February 2008. The band's performances, first at the SXSW festival in March 2008, and then the Sasquatch! festival in May 2008, got them the most attention from the public.
Sun Giant was released internationally on 8 April 2008. It was well received by the press. After this, Christian Wargo joined the band on guitar and J. Tillman joined the band on drums. Their first full length album, Fleet Foxes, was released on 3 June 2008. The album achieved similar critical success as the previous EP. On 24 June 2008, Fleet Foxes went to No. 1 on the College Music Journal Radio 200 Chart.
In Europe, Fleet Foxes sold over 200,000 copies in the five months following its release. The album received good reviews from critics. In Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, tickets for their concerts sold out. By the end of 2008, it had sold over 408,000 copies in North America and over 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom.
They went on a worldwide tour in 2008 and 2009.
Second album
The album, Helplessness Blues, was released on 3 May 2011. The cover was illustrated by the Seattle artist Toby Liebowitz and painted by Christopher Alderson. The album features new band member Morgan Henderson on upright bass and woodwind instruments.
On 18 January 2012, drummer J. Tillman announced that he had left the band.
Helplessness Blues was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2012 Grammy Awards, on 12 February 2012.
The band went on hiatus from 2013 to 2016.
Third album
On May 18, 2016, Robin Pecknold said on his Instagram account that Fleet Foxes were working on new music.
Their third album, called Crack-Up, was released on June 16, 2017. It was released on Nonesuch Records, a new label for the band.
They started playing concerts again on May 15, 2017.
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Rangri dialect (Malvi)
Rangri is a dialect of the Malvi languge spoken in the Himachal Pradesh in India. It has around 1,102,000 speakers.
Royal Mail Ship
Royal Mail Ship (RMS) is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail.
History
In the early 19th century, the British Admiralty provided RMS service.
The designation "RMS" has been used since 1840.
In 1850 contracts were awarded to private companies. Having the title "RMS" was seen as a mark of quality and a competitive advantage, because the mail had to be on time.
Peter Berling
Peter Berling (20 March 1934 – 20 November 2017) was a German actor, movie producer and writer. He was born in Międzyrzecz, Poland. In several of his medieval novels Berling has drawn on conspiracy theories based on the Priory of Sion.
Berling died on 20 November 2017 in Rome, aged 83.
Garden city movement
The Garden city movement was a 20th-century urban planning movement that promoted sprawling cities with plenty of greenbelt space in between.
Louhossoa
Louhossoa is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
List of governors of Georgia
The governor of Georgia is the head of the executive branch of Georgia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
The current governor is Republican Brian Kemp, who took office on January 14, 2019.
Tréflaouénan
Tréflaouénan (Trelaouenan) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Ordinary Things
Ordinary Things: Poems From a Walk in Early Spring is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with drawings by Walter Lyon Krudop. It was first published in 1997.
The book is a collection of 33 poems divided into three sections titled "Walking", "Into the Woods" and "Looping Back". The reader is taken on a walk along a road, through the woods, over a stream and back.
Shrimp toast
Shrimp toast or prawn toast is a Chinese dim sum dish. It is small triangles of bread, brushed with egg and topped with chopped shrimp and water chestnuts. It is baked or deep fried. It is often served as an appetizer in Chinese restaurants in Australia and the United States. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, sesame seeds are sometimes sprinkled on the dish before it is baked or deep fried.
Broadacre City
Broadacre City was a proposed development by Frank Lloyd Wright that would have given families one acre (0.40 hectare) each. It would have been an agrarian eutopia, part of the garden-city movement around four square miles or ten square kilometers in total size. The housing stock of Broadacre City would consist almost entirely of single family farmhouses. There would be a few office buildings and a train station, but it would primarily be a farming community. Almost all transportation would be done via private automobile, the city would be coal powered, and pedestrians would not be accommodated.
Kurtwood Smith
Kurtwood Larson Smith (born July 3, 1943) is an American television and movie actor. He is known for playing the main antagonist Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop and as Red Forman in That '70s Show. He is also known for his appearances in the genre of science fiction (Star Trek, The X-Files). He also starred in 24.
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom
Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (English: My Name Is Yu Ming) is a 2003 Irish short film. Yu Ming goes to Ireland, where most of the population do not know Irish. It was directed by Daniel O'Hara and is 13 minutes in length.
Plot
Yu Ming (Diyu Daniel Wu) hates his job at a supermarket in China. He chooses to move to Ireland because a globe he spun in a library landed on it. He learns "Gaelic" for 6 months first because an atlas says it is Ireland's official language.
He asks an Australian receptionist in a Dublin hostel "Ba mhaith liom leaba anseo" ("I would like a bed here"). Thinking it is Chinese, he asks Enke, an Asian co-worker, to translate it. He says, "I am Mongolian."
Yu Ming asks a bartender "Tá mé ag lorg obair" ("I am looking for work"). He also thinks he is speaking Chinese. Paddy (Frank Kelly), an old man, can speak Irish, so he buys him a drink and tells him he is able to speak Irish.
Yu Ming now works as a bartender in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area of Connemara.
The line "An bhfuil tusa ag labhairt liomsa?" ("Are you talking to me?") is said multiple times throughout the film.
Tréflévénez
Tréflévénez (Trelevenez) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Pragmatism
It is a type of philosophy. It says that whatever works for you is true. The linking of practice and theory.
Voiced labial–palatal approximant
The voiced labial-palatal approximant is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in French.
List of Romanian social scientists
This is a list of notable Romanian social scientists.
New England Emigrant Aid Company
The New England Emigrant Aid Company (est.1854), originally the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company, was a transportation company in Boston, Massachusetts. It was created to bring immigrants to the Kansas Territory. This was done to make sure Kansas would become a free state. The company was created by Eli Thayer, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, over a month before the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854. This act allowed the population of Kansas Territory to choose for themselves whether or not slavery would be legal. The concept was called popular sovereignty.
Nelson Shin
Shin Neung-kyun (born 1939), also known as Nelson Shin, is an animation director. He is the founder and president of Akom Production Co., Ltd., in Seoul, South Korea. He founded Akom in 1985.
Career
In the 1970s, Shin worked as an animator at the DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Marvel Productions. This is where he worked on the Pink Panther films and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. While at DFE, he also helped the animation of the lightsaber blades in the original Star Wars.
Much of the animation Shin's studio has produced were for American television series. Some of Akom's credits are: Beavis and Butt-Head, The Simpsons, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Invasion America and Arthur. Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie. Shin also directed the first season of the Canadian animated TV series, Toad Patrol.
Beginning in 1999, Shin worked on the animated feature film Empress Chung. The movie was largely animated in North Korea. In August 2005 it became the first movie ever to open in North and South Korea.
In 2009, he was elected president of the International Animated Film Association. It was a post he held through 2012.
Talus
The talus is the second largest of the seven tarsal (ankle) bones. It is next to the calcaneus and navicular bones.
China Anne McClain
China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. The first movie she acted in was The Gospel. It was released in 2005. Between 2006 and 2012 she played Jazmine Payne in Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
Career
McClain first acted in the 2005 movie The Gospel. Tyler Perry saw the movie and gave her the role of Jazmine Payne in Tyler Perry's House of Payne. In 2009 McClain played Alana Collins in Hurricaine Season. In 2011 McClain won the prize for Best Performance - Comedy at the NAMIC Vision Awards for her role in the show. McClain started acting in the Disney sitcom A.N.T. Farm in 2011. She played the main character, Chyna Parks. The show lasted three seasons. McClain sung the show's theme song, "Exceptional". It was released on a soundtrack album called A.N.T. Farm in 2011. Two singles were released from the album. It reached number 29 in the American albums chart.
In 2014, McClain played Gabby Harrison in Disney Channel movie How to Build a Better Boy.
Early life
McClain was born in Atlanta to African American parents. Her father is Michael McClain, a music producer. Her mother, Shontell, a songwriter.
Zibelemärit
The Zibelemärit (Bernese German dialect; English: Onion market) is an annual market with aspects of a fair in the old town of Bern, Switzerland. It takes place the fourth Monday in November.
History
Historical research indicates that the Zibelemärit originated in the 1850s with marmettes, farmer's wives from around Murten, coming to Bern at around St. Martin's Day to sell their produce. According to a local story, the Zibelemärit is a much older festivity though. According to this legend, the Bernese awarded the people from the nearby city of Fribourg the right to sell onions in the city in reward for their aid after a fire that destroyed much of Bern in 1405.
Customs
As the name indicates, it is mainly onions that are sold on the Zibelemärit. Bernese farmers, who are proud of their decorative onion tresses and onion wreaths, also sell other onion products on the market, including Zwiebelkuchen (onion pie), onion soup and onion sausages. Decorative chains of sugar onions are also popular with children.
The Zibelemärit opens very early in the day, at around 03:00 to 04:00. Later in the morning, the narrow alleys are usually packed tight with people, which is what the Bernese call the Gstungg. A general confetti battle in which mostly children participate ensues at four o'clock in the afternoon, officially ending the market.
Eleonora Gasparrini
Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini (born 21 July 1995) is an Italian professional track and road racing cyclist, who since 2021 rides with the UCI Women's Continental Team Valcar–Travel & Service.
Voiceless retroflex affricate
The voiceless retroflex affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.
Eleonora Gasparrini
As a track cyclist, she became European Champion (under-23) in the team pursuit event at the 2021 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior) and 2022 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior).
Cape Town Stadium
Cape Town Stadium is a sports stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. It was first built in 1987. At that time, it was named the FNB Stadium.
FIFA World Cup
The stadium co-hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It is one of the 10 stadiums where World Cup matches were played. FIFA calls this stadium Green Point Stadium.
2010 World Cup Matches
All times are given in South African Standard time (UTC+2).
Vigilante 8
It was released for the PlayStation on May 31, 1998 in North America, June 26, 1998 in Europe and on November 12, 1998 in Japan. It was also released for the Nintendo 64 on March 29, 1998 in North America and in March 1999 in Europe, as well as the Game Boy Color in December 1999 in North America.
Reception
IGN rated the game a 6.0 out of 10 for the Game Boy Color, 8.2 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and 8.0 for the PlayStation.
GameSpot gave the game a 7.5 out of 10 for the Game Boy Color, 7.9 out of 10 for the Nintendo 64 and 8.0 out of 10 for the PlayStation.
Eddie Filgate
Edward "Eddie" Filgate (16 September 1915 – 19 January 2017) was an Irish politician. He was a member of Fianna Fáil. He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 1982 for the Louth constituency. He was born in County Louth.
Filgate turned 100 in 2015. He died on 19 January 2017 at the age of 101.
Tréflez
Tréflez (Trelez) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
List of programs broadcast by CMT
The following is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast on CMT as of May 2021.
Yusufkhel District
Yusuf Khel (یوسف خیل) is a district in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It was established in 2004 after a subdivision of Zarghun Shar.
Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is in Nahuatl.
Vikings
The Vikings were Scandinavian people from Northern Europe who were known as great seamen and warrior s. From the 8th to the 11th centuries they travelled to Europe in their long ships, attacking and then settling in areas that are now modern Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.
Background
The people of the far north, later called Vikings, were first noticed by the Romans around the year 100 BC. This is when the Cimbri and the Teutons moved into southern Gaul. The Romans believed these war-like tribes came from Jutland. But the Romans suspected they were only a part of a greater threat located further north. The Roman historians Jordanes described the destructive Ostrogoths and Visigoths as having come from Gotland. The northern menace survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
The Frankish Empire that came after them in Gaul became more and more aware of the northern threat. As the later Carolingian Empire expanded into northern Germany they came into contact with the Danish people. This is when the Vikings first entered into written history. The first recorded raid in the west was at Lindisfarne in 793. Why the Vikings suddenly began raiding is not completely clear. But a popular theory is the populations had grown to the point there was not enough food to feed everyone. The earliest raiders did not seem to want to move out of Scandinavia. They turned to looting, then returning home. These hit-and-run raids were made possible because the Vikings were master boat builders and they created flat bottomed boats ideal for journeys up river s, where many monastic sites lay, ready for plundering. This seems to indicate there was space enough for everyone. Because they found raiding so easy, it became more and more popular among the Vikings.
Three different groups of Vikings can be identified. They took three different, sometimes overlapping, routes.
Vikings in Europe
Europeans were scared of the Vikings because of their strong weapons, swift attacks, and cruel fighting tactics. They were known for their bad treatment of women, children and monks in the places where they fought. When the Vikings came to England, the English kings paid them to leave the country, but the Vikings took their money and sometimes fought them anyway. These payments were called Danegeld. From the 9th century to 1066, when the French Duke of Normandy, who became King William I of England, conquered it, Danish and Norwegian Vikings ruled large parts of England.
Because of their longships, which could float in 4 feet (1.3m) of water, the Vikings were able to make their way up rivers and land deep inside a country. For example they sailed up the River Shannon in Ireland and built a harbour 60 miles (100 km) from the coast.
There was a difference in who led Viking raids. In the 9th century, Viking Age raids were led by men who may have been exiles in their own countries. The later Viking raids in the late 10th century and early 11th century and were led by Kings. Some of the early leaders tried to become kings with the riches they plundered from Europe and Russia. Some were successful but most were not.
In Russia and the Mediterranean
The Vikings were called Rus' by the peoples east of the Baltic Sea. The Vikings who settled in Kiev formed the first Russian state. The Vikings (Rus') who served the Byzantine Emperors were called Varangians. They became the personal bodyguards to the Emperor and were called the Varangian Guard.
Exploration
The Vikings traveled through Russia, the Mediterranean Sea, southern Europe, northern Africa and south-western Asia. Some Vikings sailed across the Atlantic Ocean via Iceland and Greenland and may have explored places in North America. The ruins of a Viking settlement have been found at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland.
August Vandekerkhove
August Vandekerkhove (15 October 1838 Kanegem – 24 March 1923 Mâcon) was a Belgian writer, playwright, poet, painter and inventor. He wrote under the pseudonym S.U. Zanne. Vandekerkhove started a movement he called Cosmosofie (Cosmosophy). He said that Cosmosophy was the opposite of Theosophy. When he was young he wrote a novel and three plays. His literary work was inspired by ethics and psychology. Later he moved to Scotland, the USA and France.
Vikings
Exploration
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to find out how old the settlement was. Their tests gave them a range of dates from about AD 700 to about AD 1000.
Royal Medical Society
Royal Medical Society (RMS) is the oldest medical society in the United Kingdom.
The RMS is a British professional society engaged in the moving forward of medical knowledge.
History
It was called "the Medical Society" when it was established in 1737. The Society was granted a Royal Charter in 1778.
RMS is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The society has members throughout the world.
Vikings
Language
Some English words, and many place names, came from the Scandinavian and Viking language (Norse). For example, the words skirt and shirt came from the word skyrta, meaning a tunic. As English changed, the semantics altered to give us the separate words 'skirt' and 'shirt' we know today. Skin came from the Norse word skinn (which meant to strip the meat off something). Some place-names in the areas the Vikings conquered are still in use. For example, in Yorkshire places ending with thwaite meant a clearing and dale meant a valley. The word thorpe meant new village, such as Scunthorpe.
August Vandekerkhove
In France he wrote works on kabala, esotericism and the occult. He was one of the first writers talking about subjects like feminism and the Age of Aquarius. Each year on Palm Sunday at 5 PM, at the cemetery of Flacé in Mâcon in France, people come together to remember him.
Robert Timlin
Robert James Timlin (July 26, 1932 – January 17, 2017) was an American federal judge. He served as a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from 2005 to his death in 2017. Before this, he served as a judge for the court from 1994 to 2005.
Vikings
Religion
The Anglo-Saxons called the Vikings pagans. They worshiped a great many gods. Viking gods belonged to two groups of gods in Norse mythology. They either belonged to the Aesir or the Vanir. The Aesir were gods of war. Aesir means "gods". They were the rulers of Asgard. Odin was the leader of the Aesir. He and the gods under him ruled mortal men. The vanir were wise gods skilled in magical arts. they live in Vanaheim, although nobody knows where it is. The Vanir can also predict the future. There was a war between the Aesir and the Vanir. When it ended the god Njord and his children Freya and Freyr came to live in Asgard.
The pagan Vikings were exposed to Christianity from the beginning of the Viking Age. They were surrounded by Christian countries. Early Christian missionaries were either enslaved or put to death. The Vikings came into contact with Christianity when they raided other areas around them. Viking raids produced many Christian slaves who were brought back to Scandinavia. They called Christians "Cross-men" because of the cross in their worship. In response many Vikings adopted Thors hammer as their religious symbol. When Vikings settled in Christian areas they converted to Christianity. There are still Headstones in England with both a cross and a hammer. Perhaps they thought it was better to be safe than sorry. That, or the more gods the better. As some Vikings turned from raiding to trading they found a nominal (in name only) profession of Christianity to be helpful. Scandinavia, their homeland, was slower to change to the Christian religion. But by the mid-11th century most of Norway and Denmark had converted. Sweden was converted by the mid-12th century. Overall Scandinavia and the peoples of the Baltic Sea were the last to accept Christianity.
Robert Timlin
Timlin was born in Buffalo, New York. He was married to Caroline. They had two children.
Timlin died on January 17, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 84.
Vikings
Religion
The Viking's religion affected Christianity as well. The pagan celebration of Yuletide became Christmas along with the custom of the Christmas tree. Priests blessing the fields took the place of pagan fertility rites of spring held to make sure there was a good harvest. Norse kept their "farm gods" well after Christianity just to make sure they were protected. Santa Claus owes much of his legend to the Norse god Odin. With his snow-white beard he traveled the midwinter sky on his eight-footed steed Sleipnir visiting his people with gifts. He became Father Christmas. Blended with the Christian Saint Nicholas he (they) became Santa Claus.
In fiction and theater
In the late 19th century (the 1800s), Richard Wagner and other artists in the Romantic period made operas and other artwork about ancient Germanic culture. They liked the Vikings because they were not Greeks or Romans. They came up with the idea of Vikings wearing fur clothes and helmets with wings or horns on them and drinking out of hollowed-out animal horns. Some ancient Germans wore helmets with horns on them, but real Vikings did not. Wagner and his partners deliberately dressed the actors in the opera Ring des Nibelungen so they would look like ancient Germans and so the audience would feel like modern Germans came from medieval Vikings.
Lourdios-Ichère
Lourdios-Ichère is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Carlos Bravo
Carlos Bravo is a retired fencer from Venezuela. Bravo competed at the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics. He was born on 25 July 1973.
Buried Alive (book)
Buried Alive: The Elements of Love is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with pictures by Andrew Moore. It was first published in 1996.
Summary
This book is a collection of thirty six free verse poems about teenage love divided into four elements: earth, water, air and fire.
Gene family
A gene family is a set of several similar genes. They occur by the duplication of a single original gene. Usually they have similar biochemical functions. The idea that genes get duplicated is almost as old as the science of genetics.
One such family are the genes for human haemoglobin subunits. The ten genes are in two clusters on different chromosomes, called the α-globin and β-globin loci. These two gene clusters are thought to have arisen from a precursor gene being duplicated, about 500 million years ago.
The biggest gene family is said to be the olfaction genes. The homeobox genes are another important group.
Genes for the immune system include several gene families. They code for the major histocompatibility complex, and the immunoglobulins. The toll-like receptors are the main sensors of infection in mammals.
Trégarvan
Trégarvan (Tregarvan) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Gueberschwihr
Gueberschwihr is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot (7 May 1882 - 31 May 1960), was a Belgian writer and poet. His real name was Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder. He was born in Antwerp. His parents ran a bakery. He studied at the Atheneum of Antwerp, were he was inspired for literature by his teacher Pol de Mont. Later he went to the business high school of Antwerp and ran an advertising agency.
Trégarantec
Trégarantec (Tregaranteg) is a commune. It is found in the region Brittany in the Finistère department in the northwest of France.
Sky City 1000
Tokyo SkyCity or Sky City 1000 is a proposed arcology for Tokyo, Japan. It is a 202 story, 1000 m tall vertical city. It would be home to 36,000 people and employ 100,000 people. The skyscraper would have 14 concave dish shaped modules called space plateaus. These modules were later copied and adapted for use in the proposed SpaceCity 6000. Each space plateau would have green space. These spaces would be used as a courtyard for the apartments, office suites, stores and other indoor facilities on the plataeu.
Group 16 element
Group 16 is the third last group in the periodic table. This group is called the oxygen family or the chalcogens. The elements in this group are oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium and livermorium. The first two elements are nonmetals, elements are in between are metalloids and the last two are metals  Polonium and livermorium are radioactive. Oxygen (as O2) is a colorless gas.
Louvie-Juzon
Louvie-Juzon is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Royal Microscopical Society
Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a British and international scientific society. RMS promotes the scientific field which uses microscopes.
Andromeda galaxy
The Andromeda galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, our galaxy. Andromeda is sometimes called Messier 31, M31 or NGC 224 by astronomers. It is about 2.6 million light years away from us. In other words, we see it as it was 2.6 million years ago.
Andromeda is named after the princess in Greek mythology called Andromeda (Ανδρομέδα).
Andromeda is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which consists of the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Although the largest, Andromeda may not be the most massive. Recent findings suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and may be the most massive in the group.
The 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that M31 contains a trillion stars (1012). This is more than the number of stars in our own galaxy, which is estimated to be c. 200-400 billion.
Andromeda is estimated to be 7.1 solar masses. In comparison, a 2009 study estimated that the Milky Way and Andromeda are about equal in mass,
At an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda galaxy is notable for being one of the brightest Messier objects. It visible to the naked eye on moonless nights even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution. Although it appears more than six times as wide as the full Moon when photographed by a larger telescope, only the brighter central region is visible to the naked eye. Being both large and bright, it is one of the farthest objects that can be seen without a telescope or binoculars.
Louvie-Soubiron
Louvie-Soubiron is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Andromeda galaxy
Satellite galaxies
Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies. the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope. The second-brightest and closest one to M31 is M32.
Observational history
The Persian astronomer Al Sufi was the first man to record seeing the Andromeda galaxy. He called the galaxy "a small cloud" in his book, the Book of Fixed Stars, which was published in 964 AD. The first person to look at the galaxy with a telescope was Simon Marius in 1612. In 1764 Charles Messier put it into his catalogue of astronomical objects. He called it M31 and gave the credit for its discovery to Marius, as he did not know that Al Sufi had seen it hundreds of years previously.
In 1751 William Herschel estimated the distance to the Andromeda "nebula" as "no more than 2000 times the distance to Sirius," or around 17,200 light years. The best modern estimate of Andromeda's distance is 2.54 million light years. In the 1920s astronomer Edwin Hubble proved that Andromeda was a galaxy, and not a gas cloud in the Milky Way as had been thought.
Andromeda was known to the ancients, but only in the 1920s was it understood as a galaxy.
Voiced velar lateral approximant
The voiced velar lateral approximant is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is similar to the ll in full.
Pigniu
Pigniu was a municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.
History
In 1799, the Russian Army under command of Field Marshal Suvorov crossed the Pigniu pass.
Madaba
Madaba is a city in the center of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and it is the center of Madaba Governorate. It is located 33 kilometers southwest of the capital, Amman, and rises about 770 meters above sea level. Its population in 2015 reached about 105,353 people. Madaba is the ninth largest city in the Kingdom.
The city was founded by the Moabites in the thirteenth century BC, as it was part of their kingdom extending east of the Jordan River. Successively, many civilizations ruled the region
Madaba played a prominent role after it was occupied by the Byzantines because it included a number of its important historical churches. Until now, the city is considered one of the most important places for the followers of the Christian faith, due to the presence of these religious monuments. Located in its vicinity are many archaeological sites and holy places represented by Christian pilgrimage sites such as Al-Maghtas, Mount Nebo, Mukawar and Umm al-Rasas, which makes it a destination for tourists.
The importance of Madaba in the early centuries of Christianity was similar to the importance of the city of Jerusalem as the most important center of Christian life in Transjordan, where it was mentioned in the Bible.
Madaba is very famous for its mosaics art, and for its special heritage within its alleys; ancient Byzantine churches, mosques and unique architecture. It also contains the only institute in the world to teach the mosaics art. It is sometimes referred to as the city of mosaics. The map of Madaba is one of the most important mosaic monuments in the city.
The city's first municipal council was established in 1912, and today it is under the name of Greater Madaba Municipality. Within its borders five districts are located, constituting the borders of the city of Madaba, which extends over 54 square kilometers. Madaba was announced Arab Tourism Capital for 2022, after achieving all the criteria and terms of reference.
New Lisbon, Wisconsin
New Lisbon (Hoocąk: Wac'hožura ) is a city in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,554 at the 2010 census.
Daniel Vischer
Daniel Vischer (16 January 1950 – 17 January 2017) was a Swiss politician for the Green Party. He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2015.
Vischer was born in Basel. He was the son of jurist Frank Vischer (1923–2015). He was married and had two children.
Vischer died from cancer on 17 January 2017, a day after his 67th birthday, in Zürich.
Anal Cunt
Anal Cunt is an American grindcore band from Newton, Massachusetts. They have been categorized as grindcore, noisecore, and hardcore. The band were famous for refusing to follow society's expected levels of behaviour. This non-conformity can be seen in the name of the band, and songs with titles such as "Recycling is Gay", "Kill Women" and "Eazy E got AIDS from Freddie Mercury".
The lead singer, Seth Putnam, died on June 11, 2011, from a heart attack.
Velarized alveolar lateral approximant
The velarised alveolar lateral approximant is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is in English but is not phonemic. It is the ll in full.
Russian Ground Forces
The Russian Ground Forces (Сухопутные войска [СВ]), also known as the Russian Army (Армия России, ), are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
History
As the Soviet Union dissolved, Soviet officials tried to keep the Soviet Armed Forces as a single military for the new Commonwealth of Independent States. The last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, was made supreme commander of the CIS Armed Forces in December 1991. Once it became clear that Ukraine (and possibly the other republics) was going to form their own armed forces, the new Russian government moved to form its own armed forces.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree creating the Russian Ministry of Defence on 7 May 1992. This created the Russian Ground Forces and the other branches of the military.
Post-Soviet reform plans
The Ministry of Defence newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda published a reform plan on 21 July 1992. The General Staff turned further towards conservatism. This caused a lot of problems. The reform plan wanted a change from an Army-Division-Regiment structure to a Corps-Brigade structure. They wanted the new structures to be better in a situation with no front line.
Few of the reforms planned in the early 1990s actually happened. This was for three reasons: Firstly, there was not enough help or support from the government, with President Yeltsin mainly interested in making sure that the Armed Forces were controllable and loyal, rather than reformed. Secondly, there was not enough funding. Finally, there was no consensus in the military about what reforms should happen.
Crime and corruption in the ground forces
The new Russian Ground Forces also got a growing crime problem from their Soviet predecessors. As draft resistance grew in the last years of the Soviet Union, the authorities put people with criminal records and who spoke little or no Russian in the army. Crime rates grew quickly. Weapons disappeared or were stolen more as well.
In March 2011, Military Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky reported that crimes had been rising in the Russian Ground Forces for the past 18 months, with 500 crimes reported in the period of January to March 2011 alone.
In July 2013, the Prosecutor General's office showed that corruption in 2013 rose 450% compared to 2012. This corruption cost the Russian government 4.4 billion rubles (US$130 million).
First Chechen War
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Chechens declared independence in November 1991. They declared independence under the leadership of a former Air Forces officer, General Dzhokar Dudayev. Chechen independence was seen as lowering Moscow's authority. Chechnya was seen as a haven for criminals. Soon a group within the Kremlin wanted war. A Security Council meeting was held 29 November 1994 on the issue. Yeltsin ordered the Chechens to disarm, or else Moscow would invade. Defense Minister Pavel Grachev told Yeltsin that he would "take Grozny with one airborne assault regiment in two hours."
The operation started on 11 December 1994 and, by 31 December, Russian forces were entering Grozny, the Chechen capital. The 131st Motor Rifle Brigade was told to make a push for the centre of the city. However, it was almost fully destroyed in Chechen ambushes. After finally taking Grozny, Russian troops moved on to other Chechen strongholds. Chechen militants took hostages in the Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis in Stavropol Krai in June 1995. This caused hope for peace. However, the fighting continued. After this incident, the Chechen separatists were called insurgents or terrorists in Russia.
Dzhokar Dudayev was assassinated in a Russian airstrike on 21 April 1996. In that summer, a Chechen attack retook Grozny. Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Lebed began talks with the Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov in August 1996 and signed an agreement on 22/23 August. The agreement was that by the end of that month, the fighting would end. The ceasefire was signed in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt on 31 August 1996.
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War started in August 1999 after Chechen militias invaded Dagestan. After this was a series of four terrorist bombings across Russia. This caused Russian military action against the alleged Chechen culprits.
In the First Chechen War, the Russians bombarded an area with artillery and airstrikes before moving the land forces. Improvements were made in the Ground Forces between 1996 and 1999 and its performance during the Second Chechen War improved because of this.
The war started to slow down, however. Small-scale conflict continued to happen. As of November 2007, fighting had spread across other parts of the Russian Caucasus. The Second Chechen War officially ended on 16 April 2009.
Russo-Ukrainian War
Russia started putting many troops on the Ukrainian border starting in late 2021.
On February 24, 2022, Russian troops began invading Ukraine. During this invasion, Russia lost many tanks to Ukrainian anti-tank systems. As of 6 May, at least 12 generals have been killed in Ukraine.
Equipment
The Russian Ground Forces has lots of vehicles and equipment. A lot of these are older Soviet designs.
New equipment, like the Armata Universal Combat Platform, Bumerang, and Kurganets-25, has been brought in since 2015. They have begun replacing old tanks and armored vehicles such as the BMPs, BTRs like the T-72, T-90, BMP-1/2/3, and BTR-80s.
Equipment summary
Figures listed as "Active" only include equipment that is in active service.
Ranks and insignia
The Russian Army kept most of the ranks of the Soviet Army, with some small changes.
Voiceless retroflex plosive
The voiceless retroflex stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. It is similar to /t/ but your tongue is curled back.
Magadino
Magadino was a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 25 April 2010, the former municipalities of Caviano, Contone, Gerra Gambarogno, Indemini, Magadino, Piazzogna, San Nazzaro, Sant'Abbondio and Vira Gambarogno merged to form the new municipality of Gambarogno.
Gratiot County, Michigan
Gratiot County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, 41,761 people live here. The county seat is Ithaca.
Georgetown, Ontario
Georgetown is a community in Ontario, Canada. It is part of the town of Halton Hills, Ontario. A neighbouring community is Acton, Ontario.
Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialism is a nationalist movement by people either wanting to be exempt from a country or to stop the countries expansion. They are opposed to imperialism and colonialism. The Spanish–American War is an example of an anti-imperialist war.
Louvigny, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Louvigny, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a set of questions based on psychology. By answering the questions, people can learn about how they tend to make choices. They can also learn about how they view the world. After answering the questions in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, people are placed in one of sixteen groups. These groups are based on theories by Carl Gustav Jung in his book Psychological Types (1921).
Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers created the first set of questions during World War II. The set of questions was made to help women who were working for the first time. Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Meyers thought that the set of questions would help women be happier and work better. The set of questions has grown into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The MBTI that we use today was created in 1962.
Though there are sixteen types, it is stated that there is no best type. The types are considered all equal.
Outlooks: extraversion / introversion
The MBTI measures four things. The first is extraversion (E) and introversion (I). Extroverts are people who get energy from the outside world. Extroverts like to spend their time with other people. Introverts are people who get energy from the inside world. Introverts tend to get energy from thinking and reflecting.
Information gathering: sensing / intuition
The second measure is sensing (S) and intuition (N). Sensing and intuition are ways of gathering information. People who are sensing trust facts. Sensing people accept things if they can see, hear, touch, taste, or smell them. People who tend to like intuition are more likely to accept outcomes based on other people and meanings that cannot be tested.
Decision making: thinking / feeling
Those who prefer thinking do not “think better” than those who prefer Feeling, and those who prefer feeling do not make decisions based only on people.
Dealing with others: judging / perceiving
The last measure is of judging (J) and perceiving (P). Judging and perceiving detail how people deal with the outside world. A person who likes Judging tends to report that they use Thinking or feeling to deal with the outside world. A person who likes perceiving tends to report that they use sensing or intuition to deal with the outside world.
The full type
A Myers Briggs type is made up of each of the preferences above. For example an ESTJ would be a person who prefers extraversion, sensing, thinking, and judging. An INFP would be a person who prefers introversion, intuition, feeling, and perceiving.
Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes (born March 11, 1948) is an American attorney and politician. He was the 80th Governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003.
Tainted Love
"Tainted Love" is a pop rock single. It was first sung by Gloria Jones. The lyrics are about leaving a relationship due to being abused.
The song was first released in May 1965. In 1981, Soft Cell covered the song. Their version hit #1 on some charts. In summer 1982, it reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Emilie Béatrice Epaye
Emilie Béatrice Epaye is a politician and teacher from the Central African Republic. She was a minister in the government and she was in the National Assembly. Epaye works for better government, economic development, freedom, human rights, and peace. In 2015, she won the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award.
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem (born Saint-Ghislain, near Mons, Belgium about 1410; died Tours, France, 6 February 1497), was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School (from around the area which is now Belgium) in the last half of the 15th century, and is often thought of as the most important composer between Dufay and Josquin des Prez. He was an excellent choirmaster and teacher. He spent most of his life working for the French royal court.
Voiced velar approximant
The voiced velar approximant is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English. It is similar to /w/ but without using your lips.
Johannes Ockeghem
Life
The name Ockeghem is found with many different spellings in old documents. He was almost certainly born in the town of Saint-Ghislain. His native language was probably French.
Georg Cantor
Georg Cantor (3 March 1845 - 6 January 1918 ) was an important German mathematician. He founded set theory and worked on transfinite numbers.
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970) is an American composer, arranger and conductor of film music.
Emilie Béatrice Epaye
Life
Emilie Béatrice Epaye was born about 1956. She studied to be a teacher. She worked in her family transportation business.
Johannes Ockeghem
Life
Like many composers in this period, he started to learn about music by singing in a church choir, quite possibly in Saint-Ghislain and then in Mons.
List of federal subjects of Russia by population
List according to census
Data excludes Khanty–Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs.