cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Gangkhar Puensum
Details about the mountain have not always been correct. It was first measured in 1922, but not all maps showed the same height. There was also confusion on the location of the mountain. Some maps showed it in different places than others. Due to this confusion, the first team to try to climb it wasn’t even able to find it at all. The present listed height and location are from China, as Bhutan has not surveyed the mountain.
A few people have tried to climb the mountain in the past, but none succeeded. In 1994, Bhutan made a law that no one could climb above 6000 m. Then in 2003, they banned all climbing. As long as the ban is in place, it is unlikely that anyone will reach the top from the Bhutan side. While it may be possible to start the climb in Tibet, China has not allowed it. Tibet is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This is a political decision due to issues in the border region between China and Bhutan. There is a border dispute between the two countries.
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal
Danièle Hoffman-Rispal (22 June 1951 – c. 16 April 2020) was a French politician of Jewish descent. She was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2012. She represented the city of Paris. Hoffman-Rispal was a member of the Socialist Party.
Hoffman-Rispal died either late 15 April or early 16 April 2020 in Paris at the age of 68.
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian-American mathematician. He is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.
Elastic limit
The elastic limit is the maximum amount an object can stretch before breaking (it cannot go back to its original state) if the object stretches at all.
John Wick (movie)
John Wick (also known as John Wick: Chapter 1) is a 2014 American neo-noir action movie directed by Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. It is the first movie in the John Wick movie series.
The movie received positive reviews. Many critics called it one of Reeves' best performances and one of the best action movies of 2014. It made $86 million worldwide.
The Point!
The Point! is a 1971 animated cartoon movie, written by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson and Carole Beers, and directed by Fred Wolf. It first appeared on ABC television, in the United States. It starred the voices of Mike Lookinland ("Bobby" of The Brady Bunch fame), and actor Dustin Hoffman. (Later editions replaced Hoffman's voice with that of Alan Thicke, then musician Ringo Starr.)
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a 2019 American neo-noir action thriller movie. It stars Keanu Reeves as the main character. It is the third movie in the John Wick movie series. The movie is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams.
It also stars Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, and Ian McShane.
Parabellum was released in the United States on May 17, 2019, by Lionsgate. It has made $326 million worldwide, becoming the highest-money making movie of the franchise in just 10 days. It received positive reviews.
Transport network
A transport network, or transportation network is a network of roads, railways, streets, pipes, power lines, or any structure that lets either movement of vehicles or flow of some commodity.
John G. Thompson
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932) is an American mathematician. He works at the University of Florida. He is known for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992 and the 2008 Abel Prize.
Darwinius
Darwinius is a genus of primates known from only one fossil. It was discovered in 1983 by an amateur at the Messel Pit. This is a disused shale quarry noted for its astonishing fossil preservation, near the village of Messel, about 35 km (22 miles) southeast of Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
Ksenia Tripolitova
Ksenia Arturovna Tripolitova (7 May 1915 – 9 April 2020) was a Russian-born French ballet dancer. She was born in Vilna, Russian Empire. She began studying in the studio of Lyubov Yegorova. She was known for touring with her husband Nikolai Tripolitov during the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1960s, she began a solo career. Tripolitova was known for performing during World War II when Nazis were fighting in France.
In 1949 she performed in Switzerland. At the end of the 1950s, she and her husband formed a vocal and dance ensemble "Troika". In the years 1954-1955 she worked in the opera theater in Tunis. In 1957 she performed together with the Ural Cossack choir in Spain.
Tripolitova turned 100 in April 2015. She died in Paris on 9 April 2020, aged 104.
Contour integral
In complex analysis, contour integration is a way to calculate an integral around a contour on the complex plane. In other words, it is a way of integrating along the complex plane.
More specifically, given a complex-valued function f and a contour C, the contour integral of f along C is written as or.
Calculating contour integrals with the residue theorem
For a standard contour integral, we can evaluate it by using the residue theorem. This theorem states that
where \text{Res} is the residue of the function f(z), C is the contour located on the complex plane. Here, f(z) is the integrand of the function, or part of the integral to be integrated.
The following examples illustrate how contour integrals can be calculated using the residue theorem.
Multivariable contour integrals
To solve multivariable contour integrals (contour integrals on functions of several variables), such as surface integrals, complex volume integrals and higher order integrals, we must use the divergence theorem. For right now, let \nabla be interchangeable with \text{Div}. These will both serve as the divergence of the vector field written as \mathbf{F}. This theorem states that:
In addition, we also need to evaluate, where is an alternate notation of. The divergence of any dimension can be described as
The following examples illustrate the use of divergence theorem in the calculation of multivariate contour integrals.
Example 1
Let the vector field be bounded by the following conditions
The corresponding double contour integral would be set up as such:
We now evaluate by setting up the corresponding triple integral:
From this, we can now evaluate the integral as follows:
Example 2
Given the vector field and n being the fourth dimension. Let this vector field be bounded by the following:
To evaluate this, we use the divergence theorem as stated before, and evaluate afterwards. Let, then:
From this, we now can evaluate the integral:
Thus, we can evaluate a contour integral of the fourth dimension.
Santiago Lanzuela
Santiago Lanzuela Marina (27 September 1948 – 16 April 2020) was a Spanish politician. He was born in Teruel, Spain. He was the President of the Government of Aragon from 1995 to 1999. He was a member of the Aragonese Party.
Lanzuela died of COVID-19 in Madrid on 16 April 2020, aged 71.
Albert Almoznino
Albert Almoznino (אלברט אלמוזנינו; March 3, 1923 – April 7, 2020) was a Moroccan-born Israeli hand shadow artist. His career began in 1958. He became well known in the 1960s, when he performed his hand shadow skills at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Paris Olympia and during the The Ed Sullivan Show. Almoznino was born in Mogador (Essaouira), Morocco.
Almoznino died on April 7, 2020 at the age of 97.
San Felipe de Puerto Plata
The Dominican city of San Felipe de Puerto Plata, usually called just Puerto Plata is the head municipality of the Puerto Plata province, on the north (Atlantic) coast of the country.
Name
The name Puerto Plata ("Silver Port") came from the name given by Columbus to the mountain just to the south of the city: Monte de Plata ("Silver Mountain") because the mountain always had clouds on its top and not because there was the metal silver; that mountain now is called Isabel de Torres mountain (in Spanish, the complete name is Loma Isabel de Torres). Isabel de Torres was a lady who lived in Puerto Plata in 1605 and had a lot of land in the mountain.
The city was called first Puerto de Plata but later it was changed to just Puerto Plata, the name that is still used
History
Columbus visited the Puerto Plata Bay on 11 January 1493. The city was founded and built by Nicolás de Ovando in 1502. Soon it became the most important port in the northern coast of the Hispaniola island and, in 1508, the king of Spain gave a coat of arms to the city.
Because there were many pirates and other British and French ships along the northern coast of the island, a fort was built here by orders of Carlos I, king of Spain; its construction took several years and it was finished in 1577. Because at that moment the Spanish's king was Felipe II, the fort was named Fuerte San Felipe (in English, Saint Phillip Fort).
In 1606, those that were living in the towns of Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi were ordered by the Spanish king to move to the southeast of the island and to found a new town: Monte Plata. Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi were, then, destroyed. They were founded again in the 18th century with families that came from the Canary Islands.
Population
The municipality had, in, a total population of 128,240: 63,564 men and 64,676 women. The urban population was 92% of the total population.
Geography
San Felipe de Puerto Plata has a total area of 210.7 km2 (without including its municipal districts), about 11% of the total area of the province of Puerto Plata. The city is at an elevation of 8 m, and at 215 km to the north of Santo Domingo.
The Cordillera Septentrional ("Northern mountain range") runs along the southern half of the municipality. There are only two roads that go through this mountain range. It rains a lot in these mountains.
The mountain "Loma Isabel de Torres" (the "Monte de Plata" of Columbus) is at about 5 km to the southeast of the city of Puerto Plata. It stands alone even if it is part of the Cordillera Septentrional. On top of the mountain, there is rainforest because it gets a lot of rain there; it rains almost every day. That forest is now a national park. It is 799 m high and there are two ways for getting to the top: by road or by a cable car (a type of car that runs on cables above the car).
There are many rivers in the municipality but, because the Cordillera Septentrional is close to the coast, they are all very short. The two most important rivers are Camú del Norte and Yásica. Two small rivers that are close to the city are San Marcos and Muñoz.
There are some bays along the coast. Two of them are the Puerto Plata Bay and Maimón Bay.
Penny sterling
The penny sterling (plural pence) is a subdivision of Pound sterling, the currency for the United Kingdom.
Keiji Fujiwara
Keiji Fujiwara (藤原 啓治) was a Japanese voice actor. His best known works were Shinnosuke's father Hiroshi Nohara in the long-running anime series Crayon Shin-chan, Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist, Holland in Eureka Seven, Axel in Kingdom Hearts, Leorio in Hunter x Hunter, Shiro Fujimoto in Ao no Exorcist and Esidisi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency.
In the live action, he was mostly known for dubbing actor Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.
Fujiwara died, aged 55 of cancer on April 12, 2020.
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest, also referred to as Cascadia, is a region on the west coast of North America. It refers to the northwestern corner of the United States and the southwestern part of Canada. The U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana are in the southern part of the Pacific Northwest. The Canadian province of British Columbia and the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alaska is in the northern part. The entire region is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Historically, the Pacific Northwest had been inhabited by Native Americans. Starting from about 15,000 years ago, Native Americans settled along the coastline and along the major rivers. From the 1500s to the 1700s, Europeans explored the region, beginning with the discovery of Oregon and Washington. In the early 1800s, the famous Lewis and Clark expedition arrived in Washington State. From the 19th century to present day, the region began to become settled. Today, the largest cities in the Northwest include Vancouver, Seattle and Portland.
The rugged mountains of the Northwest consist of the Coast Range, which is nearer the coast, and the Cascade Range. In northern Washington, the Cascade Range is called the North Cascades. In British Columbia, it is called the Canadian Cascades. The many rivers of the Northwest result from its wet climate - the mountains trap wet Pacific air, leaving little rain for inland states like Idaho. The rivers once supported large salmon runs, but large power dams have been built on many rivers.
The main language of the Pacific Northwest is English in the United States and Canada, among the Native Americans Chinook Jargon is common. Among the many Asian immigrants, Chinese is being used more in the Northwest.
Geography
The Pacific Northwest basically extends from southeastern Alaska to Northern California. Along this entire length, is a large mountain range, the Cascade Range, that forms the geographic spine of the Pacific Northwest. The highest mountain in the Northwest is Mount Rainier. Rainier is 14410 ft high. Other notable mountains include Mount Shasta, at 14163 ft, and Mount Baker, at 10781 ft. East of the Cascades, there is the Columbia Plateau, a high area of land that stretches east to the Rocky Mountains in Idaho and Montana. In the west, the Coast Range borders the coast more closely. The Olympic Mountains are on the Olympic Peninsula, an extension of Washington State. Puget Sound is a large system of bays and straits in northwestern Washington and southeastern British Columbia.
The main rivers of the Pacific Northwest are the Fraser River, the Columbia River, and the Snake River. The Fraser River is mainly in British Columbia; it flows west to the Pacific Ocean near Vancouver. The Fraser drains most of the southern Canadian Cascades. The Columbia River begins in the Canadian Cascades and flows south, then turns west where it meets the Snake River. From there, it flows on to the ocean near Portland. The Snake River is mainly in inland Idaho. After a journey west from the Rocky Mountains, it meets the Columbia at Kennewick, Washington.
Other rivers in the Northwest include the Finlay, the Skagit, the Umpqua, the Rogue, and the Klamath. The Finlay drains the northern Canadian Cascades and flows on to join the Mackenzie River, which flows through Canada to Hudson Bay. The Skagit also begins in the Canadian Cascades, and crosses into Washington; it turns west and flows into the sea north of Everett, Washington. The Umpqua River begins in the Southern Oregon Cascades, and flows west to the Pacific Ocean near Reedsport, Oregon. The Rogue parallels the Umpqua and dumps into the sea at Gold Beach, Oregon. The Klamath flows south from a valley in inland Oregon, then turns west through northern California, cutting through the Cascade Range to its mouth near Klamath, California.
Aharon Razin
Aharon Razin (Hebrew: אהרון רזין) (April 6, 1935 – May 27, 2019) was an Israeli biochemist. He was born in Tel Aviv. He won the Israel Prize in 2004 and the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2008.
Razin's works focused on the metabolism of nucleic acids and the biochemical faults in patients with gout.
Razin died on May 27, 2019 in Jerusalem at the age of 84.
President of Suriname
The President of the Republic of Suriname (President van de Republiek Suriname) is, in accordance with the Constitution of 1987, the head of state and head of government of Suriname, and commander-in-chief of the Suriname National Army (SNL).
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were an American mass murder duo. On April 20, 1999, the pair killed 13 and wounded 24 others at the high school they both attended in Columbine, Colorado. Both Harris and Klebold also killed themselves in school's library. The event became known as the Columbine High School massacre. The school shooting and attempted bombing has gained a lot of notoriety. Harris and Klebold have been described as cultural icons and had a large impact on popular culture. The duo have been referenced in many different types of media.
Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas. His father was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot. He moved with his family to Littleton, Colorado in 1993. Klebold was born in Lakewood, Colorado. The pair met in middle school and became close friends. Both have been said to have different personalities and be targets of bullying. Harris was described as being more outgoing and charismatic. Klebold has been described as being more quiet and shy.
Harris and Klebold both worked at a local pizza chain. In 1998, they broke into a van and stole equipment. They were charged with mischief, breaking and entering, trespassing and theft. At the time of the massacre, Harris was 18 and Klebold was 17.
John Pinto
John Pinto (December 15, 1924 – May 24, 2019) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the New Mexico Senate from 1977 until his death in 2019. He was the longest-serving member in the Senate. Pinto represented the 3rd District.
Pinto was born in Lupton, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation. He was in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and was a Navajo code talker. Pinto died in Gallup, New Mexico, on May 24, 2019 at the age of 94.
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgium-born French mathematician. He worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, and the Tits group.
In 2008 he was awarded the Abel Prize, along with John Griggs Thompson, “for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory.”
Tits died on 5 December 2021 at the age of 91.
Hendrick Chin A Sen
Hendrick Rudolf "Henk" Chin A Sen (18 January 1934 – 11 August 1999) was a Surinamese politician who was the President of Suriname from 15 August 1980 until 4 February 1982.
Lupton, Arizona
Lupton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. Lupton is near Interstate 40 at the New Mexico border. It is 21 mi southwest of Gallup, New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the Lupton CDP had a population of 25.
Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It is the highest market town in England. Buxton is near to Cheshire and Staffordshire. Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park". Buxton is also close to Manchester.
Poole's Cavern, a limestone cavern, and St Ann's Well are in Buxton. Also in the town is an Opera House.
History
The Romans developed the town when it was called Aquae Arnemetiae (or the spa of the goddess of the grove). Roman coins have been found in Buxton. The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire, with a second revival a hundred years later as the people visited to use the healing properties of the waters.
The Dukes of Devonshire have been helping Buxton since 1780, when the Duke used his money from his copper mines to develop the town as a spa like Bath.
Bess of Hardwick had taken one of her four husbands, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to "take the waters" at Buxton shortly after he became the jailer of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569.
Dr. Erasmus Darwin recommended the waters at Buxton to Josiah Wedgwood. The Wedgwood family often went to Buxton on holiday. Two of Charles Darwin's half-cousins, Edward Levett Darwin and Reginald Darwin also settled there.
Economy
Buxton is twinned with two other towns—Oignies in France and Bad Nauheim in Germany.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is an 1865 childrens’ story written by Charles Dodgson and illustrated by John Tenniel. Dodgson used Lewis Carroll as a pen name when writing poetry and fiction.
Fred Ramdat Misier
Lachmipersad Frederik "Fred" Ramdat Misier (28 October 1926 – 25 July 2004) was the 3rd President of Suriname from 1982 to 1988.
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhael Gromov, Michael Gromov or Mischa Gromov; Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943), is a French-Russian mathematician. He is known for work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a member of IHÉS in France and a Professor of Mathematics at New York University.
Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
Montreal Wanderers
The Montreal Wanderers were a professional men's ice hockey team that played in Montreal, Quebec at the Montreal Arena, and were one of the founding franchises of the National Hockey League in the 1917–18 NHL season. The Wanderers won a total of eight Stanley Cup challenges within a span of five seasons from 1906 to 1910. Prior to the formation of the NHL, the "Redbands" were one of the most successful teams in hockey.
Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Note: 1 = first half of season, 2 = second half of season
Honoured players
The following Hockey Hall of Fame players played for the Wanderers during some point in their careers:
Khoo Kay Kim
Khoo Kay Kim (28 March 1937 – 28 May 2019) was a Malaysian historian. He was born in Kampar, Perak to a family of Chinese heritage. He was an emeritus professor in the history department of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He was one of the co-authors of Rukunegara. In January 2011, Khoo was named Chancellor of KDU University College.
Khoo died of respiratory failure on 28 May 2019 in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. He was 82.
Ramsewak Shankar
Ramsewak Shankar (born November 6, 1937) is a Surinamese politician. He was the 4th President of Suriname from 1988 to 1990. His government was overthrown by Dési Bouterse leading a bloodless military coup. Shankar was Agriculture & Fisheries Minister from 1969 to 1971.
£sd
£sd (pronounced, and sometimes written, L.s.d.) was the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies (sterling) used in the United Kingdom and in most of the British Empire. This abbreviation meant “pounds, shillings, and pence”. It is different when compared to American currency.
Edmund Morris (writer)
Arthur Edmund Morris (May 27, 1940 – May 24, 2019) was a Kenyan-born British-American writer. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Morris was best known for his biographies of United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Morris's first book, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, was the first volume of what would eventually become a trilogy on the life of the 26th president and won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 1980 National Book Award for biography.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and was impressed by a reading of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1985, Reagan made Morris his official biographer. In 1999, Morris published Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.
He was a travel journalist and wrote for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine.
Morris died on May 24, 2019 in Kent, Connecticut from a stroke at the age of 78.
Johan Kraag
Johannes Samuel Petrus "Johan" Kraag (July 29, 1913 – May 24, 1996) was a Surinamese politician. He was the President of Suriname from December 29, 1990, until September 16, 1991.
2001 St. Louis Rams season
The 2001 season was the St. Louis Rams' 65th in the National Football League (NFL), their seventh in St. Louis and their second under head coach Mike Martz.
John Tate
John Torrence Tate Jr. (March 13, 1925 – October 16, 2019) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.
Jules Wijdenbosch
Jules Albert Wijdenbosch (born 2 May 1942) is a Surinamese politician. He was President of Suriname from 1996 to 2000. He was a member of the National Democratic Party. He was Prime Minister from April 1987 until January 1988, Vice President from January 1991 until September 1991.
White Army
The White Army during the Russian Revolution was an alliance of various groups that opposed the Red Army of Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. White Army supporters included liberals, aristocrats, Cossacks, the Russian Orthodox Church, and some peasants. Eventually, the enemies of the Bolsheviks sent ships and troops to help the White Army. The Red Army defeated the White Army by being better organized and more united.
2020 Belizean general election
The 2020 Belizean general election will elect and the members of the House of Representatives in the National Assembly. On 14 March 2017, Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow stated that he will call for early elections in November 2019. But in March 2018, Barrow pushed back and set it for 13 February 2020. On 22 May 2019, Barrow to the Media that he will strip off his call for early elections and insisted that there will be no General election before 1 November 2020 in Belize. Therefore, the next Belizean general election will be held on Sunday, 1 November 2020.
Deadline
The Deadline for Candidate Nominations will be on 1 October 2020, with political Campaigning lasting for four Weeks until Polling day on 1 November 2020. On the Day of the Election, Polling stations across the Country will be open from 7 am, and closed at 10 pm. The Date chosen for the election made it the third to be held in November since 1979.
Eligibility
Individuals eligible to vote have to be registered to vote by Midnight on 26 September 2020. To be eligible to vote, Individuals had to be aged 18 or over; residing as a Commonwealth citizen at an address in Belize, or a Belizean citizen overseas who registered to Vote in the last 15 years and not legally excluded (on grounds of detainment in Prison, a Mental hospital, or on the run from Law enforcement) or disqualified from Voting. Anyone who qualified as an Anonymous elector will have until midnight on 26 October to Register.
Previous election
The previous general election was held on 4 November 2015, and the new National Assembly was opened on 13 November 2015, which was also the date that the first sitting of the National Assembly of Belize began after the 2015 Belizean general election. According to Section 84 of the Constitution of Belize, the National Assembly of Belize (House of Representatives and Senate) must be dissolved every “five years from the date when the two Houses, first met” unless dissolved sooner by the Governor-General of Belize upon the advice of the Prime Minister. A general election must be called within three months of a dissolution, meaning the latest possible date for Barrow to call the next Belizean general election is on 13 February 2021. If by any chance the next Belizean general election is not held by 13 February 2021, Barrow may be forced to vacate the office of Prime Minister, however he may still remain as Leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), but he will have to make a Snap! decision on a Caretaker Prime Minister of Belize to formally announce a date for the next general election. The Caretaker Prime Minister must be from the ruling, UDP and must also be a Cabinet minister in government.
Despite the five-year term of the National Assembly, three of the last four general elections have been called at least a year early. Both Prime Minister, Dean Barrow and Leader of the Opposition, Johnny Briceño of the People’s United Party (PUP) are on record supporting lowering the maximum five-year term of the National Assembly of Belize to four years. This was also one of the promises that Briceño promised the People of Belize should the PUP be elected in the next election.
Leadership
Barrow first declared on 1 March 2016 that he would be stepping down as Prime Minister on 13 February 2020 and is currently finding a suitable successor to succeed him for that position. He also told the Media that the next election is likely to be held in early 2020 and also scheduled a UDP Leadership convention and election in May 2019. His remarks came as he was being questioned about the then pending United Democratic Party First Deputy Leadership election and convention. On 1 April 2017, at the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry annual general meeting Barrow narrowed down his departure as Prime Minister to less than a year and stated that he will retire in March 2018. He also narrowed down the date of the Leadership convention to 13 February 2018. He also declared that “Since this will be my last opportunity to address your annual gathering, I close by saying how thankful I am for what has in the main been a constructive relationship with the Chamber”.
It's important to point out that in early 2017, Barrow was ailing with excruciating back pain; a serious condition that he was enduring for some time. He could barely sit upright without visible signs of pain on his face, It is understandable then, that in such a poor and un-stabilised state of health and having archived a historic 3-peat in government, he would welcome retirement. But on 1 September 2018, things changed, after swiftly enduring the back pain for more than a year, Barrow with uncontrollable pain vested in his back, proceeded to Cuba and requested the Doctors in a hospital there to perform a Spinal Surgery, the Cuban Doctors did as they were told by Barrow and they also did a phenomenal job. The surgery was a success and after one week of rest and recovery, Barrow returned to perfect health. So after the surgery was over, Barrow rescheduled his retirement once again this time to December 2019 and hinted he could do so earlier and also rescheduled the date for the UDP’s Leadership convention back to May 2019.
On 18 November 2018, Barrow’s cabinet by way of a strange press release urged him to remain as Prime Minister until the 2020 general election on 1 November 2020. They also urged him to remain as Leader of the UDP until February 2020. He said he will take that move and eventually for the final time, rescheduled the convention to February 2020. A significant walking back from his declaration at the 2017 Chamber meeting. On 4 December 2018, Minister of Human Development and Minister of Social Transformation, Anthony Martinez reveled to the media on why he and the Cabinet urged Barrow to remain as Prime Minister until 2020. Martinez stayed on course saying that Barrow ultimately took the decision and that the goal is for the currently leadership to take the UDP into a fourth term in government. A fourth term will be historic for the UDP as no political party in post-independence Belize has ever embarked on a fourth term. Plus this will also be a major upset for the majority of Belizeans who are expecting the PUP to cling win at the Next election.
Timetable
The key dates are:
Monday 10 February
Minister of National Security, John Saldivar elected as Leader of the UDP he swears in the Title of UDP Leader-elect while Barrow remains Official Leader. Saldivar defeats his opponent Deputy prime minister, Patrick Faber receiving 342 votes of the 569 votes cast. Faber only received 227 votes.
Tuesday 11 February
Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi (born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American mathematician. He worked in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986.
He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Aurèle Joliat
Aurèle Émile "Mighty Atom, Little Giant" Joliat (August 29, 1901 – June 2, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.
Endre Szemerédi
Awards and honors
Szemerédi has won numerous awards and honors for his contribution to mathematics and computer science. A few of them are listed here:
Sir Des Champs
Sir Des Champs (foaled 28 May 2006 – 18 May 2018) was a French-bred, Irish-trained AQPS racehorse. He competed in National Hunt races.
Koo Bon-moo
Koo Bon-moo (구본무; 10 February 1945 – 20 May 2018) was a South Korean business executive. He was born in Jinju, South Korea. In 1995, Koo replaced his father Koo Cha-kyung as chairman of LG Group. Koo Bon-moo adopted his nephew Koo Kwang-mo in 2004.
Koo died of brain cancer on 20 May 2018 in Seoul at the age of 73.
2017 All-Pro Team
The 2017 All-Pro Team is the National Football League players that were selected to the Associated Press, Pro Football Writers Association and Sporting News All-Pro Teams in 2017. Some players are First-Team and some are Second-Team. First-Team has better players.
Nana Saheb Peshwa II
Nana Saheb (19 May 1824 – 24 September 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire. An aristocrat and fighter, he led the rebellion in Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising.
As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Sahib believed that he should get a pension from the English East India Company, but the contract is unclear. He later disappeared, after his forces were defeated by a British force that recaptured Cawnpore. He was led to the Nepal Hills where he died on 24 September 1859.
Role in the 1857 uprising
Nana Sahib won the confidence of Charles Hillersdon, the Collector of Kanpur. It was planned that Nana Sahib would assemble a force of 1,500 soldiers to support the British, in case the rebellion spread to Cawnpore.
On 6 June 1857, at the time of the rebellion by forces of the East India Company at Cawnpore, the British contingent had taken refuge at an entrenchment in the northern part of the town. Amid the prevailing chaos in Cawnpore, Nana and his forces entered the British magazine in the northern part of the town. However, once he entered the magazine, Nana Sahib announced that he was a participant in the rebellion against the Company, and intended to be a vassal of Bahadur Shah II.
After taking possession of the Company treasury, Nana advanced up the Grand Trunk Road stating that he wanted to restore the Maratha confederacy under the Peshwa tradition, and decided to capture Cawnpore. On his way, Nana met the rebel Company soldiers at Kalyanpur. The soldiers were on their way to Delhi, to meet Bahadur Shah II. Nana wanted them to go back to Cawnpore, and help him defeat the British. The soldiers were reluctant at first, but decided to join Nana when he promised to double their pay and reward them with gold, if they were to destroy the British entrenchment.
Adaptation
Adaptation is the evolutionary process where an organism becomes better suited to its habitat. This process takes place over many generations. It is one of the basic phenomena of biology.
When people speak about adaptation, they often mean a 'feature' (a trait) which helps an animal or plant survive. An example is the adaptation of horses' teeth to grinding grass. Grass is their usual food; it wears the teeth down, but horses' teeth continue to grow during life. Horses also have adapted to run fast, which helps them to escape their predators, such as lions. These features are the product of the process of adaptation.
The illustration of bird beaks shows an obvious sign of their different ways of life. However, eating a different food also means having a different digestive system, gut, claws, wings and above all, different inherited behaviour. For the major adaptations, what changes is not a single trait, but a whole group of features.
Adaptation occurs because the better adapted animals are the most likely to survive, and to reproduce successfully. This process is known as natural selection; it is the basic cause of evolutionary change.
General principles
Adaptation is, first of all, a process, rather than a physical part of a body. "Adaptation... could no longer be considered a static condition, a product of a creative past, and became instead a continuing dynamic process. Ernst Mayr. p483"
An internal parasite (such as a fluke) is a good example: it has a very simple bodily structure, but still the organism is highly adapted to its particular environment. From this we see that adaptation is not just a matter of visible traits: in such parasites critical adaptations take place in the life cycle, which is often quite complex.
Quebec Bulldogs
The Quebec Bulldogs were a men's senior-level ice hockey team officially known as the Quebec Hockey Club, later as the Quebec Athletic Club. Their recorded play goes back as far as the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (AHAC) in 1889, although the Quebec Hockey Club is known to have played in tournaments prior to that date. The club continued as an amateur team through various leagues, eventually becoming professional in 1908, and eventually playing in the National Hockey League. The Bulldog name was given by the media and was so popular with the fans a Bulldog mascot was created but was never officially changed until the team moved to Hamilton, Ontario in 1920 and became the Tigers.
Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Billy Cannon
Cannon started playing football at Louisiana State University. He later played for the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and the Kansas City Chiefs. In February 2013, Cannon suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Baton Rouge.
Cannon died on May 18, 2018 in St. Francisville, Louisiana at the age of 80.
Carl Dobkins Jr.
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Mekong River
Dams
The river has dams:
Saint-Aubert, Nord
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Mekong River
Dams
Dams that are being built in Laos, are:
Dams that are planned (as of 2017), include:
Macadam
He put crushed stone in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly (squashed it down). Sometimes a layer of stone dust was covered with a cement or bitumin. This keeps the dust and stones together.
Macadam's ideas were built on the ideas of some earlier road engineers, like Trésaguet and Thomas Telford.
The Romans had not used a binding substance like bitumen. Their roads were nevertheless quite long-lasting.
Microsoft Bing
Features
Bing includes the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered. It lists related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset that Microsoft purchased in 2008.
Every day, Bing.com displays a different picture that users can click on parts of to learn more about. These pictures can be about different places around the world, or nature, or even sometimes things in outer space.
Jacques Blamont
Blamont died on 13 April 2020 in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine, aged 93.
IPhone SE
iPhone SE is a series of iPhone models, which comes in 3 generations.
Betty Gilpin
Career
She also starred as Dr. Carrie Roman in the Showtime comedy-drama series Nurse Jackie (2013–2015). In 2020, she starred as Detective Linda Watts in the Netflix comedy movie Coffee & Kareem.
Hoymille
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Pip and Jane Baker
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San Joaquin River
In the Central Valley
Several man-made channels are also part of the river system:
Mouth
The San Joaquin River eventually meets the Sacramento River, forming the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This is one of the biggest estuaries in the United States. It is near the city of Antioch. At this place, the San Joaquin River splits into two rivers: the Old River and the Middle River. The Old River sometimes confuses fish to go down its channel. As a result, a wall is built between the San Joaquin River and the Old River.
Pre-development ecology
Before humans began to develop the Central Valley in the 1850s, the San Joaquin River and its surrounding lands were one of the richest biological habitats in California. In winter, the river would flood the valley, leaving behind wetlands. These wetlands became rich habitat for birds and other animals. The habitat of the endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox and the riparian brush rabbit also was near the San Joaquin River.
Friant Dam: destroying life of the lower San Joaquin
In 1942, a big dam, Friant Dam, was built on the San Joaquin River. This dam took away a lot of water from the river, to irrigate crops, provide drinking water, and provide electricity. The dam destroyed the salmon habitat in the river, and also destroyed the creation of these wetlands.
The Friant Dam is:
Navigation and shipping
The San Joaquin River has been used a lot for shipping of products via boats and ships, otherwise known as navigation. The river was first used for navigation during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Boats carried people over 200 mi up the river to look for gold in the mountains. Now, there is a channel that runs all the way upriver to the city of Stockton. This channel allows big ships to sail in the river up to this point. Sediment, however, has clogged a lot of the river channel above this point, preventing big ships from going any farther.
List of prime ministers of Suriname
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Apolo Nsibambi
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Nsibambi died on 28 May 2019 of cancer at the age of 78.
Orval Faubus
In 1957, he refused to comply with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education. He told the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from going to Little Rock Central High School. This event became known as the Little Rock Crisis.
Wim Udenhout
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Strap Me In
"Strap Me In" is a 1987 song by The Cars, appearing on their sixth studio album Door to Door.
Music video
Like its predecessor, "You Are the Girl", a music video was produced for "Strap Me In". The video showed the band playing in a barren wasteland while a couple fought. It was also the final video the Cars made before they broke up, with the next video being made for "Sad Song" in 2011.
Release and reception
"Strap Me In" was first released on the Door to Door album in August 1987, opening the second side of the album. In September 1987, "Strap Me In" also saw single release in America (as well in Japan, Germany, and Australia) as the follow-up to the top-twenty single "You Are the Girl." However, it failed to reach the chart success of its predecessor, only managing to peak at number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100, although it peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. A follow-up single, "Coming Up You" performed marginally better, peaking at number 74 in the US.
"Strap Me In" was mentioned in the Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology liner notes as the "standout track" from Door to Door, which also said, "'Strap Me In' proved that [Ric] Ocasek could still turn an automotive double-entendre with the best of them."
Abdel Latif El Zein
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San Salvador Department
It became a department on June 12, 1824.
2016 Pacific hurricane season
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Post-credits scene
Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are famous for these scenes, in which they usually tell the audience that a movie based on another Marvel hero is coming.
Nicolae Pescaru
Nicolae Pescaru (27 March 1943 – 25 May 2019) was a Romanian football player and manager. He played as a midfielder.
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside
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Yossi Benayoun
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Nicolae Pescaru
Pescaru was born in Breaza, Prahova County. He played for Steagul Roşu Braşov between 1962 and 1981, making over 300 league appearances. He played four times for Romania national football team. He played for his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He later had two stints as the manager of Steagul Roşu Braşov from 1981 to 1982, and from 1993 to 1994.
Pescaru died on 25 May 2019, at the age of 76.