cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Clash (magazine)
The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won other awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, it won Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards.
Fürstenzell
Fürstenzell (Fiaschtnzei) is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany. Fürstenzell is the birthplace of past Bayern Munich defender Klaus Augenthaler.
RPG-26
The RPG-26 Aglen is a disposable anti-tank rocket launcher that was made by the Soviet Union. Entered service in 1985. It can shoot to about 250 meters.
Allen Garfield
Allen Garfield (born Allen Goorwitz; November 22, 1939 – April 7, 2020) was an American actor. He appeared in over 100 movies and television shows. His movie credits include The Conversation (1974), Nashville (1975), The Stunt Man (1980), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and The Ninth Gate (1999).
Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family. He survived at least two strokes, in 1999 and again in 2004.
On April 7, 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Garfield died of COVID-19 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. He was 80.
Robert Fuller (actor)
Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy "Buddy" Lee, July 29, 1933) is an American horse rancher and retired actor. His best known roles were in The Brain from Planet Arous; Teenage Thunder (both in 1957); Return of the Seven (1966); Incident at Phantom Hill (also 1966); and The Hard Ride (1971).
He also played Jess Harper and Cooper Smith on the popular 1960s Western series Laramie and Wagon Train, and was also well known for his starring role as Dr. Kelly Brackett in the 1970s medical /action drama Emergency!
1998 Rose Bowl
The 1998 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1998. It was part of the 1997–98 college bowl season. As part of the Rose Bowl Game, it was played at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California.
Goiás
Goiás is a state of Brazil. It is in the central part of the country. It shares borders with Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, the Federal District, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The capital and largest city in the state is Goiânia. With an area of 341,289 km², Goiás is about the size of the Republic of the Congo; smaller than Germany and larger than Finland.
Ronald Stewart
Ronald Alexander Stewart (April 13, 1927January 10, 2022) was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Stewart was born in Beeton, Ontario.
Goiás
There are 246 municipalities in Goiás. The top 15 cities in order by number of people (est. 01/07/2005) are:
Ronald Stewart
Stewart died on January 10, 2022 at his home in Barrie, Ontario at the age of 94.
Midwest Irish Radio
Midwest Radio and Midwest Irish Radio are an Irish radio station in County Mayo, Ireland. Its studios are on Clare Street, Ballyhaunis. The station started in 1989. When first opened the Midwest Radio studios were in Abbey Street, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo. Its target audience is people over 35 and it mainly broadcasts country music and classic hits. Some of the station's programmes do contain current chart music such as The Breakfast Show, The Late Late Lunchbox and The Hot Hits Hour. The station broadcasts live every day from 7:00 am to 1:00 am. The latest JNLR/MRBI radio listener survey shows that Mid West Radio is by far the most popular radio station in Connacht with a market-share of 52.2%. Midwest Radio's franchise area is county Mayo although it can be heard in various parts of Connacht.
Midwest Radio started an online only radio station, Midwest Irish Radio, in 2005. This has a different programme to Midwest Radio, although The Mid Morning Show does broadcast on Midwest Irish Radio. Most of its broadcasts are non stop Irish music. It's sister station Northwest Radio shut down in 2004.
Schedule
Monday to Friday
7.00am-8.45am Breakfast Show with David Cawley
8.45am-9.00am Morning Edition News & Sport
9.00am-11.00am The Tommy Marron Show
1.00pm-1.30pm Lunchtime News And Sport
1.30pm-3.00pm Classic Hits Country With Chris Carroll
3.00pm-5.30pm Late Late Lunchbox with Padraic Walsh
6.01pm-6.05pm Farming Scene
6.05pm-8.00pm Classic Express With Brendan Nugent
8.00pm-10.00pm Nice And Easy with Eamonn Kelly (Monday-Thursday) / Viv Brennan (Friday)
1.00am-3.00am The Tommy Marron Show (replay)
3.00am-5.00am Mid-Morning Show with Paul Claffy (replay)
5.00am-7.00am Midwest Radio Music All Night
10.00pm to 1.00pm - Monday to Friday
Monday
10.00pm-1.00am Songbook With Michael Goulding
Tuesday
10.00pm-1.00am Ceoil Agus Ealion With Joe Byrne
Wednesday
10.00pm-11.00pm Farming Matters With Michael Neary 11.00pm-2.00am Late Show With Michael Commins
10.00pm-1.00am Classic Hits With Tim Norton
Friday
10.00pm-11.00pm Hot Hits Hour As Gaeilge with Brendan Roache
11.00pm-2.00am Weekend American Country With Phillip Costello
7.00am-9.00am Saturday Morning Breakfast Show With Deirde Kelly
9.00am-10.00am The Gardening Show With Padraic Horkan
10.00am-1.00pm Country Classics With Micheal Neary
1.00pm-1.30pm Local News & Sport
1.30pm-5.00pm Saturday Mix With Michael D
5.00pm-5.30pm Local News
8.00pm-10.00pm Homespun With Noel Grogan
10.00pm-1.00am Mac's Country Store With Eamon McPhilomey
Sunday
7.00am-9.00am Sunday Morning Meolidies With Beverley Stafford
9.00am-9.45am Faith Alive With Fr.Brenden Hoban And Monica Morley
10.45am-1.30pm Sunday Choice With Brendan Magee
1.30pm-2.00pm Lunchtime News
5.00pm-5.30pm Evening Edition News
5.30pm-8.00pm Sunday Jukebox With Brendan Nugent
8.00pm-8.30pm Sport Results Roundup With Michael D McAndrew
Rekha
Rekha (Bhanurekha Ganesan,born 10 October 1954) is a famous Indian actress. She has acted in 182 movies. She has a National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards. In 2010, she got Padma Shri. Her first Hindi movie was Sawan Bhadon (1970). Rekha became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 2012. Her first Hindi movie was Sawan Bhadon (1970). She was one of the leading stars in 1980s and early 1990s.
Midwest Irish Radio
10.00pm to 1.00pm - Monday to Friday
10.00pm-1.00am Fireside Radio With Micheal Commins
Rekha
Early life
Rekha born in Madras (presen Chennai)South Indian actors Gemini Ganesan and Pushpavalli, when the couple were unmarried. Rekha did not reveal her family background until mid-1970.Her mother was busy in movies, Rekha stayed with her grandmother. Asked in an interview by Simi Garewal about her father, Rekha believed he was never even aware of his father existence.
Midwest Irish Radio
10.00pm to 1.00pm - Monday to Friday
1.00am-2.00am Faith Alive (repeat)
2.00am-7.00am Midwest Radio Music All Night
Rekha
Early career
Her first movie Sawan Bhadon(1970) was successful. Other movies like Raampur Ka Lakshman (1972), Kahani Kismat Ki (1973), and Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye (1974) and Dharmatma (1975) were also became hit. Rekha's first good role was with Amitabh Bachchan's in Do Anjaane(1976).
Floating point
Real numbers in binary have to be stored in a special way in a computer. Computers represent numbers as binary integers (whole numbers that are powers of two), so there is no direct way for them to represent non-integer numbers like decimals as there is no radix point. One way computers bypass this problem is floating-point representation, with "floating" referring to how the radix point can move higher or lower when multiplied by an exponent (power).
Auerbach (Vogtland)
Auerbach is a town in the rural district Vogtlandkreis, in Saxony, Germany.
Floating point
Overview
In mathematics and science, very large and very small numbers are often made simpler and multiplied to a power of ten to make them easier to understand. For example, it can be much easier to read 1.2 trillion as than 1,200,000,000,000. This can also be used with negative powers of ten to make small numbers, meaning you can represent 0.000001 as. This process is called scientific notation.
Since computers are limited to integers and binary, this means they cannot easily represent fractional decimal numbers. In order to represent fractional numbers, computers use three sets of binary numbers to make a scientific notation representation. They are: the signed bit, which determines if the number is positive (0) or negative (1); the significand, which is an integer (whole) version of the number; and the exponent, which is the power you multiply the base by.
Significand
The significand is found by taking your number and moving the radix point until there is no fractional part, making it into an integer. In decimal this is making 1.45 into 145 by moving the point right 2 steps, and in binary this would be making 1101.0111 (13.4375) into 1101 0111 (215) by moving the point right 4 steps; in both cases these numbers aren't related to one another outside using the same digits in a similar ordering.
Similarly to how scientific notation makes the significand as basic as possible, the aim in floating point numbers is to make it an integer so it can be represented in bytes and used in calculations.
Exponent
The exponent is the number of digits the radix point has moved past: if it moves left then the exponent is negative, but if it moves right then it is positive. As above, making 1.45 into 145 requires you to multiply by 100, so the exponent is 2 as 100 = 10^2. Equally, turning 1101.0111 (13.4375) into 1101 0111 (215) requires you to move the radix point four columns to the right, so the exponent is 4; this can be verified in decimal as.
Since the process is inverted to most cases of scientific notation, as it involves making a faction into an integer rather than turning a large integer into a fraction, exponents are generally negative to move the decimal place to the left; in decimal this would be turning your integer 145 back into the fractional number 1.45 by multiplying it by 10^{-2}. Instead of using an signed leftmost bit the exponent is instead biased, giving 32-bit float exponents a range of 2^{-126} to 2^{127}. The output value of the biased exponent can be found by adding 127 to it:
Decimal to Bicimal
Let's assume, for example, we want to represent the decimal number 37.40625 to its binary counterpoint: a bicimal (or binary decimal/fraction). First, we need to take our decimal number, which is in powers of 10, and convert it to binary, which is in powers of 2. One way to do this is to subtract the largest power of two possible until you reach zero:
Using the powers of two above, we can represent our decimal number 37.40625 as follows:
Bicimal to Float
We have validated that our decimal number 37.40625 is represented in binary as. However, the issue with computers is that they represent numbers as integer powers of two using bits, which makes fractional and negative numbers complicated. In accordance with IEEE-754, the way this is commonly done with a computer is to create a 32-bit floating point number that consists of three parts:
Since we need to move our bicimal point 5 places to make into the significand 10010001101 our exponent is. By using a 32-bit float we can represent 37.40625 like this:
Haarbach
Haarbach (Hoaba) is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Pictorella mannikin
The pictorella mannikin (Heteromunia pectoralis) (also known as the pictorella munia or pictorella finch) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. They live in northern Australia, from the Fitzroy River in Western Australia, across the "Top End" of the Northern Territory, over to the Cape York Peninsula.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, movie director, poet, musician and photographer. He was famous for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek, an American television series that was made for three years in the late 1960s.
Broadly Applicable Tracking System
The Broadly Applicable Tracking System, also called BATS, is a very small, lightweight tool shaped like a backpack. Scientists glue the BATS onto the back of a bat or other small animal and then use GPS and wireless internet to see where the animal goes.
Leonard Nimoy
Career
In 1965, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot "The Cage", and went on to play the character of Spock until 1969. He followed his role of Spock by eight feature movie and guest slots in the various spin-off series. The character has had a significant cultural impact and earned Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations; TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of..., narrated Civilization IV, and made several well-received stage appearances. He also had a recurring role in the science fiction series Fringe.
Broadly Applicable Tracking System
BATS can be made with a 3D printer, and it is so light that it does not slow down small bats when they fly. It also falls off after about fourteen days. Scientists can collect fallen BATS to reuse the parts.
Leonard Nimoy
Later career
Nimoy's fame as Spock was such that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995), were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character. Nimoy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2011, Nimoy voiced the main villain, Sentinel Prime, in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. In 2009 and in 2013, Nimoy played Spock Prime in the J. J. Abrams Star Trek movies: Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. He also voiced Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.
Personal life
Nimoy was married twice. In 1954, he married actress Sandra Zober (1927–2011), whom he divorced in 1987. On New Year's Day of 1989, he married actress Susan Bay, cousin of director Michael Bay. Nimoy had a daughter and son by his first wife.
Broadly Applicable Tracking System
Scientists used BATS to show that vampire bats can make social bonds when being kept by humans that they remember after being released.
Leonard Nimoy
Death
Shortly after he was photographed in a wheelchair and using an oxygen mask, Nimoy said in February 2014 that he had been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Little over a year later, Nimoy died from the disease on February 27, 2015 at the age of 83 in his Bel Air home.
Broadly Applicable Tracking System
Name
Scientists named the tool "broadly applicable tracking system" because they believe it can be used in a broad range of animals: bats, rodents, amphibians and reptiles. "Broadly applicable" means "can be used in many ways." As of April 2020, BATS has only been used on bats.
Invention
The team that invented BATS includes scientists from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin and universities in Germany and Ohio State University.
Leonard Nimoy
Death
Nimoy was laid to rest in a private service in Los Angeles on March 1, 2015 at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. He was buried on a Sunday since Jewish tradition does not allow such services on a Saturday.
Gifford, Florida
Gifford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Indian River County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census, the settlement had a population of 9,590.
Hauzenberg
Hauzenberg is a municipality in Passau, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 15 km northeast of Passau.
Twin towns — sister cities
Hauzenberg is twinned with:
Hartenstein, Saxony
Hartenstein is a town in the rural district Zwickau, in Saxony, Germany. It is located on the river Zwickauer Mulde, 14 km southeast of Zwickau. Hartenstein has about 5,000 Inhabitants.
Hofkirchen, Bavaria
Hofkirchen is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Fright Night (album)
Fright Night is the first album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius.
Hutthurm
Hutthurm (Huading) is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Borna, Leipzig
Borna is a town in the rural district Leipzig, in Saxony, Germany. It is also the capital of this district. It is located about 25 km southeast of Leipzig.
Omar Quintana
Omar Quintana Baquerizo (March 22, 1944 – April 3, 2020) was an Ecuadorian politician and sports businessman. Quintana was born in Quito. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) and Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN) political parties.
Quintana was in the former National Congress of Ecuador from 2003 to 2005, including as the President of the National Congress from January 5, 2005, until April 20, 2005. Quinata was the former director of C.S. Emelec, a professional football sports club based in Guayaquil.
Maranhão
Maranhão is one of the states of Brazil. It is in the northeastern region of the country. To the north is the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão shares borders with Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. In the 19th century, the state used plantation slaves to produce cotton for Europe.
Hal Willner
Hal Willner (April 5, 1956 – April 6, 2020) was an American music producer. His works focused on movies, TV and live events. He was best known for creating tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles. His first tribute album was Amarcord Nino Rota in 1981.
In the late 1970s he worked under record producer Joel Dorn. He was an Associate Producer on Leon Redbone's albums Double Time and Champagne Charlie, and The Neville Brothers' Fiyo on the Bayou. Willner was the sketch music producer of Saturday Night Live, beginning in 1981.
He was also a producer of the TV program Sunday Night hosted by David Sanborn.
Willner died from problems of COVID-19 on April 6, 2020, at age 64.
Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil. It is often referred to as "ES". The capital of ES is Vitória and its largest city is Vila Velha. Those who are born in the state are known as "Capixabas", but the more correct word is "Espiritossantenses". The name means "holy spirit" after the Holy Ghost of Christianity.
Location
This Brazilian state is in the southeastern subdivision of Brazil, which also contains the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (east), the state of Bahia (north), the state of Minas Gerais (north and west), and the state of Rio de Janeiro (south). Espírito Santo's other main cities are Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Colatina, Linhares, São Mateus and Aracruz.
Geography
At 46180 km2, it is about the size of Estonia. The state has many different types of habitats, for example coastal planes, lakes, mountain forest and mangroves.
The islands of Trindade and Martim Vaz, 715 km east of Vitória in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, are also a part of Espirito Santo state.
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American movie actress. She also worked as child model. Although she has been working in the movie industry since she was a teenager and became famous for her roles in movies like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she did not become a big movie star until the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 biopic film A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Andy Cohen
Andrew Joseph Cohen (born June 2, 1968) is an American talk show host, producer and writer. He is the host and executive producer of Bravo's late night talk show, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. He also hosted the dating game show Love Connection.
Cohen was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is Jewish. He is openly gay. He has a son. In March 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Cohen tested positive to COVID-19.
86 (term)
Eighty-six or 86 is U.S. English slang. It means to get rid of by refusing to serve. When an establishment does not want to let you in, and wants to get rid of you, it gives an excuse, such as:
Queen of Hearts (2019 movie)
Queen of Hearts is a 2019 Danish drama movie. It was selected as the Danish entry for the Best International Feature Film in the 92nd Academy Awards. However, it was not nominated. The movie won a 2019 Nordic Council Film Prize.
86 (term)
In gang language:
In rhyming language:
Queen of Hearts (2019 movie)
Anne is the lawyer working on the prosecution of a rape case. She is married to a physician named Peter. They have two daughters, Frida and Fanny. Peter has a teenage son named Gustav from a different marriage. Gustav lives in Sweden with his mother Rebecca.
One day, Anne returns home and finds there was a burglary. The crime is reported to the police. After, she finds an item in Gustav's laundry. It was in her bag. The item had been stolen during the burglary. Anne realizes Gustav was responsible for the robbery. She angrily meets Gustav with the evidence. Anne, though, promises to keep the matter a secret if Gustav does his part in the household. One night, Gustav brings his girlfriend Amanda home. Anne hears the couple having sex. She is aroused.
MPAA rating
Queen of Hearts is rated NC-17 because of some sexual content by Motion Picture Association of America.
Reception
Under Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a 97% approval rating. Guy Lodge of the Variety magazine
The movie won nine Robert Awards. Those included the Best Danish Film. It won four Bodil Awards for the same thing.
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil. It is in the western part of the country. Mato Grosso shares borders with the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It also borders the country Bolivia to the southwest. The name, Mato Grosso, means "thick jungle".
Mato Grosso is the state in Brazil in which the most deforestation of Brazil's part of the Amazon Rainforest has happened. In 1977, the state was split into two halves. This created the new state Mato Grosso do Sul. The Bororo native people live in the Mato Grosso area.
Cities
There are few cities. The most important ones are:
Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a special kind of fraud. It is based on a fake investment that one schemer (or group of schemers) gets other people to give money to.
In Ponzi schemes, the schemer basically says, "I found a great way to make money fast. The more you give me, the more I can invest in that cause, and the more I can earn for us all". But a Ponzi scheme doesn't actually "earn money". Instead, all of the scheme's money comes from the investors.
Once a Ponzi scheme gets too many investors, the system will always crash. This is because the investors all expect more money than they invested, and they will get impatient.
These schemes always stop one of three ways:
The scheme was named after a man named Charles Ponzi. He used the scheme after moving from Italy to the United States in 1903. (Ponzi didn't invent the scheme, though. In 1857, Charles Dickens wrote a book called Little Dorrit about a scheme like this. The scheme is a simple idea, and probably very old.) However, Ponzi's scheme was so big that it became the most popular. His original scheme was based on using countries' money-exchange rates to make money, based on international postage stamps. But money soon stopped being invested in coupons, and went to early investors, and a lot to Ponzi himself.
Ponzi schemes can be run anywhere, even online, and are being run even now.
More examples
People advertising Ponzi schemes often use impressive words, that are actually very vague. Examples are: Schemers often depend on investors not actually knowing about economics. The Madoff scandal of 2008 showed that even sophisticated people like bankers can fall for them. People are fooled by the schemer seeming to have financial skill or reputation.
Sometimes, the schemers claim that money can only be made if the investment is kept a secret (away from the authorities or public). For example, Bernard Madoff only allowed the accounting firm run by his brother-in-law to perform audits on his "hedge fund", claiming it had to be kept a secret to earn money.
Since the investment is very vague, not many investors come very fast. But the scheme often gets speed like this:
Schemers often try to tempt the early investors to "re-invest" the money they've "earned". Schemers sometimes send investors "invoices", showing investors how much they've "earned" and how much they'll keep "earning" if they keep "investing".
Schemers also try to make sure new investors can't take their money back, by making the rules tighter. In this case, the schemer will often have a few investors say they kept their money, making the investment still look productive enough to be good.
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC; Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) was a centre-right political party in Canada. It existed from 1942 to 2003.
Only four members of this party became Prime Ministers of Canada (John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell). Peter MacKay was the party's last leader.
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood known in South Korea as Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata and also in Japan and Europe as only Magna Carta is a role-playing video game, developed by Softmax, and published by Banpresto (Japan), Atlus (North America and Australia), and 505 Games (Europe). It is sequel to Magna Carta: The Phantom of Avalanche. The game later ported to the PlayStation Portable, called Magna Carta Portable, in 2006.
Yaakov Perlow
Yaakov Perlow (, 1931 – April 7, 2020) was an American Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, and Rebbe of the Novominsker Hasidic dynasty. From 1998 until his death, he was president of Agudath Israel of America. He was also in charge of that organization's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages). He was one of the most respected leaders of the American Orthodox Jewish community. Perlow was born in Brooklyn.
Perlow died on April 7, 2020 of COVID-19 in Brooklyn at the age of 89.
Barbara Smoker
Smoker died at a hospital in London on 7 April 2020, aged 96, after a long-illness.
Kößlarn
Kößlarn is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist. He wrote five novels and other books of essays and life stories (memoir).
Styron was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia. He had a hard time at a number of schools, but he graduated from Christchurch School in southeast Virginia in 1942.
In college during World War II, he joined the Marines’ reserve officer training program. In July 1945 he was given a job to help with the invasion of Japan, but the war ended a month later. He soon left the Marines and went back to graduate from Duke University in 1947.
In the 1950s he lived in Paris. With other young writers, he helped to begin a magazine called The Paris Review.
During the ten years from 1951 to 1960, he published his first three novels (Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, and Set This House on Fire). His fourth novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner was both popular and a problem. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968. But many Black readers and critics did not like the book. The book was written in the voice of a 19th century Black man. They thought that Styron, a White author, did not understand the ways of African Americans.
Styron took more than ten years to write his last novel, Sophie's Choice. This book looks at a character who lived through the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. It was also popular and a problem. A movie was made from this book in 1982.
In 1990, Styron published Darkness Visible. This book told a story of his own life, about having the mental illness of depression. One reason he wrote it was to go against an idea of that time that depression was a shameful thing.
When he died in 2006, one obituary praised him as "a courageous writer who in a long career never played it safe, either with himself or his talent."
Tango Bar
Tango Bar is a 1987 Puerto Rican Argentine drama movie directed by Marcos Zurinaga and starring Raul Julia, Valeria Lynch, Rubén Juárez, Mabel Dai.
Kirchham
Kirchham (literally "Churcham") is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Kirchham has 27 subdivisions:
Kirchham is twinned with Churcham, England.
Bangalistan
Bangalistan (বাঙালীস্তান) is the name of a proposed separate land or state for the Bengalis in India  and it is also a self-sufficient socio-economic zone promoted by the supporters of the political party  'Amra Bangali'. It is a social movement, based on the socio-economic and political theory "Progressive Utilization Theory" (PROUT) given by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Bengal or Bangalistan was divided several times in the past. The Nellie Massacre, Mandai Massacre, etc. are the examples of criminal activities done against the Bengalis in India. The Bengalis or the followers of Bangalistan movement protested the National Register of Citizens for Assam. The main demand of the movement is to reorganize Bangalistan to save the Bengalis from oppression and exploitation. The areas of Bangalistan in India are: the whole of West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Tripura and some parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam, etc. The Bengalis want to reorganize Bangalistan as per the Article 3(a) of Part 1 of the Constitution of India.
Demands
The demands of Bangalistan movement are :
Andrew O'Keefe
Andrew Patrick O'Keefe (born 1 October 1971) is a former Australian television presenter and former lawyer. He works for the Seven Network. He is known as the host of game show Deal or No Deal (2003–2013). From 2015 to 2021, he hosted The Chase, based on the British program of the same name. He was also the co-host of Weekend Sunrise alongside Monique Wright between 2006 and 2017.
O'Keefe was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He was married to Eleanor until their divorce in 2019. The couple have three children.
Bugchasing
Bugchasing is trying to get HIV through sex. People who try to get HIV are called bugchasers, and they are all men who have sex with men. It is not entirely understood why people try to get HIV, and bugchasing actions are hard to understand. It is rare.
Motivation and action
Bugchasers are men who have sex with men and purposely try to get HIV. It is not understood why this happens.
There are four common explanations. First, it is thought that some men become bugchasers because they fear HIV infection, which had previously changed how they have sex. This can include things like men abstaining from sex entirely, only having sex with one person, or using sexual protection like condoms. Second, some men think having HIV is sexy. This means it can feel good to think about it, or that it is the ultimate taboo to overcome. Third, bugchasers might think having HIV makes them part of a group. And fourth, bugchasing might be an action against heteronormativity, the idea that everyone is heterosexual. The idea is that bugchasers do not achieve some expectations placed on them, including safe sex. There is a fifth possible reason—suicide—but this is not clear or very helpful.
Either way, people only rarely call themselves bugchasers, and they only try to get HIV even more rarely. This behavior does not entirely fit in with their identity. This means that bugchasing actions are rarely based on persons known to have HIV and having sex with them. Instead, a lot of bugchasers have sex in ambiguous situations, where they do not know if their partners have HIV. In 2005, researchers said there was no empirical evidence that bugchasing existed; they said that bugchasing as an idea and an activity existed, but it was rare.
Debi Mazar
Deborah Anne Mazar Corcos (born August 13, 1964) is an American actress. She is known for playing sharp-tongued women. Her movie credits include in Goodfellas (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), Singles (1992), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and Lovelace (2013). Her TV appearances include Civil Wars, L.A. Law, Entourage and Younger. Since 2014, she has had a starring role in the Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin with her husband Gabriele Corcos.
Mazar was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Her father was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family, but raised Roman Catholic. During the 1990s, she dated actor Paul Reubens. She married Italian chef Gabriele Corcos in 2002. The couple have two daughters.
In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mazar tested positive to COVID-19.
Carmela Corren
Carmela Corren (כרמלה קורן; February 13, 1938 – January 16, 2022) was an Israeli-Austrian singer and actress. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She represented Austria at the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Vielleicht geschieht ein Wunder". An actress, she appeared in Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962), His Best Friend (1962) and Don't Fool with Me (1963).
Corren died on January 16, 2022 at her home in London, England at the age of 83.
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 ) is an American actress and singer, who has won the Oscar and the Tony Award, and also many others.
She was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, She is the daughter of famous actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, movie director Vincente Minnelli. She acted and sang in many famous movies, including Cabaret. Her half sister is actress and singer Lorna Luft.
Minas Gerais
Location
Minas Gerais is in the west of the southeastern part of Brazil. That area also has the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo. Minas Gerais shares borders with Bahia and Goiás (north), Mato Grosso do Sul (far west), the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (south) and the state of Espírito Santo (east). It also shares a short border with the Brazilian Federal District.
Cities
Even though it is not the largest state in Brazil, Minas Gerais is the state with the most cities. Of the more than 5,500 municipalities in Brazil, Minas has more than 850 of them. The most important ones are the capital Belo Horizonte, Contagem, Betim, Ribeirão das Neves, Juiz de Fora, Montes Claros, Uberlândia and Ouro Preto.
Malching
Malching is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Slim Thug
Stayve Jerome Thomas (born September 8, 1980), better known by his stage name Slim Thug, is an American rapper. He was born in Houston, Texas. He first became known as a feature artist on the hit single "Still Tippin'" by rapper Mike Jones. He was also a feature artist on Gwen Stefani's "Luxurious" and the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Check on It" by Beyoncé. As of 2020, he has released 12 studio albums.
In March 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Slim Thug tested positive to COVID-19.
Awards and nominations
MTV Video Music Awards
Final Fantasy (video game)
Final Fantasy is a fantasy role-playing video game. It was made by Squaresoft, now called Square Enix. It was released in 1987.
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy IX is a fantasy role-playing video game for the Playstation. It was released in 2000 by Square Enix.
Hassium
Hassium is a very radioactive and unstable chemical element. It has the symbol Hs and it has the atomic number 108. It is a superheavy transuranium element.
Hassium is a radioactive element that does not exist in nature. It has to be made in a lab.
History
Hassium was first made in 1984. and eka-osmium. It was made at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. The element was named from the Latin name for the German state of Hessen. Hessen is the state that the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung is in. Before it was named Hassium, scientists could not decide what the name should be and there was an element naming controversy. The temporary IUPAC systematic element name was unniloctium meaning "one-zero-eight-ium" referring to its atomic number. The symbol with the name was Uno. In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 108 be named hahnium. The name hassium was adopted internationally in 1997.
Chemistry
Isotope 270 of Hassium was found in December 2006. An international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich discovered it. It is a doubly magic isotope and it has a long half-life of 22 seconds. Scientists had thought that heavy and stable isotopes should exist. Some theories said Hassium-270 may be part of an island of stability. Hassium can oxidise like osmium, the element above it in the periodic table, into hassium tetroxide. Chemists found that is less volatile than osmium tetroxide.
Sterling Heights, Michigan
Sterling Heights is a city in Michigan, United States. 129,699 people live there.
Alan Davies
Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian, writer and actor. He is best known for starring in Jonathan Creek and for being a panellist on QI.
Davies was born in Loughton, Essex. His childhood years were spent in Chingford, London. Davies' mother died when he was six. He graduated in Drama from the University of Kent in 1988.
In 2008, Davies was in the teen comedy Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Davies' first book, the autobiographical My Favourite People and Me, 1978-88, was published by Penguin Books in late 2009.
Personal life
Davies married writer Katie Maskell on 13 January 2007 after a 6-month engagement. The couple met backstage at QI in 2005. Their first child, Susie, was born on 9 December 2009. Their second child, Robert, was born on 18 June 2011.
In late 2007 he made UK national news. The Times and Daily Telegraph reported that Davies was involved in a fight and bit the ear of a homeless man. Davies had just left a wake at the nearby Groucho Club. Davies is no longer allowed at the Groucho Club.
Davies is a fan of Arsenal F.C. and a season ticket holder.
Neukirchen vorm Wald
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Kathryn Janeway
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2005 New England Patriots season
The 2005 season was the New England Patriots' 36th in the National Football League (NFL), their 46th total and their sixth under head coach Bill Belichick.
Jazze Pha
Phalon Anton Alexander (born April 15, 1974), professionally known as Jazze Pha (pronounced JAZ-ee-phay) is an American record producer, singer, songwriter and rapper. He is based in the south and has worked with rappers Nelly, Ludacris, Trick Daddy, T.I., and David Banner, among others. Pha is credited for bringing R&B singer-songwriter Ciara national attention with her solo album Goodies. He is best known for working with Cee Lo Green.
Pha is also jointly signed a production deal with Cash Money Records. His career began in 1988 and ended in 1990. It restarted in 1995.
He is the founder and chief executive officer of Sho'nuff Records. He signed Ciara to the label.
Richard Rush (director)
Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American movie director, screenwriter and producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-nominated movie The Stunt Man (1980). He also directed the erotic mystery thriller Color of Night (1994), which flopped at the box office. The movie won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst movie of 1994. Maxim magazine has singled out the movie as having the best sex scene in movie history. His other movies include Too Soon to Love (1960), Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), Psych-Out (1968), Freebie and the Bean (1974) and Air America (1990).
Rush was born in New York City. He died on April 8, 2021 in Los Angeles, aged 91.
Dave Rowntree
David Alexander De Horne Rowntree (born 8 May 1964) is an English drummer. He is also the animator/solicitor/political activist/DJ in the band Blur. He owns his own company called Nanomation and is also a qualified pilot.
Neuhaus am Inn
Neuhaus is a municipality in Passau in Bavaria in Germany.
Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Михаил Александрович Шолохов; 24 May 1905 – 21 February 1984) was a Russian writer. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Sholokhov was accused of plagiarizing And Quiet Flows the Don, which made his international reputation. Sholokhov's detractors claimed that it was written by Fyodor Kryukov, a Cossack and anti-Bolshevik, who died in 1920. In 1987, several thousand pages of notes and drafts of the work were discovered and authenticated, including chapters excluded from the final draft. An analysis of the novel has unambiguously proved Sholokhov's authorship. The writing paper dates back to the 1920s: 605 pages are in Sholokhov's own hand, and 285 are transcribed by his wife Maria and sisters.
Legacy
An asteroid in main-belt is named after him, 2448 Sholokhov.
Ginuwine
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15, 1970), better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He rose to fame as a member of Swing Mob in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, he signed to Epic Records. Ginuwine has released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of R&B's top artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Ginuwine received the Urban Music Icon Award at 2021 Black Music Honors.
Dire Straits
Dire Straits was a British rock band from Newcastle, England. They formed in 1977 and have sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and also won three Grammy Awards.
Dire Straits disbanded in 1995.
The Fader
The Fader (stylized as FADER) is an American magazine based in New York City that was made in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. The magazine talks about music, style and culture. It was the first print publication to be released on iTunes. It is owned by The Fader Media group, which also includes its website, thefader.com, as well as Fader films, Fader Label and Fader TV.
Grassland
A grassland is a biome, an area of land that mostly has grasses. There are wild grasses, and there may be some trees.
Several parts of the world have grasslands. Grasslands are found in Africa, North America, Central Asia, South America, and near the coasts of Australia. The largest grasslands are in East Africa. Grasslands with a few scattered trees are called savannas. Others are called prairies or steppes.
Evolutionary history
The graminoids became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous period. The appearance of mountains in the western United States during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs created a continental climate which was favourable to the evolution of grasslands.
About five million years ago, in the Miocene in the New World and the Pliocene in the Old World, the first true grasslands grew. Existing forest biomes declined, and grasslands became much more widespread.
Vegetation
Grassland vegetation can vary greatly in height. The chalk grassland of southern England is quite short, often with small, delicate flowers.
Grass is quite tall in the Mississippi "tallgrass prairie", the South American grasslands and the African savannas. This provides a degree of cover for the smaller animals, and so increases the number of species which can live there.
Woody plants, shrubs or trees, may occur on some grasslands. The root systems of perennial grasses and forbs (herbaceous flowering plants) form complex mats that hold the soil in place.
Degradation
When shrubs and bushes can grow more and replace grass, this is called woody plant encroachment. This change may be harmful. It can make the number of plant species fewer. It allows less water to go into the ground and animals have less to eat. For that reason woody encroachment is often called a form of land degradation.
But this is not always the case. Encroachment can lead to good changes in nature.
North America
Animals such as buffalo, elk, deer, and rabbits lived there. The animals added nitrogen to the soil with their urine and faeces. Prairie dogs dug tunnels that "aerated the soil and channeled water several feet below the surface".
Between 1800 and 1930, most of this natural environment was destroyed. Settlers transformed what they called "the Great American Desert" or "The Inland Sea" into farmland. They replaced the old grasses with new ones, mostly wheat and maize, grasses that are ecologically different from the original cereals. They replaced the bison with cattle, another kind of bovine. About 40% of the world's maize grows in the United States, mostly on land that formerly grew grass. The grazing pattern of European cattle, the near-extermination of prairie dog s, and the plowing and cultivation of the land did the damage. Plowing cut tallgrass root systems and interrupted reproduction. Drainage changed the soil's water content, and soil erosion lost soil.
Estimates differ of how much original tallgrass prairie survives. Perhaps less than 1% to 4%, mostly in "scattered remnants found in pioneer cemeteries, restoration projects, along highways and railroad rights-of-way, and on steep bluffs high above rivers".
Plants and animals
In many other parts of the world, the grasslands have little rain or long dry periods. There are few trees because of the low rainfall. Thorny trees called acacias are one of a handful of trees that are able to grow in some African savannas. Wildfires are common and destroy trees. The animals also prevent trees from growing as they eat the tender sprouts before they can develop into grown trees. Elephants are known to tear down grown-up trees and feed on their leaves, making trees even more scarce.