cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Net run rate
Net run rate (NRR) is a number used in cricket to decide which of two teams is better, if both teams are equal on points gotten from winning games during a competition (i.e. they may have won and lost an equal number of games during a World Cup). It is calculated using the difference between the number of runs scored by a team and its opponents, while dividing each of these by the number of legal deliveries (in batches of 6 i.e. the number of overs) that team and its opponents have each batted throughout all of the games involving that team in the competition. This calculation does not look at how many times each team's batsmen have gotten out, so it gives teams that score many runs very quickly an advantage even if they have more batsmen get out than their opponents.
Ishmael
Ishmael (יִשְׁמָעֵאל, إسماعيلإ‎ ʾIsmāʿīl) was the first son of Abraham and Hagar, an Egyptian servant. He and his mother had settled in the valley and was the meeting of Jurhum, nomads of Yemen and descendants of Joktan who had also spotted the water source and incorporate. He is the father of the North Arabs (Adnanites).
It was derived from Abraham, descendant of Arpachshad, son of Shem, son of Noah, grandson of Methuselah and coming from line of Seth, son of Adam and Eve, first human.
Daniela Melchior
Daniela Melchior (born November 1, 1996) is a Portuguese actress. She is best known for playing Ratcatcher 2 in The Suicide Squad (2021). She also voiced Spider-Gwen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
Murphy J. Foster Jr.
Murphy James Foster, Jr., known as Mike Foster (July 11, 1930 – October 4, 2020) was an American politician. He served as the 53rd Governor of Louisiana. He served from January 1996 until January 2004. Foster is a businessman, landowner, and sportsman in St. Mary Parish.
Foster died in Franklin, Louisiana on October 4, 2020 at the age of 90.
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy." She did not serve alcohol in the White House.
Early life
She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was the daughter of James Webb, a doctor, and Maria Cook-Webb. Lucy was descended from seven veterans of the American Revolution. Her father died when she was a child. With her mother, she moved to Delaware, Ohio where in 1847 she met Rutherford B. Hayes.
Lucy Hayes studied at Ohio Wesleyan University. She was the first First Lady to graduate from college.
The First Lady
As First Lady, Hayes supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served. She also instituted the custom of conducting an Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. A devout Methodist, she joined the president in saying prayers after breakfast and conducting group hymn sings with the cabinet and congressmen on Sunday evenings.
Death
She died of a stroke on June 25, 1889. When she died, people in the United States lowered the flag to half-mast.
Gelek Rimpoche
Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche (26 October 1939 – 14 February 2017) was a Tibetan-American Buddhist lama. He was born in Lhasa, China. Gelek was a nephew of the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. He was tutored by many of the same masters who tutored the current (14th) Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.
He was the founder and president of Jewel Heart, "a spiritual, cultural, and humanitarian organization that translates the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into contemporary life".
Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Geoffrey IV (c. 1073 – 11 May 1106), called Martel (the Hammer), was a French nobleman who was the Count of Anjou from 1096 until his death.
Apricot (color)
Apricot is a color that is a representation of the color of the apricot fruit.
Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Early career
Geoffey, born c. 1073 was the oldest son of Fulk IV Réchin and his second wife Ermengarde of Bourbon. She was the daughter of Archambaud IV, Sire de Bourbon. In his youth his bravery in battle won him the nickname "Martel the second". He was so named after his great-uncle Geoffrey II of Anjou. Elias I, Count of Maine intended to go on crusade with Robert "Curthose", Duke of Normandy, who had already left. Elias asked Robert's brother William Rufus for protection for a crusader's lands while he was away. William flatly refused and made it known he wanted Maine (province) for himself. Elias was then captured, brought to William Rufus in chains and imprisoned. Geoffrey IV had been contracted to marry Elias's daughter, Eremburge. Geoffrey hurried to Maine to defend against any attacks by William Rufus. At the same time his father created a diversion on the border of Normandy. Elias however, did not trust Fulk Réchin and agreed to give William Rufus control of Maine for his release. William Rufus took Maine back and held it until his death in 1100.
Gelek Rimpoche
Rinpoche died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 14 February 2017 from heart failure caused by open-heart surgery, aged 77.
Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Count of Anjou
In 1096 Geoffrey IV's father released his brother Geoffrey III the legitimate but deposed count of Anjou. This was through the intervention of Pope Urban II in 1096. The pope directed that Geoffrey IV Martel was to take over the countship of Anjou. Fulk IV consented to stepping down and making his son count of Anjou. According to Orderic Vitalis Geoffrey restored peace in Anjou and was a very effective count for several years. In 1103 Fulk le Réchin disinherited his son Geoffrey. He favored his younger son by Bertrade de Montfort, Fulk "Le June". By now Fulk le Réchin was old but he still tried to regain control of the countship. There was some brief fighting. Fulk le Réchin was supported by his son-in-law William IX, Duke of Aquitaine. Geoffrey Martel was supported by Elias I, Count of Maine. In the end Fulk le Réchin lost and Geoffrey remained the count of Anjou. Three years later Geoffrey was laying siege to Candé. When the rebels wanted to negotiate for peace and surrender. While Geoffrey was discussing the situation suddenly a crossbowman shot a bolt (short arrow) from the castle and hit Geoffrey in the arm. Geoffrey died the next day, 11 May 1106. Geoffrey died unmarried.
Hermina Pipinić
Hermina Pipinić (1 May 1928 – 19 December 2020) was a Croatian actress. Her career began at the First Drama Theatre in Zagreb in 1948. She retired in 1997. She was born in Zagreb. Pipinić was known for her roles in Square of Violence, La steppa and Old Surehand.
Pipinić died in Zagreb on 19 December 2020 at the age of 92.
Apricot (color)
Apricot in has been in written use as a color name since 1851.
Where the name came from
The word "apricot" comes from the Arabic Al-birquq, in turn derived from Latin armeniacus, i.e., the fruit from Armenia. The ultimate origin of the apricot fruit was from China.
Martín Chirino
Martín Chirino López (1 March 1925 – 11 March 2019) was a Spanish sculptor. He was the co-founder of the group El Paso (The Step) in 1957. Chirino worked mainly with iron and his work was categorized as abstract art. Chirino was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. In 1979 his exhibition "Afrocan" at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery received positive reviews by the New York press.
In October 2014, he was appointed as honorary member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Chirino died on 11 March 2019 in Madrid from prostate cancer, aged 94.
Polypropylene
Polypropylene (PP), or polypropene, is a type of plastic. It is a thermoplastic polymer which can be made into a fibre for yarn and fabric, film for packaging, or many other shapes.
As a plastic it can be made translucent but usually is opaque and often brightly colored. It is tough, and resists many solvents, acids and bases.
It can be formed into a thin thread and woven into a strong strap, often used on backpacks, bags, and other things.
In 2008, the global market for polypropylene had a volume of 45.1 million metric tons, which led to a turnover of about $65 billion (~ €47.4 billion).
María Baxa
María Baxa (15 April 1946 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian-born Italian-Serbian movie actress and model. She was born in Osijek, Croatia. She was known for her roles in Sex comedy movies. Her best known roles include: Sex with a Smile II, Deadly Chase and Candido Erotico.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is an award-winning Nigerian writer. She comes from Abba in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria. Her book Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for fiction.
Adichie was born in Enugu into an Igbo family. She married Ivara Alistair Esege, a Nigerian doctor.
Sampling on a Beyoncé song
In December 2013 Beyoncé released her fifth album BEYONCÉ. The eleventh song on the album "Flawless" has a sample from Adichie's TED Talk "Why We Should All Be Feminists". Adichie's sample on the album caused her novel Americanah go up around 600 places in the Amazon chart.
Kenya Airways
Kenya Airways is the flag carrier of Kenya. It began in 1977 after East African Airways stopped flying. Its main hub is at JKIA. In 1995, KLM and Kenya Airways signed a codeshare agreement. KLM purchased 26% of Kenya airline's shares. Kenya Airways joined the SkyTeam alliance in 2010 as a full member. As of 2015, the airline has 43 airplanes. They fly to Africa, Europe and Asia.
Current fleet
, the Kenya Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In his 20s he joined a group of radicals in St Petersburg They were into French socialist ideas. A police agent reported the group to the authorities. On 22 April 1849, Dostoyevsky was arrested and imprisoned with the other members. After months of questioning and investigation they were tried. They were found guilty of planning to distribute subversive propaganda and condemned to death by firing squad.
The punishment was changed to a sentence of exile and hard labour, but not before they were forced to go through a mock execution. In 1859 a new tsar allowed Dostoyevsky to end his Siberian exile. A year later he was back in St Petersburg. The experience had cost him ten years of his life. It is the root of all his writing.
Religion
Raised in an educated and religious family, Dostoyevsky's beliefs changed through his life. In prison, he focused intensely on the figure of Christ and on the New Testament, the only book allowed in prison. In a letter to the woman who had sent him the New Testament, Dostoyevsky wrote that he was a "child of unbelief and doubt up to this moment, and I am certain that I shall remain so to the grave". He also wrote that "even if someone were to prove to me that the truth lay outside Christ, I should choose to remain with Christ rather than with the truth".
From an analysis of religious ideas in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Demons (The Possessed), and The Brothers Karamazov, James Townsend thinks Dostoyevsky held orthodox Christian beliefs except for his view of salvation from sin. According to Townsend, "Dostoevsky almost seemed to embrace an in-this-life purgatory", in which people suffer to pay for their sins, rather than the Christian doctrine of salvation through Christ. Malcolm Jones sees elements of Islam and Buddhism in Dostoyevsky's religious convictions. Colin Wilson in The Outsider describes him as a "tormented half-atheist-half-Christian".
His work
Many scholars see Dostoyevsky as one of the greatest psychologists in literature. His works have had a big effect on twentieth-century fiction. Very often, he wrote about characters who live in poor conditions. Those characters are sometimes in extreme states of mind. They might show both a strange grasp of human psychology as well as good analyses of the political, social and spiritual states of Russia of Dostoevsky's time. Many of his best-known works are prophetic. He is sometimes considered to be a founder of existentialism, most frequently for Notes from Underground, which has been described as "the best overture for existentialism ever written". He is also famous for writing The Brothers Karamazov, which many critics, such as Sigmund Freud, have said was one of the best novels ever written.
Demons
His attack on nihilism is in his great novel Demons, or The Possessed. Published in 1872, it is a "dark comedy, cruelly funny in its depiction of high-minded intellectuals toying with revolutionary notions without understanding anything of what revolution means in practice".
The plot is a version of actual events at the time. A former teacher of divinity turned terrorist, Sergei Nechaev, had written a pamphlet, The Catechism of a Revolutionary, which argued that any means (including blackmail and murder) could be used to advance the cause of revolution. Nechaev planned to kill a student who questioned his ideas.
One of the characters in Demons confesses: "I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion contradicts the original idea from which I start. From unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism". This suggests that the result of abandoning morality for the sake of an idea will be tyranny more extreme than any in the past.
Kimberly, Idaho
Kimberly is a city in Twin Falls County, Idaho. The population was 3,264 at the 2010 census, up from 2,614 in 2000.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
List of works
English versions of titles come after the Russian title.
Helen Herron Taft
Helen Louise Herron "Nellie" Taft (June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the wife of William Howard Taft and First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913.
Norm Provan
Norman Douglas Somerville Provan (18 December 1932 – 13 October 2021) was an Australian rugby league player and coach. He was also known as "Sticks". He was a second-row forward with St George during the first ten of their eleven premierships in a row, from 1956 to 1966. He also played for the Australian national team from 1954 to 1960. With his country, he earnt 14 Tests and won two Rugby League World Cups. In 2018, he was named a rugby league "Immortal". He is also featured on the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership trophy, along with Arthur Summons.
Helen Herron Taft
Early life
Her parents were Harriet Collins and John W. Herron. She was their fourth child. She spent her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Norm Provan
Provan was born in Urana, New South Wales. His brother, Peter, won two premierships with St George and another with Balmain.
Helen Herron Taft
Marriage
When Helen Herron was 18 years old, she met Will Taft. They married in 1886. William Howard Taft and Helen Herron Taft had three children:
First Lady
She was a part of her husband’s rise in administration and politics. When her husband became the president, she gave special attention to the social life at the White House. When she suffered from stroke, her daughter Helen Taft Manning left college for a year to look after the social life at the White House.
During their stay at the White House, the couple celebrated their silver wedding anniversary in 1911. People celebrate a silver anniversary after 25 years of any occasion. She had also written a book named Recollections of Full Years. The book tells about her work and life. Her husband died in 1930. She continued to live in Washington D.C. after the death of her husband. She died on May 22, 1943.
Japanese name
A Japanese name has a surname (名字) and a given name (名前), there are unusual surnames. Some people have the same first name and same name. Sato (佐藤), is the most famous surname.
Lehi (group)
Lehi also known as the Lechi, an acronym for Lohamei Cherut Israel, which is Hebrew for freedom fighters of Israel was a right-wing Jewish Zionist militia. It was started by Avraham Stern when the Irgun decided to stop fighting the British after Hitler attacked Poland so that they could fight the British while the British were fighting World War II. Yitzhak Shamir later took over the Lechi and ordered the assassination of some British politicians he said were anti-Semitic. David Ben-Gurion said the Lechi were terrorists. After Israel became a country, the Lechi joined the Haganah and Irgun in becoming the Israeli army. A lot of people who were in the Lechi also ended up becoming assassins for the Mossad who would hunt down and kill Nazis.
Rodgau
Rodgau is a city in the Offenbach Rural District in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the largest city of the district by area and by population as well.
Geography
Rodgau is in the Rhine Main area 30 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main. The whole area of the town is 65.04 km2 large and it is 130 m above sea level. It is a plain area with no hills.
About 35 to 20 million years ago in the age of tertiary the whole region was lying under sea level. At that time it was covered by an ocean which was warm and not very deep. Lots of sediments sank to its bottom. Then the region rose again and the water left, leaving soil which is mostly sandy and poor.
The town consists out of 5 former independent villages. On 1 January 1977 they were united and became the municipality of Rodgau. On 15 September 1979 city rights were given to the municipality.
The former villages, now urban districts, are from north to south: Weiskirchen, Hainhausen, Jügesheim, Dudenhofen and Nieder-Roden. They all lie by a small creek, the Rodau, flowing through the city from south to north. Rodgau got its name from this creek. The ending -gau means area or district. Rod- is a hint to the former landscape. The German verb roden means cutting down trees to cultivate land. Rod- is also part of the name of Nieder-Roden.
The neighbours of Rodgau are:
Rodgau has 43,047 inhabitants (2008). Nearly 10% of the people living here are from foreign countries. They come from 52 different nations. 39% of the people are of catholic religion, 25.5% are of protestant religion and 35.5% have another or no religion.
The climate of the town is mild with an average temperature of 10.5 °C. There is less rain than in other parts of Germany.
Some local people are speaking a regional type (dialect) of the German language with a certain tone and special words. It is a Hessian dialect (German: Hessisch). This language type is related to other dialects in the south of Germany. In former times mostly every village had its own special dialect, sometimes hard to understand for people of other parts of Germany. Today the dialect speakers are a minority and the majority of them does not speak the real dialect. They rather speak a kind of regular German with a certain pronunciation.
History
The first settlements were build in the 8th century. Later in the 12th and 13th century the names of the settlements were written down in documents. During the times the villages belonged to different owners. Because of the reformation the people of the village of Dudenhofen became protestant, but all the others remained catholic. This led to the situation, that the Dudenhofen people married partners from nearby Babenhausen, Dietzenbach and other protestant places but did not have relatives in the catholic Rodgau villages. Around 1830 the settlements had a total population of about 4,000 people. In 1939 the amount of inhabitants was about 11,500. It increased to about 34,000 in 1970 and to about 45,000 at the end of the 2000s.
Formerly the people in the Rodgau area were farmers and craftsmen but not tradesmen. Every family had land to grow their food. When the property was handed to the next generation it was divided within the children. Therefore, most families had only small farms and were poor. With the industrial revolution the Rhine Main area got lots of factories and developed to a center for metal working and leather manufacturing, also chemical engineering. Many men got workmen and found a job in the factories and earned money. This increased living conditions partly.
After world war II the Rhine Main area was one of the hot spots in Germany because of its central location and its traffic opportunities. Many companies settled down because of the Rhine Main airport and the motorways connecting the region with all parts of Germany. From the 1960s on the Rodgau villages were a huge development area, especially in Nieder-Roden and Jügesheim. Lots of small and middle seized companies started or moved to the area giving jobs to the people. Houses were built and people from other parts of Germany or from other countries came to the area for working and living. The fields near the villages were needed for building and the prices for the land exploded in the 1970s. All this increased the living conditions dramatically.
The growing villages formed an urban areal and in the late 1970s the municipality of Rodgau was shaped. Since then the former villagers and the new residents slowly began to develop a Rodgau identity. Most of the foreign people at first came from Italy, Spain and Portugal, later from Yugoslavia and Greece, then from Turkey. Often the male members came to earn money and send it to their family abroad. In many cases the families moved to Germany later, settled down and got German citizens, bought houses or built one. Only few went back to their home countries. The children went to German schools and are nowadays regular members of the community.
Politics
The administration of the formerly independent villages was centralized and the new city hall is in the central part of Rodgau, Jügesheim. There are citizen offices in every former village, called Anlaufstelle to deal with minor affairs.
Head of the city is a mayor (CDU). The parliament has 45 seats. Last elections in 2006 had the following results:
Rodgau is ruled by a center-right alliance of CDU and FDP. The city government and the mayor got problems because after the parliament elections three members of the CDU delegates left the CDU parliamentary group. The following political trouble influenced the later mayor elections (2009) and led to a new mayor, now from the SPD. He will start in April 2010.
Coat of Arms
The coat of arms was given to the city in 1978. It stands for the former villages and their religion. From bottom left to top right runs a silvery band. It is the picture of the creek Rodau. The fife stars on the band are the picture of the fife villages lying by the creek.
Top left is the picture of a luther rose. It is a religious symbol and it stands for the protestant religion of Dudenhofen. Bottom right is a picture of a wheel. This is not a religious symbol. But it stands for the catholic religion of Weiskirchen, Hainhausen, Jügesheim and Nieder-Roden.
Both pictures are standing for the former owners of the villages. The rose stands for the Count of Hanau and later the Count of Darmstadt. The wheel comes from the archbishop of Mainz. The rose is on one side of the creek and the wheel is opposite to it on the other side of the creek. This means that the villages had trouble and fights because of their different religion.
Tteokbokki
Tteokbokki is divided into gungjung tteokbokki and general tteokbokki as one of Korean street foods.
Rodgau
Culture and Sights
The two main fields of Rodgau culture are the surrounding nature and the peoples clubs. It is typically German, that most of the people of Rodgau are a member of one or more of the clubs.
These associations have a focus on singing, sports, orchestra music, socker, breeding pet animals, dancing and many other. There are about 50 clubs in Rodgau, where people come together and spend their free time. The associations are an important part of the social life of the city, especially for the people of the former villages partly to keep their villager identity. The clubs are open to new members, who like to share the focus and to develope social contacts.
Kooskia, Idaho
Kooskia is a city in Idaho in the United States.
Rodgau
Culture and Sights
Rodgau is surrounded by large forests. On weekend many people go there for a walk or make trips by bicycle on the narrow lanes which are leading all through the woods. Often there are places for doing sports or having a barbecue. The facilities are kept kleen and in order by work departments of the city administration.
Tteokbokki
Gungjung tteokbokki
Gungjung tteokbokki (궁중떡볶이) is made by frying beef and rice cake with soy sauce. It was developed in gungjung which means a Korean court.
Rodgau
Culture and Sights
Because of the village history there are no theaters or museums in the city, but there are well known ones in the cities nearby, mostly in Frankfurt (Senckenbergmuseum; on natural history), Offenbach (Ledermuseum; on leather handycraft and artswork) and Darmstadt (Theater). There are no famous buildings in Rodgau but some architecture (stile of buildings) typical for the region. The old churches of the villages and the framework houses are worth to look at.
There are five protestant and six catholic churches in the city. For the Muslim there are two mosques, one in Nieder-Roden and one in Jügesheim.
Tteokbokki
jja-jang tteokbokki
jja-jang tteokbokki (짜장떡복이) is a stir-fried dish with jjajang.
Rodgau
Culture and Sights
Rodgau has two cinemas, many restaurants of different style, bars and some dancefloors.
Once in the year in January and February the whole region is celebrating carnival, the local name is Fasenacht or Fastnacht. It is mostly a tradition of catholic areas. The local names come from a period named Fastenzeit (a time of fasting) some weeks before Easter, when one should do fasting. The celebrations are always ending on Tuesday midnight and the fasting period starts on the following Wednesday, named Aschermittwoch.
Tteokbokki
History
In a cook book named 'Siuijeonseo' which was written in late 1800s, there is a record of tteokbokki. However, tteokbokki might have existed before the late 1800s because the main ingredient is rice cake and there were rice cakes during the Three Kingdoms of Korea period. Gungjung tteokbokki is different from tteokbokki because there were no red peppers in Joseon Dynasty so they made gungjung tteokbokki with vegetables and meats. Modern tteokbokki was first made by Mabokrim who has sold tteokbokki with gochujang since 1953.
Rodgau
Culture and Sights
In autumn every village has an extra weekend to celebrate. It is the memorial to the opening of their church. The feasts are named Kirchweih or - in the local dialect - Kerb. In former times great autumn fairs were held on that weekend and the people, especially the young ones of the nearby places, went to the feasts to meet each other in the village, to have pleasure, to dance together and make friends.
During late spring and summer many small feasts are celebrated on weekend, mostly in the forests at the barbecue places. They are arranged by the local clubs and associations, even by the local political parties. They are open to the public and people go there to socialize, having a meal and drinking some beer.
The most special and expensive vegetable of the region is asparagus, which loves the poor sandy soil. It is gathered in May and June. Because of the same reason the region has a lot of potato dishes. Some of them are very special and only available on special occasions like the Bauernkeeskuche (farmers cheese pie). It is a sort of salty potato pie, that is made with a bread dough.
Traffic
The traffic in Rodgau runs mostly individual by car. A lot of people are working in nearby cities. They have to drive to their jobs in Frankfurt, Offenbach or other big places. They use the motorway A3 running through the north of Rodgau.
East along the city runs the B45 from north to south, a motorway-like street connecting all the urban districts with the motorway A3 and the cities of Offenbach, Frankfurt and Hanau to the north and Darmstadt to the south. The suburban railway no. 1 (German: S-Bahn-Linie 1) runs to Offenbach and, since 2003 directly to Frankfurt. A poor bus system (a single line) connects the urban districts frequently. Rodgau can be easyly reached by street from most other parts of Germany. This was one reason for its fast development in the past.
Information
The city has no own daily newspaper. There are the Offenbach-Post and the Frankfurter Rundschau, both with additional pages (supplement) about Rodgau. The Offenbach-Post supplement is named Rodgau-Post. It comes weekly on Thursday. There are two weekly papers for free which are brought to every house: The Rodgau-Zeitung and the Bürgerblatt. The Dreieich-Spiegel also comes to the houses for free and has a part with Rodgau things. There is a quarterly city magazine mein rodgau, with articles about people, sports, culture and life style.
Radio information comes by the radio station Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) on channel 1 to 4, You FM and hr-info. Other radio stations are Hit Radio FFH, also Radio Primavera in the nearby bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.
Medicine
Rodgau does not have a hospital. The next clinic is about 7 km away in Seligenstadt. The town is short with specialist doctors. Patients often have to go to nearby cities, if they want to see a doctor on special diseases, for example a heart disease. There is a medical emergency center in Dudenhofen to give fast help in case of a heart attack.
Education
The city has many kindergartens and primary schools in each urban district. There is a secondary school (highschool) in Dudenhofen. For colleges and universities the students have to go to the nearby cities.
Eileen Pollock
Eileen Pollock (18 May 1947 – 19 December 2020) was a Northern Irish actress. She was known for her role as Lilo Lil in television series Bread. Pollock was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her career lasted from 1982 until her retirement in 2019.
Pollock died on 19 December 2020 in London at the age of 73.
1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado
The 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was a very violent F5 tornado that hit the Bridge Creek and Moore areas of Oklahoma on the evening of May 3, 1999. It had the highest wind speed ever recorded at 301 miles per hour (484 km/h). It killed at least 36 people and hurt 583 others. It caused $1 billion in damage. The tornado's strength led to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Norman issuing the first-ever tornado emergency. In 2013, Moore was again hit by an EF5 tornado, but fewer people were killed even though there was more damage.
Mint
Mint can mean different things:
Plain
In geography, a plain is a large area of land with no hills or mountains. Plains mostly are more suitable for farming than plateaus or mountains.
List of famous plains:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun is a book that was written by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2006, and was published by Knopf/Anchor. The book tells the story of two sisters Olanna and Kainene during the Biafran War.
Awards
Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction in the women-only section. The award is given annually for the best original full-length book; Adichie gained £30,000 as a reward for winning the prize. Purple Hibiscus, her first novel, made the Orange Prize shortlist in 2004, and because of the success of Half a Yellow Sun, critics have said that Adichie may have even more success in the future.
Reviews
The book got good reviews from critics, and it was included in The New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of the Year, as well as winning the Orange Prize. In a review for The Seattle Times, Mary Brennan talks about the book as "A sweeping story that provides both a harrowing history lesson and an engagingly human narrative". The Guardian's Kate Kellaway said "An immense achievement, Half of a Yellow Sun has a ramshackle freedom and exuberant ambition," after reading the book. The New York Times did a review of the book, saying some good and some bad things about the book.
Political importance
The Nigerian Civil War began on July 6, 1967 and lasted until January 15, 1970. The war began because of political struggles caused by the numerous attempts to secede from the southeastern provinces of Nigeria and create the Republic of Biafra. Political conflict between the Igbo’s, Yoruba’s, and the Hausa-Fulani ended up with two military coups. The Igbo tried to leave Nigeria to become the Republic of Biafra, but did not have very much support. From 1968 onward, the war was mostly a tie, with Nigerian forces unable to get an advantage over the Republic of Biafra. Many people died in the war, and even today there is still anger between the different ethnic and religious groups of Nigeria.
The story in Half of a Yellow Sun is centered around the war. The author has stated that many of the issues that caused the war remain today. She also said that the war is very talked about "in uninformed and unimaginative ways," and that the war is as important to the people today as it was in her book. Because none of the major political events were changed in the book, Adichie said that the book had "emotional truth," and that the book showed the war had a large impact on the people of Nigeria.
Paris Descartes University
The Paris Descartes University was a French university created on January 1, 1971. It disappeared on January 1, 2020 in favor of Université Paris Cité following the publication in the Official Journal of the decree creating the new university on March 20, 2019.
Agostino Cacciavillan
Agostino Cacciavillan (14 August 1926 – 5 March 2022) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and diplomat. He was born in Novale, Italy. He was Pro-Nuncio to Kenya, India, Nepal, and the United States between 1976 and 1998. He then was President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See from 1998 to 2002. He became a cardinal in 2001.
Cacciavillan died on 5 March 2022 in Vatican City at the age of 95.
Nemaha County, Kansas
Nemaha County (standard abbreviation: NM) is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, 10,178 people lived there. The county seat is Seneca.
History
In 1855, Nemaha County was created.
On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" went through Nemaha county. This tornado measured F4 on the Fujita scale. It had a damage path 800 yd wide and 100 mi long. Eighteen people were killed and sixty were injured in this tornado.
Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 719 sqmi. Of that, 717 sqmi is land and 2.0 sqmi (0.3%) is water.
Ty Burrell
Tyler Gerald "Ty" Burrell (born August 22, 1967) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Phil Dunphy in the ABC comedy Modern Family. He has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series twice, in 2011 and 2014, and has been nominated another three times (in 2010, 2012 and 2013) for his role as Phil Dunphy.
Deindustrialization
Deindustrialization or deindustrialisation is a process that happens in countries when machines are being removed or reduced from how work is done. This can cause social and economic change. It is the opposite of industrialization.
Ty Burrell
Burrell was born on Grants Pass, Oregon on August 22, 1967.
Deindustrialization
During the deindustrialisation of a country, many people leave factory jobs to do other jobs that require little or no machines.
Hugh Capet of France
Hugh Capet (French: Hugues Capet) (941–996) was King of the Franks from 987 until his death in 996. The Capetian dynasty he started ruled France in an unbroken line for 300 years.
Early career
Hugh was born in the winter of 941 and was the son of Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxony. His grandfather was King Robert I. His grandmother was Beatrice of Vermandois. She was a Carolingian; a daughter of Herbert I of Vermandois. By this connection he was the fifth great-grandson of Charlemagne through Pepin of Italy.
While still a young man Hugh got the nickname "capet" from the cape he wore. These were tokens of the lay abbacies he held.
Elected king of the Franks
When King Louis V died with no heir Adalbero of Reims made a plea for electing Hugh Capet. He proposed the throne was not a hereditary right but that the king should be the best man for the job. The assembly at Senlis agreed and elected Hugh King of the Franks.
Capet is buried in the Saint Denis Basilica.
Sajid Mahmood
Sajid Iqbal Mahmood (born 21 December 1981 in Bolton, Greater Manchester) is an English cricketer of Pakistani Janjua Rajput descent. He is a right-arm fast bowler who plays international cricket for England and county cricket for Lancashire.
Balinese Hinduism
Balinese Hinduism can be defined as a combination of 2 beliefs, the Shiva sect of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism. That is why it is often called the Shiva-Buddhist, Hindu-Dharma, Tirtha religions and also the Holy Water Religion.
Airfix
Airfix is a UK manufacturer of plastic scale model kits. Airfix was founded in 1939 by Nicholas Kove. Airfix is currently owned by Hornby. During the 1960s and 1970s, the company grew much bigger as the kit modelling hobby became more popular. The range of models expanded at this time too.
Flash Gordon (1996 TV series)
Flash Gordon is a 1996 animated science fiction television series. It is based on the Flash Gordon comic strip created by Alex Raymond in 1934. Flash has appeared in several movie serials, a 1980 Flash Gordon movie, two live action television series, and two earlier cartoon series, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon and Defenders of the Earth.
Hiawatha
Hiawatha (/ˌhaɪəˈwɒθə/ HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: /-ˈwɔːθə/ -⁠WAW-thə: Haiëñ'wa'tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha]) was a legendary Native American leader. According to stories, he was one of the founders of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was leader of the Onondaga people and the Mohawk people. A famous account of Hiawatha is in the The Song of Hiawatha. This is a poem by Henry Longfellow.
Romolo Tavoni
Romolo Tavoni (30 January 1926 – 20 December 2020) was an Italian sports executive. He directed the racing team Scuderia Ferrari during the 1959 Formula One season. He was born in Formigine, Kingdom of Italy.
Tavoni died on 20 December 2020 at the age of 94.
Kallima
Kallima, also known as the Oakleaf or Dead leaf butterfly, is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae. They are found in Asia.
Their common name is a reference to the under surface of their wings, which is various shades of brown. When the wings are held closed, this results in a remarkable similarity to a dead leaf. There are dark dots or patches which look like the effects of fungi and lichen, which are so common on dead leaves.
The camouflage is perfected by the rear wings, which have a little 'tail', which looks like the stalk of a leaf. When at rest in closed position, the 'tail' touches the branch, completing the illusion.
There are two morphs of the common Indian species Kallima inachus. Nothing seems to be known about why these morphs exist. There is also variation in the colour of the under surfaces.
Counsel's Opinion
Counsel's Opinion is a 1933 British romantic comedy movie directed by Allan Dwan and was based on the 1931 play by Gilbert Wakefield. It stars Henry Kendall, Binnie Barnes, Lawrence Grossmith, Cyril Maude, Francis Lister, Harry Tate, J. Fisher White and is a lost movie.
Flash Gordon (1954 TV series)
Flash Gordon is a science fiction television series. It aired from October 15, 1954 to July 15, 1955. It is based on the characters in the Flash Gordon comic strip created by Alex Raymond. The series set is set in 3203. Flash (Steve Holland), Dale Arden (Irene Champlin) and Dr. Zarkov (Joseph Nash) are agents of the Galactic Bureau of Investigation. They travel the galaxy in their ship the Sky Flash to battle cosmic villains under the order of Commander Paul Richards (Henry Beckman).
The series was filmed in West Berlin and Marseille as a West German, French and American co-production by Intercontinental Television Films and Telediffusion. The series aired in syndication throughout most of the U.S. It aired on the east coast on the DuMont Television Network.
Production
Universal Studios had held the production rights to Flash Gordon but allowed them to lapse. Former Universal executives Edward Gruskin and Matty Fox struck a deal with Flash Gordon owners King Features Syndicate to produce the first 26 episodes of the series. The series was produced by Gruskin and Wenzel Lüdecke. Writers for Flash Gordon included Gruskin, Bruce Geller and Earl Markham. Episodes were directed by Wallace Worsley, Jr. and Gunther von Fritsch.
Production began in May 1953, with an empty beer hall in Spandau as the main shooting location. Only the lead actors and director Worsley spoke English. Worsley said: "'No matter what galaxy we explored, everyone spoke with a German accent. The use of German actors who could not speak English required us to use a lot of close-ups. I would stand behind the camera, correctly positioned for the actor's look, and read his or her line; the actor would then repeat the line, mimicking my pronunciation and emphasis.'"
The series was budgeted at USD$15,000 per episode on a three-day-per-episode shooting schedule. Worsley withdrew from the project after completing the first 26 episodes. Production was moved to Marseille under the direction of Gunther von Fritsch for the 13 final episodes.
Blakes 7
Blakes 7 also known as Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series that ran from 2 January 1978 to 21 December 1981 comprising 4 seasons and 52 episodes that aired on BBC One. It was created by Terry Nation and starring Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, Sally Knyvette, Jan Chappell, Stephen Greif, Peter Tuddenham, Steven Pacey, Glynis Barber, Josette Simon, Brian Croucher.
Raymon Anning
Raymon Harry Anning (Chinese: 顏理國, 22 July 1930 – 20 December 2020) was a British police officer and civil servant. He was the Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong. In the early 1970s, he was a commander of the Metropolitan Police in Greater London. He was Hong Kong Police commissioner from 1985 to 1989.
Anning died on 20 December 2020 at the age of 90.
Quality Street (1927 movie)
Quality Street is a 1927 American romance movie directed by Sidney Franklin and was based on the 1901 play of the same name by James M. Barrie. It stars Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch, Margaret Seddon, Marcelle Corday and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was remade in 1937.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 14,739. The county seat is Pittsfield.
History
Pike County was founded on January 31, 1821 out of Madison County. It was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, leader of the Pike expedition in 1806 to map out the south and west parts of the Louisiana Purchase. Pike served at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and was killed in 1813 in the War of 1812.
Avraham Stern
Avraham Stern (December 23, 1907 – February 12, 1942) was a Jewish Zionist guerrilla who started the Lechi.
Early Life
Stern was born in Poland in 1907 but moved to Jerusalem in  1925. In 1929, he joined the Haganah.
Irgun membership
In 1931, Stern left the Haganah to join the Irgun and started to call himself Yair because of Eliezer Ben Yair, who led the Jews at the Siege of Masada. Stern also got weapons for the Irgun and fought against the British.
The Lechi
After Adolf Hitler attacked Poland, the Irgun stopped fighting the British Empire since they thought it was more important to fight the Nazis but Stern thought the war would make it easier to fight the British so he left the Irgun and started the Lechi.
Death
Stern said that the British were so dangerous to the Jews that Zionists should be willing to work with Mussolini to stop them and Stern used kidnapping and assassination to fight the British. The British said they would give money to anyone who could find Stern. Then in 1942, the British found Stern and killed him.
Henrik Reuterdahl
Henrik Reuterdahl, born 11 September 1795 in Malmö, Sweden, dead 28 June 1870 in Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman. He servred as the Church of Sweden archbishop of Uppsala from 1856 until his 1870 death.
Mary McElroy
Mary Arthur McElroy (July 5, 1841 – January 8, 1917) was the sister of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, and served as a hostess for his administration (1881–1885). She assumed the role because Arthur's wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, had died only a year and a half earlier.
Early life
She was born in Greenwich, New York. Her parents were William and Malvina S. Arthur. Her parents had nine children, Mary being the last. In 1880, her brother Chester Arthur, became the Vice President of the United States. In July 1881, after the assassination of the President, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur became the president of the United States and he requested his sister to become "First Lady" during his term in office.
First Lady
In November 1880, McElroy's brother Chester Arthur was elected vice president. In July 1881, President James Garfield was fatally wounded and died on September 19, 1881. Arthur succeeded him, and asked McElroy to care for his young daughter Ellen and act as "Mistress of the White House." Because she had her own family in Albany, McElroy lived in Washington, D.C. only during the busy winter social season. Although Arthur never officially granted her the protocol of a formal position, she proved to be a popular and competent hostess. The procedures she and her brother developed for the social functions were used by future First Ladies for decades.
McElroy presided over a number of events and honored former First Ladies Julia Gardiner Tyler and Harriet Lane, James Buchanan's niece and social hostess, by asking them to help her receive guests at the White House. McElroy's oldest daughter May and Arthur's daughter Nell often assisted. Her final reception took place on February 28, 1885, one week before the end of the Arthur administration: 3,000 people attended (including Adolphus Greely) and 48 daughters of officials and of the social elite assisted her.
Personal life
When her brother retired as the President, Mary went to live in Albany, New York.
Flag of Sri Lanka
The Flag of Sri Lanka, also called the Lion Flag, consists of gold lion passant, holding a sword in its right fore paw, in front of a crimson background with four golden bo leaves in each corner. Around the background is a yellow border, and to its left are two vertical stripes of equal size in saffron and green, with the saffron stripe closest to the lion.
It became the flag in 1950 following the recommendations of a committee appointed by the 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka D.S. Senanayake.
Formentera
Formentera is the smallest of the 4 Balearic Islands with population.
Geography and population
It is located south of Ibiza (about 10 kilometers), south-west of Mallorca (about 50 kilometers). Its area is 83.24 km² (32.14 sq mi). Formentera has about 7,500 inhabitants. The island was built by volcano eruptions. It has two high areas in the east and the south and a falt area in between. Main town is Sant Francesc Xavier.
History
First people, who settled on Formentera, were the Carthaginians, later the Romans came there. Often the island lost its complete population, for example after the Vandals came there. In the middle ages Arabs governed the balearic island, then Catalans took over the island, Formentera became part of the new kingdom of Mallorca. Later that kingdom became a part of Spain.