cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Nix (moon)
The formal name "Nix", from the Greek goddess of darkness and night, and mother of Charon, was announced on June 21, 2006 on IAU Circular 8723, where the designation Pluto II is also given. Together with Hydra, Pluto's third moon, the initials are those of the New Horizons probe. The initial proposal was to use the Classical spelling Nyx, but to avoid confusion with the asteroid 3908 Nyx, this was changed to "the Egyptian spelling of the Greek name".
Raif Badawi
Raif Badawi (Arabic: رائف بدوي‎; born 13 January 1984) is a Saudi Arabian writer and activist. He started the website Free Saudi Liberals in 2008. He was arrested in 2012 because of the website. The website was then taken off the internet. Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and being hit with a whip: 1000 lashes (or hits). Media said in March 2022, that Badawi no longer is in prison.
Badawi has also been banned from any media work or foreign travel for 10 years after his release from prison. Badawi's first 50 lashes were given on January 9, 2015. After that, Badawi's lashes were postponed many times. In June 2015, a Saudi high court ruled that Badawi should be lashed but the lashing was postponed hours before it was going to happen. Badawi's wife called Ensaf Haidar believes he is weak in body and suffering mentally. She fears this may be a slow death sentence.
Badawi's sister Samar Badawi is also an activist. Her husband Waleed Abul-Khair is Raif's lawyer. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in July 2014. Samar is working to get both her brother and husband released from prison.
Sweden–Finland
Sweden–Finland (Ruotsi-Suomi, Sverige-Finland) is a historiographical term. It refers to the Kingdom of Sweden from the days of the Kalmar Union in the late 14th century up to the Napoleonic Wars in to the early 19th century. In 1809 it was split into two halves. The eastern half became the Grand Duchy of Finland in personal union with the Russian Empire. The western half remained as the Kingdom of Sweden.
Get on Up (movie)
Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical musical drama movie about the life of singer James Brown and directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth.
The movie stars Chadwick Boseman as Brown, Nelsan Ellis as Bobby Byrd, Dan Aykroyd as Ben Bart, Viola Davis as Susie Brown, Craig Robinson as Maceo Parker, and Octavia Spencer as Aunt Honey.
The movie was released on August 1, 2014, received positive reviews.
Concept car
A concept car, also known as a show car or prototype car, is a car made to showcase new design and new technology. They are made to be shown at motor shows and are not mass-produced. General Motors designer Harley Earl is known for inventing the concept car.
Concept cars never go into production directly. They must undergo many changes before the car is ready to be sold publicly. Safety and regulatory checks are required to make sure the final design is road legal. The prototype car might look distinct from the final product.
Budoni
Budoni (Budùne, Budùni) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 5,148 people lived there. Its area is 54.28 km². It is 16 meters above sea level.
Mathematical proof
A mathematical proof is a way to show that a mathematical theorem is true. To prove a theorem is to show that theorem holds in all cases (where it claims to hold). To prove a statement, one can either use axioms, or theorems which have already been shown to be true. Many techniques for proving a statements exist, and these include proof by induction, proof by contraction and proof by cases.
Proof by induction
1. State that the proof will be by induction, and state which variable will be used in the induction step.
2. Prove that the statement is true for some beginning case.
3. Assume that for some value n = n0, the statement is true and has all of the properties listed in the statement. This is called the induction step.
4. Show that the statement is true for the next value, n0+1.
Once that is shown, it would mean that for any value of n that is picked, the next one is true. Since it is true for some beginning case (usually n=1), it's true for the next one (n=2). And since it is true for 2, it must be true for 3. And since it is true for 3, it must be true for 4, etc. Induction shows that it is always true, precisely because it is true for whatever comes after any given number.
An example of proof by induction is as follows:
Prove that for all natural numbers n, 2(1+2+3+....+n-1+n)=n(n+1).
Proof: First, the statement can be written as "For all natural numbers n, 2=n(n+1)."
H. Vasanthakumar
Harikrishnan Nadar Vasanthakumar (14 April 195028 August 2020) was an Indian businessman and politician. He was the founder and chairman of Vasanth & Co. He was also the founder and managing director of the Tamil satellite TV channel Vasanth TV.
Mathematical proof
Proof by induction
By induction on n,
H. Vasanthakumar
He was elected as the member of parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari constituency in the 2019 Indian general election. He was also elected as member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Nanguneri constituency in the 2006 and 2016 elections.
He was born in Travancore-Cochin, Tamil Nadu. Tamilisai Soundararajan, the Governor of Telangana, is his niece.
Freaky Friday (2003 movie)
Freaky Friday is a 2003 American fantasy comedy movie directed by Mark Waters and written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon.
Nyctimystes lubisi
Lubis's tree frog (Nyctimystes lubisi) is a frog. It lives in Indonesia. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place, in Papua Province.
Mathematical proof
Proof by induction
Next, assume that for some n=n0 the statement is true. That is, 2 = n0(n0+1).
H. Vasanthakumar
Vasanthakumar died on 28 August 2020 at a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu from COVID-19, aged 70.
Freaky Friday (2003 movie)
It is based on Mary Rodgers' 1972 novel of the same name. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.
The movie was released in theaters on August 6, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures.
The movie also earned Curtis a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Ronnie Claire Edwards (February 9, 1933 – June 14, 2016) was an American actress. She was best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV show The Waltons.
Mathematical proof
Proof by induction
Then for n=n0+1, 2 can be rewritten 2(n0+1) + 2.
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 9, 1933.
Mathematical proof
Proof by induction
Since 2 = n0(n0+1), 2n0+1 + 2 = 2(n0+1) + 2n0(n0+1).
Ronnie Claire Edwards
She also appeared the in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Thine Own Self" and the 1999 remake of Inherit The Wind.
Richard Madeley
Richard Holt Madeley (born 13 May 1956) is an English journalist, television presenter and writer. Along with his spouse Judy Finnigan, he presented ITV breakfast shows This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Channel 4 talk show Richard and Judy and Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. Madeley's solo projects include the ITV series Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway and his stand-in for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.
Merced, California
Merced is a city in Merced County, California, United States. As of 2014, 81,743 people lived there. Merced is the county seat of Merced County in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Merced has the first research university built in the 21st century, University of California, Merced. UC Merced is the newest school in the University of California system.
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Edwards died in her sleep on June 14, 2016 at her home in Dallas, Texas, aged 83.
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is very close to the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Kitchener and Waterloo are often referred to together as "Kitchener-Waterloo", or "KW". They are sometimes called "the Tri-City" (to include the City of Cambridge). All three have separate city governments.
Merced, California
Employment
The unemployment rate in Merced as of June 2014 is 14.10%. The average per capita income in Merced is $17,331 while the median household income is $38,253. Sales tax in Merced is 8% while the income tax is 6%.
Waterloo, Ontario
The University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University are in Waterloo. The headquarters of mobile phone maker BlackBerry is there.
Waterloo has a population of 97,475 (as of 2006). University of Waterloo is marked the 4th best university in Canada. (Wilfred Laurier is 30th)
Battlefield 4
Battlefield 4 is a video game. It is part of the Battlefield series. It is on Xbox, Playstation and PC.
In the story, which takes about six hours, the player is part of Tombstone Squad. The squad is sent to China to help specific people escape the country. Actor Michael K. Williams performed the voices of one of the characters. By playing the story part, the player earns new weapons and other things to use in the multiplayer part.
In the multiplayer part, different players play against each other, up to 64 at a time.
Assar Lindbeck
Carl Assar Eugén Lindbeck (26 January 1930 – 28 August 2020) was a Swedish professor of economics at Stockholm University and at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). Lindbeck was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Lindbeck's work focused in research on unemployment (e.g. the insider-outsider theory of employment), the welfare state (including the effect of changing social norms), and China's reformed economy.
Thundorf, Switzerland
Thundorf is a municipality of the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Tägerwilen
Tägerwilen is a municipality of the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Flores da Cunha
Flores da Cunha is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is the largest producer of wines inside Brazil.
Genesis (band)
Genesis is an English progressive rock group. They formed in 1967. They have sold about 150 million albums all over the world. This puts them among the top 30 best-selling recording artists of all time. The group's members have included Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. Both of them were successful as solo artists as well.
Members of the group
Over the years, Genesis has changed members more than once. The first line-up was Peter Gabriel (vocals), Anthony Phillips (guitar), Tony Banks (keyboards), Mike Rutherford (bass & guitar), and Chris Stewart (drums).
Other drummers until 1970 were John Silver and John Mayhew. In August 1970, Phil Collins began playing drums for Genesis. In some songs, he also sang. The same year Phillips left, and Steve Hackett joined as a guitarist in 1971.
The band also made a song called "Supper's Ready" which is almost 23 minutes long. Many fans call it their best because it has many different parts.
After the release of the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974), Gabriel left the band. Collins took over the singing. He was singer for Genesis from 1976 to 1996. When Hackett also left, in 1977 there were only three members left. The 1978 album was called ...And Then There Were Three... because of this.
The band ended up making lots of well-known songs, like Abacab, Invisible Touch and No Son of Mine.
The last studio album with Collins was We Can't Dance in 1991. He left the band in 1996 and was replaced with singer Ray Wilson. Because the album Calling All Stations (1997) with Ray Wilson was not very successful, the group disbanded.
After a break of eight years, Genesis started a world tour in 2006. The members now are Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. The band disbanded again at 2011 due to Collins retiring and Collins came back from retiring at 2015.
Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed (Maxamed Cabdulaahi Maxamed Farmaajo, محمد عبد الله محمد; born 11 March 1962) is a Somali politician and diplomat. He was the 9th President of Somalia from 2017 to 2022. He was Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2010 until June 2011. Farmaajo has a close relationship with his prime minister Mahdi Gulaid. He lost his re-election in 2022.
Sturgeon's law
Sturgeon’s law is a saying that 90 % of anything is really bad. It was created by Theodore Sturgeon to defend science fiction from people who didn’t like it. It is often quoted as “No doubt 90 % of science fiction is crap then again 90 % of anything is crap”. Since then the saying was used about other things.
Alfredo Cuadrado Freire
Alfredo Cuadrado Freire (born May 2, 1969 in Madrid) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he is blind and is a B1 type sportperson. He played 5-per-team football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played Greece and, won 2-0. He played 5-per-team football at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played Argentina and, won 1-0.
He was a member of the national team in 2013 and competed in the European Championships.
1915 Çanakkale Bridge
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge (1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü), also known as the Dardanelles Bridge (Çanakkale Boğaz Köprüsü), is a road suspension bridge in the Province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey. It is south of the towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu. The bridge is on the Dardanelles strait. It is about 10 km south of the Sea of Marmara.
The bridge is part of a planned 321 km US$2.8 billion Kınalı-Balıkesir Motorway. It has a span of 2,023 m and is the longest suspension bridge in the world.
The bridge was officially opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 18 March 2022. The bridge is the first fixed crossing over the Dardanelles and the sixth one over the Turkish Straits. On 16 May 2020, the second tower was completed. The toll bridge opened for traffic on 18 March 2022, at a toll price of 200 lira (€12.20).
The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honors an important Ottoman naval victory against the British and the French during World War I.
Eubranchidae
Eubranchidae is a taxonomic family of sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Aeolidioidea, the aeolid nudibranchs.
Arrondissement of Limoux
History
When the Aude department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Limoux was part of that original department.
Geography
It is the southernmost of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 1780.9 km2, with a population of 44,467 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
Ely, Iowa
Ely is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Arrondissement of Limoux
Geography
The arrondissement of Limoux is bordered to the north and east by the arrondissement of Carcassonne, to the south by the Pyrénées-Orientales department, and to the west by the Ariège department.
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Limoux, there are 2 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement and 2 that has some of its "communes" in other "arrondissements", as can be seen in the following table:
Communes
The arrondissement of Limoux has 147 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
Samedan
Samedan is a municipality of the district Maloja in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Engadin Airport is in the municipality.
K12
K12  is a 7428 m mountain in the Karakoram range, in India and Pakistan. K12 is part of the Saltoro subrange. It is the 60th highest mountain in the world.
K12 is not climbed often, as it is in the disputed Kashmir region. The first people to reach the top were Tsutomu Ito and Shinichi Takagi, in 1974.
Windows Whistler
Windows Whistler is the codename for Windows XP operating system released in 2001.
"Neptune And Odyssey"
In the late 1990s, initial development of what would become Windows XP was focused on two individual products; "Odyssey", which was reportedly intended to succeed the future Windows 2000, and "Neptune", which was reportedly a consumer-oriented operating system using the Windows NT architecture, succeeding the MS-DOS-based Windows 98. Based on the NT 5.0 kernel in Windows 2000, Neptune primarily focused on offering a simplified interface. A single build of Neptune, 5111, revealed early work on the activity center concept, with an updated user account interface and graphical login screen, common functions (such as recently used programs) being accessible from a customizable "Starting Places" page (which could be used as either a separate window, or a full-screen desktop replacement). It was later confirmed that Microsoft were planning a successor to Neptune known as Triton, although it was originally thought to be a service pack to Neptune.
However, the project proved to be too ambitious. Microsoft discussed a plan to delay Neptune in favor of an interim OS known as "Asteroid", which would have been an update to Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0), and have a consumer-oriented version. At the WinHEC conference on April 7, 1999, Steve Ballmer announced an updated version of Windows 98 known as Windows Millennium, breaking a promise made by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 1998 that Windows 98 would be the final consumer-oriented version of Windows to use the MS-DOS architecture.
"Whistler"
In January 2000, shortly prior to the official release of Windows 2000, technology writer Paul Thurrott reported that Microsoft had shelved both Neptune and Odyssey in favour of a new product codenamed "Whistler". The goal of Whistler was to unify both the consumer and business-oriented Windows lines under a single platform. At WinHEC in April 2000, Microsoft officially announced and presented an early build of Whistler.
In June 2000, Microsoft began the technical beta testing process. Whistler was expected to be made available in "Personal", "Professional", "Server", "Advanced Server", and "Datacenter" editions. At PDC on July 13, 2000, Microsoft announced that Whistler would be released during the second half of 2001, and also released the first preview build, 2250. The build notably introduced an early version of a new visual styles system along with an interim theme known as "Professional" (later renamed "Watercolor"), and a hidden, early version of a two-column Start menu design. Watercolor was never meant to be the final theme for Whistler; in fact, it has been stated that Microsoft used it as a decoy until they were ready to show Luna. Build 2257 featured the official introduction of the two-column Start menu, and the addition of an early version of Windows Firewall.
Draco
Draco can mean several things:
Tobel-Tägerschen
Tobel-Tägerschen is a municipality of the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Deadly nightshade
Deadly nightshade or belladonna (Atropa belladonna) is a well-known, hardy perennial shrub. It is a member of the nightshade family.
It can be found in a few different continents: Europe; North Africa; Asia; and North America, but is far less common there. Usually it grows in the shade. The plant does not like direct sunlight. Often it grows in places where the soil is rich in limestone.
Dangers of belladonna
Most parts of the plant are known to be very poisonous. Children have died from eating as few as three berries. One leaf contains enough poison to kill an adult. The root usually contains the most poison.
The poison present in the plant is called atropine.
Effects of the poison
The effects of atropine are dilated (big) pupils, hallucinations, and difficulty in seeing (the vision may not be as sharp as always, it may be difficult to focus on some object). Other symptoms include: problems keeping upright; feeling like one is flying; and being confused. The pulse of the victim grows faster and faster, and the rate at which the heart is beating will go up. Toxic reaction to atropine causes fever, delirium, stupor (nearly being unconscious) and rash on head, neck and upper trunk. There may be agitation, difficulty in speaking and swallowing. Coma and convulsions usually come before death.
Bulzi
Bulzi (Bùltzi) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 513 people lived there. Its area is 21.67 km². It is 250 meters above sea level.
Antoinette Spaak
Antoinette Spaak (27 June 1928 – 28 August 2020) was a Belgian politician. She was active in the Democratic Front of Francophones (Front Démocratique des Francophones, FDF). She was president of the party between 1977 to 1982. She was born in Brussels.
She died at her home in Brussels, Belgium on 28 August 2020, aged 92.
José Luis Giera Tejuelo
He was a member of the national team in 2013 and competed in the European Championships.
Nudipleura
Nudipleura are a clade of sea snails and sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks within the large clade Heterobranchia.
Kelcyra
Këlcyra is a city and a municipality in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 2,651. It is crossed by the Vjosë and Dëshnicë rivers, which runs along the Trebeshinë-Dhëmbel-Nemërçkë mountain chain, between Trebeshinë and Dhëmbel mountains.
Sport
KF Këlcyra is an Albanian football club founded in 1981 and based in the small town of Këlcyrë currently in the Albanian Second Division.
Earl Hamner Jr.
Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner). He was best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
Hamner died of cancer on March 24, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, aged 92.
Ahal Region
Ahal Region (Ahal welaýaty; from Persian آخال Axāl) is one of five provinces of Turkmenistan. It is in the south-center of the country. It borders Iran and Afghanistan along the Kopet Dag Range. Its area is 97160 km2 and population 939,700 (2005 est.).
Uesslingen-Buch
Uesslingen-Buch is a municipality of the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Montreuil
Montreuil can mean:
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei
Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei was married to Olympian Ion Drîmbă until they divorced. She later married footballer Emerich Jenei.
Double Dribble (movie)
Double Dribble is a 1946 Disney theatrical cartoon short that spoofs the sport of basketball and stars Goofy. It is directed by Jack Hannah.
Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei
Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei died on 25 August 2021 in Cluj-Napoca at the age of 75.
Double Dribble (movie)
Production
As an inside joke, the players are named for members of Disney's staff: Kinney, Lounsbery, Hannah and Sibley.
Home media
The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy.
Additional releases include:
Emerson, Iowa
Emerson is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Pratteln
Pratteln (Swiss German: Brattele) is a city of the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
The municipality is located on the A3 motorway.
Río Cuarto
In 2010, 157,000 people lived there, making it Córdoba Province's third largest city.
Emergency telephone
An emergency telephone is a special telephone that can be used in an emergency situation. Such telephones can usually be found on highways, and other big roads. They can also be found in places where people feel unsafe, such as big parks or the campuses of universities. Emergency telephones are also placed at spots where many people commit suicide, like bridges or cliffs.
Emergency phones are usually connected directly, there is no need to dial a telephone number. Lifting the receiver, or pushing a button will make the call. Very often emergency telephones will also tell the other side where they are. This is because people may not know where they are or they may be in shock because of an accident that just happened.
There are many special rules that apply to emergency telephones. They need to be in special colors, because color-blind people may not be able to tell the difference between certain colors. They also need to be easy to use. In an emergency situation, many people do not have time to think about how to operate them.
Burgos
Burgos (Su Bùrgu) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 924 people lived there. Its area is 18.08 km². It is 575 meters above sea level.
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Emmetsburg is a city in Iowa in the United States.
List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
The following is a list of Atlantic hurricane seasons. All began on June 1 in their respective years. They ended on November 30. These dates are when tropical cyclones usually form in the Atlantic Ocean.
Milot
The most important economic activity in Milot is farming. Some crops are sugar cane, cacao, tobacco and citrus fruits like orange.
List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
The National Hurricane Center helps watch for hurricanes in the northern Atlantic and makes forecasts about were the storms will go.
Milot
After the Haitian independence, the country was divided in two parts and the northern part was made a kingdom by Henri Christophe and he made Milot the capital of his kingdom.
List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
1800s
1800–1809 1810–1819 1820–1829 1830–1839 1840–1849
Milot
Christophe built a palace in Milot where he and his family lived; the palace was named Sans-Souci. He also built a fort, Citadelle Laferrière, high in the mountains at about 8 km from Milot, and some smaller forts in Ramiens, on the road to the Citadelle. These buildings are now part of the Natural History Park - Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers, a World Heritage Site designated by the UNESCO in 1982.
List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
1800s
1850–1859 1860–1869 1870 1871–1879
1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s
1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020 2021 2022 2023
The Wicker Man (1973 movie)
The Wicker Man is a cult 1973 British horror movie, made and set in Scotland. The movie was directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. It stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Britt Ekland. Paul Giovanni composed the soundtrack.
A police sergeant, Neil Howie goes to a remote island in the Hebrides to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Rowan. He finds out that the island is run by a pagan cult who are hostile of outsiders, including him. They practice human sacrifice. He believes that Rowan will be used as their human sacrifice. The islanders force Neil into a wicker man and burn him to death.
The Wicker Man is generally very highly regarded by critics. Movie magazine Cinefantastique described it as "The Citizen Kane of Horror Movies", and in 2004 the magazine Total Movie named The Wicker Man the sixth greatest British movie of all time. It also won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror movie. A scene from this movie was #45 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
The 2006 remake of this movie stars Nicolas Cage.
José López Ramírez
José Lopez Ramirez (born December 17, 1975 in Málaga) is a 5-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he is blind and is a B1 type sportperson. He played 5-per-team football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played Greece and, won 2-0. He played 5-per-team football at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played Argentina and, won 1-0.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. He and his family live in Los Angeles, California.
Life
Salonen was principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1995.
He first conducted in the United States in 1984 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 1989 he became Principal Guest Conductor of the orchestra and soon became music director. He has had this title ever since.
In 1992 he took the orchestra to the Salzburg Festival where they gave concert performances and well as playing in the opera house for the opera Saint-François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen. They toured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and performed at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the BBC Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own compositions, and in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez. The orchestra sounded very good in the Paris concert hall, and it made people realize that they needed a better concert hall in Los Angeles. Soon the Walt Disney Concert Hall was built there.
In 2008 Salonen became the main conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He will leave his job with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009. He wants to have more time to compose.
Salonen married Jane Price who used to play with the Philharmonia Orchestra. They have three children.
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Gelora Bung Karno Stadium is a main stadium in Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is officially called the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium and also known as the GBK Stadium. The stadium was made for use during the 1962 Asian Games then reused during the 2018 Asian Games and 2018 Asian Para Games.
Bill Paterson
William Tulloch Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor and commentator.
He has appeared in many movies and television projects including Comfort and Joy (1984), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), and PBS's Little Dorrit (2008).
Epworth, Iowa
Epworth is a city in Iowa in the United States.
Elizabeth Peer
Elizabeth Clow Peer (February 3, 1936 − May 26, 1984) was an American journalist. She worked for Newsweek from 1958 to 1984. She was a copy girl at a time when opportunities for women were limited.
In 1962, Peer was promoted to writer. In 1964, she was sent to Paris as Newsweek's first female correspondent. While in Paris, Peer wanted to report on the Vietnam War. But she was rejected because she was a woman.
Peer came back to the United States in 1969 to work in Newsweek's Washington, D.C. bureau.
Peer was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She committed suicide in New York City at age 48. Peer had first wanted to kill herself due to a broken tailbone.
Sea Scouts (movie)
Sea Scouts is an animated cartoon short film in the Donald Duck series.
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.
Álvaro Corcuera
Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río (22 July 1957 – 30 June 2014) was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest. He was the former General Director of the Catholic Order of the Legionaries of Christ, replacing Marcial Maciel after a sexual abuse scandal. He had served from January 2005 until early 2012.
Kœtzingue
Kœtzingue is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in the east of France.
Álvaro Corcuera
Corcuera was born in Mexico City. In April 1975, he became one of the first members of the Regnum Christi Consecrated Men.
Corcuera died from a brain tumor on 30 June 2014 in Mexcio City. He was 56.
Loire (department)
Loire (Léger) is a French department in the east-central part of France in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and named after the Loire river. Its prefecture is the city of Saint-Étienne.
History
Rhône-et-Loire was one French departments made during the French revolution, on 4 March 1790. The department was divided in two departments in 1793: Rhône and Loire. The department of Loire had three districts: Montbrison, Roanne and Saint-Étienne. The capital was Feurs but in 1795 the capital was moved to Montbrison.
With the creation of the arrondissements, the three districts became three arrondissements: Montbrison, Roanne and Saint-Étienne.
After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the department was occupied by troops from Austria from June 1815 to November 1818.
The capital was moved from Montbrison to Saint-Étienne in 1855.
Geography
The department borders with 7 other departments in 2 regions:
The department is in eastern Massif Central and there are several mountain chains; some of the chains and mountains are:
The main rivers of Loire are:
Climate
The climate of the Loire department, in the city of Andrézieux-Bouthéon (near Saint-Étienne and where is the Saint-Étienne-Loire Airport), is an oceanic climate, Cfb (Marine West Coast Climate) in the Köppen climate classification.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Andrézieux-Bouthéon is 896.6 mm. The month with the most precipitation on average is December with 88.9 mm of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is April with an average of 61.0 mm.
Administration
Loire is part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The department is managed by the Departamental Council of the Loire in Saint-Étienne.
Administrative divisions
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Loire department (with their INSEE codes), in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
Demographics
The inhabitants of Loire are known, in French, as Ligériens (women: Ligériennes). Ligérien comes from Liger, the Latin name of the Loire river.
Loire has a population, in 2014, of 757,305, for a population density of inhabitants/km2. The arrondissement of Saint-Étienne, with 411,402 inhabitants, is by far the largest. The other two, Montbrison and Roanne, have respectively 188,635 and 157,268 inhabitants.
The city with more people living in it is the capital, Saint-Étienne (170,761 inhabitants). The subprefectures of Roanne and Montbrison have, respectively, 35,200 and 15,689 inhabitants.
Evolution of the population in Loire
The most important cities in the department are:
Pindi Point
Pindi Point (پنڈی پوائنٹ) is a mountain-view tourist spot in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. It has a view of the high mountains and forests of Murree.
From Pindi Point, one can see the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
Salta City
Salta is a city in the north of Argentina.
It is the capital of Salta Province. In 2010, 618,375 people lived there.
Ion Drîmbă
Ionel Alexandru "Ion" Drîmbă (also Drâmbă, March 18, 1942 – February 20, 2006) was a Romanian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won the first ever Olympic gold medal in fencing for Romania in 1968.
Draco (lawgiver)
Draco (7th century BC), also known as Dracon was the first legislator of the city of Athens in Ancient Greece. He wrote laws that were to be enforced only by a court. This constitution replaced the system of oral law and blood feuding that had ruled Athens since the city was founded. Draco's laws were known for being harsh. The word draconian has come to mean unforgiving rules or laws.
Draco created this legal system during the 39th Olympiad, in about 622 or 621 BC. The laws (θεσμοί - thesmoi) he set formed the first written constitution of Athens. They were displayed in public, so that nobody would be unaware of them. The death penalty was the punishment for most crimes, even minor ones. Plutarch states: "It was a lot for himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones."
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a category of plants. A tree usually has one stem, which at some height has branches. A shrub can have multiple stems from the bottom up. Usually, bushes do not grow as tall as trees, very often they are less than 1–2 m tall.
Very many plants can be either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions. Small, low shrubs such as lavender, periwinkle and thyme are often termed subshrubs. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen.
A shrubbery is a garden with shrubs as the main feature.
Shrubs as a botanical structural form
In botany and ecology a shrub is more specifically used to describe the particular physical structural or plant life-form of woody plants which are less than 8 meters high and usually have many stems arising at or near the base.
Draco (lawgiver)
All of Draco's laws, except the law concerning murder, were abolished by Solon in the early 6th century BC.
Shrub
Shrubs as a botanical structural form
For example, a descriptive system widely used in Australia is based on structural characteristics based on life-form, plus the height and amount of foliage cover of the tallest layer or dominant species.
For shrubs 2–8 m high the following structural forms are categorized:
For shrubs less than 2 m high the following structural forms are categorized:
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was an English novelist who wrote 47 novels and a number of other books.
His mother Frances Trollope was also a writer. Trollope became an official of the Post Office and lived in Ireland from 1841 to 1859; he left his Post Office job in 1867.
Trollope is well known for his series of novels set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire. His first novel was published in 1847 and The Warden, the first Barsetshire novel, in 1855. The rest of the series were published during the next 12 years: The Barchester Chronicles (1857), Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867). Barsetshire is imagined as a county in southwest England. The county town is Barchester, which is the seat of the Bishop of Barchester.
Trollope also wrote a series of political novels featuring the Palliser family. These began in 1864 with Can You Forgive Her?. The rest of the series is Phineas Finn (1869), The Eustace Diamonds (1873), Phineas Redux (1876), The Prime Minister (1876), and The Duke's Children (1880). Trollope was an industrious and disciplined writer who wrote short stories, travel books and biographies as well as novels.
Frank Cashen
John Francis Cashen (September 13, 1925 – June 30, 2014) was an American Major League Baseball general manager and writer. He is often said to have turned the New York Mets into champions with choosing their squad. He was also an executive while the Baltimore Orioles won the 1966 World Series and 1970 World Series.
Chashen was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He gradated from Loyola University Maryland. He had seven children with wife, Jean: Gregory, Terry, Tim, Brian, Sean, Stacey and Blaise.
Cashen died on June 30, 2014 in Easton, Maryland, aged 88.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction book by American author Kurt Vonnegut. It has been popular all over the world since its was published in 1969. It is often picked as one of the best books of all time. Slaughterhouse 5 is about a time travelling American soldier during World War II who is in the German city of Dresden when it is bombed by the Allies. The author experienced this event in his real life and so the novel is semi autobiographical.
Plot summary
The novel follows the story of American soldier, Billy Pilgrim. Billy is what is known in literature as an unreliable narrator - his experiences are written in a way that might make the reader think they are not exactly true. To reflect this, the novel is structured in a non linear fashion. This means events are not always written in the order that they happened. Billy's stories from the war are interrupted when he is taken by aliens (called Tralfamadorians) to live in a zoo on their home planet. He also becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences his life in a random order of flashbacks.
Educational Broadcasting System
Korea Educational Broadcasting System (한국교육방송공사) or EBS is a South Korean educational public broadcaster and radio network covering South Korean territory, and the only major South Korean radio and television network without a separate regional service. It was established as KBS 3 and KBS Educational Radio in the 1980s, and became an independent corporation in 1990.
The main counterparts of this network are American Broadcasting Company, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, as well as Korean Broadcasting System, and Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea, Radio Philippines Network, People's Television Network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, and Philippine Broadcasting Service in the Philippines, NHK in Japan, TV3, and Radio Televisyen Malaysia in Malaysia, ARD in the Germany, TF1, and France 2 in France, RAI in Italy, RTVE in Spain, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal in Portugal, SBT, TV Cultura, and TV Brasil in Brazil, Pershyi in Ukraine, Telewizja Polska in Poland, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep in the Netherlands, CCTV in China, Royal Thai Army Radio and Television in the Thailand, Televisa, and Canal Once in Mexico, Nigerian Television Authority in Nigeria, South African Broadcasting Corporation in the South Africa, Special Broadcasting Service, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, Raidió Teilifís Éireann in Ireland, Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica in Jamaica, Senal Colombia in Colombia, TVNZ in the New Zealand, Qatar Television, and Al Jazeera in the Qatar, Russia-1, and Channel One in the Russia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada, and Channel 4, and British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom.
Colombia at the Youth Olympics
Colombia first participated at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural 2010 Games in Singapore. Colombia has sent a team to each Summer Youth Olympic Games and participated for the first time at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in the 2016 edition in Lillehammer. Colombian city of Medellín submitted a bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, but in a voting process in 2013 lost the games to the argentine capital Buenos Aires.
Ken Jones
Ken Jones (20 February 1930 – 13 February 2014) was an English actor.
Jones was married to actress Sheila Fay, also a native of Liverpool, from 30 October 1964 until her death on 31 August 2013. He died from bowel cancer on 14 February 2014, six days before his 84th birthday, in a nursing home in Prescot, Merseyside.
Leanza Cornett
Eva Leanza Cornett (June 10, 1971 – October 28, 2020) was an American television personality and beauty pageant title holder. She was Miss Florida 1992 and later Miss America 1993. She was also a stage actress.
As Miss America, Cornett was the first beauty queen to adopt AIDS prevention as the theme of her service year. She was earlier National Sweetheart 1991.
Cornett was married to Mark Steines from 1995 to 2013. After 17 years, they got divorced.
Cardedu
Cardedu (Cardèdu) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 1,909 people lived there. It has an area of 33.39 km². It is located at 19 meters above sea level.
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe or Tahoe is a fresh water lake in the Sierra Nevada. It is on the borders of the states of California and Nevada, in the United States of America.
Lake Tahoe is one of the deepest (1645 feet/501 m), largest (192 sq. mi./497 km²), and highest elevation (6229 feet/1898 m) lakes in the United States. Of the lakes in the United States, only Oregon's Crater Lake is deeper at 1930 feet (588 m).
Some visitors experience altitude sickness, because there is less oxygen in the air at higher altitudes. To fight this, experts recommend avoiding heavy exercise or drinking alcohol until the body adjusts to the lower oxygen level.
Chris Kamara
Christopher Kamara (born 25 December 1957), often named as Chris Kamara and nicknamed as "Kammy", is an English former professional footballer, manager. He is also a current presenter for ITV television show Ninja Warrior UK alongside Ben Shephard and Rochelle Humes since the show was founded. He worked as a presenter and football analyst for Sky Sports from 1992 to 2022.
Shade
Shade is produced when the sun is shining and an object, a tree for example, blocks the direct sunlight so that it cannot reach a certain spot. The dark image which the object casts on the ground (or on another object) is called shadow, not shade.
Shade can also mean a darker or lighter color of the same base color. For example: in a picture of a tree's shadow, the grass in the shade will be a darker shade of green than the grass out of the shade.
2020 United States Senate election in South Carolina
An election happened on November 3, 2020, to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of South Carolina. The three people in the election were Lindsey Graham (Republican Party), Jaime Harrison (Democratic Party) and Bill Bledsoe (Constitution Party). Lindsey Graham won reelection for the fourth time. Jamie Harrison got more money for his campaign than any other politician.
There was two primary elections held on June 9, 2020. Lindsey Graham easily won the Republican Party primary and Jamie Harrison won the Democratic Party primary election.
Democratic Party primary
Jamie Harrison won the primary and Gloria Bromell Tinubu, William Stone, and Justin Wooton all stopped their race before the primary.