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Éamon de Valera
The 'empty formula'
De Valera resigned from the presidency of Sinn Féin after losing a vote to accept the Free State Constitution (if the Oath of Allegiance was dropped). In March 1926 he formed a new party, Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny). Fianna Fáil was successful in elections, but for over a year a it did not take its seats in the Dáil. When a new law made candidates promise to take the oath if elected, de Valera and his TDs took the Oath of Allegiance in 1927. They said the oath was "an empty formula" that is, just words they had to say, they did not have to believe them.
Back in Power
Six years after it was founded Fianna Fáil won 72 seats in the 1932 general election, and had a plurality in the Dáil. That is, it was the largest party but had less than half of all of the seats, which would be a majority. On 9 March Governor-General James McNeill appointed de Valera President of the Executive Council. He abolished the oath and stopped paying money owed to Britain.
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician. He was a U.S. senator from Indiana, serving from 1897 to 1905, and the 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909. He also was the vice presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election for the Republicans.
Éamon de Valera
Back in Power
De Valera was his own Minister for External Affairs. He attended meetings of the League of Nations, and was president of the Council of the League on his first appearance at Geneva in 1932. In 1934, he supported the admission of the Soviet Union into the League. In September 1938 he was elected nineteenth president of the Assembly of the League, a tribute to the international recognition he had won by his independent stance on world questions.
Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks was born in Unionville Center, Ohio. After he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. He was an attorney and worked as a railroad financier. In 1897, he was elected to the Senate. During his time in the Senate, he assisted President William McKinley, and was also part of a commission to fix a disagreement on the Alaska boundary.
In 1904, Fairbanks was chosen to be the running mate for President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1908, he tried to become the presidential nominee for the Republican Party, but was not chosen. In 1912, he supported William Howard Taft for president. He again tried to become the nominee for president in 1916, but lost to Charles Evan Hughes. He ended up as Hughes's vice presidential nominee for the election, but their ticket lost to the Democratic ticket of President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.
Éamon de Valera
De Valera's new constitution – Bunreacht na hÉireann
During the 1930s, de Valera changed a lot of the Irish Free State constitution.
The Governor-General of the Irish Free State could reserve or deny the Royal Assent to any changes after being advised (ordered) by His Majesty's Government in London. After a legal argument with the British Government the power this was changed to His Majesty's Government in the Irish Free State
That meant that de Valera was the only person who could stop a bill becoming law.
De Valera abolished:
When King Edward VIII abdicted (resigned) as King of Ireland de Valera passed two Bills;
Neutrality in World War II
Ireland stayed neutral in World War II, which was called The Emergency in Ireland. Both the possibility of a German invasion and a British invasion were discussed in the Dáil.
But even though de Valera hated Britain, Irish neutrality often favoured the allies:
In May 1945, de Valera visited the German minister in Dublin, to express sympathy over the death of the Führer. Along with President Douglas Hyde, de Valera was the only head of government to do this. De Valera did not visit the American embassy following the death of Roosevelt, as David Gray, the American Ambassador said he would not receive de Valera. All flags were flown at half-mast on Roosevelt's death on de Valera's instructions
Post–war period
After sixteen years in power, Fianna Fáil lost the 1948 election. John A. Costello was Taoiseach of a coalition Government. It was Costello who declared Ireland a republic, making de Valera's friend President Ó Ceallaigh Ireland's head of state. In 1951 de Valera was returned to power but without an overall majority. Many people thought this was his worst government. He spent several months in the Netherlands where he had six operations on his eyes.
Fianna Fáil was defeated again in the 1954 general election, but in 1957 de Valera, won a majority of nine seats. This was the beginning of another sixteen year period in office for Fianna Fáil. But de Valera was only Taoiseach for two years.
In 1959 he was elected President of Ireland, as which he served until 1973. At his retirement at the age of 90, he was the oldest Head of State in the world.
Éamon de Valera died in Linden Convalescent Home, Blackrock, County Dublin on 29 August 1975 aged 92. His wife, Sinéad de Valera, four years his senior, had died the previous January, on the eve of their 65th wedding anniversary. He is buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery.
Overview
In his recent controversial biography by Tim Pat Coogan says that his failures are more than his achievements, and that de Valera's popularity fell as Michael Collins's rose.
Garret Fitzgerald summarised his last term as Taoiseach; Total economic stagnation marked de Valera's last seven years as leader of his party - because all of the chickens of his disastrous commitment to an inward-looking policy of self sufficiency were coming home to roost.
The Greatest Show on Turf
The Greatest Show on Turf was the nickname for the offense fielded by the St. Louis Rams offense during 1999, 2000, and 2001 National Football League seasons.
Traditionalist theology (Islam)
Traditionalist theology (Arabic: الأثرية‎—al-Aṯharīya) is an Islamic scholarly movement, originating in the late 8th century CE, who reject rationalistic Islamic theology (kalam) in favor of strict textualism in interpreting the Quran and Hadith. The name derives from "tradition" in its technical sense as a translation of the Arabic word athar. It is also sometimes referred to by several other names.
History
Traditional theology spread in the late eighth century AD among muhaddiths, who regarded the Qur'an and pure hadith as the only acceptable source of law and religion.
Reedy Creek Observatory
Reedy Creek Observatory is an observatory for looking at Near-Earth objects. It is run by John Broughton, an Australian astronomer. It can be found on the Gold Coast, Queensland at Reedy Creek, Queensland.
The Abysmal Brute (movie)
The Abysmal Brute is a 1923 American silent sports drama movie directed by Hobart Henley and was based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Jack London. It stars Reginald Denny, Mabel Julienne Scott, Charles K. French, Hayden Stevenson, David Torrence, Buddy Messinger, Crauford Kent, Dorothea Wolbert and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Charadrahyla
Charadrahyla is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in southern Mexico. The name of this genus comes from the Greek word charadra ("ravine") and Hyla. Accordingly, common name ravine treefrogs has been coined for the genus.
Taxonomy and systematics
Scientists made this genus in 2005 after looking closely at all the frogs in Hylidae. The frogs in Charadrahyla are those that used to be in the Hyla taeniopus group as defined by in 1970. The genus was originally made using molecular markers and no morphological synapomorphies, meaning that scientists only used the frogs' genes to tell whether they should be in this group. They did not use what the frogs looked like or how their bodies worked. The closet related group to Charadrahyla is the genus Megastomatohyla.
Five of the frogs in this genus were in the genus Hyla before 2005. Since then, scientists discovered two species of frogs for the first time, and placed them in Charadrahyla too. Another two were moved into Charadrahyla from Exerodonta in 2018 after scientists studied their DNA.
Description
The frogs in Charadrahyla are large for frogs. They lay eggs in streams in cloud forests and humid pine-oak forests of central and southern Mexico. Most of the male frogs in this genus are 44 - 81 mm long from nose to rear end and females 60 - 81 mm. But the former Exerodonta species, Charadrahyla juanitae and Charadrahyla pinorum, are much smaller, with males 28 - 36 mm and females 35 - 40 mm. Most species have a brownish skin on their backs with large spots (exception is Charadrahyla altipotens).
Species
As of 2019, there were ten species in this genus:
2020–21 NFL playoffs
The 2020–21 NFL playoffs was the playoff tournament for the 2020 season. It began on January 9, 2021 and ended with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers becoming champions by defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on February 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Kevin Conroy
Kevin Conroy (November 30, 1955 – November 10, 2022) was an American stage, movie, and voice actor. He was best known for his voice role as the DC Comics character Batman on the 1990s Warner Bros. television show Batman: The Animated Series,
Many people liked his performance as Batman that Conroy went on to voice the character for multiple movies under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner; along with the famous video games Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009), Batman: Arkham City (2011), and Batman: Arkham Knight (2015).
Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi (born 8 January 1942) is the former Prime Minister of Japan. He stepped down in 2006.
Early life
Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa on 8 January, 1942, Koizumi was taught at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics. He went to University College London before returning to Japan in August 1969 when his father died.
Yasukuni Shrine and Junichiro
While he was prime minister of Japan, he made China and South Korea very angry by continuing to visit the Yasukuni Shrine. He was succeeded by Shinzo Abe.
Taganrog
Taganrog (Таганрог) is a port city in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is on the north shore of the Taganrog Bay in the Sea of Azov, several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 257,681; the latest official estimate (as of 1 January 2019) was 248,664.
History
Taganrog was founded on 12 September 1698. by Peter the Great. It was the first Russian Navy base. It held the Azov Flotilla of Catherine the Great. This flotilla later became the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Taganrog was given city status in 1775.
World War I
During World War I, Taganrog was occupied by German troops from May to August 1918. In 1919, General Anton Denikin made his headquarters in Taganrog while commanding White Russian forces fighting in South Russia during the Russian Civil War. Denikin and his remaining troops were evacuated by HMS Montrose after the Bolsheviks took the city on 25 December 1919.
World War II
During World War II, Taganrog was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1943. The city was very damaged. It was liberated by the Red Army on 30 August 1943.
Notable people
Many Russian and international aristocrats, politicians, artists, and scientists were born and/or have lived in Taganrog. Taganrog is the native city of
It is also associated with:
Twin towns – sister cities
Taganrog is twinned with:
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Prescott Observatory
Prescott Observatory is an observatory that is used by Paul G. Comba. He looks at Near-Earth objects through a telescope. Many asteroids have been found at Prescott Observatory.
Casimir III the Great
Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz III Wielki) (April 30, 1310 – November 5, 1370) was the King of Poland from 1333 until 1370. He was the son of Wladyslaw I the Short. He was the last king of the Piast dynasty, his daughter Jadwiga having married the Lithuanian duke Wladyslaw Jagiello.
Casimir III is the only Polish king to ever receive the title of "the Great". His reign was a time of prosperity and growth for the Polish kingdom. He focused on the economy and strengthening of the country and not on wars and expansion. He kept peace with the Teutonic Order during his reign, for he knew that Poland was weak and would not survive the confrontation with the knights. Because of that, he focused his attention on the south-eastern borders of the country and expanded there. In 1340, he conquered Red Ruthenia (Lviv along with it) from Hungary. Various trade laws created by him made it easier for Polish cities to gather more wealth. Cracow and Lviv gained in importance during his reign.
Castella
Castella (Kasutera in Japanese) is a sponge cake produced in Japan. It is made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup, very common at festivals and as a street food. It was originally produced in Portugal during medieval times, and when the Portuguese reached Japan they gave some of it to the Japanese nobility. The name is derived from Portuguese Pão de Castela which means "bread of Spain".
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2020 Tallahassee has a population of 192 885 people
The name comes from the Apalachee Native American words: talwa meaning town, and ahassee meaning old.
Hudson, Wisconsin
Hudson is a city in and the county seat of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, its population was 12,719. It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Hudson is bordered on the north by the village of North Hudson and the Willow River. On the North and East is the township of Hudson. To the south is the township of Troy. It is bounded on the west by the St. Croix River.
History
Hudson was settled in the summer of 1840 by Louis Massey and his brother in-law, Peter Bouchea. William Steets arrived at about the same time. Later that same year, Joseph Sauperson (commonly known as Joe LaGrue) moved there. These four are considered Hudson's original inhabitants. Massey and Bouchea settled at the mouth of the Willow River, near the present-day First and St. Croix Streets. They had been part of the group who lived for some time along the river below Fort Snelling. This appears on some old maps as "Massey's Landing". The 1840s saw a few settlers arriving here — Captain John Page, the Nobles brothers, Dr. Philip Aldrich, Ammah Andrews, Moses Perrin, Colonel James Hughes, Daniel Anderson, and others.
Hudson was originally called "Willow River". It was later named "Buena Vista" by Judge Joel Foster, founder of River Falls. This was after he returned from the Mexican–American War where he fought in the Battle of Buena Vista. In 1852, Alfred D. Gray, Hudson's first mayor, petitioned to change the name of the city to "Hudson", because the bluffs along the St. Croix River reminded him of the Hudson River in his native New York.
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee was created as the capital of Florida during the territory's second legislative session. It was chosen as the midpoint between St. Augustine and Pensacola, which had been the capitals of the Spanish and British colonies of East Florida and West Florida, respectively. (At that time, very few people lived in the swamps of South Florida.) The first session of Florida's Legislative Council–as a territory of the United States–met on July 22, 1822 at Pensacola and members from St. Augustine traveled fifty-nine days by water to attend. The second session was in St. Augustine and required western delegates to travel perilously around the peninsula on a twenty-eight day trek. During this session, it was decided that future meetings should be held at a half-way point to reduce the distance. Two appointed commissioners selected Tallahassee, at that point an abandoned Apalachee settlement, as a halfway point. In 1824, the third legislative session met there in a crude log capitol. Also in 1824, Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, returned for a grand tour of the United States. The US Congress voted to give him $200,000 (the same amount he had given the colonies in 1778), US citizenship, and the Lafayette Land Grant, 36 sqmi of land that today includes large portions of Tallahassee. In 1845, a Greek revival masonry structure was erected as the Capitol building in time for statehood.
Hudson, Wisconsin
History
A large number of settlers arrived in the 1850s and 1860s. Many of were the ancestors of today's residents. The lumber industry was the prime attraction of the area. Over time sawmills were started throughout the St. Croix Valley.
Tallahassee, Florida
In 1977, a 23-story high-rise Capitol building designed by architect Edward Durell Stone was completed. It is now the third-tallest state capitol building in the United States. In 1978, the old capitol was scheduled for demolition, but the State Of Florida decided to keep the Old Capitol as a museum and point of interest.
Hudson, Wisconsin
History
U.S. Highway 12 once crossed the St. Croix River on a toll bridge between Wisconsin and Minnesota, which provided revenue for the town. With the construction of Interstate 94, the toll bridge was removed. The long causeway extending to the former bridge location is now open to the public as a pedestrian walkway.
Hudson has grown as a tourist destination in recent years. There are shops and restaurants on the St. Croix river in its historic downtown, along with hotels and other businesses that serve traffic on Interstate Highway 94.
Tallahassee, Florida
The city is the location of two important universities, Florida State University and Florida A&M University.
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Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (, Akbar Hāshemī Rafanjānī), Hashemi Bahramani (August 25, 1934 – January 8, 2017) was an influential Iranian politician. He has been the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran from 1989 until his death in 2017.
Rafsanjani was President of Iran from 1989 to 1997, losing on the second ballot to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 election on his attempt for a third term in office. After this, he has tried to use his position in the Expediency Council to denounce President Ahmadinejad's administration. He said he would do some privatizations and change foreign policy. However, President Ahmadinejad has noted Rafsanjani's failure to make a difference between privatization and self takeover of government-owned companies. Ahmadinejad has also commmented on the foreign policies of Rafsanjani's administration which lead to sanctions against Iran in 1995 and 1996.
Currently, one of his sons has been accused of receiving a bribe. Analysts expect that his son will not be put on trial, however.
Rafsanjani died on January 8, 2017 in Tehran from a heart attack, aged 82.
Trossingen
Trossingen is a town in South Germany (Baden-Württemberg). It is in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest.
Leerimetsa
Leerimetsa is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Trossingen
Trossingen is called a "music town". It has around 16,000 people who live there, there is the 'University of Music Trossingen', which is one of Baden-Württemberg's state conservatories, and there are other institutions specialized in musical education, like the 'Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung' and the 'Hohner Konservatorium'. In 1857 the Matthias Hohner company was founded. Today, Hohner harmonicas and accordions are famous all over the world. Trossingen houses the German Harmonica Museum, too. Trossingen also has a historic railway: the Trossinger Eisenbahn. Several skeletons of the dinosaur Plateosaurus engelhardti were found in Trossingen during excavations in the early 20th century. The local museum Auberlehaus houses several of the original bones.
Welsh Football League
The Welsh League is a football league in Wales. Some large Welsh clubs play in England's Football League.
Monaro (New South Wales)
Monaro (pronounced "mon-air'-ro") is the name of a region in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It also includes a small area of Victoria near Snowy River National Park. The Australian Capital Territory is often considered part of the region. Most towns in the region have very close links with Canberra.
Welsh Football League
These are the Welsh football (soccer) teams that played in the Welsh League for the 2003/04 season:
Monaro (New South Wales)
The Monaro region is a large plateau about 1000 m above sea level. It lies between the valley of the Murrumbidgee River in the north, and the Errinundra Plateau in the south. It drops steeply to the coast on its eastern side. Much of the region is an ancient highland, but there is basaltic bedrock near Cooma and Nimmitabel. This produces the only true chernozems in Australia. These are some of the best soils in the whole country. Elsewhere on the Monaro the granitic soils are very infertile. They supported dry forest vegetation before clearing for farming.
The Monaro region features rolling hills that rise to very rugged peaks in the Tinderry Mountains. There are shallow valleys in the upper Murrumbidgee. The basaltic Monaro Range separates the Snowy and Murrumbidgee drainages. Because the climate in the basaltic areas is too cold for crops, the main industry is raising sheep and beef cattle.
The Monaro Highway is the main State highway from Canberra to the Monaro region. The main towns in the region are Cooma and Bombala, others include Berridale, Adaminaby, Delegate, Dalgety, Nimmitabel and Jindabyne.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (movie)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American romantic musical comedy movie directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin, Tyler Brooke, Bert Roach. It was distributed by United Artists.
Mosbach
Mosbach (South Franconian: Mossbach) is a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. About 25,000 people live there. It is between Heidelberg and Heilbronn. There are other big towns nearby: Sinsheim, Eberbach and Osterburken.
In Neckarelz, a suburb of Mosbach, is the most important train station. There are trains running from Mannheim - Heidelberg - Heilbronn, Stuttgart - Heilbronn - Neckarelz and Kaiserslautern - Mannheim - Heidelberg - Mosbach - Osterburken. There are also 2 other stations: Mosbach and Mosbach West. There are only trains from Kaiserslautern to Osterburken.
Mosbach has an area of 62.23 km2. The postal codes are from 74801 to 74821, the old one was 6950. The telephone numbers start with +49 6261, The cars have number plates with the letters MOS.
Springfield, Tennessee
Springfield is a city in Tennessee in the United States. It is the county seat of Robertson County.
Bartholomew County, Indiana
Bartholomew County is a county in Indiana. Its county seat is Columbus.
Weilerswist
Weilerswist is a municipality in Euskirchen, a district (Kreis) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Falconiformes
The order Falconiformes is a group of about 290 species of birds that include the diurnal (active during dawn and dusk) birds of prey. All have young that remain in the nest for some time after being hatched, and are cared for by both parents.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Imam Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu Abdullah Al-Shaibani (780–855 AD/164-241 AH) (بنحمد بن محمد بن حنبل أبو عبد الله الشياڻي), was a famous Islamic figure, scholar of Islamic law and hadith. One of the four traditional schools of Islam, the Hanbali school, is based on its interpretation. Imam Ahmad Shaikhul Islam is known in the Muslim world. Musnad, a collection of hadiths compiled by Imam Ahmad, is considered his great work.
Kunnamthanam
Kunnamthanam  is a village in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, India.
Demographics
India census, Kunnamthanam had a population of 20157 with 9466 males and 10691 females.
Ichneumon
The Ichneumonoidea are parasitoid wasps. They are a superfamily in the suborder Apocrita.
Kunnamthanam
Geography
Kunnamthanam is one of the nine villages that form Mallapally Taluk of Pathanamthitta district.
Ichneumon
The superfamily is made up of the ichneumon wasps, (family Ichneumonidae), and the braconids (family Braconidae). The superfamily contains well over 80,000 different species. Members of the family Ichneumonidae are usually larger than members of the Braconidae, and the family has three times as many species as the braconids. The two families are distinguished mainly by details of wing venation.
Kunnamthanam
Language
Malayalam is the native language of Kunnamthanam.
Ichneumon
Almost all are solitary insects, and most are parasitoids—the larvae feeding on or in another insect which finally dies. Being in the same order, ichneumonoids are closely related to other hymenoptera such as ants and bees. Many species in both families use polydnaviruses (with double strand DNA) to suppress the immune system of the host insect.
Kunnamthanam
Politics
Kunnamthanam is a part of Pathanamthitta Loksabha constituency. Mr. Anto Antony is the current Member of Parliament of the constituency.
Ichneumon
Some species use many different insects as hosts, others are very specific in host choice. Various ichneumons are used successfully as biological control agents in controlling pests such as flies or beetles.
Ichneumon wasp species are highly varied, ranging from 3 mm to 130 mm long. Most are slender, with the females of many species (particularly in the genus Megarhyssa) having an extremely long ovipositor for laying eggs. The female finds a host and lays an egg on, near, or inside the host's body. Upon hatching, the larval ichneumon feeds either externally or internally, killing the host when they themselves are ready to pupate. Despite looking formidable, the ovipositor does not deliver a sting like many wasps or bees. It can be used by the wasps to bore through rotten wood, and lay eggs in grubs hiding under the wood.
Springfield, Michigan
Springfield is a city in Michigan in the United States. Springfield, Oregon
Kunnamthanam
Transportation
The major transportation service of this place is provided by Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
Yoga village
Kunnamthanam organized mass yoga practise with 5,000 people. So it has been declared as a yoga village.
Rio Negro (Amazon)
The Rio Negro is a river which flows through the Amazon rainforest in north-western Brazil, in the state of Amazonas.
It is the largest blackwater river in the world. It is called Negro (Spanish and Portuguese for "black") because its waters are colored by particles of humus, which make them look much like tea.
The Rio Negro is the largest tributary of the Amazon on the left-hand side (as it goes towards the sea). It starts in Colombia and ends in the Amazon basin.
Rio Negro has a very high species richness. About 700 fish species have been documented in the river basin, and it is estimated that the total is 800–900 fish species, including almost 100 endemics and several undescribed species. Among these are many that are important in the aquarium trade, including the cardinal tetra.
Video chat
Video chat is a way of communicating online using the Internet. It uses a camera and microphone in a computer or smart phone. This allows people to see and hear each other.
For streaming video a speed of at least 2 Mbps is needed, to prevent a choppy signal and disconnects. For sound transmission, much less speed is required, so people often turn off video when the internet connection is slow.
Video chat is a very popular form of communication in the 21st century. It is often used for many reasons;
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S. Comptroller of the Currency and the first director of the Bureau of the Budget, and in later life the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Seveso disaster
The Seveso disaster was a chemical accident on 10 July 1976, at the small Italian town of Meda, 20 km from Milan in Lombardy. There was an leak at a chemical factory which released a lot of the toxic poison dioxin, TCDD, into the air. The cloud of poison gas covered an area 6 km long and 1 km wide. It was named after the municipality of Seveso. It resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) in residential populations There were many studies and new regulations after the accident. The European Union directive covering the protection against such accidents is known as Seveso-II-directive today.
The company where the accident happened was called Icmesa. It was owned by Givaudan, who is owned by Roche. Icmesa produced Trichlorophenol, which is used to produce the disinfectant Hexachlorophene. The company was located in four communes; one of them Seveso.
None of the 20,000 people who lived in Seveso died, but the poison killed 3,000 farm animals and pets. Another 70,000 animals had to be killed to stop the dioxin from getting into the food chain.
Long term problems
Thirty years after the accident, scientists reported that babies born in the area affected by the dioxin were six times more likely to have thyroid problems. The affected people, now in their forties, are being studied to see if it stopped them growing properly, or reduced intellectual development (IQ).
Meat ant
The meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus), also called the meat-eater ant, is a species of ant found all around Australia. The ants are often used by farmers to clean the remaining meat off dead animals.
Hello, Everybody!
Hello, Everybody! is a 1933 American musical movie directed by William A. Seiter and starring Kate Smith, Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Charley Grapewin, George Barbier, Wade Boteler, Julia Swayne Gordon, Erville Alderson. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Friedrich Ostermann
Friedrich Ostermann (21 June 1932 — 22 October 2018) was a German Roman Catholic official. He was an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster. Ostermann was born in Münster. He was ordained on 11 February 1958. He resigned in June 2007.
Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II (Pius Secundus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), born Enea Silvio Piccolomini, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 211th Pope from August 19, 1458 until his death in 1464.
Friedrich Ostermann
Ostermann died in Münster on 22 October 2018. He was 86 years old.
Pope Pius II
Early life
Pius II was born at Corsignano, which is near Siena. He was the oldest of 18 children.
He studied at the University of Siena.
He was ordained in 1446.
Bishop
In 1447, Pope Nicholas V made Piccolomini Bishop of Trieste. In 1450, he was made Bishop of Siena.
Cardinal
In 1456, Pope Calixtus III raised Bishop Piccolomini to the rank of cardinal.
Pope
Cardinal Piccolomini was elected pope in 1458. The pope chose to be called "Pius" because of the adjective pious which recurs in the phrase "pius Aeneas" in Virgil's Aeneid.
According to Niccolò Machiavelli, "Pius showed himself mindful above all of the welfare of Christendom and of the honour of the Church, independent of any private passion or interest of his own."
St. Catherine of Siena was canonized during his reign.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Pope Pius II, OCLC/WorldCat includes roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 5 languages and 120+ library holdings.
Andreeva Bay
Andreeva Bay is a bay in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The bay is a radioactive waste repository (or a place to store things).
As of 2022, the cleaning up of nuclear waste is not complete; Russian authorities said in May 2022 that half of the nuclear waste has been cleaned up in the last 5 years.
History
The bay became a radioactive waste repository in 1961. The bay is 55 km (34 mi) northwest of Murmansk (city) and 60 km (37 mi) from the Norwegian border, on the western shore of the Zapadnaya Litsa (Kola Peninsula).
In February 1982, the Andreev Bay nuclear accident happened.
In 2022, NRK.no published a photo of a crane; The website says that the crane has removed half of the nuclear waste from the bay.
Rebecca Smith
Rebecca Smith is a swimmer from Canada. Smith competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was born on 14 March 2000.
Mule
A mule is a anima l hybrid of a female horse (a mare) and a male donkey (a jack). The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two possible first-generation hybrids between them, the mule is easier to obtain and more common than the hinny, which is the offspring of a female donkey (a jenny) and a male horse (a stallion).
A mule is generally sterile. Although it is extremely unlikely for a mule to become pregnant (less than 300 reported cases worldwide), it is possible.
Mules vary widely in size, from small miniature mules under 125 cm to large and powerful mules standing up to 180 cm at the shoulders. The average weight range is between about 370 and 460 kg.
A mule is generally larger than a donkey and smaller than a horse. A mule has the long ears, thin limbs, small hooves and the short hair of the donkey, while its height, the shape of the neck and body, and its teeth are more similar to those of the horse. The color of its coat can be any color seen in the horse or in the donkey, which can be white, grey, brown or black.
They are used mostly for pulling carts and transportation. As trucks with four-wheel drive have become common, mules are little used for transport except in places without roads.
Hannes Bauer
Johannes "Hannes" Bauer (July 22, 1954 – May 6, 2016) was a German trombonist. He worked in the field of improvised music and free jazz. He was the brother of the trombonist Conny Bauer. His career began in 1979. During his career he has worked with Thomas Lehn, Jon Rose, Ken Vandermark Territory Band and the Peter Brötzmann Tentet. He was born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.
Baur died in Berlin, Germany on May 6, 2016, aged 61.
Ngupulya Pumani
Ngupulya began painting in 2009, for Mimili's community art co-operative, Mimili Maku. She had been inspired to paint by her mother. Her first major exhibition was later that year in Alice Springs, at the annual "Desert Mob" show. Since then, her paintings have been exhibited in several cities around Australia, including twice at the Gallery Gabriella Pizzi in Melbourne.
Ngupulya's paintings depict scenes and concepts from her family's Dreaming. Her mother's ngura (homeland) is Antara, and her father's is near Watarru. Antara is a sacred place associated with the Maku Tjukurpa (Witchetty Grub Dreaming), and Ngupulya most often paints stories from this Dreaming.
She uses pale, earthy colours in her backgrounds to depict the desert landscape, and this is contrasted with patterns of intense, bright dots and lines to represent symbols, figures and their journeys. Many of her techniques were taken from her mother, but used more consistently with her own refinements. The results have been compared to the early works of Emily Kngwarreye.
Counties of Ireland
There are 32 historic counties on the island of Ireland. 26 are in the Republic of Ireland and 6 are in Northern Ireland.
The counties in italics do not have a county council, instead they are have two or more smaller administrative county councils (called districts, in Northern Ireland)
Linnumäe
Linnumäe is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Napier Deltic
The Napier Deltic is an unusual type of diesel engine. It was used in boats and railway locomotives. The cylinders are arranged in a triangular form with two pistons in each cylinder. There are three crankshafts which are geared together at one end of the engine. These engines usually had nine cylinders (three banks of three) or eighteen cylinders (six banks of three). These engines were built by D. Napier & Son.
Newburgh, Maine
Newburgh is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Choctaw, Oklahoma
Choctaw is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the oldest chartered town in Oklahoma Territory. The city is located about 10 miles (16.1 km) east of Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. In 2020, 12,182 people lived there.
Rainulf Drengot
Rainulf Drengot (dead in 1045) was a Norman adventurer.
In 1016, Rainulf went in the South Italy where he was a mercenary. In 1030, Drengot was the first count of Aversa (near Naples) and was married to the duke of Naples’s daughter.
Choctaw, Oklahoma
Before Choctaw was chartered, the area was known for a trading post and a camping spot near a spring.
A community formed on the east 80 acre of land John S. Muzzy claimed in the 1889 land run. It received a postal designation in early 1890.
The town incorporated in April 1904. When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, 230 people lived there. The town had four churches, a school, a bank, a newspaper and telephone service. The population grew very little during the Great Depression.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman. A member of the Democratic Party, he led the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, from 1861 to 1865.
Education
In 1811 he moved to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and later to Wilkinson County, Mississippi. In 1813 Davis began his education at the Wilkinson Academy, near the family cotton plantation in the small town of Woodville. Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory. At the time, he was the only Protestant student at the school. Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi, in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1821. In 1828 he graduated from the United States Military Academy. He was an officer in the United States Army until 1835.
Later political career
On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November. During his presidency, Davis took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to stop the larger, more powerful and better organized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country, and he paid little attention to the collapsing Confederate economy, printing more and more paper money to cover the war's expenses.
Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, controlling, and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political party (since the Confederacy had no political parties). His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, and neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones all worked against him.
Later life
After Davis was captured on May 10, 1865, he was charged with treason. Although he was not tried, he was stripped of his eligibility to run for public office; Congress later lifted this restriction in 1978, 89 years after his death. Many Southerners felt bad with his arrest, refusal to accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction. Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South. By the late 1880s, Davis began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union. He was helped in the last decade of his life by the generosity of Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a rich widow. First she invited him to her plantation in 1877 near Biloxi, Mississippi, at a time when he was sick, and gave him a cottage to use for working on his memoir. She gave Davis her plantation before her death in 1878, and she also gave him a fund for his support. This made him to live in some comfort with his wife until his death on December 6, 1889 in New Orleans, Louisiana from bronchitis. He was 81 years old.
Yoshinori Ono
Yoshinori Ono (Ono Yoshinori) is a Japanese video game producer and former sound producer and composer. He joined Capcom in 1998, where he acted as producer of Street Fighter series up to Street Fighter V.
Kurampala
Kurampala is a village in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala state,India.
Language
Malayalam is the native language of Kurampala.
Politics
Kurampala is a part of Pathanamthitta Loksabha constituency. Mr. Anto Antony is the current Member of Parliament of the constituency.
Demographics
India census, Kurampala had a population of 20,098 with 9,591 males and 10,507 females.
Weather
The climate of the place is moderate and pleasant. Tropical climate is prevailed here throughout the year.
Transportation
The major transportation service of this place is provided by Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC).
Samson, Alabama
Samson is a city in Geneva County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2000 census the population was 2,071.
Peavy Wagner
Peter "Peavy" Wagner (born December 22, 1964) is a German heavy metal musician. He is the bassist and singer of the Heavy Metal band Rage.
Springfield, South Dakota
Springfield is a city in South Dakota in the United States.
Tathagata Mukherjee
Tathagata Mukherjee (born 15 May 1985) is an Indian film and television actor and an independent filmmaker based in Kolkata. He played the main lead in many Bengali soap operas.
Early life and education
Tathagata Mukherjee studied at the Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, and thereafter studied drama at Rabindra Bharati University. He has done professional theater since 2005, during his childhood. He did three years yatra with Chapal Bhaduri.
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Paris in Spring
Paris in Spring is a 1935 American romantic comedy movie directed by Lewis Milestone and was based on the play of the same name by Dwight Taylor. It stars Mary Ellis, Tullio Carminati, Ida Lupino, Lynne Overman, Jessie Ralph, Jack Raymond, Dorothea Wolbert, Billy Gilbert, Francis Ford and was distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Opera seria
Italian opera seria was always in the Italian language, even when it was composed or performed in other countries such as Germany, Austria, England and Spain. In France the opera seria was not so popular. They had their own forms of opera.
The stories of opera seria were usually about the ancient Greek and Roman gods or kings. This was in contrast to opera buffa, which was about ordinary people and often made fun of kings and nobility.
The main singers in opera seria were mostly castrati, male singers who had been castrated when they were young so that they still sang with high voices. Gradually during the 18th century the female singers got more of the main roles (the “prima donna” or “first lady”).
One of the first composers of opera seria was Alessandro Scarlatti. In England George Frideric Handel wrote many great opera seria. The most important man in the development of mid-18th century opera seria was Metastasio who wrote libretti. His words were set by the greatest composers in Europe: Hasse, Porpora and, especially, Mozart.
In the later part of the 18th century Christoph Willibald Gluck changed a lot of traditions in opera. He did not want opera to be just a way for singers to show off their voices. He wanted the story to be important. He did not use dry recitative but tried to make the drama, dance and music all important, especially the chorus. Orfeo ed Euridice was his first important opera, followed by others such as Alceste.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was influenced by Gluck’s reforms. His two great opera seria were Idomeneo (1780) and La clemenza di Tito (1791). Mostly, however, Mozart was not so interested in writing about the old Greek gods and kings. His other great Italian operas: Cosi fan tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni are something between opera seria and opera buffa. These were set to libretti by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Other important opera seria composers were Luigi Cherubini and Gaspare Spontini, followed by Rossini whose musical style made further changes to opera seria.
Glasgow, Missouri
Glasgow is a city in Missouri in the United States.
It is named after a city, also called Glasgow, in Scotland.
Orono, Maine
Orono is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Lõbembe
Lõbembe is a village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County in northwestern Estonia.
Orrington, Maine
Orrington is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Newport, Maine
Newport is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Melk Abbey
Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is a Benedictine abbey. It lies on the Danube, near the city of Melk. It is located in Lower Austria. It is one of the distinguishing features of a region known as Wachau. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The abbey was almost totally destroyed in a fire, on 14 August 1297. It was rebuilt in Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century.
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (17 September 1947 – 29 May 2022) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was a judge on the International Court of Justice, beginning his term on 6 February 2009. Cançado Trindade was a professor at Utrecht University's Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). He was reelected to the Court in December 2017. Cançado Trindade was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Cançado Trindade died on 29 May 2022 in Brasília, Brazil at the age of 74.
Majulah Singapura
"Majulah Singapura" (Jawi: ماجولاه سانڬاڤورا, ; "Onward Singapore") is the national anthem of Singapore. It was written and composed by Singaporean musician Zubir Said in 1958. Seven years later, the anthem was adopted. This song must be sung in Malay, although there are translations provided in the country's three other official languages—English, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil.
Singaporeans are encouraged to sing the national anthem during times of national celebration or at important national events such as at the National Day Parade, at National Day observance ceremonies held by government departments and educational institutions such as schools and universities, and at sports events that Singapore teams take part in.