cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Goran Jurić
Goran Jurić (born 5 February 1963) is a former Croatian football player. He has played for Yugoslavia national team and Croatia national team.
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Jeong Rae-hyuk
Jeong Rae-hyuk (정래혁; 17 January 1926 – 17 May 2022) was a South Korean military officer and politician. He was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1961 to 1962 and Minister of National Defense from 1970 to 1971. He was also a member of the National Assembly from 1973 to 1985. Jeong was born in Gokseong County, Chōsen.
Goran Jurić
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Climate of Uttar Pradesh
The climate of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) is varying within Uttar Pradesh, a state of India. The dominating climate type is humid subtropical with dry winter (CWa) with parts of Western U.P having a semiarid climate (BS). Alternatively, some authors refer to it as tropical monsoon climate. Some regional variations exist, however the uniformity of the vast Indo-Gangetic Plain, gives to the state a mostly single climatic pattern with minor regional variations. The temperature varies within the year. The extreme low and high temperatures are usually from 0 °C to 50 °C in several parts. During the monsoon season, floods often take place, due to heavy rain. The summers are extremely hot, the winters are cold and the rainy season can be either very wet or very dry.
Seasons of Uttar Pradesh
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) defines the climate of India into the following seasons:
Toy Story (franchise)
Toy Story is a computer animated comedy-fantasy film series and Disney media franchise that started in 1995 with the animated film of the same name. The movies are produced from Pixar Animation Studios and the distributor is Walt Disney Pictures. The franchise is based on the anthropomorphic concept that all toys, unknown to humans, are secretly alive, and the films focus on a diverse group of toys, most notably a cowboy doll named Sheriff Woody and a modern spaceman action figure named Buzz Lightyear, principally voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen (Chris Evans in Lightyear), respectively. The group unexpectedly embark on adventures that challenge and change them.
Climate of Uttar Pradesh
Seasons of Uttar Pradesh
This classification is primarily centered on Monsoons, which are very significant for the local population and agriculture of India.
Classification of the Uttar Pradesh climate
The climate of Uttar Pradesh is generally defined to be tropical monsoon climate. However based on the Köppen climate classification, it can be classified mostly as Humid Subtropical with dry winter (CWa) type with parts of Western Uttar Pradesh falling in the semi-arid category.
Toy Story (franchise)
The franchise consists of five animated films: Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Toy Story 4 (2019), and the spin-off Lightyear (2022). Toy Story was one of the first films to be made entirely using computer-generated imagery. The films were produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
Climate of Uttar Pradesh
Classification of the Uttar Pradesh climate
Based on IMD classification, Uttar Pradesh has the following three predominant seasons:
Toy Story (franchise)
In Rotten Tomatoes, all 4 movies have received very positive reviews. The first and second films score 100%, while the third and fourth score 98%. The third film in the series is the fourth highest-grossing animated film and the 28th highest-grossing film of all time. It also became the third animated film in history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast and Up. as a trilogy of fan-film remake series in Live Action Toy Story trilogy, Live Action Toy Story (2013), Live Action Toy Story 2 (2015, 2021), Live Action Toy Story 3 (2020). also as a television series include, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Toy Story Toons, Forky Asks a Question.
On 8 February 2023, a new movie Toy Story 5 was confirmed to be in production.
Climate of Uttar Pradesh
Classification of the Uttar Pradesh climate
Retreating Monsoon season, although existent, has a very negligible effect in Uttar Pradesh and only occasional mild showers are experienced in winter. Some of these showers aren't caused by post-monsoon rainfall but due to western disturbances.
The primary temperature, rainfall and wind features of the three Distinct Seasons of Uttar Pradesh can be summarised as below:
Because there are significant climatic differences, Uttar Pradesh has been divided into two meteorological sub-divisions – U.P. East and U.P. West.
Geographical terrain
The state of Uttar Pradesh is in the heart of Indo-Gangetic Plain with River Ganges passing through Uttar Pradesh.
Temperature
The extreme temperatures vary from 0 to 46 °C. High temperatures, approximating 50 °C have been recorded in Gonda district. A such wide range of temperature fluctuations in most parts of the state can lead to either cold or heat waves, both resulting in substantial loss of lifes and economy.
Sainte-Marie-du-Bois, Mayenne
Sainte-Marie-du-Bois is a commune. It is in Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in northwest France. 210 people lived there in 1999.
Climate of Uttar Pradesh
Heat waves
In 2007, Banda district recorded daily temperatures close to 45.5 °C for several days. At least 62 people died during the heat wave that year. In June 2009, another 30 people during a heat wave in Uttar Pradesh. Highest temperatures reached 49 °C in Bundelkhand district of northern Uttar Pradesh. In June 2010, Jhansi recorded the highest temperature of 46.7 °C, the hottest for U.P. for that year.
Cold waves
In recent years, winters at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008 caused an increase of cold-wave related deaths in U.P. with temperatures dipping to 2.8 °C in the city of Meerut. Simultaneously it also led to a loss of crops and agricultural produce. Similarly, in 2009, the temperature dropped up to 2.9 °C in Meerut, causing deaths. On late 2010 and early 2011, this winter also caused cold-wave related deaths. This time, Churk town in Sonabhadra district recorded the lowest temperature, at 1.4 °C. On 13 January 2013, Kanpur recorded its all-time low temperature when the temperature reached −1.1℃. In Agra, the temperature reached−0.7℃.
Precipitation
Uttar Pradesh has a uniform rain pattern. Snowfall doesn't occur but hailstorms are common for Uttar Pradesh. The type of rainfall that Uttar Pradesh receives is orographic, cyclonic and convectional.
San Miguel County, Colorado
San Miguel County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 8,072 people lived there. The county seat is Telluride. The county is named for the San Miguel River.
Climate of Uttar Pradesh
Floods in U.P.
Floods are a known hazard of U.P. due to overflowing of its main rivers like Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Gomti, Sharda, Ghaghra, Rapti and Gandak. The estimated annual losses due to floods in U.P. reach inr 4320000000. Major flood management efforts have been tried to mitigate the risk. Most of these floods occur due to the Monsoon rains and overflowing of rivers during the rainy periods. Year 2010 witnessed one such year of flooding in U.P.
Droughts in Uttar Pradesh
Shortage of rain during the highly variable Monsoon season can cause droughts in U.P. leading to several deaths and loss of property. The recent 2002 and 2004 drought-related financial estimates report financial losses of inr 75400000000 and inr 72920000000 respectively. The recurrence of a major deficiency in annual rainfall follows a 6–8 years cycle in Eastern U.P. whereas in Western U.P., follows a 10 year cycle.
Wind
In summers, hot winds called loo blow all across U.P. They are carrying dust and cause significant damage. In winters, dry and rainless winds blow across the state. Fog may also form in parts of U.P.
Zakarids–Mkhargrdzeli
The Zakarids (Armenian: Զաքարյաններ, Zakaryanner; Georgian: მხარგრძელები, Mkhargdzelebi) were a noble Armenian family in medieval Armenia and Georgia.
Ford Focus (North America)
The North American Ford Focus was a compact vehicle made by the Ford Motor Company. The North American version was introduced in 1999 for the 2000 model year, although the Escort was sold alongside it until 2002. It was then facelifted in April 2004 for the 2005 model year, a new version came in late 2007 for the 2008 model year and was then redesigned in early 2011 for the 2012 model year, that generation was the same that was sold worldwide. The North American Ford Focus was discontinued after the 2018 model year.
Kim Wilde (album)
Kim Wilde is the debut studio album by British singer Kim Wilde and was released on 29 June, 1981 through Rak Records. It topped the album charts in Germany and Sweden and number 3 in the United Kingdom and Finland.
Track listing
All songs written by Ricky Wilde and Marty Wilde, except where noted.
Kleinsendelbach
Kleinsendelbach is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. It is about 17 Kilometers south of the town of Forchheim and 15 Kilometers to the east of the city of Erlangen, and is part of the administration community Dormitz.
Genie in a Bottle
"Genie in a Bottle" is a 1999 pop song by American singer Christina Aguilera, from her first album Christina Aguilera. It was her first hit single and got to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Aguilera got a Grammy Award nomination for it and a Grammy Award for Best New Artist later in the year.
Wan Mokhtar
Wan Mokhtar bin Wan Ahmad (21 March 1932 – 21 September 2020) was a Malaysian politician. He was the 11th Menteri Besar of Terengganu and Member of the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Cukai from September 1974 to December 1999. He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Mokhtar was born in Kuala Terengganu, Indonesia.
Mokhtar died on 21 September 2020 in Kuala Lumpur from problems caused by heart disease, aged 88.
Louhans
Louhans is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Saône-et-Loire department in east France.
G. G. Ponnambalam
Ganapathipillai Gangaser Ponnambalam (கணபதி காங்கேசர் பொன்னம்பலம்; 8 November 1901 – 9 February 1977), also known as G. G. Ponnambalam, was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician, during the British colonial period and the war for independence. He founded the first Sri Lankan Tamil political party, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her influences on modern dance are usually compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House. She got a Presidential Medal of Freedom. She danced and choreographed for more than seventy years.
Graham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She died at age ninety-six from pneumonia.
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Arista Records
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Acephalgic migraine
An Acephalgic migraine( also known as a 'Silent migraine') is a kind of migraine without the head pain. Acephalgic is Latin for "without head pain"). Most kinds of migraines start before a person is 30-years-old but this kind of migraine usually starts sometime during middle-age, which is after 40-years-old, and becomes more common as a person gets older. Unlike other migraines, males have Acephalgic migraines more often then women do.
Diamondback rattlesnake
The diamondback rattlesnake is a very poisonous rattlesnake. Diamondbacks are found from Florida to California. The bite from a big rattlesnake can hold enough poison to kill a person. However, if the victim gets to a doctor quickly enough, he or she can usually survive. People who spend time in regions where diamondback rattlesnakes live should take a few precautions. People must be especially careful around caves. Rattlesnakes sometimes hibernate in caves during cool weather. People can listen carefully for its unusual rattling noise, to know where it is hiding.
Acephalgic migraine
An acephalgic migraine may cause neurologic dysfunction in some people, which is when parts of the brain does not function right, and causes different kinds of problems, such as seeing flashing lights or having blind spots, where nothing can be seen. These kinds of neurologic dysfunction are known as an aura.
Gerson King Combo
Gérson Rodrigues Côrtes (30 November 1943 – 22 September 2020) was a Brazilian soul funk singer-songwriter. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He began his career in performing on the variety program Hoje é Dia de Rock. He founded and performed in the 1960s musical group Formula 7. He was also a key person in the 1970s counterculture movent Black Rio.
Côrtes died on 22 September 2020 in Rio de Janeiro from diabetes-related problems, aged 76.
2014 Stanley Cup Finals
The 2014 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s season.
The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Kings defeated the Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers four games to one. This was the second championship for the Los Angeles Kings.
Rosters
Years in boldface under the "Finals appearance" column signify the player won the Stanley Cup in the given year.
Malin Krastev
Malin Krastev (Малин Кръстев; born 23 April 1970) is a Bulgarian actor and director. He is known for his movies Stonehearst Asylum (2014) and The Petrov File (2015). He is also known for his role as Storch on the television series Magna Aura. He was born in Sofia.
Holstein Friesian
Holstein Friesians are a breed of cattle originating from the North Holland and Friesland provinces of the Netherlands, and also the Schleswig-Holtstein state in northern Germany. Like other cattle, they are used as livestock for dairy and beef.
Overview
The breed weighs about 600 to 750 kg. A newborn calf weighs about 40 to 45 kg (sometimes even more). The breed is about about 1.45 m high. It can produce up to about 8,000 kg of milk per year (10,000 to 16,000 kg / year in top animals). It's milk is 4.2% fat and 3.4% egg white per liter (at high milk production the percentages may be slightly lower).
History
The Holstein Friesian could have originated after Frisian and Batavian cows were bred with each other, about 2000 years ago. Over the centuries, the cow is being used as a dairy breed. The breed was also popular abroad in the 19th century because of its high milk production. In the United States, Dutch cows were further bred. These cows were named Holstein-Friesian (the Holsteiners were introduced by German emigrants in the 17th century). In the second half of the 20th century, the descendants of the Dutch cows were cited in the Netherlands, because they produced more milk than the Dutch breeds Meuse-Rhine-Issel and Frisian-Holland. Since then, the black-colored Holstein-Friesian has been by far the most important cow breed in the Netherlands.
Dibër District
The District of Dibër is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It is part of Dibër County. About 62,825, people live her. The capital is Peshkopi.
Elza, Tennessee
Elza was a community in Anderson County, Tennessee, that existed before 1942. The area was taken over for the Manhattan Project. It is now part of the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Manhattan Project
When the federal government looked at sites for the Manhattan Project buildings that ultimately were sited at Oak Ridge, the Oak Ridge site was described in internal memos as "near Elza." During World War II, Elza was the site of one of the security gates on the borders of the then-closed city of Oak Ridge. It was on the road from Clinton to Oak Ridge.
Community legacy
The Luther Brannon House, built in 1941, was a surviving structure associated with the Elza community.
During World War II and for some time after, the Manhattan Engineer District and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission used several warehouses in the Elza area for storage of uranium ore and other materials. In the early 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy cleaned up the site, where soil had been found to be contaminated by PCBs and uranium.
Geoffrey Palmer (politician)
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer (born 21 April 1942) is a New Zealand politician. He served as the 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand. He served as Prime Minister from 8 August 1989 to 4 September 1990.
Teller County, Colorado
Teller County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 24,710 people lived there. The county seat is Cripple Creek.
Demon Cleaner (song)
"Demon Cleaner" is a 1994 song by stoner rock band Kyuss. It is the leading single from their third studio album Welcome to Sky Valley. It was released as a single in September 1994 and it was their biggest hit. It went to number 78 in the United Kingdom. It has been covered live by Tool.
Track listings
Australia CD, Europe CD1 (limited edition), Germany CD
Germany CD2
UK 7" (limited edition)
US promo CD
Prague Spring
The liberalisation and democratisation efforts of Alexander Dubchek and Czechoslovakia's Communist Party, known as Prague Spring, took place in 1968. As the Soviet Union thought that Czechoslovakia was moving away of communism, an alliance of Warsaw Pact countries (Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary) invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20-21, 1968. Immediately after the invasion, a series of protests took place in Czechoslovakia.
Prague Spring symbolizes the experiment of establishing of a socialism with a human face, in post-war Eastern Bloc and its violent suppression from Warsaw Pact countries in August 21, 1968. The event is included in a greater series of Cold War-related unrests. Some examples are May 1968 in France, the student protests against Vietnam War and the military junta in Greece (1967-1974).
After the invasion, the most reforms who took place during Prague Spring were reversed or halted. This period after Prague Spring is known as normalization. The only exception was the federalisation of Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia became officially a federal country on January 1, 1969.
Jeane Dixon
Jeane Dixon (born Lydia Emma Pinckert, 5 January 1904 – 25 January 1997) was an American psychic and astrologist. She also wrote newspaper columns. She reportedly predicted certain major events of the 20th century. She also wrote many novels.
She was known for working with Nancy Reagan to protect her husband, Ronald Reagan from any danger spiritually.
Dixon was born in Medford, Wisconsin. She died from cardiac arrest at 93.
Lodi, California
Lodi is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
Avakov is the devil
Avakov is the devil (Ukrainian: Аваков — чорт) was an unofficilal name of the series of mass protests in Ukraine in 2019-2021 against the crimes of the police and the ministry of internal affairs Arsen Avakov. The actions were focused on the person of the minister and were aimed at displacing Avakov from the position of Minister of Internal Affairs. The first action took place on August 28, 2019 as a result of President Zelenskyi's decision to leave Avakov in Honcharuk's government (Avakov was the minister since 2014 in Ukraine).
QuikSCAT
The QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) is an earth-observing satellite that provides wind speed and direction information over oceans to NOAA. It is a "quick recovery" mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) that was lost in June 1997. It is in a sun-synchronous low-earth orbit.
Because of the 2003 failure of the ADEOS II satellite that was meant to succeed the NSCAT, QuickSCAT is currently the only US-owned instrument in orbit that measures surface winds over the oceans. The European Space Agency has its own scatterometers in orbit, such as Envisat.
However, because it is now running on a backup transmitter and having other problems, this satellite could fail at any moment, putting risk at weather forecasts for possibly dangerous tropical cyclones.
In early June 2007, Bill Proenza, Director of the National Hurricane Center in Florida, came under fire for criticizing his NOAA superiors for not creating a back-up plan for replacing the capabilities provided by this satellite.
John Gould
John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist (bird scientist). The Gould League (a bird group) started in Australia in 1909, was named after him. His knowledge of the birds now called "Darwin's finches" was a turning point in the Charles Darwin's thinking about evolution by natural selection. They are barely mentioned in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.
Milan Asadurov
Milan Asadurov (Милан Асадуров; 29 December 1949 – 7 June 2019) was a Bulgarian author, publisher and translator. He wrote short stories and scripts for television and radio, starting in 1968. He founded the popular science fiction publishers' series Galaxy in 1978, which published more than 100 books. Galaxy published notable authors including Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, the Strugatsky brothers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yordan Radichkov, William Faulkner and H. G. Wells. Some of the books published by Galaxy were the first translations in Bulgarian. He also wrote on the history of lighthouses on Bulgaria's Black Sea shoreline. He served as editor-in-chief of Maritime magazine.
Asadurov was born in Varna. He died on 7 June 2019, at the age of 69.
Kunreuth
Kunreuth is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany.
The town is the place of Schloss Kunreuth. Since the 14th century the castle has belonged to the family of the Counts and Barons von Egloffstein who have also owned Egloffstein Castle since the 12th century.
The New York Zoo hoax
The New York Zoo hoax was a false story. The New York Herald printed an untrue story about a fictional breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo on November 9, 1874. It is also known as The Central Park Zoo Escape and the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874
The article warned that dangerous animals were loose in the city. The article said that 49 people died and 200 were injured. Many readers panicked, even though the end of the story said that everything in it was not true. The authors later said they wanted to make people pay attention to weak safety precautions at the zoo. They said they were surprised at the strong reaction to their story.
Mary Gergen
Gergen died on September 22, 2020 at the age of 81.
Summit County, Colorado
Summit County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 31,055 people lived there. The county seat is Breckenridge.
North Hyde Park, Vermont
North Hyde Park is an unincorporated village in the town of Hyde Park, Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.
The community is located along Vermont Route 100 and the Gihon River 7.5 mi north of Morrisville. North Hyde Park has a post office with ZIP code 05665, which opened on May 29, 1839.
Vaire-sous-Corbie
Vaire-sous-Corbie is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American dancer, actor, and politician. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Murphy was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at Yale University.
Murphy first served as President of the Screen Actors Guild. He served as president from 1944 to 1946. He then served as the United States senator of California. He served as senator from 1965 to 1971.
Murphy was married to Juliette Henkel-Johnson from 1926 until her death in 1973. Then he was married to Betty Duhon Blandi from 1982 until his death in 1992. He had two children; Dennis and Melissa.
Mapitigama Buddharakkitha
Mapitigama Buddharakkitha (1921−1967) was the person who planned the assassination of the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike. He served as the leader of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara, one of the most sacred Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1959.
Kaabil
Kaabil is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film  directed by Sanjay Gupta, written by Vijay Kumar Mishra, produced by Rakesh Roshan under his banner FilmKraft Productions. It stars Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy and Rohit Roy. The music was composed by Rajesh Roshan.
Kaabil was released theatrically on 25 January 2017 and received positive reviews. Roshan received the Nomination of Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance at the 63rd Filmfare Awards. The film was commercially successful despite performing weakly upon its release in China in 2019.
Washington County, Colorado
Washington County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 4,817 people lived there. The county seat is Akron.
SomosTV
SOMOSTV LLC, is an American Pay TV entertainment company engaged in the production, distribution, and marketing of Pay TV channels in the U.S. Hispanic market, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Central America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, the company owns and operates two networks: ViendoMovies and Semillitas. SOMOSTV is headed by Luis Villanueva, an executive in the Hispanic media and entertainment industry, President and CEO of SOMOS Group.
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker (born 30 November 1960) is an English retired footballer. He has played for the English national team. He scored 48 goals for the English national team. He then went on television on the BBC on Match of the Day. He was the highest paid presenter at the BBC. In 2020 he was paid £1.75 million.
In March 2023 he tweeted about the proposed Illegal Migration Bill: "This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the '30s, and I'm out of order?". The BBC wanted him to apologise for making a political comment, but he wouldnt. They then took him off Match of the Day. The other people from the show all supported him. So did many other sport presenters.
Club career statistics
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Mexican standoff
A Mexican standoff is a three person duel. In a two person duel the person who shoots first has the advantage. In a Mexican duel it is different. If person A shoots B, then person C has the advantage as they can shoot person A while they are busy. So in a Mexican standoff nobody wants to be the first one to shoot. As well as this, nobody can take the risk of backing down. The term is often used to describe a confrontation between two equals, where neither side will gain a winning advantage by being the first to shoot, but neither side can risk backing down. The Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union is often described as being a Mexican standoff, with neither country prepared to be the first to risk using nuclear weapons.
Geoffrey Palmer
Geoffrey Palmer may refer to:
Mexican standoff
The idea of a Mexican standoff is often used as part of the plot in movies.
This page mentioned, but misquoted, in the last scene of The Big Bang Theory episode #506.
Simple English Wikipedia
The articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use shorter sentences and easier words and grammar than the regular English Wikipedia. The language used here is plain English, without idioms, slang and jargon (when possible). Some articles are written only in Basic English, which is even simpler. This makes articles easier to understand and edit. If someone cannot understand an idea in the regular English Wikipedia, they can read a Simple English article.
The Simple English Wikipedia is often used by:
When Simple English Wikipedia started making pages and allowing changes in 2003, the English Wikipedia already had 150,000 articles. Seven other Wikipedias in other languages also had over 15,000 articles. Because the other Wikipedias already have a lot of articles, most Simple English articles are not new. They are usually simpler versions of already existing articles from the ordinary English Wikipedia. Right now, the Simple English Wikipedia has articles. The Simple English Wikipedia started on September 18, 2001, and is the 47th-largest Wikipedia, as of January 2023.
Alex Avila
Alexander Thomas "Alex" Avila (born January 29, 1987) is an American professional baseball player. He plays catcher for the Minnesota Twins. He has also played for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit Tigers. He is 5' 11" tall and weighs 210 pounds. Avila was born in Hialeah, Florida.
Karl Dykhuis
Karl Dykhuis (born July 8, 1972 in Sept-Îles, Quebec) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman that played a combined 14 seasons in the NHL. He was drafted with the 16th overall pick by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He played 2 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks, 5 with the Philadelphia Flyers, 2 with the Tampa Bay Lightning and 5 with the Montreal Canadiens. He was named the QMJHL Defensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the QMJHL All-Rookie Team in 1989. He was also a World Junior U20 Gold Medalist in 1991.
Aix-en-Diois
Aix-en-Diois is a former commune in the Drôme department. It is in southeastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Solaure-en-Diois.
Shotokan
Shotokan (松濤館流) is a school or style of karate. It is a martial art which was developed in Japan by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957).
In the past, people practiced this martial art in many countries. Shotokan is still popular in modern culture. Karate is primarily a combat sport done with bare hands. That is the meaning of Kara-te: empty hand. So then the only weapons that can be used against a fighter are parts of the body.
History
There are many styles of karate in different parts of the world. Shotokan is a style of karate that comes mainly from a small island south of Japan named Okinawa Island. The person who began this martial art was Gichin Funakoshi. This master practised karate all his life. He taught for many years and he wrote a book about his art.
In 1939, Funakoshi established the first Shotokan dojo.
Practise
To exercise you must wear a karate uniform and a belt that tells what your level of experience is. The order of karate belts is as follows for beginner to advanced levels: white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and black. (The order of the belts may vary depending on the style of karate). After the black belt, there are nine more levels before finishing all notions of karate.
In a fight, you must wear shin guards, gloves, a chest protector and a mouth piece.
Benefits
Karate is beneficial to maintain good physical and mental shape. First, this discipline allows us to maintain good muscle tone. This is good for succeed as the strikes in karate take strength. Flexibility is also developed as karate requires that one performs high kicks and jumps. In addition, better endurance is necessarily because in the fight, fighters always need a good breath.
For mental well-being, karate promotes greater self-esteem, because it is an individual sport. The students progress at their own pace and one learns to overcome. In fact, it is a physical activity, so it helps to release stress and feel less pressure. In addition, Karate improves concentration because the fighter must be more attentive to his mind and his body. Having good concentration is an advantage. When someone is hurting during a fight, with his concentration he can no longer feel pain. Also, the fighter has to watch the eyes of his opponent and thinki about what he can do to catch him off guard.
Rikako Sasaki
Rikako Sasaki (佐々木莉佳子) is a Japanese singer and model. She is the main dancer of the Japanese idol girl group Angerme.
Hoover, Alabama
Hoover is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Hoover has a population of about 69,000 people.
Hoover has an area of about 43 miles and sits at a height of 577 feet.
Gladwin, Michigan
Gladwin is a city in Gladwin County, Michigan. It has the population of 2,933 residents.
Orange County
Orange County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
Bermuda International Airport
Bermuda International Airport, also known as L.F. Wade International Airport, is an airport in Bermuda, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the north Atlantic Ocean. In 2006, L.F. Wade International Airport handled about 900,000 passengers, up 7% from 2005. It has one passenger terminal, one cargo terminal, and eight aircraft stands. It can support all aircraft sizes up to and including the Boeing 747. Currently, ten airlines operate services to Bermuda Airport from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The largest aircraft now operating in regularly scheduled service at BDA are British Airways' Boeing 777-200s.
Yuma County, Colorado
Yuma County is a county in the state of Colorado in the United States. As of the 2020 census, 9,988 people lived there. The county seat is Wray.
James Paris Lee
James Paris Lee (9 August 1831 – 24 February 1904) was a British, Canadian inventor. He was also a small arms designer. Lee is best known for inventing the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series of rifles.
Lee was born in Hawick, Scotland, 9 August 1831. At age 12 he created his first gun. He accidentally blew himself up with gunpowder. He also accidentally shot himself, twice. His family was surprised he reached adulthood. He was obsessed with guns, but he was apprenticed to a clockmaker. His family migrated to Canada. Lee worked making and repairing clocks and watches. In 1850 he opened his own shop where he could work on rifles in his spare time.
Aix-la-Fayette
Aix-la-Fayette is a commune. It is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Puy-de-Dôme department in central France.
Tim Lopes
Tim Lopes (born Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento; November 18, 1950 – June 2, 2002) was a Brazilian investigative journalist and producer for the Brazilian television network Rede Globo.
Kidnapping and assassination
In 2002, he was reported him missing while working undercover on a story in one of Rio's favelas. It was later learned that Lopes was kidnapped by drug leaders. He was tortured by having his hands, arms, and legs severed with a sword while still alive. He was later burned alive on June 2, 2002.
Tangram
Number of configurations
Over 6500 different tangram problems have been created from 19th century texts.
Pieces
There are seven peices called Tans:
Beaver County
Beaver County is the name of four counties in North America:
Province of Cattaro
The Cattaro (Italian province), called in Italian Provincia italiana di Cattaro was an administrative section of the Governorate of Dalmatia, created during World War II by the Kingdom of Italy with Regio Decreto Legge of May 18, 1941.
Characteristics
The newly created province had approximately the borders of the Albania veneta, that was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797 in southern Dalmatia.
Okefenokee Swamp
The Okefenokee is a swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge and a U.S. wilderness area. It is a shallow, 438000 acre, peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida border in the United States.
The Okefenokee is the largest "blackwater" swamp in North America. The term Okefenokee in Native American is "land of trembling earth". The swamp was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia.
The swamp was formed over the past 6,500 years by the build-up of peat in a shallow basin on the edge of an ancient Atlantic coastal terrace, the geological relic of a Pleistocene estuary. The swamp is bordered by Trail Ridge, a strip of higher land believed to have formed as coastal dunes or an offshore barrier island. The Suwanee River drains at least 90% of the swamp's watershed southwest towards the Gulf of Mexico.
Longtime residents of the Okefenokee Swamp, "Swampers", are mostly of English ancestry. Due to their isolation, the Swampers used Elizabethan phrases and syntax well into the twentieth century. The Suwanee Canal was dug across the swamp in the late nineteenth century in a failed attempt to drain the Okefenokee. After the Suwanee Canal Company's bankruptcy, most of the swamp was bought by the Hebard family of Philadelphia, who logged cypress from 1909 to 1927. Several other logging companies ran railroad lines into the swamp until 1942; some remains are visible across swamp waterways. Most of the Okefenokee Swamp is included in the 403,000 acre (1630 km²) Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
A wildfire begun by a lightning strike near the center of the Refuge on May 5, 2007 eventually merged with another wildfire which began near Waycross, Georgia, on April 16 when a tree fell on a power line. By May 31, more than 600000 acre, or more than 935 square miles, had burned in the region.
Province of Cattaro
Characteristics
The population was mostly Slav, but there were nearly 3,000 autochthonous Italians, descendants from the Dalmatian Italians since Roman times: they were concentrated in the areas of Cattaro and Perasto.
History
The new Italian province of Cattaro was created by order of Italian leader Benito Mussolini the next month, with the "May 19 Treaty between Italy and Croatia". Francesco Scassellati Sforzolini was named "Prefect" of the Cattaro province, serving from June 1941 to June 1943.
The governorship of the Cattaro province (and all the Governorate of Dalmatia) was held by Giuseppe Bastianini until January 1943 when he was recalled to Italy to join the cabinet; his place as governor was taken by Francesco Giunta.
In summer 1941 the Italian government started a policy of Italianization in all the Governorate of Dalmatia. New Italian schools were opened in the "Bocche di Cattaro" (now called Boka Kotorska). Administrative personnel from Italy moved to Cattaro city (nearly 6,700 Dalmatian Italians took refuge in Italy after the creation of Jugoslavia in 1919, and many of them were offered work if they returned to settle with their families in the Governorate of Dalmatia). Bastianini started needed public works, building hospitals, sewage and roads in the area.
Some 500 Jews took refuge in the Cattaro province, after escaping the Ustasha and Nazi German persecution in their areas of former Jugoslavia.
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer OBE (4 June 1927 – 6 November 2020) was an English actor. He was known for his roles in British television sitcoms. Palmer played Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Ben Parkinson in Butterflies and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.
Palmer was born in London, England. He died at his London home on 6 November 2020, aged 93.
Province of Cattaro
"Comuni" of the Province of Cattaro
These were 15 "comuni" (municipalities) in the Italian Province of Cattaro. The first name is in Italian, the second in Montenegrin-Serbian and the third in Croatian:
Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon (born 26 October 1974) is an Indian Bollywood actress, and producer. She used to be a model. Her first acting role was in the movie Pathhar Ke Phool in 1991. Since then has starred in many movies.
Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne
Sainte-Suzanne is a former commune of 1,020 people (1999). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Mayenne department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes.
Mughal dynasty
The Mughal dynasty, or Great Moguls or simply Moguls or Muguls (a corruption of the word 'Mongol') were a dynasty of Muslim rulers who came from Central Asia and founded the Mughal Empire in medieval India. It was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Tamerlane.
The Mughal dynasty is generally divided into the following:
Taco Ockerse
Taco Ockerse (born July 21, 1955), known mononymously as Taco, is an English-language Dutch New Wave singer from the song Puttin' On The Ritz in 1982.
Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikhail Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი; born December 21, 1967) is a Georgian politician and was the President of Georgia. As of 2020 he is head of National Reform Council of Ukraine.
In October 2021, Mikheil Saakashvili, was arrested after returning illegally to his country, after being in exile outside Georgia since 2013. A gesture he explained by his willingness to fight alongside his compatriots in the country.
Right now, the Georgian ex-president is in jail and in a very bad position. Doctors have found that he has been poisoned and the Georgian government do not let him go to the jury.
Capistrano Francisco Heim
Capistrano Francisco Heim (21 January 1934 – 24 September 2020) was an American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. Heim was born in Catskill, New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Itaituba, Brazil from 1988 until 2010.
Heim died in New York City on 24 September 2020, aged 86.
Rin Kawana
Rin Kawana (川名凜) is a Japanese singer. She is a 9th generation member of the Japanese idol girl group Angerme.
Anal stricture
Anal stricture (also called anal stenosis) is a medical problem that is not common; it may be congenital (a baby is born with a medical problem), but usually if it does happen it is after anorectal surgery, which is surgery in the area of the rectum and anus. This may cause stricture (when a passage in the body becomes too narrow) of the anal canal, which leads to hard or painful bowel movements. When anal stenosis does occur it is usually after a hemorrhoidectomy, which is the surgical removal of hemorrhoids; this is the cause in 90% of cases of anal stenosis.
Mild stenosis can be treated with stool softeners or fiber (which come from plant foods) supplements (in pill or powder form). When the narrowing of the anal canal is not too much, an operation called a sphincterotomy can be done to correct the problem. This is an operation done on the internal anal sphincter muscle, a round muscle inside the anal canal. In cases where the anal canal becomes very narrow, an operation called an anoplasty is done. This is reconstructive surgery (also known as plastic surgery) of the anus.
René-Huguenin Hospital
The Hôpital René-Huguenin is a well-known hospital in Saint-Cloud, close to Paris. It was created in 2010. It is a partner of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Gene silencing
Gene silencing is a general term describing epigenetic processes of gene regulation. It is used to describe the "switching off" of a gene by a mechanism other than genetic engineering. That is, a gene which would be expressed ("turned on") under normal circumstances is switched off by machinery in the cell. When a gene is silenced, it means that its RNA is unable to make a protein.
Genes are regulated at either the transcriptional stage, or later, before translation.
Transcriptional gene silencing is done by histone modifications, which put heterochromatin around a gene. This means the transcriptional machinery (RNA polymerase, transcription factors, etc.) cannot get at the gene. Genes may be silenced by DNA methylation. This happens regularly during development, when genes are turned on and off at different stages.
Post-transcriptional gene silencing is done by blocking or destroying the mRNA of a particular gene. The destruction of the mRNA prevents translation to form an active gene product (in most cases, a protein). A common way mRNA gets silenced is by RNAi.
Both transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing are used to regulate genes. Methods of gene silencing also protect the organism's genome from transposons and viruses. Gene silencing thus may be part of an ancient immune system protecting cells from such infectious DNA and RNA.
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award
The award is a trophy with a large lens in it. Regular members of the New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. vote for the winner. It is presented at Boskone, NESFA's annual convention.
Luther Brannon House
The Luther Brannon House was a stone bungalow building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was one of the few buildings from before World War II that were still in the area.
The house was built in 1941. It was taken by the U.S. Army for the Manhattan Project a few months later. It was one of about 180 buildings that were not destroyed after the area was taken for the Manhattan Project. The house is believed to have been used as headquarters for local project operations and a house for General Leslie Groves until the Army finished building new administration buildings.
After the war, when most other pre-war buildings in Oak Ridge were torn down, the house was not torn down. As of 1991, it was one of only three pre-World War II houses left in Oak Ridge. The others were Freels Cabin and the J. B. Jones House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because it was related to the early development of Oak Ridge.
The house was damaged a lot by a fire in July 2014. As of April 2020, the fire damage still had not been repaired, and the property was listed for sale. As of February 2021, the house had been demolished. It was removed from the National Register of Historic Places in October 2021.
Sydney Aquarium
The Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium in Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It has many fish, sharks and seals. There is also a seal show. The aquarium was opened in 1988.
Stadium Australia
Stadium Australia, known for sponsorship reasons as Accor Stadium, formerly ANZ Stadium & Telstra Stadium, is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. The 2000 Summer Olympics took place there. Now it is used for many other sports, like rugby and AFL. The stadium opened in March 1999.
Gerda Gottlieb
Gottlieb set in the mid 1930s three world records, in the: standing high jump, 4x 75 metres relay and 440 metres relay. These world records were the last in registered by the women's sports organization FSFI. The World Athletics Association IAAF, which registered women's world records from 1936, did not continue with any of these three disciplines.
Stadium Australia
In 2002, the stadium was named after the sponsor Telstra. 1 January 2008 it was renamed the ANZ Stadium. In 2021 it was renamed again to Accor Stadium following a sponsorship deal with Accor the largest hotel chain in Australia. Accor operate hotels adjacent to the stadium under the brands Pullman, Novotel, Ibis & Ibis Budget all located within the Olympic Park prescient. As part of the deal, a number of upgrades were completed including a new large screen running the length of one side of the stadium
Gerda Gottlieb
At the 1934 Austrian Athletics Championships she became national champion in the 100 metres. She was selected to represent Austria at the 1934 Women's World Games. She won with the relay team the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay event. In the 60 metres event she didn’t reached the semi-finals.
Stadium Australia
As "Stadium Australia", the name was sometimes confused with the Sydney Football Stadium, which was formerly known as Aussie Stadium.