cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Ali Mema
Ali Mema (1 February 1943 – 26 March 2019) was an Albanian professional footballer. He played as a midfielder. He played for 17 Nëntori Tirana for most of his career. He played for the Albanian national team 14 times between 1963 and 1967. He also played for Vllaznia and Partizani. He retired in 1972. He later managed Tirana from 1998 to 1999.
Greenville, Kentucky
History
The town was settled in 1799 on an estate donated by local landowner William Campbell in order to establish a seat of government for a new county. Greenville was not established by the state assembly until 1812, however. It was incorporated as a city in 1848.
The city was probably named for the Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Local lore holds it was named by Campbell's wife after the abundant forests seen from the town's hilltop location.
Geography
Greenville is located at 37.20722°N, -87.17639°W (37.207158, -87.176499).
Economy
The 1987 Encyclopedia of Kentucky refers to Greenville as "the unofficial capital of the Black Belt", a reference to the area's production of coal and dark tobacco.
Tuvaluan language
Tuvaluan is an Austronesian language spoken in Tuvalu. It is closely related to Tokelauan language. Tuvaluan has over 11 000 speakers. The language is divided into two main dialects.
Ali Mema
Mema was born in Tirana. His son, Ardian, was also a footballer. He died on 26 March 2019 in his hometown, at the age of 76.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the ninth edition of the contest, and took place in Yerevan, Armenia at the recently renovated Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex. It was the first time in history of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that the contest was held in last year's winning country. Public Television of Armenia ARMTV was the main organizer of the show, being provided financial aid from the European Broadcasting Union made of entrance fees from the participating broadcasters, while Swedish company HD Resources assisted with the technical side of the production.
The winner was the group Candy from Georgia with the song Candy Music. This is Georgia's second victory in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
Final
Each country gave their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system, which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Returning artists
Even though rules of Junior Eurovision do not allow participation of returning artists - EBU issued special permission for Russian entry 2011 performed by participant of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Ekaterina Ryabova, which is first similar case in history of the contest. According to Sietse Bakker, EBU coordinator - EBU may also drop this rule completely, starting from 2012. Notably, Ekaterina had also already applied to national preselection in 2010 as well, but was disqualified following the existing rule.
Carol Arthur
Arthur was married to actor Dom DeLuise from 1965 until his death in 2009. They had three sons who also became actors: Peter, Michael and David.
Arthur died on November 1, 2020 at a retirement center in Los Angeles from Alzheimer's disease-related problems, aged 85.
Colombo, Paraná
Colombo is the third largest city in Greater Curitiba, state of Paraná, found in the Southern Region of Brazil. It is located at 25º17'30" S,  49º13'27" W, at an altitude of about 1.027 metres above sea level, some 18 km from state capital, Curitiba.
It was founded on 5 February 1890. The city is the largest Italian colony in the state.
Terreiro do Paço (Lisbon Metro)
Terreiro do Paço station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
Sabotage/Live
Sabotage/Live was recorded live at CBGB's, in New York City on 16 June 1979. It is the first live album by Welsh multi-instrumentalist John Cale. released in December 1979 on SPY Records label. Cale is also the producer of this album.
La Chaux-du-Milieu
La Chaux-du-Milieu is a municipality of the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan (Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan; عبدي قاسم صلاد حسن; born on January 1, 1941) or Abdiqasim Salad is a Somali politician. He helped found the Transitional National Government. He was President of Somalia from 2000 to 2004.
Recy Taylor
Incident
On September 3, 1944, she was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men. Even though the men admitted the rape to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict the men, meaning no charges were ever brought against her six assailants.
Death
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, Alabama on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday.
Riva presso Chieri
Riva presso Chieri is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Social choice theory
Social choice theory, which is also called theory of collective choice, is a theory that looks at how a group of people reach a decision. Usually this is done by combining and aggregating the opinion of each member of the group. A classic problem of social choice theory is that of holding an election or a popular vote.
Hermippe (moon)
Hermippe is about 4 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 21,182,000 km in 629.809 days, at an orbital inclination of 151° to the ecliptic (149° to Jupiter's equator), with an eccentricity of 0.2290.
It was named in August 2003 by the IAU, after Hermippe, a lover of Zeus (Jupiter).
Hermippe belongs to the Ananke group, retrograde non-spherical moons which orbit Jupiter between 19,300,000 and 22,700,000 km, at inclinations of about 150°.
Maghrebi Jews
Maghrebi Jews / Maghrebic Jews / Maghrebim are Jews who live(d) in the Maghreb countries. Many Maghrebi Jews have a Sephardic background.
Castillejo de Robledo
Castillejo de Robledo is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Katja Behrens
Katja Behrens (born Katja Oswald; 18 December 1942 – 6 March 2021 ) was a German author and translator.
Behrens was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis and at Dartmouth College.
Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is an American record label. The company mainly deals with heavy metal bands. They are a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Hackensack, Minnesota
Hackensack is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 313 at the 2010 census.
Rivalba
Rivalba is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Twin towns
Rivalba is twinned with:
Hen's egg test on chorioallantoic membrane
The Hen's egg test on chorioallantoic membrane, or hen's egg test is a test that can be used to test the toxicity of substances. It is also often used to test vaccines. It is a CAM Assay. The product ot be tested is applied to a special membrane. Such tests were first used because chicken eggs were easily available. As the respective membrane does not contain any nerve cells, it is likely that the developing bird embryo does not feel pein during the test. These tests are not considered to be animal testing.
Juan Carlos Touriño
Juan Carlos Touriño (14 July 1944 – 7 March 2017) was a Spanish football defender. He won two Spanish league titles and two Spanish Cup with Real Madrid. He made one appearance for the Spanish national team.
Death
Touriño died at a hospital in Buenos Aires on the night of 7 March 2017 from pancreatic disease, aged 72.
Titles
Real Madrid
Walker, Minnesota
Walker is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 941 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Cass County.
New Killer Star
"New Killer Star" is a 2003 song by David Bowie and is the leading single from his 24th studio album Reality. The music video features lenticular images throughout.
Henk Blok
Henk Blok (born 4 January 1922) is a former Dutch volleyball coach.
Blok was for almost 40 years coach of the men’s and later women’s national volleybal team.
Celebes
In 1946 he graduated from the Sport Academy in The Hague and started working there as a teacher. He was trainer in athletics, basketball and volleyball. The volleyball group got the name “Celebes”, after the street name were two of his pupils lived. In 1940 the volleyball club was founded under that name. In this team were among others Cees van Zweeden, Jan van Zweeden, Rinus van Zweeden and Henny de Ruijter.
The men’s teams were unbeaten, but at the time there was not a national competition. After the Dutch national volleyball federation, Nederlandse Volleybalbond, was founded in 1948 the women’s team started winning prizes. The team became in the second year (1949) national champion. The women’s became again national champion in 1955, 1956, 1958 and 1959. The team also played internationally, including to Moscow in 1962 during the Cold War. In later year, when Blok still had an assisting role, the team became national champion in 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1972 (the later two under new club name Haag ’68).
Netherlands women's national volleyball team
Blok was head coach for almost 15 years of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team until between 1949 and 1963.
Netherlands men's national volleyball team
After being coach of the women’s, Blok became in 1963 head coach of the Netherlands men's national volleyball team and stopped coaching the women’s national team. The national team became West-European Champion in Brussels. With this result the team also qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics where volleyball was played for the first time. Blok pointed out that volleyball was not professional enough to come to world class achievements.
After a disappoint 1967 European championships he stopped as head coach in 1968.
In 1970 he received a medal of honor from the Dutch volleyball federation.
Personal life
Blok was born on 4 January 1922 in Statenkwartier, The Hague, as the second of four children. His father was teacher and his women house wife. When he was young he did fencing and boxing. During World War II he has to leave his home as the Germans occupied the area. With having a Student card he didn’t had to move to Germany. Near the end of the war he moved to Sleeuwijk with an illegal document, with false SS stamps. He helps distributing food from Biesbosch farmer to Gorinchem. After the war he moved back to The Hague, where he graduated in 1946 and became teacher. In 1958 he married to Annet, a student he met when he was teacher at the Sports Academy. They had three children (son Michiel, and dochters Marlie and Dorien) and eight grand children. He retired in 1987. In November 2021, at the age of 99, he gave his last interview.
Other websites
Newspaper articles about Blok — via Delpher
Dinu Cocea
Constantin "Dinu" Cocea (22 September 1929 – 26 December 2013) was a Romanian actor, screenwriter, and award winning director.
Dinu Cocea died from heart failure on 26 December 2013, aged 84, in Paris, France, where he had lived since 1986. He was survived by his daughter, Oana.
Filmography
Film directed by Dinu Cocea:
Rivarossa
Rivarossa is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Hulst
Hulst, Zeelandic and East Flemish: ('t) Ulst, is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
Pyotr Todorovsky
Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky (26 August 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Ukrainian-Russian movie director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Jewish origin. His son Valery Todorovsky is also a movie director.
Todorovsky was born on 26 August 1925 in Bobrynets, Ukraine. He was raised in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. Todorovsky has one son, Valery Todorovsky. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1983. Todorovsky died on 24 May 2013 from a heart attack in a hospital in Moscow, Russia, aged 87.
Hulst
About 27,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ > About 11,000 people were living in the village in 2017.
The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.
Hulst received city rights in 1180.
Castilfrío de la Sierra
Castilfrío de la Sierra is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Kremser SC
The Kremser Sportclub is an Austrian football club from the city of Krems in Lower Austria. They play in the Regionalliga Ost. The club colors are black and white.
History
The club was founded on 24 August 1919 as 1. Kremser Sport-Club with the club colors black and white. In 1924 the club was given the name Kremser Sport Club.
In 1930 Kremser SC was winning the Austrian amateur championship. In 1954 the club was promoted to the Staatsliga B for the first time and in 1956 to Staatsliga A, then the highest league in Austrian football. After the dissolution of the Staatsliga B Krems stayed in the Regionalliga Ost (then second highest league) until 1974, before it went back to the Landesliga Niederösterreich. From 1977 to 1980 they played again in the 2nd division of the Bundesliga, but were then relegated to the Landesliga. 1983 they returned to the second level.
In the 1987/88 season the club reached the cup final. They played 2-0 and 1-3 against FC Swarovski Tirol an won the cup on the away goals rule. In 1989 with the fourth place in the promotion play-off they reached the Bundesliga. They stayed there till 1992. After relegation from the 1st Bundesligabthey were relegated step by step in the 1st Lower Austrian Landesliga. In the 2021-22 season they finished 2nd. In the relegation game against Wiener SV Donau on 25 June  2022, promotion to third division was realized.
Enrique Sánchez-Guijo Acevedo
Enrique Sanchez-Guijo Acevedo (born March 28, 1974 in Salamanca) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T11/B1 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the 4 X 100 meter T11-T13 race and the 4 X 400 meter T11-T13 race. He raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the 200 meter T11 race. He finished third in the 4 X 100 meter T11-T13 race.
Benton City, Missouri
Benton City is a village in Audrain County, Missouri, United States. In 2010, 104 people lived there.
History
Benton City was platted in 1881. The village is named after Thomas Hart Benton.
Geography
The United States Census Bureau says that the village has a total area of 0.10 sqmi. All of it is land.
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 104 people, 49 households, and 37 families living in Benton City.
Laurel
The Lauraceae or laurel family is a group of flowering plants in the order Laurales. It includes the bay laurel and its closest relatives.
The family has over 3000 species of flowering plants in over 50 genera worldwide. They mostly live in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially southeast Asia and South America. Most are aromatic evergreen trees or shrubs, but one or two genera such as Sassafras are deciduous, and Cassytha is a genus of parasitic vines.
Cañamaque
Cañamaque is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
Robassomero
Robassomero is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Nu'u
In Polynesian mythology from Hawaii, Nu'u was a man who built an ark with which he escaped a Great Flood.
64 Zoo Lane
64 Zoo Lane is the American animated series. It was created by An Vrombaut. The series is made by the American animation Studio Millimages and the American-based Zoo Lane Productions. The Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Company worked on Series 1 and 2.
BMX Bandits (movie)
BMX Bandits is a 1983 Australian American action adventure comedy movie directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman (in her debut), Bryan Marshall, David Argue, Angelo D'Angelo. It was distributed by Filmways Australasian Distributors.
Hardinsburg, Kentucky
Hardinsburg is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Pentagon Force Protection Agency
The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) protects and keeps safe the occupants, visitors, and infrastructure of the Pentagon, Navy Annex and other assigned Pentagon facilities. PFPA is a civilian Defense Agency within the United States Department of Defense. PFPA does its job using law enforcement officers (Pentagon Police), criminal investigative and protective services agents; threat management agents; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives technicians; and anti-terrorism/force protection and physical security personnel.
Pentagon Police Directorate (PPD)
The mission of the Pentagon Police Department (PPD) is to promote high quality law enforcement and security services, in order to provide a safe and orderly work environment for Department of Defense workers in the Washington, DC area.
Formerly The Defense Protective Service (DPS), The Pentagon Police have exclusive jurisdiction within the Pentagon Reservation and share concurrent jurisdiction with other police agencies in an area of approximately 275 acre around the complex. Arlington County, Virginia also gave the Pentagon Police officers conditional police authority throughout Arlington County. The United States Pentagon Police is also charged with the protection of certain Department of Defense executive officers.
Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Directorate (AT/FP)
The mission of the Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Directorate (AT/FP) is to provide Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) interests throughout the National Capital Region with a total AT/FP program designed to protect lives, facilities, information and equipment. The AT/FP Division advises Pentagon leaders on AT/FP matters; conducts anti-terrorism training for all OSD workers; gathers, analyzes and disseminates threat information as it relates to AT/FP; develops AT/FP plans and programs, conducts threat/vulnerability assessments and performs other duties pursuant to the protection and security of the Pentagon.
The AT/FP Directorate is composed of highly trained anti-terrorism and security specialists responsible for deterring, detecting, and responding against terrorist activity particularly when the Secretary of Defense or other Department of Defense employees are the target. They are leaders in this effort even when top Defense officials are away from the Pentagon.
Criminal Investigations & Protective Directorate (CIPD)
The Criminal Investigations & Protective Directorate investigates violations of the United States Code within the jurisdiction of PFPA and provide executive protection to DoD High Risk Personnel (HRP) in the Washington area.
PFPA Special Agent's (1811) investigate violations of federal criminal laws. The agents also provide protection during visits by foreign Ministers of Defense to the 48 contiguous United States. They also protect other visits designated by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. CIPD's Operations Section is responsible for coordinating protection missions and providing around-the-clock ("24/7") support for field agents.
The Protective Services Unit (PSU) is responsible for providing protective support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon Building. They handle visits to the Pentagon by foreign and domestic dignitaries, as well as cover protection for special events on the Pentagon Reservation, most recently noted the dedication of the 9/11 memorial. The police officers assigned to PSU provide residence security in hotels while traveling with HRP's both inside and outside of the United States.
The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, & Explosive Directorate (CBRNE)
This unit guards the Pentagon and other nearby Department of Defense facilities against possible attacks. It checks all mail and deliveries. CBRNE also monitors the environment at the Pentagon and DOD installations to make sure that they do not have these hazards. When a suspicious item is found, bomb experts are sent to examine and sometimes to destroy the item.
Security Services Directorate (SSD)
This group issues Pentagon building passes. It operates all barriers and gates that control access on the Pentagon campus. It reviews all requests from people to take pictures of the Pentagon.
Year of the Three Emperors
The Year of the Three Emperors, or the Year of the Three Kaisers, (Dreikaiserjahr) refers to the year 1888 during the German Empire in German history. The year is important because two German Emperors, or Kaisers, died. This meant that there were three emperors in a year.. The three emperors who ruled Germany during this year were Wilhelm I, Frederick III and Wilhelm II. The mnemonic “drei Achten, drei Kaiser” (English: "three eights, three emperors") is still used today in Germany to remember which year it was.
Quasimodo
Quasimodo is the hunchback in the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame written by Victor Hugo. He was raised by Claude Frollo. Though the townspeople believe Quasimodo is a monster, he befriends Esmeralda.
Purificación Santamarta Bravo
Purificación Santamarta Bravo (born May 25, 1962 in Burgos) is a track and field athlete from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and a T11/B1 type athlete. She raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. She finished first in the 400 meter T11 race, in the 200 meter T11 race and in the 100 meter T11 race. She raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. She finished first in the 400 meter T11 race. She finished second in the 100 meter T11 race. She raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. She finished third in the 200 meter T11 race.
Lara Veronin
Lara Veronin is a Russian-Taiwanese-American singer born on 2 May 1988. She is famous for being the lead vocalist of the C-Pop band Nan Quan Mama. The band's first album Treasure Map and second album Nan Quan Mama, Version 2 both peaked at #4 on the Taiwanese Album Charts. She has also appeared as a featured voicalist on Jay Chou's sixth album November's Chopin on the track Coral Sea.
Draize test
The Draize test is a test, to see if a substance is toxic. John H. Draize and Jacob M. Spines first used the test in 1944. The test was first used for cosmetics, but later for other substances as well. To see if a substance is toxic, it is applied to the skin or the eye of an animal, for a given time. After the time, the substance is washed out and the effects are recorded. Very often, small animals, such as rabbits were used. After the test, the animals are observed for up to 14 days. If the test does irreversible damage to the skin or the eye, the animal is killed after the test. Animals may be re-used for testing purposes if the product tested causes no permanent damage. Animals are typically reused after a "wash out" period during which all traces of the tested product are allowed to disperse from the test site.
Lara Veronin
Biography
Veronin was born and raised in Monterey Park, California, America and moved to Taiwan in her teens. Her father is a Russian American, and her mother a Taiwanese. She speaks fluent English and Mandarin as shown in her songs, but says she is unable to speak Russian.
Draize test
The tests are controversial. They are seem as cruel and unscientific  because of the differences between rabbit and human eyes, and the subjective nature of the visual evaluations. The FDA supports the test, stating that "to date, no single test, or battery of tests, has been accepted by the scientific community as a replacement [for] ... the Draize test". Because of its controversial nature, the use of the Draize test in the U.S. and Europe has declined in recent years and is sometimes modified so that anaesthetics are administered and lower doses of the test substances used. Chemicals already shown to have adverse effects in vitro are not currently used in a Draize test, thereby reducing the number and severity of tests that are carried out.
Lara Veronin
Biography
Reportedly, Veronin's talent was discovered when she met C-pop singer Jay Chou at a restaurant where she was working. He was interested in her voice and recruited her for his band, Nan Quan Mama. Her role as the lead singer of Nan Quan Mama gave her instant fame.
Draize test
Other tests have been developed which can replace the Draize test for many applications: First there is a test that uses chicken eggs. Another test uses Spanish slugs.
Lara Veronin
Biography
She gained greater recognition as her songs "靠近一點點 Kao Jin Yi Dian Dian" and "Say You Love Me" were chosen to be theme songs for It Started With A Kiss, a Chinese romantic comedy television series in 2005.
In 2006, Veronin was cast in the television series Engagement for Love, co-starring Alex To and Ambrose Hsu.
Style
Her musical style is often disputed (argued about). This is because most of her songs when she performs solo are in the alternative or pop-rock genre, but when she performs as a vocalist in the band Nan Quan Mama, she often sings blues- and soul-influenced dance music.
Roletto
Roletto is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region in Italy.
Jan Skopeček
Jan Skopeček (19 September 1925 – 27 July 2020) was a Czech actor and playwright.
Early life and career
He was born in Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia. Skopeček began his acting career in 1949, appearing in a number of plays. He was married to actress Věra Tichánková. The two remained together until Tichánková's death in January 2014.
He died on 27 July 2020 in Prague, aged 94.
Lumen Field
Lumen Field is an American football stadium located in Seattle, Washington. It is home to the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and MLS's Seattle Sounders FC.
Centenera de Andaluz
Centenera de Andaluz is a municipality found in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.
José Benito Saura Mendez
Jose Benito Saura Mendez (born December 4, 1978 in Murcia) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the 800 meter T12 race.
Tanjore District (Madras Presidency)
Tanjore District was one of the districts in the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam and the Aranthangi taluk of Pudukkottai District in Tamil Nadu.Thanjavur was a centre of Chola cultural heritage and one of the richest and most prosperous districts in Madras Presidency.
Tanjore district was constituted in 1799 when the Thanjavur Maratha ruler Serfoji II ceded most of his kingdom to the British East India Company in return for his restitution on the throne. Tanjore district, which is situated on the Cauvery Delta, is one of the richest rice-growing regions in South India. It was scarcely affected by famines such as the Great Famine of 1876–78.
Demographics
Tanjore District covered a total area of 9,600 square kilometres (3,710 sq mi). It had a population of 2,245,029 in 1901. The population density was 234 inhabitants per square kilometre (605/sq mi). As per the 1901 census statistics, Tanjore was the fifth most populous district in the Madras Presidency and the second most densely populated after Madras city.
According to the 1901 census, 91 percent of the population was Hindu, 5 percent Muslim and 4 percent Christian. Among Hindus, Paraiyars (310,391), Vanniyars (235,406), Vellalars (212,168), Kallars (188,463), Pallars (159,855), Valaiyars (137,216), and Brahmins (118,882) were the most numerous. Kallars were mainly found in the western part of Tanjore and Pattukkottai taluks. Tanjore had the third highest Brahmin population in the Madras Presidency (more than 6%) after South Canara and Ganjam and the highest among the Tamil-speaking districts. Most of the Muslims were Marakkayars or Labbais and concentrated in Kumbakonam taluk where they formed the majority in the towns of Ayyampettai, Rajagiri and Pandaravadai apart from Koothanallur in Mannargudi taluk. They were also found in large numbers in the Negapatam and Pattukkottai taluks. More than a third of the total Christian population of the district lived in Tanjore taluk. There were a total of about 600 Jains chiefly concentrated in the Tanjore and Mannargudi taluks.The chief Muslim places of worship were located in Tanjore and Muttupet apart from the Nagore dargah.
Tamil was spoken as mother tongue by an overwhelming majority of the population while Telugu was spoken by about 3%. Other languages spoken include Marathi (13,651) and Saurashtrian or Patnuli.
Reverberation
Reverberation is when sound waves continue to vibrate after the original source of the sound has stopped emitting sound. Reverberation can cause echoes.
Reverberation time is a period when the sound is gone in an enclosed area after the source of the sound has stopped. In the end of 19th century Wallace Clement Sabine experimented with reverberation time. He determined the relationship between the quality of acoustics, the size of the chamber, and the amount of absorption surfaces present.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the United States. Its capital is Springfield and its largest city is Chicago. It is bordered to the north by Wisconsin, to the west by Iowa and below that, by Missouri (both borders are along the Mississippi River). To the south-east, Illinois is bordered along the Ohio River by Kentucky and to the east by Indiana. Illinois' northeasternmost boundary is to Lake Michigan.
Political climate In Illinois today
Most of Illinois outside of Chicago (its most populous city) is heavily conservative. In 2016, for example, nearly 40 counties in Illinois gave Trump 70% or more of the vote there. However, Chicago makes up over half of the state´s population, and Cook County (in which Chicago is located) gave Trump just 21% of the vote there. Therefore, the governor of Illinois is currently a Democrat, as are both its US Senators and over 70% of its representatives. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the state by 17%. In 2012, Barack Obama won the state by 17%. In 2008, Obama won the state by over 25%. Illinois has supported only Democratic candidates for president since 1992.
Jardim Zoológico (Lisbon Metro)
Jardim Zoológico station is part of the Blue Line of the Lisbon Metro.
Illinois
Former swing state
Illinois was a swing state, but it isn't a swing state anymore. In all the presidential elections in which it has voted, it has supported the winner 82% of the time. Out of the last 5 presidential elections, however, it has supported the winner only 40% of the time.
History
The most prominent tribes in Illinois were the Illinois, Miami, Winnebago, Fox and Sacs (Sauk), Kickapoo, and Pottawatomie tribes. The Illinois Native Americans were composed of five subdivisions including Kaskaskias, Cahokias, Tamaroas, Peorias, and Metchigamis.
Illinois became a state on December 3, 1818. Illinois was the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which helped abolish slavery in the United States.
Three U.S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack Obama. Additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only US president born and raised in Illinois.
Economy
Illinois has a diverse economy. Chicago is a major center for transportation and business. Central and northern Illinois is mostly used for agriculture. The south produces many natural resources such as coal, timber and petroleum.
Terneuzen
Terneuzen, Zeelandic and East Flemish: Terneuzen or Neuzen, is a municipality and town in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.
Illinois
Government
Illinois was once known to be a swing state (voted for either Democratic Party or the Republican Party). Today, Illinois is known to be a blue state, voting for the Democratic Party. The last time Illinois voted for a Republican president was in 1988 for George H.W. Bush.
Terneuzen
About 55,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ > About 25,000 people were living in the town in 2015.
Illinois
Government
J. B. Pritzker (D) is the current Governor of Illinois. It has two senators; Dick Durbin (D) and Tammy Duckworth (D).
Terneuzen
The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.
Celastrales
Celastrales is an order of flowering plants. They are found throughout the tropics and subtropics, with only a few species extending far into the temperate regions. There are about 1200 to 1350 species in about 100 genera. All but 7 of these genera are in the large family Celastraceae. Until recently, the composition of the order and its division into families varied greatly from one author to another.
Terneuzen
Terneuzen received city rights in 1584.
The south entrance of the Western Scheldt Tunnel is in Terneuzen.
Illinois
Population
Illinois has the average population of 12,419,293 people since 2010. Most of the people living in Illinois live near the city of Chicago.
People from Illinois
Famous Illinoisans include:
State symbols
In Illinois, school children voted to select the state bird, state flower, and state tree. The state bird is the cardinal. The state flower of Illinois is the violet. The state tree is the white oak.
Illinois's seal has an eagle in a prairie. Across a river, behind the eagle is a rising sun. The eagle stands for the United States. The prairie reminds Illinoisans of their land. The two dates on the seal, 1818 and 1868, are the year that Illinois became a state and the year that the state seal was designed. The state flag includes the state seal.
Harlan, Kentucky
Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson.
Férin
Férin is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 1,458 people lived there.
Eyes of the Heart (movie)
Eyes of the Heart is a 1920 American crime drama movie directed by Paul Powell and was based on the story Blindness by Dana Burnet. It stars Mary Miles Minter, Edmund Burns, Loyola O'Connor, F. A. Turner and Lucien Littlefield. It was distributed by Realart Pictures Corporation.
Les Ponts-de-Martel
Les Ponts-de-Martel is a municipality of the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
Peter DeLuise
Peter John DeLuise is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
He is known for his role as Officer Doug Penhall in the Fox TV series 21 Jump Street, and for directing and writing episodes of science fiction television shows such as the Stargate franchise.
Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Harrodsburg is a city in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 8,340 at the 2010 census.
Richard Bull
Richard Bull (June 26, 1924 – February 3, 2014) was an American movie, stage, and television actor.
He is best known for his role as Nels Oleson on the NBC TV series Little House on the Prairie which aired from 1974 to 1983 and "Doc" on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Bull died on the morning of February 3, 2014 at the Motion Picture Television Fund campus in Calabasas, California from pneumonia. He was 89 years old.
Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydia trachomatis is a small bacterium, is one of three species in the genus Chlamydia. It cannot grow outside a living cell. In this respect it resembles a virus, but it is actually a very sophisticated organism.
Hartford, Kentucky
Hartford is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Mon Calamari
Mon Calamari were species from the water planet of Mon Cala appearing in Star Wars. First appearing in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi the species has also appeared in many of the books, comics and TV shows. The most notable Mon Calamari is admiral Gial Ackbar. Many Mon Calamari served in the Rebel Alliance. Mon Calamari are amphibian and are most commonly seen in brown skin but it can vary.
Huijbergen
Huijbergen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Woensdrecht, about 9 km southeast of Bergen op Zoom.
Milton Keynes Dons F.C.
Milton Keynes Dons F.C. are an English football club. They are also known as MK Dons.
They play their home games at a stadium called Stadium:MK which is in Milton Keynes (about 45 miles or 75 km north of London). The club began again in 2004 from the remains of Wimbledon F.C., which had moved to Milton Keynes in 2002 and then went bankrupt.
The stadium now has a capacity of about 31,000 seats.
League highlights since 2004
In the 2007/08 season, the Dons came top of Football League Two and won the Football League Trophy. They were promoted into Football League One.
Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road (commonly abbreviated to GT Road) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For several centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north Republic of India, into Peshawar in Pakistan.
It was built by Sher Shah Suri and is also known as "Sadak E Sher Shah" named after him.
José Luis Tovar Pavon
Jose Luis Tovar Pavon (born January 8, 1972 in Huelva) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T11/B1 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the 400 meter T11 race. He raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Harvest Moon (video game)
Harvest Moon, known in Japan as 牧場物語 (Bokujō Monogatari), is a farm simulation video game made by Pack-In-Video and published by Natsume in North America and Nintendo in PAL regions. It's about a farmer who has to make a great farm before the game reaches the end. He can also get married and have a baby.
Lake Blanche
Lake Blanche is a large salt lake in the north east corner of South Australia. It is normally dry, but can be filled by local flooding or when the Strzelecki Creek flows into it. It covers an area of about 170000 ha. When Lake Blanche was first seen by the explorer Edward John Eyre in 1840, he believed it was part of a large horse shoe shaped lake at the end of the Flinders Ranges. This lake stopped the explorers from being able to travel any further to the north. When Charles Sturt visited the lake shore in 1845 he also thought it was part of a larger lake. In 1858 the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory was the first European to find a path between Lake Blanche and Lake Callabonna. Lake Blanche was named after the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Richard Graves McDonnell. The area near the lake had been called Blanchewater Plains by explorer Benjamin Herschel Babbage in 1856. In August 1857, Captain Freeling attempted to explore the flooded lake by boat. The water was not deep enough to float the boat, and even after walking more than 5 km into the lake it was still only ankle deep.
The area around Lake Blanche is now being explored for development of a uranium mine.
Hawesville, Kentucky
Hawesville is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Geography
Hawesville was created in 1847.
Class ring
A class ring is a ring worn by students in the United States and Canada to celebrate their graduation. They are most often given out in high schools, colleges, and universities. The first class rings were made in 1835 at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Alejo José Velez Cucalon
Alejo Jose Velez Cucalon (born May 1, 1968 in Zaragoza) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished second in the high jump.
Fairfield, Vermont
Fairfield is a small town in the state of Vermont in the United States of America.
Bhavna Limbachia
Bhavna Jayanty Limbachia (born 21 April 1984) is a British television actress, film, and comedian. She is mainly known for her roles as Alia Khan in Citzen Khan and Rana Habeeb in Coronation Street.
She is born in Preston, the city of Lancashire, England.
Wii Music
Wii Music is a music video game that was made by Nintendo for the Wii game console. It was supervised by Kōji Kondō along with others.
Celastraceae
Celastraceae the staff-tree family, in the order Celastrales, comprising about 55 genera of woody vines, shrubs, and trees, native in tropical and temperate zones but best known for ornamental forms of the genera Euonymus and Celastrus (bittersweet). Fruit of the family is often colourful. Leaves are frequently leathery and flowers are small, with four to five sepals and petals; alternating between the petals, stamens rise from a usually conspicuous nectar disk.
Féron
Féron is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 564 people lived there.
It is about 3 km north of Fourmies. Since 2020, the current mayor is Jean-François Baudry.
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who was fifth president of Iraq, from July 1979 to April 2003. He was 58th and 61st prime minister of Iraq, serving respectively from July 1979 to March 1991 and from May 1994 to April 2003.
Childhood
Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, in the Tikrit in Iraq. He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who disappeared five months before Saddam was born. Shortly before Saddam was born, Saddam's twelve-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother very depressed in the final months of the pregnancy. She tried to kill herself near the end of the pregnancy and did not want to care for Saddam when he was born. Saddam was sent to the family of an uncle, Khairallah Tulfah, until he was three.
At 10, Saddam ran away from the family to return to live with his uncle, who was a devout Sunni Muslim, in Baghdad. According to Saddam, in 1957, at the age of 20, Saddam became part of the Ba'ath Party. The Ba'ath party is an Arab political party that supports socialism.
In 1958, Hussein was arrested for killing his brother-in-law because he was a communist activist. He spent six months in prison.
Rise in the Ba'ath party
Army officers, including some with the Ba'ath party, came to power in Iraq in a military coup in 1963. However, the new regime was kicked out quickly. Saddam returned to Iraq, but was imprisoned in 1964 when an anti-Ba'ath group led by Abdul Rahman Arif took power. He escaped from jail in 1967 and became one of the leading members of the party.
Gaining power
In 1976, Saddam was made a general in the Iraqi army. He quickly became the most important person of the regime. He slowly began to gain more power over Iraq's government and the Ba'ath party. As Iraq's weak, old President, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, became more unable to do the duties of his office, Saddam began to take on an more important role as the head of the Iraqi government. He soon became the creator of Iraq's foreign policy and represented the nation in all diplomatic situations.
Conflict with Iran
In 1979, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution, giving way to an Islamic republic led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The influence of revolutionary Shi'ite Islam grew in the region, particularly in countries with large Shi'ite populations, especially Iraq. Saddam was afraid that radical Islamic ideas were quickly spreading inside his country among most of the Shi'ite people. He worried that these ideas would go against his leadership.
There had also been a rivalry between Saddam and Khomeini since the 1970s. Khomeini was exiled from Iran in 1964. He began living in Iraq, at the Shi'ite holy city of An Najaf. There, he became involved with Iraqi Shi'ites and gained many religious and political followers throughout the world. Under pressure from the Shah, who had agreed to a rapprochement between Iraq and Iran in 1975, Saddam agreed to kick Khomeini out in 1978. After the Islamic Revolution, Khomeini thought defeating Saddam's government may have been the second most important thing to do, only behind keeping his power in Iran.
The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1989
After Khomeini gained power, small battles between Iraq and revolutionary Iran happened for ten months. The two countries were fighting over who controlled the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which divides Iran and Iraq.
Iraq and Iran officially went to war with each other on September 22, 1980. Saddam used the disagreement over the waterway as an excuse to go to war with Iran. However, the war was more likely an attempt by Saddam - supported by both the United States and the Soviet Union - to have Iraq stop radical revolutions like the one in Iran from spreading any further.
In the first days of the war, there was heavy ground fighting around major ports as Iraq launched an attack on Iran's oil-rich, Arab-populated province of Khuzestan. After making some gains, Iraq's troops began to suffer losses from human-wave attacks by Iran. By 1982, Iraq was looking to end the war.
Chemical warfare
During the war, Iraq used chemical warfare against Iranian forces and Kurdish separatists. On March 16, 1988, Saddam ordered Iraqi troops to stop a Kurdish uprising. Iraq attacked the Kurdish town of Halabjah with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people, mostly women and children.
Saddam reached out to other Arab governments for cash and political help. The Iranians, hoping to bring down Saddam's non-religious government and start a Shi'ite rebellion in Iraq, refused a cease-fire until 1988.
End of the war
The eight-year war ended in a tie. There were hundreds of thousands of casualties. Perhaps 1.7 million died on both sides. Both economies, previously healthy and growing, were left in ruins.
Saddam was also stuck with a debt of roughly $75 billion. Borrowing money from the U.S. was making Iraq into its client state, embarrassing a strongman who had sought to define and dominate Arab nationalism. Saddam also borrowed a large amount of money from other Arab states during the 1980s to fight Iran. Faced with rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, Saddam desperately sought out cash once again, this time for postwar reconstruction.
After the war: Tensions with Kuwait
Saddam was pressuring Kuwait to forgive its share of his debt, some $30 billion. (This would mean Iraq would not have to pay back Kuwait's $30 million.) Saddam argued that the struggle with Iran had been fought for the benefit of the other Persian Gulf Arab states as much as for Iraq. Because of this, he said, a share of Iraqi debt should be forgiven.
Saddam had pushed oil-exporting countries to raise oil prices and cut back production. Not only did Kuwait refuse to do this; they also helped support OPEC's opposition to the production cuts that Saddam had requested. Kuwait was pumping large amounts of oil, and keeping prices low, when Iraq needed to sell high-priced oil from its wells to pay off a huge debt.