cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Ford E-Series
The Ford E-Series-also known as the Ford Econoline-are a line of passenger or cargo vans which began in 1961. The E-Series vans can hold eight to 15 people per van as well as cargo versions. The vans have undergone many redesigns through the years, the first generation was made from 1961 to 1967. The second generation was made from 1968 to 1974. The third generation was made from 1975 to 1991. The fourth and longest-running generation was made from 1992 to 2014 in passenger and cargo versions and were replaced in 2015 by the Transit although cutaway versions are still being made, the model line competes with the Chevrolet Van, Chevrolet Express, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Dodge Ram Van, Dodge Sprinter, Freightliner Sprinter, and GMC Savana.
Keith Ballard
Keith Ballard (born November 26, 1982 in Baudette, Minnesota) is a former American NHL ice hockey defenceman for the Minnesota Wild. He was picked by the Buffalo Sabres with the eleventh overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He played hockey in college for the University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers. Ballard has also played for the Phoenix Coyotes for 3 seasons and the Florida Panthers for 2 seasons before being traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 2010 during the 2010 NHL Entry draft for Michael Grabner, Steve Bernier, and Vancouver's first round pick and 25th overall selection in that draft. On July 3, 2013, he was placed on waivers and his contract was bought out by the Canucks. On July 4th, 2013, Ballard signed a two-year $3 million contract with the Minnesota Wild.
Ballard is married and had a daughter with his wife in May 2010.
Ellisville, Missouri
Ellisville is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Crestwood, Missouri
Crestwood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Fenton, Missouri
Fenton is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Base isolation
Base isolation is a collection of a building’s units resting on its foundation to provide separation of the building from shaking ground thus improving seismic performance.
Basic parts of base isolation system
Base isolation system consists of isolation units with or without isolation components, where:
1. Isolation units are the basic elements of base isolation system which provide the mentioned separation effect to a building structure.
2. Isolation components are the connections between isolation units and other parts of the building having no separation effect of their own.
History
From the very beginning, the theory of base isolation rested on two pillars: heavy damping and frequency separation. Unfortunately, nobody paid any attention that the heavy damping was a sort of a strong connection between a substructure and superstructure, and that the idea of decoupling them with the help of such connections was of no good. Anyway, to virtually test-drive any design concept of base isolation, some online help is available now.
Frontenac, Missouri
Frontenac is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Samuel Bodman
Samuel Wright Bodman III (November 26, 1938 – September 7, 2018) was an American politician. He was the 11th United States Secretary of Energy. He was previously the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and the Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
Bodman died in El Paso, Texas on September 7, 2018 at the age of 79. The cause of death was complications from primary progressive aphasia.
Anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment (Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is an opposition to, or fear of, Germany, Germans, its culture and the German language. The opposite is called Germanophilia.
The sentiment began with the mid-19th century unification of Germany, which made the new nation a rival to the Great powers of Europe in economics, military, cultural, and geopolitical grounds. It was believed correctly in other countries that Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke were driving Germany towards domination of the European landmass. Bismark unified Germany in 1871 and was their first Chancellor, serving until 1890.
Von Moltke the elder was chief of staff of the Prussian Army for 30 years. He commanded in the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War. He is described as a "Prussian military organization and tactical genius". He was fascinated with railways and pioneered their military usage. He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke, who commanded the German Army (Deutsches Heer) at the outbreak of World War I.
Charles Duncan Jr.
Charles William Duncan Jr. (September 9, 1926 – October 18, 2022)  is an American entrepreneur, administrator, and statesman. Duncan served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy on the Cabinet of President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1981.
Frédéric Bartholdi
Frédéric Bartholdi (2 August 1834 – 4 October 1904) was a French sculptor. He designed the Statue of Liberty. He was born on 2 August 1834 in Colmar, France. He died on 4 October 1904 in Paris because of tuberculosis, aged 70.
Plucking (glaciation)
Glacial plucking is when a glacier freezes into the side of a valley and it pulls rock away.
Dysgenics
The adjective "dysgenics" is the antonym of "eugenics". It was first used about 1915 by David Starr Jordan. He thought there might be dysgenic effects in World War I. Jordan believed that healthy men were as likely to die in modern warfare as anyone else and that war killed only the physically healthy men of the populace whilst preserving the disabled at home.
The theme was picked up more recently. Neither version has been proved.
Preston, Georgia
Preston is an unincorporated community in Webster County, Georgia, United States, located seventeen miles west of Americus. The population was 453 at the 2000 census. The community is the county seat of Webster County.
Afrotropic
The Afrotropic is one of the Earth's eight ecozones. The zone was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone.
Major ecological regions
Because Africa is a very large continent, and runs north/south acrsoss the equator, the zone has many different climates and habitats.
Most of the Afrotropic, has a tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts separate the Afrotropic from the Palearctic ecozone, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia.
Sahel and Sudan
South of the Sahara, two belts of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands run east and west across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian Highlands.
Immediately south of the Sahara lies the Sahel belt, a transitional zone of semi-arid short grassland and Acacia savanna.
Southern Arabian woodlands
South Arabia, mostly Yemen and parts of western Oman and southwest Saudi Arabia, has few permanent forests. Otherwise woodlands scatter the land and are very small Juniper or Acacia forests.
Forest zone
The largest tropical forest zone in Africa are the forests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa. A belt of tropical moist broadleaf forest also runs along the Indian Ocean coast, from southern Somalia to South Africa.
East Africa
The Great Rift Valley gives East Africa its unique mix of deep lakes, highlands, volcanoes and grassland.
Southern African
Woodlands, savannas, grasslands and desert.
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands
Madagascar and neighboring islands form a distinctive sub-region of the ecozone, with numerous endemic taxa like the lemurs.
St. Clair, Michigan
St. Clair is a city in St. Clair County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 5,485.
Afrotropic
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean islands
Madagascar and the Seychelles are not part of Africa, and that explains why the advanced primates of Africa (monkeys, apes) are not found in Madagascar. This is because Madagascar has not been connected to Africa since the break-up of Gondwana. Lemurs are found occupying more or less the same ecological niches as monkeys do in Africa.
Babulal Gaur
Babulal Gaur Yadav (2 June 1930 – 21 August 2019) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was elected in 10 Assembly elections from the seat of Govindpura in Bhopal before retiring from electoral politics in 2018. He was the 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from August 2004 through November 2005. He was born in Naugir, United Provinces.
Gaur died on 21 August 2019 from cardiac arrest at a medical center in Bhopal at the age of 89.
Greendale, Missouri
Greendale is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Georgia Southwestern State University
Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) is a public university in Americus, Georgia. It is part of the University System of Georgia and offers bachelor's degree programs along with selected master's and specialist degree programs.
Havířov
Havířov (Hawierzów, Hawiyrzów) is a city in the Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 71,000 people which makes it the second-largest city in the region.
Stoke Fleming
Stoke Fleming is a village and civil parish on the A379 road and Start Bay, South of Dartmouth in South Hams, Devon, England. In 2001 there were 1,012 people living in Stoke Fleming. Stoke Fleming has a Library and a primary school.
Edmundson, Missouri
Edmundson is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
SIA
Sia or SIA may refer to:
Alzey-Worms
Alzey-Worms is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Its capital is Alzey.
The Rhine forms the eastern boundary.
Towns and municipalities
Verband-free towns:
Huntleigh, Missouri
Huntleigh is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Webster County, Georgia
Webster County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 Census reflected a population of 2,348, making it the third-least populous county in Georgia. The county seat is Preston.
Flordell Hills, Missouri
Flordell Hills is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Glendale, Missouri
Glendale is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Ahl Iman
Ahl Iman (meaning people of faith), is a Persian term related to religion that is used by Iranian Shia Muslim scholars, author and translator of the Quran Mirza Mahdi Elahi Qomshehei (1901 - 1973) in his Persian translation of the Quran, which is used to describe another variant of the Quranic Arabic sign words يأيها الذين آمنوا, which means o you who believe in the English language, of which the term soon used in various translations of the Quran such as the Urdu translation of the Quran by Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry as اہل ایمان.
Etymology
The Persian term is first founded and seen in the Persian translation of the Quran by Mirza Mahdi Elahi Ghomshei. An example of the Quranic verse that contains these words are based below:
ای اهل ایمان، روزی حلال و پاکیزه‌ای که ما نصیب شما کرده‌ایم بخورید و شکر خدا به جای آرید اگر شما خالص خدا را می‌پرستید.
English meaning: O people of faith, eat the lawful and pure foods which We have bestowed upon you, and be grateful to Allah if you sincerely worship Him.
Adopted from: Surah al-Baqarah, verse 172
Usage in other translations
The same term is soon used in various Quran and other translations such as in the Urdu translation of the Quran by Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry, where the term is used as اہل ایمان, in the following example below:
Kailash Chandra Joshi
Kailsh Chandra Joshi (14 July 1929 – 24 September 2019) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh from June 1977 to January 1978. He was a member of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2014, representing the Bhopal constituency in Madhya Pradesh. Joshi was born in Hatpipalya, Dewas State, British India.
Ahl Iman
Usage in other translations
اے اہل ایمان جو پاکیزہ چیزہں ہم نے تم کو عطا فرمائے ہیں ان کو کھاؤ اور اگر خدا بی کے بندے ہو تو اس (کی نعمتوں) کا شکر بھی ادا کرو
Source: Quran, Surah al-Baqarah, verse 172
Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) was a British-Irish-American actress of stage, movie, and television. She was best known for her roles as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running whodunit television series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996), and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's 30th animated feature movie Beauty and the Beast (1991).
Death
Lansbury died on 11 October 2022, five days before her 97th birthday at her home in Los Angeles, California.
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR or Soviet Ukraine was in the southwestern part of the Soviet Union. It had the second largest population of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. This lasted from 1922 to 1991.
The Ukrainian SSR was a founding member of the United Nations. It did not really have much power because it was tightly controlled by central all-Soviet Union authorities. When the Soviet Union broke apart, the Ukrainian SSR became Ukraine.
During its 72-year history, the republic's borders changed many times. The eastern city of Kharkiv was the republic's first capital. However, in 1934, it was moved to the city of Kyiv. Kyiv is still the capital of Ukraine. Among other largest cities there were Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk (named Stalino before 1961), Lviv, Zaporizhia.
History
Ukrainian SSR was one of 4 first republics of USSR.
In 1940 was taken from Romania Nortern Bukovina (Chernivtsy oblast) and part of Bessarabia.
During the WWII all of its territory was occupied. There was large partisan movements. Kyiv and Odessa became hero cities.
In 1953 former head of Communist party of Ukraine Nikita Khrushchev became the General Secretary of the CPSU. In 1964 he was removed by Ukrainian Leonid Brezhnev who was in office before his death in 1982.
In 1954 Crimea was incorporated in Ukrainian SSR.
In 1986 there was Chernobyl atomic station catastrophe.
Demographic
In the republic there were about 29 mln people in 1926, 47.1 mln in 1970, 49.6 mln in 1979, 51.7 mln in 1989.
In 1989 5 cities had more than 1 million people. It was Kiev(2.6 mln), Kharkiv (1.6 mln), Dnipropetrovsk (1.2 mln), Odessa (1.1 mln) and Donetsk (1.1 mln).
The larger nation was Ukrainians, 2nd nation was Russians during all the history. Among the other nations were Jews, Belarusians, Moldovans and Romanians, Polish, Greeks.
Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo (December 10, 1965 – September 29, 2010) was an American comedian television personality, and retired lawyer. Giraldo is probably best known for his many appearances on Comedy Central's roast specials and is also known for being a regular on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil.
He was married twice, once when he was 24 and he said that last very long. At the time of his death he had 3 children and had been divorced.
He accidentally overdosed on prescription medication and he was scheduled to appear at a comedy performance at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey. When Giraldo failed to appear the police were called to his hotel room where they found him and they rushed him to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. It was reported that he had been in a coma for four days before his family had life support removed and he died on September 29, 2010.
On March 18, 2011, Comedy Central aired a special called Give it up for Greg Giraldo, that featured celebrities Jon Stewart, Colin Quinn, Lewis Black, Daniel Tosh, Denis Leary, Sarah Silverman, Jeffrey Ross, Nick Swardson, Dave Attell, Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien as well as others as they talked about his life and career.
Cimmerians
The Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient horse-riding nomads of Indo-European origin.
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Cimmerians lived in the north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. They lived in what is now Ukraine and Russia. Others have said there is no evidence of Cimmerians in the southern parts of Russia.
Where the Cimmerians come from is unclear. Most think they belong to either Iranian or Thracian speaking groups. A recent DNA analysis (Oct. 2018) of three Cimmerians indicate "the appearance of East Asian haplogroups in the steppe populations might be associated with the Iron Age nomads, starting with the Cimmerians." The authors found it "noteworthy that the oldest of the Cimmerians studied here (cim357) carried almost equal proportions of Asian and West Eurasian components, resembling the Pazyryks, Aldy-Bel, and Iron Age individuals from Russia and Kazakhstan. The second oldest Cimmerian (cim358) was also the only one with both uniparental markers pointing toward East Asia. The Q1* Y chromosome sublineage of Q-M242 is widespread among Asians and Native Americans and is thought to have originated in the Altai Mountains. It has previously been identified in numerous ancient samples from Siberia, the Americas, and in representatives of the Siberian Bronze Age and nomadic populations. This is the first indication that Cimmerians did not originate in the PCS region but were nomads tracing their origin to the Far East." A new study in July 2019 revealed that 2 other Cimmerians were of haplogroup R1a-Z645 and R1a2c-B111.
Melvin Laird
Melvin Robert "Bom" Laird (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician and writer. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon.
Laird died from complications of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Fort Myers, Florida on November 16, 2016, aged 94.
Lakeshire, Missouri
Lakeshire is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Maplewood, Missouri
Maplewood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Telephone card
A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a small plastic card that is used to pay for telephone calls. They usually hold a set value of credit. Some cards can be recharged with more credit.
Northwoods, Missouri
Northwoods is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
National FFA Organization
National FFA Organization is an American 501(c)(3) youth organization, specifically a career and technical student organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. It was founded in 1925.
In 1988 the name was changed to the National FFA Organization, now commonly referred to as FFA. Today FFA is among the largest youth organizations in the United States, with 669,989 members in 8,630 chapters throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website which collects expert reviews for movies, TV, video games, music and formally books. It provides a Metascore, an average score out of 100 possible points based on published reviews. It has the score in one of three colours, red being negative, yellow being mixed and green being positive.
Baden bei Wien
Baden is a city in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is the capital of the Baden District.
It is about 26 km south of Vienna.
Moline Acres, Missouri
Moline Acres is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Jean-Henry Céant
Jean Henry Céant (born 27 September 1956) is a Haitian politician who was the Prime Minister of Haiti.
Manchester, Missouri
Manchester is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Marilù Tolo
Marilù Tolo (born 16 January 1944) is an Italian actress and model. She appeared in 64 movies between 1960 and the 1980s. She is best known for her roles in movies such as Sweet Deceptions (1960), Marriage Italian Style (1964), The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules (1964), Espionage in Lisbon (1965) and Django Kill! (1967). Her last acting role was in 1985.
Tolo was born in Rome. She dated the fashion designer Valentino.
Motilal Vora
Vora died at a hospital in New Delhi from problems caused by COVID-19 on 21 December 2020, one day after his 92nd birthday.
Dendropsophus studerae
Dendropsophus studerae is a frog. Scientists have seen it in exactly one place in Brazil.
Oakland, Missouri
Oakland is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic or Litbel was a Soviet republic. It was in the territories of modern Belarus and eastern Lithuania. It existed for about seven months during 1919. It was formed after the merger of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia. The republic was went away after the Polish Army took over its claimed territory of eastern Lithuania during the Polish–Soviet War.
Vibration control
In earthquake engineering, vibration control is a set of technical means for decreasing seismic loads and improving seismic performance of building structures.
Types of vibration control devices
All vibration control devices may be classified as passive, active or hybrid. The first kind is the simplest one and, therefore, widespread. Passive control devices represent different types of base isolators and seismic dampers.
Base isolators restrict penetration of potentially damaging seismic waves into a building structure while dampers decrease destructive effect of those waves.
Lena Gercke
Lena Johanna Gercke is a model. She is the winner of the first cycle (season) of Germany’s Next Topmodel by Heidi Klum.
Overland, Missouri
Overland is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Lena Gercke
After a casting, Lena Gercke made it to the last 12 girls and eventually won the competition.
Another Perfect Day
Another Perfect Day is the sixth album by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. The album was released in 1983 and reached number 20 in the UK charts.
Olivette, Missouri
Olivette is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is a field of study which tries to make computers "smart". They work on their own without being encoded with commands. John McCarthy came up with the name, "Artificial Intelligence" in 1955.
The term intelligence is misleading, here. Alan Turing wrote in 1950 "I propose to consider the question 'can machines think'?" He prposed the qiestion should be changed, from whether a machine "thinks", to "whether or not it is possible for machinery to show intelligent behaviour". Alain Turing also created the Turing test. This is a very general test. If a human cannot tell if at the other endo of the line, there is a machine or a human answering questions, the machine is intelligent. Russell and Norvig agree with Turing that AI must be defined in terms of "acting" and not "thinking". However, they are critical that the test compares machines to people. "Aeronautical engineering texts," they wrote, "do not define the goal of their field as making 'machines that fly so exactly like pigeons that they can fool other pigeons. AI founder John McCarthy agreed, writing that "Artificial intelligence is not, by definition, simulation of human intelligence".
In general use, the term "artificial intelligence" means a programme which mimics human cognition. At least some of the things we associate with other minds, such as learning and problem solving can be done by computers, though not in the same way as we do. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define AI as a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation.
An ideal (perfect) intelligent machine is a flexible agent which perceives its environment and takes actions to maximize its chance of success at some goal or objective. As machines become increasingly capable, mental faculties once thought to require intelligence are removed from the definition. For example, optical character recognition is no longer perceived as an example of "artificial intelligence": it is just a routine technology.
At present we use the term AI for successfully understanding human speech, competing at a high level in strategic game systems (such as Chess and Go), self-driving cars, and interpreting complex data. Some people also consider AI a danger to humanity if it continues to progress at its current pace.
An extreme goal of AI research is to create computer programs that can learn, solve problems, and think logically. In practice, however, most applications have picked on problems which computers can do well. Searching databases and doing calculations are things computers do better than people. On the other hand, "perceiving its environment" in any real sense is way beyond present-day computing.
AI involves many different fields like computer science, mathematics, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy. Eventually researchers hope to create a "general artificial intelligence" which can solve many problems instead of focusing on just one. Researchers are also trying to create creative and emotional AI which can possibly empathize or create art. Many approaches and tools have been tried.
Borrowing from the management literature, Kaplan and Haenlein classify artificial intelligence into three different types of AI systems: analytical, human-inspired, and humanized artificial intelligence. Analytical AI has only characteristics consistent with cognitive intelligence generating cognitive representation of the world and using learning based on past experience to inform future decisions. Human-inspired AI has elements from cognitive as well as emotional intelligence, understanding, in addition to cognitive elements, also human emotions considering them in their decision making. Humanized AI shows characteristics of all types of competencies (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and social intelligence), able to be self-conscious and self-aware in interactions with others.
History
AI research really started with a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. It was a month-long brainstorming session attended by many people with interests in AI. At the conference they wrote programs that were amazing at the time, beating people at checkers or solving word problems. The Department of Defense started giving a lot of money to AI research and labs were created all over the world.
Unfortunately, researchers seriously undervalued how challenging several issues were. They still couldn't offer computers things like emotions or common sense using the techniques they had employed. In a paper on AI, mathematician James Lighthill stated that "no aspect of the discipline has so far seen discoveries generated the huge influence that was previously anticipated." The governments of the US and UK desired to support more profitable initiatives. An "AI winter" in which little research was conducted was brought on by cuts.
AI revived again in the 90s and early 2000s with its use in data mining and medical diagnosis. This was possible because of faster computers and focusing on solving more specific problems. In 1997, the chess_computer Deep Blue became the first computer program to beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov. Faster computers, advances in deep learning, and access to more data have made AI popular throughout the world. In 2011 IBM Watson beat the top two Jeopardy! players Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, and in 2016 Google's AlphaGo beat top Go player Lee Sedol 4 out of 5 times.
Pasadena Hills, Missouri
Pasadena Hills is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Teena Marie
Mary Christine Brockert (5 March 1956 - 26 December 2010), known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She is famous for songs such as "Lovergirl" and "Square Biz". Teena died December 26, 2010 at age 54, from natural causes.
Chelsea F.C. Women
Chelsea Football Club Women are an English women's football club based in Fulham, England. Previously, they were named Chelsea Ladies Football Club.
Chelsea Women were a founding member of the FA WSL in 2010, the top level of women's football in England since 2011.
Hohenzollern (disambiguation)
Hohenzollern may refer to:
Pagedale, Missouri
Pagedale is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
DBS
DBS may stand for:
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is a relationship in which two people of the same sex (same gender) live together as a family in a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage. Access to same-sex marriage is sometimes called marriage equality, especially by supporters.
Current status
Marriage under civil law is presently available to same-sex couples in the following countries: Andorra Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark (including Greenland and Faroe Islands), Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands (Netherlands proper; pending in Aruba and Curaçao), New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay. In Ecuador, Taiwan and some states in Mexico, same-sex married couples are not allowed to adopt children the way other married couples are.
The Netherlands was the first country in modern times to allow marriages of two people of the same sex, in 2001. Same-sex marriage became legal everywhere in the United States in 2015. The Supreme Court ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to marry was unconstitutional. There are various faiths that practise same-sex marriages, including Eckankar, Wicca, Unitarian Universalism, Raelism, and Native American religions with a two-spirit tradition.
* This state controls one or more territories where same-sex marriage is not legal.
Netherlands
In the Netherlands, a same-sex marriage law does not actually exist. Back in 2001, the existing (normal) marriage law was 'only' changed, so that it now includes marriage of same-sex partners. This means that same-sex marriage in the Netherlands is not different from a normal marriage; it's exactly the same. The Dutch law says the following: A marriage is possible between two persons of different or same sex —Dutch civil law, book 1, article 30
That is consistent with the first article of the Dutch civil law, and with the Dutch constitution: All who are in the Netherlands, are free to benefit from civil rights Dutch civil law, book 1, article 1
All who are in the Netherlands, are to be treated equal in equal circumstances. Discrimination by religion, philosophy, political preference, race, gender, or by any means possible is forbidden. Dutch constitution, article 1
Civil unions
The first same-sex union in modern history was recognized by the government in Denmark in 1989. It provided many of the right of marriage, but not all.
Civil unions, civil partnership, domestic partnership, unregistered partnership/unregistered co-habitation or registered partnerships that offer some of the benefits of marriage are available in the following countries and territories that do not provide same-sex marriage: Andorra, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary (unregistered co-habitation since 1996; registered partnership from 2009), Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Veracruz in Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Aruba in the Netherlands, San Marino, Slovenia, and the UK possession of the Cayman Islands.
Adoption
Same-sex marriage does not always mean marriage equality. In many countries, adoption law and reproductive rights are independent of marriage law. For example, same-sex couples may be allowed to marry, and "married" couples may be allowed to adopt children, but same-sex married couples may not be allowed to adopt. This was the situation in Portugal for several years. Currently (2023), same-sex married couples are prevented from adopting children in Ecuador, Taiwan, and several states of Mexico. On the other hand, a few countries have allowed same-sex couples to adopt children, even while they do not allow them to marry. Usually these countries have civil unions. An example in 2022 is Croatia.
1966 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1966 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1966.
Same-sex marriage
Controversy
The controversy over recognition of same-sex unions as marriages is a very important part of a larger debate about the definition of a family. Same-sex marriage is not considered as valid by many religions. Many others, however, see same-sex marriage as important for all people to be equal. They sometimes say that religions and law (Defense of Marriage Act, for example) who do not support same-sex marriage are intolerant (they do not show respect to other peoples' beliefs). Additionally, people married in civil unions usually do not enjoy all the benefits (lower taxes, health insurance etc.).
Organizations involved in same sex marriage
Various organizations exist in part to support the rights of homosexual or gay men and women to marry people of the same sex. One organization is the Human Rights Campaign or HRC.
1966 Georgia gubernatorial election
After an election that exposed divisions within the Georgia Democratic Party (giving the Georgia Republican Party a shot at the Governor's Mansion for the first time in the twentieth century), segregationist Democrat Lester Maddox was elected Governor of Georgia.
The voting also made future President Jimmy Carter well known.
Democratic primary election results
The primary was held on September 13, 1966.
Pursuant to Georgia law, as no candidate received a majority of votes in the primary, a runoff was held on September 27.
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart DS is a racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It is the fifth game in the series and the first which used Nintendo's free online service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The game was released in the North America, Australia, and Europe in November 2005, and in Japan in December 2005, and in South Korea in which it is the very first Wi-Fi Connection game launched in April 2007.
Like other games in the Mario Kart series, Mario Kart DS involves characters from Mario games racing each other in go-karts on tracks themed from locations in the Mario series. The game, like other Mario Kart games, employs various weapons or items that players can use to help themselves or slow down others. These weapons make Mario Kart different from other racing games.
Frank Carlucci
Frank Charles Carlucci III (October 18, 1930 – June 3, 2018) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
Carlucci died on June 3, 2018, from complications of Parkinson's disease, at his home in McLean, Virginia, at the age of 87.
Evangelos Zappas
Evangelis or Evangelos Zappas (Ευαγγέλης/Ευάγγελος Ζάππας; Evanghelie Zappa; 23 August 1800 – 19 June 1865) was a Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman who established the modern Olympic Games.
Early life
Evangelis Zappas was born to a Greek family on August 23, 1800 in the village of Labovo in the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Vasileios and Sotira Zappas. Zappas received no education during his youth. At 13, he left his village and worked as a mercenary in the Ottoman militia of Ali Pasha. Zappas was involved in the Filiki Eteria, a Greek patriotic organization, and served in the Greek War of Independence when it started in 1821. He claimed to have been wounded five times during the war. Zappas later moved to Wallachia in 1831 and made a fortune in land and agriculture. In the 1850s, Zappas became one of the wealthiest businessmen in Eastern Europe. The value of his whole fortune was calculated at six million gold drachmas.
Revival of the Olympic Games
Zappas was a nationalist inspired to revive the Olympic Games by Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet. He sent a letter in 1856 to King Otto of Greece offering to pay to restore the Olympics. The first modern Olympic Games were held on November 15, 1859 in Athens, Greece. And just like in the ancient Olympics, the athletes competed in running, discus throwing, javelin throwing, wrestling, jumping, and pole-climbing. Zappas died on June 19, 1865 with no children. His money was used for developing athletic buildings in Athens, as well as for continuing the Olympic Games. He left instructions for the building of the Zappeion Exhibition and Conference Center named in both his honour and in the honour of his cousin, Konstantinos Zappas.
Legacy
Evangelos Zappas made several donations to Greek schools, libraries and scholarships. He also financed the Romanian Academy where he has a statue there today. Zappas also funded a Romanian dictionary, a newspaper and books in the Albanian language, and research on the history of the Romanian people.
Palearctic
The Palearctic (or 'Palaearctic') ecozone is one of the eight dividing the Earth's surface.
Major ecological regions
The Palearctic ecozone includes mostly boreal and temperate climate ecoregions, which run across Eurasia from western Europe to the Bering Strait.
Euro-Siberian region
The boreal and temperate Euro-Siberian region is the Palearctic's largest biogeographic region, which transitions from tundra in the northern reaches of Russia and Scandinavia to the vast taiga, the boreal coniferous forests which run across the continent. South of the taiga are a belt of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and temperate coniferous forests. This vast Euro-Siberian region has many shared plant and animal species, and many similarities with the temperate and boreal regions of the Nearctic of North America.
Richmond Heights, Missouri
Richmond Heights is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Chiu Chuang-huan
Chiu Chuang-huan (25 July 1925 – 1 July 2020) was a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Kuomintang. He served as the Vice Premier from 1981 to 1984. He was also Governor of Taiwan Province from 1984 to 1990, and the President of the Examination Yuan from 1993 to 1996. Chiu was born in Taichū.
Paul Robert Ignatius
Paul Robert Ignatius (born November 11, 1920) was an American government official. He served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson administration.
Palearctic
Euro-Siberian region
Eurasia and North America were often connected by the Bering land bridge, and have very similar mammal and bird fauna, with many Eurasian species having moved into North America, and fewer North American species having moved into Eurasia.
Many zoologists consider the Palearctic and Nearctic to be a single Holarctic ecozone. The Palearctic and Nearctic also share many plant species.
Mediterranean Basin
The lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe, north Africa, and western Asia are home to the Mediterranean basin ecoregions, which together constitute world's largest and most diverse mediterranean climate region of the world, with generally mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The Mediterranean basin's mosaic of forests, woodlands, and scrub are home to 13,000 endemic species. Conservation International has designated the Mediterranean basin as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots.
Sahara and Arabian deserts
A great belt of deserts, including the Sahara desert, and Arabian desert, separates the Palearctic and Afrotropic ecoregions. These desert ecoregions are included in the palearctic ecozone; other biogeographers identify the ecozone boundary as the transition zone between the desert ecoregions and the Mediterranean basin ecoregions to the north. This would place the deserts in the Afrotropic, while others place the boundary through the middle of the desert.
Western and Central Asia
The Caucasus mountains, which run between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, are a particularly rich mix of coniferous, broadleaf, and mixed forests, and include some temperate rain forest.
Central Asia and the Iranian plateau are home to dry steppe grasslands and desert basins, with montane forests, woodlands, and grasslands in the region's high mountains and plateaux.
The middle altitude foothills of the Himalaya between about 2000–2500 m form the boundary between the Palearctic and Indomalaya ecoregions.
East Asia
China, Korea and Japan are more humid and temperate than adjacent Siberia and Central Asia, and are home to rich temperate coniferous, broadleaf, and mixed forests. These are now mostly limited to mountainous areas, as the densely populated lowlands and river basins have been converted to intensive agricultural and urban use.
East Asia was not much affected by glaciation in the ice ages, and retained 96 percent of Pliocene tree genera, while Europe retained only 27 percent.
Altötting (district)
The district is on the Austrian border. The Inn River crosses the district from west to east.
J. William Middendorf
John William Middendorf II (born September 22, 1924) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of the Navy under the Gerald Ford administration. He is a member of the Republican Party. Middendorf is a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born 28 May 1925 in Berlin, died 18 May 2012 in Berg, Upper Bavaria) was a German baritone singer. For more than 30 years he was thought of by many as the greatest male singer in classical music. He was particularly famous for his singing of Lieder (German art songs), but he was also a superbly great singer of opera as well as a concert singer with orchestras. Later in his career he also conducted.
Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1938) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and for her supporting actress roles in two 1966 westerns, The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Fischer-Dieskau had a lyrical baritone voice, not a powerful, heroic voice like a Heldentenor. In spite of that he recorded many operatic roles which are traditionally thought of as being for Heldentenor: Wotan in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Amfortas in Parsifal, Macbeth in Verdi's opera etc.
He is the most recorded singer of all time. He sang in many languages as well as German: French, Russian, Hebrew and Hungarian.
Early years
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin. His parents were teachers. He started singing as a child and began voice lessons at the age of 16. He had to join the German army (the Wehrmacht) during World War II, in 1943. He had only just finished school. He was captured in Italy in 1945 and spent two years as an American prisoner of war. During that time, he sang Lieder in POW camps to homesick German soldiers.
Career
In 1947 he returned to Germany where he started his professional career singing the baritone solo in Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem without any rehearsal. (He was a last-minute substitute for a singer who was ill.) He gave his first Lieder recital in Leipzig later that year.
From early in his career he worked with famous lyric sopranos Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, and the recording producer Walter Legge, producing very popular albums of lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf.
In the autumn of 1948, Fischer-Dieskau became principal lyric baritone at the Städtische Oper Berlin (Municipal Opera, West Berlin), making his first opera performance in the role of Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos under the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. This company, known after 1961 as the Deutsche Oper, was to be his artistic home until his retirement from the operatic stage, in 1978.
Fischer-Dieskau made guest appearances at the opera houses in Vienna and Munich. After 1949 he made concert tours in the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1951, he first appeared at a concert in the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) under Wilhelm Furtwängler. He was starting to appear all over the world: in the Royal Albert Hall, London, Boston, Massachusetts and at the Bayreuth Festival.
As an opera singer, Fischer-Dieskau performed mainly in Berlin and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He also made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, at the Hamburg State Opera, in Japan, and at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh Festival. His first tour in the United States took place in 1955, when he was 29. For his recitals there he was accompanied by Gerald Moore. He recorded many Lieder with Gerald Moore, and gave many recitals with him until Moore retired in 1967. However, they continued to make recordings after that. Their recordings of the Schubert song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise were very highly thought of.
Fischer-Dieskau also performed many works by living composers including Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernst Krenek and Witold Lutosławski.
Fischer-Dieskau also recorded many famous roles in Italian operas, e.g. Verdi's Rigoletto and Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlos, Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. He retired from opera in 1978.
Fischer-Dieskau's musicianship and technique were always perfect. He retired from the concert hall on New Year's Day, 1993, at 67, and spent his time conducting, teaching (especially the interpretation of Lieder), painting and writing books.
Amberg-Sulzbach
Amberg-Sulzbach (German: Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavarian: Landkroas Amberg-Suizboch) is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Personal life
In 1949, Fischer-Dieskau married the cellist Irmgard Poppen. Together they had three sons: Mathias, who became a stage designer, Martin (a conductor), and Manuel (a cellist). Irmgard died in 1963 of complications following childbirth. Afterwards, Fischer-Dieskau was married to the actress Ruth Leuwerik, from 1965 to 1967, and Kristina Pugell, from 1968 to 1975. From 1977 until his death he was married to the soprano Julia Varady.
Ellis Arnall
Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907 – December 13, 1992) was an American politician. He was the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947.
Rock Hill, Missouri
Rock Hill is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Typhoon Lekima
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Newnan, Georgia
Newnan is a city in Metro Atlanta and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia. The population was 33,039 at the 2010 census.