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Pennsylvania State University
Sports
Penn State's sports teams are nicknamed Nittany Lions, except for the women's basketball team, which is known as the Lady Lions. Almost all teams play in the Big Ten Conference. Two teams in sports that the Big Ten does not sponsor play elsewhere. The women's ice hockey team plays in College Hockey America and the men's volleyball team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association.
Brian Leetch
He was the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 1992 and 1997. He won the Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994. He also won the Conn Smythe Trophy, becoming the first American-born player to win the trophy. He won the silver medal with U.S. ice hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame with his Rangers teammate Mike Richter in 2008. He was also inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame during his first year of eligibility in 2009.
Nanometre
The nanometre (symbol: nm) is a unit used to measure length in the metric system. It is equal to one billionth of a metre (1 m / 1,000,000,000) and for kilometre, it is equal to one trillionth of a kilometre (1 km / 1,000,000,000,000). The name combines the SI prefix nano- (from the Ancient Greek νάνος, nanos, "dwarf") with the parent unit name metre (from Greek μέτρον, metrοn, "unit of measurement"). It can be written in scientific notation as 1×10−9 m.
The nanometre was formerly called the millimicrometre (or the millimicron). This is because it is 1/1000 of a micrometre, and was written with the symbol mµ (or sometimes µµ).
Stratocracy
Stratocracy is a system of government in which the military control the country.
Mr. Roboto
"Mr. Roboto" is a 1983 song by American rock band Styx and taken from their 11th studio album Kilroy Was Here. It went to number 1 in Canada and number 3 in the United States.
William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759–29 July 1833) was a British evangelical politician and philanthropist. He was a leader of the movement to end the slave trade.
Physiocracy
Physiocracy is (or was) a government basing its economical policies on natural order. The economists thought that wealth came mostly from agriculture. It is also an economic theory developed by the physiocrats.
Combustion
Combustion is the process of burning. Combustion is a reaction of a fuel with an oxidant to give out heat. The release of heat can produce light in the form of a flame.
Car engines and rocket engines both work by combustion. Combustion in a Ferrari car motor is different from combustion in a rocket engine. Car combustion is gas burning and exploding in cylinders called pistons again and again to push them up and down, making the car move. Rocket combustion is made by rocket fuel exploding out of the back of the rocket moving it up. The burning of most substances is bad for the environment and the ozone layer because it can let off greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Hydrogen burns cleanly and gives off a lot of heat, but it does not produce much power, and is highly explosive.
The fire tetrahedron (contains oxygen fuel heat and chemical chain reaction) show the components of combustion. During combustion, fuel reacts with oxygen and heat, then releases energy. Complete combustion happens in a plentiful supply of oxygen. Complete combustion releases more energy than incomplete combustion. Incomplete combustion occurs when the supply of air is limited, or poor. Incomplete combustion also creates carbon monoxide, and more soot. Several factors must be considered when choosing the best fuel for a particular purpose. Fuels are substances that react with oxygen to release useful energy. Most of the energy is released as heat, but light energy is also released. About 21 per cent of the air is oxygen. When a fuel burns in plenty of air, it receives enough oxygen for complete combustion. Complete combustion needs a plentiful supply of air so that the elements in the fuel react fully with oxygen. Fuels such as natural gas and petrol contain hydrocarbons. These are compounds of hydrogen and carbon only. Combustion is a high-temperature oxidation reaction.
Palaeonisciformes
The Palaeonisciformes (Palaeoniscida) are an extinct order of early ray-finned fishes. Palaeonisciformes sensu lato first appeared in the fossil record in the Late Silurian and last appeared in the Late Cretaceous. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words παλαιός (palaiós, ancient) and ὀνίσκος (oniskos, 'cod-fish' or woodlouse), probably pertaining to the organization of the fishes' scales, similar to the exoskeletal plating of woodlice.
Dennis Moore (politician)
In 2012, Moore was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In 2018, he was diagnosed with cancer. Moore died on November 2, 2021 from cancer in Overland Park, Kansas, aged 75.
Dir (princely state)
Dir was a small former princely state in the modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The state ceased to exist in 1969 when it was incorporated into Pakistan. The area once occupied by the state (5,282 km²) now forms two districts of Pakistan - Upper Dir and Lower Dir. The two districts were part of Malakand Division until divisions were abolished as an administrative tier.
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
Kasugayama Primeval Forest is a primeval forest located in the eastern part of Nara City, Nara Prefecture.
It is 250 hectares large.
It is the Chinju no Mori of Kasuga-taisha so nobody was allowed to hunt or log there since 841.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara".
Bird Box (movie)
The movie is about a woman, played by Sandra Bullock. Together with other people she hides from supernatural creatures. If a human sees such a creature, he kills himself. Later the woman must make it through a forest and river. She has a pair of children with her. Most of the time they are blindfolded to avoid the sight of the creatures.
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
The site is in the northern temperate zone but it has many southern species that prosper there. It has a wide variety of species.
Bird Box (movie)
Other actors in the movie are Trevante Rhodes, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Sarah Paulson, Colson Baker and John Malkovich.
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
It is especially unique due to being so close to a city
Bird Box (movie)
Bird Box had its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 12, 2018. The movie began a limited release on December 14. Starting December 21, 2018 the movie was streamed worldwide on Netflix.
Marco the Magnificent
Marco the Magnificent is a 1965 French Italian Egyptian Afghan Serbian adventure movie directed by Denys de la Patellière and starring Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli, Robert Hossein, Guido Alberti.
Peter Max
Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is a German-American artist. He is known for using bright colors in his work. Many of his works are known as psychedelic art and pop art.
In 2019, Max was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Keijo Shrine
Keijo Shrine was a Shinto shrine at the north of Seoul. The shrine worshipped four gods: Amaterasu Omikami, the Kunitama Omikami, Ōkuninushi no Mikoto, and Sukunahikona no Mikoto.
It was founded in 1898 and abolished on November 17, 1945, after Japan lost World War II.
Antagonist
An antagonist is the character in a story who stands in opposition towards the protagonist. As an example, in the Disney movie The Lion King, the main antagonist is Scar.
While the most common practice is for a hero to be the protagonist and the villain to be the antagonist this is not always the case. As an example in the manga/anime series Death Note protagonist Light Yagami was the villain as it was his goal to rid the world of criminals in order to create his own ideal "utopia" and rule it like a god while antagonist L was the hero as it was his goal to end Light's psychotic killing spree. Another example is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street where the titular protagonist and the antagonist Judge Turpin were both villains.
A story may also have secondary antagonist, either a partner/accomplice of the main antagonist or an entirely separate threat altogether (though a lesser one). Just like the main antagonist they aren't always villains but they are obstacles towards the goal(s) of the protagonist(s).
Muskellunge
The muskellunge (scientific name Esox masquinongy) is a freshwater game fish. It is the largest member of the Esox (Pike) family. The muskellunge is also called the muskie or maskinonge (Canada). It is native to northern and eastern North America. Muskies have been introduced into other U.S. states.. Muskies are carnivorous and eat other fish. They are ambush feeders who will attack anything that moves in or on the water.
Antagonist
It is possible for a protagonist to become an antagonist. A well-known example of this is in the Star Wars movie series, when Anakin Skywalker turns from a Jedi to a Sith, to become Darth Vader.
Muskellunge
Subspecies
There is also a hybrid called the Tiger muskellunge (or Tiger Muskie). It is a cross between the Muskellunge and the Northern pike (Esox lucius). They are smaller than true muskies but can grow up to 1.5 times faster in the first year. They are almost always sterile and cannot reproduce.
Physical descriptions
True muskies have light colored bodies. They can be silver, light green, or light brown. They usually have dark bars on their sides. This is the opposite of the Northern pike which Muskies are sometimes confused with. Northern pike (northerns) have dark bodies with light colored bars on the sides. Muskies also have scales only on the upper half of the cheek. The best way to tell the two apart is the pores under the jaw. Northerns have five or less; muskies have six or more. Males are always smaller than females.
Tiger muskies look like both muskies and northerns. Their "tiger" stripes are more distinctive than the true musky. Where both species live in the same waters, tiger muskies occur naturally. But they are never in large numbers. Once biologists realized that tiger muskies were a hybrid, they began raising them in hatcheries. There are no size differences between male and female tiger muskies.
Habitat and forage
Muskies forage (feed) mainly on other fish such as suckers and perch. They are ambush feeders who will feed on nearly anything. They have been known to eat Loons, ducks and small mammals like Muskrats.
When the water temperature reaches 60 °F, muskies feed heavily. At 80° the feeding slows down. They have a preference for larger fish over small fish. Muskies strike quickly. They often take their prey to a secluded area before eating it. They remain in the same area of a lake, sometimes for their entire lifetime.
Behavior
Just after the ice melts on northern lakes (called ice-out) and the water temperature is between 49° and 59°F, muskies begin to spawn. In lakes where both northern pike and muskies live, muskies spawn after the northerns. A female lays between 60,000 and 100,000 eggs. In lakes with northern pike and muskies, the muskie seems to have fewer numbers of surviving fry. Two reasons are suggested. Since northerns hatch about two weeks earlier than muskies, the young northerns feed on the smaller muskie fry. Another reason is that the young muskie fry swim just below the surface of the water. They are easily seen by fish below or birds flying over the water.
Angling
Muskies are an elusive fish but highly prized by anglers. Many fishermen specialize in muskie fishing and will fish for no other species. They are called "the fish of 10,000 casts". This gives some idea of how difficult they are to catch. According to many guides, muskies do not fear anything, including fisherman. They routinely follow lures back to the boat without striking. Sometimes they will flick a lure or fly back at the fisherman. Hooking a muskie is hard. Landing one is even harder. They will fight hard for short periods and should be landed quickly to avoid stressing them. Prolonged fighting of muskie on insufficient tackle could kill them even after they swim away. Skill and luck are needed to land one.
Muskies require very careful handling by anglers. A trophy size musky is an old fish. A 30-pound female may be 17 years old. If taken as a trophy they are not easily replaced. For that reason catch and release is strongly recommended. A musky may still fight being handled. They are large powerful fish with very sharp teeth. The mortality rate can be very high for fish that are handled carelessly.
Njurundabommen
Njurundabommen is a locality in Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,983 people lived there.
Bluestripe snapper
The common bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira), bluestripe snapper, bluebanded snapper,  bluestripe sea perch, fourline snapper, blue-line snapper or moonlighter, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean from the coast of Africa and the Red Sea to the central Pacific Ocean. It is commercially important and tried to get as a game fish. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
Kiddush
Kiddush (קִדּוּשׁ) is a blessing said by Jews at the start of Shabbat and holiday meals. The term is also used to refer to a light meal served in the synagogue after the long Shabbat and holiday morning prayers. The word comes from a Hebrew root meaning "holy".
Javier Zanetti
Javier Zanetti (born 10 August 1973) is a retired Argentine football player. The last club he played for was Internazionale Milano. He also played for Talleres and Banfield and Argentina national team.
Kiddush
Kiddush at the evening Shabbat meal
There are two versions of the Ten Commandments in the Bible. These versions use different words. The version in Exodus says "Remember Shabbat to keep it holy." The version in Deuteronomy says "Guard Shabbat to keep it holy." Jewish custom says that "remember" means to celebrate Shabbat. "Guard" means resting—not working or doing business.
Javier Zanetti
Club career statistics
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Amakusaichthys
Amakusaichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ichthyodectiform fish which lived during the Late Cretaceous. The fish is known from only one species, A. goshouraensis. Fossils are known from Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.
Javier Zanetti
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Kiddush
Text
In traditional homes, the blessing is said in the Hebrew language. This is a Simple English translation of the blessing. Words in italics like this are added to explain the Hebrew.
Kiddush at the morning (or noon) Shabbat meal
There is a different version of Kiddush for the Shabbat morning (or noon) meal. This ceremony makes the meal feel more special.
Amakusaichthys
Description
Amakusaichthys is a relatively small ichthyodectiform fish with length around 60 cm (24 in). It is characterized by its long snout and small mouth and teeth. Multiple specimens are found overlapped in one place, suggesting its schooling ecology.
Kiddush
Kiddush at the morning (or noon) Shabbat meal
For the morning Kiddush, a person says verses from the Torah about Shabbat. These verses are usually from and. The person ends with the same blessing over the wine:
Kiddush at the third Shabbat meal
Most Jews do not say Kiddush at the third Shabbat meal. However, Maimonides ruled that they should do so. The text for this Kiddush includes. That verse is the source of the law to have three meals on Shabbat.
Kiddush in the synagogue
Kiddush is also said in the synagogue. This does not replace saying Kiddush at home before the meal.
Arnošt Pazdera
Arnošt Pazdera (16 September 1929 – 27 October 2021) was a Czech footballer. He played in 19 games for the Czechoslovakia national football team from 1952 to 1958.
Kiddush
Kiddush on important Jewish holidays
Kiddush is said on these Jewish holidays: The holiday texts are different from the Shabbat texts. The blessings are said in the same way and at the same time of day as on Shabbat, but there are two differences:
The Kiddush cup
Jews usually use a fancy cup for Kiddush. The most common material for this cup is silver. Other materials are also used. These include ceramic, glass and wood. The most important part of the custom is for the cup to be special and unusual in honor of the blessing.
Arnošt Pazdera
Pazdera died on 27 October 2021, aged 92.
Chitral (princely state)
Chitral (or Chitrāl); was a former princely state of Pakistan and British India which ceased to exist in 1969. The area of the state now forms the Chitral District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Shahzada Ghaziuddin (Prince of Nagar) was a graduate from Aligarh university India. he was the son of Shuja ul mulk (Mehtar of Chitral) He was highly intelligent man and due to his intelligence, bravery, kind, loving nature was highly recognised. He was given the jagir of Nagar, Ursoon, patai, sweer, arandu, ziarat etc. Nagar fort was the winter resort of H.H Sir Shuja Ul Mulk.
Thebe (moon)
Thebe or Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's known moons (by distance from the planet). It was found by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979 and was given the designation S/1979 J 2. Later, it was found on images dating back to February 27, 1979. In 1983 it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe who was the daughter of the river god Asopus and a lover of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter).
Orbit
Thebe is the farthest of the inner Jovian moons. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of ~222,000 km (3.11 Jupiter radii). The orbit of Thebe has an orbital eccentricity of ~0.018 and an inclination of ~1.08° relative to the equator of Jupiter. These values are unusually high for a closer moon and can be explained by the past influence of the closest Galilean satellite Io; in the past, several mean motion resonances with Io would have passed through Thebe's orbit as Io gradually moved away from Jupiter, and these excited Thebe's orbit.
Physical characteristics
Thebe is not a sphere, with the closest ellipsoidal approximation being 116x98x84 km. Its bulk density and mass are not known but assuming that it mean density is like that of Amalthea (~0.86 g/cm³) its mass can be estimated at ~4.3×1017 kg.
100-ball cricket
100-ball cricket is a short form of cricket. The 100 ball game has two teams each having one innings, which ends after 100 legal balls (deliveries), and the game ends in two and a half hours. Overs are done with 5 or 10 balls, rather than 6 balls.
Istiophoriformes
Istiophoriformes are an order of bony fish which is not fully recognized by some taxonomists, with some including the two extant families Xiphiidae and Istiophoridae, and others including the family Sphyraenidae.
100-ball cricket
The England Cricket Board is starting a 100-ball competition named The Hundred in 2021.
Thebe (moon)
Physical characteristics
The surface of Thebe is dark and appears to be reddish in color.
Exploration
Thebe was found in Voyager 1 images by Steve Synnott, a member of the Voyager navigation team. However, before the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, little was known about it. Galileo imaged almost all of the surface of Thebe and put constraints on its composition.
Istiophoriformes
Families
The following families are classified under the Istiophoriformes. Three are extant, and two are extinct:
Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei
Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei is a commune in north-western France. It is in the Orne department.
Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine (born 1975) is a Canadian-born British academic psychologist and writer. She is a professor of gender studies, moral psychology and neuroethics at Melbourne Business School, Australia. Her first book, Delusions of Gender, was published in 2010.
Fine was born to the children's writer Anne Fine and professor Kit Fine in Toronto.
Politics of the United States
The United States is a federal constitutional republic, in which the President of the United States (the head of state and head of government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
The Constitution of the United States provides for a separation of powers among three branches. The executive branch is mostly about the President and is independent of the legislature. Legislative power is in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The judicial branch (or judiciary), made of the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, focuses on the judicial power (or judiciary). The judiciary's main focus is to interpret the meaning of the United States Constitution and federal laws and rules. This includes solving problems between the executive and legislative branches.
Political differences
There are major differences between the political system of the United States and that of most other developed democracies. These include greater power in the upper house of the legislature, a wider scope of power held by the Supreme Court, the separation of powers between the legislature and the executive, and the dominance of only two main parties. Third parties have less political influence in the United States than in other developed country democracies.
The federal object created by the U.S. Constitution is the main feature of the American governmental system. However, most people are also subject to a state government, and all are subject to various units of local government. The latter include counties, municipalities, and special districts.
State leaders
The USA is a federal union of fifty states. They have governors and legislature s to govern and make their laws. Each state also has two senators who represent their state in the United States Senate. There are also representatives who represent their local district in the United States House of Representatives.
President of the United States
The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. They are elected by the American citizens every four years in democratic elections. They also appoint people who will work in different departments that focuses on special areas for the country.
The Clubman and the Tramp
The Clubman and the Tramp is a 1908 American silent comedy movie directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, and John R. Cumpson.
Information design
Information design is about presenting information in a way that is easy to understand and efficient. It focuses on effective communication rather than just making things look attractive. It is closely related to graphic design and data visualization and is often taught in design courses.
The term "information design" emerged in the 1970s and gained recognition through publications and organizations dedicated to the field. It involves organizing and structuring information for specific audiences. It can be applied on different scales, from organizing large manuals to designing individual pages. Information design also overlaps with information architecture, which focuses on organizing and structuring information systems.
Early examples of information design include William Playfair's charts on trade, John Snow's maps of a cholera outbreak, and Charles Joseph Minard's diagram of Napoleon's campaign. These examples effectively conveyed information visually and are considered important milestones in the field.
In simple terms, information design helps us present information in a clear and organized way so that it is easy to understand. It involves organizing content, choosing the right visuals, and creating a structure that makes sense to the intended audience. Information design has a long history and has played a significant role in visualizing data and telling stories effectively.
Timocracy
Timocracy is the rule of only people who have property. It can also mean that the rulers are motivated by honour (where 'timo' comes from, in Greek).
Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock (10 May 1929 – 2 June 2020) was an English-born Australian  neurobiologist. He was President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He was best known for creating the term purinergic signalling, which he discovered in the 1970s. He retired in October 2017.
Prehistoric ray-finned fish
Prehistoric ray-finned fish are basal actinopterygians that are known from fossil remains.
Description
These prehistoric creatures have different shapes and sizes. They are also colorful. For example, Amakusaichthys is an ichthyodectiform that is navy blue on the top, blue in the middle, and celeste pallido blue at the bottom.
Evolution of the eye
The evolution of the eye is an example of a homologous organ which many animals have.
Flag of Romania
The flag of Romania is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red. The colours stand for the three historical provinces of Romania. The current design was made official in 1994, but the flag has been used since 1989. The first design of the flag was in 1834, but the three colours date from the sixth century. It is very similar to the Flag of Chad, except that this flag is very slightly lighter in color.
Evolution of the eye
Some components of the eye, such as the light-sensitive opsins, seem to have a common ancestry. They evolved once, early in the evolution of animals. They control the conversion of photons into electrical signals. For example, an opsin found in the mammalian retina, melanopsin, is involved in circadian rhythms and pupillary reflex but not in vision.
On the other hand, complex image-forming eyes evolved some 50 to 100 times – using many of the same proteins and genetic toolkits in their construction.
Complex eyes seem to have first evolved in a few million years, in the rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian explosion. There is no evidence of eyes before the Cambrian, but many eyes can be seen in fossils from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
Eyes show many adaptations to meet the needs of the organisms which have them. Eyes vary in their acuity (accuracy of sight), their sensitivity in low light levels, and their ability to detect motion or identify objects. Their sensitivity to wavelengths decides whether they can see in colours, and which colours they can see.
Rate of evolution
The first fossils of eyes appeared during the lower Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. This period saw a burst of apparently rapid evolution, dubbed the 'Cambrian explosion'. The evolution of eyes perhaps started an arms race that led to a rapid spate of evolution.
Earlier than this, organisms may have used light sensitivity, but not for fast movement and navigation by vision.
It is difficult to estimate the rate of eye evolution. Simple modelling supposes small mutations exposed to natural selection. This shows that a primitive optical sense organ based on good photopigments could evolve into a complex human-like eye in about 400,000 years.
Early stages of eye evolution
The earliest light sensors were eyespots. They are photoreceptor proteins found in protists. Eyespots can only distinguish light from dark. This is enough for the daily synchronization of circadian rhythms. They cannot distinguish shapes, nor decide from which direction the light is coming.
Eyespots are found in nearly all major animal groups. The Euglena's eyespot, called a stigma, is at the front. Its red pigment shades a collection of light sensitive crystals. Together with the leading flagellum, the eyespot allows the organism to move in response to light to do photosynthesis, and to predict day and night. These movements are the main circadian (daily) rhythms.
There are visual pigments in the brains of more complex organisms. They are thought to help synchronise spawning with lunar cycles. By detecting the subtle changes in night-time illumination, organisms can synchronise the release of sperm and eggs to maximise the fertilisation of their eggs.
Vision itself relies on the basic biochemistry which is common to all eyes. How this biochemical toolkit is used to interpret an organism's environment varies widely. Eyes have a wide range of structures and forms. All of these have evolved much later than the underlying proteins and molecules.
At a cellular level, there appear to be two main "designs" of eyes, one possessed by the protostomes (molluscs, annelid worms and arthropods), the other by the deuterostomes (chordates and echinoderms).
PAX6
PAX6 is the protein which is encoded by the PAX6 gene.
PAX6 is a master control gene or "transcription factor" for the development of eyes and other sensory organs. It is medically important because various mutations produce eyesight defects.
Gumby
Gumby is a dark green clay figure. He was in 233 episodes on American television series. He was also in a feature-length movie and other media. He has become well known as an example of stop motion clay animation. He has become a cultural icon. There have been many tributes and parodies, including a video game and toys. Gumby Adventures aired on PBS Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Galavision
Origin
Gumby was started by Art Clokey in 1953. The first 'episode' was a 3-minute short called Gumbasia. It showed moving lumps of clay set to music, and parodied Fantasia. In 1955, Art showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who then paid him for a 15-minute movie called Gumby Goes to the Moon.
Gumby was given his own NBC series in 1957. Female actress' voiced Gumby. New episodes were added in 1962, and Dallas McKennon became the voice of Gumby.
Jason Wiles
Jason Austin Wiles (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the television series, such as Colin Robbins in Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Maurice Boscorelli in Third Watch. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Gumby
Characters
Gumby's main sidekick is Pokey, a talking orange pony. His enemies are the Blockheads. They are a pair of human-like, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others. Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey. All he says is "nope". There is also Prickle, a yellow dinosaur who sometimes acts like a detective with pipe and hat like Sherlock Holmes. Also on the series are Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo balls and can change shape at will; Gumby's mother Gumba and father Gumbo. The later series in 1988 added Gumby's sister Minga and mastodon friend Denali.
Battle of Thapsus
The Battle of Thapsus was a significant event in Roman history, marking the final conflict of the Roman Republic's civil war. It pitted the forces of Julius Caesar against those of the Optimates, a group of senators and aristocrats who opposed Caesar's rise to power. The battle took place on April 6, 46 BC, near the city of Thapsus in modern-day Tunisia.
Gumby
Gumby Bumpers
Gumby Bumpers in 2 minutes is released in January 4, 1980 starring Gumby, Pokey and cameo appearance of Blue Mermaid Goo.
Battle of Thapsus
After defeating Pompey in Greece, Julius Caesar returned to Rome to consolidate his power. He was declared dictator for life in February of 44 BC, which made him the most powerful man in the Roman world. However, his enemies, particularly the Optimates, were still not satisfied. They saw him as a threat to the traditional Roman values and the Senate's authority.
The Situation in North Africa
Roeselare station
Station Roeselare is a railway-station on railway-line 66 (Bruges – Kortrijk) in the Belgian city of Roeselare. The station is the terminal station of the old abolished railway-line 64 (Ypres – Roeselare) and the also abolished railway-line 65 (Roeselare – Menen – French frontier).
Battle of Thapsus
Metellus Scipio, a prominent Optimate leader, had regrouped in North Africa with Pompey's remnants and many Numidian cavalry. Cato the Younger, another staunch opponent of Caesar, had also joined the Optimates in Africa. Scipio was declared commander-in-chief of the army, and the group was able to gather a significant force to challenge Caesar's power.
Gumby
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Was released on February 13, 1982. It is 6 minutes long.
Battle of Thapsus
Caesar's Strategy
Caesar knew that he had to act fast and decisively to crush his enemies in North Africa. He raised an army of veterans and marched south, cutting off the Optimates' supply lines as he went. His army was battle-hardened, and he had the support of many experienced commanders, including Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
Caesar arrived in Africa in January of 46 BC, and he immediately set about attacking the Optimates' strongholds. His first target was the city of Ruspina, which he captured after a brief siege. This victory gave him a much-needed boost in morale and allowed him to consolidate his position.
Brisbane Broncos
The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league team. The team is based in Brisbane, Queensland. They were founded in 1987. They currently play in the National Rugby League competition. They have won six premierships, most recently in 2006.
Battle of Thapsus
The Battle of Thapsus
Pablo Cavallero
International career statistics
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Trevor Johansen
Trevor Daniel Johansen (born March 30, 1957 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 286 games in the National Hockey League. Johanssen was drafted with the 12th overall pick in the 1977 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs. In addition the Maple Leafs he also spent time with the Colorado Rockies, and Los Angeles Kings.
Nagar (princely state)
Nagar (ریاست نگر) was a princely state in the northernmost part of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, which existed until 1974. The state bordered the Gilgit Agency to the south and west, and the former princely state of Hunza to the north and east. The state capital was the town of Nagar. The area of Nagar now forms three tehsils of Nagar District. Nagar along with Gilgit and Baltistan is falsely claimed by the Republic of India as so-called part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Battle of Thapsus
The Optimates knew that they could not let Caesar take control of North Africa, and they decided to make a stand near the city of Thapsus. They had a large army, including many Numidian cavalry, and they were well-entrenched. The battle that followed was fierce and brutal, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.
The Optimates had the advantage of numbers, but Caesar had the advantage of superior tactics and discipline. He managed to outmaneuver his opponents and cut off their escape routes. The Optimates fought bravely, but in the end, they were no match for Caesar's army.
Aftermath
The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive victory for Julius Caesar. The Optimates suffered heavy casualties, and many of their leaders, including Metellus Scipio and Cato the Younger, fled or committed suicide rather than be captured. Caesar emerged as the undisputed master of the Roman world, with no one left to challenge his authority.
Conclusion
The Battle of Thapsus was a significant event in Roman history, marking the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire. It was a hard-fought battle, with both sides displaying incredible bravery and determination. In the end, Julius Caesar emerged as the victor, but his victory was short-lived. His assassination marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, with Rome ruled by a series of emperors rather than by the Senate.
Ann Zhang
Ann Zhang (born 21 June 1957) is a retired Chinese short track athlete and coach. She was the coach of the Australian short track team from 1996 to 2014.
Zhang Yuanyuan was born in Beijing on 21 June 1957.
Zhang, living in Brisbane, Australia, began her coaching career as the junior coach of the New South Wales selection in 1992. Four years later she was promoted to become the Australia national coach. At that time, the country's short track team had already achieved considerable success, including the first medal for Australia at the Winter Olympics, a bronze medal in the relay at the Games in Lillehammer in 1994. After Zhang took over the team, an Australian short tracker was able to finish fourth in the Short Track World Cup in 1996. Zhang achieved her greatest successes as a coach at the Olympic Games. The short track team was successful in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Very surprisingly, Steven Bradbury won the first Winter Olympics gold medal for his country.
Coat of arms of Romania
The Coat of arms of Romania is the coat of arms that has been adopted by the Romanian Parliament on 10 September 1992. The design for it came from the coat of arms that the Kingdom of Romania created back in 1922. It displays a golden aquila that is holding a cross in its beak. It also shows a mace and a sword in its claws. It contains the three colors of the Flag of Romania: red, yellow, and blue.
Lerik District
Lerik Raion is a raion in southern Azerbaijan. It is near the Iranian border. It is between the Talysh Mountains and the agricultural plain of the Lankaran Lowland. There are about 71,200 people there.
Hermann Stessl
Hermann Stessl (born 3 September 1940, in Graz) is a former football player and coach from Austria.
Career
Stessl played for Grazer AK. He started his career in 1957. In 1969 he went to FC Dornbirn. He played for one season and ended his career in 1970.
Coaching career
He started as youth coach of SV Leibnitz and playing coach of SV Wolfsberg. Later he coached FC Zürich Grazer AK, FK Austria Wien, AEK Athens, FC Porto, SV Austria Salzburg and Boavista F.C..
His most sucessful time was with FK Austria Wien. He won four Austrian football championships. He also reached the Cup Winners' final of the  uropean Cup Winners' Cup 1977-78, losing 4–0 to Belgium's R.S.C. Anderlecht. In 1996 he ended his coaching career.
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen (b. August 17, 1977 near Kitee ) is a Finnish singer and songwriter. She is a mezzo and lyric soprano and has a vocal range of eight octaves. People know her for her work with symphonic metal band Nightwish. She was the first singer of the band. She was dismissed from the band in the end of 2007, due to musical differences. and started making her own music. Because of her soprano voice, she even sings heavy metal songs in a classical way. She was one of the first singers to do this, which made other people want to make similar music.
In 2006 she made a wonderful Christmas album, called "Henkäys Ikuisuudesta". In November 2007, she came out with her first metal album, My Winter Storm, which had a lot of different music types on it like rock and heavy metal. In 2010 she made "What Lies Beneath", her second metal album without Nightwish. She played some concerts in Europe, and was in well known heavy metal festivals. She made a whole tour for these two albums. In August 2013, she made her third metal album, "Colours in the Dark", which is a very optimistic album and in August 2016, she made her fourth metal album, "The Shadow Self", which is also very optimistic. In December 2017, she made her second magical Christmas album, called "From Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a Dark Christmas)".
Lankaran
The old form of the name was "Langarkanan". In Persian, it means "the place of pulling up the anchor(s)".
Education
Lankaran State University was started in 1991.
Lankaran District
Geography
The region has a large area of national parks. Gizil-Agach State Reserve has over 250 kinds of plants, 30 species of fish and more than 220 kinds of birds. Lankaran is also known for Parrotia persica, or ironwood. It is naturally grown in the region. It is found in Hirkan National Park. The Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) subspecies of the leopard, lives in the national park as well.
Caterpillar
A caterpillar is a young butterfly or moth that has just hatched out of its egg. A caterpillar is a kind of larva. When it is older, the caterpillar will turn into a pupa (also known as a chrysalis), and then later the pupa will turn into a butterfly.
Caterpillars usually have three pairs of small, but noticeable, true legs at the front and up to 5 pairs of fleshy false legs at the back.
Caterpillars are commonly found feeding on leaves, but they are also found inside living stems and branches or on the roots of plants and dead wood.
Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy (born Gail Henion; November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and many high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fair.
Caterpillar
Caterpillars are an important source of food for birds and other invertebrates and many species help dead animals and plants decompose.
Gail Sheehy
Many of her books focused on cultural shifts, including Passages (1976). Sheehy wrote many biographies including Hillary Clinton, both presidents Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Caterpillar
Gallery
Examples of different kinds of caterpillars.
Gail Sheehy
Sheehy died in Southampton, New York on August 24, 2020 from pneumonia-related problems at age 83.
Al-Qaeda
al-Qaeda (القاعدة, al-qāʿidah, "the base") is an Islamist jihadist multinational organization that was founded around August 1988 and late 1989. p75 It works as a network, as a stateless army, and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Most of the world thinks it is a terrorist organization.
Members of al-Qaeda have performed many acts of terrorism. Most of these have been done against the United States and Shias. Some of its most well-known attacks have been the September 11 attacks, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the U.S. Navy ship USS Cole in 2000. al-Qaeda has done suicide attacks and simultaneous (at the same time) bombings of different targets.
Among al-Qaeda's goals is for other countries to stop influencing Muslim countries and for a new Islamic caliphate to be made. There have been reports that al-Qaeda believes that Christian and Jewish Islamophobia is trying to destroy Islam and that the killing of bystanders and civilians is religiously justified in jihad.
There have been guesses that there are 500–1,000 operatives in Afghanistan and around 5,000 worldwide. However, there is no confirmation of this.
History
In June 2001, al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which had been associated with each other for many years, merged into 'Qaeda al-Jihad'.
Death of Osama Bin Laden Laden and current leadership
Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri is the highest-ranking surviving member of al-Qaeda's leadership after Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011.
Death of Abu Yahya al-Libi
Senior al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone strike on June 4, 2012. He ranked second to Ayman al-Zawahiri at the time. The strike was carried out in the northwest tribal area of Waziristan. The Pakistan Government has protested to the U.S. about the strike.
SC Eisenstadt
SC Eisenstadt was an Austrian association football club from Eisenstadt. It was founded in 1907 and played in the Austrian Football Bundesliga 13 seasons. They last played in the Bundesliga in the 1986-1987 season. It was dissolved in 2008 for financial reasons. In 2018 SC Eisenstadt was newly founded and started in the lowest league (2. Klasse Nord) in Burgenland.
More Life
More Life (also known as More Life: A Playlist by October Firm) is the fifth studio album by Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on March 18, 2017, by Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records. Drake stated that the collection of songs is a playlist and not an album.
The first single, "Fake Love", was released on October 23, 2016, the day before Drake's 30th birthday. It reached the top ten around the world.
"Passionfruit" was released as the second single from More Life on March 28, 2017.
Docksta
Docksta is a locality in Kramfors Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 378 people lived there.
Hunza (princely state)
Hunza (ہنزہ) was a former princely state in the northernmost part of the Northern Areas, of Pakistan, which existed until 1974. The state bordered the Gilgit Agency to the south, the former princely state of Nagar to the east, Chinese Turkistan to the north and Afghanistan to the northwest. The state capital was the town of Baltit (also known as Karimabad). The area of Hunza now forms the Aliabad Tehsil of Hunza-Nagar District.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Early life
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born on 17 September 1857 at Izhevskoye, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire.
When he was 10, he had scarlet fever; because of that he had some problems with hearing. When he was 13, his mother died.
Due to the hearing problems, he was not admitted to the school, so he had to study by himself. He passed much of his time by reading books. Later, he became interested in mathematics and physics. As a teenager, he began to believe that space travel would possible.
Masally District
Masally (Masallı) is a raion in the south of Azerbaijan. The Caspian Sea is on the east border. Vilash is the largest river of the district. The raion was formed in 1930.
1905
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Deaths
1901 – 1950
Cave-dwelling frog
The cave-dwelling frog or cave frog (Litoria cavernicola) is a frog from northwestern Australia.
The cave-dwelling frog lives in caves and between large rocks in sandstone canyons in the Kimberly region. It is green to reddish-brown in color.
The frogs lay their eggs in shallow pools of water, but scientists do not know what the tadpoles are like.
Kuril Islands dispute
The Kuril Islands dispute is a territorial disagreeent between Japan and Russia over the Kuril Islands. The Japanese government is asking for the restoration of Etorofu island, Habomai islands, Kunashiri island, and the Shikotan island which are under the control of Russia since 1945, after Japan lost World War Two.
Byzantine calendar
The Byzantine calendar was a calendar used by the Eastern Orthodox Church from the year 691 A.D. to 1728. It was also used by the Byzantine empire from 988 A.D. to 1453, when the empire fell, and by Russia from 988 A.D. to 1700. The Byzantine calendar is like the Julian calendar, but the year starts on 1 September instead of 1 January. Year one of the Byzantine calendar is from 1 September, 5509 B.C. to 31 August, 5508 B.C.
Background
The Great Schism, dated to 1054, created two religions from what was formerly one. The Western part later became the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern part is known as the Eastern Orthodox Church. At that time the Roman Catholic church used the Julian calendar. In 1453 the Byzantine Empire collapsed ending the use of their calendar. But others still used it, notably Russia. Numbering differences began to appear when the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.
Other differences
The Roman calendar did not include dates for Old Testament prophets. The Byzantine calendar does.