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Plains Indians
Religion
Natives had many rituals and ceremonies. The Sun Dance was an important ritual. Different tribes came together to affirm their beliefs. The Sun Dance was usually every year. The ceremony also included sacrifices. People would make personal sacrifices to heal the larger community. There were dances and songs. Fasting was also common. There was much preparation for these ceremonies. The dance sometimes included piercing individuals.
Plain Indians in Popular Culture
Popular culture in United States included stereotypes of Plains Indians. Buffalo Bill Cody featured plains Indians in his Wild West shows beginning in the 1880s. When Hollywood began making movies, the western was a favorite topic. They introduced the plains Indians as the stereotypical Native American Indian to the entire world. When fiction about the American Old West shows Indians, they are usually plains Indians.
The Plains Indians have been popular in European countries like Germany. Such views of Natives were often idealized and filled with stereotypes. The richness of Native American culture was not considered. The Plain Indians became a stereotype for all Native Americans. The German writer Karl May wrote many books about the Wild West and Plains Indians.
The American artist George Catlin made many drawings and paintings of Plains Indians.
Valgrisenche
Valgrisenche is a comune in the Aosta Valley region in Italy.
Charlack, Missouri
Charlack is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Jon Castañares
Jon Mirena Bitor Castañares Larreategui (1925 – 5 May 2015) was a Spanish politician and economist. He was born in Bilbao. He was known for being a strong supporter of Basque nationalism. He served as mayor of Bilbao from 1979 through 1983.
Castañares died in Bilbao at the age of 90.
Clarkson Valley, Missouri
Clarkson Valley is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Gallows letter
In postal history, a gallows letter was a letter with a "gallows" mark meaning "very quickly".
Gallows letters were official letters or dispatches used by the Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England. To express an extreme degree of urgency of delivery, the letter had on the address panel a rough drawing of a gallows. Sometimes the picture included a hanging body. These drawings could also have repeated written directions as "haste haste", "post haste", "haste for life", "for life haste", etc.
There are also modern forgeries of such letters. This is when counterfeit gallows marks have been applied onto original letters.
Esko Aho
Esko Tapani Aho (born 20 May 1954) is a Finnish politician. He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995.
Aci Bonaccorsi
Aci Bonaccorsi (Jaci Bonaccossi) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Sicily region in Italy.
George Edward Glass
'''George Edward Glass(born in 1960,Oregon) is an American businessman and diplomat. He has been confirmed by the United States Senate as the next United States Ambassador to Portugal. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2017. He took office on August 25, 2017.
Glass was the owner of MGG Development LLC in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He founded Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon in 1990 and served as the company's president until 2014.
He is a trustee for Oregon Health & Science University and a former trustee for the University of Oregon.
Peiting
Peiting is a municipality in Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the right edge of the Lech, 3 km southeast of Schongau, and 17 km west of Weilheim in Oberbayern.
Erzincan
Erzincan is the capital of Erzincan Province in the eastern Anatolian region of Turkey.
Yosl Bergner
Yosl Bergner (יוסל ברגנר‎; 13 October 1920 – 18 January 2017) was an Israeli painter. He was best known for his art which had people with long pale faces, pointed chins and huge dark, soulful eyes. This was said to show joy and sadness of being Jewish. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1980.
Erzincan
On December 27, 1939 at 01:57 UTC, the city was hit by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, the most powerful to hit the country since the 1668 North Anatolia earthquake, which killed 32,700 people and injured more than 100,000. On the same day, the temperature was -30 °C, which caused many survivors of the earthquake to die from hypothermia. The city was almost completely destroyed and it took many years to recover. It remains the deadliest earthquake in Turkey and the deadliest earthquake in Anatolia since 1268.
At 08:18 UTC on 13 March 1992, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the city, killing 652 people and injuring more than 2,000. The city was badly damaged. 150 buildings collapsed and 8,000 buildings were damaged so badly, that they were later demolished.
Yosl Bergner
Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in Warsaw, Poland. He lived in Melbourne, Australia from 1937 until 1948, when he moved to Israel.
Bergner died on 18 January 2017 in Tel Aviv at the age of 96.
Old Catholic Church
The Old Catholic Church is a name for a group of Christian churches. Most of them are from German-speaking countries. Their beliefs are close to that of the Anglican Church.
Origins
They split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1870s. This was because the First Vatican Council had said the pope was infallible. The Council was from 1869 to 1870. The word Old Catholic was first used in 1853 for the See of Utrecht (who was not under the authority of the pope). Usually, these churches are part of the Union of Utrecht.
Webb, New York
Webb is the northernmost town in Herkimer County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,807.
Florin Georgescu
Florin Georgescu (born 25 November 1953, in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician. He is the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finances. He finished the University of Finances in 1976.
J.P. Manoux
Jean-Paul Christophe Manoux (born June 8, 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the Disney Channel series Phil of the Future as Curtis/Vice Principal. He is also famous for playing Kuzco in The Emperor's New School. He also played the French robot mime in EuroTrip.
Manoux was also a contestant on Jeopardy!, Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune.
He has authored and read two pieces for NPR's All Things Considered. Back in 2000, he provided commentary on the Screen Actors Guild strike. He was a striking actor and refused to do work.
Laguinge-Restoue
Laguinge-Restoue is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
She's All That
She's All That is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy movie directed by Robert Iscove and starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Paul Walker, Matthew Lillard, Richard Hammond and Owen Wilson. The story is a modern retelling of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion and George Cukor's 1964 movie My Fair Lady. It was one of the most popular teen movies of the late 1990s and reached No. 1 at the box office in its first week of release. In April 2015, it was announced that the movie will be remade by The Weinstein Company.
Plot
Zack and Douglas Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard) are two of the most popular people at their Southern California highschool. Zack's girlfriend, beautiful Taylor Vaughan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), who is also very popular, breaks up with him so she can instead be with Brock Hudson (Owen Wilson), who is famous after being on a reality television show. Zack is sad but tells himself, he could make any girl in the school popular by making her his girlfriend. Zack and Douglas's friend, Dean Sampson, Jr. (Paul Walker), does not believe him and makes Zack bet that he can turn any random girl into the Prom Queen within six weeks, and Douglas's childhood friend Donald Hamilton (Richard Hammond) believed that Zack could turn any random girl into the Prom Queen within six weeks. But Dean chooses Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), an unpopular art student, who prefers to spend time by herself.
Zack and Douglas tries to make friends with with Laney, but she ignores them and walks away. Zack and Douglas's sister Mac (Anna Paquin) tells them to try again, but to learn what Laney is interested in and cares about. Zack and Douglas go to the restaurant where Laney works, and with the help of Laney's friend, Jesse Jackson (Elden Henson) gets her to give them a chance. Laney takes them to a small theater where she will be performing in a drama show. To embarrass him, Laney has Zack and Douglas called on stage to perform. Zack manages to make up a performance, telling a story while kicking a Hacky Sack which he happens to carry in his pocket, while Douglas plays guitar while plays harmonica at the same time. Laney is impressed, but rejects them again after he tries to charm her.
Zack, Douglas and Donald make friends with her brother, Simon (Kieran Culkin), to be close to her. To get Zack and Douglas to stop Laney agrees to go to the beach with him and Douglas once. Dean and the other popular students also show up at the beach, and Laney gets a chance to know them better. After, Preston (Dulé Hill) invites them to a party at his house that night. Laney pretends to be busy but Zack and Douglas persuade her go, and gets their sister to give Laney a makeover, changing her look and showing her true beauty. At the party Taylor is embarrassed by Brock and jealous of Laney, and says mean things to Laney until she runs away and cries. Zack and Douglas talk to Laney, telling her that by opening up to people there will be some bad with the good.
Newly popular, Laney is surprised to be nominated for Prom Queen. Taylor has also been nominated. Zack and Laney begin to fall in love for real. Taylor is upset when her new boyfriend Brock breaks up with her, as he is leaving to be on another television show. Dean begins to show an interest in Laney, to annoy Zack and Douglas and make it more difficult for Zack and Douglas to win the bet. Dean tries to invite Laney to prom, but she says no. After arguing with Zack and Douglas, Dean tells Laney about the bet. She make Zack and Douglas admit that it was a bet in front of the other students. Angry and upset, Laney refuses to see Zack again.
Laney will not talk with Zack so he takes his sister to the prom, while Douglas took Bonnie to the prom and Donald took Mindy to the prom. Taylor arrives alone, and thinks Zack will be her boyfriend again. Laney does not want to go to prom but her father Wayne (Kevin Pollak) encourages her to go after Dean shows up at her house in a tuxedo and again invites to be his prom date.
At the prom the school's DJ (Usher Raymond), organizes a big dance. Mac meets Jesse and they become friends. In the bathroom Dean boasts that he has booked a hotel room and will take Laney there to have sex. Jesse overhears, and tries to tell Mac and they also warn Zack, Douglas and Donald. Zack is voted prom king, and Taylor wins Prom Queen with 56% the votes. Even though the results were close, Laney is not upset, and she leaves the prom with Dean. Zack, Douglas and Donald try to follow but is too slow and lose them.
When Laney goes home she finds, her family and Zack, Douglas and Donald waiting for her. Laney tells them she said no to Dean, and used a very loud air horn to get him to stop. Zack confesses his love to Laney, and asks her to forgive him and Douglas and give them another chance. She agrees and they dance and kiss. Laney asks Zack about the bet, and Zack says he lost and will honor the terms of the bet but does not say more.
At the graduation ceremony, Zack is nude, wearing only a graduation cap and carrying a soccer ball to cover himself, while Douglas is wearing a James Bond tuxedo and a graduation cap and robe, and Donald is wearing a leather jacket and blue jeans and a graduation cap and robe. Zack goes on stage, and throws the ball to Laney, who catches it and as the students clap loudly she smiles.
Making the movie
R. Lee Fleming, Jr. is credited as the only screenwriter for the movie. M. Night Shyamalan also rewrote the movie script, but was not credited. Fleming said Shyamalan wrote the line "Am I a fucking bet?".
Director Robert Iscove wanted his movie to be like the old movies of John Hughes, but different and for the teenagers of the 1990s. He knew that Cook was not ugly and that audiences would have to accept the idea and pretend: "You either go along with it or you don't go along with it." He compared it to how Clark Kent changes into Superman. Instead of making a real change from ugly to pretty, he said it was more important to find an actress who could show the different changes in her personality and feelings.
Filming took place in various places in California. The highschool scenes were shot at Torrance High School, where Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beverly Hills, 90210 had also filmed.
Iscove was also a choreographer before he was a director and wanted to include dancing in the movie. He wanted show his bosses the Weinsteins, that musical numbers could work in modern movies. The dance scene was choreographed by Adam Shankman, who later become known as a judge on the television series So You Think You Can Dance. Shankman also worked with Owen Wilson on his dance scenes.
Music
The song "Kiss Me" was used as the main theme song for the movie. The success of the movie helped "Kiss Me" become more popular, and gain widespread mainstream attention and success in the music charts. "Kiss Me" climbed to No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 list, and stayed in the Top 10 for 16 weeks.
The movie was released in Italy with the title "Kiss Me".
Critics
Critics gave the movie mixed reviews. They liked the main actors but complained that the story was easy to predict and not funny enough. On Rotten Tomatoes the movie has a score of 40% based on 60 reviews. On Metacritic the movie has a score of 51% based 32 reviews.
Gustav Frištenský
Gustav Frištenský (18 May 1879 – 6 April 1957) was a Czech strongman and Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the first half of the 20th century. During his career, he competed in almost 10,000 fights. His first fight was when he was just 19 years old and the last one was when he was 72. Frištenský was a legend among Czech strongmen.
Cool Valley, Missouri
Cool Valley is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.
Gustav Frištenský
Life
Gustav Frištenský was born in Kamhajek (now part of the village of Křečhoř). He had 3 brothers and 2 sisters. When he was child, he was small so nobody thought he could become famous sportsman. As teenager he started to lift weights and wrestle. He was learning to be a blacksmith but after suffering serious burns on his hand by a horseshoe, he left his craft. Frištenský went to Brno and he became a butcher in the butchery of Moritz Soffer. He trained in the gymnasium of the Hellas sports club. Soon, he left his job in butchery and started to focus on wrestling. In 1900, Frištenský participated in an international competition in Prague. There he won in weightlifting, wrestling and the discus throw. In 1901 he became the Moravia champion in wrestling and discus throw. In 1902, he became the Austria-Hungary champion. The following year he was the European champion.
Professional career
But Frištenský was still an amateur. After these achievements, he became a professional. He worked for the Kludský circus. Frištenský traveled around the world including the United States. Finally, he returned to his homeland. Frištenský married Miroslava Ellederová in Litovel. In 1917, he stayed in Litovel permanently. He and his wife built a house next to the Morava River. Frištenský traveled to the US again and wrestled in New York in front of an audience of 30,000. In 1921, Frištenský became the Czechoslovakia champion. In 1929, he became a professional European champion. During World War II, Frištenský joined the resistance movement. Soon, afterwards he became a prisoner of war and his wife had to bribe a Nazi prison commander to free him. After the war, in 1945, Frištenský left the Sport world and lived in Litovel. In 1947, he became a widower. In 1956, Frištenský received a title "Merited Master of Sports". He died on 6 April 1957.
Heliotrope (color)
Heliotrope is a pinkish purple color and is similar to the color of the Heliotrope flower.
Heliotrope gray
Heliotrope gray is a gray-ish variation of heliotrope.
FC Santa Coloma
FC Santa Coloma is an Andorran football team from Santa Coloma in the parish of Andorra la Vella. They play in the Primera Divisió. With thirteen titles the club ist the most sucessful in Andorra. Also in the cup (Copa Constitució) they are the most sucessful with ten titels.
Heliotrope (color)
Heliotrope magenta
Heliotrope magenta is a darker, magentaish tone of heliotrope.
FC Santa Coloma
History
Fútbol Club Santa Coloma was founded in 1986. Later FC Santa Coloma became one of the founder members of Primera Divisió in 1995.
Heliotrope (color)
Old heliotrope
Old heliotrope is a dark, purple, grayish tone of heliotrope, and is also known as dark purple.
FC Santa Coloma
History
At the end of 2017 the Spanish La Liga Villarreal CF team announced a collaboration with the Andorran club at basic football level.
Peter Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), better known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator. He was best known for his novels Mine Boy (1946), A Wreath for Udomo (1956), A Night of Their Own (1965), This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985). He also wrote the memoir, Tell Freedom (1954).
FC Santa Coloma
FC Santa Coloma in Europe
FC Santa Coloma is the only Andorrian team which one a match in an European competition. It was the first match in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup qualifying round against Maccabi Tel Aviv from Israel. FC Santa Coloma won 1–0 at home. 2014–15 they won in the UEFA Champions League First qualifying round versus FC Banants from Armenia 1–0. In the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round they won 1–0 at home against Valur from Iceland. They lost the away-match 4–0 to Maccabi and 3–0 to Valur, so they were eliminated.
Peter Abrahams
Abrahams was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was mixed race. He moved to Jamaica in 1956.
FC Santa Coloma
FC Santa Coloma in Europe
Against Banants they lost the second leg away in Armenia 3–2 and were promoted by the away goals rule. It was the second time an Andorran club won a two-legged tie in Europe after Sant Julià.
Peter Abrahams
Abrahams was found dead on 18 January 2017 in Rock Hall, Saint Andrew Parish. He was 97.
FC Santa Coloma
Colours and badge
FC Santa Coloma dressed in all white all the seasons since the creation of the Andorran Premier League, alternating the home kit with red or blue. Traditionally the away kit has been all blue and third kit all red. However the original first kit at the beginning of the foundation of the club was blue and gives the nickname of Blues. In the club crest feature the colours of Andorra and the Holy Dove that gives the name of the Santa Coloma d'Andorra town and therefore the name of the club.
Defense (sports)
In many team sports, the defence or defense is the action of those players responsible for preventing the other team from scoring. The term may also refer to the tactics involved in defense. It can also be a specialty team whose primary responsibility is defense. Similarly, a defense player or defender is a player who is tasked with stopping the other team from scoring. The defender also protects their own team's goalkeeper or goaltender. This is in association football, ice hockey, water polo and many other sports.
In American football the defense is the part of the team that is tasked with preventing the other team's ball carrier from scoring. The defense consists of 11 players.
Viaur
The Viaur is a river in southern France, left tributary of the Aveyron river. It flows through the Aveyron, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne departments.
Geography
The Viaur river has a length of 168.2 km and a drainage basin with an area of 1559 km2.
Its discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) has been observed from 1937 to 2017 in Laguépie, a commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne department near the confluence with the Aveyron river. Its average yearly discharge at Laguépie is 14.70 m3/s.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Laguépie
Rina (given name)
Rina is a given name for women. It is a beautiful name that has a rich history and meaning. The name Rina is of Hebrew origin and means "joyful" or "happy." It is a popular name in many cultures and has been used for centuries. The pronunciation of the name is [ ree-nuh ]. This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021).
Lahonce
Lahonce is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Isenthal
Isenthal is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It has an area of 60.79 km2.
Viaur
Course
The Viaur river starts on the sides of the Puech del Pal in the commune Vézins-de-Lévézou, in the Aveyron department, at an altitude of 1070 m.
Duke Buchan
Richard Duke Buchan III (born July 3, 1963) is an American entrepreneur, financier, farmer, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Hunter Global Investors, a private investment management firm. Buchan was the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2018 until 2020.
Viaur
Course
The Viaur passes through the departments and towns of:
The Viaur river flows through 30 communes and two of them have the name of the river: Sainte-Juliette-sur-Viaur and Saint-Just-sur-Viaur, both in the Aveyron department.
Finally, it flows into the Aveyron river in the commune of Laguépie, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, at 155 m of altitude.
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Viaur are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States
People who have COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States are American people who refuse or are hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States is part of the larger history of vaccine hesitancy.
Charles "Bobo" Shaw
Charles Wesley "Bobo" Shaw (September 15, 1947 – January 16, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He worked in the free jazz genre. He was best known as a member of the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group. He was born in Pope, Mississippi.
Shaw died on January 16, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 69.
Kerrea Gilbert
Kerrea Gilbert (born 28 February 1987) is an English football player. He plays for Peterborough United.
Club career statistics
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Pneumatics
Pneumatics is the use of compressed air for mechanical motion. It has many uses.
Pneumatic transfer systems are employed in many industries to move powders and devices. Pneumatic devices are also used where electric motors cannot be used for safety reasons, such as deep in a mine where explosive dust or gases may be present.
Examples of pneumatic tools
electricity
Comparison to Hydraulics
Both pneumatics and hydraulics are applications of fluid power. Pneumatics uses air, which is compressible, while hydraulics uses relatively incompressible liquid media such as oil or water.
Michael McDonald (musician)
Michael McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter. He is known for a soulful baritone singing style. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan. He became a member of The Doobie Brothers from 1976 to 1982. This period which resulted in several successful songs for the band. He has won five Grammy Awards.
Neethane Enthan Ponvasantham
Neethane Enthan Ponvasantham is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language love and romance drama on Zee Tamil and it stars Jai Akash and Dharshana Ashokan are the main leads with Sonia, Sairam, Sathyapriya, Nivashini Divya and David Soloman plays supporting roles. This series is an official remake of the Marathi show, Tula Pahate Re.
This series started from 24 February 2020 on Everyday at 7:30PM (IST) time slot. The story is mainly about the love and relationship of Suryapraksh (Surya) and Anu.
Synopsis
A 40-year-old business tycoon, Suryaprakash "Surya" (Jai Akash) falls in love with a 20-year-old middle-class woman, Anu (Dharshana). Anu's life changes after she enters Surya's life.
Production
Jai Akash and debutante Dharshana, a doctor, play the lead roles in the television series. The series marks the television debut for Akash and Dharshana. Akash, who is busy shooting for films, has allotted 15 days every month for the series.
International broadcast
The series was released on 4 November 2019 on Zee Tamil. The show was also broadcast internationally on the network's international channels.
Crin Antonescu
Crin Antonescu (b. 21 September 1959, Tulcea) is a Romanian liberal politician. Antonescu was the President of PNL but in 2014 quit the presidency and now is only a member of the party.
On 3 July 2012, he was elected President of the Romanian Senate. In 2014 he resigned and was replaced by Cătălin Popescu Tăriceanu
Hong Kong Parliament Electoral Organizing Committee
The Hong Kong Parliament Electoral Organizing Committee (Traditional Chinese: 香港議會選舉籌備委員會; short form: HKPEOC/香港議會籌委會) is an organisation formed by pro-democracy Hongkongers in exile. Two of its leading figures, Victor Ho and Elmer Yuen declared its formation on 27 July 2022 in Toronto, Canada. the organisation’s current goal is to hold its first election by 2023 for overseas Hongkongers to express their opinions fairly and democratically.
Europasaurus
Europasaurus is a basal sauropod from the titanosaur clade, but very much smaller than usual.
Hong Kong Parliament Electoral Organizing Committee
On 3 August 2022, the Hong Kong Security Bureau condemned their activism and stated that arrest warrants for Baggio Leung, Elmer Yuen, and Victor Ho has already been issued by the Hong Kong Police
On 8 August 2022, Elmer Yuen has told Radio Free Asia that secret agents working for the Chinese Communist Party has threatened him to stop his work.
Life Before Life
Life Before Life is a book written by psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker. It presents an overview of more than 40 years of reincarnation research at the University of Virginia into children's reports of past life memories.
Europasaurus
This quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur lived during the Upper Jurassic (middle Kimmeridgian, about 154 million years ago). It was found in northern Germany. It is an example of insular dwarfism. This means it probably came from an isolated sauropod population on an island in the Lower Saxony basin.
Life Before Life
The book suggests that consciousness can be considered separately from the brain, which provides a basis for claims of reincarnation. Life Before Life has been translated into ten languages and the foreword to the book is written by Ian Stevenson.
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer. He was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his voyages for future publication, and put forward his rationale for naming the new continent 'Australia', as an umbrella term for New Holland and New South Wales – a suggestion taken up later by Governor Macquarie.
Flinders' health had suffered, however, and although he reached home in 1810, he did not live to see the publication of his widely praised book and atlas, A Voyage to Terra Australis.
Game controller
A game controller is a device used to play video games.
Gamepad
A gamepad, also known as a joypad, is a common type of game controller. They are held in both hands with thumbs and fingers used to press buttons on the gamepad. Gamepads can have a number of action buttons with one or more control sticks. Gamepads is part of playing a video game console. A player must use a gamepad in order to play any video game. Gamepads were first used on early computers.
On a Nintendo gamepad, the action buttons are colored with letters (A, B, X, Y). There is a start and a select option on the gamepad. On the left of the gamepad, there are arrows which the player uses to move in the video game.
Paddle
A paddle is a game controller with a round wheel and one or more fire buttons. The wheel is used to control movement in a video game. The paddle was not liked by many gamers. This type of controller was used on the Atari 2600 and Indy 500.
1998 Brazilian general election
General elections were held in Brazil on 4 October 1998 to elect the President, National Congress and state governorships. The election saw voting machines used for the first time in Brazilian history. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) and Vice President Marco Maciel of the conservative Liberal Front Party (PFL) were running for re-election.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT), a former labor leader and federal deputy, ran for the presidency for a third time. Lula had previously run for the presidency in both 1989, where he lost to Fernando Collor, and 1994, where he lost to Cardoso. Lula chose Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) as his running mate.
Ciro Gomes, a populist who was Governor of Ceará and as Minister of Finance during the Itamar Franco administration, also ran for president. He ran as a member of the centre-left Popular Socialist Party (PPS).
Cardoso won reelection with an absolute majority in the first round winning 53.06% of the vote against Lula's 31.71% and Gomes's 10.97%. Cardoso became the first Brazilian president since the fall of the military dictatorship to be re-elected.
Game controller
Joystick
The joystick has been the principal flight control in the cockpit of many aircraft, particularly military fast jets, where centre stick or side-stick location may be employed. Joysticks are also used for controlling machines such as cranes, trucks, underwater unmanned vehicles and zero turning radius lawn mowers. Miniature finger-operated joysticks have been adopted as input devices for smaller electronic equipment such as mobile phones.
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, composer, philanthropist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Hampton worked with Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1992, he was added into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
Digital signal
Digital signal can mean two different things:
Discrete-time signals
Digital signals are digital representations of discrete-time signals, which are often produced by changing an analog signal.
An analog signal is a datum that changes over time (for instance the temperature at a given place; the depth of a certain point in a pond; or the amplitude of the voltage at some node in a circuit). A discrete-time signal is a sampled version of an analog signal: the value of the datum is noted at fixed intervals (for example, every microsecond) rather than continuously.
In short, a digital signal is a quantized discrete-time signal; a discrete-time signal is a sampled analog signal.
In the digital revolution the usage of digital signals has increased significantly. Many modern media devices, especially the ones that connect with computers use digital signals to represent signals that were traditionally represented as analog signals; cell phones, music and video players, personal video recorders, and digital cameras are examples.
In most applications, digital signals are represented as binary number s, so their precision of quantization is measured in bits.
Waveforms in digital systems
In computer architecture and other digital systems, a waveform that switches between two voltage levels representing the two states of a Boolean value (0 and 1) is referred to as a digital signal.
The clock signal is a special digital signal that is used to synchronize digital circuits. The image shown can be considered the waveform of a clock signal. Logic changes are triggered either by the rising edge or the falling edge.
Mory Kanté
He was best known for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. His album, Akwaba Beach, was the best-selling African record of its time. On 16 October 2001, Kanté was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
On 22 May 2020, Kanté died at a hospital in Conakry from a chronic disease, at the age of 70.
Province of Livorno
The Province of Livorno (Italian: Provincia di Livorno) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Livorno.
The province has an area of 1,218 km², and a total population of 326,444 (2001). There are 21 comuni (singular: comune) in the province.
Decade
A decade (pronunciation: DEK-aid) is a period of 10 years. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word for ten: "deka". 10 decades make a century, while 100 decades make a millennium. A decade is any 10-year period: There are different ways to refer to different groupings of ten years. For example, the period from 2001 to 2010 can be described as the 1st decade of the 21st century, the period from 2011 to 2020 is the 2nd decade of the 21st century, and the 3rd decade of the 21st century is the period from 2021 to 2030. An individual who has been alive two full decades is referred to as being in their 20s for the next decade of their life, from age 20 to 29. Decades are also considered specific groups of ten years sharing the same tens digit, identified by name, as in the nineteen-eighties (1980s) referring to the period from 1980 to 1989 and the nineteen-nineties (1990s) referring to the period from 1990 to 1999. Sometimes this is shortened to just the decade, where the context is clear, as in the eighties (80s) or the nineties (90s). No apostrophe is used before the s in the names of these decades.
Kingston Parish, Jamaica
Kingston is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Kingston.
Decade
Some decades also have nicknames, such as the Roaring Twenties (1920s), the Naughty Nineties (1890s) (UK), and the Swinging Sixties (1960s).
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (11 June 1939 – 18 January 2017) was an English female cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was born in Wolverhampton, England.
Flint was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series, while in total she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She was captain when England won the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup, held in England in 1973. She was also the first women cricketer ever to hit a six in a test match.
Flint's death was announced by Lord's on 18 January 2017 at the age of 77.
Anu Vehviläinen
Anu Helena Vehviläinen (born 9 September 1963) is a Finnish politician for the Centre Party. She became Speaker of the Finnish Parliament in 2020. She was Finland's Minister of Local Government and Public Reforms from 2015 to 2019 as Minister of Transport from May to June 2019; and as Minister of Transport from 2007 to 2011.
Rakahanga (electorate)
Rakahanga is an electorate of the Cook Islands. It was created in 1964.
Rakahanga is on the island of Rakahanga.
Election results
While Tina Browne previously held Rakahanga as a member of the Democratic Party, she was made the member due to an electoral petition after Toka Hagai (a member of the Cook Islands Party) resigned. At the 2018 general election, Hagai gained the seat from Browne,.
Lara Saint Paul
Silvana Savorelli (30 April 1945 – 8 May 2018), professionally known as Lara Saint Paul, was an Italian-Eritrean singer, entertainer, impresario and record producer. She was born in Asmara. Lara has been featured in many television specials in Italy and around Europe, starting with the variety show Quelli Della Domenica in 1968, for RAI. A 1970-1971 edition of the RAI network TV show Canzonissima.
In later years, she was on Italian television for retrospectives featuring the life of Frank Sinatra. Lara Saint Paul has worked and performed with notables such as Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Roberta Flack, Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. Her popular 1977 album Saffo Music, recorded in Los Angeles.
Lara Saint Paul died of cancer, aged 73, on 8 May 2018.
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (born 22 September 1968, Iași ) is a Romanian politician, historian and diplomat. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2007 and director of SIE from 2007 to 2012. He was Prime-minister of Romania from 9 February 2012 until 9 May 2012.
Education
He learned at Mathematics-Physics high school "Costache Negruzzi" from Iași.
Mike Noble
Mike Noble (17 September 1930 – 15 November 2018) was a British comic artist and illustrator.
Biography
He was born in London. He was best known for drawing strips like Fireball XL5 for TV Century 21. He also drew The Lone Ranger and other comic strips relating to The Lone Ranger. He also worked for Zero-X, Captain Scarlet and Star Trek.
Noble died on 15 November 2018 at the age of 88.
Osage Nation
The Osage are a Midwestern Native American tribe of Plains Indians who historically ruled much of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The tribe formerly lived in the areas in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys around 1,200 BC. They then began migrating west due to wars with the invading Iroquois. The term "Osage" is considered a French name for the tribe which roughly translates into "Mid-Waters". The Osage people refer to themselves in their own language as Wazhazhe.
At the height of their power in the early 18th century, the Osage had become the dominant power in the region. They were feared by neighboring tribes as ruthless and "savage" fighters. The Osage would often practice ritual scalping and beheading as military trophies. The tribe controlled the area between the Missouri and Red River to the South and were greatly dependent on nomadic buffalo hunting and farming.
The 19th-century painter George Catlin described the Osage as: "the tallest race of men in North America, either red or white skins; there being few indeed of the men at their full growth, who are less than six feet in stature, and very many of them six and a half, and others seven feet."
The missionary Isaac McCoy described the Osage as an "uncommonly fierce, courageous, warlike nation", and Washington Irving said they were the "finest looking Indians I have ever seen in the West."
The Osage originally lived among the Kansa, Ponca, Omaha, and Quapaw in the Ohio Valley. Researchers believed that the tribes likely developed differences in their languages and cultures after leaving the lower Ohio country. The Omaha and Ponca settled in the present-day area of Nebraska, the Kansa in Kansas, and the Quapaw in Arkansas.
The Osage are a federally recognized tribe. They were forced to move to Indian Territory in the 19th century, and have been based in Oklahoma. There are 9,400 descendants, 5,620 of which reside in area surrounding Osage county. Members live both on the nations tribal land in Oklahoma and in other states around the country such as Kansas.
Anatoliy Matviyenko
Anatoliy Matviyenko (22 March 1953 – 22 May 2020) was a Ukrainian politician. He was born in Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast. He was Governor of the Vinnytsia Oblast from 1996 to 1998. He was a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994, 1998 to 2005, 2006 to 2007 and again from 2014 until his death.
He was an activist of Komsomol (LKSMU) and by 1985 became a secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU. In 1989-91 Matviyenko became the first secretary of the Ukrainian Komsomol and became a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Matviyenko died on 22 May 2020 in Kiev, at the age of 67.
Shielding effect
Shielding is when an electron becomes less attracted to other atoms the further it is away from the nucleus. This is because the forces holding atoms together become weaker as distance increases.
In group 1 elements
In a reactive metal like sodium, the single electron on an electron shell furthest from the nucleus is more likely to be lost in a reaction with another element. This is because less energy is needed to pull them away. Other elements with similar properties like potassium that are lower down on the periodic table than sodium will be even more likely to lose their furthest electron in a reaction. This is because of the addition of more electron shells between the nucleus and the furthest electron, increasing distance.
In group 17 elements
The shielding effect also happens with elements that have many electrons on their furthest electron shell, for example chlorine. In this case however, more energy is needed to give the atom an electron. The amount of energy needed is increased with the number electron shells around the nucleus of the atom, for example in elements further down the periodic table like bromine.
Duchy of Saxe-Gotha
Saxe-Gotha (Sachsen-Gotha) was a state in today's Thuringia, Germany.
It was created in 1640 for Duke Ernest I and ended in 1680 when his lands were divided after his death in 1675. The area around Gotha passed to Ernest's eldest surviving son, Frederick of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who also inherited Altenburg (which Ernest had inherited through his wife Elisabeth Sophie) and became Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Dukes of Saxe-Gotha
When the house of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg became extinct in 1825, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was split. Saxe-Gotha passed to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld who in turn gave Saalfeld to Saxe-Meiningen. The Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen became Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and gave Saxe-Hildburghausen to Saxe-Meiningen.
After the abolition of German monarchies at the end of the First World War it became a part of the newly created state of Thuringia in 1920.
Kumbaya
"Kum ba yah" ("Come by Here") is an African American spiritual song of unknown origin, but is known to be sung by the Gullah people of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, who are descendants of former slaves from West Africa. The song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern U.S. states and to Northern U.S. states, as well as other places in the world. The first known recording, of someone known only as H. Wylie, who sang in the Gullah dialect, was recorded by the folk music enthusiast Robert Winslow Gordon in 1926. It is a popular hymn in African American churches. It later became a popular campfire song in Scouting and summer camps. The song was originally an appeal to God to come and help those in need.
Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
Saint Andrew is a parish in Jamaica. It is in the county of Surrey. The parish capital is Half Way Tree.
Lahontan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Lahontan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the southwestern part of France.
Raymond Nonnatus
Raymond Nonnatus is a saint from Catalonia. He was born in 1204 and died in 1240.
Mersal
Mersal may mean:
Defence in depth
Defense in depth (also known as deep or elastic defense) is a military strategy. The delaying tactic is intended to slow down the advance of an enemy, instead of stopping it. That buys time by yielding to the enemy slowly and usually causes additional casualties. A defense in depth may slow down an advancing army and cause it to lose momentum.
Examples
The classic example is medieval hill forts and castles with rings of defences (usually walls). The inner circles of defenders support the outer circles with missile fire. The attackers must breach each line of defence and exhaust themselves in the process.
Strategy
A properly-planned defence in depth may reduce or eliminate any advantage that attacking forces might have such as superior numbers. The defenders place the the attackers behind several layers of defence. The defenders then let the attackers wear down their forces while the defenders slowly give ground and move back to the next layer of defence.
A defense in space is being absent when an enemy attacks. A defense in time is slowing down or blocking an enemy that attacks.
Delaying action
A famous rearguard example was given in the Song of Roland. The nephew of Charlemagne, Roland, commanded the rearguard at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. He and his men protected the rear of the Frankish army while it retreated back to France. In his delaying action, Roland and all of his men were killed in an ambush.
Linda (given name)
Linda is a female given name. The name Linda is of Spanish and Portuguese origin and means "pretty" or "beautiful." It is derived from the Spanish word "lindo," which means "pretty" or "lovely." The name Linda has been used in many different cultures, including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and English. The pronunciation of the name is [ lin-duh ]. This name was ranked #850 on the US Popular Names in 2021.
Shooting of William Leonard
William Anthony Leonard (1949-March 9, 1968) was a 19 year old African-American teenager who was shot and killed by an LAPD officer Larry N. Fultz.
Shooting
Following his death in 1968, Jeff and Josephine Leonard filed a lawsuit for $1,000,000. Los Angeles City Council recommended it be denied, but voted unanimously to award a $25,000 settlement 4 years later in 1972. It was the first settlement for police misconduct in Los Angeles' history.
Rose hip
Rose hips are the fruit of the rose plant. They can be eaten (with caution, the rose hip contains irritant hairs) and have a lot of Vitamin C. They are usually red/orange but may be dark purple to black in some species. Rose hips are commonly used as an herbal tea.
Laucourt
Laucourt is a commune. It is in the Picardie region in the Somme department in the north of France. In 2011, 174 people lived there.
Nash the Slash
Jeff Plewman (March 26, 1948 – May 10, 2014), better known by his stage name Nash the Slash, was a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for being the founding member of the progressive rock band FM and performing with British musician Gary Numan. He was also a multi-instrumentalist who played mostly the electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments.