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Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
Social aspects
In a decisive battle the Chalcidians called for the aid of a warrior named Cleomachus. Cleomachus answered their request. He brought his lover along with him. He charged against the Eretians and brought the Chalcidians to victory at the cost of his own life. It was said he was inspired with love during the battle. Afterwards the Chalcidians, erected a tomb for him in their marketplace. They reversed their negative view of homosexuality, and began to honor it. The fundamental point seems to be that the superiority of heterosexual love does not imply condemnation of homosexuality. Aristotle attributed a popular local song to the event:
"Ye lads of grace and sprung from worthy stock Grudge not to brave men converse with your beauty In cities of Chalcis, Love, looser of limbs Thrives side by side with courage"
The importance of these relationships in military formation was not without controversy. According to Xenophon, the Spartans abhorred the thought of using the relationships as the basis of unit formation for placing too much significance on sexuality rather than talent. This was due to their founder Lycurgus who attacked lusts on physical beauty, regarding it as shameful. Xenophon asserted that in some city-states the lovers would not even have conversations with one another. He said this type of behavior was horrible because it was entirely based on physical attractions:
"If as was evident it was not an attachment to the soul, but a yearning solely towards the body, Lycurgus stamped this thing as foul."
Nonetheless city-states that employed the practice in determining military formation enjoyed some success. The Thebans are said to have had one such regiment as the core of their entire army. They attributed this group called the Sacred Band of Thebes for making Thebes the most powerful city-state for a generation until its fall to Philip II of Macedon. Philip II of Macedon was so impressed with their bravery during the battle he erected a monument that still stands today on their gravesite. He also gave a harsh criticism of the Spartan views of the band:
"Perish miserably they who think that these men did or suffered aught disgraceful."
One of the prominent Greek military figures enjoying such a relationship was Epaminondas, considered the greatest warrior-statesmen of ancient Thebes by many, including the Roman historian Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus however does not have anything to say about the sexual orientation of Epaminondas or the Sacred Band, nor does he say anything about the following account, again from Plutarch (Amatorius 17). According to Plutarch dramatic dialogue, Epaminondas had two male lovers: Asopichus and Caphisodorus, the latter died with him at Mantineia in battle. They were buried together, something usually reserved for a husband and wife in Greek society. Plutarch, consistently with his heterosexual message, then goes on to tell how love also inspires women to great courage: "And here, methinks, we have very opportunely mentioned Alcestis; for although the temper of women has little to do with Mars, Love many times drives them to daring attempts beyond their own nature, even to death."
St. Martin's Island
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Kaliya jue Temple
Kaliya jue Temple (কালিয়া জীউ মন্দির) is a Hindu temple in the town of Dinajpur Sadar, Bangladesh. It is dedicated to the Hindu God Krishna. The temple is situated to the west side of the Dinajpur Rajbari.
Stand Up Guys
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Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. She was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri. Fluent in both English and French, Baker became an international musical and political icon. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess".
Bishyanath Temple
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Josephine Baker
Baker was the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou (1934), and to become a world-famous entertainer.
She tried to integrate an American concert hall, and is noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. She was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down.
Chitrakoot division
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Josephine Baker
Baker became a citizen of France in 1937. She helped the French Resistance during World War II, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the Légion d'Honneur and the Rosette of the Résistance after the war.
Career
When Josephine came to Paris in the 1920s for La Revue Nègre, it was a turning point in her career. Her career thrived, and when La Revue Nègre closed, Josephine starred in La Folie du Jour at the Follies-Bergère Theater. Her performance, and her banana costume made her a celebrity. Josephine rivalled Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford as the most photographed woman in the world: by 1927 she earned more than any entertainer in Europe. She starred in two movies in the early 1930s, Zou-Zou and Princess Tam-Tam, and moved her family from St. Louis to Les Milandes, her estate in Castelnaud-Fayrac, France.
In later shows in Paris she was often accompanied on stage by her pet cheetah, Chiquita, who was adorned with a diamond collar. The cheetah frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding another element of excitement to the show.
Personal life
Baker had 12 children through adoption. She bore only one child herself, stillborn in 1941. Josephine Baker was married four times.
A Lady in Her Bath
A Lady in Her Bath is a painting by François Clouet. It was painted in 1571. It measures 92.3 x 81.2 cm (36 5/16 x 31 15/16 in.) The picture is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It is one of only three paintings signed by Clouet. The teenaged bather is unknown. It is possible that she is Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France when she was a teenager. Scholar Roger Trinquet suggested in 1966 that the teenaged lady is Mary Queen of Scots. The lady's face resembles other portraits of Mary, especially a drawing by Clouet depicting Mary in mourning. Trinquet believes the painting was intended as a satire for a Huguenot patron. The painting set a fashion for portraits of bathers.
The National Gallery writes: "The masklike symmetry of the bather's face makes exact identification difficult; scholars have suggested that her aristocratic features indicate that she is one of several royal mistresses, most notable among them Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II. It is possible that the nude, a Venus type, represents ideal beauty rather than a specific individual. The contrast of the smoothly rendered nude figure to the intricate surface details of the fruit, draperies, and jewelry, presents a union of Flemish and Italian motifs that characterized French courtly art of the sixteenth century."
Les Misérables (2012 movie)
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Devipatan division
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Aurangabad division
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Azamgarh division
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Bareilly division
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Joe Swanson
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Allahabad division
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Jhansi division
Jhansi is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Gorakhpur division
Gorakhpur (گورکھپور ڈویژن) is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Laxmi Narayan Mandir, Dhaka
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Temple of King Kangsa Narayan
The Temple of King Kangsa Narayan (রাজা কংস নারায়ণের মন্দির) is a Hindu temple in northern Bangladesh. It is in Rajshahi's Tahirpur, where legend says that the Durga Puja of the Hindu community was performed for the first time in the Indian subcontinent.
Mirzapur division
Mirzapur (مرزاپور ڈویژن) is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
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Saharanpur division
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Faizabad division
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Meerut division
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Kanpur division
Kanpur (کانپور ڈویژن) is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Moradabad division
Muradabad is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
New Covenant
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Long hair
Long hair is a hairstyle that is mostly worn by girls and women. Boys and men may sometimes wear hair to shoulder length. Longer than that is rare for men of most cultures.
Extremely long hair (usually waist length or longer) is normally only found in females. The reason is that the female hormonal system affects the growth of their hair, just as the male hormonal system supports facial hair growth. This is also the reason young females can have longer hair than older women.
Hair length is measured (in centimeters or inches) from the line of the scalp on the forehead up over the highest point of the skull to the end of the hair. This method is not suitable for measuring hair length for people with a fringe. In cosmetology, hair lengths are usually described by the part of the body where the longest hair ends: chin level, shoulder length, mid-back level, waist length, hip-length, classic length (extends to almost upper thigh-length, where the legs meet the buttocks), thigh-length, knee-length and ankle/floor length hair.
Significance
Head hair is maintained by natural selection after other body hair had been greatly reduced. The hair has at least two functions:
Cultures of men with longer hair
Many Native American men wore long hair before the arrival of western influences on their culture. The long-term preference of females of the tribe for longer male hair would have effect by long-haired males contributing more children than short-haired males.
Zumbl
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Lucknow division
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Bundal Island
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Buddo Island
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Argo (2012 movie)
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Batman & Robin
Batman & Robin is a 1997 American action-adventure movie directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on the comic book character created by Bob Kane. It stars George Clooney as Batman, Chris O'Donnell as Robin, Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy. The movie is about Batman and Robin trying to prevent Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Bane from covering Gotham City with ice and vegetation while at the same time struggling to keep their partnership together. It grossed over $230 million in the box office. It got mixed reviews from the critics. It was criticized for its gay innuendo.
Agnes
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Varanasi division
Varanasi (وارانسی ڈویژن) is a division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Agnes
Agnes was the third most popular girl's name for almost 400 years in English-speaking areas. The name was used a lot until near the 1970s in the United States. It was especially popular between 1900 and 1920, during which time the name spent a few years on the top 50 list for feminine names.In 2021 this name is not so popular and is a more personalized name.
The name was used on a costly hurricane that caused over $3 billion in damage and many deaths in 1972. The name Agnes was later retired.
Bath Island
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Naturalism
Naturalism may also refer to:
Bischhausen
Bischhausen is a village in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. In December 2010, 371 people lived in the village (as of May 4, 2015). It is near the previous border with what was the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The castle ruins called the Gleichen are on two small mountains near the village. Almost all the working people who live in the village are farmers or work in the city of Göttingen, which is not far away. There is one church: the Lutheran church of St. Martin.
The mayor is Michael Dusch.
Sid Fleischman
Albert Sidney "Sid" Fleischman (March 16, 1920 – March 17, 2010) was a Newbery Medal-winning American author who was known for his award-winning book The Whipping Boy and for Humbug Mountain. He also won the Horn Book Award. The Sid Fleischman Award for funny fiction books for children or young adults was named after him.
Fleischman was born on March 16, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Russian Jews. He was raised in San Diego, California and in Santa Monica, California. Fleischman studied at San Diego State University.
Fleischman was married to Betty Taylor from 1952 until her death in 1993. They had three children. Their son Paul also became an Newbery Medal-winning writer. They were the only father and son to win a Newbery Medal. Fleischman died on March 17, 2010 in Santa Monica, California from cancer, just a day after his birthday, aged 90.
Carlos Alazraqui
Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for playing Deputy James Garcia in Reno 911!. He's also known as the voice of Rocko in Rocko's Modern Life, Lazlo in Camp Lazlo, Denzel Crocker in The Fairly OddParents, Walden in Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Carlos and Sergio in The Casagrandes, Ryan Illinois and Darkness Bullseye in Wattu Academy and Ken The Wolf in Acceptable Mountain.
Amine
An amine is a molecule which has a nitrogen atom that can behave as a base. An amine can be thought of coming from ammonia. The difference is that the three hydrogens in ammonia are changed to any group or atom. If only one of the hydrogens is changed, the amine is called primary. If two are changed, the amine is called secondary. If all three are changed then it is called tertiary.
Sometimes, a fourth group can be added to the nitrogen. This is called a quaternary ammonium cation. This is not an amine but is a salt. If one of the groups on the nitrogen is a carbonyl group, then the molecule is called amide. This has very different properties.
Amines are used a lot in chemistry. Since the nitrogen has a lone pair, it can do many reactions. It can take protons away from some acids. It can also be a nucleophile. It can be changed into imines and other functional groups.
Amines are also found in many proteins. They are a part of every amino acid.
Mayor West
Mayor Adam West is a character for the television comedy Family Guy. He is voiced and based on the actor Adam West. He first appeared as the crazy mayor of Quahog, Rhode Island in Fifteen Minutes of Shame. He usually never takes things seriously and only cares about his office. He is married to Carol West, Lois Griffin's sister.
The fate of the character is currently unknown following Adam West's death in June 2017.
Chhera Island
Chhera island (Bengali: Chhera Dwip), also called Cheradia Island or Cheridia Island, is an extension of St. Martin's Island in Bangladesh, but cut off from it by sea during high tides. During low tide period, the Chhera island can be reached by walking for about two and a half hours from St. Martin's Island. The most popular way of getting there is by motorboat.
Corals can be found all over the island. It has one small green area where bushes grow. No permanent settlement exists except for tourists.
Jim Belushi
James Adam "Jim" Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an Albanian-American actor, comedian, singer and musician. He played James "Jim" Orenthal in the series According to Jim.
Personal life
He is John Belushi's younger brother.
Jake Wood
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Aristolochia
Aristolochia is a large plant genus with over 500 species of shrubs and herbs, many having medicinal properties. Collectively known as birthworts, pipevines or Dutchman's pipes, they are the namesake of the family (Aristolochiaceae). They are widespread and occur in the most diverse climates. Some species, like A. utriformis and A. westlandii, are threatened with extinction.
Isotrema is usually included here, but might be a valid genus. If so, it contains those species with a three-lobed calyx.
Sam J. Jones
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Girl Drying Herself
Girl Drying Herself is a pastel by Edgar Degas. It is signed and dated 1885. It measures 80.1 x 51.2 cm (31 9/16 x 20 3/16 in.) It hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Matt Baker
Clarence Matthew Baker (December 10, 1921 – August 11, 1959) was an American comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the costumed crime fighter Phantom Lady. Baker was active as early as the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books. He also penciled an early form of graphic novel, St. John Publications' digest-sized "picture novel" It Rhymes with Lust (1950). His specialty was good girl art, a comics and cartooning subgenre. Baker was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.
Kargil
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1993 World Trade Center bombing
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing happened on February 26, 1993 in the bottom section of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, United States. Six people were killed, including a woman who was 7 months pregnant. About 1,042 people were injured. The plan was to use truck bombs parked in the parking lot of the bottom of the North Tower. The main leader of the al-Qaeda cell sent to destroy the buildings hoped the explosions would cause the North Tower to collapse and hit the South Tower.
The cell's leader was Ramzi Yousef. The group wanted to destroy the building because many Jews worked in it. Their leader Osama bin Laden was disappointed to see the buildings were not destroyed, so he wanted another attack on the same building. The result would be the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Gulbarga division
Gulbarga Division is one of the four divisions of Karnataka state of India. The division is made up of the districts of Bellary, Bidar, Gulbarga, Koppal, Yadgir and Raichur. The city of Gulbarga is the headquarters of the division. Before 1956 the division was part of the disputed territory of State of Hyderabad.
Mind control
Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion or thought control) refers to the way some people have tried to control the beliefs and behaviours of others.
Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed systematically in indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques.
History
Some authors have pointed out that the ideas of mind control can be found in all stages of human history.
Korean War
The Oxford English Dictionary records the earliest known use of brainwashing in an article Edward Hunter in Miami News published on 7 October 1950. During the Korean War, Hunter, who worked at the time both as a journalist before becoming a U.S. intelligence agent, wrote a series of books and articles on the theme of Chinese brainwashing.
The Chinese term 洗腦 (xǐ năo, literally "wash brain") was originally used to describe methodologies of coercive persuasion used under the Maoist regime in China. The methods aimed to change people's mindset so they became "right-thinking" members of the new Chinese social system.
Hunter and those who picked up the Chinese term used it to explain why, unlike in earlier wars, a relatively high percentage of American GIs defected to the enemy side after becoming prisoners-of-war. British radio operator Robert W. Ford and British Army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subjected them to brainwashing techniques during their war-era imprisonment. The most prominent case in the U.S. was that of Frank Schwable, a prisoner in the war. While in custody, he confessed to having taken part in germ warfare.
Cults and the shift of focus
After the Korean War, mind control theories shifted in focus from politics to religion. From the 1960s an increasing number of youths started to come into contact with new religious movements (NRM). Some who converted suddenly adopted beliefs and behaviors that differed greatly from those of their families and friends; in some cases they neglected or broke contact with their loved ones. Those against cults explained these sudden and seemingly dramatic religious conversions as due to mind control. The media was quick to follow suit, and social scientists sympathetic to the anti-cult movement, who were usually psychologists, developed more sophisticated models of brainwashing. While some psychologists were receptive to these theories, sociologists were for the most part skeptical of their ability to explain conversion to NRMs.
Astola Island
Astola Island, also known as Jezira Haft Talar (جزیرہ ہفت تلار) or 'Island of the Seven Hills', is an uninhabited island in the Arabian Sea. It is part of Pakistan, about 25 km south of Pakistan's nearest coastline and 39 km southeast of the fishing port of Pasni. Astola is Pakistan's largest offshore island and the only major island in the northern Arabian Sea. It is about 6.7 km2 large. Administratively, the island is part of the Pasni subdistrict of Gwadar District in Balochistan province.
The Milk Maid
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Cave diving
Cave diving is scuba diving which is done in underwater caves. Cave divers dive for adventure but also to find fossils and gather data (dirt samples, water temperature, etc.) that helps scientists better understand the earth and the environment.
Cave diving is more dangerous than diving in open water:
Willem Coymans
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Girl with a Red Hat
Girl with a Red Hat is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer. It is dated from about 1665 to 1666. It is painted on panel rather than on canvas. It is one of Vermeer's smallest pictures. It measures 22.8 x 18 cm (9 x 7 1/16 in.) It hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
The Gallery writes, "[The] subject has turned in her chair and interacts with the viewer through her direct gaze. The effect is unusual spontaneity and informality. The artist’s exquisite use of color is the painting’s most striking characteristic, for both its compositional and its psychological impact. Vermeer concentrated the two major colors in two distinct areas: a vibrant red for the hat and a sumptuous blue for the robe; he then used the intensity of the white cravat to unify the whole."
Pat Finn
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Parasailing
Parasailing is a sport. Parasailers are put into a harness that is attached to a parachute. They hold on to a rope and are towed at high speeds behind a vehicle (usually a boat, but sometimes a truck on land). The parachute helps them rise up into the air behind the vehicle. People parasail for the thrill and also to get a good, high view of the scenery around them.
Parasailing is a popular recreational activity that was developed in the 1960s.
Dangers include falling too fast while in the air with injuries upon landing.
Any Good To You
Any Good To You often shortened to AGTY, is website based in the UK that aims to reduce the amount of things going into landfill by helping people to give away items they no longer need but which are too good to throw away. It has similar goals to Freecycle and Freegle.
Yin and yang
The Taijitu (太极图), more commonly referred to as Yin and yang, is a Chinese symbol from a belief system called Taoism. It is also stylized as Yinyang or Yin-Yang. It represents the idea that nature is made up of opposing, yet complementary forces and energy.
Colors
The traditional symbol has two opposite colors, White (Yang) and Black (Yin). Both sides contain the opposite color inside of itself to represent the main idea of dualism. Some examples of these balanced opposites are: Light and Dark, Male and Female, Expansion and Contraction, Up and Down, Sun and Moon, and Movement and Rest.
Common applications
Alternative and holistic medicine includes the Yin–Yang dualism and has grown in popularity in the western world. The symbol and ideas of oftentimes portrayed in daily life, such as in movies or artwork.
Science includes that ideal of dualism in some areas as well. Magnets require both north and south poles for it to be functional and to move. In chemistry, protons can be represented by Yang and electrons can be represented by Yin.
Ice climbing
Ice climbing is a type of mountaineering activity where people climb on ice formations. They might climb on frozen waterfalls or large rocks covered with ice. Ice climbers use special equipment like ice axes, ropes and crampons to climb ice and glaciers.
Ice climbing competitions started in Russia and have been held each winter since 1970.
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley is an oil painting by John Singer Sargent. It was painted in 1892. It measures 81 x 45 1/2 in. (205.7 x 115.6 cm). The picture is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Arcadia (painting)
Arcadia is an oil painting by Thomas Eakins. It was painted about 1883. It measures 38 5/8 x 45 in. (98.1 x 114.3 cm). It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, known as Luigi's Mansion 2 in Europe, is a video game for the Nintendo 3DS console. It is the sequel to Luigi's Mansion for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released on March 20, 2013 in Japan and on March 24, 2013 in North America.
Plot
When the Dark Moon shatters, the ghosts in the Evershade Valley become evil. Professor E. Gadd has Luigi find the scattered pieces of the Dark Moon to turn the ghosts friendly again.
Gameplay
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon features multiple mansions for Luigi to explore. Six mansions are available. It uses the console's tilt, or gyro, sensors.
The Wrestlers
The Wrestlers is an oil painting by Thomas Eakins. It dates to 1899. It measures 48 3/8" x 60" in.
End of the Day
End of the Day is an oil painting by Frederic Remington. It dates to 1904. The picture hangs in the Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York.
Barney (dog)
Barney (Bernard, September 30, 2000 – February 1, 2013) was the pet of George W. Bush and for Laura Bush. He was a Scottish Terrier. He had a nickname "The First Dog". On Christmas Days, he recorded all the activities held on the White House, which was called Barney Cam. He was born in New Jersey on September 30, 2000. Barney died on February 1, 2013 from lymphoma in Texas.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Paper Mario: Sticker Star is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the third sequel to Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64. It is the fourth game in the Paper Mario series and the only game for a handheld video game console. It was released on November 11, 2012 in North America, on December 6, 2012 in Japan, and on December 7, 2012 in Europe, and on December 8, 2012 in Australia.
Plot
Bowser attacks the Mushroom Kingdom during the yearly Sticker Fest holiday. His attack breaks the Sticker Comet into six pieces called the Royal Stickers. Mario has to find the six Royal Stickers to restore the Sticker Comet and bring peace to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Gameplay
In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Mario uses stickers to battle enemies. Stickers can be found in various areas throughout the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario has to pull them off to add them to his album of stickers.
Reception
The game received mixed to positive reviews by critics. User reviews on Metacritic were mixed.
Portrait of Juan Pareja
Portrait of Juan Pareja is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez. It dates to 1650. It measures 81.3 × 69.9 cm (32 × 27.5 in). It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Pareja was Velázquez’s slave. He served as an assistant in his workshop. The picture was painted in Rome. It was displayed publicly at the Pantheon in March 1650. The picture gained widespread admiration. Pareja became a painter in his own right. He was freed by Velázquez in 1654.
Swimming Hole
The Swimming Hole (sometimes The Swimmers) is an oil painting by Thomas Eakins. It dates to 1885. It measures 27.625 × 36.625 in (70.2 × 93 cm). It hangs in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
The Heart of the Andes
Heart of the Andes is an oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church. It was painted in 1859. It measures 66 1/8 x 119 1/4in. (168 x 302.9cm). It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Nedra Volz
Nedra Volz (Nedra Gordonier, June 18, 1908 – January 20, 2003) was an American actress and comedian. She is known for her role as Housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker in Diff'rent Strokes.
Kommando Spezialkräfte
The KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte (Special Forces Command, KSK) is an elite military unit of Germany. Its soldiers are handpicked from each of the ranks of Germany’s army, the Bundeswehr. The KSK is organised as such under the Division Spezielle Operationen (Special Operations Division, DSO). KSK operators are performing joint anti-terror operations, mostly in the Balkans and Middle East.
Nedra Volz
Early life
Volz was born on June 18, 1908 in Montrose, Iowa. She was raised in Des Moines, Iowa. Volz was married to Oren Volz from 1944 until his death in 1987. They had three children.
Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929-August 16, 1989) was an American actress who acted primarily on television programs. She starred as Kitty Russell in the TV series Gunsmoke. Prior to that, Blake was a telephone company operator. Blake died due to complications of AIDS. She was born near Buffalo, New York.
Nedra Volz
Death
Volz died on January 30, 2003 in her home in Mesa, Arizona from Alzheimer's disease, aged 94.
Bernard Horsfall
Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (November 20, 1930 – January 29, 2013) was an English actor. He is known for his roles in Gandhi and in Braveheart. He is also known for his guest-star roles in Doctor Who.
Horsfall was born on November 20, 1930 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He studied at Rugby School and at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He was married to Jane Jordan Rogers until his death in 2013. Horsfall died on January 29, 2013 in his home in Isle Of Skye, Scotland. He was 82 years old.
Amalasuntha
Her husband Eutharic died in 522, and Theodoric followed in 526. As a result, Athalaric inherited the throne. Athalaric was still very young so Amalasuntha became the regent Her accomplishments over her years of being a regent, were applauded by many people like the historian Procopius who spoke of her bravery and knowledge. She pursued her goal of creating good connections between the Romans and the Goths, which had been torn down in the years of her father’s rule, mostly during the imprisonment of Theodoric and the killing of Boethius, a Roman political figure. She gave Boethius back his captured estates and began to look for the Roman Senate and then sent a letter to the emperor of Constantinople, asking him to forgive her and gave a Roman education to her son. All of this to get on the emperors good side. Amalasuntha attempted to improve relations with barbarian people to make peace with the Gothic nobility. Amalasuntha improved relations with the Burgundians, but the alliance ended.
Sharpening the Sycthe
Sharpening the Scythe is an oil painting by Eastman Johnson. It dates back to 1865. It measures 39.2 × 33 cm (15.4 × 13 in). The picture hangs in the Brooklyn Museum.
Sign of the Dove
In Christianity, the Sign of the Dove was a prearranged sign by which John the Baptist would recognize the Messiah.
The four Gospels each record an account of the sign of the dove. [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/3.16?lang=eng#15 Matt. 3:16] (Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:32) And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.
The sign of the dove is also recorded in the Book of Mormon.
[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/11.27?lang=eng#26 1 Ne. 11:2]abide upon him in the form of a dove.
[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/31.8?lang=eng#7 2 Ne. 31:8] (D&C 93:15) Holy Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove.
[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/fac-2?lang=eng Abr. Fac. 2, Fig. 7] sign of the Holy Ghost... in the form of a dove.
Joseph Smith taught: "The sign of the dove was instituted before the creation of the world, a witness for the Holy Ghost, and the devil cannot come in the sign of a dove. The Holy Ghost is a personage, and is in the form of a personage. It does not confine itself to the form of the dove, but in sign of the dove. The Holy Ghost cannot be transformed into a dove; but the sign of a dove was given to John who had baptized Jesus to signify the truth of the deed, as the dove is an emblem or token of truth and innocence."
In Hebrew, Jonah (יוֹנָה) means dove. The "sign of Jonas" in Mat 16:1-4 is related to the "sign of the dove".
Additional symbolism of the Dove
The Christian symbol of a dove with an olive branch in it’s beak represents love and peace and comes from Genesis 8:6 - 12 which reads: "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:...Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more."
Doves were also used in ancient Israel as Korban, or religious sacrifice within the tabernacle and temples. "And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons."
In the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, doves were used as symbols for the Canaanite mother goddess Asherah, the Phoenician goddess Tanit, and the Roman goddesses Venus and Fortunata.
Additional Scriptural References
Psalms 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms 68:13 yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock
Song of Solomon 5:2 Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Isaiah 38:14 I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Jeremiah 48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
Hosea 7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart
Both Members of This Club
Both Members of This Club is an oil painting by George Bellows. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It dates to 1909 and measures 115 x 160.5 cm (45 1/4 x 63 3/16 in.)
Both Members of This Club was inspired by the fights Bellows attended at Tom Sharkey's Athletic Club in New York. At the time, public boxing matches were illegal in the city. Organizations like Sharkey's made fighters temporary members of the "club" on the night of the event. This allowed the men to fight and not break the law."
New Super Mario Bros. U
New Super Mario Bros. U is a 2012 platform video game for the Wii U game console. It is a sequel to the 2009 game New Super Mario Bros. Wii on the Wii, which is a follow-up to the 2006 Nintendo DS game New Super Mario Bros., and the fourth game in the New Super Mario Bros. series. It was developed by Nintendo EAD Group No. 4 and published by Nintendo. It was released on November 18, 2012 in North America, on November 30, 2012 in Europe, and on December 8, 2012 in Japan. It is a follow-up to the Nintendo 3DS game New Super Mario Bros. 2 (released three months before), which is a sequel to the 2006 game and a follow-up to the 2009 game.
Up to five players can play at a time. The game can be played with either the Wii Remote or the Wii U GamePad. The Wii U GamePad allows for handheld Play, where the game can be played on the controller without the use of a television screen.
For the Year of Luigi, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of Luigi's first appearance in the Mario series, Nintendo released downloadable content called New Super Luigi U which was also released on the Wii U. Players play as Luigi in harder versions of the game's levels. It was released in mid-2013. It was also released as a game and not a download. A port of NSMBU, titled New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, was released for the Nintendo Switch on January 11, 2019.
Plot
Mario/Luigi and his friends are at Princess Peach's castle with Peach when Bowser attacks the castle. The attack sends them flying far away from the castle. They must go through eight worlds to rescue Peach and her castle.
New Super Luigi U
New Super Luigi U (stylised as New Super Luigi Bros. U) is a 2.5D side-scrolling platform video game.
Cafe Terrace at Night
Cafe Terrace at Night is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was painted in 1888. It measures 81 × 64.5 cm (31.9 × 25.4 in). It hangs in the Kröller-Müller Museum.
The Nightwatch
The Nightwatch (The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the Night Watch) is an oil painting by Rembrandt. It was painted in 1642. It measures 379.5 cm x 453.5 cm (149.4 in x 178.5 in). It hangs in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
TV5 Network
TV5 Network, Inc. commonly known as TV5 and also known as 5, is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong, with its alternate studios located in Novaliches, Quezon City. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting, with subsidiaries and affiliates dealing in various media related businesses. TV5 is owned by MediaQuest Holdings, an investee company of Philippine telecommunications giant PLDT, through its Beneficial Trust Fund, and headed by business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan.
Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles
Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was painted in October 1888. It measures 72 × 90 cm (28.3 × 35.4 in). It hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Van Gogh completed three paintings on the subject.
Toilette of Venus
Toilette of Venus (also Rokeby Venus, Venus at Her Mirror, Cupid and Venus, etc.) is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez. It was painted between 1647 and 1651. It measures 122.5 by. It hangs in the National Gallery, London.
Irises (painting)
Irises is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was painted in 1889. It measures 28 × 36.625 in (71.1 × 93 cm). It hangs in the Getty Center. He painted this when he was 36 years old.
Big Brother (British TV series)
Big Brother is a reality television series in the United Kingdom which began in 2000. It was a version of the Big Brother franchise. Contestants must complete challenges while living in a house full of cameras.
In some series the house is in London; in some series it is in Hertfordshire. In some series, the housemates are celebrities. From 2000-2010, it was shown on Channel 4 and was presented by Davina McCall; from 2011-2018, it was shown on Channel 5 and was presented by Emma Willis. In 2022, It was announced there will be another series shown on ITV2 and ITVX which will be shown in 2023.
Format
A group of contestants who don't know each other move into a house full of cameras. They are watched every day and are set challenges by a fictional character named "Big Brother". The contestants can speak to Big Brother privately in a room called the "diary room". They are not allowed to have contact with the outside world. Throughout the series, the public vote for who they want to evict and the last one remaining is the winner.
Eye
Every year, there is a different "Big Brother eye".
Self Portrait (Van Gogh)
A self-drawn (or self-taken) picture of an artist is also called self portrait
Self Portrait is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It measures 57.2 x 43.8 cm (22 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.) It was painted in 1889. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. It is one of Van Gogh's last self-portraits.
Portrait of Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino
Portrait of Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino is an oil painting by El Greco. It was painted in 1609. It measures 112.1 × 86.1 cm (44.1 × 33.9 in). It hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is an oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn. It measures 160 × 128 cm (63 × 50.4 in). It was painted in 1633. It was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. It was stolen in 1990, and it is still not found.
The Power of Four
"The Power of Four" is a joint anthem for the British and Irish Lions, a rugby union team. It was created by Neil Myers.
Words
From the four corners of our lands We're united, hand in hand Together We're stronger We join and proud we stand Now the day has come, we are one Standing tall for our Lions' call We're stronger Together We are the power of four.
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport
Charlottesville Albemarle Airport is a public airport 8 miles (12 km) north of Charlottesville, in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. It has had airline flights since 1955. The airport serves the Charlottesville/Albemarle region and surrounding counties. It has 46 daily non-stop flights to six cities. Four airlines use the airport. The runway will be made 800 feet longer by the end of 2013.