cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He was the first chairman and CEO of IBM from 1914 to 1956. He has been known to be called one of the greatest salesmen when he died and turned IBM into a successful company at the time.
COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a new infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), spread to the Philippines on January 30, 2020. The first case of the disease was confirmed in Metro Manila.
Cases
The first case was a 38-year-old Chinese woman who was quarantined at a hospital in Manila. The second case was confirmed on February 2, that of a 44-year-old Chinese man who died a day earlier, which was also the first confirmed death from the disease outside mainland China.
The first case of someone without travel history abroad was confirmed on March 5, a 62-year-old male who was a Muslim prayer hall in San Juan, Metro Manila. The man's wife was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 on March 7, which was also the first local transmission to be confirmed.
Numbers
As of September 13, 2020, there had been 261,216 confirmed cases of the disease in the country. Out of these cases, 207,568 recoveries and 4,371 deaths were recorded.
The Philippines has the most number of cases in Southeast Asia, ahead of Indonesia and Singapore.
The largest single-day increase in the number of confirmed cases was on August 10, when 6,958 new cases were announced.
At least one case was confirmed in all of the country's 17 regions.
Timo Hildebrand
Timo Hidebrand (born 5 April 1979 in Worms, Germany) is a German football player. He played Germany national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Ralph Backstrom
Ralph Gerald Backstrom (September 18, 1937 – February 7, 2021) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and later a coach and hockey executive. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Black Hawks between 1956 and 1973.
He also played in the World Hockey Association with the Chicago Cougars, Denver Spurs/Ottawa Civics, and New England Whalers from 1973 to 1977.
With the Canadiens, he won the Stanley Cup six times.
Backstrom died after a long illness on February 7, 2021, aged 83, in his Windsor, Colorado, home.
Raijin
Raijin is the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology.
Shun Morishita
Shun Morishita (born 11 May 1986) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Kyoto Sanga.
African pygmy goose
The African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus) is a small perching duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It is commonly mistaken for a goose due to its beak although it is actually a duck.
Shun Morishita
Club career statistics
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Cheng Rongshi
Cheng Rongshi (18 October 1927 – 7 February 2021) was a Chinese physical chemist and academician. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, being elected in 1991.
Cheng was born in Yixing, Jiangsu.
On 7 February 2021, he died of illness in Guangzhou, Guangdong, aged 93.
World Games
The World Games are an international multi-sport event. The sports played at The World Games are sports which are not played in the Olympic Games. They are governed by the International World Games Association.
The first World Games were held in 1981 in Santa Clara, California. Since then, they are held every four years, the year after the Summer Olympics.
Official sports and disciplines
42 sports are part of The World Games. There are many disciplines for some sports. Not all of the sports are played at every World Games event.
Oliver Kahn
Oliver Rolf Kahn (born 15 June 1969) is a former German football player. He played as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich. From 1988 until 1994, Kahn played for Karlsruhe. He has played 86 matches for the Germany national team.
After 2006 FIFA World Cup, he retired from the national team. After the season 2007/2008 he ended his career and stopped playing for his club Bayern Munich, too.
Kahn has won several titles with Bayern München, among them are the UEFA champions league, the UEFA cup, the intercontinental cup, eight national championships and six national cups.
Kahn's nicknames are "King Kahn" and "The Titan".
Shinji Otsuka
Shinji Otsuka (born 29 December 1975) is a former Japanese football player.
Club career statistics
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Henricus (bishop of Clogher)
Henricus was a bishop in Ireland during the early 14th century: he was Bishop of Clogher from 1310 until 1316.
Electoral district of Croydon (Victoria)
Croydon is an electoral district of Victoria. It was created in 2014. It is in the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region.
Croydon is in Melbourne.
Arthrostylidium simpliciusculum
Arthrostylidium simpliciusculum is a species of Arthrostylidium bamboo in the grass family.
Distribution
The species is native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Description
Arthrostylidium simpliciusculum is a tufted perennial with short rhizomes. It grows to between 1 m and 1.2 m in height.
Flanimals
Flanimals is a children's and adults' book written by comedian Ricky Gervais. The book was illustrated by Rob Steen. It has 35 different characters described as species of animal which form an imaginary world.
USRC General Green
USRC General Green was one of the original ten cutters built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Although misspelled, she was named for the Revolutionary War hero Major General Nathanael Greene.
Taxidermy
Taxidermy (which comes from the Greek word for "the arrangement of skin") is act of taking the skin of an animals and preserving it, by putting it on a fake body. If you perform taxidermy, you taxiderm. Taxidermed animals can be mounted and put on display, sometimes in a museum or a home. People who taxidermy animals are called taxidermists. Many hunters and fishermen taxidermine the animals they catch and kill for trophies. Ones that are on display in museums are used to make dioramas and for educational purposes. Some people taxiderm their pets and other street animals.
Armancourt, Somme
Armancourt is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is about 30 mi southeast of Amiens.
Holden (surname)
Holden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Maternity Allowance
Maternity Allowance is a United Kingdom social security benefit for women who work but cannot get Statutory Maternity Pay. It can be paid from 11th week before the baby is due. It is paid by the Department for Work and Pensions.
It is paid to women who have worked and earned at least £30 a week for at least 26 weeks in the 66 weeks before the baby is due. They can also get it if they have worked with a partner who is self employed in the 26 weeks in the 66 weeks before the baby is due.
It is £156.66 a week or 90% of average weekly earnings (whichever is less). It is paid for up to 39 weeks and is not taxed or means-tested.
Lithium aluminium hydride
Lithium aluminium hydride is an inorganic compound. Its chemical formula is LiAlH4. It is commonly abbreviated as LAH. It is a grey solid. It was discovered by Finholt, Bond and Schlesinger in 1947.
Properties
Lithium aluminium hydride is a colorless solid, but commercial samples are usually gray because of contamination. It can be purified by recrystallization from diethyl ether. It reacts violently with water. Some commercial samples contain mineral oil to stop reactions with moisture in the atmosphere.
Balti language
Balti (بلتی) is a language spoken in Baltistan, in the Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan and neighbouring parts of the disputed territory of Indian-administered Kashmir. Before 1948 Baltistan was part of Ladakh province. The language is a sub-dialect of Ladakhi and an archaic dialect of the Tibetan language, but many of the consonants that are silent in most modern Tibetan dialects are pronounced in Balti.
Balti
All people of different races, living in Baltistan are called Balti. Greeks used the word Byaltae instead of Bal-ti, which in Tibetan means water gorge. The historian Ptolemy who was also a general in the army of Alexander the Great had named the region (Byaltae) in his book. Baltistan is the Persian translation of Baltiyul, “The Homeland of Balti”. The people belonging to Balti nationality are settled on both banks of the river Indus from Kargil (in the east) to Haramosh (in the west) and from Karakoram range (in the north) to Deosai plains (in the south). In this nationality the majority comes from Tibetan origin. However people migrated to this area in different periods of ancient times, on account of different reasons and after merging in the prevailing Tibetan society, gave birth to a new civilisation. All these multi-racial groups speak Balti language, which is a branch of the ancient Tibetan language. However, in some rural areas, the Sheen people still speak Shina language.
The Balti are a very forbearing, cheerful,brave and hospitable people. But during the Rmakpon reign (from 12th century to 1840 A.D.) they invaded Ladakh and Tibet many times.
There are several Balti communities in Pakistan's urban areas farther south, that is in Lahore, Islamabad, in Karachi and other places.But they are living as non Pakistani in Pakistan because Gilgit Baltistan is considered as disputed region.
Evolution
The Balti language has kept many honorific words like all the Tibetan dialects and many other languages. Below are a few examples:
Doudelainville
Doudelainville is a commune. It is in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (often referred to as "MMP") is an electoral system used in Germany and in many English-speaking countries. It is often thought of as a proportional representation system. In the United Kingdom, MMP is often referred to as the "additional member system" (or "AMS"). It is used to select the German Bundestag in Germany and is used in parliaments and other elections in various English-speaking countries.
MMP systems attempt to achieve both a proportional representation and a majority support, by asking voters to vote for a specific representative, and vote for a political party. Some of the representatives are elected from electoral lists drawn up by the respective parties. The number of representatives who are considered elected on the respective lists of the parties and are thus allowed to move into parliament is determined according to the proportion of votes that the parties were able to unite.
Life of Pi (movie)
Life of Pi is a 2012 American drama movie produced and directed by Ang Lee. It stars Suraj Sharma. It was released to very positive reviews on November 21, 2012. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture - Drama and Best Director, and won for Best Original Score. At the 85th Academy Awards, it had 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four (the most of the night), including Best Director for Ang Lee.
African dwarf sawshark
The African dwarf sawshark (Pristiophorus nancyae), is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae. Scientists discovered this species in 2011. They caught one off the coast of Mozambique at a depth of 1,600 feet.
Steven Reid
Steven Reid (born 10 March 1981) is an Irish football player. He plays for West Bromwich Albion.
International career statistics
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Kroken Church
Kroken Church is a church in Kroken, Norway which is part of the city of Tromsø. It is part of the Kroken parish, which is part of the Tromsø domprosti. The church was built in 2006 and has a fan-shaped design. It can hold around 600 people.
M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England. It links the Midlands and the South West.
It runs from Junction 8 of the M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. It is the main gateway to South West England. Congestion is common during the summer holidays, on Friday afternoons, and school and bank holidays on the section south of the M4.
Junctions
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COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
Actions
All borders and entry ports of New Zealand were closed to all non-residents at 11:59 pm on 19 March 2020, with returning citizens and residents being required to self-isolate. Since 10 April, all New Zealanders returning from overseas must go into two weeks of quarantine.
Response
A four-level alert level system was added on 21 March to manage the outbreak within New Zealand. At higher alert levels, these levels enforce higher restrictions on what services can operate and how the available services will operate.
Cases
On 4 March, a New Zealand woman in her 30s who had returned from northern Italy on 25 February was confirmed as the second case of the virus in New Zealand.
On 1 April, 61 new cases (47 confirmed and 14 probable) were reported, bringing the total to 708 (647 confirmed and 61 probable). That same day, it was reported that the Chatham Islands, which are part of New Zealand, were facing a food shortage due to panic buying.
On 1 May, 3 new cases (all confirmed) were reported, bringing the total to 1,479 (1,132 confirmed and 347 probable), and 11 new recoveries were reported, bringing the total 1,252. Six people were in hospital.
African dwarf mud turtle
The African dwarf mud turtle (Pelusios nanus) is a species of turtle in the Pelomedusidae family. It is commonly found in Africa.
Bambusa dissimulator
Bambusa dissimulator is a species of bamboo from Hong Kong. It is fast growing and has plentiful branches.
Distribution
It can grow up to 15.24 meters and has a diameter of 4.2 centimeters.
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the name used by Europeans for Tasmania before it was known it was an island. Tasmania is now a state of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to chart some coasts of Tasmania. He named the land Anthoonij van Diemenslandt after Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Van Diemen had sent Tasman to explore the extent of the presumed south land in 1642.
Penal colony
From the 1830s to 1853, Van Diemen's Land was the main penal colony in Australia. When Britain stopped sending prisoners to New South Wales, all convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land. About 75,000 convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land, approximately 40% of all convicts sent to Australia.
History of Europe
The history of Europe means all the time since the beginning of written records in the European continent up to the present day. It is traditionally divided into ancient (before the fall of the Western Roman Empire) medieval, and modern (after the fall of Constantinople).
Van Diemen's Land
Penal colony
Male convicts got paid for being servants or farm workers to free settlers, or in work groups on public works. Only the most difficult convicts were sent to the Tasman Peninsula prison known as Port Arthur. Convicts who comitted more crimes were also sent there. Female convicts worked as servants in free settler's houses or were sent to a female factory (women's workhouse prison). There were 5 female factories in Van Diemen's Land.
Convicts who had finished their time in prison or had been well behaved and given a ticket-of-leave often left Van Diemen's Land. Many went to the new free colony of Victoria. The free settlers in towns such as Melbourne did not like the ex-convicts coming to their town. During the Victorian gold rush a lot of settlers from Van Diemen's Land (called Vandemonians) went to the Victorian gold fields, such as Ballarat, or Bendigo.
History of Europe
Europe's antiquity dates from the Minoan civilization, the Myceneans and later on Homer's Iliad in Ancient Greece of around 700 BC. The Roman Republic was established in 509 BC, which was usurped by Octavian's new Roman Empire at its first century BC peak. The Christian religion was adopted in the fourth century, and in the sixth was organized, within the Empire, by Emperor Justinian I (527–565) with five most important cities: Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria. The fall of the Western Roman Empire was followed by a decline of Western Europe. The Byzantine Empire survived in the East. A new schism within the church's authority in 1054 was added to the earlier division that had persisted since 451. It was followed by Crusades from west to rescue the Holy Land from Muslim invasion. Feudal society began to break down, as the Black Death spread.
Van Diemen's Land
Penal colony
Britain stopped sending convicts to Tasmania in 1853.
History of Europe
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 showed the military weakness of the Christians in Eastern Europe. It is often used as a starting point for modern history. Western Christians completed the Reconquista and discovered a New World in 1492. Europe awoke from the medieval period through rediscovery of classical learning, much of which had been kept alive in the Muslim world while the Western church had rejected much of it as paganry. The Renaissance was followed by the Protestant Reformation, as priest Martin Luther attacked Papal authority. The Thirty Years War, the Treaty of Westphalia and the Glorious Revolution prepared for expansion and enlightenment.
Van Diemen's Land
The name
Anthony Trollope used the word Vandemonian:
History of Europe
The Industrial Revolution, beginning in Great Britain, allowed masses of people, not just the rich, to escape for the first time from lives of being always poor and barely able to afford either food or shelter. The early British Empire split as its colonies in America revolted to establish their own representative government. Political change in continental Europe was spurred by the French Revolution, as people cried out for liberté, egalité, fraternité (liberty, equality, brotherhood). The French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, conquered and reformed the social structure of the continent through war up to 1815, when he met his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and was sent away into exile. As more and more small property holders were granted the vote, especially in France and the UK, socialist and trade union activity developed and revolution gripped Europe in 1848. The last vestiges of serfdom were abolished in Austria-Hungary in 1848. Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861. The Balkan nations began to regain their independence from the Ottoman Empire. After the Franco-Prussian War, Italy and Germany were formed, each from groups of smaller countries which spoke the same languages, in 1870 and 1871.
Van Diemen's Land
The name
"They are (the Vandemonians) united in their declaration that the cessation of the coming of convicts has been their ruin" "(The Vandemonians agree that stopping the convicts from coming has made them poor)"
History of Europe
Conflict intensified across the globe, in a chase for empires, where powerful countries turned less powerful ones into colonies, until the outbreak, in 1914, of the biggest war that had ever been fought up to that point in time. It was called the Great War but now most often called World War I or the First World War. In the desperation of war, the Russian Revolution promised the people "peace, bread and land" and led to the end of the Russian Empire and its replacement by the formation of the Soviet Union. The defeat of Germany came at the price of economic destruction, which was formally written into the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 where it was stated that the First World War had been entirely the fault of Germany and its allies and demanded that they pay back the entire amount the war had cost.
The Great Depression began in 1929, brought about in part by the economic problems caused by the attempt to force Germany to pay for the war and in part by trade restrictions. Millions of people around the world lost their jobs. Governments changed in many countries, some by elections and some by revolutions. The governments soon fell into two main groups, those who believed in freedom and human rights and those who followed fascism. These two deeply different views led to a Second World War, which most people who write history feel began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but soon spread to most of the countries in the world. It took in wars which were already happening in other places, most notably the war between Japan and China. After this war Socialism spread to Central and Eastern Europe, including the relatively new Eastern European countries of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and in Asia North Vietnam and North Korea, and, slightly later, to Cuba in the Carribean Sea very near to North America.
Eva Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón (May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. She was born in Los Toldos. She was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until she died and she served with her husband as a co-ruler of Argentina during those years. Before she died the Congress made her Spiritual Leader of the Nation. She was an actress before she married Perón.
Van Diemen's Land
The name
The last penal settlement in Tasmania at Port Arthur finally closed in 1877.
Folsom, California
Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Eva Perón
Early life
Eva grew up fairly poor and had wanted to become an actress since an early age. At sixteen, she left school and moved to Buenos Aires to pursue her dream of stardom. She got a job at a radio station there until she met Juan Perón at a charity concert held for the victims of the earthquake of San Juan in 1944. Soon, the two became very close and they were married on October 21, 1945. Eva was an active campaigner in Juan Perón's presidential campaign in 1946, and when he was elected, she continued to play an active government role.
Accomplishments
By the time of her death, she was one of the most powerful women, or maybe even the most powerful woman, in the world. She is known for her work in many charitable and feminist causes, and became an icon to many people in Argentina. Evita was President of the Peronist Women's Party, a big and powerful political party made up of women who supported the Peróns' party. She ran the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health. She helped legalize divorce in Argentina, as well as playing a leading role in enacting women's suffrage in Argentina. The Maria Eva Duarte de Perón Welfare Foundation gave a lot of funds, goods and medicine to the poor. The poor liked Evita Perón a lot. Her life inspired a musical called Evita and a movie based on the musical called Evita. The movie starred Madonna.
Death
Her cancer was detected during a hysterectomy in November 1951, but the doctors were encouraged by Juan Perón, to keep it to themselves in order to not influence the presidential campaign negatively. When she died of cervical cancer in Buenos Aires, her corpse was embalmed After her husband was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1955, her body was lost for almost 20 years, until it was found in Italy. It was brought back to Argentina and buried with her husband after he died in 1974. It was brought back by the President Isabel Perón, who was married to Juan Perón years after Eva's death. In memory of her life's work, a giant portrait on the front of Argentina's Social Development Ministry was unveiled on 26 July 2011, exactly 59 years after her death.
History of Europe
The conflict between the advocates of a capitalist and a socialist economy and political system led to the Cold War, a forty-year argument between the United States and the Soviet Union, two of the countries which had worked together to win the Second World War and the two which had come out of it with the most powerful military forces. They led respectively a Western Bloc and an Eastern Bloc, dividing Europe. Each side wanted to promote their type of government. People across the world feared a nuclear war because of the tension, and Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was assumed to be a probable battleground.
Communism became less attractive when it became clear that it could promote economic growth less effectively than the capitalistic Western states and that it was not suited for a reform that allowed freedom of speech for everyone. Therefore, the Soviet Union forced Hungary to give up its reform in 1956, it favoured the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and it stopped reform in Czechoslovakia in 1968. When in 1988/89 the Soviet leader Gorbachev made clear that he would not force the countries of the East block to stick to Communism the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed (1991). Then the United States was the only superpower left. Europe signed a new treaty of union, which included 27 European countries in 2007.
February 2018 Israel–Syria incident
On February 10, 2018 an Israeli F-16 airplane was shot down by the Syrian Air defense force near the border between Syrian and Israel. Two pilots were injured. Two hours later, the Israeli force attacked Syria. Ever since the Iranian revolution 1979, it had been unusual for Israel to attack Syria. The attack can be considered part of the ongoing Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict in the Middle East. A proxy war is when two countries really mean to fight or compete with each other but instead attack each other's allies. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not want Iranians to have bases and put troops and weapons close to Israel's borders.
Pushim
PUSHIM is a Japanese reggae singer. Her real name is Paku Pushin. She was born in Osaka on November 16, 1975, and started to sing in 1995. She released her first single in 1999. She has strong and deep voice. Her younger sister, YOUNGSHIM, is also a reggae singer.
Career
She began performing in the Kansai reggae scene in 1995. In 1998, she did back-up vocals for the Refugee Camp's "It's Too Late", a Carroll King cover. After signing with Sony Music Japan, she recorded and released her first single called "Brand New Day" on June 19, 1999. It receive a lot of critical acclaim. In September of 1999, she released a second single called "Strong Woman". It was also a success and she sold many copies. The following spring, her debut album "Say Greetings" was released. Her latest album is "Sing A Song... Lighter!". It was released in 2006, with Luciano appearing on one track.
Electoral district of Rowville
Rowville is an electoral district of Victoria. It was created in 2014. It is in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region.
Rowville is in Melbourne.
African giant shrew
Olivier's Shrew (Crocidura olivieri) is a mammal in the Soricidae family. It lives in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It lives in subtropical and tropical dry forests, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical and tropical moist mountain areas, dry flat grasslands where crops can grow, moist savannas, arable land, rural gardens, city-based areas, and heavily degraded former forest.
Aignerville
Aignerville is a former commune. It is in Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in northwest France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune of Formigny La Bataille.
Galt, California
Galt is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Arrest, Somme
Arrest is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
In 2006 the population was 868.
Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage Museum (Эрмитаж) in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest and oldest art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, founded by Catherine II of Russia in 1764 and opened in public since 1852. The main building is the Winter Palace. This was the official residence of the Russian Tsars.
Dinesh Gunawardena
Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena (දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන, தினேஷ் குணவர்தன; born 2 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician has served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since July 2022. He has served as a member of parliament, cabinet minister, and Leader of the House in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Hermitage Museum
Collections
Strong points of the Hermitage collection of Western art include Michelangelo, Giambattista Pittoni, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude Lorraine, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Canova, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and Matisse. There are several more collections. Among the collections are the Russian imperial regalia, an assortment of Faberge jewellery, and the largest existing collection of ancient gold from Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Cats
Some cats lives on the museum grounds. They are named the Hermitage cats. They are an added attraction for tourists.
Cathy Cochran
Cathleen Cochran Herasimchuk, known as Cathy Cochran (November 11, 1944 – February 7, 2021), was an American lawyer and politician. She was judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the court in 2001 by Governor Rick Perry and elected by Texas voters in 2002 and 2008. She did not seek re-election to the bench in 2014. Cochran was born in Los Angeles County, California.
She died on February 7, 2021 in Austin, Texas, aged 76.
Endoscopy
Endoscopy means to look inside. This often means looking inside the body for medical reasons with an endoscope.
An endoscope is a medical instrument that is made to see parts inside a patient's body. This has the advantage that observations and certain operations can be done without opening up the body. Whatever precautions are taken, an open body part is always at risk of infection.
The endoscope has a long tube to enter the patient's body and a tiny camera or lens attached to the front of this tube. It is usually inserted into patient's nose, mouth, or anus, so surgeons can see what is going on. If necessary, various actions can be taken.
Parts
An endoscope has at least some of these parts:
Uses
Endoscopy can involve
Bambusa farinacea
Bambusa farinacea is a species of Bambusa bamboo.
Distribution
It is endemic to Ecuador.
Srebrenica
Srebenica is a town in eastern Bosnia. In 1995 after the end of Yugoslavia and the subsequent war, the Bosnian Muslim population of the town was massacred by Serb paramilitary forces. The massacre came to be widely known as the Srebrenica massacre.
Electrolite
"Electrolite" is a 1996 song by R.E.M. and is the third single from their 10th studio album New Adventures in Hi-Fi. It went to number 5 in Iceland, number 29 in the United Kingdom and number 96 in the United States. It has been covered by Radiohead.
Track listing
All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.
Melinda Plowman
Melinda Plowman (born May 13, 1941), also called Melinda Ann Casey and Melinda Casey, is an American actress and associate director. She started acting aged 6 and was in many movies and television series in the 1960s. Her first lead role was in the 1966 horror movie Billy the Kid Versus Dracula. She joined the Directors Guild of America in the 1970s and was an associate director in the 1990s.
Light-vented bulbul
The light-vented bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis), also called the Chinese bulbul, Japanese bulbul and white-vented bulbul. is a kind of bird in the bulbul family found in central and southern China, Hong Kong, Macao, northern Vietnam, southern Japan and Taiwan, and sometimes South Korea. A common kind of songbird that likes areas of light woods, it can often be seen in towns, suburbs and parks within its range.
Classification and relationships
The light-vented bulbul was first thought to be an Old World flycatcher and put into the group Muscicapa.
Subspecies
The bird is split into four subspecies:
Description
The light-vented bulbul has a large white patch covering the nape and the sides of its black head. It also sings sweetly with a cha-ko-lee...cha-ko-lee... sound. It has a white color from the back of its eyes to the back of its head.
Range and habitat
In Hong Kong, the light-vented bulbul is common in lightly wooded areas, farmland and shrubland, whereas the red-whiskered bulbul is the common bulbul of suburbs and town parks. In Taiwan, however, the light-vented bulbul is the most common in all of these landscapes, except on the east coast where the Styan's bulbul is found instead. Chinese bulbuls are seen commonly in Shanghai, and are maybe the third most common bird after sparrows and mourning doves..
Kenora
Kenora, originally named Rat Portage (Portage-aux-Rats), is a small city on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to Manitoba, and about 200 km east of Winnipeg. It is the seat of Kenora District.
Royal Medal
The awards are for work done within the Commonwealth of Nations. The award was created by George IV and awarded first in 1826.
At present, three medals are awarded each year. Two are for fundamental research ("the advancement of natural knowledge") in the physical and biological sciences). One is for applied research ("distinguished contributions in the applied sciences").
Enamul Haque Jr
Enamul Haque (born 5 December 1986 in Sylhet), is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is known as Enamul Haque jr because a Bangladeshi player Enamul Haque played before him. He is a right-handed batsman. He bowls a slow left-arm delivery.
Alloza
Alloza is a municipality that is found in the province of Teruel in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. According to the 2021 census (INE), the municipality has 577 people.
Arvillers
Arvillers is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
In 2006 the population was 737.
Judgment Day (2008)
Judgment Day (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held on May 18, 2008 at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the tenth Judgment Day event held by the WWE.
Airan
Airan is a former commune. It is found in the region Basse-Normandie in the Calvados department in the northwest of France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Valambray.
Beauval, Somme
Beauval is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. In 2016, 2,126 people lived there.
San Juan Bautista, California
San Juan Bautista is a city in San Benito County, California, United States.
Joseph Bonnel
Joseph Bonnel (4 January 1939 – 13 February 2018) was a French football midfielder. He was born in Florensac, France.
Bonnel was part of France in the FIFA World Cup 1966. He scored 3 goals during the 1966 season.
Bonnel died on 13 February 2018 at the age of 79.
Gigi Hadid
Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid (born April 23, 1995) is an American supermodel.
In November 2014, Hadid made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models.com.
In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council.
Hadid has made over 40 appearances on international Vogue magazine covers.
She was in a relationship with English singer Zayn Malik since late 2015 until 2021. She has a daughter with Malik, Khai (born September 19, 2020).
Isleton, California
Isleton is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States.
Cengiz Akturk
Cengiz Akturk is a fashion and retail brand, main office located in Sisli, Istanbul.
History
More than 20 years have passed since Cengiz Akturk began working in the fashion sector. He hosted his debut fashion show in 2022 at the Mandarin Oriental Bosphorus Istanbul.
Cengiz Akturk has a variety of dresses, including hijab evening dresses, long and short cocktail dresses, flying skirts, and wedding dresses, on display.
Becquigny, Somme
Becquigny is a commune. It is in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The D763 road goes through Becquigny.
The population of Becquigny was 131 in 2017.
Wesley Douglas
Wesley Douglas, born November 28, 1996 in Stoke-on-Trent, is an English rugby player playing for center and winger with CA Brive Corrèze in Top 14 since 2020.
Wesley Douglas left England in 2016 to join France and the Pro D2 within the squad of AS Béziers Hérault.
In January 2020, he joined CA Brive Corrèze from the 2020-2021 season and discovered the Top 14.
July Ultimatum
The July Ultimatum was a demand issued by Austria-Hungary to the Royal Serbian Government at 6 pm on 23 July 1914, after the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Austria-Hungary's government did not directly accuse Serbia for the assassination but for "doing nothing to suppress" the subversive anti-Austro-Hungarian movement in Serbia which grew beyond Serbia's borders and which was responsible for acts of terrorism, assassination attempts and murders.
Serbia refused to accept one of the ten items of the ultimatum, and so Austria-Hungary mobilized their army. This, along with a chain of Alliances in Europe (Triple Entente and Central Powers) helped cause World War I.
The Ultimatum Requests
The Ultimatum requested Serbia to pledge itself for the following:
== The Russian Memorandum of Advice to Serbia == The Russia asked Austria-Hungaria to extend the ultimatum deadline which would allow the Governments of the Great Powers to become acquainted with and to investigate the documents on the Sarajevo crime.
== The Serbian Response == The Royal Government binds itself further:
African dwarf kingfisher
The dwarf kingfisher (Ispidina lecontei) is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Uganda.
Crow Island School
Crow Island School is an elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois. Several architects worked together to design the building. Eero Saarinen worked with the architectural firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will. The building was finished in 1940. It is different from many other schools because of its design and its ideas about education. Now, kindergarten through fourth grade students go to this school.
The building won the Twenty-five Year Award in 1971. The school was named a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
Assainvillers
Assainvillers is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
In 2006 the population was 165.
Newton Morton
Newton Ennis Morton (21 December 1929 – 7 February 2018) was an American population geneticist. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. He was one of the founders of the field of genetic epidemiology.
Morton died on 7 February 2018 in Southampton, England at the age of 88.
Van Hool
Van Hool is a Belgian company, which builds buses. It was founded in 1947 by Bernard Van Hool.
The headquarters are in Koningshooikt (Antwerp).
They have got 15 different buses for the city. 9 of them have got a normal engine, 4 have got an engine that works with gas, and 2 buses have got an electric engine, they are called Trolleybus. List of all types of Low-Floor-Bus (Citybus):
Also they have got 13 different kinds of coachbuses. List of all types of coachbuses:
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of peace treaties, the Treaty of Osnabrück and the Treaty of Münster, signed on May 15 and October 24 of 1648, which ended both the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War. The treaties involved Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the other German princes, Spain, France, Sweden and representatives of the Dutch Republic. The Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed in 1659, ending the war between France and Spain, is also often considered part of the overall agreement.
Locations
The peace negotiations were held in the cities of Münster and Osnabrück, which lie about 50 km apart from each other, in the present German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Sweden had favoured Osnabrück because of its Protestant background, France chose Münster because of its Catholic background. In any case, two locations were required because the Protestant and Catholic leaders refused to meet each other. The Catholics used Münster, and the Protestants used Osnabrück.
Results
Spain accepted the independence of the Dutch Republic. The power that Ferdinand III had taken for himself against the Holy Roman Empire's constitution was stripped. That meant that the rulers of the German states could again determine the religion of their lands.
There were also territorial adjustments.
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Bombing of Guernica
The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was mainly carried out by the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
The attack is controversial because of the bombing of civilians by a military air force, which is seen as a war crime.
Headset
A headset is a headphone with a microphone. People can listen to sound with headphone and can record sound with a microphone. A headset is easy to use because it can be used without hands, just like a telephone. A person only needs to put the headset on his/her head and then can talk with a mic. Many people use headsets at the computer so they can converse and type easily. Headsets normally have only one speaker like a telephone, but also can be made with speakers for both ears.
History
The inventor of the headset is Nathaniel Baldwin, but his version could not be sold to people. The second headset is the US Army's headset for airplane pilots in World War I.
How headsets work?
Headset is made up of two parts. They are input part and output part. From input part, headset receive sound signal. And from output part, headset receive sound signal and generate sound.
Katas Raj Temples
The Shri Katas Raj Temples (Punjabi,  شری) (Sanskrit: कटासराज) also known as Qila Katas. The temples' pond is said in the Puranas to have been created from the teardrops of Shiva, after he wandered the Earth inconsolable after the death of his wife Sati. The pond occupies an area of two kanals and 15 marlas, with a maximum depth of 20 feet. The temples were visited by India's former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani in 2005. In 2006, the Pakistani government began restoration works at the temples, with further improvements announced in 2017.
Place name
The name of the temple complex is believed to derive from the Sanskrit word kataksha, meaning "tearful eyes." The pond was originally referred to as Viskund, or "poison spring", but was later referred to as Amarkund, Chamaskund, and finally Katakshkund, meaning "Spring of tearful eyes." The pond in Urdu and Persian is referred to as Chashm-e-Alam, meaning "Sorrowful/Tearful Eyes." while some of his tears collected in two ponds, one of which is the pond around which the Katas Raj Temples are set, while the other is at Pushkar, near the famous Sufi pilgrimage centre of Ajmer Sharif. The sacred pond in the complex is believed by Hindus to be filled with Shiva's tears after the death of his wife Sati. The water in the pond is of high clarity.
Historical significance
The temples play a role in the Hindu epic poem, the Mahābhārata, where the temples are traditionally believed to have been the site where the Pandava brothers spent a significant portion of their exile. It is also traditionally believed by Hindus to be the site where the brothers engaged in a riddle contest with the Yakshas, as described in the Yaksha Prashna. Another tradition states that the Hindu deity Krishna laid the foundation of the temple, and established a hand-made shivling in it. The temples are considered to be the second most sacred site in the historic pre-1966 East Punjab region, after the temple at Jwalamukhi in modern Himachal Pradesh (Northern India). Therefore they can be considered as the "National Hindu Temple of Pakistan", a potential for all Indian Yatris or Shaivite worshipers respectively.
Architecture
The Katas site houses the Satgraha, a group of seven ancient temples, remains of a Buddhist stupa, five other medieval temples, havelis scattered around a pond considered holy by Hindus.
The temples at Katas are mostly constructed on square platforms. The elevation of the sub shrines seems to form a series of cornices with small rows of pillars, crowned by a ribbed dome. The seven temples were built in an architectural style similar to Kashmiri temples, with dentils, fluted pillars, trefoil arches, and rooflines that are pointed. The Shiva temple is also built on a square platform. Its entrance is a recessed round arch with faint cusps and a rectangular opening to the north.
Recent history
In January 2017, Pakistan's government began installation of shikharas on the temples. In February 2017, 200 pilgrims from India traveled to the temple to participate in the Katas Raj Dham festival. In 2018, Pakistan issued visas to 139 Indian Hindu pilgrims to visit Katas Raj dham.
Murtis (idols) of Hindu gods were placed in the seven temples, at a cost of Rs. 51.06 million. A three-member archaeological team visited India, Sri Lanka and Nepal to collect murtis of various Hindu gods.
Pedro Gomez (journalist)
Pedro Gomez (August 20, 1962 – February 7, 2021) was an American sports journalist. He worked as a reporter for ESPN from 2003 to 2021. He appeared on the SportsCenter show. He was primarily a baseball reporter. He was also a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He covered 25 World Series and 22 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.
Gomez died at his home in Phoenix, Arizona on February 7, 2021, at age 58.
Bambusa affinis
Bambusa affinis is a species of Bambusa bamboo, and a member of the grass family
Ralph Abraham (politician)
Ralph Lee Abraham Jr. (born September 16, 1954), is an American politician, physician and former veterinarian. Abraham was the Republican United States Representative for LA's 5th congressional district from 2015 until 2021.
Bambusa affinis
Description
The perennial plant can grow to 500–600 cm long and the stem can go up to 25–35 mm diameter.
Ralph Abraham (politician)
Abraham unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Louisiana in the 2019 election.
Berneuil, Somme
Berneuil is a commune. It is in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Li Tie
Li Tie (born 18 September 1977) is a Chinese football player. He has played for China PR national team.
Club career statistics
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