cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
The Wild One
Story
Johnny leads his biker gang into a small town. The club members are rowdy. They hang out at the cafe drinking beer. Kathie works in the cafe. Johnny takes a liking to her. He asks her out. She declines. Johnny learns that she is a policeman's daughter. He changes his mind about dating her.
Another biker gang rides into town. Their leader is Chino. He does not like Johnny. The two fight. Johnny wins. Chino's bikers vandalize the town and harass the townspeople. They tease Kathie. Johnny rescues her. The two ride into a park. Kathie is attracted to Johnny. He mauls her. She cries and runs off. Johnny rides after her.
Ōtoku
Ōtoku (応徳) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Eihō and before Kanji. This period spanned the years from February 1084 through April 1087. The reigning emperor was Emperor Shirakawa-tennō (白河天皇).
The Wild One
Story
The sheriff arrives with his deputies. Order is restored. Johnny is arrested for killing the old man. Two witnesses say that Johnny was not responsible for the old man's death. The bikers are ordered to leave town. Johnny goes back to the cafe to say goodbye to Kathie. He then leaves.
Critical response
Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader has written: "Legions of Brando impersonators have turned his performance in this seminal 1954 motorcycle movie into self-parody, but it's still a sleazy good time." Variety noted that the film "is long on suspense, brutality and sadism ... All performances are highly competent."
The Catholic Legion of Decency objected to the "excessive brutality, lack of moral compensation and suggestiveness" in The Wild One. One French journalist described the movie as "the most unpleasant American movie ever seen." The magazine Positif described the movie as a masterpiece and "the [movie] of the year".
Brando has written: "The public's reaction to The Wild One was, I believe, a product of its time and circumstances. It was only seventy-nine minutes long, short by modern standards, and it looks dated and corny now; I don't think it has aged well."
Popular reaction
Brando's sideburns inspired a fad. James Dean and Elvis Presley wore them. Brando's character was parodied by Harvey Lembeck in the "beach party" movies of the early 1960s.
Lovers and Liars
Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita) is a 1979 Italian French comedy movie directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément, Laura Betti, Andréa Ferréol.
Jemaa el-Fnaa
Jemaa el-Fnaa (Arabic: ساحة جامع الفناء saaHat jamaaʻ al-fanâʼ, also Jamaa el Fna, Djema el-Fna or Djemaa el-Fnaa) is a famous square in Old city of Marrakesh, Morocco.
2011 bombings
On April 28, 2011 an explosion originated at the cafe "Aragana" in the square. 17 people were killed while 25 were wounded in the blast. According to local media reports, one source of the blast was a gas pipe.
Romeries
Romeries is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2019, 469 people lived there.
Heni Materoa Carroll
Heni Materoa Carroll (1850s to November 1, 1930) also known as Te Huinga was a leader of the Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki (a group of the Māori)) and wife of politician James Carroll.
She became chief of her people when her mother died in 1887. When her husband was elected to Parliament, she did not move from Gisborne. During World War I she worked to support Māori soldiers. She became chairperson of the Eastern Māori Patriotic Association. She was given the Order of the British Empire in 1918.
SSG Landers
The SSG Landers, known as the SK Wyverns from 2000 to 2020, is a professional baseball team in South Korea. It was established in 2000. The team is based in Incheon and plays home games at Incheon SSG Landers Field. The mascot of this team was a wyvern, a king of dragons, while it was known as the SK Wyverns. Now, the mascot of this team is a dog.
History
In the 2000 season, the Ssangbangwool Raiders, a team that had previously represented the North Jeolla region since 1991, was dissolved because of the bankruptcy of the Ssangbangwool Group. Then the KBO appointed SK company as a supporter of the new team, and SK determined its team name as SK Wyverns. So the Raiders and the Wyverns has no historical links although the Wyverns consisted of many players from the Raiders.
The Hyundai Unicorns, a team that had previously represented Incheon, went to Suwon, and the SK Wyverns became new Incheon team. It advanced the first Korean Series in 2003, where somewhat ironically, it was defeated by the Hyundai Unicorns in seven games.
Records
In 2007, under the new director Kim Sung-keun, SK defeated the Doosan Bears in six games to win the 2007 Korean Series - the first time the franchise had won the Korean Series - after finishing the league in first place. They became the first team in Korean Series history to win after losing the first two games. Designated Hitter Kim Jae-hyun was the series MVP.
SK went to the Korean Series again in 2008, once again facing their main rivals, Doosan Bears. In a repeat of 2007, SK defeated Doosan and became the Korean Series Champions again. Choi Jeong, 21 year old 3rd baseman, was the series MVP.
In 2009, in spite of many injured players, SK advanced the Korean Series again, but they were defeated by the KIA Tigers in 7 games. However, in 2010, it regained the champion title by defeating Samsung Lions. In the next two years, SK lost to Samsung in the Korean Series.
Charlotte Stoker
Charlotte Matilda Blake Stoker (1818–1901), also known as Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley, was a woman from Ireland. She recorded stories and helped those in need. Her story of Sligo in 1832 when people became unhealthy and died from cholera and the terrible events that followed helped her son Bram Stoker write Dracula and other books.
Early life
Stoker was born in 1818 in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland. Stoker's father was Thomas Thornley who was a captain in the 43rd Light Infantry of the British Army. Thornley later joined the Royal Irish Constabulary. Thornley's family came from England and moved to Ballyshannon in the 1780s. Stoker's mother was Matilda Blake. The Blake family had a long history in Galway with Richard Blake (Caddell) being Sheriff of Connaught from 1305 and others being mayors of Galway.
Stoker was to have two younger brothers and the family was to move to Sligo Town while Stoker was still young.
Cholera outbreak
Cholera is an infectious disease (like flu or Covid) that makes people very unhealthy and may make them die. In 1832 cholera spread through many countries in the world. After a while cholera reached Sligo Town where Stoker lived. Cholera was very bad in Sligo. No other town in Ireland or Great Britain had it worse. Many caring for those who lost their health from cholera were also to catch and die from cholera. People were very worried and behaved very bad. For example they put people in graves before they were dead. Stoker, who was a 14 year-old child, seen and remembered all their bad things. Her family were in fear and went to Ballyshannon (some 40 km by road to the north) where they had other family. But the people of Ballyshannon were in fear that the Stoker family might have caught cholera and told them to go away.
Marriage
Stoker married in 1844. She met her husband-to-be Abraham in Coleraine, County Londonderry, while he was on holiday from his job at Dublin Castle. He was about 20 years older than her. His ancestors had come to Ireland with William of Orange and had made living by farming land they owned themselves. Once married they moved to Harcourt Street in Dublin before moving to The Crescent in Clontarf. They had seven children: Thornley, Matilda, Abraham (Bram), Tom, Richard, Margaret, and finally George was born in 1855. Bram was not a healthy child and had to stay in bed until he was seven years old. While Stoker taught all of the children at home Bram needed additional attention. Eventually all Stoker's sons were to be taught at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
2008 Detroit Lions season
The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th football season of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). It was their third year under head coach Rod Marinelli. In 2008, the Lions had one of the worst seasons of any major American pro sports team. They lost all 16 of their regular season games. They were the first NFL team to finish a season with no wins and 16 losses after their loss to the Green Bay Packers. They were the second team with no wins after the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Matt Millen was fired during the bye week of the season and the rest of the staff were fired after the season was over.
Charlotte Stoker
Helping others
Stoker tried to do what she could to help Ireland overthrow its feudal past. She remembered the poor of Sligo, and the famines in Ireland where people did not have enough to eat and had to go to another country. In May 1863 she said at the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society in Ireland that there should be special schools for those who could not hear and speak.
2008 Detroit Lions season
In 2017, the Cleveland Browns became the second team to lose all 16 regular season games.
Regular season
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Charlotte Stoker
Later life
Stoker's husband Abraham retired at in 1865 at age 65. He had borrowed money to send his sons to TCD. They moved to France with Matilda and Margaret in the 1870s because costs there were lower than Dublin. They left their sons in Ireland, all had done well. Thornley, Richard and George were in medicine, Bram at Dublin Castle, with Tom only still at TCD.
Abraham died in Italy on 12 October 1876 and was buried in Tirana. Stoker returned to Dublin after her husband died. Bram was by this time in London and asked her to write to him about her memories of the cholera in Sligo in 1832. Her reply letter is both a useful story of that event and and was used by Bram as a start for his stories and his famous book about Dracula.
Stoker died in 1901 and is buried at Mount Jermone Cemetery, Harolds Cross, Dublin. She was 83 years old and her eyes were bad and she could not see.
Verlaine
It is at 50° 36 North, 05° 19 East.
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego (as given on its website), and as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was created in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. It was set up to celebrate comic books and for fans to meet creators, experts and other fans.
Chaumes-en-Retz
Chaumes-en-Retz is a commune of 6,759 people (2017). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2016 from the former communes of Arthon-en-Retz (the seat) and Chéméré.
Michael Anthony Bilandic
Michael Anthony Bilandic (February 13, 1923 – January 15, 2002) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1976-1979). He was a member of the Democratic Party. He became mayor after being elected by the Chicago City Council to become acting mayor, upon the death of Richard J. Daley, beating Wilson Frost.
Bilandic was born on February 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at DePaul University. He was married to Heather Morgan. Bilandic died on January 15, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois from heart failure, aged 78.
Dispute
A dispute/disagreement is a continuing disagreement carried on between two or more parties. The parties may be people, or they may be organisations or countries. Disputes can last a long time, and they can have serious results. Dispute may happen from controversy. Disputes may become conflicts. Disputes between individual people may lead to violence. Disputes between organisations may lead to legal action. Disputes between countries may lead to war.
How disputes become serious
Several factors make disputes more serious. Serious disputes may do a lot of damage to the people involved, and to their societies.
Length of time
Disputes may last for long periods, and the longer they last, the more damage they may do. Where disputes involve religions, or hostile countries, they may last for more than a lifetime. Generations of children may be taught that their side is completely right, and the other wrong.
Fundamental values
Disputes arise when there are conflicting needs, values or ideas. Differences of religion and culture are a common cause of disputes. Self-interest is a common cause of disputes between individuals.
Media spread disputes
A second factor is the use of books, newspapers, radio and television by each side to promote their side of the argument. This propaganda helps to continue and spread the dispute.
Laws
Laws may prevent freedom of speech, and prevent discussion in print or other media. This makes it difficult for either side to see merit in the other point of view. In turn, this makes it difficult for compromise or tolerance to dissolve the dispute.
Negotiation
The study of disputes and conflicts reached its peak during the Cold War. Then the West versus East conflict seemed to threaten world peace, and many ideas were put forward to use negotiation as a tool to calm the tension. Negotiation about the reduction of nuclear weapons was successful.
The tension was finally reduced by the unexpected end of the Soviet Union, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe. This was not achieved by negotiation. The reasons for the end of the Soviet Union are still being debated.
Mediation
Professional help may be available. Between people, there are counsellors; between organisations there are specialists in conflict resolution;  between countries there is the United Nations.
Time
Some disputes do fade with the passage of time, though the time may be much longer than a human lifetime. Conflict between religions may fade only after centuries, and there is no known process of mediation.
Law
All legal systems have provisions for making decisions in disputes. Usually the cases are based on claims about money, between individual people or between 'corporate entities'. These are companies or other organisations. Usually, the law can only be used if it can reach a decision based on evidence. Law textbooks list which disputes which may be addressed by law, and which can not.
Education
Education may be used to harden opinion and make a dispute worse, or it may be used to open people's minds to unpopular ideas. Education which helps people to think for themselves and keep an open mind is thought to reduce prejudice and conflict.
Democracy
Democracy is one way of easing conflict within a country. It is not a perfect solution, for small groups may feel they are permanently excluded from power. Free speech and freedom from censorship exist to some extent in democracies. These freedoms are valuable to minority groups inside a country. Countries that have these freedoms are called open or liberal democracies.
Examples
Of course, there are many disputes between individual people, but disputes between large groups or nations are of very great importance.
Differential (mechanical device)
A differential is a mechanical device made up of several gears. It is used in almost all mechanized four-wheel vehicles. It is used to transmit the power from the driveshaft to the drive wheels. Its main function is to allow the drive wheels to turn at different rpms allowing the wheels to go around corners while still receiving power from the engine.
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (before 1750 – August 18, 1818) was the founder of the city of Chicago, Illinois in c. 1770s. Point du Sable was the first person to live in the city. He settled around where today the Chicago River is located at. He left Chicago in 1800.
Point du Sable was born around the 1750s. His birthplace is not known. Many people say that he was born in Haiti. Point du Sable died on August 18, 1818 in St. Charles, Missouri.
Verviers
Verviers is a municipality in the Belgian province of Liège and in the Arrondissement of Verviers.
In 2007, 54150 people lived there.
It is at 50° 35 North, 05° 51 East.
Harrison Ford (silent movie actor)
Harrison Ford (March 16, 1884 – December 2, 1957) was an American stage and movie actor. He was a leading Broadway theatre performer and a star of the silent film era.
Ford was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 16, 1884. Ford died on December 2, 1957 after being run-over by a car in the early 1950s. He was not related to the living actor with the same name. He was married to actress to Beatrice Prentice from 1909 until his death in 1957. Ford died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California after being run over by a car on December 2, 1957, aged 73.
Margaret Cruickshank
Dr Margaret Barnett Cruickshank (1 January 1873 – 28 November 1918) was the first registered woman doctor in New Zealand.
Legacy
In 1923 a memorial statue was shown at Seddon Square in Waimate. The plinth was prepared by Daniel Berry and the statue was carved by William Trethewey. In 1948 the maternity room in Waimate Hospital was named after her.
Hexafluorosilicic acid
Hexafluorosilicic acid is a chemical compound that is an acid. Its chemical formula is H2SiF6. It is made by the reaction of hydrofluoric acid with silicon dioxide when the hydrofluoric acid is produced. It can be reacted with bases such as sodium hydroxide to produce a fluorosilicate salt such as sodium fluorosilicate. It is used to make artificial cryolite. It releases hydrogen fluoride when it is heated, so it is toxic like hydrofluoric acid. It is used in fluoridation of water.
Lester L. Bond
Lester Legrant Bond (October 27, 1829 – April 15, 1903) was an American politician. He was the acting Mayor of Chicago, Illinois from August 18, 1873 through December 1, 1873 when Joseph Medill left for Europe.
Crosey-le-Petit
Crosey-le-Petit is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the Doubs department in east France.
Lester L. Bond
Bond was born on October 27, 1829 in Ravenna, Ohio. He was married to Mary Aspenwell. They had a daughter, Laura Bond. Bond died on April 15, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois from a stroke, aged 73.
Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchell (born January 20, 1943) is an American businesswoman. She was the first woman president and CEO of PBS.
Mitchell partners with the TED organization to co-curate and host an annual global TEDWomen conference.
Kanji (era)
Kanji (寛治) was a Japanese era (年号,) after Ōtoku and before Kahō. This period started in April 1087 and ended in December 1094. The reigning emperor was Emperor Horikawa-tennō (堀河天皇).
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride is a chemical compound. It is a highly toxic colorless gas. Its chemical formula is HF. It dissolves in water to produce hydrofluoric acid, a strongly toxic corrosive acid. It is used to make fluorine. It is used as a catalyst. It is much more easily liquified (made into liquid) than any other hydrogen halide.
Onitsha
Onitsha (Ọ̀nị̀chà Mmílí or just Ọ̀nị̀chà) is a city on the east side of the Nigeria River, in Nigeria's Anambra State. It has a river port. In 2006, around 260,000 people lived there. It was also the largest city in Biafra.
Divatte-sur-Loire
Divatte-sur-Loire (Diwazh-Liger) is a commune of 6,844 people (2017). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2016 from the former communes of La Chapelle-Basse-Mer (the seat) and Barbechat.
Nässjö Municipality
Nässjö Municipality (Nässjö kommun, Nässjö kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden. The seat is in Nässjö.
Anvik, Alaska
Anvik is a city in Alaska. About 95 people lived in Anvik as of the year 2007. It is on the west bank of the Yukon River. It is the traditional home of the Deg Hit'an Athabascan people.
Loireauxence
Loireauxence is a commune of 7,522 people (2017). It is found in the region Pays de la Loire in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2016 from the former communes of Varades (the seat), Belligné, La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur and La Rouxière.
Courbevoie
Courbevoie is a commune that is found in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. In 2017, 81,719 people lived there.
To Cut a Long Story Short
"To Cut a Long Story Short" is a 1980 debut single from English new wave band Spandau Ballet and was taken from their debut studio album Journeys to Glory. It went to number 5 in the United Kingdom, number 9 in Ireland, number 15 in Australia, number 19 in Spain and number 38 in New Zealand.
Helsinki Stock Exchange
The Helsinki Stock Exchange (formerly OMX Helsinki, officially NASDAQ OMX Helsinki) is a stock exchange that is in Helsinki, Finland. The Helsinki Stock Exchange was first made in October 7, 1912 when they made their first transaction. After that they had remained a "free form" type of financial association until 1984. Then it changed to a cooperative owned mostly by banks, traders, other companies and associations. The stock exchange lists 141 businesses.
Thomas Hoyne
Thomas Hoyne (February 11, 1817 – July 27, 1883) was an American politician who was elected as the Mayor of Chicago in 1875. Since Honye was an Independent, there was never a Democrat or Republican who wanted to run for mayor at the time. But after his victory, he did not wanted to be the mayor because of the conflict and might ruin his career.
Bible Hill, Nova Scotia
Bible Hill is a Canadian village in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.
Jan Vertonghen
Jan Bert Lieve Vertonghen (born 24 April 1987) is a Belgian football player. He plays as a centre-back for Benfica and the Belgium national team.
Narcotic
A narcotic is a drug that causes a loss of feeling, or paralysis. The name narcotic was probably first used by the Greek physician Galen. Galen listed mandrake root or poppy juice among the main examples for such substances.
Today, the word narcotic is mainly used for illegal drugs, which do not necessarily have these properties. Marijuana and cocaine are considered to be narcotics, even they do not have the medical properties described.
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a video game from the Sly Cooper series for the PlayStation 2. It was released in September 14, 2005.
In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, the player controls either Sly, Bentley and Murray with additional characters as the game progresses.
Plot
In Kaine Island, Sly and his gang are ready to unlock the Cooper Vault. For the following parts, the player sees how Sly got his gang together.
Fontenay-aux-Roses
Fontenay-aux-Roses is a commune that is found in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. In 2017, 24,564 people lived there.
Roman Josi
Roman Josi (born June 1, 1990) is a Swiss ice hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Veurne
Veurne is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
Roman Josi
Playing career
Before playing in the NHL, Josi played 106 games with the SC Bern of the National League A (NLA). He also played 3 games with HC Neuchâtel of the National League B (NLB).
Veurne
In 2007, 11832 people lived there.
It is at 51° 04 North, 02° 39 East.
Roman Josi
Playing career
He was drafted with the 38th overall pick by the Nashville Predators in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. On May 28, 2010, the Predators signed Josi to a three-year entry-level contract. On November 26, 2011, Josi made his NHL debut in a 4-1 loss against the Detroit Red Wings. On December 10, 2011, he scored his first NHL goal against Dan Ellis of the Anaheim Ducks.
Borgholm Municipality
Borgholm Municipality (Borgholms kommun) is a municipality. It is on the northern part of the island of Öland. The seat is in Borgholm. The municipality is a part of Kalmar County.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as The Naked Lunch) is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959. This is the third novel written by the Beat Generation writer, although only his second to be published.
The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in 1959 by Olympia Press. An American edition by Grove Press followed soon after in 1962. The American edition was titled Naked Lunch and was different from the Olympia Press edition.
Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME" 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a one-engine multirole combat aircraft. It was originally designed and built by General Dynamics, which is now part of Lockheed Martin. The United States Air Force (USAF) ordered the F-16 in 1972. The airplane first flew four years later in 1976. Over 4,600 F-16s have been built since then. The airplane has been used by more than 25 air forces around the world. It is also used by the Thunderbirds, the USAF's aerobatics team. As of 2015, there are more F-16s in military use than any other fixed-wing aircraft.
Capabilities
The F-16 is able to fly at twice the speed of sound. It is armed with a M61 Vulcan Gatling gun and has eleven places where weapons or other equipment can be attached. It was the first production combat airplane to be designed to be unstable to be easier to turn, and has easier controls to make it highly agile in the air. Its designers also used many other new ideas such as a bubble canopy to help the pilot see better and a control stick on the side of the cockpit to make it easier to steer during tight turns and high g-forces.
The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but it is often called the "Viper" by its pilots and crews. The nickname came from the fact that the viper snake is known for its deadly fangs and venom, and because the Colonial Viper spacecraft from Battlestar Galactica was popular when the airplane was introduced to the USAF.
Swainsboro, Georgia
Swainsboro is a city in Emanuel County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 7,277. The city is the county seat of Emanuel County.
Fred VanVleet
Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. (born February 25, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA.
Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident, also known as the Manchurian Incident, was an event set up by Japanese soldiers as a reason for invading the northern part of China known as Manchuria in 1931. On September 18, 1931, a small amount of dynamite was blown up by a Japanese soldier near Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden. Although the explosion was so weak that the rail was still usable, the Japanese army, blaming the action on the Chinese people, fully invaded Manchuria, leading to its occupation. Japan set up its puppet state of Manchukuo six months later. Soon the world knew the event, leading Japan to diplomatic isolation and its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
Gerald Nachman
Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He was born in Oakland, California.
Nachman was a television writer for the San Jose Mercury News. He was a columnist for the New York Daily News and writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Nachman died April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, California of frontotemporal dementia at the age of 80.
Robert Griffin III
Robert Lee Griffin III (born February 12, 1990), nicknamed RG3, is an American football quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Baylor University, and won the 2011 Heisman Trophy for being the best college player that year. He was the second person taken by the Washington Redskins with the second pick of the 2012 NFL Draft. Later in 2016 he was traded to the Cleveland Browns. He spent three years backing up Lamar Jackson for the Baltimore Ravens. Currently he is employed by ESPN covering NCAA and NFL games.
Migratory locust
The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) is the most widespread locust species, and the only species in the genus Locusta. It occurs throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It used to be common in Europe but has now become rare there.
Because of the vast geographic area it occupies, which comprises many different ecological zones, numerous subspecies have been described. However, not all experts agree on the validity of some of these subspecies.
Many other species of Orthoptera  with gregarious and migratory behavior are indicated with the name of 'locusts'.
Polyphenism
The migratory locust is polyphenic. It has a solitary phase and a gregarious phase. This is a type of polymorphism where a single genotype produces two or more phenotypes. During development, an environmental factor causes a switch from one morph to another.
For the migratory locust, the switch is caused by population density. As the density of the population increases the locust transforms from the solitary phase to the gregarious phase, with intermediate phases.
The colour and size of the migratory locust changes according to its phase and its age. Gregarious larvae have a yellow to orange covering with black spots. Solitary larvae are green or brown. The gregarious adult is brownish with yellow, the latter colour becoming more intense and extensive on maturation. The solitary adult is brown with varying extent of green colour depending on the colour of the vegetation. Gregarious adults vary in size between 40 and 60 mm according to the sex. They are smaller than the solitary adults.
1980 United States heat wave
The 1980 United States heat wave was a period of strong heat and drought. It caused serious havoc and damage in the Southern Great Plains and much of the Midwestern United States during the summer of 1980. It was one of the most devastating and damaging natural disasters in terms of deaths.
The heat wave first got started in June 1980. A strong high pressure area began building in the central and Southern United States. That allowed the temperatures to soar to 90 °F almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere. That prevented thunderstorm development and caused severe drought conditions. But the heat wave broke when the dying Hurricane Allen stopped the weather pattern.
The heat wave and drought led a number of cities in the Midwest and South to have record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was only below 90 °F twice. In the same city, the high temperature hit 100 °F 17 days in a row. In Memphis, Tennessee, the high temperature reached 108 °F on Sunday, July 13. It was part of a 15-day stretch of 100 °F temperatures that lasted from July 6 to July 20.
Pratihar
Pratihar were the Hindu Rajput clan. They were the rulers of Gurjaratara (Gujarat) or Gurjara. They were also called Gurjar - Pratihara because in early India the clans of Rajput rulers were named after the name of the area on which they rule.
1980 United States heat wave
The agricultural damage by the 1980 heat wave and drought was over $20 billion (1980 USD). That allowed the temperatures to soar to 90 °F almost every day from June to September. This high pressure system acted as a cap on the atmosphere.
In Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F a total of 69 times. Forty-two of those were consecutive days. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the high temperature hit 113 °F on two days: June 26 and 27.
Garches
Garches is a commune that is found in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. In 2017, 17,869 people lived there.
Pratihar
The Important and Famous Pratihar king was -
Rajput Samarat Mihir bhoj
Born to Win
Born to Win is a 1971 American black comedy movie directed by Ivan Passer and starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro. It was distributed by United Artists.
Atka, Alaska
Atka is a city in Alaska. About 75 people lived in Atka as of the year 2007.
Swirly
A swirly or swirlie is a form of bullying in which the victim's head is put into a toilet. Some people have questioned whether swirlies are real or whether they were invented for television and other fiction.
In fiction
On television, one or more bigger people, usually high school boys, pick up the victim. Then they dunk the victim's head in a toilet and flush it. The swirling water gives the swirly its name. For example, on the television show Archer, Archer tells Lana about how he got pneumonia from getting a swirly in high school: Two bigger boys had picked him up, turned him upside down, and put his head in a toilet. On The Simpsons, Bart Simpson gets a swirly from Jimbo Jones. In Cobra Kai, Kenny gets revenge against Anthony LaRusso by dunking his head into a used toilet.
In real life
There are a few reports of swirlies in real life. In some, the "victim" agreed to be part of the swirly. In other reports, the victim describes the swirly almost exactly like a swirly in fiction. One Blair Academy wrestler talked about being given swirlies and other abuse from older teammates. In others, the person giving the swirly is an adult or even a parent and not an older child.
Toni Basil
Mary Antoinette Hoole (stage name Toni Basil; September 22, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. She is best known by the 1982 hit single Mickey. In addition, she has performed in many movies. Basil was born in Philadelphia.
Floridsdorfer AC
The Floridsdorfer Athletiksport-Club (Floridsdorfer Athletics Sports Club) is a football club from Floridsdorf. Floridsdorf is the 21st district of Vienna. The club was founded in August 1904. In November 1905 the name was chanced into Floridsdorfer Athletik-Klub. In June 1906 the 1. Floridsdorfer A.C. became member of the Austrian Football Association. The club colors are blue and white.
Current squad
Updated 27 July 2023
League
In brackets level in Austrian football
Wilfredo León
Wilfredo León Venero (born 31 July 1993) is a Cuban volleyball player with Polish citizenship (since July 14, 2015), a member of Cuba men's national volleyball team in 2007–2012 and Russian club Zenit Kazan, silver medalist of the World Championship 2010, NORCECA Champion (2009, 2011), Cuban Champion (2009, 2010, 2011), Russian Champion (2015, 2016).
Vielsalm
Vielsalm is a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
In 2007, 7339 people lived there.
MediaZona
Mediazona gives information on the judicial, law enforcement, and penal system in Russia. Since 2020 the site gives such news on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus too.
Mediazona has a Russian media license, but Tolokonnikova said in 2016 that it could be taken away at any time.
The site of Mediazona can't be opened in Belarus.
On 30 January 2021, the main editor of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov was locked up by the police.
On the Road
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published in 1957. Most of it is autobiographical and was written based on the road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America and is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation.
When the book was originally released, the New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance" of Kerouac's generation. The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson (born September 29, 1985) is an American football wide receiver played his for the Detroit Lions. His nickname is Megatron. He was drafted by the Lions in 2007.
He was also on the winless 2008 Lions roster. Even though the Lions went 0-16, Johnson finished as one of the strongest wide receivers statistically for the season, fifth in receiving yards (1,331) and 7th in receiving yards per game (83.2), and leading the league in receiving touchdowns (12).
At the end of 2015, Johnson retired.
David Duvall Orr
David Duvall Orr (born October 4, 1944) is an American Democratic politician from Chicago, Illinois. He was the mayor of Chicago from November 25, 1987 through December 2, 1987. He became the mayor after the death of Harold Washington.
Orr was born on October 4, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Loretta Lim. They had four children. Orr now lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Kate Edger
Kate Milligan Evans Edger (January 6, 1857 to May 6, 1935) was the first woman in New Zealand to get a university degree and the first woman in the British Empire to get a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Edger's family moved from England to New Zealand in 1862. On 11 July 1877, she graduated from the University of New Zealand.
Legacy
The Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust gives money to help women get degrees. In 2004 the Kate Edger Information Commons was formed at The University of Auckland.
Levallois-Perret
Levallois-Perret is a commune that is found in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. In 2017, 64,379 people lived there.
Ercheu
Ercheu is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Trifles
Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. She wrote a short story "A Jury of Her Peers". She adapted the story from the play a year after its debut. It was first shown to the public by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 8, 1916. In the original play, Glaspell played the role of one of the characters, Mrs. Hale. It frequently appears in American literature textbooks.
Background
The play is about the murder of John Hossack. Glaspell reported on the murder while she was working as a news journalist for the Des Moines Daily News. People thought that Hossack's wife, Margaret, killed her husband. However, Margaret argued that someone had entered the house and killed John with an axe. She was found out to be guilty, but Susan Glaspell could not forget about the accident.
Feminist drama
Trifles is an example of early feminist drama. There are two female characters: Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. They had the ability to sympathize with the victim's wife, Minnie. Therefore, they could find the evidence against her while the men could not find the evidence because of their cold, emotionless search of material facts. The female characters find the body of a canary. Its neck was twisted and it was killed in the same way as John Wright, who was the dead husband. They can find out from the evidence that Minnie was the murderer, and they appear to empathize with her situation. Clearly, the wife is symbolized by the caged bird, a common symbol of women's roles in society. The plot ends with the two women hiding the evidence against Minnie.
After they find the evidence, the two women face the moral dilemma of telling the men about the motive or protecting Minnie because they see Minnie as a victim. Their choice raises questions about solidarity among women, the meaning of justice, and the role of women in society as a source of justice.
Symbolism
As the women note, Minnie used to sing before she married John Wright. Martha thinks that Minnie could not sing or do anything that makes her happy because of her husband. Martha also thinks that Minnie's spirit was dead when she got married. The writer symbolizes it in the strangling of her songbird companion.
Minnie is similar to her kitchen and sewing things. The cold weather freezes and breaks her preserve jars. That symbolizes the cold environment of her home breaking her spirit. In addition, the coldness cause the characters to fail to empathize each other.
The male characters are clear symbols of "law" and cold rationality, while the women are intuitive. They raise questions of the value of rational thought.
Modern Theater
One thing unique in this play is that the main "players" in the murder, Minnie (the murderer) and John Wright (the murdered) never appear on stage. Other characters describe their lives and personalities.
Characters
• John Wright, the murdered Husband in the beginning of the Play • Minnie Wright, main focus of the play and suspect of her husband's murder
Marnes-la-Coquette
Marnes-la-Coquette is a commune that is found in the Hauts-de-Seine department in France. In 2017, 1,810 people lived there.
Hydrogen halide
Hydrogen halides (or hydrohalic acids) are inorganic compounds that contain a hydrogen ion and a halide ion. The halogens are fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. Astatine does not make a stable hydrogen halide, so it is not included.
The hydrogen halides are diatomic molecules with no tendency to ionize in the gas phase. Chemists therefore distinguish hydrogen chloride from hydrochloric acid. The former is a gas at room temperature that reacts with water to give the acid. Once the acid has formed, the diatomic molecule can not easily be regenerated.
Hsu Pang-hsing
Hsu Pang-hsing (, January 29, 1909 - August 3, 1984) was a Hakka doctor from Pingtung, Taiwan.
Life
Hsu was born in Zhongxinlun, Neipu (內埔, a town of Pingtung) in 1909. He studied at Neiho Elementary School (內埔公學校), Takao Middle School (高雄中學校) and Taihok Medical College (台北醫學專門學校). In 1931, he married Chiu Jen-mei. They had six children
After the end of World War II in 1945, Hsu began to serve as the first surgery director of National Taiwan University Hospital, but he resigned in 1950. After that, he set up Hsu Surgery Hospital (徐外科醫院) in 1950 and created Private Meiho Senior high school (美和高中) in 1961.
Héctor Camacho
Hector Camacho (May 24, 1962 – November 24, 2012) was a Puerto Rican boxing performer known for his quickness in the ring. He held three world championships: one in the super featherweight, one in the lightweight and one in the junior welterweight boxing weight divisions. His boxing career lasted for almost 30 years. On November 20, 2012, the boxer died on November 24 after being shot while he sat inside a vehicle close to a bar in Puerto Rico. He was 50 years old.
2022 Nigeria floods
The 2022 Nigeria floods affected many parts of the country. From the Federal Government Data, the floods rendered over 1.4 million people homeless, killed over 603 people, and injured more than 2,400 persons. About 82,035 houses had been damaged, and 332,327 hectares of land had also been affected.
While Nigeria frequently experiences seasonal flooding, this flood was the worst in the country since the 2012 Nigeria flood.
The flooding was caused by heavy rainfall, climate change, as well as the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon, which began on 13 September. Flooding, which affected Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and the surrounding region, began in the early summer of 2022 and ended in October.
Causes
The Nigerian government has blamed the floods of 2022 on unusually heavy rains and climate change. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria Matthias Schmale said that the flooding could be largely explained by climate change. Climate change in Nigeria has been responsible for flooding, droughts, decreased air quality and the loss of habitat.
A climate modeling study by the World Weather Attribution project estimated that the floods were rendered far more likely and much more intense by climate change. They modeled the June to September rainfall in the Lake Chad and lower Niger river catchment areas, looking at total rainfall and intense rain weeks.
W.G. Grace
Grace, always known as 'W.G.', was one of the greatest players, and was important in the development of the sport. He played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams. He came from a cricketing family. In 1880 W.G. with E.M. Grace, one of his elder brothers, and Fred Grace, his younger brother, was the first time three brothers played together in Test cricket. His father and a cousin were also good players.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, legally known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, in Canada. The population of the Halifax region was 359,111 in the year 2001.
W.G. Grace
Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace dominated the sport during his career. His technical innovations and enormous influence had a lasting effect. An outstanding all-rounder, he excelled at batting, bowling and fielding. It is for his batting that he is most renowned. Usually opening the innings, he was admired for his mastery of all strokes: his level of expertise was said by contemporary reviewers to be unique. He generally captained the teams he played for at all levels because of his skill and tactical know-how, and his dominant personality.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
On 6 December 1917, about 2,000 people were killed in the Halifax Explosion.
W.G. Grace
Grace qualified as a medical practitioner in 1879. Because of his medical profession, he was nominally an amateur cricketer but he is said to have made more money from cricket than any professional. He was a very competitive player. Although he was one of the most famous men in England, he was also one of the most controversial on account of his gamesmanship and his financial skill.
He took part in other sports: as a young man he was a champion 440 yard hurdler, and also played football for the Wanderers. In later life, he developed enthusiasm for golf, lawn bowls and curling.
Test cricket began in 1877, when Grace was already 28. He made his debut in 1880, scoring England's first-ever Test century against Australia. He played for England in 22 Tests through the 1880s and 1890s, all of them against Australia. He was an automatic selection for England at home, but his only Test-playing tour of Australia was that of 1891–92.
2022 Nigeria floods
Causes
Flooding increased on 13 September with the perennial release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon. Excess water released from the dam cascades down River Benue and its tributaries, flooding communities in the states of Kogi, Benue, and other states in the northeast. When Lagdo Dam was constructed in 1982, there was an agreement by Nigerian authorities to build a second, twin dam in Adamawa State to contain the overflows. Known as the Dasin Hausa Dam project, it was to be situated in Dasin Village of the Fufore local government area, but was never built by the Nigerian government.
A Letter for Evie
A Letter for Evie is a 1946 American comedy movie directed by Jules Dassin and starring Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Spring Byington, Norman Lloyd, Pamela Britton, Donald Curtis, Esther Howard. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
2022 Nigeria floods
Causes
Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq said that "there was enough warning and information about the 2022 flood" she blamed local governments, states, and communities for not acting promptly despite the warnings.
The indiscriminate construction on natural flood plains and storm water paths together with poor drainage systems in many residential areas clog channels with waste. Lax enforcement of environmental laws has only exacerbated problems even further.
Mörbylånga Municipality
Mörbylånga Municipality (Mörbylånga kommun) is a municipality on the Swedish island of Öland. It consists of the southern part of the island. The seat is in Mörbylånga. The municipality is a part of Kalmar County.