cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Alberta
The capital of Alberta is Edmonton lying near the middle of Alberta. The city of Calgary, Alberta’s other major centre is located about 300 kilometres to the south of Edmonton.
History
Canada became a country in 1867. It was much smaller than it is now, and did not include the parts of the country to the west. From 1670 to 1870, parts of Alberta were included in "Rupert's Land," land owned by the Hudson’s Bay Company in support of its trading monopoly over a vast area of Canada and parts of the United States. Northern part of Alberta was part of the what was then called "Northwestern Territories."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and painter. His best known movie is Blowup, made in 1966. He died on the same day as Ingmar Bergman, another famous director. He was born in Ferrara and died in Rome.
M1911 pistol
The M1911 is a .45 ACP caliber pistol originally made by Colt, and is now the most copied pistol design in the world. It was designed in the early 1900s by John Browning and was used in battle by many soldiers in World War I, World War II, The Korean War, and in the Vietnam War. It is semi-automatic and can fire a bullet each time the trigger is pulled. Military versions of the gun can hold seven or eight rounds inside its magazine and one more in the chamber. M1911 style guns are still made today and are for sale.
Alberta
History
Alberta was made a province of Canada in 1905, at the same time as Saskatchewan.
Pervez Musharraf
Syed Pervez Musharraf (پرويز مشرف) (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani politician and Four-star general of the Pakistan Army. He was a military dictator and the tenth President of Pakistan from 20 June 2001 to 18 August 2008, when he resigned to avoid impeachment. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Pakistan as well as former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. He took over power in Pakistan in 1999, by removing the elected government of Nawaz Sharif.
Alberta
History
The Aboriginal peoples of Canada are referred to as First Nations or by the Name of their Nation. Mixed (European/Aboriginal) People are called Metis.
Weather
Alberta is very cold in the winter and has a lot of snow during the very cold season. There is a dry part of Alberta in the south.
M1911 pistol
The "1911" in the name is because the pistol was adopted by the United States Army in the year 1911. M1911A1 pistols have an 'A1' added because they were changed from the original design in the 1920s in military service. The pistol was made first by Colt Manufacturing but was produced by many other companies during World War II. Because the M1911 is so popular, several gun companies make their own version of this gun which are still sold today.
Alberta
Work in Alberta
Alberta has a huge amount of oil (in the Athabasca Oil Sands) and natural gas.
There are also a lot of farms in Alberta. Farmers grow several different types of crops Farmers mainly grow wheat. There are also a lot of cows on Alberta farms, and Alberta beef is exported.
There is diesel fuel in Alberta.
Pervez Musharraf
He has charged with multiple murders in April 2013 and was given bail in October 2013. Then he was arrested again. In 2019, Musharraf was sentenced to death in absentia over his treason charges.
Syed Pervez Musharraf was born on 11 August 1943 in Delhi, British India (present-day India) during the British Raj. Musharraf was raised in Karachi and Istanbul. He studied mathematics at Forman Christian College in Lahore and was also educated at the Royal College of Defence Studies in the United Kingdom. Musharraf entered the Pakistan Military Academy in 1961. He was Commissioned to the Pakistan Army in 1964. He played an active role in the Afghan Civil War. Musharraf saw action during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as a second Lieutenant. By the 1980s, he was commanding an artillery brigade. In the 1990s, Musharraf was promoted to major general and assigned an infantry division. He later commanded the Special Services Group. Soon after, he served as Deputy military secretary and Director General of Military Operations.
Musharraf rose to national prominence when he was promoted to a Four-star general by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1998. This made Musharraf the head of the armed forces. He led the Kargil infiltration that almost brought India and Pakistan to a full-fledged war in 1999.
On 5 February 2023, Musharraf died due to amyloidosis. He was 79. He had been hospitalised a year prior due to the disease. His body is set to be returned to Pakistan from Dubai on 6 February.
Bordes family
The Bordes family is a French family, originally from Armagnac, in Gascony, and established in Chile, Bordeaux and Paris, where they formed a line of shipping merchants.
History
Antoine-Dominique Bordes, born on July 21, 1815 in Gimbrède, son of Barthélemy, doctor of medicine, deputy mayor of this commune, and Louise Thérèse Geneviève Bordes, married Victoire Möser on July 19, 1857 in Besançon. From this marriage came three generations of shipowners who have continued the company he founded, with the motto Union et Persévérance . Henri Bordes, his nephew, also ran a Bordeaux steamship company, and his son Antoine was director of the Compagnie Générale Maritime.
Barthélémy Bordes (1766-1840) came from an old and notable family from Agenais, including health professionals and royal officers from this province since the 18th century.
Genealogy
Pierre de Bordes, consul of Puymirol :
Dinitrogen tetroxide
Dinitrogen tetroxide, also known as nitrogen tetroxide or dinitrogen tetraoxide, is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is N2O4. It contains nitrogen in its +4 oxidation state. It contains nitrogen and oxide ions.
Romans, Ain
Romans is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Dinitrogen tetroxide
Preparation
It is made by bonding nitrogen dioxide molecules together in pairs.
Uses
It is used as a rocket propellant, along with hydrazine. This mixture is good since it does not have to be ignited. It is used similar to nitrogen dioxide to make nitric acid. It can react with metals to make nitrates.
Safety
Dinitrogen is highly toxic and corrosive. Some astronauts breathed it and had to go to a hospital.
Mike Dunleavy Jr.
Michael Joseph "Mike" Dunleavy, Jr. (born September 15, 1980 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American professional basketball player. In 2013, he joined the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (also called an oblast). It is found in the southeast of Siberia. Irkutsk is the oblast's administrative centre.
Landsberg (district)
Landsberg am Lech is a rural district in Upper Bavaria in the south of Bavaria, Germany. Neighbor districts are: Aichach-Friedberg, Fürstenfeldbruck Rural District, Starnberg Rural District, Weilheim-Schongau, Ostallgäu and Augsburg (district); Landsberg am Lech is the capital of Landsberg (district).
Chechen Americans
Chechen Americans are Americans of Chechen descent. Chechen people have origins from Chechnya, a federal subject of Russia.
Atingkok
"Atingkok" (ꯑꯇꯤꯡꯀꯣꯛ) (literally, "father void" ) is the Supreme Creator God of the universe in Meitei mythology and religion. He is regarded as the legendary male ancestor of the living beings on the earth.
Mauro Silva
Mauro Silva (born 12 January 1968) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
Club career statistics
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Bari
Bari (Bari; Bari dialect: Bare; ; Barion) is a city in southern Italy. Bari is the capital of Bari Provence and of the Apulia Region. The city itself has a population of about 320,475, as of 2011, over 116 km2, while the fast-growing urban area counts 653,028 inhabitants over 203 km2. The metropolitan area has a million inhabitants. It is the second biggest city in southern Italy (after Naples).
During World War II there was an air raid on Bari. It was called the "Little Pearl Harbor".
Municipalities
Bari is divided into 5 municipalities (Municipi), constituted in 2014. The municipality is also divided into 17 official neighbourhoods ("quartieri").
Climate
Bari has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koeppen climate classification) with mild winters and hot, dry summers. Snowfall is rare. During the summer of 2008 temperatures reached as high as 42 °C.
Twin towns—Sister cities
Bari is twinned with:
Rignieux-le-Franc
Rignieux-le-Franc is a commune. It is in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department. This in the east of France.
Flight (movie)
Flight is a 2012 drama movie directed by Robert Zemeckis. It stars Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Melissa Leo, Don Cheadle, and John Goodman. It got positive reviews. Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie four out of four stars. It was released on November 2, 2012. It was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Wildenberg
Wildenberg is a municipality in Kelheim in Bavaria in Germany.
Canton of Echternach
Echternach (Iechternach) is a canton in east Luxembourg. Its capital is Echternach.
Geography
Its area is 185.5 km2. The population in 2017 was 18,702. The Echternach canton has a population density of inhabitants/km².
It is bordered on the north by the German district of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm (part of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate), to the east by the Trier-Saarburg district (also part of Rhineland-Palatinate), to the south by the Grevenmacher canton and to the west by the Diekirch and the Mersch cantons
Part of this canton is a natural region called the Little Switzerland.
Communes
The Echternach canton has 8 communes (2017 population).
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) (BMBF) is a Federal Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The headquarters of the Ministry are in the so-called "cross buildings" (Kreuzbauten) in Bonn, a second office is in Berlin.
History
The Federal Ministry of Education and Science was founded as the Federal Ministry for Nuclear Affairs on October 20, 1955. It was renamed the Federal Ministry of Nuclear Affairs and Water-supply and Distribution in 1957, and again in 1962 to Federal Ministry of Scientific Research.
It became the Federal Ministry for Education and Science in 1969 which it kept 1994 up to the reunification with the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology had been founded only 1972.
The Ministry got its present name in 1998.
Dinitrogen pentoxide
Dinitrogen pentoxide is a chemical compound. It is made by removing water from nitric acid. Its chemical formula is N2O5. It is a powerful oxidizing agent. It is a white solid. It is made by reacting phosphorus(V) oxide with nitric acid. The phosphorus(V) oxide removes the water from the nitric acid. It can be dissolved in chloroform to add the NO2+ group to some chemical compounds. It is toxic as it can make nitrogen dioxide gas.
Shiyan
Shiyan (十堰) is a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, China. In 2010, 3,340,841 people lived there.
370 BC
Year 370 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Vicente Ehate Tomi
Vicente Ehate Tomi (born 1968) is an Equatoguinean politician. He became Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea on May 21, 2012.
George Lamming
George Lamming OCC (8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He was best known for his 1953 novel In the Castle of My Skin. He also was a professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University.
Lamming died in Barbados on 4 June 2022, four days before his 95th birthday.
Abtswind
Abtswind is a municipality in Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany.
Mauricio Funes
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959) is a Salvadoran politician. He was the President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. He won the 2009 elections as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party.
Locarno
Locarno is the capital of the Locarno district in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
Rossillon
Rossillon is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
South Canara
South Canara was a district of the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the areas of the present-day districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi of Karnataka and the Kasaragod District of Kerala. In this district Tulu, Malayalam, Kannada, Konkani and Beary are the main languages spoken.
History
South Kanara was occupied by the British East India Company. This was after the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Mysore War of 1799. South Canara along with North Kanara formed the district of Kanara in the Madras Presidency. In 1859, Kanara was split into two districts, North and South. North Kanara was made a part of the Bombay Presidency. South Canara was made a part of Madras. Mangalore was the administrative headquarters of the district. The district covered an area of 4021 sqmi.
Population
South Kanara had a total population of 1,134,713 in 1901. In this 81 percent were Hindus, 11 percent were Muslim and 7 percent were Christian. In 1901, South Kanara had a density of 282 PD/sqmi.
Ruffieu
Ruffieu is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Sami Americans
Sami Americans are Americans of Sámi descent, who originate from Sapmi, the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Lapp Americans is sometimes used, but lapp is considered derogatory by the Sami. It has been estimated that there are 30,000 people who are of Sami ancestry living in the United States.
Mauro Galvão
Mauro Galvão (born 19 December, 1961) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
Club career statistics
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International career statistics
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Salvador de Madariaga
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (July 23, 1886 A Coruña, Spain - December 14, 1978 Locarno, Switzerland) was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist. He was the father of Nieves Mathews and professor/historian Dr. Isabel de Madariaga. He was the grandfather of Javier Solana.
Rylan Clark
Ross Richard Clark (born 25 October 1988), known professionally as Rylan Clark, is an English television presenter, radio personality, singer, narrator and model.
Career
Rylan became famous after being a contestant on The X Factor in 2012. He finished in fifth place. After appearing on X Factor, he was a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother. He then became a presenter on the side-show Big Brother's Bit on the Side from 2013 to 2018. In 2013, he also joined as one of the presenters on both This Morning and The Xtra Factor.
Ryan has also presented the BBC Two television programme Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two with Janette Manrara (usually Zoë Ball) since 2019. He is also the host of the reviewed editions of Supermarket Sweep and Ready Steady Cook, as well as the BBC's You Are What You Wear.
Since 2018, Rylan has also been one of the commentators for the United Kingdom's viewers for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian and a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies the history of the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia, Russia and the Balkans.
He wrote a book called The First Crusade: The Call from the East and published it in 2012. Frankopan has written two popular books about the Silk Road, one is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) the other one is The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (2018). Apart from Byzantine research and Silk Roads studies, Frankopan pays attention to the climate and environment and has published a book entitled The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023).
Håkan Westin
Håkan Westin, born 21 July 1964 in Ed Parish, Sweden, is a Swedish former cross-country skier. He won Vasaloppet in the years of 1993 and 1996. He is also, 15 generations backwards in time, ancestor of Gustav Vasa.
Håkan Westin is the brother of another Swedish cross-country skier, Marie-Helene Östlund.
Saint-Alban, Ain
Saint-Alban is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
György Moldova
György Moldova (12 March 1934 – 4 June 2022) was a Hungarian writer who wrote over seventy books. He is best known for his nonfiction books that talk about daily lives in average jobs in Hungary.
Moldova died on 4 June 2022 in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 88.
En Vogue
En Vouge are an American female R&B and pop quartet. Four members-Cindy Herron, Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson and Maxine Jones-make up this female group. En Vogue released their first record Born to Sing during 1990. They won many awards in the 1990s and 2000s, including seven MTV Video Music Awards and four Soul Train Awards.
Perm State University
Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University), is in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. It was founded in 1916. It is one of the oldest universities in Ural Russia. Its rector is Igor Makarikhin.
A mass shooting happened at the university on 20 September 2021. Six people died and many more wounded.
The university name in Russian is Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, romanised: Permskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, Permskiy gosudarstvennyy natsionalynyy issledovatelskyy universitet) or PSU, PSNRU (ПГУ, ПГНИУ, romanised: PGU, PGNIU)
Kelly Reilly
Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly (born 18 July 1977) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in Eden Lake, Sherlock Holmes, After Miss Julie, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Flight.
Reilly was born on 18 July 1977 in Surrey, England. She has been married to Kyle Baughner since 2012.
Biebelried
Biebelried is a municipality in Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany.
Bhakti movement
Bhakti movement (in Hinduism) is a religious movement. It was known as the ideas and engagement formed in the medieval era. It was based on love and devotion to religious concepts built around one or more gods and goddesses. Bhakti movement spoke against the caste system using the local languages so that the message reached to the people.It was an significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism.
Ness City, Kansas
Ness City is a city in Ness County, Kansas, United States. It is also the county seat of Ness County. In 2010, 1,449 people lived there. Ness City is famous for its four-story Old Ness County Bank Building in downtown, and nicknamed Skyscraper of the Plains.
History
Ness City was created in 1878. The town grew a lot when a railroad was built there in 1886.
Geography
Ness City is at 38.45222°N, -99.90611°W (38.452250, -99.905989). The United States Census Bureau says that the city has a total area of 1.02 sqmi. All of it is land.
2010 census
The 2010 census says that there were 1,449 people, 635 households, and 392 families living in Ness City.
Group 9 element
Group 9 is a group of elements in the periodic table.
Group 9 has cobalt (Co), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir) and meitnerium (Mt).
Group 9 is in the transition metals section. It is worth noting that meitnerium has unknown chemical properties, but is probably a transition metal.
Louisiana House of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The House is made of 105 representatives. Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years).
Perm State University shooting
On 20 September 2021, a mass shooting happened at Perm State University, in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. Six people were killed and 29 more injured.
Lodrino, Ticino
Lodrino was a municipality of the district Riviera in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 2 April 2017, the former municipalities of Cresciano, Iragna, Lodrino, and Osogna merged to form the new municipality of Riviera.
Nitrogen trichloride
Nitrogen trichloride is a chemical compound. It contains nitrogen in its -3 oxidation state. It contains nitrogen and chloride ions. Its chemical formula is NCl3. It is an explosive. It is made by reacting ammonium compounds with chlorine. It reacts with hot water to release hypochlorous acid and ammonia.
Michael Bublé
Michael Steven Bublé (born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian-Italian singer, songwriter and actor. He has won four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in the United Kingdom and in Canada. His 2005 album, It's Time, and his 2007 album, Call Me Irresponsible, were very successful around the world, reaching number one on the Canadian album chart, the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, and the European charts. Bublé has sold over 75 million albums worldwide.
Early life
Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia in September 1975. His father is Lewis Bublé, a salmon fisherman. His mother is Amber (née Santagà).
From his earliest years, Bublé wanted to be a singer. He took an interest in jazz about the age of five.
As a boy, he had a great interest in hockey. He shared his interest with his father and grandfather. He played hockey but realized he was not good enough to be a professional player.
At the age of 14, he began working with his father on a fishing boat. Sometimes they would be away from home two or three months at a time. Bublé credits the hard work on the boat with making him a man.
Sebastião Lazaroni
Sebastião Lazaroni (born 25 September, 1950) is a Brazilian football manager.
Michael Bublé
Early life
At age 16, Bublé began singing in nightclubs. He credits his Italian maternal grandfather with these opportunities. His grandfather traded his ability as a plumber for the chance to have his grandson appear on stage.
Personal life
Bublé became an Italian citizen in 2005. He has been married to Argentine actress Luisana Lopilato since 2011. They have three children (two sons and a daughter).
In 2016, his eldest son, Noah, was diagnosed with cancer but was in remission two years later.
Tours
To be loved Tour 2013-15 Evening with Michael Bublé in 2019-2022 Higher Tour
Jazz dance
Its origins were in social dancing to the music of jazz, but it developed into a type of stage dancing.
Today, jazz dance is taught to students of stage dancing. The ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) lists jazz dance under 'Modern Theatre', and the IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) lists it in their 'Theatre Branch'. Professional stage dancers are certain to have some kind of jazz dance training.
Saint-André-de-Bâgé
Saint-André-de-Bâgé is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Unterschleißheim
Unterschleißheim (Central Bavarian: Untaschleißheim) is a town in the Munich Rural District in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1962)
José Carlos da Costa Araújo (born 7 February 1962) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.
Club career statistics
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Welcome to Sky Valley
Welcome to Sky Valley, also known as just Sky Valley, is the third studio album by American rock band Kyuss. It was released on 28 June 1994 on Elektra and Chameleon Records.
Background and composition
Welcome to Sky Valley was recorded in early 1993 and was first meant to be released in January 1994. Because their last album did fairly well, they moved to the main record label Chameleon from the smaller label "Dali". In November 1993, Chameleon suddenly shut down. Elektra then quickly signed the banned and planned to release Welcome to Sky Valley in March 1994. The release was then slowed down even more and the album wasn't released until June 1994.
The album has been called stoner rock, stoner metal, and desert rock. The album was the first Kyuss album to have bassist Scott Reeder playing on it. He replaced Nick Oliveri in 1992. It was also the last with Brant Bjork playing on it.
Packaging
Welcome to Sky Valley is named after the place in California of the same name. The album cover shows a welcome sign in Sky Valley next to a road that says the album's name, "Welcome to Sky Valley". The photograph was taken at dusk and the road is dark with a purple sky behind.
Personnel
Credits taken from the album's liner notes.
Kyuss
Additional performers
Bangerten
Bangerten was a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Bangerten merged into the municipality of Rapperswil.
Welcome to Sky Valley
Personnel
Production
Fran Drescher
Her acting career began around 1977 when she acted in the movie Saturday Night Fever. She is best known for playing Fran Fine from the sitcom The Nanny. Her other notable movie roles include Jack (1996) and Beautician and the Beast (1997).
Drescher wrote her memoirs and is a Universal Life Church minister. She was born in New York City.
She is a uterine cancer survivor. She is a Democrat and a critic of capitalism. In 1985, she was raped by armed robbers.
In September 2021, Drescher was elected President of SAG-AFTRA.
Plectrohyla tecunumani
The cave spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla tecunumani) is a frog that lives in Guatemala. Scientists have only seen it three times. It lives very high above sea level. Scientists saw it in the Sierra de Cuchumatanes in western Guatemala at 3200 to 3395 meters above sea level.
Interview
Employers interview people trying to get a job to find out if they are a good person for the job. Researchers use an interview to ask people to find how they feel or what they know about something. Since the middle 19th century, interviews have often been used in journalism to get information for stories on news shows or in newspapers.
Scalar
Scalars are simple numbers. They are used for measuring things. Many things can be measured, and the measure can be explained by only giving the number.
Suppose we are measuring a rod. We could give the measured length as 2 metres or 3 cm—depending on the length of the rod under observation. Here, only the figure 2 or 3 along with the unit of measure is enough to transmit information about the rod.
Sant'Antonino, Haute-Corse
Sant'Antonino is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. It is one of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France.
Scalar
Other examples of scalars are:
In other words, mass is measured by scalars, just like distances are measured by scalars.
In mathematics, scalars are distinguished from more complex mathematical objects such as vectors and matrices in that they consist of only one number. A scalar k can also be multiplied to a vector \mathbf{v} or a matrix A, resulting in the vector k\mathbf{v} and the matrix kA, respectively. For vectors, scalar multiplication produces a new vector of different length in the same or opposite direction of the original vector.
Bislama
Bislama is one of the three national languages of Vanuatu. It is a new language, made during the last two or three hundred years by mixing English with some French and some local words. The way the words are put together is like people have talked in Vanuatu for a long time -- not like English or French words are put together.
Bislama is like this:
History
Between the 1870s and the 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders (many of them from the New Hebrides) were forced to work on plantations, mainly in the state of Queensland, Australia, and Fiji. A pidgin was formed out of the several languages spoken in these plantations. It combined English vocabulary with the grammar from the languages of the region. This early plantation pidgin was the origin of Bislama, Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea and Pijin from the Solomon Islands.
This creole started spreading throughout the Vanuatu archipelago at the turn of the 20th century. Because there are 113 languages spoken in Vanuatu, Bislama serves as a lingua franca for communication.
The first dictionary of Bislama was published in 1995. Its second edition was published in 2004. This has helped to create a standardised and uniform spelling of written Bislama.
Besides Bislama, most ni-Vanuatu also know their local language. The country's official languages used for education are English and French.
Grammar
Two frequent words in Bislama are "long" and "blong", which take the place of many prepositions in English.
"Long"
Long has many other related meanings, and is sometimes used in improvisation.
"Blong"
Originally from the English word "belong", blong takes the place of 'of' or the genitive case in other languages. Just like of in English, it is one of the most widely used and versatile words in the language, and can indicate possession, country of origin, defining characteristics, intention, and others.
285 BC
Year 285 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Royal Blood
Royal Blood are an English rock music group. The group was made in Worthing in 2011. The members of the band are Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher. Kerr sings and plays the bass guitar. Thatcher plays the drums. The band has made three albums: Royal Blood (2014), How Did We Get So Dark? (2017), and Typhoons (2021).
The band was made in 2011. It was made when Kerr met Matt Swan. Swan was the band's first drummer. At this time, the band had Joe Dennis playing the guitar. Dennis left the band in 2012. Because of this, Kerr started playing the bass guitar in many different ways. He used different effect pedals to make his bass guitar sound similar to an electric guitar. The band played music in Australia, but Kerr went back to Worthing. Ben Thatcher replaced Swan. Thatcher and Kerr continued making music.
Hypochlorous acid
Hypochlorous acid is a chemical compound. Its chemical formula is HClO or HOCl. It is not stable. It contains chlorine in its +1 oxidation state. It is a powerful oxidizing agent. It is made by reacting sodium hypochlorite with an acid that cannot be oxidized, such as phosphoric acid. If the acid can be oxidized, the hypochlorous acid will be destroyed. It is used to make some chemicals. It breaks down into hydrochloric acid and oxygen in sunlight. It reacts with hydrochloric acid to make chlorine gas. It is a powerful disinfectant.
Mark Walker (North Carolina politician)
Bradley Mark Walker (born May 20, 1969) is an American politician and pastor. He was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district from 2015 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was vice chair of the House Republican Conference in 2019.
In December 2019, Walker said he would not reelection in 2020. Instead, he unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in the 2022 election.
Spokane Chiefs
The Spokane Chiefs are an American professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1985. They currently play in the Western Hockey League. They play their home games in Spokane, Washington at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. The were known as the Kelowna Wings from 1982 to 1985 until they relocated to Spokane and became the Chiefs. The Chiefs were also the first team in WHL history to host an outdoor hockey game when they defeated the Kootenay Ice 11-2 on January 15, 2011.
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Said Ramadan (born 26 September 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss Muslim academic and theologian. He thinks Islamic texts should be studied. He also thinks that Islamic society today is different from what it was when the Koran was written. He therefore says that Muslims living in Europe need to adapt and change Islam, so they can contribute its values to a European society.
This position is often referred to as Euroislam.
In November 2017, multiple women accused Ramadan of rape. On 31 January 2018, Ramadan was taken into custody by French police. After two days of questioning, he was formally charged with two counts of rape and ordered to remain in custody.
The Blood of Jesus
Story
A church group is holding a riverside baptismal service. One of those being immersed is the recently married Martha. At home, Martha's husband Ras accidentally shoots her when his hunting rifle discharges. The church people gather at Martha’s bedside to pray. An angel arrives to take Martha’s spirit from her body. She is brought to the Crossroads between Heaven and Hell. She is tempted by the devil's agent slick Judas Green.
Judas takes Martha to a nightclub. He arranges to have her get a job there. The angel returns and advises Martha to flee. She tries to flee. A nightclub patron mistakenly believes Martha is a pickpocket who robbed him. A chase ensues. Martha races back to the Crossroads. Satan is waiting for her. The angel protects Martha from the mob. They are driven away. The sign at the Crossroad is transformed into the vision of Jesus Christ being crucified, and Christ’s blood drips down on Martha’s face. She awakens to discover she is home. Her health is restored. Martha is reunited with her husband. He has embraced religion. The angel who took Martha on her journey returns to bless their marriage.
Ontario Highway 8
Ontario Highway 8 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada. It runs from west to east and is 138.5 kilometers (86.1 miles) long. The highway starts in Goderich at the junction with Highway 21. It shares the road with Highway 7 between the cities of Stratford, Kitchener and Waterloo. It ends near Hamilton, where it merges with Highway 5.
Weilheim in Oberbayern
Weilheim in Oberbayern (English: 'Weilheim in Upper Bavaria') is a town in Germany, the capital of Weilheim-Schongau in the south of Bavaria.
Twin towns and cities
Weilheim in Oberbayern is twinned with:
Schlehdorf
Schlehdorf is a municipality in Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, a district (Landkreis) in Upper Bavaria.
Massimo Ambrosini
Massimo Ambrosini (born 29 May 1977) is an Italian football player. He plays for Milan.
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Losone
Losone is a municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (pronounce: "Loo-lee"), (born Florence, 28 November 1632; died Paris, 22 March 1687), was an Italian composer, violinist and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He took on French nationality in 1661. He was the most important French composer of his time. Lully realized that music in the Italian style was not suitable for the French language, so he composed his operas in a special way. He created the tradition of French opera. He also wrote a lot of ballet music and some church music.
Life
Lully was born in Florence, Italy. Lully did not have much education. He taught himself a lot of what he could do. He learned to play the guitar and the violin and to dance.
In 1646 he was taken to France where he was given a job teaching Italian to a Duchess. He had the opportunity to hear a lot of good music, and, by the time he was 20, he was an excellent composer, violinist and dancer.
He started to work for Louis XIV in 1652. He composed some music for the Ballet de la Nuit (Night Ballet). The king liked it very much. He became composer of instrumental music to the king. His orchestra (called Grande Bande, i.e. large band) had 24 violins. They were not very good, so he got the king’s permission to start another group which he called Petits Violons (Little Violins). There were 16 in the group (later it became 21), and Lully trained them properly. He did not let them put too many ornaments in the music.
He became a Frenchman in 1661. The next year he became Music Master to the Royal Family and he also married. The king and queen signed the marriage document, so Lully was obviously an important man.
Goran Sankovič
Goran Sankovič (18 June 1979 – 4 June 2022) was a Slovenian professional footballer. He played as a defender for Slovenian team Celje, Czech team Slavia Prague, and Greek teams Akratitos and Panionios. He played for the Slovenia national football team from 2001 until 2002.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Life
Lully had lots of successes in his life. He also had many love affairs, with men and women. There were several scandals, but the king always forgave him because he was a great friend. , ,.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Death
Late in 1686 the king had been ill, but he got better, so he asked Lully to organize a concert to celebrate the fact that he was well again. The concert was given on 8 January 1687. The orchestra played a Te Deum. Lully conducted the orchestra. Conductors did not yet use batons (sticks) in those days. Instead, Lully banged a big stick on the floor to keep the orchestra together. Suddenly, he hit his toe with his stick. The wound in the toe got an infection. The infection later became gangrene. He did not want the doctors to cut off his toe. The infection spread to the rest of the body, and he died on 22 March from gangrene.
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature (Législature d'État de Louisiane) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, made up by the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana State Senate with 39 senators.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Death
Lully was rich when he died. He left 800.000 livres. He had five houses in Paris as well as two country houses.
Music
Lully lived in the middle of the Baroque period. He liked fast, lively music, especially music that could be danced to. He changed people’s taste in musical style. He used a lot of instruments that had not been used in orchestras before. His friendship with Molière resulted in a new musical form, the comédie-ballet which combined theatre, comedy, and ballet.
Lully also created the style of French opera called tragédie en musique or tragédie lyrique. Instead of having his opera music divided into recitatives and arias he often combined the two so that events in the story happened quickly.
Smart Technologies
Smart Technologies is a company that was started in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1987. It is most famous for its invention of the Smart Board, which is the most popular interactive whiteboard in the world.
Athelstan
Athelstan or Æthelstan, (893/4–27 October 939), called the Glorious, was the first King of England. He reigned from 924 to 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder. Athelstan's reign is sometimes overlooked but it was of great importance to political developments in the 10th century.
Athelstan was the son of Edward the Elder, and grandson of Alfred the Great. His father succeeded, after some difficulty, to the Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons formed by Alfred. His father had also been the King of Mercia. When Edward died Athelstan quickly became King of Mercia but he was not immediately accepted as King of England. His brother, Ælfweard, had more support in England but died soon after Edward. This made it easier for Athelstan to become king.
For Athelstan it was very important to have many allies. A year after his crowning he married one of his sisters to the Viking King of Northumbria, Sithric. However, Sithric died only a year later, and Athelstan seized Northumbria. This move made him king of more land than any other before him, roughly the same as modern England. Historical records indicate that the other rulers in Great Britain accepted him as king at Bamburgh around this time.
Athelstan died at Gloucester in 939 and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
Ontario Highway 9
Ontario Highway 9 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada. It runs from west to east and is divided into two parts. The western part starts at Highway 21 in Kincardine and ends at the junction of Highway 23 and Highway 89 near Harriston. This part is 73 kilometers (45 miles) long.
Towcester
Towcester, the Roman town of Lactodorum, is an affluent market town in south Northamptonshire, England.
The town is about 9 mi southwest of Northampton and about 11 mi northwest of Milton Keynes, the nearest main towns.
Prehistoric and Roman periods
Towcester may be the oldest town in Northamptonshire. There are Iron Age finds in the town, so it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the country. There is evidence that it was settled by humans since the Mesolithic era (middle stone age). There is also evidence of Iron Age burials in the area.
In Roman Britain, Watling Street, now the A5 road, was built through the area. A garrison town called Lactodurum was built. Two candidate sites for the Battle of Watling Street, fought in 61 AD, are close to the town.
Saxon period and Medieval age
When the Romans left in the 5th century, the area was settled by Saxons. In the 9th century, Watling Street became the frontier between the kingdom of Wessex and the Danelaw, so Towcester became a frontier town. Edward the Elder fortified Towcester in 917. In the 11th century, the Normans built a motte and bailey castle on the site. Bury Mount are the remains of the fortification and is a scheduled ancient monument. It was renovated in 2008 with an access ramp added and explanatory plaques added.
Amide
Amide can refer to two different things.
Amides in inorganic chemistry
An amide ion is different from an amide in organic chemistry. The amide ion is made by deprotonating ammonia. This is ammonia acting as an acid, although a very weak one. Amides made by deprotonating ammonia are very strong bases. Sodium amide is an example.
Amides in organic chemistry
Amides are also chemical compounds. They are made by reacting carboxylic acids like acetic acid with amines. There are many ways to make them. They are also used in many chemical reactions.
Saint-André-de-Corcy
Saint-André-de-Corcy is a commune. It is found in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in the Ain department in the east of France.
Peach Orchard, Arkansas
Peach Orchard is a city of Clay County in the state of Arkansas in the United States.
Laurel wreath
A laurel wreath is a circular wreath made of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). This is an evergreen whose leaves give off a pleasant scent.
Atropates
Atropates (c. 370 BC – after 321 BC) was a Persian  nobleman who served Darius III and then Alexander III of Macedon. He made an independent kingdom. A dynasty was named after him. Diodorus Siculus calls him 'Atrapes'. Quintus Curtius wrongly names him 'Arsaces'.
Laurel wreath
The wreath is traditionally worn on the head. In Greek mythology, the god Apollo is shown wearing a laurel wreath because of the story of Apollo and Daphne. In Ancient Greece, it was given to special people, such as winners in competitions in poetry or sports, such as the Ancient Olympic Games.
Atropates
Biography
At the end of the Achaemenid Empire, Atropates was governor (satrap) of the Achaemenid province of Media. In the Battle of Gaugamela (October 331 BCE) between Darius and Alexander, Atropates was in charge of the Achaemenid troops of Media.
When Darius lost he went to the Median capital of Ecbatana. Atropates helped him. Darius tried to get a new army but could not. He left Ecbatana in June 330 BCE. After Darius' death a month later at the hands of Bessus, Atropates surrendered to Alexander. Alexander first chose Oxydates as satrap of Media. In 328-327 BCE Alexander did not trust in Oxydates' loyalty. Atropates was made satrap again. In 325-324, Atropates gave Baryaxes (a rebel of the area) to Alexander. Alexander thought highly of Atropates.
Laurel wreath
It was also used in Ancient Rome, and Roman Emperors are often shown wearing laurel wreaths. In the Summer Olympics 2004 in Athens, Greece gave laurel wreaths to the winners. The saying "resting on one's laurels" comes from this and means that someone relaxes now because he or she did something good in the past.
Atropates
Biography
Alexander died on June 10, 323 BCE. Atropates' new son-in-law Perdiccas was named regent of Alexander's half-brother Philip III. After the "Partition of Babylon" in 323 BCE, Media was divided into two parts. The greater portion in the south-east was governed by Peithon, a general of Perdiccas. The smaller portion in the north west was given to Atropates. At some point, Atropates made his part of Media an independent kingdom. His son-in-law Perdiccas was murdered by Peithon in the summer of 320 BCE.
Laurel wreath
In some countries, the laurel wreath is used as a symbol of the master's degree. The wreath is given to young masters in the graduation ceremony of the university. The word "Laureate" in 'poet laureate' refers to the laurel wreath.
In modern times, wreaths are used for their decorative quality rather than ceremonial use. Wreaths may be made with flowers such as roses to make them more appealing.
Atropates
Legacy
The dynasty Atropates made would rule the kingdom for several centuries. They became vassals of the Seleucids, then as vassals of the Arsacids.
The area of Atropates' kingdom was known to the Greeks as "Media Atropatene" after Atropates. Then as simply "Atropatene". The Arsacids called it 'Aturpatakan' in Parthian, as did also the Sassanids. Eventually Middle Iranian 'Aturpatakan' became 'Azerbaijan'. This is where the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Iranian province of Azerbaijan get their name.
Sodium amide
Sodium amide, also known as sodamide, is a chemical compound. It contains sodium and amide ions. Its chemical formula is NaNH2. It is a very strong base, even stronger than hydroxides like sodium hydroxide. It reacts violently with water. It is a white solid, although it can be gray. It is made by reacting sodium metal with liquid or gaseous ammonia. It is used to make hydrazine and sodium azide. It is used to make various chemicals. It reacts with water to make ammonia and sodium hydroxide. It burns in air to make oxides of sodium and nitrogen, such as nitrogen dioxide. If there is only a little air, explosive chemicals may form. If it turns yellow or brown, get rid of it immediately. It is corrosive because it is a strong base.
Adriaen Coorte
Adriaen Coorte (about 1665 – 1707) was a Dutch painter. He mainly painted 'still life'. He signed works between 1683 and 1707. Most of his paintings are small. His style is typical of Dutch 17th century still life painting. Other Dutch painters who lived at the same time had a different style of painting. Coorte was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".